MARCH 2014 FREE NATURAL TRIAD b e yon d d. n .. a From the Triad To the High Country, Your Resource for Healthy Living...Naturally! Nutrition, Roundup® and MODERN HEALTH EPIDEMICS Elizabeth Vaughan, MD DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: HARMFUL OR ESSENTIAL? FULVIC ACID Cutting Through the Rhetoric An Essenti al Nutrient Elizabeth A.Wanek, MD Fab Four Elements of ROCKSTAR APOLOGIES Donna Burick NNaattuurraall TTrriiaadd''ss HHeeaalltthh,, WWeellllnneessss && GGrreeeenn LLiivviinngg SShhooww -- AApprriill 55 SSppeeaakkeerr LLiinneeuupp:: PPaaggeess 2288,, 2299 Natural Triad Magazine MARCH 2014 1 What’s Hiding Inside You? 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And best of all, ADMISSION is FREE! visit Facebook.com/NaturalTriad www.NaturalTriad.com 6 NaturalTriad.com Natural Triad Magazine MARCH 2014 7 Nutrition, Roundup® and Modern Health Epidemics I t's hard to ignore the headlines. Obe- herbicide. There are stories of salesmen past, it couldn't be sprayed indiscrimi- sity and diabetes have risen to epi- drinking it to prove that point. nately because it would destroy the crops demic proportions. Autism, infertility Researchers are now finding the as well. That's where GMOs (genetically and Celiac disease are all on the rise, as safety claims about Roundup® to be false. modified organisms) came into play. Sci- are dozens, if not hundreds, of other con- Glyphosate interferes with many enzymes entists began to genetically modify crop ditions. Interestingly enough, this spike in in the human body. It interferes with the seeds to grow into plants that would be the rates of many conditions like these body’s ability to detoxify environmental resistant to glyphosate. While the safety of began around 1974. That is the year toxins. It chelates (read: depletes) trace GMO technology and seeds is hotly de- Roundup® went on the market. Since minerals in both plants and animals. It bated, this article does not address these 2000 when it went off patent, it has been damages healthy gut bacteria. It is estro- issues. GMO seed development allowed used increasingly worldwide. genic and causes breast tumors in rats that farmers to spray their entire fields of Roundup® is a weed killer that con- have been bred to mimic human breast Roundup® ready or resistant crops without tains glyphosate as its active ingredient. cell responses. It damages human DNA. damage to the plants. Monsanto, the manufacturer of Round- Farmers use Roundup® to kill weeds, In theory, this approach seemed like up®, has long touted the safety of the which are harmful to their crops. In the a good idea; however, it didn't take into Lose the Weight MARSHALL C. FREEMAN, MD & Feel Great using Hypnosis! Specializing in the diagnosis and management of complicated headaches. We are dedicated to helping Carla McNeil, LCSW patients treat their headaches and 4 return to normal activities. Master Hypnotist, Coach and Psychotherapist BOTOX • Clinical Trials Transitions Counseling and Coaching Services 1414 Yanceyville Street • Greensboro, NC 27405 336-430-6314 336.574.8000 www.carlamcneil.com www.HeadacheWellnessCenter.com 8 NaturalTriad.com account that a food supply sprayed with How widespread are GMOs Elizabeth Vaughan, MD glyphosate might be harmful. It also didn’t and glyphosate? take into account that Mother Nature can- not be fooled. Increasingly, weeds are GMOs and, therefore, glyphosate are and used in pro- developing resistance to Roundup® and ever-present in our daily diet—particu- cessed foods. crops now have to be saturated with the larly in the United States, where Round- Includes soy herbicide to control the resistant weeds. up® is the No. 1 herbicide in use. Take a bean oil 90% of GMO crops are Roundup® resis- look at some of the crops (XX% of all tant. Also, Roundup® does damage the CROP grown in USA is GMO): • Cottonseed resistant plants. It binds up the minerals in (94%) oil used in the plants. • Corn (88% of all corn grown in USA many processed To complicate matters, many Ameri- is GMO) fed to farm animals and used foods and cotton cans don’t hear about the negative effects in processed foods. Also made into high made into clothes fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and corn oil of GMOs and glyphosate, because re- search into those effects has been actively • Alfalfa (not known %) fed to dairy cows suppressed in this country and abroad by •Soybeans (93%) fed to farm animals >>> the companies that create GMOs, most notably Monsanto. At every turn, Mon- santo has interfered with research that explores the harmful effects of Roundup®: refusing to provide seed to researchers, refusing to let farmers conduct experi- ments with the seed, infiltrating the gov- ernment and the FDA, limiting what re- search is performed, blocking publication of negative research, and professional assassination of those scientists who dare to publish research that is not favorable to their business. In spite of the opposition, there are dedicated scientists working diligently to uncover and spread the word about the dangers of glyphosate and GMOs and how they're impacting our society. Most nota- bly are Stephanie Seneff, PhD, a senior research scientist at MIT, Don Huber PhD, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, Gilles-Eric Seralini PhD, Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Caen in France and Judy Carmen PhD, lead researcher at Flinders University in Australia. Jeffrey Smith, executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, au- thor of the books Seeds of Deception (2003) and Genetic Roulette (2007), and producer/director of the 2012 movie, Ge- netic Roulette, and many others like him are leading the charge for further research and for more sustainable, less toxic farm- ing practices. After a closer look at the data that these researchers and others like them have been uncovering, it’s easy to see why there is such a growing push for the elimination of Roundup® and GMO foods and, minimally, clear labeling of these foods. Natural Triad Magazine MARCH 2014 9 • Papaya from Hawaii (75%) tion of glyphosate inside the kernels or beans to be harvested. So every bite of • Canola (90%) oil for cooking and these conventional non-GMO non-organ- salad dressings ic foods or animal feeds will contain • Sugar Beets (90%) fed to farm animals Roundup® also. and 54% of “sugar” in processed foods What’s the problem with Roundup®? • Squash- some yellow and zucchini • Milk (17%) dairy cows treated with The reason there is concern about Recombinant bovine growth hormone Roundup®-treated crops is that glyphosate (rBGH)) has numerous documented negative ef- fects in the human body. Roundup® is • Aspartame (100%) is a GMO do this to control certain weeds AND to worse than glyphosate by itself since the enhance yields at harvest. Monsanto rec- surfactants in Roundup® allow glyphosate There has been a huge expansion of ommends that Roundup® be sprayed to penetrate deeper into cells across cell GMO corn, soy, cotton, sugar beet and several days prior to harvesting wheat, membranes in plants, bacteria and ani- canola crops in the last decade, which has barley, oats, canola, flax, peas, lentils, mals. led to sharp increases in glyphosate usage. soybeans, and dry beans to enhance yield First, glyphosate inhibits enzymes in Even meat, eggs and dairy supplies contain and dry up the seeds or beans. “This Pre- the shikimate pathway in plants, which is GMO and glyphosate because livestock harvest Staging Guide provides informa- involved in the synthesis (or production) regularly consume GMO glyphosate- tion on how to maximize the efficacy and of the aromatic amino acids tyrosine and treated food. benefits of Roundup WeatherMAX® and tryptophan. Monsanto has argued that Roundup Transorb® HC herbicides in a glyphosate is safe for humans because we What about non-GMO foods and preharvest application.” After the publica- don't have a shikimate pathway. This is glyphosate? tion of this manual, rice and sugar cane true, but it is a deceptive statement be- are also frequently sprayed preharvest to cause our friendly gut bacteria, which Completely separate from the use of desiccate or dry out the plants and improve exist in our bodies, do have this pathway! glyphosate on GMO treated crops is the the harvest. The problem is that these The human body depends on its gut application of this herbicide just prior to Roundup® products do not wash off if it bacteria, or gut microbiome, to supply it harvest of numerous conventional non- rains. Just the opposite, other chemicals in with these essential amino acids. They GMO crops. Monsanto explains how to the product, surfactants, enhance penetra- cannot be produced without them. 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