Add some vitality to your hot chocolate this winter

As the winter chill blows in, we almost innately brew up some hot chocolate for a warm and tasty treat. When doing so, here’s a few quick and easy ways to revitalize this guilty pleasure and turn it into a medicinal delight. Best ChocolateObviously, high quality chocolate…

Eat mushrooms to improve your health and happiness this winter

(NaturalNews)For many people, the cold and often dreary days of winter can translate into seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as the “winter blues.” But one way to help you and your family to avoid the winter blues and stay healthy and happy this winter is to eat plenty…

How to make prickly pear cactus fruit juice for FREE (Health Ranger video)

(NaturalNews) Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) teaches wild foods harvesting in a short video about harvesting nopal cactus fruit and turning it into nutritious, medicinal juice! Watch the video on NaturalNews.TV at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=6952BD89F1F8EC25756D84DBF43BDFA3 Or view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VmzQgZN_g In the video, Mike Adams demonstrates how to harvest prickly pear cactus fruit (without getting stuck by the spines), how to press the juice out of the cactus fruit (using a juice press, see below), and how to mix the final juice with tea to make a delicious wild foods beverage! To press out the cactus fruit juice, Adams uses a Norwalk Juicer which features a powerful juice press. Because many people don’t have a juice press, the alternative way to accomplish the same thing is to blend the cactus fruits in a Vita-Mix blender , pour the slurry into nut milk bags , then squeeze the juice out of the nut milk bags. Nut milk bags are available at the NaturalNews Store: http://store.naturalnews.com Harvesting tips Prickly pear cactus fruit juice is almost incandescent purple — it’s a beautiful color made of phyto-pigments that are also powerful medicine. You’ve often heard to eat all the different colors of fresh foods, right? Well, cactus fruit has some of the most powerful colors you’ve ever seen in nature, similar to the color intensity of something like spirulina or astaxanthin. The best part about harvesting cactus fruit is that it’s FREE, and it’s widely available throughout the world where the climate doesn’t get too cold in the winter. You’ll find cactus fruits in the South of the USA, Central America, South America, Australia, China, the Middle East and many other regions. Harvesting tip: Always leave some cactus fruit for the birds. This is one of their important food sources. When harvesting wild foods, never harvest the entire plant, obviously. (Nature isn’t a farm operation!) Watch the short video at: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=6952BD89F1F8EC25756D84DBF43BDFA3 Or view it on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8VmzQgZN_g Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) is an advocate of wild foods, sustainable living and personal preparedness. He also practices what he preaches, helping out on a farm in Texas and raising chickens and garden veggies while practicing principles of permaculture . View the video of the Health Ranger’s free-range chickens: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9871D842E9C131D2CEFE9A377BD7AD11 And meet the Health Ranger’s two donkeys, Jackson and Jennifer: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A4A2C911D95A6968E8E19A8684FD50A6 “Americans need to get back to recognizing and using the food that grows all around them,” said Adams. “People drive by FREE food every day on the way to the grocery store, and then they complain about food prices being so high. Maybe the answer is to stop getting all your food indoors and start finding more of it out in nature where it really grows!” Along those lines, NaturalNews.TV recently launched a course called FREE Food and Medicine which teaches that exact principle: http://premium.naturalnews.tv/Free_Food_and_Medicine__NN.htm Watch for more videos and articles on wild foods here at NaturalNews.com.

Earth’s Best Organic 2nd Winter Squash, 4 Ounce Jars (Pack of 12)

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A Link Between Bat Deaths and Pesticides?

(NaturalNews) The US Fish and Wildlife Service published a plan in May of 2011 to prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats. The fast-spreading disease has killed more than one million bats in the US and Canada since it detection in 2006. The new plan is meant to coordinate multiple governmental and research groups in a “swift national effort to avoid irreversible losses to bat populations”. WNS derives its name from the whitish fungus which typically appears on the nose and/or wings of infected bats. However, not all infected bats display these visual symptoms. The disease causes bats to engage in atypical behaviors such as flying during periods when their prey is unavailable, such as sub-zero temperatures in daylight hours. Infected bats will also cluster around the entrances to their hibernacula (caves and other dark places in which they can safely spend the winter months). Once the disease attacks a colony of bats, it spreads quickly and typically wipes out 90% of those sharing a hibernation dwelling. The highly respected journal Science published a study in August of 2010 in which researched predicted that WNS would result in local extinction of some bat species within two decades. Since bats play a vital role in ecosystems, both as pollinators and through their consumption of insects harmful to crops, this could have a devastating effect on the economy. The April 2011 issue of Science included an article reporting on another study looking at the financial impact of potential bat extinction. Researchers estimated that the loss of bat populations could cost the US agriculture system more than $3.7 billion per year. Some scientists predict the bat die-off may require more extensive use of pesticides to compensate for fact that insects destructive to crops will no longer be subject to predation by the night-flying mammals. This is ironic because many environmental experts point to pesticides, along with GMO crops, as a possible culprit contributing to the epidemic threatening the continuation of the bat species. At the same time that one arm of the federal government, US Fish and Wildlife Management, works to contain the disease, other branches continue to rubberstamp their approval of an increasing number of pesticides and genetically modified Frankenfoods whose safety has not been verified. Bats are one of the species serving as canaries in the coal mine of the toxic chemical stew in our environment. Their unique combination of long lifespan (up to three decades) and small size (a little brown bat weighs about 8 grams) makes them especially vulnerable. Boston University bat researcher and PhD candidate Marianne Moore notes, “That’s a lot of time to accumulate pesticides and contaminants. We know they are exposed to and accumulate organochlorines, mercury, arsenic, lead, dioxins but we don’t understand the effects.” Independent research, free of corporate influence, is needed to investigate the link between WNS and pesticides. Sources for this article include: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13438594 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bat-disease-pesticides_n_848556.html http://e360.yale.edu/feature/behind_mass_die_offs_pesticides_lurk_as_culprit/2228/ http://whitenosebats.wordpress.com/about/

CDC admits flu vaccines don’t work (which is why you need a new one every year)

(NaturalNews) I’m always amused by the purchasing process of electronics or appliances at big box stores. On one hand, as their sales associate calmly explains to you, whatever product you’re buying is such high quality that you’ll be extremely satisfied with your purchase. But on the other hand, it’s also such a complete piece of junk that you’d be smart to add on a two-year extended warranty so that when the gizmo breaks five seconds after you open the box, you can get a replacement for free. The CDC and the vaccine industry are fronting a similar bit of contradictory logic. “Our vaccines work so well that they offer almost total immunity from the flu,” they claim. And yet somehow they also work so poorly that they “wear off” after a year and require you to be re-vaccinated annually. This is The Great Big Lie of the vaccine industry: The lie that says you have be re-vaccinated each and every year, often with the exact same strains you were vaccinated with the previous year. The coming winter flu vaccines for 2011, for example, are being manufactured with the same strains as the 2010 flu vaccines. But if vaccines work so amazingly well as the CDC and the vaccine industry (fraudulently) suggests, then why do you need the same shot year after year? Well, according to the CDC, “Vaccines wear off.” Vaccines wear off, they say Yep, that’s their cover story. The vaccines “wear off.” But hold on a minute. There’s something fishy about this. Because human antibodies normally last a lifetime , remember? That’s why you don’t get the chicken pox over and over again; because the first time you got the chicken pox as a kid, your body created chicken pox antibodies and those antibodies last a lifetime. Thus, your immune system offers you lifetime immunity from the chicken pox. The vaccine industry false tries to claim its vaccines work exactly the same way: They cause the body to produce antibodies against a certain viral strain. But there’s something you’re not being told about vaccines: They don’t really produce the same quality and strength of antibodies that your own body would produce from a natural infection and recovery . That’s why the vaccines “wear off” and leave you with zero protection from the very strains they inoculate you against. In other words, vaccines don’t work as advertised . And that’s why the vaccine industry has to keep pushing the same vaccine strains year after year. Because, think about it: If vaccines actually worked as intended, they would give you lifetime immunity against whatever strains you were injected with, right? And yet the CDC now openly admits vaccines don’t offer that at all: “This year’s flu shot will be a duplicate of last year’s because the same flu strains are still circulating,” reports the Associated Press in an article about the CDC. “Government health officials are urging nearly everyone to get this fall’s flu shot. They say a vaccine’s protection can fade significantly after several months.” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110527/ap_on_he_me/us_med_flu_shots%3B_ylt%3DAoeYUTLS8nEiYjW_Aa14OVus0NUE%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTFkaXVrZ2x0BHBvcwMxNDQEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2lzYXJlcGVhdGZsdQ–) Vaccine protection fades after a few months? Well then, vaccines must not actually cause the body to react with producing its own antibodies, because those antibodies, we’re told, offer lifetime immunity . Another way you can confirm this yourself is by remembering your history. Remember when the Europeans came to America centuries ago and killed off masses of American Indians by accidentally giving them smallpox? Well, if the Indians died of smallpox, why didn’t the Europeans die of smallpox? (There were no vaccines in the 1600′s and 1700′s.) The answer is because the Europeans had already been exposed and built up lifetime immunity to the disease . Thus, the reason the European invaders of North America did not die from smallpox wasn’t because they were vaccinated; it was because they had already been exposed to the disease and had built up active immunity against it (by producing their own antibodies which last a lifetime). Thus, the Europeans could be exposed to smallpox over and over again with no symptoms of infection . They were effectively “immune” to smallpox, in exactly the same way a human being living today becomes immune to a winter flu strain by first being exposed to the full strength strain (in the wild) and then building up their own antibodies in an automatic adaptive response. But don’t expect the vaccine industry to educate anyone on how infectious disease and antibodies really work. They’re too busy selling annual flu shots to bother with scientific facts. The flu vaccine manufacturing machine is on high output “Five vaccine manufacturers announced plans to make between 166 million and 173 million doses for the coming season,” says the same article mentioned above. That’s the highest vaccine manufacturing output for the USA in the history of vaccines. With all these 170 million (or so) vaccines sitting around by the time the winter rolls around, the CDC is obviously going to have to kick its propaganda and fear mongering into high gear to convince people to buy all these vaccines. This is going to be doubly difficult considering the inconvenient fact that all the people who got vaccinated last year already received vaccines against these same viral strains! So, in other words, the CDC must now convince 170 million people that last year’s vaccine was such a complete failure that they need the exact same vaccines this year — and somehow this year’s vaccine will work better even though it’s exactly the same as last year’s vaccine. How will they accomplish this? It’s simple: They won’t talk much about the fact that this year’s flu vaccine is identical to last year’s flu vaccine. They’ll just repeat their blatant lies about vaccines offering near-100 percent protection against the flu — an insinuation so blatantly false that the FTC should actually charge the vaccine manufacturers with false advertising. And the great unknowing masses will, of course, line up to be injected yet again with the same cocktail of viral strains and vaccine preservatives that didn’t work for them last year! Because the hilarious truth about flu vaccines is that most of the people who get sick from the flu each year are the same people who were vaccinated against the flu! Yep, it’s the devastating secret of the vaccine industry: Most of the flu victims each year are precisely the same people who took the flu shots. And now you know why that is so — because the flu vaccine shots simply don’t work. Even if you do believe they work at first, even the CDC openly admits — on the record — that “flu vaccines stop working after several months.” They fade out like a set of old batteries, in other words. And that right there is proof that flu vaccines don’t produce a true antibody response. The great vaccine marketing con: Annual vaccine shots The CDC is now engaged in the marketing of annual vaccination of the entire population. That’s the game, you see: Convince people they need an annual flu shot just to stay healthy. It’s a complete marketing con, of course, but it’s necessary to keep the flu vaccine profit machine humming along each winter. In doing this, the CDC is now running a criminal marketing racket to falsely push vaccines as the solution even though flu vaccines simply don’t work . For every 100 people vaccinated against the winter flu, by the way, 99 of them will experience no difference whatsoever in their flu outcomes. Even using the industry’s own best evidence, flu vaccines are no more than one percent effective at actually preventing the flu (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html) — and that’s only during the first few months before they “fade out.” One of the CDC’s own vaccine scientists — a man who received millions of dollars in grant money from the CDC — was recently indicted by a federal grand jury for money laundering and fraud (http://www.naturalnews.com/032216_Thorsen_fraud.html). Check out the NaturalNews diagram called Poul Thorsen’s Alleged Web of Fraud to see the complete web of deceit under which the key players of the vaccine fraud industry operate: http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Web-of-Alleged-Fraud.pdf The truth is that the CDC abandoned real science long ago and is now engaged almost entirely in infectious disease fear mongering and the wholesale prostitution of itself to the vaccine industry. The CDC has become to the vaccine industry what infomercial guru Tony Little is to exercise equipment. This is an agency that now functions as little more than the marketing branch of the vaccine giants. As part of that total prostitution of itself to the vaccine makers, last year the CDC even announced that virtually everyone should get annual flu vaccine shots, including pregnant women! You can immunize yourself against the winter flu But here’s the other dirty little secret the CDC absolutely does not want you to know: If you skip the vaccine, boost your vitamin D intake, and encounter the flu naturally, you will build your own lifetime antibodies against the infection . Got that? So the best way to immunize yourself against a particular strain of the winter flu is to dose up on vitamin D, boost your nutritional intake, get healthy and then just go out into the world and stop worrying about exposing yourself to the flu. You’ll pick it up somewhere, and if your immune system is functioning well with high levels of vitamin D (that’s the vitamin that “activates” your immune response to flu infections), your body will build its own antibodies, and you won’t even know it! You will have what’s called a “symptomless infection” and won’t even know your body successfully fought off the viral invader. Better yet, because you were exposed to the real viral strain in the wild (and not some weakened strain in a flu vaccine shot), your body will maintain lifetime immunity to that viral strain. And isn’t that the goal of immunization in the first place? Immunizing yourself, you see, works far better than relying on the vaccine industry to immunize you through some artificial means (an injection). Their immunization, it turns out, simply doesn’t work reliably. And that’s why the sad sellouts and prostitutes of the vaccine industry have to keep pushing their same lame flu shots year after year, with no improvements and virtually zero effectiveness. And the same ignorant consumers line up year after year to get the same failed flu shots year after year… then they wonder why they still get sick year after year. Do the math, folks. This is not rocket science. If flu shots worked as well as your own immune response to a natural infection, then you would only need one shot in your entire life for any given viral flu strain. But that, of course, would be bad for vaccine profits. They need suckers to believe in annual flu shots so they can keep raking in the big bucks year after year.

You dont need a bronzer for a golden glow, just eat lots of fruit and veggies

(NaturalNews) Looking a bit pale and even pasty this winter? If you can’t fly to the tropics to get a tan, you don’t have to turn to bronzers and make-up to make your skin glow. New research headed by Dr. Ian Stephen at the University of Nottingham in Great Britain concludes that eating a diet rich in fruit and vegetables can give you an even more healthy golden skin tone than the sun — without the use of make-up. The study, which was recently published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior , found that people who eat several portions of fruit and veggies daily have a more golden skin color, thanks to carotenoids. These nutrients are abundant in orange and red colored fruits and vegetables including carrots, sweet potatoes and tomatoes. Carotenoids are antioxidants that help protect the immune, cardiovascular and reproductive systems. “Most people think the best way to improve skin color is to get a suntan, but our research shows that eating lots of fruit and vegetables is actually more effective,” Dr. Stephen said in a media statement. “We found that, given the choice between skin color caused by suntan and skin color caused by carotenoids, people preferred the carotenoid skin color,” he added. “So if you want a healthier and more attractive skin color, you are better off eating a healthy diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables than lying in the sun.” Dr Stephen stated that the study is important because it could back up the concept that evolution favors those who choose to form alliances or mate with healthy individuals over unhealthy individuals — and a healthy skin tone from eating plenty of fruits and veggies could indicate good health. While it’s true the new research only involved Caucasians, the paper also describes a study that suggests the effect exists for other races, and too. In fact, similar preferences for skin with a yellowish glow were found in an African population. “This is something we share with many other species. For example, the bright yellow beaks and feathers of many birds can be thought of as adverts showing how healthy a male bird is. What’s more, females of these species prefer to mate with brighter, more colored males. But this is the first study in which this has been demonstrated in humans,” researcher Professor David Perrett noted in the press statement. For more information: http://www.nutrientreference.com/carotenoids.html http://www.ehbonline.org/

Treat chronic hives with vitamin D, says university study

(NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have found that vitamin D plays an important role in mitigating chronic hives. Jill Poole, M.D., and her colleagues observed that patients with chronic hives typically have very low vitamin D levels, and that supplementing with the vitamin may help to alleviate their condition and improve their overall health. “Chronic hives can be quite frustrating for patients as treatment options are limited. They can make you feel miserable,” explained Dr. Poole, an allergist, concerning the condition. “Vitamin D may be one part of the answer to this troublesome disease. Given the health benefits, there’s no harm in taking vitamin D if you don’t overdo it. It’s easy, inexpensive and can be taken daily at 1,000 to 2,000 international units (IUs).” Published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology , the study revealed that nearly half of the chronic hives patients evaluated were deficient in vitamin D, which is a step lower than insufficient vitamin D levels. Consequently, Poole believes that chronic hives patients who either expose themselves to more sunlight to generate vitamin D, or take vitamin D supplements to up their levels, will experience improved health. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to a host of diseases including diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, hypertension and cancer. The body produces vitamin D naturally from regular sunlight exposure but, especially during the winter, many people spend too little time in the sun to derive any significant benefit. And when they do venture out, they typically lather themselves in chemical-laden, UV-blocking sunscreens that prevent the vitamin D-producing sun rays from penetrating the skin. To learn more about the importance of vitamin D for your health, check out the extensive NaturalNews archive of vitamin D studies and information: http://www.naturalnews.com/vitamin_d.html Also, be sure to check out: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org Sources for this story include: http://www.healthcanal.com/alternative-therapies/13644-UNMC-study-links-chronic-hives -vitamin-deficiency.html

The top five negative-calorie health foods that burn fat while making you feel full

(NaturalNews) How do you eat more while losing more weight at the same time? One of the best answers is to eat “negative-calorie” foods, meaning that these foods actually take more energy to digest than they deliver to your body. While these foods may be an important source of phytonutrients , they are not sources of fat-packing calories. Because of their surprising lack of calories, these foods can essentially be consumed in unlimited quantities without you gaining weight (body fat). That works because your stomach senses when it is physically full, and it will trigger your brain to stop eating when you can’t handle more food. You know that “I feel stuffed” feeling? That’s your stomach (which has its own complex nervous system, by the way), telling your brain to tell you to stop eating. This is why, believe it or not, the simple act of drinking a glass of water before each meal is a proven weight loss strategy. It fills your belly with water, thereby reducing the amount of space left for other foods. So your stomach gets full more quickly, triggering the “stop eating” signals in your brain. Eating an apple before each meal also works in much the same way. This is true even though apples are not negative-calorie foods. But they are rich in water, and water takes up space in your stomach. In fact, that’s the common property among all negative-calorie foods: They all contain a lot of water locked in a fibrous matrix. Apples are essentially “water fruits,” as are grapes and watermelons (hence the name). Many vegetables are also “water vegetables,” meaning that they’re loaded with water. Celery, for example, is the classic example of a water-rich negative-calorie food (see below). As you read this list, remember that all foods contain calories , and that the term “negative-calorie food” is a bit of a misnomer. It refers to the effective net calories subtracted from your body through the preparation, eating, digestion and elimination of these foods. In other words, you expend more calories eating them than they deliver to your body. The upshot is that the more water you consume in your foods , the more quickly you’ll feel full and stop eating. Water , it turns out, is the most effective appetite control substance in the world. So here’s the list of the five best negative-calorie foods that you can enjoy every day as part of a healthy weight loss diet: #1) Celery One cup of celery (120g) contains only 19 calories. It takes far more than 19 calories to prepare, eat, digest and eliminate this one cup of celery, and that’s what qualifies it as a negative-calorie food. You can eat as much celery as you want, and you won’t gain body fat. Even though celery contains effectively no contributing calories, it does contain powerful medicine . Celery juice is a powerful anti-inflammatory medicine (http://www.naturalnews.com/024135_celery_cancer_inflammation.html), and one of the active constituents in celery — apigenin — slashes the risk of ovarian cancer, too. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027449_cancer_ovarian_flavonoids.html) Celery juice is fantastic for your health, but if you want to feel more full, eat whole celery with simple seasonings (see below). #2) Lettuce, onions and greens Lettuce is basically just structured water locked into a vegetable matrix. One cup of typical iceberg lettuce contains just 8 calories , meaning you can munch on this to your heart’s delight and you’ll never gain an ounce of body fat. Much the same is true with onions , which contain only 64 calories per cup and yet deliver an amazing assortment of anti-cancer nutrients and immune-boosting medicine. (http://www.naturalnews.com/022364_pancreatic_cancer_onions.html). Virtually all salad greens are “negative-calorie” foods, meaning you can eat as many of them as you want. But be careful: Slopping on 300 calories worth of oily salad dressing changes the entire equation. While lettuce by itself is a negative-calorie food, salad dressing is mostly definitely NOT. In fact, salad dressings are often loaded with cheap soybean oils and even MSG (monosodium glutamate), a chemical taste enhancer linked to neurological damage and obesity. MSG is almost always found in “Ranch” flavor dressings, in particular. #3) Kelp noodles Eating noodles is not normally known as a way to lose weight. That’s because traditional noodles are made with calorie-rich starches derived from grains like wheat. But even spelt noodles, brown rice noodles and quinoa noodles still contain a lot of calories. That’s why kelp noodles are so amazing: They’re made out of sea kelp, and they’re packed with water. Yet they perform amazingly well in soups, raw noodle dishes and even Italian-style dishes like spaghetti. Kelp noodles contain just 6 calories per serving , and yet they take up a lot of physical space in your belly, contributing to that “full” feeling that reminds you to stop eating. You may be able to find kelp noodles at your local health food store. You can also find them at the NaturalNews Store , where we’ve just introduced them to readers who have replied with an overwhelmingly positive response. I’ve personally been eating these kelp noodles as part of my own health maintenance program. For example, during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I went on a juice fast that involved drinking fresh vegetable juice every morning, then eating steamed broccoli and cabbage with kelp noodles every evening. It was a very cleansing and healthful experience. I also used several key supplements such as Oxy-Powder from Ed Group’s Global Healing Center (www.GlobalHealingCenter.com) to help speed my cleansing. Kelp noodles are also great for adding substance to light soups or vegetable broths. They make a broth eat like a full soup (and they make you feel full, too). #4) Pickles Pickles are, of course, made from cucumbers , and cucumbers are themselves a “negative-calorie food” because they’re so sparse in calories. One cup of cucumbers contains a mere 16 calories . Does that mean one cup of pickles contains 16 calories, too? Well, not exactly. You have to watch out for the sugar content in some brands of pickles. Just pickling cucumbers in vinegar, water and spices won’t add any calories, but a lot of today’s most popular pickle brands contain added sugar. This typically adds only a slight amount of calories to the food. Dill pickles made from cucumbers, for example, have 17 calories per cup. So they’re still a negative-calorie food because it takes more than 17 calories to consume and digest them. If you’re looking to lose body fat or maintain a healthy weight, eat all the pickles you want . Beware, however, of this: Many pickles are made with artificial yellow food coloring chemicals . In fact, I recently checked this out at the grocery store and found that 95% of the pickles sold there were contaminated with FD&C Yellow #5 . This chemical should be avoided by everyone — especially children. So only buy natural pickles made without the yellow #5 food coloring! By the way, speaking of pickled foods, you can also eat unlimited Kimchi and raw sauerkraut as those are also negative-calorie fermented foods (they’re actually good for your digestive tract because of all the probiotics they contain). #5) Grapefruit Grapefruit technically isn’t a negative-calorie food, but it deserves mention for another reason as you’ll soon see. For starters, it’s still fairly low in calories, delivering only 74 calories per cup. But the best part is that grapefruit contains naringenin , an antioxidant derived from the bitter flavor of grapefruits, which triggers the liver to break down fat. So as part of a fat-loss strategy, grapefruit is truly essential to your daily diet! Fascinating research about the fat-reducing properties of grapefruit was just published in the online journal PLoS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012399). It shows that naringenin activates two kinds of PPARs (dubbed PPAR-alpha and PPARy) and blocks LXR-alpha — resulting in fasting-type benefits to the body (http://www.naturalnews.com/029684_naringenin_grapefruit.html). “It is a process which is similar to the Atkins diet, without many of the side effects,” Martin L. Yarmush, MD, PhD, director of the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine and one of the paper’s authors, said in a media statement. “The liver behaves as if fasting, breaking down fatty acids instead of carbohydrates.” To get more grapefruit into my diet, I like to peel it, remove the seeds, then blend the whole grapefruit into a fruit smoothie . This is how I get the white grapefruit inner skin, too. And that contains the best medicine of the grapefruit! Drinking so-called “grapefruit juice” does not offer the same benefits, especially if it’s pasteurized. Only raw grapefruit that includes the white inner skin (the bitter part) offers these health benefits. Don’t forget full-spectrum sea salt Believe it or not, full-spectrum salt (not processed salt) is actually a kind of negative-calorie substance. I’m including it as an addition to the list of five for reasons you’ll see below. There’s a lot of mythology surrounding salt that needs to be dispelled here. First off, I’m not talking about processed white salt (sodium chloride). That’s a dietary poison and should never be consumed. Only full-spectrum salt that’s rich in sea minerals can be considered real food. In fact, many food cravings are really just cravings for minerals. All land animals (and humans) have an innate biological need for real salt. That’s why animals go crazy over salt licks . It’s also why deer wander onto the roadways when they’re salted in the winter. Land animals need salt, just like you and I. When we lack the trace minerals found in salt, we get cravings for salt. Many cravings for salty snack foods are really just your brain telling you to eat more salt . And yet the salt used in processed foods isn’t real salt — it’s fake salt; a shadow of real salt that lacks the trace minerals found in real salt. So if you’re craving chips or salty snack foods, you’re probably deficient in real salt minerals and need to correct your nutritional deficiency. So sprinkling full-spectrum salt on your meals (steamed veggies, smoothies, etc.) can actually satisfy your cravings and reduce your consumption of unhealthful snack foods. That’s why full-spectrum salt is, for many people, an effective “negative-calorie” substance; because in those who are mineral deficient, eating full-spectrum salt can ease cravings by satisfying your body’s desire for minerals. However, if you show symptoms of high blood pressure, be sure to check with your naturopathic physician before adding salt to your diet. Most people consume far too much (processed) salt and need to drastically reduce their consumption of it before adding full-spectrum salt to their diets. Some recommended full-spectrum salts include Royal Himalayan pink crystal salt, Celtic sea salt and other truly natural brands. Watch out for cheap “sea salt” at your grocery store — it turns out that any salt can claim to be “sea salt” even if it’s highly processed white salt. The thing to look for in salt is the color of the salt . Real salt will look pinkish, sandy or brown. The “dirtier” the color of the salt, the more real it is. The whiter is looks, the less healthy it is, just as in white bread versus wheat bread. Feel full and drop the pounds anyway! To summarize, then, here are the five negative-calorie foods that may help you feel full while greatly reducing your caloric intake: • Celery • Lettuce, onions and greens • Kelp noodles • Pickles, kimchi and sauerkraut • Grapefruit … and the additional item of: • Full-spectrum sea salt Isn’t it nice to know you don’t have to starve yourself to reduce your calories? Just eat more of these negative-calorie foods and you’ll get the benefits of calorie restriction with all the suffering. Fill your grocery shopping cart with these foods, and you’ll be the healthier for it! Watch for more healthy tips and strategies here on NaturalNews. 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Swine flu pandemic outbreak sweeping through Britain even though 70 percent were vaccinated last year

(NaturalNews) A swine flu pandemic is sweeping through Britain despite the fact that 70 percent of Britain’s over-65 population was vaccinated against swine flu last year. This year, that number is nearly the same — 68.5% — but flu vaccine proponents insist that until everyone is vaccinated, the flu will continue to infect people. What these vaccine advocates absolutely will not admit, however, is how many of those who are sick with the flu this year also got vaccinated last year . This little detail is left out of every mainstream media report on vaccines and the flu. They simply refuse to mention this all-important number, leaving readers to leap to the incorrect conclusion that only those who were not vaccinated get sick with the flu . Most infected patients were previously vaccinated That assumption is false. In fact, of the 450 critical care beds in England that are now occupied by flu patients, I have no doubt that most of those infected patients are people who received flu vaccines in the past . Such statistics are never made available to the public or the press, of course. To release such statistics would expose the Great Lie of the vaccine industry: That flu vaccines simply don’t work on 99 percent of people! In fact, the people who are most susceptible to catching the flu are precisely the very same people who get vaccinated. Why is that? Because vaccines weaken the immune system in the long run , leaving you more vulnerable to future infections. They deny your immune system the opportunity to practice its own adaptive response to invading microorganisms or viruses, thereby causing your immune system to atrophy in the same way that a wheelchair-bound person will experience leg muscle atrophy. The immune system is a lot like a muscle: Use it or lose it! But flu vaccines provide weakened viruses to the immune system (along with other preservative chemicals that can be extremely dangerous to neurological health). It’s sort of like working out your muscles at the gym but having your trainer do all the heavy lifting for you. Obviously you’re not going to have very strong muscles in the end because your body won’t need to invoke a very strong adaptive response. The same is true with vaccines and the flu: If your body is exposed to weakened flu viruses year after year, it gets lazy and weak, and when it one day comes into contact with a full-strength virus circulating in the wild, it’s not in good enough shape to handle the challenge. Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in Britain At the same time this is going on, a person who is vitamin D deficient will also have an alarmingly weak immune system response because vitamin D activates the immune system to do its job. In people with extremely low vitamin D levels, even vaccines containing weakened viruses won’t solicit an antibody response. But instead of testing patients for vitamin D deficiency and prescribing that with the vaccine, conventional medical doctors and contagious disease authorities robotically urge everyone to just “get multiple vaccine shots” as if following one failed vaccine with yet another failed vaccine will somehow make them both work. That’s idiotic, of course. And the other idiotic thing about all this is that if people had sufficient levels of vitamin D circulating in their blood , they wouldn’t need seasonal flu vaccines in the first place! That’s because a strong, healthy immune system with lots of circulating vitamin D is universally effective at halting ALL seasonal flu strains, with near 100% success in those with vitamin D levels between 50 – 70 (ng/dL). The three main reasons behind Britain’s flu pandemic So the real reason Britain is suffering a swine flu pandemic right now is actually three-fold: #1) It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and Britain is so far north (of the equator) that the people living there aren’t currently generating any vitamin D whatsoever. This makes virtually the entire British population ridiculously vitamin D deficient throughout the winter. #2) The majority of the British population has been subjected to flu vaccines in previous years, weakening their immune systems and making them more vulnerable to this year’s flu strains. #3) The flu strain itself is so successful in the wild precisely because so many Britons walk around in chronic states of immune suppression (from vitamin D deficiency, chronic stress, poor dietary habits and so on). This creates a “viral breeding ground” which encourages more rapid virus mutations that make vaccines obsolete anyway. The question you are not allowed to ask vaccine quacks The vaccine-pushing quack medical community believes that if they could magically convince 100 percent of the people to get vaccinated, they would have this problem licked. In their own minds, they have unscientifically convinced themselves that a vaccine equals automatic and full protection against a flu virus. And yet even they won’t dare ask this simple question: Of all the people sick from the flu who are right now lying in Britain’s hospital beds, what percentage were vaccinated against the flu last year or this year? The answer to that question will expose the outright fraud of the vaccine industry because the answer is a very large number. No one in the medical industry dares ask that question, of course, because they realize that delving into the actual re-infection rate of flu vaccine recipients would expose their quackery and fraud, causing yet more people to lose faith in vaccines which are, after all, sold based entirely on misplaced faith and clever propaganda. The flu vaccine propaganda, of course, demands that people never be allowed to collide with the scientific facts about how many people who are vaccinated against the flu still catch the flu anyway. (The flu re-infection rate.) That’s why you will NEVER see an honest answer to this question released by hospitals, vaccine companies or vaccine-pushing doctors. Keep taking your flu jabs, everybody. But don’t ask whether they actually work, because that question isn’t allowed to be asked in the cult of medicine that dominates the sick-care landscape around the world today. We wouldn’t want actual science to interfere with a really profitable con job now, would we?

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