May 16, 2007 To be sure you keep receiving this newsletter, click here to confirm your subscription. Can't see the images in this newsletter? Read the online version here. To be sure you keep receiving newsletters, please add BiblicalHealthDaily@makersdiet.com to your address book. How to Get Sick: A Modern Prescription for Illness How to Get Sick: Eat Grocery Store Produce and Processed Foods What a mouthful — literally! Pesticides and herbicides are among the world's most deadly chemical compounds. If a pesticide or herbicide kills one thing, it will probably kill, mutate, or seriously damage a whole host of other things. The problem with these compounds is that they tend to stay on the fruit, vegetable, or plant they were applied to. Toxins from our water, air, food, and buildings only make things worse. Most pesticides are known carcinogens, and some of them pose as counterfeit versions of the female hormone estrogen. These xenoestrogens may promote cancer by stimulating estrogen receptors in the body. Animal growth hormones are another cause for concern. They don't disappear after an animal is butchered, prepared for market, or cooked. They go right into our stomachs. Nor do they disappear from the milk of a cow treated with antibiotics. It is estimated that one glass of commercial, non-organic milk purchased from a grocery story may contain the residue of up to 100 different antibiotics! Beyond the hormones that are injected directly into the animal, many of the meats we eat come from animals fed with antibiotic-laden feeds. Growth hormones in our food supply are even blamed for causing the abnormally early menses of young girls and for the overabundance of female hormones in young men. (Female hormones are given to milk cows to increase production.) Hybridized foods are also unhealthy and could cause dangerous symptoms. God says to eat every seed-bearing plant after its own kind. Hybridized, seedless watermelons or grapes cannot reproduce, and they may not be the healthy food sources we think they are. Source: Don Colbert, M.D., Toxic Relief (Lake Mary, FL: Siloam, 2001) Advertisement Jordan's Tip of the Day From the author of The Maker's Diet The Cost of Organic You want to switch to organic, but you're worried about the price. While organic foods are more expensive than their nonorganic counterparts, that doesn't mean that you can't have them. Be creative: Shop at farmer's markets, stick to organic foods that are in season, or grow your own! That way, you can control exactly what goes into your garden, and more importantly, what doesn't. More from Jordan Rubin Advertisement   You are receiving this e-mail because you asked us on 03/30/2007 to send Jordan Rubin's Biblical Health Daily to your account at mchughes@LOCALNET.COM. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, click here or reply to this e-mail and place REMOVE in the subject line. To add to, remove, or change the newsletters you receive from us, click here. If you received this e-mail forwarded from a friend and would like to sign up for your own newsletter, click here. Use of Waterfront Media sites is subject to our terms of service and privacy policy Mailing address: 1020 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247 Copyright © 2007 Waterfront Media, Inc. All rights reserved.