Ann N. Martin
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 Many of the grains used in commercial pet food contain levels of herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that are cancer-causing agents. These are grains that did not pass inspection for use in human foods because of the levels of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or mycotoxins; however, they are deemed fit for use in pet foods. Little, if any, testing or research is undertaken to determine levels of these toxic substances in pet foods. |
David Steinman
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 There, these phenoxy herbicides were being sprayed to control brush, and traces had been found in the community drinking water. At the same time, childbearing women experienced unusually high miscarriage rates. The link between the herbicides and their miscarriages seemed strong, but I remembered how the attorneys for Dow used a line of questioning that made it look like anything could have caused the women's miscarriages. It was humiliating and unfair. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The most popular herbicides used with HT crops, glyphosate and glufosinate ammonium, can kill bacteria29 and might be toxic to gut bacteria. HT transgenes may therefore allow gut bacteria to survive herbicide that enters the gut from crop residues.
In fact, HT crops typically have higher levels of herbicide residues. Thus, they provide a greater threat to gut bacteria (through their residues) and a key for the bacteria's survival (through their HT transgene). It appears to be a diabolical combination, uniquely designed to promote transgene survival in the gut. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Lawn and garden pesticides and herbicides often don't stay only where they're applied; many can contaminate groundwater as well as indoor air. Organic, toxin-free products include corn gluten for lawn weed control. (Remember, weeds may cause eyesores, but they won't cause cancer.)
IN MJCTS The best air filter for your home is a high-efficiency particle air filter (HERA). Replace your air-conditioner filter yearly and clean your air ducts every three years. Partial cleaning of ducts can make your air worse, so do a good job when you attack the clumped-up material. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In April 1964, a doctor from Nevada wrote in to ask whether the fifty-eight-year-old man he had treated for acne might have contracted his skin condition as a driver of a disinfectant truck, a task that required him to handle both pesticides and herbicides. The responding consultant went through each pesticide, suggesting that theorerically rhree of them might have caused the problem, but not the weed killers. In his conclusion, he reassured, "The othet compounds noted by the inquiring physician I do not believe need be considered as possible causative agents for the acne-form lesions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By the time your children are two years old, they have half the pesticides and herbicides in their system that would be equivalent to being carcinogenic. A child who eats organic food has one-sixth the pesticides and herbicides of a child who is eating commercial food. We're doing a study about mothers' milk, and I'm not very happy about it because they are saying that it's so toxic. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 That just clicked with me because of all the stuff you read about how a lot of herbicides and pesticides mimic estrogens, and male alligators in Florida with deformed penises. ... I know it might not be scientific, but it occurred to me that it couldn't hurt if we used as much organically grown food as possible, with no pesticides and herbicides used on it. It's a little more expensive but better for our health, even if
I don't get pregnant. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Herbicides
Exposure to herbicides during the Vietnam War, especially Monsanto's defoliant Agent Orange (dioxin), may be associated with the development of diabetes. Agent Orange was sprayed on trees to reduce cover for North Vietnamese soldiers. About 2.6 million people served in Southeast Asia between 1962 and 1975. About 8% to 11% now have diabetes. Since diabetes increases with age, the percentage will undoubtedly rise. In 1991 the U.S. Congress passed the Agent Orange Act, which established a system for evaluating the effects on its soldiers. |
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. |
| No less than one thousand newfangled chemicals are introduced to our environment each year. 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? |
Ann N. Martin
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| These are grains that did not pass inspection for use in human foods because of the levels of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, or mycotoxins; however, they are deemed fit for use in pet foods. Little, if any, testing or research is undertaken to determine levels of these toxic substances in pet foods.
Additional Pet Food Ingredients
In addition to the main sources of ingredients used in commercial pet foods there are other ingredients that can be added, according to AAFCO.
Beet pulp: The dried residue from sugar beet, added for fiber, but primarily sugar. |
Ray D. Strand
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| 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. |
David R. Montgomery
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 After the Second World War, the introduction of herbicides and heavy farm machinery changed that.
The first report of soil erosion problems came after a storm on May 21, 1950, when intense rainfall carved four-inch-deep, three-foot-wide gullies into bare fields, burying sugar beet plots beneath piles of dirt and unearthed potatoes. Serious erosion in the 1960s sharply reduced the organic nitrogen content on experimental plots. By the 1980s the farm served to validate soil erosion models, as more than a dozen erosional events occurred each year, especially on the farm's steepest slopes. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| These Monsanto scientists are very knowledgeable about traditional products, like chemicals, herbicides, and pesticides," he said, "but they don't understand the possible harmful outcomes of genetic engineering."
He tried to blow the whisde. "I spoke to many Ag commissioners. I spoke to people at the University of California. I found no one who would ... even get the connection that proteins might be pathogenic, or that there might be untoward effects associated with these foreign proteins that we knew we were producing. They didn't even want to talk about it really. |
Ron Garner
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 Organic fruits and vegetables contain the most vitamins and minerals and are free of herbicides and pesticides. Raw food still has all its enzymes and is in the best form to be eaten. When we combine the two aspects, raw and organic, we have the best food we can give to our bodies. Such food is not only superior for health, it is superior in flavor.
If you think raw is boring, think again. A book by Juliano Brotman, entitled RAW: The Uncook Book, is a delight and an inspiration to read and use. |
| Garden Produce
When garden produce is grown commercially to be large-sized through the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, mineral-depleted soil, and poor quality water, it is lacking in gv and wl. Likewise, if it is harvested in its second half life cycle, it is deficient in gv and wl. The same can be said for average garden produce that reaches large sizes after months of growth.
There is a net dual benefit from growing produce with structured water where it can reach large sizes and still be in its first half life cycle, without producing seed. |
| It is generally considered that the purest colostrum comes from New Zealand, where farms are organic or near-organic, meaning cows graze on live grass in healthy pastures free of insecticides, herbicides, and antibiotics.
Colostrum was designed by nature as the first kind of food we should consume after birth. It is possibly the one supplement that can help everyone who takes it.
Flax Seeds
Flax seeds are a high quality food with many benefits. Mahatma Gandhi once stated that: "Wherever flax seed becomes a regular food item among the people, there will be better health. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| The accelerated emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds has resulted in the increased use of even more toxic varieties of herbicides.
Herbicide-tolerant crops increase herbicide use and residues in food
When herbicide tolerant (HT) GM crops came to market in 1996, the biotech industry claimed that they would need less herbicide. That was true for the first three years. The repeated use of Roundup, however, caused weeds to develop resistance to the herbicide's active ingredient glyphosate. Farmers used more Roundup or added more toxic herbicide varieties, such as Paraquat and 2,4-D. |
| Topics include the impact of toxic herbicides that are applied to herbicide tolerant crops, bioaccumulation of other toxins within GM crops, concentration of toxins in the milk or meat of animals, and the consequences if virus-resistant GM plants promote new plant viruses. it ome of the N-acetyl-KJ L-glufosinate had been converted back to the toxic form L-glufosinate in the intestine of the an imals, probably by the activity of microorganisms in the gut. ... |
Andreas Moritz
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 Improving or clearing up allergies and intolerances to foods, chemical substances, pesticides, herbicides, air pollutants, radiation, medical drugs, pharmaceutical byproducts, etc. => Balancing the psycho-emotional root causes of any chronic illness, including cancer, heart disease,
MS, diabetes, arthritis, brain disorders, depression, etc. => Resolving other difficulties or barriers in life by helping to "convert" them into the useful blessings that they really are. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Research on Roundup suggests it may be such a chemical, disrupting endocrine activity related to human sex hormone production, but more research on this and other herbicides is needed.
3. The increased use of Liberty and Roundup, due to GM crops, may expose the population through food and water to these low-dose effects.
Tiny amounts of herbicide may act as endocrine disruptors
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can have significant hormonal effects at doses far below those previously thought to be significant. |
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. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables. In addition, most people routinely use bug sprays, weed killers, and other pesticides in their homes and yards. Finally, plastic products are part of almost every person's daily life, and many of them give off xenoestrogens when heated, whether purposely in a microwave oven or accidentally in a hot car.
Petrochemicals and solvents. Many general hygiene products—such as skin cream, lotion, soap, shampoo, perfume, hair spray, and room deodorizers—contain petrochemicals. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Its unique technology removes pesticides and herbicides from the water and leaves your drinking, shower, and pool water as fresh and clean as pure mountain water. The H20 Concept 2000 uses electrical impulses to break calcium bicarbonate and magnesium bicarbonate into calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, with the byproduct being C02. The C02 is dispelled at the faucet in minuscule amounts. Calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate are the soluble forms of these two minerals. |
| As more and more foods are grown that include foreign genes to make them resistant to certain pests, pesticides, herbicides or antibiotics, the more of these gene transporters or vectors will end up lodging in our intestinal tract, infecting the bacteria in our gut. The infected gut microbes will not only become antibiotic-resistant, but resistant to any kind of treatment.
Since the U.S. |
| With soy now being an ingredient of thousands of common food products, the masses are systematically poisoned with harmful herbicides.
One of the genes used in the new soybean is derived from the petunia plant, which is a nightshade variety. This is bad news for people with nightshade-induced arthritis. Suddenly, by inadvertently eating something that contains a soy product, they may end up becoming crippled with arthritis. They may have no problem with soy as such, but soy isn't just soy anymore; it is now also a nightshade, at least on the genetic level. |
Erich Grotewold
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 GSTs are multifunctional enzymes and one of their most interesting functions is detoxification of exogenous substrates, such as herbicides, by conjugation with glutathione (Edwards et al., 2000; Dixon et al., 2002). Because the detoxification pathway for xenobiotics was presumed to be parallel to the pathway for flavonoids, the flavonoid-specific GSTs were previously believed to form flavonoid-glutathione conjugates before their vacuolar compartmentalization (Marrs et al, 1995). |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Even though the introduced disease-susceptible variety required large amounts of costly herbicides and pesticides, many farmers were lured into this enterprise by a promised price of a dollar per pound for the beans when they matured, and they borrowed heavily from the banks to cover their expenditures.
A few years later, just as the new cacao trees were ready for harvesting, the bottom dropped out of the world cacao market. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Avoid food additives, coloring agents, pesticides, and herbicides.
• Reduce salt and alcohol intake.
• Reduce or avoid almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and peanuts. and increases high-lysine foods has become quite popular. This concept arose out of two findings. First, we know that the replication of the herpes simplex virus requires the manufacture of proteins rich in arginine, and arginine itself may be a stimulator of HSV replication. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Many factors can trigger inflammation, including a proinflammatory diet, stress, environmental stressors (such as air pollution, pesticides, herbicides, etc.), weakened immune system, excess exposure to ultraviolet light, and hormonal changes. However, I believe the primary cause is diet—with stress running a close second.
Diet and Aging: The Sugar Connection
Foods that we eat can be either proinflammatory (i.e., they provoke an inflammatory response) or anti-inflammatory (i.e., they suppress the inflammatory response). |
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