Brad, if you put some health food snacks in those machines, would they sell?

earlier, MV, wrote:

>Julie and Phil,
>
>Yep it was probably a bit strong, and mine too for that matter :), 
>but I think it likely comes out of the same anger we might get from 
>a harratick teaching Sunday school to kids. They will believe 
>someone who is meant to have more knowledge and authority, and for 
>many folks the FDA and pharmaceuticals are just that. I won't say 
>some of the modern day drugs aren't needed or that they don't help, 
>my dad is alive because of it, of course he'd probably not be in 
>need of it if he'd ate right all his life either, but I think that 
>is why it seemed strong and pointed. You see similar type strong 
>info on the web when looking up healthy eating info. It's kind of 
>like an evangelist that walks  door to door and says "Howdy mam my 
>name is Brad and I'd like you to open your door, your mind, and your 
>mouth while I shove my belief down your throat. Gulp? There now 
>isn't that better? You're saved praise God!! Next address is???" 
>That kind of zealous hyper activity is meant for good, and turns 
>folks off, and I think similar goes for that article. I'm glad you 
>and Tracie are acting on it. Man, it is not easy with the time it 
>takes to prepare and etc. Years ago it seemed folks had less on 
>their agenda or maybe its because they lived their life and I didn't 
>live their life too. Anyway good for you guys. My wife just checked 
>out a new health food store near here and she said it looked good. 
>Now... where did I put that Snickers bar... lol just kidding. 
>Although I do have to say, my profession is giving me a conundrum. I 
>won't eat what I sell. Well I do sneak an occasional binge now and 
>again lol, but my belief is one of healthier eating and yet I'm 
>selling this stuff to  folks. I was thinking today that perhaps if 
>I'm so dog gone bent on having a mind set,  verbal one at that mind 
>you, that perhaps I ought find myself in a different business 
>distributing healthy foods and not junk food. Oh me oh my, what a 
>change that would make... wow. I'll have to join the ranks of Phil 
>and stand at the back of the church with a couple of thugs and an open hat.
>
>Brad
>
>
>At 06:56 PM 1/7/2007, you wrote:
>
>>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
>> >
>
>
>
>
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