Here we are, into the holiday season again. Does it sometimes seem to you that all you do in the month of December is EAT?

Every function involves food in some way.

Is this causing you any problems? You know - things like indigestion, headache, weight gain, allergies, constipation, diarrhea?

It's time to learn how to experience great taste with NO PAIN!

www.real-foods.net/greattaste

Organic Milk VS Genetically Engineered Hormones

Although milk is not on my recommended foods list for most people, Real Foods carries organic milk from Organic Valley Co-op (never from Horizon!! They are the "wolves in sheep's clothing" of the organic industry). I cannot stress how important it is to use organic dairy products, if you eat or drink dairy at all.

One reason is that an animal will unload toxic elements into its fat. Butter? Cheese? Milk?

All naturally have fat from the producing animal. We need fat to be able to absorb calcium, which is the main reason most people drink milk.

But let's say you only ingest fat-free dairy. You might avoid the pesticides and other heavy metal type toxins, but what about the artificial hormones?

Pennsylavania recently passed a law making it illegal to mark dairy products that DO NOT contain rBGH.

You may recall that rBGH, sometimes known as rBST, is a genetically engineered hormone, injected into cows so that give 10% more milk. Milk derived from rBGH-injected cows contains dramatically higher levels of IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor), which is a risk factor for breast and colon cancer.

IGF-1 is not destroyed by pasteurization, and in fact, pasteurization seems to increase the IGF levels. IGF-1 has also been linked to prostate cancer, hypertension, premature growth stimulation in infants, glucose intolerance, and juvenile diabetes. Yum!

The reasoning behind the law is that a sticker that says "No rBGH" is confusing to consumers (!?). (They also decided to include phrases such as “pesticide free” and “antibiotic free” in the ban. I guess those designations would also cause confusion.)

Monsanto, the maker of rBGH, has been trying for years to get rid of the the "No rBGH" stickers, claiming it biased consumers against milk that contained the GE hormone. Well, YEAH!

The good news is there was a huge public backlash, and the new law is now under review.

We as health-loving consumers will most certainly have to stay on top of these sorts of regulations. I bet you get tired (as I do) of the health petitions that constantly come our way. But the more of us that stand together for our rights to health - and other - freedoms, the more likely we will be able to keep them.

Et tu, Google?

The following is from an email I received from a prominent scientist/lecturer. She asked that be circulated as widely as possible, so here is Dr. Betty Martini's introduction and explanation.

The article she refers to has been posted on the Real Foods Web site. You can read it at

www.real-foods.net/aspartame-dont-even-consider-it.html

Google Drops Aspartame Article Under Industry Pressure
By Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.
11-3-7

For a little while yesterday morning, Google carried Andrea McCreery's report, ASPARTAME, DON'T EVEN CONSIDER IT. Immediately, my phone started ringing.

Are you Nancy Markle? the caller asked. "No", I replied, "I'm Betty Martini who lectured for the World Environmental Conference. Nancy Markle signed her name to my original report on my lecture at the WEC in 1995.

It became a shot heard round the world that has helped millions escape the deadly effects of Aspartame Disease, an Ignored Epidemic, which happens to be the name of a 1,038 page medical text by Dr. H.J. Roberts. www.sunsentpress.com He was named The Best Doctor in the United States by a national medical journal in 1984.

The text is dedicated to me and Mission Possible volunteers and documents the symptoms and diseases I discussed at the lecture." Documentation including my invitation to speak is at www.dorway.com/nomarkle.html

Monsanto sold the NutraSweet Company in l999, as they could not put out the fire with people getting well once off the toxin - the world over. Then victims, physicians and activists expanded more operations of Mission Possible circling the globe.

MS victims walked out of wheelchairs, many blind regained their sight, seizures ceased, joint pain/fibromyalgia and psychiatric problems disappeared, and women who thought they would never have children started families.

Aspartame is an endocrine disrupting agent, stimulates prolactin and causes infertility.

It's also an abortifacient and teratogen triggering birth defects and mental retardation should it be used in pregnancy. It interacts with drugs and vaccines as discussed in the medical text making no drug safe to an aspartame user. I downloaded Andrea McCreery's article just in time, because Google immediately deleted it, though they left it on the menu. Somebody at aspartame [Diet Coke, Equal, NutraSweet, E951, Ajinomoto, Merisant, or the other suspects] had the clout to kill the release to continue blinding consumers about their addictive neurotoxic, carcinogenic junk. In this case what you don't know can kill you. McCreerys article follows below my signature. For 16 years from the creation of aspartame our FDA denied approval of that chemical because it causes brain tumors. The agency even compiled a list of 92 symptoms of aspartame poisoning from over 10,000 volunteered consumer complaints.

FDA now denies there ever was such a list but here it is on their stationery:

www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf

It took Don Rumsfeld to leave his job as head of the company that made aspartame to become Reagan's Secretary of Defense. The day after President Reagan taking office, Arthur Hayes, a pharmacologist became the new FDA Commissioner. He over-ruled the Board of Inquiry that had revoked the petition for approval and then hired on with NutraSweet's public relations firm.

So aspartame was approved not by science but political chicanery.

From the aspartame documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, is a clip by Attorney James Turner explaining how Rumsfeld committed this deadly deed and poisoned the world:

www.sweetremedy.tv/pages/rumsfeld3.html

President Reagan even wrote an executive order making the FDA powerless to do anything about aspartame until Hayes could get to the FDA. Aspartame's record is one of smarmy anti-science and political pressure plays. The FDA and CDC have become branch offices of the profiteers, and these agencies disregard the research and revelations of world famous doctors.

A 3 year study on 1,800 rats by Dr. Morando Soffritti at an Italian cancer research institute concluded aspartame is a multipotential carcinogen. It was peer reviewed by seven world experts.

For his work Dr. Soffritti was honored with an award at the Mount Sinai Institute in NYC earlier this year as he released a new study showing it only takes a small amount of aspartame to trigger cancer and babies who survive a pregnant women who used it can grow up to cancer. Here are the summaries of these two important studies that confirmed the carcinogenicity of aspartame that FDA acknowledged in original studies. The first ERF study (2005) was conducted on 1800 Sprague-Dawley rats (100-150/per sex/per group). In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 5000, 2500, 100, 500, 20, 4, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began at 8 weeks of age and continued until spontaneous death.

The results show that APM causes a statistically significant, dose-related increase of lymphomas/leukemias and malignant tumors of the renal pelvis in females and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in males.

These results demonstrate for the first time that APM is a carcinogenic agent, capable of inducing malignancies at various dose levels, including those lower than the current acceptable daily intake (ADI) for humans (50 mg/kg of body weight in the US, 40 mg/kg of body weight in the EU). The second ERF study (2007) was conducted on 400 Sprague-Dawley rats (70-95/per sex/per group).

In order to simulate daily human intake, aspartame was added to the standard rat diet in quantities of 100, 20, and 0 mg/Kg of body weight. Treatment of the animals began on the 12th day of fetal life until natural death.

The results of the second study show an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias in female rats with respect to the first study. Moreover, the study shows that when lifespan exposure to APM begins during fetal life, the age at which lymphomas/leukemias develop in females is anticipated.

For the first time, a statistically significant increase in mammary cancers in females was also observed in the second study. The results of this transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay not only confirm, but also reinforce the first experimental demonstration of APMs multipotential carcinogenicity. The National Soft Drink Association (now American Beverage) originally protested to Congress against aspartame approval. Their objections cover many pages in the Congressional Record of 5-7-85. Coverup is customary for the criminals who concoct this poison and feed it to half the world. In August the New Zealand Soil & Health and Safe Food Campaign brought me to their beautiful land for a 3-week lecture tour and to present official documents and medical reports to their NZ Food Safety Authority.

Abby Cormack's case of poisoning on Wrigley's aspartame gum in NZ had been making world news. The NZFSA Authority is an agency responsible to protect New Zealanders from toxic substances, but they refused to see me or even to accept the federal and medical documents I traveled 10,000 miles to bring them.

Chris Wheeler, Mission Possible New Zealand wrote the most indepth report on what was going on. www.rense.com/general78/dying.htm

It was obvious who was writing the propaganda for the NZFSA since Ajinomoto was using this as an advertisement on the web. Reminds me of when there were efforts against aspartame in New Mexico and I wrote this paper, "Aspartame Makers In A Tizzy" - www.wnho.net/aspartame_makers_in_tizzy.htm It has been 12 years since I actually lectured for the World Environmental Conference when Dr. Clarice Gaylord of the EPA said: "We have an epidemic of MS and lupus and can't identify the toxin".

I answered, "I'm here to lecture on MS and lupus and identify that toxin as NutraSweet (aspartame/E951/Equal/Canderel, etc.).

Today it has been fully confirmed. Besides Dr. Roberts medical text, Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills on the subject". www.russellblaylockmd.com His lecture "The Truth About Aspartame" discusses the famed Ramazzini Study. Dr. Gaylord knew MS and lupus was epidemic from field reports as she discussed with me. Today there is a New report showing MS is escalating at an incredible rate proving Dr. Gaylord and myself were right. www.mpwhi.com/new_report_at_neurology_conference.htm

MS victim Cori Brackett, co-owner of Sound and Fury Productions, was a heavy diet pop drinker. In a wheelchair hardly able to talk she had a hard time of it, but after abstaining from aspartame eventually walked out of her wheelchair as did many others who read this report.

Eight months later her large lesion all but disappeared. She went on to make the documentary, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World", www.soundandfury.tv Other MS victims appear in this film. The epidemic of lupus is obvious to explain. James Bowen, M.D. says "the ability of methyl alcohol/formaldehyde to create antigenicity, especially as combined in aspartame molecules is so great as to cause severe autoimmune reactions to the tissues deformed by formaldehyde polemerization, adduct formation. The immune system turns against the victim's tissues: Lupus."

It was l996 when 60 Minutes did the story on aspartame and brain tumors because of famed Dr. John Olney's journal article in Neurology. Neuroscientist Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called Excitotoxicity and tried to prevent approval of aspartame. Dr. Ralph Walton explained even at this time 92 per cent of independent scientific peer reviewed studies showed the problems. www.dorway.com/peerrev.html In the last 24 months 13 more studies have shown the toxicity.

I contacted Andrea McCreery and let her know her story had been deleted. She wrote and said, "Yes, I am aware of the feathers ruffled." Since I had printed out the article it appears below to prevent the sabotage. Let's forward it so it will get many times more publicity than it would have, and show the aspartame industry their attempts are foolish.

Keep it going folks and save a life today. We simply won't allow industry's shenanigans to continue. The public deserves the facts. Enough is enough of the front groups as well: www.wnho.net/aspartame_no_hoax.htm

B. Martini, D.Hum, Founder
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
770 242-2599

Thank you, Dr. Martini, and thanks to all the other folks on the front lines.

Again, that article is at ww.real-foods.net/aspartame-dont-even-consider-it.html

Cell Phone Radiation and EMFs

Although the jury is still out on the long-term health effects of cell phones and cordless phones (officially at least), studies and evidence continue to mount regarding health risks.

An independent reporting website - www.cprnews.com/worldnews.cfm - has more than 130 reports and studies on cell phone dangers.

Real Foods is offering WaveShield Radiation Protection for use with cell and cordless phones. These small devices are proven to protect phone users from up to 97% of radiation that would normally go into the ear.

How do I know it works?

I was on the phone with DELL Tech support for 3 hours a couple of weeks ago. Ordinarily, that amount of time spent on our cordless phone would leave me with a 2 day headache.

But I had applied the WaveShield device the day before, and even though I was pretty peeved about the very LONG phone call, I was VERY pleasantly surprised to find that my ear didn't even hurt!

Highly recommended! (What a great Christmas gift to yourself or someone you care about)

WaveShield Cell Phone Protection $19.95

WaveShield Cordless Phone Protection $24.95

More Holiday Gifts from Real Foods

We also have quite a few more gifts available for the healthy holiday shopper.

Books (including Rx for Nutritional Healing - $24.95), local honey, Texas Snappers, Salts and salt grinders, Holiday personal care Gift Sets. And for the pet lover on your gift list, Treat Recipe Kits for cats and dogs.

For more Holiday Gift Suggestions, please visit the Real Foods website at www.real-foods.net/holiday-gift.html. We have gathered a selection of organic and otherwise "green" gifts to help you with your holiday shopping.

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Whew! That's plenty for this issue. See you at the store.

Wishing you the Happiest of Holidays!

Sherri And the Gang at Real Foods

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