Excerpts from an article on High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Because high fructose corn syrup mixes easily, extends shelf-life and is as much as 20 percent cheaper than other sources of sugar, large-scale food manufacturers love it. It can help prevent freezer burn, so you’ll find it on the labels of many frozen foods. It helps breads brown and keeps them soft, which is why hot dog buns and even English muffins hold unexpected amounts.

Further, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2002 published research that showed that teenagers’ milk consumption between 1965 and 1996 decreased by 36 percent, while soda consumption increased by more than 200 percent. Bray argues that without calcium, which nutritionists agree can help the body regulate weight, kids got fatter. He says that he could find no other single combination of environmental or food changes that were as significant to the rise in obesity.

Other studies by researchers at UC Davis and the University of Michigan have shown that consuming fructose, which is more readily converted to fat by the liver, increases the levels of fat in the bloodstream in the form of triglycerides.

And unlike other types of carbohydrate made up of glucose, fructose does not stimulate the pancreas to produce insulin. Peter Havel, a nutrition researcher at UC Davis who studies the metabolic effects of fructose, has also shown that fructose fails to increase the production of leptin, a hormone produced by the body’s fat cells.

Both insulin and leptin act as signals to the brain to turn down the appetite and control body weight. And in another metabolic twist, Havel’s research shows that fructose does not appear to suppress the production of ghrelin, a hormone that increases hunger and appetite.

“Because fructose in isolation doesn’t activate the hormones that regulate body weight as do other types of carbohydrate composed of glucose, consuming a diet high in fructose could lead to taking in more calories and, over time, to weight gain,” he says.

Excerpts from another article on High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Because of the unusually long shelf life of HFCS, store-bought cakes, cookies, brownies, mixes, breads, sodas, juices, tomato sauce and all of the rest could be sold with practically no expiration date. HFCS, despite misleading labels that read “all natural,” is an ENTIRELY man-made substance. It’s almost indestructible. Like Styrofoam, eternal and immortal.

So, the absolutely spine-tingling fact is that shortly after the 1970s, and especially throughout the 1980s, HFCS began to replace sucrose (table sugar, cane sugar, or beet sugar) in almost everything. This means that for the last 25 years — a lifetime for some reading this — this jacked-up, messed up “all-natural” toxic sweetener has been in all of our foods as we developed into the fat ADD-riddled little monsters that we are.

In laboratory tests High Fructose Corn Syrup causes male rats to never fully develop their testicles. And High Fructose Corn Syrup also causes the hearts of female rats to expand until they burst.

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune
system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the
bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ??damage, like liver,??kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and
radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also
cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes
like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour. Better alternative is Bragg’s aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk
and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline
environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy?cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting
properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrified and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack
the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor- essence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.)
to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down
to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.

Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.

Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard.
He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.

He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.

This especially applies to foods that contain fat.

He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of
the body.

Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant Ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.

He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the
microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

By Allison Samuels
Newsweek

Feb. 12, 2007 issue - When Harriet Washington, a med-school graduate and former fellow in ethics at Harvard Medical School, decided to research medical crimes against African-Americans, she feared she’d turn up much more than the Tuskegee experiment. She was right.

Washington’s new book, “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present,” reveals that the 40-year Tuskegee study—which allowed black men with syphilis to die untreated so their cadavers could be used for research—was neither the first nor the last time that unwitting black subjects were exploited by medical researchers in the United States. “Tuskegee is just the most well-known example,” says Washington, currently a visiting scholar at DePaul Law School.

“Medical Apartheid” starts with the chilling story of John (Fed) Brown, an escaped slave in 1855 who recalled his owner, a doctor, causing blisters on his arms and legs to see “how deep his black skin went.” The study, if that’s the word for it, had no therapeutic value. It reflected a distorted fascination with the outward appearance of African-Americans at a time when racial differences were thought to be much more than skin deep.

“One thing that surprised me,” Washington told NEWSWEEK, “was the brutal honesty of the doctors’ notes. There was no hiding their racist views. They made it clear how they felt about African-Americans and saw no problem with what they were doing. They were proud to write it down.”

But “Apartheid’s” tales are not limited to the politically incorrect past. The forced sterilization of black women (what civil-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer called her “Mississippi appendectomy”) got its start during slavery, but continued in less overt forms until recent years. A 1991 experiment that implanted the now defunct birth-control device Norplant into uninformed African-American teenagers in Baltimore was applauded by some as a way to “reduce the underclass.”

But perhaps the most egregious case Washington documents involved a study conducted in New York from 1988 to 2001, in which a city agency tested potentially dangerous AIDS drugs on African-American foster children with HIV, often without permission of their parents. The children were 6 months of age and younger. “Eighty percent of the children in foster care in New York are black,” says Washington, “and many of them have parents who aren’t available to them because of drugs or whatever. They’re perfect victims.”

Washington also highlights the dual face of abuse, how many medical advances resulted from unethical research. J. Marion Sims, a leading 19th-century physician, president of the American Medical Association and one of the first doctors to emphasize women’s health, developed many of his gynecological treatments through experiments on non-consenting slave women who were denied the comfort of anesthesia.

Thanks to this brutal history, many African-Americans today are wary of participating in potentially lifesaving medical studies. “That’s really the true cost of all of these abusive practices,” says Washington. “Because of past crimes against our health, we’re too afraid to trust those in authority.” A recent study in The American Journal of Law & Medicine estimated that only 1 percent of the nearly 20 million Americans enrolled in biomedical studies are black.

Still, the author sees signs of progress. Many of the medical schools that were guilty of experimenting on African-Americans in the past have agreed to let her lecture to incoming medical classes. “My hope is this opens a door to conversation,” says Washington. “By bringing these atrocities out in the public, some healing can occur and some of the fears African-Americans feel will begin to dissolve.”

From Newsweek

From The Impious Digest

Among boys drinking water with 30% to 99% of the fluoride levels recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of osteosarcoma was estimated to be five times as great as among boys drinking nonfluoridated water. At 100% or more, the risk was an estimated seven times as high. The association was greatest for boys six to eight.

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Fluoridation and Damage to Tooth Forming Cells
FLUOROSIS: Due to increased exposures to fluoride, millions of children in the U.S. are developing dental fluorosis (damage to tooth-forming cells). Click here to learn more… Dental fluorosis is an irreversible condition caused by excessive ingestion of fluoride during the tooth forming years. It is the first visible sign that a child has been overexposed to fluoride. See Source SITE

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Fluoride can only work topically, and is not meant for ingestion. You don’t drink suntan lotion to prevent sunburns, so why should you drink fluoride to prevent tooth decay? Why add it to drinking water?

Harvard Study: In Children, Fluoridation Increases Bone Cancer Risk by 5-7 Times

Does fluoride really help fight tooth decay? Yes, but only if applied topically and NOT ingested.

You don’t drink suntan lotion to prevent sunburns, so why should you drink fluoride to prevent tooth decay? Yet this is the pseudoscience promulgated by Colgate and a few self-serving, amoral dentists on their payroll. Let’s face it, if we all had great teeth, dentistry would die as we know it. It is simply not in the interest of the profession that everyone have healthy teeth. So what to do about it? how about creating bad teeth where none existed before? by any means necessary? By the rabid support of fluoridation by certain dental organizations, you would be understandably suspicious of their motives being somewhat less than benevolent. The fact is, in areas where fluoridation is introduced, you will always see an increase of dental offices, not a decrease. A new dentist won’t set up shop in an area where there is little or no clients.

Hell, why stop at fluoride and suntan lotion? if we must equate topical with internal, then let’s add Desenex to our drinking water too! maybe that will curb the rise in athlete’s foot this summer. Let’s throw in anti-perspirants too! Imagine it: a glass of water that will curb our b.o. before a date! Who cares if we might end up with flipper babies or blindness, right? Topical equates with internal now.

Drinking fluoride, which is what happens when you add it to drinking water, creates a new problem altogether, one that eliminates any possible benefit. Such ingestion may very well introduce a psychoactive carcinogen to the body. Indeed, how many of us are ever told that major anti-depressants such as Prozac and Paxil contain fluoride? Now, this isn’t to demonize these drugs, on the contrary, they are essential. The point is that fluoride contains psychoactive properties which act directly upon the brain and thyroid gland and as we’ll examine herein, adversely affect tooth enamel forming cells in children- ameloblasts. Instead of preventing dental visits, they cause them, and worse, fluorosis is irreversible.

This makes it doubly unwise to add psychoactive chemicals like fluoride haphazardly into our drinking water under the pretext of preventing tooth decay. There’s a reason why western nations have abandoned the pseudoscience of cavity prevention via fluoride ingestion. When it comes to poisoning our drinking water, which is the issue here, make no mistake, we should carefully examine each and every legislator who proposes increased fluoridation, and opposes the elimination of adding fluoride to our drinking water. Some dentists have also formed powerful alliances to fight the fluoridation of our drinking water, to be sure, but they are seldom heard. They have to fight over a half-century of myth and legislation. Their most obvious manifestation of success is the boom in bottled drinking water.

Why do consumers spend 100 billion dollars yearly on bottled drinking water? To avoid fluoride! It’s not like Americans are in the dark about it. Some in the mass media have even questioned our blind embrace of fluoridation; of a pseudoscience that a major Harvard study has linked to bone cancer in children, let alone fluorosis.

For example, consider the next two articles from the Chicago Sun Times and the Wall Street Journal, respectively…

Did prof lie about fluoride-cancer link?

Chicago Sun Times
July 15, 2005

BOSTON — Harvard University said it is investigating whether a dentistry prof essor who edits a newsletter funded by a toothpaste maker played down research showing an increased cancer risk from drinking fluoridated tap water.

The school will work with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to review Chester Douglass’ research into fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, Harvard Medical School spokesman John Lacey said.

The institute gave a $1.3 million study grant in 1992 to Douglass, editor of the Colgate Oral Health Report, who found the odds of having osteosarcoma after drinking fluoridated water were ”not statistically different” from the odds for those who drank non-fluoridated water.

But a doctoral student who studied some of the same people reported in her 2001 thesis that boys who drink fluoridated water appear to have an increased risk of developing the bone cancer. AP

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Fluoridation, Cancer: Did Researchers Ask The Right Questions?

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Friday 22 July 2005
By Sharon Begley; Page B1

WHEN HEALTH OFFICIALS decided to add fluoride to the water supply of Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1945, they plunged ahead despite the lack of a rigorous, large-scale study of the risks and benefits. And for most of the next 60 years, fluoridation research has gone pretty much like that. It has not been science’s finest hour.

Questions about fluoridation have returned with renewed vigor because of allegations of scientific misconduct against a prominent researcher at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. The Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization in Washington, charged last month that Chester Douglass misrepresented an unpublished study about bone cancer and fluoridated tap water. In written testimony to the National Research Council last year, Dr. Douglass said he had found no evidence that fluoridation increased risk of osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer. But a 2001 study he cited, and oversaw, found that boys who drink fluoridated water have a greater risk of developing the disease. (Dr. Douglass did not respond to requests for comment.)

More interesting than what Dr. Douglass said or didn’t say, however, is the study he swept under the rug. It was conducted by one of his doctoral students, Elise Bassin. She started with the same raw data as her mentor — 139 people with osteosarcoma and 280 healthy “controls” — but saw a way to improve on it. Since most of the 400 people diagnosed in the U.S. each year with osteosarcoma are kids, and since any ill effect of fluoride would likely come when bones are growing most quickly, she focused on the 91 patients who were under 20.

HER RESULT: Among boys drinking water with 30% to 99% of the fluoride levels recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of osteosarcoma was estimated to be five times as great as among boys drinking nonfluoridated water. At 100% or more, the risk was an estimated seven times as high. The association was greatest for boys six to eight.

To be sure, one study proves nothing. Moreover, Dr. Bassin hasn’t published her core findings (though in 2004 she and colleagues published a description of their methodologies). As Boston University epidemiologist Richard Clapp says, “Peer review picks up things that even doctoral students at Harvard might miss.”

So I asked scientists to read the study. BU’s Kenneth Rothman, founding editor of the journal Epidemiology, called it of “publishable quality.” Zeroing in on young patients, he said, was good science: “If there were an adverse effect of fluoride, it’s possible an effect of early exposure would be manifest in the first 20 years of life - but not after.” Looking at all ages, in other words, could conceal any link between fluoridation and cancer.

Besides focusing on kids, Dr. Bassin and her colleagues found out where each cancer patient ever lived, and what kind of water they drank when. Other studies have just noted what water a patient was drinking at the time of diagnosis. The problem with that is, you risk classifying someone as drinking nonfluoridated water who in fact drank fluoridated water when it mattered — in childhood. The result is that the osteosarcoma rates of people drinking fluoridated water might look no different from those of people drinking nonfluoridated. “She did great shoe-leather epidemiology,” says William Maas, head of oral health at the CDC and a supporter of fluoridation.

PREVIOUS STUDIES have been contradictory. A 1991 animal study by the National Toxicology Program concluded that fluoride might raise the risk of osteosarcoma, but only in male rats, not female. Also in 1991, a scientist at the National Cancer Institute found “an unexplained increase” in osteosarcoma in men under 20 in fluoridated communities. Most human studies, though, provide “no credible evidence for an association between fluoride in drinking water and the risk of cancer,” said a 1993 NRC report.

But when you look carefully at the negative studies, you have to wonder. Some investigated a link to all cancers; because osteosarcoma is rare, an increase would be unlikely to show up in that vast sea. Other studies were tiny, or included adults as old as 84, which would wash out effects that target kids. Most categorized osteosarcoma patients as drinking fluoridated or nonfluoridated water based on where they lived at diagnosis, not as kids. Concerned about such lapses, the NRC report called the studies “of limited sensitivity.”

Even if fluoridation causes just a few hundred cases of osteosarcoma every year, does the public health benefit justify that risk? “When we started fluoridating water, we thought to get the benefits it would have to get incorporated into the enamel before the tooth erupted,” which happens only if you swallow it, says the CDC’s Dr. Maas. But that turns out not to be so. Topical fluoride, as in gels and toothpaste, works at least as well.

Most proponents now say fluoridation cuts the rate of tooth decay 18% to 25%. How much is that? Less than one tooth surface. “The absolute impact of 18% or even 25% is low,” says Stephen Levy of the University of Iowa, who supports fluoridation.

The next authoritative report on fluoridation will be the NRC’s. One scientist close to the committee thinks it may be released this fall, months later than expected. “We thought this was going to be routine,” he says. “It wasn’t.” With fluoridation, it seldom is.

In the absence of any objective medical tests to determine who has ADD or ADHD, doctors rely in part on standardized assessments and the impressions of teachers and guardians while the they administer leave little room for other causes or aggravating factors, such as diet, or environment. Hence, diagnosing a child or adolescent with ADD or ADHD is often the outcome, although no organic basis for either disease has yet to be clinically proven.

Psychiatrists may then prescribe psychotropic drugs for the children without first without making it clear to parents that these medications can have severe side-effects including insomnia, loss of appetite, headaches, psychotic symptoms and even potentially fatal adverse reactions, such as cardiac arrhythmia. And yet, despite these dangers, many school systems actually work with government agencies to force parents to drug their children, threatening those who refuse with the prospect of having their children taken from the home unless they cooperate.

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The human body is designed to do a pretty good job of taking care of itself. If you get a cut, the cut will heal. If you break a bone, the bone will heal. If you catch a cold, you will get over it - provided you eat healthy, keep good thoughts, exercise and get your rest. Healing is a process involving many factors, not the least of which is time. Some people, however, don’t seem to have the patience to go through the process. In other words, they don’t want to wait to get better.

The most successful predator, like an alligator at the water’s edge, always waits for the prey (a wildebeest, for example), to get impatient, too thirsty for its own good.

This vulnerable mentality isn’t limited to the stress of bathroom emergencies, getting sick in public, or running late for an appointment. It is most notably seen in people’s illusionary attitudes about beauty, strength, and power. Businesses identify this market and cater to it, nurturing it into a fat farm of spoiled tit-sucking babies. Mankind’s need to hold onto its youth fuel’s multi billion dollar industries. From cosmetics, exercise programs and supportive technologies to dietary programs, supplements and the modern medicine man: the pharmaceutical industry.

Designed for people for whom contracting the flu was a serious inconvenience, the flu shot offered a quick fix or short cut to eliminating flu symptoms. It was considered a wonder drug. Unfortunately for people, and fortunately for business – life, in all its forms, has this quirky ability to adapt. The over-administration of this drug merely provoked the flu virus to develop a resistance to the drug. Ultimately the little bug had to work out a little bit - get a few muscles, become more virulent.

What once used to have someone under the weather for a couple of days, was now kicking their butts for almost a week or more. What the body would ordinarily be able to fight off with its own immune system, becomes something altogether different – a mutant pathogen. Run for your lives! A monster is on the loose!

But wait! Look! On the horizon! Waving the pink flag with the purple pill in the middle and all the fine print at the bottom! Its our hero!

The man in the white lab coat and the friendly smile is here to save the day, passing out from one hand the cherry flavored poison that will kill this evil plague and in the other hand raking in the desperate generosity of the fearful and ignorant. This is how pharmaceutical companies work, stay in business and make goo-gobs of money off of monsters they have grown.

When you’ve got medications for medications, something is wrong. When you have to risk bleeding ulcers to get some relief from a tooth ache, something is wrong. When you have to risk blindness or your brain falling out of your ears just to kill some toe fungus - I tell you, something is wrong. But it must be okay with everybody else - because nobody’s stopped making them and nobody’s stopped taking them.

For those however, who ARE a bit bothered by this madness, might I suggest something small? Don’t panic when something goes wrong and rush to the cabinet, pop off all the lids to the pill bottles and going for broke. No.

The next time you have a headache, take a magazine with you in the bathroom and relax on the toilet.
The next time you feel lethargic, go get a tall glass of water.
The next time you feel a cold coming on, have some greens for dinner… and something spicy.
The next time you feel worn out, go to bed.
And the next time you are starving, eat some fruit… as much as you want - your favorite at that.

Stepping out of the madness will give you time to look at life differently. It will give you a chance to look at you differently. When you get there, don’t hold back. Go ahead and smile, laugh and cry. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. You might be surprised at how alive it makes you feel. The funny thing is that what works for one person, people assume will work for everyone. But we are all different and unique. That’s how God made us. What works for one may not necessarily work for another. You have to get to know your body. You have to get to know yourself. Or you can keep going to the crack house, ahem, I mean, the pharmacy.