Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  What am I giving out this halloween? Amazon Herb capsules. Let the parents try to figure that one out... (They'll ignore all the sugary chemical candies, open the herbs, and ask themselves, "Gee, are these safe?" | | The answer, of course, is the same thing that's behind everything else in this country, from politics to medicine: The Corporation. halloween is big business. So is Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's and every other holiday. | | We have mastered the economics of delivering nutritionally devoid calories to a nutritionally ignorant population, and we've even managed to wrap Holidays around the whole consumption racket, forever imprinting each subsequent generation of children with the belief that halloween = Candy, Thanksgiving = Turkey and Christmas = Cookies.
This holiday season, be amazed. Look around at what's happening with the eyes of a visitor from outer space (someone who has no knowledge of our bizarre customs and holidays). Then ask yourself: What the heck is behind all this? | | A holiday that's fitting for the most obese nation in the world
Every halloween, I stare in astonishment at the scene playing out in front of my eyes. I'm not astonished at the children, mind you: They're just doing what they've been taught to do by television advertisements and peer pressure. I'm more astonished at the parents who waddle down wide suburban streets, diabetic and obese, rallying their children to ring yet another doorbell and cash in on the windfall of candy profits made possible by the mass commercialization of the holiday by candy manufacturers. | | I say this in jest, of course, since I am adamantly against the use of Ritalin in children, but let's be crystal clear about one thing that's different from last year's Halloween: This year, we have scientific evidence that artificial colors cause hyperactivity in children.
The evidence I'm talking about is, of course, the study recently conducted in the U.K. at the University of Southampton and published in The Lancet which establishes a strong correlation between the ingestion of artificial food colors and hyperactivity (which is eventually diagnosed as "ADHD"). | | Virtually ALL of the halloween candy being given away to children on this bizarre holiday is made of these three primary ingredients:
SUGAR (sucrose, corn syrup or high-fructose corn syrup)
COLOR (chemical food coloring additives, including the ones that cause ADHD)
FLAVOR (artificial chemical flavors)
Slap a blob of this nutritious mixture into a plastic wrapper, stamp a fun-looking logo on the outside, and you've got candy!
If you want to manufacture a different kind of candy, simply change the chemicals you're using to have a "bubble gum" flavor or a "tangy" color. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  What's halloween without candy? Just as much fun, according to kids who participated in a Yale University study. Given a choice between lollipops, fruit-flavored chews, and hard candies, or toys like glow-in-the-dark insects, stretch pumpkin men, or Halloween-themed stickers and pencils, half the 284 three-to fourteen-year-old trick-or-treater participants picked the toys.
"As a society, we've gotten into the mind-set that the only way to celebrate special occasions with children is by serving something sweet," says Marlene Schwartz, Ph.D. | | Trick, Treat, or Toy: Children Are Just as
Likely to Choose Toys as Candy on halloween." Journal of Nutrition, Education and Behavior
35, no. 4 (2003): 207-9. Smith, Lendon. Feed Your Kids Right. New York: Dell, 1981.
CHAPTER 19: WITHOUT SUGAR, WHAT'S LEFT TO EAT? PLENTY!
Environmental Protection Agency. "Management Measures for Agricultural Sources." http://www
.epa.gov/nps/MMGI/Chapter2/ch2-l.html. Environmental Working Group. "Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food." http://www.ewg.org/reports_content/ops/download.pdf.
-. "Report Card: Pesticides in Produce. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  She got as far as halloween during her freshman year at Pace, when it became clear that her physical torpor was worsening. She had lost significant weight. Twice since she had left for university, LaShekia had blacked out and ended up in New York Downtown Hospital's emergency room. Her mother worried that the stresses of college life were too much for her daughter and insisted that she return home to Buffalo.
LaShekia, who stands five foot six, had dropped to an emaciated ninety-five pounds by the time she returned home. | | Today, taped across the door to his lab, along with photos of Kerr with his wife and two young daughters costumed as a beekeeper and bees for halloween, are pictures of him with his current research staff—which has burgeoned into a team of twenty. The latter photos speak to the kind of teamwork mentality that any pioneering scientific endeavor such as this one requires. In the center picture, taken in Kerr's family room, his lab staff poses together sporting goofy hats—straw hats with flowers, caps with cascading pink rose petals, panamas, and fedoras. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  Many parents say that the day after halloween, for example, their children are bouncing off the walls, that they notice a definite difference. However, it's not enough in the case of most ADD children to decrease the amount of sugar in the diet. We have very conscious parents in our practice and many of these parents have made these dietary changes. The same is true of allergens—from a homeopathic point of view, this is the result of an imbalance in a person, not the cause of the problem. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Pumpkins best suited for carving on halloween are not necessarily the best for making pumpkin pie. In fact, there are basically two different categories of pumpkin: canning pumpkins and carving pumpkins. And orange is not the only color choice, either. There's white, Australian Blue, and a red variety from Europe called Rouge D'Etant.
A Serving of Food Lore...
Pumpkin seeds found in Mexico were estimated to be at least 7,500 years old. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | So, next halloween, feel free to forgo sweet treats and hand out toys instead.
¦ Cut back slowly. "Don't try to take your kids off sugar all at once," advises Dr. DesMaisons. Doing so, she says, will put too much stress on their young bodies, and the withdrawal symptoms might be too intense to take.
¦ Share your red-flag findings. Ask other adults in your child's life such as his or her teacher, child-care provider, and physician, as well as relatives and neighbors, to help you to phase sweets out of your kid's life, advises Ruggiero.
11 Play whole-grain games. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Pumpkin
We tend to think of pumpkins only at Thanksgiving and halloween, but this is a really great, overlooked vegetable that is ridiculously low in calories while very high in potassium and vitamin A, not to mention the beta-carotene that is typically found in all orange foods.
It's actually a potassium heavyweight—for a measly 49 calories per cup of mashed pumpkin, it has a whopping 564 mg of potassium (about 33 percent more than a medium banana).
Why should you care? Because the balance between potassium and sodium is of critical importance to our health. |
Mark Lynas
See book keywords and concepts |  The English weather has changed very dramatically in just a few years: I have childhood memories of hard frosts on halloween, for example, but this year temperatures had still not dipped below freezing even when November came around. The trees in the woodland which divides our property from the nearby Oxford Canal stayed resolutely dark green until two months after autumn colours should have begun to show. Almost every reader will now be able to add anecdotal observations of the same sort.
Of crucial importance for natural species is the speed of temperature rise. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts |  In brief, the first line contains a tendency to headaches just waiting to be triggered.
On halloween, everyone at the Primal Therapy Center comes as their secret selves to get to feelings. They come in diapers, in armor, in clown costumes, even as cash registers. One came totally wrapped because he was the "invisible man." His parents never "saw" him. These costumes represent, in succinct form, the act-out. For example, the man who came as a cash register was a money-making machine, pleasing his parents, who always spoke about money. He wanted their love. | | Every year we do a halloween group where patients come dressed as their secret selves. This helps the patients get to their hidden feelings. One patient came dressed with pornographic magazines. This patient had no idea why he was addicted to porn. He found that the only feeling a woman ever showed was in these magazines; they were ecstatic compared to his mother, who was "dead." This then excited him sexually, but the real excitement would have been a mother who showed some ecstasy. It became transmuted. |
Shannon Brownlee
See book keywords and concepts |  At the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in May 200c, the company pulled out all the stops, erecting a fifteen-foot-tall luna moth out of gossamer chartreuse netting, the same stuff a child's halloween fairy wings are made of. Physicians could mount a rotating dais between the wings to recline on chocolate-colored chaise longues, where they were given headsets that emitted the soothing sound of crickets before a ten-minute sales video began.) FDA rules don't permit companies to market a drug directly before it's approved. |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |  Halloween skeleton costume. The participants were asked to dance against a black background while being filmed. When the film was processed, all that could be seen was a series of white dots moving in a continuous pattern in a wave form. Bernstein analyzed the waves. To his astonishment, all the rhythmic movements could be represented in Fourier trigonometric sums to such an extent that he found that he could predict the next movements of his dancers 'to an accuracy of within a few millimeters'.2? |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  Masks still play a prominent role in such festivals as halloween and Mardi Gras, where they're used symbolically to hide the identity of their wearers from devils and other evildoers ... or just fellow revelers.
S^\^t~ ~ Considered the "windows to
^^^L^ the soul" or the "mirrors of the soul," our eyes convey the full gamut of human emotions—love, hate, happiness, anger, envy, lust, sorrow, and pain. You can laugh as well as cry through your eyes. If we know what to look for, they can also tell us—and others—much about our state of health, providing early warning signs of many diseases. |
Greg Critser
See book keywords and concepts |  For the newly revved-up sales department, Neurontin was like having a bag of halloween candy that was stapled shut. The question was: How could they increase its sales without overtly promoting its off-label use, which was illegal?
The answer came from a Parke-Davis division known as medical liaisons. Medical liaisons are a drug company's backup team. They are usually M.D.s or Ph.D.s, with deep understandings of the gray areas of any given drug's uses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Have you ever watched a sugar-addicted, diabetic American ten year old kid on halloween? He feels as if he's won the candy lottery. He's as surprised as a corrupt politician who wins a reelection campaign. "You mean to tell me," he asks himself, "people just hand out candy for free? And you just walk around and collect all you want?"
It would be like a crack addict learning that crack grows on trees. Or like Donald Rumsfeld hearing forty-five countries simultaneously announce, "Please invade us. We want YOUR form of government for all our people! |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Instead, feed them whole grains and wholesome foods. For halloween, do something other than the candy collection circuit.
Hyperactivity
Hyperactivity also comes down to diet and food additives. You can eliminate so-called hyperactivity in children by making sure they don't eat sugar products—including liquid sugars—such as those found in soft drink beverages. Also, make sure they don't eat food additives—especially artificial colors. They should avoid white bread and any food products made with refined grains. That includes most pastries, cookies and crackers. |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |  This was after he collapsed into a near coma from bingeing on halloween candy. The doctors said he would have to go on insulin for the rest of his life. His mother, Victoria, became determined and set out to find a better way. She asked everybody. Finally, in line one day (two weeks after Sergei's collapse) at the local natural food store, she randomly asked the woman in front of her if she knew anything about helping a child with juvenile onset diabetes. The woman told Victoria she had to get the child on the raw-food diet immediately, and recommended some books by Dr. Ann Wigmore. |
Stanton Peele
See book keywords and concepts |  One example of this externalization in the case of abuse of children is the ubiquitous fear in our society that children's halloween candy is being poisoned or booby-trapped. halloween is the occasion for nonstop media warnings about examining minutely every piece of candy the kids bring home (if we let them out at all). Examining "the widespread belief that anonymous sadists give children dangerous treats on halloween," researchers Joel Best and Gerald Horiuchi examined seventy-six specific incidents reported in the quarter-century between 1958 and 1984. |
Dianne Onstad
See book keywords and concepts |  First cultivated by American Indians, who dried and made them into a type of flour, pumpkins are now most commonly used either for the traditional halloween jack-o'-lantern or for pumpkin pie.
Buying Tips
Pumpkins of quality should be heavy for their size and free of blemishes, with a hard rind; the sugar pumpkin, which is quite small, is the variety generally considered best for cooking.
Culinary Uses
Nobody can argue the popularity of pumpkin pie . . . or pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter, pumpkin bars, and even pumpkin ice cream. |
Stanton Peele
See book keywords and concepts | | Examining "the widespread belief that anonymous sadists give children dangerous treats on halloween," researchers Joel Best and Gerald Horiuchi examined seventy-six specific incidents reported in the quarter-century between 1958 and 1984. They found no deaths or serious injuries caused by sadists in any of these stories.
Best and Horiuchi did find that two highly publicized reports of deaths that were said to be caused by halloween treats were in fact cases of abuse closer to home. In 1970, five-year-old Kevin Toston died after eating heroin that he reportedly found in his candy. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
See book keywords and concepts |  Last year, Cathrine enlisted police officers in handing out 10,000 pumpkins at halloween. "Seeing the mountains of pumpkins, the little kids were so excited, they were shrieking and grabbing the legs of the policemen," Cathrine exclaims. "These kids were hugging people in uniform they'd learned their whole lives to fear. And, once police officers have gotten that close to those kids, I believe it's difficult for them to see the black people in this community as the enemy. |
Marcia Angell, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In a vivid article on the subject, a reporter from The Boston Globe described her encounter with one psychiatrist at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA):
Ivonne Munez Velazquez, a psychiatrist from Mexico, rooted through her goody bag like a child on halloween. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
See book keywords and concepts |  Should we also ban pumpkins on halloween?" one caller railed. "No," I thought to myself, "but you should eat lots of halloween candy in hopes that Darwin was right and you will become extinct." While I did receive some personal phone calls of support, the feedback was quite revealing.
It would seem that, even in an environmentally sensitive state like Colorado, the home of the Rocky Mountains, the average citizen is not willing to make personally either symbolic or real modifications in lifestyle (or is it a death-style?) to preserve the environment. |
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