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| harlee and ashlee |
| 04.29.04 (7:14 am) [edit] |
[b]HARLEE and ASHLEE [/b]
"Dear Thinktwice,
"I recently took our only children, Harley (2 months) and Ashlee (2 years), to the doctor for their well-baby appointments. Harley had the sniffles and Ashlee had a cold, otherwise both were in perfect health.
"Harley was given his first DPT, oral polio, and Hib shots. Ashlee received her first Hib and MMR shots, as well as her third DPT and fourth oral polio shots.
"After the vaccinations I laid the children down for their naps. Harley woke first; his thighs were red. I heard Ashlee wake and then I heard a 'THUMP!' Ashlee fell flat on the floor. She cried out `Mommy, me no walk!' I checked her over and stood her up; there was no strength in either leg.
"I called the hospital and rushed Ashlee to the emergency ward. I left Harley with a responsible woman to look after him while we were away. At the hospital we waited more than 20 minutes for the doctor to finish his popcorn before he would check Ashlee. He never touched her, nor was she undressed. The official report stated that the child couldn't walk, 'no other problem.
"When we returned home, Harley was high-pitched screaming. The babysitter said it started more than one-and-a-half hours before. He was inconsolable. He finally screamed himself into exhaustion two hours later. I called the emergency ward. They recommended a warm bath and told me it was 'nothing to worry about.'
"For ten days Harley's behavior changed. He barely slept, hardly ate, and seemed to be getting worse. On May 17, 1991, at 9:00 a.m., my husband got up, checked on Harley, and yelled out, `Bonnie, get up, call the ambulance. Harley is dead!'
"The state police and county coroner arrived with the ambulance. The coroner peered into the ambulance, never examined Harley, and stated, 'SIDS.' Harley was then rushed away. My husband and I didn't get to see him again for more than three days, until 1:00 p.m. on May 20, 1991 -- in his coffin!
"My adopted parents came to Harley's funeral. My father (I use that term loosely) screamed out: `Which one of you killed my grandson?' My husband's family stays away; they think we should stop mourning for Harley and get on with our life.
"I want to mention the following points:
* The attendant giving the vaccines never mentioned the possibility of side effects when we were rushed through the signing of the releases.
* Ashlee has been to doctors since her paralysis. They never documented our verbal concerns regarding a connection to the vaccines.
* The autopsy lists Harley as a 5-week-old baby; he was 9 weeks old.
* The pathology department never received tissue samples. Also, Harley's blood arrived by U.S. mail after an eleven-day wait; it was not shipped on dry ice.
* The doctor never recorded the lot numbers of the vaccines. The manufacturers cannot help us without this information.
* An administrator at the Minot Air Force Base (where the vaccines were administered), told us: `Get on with your lives, drop this search. It's only a baby.'
* We were rejected for compensation through the Federal Vaccine Compensation Act.
* Two U.S congressional inquiries are underway to secure information regarding our children's health care.
"What is life like today? Empty. The government is taking their time. Ashlee's medical future is at risk. We cannot even test for permanent damage yet.
"It is sad that the government does not care about our babies. They do not care that an innocent child is dead because of their neglect, and desire to pretend everything is okay. Our son is not able to rest in peace because of the bureaucratic red-tape. Harley has been dead for more than two years. When will the government stop running our lives, even after death? What is next?"
Information provided by thinktwice.com http://www.thinktwice.com
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| killer coke!!!!!!!! |
| 04.28.04 (9:08 pm) [edit] |
[u][b]Killer COKE [/b][/u]
Keith Hyams
The Ecologist
April 2004
In the summer of 2003 Coca-Cola hit the Indian headlines after it was revealed that traces of fertilizer far in excess of acceptable limits had been found by the Centre for Science and Environment in Coke's products. Sales of its soft drinks declined across India as accusations of consumer poisoning and counter accusations of sloppy science were traded in the pages of the major Indian newspapers. That was when Indian journalists began to take an interest in Plachimada. Although the locals had been complaining for two years that the bottling plant adjacent to their village was destroying their livelihoods, their complaints had, until the national 'fertilizer in soft drinks' scare broke, largely fallen on deaf ears.
I'm sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in Kerala, South India. Plachimada is a farming village of about eight hundred families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the mountains of the Western Ghats towering above in the distance. Behind me a child holds a placard which reads 'Fresh Air, Fresh Water, Our Birth Right!'. Local villagers have been keeping an ongoing vigil here for five hundred and eighteen days now, and I've come to find out why.
Coca-Cola arrived in Plachimada three years ago. The site was selected because it had one of the most plentiful supplies of groundwater in the state and because, being situated near to the border between Kerala and Tamil Nadu, it provided an ideal location from which to supply soft drinks to both states. Quite why Kerela needed Coca-Cola at all was a bit of a puzzle to me: I passed stalls all over the place selling delicious freshly blended fruit juices in a multitude of flavours. They took thirty eight hectares of prime agricultural land and built a big factory which soon began turning water into fizzy pop, churning out as many as 1 224 000 bottles per day. This massive operation requires a lot of water. Around one and a half million litres of groundwater per day in fact, five times the amount of water which actually ends up in the bottles. Needless to say, Coca-Cola pays nothing to the local villagers for their precious groundwater.
'It wasn't long after Coca-Cola arrived that our problems began', says Veloor Somindan, leader of the campaign. 'Once this district, Chittur taluk, was known as the ricebowl of Kerala. We had the most fertile soil and the best yields anywhere in the state. But now the ground is dry, rice and coconut harvests across the taluk have declined to as low as one quarter of what they once were'. Around twenty thousand farmers have seen their income plummet over the last two years. Veloor, who is married and has two daughters, tells me that he can barely afford to support his family anymore.
It is not only the fields that have dried up. So too have the wells. Whereas, before Coca-Cola's arrival, villagers were able to draw water from wells just 150ft deep, now they often don't even get water at a depth of 500ft. But even that water is useless. A year after Coca-Cola arrived, water in the local wells turned a strange colour and villagers began complaining of fever, stomach pains, headaches and diarrhoea. Child mortality rates also increased suddenly. It was as late as 6th August 2003 that the District Medical Officer eventually told the villagers that the water in Plachimada was toxic and unsafe for drinking. Now all eight hundred families have no choice but to make a four kilometre round trip on foot, twice daily, to collect water from outside the toxic zone. It is usually the women who get shouldered with this work. They spend so much of the day collecting water that they are unable to seek other employment which could supplement the declining income that the land provides.
No-one is totally sure what caused the poisoning of the local water supply, but all the theories on offer link the problem to Coca-Cola. Dr. Mark Chernaik, a scientist with ELAW US, a network of environmental lawyers, attributes the toxicity to the dissolution of limestone or clay as a result of the excessively rapid flow of water through the rock caused by groundwater extraction. Others claim, quite plausibly, that it is due to pollution from Coca-Cola's waste, which leeches through into the ground water.
The latter theory is particularly likely in view of Coca-Cola's criminal distribution of waste sludge to local farmers. Farmers were encouraged to spread the sludge on their land, being told that it was an excellent fertilizer which would improve their crop. This provided a cheap and convenient waste disposal mechanism for the factory. In July 2003, a sample of this 'fertilizer' was sent to a laboratory in Exeter University, U.K., by BBC presenter John Waite. Tests conducted at the lab revealed that the sludge contained dangerous levels of toxic metals including lead, cadmium, and chromium. Samples of water from local wells, in which all three metals were found to be present at levels several times higher than permissible limits, were also sent to the laboratory. David Santillo, principle scientist at the Exeter lab, states that 'The presence of high levels of lead and cadmium is of particular concern. Lead is a developmental toxin in humans, particularly noted for its ability to retard the developing nervous system. Cadmium is especially toxic to the kidney, but also to the liver. It is classified as a known human carcinogen.' In other words, Coca-Cola's 'fertilizer' was killing local people.
Shortly after the results were made public, Coca-Cola stopped dumping its sludge on local farmers. But it was too late for the water supply. Even now villagers are unable to drink or even wash in water from any wells within a two kilometer radius of the plant. 'What choice do we have but to keep up our struggle?', the villagers ask me. 'We cannot keep living the way we currently are.'
On 7th April 2003, Perumatty panchayat (the local authority) refused to renew Coca-Cola's license to operate in the area. Coca-Cola subsequently went to the High Court and had the panchayat's decision over ruled. But according to local activists, the High Court does not have the power to issue such rulings. I checked this with Clifton D' Rozario of the Alternative Legal Forum, a group of lawyers and legal experts based in Bangalore. 'The High Court ruling contravenes the spirit of the constitutional amendments brought in to enforce decentralization of powers, functions and decision making capacities,' he insisted. 'The aim of the amendments was to ensure that the panchayats could make decisions regarding the available resources in a manner that was beneficial to them. Hence Perumatty panchayat was totally within its constitutional rights to cancel Coca-Cola's license to operate in the area.'
It seems, however, that Coca-Cola, which tops the list of Foreign Direct Investment in India from the USA (previously alongside scandalised Enron), has Indian law makers in the palm of its hand. In a letter from Robert Blackwill, US ambassador to India, to Brajesh Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, Blackwill wrote, 'I would like to bring to your attention, and to seek your help in resolving, a potentially serious investment problem of some significance to both our countries. The case involves Coca-Cola, one of the largest single foreign investors in India.' The 'problem' Blackwill was referring to was that Indian law stipulates that foreign companies operating in India must divest 49% of their equity stake to Indian shareholders within a few years of their entry into India. The purpose of this law was to ensure that Indians retain some control over their operations. Unhappy with any such devolution of power, Coca-Cola used a combination of intensive lobbying and covert threats to change government policy to ensure that, although Indian shareholders have a 49% stakeholding in Coke's Indian subsidiaries, they have no voting rights whatsoever. This might just about qualify as complying with the letter of the law, but it certainly doesn't comply with either the spirit of the law or the manner in which it had previously been enforced.
Faced with a company wielding this much political clout, the villagers of Plachimada know that if there is to be a change, it can only come from grassroots pressure. In recent months their struggle has intensified. On 26th January 2003, Plachimada provided the venue for the inauguration of a nationwide 'yatra' (a march cum journey) organised by the National Alliance of People's Movements which toured the whole country uniting people from diverse grassroots struggles under the banner, 'Save the Nation, Build the Nation!'. Thousands of villagers, city-dwellers, activists and concerned citizens alike travelled from Plachimada to distant corners of India, on foot, by train, in trucks and buses, united in a groundbreaking display of resistance. The diversity of languages and the array of colours was rivaled only by the number of slogans chanted by the marchers. Then on 21st September, a huge rally was held outside the factory gates with activists from across India attending, including internationally renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva. Hundreds flocked to the rally, blocking the road and sending a strong message to Coke that they are not welcome in Plachimada. More recently, a Joint Parliamentary Committee set up by the Government of India published a report on 4th February 2004 which held Coca-Cola's Plachimada plant responsible for 'causing pollution of water, depleting ground water and reducing crop yields besides causing ailments to human beings'. In response, letters poured in to the office of the Chief Minister of Kerela from around the world, urging him to take immediate remedial action.
The police response has been firm and uncompromising. Over three hundred arrests have been made so far during the course of the struggle in Plachimada. Parallel struggles by local villagers affected by Coca-Cola's four other bottling plants across the country have been met with an even more heavy handed response. The Mehdiganj plant near Varanassi, Uttar Pradesh, which enjoys heavily subsidised electricity, stands charged with discharging toxic waste into neighbouring fields and causing a serious water shortage in the surrounding area. When around one thousand protestors held a peaceful demonstration outside the Mehdiganj plant on 10th September 2003, hundreds were beaten by Coca-Cola's security personnel. Police looked on passively whilst the attack occurred, then detained around four hundred demonstrators and kept eighty eight under arrest. Dr. Sandeep Pandey, a well known Indian activist and winner of the international Ramon Magsaysay award for service to the people, suffered injuries to his foot with an iron rod, severe baton blows on his back, and a head injury caused by a rifle butt blow.
The struggle has not, however, been without progress. When I rang the Kerala government's groundwater department, they told me that two months ago they told Coca-Cola to cut its groundwater use by half and to invest instead in rainwater harvesting. I asked the villagers whether they had been told about this, and they replied that they had not. Dr. Terry Machado, a scientist at the nearby Integrated Rural Technology Centre claims that even if they are telling the truth, such changes will be insufficient to stem the area's severe water problem. In order to provide a lasting solution to the problem, he argues, there is no other option but for Coke to heed the protestors' demand that Coca-Cola 'Quit Plachimada'. Corporate Watch India is even more skeptical. They suggest that, far from being forced to cut their extraction by the groundwater department, Coca-Cola had so depleted the groundwater levels that even they themselves are unable to extract water at previous rates. In order to make up for the shortfall, Corporate Watch claims, Coca-Cola has begun trucking in tanks of water extracted from bore wells in neighbouring villages.
Perhaps more significantly for the struggle, however, is the change in Coca-Cola's own attitude. They are clearly worried about the publicity that the Plachimada struggle has received, and the implications that this may have for their brand image. In January 2003 their website boldly asserted that 'Coca-Cola India's bottling plant in Kerala, India, has been the target of a handful of extremist protestors, alleging the company is misusing local water resources. These allegations are false. Neighbouring communities, tribal leaders, NGOs, environmental scientists and government officials have repeatedly rejected the extremists' allegations as totally groundless'.
No such brazenness anymore. Although their website still denies all the charges, it is no longer written with the air of dismissiveness of the previous version. In an attempt to reconcile the numerous discrepancies between the claims made on Coca-Cola's website and those made by local villagers, activists, and NGOs, I tried to speak directly to the company. Despite several attempts to contact various senior employees in India, Coca-Cola repeatedly declined to answer any of my questions. The plant manager at Plachimada referred me to the President of corporate communications who referred me to the Vice-President who apologised that he was unavailable for comment on each of the several occasions on which I called him. I began to understand how frustrated the local villagers must be when they attempt to speak directly to Coke about their problems. Yet it was clear that Coca-Cola is feeling the heat. There is still a long way to go to bring justice to the people of Plachimada and Chittur taluk, but if Coca-Cola begins to worry that its international brand name is at stake then there is every reason to believe that the struggle will be successful.
In fact, the pressure has been mounting for some time. Coke's reputation has already been seriously tarnished after a lawsuit filed in Florida in July 2001 charged the company with using paramilitary death squads in Columbia to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders in order to disband the workers' union SINALTRAINAL at its Columbian bottling plants. A call from the Columbia Action Network to boycott Coca-Cola in the light of its involvement in the killings resulted in a national student campaign in the USA to 'kick Coke off campus', with several successes. A further blow came when Coke was targeted by campaigners for discriminating against HIV positive employees in its African plants. And in May 2003, Coca-Cola was fined US$300 000 for polluting the Matasnillo River in Panama.
The 2004 World Social Forum, the largest annual summit of activists, NGOs and grassroots campaigners from around the world, was held in February in Mumbai, not all that far from Plachimada itself. At the Forum people met and shared their experiences of Coca-Cola's malpractices in different countries. A call was put out for a concerted global campaign to boycott Coke and to get all soft drinks manufacturers to clean up their acts and respect the rights and livelihoods of those affected by their activities. It's time for Coca-Cola's abuses to stop.
Just one thing though. Don't start drinking Pepsi instead of Coke. They're busily draining the groundwater down the road in Kanjikoe.
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Note: On top of all the injustice and abuse by Coca-cola, their product is very toxic and poisonous to the human body. It's not only full of refined & empty of nutrition sugars, artificial food colorings and flavors, it has amongst other horrors, formaldehyde in it. If it's in an aluminum can, by drinking it a person is putting this poison into their body too.
The only thing that Coca-cola is good for is removing the rust off the bumper of an old vehicle and cleaning the calcium buildup in a country toilet. Coke dissolves metal. Can you imagine what it does to your stomach lining? Pepsi is the same. If these drinks contain Aspartame, this destroys the brain. Fact.
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the activation of the Reformation Act - N.E.S.A.R.A - will put a stop to companies like Coca-Cola. It will at least force them to tell people exactly what is in their product and the harm it causes.
http://www.nesara.us" title="http://www.nesara.us" target="_blank"http://www.nesara.us
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| Confessions of a soft drink! |
| 04.27.04 (8:40 am) [edit] |
Hello. I am a humble, effervescent liquid. Humble? Well, that is debatable, Actually, I am quite proud of myself. Allow me to brag a little.
I Fizz, Sparkle and Bubble my way into thousands of people all over the world every day. I HAVE MUCH POWER! I can cause masses of humanity to rush to snack dispensers in plush high-rise buildings.
I stir men, women, and teenagers to dash into their cars late at night and speed to their nearest 24-hour convenience store. I motivate others to root through their purses for their last pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, with which they will gladly part in exchange for me. The best thing about me is: I AM ADDICTING. I am responsible for giving thousands Of addicts their daily "fixes". This is because I sometimes contain a substance called "caffeine".
Caffeine is a stimulant. It makes their hearts beat very fast and their nervous system work like crazy. They feel as though they could take on the world. I tell you, I have OVERWHELMING PERSONAL MAGNETISM.
I'm a sneaky double agent too. I pretend to give people all the good they need because caffeine gives them a "lift". However, a few hours afterward they come crashing "down", get shaky, and need me AGAIN... for another pseudo-charge. This plays havoc with their hearts and nerves, but they still look to me for relief. I feel very, very smug because I CALL THE SHOTS!!
To give me an appetizing brown tint, I contain "Carmel coloring", which has genetic effects and is a cancer-causing suspect. I sometimes have polyethylene glycol as one of my ingredients. Glycol is used as anti-freeze in automotive and as an oil solvent.
The Bubbles and Fizz with which I potently burn human insides is caused by my phosphoric acid and carbon dioxide. The phosphorus in the acid upsets the body's calcium-phosphorus ratio and dissolves calcium out of the bones. This can eventually result in OSTEOPOROSIS, a weakening of the skeletal structure, which can make one susceptible to broken bones. Also, the phosphorus fights with the hydrochloric acid in human stomachs and renders it ineffective. This promotes indigestion, bloating and gassiness in many individuals. Carbon dioxide is a waste product exhaled by humans, but they ingest it when they drink me. Am I HUMBLE??
Information provided by Avena Originals
Great information!
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| BREAKING NEWS: ASPARTAME LAWSUITS |
| 04.24.04 (6:51 am) [edit] |
[b]BREAKING NEWS: ASPARTAME LAWSUITS[/b]
Aspartame Lawsuits Filed Against Some of the World's Largest Companies For Poisoning Consumers
Leading Fortune 500 Companies, Coke, Pepsi, Walmart, Kraft General Foods, etc. filed against for knowingly poisoning the public with aspartame
SACRAMENTO, CA (PRWEB) April 11, 2004--ASPARTAME LAWSUITS ACCUSE MANY COMPANIES OF POISONING THE PUBLIC. Defendants in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, Walmart, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris).
Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California.
The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.
Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.
Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, chronic fatigue and depression.
Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction.
Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.
Recent news is full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it damages the cardiac conduction system Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison."
The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval.
Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On September 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed Aspartame on the market.
[b]In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.[/b]
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills" http://www.russellblaylockmd.... wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina).
All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuralgia. Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which means that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes (atherosclerosis).
In original studies, aspartame has triggered brain, mammary, uterine, ovarian, testicular, thyroid and pancreatic tumors.
Plaintiffs have asked for an injunction to stop companies from producing, manufacturing, processing, selling or using aspartame.
Plaintiffs in all three cases are seeking a jury trial. If you would like to schedule someone from the National Justice League for an interview, please call or fax us at 208-246-1171.
Roberta Bellon, Public Relations
NATIONAL JUSTICE LEAGUE
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2205 Hilltop Dr. Ste. 2022
Redding, Ca 96002
Phone: 208-246-1171
California: 530-248-3483
Cell Phone: 208-890-0034
E-mail: info@nationaljusticeleagu e.com
FOR INFORMATION ON ASPARTAME:
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You can also contact Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible Intl, 9270 River Club
Parkway, Duluth, Georgia 30097 USA 770-242-2599
This release is issued by courtesy of:WORLD NATURAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION
(for further information on this Breaking News and History of Aspartame)
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Contact Information
Betty Martini
MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL
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| NEW EYE COLOR!!! |
| 04.23.04 (7:13 am) [edit] |
:P This just keeps getting better and better!
My eyes used to be an orange/brownish color, basically they were the exact color of my hair. After eating a raw food diet for over a year and a half now, my eye color is drastically changing to green.
I have heard it said by other raw foodists that your eye color can change, but to be experiencing it is truly unbelievable. Wow!
With all the physical, mental and spiritual transformation that has been happening in my life, this is truly the "ride of a life time!"
Have a vibrant and joyful day! :)
Amanda
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| Water vs Coke |
| 04.21.04 (11:29 am) [edit] |
[b]WATER[/b]
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half world population)
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?
[b]COKE[/b]
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
FOR YOUR INFO
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It
will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium
from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in
osteoporosis.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.
3. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!
[b]Now the question is, would you like a glass of water or coke? [/b]
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| Poison for profit! |
| 04.21.04 (10:47 am) [edit] |
[b]POISON FOR PROFIT [/b]
CHEM/PHARM HAS NO EQUAL - WHAT A BUSINESS PLAN!
By Ashley Simmons Hotz
May 15, 2002 - The huge transnational companies that produce toxic chemicals found in pesticides, herbicides and industrial and household products profit not only from the sale of these products, but also from the symptoms and chronic illnesses that they can trigger.
The vast majority of chemicals found in pesticides and other products, undergo little or no testing for chronic, low level exposures and for chronic health effects.
The same chemical companies that produce toxic chemicals also produce prescription drugs, veterinary medicines, a wide array of medical products and imaging technologies, hold cancer treatment and medical device patents, and a produce a staggering assortment of over-the-counter palliatives.
Families with toxin induced illnesses often spend large sums for drugs and medical treatment.
This circle of profit is not conspiracy theory, but an easily provable fact.
[b]"Here is a little more information"[/b]
Do you take Bayer aspirin? Did you know that Bayer also makes other drugs, pesticides, chemicals? When you get to the Bayer site from the following URL, go to the "application" search engine and scroll down to pesticides. At the first URL here, go to the right side and click on the drop-down list to see the spectrum of products -- for industrial chemicals and "crop protection" products, to pharmaceuticals.
http://www.bayer.com/en/index_en.php" title="http://www.bayer.com/en/index_en.php" target="_blank"http://www.bayer.com/en/index...
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| When a crisis comes your way |
| 04.20.04 (11:35 am) [edit] |
[b]ACCEPT CHANGE WITH A SMILE [/b]
Sooner or later, you'll experience a crisis in your life,
and how you meet it will determine your future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time,
everyone has been called upon to meet such a crisis.
A closer look will show you that most "crisis situations"
are opportunities to either advance or stay where you are. In fact, most changes in your life will take place
out of either "inspiration" or "desperation."
Whatever comes your way, give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Your personal growth is the process of responding positively to change.
A precious stone cannot be polished without friction,
nor humanity perfected without trials.
©2004 by Max Steingart
[u]My health was in crisis [/u]and I chose to embrace it and to learn to listen to that instinct within me and took a road less travelled. By learning to listen to my body and by learning to feed it what it needed, I am a different woman today.
You can read my story here at http://www.rawesome.com/mysto...
Amanda 8)
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| The Real Dangers of Soda to You and Your Children |
| 04.15.04 (4:48 pm) [edit] |
[b]The Real Dangers of Soda to You and Your Children[/b]
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
with Rachael Droege
How many sodas have you had today? How about your kids? The average American drinks an estimated 56 gallons of soft drinks each year, but before you grab that next can of soda, consider this: one can of soda has about 10 teaspoons of sugar, 150 calories, 30 to 55 mg of caffeine, and is loaded with artificial food colors and sulphites.
This is an alarming amount of sugar, calories and harmful additives in a product that has absolutely no nutritional value. Plus, studies have linked soda to osteoporosis, obesity, tooth decay and heart disease. Despite this, soda accounts for more than one-quarter of all drinks consumed in the United States.
Teenagers and children, who many soft drinks are marketed toward, are among the largest consumers. In the past 10 years, soft drink consumption among children has almost doubled in the United States. Teenage boys now drink, on average, three or more cans of soda per day, and 10 percent drink seven or more cans a day. The average for teenage girls is more than two cans a day, and 10 percent drink more than five cans a day.
While these numbers may sound high, they’re not surprising considering that most school hallways are lined with vending machines that sell, of course, soft drinks. It’s not uncommon for schools to make marketing deals with leading soft drink companies such as Coca-Cola from which they receive commissions--based on a percentage of sales at each school--and sometimes a lump-sum payment.
The revenues are used for various academic and after-school activities, but what activity could be worth devastating the students’ health, which is exactly what consuming all that soda is doing? Getting rid of vending machines in schools--or replacing their contents with pure water and healthy snacks--could make a big difference, as vending machines can increase the consumption of sweetened beverages by up to 50 or more cans of soda per student per year.
Let’s take a look at some of the major components of a can of soda:
[b][u]Phosphoric Acid[/u][/b]: May interfere with the body's ability to use calcium, which can lead to osteoporosis or softening of the teeth and bones. Phosphoric acid also neutralizes the hydrochloric acid in your stomach, which can interfere with digestion, making it difficult to utilize nutrients.
Sugar: Soft drink manufacturers are the largest single user of refined sugar in the United States. It is a proven fact that sugar increases insulin levels, which can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, weight gain, premature aging and many more negative side effects. Most sodas include over 100 percent of the RDA of sugar.
[b][u]Aspartame[/u][/b]: This chemical is used as a sugar substitute in diet soda. There are over 92 different health side effects associated with aspartame consumption including brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes, emotional disorders and epilispsy/seizures. Further, when aspartame is stored for long periods of time or kept in warm areas it changes to methanol, an alcohol that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid, which are known carcinogens.
[b][u]Caffeine[/u][/b]: Caffeinated drinks cause jitters, insomnia, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, elevated blood cholesterol levels, vitamin and mineral depletion, breast lumps, birth defects, and perhaps some forms of cancer.
[b][u]Tap Water[/u][/b]: I recommend that everyone avoid drinking tap water because it can carry any number of chemicals including chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, cadmium, and various organic pollutants. Tap water is the main ingredient in bottled soft drinks.
Soda is one of the main reasons, nutritionally speaking, why many people suffer health problems. Aside from the negative effects of the soda itself, drinking a lot of soda is likely to leave you with little appetite for vegetables, protein and other food that your body needs.
If you are still drinking soda, stopping the habit is an easy way to improve your health. Pure water is a much better choice. If you must drink a carbonated beverage, try sparkling mineral water.
Copyright :: Dr. Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege
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| Freedom of choice in health care? |
| 04.14.04 (6:12 am) [edit] |
[b]Do you want freedom of choice in personal health care in Canada?[/b]
It seems as though the government is wanting to control society into following only one path of health care.
If you are concerned about having the right to choose which health care products you would like to take, then I would like to give you the opportunity to learn about a very important Bill - Bill C-420
[b]New proposed health freedom legislation [/b]
http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/BillC-240/ " title="http://www.taxtyranny.ca/images/HTML/BillC-240/ " target="_blank"http://www.taxtyranny.ca/imag...
[b]Aims to restore freedom of choice in NHPs[/b]
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| A feminine moment |
| 04.13.04 (10:07 am) [edit] |
As a woman who has suffered with severe menstrual problems for most of my life, this is a beautiful day to have arrived at.
Ladies, I suffered with unbelievable pain, every month. Pain so severe that my first day was spent in the bathroom going from the biffy to the floor to the tub. I was so sick that my body often couldn't take the pain and I would end up vomiting numerous times. When I would finally be able to go to bed to rest, I would have to take the heating pad with me to try and sooth my pain. My periods were very heavy and lasted anywhere from seven to nine days. If any of this sounds familiar to you, I may give you some wonderful hope here today!
When I had my first son and the doctors had to do an emergency c-section they noticed that my uterus was completely covered in fibroids and they told me later that they couldn't believe that I ever got pregnant, because there wasn't a lot of places where the egg could have attached itself. They also told me that fibroids were the reason that I had such heavy periods.
After my second son was born I still had a couple of very painful periods, but by this time I was already eating a large amount of raw food. And with every month that passed my periods got less painful, less heavy, until one day I got my period and no pain, and in fact I had no warning it was even coming. Ever since then my periods have completely regulated themselves - which is a first, and now they are two days long (short) with not much flow.
I have heard other raw foodists say the same thing, that once they went raw their monthly menstruation completely regulated and became painless with no side affects at all.
What a wonderful blessing! To be free from that terrible pain that I have suffered with since the age of eleven.
WOW! Another awesome benefit to the wonder of eating an all natural all raw diet.
Interested in reading more about what I have experienced? Visit my online raw journal @ http://www.rawesome.com/rawjo...
Live a vibrant life! 8)
Amanda
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| The new look is here! |
| 04.12.04 (12:04 pm) [edit] |
Hey everyone!
[b]The new look to my web site is up! [/b]
Come check out some of the new features and information that we have going on at rawesome.com http://www.rawesome.com
There will be a lot of great new information and products that will be coming to rawesome.com over the next two months, including my recipe book, so watch for it!
Above all, live a great life and have a fab raw day!
8)
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| ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU BELIEVE. |
| 04.09.04 (5:51 pm) [edit] |
[b]ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU BELIEVE. [/b]
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Don't be afraid of living.
Your belief that life is worth living
will help you create the fact around you.
There are no real barriers to your success.
You must overcome any doubts you have about your ability.
Your self image prescribes the limits for your accomplishments.
It prescribes the area of what is possible for you.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be.
If you see yourself as continually hard up,
that's precisely what you will be.
You can never succeed until you believe you can succeed.
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©2003 Written by:MotivationMentor
The possibilities of life are endless! :)
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| Hard to manage...but WOW!!! |
| 04.08.04 (8:04 am) [edit] |
:D So guys...
I wanted to share with you something kinda funny that has been happening to me. I don't know if any of you have experienced this or not yet, but it is quite wild.
For the past fifiteen years I have been losing massive amounts of hair, and I am not talking regular hair loss but so much that my hair has just been getting thinner and thinner. In fact I thought I would end up being one of those women who start balding. :(
Then about five months ago (after being raw for over a year and a half) I started noticing these patches of 2 inch hair growing at the front of my head. You should see it now...actually I should take a picture of it. I have these very large patches about four inches long sticking straight out at the front of my face. It has been making it very hard for me to manage my hair to say the least. However, having read the things that I have read, I understand that this is a fantastic thing and that I am really making good progress in the healing of my body with raw foods.
I went from having such thick hair that I could hardly get my hand wrapped around it, to having such little hair that when I would grab it with my hand it would maybe be the size of a quarter.
So, this is exciting and I thought I would take the time to share it with you. There have been so many things that have happened to me that were so unexpected, things I didn't even think about. What a journey! What a transformation! Exciting! Exciting! Exciting! :lol:
lots of luv and have a fab raw day! B)
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| Positive Inspiration... |
| 04.06.04 (12:46 pm) [edit] |
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
[i]Hugh Downs
Veteran Journalist[/i]
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than
you can by what others say about him."
[i]Leo Aikman
Writer and Newspaper Editor[/i]
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred
times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and
first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow
that did it, but all that had gone before."
[i]Jacob A. Riis
1849-1914, Journalist and Social Reformer[/i]
Have a positive RAW day! :D
Amanda
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| Awesome smoothie recipe! |
| 04.05.04 (10:18 am) [edit] |
[b]juice [/b]
8 oranges
1 grapefruit
1 lemon
add five medium sized bananas and blend until smooth.
yu-uh-mee!!!
Enjoy and have a totally fun and RAW day! :D
Amanda 8)
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| RAW Manitoba |
| 04.05.04 (9:01 am) [edit] |
[b]What an absolutely fantastic afternoon![/b]
The vision committee for Raw Manitoba met yesterday to discuss what we would like to see happen with the group. First of all it was awesome to meet these RAW women who are excited to be a part of The Raw Society of Manitoba.
Thank you Lori for opening your home to hosting the meeting! It was such a wonderful environment to have a meeting!
The table was fit for a king with the most awesome RAW food. We had a wonderful time eating all of this amazing food and when I left I was completely satisfied for the rest of the day. Eating raw is so satisfying! Some of the food included the most awesome herb dip and veggies, flax crackers, coconut flan with orange glaze, apple sauce pie - that was to die for, and some other goodies that included pecan bars and date squares. Rawesome food!
By the end of our meeting we had everything in place for our first raw afternoon tea time. We will be announcing the information soon and look forward to coming together and meeting with others who share in the raw life style.
I just wanted to share a little of the meeting with everyone!
Thank you for a great time!
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| A GOAL WILL LEAD YOU TO SUCCESS |
| 04.02.04 (8:18 am) [edit] |
[b]A GOAL WILL LEAD YOU TO SUCCESS[/b]
If you do the right things right, you're going to succeed.
If you have correct goals,
and you keep pursuing them the best way you know how,
everything else will fall into line.
You are what and where you are today because you first imagined it.
Knowing where you want to go is all you need to get there.
Just return over and over to that picture in your mind
of the place you are headed for.
The first essential of success is to know what you want.
©2004 by Max Steingart
:D Just a little positive encouragement for the day!
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Here I am! After a year and a half of living on mostly raw food, my mind, body and spirit are transformed.
To read my story, visit my web site at www.rawesome.com
Live a vibrant life!
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