On today’s program we were down a panel member, Ashley F. Brooks. However Mannie Barling and I were not deterred. We plowed on regardless!
On today’s menu of Political Food was Monsanto and its long political tentacles. It is said that money buys influence, but just how much? In the case of Monsanto, it […]

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The Food Revolution Papers is dedicated to exploring the murky depths of politics and food. Trust me, the food industry makes the Tea Party look like babes in arms.
At noon eastern the panel of Mannie Barling, Ashley F. Brooks and Simon Barrett will be on air to explore the nightmare of the problem.
Few people understand […]

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Surviving The 21st Century was a program born out of frustration, every where I looked, I saw problems in the way that people in America were being treated by Big Food and Big Pharma. Unfolding before my eyes was the script for a really bad Sci Fi movie. Maybe a cross between Rollerball (the original), […]

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It took years, and an enterprising reporter to check on the facts, but now it’s official: The  “MMR vaccine causes Autism”paper was not only flawed, but was made up. It was part of a money making scam concocted by a lawyer who hoped to make money off of a class action lawsuit, with the help […]

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What do you get when you combine a grumpy Simon with the research team of Mannie Barling and Ashley F. Brooks?
This simple answer is something that should be made illegal by the current S.A.L.T. agreements. (note to Iran, don’t get us involved, it won’t be pretty).
Early last week a comment was posted on Blogger News […]

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Weight Gain, Obesity and Food Addiction
I recently had the pleasure of getting a sneak peek at It’s Not Your Fault. This is the third health and nutrition book from the writing and research team of Mannie Barling and his wife Ashley F. Brooks.
I enjoy watching how authors develop over time and these are two authors […]

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This week my regular panel of the husband and wife writing and research team Mannie Barling and Ashley F. Brooks were joined by some very special guests, Dr. Daniel Dantini and his wife Chris Dantini of Sage Medical Labs.
Several times in the past few weeks the name Dr. Daniel Dantini had cropped up in […]

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With Health Care being paid for by taxpayers now, one needs to expect more “avoid getting screened” propaganda (and save taxpayer money).
The “big money” screening programs are about prostate cancer and breast cancer.
In breast cancer, mammograms allow one to pick up small lesions (that of a small pearl versus that of  those found on exams: […]

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I will be the first to admit that when two books arrived on my door step a few months ago I was less than enthusiastic. They appeared large, and somewhat daunting, even the titles bothered me Arthritis, Inflammation, Gout, Crohn’s, IBD, or IBS and Mannie’s Diet And Enzyme Formula . My wife giggled as she […]

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We will be broadcasting our regular program at 1pm eastern on Saturday Oct/16. The panel will consist of the research and writing team Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks.
For the past several weeks we have been focusing our attention on specific topics, Salt, Water, Food Additives etc, and how these ‘taken for granted’ items have harmful […]

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There are several phrases in common use today that talk about that harmless table condiment Salt. Peoples stories are sometimes ‘not worth a grain of salt’. Others are referred to as ‘the salt of the earth’. Clearly one phrase is a detrimental comment, the other a very complementary one.
Salt has been with us for thousands, […]

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This is a guest article by Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks - Simon 
Have you got up the next morning after eating out the previous night only to find that you have gained a few pounds? Has your face ever looked “puffy” in the morning afterward? Chances are that the weight gain or puffiness is […]

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We will be running our regular Saturday program at 1pm eastern, 10am pacific.
My panel will consist of the husband and wife team of researchers and authors Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks.
We are also going to be joined by Joannie Hughes from the Coastal Heritage Society Of Louisiana. Joannie will be giving us an update on […]

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This was another surprising program. I am glad to act as host and let my guests educate me. Joining me on the panel were my good friends and very smart research and writing team Mannie Barling and his wife Ashley Brooks. Our initial idea was to spend the time talking about that colorless, orderless, and […]

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This Saturday at 10am pacific, 1pm eastern we will have another broadcast in our Surviving The 21st Century series. Very much this will be a continuation of our program last week.
Water is the very lifeblood of the planet, yet our modern ways are doing much to harm this vital resource. As man plunders and pillages […]

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This is a guest article by Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks - Simon
When we talk to people in the Gulf, they ask, “What can I do to avoid the dangers of acid rain?” There is no one thing nor is there one simple answer. But, there are precautions you can take and here are […]

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This is a guest article by Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks. It certainly gave me pause for thought - Simon
While America ponders the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon Well explosion on wild life and first responders, the plight of the average American in the Gulf has been either ignored or placed on the back-burner. […]

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This was a subject brought up on our Surviving The 21st Century radio program last Saturday. I for one was shocked. According to our guest Joannie Hughes of the Coastal Heritage Society Of Louisiana the FDA were forcing Fishermen to sign a waiver prior to fishing in the Gulf. This waiver is simple in its […]

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I want to thank Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks for their great help in writing this article.
It was sometime in the early 1980’s that I first heard the term Acid Rain. Interestingly enough the article was talking about a part of North America which few people would consider as a likely target. The great flatlands […]

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This week my plan was to take a long hard look at the subject of water pollution and the effect it has on everyone’s health. In order to add a little topicality I thought that we might start with a short segment on the BP eco-disaster that is unfolding before our eyes in the Gulf […]

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We will be running what seems to becoming a regular radio event at noon central on Sept/11. My panel will be well known Hollywood Legal Eagle Mannie Barling and his wife Ashley Brooks R.N.
Both Mannie Barling and Ashley Brooks have spent well over a decade researching our modern life. Much of it is problematic. This […]

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Ah, the wonders of organic farming and living in a rural tropical paradise.
Right now, we are in the middle of rice growing season (which started later than usual because the rains came late). So time to make the fertilizer.
To grow organic rice, it means more preparation of the fields (plowing under and flooding the fields […]

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Doctors are usually a lot more sceptical about population studies than reporters, which is why I wrote questioning the glaring headlines about a study which claimed a certain blood pressure medicine (ACE 2 medicines) increased the risk of cancer.
The study was a study lumping together a lot of different studies which may or may not […]

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I was puzzled to read that a study showed an increase in cancer if one takes a certain medicine for one’s blood pressure.
The devil is in the details, of course, but the headlines blaring out cancer risk, but the details in these articles admit that the risk is tiny. From Reuters:
Overall, they found that […]

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The recent campaign by Polly Tommey on Facebook
There is a lot of people who are saying that AUTISM can be cured on this campaign Facebook page, I disagree Autism is a developmental condition, Autism cannot be cured by supplements, or any form of treatment, its really upsets me as a person with the condition that […]

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This week the American College of Pediatrics introduced a project called Facts About Youth which purports to be 
a resource created by health professionals to provide policymakers, parents and youth with the most current medical and psychological facts about sexual development.
Not exactly. The website makes additional claims about the information presented.
Amid debate in the medical and mental […]

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I have many ethical problems with the Obama Health Care bill.
But the real story that is being ignored about Obama’s health care bill is that it kowtows to big insurance and big drug companies, who stand to make a killing from the bill.
Reuter’s review of “winners and loser” should give you pause: hospitals and drug […]

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If you follow the British news, you might have noticed an ongoing scandal about Scotland releasing the mastermind of the Lockerbie bombing (the bomb at Christmas time of 1988  that destroyed Pan Am 103 and took the lives of 270 people).
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released last August at Libya’s request because he was terminally ill […]

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For years now we’ve been told that Diabetes is a lifestyle disease; in effect, the result of our reliance on the “meat-sweet” diet and our avoidance of regular exercise.
While our “lifestyle” certainly plays a role in the onset of diabetes, according to several new studies, the actual cause may in fact be the result of […]

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President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget.
To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch.
“This represents a […]

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