Kitchen Cures for Colds & Flu

Lemon Garlic Coconut oilAsk the Nutritionist

by Melissa Diane Smith

Keep your kitchen stocked with these powerful healers to protect against illness.

Q: Are there any foods you recommend having on hand to prevent or treat colds and flu?

There sure are! Check out the following foods that can help you fend off – or get relief from – cold or flu symptoms when you start getting sick. Try combining them with the others on the list for extra healing power.

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What I Said Before Tucson’s
March Against Monsanto

Photo courtesy of James F. Palka/PlanetaryImages.com (PlanetaryImages.com )I was honored and thrilled to give the rallying speech before the March Against Monsanto in Tucson on May 25, 2013. It was an unprecedented worldwide event with more than 2 million people protesting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the GM seed company Monsanto in more than 400 cities throughout the United States and more than 50 other countries. Tucson was one of the cities that participated, and between 500 and 1,000 people marched in the Tucson march – a great turnout for a very hot day in Southern Arizona!

The crowd was wonderful and enthusiastic, and numerous people asked me to post what I said so they could remember it and absorb the information I covered at their leisure. Thanks to James F. Palka/PlanetaryImages.com (PlanetaryImages.com) for this photo of me at the event and to Sean Herman for  the photo at the end of this post. You can view other pictures of the Tucson March Against Monsanto here.

By popular request, here’s the speech I gave.

 

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GM Corn & Roundup Lead to Tumors
and Organ Damage, New Study Finds

by Melissa Diane Smith

If you haven’t paid much attention to genetically modified foods so far, perhaps the horrifying results of the first long-term animal study on GMOs will get you to take notice and opt out of the feeding experiment we all unknowingly have been in.

A lifetime diet containing Roundup-tolerant genetically modified (GM) corn, or Roundup weedkiller at levels currently considered safe, can cause tumors and multiple organ damage and lead to premature death in laboratory rats, according to research published online in September in the scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicology.

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Tucson Sustainable Food Community to Address the Unsustainability of GMOs in October Campaign

by Melissa Diane Smith

Growing and eating genetically modified foods simply isn’t sustainable for us or for life on this planet. I’m happy to report that many sustainably oriented businesses and organizations in Tucson have reached the same conclusion and have joined with me and the GMO Free Project of Tucson for a joint public education effort in Tucson during October.

Protecting our health and the planet’s health, and overcoming both the increase in numerous chronic illnesses since the mid-1990s and how corporations are controlling more and more of our seed and food these days, are key topics that will be addressed in a coordinated campaign of GMO education events by the GMO Free Project of Tucson, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Baja Arizona Sustainable Agriculture, the Envision Tucson Sustainable Festival, and Tucson Food Day, during the month of October, which is Non-GMO Month. Local Tucson businesses including Wellness First, New Life Health Centers, The Tasteful Kitchen, and Native Seeds/SEARCH are sponsors. As Director of Education and Speaker for the GMO Free Project of Tucson, I will be involved in and speaking at each of the following events.

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Are We Playing ‘Genetic Roulette’?

by Melissa Diane Smith

If you’ve ever wondered why a whole series of chronic illnesses have increased over the past twenty years, or why you or your kids have allergies, inflammatory diseases, or gastrointestinal problems that your parents and grandparents didn’t have, don’t miss Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives, a just-released, groundbreaking documentary on the drastic yet largely unknown change that has occurred in our food: the introduction and pervasive spread of genetically engineered (also known as genetically modified) foods.

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Gluten-Free and Healthy?
Many Times the Answer is No

by Melissa Diane Smith

This article is based on a presentation I gave to the Southern Arizona Celiac Support group entitled “It’s Gluten Free, but Is It Healthy?” in January.

The gluten-free diet is one of the most talked-about and followed diets these days for good reason: It’s the nutritional answer for the growing number of people who realize they are gluten sensitive. It’s the best example we have of food as our best medicine. The vast majority of people who are gluten sensitive have experienced the amazing feeling of having longstanding bothersome or even debilitating symptoms dramatically improve or completely go away when they eliminate gluten from their diet.

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Join the Food Fight and
Take Back Our Right for Real Food

by Melissa Diane Smith

Whether you are aware of it or not, powerful multinational corporations have been exerting undue influence over government and elected officials, and gradually hijacking and taking control of our food system in ways that profit the corporations and sabotage our and our planet’s health. Increasing numbers of people are learning this, getting angry, and taking action against it, and an unprecedented food fight is currently taking place in this country that literally will decide the future of our food.

I wrote about this a few years ago, but it is a message that some people weren’t ready to focus in on then so it bears repeating. What follows is a slightly updated reprint of an article, “An Independence Day Message: Fight for the Right for Real Food,” that I wrote two years ago.

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