 October 17th, 2009
A new study by researchers at the Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center finds a higher level of common household pesticides in the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer that develops most commonly between three and seven years of age. The findings are published in the August issue of the journal Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.
Source: ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2009) - Common Household Pesticides Linked To Childhood Cancer Cases In Washington Area
 October 7th, 2009
New research published in Environmental Health Perspectives shows that exposure to mixtures of chemicals are more harmful than previously thought. Researchers found that healthy reproductive development of male rat offspring was thwarted by a selected mixture of chemicals found in food, consumer products and the environment. A synopsis of the new research by Heather Hamlin and Wendy Hessler concludes, “Exposure to a mixture of environmental chemicals is far more harmful to male rats than exposure to the individual chemicals would predict, even when the level of each contaminant in the mixture causes no effect by itself. Incidence of penis deformities were much stronger with the mixes than what would be predicted from the potency of the individual chemicals.” When individual chemicals were tested at a level U.S. regulators have determined “safe,” no negative effects were seen. “However, when the chemicals were mixed together, the rats had reduced anogenital distances, indicating that the rats were becoming feminized.” The research confirms the troubled state of current pesticides regulation, where compounds are tested one at a time, and not evaluated for their impact in mixture. Real world scenarios involve exposure to multiple pesticides and hundreds of chemicals each day. For example, What’s On My Food? finds 42 different pesticides on conventional apples, indicating that the possibility exists for quite a chemical cocktail on any given industrially-grown apple. Pesticide Action Network Senior Policy Analyst Kristin Schafer comments, “Science continues to confirm our deep concern that U.S. chemicals policies don’t protect human health or ecosystems from harm. Overhaul is needed to support a quick shift toward green chemistry, agroecological farming and other approaches that offer the safest food and products for all Americans.”
 April 2nd, 2009
Our genes carry unbelievable information of our past and how does this genetic information affect our present is revealed in this film. What affects our genes and in what way is quite important not just for ourselves, but also for our children.
The Ghost In Your Genes (VIDEO)
Unfortunatelly, it is quite normal these days, if the majority of our children have alergies, respiratory problems etc. and cancer is a common disease. If pesticides have such an impact on our genes as shown in the movie, then what do you thinkgeneticaly modified crops would do to the genes of our children? Good enough reason for starting eating organic food? Our even better, starting your own gardening project?
 February 4th, 2009
Pharmaceutal industry is one of the most profitable industries in the world. Fast growing too. A few decades ago, 20 biggest companies controled about 5% of global medical market. These days, 10 biggest companies control about 35% of this market. And the profits keep rising. Must be really good at what they do. But what do they do?
Health. The most important issue for most people. And most people are also well informed about ways of keeping up a healthy way of living. A healthy way of living usually means eating good and healthy food, access to clean water, keeping yourself in good physical condition etc. And when health is gone, medicine steps in.
The “problem” with the biggest pharmaceutical companies is in the fact, that most of them are well established on both areas: food production and medicine. For example: Aventis (leader in global pesticide and medication production); Novartis (2nd in pesticide production, 3rd in seed production, 4th in medication area); Monsanto (3rd in pesticide production, 2nd in seed production); Astra Zeneca (4th in pesticide production, 5th in medicine production). See any conflict of interest?
Costs of prescibed medications for an average American (year): 250$ (1995), 500$ (2000), 750$ (2002)!? Why is that? Did the doctors go crazy? Was the marketing campaign a huge success? Or do people in general just get sick more often?
And the game keeps going on. The latest “inventions” of food producing corporations include GSO, nanotechnology, even radioactive radiation. A few years ago an announcement was made by Human Genome Project team - we cracked the human genetics. The problem with that is not what they know, but rather what they do not know. 98% of human DNA is supposed to be “junk” DNA. Or better said - they do not know why it is there. Why then trust a corporation trying to sell you GSO modified crops if they do not understand 98% of the DNA?
The game is old and goes on and on and only few people see it. Corporations are selling poisons (pesticides, fertilizers, seeds, GSO) and medicine. One hand feeds you and heals you. And both times, they make a lot of money.
If possible, grow your own food. Start reading books on ecological and biodinamical farming practices. Or buy local - from a farmer you know and trust and does not use modern warfare to grow the crops. Maybe that is the only way to keep yourself healthy.
It would be interesting to know where the White house gets its products for the meals for the president. Or royalties of the world? I bet the food is bio food or even from farms with biodinamical farming practices.
 February 3rd, 2009
Some facts on meat production:
1. for cattle-breeding 17x more land, 14x more water and 10x more energy is needed than for agriculture;
2. a farm with 10.000 cows produces waste equvivalent to a city with 100.000 people;
3. cattle-breeding contributes more than 50% to the pollution of water sources;
4. there is 14x more pesticides in meat than in vegetables;
5. an average american meat-eating family indirectly uses 264 galons of fuel - enough to drive a car several months…
6. cattle-breeding consumes a third of global grain production;
7. the amount of natural resources necesary to produce 1 kg of meat would give you 200kg of tomatoes or 160kg of potatoes;
8. not to mention how much methane cows produce each day - which has 23x stronger greenhouse effect than CO2;
If you do not have anything to eat,… well, most probably a cow on a nearby farm got your meal…
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ” - Albert Einstein
 February 3rd, 2009
Water has a very important message for us. Water is telling us to take a much deeper look at our selves. When we do look at our selves through the mirror of water, the message becomes amazingly, crystal, clear. We know that human life is directly connected to the quality of our water, both within and all around us.
REIKO: Once a certain vibration is introduced to the water, how long does the water “remember” that crystalline structure?
DR. EMOTO: This will be different depending on the original structure of the water itself. Tap water will lose its memory quickly. We refer to the crystalline structure of water as “clusters.” The smaller the clusters, the longer the water will retain its memory. If there is too much space between the clusters, other information could easily infiltrate this space, making it hard for the clusters to hold the integrity of the information. Other micro-organisms could also enter this space. A tight bonding structure is best for maintaining the integrity of information.
REIKO: Have you come across a particular word or phrase in your research that you have found to be most helpful in cleaning up the natural waters of the world?
DR. EMOTO: Yes. There is a special combination that seems to be perfect for this, which is love plus the combination of thanks and appreciation reflected in the English word gratitude. Just one of these is not enough. Love needs to be based in gratitude, and gratitude needs to be based in love. These two words together create the most important vibration. And it is even more important that we understand the value of these words. For example, we know that water is described as H2O. If we were to look at love and gratitude as a pair, gratitude is the H and love is the O. Water is the basis that not only supports but also allows the existence of life. In my understanding of the concept of yin and yang, in the same way that there is one O and two Hs, we also need one part yang/love to two parts yin/gratitude, in order to come to a place of balance in the equation.
Love is an active word and gratitude is passive. When you think of gratitude — a combination of appreciation and thankfulness — there is an apologetic quality. The Japanese word for gratitude is kan-sha, consisting of two Chinese characters: kan, which means feeling, and sha, apology. It’s coming from a reverential space, taking a step or two back. I believe that love coming from this space is optimal love, and may even lead to an end to the wars and conflicts in the world. Kan-sha is inherent in the substance H2O — an essential element for life.
However, since water is the mirror reflecting our level of consciousness, a large percentage of the people on the planet, at least 10 percent of the people, need to have the love and the kan-sha awareness. When they do, then the time will come when water can be used to replace gasoline. And the reason I say 10 percent is that this ratio is mirrored in nature. When we look at the world of bacteria, for example, there are 10 percent good bacteria, 10 percent bad, and a majority of 80 percent opportunistic bacteria that could go either way. In looking at the various environmental issues we are faced with, and the tasks that we need to fulfill for the planet, if we could get more than 10 percent of the people consciously aware, than I believe we could pull the 80 percent in that direction, too.
Source: http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm
More info: http://www.hado.net/seminars/index.php ; http://masaru-emoto.net/
 February 2nd, 2009
At the 25th Italian Congress of Professional Beekeepers in Sorento, Jan. 21 - 26,2009, two scientists from University in Padova presented those in attendance with amazing proof that the talk around the water cooler, now has some substance. Prof. Vincenco Girolami, Univ. Padova, has proved beyond any doubt, that many insecticides which are used to treat seeds are deathly dangerous to all insects and other living things - not only bees. They found that the sprouting/growing plants, (Corn in this case) create/leach through active growing period, on its leaves, tiny drops of watter-like liquid, which is seen as dew and is highly desirable to all insects as a form of water. (To many - the only form of water!) Bees are very found of this, slightly sweet dew, and they collect it “en mass” in early morning, before the sun and wind dry it up. If the seeds of corn, or other crop, were treated with insecticides, that insecticide is contained in this dew and is highly toxic to visiting insects. It has been proven that this “morning dew” is deadly for bees! If a bee drinks it - it will die within 2 to 10 minutes! If it only tastes it - it will die within 20 to 40 minutes!
Professor Andrea Tapiro, university of Padova, did collect this dew and analyzed it. It shoved that it contained insecticide which contains neonicotinoids and concentration in her sample contained 10
mg, to one litre of this morning dew. Known fact is, that that contaminant is deadly to bees and other life
in much, much smaller amounts!
They even made a video where they planted treated seeds and collected those drops of dew and fed them to bees. The results are self-explanatory. . .
http://firenze.repubblica.it/multime…1?ref=rephpsp4
All this information is available on Internet and from the above mentioned professors or the University in Padova…
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