Carol,

Praise God for your progress aas well.  Praying that we both continue to eat 
healthier.



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>From: Carol Pearson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Fwd: FYI: Pharmaceutical Drugs
>Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 05:55:26 -0000
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>Julie,
>
>Praise God for what you've shared.  I've had to change pretty radically my 
>cooking and eating habits this past year and it's not been easy . . ..
>
>I argued for ages that I couldn't do it (couldn't stand to cook much, 
>couldn't find the foods in the supermarkets etc) but I have certainly been 
>able to improve my diet quite a lot and even Mike's (because he only has to 
>eat what he chooses) and I've really made an inroad into my overweight 
>condition as a result.  No, I haven't arrived there at my goal, by any 
>means, but I have plainly recognised that my body is His temple and I must 
>do whatever I can do to present a temple where He is glad to well!
>
>--
>Carol
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>Carol
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "JULIE MELTON" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:56 AM
>Subject: Re: Fwd: FYI: Pharmaceutical Drugs
>
>
>>Brad,
>>
>>I agree with all you've said and know the FDA is certainly not out for the 
>>interest and health of Americans.  Just disagreed with the way the initial 
>>forward presented the info.
>>By the way,  Tracey and I have made it a priority to start eating 
>>healthier and cooking almost every meal at home.  Not easy on a workin 
>>schedule, but it can be done by cooking a lot on weekends.  We're already 
>>feeling much better physically and emotionally.
>>
>>JulieMelton
>>visit me at
>>www.heart-and-music.com
>>or subscribe to my podcast at
>>http://feed.feedburner.com/hmradio
>>Keep smiling!
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "MV" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 2:03 PM
>>Subject: Re: Fwd: FYI: Pharmaceutical Drugs
>>
>>
>>>Actually this is spot on as for the intentions. Sure the pharmaceutical
>>>drugs do help those with some diseases not caused by   other drugs
>>>themselves so there is that argument, but just like one can turn the word
>>>around with half truths in any desired direction, one must really stand
>>>back and look at the big picture and separate yourself from propaganda in
>>>either camp, looking at the intensions, results and state of things. When
>>>you can watch TV and 6 out of 10 commercials are pushing some drug, some
>>>not even telling you what the drug is for but rather... "Check with your
>>>doctor and see if Injectuseedamidaphin is for you". And then take note 
>>>the
>>>politicians that are heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies. And of
>>>course then see FDA giving the OK for our meats to be treated with 
>>>"carbon
>>>monoxide", wait you say, carbon monoxide? Isn't that what comes out of 
>>>the
>>>tail pipe of my car, and the weapon in which some folks use to commit
>>>suicide in the garages with cars running? Yes, one in the same. They 
>>>treat
>>>meat with the gas so you can't see the freshness quality by the color. It
>>>is always red and fresh looking despite its age as long as it is treated
>>>with the gas. So FDA is selling public deception. Oh, and remember
>>>Clinton's  promise that there will be no cloning in this country? Well? 
>>>You
>>>can now clone meat and soon you'll be buying it never knowing which   is
>>>natural or which is test tube altered. This country in particular is so,
>>>so, so deceived in the food nutrition it is an atrocity and unfortunately
>>>those blowing the trumpet are accused of being health fanatics out in 
>>>left
>>>field. Did you know seed companies of course have hybrids, seeds that 
>>>grow
>>>once and you can't take seeds from that fruit or veggie and grow
>>>again,  making it harder and harder to have natural seeds from plants but
>>>rather their chemically and genetically altered seeds in which you'll be
>>>reliant on buying from them unless you find a source of hand-me-down 
>>>seeds.
>>>Did you know they have a genetically altered chicken which grows no
>>>feathers to make processing easier. Did you know FDA tries to put the
>>>kaboshes on Stevia, a natural sweetener which has no cavity producing 
>>>agent
>>>and I believe safe for diabetics to eat? But they will not let it be sold
>>>as a sweetner despite European countries using it for centuries and
>>>centuries with no ill affects. You can buy it as a supplement but it 
>>>isn't
>>>found in your grocery store. It is very disheartening to think of how 
>>>food
>>>use to be and how it is now with the antibiotics and steroids with our 
>>>food
>>>and we're eating it. Our immune systems make using antibiotics when
>>>absolutely necessary of little affect  because of the use in our milk and
>>>meat processing. Find yourself a local family or farmer who raises 
>>>organic
>>>chicken, you know, the kind that roamed the barnyard naturally and ate
>>>natural corn and etc., and have one of those butchered up and notice the
>>>difference in taste alone, you'll say... "That's how I remember chicken
>>>tasting when I was a kid". There is a very noticeable difference. We have
>>>been wanting to eat healthier and unless you can find local farmers 
>>>markets
>>>and etc. it gets to be more expensive. There has got to be a way though, 
>>>or
>>>eating as we do will only be supplemented by the pills many Americans 
>>>take
>>>for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am currently in search of a low
>>>cholesterol meal plan or recipes as cholesterol build up is  prone in our
>>>family and I want to do  something about it before I'm the next one laid
>>>out on an operating table with my chest spread open and subsequently take
>>>the drugs needed after such an operation. There are some good books on
>>>biblical eating at BookShare.org if you like. Stormie O'Maritain has some
>>>Don Colburt is another. When I first heard of fast food being addictive, 
>>>I
>>>was... "Yah sure right... another cry baby blaming others for their lazy
>>>eating habits", but it is a fact, your body, due to its desire to gain
>>>nutrition, seeks carbs and that coupled with our fast paced lifestyles 
>>>many
>>>folks result in fast foods or eating out where the nutritional value
>>>is  little but loaded with the carbs. So we eat more, and gain weight, 
>>>and
>>>there go the health issues. Just like we can be addicted to sweets, we 
>>>can
>>>as well to empty carbs. It isn't until you stop them that you realize 
>>>that
>>>"Yeah, I was sort of addicted or craving that all the time, but now that 
>>>I
>>>stopped purposefully, I don't". Whether or not the Scripture quoted is
>>>right or not, it wouldn't surprise me, and even if it isn't, it doesn't
>>>take away the fact that pharmaceutical companies and the inside partner 
>>>FDA
>>>do not  have the best interest of the public in mind. Remember, on the
>>>horizon is the chip implant in which they'll likely utilize for health
>>>monitoring, and so they need a large complicated health concern so people
>>>will more openly agree to its use as well. Our former governor, and your
>>>former Secretary of Health and Human Services in Bushes first stint, 
>>>Tommy
>>>Thompson has one of these chips and sees nothing wrong with it and 
>>>praises
>>>it. Ten years ago when this technology was being developed, such a 
>>>warning
>>>seemed like a science fiction alarmist gloom and doom farce, and it is
>>>being used daily now in our livestock and pets. Try and buy a pet that is
>>>registered these days without a chip in the ear, you can't. OK I'm done
>>>with my rambling rant *smile* but we all, myself included, need to take 
>>>the
>>>time, and make eating healthier a priority now more than any other time 
>>>in
>>>history.
>>>
>>>Brad
>>>