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Press TV
December 24, 2008

The Iranian president calls on a regional economic body to abandon the US dollar in order to reduce the effects of the financial crisis.

In a Tuesday speech to a meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)*, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the 10-member group of Asian nations could adopt a single currency instead of the US dollar to shield their financial systems from the negative impacts of the global economic crisis.

*ECO was originally founded by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, but was later joined by the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.

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By decreasing the demand for US dollars you also reduce it’s value.  Click here for an explination of why.

Bob Willis and Shobhana Chandra
Bloomberg
December 26, 2008

Sales of single-family houses in the U.S. dropped in November by the most in two decades and resale prices collapsed at a pace reminiscent of the Great Depression, dashing speculation the market was close to a bottom.

Purchases of both new and existing houses dropped 7.6 percent from the prior month, the biggest decline since January 1989, to an annual rate of 4.43 million, government and industry figures showed today. A 13 percent drop in the median resale price from a year earlier was the most since records began in 1968 and was likely the largest since the 1930s, the National Association of Realtors said.

“Housing is still in a freefall,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.

The figures were worse than economists had forecast and signal that the battered housing market that led the economy into a recession may be taking another lurch down. Sliding property values mean more Americans will be under water on their mortgages, destroying household wealth and undermining consumers’ purchasing power.

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This guide is intended help encourage people develop healthy habits so as to avoid chronic disease and experience overall well being.

Avoid for better health:

• Pork and Shellfish – Bible, Lev. 11:4-44
• Animal fat and blood – Bible, Lev. 3:17
• Wheat flour that is NOT 100% whole grain (read the ingredients, must say “Whole”) – without the bran and germ, wheat flour is treated like sugar by the body.
• Prescription drugs - 106,000 deaths a year (non-error, negative effects of drugs)[5]
• Synthetic Pesticides (sprayed on non-organic produce) – It is estimated that between 4,000 and 20,000 cases of cancer are caused per year by pesticide residues in food in allowable amounts.[6]
• Refined sugars and artificial sweeteners (sugar, high fructose corn syrup, Splenda, NutraSweet, aspartame, etc.)[4]
• Hydrogenated oils (aka trans fats) - artery-clogging fat that is formed when vegetable oils are hardened into margarine or shortening.[4]
• Freshwater fish – highly contaminated[3]
• MSG (monosodium glutamate) – MSG is used as a flavor enhancer and is an excitotoxin. Excitotoxicity may be involved in stroke, traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system.[7]

Add for better health:

• Fruits and Vegetables (carrots, broccoli, kale, peas, Swiss chard, tomatoes, asparagus, spinach, etc.)
• Sprouted grains (Ezekiel bread)
• Raw nuts and seeds (flax seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, Brazil nuts, etc.)
• Fish-sourced omega-3 fatty acids
• Beans & Legumes (black beans, kidney beans, lentils, pinto beans, etc.)
• Water – Drink at least 2-3 liters a day.
• Stress-relieving activities (massages, hot baths, laughing, pedicures, exercise, etc.)
• Healthy saturated fats, not hydrogenated (Coconut oil, real butter,  palm oil, etc.)
• Healthier sweeteners (raw honey, evaporated cane juice, raw sugar, blackstrap molasses, stevia) – to be eaten in moderation.

What foods should you only eat if they are organic?

• Peaches – high in pesticides[2]
• Apples – high in pesticides[2]
• Sweet Bell Peppers – high in pesticides[2]
• Celery – high in pesticides[2]
• Nectarines – high in pesticides[2]
• Strawberries – high in pesticides[2]
• Cherries – high in pesticides[2]
• Pears – high in pesticides[2]
• Grapes (imported) – high in pesticides[2]
• Spinach – high in pesticides[2]
• Lettuce – high in pesticides[2]
• Potatoes – high in pesticides[2]
• Chocolate – highly contaminated[3]
• Soy – often genetically modified
• Corn – often genetically modified[1]
• Peanuts - highly contaminated[3]
• Beef and Dairy (Ideally should be grass fed as well) – cows are administered hormones and antibiotics. Highly contaminated[3]

[1] USDA; [2] Environmental Working Group; [3] Diet for a poisoned planet; [4] Mercola.com; [5] Journal American Medical Association; [6] National Academy of Sciences; [7] CNS Neuroprotection