I have described myself in countless (probably about a hundred or so, but I really didn’t count) cover letters as “an experienced administrative professional”.  I go on to provide some detail as to why I would make such a claim, along with an invitation for the reader to peruse my resume for even more detail and references.  I have had over 20 years of experience as an administrative professional, from secretarial jobs to operations administrator positions, all of which require a person to know how to type and use the common software platforms for performing these jobs, such as Microsoft Office.  I’m not making any claims of wondrous talents that you would have to see to believe.  I don’t say I can do anything that can’t be verified in two minutes by one of the many references I provide. (Handy phone number and email contact info provided as well.)

So why, after seeing that I have held say an operations administrator job for five years, would a prospective employer think it was necessary to test me to see if I knew how to use a computer, create a Word document or send an email in Outlook?

I’ll tell you why.  First, because there are a bijillion people out there lying about their experience and capabilities. (The reasons for that are for another blog.)  Second the prospective employers have no common sense.  If they took the time to use the references they have asked for and verify any of the information I have so laboriously provided to them with a simple phone call or email, they would be reassured that yes indeed I can type, and do all of that other stuff they’re so dang worried about.  But no, they want you to fill out an application online, then they want you to attach a resume and then if all of the information you have provided looks okay they want you to take a test online to see if you really know what you say you know.  Then perhaps they may want to talk with you by phone and then possibly set up a face to face interview.

For crying out loud I don’t want to run the damn place just do the job advertised for and that we both can see from my resume I am more than qualified to do.  You can verify my experience and skills through my previous employers, let’s talk face to face and we’re good to go.

Jeez Louise!  No wonder so many people are out of work.  It takes two months to get an interview and another month for a decision to be made.  By then the person has had to move out of their home or apartment and into a freaking homeless shelter or back with their parents!  Then they have to try to find work close to their new “home”.  Or they’ve lost their car because they can’t make the payments so now they don’t have reliable transportation and need something they can get to by bus.  Good luck with finding a job now right! 

Ridiculous.

545 vs. 300,000,000

Think about these facts for a minute.  Politicians are the only people that seem to believe they are paid to create problems and then run their campaigns on fixing them.  Spending millions of our dollars making empty promises they have no idea how to keep or have no intention of keeping regardless.

Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, why do we have deficits?  If all the politicians are against taxing the hell out of the middle class, why do we have such high taxes?

Doesn’t make any sense does it?  If politicians all say they want balanced state and federal budgets, why don’t they exist?  These people have had the control to make the changes necessary to get the job done, but they just don’t.

The American people don’t propose the federal budget.  The President does.  You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.  The House of Representatives does.  You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.  You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.  You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices to 545 human beings out of the 300 million.   Who are directly, legally, and morally responsible for the domestic policy that has created the current problems we are all struggling through every day.



It’s not the special interests and lobbyists.  The special interests and lobbyists have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do a single thing.  It doesn’t matter if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash, the politician has the power to accept or reject it.  No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to  determine how he or she votes, and it should be how the majority of their constituents want them to vote.



Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that  what they do is not their fault.  They all participate in this shameless shirking of responsibility regardless of party.  What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive a amount of gall.  No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, to stand up and criticize the President for creating deficits.  The President can only propose a budget.  He can’t force Congress to accept it.  The reason we have a Congress is to safe guard the American people against a power hungry President.


The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.  House members, not the President, approve any budget they want.  If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto, if they agree to.  So who’s responsible for the huge federal deficit?

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can’t replace 545 people, who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility, at the least.  I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.  When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ.

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.  Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.  Those 545 people and they alone, are responsible.

They and they alone, have the power.

They and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

It’s well past time that the voters get the gumption to manage their own employees.  Vote all fiscally irresponsible politicians out of office and clean up their mess!  Remember Bell, California?  Nobody was paying attention and it cost that city dearly.

REMEMBER WHAT MARK TWAIN SAID,” Politicians are like baby diapers. They should be changed often, and for the same reason.”

Based on the article by Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the  Orlando Sentinel.

What the hell is up with all of these piece of sh*t scammers posting bogus job openings on craigslist and other websites?  Have there always been this many of these nasty, scum sucking dirt bags out there?  I don’t think so.  And do not blame the bad economy for their proliferation.  You’re either the type of person that can do this kind of crap or you’re not, there’s no gray area.

What kind of person takes advantage of someone who is obviously out of work and is taking the time to find and then reply to what they believe are legitimate job openings and then tries to get their personal information so they can screw them over even more than life has up to that point?

What do these c*&k suckers tell people they do?  You know they don’t say “oh I send people emails that respond to bogus job postings and ask the “applicant” to go to a website and request their credit report so we can get their personal info and really f&%k up their lives”.  Nope, betcha they do not say what they really do.

Nice world we live in these days.  Real nice.  What’s wrong with people?

Is it just me or are there all of the sudden a crap load of those ticket fixing companies?  You know the ones that’ll charge you $49.99 and “fix” your traffic ticket for you?  I could swear a year ago they were pretty much unheard of.  What’s up?  Since when has getting speeders and people who drink and drive out of paying the price for breaking the law a business?  Okay yeah except for sleazy lawyers.

How long before there are a bunch of businesses out there that will go to court for your on your shoplifting bust?  Or who knows maybe your misdemeanor possesion charge?  WTF is wrong with people?

If you drink and drive and get busted then go to court yourself and pay whatever you have to pay and be a big boy about it.  You knew it was wrong before you did it right?  EVERYONE KNOWS YOU SHOULD NOT DRINK AND DRIVE OR EXCEED THE SPEED LIMIT!  Just because everyone does it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay the price when you happen to be the one who gets caught.

Jeez Louise!  What is wrong with people today?!

Losing weight is an admirable goal, but not if proper nutrition is lost in the process. A new study reports, most popular “diets” do not provide an adequate intake of vitamins and minerals and this puts dieters at higher risk of nutrient deficiencies.  Christopher Gardner and his colleagues from Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Schoolevaluated micronutrient quality of four diets—Atkins, Zone, LEARN (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships), and Ornish—and found each failed to provide adequate amounts of certain vitamins and minerals.

The researchers, who published their findings June 23 in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, wrote, “We found that among a free-living population trying to follow alternative weight-loss diets, the intakes of several micronutrients were potentially inadequate, which differed by diet group. Given that successful weight loss and its maintenance require adopting new dietary habits and sustaining them on an ongoing basis, the long-term implications of these potentially inadequate intakes could result in clinically relevant nutritional deficiencies.”

Study Details

In the study, participants included 311 premenopausal overweight or obese women ages 25 to 50 who were recruited from Stanford’s A TO Z trial (a large randomized trial comparing weight-loss diets).  They were randomly assigned to read one of four diet books: Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution (2002) (5); Enter the Zone, A Dietary Roadmap (1995) (6); The LEARN Program for Weight Management 2000 (9th edition, 2000) (20); or Eat More Weigh Less (2001) by Dean Ornish.

Each of the diet groups also attended one-hour evening classes each week for eight weeks. The participants were told to master their assigned diet during the eight weeks, and then follow it for the next 10 months.  The researchers collected data on dietary intake from the participants by making unannounced 24-hour dietary recall assessments by telephone.

Of the four different diets, the Zone fared best for micronutrient adequacy, which the authors attribute to its balanced 40:30:30 distribution of calories from carbohydrate, fat and protein. The nutrients lackingin those following the Ornish diet were vitamin E, B12 and zinc; for Atkins: thiamin, folic acid, vitamin C and iron; and for LEARN: vitamin E, thiamin and magnesium.

Data from the study was based on food intake alone and did not include dietary supplements.  However, the authors note that the participants who didn’t take supplements prior to dieting continued to avoid multivitamin or multimineral supplement while dieting.

Low Calories Without Sacrificing Micronutrients

When reducing caloric intake, it is important to be aware that doing so may also lead to decreased micronutrient intake, the authors concluded.  Additionally,the higher-protein, moderately low-carbohydrate Zone diet was the best in also providing nutrient-dense foods.

Choosing foods that are nutrient denseor regularsupplementation with essential vitamins and minerals is critical for long-term health.

Similarly, findings from another study (May issue of Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition), reported other popular diets such as Atkins for Life, The South Beach Diet, DASH, and The Best Life Diet also resulted in micronutrient deficiencies.

Study Reference: Gardner CD, Kim S, Bersamin A et al. Micronutrient quality of weight-loss diets that focus on macronutrients: results from the A TO Z study. Am J Clin Nutr 2010.

There is so much great stuff on the Net these days about health and wellness.  You can find out what you should and should not eat, what shampoo to use, the pros and cons of sunscreen and on and on.  If you pay attention you can live a pretty darn healthy, happy, long life.  Then along comes Epigenetics.  Well it’s actually been around for a while, but I just found out about it so it’s news to me.

Epigenetics at its most basic, is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation.  It is these epigenetic “marks” that tell your genes to switch on or off, to speak loudly or whisper.  It is through epigenetic marks that environmental factors like diet, stress and prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on genes, that is passed from one generation to the next.

In other words our lifestyle choices affect not just us, but our children, even those not yet conceived, and their children, etc.  Well Dang It!  I thought we had a long-standing deal with biology: whatever choices we make during our lives might ruin our short-term memory or make us fat or hasten death, but they won’t change our genes — our actual DNA.  Which meant that when we had kids of our own, the genetic slate would be wiped clean.  Nope, guess not.

Epigenetics brings both good news and bad.  Bad news first of course, the evidence shows that lifestyle choices like smoking and eating too much can change the epigenetic marks atop your DNA; you can truncate (shorten) your own life if you smoke or overeat, but it’s becoming clear that those same bad behaviors can also predispose your kids — before they are even conceived — to disease and early death.  Well crap!  But I really like cheeseburgers and beer!

The good news is that scientists are learning that we can manipulate those same genetic marks to turn on or off certain “traits” once we have identified the genes responsible.  Of course that may take a while.  Remember the Human Genome Project? Completed in March 2000, the project found that the human genome contains something like 25,000 genes; it took $3 billion to map them all.  The human epigenome contains an as yet unknowable number of patterns of epigenetic marks, a number so big that researchers won’t even speculate on it.  Therefore a full epigenome map will require major advances in computing power.  When completed, the Human Epigenome Project (already under way in Europe) will make the Human Genome Project look like homework that 15th century kids did with an abacus.

So you may want to experiment a little on your own with say eating a bit healthier, not smoking, exercising, well you know the drill.  You will not just be improving your own health and vitality, but you will be affecting the health and wellness of your children, your childrens children, and so on.

See those tree huggers have a huge leg up on the rest of us already.  And they probably didn’t even know about epigenetics.  If they did I don’t remember anyone mentioning it, do you?

You may want to take a closer look at the lifestyles of the weird neighbors who don’t even own a television or that strange chick at work who only eats organic.  Some day they’re going to have kids and their kids genes will be healthier than yours kid’s genes, and they will live longer and produce more kids than your kids, and their kids will have healthier genes and live longer and produce more kids than…well you get the idea.  The freaking tree huggers are going to rule the planet people cause of epigenetics.  Hug a tree hugger today and ask to share their lunch.  I mean it really couldn’t hurt right?

A new report reviews how fasting affects fat and cholesterol, which also may apply to Cleanse Days. Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that fasting causes an enzyme (SIRT1)to shut down production of fat and cholesterol, which could open up the scientific field to studying new approaches for lowering weight and improving lipid profiles. Fasting has been previously known to suppress proteins called SREBPs, which are responsible for controlling fat synthesis and storage, but the mechanism was not well understood. The researchers reported that after a series of experiments in worms, fruitflies and mice they found that fasting acts directly on SIRT1, one of a family of sirtuin enzymes, thereby down-regulating these SREBPs. Sirtuin enzymes have become an active area of research since early 2000 because of findings that stimulation of sirtuin activity—via calorie restriction, intermittent fasting and compounds such as resveratrol—protected mice fed a high-calorie diet against weight gain, and increased the lifespan in nematode worms, fruitflies, fish and rodents. Geneticists and medical researchers are only just beginning to understand how genes encode sirtuin enzymes, how the enzymes influence energy metabolism, and investigating various drugs as possible candidates to stimulate SIRT1. The study may potentially offer new insights into the science behind Isagenix products and systems.”The biological mechanism by which fasting turns off the proteins that stimulate fat and cholesterol synthesis may explain partially our success with our two weight-loss programs, where we incorporate one to two days per week of Cleanse Days, which we’ve shown successfully produce healthy weight loss in adults,” says Susie Rockway, Ph.D., director of Isagenix Research and Science.  Dr. Rockway adds, “Similarly, the new study is interesting as it could have other implications because it offers support to intermittent fasting, or Cleanse Days, as a potential alternative to caloric restriction for stimulating SIRT1.”  In late April, Dr. Rockway presented the results of two pilot studies—a nine-day study and 28-day study—both of which found Isagenix products and Cleanse Days supported adults with healthy weight loss, maintaining healthy lipid profiles. The studies also found subjects felt better about their weight, health and energy levels. Cleanse Days— days of limited food calories and water complemented by the botanical-based detox drink, Cleanse for Life—are a component of the Isagenix Cleansing and Fat Burning System, a nutritional program developed by the company to help customers achieve their health goals with cleansing and detoxification, replenishing with proper diet and nutrition, and controlling caloric intake.

Reference: Walker AK, Yang F, Jiang K et al. Conserved role of SIRT1 orthologs in fasting-dependent inhibition of the lipid/cholesterol regulator SREBP. Genes Dev 2010;24:1403-17.

Have you ever wondered why they even have something called “good” cholesterol?  I did, so I did what we all do when we wonder about anything these days; I Googled it.  What I found is pretty eye opening stuff.

 Cholesterol is one of the most maligned substances in history.  Kind of like sharks, it’s got a nasty reputation that is for the most part undeserved. (I don’t swim with them and they stay out of my yard, so it’s all good.)

So why does cholesterol even exist in the human body?  There isn’t much in our bodies that wasn’t put there for a reason by mother nature.  What’s the reason for cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a naturally-occurring fat which is fundamentally required for good health.  It is one of the building blocks of both the male hormone testosterone and the female hormone estrogen, which cannot be made without it.  Plus it does some other cool stuff.

Contrary to popular belief, in most people, the levels of cholesterol found in the blood have little or nothing to do with fats consumed in the diet.  Cholesterol is manufactured in the liver in the amounts required by the body to perform its various functions. It therefore follows that either reducing the amount of fat in the diet or taking pills to reduce cholesterol is absolutely pointless.  Ever known anyone who has tried to lower their cholesterol using either of these methods only to become very frustrated that it goes down like 2 points after months?  Hmmm….

The main stream medical community, among others, say they want people to lower their cholesterol due to the massive increase in ischemic heart disease (IHD) seen during the 20th century.  IHD, the main consequence of which is angina and myocardial infarction (MI), was virtually unknown at the beginning of the 1900’s.  Once people started dying of these conditions the medical community decided, as they always do, to try to figure out what was up.  Subsequent examination of those who died of MI showed that their arteries had been “clogged up” with fatty deposits that were high in cholesterol.  The connection between cholesterol and IHD was made and that was that.  Ever since, Doctors have been trying to invent ways to reduce blood cholesterol levels, but have not stopped to consider why they were elevated in the first place!  (Is anyone surprised?)  If they had, they might have been surprised.

Arteries are the large, elastic blood vessels which carry blood away from the heart, both to the lungs (deoxygenated blood) and to the rest of the body (oxygenated blood).  They are composed of three layers which, in varying degrees are made up of several components, the most important of which is collagen - a soft, pliable, elastic substance, which allows the artery to stretch and contract under the control of muscle systems.

Like all other cells in the body, the artery cells are constantly under attack from free radicals and other cell-damaging forces and are in a continual state or replacement and repair.  Today’s average American eats a lot of highly processed food which makes our blood very acidic, leading to further damage to the arteries.  As a consequence, the areteries need a constant supply of new collagen to replace the damaged cells, so as not to “spring a leak”.  Collagen is itself constructed of a number of components, not least of which is Vitamin C.  (Hence the Vitamin C in some anti-aging potions, ladies.)  When there is insufficient Vitamin C in the body, new collagen cannot be formed to repair the damaged artery cells, this causes a problem for the body, which does not plan for future problems, but is only interested is surviving right here, right now.  The body therefore has to find something else to repair the damage and uses what could be referred to as the body’s “band-aid”, namely cholesterol.  Molecules of cholesterol actually bind to the damaged sites, preventing blood loss and its disastrous consequences.

As time goes on, and in the continued absence of proper amounts of vitamin C, the process repeats itself and gradually the arteries become clogged with cholesterol “bandages”, restricting the blood flow until something blocks the remaining space, causing ischemia(lack of blood flow) and infarction (cell-death due to oxygen starvation).

So cholesterol in our arteries is a sign of a problem, not the cause of the problem - and the problem is vitamin C, or, more specifically, the lack of it!  This finding led the only man who has ever won two unshared Nobel prizes, scientist Dr. Linus Pauling to suggest that heart disease was in fact chronic scurvy and could be treated with vitamin C.  Pauling was ridiculed by the medical establishment, which clung to its shoddy science and did nothing to test his hypothesis.  Incidentally, the symptoms of acute scurvy (that is a total lack of vitamin C) are…..leaky blood vessels, leading to massive hemorrhage!

 Pauling and his colleague, Dr. Matthias Rath, spent many years examining this situation. They found that the problem of IHD and high cholesterol was one that was specific to a very small group of mammals, man included, and the one thing that these animals had in common, which differed from ALL other animals was that they could not make their own vitamin C.  EVERY single other animal in the whole planet makes its own vitamin C in the liver.  Man and the other few animals which suffer from IHD do not!

So the problem of high cholesterol is actually a problem of chronically insufficient amounts of vitamin C.  The answer to the problem then is, boost the level of vitamin C in the body so it has the tools it needs to build collagen, and it won’t have to procude massive amounts of “band-aid” material; a.k.a. cholesterol.

The answer the medical establishment came up with is somewhat different. they decided the best thing to be would be to invent cholesterol-lowering drugs to reduce the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood.  According to the physiology we just went over, this will have disastrous effects, as the body will not be able to perform its normal healing processes.  Now of course, scientific studies are showing that cholesterol-lowering drugs have serious long-term effects which bear out this hypothesis.

So once again modern medicine refuses to treat the cause, but only wants to treat the symptoms.  There’s a lot more money in getting people to go to the doctor and then go fill their prescriptions every month, than there is in having them start eating more foods loaded with vitamin C and taking a good quality vitmain C supplement. 

Remember 25% of what you eat is keeping you alive and 75% of what you eat is keeping your doctrs practice alive.  ASK QUESTIONS PEOPLE.  If you don’t no one else will.

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Strange and True Facts about Death:

• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• More people are killed each year by coconuts than sharks. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• Fleas have the distinction of killing more people than all the wars man has ever fought. The “Black Death” plague killed 1/4 of Europe’s population in the 14th century, caused by germs transmitted from rodents to humans by fleas.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
• The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.
• A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
• Today, only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
• Your statistical chance of being murdered is 1 in 20,000. 
• There are 5 times as many deaths due to the negligence of doctors as there are deaths due to firearms. 
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote “Nutrition for Health” and numerous books on the science of proper eating, died of malnutrition. 
• Adolph Hitler’s mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed that his small intestine contained five gold Krugerrands.
• When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
• In 1845, President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
• Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three presidents: his father’s, President Garfield’s, and President McKinley’s. After the last shooting, he refused ever to attend a state affair again.
• When Mark Twain was born on Nov 30, 1835, Halley’s comet was visible over Florida, Missouri. Mark Twain predicted in 1909 that he would die when it returned. He was right. When he died on April 21, 1910, Halley’s comet was once again visible in the sky.

Ignoring the Link Between Toxins and Cancer

by Vic Shayne, PhD

Worldwide, more than 7 million people die from cancer every year, and the numbers increase annually.  Generally, high-fat diets are blamed for increasing the risk, while plant-based diets, high in fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains and minimally processed starchy foods, are said to help prevent cancer.  If we look a little closer, we discover that there are very specific foods and herbs that are powerful “detoxifiers” and thus play a major role in prevention of cancer and other diseases.  But even as we attempt to control cancer risk by our food choices, we always have to realize that diet is just one of the lifestyle factors that influence the development of cancer.

With all of the cancer information and disinformation broadcasted continually through the major news media, rarely do we hear a mention of the greatest threat to our health – and the most prevalent cause of cancer: toxins.  Toxins (poisons) are ubiquitous in our modern world.  Although cancer researchers and foundations making the news headlines, mostly funded by pharmaceutical corporations and chemical manufacturers, seem to be obsessed with finding a cancer virus or genetic predisposition to the disease, as a society we are not being given the whole truth, that toxins cause most cancers.

Independent researchers (e.g., read Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War, by Samuel Epstein, MD) understand that toxins cause disruptions in cellular function, cellular differentiation, cellular protection and immune system function.  Such poisons also place great stress on the filteration system that tries, often in vain, to rid our bodies of toxic overload; this includes the kidneys, liver, cardiovascular system, lungs, bowels lymphatic system and skin.  Toxins are known to rob our bodies of oxygen and cause free radical damage to cellular structures; and the damage is cumulative, leading to illness and symptoms now and in the future.

Where do these toxins come from and how do they get into our bodies?  The answer is that toxins surround us every day.  They are in artificial food ingredients, synthetic vitamins, prescription drugs, topical ointments, household sprays, fumes, automobile and truck exhaust, incinerators, factories, plastic off-gassing, construction materials, carpeting, bug sprays, fluoridated water, hair sprays, fast foods, pesticides, herbicides, chemical spills and dumping, perfumes and more.  You can see how, entering our bodies from so many sources, the toxic overload is inevitable unless we make a concerted effort to monitor what we eat and how we live our lives.  But if we wander around in a state of paranoia over slanted media reports about bad genes and invisible viruses, we’ll never see the real threat right before our eyes.  If we don’t see it we won’t do anything about it.

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) recommends that people should eat more plant-based foods and states that as much as 20 percent of lung cancer, 33 percent of breast cancer and 66 percent of colon cancer could be prevented by appropriate diet choices, regular exercise and maintaining a healthy body weight.  Add this to not smoking and moderate consumption of alcohol, and the AICRF believes that 60 to 70 percent of all cancers are preventable.¹  Yet, even with this information, major associations such as cancer and heart institutes, who must ride the political line in an effort not to alienate the chemical industry, fail to tell us that organic foods are safer than nonorganic; that prescription medications can be dangerous; that there are too many chemicals in our lives.  They tell us instead that eating more plant-based foods is vague advice.   As a rather alarming and bothersome side note, it is clear to anyone who has researched the cancer-toxin connection that some of the largest companies contributing to cancer rates by manufacturing poisonous chemicals are the same companies that influence and fund scientific research that ends up on the nightly news, producing the drugs to “fight” cancer.

I will post more eating guidelines for preventing cancer tomorrow.  Keep in mind though that our goal should not be just to not get cancer, but to live vigorously healthy lives.  Why would anyone settle for anything less?