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If
you are new here, then it's all new to you.
Organic Standards Under
Attack
They tried to sneak it through in
the middle of a bill no one read. We stopped them, but
the fight is not over.
Become a Health Freedom Fighter
When action is needed, you are
notified so that you can act and notify others. You
won't believe what is happening in Australia. It can't
happen here?
Full Disclosure
A lot of people
want to know where we get our funding, what we do with
it, and why it costs us anything at all to run this
operation. I'll bite. Why?
Probiotics
Yes, we covered this previously, but we've found so much
more, especially pertaining to our immune systems, that
with all this Bird Flu terror circulating, we thought
you might like to know.
This Just In:
Russia Outlaws Microwave Ovens
Someone had to do it. They're killing us slowly,
or...quickly? "I just bought a microwave fireplace.
You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight
minutes."
Steven Wright
Don't Buy the Hype
The
master of the fake newscast, fake interview, and late
night infomercial, Kevin Trudeau has a book you need!
Mary Edwards Walker, MD
The second woman to graduate
from an American medical school, and the only woman to
be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Book Reviews
We've got four darn good
books for you. One on Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids,
another on a deadly Nanobacterium, and two on that
healing food, the coconut.
Review - GasAway
Pull my finger!
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
We finally answer
one question we get all the time. What's your favorite
discovery? I have quite a few.
Omegasentials Baking Contest
We've moved the deadline and
sweetened the pot.
Avian Flu
Something old, something new,
something caught, yes, it's the flu.
Preventing the Flu
These steps should help most of us
avoid the flu, and if not, we've got ways of shortening
the duration and lessening the symptoms. And THIS
JUST IN: a report on Super Mega Doses of Vitamin C
from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.
Avian Flu Fright:
Politically Timed for Global "Iatrogenocide"
by Leonard G. Horowitz, DMD, MA,
MPH
Breakfast Cereal
Start your day with
a bowl of crud.
Anvirzel Update
One reason this newsletter is so late.
Tidbits
Many sent to us by
our readers and an update from the Organic Consumer's
Association.
Lafter is the Best
Medicine So
a monk, a pirate, and a rabbi go into a bar...

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October is National
Breast Cancer Month.
Do not be frightened
into destroying your health with a mammogram.
Mammography
Myths and Alternatives
Ultimate Immune
Everything you'll need for the cold and
flu season.
Halliburton
We didn’t get into the Fortune 500 on our good
looks.
Did You Know?
A study
out of Oxford showed an increase in brain function after
using Essential Fatty Acids: EPA, GLA, DHA. etc from fish
oil and evening primrose oil.
All the
children in the study had been diagnosed with some form of
ADD or ADHD.
Halliburton
Without the Republican Party we’d just be one more crooked
corporation.
Did You Know?
If the US could
raise fuel efficiency standards on our cars by just one mile
per gallon, we would save the amount of oil that could be
obtained from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in one
year.
Raise it by 2.7 miles per gallon and we could eliminate all
the oil imports from Iraq and Kuwait combined. If we raised
it by 7.7 miles per gallon we would eliminate 100% of Middle
Eastern oil imports.
Source:
National Resources Defense Council

Halliburton
2 Elections + 1 Vice President + 1 War + 2 Hurricanes =
Record Profits
Did You Know?
A study
out of Harvard showed that eating beans two or more times a
week reduced the risk of breast cancer.
Did You Know?
Obesity increases your
chances of chronic daily headaches.
Halliburton
With our connections, we don’t need accountants.
Did You Know?
A study
out of Tufts University showed that omega-3 Essential Fatty
Acids slow the progress of prostate cancer.
Halliburton
If you were Dick Cheney, would you have done anything
differently?
Did You Know?
Recent studies show that
compounds in chocolate retard cancer cell growth.
Ultimate Immune
Everything you'll need for the cold and
flu season.
Sedona
Labs Probiotics
at Simply the
Best



Ultimate Immune
Everything you'll need for the cold and
flu season.
Halliburton
Mr President, did you get our bid?
Hahaha.
Just kidding.
Ultimate Immune
Everything you'll need for the cold and
flu season.

Ultimate Immune
Everything you'll need for the cold and
flu season.
Did You Know?
Over the past five years,
medical costs have risen at five times the rate of inflation.
Did You Know?
High dose Vitamin C
administered intravenously has been shown to cure polio,
acute hepatitis, and Lyme disease.

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Organic
Standards Under Attack
This time they
tried to sneak it through while we weren't
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Some of you might wonder how in
the world these organic standards affect you. I
realize that many of you do not eat organic
foods. So, how does this affect you?
The history
of farming on this planet has been thus: use up
the land and then move on. This is historical
fact.
I’m not sure of the latest
figures, but while I was in college, I learned
that 192 acres a day in California turn to
desert and will not grow a thing, because of
conventional farming techniques. The Sahara
grows, last I heard, by 25,000 square miles each
year. Additionally, fifty acres a minute of
oxygen-producing plants are eaten away by some
circumstance every minute of every day. The
best figures, (gained from the Union of
Concerned Scientists, Institute of Science in
Society, and various other scientific
organizations) indicate that land degradation claims 12-17
million acres of farmland each year.
Land all
over the world turns into desert
(desertification) because we’ve overused it and
stretched its capacity to sustain life beyond
its limits.
Organic
farmers are stewards of the land. They practice
“sustainable” farming practices. For this alone,
we all must support them and support the
standards they’ve established.
Profitability
I’m sure
you’ve all noticed that organic foods are
expensive. So have the factory farms, the
agribusinesses. They want some of that profit.
Imagine them being able to create organic foods
and sell it for less. Imagine how much they’d
rake in. I purchased a red pepper the other day
that sold for over seven dollars a pound.
Imagine agribusinesses selling their “organic”
red peppers for three dollars a pound. People
would jump at that; but sadly, the red pepper
would not be organic. It is organic only due to
lowered standards.
Instead of
them adopting the organic standards and growing
organic foods, the big money in the food
industry exerts a powerful influence on the government to
modify the organic standards so that factory
farms can
call their food “organic.”
In the end,
the consumer thinks s/he is buying organic food
and thinks s/he is supporting sustainable
farming techniques, when we are actually just
buying the same old crud that the conventional
agribusinesses have been producing all along --
only now they’re allowed to call it Certified
Organic.
Profits
Be Damned
Normally the
USDA will publish that they are considering
modifying organic standards and await the
response from the public.
This time,
Congress tried to slip one by us by burying the
organic standards changes in the middle of an unrelated bill.
This is
proof of the profitability of the organic food
market, when the monied interests pressure
Congress to change the standards so they can
join in—without having to change their methods.
Our letters
to Congress quashed the bill, at least for now.
Senate lawmakers were surprised at the number of
letters, calls, and faxes they got asking them
to uphold the standards. The pressure caused the
Senate to back off. For now, the newly
diluted standards will have to wait while the
Secretary of Agriculture (who does not
personally eat organic foods nor has he
supported organic standards) studies this issue
further.
From the
Health Action Center we got:
Although we’ve neutralized the
threat in the Senate, proponents of the rider
still have the ability to submit the
compromising language during House/Senate
conference committee sessions. That’s why
we need you to keep up the pressure.
Tell
your Senators and Representatives “hands off
organics” during conference negotiations
When we sent out our action alert
last week, we asked you to send a letter to your
Senator, telling him or her to oppose any
amendment that would weaken organic standards.
As the Agriculture Appropriations Bill heads
into conference committee, I ask you to send
another letter, this time to your U.S.
Representative, who until now may not have heard
from his or her constituents about the threat to
organic standards.
Send
a letter today
We’re almost there. With
your help, we will send a powerful message to
our elected officials and government agencies
that we organic consumers value our food and are
willing to fight for it.
Go ahead,
click the links above and send a letter. And
please read the next article and learn how you
can be notified immediately when our health
standards are being attacked.
Keep in mind
that the current administration has doled out
loans, grants, and tax breaks to corporate
agribusiness, but has completely overlooked the
small farmer who cares for the earth by
employing sustainable farming methods.
From the
Organic Consumers Organization:
UPDATE: STOP
THE SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS
Over the past month, Organic Consumers
Association (OCA) network members have deluged
Congress with over 170,000 letters, asking
policymakers to reject an industry sponsored
stealth "rider" to the 2006 Agriculture
Appropriations Bill. The rider would weaken
organic standards and allow hundreds of
synthetic substances in organic production
without prior review or public participation.
Feeling the heat from their constituents, the
U.S. Senate stalled the rider vote and forwarded
it on for discussion in the House/Senate
Conference Committee. Thanks to all of you for
contacting your Congresspeople! Unfortunately we
are up against powerful lobbyists from giant
food processors such as Kraft as well as
supermarket chains. If you have not taken
action, please send an email to Congress. If you
have already emailed or called your Senators and
Representative, thank you. Please consider
forwarding this action alert on to your friends
and colleagues. We hope to generate more than
250,000 letters to stop this rider from being
passed by Congress. TAKE ACTION:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm
Do
everything you can to stop this; the stewardship
of farmable land is all our responsibility.
This Just In!
Action Alert!
October 25, 2005
(this alert expires 11/15/2005)
Stop Factory Farm Dairy
Feedlots from Labeling Their
Products as "USDA Organic"
Click here to sign an important
petition to the USDA:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm

Apologies
for the unusually high number of
emails from us right now.
Typically, you can expect only
one email from the OCA every two
weeks, but the national organic
standards are currently under
siege, as never before. As our
SOS Action Alerts and
newsletter,
Organic Bytes, have pointed
out over the past month, there
is currently an
industry-sponsored Sneak Attack
on organic standards in the U.S.
Congress. We've kept you updated
about this Sneak Attack,
involving an industry rider that
would greatly weaken organic
standards by allowing hundreds
of synthetic substances to be
used in organic production
without proper review by the
National Organic Standards Board
and the organic community. We
will keep you posted on that
issue, and appreciate the more
than 200,000 individual emails
the OCA network of consumers has
generated to Congress on that
issue. We need a similar
response from you on the
following, equally serious
issue...
THE
PROBLEM:
Under pressure from big
agribusiness, the USDA is
deliberately refusing to take
action against factory farm
dairy feedlots who are
unethically selling their
products as "organic." This
blatant labeling fraud is
compounded by a loophole in
federal organic regulations that
is allowing unscrupulous organic
dairy farms to import young
calves from non-organic
conventional farms (where the
animals have been weaned on cow
blood, injected or medicated
with antibiotics, and fed
genetically engineered corn,
soybeans and cotton seeds, laced
with slaughterhouse waste and
tainted animal fats). These
confinement and feeding
practices are inhumane,
unhealthy, environmentally
unsustainable, and unfair to the
majority of organic dairy
farmers, who follow strict
organic principles on pasture
access and animal feed, and do
not import animals into their
herds from conventional farms.
Take action here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm
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WHERE DOES
YOUR ORGANIC
MILK COME FROM?
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Actual
photo of
cows
"grazing"
at an
"organic"
factory
farm.
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Photo of
cows
grazing
at
an
organic
family
farm.
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Some of the factory
farms that currently
confine thousands of
cows in close
quarters are
operated by leading
organic dairies such
as Dean Foods
(Horizon Organic)
and Aurora Organic
Dairy (producer of
store brand organic
milk to chains such
as Wild Oats, and
supplier to
Horizon). |
THE
SOLUTION:
On November 16, in Washington,
DC, organic consumer and farm
representatives will attend the
National Organic Standards Board
meeting to urge the USDA to stop
allowing giant intensive
confinement dairy feedlots to
illegally market their milk as
"organic." The OCA
will be presenting a petition
with thousands of signatures,
which you can sign online right
now:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm
For
four years, the USDA has ignored
requests from its own National
Organic Standards Board to
clarify standards on organic
dairy farms. These
clarifications would assure that
animals have access to pasture,
fresh air, and water, and that a
considerable portion of their
diet is pasture grass, as
opposed to grains and other
highly processed feeds used in
confinement feedlots. In
addition, OCA and organic
advocates want the USDA to put
an end to the practice of
allowing organic dairies to
increase their herd size by
importing young calves from
conventional farms.
OCA and the public interest
Cornucopia Institute need
your help right now to pressure
the USDA to stop these
outrageous practices. Click here
to send a petition to the USDA:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm
Despite
these attacks on organic
integrity, OCA is
confident that we can
"Keep Organic Organic,"
just as we've done
before in 1998, 2002,
and 2004--when the USDA
and corporate
agribusiness tried to
degrade organic
standards by permitting
genetic engineering,
food irradiation, sewage
sludge, pesticides,
hormones, antibiotics,
and non-organic animal
feed to be allowed under
the "USDA Organic"
label. But to preserve
organic integrity, we
need your continued
vigilance, energy, and
financial support. For
more information, see
the "Safeguard
Organic Standards"
section of the
OCA website, which
is updated daily. Donate
Here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/donations.htm
For Organic
Integrity,
Ronnie Cummins
National Director
Organic Consumers
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An article
worth reading:
CODEX is NOT Going Away.
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Become a Health Freedom
Fighter
Get notified when action is needed. |
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Vitamins,
supplements, and organic foods are under attack. CODEX
is winning everywhere. You don’t think it can happen
here? Oh yes, it can.
Many of us never
thought America would violate international law and
start a preemptive war. We were wrong.
It can
happen here, and it will happen here if we do not stand
together; if we do not act proactively and keep our
leaders in Washington deluged with our demands. Our
demands are very simple: Health Freedom.
In Australia, they
are trying to pass a law that will put you in jail for
up to 5 years for using a non-standard, non-approved
therapy -- on yourself.
Yes, if the law
passes, you can go to
jail for ordering some oleander
extract off the internet, or you can go to jail for taking the oleander
plant that grows on your front porch and drinking an
extract you made from it. It’s happening in Australia,
and it can happen here.
You must read this
article from Australia:
Therapeutic
Goods Administration Amendment Bill 03150.
Here are two very
interesting articles from Down Under written by a health
freedom fighter there:
http://www.evehillary.org/health.freedom.info.htm
http://www.evehillary.org/corp.med.1.html
To be informed
immediately so that you can inform others and begin a
letter writing campaign, write to me here:
info@mnwelldir.org or go to our
Home Page and
join there. When action is needed, you'll be
notified immediately.
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CONGRESS SET TO PASS LAW ELIMINATING LIABILITY FOR
VACCINE INJURIES
Here is what the
bill will purportedly do:
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BARDA The
federal agency which will be in charge will be
allowed: "to operate in secret, exempt from the
Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries
or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as
"countermeasures" will become public."
Here is a site
where you can sign a petition to
reject the
Senate bill S.1873 (Biodefense & Pandemic
Vaccine & Drug Development Act).
But you must also
write your representatives in Washington.
Full
Disclosure
Well, as full as
can be expected, considering numbers are not my
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Most people writing
to us who ask about our affiliates and our income
sources are antagonistic. We've been accused of taking
big bucks from companies to promote their wares. One
recent letter from a reader told me that he had visited the Consumer
Labs web site and looked up the study of probiotics we
referenced in our article:
Digestion Part
II. He attacked us for publishing a lie and said that the
probiotics we had reviewed (by Sedona Labs) weren't even
listed.
Luckily most of our
readers can actually read. The full study was not
published on the page he sent to us, only a sampling. We
got the full study from Consumer Labs in return for
linking to their site. It even states on the page this
character read that what was listed there are "some" of
the results of the study. This reader told us he could
never trust us again. Oh well.
Do we have to give
Full Disclosure to our readers? No, we don't. We've got
nothing to hide (except our incompetence) and we're not
only not afraid to let the world know how we survive
here, we're quite proud of how we've done it.
Keep in mind that we
are NOT a charitable organization because we would have
to keep immaculate records. I am not a good businessperson. I have a
disability
that affects my memory and ability to do math, etc. I
spend a lot of my time looking for things that were just
in my hand. It recently took me four days to get some
checks mailed to the bank because I kept misplacing
them, losing the deposit slip, and then when I had it
all in the envelope, I lost the envelope. Last week, I found a check on my desk that was
sent to us 14 months ago. You really don't want me
running your business, I'm sure.
So, here goes:
We are just a tad
over $50,000.00 in debt. Half of that ($24,000.00) is
owed to creditors. What are our expenses? We have
$17,000.00 in printers, and a $9,000.00 computer system (and
software) that is backed up to external drives. There is
some 20+ years of research on our computer system that
we do not wish to lose. Until recently, we were paying
just under $90.00 per month for internet access
(Satellite and AOL), but we now have DSL which brought
down the costs significantly.
Sadly, I have to
report that the company selling us our printers really
put it to us. Before we had printed 200,000 pages on the
printer, we were told that it was now obsolete and that
we might have problems finding parts. We still owed
$14,000.00 on the printers.
Research is not
free. We subscribe to many journals and newsletters, and
as often as we can, we purchase a DVD that costs us nearly
$300.00 and helps us to locate practitioners for our
directory and for people seeking a practitioner who
won't poison, burn, or slash them to death. We ask for
donations when we find someone a
practitioner, but not everyone pays and we don't
turn anyone down.
As to where we get
our funding, first off, I must preface that I do NOT
recall the exact percentages we get from our affiliates.
I'm not good with numbers and I'm not about to waste my
time looking up every minuscule percentage we get;
suffice it to say, just read on and I'll tell you as
much as I know.
Barnes & Noble: this was our
first affiliate. We get a minuscule percentage from them
for each purchase -- anywhere from 25 to 70 dollars
a year, although I do not recall getting a check from
them in ages.
Amazon Dot Com: we have the same relationship with
Amazon as we have with Barnes & Noble. We've never
received a check from them yet. Our book links are
through either Barnes & Nobel or Amazon. If you wish to
purchase from them, fine; if not, that's your decision.
Buy Dot Com: same as above. I don't recall receiving
a check from them in over two years.
Wild Divine: this is a really great program, but I'm
not sure how much we can make being an affiliate for
them. We've not received a thing from them so far.
Wilderness Family Naturals: this is one of our
newest affiliate links. We get a slightly larger
percentage than the first three listed, but then again,
it's based upon actual sales from our links. If you go
there through our link, we get a percentage; if you
return, but do NOT go through our link, we get nothing.
We've earned about $12.00 a month since becoming their
affiliate. Apart from that, this is where I order all my
coconut products and I really like these people and
want to support their efforts.
Simply the Best: A
lot of people have asked about our connection to Simply
the Best. It's very simple. I helped them get started.
The main idea was to support our work, support the small companies
that produce great products, get people (especially our
readers) the products at a discount, and hire the disabled. I
am a part time volunteer for them, downloading their
figures at the end of the month to bring to an
accountant at the end of the year. I answer letters at
times, and help to put out forest fires. However, the
business is not going well. The shipper has made a few
mistakes (he's recovering from a brain injury), there
were a lot of returns (which the company supplying the
product would not stand behind), and some bad luck
involving bad checks and undelivered products. Were
they making a profit, we'd be receiving some of it. But
so far, their contribution has been rather small. We're
just glad that they now have some good products, that
they give discounts to our readers, and that the
companies they support are doing well.
Learning Strategies: this is a local company that
produces CDs, DVDs, and video/audio tapes. Their products are
top quality and we do get a hefty percentage of each
sale. I think it's greater than 25%. We've gotten about
$300.00 in the past two years from them. They make one
of the best
Qigong packages we've ever seen. Additionally, they
produce some of the best CDs and audio tapes for
meditation. Well, it's not really your normal
meditation. They are called Paraliminal CDs and tapes.
They really are unique. I've been using them since
1991 when I first discovered them. You really should
check them out:
Paraliminal CDs and Tapes.
Ultimate Immune: is our latest affiliate. We've used
their products for over a year now (when needed) and
have sent many readers to their site. We will soon
review their products for you, but in the meantime, you
can go there to purchase immunosupportive products to be
ready for the cold and flu season. We've received
nothing from them yet, and their affiliate percentage is
quite small. But their products are the best and we will
review them for you in the near future.
Our longtime
readers know that we maintain the highest standards of
integrity here. When the Masters Miracle people split
with the originator of the company, we ripped every reference to their products
off our website and promoted
the original product, Miracle II, instead. Master's
Miracle had been a big source of income; Miracle II
gives us nothing.
It is not uncommon
for readers to find references to products suddenly
absent at our site. It's very simple: if a person or
company is not straight with us; if their business
ethics are less than perfect, they will not find any
support at our site. I really don't care if they've
discovered a cure for death. In this life, the only
thing we have that we can truly call our own is our
integrity.
We are all
volunteers here. Not a one of us earns a dime from our
work. When we go to print, we do pay the advertising
salespersons a commission, which is expected. If you
have trouble believing any of this, then you should read
this letter from our accountant.
You can even give her a call (her phone number is on the
letter).
We do not "exchange"
links with other sites. If they have a good product we
will review it and then link to them. Daily, webmasters
come to us asking if we will exchange links. We won't.
As to reviews, if
you have something out there you want reviewed, just
write and we will contact the manufacturers,
distributors, or author and try to get a review copy.
We've only been turned down a few times, but that has
been their loss, as many of the companies whose products
we've reviewed will tell you.
Lastly, if you've
made it this far, you probably remember that I said,
above, that half of our debt is owed to creditors. This
begs the question, "To whom is the other half owed?" It's
simple; it's owed to the management of this company.
We've all put our own money into keeping this ship
afloat. Perhaps one day we'll get it back, perhaps we
won't. The important thing is that we're going to do this
until we can no longer do it.
Keep in mind that we
sell none of the products we write about. We do sell
promotional items and our books. Some people assume that
this must be profitable, but because we give away more
books than we sell, no publishing company will take on
our books, and we've lost money on most of our
publications. When we finally sat down to figure out our
profits from our second edition of the directory, we
discovered that we had lost $4.00 on each book we sold,
putting us $12,000.00 into debt.
We will continue
selling our books, asking for donations, and selling
promotional items that will pay our debts. This month we
are selling a t-shirt that is
quite unique. We've only got a few left, so if you want
one, you'd better order soon.
In the future, since
publishing companies have finally been knocking at my
door concerning my fiction, we've decided to publish a
collector's edition of that fiction. Each book will be
handmade, the dedication page will contain whatever
the purchaser wishes to have printed there, along with its
"printing number" out of 100, and my signature. It will
sell for $200.00. It will be covered in hand made paper
(from weeds and cattails and the like). This book will be
something very special. After each short story, you will
find an essay on how the story was written. If you have
any interest, it would be best to
write and tell me, since once we do this (by
next summer) we're pretty sure they'll go fast. You'll
have a unique book, and we'll be able to pay our
creditors off.
Additionally, since
my reputation as a photographer is growing, we sell
numbered prints of my photos for $200.00 each now.
Again, if you want a copy, numbered and signed, you must
write to me.
We apologize if our
newsletter seems a bit commercial with links everywhere
to buy products, but that's life. We have to pay our
bills and we support only the best companies out there.
That's how we do it and that's how we'll continue doing
it.
And if you want to
support our efforts, keep in mind that 99% of the time
when you re-order from one of our affiliates, you have
to go through a link at our site in order for us to get
credit.
We've touched upon
probiotics (acidophilus being one most people are
familiar with) in the past, especially in our Digestion
Articles (Part Two), but felt that we really needed to
get into more depth on this subject since it is of such
importance. We've found some amazing new research
into the role of probiotics in our immune system.
Since we've focused
in depth in this issue on the Avian Flu (scare), much of
what we have learned comes down to this: your
preventive program MUST contain probiotics.
So we've updated the
Digestion articles with this new information. You
can find it right here:
Probiotics.
And if you are
looking for probiotics, the best we've found (the best
Consumer Labs
has found) are from Sedona Labs and are on sale to our
readers at
Simply
the Best.
Simply
the Best is having an unadvertised sale that only
YOU will know about: Buy 4 and get 1 free of any Sedona
Labs product at the site. This is a spectacular
discount. I did the math on this one and they're
barely making a profit on this sale. You will NOT find
any information at the site on this discount, simply
order 4 of one Sedona Labs product and you will get a
notification that you will be receiving 5 in your
shipment. If not, write me and I'll check this out.
We are in shock. The Russians know
something we've not yet caught on to: a healthy
population makes for a stronger democracy.
How can people who are sick and exhausted
fulfill their responsibilities or their obligations as
guardians of a democracy?
In a democracy, the president is a leader
and a servant. He is a servant to the people. The people
hold the power.
How much power can an ailing population hold?
Democracy demands we all participate. It
takes a healthy people to participate fully.
This is why Russia outlawed microwaves.
Microwave ovens are slowly killing us. Microwave ovens
create food that was never meant to enter our bodies.
As we fill our bodies with microwaved
poisons, we slowly fill up with inflammation and all the
various diseases inflammation brings on: cancer, heart
disease, diabetes, chronic fatigue, MS, fibromyalgia,
and the list goes on, and on, and on.
We've written about microwaves in a
previous newsletter. One of the first links ever at
this site is
Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking, the report of
an actual study that was blocked from publication.
Don't Buy The
Hype
Not when you can have it all for
free. |
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I was asked by a
reader what I thought of Kevin Trudeau’s book,
I told him I hadn’t
read it, and probably wouldn’t. So, that reader went
out, bought it and sent it to me. I read it.
If you know anything
about Kevin Trudeau, you’ll know he spent time in a
federal penitentiary for credit card fraud and has been
investigated by practically everyone over some scheme.
However, I never
hold anyone’s past against them. Let’s face it, St
Augustine was a sinner long before he became a saint.
Having said that, I
can judge Trudeau’s book, Natural Cures "They" Don't
Want You To Know About in and of itself.
First off, there are
NO secrets in medicine, only things you’ve not yet heard
of.
Second, no one
from the pharmaceutical industry cares one whit about
what you know or don’t know. The pharmaceutical industry
is not spending a dime trying to suppress information.
The pharmaceutical
industry is spending billions to keep alternative
health products away from you. They want to own the
vitamin and supplement industry too, and overcharge you
for that like they’ve overcharged for their drugs. They
want to make sure that cheap alternatives are outlawed.
THIS is how they are spending their money, and they are
doing a bang up job. Read the articles about what is
going on in Australia.
Don’t buy into
the hype.
Trudeau’s book is
chock-full of information. It is presented plain and
simple. There is no depth to his research. In fact, his
research is not really research, but simple plagiarism.
He hardly gives credit to anyone or tells you where he
found the information. It’s as if he bought a few books
on natural cures, garnered information from the web and
slapped this together. Which, in my opinion, is exactly
what he did.
I, too, could have
created a web site that same way, if my goal had been to
make money. However, my goal was to heal and help others
to heal. And I won’t just write out something that I do
not understand fully. I try to make the difficult,
obscure and complex a bit less difficult, obscure, and
complex to my readers. I try to simplify without
oversimplifying.
Trudeau’s book is
designed to make money only. He is not the consumer
advocate or the expert he claims to be, but he is an
expert at separating people from their money.
His book is one huge
advertisement for his web site and his newsletter for
which you can buy a lifetime subscription at the
minuscule cost of $495.00.
Or, you can come to
our web site for free. [What am I doing wrong?]
Here’s some further
reading about Trudeau and his schemes:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art36180.asp
http://www.mlmsurvivor.com/felon.htm
So, when you get
something in the mail about this hidden secret or this
secret ingredient, don’t believe it. It’s not a secret.
Many common substances are sold under "new names" in
order to generate bigger profits.
If you really want to know the truth about something,
you can write to us and ask. If we don’t know about it,
we will look it up.
Dr Mary
Edwards Walker
Civil War Surgeon,
Spy, Suffragette |
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Continuing our
examination of the history of medicine, we have found an
extraordinary woman who served the Union army as the first
female surgeon the military had ever employed.
For those of you who
missed the Civil War article from our last newsletter,
written by a surgeon and medical historian, Dr Julius
Prestigiacomo Bonello, here you go:
Civil War Medicine.
For the rest of us,
let's take a look at this
Dr
Mary Edwards Walker.
Book Reviews
Four great books for you. Click
the "book" to learn how to purchase it. These
purchases support our work, a bit. |
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Dr Garry Gordon's book,
The Omega-3 Miracle is the most thoroughly researched
and delightfully presented book on these miracle fats
I've ever read. In fact, I was given two books on the
same subject and the other was so eclipsed by this one,
I refuse to hurt the author by publishing that review here.
Click here to read our review of
The Omega-3 Miracle.
The Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link
to Heart Disease and Cancer
This
entire story is amazing. The discovery, the battle over
the discovery, the tests and further studies, and
finally the simple fact that our arteries have another
enemy that came from nowhere. Click here to read our
review of The Calcium Bomb.

Dr Bruce Fife loves
our little web site. He sent me two more review copies
of his latest coconut books. They are a must in every
kitchen and first aid kit. Click here to read our review
of Coconut Cures, and click here to read our review of
Cooking with Coconut Flour.
Note: GasAway has been
discontinued because their new digestive enzymes called
NextZyme contain those gas fighting enzymes. Read about
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