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Monday, August 31, 2009
what is codex alimentarius?
If you don’t know what Codex Alimentarius is you better find out before it is too late. The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people's right to choose nutrition, natural healing and alternative medicine. Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in December 31 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater.
What will happen if we become Codex compliant? “Nutricide” Criminalizing natural health vitamins and herbs. Codex will make your currently available nutrients, which are your right by “Common Law”, meaning anything not currently forbidden is permittable, and mandate “Napoleonic Code”, which will mean anything not listed as permitted will then be now forbidden.
Codex has declared nutrients as “toxins” and will illegalize any nutrient that has ANY effect on humans. Meaning that commonly used vitamins will soon be illegal and not available even with a prescription. With exceptions to the Codex “positive list” which has nothing positive on it. Things like fluoride will be on that permittable list. Fluoride is known to be unhealthy and shocking enough… it is also known to make people complacent. Good thing its in our drinking water everywhere … otherwise people might catch on to Codex and stand up for their rights!
What else will Codex regulate and mandate? World food regulations and legalizations of mandated toxicity. ... Mandated toxicity that will result in every animal on the planet used for food consumption MUST be treated with growth hormones and antibiotics. YES..! Every animal including fish and even every the dairy cow MUST be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone. And that is not just conventional meats and dairy either. Organic standards are set very low which allows the organic farmers to use veterinary drugs such as growth hormones and antibiotics and still allowing them to list there products as organic.
The one is just as disturbing as well, all food, except foods being consumed raw, MUST be irradiated including organic. And it doesn’t stop there with the irradiating, hormones and antibiotics.
One of the scariest mandates to me is the already banned chemicals Codex will bring back. There are twelve known very bad banned organic chemicals, called “POP” which stands for persistent organic pollutants. These twelve POP’s are so bad that 176 countries including the US have already banned the use of them. Nine of the twelve forbidden POP’s are pesticides. Codex brought back seven of the nine forbidden chemicals. Chemicals like Deildrin, Aldrin and Hexachlorobenzene and not in small amounts either. This will also mean that imported foods containing these substances can not be stopped at our borders. Under Codex it would be a trade violation. You can see for yourself on their website here and go to the "official standards" on the top right for a list of the toxic chemicals they are permitting and the amounts that they state are acceptable.
It has been estimated that the Codex mandates, standards, regulation and illegalization of vitamins and minerals will result in an initial three billion deaths. One billion due to starvation and the other two billion deaths due to diseases, such as cancer, cardio-vascular disease and diabetes. Which are currently preventable and curable with the use of nutrition, natural healing and alternative medicine.
To understand more and make sure you or your family member doesn’t become one of these estimated statistics PLEASE go to www.healthfreedomusa.org and MAKE SURE you sign the citizens petition to make sure that voice be heard in the legal challenge against Codex. Click and Sign here : Citizens Petition. PLEASE... Sign it and pass it to everyone you know. To thoroughly and easily understand what this is all about... Click Here and watch this first part of a series of talks by Dr. Rima Laibow MD, available on DVD from the Natural Solutions Foundation, an non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about how to stop Codex Alimentarius from taking away our right to freely choose nutritional health.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
the dirty secrets of what make you clean…
One shocking secret is the fact that there are over 800 chemicals used in personal care products are known to be toxic. Thanks FDA! And the average person is exposed to at least 120 chemicals EACH DAY by using personal care products.
The most shocking dirty secret to me is the fact that (most) toothpastes contain PESTICIDES! Look at your tube… if it has Triclosan… it has pesticides in it! Triclosan is a pesticide that accumulates in the fatty tissue in your body and is suspected to be a hormone disruptor by interfering with thyroid function.
Another shocker it that by cleaning your hands with antibacterial soap is the same as cleaning you hands with pesticides. The American Medical Association does not recommend using anti bacterial soaps in your home or in a pediatrician’s office BUT they do in hospitals. This to me seems not right. Especially since these antibacterial soaps are not effective at killing viruses that make you sick. The same is true for hand sanitizers. Antibacterial soaps and sanitizers are said to kill 99% of bacteria. But you don’t catch the common cold or flu from bacteria. You get them from viruses. So you are covering yourself with pesticides and you may still get sick.
The dirtiest secret about some antibacterial products is that when you combine them with chlorinated water, (for example when you wash your hands) the two together make chloroform, which you will then inhale. Chloroform is a suspected carcinogen. So stick to soap and water, I am sure you can do with out the pesticides and chloroform fumes.
And of course your soap had a dirty secret too! Many bar soaps are made with a chemical called Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid ( EDTA). It’s an amino acid that binds to heavy metals, like mercury. So when you wash with it and then it gets rinsed down the drain and then it ends up contaminating the ocean. These contaminates then make their way into the fish & shellfish that live in the ocean and then you eat them! So when you eat the fish you are also eating the EDTA and the mercury that binds to it. And we all know mercury is one of the most toxic elements on the planet.
Here is another dirty dirty one… Parabens. It is a preservative found in almost ALL of your products. You will find them in your shampoo, conditioner, lotion shaving gel, and toothpaste. They all have parabens in them so they are able to sit on every shelf in every food and drug store in America. And dirtiest part of this secret is that they are also found intact in breast tumors! Now isn’t that enough to ban these parabens? Avoid any product that has any ingredient ending in paraben or aben. They are also hormone disruptors, mimicking estrogen and increasing your risk for hormone sensitive cancers, like breast cancer.
Parabens are not the only dirty one to watch out for. You want to also watch out for the following:
Sodium laurel or lauryl sulfate (SLS), also known as sodium laureth sulfate (SLES)– Found in car washes, engine degreasers, garage floor cleaners… and in over 90% of personal care products! SLS breaks down the skin’s moisture barrier, easily penetrates the skin, and allows other chemicals to easily penetrate. Combined with other chemicals, SLS becomes a “nitrosamine”, a potent class of carcinogen. It can also cause hair loss. SLES is sometimes disguised with the labeling “comes from coconut” or “coconut-derived”.
Mineral Oil, Paraffin, and Petrolatum – Petroleum products coat the skin like plastic, clogging pores and creating a build-up of toxins, which in turn accumulate and can lead to dermatological issues. Slows cellular development, which can cause you to show earlier signs of aging. Suspected cause of cancer. Disruptive of hormonal activity.
Toluene – Poison! Danger! Harmful or fatal if swallowed! Harmful if inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Made from petroleum or coal tar, and found in most synthetic fragrances. Chronic exposure linked to anemia, lowered blood cell count, liver or kidney damage, and may affect a developing fetus. Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) contains toluene. Other names may include benzoic and benzyl.
Phenol carbolic acid– Found in many lotions and skin creams. Can cause circulatory collapse, paralysis, convulsions, coma and even death from respiratory failure.
Propylene glycol – Used as a moisturizer in cosmetics and as a carrier in fragrance oils. Shown to cause dermatitis, kidney or liver abnormalities, and may inhibit skin cell growth or cause skin irritation.
Acrylamide– Found in many hand and face creams. Linked to mammary tumors in lab research.
Dioxane– Found in compounds known as PEG, Polysorbates, Laureth, ethoxylated alcohols. Common in a wide range of personal care products. The compounds are usually contaminated with high concentrations of highly volatile 1,4-dioxane, easily absorbed through the skin.
Dioxane’s carcinogenicity was first reported in 1965 and later confirmed in studies including one from the National Cancer Institute in 1978. Nasal passages and liver are the most vulnerable. Dioxane is easily removed during the manufacturing process by “vacuum stripping”. Warning: It is a synthetic derivative of coconut. Watch for hidden language on labels, such as “comes from coconut”.
Basically you skin is you body’s largest organ don’t load it up with known toxic chemicals. If you aren’t sure about your personal care products go to one of my favorite sites. www.skindeep.com this site by the Environmental Working Group rates all products and gives you a reading of just how toxic they really are.
Another good tip… read the labels of what goes into your skin the same way you would for what you eat. They can have the same effects on your body… toxic.
Monday, August 3, 2009
detox miracle sourcebook
Many of you know I am a HUGE fan of Hippocrates Health Institute and Sanoviv Medical Institute where I had an incredible experience detoxing and building my immunity.
For those of you interested in a program like this to revitalize every system of your body, maximize the healing power of nature, cleanse toxins and or heal the causes of disease BUT you do not have the time of money to go to a place like Hippocrates or Sanoviv. I would like to introduce to you...
The Detox Miracle Sourcebook by Robert Morse N.D.
The Detox Miracle Sourcebook shows you how to cleanse your body of the poisons that are destroying your health, and start the process of complete cellular regeneration that leads to true healing. Based on 30 years of clinical experience, treating thousands of people with conditions ranging from OVERWEIGHT to CANCER, Dr. Robert Morse reveals his ultimate healing system - the Detox Miracle!
The following is the introduction from The Detox Sourcebook:
Welcome to a fantastic journey into vitality. Health is one of our greatest assets, and many refer to the body as a temple, or a vehicle that carries around the true Self while we are on this planet. However, we often treat our cars better than we treat out bodies. (this is an example that I have been using for years, so I am sold in the 1st paragraph)
The information contained in this book was not taken from double-blind studies, from misconstrued facts and figures of treatment agencies, or from "bought and paid for" scientific research. i wrote this book based on thirty years of self experience, and from clinical observation of thousand years of self- experience, and from clinical observation of thousands of patients who used my programs to overcome their toxic conditions and disease.
Basically, we have two choices to make when we develop a condition or disease: treatment or detoxification. If we choose treatment, we have two additional choices. The first choice is allopathic medicine, which is status-quo medical or chemical approach. The second choice is natural (traditional) medicine, which uses products made from natural sources of herbs to treat the symptoms. If we choose the allopathic approach to "fight" our disease, it is important to understand that allopathic medicine offers only three types of treatment for any condition: chemical medicines, radiation or surgery.
Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money developing drugs and training medical (allopathic) doctors in how to use these chemical medicines in the presence of disease. But, "curing" the disease (in the sense of removing its cause, not just its symptoms) is not a part of this approach - which is a totally a "treatment" - based modalitiy. Chemical medicines are used for everything from simple headaches and fevers to degenerative conditions, like Parkinson's disease or cancer.
The second form of treatment in allopathic medical procedures is some type of burning or radiation. This is used in most diagnostic procedures (x-rays, for example) and some treatment procedures, especially but not limited to cancer.
The third procedure that the allopathic medical profession can use to treat a problem or condition is surgery. Surgery is the simply the removal of the "bad" tissue that is causing the problem. If the disease is cancer of the breast, simply remove the breast and the patient is "cured".
Natural medicine, or what I refer to as "traditional medicine," differs from the allopathic approach. Natural medicine simply treats disease with a natural products (those made from animal, plant or mineral substances) or herbs, which are found in nature. The science of natural medicine has been around for hundred of thousand of years, at one level or another. (Chemical medicine only 125 yrs old)
Most of the substances used in natural medicine have no damaging side effects, while most chemical medicines have some degree of harmful side effects. However, it is fair to say that some natural products used without the proper wisdom can still create harm. Supplementing calcium in the presence of a parathyroid weakness, for example, results in a stone formation or excessive free calcium. In general, the diagnostic procedures used in natural medicine including iridology, kinesiology, pulsing, hair or tissue analysis, and many others are none invasive and not harmful to the patient whatsoever.
Most health care systems today, including allopathic, naturopathic and homeopathic medicine, are treatment-based modialities. Treating symptoms never cures the "causes." Until a genuine cure has been effected, we will always be suffering in some form. The alternative to treatment is True Naturopathy (detoxification) a little known science of nature that has been used for hundreds of years, by hundreds of thousands of people and animals worldwide. It has restored health and vitality to their physical, emotional and mental bodies. Detoxification encompasses the science of chemistry, biochemistry, botanical science and physics, and had always been at the heart of true healing. For that reason, detoxification should be at the heart of natural medicine today, but has been forgotten in our modern world of "treatment."
Detoxification is not a system of treatment or way to remove symptom; it is a system of curing by addressing the cause of the disease. It involves the understanding that the body is the healer, and that energy is at the core of healing. It also sheds a light on the true cause of disease - the destruction of energy. Energy or the destruction of energy results from what we eat, drink, breathe, put on our skin, and from what we think and feel. These are six ways we either make ourselves healthy and vital, or sick and weak.
Naturopathy is the purest form of healing. Its procedures and diagnostic tools are all totally non-invasive, and at its core are alkalization and detoxification, which is explained in great depths throughout the book. The Detox Miracle Sourcebook is about this second opinion, true healing through detoxification and its related sciences. However, the approach taken here never puts science above the power of God and nature, as science is only the study of what already is.
My success with true detoxification in chronic and degenerative issues has been recognized worldwide. Out of 100 people who come to us with various types of cancer, approximately 70 percent cure themselves, 20 percent can't do the program and 10 percent are too advanced or don't want to live. Our success with regerneration in spinal cord injuries is also phenomenal: a thirty-two year old female, who had severed her upper cervical spine (a C3-C4 spinal cord severation) twelve years previously, came into out clinic. In eleven months she had complete feeling and movement throughout her body. A young Amish man who had a tractor accident, which left him a quadriplegic at the C4-C5 level, in six months had total feeling in his toes.
One of the hardest parts of this program is working with the mind. Like a computer, you get out what you put in. This book will supply you with the most up-to-date and thorough information you need to feed your mind and thus educate yourself about the miraculous healing system of your body. It will cover some physiology, chemistry, physics and nutrition all in a way that you can understand and immediately use. It will also encourage you to "change your mind" from one of toxic thinking to one of natural and pure thinking.
Most people live to eat; I would like you to start thinking about eating to live, and this book will show you how to do that. What you eat has a direct effect upon your health, and I have proven this year-in and year-out on hundred clients. I have seen cancer, time and time again, cleaned out of the body. Also, diabetes, coronary artery disease and arthritis all eliminated. I have seen spinal cord injuries reconnect and nerve damage from strokes, multiple sclerosis and the like, heal.
There is no magic or mystery to health or disease. Disease is a natural process! When we understand how the body works, and what causes the tissues in the body to fail, we will then understand what causes disease symptoms, and how to reverse it.
This book will take you on a journey with many important steps along the way. You will learn about the species your physical body comes from; how your body works; the nature of disease. And finally, what health is. One of the premises of this book is that health is really very simple, yet we spend a large part of out time and money trying to achieve it. The Detox Miracle Sourcebook will help you understand your species, and encourage you toward eating in harmony with your anatomical, physiological and biochemical processes. This will give you vitality and a disease-free life.
Allow yourself the time and discipline to become alive again through detoxification! Put your heart, self-discipline and soul into it. Detoxification will be one of the greatest things you do for yourself in your lifetime.
Note: as this book was written for the healthcare practitioner and lay person alike, some chapters are more scientifically based than others. For myself, I say, "Keep it simple!" Pass over those chapters that might confuse you at first. Come back later and read them to better understand your body and how it works. Your body is a very complex machine, but keeping it healthy is very simple.
NATURE'S WAY:
1. Natural (nature's) health is NOT alternative medicine. Natural Health is traditional medicine.
2. Nature's way is hundreds of thousands of years old. chemical medicine is only 125 years old.
3. Since the advent of chemical medicine, disease has skyrocketed.
4. Medicine should only consist of natural remidies that alkalize, clean and regenerate the body.
GETTING STARTED : 10 WAYS TO BE SUCCESSFUL
As you prepare to the information presented in the book, here is an overview. This is what is takes to be successul. These ten principles or recommendations will help you tremendously in achieving success and the health and vitality you want from your detoxification and regeneration process. These points will be covered in depth as you continue to work with the book.
1. The diet is your number one key to success. What you eat, drink, breathe, and what you put on your skin is how you bring the outside world in. Study and learn the concepts in this book about a raw food diet. The greater percentage of raw fruits and vegetables (salads) you eat, the greater your success will be. If you have cancer, a spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, parkinson's or any other chronic degenerative condition, you will want to consume 100% raw, "live" food diet of fruits and vegetables (salads) only.
2. Invite the help of a health care professional who has experience in the use of raw foods and other natural detoxification procedures, like fasting. Especially with illnesses like cancer and other chronic, degenerative conditions, it is beneficial to have guidance and support throughout your healing process. Ultimately you are responsible for yourself, but there are many valuable resources to assist you in making this journey into vibrant health.
3. Find someone who is adept at "reading" the iris of the eye ( a science known as iridology). This is one of nature's greatest, at present, only types of soft tissue analysis. it will give you a road map of your stregths and weaknesses. It will also indicate your congestive (lymphatic) and chemical accumulations. This is invaluable in helping you address your glandular or organ weaknesses. For this I recommend an herbal (formula0 program. Use herbs to address your cellular weaknesses and to move and clean your lymphatic system, GI tract, and lungs. ( Resource guide in book for herbal companies that supply such formulas)
Almost 100% of homo sapians have glandular weaknesses. Begin this process by taking the "What is your body telling you" self assessment questionaire found in chapter 5 in the book to determine yours.
Use basal temperature study test ( found in appendix A) for thyroid functio to determine your level of thyroid function. This is extremely important when considering utilization and metabolism.
If you have a high or especially low blood pressure, you know you have adrenal gland weakness. Again, check your self assesment questionaire to determine other side effects of adreanal gland weakness.
4. Always "move" your lymph system. Everyone has a stagnant lymph system to one degree or another. All cell need to eat and excrete, and your lymph system is your sewer system. Your lymph nodes are your septic tanks. Keep them cleanes out! Use an herbal formula for your kidneys and eat a lot of fruits> Clean and enhance your GI tract with raw foods and a restoritive intestinal formula. Avoid laxatives or purgatives, acidophilus, bifidophilus or any other intestinal flora. Your intestinal flora will restore itself. Exercise (like walking or swiming) is extremely important in moving your lymph system, especially in your lower extremities.
Let yourself sweat! your skin is your largest eliminative organ. Keep it clean and stimulated with dry skin brushing, regular as well as hot-cold showers, and by sweating.
5. You will want to spend a month on an herbal parasite formula ( a resourse guide at the back of the book to find excellant herbal companies that carry these) This will help get rid of the larger worms, flukes, etc., It will also help reduce your microorganisms (candida, bacteria, etc.,) that affect your desire for foods.
6. Clean your liver and enhance your pancreas for about a month or so before starting on your detoxification program. See shapter 8 for suggestions about supporting and cleansing these organs with herbs and herbal formulas. If you have diabetes or you're excessively thin you will probably need three months or so.
7. If your're on chemical medications, don't worry. Ther aer very few possible interactions with this program and these herbal formulas.
Scientific Facts:
Most chemicals weaken and destroy cells. Chemotherapy causes high acidosis and destroys cells causing future cancer or the spreading (metastasis) of cancer.
Radiation inflames, burns, and destroys cells (tissues), an dcan cause cancer to metastasize.
If you're on high blood pressure medication, simply watch your blood pressure. This program can bring down your blood pressure fast. Use common sense. If your blood pressure is low, lowering it further with chemical meds might not be too smart.
If your blood pressure is low, you must work to get it normalized by enhansing and regenerating your adrenal glands. Diabetes (Type II) is very easy to overcome in most cases. If you're on insulin, watch your blood sugars. The same principle applies as with high blood pressure.
9. As you detoxify and regenerate, your body will go through sysmptoms of a "healing crisis." This is normal, natural and positive. As you understand about the healing crisis you'll understand what "disease" truly are. see chapter 5 Remember, disease symptoms manifest from two sources - conjestion and cellular weakness.
10. Finally Attitude, attitude, attitude! Enjoy what you are doing! Always remember why you're getting your body (or physical vehicle) healthy. Your body is your mobility in this physical world. Many of your weaknesses are genetically passed on to you. Your toxicity may have developed in utero, so give it time to be released. Vibrant health in this world does not occur overnight. sometimes its' hard work - but well worth it. It connects you with life, love and God.
May the blessings be!
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