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Comments by Mike Adams,
the Health Ranger

There’s a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are the usual suspects: The USDA (which backed the “raw” almond sterilization rules now in effect in California) and the American Chemical Society — a pro-chemical group that represents the interests of industrial chemical manufacturers. The latest push comes from USDA researchers who conducted a study to see which method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy green vegetables like spinach.

To conduct the study, they bathed the spinach in a solution contaminated with bacteria. Then, they tried to remove the bacteria using three methods: Washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Not surprisingly, only the irradiation killed nearly 100 percent of the bacterial colonies. That’s because radiation sterilizes both the bacteria and the vegetable leaves, effectively killing the plant and destroying much of its nutritional value while it kills the bacteria.

The USDA claims this is a huge success. By using radiation on all fresh produce, they claim, the number of food-borne illness outbreaks that happen each year could be substantially reduced. It all makes sense until you realize that by destroying the nutritional value of all fresh produce sold in the United States, an irradiation policy would greatly increase the number of people killed by infections and chronic diseases that are prevented by the natural medicines found in fresh produce!

Why fresh, living produce helps prevent sickness

The USDA, you see, has zero recognition of the difference between living produce and dead produce. To uneducated government bureaucrats, pasteurized or irradiated vegetable juice is identical to fresh, raw, living vegetable juice. They believe this because they’ve never been taught about the phytonutrients, digestive enzymes and life force properties that are found in fresh foods, but that are destroyed through heat or irradiation. This, the USDA is operating out of extreme ignorance when it comes to food and nutrition.

Even a simple leaf of spinach contains hundreds of natural medicines — phytonutrients that help prevent cancer, eye diseases, nervous system disorders, heart disease and much more. Every living vegetable is a powerhouse of disease-fighting medicine: Broccoli prevents cancer, beet greens cleanse the liver, cilantro removes heavy metals, celery prevents cancer, berries prevent heart disease and dark leafy greens help prevent over a dozen serious health conditions while boosting immune function and helping prevent other infections. But when you subject these fruits and vegetables to enough radiation to kill 99.9% of the pathogens that may be hitching a ride, you also destroy many of the phytonutrients responsible for these tremendous health benefits!

This means that while irradiating food may decrease outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, it will have the unintended consequence of increasing the number of people who get sick from other infections (and chronic diseases) due to the fact that their source of natural medicine has been destroyed. For many Americans, you see, salad greens are their one remaining source for phytonutrients. Given their diets of processed foods, junk foods and cooked foods, there are very few opportunities for these consumers to get fresh, phytonutrient-rich foods into their diet. And now the USDA wants to take that away, too, by mandating the irradiation of all fresh produce.

Let me make a rather obvious prediction, on the record: If the irradiation of fresh produce goes into effect in the United States, rates of infection among consumers will sharply increase, not decrease, due to the removal of immune-boosting natural medicine from the food supply. Consumers will also experience higher rates of cancer, heart disease, dementia, eye disorders, diabetes and even obesity. By destroying these thousands of healing phytonutrients, irradiation will leave many consumers defenseless against modern society’s many health challenges.

It is no exaggeration to say that a policy of mass irradiation of fresh produce is as blatantly stupid as the Romans building their aqueducts with lead-lined waterways. As historians have explained, after the aqueducts were built, the water delivered to the Roman population was contaminated with lead — a heavy metal that causes numerous health problems, including insanity. Many historians blame the lead-lined aqueducts as one of the primary reasons why the Roman Empire fell: Its leaders went mad, and the rest is history.

I would argue that America’s leaders are already mad, but that’s beside the point. If we start irradiating our food, thereby destroying its nutritional value, we are going to unleash a cascade of unintended consequences even greater than the Roman’s aqueducts. Absent the protections of phytonutrients found in plants, the health of most consumers will rapidly decline, and we’ll see the U.S. thrust into a quagmire of chronic disease and medical bankruptcy. (It’s already heading there, of course, but killing the food supply will only accelerate the downward spiral of health.)

Let’s sterilize all the food!

The USDA has never met a food sterilization plan it didn’t like. It backed the recent almond sterilization law that went into effect in California last year, forcing all almond growers to sterilize their almonds by subjecting them to toxic chemicals or cooking them at high enough temperatures to kill anything that might have been alive (such as the almond itself). Now, all the raw almonds consumed in America are purchased from overseas growers, where raw still means raw.

Raw milk has also been under attack in California and elsewhere. The USDA supported laws that essentially banned the sales of raw milk, requiring milk to be sterilized, too. If you now irradiate all the fresh produce, you have a food supply that is predominantly sterilized — otherwise known as “dead.” And dead foods lead to dead people.

That a society’s health regulators would want all foods to be dead should be downright shocking to anyone who knows anything about health and nutrition. Live foods keep people alive, but dead foods make people dead. It’s really not a complicated concept. The USDA’s definition of “food safety,” however, is based on the idea that the health of one immune-system-compromised individual who can’t handle a little E. Coli is more important than the ongoing health of the entire population. Thus, all foods must be killed for everyone.

I strongly disagree with this approach. Foods should not be expected to be sterilized. In terms of food safety, emphasis should be placed on boosting the health and immune systems of individuals so they can survive occasional contact with E. Coli rather than trying to create a sterile environment in which nothing is alive. As it turns out, the people susceptible to food-borne illnesses are precisely those individuals who have compromised immune systems due to their intake of vaccines and antibiotics. Thus, it is modern medicine that has made these people vulnerable to food-borne illnesses. Blame the drug companies, not the bacteria.

But the USDA would rather blame the food. Blaming conventional medicine for the harm it has caused to the human immune system is not politically correct. It’s better to blame the food, then use scare tactics to announce yet more outbreaks and hope for a public outcry for widespread food irradiation. And that brings me to the “final solution” on food irradiation.

How the USDA plans to join the FDA in keeping everyone sick

There is a corporate-sponsored plot underway in the U.S. today to keep people sick and deny them access to information about natural cures (such as medicinal foods) that would prevent disease and keep people out of the hospitals. In more than 1,500 articles on this website, I’ve documented the FDA’s criminality, the USDA’s indefensible actions, and the criminal behavior of drug manufacturers who only earn profits if they can find a way to keep the entire population sick and diseased for another generation or two.

Destroying the natural medicine in the food supply sure would be a highly effective way to create more customers for Big Pharma, wouldn’t it? I think it’s all part of the “keep the population sick and diseased” plot being carried out by an evil partnership between drug companies and the U.S. government. We already know that the FDA and USDA work for the corporations, not the People. We already know that they will do practically anything to boost their profits (including conducting medical experiments on infants, drugging schoolchildren, lying to the public, fabricating clinical trials and more). Is it any surprise that they would now attempt a “final solution” on the food supply that kills the food and thereby results in a huge reduction in the population’s intake of the disease-fighting nutrients found in fresh produce?

The social engineering recipe

Pulling this off, of course, requires a bit of social engineering by the USDA in order to force the public into demanding something be done. If you’re the USDA, you can’t just suddenly announce a national food sterilization plan; you have to prime the pump with a bit of dirty work. Here’s the simple plan for accomplishing that, if you’re the USDA:

1) Conduct poor inspections of fresh produce on purpose, in order to cause a large increase in food-borne illness outbreaks. (We’ve seen this increase happen over the last 12 - 24 months.) This can be easily accomplished by reducing the budget of food inspection offices, or removing inspectors from the payroll altogether (which has already happened).

2) Wait for the outbreaks to happen. When consumers get sick, run national press releases announcing how dangerous the food supply is.

3) Watch the consumer reaction as people and lawmakers demand “something be done!”

4) Fudge a study with the American Chemical Society to show that washing doesn’t work and that irradiation is the only solution. Time the release of this news to coincide with the public outcry that “something be done!”

5) Once the public is demanding a solution to food-borne illnesses, roll out a national produce irradiation requirement that sterilizes all the food.

Mission accomplished! This, of course, leads to point #6:

6) Watch the population become increasingly sick and diseased (thanks to the lack of phytonutrients that used to be found in the fresh produce), and cash in on your Big Pharma shares as the population is herded into hospitals for lucrative treatments with monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.

It’s the same old social engineering trick that’s been used to hoodwink the American people hundreds of times. How do you get the public to support a war in the Middle East? Stage an attack on U.S. soil first, and wait for the public outcry. How do you get the People to support the mass sterilization of their own food supply? Lower your inspection standards, let the sickness spread, and then wait for the public outcry. It’s the way governments get things done these days: They manipulate the public into demanding the things they wanted to accomplish in the first place. These are sometimes called “false flag operations” in a military context, and they’ve been conducted by the U.S. government on numerous occasions, just like they were conducted by Hitler in Nazi Germany to justify his invasions of neighboring countries. You can read about False Flag operations on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

What “they” really want: A dead food supply

Let’s be blunt about this: The corporations running this country (which also run the U.S. government) want the U.S. food supply to be dead. They don’t want foods to be used as medicines, and they sure don’t want the natural medicines found in foods competing with their own patented pharmaceutical medicines (that just happen to earn them a whole lot more money than any food ever did).

Don’t you find it curious that this attack on the food supply is coming out now, right after all this incredible news about the healing power of foods has been hitting the science journals? Every week, it seems, we find out about another amazing health property in a food. Black raspberries reverse oral cancer. Pomegranates halt prostate cancer. Green tea halts breast cancer. The list goes on. Just on this website alone, we’ve probably published 1,000 stories over the last two years on the disease-fighting properties of foods.

The thing to realize here is that many of the healing properties of these foods are destroyed through pasteurization or irradiation. If you’re a government that wants to “take away the People’s medicine,” the fastest way to accomplish that is to mandate the sterilization of the food supply. Kill the foods and you take away the People’s medicine, and that forces the population to use pharmaceuticals instead.

The FDA, for its part, has for many decades conducted its natural medicine censorship campaign, whose only purpose is to deny the People access to accurate information about the healing properties of natural medicines found in foods and herbs. But apparently that wasn’t enough: The Internet came along and people found a way to educate themselves. So since the FDA couldn’t keep the truth about natural medicine bottled up and censored, the government has now apparently decided to just sterilize all the foods, thereby destroying the natural medicine and transforming Mother Nature’s gifts into dead calories.

The USDA’s decisions here are not based on public safety, folks. They’re based on corporate greed. Just look at how they handled the raw almond controversy in these related articles: http://www.naturalnews.com/almonds.html

The USDA as operated today is a front group for wealthy corporations. It is not interested in helping the People. It’s interested in protecting the profits of corporations… even if that means destroying the food supply and turning the population into “dead eaters” who die from other diseases caused by the lack of phytonutrient protection.

How you can help stop this latest atrocity against our food supply

What can you do to stop this? Be prepared to fight irradiation plans with a massive outcry that demands our food supply be protected from radiation. There are two things that need to be accomplished, and of course the USDA and FDA oppose them both:

1) Require the labeling of all irradiated foods with a large “Irradiated” label or sticker.

2) Block any attempts to mandate the irradiation of fresh produce.

Stay tuned to NaturalNews.com for more on this story. We’ll be joining with other pro-consumer groups (like the Organic Consumers Association) to rally our readers in opposition to this food irradiation effort.

I believe we must keep our food supply fresh and alive. (Sounds kinda obvious, huh?) And if there’s a little extra bacteria on the spinach, it’s nothing that a healthy body can’t handle anyway. Take some probiotics and avoid antibiotics, and you’ll be just fine. E. Coli is really only a threat to the health of individuals who have had their immune systems (or intestinal flora) destroyed by pharmaceuticals in the first place. There’s nothing wrong with some living organisms in your milk, on your almonds or on your spinach. Wash your food, get plenty of sunlight and avoid using antibiotics.

The human body is NOT a sterile environment. To try to make our food supply sterile is insane, and anyone who supports the irradiation of the food supply is, in my opinion, supporting a policy of genocide against the American people. To destroy the vitality of the food supply is a criminal act of such immense evil that it stands alongside the worst crimes ever committed against humanity.

You see, it’s not enough for them to poison our water (fluoride), poison our children (vaccines) and lie to us about the sun (skin cancer scare stories). Now they want to destroy our foods… and thereby take away any natural medicine options that might actually keep people healthy and free. Remember: A diseased population is an enslaved population.

Now go eat your Big Mac, drink your Pepsi and don’t ask too many questions.

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Have you heard the latest national ’scare’ regarding families that use drugs for their supposedly ‘ADHD’ children? They are now telling parents, who trusted the drugs to be safe for their kids that they need a ’simple’ EKG to test their heart… And who’s paying for that, may I ask? You can find it on msnbc.com, or any other news site. It was on the morning news, and I have to say that I was appalled!

First off, ADHD is a disease that was ‘invented’ by psychiatrists to categorize certain symptoms that children exhibited while at school or at home. Usually, the teachers are the ones who call the parents to say that their kid is misbehaving, or being disruptive in class.

This happened to my brother when he was in elementary school, around 30 years ago. He was hyperactive (as they called it back then) and the teacher insisted my parents put him on Ritalin. My mother learned that the teacher was putting my brother inside a large cardboard box at the back of the classroom, if you can imagine that! So he was put on Ritalin and I guess it helped.

Fortunately, my parents consulted with a nutritionist who put my brother on a vegetarian diet with lots of vitamin supplements. As long as he stayed on the diet and supplements, he didn’t need the Ritalin. Remember, I said this was 30 years ago, and the quality of our food was not as bad then as it is now.

Fast forward to 2008. “Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term ‘research,’ has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease. Tragically–the “epidemic” having grown from 500 thousand in 1985 to between 5 and 7 million today–this remains the state of the ’science’ of ADHD.” http://www.adhdfraud.org/

So after pushing this drug down the throats of unsuspecting children (and adults, too), they’re saying that if the child is susceptible to congenital heart disease, they may be at risk. Do you think they really care?

MSNBC.com says: “Stimulant drugs can increase blood pressure and heart rate. For most children, that isn’t a problem. But in those with heart conditions, it could make them more vulnerable to sudden cardiac arrest — an erratic heartbeat that causes the heart to stop pumping blood through the body — and other heart problems.”

“About 2.5 million American children and 1.5 million adults take medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to government estimates. Stimulant drugs, like Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta, help children with ADHD to stay focused and control their behavior.”

Nowhere do I see any mention of controlling this so called hyperactivity with diet and natural food. We already know that most kids consume more sugar and dietary fat than their little bodies were meant to handle. Especially when sugar and fat are hidden in so many foods nowadays. Unless you avoid processed and packaged foods, and fast foods, you can’t get away from it. The only way is to prepare all natural fresh organic vegan foods, and raw foods are even better.

Dr. Fred A. Baughman Jr., is a psychiatrist who claims that ADHD is a fraud, perpetrated on the general public. On his website he says:

“In addition to scientific articles that have appeared in leading national and international medical journals, Dr. Baughman has testified for victimized parents and children in ADHD/Ritalin legal cases, writes for the print media and appears on talk radio shows, always making the point that ADHD is fraudulent–a creation of the psychiatric- pharmaceutical cartel, without which they would have nothing to prescribe their dangerous, addictive, Schedule II, stimulants for — namely, Ritalin (methylphenindate), Dexedrine (dextro-amphetamine), Adderall (mixed dextro- and levo-amphetamine) and, Gradumet, and Desoxyn (both of which are methamphetamine, ’speed,’ ‘ice’). “

It seemed my brother reacted to food colorings and preservatives. Very interesting, since the applications of these chemicals used in processed foods has increased significantly today. Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., says on his website: “They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive–termed them a ‘disease.’”Children are not born hyperactive or ADD or ADHD, or whatever. These symptoms are induced by the quality (or lack) of the food they are fed. Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., actually says “these ‘diseases’ were created when the child met 8 of 14 requirements to be classified as ADD or ADHD.”

So now on top of the false diagnosis of ADD and ADHD symptoms as a result of poor food choices, parents are urged to give their children these very potent and addicting drugs, that can cause heart problems in the child. Even though the heart problems may have already been genetically present in the child, taking these drugs aggravate the situation, and adds additional stress to the parents and the children too. Not to mention the cost of the EKG that they are requiring now, as well.

Great stuff, huh?

So what’s the solution? First of all, get your kids off the drugs. Starting kids on drugs at an early age, only sets them up to take more drugs later in life, including illegal drugs. After all, a drug is a drug, right? Soon it becomes a vicious cycle. Second, remove all processed, packaged foods that have man-made toxic chemicals, preservatives, food colorings, fillers, free-flowing agents, MSG or hydrolyzed vegetable protein, malt extract, maltodextrin, natural flavors, pectin, plant protein extract, potassium glutamate, sodium caseinate, soy protein, textured vegetable protein, and so many other hidden names. Just do a Google search for MSG, and learn a whole new language regarding our ‘food’! This is a partial list from: http://www.carbohydrateaddicts.com/msg.html. It has been shown that MSG and their derivatives have been classified as ‘Excitotoxins’. See Excitotoxins by Dr. Russell Blaylock. For more detailed information about excitotoxins, check this site: http://www.dr-jo-md.com/excitotoxins.html. Good info here!

Kids NEED to be able to expend large amounts of energy everyday. It helps their minds and bodies to grow. When they spend a lot of time in front of the TV, or a computer, or a video game, or anything that is sedentary, then they are not releasing the ‘pent up’ energy that needs to be released. Add to this problem the SAD (standard American diet) that most kids are eating, and you have a walking time bomb. I won’t go into the details because I think we all know how disruptive an unhappy and unhealthy child can be.

I remember reading a few years ago about a Natural Hygiene doctor (I think it was Dr. Bernard Shelton but can’t find the web article) when he visited a family in the ’60s with several children. The entire family was totally vegan and he was amazed at how calm, composed and polite the children were. They were aged from infant to 12 or 14, I think. He observed this family quite regularly and the children were consistently very calm and polite, busy with their activities, while looking out for the younger ones. He attributed their polite behavior to the quality of nutrients in their diet, and the lack of junk foods and sugar.

Suffice it to say, that parents need to wake up! They need to connect the dots between the foods their children are eating and their disruptive behavior. It’s so very simple, and yet the medical and pharma industries want to make it complicated. Hyperactivity did not exist before food manufacturing became the norm. Children raised on the farm eating fresh fruits and vegetables, performing chores and lots of other physical activity were normal functioning children, and most grew into normal functioning adults. Unfortunately, those times are gone, just like the farms… All the more reason to encourage your children to get away from the TV and computers and get outside in the fresh air!

Having said that, I think I’ll go outside now and enjoy the sunshine. Yes, it’s finally here!

Since I have changed over to a pure, organic raw food lifestyle, I have literally NO FEAR of cancer (even though it is in my family history), or of heart disease (also in my family history) or any other debilitating, chronic health issue. I no longer get strange lumps in my breast that used to cause me to be alarmed and run to my nearest doctor for an ultrasound. I haven’t had a mammogram in several years since I believe that regular high doses of radiation from the mammogram itself are cause enough for alarm.

If you’ve been around the raw food health movement for any length of time, you will quite likely encounter Mike Adams, also known as the “Health Ranger” of Natural News on the web. He totally endorses a lifestyle change to organic and healthy food, exercise, and education about how the quality of the food you put in your mouth is relevant to your overall health, and how it can help you avoid sickness and disease.

The article below is from his Natural News site, and I just had to post it since I have always believed that programs and organizations that are designed to ‘supposedly’ help find a cure for cancer, or bring a greater awareness about cancer, are really just a ploy to instill fear and get you to see a doctor, undergo a gamut of tests, begin a lifetime regime of prescription medicines, etc., etc., and are really just another gimmick to line the pockets of those individuals and leaders that are in control

Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

You’ve already seen the headlines touting October as breast cancer awareness month. A zillion products are available in “pink” editions now, and gullible consumers snatch them up at retail outlets without knowing a single thing about where that money goes or even what percentage of their product sale is donated to cancer non-profits. (For many products, the amount donated is mere pennies, and much of the donated money goes to worthless cancer maintenance non-profits that have no interest in actually preventing cancer…)

The level of hype and propaganda in this year’s breast cancer awareness month has risen to a new low. The American Cancer Society, as usual, appears to be absolutely worthless in all this, still failing to teach women the No. 1 way to prevent a whopping 77 percent of all cancers: Sunlight and vitamin D.

The ultra-wealthy ACS non-profit, with all its ties to pharmaceutical companies and mammography machine manufacturers, still refuses to openly urge women to prevent breast cancer by getting more vitamin D through nutritional supplements or sensible sunlight exposure. In fact, the organization continues to warn people away from sunlight, actually contributing to the mass vitamin D deficiency that’s now rampant in western nations (including the U.S., Canada and the U.K.).

Vitamin D deficiency greatly reduces the body’s ability to halt the growth of cancer tumors. That’s why higher amounts of vitamin D circulating through the blood have been shown again and again to dramatically reduce the growth of cancer tumors, keeping them in check and preventing a breast cancer diagnosis. Over 75 percent of all breast and prostate cancers could be avoided through vitamin D therapy alone.

Amazingly, the American Cancer Society appears to have no interest in vitamin D. How could it be that this cancer-centric non-profit wouldn’t be interested in a free therapy that could eliminate up to three-fourths of all future cancers? Shouldn’t this be the No. 1 headline around the world during breast cancer awareness month? Shouldn’t the ACS be screaming this fact to anyone who will listen?

But of course not. In my opinion, the American Cancer Society has no interest whatsoever in actually preventing cancer. In my view, it is only interested in promoting the screening and treatment of cancer because that’s what makes money for the financial supporters of the ACS. In fact, the ACS recently restructured its own priorities to focus more on screening and treatment, and less on cancer prevention.

What’s missing from the risk factors list?

Hilariously, the ACS now says there are only four major modifiable risk factors that impact your risk of breast cancer. They are:

• Weight
• Alcohol use
• Smoking
• Exercise

Where is vitamin D on the list? It remains suspiciously absent.

Strange, don’t you think? The single most powerful anti-cancer nutrient known to modern science — one that helps halt the growth of virtually all tumors in the body while reducing breast cancer risk by 77 percent — isn’t on the American Cancer Society’s list! (See our article reporting this finding at http://www.NaturalNews.com/021892.html )

Has the ACS failed to read the research on this nutrient? Could the most miraculous anti-cancer nutrient known to modern science have somehow slipped by the astute scientists at the ACS?

Some intelligent outside observers might conclude that the ACS is either hopelessly ignorant about nutrition or that it simply has no interest in promoting anything that would financially harm its primary supporters (drug companies and oncology equipment manufacturers).

Think Before You Pink

Amid all the mindless reporting about breast cancer awareness month in the mainstream media, there is at least one blip of intelligence on the radar: The Think Before You Pink campaign by Beast Cancer Action (http://www.bcaction.org), a much better informed anti-cancer non-profit led by Barbara Brenner in San Francisco. Breast Cancer Action has a rare philosophy of refusing to accept money from pharmaceutical companies or any corporations that profit from the disease.

The American Cancer Society, on the other hand, takes all sorts of money from companies that profit from cancer. Some might argue that’s why the ACS — often called the wealthiest non-profit in the world — seems to have no interest in actually preventing the disease, but rather focuses on “recruiting” more women into conventional cancer treatments that earn billions of dollars in profits for their primary financial supporters.

Breast Cancer Action has an important message for consumers: Think Before You Pink. It means, essentially, don’t be hoodwinked into buying “pink” products unless you know exactly how much money is going to cancer research and where the money’s going. A lot of the “pink products” money goes to the Susan G. Komen foundation, which in my opinion is another useless nonprofit engaged primarily in pleasing the interests of its big corporate supporters rather than actually doing anything useful to prevent cancer. Read the book Pink Ribbons, Inc. to learn more about what happens behind closed doors at the Susan G. Komen foundation.

As Breast Cancer Action points out, a lot of the “pink products” marketing is nothing more than Pinkwashing — a ploy by product marketers to boost sales of products that actually contribute to breast cancer risk! Many cosmetics and personal care products, for example, are loaded with cancer-causing chemicals that soak right through the skin and enter the bloodstream, and yet these products proudly display pink ribbons, enticing gullible women to purchase them while thinking they’re doing something useful to stop breast cancer.

If it wasn’t for the fact that so many women are being killed by toxic products, it would all be quite hilarious. But the sad fact is that product marketers are exploiting both the pocketbooks and bodies of women in a quest to generate more profits at any cost… including the cost in human lives.

Fighting to prevent cancer prevention

It is interesting to note that with all the toxic chemicals found in personal care products these days, the American Cancer Society has actually fought laws and initiatives that would have helped prevent cancer. As Samuel Epstein explains on www.PreventCancer.org, “The ACS has a longstanding track record of indifference and even hostility to cancer prevention. This is particularly disturbing in view of the escalating incidence of cancer now striking one in two men and one in three women in their lifetimes. Recent examples include issuing a joint statement with the Chlorine Institute justifying the continued global use of persistent organochlorine pesticides, and also supporting the industry in trivializing dietary pesticide residues as avoidable risks of childhood cancer. ACS policies are further exemplified by allocating under 0.1 percent of its $700 million annual budget to environmental and occupational causes of cancer.”

You can read the incredible history of the ACS’s opposition to regulation of toxic chemicals here: http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs…

Read more about the ACS here: http://www.preventcancer.com/losing/acs.htm

See our NaturalNews report on the ACS here: http://www.NaturalNews.com/010244.html

And read our special report, Breast Cancer Deception, here: www.NaturalNews.com/Report_Breast_Cancer…

Business as usual in the cancer industry

The cancer industry is a multi-billion dollar industry that preys upon the bodies of women, exploiting them for profit and power. And if nothing changes, we’ll continue to see the same madness that brought us to this point:

• Cancer non-profits that appear to have no interest in preventing cancer
• The marketing of pink ribbon products that actually cause cancer
• The routine censorship of any information about vitamin D, which cures cancer
• A complete failure of the mainstream media to report the truth about cancer
• Complete failure of conventional doctors and oncologists to recommend safe, natural and low-cost cancer therapies like medicinal mushrooms, microalgae, rainforest herbs and sunlight therapy

Add it all up and you get a future with a whole lot more cancer. Not coincidentally, that’s exactly what Big Pharma wants! The more cancer patients there are, the greater their profits. Actually preventing cancer would devastate the industry’s profits, costing them billions of dollars in profits they’ve already banked on! That’s why the industry remains so focused on screening and detecting cancer but not preventing it! (Detection makes money, prevention loses money. Get it?)

Difficult to believe? Don’t be naive…

I know a lot of people read this and think to themselves, “How could the cancer industry be so evil? How could they exploit the lives of women so callously?” Think Enron. Corporations are, by their very nature, domineering entities capable of great evil, even when the people who work in those corporations might be honest, hard-working individuals. In our current system of free market economics, only the strong, dominant corporations survive. And that requires maximizing revenues and creating new opportunities to sell more drugs to more people, regardless of the real cost in human suffering or environmental destruction.

Many of the cancer non-profits have become little more than front groups for the corporations that make money off of cancer. They act as commercial cheerleading squads, pumping up the crowd to go get screened and hopefully get diagnosed with cancer so they’ll end up buying high-profit chemotherapy drugs.

New research, by the way, shows that chemotherapy drugs cause heart damage to women, leading to heart failure. Even mainstream oncologists are starting to think that maybe the industry should stop using these toxic drugs to treat breast cancer. As Dr. Pamela Douglas, a Duke University cardiologist recently said, “In the process of curing their breast cancer, we’ve exposed them to some pretty nasty things. And it’s not just one nasty thing, it’s a sequence of nasty things.” Those nasty things, it turns out, cause permanent damage to the heart, kidney, liver and brain.

But they’re really great for the bottom-line profits of pharmaceutical corporations. And that’s the whole reason why screening and chemotherapy continues to be so strongly promoted by cancer non-profit groups, even while highly-effect prevention strategies (vitamin D prevents 77 percent of ALL cancers) are routinely ignored.

I say the cancer industry actually intends to keep the disease going as long as possible, with as many people as possible in order to maximize profits. Anyone who disagrees with me must ask the all-important question: If these cancer non-profits are so interested in preventing cancer, why won’t they strongly recommend vitamin D which prevents 77 percent of all cancers? Why?

Why do we need to spend billions of dollars each year on “the search for the cure” when we have a substance right now — available for free — that prevents nearly 8 out of 10 cancers in the first place? A 77 percent reduction in all cancers sounds like a pretty important milestone to me. Seems like any organization that was actually interested in the welfare of the people would express some degree of interest in this natural vitamin, wouldn’t you think?

Think Before You Pink

Don’t be a sucker for cancer marketing schemes. Don’t support pink products, and don’t be fooled into getting annual mammograms (which actually cause cancer, by the way). Think before you pink! And get more sunlight and vitamin D. That’s the single most powerful thing you can do to prevent breast cancer, other than perhaps quitting smoking. But if you don’t smoke already, getting sunlight and vitamin D is the single most important thing you can do to prevent cancer, period!

Here’s the full press release from Breast Cancer Action (www.BCAction.org)

Breast Cancer Action Launches 6th Year of Think Before You Pink

San Francisco — Breast Cancer Action (BCA) today launched its annual Think Before You Pink campaign with a new focus — “pinkwashing” companies that increase sales by putting pink ribbons on their products, even though these products contribute to the breast cancer epidemic.

Since its inception in 2002, BCA’s Think Before You Pink campaign has been urging consumers to ask critical questions about the hundreds of pink ribbon products and promotions that are marketed every October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCA calls it Breast Cancer Industry Month). Calling for transparency and accountability from companies that use pink ribbons to sell products, BCA believes that consumers can and should ask questions about how the money is being raised and where the money is going.

The big question of the campaign this year is which companies are engaging in pink ribbon marketing while manufacturing products that are contributing to the epidemic. Toward this end, BCA is singling out the car, dairy, and cosmetics industries.

“These pinkwashing companies are trying to have it both ways,” says BCA Executive Director Barbara A. Brenner. “If they care as deeply as they say they do about women’s lives, they’ll clean up their products.”

For example, Ford, Mercedes, and BMW are each raising funds with campaigns that urge consumers to buy and drive cars for breast cancer awareness and research. However, car exhaust contains toxic chemicals that are linked to the disease, and by urging consumers to buy and drive polluting cars in the name of breast cancer, they are also encouraging consumers to unwittingly help increase the incidence of the disease.

“We’re not telling anyone not to buy these products or not to drive,” says Brenner. “We’re asking that consumers think before they buy, contact the companies to demand cleaner products, and remember that they have options. That’s why it’s called ‘Think Before You Pink’.”

The Think Before You Pink web site, features an updated “Parade of Pink,” a list of some of the hundreds of pink ribbon products and promotions on the market, as well as a list of the six critical questions consumers can ask before buying a pink ribbon-wrapped product.

Breast Cancer Action (www.bcaction.org) is a non-profit education and advocacy organization that does not accept funding from pharmaceutical companies or any other organizations that profit from or contribute to the breast cancer epidemic.

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Shelly Keck-Borsits literally went to hell and back in her struggles to be healed of life threatening health issues and fibromyalgia resulting from taking depo provera birth control. Her book, Dying To Get Well, is a very courageous, step of faith revealing no holds barred truth telling, eye opening information. If you or someone you love is taking pharmaceuticals or thinking about it, this 160 page 3-book is really worth reading and can save lives.

Download here: http://www.dyingtogetwell.com/

“Dying To Get Well gives you information the medical communities and
drug companies pray you’ll never see! They want you to stay ignorant
to these facts about the cause of and the natural cure to disease;
because when you remain ignorant, they remain RICH!”

If you are lucky you will read Dying To Get Well before you have subjected yourself to harmful prescription drugs and/or surgeries. But even if you’ve been drugged for numerous years, and/or sliced open once or several times; it is almost never to late for you to apply the information given and reverse your disease!

Dying To Get Well is a book for those who want to take charge of their health and their life! It is a book for those who no longer want to poison their systems with the dangerous drugs their doctorsare all too readily handing out.
“Beauty and vitality are gifts from nature for those who live by her laws”
— Leonardo da Vinci

“Let food be your medicine, and medicine your food”
— Hippocrates

Below is a list of just some of what you will read about inside of the book Dying To Get Well….

Find Out WHAT Caused You To Become Sick
• Is Your Home Or Workplace Making You Sick?
• Is Your Diet Making You Sick?
• How Almost Every Disease Can Be Cured Naturally
• The TRUTH About Symptoms AND Why They Shouldn’t Always Frighten You
• The TRUTH About What Prescription Drugs Are Really Doing To You
• The Exact Step-By-Step Plan The Author Of “Dying to Get Well” Used To Cure Her So-Called “Incurable” Fibromyalgia
• Why Almost Every Disease Can Be Cured Via The Same NATURAL Methods
• Why The Medical Community Won’t Share This Information With You
• Why The Pharmaceutical Companies Won’t Share This Information With You
• Why YOUR Doctor Isn’t Sharing This Life-Saving Information With You
• Which M.D.’s Are Coming Forward With This Information and Why These Brave M.D.’s Are Coming Forward
• Why You Won’t Hear How Millions Of Other People Have Cured Their Diseases Too!
• The TRUTH About Prescription Drugs
• How The MEDIA Is Involved In Keeping This Information From You
• Why Many Natural ALTERNATIVE Cures Fail Just Like Conventional Medicine’s Prescription Drugs
• The Differences Between The 3 Major Types of Alternative Healing Therapies
• Why High Protein Diets Can Be Deadly
• Why Raw Food Helps Reverse Disease
• Info on Vegetarianism, Veganism, Fasting, Raw Food, & Juicing
• How You’ll Be Able To Eat MORE Food Than You Ever Have Before And NOT Gain Weight
• WHY You Can’t Lose Weight And WHY You May Feel Like You Are ALWAYS Hungry
• The Hidden Health Hazards That Are Lurking In Your Cosmetics, Cleansing Supplies, Carpeting & Much, MUCH more!
• How To Do A Raw Food Diet
• Where To Get Professional Fasting & Raw Food Diet Support
• How The Raw Food Diet Can Fail If You Don’t Do It Correctly… and WHY!
• and much more!

Dying To Get Well: A Medical Cover-Up EXPOSED! The Cure to Disease REVEALED!! Read the true story of one woman who cured herself from a mysterious, debilitating illness that for five years controlled, and almost ended, her life. Having received an ‘incurable’ sentence from her doctors, Shelly Keck-Borsits reports on not only her own miraculous reversal of disease, but on the secret cause and safe reversal of the majority of disease! This is the information the medical community and pharmaceutical industry does NOT want you to read! If you are sick of being sick and tired, if you have given up on conventional medicine and are desperately looking for a safe alternative to reversing your pain or disease, Dying To Get Well might be just the prescription you are looking for.

This is in response to an article on PopularMechanics.com

I find it interesting that most folks look to science to cure the problem of old age, sickness and disease. Why? Because that’s what they get paid for, right?

Our society is so programmed to look for answers to our questions from the experts. From the organizations that are paid to do research. They are paid to report a certain criteria for their findings.

Let me get to the point. Sure there are creams, pills and potions to stop balding, reduce wrinkles, improve bone mass, etc. But there is no money to be made in telling people that if they stop eating the manufactured junk that our major food corporations, medical industries, and pharmaceutical industries want to stuff down our throats, literally! Think about it! If you want to live a LONG, productive and active life: listen to this: STOP EATING the junk food, stop eating animal products. Yes, you read that right!! Start eating all natural fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sprouts. Reintroduce flavors like you never had before. Flavors that the food corporations are trying to copy, but only Nature can create.

Our bodies were designed to live off of raw, fresh fruits and vegetables, not beef and chicken pumped up with pesticides, hormones and antibiotics, not dairy products that contain all of the above, but also casein and other toxic substances. We were not meant to eat canned, or frozen instant dinners filled with preservatives, MSG, hydrogenated fat, and way more protein than the body can process. We cannot build health on packaged, processed boxes of food, chips, soda, pizza, sweets, etc.

There is a cure for old age, as well as for many debilitating diseases, chronic ailments, obesity, and the most common disease of all: fatigue. It is true. When people reverse their addictive habits to cooked food, processed snacks, soda, fast foods, animal products, etc., they find that the benefits of raw food, (no, not raw meat!) truly does change their life. The weight literally falls off, the bones and joints stop aching, headaches are gone, they experience more energy, sleep better, sex is better, thinking is clearer, and health issues begin to disappear. When they are sacrificing less enzymes to digest food, because raw food contains its own enzymes to process the food, life is extended (any food cooked over 118 degrees has lost all enzymes). Aging is reversed. When the body no longer has to fight the toxins that are consumed from animal products and all processed, manufactured food, it is able to stay pure, and clean from toxins. Toxins are not allowed to build up in the body, thus it stays healthy, longer.

This is just a short, very brief synopsis in response to the article on popularmechanics.com about aging. There is no money being made in telling people to change our diet to raw, natural, fresh fruits and vegetables. To learn new and awesome recipes to create beautiful raw food dishes. To use a high-speed blender, a dehydrator, and a food processor to create awesome dishes that are healthy and delicious, too. To introduce your mouth to new, and incredible flavors.

Here is a thought: Maybe the FDA, the food corporations, meat and dairy industries, the medical industries, and the pharmaceutical industries are more interested in keeping us minimally well. Sick enough to need the doctor on a regular basis (money for the doctors, right? On a raw food diet, you save money by not needing to see the doctor.)  sick enough to require medications for whatever your ailments are (again, money for the big drug companies), and sick enough to die at a reasonably early age so you don’t deplete the Social Security money, or live too long to crowd the planet…

Do you think the Cancer Society, and the Heart Association Society, and all the other gazillion ‘societies’ are really trying to find a cure for whatever they stand for? The CEOs are making too much money to sacrifice closing down their societies, because I read somewhere that the Cancer Society has in it’s bylaws that they will close down as soon as a cure is found. But wait, there is too much money to be made in looking for the cure, right? When in reality, there really already is a cure, but it’s kept secret. Because nobody is able to make money from something that was provided to humanity from God. Doctors won’t tell you to stop eating animal products and processed junk, because if you are CURED, they can’t make anymore money off of you. They are trained to prescribe a drug that ‘stops’ the issue temporarily, never cures it, so you’ll keep the pharma corporations in business, and you’ll be back to the doctor later when the symptom comes back. Meanwhile, your body is fighting off the toxins from the drugs you were prescribed, and are obediently taking. In most cases, a simple three day juice fast will cure whatever ails you.

So you do the research. Check out websites that endorse the raw food lifestyle. Look at the thousands of testimonies online of people who lost tons of weight, cured their diseases and sicknesses, and gained tremendous amounts of energy. One can live to be easily 120 years old or more on a pure, raw food diet. Just cut out the crap that the grocery stores and media want you to consume, and learn about a better way to eat and live.

Disclaimer: (I have to say this) If you are on medication, please do not stop without first consulting your doctor.

What did you have for breakfast this morning? Did you have a bowl of fruit, a smoothie or other healthy food? Many people today are more health conscious and are paying attention to what they are putting into their bodies. But, is the same attention being paid to what you are putting on your body?Did you know that the common beauty products that most of us use everyday have poisonous chemical ingredients that are being absorbed, ingested or inhaled by our bodies before we even eat our healthy breakfast? These chemical ingredients are absorbed into the bloodstream, weakening the immune system and slowly poisoning you!

According to the U.S. Government and product manufacturers, the following is a partial list of chemical poisons found in the common beauty products. (Reference: The Politics of Poison, by Nina G. Silver, Ph.D. 2000, Government Agencies, Medical Institutions, and Product Manufacturers)

Product (match the numbers to the ingredients to see a list of side effects)

Acne Medication: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Antibacterial Hand Cleanser: 8
Antiperspirant: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
Bath Soap: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Facial Cleanser: 2, 3, 7
Foot Deodorant: 3, 5, 7
Mouthwash: 3, 4, 5, 7
Shaving Cream: 2, 3, 7
Toothpaste: 2, 3, 4, 5

Known Poisonous Ingredients and Side Effects

(1) Alcohols: - Acid and Alkali: rashes, muscle weakness, headaches, dizziness, nerve damage, vision problems, insomnia, stomach cramps, depression, respiratory problems, and cancer
(2) Detergents/Emulsifiers: strips skin of protective oils, skin irritation, scalp eruptions, hair loss, allergic reactions, cataract formation, reproductive damage, blindness, and cancer
(3) Synthetic Fragrance and Dyes: allergic reactions, skin rashes, upset stomach, muscular aches and pains, violent coughing and sneezing, hyperactivity, convulsions, Leukemia, Hodgkin’s, ADD, dizziness, depression, and cancer
(4) Heavy Metals: abdominal cramps, nausea, muscle weakness, mouth sores, muscle, joint, and bone pain, cancer, brain disorders, ADD, and hyperactivity
(5) Pesticides and Fungicides: flu-like symptoms, stomach cramps, nervous system disorders, insomnia, memory loss, swelling of body parts, dizziness, birth defects, and gland tumors
(6) Petrochemicals: inhibits skin functions, blemishes, rashes, splitting nails, sensitivity to sun, headaches, allergic reactions, depression, fatigue, intestinal gas, asthma, and respiratory failure
(7) Preservatives (synthetic): headaches, skin rashes, eye damage, asthma, tumors, cancer, digestive problems, mental confusion, organ damage, muscle weakness and cramps, and loss of motor control
(8) Triclosan: Absorption through the skin can be tied to liver damage

Take a moment to look at the ingredient list on your Face Wash, Acne Cleanser, Body Wash, Soap, Shampoo, or other beauty product. Although these toxic chemical ingredients will produce the desired results, they will also be absorbed into your bloodstream and cause undesired side effects.

Even Toothpaste has a Warning Label!

What are the Alternatives?

Companies are beginning to recognize the high consumer demand for natural, organic, botanical beauty products (without toxic chemicals) and as a result, independent distributors, health food stores and some grocery stores now sell these products. Be careful though because sometimes the natural, organic, botanical ingredients are promoted to appeal to the health conscious consumer yet the product still has many toxic chemical ingredients. Read the packaging and ingredient list carefully to protect you and your family!

Natural, organic, botanical beauty products will achieve the same results (or even better results) without risking the health of you or your family!

Check out your local Health Food store for natural soaps, deodorants, body wash, creams, and cosmetics. 

Source: http://www.magicsuds.net/magic_suds_012.htm

Self-sufficiency is power. Power to take control of our own lives and our health too. Growing our own food is a start. Stepping away from the corporate food chains and irradiated / genetically modified fruits and vegetables is the right step in the direction for health. Eating fresh, LIVING and raw food is an even better step towards our health. The more people that do that, the less sickness there is in this world. When we have a higher percentage of healthy people, we have a much more productive community, people who are truly tuned in and sensitive to one another. Loving and helping one another is the true path to peace on Earth! Thank goodness we still have that choice!

Below is an excellent video from Path to Freedom. Credits and their own bio is below the video.

Path to Freedom presents ‘A Homegrown Revolution’ A collaboration of selective media clips which feature their urban homestead and farm which focus on the need of radical action — growing food in the city.

This self produced, short music video was shown at Peter Seller’s Cultural Art’s class at UCLA followed by a short presentation by urban farmer, Jules Dervaes founder of Path to Freedom. The class focus was on the art of slow food and among other guests invited were Michael Pollan, Alice Waters and Eric Schlosser.

Like Victory Gardens of yesteryear, start your own homegrown revolution, grow your own food in your back or front yard — for more information visit the urban homesteaders at www.PathtoFreedom.com

Since the early 80’s the Dervaes family has slowly transformed their ordinary city lot into a self sufficient urban homestead.

(NOTE: This video’s creation, concept, layout, sound pickups and editing was done in a marathon session of just three days so please excuse any choppy editing! )

VIDEO FOOTAGE COURTESY OF
Path to Freedom
Treehugger TV
CBS2 / KCAL9
SPA8 / Chris Klonecke
Gina Angelique / Chris Hall
EARTH RISE Dance Performance

INTERVIEWS COURTESY
Path to Freedom
Christopher Klonecke
Gina Angelique / Chris Hall
CBS2 / KCAL9

MUSIC COURTESY
“Revolution Cry”
Lifehouse / Blyss

“World”
Five for Fighting

“Paths of Victory”
Bob Dylan

“Looking Out My Backdoor”
Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Smoothie Song”"
Nickel Creek

“Drive”
REM

“Green Grows the Rushes”
REM

“Footprints in the Snow”
Songs of the Hills

“Seneca Square Dance”
Songs of the Hills (less)
Added: November 08, 2007

I came across the information below from a fellow raw-foodist: Maureen Veto-Slater at http://rawkc.com. At last someone who agrees with my thoughts on corporate conspiracy against the general public by shoving junk food and fast food garbage down our throats so that we can keep the medical and pharmaceutical industries in business! Hallelujah!

She says on her website:

Q: What is the difference between prescription

medications and street drugs?

A: One pusher wears a suit.

Do you know a “Legal Junkie?”

Recipe For Disaster

Some folks think the real answer is a secret to vibrant health and the “fountain of youth” when it is simply what you put into your body.

And even more about what you DON’T put in!

Literally…You are what you EAT, POP, or DRINK.

So why don’t we know this? Dr. Mercola calls this…

“Most Astonishing Health Disaster of the 20th Century”

What does he mean? According to Dr. Mercola:

* At least 106,000 people die every year from adverse drug reactions.

* A mere 6% of all adverse drug reactions are properly identified.

* Most side effects are instead mistaken for new disease symptoms, leading to further drugging and unnecessary medical procedures, increasing the risk of death even further.

* Most of these deaths are from EXPECTED adverse reactions, because they are an extension of the drugs’ action.

* The mortality rate for people between the ages of 45-64, who took their prescription drugs CORRECTLY, rose 90% in just five years.

* Each year, 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed.

* Medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each and every day. The only difference is the media coverage…..there’s no public displays of grief for those who die of faulty medicine.

* Modern medicine is no longer about health. It is a for-profit disease industry that can only survive if millions of people get sick, and stay that way…

* An industry that fails to tell you how processed foods, alcohol, excessive calories and insufficient exercise are recipes for disease.

* Why are we kept in the dark? Follow the money…

* As of 2001, Pfizer is the number one profitable company of all the Fortune 500 companies.

“The American medical system is the NUMBER ONE killer in the United States.”

* Adding to the problems created by this flawed system? Deceptive marketing that has changed our eating patterns, so now more than 90% of the money people spend on food is for highly processed unhealthy foods.

–Dr. Mercola