Here's some thoughts on picking presents.
Gift-giving is a wonderful activity, but many people who give gifts to
family and friends don't realize they're actually giving the recipient
cancer, or
diabetes or
attention deficit problems.
In this article, I expose
five dangerous gifts
that may literally increase the risk of disease and death. Whatever you
give your family and friends this holiday season, please avoid giving
these five dangerous gifts:
Dangerous gift #1) Perfumes and colognes (promote cancer)
A typical perfume product contains
over 20 cancer-causing chemicals, and they're absorbed right through the skin. Perfumes and colognes -- or any fragrance product, for that matter -- are
direct causes of cancer
which remain utterly ignored by the cancer industry (that just happens
to be more interested in high-profit treatments rather than
profit-destroying
prevention strategies).
The only "safe"
perfume is one made entirely from essential oils. Legally speaking,
nearly all perfumes sold in the state of California should be labeled
with cancer warnings under Proposition 65, but the state never enforces
this law against giant perfume corporations (interesting, huh?).
Dangerous gift #2) Processed meats, hams and sausages (promote cancer and diabetes)
You
see these heavily promoted during the holiday season: Sausages, hams
and other specialty meats, usually sold with natural-sounding language
to make them appear wholesome and home-grown. In reality, almost 100% of
these meats contain
sodium nitrite, a dangerous cancer-causing chemical that's used to turn these meats red and prevent spoilage by killing living organisms.
Sodium
nitrite is linked to both an increase in cancer as well as type-2
diabetes due to harmful effects on the pancreas. The USDA once tried to
ban sodium nitrite from the food supply in the 1970's but was overruled
by the meat industry (which now basically runs the USDA). While
processed holiday meats might be a very effective gift to give someone
you wanted to
murder, they are simply not appropriate to give to someone you care for.
Dangerous gift #3) Video game consoles (promote violence)
Parents,
if you're about to buy video games for your kids, please reconsider
your decision. Video game consoles now feature game content that's more
graphic and violent than ever, and they
desensitize your children to acts of violence.
Even
worse, some video games being designed today -- "first-person shooters"
-- are actually developed by the U.S. military and used as
recruiting tools
that aggrandize war. A young male child who plays video games is not
only more like to join the military and engage in mindless acts of
violence, he is also more likely to be diagnosed with
attention deficit disorder.
There
are some very good real-time strategy games that teach strategic
thinking (such as Sid Meier's Civilization series), but avoid giving
your children first-person shooters or other extremely violent games.
Dangerous gift #4) Mobile phones (promote type-3 diabetes)
Very few people know that there's another kind of diabetes called "type-3 diabetes." It's caused by
electropollution.
Quite literally, when some people are in the presence of strong
electromagnetic fields, their blood sugar levels begin to swing wildly.
Mobile phones are one of the worst sources of electromagnetic pollution beamed
right through your head.
It's far safer to use them with a bluetooth headset, and safer still to
use them only as a texting device without voice calling. (The small
bursts of text data transfer are miniscule compared to full-on voice
broadcast.)
If you do want to give someone a mobile phone, make sure they're not already diabetic (and buy them a bluetooth headset).
Dangerous gift #5) Clothing that's full of GMOs, dyes and pesticides
This
is a tough one, but nearly all the clothing sold in stores today is
absolutely loaded with GMOs, dyes and pesticides. Let me explain:
Any clothing containing
cotton is almost certainly GMO, as virtually all the cotton grown in America today is genetically modified. Of course, you're not
eating
that pair of jeans, so this may not concern you personally, but there's
still a huge environmental impact of GMO cotton being grown on farms.
Far worse from a personal health perspective are
the dyes. Clothing dyes are almost always
toxic, cancer-causing chemicals,
and if you've ever worn a new piece of clothing and later discovered
some of the dye rubbed off on your arms or legs, you know how easily
these dyes can transfer from the clothing to your skin (and then into
your bloodstream).
Finally, all non-organic cotton is
loaded with pesticides, and those pesticide chemicals can promote Parkinson's disease, dementia and other brain disorders. The only cotton that's free of pesticides is
100% organic cotton, which is available from a few specialty stores and online retailers.
SAFETY TIP: If you do buy someone a gift of clothing, or if you receive one yourself,
wash the clothes in hot water (by themselves, without polluting your other clothing) and use an extra rinse cycle. Dry them in the dryer and then
wash them again!
This is the only way to remove most of the dyes and pesticides found in
these clothes, and even this process doesn't remove all the dangerous
chemicals.
Remember this, too:
Nearly all clothing containing cotton boosts the profits of Monsanto,
which sells the genetically modified cotton seeds that farmers use to
produce this cotton. So buying someone a pair of jeans for Christmas is
essentially putting more money into Monsanto's pocket.
It goes without saying, but...
In addition to the five toxic gifts mentioned above, please do not buy anyone a
flu shot gift card unless you are literally trying to kill them. Flu shots often contain live viruses and may actually
cause the flu.
They can also cause
neurological side effects like seizures and vomiting. If you really want to help someone boost their defenses against the flu this holiday season, buy 'em some
vitamin D (5,000 IUs is the recommended dosage).
Be smart this holiday season - don't destroy the health of those you love
Whatever you give people this holiday season, be smart and consider the following:
• WHERE does this gift come from? What is its resource and manufacturing impact on the environment?
• WHO profits from me buying this gift? Does it enrich some evil corporation?
• WHAT will be the impact on the person I'm giving this gift to? Will it improve their live in a meaningful way?
The
more you consider these questions, the better your gift-giving success
will be... and not just at a personal level, but at a global level where
you are fully aware of the global impacts of your purchasing and
gift-giving decisions.
Mike Adams - Natural News
