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and also gout and high blood pressure from high fructose corn syrup or other fructose causing increased uric acid - hence hypertension, gout, diabetes, and so much more
Sheri

At 02:06 AM 3/21/2010, you wrote:
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So I went to the databases and looked up 'corn and lead' just out of interest. It would seem that corn likes to take up lead from the soil (if the soil is acidic). Here is one Pubmed extract of several that I found...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17184814

So it may be the heavy metals in the corn which are causing the problems..(I stress the word 'may'...)

Corn (and soy) have become two of the major crops in America.....

Sorry to go on about biochemstry but I think these are basics that affect us all...

Julie
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From: Sheri Nakken
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, 21 March, 2010 20:46:46
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Lead/Alzheimer's patient with broken hip/health failing
and also gout and high blood pressure from high fructose corn syrup or other fructose causing increased uric acid - hence hypertension, gout, diabetes, and so much more
Sheri

At 02:06 AM 3/21/2010, you wrote:
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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath
http://homeopathycu res.wordpress. com/ & http://vaccinationd angers.wordpress .com/
ONLINE/Email classes in Homeopathy; Vaccine Dangers; Childhood Diseases
Next classes start March 24, March 31, & April 1

Don't apologize, Julie. I find this fascinating. As an organic farmer myself, I'd be interested in learning more about the role of chemical fertilizers in this process and whether GM corn and soy have any greater tendency to take up heavy metals from the soil. Think of how much corn is grown (at least in the U.S.) alongside roads, presumably with their soils still contaminated by lead from gasoline. Has anyone researched how deep a buffer zone is necessary to grow on uncontaminated soil?
Peace,
Dale
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From years back, I recall that 50 ft from roads was the suggested buffer zone to protect our gardens from
lead exaust fumes from cars.
As for acidic soil with mainstream farming: i think we can assume that the soil on these large farms is somewhat acidic
since that farming methodology counts on chemical fertilizing to force growth instead of soil health. Many farmers do
plow the stalks back into the soil to add some humus, but that material has been highly chemicalized itself, so what are
the real benefits, if any.
tanya
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It would surprise me to find any uncontaminated soil anywhere. Lead just
dropped everywhere. The trick is to alkalize the soil in which plants
are grown but unfortunately not all plants can tolerate such conditions
or so I am told... The plants that can tolerate, suck up the alkaline
and they then tend LESS to take up heavy metals like 'lead'.

OR!!! you can de-lead the soil if that's the major concern by first
planting sunflowers. They love to suck up lead:-)) The studies I have
read have put me completely off sunflowers:-((

Wikipedia has a list of 'hyperaccumulators' (just type in
hyperaccumulator). Can't vouch for the source....Ferns will accumulate
arsenic in the house. Ferns were very popular in the Victorians era.

Probably homeopathy can promote the de-leading process also.

Julie

Dale Moss schrieb:

Spinach is a good bioaccumulator. I 'farm' a considerable amount of
fruit and vegetables and if anyone has that chance should make the
most of it to enrich soil the best way possible. As a rule of thumb
most vegetables like alkaline - I use calcified seaweed a lot as well
as home compost - and fruit tends to like more acid and some depend on
it (blueberries), greedy plants need it really rich (manure - plant or
animal). It is a very fragile balancing act - we are what we eat.

And there is that little statement often seen in the materia medicas
about Lyc - 'the only vegetable that takes up aluminium'!

Might be worth changing the title

Joy

http://www.joylucashomeopathy.com
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/homeopathystudy/

First we need to be reminded that we can have our soil tested for these heavy metals
and other contaminants.
Second, we can use homeopathy on plants. There is one book that has addressed this
issue by a dutch homepath, Kaviraj
Third, how many sunflowers would you have to plant to decontaminate the soil of lead?
This could be prohibitive in a home gardening where space is more limited.
tanya

Yeah, they add manure from their GMO-fed cows. I hate to think what that does to the soil, those cows being far from healthy. There's a real difference between living downwind from an organic dairy farm and living near one that uses BGh and GMO grain.
Peace,
Dale
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very true. recall the bruhaha about 3 yrs ago with the organic spinach/lettuce in california.
all toxic stuff from the commercial, chemicalized dairy farms upstream passing on their pollution.
tanya
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