Beware of the Agave Nectar Health Food Fraud!

Wow! I had no idea that this was so bad for you. And to think Tequilla is made from this!! Yikes. Read on.......

Beware of the Agave Nectar Health Food Fraud

Many people interested in staying healthy have switched to agave as a safer "natural" sweetener. They want to avoid well documented dangerous sweeteners like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) but are unaware that agave is actually WORSE than HFCS.

So just what is agave?

Blue agave is an exotic plant growing in the rich volcanic soil of Mexico under a hot tropical sun, boasting a stately flower stem that blooms only once in its lifetime. "Agave" literally means "noble." It’s generally recognized as a superstar of the herbal remedy world, claiming to offer relief for indigestion, bowel irregularity, and skin wounds.

Ferment it, and you have Mexico’s favorite adult beverage -- tequila.

Just the name "agave" conjures up images of romantic tropical excursions and mysterious shamanic medicine.

These are the mental images agave "nectar" sellers want you to hold. They use agave’s royal pedigree to cover the truth that what they’re selling you is a bottle of high-fructose syrup, so highly processed and refined that it bears NO resemblance to the plant of its namesake.

What is the "Real" Truth about Agave?

If you knew the truth about what’s really in it, you’d be dumping it down the drain

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Treating Lice Naturally

Again, I received this email today and feel it is really important to warn the public about the "new" remedy for lice. Yes, it is a drug for dogs!!! He says, "shave the head, and the bugs are gone. Wash, freeze or dispose of toys that might be infested, and you're done with it." If it were my child, I would rather do that than give him heartworm drugs for dogs!!! Read on...

"Going buggy over new lice treatment

Having trouble getting rid of your kid's head lice? Try giving him your dog's heartworm medicine!

Yes, I know that sounds absurd. That's exactly what I thought when I read about a recent study showing that the drug ivermectin (a common heartworm med for dogs) is more effective in treating head lice than the typical topical treatment.

Lice is one of the most common (not to mention least- threatening) childhood ailments around, yet researchers are willing to give your children powerful antiparasitic drugs to treat it. (Need any more proof that they care less about you and more about their purse strings?)

But here's what really gets me. This drug was a complete failure in a previous study on lice. But instead of scrapping the idea, researchers decided to try doubling the dose.

And what do you know? After 15 days, 95 percent of kids on the dog pills were free of lice (no word on fleas, though).

Effective? Maybe -- but that's akin to fishing with hand grenades.

No one knows for sure what side effects this drug might unleash on children -- but it's been known to cause irregular heartbeats, chest pain, nausea, diarrhea, headaches, dizziness, muscle pain and more. There's also a risk of severe allergic reactions.

The researchers say the drug should only be used for difficult-to-control cases, but c'mon -- does anyone doubt that this "treatment" won't spread like lice once it's approved?

In reality, NO case of lice is difficult to control if you attack it at the source. I don't know what parents are being taught these days, but my generation grew up with a safe drug-free treatment that's still effective today and will remain just as effective 100 years from now: shave the head, and the bugs are gone.

Wash, freeze or dispose of toys that might be infested, and you're done with it.

It's so easy you'd have to be missing what's under your hair to conclude that drugs and poisons are a better option."

Warning: Cadmium in Toys Made in China - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer charm

I just received this in an email and decided it definitely merits spreading! Read on!

"Latest Chinese junk under recall microscope

The feds are finally ready to take action on some of the most poisonous garbage being sent to our children from China. But as usual, they're a day late and a dollar short.

This time, the problem isn't lead, but cadmium -- a dangerous heavy metal linked to brain, bone and kidney problems, and cancer.

Don't applaud just yet -- they're only just now getting around to recalling the Christmas junk I warned you about months ago. (Read "China still trying to poison our kids.")

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is finally telling parents to toss "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" charms sold by Walmart during the holidays, months after an Associated Press investigation found they were practically made of cadmium.

It's far too little, far too late. What kid is still playing with Christmas toys when the calendar says Easter?

If any kid still has these Rudolph charms, the damage is long done -- and sending this trash back to the Land of Mao now won't make a bit of difference. And there are still plenty of other cadmium-packed items out there, including other trinkets named in the same Associated Press report, that haven't been recalled.

All this proves is that the deck is still stacked against you and your family, and the only real protection you can get is the kind you can provide for yourself. You can't even lock the doors and arm yourself against this one.

Just stop buying junk from Red China. Whether it's toys or food, just assume it's poisoned -- because it probably is."

Vitamin D Deficiency is Why You Get the FLU!

This is amazing! Imagine taking a Vitamin D3 supplement (if you live in northern climates) to stave off the flu. Dr. Mercola's comments after this article explain it really well and tell you how to figure out how much to take. He also talks about another study that found that "school children who received supplemental vitamin D had far fewer incidents of both flu and asthma attacks".

Vitamin D Deficiency is Why You Get Flu

A new study has confirmed that vitamin D plays an important role in activating your immune defenses against infectious diseases like the flu.

Vitamin D deficiency has already been linked to a wide spectrum of diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, autoimmune disease and many others.

The new study discovers that activation of T-cells to fight infections needs definite help from vitamin D. When a T cell recognizes foreign invaders like bacteria or viruses, it sends activating signals to the vitamin D receptor gene. The VDR gene then starts producing DVR protein, which binds vitamin D in the T cell. Then the vitamin D bound and activated DVR produces PLC-gamma1 protein -- which allows the T cell to get started fighting the infection.

Dr. John Cannell has also reported that vitamin D helps produce antibacterial peptides that help protect against the flu. That is why in winter, when there is little sunshine, people are more prone to vitamin D deficiency and getting infected with flu viruses.

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6 Herbs for Hay Fever

If you suffer from hay fever, as I do, then try one or some of these herbs: butterbur, stinging nettle, gingko, luffa complex, quercetin or perilla 6000. Let me know which one works for you.

6 Herbs for Hay Fever | Care2 Healthy & Green Living

The pollen season always brings discomfort to so many of us. But there are herbs that have been tested and shown to alleviate the congestion, sniffling, and sneezing of hay fever, so you can enjoy the warmer weather and longer days. Here are six herbal allies that can help you find natural relief from your seasonal allergies.

Most of these herbs may be found at your local natural foods store, or go online to find an herbal purveyor.

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Good Fats, Bad Fats and Losing Weight

"If you are worried about weight loss, look to the (highly refined) white flour products and (highly refined) sugar in your diet." This quote is from the following article. Eat good fats, lots of vegies and fruit and walk, walk, walk! If you look at all the food that is REALLY good for you, you will find the #1 secret of eating well: Eat only foods that are 1 ingredient! Stay away from the chemically produced food as much as you can. Good luck!

Does Fat Make Us Fat?(Page 2) | Care2 Healthy & Green Living

I encourage my clients to eat more foods that their great-grandparents would recognize and fewer foods created by modern science and advertised by big business.

Some of the ways oils are processed include adding hydrogen atoms or using chemical solvents. Does that sound like food you want to put in your body?

Newfangled fats to be skeptical of, or downright avoid:

* All hydrogenated oils, including margarine
* Soy and corn oil
* Peanut oil
* Canola and Grapeseed oil

Traditional, naturally occurring fats full of nutrients the human body needs:
(Always favor organic!)

* Butter and Ghee
* Coconut and sesame oils
* Olive oil
* Flax and Fish oil
* Chicken, goose, and duck fat
* Beef and lamb tallow

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19 Ways to Lower Heart Disease Risk

Such simple ways to lower heart disease risk - REALLY! A must read. Stay healthy!

19 Simple Ways to Lower Heart Disease Risk | Care2 Healthy & Green Living

“Every disease is connected to heart health, including Alzheimer’s, arthritis, diabetes, and breast cancer,” says Mark Moyad, MD, director of preventative and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center. “When you protect the heart, you protect the body from head to toe.” Safeguarding your heart means doing simple things such as exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, not smoking, and keeping tabs on your cholesterol and blood pressure. But you could be doing more.

The following tips represent the latest research on the foods, supplements, and mind-body techniques you need now to keep your cardiovascular system strong in the years to come. What you read may save your life.

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Update on Cancer - AMAZING!

I received an email entitled "John Hopkins Update on Cancer". Googling it, snopes.com came up and said it was false, that they did not issue it. However, upon reading it, I discovered it is exactly what I came up with in my research about curing cancer! I so badly wanted to put it all together like this but was not able to at the time. This is amazing and just because the FDA, pharmaceutical companies etc doesn't want us to know these things, doesn't mean we cannot educate ourselves and live a longer, happier, healthier life!

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins-Fiction!

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.



2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.



3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.



4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.



5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.



6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone

marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.



7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.



8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.



9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.



10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.



11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.



CANCER CELLS FEED ON:



a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like

NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.



b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.



c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.



d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).



e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.



12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.



13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.



14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.



15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.



16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.



CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL , U S - PLEASE READ



1. No plastic containers in micro.



2. No water bottles in freezer.



3. No plastic wrap in microwave.



Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.





Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.



This especially applies to foods that contain fat.



He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.



Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.





Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.





Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap

and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

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Update on Cancer - AMAZING

I received an email entitled "John Hopkins Update on Cancer". Googling it, snopes.com came up and said it was false, that they did not issue it. However, upon reading it, I discovered it is exactly what I came up with in my research about curing cancer! I so badly wanted to put it all together like this but was not able to at the time. This is amazing and just because the FDA, pharmaceutical companies etc doesn't want us to know these things, doesn't mean we cannot educate ourselves and live a longer, happier, healthier life!

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer
cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have
multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients
that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable
size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a
person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and
forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing
diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune
system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing
cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells
in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can
cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars
and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often
reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of
chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor
destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from
chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either
compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb
to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to
mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.
Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other
sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer
cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off
one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar
substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made
with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute
would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small
amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in
color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting
off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer
cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based
diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken
rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock
antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all
harmful, especially to people with cancer..

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into
an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked
food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live
enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building
healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw
vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer
fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or
filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap
water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the
intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic
buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes
to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the
body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,
EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy
cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known
to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior
be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put
the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to
have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy
life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to
get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen
therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer
cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3.. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters.. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat... He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Vitamin D and Cancer

A very interesting article about Vitamin D and how it may kill cancer cells. A good read!!

Is This the New Silver Bullet for Cancer? - Maximum Life Foundation

Is This the New Silver Bullet for Cancer?

Vitamin D, a steroid hormone that influences virtually every cell in your body, is easily one of nature’s most potent cancer fighters. Receptors that respond to vitamin D have been found in nearly every type of human cell, from your bones to your brain.

Your organs can convert the vitamin D in your bloodstream into calcitriol, which is the hormonal or activated version of vitamin D. Your organs then use it to repair damage, including that from cancer cells.

Vitamin D is actually able to enter cancer cells and trigger apoptosis or cancer cell death. When JoEllen Welsh, a researcher with the State University of New York at Albany, injected a potent form of vitamin D into human breast cancer cells, half of them shriveled up and died within days!

The vitamin D worked as well at killing cancer cells as the toxic breast cancer drug Tamoxifen, without any of the detrimental side effects and at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Many cancer treatments cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for a course of therapies and most are well in the five-figure cost range. You can actually get perfect vitamin D levels for free if you had access to sunshine in the sub tropics year round, but even if you purchased oral supplements, a year’s worth of treatment would be well under $100.

In mice, too, cancer tumors shrank by more than 50 percent, and some altogether disappeared, when vitamin D was injected.

These findings add to the growing knowledge that vitamin D is a key player in cancer treatment and prevention. If you want to see for yourself, you can browse through over 800 references showing vitamin D’s effectiveness for cancer here.

Cancer’s Silver Bullet?

Intake of vitamin D3 and calcium could potentially prevent 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer annually in the United States and Canada, according to a complex computer prediction model.

This model also predicted that 75 percent of deaths from these cancers could be prevented with adequate intake of vitamin D3 and calcium.

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Health Benefits of Juicing

I have done a lot of reading on raw food and juicing and have implemented a few juices in the morning. Every morning we have a green smoothie. It is spinach, berries, banana, papaya, grapes, chlorella, cinnamon and raw honey. It is really delicious. Enjoy the benefits!!

Health Benefits of Juicing - health benefits of juicing

Health Benefits of Juicing
If you are looking for an easy and effective way to do something good for you body, consider the health benefits of juicing. Juicing is preparing and drinking fruit and vegetable juices, and the many health benefits of juicing far exceed those of eating solid fruits and vegetables.

For one thing, the body can quickly absorb larger amounts of nutrients from juices than from solid foods because the process of digestion that is necessary when you eat whole foods is bypassed. Raw fruits and vegetables contain many substances that enhance health, and juicing benefits the body by providing the most concentrated and readily absorbed source of these substances.

Another one of the major health benefits of juicing is that it is an easy way to get beneficial enzymes, which are primarily found in raw foods, into the body. Enzymes in fresh fruits and vegetables have the vital role of converting food into body tissue and energy. Enzymes are also involved in metabolism, so one of the more valuable health benefits of juicing is that it can increase metabolic rate. Juicing also ensures that the body is getting sufficient amounts of phytochemicals, substances in plants that are considered among the most powerful ways to fight disease. While most people do not eat enough raw fruits and vegetables to obtain the amount of phytochemicals that would make a difference, it is relatively easy to drink enough juice to obtain sufficient amounts of these powerful nutrients. In addition, antioxidants and other immune enhancing properties are concentrated in juices.

Juicing can therefore help to accelerate recovery from illness. In fact, juicing with specific combinations of fruits or vegetables can target particular conditions and improve or alleviate symptoms.

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A Must See - "The Beautiful Truth"

I stumbled across this film when researching cures. It is an amazing, entertaining documentary. What you can learn about healing many, many diseases, not just cancer. The end of the movie they reveal that Dr. Gerson died of arsenic poisoning. He had been poisoned twice. The first time when he got better, he found his manuscript missing. He rewrote it and published it before THEY poisoned him again! Spread the word! about this amazing cure!! Also, google juicing and Jay Kordich. Will post about this tomorrow!!

The Beautiful Truth

Garrett is a 15-year old boy living in the Alaskan wilderness with a menagerie of orphaned animals. Growing up close with nature has given him a deep understanding of nutritional needs required by diet sensitive animals on the reserve. Unfortunately, the untimely and tragic death of his mother propelled him into a downward spiral and he risked flunking out of school. This led to his father’s decision to home-school Garrett.
His first assignment was to study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson.

Written over 50 years ago, Dr. Gerson found that diet could, and did, cure cancer. Controversial at the time (and even today), Garrett took on the challenge of researching this amazing therapy, which drew the interest of his neighbors in the small Alaskan community. With the help of Dr. Gerson’s daughter, Charlotte Gerson, and grandson, Howard Strauss, they gave him the ammunition needed to go in search for the truth – a truth that would affect not only him, but his entire Alaskan village – all of whom wanted to know if these claims were true. After a number of cancer patients, who were diagnosed as terminal, shared their stories and their medical records with Garrett, it became abundantly clear that, contrary to the disinformation campaign spear-headed by the multi-billion dollar medical and pharmaceutical industry, a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist – and has existed for over 80 years!

Garrett’s mission now is to tell the world.

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Prostate Health Herbal Tea - Small Flowered Willow-herb

I have been doing a great deal of research on the prostate as a close friend's father has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. In the next few days, I will be posting a lot of info. However, no matter what you choose to do if you have prostate problems, it should never replace seeing a doctor that you trust.

The following is a favorite of mine, Maria Treben. You can google any ailment with Maria's name and you will find great remedies. Here is the one on prostate health.

Please let me know if you have tried or will try any of the remedies I post, work. Better yet, I would love any new info from out there as well.

Natural Prostate Health

"Once I received a letter from a family man in which it said, I quote: "I beg you to show me a way back to health and give my family back their healthy father." Before, he had related his story: In 1961 a chronic inflammation of the prostate gland became acute through bathing in water containing radium. He went from one hospital to another, no doctor operated on him, he was in despair. Every time he had a bowel movement, there was pus and blood in the stools. Due to the many medications he developed duodenal ulcers, serious liver disorders and the valuable intestinal bacteria were destroyed. He became very sick and, on the doctor's orders, had to stop all medication. Then he was, as he wrote, operated on electrically. Despite the operation the inflammation did not clear up. Medications and injections worsened his condition again. Then he started to drink Stinging Nettle tea and a special tea for bladder trouble, which improved his condition so far that he was able to go back to work. He could have spared himself all this suffering had he but known the Small Flowered Willow-herb which can cure disorders of the prostate gland.

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Beware! Aspartame to be Renamed "AMINO SWEET"!

This is scary!!!!!!! As my title says, BEWARE! Be sure to read Dr. Mercola's comments as well.

America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks You With Name Change

Aspartame producer Ajinomoto is launching a new initiative that will rebrand the sweetener as “AminoSweet”.

Aspartame is used in many foods and beverages marketed as low calorie or sugar-free. However, its reputation has been clouded somewhat by studies that have investigated reports of ill effects.

Just to remind you, the side effects of aspartame can include:

* Headache
* Change in vision
* Convulsions and seizures
* Hallucination
* Nausea and vomiting
* Joint pain

It can cause many, many other problems as well.

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Low-fat, Mediterranean and Low-carb Diets 'help heart".

A great article if you need to reverse blocked arteries or just want to stay healthy! "This study shows you can do something to reduce plaque build-up, even without pills," Dr Knight said.

BBC News - Low-fat, Mediterranean and low-carb diets 'help heart'

Three diets - Mediterranean, low-fat and low-carbohydrate - are equally effective in helping reverse blocked arteries, say Israeli researchers.

The study of 140 people, reported in the journal Circulation, found diet could reduce the fatty build up in arteries.

The Ben-Gurion University team found by the end of the two-year study the arterial wall was cut by 5%.

Experts said the study was interesting, but diet was not a "magic bullet".

Atherosclerosis is a progressive condition in which the arteries thicken with fatty deposits, increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

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Soft Drinks & Cancer, Chocolate & Strokes

This article is a really important one to read if you drink a lot of pop (soft drinks) or eat a lot of chocolate. Read both pages!

Soft Drinks & Cancer, Chocolate & Strokes(Page 2) | Care2 Healthy & Green Living

Is Chocolate Really Good for You?
Yes, say researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, who released data showing that dark chocolate lowers your risk of stroke, and lessens the likelihood of death after a stroke, as well. It’s not the chocolate that’s so healthy; it’s a flavonoid called epicatechin, which is present in the original cocoa beans from which chocolate is made. (It’s easy to forget that chocolate comes originally from plants.) The plant-based chemical relaxes blood vessels and clears cholesterol, easing blood flow to and from the heart.

Flavonoids are present primarily in dark chocolate; the process used to create milk chocolate dilutes them. So the M&Ms and Hershey’s milk chocolate kisses don’t count.

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