Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital to Your Health

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital to Your Health

healthstar — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:10:21 GMT

Not only our food, but all the products we use at home, whether it be for cleaning our home and clothes, or for personal use, like shampoo, soap and deodorant. It is imperative that we know our producer. It is imperative that we read labels. It is imperative that we KNOW that the company we purchase our products from is honest and has our health in mind. Most companies out there are just there to make millions of dollars, that's it. Our health is not in their best interest. Make sure you research the company from which you purchase your food, your cleaning products and your personal and medicinal products , and READ the labels.

Mirdza
Helping People Lead Healthier Lives
http://www.MirdzasHealthSite.com

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital to Your Health

beachSurf — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:58:01 GMT

What up with congress bill S1082?
I hope I am not off topic here, however this introduced bill deals with nutrients and food bill S1082 called The Food and Drug administration Revitalization Act (key word used conveniently since it really revitalizes the power of the FDA not of our food) attempts to label supplements as drugs which could later restrict our acces to get supplements at health food stores etc. Has anyone heard of the outcome yet????? We should not alllow the FDA to attack dietary supplements yet they protect Pharmaceuticals like no end in sight. We need to call congressmen Hatch 202-224-5251 and Sen. Harkin 202-224-3254 to find out what the deal is with all these attempts and wished changes to the labeling of our food products and nutrients as drugs. Every time we turn around some new legisalation is being created to have more control on us as free people. Its getting ridiculous. Why can't they just micro-,manage the pushing of viagara instead of Vitamin C- or cordycepts????????

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital to Your Health

Qualitas — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:54 GMT

In USA, company and organisation could give money to the political party!

Like:

American Dental Assn
American Hospital Assn
Pfizer Inc
Bristol-Myers Squibb

which is impossible into any real citizen democracy.

Government give subsidy (for glucose-fructose production) to be sure more people are getting sick so those companies and organization are making more money! So, they could give more money to the... party!

And health care will never going to be free in USA like it is in real democracy! Because USA is a democracy for the companies only, not for the citizens!

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital to Your Health

kellymars28 — Sat, 12 May 2007 18:43:19 GMT

Bridestein:
I, too, developed those same symptoms from avacados in my 20s after eating them for years with no problem. I have never until now run across anyone else who has that reaction to avacados. I refer to this as having an allergy to them to explain why I can't have even a sliver of avacado on anything I eat for lack of a better explanation although a true allergic reaction would involve hives or a rash or swelling of the throat, I believe. It's impossible to accurately describe the reaction I have which is, just as you said here, ulcer like pain which is excruciating. I'm intrigued by the information about the chocolate solution you've discovered. So how much chocolate does it take?Milk or dark or does that matter? Do you eat the chocolate after ingesting avacado? Would eating chocolate in advance of the avacado prevent the painful reaction entirely or have you been brave enough to try deliberate experimentation vs using chocolate to neutralize accidental ingestion? I don't have this problem with raw egg whites or anything besides avacado. I really wonder what causes it and how many others have this reaction. I am 57 and you're the first one I have heard mention it; no one I have mentioned it to has ever had this problem nor have I read about it before reading your comment today & I think it's probably highly unusual. Have you encountered others with the same reaction? I will be looking here hoping that you see this comment and can provide some answers. Just call me

Curious

Thanks in advance for any information you can share on the subject

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital To Your Health

Bridestein — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:01:03 GMT

There is currently debate in California as to whether to build water-holding reservoirs or not. The experts state they are not necessary because it is much more economical to build houses on all of the farmland and import our produce from somewhere else. Do I think special interest groups have an investment in this matter? You bet your sweet bippie (sp?) I do!

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proatc — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:15:04 GMT

The best way out of this problem would be to buy and build enough cars, trucks and automobiles that use only corn and soy as fuel so there is a severe shortage of these subsidized crops and there is not enough to use for HFCS or human consumption. The farmers would still be happy because they don't care what their crops are used for as long as there is demand and payment for them, and its emisions are better for our environment. Let the soy and corn ruin metal machines not our bodies!

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital To Your Health

cyan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:03:18 GMT

"Knowing where your food comes from" reminds me of eating local - but that doesn't necessarily means it will be nutritious food. I've recently discovered refractometers, which can indicate how nutritious your food is. Why has Dr. Mercola never mentioned these? It's even on the Weston A. Price Foundation site: http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/nutrient-dense.html

This seems like it would be an amazing resource that more people should know about.

re: Knowing Where Your Food Comes From is Vital To Your Health

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:25:18 GMT

Believing, or relying on, government regulators, to protect your health, is the comparable equivalent of putting Osama bin Laden in charge of US Homeland Security...in either case, the result is NOT going to be pretty.

God gave each of us a brain, and common sense; use it or lose it!

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Organic one — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:16:50 GMT

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