Category: Interesting Information

Information I want to share in a non-essay form

Interesting Information: “I Wouldn’t Feed This Stuff to a Dying Animal” – Terminal Hospice Patient Exposes Truth About Ensure Nutrition Drinks”

Interesting Information:  July 18, 2016

Ensure “Nutrition” Drinks

I hope none of you are drinking, or have a family member or friend drinking, Ensure “Nutrition” Drinks.

If so, please take a look at this information.

Here’s a quote from the beginning of the article, and the article includes information from the label of what is in these products:

Carrol Krause, a former reporter for the Herald-Times of Bloomington, Indiana, had to retire from her journalism career because of an ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2014. Before she passed away in February, she wrote a blog titled ‘Stories by Carrol’ highlighting the best and the worst of her last days.

A few months ago she started having digestive issues and could no longer eat normal food. What hospice workers brought her as meal replacements horrified her.

Krause writes: “Hospice had the very best of intentions, [but] the stuff they sent over was not real FOOD. In fact, I’m outraged at the idea that they feed this stuff to dying people.”

What the hospice provided to Krause was a bag full of products by Ensure: pudding, shakes, and a drink that pretends to be apple juice.

All three are full of chemicals with about as much actual nutritional value as most commercial junk food (my emphasis), and these drinks are meant to be the nutritional lifeline for people who are extremely sick.

Ensure is owned by Abbott Nutrition, one of the worst examples of a Big Food corporation masquerading as a healthy alternative you’ll ever see. The company has deep ties to the medical industry and as such you can find their products in just about every hospital today, which is bad news for millions of patients who are just trying to get healthier.

This story is another example of how industry has us all by the throat and is choking the life out of us.  For profit.

And this is another example of how mainstream medicine ignores one of the most important chemical reactions we all have every day:  the interaction of what we eat with our bodies.

Source: HealthFreedoms – “I Wouldn’t Feed This Stuff to a Dying Animal” – Terminal Hospice Patient Exposes Truth About Ensure Nutrition Drinks

Interesting Informaiton: “Your Medicine is in Your Pantry”

Interesting Information:  June 6, 2016

“Your Medicine is in Your Pantry”

Here’s a really nice piece by Karta Purkh Khalsa that walks one through common herbs that are also quite medicinal–especially if you know when to use them.

Here’s a quote:

Food has been the medicine of humanity since the dawn of time. Many herbs that we associate only with seasoning our food are, in fact, potent herbal medicines.

Enjoy!

Source: Your Medicine is in Your Pantry | GreenMedInfo | Blog Entry

Interesting Information: Video: The Dark Side of Pet Vaccination

Interesting Information:  June 5, 2016

Video:  The Dark Side of Pet Vaccination

We love our pets so much.

We want to do the best we can for them.

As with our own health, since health care is now an industry, we must be careful to whom we listen.  We must research.

This video shows the problems and links to a web site with information.

I could also point you to Ted Kerasote’s book PUKKA’S PROMISE, in which he discusses his considerable research on how to make the best decisions for your beloved pet.  There are blog entries here on this book

I can also tell you that when I was little, the house dogs ate table scraps as dried dog food had not been invented, did not have vaccines beyond rabies, and lived to ripe and healthy old ages.

Here’s a blurb that begins to describe the video:

Allergies, skin problems, behavior changes, autoimmune disease, seizures, injection-site cancers — these are just a few of the well-documented adverse vaccine reactions in dogs and cats. Pet vaccination is much more harmful than most people underastand.

Source: The Dark Side of Pet Vaccination

Interesting Information: “On Being Right and Eating Animals”

Interesting Information:  June 5, 2016

“On Being Right and Eating Animals”:  Dr. Kelly Brogan

Here’s a lovely piece:  food for thought, for sure…

If it is one thing the discovery of the microbiome is revealing, it’s that we all have very different workings inside, depending upon the health of our microbiome and the chemistry of each of our particular systems at the moment.

There is no ONE SIZE FITS ALL way to eat as a result.

So, what’s behind the attempt to control what everyone else eats?  Fear, maybe, fear of not being in good health, of loss of control in other areas of life, of risk of something new, etc.

I personally believe there are some foods that fuel most of us in healthy ways, but I also recognize that the healthy food spectrum that works best for individuals is long and wide.  And I believe that fake foods, tainted foods, and sugar-based foods will cause disease.

Dr. Kelly Brogan is someone to whom I pay attention.  Here’s the start to her very thoughtful piece:

“Too many of us blindly put faith into different authorities, but when it comes to personal health and diet, your self knowledge and gut intuition should be your guide.”

Source: On Being Right and Eating Animals | GreenMedInfo | Blog Entry

Interesting Information: “What History Teaches Us About Walls”

Interesting Information:  June 4, 2016

What History Teaches Us About Walls

Whenever I hear Donald Trump say he is going to build a wall between the US and Mexico, my mind jumps to the Maginot Line in France.

That “wall” didn’t work so well.

Nor did the Great Wall of China.

Nor did, really, the Berlin Wall.

People find ways around walls…

How many human efforts to create literal walls have worked?

Of course, there is a history of walls out there.  (History isn’t Donald Trump’s long suit.  Inciting peoples’ anger is.)

There are some really pretty pictures in this article.  Of walls…

Source: What History Teaches Us About Walls – The New York Times

Interesting Information: “2015 Dietary Guidelines Include Healthy Revisions”

Interesting Information:  June 1, 2016

“2015 Dietary Guidelines Include Healthy Revisions”

In this article, Dr. Joseph Mercola analyzes the 2015-2020 USDA Dietary Guidelines.

Here’s how the article starts:

On January 7, 2016, the U.S. government released its 2015 to 2020 dietary guidelines 1,2,3,4,5 many of which are steps in the right direction. Perhaps one of the most promising changes is a shift away from focusing on specific nutrients toward a general focus on eating real food.

Gone are dietary taboos against dietary cholesterol.

But, the saturated fat myth remains.

Going back on both of these failed dietary recommendations in the same year was probably too much for the panel to own up to…

Mercola includes an extended discussion of the dangers of taking statin drugs.

He concludes with some dietary recommendations, which include eating more dietary fiber found in veggies.

It’s a good article…

Source: 2015 Dietary Guidelines Include Healthy Revisions

Interesting Information: “How The Microbiome Destroyed the Ego, Vaccine Policy, and Patriarchy”

Interesting Information:  May 31, 2016

“How The Microbiome Destroyed the Ego, Vaccine Policy, and Patriarchy”

Here’s a fascinating read by Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo:

Here’s a quote from the piece:

Source: How The Microbiome Destroyed the Ego, Vaccine Policy, and Patriarchy

The relatively recent discovery of the microbiome is not only completely redefining what it means to be human, to have a body, to live on this earth, but is overturning belief systems and institutions that have enjoyed global penetrance for centuries.

A paradigm shift has occurred, so immense in implication, that the entire frame of reference for our species’ self-definition, as well as how we relate fundamentally to concepts like “germs,” have been transformed beyond recognition. This shift is underway and yet, despite popular interest in our gut ecology, the true implications remain unacknowledged.

It started with the discovery of the microbiome, a deceptively diminutive term, referring to an unfathomably complex array of microscopic microorganisms together weighing only 3-4 lbs. in the average human, represents a Copernican revolution when it comes to forming the new center, genetically and epigenetically, of what it means in biological terms to be human.

When we work with the natural world, when we honor and acknowledge what is unknown about the complex web that we all share, we will bring back a vital health that now seems so far out of reach. When we engage technologies positioned in the war against germs and organisms, however, we are doomed to fail and to cripple not only our species but our home.

Enjoy!

Interesting Information: Can Maple Syrup Kill Cancer?

Interesting Information:  May 30, 2016

Can Maple Syrup Kill Cancer?

Gosh, I sure hope so, as I use it to sweeten my daily latte.

And I don’t use much–maybe a tablespoon.  Just enough to take the edge off the espresso’s bitterness.

Basically, I use local, unheated honey and maple syrup to sweeten anything, and I’ve found as my diet has included more healthy, unsaturated fats, I am not drawn to sweets or baked goods.  It’s an interesting switchover…

Probably the only sugar that comes into the house is the sugar I use to make syrup for the hummingbirds.  I recently bought a new 5-lb. bag, only to find half of one buried among the glass jars in the pantry.  It was hard as a rock from sitting unused.

Here’s a blurb from this article:

New research suggests that maple syrup, despite being a concentrated source of “sugar,” possesses significant anti-cancer properties…

Note the term “suggests.”  But one can hope…

Maple syrup does have an interesting mineral load, but like any sweetner, should not be overused.

Source: Maple Syrup Is A Cancer Killer, Study Suggests | GreenMedInfo | Blog

Interesting Information: Media Monopoly Formation: Controlling the Story

Interesting Information:  May 17, 2016

Media Monopoly Formation

Controlling the Story

Six corporations own almost all of the media outlets today.

They are controlling what you do and do not hear as “news.”

Industry let research people go some years back now, so what you are hearing as “news” is either scripted or comes from “talking heads” with vested interests in the “story” industry wants you to hear.

This little video shows the problem better than I can describe it.

A democracy cannot function if information is denied, withheld, or overly manipulated.

 

Source: (10) News Channels Are Scripted By The Corrupt [PROOF] – Putting Love Into Politics

Interesting Information: The Scandal of Infant Formula – Weston A Price

Interesting Information:  April 21, 2016

The Scandal of Infant Formula

If you know anyone feeding a baby infant formula, please try to get this information into their hands.

What industry has put into infant formula is one of the huge scandals of our time.

Here’s the opening bit:

Infant formula lacks many key substances for development and growth. If a key nutrient is missing or not available, the body cannot adequately accomplish the task. • Infant formula is primarily composed of sugar or lactose, dried skim milk and refined vegetable […]

Source: The Scandal of Infant Formula – Weston A Price

PS:  BE SURE TO SCROLL WAY WAY DOWN TO SEE WHAT THE DANGERS OF SOY INFANT FORMULA ARE.

 

The Weston A. Price Foundation is an invaluable source of information on the nutrients in food, disease, etc.  They have “no dog in the hunt” in the sense that their sole purpose for “being” is to try to get really good, science-based information into YOUR hands/mind/body.  The scientists in their group have great credentials for what they study–among them are many biochemists who specialize in the relationship between food, medicines, and the chemistry of the human body.

Also, The WAPF has solid guidance on what is good to feed your children, like alternatives to industrial dried infant fourmulas.