Non GMO Shopping Guide Plus Resources

 

Maraline:  Companies That Have Taken the Non-GMO Sugar Pledge

 

Buy Non-GMO

You can eliminate GMOs from your diet and combine your purchasing power with that of other health-conscious consumers. 

$pend your food dollars on healthy non-GMO brands! Buying non-GMO not only impacts your own and your family’s health concerns, it also influences the buying decisions of food manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Food manufacturers worldwide have switched to non-GM ingredients in response to consumers demanding they make a change or lose customers. See download below. 

From the Institute for Responsible Technology:

  

TIPS FOR AVOIDING GMOs

  

Tip #1: Buy Organic 

Certified organic products cannot intentionally include any GMO ingredients. Buy products labeled “100% organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients.” You can be doubly sure if the product also has a Non-GMO Project Verified Seal. Read more about organic standards…

Tip #2:  

Look for Non-GMO Project Seals  

Products that carry the Non-GMO Project Seal are independently verified to be in compliance with North America’s only third party standard for GMO avoidance, including testing of at-risk ingredients. The Non-GMO Project is a non-profit organization committed to providing consumers with clearly labeled and independently verified non-GMO choices. Look for dairy products labeled “No rBGH or rBST,” or “artificial hormone-free.”

Tip #3:  Avoid at-risk ingredients 

If it’s not labeled organic or verified non-GMO: Avoid products made with ingredients that might be derived from GMOs (see list). The eight GM food crops are Corn, Soybeans, Canola, Cottonseed, Sugar Beets, Hawaiian Papaya (most) and a small amount of Zucchini and Yellow Squash.

  

From Kellogg’s: Organic Consumers Association and allies warned Kellogg’s, if they used sugar from genetically engineered sugar beets in their foods, they would face a consumer boycott. Kellogg’s responded, claiming that, even though they don’t use genetically engineered ingredients in Europe, in the U.S., “consumer concerns about the usage of biotech ingredients in food production are low.”  

From Crystal Sugar: David Berg, President of Crystal Sugar, the nation’s largest sugar beet processor, told the New York Times he thought customer acceptance of GE sugar was “a big nonevent.” 

 

Maraline’s Note:  ”Cow dairy is extremely high in lactic acid. Goat dairy has much less lactic acid if you’ve gotaa have your cheese, and almond milk, coconut milk, rice milk, etc are great milk alternatives:)

 

 

 

FREE Download Complete Shopping Guide

Tip #4: Download (ResponsibleTechnology.org) Shopping Guides
Use either IRT’s new Non-GMO Shopping Tips brochure or redesigned Non-GMO Shopping Guide to help you identify and avoid GM foods. We devote an entire page in each guide to help you uncover hidden GM ingredients on food labels that often read more like a chemical periodic table. If you have an iPhone, download our ShopNoGMO guide for free from the iTunes store.
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Local Sources

There is a growing movement for buying local and supporting local farmers. Resources to find organic and locally grown foods can be found using the links below:

Visit LocalHarvest.org

 

Coconut Milk IceCream

Dairy Products may be from cows injected with GM bovine growth hormone. Look for labels stating No rBGH, rBST, or artificial hormones. OR Buy Organic Milk from reputable grass fed farm (some lower cost organic milk is from grain fed cows, depleting the essential vitamins and minerals). 

Dangers of GMO Sugar Beets

Sugar If a non-organic product made in North American lists “sugar” as an ingredient (and NOT pure cane sugar), then it is almost certainly a combination of sugar from both sugar cane and GM sugar beets.

Canadian’s on H1N1

Why do 1 in 2 Americans have a chronic condition and take several pharmaceutical medications?

Our body requires certain levels of nutrition and hydration, and if not provided, we will adapt to the conditions, but in doing so, nutritional deficits will be the consequence. While we are not directly responsible for the degradation of the food, water, and air, we are responsible to ourselves and our families to eat as our body is designed, for nutrition and hydration.

Q. What does our body require? 

A. Foundational levels of nutrition, which means your body requires (not wants, not would like, but requires) certain vitamins and minerals, and certain levels of cellular hydration (or different levels of water in your 20 different cell sizes). 

We are designed to receive nutrition through whole food and water both – today that’s almost impossible without whole food supplementation and clean drinking water at home. 

This article is based around Americans ingesting far too many pharmaceuticals. Below you will watch a video of a pharmaceutical representative describing in detail exactly why so many of us are taking so many pharmaceuticals, and exactly how the pharmaceutical industry works. Did you know that pharmaceuticals carry the highest profit margin of any business in the country. 

And did you know our body is a miracle that can work miracles once we become empowered, once we learn, and once we know which direction to point ourselves. “Point yourself in the right direction and YOU will follow” means your body inherently knows what is good for it and what is bad for it, and for the most part so do our brains, however our brain doesn’t have taste buds. Today we have to be careful to derive our nutrition from whole foods and our hydration from clean drinking water. Look at the reality of this, see what you think, and determine if you are willing to make small changes to improve the quality of your health. 

Straight from Wikpedia:  

Nearly one in two Americans (133 million) has a chronic medical condition of one kind or another,^[1] and chronic illnesses cause about 70% of deaths in the United States and take up about 75% of the costs each year.^[2] However, most of these people are not actually disabled, as their medical conditions do not impair normal activities. According to this report, the most common chronic conditions are high blood pressure, arthritis, respiratory diseases like emphysema, and high cholesterol.

Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Inspiration reveals the most fascinating information about our brains.

This is the one TED TALK that stands out in my mind (no pun intended) as one of the most revealing and enlightening educations about our brain. Fascinating information, left brain, right brain. I also believe it’s one of the first TED TALKs, and still remains in their top 10, please pass it along.

 Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist who came out of nowhere (at least for me) and has truly become one of those “must hear from” human beings. I don’t recall exactly how long her talk is, but she is world renown now, and it is so very worthwhile to watch it all the way through, even if you have to leave it and come back. 

Let me know what you think of this, comments welcome.

Stress Free Kids (and moms and dads too)

Doesn’t this sound like peace? Great books, cd’s, guidance…….tranquility galore!

Thimerosal (mercury) in Flu Shots & Vaccines is out of hand.

Any reasonable person would question why it is, that in 2010, our children are required to receive (count them) 24 mandatory vaccinations, when just one generation ago, 10 vaccinations was the requirement. I  personally compared my older children with my 14 year old’s records, then put those records against the number of injections today’s babies are recommended, and there is absolutely no way the increase can be justified. Join my FB, and see how a Vet, doctor for animals, minimizes vaccines for the family pets because he sees them as harmful, yet for our children the number of injections has compounded.

Another point of contention is that not only do today’s children receive many more vaccinations, Thimerosal (mercury) is still present at staggering amounts (the amount the FDA determines safe for a 275 lb man). So even after all the controversy and court cases, children especially, are given injections (vaccines and flu shots) which are frequently doubled up or even tripled.  Why?

More information, Vaccine and Flu Shot Ingredients, plus other resources you can pursue all follow video.

PowerPops on “The Doctors TV Show” and EXTRA TV

CAUTION: PowerPops will reduce your cravings, take your appetite away, and give you energy. (PS Water activates the PowerPops!)

Lolli’s for Weight Loss? You Betcha! As long as you hydrate and ingest high levels of nutrition!

Essante WW also delivers a great organic greens and organic reds – pHabulous organic nutritional products without additives or fillers, cold processed, no heat, with high negative ionic charge. I have used Essante products for some time now. 

I like to think of the PowerPops as a TARGET product, one which motivates higher levels of hydration, less cravings, and better food – when you don’t crave you eat a lot healthier! In fact when you become balanced, cravings are gone – desire remains, but premeditated cravings no longer trouble you!

Click Image Watch Trailer of Show

Doctors Televison Show is doing a feature on weight loss products – PowerPops are featured, a tell all verdict with their own test!

Watch the trailer, PowerPops will be featured on The Doctors Television Show this week.

Plus, see PowerPops on EXTRA TV, and check out the POPS!

Lemon, Mint, Garlic, Whirl (Dressing)

2009 Contributed by Christine Gannage, Adaptations by Maraline 

LEMON MINT WHIRL DRESSING w/garlic

This recipe is a longtime everyday dressing in Christine’s family, generational. Thanks so much, and everyone please enjoy!

So simple, yet a flavor difficult to describe, your taste buds and your nose will say French or maybe Lebanese, something exotic, but so purposeful and healthy, I can see how it becomes a staple dressing very quickly!
 

Ingredients

1/2 c. fresh squeezed lemon juice

4 med cloves of fresh garlic

Goodly handful of fresh mint (out of season 1 T. of more of dehydrated or dried)

1/2 tsp Real Salt, Celtic Salt, or Himalayan Salt

Cold Pressed Oil to liking (olive oil works great, as do others)
Blend (Tribest Personal Blender works great) or puree all ingredients, except oil, once emulsified add the oil slowly (pulsating) until you get the thickness of dressing you are prefer. 

PS Christine uses 1/2 olive and 1/2 sunflower, it’s also good with a bit of Sesame Oil and a dollop of Tahini!

For a creamy version I add Veganaise *(dip or dressing) and as a change-up for a

Why McDonalds Burgers Have Not Decomposed since 1989 – believe it!

See Video Below "Big Macs Looking Great, Purchased in the 1980's" - BELEIVE IT!

As another data point to our ongoing McDonald’s Burger series (and don’t think for a minute this is ONLY about McDonald’s or just Big Mac’s and Happy Meals), you’ll be surprised to learn at least one guy has been collecting McDonald’s burgers since the 1980′s, AND STILL HAS THEM!

Here is a great vid plus an excerpt from Natural News, they posted the original news story years ago on the McDonald’s Burgers bought in the 1980′s – watch the vid.

From Natural News….No normal animal will perceive a McDonald’s hamburger bun as food, and as it turns out, neither will bacteria or fungi. To their senses, it’s just not edible stuff. That’s why these bionic burger buns just won’t decompose.

Which brings me to my final point about this whole laughable distraction: There is only one species on planet Earth that’s stupid enough to think a McDonald’s hamburger is food. This species is suffering from skyrocketing rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia and obesity. This species claims to be the most intelligent species on the planet, and yet it behaves in such a moronic way that it feeds its own children poisonous chemicals and such atrocious non-foods that even fungi won’t eat it (and fungi will eat cow manure, just FYI).

THE WORLD’S FIRST IMMORTAL OR BIONIC HAMBURGER (/Even if you think you know the ingredients, reading the list is worth watching this video.)

Further….

Asian & Unchicken Noodle Soup

Chopsticks are cool too!

This past weekend was certainly the time for grandma’s chicken noodle soup, so why not twist things up a bit and really make it special? Grandma didn’t know vegeheads!!

So this is my vegehead lovers, Asian food lovers, and Jewish chicken noodle soup lovers version of the Unchicken Noodle Soup!

The soup is really the great broth, veges and the noodles with the oil, so you can go with that for taste and wellness! And to add some manpower chunk/protein, we used Now & Zen Unchicken, but please use your  favorite tofu, or even real chicken (if it’s precooked)!