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"...I believe a time is coming soon when everybody will come together and say, "We aren't going to take it anymore!"   There's a movement toward that personal contact again as more people really understand what the consequences of standardizing and universalizing can be to the human consciousness."  Rosalie Sorrels

"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could easily defeat us."  The sadly prophetic words of William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice 1939-1975

alexa.com  - what you don't know about it might interest you -  "Hype has its place. Self-promotion counts, even tooling with Web tools is fun, but a writer's reach and influence are best reflected in the diverse and serious communities that seek out and respond to the case she makes."

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Get our Healthy Food Soak, the information sheet on how to make the foods you eat safer.

THE TRUTH ABOUT FOOD WAX - from Citizen Petition.
When you eat bananas, melons, or oranges from the supermarket you are ingesting ethyl alcohol, isopropanol, oxidized polyethylene, shellac, propylene glycol, silicone, and sulfur dioxide.
When you eat tomatoes, avocado, peaches, and plums, you are ingesting 2-6-dichloro-4-nitroaniline, botran, ammonia compounds, and dimethylpolyoxane. (see www.garynull.com for information on aniline containing substances)
When you eat sweet potatoes, onions, parsnips, and beets you ingest fungicides imazilil, benomyl, and thiabenzadole. These substances are cancer causing as well as sources of birth defects, mutations, and immune system damage. They cannot be removed by peeling and are used to allow longer shelf life (not fresher or safer food).

8 October 04 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson is warning doctors that patients taking its rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade may have a three times higher risk of developing lymphoma, a blood cancer, the company said on Friday.  Risks are similar for similar drugs like Humira and Enbrel.  Remicade already cites risks of lowering white blood cells (leukopenia) and platelets (thrombocytopenia).  "This just spotlights the fact that there is no long-term safety data on this class of drugs and it's not clear what else is going to come out of the closet," said Henry Dummett, an analyst at World Markets Research Center.  In August, U.S. health officials said 12 Californians who had taken Remicade or Enbrel had tested positive for tuberculosis. Two of those infected died.

Ask the Leaflady about effective natural remedies for arthritis

22 September 2004 - Comments from a person who had a bullet lodged in his body, and became depressed.  He was constantly told the bullet was not connected to the depression and not to have the bullet removed.  He finally, after years of suffering, drugs, and poor treatment from doctors, had the bullet removed.  His depression cleared.
"There are many lessons to be learned from this experience. One of which is that medical doctors are not those to be revered for their knowledge based on a degree alone. Another is that people should learn to think in different ways, that is independently, or out of the box as the saying goes. Not everyone with depression has to be treated the exact same way. As another saying goes, "listen to the patient, he is trying to tell you the diagnosis."
I thank God I was able to do for myself, finally, what no one has been able to do for me for over 20 years since I began to seek help for depression relief. I spent a lot of energy, money and other resources to help overcome my depression. I finally had to solve it and fix it for myself. Go figure..."  

05 August 2004 - Manganese may now halt viral reversals in HIV and AIDS according to a recent study completed at Johns Hopkins.
Food sources of manganese include whole grains, avocado, seaweed, egg yolk, nuts, seeds, legumes, blueberries, pineapples, spinach, dried peas, and green vegetables. Much is lost because of food processing.

02 July 2004 - Doctors are now the FIRST leading cause of death...

More than 10,000 patients may be dying every year because of adverse reactions to drugs prescribed to treat ailments such as heart disease and arthritis, a study indicates.

Daily low-dose aspirin taken to counter heart disease, warfarin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and diuretics were the most common medicines implicated.

Aspirin and other NSAIDs can cause bleeding of the stomach, and diuretics, prescribed to counter fluid retention in heart disease, can lead to dangerously low potassium levels.

Drugs  

     Cholesterol Drugs and Cancer

Urgent - Save your right of access to vitamins. This is a world wide effort and will help protect US access to vitamins and supplements, currently at risk.
http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

Dietary Supplement Guidelines

Very little is being done to better the health within the US - As an important reminder we bring you this often cited information, sent to The Leaflady by Shane Ellison MSc, regarding the health status in America. Hopefully, this will let us better recognize the paradox that the more FDA approved drugs we consume the sicker we get.

Authored by Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that by comparing 16 "health markers" considered indicative of good health, the U.S ranks on average 12th out of the top 13 countries in regard to the health of it's citizens. These countries, listed in order of their ranking (with the first being the best) are Japan, Sweden, Canada, France, Australia, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany.

With regards to separate health indicators, United States ranks as follows:

- 13th (last) for low birth weight percentages
- 13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall
- 11th for post neonatal mortality
- 13th for years of potential life lost
- 11th for life expectancy at 1 year for females, 12th for males
- 10th for life expectancy at 15 years for females, 10th for males
- 10th for life expectancy at 40 years for females, 9th for males
- 7th for life expectancy at 65 years for females, 7th for males
- 3rd for life expectancy at 80 years for females, 3rd for males
- 10th for age-adjusted mortality

"SEEDS OF TROUBLE"  -  BBC Radio 4, 7.1.03  reported that on the official US Government website, the US Under-Secretary for Agricultural Affairs stated "U.S. foreign policy is devoted to a longer-term struggle to gain world acceptance of agricultural bio-technology."

Water

• helps your muscles contract

• rids your body of waste

• suppresses your appetite

• reduces fat deposits

• keeps all your organs functioning

• feeds spinal discs

• you cannot survive without it

so . . .drink up!

"WHY AN APPLE TODAY IS NOT AS GOOD AS IT USED TO BE" - Fruit & veg are being gradually stripped of the natural goodness, experts have found. An alarming drop in essential minerals means that apples & greens of today are nowhere near as good for us as those eaten 50 years ago.
Research by nutritionist Dr. David Thomas reveals that the food we eat is poorer in nutrients than it was during world War II.
Modern farming methods are blamed for the decline in minerals such as copper, iron, magnesium & potassium in fruit & vegetables.
Vitamin loss could be exacerbated by fruits being picked before they are ripe & they are often flown long distances. Dr. David Thomas investigated the fall of nutrients in 64 foods by comparing data from government-backed scientific studies between 1940 & 1991. The figures were published under the auspices of the Medical research Council, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food & Royal Society of Chemistry.
In just 13 years between 1978 & 1991 vegetables lost 57% of their zinc which is an important element for the immune system & male fertility.
Since 1940 vegetables have lost 76% copper, 46% calcium, 27% iron, 24% magnesium & 16% of potassium.
Fruit has lost 19% copper, 16% calcium, 24% iron, 15% magnesium, 22% potassium.
Dr. Thomas said eating fruit & vegetables is still beneficial but continuing falls in nutrients could lead to deficiencies in some consumers.
The findings confirm an earlier study, published in the British Food Journal, which found similar changes in the nutritional composition of 20 fruits & 20 vegetables between the late 1930s & the early 1990s. D. Mail, 9.2.04 

the Salish word for bee translates to "good news"

In the words of "insider" Harold Wallace Rosenthal: 
"We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has become docile and easily ruled. As all geldings...their thoughts are not involved with the concerns of the future and their posterity, but only with the present and with the next meal."

Who really owns organic and health store brands

Willow Wind Organic Farms  - produces organic vegetables that can be purchased at your local supermarket. 

GLOWING BURGERS -  originally reported on Leaflady.org in 1998.    

more on the Problems with Food Irradiation

• Food irradiation exposes food to the equivalent of 30 million chest X-rays.

• Irradiation creates new chemicals in foods called radiolytic products. Some of these products are known cancer-causing substances (like benzene in irradiated beef). Others are unique to the irradiation process and no one knows what effects these have on human health.

• Irradiation destroys essential vitamins and nutrients that are naturally present in food. No studies have been done to show that a long-term diet of irradiated foods is safe. Safer, well-tested alternatives to irradiation exist.

• Irradiation plants pose environmental threats to workers and surrounding communities. The transportation of nuclear materials to irradiation facilities also poses severe public health risks.

For information about Food & Water, or for hard copies of this Action Alert, 1-800-EAT-SAFE.

St. John's Wort 

Thyroid Awareness  - thyroid impairment can cause problems throughout the entire endocrine system, and body;  the liver, kidneys, heart, brain, metabolism.  Large numbers of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's Dis-ease have improperly functioning thyroid glands. Fluoridated water prohibits the thyroid from absorbing iodine, its main nutrient.

  Stop Water Fluoridation Now!

Soy Information you should know about

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Read our natural health column, Health Matters . . . in The Open Line, and coming soon to a media outlet near you..

Support your local natural foods coop.  In Everett shop at the Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op located in the Public Market Building at Grand and California. 

EAT ORGANIC! 

Support the hard-working small farm that brings you wholesome and healthy unadulterated organic food!

• natural & organic foods

• simple, safe & sane lifestyle

• meditation, massage, reflexology, acupuncture, music, hands-on healing; 

• other energy work, color, sound, 

• and exercise like yoga, tai chi, or walking.

• Herbs cleanse and purify your body

• Herbs normalize body function by regulating and toning glands

• Herbs energize to help maintain good health

• Herbs support the immune system

• Herbs nourish with vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients