"While the benefits of breast milk over baby formula are old news, some important new research indicates that additional dangers may lurk in every can of baby formula on the market.
In a recent report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a consumer health advocacy group, tests performed on liquid baby formulas found that they all contained bisphenol A (BPA). This leaching, hormone-mimicking chemical is used by all major baby formula manufacturers in the linings of the metal cans in which baby formula is sold.
BPA has been found to cause hyperactivity, reproductive abnormalities and pediatric brain cancer in lab animals. Increasingly, scientists suspect that BPA might be linked to several medical problems in humans, including breast and testicular cancer.
Because of smaller can sizes and because liquid formula is less diluted with water, the study concluded that liquid formulas have as much as 20 times higher potential to leach BPA than their powdered counterparts.
Because the FDA has not banned BPA, it appears there are no immediate plans to change the packaging of liquid baby formula."
Thats right, toxic baby formula. Surprised? If so, you should do some more research, A LOT of the packaging, foods, drinks, medicines that we assume are safe for consumption are not. Soaring cancer rates continue to be called "a mystery" while the obvious cause, toxins/radiation in our food, air, water and medicines, is disregarded as a purely "environmental" issue. If you're not into researching toxins in everyday products, there is an easier route: buy organic. More specifically, if you really want to be healthy, buy vegan + organic. It's another nonviolent solution: no animals harmed, and your body isn't harmed by chemicals, etc. It's no coincidence that a balanced vegan diet is the healthiest. If you haven't noticed yet, the Universe has a preference for nonviolence and tries to communicate that through our karmic experience.
An unhealthy populace serves the destructive status-quo paradigm the same way a fearful and savior-mythology indoctrinated populace does: through disempowerment.
I've heard repeatedly lately that the combination of anxiety and depression is the #1 mental ailment in America today, with millions of Americans taking prescription drugs for it. Personally I know that they are extremely diempowering states of mind, probably more so than anything else has been in my life. Why is it so pervasive currently? And what effect is it having on our socio-political situation? Obviously a severely depressed and anxious populace is much less likely to resist oppression/destruction/fascism, so in that way it serves the status-quo paradigm very well, just like ill-health in general. Anxiety can also develop into the worse ailment of paranoia, which is perhaps even worse than severe depression. When you no longer feel comfortable doing every-day activities, when you think almost everyone, seen and unseen, are either making fun of you or worse, how can you be an effective revolutionary? Or mother, father, worker, etc? This is part of the reason why I think the establishment is so quick to throw the label "paranoid conspiracy nut" on those that question their most critical deceptions; they want people to avoid the issue out of fear of being called "paranoid", "crazy", etc. How many times have you heard the term "conspiracy nut" associated with 9/11 Truth activists for instance? It's become the standard establishment response to anyone who questions the official story on 9/11; that way the actual evidence is ignored. Evidence that clearly shows to anyone with common sense that the official story is a fraud.
The sad irony however is that some paranoia amongst activists is actually logical, when you take into account the fact that they are opposing mass-murderers, and the historical examples of harassment and violence brought on to those who have opposed destructive deceptions, policies, and various injustices. In recent US history, the FBI's COINTELPRO program is a key example of harassment and violence brought on to to individuals who were speaking out against injustice and violence. Also there are the ignorant members of the genearla public who ridicule and slander those that speak out against injustice, particularly those that speak out about "controversial" issues, like 9/11 Truth. People that identify with the propaganda become defense when that peoprganda is questioned; it is far easier for them to question the "sanity" of the activist, and give them scornful looks and comments, to their face, or behind their back. Again, this can lead an unprepared activist feeling very isolated and anxious, which can lead to paranoia. But since Truth is paramount for those fighting for justice, they usually seek the full truth of their own personal situation as well, which prevents awareness of enemies becoming an distorted exaggeration of them.
Disempowerment/Empowerment fall into 3 categories as far as I can see:
1) Mental (ego based negative thoughts, fear, attachment, dependence, addiction, etc. / love, confidence, clarity, stability, positive thoughts, etc.)
2) Physical (poor diet, intoxicants, lack of strength and flexibility, etc. / healthy diet, fitness, no toxins, etc.)
3) Socio-political (fascism, oppression, poverty, propaganda, etc. / democracy, freedom, basic needs met, crucial truth in media, etc.)
We need to be more aware of which side we're on in our daily lives, draining or gaining, so that we can rid ourselves of the former and gain the latter.
The various types of disempowerement are often interconnected as in the examples given above, so the response should be holistic as well.
Some say our worst enemy is our own ego: try meditation to become aware of your awareness, which is your inner Self, the opposite of the usually negative and disempowering ego.
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This post, like much of my writing, is for myself as well as others. First we must know which way to go before we start moving; I've been spending a lot of time refining the path before taking many steps... I've allowed myself to be disempowered by one of the most devastating blows to one's drive for progress: good love gone bad. But I think I'm almost over it. I hope.
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