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One of the most beautiful women in the world turned 77 today – and she’s still a knock out!

Sophia Loren is my idol.

Who doesn’t want to look that great at any age?

Did you know that she still eats pasta everyday?  But its certainly not out of a jar.

Real food, salad, chicken, and yes – pasta.

Getting enough sleep. Sophia gets at least 8 hours every night, and usually more.

Getting some exercise everyday. Sophia walks everyday.

That’s pretty much it.

If its so simple, Why don’t more people do it?

I guess because it doesn’t come out of a box. How many people do you know that make their own fresh food almost everyday, get 7-8 hours of sleep, and take a walk everyday?

Like none, right?

Even I fall short. But the older I get, the more dedicated I get to taking care of myself.

I’ll never look as good as Sophia. But we all can look good for our age.

Happy Birthday Sophia. May you continue to inspire us for many years to come.

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I am eating the most delicious salad. I had the foresight to make some shredded chicken last night, and hardboiled eggs. Mix that with lettuce, homegrown tomatoes, onions, and some broccoli an you’ve got quite a feast.

Since we’ve gone to over 60 hours a week, all I really eat for dinner is salad. If it weren’t for all the wonderful things you can do with salad, I don’t know how I would survive.

Then I top it off with some juice and my vitamins – the other key to my survival. OK, that and coffee and chocolate

But the fish oil that I found that doesn’t upset my stomach and actually makes me feel good will probably be illegal if the FDA has their way. and the CoQ10, and the Calcium, magnesium and Vitamin D.

The FDA will not stop in their fight to get rid of supplements.

Their latest action is to require an approval process for any new formulations made since the law protecting our supplements was passed.

Here’s the latest from Life Extension -

Greatest Threat Since FDA Tried to Turn
Nutrients into Prescription Drugs!

Let Your Voice be Heard on September 8th

The FDA has proposed new guidelines that will enable the government to ban the most effective dietary supplements you are now taking.

If these guidelines are enacted, many of the most valuable supplements you take today will be removed from the market.

What is Being Done to Stop this Travesty?

To give you an idea about how dangerous these draconian proposals are, Life Extension® helped organize a protest. And dozens of other health freedom organizations agreed to synchronize a consumer revolt.

The date of this citizens uprising is Thursday, September 8, 2011.

We need to convince Congress to review the FDA’s absurd claims and stand against the draft New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) guidelines. Please join us in this nationwide campaign!

We’re asking each of you to phone your Senators and Representative on September 8 and voice your opposition to the NDI (dietary supplement) guidance.

Tell them why you’re upset over the NDI guidance, and ask them to hold hearings on the FDA’s position. The FDA is clearly overreaching its authority, and the logic of its arguments is beyond absurd. Congress has FDA oversight and needs to review the agency’s actions in creating this new guidance.

Please call the congressional switchboard toll-free at 1-877-762-8762. They will connect you with your Representative’s office. You can use the same phone number to be connected to the office of each of your two Senators. Here is a Citizen’s Petition you can read to the health staff member you speak with:

“The FDA has proposed guidelines that place burdensome new restrictions on dietary supplements introduced after October 15, 1994. That means that nutrients that I have been safely using over the course of three decades will be subject to the FDA’s oppressive policies that mandate costly animal testing. This translates into forced withdrawal from the market of many of my dietary supplements and higher prices for me if the supplement is allowed to be sold again. I ask that you call the FDA Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements at 1-888-723-3366 and demand that they withdraw the proposed guidelines they issued in July 2011 and work with the Alliance for Natural Health to formulate safety guidelines that make sense for the consumer and the economy.”

Click here to email this same petition to your Congressional members (but please also phone it in … it’s that important!).

After speaking with the office of your Representative and two Senators, call the FDA Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements at 1-888-723-3366 to read the following citizen’s petition to them:

“I am petitioning the FDA regarding your draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredient notifications for dietary supplements known as Draft Guidance for Industry: Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notifications and Related Issues.

I demand that you immediately disregard all the proposals you outlined and instead consider a rational and scientific approach to regulating new dietary ingredients that will be submitted to you by the Alliance for Natural Health within the next 90 days.

Your proposed guidelines on New Dietary Ingredients will cause the price of my supplements to skyrocket, and some of these life-sustaining supplements are likely to disappear altogether.

This is not acceptable especially when there are no significant reports of adverse reactions to the supplements the FDA may ban.

In as much as your threat to ban my access to new dietary ingredients is causing me great anxiety which is injurious to my health, I insist that you immediately put your proposed new guidance on hold for a 90-day period so that the Alliance for Natural Health can submit comments to ensure a system that protects me against unsafe ingredients without destroying my access to low-cost effective nutrients.”

Click here to print out this petition and add any words you choose and fax this to the FDA at the following number: (301) 436-2639 (but please also phone it in … it’s that important!).

You will be hearing more about this urgent matter from Life Extension and other health freedom organizations very soon.

Mark your calendar to participate in the citizens uprising on Thursday, September 8. On that date of September 8th, make these four toll-free phone calls (three to your members of Congress and one to the FDA).

Please don’t let apathy stand in the way of the government’s latest attempt to take away your most important dietary supplements.

For longer life,

William Faloon

Why We Can Prevail … For those who don’t recall, the federal government came very close to transforming high-potency supplements into prescription drugs in the 1970s. The medical establishment lobbied so hard that it was a foregone conclusion that Congress would change the law and force Americans to obtain prescriptions for many of their supplements. No one expected the consumer backlash that overwhelmed Congress into submission. Vitamin users inundated Congress with so many protests that the Proxmire Vitamin Bill was enacted in 1976. This bill prohibited the FDA from turning dietary supplements into “drugs” as the American Medical Association was urging. Annual vitamin sales were less than $2 billion in the 1970s, yet Congress received more mail from angry vitamin supplement users than any other issue except the Vietnam War. Today, Americans use over $26 billion of dietary supplements each year, so you can imagine how many angry protests Congress will hear when the public learns the FDA is trying to ban every supplement introduced after October 15, 1994. The FDA‘s proposed guidelines represent the greatest threat to health freedom since the medical establishment tried to seize control over your right to ingest food supplements. Please act up on September 8th by contacting the FDA and Congress at the phone numbers provided in this e-mail.

Mark Your Calendar To Call In On September 8th!

Article to Read

Phone Numbers to Call

Talking Points to Use

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While drugs that cause harm are freely available, our government seems all to happy to hand over our health to the Big Industries that line their pockets. Supplements, organics, natural foods have been under constant attack – while drugs, GMOs, and sythentic foods are allowed to flourish.

They’re betting that you’d rather eat the fake crap and take drugs to deal with the consequences.  What say you?

Fight back with your dollars – don’t buy their crap. Fight back with your votes – fire the jerks. Fight back with your phone calls and letters. Don’t let them rest until they’ve finally done what’s right, or they’re out of a job.

GOOD PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE A STAND OR WE’LL BE SQUASHED.  

Quit taking all this stuff lying down.

And if you need more energy, login and get some great salad recipes, or check out all the apple recipes.

Anyone goin’ apple picking?

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Ahhhhh, there’s one seasonal superfood that money can’t buy, and you just might be singing along when you have one! I just had one and it was delish

Tell the truth – did you sing along?

Singing yet?

Members – are you enjoying this month’s featured recipes?

Here’s some of the tomato favorites – (make sure you login:)

Homemade Taco Sauce

Cherry Tomato Salad

Tomato Salads

Tuna Stuffed Tomatoes

Chicken with Zucchini & Tomatoes

 

 

Don’t try to bring GMOs into Hungary. They won’t put up with it.

Read about the drastic measures this country is taking to make sure that these crops do not enter their borders.

Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields

What’s the big deal?

Watch this video and see if you can sleep tonight –

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You think it would never happen here – but it does.

Does this shock you at all?

Have you ever wondered why bad for you foods are so cheap?

Here’s an article by Dr. Mercola that explains it all quite clearly -

The 9 Foods the US Government is Paying You to Eat

Cargill recalled 36 MILLION pounds of ground turkey because of salmonella.

Why so much?

Because they have kept producing and selling the tainted product since at least March when people first started getting sick.

Did they think it would just go away? Did the USDA & FDA think it would just go away? Don’t you just love how they gamble with our lives to protect profits?

Every day we hear about foods making people sick. We hear about side effects and deaths caused by pharmaceautical drugs.

But, the FDA would rather spend their time trying to limit our exposure to supplements, and keep cherry and walnut growers from talking about the real, scientifically proven benefits of their natural products.

The USDA would rather pave the way for their buddies to ruin the world’s crops with their GMOs.

I think we should make them ingest everything they approve.

Many of us are fighting to keep healthy natural foods and supplements available to those who want to partake in them. But we sure could use a little help. Below is a message from Dr. Hotze regarding the most recent move against supplements.

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URGENT PETITION:  Protect Your Supplements!

Help Us Get 1 Million Signatures to Congress and the FDA 

On July 1, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance for complying with the New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) notification protocols contained in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA).  If fully implemented, this could ban all dietary supplements in the United States that were formulated after 1994.

This would mean that nearly all vitamin and supplement ingredients, superfoods, multivitamins, detox supplements and medicinal herbal products could be banned from sale in the United States, because very few supplement ingredients can be conclusively shown to have been widely used before 1994.  

Don’t lose your access to natural supplements.  Let your voice be heard!

Sign the petition today!

 

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