Food Manufacturers Processors Refusing To "Stop Using Enriched Four" & Adding High Amounts of Sugar & Salt to Products Are Causing The Health Deterioration of America!

Americans can blame their poor health in part on the food processors of this country.

When it is impossible to purchase milk without great amounts of salt added to it...cereals & breads too have either very high amounts of sugar and salt...and are often not whole grain....folks who want to eat healthy are not able to.

1 Cup of "SHUR Fine Brand"Lowfat1% Milk which was purchased at Bohning's Associated Food Stores of Ponchatoula Louisiana has 125 MG of salt in it.

Certainly some salt is natural it is an animal product.

But if you read the label on every brand of milk in whatever grocery nearest you...

You will see that the amount of salt in milk is all over the place.

Some dairies put less than this other quite a bit more than this.

I have seen milk with over 200 MG of salt per cup so you know they are adding salt hoping people will drink theirs like the taste & they will become addicted to the flavor of their unique salted milk instead of someone else's....makes theirs taste better!

When President Obama was elected for his first term, I was impressed that First Lady Michelle early in his presidency made a pitch to WalMart with a bunch of children in the background to lower the prices of fresh fruits.

For starters those prices did not last very long and since they are purchasing fruit and everything so so cheap over seas....farmers are not making enough to survive so they either picking too soon or too late and the fruit is not good....

There must be a frenzy down in those poor Caribbean & South American Countries to pick fruit too soon that typically much simply will never ripen on ones window sill....it rots before it ripens...

While other things get to market so over ripe that bananas are seeding.   And this...getting to market too late could be fault of the transportation....

Such as truck drivers who may lolly gag along part of their routes then REALLY PUSH on the highways later on....to make up for lost time!

We have all recently seen how some truck drivers are no longer the safety conscience polite drivers showing road courtesy anymore...we have all seen big trucks toppled over along highways in recent years because they were driving too fast...

Recently my husband & I saw one SPEEDING on the on ramp of I-12 in Louisiana coming from behind us just inches from our bumper...my husband pulled to the right side of the on ramp as dangerous as it is to pull over on a ramp....it would been more dangerous to have a large truck on our bumper going 45miles an hour he was trying to press my husband to on the ramp.

 I emphasize SOME truckers because we slept in our van long periods in truck stops in the past and found that most truck drivers act & live more respectfully and admirably than some college graduate professionals such as attorneys, physicians nurses or teachers today.

For the truckers bathrooms that I used...women's & my husband said the same for the men's trucker bathrooms...

They were far cleaner & neater than most church bathrooms we have used.

 And back to the fruit that got to market old....

We nearly broke our teeth biting into a Mexican banana that was seeding because it took so long to get to market....the center of the bananas had hard pieces....seeding.

My husband & I have noticed in many stores and businesses including WalMart, KMart,, Winn Dixies  some employees working very hard while other employees just stand or sit around socializing doing a bunch of nothing.

Late today in the Hammond Louisiana WalMart we noticed a senior woman about 55-65 years old push pulling a dolly placing under a high stack of pallets of can goods down aisle to stock shelves.

Strange that management of any store would place a female to that task at all.

From  a  standard of ethics such things should never happen and from a spiritual stand point any company who abuses their employees and customers by charging high prices to pay for labor salaries for people even some managers who do nothing in carrying the weight of work needing done...

Upon the backs of consumers in higher prices....

Such companies will fail!

You will not see our government bailing out WalMart the way they did the banks!

And if you think "Obama Care" is too costly and will never work....

If only you could perceive what a high percentage of diabetics & Hypertensive and heart patients would not suffer their health conditions if food processing companies were not putting so much junk including high amounts of sugar & salt in everything from bread, milk, fruit juices now have a tremendous amount of both sugar & salt added to them.

Take a look at Kellogg's Rice Krispies 11/4 cup dry has 190 MG Sodium and 4Grams of sugar!

Add milk and who can eat it without raising blood pressure and pushing someone who is pre-diabetic over the edge into diabetes.

And what about Kellogg's Special K Protein Shakes for patients who cannot eat enough.

The milk chocolate variety has 220 MG of sodium. and 18 Grams of sugar!

Wonderful potassium level but my husband who needs such drinks for the protein & potassium cannot drink these without his tinnitus ear ringing going very high.

Come on folks...we all must complain to manufacturers of all products we enjoy eating that could be produced healthier but the companies are either too lazy to change the way they do things or they just do not care....

They say salt is a preservative...but no one wants extra preservatives...we want to eat fresh food....

And when food is brought to market promptly, not raising prices even more because you have complied with consumer demands...

Everything will sell fresh be eaten fresh so the cost of the preservatives is actually an expense that you can delete.

People will be healthier health care costs for all companies in insurance benefits, sick leave & loss of productivity...all will go down making the bottom line for everyone better.

And then maybe our Federal Government won't be printing more & more money causing the value of our dollar to go down further to pay for the disease that food producers have caused.

How's about each of you who reads this sign as a FOLLOWER and then click comments and add your comments please...also share these blogs on Facebook Twitter etc etc...

Let's join forces and force the changes we all desire and need to be healthy!

Next time I will highlight different food producers sins and you too can do the same share the sins of producers of products you wish your family could eat safely!

not paying anyone not their own employees a fair wage 

Product Idaho Spuds False Labeling and Advertising.

Greetings  Dr Hamburg & Ms Barclay and you at Idaho Spuds!

Since President Obama has made such great efforts to make food chain safer...I am writing my first of many to come letters about issues that are wide spread...but must be corrected.

And when they are corrected, all Americans will be healthier and the over all spending budget of both the Federal & State Governments on Health Care and Insurance for employees and for all citizens will decrease as well as the health costs for individuals and the American Family.

My husband & I have been purchasing and eating your Idaho Spuds Classic Mashed Potato Flakes for years.

But only because your competitors put even more junk in theirs than you do; though their labels do not deceive as your labels do deceive!  And any company who deceives their consumer buyers will eventually fail.

This is biblical.

And while I am very disappointed in what I have discovered about your product and your company...I am challenging you to correct these things and when you do...

For deep spiritual reasons larger companies such as KRAFT Nabisco etc will eventually fall crumble just as banks failed & were bailed out.

Any company who is successful because of what they hide from their consumer eventually will fold and die.

The American people will not vote again for such a major bail out of any company....

When you change your methods & remove  from your product "hidden ingredients"..

Your company will be the new emerging Food Industry Leader when you embrace my suggestions and carry them out.

For all of these many years I have cooked with your product believing that there existed no weird additives.

And now that God has MIRACULOUSLY given my the ability to read with understanding & opened my once were physically blind eyes I see that I was once been deceived.

Having only 20 MG of sodium/salt and William & I both need to keep our salt down for different health reasons...we bought & eaten your Idaho Spuds.  Certainly that figure is much higher.

William is a Vietnam Veteran  Suffering from Agent Orange disease, and tinnitus ear-ringing...needs his salt very low for both salt & caffeine increase the intensity of the ringing.

And it infuriates me that not only is our government slow to give him his benefits, but I as a wife cannot even know because of false labeling in Food Industry and the lack of enforcement of existing regulations...such as Title 21 and others President Obama has signed into Law.

My blood pressure can remain healthy without medication only if I weed out  salt from my diet.

So at first glance your label always seemed so perfect as even your website now in BOLD letters claims your products to be "Naturally GLUTEN FREE"   Then in Red:

NO ADDITIVES---NO PRESERVATIVES---GLUTEN--FREE

Yet in actuality your product is not.

If true there would be only one ingredient:  Idaho Potato Flakes in the container for real.

But you list Sodium Acid PYROPHOSPHATE:  Freshness then:  PRESERVED WITH Sodium Bisulfite  & BHA.

I google searched definitions of these.

BHA is a synthetic man made not natural antioxidant  " C 11   H 16  O 2" created in a test tube which is used to preserve Fats and oils in food.

However, you are selling this as a Natural Fat Free Food,  which potatoes are, so you are adding fats for taste such as butter then adding not one but 3 preservatives to preserve the Fat which you should not add and by not adding it you actually lengthen your products' shelf life without additives.

I read FDA Title 21 and many other things President Obama has signed into law and recognize that you are not complying and thus I am sending this to the FDA also.  

I understand why Sodium Acid PYROPHOSPHATE is in foods such as JELLO which there could not possibly be anyone on earth who thinks JELLO is a "Natural  Food of the earth"  so if they choose to eat Artificial foods...at least they know that they are eating synthetics which in large quantities over time can harm them.

But with Idaho Spuds people believe that they are eating Natural Potatoes that have merely been peeled for us and flaked with a peeler machinery for convenience...

But is not the  pure product it appears and this is deception.

If you merely correct your website and cartons by removing the misleading information you will grievously fail because you will make yourself exactly like the rest of Food Companies who are big and do not really care about their products, or the people who eat them...

They only care that their product sells.

I challenge you to actually remove the Fat you are adding & preserving and the preservatives and thus make yourself an emerging leader in the Food Industry.

I thank you.  I thank you Lisa & Dr. Margaret for taking the time and effort also to take action in this concern of mine which others I know are also concerned, however do not have the understanding and ability to both decipher the labeling, research and find how to contact you.

And when I witness the wonderful job I anticipate these concerns of mine resolved...  I will then write you about some serious health risks concerns at VA Hospital Clinics that are also sinful.

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Expect Your MIRACLE Today & Every Day or You Might...

Only those who expect MIRACLES in every part of every day....live lives filled with MIRACLES and far more graces & Blessings than the average person alive on earth.

We receive what we we expect.  What we speak can create an atmosphere for healing and peace....
Our words can create pain can cause heart to break...

This is what heart disease is!

Those who physically have weak hearts, have either spoken much harshness all of their lives or been victimized by someone they could not get away with with a critical  harsh tongue.

Our words can dry up the bones causing arthritis...our our words can be the healing balm of all drawing all once were broken hearts through themselves to our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you or I wake up anticipating bad news...

Guess what your phone will ring all day with problems.

For everyone who knows that Johnny or Jane expects days filled with problems....

Others assume that Johnny & Jane are exactly who they are to call & visit with every single dellima that not only they personally encounter...

But recommend Johnny & Jane to each person they meet and greet along every single street whether in Ponchatoula Louisiana...

Or on the coast of Madagascar, Nigeria, Malawi, Egypt, India or Yugoslavia.

Earth geography never limits God's laws of deliverance, blessing or prosperity.

Nor is God ever limited by our circumstances.

We can always accept less than God's best and settle for what others are content with....

Or we can reach out for HIS greater gifts.

Jesus said:  "Far greater things than these you shall do...

For I go to my Father at HIS right hand and anything I ask is mine anything you ask in my Name My Father & I shall do for you & through you!"

So begin expecting good things and speak of your greater dreams singing praises for them before they exist...
Our God watching down from their thrones...watching & listening for dreams sung with FAITH in HIS Holy Written Word and as he hears such FAITH that HE never heard in all of Israel...

And HE turns those sung dreams into reality for my William & me and each one who dares to approach HIM expectantly!

http://BennyHinn.org/radio/

Pray along with sung prayer MIRACLE Services and create a permanent Atmosphere of Faith in your home anticipating MIRACLES at all times!

We do...listening to Protestants who inspire our FAITH takes nothing away from us being Catholics.
We can shake up good things...create revival among Christians...or we can salt shake burning hurts & pain every where...

We can draw others to Jesus through injecting our love into every word we ever speak.

Jesus is coming back for a united church without spot blemish or wrinkle.

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

When One Is Silent Not Taking A Position...They Are Peppering Death All Over Everywhere They Go Without Knowing It!

The attitudes we choose to live by affects every person we meet and greet along every steet.

Our opinions, and attitude choices affect not just those we actually speak to...but even more so when we choose to be indifferent in any situation or place in life...

Indifference on issues that transcend society or indifferent to persons among us in our own community or even within our own church has become a universal disease.

 Very common today...particularly by self-justifying ones position saying... "It does not affect me so it is none of my business." and even Pope Francis recently has been tweeting about indifference particularly towards the poor.

I was wearing a button pinned to my bright pink jacket that reads: PRAY FOR ABORTION TO END!"

 At a Graduation lunch in a New Orleans Catholic Parish the Sunday following Father's Day 2013...I was astounded the responses I received & conversation it spawned.

I expect this kind of confrontation if & wear it to the grocery store but not to Catholic Holy Mass & to a party of Catholic Families at a Catholic Church.

I was told that "Even if I personally would not abort my child, I don't have the right nor do you have right to suggest to others what they should do!"

Well is preaching & teaching the Holy Gospel suggesting to folks a better way to live???

And so this statement contradicts the entire life of a christian for we are called to always live by the Holt Scriptures that say:  "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!"

Let HIS life, HIS joy, HIS mercy which endures forever never cease from parting from our lips!

We are to be imitators of God who calls each by name and who speaks good things into being at all times....

We are to like God embracing all that befalls us with great FAITH...speaking hope to the hopeless and life into the dead!

I pray you see this contradiction that we all plainly see and hear all over where ever we go...

Maybe you never thought of in this perspective.

But starting right now this very moment...you can choose to put down the salt &pepper shakers of unkindness, harshness, and most of all...permanently shake off yourself the attitude of  silence & indifference.

Let revival begin now and let it begin with you, by choosing to let God make of you a beacon of HIS light and hope to the world...

Let HIS truth not only glow inside of you...but speak from your lips that which you witness lacking where ever God leads you at any moment.

As Mother Angelica says on her program intro:  We are all called to be great Saints...Do not miss the opportunity...And expect God to give you more & more opportunities to embrace with Faith opening your mouth and be HIS beacon speaking light into dark places and life into the dead!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

The Apple Never Falls Far From The Tree and We All Can Receive MIRACLES and Be Vessels Through Which God Grants MIRACLES to Others....Are You Salt Or A Salter The Choice Is Yours to Make!

Our words and choices can either be a healing balm or a burning abusive pain to each one we meet and greet along each and every street.

Though we must not be afraid of what others will say or think,

Nor can we be controlled by other's opinions are talk of us.

We who desire to be chases down by both blessings and MIRACLES that never cease but only keep multiplying with our joyful smiles and laughter in spite of devils who seek and track us...

We must keep on keeping on singing regardless who is murmuring behind our backs.

As Mother Theresa wrote and said that there will always be those who cannot go through their day without finding someone to put down, criticize or abuse.

It is sickening how some people actually feel better about themselves only after putting someone else down.

Could that be you?

Are your words kind?  Do you correct another by just saying:  "When you do______ will you please instead_______" or do you become angry the first time you speak to your neighbor who you are displeased with?

As we heard in last Sunday's Gospel the Lord was not concerned of who what about who HE is...

And so shall we must be continuing to bless others with our smiles and songs...there will always be someone like our former next door neighbor Veronica on Alvin Callender Street when we with God were building our home...

She came outside yelling one day not able to understand how not even hers & her nephews hateful actions against us could not kill our spirits.

She came outside as I was singing new songs through joyful tears...tears that our neighbors were trying to stifle the rebuilding of our home.

What we had completed the day before our neighbors had punched holes into in the night...

But I sang new songs to the God above knowing HE who watches through the night from HIS throne up above not only saw the crimes against us in the night but had the power to restore not only that which the angry jealous locusts had stolen...

They who were filled with jealousy, anger and hate and have never been loved nor have loved themselves....

No different than the Ponchatoula local native neighbors who say out of one side of their mouth that they are going to build Ponchatoula into a thriving economic marketing business center, yet they tie up themselves in bondage that they cannot grow...

Every house or city divided against itself with eventually fall.  We heard this too in Holy Mass just in the last few days...

Yet so many even Daily Mass Catholics hear this, receive Holy Communion, then run out of the door quickly cackling obviously never receiving into their hearts the fullness of truth of HE whom they have just eaten...

They make a mockery of Jesus every time they go to Holy Mass...no wonder so many are reluctant to become Catholic even they they recognize that the Catholic Church is the True Church Jesus started and is coming back for.

They see with their own eyes how even Catholics shun each other...they see no difference between Catholics and themselves because the genuine do not hang around after Holy Mass to be seen among the hoopla of charades

By shunning visitors into ones church no different than Ponchatoula citizens shun newcomers who choose to make Ponchatoula home...they post pone the growth of God's church and...

No town or city will ever grow & prosper past the point they are today without welcoming new citizens not only physically into their neighborhoods, and into the community and church families.

Regardless how many families come and are shunned they will eventually move on in the same numbers or even more.

For every family and community has both sincere and insincere folks whom they call their own.

Those whose hearts are pure but were born within a thorny city among hateful tit-tat chatter boxes who love not...

Eventually these too will choose to move onto a better place where they will not be embarrassed by their previous associations whether blood or geographic.

No they will follow the lead of those who come full of life seeking to bless an entire community when they first arrived...but refuse to live an entire life time among grumblers and wishy -washy complainers.

As Joyce Meyer has taught over the years....one can choose to complain and remain and go around and around a same old mountain of a pill.

Or you & I and each of us can reach out and beyond our circumstances for another new dream...when others fight to long and hard resisting thy kindness and blessing...

As Jesus said:  "Shake of their dust and move on..."

Such cities will never grow but as Sodom & Gomorrah will be your town or city who shuns the hearts who of those who enter bearing kindness and generosity of their grateful loving hearts...

Such a town or city will never grow but die  from their own choices....their own deception...

The fruit never falls far from the tree and the selfish resentful hearts wither and never blossom but rather their self-righteousness they fatten and fluff and spread as an eagle spreads its wings...

Then they go around time gloating convincing themselves and each other that they together did a good thing.

You can choose to be different than those fakey flakeys who merely pretend to be pure...

Just as we will never find figs on a lemon tree....we will never find a true friend among those who start cackling the second Holy Mass closes and waits not till they are outside to begin their childish yak yack that is for attention...they think they look important.

But in actuality they look and sound pitiful.

For such persons have no knowledge of God...or whom it is the eat in Holy Communion...
For those who do stay transfixed in awe of silence that their God chose to live within them and be their God and their food....

Such awe does not allow one to break silence...and feels and recognizes the falseness of the enemy of God who eats the Eucharist beside them to their own condemnation.

Those who truly love God are the salt of the earth who need not the acceptance of others in community to be happy to be content...they like we....with Saint Paul say:  "We are content in all circumstances whether abased or abounding...

For all we need is our God who never forsakes us.

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

A Warning To Everyone For When You Open New Online Accounts....Humorous Consequences That Can Make For More Dangerous Circumstances If Not Caught or Corrected...

Anyone who has known my husband William and I for any length of time know that for my first 49 years of iife that I had physical tunnel vision for real!!   Yes REALLY!

 

That I only saw a small portion of any one's faces at a time, and that I was raised as a sighted child because my parents would not acknowledge my challenges for they were ashamed of "who or what I was."

 

And that on the Feast of the Holy Family 2009 I received a Eucharistic MIRACLE in my eyes and have enjoyed given thanks & praise for nearly three and a half years of landscapes and full length drapes!

 

So I have done some amazing things for someone who literally at times could not see what was under her ow nose!

 

I graduated from Grace King High School without ever having read much with understanding.

To satisfy my mother I sat on my bed for hours just every once in a while turning a page....

But since what was printed in those books made no sense to me and I could not see...

 

That time was not wasted... for in my heart I was not in a chair at a desk nor was I lounged on my bed reading...

I was conversing with my Lord my God and your God...

I would ask HIM to fill my heart and mind with whatever I needed to know...to stay safe at home, school or on the school bus...

Walking down hills or through my neighborhood.

 

A friend who I had not been in touch with for quite some time sent me an invite to open a "  LinkedIN " account.

Happy to hear from her I did just that thinking I could take my time that there would be no hurry to build a resume for myself and at a future date possibly this could help me grow a licensed business with  income doing what I enjoy the most...free-motion embroidery, crochet and writing.

 

But what happened was as I opened this "Linked IN " account, I was interrupted.

And as always, I embraced my interruption... as you do too... 

Took care of whatever it was my husband need that time....

 

I do my share of asking him questions that too for him are not at the best timing...

It happens in all marriages in all kinds of friendships...

 

There is no fault placing here...  No anger or frustration but rather jovial laughter and entertainment...

Life is much easier when one can laugh at and with themselves...

But what happened since I did not stay with the program as I first began opening this Linked IN account was it automatically sent invitations to everyone who I ever wrote an email to from the first date I opened this email address.   And not only to these who I possibly only wrote once ever, some were business inquires that I never thought about again in over 5 years.

 

Other auto invitations went to folks who I never wrote but their email address was attached to one of those cutesy poems with pictures many just keep forwarding and forwarding over and over...certainly none of these I ever thought would one day show up as "CONNECTIONS"

 

And since I at times post to my blogs not signed into blogger but from my email as I am doing now...

Linked IN posted connection requests to my blogs for about a 5th time last night.

 

So instead of going into Blogger and removing those comical posts  "MrsStephanie............invites you to CONNECT"  from my blogs...

I am leaving Linked IN right there...

Instead I will post this on all of them...

 

And make a game of it...

 

But it could have serious consequence when an unsent invite is accepted by someone who is worse than unpleasant.

 

I HAVE CUT OF several CONNECTIONS....some without any explanation.

 

Check your email contact list for many email systems save all information as your potential contacts even though you do not routinely write email to them nor they to you.

And you can possibly also have your account hacked into through these odd seemingly insignificant addresses that seem not worth even giving time to DELETE!

 

But do it!  DELETE DELETE!

And when you open new accounts do not let systems access your contact lists, manually type the ones you want to communicate with the new account and you will have fewer headaches of             SPAM JAMS...

 

And you will not have to check your new account more often than you would have liked to to make certain you have no spying new connections...that maybe unsafe for you...

As happened to me!

 

But the Lord will always keep us free indeed with out needs HE cannot nor will not meet...

And when the devil does raise his head....

 

Whether a cyber spyer...a marriage divider...or simply folks who some how did not learn or remember from Kindergarten how to introduce themselves and ask others their names....

I guess till Jesus comes back there will be those who try to force themselves upon others instead..

 

When anyone is rude, crude, or  speaks with forked tongue...

Remember our Lord said to cut off the hand that causes us to sin...

 

Don't you wish that it was as easy to get rid of all of these....as pushing or clicking a DELETE BUTTON!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Are You Concerned About Doing Everything Correctly?

Today I heard from a young woman living on the other side of the earth through Facebook who reached out to me wanting to know more about the Holy Catholic Church but fearing she is not capable of learning prayers so specifically that well "What if I recite them wrong?"

 

We are to be salt to the earth...we are each called to be HIS light in all dark places we may find ourselves.

 

Sometimes simply by being a prayerful presence in another's life giving a kind smile or speaking or typing kind words to eliminate fears or concerns....we are HIS light to the world...

Salt of the earth.

 

I wrote her about how Our Lord reprimanded the Pharisees who rattled off prayers to sound exquisite but their hearts were far from God.

 

I wrote to her to go with her friend to Holy Mass and join RCIA...that it is not about memorizing prayers with word by word precision, but rather about drawing closer to God by spending time with HIM...in Eucharistic Adoration....in quiet prayer listening with thy heart.

 

It is not merely what we do or fail to do that is a sin...but our motivation and intent is often most important.

 

And you & I can like St Terese become a saint by little things...little acts of kindness...little acts of reassurance...eliminating fear or un-necessary concern in another's heart goes much further than trying to do large monumental jobs or tasks on ones on.

 

What about when we see others who are bullied, mistreated enduring hatefulness and harshness that no one ever deserves...

When we witness such abuses of power & position by others we are also given the opportunity to become a great saint by opening our mouths in defense of such an innocent one.

 

Never rubbing in pain further like salt into a wound...but rather kind words are honeycomb healing body soul and mind...

And becoming the healing balm to to others we will always have friends nearby.

 

They may not be those who are our physically closest neighbors!

 For  those of us living pure lives will always have wicked ones who would rather remain in their sins than to change...they like the glamor of evil...

These will oppress us hoping we will move on so that their fleshy sinful ways are not as noticed by others and themselves.

 

So lets go forth becoming blessing to others...

What are you doing to be the healing balm for another...salt to the earth?