Truth about GMO

Substantial agriculture will give the fine results of healthy food. The method and the process used for agriculture will give rise to delivery of healthy food to the consumers. Sustainable agriculture system helps in generation of environmental safe and healthy farming and food production.

There are a lot of things that help in this safe production of food such as fertility of soil, good quality seeds and the technique that is used in the process of production. The fertility of the soils needs to be constantly maintained and improved for the fertility of the product. A good water supply will also help you in enhancing the production process. It's important to maintain and protect the bio diversity of the land (farm), the workers working in the farm and all other factors that link in the food chain for the production of healthy food.

You should also take necessary steps for reduction in the waste and adverse environmental conditions. There is no body or organization that has been formed for a certification process in terms of Substantial Food and Agricultural system but the process involved like Organic and Bio Dynamic Food and Agriculture systems have their own certification standards.

The certified organic food is a term used to certify that the production of food is not done with the help of harmful pesticides or artificial fertilizers. It also certifies that the food product is not affected by any of the industrial waste, food additives, ionizing radiations and is not being genetically modified. To get the certification done you will also have to take extra care that the p[lace where the livestock's are grown and kept, the place should be free from antibiotics and is done without using the growth hormones.

The Bio Dynamic Food certification is about the artistic way of agriculture. This takes a systematic approach to agricultural farming. Each of the farm components are taken into consideration to view it affects the others. It includes an approach which includes the use of retention of nutrients, dynamic sprays, crop rotation, plants pests, weed control and also the recycling of the waste products to the maximum. In terms of the live stock production, it's all about the animal's nutrition, decomposition of the waste products and rotation of the animal species. It also involves the minimization of the pasture borne parasites.

There are numerous ways of having Sustainable Agriculture, but the final choice remains yours. You can study about the different ways to maximize the production of food products and keep them healthy too. A complete knowledge and information will help you a great deal in the field and also help you getting maximize results in the same field.

You can get more information about these through internet; the highly recommended websites you can get information from are http://www.EarthAttic.com and http://www.EarthAttic.com/dignews/, they can help you get the most appropriate information. You can get a solution to your questions regarding having substantial agricultural system and how to increase the production too.

Ask almost anyone and they'll more than likely tell you that a bran muffin is considered a healthy food. That's great news for those of us who are staying in shape and keeping our bodies healthy, right? Not if they're purchased from your favorite food store or fast food restaurant.

You see, most manufacturers want you to believe that their muffins are healthy even when they're really not and so do many fast food places. They know about the health craze, but they also know that bland doesn't sell. So, just because there's a healthy word in the title doesn't mean it's healthy for our bodies.

Most muffins are loaded with all sorts of unhealthy ingredients and can be extremely high in fat and calories. They're also high in fat, which makes you a target for everything from heart disease to high blood pressure and diabetes.

So every time you reach for one of those bad boys, you're submitting yourself to processed ingredients like sugar, flour, saturated oils, corn syrup, preservatives and other unnatural additives.

You already know what sugar can do to a body, but did you know that corn syrup could be even worse. While corn syrup may seem innocent enough since it's processed from corn, it's actually a genetically modified food. It's been linked to anemia, high cholesterol and heart disease.

Preservatives are loved by the food industry. They're what allow manufacturers to keep a food product on the shelf for months at a time. In reality foods such as muffins begin to go bad after a few days when they're made from Mother Nature. That's because they're not pumped full of chemicals that alter the foods so that they practically last forever.

Preservatives were something Mother Nature never intended for man to create, but they did it anyway. As a result of this chemically created process, studies have shown an increased risk of ADD & ADHD symptoms. And if that's not enough to scare you, some preservatives that are used in our foods can actually cause a deadly allergic reaction.

So how do we know our favorite bran muffin is healthy? We don't unless we're willing to make them from scratch. Mother Nature is best, so why are we still choosing something that isn't even real?

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In today's business environment, companies only do things that either increase their sales, or decrease the cost of production. An example would be the outsourcing pandemic that we see before us today. Why are thousands of companies laying off millions of American workers to outsource the job in another country? Wait for it!...... Because it's cheaper!!! Big businesses will always make their decisions based on profit, because they have a legal obligation to their share-holders to increase profits.

So how are big pharmaceutical companies any different? Do you think that they genuinely want to cure your diabetes? Lets pretend for a moment that you are a big company who sells insulin to diabetics. Would you be excited to hear that someone discovered a natural remedy that cured a person of diabetes so they never had to buy your insulin ever again? Do you think that natural cure for diabetes would ever be made public?

The answer is undoubtedly "No." Not because its untrue, but because these companies spend billions of dollars every year advertising their drugs to keep the population in a money spending frenzy.

Health care is defined as the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases; so diabetes can easily fall into this category. So long as diabetics are sick, and people in general, there are billions of dollars to be made every year. If every person with diabetes was able to find a natural cure, the pharmaceutical companies that sell insulin would go out of business over night.

Virtually all drug companies and corporations involved in health care view you as nothing more than a customer - and so long as you are sick, you are a good customer.

So, again, what financial incentive do they have to let everyone know of a natural cure for diabetes? Health care is the most profitable industry in the world so long as people are sick, fat, depressed, etc. And so long as they can keep secret the cure for diabetes, they can keep raking in billions of dollars.

There are virtually only two reasons why we get sick, are ill, or have disease:

1.) We "catch" something that our body can't fight off (germs, bacteria, virus', etc.)

2.) We develop it over time, i.e. an imbalance in the body that causes something to not work right or work against itself in genetically weak areas.

So why are we, in the Western world, so riddled with diseases if we are going to the doctor more, taking more drugs, exercising more often, etc.? Could it be that the drugs we are consuming don't actually cure us of ANYTHING? That our dependence on them only re-insure repeat business through newly developed problems?

Really think about it!

You don't catch cancer, you don't catch diabetes, you don't catch a back-ache, you don't catch a head-ache, allergies, arthritis, impotence, PMS, depression, fibromyalgia, heartburn, obesity, etc. They are all developed over time by extenuating circumstances. Drugs are not the answer as they only suppress the symptoms, not treat the CAUSE.

So what is the root cause of diabetes?

The root cause of diabetes is rather simple if you look at it objectively. It is the pancreas' inability to produce much insulin, if at all, that the cells require to bind to the specific receptors located on them - which would then allow the glucose to be absorbed by the rest of your body.

What can you do to naturally cure diabetes?

I know it may seem unreasonable to completely change everything you've been doing your entire life. But realistically, everything you have been doing for your entire life has developed for you nothing but complications and diabetes.

Major changes in your life, as you've recently discovered, are necessary to not only control your diabetes, but to also completely reverse it. You may be thinking that you are stuck with injecting yourself with insulin for the rest of your life, but the reality is that you can naturally cure your diabetes through two incredibly simple things:

Diet and Exercise

But its going to take some work.

The importance of diet and exercise cannot possibly be explained in a single article as the information is not only complex, but shocking as well.

The bottom line is that everything we've been eating and drinking has been genetically modified, processed, produced with pesticides, or have chemical additives in it. This not only leaves the body malnourished as the food we consume has less nutritional value than it did 100 years ago, but also creates profound "stresses" on the body!

When the body is "stressed" like this, two things happen:

1.) The immune system is increasingly suppressed, making you more susceptible to disease.

2.) The alkaline pH levels of your body go from normal, cancer fighting levels, to acidic: in which the likes of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes can develop.

There are over 15,000 toxic chemicals that have been allowed to be added in our food without being listed on the label. Before you put it in your mouth you have to ask yourself: "Is this what nature intended?" A good rule of thumb that your doctor will most likely refuse to advise is this: If it's man-made, comes in a box, couldn't be created 100 years ago, or stored in a can - DON'T EAT IT!

Which leads me to exercise.

We are the only machines on the face of this earth that break down from the lack of activity like a car engine with no oil. Enjoying an active lifestyle, along with PROPER nutrition, are the single biggest factors that is able to naturally cure all physical ailments, including diabetes.

It's important that we arm ourselves with as much true, unadulterated, information as possible. Head on over to Fat-Proof.com/Diabetes for the next step in naturally curing your diabetes for life.

As reported by Maria Gallagher, in the June 26, 2002 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, by reading the PLU code, you can tell if the fruit was genetically modified, organically grown or produced with chemical fertilizers, fungicides, or herbicides.

Here's what to look for. Look for the labels (stickers) stuck on your fruits and veggies:

* A four-digit number means it's conventionally grown.

* A five-digit number beginning with 9 means it's organic.

* A five-digit number beginning with 8 means it's GM.

The numeric system was developed by the Produce Electronic Identification Board, an affiliate of the Produce Marketing Association, a Newark, Delaware-based trade group for the produce industry. As of October 2001, the board had assigned more than 1,200 PLUs for individual produce items.

Genetically modified (GM) foods are food items that have had their DNA changed through genetic engineering. What this does is create food that is better suited to withstand environmental forces such as drought and bugs. In the US, by 2006 89% of the planted area of soybeans, 83% of cotton, and 61% maize were genetically modified varieties.[1]

GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s. The first commercially grown genetically modified whole food crop was a tomato (called FlavrSavr), which was modified to ripen more slowly by Californian company Calgene.[2] The most common modified foods are derived from plants: soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil.

Here is how some of these foods become GM. Let's take soybeans for example, my father-in-law is a large scale farmer in Iowa. The corn and beans he purchases have been soaked in RoundUp. RoundUp is a commercial weed killer. When the weeds grow they spray the entire field with RoundUp and the crops are resistant to the weed killer, and only the weeds die. The farmers know this is a problem, but here's the catch, they can only purchase RoundUp ready seeds.

The issue with GM food lies with a problem called Gene Transfer. This happens when genetic material from the crop can be found in the human.

Currently there are only a few dozen peer reviewed studies completed on the health effects of genetically modified foods. The results of many of these studies strongly challenges the industry and government standard of substantial equivalence. As of January 2009 there has only been one human feeding study conducted on genetically modified foods. The study involved seven human volunteers who had their small intestines removed. These volunteers were to eat GM Soy to see if the DNA of the GM soy transferred to the human gut bacteria.[3] Researchers identified that three of the seven volunteers had transgenes from GM soy transferred into their gut bacteria. "This transgene was stable inside the bacteria and appeared to produce herbicide-tolerant protein... In the only human feeding study ever conducted on GM crops, long standing assumptions that genes would not transfer to human gut bacteria were overturned.

It's a catch 22, clearly millions of people around the world would die if we didn't produce food on a large scale, but the side-effects are still largely unknown. I choose to avoid GM food as much as possible. The fact is if you live in America, the chances of you consuming GM is great.

[1] Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. USDA ERS July 14, 2006

[2] Martineau, Belinda (2001). First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods. McGraw-Hill. pp. 269. ISBN 978-0071360562.

[3] Netherwood et al., "Assessing the survival of transgenic planic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract," Nature Biotechnology 22 (2004):2.