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WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE RICE FINDING
**eat less rice
**vary rice products with other grains
**eat a varied diet and don't fret
**rinse before cooking
**cook differently: boil in excess water and then strain (removes 30% of inorganic)
**limit cereals to one serving/day esp for babies
**avoid baby formula containing domestic rice
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**eat less rice
**vary rice products with other grains
**eat a varied diet and don't fret
**rinse before cooking
**cook differently: boil in excess water and then strain (removes 30% of inorganic)
**limit cereals to one serving/day esp for babies
**avoid baby formula containing domestic rice
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That's what it sounds like from the letter behind the cut (at bottom), anyway. Then I searched and found that there are some senators working to strengthen the Clean Air Act on some specific pollutants, specifically with regard to coal. And frankly, I'm all for it. We need clean air. Clean air makes all the difference. I come from East Tennessee, the land of acid rain and asthma. And I have lived where the air is clean. I know the difference.
The specific proposals are to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 80% by 2018, mono-nitrogen oxides by 53% and mercury by 90% by 2015. I don't know a thing about the technology involved, but if these adjustments ARE technologically feasible we absolutely should require that our plants do them. Even knowing that we have to pay for it. Sulfur dioxide is the main thing that causes acid rain, and acid rain kills the trees and depletes the soil and turns the land into waste. It is the nightmare that people have when they think about nuclear devastation, only it happens. Nitrogen oxide contributes to acid rain. Mercury is just plain old toxic, neurotoxic and hard to get rid of. If we can stop plants from blowing mercury into the air, it won't get rained into the water, and it won't concentrate in the fish or come pouring through our taps. We won't be so poisoned.
Oh, you say, you're not poisoned? Don't check your own heavy metals if you don't want to know.
On the subject of fossil fuel dependence, here's a short history from the Post Carbon Institute.
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The specific proposals are to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions by 80% by 2018, mono-nitrogen oxides by 53% and mercury by 90% by 2015. I don't know a thing about the technology involved, but if these adjustments ARE technologically feasible we absolutely should require that our plants do them. Even knowing that we have to pay for it. Sulfur dioxide is the main thing that causes acid rain, and acid rain kills the trees and depletes the soil and turns the land into waste. It is the nightmare that people have when they think about nuclear devastation, only it happens. Nitrogen oxide contributes to acid rain. Mercury is just plain old toxic, neurotoxic and hard to get rid of. If we can stop plants from blowing mercury into the air, it won't get rained into the water, and it won't concentrate in the fish or come pouring through our taps. We won't be so poisoned.
Oh, you say, you're not poisoned? Don't check your own heavy metals if you don't want to know.
On the subject of fossil fuel dependence, here's a short history from the Post Carbon Institute.
( this letter from CREDO action in my email inbox todayCollapse )
A report slated to be released in the July 2010 Consumer Reports magazine shows that independent, 3rd party testing has found heavy metals in 15 protein powders. The lab tested for arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury. Some of the levels are pretty outrageous.
SOURCES
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/july/food/protein-drinks/overview/index.htm
http://jimmysmithtraining.com/six-pack-diet/heavy-metal-in-popular-protein-powders/
http://www.tonygentilcore.com/2010/06/does-your-protein-supplement-have-more-heavy-metal-than-a-metallica-concert/
SOURCES
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/july/food/protein-drinks/overview/index.htm
http://jimmysmithtraining.com/six-pack-diet/heavy-metal-in-popular-protein-powders/
http://www.tonygentilcore.com/2010/06/does-your-protein-supplement-have-more-heavy-metal-than-a-metallica-concert/
What presents with acute ascending paralysis bilaterally, starting in the feet?
GBS
What infectious agent do you suspect if your pt presents with bilateral facial neuropathy?
Borrelia burgdorferi
What's a common incorrect treatment for trigeminal neuralgia?
dentists pull teeth unnecessarily
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GBS
What infectious agent do you suspect if your pt presents with bilateral facial neuropathy?
Borrelia burgdorferi
What's a common incorrect treatment for trigeminal neuralgia?
dentists pull teeth unnecessarily
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Recently I did a DMSA oral bolus and a 6 hour urine collection after that, to provoke the chelation and renal secretion of any heavy metals that I have stored in my tissues. The news is: my previous hair test was inaccurate, mercury and arsenic are not the highest pollutants in my system. I have lead toxicity. Not just a little bit of lead, no, I have over 3 times the limit.
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