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 I'm also buying extra to give away as Christmas gifts this year. Everybody gets soap berries! (My Christmas shopping will be completely done when this shipment arrives!)
Why the Bodhi tree matters
Buying and using soap berries isn't merely about cleaning your own laundry; it's about cleansing the whole world. Soap berries come from a species closely related to the Bodhi Tree, which many of you may recall as being the tree under which Buddha sat while meditating for peace. The Bodhi Tree is a "sacred fig" and has a fascinating history you can read at Wikipedia. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you are considering purchasing an AeroGrow AeroGarden device, I urge you to think carefully about what you're really buying for $150. It's a plastic tub that holds water, combined with a very small water pump that dribbles water (sort of like a tabletop fountain pump) through a series of plastic channels, a set of fluorescent lights with an auto-timer, a few nutrient tablets and herb seeds. $150 seems like a steep price to pay for such things. If the unit actually produced a fine mist using spray nozzles and a high-pressure pump, that would be different. |
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| In response to all the email and phone calls about these soap berries, we've decided to consider putting together a co-op soap berry buying arrangement where we pool the product demand of our readers and approach the various soap berry producers around the world to find the best price (and quality) for a bulk purchase. By doing this, we'll be able to acquire soap berries at a significantly reduced price while using more eco-friendly packaging. |
| You do not have to actually commit to buying what you want to reserve, nor do you have to place an order right now. We're just trying to gauge the approximate demand for bulk-packaged soap berries. Remember, too, that soap berries can be used to clean laundry, hair, skin, countertops, children's play areas and much more. I'm going to be using this to make pet shampoo, body wash, garage cleaner and a natural veggie wash. The saponins are extremely versatile. Anywhere that you need soap, you can use soap berries (even on carpet!). |
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 Consumers are unaware of the consequences of buying non-organic
The only reason people continue to buy these things is because they don't know the indirect consequences of what they're doing. When they pick up a package of meat, they don't hear the scream of the terrified cow that has been slaughtered in inhumane conditions -- the cow who hardly ever saw the light of day, was separated from its mother at a young age, never given any sort of humane treatment and fed ground-up parts of other dead animals, including dead dogs and cats, road kill and chickens. |
| How your buying power influences your community
If you haven't done so already, draw a third circle around yourself; that's the energetic level. Now, draw a fourth, much larger circle; this is the community level. This is where you're affecting your local community and the demand curves for various foods and ingredients. By changing what you buy, you change what farmers will grow and how they will grow it. You change what ranchers do to their animals. You change it all, just by choosing what you buy. It can literally be a product right next to another product on the shelf. |
| The costs of buying non-organic go far beyond money
Again, when you're making that purchasing decision at the grocery store, what you're purchasing has an energetic effect. If you have two pieces of beef on the shelf in front of you, and one piece is $3 a pound and from a cow that has been raised in a terrible environment -- that has been fed chicken litter, pumped up full of hormones, has had no access to the outside and has been abused in an inhumane way by corporate ranching operations -- then that's going to have a very destructive, negative effect on your energetic health. |
| So, the best savings at a grocery store can only be experienced if you're buying organic because, if you buy non-organic, corporate food or processed foods, you're not only getting ripped off yourself; you're ripping off the community and the planet, and you're ripping yourself off at every level -- physical, chemical and energetic. However, when you buy organic, you're saving yourself at every level, and you're giving yourself these intangible benefits that are priceless. |
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 Increasingly, people are not buying houses to live in them, nor to rent them out. They are buying them for speculation. They're buying them because they are anticipating a price increase. They're buying houses for the same reason they bought stocks during the internet boom. They don't even care what it's for. They don't care if the house is a place to live in. It's just a way to double their money.
What are the signs that this bubble is about to burst, and more importantly, what's going to happen after the bubble bursts? I'll save all of that for you in part two of this discussion. |
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 But gullible consumers keep on buying these products, thinking they're getting avocado dip when, in reality, they're buying green-colored, yummy-tasting dietary poison.
Food names can include words that describe ingredients not found in the food at all. A "cheese" cracker, for example, doesn't have to contain any cheese. A "creamy" something doesn't have to contain cream. A "fruit" product need not contain even a single molecule of fruit. Don't be fooled by product names printed on the packaging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You could probably save a few thousand dollars a year just by not buying coffee at Starbuck's, or by avoiding fast food meals and making your own meals at home. If you have any kind of a job or income whatsoever, it's pretty easy to set aside a few thousand dollars by watching your consumption.
Think about all the stuff that's in your house right now. Do you really need all that stuff? You probably spent a couple of thousand extra dollars in the last year alone buying this stuff. So now, this year, instead of buying more stuff, set aside that money as a down payment on a new car. |
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 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. Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 They went on a buying spree for devices ranging from two-million-dollar CT scanners to million-dollar da Vinci surgical robots.
Today, hospitals in cities and towns across the country are engaged in a medical-technology arms race, buying up high-end machinery as fast as they can, even if it means duplicating a device that can be found in a hospital just down the road. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One thing for sure: The more that women keep buying these pink ribbon cigarettes, the more money they'll collectively raise to help find a cure for the very disease they'll be giving themselves by smoking: Breast cancer! Accordingly, the Susie B. Wheezie Foundation proclaimed that buying these pink ribbon cigarettes is like "investing in your own future," since funds from the sales will be used to find a cure for the disease caused by the product itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They are buying them for speculation. They're buying them because they are anticipating a price increase. They're buying houses for the same reason they bought stocks during the internet boom. They don't even care what it's for. They don't care if the house is a place to live in. It's just a way to double their money.
What are the signs that this bubble is about to burst, and more importantly, what's going to happen after the bubble bursts? I'll save all of that for you in part two of this discussion. |
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 More testing under way: We are now in the process of buying hoodia products from around the 'net and having them all subjected to rigorous lab analysis. This is a very expensive proposition (believe me), which will cost more than $6,000 to conduct. This is difficult because we don't actually sell any hoodia products, and so we have no way to recover those funds, but we're going to pursue it as a service to our readers nonetheless. The results will be shared here, and this list will be expanded to show the exact details of what we found. So stay tuned... |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 In this method, an individual patient can greatly reduce the cost of buying product—and actually earn a living—by using the product and extolling its value to others. A one-month supply of Fibronol costs about $79, which is comparable to the cost of many of the drugs I recommended in chapter 7 (except that those are often covered by insurance). buying the product in quantity does reduce the cost, but you still have to lay out a lot of money. If you can get a few friends or fellow patients to sell the product, however, your cost goes down considerably. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's not worth buying all three. Just buy level one if you're a beginner, and you can probably figure out how to make the exercises more difficult on your own. I made the mistake of buying all three and ended up with a redundant supply of instructional videos.
What's great about the whole Pilates system, including this Allegro Pilates Reformer machine, is that it's not about isolated strength or one movement. It's really about compound movements. You're training functional body strength. The Pilates machine will never make you big and bulky like a bodybuilder. |
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| But gullible consumers keep on buying these products, thinking they're getting avocado dip when, in reality, they're buying green-colored, yummy-tasting dietary poison.
Food names can include words that describe ingredients not found in the food at all. A "cheese" cracker, for example, doesn't have to contain any cheese. A "creamy" something doesn't have to contain cream. A "fruit" product need not contain even a single molecule of fruit. Don't be fooled by product names printed on the packaging. |
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| 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. Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, we urged Transition Nutrition to create these gift baskets so that NewsTarget readers could have healthy gift buying options available during the holiday shopping season. (There are way too many people still buying processed meat, cheeses and other garbage foods for Christmas...)
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Transition Nutrition is one of my top ten highest recommended superfood companies. I've awarded this company two "best of show" awards over the last three years, and their food products continue to be among the best in the industry. You think you know what a cashew tastes like? |
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 This caused a concern, since I would never be caught dead buying processed meat products, and certainly not in a Wal-Mart. I was worried that a NewsTarget reader might spot me buying this garbage food, snap a camera photo, and I'd end up all over the internet holding a package of Oscar Mayer hot dogs with that deer-in-the-headlights look...
So -- get this -- I put on a hat and sunglasses and actually stealthed my way through the Wal-Mart store, trying to buy these processed meat products without getting noticed! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I was buying breakfast cereals, dinner mixes, instant foods, soft drinks and all these other things. 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. |
Jack Challem
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 Along the way, though, it helps to recognize whether you are buying something to fulfill a need or a want.
People who spend too much money on their wants may sacrifice their long-term ability to pay for their needs. Reports have consistently found that relatively few Americans bother saving any substantial amount of money. Instead, they succumb to buying the latest consumer products and often carry considerable high-interest credit card debt.
Control your shopping. How can you change shopaholic behavior? |
Ann N. Martin
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 Canadian consumers who are buying pet foods produced in the United States can also pressure pet food companies, or stop buying the product if they are not satisfied with the manufacturer's responses to their questions.
Both North American governments are lax in their implementation of effective regulations in the pet food industry. As one government official stated when I met with him, "The only way we will see this industry [pet food] regulated is if we [humans] start eating dogs and cats. |
Jack Challem
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 Many people don't know how to prepare a pomegranate for eating, but buying a whole pomegranate is about one-third the price of buying only the seeds.
1-2 pomegranates
It doesn't matter whether the skin feels ripe—the seeds are the edible part. With a knife, cut off the crown and rinse any dirt off the pomegranate skin. Pat it dry and score the skin in quarters. Place the pomegranate in a large bowl with enough water to cover it completely. Use your fingers to pull apart the quarters, then separate the seeds from the rind and the membrane. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The last time I visited, I ended up buying a hundred dollars worth of raw food snacks. Thanks to Whole Foods, my monthly food bill now nearly exceeds my house payment! But I love every bite of it, and if it wasn't for this natural grocery chain being in Phoenix, I think I would literally have to move to California or Boulder, Colorado just to get near one.
But don't walk around blindly in a Whole Foods supermarket, buying up everything in sight under the assumption that it's all healthy and good for you. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Canadian consumers who are buying pet foods produced in the United States can also pressure pet food companies, or stop buying the product if they are not satisfied with the manufacturer's responses to their questions.
Both North American governments are lax in their implementation of effective regulations in the pet food industry. As one government official stated when I met with him, "The only way we will see this industry [pet food] regulated is if we [humans] start eating dogs and cats. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Whole flaxseeds are typically available in the bulk section of the grocery store and have a longer shelf life than ground seeds. If buying whole flaxseeds, make sure there is no evidence of moisture at the point of purchase, and store them in an airtight container. Refrigerate them once you get them home.
?Grinding flaxseeds in a seed or coffee bean grinder boosts their digestibility and nutritional value.
?When buying ground flaxseeds, look for vacuum-sealed and/or refrigerated packages, as the seeds are much more susceptible to oxidation once they are ground. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Several of these suggestions encourage buying chemical-free products. Doing so not only helps to protect your health but flexes your buying power. If enough Americans refuse to buy chemically laden products, the message to corporations and industry becomes clear: consumers are increasingly educated about how chemicals can affect their immune systems and corporations will have to do business according to the precautionary principle, marketing products that are proven to be safe and chemical free, in order to increase the bottom line.
CLEAN GREEN. |
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