Here is one of my recent Twitter updates:

WOMEN!! – If issues related to hormone replacement drugs concern you, this is a MUST read: [link to this post].

I am so fed up with FDA corruption and all the things they do to protect their Big Pharma buddies, even if it means harming or killing us, the public whom they are supposed to be looking out for.

Read some facts about the Bioidentical Hormone Debate and determine what is in your best interest: http://www.lifeextensionretail.com/MagazineArticleDetail.aspx?article=116763.

When I find a compounding pharmacy that is not restricted in providing what you need, I will post a link here.

Dear Big Pharma:

Your industry is truly amazing: your accomplishments include:

• the recent deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson (common sense from just reading the news, but here is a reference: http://www.naturalnews.com/026511_cancer_chemotherapy_doctors.html);
• through the years, you have killed more people than all terrorist organizations combined.

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A recent wine drinking session inspired  me to write a series ot tweets about resveratrol, one of the current hot items being exploited by spam marketers to relieve you of your hard-earned money. Not a day goes by when I don't receive one or more spam emails – usually beginning with "Live to be 150 ..." – pitching the benefits of the magic resveratrol.

These messages often point out the fact that it would take drinking I-don't-know-how-many-thousand bottles of wine daily to get the amount of resveratrol your body needs and which you can get from one pill or capsule for x cents a day - not to mention the bonuses of $7,777 value that you will get if you buy x package for $29.94+9/10. (Also, there are doctors/scientists working on developing drugs from resveratrol; naturally, Big Pharma must be very interested. Look at this 60 Minutes video). Well, my friends, I think it's all bullshit!

Don't get me wrong: I believe certain supplements are very beneficial.

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I have been trying to spread the word about GMOs on and off for several months. For a while, I paid for a Google AdWords campaign for grass-fed meats from US Wellness, based on these meats being guaranteed to not come from cloned animals. I decided to offer these meats for sale on the Timos site only after I ascertained these meats would never come from cloned animals - I even got a statement in writing from US Wellness guaranteeing this to be true. And, in fact, some people did buy meats from those ads.

My big objection to this whole GMO issue is the fact that it's very hard to know the origin of foods or whether they contain GMOs or not. The FDA and other government agencies allow this non-disclosure, in fact, even encourage false labeling (think of "raw" almonds in California). THAT HAS TO CHANGE. When you buy a piece of meat in a supermarket, you have no idea if that meat comes from a cloned animal or not. We cannot count on our government to protect us.

The thing I would like the most is to see disclosure from producers/sellers being compulsory.

FDA Promotes Unsafe Milk Due to Industry Pressure

I browse news about the FDA and Big Pharma a couple of times a week; I don't recall a single one of those browsing sessions not yielding one or more items about the crimes that these two - the FDA and Big Pharma - continue to commit. Here is one such item that particularly pissed me off, published less that a week ago – February 8, 2009. You can read the whole item here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/fda-promotes-unsafe-milk_b_184886.html.

The title of this post, same as the title of the news item, says it all. I have been writing – on this blog and in my timos web site – about the scariest, most powerful drug cartel in the world, the USA Drug Cartel, not only the biggest and richest one but the best protected one, thanks to the FDA gang. This alliance between the FDA and Big Pharma makes the Italian Mafia look like a bunch of choir boys and girls.

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I was surprised a few days ago when I was randomly browsing a series of restaurant menus and seeing, in more than one of them, meat items named "Niman Ranch [some-kind-of meat]".

Apparently, some chefs don't even get out of the kitchen to read the paper or otherwise learn the news. Bill Niman is no longer part of the company, which has now changed the feeding protocols to allow the use of antimicrobials and is moving the cattle to commercial feedlots for finishing – the Niman Ranch feedlot has been sold. Here is a recent article.

Too bad. Those menus now might as well read "Safeway flatiron" or "McDonalds rib eye".

Sad.

A while ago, I "speed-read" a friend's copy of Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, but got busy and did not look at it again until three days ago. Now, I am reading it word by word and I'm 2/3 of the way done.

This book should be required reading in all the schools. Do you eat? If so, you MUST read it if you haven't already.

For those following the heart bypass surgery story, I posted Update 2 a few days ago: http://www.timos.com/timos/timoCorner/timoArticle.cfm?itemID=117. This is of interest if you yourself have, or someone you know has, had to deal with heart problems.