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Ahhhgggg. Ok: I’m retired. Remember? But still, I do work on this thing nearly every day, even when I’m off doing things that seem unrelated.

For instance, I’ve been out shooting lots of pictures, from the north woods of Minnesota to the Badlands of North Dakota. And after years of trying to get a pregnant mother to model for me, this year I had six come forward. I’ve taken well over 7,000 photos this year. (Not to worry, I won’t bore you with each one. Like most pros, I keep less than two percent of my shots.)

Though seemingly unrelated, we’ve discovered from our web site stats that we get more visitors because of my photography than from Google. So you can bet we’re going to keep a heavy focus (sorry bout the pun) on the photography, as it does bring in the funding to keep us up and running.

So allow me to share some of the photos and photoshows I’ve captured this year.

First of all, I should tell you that my photo Golden Girl took first place in the National VA Art Show, photography category. Because of this they are sending me to California for a week of workshops and other goodies. Since I don’t fly (I was once a pilot), I’ll be taking my time getting to California and take some photos along the way in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. I'll be back by the second week of December, so do not expect much of a Christmas newsletter this year.

We’ve had to create a new web site for the photography. It seems that this web provider can’t give us enough “bandwidth” for people to view all the photos and photoshows, and our site went down a dozen times in the past month because of “too much traffic.”

The new site is www.davidphotoart.org. All the pages will link to this web site and all proceeds from anything at that site will go to this organization. (The site is hardly functional right now, but they do link to all the photos and shows we currently have on the web…loosely.)

I was up in Ely, Minnesota hoping to capture some wild cats and bear, but instead, I found deer and a bird I’d never seen before. The bird happened to be an Evening Grosbeak. A week later this photo took grand reserved champion at our local county fair. (Please excuse the watermark on some of these pictures, but we've discovered a lot of sites stealing our artwork when all they had to do was ask.)

One deer we found had her head in the water eating sea veggies. When she pulled it out, we saw another reason for her head there: the horse flies were all over her. It took her a few minutes to realize we were photoing her.

I found a family of swans living near me and created a photoshow of them. My neighbor’s daughter, Brooklyn, had the biggest eyes I’ve every seen in a child and I just had to capture her portrait. Those too can be seen in a photoshow. All the photoshows can be found at this link: David’s PhotoShows. There are two folders, just click on them to open.

I’ve compiled shows of my portraits (men just won’t sit for me), and a special show of Birds of Minnesota, each bird’s call played along with it’s photos (so have your speakers on).

Those of you familiar with my work know that I do some of the most tasteful nudes found anywhere and have won acclaim from far and wide; more and more people who come across my work volunteer to model for me just because the work is sensitive and universal. I like to think of my work as being classical, but I’ve gained most of my fame with my “flashlight” photography, which is more experimental than “classical.”

You’ll find a compilation of seven years of my photos, along with my lovely pregnant model enjoying herself in a field of daisies. I’ve left behind the Hollywood/Madison Avenue concepts of youth and beauty in two photoshoots: Mature Beauty and Kathryn (this one takes 15 minutes). You’ll not see airbrushed perfection, but a celebration of life.

There are more, and more to come, and I’ll soon be reviewing the software I’ve used to create these shows. I’m thinking of perhaps selling DVDs of these shows, but since we use copyrighted music, we’d have to pay a copyright fee and after sending out 13 emails to those who would know, we’ve not received a single response yet. If any of our readers know about how to pay for copyrights and to whom to pay, please contact me.

While I am still busy writing reviews of two of my favorite programs: ProShow Producer (the most versatile and most powerful slide show available) and Studio 12 (the best video editor available for home users), I have completed a review of my second favorite DVD creator: DVDit.

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As a journalist, I get many, many leads that go nowhere. Sometimes I get that occasional lead (thanx Tony!) that ends in a gold mine like when we scooped America on a scam (the crooks at cancercure.com) resulting in prison terms for all involved. (See past newsletter.)

When I began my quest to build a directory of practitioners here in Minnesota, I got many leads. Some of the leads led me to individuals who overflowed with information on the history of medicine. I sat down to coffee with one such person and he told me about a man who could have cured AIDS with a ray of light. That was when I began researching Royal Rife. I also met a man who told me about energetic water that could wipe out fungus, mold, bacteria, and even viruses. Yes, even HIV/AIDS.

This man knew about energy. He gave martial arts demonstrations: on the stage were piled 15 bricks straight up; a person from the audience came forward and pointed to one of the bricks. That brick was marked with an X using a magic marker. This man then focused and gave the top of the bricks a karate chop. The brick marked with an X fell to pieces; the bricks above and below it were undamaged.

This man knew energy.

I began a quest for this energetic water.

I’ve written about water at this site, and a lot of what I wrote turned out to be wrong, myth, or just misleading. Even I have been duped, but, from the beginning of this web site, I’ve been up front: if I make a mistake, I’ll fix it.

My interest in water is very basic. Biologically we are more than 80% waters. You can go weeks without food, but hardly a few days without water. Hydration is one secret to anti-aging. If our cells are properly hydrated, we age slower.

I was very interested in things that made water wetter. I discovered a product created by a genius named Patrick Flanagan, MD, PhD. It was called Crystal Energy® and consisted of microscopic particles that helped to “pull” water into the cells of your body. He had also invented what was considered the best antioxidant in the world: Microhydrin®. However, nobody seems to have ever tested this very thoroughly, and Flanagan’s only proof of its ability was that it lowered the surface pressure on water. The theory behind this stuff is amazing. Does it work? Personally I’d like to see it independently tested.

Then I discovered Willard Water, a surfactant. It seems that Dr Willard was trying to create a cleaning solution, when one day he burned himself, and quickly plopped his burnt hand into the solution, and to his surprise, the pain began to vanish and the wound healed quickly with new pink skin, another accidental discovery, like antibiotics. Adding Willard Water to your drinking water just hydrates your body quicker than plain water.

There are many water products on the market. I’ve tried them all. Most are flops. I’m not sure if the science supposedly behind them is real science or just hoopla.

One of my favorite waters is Electrolyzed Water. Someone came to me with it, and I was absolutely amazed at what it did. It increased absorption and alkalized the body at the same time. The acidic form was a great cleaner, killing bacteria and viruses alike. I’d seen someone put it on her lip when she felt a herpes coming on, and it never showed. I created anal/vaginal/baby wipes with it that worked wonderfully. However, one day I came across an older jar I’d created and put away in the drawer. I opened it to discover mold growing on the cotton wipes.

We had been told by the man supplying this product that he had stabilized the water, that it held its pH indefinitely. Then I began to find others who’d been taken by this same character, and realized that I’d been duped myself. No one has ever stabilized electrolyzed water. It eventually returns to a normal pH.

Then there was this character who claimed that he had the Miracle Water I’d been searching for. We’ll call him “Bob.”

Bob sent me the video from the Belize AIDS/HIV experiment. In the video the doctor in charge plainly states that this substance was a cure for AIDS.

Bob sent me some of his miracle water and I tried it on my chickens. A few had come down with a virus that paralyzed them. It was spreading thru my flock quickly. The water stopped the spread of the virus. I was impressed.

I offered to do a double blind study of his water with people who read our newsletter. The results were less than spectacular. It was then that Bob told me that the concentrate was deactivated if frozen. We had performed our study in the middle of winter. Water had been shipped to us UPS Ground. Duh.

Bob couldn’t guarantee that any shipment wasn’t frozen. Bob told us about putting the screws to some ex-business associates. Bob’s word suddenly meant nothing as things began to fall apart in his organization and we split company. His business is gone now.

I knew that eventually we’d find our water. We’d read and written enough to the point where one of our readers would have to come across it and send us a lead. And that’s what happened.

A reader came to me saying that he had formed a business connection to people making the water that killed the AIDS virus in Belize, Central America.

So now we had TWO people claiming to have this water. I was skeptical.

However, so was the reader who wrote to me. He told me that there were many sites trying to sell this product, but that they didn’t have the product. He told me that the manufacturers had to go into hiding due to death threats. He told me he could get me some to test.

Bob (remember him?) had posted a lot of studies at his web site. It seems the water used in those studies was this new water that my reader brought to my attention. Bob had stolen the reports and posted them at his site.

So I too began searching for these same studies on the web and sure enough, a lot of “water” sites promote their product using the studies. Do they all have the same product? I doubt it.

It was then that I began to think that I had finally found the Miracle Water I’d been seeking for years.

I asked for samples. I immediately stopped my supplementation program (Diamond V XPC) and visited my neighbors nightly, ate there, watched TV with them. They’ve always shared their contagious diseases with me. And sure enough, a few days later I awoke with diarrhea, a throat that felt like the Indy 500 had taken place in it, nose stuffed, head stuffed, lungs stuffed.

I took the water and drank down nearly two cups…about 11-12 ounces. I took about 10 Grams of Vitamin C, three droppers-full of Echinacea, and five capsules of medicinal mushrooms.

Six hours later and I was healed.

I drank a cup at night before bed just in case.

So, now I’m impressed. Both of my dogs have been diagnosed with anaplasmosis, a disease like Lyme disease, with the same symptoms. It comes from the same deer tick. I’ve got them on the water. I’ll be retesting them soon to see if their numbers are going down. (The numbers are in! Read about it by clicking on the Covalent Silver Solution link below.)

I have sent out bottles to others to test. Their stories, their miraculous stories, are already coming in.

For now, I’ve published the story of the product (rewritten from the original found all over the web) and a bit of research behind it: Miracle Water.

Additionally, we’ll be publishing a lot of new pages on water in the near future. So, stick around.

I truly apologize to my readers who’ve been waiting for these pages for a long time, but when I found out we’d been duped, we stripped the web site of ALL our papers on water and decided to begin all over again.

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You would not believe the number of letters I get trashing socialized medicine, telling me how people in Canada are flocking to America to get specialized testing they’d have to wait for months to get back home, or how many tell me that we need LESS government.

According to the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter, David Cay Johnston in his latest book Free Lunch, yes, we do need smaller government. We need one that won’t fork over billions to the wealthy.

Did you know that while the oil companies are raking in their greatest profits ever, they still get 12 billion dollars a year in subsidies from our government?

After reading Free Lunch, I too am of the belief that the government shouldn’t run medicine. Why? Because it has been running medicine, and that’s why we have the most expensive medical system in the world, but only second (or third, or twenty-fourth) rate care.

In his chapter entitled, “Less For More,” Johnston points out that (as Michael Moore did in SiCKO) Richard Nixon instituted the Health Maintenance Organizations (Paul Elwood, an official in Nixon’s administration coined the term) and promised us more care for less money.

However, Nixon knew he was lying. We were getting less for more. HMO’s began as non profit organizations. However, that doesn’t keep the CEO’s from raking in millions. The American Cancer Society is a non profit, and their CEO collects two six digit salaries. One from the company he runs and the other from the ACS. Isn’t “giving” rewarding?

Moore and Johnston both quote Erlichman’s and Nixon’s taped conversation:

Erlichman: “… the less care they give them, the more money they make.”

Nixon: “Fine.”

While the people were screaming for universal health care, the far right used the GOPSpeak term, Socialized Medicine, equating universal health care with Russian fascism.

What we got were HMO’s and sadly, YOU paid for them. Hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money built the HMO system, insuring not our health, but the wealth of those at the top of this pyramid.

In the nineties, our government allowed the HMOs to turn a profit. Since then, and because of the laws our elected representatives have passed (remember, the government is running health care), we’ve gotten a “health care system whose costs grow faster than the overall economy every year.” [Free Lunch]

Health insurance companies are not created to insure your health. They exist to make a profit. To help them reach this attainable goal, our government lavishes them with subsidies. As Johnston points out: “No other modern country regards health care as an insurance business.”

Being a business, insurance companies determine who gets care and who doesn’t. In fact, they determine who lives and who dies. Those who support the “Right to Life” movement don’t seem to find it ironic that children are allowed to die through neglect. Euthanasia by neglect occurs daily in this country.

Imagine a day at the beach. Your child swims out too far and begins struggling. You rush to the lifeguard and he demands to see your Swimming Insurance papers. If you’re not paid up, your child drowns. Luckily, the life saving services at our beaches are socialized.

Our government passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. This supposedly stops employers from excluding employees from coverage due to preexisting conditions. This act additionally limited the number of days an employee can go jobless (while searching for a new job) without suddenly losing his health care rights. His preexisting conditions suddenly come into play, and bingo, he’s not covered.

Johnston points out that Europeans, Canadians, Australians, and more need not worry about this. They can go where their talents are best needed never worrying about health care coverage. Finding the right job creates happy workers. Following one’s bliss improves an individual’s quality of life. Our health care policies keep us tied to a dead end job. This is your government at work.

We need less government? We need better government. Welfare for the wealthy has made plundering public assets profitable, while the “public welfare” as stated in the Preamble to the United States Constitution is diminished.

Finally, there is Medicare Part D (teachers feel it got the grade it deserved). I read a story about a man who took off a few months to help his parents work their way through the paperwork and get their meds. He happened to be one of the bureaucrats who helped design Medicare Part D.

Medicare Part D is an affront to the American people. It looked out first for the interests of insurance companies and drug manufacturers. It prohibited the government from negotiating prices of drugs. Our VA system negotiates for the lowest prices on drugs. Could this be the reason some wish to privatize the VA Hospital system? It works, so let’s make a profit from it.

The government cannot run medicine. This should be evident. The government does not run the VA health care system. It finances it. The doctors and nurses run the VA health care system. They have to work within the restrictions of their budget, there is a bit of bureaucracy, and there are some drastic failures (as we saw recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center). However, at my VA, my doctor sees me on time. When I went in complaining of chest pains, I was seen immediately, sent to get blood tests, and EKG, and an x-ray, and when I returned to the front desk, I was ushered into see my physician who looked up and said: It’s heartburn. This all took less than ten minutes. This is socialized medicine at its best.

However, what we have in the US is a drastic failure. It’s been run by the government for the shareholders and a few hot cats who make out like bandits (the theft and corruption in the system is rampant).

Johnston sums it up thusly:

In short, our government’s blind faith in the wisdom of the market has created the most expensive inefficient health care system in the world without making us healthier.   

There should be a copy of Free Lunch in every home in America. It will open your eyes to the simple fact that top down economics works only for the wealthy and is destroying the middle class bye heaping the tax burden on our backs.

Welfare for the wealthy is just plain wrong, but then, those 37,000 lobbyists in Washington aren’t there to make friends.

Some of you might know this, but there are two reasons we don’t sell anything here at the Wellness Directory:

1.     Conflict of interest: people thank us for our objective research. We’ve felt from the beginning that people deserved straight talk from an organization that does not profit from the products we review. Yes, we have a lot of affiliates, but we often tell you when we are receiving a percentage and everyone has the option of purchasing these products without using our links. Let’s face it, when you’re 80K in debt, cash flow is pretty important.

2.     If you sell it, you cannot talk about it: The FTC says that any statements about an herb or supplement’s medical benefits must be approved by them. We are an informational site. We can say anything we want.

On April 1^st, April Fools Day, one small herb company in New Mexico received a letter from the FTC demanding they remove information from their website that cited medicinal properties of certain herbs. The information cited was from government sponsored studies.

The letter demanded that they sign a consent agreement or the FTC would shut them down and seize their assets. In other words, destroy them and bankrupt them.

Mark and Marianne Hershiser, co-owners of Native Essence Herb Company refused to sign the agreement and instead filed a lawsuit against the FTC citing violations of their First Amendment Rights. They are seeking a permanent injunction to stop the FTC’s censorship.

The complete absence of due process is typical of the FTC’s behavior. Their action is tantamount to extortion.

Obviously the stand of our government, which supposedly protects the consumer, protects the moneyed interests of conventional medicine by destroying all competition.

Few people realize that the Boston Tea Party was not just because of an illegal tax, but because King George had attempted to protect big money interests by putting a tax on the tea made by the little guys.

After the Revolutionary War, our constitution, especially Sections 9 and 10, specifically restricted the government from interfering in commerce. Most of today’s laws affecting health care are constitutionally illegal, from licensing of physicians to the protectionism enforced by the FDA and FTC. (See also our articles on the history of medicine: History of Quackery, Health Care for Dummies.)

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The time to fight back is now. Native Essence Herb Company’s attorney, Richard A. Jaffe, has stated: “This is a precedent-setting case. The issue has never been litigated; it not only affects the Hershisers, but all companies which sell herbal products.”

Instead of asking (pleading, begging, imploring, beseeching, soliciting) for donations in this issue of our newsletter, we ask all those who support us, this time, support the lawsuit of Native Essence Herb Company by donating to their Legal Defense Fund. Just go here: http://www.herbmed.com. Remember, they are not just fighting for their rights, but for yours.

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Utopia Silver's Fight for Health Freedom, by Tony Isaacs. (Tony is the author of Cancer’s Natural Enemy, the complete book on using Oleander to defeat your cancer.)

For the past five years the Utopia Silver Supplement Company, has been waging a battle for health freedom against the giants of the State of Texas and the FDA - one which may have major implications for all of us regarding the freedom of access to natural health supplements.

Much like the Alamo defenders in days gone by, this small Texas company and its supporters of health freedom are pitted against a corrupt giant determined to impose it's will and stifle freedom - and, just like the Alamo and the struggles that followed, the outcome may effect the freedom and future of millions.

The conflict began as result of an FDA complaint five years ago that seeks to set a precedent for how much control the FDA has over all natural supplement companies and specifically the manufacture and sale of colloidal silver supplements.

While the Texas Attorney General's office may try to contend that this is merely a state action "to insure the safety of the citizens of the State of Texas", the truth is that in Texas the state attorney generals are commissioned as officers of the FDA and there is no denying that the investigation into Utopia Silver began as a result of an FDA complaint. Therefore, this is really a Federal action by proxy and it has pitted Utopia Silver Supplements, a small supplement company and maker of colloidal silver which I consult to, against the Goliath of the FDA and the World Pharma lords the FDA serves.

The persecution of Utopia Silver began five years or so ago, about the same time that the FDA began renewed targeting of colloidal silver because of it's effectiveness as a natural anti-biotic and rising popularity - and not coincidentally as a threat to the profits of Big Pharma and mainstream medicine - the FDA sent an email to the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS ) essentially complaining that Utopia Silver was making medical claims which, in the eyes of the FDA turned their supplements into drugs. The TDSHS then brought the `complaint' to the Office of the Texas Attorney General (TAG).

It has since been determined that among the targeted objections are: having `disease' terms such as cancer, hepatitis, diabetes, etc., posted anywhere on the website; having any `disease' terms in a search engine, and the posting of testimonials from customers who had used Utopia Silver products and defeated or improved any `disease' condition.

Such restrictions appear to be clear violation of the First Amendment (Freedom of Speech) of the Constitution of the United States of America, especially the supposed prohibition against posting testimonials and speaking the truth about how people believe that dietary supplements have helped them. If the FDA is to have their way, they will stifle a supplement company's constitutionally protected freedom of speech to the extent that a person seeking a natural dietary supplement for any medical condition would not be able to go to any website which offered vitamins, minerals, natural supplements or any other alternatives to mainstream medicine and be able to find that term in a search of the site or mentioned anywhere in the site. Neither would they be able to find testimonials/customer opinion from anyone who had used an alternative to FDA approved drugs and medical procedures.

It is no secret that the FDA has targeted colloidal silver, which is a safe, effective, natural and inexpensive pathogen destroyer - four common traits of dietary supplements that represent competition to the approved drugs of Big Pharma and which frequently come under FDA attack. It is worth noting that that the FDA at one time had approved 34 different prescribed and OTC medications containing silver, but withdrew approval at about the same time antibiotics came on the market and superior methods of making colloidal silver commercially and at home were devised.

The state hearings and likely trial are purportedly about licensing and inspections, but the FDA complaint was centered around the publication of customer testimonials which the FDA considers to be health claims that enable them to label Colloidal Silver and other Utopia Silver dietary supplements as drugs, and that too is part of the legal proceedings.

Although the State of Texas maintains that they are acting alone, Utopia Silver has obtained copies of individual certificates which show that the state health and AG employees are also "Commissioned Officers" of the FDA - in apparent conflict with the separation of state and federal powers. It is Utopia Silver's contention that the actions to restrict them are unconstitutional restraints on the freedom of commercial speech (as borne out by previous Supreme Court decisions) and further contends that there is no constitutional jurisdiction for the state agencies, who are actually for-profit corporations (and they are listed as such by Dun and Bradstreet) disguised as constitutional entities.

Utopia Silver believes, as do many others including legal scholars, that much of the country's court system and agencies operate outside the Constitution as corporate entities, having no real jurisdiction until defendants unwittingly submit to the jurisdiction by entering into a "contract" with the courts and agencies through such measures as appearing before a court, entering a motion, applying for a license, etc. Such scholars and observers point to the yellow fringed admiralty flags flying in most of our courts as clear symbols that the courts are not constitutional courts but rather administrative corporate courts operating under the "color of law".

In the case against Utopia Silver, Taylor contends that there is no constitutionally mandated requirement for them to submit to what amounts to a commercial contract with the STATE OF TEXAS, a corporation acting under the color of law but not under the state or federal constitutions, and not in accordance with the God-given unalienable rights clearly declared by our forefathers when this country was founded.

So far the Texas Attorney General's Office (TAG), has given no indication of making a fair or reasonable settlement - although in the Spring of 2007, the Assistant Texas Attorney General in charge of the case, Raul Noriega, first agreed and then reneged on an oral agreement that would have settled the case. When asked why, Noriega's response was that he was told by higher ups to proceed to trial despite the prior agreement to settle.

Last summer, TDSHS employees paid three separate visits to the Utopia Silver offices and demanded with a bogus warrant to make inspections. The first time, two TDSHS officers paid a visit. One identified himself as an "inspector" and the other as an "investigator". The owner of Utopia Silver, Ben Taylor, asked to see credentials so he could make copies. When they refused he ordered them to leave his offices.

The next day they returned, accompanied by two Texas State Troopers, and said they had a warrant. When Taylor demanded to see a supporting affidavit, they refused, saying he could go to Austin if he wanted to see it and threatening to arrest Taylor if he did not comply. At that point, Taylor began placing a phone call to the local sheriff, and the TDSHS employees and State Troopers beat a hasty retreat. It was later determined that no properly executed affidavit ever existed.

Two days later the TDSHS employees returned for a third time, just ahead of a Sheriff's Deputy. Taylor told them that since he was expecting the deputy to be there that morning to take statements about their previous visits, he would talk to them after he spoke to the deputy. He told the two TDSHS/FDA `officers' to wait outside until the deputy took statements from four employees who had witnessed what had transpired the previous days.

"In the middle of the first statement," said Taylor, "the investigator came in asked to speak to the deputy. The deputy followed him to the lobby and I followed right behind. The TDSHS/FDA officer asked if I was going to comply with the warrant for an inspection. I again told him that I would talk to him when I finished with the deputy"

"He then proceeded to say that since I was refusing his inspection," Taylor continued, "would I sign a document stating that I refused inspection, and I said no and they meekly left. After that, we finished giving our statements to the Sheriff's deputy and so far they have not been back."

Since then, they continued to stonewall and refused to answer questions or otherwise attempt to make clarifications requested by Ben Taylor in accordance with the presiding judge's request for both sides to work together to try to work out an agreement. When Utopia Silver asked why they were being singled out for such actions and nothing was happening to similar companies, Assistant Attorney General Noriega said that it had been decided to make Utopia Silver a test case. After he made the statement, he was interrupted by the TDSHS officer, who, according to Taylor "proceeded to hem and haw on that point, obviously not comfortable with that statement having been made by the Assistant Attorney General."

While the Texas Attorney General's office may try to contend that this is merely a state action "to insure the safety of the citizens of the State of Texas", the truth is that in Texas the state attorney generals are commissioned as officers of the FDA, something Taylor discovered during his defense of the case, and there is no denying that the investigation into Utopia Silver began as a result of an FDA complaint. Therefore, it appears clear that the entire case is really a Federal action by proxy.

At a subsequent meeting before a judge in Austin, the judge threatened to set a trial date and tried to first intimidate and then coerce Ben Taylor to agree to a trial. Mr. Taylor refused to agree, since in doing so he would be in effect entering into a contract to agree to the court's jurisdiction. At one point a deputy was summoned with the clear implication that Mr. Taylor might be arrested if he failed to agree. Taylor, after various other tactics of intimidation by the judge, stated that, "The court might have the power to force me into a trial, but I will never agree to any a trial date and will attend only "in propria persona" (in one's own proper person) by "special appearance" in order to defend my God-given Rights." (Note: an appearance may be either general or special; the former is a simple unqualified or unrestricted submission to the jurisdiction of the court where the defendant waives defects of service, the latter is for the purpose of objecting to the sufficiency of service or the jurisdiction of the court over a defendant without submitting to such jurisdiction).

The judge later commented in his chambers to Mr. Taylor, "This system operates on fear, you have no fear and that's a problem for us."

Instead of setting a trial, a hearing was set before a new judge to determine a date for interrogatories and discovery as well as inspections and sanctions - all of which are slippery grounds and another step towards a trial. At the subsequent hearing, Taylor again stated his objections to the jurisdiction and a new hearing was ordered to determine jurisdiction. When the new hearing was held and both sides presented their arguments, the judge rendered no immediate verdict and said she would take it under advisement and render a subsequent decision.

As expected, when the judge made her decision she either dismissed or ignored all arguments by Taylor and co-defendant Adask, however she failed to do so pursuant to your Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, first sending an email of her ruling and then sending a letter of the ruling, without it being properly entered into the record as required. Some observers believe that such failure was yet another in a string of ploys intended to trap Taylor, Adask and other defendants into unwittingly submitting to the court's jurisdiction. Instead of accepting the improper notice, Taylor sent his own notice of insufficient service to the court along with a demand to cease and desist the fraudulent actions against them.

Taylor's notice was sent on November 30th of last year - and since it was filed, a silence has descended upon the case. As Taylor reports, "We haven't heard anything from the Texas Attorney General or the courts since late November of last year (about 230 days). At that time, the "judge" issued (by email initially) a court order denying my and Al Adask's (Anti-Shyster publisher and Texas State Supreme Court Libertarian Party candidate) special appearance." (As noted previously, a "special appearance" is one in which is made without submitting to the jurisdiction of the court).

Many who have followed the case feel that the FDA and their state servants bit off much more than they realized when they decided to take on Taylor and Utopia Silver. Those who know Taylor will tell you that he is a super patriot who deeply believes in freedom and liberty; one who has never backed down from a fight for what he believes is right and one who is determined to carry this fight to the very end no matter what the personal cost. Instead of finding a small company and a man they could bully, they have instead been fought to a standstill and have found themselves facing not only an opponent who refused to knuckle under, but also some very thorny issues they do not wish to face - such as the FDA commissioning state officers, the FDA and other such agencies' true constitutional powers, freedom of commercial speech, the issue of God-given unalienable rights and the entire corporate "color of law" administrative system of courts and agencies.

This is the notice sent to the court by Ben Taylor:

RETURN OF PURPORTED COURT ORDER FOR INSUFFICIENT PROCESS AND DEMAND THAT FRAUDULENT ACTIONS CEASE, attached below.

C.M.R.R. 7003 0500 0000 9039 8675, dated November 30, 2007

Reference: Cause No. D-1-GV-04-000268 (GV 400268)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT
OF TRAVIS COUNTY
201ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

THE STATE OF TEXAS, et. al.
Plaintifs,
v.
UTOPIA SILVER, INC., et. al.
Defendants & Alleged Defendants

RETURN OF PURPORTED COURT ORDER FOR INSUFFICIENT PROCESS
AND DEMAND THAT FRAUDULENT ACTIONS CEASE

NOTICE TO THE COURT:

I, Ben Taylor, in my proper person (in propria persona) as a Man with certain God-given unalienable and non-negotiable Rights and by right of Special Visitation, hereby return the purported ORDER DENYING SPECIAL APPEARANCES, which was placed in a containment designated as Post Office Box 444, Utopia, a geographical location within the boundaries of The State of Texas on or about November 28, 2007 and addressed to a non-existent "Ben Taylor, pro se", as insufficient process pursuant to your Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, Part II, Section 1, Rule 15 & Rule 16, Writs and Process, to wit:

TEXAS RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
PART II - RULES OF PRACTICE IN DISTRICT AND COUNTY COURTS
SECTION 1. GENERAL RULES

RULE 15. WRITS AND PROCESS
The style of all writs and process shall be "The State of Texas;" and unless otherwise specially provided by law or these rules every such writ and process shall be directed to any sheriff or any constable within the State of Texas, shall be made returnable on the Monday next after expiration of twenty days from the date of service thereof, and shall be dated and attested by the clerk with the seal of the court impressed thereon; and the date of issuance shall be noted thereon.

RULE 16. SHALL ENDORSE ALL PROCESS
Every officer or authorized person shall endorse on all process and precepts coming to his hand the day and hour on which he received them, the manner in which he executed them, and the time and place the process was served and shall sign the returns officially.

Further, I demand that this court, Plaintiff's, and Plaintiff's attorneys immediately cease and desist with all of their fraudulent actions and attempts to entice, trick and otherwise force me into a jurisdiction that has no dominion or authority over me and my business, whether in the presence of my proper person or through the United States Postal Service, via electronic mail, or by any other means of communication.

Without Prejudice,
and with a Reservation
of All God-given unalienable Rights,
Within The organic State of Texas,
The United States of America
_______________________
Ben Taylor, a Man
c/o P.O. Box 444
Utopia [78884]
Within The organic State of Texas,
The United States of America

As Taylor reports, "This Notice seems to have short-circuited the Plaintiff's intention to set another court hearing date for Motions for a court ordered interrogatories and depositions under oath, as well as a restraining order to prevent my selling of colloidal silver (which they say is a drug because of customer testimonials) and silver generators (which they call a medical device).

"Also filed by us into evidence was a number of other things, including, but not limited to, The Organic Laws of The United States of America, The Common Law (specifically The Herbalist Charter), The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1933, which limits the FDA's jurisdiction/authority to Washington, DC and the territories (supported by the 18th and 21st Amendments) except in the regulating (organizing for efficient flow) of interstate commerce (transportation across State lines - there is no FDA authority to control the sale and manufacturing of anything that I can find.), the case of Lopez v. United States, Dun & Bradstreet documents showing that the Texas Courts and government `agencies' are "corporations for profit", the United States Code 28 Sec. 3002 showing that the "United States" is a federal corporation (which is a fictitious rather than an organic entity- our God-given Rights are recognized only by the organic United States of America)and numerous other Supreme cases that establish that God-given Rights cannot be statutorily converted into privileges."

Has Taylor and health freedom triumphed over a system that is corrupt and unconstitutional? Time may tell otherwise, but so far the silence has been deafening, and, should the state choose to take further action, Taylor promised that he and his co-defendants will then "go on the offensive by filing suit against key officials (in their individual capacities) who have conspired to violate our Constitutionally secured Rights. Public servants/government officials lose their "official immunity" if they overstep their authority as granted (and limited) by the Organic Laws of the USA."

Go go Original.

WASHINGTON - Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.

Ron Salley just got some photos from a physician who came down with a MRSA infection. He even quit his practice so he wouldn't spread it to his patients.

The photos are just gross, so I'm only going to post two of them. The first one is one week after starting to use Ron Salley's Healon PF™, the second photo is from week four.

Just click on the photo to enlarge, if you really want to.

MRSA does NOT respond to antibiotics, and this is just one more case of MRSA that has been successfully treated with Ron Salley's Healon PF™, and this time it is documented in pictures. 

Ron has hundreds of testimonials from people who've successfully treated their diabetic wounds after the doctor told them surgery was the only solution.

I sent Ron some Covalent Silver Solution and he's just made up a batch of Sugar Foot using the Covalent Silver instead of water. Expect future batches of Sugar Foot to contain Covalent Silver Solution.

Ron's Healon PF™ and Sugar Foot™ can be purchased only thru Simply the Best.

Chia was one of the four basic foods of pre-Columbian peoples in Central America. It is high in fiber, high in protein, and the highest food in your omega-3 essential fatty acids.

Lately it’s been popularized by the trademarked name, Salba®. If you buy Salba® you’re paying for the hype. We’ll get into that later.

Now, why haven’t you heard about chia? You’re heard of the Chia Pet®, and yes, it’s the same chia, but because there were pagan rituals surrounding the use of chia by the peoples of Central America, the Catholic Conquistadores from Spain tried to eliminate it. Wayne Coates PhD, also theorizes that another possible reason was that it would not grow well in the climates of Europe.

So for some 500 years this superfood was hidden way in obscurity, surviving in small cultivated patches in the mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala, that is:

…until a research and development program called the Northwestern Argentina Regional Project began in 1991. Under this project, growers, commercial entities as well as technical and scientific personnel from Argentina, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, and the USA began collaborating in the production of chia. The idea behind the project was not only to provide growers with alternative crops, but also to improve human health by reintroducing chia to western diets as a source of omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants and fiber. A number of technical papers and reports that came from this project as well as subsequent studies are referred to in other pages of this web site. These provide additional information on chia, its composition and its uses. [http://www.eatchia.com/introductionstats.htm]

Wayne sent me a copy of his book, Chia: Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs. It’s an amazing book, but it’s not for everyone. Wayne and his co-author Ricardo Ayerza Jr did a very thorough job of research for this thing. Historical records right down to translating hieroglyphics were poured through so thoroughly that I doubt anyone could write another word about the history of this super grain.

Chia: Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs is a thoroughly researched historical document full of facts about this amazing grain.

For me, it was the last few chapters that made me sit up. The nutritional information on Chia was what I was looking for and I’m going to pass a bit of this onto you.

One hundred grams of Chia seeds (just over 3.5 ounces) has 714 mg calcium, 700 mg potassium, 390 mg magnesium, and 1,067 phosphorous. This same amount of chia seeds has 6.13 mg niacin, .18 mg thiamin, .14 mg riboflavin, and 44 IU vitamin A.

One hundred grams of chia sees is 20.70% protein, 30.4% lipids (fats), and 27.5% fiber, and only 40.29% carbohydrates. It is the highest grain in protein, fats, and fiber. Why would we want that much fat in our diet? Chia contains the most omega-3 essential fatty acids of any seed in the world.

Now here is the important part: the oils in chia are more stable than fish or flax seed. This makes it easier to cook with and you don’t have to worry about it going rancid at room temperature as fast as flax.

One reason why the oils are more stable are the antioxidants in chia. The advertisements tell us that chia has more antioxidant power than blueberries. That’s something. Chia gets its antioxidant activity from chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid, supported by the bioflavonoids myricetin, quercetin, and kaempferol. Together these are more powerful than vitamin C and vitamin E, and don’t forget that chia has a bit of vitamin A, another antioxidant.

Because of the protein content, chia contains all the important amino acids. 

The world is presently advertising Salba®. Salba is the white chia seed. The price is very high. Are there nutritional differences? Yes. Are they worth exaggerated price difference? No.

I’ve just googled Salba®: a 16 ounce bottle (one pound) of Salba costs 24.95. A pound and a half (24 oz) bag of chia costs 19.95.  Salba is nearly twice as expensive as chia.

So, there you have it: a high fiber, low carb, high protein, antioxidant and nutrient charged grain with more omega-3s than any other, which happen to be more stabile than other omega-3s from other sources.

As always, we've added this product to our recipes: Better than Budwig―Chia Recipes.

Here are some links to the people who have helped us with our recipes and research:

http://chiaforhealth.com/

www.eatchia.com

We’ve discussed many reasons why medicine is so darn expensive in America. One reason, an illegal monopoly, was discussed in the article Health Care for Dummies (or How the Rich Got Richer While the Sick Got Sicker).

I get a lot of books to review. I’m way behind in reviews and still have at least 20 on my reading list. One book that looked very interesting that arrived in my mailbox one day was called: Money Driven Medicine. It must be a hot topic since I got another book just a few months later called Money Driven Medicine.

The book we’ll talk about today is the one by Maggie Mahar.

One of Mahar’s theses is that in profit driven medicine, supply drives demand more than any other market. One study she quotes shows that where you live determines how much care you get. If you live in an area filled with specialists, hospitals, clinics, new technology, you’re going to get more referrals, more testing, and more visits to these machines.

. . . the likelihood of a doctor sending you for a gallbladder-removal operation varies 270 percent, depending on what city you live in, for a hip replacement 450 percent.

The study also showed that, sadly, with the increase of care your odds of survival decrease as you are subjected to more possible errors and nosocomial infections (infections you pick up by treatment in a health care facility).

Supply creates demand. Take the High-Speed CT Scanner: a hospital gets this new technology and suddenly doctors are prescribing it and everyone is lined up for it, yet oftentimes a simple ankle/arm index (taking blood pressure in both parts and comparing them) would work just as well.

Mahar points out that, where Adam Smith’s view of competition would normally keep prices down, the traditional laws of economics fall apart in medicine and competition keeps prices climbing.

She interviewed doctors, nurses, administrators, patients, and corporate executives. Their conclusion is simple: It’s all out war. Everyone vies for their share of the market, with no long term collective goals. Money is invested in cutting-edge (but untested) medical technologies, with little being invested in information technologies that would, in the long run, reduce errors, contain costs, and result in preventive solutions.

Drug makers, device makers see patients as “customers,” while consumers (patients) see their doctors as retailers, overpaid at that and Mahar makes a very logical and thoughtful suggestion: empower doctors to practice patient-centered medicine baste up on the best scientific research. File this one under: Duh.

Ironically, Mahar found that writing an exposé on the medical industry to be quite easy in that everyone was ready to “blow the whistle” if only someone would listen. Everyone, not just patients, are sick of our health care system.

When profit is the bottom line health goes out the window. We already know how insurance companies maintain their bottom line (See SiCKO). We know how drug companies maintain their bottom line by getting the FDA to run a protection racket (according to Mahar, senior administrators at the FDA refer to the pharmaceutical industry as their “clients” rather than the American people who they are supposed to be serving). Mahar points out that doctors too must focus on profits and that they will give you more and more and more treatments to pad your bill, rather than less.

Sometimes this book is not for the squeamish. Money Driven Medicine is not a pretty site. People die from being over cared for, their quality of life depreciates, and many die of euthanasia by neglect.

The lesson she passes to us is quite simple: profit driven medicine is careless, calloused, unfeeling, and deadly.

Mahar concludes that we have created the most expensive and most profitable health care system on the planet, which deals out extremely poor health care, destroys the lives of far too many, yet much of the profits from this system are funneled to Washington DC to convince them that we must preserve the free-market because it works so well.

Mahar seems to believe, or I just inferred it, that this problem with medicine is recent. It’s never been worse, but in our articles on the History of Medicine, money has always been a bottom line, from hunting out competition by calling it quackery to forming alliances to crush the competition.

Money Driven Medicine rakes in nearly two trillion dollars yearly while medical care continues to suffer, while thousands to without.

Much of US medical care, particularly the everyday business of preventing and treating routine illnesses, is inferior in quality, wastefully dispensed, and inequitably financed . . . .

Somebody is getting rich while many suffer and die. A spoon full of sugar won’t make Money Driven Medicine go down any easier.

This web site and our publishing company originally focused on cancer and the immune system. By the turn of the century, we’d done well over 18 years of research into cancer.

We get a lot of letters about cancer, but the one subject about which we get the most letters is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Our article on PTSD has seen more hits than any page on this site. PhDs have written us praising the article. Many believe it is the best paper on the web on this subject because it is both personal and scholarly.

After publishing the PTSD page, most of the mail we got was from women who had been in abusive relationships. However, today most of the writers are wives, families, and parents of soldiers who have served (and are still serving) in Iraq, not to mention the soldiers themselves.

One thing I promised years ago when writing the article was that I would follow up with an article on healing PTSD.

This is what I have done. I’m sure many will disagree with some of it. Some of the therapies discussed are labeled “quackery” by many, even though they are used at various VA Hospitals.

If you know of someone suffering from PTSD, you might consider sending them the full article: Healing PTSD.

This has been one of the hardest books to review we've ever received. It's better than a Hitchcock murder mystery, and it's just as unbelievable, except The End of All Disease is non fiction.

As I write in the first sentence of the review: This was the strangest book I’ve ever read. I’ve read it three times now. It’s good enough to keep your attention, but it’s just strange.

Click on the book cover to read the review.

If you have an email account (and I'm assuming you all do), you've received internet hoaxes, urban legends, and a ton of glurge (great word made up specifically because of the stuff we get in our in-boxes).

I'm sure many of you have received an email about the Whole Food Signatures that begins:

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye.  The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...and YES science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

What amazes me mostly is that people don't really read the stuff they get, or otherwise they would

• never forward it on

• write back to the sender: Do you really take me for an idiot?

For your enjoyment, we debunk this piece that is floating about the internet as if it were all just so perfectly true: Debunking Whole Food Signatures.

For women who want to avoid having their breasts flattened, which, by the way, can tear open tissues, (if you do have a tumor, it can burst that too causing it to spread) we have two new tests on the horizon for breast cancer.

Did you know that in medical school they actually teach doctors to handle breast lumps gingerly to avoid spreading any possible cancers, while in radiology school they seem to teach the exact opposite?

So, a new test that avoids the possible tearing of tissues is something you’d think would be received very well by both medicine and by women, and you’d be right. The mammogram industry, however, because our medicine is profit driven, is not going down without a fight.  

The first test involves saliva. According to Dr Charles Streckfus at the University of Texas (Dental Branch at Houston), “Breast cancer triggers a change in the type and amount of proteins in the secretions from the salivary
glands.” Thus scientists have now identified 49 different proteins in saliva that can separate healthy women from those with benign breast tumors and from those with malignant breast tumors.

We are told it could take at least five years for the FDA to approve this test, or perhaps even longer depending on how well the radiology industry lobbies the FDA to drag its feet.

The next test we’ve found comes from Norway. It’s a blood test from a company called DiaGenic. Again we’re dealing with specific proteins in the blood that this test uncovers. You see, the presence of cancer turns on certain genes, which in turn signal cells to create a specific set of proteins. A test that finds these proteins is far superior to one that looks for genetic mutations.

Again, however, DiaGenic is seeking FDA approval and you know how long that could take. If you happen to live in the United Kingdom, you’re a bit luckier because it is now available there, through Opaldia, the largest cancer center in the UK.

I've just received three new books by Dr Fife. They will soon be available through our friends at REMOVED BY FDA Naturals

The reviews are posted separately.

Coconut Water for Health and Healing

Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body through Oral Cleansing

The Palm Oil Miracle

While driving home from a photoshoot in northern Minnesota, I heard a story on the radio about a doctor at a VA hospital in Illinois had reversed an aging process (measured by changes in the eye of patients) using resveratrol.

Here is the original story from the AP (found after I arrived home):

Seattle (June 27, 2008)- Using a high-output camera to film the back of the human eye, for the first time researchers have shown that a nutraceutical matrix can effectively remove cellular debris from the human eye that accumulates with advancing age and correlated this with significant improvement in visual acuity and night vision in an 80-year old man. 

 The accumulation of cellular debris in the retina is believed to be the first sign of age-related macular degeneration, an eye disease that robs senior adults of their central vision used for reading or driving, for which there is no cure.

Dr. Stuart Richer OD, PhD, Chief, Optometry Section at the Veterans Medical Center in North Chicago, speaking at the 111th annual American Academy of Optometry meeting in Seattle, says this may be the first time an intervention has been shown to reverse aging changes in the retina.

The patient, an 80-year-old male, came to the eye clinic complaining of loss of night vision. Commonly prescribed nutriceuticals, such as lutein, vitamin E and fish oil were employed with no positive result.

After 5 months on the dietary supplement regimen, five measurable parameters of vision improved to varying but significant degrees including night (contrast) vision, visual acuity, color and side vision. Upon testing, it was also found the patient's mental capacity had improved. The patient said, "My night vision and thinking have gotten much better."

We list resveratrol in our Alternative Cancer Therapies. http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cancer1/altthrpy3.htm#Resveratrol but since posting this article, much more research has come forward on this super bioflavonoid.

Some of the hype I’ve come across calls resveratrol the “fountain of youth” referring to Harvard studies that showed that resveratrol

·        cleans your arteries of plaque making them smooth and youthful

·        gives you a boost of energy, helping to burn more calories

·        boosts the immune system

·        and might even reverse the damage from a lousy diet and lifestyle

In one study, researchers took a group of middle aged mice and separated them into two groups. One group they put on a junk food diet, high in trans fats. This group quickly developed the same symptoms of humans who ate this same diet: an overloaded liver, insulin resistant diabetes, a host of cardiovascular issues, and a strange desire to prefer 24 hours infotainment to cold, hard journalism (just kidding).

This group of mice all died prematurely.

The other group of mice got the same exact diet, but they were also given resveratrol. The mice gained weight but were much healthier than the other group in that their organs functioned normally and they even looked healthier. In the end, this latter group of mice lived 15% longer than normal.

The study didn’t stop there. The researchers decided to put these overweight mice through endurance tests and compare the results to normal mice, on normal diets, but not using resveratrol.

The overweight mice, using resveratrol, beat the normal group in performance, stamina, and agility. In fact, this group had twice the stamina and agility as the normal group.

Another related study showed that mice on resveratrol were able to run twice as far as normal, healthy mice not taking resveratrol.

We now know that resveratrol helps to increase mitochondria production. Mitochondria are the furnaces in our cells that convert fats to energy. As we age, mitochondria begin to deteriorate. This is why our metabolism slows as we age. However, research now shows that resveratrol might just be that fountain of youth that  we’ve searched for since the beginning of time.

That study I heard about at the VA hospital where one doctor had actually reversed an aging process with resveratrol, is just the beginning. More and more studies are coming forth with this same result. From a special publication of Dr Robert Rowan’s, we got the following:

·        Researchers at the University of Missouri show resveratrol reduces oxidative stress in nerve cells and may protect against age-related nerve changes.

·        At Wright State University School of Medicine, researchers show resveratrol inhibited an enzyme that may lead to less-than-optimal artery function.

·        Researchers in Japan show that rats consuming wine compounds for eight weeks maintained healthy blood pressure.

·        One study shows resveratrol did a better job than Pepto-Bismol in combating three strains of bacteria that cause diarrhea.

·        Resveratrol is antifungal. It protects the grape plant (vine and grapes) from mold and bacterial infection, and has been found to do the same in humans.

·        Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer.

·        Very low doses of resveratrol have been shown to stop the formation of these DNA adducts (atomic bonding to DNA that can affect cell growth and proliferation).

·        Resveratrol cuts the incidence of cataracts (taken in the form of red wine). [Gunnlaugsdoitter, E., et al., "Prevalence and causes of visual impairment and blindness in Icelanders aged 50 years and older: the Reykjavik Eye Study," Acta Opthamol, 2008 May 30.]

·        Resveratrol seems to inhibit the growth of skin cancers and decreases damage done by UVB light. [http://www.aacr.org/Default.aspx?p=2084&d=190]

Resveratrol, as we all should know by now, is found in the skins of grapes, in berries, and of course, in red wine. However, resveratrol is also found in grape leaves. Here’s something I found on the web concerning grape leaves:

Throughout the ages, the grapevine has come to represent fertility and prosperity. A luxuriant blooming vineyard was associated with times of peace and prosperity. A desolate vineyard, choked with weeds and strewn with broken vines, was symbolic of the ravages of war. For many, the grape vine was not just the bounty of the fruitfulness of the land; it was a gift from God.

Today, scientists are increasingly pointing to grape leaves for its numerous health benefits. As a powerful antioxidant it helps keep the free radicals in our bodies in check so that they don't promote too much oxidation, which can harm the walls and structure of cells, damage the genetic material inside a cell, and cause many serious diseases. An astringent, in ancient days grape leaves were used as a remedy for diarrhea and throat infections. The leaves are said to be rich in an a compound that is helps fight arthritis and cancer. Grape leaves contain resveratrol, a stress metabolite that inhibits the formation of fatty deposits in the liver. They are also a source of vinifern, an antifungal that works with resveratrol to protect the heart and cardiovascular system. http://www.mountofolivestreasures.com/jsp/Ingredients.jsp

Once again, we learn a secret to the Mediterranean diet and why the Greeks have much fewer cardiovascular problems than we of the Western diet, not to mention lower cancer rates.

Resveratrol is found in berries, peanuts, eucalyptus, grapes, pomegranates, and grape leaves.

However, if you want to get resveratrol in a powerful dose, you’ll have to supplement.

When it comes to losing fat, success doesn't happen overnight. Sometimes it doesn't even happen over a few weeks, a few months or a few years. Don't rush it, don't crash and don't expect too much of yourself too soon. Life is for the living; for the making of mistakes and learning from them. Below I have outlined my 5 Keys to Fat Loss Success so that you can not only lose fat but keep it off ―forever:
 
1. Set realistic short-term goals: The best way to think of these is as "mini-goals." When I was actively training in road racing I didn't start out running a marathon. I first started with smaller mileage races and each time I would try to better my time ― and better my distance ― until I was running a competitive marathon. There is no way to reach such a huge long-term goal without a few mini-goals along the way. What are your mini-goals?

2. Short-term goals should lead you to long-term goals: Allow for occasional setbacks along the way, but regard them as learning experiences. That's the beauty of short-term, or mini, goals. You can make a few missteps along the way and still reach your ultimate goal, as long as you simply learn from your misstep and get back on track.

3. Set a training schedule and stick to it: It helps to have a contract with yourself; how formal a "contract" is up to you. Some clients put the schedule in writing; others tack it to their fridge or keep a sticky-note in their wallets. Some keep it in their heads, but all do one thing in common: stick to it.

4. Listen to Your Body: If I've taught you one thing in this book it's to listen to your body. We talked about not eating too much, stuffing, and not eating too little, starving. Your body sends you signals when it's too full or too empty; listening to them is one way to stay in balance. Your exercise should be the same. Fatigue is a sign to take a break, and it's OK to do so. The old adage of "no pain, no gain" has gone by the wayside.

5. Constantly challenge yourself: Life is meant to be a challenge. We strive to meet challenges and move beyond them. If we don't learn, we can't grow. Success is like a muscle; it doesn't grow if it isn't stretched. How far can you stretch today?

©2008 Wendy Chant

Author Bio
Wendy Chant, MPT, SPN, is a certified personal trainer and a specialist in performance nutrition. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in medical sciences and nutrition science. A champion body builder, she opened her own training center, ForeverFit®, in 1998.  Her book, Crack the Fat Loss Code, is available now from McGraw-Hill.

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CHICAGO - For the first time, an influential doctors group is recommending that some children as young as 8 be given cholesterol-fighting drugs to ward off future heart problems.

It is the strongest guidance ever given on the issue by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which released its new guidelines Monday. The academy also recommends low-fat milk for 1-year-olds and wider cholesterol testing.

Dr. Stephen Daniels, of the academy's nutrition committee, says the new advice is based on mounting evidence showing that damage leading to heart disease, the nation's leading killer, begins early in life.

It also stems from recent research showing that cholesterol-fighting drugs are generally safe for children, Daniels said.

Several of these drugs are approved for use in children and data show that increasing numbers are using them.

"If we are more aggressive about this in childhood, I think we can have an impact on what happens later in life ... and avoid some of these heart attacks and strokes in adulthood," Daniels said. He has worked as a consultant to Abbott Laboratories and Merck & Co., but not on matters involving their cholesterol drugs.

Drug treatment would generally be targeted for kids at least 8 years old who have too much LDL, the "bad" cholesterol, along with other risky conditions, including obesity and high blood pressure.

For overweight children with too little HDL, the "good" cholesterol, the first course of action should be weight loss, more physical activity and nutritional counseling, the academy says.

Pediatricians should routinely check the cholesterol of children with a family history of inherited cholesterol disease or with parents or grandparents who developed heart disease at an early age, the recommendations say. Screening also is advised for kids whose family history isn't known and those who are overweight, obese or have other heart disease risk factors.

Screening is recommended sometime after age 2 but no later than age 10, at routine checkups.

The academy's earlier advice said cholesterol drugs should only be considered in children older than 10 after they fail to lose weight. Its previous cholesterol screening recommendations also were less specific and did not include targeted ages for beginning testing.

Because obesity is a risk factor for heart disease and often is accompanied by cholesterol problems, the academy recommendations say low-fat milk is appropriate for 1-year-olds "for whom overweight or obesity is a concern."

Daniels, a pediatrician in the Denver area, agreed that could include virtually all children. But he said doctors may choose to offer the new milk advice only to 1-year-olds who are already overweight or have a family history of heart problems.

The academy has long recommended against reduced-fat milk for children up to age 2 because saturated fats are needed for brain development.

"But now we have the obesity epidemic and people are thinking maybe this isn't such a good idea," said Dr. Frank Greer of the University of Wisconsin, co-author of the guidelines report, which appears in the July edition of Pediatrics, the group's medical journal.

Very young children are increasingly getting fats from sources other than milk and Greer said the updated advice is based on recent research showing no harm from reduced-fat milk in these youngsters.

With one-third of U.S. children overweight and about 17 percent obese, the new recommendations are important, said Dr. Jennifer Li, a Duke University children's heart specialist.

"We need to do something to stem the tide of childhood obesity," Li said.

Li said that 15 years ago most of her patients with cholesterol problems had an inherited form of cholesterol disease not connected to obesity.

"But now they're really outnumbered" by overweight kids with cholesterol problems and high blood pressure, she said.

Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick, a pediatrics professor at the University of California at San Francisco, also praised the new advice but said some parents think their kids will outgrow obesity and cholesterol problems, and might not take it seriously.

"It's hard for people to really understand" that those problems in childhood can lead to serious health consequences in adulthood, Fuentes-Afflick said.

Editor's Note!

It's hard for people to really understand that starting children on a lifetime of drugs can lead to serious health consequences in adulthood.

Dishing out cholesterol lowering drugs to children is taking medical fraud to a new, ridiculous level. Cholesterol does NOT cause heart disease. Heart disease causes cholesterol to lay a coating over the artery in effect, bandaging the diseased spot.

Some nut and shill of the pharmaceutical industry (whose name will not be mentioned here because he's lawsuit-happy) has declared that many kids diagnosed with ADD and ADHD are actually Bipolar and need a whole new regimen of drug therapies.

FIGHT BACK. Know the truth. Do your homework. Tell your drug-pushing doctor where to get off. Read The Cholesterol Myths, or any of the following.

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The first baby picture of Michael Phelps!

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You've been waiting for them, so without further ado here are the 2008 Darwin awards.

Eighth Place

In Detroit , a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

Seventh Place

A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who 'totally zoned when he ran,' accidentally, jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run.

Sixth Place

While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom when it t collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach used their hands and shovels trying to get him out but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Fifth Place

Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth to keep his hands free rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.

Fourth Place

Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

Third Place

After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up, and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt.

HONORABLE MENTION

Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M. so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen. Apparently they failed to notice the window was closed.

RUNNER UP

Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from a local bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope.

Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable, lay near by. They secured one end around Bingham's leg and then tied the other to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. Bingham's foot was never located.

AND THE WINNER IS...

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn , Germany ) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.

Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded. The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him.

THEY WALK AMOUNG US....
IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPORTANT TO THANK THESE PEOPLE FOR REMOVING THEMSELVES FROM THE GENE POOL.

Light Switch in a Physician's Men's Room

Speaking of Viagra...

This guy goes to see his doctor and immediately tells him that he shouldn't prescribe both Viagra and Chantix to his patients at the same time?

The doctor looks up and asks, "Why? I've not heard of any bad interactions."

"Well," says the patient, "the Viagra works; I can still get it up, but then it just stubs itself out in an ashtray."

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Attributed to Dave Barry:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?

A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?

A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?

A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?

A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?

A. Shut up.

Questions sent to an Australian travel agent from prospective visitors ... and answers:

Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? (UK).
A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.

Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? (USA)
A: Depends how much you've been drinking.

Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? (Sweden)
A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, take lots of water.

Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia ? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane, Cairns ,Townsville and Hervey Bay? (UK)
A: What did your last slave die of?

Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia? ( USA)
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not ... oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.

Q: Which direction is North in Australia? (USA)
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.

Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia? (UK)
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.

Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? (USA)
A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is .... oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.

Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
A: You are a British politician, right?

Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? (Germany)
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers. Milk is illegal.

Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA)
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from. All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.

Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. (USA)
A: It's called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.

Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in Australia? (USA)
A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.

Q: Can you tell me the regions in Tasmania where the female population is smaller than the male population? (Italy)
A: Yes, gay night clubs.

Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia? ( France )
A: Only at Christmas.

Q: I was in Australia in 1969 on R+R, and I want to contact the Girl I dated while I was staying in Kings Cross.   Can you help? (USA)
A: Yes, and you will still have to pay her by the hour.

Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? (USA)
A: Yes, but you'll have to learn it first

There was a preacher whose wife was expecting a baby so he went before the congregation and asked for a raise. After much discussion, they passed a rule that whenever the preacher's family expanded, so would his paycheck.

After 6 children, this started to get expensive and the congregation decided to hold another meeting to discuss the preacher's salary. There was much yelling and bickering about how much the clergyman's additional children were costing the church. Finally, the Preacher got up and spoke to the crowd.

"Children are a gift from God," he said. Silence fell on the congregation.

In the back pew, a little old lady stood up and in her frail voice said, "Rain is also a gift from God, but when we get too much of it, we wear rubbers."

And the congregation said, "Amen."

True Story?

A photographer for CNN was assigned to cover southern California's wildfires. He wanted picture s of the heroic work the firefighters were doing as they battled the blazes. When the photographer arrived on the scene, he realized the smoke was so thick it would seriously impede, or even make impossible, his getting good photographs from the ground level. He requested permission from his boss to rent a plane and take photos from the air. His request was approved, and he used his cell phone to call the local county airport to charter a flight. He was told a single engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport. Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hanger. He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, "Let's go!" The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and roared down the runway. Once airborne, the photographer said to the pilot, "Fly over the valley, make two or three low passes so I can take some photos of the fires on the hillsides." "Why?" asked the pilot. "Because I'm a photographer for CNN," he responded. "And, I need to get some close-up shots." The pilot was strangely silent for a moment, finally he stammered, "So, you're telling me you're not the flight instructor...

A sweet grandmother telephoned St. Joseph's Hospital. She timidly asked, "Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?"
 
The operator said, "I'll be glad to help, dear. What's the name and room number?"
 
The grandmother in her weak, tremulous voice said, "Norma Findlay, Room 302."
 
The operator replied, "Let me place you on hold while I check with her nurse."
 
After a few minutes, the operator returned to the phone and said, "Oh, I  have good news. Her nurse just told me that Norma is doing very well. Her blood pressure is fine; her blood work just came back as normal, and her physician, Dr. Cohen, has scheduled her to be discharged on  Tuesday."
 
The grandmother said, "Thank you. That's wonderful! I was so worried! God bless you for the good news."
 
The operator replied, "You're more than welcome. Is Norma your daughter?"
 
The grandmother said, "No, I'm Norma Findlay in 302. No one tells me shit."