What's Lurking on Your Produce, and How Does It Affect You?

We are hearing the statistics of so many children having ADHD in epidemic proportions. The latest report from MSN: Exposure to pesticides used on common kid-friendly fruits & vegetables — including frozen blueberries, fresh strawberries and celery — appears to boost the chances that children will be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, new research shows...

The findings are that youngsters with high levels of pesticide residue in their urine, particularly from widely used types of insecticide such as malathion, were more likely to have ADHD, the behavior disorder that often disrupts school and social life, scientists in the United States and Canada found.

“I think it's fairly significant. A doubling is a strong effect,” said Maryse F. Bouchard, a researcher at the University of Montreal in Quebec and lead author of the study published Monday in the Journal of Pediatrics...

Diet is a major source of pesticide exposure according to the National Academy of Sciences,and much of that exposure comes from favorite fruits and vegetables. In 2008, detectable concentrations of malathion were found in 28 percent of frozen blueberry samples, 25 percent of fresh strawberry samples and 19 percent of celery samples, a government report found...

A most alarming finding was a near-doubling in odds of ADHD diagnoses among kids with
higher-than-average levels of the most common of the six metabolites detected. Kids with high levels of dimethyl thiophosphate were 93 percent more likely to have the disorder than children with with undetectable levels of the marker.

Pesticides prey on the nervous system. Boucher studied organophosphate pesticides, which account for as much as 70 percent of the pesticide use in the U.S. They work by interfering with the nervous systems of insects, but have a similar effect in mammals, including humans. Most people in the U.S. have residues of the products in their urine...

Buy organic, make sure to wash, says the article:

The best advice for parents — and anyone who wants to avoid pesticides — is to choose foods least likely to contain them. The Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocacy organization, advises shoppers to buy organic versions of a dozen fruits and vegetables that grow in the ground or are commonly eaten with the skin, because they’re most likely to be contaminated...( Find out here what foods are least and most on the the pesticide list. You may be surprised.)

(The advice:) Make sure to wash all fruits and vegetables under cold running tap water and scrub firm-skinned produce with a brush. Be sure to rinse frozen fruits and vegetables, too.

But don’t wash produce with soap. The Food and Drug Administration says that could
leave behind residues of detergent, and yet more chemicals that everyone would do best to avoid.
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We all know by now that those herbicides and pesticides are probably oil-based. They don't come off with just ordinary, tap water, and, as the article said, we shouldn't use detergents because they leave a harmful residue on the produce. What do you do to protect yourself and your loved ones? You can't scrub produce such as strawberries and blueberries.

You have the best water/cleaner for your fruits and vegetables automatically if you have an Living Water Electrolytic Water device. Soak your produce in 11.5 pH, strong, alkaline water several minutes to remove as much of these harmful, oil-based pesticides and herbicides as possible.

If you can, shop locally, and shop organic from sources you are familiar with such as your local Farmer's Market. Know from whom you are buying.

And, since there are so many different interpretations to the term "organic", if at all possible, grow it yourself. Although it is not possible for everyone to do so, that's the only way to really know what you are eating and what's NOT on your food.

Following is a video that went along with the article:

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Till next time... Live naturally,
Stephen
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Can You Disinfect With Just Water? Yes, You Can!

By owning a Living Water Ionizer Device, you have access to 2.5 disinfectant water! Do you know the value of this water in your home? I have to share with you some excerpts from an article in the LA Times:

It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it.

Sounds like the old "Saturday Night Live" gag for Shimmer, the faux floor polish plugged by Gilda Radner. But the elixir is real. It has been approved by U.S. regulators. And it's starting to replace the toxic chemicals Americans use at home and on the job.

The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water -- hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso -- the miracle liquid.

That's as good a name as any for a substance that scientists say is powerful enough to kill anthrax spores without harming people or the environment. Used as a sanitizer for decades in Russia and Japan, it's slowly winning acceptance in the United States. A New York poultry processor uses it to kill salmonella on chicken carcasses... Michigan jailers mop with electrolyzed water to keep potentially lethal cleaners out of the hands of inmates.

In Santa Monica, the once-skeptical Sheraton housekeeping staff has ditched skin-chapping bleach and pungent ammonia for spray bottles filled with electrolyzed water to clean toilets and sinks.

"I didn't believe in it at first because it didn't have foam or any scent," said housekeeper Flor Corona. "But I can tell you it works. My rooms are clean."

For more than two centuries, scientists have tinkered with electrolysis, the use of an electric current to bring about a chemical reaction... It turns out that zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful yet non-toxic cleaning agents, that cleans and de-greases like detergent, but without the scrubbing bubbles. This potent disinfectant is known as acidic water.

...Doctors use it to sterilize equipment and treat foot fungus and bedsores. Minnesota food scientist Joellen Feirtag said she was similarly skeptical. So she installed an electrolysis unit in her laboratory and began researching the technology. She found that the acid water killed E. coli, salmonella, listeria and other nasty pathogens. Yet it was gentle enough to soothe her children's sunburns and acne.

"It's 10 times more effective than bleach in killing bacteria," said Yen-Con Hung, a professor of food science at the University of Georgia-Griffin, who has been researching electrolyzed water for more than a decade. "And it's safe."

You are able to make an extremely effective disinfectant water that is safe for you, your children, and your pets from your machine. It kills numerous pathogens in 30 seconds.

Take advantage of this amazing water. Isn't it awesome that you don't have to buy those disinfectant gels and body washes with triclosan, propylene glycol and other substances that are hormone disruptors, and other poisonous, home disinfectants in those plastic bottles? The store-bought disinfectants are harmful to people, and the plastic bottles will become trash and contribute to the vast amount of plastic garbage thrown into landfills.

Wow! It's safe, so economical, and is eco-friendly, too. You can use it for insect bites, skin abrasions, other skin problems, and so much more.

My wife and I for 41 years have lived naturally. I have been a natural health practitioner for over 36 years. Our babies were birthed at home and nursed until they weaned themselves which was quite some time. My wife, Donna, never used a box mix for anything; she made everything from scratch and, always natural. We grew what we could on our city lots organically as our children were growing up. Keeping foods wholesome and natural, and living a lifestyle free from chemicals as much as possible we believe is important to our health and the welfare of the planet. Our 8, beautiful grandchildren, as well as, everyone else's precious grandchildren, need to have the opportunity to grow up in a world that is safe, and as pollution free as possible. Their health and safety from a world over-run by chemicals and pollution in the coming years depends, however, on what we do today.

What everyone does personally can make a difference. Keep your family safe, healthy, and free from such chemicals as triclosan that I discussed yesterday, by using such things as an ionized water for everything from drinking water and household cooking, to disinfecting and cleaning everything around the home safely. It's convenient-no plastic bottles to pollute the environment and no chemicals from the plastic bottles leaching into the water held within that people then drink! And, you have an endless supply handy at all times for your family-no hauling water from the store to your home. How great is that? I love it.

I found out three years ago that our local spring water was either to acidic if I got it from the cold springs, or just neutral from the hot springs and both were very oxidative: Yes, oxidative when tested. You wouldn't think that, would you? And, if I chose to get bottled water as an alternative, I discovered that most bottled water is as acidic as soda, and, without exception, is chemical laden from the plastic in which it is held. From studies it was likely to contain bacteria, too. It's, also, expensive for something that is so bad for us. I sure didn't want to buy that anymore.

Both those choices, at age 61, meant hauling water which was pretty laborious and inconvenient, especially in bad weather. Then I found out that I could make this awesome, alkaline, anti-oxidant, restructured water right in my home from my own tap source. I got a water ionizer for which I am so glad I did.

Well, I could go on on that subject, but ... enough for right now: Have a great day!

Till next time...

Take care, be happy, and live as natural as possible,
Stephen
501-802-2440
www.be-alkaline.com

Clean and Sanitize with Water!

I have talked about the benefits of alkaline, antioxidant water for health, however, the benefits of electrolized water just don't stop there. We have the ability to make strong alkaline water amd strong acidic water to clean our homes safely without chemicals, clean our fruits and vegetables removing herbicides and pesticides-which is very important, and rinse meat and fish killing harmful bacteria.

There was an article recently in the LA Times that can be viewed at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-magicwater23-2009feb23,0,4203536.story?page=2&track=rss . Only a few ionizers make this level of pH water and only uses just table salt to do so just as is discussed in the article. Some machines require that you continually purchase a solution from the company that contains sodium chloride and sodium hypochloride (bleach) with which to make the very low and very high pH water.

Not so with Living Water! It uses plain salt, and, yet, it makes these wonderful levels of pH water to do so many things around your home, as well as, to use on cuts, minor burns, insect bites, and abrasions. It makes this unit very economical to use and very convenient since most everyone always has salt in the home.

Please call me for further information as to how you can be eco-friendly and disinfect effectively at the same time using this cutting edge technology in your home or business.

"Electrolyzed water cleans, degreases -- and treats athlete's foot. It is the solution for replacing toxic chemicals in your home and office."

Live Natural...

Stephen
501-802-2440