Pour que ce film soit en salle (film qui dénonce les méfaits de la mauvaise alimentation et des pesticides), il faut qu’un maximum de personnes regarde la bande-annonce dans les 3 jours à venir. Faites passer, même si vous ne le
visionnez pas complètement :  c’est le nombre de visites dans les 3 jours qui fera le poids… Le voir est encore mieux. Faites suivre à tous vos contacts !

Merci.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k7hNn292T6XV3RP2bC

A few basic outlines:

• Food-control.  Setting standards for food. Banning certain nutrients, bringing in heavy toxicity in the food-chain – “to protect people”; No more organic, no more raw milk, no more grassfed beef without hormones and antibiotics. In 1994 Codex defined nutrients as toxins, which would make them illegal.
• Every country that is a member of World Trade Organization (WTO) will automatically partake and accept the Codex. Those who do not will be subject to trade sanctions.
• Codex alimentarius is ruled by Napeleonic law, which means that everything that is not stated as lawful is automatically against the law.  This is how the new bill; Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, bill HR 875, can prohibit organic farming.

Codex alimentarius aims to implement these laws latest December 31 2009. This date was set already in 1962 or 1963 when the Codex was created. On the official site of Codex you can see listed all the new rules, what pesticides, hormones and antibiotics are to be used – on ALL foodstuffs. And much much more. Do check it out.

http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp

If such a plan was created and set in action at the time of my birth to be implemented when I am a middle-aged woman…..what about the future?

US House and Senate are about (in a week and a half) to vote on bill that will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (bill HR 875).  There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks before people realize what is happening. Main backer and lobbyist is Monsanto – chemical and genetic engineering giant corporation (and Cargill, ADM, and about 35 other related agri-giants). This bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to “make sure there is no danger to the public food supply”. This will include backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales. If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsanto genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected diseases in humans.

The name of this outrageous food plan is: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (bill HR 875).

BUT this is not all. This all derives from something called the Codex Alimentarius that was launched in 1962 and since then has grown to be a multiheaded power of its own – concerning the whole world – not only the countries that are members.

I have been researching all morning and this is some scary business. Take  a look at this video, it is part 1 of 5, the rest you will find on youtube. This lady, Dr. Rima Laibouw, explains the Codex Alimentarius very well, but please do your own research on the internet.

Also you can check out this site:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

It might look like it’s just the USA, but it isn’t. Big parts of the world are involved in this. Maybe it is time to stop being complacent and start asking some serious questions.

A friend of mine here in Luxembourg is doing some really cool stuff around nutrition, training and health. His name is Tim Goodwin. For you people who are based in Luxembourg; check out his bootcamps – forest fit – which takes you to the forest to play, because this is what working out should be all about. Check it out here:

http://www.forestfit.com/

Here is a beautiful video to show how much fun it is to move. Remember being a kid?

Tim has also come out with a e-book that can be downloaded (free of charge) from this site; (you will also get a link to Tim’s community page.) I just downloaded it myself.

http://nutritionalresponsibility.com/new-nutritional-responsibility-guide/

There are some really good people out there with lots of knowledge that they share so generously. This makes it really easy to start making changes in life. Sometimes there is also follow up with community pages where you can connect with other people and get their stories. It’s all about sharing the ride. Take a look around, and start creating a healthier, more balanced and happier You.

On my blog-list there are some other great people you can check out. They are doing all the work for  us; research, trials, new recipes…. all we have to do is profit from this and get cracking! And remember – it is not all about loosing weight, which it sometimes seems, it is about health.

The biggest difference is food-habits: Look at what people have in their shopping-carts at the grocery store. I am always astonished by the lack of fresh foods they buy and the amount of money they spend. I spend less money on food, and more time in the kitchen. I buy fresh foods and I cook. Sometimes I spend a whole day cooking, loading up the freezer with “fast food” for the days I don’t have time to cook and for my daughter’s school-lunches. (I don’t believe in sandwich lunches every day when working hard) This is old-fashioned I am told, but I grew up this way and it is the only way to live well without spending loads of money. I make jam and I bake bread, it is really easy. I make pizza that tastes delicious, and my hamburgers are a treat – most fast foods that we like to eat can be made at home; cheaper, better and tastier. Cooking is fun and something you can share.

Following picture sequence is really interesting; check out the amounts of food compared to the amount of people, and check out what kinds of food they eat.

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html

I am a working single mother with 1-2 children and pets in a welfare-country. Our weekly food-costs are about €50 or  72 dollars – all included, and I consider us to have a high standard. Healthy eating is not about money, it is about knowledge and care. I don’t like waste so I make sure everything I buy is used/eaten – To me this is a question of respect.

A connection is made between additives and ADD in children. ADD has increased enormously over the last years…makes me wonder…

Information on additives, toxins and depletion is becoming widely available as disease from unhealthy eating is growing rampant. Research has been and is being conducted to ascertain what nutrients we need to function  and what additives make us ill:

• Essential fatty acids are vital for healthy brain-function and has been found to help combatting dyslexia, how interesting then, that the number of dyslectic children is rising in today’s society. Essential fatty acids are found in fish-oil and cold-pressed, unrefined vegetable oils. The vegetable oils you find in your local store, with the exception of good quality olive oil, are so refined as to be unfit for eating.
• Vitamins and trace-elements (calcium, iron, magnesium etc) are found in most unrefined food-stuffs; vegetables, fruits, meat and dairy-products. Today most people suffer disease from vitamin and trace-element depletion. The levels of these vital nutrients are lower also in natural food-stuffs since the soil has been depleted.
• Natural sugars are being replaced with “fake” sugars such as aspartam, sorbitol and others. Some are believed to induce cancer. Extensive studies are being done in this area.
• Meat-producing animals are heavily medicated with antibiotics – not because they are ill, rather to “protect” them from illness. They are also given hormones for bigger meat-yield. Antibiotics and hormones are stored primarily in fatty tissue and also in muscle tissue (meat). When we eat the meat, we are also ingesting these antibiotics and hormones.
• Fizzy soft drinks; the carbonic acid, which gives the fizziness, lowers the pH of the body. To balance that, calcium is excreted from the sceletal system, depleting the bones of calcium = osteoporosis. The number of children with osteoporosis has risen drastically. Osteoporosis is normally an old peoples disease and comes from low calcium-levels together with a sedentary life-style. Children need calcium and movement to grow healthy. Now they are drinking sodas (which are cheaper than milk) and sitting still.

The list goes on forever.

A whole new food-movement is gaining momentum in today’s society, especially in the USA; check out this article about one amazing mans work to change the wave of food-induced deterioration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html

In the article is a link for the website, if you don’t feel like reading the article you can go straight to:

www.growingpower.org

Will Allen

Picture by Nigel Parry for The New York Times