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Scary Story Alternate title: This woman is crazy! |
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Dear Bob, I just returned from 3 1/2 weeks in Ghana, West Africa (country #7, see map at bottom). I stayed with a national family who are our friends. The husband had been in the US for an advanced degree so he understood my health needs—such as washing fruit, etc. The family was diligent in supplying bottled water, washing fruit and vegetables, washing my plate, utensils, etc.
I ate the local foods they cooked, which are all boiled, and did not get sick at any time. One night I felt like I might upchuck, but I prayed, took ImmunePlus and Total Flora and went to bed. In the morning I was great. I even survived a meal of rice and tomato gravy cooked over charcoal in a small jungle village (photo above). Without thinking while in the village, I drank coconut milk from a fresh coconut. It had just been "peeled" with a machete and the only bacteria on the outside were from the machete and the man's hand as he turned the coconut—which of course was enough bacteria to make me sick without God's blessing and the nutrition I took.
I took along ImmunePlus, Total Flora Support, Infi-Aid, Echinacea, Digest-A-Meal, Essentials For Life, B-Complete, Healthy Bones and Teeth, Essential Fatty Acids, Ginkgo Biloba, and Lipo-Chromizyme. I forgot the new Natural Potent C, which I meant to take to help with the high temperatures and high humidity. I used all the above several times a day and sometimes during the night, plus I was prepared for an outbreak of malaria with the Echinacea or for intestinal problems with the Flora Support, and of course, the ImmunePlus and Infi-Aid for any reason. (I took 3 bottles of each of these to use as "medicine" should I become sick.)
I did not use the malaria prescription given to me (drugs are hard on me), relying only on the Echinacea. I took it at least 2 times a day. [This is Carol's story; EcoQuest/Infinity2 does not advocate that anyone should go to an area where malaria is prevalent and depend on nutritional supplements for prevention or care.] Both my son-in-law and the husband of the host family had previously had great results using the Echinacea when battling malaria, so I felt comfortable relying only on it. Had I become ill, I was prepared to immediately give the family information on what my body will or will not tolerate in case I became too sick to think.
I will be 67 in July. The real proof of the value of the Infinity2 products was when a member of the Africian family would come to my room, asking for "medicine" for stuffiness (ImmunePlus) or for a headache (Infi-Aid). Each of these incidents occurred the day following consumption of sodas or sweets, which are unusual foods for them. Carol Roth Jackson, Missouri More Nutritional and Health Advice from Carol Thank you for having me on your morning call. I hope our people remember that our bodies are made of water and a broad range of nutrients, some of which have not yet been identified by science. We need whole foods and pure water. The pure water is simple with EcoQuest. The Infinity2 nutrition is readily available with a monetary expenditure and the effort of remembering to consume them.
Because our products are made from whole foods, Infinity2 supplements contain nutrients science has not yet identified within our food ingredients. So, we are getting the best of today and tomorrow. Some of us are afraid of “taking too many” nutrients. However, we do not stop to consider the daily emotional and physical trauma of dealing with treatment of diabetes or for cancer, not even knowing whether we really will get well.
Using a great amount of nutrients gives me a sense of freedom every night when I lay down and every morning when I get up. I will be 67 in July and take no drugs of any kind, either over the counter or prescription. I have had no drugs except for “colds” since at least 1970, except for (a) a kidney infection after the cancer surgery to remove one kidney. I spent one night in the hospital to prevent possible dehydration; and (b) I was in the hospital for 3rd degree burns.
My husband, 69, is on a small dosage blood pressure pill and is currently working an 8 hour day on construction and then driving the tractor to cut hay for baling. I give him a lot of nutrition, especially E3.
We spend a lot of money on Infinity2 products, $300 to $500 per month. But not nearly so much as my friends say they pay for their drugs or for hospital stays. Plus, they stay aggravated about the whole situation.
Bob, I like our freedom from illness we currently enjoy and which I expect to continue.
EcoQuest gives us financial freedom and “health” freedom.
Carol Roth |
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Dear Bob,
We had the LaundryPure for 7 months when we took a 10-day trip and I left a load of towels in the washer, forgetting to tell my son to move them to the dryer. When I opened the washer after returning home, there they were! The first thing I did was to pick up a towel to smell it—no odor of mildew! I called my husband who has a keen sense of smell—he also said no odor of mildew. I really do believe in the bacterial control of the silver ions; however, I yielded to my old instincts and re-washed the towels just in case I should. I was pleased that I did not need to discard a whole load of towels due to the usual growth of mildew after even one day in the washer prior to installing the LaundryPure.
Carol Roth |
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The
possibility of my becoming sick was a subject of lengthy
discussion in my family before deciding on the trip because I
have only one kidney and it works at 85%. Any illness could be
catastrophic. Both on the
Ghana
trip
and the trip home (5 hours difference), it
was only one day before I was back on schedule. While I am much
more healthy now than ever in my life, I still am not nearly as
strong as many people are. So I am thrilled and ready to take
off again, with the Infinity2 products in tow! 
While you are on this page, would you like a short lesson on current events and genocide?
Editorial comment: As horrific as the situation in Sudan is, I am not calling for US or UN action there.
Some world situations are beyond the reach of what America can police or afford. We are a blessed and fortunate nation,
but we do not have enough money, manpower and/or world political support to do everything. Even when we try, we often fail.
With the best of intentions and with the sacrifice of young Americans, we were not able to "save" the people in Somolia nor are we "saving" anyone in Iraq.
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Defining genocide |
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Sudan's government ( see map: Sudan is below Egypt, which is at the top right) and pro-government Arab militias have been accused by human rights groups of carrying out genocide against black African residents of the Darfur region.The militia groups, known as the Janjaweed, are accused of forcing some two million people from their homes and killing thousands. The United States has also used the term genocide, but a UN investigation has stopped short of describing the violence in Darfur as genocide. It concluded that the Sudanese government and allied militias had committed war crimes against the civilian population. If they had used the term genocide, it might then carry a legal obligation to act. But what is genocide and when can it be applied? Some argue that the definition is too narrow; others, that the term is devalued by misuse. UN definition The term was coined in 1943 by the Jewish-Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin who combined the Greek word "genos" (race or tribe) with the Latin word "cide" (to kill). After witnessing the horrors o f the Holocaust—in which every member of his family except his brother and himself was killed—Dr Lemkin campaigned to have genocide recognized as a crime under international law. His efforts gave way to the adoption of the UN Convention on Genocide in December 1948, which came into effect in January 1951. Article Two of the convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, such as:
The convention also imposes a general duty on states that are signatories to "prevent and to punish" genocide. Since its adoption, the UN treaty has come under fire from different sides, mostly by people frustrated with the difficulty of applying it to different cases. 'Too narrow' Some analysts argue that the definition is so narrow that none of the mass killings perpetrated since the treaty's adoption would fall under it. The objections most frequently raised include:
But in spite of these criticisms, many say genocide is recognizable. In his book Rwanda and Genocide in the 20th Century, former secretary-general of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), Alain Destexhe says: "Genocide is distinguishable from all other crimes by the motivation behind it. Genocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity and implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group. Genocide is therefore both the gravest and greatest of the crimes against humanity." Loss of meaning Mr Destexhe believes the word genocide has fallen victim to "a sort of verbal inflation, in much the same way as happened with the word fascist. "Because of that," he says, "the term has progressively lost its initial meaning and is becoming dangerously commonplace."
"Slavery for example, is called genocide when it was a system to exploit, rather than to exterminate the living." The differences over how genocide should be defined, lead also to disagreement on how many genocides actually occurred during the 20th Century. History Some say there was only one genocide in the last century—the Holocaust.
The UN panel investigating Darfur concluded that though there was the deliberate targeting of civilians in Darfur using murder, torture and sexual violence, the Sudan government had not pursued an intentional policy of genocide. The panel did not rule out though, that if war crimes are investigated by the International Criminal Court, as it recommends, then it may find genocidal acts having been committed in Darfur and some individuals guilty of having had "genocidal intent." |
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Others
give a long list, including the Soviet man-made famine of Ukraine
(1932-33), the Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975), the Khmer Rouge
killings in Cambodia in the 1970s, the mass killing of Armenians by
Ottoman Turks between 1915-1920
(an accusation the Turks deny), Rwanda, where an estimated
800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in 1994 (more than 20 ringleaders
of the this genocide have been convicted by the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda), and of course Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan
Milosevic (photo) was charged with genocide in Bosnia from 1992-95.