Despite the fact that more and more kids are raised on empty calories and that somehow they will get by and build healthy brains and bodies on the junk purveyed by the industrialized food suppliers (the folks who make the stuff advertised to kids on TV, attractively packaged in supermarket aisles and sold as “treats” and “fast foods” (including carbonated and sweetened drinks of all sorts), a recent study (one of a gazillion) makes the
Glyphosate is a highly toxic substance well documented to be associated with infertility, cancer, auto immune diseases and a host of other serious or potentially lethal problems in people.

Even if the glyphosate is not produced in your body, the foreign DNA and virus bits inserted into the food during the process of genetic modification are not digestible by our enzymes. They wander around and eventually can become parts of your own DNA where they act to produce what are called “novel proteins”. These novel proteins, which have never been produced before in the history of living things, have impacts which are totally unknown. So eating prepared and processed foods, sure to be larded with GMOs, is a sure way to make yourself and your kids part of the largest experiment in human history. Ready to be a guinea pig and pay for the privilege? I thought not.

Neither am I.

Remembering that the FDA permits foods to be marketed once their owner has a patent, WITHOUT ANY SAFETY ASSESSMENT OR TESTING, and also prohibits the labeling of foods which contain GMOs because they know that if you knew they contained GMOs you would not buy them (honest! that is what they actually say!) and remembering that organic foods, while not perfect, may not contain GMOs, my suggestion to you is to eat organic. Yes, it can be more expensive. How much does cancer cost? How about pediatric diabetes? Brain tumors? Lupus? What about the cost of not being able to have a child? Think about the real cost of cheap food one more time and switch to organics, at least for your children.

Here’s a recent study documenting how important protein is for kids. But the study is about natural protein, not the unnatural ones created by genetically modified plants and animals.

The foreign DNA from GMO foods migrates to the genetic material in the nucleus of our cells and inserts itself there. Once there, it moves around from site to site and instructs your own DNA to do things: mostly make proteins which have not been made before in your body (or in anyone’s body). They are called “Novel proteins” and the impact they can have is literally unknown. Eating GMO foods is therefore participating in the largest experiment in human history without any thing like an informed consent form since no one is willing to tell you that you are participating in that experiment by clearly labeling your food (at least in the US) and giving you the chance to participate or eat natural, non GMO food.

In the European Union there is a labeling requirement. In Benin there is a moratorium on GMO foods. Many other countries have policies somewhere in between. Those novel proteins, which the inserted genetic material instructs the cells to make have never before been seen in any living creature. No one knows what they will be (since they can change from cell to cell) or what they can do. They can literally be anything, and do anything, including causing organ damage, infertility, cancer or a host of other, as yet unknown, consequences. Eating these unnatural proteins will certainly have consequences for children. But no one knows what they are. What we can say is that when rat pups are exposed to GM food, most of them die before birth and those that do survive are stunted. Those that survive to adult hood are infertile and their kidneys, intestines, immune systems and other organs are damaged, small and poorly functional. So by all means, feed your kids (and yourself) good protein, not FrankenFood protein.

Here’s the study:

Smart Kids: High-protein adds points to your child’s IQ
21 February 2008

A nutritious diet can make your baby smarter, a new study has discovered. Babies who are given a high-protein diet in their first four weeks have higher IQs by the time they reach adolescence.

Researchers from the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London have discovered the special diet also changes the structure of the brain. It increases the size of the caudate nucleus, which is associated with higher intelligence.

The caudate nucleus has its main growth spurt during the first four weeks following birth.

Although scientists have speculated whether nutrition can influence the caudate nucleus, nobody had tested the theory in a study involving babies. The research team had their opportunity during the 1980s when they gave a standard diet and a high-protein diet to two groups of premature babies.

When they tested the same two groups again when they were adolescents, the researchers discovered that those who had been given a high-protein diet as babies had higher verbal IQ scores, and scans revealed their caudate nucleus was larger.

(Source: Pediatric Research, 2008. Doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e318163a271).

Fish are being genetically modified, too. And eating them offers the same hazards as eating any other GMO or FrankenFood. But giving kids real fish oil, from real fish (not genetically modified FrankenFish) is really good for their brains! Here is a report documenting that impact.

Fish Oils: They make kids smart, and speed up brain growth

15 March 2007
Fish oil supplements have helped a small group of schoolchildren dramatically accelerate their learning skills and stimulate brain growth.

After just three months, the children’s reading abilities were a year ahead, and their handwriting was neater and more accurate. But, most astonishing of all, their brains showed the sort of growth in three months that normally would be seen only after three years.

Brain scans revealed a far higher level of NAA (N-acetylaspartate), a biochemical indicator of brain development.

The children took two supplements a day of VegEPA, which contains omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and were encouraged to cut down on fast foods and fizzy drinks, and to be more active.

(Source: The Times, 12 March 2007).

of course, there is another danger in FrankenFish: they are designed to grow faster and reproduce earlier than their natural fore bearers so once they break out of their netting pens in the ocean (which happens regularly in fish farming, by the way, they can be expected to drive the natural species to extinction: they are bigger, better preditors and reproduce faster so over time, they can be expected to be the only salmon or flounder or whatever remaining.

Right now, anyone who understands nutrition well knows that farmed fish are inferior to wild-caught ones because they are customarily fed grains (which fish did not evolve eating!) and kept in such unhealthy conditions that the cancerous parts of the fish are routinely cut out when they are being processed – and they are found in a huge percentage of fish reared in fish farms. Salmon, for example, reared in fish farms is a grey-ish white color, not the vibrant red we are accustomed to. Since a normal wild diet of smaller prey animals and cold waters give salmon both its robust red color and its omega-3 fatty oils, and farmed fish have nether, these animals are given red food dye to make them acceptable to the unwary consumer. Nothing, however, can give farmed fish the omega-3 fatty acids which confer heart and brain benefits on those who consume wild-caught salmon.

In addition to eating organic vegetables and products, it is also important to eat only wild caught fish – until natural fish are exterminated and join the list of forbidden foods for health conscious people.

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Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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