MY GREEN LADY: WHYBUY ORGANIC? 1. ProtectFuture Generations ...

MY GREEN LADY:
WHY BUY ORGANIC?
 
1. ProtectFuture Generations
 ...: WHY BUY ORGANIC?   1 . Protect Future Generations   The average child receives 4 times more exposure than an adult to a...

WHY BUY ORGANIC?
 

1. Protect Future Generations
 

The average child receives 4 times more exposure than an adult to at least 8 widely used cancer-causing pesticides in food.

We are connected to the earth and the earth is connected to us. If we harm the earth and throw whatever it may harm it, it is just a matter of time that we  are going to see that manifested in us. WE HARM THE EARTH, WE HARM OURSELVES, OUR CHILDREN AND EVERY HUMAN BEING.

2. Prevent Soil Erosion 

Soil is eroding 7 times faster than it is being built up naturally in croplands. Organic farming regards rich, healthy soil as the foundation of the food chain, not just a medium for holding plants in a vertical position so they can be chemically fertilized.

ONCE OUR SOIL IS ERODED IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE FOOD, BY ERODING THE SOIL WE REDUCE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EARTH BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR US.

3. Protect Water Quality

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates pesticides contaminate the groundwater in 38 states, polluting the primary source of drinking water for more than half the population.

 

WE, HUMAN BEINGS ARE MOSTLY WATER, WITHOUT WATER WE DIE, IT IS A HIGH PRIORITY TO CARE AND PROTECT OUR WATER SOURCES, WE CANNOT LIVE OR THRIVE ON CHEMICALLY CONTAMINATED WATER.

4. Save Energy

 Modern farming uses more petroleum than any other single industry, and more energy is used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to cultivate and harvest crops. Organic farming relies on more labor-intensive practices and using green manures and crop covers to build up soil.

EARTH AND LIFE IS SELF SUSTAINING, IF WE ALLOW ALL THE NATURAL PROCESSES TO OCCUR AND IF WE SUPPORT THEM, WE CAN LIVE FOR AND FROM THEM AT THE SAME TIME WE ARE NOURISHING US AND THE EARTH. WE ARE AN INHERENT PART OF THE EARTH.

5. Keep Chemicals Off your plate

Pesticides are neuro-toxins and they act as so in our bodies as well and in the bodies of insects. Many of this were approved before research linked them to cancer and other diseases. A 1987 National Academy of Sciences report estimated that pesticides might cause an extra 1,4 million cancer cases among Americans.

WE LIVE TROUBLED TIMES WHERE WE ARE MOSTLY SICK BECAUSE WE ARE LIVING FROM A SICK EARTH, UNLESS WE CHANGE THE WAY WE HAVE BEEN CREATING SICKNESS WE CANNOT CREATE BALANCE OR LIVE. CANCER IS A REFLECTION OF THE EARTHS HEALTH LEVEL.

6. Protect Farm Workers

A Natural cancer Institute study found that farmers exposed to herbicides had a six times greater risk

than non farmers of contracting cancer. In California, reported pesticides poisonings among farm workers have risen an average of 14% a year since 1973 and doubled between 1975 and 1985.

WE ARE ALL CONNECTED, WE HELP THE WE GET HELP. SUPPORTING ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING CREATES SUPPORT, WE ARE ALL CONNECTED AND  EVERY INDIVIDUAL ACTION IMPACTS OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, EARTH AND EVERY SENTIENT LIVING ON THIS PLANET. WE HELP, WE HELP OURSELVES.

7. Help Small Farmers

Most organic farms are small, independently owned family farms of less than 100 acres. Ate the rate family farms are being lost, organic farms could be one of the few survival tactics left.

WE LIVE BY THE BIG MONOPOLIES AND BY THE DECISIONS OF A FEW THAN CONTROL MOST OF THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. HOW WE LIVE IS OUR CHOICE AND WE DO HAVE A SAYING, OUR ACTIONS AND CHOICES. FOR ME, IT FEELS A LOT MORE BETTER TO EAT FOOD PRODUCED IN A WAY THAT IS KINDER TO THE EARTH AND TO OTHER FELLOW BEINGS WE ARE WHAT WE EAT AT ANY LEVEL, PHYSICAL AND ENERGETIC. WE TAKE IN WHATEVER ENERGIES WAS INVOLVED IN THE FOOD PRODUCTION. FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

8. Support a True Economy

Conventional food prices do not reflect hidden costs born by taxpayers, including nearly $74 billion in federal subsidies in 1988. Other hidden costs include regulation and testing, hazardous waste disposal and cleanup, and environmental damage.

THE MORE ENERGY, LABOR AND HARM TO THE EARTH INVOLVED IN FOOD PRODUCTION CAUSES A LOT OF BIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC LIABILITY AND WE ALL HAVE TO PAY FOR IT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, MONEY, HEALTH, ETC… A TRUE ECONOMY SHOULD BE ONE WHERE WE ALL PARTICIPATE, WE CAN ALL BENEFIT, WE CAN GET SATISFACTION FOR OUR WORK, WE CONTINUOUSLY CONTRIBUTE, WHERE WE WISELY USE OUR TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES.

9. Promote Bio-diversity

Mono cropping reduces the diversity of plant life and strips the soil of minerals and nutrients, increasing the need for chemical fertilizers. Despite a 10-fold increase in the use of pesticides

between 1947 and 1974, insect looses doubled, partly due to genetic resistance to pesticides.

WE ARE ALL CONNECTED, WE ARE MEANT TO HONOR AND RESPECT NATURE, LIFE AND EARTH, THIS INCLUDE ANY SENTIENT BEING. WE ARE ALL HERE FOR A REASON, WE ALL PARTICIPATE IN THE PERFECT DANCE OF NATURE’S DANCE TO CREATE BALANCE, GETTING RID OF SPECIES OF ANIMALS AND VARIETIES OF PLANTS WEAKENS US ALL AND REDUCES THE POSSIBILITY OF SUSTAING LIFE. WE ARE PART OF LIFE.

10. Taste Better Flavor

 Organic food tastes better, lasts longer, and had more nutritional value than non organic food.

WE ARE WHAT WE EAT, WE HONOR, RESPECT, SUPPORT, IT IS GOING TO MANIFEST  AT ANY LEVEL IN OUR FOOD AND IT COMES IN WITH BONUSES LIKE MORE PLEASURE TO OUR TASTE BUDS, MORE NUTRITION TO OUR BODIES AND MORE JOY AND PEACE TO OUR HEART AND SPIRIT. TASTING BETTER COMES ABOUT WITH SAVORING LIFE FROM OUR TASTE BUDS TO OUR SOUL.

NUTRITION FOR YOUR BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT

                     Delicious Almond Milk

Home –made Almond milk is delicious!. It tastes real, much fresher than store bought almond milk, and does not contain any “added” ingredients.

What machine to use?

A High speed blender like the Vitamix or the Blendtec

If you have a centrifugal juicer, such as the Jack Lalane or Breville centrifugal juicer, they will not make almond milk, or any other nut milks.

What do I need?

• 1 cup plain, raw almonds
• vanilla bean (optional, but it adds a nice flavor) (I recommend vanilla from www.vivapura.com or www.ultimatesuperfoods.com)
• enough water to cover the almonds overnight
• 3 cups of purified water

Directions

1.    Soak almonds in purified water overnight. Cover, and put in the refrigerator.

2.    The following day, pour off soak water and discard. (You don't want to drink that water)

3.    Blend the water, vanilla and soaked almonds together

4.    Strain the blended mixture with a nut milk bag or with a fine strainer

5.    Enjoy!

6.    If you like your almond milk a little sweeter add natural stevia.

You can use the remaining pulp to add to soups, salad dressings, or vegetable croquets. You can also dry it on the oven at the lowest temperature and use it to “bread” veggies.

To create a POWERFUL ALMOND MILK:

Add 1 tbs of BRAIN POWER (http://www.mygreenlady.com) TO YOUR BLENDER!! 

BY ADDING BRAIN POWER YOU WILL BE ADDING: MINERALS, ANTIOXIDANTS, DETOXYFIERS, CLEANSERS, PROBIOTICS, ENZYMES AND ADAPTOGENIC HERBS!!! A TRUE HEALTH BOOSTER!!

        

                                            

Other suggestions:

For coconut almond milk, I add about ½ cup of a raw, fresh coconut to the mixture

If you want to add zinc and more nutrients add 1 tbs of sunflower seeds and 1 tbs of pumpkin seeds to the almonds you are soaking so they soak overnight as well. All of this you will add to the blender.

FLUORIDE, MORE AND MORE EVIDENCE, ITS NOT SAFE AT ALL!!!

There is more and more evidence that fluoride is just a bad idea, the effects are so damaging that its harder for authorities to continue to disregard this chemical as harmful to our health.
Here, you will find more information about the impact of fluoride on our body.

Richard Sauerheber, Ph.D.

(B.A. Biology, Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego) Palomar College, San Marcos, CA

March 28, 2014

E-mail: richsauerheb@hotmail.com

U.S.      Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Rockville, MD 20857

Dear Reviewers,

This information supports the petition to ban the addition of industrial synthetic fluoride compounds, sodium fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, and sodium fluorosilicate, into U.S. public drinking water supplies that are added for the purpose of whole body fluoridation to treat dental caries (petition #FDA2007-P-0346).Of course no request is made to remove natural calcium fluoride from public water supplies that contain it below the EPA MCL and SMCL of 2- 4 ppm.

The U.S. CDC has reported over the last few years that the incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in U.S. children now ranges anywhere from 1 in 88 to 1 in 68 children, from 1.1% to 1.5% of children in the entire country. The specific causes of ASD remain unclear in spite of this astounding substantial number of cases, totaling 1.2 million American children (1).

Scores of published studies have confirmed that consumption of water containing fluoride causes decreased mental IQ. Published animals research proved that fluoridated water consumption causes brain degeneration and functional abnormality in newborn mammals (see previous letters describing published studies by Reddy, by Mullenix, and by Varner). Detailed epidemiologic published studies indicate that fluoridated water consumption correlates with increased incidence of Down’s syndrome with its substantial mental abnormality aspects. Several instances of intolerance in autism cases have been reported specifically to water fluoridated to desired levels (approx. 1 ppm) (2; and personal communication with mother of autistic child). A recent study from Harvard University listed neurotic agents that promote autism (see attached news report). Fluoride is the only one intentionally ingested to treat humans. All fluoride compounds intended to be taken internally through ingestion are not FDA approved.

Whether industrial fluoride consumption can directly cause autism or not is uncertain. What is most certain however is that symptoms extant in autism are worsened by systemic fluoride. Fluoride incorporates into brain, as in other organs after assimilation, where it is a contaminant. This ion disrupts normal hydrogen bonds between H and oxygen and between H and nitrogen, whether in water, proteins, DNA or other macromolecules, and also forms abnormal hydrogen bonds to fluoride ion instead (5).

There is now a very incidence of mental disorders in the U.S. without a proven, certain cause. Mental derangements are caused by fluoridated water consumption (3,4). The use of fluoridated water in the U.S. is widespread (4,5). The EPA recently ruled that fluoride is a neurotoxin in man. Taken together these facts now compel the FDA to halt the infusion of industrial fluoride compounds into public water supplies. It is imperative that the CDC halt any further recommendations to “fluoridate” public water supplies. The FDA must aid the CDC in this effort. Citizens demand action, not mere paper-pushing, statements of concern, calls for further research or for proof of harm, or other decisions that do not produce a halt to industrial fluoride consumption from water supplies. Only a halt of the insidious, ineffective, expensive, illegal practice is acceptable. The argument, that we should not halt fluoridation until proof of harm is absolute, is false. The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act requires that any chemical substance, intended to be administered for ingestion to treat humans, be tested and verified for safety.

Thank you,

Richard Sauerheber, Ph.D. Chemistry

1.            Autism Estimate Rises to 1 in 68 Children, Associated Press, Union Tribune San Diego, page A4, 2014.

2.            Rookard, C., Fluoride and Autism, is There a Connection? Fluoride 33, 2000, p.99; available at:  http://www.fluorideresearch.org/332/files/FJ2000_v33_n2_p99-100.pdf

3.            National Research Council 2006 Report on Fluoride in Drinking Water, A Scientific review of EPA’s Standards,

Washington, D.C.

4.            Connett, P., et.al., The Case Against Fluoride, Chelsea Green Publishing,White River Junction, Vermont, 2010.

5.            Sauerheber, R., Physiologic Conditions Affect the Toxicity of Ingested Industrial Fluoride, Jour. Envir. Pub. Health, article 439490, 2013.

Published On: Fri, Feb 21st, 2014

Harvard and Mount Sinai Scientists Link Fluoride to Autism

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Researchers from Harvard and Mount Sinai have added fluoride to a list of industrial chemicals known to cause developmental disorders including autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia and other cognitive impairments which are affecting  millions of children worldwide, and which seem to be increasing in frequency.

In an article, published in The Lancet, Philippe Grandjean MD from the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Philip Landrigan MD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, state that industrial chemicals that injure the developing brain are among the known causes for the rise in prevalence.

Grandjean and Landrigan had previously identified five industrial chemicals, lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene, as environmental neurotoxicants.

Since 2006, however, epidemiological studies have documented six additional developmental neurotoxicants, wrote the two researchers. These six additional toxins are manganese, fluoride,

dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and polybromated diphenyl ethers.

Grandjean and Landrigan postulate that there are even more neurotoxicants which remain undiscovered, and propose a global prevention strategy to control what they describe as the pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity.

The two scientists warn that untested chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development and that chemicals in existing use and all new chemicals must therefore be tested for developmental

neurotoxicity. Grandjean and Landrigan suggest to coordinate these efforts and to accelerate the translation of science into prevention, and propose the urgent formation of a new international clearinghouse.

Grandjean and Landrigan’s study supports previous scientific studies which have correlated fluoride with developmental and cognitive impairment.

Autism Society of WA      A Chapter of the Autism Society

http://www.autismsocietyofwa.org/v2/2014/03/fluoride-and-autism/

Fluoride and Autism

March 6, 2014

By Member Audrey Adams, Washington Action for Safe Water Board Member

They say, “It takes one to know one”, and that is certainly true of we parents of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. We are a special group, and while I don’t feel special, I do feel that I especially need other ASD parents. We know stuff that other parents just don’t know because we have been forced to learn it, studying and understanding “biomedical” this or that often with little more than a high school education, because we have to.

We are a special group, not because we’re smarter, but because we can’t survive—and our children can’t thrive—on the “norm” that the rest of the world takes for granted. So every day we go the extra 100 miles that it takes to try to reduce the hell that our children endure daily.  They are so brave, so strong, but the pain is often just too much for them and then they are labeled a “behavior problem”.   The medical care and health advice we parents get from “professionals” is usually well-meaning, but often completely useless, and sometimes is downright dangerous.

One of the more dangerous bits of “professional advice” is about fluoride, a chemical identified by the EPA as a developmental neurotoxin, yet pushed by pediatric dentists, pediatricians and virtually all in public health to protect teeth. We ASD parents would trade teeth for brains any day, every day.

When my son (now 28) was 14, he had been suffering horribly with chronic intense pain, headaches and a multitude of other symptoms. Eight specialists had already given up on him, having exhausted their  series of tests (for their particular part of the body). They couldn’t figure it out, couldn’t help him.

A mom I had met at an autism conference was the one who finally offered the critically-needed   advice: Stop giving him fluoridated water. We had tried everything else, with some success, but his

pain and resulting symptoms persisted. But when I began to use reverse osmosis water for drinking and cooking, which takes out the fluoride, my son’s pain melted away in 3 days.

Three days.  I had been giving my son pain-producing tap water for 14 years and didn’t know it. Both relief and guilt filled me. Now, 14 years later, I erase that old guilt by trying to spare other kids the pain my son endured…and so I share my knowledge through Washington Action for Safe Water. Safe water. How were we parents to know it wasn’t?  We’ve been lied to for decades—fluoride is not safe.

Ironically, it was yet another ASD mom, years after switching to fluoride-free water for drinking and cooking, who helped me to recognize that my son was also reacting to fluoridation chemicals in the shower. What a shock.  That was hard to believe, but it doesn’t take long to uncover the truth by doing several in-home, mom-conducted “clinical trials”.

Audrey Adams

Mom to Kyle, 28, with autism and severe reactions to fluoride in water