We need to cleanse because we acquire toxins in our bodies on a regular basis. In today’s world, an estimated one billion humans are exposed regularly to environmental toxins.

We live in a world that is literally saturated with toxins. We can absorb toxins by breathing in polluted air, taking showers or drinking chlorinated tap water, eating foods when we don’t know their source or preparation method, being exposed to pesticides, toxic cleaning fluids, dry-cleaning fluids, or pest control fluids, and wearing new, unwashed clothing. Over one billion humans are exposed to high levels of toxic metals and metalloids in the environment.

Some common symptoms of being toxic (and being in need of a detoxification cleanse) are: constipation, gas and bloating, diarrhea, back pain, joint and muscle pain, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies, insatiable hunger, itchy ears, nose, or anus, unpleasant sensations in the stomach, nervousness, grumpiness, chronic fatigue, lethargy or apathy, various skin problems, problems sleeping, nutritional deficiencies or anemia, problems with the immune system, teeth grinding or clenching, weight gain, forgetfulness, and blurry vision.

One of the most damaging toxins that we are exposed to is mercury. Mercury toxicity is more common than most people realize. (This is especially true for people who eat seafood or salt taken from today’s polluted oceans.) Mercury is a neurotoxin, and you can get toxicity from energy saving light bulbs (these emit a toxic mercury vapor into the air that we breathe), seafood (tuna and swordfish are particularly high in mercury), vaccines, some body care products, water, and dental amalgam fillings.

Studies show that mercury, even in small amounts, can damage the central nervous system causing irritability, fatigue, mood swings, behavioral problems, tremors, headaches, hearing loss, dysarthria, incoordination, hallucinations, loss of peripheral vision, “pins and needles” feelings, usually in the hands, feet, and around the mouth, lack of coordination of movements, ringing in your ears, insomnia, and even death.

If you have you been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, MS, fibromyalgia, Autism, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, or a brain tumor, you may actually have mercury poisoning.

Mercury can damage the brain, kidneys, liver and central nervous system. Infants and children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic effects of mercury.

Mercury affects male children at a higher rate than females.

Mercury in the cardiovascular system, “even in low doses can cause hypertension and alterations in endothelial function.”

Frequently people tell me that they can’t lose weight no matter what they do. This can be because the body is holding onto toxins by surrounding them with fat cells. This happens when the body gets overloaded with toxins. In order to protect the body from the toxins, it surrounds them with fat to protect itself from their harmful effects. Until you can detoxify the body, the body will hold onto those protective layers of fat.

When you do a detoxification cleanse, many people find that they are able to lose weight. This is because the body no longer has a need for that fat it was protecting you with.

Additionally, our bodies become acidic through stress and the foods we eat. These toxins and acids hurt our bodies deep within our cells. How can the body have a clean liver, blood, or lymphatic system if it is filled with toxins, acid, and waste? A clean intestinal system and frequent, thorough bowel movements are key elements of a truly healthy system.

We absorb most of our nutrients though the intestinal wall. If it is clean, we are able to absorb the nutrients. If it is not clean but is instead full of waste and rancid debris, then the body won’t get the nutrients it needs. Dr. Anthony Bassler, a gastroenterologist, said, “Every physician should realize the intestinal toxemias (poisons) are the most important primary and contributing cause of many disorders and diseases of the body.”

We also need to cleanse because our intestines can become thick with plaque over time. This “mucoid plaque” can result from consuming foods like milk, wheat, and meat. It can be thick and rubbery. It can even look a little like a rope when it exits out of the body.

In the book Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management, Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC, ND, PhD addresses this: “The heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host of putrefaction. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins, poisons, and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances. Here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level.

One autopsy revealed a colon to be 9 inches in diameter with a passage through it no larger than a pencil. The rest was caked up layer upon layer of encrusted fecal material. This accumulation can have the consistency of truck tire rubber. It’s that hard and black. Another autopsy revealed a stagnant colon to weigh in at an incredible 40 pounds.

Dr. Richard Anderson, ND, NMD addresses the subject of plaque as well. Dr. Anderson, an expert on colon cleansing, wrote Cleanse and Purify Thyself, Volumes 1 & 2. In an article on colon plaque, he says: The phrase, “mucoid plaque” is a coined term that I use to describe various conditions found throughout the body, especially in hollow organs and the alimentary canal. It is a substance that the body naturally creates under unnatural conditions, such as attacks from acids, drugs, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals.

Professional cleanses, like colonics or enemas, can remove this old leftover waste and plaque from the intestinal tract.

The good news is that there are really effective cleanses that can help you safely remove these toxins from your body. I recommend cleansing for a minimum of 10 days and as long as 21 days to detoxify the body and adjust its pH on a regular basis. This will keep the inner environment of the body’s digestive system cleaner, healthier, and able to support a vibrant immune system.

Along with this comes an additional benefit. A major part of the body’s happiness chemical, serotonin, is synthesized in the gastrointestinal tract. It is no wonder people feel happier and better when their bowels are clean and functioning in the most optimal way! I do a month-long cleanse every January to start off the New Year fresh and renewed after too much holiday party munching.

Each time you cleanse, it will get easier. Eventually, or maybe very quickly, you will see a difference in how you feel.

“Chemical Free Body” makes a nice, easy cleanse that is incredibly effective for cleansing the liver. This 100% naturally occurring formula by Chemical Free Body is made with special, heavy metal free Zeolites and a powerful Herbal Blend which can support your body’s natural elimination of toxic Chemicals, Heavy Metals, Radiation, Synthetic Estrogens and Free-Radicals.

I do this Chemical Free Body cleanse every 3 months and I recommend it to my clients. This is literally a detox and nutrition clinic in a box. Look at each product as a tool in your health
tool-kit doing a necessary job to clean and nourish your body. GREEN 85 replaces the roughly 85% of nutrients in the soil so your cells have the building blocks to give you energy and repair themselves. GUT DETOX gently removes the 6-12 pounds of unwanted waste matter lining the digestive tract. TOXIN DETOX helps to remove heavy metals, radiation and toxic chemicals from the blood, fat & muscle tissue. PROBIOTICS & PREBIOTICS helps to colonize your gut bacteria to help with digestion and boost immunity and mental clarity. ULTRA ENZYMES help assist the breakdown of heavy foods while supplying necessary minerals to the nutrient deficient foods we consume and helping the rehabilitation process of gut action.

The two things I think are most lacking in the American diet are good types of fiber and chlorophyll-rich green foods. This detox cleanse has both. Quite simply, it is made up of healthy food that most people lack in their normal everyday diet.

The nutrients will feed your body, as well as flush and pull toxins and acids out of your cells. The fiber will absorb these toxins and expand like a sponge. You will then drink a lot of water, which will create a cleaning effect. Along with the sponge-like fiber, the toxic particles, plaque, and other debris that might be lodged in the intestines will be dragged out.

Each time you cleanse, it will clean out a little more. Think of the layers of an onion. When you start, you will get one layer, and the next time, you will get the next layer. You may eventually find this is a good part of your daily or weekly routine. I do a cleanse a few times a week, year-round, as a normal part of my life/diet.

All food should be efficiently digested, its nutrients absorbed, and its waste eliminated. If you are eating three times per day, then you should be having bowel movements three times per day. The more fiber you ingest, the easier and more efficiently the waste will be eliminated. There is not a set time period for this, but ideally it should be anywhere from 3–12 hours after each meal.

You can test your digestive function by eating a meal of raw or slightly steamed red beets. The deep red color in the bowel movement will allow you to see when that meal is eliminated. This is an easy way to see if your body is eliminating quickly and efficiently.

If you feel uncomfortable and are not having bowel movements, you may want to get a colonic series to help get your system cleaned out and moving again.

Drink lots of water, and fresh green organic vegetable juices to keep the toxins, acid, and waste moving out of the body. This is so important! These cleanses are cleaning out the inside of your body. With the removal of the plaque, waste, and debris, you will also be alkalizing your body with the super detox foods.

You will have to make a personal decision about the length of your cleanse. Many holistic physicians think 21 days is the best length.
You may want to consult me or your holistic physician before starting a cleanse, or do the cleanse under his or her guidance.

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Most of you know how much certain things mean to me, such as protecting our bees, safeguarding our environment, and living an organic lifestyle.

I am not that easily impressed, but there is a supermarket called Aldi, that is known for its low prices, and they have done something that is extraordinary.

Aldi is removing all products that contain neonicotinoid pesticides. (If you remember, I had a petition against the EPA to ban the manufacturing and use of neonicotinoid pesticides, because they are decimating the environment and killing the bees and butterflies. The EPA has still not banned them, even though the Federal Courts ruled that they should.

The EPA has even admitted knowing that the following poisons are the major reason the bee populations are being destroyed:

*Chlorpyrifos

*Clothianidin

*Cypermethrin

*Deltamethrin

*Fipronil

*Imidacloprid

*Sulfoxaflor

*Thiamethoxam

Aldi is not only doing this environmentally-positive action of removing all products that contain the neonicotinoid pesticides, but they are also committing their Aldi grocery stores to be all organic by May 1, 2017.

Hooray for this ethical company that is doing the right thing for all of us.

They are a no-frills store with positive goals and reasonable prices, which may make organic food affordable for everyone.

I’m giving them my gold star of approval.

Here is the link to read my information about the bees, the neonicotinoids and the environment.

http://www.organichealthylifestyle.com/the-plight-of-pollinators-today/

Special Note:

Also be aware as you are buying plants for your garden this spring, that the plants and fruit trees, etc. may have these toxic poisons in them. Ask your nursery to be sure.

One way to order organic plants without toxins, is to order them online from a respected company like Seeds of Change, an organic seed and plant company.

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It was one way the scientists were trying to compare the organic and the conventional foods. Their conclusion being that organic fruits and vegetables were no more nutritious than the conventional less expensive varieties. It says that a senior affiliate with Stanford’s Health Center for Health Policy said “ I think we were definitely surprised.”(i) He also cited a study done in 2010 that did find that organic strawberries did contain more vitamin C than conventional ones and that this study had been “ erroneously left out” (ii) of the study.

In this Stanford study they found that organic fruits and vegetables were no more likely to be contaminated by dangerous bacteria. Well that is good to know, because none of us want E Coli contaminated food. They did say that the conventional fruits and vegetables did have more pesticide residue on it. Kenneth goes on to say that this will fuel a debate over whether organic foods are a marketing approach to get people to pay more for their food. Organic foods are not supposed to be raised using synthetic pesticides, hormones, and additives.

Even though this is said the Organic Industry has allowed much more into their organic products than I would have liked. I still find that it is at least more regulated than the non-organic food industry that is going wild with genetically modified seeds and plants, use of cheap antibiotics, hormones, toxic pesticides and chemicals that are now saturating the farming areas, water systems and affecting our earth in ways that are quite alarming.

From my research I have found that “there are two basic types of genetically engineered crops on the market now: herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant. Herbicide tolerant is grown to handle the direct use of pesticides on them. There are over a billion pounds of pesticides used in the United States alone each year.       

Many of these chemical fertilizers were developed for use as bombs or poisons in warfare. They poison our food and our environment. Pesticides particularly affect our nervous system. These insect resistant plants actually produce an insecticide to kill insects that feed on them. If this is what the genetically engineered plant is doing to a small insect, then what is it doing to the person who is eating this food? The effect of this type of plant on the environment and in the human body, especially long-term, is unknown.

Genetically engineered, or genetically modified (GM), plants are escaping into the wild and inter-breeding with wild plants. Our pollinators, such as bees, are in trouble now. Are genetically engineered plantsa contributing factor? Good question.

Genetically engineered food is such a recent food product that no long-term, in-depth studies show their long-term effect on humans or the ecosystem. You must decide for yourself if eating food that has pest control built right into it or has large amounts of poisons put on it is good for human consumption.

 “An estimated 75 percent of foods in U.S. grocery stores contain GM ingredients. About seven out of every 10 items in the average grocery cart have been genetically modified. And don’t bother reading labels to see if you’re buying a GM product, because no labeling is required.”iii     

Another thing food venders do to make produce more appealing to consumers is to dip it in color or wax, or put a preservative on it produce to make it look prettier.

Organic food is supposed to be grown without chemical, synthetic, or biological pest control or fertilizers used.

Although the USDA continues to water down its regulations, certified organic is still better than non-certified organic. This is because the USDA organic label gives you the most information about the origins and production of your food.

These foods must adhere to much stricter regulations than any other food on the market, and the stricter the regulations, the more you will know about what is actually in your food, thus, giving you more control over what you put into your body and empowering you to make more informed decisions at the grocery store.

You may want to let your voice be heard in favor of stricter food labeling and production regulations. Personally, I would like to see foods containing genetically modified ingredients labeled as such, as is currently required in most Western countries.” iii

Since I was married to an environmental trial lawyer for over 23 years, I learned how toxic these practices are and how deadly they can be for our environment and our bodies. Kenneth goes on to say that even though these findings were what Stanford has found in this study, this won’t be convincing people who understand the concept of toxins and poisons in our environment and in our bodies to go non organic anytime soon and that the researchers “failed to appreciate the differences they did find between the two types of food- differences that validated the reasons people cite for buying organic.

Organic produce, as expected, was much less likely to retain traces of pesticides.” iv What the researchers don’t appreciate or maybe aren’t aware of is that pesticides affect our nervous system and that it is much more critical to children, in that their organs are still forming.       

I found this information on a site for food safety. I thought I would just quote them here, because it was so powerfully said about GM crops and the use of chemicals in our environment. “Since the introduction of GE crops, the US has seen herbicide use increase by nearly 400 million pounds. Eighty-four percent of the GE crops planted today are designed to withstand massive applications of herbicides without dying.

As more of these “herbicide resistant” (HR) crops have been planted, the massive increase in herbicide use has triggered an epidemic of resistant “superweeds.” Now, in a misguided effort to fix the weed resistance problem created by first generation HR crops, biotechnology companies are racing to genetically engineer new crops resistant to ever more toxic herbicides.

Dicamba is an older, more toxic herbicide, which is similar in structure and mode to 2,4-D, a major component of Agent Orange. It is highly soluble in water and very mobile so carries a large groundwater contamination risk. Dicamba is also very volatile and can drift for miles. Such volatilization has caused millions of dollars in damages to growers who have suffered crop losses due to herbicide drift onto their farms.

Penn State ecologist David Mortensen predicts that herbicide use on soy could increase 70% if the new 2,4-D and dicamba-tolerant soybeans are adopted. Inevitably new “superweeds” will develop in response to the new biotech crops, and the chemical arms race with weeds will continue. This means more pesticidal pollution, environmental damage, higher production costs, and of course, increasing profits for firms like Monsanto that sell both GE seed and pesticides.

At a time when farmers, citizens, and government have worked hard to limit our use of, and exposure to, hazardous pesticides like dicamba, approving this crop would take us backwards, seriously endangering human health and the environment. “(v)

While it may not have found the Vitamin C in strawberries that different, it did find that the organic milk they tested, did have more omega –3 fatty acids, which are anti inflammatory, than the conventional milk. He goes on to quote Sonya Lunder, with the Environmental Working Group. Their group creates a list frequently rating the lowest and highest amounts of pesticides residues on fruits and vegetables.

The Stanford researchers said that their study was to help people make more informed choices. “In the study — known as a meta-analysis, in which previous findings are aggregated but no new laboratory work is conducted — researchers combined data from 237 studies, examining a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and meats.

For four years, they performed statistical analyses looking for signs of health benefits from adding organic foods to the diet. The researchers did not use any outside financing for their research. “I really wanted us to have no perception of bias,” Dr. Bravata said.” (vi)

 In the study they did find that “organic produce also contained more compounds known as phenols, believed to help prevent cancer, than conventional produce. “ (vii) Since this study was strictly on paper and their was not any kind of study on how it affects people, the environment, or growing children and their central nervous system, I have to say that I am still going to support food that does not have poisons dumped on them or genetically engineered into them for my own family and friends.

I don’t believe the earth and our bodies are meant to have poisons in them. I don’t believe poisons contribute to a healthy way of life. With the extensive use of pesticides, I was not surprised that the “produce grown organically can be tainted by pesticides wafting over from a neighboring field or during processing and transport.”(viii) They also noted a couple of studies that showed that children who ate organic produce had fewer pesticide traces in their urine.”(ix) He noted the debate over whether the laws for pesticide reside is really below safety thresholds. I personally don’t believe they are strict enough in their standards.

Dr, Bravata did agree that there are a “variety of reasons — concerns about the effects of pesticides on young children, the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens.

“Those are perfectly valid,” she said.” Kenneth went into the fact that they were not tasting the food and that for the most part, there were many reasons people bought organic food, only one of which is that it may have more nutrients in it than conventional. He does say that most people do eat organic in order to “reduce exposure to pesticides, especially for pregnant women and their young children.

Organic food advocates point to, for example, three studies published last year, by scientists at Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. The studies identified pregnant women exposed to higher amounts of pesticides known as organophosphates and then followed their children for years. In elementary school, those children had, on average, I.Q.’s several points lower than those of their peers.” (x) He goes on to say that many critics of this Stanford study argued that this type of study missed the major benefits of certain characteristics of food.

For me, I choose organic for various reasons. The least of which it is the best thing we can do for the earth and the environment. I also think it tastes fresher and more vibrant. I also do not like the thought that I am ingesting poison. I want to support the farmer who is trying to do the right thing by the animals and the environment.

If we don’t support those farmers, then they may not be around to support in the future. I also am careful about the origin of the food. I don’t buy “organic food” from China. China is very polluted and there really is no one watching what and how they are doing things. So, look at the food you are buying and see where it is being grown.

Try to buy locally and seasonally at a local farmer’s market, where you can actually find out if they are authentic or not. I have been down to some of the farms that I buy from. I wanted to make sure they were telling me the truth. I found out they were! Now we have a great relationship. Also, get involved!

If you would like to make your voice heard, call your local representatives and senators and let them know how you feel. One phone call to them, is thought to represent 1,000 or even 10,000 people. So don’t underestimate the power of a phone call or email. Also, join the Organic Consumers Association (www.organicconsumers.org) and keep up with the bills and laws.

The article by Mr. Chang was quite good and the link is below in the sources.

This is food for thought!

Sincerely, Nancy

Sources:
I, ii, iv. vi, vii, viii, ix, x were taken from the article :, September 3, 2012
Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat and Produce
By KENNETH CHANG  and  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/science/earth/study-questions-advantages-of-organic-meat-and-produce.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general&v- from The Center for Food Safety website and an article called: Stop Monsanto’s Dicamba Tolerant Soybeans!
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8328

iii pages 317 and 318 in How to Be a Healthy Vegetarian by Nancy Addison

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