Many people think they get enough liquids in their diets by consuming small amounts of water, perhaps soft drinks, coffee, even teas. But are they? When your body requires water, it wants water. As countless research studies have shown us over the years, consuming soft drinks does nothing to satisfy your water requirements. Nor does drinking coffee. For me, drinking teas is a questionable method, though I've seen more than one study that said drinking tea did not qualify as a true water source.
The body is dehydrated usually for awhile before the thirst mechanism is realized. So by the time you get your glass of water, you are already dehydrated. Did you know....a 2% drop in your body's water supply will induce fatigue? Did you know, not enough water can help create symptoms such as migraines, dry skin, weight gain and constipation?
I invite you to read this article from Dr Mercola on the water situation that we should all be aware of.
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Cancer. What To Do If You Are Diagnosed With It.
I know for most people, being diagnosed with something the doctor calls "cancer" can be terrifying. And yet, diagnoses are sometimes not accurate. So always get at least 2 opinions from different doctors, in different locations, and do not tell the second one that the first doc diagnosed you. Keep a calm, level headed attitude. Do not believe you have cancer, regardless of what the first doctor told you. The reason for this is simple. Science has proven to us countless times, starting back in the early 1980's, that the mind can and does alter body chemistry. Better said though, by me, is that it is not so much the mind, but the emotions, that alters chemistry. This is already proven. And this is where the statement comes from that says: "The diagnosis killed the patient".
As Bruce Lipton, scientist showed us, cellular activity is directly related to your thoughts, your feelings. If you realize and understand, that life is an experience, and that when you doctor tells you that you have cancer, that this is simply something said, and not real, then your body's intelligence goes to work to correct the issue, if there truly was one.
Dr Joseph Mercola, of http://www.mercola.com, stated that medical documents show that breast diagnosis are wrong at least 51% of the time. Not good odds, in my opinion. Bruce Lipton was the first scientist that proved to us, after he started stem cell therapy in the late 1960's, that cancer is not genetic. Nor is any other disease. I understood this for many years before I had heard about Dr Lipton. Must have been my intuitive nature.
Each of the 50 trillion or so of the cells of your body have intelligence. And your heart accounts for the largest percentage of intelligence, considerably higher than the brain. So you can understand then, why emotion plays such a huge role in your health.
If you work in the medical field, and you are surrounded by people with cancer, your thoughts are going to radiate throughout your body, and heart, that cancer is a possibility for you. Do NOT let this happen to you! Just because a family member, or 3 or 4 of them, had a disease, does not indicate you are going to genetically get that disease. This is absolutely not true. It is all directly related to the same type of lifestyle choices you share, particularly foods, and chemicals such as Bleach or Raid, and your thoughts. "Well, grandma had it, and mom has it, so no doubt I will get it". Yes, when you think like this, you stand an excellent chance of losing your health.
If you are diagnosed with cancer, this is what I would tell you to do, just from a starting point. I would go beyond this, if I were actually working with you.
~ Take in green foods, especially the foods of Chlorella and Spirulina. Eat fresh organic grapes if possible. In this case, even canned grape juice will help, because grapes help cleanse the liver. You should eat them, or drink them, only on an empty stomach, unless your empty stomach cannot handle grapes. Do not drink any other canned juices. Fresh is ok, canned is not. If you want an explanation of this, simply leave a comment for it, and I will give it.
~Cancer is anaerobic, meaning it does not enjoy oxygen. Getting more oxygen into your system will slow it down considerably. Eating refined sugars will feed your cancer like a wildfire out of control. Stop eating any sugars, other than a few organic fruits, such as raspberries, strawberries, and huckleberries, and of course grapes. In place of sugar you can use xylitol, although it would be best to find xylitol that is made from birch trees, not corn. Approximately 87% of the 2010 corn crop was genetically modified, and since no safety testing has ever been done, and we know genetic foods cause health issues, I would do everything possible to avoid them. Limit all mucous causing foods, especially pasteurized milk. If you're going to do cows milk, get it raw, and preferably organic. Consume mucous removing foods such as raw potatoes and raw radishes. Your body produces enough mucous without you having to add more. Too much mucous, and the cells must stress more to receive oxygen, and nutrients.
If you were diagnosed with breast cancer, get rid of any tight fitting bras. These limit or stop the flow of the lymph system channels that run down the sides of the human body. Since the lymph system is a waste remover, you don't want that waste stopping at the breasts. This is the prime reason for breast cancer.
If you must wear a bra, wear it as little as possible, and keep it loose enough you can fit at least 2 fingers under the main strap. Breath deep, get a therapeutic essential oil or two, such as Lemon, Grapefruit, Clove, or Lavender, put a drop or two in the palm of your hands, cup over the nose, and inhale deeply and hold it for at least two seconds. Keep doing this. This is supplying oxygen into the body, which will slow the cancer. Truly therapeutic lavender is said to have all the properties to stop breast cancer. Researchers have shown us that women who wear tight fitting bras are far more likely to develop breast cancers.
Remember, most essential oils sold are not truly therapeutic, and most lavender is not truly lavender, but generally lavendin. Two very different products. Lemon oil, like Grapefruit, are high in Limonene, which is known to increase the immune response. In other words, they help fight cancers. The links for the oils I have given you are certified therapeutic, and are considered by many, including me, to be the best in the world. This is the brand of oils I have used to help myself and others get rid of a wide variety of health problems, from cancer, to ADHD, to nerve damage, migraines, and much more.
Always always always remember, cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen to the cells. And your thoughts. Many people will believe the thoughts arena is simply "new age" and is refutable. However, the ancients taught us from the texts and scripts that have been discovered and deciphered, that thoughts are extremely important. The more positive and happy you are, the more you radiate great health. And your thoughts radiate to those around you. Science also knows this to be true. Aromatherapy, or essential oils, are also as ancient as history goes; dating back over 6,000 years, and referenced in the christian bible nearly 200 times.
As Bruce Lipton, scientist showed us, cellular activity is directly related to your thoughts, your feelings. If you realize and understand, that life is an experience, and that when you doctor tells you that you have cancer, that this is simply something said, and not real, then your body's intelligence goes to work to correct the issue, if there truly was one.
Dr Joseph Mercola, of http://www.mercola.com, stated that medical documents show that breast diagnosis are wrong at least 51% of the time. Not good odds, in my opinion. Bruce Lipton was the first scientist that proved to us, after he started stem cell therapy in the late 1960's, that cancer is not genetic. Nor is any other disease. I understood this for many years before I had heard about Dr Lipton. Must have been my intuitive nature.
Each of the 50 trillion or so of the cells of your body have intelligence. And your heart accounts for the largest percentage of intelligence, considerably higher than the brain. So you can understand then, why emotion plays such a huge role in your health.
If you work in the medical field, and you are surrounded by people with cancer, your thoughts are going to radiate throughout your body, and heart, that cancer is a possibility for you. Do NOT let this happen to you! Just because a family member, or 3 or 4 of them, had a disease, does not indicate you are going to genetically get that disease. This is absolutely not true. It is all directly related to the same type of lifestyle choices you share, particularly foods, and chemicals such as Bleach or Raid, and your thoughts. "Well, grandma had it, and mom has it, so no doubt I will get it". Yes, when you think like this, you stand an excellent chance of losing your health.
If you are diagnosed with cancer, this is what I would tell you to do, just from a starting point. I would go beyond this, if I were actually working with you.
~ Take in green foods, especially the foods of Chlorella and Spirulina. Eat fresh organic grapes if possible. In this case, even canned grape juice will help, because grapes help cleanse the liver. You should eat them, or drink them, only on an empty stomach, unless your empty stomach cannot handle grapes. Do not drink any other canned juices. Fresh is ok, canned is not. If you want an explanation of this, simply leave a comment for it, and I will give it.
~Cancer is anaerobic, meaning it does not enjoy oxygen. Getting more oxygen into your system will slow it down considerably. Eating refined sugars will feed your cancer like a wildfire out of control. Stop eating any sugars, other than a few organic fruits, such as raspberries, strawberries, and huckleberries, and of course grapes. In place of sugar you can use xylitol, although it would be best to find xylitol that is made from birch trees, not corn. Approximately 87% of the 2010 corn crop was genetically modified, and since no safety testing has ever been done, and we know genetic foods cause health issues, I would do everything possible to avoid them. Limit all mucous causing foods, especially pasteurized milk. If you're going to do cows milk, get it raw, and preferably organic. Consume mucous removing foods such as raw potatoes and raw radishes. Your body produces enough mucous without you having to add more. Too much mucous, and the cells must stress more to receive oxygen, and nutrients.
If you were diagnosed with breast cancer, get rid of any tight fitting bras. These limit or stop the flow of the lymph system channels that run down the sides of the human body. Since the lymph system is a waste remover, you don't want that waste stopping at the breasts. This is the prime reason for breast cancer.
If you must wear a bra, wear it as little as possible, and keep it loose enough you can fit at least 2 fingers under the main strap. Breath deep, get a therapeutic essential oil or two, such as Lemon, Grapefruit, Clove, or Lavender, put a drop or two in the palm of your hands, cup over the nose, and inhale deeply and hold it for at least two seconds. Keep doing this. This is supplying oxygen into the body, which will slow the cancer. Truly therapeutic lavender is said to have all the properties to stop breast cancer. Researchers have shown us that women who wear tight fitting bras are far more likely to develop breast cancers.
Remember, most essential oils sold are not truly therapeutic, and most lavender is not truly lavender, but generally lavendin. Two very different products. Lemon oil, like Grapefruit, are high in Limonene, which is known to increase the immune response. In other words, they help fight cancers. The links for the oils I have given you are certified therapeutic, and are considered by many, including me, to be the best in the world. This is the brand of oils I have used to help myself and others get rid of a wide variety of health problems, from cancer, to ADHD, to nerve damage, migraines, and much more.
Always always always remember, cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen to the cells. And your thoughts. Many people will believe the thoughts arena is simply "new age" and is refutable. However, the ancients taught us from the texts and scripts that have been discovered and deciphered, that thoughts are extremely important. The more positive and happy you are, the more you radiate great health. And your thoughts radiate to those around you. Science also knows this to be true. Aromatherapy, or essential oils, are also as ancient as history goes; dating back over 6,000 years, and referenced in the christian bible nearly 200 times.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Suffering From The Wintertime Blues?
It's not uncommon this time of year, in the northern hemisphere, that a large number of people get depressed. Many will blame this on their finances, their love life, the weather, etc. Is there a way out of this scenerio? Yes.
It is well documented in every health field, that sunlight helps us be in a better mood. As I've said before, sunlight is called the "happy vitamin". Full spectrum lighitng is a powerful adjunct into your less lit wintertime days. And while Vitamin D, that is caused from the skin's reaction to sunlight, is much of what increases the hormones directly related to those emotions, you can also take it internally, or use a tanning bed(a better option). Dr Mercola sells some of these on his site, Mercola.com
And while this is all important for our emotional and physical well-being, I have to add, that happiness is an inside job. In other words, you are happy because you want to be. The same applies if you are sad. From my own personal experience, I found that when I was severely depressed, and not due to a lack of sunlight, I looked within and within seconds I was laughing. And while you may think I may be a little off my rocker, you just may change those thoughts once you do this. Looking within is a form of meditation. Essentially, my spirit told me: "Silly, you are just having a life experience. You are in total control. It is up to you to make it better". And suddenly I was overcome with happiness. It can happen that quickly. And I bet you thought I was trying to sell you something huh? Nope. But this guy in the link below is offering something I believe is too good to pass up, which is why I posted it here.
The majority of Americans see the winter holidays, Christmas in particular, as a time of giving. And receiving. This is part of the wintertime blues. Either someone doesn't have enough money, or believes they don't; or they just don't know what to get someone, or they are procrastinators and wait until the last minute, only to find out they missed the last available store, because it just closed. How to get out of that dilemma?
I make a moderate amount of money writing my blogs, and most of what I make this way, is not because someone is buying something from me. You can learn how to do what I do here. I invite you to check this out. It's not my site, and this guy does know what he's talking about. Even I learned a few pointers from him. I'm always open to learn. How about you? This guy is a master marketer, and he enjoys teaching.
Blogging costs nothing, except a litte time. Learning the proper methodologies is very important though, if you wish to make money at it, which is why I've added the above link to help you out. Enjoy your day, and be careful on the roads.
It is well documented in every health field, that sunlight helps us be in a better mood. As I've said before, sunlight is called the "happy vitamin". Full spectrum lighitng is a powerful adjunct into your less lit wintertime days. And while Vitamin D, that is caused from the skin's reaction to sunlight, is much of what increases the hormones directly related to those emotions, you can also take it internally, or use a tanning bed(a better option). Dr Mercola sells some of these on his site, Mercola.com
And while this is all important for our emotional and physical well-being, I have to add, that happiness is an inside job. In other words, you are happy because you want to be. The same applies if you are sad. From my own personal experience, I found that when I was severely depressed, and not due to a lack of sunlight, I looked within and within seconds I was laughing. And while you may think I may be a little off my rocker, you just may change those thoughts once you do this. Looking within is a form of meditation. Essentially, my spirit told me: "Silly, you are just having a life experience. You are in total control. It is up to you to make it better". And suddenly I was overcome with happiness. It can happen that quickly. And I bet you thought I was trying to sell you something huh? Nope. But this guy in the link below is offering something I believe is too good to pass up, which is why I posted it here.
The majority of Americans see the winter holidays, Christmas in particular, as a time of giving. And receiving. This is part of the wintertime blues. Either someone doesn't have enough money, or believes they don't; or they just don't know what to get someone, or they are procrastinators and wait until the last minute, only to find out they missed the last available store, because it just closed. How to get out of that dilemma?
I make a moderate amount of money writing my blogs, and most of what I make this way, is not because someone is buying something from me. You can learn how to do what I do here. I invite you to check this out. It's not my site, and this guy does know what he's talking about. Even I learned a few pointers from him. I'm always open to learn. How about you? This guy is a master marketer, and he enjoys teaching.
Blogging costs nothing, except a litte time. Learning the proper methodologies is very important though, if you wish to make money at it, which is why I've added the above link to help you out. Enjoy your day, and be careful on the roads.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Beating The Wintertime Blues
In the northern hemisphere, a moderate amount of people get depression in the winter months. While many medical doctors either don't understand or don't wish to tell, actually, the problem is fairly obvious. The lack of sunlight. And while this may not be the entire cause of wintertime depression, it is a major cause.
Sunlight, or the vitamin D gained from sun exposure, has been labeled the Happy Vitamin. I have talked with people who have switched to full spectrum lighting in the winter months, which changed their attitudes. Many times, profoundly for the better.
Since in the northern hemisphere, you are not going to get any real vitamin D from the sun in the winter months, it is a wise choice to get tested by your doctor to see what your "D" levels are, then if need be, take a vitamin D3 supplement. You never want D2, as it is a chemical. Tanning beds can also help give you quality vitamin D.
If you would like more information on vitamin D, and the required needs of the body for this vitamin, visit Dr Mercola's website, and key in "vitamin d" into the search bar. Dr Mercola has been instrumental in getting some very valuable information to the public on this and in many other areas of health. Although I may not always completely agree with him, I do highly endorse him.
And remember, vitamin D3 is very powerful in helping prevent cancers. If you are thinking sunlight causes cancer, you have been misled. Too much sun exposure can "lead" to cancer, it does not CAUSE cancer. And yet, if you consume a food(s) high in carotenes for at least 3 weeks prior to being in the sun, your risk of even getting sunburnt is slim. Chlorella is very potent in preventing sunburn. Buy it in the powdered form, put about a tablespoon in a glass of non-chlorinated water, sip and hold in the mouth for several seconds before swallowing. Holding in the mouth is very important. Here's why:
1. Chlorella is your highest source of vitamin B-12, short of eating raw meat. B-12 is destroyed by stomach acids. It is absorbed rapidly under the tongue.
2. Chlorella is a very high source of protein, which also is absorbed best in the mouth.
3. Chlorella is a very high source of essential fatty acids, which work better when held in the mouth first.
4. Chlorella is an almost perfect food, with all the necessary amino acids, all B vitamins in the proper ratio necessary for human health, is a far better source of calcium than cows milk, and has the magnesium, unlike cows milk, which is necessary to absorb and utilize the calcium. A good information site on Chlorella can be found here.
Sunlight, or the vitamin D gained from sun exposure, has been labeled the Happy Vitamin. I have talked with people who have switched to full spectrum lighting in the winter months, which changed their attitudes. Many times, profoundly for the better.
Since in the northern hemisphere, you are not going to get any real vitamin D from the sun in the winter months, it is a wise choice to get tested by your doctor to see what your "D" levels are, then if need be, take a vitamin D3 supplement. You never want D2, as it is a chemical. Tanning beds can also help give you quality vitamin D.
If you would like more information on vitamin D, and the required needs of the body for this vitamin, visit Dr Mercola's website, and key in "vitamin d" into the search bar. Dr Mercola has been instrumental in getting some very valuable information to the public on this and in many other areas of health. Although I may not always completely agree with him, I do highly endorse him.
And remember, vitamin D3 is very powerful in helping prevent cancers. If you are thinking sunlight causes cancer, you have been misled. Too much sun exposure can "lead" to cancer, it does not CAUSE cancer. And yet, if you consume a food(s) high in carotenes for at least 3 weeks prior to being in the sun, your risk of even getting sunburnt is slim. Chlorella is very potent in preventing sunburn. Buy it in the powdered form, put about a tablespoon in a glass of non-chlorinated water, sip and hold in the mouth for several seconds before swallowing. Holding in the mouth is very important. Here's why:
1. Chlorella is your highest source of vitamin B-12, short of eating raw meat. B-12 is destroyed by stomach acids. It is absorbed rapidly under the tongue.
2. Chlorella is a very high source of protein, which also is absorbed best in the mouth.
3. Chlorella is a very high source of essential fatty acids, which work better when held in the mouth first.
4. Chlorella is an almost perfect food, with all the necessary amino acids, all B vitamins in the proper ratio necessary for human health, is a far better source of calcium than cows milk, and has the magnesium, unlike cows milk, which is necessary to absorb and utilize the calcium. A good information site on Chlorella can be found here.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Splenda. Is It As Good As We've Been Told?
Splenda, aka Sucralose, is a chemical added into our food supply. Chemicals have no business in our bodies. This, as you should know, is a major cause of health problems. And yet, many people will discard the information and keep using this stuff. Until.......they get so many problems their doctors can do nothing about, except prescribe drugs which also do nothing to help.
Below is a list of Dr Joseph Mercola, M.D., reader reviews, of Splenda. Remember, you vote with your dollars. If you believe something is dangerous and should not be sold, be sure to tell others who use it of the potential harmful effects. If enough people quit buying these products, they will eventually vanish.
Here are the reviews:
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The following testimonials have been sent to us by people from all over the world who feel they have been harmed by Splenda. We have not researched each of these accounts in-depth, but instead are posting them to draw attention to the fact that Splenda’s safety -- or lack thereof -- is not only unknown and severely questionable, but worse still is not even being explored on a sufficient scale.
That Splenda is being marketed so freely and pervasively is most concerning given that there are currently NO large studies underway researching the safety of this artificial sweetener, and Splenda was released with few studies to support its safety. This is the same pattern that occurred with the artificial sweeteners aspartame and saccharine--two sweeteners that are now widely known to cause numerous health problems. In the same way that Splenda was released with few studies proving its safety, few studies were conducted on aspartame and saccharine until the negative health effects began to be seen, raising alarm and prompting investigations into the true (lack of) safety of the products.
If it sounds strange that Splenda could be marketed so widely without any real safety studies, I ask you to consider the source behind the product. Splenda is made from real sugar and is then molecularly modified to be calorie-free (essentially, Splenda is produced by chlorinating sugar). The sugar industry, which is a huge and very powerful government lobby, is profiting quite nicely from this no-calorie sweetener. It is no secret that the U.S. government is influenced by the sugar industry, and it is not a stretch to think that their influence may be the real reason why no real studies have been done.
So, with that in mind, I urge you to take a look at the many Splenda testimonials below, and then ask yourself, is eating this largely experimental product really worth the risk?
Dear Dr. Mercola,
I want to thank you for your Web site and especially for your documentation on the dangers of Splenda. I also want to pass on this testimonial in the hope it may help others.
Last evening after dinner I began to feel flush. My husband commented how red my face was getting and, sure enough, one glance in the mirror confirmed a bright red, tight, shiny visage staring back at me. In the next few hours my eyes began to swell. I went to bed hoping I could "sleep it off." How wrong I was.
This morning I got up and my face was still red, bright and swollen with puffy eyes. I am a pharmacist and I have seen many anaphylactoid (allergic) reactions before. I began to feel concerned that I too was having one. I have had only one other reaction like this before in my life--to Bactrim.
I went out for my usual morning run but by the first quarter mile I could barely breathe so I walked slowly back to the house. My right shoulder was burning so I went to the mirror and was horrified to find a HUGE 6 inch by 3 inch welt at the base of my neck (see photo).
I also felt very panicky and shaky and immediately had two bouts of diarrhea in rapid succession. After 15 minutes and a cool shower on tissue that looked scalded, I was having difficulty breathing. I was seen in the local emergency room where the physician immediately gave me a dexamethasone injection in the hip and a prescription for Epi-pen and oral prednisone over four days.
At the time I didn’t know why I looked like I had ingested a sulfa drug. My husband and I tried to figure out what was different in my life over the last 12 hours. Laundry soap? Nope. Cake? Animal dander? No and no. A dear friend came to visit me in my misery and mentioned that I had started to flush at church, several hours before dinner.
I remembered that I had had a cup of coffee and had tried the new creamer sitting by the pot. I remembered the Splenda label on it, which prompted my husband and I to search the Web and we found your site.
The description by Marcia in the testimonial area caused me to burst into tears. Yes, Marcia, there are others like you. I am throwing that stuff out when I get to church! This reaction that I have had looks like a drug reaction! I am appalled an "artificial sweetener" did this to me.
Twelve hours after treatment my eyes are no longer swollen and my face is no longer red, but my neck welt is the same size, same redness and as tender as a sunburn. There are a few blisters in the welt. Even after treatment it still looks this bad! Perhaps the manufacturer of Splenda can sell it as a biochemical warfare agent after it is removed from the market as a food additive.
Thanks for getting the word out!
Lori Hunt, RPh
Pickens, SC
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I also have had horrific effects from splenda. In May of this year, I started having drop attacks that I thought were strokes or TIAs. Later they got so severe, I thought they were heart attacks caused by coronary artery spasms. At the time, I had no idea what was causing my attacks because all medical tests were coming back negative. But after several visits to the ER thinking I was having a stroke or a heart attack, I began putting two and two together--whenever I would drink or eat a splenda product, within a few hours or sometimes even a day or two, my body would go numb and tingly in different areas. I was tested for MS, heart disease and for brain lesions. Sometimes, it was the entire left side of my body, sometimes my right, sometimes just my legs, sometimes just my arms or my lips or face. It would get worse at night while I was sleeping, then I would wake up and my heart would immediately go into an arrhythmia and race at about 160 beats per minute. I would get dry mouth and extremely nauseous. At this point, I would be terrified and the numbness would get so bad I would not be able to walk. In addition, I would get extreme esophageal reflux, which was not affected by anything, including prevacid, pepcid, etc.
I also had such bad IBS that I was given more drugs to control that. Since May, I have spent quite a lot of money going to doctors, all to no avail and with no diagnosis ever made. Finally I was told I was having anxiety as no one could figure out what was wrong with my body. I started wondering if it could be all the low carb stuff I was eating, as this was the only change in my life. Around the beginning of May I had started on a "low carb" life style and started drinking the low carb slimfast and eating the sugar-free low carb candy that is now so abundant in stores. I quit everything for a while and the symptoms seemed to subside and then almost went away. Last week, for some dumb reason, I decided to retry the slim fast because of my weight loss goals and today I had another attack of numbness and a panic attack. During these attacks, I can hardly breath and my legs and arms are weak, I am dizzy, numb and my muscles ache horribly. It feels like I am about to die. To say they are severe is an understatement.
Needless to say, I have learned my lesson and will NEVER use sucralose again. It is dangerous and seems like a huge toxin to the body. If just one person reacts this way, it CAN‘T be a good thing. It seems like we are being poisoned by these huge conglomerates that don‘t care about health and only interested in lining their pockets. The price of being thin is definitely not worth loosing brain cells or getting huge amounts of neurological and cardiological damage or who knows maybe even death. My digestive track and my arteries were actually going into huge spasms so much so that my doctor and I both thought that I was having angina. My doctor prescribed nitro just in case - even though I have low blood pressure, low cholesterol and a low body weight. This is how serious things got with my health while ingesting this deadly poison.
Sincerely,
Sallie Ceideski
Charlottesville, VA.
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I‘ve been following the Paleolithic diet with some success for a couple of years. Last year, when Splenda became more widely available, I started using it pretty regularly. While it‘s not on my diet, I figured since it was "all natural" and not absorbed by the body I would be just fine.
I hadn‘t made the connection till now, but I have been unable to lose any weight for the past year which is about how long I‘ve been using splenda in the form of drinks like Hansen‘s diet sodas, Big Red and Diet RC. Furthermore, I‘ve had two unusual episodes of unexplained pain. The first, shortly after Christmas 2003, was very extreme. I had no diarrhea or gas, but I had terrible cramping for several hours. The pain was so unbearable I nearly passed out. I was a pale green color and there were a few moments where everything started to turn white like I would pass out. Since it had been Christmas I had been eating a lot of goodies (many made with Splenda) and less of my usual healthy veggies and such. I thought maybe I had burst my intestines or something from lack of fiber (the only explanation I could think of for such extreme pain) so I had my boyfriend take me to the emergency room.
When the doctor pressed on my left lower belly I could not help but scream in pain. They gave me a shot of morphine but it only helped me to not mind the pain so much, but I felt it all the same. Thousands of dollars and a CT scan later... absolutely no problems were found. The pain slowly abated after about two days. I felt really crazy but after reading these other testimonials I really wonder if it had something
to do with the Splenda. Recently, I have associated Splenda usage and bladder pain. I‘ve been getting all the symptoms--burning, pain, and frequency of a bladder infection. But again, after doing a urinalysis at my doctor‘s, no infection has been found. I tried drinking a lot of water to clear up the ghost infection (and less Splenda-sweetened drinks and the symptoms went away. But because I never thought there was a connection, I began drinking Splenda again, and now my bladder symptoms are back. My Dad directed me to your site. Thank you for the information. I may have never seen the connection because I was so sure that Splenda was a very safe and natural product.
Laura Murphy
Austin, Texas
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Dr. Mercola:
I have had a terrible ordeal of having horrible stomach problems, indigestion, continual pain, constipation then diarrhea. I traced it back to diet RC cola, which has Splenda in it. I had tried to switch off of other diet drinks and went to this drink. For four weeks I have had terrible, terrible abdominal pain, etc. I stopped drinking this and the pain has left. Amazing how this product can have such a profound effect on people. Thought you should know.
Greg Clore
Plano, Texas
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Yesterday I went for an iced coffee with my friends. Since I have been watching my weight I opted for the splend a rather than my usual sugar. I finished half the coffee in about five minutes time and immediately my throat felt like it was closing in on me, my arms and legs became completely numb,I was covered in a rash, and thought yesterday was going to be my last day on earth. I thought I was going to die there in my friend‘s car. She rushed me to the emergency room where my blood pressure was sky high. I was given breathing treatments and benadryl and was told I was having an allergic reaction to this drug called splenda. Today the rash still covers me, my throat still feels swollen and I‘m afraid to death that any moment I may get the feeling of my throat closing up. I am a mother of three children and I am highly irate there are no warnings on any splenda product I‘ve come across. Monday I will call an attorney and see what my legal rights are.
Lucella Bennett
Leominster, Massachusetts
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About six months ago, I decided to try the Atkins diet. They strongly recommend Splenda (right on their home page!) so I went out and got some packets. I also bought a flavored water called Fruit20, which contains Splenda. I used these products for three days and started feeling sick. My husband said he‘d heard there were problems with Splenda so I did a little Web searching. It didn‘t take long to find reams of info on how evil this stuff can be. I experienced almost every symptom including bloating, abdominal pain, gas, nausea, headaches, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, depression and dizziness.
But here‘s the kicker--I STILL HAVE THEM, even though I haven‘t consumed any Splenda since those initial three days! Have you ever heard of this? I‘ve been making the rounds to doctors and done several tests. An ultrasound revealed nothing. (Based on my symptoms, gallstones were suspected.) The motility test was slightly irregular but nothing major. Endoscopy suggested acid reflux, but the meds (Nexium, Aciphex, Protonix--I‘ve tried them all) don‘t work. Based on all this, I‘m told I have "nonulcer dyspepsia," which is essentially symptoms without a cause. I told my gastro about the Splenda and he poo-pooed it. I‘m at my wits end and have an appointment with my GP to discuss the possibility of clinical depression since it seems this is related to unexplained stomach pain and vice versa.
--Nancy Keswani
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I am so THANKFUL to have found your site, and the information provided on Splenda. I was tricked into trying it out; like most, reading the "Made from Sugar" claim convinced me. I am, as I write, having horrendous stomach pains, the cause of which I am most certain is Splenda. I have been using it to sweeten my iced green tea (oh, the irony) for a couple of weeks, but just recently I‘ve noticed my body feeling worse and worse. The other night, I went out to dinner with friends, and had a cocktail--which I can normally handle quite well. After returning home, I was parched, and prepared a nice, tall glass of said tea.
All that night, and the next day, I was plagued by diarrhea, and severe stomach pains. And now, having just finished another glass, here I am with the same result. I cannot help, after reading the stories on this site, but think that Splenda is to blame--I am throwing it out the moment I close this letter.
--Danielle
New Jersey
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I have been drinking one or two Propel water drinks (Gatorade water) every day or every other day for just over two months. I was having symptoms but blamed them on a new intense exercise regimen (martial arts twice a week during which time I drank the Propel), stress at work, and stress of dating (I was stressing over a girl at the time).
Here it turns out there is sucralose in Propel. The very real and undeniable symptoms I suffered included fatigue, mild stomach cramps, sudden urge to go to the bathroom (others apparently have suffered outright diarrhea) and at same time often a type of constipation where I feel the strong urge to go to the bathroom but when I try to I can‘t purge all the way or to satisfaction, irritability, sleeplessness (at 4:44 AM, I felt totally relaxed and awake, like it was 4:44 PM … it‘s like a strong caffeine or ginseng buzz, and I can‘t sleep), very tired eyes and headache (I NEVER get headaches but I‘ve had a couple during this two-month period, and I remember thinking it was very strange), inability to concentrate and focus at work and lowered motivation, anxiety (feeling overwhelmed and scared, unable to cope), mild depression, itchy skin (under my armpits and also my scalp, I scratched my head so much that I developed small sores that scabbed over), heightened sensitivity to noises (smallest sounds are irritating), mild physical impotence or reduction of libido.
I drank one even today (before I read the Web site warnings), and so I had the chance to pay attention for signs of the symptoms. They took about five to eight hours to fully set in, I believe, from the time I took the last Propel (I believe symptoms grow, peak and then wane). I am sleepless, just went thru strong urge to go to the bathroom, can‘t focus, and am impatient and irritable. I also believe it makes you somewhat impotent as well, just like symptoms related to going to the bathroom, I still have my sex drive just like urge to go to bathroom, but can‘t really perform (am very weak in terms of being able to rise to the occasion and remain hard) … it reminds me of how mood-altering herbs/drugs can often inhibit libido. In fact, the overall effect of Splenda seems on par to me with herbal supplements, like St. John‘s Wort or Ginseng, as the effects are subtle but undeniable,
and out of your control.
Has anyone else noticed a problem with sexual performance due to Splenda?
--Bryan Prendergast
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In the past, I had already read enough [about Splenda] to know I didn‘t want to use the product … ever. But, for some reason, I felt drawn to read the testimonials. I‘m glad I did.
My mother died almost three months ago, and I‘ve had some emotional times, some interference with my work, etc.--the normal grieving process. But, for about the last three weeks, I thought I was going downhill fast. Even when I‘d sleep at night, I was still groggy and unable to stay awake during the day. I was irritable and uncomfortable most of the time. My brain didn‘t work in the "normal" way, I was forgetting things a minute later, couldn‘t follow-through on tasks in a logical order. This has really been affecting my work. The only days I noticed that I was more like myself were Sundays (I had attributed it to the fact that I always looked forward to going to church).
Several hours after reading through the testimonials, something occurred to me. About three weeks ago, the local bread store had a promotion, and if you bought so much, you got five loaves free...their choice of the free stuff. Well, I ended up with Good Hearth Carb Action Wheat Bread. I never liked it because it doesn‘t taste good, but it was free, and I‘m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so we ate it. We ate it every day but Sunday the past three weeks (I make "special" meals on Sundays), either for breakfast or lunch, sometimes both. I just assumed they could claim lower carbs because the bread slices were thin and small, about one-third smaller than your average sandwich bread slices. (That‘s what a lot of "diet" breads do.) It had no taste, though. I was forever adding salt and garlic salt, etc., just to make it palatable.
Yesterday, I was sluggish and late getting up again. We didn‘t have breakfast at all, and lunch was leftovers. Through the day, I started noticing that my mind was clearing, and I wasn‘t nodding off to sleep every time I sat down. But, it wasn‘t until suppertime that I started connecting the dots. The only real difference in our diet the past three weeks has been the free bread. I pulled it out and looked at the list of ingredients, and was mad at myself for not guessing sooner that this stuff has sucralose in it! It also has a great deal of soy, which is probably why it doesn‘t taste good.
So, the two loaves of bread that are left are hitting the garbage can!
In just one day without the sucralose-laced bread, I can see a definite difference. I was able to get up this morning and my mind is clear. I hope the improvement crosses over to my work!
Laura in LA
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Some time ago I tried Splenda in a packet of hot chocolate. I knew I was allergic to aspartame (made me dizzy), but thought maybe Splenda would be a good alternative. It made my lips itch! This was the oddest thing. I drank about one-third of a cup of this hot chocolate and found that my lips stopped itching, but they felt numb. I swore off Splenda. About a year later I accidentally purchased a drink with Splenda (labeled as sucralose) and could not endure the strong chemical flavor, undoubtedly from the chlorine. I read all labels carefully and stick with natural sugars in my foods. I‘m a runner and figure I‘ll run off any extra calories, but will be hard pressed to endure another allergic reaction.
--Patricia Brown
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About four months ago, I started drinking Diet Rite cola. I drank it for about two weeks and then one day at work I got laryngitis as I finished my second drink that morning. My face and sides of my neck broke out in red itchy hives of varying sizes, some had a red streak running up from them. I didn‘t realize the Diet Rite was the culprit until the next afternoon when I drank another cola and again broke out in hives, this time more widespread. No more Splenda for me.
--Yvette
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I am writing to you to let others know of my problems with the product Splenda. We have been drinking a carbonated flavored water sweetened with Splenda for over a year. During all of this time, my husband and I were always feeling tired, under the weather, lost interest in doing our favorite things, all our joints were aching, nausea, gastro problems, and most recently I had developed this terrible rash on my neck, armpits and on my chest.
Of course, we just attributed all of this to changes in the weather, or arthritis, allergies, or the "What did I eat?" syndrome, UNTIL--I was doing some research on the Internet and discovered your page! What a blessing! After reading your page, and all of the testimonials from others, we stopped the Splenda water and using it in my coffee IMMEDIATELY! I had sent your page to my sister, who is diabetic, and she was having all of the symptoms also, including the rash! She is discarding all of her Splenda as well.
We have been off Splenda for three days now, my rash is slowly going away, my energy is coming back, and my husband no longer has the nausea that he had experienced for the longest time. When is the government going to take this stuff off the market? And, who can we contact to get this off the market? This definitely is worse than chemical warfare! I hope this bit of information helps someone else out there, and they discard the "POISON " too!
--Terri from New York
Below is a list of Dr Joseph Mercola, M.D., reader reviews, of Splenda. Remember, you vote with your dollars. If you believe something is dangerous and should not be sold, be sure to tell others who use it of the potential harmful effects. If enough people quit buying these products, they will eventually vanish.
Here are the reviews:
The Potential Dangers of Sucralose Posted By Dr. Mercola | December 03 2000 | 168,781 views Share96
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The following testimonials have been sent to us by people from all over the world who feel they have been harmed by Splenda. We have not researched each of these accounts in-depth, but instead are posting them to draw attention to the fact that Splenda’s safety -- or lack thereof -- is not only unknown and severely questionable, but worse still is not even being explored on a sufficient scale.
That Splenda is being marketed so freely and pervasively is most concerning given that there are currently NO large studies underway researching the safety of this artificial sweetener, and Splenda was released with few studies to support its safety. This is the same pattern that occurred with the artificial sweeteners aspartame and saccharine--two sweeteners that are now widely known to cause numerous health problems. In the same way that Splenda was released with few studies proving its safety, few studies were conducted on aspartame and saccharine until the negative health effects began to be seen, raising alarm and prompting investigations into the true (lack of) safety of the products.
If it sounds strange that Splenda could be marketed so widely without any real safety studies, I ask you to consider the source behind the product. Splenda is made from real sugar and is then molecularly modified to be calorie-free (essentially, Splenda is produced by chlorinating sugar). The sugar industry, which is a huge and very powerful government lobby, is profiting quite nicely from this no-calorie sweetener. It is no secret that the U.S. government is influenced by the sugar industry, and it is not a stretch to think that their influence may be the real reason why no real studies have been done.
So, with that in mind, I urge you to take a look at the many Splenda testimonials below, and then ask yourself, is eating this largely experimental product really worth the risk?
Dear Dr. Mercola,
I want to thank you for your Web site and especially for your documentation on the dangers of Splenda. I also want to pass on this testimonial in the hope it may help others.
Last evening after dinner I began to feel flush. My husband commented how red my face was getting and, sure enough, one glance in the mirror confirmed a bright red, tight, shiny visage staring back at me. In the next few hours my eyes began to swell. I went to bed hoping I could "sleep it off." How wrong I was.
This morning I got up and my face was still red, bright and swollen with puffy eyes. I am a pharmacist and I have seen many anaphylactoid (allergic) reactions before. I began to feel concerned that I too was having one. I have had only one other reaction like this before in my life--to Bactrim.
I went out for my usual morning run but by the first quarter mile I could barely breathe so I walked slowly back to the house. My right shoulder was burning so I went to the mirror and was horrified to find a HUGE 6 inch by 3 inch welt at the base of my neck (see photo).
I also felt very panicky and shaky and immediately had two bouts of diarrhea in rapid succession. After 15 minutes and a cool shower on tissue that looked scalded, I was having difficulty breathing. I was seen in the local emergency room where the physician immediately gave me a dexamethasone injection in the hip and a prescription for Epi-pen and oral prednisone over four days.
At the time I didn’t know why I looked like I had ingested a sulfa drug. My husband and I tried to figure out what was different in my life over the last 12 hours. Laundry soap? Nope. Cake? Animal dander? No and no. A dear friend came to visit me in my misery and mentioned that I had started to flush at church, several hours before dinner.
I remembered that I had had a cup of coffee and had tried the new creamer sitting by the pot. I remembered the Splenda label on it, which prompted my husband and I to search the Web and we found your site.
The description by Marcia in the testimonial area caused me to burst into tears. Yes, Marcia, there are others like you. I am throwing that stuff out when I get to church! This reaction that I have had looks like a drug reaction! I am appalled an "artificial sweetener" did this to me.
Twelve hours after treatment my eyes are no longer swollen and my face is no longer red, but my neck welt is the same size, same redness and as tender as a sunburn. There are a few blisters in the welt. Even after treatment it still looks this bad! Perhaps the manufacturer of Splenda can sell it as a biochemical warfare agent after it is removed from the market as a food additive.
Thanks for getting the word out!
Lori Hunt, RPh
Pickens, SC
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I also have had horrific effects from splenda. In May of this year, I started having drop attacks that I thought were strokes or TIAs. Later they got so severe, I thought they were heart attacks caused by coronary artery spasms. At the time, I had no idea what was causing my attacks because all medical tests were coming back negative. But after several visits to the ER thinking I was having a stroke or a heart attack, I began putting two and two together--whenever I would drink or eat a splenda product, within a few hours or sometimes even a day or two, my body would go numb and tingly in different areas. I was tested for MS, heart disease and for brain lesions. Sometimes, it was the entire left side of my body, sometimes my right, sometimes just my legs, sometimes just my arms or my lips or face. It would get worse at night while I was sleeping, then I would wake up and my heart would immediately go into an arrhythmia and race at about 160 beats per minute. I would get dry mouth and extremely nauseous. At this point, I would be terrified and the numbness would get so bad I would not be able to walk. In addition, I would get extreme esophageal reflux, which was not affected by anything, including prevacid, pepcid, etc.
I also had such bad IBS that I was given more drugs to control that. Since May, I have spent quite a lot of money going to doctors, all to no avail and with no diagnosis ever made. Finally I was told I was having anxiety as no one could figure out what was wrong with my body. I started wondering if it could be all the low carb stuff I was eating, as this was the only change in my life. Around the beginning of May I had started on a "low carb" life style and started drinking the low carb slimfast and eating the sugar-free low carb candy that is now so abundant in stores. I quit everything for a while and the symptoms seemed to subside and then almost went away. Last week, for some dumb reason, I decided to retry the slim fast because of my weight loss goals and today I had another attack of numbness and a panic attack. During these attacks, I can hardly breath and my legs and arms are weak, I am dizzy, numb and my muscles ache horribly. It feels like I am about to die. To say they are severe is an understatement.
Needless to say, I have learned my lesson and will NEVER use sucralose again. It is dangerous and seems like a huge toxin to the body. If just one person reacts this way, it CAN‘T be a good thing. It seems like we are being poisoned by these huge conglomerates that don‘t care about health and only interested in lining their pockets. The price of being thin is definitely not worth loosing brain cells or getting huge amounts of neurological and cardiological damage or who knows maybe even death. My digestive track and my arteries were actually going into huge spasms so much so that my doctor and I both thought that I was having angina. My doctor prescribed nitro just in case - even though I have low blood pressure, low cholesterol and a low body weight. This is how serious things got with my health while ingesting this deadly poison.
Sincerely,
Sallie Ceideski
Charlottesville, VA.
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I‘ve been following the Paleolithic diet with some success for a couple of years. Last year, when Splenda became more widely available, I started using it pretty regularly. While it‘s not on my diet, I figured since it was "all natural" and not absorbed by the body I would be just fine.
I hadn‘t made the connection till now, but I have been unable to lose any weight for the past year which is about how long I‘ve been using splenda in the form of drinks like Hansen‘s diet sodas, Big Red and Diet RC. Furthermore, I‘ve had two unusual episodes of unexplained pain. The first, shortly after Christmas 2003, was very extreme. I had no diarrhea or gas, but I had terrible cramping for several hours. The pain was so unbearable I nearly passed out. I was a pale green color and there were a few moments where everything started to turn white like I would pass out. Since it had been Christmas I had been eating a lot of goodies (many made with Splenda) and less of my usual healthy veggies and such. I thought maybe I had burst my intestines or something from lack of fiber (the only explanation I could think of for such extreme pain) so I had my boyfriend take me to the emergency room.
When the doctor pressed on my left lower belly I could not help but scream in pain. They gave me a shot of morphine but it only helped me to not mind the pain so much, but I felt it all the same. Thousands of dollars and a CT scan later... absolutely no problems were found. The pain slowly abated after about two days. I felt really crazy but after reading these other testimonials I really wonder if it had something
to do with the Splenda. Recently, I have associated Splenda usage and bladder pain. I‘ve been getting all the symptoms--burning, pain, and frequency of a bladder infection. But again, after doing a urinalysis at my doctor‘s, no infection has been found. I tried drinking a lot of water to clear up the ghost infection (and less Splenda-sweetened drinks and the symptoms went away. But because I never thought there was a connection, I began drinking Splenda again, and now my bladder symptoms are back. My Dad directed me to your site. Thank you for the information. I may have never seen the connection because I was so sure that Splenda was a very safe and natural product.
Laura Murphy
Austin, Texas
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Dr. Mercola:
I have had a terrible ordeal of having horrible stomach problems, indigestion, continual pain, constipation then diarrhea. I traced it back to diet RC cola, which has Splenda in it. I had tried to switch off of other diet drinks and went to this drink. For four weeks I have had terrible, terrible abdominal pain, etc. I stopped drinking this and the pain has left. Amazing how this product can have such a profound effect on people. Thought you should know.
Greg Clore
Plano, Texas
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Yesterday I went for an iced coffee with my friends. Since I have been watching my weight I opted for the splend a rather than my usual sugar. I finished half the coffee in about five minutes time and immediately my throat felt like it was closing in on me, my arms and legs became completely numb,I was covered in a rash, and thought yesterday was going to be my last day on earth. I thought I was going to die there in my friend‘s car. She rushed me to the emergency room where my blood pressure was sky high. I was given breathing treatments and benadryl and was told I was having an allergic reaction to this drug called splenda. Today the rash still covers me, my throat still feels swollen and I‘m afraid to death that any moment I may get the feeling of my throat closing up. I am a mother of three children and I am highly irate there are no warnings on any splenda product I‘ve come across. Monday I will call an attorney and see what my legal rights are.
Lucella Bennett
Leominster, Massachusetts
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About six months ago, I decided to try the Atkins diet. They strongly recommend Splenda (right on their home page!) so I went out and got some packets. I also bought a flavored water called Fruit20, which contains Splenda. I used these products for three days and started feeling sick. My husband said he‘d heard there were problems with Splenda so I did a little Web searching. It didn‘t take long to find reams of info on how evil this stuff can be. I experienced almost every symptom including bloating, abdominal pain, gas, nausea, headaches, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, depression and dizziness.
But here‘s the kicker--I STILL HAVE THEM, even though I haven‘t consumed any Splenda since those initial three days! Have you ever heard of this? I‘ve been making the rounds to doctors and done several tests. An ultrasound revealed nothing. (Based on my symptoms, gallstones were suspected.) The motility test was slightly irregular but nothing major. Endoscopy suggested acid reflux, but the meds (Nexium, Aciphex, Protonix--I‘ve tried them all) don‘t work. Based on all this, I‘m told I have "nonulcer dyspepsia," which is essentially symptoms without a cause. I told my gastro about the Splenda and he poo-pooed it. I‘m at my wits end and have an appointment with my GP to discuss the possibility of clinical depression since it seems this is related to unexplained stomach pain and vice versa.
--Nancy Keswani
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I am so THANKFUL to have found your site, and the information provided on Splenda. I was tricked into trying it out; like most, reading the "Made from Sugar" claim convinced me. I am, as I write, having horrendous stomach pains, the cause of which I am most certain is Splenda. I have been using it to sweeten my iced green tea (oh, the irony) for a couple of weeks, but just recently I‘ve noticed my body feeling worse and worse. The other night, I went out to dinner with friends, and had a cocktail--which I can normally handle quite well. After returning home, I was parched, and prepared a nice, tall glass of said tea.
All that night, and the next day, I was plagued by diarrhea, and severe stomach pains. And now, having just finished another glass, here I am with the same result. I cannot help, after reading the stories on this site, but think that Splenda is to blame--I am throwing it out the moment I close this letter.
--Danielle
New Jersey
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I have been drinking one or two Propel water drinks (Gatorade water) every day or every other day for just over two months. I was having symptoms but blamed them on a new intense exercise regimen (martial arts twice a week during which time I drank the Propel), stress at work, and stress of dating (I was stressing over a girl at the time).
Here it turns out there is sucralose in Propel. The very real and undeniable symptoms I suffered included fatigue, mild stomach cramps, sudden urge to go to the bathroom (others apparently have suffered outright diarrhea) and at same time often a type of constipation where I feel the strong urge to go to the bathroom but when I try to I can‘t purge all the way or to satisfaction, irritability, sleeplessness (at 4:44 AM, I felt totally relaxed and awake, like it was 4:44 PM … it‘s like a strong caffeine or ginseng buzz, and I can‘t sleep), very tired eyes and headache (I NEVER get headaches but I‘ve had a couple during this two-month period, and I remember thinking it was very strange), inability to concentrate and focus at work and lowered motivation, anxiety (feeling overwhelmed and scared, unable to cope), mild depression, itchy skin (under my armpits and also my scalp, I scratched my head so much that I developed small sores that scabbed over), heightened sensitivity to noises (smallest sounds are irritating), mild physical impotence or reduction of libido.
I drank one even today (before I read the Web site warnings), and so I had the chance to pay attention for signs of the symptoms. They took about five to eight hours to fully set in, I believe, from the time I took the last Propel (I believe symptoms grow, peak and then wane). I am sleepless, just went thru strong urge to go to the bathroom, can‘t focus, and am impatient and irritable. I also believe it makes you somewhat impotent as well, just like symptoms related to going to the bathroom, I still have my sex drive just like urge to go to bathroom, but can‘t really perform (am very weak in terms of being able to rise to the occasion and remain hard) … it reminds me of how mood-altering herbs/drugs can often inhibit libido. In fact, the overall effect of Splenda seems on par to me with herbal supplements, like St. John‘s Wort or Ginseng, as the effects are subtle but undeniable,
and out of your control.
Has anyone else noticed a problem with sexual performance due to Splenda?
--Bryan Prendergast
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In the past, I had already read enough [about Splenda] to know I didn‘t want to use the product … ever. But, for some reason, I felt drawn to read the testimonials. I‘m glad I did.
My mother died almost three months ago, and I‘ve had some emotional times, some interference with my work, etc.--the normal grieving process. But, for about the last three weeks, I thought I was going downhill fast. Even when I‘d sleep at night, I was still groggy and unable to stay awake during the day. I was irritable and uncomfortable most of the time. My brain didn‘t work in the "normal" way, I was forgetting things a minute later, couldn‘t follow-through on tasks in a logical order. This has really been affecting my work. The only days I noticed that I was more like myself were Sundays (I had attributed it to the fact that I always looked forward to going to church).
Several hours after reading through the testimonials, something occurred to me. About three weeks ago, the local bread store had a promotion, and if you bought so much, you got five loaves free...their choice of the free stuff. Well, I ended up with Good Hearth Carb Action Wheat Bread. I never liked it because it doesn‘t taste good, but it was free, and I‘m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, so we ate it. We ate it every day but Sunday the past three weeks (I make "special" meals on Sundays), either for breakfast or lunch, sometimes both. I just assumed they could claim lower carbs because the bread slices were thin and small, about one-third smaller than your average sandwich bread slices. (That‘s what a lot of "diet" breads do.) It had no taste, though. I was forever adding salt and garlic salt, etc., just to make it palatable.
Yesterday, I was sluggish and late getting up again. We didn‘t have breakfast at all, and lunch was leftovers. Through the day, I started noticing that my mind was clearing, and I wasn‘t nodding off to sleep every time I sat down. But, it wasn‘t until suppertime that I started connecting the dots. The only real difference in our diet the past three weeks has been the free bread. I pulled it out and looked at the list of ingredients, and was mad at myself for not guessing sooner that this stuff has sucralose in it! It also has a great deal of soy, which is probably why it doesn‘t taste good.
So, the two loaves of bread that are left are hitting the garbage can!
In just one day without the sucralose-laced bread, I can see a definite difference. I was able to get up this morning and my mind is clear. I hope the improvement crosses over to my work!
Laura in LA
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Some time ago I tried Splenda in a packet of hot chocolate. I knew I was allergic to aspartame (made me dizzy), but thought maybe Splenda would be a good alternative. It made my lips itch! This was the oddest thing. I drank about one-third of a cup of this hot chocolate and found that my lips stopped itching, but they felt numb. I swore off Splenda. About a year later I accidentally purchased a drink with Splenda (labeled as sucralose) and could not endure the strong chemical flavor, undoubtedly from the chlorine. I read all labels carefully and stick with natural sugars in my foods. I‘m a runner and figure I‘ll run off any extra calories, but will be hard pressed to endure another allergic reaction.
--Patricia Brown
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About four months ago, I started drinking Diet Rite cola. I drank it for about two weeks and then one day at work I got laryngitis as I finished my second drink that morning. My face and sides of my neck broke out in red itchy hives of varying sizes, some had a red streak running up from them. I didn‘t realize the Diet Rite was the culprit until the next afternoon when I drank another cola and again broke out in hives, this time more widespread. No more Splenda for me.
--Yvette
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I am writing to you to let others know of my problems with the product Splenda. We have been drinking a carbonated flavored water sweetened with Splenda for over a year. During all of this time, my husband and I were always feeling tired, under the weather, lost interest in doing our favorite things, all our joints were aching, nausea, gastro problems, and most recently I had developed this terrible rash on my neck, armpits and on my chest.
Of course, we just attributed all of this to changes in the weather, or arthritis, allergies, or the "What did I eat?" syndrome, UNTIL--I was doing some research on the Internet and discovered your page! What a blessing! After reading your page, and all of the testimonials from others, we stopped the Splenda water and using it in my coffee IMMEDIATELY! I had sent your page to my sister, who is diabetic, and she was having all of the symptoms also, including the rash! She is discarding all of her Splenda as well.
We have been off Splenda for three days now, my rash is slowly going away, my energy is coming back, and my husband no longer has the nausea that he had experienced for the longest time. When is the government going to take this stuff off the market? And, who can we contact to get this off the market? This definitely is worse than chemical warfare! I hope this bit of information helps someone else out there, and they discard the "POISON " too!
--Terri from New York
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Banned in Europe for Causing 83,000 Heart Attacks - Are You Taking it?
September 23, 2010 article in the New England Journal of Medicine announced that, finally, the FDA has stepped forward and decided on regulatory action for Avandia, a diabetes drug that last year claimed 1,354 lives as a result of cardiac-associated problems.
The FDA is restricting access to Avandia by requiring GSK to submit a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS.
Under the ruling, the drug will be available to patients not already taking it only if they are unable to achieve glycemic control using other medications and, in consultation with their health care professional, decide not to take a different drug for medical reasons.
Current users of Avandia will be able to continue using the medication if they appear to be benefiting from it and they acknowledge that they understand these risks. Doctors will have to attest to and document their patients’ eligibility; patients will have to review statements describing the cardiovascular safety concerns.
But did the FDA go far enough – could it be too little, too late?
Unlike the US FDA, British regulators have ruled that GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia could lead to heart attacks or strokes, and benefits no longer outweigh the risks.
And so last week, they told 90,000 British diabetes patients to stop taking it.
Evidence linking Avandia to an increased risk of a heart attack or stroke has been building since 2007, and GSK has agreed to pay $460 million in damages to settle about 10,000 lawsuits in America linking its use to patients suffering serious medical setbacks. But the US FDA has chosen only to monitor the drug, rather than ask for a recall.
Sources:
New England Journal of Medicine September 23, 2010
Philly.com June 17, 2010
The Guardian 23, 2010
Philly.com September 23, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
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Like Vioxx, the case of Avandia has turned into yet another classic example of what is fundamentally wrong with the conventional medical paradigm.
Diabetes has increased more than 700 percent in the last 50 years. Today, more than one in four Americans are either pre-diabetic or have full-blown diabetes.
In response, conventional medicine offers up drugs that in no way, shape or form treat the cause of the problem, and worse yet, can prematurely kill many of those who take them.
The drug in question here, rosiglitazone, is sold under the names of Avandia, Avandamet and Avaglim. Avandia alone is used by 2 million people worldwide.
But other diabetic drugs are not necessarily any safer. Two years ago I wrote about Byetta, an “add-on” drug for diabetes (meaning it’s usually prescribed in combination with other drugs) that can cause acute and in some cases lethal pancreatitis.
The saddest part about this debacle is that type 2 diabetes is not only a completely avoidable disease, but also one that in nearly all cases can be successfully reversed without ever touching a drug.
The only thing rosiglitazone drugs like Avandia do is to help lower blood glucose, which has virtually no influence on the long-term damage due to type 2 diabetes. Most of the damage is caused by elevated insulin levels, which can be remedied with an optimal diet and exercise program alone, if you’re compliant.
Another aspect of this story that makes Avandia such a poster child for this lethal paradigm is the fact that GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of Avandia, hid damaging information about the drug for over ten years, as it would adversely affect their sales!
Again and again we are confronted with indisputable evidence that the drug paradigm is about money, not health.
Between 1999 and 2007, Avandia is estimated to have caused 83,000 unnecessary heart attacks. This is a steep price, to say the least, for a disease that does not require drugs to begin with.
This is 20,000 more deaths than Merck caused when they sold Vioxx.
European Medicines Agency Bans Avandia
Avandia hit the market in 1999 and quickly became a blockbuster drug. By 2006 its annual revenue was $3.2 billion. By 2009, sales had dropped to $1.2 billion following a damning study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2007, which linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death than patients treated with other methods.
Unfortunately, a committee of independent experts recommended that Avandia remain on the US market, despite its risks, and an FDA oversight board voted 8 to 7 to accept the advice.
Since that 2007 NEJM study, data from various trials, studies and meta-analyses have consistently confirmed the dangers of this drug, and based on the evidence amassed over the past three years, the European Medicines Agency is now recommending the withdrawal of rosiglitazone-containing diabetic drugs due to the increased risk of ischaemic heart disease.
Their recent press release states that,
“… the Committee could not identify additional measures that would reduce the cardiovascular risk. The Committee therefore concluded that the benefits of rosiglitazone no longer outweigh its risks and recommended the suspension of the marketing authorization of the medicines.
Europe will cease all prescriptions of these drugs within the next few months.
American patients, however, will not receive the same protection from the US FDA.
Submitted By Dr. Mercola | October 11 2010 | 4,755 views
The FDA is restricting access to Avandia by requiring GSK to submit a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or REMS.
Under the ruling, the drug will be available to patients not already taking it only if they are unable to achieve glycemic control using other medications and, in consultation with their health care professional, decide not to take a different drug for medical reasons.
Current users of Avandia will be able to continue using the medication if they appear to be benefiting from it and they acknowledge that they understand these risks. Doctors will have to attest to and document their patients’ eligibility; patients will have to review statements describing the cardiovascular safety concerns.
But did the FDA go far enough – could it be too little, too late?
Unlike the US FDA, British regulators have ruled that GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia could lead to heart attacks or strokes, and benefits no longer outweigh the risks.
And so last week, they told 90,000 British diabetes patients to stop taking it.
Evidence linking Avandia to an increased risk of a heart attack or stroke has been building since 2007, and GSK has agreed to pay $460 million in damages to settle about 10,000 lawsuits in America linking its use to patients suffering serious medical setbacks. But the US FDA has chosen only to monitor the drug, rather than ask for a recall.
Sources:
New England Journal of Medicine September 23, 2010
Philly.com June 17, 2010
The Guardian 23, 2010
Philly.com September 23, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
Follow me on twitter Follow me on facebook
Like Vioxx, the case of Avandia has turned into yet another classic example of what is fundamentally wrong with the conventional medical paradigm.
Diabetes has increased more than 700 percent in the last 50 years. Today, more than one in four Americans are either pre-diabetic or have full-blown diabetes.
In response, conventional medicine offers up drugs that in no way, shape or form treat the cause of the problem, and worse yet, can prematurely kill many of those who take them.
The drug in question here, rosiglitazone, is sold under the names of Avandia, Avandamet and Avaglim. Avandia alone is used by 2 million people worldwide.
But other diabetic drugs are not necessarily any safer. Two years ago I wrote about Byetta, an “add-on” drug for diabetes (meaning it’s usually prescribed in combination with other drugs) that can cause acute and in some cases lethal pancreatitis.
The saddest part about this debacle is that type 2 diabetes is not only a completely avoidable disease, but also one that in nearly all cases can be successfully reversed without ever touching a drug.
The only thing rosiglitazone drugs like Avandia do is to help lower blood glucose, which has virtually no influence on the long-term damage due to type 2 diabetes. Most of the damage is caused by elevated insulin levels, which can be remedied with an optimal diet and exercise program alone, if you’re compliant.
Another aspect of this story that makes Avandia such a poster child for this lethal paradigm is the fact that GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of Avandia, hid damaging information about the drug for over ten years, as it would adversely affect their sales!
Again and again we are confronted with indisputable evidence that the drug paradigm is about money, not health.
Between 1999 and 2007, Avandia is estimated to have caused 83,000 unnecessary heart attacks. This is a steep price, to say the least, for a disease that does not require drugs to begin with.
This is 20,000 more deaths than Merck caused when they sold Vioxx.
European Medicines Agency Bans Avandia
Avandia hit the market in 1999 and quickly became a blockbuster drug. By 2006 its annual revenue was $3.2 billion. By 2009, sales had dropped to $1.2 billion following a damning study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2007, which linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death than patients treated with other methods.
Unfortunately, a committee of independent experts recommended that Avandia remain on the US market, despite its risks, and an FDA oversight board voted 8 to 7 to accept the advice.
Since that 2007 NEJM study, data from various trials, studies and meta-analyses have consistently confirmed the dangers of this drug, and based on the evidence amassed over the past three years, the European Medicines Agency is now recommending the withdrawal of rosiglitazone-containing diabetic drugs due to the increased risk of ischaemic heart disease.
Their recent press release states that,
“… the Committee could not identify additional measures that would reduce the cardiovascular risk. The Committee therefore concluded that the benefits of rosiglitazone no longer outweigh its risks and recommended the suspension of the marketing authorization of the medicines.
Europe will cease all prescriptions of these drugs within the next few months.
American patients, however, will not receive the same protection from the US FDA.
Submitted By Dr. Mercola | October 11 2010 | 4,755 views
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Do Antibiotics Have Any Useful Benefit?
In my opinion, antibiotics are not only harmful, but are in place not to prevent disease, but to create it. As you can tell by the following article from Dr Mercola, He doesn't think all that much of them either. And he is a medical doctor.
Antibiotics: A Prescription for Trouble
Under the right circumstances, antibiotics are very effective and necessary. That said, I believe they are vastly overused.
About 95 percent of the time, antibiotic prescriptions are totally unnecessary, and can be harmful.
According to Doug Kaufmann, author of The Fungus Link:
“Simply put, antibiotics are poisons that are used to kill ... I contend that poisons that kill small organisms in small doses—organism-specific varieties notwithstanding — can also kill big organisms, when they are taken in big doses. You, my friend, are a big organism."
Every time you swallow antibiotics, you kill beneficial bacteria in your intestines, upsetting the delicate balance of your intestinal terrain. This can lead to a syndrome called “Leaky Gut Syndrome” whereby your intestinal wall is damaged, interfering with how your body absorbs nutrients and filters out waste and toxins.
Leaky Gut Syndrome can lead to a whole host of illnesses.
However, taking the antibiotics your physician prescribes is not the ONLY way you are getting them. Antibiotics may be the mystery ingredient in your Chicken Kiev and a common and typically vastly underappreciated way in which you can be exposed to them..
Most Antibiotics in the US Used for Farm Animals
As much as 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U. S. are fed to chickens, cattle and hogs — not to treat disease but to make them grow faster. This increases profit margins for livestock producers, but it puts YOUR health at risk.
Animals are fed low doses of antibiotics, killing off some of the animals’ bacteria. Meanwhile, the stronger, more resistant bacteria survive, multiply, and pass on their strength and resistance to future generations.
A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of antibiotics used in this country are given to animals for growth promotion and other non-medical uses. This negligent practice is largely responsible for the potent strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria we are seeing today.
According to a 2009 University of Iowa study, 70 percent of hogs and 64 percent of workers in industrial animal confinements tested positive for the antibiotic resistant strain of MRSA. The study pointed out that, once MRSA is introduced, it could spread broadly to other swine and their caretakers, as well as to their families and friends.
Not only are antibiotics embedded in your meats, but they have made their way into your produce as well.
Antibiotics are being transferred, via the manure used as fertilizer, into your corn, lettuce, potatoes, and other crops.
Eating organically may not entirely alleviate this problem, since organic crops, which cannot be fertilized with synthetic fertilizers, are the ones most often fertilized with manure.
As it stands, manure that contains antibiotics is still allowed under the organic label. So it all depends on where the organic farmer gets his manure from. Some organic crop farmers may be getting their manure from organic cattle farms, but there’s no guarantee that’s taking place.
The only way to find out is to ask the farmer first-hand. Taking all of these factors into consideration, is it any wonder that the ratio of good-bacteria-to-bad is upside down in most people in our society?
Government Agencies Finally Taking a Stand — Sort of ...
The rise of antibiotic-resistance in livestock is so alarming that government officials have finally admitted you can become infected when you eat or simply handle infected meat. In a remarkable move by the current administration, the FDA is proposing to phase out antibiotics used to promote animals’ growth.
They also warn that the microbes can contaminate kitchen counters, utensils and other food.
Even the USDA, which usually defends agribusiness interests, proclaimed at a congressional hearing that there is indeed a link between antibiotic use in animals and drug resistance in humans.
But the FDA hasn’t gone far enough.
The FDA has “recommended” that producers limit use of these drugs to medically necessary instances, under the guidance of a veterinarian, but they haven’t issued stricter regulations.
Do you really want to rely on “the honor system” with regard to how industry grows your food?
Do you really think industrial lobbyists are going to take the high road here?
Unlikely!
We need to implement measures to ensure antibiotics are used responsibly — and that needs to go beyond mere suggestion. An overhaul of regulation is in order.
This sort of revamping is not unprecedented — Denmark did it in1998.
The Danish Experiment: A Success Story about Antibiotic-Free Farming
Denmark took the bull by the horns in a bold maneuver that 17,000 Danish farmers proudly call the “Danish Experiment.”
In 1998, after European studies showed a link between antibiotic-fed livestock and antibiotic-resistant infections in humans, Denmark launched a ban on the use of routine antibiotics in farming. Antibiotics were reserved for animals that were actually sick.
Since the ban, the Danish pork industry has grown by 43 percent, making them one of the top pork exporters in the world.
The rest of Europe followed suit in 2006.
But, not so with the American Pork Industry, which was spooked by the potential increased cost of raising a pig. They calculated that it would cost $5 more for every 100 pounds of pork brought to market without the use of antibiotics, and this $5 was not worth it to Big Porky.
No, $5 was too much to invest for improved public health, safer foods, and fewer drug resistant infections in people.
And it isn’t just the American Pork Industry that lists your health last on its list of priorities.
FDA Picks on Cherries While Drug Manufacturers Get Away With Murder
Since 2009, there have been FOUR bills introduced that would end or severely limit your access to food supplements!
So, at the same time as Big Pharma is resisting the movement to rid the livestock industry of the inappropriate use of antibiotic drugs, some members of Congress are trying to restrict your access to the things that will actually protect your health—vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other natural agents.
This is complete nonsense since food supplements used appropriately are not causing deaths, whereas more than 100,000 people are killed every year by pharmaceutical drugs taken legally and correctly prescribed.
In fact, pharmaceutical drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (April 15, 1998). NSAIDS alone cause more than 16,000 deaths each year, yet the FDA continues to protect NSAID manufacturers and even allows ads on television offering free samples for the taking.
Instead of the FDA hauling NSAID-makers out to the woodshed, they are spending their time threatening cherry growers for mentioning peer-reviewed studies about how cherries are far better than NSAIDS in controlling pain and inflammation.
How many people do you know who’ve been harmed or killed by cherries?
This issue is nicely summarized by the Dr. Rath Health Foundation:
“The survival of the pharmaceutical industry is dependent on the elimination by any means of effective natural health therapies. These natural and non-patentable therapies have become the treatment of choice for millions of people, despite the combined economic, political and media opposition of the world’s largest investment industry.”
I wholeheartedly agree.
What You Can Do
Of the four pieces of legislation mentioned above, only the “Food Safety Bill” remains an immediate threat.
The other three bills were defeated BY YOU!
Here are two specific actions you can take to light a fire under government officials on these issues:
1.Food Democracy Now! has created a petition against the overuse of antibiotics in livestock production. If you care about this issue, I suggest you use this petition to make your voice heard. In the same way numerous prior bills have been shot out of the water as a direct result of public outcry, your action can put the kibosh on this one as well.
Tell the FDA and the White House to stand up for human health by changing their policies about the reckless use of antibiotics in animal feed.
2.The Alliance for Natural Health USA has put together a letter addressed to Congress in an effort to educate them that “supplements should not be regulated like drugs, and that the regulations already in place are completely sufficient.” All that is required of you is to fill out your contact information and click “send.”
For the purpose of supporting your own health, you might want to consider adding a high quality probiotic to your dietary regimen. There are a number of good ones on the market. I suggest you ask your local health food store for a recommendation. I also offer an excellent probiotic on my site, in addition to information about what to look for in all probiotic supplements.
Certified Therapeutic Quality Aromatherapy Available Here
Antibiotics: A Prescription for Trouble
Under the right circumstances, antibiotics are very effective and necessary. That said, I believe they are vastly overused.
About 95 percent of the time, antibiotic prescriptions are totally unnecessary, and can be harmful.
According to Doug Kaufmann, author of The Fungus Link:
“Simply put, antibiotics are poisons that are used to kill ... I contend that poisons that kill small organisms in small doses—organism-specific varieties notwithstanding — can also kill big organisms, when they are taken in big doses. You, my friend, are a big organism."
Every time you swallow antibiotics, you kill beneficial bacteria in your intestines, upsetting the delicate balance of your intestinal terrain. This can lead to a syndrome called “Leaky Gut Syndrome” whereby your intestinal wall is damaged, interfering with how your body absorbs nutrients and filters out waste and toxins.
Leaky Gut Syndrome can lead to a whole host of illnesses.
However, taking the antibiotics your physician prescribes is not the ONLY way you are getting them. Antibiotics may be the mystery ingredient in your Chicken Kiev and a common and typically vastly underappreciated way in which you can be exposed to them..
Most Antibiotics in the US Used for Farm Animals
As much as 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U. S. are fed to chickens, cattle and hogs — not to treat disease but to make them grow faster. This increases profit margins for livestock producers, but it puts YOUR health at risk.
Animals are fed low doses of antibiotics, killing off some of the animals’ bacteria. Meanwhile, the stronger, more resistant bacteria survive, multiply, and pass on their strength and resistance to future generations.
A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of antibiotics used in this country are given to animals for growth promotion and other non-medical uses. This negligent practice is largely responsible for the potent strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria we are seeing today.
According to a 2009 University of Iowa study, 70 percent of hogs and 64 percent of workers in industrial animal confinements tested positive for the antibiotic resistant strain of MRSA. The study pointed out that, once MRSA is introduced, it could spread broadly to other swine and their caretakers, as well as to their families and friends.
Not only are antibiotics embedded in your meats, but they have made their way into your produce as well.
Antibiotics are being transferred, via the manure used as fertilizer, into your corn, lettuce, potatoes, and other crops.
Eating organically may not entirely alleviate this problem, since organic crops, which cannot be fertilized with synthetic fertilizers, are the ones most often fertilized with manure.
As it stands, manure that contains antibiotics is still allowed under the organic label. So it all depends on where the organic farmer gets his manure from. Some organic crop farmers may be getting their manure from organic cattle farms, but there’s no guarantee that’s taking place.
The only way to find out is to ask the farmer first-hand. Taking all of these factors into consideration, is it any wonder that the ratio of good-bacteria-to-bad is upside down in most people in our society?
Government Agencies Finally Taking a Stand — Sort of ...
The rise of antibiotic-resistance in livestock is so alarming that government officials have finally admitted you can become infected when you eat or simply handle infected meat. In a remarkable move by the current administration, the FDA is proposing to phase out antibiotics used to promote animals’ growth.
They also warn that the microbes can contaminate kitchen counters, utensils and other food.
Even the USDA, which usually defends agribusiness interests, proclaimed at a congressional hearing that there is indeed a link between antibiotic use in animals and drug resistance in humans.
But the FDA hasn’t gone far enough.
The FDA has “recommended” that producers limit use of these drugs to medically necessary instances, under the guidance of a veterinarian, but they haven’t issued stricter regulations.
Do you really want to rely on “the honor system” with regard to how industry grows your food?
Do you really think industrial lobbyists are going to take the high road here?
Unlikely!
We need to implement measures to ensure antibiotics are used responsibly — and that needs to go beyond mere suggestion. An overhaul of regulation is in order.
This sort of revamping is not unprecedented — Denmark did it in1998.
The Danish Experiment: A Success Story about Antibiotic-Free Farming
Denmark took the bull by the horns in a bold maneuver that 17,000 Danish farmers proudly call the “Danish Experiment.”
In 1998, after European studies showed a link between antibiotic-fed livestock and antibiotic-resistant infections in humans, Denmark launched a ban on the use of routine antibiotics in farming. Antibiotics were reserved for animals that were actually sick.
Since the ban, the Danish pork industry has grown by 43 percent, making them one of the top pork exporters in the world.
The rest of Europe followed suit in 2006.
But, not so with the American Pork Industry, which was spooked by the potential increased cost of raising a pig. They calculated that it would cost $5 more for every 100 pounds of pork brought to market without the use of antibiotics, and this $5 was not worth it to Big Porky.
No, $5 was too much to invest for improved public health, safer foods, and fewer drug resistant infections in people.
And it isn’t just the American Pork Industry that lists your health last on its list of priorities.
FDA Picks on Cherries While Drug Manufacturers Get Away With Murder
Since 2009, there have been FOUR bills introduced that would end or severely limit your access to food supplements!
So, at the same time as Big Pharma is resisting the movement to rid the livestock industry of the inappropriate use of antibiotic drugs, some members of Congress are trying to restrict your access to the things that will actually protect your health—vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other natural agents.
This is complete nonsense since food supplements used appropriately are not causing deaths, whereas more than 100,000 people are killed every year by pharmaceutical drugs taken legally and correctly prescribed.
In fact, pharmaceutical drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (April 15, 1998). NSAIDS alone cause more than 16,000 deaths each year, yet the FDA continues to protect NSAID manufacturers and even allows ads on television offering free samples for the taking.
Instead of the FDA hauling NSAID-makers out to the woodshed, they are spending their time threatening cherry growers for mentioning peer-reviewed studies about how cherries are far better than NSAIDS in controlling pain and inflammation.
How many people do you know who’ve been harmed or killed by cherries?
This issue is nicely summarized by the Dr. Rath Health Foundation:
“The survival of the pharmaceutical industry is dependent on the elimination by any means of effective natural health therapies. These natural and non-patentable therapies have become the treatment of choice for millions of people, despite the combined economic, political and media opposition of the world’s largest investment industry.”
I wholeheartedly agree.
What You Can Do
Of the four pieces of legislation mentioned above, only the “Food Safety Bill” remains an immediate threat.
The other three bills were defeated BY YOU!
Here are two specific actions you can take to light a fire under government officials on these issues:
1.Food Democracy Now! has created a petition against the overuse of antibiotics in livestock production. If you care about this issue, I suggest you use this petition to make your voice heard. In the same way numerous prior bills have been shot out of the water as a direct result of public outcry, your action can put the kibosh on this one as well.
Tell the FDA and the White House to stand up for human health by changing their policies about the reckless use of antibiotics in animal feed.
2.The Alliance for Natural Health USA has put together a letter addressed to Congress in an effort to educate them that “supplements should not be regulated like drugs, and that the regulations already in place are completely sufficient.” All that is required of you is to fill out your contact information and click “send.”
For the purpose of supporting your own health, you might want to consider adding a high quality probiotic to your dietary regimen. There are a number of good ones on the market. I suggest you ask your local health food store for a recommendation. I also offer an excellent probiotic on my site, in addition to information about what to look for in all probiotic supplements.
Certified Therapeutic Quality Aromatherapy Available Here
Monday, May 31, 2010
The Vaccine Rota Teq; Extreme Probable Danger
You've seen my other posts on the dangers of any vaccine, and this one is no choir boy either. This vaccine was known to the FDA to have a lethal pig live virus in it, and the FDA has done little about it, even though they knew about it. This is a vaccine given to infants at 2 months, 4 months, and 6 months, to help prevent diarrhea. So....it's ok to prevent diarrhea while they are attempting, apparently, of murdering our children? This is the appearance. You decide. Read the story, watch the video with Dr Joseph Mercola, M.D.; and Barbara Loe Fisher; the founder of the National Vaccine Information Center. This is the link to the story:
I have never been a fan of any vaccine due to this very issue; poisons deliberately put in there. These poisons are not in these vaccines for you or your baby's benefit. If you disagree, then think about this: If you would put kerosene in your engine instead of motor oil, then perhaps you just may deserve all the vaccines you can take. I don't say this to irritate anyone, but to open your eyes, and your mind, to what is truly going on in our "sick care" industry, and to help you understand what the body and mind need for health and survival.
What we really need in our society is a "health care" industry. Will we ever have this? Maybe. If the public will just become less apathetic. Harsh words perhaps. And yet, we let those in power walk all over us. Why? Because we don't believe we can do anything about it. You can. You vote with your dollars. Don't buy toxic waste(and don't put anymore criminals in the U.S. Congress or Presidency, or state legislatures such as New Jersey and Texas).
Common sense says keep this toxic and many times very hazardous material
as far away from you and your family as humanly possible. Our "sick care" system is all about the money. Follow the money, and you see the corruption without fail in this industry. Cancer is ridiculously easy to cure, and the drug cartel, the FDA, and the AMA all know this. You don't know about the easy, and nearly cost free cure, because of the greed for money and power. And I'm going to step out on a limb here and tell you that we have in our Congress, members who are bought and paid for by big business, and not only the drug cartel. This I can prove as well as everything else here.
I apologize for the rant on vaccines, but they are a hot spot for me. I know first hand the hazards of the medical system in the U.S., and the with drug companies in general, and with the FDA. The AMA I only know of second hand, by more than one doctor and physician who lost their licenses or/and went to prison for going against the grain of the system and prescribed natural products that do no harm.
Happy Memorial Day!
I have never been a fan of any vaccine due to this very issue; poisons deliberately put in there. These poisons are not in these vaccines for you or your baby's benefit. If you disagree, then think about this: If you would put kerosene in your engine instead of motor oil, then perhaps you just may deserve all the vaccines you can take. I don't say this to irritate anyone, but to open your eyes, and your mind, to what is truly going on in our "sick care" industry, and to help you understand what the body and mind need for health and survival.
What we really need in our society is a "health care" industry. Will we ever have this? Maybe. If the public will just become less apathetic. Harsh words perhaps. And yet, we let those in power walk all over us. Why? Because we don't believe we can do anything about it. You can. You vote with your dollars. Don't buy toxic waste(and don't put anymore criminals in the U.S. Congress or Presidency, or state legislatures such as New Jersey and Texas).
Common sense says keep this toxic and many times very hazardous material
as far away from you and your family as humanly possible. Our "sick care" system is all about the money. Follow the money, and you see the corruption without fail in this industry. Cancer is ridiculously easy to cure, and the drug cartel, the FDA, and the AMA all know this. You don't know about the easy, and nearly cost free cure, because of the greed for money and power. And I'm going to step out on a limb here and tell you that we have in our Congress, members who are bought and paid for by big business, and not only the drug cartel. This I can prove as well as everything else here.
I apologize for the rant on vaccines, but they are a hot spot for me. I know first hand the hazards of the medical system in the U.S., and the with drug companies in general, and with the FDA. The AMA I only know of second hand, by more than one doctor and physician who lost their licenses or/and went to prison for going against the grain of the system and prescribed natural products that do no harm.
Happy Memorial Day!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Living In An Intentionally Poisoned World
Most people know NutraSweet, aka, Aspartame, is a chemical and should not go into the body. However, most people are probably unaware of what consumption of this does to a live person. In invite you to watch the video below; it is nearly an hour and a half long, and worth more than your next 20 years wages, regardless of what those wages are.
“Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,” You Can Finally View FREE Online. Dr Mercola has this available for you to >watch here
This will show you the FDA and many other big businesses; drug companies, Monsanto(also a drug company), most of the U.S. Federal Government, CANNOT BE TRUSTED. Unless, or course, you you find they are doing all this solely for power and money. The last sentence you just read you can trust to be true.
For years I was addicted to this noxious chemical. And I had learned it was more than just slightly harmful, but yet, didn't seem able, or perhaps willing, to get it out of my diet. In 1999, I learned the "why" of it being in food products, and immediately gave it up, cold turkey.
If you can watch this video online, I highly suggest doing so. Or, if it works better for you, you can rent this movie from Netflix. I read all labels. If a product, food or otherwise, has something other than natural in it, it is not likely I will purchase nor use it. Said before, chemicals cause disease. Watch the video, and you might just start to understand the "why" of this.
Because of the massive amounts of money made from Aspartame, and the truth being found out that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people working on this cover-up of such a deadly food additive, it is likely this video will not only be banned, but confiscated. Just beware.
“Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,” You Can Finally View FREE Online. Dr Mercola has this available for you to >watch here
This will show you the FDA and many other big businesses; drug companies, Monsanto(also a drug company), most of the U.S. Federal Government, CANNOT BE TRUSTED. Unless, or course, you you find they are doing all this solely for power and money. The last sentence you just read you can trust to be true.
For years I was addicted to this noxious chemical. And I had learned it was more than just slightly harmful, but yet, didn't seem able, or perhaps willing, to get it out of my diet. In 1999, I learned the "why" of it being in food products, and immediately gave it up, cold turkey.
If you can watch this video online, I highly suggest doing so. Or, if it works better for you, you can rent this movie from Netflix. I read all labels. If a product, food or otherwise, has something other than natural in it, it is not likely I will purchase nor use it. Said before, chemicals cause disease. Watch the video, and you might just start to understand the "why" of this.
Because of the massive amounts of money made from Aspartame, and the truth being found out that there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people working on this cover-up of such a deadly food additive, it is likely this video will not only be banned, but confiscated. Just beware.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Just How Safe Is Your Health?
Has the World Health Organization(WHO), been releasing vaccines into the public realm to create a pandemic? Check this link for more information.
Many people blindly trust the drug companies and medical systems with their disease because they don’t know any other way to get the information they need. With the current technology of the internet, you can find out information that can save your life. Unless, of course, you live in China. China has barred use of Twitter and Facebook, along with several Google programs, due to the information available. U.S. drug companies are applying pressure to Congress to do this in America.
On sites like Twitter and Facebook, you can share information which can help yourself or/and someone else. And thousands do just that. You can come to sites like this one where you can ask questions, and get answers that work.
And you only thought the baby carrots in the grocery stores were good for you. Check out this story to find out why they may NOT be so good to eat.
The USA. We The People STAND and we will KEEP our country!
Dave Kazda
Health Educator/Healer
Aromatologist
Herbalist
Quantum Touch Therapist
Acknowledged Expert Member: SelfGrowth.com
knowledge_quest2002@yahoo.com
Many people blindly trust the drug companies and medical systems with their disease because they don’t know any other way to get the information they need. With the current technology of the internet, you can find out information that can save your life. Unless, of course, you live in China. China has barred use of Twitter and Facebook, along with several Google programs, due to the information available. U.S. drug companies are applying pressure to Congress to do this in America.
On sites like Twitter and Facebook, you can share information which can help yourself or/and someone else. And thousands do just that. You can come to sites like this one where you can ask questions, and get answers that work.
And you only thought the baby carrots in the grocery stores were good for you. Check out this story to find out why they may NOT be so good to eat.
The USA. We The People STAND and we will KEEP our country!
Dave Kazda
Health Educator/Healer
Aromatologist
Herbalist
Quantum Touch Therapist
Acknowledged Expert Member: SelfGrowth.com
knowledge_quest2002@yahoo.com
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Would You Trust A Doctor Who Is Paid To Promote Highly Toxic Drugs?
Vaccine Doctor Given at Least $30 Million Dollars to Push Vaccines
Vaccines, vaccinations, money. Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia earned at least $29 million as part of a $182-million sale by the hospital of its worldwide royalty interest in the Merck Rotateq vaccine. The amount of income distributed to Offit could be as high as $46 million. Offit has refused to say how much he made from the vaccine.
The high price placed on the patents raises concerns over Offit’s use of his former position on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to help create the market for rotavirus vaccine -- effectively, to vote himself rich.
Offit’s claim to a share of the profits from Rotateq revenues is based on his role as a listed inventor on the cluster of patents that protect Merck’s vaccine. Paul Offit had a great personal interest in Rotateq’s commercial success, and more than any other individual in the world he found himself in a position to directly influence that success.
Unlike most other patented products, the market for mandated childhood vaccines is created by the recommendation of an appointed body, ACIP. From 1998 to 2003, Offit served as a member of ACIP.
Sources:
Age of Autism February 16, 2009
Dr. Mercola''s Comments:
If you want to read a fascinating expose of this doctor read the recent Philadelphia Magazine expose on him.
Dr. Paul Offit, or as he is also known Paul “For Profit” Offit, is a fairly well-known and frequent commentator in favor of vaccinations who dismisses many vaccine risks and promotes vaccine mandates. But he is not just a doctor who believes that vaccinations save lives. Far from it.
Dr. Offit is also a listed inventor on a cluster of patents that protect Merck’s Rotateq vaccine and share the title “Rotavirus Reassortant Vaccine.” They include four granted U.S. patents -- US5626851, US5750109, US6113910 and US6290968 -- and two granted European patents -- EP323708 and EP493575.
He is also the recipient of a $350,000 grant from Merck for the vaccine’s development, a consultant to Merck Pharmaceuticals and, the icing on the cake, previously served as a member of The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
ACIP is a 15-member panel of immunization experts, selected by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They provide advice and guidelines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine-preventable diseases.
As a member of the ACIP from 1998 to 2003, Dr. Offit was involved in CDC recommendations about giving rotavirus vaccine to babies. He voted “yes” three times out of four on issues pertaining to the ACIP’s rotavirus use recommendation (including, voting for his own vaccine to be included in the immunization schedule).
To clarify, Dr. Offit voted for the FIRST Rotashield vaccine manufactured by Wyeth (monkey-human hybrid virus) approved by ACIP in 1998 to be given to all babies. He abstained from the vote in 1999 to recommend that Rotashield be removed from the market. He did not vote for the Merck Rotateq vaccine (cow-human hybrid virus) to be recommended for use in all babies -- he was prevented under ACIP/government rules from voting to recommend a product he had a personal financial stake in.
Now, as a result of Merck’s rotavirus vaccine being added to the CDC’s childhood vaccination schedule, the value of Dr. Offit’s stake in the vaccine has skyrocketed.
Why Isn’t This ILLEGAL?????
Though he has declined to say exactly how much he has gained personally, Age of Autism reports that Dr. Offit earned at least $29 million, and perhaps as much as $55 million, as part of a $182-million sale by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia of its worldwide royalty interest in the Merck Rotateq vaccine.
Of course, all of this begs the question, can someone’s vote on an “independent” safety board be trusted when there is $30 million at stake? Would Dr. Offit, or anyone for that matter, truly be an unbiased voice of safety? Or would they be swayed by this hidden motivation?
It’s a rhetorical question but I think the answer speaks for itself. Especially when you consider that Dr. Offit is also the doctor who made the infamous and incomprehensible statement, “an infant can safely receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once.”
Always Look for Hidden Motivations
It is understandable that most people would like to believe the words of respected leaders in the health field. Unfortunately, doing so is often very naïve.
It’s not enough to look at the obvious credentials of your spokespeople, whether they’re pro- or anti- an issue or hold a prestigious degree. Today, you also have to consider the hidden motivations behind their recommendations. Where is their loyalty? Who pays for their lifestyle? Where is their money coming from?
It’s very sad to say, but some of the most trusted voices in defense of vaccine safety are nothing more than paid shills for the industry. As CBS News reported last year, these include:
* The American Academy of Pediatrics, to whom the vaccine industry gives millions for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even to help build their headquarters.
* Every Child By Two, a group that promotes early immunization for all children and admits they receive money from the vaccine industry -- but won’t say how much.
* Dr. Paul Offit, who in addition to the monies described above holds in a $1.5-million research chair at Children's Hospital, funded by Merck.
Why You Should Stay Educated About Vaccine Issues
Clearly the above listed “trusted” health care groups cannot really be trusted for an unbiased opinion. Not while they are busy accepting untold amounts of money from the vaccine makers.
So, then, what other choice do you have but to seek out the truth for yourself?
The good news is that there are still trustworthy sources of information out there, and one of the best is The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the American vaccine safety watchdog. Exploring the information on this site, as well as on the many pages of Mercola.com, will help you to get educated.
The site was founded by vaccine-educated parents and is run by longtime vaccine safety and informed consent advocate Barbara Loe Fisher. To the best of my knowledge Dr. Offit has repeatedly refused to debate her in public. Likely he knows she would win that debate because he doesn’t have half a leg to stand on.
More parents are clearly opposed to the "mandatory" vaccine laws and understand that vaccinations are not the heavily promoted miracle cure-all that will keep their children from getting sick. Instead, they are seeing the truth: that vaccines carry the risk of serious side effects such as crippling neurological damage like autism and even death.
Let me be clear that I’m not anti-vaccine, but rather pro-vaccine safety. I believe it is extremely important to have the right to choose -- to be allowed to make informed consent decisions about what you want to inject into your child, and yourself, and when.
The current U.S. immunization schedule calls for children to get 48 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they’re just 6 years old. By age 18, federal public health officials say they should have gotten a total of 69 doses of 16 vaccines from day of birth to age 18.
Public health officials have NEVER proven that it is indeed safe to inject this number and volume of vaccines into infants, children, pre-adolescents and teenagers. What's more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurological and immune system disorders in American children.
But perhaps more disclosures like the article above, where we learn that a key proponent of vaccine safety is being made rich off of his recommendations, will shed some light on why the U.S. vaccine schedule just keeps growing ever larger.
So please do the health of your children a favor. Seek out a knowledgeable health care practitioner who is aware of the conflict of interest surrounding public health policy, and chooses to make educated decisions based on solid information, and your child’s health and safety, rather than on the promise of a future payoff.
~ Mercola.com
Dave Kazda
Health Educator/Healer
Aromatologist
Herbalist
Quantum Touch Therapist
Member: SelfGrowth.com
knowledge_quest2002@yahoo.com
Vaccines, vaccinations, money. Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia earned at least $29 million as part of a $182-million sale by the hospital of its worldwide royalty interest in the Merck Rotateq vaccine. The amount of income distributed to Offit could be as high as $46 million. Offit has refused to say how much he made from the vaccine.
The high price placed on the patents raises concerns over Offit’s use of his former position on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to help create the market for rotavirus vaccine -- effectively, to vote himself rich.
Offit’s claim to a share of the profits from Rotateq revenues is based on his role as a listed inventor on the cluster of patents that protect Merck’s vaccine. Paul Offit had a great personal interest in Rotateq’s commercial success, and more than any other individual in the world he found himself in a position to directly influence that success.
Unlike most other patented products, the market for mandated childhood vaccines is created by the recommendation of an appointed body, ACIP. From 1998 to 2003, Offit served as a member of ACIP.
Sources:
Age of Autism February 16, 2009
Dr. Mercola''s Comments:
If you want to read a fascinating expose of this doctor read the recent Philadelphia Magazine expose on him.
Dr. Paul Offit, or as he is also known Paul “For Profit” Offit, is a fairly well-known and frequent commentator in favor of vaccinations who dismisses many vaccine risks and promotes vaccine mandates. But he is not just a doctor who believes that vaccinations save lives. Far from it.
Dr. Offit is also a listed inventor on a cluster of patents that protect Merck’s Rotateq vaccine and share the title “Rotavirus Reassortant Vaccine.” They include four granted U.S. patents -- US5626851, US5750109, US6113910 and US6290968 -- and two granted European patents -- EP323708 and EP493575.
He is also the recipient of a $350,000 grant from Merck for the vaccine’s development, a consultant to Merck Pharmaceuticals and, the icing on the cake, previously served as a member of The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
ACIP is a 15-member panel of immunization experts, selected by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They provide advice and guidelines to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine-preventable diseases.
As a member of the ACIP from 1998 to 2003, Dr. Offit was involved in CDC recommendations about giving rotavirus vaccine to babies. He voted “yes” three times out of four on issues pertaining to the ACIP’s rotavirus use recommendation (including, voting for his own vaccine to be included in the immunization schedule).
To clarify, Dr. Offit voted for the FIRST Rotashield vaccine manufactured by Wyeth (monkey-human hybrid virus) approved by ACIP in 1998 to be given to all babies. He abstained from the vote in 1999 to recommend that Rotashield be removed from the market. He did not vote for the Merck Rotateq vaccine (cow-human hybrid virus) to be recommended for use in all babies -- he was prevented under ACIP/government rules from voting to recommend a product he had a personal financial stake in.
Now, as a result of Merck’s rotavirus vaccine being added to the CDC’s childhood vaccination schedule, the value of Dr. Offit’s stake in the vaccine has skyrocketed.
Why Isn’t This ILLEGAL?????
Though he has declined to say exactly how much he has gained personally, Age of Autism reports that Dr. Offit earned at least $29 million, and perhaps as much as $55 million, as part of a $182-million sale by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia of its worldwide royalty interest in the Merck Rotateq vaccine.
Of course, all of this begs the question, can someone’s vote on an “independent” safety board be trusted when there is $30 million at stake? Would Dr. Offit, or anyone for that matter, truly be an unbiased voice of safety? Or would they be swayed by this hidden motivation?
It’s a rhetorical question but I think the answer speaks for itself. Especially when you consider that Dr. Offit is also the doctor who made the infamous and incomprehensible statement, “an infant can safely receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once.”
Always Look for Hidden Motivations
It is understandable that most people would like to believe the words of respected leaders in the health field. Unfortunately, doing so is often very naïve.
It’s not enough to look at the obvious credentials of your spokespeople, whether they’re pro- or anti- an issue or hold a prestigious degree. Today, you also have to consider the hidden motivations behind their recommendations. Where is their loyalty? Who pays for their lifestyle? Where is their money coming from?
It’s very sad to say, but some of the most trusted voices in defense of vaccine safety are nothing more than paid shills for the industry. As CBS News reported last year, these include:
* The American Academy of Pediatrics, to whom the vaccine industry gives millions for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even to help build their headquarters.
* Every Child By Two, a group that promotes early immunization for all children and admits they receive money from the vaccine industry -- but won’t say how much.
* Dr. Paul Offit, who in addition to the monies described above holds in a $1.5-million research chair at Children's Hospital, funded by Merck.
Why You Should Stay Educated About Vaccine Issues
Clearly the above listed “trusted” health care groups cannot really be trusted for an unbiased opinion. Not while they are busy accepting untold amounts of money from the vaccine makers.
So, then, what other choice do you have but to seek out the truth for yourself?
The good news is that there are still trustworthy sources of information out there, and one of the best is The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), the American vaccine safety watchdog. Exploring the information on this site, as well as on the many pages of Mercola.com, will help you to get educated.
The site was founded by vaccine-educated parents and is run by longtime vaccine safety and informed consent advocate Barbara Loe Fisher. To the best of my knowledge Dr. Offit has repeatedly refused to debate her in public. Likely he knows she would win that debate because he doesn’t have half a leg to stand on.
More parents are clearly opposed to the "mandatory" vaccine laws and understand that vaccinations are not the heavily promoted miracle cure-all that will keep their children from getting sick. Instead, they are seeing the truth: that vaccines carry the risk of serious side effects such as crippling neurological damage like autism and even death.
Let me be clear that I’m not anti-vaccine, but rather pro-vaccine safety. I believe it is extremely important to have the right to choose -- to be allowed to make informed consent decisions about what you want to inject into your child, and yourself, and when.
The current U.S. immunization schedule calls for children to get 48 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they’re just 6 years old. By age 18, federal public health officials say they should have gotten a total of 69 doses of 16 vaccines from day of birth to age 18.
Public health officials have NEVER proven that it is indeed safe to inject this number and volume of vaccines into infants, children, pre-adolescents and teenagers. What's more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurological and immune system disorders in American children.
But perhaps more disclosures like the article above, where we learn that a key proponent of vaccine safety is being made rich off of his recommendations, will shed some light on why the U.S. vaccine schedule just keeps growing ever larger.
So please do the health of your children a favor. Seek out a knowledgeable health care practitioner who is aware of the conflict of interest surrounding public health policy, and chooses to make educated decisions based on solid information, and your child’s health and safety, rather than on the promise of a future payoff.
~ Mercola.com
Dave Kazda
Health Educator/Healer
Aromatologist
Herbalist
Quantum Touch Therapist
Member: SelfGrowth.com
knowledge_quest2002@yahoo.com
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Want to Lose Weight? Try Vegetable Juice
Vegetable Jof uice Drinking at least one glass of low-sodium vegetable juice daily may help overweight dieters lose more weight.
In a study, adults who drank at least 8 ounces of vegetable juice as part of a diet lost 4 pounds over 12 weeks, while those who followed the same diet but did not drink the juice lost only 1 pound. The vegetable juice drinkers also significantly increased their intake of vitamin C and potassium, while decreasing their overall carbohydrate intake.
It's possible that vegetable juice helps reduce appetite. In addition, vegetable juice drinkers are more likely to get the recommended 3 to 5 servings of vegetables daily.
Fresh juice is always best.
No doubt about it, vegetable juice can help you to lose weight.
This weight loss is experienced not only by people who have that as a goal, but also by those who do not. Many -- in fact, the majority -- of people start juicing as a way to improve their health and energy. But even these folks have noticed the pounds “falling off.”
This may be a result of the fact that acids are stored in fat cells, and when the pH becomes better balanced with alkaline foods such as vegetable juices, your body will let go of fat cells and the acids they contain.
Additionally, people who are juicing are likely eating less processed food and junk food, feeling better and having more energy, and as a result are more active, which would contribute to shedding excess pounds. - Dr Joseph Mercola, M.D.
Dave Kazda
Health Educator/Healer
Aromatologist
Herbalist
Quantum Touch Therapist
Member: http://www.selfgrowth.com
knowledge_quest2002@yahoo.com
In a study, adults who drank at least 8 ounces of vegetable juice as part of a diet lost 4 pounds over 12 weeks, while those who followed the same diet but did not drink the juice lost only 1 pound. The vegetable juice drinkers also significantly increased their intake of vitamin C and potassium, while decreasing their overall carbohydrate intake.
It's possible that vegetable juice helps reduce appetite. In addition, vegetable juice drinkers are more likely to get the recommended 3 to 5 servings of vegetables daily.
Fresh juice is always best.
No doubt about it, vegetable juice can help you to lose weight.
This weight loss is experienced not only by people who have that as a goal, but also by those who do not. Many -- in fact, the majority -- of people start juicing as a way to improve their health and energy. But even these folks have noticed the pounds “falling off.”
This may be a result of the fact that acids are stored in fat cells, and when the pH becomes better balanced with alkaline foods such as vegetable juices, your body will let go of fat cells and the acids they contain.
Additionally, people who are juicing are likely eating less processed food and junk food, feeling better and having more energy, and as a result are more active, which would contribute to shedding excess pounds. - Dr Joseph Mercola, M.D.
Dave Kazda
Health Educator/Healer
Aromatologist
Herbalist
Quantum Touch Therapist
Member: http://www.selfgrowth.com
knowledge_quest2002@yahoo.com
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