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Your Choices…How YOU Can Make You Healthy!

It's Your Choice!
Most of the public never gets to hear about the many proven ways to heal ourselves because our medical profession is an antiquated dinosaur bound to drugs.
Our FDA does not, and will not, recognize “so called” alternative ways.
In fact, the FDA has made it illegal to claim that a nutritional product or alternative way can heal you. If it is not a drug approved by the FDA, your cure claims will subject you to heavy fines and or jail.
Over the past decade it has been made very clear the strong influence Big Pharma has over our FDA. Sometimes you would think they were running the FDA.
To make our health conserns even worse, our USDA, who should be insuring that we get safe, nutritional food to eat, is highly influenced by giant food processors allowing them, through over processing, to destroy much of the nutrients in the packaged food sold in our food markets.
Most all of these nutrient deficient foods also contain Read the rest of this entry »
Organic vs. Conventional Soy: Boycott Non-Organic, GMO, Hexane-Processed Soy
Many times we are asked about adding soy to the diet.
The debate has many sides to the conversation, however, there was an interesting article about non-organic soy at the Organic Consumers Association website titled Boycott Non-Organic, GMO, Hexane-Processed Soy Organic vs. Conventional Soy written by Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq., Organic Consumers Association, July 1, 2009
Here is the article for your review and if you wish to read more please select the article link title listed above.
We at the Organic Consumers Association are often asked, “Which foods should one only eat organic?” At the top of our list is soy. There are few agricultural crops more dangerous to humans and the environment than conventional soy. Non-organic soy is:
GENETICALLY MODIFIED More than 90 percent of US soy is genetically modified. While genetic engineering is widely believed to be intended to increase yields, genetically modified soybeans, the world’s most widely planted GM crop, have consistently lower yields than conventional soy.
SPRAYED WITH PESTICIDES Soy is genetically modified to withstand massive applications of Monsanto’s RoundUp pesticide. According to the Center for Food Safety, U.S. government data reveal a huge 15-fold increase in the use of glyphosate on soybeans in the U.S. from 1994 to 2005, driven by the adoption of the Roundup Ready version of the crop. Increasing weed resistance to glyphosate has led to rising use of other toxic chemicals. In the U.S., the amount of 2,4-D (a component of the Vietnam War defoliant Agent Orange) applied to soybeans more than doubled from 2002 to 2006.
PROCESSED WITH HEXANE Before being added to food, soy processors, including Archer Daniels Midland and Solae, use a toxic petroleum-derived solvent called hexane to extract the oil and protein. When hexane is released to the environment it degrades to produce greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. Hexane can cause dizziness and irritation and, with long-term exposure, nerve damage. It is regulated as a volatile organic compound, a class of compounds that contributes to smog problems. Hexane is highly flammable and a toxic hazard to workers. Hexane regularly results in explosions at soy processing plants that kill and injure workers and endanger surrounding neighborhoods. Hexane explosions have occurred at the Minnesota Soybean Processors plant (May 2009), a soybean oil factory in the Brazilian city of Formosa (March 2009), the Arkansas Riceland Foods plant (2006), the Iowa Ag Processing, Inc., plant (2003), the Canadian CanAmera Foods plant (2002), and the Indiana Central Soya plant (1994).
FUELING FACTORY FARMS Soybean husks go to factory farms to feed animals that would never eat soy in nature — or on a traditional farm, for that matter. Worldwide, 85 percent of soy is produced for animal feed, mostly for pigs and poultry.
SUBSIDIZED BY TAXPAYERS The whole process is supported by taxpayers through federal farm subsidies.
MAKING US FAT While soy still has that crunchy granola reputation for being a health food ingredient, most of the soy in the American diet is found in junk food, especially processed and fast foods made with soy lecithin and “partially hydrogenated soybean oil” (trans fat). There is hardly a deep-fat fryer or multi-ingredient processed food product in the nation that doesn’t contain soy.
In 2008, the US produced 20.8 billion pounds of soy oil.
To your good heath & longevity.
Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”
Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved
Why Is Physical Fitness Critical to Your Healthy Lifestyle?
Love it or hate it, physical activity is a critical part of a healthy lifestyle.
Although most people know this, Americans have shown little increase in activity levels in the past decade, according to recent surveys.
Talk to owners of physical fitness centers and they will site a history of people who sign up, expressing great intentions, and then a week, two, or a month later, disappear, and never come back again. End of exercise program.
Unfortunately, a life of good intensions just does not cut it.
The lack of exercise is directly related to Read the rest of this entry »
Medical Versus Alternative Breakthroughs
Researchers and scientists throughout the world are constantly working to unlock the secrets of the human body to find ways to save and prolong life — and to improve the quality of life as well.
New discoveries occur so fast, it is hard to keep up with them.
Within the medical community you will find doctors who follow a nutritional path to healing and doctors who maintain that there is no scientific evidence that alternative treatments are successful.
Unfortunately, for the public, there are more researchers and scientist working for big pharmaceutical companies than there are independent researchers.
It is clear from past and present evidence that big pharma is constantly seeking to make a quick buck which interferes with the truth. So— buyer beware!
It has been well documented by organizations such as OCA and Public Citizen that all too often medical doctors rely on what is told them by pharmaceutical reps, while others have no time to research alternatives.
That is why doctors don’t think that alternatives work.
Doctors don’t realize that Read the rest of this entry »
Are You Alkalizing Your Body?
Do you know if your body is acidic or alkaline and why one or the other can help you avoid cancer?
Learn which foods are good for you and which foods are not…you’ll be surprised.
Listen to the latest Health Matters Minutes podcast which outlines:
- four topics such as how to test your body’s pH…
- how to test for acid food tolerance…
- acidifying food and drink and…
- classifications of acid and alkaline food groups which can help to improve your total health.
Audio length 11:33.
To your good heath & longevity.
Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”
Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved
Is the pH of Your Drinking Water Healthy?
After oxygen, nothing is more important to your body’s survival than ‘healthy’ water.
But what does ‘healthy’ water mean?
Healthy water means the water has been filtered, is not carbonated, has a pH over 8, and if possible, is ionized.
Water out of our taps, as most people know, is not the purest water to drink, and many large and small corporations alike are taking advantage of that knowledge with the fear they have generated about drinking tap water.
They spend hundreds of millions of dollars yearly spewing out propaganda that your tap water is dangerous to drink. Not true. It is just as safe to drink as theirs.
Bottled water has become a multi-billion dollar business for these corporations and is probably one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.
Why? Because most of the bottled water sold is Read the rest of this entry »
Why Are Enzymes, Especially for Digestion, The Foundation for Life?
All living things contain enzymes, whether plant or animal. No enzymes — no life — plain and simple.
Practically every chemical reaction in our bodies is a result of enzymatic action. The digestion of our food is mostly dependent on enzymes.
It is not so much how healthy we eat as to how well our food is digested so that we can absorb the nutrients in the food. We can only do that when we have enough enzymes in our digestive system.
Digestion is the first step in transforming food into the living tissues of our bodies and into the fuel needed to keep those tissues functioning. It is here we need to pay particular attention.
It is impossible to be in perfect health with poor digestion.
Why? Because digestion itself refers to the breaking down of food into particles small enough to enter our cells. Absorption, an integral part of digestion, has to do Read the rest of this entry »
Why Is Omega-3s So Important to Your Brain Health?
There is a direct connection between Omega-3 essential fatty acids and the health of the brain.
Why? Because research is increasingly showing that emotional, mental and psychiatric disorders like depression, bipolar disorder and possibly schizophrenia may more likely be the result of dietary deficiencies than genetic predispositions.
The research also shows that the lack of Omega-3 fatty acids increases memory loss, makes learning new tasks more difficult, increases blue moods and probably promotes the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
The omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is a fatty acid that is found in high concentration in the gray matter of the brain and is an important ingredient for optimal brain function.
DHA is instrumental in the function of Read the rest of this entry »