Vaccines are Safe and Effective and Prevent Disease

One of the primary problems with vaccines in general is their detrimental impact on your body’s primary, natural defense against ALL disease. Vaccines can over-stimulate your child’s immune system, sometimes causing the very disease it’s designed to protect against, or worse. And, when several vaccines are administered together, or in close succession, their interaction may completely overwhelm your child’s developing immune system.

Fluoride in Your Water Lowers Your Risk of Cavities

There is practically no difference in tooth decay between fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries, and no difference between states that have a high- or low percentage of their water fluoridated. Meanwhile, fluoride can cause significant harm, from dental fluorosis to thyroid damage to reduced IQ… and much more.

GMOs Crops are Safe, Well Tested and Economically Beneficial

GMOs may be the greatest health disaster in the American diet. Millions may already be suffering health problems caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their diet. Many studies that show GMOs cause disorders such as vital organ damage, gastrointestinal and immune system problems, accelerated aging, infertility, and dysfunctional regulation of insulin and cholesterol.

Sun Causes Skin Cancer

Appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer. Melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens. Vitamin D formed in your skin from exposure to sunlight provides built in cancer protection. Instead, sun avoidance and the excessive use of sun screen are actually the two primary reasons for the rise in melanoma.

Artificial Sweeteners are Safe, Well Tested and Help Promote Weight Loss

Studies that have carefully analyzed their effectiveness show that those who use artificial sweeteners actually gain more weight than those who consume caloric sweeteners. There are also a large number of health dangers associated with artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, saccharin, and aspartame, known as Splenda, Sweet & Low and Equal, served on the tables of almost every restaurant in the country.

Soy is a Health Food

Unfermented soy products are NOT healthful additions to your diet. On the contrary, thousands of studies have linked unfermented soy to malnutrition, digestive distress, immune-system breakdown, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders and infertility—even cancer and heart disease. Not only that, but more than 90 percent of American soy crops are genetically modified, which carries its own set of health risks.

Whole Grains are Good for Everyone

ALL grains, including whole-grain and organic varieties, can elevate your insulin levels, which can increase your risk of disease, such as Obesity, Diabetes, High blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Many people face gluten intolerance also. You should eliminate grains and sugars from your diet, especially if you have any of the above conditions. Eat as your ancestors ate: toxin free meat, poultry, fish, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables.

Milk Does Your Body Good.

Don’t drink pasteurized milk of any kind, including organic, because once milk has been pasteurized its physical structure is changed in a way that can actually cause allergies and immune problems. Milk contains pituitary hormones, steroid hormones, thyroid and parathyroid hormones, gastrointestinal peptides, growth factors, growth inhibitors, fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria and viruses. It doesn’t even build strong bones!

From www.mercola.com

RICO’S COMMENTS: Everyone of these myths are spread by propaganda from agencies, corporations and medical associations to do two things…….. make money on the misinformation they are spreading around the country, and to make us sicker so they can make money off of us.  Most people I talk to are ignorant of many of the above myths and think they are being healthy by following this false information. You always have to get your information from unbiased sources that will not make any money from what they tell you. Do your homework. If you correct all of the above myths you will be well on your way to optimal health.

Decades of over-farming has left the world’s top soils severely depleted of essential minerals. For the most part, the only minerals replaced have been those needed for optimal growth and not vital minerals such as magnesium, which are needed for optimal health.

Foods on our grocers’ shelves frequently have had true nutrition processed out (and often harmful additives processed in to enhance shelf life, taste, color and texture). In many instances most of the claimed nutrition comes from added synthetic petrochemical vitamins and crushed rock minerals – which are vastly inferior to natural vitamins and minerals found in food.

This author has repeatedly challenged balanced-diet proponents to devise a weekly 2000 to 2500 calorie a day diet plan which provides all of just the measly nutrient amounts on the limited RDA chart. Thus far no one has come close. Keep in mind that in many instances RDA amounts of vitamins and minerals are merely the theoretical amounts needed to prevent deficiency-related illness. Besides the fact that RDA amounts are often far below the optimal amounts, the RDA list does not include literally hundreds of other valuable nutrients which we have evolved and adapted to utilize.

If it is so easy to get all the nutrition needed from diet alone, why is it that up to 95% of us are deficient in magnesium? For that matter, why is it that most of us are deficient in other vital nutrients as well – even those of us who regularly eat a so-called balanced diet?

Another related myth is the idea that doctors are good sources of information and advice about diet and nutrition. In most instances, mainstream doctors are woefully deficient in information about diet and nutrition. Doctors are taught in medical schools whose primary funding source is the pharmaceutical industry and whose curriculum is controlled by the AMA. Not surprisingly, doctors are taught that the way to treat illness is to prescribe drug company medications and to perform mainstream medical treatments. What they are not taught is the vital role that diet and proper nutrition play in our health.

One longtime doctor turned naturopath told this author that in his entire mainstream medical education he had but one single lecture on diet and nutrition. Other doctors, including more recent graduates, confirmed that their educational experience was much the same when it came to diet and nutrition.

from www.healthiertalk.com

RICO’S COMMENTS: Stress, pollution, toxins in our everyday food, air and products, lack of sleep and sunshine, greedy corporations tainting our food supplies for profit, and the ill effects of technological advances endanger our health at every turn. This is why I get a TMA (tissue mineral analysis) every 6 months. It measures the levels of  8 TOXIC HEAVY METALS and 29 ESSENTIAL MINERALS in your body. It’s the only way to REALLY KNOW the health of your body. It will tell you what you have too much of and what you have too little of, so that you can supplement to get to optimal levels. Our food supply is so tainted with toxins, chemicals, preservatives, food dyes, that it is essential to supplement with detoxifying products.  The soil is so depleted of minerals that the foods it produces are far less nutritious than they used to be even 50 years ago. Even when you eat organic you still need to supplement to counteract the effects of today’s food chain. Most would be horrified if they actually knew what was in the everyday food they eat. Supplementation is an absolute necessity!

RICO’S COMMENTS:

All soy has “estrogen mimickers” which act like the female hormone estrogen. Also remember thata almost 95% of soy in your grocery store is GMO! The illusion that soy is a health food was created by the soy industry when they realized they had tons of soy decades ago that no one wanted to consume.

• Limit fructose to less than 25 grams per day. Ideally, you’ll also want to limit the amount of fructose from fruit to 15 grams per day, as you’re likely consuming ‘hidden’ fructose if you eat even small amounts of processed foods or sweetened beverages
• Limit or eliminate all processed foods
• Eliminate all gluten, and highly allergenic foods from your diet
• Eat organic foods whenever possible, preferably locally-grown
• Eat at least one-third of your food uncooked (raw), or as much as you can manage
• Increase the amount of fresh vegetables in your diet
• Avoid artificial sweeteners of all kinds
• Swap all trans fats (vegetable oils, margarine etc) for healthful fats like raw butter or coconut oil
• To re-balance your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, take a high-quality omega-3 supplement, such as krill oil, and reduce your consumption of processed omega-6 fats from vegetable oils (trans fats)
• Drink plenty of pure water
• Optimize your vitamin D levels, either through appropriate sun exposure, a safe tanning bed, or as last resort an oral vitamin D3 supplement

RICO’S COMMENTS: Everything he says is very sound advice and I follow every one of these. I don’t eat much fruit because even too much of the fruit’s natural sugar is bad for you.I eat all of my organic vegetables raw as they lose most of their phytonutrients when cooked. I make super organic veggie/fruit smoothies in my VITAMIX. I only eat grass fed beef and organioc chicken and Alaskan Wild Salmon. I use Xylitol for a non toxic sweetener as opposed to SUCRALOSE, which is found as a sweetener in about 90% of most sugar free products, which kills most of the good gut bacteria in your stomach, resulting in many health problems. I use virgin organic coconut oil for cooking, skin moisturizer and take 3 tbsp a day for healthy fat and MCT (energy). I take krill oil and flaxseed oil also. I drink ionized alkaline water from the machine in my home, fresh every day. (Don’t get me going on bottled water!) I take 10,000 IUs of vitamin D3 every day as well as tan for 10 minutes a day ( the greatest producer of Vitamin D) in my safe tanning bed.

Many of the things Dr. Mercola lists are the same concepts in the Paleoithic Diet, which I follow. I take a strong Digestive Enzyme with every meal, Probiotics every day and a super Green Food

The last part even though it is not Diet related to both of our regimens is EXERCISE! THE MANY BENEFITS OF HAVING A FIT, LEAN, MUSCULAR BODY ARE WELL PUBLISHED.

RICO CONNOR

TOTAL HEALTH FOR LIFE, LLC

• Genetic “selection,” in contrast, is a natural process whereby people plant seeds, generation after generation, from their crops that demonstrate desirable characteristics. This is how wheat, corn and other crops were developed over centuries of seed selection.

• The GMO industry uses seed terminator technology to forbid seed saving and planting, thereby forcing farmers to buy seeds year after year (creating a seed monopoly and a single point of control for food).

• People who promote GMOs are engaged in crimes against humanity and crimes against nature. They promote dangerous technologies that threaten the future of life on earth by causing genetic pollution and a sharp loss of seed diversity.

• GMOs have been linked to at least 200,000 suicides in India over the past decade due to failed crops

• The GMO industry has financially taken over much of the mainstream media, politicians and science journals. They will not stop until they achieve complete control over the world food supply, enslaving humanity in a food monopoly.

• GMOs cause “genetic pollution” that damage other crops and ultimately threaten the reproductive viability of crops in the long term. The future of food is jeopardized by GMOs.

• The GMO industry is now attempting to brand all opponents of GMOs as “unscientific” by claiming that GMO = science, and therefore anyone who opposes GMOs is automatically an opponent of science

• The GMO push into Europe is a confirmed conspiracy involving U.S. officials and GMO corporations, as revealed in a Wikileaks cable that the mainstream media has still refused to report

• The next great food famine (and mass starvation) will undoubtedly be caused by GMOs. And yet the industry claims that GMOs will save the planet from starvation! Only in a crooked, corrupt world could an industry claim to be saving the world while actually enslaving the world.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031105_genetically_modified_GMO.html#ixzz1C4u0G7fQ

Vaccines are Safe and Effective and Prevent Disease

One of the primary problems with vaccines in general is their detrimental impact on your body’s primary, natural defense against ALL disease. Vaccines can over-stimulate your child’s immune system, sometimes causing the very disease it’s designed to protect against, or worse. And, when several vaccines are administered together, or in close succession, their interaction may completely overwhelm your child’s developing immune system.

Fluoride in Your Water Lowers Your Risk of Cavities

There is practically no difference in tooth decay between fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries, and no difference between states that have a high- or low percentage of their water fluoridated. Meanwhile, fluoride can cause significant harm, from dental fluorosis to thyroid damage to reduced IQ… and much more.

GMOs Crops are Safe, Well Tested and Economically Beneficial

GMOs may be the greatest health disaster in the American diet. Millions may already be suffering health problems caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their diet. Many studies that show GMOs cause disorders such as vital organ damage, gastrointestinal and immune system problems, accelerated aging, infertility, and dysfunctional regulation of insulin and cholesterol.

Sun Causes Skin Cancer

Appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer. Melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens. Vitamin D formed in your skin from exposure to sunlight provides built in cancer protection. Instead, sun avoidance and the excessive use of sun screen are actually the two primary reasons for the rise in melanoma.

Artificial Sweeteners are Safe, Well Tested and Help Promote Weight Loss

Studies that have carefully analyzed their effectiveness show that those who use artificial sweeteners actually gain more weight than those who consume caloric sweeteners. There are also a large number of health dangers associated with artificial sweeteners such as sucralose, saccharin, and aspartame, known as Splenda, Sweet & Low and Equal, served on the tables of almost every restaurant in the country.

Soy is a Health Food

Unfermented soy products are NOT healthful additions to your diet. On the contrary, thousands of studies have linked unfermented soy to malnutrition, digestive distress, immune-system breakdown, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders and infertility—even cancer and heart disease. Not only that, but more than 90 percent of American soy crops are genetically modified, which carries its own set of health risks.

Whole Grains are Good for Everyone

ALL grains, including whole-grain and organic varieties, can elevate your insulin levels, which can increase your risk of disease, such as Obesity, Diabetes, High blood pressure,  and High cholesterol. Many people face gluten intolerance also. You should eliminate grains and sugars from your diet, especially if you have any of the above conditions. If you are healthy and of normal body weight, then whole grains are fine.

Milk Does Your Body Good.

Don’t drink pasteurized milk of any kind, including organic, because once milk has been pasteurized its physical structure is changed in a way that can actually cause allergies and immune problems. Milk contains pituitary hormones, steroid hormones, thyroid and parathyroid hormones, gastrointestinal peptides, growth factors, growth inhibitors, fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria and viruses. It doesn’t even build strong bones!

From www.mercola.com

If Your Sunscreen Contains Any of These Chemicals That I Consider Dangerous and Potentially Life Threatening, Do Yourself a BIG Favor…

Dump it in the trash now .

Yes, that’s right. Toss your sunscreen in the trash if it contains any of these questionable chemicals:

• Para amino benzoic acid…
• Octyl salicyclate…
• Avobenzone…
• Oxybenzone…
• Cinoxate…
• Padimate O…
• Dioxybenzone…
• Phenylbenzimidazole…
• Homosalate…
• Sulisobenzone…
• Menthyl anthranilate…
• Trolamine salicyclate…
• Octocrylene…

And, oh yes, let me not forget…

Potentially harmful chemicals such as dioxybenzone and oxybenzone (two chemicals I just mentioned) are some of the most powerful free radical generators known to man!

To read the whole article click on the link below:

http://products.mercola.com/summer-survival-kit/?source=nl

RICO’S COMMENTS:

Not only is sunscreen have tons of chemicals and toxins that are absorbed into your body through your skin, but it doesn’t even block the UVA rays that are dangerous to you! Remember your skin is the biggest absorber of toxins. It is very thin and whatever you put on it goes directly into your bloodstream. Look at your everyday products that you put on your skin: lotion, cosmetics, shampoo, deoderant, perfume, etc and try and read all of the chemicals that are in them! They are ALL GOING INTO YOUR BODY. The average woman puts 515 chemicals in her body every day.

Remember you NEED sunlight to create Vitamin D, one of the most health beneficial vitamins in the body.

The Paleolithic diet also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a nutritional plan based on the ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various human species habitually consumed during the Paleoithic era—a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. Grains are an invention. The “contemporary” Paleolithic diet centered on commonly available modern foods, consists mainly of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, seeds, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils. Funny, as most of what it EXCLUDES is part of most American’s diet! No wonder we are the most obese country in the world and 1 out of every 3 women and 1 out of every 2 men will get some form of cancer in their lifetime. The USDA food pyramid is worthless. Its focus on grains, carbs, and starchy foods! It’s not what we were born to eat.

Why should you refrain from grains? *Because they turn into glucose in your body, spike your blood sugar level and often lead to insulin resistance. That, in turn, leads to diabetes. Refined grains, especially baked goods, are particularly harmful. They’re low in fiber and high in sugar or fat. Even whole grains have a rating on the glycemic index as high as some common junk foods.

* www.alsearsmd.com

Why should you refrain from dairy?  *If I were to offer you a cocktail drink of pituitary hormones, steroid hormones, thyroid and parathyroid hormones, gastrointestinal peptides, growth factors, growth inhibitors, fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria and viruses, would you drink this? Well, believe it or not, this is what you get every time you drink cow’s milk from the supermarket, but people still drink milk due to ignorance.

* Dr. George J. Georgiou, Ph.D.

Pasteurizing and homogenizing dissolve healthy enzymes, eliminate a lot of the vitamin content, denature fragile milk proteins, destroy vitamin B12 and vitamin B6, kill beneficial bacteria, and make it easier for bad kinds of bacteria to flourish.

Don’t eat conventional meats, poultry and pork. They are full of antibiotics, arsenic, hormones, and disease.  Eat grass-fed meat, wild fish, and cage-free eggs to avoid the dangers of factory farms, which produce most of the meats you buy in grocery stores and even health food stores. Buy organic vegetables and fruits that aren’t full of 40 plus kinds of pesticides as their conventionally grown counterparts!

The benefits of the Paleoithic diet: building lean muscle, burning fat, and reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes. The body heals itself when nourished properly. Change your health today. Life a long, happy, disease-free life! Go Paleoithic!

Rico Connor

www.totalhealth4life.net

The synthetic chemicals often used in sunscreen preparations can get into your bloodstream and can cause all sorts of unwanted toxic side effects, including hormone disruption.

Some of these chemicals include:

Sunscreens containing these hormone-disrupting synthetic chemicals do not even protect against UVA rays, which are the rays that burn you!

To read the whole article click here: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/22/new-study-shows-many-sunscreens-are-accelerating-not-preventing-cancer.aspx

RICO’S COMMENTS:

Vitamin D is one of the most important vitamins to have in your body. Guess what? Sunshine is the best way to get it! Not only is sunscreen have tons of chemicals and toxins that are absorbed into your body through your skin, but it doesn’t even block the UVA rays that are dangerous to you! Get 30 minutes to an hour of sun daily or use a good tanning bed with appropriate bulbs during winter when you can’t be out in the sun.  STOP PUTTING CHEMICALS IN YOUR BODY!

There were once doubts that strength training held any benefits for children.  But a new research review confirms that children and teenagers can increase their muscle strength with regular workouts.

The findings support recent recommendations from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) that kids strength-train two to three times a week under professional supervision.

Studies have shown that children’s risk of injury from strength training is no greater than that from other types of exercise or sports, and the potential benefits of such training, such as increased bone density and decreased body fat, generally outweigh any risks.

These findings line up with the most recent, updated exercise recommendations from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), which now recommends children, aged 6 and older, to incorporate strength training two to three times a week.

As of last year, the position of the NSCA is that a properly designed, supervised and age appropriate resistance training program for youths can:

• enhance muscular strength and power
• improve cardiovascular risk profile
• improve motor skill performance and may contribute to enhanced sports performance
• increase a young athlete’s resistance to sports-related injuries
• help improve the psychosocial well-being
• help promote and develop exercise habits during childhood and adolescence

Please note that it’s ESSENTIAL to make sure your child is under professional supervision when using free weights or resistance-training machines, to make sure each exercise is performed safely.

RICO’S COMMENTS:

Science and new discoveries change the way we view and do things every day. It stands to reason that exercise is not a bad thing for our youth. This is another old wive’s tale put to rest. Make sure your child is supervised by someone who knows what they are doing!