ecobites

Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Our thoughts are with those who have lost so much. Sending love to everyone in Oklahoma affected by these devastating storms. Hundreds of people, and their pets, are without homes. The Red Cross, Salvation Army and several other organizations are already stepping up to help the human victims. Please don't forget to help the animal victims affected by the tornado that ripped through Moore on May 20, 2013

A record number of women under the age of 50 are being diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK, where one out of every five women diagnosed with breast cancer is now younger than 50. A JAMA study similarly found that the number of young women (aged 25-39) in the US being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer is also increasing.

Environmental factors, including exposure to synthetic hormones in birth control pills, personal care products and food, are likely fueling the increase.

Bravo to Hungary for destroying All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields. Hungary is a nation where genetically modified (GM) seeds are banned. In a similar stance against GM ingredients, Peru has also passed a 10 year ban on GM foods.

There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it – it’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs. It’s more powerful than guns. This is the best way to control the populations of the world.

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An App that let's you steer clear of Monsanto-owned food, or other products that violate your principles. In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smart phone app allowing shoppers to swipe bar-codes to check whether conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch were behind a product on the shelves.

The modern dog, partly because of evolution and domestication, is no longer like its ancestors, which frequently ate their prey entirely, including the stomach contents of plant-eating animals. Instead, dogs today seek out plants as an alternative food source. Most commonly the plant is grass -- since that is what is closest at hand -- but wild canines are known to eat fruits, berries, and other vegetable matter, too.

In 1583, Leonhard Rauwolf, a German physician, gave this description of coffee after returning from a ten-year trip to the Near East:

A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses, particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful. It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.

Léonard Rauwolf, Reise in die Morgenländer (in German)

Selenium is one of the basic elements you may have learned about in chemistry or physics class. It's atomic number 34 on the periodic chart. And because it's a common element, it's just about the cheapest anti-cancer potion you can buy. You could say it's dirt cheap.

If you know anything about alternative health, selenium is probably a household word to you. You know it as a powerful antioxidant that helps purge your body of harmful, cell-damaging substances.

B17 is a substance found abundantly in plants that are appropriate for consumption for humans and animals. It is not a man-made chemical and is not alien to the body. Its purified form called Laetrile is even less toxic than sugar. In a series of tests on adult mice, Dr. Dean Burk reported that they could live in perfect health to extreme old age when their normal diet consisted of fifty percent defatted apricot kernels. He said that this provided each mouse with a whopping one-hundred and twenty-five milligrams of vitamin B17 per day. And he added that the kernels provided "in addition, excellent food material, rich in protein and minerals. In another series of tests, white rats were fed seventy times the normal human dose of Laetrile, and the only side-effects produced were greater appetite, weight gain, and superior health; just what one would expect from taking a vitamin.

Ecobiters always choose “Organic” to avoid the harmful effects of GMOs and poisonous pesticides!

1. Corn: This is a no-brainer. If you’ve watched any food documentary, you know corn is highly modified. “As many as half of all U.S. farms growing corn for Monsanto are using genetically modified corn,” and much of it is intended for human consumption. Monsanto’s GMO corn has been tied to numerous health issues, including weight gain and organ disruption and many undiagnosed problems.

Avoid 100 Dangerous Food Additives Causing ADHD, Asthma and Cancer

Food industry additives and colors are one major cause of ADHD, asthma and cancer creating a toxic environment for our children's health. Even medicines for babies and young children frequently contain these additives banned from foods and drinks and targeted at children under three years of age.

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60 Lab Studies Confirm Cancer Link To A Vaccine You Had As A Child

Dr. Maurice Hilleman made astounding revelations in an interview that was cut from The Health Century the admission that Merck drug company vaccines had been injecting dangerous viruses into people worldwide.

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 “Its health benefits and curative powers were promoted in the 1940s by Ann Wigmore, a Lithuanian immigrant to Boston and holistic health practitioner.

 Wigmore believed humans could benefit by following the practice of dogs and cats by eating grass and regurgitating to feel better.

She developed the wheatgrass diet, a program which, in addition to consuming wheat grass juice, avoids all meats, dairy products and cooked foods, and focuses on 'live' foods such as sprouts, raw produce, nuts and seeds.