Dr. Clark’s basic premise on water filtration was to remove all volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the water, especially chlorine and all petroleum solvents such as benzene, motor oil, and, of course, trace of any radioactive elements.

Radiation Reported by Government

Dr. Clark claimed low levels of radioactivity from almost all city water she tested using her ultra sensitive biofeedback device the Syncrometer. *

This was a serious concern for Dr. Clark. She did not agree with the government; which tolerates “below normal, naturally occurring background levels of radioactivity.”

The 2009 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report from the Public Utility Department in San Diego reports the following radioactivity limits as permissible in tap water. They call it “Primary Standards (Mandatory Health Related Standards) – RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANT”. Gross Beta Particle Activity: 50 picocuries per liter and 20 picocuries per liter of Uranium. None of the water samples were above the those numbers, however they are allowed to get to those limits.

The reasons given for this radioactivity in the water were (1) Decay of natural and manmade deposit. (2) Erosion of natural deposit (3) Radioactive contaminants, which can be naturally-occurring or the result of oil and gas production and mining activities.

Radiation in the News

As recently as March 7, 2011, it was reported from “HARRISBURG, Pa. — Tests of water in Pennsylvania down river from treatment plants that handle wastewater from natural gas drilling raised no red flags for radioactivity, the state Department of Environmental Protection reported.

All of the samples, taken from November through February, showed “levels at or below normal, naturally occurring background levels of radioactivity,” the agency reported. “All samples also showed levels below the federal drinking water standard for Radium 226 and 228.”

Why The Government Does Not Seem Concerned About Current Levels of Radiation

Officials will always minimize health risks of contaminants that powerful corporations create simply because it’s expensive to decontaminate the water and because of the enormous lobbying power corporations have on our system. Officials may also not realize the potential health risks of certain contaminants.

You can see how inept our system is when a high percentage of people living in or near oil and gas exploration sites have cancers. Why nothing efficient is done to preventing that? The government knows about increased radioactivity and solvents in water near such sites but does not discuss solutions, see here: www.epa.gov/radtown/drilling-waste.html -

Cleaning Radioactivity Out of Water

Radon, a radioactive gas, is present in most well water. Levels of radon can vary dramatically from one well to another. It is generally agreed by water decontamination experts that there are two ways to remove radon from well water: (1) with the use of granulated activated carbon (GAC) and (2) with the use of aeration. Dr. Clark investigated the GAC method and found it worked for her.

Dr. Clark’s Quest for Powerful Filtration

Dr. Clark found that point-of-use devices, such as those installed on a tap or under the sink, would only treat a small portion of the water and were not effective in reducing VOCs and radioactive radon in water.

Dr. Clark found that all filters she tested were counterproductive since they contaminate the water with VOCs, especially chlorine and petroleum based compounds. She found that as soon as the filter’s membrane get in touch with contaminated water that contained solvents that the contaminants would get stuck in the filter and thereby render all subsequent water from the filter contaminated.

Keep in mind that her studies cannot be validated using generally accepted scientific methods since Dr Clark relied exclusively on her biofeedback device, which she claimed was more sensitive than any other methods she investigated.*

No matter how expensive and fancy the filter was, once the contaminants run through the filter not all of it would come out! contaminants would be stuck in the filter and contaminate all the water that subsequently go through that filter.

Dr. Clark found this added problem when she tested “solid block” filters such as “Reverse Osmosis (RO)” and “Solid Block Carbon Filters”, so she turned her attention to loose media filters that could be “regenerated” or cleaned.

She soon realized that the only filter that could solve her problem would be a filter that contained one cubic foot of a specific brand of hot washed activated carbon from coconuts, provided that the filter be regenerated every 5 days with hot water.

Dr. Clark decided that an automatic cleaning cycle was important because she did not trust users of the water filter to initiate the cleaning cycle. She knew that people would put it off. She felt it was such an important task to clean the water that she did not want it to be left up to the owner of the filter.

The Dr. Clark Whole House Water Filter Systems are based on this premise.

*Disclaimer: Dr. Clark used a biofeedback device to measure radioactivity. The US Government does not approve of such devices unless they have been scientifically validated using “university level” scientific studies.

Since 1993, Self Health Resource Center has uncompromisingly pursued the making of the purest, most potent and most bioavailable dietary supplements.

At Self Health Resource Center, we actually manufacture the products we sell.  This is key in order to maintain maximum control of the production.  We take pride in manufacturing supplements that don’t have manufacturing processing agents in them.  Our products are manufactured with hypoallergenic raw materials.  You won’t find common additives, flow agents, or binders in our products.

Many other companies try to do what we do, and many others claim to have our level of quality. However, nobody has been able to duplicate what our clients call “Dr. Clark’s Purity.”

Dr. Clark is the undisputed expert in cleansing.  What people don’t realize is that she is also the pioneer of pure supplements as well.

Reason 1: What form?

It is a common misnomer that if you take a certain mg amount of a supplement that it does not matter in what form it is, how it is packaged and with what it’s packaged.

Take Vitamin C for example. You can get it in many forms and some are more absorbent than others. Even if you see “Ascorbic Acid” on the label of two different products, the ingredients can vary. One manufacturer may use 90% Ascorbic Acid with 10% Corn Starch and Lactose (for better handling in manufacturing).  Of course a manufacturer that focuses on purity will use 100% Pure Ascorbic Acid.  Unfortunately, this is true for lots of ingredients, including:

Reason 2: Tablet Vs. Capsule

The most absorb-able form of a supplement is when it is delivered in powder form or in a capsule.  Capsules dissolve in the stomach, the point that where greatest absorption occurs.  Tablets often do not get dissolved until at some point in the intestinal tract.  This decreases absorption greatly.

Reason 3: Manufacturing Agents

It is common to see tablets shine in bright colors. They do everything to make the tablet easy to swallow as well as look and smell good.  This is good for sales, and it may give you some pleasure when taking the supplement, but again it misses the main reason why you would take a supplement; to get better from whatever ails you.

Think about it; if you are sick and then take a supplement that is packaged with all kinds of chemicals, your body has to break down those chemicals. This takes energy away from your immune system.

Run away when you see: Magnesium Sterate, Corn Starch, Hydroxypro­pyl Methylcell­ulose, Cellulose, Silicon Dioxide!

Reason 4: Flow Agents

Magnesium Stearate, a common flow agent, has increasingly been criticized for hindering absorption.  Some research has been done on this and of course refuted by industry. However, you can use your common sense if you want to buy a supplements with any kind of flow agents.  Take a look at this picture. The yellow part in the middle is the nutritional element; it has jagged edges and obviously will not flow very well.  This is why it has been coated with a flow agent, indicated in blue.  This makes the particle flow fast without caking up in the encapsulation machine.  However, the negative effect is that your nutrient may not be delivered to the most optimum point in the body.  Still, using flow agents is more cost effective so manufacturers will keep on using them in their productions.  Bad for you, good for industry.

Reason 5: Purity from Microbes

Many herbs come from root vegetables.  Roots grow in the ground of course, and what else is in the ground?  Bugs galore!  Lots of them.  One gram of natural soil, about enough to cover a nickel in the palm of your hand, contains up to a billion organisms: bacteria, fungi, protozoa, actinomycetes, viruses, rotifers, microarthropods, nematodes, and many others.

Some people say bugs are good for you.  It is generally accepted that some bugs are good for you but those bugs are not the ones that stick to herbs.

The FDA has made it illegal to irradiate herbs because even they acknowledge that it can reduce potency.  I can agree on that. But what is a manufacturer to do?  Most of them do nothing to sterilize the herbs they receive.  The farmer and processing plants washed them with water and that’s it.  What they should be doing is to look to nature and be asking the question, “why isn’t everything covered with bugs outside?”  The answer is because of the sun.  The sun lets off Ultra Violet rays.  Those rays are used by better manufacturers in order to kill off microbiological growth.  In addition, freezing the herbs to below 20 degrees Celsius can also help.

Reason 6: Purity from Solvents

It is common for manufacturers to use standard solvents to clean their tanks, table surfaces and equipment.  I once was visiting a supplement manufacturing plant and saw a pallet of “ClorX” sitting on their doc.  They use laundry chlorinating bleach to clean their water tanks! This is about the worst thing you can do.  Laundry bleach contains heavy metals meant to get stains out. It is also tinted blue, which is called “the bluing effect.”  If you have a large sheet of white linen and there is some slight discoloration in it, you can tint it ever so slightly blue, by doing that you will not see the spots.  You won’t see the blue tinting either, your eyes will perceive the entire sheet as white.  This may be good for getting spots out but it’s not good for food.

If you want to use bleach in food preparations, you should use NSF grade bleach, the one without chemicals intended to take spots out of your clothes. In fact Dr. Clark did not want people to use Laundry bleach for any reason whatsoever.

Another solvent commonly used in manufacturing facilities is Propyl Alcohol or Isopropyl Alcohol.  Isopropanol is found in OTC rubbing alcohol (70% Isopropanol).  It is inexpensive and effective to clean with.  In fact, Propyl alcohol is used in many industrial grade and household cleaning supplies.  Manufacturers think nothing of putting it in your lotions also.

If such solvents are used in a supplement manufacturing facility, tiny amounts are bound to find its way into the products.  This may not be measurable using standard laboratory tests but it is never the less almost certain that such contamination occurs even when precautions are taken.  Your supplement, regardless of if it is a liquid, powder, tablet or a capsule may be contaminated with Propyl alcohol.

Dr. Clark found that the best cleaning agent is iodine, ammonia and grain alcohol.  I avoid all types of bleaches. Although inexpensive, I find that even NSF grade bleach may contaminate the products.

Reason 7: Purity from Metals

What’s also in the ground?  Metals!… and lots of them.  Metals can be good for you if they have been absorbed by plants which makes them bio-available.  Here is how it works; there are minerals needed by plants that while actually in the soil, may be in a chemical form available to them; that is, the plants cannot assimilate, or take up these minerals, until they have been changed into a bio-available form by soil organisms.  In other words, the minerals inside the plants are good, and the minerals on the outside of the plants are bad.

Again, some manufacturers don’t do enough to ensure that the supplements they sell are free from the bad kinds of minerals, namely ferrous metals.  Of course the herbs are washed off but invariably tiny amounts of ferrous metals find their way into the plant.  FDA allows manufacturers simply to use a magnet to separate the two, but more is required in order to be diligent. Only a specialized metal detection device can separate do the job.  This should be done at the end stage of manufacturing because, although unlikely, metal shavings can come off the processing equipment and mix with the supplement.

Reason 8: Veggie Caps Vs. Gel Caps

Now that we established that it is better to take capsules than tablets, let’s look into which kind of capsule is purer.  As a manufacturer that insists on purity despite cost, taste and looks, I have come to understand one thing very clearly: The more you process something, the more likely you are to contaminate it.  This holds true for veggie caps.  It is much harder to make a sturdy capsules out of vegetables than to make it out of animal products.

It is counter intuitive; many people erroneously think that everything vegetarian is healthier, but that is not the case.  I respect people that don’t want to eat animals but it is counter productive to paint all vegetable based food as healthy.  A good example: French-fries!

The same principal applies to the vegetable based capsule.  It came on the market in the 1980’s when gelatin capsules had been on the market for decades.  Only after complicated processing most likely involving various chemical compounds can you make a vegetable capsule.

But aren’t gelatin capsules made with bones that might carry “Mad Cow” prions?  Not all gel caps are made with bones.  A good manufacturer will avoid using such gel caps and only use gel caps made with hide.  Such gel caps are available both Halal and Kosher and certified BSE free.

Reason 9: Safety in Sourcing and Testing

With the mandatory testing set forth by the current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) from the FDA, testing should now become more common in the industry.  However, you would be amazed how some companies cut corners on testing.

All incoming raw materials should be tested for identity and purity.  Do you remember the melamine scandal where Chinese firms added melamine to milk, eggs, pet food and animal feed?  Well they also added melamine to raw materials used for making supplements.

This is why a good manufacturer tests all incoming raw materials for identity.  In addition, buying only from verified US vendors increases safety.

Testing for purity involves comprehensive microbiology testing whenever appropriate.

Purity and identity tests may involve various laboratory methods depending on what item is being tested.

Testing raw materials is insufficient if no testing is done on “in-process” materials and “finished-goods”.  Equipment and table tops should regularly be tested for microbiology contamination.

Reason 10: Complex Formulations and “Ferry Dust”

If your supplement is to work as advertised, one of the most important factors is the formulation.

We covered how important it is to take pure supplements, but even if the supplement is pure it is essential to take only formulas that are effective.  Unfortunately, this is not simple for the normal consumer to figure out.  Manufacturers have unfortunately been marketing lots of supplements that contain over 10 to 30 ingredients.  They do that so they can display an impressive “Supplement Facts” box.  They are taking advantage of people because as a general rule Dr. Clark and other scientists will tell you that your body will get confused if you take an herbal supplement that contains over 10 herbal ingredients, especially if some of them are incompatible with each other.  Each herb sends a unique signal to the body, and the body will not react to too many signals at one time and will cancel them out or get confused.

Dr Clark believes you should receive the whole herb, not herbal extracts. The more an herb is processed, the greater the likelihood of incorporating pollutants in addition to leaving out wholesome nutrition. That is why we use the whole herb such as wormwood in our herbal supplement products and not extracts are created with the aid of solvents and manufacturing agents.

More notoriously, manufacturers have been known to put “fairy dust” into their formulations. The “fairy dust” is usually some expensive ingredient that is desired by consumers. That expensive ingredient becomes a “fairy dust” if the amount is so small that it has absolutely no effect.

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Today molecular science is confirming what mother always told us: “Eat your fruits and vegetables.” Phytonutrients (pronounced “fight-o-nutrients”) are natural bioactive compounds found in fruits and vegetables that work together with vitamins, minerals, and fiber to promote good health.

The National Cancer Institute recommends eating a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may help reduce your risk of many chronic diseases including cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other diseases.

Carotenoids, flavonoids, and isoflavones

The best known phytonutrients, or phytos, are carotenoids, flavonoids, and isoflavones. Carotenoids include yellow, orange, and red fruits and vegetables. Dark, green, leafy vegetables are rich in the carotenoid, beta carotene, but the yellow color is often masked by chlorophyll, the green pigment in vegetables. Flavonoids are reddish pigments, found in red grape skins and citrus fruits, and isoflavones can be found in peanuts, lentils, soy, and other legumes.

Beneficial compounds

Researchers are presently uncovering a host of beneficial compounds in plant foods, compounds that apparently reduce risks of diseases of aging. For example, the isoflavones in soy products may reduce the risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, and several types of cancer. Certain flavonoids in blueberries may actually reverse nerve cell aging. And a wide array of compounds in fruits and vegetables may protect cell components against oxidative damage.

For many years, researchers have recognized that diets high in fruits, vegetables, herbs, grains, seeds, nuts and legumes prevent problems such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and high blood pressure. They once believed that it was the vitamin, mineral, fiber and enzyme contents of these plant-derived foods that were preventing malnutrition and disease.

However, in the 1990s, phytochemical compounds were discovered and modern science realized that plants manufacture biodynamic disease-protective elements as defense from strong sunlight, oxidation, viruses, bacteria, insects, disease and background radiation. Garlic and onions, for instance, contain potent sulfur compounds that act as bug repellents to keep the vegetables healthy. Likewise, carrots and apricots contain alpha- and beta-carotene, vibrantly colorful plant pigments that protect them from potentially destructive, strong sunlight.

Healthy plants, healthy people

Consequently, when we eat plants, these same disease-protective agents—phytos—protect our bloodstream, cells, tissues, membranes, organs and immune functions. Recent studies confirm that phytos:

• Act as antioxidants
• Stimulate detoxification enzymes
• Stimulate the immune system
• Positively affect hormones
• Act as antibacterial or antiviral agents

Phyto-rich foods

Phyto-rich foods include red, green, yellow and orange vegetables (apricots, peaches, melons, squashes, sweet potatoes, yams, carrots, pumpkin), cruciferous veggies (kale, broccoli), dark leafy greens (spinach and romaine), fruits (citrus and berries), flaxseeds, whole grains and legumes, garlic and leeks and soybeans.

For more information on phytonutrients and recommended daily consumption of fruits and vegetables, you can refer to the government’s website called “Eat 5 to 9 a Day for Better Health.”

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Potassium Bromate in Bread

Potassium bromate, an additive included in many commercial bread and baked goods, provides the most devastating contribution to bromide overload in Western cultures. Bromated flour is a product “enriched” with potassium bromate.

Many commercial bakers use bromated flour because it yields dependable results, and because it makes more elastic dough, which can stand up to bread hooks and other commercial baking tools.

In the 1960′s, a single slice of bread in the USA contained the full RDA of 0.15 mg iodine. The risk for breast cancer was then 1 in 20. Over the last several decades, iodine was largely replaced by bromine in the form of potassium bromate in the bread making process.

Bromine blocks thyroid function and interferes with the anticancer effect of iodine. Today, the risk for breast cancer is 1 in 8 and increasing by one percent each year.

Bromide in Bread Banned in UK and Canada

In 1990 the UK banned bromate in bread. Canada followed suite in 1994. The United States has yet to take a similar action in this important matter.

Bromide in Drinking Water

When drinking water containing bromide is exposed to ozone, bromate ion, a powerful oxidizing agent, is formed. Two significant recalls of drinking water involving bromate have occurred: 1) Wegmann’s Food You Feel Good About Spring Water in 2006; and 2) Coca-Cola’s Dasani in 2004.

Toothpaste and Mouthwash

Potassium bromate is used as an antiseptic and astringent in toothpaste and mouthwash. This highly toxic substance may cause bleeding and inflammation of gums.

Flame Retardants

Bromated flame retardants reduce the flammability of a wide variety of commercial and household products. Unfortunately the bromide used in some home retardants does not stay put. Instead, it finds its way into the environment and into the human body.

Personal Care Products and Cosmetics

Sodium bromate is ubiquitous in permanent wave neutralizers, hair dyes and textile dyes, and many other cosmetic and home care products.

Effects of Elevated Bromide Levels

Elevated bromide levels have a deleterious effect on human organs, specifically the thyroid and kidneys, and skin. Bromide exposure is also related to renal failure and, perhaps most tragically, to mental aberrations.

Thyroid

Elevated bromide levels have been implicated in every thyroid disease, from simple hypothyroidism to auto-immune diseases to thyroid cancer.

Kidneys

The ability of bromate to cause cancer, especially kidney cancer, is a significant health concern.

Skin

Prolonged exposure to bromide or bromide related products may cause lesions on the face and scalp, as well as open sores on the trunk and extremities.

Hearing Loss

Potassium bromate, the popular bread additive, is known to cause renal damage and permanent deafness in animals and man. The lower frequency range is most often affected.

Mental Aberrations

Psychiatry literature abounds with cases of elevated bromide levels implicated in mental conditions ranging from depression to schizophrenia.

Serious Questions

If iodine deficiency is the underlying cause of many diseases, is bromide “the underlying cause of the underlying cause?”

Because iodine was not supplemented much before the last three years, few physicians have had a chance to look closely at the occasional symptoms which arise from iodine supplementation (still called “iodism”) and raise questions.

Might the historical observation of iodism be due principally to massive amounts of stored bromine leaving the tissues and entering the bloodstream?

Is it possible that the apparent adverse effects of iodine are due almost exclusively due to bromide excretion, and that consequently not enough iodine-alone effects can be documented to qualify as an “ism”?

And finally, might the iodism phenomenon be more appropriately called “bromism”?

FDA’s Evasive Answer

Back in 1999, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the FDA to prohibit the use of potassium bromate, charging that the FDA has known for years that bromate causes cancer in lab animals, but has failed to ban it. In September, 2007, the US FDA responded to Breast Cancer Choices inquiry with the statement, “Potassium Bromate is still listed as a safe additive.”

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4) Abraham,G.E., The Original Internist, 11:17-36, 2004.
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6) Abraham, G.E., Flechas, J.D., Hakala, J.C., The Original Internist, 9:30-41, 2002.

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Recent research clearly demonstrates that big pharma “science” has misled doctors and the public at large about iodine. Big pharma spin-doctors have in fact named Iodine as the underlying factor for numerous diseases, and have even assigned an “ism” to this naturally-occurring substance that our bodies very much need.

Iodism is now defined as “poisoning caused by sensitivity to or overuse of iodine or its compounds,” consumers are being encouraged to avoid iodine.

But the truth is that if you avoid consuming iodine you do so at your own peril.

Bromide Dominance Theory

The situation is more complex, and bromide is the culprit, not iodine. In recent years, increased exposure to bromide has caused dangerous levels of iodine depletion. Many people are so depleted that they have no tolerance for taking iodine supplements any longer without taking appropriate precautions.

Bromide is an insidious additive used in many consumer products, and as a pesticide. Because of the sheer number of bromide-supplemented products, exposure to this man-made additive has caused a depletion of iodine in human populations. Studies in lab animals provide alarming evidence that even small amounts of bromide exposure can be toxic.

A bromide dominance condition may develop when bromide, acquired through environmental, occupational or dietary exposure, causes bromide levels in the body to rise high enough to inhibit iodine enzyme metabolism.

Where does bromide come from? Bromide comes from the food we eat—especially bread—from drinking water, and from toothpaste, mouthwash, flame-retardants, hair dye and other sources.

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The two anti-aging, anti-oxident, and vascular health nutrients that can be taken together are Hesperidin and Rutin.

Rutin and hesperidin are two of the better-known bioflavonoids. Both have strong antioxidant properties. Bioflavonoids work synergistically with vitamin C and help maximize its benefits. Bioflavonoids also help raise your levels of glutathione. Glutathione is the most abundant antioxidant in your body. Although bioflavonoids are not specifically network antioxidants, they do interact freely with the network itself. For example, both rutin and hesperidin regenerate vitamin C after it neutralizes a free radical, thus helping to restore its antioxidant properties.

Food Sources of Rutin

Bioflavonoid rutin is found abundantly in apricots, buckwheat, cherries, prunes, rose hips, citrus fruits, and green peppers. Bioflavonoids work as a team. Other flavonoids, such as quercetin and hesperidin, are very similar in composition to rutin. Many experts have come to agree that rutin and hesperidin are partners, working together to complement each other. For this reason, rutin and hesperidin are often taken together, along with quercetin, and these three bioflavonoid partners are usually included in leading bioflavonoid supplements.

Partner with Vitamin C

Rutin is important because it is essential for the proper absorption and utilization of Vitamin C. Rutin promotes vascular health; protects and preserves the structure of capillaries, which in turn helps prevent bruising, varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Additionally, rutin helps prevent blood clotting and platelet clumping by making the blood less sticky. Rutin effectively lowers cholesterol levels, and prevents cataracts, glaucoma, and other vision problems. When taken synergistically with Vitamin C, rutin may help to reduce the symptoms of oral herpes.

Benefits of Hesperidin

Hesperidin, along with other bioflavanoids, and rutin in particular, can improve the health of capillaries and connective tissues. Because of this, it has been noted to help with bruising, varicose veins, and weakened capillaries. Other benefits include the ability to alleviate hay fever and other airborne allergies. Recent studies suggest that bioflavanoids such as hesperidin, rutin and quercitin block allergies by inhibiting the release of histamine.

Anti-aging Nutrient

Hesperidin is an important nutrient that works synergistically with Vitamin C to maintain the health of collagen. With increased age comes sagging and wrinkling of the skin, a consequence of the breakdown of collagen. Hesperidin, in conjunction with Vitamin C, helps to maintain the health of collagen. The enzyme bromelain, derived from pineapples, greatly enhances the absorption of hesperidin, and the two are often taken together, along with other prominent bioflavonoids such as quercitin and rutin for maximum efficacy. Bioflavonoids and vitamin C: an unbeatable combination for glowing health.

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Supplements

What you see is not what you get when it comes to supplements. You cannot trust the label. As an example, a company can state “Pepsin” on the label and then put Pepsin, standardized with lactose, instead of pure undiluted Pepsin like we use.

Similarly instead of Pure Riboflaving they can use 33% Riboflavin, with mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids surrounding each particle for better flow and masking. We of course use Pure Riboflavin.

The extra stuff enclosing each nutritional particle can cause the action of the supplement to happen not in the stomach where it is desired but in the intestines. This diminishes the effects of the supplements and leaves your body with the increased work of dealing with all those unnecessary chemicals.

Food Labels

Lets discuss food labels. They tell you what’s in the food you’re eating. They give you information about which nutrients are in your food. Simple, right? Unfortunately not, because many food companies use labels that have little or no meaning in order to obscure the truth about what’s actually in your food. While you sleep, the spin-doctors are at work! The FDA does not regulate all food labels and can’t keep food company wordsmiths from working their magic. But what you, the consumer, can do is carefully read the nutritional facts and ingredients list to find the truth behind tricky wording and manipulative marketing.

Unwary consumers are readily drawn to terms like “All Natural” and “Made With Whole Grains.” But today a whopping 54% of all cereals are labeled “Whole Grain,” including plenty of highly processed, sugar-saturated ones.

Below are five of the most misleading food labels we’ve discovered. Keep a cautious eye out for them next time you visit your local supermarket.

All Natural

“All Natural” is one of the most abused and misleading food labels used by food manufacturers today. For example, products like Hunt’s Tomato Sauce and “All Natural” Snapple Tea contain citric acid as an additive. Certain “All Natural” deli meats are injected with beef or chicken broth, which not only increases the sodium levels to unhealthy levels, but conveniently inflates the weight of the product, thus increasing the price.

Zero Grams Trans Fat

Trans fat is big, no question about it, and consequently, many companies have cut trans fat from their products. However, this has opened the door for a manipulative marketing move on the part of some companies to promote zero grams of trans fat, without indicating the product’s level of saturated and total fat, which is equally important.

Made with Whole Grains

The label, “Made with Whole Grains,” is increasingly popular today with food company spin-doctors marketing bread, crackers or rice products. The reality is that many of these whole grain products are actually made with refined wheat flour and just a tiny percentage of whole grains. Unless “whole grains” is one of the first ingredients on the list or if you see “enriched wheat flour,” it’s likely that the product contains only a minimum amount of whole grains.

Extra Light

When a food label reads “light,” as in “extra light olive oil,” you might think that a product is light in fat or the fat content has been reduced. But unless the product label also cites reduced fat, “light” is generally referring to a lighter color of the original product, such as light-colored olive oil.

Heart Healthy

The phrase “heart healthy” is in many cases nothing more than a generalized term invented by a food corporation’s creative writing staff. It has no meaning and in most cases lacks any sort of FDA approval or supportive scientific evidence. Products bearing “heart healthy” labels are readily snapped up by unwary consumers who imagine that they will improve their heart health by eating this or that particular food.

For further information about misleading food labels, please see the 158-page report, “Food Labeling Chaos”, recently released by the Center For Science in the Public Interest.

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What’s cooking in the gene kitchen? Answer: Salmon a la GMO, farm-raised Atlantic salmon genetically modified to grow twice as fast as the salmon Mother Nature provides. The FDA has not yet decided whether the fish can be marketed or labeled.

Biotech is Big Business

To the super-scientists of the biotech world, precise tinkering with plant and animal genes is a proven way to reduce disease, protect from insects and increase the food supply to curb world hunger. But for skeptics, genetic changes put the natural world and the food supply at risk, because modified organisms can escape into the wild or mingle with native species, potentially changing them, with unknown effects.

Genetic Engineering vs World Hunger

Craig Altier, a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee and an associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, had this to say: “The fisheries of the world are being rapidly depleted and so advances in aquaculture will be needed to meet the growing demand for protein. Genetically engineered animals might help to feed the world, but they must first meet the most stringent requirements for human and environmental safety.”

Voices of Dissent

Not everyone agrees. Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, for example, has urged the federal Food and Drug Administration not to approve genetically engineered Atlantic salmon for human consumption. Parnell wrote to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg this week questioning whether the issue has been thoroughly studied. The Governor is concerned that modified salmon may jeopardize the health of wild salmon stocks.

Marion Nestle, a New York University professor and expert on food studies and public health, says that with regard to processed food, “If it’s got beet sugar, soybean or sugar, it’s got an 85 to 95 percent chance of being genetically modified.” Nestle fears that genetic engineering will lead to unintended consequences in the food supply and environment. A former member of Food and Drug Administration advisory boards, she strongly opposes the genetically engineered salmon. In the 1990s, she voted against allowing genetically engineered plants. “Animals are a bigger problem in trying to prevent mixing with nongenetically modified populations,” Nestle says. “Millions (of farmed fish) escape, not one or two, but millions.”

Maximum Security

The producer of genetically engineered salmon, Aquabounty, a Massachusetts company, plans to raise the super fish in an inland, self-contained facility. To protect wild fish stocks, these facilities would require the utmost security, rigorous inspections and constant oversight by the FDA.

References:

Science Daily, September 25, 2010, http://www.sciencedaily.com

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Amelia Hill, social affairs correspondent for the Guardian, writes in the August 16, 2009 issue of the Observer, published by Guardian.Co.UK, “Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterized by an obsession with healthy eating.

The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated.” And well-heeled, we might want to add. Well enough off to spend on their dollars on bogus meds prescribed by bought-and-paid for doctors to combat yet another fabricated disease.

“Symptoms”

Orthorexia nervosa sufferers, says Hill, like to focus on “righteous” eating and have rigid rules about avoiding certain foods, the article declares. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.

“I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago,” said Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association’s mental health group. “Other eating disorders focus on quantity of food but orthorexics can be overweight or look normal. They are solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly ‘pure’.”

The obsession about which foods are “good” and which are “bad” means orthorexics can end up malnourished, the article goes on to say.

Let’s Load Up on Pesticides, Folks

Let’s get this straight. If you focus on eating healthy foods, you’re “mentally diseased” and most likely need a prescription for powerful psychotropic drugs. Attempting to avoid chemicals, dairy, soy and sugar makes you a mental patient. If you take care to avoid pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified ingredients like soy and sugar, there’s something wrong with you.

It follows then, conversely, that if you eat processed junk foods teeming with synthetic ingredients and fast foods laced with toxic chemicals, you’re normal, mentally speaking.

According to this line of thought, if you’re one of those people who reads labels and counts calories, you’re weird, and maybe even mentally unbalanced. Instead, in order to cultivate mental health, you should refrain from thinking about what you’re eating and simply chow down as instructed by the mainstream media and its processed food advertisers.

Fast food junkies are normal and sane, and health conscious consumers are abnormal and mentally deranged.

Don’t be Fooled

As a great American President once said, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Don’t be a zombie controlled by paid media spin-doctors. Don’t be fooled by fabricated diseases invented by the pharmaceutical industry.

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What is Bulimia? Bulimia is a vicious cycle of binge eating and purging that damages the body and devastates the emotions. Can the cycle be broken? Fortunately, the answer is yes. Effective bulimia treatment and support can help you develop a healthier relationship with food and overcome feelings of anxiety, guilt, and shame.

A Constant Battle

For Bulimia sufferers, life is a constant battle between the desire to be fashionably slim and an overwhelming compulsion to binge eat.

“With Bulimia,” says long-time Bulimia sufferer Mary M., “instead of eating sensibly to make up for your latest eating binge, you punish yourself by purging and fasting to get rid of the calories.”

You do your best to keep the cravings at bay. You don’t want to binge, because you know only too well that you’ll feel disgust and self-loathing will follow, but you can’t fight the urge to eat. All you can think of is food, and in the end, you give in. And all through this vicious cycle, you feel increasingly out of control.

Three Key Features of Bulimia

1. Regular episodes of out-of-control binge eating
2. Over the top weight loss strategies
3. Self-worth mistakenly based on weight and physical appearance

A Vicious Cycle

Dieting is the factor that kicks off bulimia’s destructive cycle of binging and purging. The stricter the diet, the more likely it is that you’ll develop an obsession with food. When you starve yourself, the body responds with powerful instinctive cravings. Your body is in a survival mode.

As hunger and feelings of deprivation increase, the compulsion to eat overrides everything else. Result, you eat a “forbidden” food. You break your diet. With your desperate all-or-nothing mindset, you feel any diet slip-up means total failure.

And the next step is, of course, “I’ve already blown It, so I might as well go all out.” And away you go, on an all-stops-pulled eating binge followed by guilt, self-loathing and purging.

Serious Health Risks

Living with bulimia puts your life at risk. The most dangerous side effect of bulimia is dehydration due to purging. Vomiting, laxatives, and diuretics can cause electrolyte imbalances in the body, typically in the form of low potassium levels.

Low potassium levels trigger a wide range of symptoms ranging from lethargy and cloudy thinking to irregular heartbeat and death. Chronically low levels of potassium can also result in kidney failure.

Bulimia Treatment and Recovery

It may seem like there’s no escape from the vicious cycle of bulimia, but recovery is within your reach. Regardless of how long you’ve had bulimia, you can learn to take charge of your behavior and experience a full and successful recovery.

The bottom line is this: you must seek professional help. With treatment, support from others, and smart self-help strategies, you can overcome bulimia and gain true self-confidence. If you or a loved one has bulimia, call the National Eating Disorders Association’s toll-free hotline at 1-800-931-2237.

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