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Wellness Carafe

June 30th, 2008

What Does the Wellness Carafe Do?

The Wellness Carafe is a water pitcher that uses a multi-stage filter cartridge to purify water by removing chlorine and other harmful contaminants found in it. Pour water into the pitcher and after going through the filiter, it will be clean, safe, and refreshing.

Each Carafe comes with a convenient calendar dial to remind you when to change the cartridge. Get a Wellness Carafe today!

If you want clean, safe and refreshing water in a pitcher design, then the new Wellness Carafe is ideal for you. Just pour tap water into the top of the Carafe and gravity will do the rest. In a few minutes, the bottom of the Carafe will be full of natural tasting water.

If you want cold water you can pour a handful of ice in with the tap water or you can put it in the refrigerator. Like all Wellness Filter products, the Carafe’s multi-stage cartridge contains the famous enhancement media for improved hydration, soluble minerals and negative ions.

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Flax Seed Hero

June 30th, 2008
    Flax Seed Heroby David Klein

1.Soak 1/3 lb. or more flax seeds in a bowl overnight. Make sure all seeds are wetted.
2. After 12 hours, chop up a small white onion into small bits then mix into the seeds.
3. Place fine nylon window screen mesh over your dehydrator tray.
4. Using a spatula, spread the seeds on the screen and shape into a flat long sub
shape. Make any size and more than one if desired.
5. Dehydrate until dry. If still moist inside, that’s ok - chewy is nice!
6. Hero filler: be creative. Try salsa made from chopped tomato, celery, onion, cilantro, etc.

Avoid:
1. Bragg’s - it’s awful, salty, mucus forming, blood sugar crashing, food flavor drowning stuff!
2. Cheese - this is no Philadelphia grinder!

Recipes

enTICEr

June 30th, 2008
 
enTICEr
by Russ Tice

Natural Blender Rejuvinator!! Use a blender,NOT a juicer. This way, you retain all of natural goodness. This quick and easy juice will cleanse your liver, purge toxins, and rejuvinate you! Add the following in a blender, and blend at highest speed for three minutes.

One medium beet,raw
several sprigs of fresh parsley
One small to medium apple
several sprigs of wheat grass (optional)
two tablespoons raw honey (optional)
ice or water for desired consistancy

This Is VERY tasty and good for the entire body!

Tip: AVOID alcohol products, stay healthy!

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The Five Soft Drink Monsters

June 30th, 2008

How to finally kick the soft drink habit for good!

Kicking the soft drink habit is a critical step for achieving lasting health and weight loss. Avoiding soft drinks can literally transform your health and cause you to lose weight, reverse symptoms of diabetes, enhance bone density, support healthy brain function and even protect your body’s nervous system. Until now, however, most people have found it nearly impossible to successfully quit drinking soft drinks.

Now for the first time, The Five Soft Drink Monsters reveals how to easily and permanently break the soft drink habit for good. Using the simple five-step strategy revealed inside, you will successfully break free from the ravaging health effects of soft drinks. This guide will show you, in clear understandable terms, how to recognize each of the five addictive elements of soft drinks — and then beat them with a clever strategy that’s already worked for thousands of people.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn inside:

  • The terrible truth about how soft drinks promote diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis and kidney disorders.
  • Why you should never try to quit soft drinks cold turkey.
  • Revealed: the five multisensory elements of soft drink consumption that creates a five-fold addiction (and why soft drink companies love it!)
  • How soft drinks create a dangerous mineral imbalance in the human body that results in loss of bone mass and can be misdiagnosed as osteoporosis.
  • The hidden ingredient in diet soft drinks that ravages the human nervous system and promotes Alzheimer’s, migraine headaches, mental confusion and nerve damage.
  • How to end up actually hating soft drinks so much that you’ll never touch one again!
  • Why consuming diet soft drinks is even worse for your health than regular soft drinks.
  • The real reason why soft drinks cause deadly calcium deficiencies in your body.
  • How caffeine is actually a highly addictive psychoactive drug that hooks you on soft drinks.
  • Which natural sweetener can replace the sweetness of high-sugar soft drinks without adding calories or carbs to your diet.
  • How to integrate all this information into your life, with relatively little effort, in a smart way that will never backtrack.

This is the report the soft drink companies hope you never read, because it shows you how to break free from the soft drink habit and take control over your health. It puts you back in charge and opens up a whole new world of health possibilities where you can be free from diabetes, weight gain, bone disorders, nervous system problems and kidney problems.

This is the technique created by author Mike Adams to break free from soft drinks. Today, he’s been soda-free for over ten years! Ten years from now, you could be saying the same thing. Imagine how much healthier and thinner you’ll be when soft drinks are finally out of your life and your body regains its natural balance, free from the ravaging health effects of a beverage some call, “liquid candy.”

Read The Five Soft Drink Monsters and kick the soft drink habit for good. Your body (and your brain) will thank you for it.

Health News

How ‘Mad Cow’ Prions Pose a Threat to All Non-Organic Food Consumers Including Vegetarians

June 30th, 2008

LONDON: A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, have shown that that infectious prions - thought to be the causative agents in mad cow disease and human vCJD - can survive wastewater decontamination and wind up in fertiliser, potentially contaminating fruit and vegetables.

Microbiologist Joel Pedersen, of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, US, who led the study, said that the prions would be present in such low quantities that they are unlikely to pose a health threat, but as a precaution, ‘we should prevent the entry of prions into wastewater treatment plants.’

He said that prions could end up in wastewater treatment plants through slaughterhouse drains, hunted game cleaned in a sink, or humans with vCJD shedding prions in their urine or faeces.

Prior studies have suggested that prions can survive heat treatment and caustic chemicals.

However, to see how prions fare during sewage treatment, Pedersen’s research team spiked sludge from a local treatment plant with infectious prions, and then subjected the toxic brew to a typical wastewater treatment regimen.

This typically involves three weeks of filtration, separation and incubation with microbes that break down contaminants in the sludge, resulting in clean water and ‘biosolids’ free of most human pathogens, which can be used as a fertiliser.

When Pedersen’s team tested the sewage soup at various stages, they found the water was clean, but the biosolids were contaminated with prions.

“The sludge digestion seems to have no effect on the prion protein,” New Scientist quoted him, as saying.

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House Passes 15% Renewable Energy by 2020

June 30th, 2008

The United States House of Representatives has passed an Energy Bill requiring utility companies to produce 15 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar power by 2020.

The Bill passed in the House on a 241-172 vote, despite strong opposition from electric utility companies and the White House, which has threatened to veto the measure. Twenty six Republicans voted in favor and nine Democrats opposed the bill.

A senior analyst for Lazard Capital Markets described the bill as “a significant positive step towards creating a cohesive energy policy.”

The renewable electricity standard applies only to investor-owned utilities and exempts rural electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the state of Hawaii from the mandate.

The bill also calls for stronger energy efficiency standards for appliances and lighting and incentives for building more energy-efficient buildings. The bill bans the sale of 100-watt incandescent light bulbs by 2012 and requires that all bulbs be 300% more efficient than today’s ordinary bulbs by 2020. The bill also includes a range of loan guarantees, federal grants and tax breaks for alternative energy programs. These include building biomass factories, research into making ethanol from wood chips and switch grass and producing better batteries for hybrid cars.

The bill will repeal a tax break for oil companies from 2004, and another tax break relating to income from foreign oil production. Critics of the two tax breaks called them loopholes that the industry had taken advantage of.

The 786-page House energy bill does not include an increase in fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. That issue, as well as whether to force major increases in the use of E85 fuel as a substitute for gasoline, were left to be negotiated when the House bill is merged with energy legislation the Senate passed in June.

“There’s a war going on against energy from fossil fuels” said Representative Ralph Hall, Republican-Texas. Representative Joe Barton predicted the bill “isn’t going to go anywhere” because President Bush would veto it if it reaches his desk.

In a somewhat surprising comment from the White House, they accused the bill of making “no serious attempts to increase our energy security”. This defies commonsense as by producing more electricity from domestic renewable sources rather than with imported natural gas by definition increases the United States’ diversity and security of energy supply.

As with all legislation the details (such as a subsidy for installing gas pumps for expensive and inefficient E85 fuel) need to be checked carefully. Regardless a 15% renewable energy standard is good news.

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Bird Flu and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19

June 30th, 2008

The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918-19 killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in history. It is believed that between 50 and 100 million died from what was then known as “Spanish Flu”. Extraordinary. It most often killed those in the prime of life, and it killed with extraordinary swiftness, often ripping the lungs apart.Newspaper reports from those years provide a grim picture of the carnage caused by the pandemic. “Death itself would come fast… reports were common of people who toppled off horses, collapsed on the sidewalk…We have had a number of cases where people were perfectly healthy and died within twelve hours…One robust person showed the first symptoms at 4:00P.M. and died by 10:00P.M..” For those serving in the military, the impact of the pandemic was catastrophic. The captain of the World War I troop transport ship the Leviathan would report “The burials at sea began…The transports became floating caskets.” Death rates in military encampments were equally horrific.

There is new genetic research showing that the deadly outbreak of 1918-19 was a strain of avian or bird flu.

Health News

What is Homeopathy?

June 30th, 2008
  • HOMEOPATHY, THE ART OF HEALING
    By Dr. André Saine, D.C., N.D., F.C.A.H.

Homeopathy is the essence of the art of healing. When homeopathy is well practiced, it is the medicine of choice to recover one’s health from the great majority of acute and chronic problems.

Homeopathy is a scientific method of treatment that is based on the application of the law of similars. For thousands of years, man searched for a method to promote healing which is efficient, gentle and permanent. Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who lived between 1755-1843, pursued this philosophical and scientific quest by developing an ideal system of therapeutics which brought together a number of discoveries and reflections found throughout the history of medicine. After years of perfecting this therapeutic method, he called it homeopathy, by uniting two Greek roots, homoios meaning “similar,” and pathos meaning, “what one feels.” Homeopathy consists of treating sick people with remedies that, in crude doses, would produce in healthy people symptoms similar (homoios) to those of the disease needing to be overcome.

Remedies used by homeopathic physicians come from natural sources and are prepared in such a way that they are devoid of all chemical toxicity. In conventional medicine, drugs are generally given for their effects on the organism, while in homeopathy, the unique remedy is given to provoke a reaction of the organism. Since only the living organism can heal itself, the homeopathic remedy is merely an influence used to provoke a reaction to bring about recovery. The greater the degree of similarity between the symptoms that are provoked by the remedy on a healthy person and the symptoms displayed by the person who is sick, the greater will be the recovery reaction.

FREE your Mind

The Secret to Health DVD

June 30th, 2008

 

The Secret to Health DVD

    The Secret to Health

The Secret to Health reveals information that has been suppressed by the medical establishment for over 100 years! Learn how you can restore your health, increase your energy and vitality, and take control of your body again!

90% of Disease is Caused by Toxins Entering the Body!

Every single day, your body absorbs millions of toxins from genetically modified foods, pesticides, meat, dairy, soy, white flour, table salt, MSG (monosodium glutamate), microwaved foods, refined sugar, and artificial sweeteners. You also receive toxins from caffeine, alcohol, electromagnetic radiation, heavy metals, parasites, industrial chemicals, and prescription drugs. These impurities contaminate nearly everything we eat, drink, touch, or breathe and they are the root cause of disease!

Did You Know?

  • You should have three bowel movements every day, not two or three per week!
  • Constipation and other digestive disorders afflict 1 out of every 5 people in America, with the average person carrying up to 15lbs of impacted waste in their colon!
  • Experts estimate 9 out of 10 people have parasites in their bodies and don’t know it!
  • Playing on a typical floor exposes babies’ lungs to the equivalent of four cigarettes in the form of contaminants from mold, mildew, and dust mites!
  • Most pharmaceutical drugs list constipation as a major side effect!
  • Unnecessary medical procedures and prescription drug use in the U.S. accounts for over 700,000 deaths annually!

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The worst abuses in factory farming

June 30th, 2008

warning: these links may contain video’s containing animal abuse not suitable for children

 

Hogs and pigs
Cows
Laying hens and fattening chicks
Turkeys
Minks
Rabbits
International Transportation
The Fishing Industry

Hogs and pigsPigs have to be kept in the dark for nearly 24 hours to keep them calm. As from 2002 pig breeders will be compelled to keep pigs on two thirds of solid floor. One third of a pig’s floor is made of grid, to let the manure fall through. For this reason they are in the smell of ammonia all day long. The animals stand on the grid floor all day, which cause them to suffer from foot injuries. Because they live almost permanent in half or complete darkness (to keep them calm) in very small cages, they are not used to anything and they panic when they have to be transported to the slaughterhouse (usually after 3 to 6 months). This is all the worse during long distance exportations. Just in the Netherlands alone, about 10.000 pigs and piglets are transported every day, to go to the slaughterhouse or to be fattened up in a far away country. Pigs are bad travellers. They are very sensitive to stress and get sick very easily along the way.

When they have youngsters, sows are jammed between two rails, so that they cannot turn around and take care of the piglets, only feed them. This is done to prevent the sow from crushing a piglet to death, because of the lack of space. The piglets are brought to the weaning section after the nursing period of 3 to 4 weeks (instead of the natural 14 weeks). At the age of about 72 days they go to the fattening farm, where 14 of them are put in a sty of 10 m², usually on a grid floor without straw.

Dairy cowsDairy cows, at average, don’t live longer than four and a half years. In ideal circumstances they can reach the age of thirty, but their production level diminishes from the age of about six. During their lives they have a calf every year, because this is the only way to start the production of milk.

10% of the cows have to stay in the stable their entire life, to obtain a higher production level. If farmers will not be legally obliged to keep the animals on the meadow for a part of the year, by the year 2015 (as expected), 75% of all cows in the Netherlands will be kept inside.

  CalvesThe calf is taken away immediately or after a week at the most, to prevent bonding between mother and child. They are kept in hutches. These are the white, domed, igloo-like structures that some farmers use as outdoor “nurseries”. The hutch keeps the young calves isolated from other calves. In their first eight weeks the calves have a strong tendency to suck. When they are not allowed to drink at their mother they would suck at the bodyparts of other calves.
  The males (boars) are castrated without anaesthesia, in order to satisfy the foreign market, because of the alleged influence of male hormones on the scent of the meat. This actually isn’t the case with pigs that are slaughtered at such a young age.
Sows suffer from severe stress (e.g. heart- and stomach symptoms) because of the limitation of freedom of movement. Out of frustration they often chew on the rails of their cage. Naturally, pigs are very playful and intelligent animals.Read more about the welfare problems of pigs on the site of CIWF (Compassion in World Farming).
At the beginning of the year 2000, an investigation of the AID (Dutch Inspection Service which checks the compliance with the law in accordance with animals in Holland) showed that over 50% of the farmers violate even the minimum welfare regulations for pigs and deliberately make the animals suffer. More often than not, the pigs are kept in very tight housing, dim to dark sties, with a lack of distraction material. By keeping the animals in smaller cages, pig breeders can avoid the purchase of ammonia rights.

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