The Tradition of Herb People

In recent centuries the progress of scientific medical research
and the discovery of so many reliable cures for man's various
ailments by dedicated doctors, have largely supplanted, among
modern people, the general need tor widespread knowledge of
herb medicines.

One of the few remaining places where I have had the

opportunity to observe a lingering interest in herb medicines

and similarly useful plants, is the desert regions of the

southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Here, in spite

of our space-age advancement and miraculous medicines, the

native people continue to display a proud knowledge of their

flora and its many practical uses.



In Mexico particularly the outdoor people such as ranchers, miners, and

fishermen of lonely coastal waters, early inherit a superb

education in the use of herbs and plants; then they proceed to

expand upon that knowledge throughout their lifetime.

I know nothing of the science of botany and very little about

herbs. It is the people — those who display a fascination for the

flora which surrounds them and who possess a keen knowledge

of the medicinal, structural, or nutritional values of this plant

life — who command my attention and respect. My interest in

this subject, therefore, stems not at all from the desire to

become an authority on herbs and shrubs and vines, but

mainly from the enjoyment of recalling the pleasant memories

I hold of nightly visits around late campfires with my friends

of Mexican and Indian descent. Now, almost every useful plant

I recognize in the Southwest serves to remind me of a certain

instance when my Mother give me lecture on its particular virtues.

The manner in which certain herbs and plants are invariably

used identically as remedies for sickness, as tonics, or for other

practical purposes, regardless of distances or different

languages involved, has to me become the object of fascinated

reflection. In the many Indian dialects of southern California,

for example, a single herb may have half a dozen different

names, as well as one in Spanish and two or three in English;

yet always it is used in an identical manner and for identical

reasons.


My friend David form Mexico is a outstanding hunter and tracker and knows mining, timbering,

and a lot about the sawmill business. His knowledge of herbs

and useful plans is encyclopedic.

Angel Lopez, formerly of Ixclan, Nyarit, is also a man of selfreliance

and unusal capabilities. He attributes the cure of his

stomach ulcers, shortly after he came to the United States, to

the herb teas he took while he was working as a section hand on

the railroad. He now has a few head of milk cows, some poultry,

and a good many beehives from which he derives his principal

income. He is the gentlest person with livestock I believe I have

ever seen and is so considerate of his bees that his actions seem

to border on the ridiculous.   I have watched him hunting  about his place on cold,

spring evenings, carefully gathering up those bees too

chilled and too heavily laden with pollen to fly.

He gently puts them in his old felt hat,

and after searching until he's sure that none will be left

out to suffer further from the cold, he carries them to

his car and closes them in for the night. He is an

enthusiastic student of  natural things and a man of

infinite patience. I once  visited with him as he dug a

colony of ants out of the  ground near his house, put

them all in a fruit jar, and  transplanted them several miles away,

rather than exterminate them, that's how ancient people exterminate lot's of plagues.

That's the kind of relationship with nature I admire.

My own great grandfather, my grandfather, Great grandmother, my Grandmother, My Mother.
 All showed and passed along a respect for Nature and not so much by words.
As a child all this seem really natural, until I left home and I realize not  everybody act that way. I think I never watched a lot of TV or movies, so I was a little bit naive.
Today I am so proud of them and my heritage.

That is may be the reason why I couldn't get ride of the chili plant my  neighbour gave me last summer when it got a plague "the white fly' which is impossible to get ride of (Is that what the general opinion says). I was attached to the chili plant, I couln't get ride of it. I took care of it, and today still alive.. no plague.
That's why I celebrate the science behind the Univera products I get for my family, because it share the same vision about nature and it powerful propeties with the same respect and enjoyment I learned from my ancestors

Power to Influence Others Rather than control Them

I am reading this great book,
Do yo know about the law of attraction?...well if you want to get insight about it  or you want to became an expert and teach the law of attraction I recommend you to visit: http://bit.ly/bXJ0g0 or http://www.the11forgottenlaws.com/?p=2895
After go get  the book I am reading right now, is called "The Vortex" by Esther and Jerry Hicks
It is amazing and I am impressed by it in so many levels.
 I just want to post something that I read today about the Power to Influence Others Rather Than Control Them:
"When someone seeks control over another person, or over a situation, they never achieve it, because in the attitude of control there is such a big component of knowing what you don't want that your vibration and point of attraction are working in opposition to your actual desire".The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships
Tell me what do you think...

Make a good impression

Relax.

Just play it cool. Don't panic and try to be yourself. People are perceived as more attractive when they are having a good time.

Smile

Remember a smiling face is what people want to see. A serious face gives all the wrong impressions, so keep smiling.

Don't knock yourself out trying to be clever.

Whatever you do please don't try to hard to show something that you are not. You might just be making a fool of yourself.

Be less-than perfect.

Don't try to show that you are Miss Perfect. Be careful not to praise your many virtues to the point of boredom, or even suspicion. No one can be that perfect. Your minor faults and charming inconsistencies make you human, interesting and approachable.

Avoid sending up red flags.

Don't whine, complain or drivel on about any problems in your life. Refrain from casting yourself in the role of the victim or the depressed soul. Be positive and optimistic. Chaos, depression and drama aren't attractive attributes.


The eyes have it.

As they say "The eyes are the window to the soul". While you are talking to the person in front of you look into his eyes while talking and listen deeply and intensely. Pay attention to person in front of you and don't look off to the side or at another person.


Say it with style.

What you say may not be as important as how you say it. Play with language. Be smart and creative.


Use the magic touch.

A slight touch of the hand conveys a lot. So when you shake hands make the grip firm and confident. It's also fine to reach out and give a casual pat on the first date. If he is interested in you he will also touch you back.


Slouch not.

Just as good posture shows confidence, slouching or standing with your arms folded across your chest sends an insecure message. Arms that are out and away from you convey that you are interested.


Be yourself.

This is most important. Don't say you're a vegetarian if you really eat meat. Don't try to do something just because you want to impress your date. Be sincere and truthful.


Close with confidence.

Lastly make the other person feel that you had a great time. Offer your hand for a shake and say with assurance, "It's been nice talking to you." This will definitely leave your audience wanting for more.

Holiday's stress

I read that the main causes of stress according to the report which surveyed 1,382 people aged 18 and over were said to be difficulties at work and financial stress. So presumably if we could afford to have more holidays we'd all feel much better!.... Talking of holidays. Of course we can be stressed out exactly because we can't take holidays...but keep reading...

During holidays you laugh and smile more, life is more fun. Why does this happen? Being on a relaxing holiday allows your your sympathetic nervous system  to quieten, and it increases output by your parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes feelings of ease and emotional balance.

So the question is: can we switch this mechanism on without needing a passport and a flight to "Disneyland" or a tropical island? Can we give ourselves and our nervous systems a regular mini-holiday. The answer is: Of course you can!!!... and if you read on I'll give you several tools you can start on today that will make a profound difference to the way you feel. The first of these is the breath.


Breathe


If you regularly feel stressed and want to transcend an anxiety-ridden existence, I encourage you to give the following tip a try:



Every hour, or even more frequently if possible (like Stephen Chernisky recomends: every red light), close your eyes and breathe deeply for a full minute. Do your best to focus on nothing but your breathing. Feel your abdomen go in and out as air enters and leaves the deepest corners of your lungs. This get your body alcaline...but that's another topic (stay tuned")

This simple exercise has a powerful effect on your nervous system. If you keep your eyes closed as you focus on deep breathing it works much better as the less stimulation your nervous system has to process the quicker you relax.
This tip is simple and free, which means that most people are likely to underestimate the effect that it can have on their health over the short and long term. If necessary, post highly visible reminders around your work and/or living spaces that will help make this breathing and relaxation exercise an unbreakable habit in your daily routine.

Rest When you body is upright your nervous system is relatively alert, when you're horizontal your nervous system prepares itself to go into stand-by mode. So lying down increases the effectiveness of most relaxation tools, except if you want to prevent going to sleep.
If you are tired, and if you're stressed its likely you are also suffering from some level of exhaustion, so its probable you will fall asleep as you begin to relax.
 Over time as you continue to make time for a daily period of relaxation you will find you can stay in the delightful in-between state of deep relaxation that comes before sleep. The two best times of the day for resting are lunch time or when you first get home from work.

 If you do fall asleep try setting an alarm for 30 minutes for a very effective power nap.
Sleep Talking of sleep, your sleep is an excellent barometer of the health of your nervous system. If you can fall to sleep easily and stay soundly asleep during the night then you already have a huge advantage in tackling stress. If on the other hand you lie awake for an hour or two, thinking about the day you've had or worrying about the next day; or if you are woken frequently during the night then the time when your body should doing its repair and revilalising is being lost.

Seek Help: Our bodies are designed to have regular periods of relaxation and long periods of sleep, however many of us have allowed our nervous systems to become chronically overstimulated. Like a run away train, an overstimulated nervous system is takes some slowing down. Symptoms of exhaustion, tension, anxiety, depression and anger are just a few possibilities.
At this point I would suggest taking the folowing actions in addition to the hourly breathing exercise described above: begin a daily relaxation practice of at least 20 to 30 minutes. .

Practice this technique lying down for enhanced effectiveness. begin taking professionally prescribed herbal remedies to nourish and support the nervous system therby making it much more able to switch off.
I recomend products from the Univera company because had help me and you can get them in this link, http://www.zwyssig.myunivera.com/ but there are more good products, just make sure to research the science behind.

 Have weekly sessions of acupuncture to retrain your body and mind in how to relax. One suggestion is to check out: http://www.the11forgottenlaws.com/?p=2895.  I hope you find these tips on stress and relaxation helpful, as always I love to hear your thoughts.

Simple Basics to Meditate

Colibri's eye


Meditation requires practice. To get the most from meditation you need to do it every day. This requires a place and time where you will not be disturbed.


1.Sit with a straight back. Don't try to meditate lying down because you are likely to fall asleep. Meditation brings relaxation and peace but at the same time this is a dynamic peace. Meditation is quite different than the relaxation of sleep. When we really meditate, we are fully alert and conscious. Our sense of awareness is heightened. Afterwards you'll have a positive feeling for the world and a renewed sense of dynamism.

2.Don't eat before meditating. After a heavy meal your body will be lethargic with digestion.

3.It is not necessary to mediate in the lotus posture. It is fine to meditate in a chair, as long as the back is straight.

4.Burning incense and having a candle are not necessary, but they can add a little extra inspiration.

5.It is good to meditate early in the morning. It is said the best time is 3am, although.

Touch Your Audience with Stories

Apr 19, 2010 2:27 PM Touch Your Audience with Stories from Mi Colibri


It was stormy and almost midnight. On an isolated country road in Missouri, my truck plowed into a section of flash flooding. Water shot up on the right and left and over the hood. The engine died. And it wouldn't start. All I could see was water in every direction and tree branches floating in front of the truck. There would be no traffic until sunrise...

This is a true story. It happened to me. It has become an eight-minute vignette with lessons learned and several laugh lines along the way.
Stories grab your audience. Listeners will remember the drama and the humor, and chances are good they'll remember your point as well.

But what comes first_the story or the point? Personally, I never start with a point and then look for a story or joke to fit it. I used to do that, but I've found that it works better to find the story first and then discover the natural points that flow from it. A good story will usually make at least two or three insightful points. And with a good arsenal of stories, you'll be able to support almost any point you want to make.

You can come up with great stories just by being alert to everyday events. I recommend zeroing in on the following five areas when looking for story material:
Look for difficult and traumatic events. Obviously, these events aren't funny when they happen, but sometimes an event will generate a thought like "Someday I'll laugh at this." I wasn't laughing the night I was stranded in the flood waters! But after the ordeal is over, I look for the humorous twists. The process of always being on the lookout for stories often becomes a helpful coping device. When a challenge hits you, you might think, "What a speech this will make!"
Focus on lessons learned and personal growth that resulted from tough times. These provide story material you can use to teach others.

 John Kinde

Can we ever understand relationships?

The relationships we have with other people, we think are real, and they are in a certain way, but they are projections of the first relationships we developed within ourselves very early in life. Our external relationships and our internal relationships are in fact the same relationships but all aspects of them are mixed. Thats why they seem different we look at them through the lenses we learned in society.




Let's consider why this is true. Where do all our relationships exist? They exist in our thoughts. Our relationship with another person is whatever we imagine it to be. Whether we love someone or hate someone, we are right.



Now the other person may have a completely different view of the relationship to me, but my idea of what someone else thinks of me is also part of my thoughts.



So your relationship with someone includes what you think of that person and what you believe she/he thinks of you. We can complicate it further by imagining what the other person thinks you think of him/her, but ultimately those internal ideas and believes are all we have.



Even if your relationships exist in some objective reality independent of your thoughts, (yeah right!) you never have access to the objective viewpoint. You are always viewing your relationships through the lens of your own consciousness. The closest you can get to being objective is to imagine being objective, but that is in no way the same thing as true objectivity (and we better leave that subject to the brave minds) that's because the act of observation requires a conscious observer, which is always subjective! .



So If you are having relationship troubles... better watch out what are your ideas around your other half.



At first it might seem troublesome that you can never hope to gain a truly accurate, 100% objective understanding of your relationships. You can never escape the subjective lens of your own consciousness. That would be like trying to find the color blue with a red lens permanently taped over your eyes. That doesn't stop people from trying, but such attempts are in vain. If you fall into the trap of trying to think of your relationships as objective entities that are external to you, you will be using an inescapably inaccurate model of reality.

So the likely outcome is that you will frustrate yourself to no end when it comes to human relationships. You will make relating to other people a lot harder than it needs to be. Intuitively you may know something is off in your approach to relationships, but you will remain stuck until you realize that every relationship you have with another person is really a relationship that exists entirely within yourself.



Fortunately, once you embrace the subjective nature of relationships, you will have a much easier time relating to people. It's easier to get where you want to go when you have an accurate map. The subjective view of relationships implies that you can change or improve your relationships with others by working on the internal relationships within yourself. Furthermore, you can improve your internal relationships, such as your self-esteem, by working on your relationships with others. Ultimately it's all the same thing.



Here is a basic example of how this works:



Having a messy room is a habit for my son was a habit and being organized was a concept forever alien to him.



On the other hand, I grew up in a house that was always neat and tidy. Even as a child, I took pride in keeping my room clean.So it probably comes as no surprise that I often push my son to be neater and more organized.



If we try to look at this situation "objectively," you might suggest solutions like me working on becoming more tolerant of disorder, My son working on being neater, or a mixture of both. Or you might conclude we are incompatible in this area and that we should try to find ways to reduce the level of conflict. Basically the solution will be some kind of compromise that seeks to mitigate the symptoms, but the core issue remains unresolved.



Let's see what more subjective lens has to say now.

The idea is that my relationshiphs are purely within my own consciousness. So my conflict with my son is just the projection of an internal conflict. Supposedly my desire for him to be neater and more organized means that I really want to improve in this area myself. Is that true? Yes, I have to admit that it is. When I criticize him for not being neat enough, I am voicing my own desire to become even more organized.



This is an entirely different definition of the problem, one that suggests a new solution. In this case the solution is for me to work on improving my own standards for neatness and order. That's a very different solution than what we get with the traditional thinking. To implement this solution, my son needn't even be involved.



For a lot of people this solution seems rather foolish. If anything it will only backfire. Wouldn't my working on becoming neater just increase the conflict between me and him?



When I actually tried the subjective solution by going to work on myself, my son suddenly began taking a keen interest in becoming more organized himself, clean the room ! 
I encourage you to experiment to see how your external relationships reflect your internal ones:

Try this simple exercise:

Make a list of all the things that bother you about other people.

Now re-read that list as if it applies to you. If you are honest you will have to admit that all of your complaints about others are really complaints about yourself.

For example, if you dislike George Bush because you think he is a poor leader, could this be because your own leadership skills are sub par? Then go to work on your own leadership skills, or work on becoming more accepting of your current skill level, and notice how George Bush suddenly ...seems to be making dramatic improvements in this area!



It can be hard to admit that your complaints about others are really complaints about yourself, but the upside is that your relationship issues reveal where you still need to grow. That's why a fantastic way to accelerate your personal growth is to build relationships with others. The more you interact with others, the more you learn about yourself.



I believe the true value of human relationships is that they serve as pointers to unconditional love. , when you forgive, accept, and love all parts of yourself, you will forgive, accept, and love all other human beings as they are. The more you improve your internal relationships between your thoughts, beliefs, and intentions, the more loving and harmonious your human relationships will become. Hold unconditional love in your consciousness, and you will see it reflected in your reality.

Confrontation Tecniques

Being assertive and dealing with confrontation:
Part of being assertive is to know properly how to deal with confrontation, It is not always easy:
Here are seven tips to deal with confrontation:
When you know you are going to have a confrontation, take a deep breath just before the confrontation or during it if necessary. This lowers your heartbeat and blood pressure, because we all have that fast heartbeat even if we  just reherse the possible event.

Breathe a little slower, again this lowers your heartbeat and lowers the amount of adrenaline running through your body.
Take 5 minutes, if you can, and quickly rehearse what you are going to say to someone. Make key points of your argument, you can even write it down.

Get to know what triggers your anger and prepare a new response to that trigger. By doing this you are aware of the buttons people can push to elicit a certain response. When you know your own triggers it less likely that someone can push the buttons as you are prepared.
Think that the other person will be as nervouse as you.
Keep your cool.

Make the person aware of how confrontational they are being. Saying something like ‘why are you shouting at me?’, ‘Why are you being so aggressive’. This turns the energy back on the person and lets them look at themselves for a minute, this might calm them down as a lot of people get lost in the moment and don’t realize they are being aggressive.

Another way is to turn all the attention back on the person you are arguing with. ‘You seem really angry about that!’; ‘You look as if you’re really pissed off?’ ...keep breathing.

Don’t get sucked into their arguments. The purpose of an argument is to manipulate you into losing the argument thereby showing the other person they have won and they are superior. If you don’t get sucked
in there is no argument to win, and you come out looking the better person. (Is not like you need to show that anyway, ...you know it)
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If all else fails, the nose is a good place to hit first which can temporarily blind them with tears.

The world is highly confused, and highly confusing, for normal people.
Far more than a faster car a coulder refrigerator,  people need the little things, the unmarketable and untaxable things like love, family and comunity and something meaningful to do with our lifes.
We get into a false sense of independency thinking that being independent is to do everything by yourself  excuding your friends and family, just to end up alone asking yourself why you feel so empty.We take general cultural and social values like personal values this is not bad at all, but when those values are just racionalized and not integrated to our individuality a meaningful conection is lost in the process.
Our personal values that keep that meaningful coneccion came from our intimate very particular and distinctive family values, that are afected and afect the social values as a secundary consecuence.
 For the vast majority of human time on the planet, our families and local communities were the ultimate realities in our lifes.
 For all  there was only mistery beyond the boundaries of our local territories.
 Family and community were the world.
 But in recent years the family and the community, persue some fleeting materialistic ideals, have surrender to an abtraccion called society.

2010 Paradigm?

Do you know about the 2012 theories, how there is a lot of speculation about it.


Well, A long time ago when I was in University, one of my professors liked to talk about the differents paradigmas that shape up our world and the way how people think act and live.

One of his theories was that soon the world is coming to a revolution.. a scientific one..a mental one...a big change that will guide human race into a new Paradigma.

It is not the first time the world faces a big paradigmatic change: Babilonia; Copernicus; Christianism; Rome; Einstein; Freud...
So I been waiting for it, for the next one..

Well I always asumme will be defined more for something like: "the crash of the American Economie, wide world bankcrupt; a bomb, a global tsunami..."

But I am starting to think that is nothing like that.

Science and religion could never been mixed before, Freud and Einstein have a interesting discussion about it in a serial of letters that I remember reading in the past but I can't get a hold of them yet again.


Anyway my point is that With the last discoveries of the scientific world about the corelations between emotions-thougths and DNA. I can see something that I never consider possible, a communion between Science and Religion... and very well I think all the talking about how the human evolution can be close to a very big jump, and that all this changes are taking place while we are close to the 2012, the alignment of the planet, the upgrading on the vibration of the new generations...can be part of the same general scenario...

Why we focus in the "bad stuff" more?'

The world as it is, is neither good nor bad, It simply is.
Its goodness or badness, what it is, depends on who's looking at it.
 This is why the mass communication of the past several decades has been so profitable for goverments, merchants, and other people with agenda, offer point out a negative perspective of different aspects of the world intensify the fear then create a need from it and make profits out of it.
 "Create a need and fill it"
Using the morbosity and fear of people is  very profitable.
So what we can do to change that is intensify the positive side,  to look at it very close, and get just to do that every day.
Focus in the positive... sound easy ans is easy. Practise... c'mon.. do it rigth now!!

Entendemos que el universo físico que percibimos esta condicionado por nuestro sistema de creencias, por ello es tan necesario identificar y limpiar los traumas pasados ya que limitan nuestra percepción en el tiempo presente coartando nuestra libertad de elección ¿Si no veo la causa en mí como voy a poder resolver sus efectos?

Claro que:
Nuestra forma normal de manejar sentimientos desagradables nos lleva a evitar, negar o resistir ciertas experiencias. La resistencia produce más conflicto que a su vez genera una decisión eventual de evitar o negar ese problema o relación. Lo que se suprime es atraído una y otra vez a nuestra experiencia para ser comprendido y resuelto. Al negar o evitar esos problemas nos sentimos atrapados en nuestro medio, impotentes de hacer algo al respecto.

Cuando llega la comprensión, la repetición de experiencias negativas ya no es necesaria y nos sentimos libres, descubrimos una nueva manera de actuar.

The state of Yucatán not only has many Mayan pyramids, various colonial cities and 250 km. of sandy beaches, it also has some 900,000 acres of cattle, horse and grain country. This area of agriculture and animal husbandry, located around the bustling small city of Tizimín is located in the northeast part of the state, 160 km. east of Merida, 50 km. north of Valladolid, 200 km. west of Cancún and 40 km. south of Ria Lagartos. Tizimín is close to Mayan pyramids and numerous cenotes, one named Kikil in particular.



Tizimín, which means "tapir or Danta" (the sacred animal and totemic of the supreme God of the Maya), was founded by the Spanish Franciscan priest conquerors in 1544

 Visit Yucatan!
The state of Yucatán not only has many Mayan pyramids, various colonial cities and 250 km. of sandy beaches, it also has some 900,000 acres of cattle, horse and grain country. This area of agriculture and animal husbandry, located around the bustling small city of Tizimín is located in the northeast part of the state, 160 km. east of Merida, 50 km. north of Valladolid, 200 km. west of Cancún and 40 km. south of Ria Lagartos. Tizimín is close to Mayan pyramids and numerous cenotes, one named Kikil in particular.




Tizimín, which means "tapir or Danta" (the sacred animal and totemic of the supreme God of the Maya), was founded by the Spanish Franciscan priest conquerors in 1544

Sugar! The bad the good and the ugly.

 I got interestings facts and information about  sugar  artificial "sugar". People have to research and keep inform.
I am parafrasing Stephen Cherniski:
The BAD:.... "Recent research (March 2008) shows that sugar triggers overeating even in the absence of taste receptors. This suggests that the preference for high-calorie foods is based not only on the sweet taste, but biochemical signals derived from the caloric density of the food. Importantly, no such reaction was observed with sucralose.
So we stand at a crossroads because a few internet “health experts” are churning out reams of misinformation. Will we look for the facts or be swayed by folks with little regard for rigorous science? You may remember the dire warnings when the microwave oven was invented. Email didn’t exist then, but there were petitions being passed around and signs on health food stores. People were literally making stuff up (like the “radiation” would affect your thyroid) and others were repeating it in a spiral of deceit and confusion that is STILL reverberating around health circles even today. That’s 35 years of insufferable nonsense.

My point is this: People make things up all the time. People post lies on the internet and others forward them. And the more you see a piece of information, the more credibility it has… even if it is a blatant lie.

How many times have you heard this:

If you water your house plants with microwaved water, they will die.

The truth: This is an urban legend; a complete fabrication. I have conducted experiments with large numbers of pea plants watered with microwaved water or spring water. They grew to the same height and bore equal numbers of peas.

I often criticize the alternative health “movement” for lapses of scientific integrity. I promote critical thinking as a way to weed out fraud, and start every scientific/ medical presentation with a slide that reads:

Science cannot prevent people from lying, But it must endeavor to prevent lies from being taken as truth.

So when a handful of self-appointed health “experts” fill the internet with misinformation, I have to oppose that with the facts. I started with an essay entitled Poison in the Well (included here), in which I observed that the increasing level of misinformation threatens to render the internet useless as a source of knowledge. Somehow, we as a society have to develop critical thinking skills, chief among them being the willingness to evaluate the veracity of statements before forwarding them to one’s entire mailing list.

In this case, a quick investigation would reveal that the “Sucralose Toxicity Information Center” is really only one guy with no formal training in the biological sciences. A rigorous investigation would show that Joseph Mercola is using unscientific reasoning in his ongoing diatribe against everything “artificial.” Essentially, every other rant against sucralose parrots the twisted and tortured “logic” of these two sites. Citizens for Health started a petition to the FDA to ban sucralose. This was a travesty of science, completely unworthy of that fine organization, but that only proves that even intelligent, well-meaning people can get caught in the flood of “sky-is-falling” email.

The UGLY: "Remember the Y2K “disaster?” Which scenario got more press and attention; the experts who predicted a short interruption in a few systems, or the people who claimed that civilization was about to collapse? It may be human nature to pay more attention to disaster claims (as a survival mechanism) but a knee-jerk

response to every shriek from uninformed naysayers is only going to cause more confusion and error.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please remember that if someone reads this text and my Poison in the Well essay, and still objects to the use of Sucralose, there are two solutions: they can use Xperia (containing stevia, apple and grape concentrates, or Vitality capsules which of course contain no sweetener.

2008 UPDATE The latest round of nonsense concerning sucralose includes claims that it is a “chlorinated hydrocarbon.” FACT: The term “chlorinated hydrocarbon” can be used to refer to ANY of the thousands of compounds containing chlorine, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Thus technically speaking, sucralose is a chlorinated hydrocarbon. But so is your blood. You simply cannot make blanket statements about enormous numbers of chemical compounds. Anti-sucralose crusaders want you to think that all chlorinated hydrocarbons are the same, when in fact some are inert (sucralose) and some will kill you. To suggest that sucralose is the same as a chlorinated pesticide is like saying that eating eggs is the same as drinking battery acid because both contain the element sulfur

The GOOD: "To verify the safety of sucralose, the manufacturer, the EPA, FDA and nine other international agencies including the World Health Organization, used the most sensitive and comprehensive testing imaginable. The unanimous finding was that only about 2% of ingested sucralose is absorbed, and this minute amount is quickly and easily metabolized by the liver and kidneys to toxicologically insignificant compounds that are excreted through the urine and intestinal tract. As a result, every nation that has studied sucralose has approved it without caution, warnings or limitations. So the naysayers are facing an avalanche of public support for sucralose. Ultimately, they will just quietly go away, but I have no idea how long that will take. Many people still think microwave ovens cause brain tumors.

NOTE: Clorine is the 19th most abundant element on the planet. Scientists have found more than 3,000 naturally-occurring chlorine compounds in plants (many of which we eat). Chlorine is essential to human life and is found in significant quantities in the blood. Your stomach uses large amounts of chlorine to create the hydrochloric acid that helps digest your food.

Anti-sucralose crusaders lament that Sucralose is a chloronated sugar, forgetting that table salt is chloronated sodium. In fact, a teaspoon of salt added to a pot of soup contains about 3,000 mg of chlorine. Compare that to a one-ounce serving

of AgelessXtra which contains 25 mg of Sucralose, the chlorine content of which is less than 3 mg, and even this 3 mg is essentially non-absorbable.

Onward! ..."

Stephen Cherniske

References i Reiser S, Szepesi B. SCOGS report on the health aspects of sucrose consumption. Am J Clin Nutr. 1978 Jan;31(1):9-11.

ii USDA figures reported at http://www.medicinenet.com

iii Dills WL. Protein fructosylation: Fructose and the Maillard reaction. Am J Clin Nutr 1993; 58(suppl):779S-787S.

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Paradigma DNA and 2012

Welcome Steve,... yes are the first one! cool!
Do you know about the 2012 theories, how there is a lot of speculation about it.
Well, A long time ago when I was in University, one of my profesors liked to talk about the differents paradigmas that shape up our world and the way how people think act and live.
One of his theories was that soon the world is coming to a revolution.. a scientific one..a mental one...a big change that will guide human race into a new Paradigma.
It is not the first time the world faces a big paradigmatic change: Babilonia; Copernicus; Christianism; Rome; Einstein; Freud...
So I been waiting for it, for the next one..
Well I always asumme will be defined more for something like: "the crash of the American Economie, wide world bankcrupt; a bomb, a global tsunami..."
But I am starting to think that is nothing like that.
Science and religion could never been mixed before, Freud and Einstein have a interesting discussion about it in a serial of letters that I remember reading in the past but I can't get a hold of them yet again.
Anyway my point is that With the last discoveries of the scientific world about the corelations between emotions-thougths and DNA. I can see something that I never consider possible, a communion between Science and Religion... and very well I think all the talking about how the human evolution can be close to a very big jump, and that all this changes are taking place while we are close to the 2012, the alignment of the planet, the upgrading on the vibration of the new generations...can be part of the same general scenario...

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