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Eat Your Greens, or Your Gut Gets It   While Congress lets Big Food crush school lunch reform, new research shows just how bad the status quo is. By Tom Philpott | Wed Nov. 16, 2011 4:00 AM GMT While Big Food rams its Tater Tots and frozen pizza school lunch agenda through Congress [1], we're learning more about the effects of diets high in starchy foods and low in green vegetables. And it's not pretty. I pointed yesterday to a vast recent Harvard study [2]finding that heavy consumption of potatoes—even in nonfried forms—leads to unhealthy weight gain. Now, from UK scientists, comes a study (press release here [3]; abstract here [4]) suggesting that green vegetables may have even more dietary importance than we previously thought. (Hat tip Atlantic Life [5].)  The researchers subjected mice to a diet stripped of vegetables and found that after just three weeks, the mice lost 70 to 80 percent of a kind of white blood cell called intraepithelial lymphocytes, which, the press ...

Aluminum & Dementia, fluoride reaction emphasized Doug Cross is a chartered biologist, who fought for victims of the water poisoning incident when 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were put in the wrong tank in Camelford, Cornwall, in 1988. He is a BSc (Hons) PGCE, CBiol MiBiol, EurBiol.  He writes: below is the text of my web page dated 20th May 2012, summarising recent developments in our understanding of the link between aluminium and Alzheimer' s Disease, and the very real concern of some of our most eminent research specialists over the potentially lethal obsession of the dental public health sector of making the situation even worse by adding fluoride to aluminium-contamina ted water! The title refers to two of the greatest threats to public health - I have not included the second (the impact of using alumninium hydroxide as an adjuvant in vaccines) as it's not relevent to the fluoridation debate - but it's worth being aware of this as well! Pass this on if you w...

This comes from my newsletter, herbal YODA Says!, November 2011.  The information is still good considering canola oil is found in just about everything.   Canoloa oil is a liver toxin.   As is pepper, once you heat it pepper becomes a liver irritant.  Better to add after cooking.  ===================================================================   'Tis The Season: Tips for Surviving the Holidays with Better Digestive Health   It is always a challenge to come up with a topic for each   herbal YODA Says! Newsletter. I don't have a system other than I try not to write about a topic I have covered before. I know too that I've asked many times for reader suggestions but this never seemed to supply ideas.   Back in the early years of this century I was motivated to write an article about fats: Nature’s Natural Foods - Fat Facts and Your Health   found on my main domain, leaflady.org.   The reason I wrote this article was because of a ...

Sunday, August 29, 2010 FDA Looking into Triclosan?   UPDATE: 8/29/10  Triclosan and antibacterial warnings - Updates at   Natural Healing through Natural Health   - New article here from   Jill Richardson , compiling much of what we have been teaching about the risk of triclosan since the late 80s. from   Natural Health News... Natural Health News: FDA Looking into   Triclosan ? Apr 09, 2010 In a claim filed Tuesday, the National Resources Defense Council says the FDA didn't regulate the levels of   triclosan   and triclocarban in the soap, two toxic chemicals that can cause problems with reproductive organs, sperm quality and ... Chloroform Danger With Antimicrobial Soap Apr 16, 2005 The main reason for my advice has been that these chemicals, such as   triclosan , disturb the balance of naturally occurring staph bacteria on the skin's surface (epidermis). Now here is more convincing evidence. ... Hand Sanitizers: UPDATE Nov 01, 2009 I...