tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80265784313229470392024-03-13T10:47:57.771-07:00Eat Well, Live WellDiscussions about nutrition, government regulations, and life in general. And of course, recipes to savor the good and healthy things in life! Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-53516528996692764242017-08-30T17:20:00.000-07:002017-08-30T17:20:09.381-07:00Fish, in soup. An imitation of a wondrous San Francisco Treat<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, it ain't Rice a Roni, which in my estimation, is one of the more disgusting products on the shelves at the supermarket. I made this because I wanted to try to come up with something that would excite my eclectic tastes and remind me of my wondrous trip to San Francisco a couple weeks ago. Well, actually San Jose. We went to a Chinese place there and I ordered this dish, "Fish Fillets in Chili Oil" </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And it was wondrously flavorful. Very nice. This picture shows how much of the chili oil they use. I had eaten a lot of it, and this is what's left. It was a huge bowl. The place was called Hunan Impressions. We were the only Occidentals there, with one very very Irish redheaded exception. But that guy used his chopsticks with aplomb so I think he fit in well. Me, fork. Anyway, the stuff was fabulous, everything we had. Everyone else had meat, but it was vacation so I tasted it. WOW! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So anyway, I acquired some flounder fillets. I also had more shrimp shells in the freezer. See my previous post about using garbage for food. I made some shrimp stock and then strained well. Then I took some mushrooms and cut small, cooked in olive oil until well browned. Added some cut up red pepper, an onion, some shallots, three celery ribs and ten garlic cloves. Cooked a bit before adding a cup of Reisling. Reduced that, added the stock and simmered for ten minutes. I cut up ten Japones peppers and threw them in. Then added about ten leaves of Napa cabbage chopped fine and two zuchinni diced. Cooked anothe ten minutes. Then in a skillet, I cooked a slice of whole fermented wheat bread in olive oil, turned it over and as the other side browned, added some slices of Asiago cheese. (Remember aged cheeses are much healthier) Then when that was </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">done, I added some coconut oil and dredged the fish in some seasoned whole wheat flour and fried lightly on each side. Serve the soup in a bowl and put the fish on top with the cheese bread on the side. It was not the same, but it was mighty tasty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-62057220004306059392017-08-03T15:05:00.001-07:002017-08-03T15:05:07.948-07:00Yes, I used garbage to make this meal<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Indeed, garbage. I have advocated that everyone use garbage in their cooking now for some time. There is nothing easier, healthier, safe than to use garbage to add flavor to any dish you cook. It's not garbage you pull from the dumpsters somewhere, it's the garbage that you and every other person that ACTUALLY cooks food produces every day in the kitchen. It's the carrot peelings, celery tops and root ends, onion skins, and membranes from peppers. Stuff you </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">would ordinarily toss, garbage. I say it has a use, and that use is to add a wondrous mix of incredible flavors, nutrients and even quite a few vitamins. Yep, it's that old standby in every real kitchen, stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now let me just say that this entire dish is not made from garbage, just the gravy that I poured over the savory waffle. And that, was what tied the entire thing all together. Let me tell you what this thing is. First, the waffle, it's garbanzo rye with scallions and green chilis. Second, the two patties in the front are BeHoon. A sort of Dutch Malaysian dish a friend taught me many years ago. Then to the rear, still sitting atop the waffle is a salmon cake. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">day, rinsed and boiled for twenty minutes. Drained most of the water from them, put them in a blender, added a quarter cup EVOO and juice of a lemon. Whizzed until smooth and added a bit of sea salt and fresh ground pepper (sheesh, sounds like humus) I then sliced three scallions fine, diced an couple canned green chilis and mixed with a beaten egg. Then mixed in a half cup of Rye flour until stiff. Mixed in a half tablespoon baking powder and a fair amount of Cajun Spice mix (I like the flavor) Dumped in the humus and added just enough of the bean cooking liquid to make a thick batter. I got out the Belgian Waffle iron and made a few. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, been reading a bit on the destruction of Mother Earth and how the drive to raise animals for food has pretty much been the main force for the destruction of the rain forests in both South America and Africa. This video is a great one detailing not just that destruction, but also how horrific things are getting here in America as well. (<a href="http://themindunleashed.com/2017/07/beef-industry-bring-cheap-burgers.html" target="_blank">Beef, it's what's for our deaths</a>) And yes, I know, scientists all over the place are telling us global warming is fantasy, so this is one perspective. However, the reality is that meat in America is raised by large corporate agribusinesses that are raping the system and receiving HUGE amounts of subsidies from the government in order to raise cheap (and I daresay, toxic) meats. To the tune of<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a couple hundred billions of dollars annually. That's billion with a 'B'. </span>The true costs of meat, beef pork and poultry would be many times what they are now if it weren't for <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the corruption <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">within</span> our</span> government. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I think it wise to begin to instruct the populace as to how to get along better without their favorite flesh of lesser beings. Who knows, the tide of public opinion is such that ever greater numbers of people are demanding transparency, culpability and HONESTY from our elected officials. Should we begin to remove the corrupt and vote in the sane and honest ones, then the prices of meats will skyrocket as the subsidy system for corporate businesses breaks down and we <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">begin</span> to bear the true costs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I took a cup and half of garbanzo beans and soaked in water a day. Rinsed, put in a strainer and rinse three times a day for three days, The little buggers started to sprout. (Remember my series on making healthy foods healthier?) I put in sauce pan, covered in water and brought to boil, simmered 20 minutes then drained and rinsed. Then coarse chopped in my small food processor. Coarsely cut up and onion, cooked in olive oil a few minutes, added three </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ounce of my Chipotle Taco Seasoning (you know, any good chili powder based spice blend will do. Whatever you like, just get the stuff with no CRAP) Added a cup of red wine (it was leftover from my drunk phase last week) Stirred in well, brought to a boil then added a jar of tomato based salsa. Simmer for ten minutes,taste it. Yeah, mighty delicious. MAN oh MAN, just like chili, same texture, some heat, smokiness from the chipotles, WOW WOW WOW.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Me, I like eggs. Since I have begun to go back to the gym and have started lifting weights again, I am going to eat eggs more. Real pasture raised eggs from the farmers markets. Gillespie Farms so far has the best eggs, Roadrunner and Ahwatukee markets. (Just my opinion) And so I fry them in real grass fed pastured cow butter, then top the eggs with chili, add some 18 month aged imported Italian Asiago cheese and serve with real ripe melon. Oh man, that'll help me forget that woman. I know, it isn't vegan the way I eat it, but so what. I'm not contributing to the industrial farming agribusiness culture rife with corruption toxic additives and horrific consequences. So I can indulge a bit. It ain't gonna be the real thing, but it's better than the crap most Americans consume. I mean come on, McDonalds burgers are pretty disgusting. As most meat is anymore. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They don't<i> just</i> make you feel good.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So many scientific studies have been done that show us exactly how beneficial aged cheeses are for our health. I think most people know and understand how bad drinking milk truly is (see footnote 5 below) and that the fallacy of the availability of calcium in the stuff is an advertising LIE. But aged cheese, is a totally different animal. Everything in there is good for us. The calcium having been released by the fermentation process, is readily absorbable. The high Vitamin B and K content as well. And studies have proven that eating high fat cheeses actually LOWERS LDL cholesterol. (6) There are just numerous reasons to include AGED cheese in your diet. (4) Even that internet godlike person, Mark Sisson, the creator of the Paleo site that has millions of worshipers, oops, sorry, followers, tells us that aged cheeses fit into a primal diet. Whereas all other dairy doesn't, aged cheeses compliment his quackery. (3) Yeah, I don't like the guy. Nevertheless, there are two huge scientific studies, both found in the NCBI PubMed library that show that when humans don't eat crappy food, they are healthier, and have better mental health than those that eat crappy foods. And that aged cheeses are part of a healthy food diet and were noted as parts of the overall dietary practices of the healthy and/or mentally stable test subjects. (1 & 2)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yeah, but some of that aged cheese stinks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've heard that before. Me, I say, SO! Some of the stinkiest is also the tastiest. I don't know why, but that's the way it works.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 1.Mental health and food habits - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15010179</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 2.Crappy food is bad for your health, - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10918461</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 3.Yeah, that guy. Mark Sisson - http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cheese-unhealthy/</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 4.A bit better info on aging of cheese - http://www.thrive-style.com/2012/02/why-aged-cheese-is-good-for-you/</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 5.Me on why milk is bad for you - http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/11/milk-it-does-body-well-not-so-good.html </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 6.The great study, LDL lowered from aged cheese - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22030228</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-12323627783922148112017-04-10T15:04:00.001-07:002017-05-02T11:54:00.954-07:00How to CURE your Leaky Gut!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, first off, to cure your leaky gut, stop reading crap on the internet and stop listening to pseudo-scientific proponents of unproven wildly preposterous concepts. There is no proof, no evidence, no medical diagnosis anywhere, of any problem called leaky gut. It's pretty simple, everything that you have heard, have read, heard the TV doctors tell you, is, well, sort of kinda maybe true. It's just that they have blown it all out of proportion and have made mountains out of the tiny moleholes in our guts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Realistically, most of the sane internet tells us that of the huge list of symptoms that modern humans are experiencing are the result of this leaky gut syndrome. Everything. From gas, bloating, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, Autism and all the way up to and including, Cancer. Yeah, a lot to blame on something that barely even exists. A resource that so many use, WebMd states that it's a gray area as even though there is no actual problem associated with this conclusion, that a whole host of other actual diseases can be the real cause of any or all of the symptoms credited with leaky gut. Which, again, there is no evidence it exists. 1 The NHS in the UK is a bit more direct about disclaiming rumors that this is a real thing. 2 Even Dr. Alessio Fasano, the guy whose team discovered the Zonulin protein, states that when the intestinal lining opens with increased permeability, that larger molecules CAN BE allowed through the gut lining. 3 And the works of Keata et al in their paper regarding the in vitro <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">response of rat ilium <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cells increasing their permeability for flow of liquid <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">through the lining when exposed to gliadinin <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is probably the starting point for the mass hysteria surrounding th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is phenomena. 4 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> But that's a long way from bits of undigested food, bacteria and even viruses working their way through the huge holes within the gut walls that so many of these proponents of leaky gut claim exist. I've said it before, every <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sc<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ien<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tist out there says it<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, </span></span></span></span>i<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f</span> digestive fluids, food particles and anything in your intestines leak into your blood stream, you will die. Period. Leaky Gut Syndrome does not exist in the form 'As Seen on TV!!!!' Of course, it does open other possibilities. Namely the work of one Dr. Carl Hulston. His claim is that the increased permeability CAN occur when the gut bacteria get out of whack and that the use of probiotics can shore up the gaps in the lining. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I think that is the basis for the huge push to make the world believe that leaky gut is a real thing. Cuz all the stuff I've looked at, tell us to alter our diets (a good thing) stop eating gluten (not necessarily a bad thing) and to buy their specific brands that they either make, or promote and make a profit on when you buy through their website.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh. Money. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Try to remember that at no time, has ANY medical (Real Medical people, not TV Docs nor Internet Gurus) diagnosis for Leaky Gut Syndrome been approved, agreed upon or recognized as valid. It is possible for humans to alter their blood chemistry by the introduction of excess FLUID portions of intestinal contents into their blood plasma. And yes, this can lead to a number of significant problems. Tired feelings, depressed immunity and a few others. If you have other symptoms, you have other things wrong with you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How do you cure something that doesn't exist yet mimics a myriad of real actual symptoms? That one is simple. Stop eating shitty food. At least HALF of what goes into your mouth should be RAW. Fruits, vegetables, raw. Lightly cooked is okay for part of the other half. Eat fermented foods. A variety of them. NEVER eat sugar, white flour or anything that has listed on the ingredients, a chemical name that is not natural. No soda, no artificial anything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is it hard to do? If you are having any sort of problems with your health, it might possibly be because of your diet. And if you are eating any of the crap listed above, then yeah. you betcha, it's going to be hard to stop eating that shit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are no Magic Beans. No all encompassing life giving Snake Oil to cure what ails you. You are what you eat. No one makes your choices for you, you do... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep.</span></span><br />
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1<a href="http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/features/leaky-gut-syndrome#1" target="_blank"> WebMd </a><br />
2 <a href="http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/leaky-gut-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx" target="_blank">National Health Service </a><br />
3 <a href="http://time.com/4178015/leaky-gut-syndrome-probiotics/" target="_blank">Fasano</a><span id="goog_1220794847"></span><span id="goog_1220794848"></span> <br />
<br />Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-27041207621108042452017-04-03T11:39:00.002-07:002017-04-06T14:51:31.582-07:00The Secret to Perfect Health - - Eat More Dirt<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sounds weird, and it sort of is. And sort of not as weird as it sounds. If you think about it logically, then we can determine just how doing this, eating dirt, is how we as human beings, evolved. From there, we can look at this process from a scientific perspective and verify just exactly why we as humans need to, not actually eat dirt, but incorporate the activities and foods needed to bring about optimum health.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dirt. If we examine the makeup of actual dirt, we can see that there are a large number of components. Primary, broken up and very fine particles of rock. This varies by region of course, but the first stage of soil production in any landscape is the weathering and breakdown of the parent structure of rock. Dirt. When we add in organic material, microbes, air and water, we get soil. Soil is a complex living mixture of these things, each and every one of them are required for plants to grow and thrive. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That should be a reminder to us humans. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As humans evolved, they ate a variety of things from the landscape around them. Rotting flesh of animals found out there on the savanna, leftover from some larger bigger carnivore kill. Nuts, fruits, sweet leaves from plants growing around. Sprouting seeds and grains, that process of which turns the residing carbohydrates, lectins and phytates within the seeds into sugars (Yes, that's probably why we developed a sense of taste for sweet) makes them taste sweeter. And of course, roots and tubers. Perfectly healthy, good sources for carbohydrate energy needed to run away from those carnivores, as well as fuel for the scavenging needs of the group. Here, let's look at what these early hominids did. They would find the growing plants, recognition of their use from the growing parts. Probably a result of higher brain or evolving brain functionality. Dig or pull up the root. Wipe off some of the dirt, then eat it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That process would invariably include lots of the soil the root or tuber was growing in. Dirt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, they ate dirt. With many of the meals our ancestors ate, they got big old helpings of rock dust and microbes along with the nutrition from the plant itself. Dirt. The startling thing is, these are things we evolved eating and in reality, are things we NEED to survive, to live a healthy existence. Microbes and minerals. I am hoping that if you are reading this, you know the importance of the human intestinal microbiota within each of us. Our gut bacteria are an integral part of our living systems. That biodiversity of bacteria need to be replenished. Frequently. Ancient evolving humans ate dirt. Later, civilized humans began traditions of fermenting their foods. For preservation, for inactivating some of the toxic portions of the foods (such as lectins in grains) and for flavor as well. Fermenting adds a huge amount of beneficial bacteria to our diets. Something lacking in our modern sterile lifestyles. The additions of chemical substances into our foods and food-like substances manufactured for the majority of the population are for the most part, devoid of any microbial activity. With a few exceptions, notably the FDA recalls of produce, processed meats and a whole host of food-like substances manufactured and then discovered to contain a literal plethora of dangerous bacterial contaminants. Of course the scary part is that when beneficial bacteria flourish, the nasty ones don't. Says a lot about food and food-like substance production. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, reason number one to eat dirt. Microbes. Or at least eat some fermented foods.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Minerals. It isn't a secret. It's common knowledge. It's taught to each and everyone of us from way back in the fifth grade. Living cells are made up of a large number of mineral compounds. We need those minerals to live. If we don't get them, cell production will virtually cease. Humans will get sick and die without a steady supply of fresh minerals fueling our bodies. Few minerals (and vitamins as well) and we do not in any way, thrive. That's the way it is. This concept cannot be disputed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now comes the hard part. A diet rich in plant material, and some healthy animal proteins, will support optimal health by providing a rich source of minerals. (And of course the needed other stuff, carbs, fats and proteins) That however, is dependent on whether or not the plants, and animals, are themselves rich in the minerals that they need to thrive. Plants grown on rich soils, ones that have a rich diversity of the needed rock dust, organic material and microbes; will themselves be rich sources of vitamins and minerals. Modern farming methods in use today, and being promoted by the manufacturing corporations that control the majority of food production in the industrialized world; use chemical fertilizers to give the three most prevalent chemicals within plants. Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. That however, is but a tiny fraction of the number of minerals needed by the plants to grow. And <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to thrive. This is exempl<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ified dramatically with the curr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ent situation in Northern US and Canadian wheat farms. Non organic <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wheat farms are plagued with Fusarium Wilt <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">making much of th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e crops unusable, even for animal feed. Whereas organic wheat farmers <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the same areas are not seeing any such problem. Healthy soil, means healthy crops<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>ultimately the same for humans when we eat those plants. We need a diversity of minerals and in healthy readily absorbable forms. There is a complex system within healthy soils where the microbial life there work to breakdown the rock dust into less complex and more usable minerals. When early humans ate the dirt stuck on their roots, they got a bit of minerals in there boosting their existence. Well<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, they also got healthy roots as well, grown in pristine soils.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In modern times, we wash everything. And the fact that modern farming techniques use chemicals to kill everything in the soil, (or attempt to anyway) as season after season goes by, the mineral constituents of the soil lessen to the point of that soil not being able to grow healthy plants. That's when the problems like those described above become common<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">place. Non<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> organic farms all across the world are suffering from th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at degradation of soil, lo<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ss of mineral<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s and death of the microbial constituent<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Dead Soil. </span></span></span></span></span></span>The end result is plants, and ultimately the meats raised on those sick mineral starved plants, don't have the necessary mineral (and vitamin) reserves to nourish the humans that consume them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Solution two, eat more dirt. Or at the very least, eat good healthy organic plants from farmers markets. Meats raised in sustainable methods and always always, eat healthy food choices. And take mineral supplements as well. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our ancestors evolved eating dirt. We can replicate that, and we need to. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yup</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-53911949905007716562017-03-14T12:29:00.001-07:002017-03-15T10:34:41.237-07:00What's in your food part, 7. Oreos<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I used to eat Oreos. I used to do a lot of things, and I weighed 320 pounds. I don't eat things like these anymore, not because I didn't like them, but because I now understand that the addictive nature, the drive to manufacture a food-like product entails the use of questionable ingredients as well as the methods of every single facet of the manufacture of these things are done with absolutely no regard for the health of the consumers that buy them. So, no, I don't eat them anymore. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I might try to make my own some day. But in reality, why? I don't need them. I've gotten used to not eating junk foods, no sweets, no meat, no processed anything. Yeah, and I weigh 235 now. That's something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oreos. Good memories or just plain bad horrific food?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Probably a little of both. Most wouldn't say they are horrific, and they are a long long way from being in anyway nutritious. Definitely not as bad as some of the other food-like substances that I reviewed here a year ago or so, these are just naturally, well, nasty. Two, Double Stuf Oreos, are 120 calories. 7 grams of fat and 21 grams of carbohydrate. Mostly in the form of High Fructose Corn Syrup. Well, sugar is actually the first ingredient on the list. More sugar than flour in the cookies. No wonder they taste so addictive. I mean good. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I suppose that here I could put in a link to that documentary about how Fructose is actually destroying our lives, 65 minutes of lengthy diagrams and charts of how the human body uses sugars, fructose and dextrose to run our systems. But realistically, most people that want that info already know it, the rest, probably lost by now and looking at photos of cats dressed in tuxes or some other such nonsense. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, sugar, bad. HFCS, extremely bad. (<a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-weirdest-crap-youve-never-heard-of.html" target="_blank">HFCS and Hg</a>) There's the Mercury contamination thing plus we know the stuff is GMO and although we have no idea if genetically altering plants actually will cause damage to humans down the road; we do know that they drench the plants with glyphosate. Roundup. Now, a known carcinogen. Flour, kinda bad. The fact is, 95% of all wheat in America and many other countries as well, is drenched in glyposate as well. This use of the stuff is worse as it is done 8 to 10 days before harvest in order to kill the plants and make harvesting the grain easier on equipment and to give a slightly larger yield. Slightly. Glyphosate is bad when sprayed on GMO crops while in the early stages of growth. The stuff slowly breaks down. When sprayed just before harvest, it's all there baby. You get the full dose. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So is that bad?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one can tell you what to eat and what not to. It's up to you. You only get one body, in the long run, what you feed it, drives how it works down the road. </span></span><br />
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Ingredients</h3>
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SUGAR, UNBLEACHED ENRICHED
FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN
B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), PALM AND/OR CANOLA OIL, COCOA
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LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), SALT, SOY LECITHIN,
VANILLIN - AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CHOCOLATE.CONTAINS WHEAT, SOY.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-30817258553962616552017-02-27T13:22:00.000-08:002017-02-27T13:22:41.025-08:00Cabbage Rolls, Southwestern Style<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's been said that I do things a little bit differently. I suppose that's true. Smoked Salmon Tamales. Sushi Ravioli. Stuff that comes out delicious, just different from anything anyone else does. So, not surprising that I make that old European favorite, Cabbage Rolls, into something completely different.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why not though? Southwestern food is so unique, so flavorful, it lends itself to making EVERYTHING a bit better.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> They might look a might odd, but that's because the sauce I used was my best selling 'Passion of the Garlic' salsa. I make it with tomatillos and lots of oven roasted garlic. A bit of spice and this stuff is the absolute bomb, as my old dear friend Key always told me about the foods I used to make for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This time, I had some organic pork from my friend Kenny the </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then proceeded to let cool and roll them up into these babies. Oops, I poured about a quarter of the jar into the rice mix and tossed that as well. Then the rest of the jar of salsa, I mixed with a half jar of water. Poured a bit on the bottoms of the pans and after put the stuffed rolls into the pans, I poured the rest of the sauce over the tops.I covered with parchment paper, then sealed with aluminum foil. NEVER LET ALUMINUM FOIL TOUCH ANY FOOD!!!! That's why the paper first. Protection. And salsa is acidic, it would eat holes in the foil and if you ate that residue, then it does horrible things to your brain. Anyway, bake at 350 for an hour and holy cow, these are incredible</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yup</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-71481757497811506462017-02-17T13:52:00.001-08:002017-02-17T21:00:13.759-08:00Shake shake shake... Yeah, music, dancing, weight loss miracles. Magic and Money<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It wasn't that long ago that I was in the hospital for a kidney stone. September 22 of 2015. My weight at that time, 320 pounds. I am six foot two or so, might of shrunk some, as happens as we age. Monday at the gym, I weighed myself on both of their scales, and the readings were within a half pound. I am now 234 pounds. It was hard to do, and yet, incredibly easy. And at no time during the nearly 17 months did I ever once, NOT ONCE, add any money to the already frightening amount of money spent on weight loss in these United States. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sixty Billion Dollars is spent annually on weight loss.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it's all a waste of money.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harsh, I know. But the reality is there for us to view. One out of three Americans are Obese. And still, 70% of adults are overweight. These numbers continue to climb, steadily. They have not once gone down since scientists started to look at this phenomena back in the fifties. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yeah, weight loss spending for individuals might, and here it's a stretch, MIGHT show improvement. For specific individuals over a specific time frame. It does happen. Generally though, the majority of Americans spend their money, adding to that sixty billion dollar total, yet it's for short term losses that return once the money is no longer spent. The weight loss industry is based entirely on lies. Everything about their advertising, their slick marketing driven packaging for convenience and their very basic concept, is all about driving home that basic falsehood. That spending money, utilizing products designed for convenience, will allow you to be slim, trim and healthy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's all a lie. Yet humans are gullible. Always have been, pretty sure they always will be. Politicians that show themselves to be corrupt, get reelected. (Except Hillary, some out there saw through her rhetoric) Diet soda that has had independent studies showing it to cause weight gain as well as a large number of rather detrimental side effects, sell by the billions. And just as our ancestors spent their hard earned money on magic beans and snake oil, the weight loss industries of America keep raking in our money and giving dreams of Paradise, perhaps from a dashboard light. Which isn't far from the truth, advertising for all the crap out there comes from the hottest and best looking models available. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A friend's wife has begun posting online about her newest mlm group that she is now affiliated with. Shakes that satisfy, provide nutrition and her pounds are melting away. Magic Beans. I have no idea what she pays for each one, but I'm sure they aren't cheap. And as so many of the ones available at the stores, when I look at the ingredients, there's stuff there I can't pronounce, as well as the things that are right from the start, detrimental to any sort of plan to lose weight; either some form of sugar, or high fructose corn syrup. Remember Metrecal? People my age do. The Metrecal for lunch bunch. A food replacement product with all the nutrition of real food, in a handy shake. Made with sugar. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a popular ingredient, it makes humans addicted to that sweet sweet flavor. It isn't exactly nutritious. No matter how many artificial additives and processed vitamins and minerals are added to it. It's still just flavored sugar.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My weight loss has been based on an actual change in my attitude toward food itself. I used to eat meat, processed foods, breads, ice cream, packaged this and that. I stopped all that. I have been a vegetarian for about eight years now, just not a very strict one. That's all changed. I am very strict now. No meat, no processed foods, no sugar, no chemicals and lots and lots of fruit and vegetables. Organic when possible. Which is primarily most of the time as I get my food at the farmers markets and only buy organic at the stores. And never Chinese or Mexican organic. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's pretty hard to do. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My weight has gone up and down during this time. Personal reasons, my inability to deal with relationship issues (always been a problem ** Three Divorces)((<a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2016/08/insight-into-me.html" target="_blank">Insight into me</a>)) thus giving me an excuse to sit and drink beer to excess. (Yes it's true what she told me, I do so very much enjoy playing the role of victim) (( Although it's not true, I do not feel superi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or to everyone, only those that I am superior too)) </span>And of course the long term effects from before (black mold) and exacerbation of asthma, causing steroid use which makes you put on weight. However, for the most part, it has been a total commitment to be a smaller man and altering the lifestyle that I have led most of my life. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One thing that is consistent with me in my food routine, is most mornings I make a shake. Ta Da? No, not one in a can. Mine is simple. And has other health benefits designed right into it. Start with juice of a lemon and a quarter cup of Organic Apple Cider Vinegar. Add a half teaspoon of cinnamon, black cohosh root, gingko biloba, mullein and turmeric. Then a heaping teaspoon each of hemp seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds and nutritional yeast. Also called spent brewers yeast. Add a bit of water and mix a bit. then add an organic banana, a tablespoon of local raw honey from a local bee keeper, NEVER stuff from a grocery store. Add some fruit in season or a couple dates. Then top blender jar with organic plain yogurt. Blend, and it has more protein and all the right balance of everything you need to exist in about a couple hundred or so calories that will fill you up and keep you going for five or more hours. For about <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fo</span>rty cents. Cheaper if you don't use organic stuff. But why? Be safe, organic is the only real option in today's weird world of toxin usage in agricultur<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-26062244094002002542017-02-14T09:18:00.002-08:002017-02-14T09:18:51.647-08:00This is what you NEED to understand before allowing ANY doctor to prescribe Testosterone Creams<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think that anyone that has watched a television show in past twenty years has seen the ads for the miracle cure that science has found for a condition that the medical profession has hyped into another one of the popular health conditions that they have appropriately named as 'Low T'. This condition has been touted as the reason for everything wrong in a man's life. Everything. Below is a list of a few of the symptoms from the Google search for Low T.</span></span><br />
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<li class="_AXc">Erectile dysfunction (impotence: inability to develop or maintain an erection)</li>
<li class="_AXc">Fatigue (lack of energy)</li>
<li class="_AXc">Muscle mass and strength (reduced)</li>
<li class="_AXc">Body fat (increased)</li>
<li class="_AXc">Back pain.</li>
<li class="_AXc">Osteoporosis development (reduced bone mass/density and increased risk of fracture)</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The diagnosis for Low T is simple, the doctor takes some blood, and they measure your Testosterone level. If it's below standardized norms by even a small amount, then you get a prescription for Testosterone Cream. One manufactured by any number of pharmaceutical companies and generally from the one that has offered the greatest incentives to your doctor for writing that prescription.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Except, wait a second. Isn't every one of those symptoms also related to the simple basics of good health, poor diet, no exercise and excess consumption of alcohol?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, yeah, they are. The difference being in that doctors can't get those wonderful incentives from the drug manufacturers if they have you do a little self discipline and lose weight, exercise and stop drinking alcohol. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And the pharmaceutical companies can't make billions in profits if we as consumers don't want to take the easy way out and instead of practicing that self discipline, opt for the easy cream, patch, pill, or liquid instead of attempting to better ourselves with lifestyle changes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So here's the thing, doctors prescribe testosterone creams based on what the lab result is for your individual level of free testosterone in your blood work. And that's the problem. Free testosterone and bioavailable testosterone both vary dramatically in EVERY individual on a daily basis. T levels follow the same basic circadian rhythms that control so many of our bodily functions. Our natural levels rise and fall dramatically, by up to 43%, DAILY. Lowest in the early afternoon, highest at night and early morning after and during sleep. Getting a single blood test to acquire a definitive level of testosterone for any individual is not best medical practises.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there are the simple effects that the body has in response to other stimuli. Our testosterone levels vary depending on whether or not we've had vigorous exercise within a 24 hour period. Whether or not we've been sexually active, or whether or not there was a lot of alcohol ingested. Yeah, it's true, alcohol suppresses the production of testosterone. Especially distilled alcohols. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of these factors need to be considered and multiple blood tests done to get an accurate picture of what's happening with your individual body's ability to manufacture the testosterone you need to exist. A diagnosis from one single blood test taken in the afternoon on a day in which you haven't done any physical activity for several days is going to be misleading and may result in a prescription that may do more harm, than any good possible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Again, if you ever watch any television at all, you've seen the commercials from lawyers that are trying to drum up business by letting you know that if you ever took any testosterone cream and had any of a large number of deleterious events happen to you, then you can sue everybody and get compensated. This is of course a product of our litigious society. But with a good reason. The fact is that excess testosterone does cause horrific problems with our bodies. Chief amongst them,blood clots in the lungs. This is a very serious and often fatal consequence of taking a medication to increase the available free testosterone in your body when in fact your natural ability to produce testosterone is working fine and it was environmental factors that led your doctor to diagnose you as having low T. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Be careful. Doctors are not the end all be all pearls of wisdom and they don't know every single thing about you as a patient unless you tell them and question every thing that they tell you. All doctors want to get through as many patients in a day as possible and to prescribe as many medications as possible. Those are their goals. If you want the best care possible, question them, make them think about what it is they are doing, let them know that you are not patient XYZ, you are YOU and you think!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aluminum is however, a multi mu<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lti billion dollar industry. And Industry lawyers, lobbyists and ultimately p<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oliticians determine what is safe, and what is not. Sort of like, lead in gasoline. Science proved it was bad, industry scientists gave us differing facts, and we all breathed lead fumes from gasoline for decades. Industry money pays for a lot of elections, third homes, fancy cars, vacations and probably underage boy toys for politicians all<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the time. That's why lead, DDT, PCB's and so many other products that are KNOWN <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to be</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> detrimental to </span>human existence are allowed to be m<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anufactured <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for the profit of a few<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Profits always take precedence over the health of the populace.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's just the way it is. It takes monumental scientific evidence to change anything. It does happen, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but in the case of the biggest money making industries, it is ridiculous as to how BAD t<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hings have to get before changes are made. And of course, the biggest, get <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">away lit<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">erally, with murder. Cigarettes, the leading cause of death in America. The scientific evidence is conclusive. The damn things are sold everywhere. Yeah, I smoke cigars. Tobacco is not inherently bad for humans. What is causing cancer are the 26 chemicals added to tobacco in the manufacture of cigarettes. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span>h<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ose</span> are what c<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">auses problems. Not necessarily the tobac<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">co itself. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what do we do?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just like the cigarette indust<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ry, we have the ability to help ourselves and avoid contamination in our lives.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stop buying and drinking beverages in aluminum cans</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stop using alu<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">minum cookware, even anodized aluminum is harmful. Throw it all away</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stop using aluminum foi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l in cooking. Use parch<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ment <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">paper, and cover the paper with foil to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">seal.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NEVER get a<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ny vaccine. Especially the flu vaccine. Even the CDC admi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ts that they are at most 10% effective</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do we know for certain that aluminum cause Alzheimer's?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you want to take the risk just so <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">industrial giants can profit?</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21157018" target="_blank">NCBI on AL role in AD</a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056430/" target="_blank">More in depth treatise from NCBI info repository </a><br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/does-aluminum-in-pans-and-antiperspirants-lead-to-alzheimers-disease/2013/05/03/e2726998-ae75-11e2-98ef-d1072ed3cc27_story.html?utm_term=.d54e8bb32678" target="_blank">Washington Post article with lots of research links</a><br />
<a href="http://universityhealthnews.com/daily/memory/aluminum-linked-to-alzheimers-disease/" target="_blank">University Health News article - not the most unbiased, but good info</a><br />
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-any-proof-that-a/" target="_blank">The other side of the story - Scientific American. but then look at all the ads in that rag </a> Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-60471254833357082412016-12-04T08:22:00.002-08:002016-12-06T08:39:17.076-08:00the Chemical Feast - America at its most profitable<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I was a youth, growing up in Arizona, my family ate all of the foods associated with the good modern life/ Meat, potatoes, white rice, frozen vegetables. And white bread. Everyone ate white bread. It was a staple. For pretty much every American wanting to live the American Dream. House, car, job, mortgage, taxes, a TV and two point five children playing on the swingset in the backyard. The American Dream. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the fifties, families bought white bread every couple of days. That's because the bread would go stale quickly, and within a week, it would grow mold on it. Back then, bread was made using enriched white flour, yeast, water, sugar and salt. They beat the hell out of it to whip air into the batter and that's why it was light and fluffy. It also wasn't exactly nutritious, the enrichment process developed back in the late thirties and early forties only replaced eight of the forty-six nutritional minerals and vitamins that occur naturally in real whole wheat grains. Eight, versus forty-six. Marketing and advertising helped to feed the desire for non-nutritive foods versus their healthier counterparts. White bread became the staple of the American Dream, lack of nutrition not with standing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it made great grilled cheese sandwiches.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While I was in high school, junior year I believe; I did a book report on a book written by an attorney under the guise of the Ralph Nader group. It was very critical of the FDA and their policies regarding the introduction of several hundred chemicals to be added to what has morphed into the GRAS, or Generally Recognized As Safe list of chemicals that food manufacturers can add to foods. At that time, it was about three hundred. Chemicals that did some extremely profit enhancing things to foods. Tricks, actually. Compounds that actually enhanced flavor, chemicals that allowed baked goods to st on shelves for months with no loss of perceived freshness, and the hardest one to believe; chemicals derived from coal tars, that were bright colors. Artificial food dye. This class of chemical compounds were added to the GRAS list, because no one ever tested to see just how carcinogenic they really are. It's only in the last twenty years that a number of them have been dropped from GRAS, but are still allowed to be used in food manufacturing because they are cheap, and the American Dream includes foods that have bright colors.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things have changed dramatically in the food world since that book was published. Today, the FDA admits that they track three thousand chemicals on the EAFUS list. (Everything Added to Food in the US) However they also admit, that food manufacturers don't even have to submit new chemical compounds to the FDA for determination if they themselves, meaning those that manufacture the chemicals, find them to be relatively safe. There are over a thousand compounds on the GRAS list, and again, the FDA admits that they don't give a rat's ass about American Health and as long as the manufacturer of a chemical says they tested it and they themselves claim it is GRAS, then the FDA are fine with it being added to food. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Isn't that like parents buying a hundred six <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">p</span>acks of beer and putting them in the garage with a hundred cartons of cigarrettes and then telling their teenage kids that they are leaving for the summer. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe that's the problem. No one has actually died from the Chemical Feast that is American Food. Well, at least they didn't just eat a burger and keel over dead anyway. I've never heard of that. However, what we know, WE KNOW is happening to the American Dream is that Americans are suffering greatly increased incidences of Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Infant mortality, Autism, the list is endless. But the worst thing possible, greater numbers of Americans suffer from two, three or more degenerative long term diseases.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WHY?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poor nutrition, perhaps. Environmental toxin exposure, maybe. Definitely in some areas. Radiation from fallout, nuclear accidents etc., possibly. Chemtrails, REALLY? that one is kinda whacko. But how about the huge numbers of chemicals added to food to make it sweeter tastier less metallic tasting (from other additives) colorful lighter fluffier whiter more shelf stable and the big one, MORE PROFITABLE. Isn't that possible. When the manufacturer of a chemical gets to determine whether or not i<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t</span> is safe, that sort of sets the stage for greater amounts of chemicals to be added to food for that driving force in all of America, profit. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the big one though. Even if there was no motivation for getting approval for chemicals to be added to manufacturing processes, if the testing done on any one specific chemical compound was done in the true spirit of finding and testing said chemical<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, determining it it's </span>safe and without any possible deleterious effects on humans; that testing could never encompass just how that specific chemical would interact with any other of the three thousand KNOWN chemicals that the FDA does track. Let alone the seven or eight thousand additional chemicals that Princeton University estimates are ACTUALLY being used in food manufacturing. And it isn't like the FDA has never heard of interactions. It happens all the time. In the drug industry, and in the food industry. And with eleven thousand chemicals to randomly select to interact, do we know where we are?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then again, it isn't just chemicals directly added to foods during the manufacturing process. There are indirect additions of chemicals that get dumped in as well. (see footnotes below) Everything from machine oils, to sanitizing agents to pesticide usage inside manufacturing plants. And of course, these have nothing to do with the inherent contamination of the basic crops grown by modern mechanized farming techniques that liberally douse growing plant crops with weed killers, insecticides, fungicides and petrochemical fertilizers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yeah, those are all allowed in the processed manufactured food that is part of the American Dream. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the seventies, I got my first wheat grinder. I began to grind my own wheat into flour and then bake real bread. Over the years, I have stopped eating more and more of the processed foods that contain chemicals listed right on the packaging. Chemicals that when you look them up, are found to be, not so good for us. But the FDA allows them to be added because we are Americans, Living the Dream in our very own American, Chemical Feast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/06/humans-are-pretty-resilient-and.html" target="_blank">Expose on FDA and one specific toxin allowed in food </a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAdditivesIngredients/ucm115326.htm" target="_blank">Oops, FDA on GRAS and EAFUS numbers</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnNavigation.cfm?rpt=eafusListing" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">FDA EAFUS list </span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/FoodAdditivesIngredients/ucm091048.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">FDA stating that the 40 pesticides are no longer reglated </span></a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/factfiction/testing.asp" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Chemical Industry report on total number of chemicals in use </span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/?set=IndirectAdditives" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Indirect additives to food from the FDA viewpoint </span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2013/02/becasue-they-can.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Because they can do these things </span></a> </span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-17815748041317200972016-11-25T08:24:00.003-08:002016-11-25T09:13:07.306-08:00Is the Shikimate Pathway proof that there is a Higher Power?<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Makes one wonder what this is really about now doesn't it? It might seem obvious that the title was meant to conj<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ure up beliefs in <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what's known as Intelligent Design. I was once referred to a scholarly article about how life could not have originated on Earth on its own as the possible combinations of molecules needing to come together in a specifi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">c way to create the proteins <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">needed for life had been calculated to be so <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enormous that <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they could not possi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bly have occur<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">red<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Mathemat<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ically speaking. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The religious zealots had used science to prove that Intelligent Design was the only possible explanation for life.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't figured that one out yet. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are a lot of peo<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ple out there with way more time on th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eir hands to think about stupid shit than what I want to indulge in.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Real<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">istically, this is the <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">problem of an infinite number of monkeys typing away randomly at an infinite number of keyboards and given an infinite amount of time, one of them will produce Shakespeare. The problem with all that is when the first monkey writes the first sonnet, then you no longer have an infinite number, it has then become finite. And the predicted result has occurred. Just because you c<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">alculate the odds against a random set of complex proteins forming as being too great to ever happen only means that when it did, the experiment was over. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Life formed. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mon<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">key wrote 'To be or not to be.'</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And here on Earth, one random broken down old man, a former che<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f, a <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">scholar, a former researcher into the world of mycology<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> writes about how one company, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has elevated itself <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from just a corporation that made money to th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at</span> pinnacle of ach<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">iev<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ement, D<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eification. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monsanto Corporation, soon to be Bayer/Monsanto, has declared itself to be without fault. Without blame<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Bearing no responsibility for any wrongdoing that lowly mortal men might ever consider as having been</span> attributed to the machinations of modern corporate existence. Th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at throughout their existence, the products they m<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">anufactured, the methods they used, and the irresponsible way in which they disposed of industrial waste, were just<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> part of doing business, and as such, we, the public, must bear the brunt of cleanup costs, suffer the ecological damage and rejoice in the benefits that Monsanto believes that they have brought to our lowly, mortal existences. That things from their past (DDT, PCBs<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Dioxin, etc.) </span>have nothing to do with their drive to create the most comprehensive seed monopoly <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">possible along with the complete control over all agricultural chemical production. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whether or not those chemicals harm the environment or not. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Monsanto is going to control them. And </span>the <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">outcr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ies of mere mortals be damned.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC160886/pdf/070907.pdf" target="_blank">Shikimate Pathway</a><br />
<a href="http://www.reasons.org/articles/probability-for-life-on-earth" target="_blank">Odds against life </a><br />
<a href="https://gmoanswers.com/ask/how-does-industry-respond-recent-samsel-seneff-research-regarding-glyphosates-ability-damage" target="_blank">GMO Answers as to why Glyphosate won't hurt you </a><br />
<a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/bills-test/14764-comment-on-critique-of-samsel-and-seneff-glyphosate-review" target="_blank">a bit better review of Samsel & Seneff </a><br />
<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/" target="_blank">Why gluten intolerance is growing </a>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-5155757900321869102016-11-06T13:33:00.002-08:002016-11-06T13:33:50.306-08:00It isn't groundbreaking to any thinking cognizant American. BUT, for the FDA it's GYNORMOUS<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Couple days ago I wrote about how Almonds have now made it to the FDA 'Healthy" list. Not a bad thing. Probably from some corporate pressure, not saying which big <i>Blue</i> colored <i>Diamond</i> rated corporation that ten years ago got the FDA to change their rules for selling RAW almonds and thus put very nearly every other almond processor out of business. But that's the FDA's function, to do the bidding of BIG AGRIBUSINESSES and BIG DRUG COMPANIES. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, that's what their function appears to be. Creating rules and procedures that protect the population from unsafe drugs, bad food manufacturing processes, and to be guardians of the health of all America might be their stated purpose, the reality is far far different. And I write about their failures all the time here on this blog. But for now, I want to congratulate the FDA for, well, for taking a step forward. The latest Dietary Guidelines came out a couple months ago. And they are a RADICAL change from the previous ones. In the past, the guidelines were drafted to ensure that the powerful food manufacturing corporations were happy. Concessions to each industry, making sure that processed foods were included. And in fact were placed with greater emphasis than real whole foods. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This new Guide, is a departure from those concessions. It doesn't go quite far enough, however it's a start. You can take a look here (<a href="https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/resources/2015-2020_dietary_guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">FDA Food Guidelines</a>) It's a hundred and forty-four pages of concepts that actually are a bit innovative for an agency that has never once done something like this. And by that I mean that this one time, the FDA has stated nutrition and health are closely related. Page 21. They also tell us that we should 'limit calories from added sugars'. Page 33. Now, they also tell us to limit intake of transfats. The FDA earlier this year came out and declared that in two more years, transfats will no longer be allowed as an ingredient in any foods. Well, that's not true. Most manufacturers can petition to continue using the stuff and it probably won't make much difference, they will fill the shelves of stores much as they do now. But the FDA did finally admit they are not healthy. The Guide also tells us that we should consume low fat dairy products and/or soy. That was the seventies belief, and so much research is out now regarding how soy products are not in anyway healthy. But then soy is the third largest agricultural commodity in the US, so there's that concession.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Guide also explains that you should eat grains, and at least fifty percent should be whole grains. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there are a couple of declarations that are just, well, weird. Page 35. "Nutritional needs should be met primarily with food" This is a jab at the supplement industry. The FDA wants to control, sorry, REGULATE the supplement industry in a very bad way. And realistically, that isn't a bad idea, there has been some independent lab testing done of herbal stuff that was quite revealing. Hint hint, Large Arkansas Chain and some corner drug store brands that had little to none of the advertised herbs within the packages. Buyer Beware. And you get what you pay for. So, well, the advice is just odd. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Page 44. Coconut oil and palm oils are not considered oils because they contain high levels of saturated fat. However the FDA says Canola, Soy other oils should be a part of your diet. Up to 27 grams. Daily. Really, CANOLA is toxic. But, it is the fifth largest agricultural commodity in America. Big bucks there. And then there is that saturated fat thing, these new guidelines tell us that we should be eating 26 ounces of meats, every week. TWENTY-SIX OUNCES!!! And meats, all contain saturated fat. The really big thing that I don't understand is that same page 44 at the bottom is the statement that "Fats provide essential fatty acids and Vitamin E" This one just makes me think that these provisions were added to keep the processed oil manufacturers happy. Because there isn't a single one of the oils they recommend, except olive oil, that contains much of the needed fatty acid, DHA. They all have ultra high levels of Omega-6 and low levels of the necessary Omega-3s. Read a bit about those here (<a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2016/01/cellular-war-battle-rages-on-within-us.html" target="_blank">the Omegas</a>) Now I would like someone to please tell me how humans evolved needing processed plant oils in their diet in order to live. They are bad for humans, they should all be avoided at all costs, and especially, canola. Well, soy, corn, cottonseed, peanut, and well, all of them. The Guide describes how the Omegas comprise the polyunsaturated oil group. And that they are essential. We need to eat polyunsaturated fats to live. It's as if these people that wrote this Guide have not ever looked at the definitions of Omega fats, let alone the research defining how the body deals with the fats that are consumed. Yes, it's true we need Omega-6 fats, but you can get by with tiny amounts in your diet. And they will be a part of most of the vegetable material that you eat. And Omega-3 fats are the ones responsible for good health. Too many of the 6's and they outstrip the healthy aspects of the 3's. Processed oils contain HIGH amounts of Omega-6 and low amounts of Omega-3. The opposite of what you need for optimum health. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And just because back in the fifties one researcher, Dr. Ansel Keyes did a very poor job of assessing the effect of saturated fat on health, the world has taken those old worn out and outdated concepts as gospel. And the new research is showing that saturated fats are in fact healthy. Well, way way better than processed oils. But not a lot of money to be made telling the truth to anyone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, page 55. The Guide then tells about the Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian lifestyle. Man, why do the Feds push soy products. We know they are anti-nutritive, meaning they block the absorption of vitamins and minerals. They are extremely high in Lectins, which are toxic, and they have compounds that mimic human hormones. Not a good choice for anyone. EVER. And blah blah blah, I get the idea that none of these authors of the Guide have ever met a vegetarian. What would they do with someone that's a Vegan, that's beyond my guess. It must be the concept that Americans think for themselves and only eat real food and forgo the non-nutritive, convenience, chemical laden plasticized food that is manufactured for the sole purpose of keeping the agribusiness engine finely tuned to makiing money. Lots of it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, I gave up trying to read anymore than the first 70 pages of the new Guide. There is some pretty interesting stuff there. And the push toward Americans eating "Healthier" foods and living "Healthier Lifestyles" is a first for the FDA. Generally they tell us all to eat sugar, Crisco, Coke and Gatorade with every white flour white rice meal. So, for that, I applaud the FDA. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They have just got a long long long way to go before they are even close to defining what is healthy, and what isn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They do have a mission statement. <a href="http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/" target="_blank">FDA Mission</a> Personally I think they have failed at just about all of what they profess to be doing. But, that's just me. I mean 175 medications recalled and removed from the approved list after serious incidents, deaths and horrific complications became too great. Taking drug manufacturers to court for violating FDA regulations, including falsifying data to get drugs approved, and then fining those drug companies 20 billion dollars in total; is too little, too late. The FDA had approved each and every one of those 175 drugs to begin with. Inspections of imported food products are at an all time high of 2% of total imports; and of those inspected, over 80% are rejected for contamination, spoilage or other problems. The other 98% are on store shelves. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">ad</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">dendum (I was called out on this</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> and am now revising this by telling you it's 80</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">% of fresh</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> foods that are rejected</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">. The number is not so high for seafood, hard candies and spices)</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span>The list of chemical additives used in the food-like substance manufacturing process is now over ELEVEN THOUSAND different chemicals. And of which over 700 are known carcinogens. And there is no way of knowing if that number is greater because so many have never been tested for toxicity or carcinogenicity. No, the FDA is not in any way shape or form fulfilling their Mission. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/06/humans-are-pretty-resilient-and.html" target="_blank">My favorite example of FDA failure</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The list of failures is endless. The FDA tells us the term Natural can be used on any product really. <a href="http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm214868.htm" target="_blank">FDA Guideline. </a>Then the FDA further defines the use of the word Natural by saying pesticides and other contaminates are fine and dandy <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm456090.htm" target="_blank">FDA Further Guide to Natural </a>So where does that leave the food processors that actually make real food that is NATURAL? Well, at a competitive disadvantage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then the FDA has somewhat stricter rules about using the term Healthy <a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm520695.htm" target="_blank">FDA on Healthy</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Realistically the FDA had to revise the rules that Food and Food-like Substance Manufacturers utilize in labeling of their products as "Healthy". The revisions were needed because the FDA recently published their ALL NEW and IMPROVED DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS for 2015-2020. Which you can read here. <a href="https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/resources/2015-2020_dietary_guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">Dietary Guidelines.</a> And it is long, full of some interesting changes that the Feds recommend, and yet, doesn't do enough. Not anywhere near enough. It is recommended that Americans reduce their intake of sugary drinks, and reduce their intake of saturated fat. See page 14 of the pdf at the link above.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It isn't enough. But then big business controls what the FDA does and doesn't do. And the FDA in setting "Guidelines" can only recommend. There is no action taken other than tiny things like this change in the status of almonds going from "Not-Healthy" to their new status of "HEALTHY". The reason for the change--</span></span><br />
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serving) or total fat per serving must be primarily comprised of mono-
and polyunsaturated fats. Mono- and polyunsaturated fat content must be
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vitamin C, calcium, iron, protein, fiber, potassium or vitamin D. If
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Almonds haven't changed at all. It's the perception of their inherent nutrient density that has changed. And certainly for the better. That isn't in dispute. It's the whole concept that the FDA uses to create food guidelines without actually using available data and research showing the world just how horrific processed foods are. Ever since the inception of the program, the food pyramid, the FDA has bowed to the wishes of food manufacturers and changed what humans NEED to be healthy to include food-like substances that make manufacturers healthy. Profit wise. And at the expense of the health of Americans. You can read about the first <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/07/experts-recommend-dietary-plans-for.html" target="_blank">"Food Pyramid"</a> here.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad thing. It's just like all the other failures of the FDA, it's too little, too late.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep </span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-6006890579633289532016-10-17T09:32:00.002-07:002016-10-22T21:10:28.417-07:00What would Woody Allen say if he really looked around in the future?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a future we have in store for us all. Great things, flying cars, supermen and women, interstellar travel and wondrous monumental technological innovations. Or, depending on who you listen to, a world that has little life left on it, nuclear winter, or even blazing heat having killed off most of the life. And all a result of human intervention. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who knows what tomorrow brings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Woody Allen made a movie with my secret crush Diane Keaton long ago called Sleeper. Nerdish Woody wakes up 200 years in the future, and the world is very different. Cigarettes and chocolate are good for you. And the Orgasmatron is the most popular entertainment around. Well at least to Woody anyway. Time alone where he can think of post pubescent Korean girls.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to explore that world a bit more in depth. Given the path that America, and the international corporate system of the manufacturing of food like products have begun to follow. And the technology that has developed to accomplish what just might be, our food future...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wake up, after having been accidentally frozen in liquid nitrogen in a bizarre calamity that would, well, make anyone laugh. Hey, it's me, a lot of weird crap has happened to me. The year is 22<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6</span>6, I was out of touch for 250 years. The company owners, give me an apology, and register my thumbprint so I can live, at their expense, for a while anyway. I have a young secretary assigned to me to help, at least until I can acclimate to the new world. I am sort of hungry, so we go out and find a diner. There in the front counter space are two huge blobs of quivering fleshy looking mounds. The counter man barks at us, "Hey we got the finest Chicken Little in the city. What you want us to make for you. Or maybe a little Beef Supremo. Just look at healthy they both are, tell me which you want."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My guide tells the man two sandwiches, Chicken Little. The man behind the counter slices off two hunks of the quivering flesh and tosses them behind him onto the hot griddle where they sizzle. We stand at the counter and watch as the sandwiches are made. Once finished, we sit at a booth near the back of the diner.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"What was that?" I ask</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The greatest technological innovation ever! Just think, when scientists were able to genetically create a living piece of flesh, it made it possible to feed a nutrient based solution to the living material, it grows and becomes real living chicken or beef."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"No pork?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This diner is Kosher."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That made sense, my people persevere. "So what's this green stuff on the sandwich, it isn't lettuce."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Well Mr. Marshall, when the corporations assumed control of the world some 200 years ago, Bayer, our Almighty Guardian," and here she bowed her head in a religious sort of gesture, "outlawed all plants except those needed to create our foods we have today. Now days, the only things growing on the planet, outside the few remaining acres of forest preserve in San Francisco, are corn, wheat, soy, cotton, beets and canola. Every single thing that we consume can be artificially manufactured from those basic ingredients. Life is ever more wondrous than ever before."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know it sounds like an impossibility, but think about it. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This scenario is in fact, the goal of every CEO of every one of the food like substance manufacturing corporations, the CEOs of every agrichemical corporation, and every politician as well. That's because when the takeover happens, the politicos will already have structured a deal with their corporate rulers to ensure they live high on the hog and not have to worry about anything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-72203340904024247092016-10-04T09:22:00.001-07:002016-10-04T12:32:31.582-07:00Flu Vaccines A reprint <div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">
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It’s fall, the time when health authorities, medical doctors, and
government officials start aggressively promoting flu vaccines for
everyone. My advice - just say “no.”
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Marketing the flu vaccine to the public requires a lot of
misrepresentation, which includes overstating the incidence and risks
associated with the flu. The flu virus is constantly present and does
not make a brief appearance during “flu season.” Influenza is often
confused with influenza-like illness (ILI) which can result from 200
viruses in addition to influenza A and B. These viruses produce the
same symptoms as flu, which include fever, headache, aches, pains,
cough, and runny noses, making it impossible to distinguish between the
two without diagnostic testing. An individual is seven times more likely
to have an influenza-like illness than influenza, but ILI is rarely
serious.
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Nonetheless The Centers for Disease Control promotes flu vaccines,
stating, “Influenza is a serious disease that can lead to
hospitalization and sometimes even death. Every flu season is different,
and influenza infection can affect people differently. Even healthy
people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to others. Over a
period of 31 seasons between 1976 and 2007, estimates of flu-associated
deaths in the United States range from a low of about 3,000 to a high of
about 49,000 people.”<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn1" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[i]</a>
But on another page of its website, the agency states, “CDC does not
know exactly how many people die from seasonal flu each year.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn2" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[ii]</a> In other words, the CDC aggressively promotes a solution for a problem that it cannot quantify.
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What can be more easily quantified is risks associated with the vaccine.
On several occasions, flu vaccine programs have been terminated due to
side effects. In October 1976, The National Influenza Immunization
Program (NIIP) started with about one million vaccinations per week, and
grew quickly to four million per week. But within only two months, ten
states had reported cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome linked to the
vaccine. In December 1976, the program was discontinued.
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By January 1977, more than 500 cases of GBS had been reported. Some
patients recovered completely, some partially, and 25 people died. The
NIIP determined that the risk of developing GBS <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_195239217" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">within 6 weeks</span></span>
was 10 times higher for those receiving a flu vaccine than for
unvaccinated people. While this should have been the end of promoting
population-wide vaccination for flu until safety could be established,
flu vaccine promotion programs continued. In 1992, 1993, and 1994 flu
vaccines again were shown to increase the risk of GBS.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn3" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[iii]</a> <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn4" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[iv]</a> <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn5" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[v]</a>
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As of November 2013, there were 93,000 reactions attributed to flu
vaccines reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
including 1,080 deaths, 8,888 hospitalizations, 1,801 disabilities, and
1,700 cases of Guillian Barre Syndrome.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn6" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[vi]</a>
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According to data from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,
the flu shot is the most dangerous vaccine in America. During one
reporting period, out of 134 cases settled before the court, 79 were due
to the flu shot, and these included three deaths. While the most common
injury resulting from flu shots was Guillain-Barre syndrome, others
included acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, transverse myelitis,
shingles (herpes zoster), neuropathic demyelination, seizures,
neuropathy, brachial plexopathy, rheumatoid arthritis, optic neuritis,
and Bell's palsy.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn7" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[vii]</a>
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The adjuvants in flu vaccines, which include mercury (25 mcg),
formaldehyde, polyethylene glycol, egg protein, polysorbate 80, MSG, pig
gelatin, and antibiotics are equally concerning. Between 2009-2010,
fetal deaths reported to VAERS had increased 4,250% just with the
addition of Thimerosal to flu vaccines.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn8" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[viii]</a>
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Just as concerning is the efficacy (or lack of efficacy) of the vaccine.
A Cochrane review analyzed the impact of flu vaccines on healthy adults
including pregnant women and newborns by looking at 90 reports of 116
studies that compared flu vaccines to placebo or no intervention.
Combined, the studies included close to ten million people. The group
concluded that 40 people would have to be vaccinated to prevent just one
case of influenza-like illness (ILI), and 71 people have to be
vaccinated to prevent one case of influenza. The vaccine had no effect
on the number of working days lost or hospitalization rates. The vaccine
also had almost no effect on pregnant women or their newborn babies.
Live aerosol vaccine was similarly useless.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn9" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[ix]</a>
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In another review, Cochrane reported that flu vaccines were not effective for the elderly either.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn10" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[x]</a>
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Cochrane conducted a similar review to evaluate the efficacy rates
(defined as prevention of confirmed influenza), effectiveness (defined
as prevention of influenza-like illness), and adverse events of
influenza vaccines in healthy children. The review included 75 studies
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The researchers found “no evidence of effect on secondary cases, lower
respiratory tract disease, drug prescriptions, otitis media… (only) weak
single study evidence of effect on school absenteeism and caring
parents from work.” In other words, the children had almost no
reduction in risk of developing the flu, flu-like illness, or of
developing complications from flu. The vaccine was shown to be almost
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The researchers expressed surprise that the current recommendation is to
vaccinate healthy children starting at 6 months of age in the U.S. and
several other countries based on such limited evidence, and advised that
research is needed in order to identify all potential harm resulting
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Just as important, researchers identified issues concerning study
design, funding, and scientific misbehavior. The Cochrane group reported
that industry-funded studies showed more positive results than those
funded with public money. They reported that “An earlier systematic
review of 274 influenza vaccine studies published up to 2007 found
industry-funded studies were published in more prestigious journals and
cited more than other studies independently from methodological quality
and size…the review showed that reliable evidence on influenza vaccines
is thin but there is evidence of widespread manipulation of conclusions
and spurious notoriety of the studies. The content and conclusions of
this review should be interpreted in light of this finding.”<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn11" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[xi]</a> Translation: lots of misconduct is required in order to report conclusions that support flu vaccines.
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Even the package inserts on the vaccines state that they are not
effective. For example, the package insert for FLULAVAL 2013-2014
formula for Influenza subtype A viruses and type B virus states, “…there
have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease in
influenza disease after vaccinations with FLULAVAL.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_5948919607008378748__edn12" shape="rect" style="color: #7a003c;">[xii]</a>
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Schonberger L, Bregman D, Sullivan-Bolyai J, et al. “Guillain-Barre
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Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-83369982343349891202016-09-22T18:58:00.003-07:002016-10-19T21:21:08.579-07:00First you have to take a leek. Bless us Oh Great One, Julia Child<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I first heard that joke when Julia Child had one incarnation of her television cookery show or another. I believe it was back in the seventies, it was so clever, she was so deadpan. I often think she had no idea what the connotation was to which the public attributed her comment. she didn't need to know, it boosted her to ever greater fame. Julia Child, Superstar. how can we honor her memory. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">lot of flour products of late, just having trouble getting real organic wheat berries. I have been reading a lot about how much glyphosate (Roundup weed killer) is used on wheat grown in the US. Sad, but most conventional wheat growers spray glyphosate on their crops in order to facilitate faster more consistent harvest. Glyphosate is now estimated to be sprayed on over 93% of wheat. And the worst part is that it's sprayed just a few days before harvest. Glyphosate has a nineteen day half life in moist soil. Once sprayed on wheat kernels, it stays there right through the manufacturing process and is a main source of contamination of wheat products. I'm not the first to draw this conclusion, that people aren't allergic to wheat or gluten, they're allergic to the crap sprayed on the wheat. (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/" target="_blank">NCBI Library on the subject, my favorite Fed thing, a repository of knowledge</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I took a leek, cut the green part off, sliced in half and washed the sand out. Cut into slices with half a red onion and sauteed in a bit of organic butter and some olive oil. Added some nice white wine and let that evaporate off. Then beat four eggs with a half cup sour cream. Now, I grated some Asiago cheese (GOTTA LOVE HARD </span><br />
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CHEESES) I just read about a Norwegian study that showed the benefits of eating hard cheeses in raising good HDL cholesterol which helps to prevent heart disease. Rubbed a bit of butter around the cupcake tin and filled with the leek mix and some cheese. Then poured in the egg mix and topped with a little more cheese. Baked at 350 for about 25 minutes and they </span><br />
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were brown, puffy and smelled fabulous. I let them sit on the counter for a bit, maybe twenty minutes or so. Then just use a knife to loosen the edges and pop them out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">all together and coat with yogurt with just a touch of honey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The picture at the top of the page shows an eighth of a cantaloupe. Sadly this is the last of the REAL summer melons. Local Cantaloupes are done for the season. You can buy melons at the grocery stores. But they are sad Sad SAD. If you have never had a real picked when ripe cantaloupe then you have no idea what you're missing. Grocery store melons are picked when hard, shipped for who knows how long, and have little flavor. And little resemblance to real melons. I eat a lot of melon in the summer. It's worth a drive to the farmers market just to pick them up. And the variety of other melons, amazing. Orange flesh Honeydew are my favorite.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gave up drinking sugary sodas back in the late seventies. By that time, I had had 4 cavities and one eventually rotted and caused the tooth to die precipitating a root canal and crown. I chose a gold crown, cuz it was cooler looking. Then, I went every two years after marriage, but I stopped as there were no problems and I adopted the dental regime of my paternal grandfather. The man was a horrific human, bigoted, opinionated (he gave new definition to that term) and just an all around obnoxious person. But he did have nice teeth in his nineties. He brushed with peroxide and baking soda. I started that as well and found no need for dentists. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But, one time, some thirty-one years after the affixing of a gold crown onto my tooth, the crown came off. I went to the dentist and requested that they apply their special glue and for me the world would be a better place. Nothing ever works out the way one wants it to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I get into the chair, the technician, a very attractive blond with a winning smile and incredibly over whitened teeth. She takes a probe and begins to insert it between the tooth and gum on the front row of my bottom teeth. I grab her arm and tell her to stop. I don't want that. She tells me the purpose is to determine how much room there is between tooth and gum and what might become of my teeth should there be excessive gaps. I asked her not to do that, and to proceed with the X-rays as I had thought that was the reason why she had come in. That's what the receptionist told me would occur first. She sighed, then took the pictures. I waited, and eventually the dentist came in. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Slipping the X-rays into the viewer, he starts off by telling me there are gaps in the area between the gums and teeth and this will necessitate a cleaning and planing of the area below the gum line. Four visits to complete all the work, financing available. I ask him where the gaps are. He then takes a closer look at the pictures and points to the two front teeth where the technician had poked the probe in. I pointed this out, I said there only seem to be two teeth where this has occurred, and the gap was caused by the probing and luckily there are no other gaps as I stopped her at two. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My dentist was silent, but only for a moment. Well now let's look at what's going on here then, he began. We need to grind down those sharp edges and build up some areas so we can get a good impression for a nice porcelain crown there. And we need to work on that little caries there and we can always grind out those other three old cavities and get new porcelain crowns to replace them. And I think we need to remove your wisdom teeth, once that's done you'll have a lot more room in there and we won't have any more problems like this in the future.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got up and left. They mailed me a bill for over six hundred dollars. I never paid it. That was fourteen years ago.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>To this day I have a gap <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">between</span> the molars on the lower right side where a gold crown used to be, but of which I now carry <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">said crown</span> around in my wallet. A souvenir of sorts. I don't drink soda. That right there causes more dental problems than anything else in modern life. I gave up most sugary things long long ago. And of recent years, I gave up all sugars and all processed foods. And that has helped the bone degeneration caused by the intervention of modern medical practitioners that used drugs to treat symptoms and never actually ever attempted to learn the real reason why I was sick. They didn't really care, it wasn't their life they were practicing on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The problem was, I had never made them. I know they are pretty simple. Just old chips, sauce, cheese and fried eggs. So I don't ever eat them any more and have never tried to make them since I wouldn't want to eat them. But recently, I had a hankerin' for 'em. I wanted them, bad. But it's the GMO corn thing, the fried in Canola Oil thing, the I would never eat a grocery store egg thing, I won't eat them. Well, I won't go to a restaurant to eat them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I'm the Great Food Guy. I can make things better, healthier, tastier. Not really, not when it comes to chiliquiles. I had hoped. But I was mistaken. First, I thought why use corn chips when I can use something else. So I tried frying sweet potato chips in coconut oil. Yuck. I fried zuchinni slices in the same. Double yuck. I made some whole wheat tortillas from real whole wheat and fried them. Then I tried baking them. Okay, -ish. But not great. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I realized that Big Food is responding to the needs of the consumers, that we, well some of us, are not the drones spending food dollars willy-nilly like in the old days of black and white TV and the sheeple spent money on what ever commercials where shown. Truthfully, that was the age of conve<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nience foods and consumers bought everything new and easy. </span>Now, Big Food <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i</span>s actually trying. Some of them <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>re anyway. So I found Tostitos Organic chips and Safeway Organic "O's" brand organic chips as well. I make the greatest green salsa ever, my Chef Roy The Great Food Guy Cactus Salsa. So, I already only buy my eggs at the farmers market<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that way</span> I don't ever have to eat eggs from any commercial egg manufacturing facility (notice I don't call them chicken farms?) So all I had to do was assemble, bake, fry, top, and then enjoy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-87651181305567014782016-08-10T11:41:00.000-07:002017-02-08T08:48:40.717-08:00Insight.... into me.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I was being, in my own head all I could do was agree with her. Everything I did, all of my interactions with
her, my family, my coworkers, were just tired worn out copies of emotional
responses that I used over and over again.
What worked once, I tried to use as a one size fits all response to
conflict, solutions to any and all dilemmas as they arise. And let's face it, I had no silver spoon,
there were no magic beans for me growing up.
There was no conceptual concrete basis for existence within a community
network of humans that was developed during my childhood. For all intents and purposes, my
developmental growth took place in a framework of dysfunction pure and
simple. My homelife was the very
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strength of will, determination and an individual conceptual
realization have led to an understanding that I am a living breathing product
of a billion years of evolution, of thousands of years of societal growth and
progression, of selective breeding and of corporate husbandry in the rearing of
my person in preparation to become a consuming commodity within American society.
And other than television reruns of Leave it to Beaver, no emotional
instruction what so ever had been done to prepare me to exist in this world. </span></span></div>
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of slavery, war, execution, and then there's Ezekial 23:20, that got me a
little excited. As probably all young males did. The travesty of religion is
that mentality of do this, be generous, don't lie, cheat, steal,.. kill, were
stories in the bible and just tales of lives past. Rewards were achieved by so many for such activities. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yet w</span>e are not to live our
lives according to what those people did<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">take</span></span></span> the Holy
Bible <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>s the true word of that God and is irrefutable evidence of how we are to
live. That living a good life and emulating the main character in the book will
lead us to the ultimate reward, heaven. I never figured that part out and so
none of it was any help <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in</span> my dealings with my wife, my family, my friends,
and the world around me. </span></span></div>
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shaman who spent the greater part of three years teaching me to see the beauty
and majesty of our Mother Earth. And to recognize her signs as guides to live
our lives. And the hardest thing, to stop my internal dialogue. And although to
this day I can see the auras of people, feel their emotions and generally tell
when someone lies to me, it never actually helped me in the day to day living
with my wife. That set of beliefs, the realization that I am but an individual
part of the Universal Consciousness, that I am here in this plane of existence
to learn, to help, to grow spiritually and to consciously expand the parameters
of my beliefs in not just my existence, but the place each of us holds within
the Universe. I still needed help just understanding why my wife and I could
not agree to simple constructs of emotional stability within our chosen
existence together. </span></span></div>
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personally wanted to be true, what actually occurred around me, was not always
within my belief that all should be as I desire. That perhaps was my greatest
revelation and geared me toward a greater understanding of my participation of
life within this Plane of Existence. Now, years later, I still can't keep the interest of the
women I meet, and for unknown reasons find me attractive. It's possible they just ti<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">re rapidly of my self-depr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e</span>cating mannerisms. Or as I have been told by so many friends, that the expression of intellect <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">manif<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ests itself <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into</span> the image o<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f superiority. Whic<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h in reality isn't something that <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span> believe within myself. </span></span></span></span></span></span>That I recognize I have super<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ior<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">knowledge retention</span> has never given me acceptance that I am able to utilize <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that pure asset of mem<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ory recall </span></span>effectively within my simple existence in society. I do understand it doesn't work that way. </span></span>I do
not however,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>use those same tired copies of blanket responses to
conflict and instead attempt to derive new expressions to fit specific
circumstances. Perhaps it's that part that I'm just not that good at. N<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">thing</span> of my life experiences were ever remotely like the fictionalized <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">drama of</span> Leave it to Beaver. I had virtually no other role models. Well, perhaps Bell<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a Lugosi...</span></span></span></span></div>
Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-12897809000161874602016-07-21T12:04:00.002-07:002016-07-23T04:50:03.889-07:00Every single person in the world is odd, to every one else<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm odd. I realize that. It took me years to figure that out but once I did, I became more forgiving of those with which I interact daily. As we are raised within a small group of family and friends, with occasional excursions into the real world, we primarily focus on the behaviors of those we deal with daily and they become the measure for normalcy for each individual. If you're raised in a household where everyone eats copious amounts of meat and puts ketchup on everything, then to you, that will be normal. It takes life changing events, continuous and constant exposure to differing culinary experiences to alter that concept of what was previously, normal. But it happens. All the time. I myself am not anything like the people with which I was raised. I don't eat meat, nor any ketchup. I have a tremendous appreciation of the fine arts, my family and most of my friends even now have probably never heard of Vermeer, and could never tell the difference between Pissaro and Picasso, nor Monet and Manet. It's not HOW you are raised, it's how you apply yourself to life after each individual human goes through that process that we all go through, recognition of our own individuality. For fun, you can check out the Edinburgh Lectures for an indepth discussion on how humans morph into individual consciousnesses. (<a href="http://thomastroward.wwwhubs.com/teloms7.htm" target="_blank">Weird stuff man</a>) And then into part of the Universal Consciousness. Not for everyone, I thought it fascinating.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So at some point, everyone goes from a child living as part of the family unit, into a cognizant thinking individual. For some, that might be at age two. For others, in their teens, or thirties. For some in backwoods areas of little eddie cashun, it might go on for their entire lives where whole families think, act and believe with absolute certainty that how grandpa and pa lived is perfectly fine with them and they continue to think, act and produce even more offspring with the same capacities and beliefs. Not unlike a lot of Republicans and Southern Baptists. Sorry, a bit of a snide comment. But then being snarky in reality is a part of my upbringing, so nurture does play a part in our psychological makeup. It does take an effort to change that as well. I so far haven't been completely successful at eliminating that unwanted trait. But, then, back to our individuality, how is it that some humans living in a specific family situation, with siblings, and extended family, grow up to be completely and totally off the wall wacko? By that I mean, serial killers or those with the propensity toward horrific violence. Did they eat the lead paint chips off the walls, drink too much Kool-Aid with all the horrific artificial dyes, or perhaps mom and dad taught them to pull the wings off flies and watch fascinated as they spin helplessly. And then that behavior grew exponentially over time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is something that is difficult to quantify. I can only tell you what I believe. There are a lot of opinions out there, doctors and researchers that talk to the wackos and then write papers about how the crazy came to be. There is getting to be a lot more research into just that very subject. This is a link to my favorite repository of data, the NCBI Library. (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17433442" target="_blank">Diet and Violence</a>) I don't think you have to be credentialed to read that one. But it draws very obvious conclusions about how chemical laden foods have increased as has violence and there are specific corollaries found between them. On the other hand, the psychologists out there all want to take credit for their conclusions on why there is an increase in violence and death. It's the old nurture thing. The way a child is raised, their experiences along with persons they come into contact with, are what work to develop the minds of the more odd and wacko amongst us. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There will always be controversy when attempting to define the parameters with which humans go from within accepted norms, to without. Everybody I'm sure knows a few that they believe to be outside the accepted parameters for normalcy. I've known a few. Well, quite a few. And who knows, my interactions with those that don't fit into the established parameters of normalcy as established by not just society, but the familial upbringing that shaped my formative existence. Case in point, one of the first wackos I remember meeting. I was fourteen, I worked at a tropical fish store cleaning up and selling fish for the owner who he and his family would eventually become very good friends. A woman, a very odd in appearance woman came into the shop and asked if we sold leeches. She had a sore on her leg and wanted to use them along with maggots to eat the bad part of the sore. Yeah, self directed medical procedures with fish store leeches. We didn't have any, in fact we tried our best to kill any we ever found. But my introduction to wackos was just beginning. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout my life, I have met, (even married one) had relationships with or tried desperately to avoid contact with people that I, and probably most, would classify as, wacko. How do you quantify the totality of crazy. Is it a little bit crazy to be like my old roommate Terry Fredericks that was dating the girl next door and every Monday after he was with her for the whole weekend, she would break into the house and steal his stuff. And he was okay with it, she slept with him. Which one was wacko. Or the woman that was a friend of Fat Gary's that during sex wanted me to hit her. I never did, and only had relations that ONE time, so I'm pretty sure I'm not the wacko. Perhaps not, she was unbelievably attractive. It's not like she wanted to hit me. That would have made me the wacko. Or the guy I know that believes that he is the New Messiah and travels around attempting to convert young ladies to his belief system. Is he wacko? I thought he was, but he gets a lot more women than I ever have and he ain't all that great looking. But to me, there are a lot of people out there that exhibit behaviors that I consider wacko. I know a lot of men and women, that like to go to strip clubs. I don't. I know men that patronize prostitutes, I don't. I know people that eat crappy fast food and have unbelievably poor nutritional standards. I don't. I think all those are wacko. However, none of them have gone on a shooting spree. Nor has my interactions with any of them caused any sort of thing within my psyche.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-22118255134483091222016-07-07T12:35:00.002-07:002016-07-08T08:03:59.661-07:00Going Raw<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Man is the only animal on Earth that alters the food we eat by using heat. It isn't uncommon for animals to alter their foods, spi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ders and snakes inject poisons, alliga<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tors drown their prey then <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tuck the bodies<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> away to begin to breakdown and become easier to in<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gest. Humans cook their food. As far back as half a million years. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">depending on who you read, maybe as far back as 1.6 million years. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(1)</span> It really matters little<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the time frame, what is in general consensus, is that cooking foods<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is what allowed proto hominids to develop <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from their ape-like ancestors <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">into the more modern humans. <span style="font-size: small;">(2)</span> The fact is th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at cooked foods, of both meat and vegetable origins,</span> are more easily digested <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with greater nutrient absor<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ption than raw foods. And the big one, they are much much easier to eat. This <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fact itself led to huge changes in the structure of human teeth. <span style="font-size: small;">(3)</span> Allowing for fewer, smaller and less molar like front teeth<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span> Granted this <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is all conjecture, but the knife and fork were<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> thousands of years away and so sharper front teeth made it easier to bi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">te off hunks of meat, a<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s well as cooked tubers and whate<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ver else caveboys threw onto the fire that they all just learned to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">control. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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It didn't hap<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pen. Consuming too much meat is not a good thing. <span style="font-size: small;">(4)</span> A<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rchaelogical e<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dence points to a diet rich in tubers, nuts, seeds (including grains)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>and fruits. And in all probability, whatever green <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">plants were growing around. That one is pretty hard to find remains of, but indigenous tribes everywhere on earth pretty much eat whatever greens are <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">growing locally</span>. All of them. Everywhere. And for those Paleo people thinking that the Inuit only eat meat, the<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> fact is that they eat the <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">digestive organs of the animals they kill and th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at</span> includes reindeer stomachs filled with lichens and moss. 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It was the combination of a variety of nutritious plant based diet providing carbohydrates for energy, meat<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (both scavenged and hunted) for greater protein needs for muscular development, and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Omega 3 rich seafoods for brain development that led to the evolutionary <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">growth of humans. And all<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, or mostly all, cooked <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for greater release of nutrients. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, with all the basics out of the way, let's talk about going raw.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Raw Diet Plan. There are two versions, one is <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vegan, the other <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">includes stuff like raw meat and dairy. </span></span>(not my thing at all) <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both however, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">specifically promote the <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inclusion in your diet of <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">raw, uncooked foods. And also t<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o include stuff like fermented vegetables, soaked or sprouted seeds, nuts and even grains. And lots and lots and lots of green plants, seaweed and supplements. Yeah, that last one is necessary if you go with an all plant based raw diet. Sorry, but the human body can't exist on JUST raw plants. It doesn't work that way. The entire premise behind the Raw Food Movement is that cooking destroys the enzymes within the plants (and meat and dairy as well) that the human body needs to actually digest completely <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in order to remove the necessary nutrients<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. You know, it's sort of correct. For a lot of foods, that's the way it is. But a lot, not so much. Carrots, broc<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">coli<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, tomatoes<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, peppers, potatoes and a <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">bunch of</span> others, need to be cooked in order to free up the nutrients. Yeah, the thin<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g is, none of those things were around when humans were doing that evolution thin<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g and eating the ind<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">igenous flora where they lived. They're all from other locales. So we need to be mindful o<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f what we can digest, an<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d what we can't. And here it's extremely important to understand that humans have never, ever, been able to digest and survive on meat from the grocery store, processed foods (pretty much anyt<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hing white) and sugar. Modern meat has been discussed here on my blog and throughout the internet (yes, even the Paleo People say it is not good for you) and it is more detrimental than you can imagine. <span style="font-size: small;">(6)(7)</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eating raw <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">plant based diet <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">causes a large number of changes within the body. Many are good. Some, not so good. The good changes mean that your digestive system begins to heal from whatever <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">foods you consumed in the past<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Any processed foods, foods containing processed sugars, foods cont<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aining large amounts of toxic additives and agricultural toxins such as the big one, glyphosate. It is now a suspected carcinogen as declared by the World Health Organization and it is pervasive, invasive and pretty much EVERYWHERE in small amounts. It destroys the Schumate Pathway in plants and bacteria. And as we all know, bacteria live in our digestive systems and we absolutely depend on their benefic<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ial actions for our existence and our good health. The newest research that has pretty much unanimous agreement in the scientific world, is that our gut bacteria are an inte<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gral part of our Immune Systems. <span style="font-size: small;">(8)</span> Destroy the gut bacteria, humans get sick, are stricken with multiple long term chronic conditions and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">may in fact be part of the reason for increases in childhood problems such as autism, ADHD <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and might be <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">part of the causality whereby <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">envi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ronmental triggers such as modern preservative and neurot<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o</span>xin laden vaccines <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are causing increases in SID<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S and other <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">specific childhood problems. Eating unprocessed and uncooked foods will heal the <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">intestinal tract of damages, bring in <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">good bacteria and in general help to promote the natural immune <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">response within our bodies. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conversely, a lack of specific Omega 3 fatty aci<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ds <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in our diet can cause a series of adverse reactions. Our bodies require Omega 3 (specifically docos<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>hexaenoic acid DHA) wh<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ich is the one essential fatty acid needed for brain <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">development and for normal functioning of the C<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">entral Nervous System. <span style="font-size: small;">(9)</span> If you don't have enough DHA, and if you are older, like me, your body <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">loses the ability to synthesize DHA from other Omega 3 fatty acids that are readily available from pure plant sources. <span style="font-size: small;">(10, 11, 12)</span> And then things go downhill rapidly. Vision, heart regulation (meaning arrythmi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">can occur) lupus, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arthritis, brain <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">functions<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (cognition and the brain's ability to communicate with every ot<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">her organ and syst<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">em<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) Whew, that's a lot for one small fat molecule. The scary thing is, we can get by without <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">meat protein just by eating various plant bas<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed amino acid<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> groups. We can get by w<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ithou<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t carbohydrates by the body catabolizing fat stores and then muscle tissue. (although there is a limit to that<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">((however remember pictures of American POWs <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">held by the Japanese and Jews in concentration camps)) But forgo that one essential fatty acid, DHA, and things go bad pretty fast. Certainly a lot depends on <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">individual physical responses to everything<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (individuals act and react differently and with statistical certainty we can pr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">edict patterns for entire populations based on that) That's why so many <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in those camps died pretty quickly and others hung on for a long time with their bodies wasting away as they catabolize their own muscle, brain material and bone<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s in or<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">der to keep living. Sad, but that's how it all works. We need these things, and when we don't get them, we have problems.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back earlier this year I started <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to go strictly Raw. Well, I was having a lot of health and happiness issues, women, the cancer scare, the FEDS just ignoring me, my van, criminy, so many prob<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lems. So I ate raw, dr<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ank beer and smoked a few cigars. My ability to concentrate meandered off into the bushes somewhere and I couldn't think straight enough<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to go find it. My vision was blurry and I felt like crap after just one month. One month. Sheesh. And I dropped about twenty po<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unds.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">might have been part of the problem. But one of the benefits of eating a Raw Diet is that big bi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g weight loss thing. If <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">all you eat is raw stuff, the digestive system can't retrieve enough nutrients to maintain<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> your body the way it is. Therefore there is that cataboli<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">zing function<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the body d<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">oes that strips away the essential fats from the stored fats and burns what's needed to fuel the brain. Okay, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Paleo peo<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ple reading this, it puts one into Ketosis. You burn your stored fats<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> along with whatever carbs you eat<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as the body pro<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cesses <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">stores to release DHA. Not always the preferred method of obtaining nutrients if <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">done too rapidly.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This then leads me into my diet. I call it the Modifi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed Raw Diet. I eat a lot of raw foods. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I eat a lot of fermented foods. I eat raw crackers. <span style="font-size: small;">(13)</span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I eat wild caught salmon<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, pasture raised eggs and some sardines from time to time. For the DHA my <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">body needs. I also eat brown rice. I believe it to con<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tain more nutrients than just about any other food source. And it keeps your skin soft. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cooking-up-bigger-brains/" target="_blank">Scientific American </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/04/im-lot-like-my-ex-when-someone-tells-me.html" target="_blank">Chef Roy on Evolution </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/02/okay-if-early-humans-didnt-eat-tons-of.html" target="_blank">Dentition changes </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4</span>. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2014/03/meat-what-happens-when-humans-eat.html" target="_blank">Too much meat</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257695/" target="_blank">Omega 3 diet in Paleo hominids </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2013/05/yep-gonna-gross-you-all-out-again.html" target="_blank">Modern Meat </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2012/12/okay-lets-get-to-meat-of-matter.html" target="_blank">the Meat o<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">f the Matter</span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337124/" target="_blank">NCBI study on Gut Flora</a> </span>(one of thousands)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">9. <a href="http://choose-eat-live-well.blogspot.com/2016/01/cellular-war-battle-rages-on-within-us.html" target="_blank">Omega 3 Fats</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10, <a href="http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/other-nutrients/essential-fatty-acids" target="_blank">Linus Pauling Institute </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11. <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/omega-3-fats/" target="_blank">Harvard Med </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12. <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10479465" target="_blank">Pub Med </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13. <a href="http://www.therawtarian.com/basic-raw-cracker-recipe" target="_blank">Raw crackers </a></span></span><br />
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Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026578431322947039.post-54970724250394747692016-06-21T09:09:00.000-07:002016-06-21T11:36:32.972-07:00Vegetarian? Really Chef Roy? We've seen you eat meat!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After yesterday's post about meat I received a few comments from friends about my personal eating habits. And they were correct, I have eaten meat in the past, and I do eat a bit now. Now days though, it has to be grass fed free range or imported from Spain or Italy. Whereas the meat that my friends did indeed see me eat back some years ago when I catered or cooked for events, was always just grocery store meat. However, I won't eat that stuff anymore. And since I have very little money, pretty much I don't eat any meat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what do I eat then?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am Lacto Ovo Piscevarian Vegetarian. As I have explained in the past, people my age that are not intense athletes, lose the delimiting enzymes needed to convert smaller chain Omega 3 fatty acids ALA and EPA into the much needed DHA. So since I don't run, bike or otherwise burn 4 to 5 thousand calories daily, (which it is thought promotes the production of those specific enzymes) I need that DHA from organic dairy, free range organic eggs or cold water fish and shellfish. Lacto - Ovo - Piscevarian. Earlier this year a very dear friend told me she was going totally raw. I looked into it, was impressed with the amount of data there is on the internet about the subject. The concept is pretty sound, cooking destroys most of the enzymes that natural whole foods contain that the human body uses to actually digest the plant material. So I tried it as well. For about four weeks, I ate nothing but raw foods. Except for beer and cigars, which technically I ate neither one. Anyway, I felt like crap after four weeks. I dropped nearly 20 pounds in that time. Maybe that was part of it. But that did make me look more into the Omega 3 aspect of diet. Learning is something I like to do, and the world does in fact change as new data, new experiments and new conclusions are reached all the time. The human race is learning. There just isn't a whole lot of wisdom coming with all that knowledge though, and that's the problem. Yes, we can make food plants grow in toxic synthetic weed killer, but should we?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, what do I eat? I love to eat. I eat spicy foods, I eat whole grains, I eat raw vegetables, I eat to fuel my body. I used to eat stuff that satisfied my tastes and hunger for sweet, fat, processed and crappy. I weighed 325. Today I weigh 248, just looked. In the past few months I have changed my diet to what I call the Modified Raw Diet. It's the diet for a healthy existence, one that allows the person to maintain an exceptional degree of good health. Provides all of the nutrients needed for maintenance of a healthy human body. And also like me, helps you to achieve weight loss goals. The diet is simple, eat a wide variety of raw plants, nuts seeds and some fruit. Organic. If you eat food that has pesticide residue, was grown in exhausted soils using petrochemical fertilizer, your body has to work hard to process the toxins that are IN your food. Don't eat the toxins, and you are off to a great start to begin with. Then in the modified Raw diet, eat the things that help your body, things like whole milk yogurt, aged raw cheeses, real eggs and fish. And that last one, eat wild caught fish, never farm raised crap. And finally, eat some whole grains that are prepared in the time honored traditional ways of preparing them. This basically means don't eat plain old cooked rice or wheat or corn, or other grains. Grains and seeds (nuts to a lesser extent as well) contain lectins and phytates which need to be neutralized in order for them to be healthy. Soaking, fermenting (or souring), sprouting and steaming all are traditional methods of processing grains that were discovered many many millennia ago and make those foods healthier. It's so easy to do, soak your brown rice overnight before you cook it. Ferment your bread dough overnight before baking your bread. (Yeah yeah, I know, I'm the only one in the world that bakes his own bread. Try Ezekial sprouted grain bread, just as good) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, me, I eat brown rice virtually every day. I eat a small piece of real whole wheat bread (I know it cuz I make it) three or four times a week. I eat eggs 5 or 6 days a week. And I eat humus a few days a week also. The rest of the time, I eat vegetables and fruit. Some of the vegetables I cook lightly. Except Kale, that needs to be cooked awhile. And fruits, I only eat what's in season locally. I make raw crackers, I soak and dry my own nuts and seed mixes and snack on those, and I eat an avocado every day. Seventy- Eight pounds lost. And although I have continuing long term medical issues (Thank you City of Austin) the reality is that since I have begun the raw and then went to the modified raw diet starting in January, I haven't been in the ER or hospital, haven't had a flare up of my MRSA infection in my sinuses, haven't had to go to the doctor because of uncontrolled asthma, been able to walk a mile or two nearly daily (well, the last one I stopped as it's 95 degrees at 6 am now)((but I ride the stationary bike)) and I feel better than I have since the black mold incident back in 2009. Now maybe part of all that is because I absolutely and completely gave up eating all processed sugars, any and all processed foods of any kind really and only eat things that I myself made so that I know exactly what it is and how it was processed. And all the food I eat is organic or grown by local farmers. I do go to farmers markets every week and I do get to trade with those guys for my food, but I have found that market food is comparable in price to organic produce sold at grocery stores. And the quality is way way better. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So just one example of a fantastic breakfast I made that only took about fifteen minutes to make and it was indeed, fit for a king. I took some baby zuchinni, split them in half and </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">threw onto my cast iron in some olive oil. Then sliced locally grown mushrooms, a sliced red onion and a red pepper I grew in my container garden, then stirred them around a bit. Then cracked in two real free range eggs and cooked them over medium. (note in the picture just how ORANGE the yolk is, compare that to grocery store eggs with their insipid flavor and pale yellow color) Served with some sliced cantalope and it was the perfect Father's Day breakfast. Not exactly raw, but they were just lightly sauteed and still able to retain a lot of the desired qualities of raw vegetables. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yep</span></span>Chef Royhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05023967786835417542noreply@blogger.com0