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March 19th, 2011

How to Protect Yourself from Radiation Poisoning

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Radiation Danger

How to protect yourself from radiation poisoning could save your life and/or prevent a radiation induced cancer.  In light of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan as a result of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, you better have a plan for dealing with radiation exposure.  The partial meltdown, hydrogen explosions, pressure releases and steam and core breaches have released radiation into the atmosphere.  This will affect the entire planet.  Japan will suffer with the highest radiation exposures but the trade winds will carry the radiation around the globe.

Update 8-11-2013 – 2 and a half years later!

  From RT.com However, Japan’s Ministry of Industry has recently estimated that some 300 tons of contaminated groundwater have been flowing into the ocean daily ever since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the disaster. TEPCO also promised it will urgently reinforce the protective shields to keep radioactive leaks at bay. The company has repeatedly complained it is running out of space and has had to resort to pumping water into hastily-built tanks of questionable reliability, as more than 20,000 tons of water with high levels of radioactive substances has accumulated in the plant’s drainage system. Water samples recently taken at an underground passage below the Fukushima nuclear plant showed extreme levels of radiation comparable to those taken immediately after the March 2011 catastrophe. The tested water, which had been mixing with ground water and flowing into the ocean, contained 2.35 billion Becquerels of cesium per liter – some 16 million times above the limit.

Funny the media hasn’t said squat about this MASSIVE RADIOACTIVE LEAK   At this point in time (March 19, 2011), we have been told radiation releases have been minimal.  First off, I don’t believe them.  Second, radiation at even low levels can cause cancer (especially thyroid cancer), damage DNA and unleash oxidants / free radicals within our bodies.  Children, pregnant mothers and their fetuses are the most vulnerable.  DNA damage to fetuses can cause birth defects and cancers. The most vulnerable point of the body to radiation poisoning is the thyroid gland.  Radioactive iodine collects in the thyroid (90% of people are iodine deficient so there are many iodine receptors open to the radioactive iodine).  The best protection is avoid radioactive iodine all together – unfortunately, this is not an option for all exposed. Radiation pills as they are called are generally potassium iodide (KI), sometimes an inferior potassium iodate (KIO3) is sold (stay away from potassium iodate unless that is all that is available).  Iodine pills help by filling up the thyroid iodine receptors with radiation free iodine so it can not uptake radioactive iodine (a preventative).  In order for this to work, potassium iodide must be taken before exposure to radiation.  If the thyroid is saturated with non-radioactive iodine, the radioactive iodine will not be absorbed by the thyroid and therefore protecting it.

When to Take Potassium Iodide

Upon government notification of dangerous radiation levels in your area: Daily dosage of Potassium Iodide for thyroid protection

  • Adult is 130mg potassium iodide
  • Age 3 to 18 – 65 mg
  • One month to three years – 32 mg
  • Birth to 1 month – 16 mg

Taken daily – until authorities announce that there is no more risk for exposure.  If you have a thyroid issue, consult a doctor before supplementing with potassium iodide. Only take potassium iodide at these dosages for short periods of time during imminent radiation exposure – government warning or other credible warning FOR YOUR AREA. Generally, no more than 2 weeks at a time. Potassium iodide only protects your thyroid against radioactive iodine (iodine 131) – the thyroid is the most vulnerable part of the body to this type of exposure, fortunately it is the most common type of radiation released.  The half life of radioactive iodine is 8 days.  Other types of radiation potentially released from nuclear reactors is cesium (cesium 137) and plutonium.  Potassium iodide will not protect you from these forms of radioactive materials. Some have been touting “don’t take potassium iodide ever” because of a few individuals have adverse reactions.  I have taken potassium iodide in the past and had zero side effects.  Your choice if you want to take a chance at radiation poisoning or cancer.  Of course, if you have been advised by a doctor to avoid iodine because of a thyroid condition or adverse reactions then don’t take it. A natural source of iodine which will do the same as supplementing with radiation pills is kelp or seaweed.  They naturally contain iodine and are considered health foods but you don’t know the amount of iodine you are consuming.  You can also buy kelp or seaweed supplements which state on the label the amounts of iodine they contain.  Remember, iodine is necessary for life, just don’t over do it.

Natural Supplements to Combat the Effects of Radiation Exposure:

  • Kelp/Seaweed extract supplements – iodine source
  • Ginseng – adaptogen
  • Ashwagandha – adaptogen
  • Chlorella – detox
  • Zeolite – detox
  • Fulvic Acid – detox
  • Reishi Mushroom – healer
  • Sea Salt – iodine source
  • Miso – used after Hiroshima and Nagasaki with good results
  • Vitamin C – antioxidant
  • Magnesium – detox…
  • Selenium – detox, cancer prevention/cancer killer
  • Coconut
  • Glutathione – antioxidant
  • Melatonin
  • Gingko biloba
  • Garlic extract
  • Curcumin – antioxidant
  • Baking Soda
  • Tulsi tea (Holy Basil)

Let’s hope this situation is under control and no more radiation will be released.  These tools will help. – Potassium Iodide sources

Food Safety + Government = Disaster

December 1st, 2010
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Food Safety Police

The bill sounds good, who doesn’t want safe food?  The devil is in the details.  Pretty soon the government will dictate what you can eat, what supplements you can take…  Look how many times the food pyramid has changed, how the USA is getting fatter every year following the “advice” of the all knowing government.   They want to serve you dead, sterilized food.

All the FDA needs is “reason to believe” there is a food safety problem and they can attack.   Sounds like a political tool to me.  Yet they get away with approving prescription drugs that kill well over 100,000 people every year.  Sounds more like a small farm and food co-op killer bill to me.

The dreaded words again – “I am with the government and I am here to help”.  Yeah, they are so good at managing things, look at the budget, debt, social security (they spent it), 60 to 100 TRILLION dollars in unfunded “entitlements” – how do you possibly pay for this?  If we do not become the next third world country, it will be amazing.  I am certain they will dictate, er um, I mean manage “food safety” well too.

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(NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it’s headed to become law. It’s being hailed as a “breakthrough” achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens.

There’s just one problem with all this: It’s all a big lie.

Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media:

Lie #1 – Most deaths from food poisoning are caused by fresh produce
Here’s a whopper the mainstream media won’t dare report: Out of the 1,809 people who die in America every year from food-borne pathogens (CDC estimate), only a fraction die from the manufacturer’s contamination of fresh produce. By far the majority of food poisoning is caused by the consumption of spoiled processed foods, dead foods and animal-human transmission of pathogens.

For example, one of the largest food-borne killers according to the CDC is Toxoplasma gondii, a disease that people acquire from cat feces coming into contact with their food, which can happen right in their own homes (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/Vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203). Salmonella poisoning accounts for 553 deaths a year. As a reference for relative risk, over 42,000 people die each year from road accidents in the USA, meaning driving a car has a roughly 7600% higher chance of killing you than eating fresh produce. (http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-multicountry-percapita-2003.htm)

In terms of food-borne illness, many of the deaths come from things like spoiled tomato sauce, spoiled canned foods and spoiled pasteurized milk. S 510, of course, does absolutely nothing to address these food contamination deaths, since those foods are considered “sterilized” at the time of sale.

Lie #2 – Under S.510, the FDA would only recall products it knows to be contaminated
Not true. S.510 merely requires the FDA to have “reason to believe” a food is contaminated. So right there, that means all raw milk will be targeted by the FDA because even without conducting any scientific tests at all, the FDA can say it has “reason to believe” the milk is contaminated merely because it is raw.

In other words, the FDA no longer needs science to outlaw a food product. It merely needs an opinion.

Is this “reason to believe” section really true? Yep, and here’s how it was amended:

SEC. 208. ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION OF FOOD.
23 (a) IN GENERAL. – Section 304(h)(1)(A) (21 U.S.C.24 334(h)(1)(A)) is amended by
(1) striking ”credible evidence or information indicating” and inserting ”reason to believe”;
(http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s510rs.txt.pdf)

In other words, in negotiating this bill, the U.S. Senate removed the requirement that the FDA needed “credible evidence” in order to recall a product and, instead, replaced that with the FDA only needing “reason to believe.”

It is utterly amazing that the U.S. Congress would give the FDA to conduct large-scale product recalls and even imprison people based entirely on what the agency “has reason to believe.”

Last time I checked, the FDA held some pretty bizarre (if not downright moronic) beliefs, including this jaw-dropping whopper: The FDA literally believes that there is no food, no herb, no vitamin or supplement that has any ability to prevent disease of any kind. They don’t even believe limes can prevent scurvy, and you’d have to nutritionally illiterate to believe that.

The FDA believes foods are inert and that all the amazing phytonutrients in those foods (carotenoids, antioxidants, therapeutic fats like omega-3 and so on) are utterly useless for human biology.

This belief, held by the FDA that has now been put in charge of the food supply, is the belief system of an insane government agency that has completely lost touch with reality while abandoning nutritional science.

Lie #3 – They didn’t tell you that nearly 70% of grocery store chickens are contaminated with salmonella every day
Yep, it’s true: Amid all the fear-mongering over salmonella, everybody forgot to notice that the vast majority of fresh chickens sold at grocery stores every single day are widely contaminated with salmonella (http://www.naturalnews.com/028661_chickens_salmonella.html). Yet S 510 does absolutely nothing to address this. It’s not even mentioned in the bill.

In fact, it is these contaminated chickens that end up cross-contaminating the fresh produce in many kitchens across America. So the so-called “food poisoning” that’s often blamed on spinach or onions often originates with the contaminated chicken meat people bring home and slice on their kitchen cutting boards.

Lie #4 – S.510 will exclude and protect small farmers
The Tester Amendment, which was finally included in S.510, excludes farmers who sell less than $500,000 worth of food each year from the more onerous paperwork and compliance burdens described in the bill. But this dollar amount is not indexed to inflation, meaning that as the U.S. dollar continues to lose value due to the Federal Reserve counterfeiting machine running at full speed (more “quantitative easing,” anyone?), food prices will continue to skyrocket — and this will shift even small family farms into the $500,000 sales range within just a few years.

In fact, a single-family farm with just four people could easily sell $500,000 worth of fresh produce a year right now, even before inflation. Remember, $500,000 is not their profit, but rather the gross sales amount. The profits on that might be only $50,000 or even less.

Furthermore, this $500,000 threshold means that small, successful farms that are doing well and would like to expand will refuse to hire more people or expand their operations. To avoid the tyranny of S 510, small farms will try to stay small, and that means avoiding the kind of business expansion that would create new jobs.

Lie #5 – The FDA needs more power to enforce food safety
The FDA already has the power to effectively recall foods by publicly announcing a product has been found to be contaminated. The FDA already has the power to confiscate “misbranded” products, too, and it could easily use this power to halt the sale of contaminated food items.

But the FDA simply refuses to enforce the laws already on the books and, instead, has sought to expand its power by hyping up the e.coli food scares. The ploy apparently worked: Now in a reaction to the food scare-mongering, the FDA is being handed not just new powers, but more funding, too! And you can bet it will find creative new ways to put this power to work suppressing the health freedoms and food freedoms of the American people.

Lie #6 – Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork
There is no evidence that requiring farms to fill out more paperwork will make their food safer. The real cause of produce contamination is the existence of factory animal farms whose effluent output (huge rivers of cow feces, basically), end up in the water supply, soils and equipment that comes into contact with fresh produce.

The food contamination problem is an UPSTREAM problem where you’ve got to reform the factory animal operations that now dominate the American meat industry. S.510, however, does absolutely nothing to address this. Factory animal farms aren’t even addressed in the bill!

Lie #7 – The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food
The truth is that Americans are dying from processed food laced with toxic chemical additives, not from fresh, raw produce. Partially-hydrogenated oils, white sugar, aspartame, MSG and artificial food colors almost certainly kill far more people than bacterial contaminations.

The American public is also dying from pharmaceuticals — anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 people a year are killed by FDA-approved drugs (http://www.naturalnews.com/001894.html), most of which have been approved under the guise of blatantly fraudulent science and drug company trickery. The FDA doesn’t seem to mind. In fact, it has been a willful co-conspirator in the scientific fraud carried out by Big Pharma in the name of “medicine.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/027851_health_news_Big_Pharma.html)

To think that the FDA — the very same agency responsible for the Big Pharma death machine — is now going to “save us” by controlling food safety is highly irrational.

Lie #8 – The FDA just wants to make food “safer”
Actually, the FDA wants to make the food more DEAD. Both the FDA and the USDA are vocal opponents of live food. They think that the only safe food is sterilized food, which is why they’ve supported the fumigation, pasteurization and irradiation efforts that have been pushed over the last few years.

California almond growers, for example, must now either chemically fumigate or pasteurize their almonds before selling them (http://www.naturalnews.com/021776.html). This has destroyed the incomes of U.S. almond farmers and forced U.S. food companies to buy raw almonds from Spain and other countries.

Lie #9 – Food smuggling is a huge problem in America
One of the main sections of S.510 addresses “food smuggling.” Yep — people smuggling food across the country. If you’ve never heard of this problem that’s because it’s not actually a problem.

Not yet anyway.

But there’s a reason why they put this into the bill: Because they’re probably planning on criminalizing fresh produce and then arresting people for transporting broccoli with the “intent to distribute.”

Yep, farmers bringing fresh produce to sell at the weekend farmer’s market could soon be arrested and imprisoned as if they were drug smugglers. Hence the need for the “food smuggling” provisions of S.510.

Soon, we will all have to meet in secret locations just to trade carrots for cash.

Lie #10 – S.510 will make America’s food supply the safest in the world
Actually, even with S.510 in place, America’s food supply is among the most chemically contaminated in the world, second only to China. You can find mercury in the seafood, BPA in the canned soup, yeast extract (MSG) in the “natural” potato chips, and artificial petrochemical coloring agents in children’s foods.

Eating the “Standard American Diet” is probably the single most harmful thing a person can do for their health. It’s the fastest way to get cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Every nation in the world that begins to consume the American diet starts to show record rates of degenerative disease within one generation. This is the “safe food” that the U.S. Senate is now pushing on everyone.

Remember, with S.510, SAFE = DEAD. And the FDA says it wants to keep everybody safe.

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Thomas Jefferson : If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Are You Getting Enough Salt?

June 17th, 2010
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Natural Salt for Health

Sounds strange doesn’t it?  One would swear that salt is a 4 letter word with all the “medical” recommendations for a low sodium diet.  Actually, what most people use for salt (table salt) is a highly refined sodium chloride.  It doesn’t even resemble natural salt which is sea salt or from ancient salt deposits (from former seas or oceans).

True salt contains every mineral the body needs.  Salt water minerals are even in the exact proportions the body requires – how perfect is that?  My revelation was being on a “healthy” low fat, low sodium, high fiber diet – I was constipated – it didn’t make sense!  I read an article from a natural health practitioner that said constipation can be from lack of salt in one’s diet.  I drank a glass of salt water and the next day I was fine.

Highly refined salt is stripped of all the other minerals and you are left with sodium chloride and some chemicals to keep it dry and from clumping – (love those non-natural chemicals in my foods).  This form of “salt” is toxic and out of balance (sodium / potassium balance is important – as is calcium / magnesium balance) with what our bodies require.  They add iodine to table salt because it is stripped out and it is very important to health – iodized salt.  The sodium chloride form of salt can raise blood pressure.  It is not natural, you don’t need it.

Real salt is good for you and there is no need to watch how much you consume.  Look for a good sea salt or crystal form like Himalayan sea salt (an ancient salt deposit).  Salt does not need to be white.  Often it is gray in color or even pink – that is from the minerals.  Sea salt can even be damp – that is natural.

As always, it is only when humans “refine and improve” something that it becomes unnatural and it’s benefits fade.  Natural salt is one of the things that should be left as is so you can reap it’s benefits and should be in your salt shaker.

You can actually die from lack of salt.  Think about it, when you sweat, you are losing salt – right?  Without replacing it, you are subjecting your body to functioning without electrolytes.  When athletes sweat a lot their muscles cramp up from lack of salt which are electrolytes.  Electrolytes conduct electricity.  Our nervous system and cells communicate via electricity and chemical reactions.  No essential bodily chemicals, no action or reactions. The body’s symphony of of cellular communication and coordinated processes cease.

So use common sense when “authorities” tell you to do something that just does not make sense.  Salt is necessary and vital to health.  Stop feeling guilty – just use healthy sea salt!