Month: October 2011

In addition, schools are facing continuous cuts in their budgets, and many have looked at outside marketing as sources of revenue for programs that they would otherwise have to cut. Many of these schools do not have restrictions on the type of marketing that can take place. According to 'Reading, Writing and Raisinets: Are School Finances Contributing to Children's Obesity', financially strapped schools are allowing food and beverage advertising to students and are allowing "pouring" rights contracts with beverage vendors. This allows a vendor to have exclusivity for distribution and advertising rights on campus and at sporting events.

It is not difficult to understand why our children are gaining weight when you look at the food options available to them. Schools are adding more processed foods to their menus while eliminating fresh foods. Processed foods are less expensive and have a longer shelf life. A typical breakfast at a high school in the United States is a sausage link with blueberry pancakes, sausage egg and cheese biscuits, cereal, yogurt, packaged donuts or packaged muffins. A typical lunch is pizza, chicken nuggets, chips, hamburgers, hot dogs and French fries, which are served daily. Vegetables that alternate depending on availability are mashed potatoes, corn, broccoli, salad, carrots and green beans. Fruit servings are minimal and consist of pears or peaches with whip cream on them. Ice cream, pop-sickles or rice crispy treats are served for desert. Many of these foods are high in calories, fats and sugar while containing little nutritious value.

To assist a student's learning process, the foods eaten should fuel the body, not cause it to be sluggish or foggy minded. These foods affect the student's cognitive, attention and memory skills. It is important that the foods they eat help them learn and not deter from it. Serving fresh food is more expensive and does take more time to prepare. However, if schools do not change what they are doing, it is going to cost society much more in medical costs to treat the diseases that are occurring because of obesity.

The oil is considered a natural hair oil for baldness or thinning hair which is the result of diet, stress and environmental and/or lifestyle factors. Scientific research on the subject is lacking and the results of clinical studies are ambiguous. However, many people attest to the fact that castor oil has helped with various hair complaints. There have been cases where the hair treated with castor oil turned dark – in some cases new, dark hair growth appeared in place of grey hair, after massaging the scalp regularly with the oil.

Benefits of castor oil for hair growth

Regular usage of castor oil is purported to increase hair growth, reduce or prevent damage and breakage, treat dry hair conditions and condition and moisturize hair and scalp. The oil can be used to prevent hair frizz and/or split ends.

Other uses include treating skin problems, burns, sunburns, skin disorders, skin cuts, and abrasions.

How to use caster oil to prevent hair loss

Wear old clothes or wear protective clothing because the oil will stain fabric.
Massage high quality caster oil into the roots and scalp.
Distribute the oil evenly on the scalp only. The thick consistency of castor oil makes it difficult to wash out.
Cover the hair with a plastic cap and wrap in a warm towel.
Wash out after an hour or two. Allow to stay in overnight for a deep conditioning treatment.

The oil can be thinned out with grape seed or jojoba oil. Combining a little castor oil with olive, coconut, almond or tea tree oil helps prevent hair breakage. The moisture benefits of these oils prevent the hair from becoming dry and brittle.

A tablespoon of lavender oil added to a half a cup of castor oil will make the hair smell good, will coat and seal the hair shaft and will trap moisture inside effectively.

Be sure to use only cold-pressed castor oil that is hexane-free. Avoid refined, adulterated oils which can clog the skin's pores. Cold-pressed castor oil retains its valuable nutrients.

In a 20 year study, it was found that participants with the highest intake of flavonoids and proanthocyanidins had a 44 and 40 percent lower risk of oral cancer and laryngeal cancer, respectively. The occurrence of colon cancer was also lowered by a third, and there were reductions in breast, kidney and ovarian cancers too.

At going rate, about forty percent of the population is expected to have a problem with cancer, and it seems that just by really boosting your flavonoid intake on a regular basis, you could reduce that risk to around ten percent. We still wouldn't be at the level of Egyptians a few thousand years ago, as their mummies show us that they only had cancer in .5 percent of the population. But still, it's an enormous step in the right direction.

There are thousands of different types of flavonoids and they're in abundance in many fruits, vegetables and nuts. Actually, they are often what give fruit and vegetables their color. Berries, particularly red and blue berries, and dark grapes are potent sources of flavonoids. So are garlic, onion and green or white tea.

The flavonoid quercetin is abundant in garlic, onions and apples and it's important because it's a building block for many other flavonoids. Actually, eating lots of apples and pears has recently been found to significantly reduce the risk of having a stoke, and the quercetin in apples might be the reason.

Quercetin is also known for its ability to jump start the immune system and it's becoming thought of as one of the most powerful antioxidants. Quercetin is also helpful for a wide number of problems, especially when it's eaten in quantity.

One way to really boost your flavonoid intake is to get into juicing because you can consume the nutrients from far more fruits and vegetables from juicing them than you'd ever be able to eat. It's also easy and tasty to add some raw, chopped garlic or onion to top many meals.

Immune Booster Protocol

-Do you have a sweet tooth?
-Do you come down with colds and infections often?
-Do you get very tired?
-Do you have a craving for meat, eggs, dairy, fish?
-Do you exist on a typical western diet?
-Do you eat fried food?
-Do you eat your vegetables cooked instead of raw?
-Is there stress in your life?
-Have you lived through a trauma? Do you suffer from depression?
-Do you have late nights or sleepless nights often?
-Do you drink alcohol, coffee, tea rather than clean water and fresh juices?
-Are you overweight?
-Have you been exposed to numerous x-rays or radiation?
-Have you undergone hormonal treatment especially HRT?
-Do you use plastic wrapping or other materials with your food storage and preparation?
-Do you drink tap water, or bottled water from plastic bottles?
-Do you suffer from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or allergies?
-Is your digestion often congested?
-Do you avoid exposure to sun (Vitamin D)?
-Do you take antibiotics and pharmaceutical products often or even regularly?
-Do you use regular shampoo, skin care products, deodorant, tooth paste?
-Are you a couch potato whose physical exercise consists only of trips to the fridge and back?
-Do you suffer from a persistent cough?
-Do you have blood in your stool or urine?
-Have you found a lump, or do you have swollen glands?
-Has a wart or mole changed?
-Do you have sores that don't heal?
-Do you experience pain that never goes away?
-etc etc

Please note that the above symptoms can be indicative of a variety of illnesses; if however you can come around to the thinking that there is in fact only one illness, then you can more clearly recognise the one natural solution.

What you need to do is:
-Stop making cancer and disease.
-Detox very thoroughly (physically and mentally-emotionally).
-Build your immune system to maximum strength through truly right nutrition.
-Maintain your newly found health continually in these natural ways.

So whether you use prevention or need to treat yourself instead, fully apply the natural self-healing ability of the body.

White food products become white because of the fact that all of their fibre, minerals and vitamins have been stripped from them. These refining processes result in foods, which are actually empty calorie sources, because they are left with no nutritional value in them. Eating these refined food products has also been shown to increase the risk of heart attacks by as much as 30%. Several studies have shown that people who consume wholegrain and unprocessed food products have a 30% lower risk of contracting heart disease than those who consume white food products.

Flour used to make white bread and food products is chemically bleached with substances like benzoyl peroxide, nitrosyl, oxide of nitrogen, chloride and chlorine. These in turn have various chemical salts added to them to enhance the bleaching process. Nutrients which are removed from the flour during the bleaching process include Vitamin E, potassium, phosphorus, copper, niacin, calcium, thiamin, pantothenic acid and pyridoxine.

White rice experiences the same nutrient loss as white flour when processed. Where brown rice is produced by simply removing the grain husks, white rice is produced by removing the inner husk as well. Once this is done, the grains are then polished with glucose to enhance their visual appeal.

These processes result in foods which have an extremely high GI (glycemic index) content. These result in sugars being released into the bloodstream far more rapidly than they should be. This causes blood sugar levels to spike and releases more insulin into the bloodstream. This results in the pancreas being overworked, which can result in diabetes.

White food products also lead to an increase in LDL (bad) cholesterol in the arteries. They also cause the metabolism to slow down, which results in weight gain, especially around the stomach and waist areas. Their lack of dietary fibre can also lead to constipation in more sensitive individuals. Because the body is then not able to remove all of the waste products it contains, it can then become more susceptible to other diseases such as Crohn`s disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and even colon cancer.

Several years ago, Bridget Donovan, who has now been dubbed "The Lemon Tree Lady," purchased a Meyer lemon tree from meyerlemontree.com. A resident of Wisconsin, Donovan purchased the tree legally and in full accordance with all federal and state laws regulating citrus transport, and had lovingly cultivated and cared for her indoor citrus plant for nearly three years.

Then, out of nowhere, Donovan received an unexpected letter from the USDA informing her that government officials were going to come and seize her tree and destroy it — and that she was not going to be compensated for her loss. The letter also threatened that if Donovan was found to be in possession of "regulated citrus" again, she could be fined up to $60,000.

Donovan was shocked, to say the least, as her tree was not a "regulated citrus." The store from which she purchased it is fully legitimate, and she had done absolutely nothing wrong. But it turns out Donovan and many others who had also purchased similar citrus plants had faced, or were currently facing, the very same threats made against them by the USDA.

Most of those targeted simply surrendered their trees without trying to fight back, Donovan discovered. And while she, herself put up a hefty fight in trying to get honest answers in order to keep her tree, Donovan was eventually forced to surrender it as well. And worst of all, many of those who were told that a replacement tree would be in "compliance" later had those trees confiscated, too.

Why has the USDA been targeting lemon tree owners? The answer is unclear, other than that they are a supposed threat to the citrus industry. And a USDA official admitted to Donovan that the agency has been spying on those suspected of owning lemon trees, and targeting all found to be in possession with threats of fines and raids if they failed to give them up — and the agency has been doing this without a valid warrant.

"I felt utterly violated, angry, and upset," Donovan is quoted as saying by HFA. "I pay my taxes, I obey the law, and this is how I was treated? I did nothing wrong. I would expect these action (sic) toward someone running a drug house, not someone who owned a lemon tree."

The ongoing demonstrations, which are part of a new movement called Occupy Wall Street (OWS), have already resulted in numerous cases of violent police abuses, the shutting down of the Brooklyn Bridge, and even the voluntary arrival of members of the US armed forces who have reportedly come to help protest and protect protestors from attacks by local law enforcement.

Most Americans still have no idea that the protests, which officially began on September 17, 2011, are even taking place, though, because the MSM has been too busy focusing on the next presidential election cycle and other safe, pre-planned news segments. But the events are getting so large and disruptive that the media will be unable to ignore them for too much longer.

While not everybody involved in the OWS movement is necessarily fighting against totalitarian government and for true freedom and liberty — InfoWars explains that many protestors are actually demanding bigger government and higher taxes as a solution (http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall…) — some of the protestors do appear to understand that big government is the problem, and not the answer.

But regardless of what the protestors believe as a whole, they still have every right to peacefully gather and protest without being abused by their own government. And unfortunately many protestors' constitutional rights have been violated, as early reports and video clips that spread like wildfire on YouTube showed police pepper spraying protestors and aggressively arresting individuals for no apparent reason (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blo…).

Then on Saturday, a group of US Army and Marine troops reportedly traveled to New York to help support the movement and offer protection for protestors against police abuse. One Army serviceman by the name of Ward Reilly posted a message on Facebook on his way to the protests saying, "I didn't fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it's Congress' turn," a sentiment apparently shared by the other servicemen veterans traveling to protest locations.

Nutrition researchers have designed studies to examine the effect of healthy diet on colon cancer risk in the past, but the protective effect has been debatable as they do not provide specific results for different foods on the key regions or subsites of the colon. Professor Lin Fritschi, PhD, head of the Epidemiology Group at the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, and her research team set out to investigate the link between fruit and vegetables and three cancers in different parts of the bowel: proximal colon cancer, distal colon cancer and rectal cancer.

Colon Cancer Risk Lowered by Eating a Wide Variety of Brightly Colored Fruits and Vegetables
The controlled study included 918 participants with a confirmed colon cancer diagnosis and compared them with 1021 individuals with no history of the digestive disease. All participants completed extensive nutritional and demographic questionnaires to account for potential conflicts such as socioeconomic status. Analysis of the data showed that specific fruit and vegetables from similar varietal families affect risk for colon cancer in different portions of the digestive tract.

With respect to different fruit and vegetable consumption, the researchers found a reduced rate of proximal colon cancer linked to eating brassicas like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts. In addition, both total vegetable intake and total vegetable and fruit intake were linked to a lower risk of distal colon cancer. And finally a significant reduction in distal colon cancer risk was linked to dark yellow vegetables and apples.

There should be no doubt that natural fruits and vegetables consumed raw or minimally cooked to retain the active enzymes is a critical factor in digestive health that dramatically lowers the risk of colon cancer and other chronic conditions as well. This study conveys the important nature of eating a wide variety of different colored fruits and vegetables, high in phytonutrient content, to provide a protective shield at different colon subsites and throughout the body.

Like practically every single other guitar company in the world, Gibson imports a special type of wood known as Madagascar rosewood, as well as ebony, to produce its fretboards. Gibson has long obtained this wood legally from India and other places where it is grown, and has never knowingly violated any laws in producing its guitars which, unlike many other guitar brands, are still produced in the US.

But federal agents, acting on behalf of their own subjective interpretation of Indian law (which is not their job to enforce, by the way, especially when the Indian government has viewed the actions as legal), decided to target Gibson for the second time in two years, even though the company has not violated any US laws. Federal authorities claim that Gibson's wood and ebony imports violate the Lacey Act of 2008, but both the US and Indian governments have long allowed the materials to be imported and exported without issue.

You can read a full transcript of Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz' media statement following the August raid at the following link:
http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifesty…

You can also watch a YouTube video of his statements here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-t…

Despite the fact that Gibson has never even been formally charged with breaking any law, federal officials are now demanding that the company hand over 25 additional bundles of the expensive wood, which is easily worth several million dollars. And why, exactly, are they doing this? Because the Feds allege that in order for the wood to be legal, it would have had to have been manufactured into its finished product in India rather than in the US — and it was exported from India in only a semi-finished state.

Yes, outsourcing labor production is the only way Gibson can satisfy the US government at this point. And it appears that unless it complies with this ridiculous misinterpretation of the Lacey Act, Gibson can expect to be completely run out of business.

According to a recent report by The Foundry, federal officials are increasingly using the Lacey Act to target legitimate businesses and "create legal traps for the wary and unwary alike." In other words, by manipulating the interpretation of laws in varying countries, the Feds are deliberately trapping businesses and individuals with illegitimate "violations," and self-vindicating their illegal and unconstitutional search and seizure activities that follo.