2012 Right to know-Label Gmos

Do you know if the foods you eat are genetically modified (GMOs)? If not, you would if they were labeled! Did you know that they're in about 70% of the processed foods on grocery store shelves, foods like breakfast cereals, soda, tortillas and salad dressings? Have you ever wondered just what a "genetically modified" food is? I did. When I found out, I decided I have a right to know what's in the food products on those shelves so that I can make an informed decision about the food I choose for myself and my family. And then an opportunity presented itself that allowed me to finally do something about it: A grassroots effort for a ballot initiative that, if voted in next November, will require labeling of food products that contain GMOs. If you'd like to know more about or get involved in this issue, the 2012 Right-to-Know, Label GMOs initiative, you can: visit the EG Online community page, and check out the Events section, too visit www.labelgmos.org For me, this movement is about food freedom. How do you feel about this?

Curing of depression and also using to fight alcoholism years ago...

By Dr Andrew Saul Niacin is vitamin B-3, one of the water soluble B-complex vitamins. One of niacin's unique properties is its ability to help you naturally relax and get to sleep more rapidly at night. And it is well established that niacin helps reduce harmful cholesterol levels in the bloodstream. Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. explains: "Niacin is one of the best substances for elevating high density lipoprotein cholesterol (the "good cholesterol) and so decreases the ratio of the total cholesterol over high density cholesterol." Another niacin feature is its ability to greatly reduce anxiety and depression. Yet another feature of niacin is that it dilates blood vessels and creates a sensation of warmth, called a "niacin flush." This is often accompanied with a blushing of the skin. It is this "flush" or sensation of heat that indicates a temporary saturation of niacin, and that is our topic here. When you flush, you can literally see and feel that you've taken enough niacin. The idea is to initially take just enough niacin to have a slight flush. This means a pinkness about the cheeks, ears, neck, forearms and perhaps elsewhere. A slight niacin flush should end in about ten minutes or so. If you take too much niacin, the flush may be more pronounced and longer lasting. If you flush beet red for half an hour and feel weird, well, you took too much. And large doses of niacin on an empty stomach is certain to cause profound flushing. Dr. Hoffer writes: "With larger initial doses, the flush is more pronounced and lasts longer," says Dr. Hoffer. "But with each additional dose, the intensity of the flush decreases and in most patients becomes a minor nuisance rather than an irritant. Niacin should always be taken immediately after finishing ones meal." I have found that the best way for me to accurately control the flushing sensation is to start with very small amounts of niacin and gradually increase until the first flush is noticed. One method is to start with a mere 25 milligrams (25 mg) three times a day, say with each meal. The next day, try 50 mg at breakfast, 25 mg at lunch and 25 mg at supper. The following day, one might try 50 mg at breakfast, 50 mg at lunch, and 25 mg at supper. And, the next day, 50 mg at each of the three meals. The next day, 75 mg, 50 mg and 50 mg. Then, 75. 75 and 50, and so on. In this way you have increased at the easy rate of only 25 mg per day. One would continue to increase the dosage by 25 mg per day until the flush occurs. It is difficult to predict a saturation level for niacin because each person is different. As a general rule, the more you hold, the more you need. If you flush early, you don't need much niacin. If flushing doesn't happen until a high level, then your body is obviously using the higher amount of the vitamin. Now that you've had your first flush, what next? Since a flush indicates saturation of niacin, it is desirable to continue to repeat the flushing, just very slightly, to continue the saturation. This could be done three or more times a day. To get to sleep sooner at night, niacin can be taken to saturation at bedtime, too. You might be asleep before you even notice the flush. An important point here is that niacin is a vitamin, not a drug. It is not habit forming. Niacin does not require a prescription because it is that safe. It is a nutrient that everyone needs each day. Different people in different circumstances require different amounts of niacin. Says Dr. Hoffer: "A person's "upper limit is that amount which causes nausea, and, if not reduced, vomiting. The dose should never be allowed to remain at this upper limit. The usual dose range is 3,000 to 9,000 milligrams daily divided into three doses, but occasionally some patients may need more. The toxic dose for dogs is about 5,000 milligrams per 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) body weight. We do not know the toxic dose for humans since niacin has never killed anyone." Inevitable physician skepticism and questions about niacin's proven safety and effectiveness are best answered in Orthomolecular Psychiatry, edited by David Hawkins, M.D. and Linus Pauling, Ph.D. This nearly 700 page textbook is the standard reference for details on niacin therapy. Persons with a history of heavy alcohol use, liver disorders, diabetes, or pregnancy will especially want to have their physician monitor their use of niacin in quantity. Monitoring long-term use of niacin is a good idea for anyone. It consists of having your doctor check your liver function with a simple blood test. Plain and simple niacin may be purchased in tablets at any pharmacy or health food store. Tablets typically are available in 50 mg, 100 mg, or 250 mg dosages. The tablets are usually scored down the middle so you can break them in half easily. You can break the halves in half, too, to get the exact amount you want. If a niacin tablet is taken on an empty stomach, a flush will occur (if it is going to occur at all) within about 20 minutes. If niacin is taken right after a meal, a flush may be delayed. In fact, the flush may occur long enough afterwards that you forgot that you took the niacin! Don't let the flush surprise you. Remember that niacin does that, and you can monitor it easily. If you want a flush right away, you can powder the niacin tablet. This is easily done by crushing it between two spoons. Powdered niacin on an empty stomach can result in a flush within minutes. Sustained release niacin is often advertised as not causing a flush at all. This claim may not be completely true; sometimes the flush is just postponed. It would probably be difficult to determine your saturation level with a sustained- or time-released product. They are also more costly. There is nothing wrong with niacinAMIDE, by the way. That form of vitamin B-3 is frequently found in multiple vitamins and B-complex preparations. Niacinamide does not cause a flush at all. In my opinion, it is less effective in inducing relaxation and calming effects. Niacinamide also does not significantly lower serum cholesterol. This is an important distinction to make when purchasing. It is a good idea to take all the other B-complex vitamins in a separate supplement in addition to the niacin. The B-vitamins, like professional baseball players, work best as a team. Still, the body seems to need proportionally more niacin than the other B vitamins. Even the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for niacin is much more than for any other B-vitamin. Many physicians consider the current RDA for niacin of only 20 mg to be way too low for optimum health. While the government continues to discuss this, it is possible to decide for yourself based on the success of doctors that use niacin for their patients every day. TO FLUSH OR NOT TO FLUSH? That is this reader’s question: ”We have learned a great deal from your site and your books and also enjoy them. We have also incorporated some of your suggestions in our lifestyle. My question for you is an attempt to clarify what seems to be a difference of opinion about the niacin flush between you and Dr. Hoffer. He had written ( http://www.doctoryourself.com//hoffer_niacin.html ) that the niacin flush is normal with many people and will diminish or go away as the patient continues to use niacin at his recommended level of 3,000 milligrams per day. You, however, state that the flush is an indication of no niacin deficiency ( http://www.doctoryourself.com/niacin.html ). Who is correct or am I misinterpreting one of you?” Andrew Saul’s Response: This is how I look at it: Generally speaking, people in fairly good health usually choose to increase their doses gradually in order to minimize flushing. If they do increase the dose slowly, what I describe is pretty accurate. For instance, I've been taking niacin for years, in daily but varying doses depending on my stress level or dietary intake. I know by the flush when I've had enough for the moment. It is like turning off the hot water when the tub is full enough for a nice bath. Dr Hoffer is highly experienced with serious psychiatric cases. Such patients have a niacin dependency, not a mere deficiency. Let’s let him speak for himself: Abram Hoffer, MD, writes: “We are both correct. Most people flush at the beginning and gradually get adapted to it unless they stop for a few days and then resume it. A few cannot ever get used to it, and they take the no-flush preparations. But the intensity of the flush is very variable. Generally people who need it the most flush the least. That includes arthritics, schizophrenics, and elderly people with cardiovascular problems. Some schizophrenics do not flush until they get well and then they do. But the presence of the flush or its intensity can not be uniquely used measure the need as there are too many variables such as food in the stomach, whether the drink with it is hot or cold, the kind of food, other medication.” Thank you for following these blogs and I will continue to share new findings .. Please share some of these ideas... Watch some YouTube confessions on the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy

So why aren't gmos labeled?

February 15, 2011, 9:00 PM Why Aren’t G.M.O. Foods Labeled? By MARK BITTMAN Mark Bittman on food and all things related. TAGS: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, FOOD LABELING, GENETIC MODIFICATION If you want to avoid sugar, aspartame, trans-fats, MSG, or just about anything else, you read the label. If you want to avoid G.M.O.’s — genetically modified organisms — you’re out of luck. They’re not listed. You could, until now, simply buy organic foods, which by law can’t contain more than 5 percent G.M.O.’s. Now, however, even that may not work. In the last three weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved three new kinds of genetically engineered (G.E.) foods: alfalfa (which becomes hay), a type of corn grown to produce ethanol), and  sugar beets. And the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of a super-fast-growing salmon — the first genetically modified animal to be sold in the U.S., but probably not the last — may not be far behind. It’s unlikely that these products’ potential  benefits could possibly outweigh their potential for harm. But even more unbelievable is that the F.D.A.and the U.S.D.A. will not require any of these products, or foods containing them, to be labeled as genetically engineered, because they don’t want to “suggest or imply” that these foods are “different.” (Labels with half-truths about health benefits appear to be O.K., but that’s another story.) They are arguably different, but more important, people are leery of them. Nearly an entire continent — it’s called Europe — is so wary that G.E. crops are barely grown there and there are strict bans on imports (that policy is in danger). Furthermore, most foods containing more than 0.9 percent G.M.O.’s must be labeled. G.E. products may grow faster, require fewer pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides, and reduce stress on land, water and other resources; they may be more profitable to farmers. But many of these claims are in dispute, and advances in conventional agriculture, some as simple as drip irrigation, may achieve these same goals more simply. Certainly conventional agriculture is more affordable for poor farmers, and most of the worlds’ farmers are poor. (The surge in suicides among Indian farmers has been attributed by some, at least in part, to G.E. crops, and it’s entirely possible that what’s needed to feed the world’s hungry is not new technology but a better distribution system and a reduction of waste.) To be fair, two of the biggest fears about G.E. crops and animals — their potential to provoke allergic reactions and the transfer to humans of antibiotic-resistant properties of G.M.O.’s — have not come to pass. (As far as I can tell, though, they remain real dangers.) But there has been cross-breeding of natural crops and species with those that have been genetically engineered, and when ethanol corn cross-pollinates feed corn, the results could degrade the feed corn; when G.E. alfalfa cross-pollinates organic alfalfa, that alfalfa is no longer organic; if a G.E. salmon egg is fertilized by a wild salmon, or a transgenic fish escapes into the wild and breeds with a wild fish … it’s not clear what will happen. This last scenario is impossible, say the creators of the G.E. salmon — a biotech company called AquaBounty — whose interest in approval makes their judgment all but useless. (One Fish and Wildlife Service scientist wrote in material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, “Maybe they should watch ‘Jurassic Park.’ “) RELATED What Do You Think About G.M.O. Foods? In his blog, Mark Bittman is asking readers what they think of genetically engineered foods. Visit the blog » But the testing process is suspect: the F.D.A. relied on data submitted by AquaBounty (that data is for fish raised in Prince Edward Island, even though the company plans to raise the fish in Panama, which is possibly illegal). Also curious is that the salmon is being categorized as a “new animal drug” which means that the advisory committee in charge of evaluating it is composed mostly of veterinarians and animal scientists, instead of, say, fish ecologists or experts in food safety. Not surprisingly, the biotech industry has spent over half a billion dollars on G.M.O. lobbyists in the last decade, and Michael Taylor, the F.D.A. deputy commissioner for foods, was once vice president for public policy at Monsanto. Numerous groups of consumers, farmers, environmental advocates, scientists, supporters of organic food and now even congressmen — last week, a bill was introduced to ban G.E. salmon — believe that the approval process demonstrated a bias towards the industry. Cross-breeding is guaranteed with alfalfa and likely with corn. (The U.S.D.A. claims to be figuring out ways to avoid this happening, but by then the damage may already be done.) And the organic dairy industry is going to suffer immediate and frightening losses when G.E. alfalfa is widely grown, since many dairy cows eat dried alfalfa (hay), and the contamination of organic alfalfa means the milk of animals fed with that hay can no longer be called organic. Likewise, when feed corn is contaminated by G.E. ethanol corn, the products produced from it won’t be organic. (On the one hand, U.S.D.A. joins the F.D.A. in not seeing G.E. foods as materially different; on the other it limits the amount found in organic foods. Hello? Guys? Could you at least pretend to be consistent?) The subject is unquestionably complex. Few people outside of scientists working in the field — self included — understand much of anything about gene altering. Still, an older ABC poll found that a majority of Americans believe that G.M.O.’s are unsafe, even more say they’re less likely to buy them, and a more recent CBS/NYT poll found a whopping 87 percent — you don’t see a poll number like that too often — wants them labeled. In the long run, genetic engineering may prove to be useful. Or not. The science is adolescent at best; not even its strongest advocates can guarantee that there aren’t hidden dangers. So consumers are understandably cautious, and whether that’s justified or paranoid, it would seem we have a right to know as much as Europeans do. Even more than questionable approvals, it’s the unwillingness to label these products as such — even the G.E. salmon will be sold without distinction — that is demeaning and undemocratic, and the real reason is clear: producers and producer-friendly agencies correctly suspect that consumers will steer clear of G.E. products if they can identify them. Which may make them unprofitable. Where is the free market when we need it? A majority of our food already contains G.M.O.’s, and there’s little reason to think more isn’t on the way. It seems our “regulators” are using us and the environment as guinea pigs, rather than demanding conclusive tests. And without labeling, we have no say in the matter whatsoever. Visit my blog, where you can find out more about my last column, or what I just cooked. You can also join me on Facebook or Twitter. This post has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: February 16, 2011 An earlier version of this column omitted the name of the agency responsible for approving the genetically engineered salmon. It is the Food and Drug Administration.

So at day 4 this is how it feels.....

"I only picture an old thanksgiving bowl sitting on a table dazzling with a robust and colorful selection of handpicked fruits only to find as I reach to pick a piece from the basket the fruit is weightless and hard like plastic...." Now I could have grown up on a farm where my father and mother would have taught me the significance of learning to grow a garden. I could have paid attention in science class as a benefactor of surviving on herbs and organic remedies. Yet I grow up on burger king row and microwave intersection in a subdivision called GMO. I decided to pay attention when my health was on a great decline as I battled with an addiction to painkillers. The hardest battle yet to confront me . I don't blame the drugs oh no cause if I had them, I wouldn't worry and I wouldn't feel. As long as I had them. So as I wonder how to survive among the grave mistake, we are allowing to go on. I can't help but make it my dream and goal to get to the very bottom of this and quickly! What are the effects of GMO'S ? Is my health at a state that I must reshape my thinking and eating habits in order to remain alive. Sometimes the answers are stuck right in the middle of some questions. So now I want to know more about this fake food I have been eating all my life and what are the effects it may have on my mental state of mind. I wonder who should be held responsible for allowing GMO'S ( genetically modified organisms )onto the market. I then have to realize noone made me purchase these products to eat. As I understand the fuss and decide what is real and what is fake I uncover more details that lay out an entire industrial assault on our biological and ecological system of life. What is a GMO ? It is an organism of life in plant or animal or even human that is cross hatched with the gene of another life form to produce Predetermined results of life forms or expected reactions to stunt growth, accelerate it. Make a cat hairless? I don't know I'm not a scientist I am a tattooer. One of the best ways to support this is the crap we hear about an option of choosing your baby's hair color or gender. Society has come to accept this lingo as science jibber Not knowing they did just that to our food system .... Yep! I know and if you are not alarmed then I must explain what really is going on. Your body is a big mass of cells that require alot of nutrition to create energy. Just as soil in the ground must have all of its nutrients to be able to sustain a healthy life of seeds and plant life, so to our bodies require the same nutrition to sustain a healthy life. GMO'S are quick industrial or processed food that really look like the real deal and can be disguised enough to even resemble the flavors like when you sprinkle the powders on a roman noodle soup. What man has failed to do over and over is try to play god and create or cheat life. Well at this moment we think we are eating cheap and in good shape we only receive a small portion of nutrients out of the GMO'S and scientists forgot after they made it grow big and pretty and taste juicy and flavorful with textures like a real one ,they left out the most vital compound of all creations when they were designing their fast food restaurant industry. "Nutrients" Our bodies are made of cells that need alot of nutrition to create energy. GMO'S lack in nutrition and is the number one reason we are all sick in America. Just as our bodies need all these nutrients to sustain a healthy life So does the soil and all the big corporations that buy up all the land to produce and mass market their fake thanksgiving ornaments of food and sell them knowing they lack all the nutrients, takes it's toll on the soil as they muscle for rank to last the longest on the shelf and save billions and pass on the loss to us in the form of health problems from heart attack ,strokes , cancer and many other deadly diseases. It's why the pharmaceutical company is bigger than the nba nfl and hockey combined then multiplied by 1000!!!! It is a bio ecological assault on mankind and I don't even know how to plant and grow a garden of sustainable foods. Hell I don't even know how to cook using fruits , veggies and minimal meat. So this is my journey to test the truths of what's been said and already in the 4th day to say no to GMO'S and I am happy and not depressed, I am completely free from the bondage of industrial medicine and foods. Join me in this exciting and real transformation Saying no to GMO'S And saying yes to Local grown certified organic If you have land grow all organic no seeds from the companies who claim they are safe or treated with hormones . Don't listen nor trust anything otherwise UNTIL the legislature vote that all tampering of genetic life organisms, for the purpose of altering the appearance or behavior be stopped and ban it from the USA . Stand up for your self and your health and don't allow this to go on another day! Drive past the jack in th crack or Wendy's and just picture in that bowl of fruits and vegetables made of plastic as ornaments, fake food a garage sale of fake taste alike foods that kill silently inside us. On this page share your stories as well as your stories and lets use our evolution and technology to save our very own lives. If you are reading this far into this then you have an idea how big this really is and I thank you only if you spread this to all corners of the earth.... Boycott this company! http://www.monsanto.com/produc ts/pages/default.aspx "i