Agave plant used to make Agave Syrup

Warning!  You’re Being Had!

It never ends. You know how bad High Fructose Corn Syrup is and how we have been blindsided by clever marketing into thinking HFCS is a healthy sweetener.

Well once again we are being blindsided by the clever marketing of a new so called “natural” sweetener implying it is a safe substitute for High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Science has proven conclusively that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a major cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease because of its 56% high fructose content.

This new so called “natural” sweetener is from the agave plant.  Ferment it and you have Mexico’s favorite alcoholic beverage — tequila.

Blue agave, agave “syrup”, or agave “nectar”, is nothing more than a laboratory generated super-condensed fructose syrup devoid of all nutrient value and offering metabolic misfortune.

Agave syrup is much worse than the High Fructose Corn Syrup it’s replacing.

It has the highest fructose content of any commercial sweetener —- 70% to 97% depending on the brand.

Your body burns glucose for energy, not fructose.  Nearly all of the fructose is  broken down by your liver and directly converted to dangerous fats, not energy.

This is why fructose is the leading cause of obesity.

It is important to understand that fructose from fruits and vegetables are a completely different animal.

Natural fructose contains fiber, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, whereas fructose sweeteners have no nutritional value at all.

Here are some more menacing facts about synthetic fructose like HFCS:

• Fructose elevates your uric acid level.  This is more dangerous than elevated cholesterol levels as it causes chronic low-level inflammation increasing your risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, arthritis and premature aging.
• Fructose “tricks” your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism.  It actually impairs your body’s normal appetite-control system.
• Excessive fructose decreases HDL, increases LDL levels, elevates triglycerides, elevates blood sugar, and raises your blood pressure.  This is classic metabolic syndrome.

Let me be clear that small amounts of fructose are not the problem, it is excess fructose, over 25 grams per day, that is the problem, and the average person consumes at least 70 grams of fructose per day.

Despite manufacturer’s claims, agave syrup is not made from the sap of the agave plant as is maple syrup.  Agave syrup is made from the starch of its pineapple like root bulb.

The root is comprised mainly of starch, similar to corn, and a complex carbohydrate called inulin, which is made up of fructose molecules.

The process in which the starch and inulin are converted into agave syrup it very similar to the way cornstarch is converted to High Fructose Corn Syrup.

The process uses genetically modified enzymes and is chemically intensive involving caustic acids, clarifiers, and filtration chemicals.

Here is a partial list of the chemicals involved:

• Activated charcoal
• Cationic and ionic resins
• Sulfuric and/or hydrofluoric acid
• Dicalite
• Clarimex
• Inulin enzymes
• Fructozyme

The public has been deceived into thinking that agave syrup comes from the pure sap of the agave plant just like maple syrup comes from the sap of the maple tree.

The result of this deception is the strong growth of sales of agave syrup to the public, bakers, and food processors.

This deception needs to be exposed and the purchase of agave syrup by consumers and food companies needs to be stopped or the health of millions of people will go down the drain.

Personally, we too were deceived.  We bought agave syrup thinking it was a safe substitute for maple syrup and other sweeteners as we do not use any products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup.

When we uncovered the fraud, we dumped our agave syrup down the drain, as should you.

We all need to help protect the health of our families, friends, and neighbors.  Pass on this information because when it comes to health, we need to help ourselves.

Don’t look to our government, FDA, USDA, or medical doctors for help.

Unfortunately, the very people who should be helping us, are the very ones who are causing the greatest damage to our health.

You need to take charge of your own health.  Don’t buy products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup and do not buy agave syrups or any products containing agave syrups.

Our only defense is to boycott those food processors as their only goal is to make money and could care less if they poison our bodies along the way.

The only way to beat them is by withholding our dollars.  It catches their attention in a hurry, making them sit up and listen.

For a long time I have been warning you about the dangers to your health of ingesting High Fructose Corn Syrup.

More and more studies have proven the folly of consuming products that contain HFCS to the extent that some of our major food processors are finally paying attention and switching away from HFCS as their sweetener of choice.

Pepsi-Cola being one of them.  But, if they switch to agave syrup, we will be worse off when using their products.  I use Pepsi-Cola as an example but no one should be drinking soda! Period!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Stopping Cancer, Heart Disease and 100 Other Diseases On 26 1/2 Cents A Day?

Can you imagine the world-wide media explosion if a drug company announced it had developed a single pill that would substantially reduce the risk or prevent breast, colon, prostate, 14 other cancers, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteomalacia, PMS, MS and other autoimmune disease, as well as flu, colds, other respiratory diseases and, last but  not least — Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and possibly ALS?

Can you imagine the euphoria to having access to such a miracle pill?

Well — guess what—that miracle is here NOW!  TODAY!

It is the miracle of vitamin D-3 and we not only have it, we have it in liquid form at a cost of only pennies a day.

It is estimated that about 60% of the diseases in the world today are probably vitamin D-3 deficiency based —as it has been well established that most people in the U.S. and around the world are vitamin D-3 deficient.

Can you imagine people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s taking a fall and not breaking a hip, or other bones because their bones are so strong?

Can you imagine not having to worry about the swine flu or any other kind of flu because your immune system is so strong?

In the last 10 years a whole new science has burst open upon the world.

It is the scientific study of the effects of the hormone known as vitamin D-3 on the body.  Yes, it is a hormone, not a vitamin.

D-3 impacts your heart, organs and most every tissue and cell in your body.

It is anti-viral, bacterial and fungal.

It regulates normal cell death thus maintaining life saving control over cancer.

It protects against gum disease and helps keep your muscles strong.

Vitamin D-3 is the most impactful and wide reaching nutrient for your body and you can have this incredible protection for as little as 26.5 cents a day.

That’s $7.95 for a month’s supply of 10,000 IU liquid vitamin D-3 per day at the special multiple bottle price for the NEW Mirimmune Super D-3.

That is 26 1/2 cents per day and no shipping cost in the U.S. and Canada.

Is your life worth 26 1/2 cents a day?  Are you dancing in the street yet?

Well you should be because this is the greatest medical discovery of the 21st century and the drug companies haven’t yet figured out a way to take it away from us!

So let’s make hay while the sun shines!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Mirimmune Super D-3

“The Most Important Health Discovery for the 21st Century.”

I use this quotation by Marc Sorneson, EdD because this discovery will become our health salvation and destroyer of disease.

I learned the hard way.

You don’t really appreciate your good health unless you lose it —- as I did mine.

I was also shocked to learn that the medical profession had no cure for my debilitating disease, and not being ready to have my life shortened— I began looking for alternatives.

Being persistent, I learned that although drugs could not cure me, nutrition and nutritional supplements could, and cure me it did.

I no longer have congestive heart failure, but that’s another story.

What is of immense value to you, me, and all we know, is what I subsequently learned —- had I been taking a sufficient quantity of ONE, easy to take, inexpensive, NUTRIENT —- I never would have developed heart disease and gone through all that misery, and that is what I want to talk to you about.

It is well known that there are multi-millions of people in this country and many more millions around the world who are on drugs, have no hope for a cure, or have no knowledge of how to keep from developing or catching life threatening diseases.

I now know that that can now change.

With that change, millions of people would be taken off the Medicare rolls.

Think about what that would do for health care systems around the world!

The drug companies are going to hate this.  All those healthy people walking around who won’t get the flu, heart disease, cancer, MS, or any of 100 different problems all because they added this one nutrient to their diet.

We all know the best cure of all is prevention and prevention is easy and doable with what I am about to reveal to you.

If you are already suffering from serious or not-so-serious diseases, be comforted by the fact that there are tens of thousands of people who have cured themselves by just making lifestyle and nutritional changes, no drugs, and I believe most everyone can achieve the same success.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, I am now very healthy, very strong, and on the long side of 86.  I was 74 when I developed congestive heart failure.  So you see, a disease the medical profession has no cure for — can be cured!

Let me tell you —- If you are looking for a magic potion, sorry, I cannot help you, although what I am about to tell you is about as close to a magic potion you will ever get, and there are hundreds of scientific studies behind that statement.

“In all my many years of practice of medicine, I’ve never seen one vitamin, even vitamin C, have such profound effects on human health.” Dr. Soram Khalsa, board-certified internist and medical director for the East-West Medical Research Institute.

It has been established, based on scientific studies, why so many people are so sick with heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, stoke, MS, obesity, etc, etc.

They ALL have a VITAMIN D-3 DEFICIENCY!

“We estimate that vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world.” Dr. Michael F. Holick, Vitamin D expert.

Does that mean that the cause for each person contacting or developing a disease was a deficiency of Vitamin D-3 alone?  Probably not, but it is evident from scientific studies that for most —- the answer is a resounding YES!

And further, science says very specifically, a sufficiency of Vitamin D-3 would prevent respiratory diseases, breast, lung, colon, and prostate cancers as well as 20 major internal cancers.

In reading the literature you will find that vitamin D and vitamin D-3 are used interchangeably.

Most people associate vitamin D with strong bones and think about it only as a vitamin, when in actuality, vitamin D-3 is a hormone and affects 32 different organs in your body all of which have vitamin C-3 receptors.

“The number one public health advance in medicine in the last 20 years.” Dr. John Whitcomb, Aurora Sinai Medical Center.

In keeping with this medical advance, we are pleased to offer you our exclusive, energy enhanced, liquid Mirimmune Super D-3.

“Because vitamin D is so cheap and so clearly reduces all-cause mortality, I can say this with great certainty: Vitamin D represents the single most cost-effective medical intervention in the United State.” Dr Greg Plotnikoff, Medical Director, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

Below is a Sampling of Hundreds of References:

Grant, W. et al.  Benefits and requirements of vitamin D for optimal health.  Ali Med Rev. 2005; 10:94-111.

Hollis B. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels indicative of vitamin D sufficiency: implications for establishing a new effective dietary intake recommendation for virtamin D. J Nudtr. 2005;135:317-22

Vieth R.  Why the optimal requirement for viramin D3 is probably much higher than what is officially recommended for adults. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2004.89;89-90:575-79.

Cannell, J. et al.  EpidemicInfluenza and vitamin D.  Epidemiol Infect    2006;134:1129-40

Kirkey, S.  Experts prescribe massive increase of vitamin D.  Canadian West News Service, September 25, 2007.

Marineau A. et al.  Effect of vitamin D supplementation on anti-mycobacterial immunity: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial in London tuberculosis contact.  Int J Tuberculosis Lung Dis 2005;9:S173

Reginster, J. et al.  The high prevalence of inadequate serum vitamin d levels and implications for bone health.  Curr Med Res Opin 2005; 21 (4): 579

Vieth, R. et al.  The urgent need to recommend an intake of vitamin D that is effective.  Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85:649-50

Quotes:

“VitaminD is cholecalciferol, a hormone.  Deficiencies of hormones can have catastrophic consequences.” Dr. William Davis, cardiologist.

“Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized, emerging cardiovascular risk factor, which should be screened for and treated.  Vitamin D is easy to access, and supplementation is simple, safe, and inexpensive.” Dr. James H. O’Keefe, cardiologist and Director of Preventive Cardiology, Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.

The need for an adequate level of vitamin D-3 in one’s body cannot be over emphasized.

Our government’s recommendation of 400 IU daily for an adult is not even sufficient for a child and falls far short of the 5000, 10,000 and even 20,000 IUs in some cases that science is now recommending as a daily intake for adults.

Vitamin D-3 is synonymous with good health.

Remain deficient and you will get sick.

Check out the Mirimmune Super D-3 at our Good Health Supplements website today! You can thank me later.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Can you afford the cost of diabetes?

In a new study by researchers based at the University of Chicago, and recently published in the journal “Diabetes Care”, it was determined that the number of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetics will climb from almost 24 million this year to about 44 million in 2034.

Over the same period, annual diabetes related treatment costs are expected to increase from $113 billion to $336 billion, (based on the value of the dollar in the year 2007), and Medicare spending on diabetes is expected to jump from $45 billion to $171 Billion.

This could exceed current projections for all Medicare costs, the researchers said.

Their advice to slow the growth of diabetes was to exercise more.

Now I do not disagree that exercise is very important and does help.

However, diabetes is not a contagious disease, it is a developed disease, and the lack of exercise if far from the whole story.

Neither our government agencies, the medical profession, nor any of the diabetic societies talk about the cause or prevention of diabetes.

Their focus is on drugs and cure.

Diabetes is a food related and induced disease. Prior to the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and trans-fats, there was no Type 2 Diabetes.

If our FDA and USDA were to ban the use of high fructose corn syrup and trans-fats (partially hydrogenated vegetable oils) in prepared foods, baked goods, sodas and other drinks, as has been done in other countries, we would see not a doubling of diabetes but a diminishing and probably the end of this horrible disease that causes death, amputation, and blindness.

Another diabetic issue is the deficiency of vitamin D-3 that exists in over 70% of Caucasians and over 90% of dark skinned people.

Hundreds of scientific studies have proven that D-3 deficiency can cause diabetes.

No one has to get diabetes.  The solution to the problem is right there in front of us.

By not eating any food or drink that contains high fructose corn syrup or trans-fats, and raising our levels of vitamin D-3, we can keep from getting diabetes and other diseases.

You need to carefully read the labels on the food you buy, and do not be fooled by packaged foods that say “0″ trans-fats.

The FDA allows food processors to use a half percent of trans-fats per serving and put “0″ trans-fats on their label.  Guaranteed, their serving size is so small, you will be eating at least four servings or more at each meal and multiple servings of trans-fats.

You don’t have to be or become a diabetic. It’s all about what you eat.

And yes —- you really do need to exercise.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Are you hungry for change? If so, watch the provocative new film called “Food, Inc.”.

Here’s a short video trailer for you to watch.
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“In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually.

We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.”

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

Alzheimer’s is a very scary disease.

There is no cure and the signs that you are on the road to developing the disease are often not very clear.

Until recently, people with signs of dementia were diagnosed as having either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.

Experts used the term “vascular” in relation to dementia when they found signs of a stroke, mini-strokes, or clogged arteries.  All three of these factors can kill the brain’s nerve cells (neurons) by cutting off their oxygen supply.

Autopsy studies show that many people have both types of dementia.

“When you look at pathology in the brain, it’s the rare person who doesn’t have both Alzheimer’s and vascular disease, “says professor of epidemiology, Mary Haan, at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

Those studies led researchers to ask whether people who were diagnosed with either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia had other things—-like high blood pressure, diabetes, or clogged arteries—-in common.

“As we started to look at risk factors for vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, lo and behold, we found that they overlap,” says David Knopman, professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

“We realized that vascular risk factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” says Mary Haan.

Researchers say it looks as though Alzheimer’s may somehow be triggered or sped up by high insulin levels, high blood pressure, inflammation, and clogged arteries—some of the same risk factors that cause heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.  (Lancet 363: 1139, 2004).

“Diabetes is a strong risk factor for dementia,” says David Knopman.

Five years ago, the Rotterdam Study in the Netherlands found that people with diabetes had nearly double the risk of dementia.  (Neurology 62: 66. 2004.)

Two years prior to those studies, this study was reported: HOMOCYSTEINE IS A STRONG RISK FACTOR FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE New England Journal of Medicine. 2002 Feb 14; 346:476-483 .

SUMMARY: Subjects from the “Framingham Study“, were examined over an eight-year period to determine whether the amount of homocysteine in the blood is a cause of dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease, or is the homocysteine the result of vitamin deficiencies that occur in people with dementia-related illnesses.

TEST: A total of 1092 adults, who did not have dementia, were measured to find out whether the amount of homocysteine in a person’s blood could predict who would develop dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Eight years later 111 of those tested were diagnosed with dementia including 83 with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Disease nearly doubled in subjects with a high level of homocysteine.

CONCLUSION: The study concluded that an increased homocysteine level is a strong, independent risk factor for the development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

What other risk is high homocysteine level known for?

Arterial wall damage and the formation of arterial clogging plaque that block blood flow and reduce the amount of oxygen that reaches the heart and brain, which we now know can put you at severe risk of getting Alzheimer’s as well as a heart attack or stroke.

Inflammation is another causative which also damages arterial walls causing the formation of arterial clogging plaque that can lead to dementia, a heart attack or stroke.

Researchers and the medical profession tell us they have no cure for Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.

Drugs have been developed to slow the progress of dementia, but the best are effective, according to research findings, for no longer than 18 months when they no longer exhibit any beneficial affect for the patient.

As with all major diseases, researchers concentrate on drug cures.

That’s where the money is.

Researchers and the medical profession have totally ignored the results from the above research studies.

The results demonstrate if you keep your arteries clear of arterial clogging plaque, keep your homocysetine and C-reactive protein (inflammation) at normal levels, plus increase the release of your own natural growth hormone from your pituitary, (growth hormone helps reverse cognitive decline which, regrettably, the researchers have not addressed), your chances of getting Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, as well as losing you cognitive capabilities, are slim to non-existent.

There are no miracles here.

Take care of your vascular system and you take care of your brain.

It’s all done with natural nutritional supplements, healthy eating, and some exercise.  No mirrors, no voodoo, no drugs!

Contrary to what the researchers and the medical profession believe, there is a cure for Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.  It’s called Prevention!

Dementia sneaks up on you, and then it’s too late, so practice prevention and prevent such a horrible fate.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is most commonly caused when your body does not produce enough insulin (a hormone released by the pancreas) which is needed to convert sugar, or glucose, which is your basic fuel energy for your cells.

In addition, the CDC stated that 25 percent of Americans are at risk of “pre-diabetes” due to lack of awareness of the common causes of diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes.

Recognizing some of the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes such as… hyperglycemia (too much sugar build up in the blood) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) can help you to prevent a potentially dangerous problem.

Not paying attention to the symptoms and taking action can create serious complications such as heart or cardiovascular disease, blindness or retinopathy, nerve damage or neuropathy, and even kidney damage or nephropathy.

Other common symptoms can include dizziness, double vision, confusion, drowsiness, trembling, weakness, lack of coordination, headaches and more.

Type 2 diabetes is considered the most common form of diabetes and accounts for 90%-95% of diabetes cases with around 6% of the US population suffering diabetes and it’s the 7th leading cause of death.

Here are just a few tips to help you avoid pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.

1: Exercise: This is probably the most important thing you can do because when you exercise you help your body lower your blood sugar levels because your muscles are using up glucose, or sugar, to help create more energy.

2: Diet: Watching what you eat is most important because the typical North American diet is one of the leading causes of type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. Choose foods that are healthy and low in carbohydrates and avoid starchy foods such as breads, cereals, rice and potatoes which are broken down into sugars and eating too much creates too much sugar for your body to handle, so pay attention to your food portion sizes.

3: Obesity: This is a growing problem that connects diabetes and diet because when you start to exceed a normal body fat percentage you can become insulin resistant which can lead to higher blood sugar levels.

4: Eye Care, Foot Care & Skin Care: If you are having issues with diabetes the three areas of health care you need to pay attention to are the eyes, feet and skin because they are the first areas to be affected with health problems.

5: Heart Health and High Blood Pressure: The growing incidents of diabetes is also causing cardiovascular disease because when you don’t properly get nutrients into your cells your blood can become unhealthy to delivery nutrients and take away toxins which can lead to reduced blood flow to cause high blood pressure.

6: Oral Health: If you ask any well trained dentist they will tell you that your gums will show definite problems of diabetes because of the lack of blood flow to the gums which in turn leads to gum disease and toxic buildup in your body.

One last item to discuss is to stop smoking because smoking can double your risks by interfering with the delivery of insulin and can raise your blood glucose levels.

When you take care of your life-style issues and put into place a total health program of exercise, diet, health care and most of all changes to your lifestyle you can live a diabetes free life.

Remember, if you feel that you are experiencing any of the signs or symptoms of pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes seek out a qualified health care provider because many people with type 2 diabetes lead active productive lives without the need of medication when you maintain an ideal weight, increase your activity, watch your diet and control blood sugar levels.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved