One of my emails this morning took me to this amazing statement:

“Did you know that more “incurable” diseases, including some cancers, are being effectively dealt with using the new Alternative Medicine than ever before?”

That’s a jaw-dropping quote from the page about a Wellness Revolution Summit webinar series that starts tomorrow and runs through mid-December. I really thought you should know about it.

Here’s the information page: Wellness Revolution

It’s free. My advice is to sign up, and then you’ll get a schedule with more information, and you can pick and choose which events you attend. Or choose all of them!

Personally, I see a number of people/disciplines I particularly want to hear:

Nick Ortner on EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique — an incredibly effective, easy method for healing emotional and spiritual issues that anyone can use for themselves or otheres. More info here, click on About EFT & This Site on the left http://www.eftuniverse.com/ )

David Wolfe, because eating raw foods is an extremely effective way to get healthier, and for many, regain health. I’ve not found the right key to an all-raw food diet for myself, but I’d like to. In the meantime, I try for a “high raw” diet, 2 of 3 meals a day. If you’re not familiar with raw foods, I want to tell you this is way beyond carrot and celery sticks. These raw foodists have created thousands if not hundreds of thousands of wonderful recipes that are delicious. In honor of the upcoming holiday, two of my favorites are raw pumpkin pie (yes, raw pumpkin!), and cranberry sauce.

Leanne Ely because I have two of her Saving Dinner cookbooks and we use them quite regularly. Not raw food, but simple everyday meals with shopping lists that make up a week’s worth of dinners at a time. I don’t use it that way, I pick and choose. But since I can only cook with a recipe in hand and don’t have a creative bone in my body where food is concerned (except to simplify recipes once I’ve made them once or twice), I’ve found her books quite valuable.

Symeon Roger to see if he’s got any useful advice for my particular home-based business.

Any of the energy medicine speakers. EFT is energy medicine (it accesses the acupuncture meridians for the emotional healing), and I see Energy Medicine as definitely 21st Century alternative healing.

And Iyanla VanZant ’cause I’m a fan.

Oh, and the anti-aging folks, now that I’ve decided to live to 120.

What about you?? Who are you most interested in seeing? I’d love to know. Share what you plan to see along with what your thoughts are afterward.

One of the most insidious and damaging  ingredients in contemporary processed food is HFCS – High Fructose Corn Syrup.

It’s in everything (read your labels!), at least in part because it’s so cheap:

HFCS was invented in the 1970s when scientists discovered a way to convert corn glucose into fructose, causing it to be substantially sweeter. Interestingly around the same time, the U.S. government began imposing tariffs on imported sugar and implementing sugar quotas on the amount of domestic sugar that could be grown. As a result, producers were able to obtain this new corn sweetener much more cheaply than they could sugar and they began to use it to sweeten their products.

Because it’s not a naturally occurring sweetener, but a manufactured (artificial) one, the body doesn’t know what to do with it — and that may be part of why its dramatically increased use since 1970 has tracked so precisely with the dramatic increase in obesity in the U.S.:

Mounting evidence suggests that the replacement of sugar by HFCS in the American diet is one reason why obesity is such a problem today. Intake of HFCS has increased from .6 pounds per person per year in the 1970s to 73.5 pounds per person in 2007. This represents an alarming 12,250% increase in consumption over just a few decades.

But obesity isn’t the only danger.  It also contains mercury, poisoning over 30% of the products it’s in, which the FDA has known about since 2005.

Other research has shown that HFCS:

• increases your ability to make fat (who needs that?), and increases your triglycerides (a blood fat that increases risk of heart disease) too
• increases risk of deveoping Type 2 diabetes
• may alter appetite and suppress leptin, increasing hunger and cravings for sweets
• may be especially dangerous for children, causing them to overconsume sweets throughout their lives and leading to childhood obesity

HFCS also  increases the risk of hypertension:  “people who ate or drank more than 74 grams per day of fructose (2.5 sugary soft drinks per day) increased their risk of developing hypertension. Specifically, a diet of more than 74 grams per day of fructose led to a 28%, 36%, and 87% higher risk for blood pressure levels of 135/85, 140/90, and 160/100 mmHg, respectively.”

If you’re not yet convinced that HFCS is really a biological poison, you proably will be by the time you read these warnings from experts — obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, even cancer.

More resources on HFCS at the HFCS Page.