Time for change..  time to grow your own food. Our great grand parents and even grand parents did it. So why don’t we? Mostly… because people are lazy in this age. They want it now. They want it done for them. This is a big issues in the world today and one that needs to be fixed or your health will suffer.

If you care about your health and your childrends future health, then starting an organic garden is a smart and easy thing to do. Kids love playing in the dirt, so getting them to get their hands dirty and help out is not a hard thing to do. The fresh air they get from being outside is a big plus and it teaches our children to be patient and reap reward from hard effort. I am not saying organic gardening is hard, because it’s not.

The best part today is that with technology that organic gardening doesn’t have to end with the summer season. There are many great ways to take your garden indoors with you over the winter months. This allows you to keep farming organic food at pennies compared to what you pay in grocery stores. The health beneifits are amazing as you well know when it’s fresh, clean, orgarnic food. I can tell you, I enjoy a meal so much more when I have grown the food and know it is clean and organic.

Where I live in Northern Ontario, there is a local store that is helping families due just that. Dutchman Hydroponics Store in Barrie, Ontario is teaching families how to grow organic food for their families indoors all year round.

Even if you don’t want to grow indoors all year to take advantage of the summer sun. It is great being able to grow fresh organic food indoors during the fall and winter months.

One thing I do want to bring up is, even through it is organic and better than non-orgarnic foods. It is still missing many important trace elements from the earth that support your health. So look into learning how to supply your gardens with the missing trace elements and live a much healthier life. Dutchman Hydroponics has a wonderufl organic section that has a variety of indoor gardening supplies including nutrients and additives that supply the missing trace elements you need for health. Be sure to check them out online at www.dutchmanhydroponics.com and if you are ever in the Barrie area, check them out.

2. Feeling tired in the afternoon, put down the caffeinated soda and pick up a cucumber. Cucumbers are a good source of B Vitamins and Carbohydrates that can provide that quick pick-me-up that can last for hours.

3. Tired of your bathroom mirror fogging up after a shower? Try rubbing a cucumber slice along the mirror, it will eliminate the fog and provide a soothing, spa-like fragrance.

4. Are grubs and slugs ruining your planting beds? Place a few slices in a small pie tin and your garden will be free of pests all season long. The chemicals in the cucumber react with the aluminum to give off a scent undetectable to humans but drive garden pests crazy and make them flee the area.

5. Looking for a fast and easy way to remove cellulite before going out or to the pool? Try rubbing a slice or two of cucumbers along your problem area for a few minutes, the phytochemicals in the cucumber cause the collagen in your skin to tighten, firming up the outer layer and reducing the visibility of cellulite. Works great on wrinkles too!!!

6. Want to avoid a hangover or terrible headache? Eat a few cucumber slices before going to bed and wake up refreshed and headache free. Cucumbers contain enough sugar, B vitamins and electrolytes to replenish essential nutrients the body lost, keeping everything in equilibrium, avoiding both a hangover and headache!!

7. Looking to fight off that afternoon or evening snacking binge? Cucumbers have been used for centuries and often used by European trappers, traders and explores for quick meals to thwart off starvation.

8. Have an important meeting or job interview and you realize that you don’t have enough time to polish your shoes? Rub a freshly cut cucumber over the shoe, its chemicals will provide a quick and durable shine that not only looks great but also repels water.

9. Out of WD 40 and need to fix a squeaky hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the problematic hinge, and voila, the squeak is gone!

10. Stressed out and don’t have time for massage, facial or visit to the spa? Cut up an entire cucumber and place it in a boiling pot of water, the chemicals and nutrients from the cucumber with react with the boiling water and be released in the steam, creating a soothing, relaxing aroma that has been shown the reduce stress in new mothers and college students during final exams.

11. Just finish a business lunch and realize you don’t have gum or mints? Take a slice of cucumber and press it to the roof of your mouth with your tongue for 30 seconds to eliminate bad breath, the phytochemcials will kill the bacteria in your mouth responsible for causing bad breath.

12. Looking for a ‘green’ way to clean your faucets, sinks or stainless steel? Take a slice of cucumber and rub it on the surface you want to clean, not only will it remove years of tarnish and bring back the shine, but is won’t leave streaks and won’t harm you fingers or fingernails while you clean.

13. Using a pen and made a mistake? Take the outside of the cucumber and slowly use it to erase the pen writing, also works great on crayons and markers that the kids have used to decorate the walls!!

FACT: In 2008, excess body weight was responsible for over 124,000 new cancer diagnoses in Europe.

Just imagine what that number was in the United States as Europe is a much healthier place when it comes to diet and lifestyle habits.

FACT: Numerous research studies have shown that cancer is much more common in populations consuming diets rich in fatty foods, particularly meat, and much less common in countries eating diets rich in grains, vegetables, and fruits.

FACT: The World Health Organization has determined that dietary factors account for at least 30 percent of all cancers in Western countries and up to 20 percent in developing countries.

FACT: Countries with a higher intake of fat, especially fat from animal products, such as meat and dairy products, have a higher incidence of breast cancer.

How much milk do you drink? No other animal drinks milk after they grow up so why do humans?

Most of us love bacon but is it msafe to eat? Why is there so much salt added to bacon (isn’t too much salt a health risk) and nitrates added to bacon?

They say nitrates are added to preserve our foods but I do not believe that after doing some tests in our kitchen.

A few weeks ago, 4 to be exact we visited the local farmers market and bought some freshly frozen, freshly cut off the pig, bacon. Nitrate free, salt free, pure pig fat bacon! Mmmmm.

That same day we bought a pack of bacon from our local grocery store, zehrs. This package of bacon has the following ingredients: sodium phosphate, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrate, smoke.

Now for the test.

We opened each package and cooked up a few pieces of each bacon. First off let me tell you there is a HUGE difference in taste. The organic free range bacon with no additives smelled amazing (who doesn’t love the smell of bacon cooking) while the store bought bacon smelt ok, but not anything like the organic free range bacon did.

Now for the taste test.
Free range all the way. Tasty, thick, greasy good bacon full of flavor and yumminess!

The store bought bacon was thin and did not taste anywhere near as good as the organic free range bacon. It did not taste real. The flavor was missing.

So the taste test goes to Organic free range bacon.

Now for part two of the test.

The freshness test.

Leaving the bacon in the fridge for days which actually turned to weeks.
Within 5 days we noticed a difference with the store bought Presidents Choice bacon we purchased at Zehrs. By day 7 the PC brand bacon had to be thrown out, while the organic free range bacon was still looking great and smelt normal.

10 days passed and we cooked up a few more pieces. 16 days passed and we had cooked a few more pieces, still half of the package left and it still tasted great!

Day 21 and the bacon still looked and smelt fresh in the original wrapping, so we closed it up and forgot about it.

We actually did forget about it till a week later.

Day 33 and it was breakfast time and guess what. We wanted eggs and bacon. Remembering about the bacon I rushed to the fridge, grabbed the bacon out of it and unwrapped it and it was still perfectly fine. No as fresh as day 1 obviously but still in very good condition and still very eatable.

So the freshness test goes to organic free range bacon.

So my question is why do they load up our meats with all these chemicals. Do they really preserve our foods? By my tests they do not. We all know that nitrates are carcinogenic. So what is the real deal??

People are consuming these products without thought like Mindless idiots. Is it there fault? Partly yes.. and partly no. I personally always read the ingredients and if I am unsure what it is, I put it back. My health and my children’s health is more important to me than a tasty treat that will kill you later.

I do not trust the FDA even though they are not our governing body in Canada. I would not trust them if I was American either. There is to much proof that the FDA is corrupt company created for the wealth of mega companies to control markets and trick people into believing things are safe and good for them.

That being said the Health Canada seems to rather stupidly accept what the FDA says as the truth. Something I hope will come to an end and that Canadians will voice their opinion on. We are not American and do not believe the influence of the FDA should cross our border.
The FDA is not a real company but a company created and paid off to do bad things so that companies like Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble and others can do what they want to people and control the markets. Another company to be careful of is Nestle. They own hundreds of other brands you may not be aware of and are eating. Dr Oetker, Michelinas are two off the top of my head.

Back to Chewing Gum though and is it safe.
The answer you will get really depends on who you ask. If you ask a rep for the company that uses these products the definitive answer will be YES! If you ask people on the health side of things or that have had their health compromised from these ingredients, the answer will be NO. Who you believe is up to you, but I tend to believe the people who are not selling me the product.

We all know that Aspartame is not safe. It is downright dangerous for us and causes many many health problems. Some you may not see for years to come. Others can appear overnight.

Sucralose the 2nd artificial sweetener is also not a healthy or smart choice. For those of you that do not know Sucralose is produced by chlorinating sugar (sucrose). This involves chemically changing the structure of the sugar molecules by substituting three chlorine atoms for three hydroxyl groups. (adding chlorine.. do you think it is safe still??)

Sucralose is not yet approved for use in most European countries, where it is still under review. This is where Health Care is the best in the world and free. They do not want the burden of health issues that come with its use and that is why it is not approved there.

Where you will find Sucralose:

• Baked goods and baking mixes
• Chewing gum
• Confections and frostings
• Fats and oils (salad dressings)
• Fruit and water ices
• Jams and jellies
• Processed fruits and fruit juices
• Sweet sauces, toppings and syrups
• Beverages and beverage bases
• Coffee and tea
• Dairy product analogs
• Frozen dairy desserts and mixes
• Gelatins, puddings and fillings
• Milk products
• Sugar substitutes

Here is a small list of side effects from using Sucralose.

• Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage)
• Enlarged liver and kidneys
• Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
• Increased cecal weight
• Reduced growth rate
• Decreased red blood cell count
• Hyperplasia of the pelvis
• Extension of the pregnancy period
• Aborted pregnancy
• Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
• Diarrhea

I personally would have read the first ingredient (sweetener) as Aspartame and put it back. I would not have had to keep reading but for those of you that do and got to Sucralose. I hope this has shed some light on what it is exactly and how it is not healthy for you and downright dangerous to your children and your health. My advice is if you want to live a long healthy life and not die before your kids or struggle with your health you do not eat these mad made sugars. Go for products with natural sugars which have been used for thousands of years! White sugar is better but not great, but still better than artificial sweeteners. I personally go for Raw sugar if possible or sugars like Fructose (fruit sugar), Dextrose or Xylital.

The 3rd man made sweetener on the list is Acesulfame-K. Another one you should avoid.
Acesulfame-K is an artificial sweetener that’s about 200 times sweeter than sugar. It’s used in baked goods, chewing gum, gelatin desserts and soft drinks. Studies have found that this substance may cause cancer, and other studies to reliably prove this additive’s safety have not been conducted. Acesulfame-K also breaks down into acetoacetamide, which has been found to affect the thyroid in rats, rabbits and dogs.

If you do some searches on Yahoo and other Search engines I am sure you can find tons more of info regarding the toxicity of artificial sweeteners and how they affect your health.

My advice is the next time you pick up a pack of gum to put it back if it reads one of those ingredients. Email or call the company and let them know you want natural sugar back.

Natural sugar is not the cause of health problems, diabetes etc. Artificial sweeteners are along with over eating bad chemical filled products.

In all my years growing up I never knew anyone with diabetes till the last 15 years. Now I can name of 10 people and these people eat artificial sweeteners, drink diet pops and do not watch what they eat.

Knowing what you eat is important. Not just what it is called or the brand name but the ingredients. Do your self and children a favour and read the ingredients on the products you by and make your opinion heard to store managers and the companies that make these products.

Over the years I have learned that just because it says Organic, does not in fact mean it is. Many companies have and still are trying to jump on the money train called Organic.

Many companies say Organic when in fact only a few ingredients are organic. This is true with many food products and beauty products such as creams and bath oils.

I have even come across products with toxic chemicals in them that are still labeled organic because they do contains few organic ingredients.

So my advice to you is to check labels and read the ingredients. If you do not know what it is, then don’t risk it, don’t buy it.

I know what I think with scientific evidence to back it. Let us know what you think. Share your opionion and evidence whether it is safe or not.

You can’t fix one broken system by replacing it with another broken system. Sure, the current health care system of “that’s a pre-existing condition” insurance companies, employer-funded health insurance and miserable Medicaid is a public health disaster, but if we’re going to fix the system, we have to come up with something that actually addresses the root cause of disease in America.

The current health care reform debate in Washington is really just a distraction — a ploy to keep everyone focused on all the wrong topics while quietly refusing to talk about the big issues that threaten the health of an entire nation.

Here are the top 10 things missing from Obama’s health care reform plan (and often absent from the debate):

#1) Ending the FDA’s suppression of natural cures and safe, effective nutritional supplements.

#2) Initiating a real investment in public education to teach people about how to prevent disease with nutrition.

#3) Ending Big Pharma’s monopoly on drug prices and drug patents (not to mention patents on human genes and animals).

#4) Restoring the ability for local doctors to practice localmedicine without being controlled from bureaucrats in Washington.

#5) Cracking down on junk food advertising, soda advertising and pharmaceutical ads that convince people to purchase products that will only harm them.

#6) Banning dangerous chemical ingredients that cause diseases in the first place (aspartame, MSG, sodium nitrite, etc.)

#7) A real effort to improve school lunches and serve foodthat’s nutritious instead of food that’s cheap and convenient.

#8) Ending bizarre food subsidies on crops like corn that end up making high-fructose corn syrup the cheapest sweetener for manufacturers to use.

#9) Affirming health freedom for parents who wish to opt out of the current system of forced vaccinations and gunpoint-enforced chemotherapy.

#10) Requiring honest food labeling where irradiated and GMO foods are clearly labeled as such.

Although I am not American. I have family in the United States and would like to see the country in a better state than it is in. America is not the land of the free or the dreamland of opportunity it once was. It is more like a concentration camp. People are afraid. Living is not free. You cannot retire for fear of getting sick and not having medical coverage. The rich are in control..  its like the 1700 and 1800′s all over… but on a larger and much worse scale.

It is time for people to stand up and say now. THE PEOPLE ARE THE COUNTRY. Not the rich!

My 2nd issue with this product is the fact they are using Sucralose in it. Sucralose also known by the brand name as Splenda is a chemical (man-made) replacement for sugar. Part of the diet fad that actually makes you retain weight and can do terrible things to your body and react with other medicines when taken together or months apart. Sucralose is a horrible thing to be given children and adults should not use it themselves.

Chemical sweeteners (like Splenda) and the sweetener blends (aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame K blended together in one product) may be causing users to show signs of weight gain, disruption of sleep patterns, sexual dysfunction, increases in cancer, MS, Lupus, diabetes, and a list of epidemic degenerative diseases. The corporations continue to stand tough in their denial of any connection to chemical sweetener additives.

My suggestion to you is to not use any product with these chemicals in them. The best way is the natural way. Take a minute to monitor your childs dental hygeine in the bathroom, save a few dollars at the store and watch your child have a healthier more hygenic life from what you taught them. Using all these tools are teaching children to rely on things to know how to do things. What happens if they do not exist anymore. People will be stupid.

I raise my kids as my great grandparents were raised in a sense. If its not natural we do not eat it. If its a man made chemical, we do not consume it or put it on our skin. Everything we need is made in nature, and our bodies cannot process these man made chemicals. Cancer is on the rise because of man. Cancer is mans disease. It can be stopped, it can be cured.. but that is another topic.

Do not give your children products with Asparatame, Sucralose or other chemical sweeteners. Give your child the gift of health instead and teach him to brush through example.

So as I do not have the answer… I would rather pass the info around so we can all be aware atleast of the possibility of things and watch our cities and take notice of any wide spread illness happening, sun being blocked out, droughts and more after these con trails appear in our area.

If the government and military are spraying only 30 kilometres away from me for so called Mosquitos… what makes you think they are not doing much more than that?

The Government is a business…  the Military is a business run by the Government and their investors.

Take notice… be aware and spread the info around. If things start to happen, then together as a country and its people we can stand up together and say ENOUGH!  It’s time we the people control our countries.. not business men with interests of their own.

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This article was taken from another website, but is an interesting read. Take a few mins to read it through for more info on con trails/chem trails.

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Lot’s of Chemtrails over Vancouver B.C. today. Why is no one in the mainstream media reporting on this.?

Why is it that the US Military is involved in these operations.

Part of the grand plan for population reduction???? read on and please get the word out to the public.

Knowledge is power only if we act on the knowing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a resurgence of unusual aerial trails crisscross Canadian skies, official confirmation of chemtrails has come from the U.S. Congress.

‘Chemtrails’ is the term widely used to describe the brilliant white plumes laid down by U.S. Air Force tanker planes photo-identified over North America and a dozen other allied nations. Unlike normal condensation trails – which form when hot engine exhaust momentarily condenses in the frigid stratosphere like exhaled breath on a cold day – chemical trails linger for hours, turning clear skies into milky haze in a process the U.S. Air Force calls ‘aerial obscuration’

Chemtrail Ban Sought In Congress

‘Chemtrails’ also appear in House Resolution 2977. Introduced last October by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, this bill called for the peaceful uses of space, and a ban on ‘exotic weapons’. Section 7 of the ‘Space Preservation Act of 2001′ sought specifically to prohibit ‘chemtrails’.

Kucinich recently told the Columbus Alive newspaper (Jan. 24, 2002) that despite official denials, as head of the Armed Services oversight committee he is well acquainted with chemtrail projects. ‘The truth is there’s an entire program in the Department of Defense, ‘Vision for 2020,’ that’s developing these weapons,’ Kucinich told reporter Bob Fitrakis. The U.S. Space Command’s 2020 vision calls for ‘dominance’ of space, land, sea and air.

The unusual white plumes reported by Air Canada pilots, police officers and former military personnel over Canada and the U.S. during the past three years are often contrasted by brief, pencil-thin contrails left by commercial jets flying above them.

Contrails form when water vapor clumps around dirt particles acting as nuclei. According to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, contrails can only form at temperatures below minus 76 degrees, and humidity levels of 70 percent or more. Even in ideal conditions, contrails rarely last more than 20 minutes.

But atmospheric studies by NASA and NOAA – including TARFOX, ACE-Asia, ACE-I and II, INDOEX and Project SUCCESS – confirm that artificial clouds and contrails can be manufactured under conditions of low humidity by dispensing particles from aircraft. The smaller the size of the nuclei introduced into the atmosphere, the greater the rate of artificial cloud formation.

Canadians Petition Parliament
Canadians were the first to complain about chemtrails to their federal government. On Nov. 18, 1999, NDP Defense critic Gordon Earl petitioned Parliament on behalf of 550 residents of Espanola, Ontario to ‘repeal any law that would permit the dispersal of military chaff or of any cloud-seeding substance whatsoever by domestic or foreign military aircraft without the informed consent of the citizens of Canada thus affected.’

According to CBC Newsworld (Aug 29, 1999), ‘Many in the community have reported respiratory problems and strange aches and pains. Town council heard that some believe military jets are dropping material over the town as part of a weather experiment’ – after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of aluminum in rainwater falling through chemtrails over Espanola five-times higher than provincial health safety limits.

The Ministry of Defense eventually replied, ‘It’s not us.’

Studies Prove Chemtrails Cannot Be Contrails

The ‘airliner’ argument collapsed along with the Twin Towers, when heavy chemtrails were reported over Vancouver Island and widely separated U.S. cities despite the grounding of all commercial flights last Sept. 11, 12 and 13.

Photographs of heavy aerial gridding over Santa Fe, New Mexico and B.C.’s Sunshine Coast also contradict official weather data showing high altitude humidity at the same times and locations to be less than one third the moisture needed for contrails to form.

In Houston, Texas, Mark Steadham conducted a 62 day survey of jet traffic over that busy hub. Using a computer program called Flight Explorer, Steadham identified commercial and military aircraft sharing the same sky. The contrails from commercial jets dissipated within 22 seconds. The plumes left behind at the same time by big military jets persisted for four to eight hours.

Canadian and U.S. Aviation Officials Confirm Chemtrails
The first break in an investigation begun by the Environment News Service in Jan. 1999, came 11 months later when Victoria airport authority Terry Stewart returned a call to a Victoria resident concerned about the X’s and grid patterns being laid over the B.C. capitol. ‘It’s a military exercise, a U.S. and Canada air force exercise that’s going on,’ Stewart reported on Dec. 8, 2000. ‘They wouldn’t give me any specifics on it.’

The ‘specifics’ came in March the following year, when Maine radio reporter S. T. Brendt called a senior Air Traffic Control manager after she, her news director and staff counted 370 plumes filling skies normally devoid of commercial aircraft. During his hitch in U.S. Navy Intelligence, Brendt’s husband had never seen an aerial armada this big. ‘It looked like an invasion,’ Lou Aubuchont said.

The FAA manager told Brendt he had been ordered to redirect incoming commercial flights around ‘military exercises’ on several occasions that month. In follow-up interviews at the WMWV studios, the government official confirmed widespread chemtrail activity. As they flew north into Canada, he said, the planes were spraying a substance that showed up as a ‘haze’ on Air Traffic Control radar screens.

This characteristic signature of radar beams reflecting off fine aluminum particles confirmed the Espanola lab tests. It also matched a patent issued to Hughes Aircraft Corp. in 1994. This practical blueprint described spraying reflective aluminum particles into Earth’s greenhouse atmosphere, ‘For the Reduction of Global Warming’.

Computer simulations at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed that spraying 10 million tons of aluminum oxide into the upper atmosphere would reflect between one and two percent of incoming sunlight. The predictions promised no net warming over 85 percent of the earth surface, despite a predicted doubling of CO2 within the next 50 years.

The biggest lobby pushing for a reduction in global warming are insurance companies bigger than Big Oil and the international trade in arms. Multinationals such as the Swiss Reinsurance Company and Lloyd’s of London report unsustainable losses incurred by Extreme Weather Events caused by a rapidly warming planet. It is feared that if they go bankrupt, so will the money markets and banks that back them.

Andrew Dlugolecki – director of one of the world’s six biggest insurance groups, CGNU – warned the Hague two years ago that unless action is taken to curb global warming, the resulting damage will exceed the dollar value of all the world’s resources by 2065. ‘Already we’re beginning to run out of money in the insurance industry,’ Dlugolecki declared.

It was Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, who called for spraying a chemical ‘sunscreen’ at a 1998 International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies. Besides disturbing regional weather patterns, Teller’s chief climate modeler, Ken Caldeira worries about negative health effects. The atmospheric scientist who crunched the numbers on Teller’s ‘sky shield’ further warns such a project could, ‘destroy the ozone layer’. Caldeira believes the U.S. government will publicly admit to chemtrails this spring.

Health Hazard
Scientists say aluminum oxide as inert as sand poses no toxic threat. But after examining more than 3,000 health studies published since 1997, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed a strong link between tiny particulates and thousands of premature deaths each year.

According to a New York Times feature, ‘Tiny Bits of Soot Tied to Illnesses’ (April 21, 2001), numerous health studies show that ‘microscopic motes – composed of metals, carbon and other ingredients – are able to infiltrate the tiniest compartments in the lungs and pass readily into the bloodstream and have been most strongly tied to illness and early death, particularly in people who are already susceptible to respiratory problems.’

In a report headlined, ‘Tiny particles can kill’ New Scientist (Aug. 5, 2000) reported a Harvard ‘Six Cities’ study, which ‘identified particles with a diameter of less than 10 microns as threat to public health.’