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Hi, All

I read a posting on another list, to which I replied. Because I feel so

strongly about it, I am forwarding it to you. I hope that you do not mind and

that

you do read it.

Morton

 

Morton Bodanis wrote:

 

> The Carrolls

> I read and reread your message and can't help but agree. But it also

> stroked one of my pet peeves. One day there will be only two groups in this

> world, if it survives, not the two you described - the controllers and the

> controlled. The controllers being the huge corporations and the controlled

> being you and me.

> We through our governmnents, are blundering along without looking where we

> are going. I am referring specifically to NAFTA, WTO, CODEX, and probably the

> SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS. Our governments, yours in the USA and mine in Canada,

> and those around the world, hold meetings from time discussing things with

their

> heads in the clouds, making themselves feel important, impressing each other,

> and not thinking about what the repercussions will be.

> All that acquiescing to the topics of these meetings will ultimately give

> all power to powerful international Corporations, and reduce our governments

to

> rubber stamps. Our governments will become road-fixers or something like

that.

> Our laws, and governments, will become redundant

> Nafta was supposed to be a free trade agreement between ourselves.

Instead,

> it became a vehicle to give power to corporations, and corporations access to

> markets. For example, in Canada, and in the US, we used to put lead as an

> additive into our car's gasoline. Because lead is a carcinogen it was removed

> and replaced with MMT, also a heavy metal. Several years ago, Canada woke up

> and told the producer (I don't remember - Mobil?) to show that MMT is safe and

> threatened to not accept this additive. The oil company replied that they do

not

> have to prove that is not a carcinogen, that Canada must do this, and if

Canada

> persists in this line, it would take Canada to court and sue under the rules

of

> NAFTA, which says that if a corporation starts to do business, a government

MAY

> NOT stop it. And Canada also paid a 15,000,000 penalty, Canadian, I hope.

This

> additive is illegal to use in the USA and anywhere else in the world. More to

> home. Mexican trucks come into the USA, under NAFTA, which are so old that in

> the US they would have been put out of their misery many years ago. These

> trucks are grossly overloaded and in bad states of repair. Because of NAFTA,

> the US can do nothing about it. Etc.

> The WTO is an international trade organization whose function it is to

> promote " fair " trade between countries. If a trade problem occurs, it is

taken

> to these corporate representatives to adjudicate. One example: the WTO

decided

> that Canada's laws on patent protection for pharmaceutical corporations is

> unfair - they should give longer protection. Canada whimpered, changed its

> law, and gave longer protection to pharmaceutical corporations. You think

that

> this example will apply only to Canada? Wait until Canada takes the USA to

the

> WTO about your tax imposition on our softwood lumber!

> Codex - maybe you heard about this from the lists you read. It is an

> organization which is strong in Europe. Its aim is to make vitamin

supplements,

> etc. stronger than the US daily requirements illegal to obtain except by

> prescription!!!! Pharmaceutical corporations will now be able to fill

> prescriptions and charge exorbitant prices for products which we can now get

> " over the counter " , which are reasonably - more or less - priced. After all,

> corporations are wiser than we, and of course their bank accounts must become

> fatter.

> The SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS is similar, but it is just starting.

> So what if we know that hear disease is such a big killer. Greater

hazards

> are looming on the horizon. George Orwell merely scratched the surface. So

much

> for knowledge.

>

> Morton

>

> The Havens wrote:

>

> > The #1 cause of death today is not heart disease or cancer

> > Written by Lynn Hardy, N.D., C.N.C.,

> >

> > Heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and most of the other major killers

> > in society today can be classified as " diseases of the uninformed. " They

> > are nontheless lethal but only to those who have not heard about prevention

> > and natural cures. Unfortunately, this includes your loved ones and friends

> > as well as the great majority of the Western world.

> >

> > Heart disease kills nearly

> > 1,000,000 Americans every year!

> > That's 2,600 Americans that die each day or

> > 1 person every 33 seconds.

> > American Heart Association

> >

> > In the United States the number of people with chronic conditions is

> > growing at an alarming rate. A chronic condition is one that lasts a year

> > or longer, limits what one can do and may require ongoing care. Examples of

> > chronic conditions are diabetes, cancer, glaucoma and heart disease. More

> > than 125 million Americans have at least one chronic condition and 60

> > million have more than one. (1)

> >

> > In 2000, 20 million more people had one or more chronic conditions than the

> > number originally estimated in 1996. By 2020, the number of people living

> > with chronic conditions is foreseen to rise to 157 million and direct

> > medical costs are expected to double to more than $1 trillion (80 percent

> > of the nation's health care spending). (2)

> >

> > We are living in the age of fast food, chemicals, and inactivity. Each day

> > our bodies are exposed to deadly pesticides, herbicides, preservatives,

> > coloring agents, artificial sweeteners, hormones, antibiotics,

> > environmental pollution, toxic chemicals, food irradiation, genetic

> > engineering, and countless other relatively new health hazards. Considering

> > the chemical-soup we live in, the above statistics are not surprising in

> > the least.

> >

> > The truth is it is becoming more and more expensive and difficult to avoid

> > the exposure to deadly toxins in our food, water and environment. Even

> > sadder is the fact that most people don t even know or care about the

> > potential dangers lurking around them. They blame their illnesses on

> > factors beyond their control and refuse to take responsibility for their

> > own health. They rely on the newest wonder drug to erase all their troubles

> > and continue treating their bodies like garbage disposals. On the other end

> > of the scale, a much smaller group of people are waking up and shunning the

> > marvels of modern society, turning instead towards holistic and natural

> > living.

> >

> > A world divided

> >

> > I feel that in the decades to come, our world will become completely

> > divided in two.

> >

> > Some people will live their lives following the mainstream and eating only

> > junk and processed foods served by convenience while sitting like comatose

> > before the T.V. set believing every word of the unbiased media. They will

> > build and furnish their houses with toxic materials, spray their yards with

> > deadly pesticides, clean their homes with hazardous chemicals, drink

> > polluted water, feed their families dead poisonous foods, and take harmful

> > drugs at the first sign of their bodies rebelling against all the attacks.

> > These people will be sick and lethargic, watch their children suffer

> > through childhood and school, and experience an early and painful death.

> > These will be the patients of today and tomorrow.

> >

> > The other group, that is starting to emerge, will go completely against the

> > grain in every respect. These people will build and furnish their homes

> > with natural materials, use organic cleaners and pesticides, eat wholesome

> > organic foods, drink pure water, spend a lot of time in the fresh air,

> > engage in regular physical activity, and turn to nature when they re ill.

> > They will be disease-free, happy, energetic, full of vitality and live a

> > long and fulfilling life. Their children will be healthy, joyous, fit and

> > smart. These will be the healers of tomorrow taking care of the others.

> >

> > Patrick Holford, Director of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London

> > and the author of the Optimum Nutrition Bible, makes this point very clear:

> >

> > " Tomorrow's medicine will not be about using nutrients instead of drugs. It

> > will be about looking through a new pair of glasses which reveal the true

> > causes of disease. In most cases these lie in faulty nutrition, pollution,

> > stress, negativity, addiction and lack of exercise - the greatest cause of

> > all being ignorance. The original meaning of the word 'doctor' is teacher

> > or learned man and that is perhaps the most important role a health

> > professional can perform.

> >

> > Current research indicates that the foods we eat influence tremendously our

> > susceptibility to cancer, heart disease and other chronic health

> > conditions. Generally, high fat, low-fiber, animal-based diets are thought

> > to increase the risk, while plant-based diets - high in fresh fruits,

> > vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and minimally processed starchy foods -

> > can help prevent disease. But diet is not the only factor. Degenerative

> > diseases actually have three main causes: malnutrition, incomplete

> > digestion and internal pollution. These are reversed by nutrient

> > enrichment, improved digestion, and regular detoxification.

> >

> > Nutritional therapy is a holistic discipline; nutrition as the key to good

> > health is the all-embracing fundamental principle used since the time of

> > the famous Greek doctor and founder of Western medicine, Hippocrates, to

> > help people of all ages stay at their personal peak of energy and vitality.

> >

> > In our modern world the importance of optimum nutrition was reintroduced in

> > 1968 by one of the greatest minds of this century, twice Nobel-prize winner

> > Linus Pauling. Pauling coined the term Orthomolecular Nutrition.

> > " Orthomolecular " is, literally, " pertaining to the right molecule " . Pauling

> > proposed that by giving the body the right molecules (optimum nutrition)

> > most disease would be eradicated

> >

> > " Imagine the publicity if someone announced that they have developed a new

> > treatment that cured 40 percent of all people with cancer. The media would

> > be jumping up and down. That kind of benefit can be achieved today just by

> > following a vegetarian diet. Right there you have an answer and no one's

> > listening. "

> >

> > -Oliver Alabaster, M.D., Director of the institute for Disease Prevention,

> > George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

> >

> > John D. Potter, M.D., Ph.D. has some suggestions on how we can maintain

> > control over our health. He writes the following in February issue of the

> > New England Journal of Medicine:

> >

> > There is an interesting dilemma for those who would influence nutrition. In

> > many places in the world, there are governmental agencies concerned with

> > food security, food safety, agriculture, health, and trade that may, from

> > time to time, implement policies that are at least intended to reduce the

> > risk of chronic diseases. Most often, when the goals of agriculture and

> > human health clash, it is the will of the agriculture sector that prevails

> > (remember the European Union's butter mountain and wine lake ?). In the

> > United States, perhaps more than anywhere else, this has left an opening

> > for self-help nutrition books. In a land where individuality and

> > self-reliance are valued above many other virtues and where disease is

> > sometimes seen to be a mark of personal failure, gaining access to the best

> > data on health-related food consumption may be central to maintaining

> > control over one's health.

> >

> > #1 cause of death

> >

> > So what is the #1 cause of death today if it s not heart disease? It is

> > lack of information! Armed with the right knowledge we can live a healthy

> > and rewarding life and avoid deadly diseases that threaten our chance of

> > living life to the fullest. There are numerous resources available for us

> > to learn about optimum nutrition and holistic living. There are thousands

> > of books and videos on the subject and also some wonderful home-study

> > programs. These programs serve not only to improve the quality of your life

> > but also place a powerful tool in your hands with which to help others.

> > Taking a course in nutrition can save you a lot of time in doing your own

> > research as it already encompasses the most important and most up-to-date

> > information in this field.

> >

> > The question, therefore, is not whether you can afford to invest time and

> > money into learning about nutrition and healthy living. The real question

> > is: Can you afford not to?

> >

> > Isn t a lifetime of sickness and suffering too high of a price to pay for

> > lack of information? In my opinion, if the doctors of today don t become

> > nutritionists, then the nutritionists will become the doctors of tomorrow.

> >

> > [Dr. Lynn Hardy is the Director of the Global Institute For Alternative

> > Medicine

> > - <http://www.gifam.org/>www.gifam.org]

>