Author: Health Freedom Idaho

  • Homemade Pesticides

    Reducing the number of #toxins our bodies have to contend with is a worthwhile goal. While today’s chemical pesticides make dealing with pests easy, the harsh toxins they contain are damaging to the environment and our family. Most of these insecticides contain chemicals that are linked to cancer cells in humans and animals. Growing vegetables gives you control over how your family’s food is grown and whether toxic chemicals are used for pest control. Listed below are the best all-natural pesticides recommended by readers and members. They offer an inexpensive, organic and safe method of combating garden pest infestations. Please share your favorite in the comments. Let’s build our library of natural toxic free solutions.

    Pest control methods: Natural vs. Chemical

    Top Homemade Pesticides *Note* Always spray plants early in the morning to avoid burning leaves.

    Neem Oil

    A favorite natural pesticide, neem oil, is one of the most powerful all-natural plant based insecticides. The yellow-brown oil from the neem tree seed is made into sprays available from reputable companies.

    Carefully follow label instructions and avoid contact with skin. If exposure occurs, follow the First Aid instruction on the label. Contact the Poison ControlCenter for more treatment instructions: 1-800-222-1222. 

    Salt Water Spray

    Spider mites and cabbage worms are a common problem and can wipe out an entire garden if not removed.

    For an easy insecticide, mix 1gallon warm water and 2 tablespoons of natural salt, such as pink Himalayan crystal salt. Place in sprayer bottle and spray plants. Repeat if necessary.

    Natural Soap Spray

    A great all-purpose spray for aphids, mites, white flies, and other small insects. Add orange or lemon essential oil for ants and to help the spray to stick to your plants.

    In spray bottle mix ingredients and shake well before using:

    1. 1½ tablespoons biodegradable liquid soap (Mrs. Myers soap, Murphy’s Oil soap, or castile soap)
    2. 1 quart water
    3. 2 drops lemon or orange essential oil

    Shake well before each use and spray plants thoroughly, covering the top and underside of leaves.

    Garlic-Chili Pepper Spray

    Garlic and chili peppers are natural insect repellants for Japanese beetles, leaf hoppers, slugs, and borers. As well as an insecticide, garlic is known for repelling larger pests such as rabbit and deer.

    In spray bottle mix:

    1. 1 recipe Natural Soap Spray
    2. 1 tablespoon ground chili or cayenne pepper
    3. 5 cloves garlic, crushed and minced

    Combine minced garlic and ground pepper and mix well. Let set overnight. Strain and pour into spray bottle with Natural Soap Spray and shake well. Spray on plants as needed. Keeps for 2 weeks. 

    *Note* To help control ants, add 10 drops of orange or lemon essential oil.

    Orange Water, and Soap

    This easy to make mixture is an effective treatment for slugs, ants, and roaches.

    Mix in large glass jar:

    1. 1 gallon water
    2. 3 tablespoons liquid organic castile soap
    3. 1 ounce orange essential oil

    Shake well and pour in spray bottle. Spray directly on bugs.

    Antifungal Plant Spray

    Use this spray on any plants with fungal disease. Treat plants with grayish-white mildew on the leaves.

    1. 2 quarts warm water
    2. 1 tablespoon baking soda
    3. 1/2 tablespoon vegetable oil

    Place 1 cup warm water in a glass bowl or large measuring cup. Add baking soda and stir until dissolved, add oil, and mix well. Add remaining warm water and mix again.  

    Before treating plants, remove severely damaged leaves. Spray plants covering all areas, even ones not showing signs of disease. Repeat every other day until signs of disease are gone.  

    *Note* Do not mix batches ahead of time. Water needs to be warm and the treatment works best when using a fresh solution for each dose.

    *Warning* Insecticides kill beneficial bugs as well. Use sparingly and only treat plants and areas showing disease or pests.

    Chrysanthemum Flower Spray

    Chrysanthemum flowers contain pyrethrum a powerful plant chemical that attacks insect nervous systems. As with other pesticides, this will affect beneficial insects, so use sparingly.

    1. 1 quart water
    2. 4 ounces dried chrysanthemum flowers
    3. 1/2 ounce neem oil

    Bring water to a hard boil. Add dried flowers and return to boil. Lower heat to medium and simmer for twenty minutes. Strain liquid, add neem oil, and let cool. Fill spray bottle and use as needed. Store solution up to two months.

    *Note* Always use a glass or stainless steel pan when making this solution.

    Diatomaceous Earth (DE)

    Uses for diatomaceous earth:

    • Flea Control
    • Aphids
    • Ants
    • Carpenter Ants
    • Sugar Ants
    • Slugs
    • Bed Bugs
    • Mites in Poultry
    • Fleas
    • Pin Worms
    • Preservation of Legumes and Corn

    Diatomaceous Earth Spray

    Mix together:

    1. 1 cup diatomaceous earth powder
    2. 2 tablespoons powdered cayenne pepper
    3. 2 quarts water

    Mix all ingredients and let set overnight. Shake well before using and apply as needed.

    *Warning* Diatomaceous earth is editable and many people swear by it for internal parasitic control. There are different types of DE and getting the right one is very important. Always use food grade diatomaceous earth. Read the label, making sure it says 100% diatomaceous earth. Some companies cut their food grade DE with other substances. Never use diatomaceous earth made for swimming pool filters. 

  • Vaccine Cancer Connection

    HFI: Today children receive as many as 69 doses of 16 different vaccines, all given by the age of eighteen. Not one of those vaccines was evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potentials or impairment of fertility.  Coinciding with the ever-increasing vaccine schedule are soaring rates of chronic illness in children, including cancer, which has skyrocketed and is now the leading cause of death by disease in children past infancy. Begs the question, WHY hasn’t there been a study/evaluation. 

    “This vaccine has not been evaluated for its carcinogenic or
    mutagenic potentials or impairment of fertility.

    This phrase or one similar can be found on just about every vaccine package insert and should be justification for any reasonable person to decline vaccination.  However, doctors are not required to give full informed consent regarding vaccines and most people blindly trust their doctors.

    Considering the recommended vaccine schedule has tripled in the United States over the last thirty years, parents have begun to question whether this is necessary or valuable to their children.

    In 1983, children received up to 23 doses of eight vaccines before the age of eighteen.  Today children receive as many as 69 doses of 16 different vaccines, all given by the age of eighteen.

    Coinciding with the ever-increasing vaccine schedule are soaring rates of chronic illness in children, including cancer, which has skyrocketed and is now the leading cause of death by disease in children past infancy.

    Government authorities refuse to acknowledge any link between cancer and vaccination, but could injecting toxic chemicals repeatedly into our children, especially at critical intervals in their development be causing cancer in so many?

    Toxic Vaccine Ingredients You Need to Know About

    Formaldehyde – There is sufficient evidence from cancer studies in humans proving the carcinogenetic effects of this ingredient.  Both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer admit formaldehyde is a known carcinogen.

    Millions of children receive injections annually containing this toxic ingredient.

    Is it a coincidence that formaldehyde has been associated with leukemia and that the number one cancer in children is leukemia?

    Mercury Is In Vaccines Too – Mercury is a known carcinogen and for many years children received up to 237 micrograms (mcg) from vaccines during the first two years of life.  This far exceeds the EPA’s recommended safe (to ingest, not inject), level of 1/10th of 1 microgram per kilogram a day.

    A rabbit will die if given 35 mcg of mercury.

    Thimerosal, which is in many vaccines, is a mercury-containing compound that is 50 times more toxic than plain mercury!  The CDC claims to have removed “most” thimerosal from common pediatric vaccines, leaving only “trace amounts.”

    There are NO safe amounts of mercury established for humans and yet, children receive combined vaccines that can build up mercury in the body and cause potential problems.

    Aluminum, Yep, It’s In There Too  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aluminum for use as an adjuvant in human vaccines to boost immune response.  Aluminum is harmful to all life forms.

    The FDA limits the dosage to 0.85 milligrams per vaccine to minimize exposure; but children receive other vaccines at the same time that also contain aluminum.

    The American Academy of Pediatrics admits that aluminum interferes with many cellular and metabolic processes in the body’s nervous system and tissues.

    Repeated exposure to aluminum can have damaging effects and yet children receive repeated injections during the recommended vaccine schedule.  Studies with mice have demonstrated a transient rise in aluminum levels in brain tissue.  Aluminum is also widely associated with breast cancer.

    What is Polysorbate 80? – Polysorbate 80 is a toxic substance that should never be ingested or placed on the skin, much less injected, and yet it is in vaccines. Studies with lab rats show Polysorbate 80 has both carcinogenic and infertility effects.

    Yet, it’s ironic that this carcinogenic ingredient is found both in Merck’s cancer vaccine, Gardasil, and is also used in chemotherapy given to cancer patients.

    Recombinant DNA – A Biohazard? – Speaking of Gardasil, genetically modified HPV DNA, which had firmly attached itself to aluminum, was found in blood samples of a 13 year old girl who became chronically ill following her third dose of the vaccine. Could Recombinant HPV DNA cause human cell mutations and cancer?

    While searching for the reason why adolescent girls were suffering such severe side effects after receiving the Gardasil vaccine, Dr. Sin Hang Lee, of Sane Vax, Inc., found that the vaccine was contaminated with rDNA of the Human Papillomavirus. This rDNA from both strains of HPV in the vaccine were firmly attached to the aluminum adjuvant. This now reaches the level of a “dangerous biohazard.” This rDNA is not natural and is genetically modified.  Now the girls who received the contaminated vaccine, have human DNA as well as genetically engineered viral DNA in their bodies. When recombinant DNA is inserted into a human cell, it could stay forever and cause mutations; the results could be catastrophic.

    SV40 (Simian Virus) Responsible for Cancer Cases – In the 1950s, Rhesus Monkey kidney cells containing SV40 were used to grow the polio virus. Dr. Maurice Hilleman, MD, a renowned scientist who developed Merck’s vaccine program and dozens of vaccines, made astounding revelations to the public that Merck had been injecting this dangerous virus into people worldwide.

    Even after the US government knew about contamination, they allegedly continued to inject children with the contaminated vaccine until the 1990s.

    SV40 is known to cause different types  of cancers in laboratory animals including mesotheliomas, lymphomas and brain cancers.

    A study in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that mothers who received the Salk polio vaccine had brain tumors at a rate “13 times greater” than mothers who received no vaccine!

    Cancer-Connection-Vaccine-Toxicity

    How You Can Build Immunity And Possibly Reverse Vaccine Damage 

    Anyone who has been injected with vaccines, (which is most people) may have vaccine damage.

    According to the vaccine package inserts, a list of side effects include seizures, asthma, diabetes, eczema, allergies, auto-immune disease, autism, and more.  There are many studies linking vaccines to arthritis, chronic cognitive dysfunction, behavioral changes, learning disabilities, motor function impairment, autism, and cancer to name a few.

    Many people claim to have reversed vaccine damage by using natural therapies like chelation, bentonite clay, homeopathy and fasting.

    It is much better to support the body through nutrition and natural supplements than to inject harmful pathogens and toxins into it.

    Eating a diet rich in organic fresh fruits and vegetables along with adequate rest, clean water, sunshine, exercise and minerals will go a long way in keeping the immune system strong and the body running well.

    At the end of the day, a strong, healthy, pure, untouched immune system will fight most illnesses, including cancer.

    Toxic chemicals have no place inside the human body and the sooner the medical establishment recognizes this, the faster we will see a health progression instead of a continual regression.  We must stop adding fuel to the fire with more and more vaccines.

    Unfortunately, allopathic medicine and many governing authorities have endorsed what seems to be an ever increasing, toxic vaccine schedule which has been a calamity to the immune system and has undermined the health of at least two generations, all for the sake of profit.

    Do you think there is a vaccine cancer connection? Please share your thoughts below.

  • #Neverknow Who You Will Meet in a #Wrongturn

    #Neverknow Who You Will Meet in a #Wrongturn 

    Today, I made a wrong turn. So I pulled into the neighborhood to check my phone. I was sitting in front of a home when the owner drove up. I thought he might be mad a stranger sitting in a vehicle in front of his home.

    He Paused his vehicle, then drove around us and parked.

    I rolled down my window, said, “I’m sorry, just a bit lost”.

    He seemed to ignore me as he pulled in in garbage cans. But then, while I was still searching for the right address, he walked up to my open vehicle window.

    I started to apologize again. He interrupted with a wave of his hand and with a slight New York accent he said. “Nah, I was actually reading your signs there

    “I…I mean”.. He started to choke up. “My son, in there (waving towards his home) he’s completely…” (his voice faded).

    <He cleared his throat and he began again>

    I was so surprised to see that because, my son, he was completely healthy and then when he was one, got his vaccines.

    Four days after his vaccines he had a seizure. They didn’t get him oxygen in time and he’s completed.. (again his voice faded)

    Its the vaccines that did this. He was perfectly healthy until then.

    See that car there, that’s the hospice nurse. He’s being fed through a tube. His body is so twisted, he can’t breathe on his own anymore.

    He’s dying. He said it so matter of fact.

    I got choked up. I said, “I’m sorry. I am so very sorry.”

    I handed him our HFI brochure. We talked about California laws that had forced me out of the state and to Idaho for refuge. I told him about Health Freedom Idaho, here to make sure that parents are never felt compelled or forced into making health choices by the government.

    We talked about the increase in vaccines to the 68 given today – he didn’t know that. We talked about vaccine injury and the lack of manufacture liability – he didn’t know that. We talked about the 3 BILLION paid to families and that there are so many more like himself, whose children suffered and they didn’t even get any help/or a “day in court”.

    I felt so bad. Teary eyed I said good-by offering to help – but not knowing what that would be.

    My daughter said, “maybe you let him tell his story was the help he needed.” There are too many of these stories. #NotOneInAMillion Even #Oneistoomany

    Vaccine injury is real.

  • Diet Soda DANGERS

    Diet Soda Destroys Your Body. Aspartame kills. Over 91 symptoms were documented by FDA before they stopped taking reports. Aspartame interacts with hormones. Dr. James Bowen has written a lot on aspartame and lupus. He says aspartame turns your immune system against your body. The formaldehyde embalms the proteins and makes them strange to the immune system. Your immune system attacks your own body because it considers your own denatured protein as an antigen. This generates the false information fed into the immune system that your own proteins are to be attacked. Then any other insults, mental, physical, immunological can stimulate the immune attack and the immune attack is lupus!

    Selena Gomez has lupus.
    She drinks Diet Coke. 1

    Michael J. Fox is said to have Parkinson’s.
    He was “Mr. Diet Pepsi” 1987. 2

    Heath Ledger drank diet soda. He’s dead.

    John Ritter drank diet soda. He’s dead.

    Annette (you old Mousketeers know of her) drank diet soda and she died of MS.

    1 Selena Gomez advertises Diet Coke and has lupus.. I wrote about it recently and added an email to the CDC which went into exactly how aspartame can precipitate lupus. http://www.mpwhi.com/selena_gomez_and_aspartame.htm 
    Michael Jackson was another advertiser of diet pop and had lupus.

    2 Michael Fox advertised Diet Pepsi and has Parkinson’s.
    Cher used it and has Epstein Barr. We did get to her before she signed a $900,000 deal to continue advertising Equal. She quit immediately. It has become so epidemic the Epstein Barr Assoc changed their name to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
    Lucky Vanous, the Diet Coke hunk who advertised Diet Coke was fortunately in Atlanta and I was able to get information to him. Fifty-eight days later Lucky was on Hardcopy and gone from Coke. Later Hardcopy was cancelled.

    RESOURCES:
    Read the last chapter in “While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills” at www.whilesciencesleeps.com free by Dr. Woodrow Monte.
    Bressler Report and see the FDA’s own reports stating that aspartame causes birth defects on www.mpwhi.com Yet the FDA continues to lie to the public.More on aspartame on www.wnho.net, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame and www.aspartamekills.com

  • March

    June 17. Julia Davis Park. IDAHO JOINS NATIONWIDE MARCH & COMMUNITY EVENT for Children’s Health.

    Join us for encouraging speakers and family activities. We will learn how toxins effect our children’s health, discover way to protect, and heal our kids from the everyday toxicity that bombards their systems. Live Music, Engaging Speakers, Family activities and a local vendor marketplace will allow us to come together as a community to invoke a change in the environment for the sake of our children’s future.

    Boise is proud to be one of 25 seperate locations building community and starting a dialogue that can be a catalyst of change across the United States.

    Help us make sure we have enough children’s arts and crafts supplies!
    REGISTER YOUR FAMILY TODAY!

    Thanks to Our Sponsors

    Main Health Solutions

    PreHab

    Boise Caring Dentistry

    Supply.Com

    Karlfeldt Center

  • #FluorideFree Idaho! Sign The Petition

    Unlike other chemicals added to water, which are intended to treat the water itself, fluoride is intended to treat the people who drink the water, whether they want the treatment or not. There is NO HEALTH BENEFIT IN INGESTING FLUORIDE, only risks.

    *Fluoride is toxic waste from aluminum and fertilizer factories and contains a high concentration of toxins and heavy metals such as arsenic, lead and chromium. All proven to be carcinogens. 

    *Fluoride is now classified as a neurotoxin as supported by more than 180 studies. 

    *Fluoride’s impact is cumulative. It is more poisonous than lead and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic. No one will die from drinking one glass of fluoridated water, but it is the long term chronic effects of drinking fluoridated water that affects health. 

    At Health Freedom Idaho, our view is that we should each have the right to determine what medicines we intake – or don’t. 

    -Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd, Past President of the American Medical Association.

    “I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable.”

    WE AGREE – IDAHO SHOULD BE FLUORIDE FREE! SIGN THE PETITION! 

    RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH: http://healthfreedomidaho.flutter.co/fluoride-just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-drink-the-water

  • Science is Settled. Really?

    In most aspects of our lives, we think it rational to make decisions based on incomplete information. Our beliefs, our reactions are based on flawed theories and manipulated facts. Science is never settled. It can’t be. So then, how do we make decisions and judgements about what is right for our families, our society and our future.
    Listen to the thoughts of Forrest Maready 

    What do you think about HIS incredible opinion? 

  • Anti Vaccine Movement is Hundreds of Years Old

    Suzanne Humphries, MD “The anti-vaccine movement is hundreds of years old. It heated up in the 1800s, when parents in the UK became fed up with watching their healthy infants and children become ill or die shortly after the smallpox vaccinations or get sick from smallpox anyway. .. it is clear that the issue is not ‘settled long ago, and laid to rest’ as most of the medical profession says it is. 

     A close look at medical text books down the decades reveals a very interesting trend.  In the 1920s and 30s, doctors were often quite relaxed over diseases which today are presented as more deadly than the plague.  Many grandparents today are completely bemused at the way the medical profession describes infections which were to most of them, straightforward holidays off school.

    This is not stating that there were never serious consequences.  There sometimes were.  However, today, most parents erroneously believe that every child will die from diseases which most grandparents found were nuisance value only.

    The medical system now considers measles more dangerous than the plague, and the most dangerous disease known to man.  Yet there is no need to be afraid of measles, because well-nourished children who get adequate vitamin A have an unremarkable course to recovery.  Boredom might be their biggest whine.

    I have discovered that whooping cough isn’t something to be scared of either.  In the days when my only tool was an antibiotic, whooping cough occasionally caused me considerable concern, but not today.  I’ve watched many parents all over the world treat whooping cough very simply by using high doses of vitamin C and occasionally homeopathy. They see rapid improvement and no serious complications.  But you will not read about these cases in “peer reviewed literature” and your doctor doesn’t know about them, because sick children are the only ones counted in the morbidity statistics.  Healthy children who uneventfully recover, are not seen by the medical system and therefore are not counted.

    The serious consequences from most childhood diseases comes from just a few things; infant formula, cow’s milk, common medical drugs especially antibioitcs, malnutrition, and vaccines, as well and a lack of knowledge about simple methods of home nursing.

    All of these barriers to recovery are completely avoidable in the USA and many other countries and that is WHY we see so many healthy children who were never vaccinated, when we take the time to look.

    See how mortality for the common illnesses had declined significantly long before the vaccines were created.

    Historically, in the case of infectious diseases, good nutrition has been and still is, a major preventive factor, that has led to enormous declines of morbidity and mortality from most infectious diseases.”

    read more from Suzanne Humphries, MD blog found at http://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-vaccines-vaccination/

  • Over 100 Seniors Die After Receiving Flu Shot During Study

    Two clinical trial studies were performed to determine the safety of flu shots on elderly people. The studies, conveniently enough, were funded by Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine maker.  The studies were to be used as evidence of safety for the flu shot when given to elderly people. But both studies proved that the flu shot is anything but “safe,” and is in fact, a health hazard for the elderly when more than 100 seniors DIED after receiving the flu shot. 

    According to AltHealthWorks.

    Two clinical trials were conducted before Fluzone received approval.

    In the first study 2,573 adults ages 65 and older received the Fluzone high-dose and 1,260 received regular Fluzone shots. Out of those a surprising number of seniors, 156 high-dose and 93 regular-dose recipients, had a severe adverse event (SAE) within 6 months post-vaccination.

    In addition, 16 high-dose and 7 regular-dose recipients died between 29 and 180 days post-vaccination. But as the package insert received by unsuspecting patients puts it, “no deaths were reported within 28 days post-vaccination.”

    In the second study 15,992 adults ages 65 and older received the Fluzone high-dose and 15,991 received the regular Fluzone. Results show that 1,323 high-dose and 1,442 regular Fluzone recipients had a SAE within 6 to 8 months post-vaccination (204 high-dose and 200 regular-dose experienced a SAE within 30 days). In addition, 83 high-dose and 84 regular-dose died within 6 to 8 months, and 6 high-dose recipients died within 30 days post-vaccination.

    According to the Fluzone vaccine information sheet none of these deaths were linked to the vaccine. They state that “these data do not provide evidence for a causal relationship between deaths and vaccination with Fluzone High-Dose.”

    So a pharmaceutical funded study finds no “causal relationship” between deaths and vaccinations? Color me surprised. Here is the consent form you must sign if you get a flu shot from Rite Aid.

    “I have read, or have had read to me the Vaccination Information Sheet (VIS) regarding the vaccine(s). I have had the opportunity to ask questions that were answered to my satisfaction and understand the benefits and risks of the vaccine(s). I consent to, or give consent for, the administration of the vaccine(s). I fully release and discharge Rite Aid Corporation, its affiliates, officers, directors, and employees from any liability for illness, injury, loss, or damage which may result there from,” states the Rite Aid consent form.

    If these vaccines are so incredibly safe and routine, why on earth must we sign away liability? The drug store is pushing the vaccine is safe, why is it so wrong that they accept responsibility for the results of those vaccines? Even pharmaceutical companies are immune from litigation over vaccines. All these entities want to push vaccines yet none of them have the guts to take any responsibility. Consent forms mean you can’t sue the pharmacy over any ill-effects you “shouldn’t” receive after taking the vaccine. You already can’t sue the pharmaceutical maker of the vaccine. Everyone wants credit for success stories, everyone wants to make the money, but no one wants to take any responsibility when it comes to side effects. If no one has any skin in the game, how can we trust the product’s safety? No one will ever care if the product is safe because no one will ever have to take any responsibility or deal with any claims when things inevitably go wrong.

    Even in studies which show vaccines causing death, there is no liability or responsibility. In fact, there isn’t even an admission of the connection between the deaths and the vaccine. Vaccines are one of the only products on earth whereas liability simply doesn’t exist. Vaccine makers and vaccine pushers can act without regard for the welfare of life.

    In the U.S. there have been numberous reports of Seniors dying from the flu shot. Here’s a story from 2014 at an assisted living facility where 5 seniors died in one week. 

    On Friday November 7, 2014, all the residents at the Hope Assisted Living & Memory Care Center in Dacula, Georgia received flu vaccinations. They ALL reportedly developed a fever immediately, and within one week, five of the residents died.

    According to its website, Hope Assisted Living & Memory Care specializes in Alzheimer’s and Dementia care. Our sources indicate that 5 fatalities in one week is extremely unusual, as the center “maybe loses a couple of people every 6 months or longer to Alzheimers.”

    Healthcare workers across the U.S. fear to speak out against injuries due to vaccines, as it usually costs them their job. If you know anyone with family members at this facility near Atlanta Georgia, please demand an investigation immediately.

    Hope Assisted Living & Memory Care

    Some facts about the flu shot:

  • Pesticide Perspective: Eating Organic. Should You Care?

    Pesticides. Should we fear them? Does  an Organic diet eliminate them? Have there been studies to prove the cumulative effect of these chemicals on our bodies and the health of our children? Is it worth the money to buy organic produce for my family.

    Opinion from: 

    Joel Kahn, MD, FACC
    Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Wayne State University School of Medicine

    If life were ideal, we would consume food contaminated with as little pesticide as possible. Pesticides have been classified as probable carcinogens for 25 years and have been associated with different kinds of cancers in certain workers, although they are exposed to much higher levels than found on our food.

    The fact that organic fruits and vegetables have lower residues of pesticides is well known. For example, researchers in Australia studied 13 volunteers who ate a conventional diet for one week and more than 80 percent organic foods for another week. Urinary levels of pesticides fell by 89 percent to 96 percent on the organic diet.

    In a different analysis of a family of five in Sweden, urine levels of pesticides fell by over 90 percent when the family’s diet shifted from conventional to organic, and the decrease was greatest in the children. 1

    Here’s a list of the pesticides (or plant protectors as they are sometimes referred to in the report) that were found in the family’s bodies:
    MPCA (herbicide)
    Ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (fungicide)
    Atrazine (herbicide)
    Chlorpyrifos (insecticide)
    Thiabendazole, iprodione, diuron, vinclozolin (fungicides)
    Boscalid (fungacide)
    2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (herbicides)
    Pyrethroids, such as cypermethrin and esfenvalerate (insecticides)
    Propamocarb (fungicide)
    Chlormequat chloride (CCC) and mepequat (growth inhibitors)
    Note: in some cases the testing was on metabolites of the original chemical compound.

    It’s clear from the experiment that eating organic significantly reduces the load of pesticides carried in your body.

    But should you care? Have you seen this resource? http://www.whatsonmyfood.org

    Organic foods do NOT eliminate chemicals but it DOES SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THEM in our bodies.

    The Conclusion of the report was: 

    Choosing organic foods not only reduces the levels of a number of pesticides that we are exposed to through what we eat, but also reduces the risk of a long-term impact and combination effects.
    IVL Report U 5080 Human exposure to pesticides from food
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     We also help to reduce the spread of chemicals in the environment, and protect those who work in the cultivation of fruit and vegetables. Considering that in our day-to-day lives we are exposed to a considerable number of other chemical substances depending on our choices of food, cleaning products, shampoo, furniture, and other items, it is difficult to make a complete assessment of how much the total chemical load decreased.

    Soon after the video detailing the findings was released the Co-op who produced the study was sued.

    Does that make their finding wrong or invalid?

    Is the law suit self serving?

    Do you believe a larger study is warranted that has better controls and a larger sampling of individuals/foods and pesticides/herbicides and insecticides reviewed?

    RESOURCES:

    Articles:
     1 https://www.verywell.com/buying-and-eating-organic-4140466 

    2 https://www.treehugger.com/family/swedes-show-how-eating-organic-nearly-eliminates-your-pesticide-load.html

    REPORT: https://www.coop.se/contentassets/dc9bd9f95773402997e4aca0c11b8274/coop-ekoeffekten_rapport_eng.pdf

    Report on Lawsuit: https://debunkingdenialism.com/2016/05/31/coop-sued-for-misleading-the-organic-effect-marketing-campaign/