No lie.  My Mom recently stayed with me to to celebrate three family B-day’s in a single week!  I promised that she would lose another 5lbs staying with me, as I could help her adhere to The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery a bit more rigidly.  On three occassions in a single week, she at cake.  She protested, but they were so good.  She rationalized it by insisting, "What the heck, I’m on vacation."  I insisted she would still lose the weight….After her week stay, she got on the scale.  Another 5lbs lost!  That’s a total of 25 lbs to date on The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery!  Believe it!  You can learn to do the same.  Learn how to Live Young and eat your cake too here: www.wellnessbakeries.com

Although the European Union had banned the use of atrazine in food several years ago, our governing body known as the Environmental Protections Agency (EPA) has not removed this toxin from our agricultural systems.   Protecting our developing children from the birth defects, deformities and cancer that can result from atrazine doesn’t seem to motivate the governing body to take action.

What is atrazine? It is a triazine herbicide used to spray most of the crops produced in America

How are we exposed? We eat, drink and in some cases breath (crop dusting) it.  It is used primarily on corn crops

What is the deadly amount?  Americans consume outrageous quantities of this nasty stuff each year.  Due to the fat solubility of this chemical it doesn’t easily wash off and once it enters your body it is stored in your fat cells.

How does it kill?  Atrazine kills most notably by cancer; it has also been shown to interfere with the cellular uptake of dopamine - having the effect of causing Parkinson’s.  It also inhibits the mitochondrial ATP production of sperm - meaning sperm don’t have enough energy to swim through the reproductive organs (think infertility). 

How can I avoid? Eat only organic produce, don’t drink well water and know where your produce is coming from. Eating organic is worth the extra 29 cents for that avocado, or tomato.  

Unfortunately, the department of agriculture is still feeding the paradox that organic farmers cannot compete with the growth from that of non-organic farmers. To balance supply and demand non-organic farmers are actually paid not to release much of the crops they grow each year.  Atrazine isn’t going away.  Eat organic.

Am I really going to eat this? 

No longer is there an excuse not to eat breakfast.  Men, check out the nice addition of a powerful testosterone booster to go with it.  I also add about a teaspoon of cod liver oil. 

Stench of Montel and Big Pharma Love Affair Travels the Country

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Regardless of the dreary headlines exposing the latest prescription drug scandal, love affairs between Big Pharma and top celebrities are at an all-time high.  Since drugs can’t be sold on efficacy and safety, they’re sold on notoriety.  Love can hurt, but when top celebrities give pharmaceutical fellatio, it stinks. 

The stench comes directly from a big orange bus and a syndicated talk show host who is currently traveling the country as PPA – The Partnership for Prescription Assistance.  Fronted by Montel Williams, PPA is hell bent on getting every American on drugs.  Once a Nation Under God, we are now One Nation Under Drugs thanks to such stink. 

Aunt Helga is buried in drug costs thanks to her family doctor prescribed pain-killer addiction.  Grandpa can hardly remember Grandma’s name since starting his cholesterol lowering drugs.  And Mom is now an honorary member of the Fat cow Hall of Fame courtesy of her blood pressure meds.  As drug expenditures rise, health plummets.  Welcome to the Land of the sick.

Reeling from bad PR in the wake of killer drugs (think Vioxx, Ibuprofen and anything else sitting in your medicine cabinet) and price gouging, the prescription drug industry sanitizes its public image with the PPA program, an ugly bus and bald guy with the curse of gab.  The PPA travels the country with the message that “Help is here” and promises “free or nearly free prescription drugs!” 

Montel Williams’ smiling mug attempts to make us believe that “Big Pharma wants to help”.  I decided to see just how much help they really provide.  As the orange bus rolled into my hometown, it was go time.

With thoughts of America being sabotaged by Big Pharma, I may have gone too far.  I could have buried my head in the sand and pretended that a mass effort to drug and sedate every man, women and child in America didn’t exist.  But I know too much.  There’s no going back for me.  No more “America’s Got Talent,” Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), Brittany Spears or whatever else we use to bludgeon ourselves into complacency.  This is the point of no return.  A literary suicide bomber, I boarded the bus strapped and ready to blow.

Once aboard, I was met by smiling “cheerleaders turned PR queens.”  Akin to drug rep screening protocols, I wondered if bra size was a criterion for the job.  This bus was wrought with female warm fuzzies and the type of ignorance that makes Paris Hilton look like a Nobel laureate.   

I avoided the pleasantries. In the name of Aunt Helga, I wanted Montel to be the first to feel my rhetorical blast.  “Where’s Montel?”   

“Oh, he’s working on another project.”

Disappointed, I continued to sleuth my way to the truth.  “So, how can you help me?” 

“We can help you get free drugs.”

“Splendid, let’s get started.”  I wondered what the hell they thought I needed in the way of drugs, but then remembered that thoughts among these queens are prolly as rare as a drug rep who reads – books not magazines.

Applying for assistance on one of the eight or so onboard computers, I typed in an annual income of $20,000.  I pretended to need Lipitor, Coreg, and Xanax.

I didn’t get free drugs.  I got a handful of discount cards – saving me a whopping total of $2.69 on all three drugs compared to buying at Wal-Greens. 

Apparently, it’s just a scheme to get me and my wallet back on the medical merry-go-round.  “Is this the charity claimed by Montel in the TV commercials?”

Hissing and snorting ensued by the PR queens who took the “play dumb” route.

“Well, everyone gets something different with regards to discounts.” 

“What about generic drugs?”  I insisted that, “I’d save more just by going generic.”

“Oh, this is only for trade name drugs…like Lipitor and such.” 

“Oh, that’s what trade name means?  Thanks for clearing that up for me.  You girls are so helpful.”

Is your nose starting to pick up the scent of something rotten? 

The Partnership for Prescription assistance (PPA) is really The Partnership for Prescription Addiction (PPA). 

All the world is a stage.  Hasn’t some dude already reminded us of this? 

Let’s follow the money and see who’s actually backing Montel and his traveling pill show.

In 2004, congressional Rep. Billy Tauzin, the former chairman of the House committee that regulates the pharmaceutical industry, stepped down and became the new president and CEO of PhRMA.  PhRMA is the drug industry’s lobbying group responsible for cleaning up their image.  To this end, this “fox in charge of the henhouse” spearheaded the creation of the PPA in 2005.  It was funded by the top 48 U.S. drug companies!

I proudly give this Stinky Sulfur Award to Montel Williams and his Partnership for Prescription Addiction, which is valiantly crossing the country and assisting the drug industry with its mandate: One Nation Under Drugs, No American Left Unmedicated.

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My wife and I are unconventional parents. We didn’t vaccinate our children.
They don’t go to public school. We don’t let them drink their weight in soda.
And we make them eat their sunscreen. Before you report me to Child Protective
Services, let me assure you that I’m not talking about the conventional,
synthetic sun block that is loaded with poisons. I’m talking about edible sun
block in the form of carotenoids.

Carotenoids are members of a family of nutrients that protect plants and
animals from excess sunshine. Just like melanin, they are colorful molecules
that reflect UV rays. About 700 different types of carotenoids have been
identified. Each of the pigments functions as Mother Nature’s sunblock. When
humans ingest carotenoids, they are deposited into the skin to prevent sunburn
and (ultimately) oxidative stress, which can lead to cancer.

Leading sources of carotenoids are eggs, spirulina, chlorella, dark-green leafy
vegetables (kale, collards, and spinach), and yellow-orange fruits and
vegetables (apricots, cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, and squash).
The recommended daily intake of carotenoids is 100 to 200 grams per day of
these foods.

The most potent carotenoid is a red pigment found in algae, salmon, trout,
shrimp, and lobsters. It is known as astaxanthin. The algae are normally green.
But when subjected to sunshine, they produce the red pigment naturally. Once
ingested, astaxanthin is 1,000 times more effective at protecting skin from UV
damage than other carotenoids.

Edible sunblock is your first line of defense against sunburn, cancer, and
prematurely aging skin. So make sure you pack plenty of carotenoids in your
kid’s lunchboxes this summer.

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Skin is the largest organ of your body.  It covers about 16 square feet and weighs approximately 8 pounds.  With unceasing collaboration, skin cells perform lifesaving functions such as protection from toxic chemicals, heat, and cold.  Most important, they collaborate to keep us healthy by shielding our insides from the invasion of foreign bacteria and viruses.  If a malignant (life threatening) cancer cell develops, this collaboration ceases.  A biological fiasco can set in. 

Malignant cancer cells are born from oxygen.  Skin cells, like all healthy cells, are rich in this essential molecule.  When exposed to sun, high energy sun rays collide with your skin.  The collision, akin to a bowling ball hitting pins, causes oxygen molecules to lose an energy stabilizing electron.  As a result, oxygen becomes unstable and highly reactive within the skin cell.  The end result is the oxygen free radical.

This is where many researchers or “science detectives” stop searching for the cause of cancer.  By stopping here, they attribute skin cancer to the high energy sun rays and the subsequent formation of the oxygen free radical.  This is not entirely true.  There is one more - often overlooked - ingredient at play.

Free radicals are completely normal.  In fact, they are an essential component to the immune system.  They help to eradicate foreign bacteria and viruses that may pass through the skin. 

Once free radicals do their job within a cell, they are quenched or rather controlled by free radical scavengers known as antioxidants.  Unlike other cellular content, antioxidants are electron rich and can therefore donate their electrons to electron-deficient free radicals. 

An antioxidant is simply a healing molecule that is on guard to stop oxygen free radicals once they have served their purpose.  If antioxidants are not plentiful, the free radical attaches to other cellular sources – vital sources.  The cell undergoes “oxidative stress.”  Oxidative stress - or lack of cellular antioxidants - is the most prominent cause of skin cancer, not free radicals. 

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To quickly understand oxidative stress, consider its everyday occurrence.  Such examples include the browning of an apple after it is sliced, a nail rusting in the open air, and the formation of rancid food.  These processes are all mediated by oxygen free radicals that go unregulated due to lack of antioxidants.  The same type of damage occurs among nutrient deficient skin when free radical production exceeds the amount of health-preserving antioxidants. 

Oxidative stress is involved in the formation of wrinkles as well as the initiation of cancer.  If a free radical is not quenched by a healing antioxidant, it can attack the main structural component of skin known as collagen.  A phenomenon known as cross-linking occurs – a fancy name for wrinkling.  Collagen cross-linking causes certain areas of skin to become stiff and immobile.  Supple hydrated skin is converted into a cracked, desert floor.  As time passes, skin cancer may result.

As oxidative stress continues, free radicals attack more than just collagen.  Vital cellular components (DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid) that guarantee proper skin function are attacked and cancer is initiated.  

The take-home message here is that free radicals themselves are not dangerous.  They are an everyday part of life - the inescapable byproducts of living in an oxygen-rich world.  Free radicals only become dangerous when their production exceeds the amount of “health-preserving” antioxidants.  The oxidative stress that ensues initiates a biological fiasco that gives rise to a malignancy.  The newly formed malignancy harnesses a plethora of super powers.  Such powers are used to gain control over the human body (spreading or progression of cancer) and ultimately kill it.  Hence, if you learn how to minimize oxidative stress, you can stop lugging around the fear of cancer.

There are five main contributors to the oxidative stress within the skin: lack of sunshine, lack of vitamin D, lack of melanin production, synthetic sunscreens, lotions and skin potions, excess sugar consumption, and lack of antioxidants.

Cancer progression occurs with a lack of cell suicide (apoptosis), excess estrogen, poor immune response and the eventual formation of "trophoblast" cells, which shield the cancer from the immune system…This is where it can start getting really bad. 

The entire cascade of cancer initiation and progression can be stopped with natural medicine and select lifestyle changes.  But, the first step is FAT LOSS, period.  No amount of intervention can save the obese from the ravishes of skin cancer - or any other cancer for that matter, as recently shown by the medical journal Lancet.  Learn about Hormone Intelligence Therapy to lose fat fast.