Hello Brad,
I am currently participating in a healthy food program that the governor is 
promoting and that healthy food is not going well.  I wish you luck with it. 
I have some products in one machine but they move at a snails pace.
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MV" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: FYI: Pharmaceutical Drugs


>I couldn't get the food committee to try the energy bars. The vending 
>industry as a whole is trying to combat the "junk food junkie" issue with 
>"Balance For Life" program but no not really. A very small percentage of 
>people, next to zero look for healthy stuff here. I'm at a college so they 
>want Red Bull, Mountain Dew, Snickers and etc. I  may try the veggie chips, 
>if I can find them available in vend sized bags. The snack maker's idea of 
>less junk is Oreo cookies without the cream filling, some cookies without 
>the trans fats in them, which I do carry both, and can't remember when I 
>ordered the last box and will probably have to pull them off due to dating 
>soon.
>
> Brad
>
>
> At 05:04 AM 1/8/2007, you wrote:
>
>>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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>>
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