NEWS ALERT… This from Dr. Mercola “The FDA has issued a proposed mandate that represents the greatest threat to dietary supplements since 1994. Back in the early 1990s, consumers were so alarmed by FDA bullying that they staged a massive revolt. The result was that Congress passed a law prohibiting the FDA from banning popular nutrients (as the agency had threatened to do).”

However, things about to chance if you don’t act now!

Click here to view the embedded video.

The FDA’s new Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients threatens to remove some of your most commonly used supplements from the market.

Manufacturers of supplements will be forced to conduct expensive safety studies using absurdly high doses, which will force many out of business—effectively eliminating competition to high-priced pharmaceuticals.

The FDA guidelines have modeled the outrageous safety thresholds after those in place for food additives, which is in direct violation of DSHEA, which classifies dietary supplements as foods, not food additives, in order to protect consumer access to dietary supplements.

Defend your right to continue using supplements by taking action now!

If you live in the US and want to contact your member of Congress and send them your comments please click here for easy-to-use information to help make your voice be heard.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2011 – 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.

New USDA MyPlate Food Guidelines Image

The new federal government’s evidence-based nutritional guidance to promote health, reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity through improved nutrition and physical activity is a giant step forward with the new MyPlate from the Food Pyramid it has been promoting for the last five years which has been responsible for too much of the obesity and disease in our children and adults alike.

This shift has come about thanks to such organizations as Organic Consumers Organization, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the Environmental Working Group, all in spite of the vast multi-million dollar lobbying campaign to protect the Food Pyramid by major food processing corporations.

Our government was forced to face the fact that more than one-third of children and more than two-thirds of adults in the United States were overweight or obese, and that we are the sickliest developed country in the world!

As a result, the 7th edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans places stronger emphasis on reducing calorie consumption, placing a heavier emphasis on vegetables and fruits, and increasing physical activity. The new guidelines promote a shift in food intake patterns to a more plant-based diet that emphasizes vegetables, cooked dry beans and peas, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, seafood, fat-free and low-fat milk and milk products, and only moderate amounts of lean meats, poultry, and eggs.

Although our government has made a giant leap in admitting that obesity and disease are food based, it still bends to the will of the food processing and corporate farm industries.  Both the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the Dept. of Health and Human Services, who jointly approved the new food guidelines, tell you, as a concession to the food processing industry, to minimize your intake of trans-fats instead of telling you never to eat any trans-fats.  For good health, there can be no allowable level; trans-fats should be banned here as it is in other countries.

The government conveniently says nothing about the thousands of chemical additives and synthetic food coloring they allow food processors to use without having to list these additives on their labels. Many of these additives unfortunately are carcinogenic and/or promote obesity and poor health.

In addition, our government speaks nothing about the highly carcinogenic chemical pesticides and herbicides being used on the crops grown by the large corporate farms and sold in your local food market. (That is why we tell you to eat as much organic as you can.)

The following is a statement from our Secretary of Agriculture:

“The 2010 Dietary Guidelines are being released at a time when the majority of adults and one in three children are overweight or obese and this is a crisis we can no longer ignore,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a statement released with the new guidelines. “These new and improved dietary recommendations give individuals the information to make thoughtful choices of healthier foods in the right portions and to complement those choices with physical activity. The bottom line is that most Americans need to trim our waistlines to reduce the risk of developing diet-related chronic disease. Improving our eating habits is not only good for every individual and family, but also for our country.”

The new guidelines include 23 specific recommendations for the general population and six recommendations for specific groups such as pregnant women.

Among the recommendations are:

• No one should consume more than 2,300 milligrams of salt per day. Those who are age 51 or older and those who are African American or have high blood pressure, diabetes or chronic kidney disease should consume no more than 1,500 milligrams per day. This second group accounts for about half the U.S. population.
• Everyone should consume less than 10 percent of their calories from saturated fats by replacing them with monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.
• Everyone should consume less than 300 milligrams of cholesterol each day.
• Minimize trans fatty acid consumption by limiting foods that contain synthetic trans fats, such as partially hydrogenated oils.
• Reduce calories from solid fats and sugars added to food.
• Alcohol should be consumed only in moderation, which means up to one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men.
• Eat more fruits and vegetables. A good rule of thumb is that half the food on your plate should be fruits and vegetables.
• Consume more fat-free or low-fat milk and milk products, such as yogurt and cheese.
• Consume more seafood and replace some meat and poultry with seafood. Breastfeeding women should consume 8 to 12 ounces of seafood per week from a variety of seafood types. But breast-feeding women should limit their intake of white tuna to 6 ounces per week because of its high mercury content and not eat tilefish, shark, swordfish and king mackerel at all for the same reason.

“Helping Americans incorporate these guidelines into their everyday lives is important to improving the overall health of the American people,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a written statement. “The new Dietary Guidelines provide concrete action steps to help people live healthier, more physically active and longer lives.”

It is sad to think that the above guidelines have taken many months of work, millions of dollars, and hundreds of hours, and we still do not have a food program from our government that will truly insure your total health program.

Actually, the guidelines to good health are very simple.

• Eat as much organic as you can.
• Do not eat any processed food.
• Never eat the food in fast food restaurants.
• Minimize your intake of sugar and never eat artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup or syrups high in fructose such as agave syrup.
• Drink lots of filtered plain water.  Say no to soda or power drinks.  Drink no bottled “supposedly better” water unless nothing else is available.  Bottled water packaged in plastic bottles are generally unhealthy to drink.  You are better off with filtered tap water.
• Do not eat anything white.  No white flower, white pasta nor white rice.
• Eat whole grain bread, pasta, and brown rice.
• Do not eat farmed fish such as Atlantic salmon for example.  Eat wild fish.
• Eat lots of mixed greens.  About 70% of your diet should be raw.
• Eat grass fed beef whenever possible, free range chicken and eggs.
• Cooked vegetables should be steamed and no longer than 4 to 5 minutes or you destroy their enzymes.
• Eat beans (soak them overnight and they will be less gassy) peas and raw nuts.
• Eat lots of raw fruit.  Mostly organic if possible.
• Buckwheat pancakes are a good treat and so is steel cut oats for oatmeal.
• Packaged ready-to-eat cereals are a no-no.  They are bad foods!
• Drinking a cup or two of coffee is ok.  Work to get organic fair traded coffee.
• Having an alcoholic drink is ok, but no more than 2 for men or one for women in any single day.

With today’s food supply, getting the full spectrum of vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, phytochemicals, and fatty acids is almost impossible, and in many areas around the country, totally impossible.  That is why we are now distributing reasonably priced organic SweetWheat® to fill in that deep hole of nutrient deficiency.

SweetWheat® will give you all 105 vitamins and minerals known to man, and an abundance of phytonutrients and amino acids.  People allergic to wheat can eat Sweet Wheat as it contains no glutton.

Go to our web site at www.GoodHealthSupplements.com for more information and to purchase and give yourself a real health and energy boost!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2011 – 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.

Not all Sweetners are Sweet!

Consider the meaning of the term “degenerative disease”.

The body is breaking down, degenerating and consequently malfunctioning and falling apart.

When something is malfunctioning and falling apart, common sense would dictate the first place to look.

Look to the materials from which it is made.  If the materials from which something is built or made —- including living systems —- is of poor quality, there should be no surprise that malfunction and breakdown —- degeneration —- results.

Poor quality includes refined and junk food —- the wrong type of supplements made with synthetic cheap imitation vitamins and inorganic minerals, food that contains insufficient nutrients, toxic bleach, food additives, pesticides, preservatives, trans-fats, etc.

Regrettably, this entire line of healthy thinking is completely ignored, actively resisted, and even ridiculed by conventional health care providers.

Example:  New News of Splenda® Reveals Shocking Information About Potential Human Effects.

Jim Taylor, the chairman of the national consumer education group, “Citizens for Health”, has expressed shock and outrage over the harm being done to humans after he read a news report from scientists outlining the dangers of the artificial sweetener Splenda® (sucraluse).

In animals examined for the study, Splenda® reduced the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to the increase in body weight, and affected P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected.

The P-gp affect could result in medications used in chemotherapy, Aids treatment, and treatments for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines, rather than being absorbed by the body.

According to Taylor, the report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda®, and its key component sucralose, pose a threat to people who use this product.

“Hundreds of consumers have complained to us about side effects from using Splenda®” he said, “and this study confirms that the chemicals in the little yellow package should carry a big red warning label.” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A 2008;71(21):1415-29

I did a quick Internet search for Splenda® to see if I could find any other recent studies.  What came up was a recent study from Duke university involving Splenda® fed to rats (which typically respond to a lot of foods the same way humans do):

“Splenda® is comprised of the high-potency artificial sweetener sucralose (1.1%) and the fillers maltodextrin and glucose.  Splenda® was administered by oral gavage at 100, 300, 500, or 1000 mg/kg to male Sprague-Dawley rats for 12 weeks during which fecal samples were collected weekly for bacterial analysis and measurement of fecal pH.

After 12 weeks, half of the animals from each treatment group were sacrificed to determine the intestinal expression of the membrane efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) and the cytochrome P-450 (CYP) metabolism system by Western blot. The remaining animals were allowed to recover for an additional 12 weeks, and further assessments of fecal microflora, fecal pH, and expression of P-gp and CYP were determined.

At the end of the 12 week treatment period, the numbers of total anaerobes, bifidobacteria, lactobacilli, Bacteroides, clostridia, and total aerobic bacteria were significantly decreased; however, there was no significant treatment effect on enterobacteria. Splenda also increased fecal pH and enhanced the expression of P-gp by 2.43-fold, CYP3A4 by 2.51-fold, and CYP2D1 by 3.49-fold.

Following the 12 week recovery period, only the total anaerobes and bifidobacteria remained significantly depressed, whereas pH values, P-gp, and CYP3A4 and CYP2D1 remained elevated.”

The report concludes with a summary indicating how the rats responded to typical dosages of Splenda®:

“These changes occurred at Splenda® dosages that contained sucralose at 1.1-11 mg/kg (the US FDA Acceptable Daily Intake for sucralose is a lot higher, 5 mg/kg). Evidence indicates that a 12 week administration of Splenda exerted numerous adverse effects, including (1) reduction in beneficial fecal microflora, (2) increased fecal pH, and (3) enhanced expression levels of P-gp, CYP3A4, and CYP2D1, which are known to limit the bioavailability of orally administered drugs.”

OK.  So I gave you a lot of chemical mumbo-jumbo and what it boils down to is this: Stay away from chemical sweeteners, additives and cheap synthetic vitamins. They are not the strong building blocks that build strong bodies and minds. They are the blocks that cause your body to slowly degenerate and fall apart.

It doesn’t matter what you are building — your body, a house, an appliance, an automobile, or a garment.  When you use the wrong kind or poor quality raw materials, it may seem cheap initially, but in the end, you will pay a terrible price.

If you want to achieve long, lasting quality good health and long life, you need to begin with good quality raw material.

Eat healthy.  It is cheaper in the long run.  I know.  I’m 87 and going strong!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2011 – 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.

Splenda® is registered trademark of McNeil Nutritionals, LLC,

Coumadin Sample WARNING!

WARNING!

If you are taking Coumadin, or know anyone taking Coumadin, it is imperative that you and they read this warning!

Bristol-Myers Squibb has made a grievous error in free sample packets of Coumadin they had manufactured.

If you have recently received a free sample pack of Coumadin from your doctor, DO NOT USE IT!

An alert has been just issued by the FDA for an urgent recall for the 1mg strength Coumadin sample packs because taking them could put you in dire straits.

The recall was initiated by Bristol-Myers Squibb when they realized that a key ingredient that activates the Coumadin was not working properly, which could make your medication extremely dangerous, if not deadly.

The unsafe sample packs are from lot numbers:

Lot# 9A48931A, 9A48931B, 9A48931C, all with expiration dates of January 2012.

Please pass this warning on to anyone you know is on heart medication.

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.

Malaria drug quinine (Qualaquin) for nocturnal leg cramps? Check again!

July 8, 2010 ­ Physicians should not prescribe the malaria drug quinine (Qualaquin) for nocturnal leg cramps ­ an off-label use ­ because it may result in serious and life-threatening hematologic adverse effects, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today.

Quinine, marketed by AR Scientific, is approved only for uncomplicated malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, according to the agency.

The FDA issued a similar warning in 2006, but the agency noted today that the majority of quinine used in the United States is still for the prevention or treatment of leg cramps.

Quinine therapy may result in thrombocytopenia, which can cause serious bleeding, or hemolytic-uremic syndrome/thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, which may lead to permanent kidney damage. The FDA said that it received 38 reports of serious adverse events associated with quinine between April 2005 and October 1, 2008, in the United States through its Adverse Event Reporting System. Only 1 patient was taking quinine to treat malaria. Two patients died.

Under a risk management plan approved by the agency, the drug’s manufacturer will issue a letter to prescribers warning of the risk for hematologic reactions to the drug. In addition, patients must be given a medication guide explaining what quinine is and is not approved for, and its potential adverse effects.

To report any adverse events related to quinine, contact MedWatch, the FDA’s safety information and adverse event reporting program, by telephone at 1-800-FDA-1088, by fax at 1-800-FDA-0178, online at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch, or by mail to MedWatch, FDA, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20852-9787.

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

Flu Fighting Liquid Vitamin D-3?

The swine flu news is everywhere and to bring you a healthy perspective this article will clarify what researchers are getting very excited about in fighting the flu with a unique vitamin, plus, I have a major announcement at the end of this article.

So here’s the story…and more!

Influenza broke out at Atascadero State Hospital, CA, with the exception of the ward run by Dr. John Cannell.

Even though the flu jumped from ward to ward all around them, none of the patients in his ward became infected.

Strange indeed.

After much investigation, it was determined that the only difference between the wards was that the patients in Dr. Cannell’s ward had been getting 2,000 iu of Vitamin D every day for months.

Recent scientific studies have proven that vitamin D increases the body’s production of broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides, peptides that quickly destroy the influenza virus while simultaneously preventing the immune system from releasing too many inflammatory cells called chemokines and cytokines into infected lung tissue.

An excess of inflammatory cells would otherwise damage the lungs.

The detrimental effects of excess inflammatory cells was proven in 1918 when medical scientists did autopsies on some of the fifty million people who died during the 1918 flu pandemic.

They were amazed to find destroyed respiratory tracts; sometimes these inflammatory cytokines had triggered the complete destruction of the normal epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract.

It was as if the flu victims had been attacked and killed by their own immune systems.

Severe Inflammatory Reaction That Vitamin D Has Recently Been Found to Prevent

The Public Health Agency of Canada has been so impressed with these findings, it is recruiting participants for a large-scale clinical trial to see if vitamin D will effectively protect against the swine flu.

The agency is basing its study on a large body of evidence that shows vitamin D reduces the risk of upper respiratory infections, especially in the summer when people have adequate levels from the sun.

It should also be noted that in countries where there is year round exposure to the sun, there are little or no upper respiratory infections.

Taking note of all the evidence, Canada is pursuing a common-sense healthy solution that could protect people from the swine flu altogether or dramatically reduce its severity — without any long-term side effects.

Doesn’t that sound like something US lawmakers can learn from?

Unfortunately we are not that blessed.

Law Suit Filed Against the U.S. Government To Stop Swine Flu Vaccines

Our government bureaucrats in Washington have ignored these proven findings and can’t move fast enough to get the swine flu vaccine to market — even though it means bypassing the clinical trial that would determine whether  there are serious long-term side effects from the vaccine itself.

Fortunately there are organizations and people who are willing to take action to fight for our rights and have filed a suit seeking an immediate injunction against the government to prevent the distribution of these four untested swine flu vaccines.

The following are URLs that describe these law suits and also a plea that you pass this on to as many people as you can.

Make as much noise as you can by calling, emailing, or faxing your government representatives to stop this insane action by the government that could results in untold deaths or brain damage:

Link to Complaint: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=3619

Link to Brief: 
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=3624

Read more: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3617

Squalene: Be Very Afraid I: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3582
Squalene: Be Very Afraid II: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3592

Flu Prevention Questions You Should Be Asking

1. Why the flu predictably occurs in the months following the winter solstice, when vitamin D levels are at their lowest,
2. Why it disappears in the months following the summer solstice,
3. Why influenza is more common in the tropics during the rainy season,
4. Why the cold and rainy weather associated with El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which drives people indoors and lowers vitamin D blood levels, is associated with influenza,
5. Why the incidence of influenza is inversely correlated with outdoor temperatures,
6. Why children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get colds,
7. Why cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections,
8. Why Russian scientists found that vitamin D-producing UVB lamps reduced colds and flu in schoolchildren and factory workers,
9. Why Russian scientists found that volunteers, deliberately infected with a weakened flu virus – first in the summer and then again in the winter – show significantly different clinical courses in the different seasons,
10. Why the elderly who live in countries with high vitamin D consumption, like Norway, are less likely to die in the winter,
11. Why children with vitamin D deficiency and rickets suffer from frequent respiratory infections,
12. Why an observant physician (Rehman), who gave high doses of vitamin D to children who were constantly sick from colds and the flu, found the treated children were suddenly free from infection,
13. Why the elderly are so much more likely to die from heart attacks in the winter rather than in the summer,
14. Why African Americans, with their low vitamin D blood levels, are more likely to die from influenza and pneumonia than Whites are.

Liquid Vitamin D-3 Available Soon From Good Health Supplements

More and more doctors, heath workers, and nutritionist, are refusing to take these vaccines, and are advising others not to take them either.

I and my family will not take flu shots.  They are obviously too dangerous.

We take large doses (10,000 iu) of liquid vitamin D-3 to protect ourselves.

Why vitamin D-3?

Because your body gets vitamin D from the sun and converts it into D-3. As a supplement, we take D-3.

If you are taking a supplement, read the label.  If it says vitamin D-2, do not take it. They are a cheap form of vitamin D and are ineffectual.

Because of its importance, within the next several weeks we will be adding a more effective form of liquid vitamin D-3 to our Good Health Supplements product line.

Our D-3 will be embedded with energy enhancing scalar waves to further increase its effectiveness.

To help determine the size of our first batch, we are taking pre-order requests now.

Orders will be shipped first in, first out.  Shipping date will be announced within the next three-four weeks.

Protect yourself — protect you family —- put your name on the order list.

A month’s supply is $32.50 plus S&H.

Simply go to the Good Health Supplments contact us form and submit your request, with your contact details, to be added to the list for order notification.

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There is no reason for you or your family to expose yourselves to the ravages of the swine flu and possible death when the threat can be easily avoided.

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Remember what Hypocrites said — “Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure your patient with food.”

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – 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.

Flu Shot Dangers?

I received this URGENT e-mail from the Natural Solutions Foundation regarding forced vaccinations!

Please read every word and then forward this post to your family and friends as soon as possible.

Now is the time to take action before it’s too late!

There are several links to articles within the text below which will provide you with detailed information.

Remember…knowledge is power. Regards, Ira.

—- Natural Solutions Foundation E-mail Alert —-

The Voice of Global Health Freedom™
News, Alerts, and More Health Freedom Information
Action Items You Must Take to Protect Your Health Freedom
September 28, 2009

The latest on tomorrow’s NY Vaccin Choice Rally
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3605

The “GREAT CULLING”
Set to Begin:

1-2 Swine Flu Sucker Punch:

1. “Live Virus” Nasal Vaccine Starts Pandemic

2. Forced Squalene-Adjuvanted Vaccines End
Reproductive Capacity, Sicken, May Kill 90%
of Population

Special Message from General Bert:

Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.) Natural Solutions Foundation President

Dear Health Freedom Lover,

Natural Solutions Foundation has never had a more urgent message for you.

Forced Vaccination – of any type – is a disease of the Body Politic.  Swine Flu Vaccination is a lethal one.

The H1N1 Swine Flu vaccines have been specifically prepared to cause wide-spread infertility and profound illness: You need to know this information AND you need to become a health advocate for yourself and your community NOW.  We have little time.

Let’s begin with the basics:

Sucker Punch 1:

Create the Pandemic

1.  The first type of vaccine “ready|” for distribution is a Live Attenuated Influenza Virus (LAIV) vaccine. administered by the nasal route.   LAIVs are particularly dangerous both to the person who takes them AND to those around them.  These vaccines cause people to shed the virus to others and infect them.  The virus is then able to reassort or mutate as the infected persons (who may be too young to have any idea what is happening) go about spreading the virus into a varied community of friends, neighbors, family members, playmates, people on the subway, anyone.

People like young children, pregnant mothers, people on immunosuppressive drugs and others are told that they should avoid the live virus, yet it will be disseminated into those very populations with no controls or protections since pregnant women, children, First Responders, health care professionals and people with chronic diseases will receive this “first wave” of LAIVs.

What does that mean in detail? Please click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3582, to read more.

Sucker Punch 2:

Cull the Population While You Kill the Next Generation

2. In addition to what we already know about the squalene adjuvant and its ability to cripple and kill through powerful auto immune mechanismswhen injected, there is another, deeply shocking reason that the amount of squalene and squalene derivitives (called MF59, AS01, AS02, AS03, AS04, MLP, etc.) to be used in the coming mass vaccination is so insanely high when just a few molecules in the injection can wreak lifeling havoc.

A patent was filed in 1998 for a vaccine which causes permanent infertility when injected.  When combined, the materials which cause sterility are a highly active immune irritant (an adjuvant) like squalene in very high doses and a porcine (pig) glycoprotein.  Put them together in an injection and not only do you have auto immune consequences like death, or for those who do not die, crippling rheumatoid arthritis, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, destruction of the muscles, diabetes, disabling rashes, mental and neurological problems a-plenty, but you have a population of infertile men women and children.

Click here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3592, to read more.

DISINFORMATION NOTE:

We are living through an information war, as well as a war to exterminate us.  The Natural Solutions Foundation did not run the following story because we could not substantiate it and because the details did not hold together.  We cannot promise that we will never make a mistake, but we can promise that we research what we tell you very, very carefully and you can rely on us for that.

Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the sailors on a US Navy ship who became terribly ill and, in some cases, died, after being injected with the Swine Flu Vaccine in April.  It isn’t true.  In fact, it is a hoax.

Much of the wording of the story being circulated now as if it is current news (starting on September 24th) was stolen verbatim from a true CBS news story dated July 21st. The base true story was radically altered, with dramatic fictional elements added, and “rebranded” to make it appear it’s happening now. It isn’t.  Here’s the link to the widely circulated, but false story:

Navy ship docking in CA with onboard fatalities
http://fluboard.rhizalabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1486&start=26

Push Back IS Working But We Are Far From Safe Yet

Together we have created a massive Push Back and, as a result, the official positions are changing.

Fifteen months ago (July 24, 25, 2008) HHS and DHS announced in identical statements that every man, woman and child in the US would be vaccinated, “starting with those who want it”.

Today, Obama, Sebelius, Nepolitano and others say “vaccination will be voluntary”.  Of course, they have defined “Voluntary” to mean “Mandatory”, but we have them on the run.

More than 50% of NYS health care workers do not want the Swine Flu shot!  NY nurses are already being fired for refusing the seasonal flu vaccines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUe5acT1Ufs

After the Governor of New York issued his mandate for mandatory health care worker vacciations, we created such an uproar that today, Monday, September 28, the NY Secretary of Health is going to give an address “to calm the waters”, on the day before our rally in the State Capital, Albany.

State Capitol Building, South Capitol Lawn, 10:00 AM Tuesday,
September 29th.

For more information on the rally, click here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3568

More than 2.25 Million Emails are on the desks of State and Federal Legislators telling them we will NOT be forced to take the Swine Flu vaccine or face incarceration/quarantine.

What can you, personally, do to increase that number?

Use this Action Item to alert and motivate everyone you can reach

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

Ask each person to fill it out once for each member of their household and pass it on as widely as possible. Share this Health Freedom Action eAlert with them.

Stop the Shot Legal Action

Natural Solutions Foundation has joined with Drs. Gary Null and Ted Koren to expose the rampant illegality of FDA’s licensing of 4 vaccines for which no safety testing has been conducted AND the use of the LAIV nasal vaccine to create the pandemic.  The papers will be submitted this week (as our research uncovered more and more that made the case stronger, we revised and perfected the papers multiple times – they will be entered this week and we will publish the brief.)

Some people have asked why we are only seeking to delay the vaccines.  The reason is that the law is narrowly focused: we have carefully selected the strongest LEGAL argument to stop the deadly juggernaught which is rolling towards us.  Following that victory (and, if the Court is honest, we can expect to win our stay) we will focus on stopping the pandemic vaccines all together.  In a war you exploit winning strategies, taking every advantage you can find, take or make.  In the aggregate, the name for that is “Victory”.

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It's Food Care!

It is a given that all life begins at the cellular level.

It is also a given that for your cells to function as healthy cells, they must have the energy level they were designed for, 70 to 90 millivolts.

At that level your cells easily absorb nutrients, convert the nutrients into usable components the body needs, then rids itself of the resultant waste created by this conversion process.

Energy also allows your cells to rid themselves of the toxins they absorb from the nutrients (food) you feed them.

When the nutrients you feed your cells contain high levels of toxins, as do most packaged and conventional foods available to us today, the cell’s energy becomes overtaxed, dissipated, and unable to rid themselves of all the toxins.

This condition causes a lowering of the cells millivolt energy level. This results in cellular dysfunction, inflammation, and the beginnings of disease.

Example: Cancer cells have a measurable energy level of 15 to 20 millivolts.

The purer our food, the fewer toxins our cells have to deal with.  This minimizes cellular stress, and optimizes cellular health.

Healthy cells easily perform the functions they were designed for and quickly rid the body of waste and toxins.

Conventional foods sprayed with herbicides and pesticides cause toxic build-up in our cells.  Toxins are poisons that interfere with the normal function of providing nutrients to the body.

The greater the toxic build-up, the fewer the nutrients the cells can provide.

It stands to reason then, if we don’t get the nutrients we need from our cells, our bodies cannot function in the healthy manner for which they were designed.

Our bodies will break down in one way or another and, over time, will develop some form of degenerative disease.

It’s really that simple.

Cells are not something people think about in their relationship to their bodies. Cells exist, and people take them for granted.

When was the last time you had a conversation with anybody about your cells?

The result is, people don’t understand their cells needs or workings.

Let me emphasize, your cells are where life begins.

Cells make tissues. Tissues make organs. Organs make systems. If you want to be healthy all your life, you had better pay attention your cells.

Your cells need you to ingest good food so it can get good nutrition.

Your cells cannot convert toxins into anything useful.  They cannot convert toxins into the energy needed to function.

Worse — toxins absorb energy leaving little left for nutrient conversion.

With that said, let me tell you that we live in a country that promotes and supports a basic food supply  loaded with toxins.

And what’s even more frightening, companies like Monsanto, with the blessing and support of our government, are increasing their influence and are succeeding in crowding out healthy food and filling the marketplace with more and more of their Genetically Engineered “Franken foods”.

If you think our health care bill is high now, wait until you see what that bill will grow to if we allow this trend to continue.

Let’s take a look at what is happening in Argentina after 12 years of planting Monsanto’s GE soya.

Soya  is now planted in over 50% of Argentina’s farm land.

Remember these promises:

1. Monsanto GE soya will increase yields per acre versus conventional soya.

2. Use Monsanto GE soya and the farmer will need to use less herbicide.  It should also be noted that Monsanto GE soya seeds are far more expensive than conventional soya seeds.

We know that herbicides are detrimental to the health and welfare of humans, animals and fish.

We also know that these herbicides, when sprayed onto farms, don’t stay on those farms but get into our streams, rivers and lakes from run-off from those farms, or contaminate other farms and homes by the wind.

The following report is a result of an important study done in Argentina relating to the environmental damage due to the use of Monsanto’s GE soya.

I am using Argentina as an example in a country that is being destroyed by Monsanto’s GE soya and herbicide and is now waking up and starting to take back some control, versus what is happening here in the USA where Monsanto is destroying farms and farmers, and poisoning our food supply, because there is no control.

In April 2009 Andrés Carrasco, an Argentinian embryologist, gave an interview to the leading Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12, in which he described the alarming results of a research project he is leading, studying the impact of the herbicide glyphosate on the fetuses of amphibians.

Dr Carrasco, who works in the Ministry of Science’s Conicet (National Council of Scientific and Technical Investigations), said that their results suggests that the herbicide could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses.

Glyphosate is the herbicide used in the cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically modified soya which now covers some 18 million hectares, about half of Argentina’s arable land.

Carrasco said that the doses of herbicide used in their study were “much lower than the levels used in the Monsanto fumigations”. Indeed, as some weeds have become resistant to glyphosate, many farmers are greatly increasing the concentration of the herbicide.

According to Página 12, this means that, in practice, the herbicide applied in the fields is between 50 and 1,540 times stronger than that used by Carrasco.

The results in the study are confirming what peasant and indigenous communities – the people most affected by the spraying – have been denouncing for over a decade.

The study also has profound consequences for the USA’s anti-narcotics strategy in Colombia, because the planes spray glyphosate, reinforced with additional chemicals, on the coca fields (and the peasants living among them).

Three days after the interview, the Association of Environmental Lawyers filed a petition with the Argentine Supreme Court, calling for a ban on the use and sale of glyphosate until its impact on health and on the environment had been investigated.

Five days later the Ministry of Defense banned the planting of soya in its fields.

This sparked a strong reaction from the multinational biotechnology companies and their supporters.

Fearful that their most famous product, a symbol of the dominant farming model, would be banned, they mounted an unprecedented attack on Carrasco, ridiculing his research and even issuing personal threats.

He was accused of inventing his whole investigation, as his results have not yet been peer-reviewed and published in a prestigious scientific journal.

According to an article in the Argentine press, after news about the study broke, Dr. Carrasco was the victim of an act of intimidation, when four men arrived at his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine and acted extremely aggressively.

Two of the men were said to be members of an agrochemical industry body but refused to give their names. The other two claimed to be a lawyer and notary.

They apparently interrogated Dr. Carrasco and demanded to see details of the experiments. They left a card Basílico, Andrada & Santurio, attorneys on behalf of Felipe Alejandro Noël.

Carrasco was firm in his response: “When one is dealing with a subject of limited public interest, one can keep the study secret until all the last details have been resolved. But when one uncovers facts that are important for public health, one has an obligation to make an effort to publish the results urgently and with maximum publicity.”

Even so, he was clearly taken aback by the strength of the reaction. “It was a violent, disproportionate, dirty reaction”, he said. “I hadn’t even discovered anything new, only confirmed conclusions that others had reached. One has to remember, too, that the study originated in contacts with communities that have suffered the impact of agro-chemicals. They are the undeniable proof of the impact.”

He is not intimidated: “If I know something, I will not shut my mouth.”

Further: The intense application year after year of a single herbicide – glyphosate – has led to the emergence of weeds that have become resistant to this chemical.

Some of the better known of these “super-weeds”, as they are popularly called, are: Hybanthus parviflorus (Violetilla), Parietaria debilis (Yerba Fresca), Viola arvensis (Violeta Silvestre – Field pansy), Petunia axillaris (Petunia), Verbena litoralis (Verbena), Commelina erecta (Flor de Santa Lucía – Slender dayflower), Convolvulus arvensis (Correhuela – Field bindweed), Ipomoea purpurea (Bejuco – Morning glory), Iresine difusa (Iresine) and recently Sorghum halepense (Sorgo de alepo – Johnson grass), which, because it is a difficult weed to control, has caused considerable alarm among farmers.

“Super Weeds” created by ecological imbalances inherent in mono-cropping with a GM crop, long predicted by ecologists, are jeopardizing the long-term economic and environmental viability of RR soya.

But instead of rethinking the whole agricultural model and encouraging farmers to return to mixed farming, where natural balances make it far easier to control weeds, the Argentine authorities had been offering their full support to Monsanto, which is planning over the next five years to introduce a new form of GM soya.

The new soya will have a gene inserted into it which makes it resistant to dicamba, a herbicide that kills broadleaf weeds.

According to Robert Hartzler, a weed specialist at Iowa University, dicamba brings its own problems. The compound’s volatility means that it will kill off broad-leaved plants on fields and in houses up to half a kilometer away, which will undoubtedly cause yet further serious problems for the rural population.

Monsanto is confident that resistance won’t become a serious problem, but Hartzler is not so sure. “I don’t think we can say that resistance won’t develop”, says Hartzler, “but it is a much lower likelihood than with other herbicide classes. But then, that’s what they originally said about glyphosate.”

Now back to the USA.

Here’s a recent headline and introduction of a report published by our USDA:

USDA Says Biotech Is Compatible with Organic
The Unexplored Potential of Organic-Biotech Production 
Global Agricultural Information Network 
By Cyndi Barmore 
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 5/26/2009

Report Highlights:

The organic movement rejects biotechnology as inherently contradictory to its fundamental goal of promoting environmental protection in agriculture.

European organic promoters in particular stress respect for nature over yield maximization, campaigning for a return to traditional production methods and inputs. [1]

In reality, the divide between organics and biotechnology is an artificial construction maintained by ideology rather than science.

A governmental decision to change organic regulations to permit the use of biotechnology could have far-reaching policy implications for global agriculture.

Allowing producers to gain organic certification for biotech crops could encourage the development of a new type of environmentally sustainable agricultural production with greater benefits for the consumer.

The following is a response to this report by the USDA from Organic Consumer Association.

OCA Editor’s Note: This USDA report attempting to make the case for ‘organic genetically engineering’ is part of a well-funded campaign coordinated by Monsanto and their governmental, corporate, and non-profit partners to legitimize a dangerous and untested technology.

This is a campaign to impoverish farmers by making them dependent on expensive genetically modified seeds and the array of chemicals needed to grow them. It is also making guinea pigs of consumers who are being force-fed unlabeled genetically modified foods.

There are several important reports that rebut the USDA’s specious claims of the benefits of genetic engineering, including: Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2009 www.ucsusa.org click on Food & Agriculture then Failure to Yield [A must read]) and Who Benefits from GM Crops? Genetically Modified Crops Increase Pesticide Use and Fail to Alleviate Poverty (Friends of the Earth International and Center for Food Safety, 2008 www.centerforfoodsafety.org [A must read]) Learn about the World According to Monsanto.

With the battle to save our farms and food supply ongoing, I am now happy to report that thanks to the efforts of the Union of Concerned Scientists and OCA, (August 29, 2009), the USDA has pulled their pro-GMO report from their Web site after receiving thousands of letters from organic consumers.

This is another example of the power the public has when they join together and speak up.

If we are to survive as a healthy human race we need to understand the peril we are in and know we can survive if we keep in mind the needs of our cells.

Think about the need of your cells every time you put food in your mouth.

The huge corporations poisoning our food supply are all about money.

Take away their money and you take away their power and we can get back to wholesome food and the healthy nutrients needed to feed our cells.

We need to eat organic.

We need to boycott such food giants like Kellogs who have switched to genetically engineered sugar.

Whole Foods Markets who are offering “Natural” foods that are nothing more than conventional foods at higher prices.

Hamburger fast food chains buy the cheapest, lowest grade beef out of feed lots steeped in filth.

National brand chicken and pork come from factory farms loaded with hormones and anti-biotics.

The same is true for milk and butter that is not organic.

Boycott soy bean oil because it is processed with the poisonous solvent, hexane.

Refined vegetable oils and hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are trans-fats that are just short of plastic.

Canola oil which is genetically engineered and loaded with omega 6 which is detrimental to heart health.

Sodas, power drinks and especially diet sodas are especially bad for you.

Bleached white and enriched white flour in any form should not appear in your diet.

Processed foods are your cell’s enemy.

Eat at least 60% raw foods. Eat wild fish, not farmed.

Grass fed beef, not grain fed, wherever possible.  The difference in taste is as significant as the benefit to your body.

Do you use a deodorant?  If you do because you need to, then know that your body has an abundance of toxins.

People with a low level of toxins in their bodies do not develop body odor.

Take care of your cells and you can guarantee yourself a healthy, robust and long life.

And before I forget, here’s a message from my trainer…

“If you don’t exercise, your life will not be as robust or long lasting.”

To your cells!  May they forever be brimming with energy.  The rest will take care of itself!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – 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.