Good Old Celery.  Just one more reason to get outside this spring and get a patch of ground worked up for your new veggie garden.  You deserve it.   Also look for my new gardening book coming out around May of this year.

The reason celery is so low in calories is because it is so high in water content. Fresh, light green celery with glossy ribs is the best for eating. Celery is truly a healthy treat; all parts of the plant are edible and one cup contains only about twenty calories. There is no waste. It’s a great food and has a number of known health benefits. Here is a couple.

Celery can provide a sense of calmness. It can also help lower blood pressure. People with gout should be fans of celery because it lowers uric acid. So there you go and oh, my wife dries the leaves every year and uses them in soups through out the winter months.  Sure brings the soup alive with taste.  Talk Soon

What I have been saying for  years and still am today.  Just one more reason to eat organic or better yet grow your own.

Although you won’t hear this from the cancer industry or the drug companies that profit from cancer, there’s an easy, low-cost and remarkably safe way to slash cancer rates around the world by about one-third, says the World Cancer Research Fund: Promote healthy foods and exercise.

Myself I believe that cancer is hard to cure.  The thing one has to do is prevent it.  That means eating right.  But the problem is that the food today that is out there for us to eat isn’t good. We have to eliminate all the pesticides in and on our food.  Also the antibiotics has to be used only for certain things, the rest has to be done away with along with over two thirds of the over counter items.  The injecting our beef with antibiotics has to stop too. Once this is done, we might have a fighting chance. Will it be done? Not likely, as the big pharmaceutical guys are making to much money off us humans, and critters too for that matter.But on the bright side of things. It’s up to you what you put in your body or on it.  Think about that.  Talk Soon

You know as human beings, we’re the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves. As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins that goes directly into our bodies, through rivers and streams, the air, the soil and so on. Not only that, we actually combine toxic chemicals and then inject them directly into the food supply — knowing full well that they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of chronic disease we are experiencing today.  What to do get out there this spring and Plant your own or seek out organic foods and get to eating.  Also start telling folks that sell things covered wtih pesticides that they shouldn’t be selling them and that you won’t be buying them anymore. We are the ones that caused the problem, well some of us. So we humans have to be the ones to stop it.

Garlic is recognised as a valuable ingredient in maintaining a healthy life and combating disease. However what looks to be perfectly natural could in fact be treated with all kinds of chemicals. So the question is where is your garlic from and how has it been treated? Now think about this: The bulk of the world’s garlic is produced in China. Also garlic from China is doused in chemicals to stop sprouting, to whiten garlic, and to kill insects and plant matter. It also is grown in untreated sewage which I figured over the years. So………. what does that tell ya?  Tells me to get out there and plant my own. And remember this. My new gardening book will be on the shelves around the first of May.  Talk Soon

As I have been saying for years that, links between pesticide exposure and rates of  cancers, hormonal disruption, and immune system disorders in humans are on going, should we heed the warning signs provided by birds and animals, or do we continue to pay the high environmental and social costs of rampant pesticide use? Here are a few thoughts and figures to consider. The benefits of pesticides are often cited in terms of their contribution to world food production, and yet it is estimated that crop losses to pests would increase only 10% if no pesticides were used. Between 1945 and 1989, pesticide use in the U.S.& Canada increased tenfold and yet crop losses doubled from 7-14%. Consider also that all of us, everywhere, are exposed to some pesticide residues in food, water, and the atmosphere every day. Residents of the United States & Canada eat an estimated 2 billion pounds of imported produce tainted with banned pesticides each year.  Kind of makes one think doesn’t it?  The only ones that can stop this craziness is us humans.  Will it happen? Not likely and I kind of think it might be to late.  Just one more reason to grow your own.

The mystery of bee deaths has been pretty well solved.  Also note here that I have been trying to tell folks this for the past forty years.   Colony Collapse is poisoning with a known insect neurotoxin. Clothianidin, a pesticide manufactured by Bayer.

Isn’t it interesting that a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, Bayer, also makes a product that is a poison by design? Bayer is not an exception. Many, if not most, do business in both arenas. That alone should give pause for thought.

Here’s a list of corporations — not expected to be complete — that profit in both pharmaceuticals and pesticides:

* American Home Products

* AMVAC

* Astra Zeneca

* Aventis

* BASF

* Bayer

* Dow Chemical

* Dupont Chemical

* Merck

* Monsanto

* Novartis

* Pharmacia

Is it an accident that most of Big Pharma also manufactures pesticides? Is there a connection between the two types of products? Do the pharmaceutical arms of these corporations profit on the illness caused by the pesticide arms? These questions are rhetorical. We’ll let the reader decide.