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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

I bought stocks; my husband bought CDs. Now I can't bear to look

I can't get up the nerve to tell my husband just how much money we've lost.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 08:36 AM

    Speak of which

    Peeps, PLEASE get off the processed foods.

    Probably the safest way to save for retirement at the moment is to invest in your health by eating well and working out and plan to work until you die.

    I cannot emphasize enough times, the food industry exists TO MAKE YOU SICK.

    Eat organic, eat local, spend the extra money (IT WILL COST YOU LESS IN THE LONG RUN -- the BEST investment you can make), or better yet, grow your own if you can.

    Cook your own food as much as you can. I noticed many of my favorite food places just do not taste the same as they did last year, they must have switched to cheaper ingredients. I know food I eat even today whose provenance I DO know (organic, local) that STILL tastes just as YUMMY as ever and I am only 43, so it is NOT me or my taste buds tricking me.

    The LATEST example of how the FDA serves Industry, not YOUR interests...

    The FDA ONLY came out with results showing melamine contamination in US produced baby formula AFTER a Freedom of Information Act request was made this past month.

    Did You Know? European scientists discovered genetically modified food fed to rats made their grandchildren STERILE?

    Did You Know? A junk food diet produces Alzheimer's like disease in rats?

    Did You Know? A vegetarian diet makes your brain shrink?

    This is JUST in the past week these FOUR reports have come out.

    People, the FDA allows 15,000 compounds to be placed into food under the secretive label of 'natural flavors'. Cyanide is NATURAL. These ingredients are designed to STICK IT TO YOU AND ME and to only feed the OTHER SIDE of the beast, the big pharma industry.

    Invest in yourself and your future-- forgo, abandon, thwart at every turn the big SICKNESS industry that wants to DESTROY YOU, but NOT before it first bankrupts you.

    There is NO Santa Claus...

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