Lovely that the new VitaMix 5200 cannister does NOT contain BPA– in fact, it is the FIRST KITCHEN APPLIANCE not to have BPA in its composition.  What is BPA and how does it affect our bodies?

A: Bisphenol A is a HOT TOPIC, and I know that many Care2 readers are very well-informed. BPA has been known to leach from the plastic lining of canned foods and, to a lesser degree, polycarbonate plastics that are cleaned with harsh detergents or used to contain acidic or high-temperature liquids. While most exposure is through diet, exposure can also occur through air and through skin absorption.

The first major study of bisphenol A’s effects on humans was published in September 2008 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The cross-sectional study of almost 1,500 people assessed exposure to bisphenol A by looking at levels of the chemical in urine. The authors found that high bisphenol A levels were significantly associated with heart disease, diabetes, and abnormally high levels of certain liver enzymes.

Animal studies have also suggested that BPA can permanently change the structure of the genital tracts during development, predispose breast cells to cancer, enlarge the prostate, decrease testosterone levels, and change the brain structure.

Studies by the CDC found bisphenol A in the urine of 95 percent of adults sampled in 1988–1994 and in 93 percent of children and adults tested in 2003–04. Infants fed with liquid formula are among the most exposed, and those fed formula from polycarbonate bottles can consume up to 13 micrograms of bisphenol A per kg of body weight per day.

The FDA is still actively investigating this issue. Currently, the FDA feels that FDA-regulated products containing BPA currently on the market are safe and that exposure levels to BPA from food contact materials, including for infants and children, are below those that may cause health effects.

This position is consistent with current recommendation in Europe and Japan.

Here’s my thought. Why put yourself at risk? BPA is not essential to your livelihood. Perhaps it makes life a little more convenient at times because of the products in which it is used, but there are plenty of ways to avoid it.

Learn more:
How to purge plastic from your life
Watch out for plastic water bottles

Dr. Brent Ridge is the health expert for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. You can call and ask him a question live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern on Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 112 (1.866.675.6675). You can also follow along as he learns to grow his own food and raise goats on his farm in upstate New York by visiting www.beekman1802.com.

Got a health question for Dr. Brent? E-mail him at drbrent@care2.com.

The number one natural nutrition company in the United States, and first certified climate neutral company in the world, announced today that it has developed a tasty new liquid compound that will shave 25 years off your aging process if you take just a teaspoon-full a day!

Dr. David Sinclair, who is on the company’s Scientific Advisory Board, presented to many conventioneers in New Orleans, the newest amazing product. Sinclair is a Harvard-MIT-trained researcher who has been searching for molecular and gene materials to slow aging and disease. Eureka!  He explained that the new elixir is capable of taking on  illnesses like diabetes, neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and many forms of cancer– and with no nasty side-effects!

Do you want to lengthen your days and enjoy health well into your senior years?  Then you might want to take a look at this American-produced plant-based magic liquid– it won’t be released until Monday, August 11, though, but I would suggest you might want to line up right now…. go HERE to learn more and to stake your claim on a bright new future.

I really hate mammograms, and for the record, haven't had one for several years.  Here is something I took from the Wild Harvest newsgroup (Young Living Oils) posted on October 2nd by Jeff Kaplan, a RMT, RN and Essential Oils Distributor/User.  He is wise and hilarious:

Favor to ask, it only takes a minute….
 Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle).

On the other hand, why would you want to donate to a procedure that CAUSES breast cancer?

Radiation causes the genes in the breast tissue to mutate. Mutations are what happens when the DNA is changed. Cancer cells are from abnormal cells that have had their DNA mutated. Mutations are caused by a lack of oxgyen, and radiation. Fruit fly mutations are studied extensively. Fruit fly mutations are caused by radiation.

Compare a mammogram to a thermogram
Mammograms involve putting delicate breast tissue under 50 psi, and can spread an existing tumor. If you have ever thought about getting your breasts reshaped into pancakes, this is the way to go.

Thermograms utilize healing far infrared light, and can detect breast tumors much earlier than a mammogram, without squeezing them like a vice. They are far safer, and more effective at detection. Far infrared radiation is also healing to the body-the very opposite of the radiation used in a mammogram clinic.

This doesn't cost you a thing. [HealthiaCynthia's note: In Canada, where thermography is not presently widely available-- probably because the mammographers are still paying off their expensive old machines-- there is a cost for a thermogram... but it is quite reasonable and well worth it!]

Why go to the clinic and get it done free? See if your toolbox has a pair of vice grips and use those for free-or better yet, see if your husband has a workbench with a built in vice. This will work very well. You can stay home, and not have to spend the time, or gas money, and you can do it in the privacy of your own home, or condo, or apt.

For effect, you can shine a flashlight on your breasts. This is much safer than having a nurse direct radiation at your them.

Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising. Idea! Cut down on corporate advertising by cutting down on mammograms!

Mammograms are another screening procedure, to get breast cancer diagnosed woman, into the medical merry go round of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
This is major megabucks for the medical people. Cancer drugs, ie. anti-neoplastics, cost tens of thousands. They are like mustard gas which was used in WWI. This is not moral, its not Biblical, its not ethical, and its not good for your body. It is only good for the profits of the drug companies, and hospitals.

I say, Stay away from people in white, who are looking to chop off, slice off, or cut off your breasts. Keep your breasts! God gave them to you for a reason-that little baby needs them. You need them. Your husband needs them. Breast cancer can also be completely cleared up, without surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. See http://www.drday.com/

Women who don't want to submit to radical mastectomies ought to form, Believers in Research, Education, and Availability of Sufficient Thermography Units in Place, or BREAST UP.

I would also put in a plug for breast flushing. For more information, see http://www.jessicawild.com/ This procedure is done by a trained and licensed massage therapist. It gently flushes or removes toxins, including acids, and chemicals, and gets the lymph flowing, to help facilitate that process. It cleans out the toxins, along with therapeutic grade essential oils. What a contrast to having more poisonous chemicals added on top of chemicals, and then going to the chopping block in the O.R.!

There is plenty of information that we are not told about!

Don't let the words, "unproven" deter you, or propagandize you. ALL medical procedures are unproven, except they are proven to put more money into the drug cartel's pockets.

Consider not going out to look for a disease. Instead, consider making your whole body healthier, by eating healthier. Try not to be bamboozled into eating junk food full of chemicals, and taking drugs, drugs, drugs. Try not to be roped into slathering sunscreen on your body, that is full of chemicals. Try not to use underarm anti -perspirants that are loaded with toxic aluminum, and which are a major cause of breast tumors. Use nontoxic underarm deodorants instead. You can find them. If you need help, call me, or write me.
If you want to be healthier, don't believe this propaganda about mammagrams. Its a SCAM. Call it "scamagrams" .

See the web site below at the bottom of this page. Pass it along to people you know.

This site is great for information regarding thermograms.
Its in the Pacific NW. For local thermography information, go to The Silver Center, in Fort Myers, FL. Dean Silver, M.D. is the physician. He cares about your health, not about making a huge profit off of you, or anybody else.
There is a place on the east coast of FL also, that is owned by a YL distributor! I can give you the information upon request. For a local thermography clinic, type in "breast thermography" in your browser.

Remember the ban your bra, or burn your bra protests of the 60's? Well, there is plenty of research to show that wearing a bra too much, and too often, besides one that is too tight, constricts circulation. It cuts off blood supply, thereby cutting off oxgyen supply to your breasts. Start making it a habit to take off your bra as soon as you get home from work. Make sure the kids aren't standing there in front of you.

In addition, use Young Living Essential Oils on your breast/chest, instead of using the above named chemicals!
Jeff

PS Here is one website for you to look into:

http://www.breastthermography.com/

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