I must have said it a thousand times, and been proven right about that often.  Take a natural brand of food out of the hands of those who developed it with care and honesty, sell it to a big corporation  - and trust goes out of the window.

Once money becomes the main preoccupation, once greed rules, any available short cut will be taken, and we, the consumers, will be taken in. Read my recent post about Walmart and Organics as a case in point.

Walmart and other big names are on the spot again here:  think you are buying organic milk from happy cows?  Not so! Read the details of the scam here.

Protect yourself - let them know you are disgusted. 
Sign a petition here.

If you go to my article on Oligoprocyanidins, written in about 2000, you will see that I was already advocating Resveratrol as an anti-cancer strategy and over-all health support.  In fact, 2 years ago I found an absolutely wonderful small company making capsules and powder of the Muscadine Grape, grown right here in the USA.

I picked up the products immediately, and began using it myself.  It turns out that the Muscadine Grape has about 3 times the amount of Resveratrol as other kinds of grapes, as the website www.resveratrol.com points out. 

Red Wine compound may extend life - mouse study

Resveratrol - protecting against vascular alteration and aging

Jarrow makes an excellent Resveratrol product, with 16 mg of Resveratrol.

While I am very uncomfortable with feeding soy to infants  because of the possibility of hormone disruptions, preliminary studies are suggesting that food based sources of soy during early childhood and adolescence may protect against breast cancer.

"By comparing the highest and lowest soy intake values for soy-based foods such as tofu, miso and natto, Korde and co-workers at the National Cancer Institute calculated that women with the highest soy intake during childhood (ages 5 to 11) had a 58 per cent lower risk of breast cancer as adults as the women with the lowest soy intake as children.

The corresponding reductions for adolescent and adult intake were about 25 per cent, they said.

The underlying mechanism is not known, said the researchers, but they hypothesized that the oestrogenic effects of soy isoflavones cause changes in breast tissue during childhood that may decrease sensitivity to carcinogens later in life. A similar protective effect has been found in studies of overweight girls, perhaps because fat tissue also secretes oestrogens, said Korde."

Soy during childhood linked to lower risk of breast cancer

The Vitamin lady writes about protecting against breast cancer

We have a very special young lady staying with us for the winter months, O'Brandon's C'est Cassandra, known to her friends as Cassie.

My granddaughter Rosalyn and I own half of her, and are socializing her prior to showing her in the Spring.  She is so sweet and pretty - and a mere titch at 85 lbs, compared to my big boy Fitzroy, who weighs in at 160 lbs at 20 months!

By the way, here is a new idea I hope you never need - a canine (K9) Amber Alert.  Both to post animals you find, and to list a missing animal:

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/K9AmberAlert/

You may recall my previous posts about Wal-Mart's entry into the organic field - excuse the phrase.  I had serious misgivings about the effect this would have on small farmers in the US, since inevitably Wal-Mart will be out-sourcing its organics.

Corollary to that of course, is the question of how they intend to monitor overseas standards and compliance ..  but I digress.

If this accusation is true, it sheds a different light on the situation:  if all they intend to do is just LABEL the stuff  "organic", no wonder they can Sell it for Less .

Wal-mart charged with selling non-organic food as organic.

I have never been a proponent of the flu shot.  The whole subject of vaccinations is a murky and difficult one, since for things like polio and smallpox, it is only the eradication of the diseases through vaccinations that allows us the luxury of discussion.

However, while protection against life-threatening diseases can only be applauded, the lengthening list of non-fatal "problems" that are now approved for shots is a different story.

Chief among my concerns is that the immune system will fail to develop normally, we will in effect become shot- dependent and susceptible to many lesser evils such as allergies and bowel and digestive disturbances, together with the big ones that so far have no protective vaccine, the many auto-immune diseases, and cancer. 

Here comes something else to worry about with the flu shot, though - anyone for suicidal thoughts  and "disturbances in consciousness, abnormal behavior, delirium, hallucination, delusion and convulsion " to quote the Japanese label for tamiflu?

Read a report here

Read my article on the flu here

Consider homeopathic Oscillococcinum (the flu solution) here

Pancreatic Cancer is an agonizing and all too often fatal form of this scourge.

I am sure that if one of the pharmaceutical companies had developed a vaccine that was even marginally protective against the disease, we would be hearing all about it.

But who has heard about a study which has determined that a simple nutrient can reduce risk by 43%??

Compared to people whose intake of vitamin D was low (i.e. lower than 150 IU per day), there were the following risk reductions:

• 22 percent for those who received 150 to 299 IU per day
• 43 percent for those receiving 300 to 449 IU per day
• 44 percent for those receiving 450 to 599 IU per day
• 41 percent for those receiving 600 or more.

Add to this that Vitamin D has also been found to be protective against breast and prostate cancer, and one would expect the buzz to be as pervasive as the folic acid/birth defect connection.

A strange silence surrounds this promising research, in my opinion.

Science Daily reports here

I like Cod Liver Oil as a natural source of Vitamin D

Old fashioned LIQUID Cod Liver Oil

I almost get the feeeling I have written about nothing else BUT curry flavoring/turmeric/ curcumin this year - what amazing stuff it is.  I have recently made friends with a student from India who has helped me a bit with my computer - and he says repeatedly:  Indians are LUCKY!

Quite apart from its anti-inflammatory properties, the studies being done in connection with cancer, the connection to mental health - now it seems that Cyrcumin also prevents arthritic damage to the joints.

Read the report here.

Order The Vitamin Lady's Curcumin/Turmeric extract here.

The entire nation of Britain can cheer - green is not the only healthy way to drink tea.  I am personally very happy, because when things go wrong tea is what I crave.  And now I know why.  I have black tea as Irish breakfast, English Breakfast, Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Assam (I get the Taylors of Harrogate tea from The Baltimore Coffee Company) and enjoy 1 or 2 cups a day from my selection.

I am continually amazed by the many things our ancestors knew intuitively which now turn out to have scientific proof.  Rose hips, cod liver oil, chicken soup ... the list is virtually endless.  When I was a child in Sweden, I spent a year on a farm way, way in the country.  My hostess collected rose-hips in the autumn and made a syrup from them, which  she would pour over yoghurt for our breakfast.  She may have been an uneducated farm worker, but boy, was she smart!

Now read how BLACK TEA helps stress and the heart.