Study finds Splenda contributes to weight gain, may cause other health problems
A new Duke University study finds that the artificial sweetener Splenda contributes to obesity, destroys beneficial inteestinal bacteria and may interfere with absorption of prescription drugs.
It's the latest in a continuing round of studies, claims and counter-claims pitting artificial sweeteners against the powerful Sugar Association, the lobbying group for the sugar industry, which financed the Duke study.
A long time ago, Neville Goddard was preaching something we know today as THE SECRET. The idea is that by clearly imagining what you want and by feeling it... you can have it.
Here are two 19 minute original recordings from a long time ago, where he lays out the entire procedure - so you can take control of your life and destiny.
From the land down under, Australia, comes word that sunshine is even more important than we thought. If you want to have kids, you had better get some sunshine.
Dr. Anne Clark screened the blood of 800 Aussie men with fertility problems. What she found was they were all deficient in Vitamin D. The last of Vitamin D apparently fragments sperm DNA, which in turn, makes the boys empty.
We have known that vitamin D deficiencies also affect womens' fertility as well. This boy stuff caught everyone off guard but is really not surprising.
We need the sun everyday as part of our raw, living food lifestyle.
Nearly 21 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, and the number continues to climb
What's the fast track to joining the ranks? Weight gain, particularly around the middle. An expanding waistline -- 35 inches or greater for women, 40 and over for men -- is a red flag. What can you do? Get active for at least 30 minutes a day, and shun foods high in saturated fat, white flour, and sugar: http://www.realage.com/news_features/tip.aspx?v=2&cid=16788.
We have a tough enough time dealing with the fact that we all get old – with any luck. But there is yet another thing to deal with. Did you know your brain shrinks as you get older? Probably past the age of 30, our brains get smaller (2% a decade) with time.
To make matters worse, a study published in the latest Archives of Neurology (a publication of the AMA) says that those who drink may actually have their brains get smaller, faster. For some time, researchers believed that low to moderate drinking might actually protect the brain – but the latest information shows that’s not true.
All is not bad news. Apparently drinking in moderate amounts dos not seem to accelerate the formation of the dreaded white matter lesions of the brain – which are credited with cognitive malfunction.
For now, it is probably best to keep your drinking consumption down to maybe a couple of drinks a week. Just to be safe.
Have you heard of eating the wild greens right out of your garden? Next time you go through the wild plants in your garden, don’t throw them away. Some may be just the right thing you need – and this growing "gold" in your garden and everywhere in nature is free.
In case you're wondering why I'm stressing wild greens so much, let me take you by your hand and guide you into the land of wild greens. What we usually find outside – often believed in to be just “weeds” -- are dandelion, chickweed, clover, thistle, lamb's quarters, sorrel, garlic mustard, cress, stinging needles, plantain, and grass -- just mention the most common ones.
There are bushes, such as hawthorn and roses with delicious leaves and fruits. There are trees, such as the linden tree, lime or basswood with young leaves so tender and full of nutrients. Or the needle trees with their young spots. And it all grows for you! Best of all, you just have to pick and eat it! No cooking required. Plus, cooking would damage all of this goodness.
So, what else is good about these wild edibles besides they're being free (free in nature and free of charge)? Well, if you think about a normal head of lettuce compared to wild edibles, you’d have to eat a lot of lettuce in order to get the same amount of nutrients you put in your system with just one handful. On average, wild edibles have three to seven times more iron, 20 to 30 times more Vitamin C and 20 to 50 times more Vitamin A than cultivated plants. Those are rough numbers, but you get an idea! If you wanted to get enough Vitamin C, for example, you’d have to eat 600g of Boston lettuce or 1000g if it is one day old, but you could just eat 40g of garlic mustard and have enough for the day!
These wild edibles are super foods. Always remember, God made everything for us. This perfection that you find in wild edibles (not generated, created or somehow influenced by man) is the wonder of nature. All the energy in our universe is found in those strong little plants. They are magic. They are so strong that they even grow through asphalt. They come back every year, again and again, even though some get sprayed with the worst chemicals. But to the surprise of everybody…bling…their head keeps peaking out again…and again…and again…as if they wanted to remind you: I am here. I am here for you!I fight until you realize me!Pick me and eat me and you will be as strong as I am! Watch the animals. They know it, too. Even the pets do.
Studies have found that plants in contact with us even have the ability to produce what our bodies need! They can attract just the right substances through their roots and the air in order to prepare the best mix of nutrients for each personal case! Wow! Imagine that! You really have everything growing around you -- everything you need in order to heal and thrive. But you have to get out and use it. Be thankful and take care of it. Give them your love and they are so happy to give it back may times.
NutrientsStinging nettles, for example, are known for their complex pack of ingredients. Even pharmacists know the positive effects. They know there is a lot more iron in them then in most other plants. Iron, our body needs! Not from animals but from those plants that you better know how to pick or you get stung. But what gets done with them? For consumer reasons, they are put in bottles with chemicals added, processed and sold for a lot of money! The same goes for red clover and many other plants. Why don’t we just use it the way God made it for us? Don’t we believe in it anymore? We have to come back to our knowledge and our birth right – to live a happy life in abundance!
Chlorophyll
With plants, think all green, very green, dark green, and bursting full ofchlorophyll - another most important substance! Chlorophyll is the juice that is the closest match to our blood. It contains all the energy from the sun. It delivers the light right in our body. Through photosynthesis, the plants perform miracles. Not even our scientists understand this totally. But do we have to? Let’s be in awe and be grateful for them!
Now, that you know how good they are, here are some tips on how to eat them. You can just put of the edible greens in your mouth and chew well. That’s another good thing about wild edibles -- you have to chew! Chewing is important. Our food needs to be liquid by the time we swallow it.
When it comes to stinging nettles, for example, I always wet my finger tips, crab the top part of the nettle (the softest leaves), twist them in my fingers so that the little hairs break off and don’t sting you anymore, and stick those rolls in my mouth. The seeds of nettles are also delicious. They taste a little bit like nuts.
The longer you keep the greens in your mouth, the better your body remembers them and will ask for them more and more often. It’s like waking up; you wake up those old memories of where to get good nutrients from. And the longer you do it, the better they taste.
Oh, you think dandelion is too bitter? But that’s what your system needs from time to time. Your liver will thank you! Or pick a few sour clovers and you will be so refreshed on a hot summer day! Pick some leaves when you take a walk through the woods and you are good to go. Try it! It is very energizing.
You can also pick a bunch of different plants and make delicious sauces from them, such as a green sauce or a yummy green roll.
Green Sauce:
~ One bunch parsley ~ One bunch cilantro ~ A few big leaves of sorrel ~ A little bit of cress ~ An avocado ~ Himalayan salt or sea salt (if desired) ~ A little bit lemon juice
Blend it all together and enjoy over your salad. Be fit and full of energy for the whole day!
Green Roll:
~ A few big leaves, such as chard or romaine lettuce ~ Carrot, shredded ~ Corn kernels ~ Cucumber pieces ~ Sprouts ~ Avocado ~ Tomato slices ~ Wild edibles
Fill the leaves with all the yummy things, roll them up and enjoy!
Another trick to eat more wild ones – bring a banana or an apple on your hike and enjoy it with the greens. It will taste a lot better – especially if you just start with it. One bite banana, one bite chickweed, one bite banana, one bite dandelion and so forth. Before you know it, you will have eaten a handful and will be happy. It does something else for you, too; it connects you on a cellular level.
It connects you with nature again. It’s like being newly coded again. You feel so balanced and happy after it - very satisfied from the inside out. Those little plants are just full of life that they love to share with you! And if you don’t want to eat them right away (which is surely best) then bring a bag along and pick some for later. Sprinkle them over your salad and enjoy the flavor.
If you look at their bio-energetic radiation, you will see that they are a lot stronger than our grown lettuces we buy from the stores! And if you are one of the people that can’t get full when you eat raw – try wild edibles! They will fill you up. Just a handful! You have to try for yourself.
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A scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure, presented in the book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, based on the findings of a 20 year study first published in the American Journal of Cardiology.
Heart Disease remains the leading cause of death in this country for men and women. While we spend millions of dollars each year developing treatments, traditional procedures fail patients by focusing only on the symptoms of disease, and not the underlying causes. In Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling revolutionary idea-that we can, in fact, abort the heart disease epidemic by changing our diet.
The proof is in the incredible results of our patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's ground breaking program. The men and women in this twenty-year nutritional study-the most comprehensive study of its kind-came to him with advanced coronary disease. Despite the aggressive traditional treatment they received-including bypasses and angioplasties-a number had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of following a plant-based, oil-free diet, their angina symptoms eased, their cholesterol levels dropped significantly, and they experienced a marked improvement in blood flow to the heart. Twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms.
Drawing on the results of this revolutionary study and his ongoing work with patients all over the country, oil-free nutrition can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects. Furthermore, it can eliminate the need for expensive and invasive surgical intervention except in acute emergencies, no matter how far the disease has progressed. A nutrition based program, backed by powerful evidence from the longest study ever conducted, that will cure heart disease led Dr. T.Colin Campbell, who authored The China Study, 2005, professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University to write,
"One morning in the summer of 1991, I received an interesting phone call from a surgeon at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He had read a recent New York Times story about our study on diet, lifestyle, and health in China and was interested in our preliminary findings. He invited me to speak at a conference that fall in Tucson, Arizona. his ambitious title for the meeting: "The First National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease."
That, in itself, was intriguing enough to convince me to accept. But I also was impressed by the fact that this Dr. Esselstyn had secured the participation of many well-known heart specialists, including the participation of many well-known heart specialists, including Framingham Heart Study Director William Castelli and Dr. Dean Ornish, who had recently gained considerable recognition for his work showing his ability to reverse heart disease through changes in diet and lifestyle. This conference would be challenging, to say the least. In my own academic environment, it was startling enough at the time even to mention a tenuous association of diet and heart disease. But the elimination of coronary artery disease? This was a paradigm shift..
The conference was highly successful-and provocative. So was a subsequent meeting in Orlando Florida, which Dr. Esselstyn organized in association with Michael Eisner, then chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company.
Since those early days, my wife, Karen and I have come to know well both Dr.Esselstyn and his energetic wife and colleague, Ann. I have often lectured with him on the same stage. And I have come to know his remarkable research and its findings, as well as it major implications.
Dr. Esselstyn's studies are among the most carefully conducted and relevant medical investigations undertaken the past century. His goal, eliminating coronary disease entirely, maybe achievable during our lifetimes, and he has told us that it can be done and how it can be done.. His determination to pursue this research and to teach the rest of us what he has learned, against formidable opposition in the medical establishment, is a testament to his personal and professional courage and integrity.
The book is a must read, both for ordinary people interested in health and for the dons of clinical and medical research institutions.. People who ignore its message will do so at their own peril. There is no pharmaceutical wonder or medical trickery, either now or in the future, that can match these findings. On this program, people lost their fat craving in 90 days, They explained that we have receptors for cocaine, heroin, nicotine, sugar and fat. In 12 weeks, the receptor for fat will be down regulated, that is.they no longer have that craving and they are in good shape. This was done without required exercise.
Finally, you can tell your kids to monkey around in the kitchen and feel good about it!
Introducing... The First Raw Food Recipe Book for Kids!
(Easy Raw Food Recipes That Taste Great and Are Fun to Make!)
Dear Mom,
You've had a rough day—the kind that leaves you feeling like you're the flat tire on a minivan that just won't go. You have meetings, so Dad's in charge until supper time.
You arrive home frazzled, but ready for another evening's routine of supper, tubs, scrubs and pajamas.
You enter the kitchen and take a step back because…
...the table is already set.
Standing before you are two munchkins beaming with pride. They hand you this:
While the carrots are cut a bit rough and the kitchen mess might be more than you bargained for, the beam in the eye of the ones you love most is enough to melt your multi-tasking heart.
All those gentle reminders to eat your greens paid off, Mom.
It's a picture-perfect moment, and not one you'll need to leave to dreaming for long.
The Harvard Medical School has discovered that happiness 'rubs off' on other people. A study of 5,000 adults seems to say, "if your surround yourself with happy people, you will be happier."
There is a bit of a trick in this however. The people you work with, and even your spouse, don't have as much affect on our happy outlook as to the other people around us. The relationship between people's happiness levels seemed to extend up to three degrees of separation - to the friend of a friend of a friend. It is a collective phenomena, apparently. To be really happy, network with lots of happy people.
One of the reasons why your beautiful friends have osteoporosis is because of having to live and work in an a/c environment.
The a/c destroys the anti-stress vites (b-complex) and the body has to rob the calcium from the bones to line the myelin sheath of the nerves to help the body feel peaceful and survive during the onslaught of unnaturally low temperatures, especially when there is a lot of sun outside during the summer.
The Breakfast Research Institute and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition both agree that a good, healthy breakfast is not only a great way to start your day but...it may very likely keep you healthier.
They suggest that fresh fruits and veggies are an ideal way to begin your day and we at RAWDOCTORS agree completely. Going for a danish or some such food or skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do - short term and long term. Bottom line for them, the more low-calorie foods you eat, the better your health.
It amazes people to find out that the kitchen sink cloth has more germs than their toilets; that the air inside a home is more toxic than the highways.
What can we do to clean up this mess and breathe clearly without drugs?
Open the windows and let a breeze come through.
There are six major plants that will provide oxygen for you. Go to Lowes, Wal-Mart, or Home Depot and find out what they are and make a jungle of your home.
Make sure your house has a whole house filter on your water supply.
Don't use toxic detergents, soaps, chemicals like Pine Sol, Clorox and Ammonia.
Make sure your sheets are 100% cotton or linen in the summer and that they are washed with 20 Mule Team Borax and vinegar and hung out in the sun to dry, if at all possible.
Throw away all of your plastic bowls and use glass, ceramic and wooden ones instead.
Don't use anything to eat that has been wrapped in cardboard (dioxin), plastic wrap, or aluminum.
Get a negative ionizer if you can't afford plants.
Opt for real tile on you floors, instead of rubber and plastic-backed carpeting.
Paint with no-voc (volatile organic compounds) paints.
Wear 100% cotton Buster Brown socks (go online for best price) with no nylon in the heel and toe.
Don't wear plastic clothes (nylon, polyester, rayon, or no-iron sprayed clothes; they can't breathe and cause loss of circulation in important areas like breasts and pelvises.
Do not use equipment that radiates electricity or has a field around it that will interfere with your own.
Park with your exhaust pipes pointing away from your bedroom windows.
Don't use wax on any surface that your skin will touch, especially the skin of your hands or feet.
Fiberglass insulation causes COPD as much as cigarette smoke.
Rinse your dried fruits and nuts and seeds at least twice in hot water to wash off the oils and little tufts of fiberglas and asbestos from the conveyor belts and degreasers used in the machinery.
Don't hang out with people who smoke, even if you love them. Their breath will kill you when you breathe in what they exhale, or wash their clothes, or expose your skin to the residue of their 3rd-hand toxins.
A new study from the University of Alberta suggests 'lean and mean' gives you better odds avoiding and surviving Cancer. The study published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology, suggests more muscle, less fat is a good sign as to how you will fair in a battle with Cancer.
As you know by now, all parents have a different idea of what is healthy food and what is not. For years, you have had the opportunity to hand select and monitor what your child eats for lunch.
Now it is time to test their ability. It is only natural for your child's eyes to wander and notice, and be envious of, what the other kids are eating. Here are a few tips that may help your child's lunch be healthy, fun and get noticed by the other kids...
I am the proud grandmother of a 1 month 2-week old baby girl named Rylee. She is having a hard time on the baby milk she is on. She has thrush & a virus called a Roto virus which has killed her good bacteria in her intestines. The first ingredient in her baby milk is corn starch solids, which will only make it worse.
I know you are wondering why I am sharing this with you. But I thought you might know who to forward this email to who might have a suggestion on what we can do.
Thank you
Liz
I passed it on to Dr. Flora:
Breast feed, breast feed, breast feed. There's nothing more important than breast milk for a baby. You will be able to give the baby a tiny amount of wheat grass juice in a dropper, use coconut milk from the coconut, blend some papaya, make some Energy Soup. But, your breasts will be able to begin a flow again, even after this short time. There are amazing stories of 'virgin' women who have breast fed 'foreign' babies, after a period of stimulation of the nipples so just don't give up.
For all health information out there, people are more confused than ever about how to be healthy. That's because much of the information conflicts with itself. Why?
Because of different interests. Usually conventional medicine is pushed by self interest and commercial interests. On the other hand, alternative and wholistic health practitioners have been primarily effected by philosophy first. And from this group the information has been mostly honest and true. In fact, it is the conventional medical system that has moved in their direction, as opposed to the other way around.
Anthropologist Elizabeth Cashdan says the famous female 'hourglass' figure is not the best for your economic success. The University of Utah instructor has looked at different societies and estimated that the Marilyn Monroe types aren't suited for success.
Until now, Western society has favored the hourglass shape. However, women around the world tend to have more cylindrical shapes. Why the difference? She believes that it's all about hormones. Stress hormones that is.
I meet you a couple months ago at a raw food meetup in Miami. I started the diet and I immediately noticed changes in my sleep patterns. I developed insomnia. I'm currently in India so I consulted an Aryuvedic doctor here. He told me my pulse is fast and my heart beat is slower so it is not pumping enough blood in my body or to my brain causing the insomnia. He wants me to stop the diet and never do it again. Have you ever heard of anything like this happening? Do you have any advice? I was thinking about adding fish and eggs into my diet. Any advice would help.
Thanks, Sonia Rodricks
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Dr. Flora wrote:
What you are experiencing is not insomnia, Sonia. God is giving you hours more to get your joys done. It happens to everyone. You need less sleep to make sense of the food you are eating.
Cooked food shuts the body down because there is no chi or electricity in it and a person needs more sleep. Your heart beat is slower because you are not having to push your food through sludge in your arteries (as long as you are not eating rice and yogurt, that is).
Your pulse is fast? How fast? You need to do some research on the internet. Please look up Drs. T. Colin Campbell on UTube, or Caldwell Esselstyn or John McDougall and listen or read the statistics about people who eat fish and eggs, especially in India. Please write again to www.rawdoctors.com and learn how blessed you are to be cleaning out so well.
Now that I only sleep 3-4 hours of sleep, I have lots of time to do volunteering. Dr. Wigmore had stopped needing sleep, just rest for an hour or so, while she answered letters, the last few years of her life. Your brain is not being clogged up with making a tomb of your body for creatures either and so you should feel more oxygen rushing to your feet and brain.
Make sure the raw food is blended and enjoy your pulse: is it 60 or 65? You may still be reacting to some foods that you are allergic to? Read up on the Coco pulse test. 15 beats above that means that you may be allergic to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers (a sign of nightshade reaction; those foods make your joints swell and you have symptoms of having 'arthritis' - inflammation. Stop the foods and the pains will go away with the swelling.
We are 80% allergic to most of the raw foods, and all of the cooked foods make us tired and need more sleep.
Peace and love be with you
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From: Sonia
ok that's awesome! I believe my pulse is around 80 or 85 resting. I don't know if that helps you.
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You are either reacting to something you are allergic to, or you have a lot of buildup on your arterial walls.
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I did an electrodermal screening. I'm not allergic to anything on the raw food diet. It's actually ideal for my body. It must be buildup. Do you know what I should do about it?
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Even one starchy sweet potato (some people do eat them) or old oily rancid seed or nut will make sludge, and many people are eating broccoli and carrots raw instead of making sauerkraut with them when one juices the cabbage, and this makes sludge because there is so much unusable starch in there. 80% of raw foods have a combination of starch/protein that makes it really hard to digest and assimilate. The little villi can only absorb liquids from juicing and blending. Most people don't chew their foods enough to make them completely liquid. A blender is a God send for the villi and for our energy.
This morning I made some home ripened pineapple juice. I got the thing for $3.50, it took 3 days to ripen it in the sun after I poked holes in the bottom of the stem with a fork and put it in a little saucer with an inch of water. It made 4 tall glasses of incredible juice for me. I chugalugged it immediately, hurried to the shower with the smooth leftovers in the inside of the juicer (not the pulp, which comes out into the basket), got about half a glass in the inside, next to the blades, and rubbed it all over my hair and body, massaging it well into my toes. I then showered after 5 minutes.
The bromelain enzyme in pineapple dissolves the oily sludge. You can use a natural (not plastic) bristle body brush on your dry skin before you make the pineapple juice. You don't want to wait while skin brushing after you make the juice because it becomes acid within 10 minutes. Rinse well. If you have a lot of starch residue, you do that with blended prunes, but you don't rub it on your skin, you just eat it. If you have a lot of protein residue, you do it with papaya.and you can rub it on your skin as a mask.
Sometimes, when I use half a peeled and cored cuke in my Energy Soup, I take the core with the seeds, blend it and put it on my eyes as a cooling mask. Same with the avo. All of these oils are magnificent as long as they are fresh and not old. Even 10 minutes old means acid sometimes.
Researchers from Queen's University in Belfast, are disappointed that the infamous cholesterol-lowering drugs didn't beat back dementia. For some reason they thought they would. I don't understand why they would.
Even I know that fats (Omega-3s, 6s and 9s) in the right proportion are good for mood, muscle and memory. Did you get that last one? Memory. What made them think that fooling around with cholesterol (fat/lipid) levels would improve memory at all? Earlier tests may have indicated they would but that appears to be more a case of wishful thinking.
Fatty plaques build up as the body's way of dealing with overall body chemistry that is way out of whack. Whatever 'whack' is. The point being hormones, fats, proteins, etc. all have an optimal balance. When that balance is lost, then the body does 'weird' things to survive. Those 'weird' things are signals there is dis-ease in the body. Find it and fix it and you resolve all the issues.
RAWDOCTORS recommends the Life Energy Pyramid (reduce stress, eat lots and lots of raw, organic living foods and get some sun and exercise daily) as the antidote to the drug 'em and cut 'em mindset that pervades medicine these days. You can be your own rawfood doctor!
Depression screening may lead to drug treatment for millions of kids across the United States, with drugs that are known to cause suicide and violence.
- "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!"
Here we go yet again. Big Medicine has just discovered exercise. Well it seems that way. The way they put it, no one ever knew how important a little locomotion could be - even for those with bad tickers.
Actually the announcement from the Duke University study and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association is even more lukewarm than that. They say; "moderate exercise will not harm people with heart failure and probably will benefit some of them."
Its yet another case where Big Medicine has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the fact that we were made to move. The more we do it, the better it is, generally speaking. It sounds as though anything that doesn't require their services is received with the equivalent of a weak handshake.
A new study in Great Britain has shown that in some cases, a pregnant woman given antibiotics gave birth to a baby with cerebral palsy.
While not huge numbers, the cases of cerebral palsy and antibiotics combination showed the triple the numbers of cases as opposed to those not given antibiotics.
We do know that infections during pregnancy or infancy do increase the risk of cerebral palsy. Researcher Professor Peter Brocklehurst of Oxford University said, "We have a suspicion that infection is implicated in premature labour.
"Antibiotics may merely suppress levels of infection to stop preterm labour, but the baby remains in a hostile environment."
Sperm Needs Solar Charge
We have a tough enough time dealing with the fact that we all get old – with any luck. But there is yet another thing to deal with. Did you know your brain shrinks as you get older? Probably past the age of 30, our brains get smaller (2% a decade) with time. 
Finland - Raw Food Vegan Diet Relieves Arthritis
, based on the findings of a 20 year study first published in the American Journal of Cardiology.
Peace and Love be with You,
As you know by now, all parents have a different idea of what is healthy food and what is not. For years, you have had the opportunity to hand select and monitor what your child eats for lunch. 
The cold, hard statistics on deaths from vitamins for the past 24 years:
A new study in Great Britain has shown that in some cases, a pregnant woman given antibiotics gave birth to a baby with cerebral palsy.
