Kevin Trudeau – Trace Minerals & Top Calorie Foods

Today Kevin Trudeau talked about the power of Dr. Ted Morters Trace Minerals which you can find at ktradionetwork.com and how it can help cure sore throats, burns and cuts in a day or two instead of weeks. But what caught my attention was his get up about how much Calories one can eat a day without gaining weight.

He went on to talk about many things people think are “good” for them, when in reality they are death plates that exceed calorie intakes up t 3,000 calories for a plate of food. Today’s show is something to consider if you’d like to know what foods to avoid so you don’t get struck with an overdose of energy which will turn to fat.

Click the link to go to 2-21-11 KT show http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12850358

I also recommend taking a look at the Global Information Network to get more information about these subjects and much much more at GIN – Global Information Network

Tell McDonald’s: Stop Using Toys to Push Junk Food on Kids

If you want to know who is making your kids fat, ask Shrek. Or Barbie. Or Yoda, Darth Vader, and R2-D2. These are all characters that McDonald’s uses to entice kids into its restaurants so they can chow down on Happy Meals. But one non-profit aims to call the company out for using toys to unfairly market junk food to impressionable children.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) recently issued a challenge to McDonald’s: Stop using toys to pimp out unhealthy foods to kids, or we’ll sue you. CSPI claims that using toys to market unhealthy meals to children is a practice that’s unfair, deceptive, and illegal under some states’ consumer protection laws.

And while McDonald’s responded to CSPI’s demands by reiterating its commitment to stocking all Happy Meals with toys, it seems like the company might actually be running scared. In its very public demands to McDonald’s, CSPI highlighted the fact that all 24 Happy Meal combos contained more than 430 calories, the recommended caloric intake for lunches eaten by kids ages four-to-eight. According to the Appetite for Profit blog, just three days after CSPI issued its request to McDonald’s, the Golden Arches updated its Happy Meal nutritional content information on its Web site. The new info indicates that three Happy Meal combos contain fewer than 430 calories. McDonald’s claims it simply noticed an error in its nutritional information, but the timing seems a little too coincidental.

While McDonald’s is hardly the only restaurant that uses kid-friendly characters to market unhealthy foods, CSPI makes a good case against Happy Meal toys. According to CSPI, back in 2007, McDonald’s agreed to only advertise kids’ food that meets certain nutrition standards, an agreement reached under Council of Better Business Bureau’s Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. But despite the fact that Shrek may only advertise Apple Dippers and low-fat milk on TV, a CSPI study showed that when kids or parents order Happy Meals, they’re given French fries 93 percent of the time. Kids get lured into the restaurant through the promise of a new toy — they’re rewarded with foods high in fat, sugar, calories, and salt.

From the McDonald’s example — and countless others, for that matter — it’s clear that using cartoon characters and other kid-friendly incentives to push junk food contributes heavily to America’s childhood obesity epidemic. Kids beg parents to go to McDonald’s to get Happy Meal toys. When children or parents order Happy Meals, they are
automatically given French fries 93 percent of the time, and offered soda first 78 percent of the time. These sugary and salty snacks give kids a taste for unhealthy foods, so the cycle repeats itself, setting children up for an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related disorders.

And sure, it’s up to parents to say no to their kids. But McDonald’s and other junk food purveyors make parental duties exceedingly more difficult. “I try my best to educate my kids about healthy eating, but it’s hard when I am competing against the allure of a new Shrek toy,” Sheila Nesbitt, a mother of two kids, told CSPI.

A Happy Meal toy may make kids giddy in the short-term, but developing obesity and diabetes sets children up for a lifetime of health issues. Support CSPI and sign its petition demanding that McDonald’s stop using toys to market unhealthy meals to children.

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Protect Our Right To Privacy of Our Medical Records

Protect Our Right to Opt Out of Electronic Health Records Systems

The privacy of our medical records has already been compromised by federal legislation prior to the passage of ObamaCare, such as the Stimulus bill of 2009. In an article entitled, “Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS,” CNSNews.com reported on July 15 that:

New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records — that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year — must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity….

The law also requires that these electronic health records be available — with appropriate security measures — on a national exchange.

The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law.

A follow-up article on this issue by CNSNews.com on July 16 revealed that the federal database of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for all Americans that the HHS has mandated all doctors and hospitals to be using by 2014 must include: an active medications list, vital signs, Body Mass Index (BMI) score, smoking status, comparative effectiveness data, lab test results, insurance status, race, gender, and preferred language of patients, a list of all past health problems, their causes, and the procedures used to treat or cure them.

So there you have it. The “final rules” for the EHR federal database require that pretty much the complete medical record of every American must be available on the database by 2014. There will be penalties for doctors and hospitals that don’t comply.

Talk about invasion of privacy! Huge numbers of Americans fiercely oppose the automatic inclusion of their private medical records in this federal database.

However there is good news. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a lonely fighter in Congress to protect privacy rights for many years, has already introduced a bill to protect the privacy of our health records, H.R. 2630, the “Protect Patients and Physicians Privacy Act.” A key provision of this bill is Section 2 PATIENT RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS SYSTEM, which states:

All individuals shall have the ability to opt out of any Federally mandated, created, or funded electronic system for maintaining health care information.

Passage of H.R. 2630 would help protect the privacy of our medical records.

Instead of just standing by and watching our freedoms being eroded on a daily basis by Congress and the Obama administration, let’s rise up to protect the privacy of our medical records now! Contact your representative and senators by phone, visits, and email and demand that they help pass H.R. 2630 BEFORE they adjourn for the November elections.

Click here for a convenient way to send a prewritten, editable email in support of H.R. 2630 to your rep and senators. Be sure to personalize your message for maximum impact.

Thanks.

Your friends at The John Birch Society