Concentration Camp Victim Look is… In?

When I said don’t get fat, in a previous post, I didn’t mean to take it to this extreme…

Take a look at some models from current ads in our media. It’s sickening. Someone feed them!!!!!!

Calorie Free Sweetener? Try Stevia.

If you have been feeling a little bit nervous about using artificial sweeteners these days, you have good reason. Many studies have been linking these sweeteners (such as Splenda, Sweet and Low, and Equal) to cancer. The main ingredient, (Aspartame - which is put in most diet sodas) was used in a laboratory study with rats. In the study, experimenters actually found more lymphomas, leukemias, and brain tumors in rats fed very high doses of aspartame (equivalent to drinking a few diet sodas per day).

Instead of using these potentially harmful substances, try a naturally sweet, calorie free sweetener. My mom told me about it a long time ago, and I am starting to use it often and I love it!

The website, http://www.stevia.com/ describes it as “a South American herb that has been used as a sweetener by the Guarani Indians of Paraguay for hundreds of years. The leaves of this small, green Stevia rebaudiana plant have a delicious and refreshing taste that can be 30 times sweeter than sugar.” With this statement I will just give you a bit of warning - don’t put too much stevia in your drink or recipe! It can be a very powerful sweetener, in that it actually can make the concoction bitter if too much is put in. That being said, however, I would highly recommend it to anyone. I use it to make iced teas, baked goods, hot teas, coffee, lemonade, literally anything!

Take a look at the website. It has recipes, listings of the different products (you can get sugar-like packets of stevia, or a liquid dropper, etc…and they now have different flavored stevias). It can be bought in most health food stores (especially Whole Foods) and online. It is all natural, and for your own sake, why not? One less thing you have to worry about.

http://www.stevia.com/

Don’t Get Fat, You’ll Get Stupid!

According to a study in France, obesity may be a cause of lower intelligence. No wonder George W. is president!!!! Fat Americans must have been voting in large quantities.

Sorry, back to business. This study was published in a neurology journal. It tested 2,200 men and women between the ages of 32 and 62. A five year time lapse was given between 2 similar vocabulary tests to each subject.

“The research used the official British measure of obesity, which considers individuals with a BMI between 10 and 25 to be of normal weight, while anyone over that mark is considered obese. Researchers attributed the results to the fact that hormones secreted by fats could have a potentially damaging effect on brain cells, ultimately lowering cognitive function.”

Check it out.

http://techfreep.com/obesity-could-lower-intelligence-study-says.htm

Cage Free Eggs…Duhhhh.

Chickens packed in wire cages usually have less than half a square foot of floor space per bird. 6 hens in one cage can become immobilized and die of asphyxiation or dehydration. Decomposing corpses are found in cages with live birds. Tens of millions (approximately 14%) of egg-laying hens die during production each year.

While AAA or AA or A regular eggs (I haven’t bought them in so long I don’t even know what they are called) might be the cheapest deal at the grocery store, I encourage you to buy cage free, organic eggs. You’re saving chickens as well as yourself.

I’ll tell you the abbreviated version about where the regular eggs come from. And, yes, they come from chickens. But they don’t just come from the type of chicken you’d imagine. Eggs that are NOT cage free or organic come from chickens that are plump, forcefully fed, and loaded with drugs and antibiotics. They don’t have free space to roam, and sometimes they are actually fed with carcasses of other chickens! Just think about all the antibiotics that you are ingesting by eating the eggs or meat of chickens that are not cage free and organic.

On the other hand, cage free eggs come from chickens that are free to roam and not cooped up in over-capacity cages as well as fed vegetarian diets, rather than turning to cannibalism or being force-fed chicken carcasses.

Just do a little research on cage versus cage free eggs on the internet. I assure you next time you go to the grocery store you will be begging for the cage free eggs after just a little online research. Or you can just take my word for it…

Dr. Oz on Oprah: 5 Foods to Avoid

Dr. Oz on the Oprah show:
The first step to getting on the path to better eating is to take stock of your pantry! Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen say there are five ingredients that should be banned from your diet forever.

AVOID:

#1. Hydrogenated Oil, which often masquerades as partially hydrogenated oil.

#2. Sugar, especially refined, should be eliminated according to Dr. Roizen.

#3. High Fructose Corn Syrup from our foods. “We eat 63 pounds of [high fructose corn syrup] a year, which puts 33 pounds on the typical American,” he says.

#4. Enriched Flour. Enriched means they took all the good stuff out and put a little back,” Dr. Roizen says. In 1960, Americans didn’t use enriched flour, but today we consume 63 pounds a year, he says.

#5. White foods - including bleached flour. The only white items you should have in your fridge are egg whites, cauliflower and fish, Dr. Roizen says.

Your favorite snack foods won’t advertise their artificial ingredients—Oprah’s medical experts say you have to read the small print for yourself!

Read your labels. Read!!

Terror of Sugar in the Schools

Soda has already been taken out of my hometown’s school district…and now, here is a current email to the district about the remaining sugared drinks:

I was deeply relieved that soda was eliminated from the offerings to young students in Port Jervis last year; I had written a letter to the middle school principal, last year. Unfortunately, sticky, sugary, high caloric Snapple and so-called “energy” drink are still offered.

In this age of epidemic obesity and now early onset diabetes, we do not need to get our children hooked on these sugary drinks that offer no nutrition, chemicals, caffeine/tannic acid (in the teas), and refined sugars. Water or milk (without high fructose sweeteners) is sufficient for the schools to offer.

Dr. Horne DDS. in Port Jervis and his hygienists alerted me to the recent studies on the dangers to teeth of these “sports drinks” because of the citric acid combined with sugar that etch the tooth enamel. The sugars and acid wear away the tooth enamel with the constant flow of these drinks past the teeth causing cavities.

Here is a sample ingredient list of the Gatorade drinks:
Gatorade Raspberry Lemonade
Ingredients:
water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, ester gum, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, red 40, blue 1

Nutrition Facts:
serving size: 8 fl oz; calories 50; total fat 0g; sodium 110mg; potassium 30mg; total carbs 14g; sugars 15g

Gatorade Lemonade
Ingredients:
water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, ester gum, sucrose acetate isobutyrate, yellow 5

Nutrition Facts:
serving size: 8 fl oz; calories 50; total fat 0g; sodium 110mg; potassium 30mg; total carbs 14g; sugars 14g

Do our young people really need to spend $1- each purchase- on drinks with glucose fructose syrup, and a long list of chemical additives and dyes that stress kidneys and liver- the organs that have to purify the chemicals out of the system?

If children need quick energy, why not offer small packs of organic nuts, seeds, raisins, and other snacks. Jet Blue Airline now offers several on their flights. Newman company produces many organic whole grain products as pretzels.. Put pressure on your suppliers to elevate the quality of their products. Even Frito Lay today makes an organic line of higher quality snacks.

Over 10 years ago, I called the head of the Girl Scouts Of America because their cookies consisted of transfats- hydrogenated oils. GSA offered their millions of Girl Scouts badges for nutrition, but clogged peoples’ arteries with hundreds of thousands (millions?) of the cookie boxes (sold through the efforts of little children) for decades, as most major industrial food producers continue to do today. The Girl Scout executive told me, “But it is just a SNACK.”

Why can’t it be a Healthy snack?? We have knowledge TODAY.
The sugar in these Port Jervis machine drinks also spikes the blood sugar levels causing an insulin release. Over time this insulin release causes a “trigger happy pancreas” paving the way for what used to be called adult onset diabetes, but is now called early onset diabetes. The disease directly affects teens, and now hits early because of the average refined sugar and grain diet of most Americans.

Water, milk, and healthier snacks are to be expected. Today because we have nutritional knowledge, the schools’ administrators are obligated to lead in a positive direction. It goes without saying that people will eat and drink in their homes as they like, but in this matter, we are talking about the public schools where it is mandatory that students spend at least 6 hours a day. We are obligated to lead, to educate, by example.

Thank you for your serious attention to this matter.