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 While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Sales of Cheese 
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Post While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Sales of Cheese
Domino’s Pizza was hurting early last year. Domestic sales had fallen, and a survey of big pizza chain customers left the company tied for the worst tasting pies.

Then help arrived from an organization called Dairy Management. It teamed up with Domino’s to develop a new line of pizzas with 40 percent more cheese, and proceeded to devise and pay for a $12 million marketing campaign.

Consumers devoured the cheesier pizza, and sales soared by double digits. “This partnership is clearly working,” Brandon Solano, the Domino’s vice president for brand innovation, said in a statement to The New York Times.

But as healthy as this pizza has been for Domino’s, one slice contains as much as two-thirds of a day’s maximum recommended amount of saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories.

And Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculturethe same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting. :gah

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html?hp

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Post Re: While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Sales of Cheese
Ya know it really makes me wonder why ANYONE would believe ANYTHING coming from a US Agency these days because they always have a double edged sword attached.

I am so discourged with America these days with their corrupt bankers and greedy companies ruining our enviroment for profits I am almost thinking communisim is better....

I said ALMOST folks, RELAX I have not lost it yet ;)

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Are We Starving Ourselves to Death?

These days the popular mantra is: "Eat your vegetables and get all of your vitamins".

This is excellent advice but this statement is not entirely true and could be actually dangerous to our health.

How can this be?

At the end of World War II; the drug and chemical conglomerates had enormous stockpiles of nitrates and phosphates which had been used to manufacture munitions during the war.

Earlier experiments had shown that these minerals made very effective fertilizer.

The conglomerates then started to market these N (nitrogen) P (phosphorus) K (potassium) fertilizers to farmers at extremely attractive prices.

This made the traditional methods of farming extremely uneconomical, so that by the sixties, almost all of American farmers had become dependent upon NPK products.

This system of farming was so wildly successful, creating lush and abundant crops, that the United States had the ability to feed the world, but the soil and the consumers have been paying a very steep price ever since.

NPK products grow wonderful looking vegetables, but we are not vegetables.

We require 59 nutrients on a daily basis including 13 vitamins and 22 minerals.

NPK products do not contain these essential minerals because they were never designed for human nutrition.

All these items are vitally essential for our health and well-being.

As each successive crop was grown on soil enriched with NKP products, the earth slowly became depleted, thus our vegetables are now mineral and vitamin bankrupt; as an example in 1948: a bowl of spinach contained 150 mg of iron, now that same bowl contains 2 mg.

Then, as if that is not enough, all these vegetables get processed before marketing.

Processing removes a huge percentage of these vital minerals and nutrients.

Removing grain husk, blanching, boiling, baking, steaming, bleaching and freezing all have the potential to remove nutritious aspects of our food.

The latest insult to our food system is a proposal to irradiate all of our food products including produce.

This is a rather poorly thought-out plan by the USDA to sterilize our food supply.

They do not seem to care or realize that the few people affected by food bacteria will pale in contrast to the millions of sick people who will have been deprived of the natural medicines (phytonutrients, digestive enzymes and life force properties) found in fresh, raw, living vegetables.

The FDA and USDA have ignored the evidence of cancer and genetic risks involved in irradiated food even though their own experts have warned of the dangers.

Irradiation can also be used to clean up food unfit for human consumption by killing the odoriferous bacteria in spoiled food.

The focus of the food industry seems to be upon the lucrative clean up of contaminated food stuff, rather than prevention at the source.

Such basic procedures as monitoring cattle feed lots for over crowding and contaminated water run-off into neighboring irrigation systems would drastically decrease E.coli 0157 contamination which can be lethal.

The cost of prevention would be trivial compared to a pandemic of an extremely sick populace.

As a side note, one of the most effective methods of irradiation is the use of cobalt pellets as the fuel in radioactive radiation.

Cobalt is what is used in dirty bombs.

I just thought you would like to know.

For more information on this subject, I would like to suggest the Organic Consumers Association at http://www.organicconsumers.org In conclusion, I would suggest:

1. Using vitamin and mineral supplements, but try to purchase the best available.

2. Growing your own organic produce as much as possible.

Read more:http://www.articlesbase.com/nutrition-articles/are-we-starving-ourselves-to-death-423767.html#ixzz14YNmmcxX
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Post Re: While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Sales of Cheese
The ONLY supplements we take is the greens like Cilantro, celery, origanum, fennel, parsley and Lambs Ear lettuce we pick and chew from our garden when we water the plants there! We grow guava berries, goose berries and strawberries (amongst other fruits like tree tomatos, oranges, lemons, figs, peaches, plums) which we snack on when they are in season. Thus, as all are organic, and natural - we don't end up supplementing!

The only requirement is planning and HARD work! You cannot get that from a shop or store...


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Sky wrote:
The ONLY supplements we take is the greens like Cilantro, celery, origanum, fennel, parsley and Lambs Ear lettuce we pick and chew from our garden when we water the plants there! We grow guava berries, goose berries and strawberries (amongst other fruits like tree tomatos, oranges, lemons, figs, peaches, plums) which we snack on when they are in season. Thus, as all are organic, and natural - we don't end up supplementing!

The only requirement is planning and HARD work! You cannot get that from a shop or store...


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I second that and the best thing is if you run out of money you've got breakfast, lunch and dinner before your very eyes

erm.. sky what about nuts and seeds! and a green house you gotta have one of those (to keep the pests out esp rabbits/locusts)

http://www.amazon.com/Juliana-Greenhouse-Ventomax-Window-Opener/dp/B003XI5G82%3FSubscriptionId=0MM5ZAJE0G4AHDH1NYG2&tag=products-sale112-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B003XI5G82

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