Aspartame Warnings - How Many do we have to have?

Once again Aspartame is in the news.. this time with the results of an Italian study which demonstrated the incidence of increased cancer in rats fed with Aspartame. We here at Best Health have been telling people for years to get off this nasty substance.

The effects can be insidious and people who finally wake up and stop using it can experience relief from many niggling and not so minor symptoms. Try it and see.. just for even a week, stop your diet drinks, your sugar free chewing gum, or mints .. see what happens.
We suggest that symptoms such as irritability, nervousness, possibly headaches, rashes, digestive disturbance and more can "magically" disappear. For a great site with lots of info on the subject you can go to the Aspartame Toxicity info site.

Big business has a big say in whether our watchdogs sit up and take notice. So if the FDA is ignoring this Italian study you may want to ask yourself why? Is it because the study is flawed, or is it because it is in the interest of those with power to ignore it? We suggest there is a lot of ignoring going on.

Stand Up and Show Your Soul

I fell across an article from Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D Author of the best seller Women Who Run with the Wolves today and it resonated so much with what I would like to say to each and everyone of us in this time that I needed to bring it to the attention of us all.

She says we are made for this time, it is our time, and it is not the time to focus on the heaviness and the wrongs of this chaotic world we are living in. But it is the time to stand up and show our souls. To join our lights to that of others of like minds and hearts, - it is not our job to make a massive change but to add our voice and heart to the surge of the thousands of others who are stretching out to mend the part of the world that is wihin our reach.
For the full text of her inspirational words click here

Avandia - don't panic say Diabetes Australia

The New England Medical Journal a highly reputable publication, publishes a study which reports that the diabetic drug Avandia increases the risk of heart attack by 45% - excuse me.. I think this is time to stop taking this drug. Despite the fact that our Diabetes experts say its most likely okay.

Avandia maker GlaxoSmithKline says the study is flawed and that better data -- some already submitted to the FDA, some from an ongoing clinical trial -- show Avandia poses no significant risk to patients' heart health. Well I imagine they do say this.. after all it is rather in their interest to make sure they can quickly finance another "better" trial to prove all is well in the pharmaceutical world.

According to the Federal Centre for Disease Control in the USA, poisoning from prescription drugs has risen to become the second-largest cause of unintentional deaths in the United States, for more on this see this link
It seems to me that we need to really take notice when a prestigious journal gives information about the dangers of a commonly used drug.. don't wait for the next paid study to come out disproving it all!

Paracetomol dangers

Paracetamol is one of the world’s most popular painkillers – and it is also far more dangerous than the millions who take it realize. It kills around 450 people in the USA and around 120 in the UK every year.

The American drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration, is so concerned that it is considering restricting the drug’s availability, an action that has already been taken in Ireland.

There, it is illegal to buy more than 24 tablets, or 500 mg, in a single transaction. Despite this, it was responsible for nearly a third of all the 7,933 drug overdoses recorded in Ireland in 2004.

The drug can become dangerous at even relatively low dosages, and can cause serious – and sometimes fatal – liver damage.

(Source: The Lancet, 2007; 369: 1346).

Thanks to Lynne McTaggart and her newsletter What Doctors Don't Tell You

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Gather The Women by Jean Houston

Jean Houston - visionary thinker of our times, has produced a short film that will give you goosebumps from the truth of it. Check it out on YouTube and join with the women of the world in creating change.

Refugee deal with USA

Of all the crazy schemes that our so-called 'leaders' have dreamt up this is one of the most absurd I have heard in a while. Oh yes lets just swap refugees.. "you send us yours and we will send you ours!"

Well "Hello?" where is the logic in that! and how much good money are we going to throw away on that scheme? Why not just spend that money on settling these people in. On helping these people - so incredibly dislocated from their homes and lands - not sending them off on yet another terrifying journey to dislocate them further.

Let us wake up and start to care for the dislocated peoples of this planet - instead of trying to shuffle them under the carpet, leave them in outposts that are so arid of human kindness and love that they are forever damaged.

The Passion Test

I bought this book about 6 months ago, on a spur of the moment purchase off the net. It sat on my shelf and I didn't look at it further until the New Year when it seemed a good time to review my passions and my intentions for 2007.
And since then, I have been carrying with me on my trips.
Today flying across to Melbourne from Perth, I opened it again. And I would like to share a few words of wisdom that have leapt out at me.

Your life today is the result of the predominant thoughts you have held up till now.
If you want to change your life, change your mind!

Our intention is being broadcast to the Universe minute by minute. If your predominant thoughts are those of fear - thoughts about there not being enough, thoughts reflecting fear of loss, if you focus on a desire for safety, for keeping the status quo, this becomes your intention.

It is so important in these times, to realise that the promotion of fear based realities on the planet is uppermost. This is very infective, so if your predominant thoughts fall into this darkness it is suggested that you become very aware of what you surround yourself with.

Let the newspaper stay in the shop, use the off button on the tv when the bad news floods in, (it is always the same and if there is really something you need to know about - then be sure you will hear it). Tune your radio to the best music you can find, discover the joy of reading uplifting material. If the book you are reading is creating sadness or terror or darkness in your mind, put it down. You do not have to finish a book just because you started it!

Surround yourself with positive people, joyful space, beautiful music and uplifting information - it is out there, just be open and allow it to come into your life. This will most certainly assist you in discovering the true intention that you have - rather than that which is overlaid upon you by the fear mongering that is so prevalent at this time.

It is our responsibility to uplift ourselves so we can create harmony within and therefore around us.