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The Truth About The Health of Americans Versus The New “MyPlate” Government Food Guidelines
June 7th, 2011 | 
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
I Eat Healthy — So Why Am I Sick?
Is Your Diet Making You Sick?
I have lost count of the times I hear the lament “I always eat healthy — so why am I sick”?
What is distressing is that these people really work at eating healthy, but to no avail.
They don’t drink soda. They do drink lots of water. They don’t eat cold cuts that contain nitrates or other prepared meats or foods. They eat lots of fruits and vegetables as they should and as is recommended.
You would think, as they think, that with such a healthy diet, they would be getting all the nutrients they need for a healthy life.
So why are they getting sick?
The answer is—because consuming conventional food, they are not getting the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients they think they are getting.
Their life is being sabotaged by the large conglomerate farms who are the major producers of our conventional fruits, vegetables, grains, milk and cheese.
The same is true for the factory farms that provide us with the major supply of our meat and fish.
The soil of conventional farms is depleted and has been for the last 80 years.
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Tags: chemicals, Diet, eating healthy, farming, Food, furtilizers, minerals, nutrients, nutrition, Organic, pesticides, soil, vitamins | 
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It’s Not Health Care You Need…It’s Food Care!
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. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Diet, Food, GMO, healthy eating, Organic, pesticides, toxins |
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The Tragic Joke Of Health Care Reform
Health Reform?
Health Care Reform? – If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be a joke!
What is health care reform anyway?
It would appear to me that health care reform would mean ways to keep people from getting sick. Ways to keep people healthy.
That to me is real health care reform.
Instead we have the whole country battling over drugs and medical care while every year the number of people who develop a chronic disease grows larger and larger.
What is wrong with our Presidents — past, present, and probably future?
What is wrong with our senators and members of congress? Do they all have their heads buried in the sand or is it all about greed and self-interest?
This is not a Democrat, Republican, or Independent issue— it’s about everyone!
We the people are being Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: diseases, FDA, Food, food producers, health care reform, health food, Organic, pharmaceutical companies, politics, Prevention |
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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”
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