“E neproductiv sã luptãm împotriva morilor de vânt”. Mai multe jurisdictii europene au interzis complet cultivarea unor OMG-uri. Germania, de exemplu, a interzis în 2009 porumbul modificat genetic de la Monsanto, MON810. Acesta e unul din cele douã soiuri modificate genetic aprobate spre cultivare în UE, împotriva cãruia s-au exprimat si tãri precum Franta, Austria sau Ungaria.
Celãlalt e cartoful Amflora, produs de compania BASF, care a încetat sã mai vândã OMG-uri pentru cultivare anul trecut, dupã ce s-a confruntat cu o opozitie extinsã.
La rândul lor, alti mari producãtori de OMG-uri, ca Syngenta si Bayer CropSciences, s-au retras de pe piata europeanã.
Purtãtorul de cuvânt german a spus însã cã Monsanto va continua sã vândã porumb MON 810 în Spania, Portugalia si România, unde autoritãtile sunt mai deschise la cultivarea OMG-urilor decât în alte pãrti ale Europei.
Totodatã, compania va încerca în continuare sã convingã Uniunea Europeanã sã aprobe importurile de furaje pentru vite care contin organisme modificate genetic. În rest, îsi va orienta activitatea spre piata americanã, unde a fost aprobat recent asa-numitul “Act de Protectie Monsanto”.
Consumatorii si guvernele din Europa au respins organismele modificate genetic într-o mãsurã mult mai mare decât în alte pãrti ale lumii, cum ar fi America de Nord. Aceastã opozitie s-a nãscut din teama privind potentialele riscuri asupra sãnãtãtii si rãspândirea monoculturilor, considerate dãunãtoare biodiversitãtii si lantului alimentar.
Sâmburii de caise contin o cantitate mare de amigdalină, o vitamină ce distruge cancerul.
Este un fapt demonstrat: această substantă distruge repede celulele canceroase. Autorul oferă mai multe informatii despre vindecarea bolnavilor de cancer gratie B17, precum si explicatiile stiintifice ale actiunilor sale si ridică întrebarea "De ce medicina conventională nu recurge la aceasta pe scară largă împotriva bolii înselătoare?", scrie Agerpres.
Griffin sustine că vitamina B17 nu este utilizată în medicina conventională nu din ratiuni de ordin stiintific, ci din cauza politicii elitei mondiale în domeniul oncologic. Miliarde de dolari sunt cheltuite anual pe cercetare si tratamente ale cancerului, alte miliarde sunt cheltuite pe productia armatei de substante chimice destinate să lupte împotriva bolii. Astfel, ascunderea vitaminei B17 este de ordin economic pentru o industrie farmaceutică dominantă în lumea noastră.
Vitamina B17, care ucide cancerul, este continută în special în sâmburii de caise. Acestia au fost declarati oficial medicament împotriva tuturor tipurilor de cancer încă acum 35 de ani. După cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial, dr. Max Gerson si-a tratat cu succes pacientii cu acest remediu si l-a inclus în metoda sa de combatere a cancerului.
Amigdalina se găseste în sâmburii de caise, migdale, visine, piersici, prune si mere, precum si în semintele de mere, sorg, mei, seminte de in, linte, unele soiuri de fasole si struguri. De asemenea, în unele plante si multe alte produse pe care omul modern nu le utilizează în mod curent în alimentatie.
Modul actual de viată ne face să consumăm produse din făină rafinată, mult zahăr, ulei de gătit si alte produse industriale si procesate, în timp ce alimentele organice naturale au fost mult timp absente din meniul nostru. Bunicii nostri au mâncat alimente naturale nerafinate, iar cancerul pe vremea lor era un eveniment rar. Ei consumau fructe uscate, pâine din făină brută si chiar pâine din mei. Astfel, ei aveau acces, fără să stie, la vitaminele necesare pentru o viată sănătoasă, ferită de boli, inclusiv amigdalina (B17).
Vitamina B17 a fost interzisă pentru tratamentul cancerului acum 35 de ani, chiar dacă numerosi savanti sustineau că, dacă o persoană ar consuma zilnic această vitamină, ea nu ar dezvolta cancer, sustine autorul volumului mentionat. Potrivit acestuia, gigantii farmaceutici, precum si Ministerul Sănătătii al SUA au exercitat presiuni uriase asupra Directiei de control pentru calitatea alimentelor si medicamentelor, care a declarat drept ilegală comercializarea vitaminei B17, împreună cu informatiile atasate despre efectele sale terapeutice împotriva cancerului, precum si vânzarea unor categorii de fructe proaspete si sâmburi de caise.
Tactica mai includea răspândirea de zvonuri că sâmburii de caise si de migdale contin cianură si că aceasta i-ar putea otrăvi pe cei care le mănâncă. Dar adevărul este că nimeni nu s-a otrăvit din această cauză până în zilele noastre, chiar dacă a consumat în cantităti mari sâmburi de caise sau migdale, scrie Edward Griffin în volumul său.
I reply: " A half smoked joint". He says: "You know I can take you down to jail for that." I replied: "You know you'd be taking me to jail stoned, wouldn't THAT be illegal?"
He looked at me like I had said the dumbest thing.
He says: "Ok wise guy we will see how wise you will be when I take you down to jail." I replied: " How can you be wise taking me to jail for a joint, when there are people out there selling crack to teenagers in neighborhoods you pussies are too afraid to go into. Poor people of different races are beating eachother/their children/their wives up while you guys turn your blind eye, because rich people are robbing them en masse, and you motherfuckers are arresting people for joints just so you can fine me and make more money at the end of the month. You sir should be in jail." He says: " No, it is my duty to catch crime and take you to jail. "
So I reply: "How many people did I kill, and rob for that joint? Because the president robs and kills people every day and I'd love to see him go to jail for his crimes." He slams me against the wall, puts handcuffs on me and takes me to his master to sequester me. I yell at him while they're forcing me to go down to my holding cell: " So much for Liberty, Brotherhood, and Equality." In my jail cell I met a guy who works for the local mafia, and he had smuggled a joint into the holding cell. We went in a corner where the camera couldn't see us, and smoked it. He told me about deals the local mafia has with the mayor to bring drugs in from North Africa to Marseille by boat, thanks to millionaire mansions along the coast. Good friends of the mayor. And tells me how the local mafia regularly send their own to get caught with petty crimes just to keep the local police distracted. And how some police officers high up in the hierarchy get paid hush money.
Then he explains the best part: "None of us are going to go to jail for more than a year because the jails are overpacked, and even if we do, we own the jails, we run the drugs in there, the cigarettes, the food... it's basically like a vacation home for people in the mafia. Even in there we cause violence just to keep drug prices high, and pay the guards to catch innocent people to fill their quotas."
And you'd think this was unique, but this is going on ever...
If you put a plaster cast on a broken arm the skin starves for Vitamin D, the muscles weaken due to strangled range of motion, the nerve synapses depress to a whimper of their former joy. Twenty-first century hominids? We shroud our entire skin palette except for face, neck and hands - we obliterate symbiosis with the planet.
We hide in cocoons, when we could be free as butterflies.
History reveals many cultures that were not clothes-minded. Spartans were basically bare and their victories in pan-Hellenic sports competitions enticed all neighboring Greeks to exercise nude, creating the word “gymnasium” (Greek gymnos = naked). Romans mingled in magnificent bathhouses, enjoying dense communal nudity as they drank, dined, defecated, bathed, read books, argued politics, and watched theater. Adamists — naked heretics — performed stripped-down church services in North Africa, Bohemia, the Netherlands, and England. Pre-Hitler Germans were avid adherents of Freikorperkultur (“Free Body Culture”) with 70,000 attending co-ed Nacktkultur schools.
There’s naked Japanese in hot springs, naked Finns in saunas, “sky-clad” Jain monks in India, plus millions of nudists worldwide going to “Nakation” camps, beaches, and resorts. They’re still sporty as Spartans, eager to hike naked (“free bush rambling”), canoe naked (“canuding”), bicycle naked, ride horses naked, run naked, play volleyball, badminton, ping-pong and chess naked, swim naked, dance naked, do Naked Yoga, Naked Tai Chi, Naked Gardening, Naked Bowling, and of course, many of us, perhaps you and I, dear readers, are NIFOC — Naked In Front of Computers.
Many famous figures were bare-all aficionados; too many politicians to name, so I’ll just list sci-fi and scientists: Leonard Nimoy, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Heinlein, and seismologist Charles Richter. Nudism is prominent in Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld books and John Varley’s Steel Beach. Celebrities? Many movie stars skinny-dip at the French Riviera, trying to elude paparazzi seeking pix of Bruce WIllis’ willy or Natalie Portman’s port side.
Here’s evidence suggesting that skin-only can be superior:
Born Free. Pediatricians agree that infants thrive with a daily dose of “naked time” because the unhampered range of motion aids brain development, stimulating neuron growth. Recent discoveries reveal that the “plastic” brain changes and develops throughout our entire lives. Neuroplasticity pioneer Michael M. Merzenich believes, “Everything that you can see happen in a young brain can happen in an older brain.” Doesn’t this imply that “naked time” is equally valuable for humans of any age, especially the elderly?
Weakened Bodies. A 2003 University of Reading study entitled “A Naked Ape Would Have Fewer Parasites” posits that “humans evolved hairlessness to reduce parasite loads, especially ectoparasites that may carry disease.” Unfortunately, the garments we wear can be a breeding ground for filthy fungi and bad bacterium, causing yeast infections, urinary tract infections, rotting toenails. Lyme Disease deer ticks can grab onto our sweaters and sea lice can sneak into our bathing suit crotches. Cinched-up belts, ties, and clothes impede breathing. Men’s snug pants raise testicle temperature, lowering sperm count and fertility.
Barefoot Medicine. Going shoeless is now recognized as an anti-Alzheimer’s, brain-boosting activity because the sole sensation entices your brain into growing extra, efficient neuron connections. Dr. Norman Doidge (author of The Brain That Changes Itself) believes skipping shoes increases brain flexibility and youthfulness, and many podiatrists now advise going barefoot as much as possible. Bare feet are today’s prescription. Will tomorrow’s elixir take the next step: Bare Body?
Superior Socialization. Self-actualization proponent Abraham Maslow believed “Nudism… is itself a kind of therapy.” Health benefits of social nudity include stress reduction, satiation of curiosity about the human body, reduction of porn addiction, a sense of full-body integration and developing a wholesome attitude about the opposite gender. Research at the University of Northern Iowa discovered that nudists have significantly higher body self-acceptance. Another study concluded that teens at a New York nudist camp were “extraordinarily well-adjusted, happy, and thoughtful.” It’s also excellent for children to grow up free of shame about the human body.
Tolerant Views. A University of Central Florida 2008 study of 384 participants concluded that pro-nudity students “were significantly more accepting of other religious groups and gays and lesbians” when compared to the anti-nudity students. They were also “less prejudiced towards ethnically dissimilar others.”
Soothe Away Your Crazies. Massage is recognized as a therapeutic treatment for mental health issues like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolarism, borderline personality disorder, learning difficulties, and low self-esteem. The skin stimulation of massage — improving blood flow and detoxifying the lymph system — is duplicated by the warmth, freedom, and improved circulation generated in nakedness.
Soak Up The Rays. Vitamin D deficiency is currently soaring, with up to 75% of USA teens and adults receiving insufficient amounts of the “sunshine vitamin.” Lack of this essential health aid is a factor in numerous ailments, including cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis and diabetes. Anyone who bares all outside as a “naturist” harvests larger amounts of Vitamin D in a quicker time span.
Financial Liberation. Clothes are a huge money and time-suck with shopping, laundry, closets, dressers, and gazillions of hours wasted wondering what so-and-so looks like with their garments removed. The global markets for swimsuits alone is expected to reach $17.6 billion annually by 2015; our carbon footprint would shrink like a wool sweater if fabric was no longer manufactured.
Longevity (just joking!). Have you noticed that the furry Norway Rat only lives 2-3 years, while the Naked Mole Rat survives to be 28?
So… is the future going to be full frontal? Will the post-Singularity planet be stripped? Will everyone in a climate-controlled tomorrow choose to be nude, strutting around like the Nuba dancers and boxers of Leni Reifenstahl?
Trends point to an era where there won’t be a stitch to worry about. Many resort areas are are now offering nudism to increase tourism, and American naturist clubs claim their enrollment is growing 20% annually. The German airline OssiUrlaub.de offered nude chartered flights to a Baltic sea resort, and today’s lengthy luggage searches at airports are steering travelers to destinations where they only need carry-on towels and sunblock. Twenty million Europeans already go to nude beaches and spas.
The producers of the film Kevin & Trae Booth and Brian Patterson have worked with LEAP since 2007 and have spent three years working on this film. We believe that the sobering message of "American Drug War 2" will be a LEAP recruiting tool for many years to come.
The producers need the help of all our LEAP members to ensure this film gets the attention it deserves Here is a link of the cities the film is currently booked to play on June 6th and each screening will be co-hosted by a LEAP speaker.
This may sound somewhat obvious, but I would argue that this is a fundamental sticking-point when discussing such matters, as it is difficult to link individuals to the antisocial and unethical actions they perpetrate [1:2] without a historically accurate point of reference.
For example, when discussing matters such as the proposal that 9/11 may have been initiated by our ‘leaders’ [3], I find that people quite often respond with the simple question ‘why?’, as it seems absurd to think that our ‘leaders’ would do something quite so inhuman and immoral for some sort of political gain. I will not attempt here to go into what their motives were, but rather into why it is that we, the general public, rarely remember the lessons of the past and continue to be misled about the circumstances leading to each and every conflict.
At this juncture I would suggest that the reader check out an article by John Pilger entitled ‘Our children are learning lies’ in which he clearly sets out several examples of how we are taught about an historic event at school and how this information will in turn have a direct effect on the formation of our future perceptions of the world [4]
Unfortunately, this information can all too often bear little or no relation to the actual event (Pilger uses Vietnam as a prime illustration of this), because the language and information used to teach us essentially pre-programs our comprehension of future warfare, automatically predisposing us to whichever side has been identified as the ‘goodies’ while creating a vested dislike or even hatred of the ‘baddies’.
Perhaps ‘baddie’ should be rephrased in Orwellian terms as ‘a figure of hate’. From what I remember of my own learning on Vietnam, I recall thinking that the Americans became involved in order to help protect the ‘Democratic South’ against the ‘Communist North’ — this is probably what most people believe. According to Pilger, this analysis of the Vietnam conflict is far from the truth; in fact, almost completely contrary to the reality of the situation. The excerpt below comes from his article referring to a school textbook written on the subject:
It says that under the 1954 Geneva Accord: ‘Vietnam was partitioned into communist north and democratic south.’ In one sentence, truth is dispatched. The final declaration of the Geneva conference divided Vietnam ‘temporarily’ until free national elections were held on 26 July 1956. There was little doubt that Ho Chi Minh would win and form Vietnam’s first democratically elected government. Certainly, President Eisenhower was in no doubt of this. ‘I have never talked with a person knowledgeable in Indo-Chinese affairs,’ he wrote, ‘who did not agree that . . . 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader.’
Not only did the United States refuse to allow the UN to administer the agreed elections two years later, but the ‘democratic’ regime in the south was an invention. One of the inventors, the CIA official Ralph McGehee, describes in his masterly book Deadly Deceits how a brutal expatriate mandarin, Ngo Dinh Diem, was imported from New Jersey to be ‘president’ and a fake government was put in place. ‘The CIA,’ he wrote, ‘was ordered to sustain that illusion through propaganda [placed in the media].’
Phony elections were arranged, hailed in the west as ‘free and fair’, with American officials fabricating ‘an 83 per cent turnout despite Vietcong terror’. The GCSE guide alludes to none of this, nor that ‘the terrorists’, whom the Americans called the Vietcong, were also southern Vietnamese defending their homeland against the American invasion and whose resistance was popular. For Vietnam, read Iraq. –Extract from ‘Our children are learning lies’ by John Pilger [5]
What this essentially tells us is that, for all the democratic ideals that America and the West claims to espouse, as soon as someone who does not agree with their viewpoint is voted in they will do anything in their power to subvert and undermine them. This is rephrased and then becomes the ‘official’ history of events, finding its way into everything from textbooks to documentaries – George Orwell and 1984, eat your heart out!
You don’t have to look far to find similar examples of this subversive reinvention of recent history – simply look at how Hamas has been marginalized despite winning a clear majority in the Palestinian legislative election of 2006. [6]
Hamas was not ‘permitted’ to govern, despite winning the overall support of the Palestinian people, due to their not having the same agenda as the policy makers in Washington. That is not to say that we should agree with all Hamas policies (or anyone else’s, for that matter), but that we should at least respect the fact that the Palestinian people, through seemingly fair elections, have chosen their own government. The Americans evidently did not: they swiftly imposed sanctions and withheld aid from the Palestinian Authority in protest at the audacity of the Palestinians voting for an anti-American party [7]. The power sharing deal between Hamas and Fatah hammered out afterward under American influence is the equivalent of the Conservative Party in Britain winning over 50% of the seats in a general election and then being forced to govern in coalition with the previous losing Labour Administration — a ridiculous prospect but arguably a comparable scenario. [8]
According to the words of former Republican Presidential hopeful, Newt Gingrich, the Palestinians are an “invented people” and are merely part of the larger Arab community, despite the fact that each Middle Eastern country has its own form of Arabic language and customs [9].
It could be argued that these types of statement serve to de-legitimize any section of society. Looking at history, this stratagem has been used as an excuse for ethnic cleansing, whether it be the United States in their treatment of Native Americans in the 19th Century; or 1930s Germany rounding up of the mentally ill, homosexuals, Jews and any other so-called undesirables; or the genocides in Bosnia or Rwanda in the 1990s – all the way through to Australia’s expunging of aboriginal culture during the first half of the 20th Century.
To say that Palestinians are not a people is evidently to completely ignore the reality of their current political situation. Very few countries have the same boundaries as they did 200 years ago, so it can be reasonably argued that the Palestinians who reside in the “occupied territories” are on the land of their forefathers and have every right to be there. Claiming that they are part of the larger Arab community and not a people is to imply that no Arab country is sovereign unto itself; something that would certainly be disputed on talking to most Moroccans, Saudis or Jordanians.
Let us not forget that although the Israeli nation is intrinsically a modern construct, this doesn’t mean that the Israeli people don’t have a sense of nationhood or national culture; they evidently do. Are Walloon-Belgians to be considered as ‘French’ simply because they have the same language as France? Is Scotland, Wales or the United States to be classified as ‘English’ simply because they share similar customs? Unfortunately, this type of rhetoric is all too often put forward; and even if the effect is not immediate, it is likely to influence the thinking of a significant number of people over time as the corporate media repeatedly relays these words to the wider population.
For further examples of this duplicity, we could briefly consider the undermining of Daniel Ortega as leader of Nicaragua, and the deposition of Mohammad Mosaddegh as Prime Minister of Iran. Ortega led a movement to oust the previous brutal U.S.-backed regime under Somoza and had put in place massive public programs to increase the living standards of his countrymen [10: 11]. Despite being lauded as the most free elections ever conducted in Nicaragua’s history, the Western establishment media was falling over itself to imply they were in fact rigged. [12]. The illegal methods used by the U.S. and its agencies included the funding of an armed insurgency, later became known as the Iran-Contra affair – a huge topic in itself, well worth reading about as an illustration of the extent to which those in power will go in order to destabilize governments that do not agree with their policies. [13]
Democratically elected Mosaddegh had instituted changes to transfer control of Iranian oil from Anglo-American interests to Iran. This resulted in a U.S.-sponsored regime change which saw the brutal Shah being imposed on Iran for the next 25 years, until his overthrow by the Islamic revolution of 1979 [14]. This fact is little known or cared about by Western observers, but it is widely known and taught throughout Iran. As Robert Fisk mentioned in a recent article in The Independent, ‘It is a weird irony that Iranians know the history of Anglo-Persian relations better than the Brits’ [15] This is something worth thinking about when looking at current Western-Iranian relations.
My point here is that these three events (and there are many more), although in the public domain are not widely known about or understood by the general population. Moreover, I would argue that discussion of these events is actively suppressed by the Western-controlled media, as this in itself would show the collusion of Western agencies in these events.
However, it is my belief that the situation is more dangerous than this, as noted at the start of this article. It is precisely this lack of information that prevents the general public from making informed decisions on a whole range of current areas of controversy — be it Iran, Syria, Libya or Sudan. We are presented with dubious information from a young age through to adulthood via the public-education system and the corporate-owned media, and it is hard to filter it out and be objective. Grant Allen may have been onto something when he wrote that “No schooling was allowed to interfere with my education.” [16]
There is much that could be said on this topic, but my main point is that it is absolutely vital for those who have an interest in these matters to critically appreciate and understand the history of how public opinion has been manipulated, how perceptions have been altered, and how half-truths have been purposely put forward by the media. It can be argued that in this way the media support the “Military Industrial Complex’s” agenda [17].
George Santayana wrote ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ [18]. If it is true that we are being deliberately misinformed and poorly educated about still-relevant historical events, shouldn’t we begin to at least question why this is the case? Might there be something more sinister at work in the world today?
All the information is still freely available and out there on the Web or in books for anyone who cares to know. It’s up to each one of us to find out everything we can so that we can understand the realities behind global and national policy making, thus enabling us to make informed and rational commentary and contributions to society.
This is where a revolution in thinking should start. This is where the morally “repugnant” elite control structure should end. [19]
Author: Andrew Fell lives in the Czech Republic and is a lecturer of English at a Social Work College in Prague. He has a keen interest in geo-politics, ethics, history, cooking and playing music. He can usually be found armed with a smile, sipping a cup of tea at a èajovna in Prague.
Chemtrails, Nanoaluminum, and Neurodegenerative and Neurodevelopmental Effects By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. August 23, 2012
The internet is littered with stories of “chemtrails” and geoengineering to combat “global warming”; and, until recently, I took these stories with a grain of salt. One of the main reasons for my skepticism was that I rarely saw what they were describing in the skies. But over the past several years I have noticed a great number of these trails and I have to admit they are not like the contrails I grew up seeing in the skies. They are extensive, quite broad, are laid in a definite pattern, and slowly evolve into artificial clouds. Of particular concern is that there are now so many – dozens every day are littering the skies.
My major concern is that there is evidence that they are spraying tons of nanosized aluminum compounds. It has been demonstrated in the scientific and medical literature that nanosized particles are infinitely more reactive and induce intense inflammation in a number of tissues. Of special concern is the effect of these nanoparticles on the brain and spinal cord, as a growing list of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) are strongly related to exposure to environmental aluminum.
Nanoparticles of aluminum are not only infinitely more inflammatory, they also easily penetrate the brain by a number of routes, including the blood and olfactory nerves (the smell nerves in the nose). Studies have shown that these particles pass along the olfactory neural tracts, which connect directly to the area of the brain that is not only most affected by Alzheimer’s disease, but also the earliest affected in the course of the disease. It also has the highest level of brain aluminum in Alzheimer’s cases.
The intranasal route of exposure makes spraying of massive amounts of nanoaluminum into the skies especially hazardous, as it will be inhaled by people of all ages, including babies and small children for many hours. We know that older people have the greatest reaction to this airborne aluminum. Because of the nanosizing of the aluminum particles being used, home-filtering systems will not remove the aluminum, thus prolonging exposure, even indoors.
In addition to inhaling nanoaluminum, such spraying will saturate the ground, water, and vegetation with high levels of aluminum. Normally, aluminum is poorly absorbed from the GI tract; but nanoaluminum is absorbed in much higher amounts. This absorbed aluminum has been shown to be distributed to a number of organs and tissues including the brain and spinal cord. Inhaling this environmentally suspended nanoaluminum will also produce tremendous inflammatory reaction within the lungs, which will pose a significant hazard to children and adults with asthma and pulmonary diseases.
I pray that the pilots who are spraying this dangerous substance fully understand that they are destroying the lives and health of their families as well. This is also true of our political officials. Once the soil, plants, and water sources are heavily contaminated there will be no way to reverse the damage that has been done.
Steps need to be taken now to prevent an impending health disaster of enormous proportions if this project is not stopped immediately. Otherwise we will see an explosive increase in neurodegenerative diseases occurring in adults and the elderly in unprecedented rates as well as neurodevelopmental disorders in our children. We are already seeing a dramatic increase in these neurological disorders and it is occurring in younger people more than ever before.
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Endnotes
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2. Krewski D et al., “The biological effects of nanoparticles. Risk assessment for aluminum, aluminum oxide, and aluminum hydroxide,” J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 2007;10 (suppl 1): 1-269.
3. Blaylock RL, “Aluminum induced immunoexcitotoxicity in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders,” Curr Inorg Chem 2012;2:46-53.
4. Tomljenovic L, “Aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease: after a century, is there a plausible link,” J Alzheimer’s Disease 2011;23:567-598.
5. Perl DP, Good PF, “Aluminum, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the olfactory system,” Ann NY Acad Sci 1991;640:8-13.
6. Shaw CA, Petrik MS, “Aluminum hydroxide injections lead to motor deficits and motor neuron degeneration,” J Inorg Biochem 2009;103:1555-1562.
8. Li XB et al., “Glia activation induced by peripheral administration of aluminum oxide nanoparticles in rat brains,” Nanomedicine 2009;5:473-479.
9. Exley C, House E, “Aluminum in the human brain,” Monatsh Chem 2011;142:357-363.
10.Nayak P, Chatterjee AK, “Effects of aluminum exposure on brain glutamate and GABA system: an experimental study in rats,” Food Chem Toxicol 2001;39:1285-1289.
11. Tsunoda M, Sharma RP, “Modulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha expression in mouse brain after exposure to aluminum in drinking water,” Arch Toxicol 1999;73:419-426.
12. Matyja E, “Aluminum changes glutamate –mediated neurotoxicity in organotypic cultures of rat hippocampus,” Folia Neuropathol 2000;38:47-53.
13. Walton JR, “Aluminum in hippocampal neurons from humans with Alzheimer’s disease,” Neurotoxicology 2006;27:385-394.
14. Walton JR, “An aluminum-based rat model for Alzheimer’s disease exhibits oxidative damage, inhibition of PP2A activity, hyperphosphorylated tau and granulovacuolar degeneration,” J Inorg Biochem 2007;101:1275-1284.
15. Becaria A et al., “Aluminum and copper in drinking water enhance inflammatory or oxidative events specifically in brain,” J Neuroimmunol 2006;176:16-23.
17. Exley C, “The pro-oxidant activity of aluminum,” Free Rad Biol Med 2004;36:380-387.
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Dr. Blaylock, an NHF member, is a World-renowned neurosurgeon who retired from Neurosurgery to devote his full attention to nutritional studies and research.
An in-demand guest for radio and TV programs, he lectures extensively to both lay audiences and physicians on nutrition-related subjects. He is the 2004 recipient of the Integrity in Science Award granted by the Weston A. Price Foundation and serves on the editorial staff of the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the official publication of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. See http://www.blaylockwellnesscenter.com
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David Gilbert Christian (born 1946) is an Anglo-American historian and scholar of Russian history notable for creating and spearheading an interdisciplinary approach known as Big History.
He began teaching the first course in 1989 which examined history from the Big Bang to the present using a multidisciplinary approach with assistance from scholars in diverse specializations from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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He is credited with coining the term Big History and he serves as president of the International Big History Association.
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La pubblicità ci bombarda continuamente proponendoci carni pregiate e varie qualità di polli e insaccati di ogni tipo. Ma ti fa davvero bene?
Probabilmente starai pensando: “Certo che mi fa bene, mi fornisce così tanta energia!”.
In realtà non è proprio così: il corpo come prima cosa brucia i carboidrati, poi i grassi e quindi arriva alle proteine. Anzi, ricorda che l'eccesso di proteine produce nitrogeno, che tende a causare l'affaticamento. Inoltre la carne è praticamente priva di quelli elementi che ci permettono di poter avere una corretta digestione: le fibre! Un fattore da non trascurare è che la carne è un alimento molto difficile da digerire.
Questo perché contiene una bassa percentuale di acqua e, poiché va consumata previa cottura, il prezioso liquido finisce per evaporare completamente.
Detto questo devi anche sapere che il nostro stomaco ha difficoltà a scomporla.
Per questo motivo impiega circa dieci-dodici ore ad attraversare completamente il nostro intestino.
Forse adesso starai pensando: “hai ragione la carne è troppo pesante e troppo difficile da digerire, forse è meglio mangiare pollo”.
Ti faccio riflettere un pochino...
La procedura necessaria per farti arrivare il pollo dalla fattoria fino al tuo piatto è una sequenza incredibile di orrori e di occasioni per avvelenarti (e di conseguenza farti accumulare pancia, grasso e cellulite). I polli sono infatti soggetti a numerosi livelli di contaminazione, prima di essere forzati ad uscire dalle loro affollatissime gabbie, messi dentro serbatoi bollenti e quindi passati sotto le macchine che li spennano.
Alla fine di questo terribile processo, i corpi degli animali vengono sommersi in un serbatoio di raffreddamento che si riempie di una cosiddetta “zuppa di feci”, in pratica una enorme piscina di scorie e batteri.
Le barbarie dell'allevamento intensivo
Ma ti invito ulteriormente a riflettere... Se la qualità della tua salute non è un argomento abbastanza forte per resistere alla tentazione di mangiare carne di pollo, sappi che ci sono una quantità enorme di motivi per scoraggiarti.
A partire dal modo in cui i polli vengono abbattuti. Lo sapevi che i polli sono costretti a vivere in spazi piccolissimi, le così dette gabbie in batteria, dove dividono il pochissimo spazio con almeno altri tre uccelli in modo che non abbiano la possibilità né di stare in piedi né tanto meno di sbattere le ali?
Sapevi anche che gli viene strappato il becco senza alcuna anestesia per evitare che si facciano male a vicenda, visto che sono costretti a vivere in condizioni di estrema prigionia e cattiveria?
Sapevi che i moderni metodi di allevamento utilizzano ormoni e luci artificiali al punto che le ossa dei polli perdono letteralmente consistenza e le zampe si spezzano? Se però mangiare carne ti piace, è bene che tu sappia cosa crea il gusto e la consistenza di pollo e manzo. Il sapore viene dall'acido urico, vale a dire l'urina dell'animale.
L'acido urico è altamente tossico e causa disturbi artritici. La consistenza masticabile, invece, deriva dalla putrefazione. Quando un animale muore, i germi putrefatti, i germi del colon, invadono tutte le cellule della carne. Sono proprio i germi putrefatti a rendere tenera la carne. Te lo dico giusto per farti sapere che, per quanto mi riguarda non credo che la carne sia un'ottima alleata nella qualità della tua vita e nell'aiutarti ad eliminare scorie e vivere in salute.
Non mangiare carne fa bene all'ambiente
Inoltre, se rinunci a mangiare carne, oltre far bene alla tua salute farai bene anche alla natura proprio perché un alimentazione a base di carne animale mette in pericolo molte risorse ambientali. Ecco cosa succede se non mangi carne:
- Risparmi incredibili quantità di acqua - Eviti l’impoverimento del suolo - Eviti la distruzione della foresta tropicale - Eviti la produzione di anidride carbonica - Riduci la quantità di gas metano prodotto - Aiuti a preservare le specie in pericolo di estinzione
Pensa che un solo hamburger importato dall’America Latina richiede per essere prodotto 12 mq di foresta tropicale e la distruzione di ben 320 kg di materia vivente, tra cui 20-30 specie diverse di piante. Adesso ti starai facendo questa domanda: “Ma come faccio ad assumere proteine se mi sconsigli di mangiare carne in questo metodo?” Devi sapere che le verdure di colore verde scuro sono una fonte RICCA di proteine. Per esempio, un’ alimentazione ricca di spinaci, broccoli e cavoli soddisfa in modo sano e adeguato il tuo bisogno di proteine. Ma non è tutto...
Le virtù dell'erba di grano
La conosci la bevanda magica? L'ERBA DI GRANO
Oltre alla clorofilla (ti ricordo che la clorofilla trasporta l'ossigeno e riduce l'accumulo e l'aggregazione di sostanze cancerogene nel DNA del fegato e degli altri organi) l'erba di grano fornisce al nostro corpo i seguenti nutrienti:
VITAMINE: e precisamente: Vitamina A (Aiuta le ossa in crescita, la vista e la riproduzione); Vitamina B (Sostiene lo sviluppo del corpo e del cervello, le ghiandole adrenaliniche, l'apparato nervoso e quello digerente); Vitamina C (Contribuisce allo sviluppo di pelle sana, denti, gengive, occhi, muscoli e giunture); Vitamina E (Aiuta il cuore e l'apparato riproduttivo).
MINERALI: dei 102 minerali presenti nel terreno, ben 92 sono assorbiti e presenti nell'erba di grano, tra cui: Calcio (Forma ossa e denti forti, regola il cuore ed aiuta a mantenere l'equilibrio del PH del sangue); Ferro (Favorisce la formazione dei globuli rossi ed il trasporto dell'ossigeno verso le cellule); Sodio (Aiuta la digestione, l'eliminazione e la regolazione dei liquidi nel corpo); Potassio (Mantiene in equilibrio il corpo, il tono muscolare e la compattezza dell'epidermide); Magnesio (Aiuta la funzione muscolare e l'eliminazione).
AMINOACIDI: l'erba di grano contiene ben 17 aminoacidi, inclusi tutti gli 8 essenziali (che compongono le proteine del corpo). Si tratta di 8 aminoacidi che il corpo da solo non è in grado di riprodurre e deve quindi sintetizzare dagli alimenti che noi assumiamo.
ENZIMI: L'erba di grano contiene moltissimi enzimi, coadiuvando il corpo nella produzione di enzimi naturali.
L'erba di grano stimola la peristalsi e supporta il buon funzionamento della tiroide.
Come si può assumere l'erba di grano?
È bene iniziare bevendone da una a due once al giorno (1 oncia = 28,35 gr). Con il tempo, puoi aumentare il numero di once, fino a quattro al giorno. Il segreto è bere comunque in piccole quantità durante il corso della giornata. Altra cosa importante è assumere l'erba di grano a stomaco vuoto: almeno un’ora prima di mangiare e comunque due ore dopo aver mangiato. Il succo di erba di grano dovrebbe essere spremuto fresco e se vuoi, puoi aggiungere una piccola quantità d'acqua perché il sapore concentrato è molto forte. La maggior parte delle persone beve l'erba di grano da sola, ma è possibile miscelarlo con altri succhi vegetali quali sedano, prezzemolo, carota ecc... Dopo aver letto le scomode verità sulla carne sicuramente ti starai facendo queste due domande che adesso andiamo ad analizzare insieme nello specifico.
Per una alimentazione sana devo assumere proteine animali?
ASSOLUTAMENTE FALSO. Spesso colleghiamo l’idea di proteine esclusivamente alla carne, ma devi sapere che i vegetariani riescono a coprire il proprio fabbisogno proteico giornaliero con un’alimentazione sana e su base vegetale. Inoltre, le proteine vegetali sono capaci di sintetizzare in modo più lento e durevole i nuovi tessuti proteici.
Ho bisogno delle proteine per sprigionare energia?
FALSO. Il corpo come prima cosa brucia gli zuccheri, poi i carboidrati e quindi arriva alle proteine.
Nato a Taranto, nel 1975, Raffaello Zizzo è Formatore: Allenatore Mentale e Personal Trainer.
Un TOTAL WELLNESS COACH, esperto di Psicologia del Cambiamento, Dimagrimento e allenamenti Personalizzati e di PNL (Programmazione Neuro Linguistica – una Neuroscienza oggi all’avanguardia nel campo del Miglioramento Personale). Dopo una laurea in Educazione Fisica, ha conseguito 4 Master di specializzazione in Comunicazione, Vendita & Sales Management, Psicologia Motivazionale del Successo e Massaggio Sportivo ed Estetico.
Ha approfondito negli anni le tematiche che riguardano l'interazione tra mente & corpo, mettendo a punto modelli strategici e tattici capaci di condurre alle massime prestazioni ed al successo fisico e mentale.
Esperto in psicologia della leadership, di sport e benessere e del miglioramento personale – professionale, è allenatore di nomi illustri in Italia.
La sua qualità principale è saper creare strategie su misura e di comprovata efficacia, capaci di produrre in breve tempo cambiamenti duraturi e potenti.
Ad oggi circa 43.000 le persone che sono riuscite a dimagrire per sempre grazie al suo "segretissimo e personalizzato" metodo di lavoro.
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