Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So there's no need to use pesticides and, in fact, this aloe from GCW is certified pesticide-free. But it's not certified organic. In my view, there's no need to certify it as organic because I'm quite familiar with the process of growing aloe vera (I grow it myself), and believe me, you don't need to spray it with anything at all.
(Even the local Javelina don't eat aloe, and they're hungry little monsters who will eat practically anything. Once I tossed the rind of a canteloupe in my back yard, and a group of javelina came along and ate the whole thing. |
Michael Pollan
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 In the years immediately after the war, industrial agriculture (which benefited from the peacetime conversion of munitions to chemical fertilizer and nerve gas research to pesticides) also consolidated its position; there would soon be no other kind. Weston Price and his fellow students of the Western diseases were largely forgotten. No one was much interested in looking back or celebrating the wisdom of primitive groups that were themselves quickly disappearing or being assimilated; even the Aborigines were moving to the city. |
Bill Sardi
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 On the one hand, women, fearful they will develop breast cancer as their family members have, take precautions not to be exposed to xenoestrogens (man-made chemicals that mimic estrogen), avoid hormone replacement drugs, pesticides, smoking, underarm deodorants, and alcohol, and then walk right into a clinic on an annual basis and expose their breasts to the physical trauma and ionizing x-ray radiation that is called a mammogram, unwittingly increasing their risk for breast cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I know it's more expensive than conventional fruit, but if you're trying to get the chemicals OUT of your body during the flush, it makes no sense to put more chemicals IN your body by eating pesticides. Flush with certified organic fruits only! |
Bill Sardi
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| Is it pesticides, industrial chemicals, electromagnetic fields, acidity, germs, oxygen free radicals, hormones, or all of these?
An argument can be made for all of the above causes. But the pervasive factor involved in the vast majority of cancer is aging.
No matter how efficient we may become at delivering health care, we must also seek to reduce demand by keeping people from developing diseases in the first place. |
| Regardless of what you may have read elsewhere, cancer is a disease of aging, not primarily caused by environmental toxins such as pesticides or industrial chemicals, which may be cancer causing agents (carcinogens), but do not significantly contribute to cancer mortality rates. This is often difficult for cancer patients to comprehend. Carcinogens are tested in lab dishes, or administered to animals in unnaturally high doses. The human body has defenses against carcinogens. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Other sources of free radicals and other oxidative stresses include environmental factors such as pollution, hard radiation, cigarette smoke, and certain pesticides.
Two molecules share electrons in q a stable carbon- The stable compound is broken by a
¦ carbon bond free radical into one stable molecule and a new free radical molecule.
This starts a chain reaction that can be stopped by an antioxidant such as vitamin C
Carbon
Figure 2-3 Free radicals in action.
To neutralize a free radical, vitamin C can donate two hydrogen atoms, thus becoming dehydroascorbic acid. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 How do you decide what's better: A conventional apple grown locally with chemical pesticides, or an organic apple from another continent?
This is a common conundrum among consumers: How do you decide which grocery products are best for not just your own personal health, but also the health of the planet? It's a more complex decision than it might first seem. For one thing, much of the information necessary to make an informed decision simply isn't available to consumers. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Vitamin contents fluctuate greatly with the size of the fruits, their maturity, the condition of the soil, country of origin, time of harvesting, and the use of pesticides. How many of the vitamins contained in these foods actually end up in our blood depends on our digestive ability and body type. In other words, the amount of any vitamin you take is not necessarily the amount that your body ends up absorbing and ultimately putting to use. Complicating the absorption issue is the fact that your body's ability to absorb nutrients is not necessarily the same from one day to the next. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If they're buying food or beverages under the same roof as a store that sells garden pesticides, toxic air fresheners, chemical-soaked dryer sheets or other products containing dangerous chemicals, then they're buying chemically contaminated food!
It's yet another reason to buy from local farmers' markets or co-op stores. Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. |
| It's another reason to stop shopping at retailers that sell pesticides, toxic soaps, laundry products, solvents and cleaners. Get your food from a FOOD store, and make sure it's real food (not that processed garbage).
By the way, you can read the original NRDC press release at: http://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070919. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are likely pesticide residues in the non-organic juice products. pesticides aren't listed on the ingredients label, but they're nonetheless present. However, the benefits of consuming these superfruits far outweighs the health effects of trace pesticide consumption, in my opinion, so from a personal perspective, you're still protecting your health with these juice products even if you consume some pesticide residues. For the record, I do not support pesticide use in agriculture and I believe that consumers should buy organic products whenever possible.
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Ray D. Strand
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 Whenever possible, choose to take action in decreasing your exposure to cancer-causing agents such as radiation, pesticides, herbicides, asbestos, charcoal, soot, and so on by purging them from your home environment.
A principle you will learn to appreciate is that if we reduce our exposure to all of these carcinogens, we will produce fewer free radicals for our body to fight. For example, it's difficult for me to recommend eating a healthy diet supplemented with nutritional medicine to a patient who is smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Traditionally, organic has always meant that you raise crops without chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers and that you raise animals without drugging them up with hormones or antibiotics. You cannot take sewage sludge and put it on farmlands. You cannot feed animals things like blood, slaughterhouse waste, manure and municipal garbage, and you cannot use untested and hazardous technologies like genetic engineering or fruit irradiation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 After World War II, Merck also began producing pesticides and food preservatives.
5. Ritalin is "speed" for children. A chemical amphetamine, Ritalin is made of controlled substances that would land you in prison if you sold them to a kid on the street, yet the drug is currently prescribed to millions of schoolchildren in the United States to treat a "brain chemistry condition" that was invented by the drug companies.
6. In the 1930's, drug companies marketed amphetamines as over-the-counter inhaler medicines for treating nasal congestion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Although the nuts are not certified organic, the owners of the farm informed me they don't use any chemical herbicides or pesticides, and they keep the mac nut farm is a very natural state (I've visited the farm twice and saw it myself).
South Kona Macs has over 350 macadamia nut trees, and they harvest and process them in a unique way using their own special nut cracking and drying technology. It's the lowest temperature drying technology on the island, and the dried mac nuts come out as close to raw as you can possibly get in a dried mac nut. |
| Perhaps in as few as two years, you may witness a devastation of the macadamia nut industry, to be replaced by factory farms, massive use of chemical pesticides, labor violations for the workers, and everything else that goes with corporate control of the food supply.
So if you wish to support this industry, I encourage you to buy directly from these farmers. I've already recommended South Kona Macs (www.SouthKonaMacs.com), and I give their operation five stars for honesty, ethics and outstanding mac nuts. |
| If you purchase mac nuts from anybody, be sure to ask these questions:
1) Does your farm use Roundup or other chemical herbicides or pesticides? Do not purchase nuts from farms that use such chemicals.
2) What is the maximum temperature your mac nuts are exposed to during drying? (The lower the temperature, the better. Most farms dry their nuts by roasting them, which of course "cooks" the nut and destroys some of its nutritional value.)
Enjoy your mac nuts! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Nothing will cure your cancer if you keep giving yourself cancer by eating processed meats, taking pharmaceuticals, using cosmetics and personal care products with toxic chemicals, spraying pesticides on your lawn and using sunscreen. There is no therapy in the world that can compensate for all the pro-cancer things most people do to themselves. Eating processed meats with sodium nitrite is almost as bad for your health as smoking cigarettes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What they don't tell you is that these GM foods contain pesticides and their use encourages the massive dumping of herbicides on croplands by farmers. Those synthetic chemicals wash right off the farms and into the aquatic ecosystems (rivers, wetlands, oceans) where they are creating "dead zones" that can't even support aquatic life.
It's all being done for the sake of the almighty dollar. Corporations (and the governments they control) are sacrificing the very future of human civilization in order to boost next quarter's profits. |
| That many foods are genetically engineered with dangerous pesticides and foreign DNA, and there is currently no U.S. law requiring their labeling as such.
Do whatever it takes to see this documentary. Buy it, rent it, or view it online by clicking here to watch it on Google Video. Just make sure you watch this film.
It starts off looking a bit boring. But stick with it. The film picks up steam after the first ten minutes, and then it takes you on an outrageous ride that will have you gripping the edge of your seat, shaking your head in disbelief. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's why there is still no requirement to list various chemical contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and other substances that have a direct and substantial impact on the health of consumers. (For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Free radicals are found in air pollution, tobacco smoke, some foods, and pesticides. Some are produced by ultraviolet radiation; they are also manufactured during normal body processes. Chemically, free radicals have single, unshared electrons that are responsible for their high reactivity.
French paradox. The unusual phenomenon of a low rate of heart disease in a country where the typical diet is high in fat.
Gallbladder. A sac located under the liver that stores bile secreted from the liver.
Gap junction. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The authors went on to write that exposure to PPCPs, especially for aquatic organisms, may be more chronic than exposure to pesticides and other industrial chemicals "because PPCPS are constantly infused into the environment wherever humans live or visit." Daughton and Ternes warned in 1999 that prolonged exposure "could lead to cumulative, insidious, adverse impacts" that may not appear until it is too late to intervene.
80 percent of U.S. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Radiation, charcoal steaks, too much fat in our diet, saccharin, and the many other chemicals found in herbicides and pesticides are what medical literature refers to as carcinogens, or those things that increase our risk of developing cancer.
Since the first report that chimney sweeps had an increased risk of scrotal cancer because of their exposure to soot,3 we have become more and more afraid of our environment, and rightfully so. As I mentioned earlier, our bodies face exposure to far more chemicals than any previous generation's did. |
| Are they being exposed to excessive toxins like secondary cigarette smoke, herbicides, pesticides, and airborne pollutants? I encourage them to get proper rest, start to exercise regularly, and begin to eat a healthy diet. I then start them on a potent antioxidant tablet, mineral tablet, and some grape-seed extract and have them return to see me in the clinic in about four to six weeks.
Unlike alternative practitioners, I look for the root cause of the symptoms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that make crop seeds unviable, destroyed the livelihood of farmers and used every tactic they could think of -- legal threats, intimidation, bribery, monopolistic market practices and many more -- to gain monopolistic control over the global food supply.
One documentary brings you this astonishing story. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides are used in the production of most of our foods. Medical research has shown us that all of these chemicals create increased oxidative stress when we consume them. Some are more dangerous than others, but they all have potential health risks. These chemicals have allowed our food industry to produce the most abundant food supply ever known. But what is the cost to our health?
Ultraviolet Sunlight
It is a known fact that people get two-thirds of their lifetime sun exposure to their skin prior to their twentieth birthday. |
Bill Sardi
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| Drug Metabolism Review 30: 201-23, 1998]
Millions of dollars of research studies conducted over recent decades cannot correlate exposure to pesticides, microwaves, smog, or electromagnetic fields to the risk for cancer. "Unfortunately, by pushing for more study of environmental risks, the public perception of this environmental program becomes a straw man for the real issues in cancer, such as smoking, dietary habits, etc,"says Brian E. Henderson and Susan Preston-Martin, professors of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. |
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