Mother's Junk Food Harms Child

Eating a poor diet when pregnant or breastfeeding may cause long-lasting health damage to the child, animal studies suggest.

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My Comment:

This reminds me of Pottenger's Cats. Between the years of 1932 and 1942, Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger, Jr. conducted a feeding experiment to determine the effects of heat-processed food on cats.
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/Articles/PottsCats.htm

"Pottenger's findings must be seen in the context of the Price research and can be interpreted as follows: When the human diet produces "facial deformities"—the progressive narrowing of the face and crowding of the teeth—extinction will occur if that diet is followed for several generations. The implications for western civilization-obsessed as it is with refined, highly sweetened convenience foods and low-fat items—is profound."
http://www.westonaprice.org/nutritiongreats/pottenger.html

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GMOs Eliminated by 4 Year Old

Four year old Adam Corrigan talks to Health Beat about the dangers of genetically modified foods. Click Here To Watch GMO Video

To help inform other parents, Adam made copies of a free audio CD that he downloaded from Jeffrey Smith's website:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/EducationalMaterials/

Parents, rid your school of GMO's by taking action. Step 1, visit this site:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Campaigns/GM-FreeSchools/

Here are some genetically engineered food facts from Organic Consumers Association:

SURVEY OF THE WEEK:
CBS NEWS & NEW YORK TIMES POLL CONSUMERS ABOUT GE FOODS
53%: Percentage of polled Americans who say they won't buy food that has ingredients from genetically engineered (GE) plants.
65%: Actual percentage of products on grocery store shelves that contain unlabeled GE ingredients (usually soy or corn derived).
90%: Portion of U.S. grown soybeans that are genetically engineered.
99%: Estimated likelihood that the U.S. sugar supply will start to be sourced from genetically engineered plants this year.

SUSTAINABILITY FACTS OF THE WEEK:
SMALL FARMS ARE MORE PRODUCTIVE AND PROFITABLE
A 1,000 acre U.S. corporate farm growing genetically engineered crops nets an average of $39 an acre. In contrast, a four-acre family farm nets, on average, $1,400 per acre. Small organic farms are proving to be even more profitable. With oil prices on the rise, growing food without petroleum-based pesticides/fertilizers, and delivering that food to local markets will quickly prove to be the most affordable food available.

Healthy Lifestyle Triggers Genetic Changes: Study

After the three months, the men had changes in activity in about 500 genes -- including 48 that were turned on and 453 genes that were turned off.

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My Comment:

We've all heard it...

"There's nothing we can do, it genetic."

Obesity, cancer, autism, diabetes, auto-immune disease, and the list goes on.

Now, there is scientific proof that there is something you can do. Eat real whole unprocessed organic food. It's that simple. Clean up your diet and clean up your genetic makeup.

I was talking to my brother about and he immediately thought about the inverse.

It's not that eating good food can "cure" disease, it's the fact that we are eating garbage that "causes" diseases. His analogy: A drunk guy who drinks a fifth of whiskey every day switches over to drinking spring water. "Spring water cures alcoholism!!!" That sounds silly to everyone. I've known people who cured cancer by changing their diet. Or more correctly, I know people who caused their own cancer by a bad diet.

Eat well and be well.

FDA Busted! Poisoned Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings

The FDA has now been forced to acknowledge a fact so fundamental that, by any measure of honest science, it should have adopted the position decades ago. What position is that? Simply that mercury is toxic to humans.

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My Comment:

Mercury fillings, aka silver amalgam fillings, have never been tested for safety. When 1976 legislation required the FDA to classify all medical and dental devices, the agency "grandfathered" its approval of amalgam fillings under the GRAS (generally recognized as safe) category.

In the 1980's, the Environmental Protection Agency fined a group of dentists for the improper disposal of amalgam fillings. The EPA views silver dental fillings as a hazardous substance because they contain mercury. In fact, over 70 million tons of mercury is used annually in dentistry. And you though the mercury in your CFL bulbs were dangerous.

Now the FDA statement on mercury filling is:
"Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetus."

Somebody from the FDA should call the ADA (American Dental Association).

The ADA has this statement on their website:
"Dental amalgam has been studied and reviewed extensively, and has established a record of safety and effectiveness."

What should you do?

Don't replace mercury fillings (or get new ones) when you are pregnant. The process of drilling out old fillings releases mercury vapors and can do serious damage to you and your unborn child.