A Nasty Little Secret Hidden in Your Crock Pot

A Nasty Little Secret

Hidden in Your Crock Pot

by ANYA V

Crock pots containing lead was the subject of an investigation that began in Salt Lake City with KUTV’s Bill Gephardt. After his investigation about lead in ceramic glazed plates, bowls and mugs and finding high a content of lead in them, his focus turned to ceramic glazed crock pots after a viewer did a little research on her own.

A  concerned mom from Weber County, who frequently used her crock pot, took her Rival slow cooker to the county fair, where she could do a free lead testing on dishes. What she discovered was her crock pot contained lead. She notified Gephardt about her findings and he started his own investigation. He discovered that when ceramic ware was heated to just 80 degrees, it released nearly 10 times the amount of lead as a plate at room temperature. The FDA limits the amount of lead that is allowed to leach from cookware. But there isn’t a “safe” amount of lead to have in your body.

Unfortunately, most crockpot inserts  are most commonly made of glazed ceramic, which is known for leaching lead.  Did you know that lead is harmful at any dose? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has drastically lowered the official level for what it considers to be “safe” exposure to lead. However, recently the agency admitted that there is no safe level of exposure to lead, and that the only way to protect our health is to avoid it completely.

Lead is found to cause damage to your brain and nervous system. Even tiny amounts of lead can be dangerous, as it builds up in your body over time.  Additionally, lead can mimic and inhibit the essential mineral calcium. In humans the lead is directly absorbed, distributed, and excreted. Once in the bloodstream lead is distributed to three main compartments: blood, soft tissue (kidney, bone marrow, liver, and brain), and mineralized tissue (bones and teeth).

Lead can cause:

• Increased chance of illness during pregnancy.
• Harm to a fetus, including brain damage or death.
• Fertility problems (in men and women).
• High blood pressure.
• Digestive problems.
• Nerve disorders.
• Memory and concentration problems.
• Muscle and joint pain.
• Cancer.

If you are  worried about lead in crock pots, buy these lead test swabs here, and find out whether your slow cookers are leaching lead.  Then check back here and report your results.

 

• Increased chance of illness during pregnancy.
• Harm to a fetus, including brain damage or death.
• Fertility problems (in men and women).
• High blood pressure.
• Digestive problems.
• Nerve disorders.
• Memory and concentration problems.
• Muscle and joint pain.
• Cancer.

If you are  worried about lead in crock pots, buy these lead test swabs here, and find out whether your slow cookers are leaching lead.  Then check back here and report your results.

 

How turmeric kills cancer and how to optimize curcumin absorption

 

 (NaturalNews) Turmeric is a bright yellow root with a tan skin that is typically used in Middle Eastern, Northern African, and Southeast Asian cuisine. Turmeric is one of the main ingredients in curry spice blends, and it makes a great addition to soups, meats, salads, stir-frys, and more. It's a very versatile herb that enhances the flavor of a great many dishes.

Curcuminoids are the beneficial compounds within turmeric. Specifically, curcumin, one of these specific compounds, is considered to be the most potent, medicinally powerful, cancer-killing component of turmeric. Curcumin helps to detoxify and rejuvenate the liver, reduces negative effects of iron overload (and this is important because iron with sweet wormwood is a powerful cancer killer, too), increases antioxidant capacity in the body, regenerates brain cells and improves cognitive function, reduces likelihood of and treats Alzheimer's, is anti-inflammatory, reduces heart disease risk, reduces depression, and fights premature aging.

How does curcumin kill cancer? It literally kills cancer.
The Murderous Aspect Of Curcumin

The human body contains approximately 10-13 trillion cells. We replace these cells at the rate of approximately 100 to 130 billion each day. A tightly regulated, cell- suicide process known as programmed cell death or apoptosis destroys cells.

Cancer cells don't suicide. They turn off the suicide genes.

Curcumin activates the death receptors through many different means, ways we are still learning. One of the more interesting ways is by activating enzymes that literally chop up the proteins within the cells. It is believed that one of the reasons cancer cells do not develop some sort of resistance to curcumin like they do with chemo drugs, is due to the fact that curcumin activates the cells death in so many different ways. We also don't know exactly why curcumin doesn't kill normal healthy cells, but it doesn't. It seems to simply target the cells that were supposed to have already died.

Our bodies want to dispose of most of the curcumin we eat. Without help, our ability to absorb curcumin would be very low.

How to Increase the Bioavailability of Curcumin

The only problem with curcumin is that our liver, in an effort to prevent excessive drugs and supplements and such, inhibits most of the absorption of curcumin (a process called glucuronidation), which makes the compound much less effective than it could be. But there are ways to increase the body's ability to absorb curcumin.

Mix Turmeric With Black Pepper

Piperine is the alkaloid responsible for the pungency of black pepper. This compound inhibits certain enzyme metabolism functions, which normally cause the disposal of what the body considers to be excess curcumin (this effect is not limited to curcumin, black pepper can increase the absorption of other supplements, too). Curcumin absorption increases up to 2,000% or more with just a small amount of piperine.

Consume Turmeric with Beneficial Fats

Curcumin is fat-soluble. Without fat, the compound doesn't dissolve properly, and then curcumin has a tough time getting into the gut and being absorbed into the bloodstream and then into the cells that needs the compound.

Try consuming turmeric with healthy fats like avocado, olive oil, and coconut oil.

Eat Turmeric With Quercetin

Quercetin is a plant flavonoid that inhibits the enzyme that deactivates curcumin.

Foods high in quercetin include red wine, red grapes, onions, green tea, apples, cranberries, blueberries, black plums, red leaf lettuce, raw kale, chicory greens, raw spinach, sweet peppers, snap beans and raw broccoli. The best whole food source of quercetin is capers.

Conclusion

If you're looking to kill cancer, or get the other benefits from turmeric, don't just pop a few curcumin pills. We are discovering the incredible synergistic relationships of many different foods. The best way, really the only way, to get your body to a place of optimum health is by consuming a wide variety of produce and eliminating toxic, refined foods. Check out this golden milk tea recipe and see Foods, Vitamins, and Herbs That Kill Cancer.

Quaker Oats contain a cancer-causing substance called glyphosate.

Quaker Oats contain a cancer-causing substance called glyphosate

If you haven’t already heard of all of the toxicity Monsanto is spreading around, then you must be living under a rock. Their toxic pesticide, Glyphosate, has been found in many different types of food. At last, here’s another one!

A lawsuit has been filed by Lewis Daly of Brooklyn claiming that Quaker Oats contain a cancer-causing substance called glyphosate. This chemical is horrible for the human body, or that of any living matter.  In 2009, a French court found Monsanto guilty of lying; falsely advertising its Roundup herbicide as “biodegradable,” “environmentally friendly” and claiming it “left the soil clean.” This is pure lies, and the chemical not only is poison but you will soon notice the effects of it. It could be the very reason cancer is so prevalent in the United States.

Some side effects of glyphosate include:

 

• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Autism
• Cancer
• Anencephaly
• ADHD
• Brain Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Celiac Disease
• Glutun Intollerance

Monsanto has falsified data on Roundup’s safety, and marketed it to parks departments and consumers as “environmentally friendly” and “biodegradable. A French court ruled those marketing claims amounted to false advertising. It is best to avoid all products with this toxic chemical.

Malaysian Pastor Kidnapped after Helping Muslims

Angela Lu | WORLD News Service | Friday, March 17, 2017

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March 13 marked one month since the disappearance of Malaysian Pastor Raymond Koh, whom family and friends believe was kidnapped because of his interaction with Muslim Malays.

Police have arrested a suspect in the kidnapping but have not released any information about Koh’s possible whereabouts.

On Sunday, March 5, hundreds of Christians around Malaysia held candlelight vigils in solidarity with Koh’s family. Holding candles and signs reading, “Where is Pastor Raymond?” and, “Let Raymond go,” the people prayed for the pastor’s safe return.

“We pray for his safe and quick release,” said his wife, Susannah Lieu Sow Yoke, as she broke into tears. “At this time we look to God and [hope that] he’ll be safe and we’ll meet him again.”

The morning of Feb. 13, while Koh was on his way to a friend’s house in Petaling Jaya near Kuala Lumpur, three black SUVs surrounded his car and forced it to stop. Nearby closed circuit TV cameras captured video of masked men getting out of their cars and walking toward Koh. A struggle appeared to take place in Koh’s car before all of the vehicles left the area. The whole event took less than a minute, and Koh has not been seen since.

The family offered a $22,500 reward for information on the pastor’s whereabouts, but so far none has surfaced.

The news shocked Malaysians, with the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and Taoists releasing a public statement that read, “News of [Koh’s] abduction have fanned fears across all religious divides in Malaysian society, as it is unprecedented for a man of faith to be abducted in this way in our peaceful, multicultural country.”

Koh, 62, led an Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) congregation in Malaysia for 20 years before starting the ministry Harapan Komuniti in 2004. The group helps single mothers, drug addicts, and people suffering from HIV/AIDS. It also holds an after-school program and English tutoring for students. Harapan Komuniti doesn’t discriminate against whom it helps, and many of the recipients of its aid are Muslim Malays.

In 2011, the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raided a thanksgiving and fundraising dinner hosted by Harapan Komuniti at a Methodist church. The religious police were concerned Koh was trying to proselytize 12 Muslim Malays who had attended the dinner, but they ended up dropping the case for lack of evidence.

A friend of Koh, (who wished to be anonymous for security reasons) said that after the 2011 raid, many Muslim Malays were angry with him. They sent a bullet to his home and stopped by his house to ask him to leave the country. They passed around his photo, calling on Muslims to kill him. In an interview with Malaysian newspaper The Star, Koh’s son Jonathan said that since 2011 “we have been evading them. We have been moving around. We also received a lot of death threats on the internet. We have people following us.”

Police are investigating a link between the kidnapping and the threats against Koh. The arrest in the case reportedly followed a ransom demand.

Islam is the official religion in Malaysia, and Muslims are governed under state-administered Sharia law. The Malaysian Constitution protects the rights of non-Muslims (including Buddhists, Christians, and Hindus) to practice their religion as long as they do not evangelize the Muslim Malays. Yet Christians have begun facing other restrictions as well: In 2014, a court upheld a ban on Christians using the word “Allah,” the Malay word for God, in publications. With Islamic police eyeing any interactions between Malays and Christians, Malays are a largely unreached group.

The division intensified recently as thousands marched in Kuala Lumpur last month in support of a bill that would impose stricter forms of punishment in the Islamic court system, which rules on religious and family matters for Muslims. Non-Muslims are tried in secular civil and criminal courts. Critics fear the bill could lead to the full implementation of the “hudud,” which includes punishments of amputations and floggings.

In early March, Jonathan filed a second police report due to fears that his father had been murdered after no new information had been uncovered. Jonathan told The Star he believes his father was kidnapped “because he speaks what he believes in and he shares his beliefs with people. … He practices without exception everything that is written in the Bible.”

Dr M's message to voters: Show BN the exit if you love M'sia

Dr M's message to voters: Show BN the exit if you love M'sia

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has urged all Malaysians who love this nation to change the government in the next general election.

Mahathir, who is now chairperson of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), said his party leaders and those in the opposition have the experience and capabilities to administer, develop and rescue Malaysia.

He said these leaders can administer the nation in a proper manner as well as deflect the current negative perception of other countries towards Malaysia.

“Our intention is to rehabilitate this blessed land.

“So we need the support of the people who love their race (bangsa)... There is only one way to do this, which is through the election. So we should change the government in GE14.

“If I, who was once president of Umno, could leave the party, we hope the people who love Malaysia would do the same,” Mahathir is quoted as saying by Sinar Harian today.

Yes, let us show Umno/BN the  DOOR before M'sia become bankrupt because of the Umno leaders' kleptocracy, excessive spending and widespread  corruption. This is LAST chance we have otherwise we shall suffer worse as the whole world economy is going bad with USA economy about to go BUST!!!

Coconut Oil Trumps Pharmaceuticals

The Once Demonized Source of Fat That Kills Cancer and Treats Alzheimer’s

by PAUL FASSA

Coconut oil was victimized during that era of erroneous dogma that demonized saturated fats, including butter, and created the unhealthy trans-fatty acid hydrogenated unsaturated fat industry, which included margarine. Saturated fats have been resurrected from the trash bin of forbidden foods over the past decade or so with proven health merits.

 

Now that the fog of junk science dogma has lifted, more and more health conscious folks are finding saturated fats, especially coconut oil, are beyond just safe. They are healthy and medicinal. Several published but unpublicized studies have been conducted and are in progress regarding palm or coconut oil’s medicinal properties.

One of the most profound studies that you probably haven’t read or heard about involves cancer. It was conducted by Australian researchers and published in the January 2014 journal Chemotherapy under “experimental chemotherapy”. It was an in vitro (test tube, petri dish) study on human colon or colorectal cancer cells.

Colorectal or colon cancer has the second highest death rate of all cancers and is the third most commonly diagnosed.

Of course, the researchers were more concerned about determining a worthy adjunct for chemotherapy than finding an alternative. So they compared the effect of butyrate, a short chain fatty acid (SCFA) derived from fermentation in the gut, to lauric acid, a medium chain fatty acid (MCFA) that’s in palm and coconut oil. About 50% of MCFA palm or coconut oil is lauric acid.

 

Lauric acid was a clear winner in promoting oxidative stress and apoptosis in colon cancer cells, killing over 90% of them within hours. Remember, cancer cells cannot handle oxygen. This is yet another reason to include coconut oil in your daily diet.

Coconut Oil Trumps Pharmaceuticals for Treating Alzheimer’s

Dr. Mary Newport’s husband Steve’s of case of Alzheimer’s was only getting worse from pharmaceuticals that were also creating unwelcome side effects. Steve’s case was quite advanced, forgetting what spoons where spoons were, not remembering friends and relatives, and walking with a weird gait.

He even failed a test of drawing a clock from memory. It wasn’t even close, and it had nothing to do with artistic rendering.

 

So Dr. Newport put her hopes into a new human trial at Big Pharma’s latest attempt to curb Alzheimer’s progress. Alzheimer’s disease affects over 5 million in the USA, and ranks seventh in deaths from diseases. It was fortuitous for Steve and Mary that they had missed the deadline for getting into that pharmaceutical trial. It went the way of others, proving ineffective or lethal.

 

But Mary didn’t give up. She researched and discovered the trial they had missed was using a synthetic medium chain triglyceride (MCT), which is a more specific label for MCFA. That’s what lauric acid is about, and it’s naturally abundant in coconut oil. High levels of long chain triglycerides are the ones that can be bad for you.

 

MCTs are easily and quickly metabolized into energy by the liver into energy ketones instead of being stored as fat. Ketones cross the blood brain barrier easily and supply glucose starved brain cells the fuel they need to furnish neuron communication. Some health experts are beginning to consider dementia as diabetes type 3.

 

After Mary starting slipping a tablespoon or two of raw coconut oil into Steve’s meals, he begin making real progress rapidly. His condition reversed to the point where he began remembering friends and family and conversed with them easily. His weird gate disappeared and he began taking long walks. He could finish projects once started that he couldn’t before.

 

Dr. Mary Campbell wrote a book about their coconut oil experience, Alzheimer’s Disease: What If There Was a Cure?: The Story of Ketones. Judging from others’ successful experiences with coconut oil, it’s better to start dosing those MCTs at the earliest onset or hint of dementia or Alzheimer’s.

Not everyone who has progressed to the Alzheimer’s phase that Steve had experienced will have the same results.

Besides, unrefined cold pressed coconut oil has many other benefits. It naturally kills multiple viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites without disrupting beneficial gut bacteria. It aids digestion and liver metabolism, reduces inflammation.

Applied topically, it promotes healthier skin and hair. Surprise, it seems to help promote weight loss. It may even help reverse diabetes 2.
It’s great for cooking because it has a high smoke point, that point during cooking or frying when the oil starts smoking (burning), causing the oil to go rancid and toxic. What’s to go wrong with making it coconut oil part of your diet?