You probably don’t want to eat raw foods all the time. So here’s a good recipe for those times that’s also reasonably healthy. Low in fat and avoids most acne triggers so it should be good for your skin also.
This takes about 20 minutes to prepare and 20 minutes to cook. So 40 minutes from box to plate.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups uncooked quinoa, rinsed
1 cup canned lentils, rinsed
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, chopped
1 quart vegetable broth
1 bunch Swiss chard, stems removed
Directions
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Stir in the onion and garlic, and saute 5 minutes, until onion is tender. Mix in quinoa, lentils, and mushrooms. Pour in the broth. Cover, and cook 20 minutes.
Remove the pot from heat. Shred chard, and gently mix into the pot. Cover, and allow to sit 5 minutes, or until chard is wilted.
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
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Here’s a bit of antidote to the misinformation poisoning threatening your health (and skin).
Few days back I found this interesting article sitting in my inbox. I’ll post it here since I think it’ll help you in your efforts to cure acne. It’s written by Frederic Patenaude. Frederic is one of those guys that introduced me to raw foods and opened my eyes on what healthy and being healthy really means. I highly recommend Frederic’s products. After all, he’s the one who got me up to speed on health.
"5 False Assumptions About Natural Living (From the Mainstream)"
by Frederic Patenaude
It seems like every time you turn your head, you hear confusing and misleading information from every corner of the natural health movement. First, you have mainstream "experts" who rely on outdated and inaccurate data to advise us on the subject. And then there’s the raw food or natural health movement itself, within which most people seem to disagree on what constitutes the healthiest diet.
In this article, I will review 5 wrong assumptions about natural living, spread by conventional "experts." In the second part of this article, I will expose 5 false assumptions being spread by various raw-food advocates and naturopaths.
From the mainstream, we hear the following…
"You have to make sure you eat enough protein"
Without a doubt, the issue of "getting enough protein" is the number one concern of anyone switching to any kind of diet for any reason. Even though decades of vegetarian and vegan traditions and extensive research have proven that our actual protein requirements are fairly low and easy to meet - as long as we eat enough food - most people who will advise you about diet will likely make a much bigger deal about protein than it actually is.
Bodybuilders go beyond all extremes known to humankind by consuming upwards to 350 grams of protein per day, an amount that is completely off the charts and only possible through the consumption of refined protein powders.
At the same time, most people on the planet get by on less than 60 grams of protein a day, and many people in these cultures possess wiry and explosive strength that would put most gym goers to shame.
In the end, the evidence is still conclusive: as long as you eat enough calories to meet your needs, you will at the same time consume enough protein, even if all you eat are fruits and vegetables.
There is no reason to make protein more important than it actually is.
"You need to eat a balanced diet"
According to our nutritionists, a "balanced" meal is composed of carbohydrates, protein and fat in the right proportions.
A meal of bread (carbohydrate), with cheese (protein), and a salad containing a dressing of olive oil (fat) and a desert (carbohydrate) would be, in their opinion, a balanced meal.
That meal might be a digestive disaster for most people, but that aside, we don’t find any evidence that our bodies need to receive nutrition in such a manner.
If we look all around the world, we see different cultures that have enjoyed excellent health eating far from "balanced" meals. In China, rice with vegetables is a meal. In the Great North, the Eskimos have lived on almost nothing but meat. The Hunzas regularly ate meals composed of vegetables and some chapati bread.
If we look at wild animals, we also see that they do not eat "balanced" meals. A meal for an orangutan might consist of nothing more than rambutan (a tropical fruit) or durian (another tropical fruit).
There is absolutely no need to worry about eating a very simple diet where most of our meals are composed of a few foods only. As long as we eat a large variety of food from week to week, it doesn’t matter if our meals are not composed of "carbohydrates, protein and fat".
"You can’t sustain yourself on just raw foods"
Most nutritionists look at the raw food diet and claim that it’s "impossible" to sustain ourselves from only fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Letting alone the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are doing just that and are still alive to tell about it, there is no scientific reason to believe that we can’t live on raw foods.
Nutritionists will claim that it would be "very difficult" to eat enough fruits and vegetables to consume enough calories.
The problem is that they are still stuck with the view of cooked nutrition and its "balanced view" and can’t think outside the box and realize that it is actually possible to consume enough fruits and vegetables and get the calories you need. It just is a lot of food!
The truth is, eating a raw food diet will mean that you’ll be consuming more fruits and vegetables in a day than some people may consume in a week or even in a month. But as you learn to eat this way, you’ll find that this "huge" amount of fruits and vegetables is actually the "right" amount.
"You should never expose your skin to the sun"
Although we know that too much sun isn’t good for us, the advice we get from dermatologists these days defy all reason. Apparently, we should never expose our skin to the sun unless we are fully protected by chemical lotions.
Did you forget the important fact that sunlight is essential to our well-being, and that regular sun exposure at safe periods of the day are actually beneficial to your health, even in 2006?
You need the sun. The question is just how much!
"If it’s natural it’s good for you"
The word "natural" has been abused more than any other term in the food industry. We now have "natural potato chips", "natural coffee" and "natural beer."
The fact that these foods come from a factory should make it obvious that they are definitely not natural, nor healthy.
The truth is, even if a food were natural, it wouldn’t automatically make it healthy. There are plenty of plants and mushrooms that grow in the wild that are not only "perfectly natural," but also deadly!
Let’s be clear: for a food to be healthy, it has to be a lot more than "natural."
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Frederic Patenaude, is the author of the best-selling e-book "The Raw Secrets". He is currently giving away free access to his private library of over 100 exclusive articles along with a subscription to his newsletter Pure Health & Nutrition. Visit http://www.fredericpatenaude.com while charter subscriptions last.
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
And here’s video of another acne treatment product that uses light.
As far as acne treatments go light therapy seems like a promising option. It seems that specific wave length of light kill bacteria (blue light area) while other wave length (red light area) reduces inflammation and hence makes pimples and red marks disappear faster.
Of course this is nothing more than an old trick dressed in new clothes. Simply another form of slaying bacteria.
As you know, killing bacteria is not the long term answer for acne. To permanently cure acne you have to fix the lifestyle issues that created acne in the first place.
But light therapy could be an interesting option to support you during the time it takes for your body to heal itself. Light therapy for acne is an interesting for two reasons. First, besides the initial investment, it’s free to use (as far as I understand). Second, you don’t have to poison your skin or your body with chemicals. Light waves kill the bacteria without introducing anything foreign to your body.
So if you are on the market for a support treatment, phototherapy might be a good option for you.
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
I know I have - too many times. Looking back nothing good ever happened to me after saying those ‘cursed’ words. If you are honest with yourself you can probably say the same thing.
It’s just a simple case of "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak".
So what are the things you’ve decided to start tomorrow you know will help you to cure your acne?
The thing is that tomorrow never comes. Tomorrow is always one step ahead of you. When you go to sleep in the evening thinking you’ll catch it the next morning, it again moved during the night.
There’s always a "tomorrow". But if you want to cure your acne, or achieve any goal you set, one of those tomorrows has got to become "today".
So whatever you’ve decided to start "tomorrow" do something for it today. The thing is that we are creatures of momentum. It takes some effort to get us moving, but once we are on the roll it’s easy to keep up with it.
So do something TODAY to get yourself started towards healthier lifestyle. It doesn’t have to be much, but just do something. Get the ball rolling.
How many times have you told yourself you’ll do it tomorrow? So, when would NOW be a good time to start?
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
Mike Adams of Naturalnews.com posted this fantastic cartoon and commentary to his site few days ago. It’s not directly related to acne, but very relevant to any freedom loving person.
It’s about the tyranny of FDA and how they are driving natural health companies out of business. So far they target only supplement companies, but it’s not too hard to imagine that not in so far future they’ll start targeting anyone spreading any information that contradicts the ‘pharmaceutical truth’ - meaning that you’ll never hear about real option for clearing your acne.
So please follow the action items in the article and do your bit - I know I’ll do mine.
(NaturalNews) NaturalNews has learned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is running a criminal extortion racket designed to drain cash from health supplement companies and shift it into the pockets of top FDA contractors. This organized crime operation has been running for years, and it has operated with impunity because each company targeted by the scam feels isolated and alone, unable to face the astronomical legal bills of going to court and battling the FDA. So one by one, they agree to "settle" with the FDA for crimes they never committed. Part of the settlement, of course, involves the payment of FDA employees or contractors who pocket the money extorted from health companies. NaturalNews has interviewed executives from three different companies who have been targeted for extortion by U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees. At their request, the names of those companies are being kept confidential until legal action being taken against them is resolved. Interviews have been recorded, with permission, with two of those companies and will be released to the public at a later date. Documents proving this FDA extortion racket are included here.
The FDA extortion racket works like this: FDA employees use keyword-scanning software to scan the web pages of natural health product and supplement companies, searching for terms like cancer, cures, treatment, remedies and other "forbidden" words. FDA employees then review the discovered pages to determine if they contain any words that might inform consumers of the health benefits of the nutritional products. FDA employees also look for links that might point web users to scientific articles from peer-reviewed medical journals that further explain the health benefits of specific foods, supplements or nutrients. When offending words or links are found by the FDA, their extortion team goes into full swing. First, they contact the company and warn them to remove all information and links from their websites. This is the most important step from the FDA’s standpoint, because by doing this, they can keep the health-conscious public in a state of nutritional ignorance about the scientifically-supported healing properties of natural supplements. Cherry products, for example, cannot link to scientific articles explaining the simple biological fact that cherries ease inflammation in human beings. Such links are considered "drug claims" by the FDA. NaturalNews has even learned that companies are now being targeted for simply posting customer testimonials, even when those testimonials make absolutely no health claims. FDA and FTC agents are now threatening the owners of such companies with imprisonment if they do not immediately remove all customer testimonials from their websites and marketing materials. If the company being targeted for extortion refuses to fully comply with the FDA’s requests to remove all educational information from their website, the FDA then escalates the extortion tactics by threatening the company principals with arrest and seizure unless they agree to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to top FDA contractors and sign a "consent decree" where the company "admits" to committing various crimes (see below). This consent decree is a blatant violation of the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, of course, and it violates numerous sections of the Bill of Rights (Amendments #1 and #5, at the very least). The FDA employees or contractors receiving the extorted money, it is claimed, are being paid to "review web pages" to make sure they don’t contain anything that might inform consumers about the scientifically-validated benefits of the health products being sold. FDA extortion agreements specify that FDA employees should be paid the rate of $100 per hour, with no limit on the number of hours they may bill the company for. The extortion agreement also requires companies to pay for all the following: • $100 per hour for the travel time of FDA employees. • Hotel rooms for FDA employees. • Storage fees for all products seized by the FDA. The same agreement also requires the company to comply with FDA demands by never placing any links or "illegal" information on its website, where "illegal" means anything that offers an accurate description of the health benefits offered by natural health products.
The Consent Decree
Part of the FDA’s strategy for oppression and control is to force targeted companies to sign a "consent decree" where they admit to crimes they never committed. NaturalNews obtained a copy of a public court document the FruitFast company was forced to sign due to FDA threats and extortion tactics. You can view this document yourself at: http://www.NaturalNews.com/investigatio… This document requires the FruitFast company to admit to crimes it did not commit; namely: "Violating the Act, by introducing or delivering for introduction, or causing to be introduced or delivered for introduction, into interstate commerce articles of drug that are misbranded within the meaning of 21 U.S.C. SS 352(f)(1)." What "drugs" did the FruitFast company introduce that were "misbranded?" Cherries, it turns out. Cherry juice concentrate was being sold with the accurate statement that it helped eliminate gout (which it does). This, according to the FDA, was enough to magically transform cherry juice into an "unapproved drug" and cause it to be "misbranded." It also requires targeted companies to contractually agree that they have: "…removed all claims from Defendants’ product labels, labeling, promotional materials, websites owned or controlled by Defendants, and in any other media that cause that product to be a drug and/or contain unapproved or unauthorized health claims within the meaning of the Act; and (ii) removed, from their product labels, labeling, promotional materials, and websites owned or controlled by Defendants, references to or endorsements of any other website that conveys information about Defendants’ products that cause those products to be a drug and/or contain unapproved or unauthorized health claims within the meaning of the Act." This means, of course, that these companies can no longer even LINK to other websites, including websites of scientific journals that discuss the proven health benefits of such natural products (foods, herbs, etc.)
The truth is now subject to FDA approval
Once a company removes all educational information and links from their website, they are then required to submit to draconian measures of "censorship enforcement" by the FDA. This is fully explained in this section of the FDA’s Consent Decree: (bolding added for emphasis) Within ten (10) calendar days of FDA’s request for any labels, labeling, promotional materials, and/or downloaded copies (on CD-Rom) of any internet websites owned or controlled by Defendants or websites referenced by, endorsed, or adopted directly or indirectly by Defendants, Defendants shall submit a copy of the requested materials to FDA at the address specified in paragraph 19. Within twenty (20) calendar days of entry of this Decree, Defendants shall submit to FDA a certification of compliance, signed by each of the individually-named Defendants in this matter, each Defendant stating that he: (a) has personally reviewed all of Defendants’ product labels, labeling, promotional materials, and the internet websites referred to in paragraph 8 above; and (b) personally certifies that the product labels, labeling, promotional materials, and internet websites strictly comply with the requirements of the Act and its regulations and do not include unapproved or unauthorized claims that the products cure, mitigate, treat, prevent and/or reduce the risk of disease. Thereafter, Defendants shall submit certifications of compliance every three (3) months for a period of two (2) years. Furthermore, the FDA then requires that the company being targeted by the extortion racket hire a person (called the "expert") to enforce all this censorship the company has agreed to. As you’ll note in the language below, this "expert" must be paid $100 an hour, for an unlimited number of hours, to conduct surprise inspections of the company’s administrative offices, warehouses and fulfillment centers: Within fourteen (14) calendar days of entry of this Decree, Defendants shall retain an independent person or persons (the "expert")… who by reason of background, experience, education, and training is qualified to assess Defendants’ compliance with the Act, to review the claims Defendants make for all of their products on their product labels, labeling, promotional material, any internet websites owned or controlled by Defendants, including, but not limited to, the websites referred to in paragraph 8 above. At the conclusion of the expert’s review, the expert shall prepare a written report analyzing whether Defendants are operating in compliance with the Act and in particular, certify whether Defendants have omitted all claims from their product labels, labeling, promotional materials, websites owned or controlled by Defendants, and in any other media, that make any of their products drugs and/or constitute unapproved or unauthorized health claims within the meaning of the Act. The expert shall also review Defendants’ product labels, labeling, promotional materials, and websites owned or controlled by Defendants to determine whether these include any references to or endorsements of any other websites that convey information about Defendants’ products that cause those products to be a drug and/or contain unapproved or unauthorized health claims within the meaning of the Act, and certify in the written report whether Defendants have omitted any such references or endorsements. The expert shall submit this report to FDA and Defendants within thirty-five (35) calendar days of the entry of this Decree. If the expert reports any violations of the Act, Defendants shall, within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of the report, correct those deviations, unless FDA notifies Defendants that a shorter time period is necessary. In other words, this section requires the company being targeted to pay the "Expert" huge fees to make sure it doesn’t "illegally" link to other websites that might tell the truth about the health products in question.
So what happens if the company slips up and does something illegal like, let’s say, posting a clickable link to a science journal that discusses research citing the health benefits of cherries? As you’ll see below, there are no limits to the action the FDA can take in retribution, including the seizure of all company assets and the arrest of its principals. Specifically, the Consent Decree forces company owners to agree to the following: If, at any time after this Decree has been entered, FDA determines, based on the results of an inspection, the analyses of Defendants’ product labels, labeling, promotional materials, websites owned or controlled by Defendants, or websites referenced by, endorsed, or adopted directly or indirectly by Defendants that convey information about Defendants’ products, a report prepared by Defendants’ expert, or any other information, that additional corrective actions are necessary to achieve compliance with the Act, applicable regulations, or this Decree, FDA may, as and when it deems necessary, direct Defendants, in writing, to take one or more of the actions: A. Cease manufacturing, processing, packing, labeling, holding, and/or distributing any article(s); B. Submit additional reports or information to FDA; C. Recall any article(s) at Defendants’ expense; or D. Take any other reasonable corrective action(s) as FDA, in its discretion, deems necessary to bring Defendants and their products into compliance with the Act, applicable regulations, and this Decree.
Surprise inspections, secret police and non-stop persecution
Just to keep the targeted company in a state of constant fear (which is why I have labeled the FDA a terrorist organization), the FDA forces it to agree to surprise inspections where it must pay FDA "compliance officers" to rummage through their product shelves and paperwork, looking for evidence of non-compliance: Duly authorized representatives of FDA shall be permitted, without prior notice and as and when FDA deems necessary, to make [surprise] inspections of Defendants’ facilities and, without prior notice, take any other measures necessary to monitor and ensure continuing compliance with the terms of this Decree. During such inspections, FDA representatives shall be permitted prompt access to buildings, equipment, in-process and finished materials, containers, labeling and other materials therein; to take photographs and make video recordings; to take samples of Defendants’ finished and unfinished materials and products, containers, labels, labeling, and other promotional materials; and to examine and copy all records relating to the receipt, manufacture, processing, packing, labeling, promoting, holding, and distribution of any and all Defendants’ products in order to ensure continuing compliance with the terms of this Decree. The inspections shall be permitted upon presentation of a copy of this Decree and appropriate credentials. The inspection authority granted by this Decree is separate from, and in addition to, the authority to conduct inspections under the Act, 21 U.S.C. §374. And just to make sure the company is further driven into bankruptcy, the FDA requires them to PAY for all these surprise "compliance" investigations! As stated in the Consent Decree: Defendants shall reimburse FDA for the costs of all FDA inspections, investigations, supervision, reviews, examinations, and analyses specified in this Decree or that FDA deems necessary to evaluate Defendants’ compliance with this Decree. The costs of such inspections shall be borne by Defendants at the prevailing rates in effect at the time the costs are incurred. As of the date that this Decree is signed by the parties, these rates are: $78.09 per hour and fraction thereof per representative for inspection work; $93.61 per hour or fraction thereof per representative for analytical or review work; $0.485 per mile for travel expenses by automobile; government rate or the equivalent for travel by air or other means; and the published government per diem rate or the equivalent for the areas in which the inspections are performed per-day, per-representative for subsistence expenses, where necessary. In the event that the standard rates applicable to FDA supervision of court-ordered compliance are modified, these rates shall be increased or decreased without further order of the Court." Are you getting the picture here? The FDA can simply show up on a "surprise" inspection, bring ten FDA agents, bill the company for thousands of hours, and bankrupt the company while padding its own pockets. Doesn’t this sound a lot like the King’s Consent Decree against the American colonies? The FDA’s agreement reads amazingly like a document a King might force his subjects to sign as he’s taking over their land and gold, imprisoning them in his kingdom. But it gets better: The FDA also requires the Defendants to reveal all sorts of details about their business operations: "Within ten (10) calendar days of entry of this Decree, Defendants shall provide FDA a list of all domain names and IP addresses they use to market or describe any product, regardless of whether such sites mention specific products Defendants sell. Defendants shall notify the District Director, FDA Detroit District Office, in writing at least fifteen (15) calendar days before any change in ownership, character, or name of its business. If Defendants fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Decree, including any time frame imposed by this Decree, then, on motion of the United States in this proceeding, Defendants Brownwood Acres and/or Cherry Capital shall pay to the United States of America the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) in liquidated damages per violation per day so long as such violation continues. Should the United States bring, and prevail in, a contempt action to enforce the terms of this Decree, Defendants shall, in addition to other remedies, reimburse the United States for its attorneys* fees, investigational expenses, expert witness fees, travel expenses incurred by attorneys and witnesses, and administrative court costs relating to such contempt proceedings. And finally, just to make sure everybody knows who’s in charge, here’s what the agreement says about final judgment: All decisions specified in this Decree shall be vested in the discretion of FDA and shall be final. In other words, the FDA is the King. It is above the law. It answers to no one but itself. Welcome to the United States of Tyranny, FDA style. The full text of the FDA’s agreement, including the names of the top FDA criminals who signed it, is included at the end of this article.
This brand of tyranny is reserved for health supplement companies
While the FDA gives drug companies a free pass of easy approval for dangerous drugs, this Consent Decree is the kind of treatment it slams down upon health product companies. As you can see from the text in the decree, above, this is a document of outright tyranny and oppression. Any company signing this document gives the FDA all the tools it needs to drive that company completely out of business. Sadly, dozens of companies have signed this in just the last year. The FDA’s reign of terror is working. It’s putting health companies out of business and forcing them to censor themselves. It even forces them to remove all web links to information sources like NaturalNews.com or peer-reviewed science journals. This is all part of the FDA’s campaign of health illiteracy — a war of disinformation being waged against the American people. It is a secret war being fought out of the view of the mainstream media (which refuses to report this story) and far from the scrutiny of the U.S. Dept. of Justice (which doesn’t care about the real tyrants running loose in this country). As I have often stated here on NaturalNews.com, the FDA is an out-of-control, rogue agency engaged in acts of terrorism against the American people. By itself, it is negligent in the deaths of tens of millions of Americans, and it has taken it upon itself to increase the body count by making sure consumers have zero access to honest, truthful, scientifically-validated information about the healing properties of health supplements. The FDA, by any account, is a much greater threat to the security and safety of the American people than any terrorist group, and if the U.S. really wanted to fight terror and tyranny, it would start by arresting top FDA officials at gunpoint. Those targeted for arrest and prosecution should also include the lawyers and paper pushers involved in this very agreement (see their names on the legal documents at the end of this article). In my view, these people are the real criminals at work here. They are the masterminds of this campaign of extortion and terror being leveled against health companies by the rogue U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Much like Hitler’s top generals, they play an important role in the mass disinformation that’s resulting in the needless death of millions of people. By any account, they are all guilty of crimes against humanity and should be arrested and prosecuted as such. We should all be so fortunate to live to the day where we can see these white-collar criminals behind bars, perhaps sharing their jail cells with other war criminals from the Bush Administration.
Sign this or you’ll be arrested
What you haven’t yet seen in all this is the barrage of threats leveled against companies if they don’t sign this Consent Decree! Company executives receive both written and verbal threats from top FDA "enforcement officers" who claim they will "throw you in prison" if you don’t sign the agreement. Every major health trade show hosts an FDA compliance officer (much like a Nazi Gestapo officer) whose job it is to walk the show floor and threaten companies into compliance. This includes shows like Expo West and Expo East, where show organizers also serve as de facto FDA agents themselves, barring the participation of exhibitors who dare to tell the truth about their natural products. This smacks of KGB secret police operations in the former Soviet Union. But secret FDA police are now a reality in the United States of America. NaturalNews has learned of numerous verbal threats from FDA compliance officers directed at health supplement companies during trade shows, including threats to "put you out of business," "throw you in prison" or "take every last dollar you’ve ever earned." FDA compliance officers are the foot soldiers of the agency’s war against the truth. They seek out any health claim that might inform consumers about the properties of nutritional supplements, then they work to squash such statements before they become too well known. In essence, they are censorship officers who enforce nutritional illiteracy and prevent knowledge from being shared. As such, they are acting not merely as secret police on a mission to destroy small American businesses; they are actually agents of disinformation, bent on destroying knowledge and enforcing a system of mandatory ignorance. This is entirely consistent with the FDA’s history of ordering the destruction of recipe books that promoted the use of the natural herb stevia, among many other examples of information suppression.
The FDA’s campaign of health illiteracy and enforced ignorance
It is the FDA’s position that there is no such thing as any food, beverage, supplement or herb that has any health benefit whatsoever. Merely making such a claim instantly qualifies your product as a "new and unapproved drug," according to the FDA. Officially, the FDA claims all health products are inert and have no properties other than their macronutrients (fiber, carbohydrates, protein, etc.). There is only one class of substances that have any biological effect on the human body, the FDA claims: Pharmaceuticals. Only those patented, synthetic chemicals are allowed to be described as having benefits to human health. This convenient position is entirely consistent with the protection of the profits of drug companies. It’s no coincidence that the drug companies fund the FDA through "user fees," and most FDA employees are dependent on drug company money… except, of course, those FDA people earning their living by extorting millions of dollars from health product companies. The upshot of the FDA’s campaign against health supplements is that most of the American people remain nutritionally illiterate, oblivious to the scientifically-validated health benefits offered by tens of thousands of different nutrients, plants, supplements and products. To say that zinc speeds healing, or that vitamin D prevents cancer, or that resveratrol lowers high cholesterol is common sense in the scientific community, but it’s a crime in the eyes of the FDA.
It’s time to stop the FDA’s reign of terror over health supplements
It is time to end the FDA’s extortion racket, restore Free Speech rights to health supplements, and bring the organized crime kingpins at the FDA to justice. NaturalNews is organizing a list of companies who wish to help fund legal action against the FDA. We intend to take part in a lawsuit against the FDA that would reign in the FDA’s control over nutritional supplements and defend health freedoms for American consumers. To do this, we need to gather information from those companies who are willing to help fund this legal action, which may cost several hundred thousand dollars. If you represent a company willing to take part in this legal action against the FDA, contact us now at StopTheFDA@naturalnews.com Simply email us your name and contact phone number. We’ll contact you to continue the conversation. Any information sent to us is kept strictly confidential. We will refuse to turn over such information even with a court order. With enough support from the natural products community, we will take part in the reporting and grassroots organization of this legal action.
We must stop the FDA now
It is the belief of NaturalNews that the FDA is being run as a system of organized crime, using the exact same extortion tactics as the Mob. Through intimidation, censorship and threats of imprisonment, the FDA is right now extorting tens of millions of dollars from the very same health supplement companies you depend on to bring you lifesaving, disease-reversing products. Even worse, the FDA is getting away with it. Backed by the threat of imprisonment and the ability to conduct armed raids against health product companies (see the history of armed FDA raids against vitamin companies here: http://www.naturalnews.com/021791.html ), the FDA is able to overpower health product companies when they stand alone. The industry must band together if it hopes to defend itself against this tyranny. A lone villager cannot defend himself against a band of marauders, but an organized and well-defended band of villagers can fight off attackers many times their size. If it wishes to survive, the natural products industry must band together and defend itself against the FDA. It must take back its right to tell the truth about health supplements, and it must forever banish censorship and ignorance from the health products marketplace. The FDA will not stop its reign of terror, you see, until every health supplement companies is silenced, every company founder is imprisoned and every consumer is enslaved in a state of outright nutritional illiteracy. They will seize products and let them rot in warehouses; they’ll recruit armed law enforcement personnel to conduct SWAT-style raids on vitamin shops; they’ll extort millions of dollars from health companies and pocket the profits; and they’ll do it all while burning taxpayer dollars and claiming they’re working to "protect" consumers from natural health products like cherry juice concentrate, which is of course so incredibly dangerous that we need an entire government agency just to make sure we don’t find out it might ease arthritis inflammation.
What you can do right now to help halt the FDA’s reign of terror
As a consumer, you can use your voice to help stop the FDA from destroying the natural products marketplace. Simply go to www.ReformFDA.org and sign the petition there. It’s sponsored by the American Association for Health Freedom (AAHF), an organization fighting to end the FDA’s tyrannical rule over the health of the American people. Sign that petition and spread the word: NaturalNews and the AAHF are working together to bring back honesty, freedom and free speech to the health supplements industry, and we need your help to get it done. You can also protest the FDA with your Congressperson or Senator. Contact them and insist that they support efforts to end the reign of FDA tyranny and reestablish Free Speech rights for nutritional supplement companies. Notably, Rep. Ron Paul has sponsored the Health Freedom Protection Act, which you can read here: http://www.StopFDACensorship.org
Grab your cameras, folks
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— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark found that also healthy skin allows bacteria.
The researchers compared bacteria collected from people with acne to people with healthy skin. They found that healthy skin contained only P. acnes bacteria, where as people with acne had P. acnes, Staphylococcus epidermidis and few other bacteria on their skin pores.
So why don’t people with healthy skin have those other bacteria on their skin?
To me it would seem that bacteria have very little to do with acne. That they would act in an opportunistic manner. Colonizing the pores after inflammation has damaged it, and perhaps making acne and other skin problems worse in the process.
The initial inflammation probably happens when the body eliminates toxins through the skin. Similar thing happens when chemicals irritate the skin. For example I woke up yesterday morning with red and itchy bumps on my neck. There were residues of laundry detergent on my pillowcases and that irritated my skin.
Chronic inflammation could also play a role, but since chronic inflammation is so widespread (pretty much everybody has it) more adults would have to suffer from acne.
Acne also often flares up during intensive detox period.
Perhaps there’s something here. Anyway, it doesn’t change the fact that building health is the only way to permanently clear skin. Building health also happens to get rid of toxins and reducing inflammation.
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
Posted by Seppo, filed under news. Date: October 23, 2008, 10:29 am |No Comments »
Few days back Oliver emailed me and asked if I know something about a product called 7 Day Acne Detox, available at http://www.7dayacnedetox.com/.
Call me paranoid, but the moment I laid my eyes on that page I knew something was not quite right about it. Perhaps I’ve just seen too many of these stories.
It didn’t take too long to discover that the same beloved characters that brought us such heart warming scams as Acnetix and Acnexus are also behind the 7 Day Acne Detox miracle. Namely the colorful characters at Garrett DeVore Labs, or GD Labs.
Now by calling this a scam, I don’t mean that they just take your money and run. No, they probably do fulfill their end of the bargain. So you do get a nice plastic bottle with some nice pills inside it. But I believe that by creating these products GD Labs has their eyes more on your wallet than helping you to get clear.
Let’s see why I believe so.
First, the website just doesn’t look believable at all. It looks like something that’s been thrown together quickly. If I would have spent time, money and effort to come up with a serious product I would also spend time making sure the website reflects that. But perhaps that’s just me.
Enter the anonymous ’she’
Perhaps they are just really bad at this, but when you suddenly introduce a mysterious ’she’ in the middle of the sales letter as the heroine of the story, to me that just smells like a cheap scam. I mean, who is this ’she’? Where did she come from? What’s her relevance to this? Is ’she’ part of your so-called research team that accidentally discovered this 7 Day Acne Detox miracle product?
Please don’t keep me in suspension. I want to know!
But the surprises aren’t over yet.
Introducing the family where everyone has acne!
Perhaps this is another conincidence, but the mysterious ’she’ is really fortunate that her equally anonymous family and friends also have acne! Another blessing from the lady luck is that her miraculous discovery cured them all in one big swoop.
Boy, she really must be onto something if her whole family and all of her friends cured their acne with these miracle pills.
Why isn’t she on Oprah already? The people need to hear about this miracle!
Unfortunately in the midst of their excitement to bring this miraculous product and alleviate your suffering they forgot to correct the rather obvious typos in their sales letter. But we can forgive that since this is obviously one small person fighting the system in altruistic quest to alleviate the suffering of others.
But wait there’s more.
You just gotta love these FAQs
The 7 Day Acne Detox pills seem better by the minute. Just look the answers to these FAQs.
I mean, this product is so good that they have to warn you that your skin might clear up too quickly!
Boy, I wish I had something that good. But I guess 7 Day Acne Detox just wipes the floor with the competition. I guess I just have to quit doing this now, and get back to 9 to 5.
Perhaps you are smarter than me and can explain the dangers of skin clearing up too quickly. Perhaps it’s just too much for some people to handle and it makes them go crazy or something.
Please use the comment section to enlighten me.
Another amazing feature of the 7 Day Acne Detox is that the more acne you have the faster it clears up. Boy, do I now feel sorry for those with only a mild acne. Well, another reason for me to pack up and start writing my CV.
And of course the 7 Day Acne Detox doesn’t just cure your acne, it also reduces fine lines and wrinkles. And on the other page it said that users also lose weight.
In an earlier post I mentioned that GD Labs is a diverse company marketing weightloss, anti-aging and wrinkle reduction products in addition to their acne treatment line. I guess this is where the diversity really pays off. They can pull from their research and experience in many fields to create one super product.
It really gets depressing when you are faced with such overwhelming competition.
OK, let’s get serious again.
I touched on this when I wrote about Acnexus, but it seems that there’s a ring of few ‘review’ sites that post glowing reviews of all the GD Lab’s products. Other products are referred with less than admiring comments.
Coincidence again?
Maybe, or perhaps the same people are also create these review sites. So far I’ve identified these as part of the ring:
http://www.researchacnetreatments.com
http://www.sybervision.com/reviews/reviews.php
http://getacnetreatments.com/
http://www.pricesexposed.com/
http://www.acnecuresrevealed.net/
There are probably more. And they seem to come up with new review sites all the time. Just like they seem to be creating new acne treatment products all the time.
They also post and ask questions at Yahoo! Answers and other similar sites. Of course their products always seem to work so well.
And the same thing happens at acne.org and other acne forums. For some reason the people posting good reviews of these products are always new members with one or only few posts. More established members seem a bit more skeptical.
At the time of writing at least other one of these had less than admiring comments on his/her guest book.
The smoke screen operation continues with supposedly independent people writing guides and reviews of these products at eBay. Just makes me wonder why they only review the products by GD Labs?
Again, I’m not saying they are going to take your money and run. But perhaps you want to hear the other side of the story also before putting your trust on these people.
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
One of my customers, Eric, emailed an interesting comment to me.
He recently met a girl and said that just hanging out with her feels incredibly healthy.
This is of course nothing new to anyone who’s been in love. Being in love can do wonders for your mental health. Still it got me thinking.
When a person asks he what they should do to get clear they are often looking for a formula, or step by step instructions. Sort of do this, that and those and you’ll get clear.
There’s nothing wrong with such an approach. It can get you a long way towards clear skin. But we have to be careful not to let the formulas and step by step instructions limit us. There’s more to health and clear skin those formulas can capture.
We are integrated beings of body, mind and spirit. Harmony between all three creates the perfect environment for health and curing acne.
There’s still place for formulas and step by step instructions also. Health and clear skin just cannot exist without certain things (good nutrition and exercise for example). Because by making wrong diet and lifestyle choices we set obstacles to health and sabotage the body’s efforts to cure acne. Following these formulas can make sure you don’t shoot yourself on the foot by making choices that don’t serve you. And Clear for Life does a particularly good job at showing not just these formulas, but how to apply them to your life also (because each of us faces different challenges and needs a different approach).
That’s the value of formulas and step by step instructions. They show you how to remove the obstacles to good health and clear skin. And that’s enough to get cure your acne.
But I think you can do much better by going beyond those formulas.
Here’s where things like these come into play.
Love and relationships
Friends and social circle
Creative expression
Spiritual practice and growth (for those inclined)
Taking time to do the things you love
Personal growth
Discipline
Traveling and experiencing things. My motto here is: "Make the most of your time on earth".
Being passionate about something
Setting and achieving goals. So you feel you are making progress on the important areas of your life.
Having a meaningful work.
Making a positive contribution to the world
That’s just out of the top of my head. I’m sure you can think few of your own also.
What common with all these things?
They put that extra spark on your life. Make you feel like you are alive. Make your life worth living.
I hope I managed to open up your thinking a bit.
So what could you do to create peace, happiness and well being in your life today?
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
Since people keep requesting recipes quite often I’ll start posting them more often.
Here’s one good green smoothie recipe, again from
2 mangoes
2 pears
2 big handfuls of mixed baby greens
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
Blend and enjoy.
Frederic Patenaude’s Raw Health Starter Kit has tons more recipes, and pretty much everything else you need to know about the healthiest diet for your skin.
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Posted by Seppo, filed under recipes. Date: October 17, 2008, 4:49 am |6 Comments »
Most people don’t really get holistic health. Many people trying to cure acne with natural methods think they do. But as you discover there’s nothing holistic (or natural) about flushing your liver, cleansing your colon or any other natural health fantasies (treatments).
They are all based on the same idea as Western medicine is.
Because, whether we like it or not, human body is a holistic system and you have to treat it as such if you want to permanently get rid of your acne.
I just learned a good example to illustrate this.
Think of a flower.
Where does this thing we have agreed to call flower end? Or what does it include? Most people would say it includes roots, stem and leaves. Because that’s what we’ve all agreed. Probably because that’s what comes out when you pull it out of the soil.
So we’ve defined flower as its physical limits. But that’s entirely arbitrary definition. We do it with most ‘things’. The sun for example. We’ve defined the sun by the extent of its visible flames. But it would be equally ‘correct’ to define it by the extent of its heat or its light. Keep this in mind as we get back to our flower example.
Flower interacts with the soil and the microorganisms that live there. They all depend on ‘each other’ for existence (dead plant matter turns into soil). So it’s really like a flower-soil-micro organism system. But the flower also interacts with air and sunlight. So you should add those into the system also.
What about bees? Flower and bees depend on each other. So it should really be a flower-soil-micro organism-air-sun light-bees system.
I hope you see that we could go on forever with this.
Nature is really one big system, and each part of the system affect and depend on each other for existence. And that system is always in perfect balance. For example let’s say something brings down the number of bees. Soon the number of flowers goes down also and the system reaches a new balance.
For some reason we’ve just agreed to chop that system into different parts based on their physical limits. Then we agreed that those parts are separate. But then we noticed that those different parts interact and even depend on each other. That’s why we came up with symbiosis to compensate for the limits of this physical-based definition.
But wouldn’t it have been just as logical to define it all as one system?
We’ve gone even further. We’ve taken a snapshot of the system in equilibrium (balance state) and defined that this is how the system should be. If the system moves from this one balanced state we say something is wrong. Then we compare it against our idea of how it should be (our snapshot) and look for differences. When we find one, we say this is the problem. Then we try to frantically fix that part that doesn’t match our snapshot.
It would have been just as logical (in fact even more so) to say that the system moved into a new balance state. Something affected the system and it reached a new balance.
Now think of your body and you’ll notice that we’ve done the same thing with it.
We’ve defined it as a collection of different organs based on their physical limits. Well actually, all the organs are physically connected to one other with blood and lymph ducts. To get over this ‘problem’ we chopped the ducts off and pretended that they don’t count.
As you can see we’ve made quite a few leaps of faith with our idea of the human body.
Then we took a snapshot of the body and defined it as healthy. Different deviations from our snapshot are different diseases, and must be ‘fixed’. And we fix things by manipulating the ‘parts’ that don’t match our snapshot of health.
Here’s where we get really confused.
Based on our genes we are all little bit different. We have different strengths and weaknesses. So the same conditions or inputs cause different balance states (diseases) in different people.
Acne victims in their drive to exactly define what’s causing their problem fall for this trap. Look around at acne forums. They are full of threads where someone claims on having zeroed on the real cause of acne. Of course as soon as the thread goes live someone bunks the theory by saying that doesn’t cause acne for me, therefore it can’t be the cause of acne. If they ever discover perpetual motion, it’s going to be based on this debate.
No wonder many acne victims are confused.
My friend, acne and all diseases, as we understand them, are illusions. They are different balance states the system called your body is in. And the state of your body depends on the inputs or conditions it faces (such as diet, lifestyle, mental state and the environment).
So save yourself a big bundle of headaches by trying to figure out what caused your acne, because nothing did. And more importantly stop trying to fix what you think caused your acne.
Fix the conditions and your body moves to a state where acne doesn’t exist. And it won’t go there until you do your part.
This is the reason why following Clear for Life works so well for most people. Clear for Life takes you out of that fixing mentality and shows the easiest way to give your body the ideal conditions for getting rid of acne.
— Clear for Life - The Fun, Easy and Delicious Solution to Permanently Clear Skin.
