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benefit from the billions of dollars that can be made.
Fortunately, even people outside our holistic community are speaking up. Firefighters in California have filed to have the 5G towers recently placed outside of their stations moved away after reporting an epidemic of disturb- ing neurological symptoms (confusion, memory loss, headaches, insomnia). Further, some cities like Santa Rosa, California, are not allowing 5G towers installed until further research on the health repercussions from this powerful radiation are addressed. And although the CDC and EPA continue to report that 5G is safe, over two hundred forty scientists and doctors from forty-one nations have appealed to the UN to institute a moratorium on this 5G roll-out due to the serious human and environmental health risks linked with this dangerous ionizing radiation.
Louisa Williams Austin, Texas
THIN
I am watching a documentary called
Thin. My mother-in-law, who just passed away (after the flu shot), was anorexic,
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and I am haunted by this. She would ask for food (I was the short order cook), eat a couple bites and stop. We could do nothing about this. I tried to make works of art with one egg, a teaspoon of cheese, parsley and tiny amounts of roasted vegetables. To no avail.
All these women in the film with disordered eating were into constant dieting in their early life. The main theme in the 1970s appears to be lowfat, low-calorie. The nutritional deficiencies stemming from these diets were so ter- rible, they warped their minds to the point where they just sort of withered and died.
Too many young women today are in this diet trap, and at earlier and ear- lier ages. Veganism has compounded this problem (I found several books on veganism in my mother-in-law’s stash, while cleaning her room after her death, all with extraordinarily twisted science and terrible caricatures of good tradi- tional recipes). The thinness trap is a recipe for absolute disaster.
These are young women of repro- ductive age, in the prime of their life. They are infertile and at death’s door. Is there anything we can do to reach
these women? Seminars? Education? Cooking classes? YouTube videos? Food is the biggest problem for these young women, not encouragement to take math and science.
And you should have seen the therapies they gave in the Renfrew Center treatment facility where my mother-in-law spent her last months. The wall clocks had Prozac and proton pump inhibitor ads on them. Forced feeding of Restore (Ensure-like bever- age), uppers, downers and other drugs. Just horrible food. And no education about fats or proteins. No wonder the relapse rate is 90 percent. I’d die in a facility like Renfrew.
Sushama Gokhale Sebastopol, California
REGENERATIVE GRAZING Thank you for your informative publication. A few issues back, you featured Allan Savory on regenerative grazing. This practice is becoming widely used to increase soil carbon and also resulting in high performance and profit. The carbon that is sequestered in the soil is pulled down out of the
atmosphere.
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