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 Consumer health website NewsTarget has now teamed up with Maggie's Soap Nuts to acquire enough natural, eco-friendly laundry detergent to wash 500,000 loads of laundry in an environmentally friendly way, and it is distributing the product to readers in an effort to replace chemical laundry detergents with a safer, more natural alternative.
The solution to toxic laundry detergents? Soap nuts! Grown by Mother Nature and harvested from the sapindus mukorrosi tree, soap nuts contain a natural laundry soap in the skin of their shells. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For extra stain removal, when necessary add a scoop of environmentally friendly oxygen bleach to the wash.
Can Maggie's Soap Nuts help me Save Water and Energy?
Yes! Since there's no soapy residue to rinse away you can use shorter rinse cycles on your washing machine.
What do I do with the leftover shells?
You'll know the saponin in Maggie's Soap Nuts is used up when the nuts no longer feel squeaky clean and sudsy when you rub them. If they're re-useable, let the shells dry out and use them again later. When the shells are ready to retire, add them to your garden compost. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, if we do not find a way to operate our economy in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way, I believe we will ultimately destroy our environment AND our modern civilization. What's at stake here is everything we value: Life, food, nature, families, communities, and our very future. That's why I think it is so important that our most successful retailers and manufacturers of consumer products operate with a strong passion for protecting both consumers and the environment. Merely talking green isn't enough. |
Dan Buettner
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 Simple, nonprocessed foods, often found in rural societies are associated with positive ecology of friendly bacteria in our intestines. These friendly bacteria include immunomodulating and fiber-fermenting lactic acid bacteria," Greg said.
"Stressors of this healthy ecological system," he continued, "such as surgery, certain medications, and consumption of meats and processed foods disrupt a natural balance and shift from friendly to unfriendly bacteria. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Corporations, it seems, can claim that practically anything is eco-friendly or environmentally friendly, regardless of all the toxic chemicals it contains or produces. That's what this article is all about: "Greenwashing" or the practice of corporations claiming their products are green when, in reality, they're not at all impressive as eco-friendly products.
I recently saw paper plates positioned as "eco-friendly biodegradable tableware." I remember when we used to just call them "paper plates" and we avoided buying them because we wanted to save the trees. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The large intestine is kept healthy by maintaining a friendly terrain that welcomes helpful bacteria. We must have friendly bacteria in the gut in order to be healthy individuals for a variety of reasons, some of which are only beginning to be understood by medical researchers. Healthy skin also provides the right terrain for friendly bacteria, while discouraging the growth of harmful bacteria.
The importance of water for digestion and skin
There are other similarities between these two organs: their positive reaction to sufficient dietary water. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, first off, let's get the issue of friendly flora out of the way. Based on the research I've done (and my own experience), it is my belief that you're going to be wiping out some of your friendly intestinal flora by taking supplementary silver. Some companies say their silver product won't wipe out intestinal flora, but I have a big question about that. How does silver know the difference between friendly bacteria and unfriendly bacteria?
See, I don't think silver knows that difference. I think it wipes out all the bacteria. |
Dan Buettner
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| These friendly bacteria include immunomodulating and fiber-fermenting lactic acid bacteria," Greg said.
"Stressors of this healthy ecological system," he continued, "such as surgery, certain medications, and consumption of meats and processed foods disrupt a natural balance and shift from friendly to unfriendly bacteria. This shift results in increased risk for diseases of urban or 'sophisticated' societies, such as inflammatory bowel disease, colon
"To be healthy enough to embrace my great-great-grandchild is bliss," says Kamada. cancer, and more. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Green tea promotes a healthy digestive tract by altering the intestinal environment to make it favorable to the growth of the friendly bacteria and less favorable to the growth of undesirable bacteria. If potentially harmful bacteria proliferate unchecked by friendly bacteria, the chances are greater that a species of bacteria will grow to sufficient numbers to influence bowel health—causing either diarrhea or constipation. A study of thirty-seven human volunteers found that green tea increased the regularity of bowel movements. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 When the D-cell meets a friendly protein, you hope for limited activation signals so your D-cell won't attack this protein; that state of indifference is "friendly recognition or tolerance."
Suppression of D-cell activation is a key first step in developing tolerance to bodily friends and family, and in the womb, vitamin D does that work. After you're born, vitamin D ensures that D-cells respond appropriately when they meet bacteria, fungi, viruses, and cancer cells.
Your types of white blood cells are:
?M-cells that scavenge around and gather evidence from the entire body
? |
Dan Buettner
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| Stressors of this healthy ecological system," he continued, "such as surgery, certain medications, and consumption of meats and processed foods disrupt a natural balance and shift from friendly to unfriendly bacteria. This shift results in increased risk for diseases of urban or 'sophisticated' societies, such as inflammatory bowel disease, colon
"To be healthy enough to embrace my great-great-grandchild is bliss," says Kamada. cancer, and more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Based on the research I've done (and my own experience), it is my belief that you're going to be wiping out some of your friendly intestinal flora by taking supplementary silver. Some companies say their silver product won't wipe out intestinal flora, but I have a big question about that. How does silver know the difference between friendly bacteria and unfriendly bacteria?
See, I don't think silver knows that difference. I think it wipes out all the bacteria. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| Your diet can either foster the growth of friendly bacteria or feed the proliferation of unfriendly bacteria that will lead to inflammation and perhaps produce cancer-causing substances. Diet seems to influence your risk of bowel cancer more than your risk of other cancers.
In 1980, Dr. Cedric Garland of the University of California at San Diego reported his observations that a lack of UV exposure may make a person more likely to develop colon cancer. This was based on an analysis of death rates from colon cancer that showed the highest mortality in states with the lowest solar radiation. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Parents would come in: 'My child has a fever, has an earache, give me an antibiotic,' and most doctors gave them antibiotics, which knocked out some enemy germs, but also knocked out friendly germs, disturbing the normal balance of bacteria in the intestinal tract. This leads to the overgrowths of a number of unfriendly organisms, including not only the common yeast, but other bad bacteria.
"This also creates what is called a leaky gut, so these children absorb food allergens that they would not ordinarily absorb. Food allergens are clearly related to ADHD. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 This ratio of fatty acids will produce a favorable production of the friendly prostaglandins, series 1 and series 3, and a limited amount of the unfriendly series 2 prostaglandins. Overall, we want to reduce omega-6 fats and increase omega-3 fats in our diet. Increasing dietary fish, flaxseed, and walnuts and decreasing saturated fats will help to improve this ratio.
The eicosanoids from eicosapentaenoic acid are also associated with cardioprotective effects. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It also prevents "unfriendly" bacteria from adhering to cells and encourages the increase in populations of "friendly" bacteria that support the immune system. Larch is used in the treatment of asthma, bleeding, bronchitis, colds, cystitis, depression, diarrhea, dysentery, ear infection, flu, jaundice, poisonous insect bites, and rheumatism.
Topically, larch can be used as a poultice to reduce inflammation; to treat boils, frostbite, hemorrhoids, and wounds, it can be prepared as a salve, sitz bath, or poultice. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| When the D-cell meets a friendly protein, you hope for limited activation signals so your D-cell won't attack this protein; that state of indifference is "friendly recognition or tolerance."
Suppression of D-cell activation is a key first step in developing tolerance to bodily friends and family, and in the womb, vitamin D does that work. After you're born, vitamin D ensures that D-cells respond appropriately when they meet bacteria, fungi, viruses, and cancer cells.
Your types of white blood cells are:
?M-cells that scavenge around and gather evidence from the entire body
? |
Stacy Malkan
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 Previous speakers had joked about Bailey being "user friendly" to industry during his tenure at FDA. "If I'd known I was so user friendly I would have been a bit tougher," Bailey joked in return.
"Cosmetics are the safest products FDA regulates," Bailey said, "and that's why they are the least regulated. It is a terrific model for public-private partnerships." After many board meetings, CTFA had decided to launch a new safety initiative. Bailey explained how the plan would work, and how companies should demonstrate the safety of their products:
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Hyla Cass
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 A probiotic supplement, which contains live, "friendly" bacteria that promote good digestion and elimination (great for chronic constipation). Probiotics, literally meaning "for life," are the friendly bacteria that reside in our digestive tracts. They help us to digest our food and absorb its nutrients, manufacture vitamins A, B, and K, and maintain optimal immune function. Unfortunately, they are often destroyed by antibiotics, birth control pills, stress, alcohol, acid-blocking drugs, and infections. Use a supplement that contains at least 1 billion live bacteria per dose. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Some foods are particularly liver friendly. Turmeric, the spice that makes so much of Indian food yellow, contains natural anti-inflammatory cur-cuminoids, has anticancer activity, and is one of the best liver-friendly spices. Put it on everything. Wheatgrass juice and all the other "green drinks" that are high in chlorophyll are excellent. Coconut oil contains lauric acid, a well known antimicrobial and antiviral fatty acid. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Consumers need to be sharp and do their research on these corporations before blindly buying into their claims of being Earth friendly.
Most fabric softener products (dryer sheets), for example, are positioned as being at least somewhat Earth friendly thanks to a claim in the ingredients list that reads "Biodegradable fabric softeners." Unfortunately, the second ingredient in fabric softeners is "fragrance," and the fragrance chemicals are so highly toxic that they cause cancer in humans and are extremely destructive to aquatic ecosystems downstream. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Yogurt is, quite simply, milk that via the work of friendly bacteria has had its naturally occurring lactose, or milk sugar, turned into lactic acid. The work of this transformation is done by those friendly bacteria—the "live active cultures."
The health benefits of nonfat or low-fat yogurt, our dairy SuperFood, are considerable. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Cabbage is one of the best food sources of friendly bacteria; eat it raw or juice it daily. Other foods that can help revitalize the colon and encourage the growth of normal bacteria include rice, chicory, onions, garlic, asparagus, and bananas. Cultured products such as yogurt and kefir (a fermented milk drink) are excellent sources of probiotics. Another way to repopulate the intestines with friendly bacteria is to take a probiotic supplement, particularly one containing L. acidophilus and B. bifidum. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| We must have friendly bacteria in the gut in order to be healthy individuals for a variety of reasons, some of which are only beginning to be understood by medical researchers. Healthy skin also provides the right terrain for friendly bacteria, while discouraging the growth of harmful bacteria.
The importance of water for digestion and skin
There are other similarities between these two organs: their positive reaction to sufficient dietary water. Water actually helps lubricate the movement of fecal matter through the large intestine. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| T-cells that judge and decide whether the evidence is friendly or dangerous
?B-cells that police your body and make antibodies
?D-cells that present evidence and decide on tolerance or attack
When vitamin D suppresses D-cell maturation during immune system development, it's playing a key role in creating tolerance and friendly recognition of self. During your adulthood, D beefs up your ability to ward off infections by enhancing your production of antimicrobial proteins (especially in D-cells).
Vitamin D acts as your immune system's noise filter. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Just as they do in the digestive system, probi-otic friendly bacteria act as naturally occurring helpful bacteria and create a barrier effect that inhibits the growth of vaginal yeast. One of the reasons some probiotics are friendly has to do with their taste in metals. Remember how almost every form of life on earth needs iron to survive? Well, one of the exceptions is also one of the most common probiotics, a bacterium called Lactobacillus, which uses cobalt and manganese instead of iron—which means it's not hunting yours. |
Mike Adams
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 However, contrary to popular medical mythology, it is not merely the presence of HPV that causes cervical cancer: It's actually the weakness of the human immune system and a lack of friendly bacteria that allow HPV to take hold and cause cancer.
As a result, the best way to combat cervical cancer is to reform your health so that your body becomes an environment unfriendly to HPV. This, of course, involves regular consumption of probiotics ("friendly" bacteria) as well as excellent circulation (which can be boosted through exercise and nutritional supplements like ginger). |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 If you need to reintroduce the friendly intestinal flora for any reason, then you are better off taking a good quality capsule containing those friendly bacteria; you do not need a whole bunch of mucus-forming, diabetes-promoting, addictive proteins to come into the body together with the friendly bacteria.
So, you may well still be asking, from where are we going to get our calcium? Well, from the food that we as humans were designed to eat— fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. |
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