July 19, 2009 @ 9:19 PM
1. “While perhaps it’s not “broken,” America’s industrial food system, which dominates food sales, has developed side effects that are accelerating in severity, especially diet-related health (e.g., obesity, diabetes, asthma, allergies) and environmental (e.g., chemical toxins, soil degradation, carbon emissions) issues that can no longer be ignored.”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/03-6
2. “If you think diabetes and obesity are the two biggest health care crises Americans face these days, you’re missing the forest for the trees–literally. Because the roots of all this diet-induced disease lie in two less publicized but even more pernicious epidemics: nature deficit .........
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July 6, 2009 @ 10:34 AM
“Sublingual immunotherapy works by placing an extract of the food allergen under the child’s tongue. The membranes of the mouth absorb trace amounts of the allergen, absorbing just enough to desensitize the immune system without prompting an allergic reaction. Oral immunotherapy takes it a step further by having children eat tiny amounts of the allergen. “The approach involves ingesting an extremely small and then gradually increasing amount of the food under medical supervision, with the hope of getting to an amount that is not causing reactions and is more substantial in dose,” Sicherer said.”
(read full story at link below)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/kidsmaylearntotoleratefoodallergens
Sounds......
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July 2, 2009 @ 8:52 PM
… acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA.“
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tylenol_safety_fda
Millions of people pop the pain pills to relieve symptoms from food sensitivities. Most people are ignorant ( just like I was.)
We are taught through media and medical business that our pains are from sources of which we “can not control.” For example, plant pollen, pollution, toxic chemicals and so forth.
What about your pains? Do you want them to be from uncontrollable forces which cause you to be a dependent on medications? OR are you ready to take control of your ...
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