You are welcome and thank you for your feedback and all this awesome, useful info!

Yes, indeed, corn and soy are two of the top GM foods. So if nothing else is organic, at least I would avoid those. Except that corn by-products are in over 75% of processed food items in the grocery store, so there is a challenge and a half for consumers. This is why I always teach, we must go back to natural food, for the sake of our health, our kids and that of future generations.

And I so agree about the infertility – I have come across this research in several studies now, and it is frightening to say the least. So many couples are more and more finding out they cannot have kids, and… and too few people are making the connections to all the toxins that are in our food and environment.

And the whole vaccine issue – what a good topic to spread awareness about. I have yet to write an article about this in more detail, aside from what I covered on the swine flue vaccine, so thank you again for adding in your valuable thoughts.

Volunteers’ digestive tracts who ate GM Soy (which is present in every processed item these days) was tested, and the researchers found that the herbicide-resistant gene used in the soybeans was transferred to the patients’ digestive bacteria. (From Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey M. Smith, page 60)

Soy has also been found to increase infertility in animals and can have the same effect in humans. (http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/04infertility.htm)

About vaccines, the true reason of vaccines have become to gain profit and not to help people anymore. Jonas Salk (inventor of the polio vaccine) was maybe the only one who didn’t want money from his vaccine and just wanted to help people. Murrow [TV personality] asked him [Salk], “Who owns this patent?”, Salk replied, “No one. Could you patent the sun?”. Which shows how his thinking contrasts with today’s motive to gain profit through patents. In addition don’t forget about the Cutter incident where an error in production caused the live polio virus to be available inside the vaccine.
Another thing that is shocking, is that vaccines are being used nowadays for depopulation, which Bill Gates unknowingly pointed out in his TED presentation (Feb 2010) about Global Warming.

A personal incident was when I never had Influenza before, but after I got the vaccine injection, I started showing symptoms of Influenza, which kept on for weeks.
Another incident was when my brother received polio injections at school (which he didn’t take, after much research), but he noted that the other children showed symptoms of dizziness and headaches.

The best defense is the natural one, build up your immune system, as that will be your main protector. Which is build up by eating healthy.

As for the expensive organic food. The best thing would be to grow your own vegetables, which can become a great family activity and not just is it healthy but it is also good for the soul.

“Compromise has to exist for a normal lifestyle to exist.” – you are right Lynn, but the definition of normal is not the same for everyone out there.

I am glad you are happy with your choices and are doing the best you can. In the end that is all that matters.

The “everything in moderation” way of looking at things, has so many problems with it that unfortunately we cannot keep using it as an approach to best health and wellness. I outline here in detail what is not working about that approach:
http://evolvingwellness.com/posts/53/everything-in-moderation-not-quite/

The biggest problem and why it can never work for optimal health and wellness, is that there is no set standard of what “moderation” means. Each person has their own definition, and as we see clearly by people’s health, these definitions are not working.

If it works for you Lynn, that is wonderful, but as I mentioned above – in no way can we continue to use that as a general crutch to excuse various eating habits, which are far from beneficial for us in any amount, for optimal health and wellness.

As for organics – I have been buying them for over 3 years now, when I had a job and when I am now without a job. In the average grocery store, some organic food is more, some the same, and some even cheaper. Food is something I will never compromise on, as it provides the building blocks for my body and system to work most efficiently. I can stop buying other things, or cut back in other areas of my life, but I value my health too much to take short cuts here. There are also ways to choose the right organics, which the EWG always helps consumers with, like with the Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides:
http://evolvingwellness.com/posts/1157/dr-andrew-weil-explains-how-to-reduce-your-pesticide-exposure/

And although I value Dr. Mercola’s work, I also do not agree with everything he promotes. Having said that though, I also know that he does not promote that everything we eat has negative consequences. No one has ever put down fresh fruits and veggies (unless they are full of pesticides).

I thank you again, for sharing your opinion, but I also felt the need to state a few things, as part of this site is to keep dispelling the myths that exist in our society today, and to use exactly as you say common sense to find the best and healthiest way to live in perfect health – our natural state of being.

You are telling me that I am biased towards the holistic side, but are you not showing a bias against Dr. Mercola? While he may be a business man and selling stuff, there is value to some of the info that he presents and shares, and I do not think it is very fair to dismiss it all based on how you feel about him.

Nowhere in this article am I telling readers that I support him and his products. I am simply laying out 2 pieces of contradicting info and helping readers make sense of it. And yes I do subscribe to his newsletter, just like to HealthCastle, because I am OPEN to info from many health sources, and then use my own research and logic to make up my mind, in terms of what makes sense to me and what doesn’t. And this is what I always encourage my readers to do as well.

Also nowhere did I say here that “I do not trust any American association”. If you are referring to the comment above, I stated simply that I am less inclined to take their side and my reasoning is that their constant track record where public health is concerned is unsatisfactory to me.

Ultimately this article is about soy, and if the Pope said something that made sense to me about soy tomorrow, I would give him the same open-minded analysis that I gave these two sources, regardless of what religion I was.

And finally, I think it comes down to asking ourselves, what does Mercola have to gain by telling you not to eat soy? Soy is one of the most genetically modified products today and things like tofu and soy milk are highly processed with some companies already being in the spotlight for highly contaminated soy products. So as far as I see it, if we keep using our emotional side when evaluating info from others, we really may miss some valuable stuff.

Thank you for your input, you bring up some very good points. And although I may take a stand more for Dr.Mercola and less for healthcastle as well as any American foundation, A) I completely understand where you are coming from and why you feel how you feel and B) I will explain to you a little more about why I feel how I feel.

Ok, so for starters there are a lot of doctors, dietitians and nutritionists that do not give not just scientifically sound, BUT not well balanced health advice.

Having a science background myself I can tell you quite a lot about what actually does and does not happen in scientific studies. On top of that adding in my expertise as a Holistic Nutritionist, I do tend to look at the whole picture where the body is concerned, something that Western medicine does not do.

So I always hate to say this to people but it is the God’s honest truth, scientific studies are not what you think they are. Do not get me wrong I am not discounting all of them, but having formal education as a scientist I have seen how left winged that field is and that is why I have brought in the balance into my own life and this site by bringing out the holistic side – a side that has our evolution, intuition and common sense backing it up, sometimes much more than science, for the past hundreds of years.

Hence I know Dr. Mercola sells stuff, but where this article was concerned he was not selling anything. On the other hand I know HealthCastle actually IS following the info and guidelines from places like the FDA, American Dietetic Association and so on. Please do not think that I have something personal against them, but I have seen enough to know that our health IS NOT their number 1 priority – the economy on the other hand is.

That is why sites like NaturalNews.com (which are VERY reputable) or Dr.Mercola may not appeal to the average person out there because they are saying usually quite the opposite of what the media and the big health organizations say. But if you look at the media and the big health organizations, they are primarily the reason why we have the health problems we do.

You have all the right not to feel trustworthy of Dr.Mercola because as I said above he is going against the mainstream BUT he is not the only one – most holistic and naturopaths health care professionals ARE. Because too many people are sick of how the “big guys” are handling our health.

That I why I second the anti-vaccine thing, because the more research I do on it the more disgusting information I find out – stuff that the media will never tell us. And where smallpox and many other diseases are concerned, never mind how about the flu shot – it is unfortunately more of a fear based tactic than anything else. The microbiology of the flu virus, smallpox virus, etc, is not what people really think.

Now do not get me wrong I am not completely against ALL vaccines but there is a whole lot more to this story that needs to be explained. In fact I will write an article on it altogether – thank you for the inspiration :)

So I wish I did not have to put down the sources that most people think are trustworthy in our society today, but the truth is they have proven over and over to let people down much more than the holistic market and that is why just as with soy, there are always two sides to every story.