Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And I won't have to sneak around Wal-Mart, shopping in disguise! I only need to buy fresh, healthy produce and let the camera show you just how amazingly beautiful and healing Mother Nature can truly be.
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By the way, when I'm walking through nature, or buying fresh produce, I see this kind of beauty and symmetry all around me. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you add something to your shopping cart today and then you go back to Amazon.com four months later, that item will still be there. That's a very smart move on their part, and it's a feature I use all the time. I will often see products that interest me, so I'll put those items in the shopping cart and save them up for one larger order made up of multiple products.
Many online retailers are flat-out incompetent in their use of shopping-cart technology. They will actually delete your shopping cart within minutes if you don't complete your order right away. |
Paula Begoun
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 REPPED: Don't Go shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me
Getting beyond the Hype
Over the years, my books, newspaper columns, and newsletters have been based strictly on my earnest desire to get beyond the hype and chicanery of the cosmetics industry and to provide straightforward information that a consumer can really use to look and feel more beautiful.
Though I have studied many aspects of the cosmetics and hair-care industry over the past 20 years, I am not a cosmetics chemist, a doctor, or a scientist. |
| My goal with this edition of Don't Go shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me is to examine, evaluate, and clarify all the new hair-care data and research in an effort to help each person choose the best products and services possible for his or her specific needs. |
| Before you go shopping for hair-care products again, or before you venture into a hair salon to get your hair dyed or permed, you need to know some basic facts about your hair if you are to be a discerning, clear-eyed consumer. This isn't the most fascinating aspect of hair, but it is one more crucial step that will let you take better care of your hair.
The Thin and Thick of Hair
A single strand of hair is only 0.02 to 0.04 millimeters thick, but it is remarkably strong, with a tensile strength equivalent to a thin strand of wire. Why then does hair seem so fragile? |
| Learning good styling techniques is a far better use of your time than spending endless hours shopping for hair-care products.
11. There are no hair-care products that can repair, fix, correct, restructure, reform, change, reconstruct, restore, rebuild, or alter damaged hair. Hair is dead (I will remind you of that fact frequently throughout this book), so it cannot be repaired or permanently reverted back to normal in anyway. You can no more mend a hair strand than you can mend a dead leaf or soften a rock.
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| Between the Internet, infomercials, multilevel direct-marketing lines, home shopping network lines, new lines at the department stores and drugstores, and the endless parade of new product launches from existing lines, it turns out that the first and second editions of this book were only the beginning.
Simple but Effective
The hair-care industry has gone through some major changes over the years. In many ways, it has gotten more complicated as the research into hair care has increased and become more technical and specific. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you add something to your shopping cart today and then you go back to Amazon.com four months later, that item will still be there. That's a very smart move on their part, and it's a feature I use all the time. I will often see products that interest me, so I'll put those items in the shopping cart and save them up for one larger order made up of multiple products.
Many online retailers are flat-out incompetent in their use of shopping-cart technology. They will actually delete your shopping cart within minutes if you don't complete your order right away. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Although this is not defined and varies between producers, the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America is promoting a uniform standard and its verification.
3. shopping guides
Shopping guides identifying GM vs non-GM food brands are popular in many countries. For US brands, go to www.ResponsibleTechnology.org to access online shopping guides and to find out about the availability of printed guides.
4. Organic
Organic products are not allowed to knowingly use GM ingredients (although tiny contamination does sometimes occur).
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Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Some of these sites enable you to create your own personal cookbooks with the recipes you want to try; they often have features that allow you to create a menu plan and shopping list in seconds. The site that we recommend is www.RecipeZaar.com. It has about 200,000 user-contributed recipes, many of which are rated by users and have accompanying pictures. Using this resource, you can quickly compile your personal weight-loss cookbook. Within a few minutes, you can plan out your whole week's meals and generate a shopping list. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Devra Davis's shopping advice for choosing safer personal care products. With all the new data about cosmetic ingredients that has emerged in the past several years, I keep going back to that four-word sentence as one of the most important take-away messages. Simpler products, fewer ingredients, fewer unknown and unnecessary products and ingredients — that's the gist of my personal shopping guidelines. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Edith developed a phobia where she couldn't leave her bedroom for very long, even to go shopping. A trip away from home made her anxious. The terror had found a focus, but it was only a focus. She went to a behavior therapist who went outside with her; first one block, then another block, then to the shopping mall. He held her hand and soothed her when she became more and more anxious. He did what a good father should have done early on. But clearly, it was only a temporary solution because the real terror was so deeply hidden as to be unimaginable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: This Q&A report is a follow up from our hugely popular Pomegranate and Blueberry Juice Consumer shopping Guide, which exposes dishonest juice products sold in grocery stores. Many readers are asking great questions about these products: Is raw better than pasteurized? Is reconstituted juice as good as freshly squeezed? Is the plastic bottle a threat to health? Must the juices be organic to be healthful?
This follow-up report attempts to answer these questions. Some of the information here is borrowed from the consumer shopping guide mentioned above. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I had a shopping cart full of these, and it was like $200. I was amazed because I usually spend a lot less than that -- usually $75 or $80 -- on a shopping cart full of food.
The difference is, when I go shopping, I'm buying food ingredients, not packaged food, so I'm buying quinoa by the pound. A pound of quinoa is only a couple of bucks, and that's 25 meals of quinoa. You add something else in it that you buy by the pound, like onions or eggs, and that's very inexpensive. That's a meal the Incas have traditionally eaten in the Andes Mountains, by the way: Boiled quinoa with onions and eggs. |
Paula Begoun
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| On the other hand, it also won't build up on hair, which is good news for anyone with fine or thin hair, though film-forming agents in shampoos can initially make this hair type feel thicker. The small amount of wheat protein in this product is not enough to constitute a single breadcrumb, let alone offer benefit for the hair.
© Suave for Men 2-in-l Shampoo Plus Conditioner ($1.99 for 14.5 ounces) contains TEA-dodecylbenzenesulfonate, which can be drying to scalp and hair as well as potentially strip hair color with repeated use. |
Michael Pollan
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 Yes, shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also as a kind of vote—a vote for health in the largest sense—food no longer seems like the smartest place to economize. three MOSTLY PLANTS: WHAT TO EAT
If you can manage to just eat food most of the time, whatever that food is, you'll probably be okay. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 If your total available energy is 700 steps, then spending an hour shopping for food, which involves driving, pushing a cart, and carrying many bags, could add up to over 500 steps, leaving you with little energy reserves for the rest of the day. So some patients with low energy reserves tell me on shopping days, the only other activities they do relate to personal hygiene. The point here is this energy yo-yoing over a very short period of time may exhaust your energy envelope and leave you little room for much else. And if you keep on going, this might make you sick. |
Marshall Editions
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 TIP: HANDLE FOOD CAREFULLY
Buy hot and cold foods at the end of your shopping trip, and keep them separated. Take your shopping home quickly and unpack it immediately. When eating out, check that serving staff use separate tongs when handling separate food types, such as meats and vegetables.
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Supplements: Take a probiotic product containing at least four billion active organisms of Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidus daily to help digestion and fight infection. Alpha-lipoic acid is indicated in some reports as helpful in treating some types of food poisoning. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 For my recommended shopping list, visit my website at www.SugarShock .com.
The Tasty World of Organic Foods
As you quit or cut back on sweets, I recommend joining the growing trend of eating organically. Here are some compelling reasons to switch to organic foods, thanks to the Organic Trade Association (OTA) and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA):
• Organic foods are more nutritious. Mounting evidence shows that organically grown fruits, vegetables, and grains contain more vitamin C, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus than their nonorganic counterparts. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Some of the information here is borrowed from the consumer shopping guide mentioned above.
Here are the big questions we're being asked about superfruit juices (along with answers for each one).
The top consumer questions about superfruit juices
#1: Are pasteurized superfruit juice as healthy as raw juices?
No. Raw fruit juice is always healthier than pasteurized. Heat processing destroys a significant portion of the nutrients found in raw juice.
#2: Is the Bisphenol-A chemical in the plastic containers used with fruit juices a threat to my health? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's another reason to stop shopping at retailers that sell pesticides, toxic soaps, laundry products, solvents and cleaners. Get your food from a FOOD store, and make sure it's real food (not that processed garbage).
By the way, you can read the original NRDC press release at: http://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070919. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Take your kids with you when you go food shopping and ask them to help you cook dinner or prepare their school lunches, recommends Dr. Appleton. "Their involvement is key," she explains. "They feel more in control this way. And remember to praise and reinforce their good behavior often." trick dr treat . . . give kids something good to . . . play with!
What's Halloween without candy? Just as much fun, according to kids who participated in a Yale University study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The consumer shopping guide covers both pomegranate and blueberry juices, and it reviews nearly a dozen top brands to show which ones are telling the truth about their products vs. which ones are deceiving consumers with dishonest labeling. "The POM Wonderful brand is among the very best," explained Adams, "And the Tropicana Pure brand is among the worst. Some companies are selling products primarily made with apple juice and grape juice as pomegranate juice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 NewsTarget is continuing to publish educational photo tours for consumers, including the recent Pomegranate and Blueberry Juice Consumer shopping Guide. New investigative photography projects will be published soon on healing foods, grocery products to avoid and other educational topics.
The new "Guess This Meat" video can be viewed on YouTube at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OI77zi-AKhg
(Feel free to post comments and rate the video. You can also forward it to friends to share it with them. Click the YouTube link above to view... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Unless you're shopping at a health food store and buying truly natural, organic, unscented and environmentally responsible products, you can bet there are toxic chemicals all over your home (and in your body) right now.
The average American consumer uses close to 100 toxic chemicals before she even leaves the house in the morning. Many of those chemicals are encountered in the morning during showering, shaving, skin care, hair care and application of cosmetics. Other chemicals are encountered in breakfast foods, including bacon, sausage, processed milk, breads and other processed foods. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| A recent search on www.shopping.com using the keyword "psyllium" revealed over 800 products and variants containing this ingredient.
Although most Psyllium-containing products offer direct-to-consumer sales, many can be found on the shelves of your neighborhood grocery store or pharmaceutical outlet. Psyllium has even been included in breakfast cereals marketed at reducing cholesterol by being "heart healthy." After all (or so the consumer is meant to think), if it's included in breakfast cereal, there can't be anything unsafe about it—right? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And yet it's a huge issue that impacts virtually all consumers; even healthy consumers who think they're reading labels and making smart shopping choices. If they're buying food or beverages under the same roof as a store that sells garden pesticides, toxic air fresheners, chemical-soaked dryer sheets or other products containing dangerous chemicals, then they're buying chemically contaminated food!
It's yet another reason to buy from local farmers' markets or co-op stores. |
Jack Challem
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 Over the last twenty years, impulsive and excessive shopping has increased, as evidenced by the huge amount of high-interest consumer credit-card debt in the United States. We are more likely to make hasty and expensive decisions because we don't give them enough thought.
Multitasking has helped to foster impulsive behavior. Doing more than one thing at a time has become so instilled that, when we are limited to doing just one thing, we often don't feel right. Around 100 B.C., the Roman philosopher Publilius Syrus observed, "To do two things at once is to do neither. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Sugar-Free Success Stories; my free food shopping list; and information about my 21-Day, Kick-Sugar Countdown Diet, which includes tele-coaching (via the phone) and audio e-mails (delivered straight to your in-box).
Learn about my upcoming book signings, seminars, and lectures while you're at my SUGAR SHOCK! blog. s Sign up for my free e-zine and get my list of "Foods With Sly Hidden Sugars" at my website (www.SugarShock.com). Also, make sure to download my free article, "Tips to Find a Sugar-Savvy Doctor." And get lots of other free (sugar-free, of course) goodies there, too. |
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