Beyond approval, FDA also allowed GM foods to not be labeled as such, thus customers won't be able to tell and avoid them in supermarket. "No labeling" has always been a major strategy for GM industry to gain markets for their products by depriving customers their rights of choice. Its endorsement from FDA has directly resulted in Americans’ ignorance of this issue and tacit acceptance of GM food. Many people in US never became aware of term "genetic modified food" or "rBGH milk" where growth hormones linked to cancer are contained. However, these "no test" and "no labeling" policies met fierce resistance overseas. The EU has banned American beef products due to unlabeled growth hormones being detected. While Americans spend 90% of their food expenditure on such GM foods, 80% of Europeans and Asians are decidedly opposed to foods with GM ingredients. Fewer and fewer countries are willing to risk their people's health and future by cultivating or importing GM goods.

American consumers need to put pressure on our government and raise awareness of this issue, by purchasing only products clearly labeled as not containing GM elements, asking for clearer marking from manufacturers and demanding more rigorous research to be conducted by government. Before they have been thoroughly tested and proved to be safe, we as customers, have right to protect our health by rejecting those foods, and government has obligation to assist that effort by keeping them under tight control.

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Choose to focus on benefits, rather than sacrifice

Everything worthwhile takes effort - having a baby comes to mind. All mothers will likely agree that childbirth has its down side, but ultimate reward makes it all worth it (yes, some women feel great while pregnant, but I wasn't one of them). Otherwise, everyone would be a single child. ;-) Think about it.

Becoming a professional musician or baseball player comes to many who played Little League and started practicing piano when they were very small. Tiger Woods was only 3 or 4-years old when his father first taught him to hold a golf club. He also showed him videos of professional golfers when he sat in his high chair eating his dinner (his dad was a little odd, I'd say). Woods started playing golf at such a young age that he literally grew up playing game. He wanted to play. His father undoubtedly drove him to work harder at it than most children would, but he had to have a strong drive of his own or he never would have made it. But what if he'd hit 6-year's old and suddenly said to himself, "I don't want to practice. I hate golf. I wanna play with my friends. I'll never be any good at his stupid game."

Maybe things would have turned out differently. The bottom line though is he did what he did because he wanted to (his parents obviously had a lot to do with it too), and reward? Today he's considered most gifted golfer of all time, and to what does he attribute his success? The practice and discipline of his mind. He learned from one of his primary coaches to harness power of his mind - using NLP and hypnosis techniques (and likely he's since started to use EFT as well). Learn to use your mind to focus on results you want - or conversely focus on avoiding what you do not want, and you'll win your prize, loving process, instead of dreading it.

How to Get Started

Starting from right now, go get a box of toothpicks or something similar. Match sticks would work too, or marbles, or pencils, small rocks or twigs from yard. Something small enough you can carry it with you. Whenever you catch yourself starting to say something negative like, "I don't want to ..., or, "I hate ...," or "I'm gonna strangle ..." Anything negative you catch yourself saying or beginning to say, whether towards yourself or someone else doesn't matter.

Start noticing how often you're feeding yourself negative energy. Then, apply STOP technique as soon as you realize you are doing it, you yell (to yourself) STOP, and immediately replace what you were saying with something else. Here's what I mean:

"I hate having to wash ... STOP ... it's nice getting a chance to stretch and bend while car gets cleaned."

Yes, it's stiff and forced, at first. Anytime you attempt to change a behavior it will feel forced. Just allow yourself to learn to change your self talk, and that early discomfort with process will pass. It will start to be fun to "catch" yourself. As soon as you start doing it, you'll realize how often you're been feeding yourself negativity, and you'll also see how easily you can change that habit.

Positive people tend to be happier people. I'm not suggesting you get a personality change, but I am suggesting, if you ultimately want to drop some weight and never see it again that you change your thinking from how much you'll have to struggle to how much better you're going to feel.

Kathryn Martyn, Master NLP Practitioner, author of the free e-book: Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight Loss, and owner of http://www.OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com