By Dr. Deanna Minich • Originally published on DeannaMinich.com
As you likely know, supporting your body’s ability to detox is truly
necessary in today’s society. Based on scientific and medical
literature, everyone is toxic. Period. Think about it – toxins exist in
every aspect of our lives, from the air we breathe, to the food we eat,
even to the thoughts we think. It has been estimated
that there are currently over 80,000 chemicals currently used in the
United States, and we are exposed to many of them on a daily basis.
These toxins, ranging from heavy metals to persistent organic
pollutants (POPs), can have drastic negative effects on our health.
Animal and human studies have linked exposure to toxins to inflammation, oxidative damage, neurodegeneration, immune system dysfunction, and skeletal degeneration, to name just a few.
Unfortunately, avoiding all these dangerous toxins is next to impossible, as they have permeated all aspects of our lives. However, there is a simple way to support your body’s natural detoxification function – eat more colorful plant foods!
You’ve likely heard the refrain to eat more fruits and vegetables
from your parents, doctors, and health experts many times, and for good
reason. While colorful fruits and vegetables look great arranged on a
plate, there are also powerful compounds at work under the surface that
have incredible health and detoxing benefits. These compounds are called
phytonutrients, and besides giving foods their colors, they can also support health and detox in every part of your body.
There are hundreds of different phytonutrients, each supporting your
body’s health in a different way. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all
the information about different phytonutrients and their benefits. On a
broad scale, simply eating a wide range of fruits and vegetables of
different colors ensures that you’ll be reaping the benefits of a host
of phytonutrients.
However, you can also tailor your phytonutrient intake to address
specific issues or functions. To get you started on your journey into
the colorful world of phytonutrients, here are five classes of
phytonutrients that are renowned specifically for their detoxing
abilities:
Flavonoids: These compounds are found in a spectrum
of different foods, including cilantro, parsley, onions, apples,
oranges, and blueberries. In terms of detoxing power, these antioxidants
bind to heavy metals in the body, and aid in their removal from the body through urine. They also fight harmful inflammation
in the body caused by toxic overload.To maximize your flavonoid intake,
try to eat your fruits and vegetables raw or lightly steamed as much as
possible. Overcooking or processing flavonoid-rich foods drastically
reduces the bioavailability of the compounds. Just make sure that the
vegetables don’t lose any of their rich colors while steaming.
Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG): This phytonutrient has a list of detox benefits almost as long as its name! EGCG triggers increased production
of certain genes and enzymes responsible for POP detoxification,
helping the body’s natural systems to clear the body of these dangerous
toxins more efficiently. The compound is also a powerful antioxidant and
boasts anti-inflammatory activities.The
richest source of EGCG is green tea. The amount of ECGC varies greatly
depending on the brand of tea, but a high-quality tea like Teavana Green
Tea has around 83 milligrams of ECGC per teaspoon. To get the most out of your tea, steep your green tea at least 5 minutes to allow for maximum EGCG concentration.
Quercetin: Quercetin is found in many sources,
including citrus fruits, apples, onions, parsley, nuts, tea, and dark
berries like blueberries, blackberries, and bilberries. Similar to the
other phytonutrients on this list, it is a powerful anti-inflammatory compound and antioxidant that binds to heavy metals to facilitate their removal from the body. Like EGCG, it also boosts the enzymes responsible for POP detoxification.This
compound in particular is generally concentrated in the skin of fruits
and vegetables. When relevant, try to include as much of plant’s outer
layer in your cooking as you can. Only remove the outer paper-y skin
from onions, don’t peel your organic apples (but do wash very well!),
and add some citrus zest (shredded bits of the peel) to dishes.
Organosulfur compounds: Foods containing
organosulfur compounds (or, more simply, sulfur) are generally marked by
a pungent aroma and slightly bitter taste. Onion, garlic, broccoli,
cabbage, cauliflower, kale, turnips, and bok choy are all rich sources
of organosulfur compounds. These antioxidant-rich phytonutrients reduce
inflammation, bind to and aid in the excretion of heavy metals, and boost the production of POP-detoxifying enzymes. Like curcumin, they also defend the body against cancer-causing agents. Uniquely, they also protect the liver and reproductive system from toxic invaders.Garlic
is one of the richest sources of organosulfur compounds. Dicing or
smashing garlic is the best way to release these compounds – however,
it’s important to let the garlic sit for ten minutes after slicing and
before cooking, as heat may inactive the healthy organosulfur compounds.
Incorporating these phytonutrients into your diet is a great way to
support and boost your body’s natural detoxification systems, and to
help you live clean in an unclean world.
By Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety
Most of us have told a lie a time or two and probably a variety of
them. For example, there is the excuse lie as in the timeless “my dog at
my homework,” and the proverbial “white lie” as in “No you really do
look great in those jeans.”
But the “The Big Lie” is different. The term refers to a propaganda
or advertising technique by which first you say the opposite of an
obvious truth about an event or product, and then keep repeating and
repeating that lie until it becomes an unquestioned mantra for the
public. So no matter how much the lie defies common sense it over time
becomes commonplace.
Take the iconic marketing campaign promoting Coca Cola. You’ll easily
recall the endlessly repeated mantra: “Coke, it’s the real thing.”
Well, whatever you may think of Coke, not much in my estimation, it is
anything but the real thing. It’s highly processed, is laden with high
fructose corn syrup derived from GMO corn, contains caramel coloring and
it goes downhill from there. So the ad is obviously the exact opposite
of the truth. But repeated countless times the slogan becomes accepted
without thought.
Here’s another favorite example, the AT&T telephone ad campaign,
“Reach out and touch someone.” Certainly phones can be great but as
anyone separated from a loved one knows, to their great frustration, the
one thing you can’t do with them is actually reach out and touch that
important someone. You are actually just touching the dial pad and
handset. Again, a mantra that is obviously false but was repeated so
often it almost made sense.
Similarly, for more than two decades the promotion of genetically
engineered (GE) crops in the United States and worldwide has been based
on the Big Lie. Led by Monsanto’s aggressive international marketing
campaign the mantra has been, and still is, that GE crops “reduce
pesticide use, increase yield and are key to feeding the world.”
I have been working on this issue for decades and during that time
have seen that virtually every major media story on GE crops began with
this “Big Lie” claim, and using almost identical language. These claims,
as with those in the Coke and AT&T commercials, defy common sense.
Monsanto and the other leaders in promoting GE crops—Dow, Dupont,
Syngenta and Bayer—are all chemical companies that make tens of billions
of dollars in profits by selling ever more pesticides, especially
herbicides. Why would they spend hundreds of millions of research
dollars and then billions in advertising and lobbying to promote crops
that actually “reduce pesticides” and thereby destroy their bottom line?
Are these companies committing economic suicide in an altruistic
attempt to feed the world? Obviously not. You can accuse Monsanto of
many things, including myriad corporate crimes over many decades, but
altruism is not one of them. As my organization and many others have
scientifically demonstrated many times to a deaf media, the vast
majority of GMOs are not designed to decrease herbicide use but to
massively increase it.
More than 90% of US corn, soy, cotton, and sugar beets have been
genetically engineered to withstand massive doses of the toxic
herbicides these companies make, and profit from. Normally care has to
be taken using herbicides because they kill not just weeds but anything
green, including the crops they come into contact with. But with these
herbicide tolerant crops large-scale operations can even conduct aerial
spraying of their fields with these herbicides and the weeds die but the
crops survive.
Because of GE crops, each year, more than 100 million more pounds of
Roundup are used on America’s croplands each year. These toxic chemicals
pollute our water and air, kill wildlife and native plants and threaten
the very survival of the monarch butterfly and other species. In 2015,
the World Health Organization’s research arm found
that the active ingredient in Roundup is a “probable carcinogen.” So
for Monsanto and the other chemical companies, genetically engineering
crops is just another way to significantly increase profits. They sell
the seeds and the poisons sprayed on those seeds. Great for their bottom
line, terrible for the rest of us and the planet.
What about the Big Lie about increased yield and feeding the world?
Well in 2009 the Union of Concerned Scientists published a definitive report
called “Failure to Yield,” which made it clear that there was no
significant yield increase with GE crops. Despite the clear title and
message the media entranced with the Big Lie barely noticed.
But as Martin Luther King, Jr. liked to say, “No lie can live
forever.” And in the waning weeks of the recent contentious and
dispiriting election campaign, a surprising ray of light illuminated the
longstanding GE crops debate. Remarkably, the source was the New York
Times, which for so many years had ignored the science about genetic
engineering and bought the Big Lie. But in a front-page story, the Times became among the first mainstream media sources to debunk the Big Lie about GMOs.
The newspaper story was based on research comparing pesticide use and
yield between the United States, where genetic engineering has
dominated major crops, and Western Europe, which did not embrace the
technology. They found that overall the use of herbicides such as
Monsanto’s Roundup had increased by more than 20% in the United States
since the introduction of GE crops, while during the same time period
herbicide use in France, Europe’s biggest crop producer, had not only
not increased but actually decreased by 36 percent.
With the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump,
America has now been blessed with “A New Hope” (yes, the title of the
first Star Wars movie). A true political outsider has been voted into
the White House, and the status quo establishment is going absolutely
berserk.
Here are 10 bold ideas for President Trump to turn America around and
help Make America Great Again. These are ideas “beyond the obvious”
which would include protecting our borders, defending the Second
Amendment, taking care of our veterans and so on.
#1) Shut down the federal reserve and start issuing debt-free money
End the counterfeiting of fiat currency. End the cycle of endless debt that enslaves future generations of American taxpayers. Take back the Federal Reserve from the globalists
and end its 103-year reign of financial terror and confiscatory
monetary debasement that keeps Americans trapped in a cycle of poverty.
#2) Decriminalize natural medicine and end the FDA-Pharma monopoly over health care treatments
It’s time to nullify the FDA’s monopoly power over natural medicine and legalize healing across America.
End the censorship of truthful health claims on nutritional
supplements. Shatter the FDA’s absurd, baseless position that “there is
no such thing as a nutrient that can prevent, cure or treat disease.”
Arrest the criminals at the CDC who are pushing toxic vaccines laced
with mercury, a brain-damaging chemical.
A NEW HOPE: Ten of the
best and boldest ideas for President Trump to MAGA while prosecuting the
real enemies of this great nation
(NaturalNews) With the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump,
America has now been blessed with “A New Hope” (yes, the title of the
first Star Wars movie). A true political outsider has been voted into
the White House, and the status quo establishment is going absolutely
berserk.
Here are 10 bold ideas for President Trump to turn America around and
help Make America Great Again. These are ideas “beyond the obvious”
which would include protecting our borders, defending the Second
Amendment, taking care of our veterans and so on.
#1) Shut down the federal reserve and start issuing debt-free money
End the counterfeiting of fiat currency. End the cycle of endless debt that enslaves future generations of American taxpayers. Take back the Federal Reserve from the globalists
and end its 103-year reign of financial terror and confiscatory
monetary debasement that keeps Americans trapped in a cycle of poverty.
#2) Decriminalize natural medicine and end the FDA-Pharma monopoly over health care treatments
It’s time to nullify the FDA’s monopoly power over natural medicine and legalize healing across America.
End the censorship of truthful health claims on nutritional
supplements. Shatter the FDA’s absurd, baseless position that “there is
no such thing as a nutrient that can prevent, cure or treat disease.”
Arrest the criminals at the CDC who are pushing toxic vaccines laced
with mercury, a brain-damaging chemical. Legalize healing in America. See more of my suggestions for saving hundreds of billions of dollars on health care costs in this video:
#3) Initiate anti-trust action against Google, Facebook,
Youtube and Twitter for their anti-American censorship and monopolistic
practices that stifle pro-America free speech
Investigate, prosecute and break apart the info-monopolies of Google,
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, all of which are engaged in incessant,
targeted censorship of the voices of liberty.
To make America free again, we must shatter the vicious monopolies of
the internet’s globalist gatekeepers. We must, in essence, make the internet great again
by encouraging competition and innovation. This can only be done when
the dangerous monopolists like Google are prosecuted for their illegal
monopolies and abuse of power.
A NEW HOPE: Ten of the
best and boldest ideas for President Trump to MAGA while prosecuting the
real enemies of this great nation
(NaturalNews) With the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump,
America has now been blessed with “A New Hope” (yes, the title of the
first Star Wars movie). A true political outsider has been voted into
the White House, and the status quo establishment is going absolutely
berserk.
Here are 10 bold ideas for President Trump to turn America around and
help Make America Great Again. These are ideas “beyond the obvious”
which would include protecting our borders, defending the Second
Amendment, taking care of our veterans and so on.
#1) Shut down the federal reserve and start issuing debt-free money
End the counterfeiting of fiat currency. End the cycle of endless debt that enslaves future generations of American taxpayers. Take back the Federal Reserve from the globalists
and end its 103-year reign of financial terror and confiscatory
monetary debasement that keeps Americans trapped in a cycle of poverty.
#2) Decriminalize natural medicine and end the FDA-Pharma monopoly over health care treatments
It’s time to nullify the FDA’s monopoly power over natural medicine and legalize healing across America.
End the censorship of truthful health claims on nutritional
supplements. Shatter the FDA’s absurd, baseless position that “there is
no such thing as a nutrient that can prevent, cure or treat disease.”
Arrest the criminals at the CDC who are pushing toxic vaccines laced
with mercury, a brain-damaging chemical. Legalize healing in America. See more of my suggestions for saving hundreds of billions of dollars on health care costs in this video:
#3) Initiate anti-trust action against Google, Facebook,
Youtube and Twitter for their anti-American censorship and monopolistic
practices that stifle pro-America free speech
Investigate, prosecute and break apart the info-monopolies of Google,
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, all of which are engaged in incessant,
targeted censorship of the voices of liberty.
To make America free again, we must shatter the vicious monopolies of
the internet’s globalist gatekeepers. We must, in essence, make the internet great again
by encouraging competition and innovation. This can only be done when
the dangerous monopolists like Google are prosecuted for their illegal
monopolies and abuse of power.
#4) Arrest the mayors of Sanctuary Cities who refuse to recognize immigration law
One of the most important law enforcement actions President Trump can
take is to order the arrest and prosecution of Sanctuary City mayors
who willfully violate U.S. immigration law.
It is time to end the lawlessness of the insane left and finally
enforce our national borders. While we welcome immigration, it must be legal immigration. Those who openly violate U.S. immigration law must be held accountable for their actions.
#5) Declare George Soros a funding source for international terrorism and issue a warrant for his arrest
George Soros
is an international terrorism money man who funds a long list of
radical left-wing media slander websites and terrorism front groups in
America.
Soros belongs on the Interpol list of international fugitives wanted
for serious crimes, and we can only hope that President Trump will
finally name Soros a “wanted criminal” and seek his prosecution.
#6) Reactivate the House Un-American Activities Committee
and start arresting seditious traitors in the left-wing media who
actively conspired to undermine America
CNN is a dangerous, traitorous, anti-American cabal of communists and
subversives. As suggested by radio host Michael Savage, it is now time
for the Trump administration to activate the House Un-American Activities Committee
and initiate investigations into the poisonous, traitorous left-wing
media outlets that actively sought to overthrow America and turn it into
a communist stronghold run by left-wing totalitarians.
We must defend America against threats, both foreign and domestic. CNN is a domestic threat to America,
and it is run by globalists pushing “fake news” disinformation and
social engineering propaganda with the intended purpose of destroying
liberty, destroying the Constitution, destroying America’s culture and
destroying the Trump administration. I’ve labeled CNN a purveyor of “journo-terrorism” and a genuine threat to America.
While we support free speech and the First Amendment, those media
outlets that are actively and maliciously working to undermine the
nation must be investigated, prosecuted and stopped.
#7) Initiate criminal investigations into the CDC and its
criminal collusion with the vaccine industry to poison America’s
children with brain-damaging mercury
The CDC is a criminal organization run by anti-science industry hacks who have, for decades, conspired to conceal the dangers of vaccines
from the American public. Their “war on children” has damaged countless
innocent children with permanent neurological damage, including autism
and other side effects of vaccine damage.
The CDC’s reign of medical terror must be brought to an end. Genuine
science must win the day, and fraudulent “pharma science” must be
exposed as the fraud it has become.
#8) Initiate anti-trust investigations into Monsanto and its
persecution of farmers, scientists and journalists who question its
dangerous monopolies over food, seeds and agrichemicals
Alongside the CDC, Monsanto
also needs to be investigated for its role in the persecution of
farmers, scientists and journalists who attempt to warn the public about
the dangers of GMOs and glyphosate.
Monsanto, widely known as the “most evil corporation in the world,” profits from poisoning America,
cost-shifting trillions of dollars in future health care expenditures
to the federal government. Steeped in a culture of criminality,
conspiracy and malicious character assassination, Monsanto exists as a
scourge on America’s landscape and needs to be excised from this nation
like a cancer tumor.
#9) De-fund NPR and PBS; stop using taxpayer money to fund hate-filled left-wing propaganda
Let us hope that President Trump will take every step necessary to
completely de-fund NPR and PBS, both bastions of mentally ill left-wing
“fake news” and mindless propaganda. It is completely insane that taxpayer are funding this radical left-wing propaganda that parades around as “news.”
While we’re at it, lets also slash the funding of the EPA, FDA, CDC,
USDA and DEA, all of which have become nothing more than corporate
shills and pushers of quack science and tyranny over the People.
#10) Pardon the Oregon ranchers and journalists like Pete
Santilli who were unjustifiably imprisoned by the Obama regime colluding
with Harry Reid and the corrupt BLM
In his last few days in office, Obama handed out pardons to a long
list of felons, traitors and criminals. Yet innocent journalists like Pete Santilli still sit in prison thanks to the collusion of Harry Reid and the Bureau of Land Management.
We ask President Trump to pardon the Oregon ranchers
who were wrongfully convicted for merely starting common brush fires on
their own land. “The forgotten men and women of our country will be
forgotten no longer,” said Trump today at his inauguration. We ask
President Trump to remember Pete Santilli and the other
Oregon ranchers. Don’t just set them free; also investigate Harry Reid
and the BLM criminals who colluded to wrongfully imprison these ranchers
in the first place!
Stay informed with more news on President Donald J. Trump at Trump.news and WhiteHouse.news
As President Obama reflects on his
legacy, a recording of Secretary of State John Kerry conversing with
leaders of Syrian opposition groups is casting more light on his
approach to ISIS, indicating his administration believed that allowing
the Islamic State to grow would serve the White House’s objective of
ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The recording was leaked to the New York Times and reported Sept. 30, but the Conservative Tree House blog this week featured portions of Kerry’s statements that were virtually ignored at the time.
Regime change was Obama’s only objective in Syria, Kerry indicates,
and the administration not only hoped ISIS would carry out the task, it
gave arms to the jihadist army and its allies, confirming WND’s reporting.
Kerry admits the U.S. didn’t calculate that Assad would turn to Russia for help. The
Obama administration’s betrayal is exposed in “See Something, Say
Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission
to Jihad,” by former DHS officer Philip Haney and WND Editor Art Moore.
“And we know that this was growing, we were watching, we saw that
DAESH (ISIS) was growing in strength, and we thought Assad was
threatened,” Kerry told the Syrians.
“(We) thought, however,” he continued, “we could probably manage that
Assad might then negotiate, but instead of negotiating he got Putin to
support him.”
Kerry’s off-record, 40-minute discussion with two dozen Syrians who
worked with nongovernmental organizations took place during the U.N.
General Assembly.
It confirms WND’s reporting since 2011 of evidence that Clinton’s
State Department engineered the clandestine transfer of weapons from
Libya to Syria that ended up in the hands of terrorist groups aligned
with ISIS and al-Qaida.
The Conservative Tree House noted that in August 2014, President
Obama gave a press conference in which he stated he “did not have a
strategy” against ISIS. Then two months, later, his chief spokesman,
Josh Earnest, stated: “Our ISIS strategy is dependent on something that
does not yet exist.” Benghazi tie
In May 2015, WND reported
evidence that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was involved in
shipping weapons from Benghazi to support the al-Qaida-affiliated
militias fighting the Assad regime, effectively arming the Sunni
jihadists who morphed into ISIS. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/leaked-audio-obama-wanted-isis-to-grow/#esC4m5jCmJJWHqpC.99
