I have come to the conclusion that one of the most important contributing factors to health is the things we simply put in our mouths and ingest, i.e. things that we eat or drink. This can include a variety of things as such fruits and vegetables, but also things like twinkies and french fries thanks to the chemical “food” manufacturing companies.
To me diet is not something you do for a short time to lose weight to fit into your favorite dress.
To me diet is a set of principles you adhere to in selecting what type of food or drinks you ingest to give you maxiumum nutrition to achieve optimum health.
The objective of diet and nutrition is to increase your health, not to simply fill you up or excite your taste buds.
When we look it at that way, then there are certain questions that arise, such as:
What is the effect of this food/drink on my health?
How is my body going to react to this food/drink?
Is what I’m about to ingest going to take me closer to optimum health or away from it?
And finally, what is the optimum diet for humans and more importantly for my body?
In my opinion, those are the questions we should be asking ourselves every time we make a decision to ingest something or not. And this decision in my opinion should be a conscious decision based on the research each one of us has done personally and continues to do so throughout life. As you continue to research nutritional science then you can incorporate the new data with your existing knowledge and the experience of what has worked for you in the past.
Unfortunately for many of us the decision of what we ingest is made for us subconsciously by the advertising and marketing messages we are bombarded with on a daily basis. We just cruise past the grocery store aisles with our carts, grabbing things from this shelf or that shelf without reading the labels, knowing the ingredients in the food item, or what it will do to our body once it’s in there.
To me the first important part of change is awareness, i.e. the knowingness or the feeling that things can be better, followed by a desire to improve the status quo. Second is education which brings about awareness of the benefits and dangers associated with various food items and that is hopefully why you are reading this blog.
The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, had said “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food”.
I do believe in that statement. I believe that our food was not only meant to sustain us with the energy necessary to accomplish our earthly tasks, but also to keep bodies healthy and safe from harm by foreign micro invaders.
After much research I have come to the conclusion that the optimum diet for the human body is one of raw, vegan, living foods.
The food must be in an uncooked state because heating up food beyond 108 degrees Farenheit (according to some 114 or 118 degrees) will denature the enzymes in the food. Enzymes are special protein molecules that speed up or catalyze certain reactions in the body such as digestion. There are certain digestive enzymes that are in our food and some that the body makes itself. The more we heat up or cook our food, the more food enzyme we destroy and the harder our body has to work at manufacturing these enzymes, which is a very energy-intensive process for the body. One of the best sites I have found on raw food educations is by Dr. Jim Carey, Ph.D. promoting Dr. Ann Wigmore’s program from the Creative Health Institute. I highly recommend it. You can also get Dr. Ann Wigmore’s 10-DVD set Special for $88 from this special link.
The food must be properly combined for optimum digestion and absorption. To undertand this I highly recommend reading Fit For Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. This book is full common-sense suggestions on foods and a healthy diet, plus many directions on how to properly combine your foods. For instance you don’t want to mix your proteins with carbs, such as a steak and potato. Instead eat the steak with some steamed or sauteed vegetables instead of the potato and you can do the same thing with the potato or carbs. I lost 30 lbs during a year just by following this particular way of eating without changin must what I ate. For those who are not ready for a raw diet, then this is the best I can suggest.
The food must be in proper quantity: NEVER OVEREAT and always stop before you get that “stuffed” feeling. That is very taxing on the body. I still do get dragged to a buffet once in a while but I always end up regretting it because I just keep eating. So if you’re like me, don’t put yourself in a position where there is an unlimited “all-u-can eat” supply food.
I wish you the best in your efforts towards creating a healthier body
In recent years milk and dairy in general has come under increasing scrutiny but the big corporate powers have enough political and financial power to muscle even the networks into submission.
If that one doesn’t wake you up, then try this one from Robert Cohen, the author of “Milk, the Deadly Poison”:
Forgetting about all of this, if you just think about it from a common sense point of view, taking into account some basic principles you learned in biology class, you’ll see that cow milk is not appropriate for human consumption.
First off mammals, the family that the homo sapien species (humans) belong to, do not consume milk after they are weaned off. You do not see that anywhere in nature. Humans are the only mammals that continue to consume milk beyond infancy and even puberty.
Second, no one out there goes to drink someone else’s milk, that is the milk of another species. You don’t see tigers drinking wolf milk, or sheeps drinking chimpanze milk, or cow’s drinking deer milk, or deers drinking elephant milk, etc. I’m sorry but that’s just plain dumb. And yes, I did consume dairy products for the first 35 years of my life.
The protein in milk, casein, forms a guey solution in human stomachs and is not really digestable by humans.
Calcium is not absorbable in presence of protein and milk is basically liquid protein.
The hormone rBGH or recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is passed on from cows to humans and is bio active in humans causing various health issues including early puberty.
The rBGH also causes udder infection in cows and the puss from the udder finds its way into the milk as well. Yummmy. These infections are the reason why non-organic cows must be treated with antibiotics.You definitely want to watch “Food Inc.” to understand that statement.
rBGH also creates painful and crippling joint disease in cows and that’s simply inhumane. It also causes the udders to grow painfully large and beyond normal capacity.
Still think milk does a body good?
But what about organic milk?
Of course if you have to drink milk, then I would highly recommend that you do not even go near any milk that is not organic. Also organic milk has the added benefit that the cows are fed with organic feed and you’ll be saving your body the added toxic effects of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, etc.
From what I have read it seems like goat milk is more closely available to human body than cow milk. Another thing that you want to keep in mind is that you should go for raw milk because the process of pasteurization destroys much of the protein and good bacteria that are in milk. And if you are going to go for raw milk, then I would highly recommend that you make sure that it is from a trustworthy source, i.e. that you check out the farm and the sanitary conditions that the milk is produced in and make sure that the milk is very fresh to avoid the potential possibility of food poisoning.
To recap my recommendations:
Avoid milk and dairy products alltogether
Or if you have to drink milk, then go for fresh raw goat milk from a sanitary and trustworthy source.
Among alterantive chronic disease treatments, The Gerson Therapy stands head and shoulders above the rest. Here is a little background on the doctor who developed this amazing therapy [1].
Dr. Max Gerson was born in Wongrowitz, Germany on October 18, 1881 to a German-Jewish family. After graduating from High School he attended universities of Breslau, Wuerzburg, Berlin, and Freiburg for his medical studies. In 1907, he completed his internship in Hoechst, Main, and subsequently worked as on assistant to Professor Albert Frankel, M.D., in Berlin.
From 1909 until the beginning of the First World War, he worked in Berlin in the Friedrichshain Hospital with Professor Kronig and Professor Borottau, and for a short period at the children’s clinic with Professor Minkowsky. As a captain in the German Army Medical Corps, Dr. Gerson was a close associate for almost half a decade of the prominent neurosurgeon Ottfried Foerster, M.D. In 1919 he went on to start and develope his own practice.
While he was a university student, he developed these migraine headaches that became worse over time to the point that some times he would have to spend 3 days in a darkened room, experiencing nausea, vomiting, eye sensitivity, and aweful one-sided headaches with a pain so severe that he felt as though his cranium were splitting in two.He asked many of his medical professors for advice and was told to “just learn to live with it.”
Determined to find a solution he started his research and after studying numerous books he came across an article in an Italian medical journal that mentioned a woman who found relief from migraines by changing her diet but no details were given. Treating a disease with diet was a novel idea to him, so he set out to experiment with his diet. First he started drinking milk and only milk for 10 days. This seemed natural to him because every baby drinks and can digest cow’s milk. After 10 days his migraines did not improve and it occured to him that animals never drink milk once they are weaned, and that a human’s physical structure is more similar to a vegetarian animal and that he probably should live on fruits, vegetables, and grains.
Then he started an apple-only diet and he became well with no migraines. He then started adding foods one at a time and listening to his body’s reactions and took note of his negative reactions to certain foods including cooked foods. He then figured out that he could tolerate cooked food as long as no salt was added to it. He finally developed his “migraine diet” which consisted of raw fruits and vegetables and some cooked food but totally without salt.He then recommended this diet to his patients with migraines and they became free of migraines as long as they stayed away from salt and did not cheat.
One day however a patient showed up and claimed that his migraines had disappeared as well as his skin tuberculosis, known medically as lupus vulgaris. Dr. Gerson then informed his patient that lupus is incurable but the patient had proof from bacteriological studies that his previous diagnosis from another doctor was correct. So for the first time Dr. Gerson had cured skin tuberculosis with his special diet. Doctor Gerson then asked the patient if he knew any other patients suffering from lupus from the hospital where he was treated and he was put in contact with them. They in turn also recovered from lupus with his special “migraine diet.”
“News of Dr. Gerson’s success with treating lupus vulgaris came to the attention of Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch, M.D., the world-famous lung tuberculosis specialist who practiced in Munich. After conducting long discussions on dietary concepts with Dr. Gerson, Prof. Sauerbruch decided to set up a clinical trial using the Gerson Therapy. During an extended period, the professor treated 450 “incurable” skin tuberculosis patients using Dr. Gerson’s method. Of these subjects, 446 recovered fully; Dr. Sauerbruch was deeply impressed. The renowned lung specialist reports on this successful Gerson dietary trial and its positive results in his autobiography, Master Surgeon.” [1]
“Dr. Gerson was not satisfied to let the situation rest there. He reasoned that if lupus vulgaris could be healed with diet, why not other forms of tuberculosis, such as lung, kidney, or bone TB? He started to treat such cases and found that they too responded to the dietary therapy and were cured.” [1]
“One of the lung TB cases was Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s (the Franco-German physician, theologian, philosopher and organist who received the Noble Peace Prize in 1953) wife, Helene., who had contracted tuberculosis at an early age in the tropics and was in terminal condition when she was brought to see Dr. Gerson by her husband. Mrs. Schweitzer recovered from her disease completely and went on to live well into her eighties.”
This is what Dr. Schweitzer had to say about Dr. Gerson:
“I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the Most Eminent Geniuses in the History of Medicine.”
So ask yourself, why hasn’t everyone heard of him and why are his methods not being taught at every single medical school on the planet?
Here are a few documentaries about the Gerson Therapy:
“The Gerson Miracle”
“The Beautiful Truth”
and “Dying To Have Known”
So after all these many years why are so many doctors ignorant of the importance of diet and the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy? Is it just their ignorance or is there more going on?
“During the course of treating these various migraines and tuberculosis cases, Dr. Gerson found that many of the patients had been suffering from other problems, too: high blood pressure, asthma, allergies, kidney damage, arthritis, redisual stroke, hardening of the arteries, and more. These acute or chronic degenerations also disappeared. Unquestionably, the Gerson Therapy worked toward correcting almost any degenerating illness.” [1]
“Thus, Dr. Gerson reconized that he was no longer treating a disease; he was helping the body to heal itself of nearly all dysfunctions. Of course, this meant that he was no longer treating symptoms but the patient’s underlying problem; he was taking a completely different direction from the usual approach of orthodox medicine: the suppression of symptoms.” [1]
If you are still not convinced after watching full-length of the 3 documentaries above, then I urge you to read the following books:
(Disclaimer: this page contains no medical claims or recommendations. You as the reader are encouraged to do your own due diligence and research and to use your common sense in making decisions regarding your own health and whether to subject yourself to someone else to inject vaccines/flu shots into your body or those of your loved ones.)
Possible dangers of flu shots and vaccinations
In the past few weeks there has been a lot of talk about the H1N1 Swine Flu and the regular flu shot and forced vaccinations in several hospitals and NY State. This has prompted me to write this post and put all the data in one place to make you aware of the dangers of flu shots and vaccinations in particular. This video is a good summary of some of the issues about flu shots and vaccines. Flu Shot summary There is also a good article on Dr. Mercola’s website on flu shots that I would recommend.
1. Flu Shots can be ineffective
First it is necessary to understand how flu shots are made. Each year members of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and/or various other health organization travel to asia to take samples of the flu virus there in the estimation that it will hit United States the following year. This would give them some time to prepare the large enough batches to vaccinate a descent percentage of the population. As anyone who has studied Biology or immunology would know, a virus mutates fairly rapidly so by the time you take a sample and create a vaccine for it, that particular virus could have changed by the time it travels half way across the globe and you are most likely going to get sick from it if it ends up in your body.
2. Poisons in Vaccines
There are various additives in vaccines that are highly toxic and dangerous to human health. Most of these are scientificallyknown toxins, so it is not about how you and I “feel” about the subject. They may not paralyze or make you sick right away, but they are definitely a lot worse for your body than the flu itself. Who put them there and for what purpose is another discussion which I will not get into here. A few examples of such poisons are:
Formaldehyde is used to deactivate the virus. One Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) had this to say about the toxicology of formaldehyde: “Causes burns. Very toxic by inhalation, ingestion and through skin absorption. Readily absorbed through skin. Probable human carcinogen. Mutagen. May cause damage to kidneys. May cause allergic reactions. May cause sensitisation. May cause heritable genetic damage. Lachrymator at levels from less than 20 ppm upwards. Very destructive of mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract, eyes and skin.” Another MSDS states: “Death if inhaled or absorbed; severe eye irritation and burns; allergic dermatitis, skin burns; bronchitis, pulmonary oedema; headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting; abdominal pain; blindness.”
Mercury in vaccines known as Thimerosal which is a mercury derivative, is added as a preservative and antibacterial agent to increase shelf life. Mercury is one of the most dangerous neurotoxins known to man and it can cause severe neurological disorders as well as paralysis and you’ll see below under the “side effects” section. One vaccine can contain as much as 25mcg of mercury. More information on mercury is available at Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website or Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) website.
Aluminum is toxic to central nervous system and is linked to Alzheimer disease
Propylene glycol is antifreeze used in radiator of vehicles and very toxic
Squalene is an additive used to turn the body’s immune system against itself to illicit an immune response, but it can also cause autoimmune diseases. Side effects of vaccines
There can be many side effects to vaccines, the most prominent one, and the least harmful one, being catching the flu itself. Why not get the flu naturally and allow your body to develop immunity to it instead of getting the injection along with all the other poisons adn then get sick on top of that. That is just plain stupid. Besides, you may even not get the flu. 72% of doctors and nurses do not get the flu shot every year and still many do not get sick even though they are in contact with infected patients.
Death – despite all the fears created in public’s mind by the media, there are normally only a few hundred deaths per year in the US from the flu itself. Ever since the introduction of vaccines the number of deaths in children has skyrocketed and so has the rate of autism.
Dystonia - some of the side effects however are much more severe than that. As you’ll see in the following video the beautiful Washington Redskins Cheerleader Desiree Jennings is permanently disabled from just one flu shot:
Here she is in another heart-breaking video:
Here are some more possible side effects of vaccines: auto-immune disorders, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, autism-spectrum, pervasive developmental disorders, Asperger’s syndrome, sudden infant death, infantile paralysis, post vaccine syndromes (Gulf War syndrome, Guillain-Barre syndrome, cognitive impairment, etc.), seizure disorders, ischemic strokes, specific learning disabilities, and attention deficit disorders. It is unknown what truly causes these effects, it could be the biological components of the vaccine which cause the immune dysfunction or any number of adjuvants used to boost an immune response as well as the preservatives such as forms of mercury which are toxic to the nervous system.
So with all these side effects, who IS getting the flu shot? Well, one of the most popular doctors in the U.S., Doctor Oz is getting one:
But did you notice that Mrs. Oz, who is a health-care advocate is not getting the vaccine and neither are their four children?
Have you learned a new tip this year that you will put to use to protect your health?
I’ve started taking Vitamin D more regularly to not only ward off colds and flu, but to fight inflammation and improve balance. I actually learned about the vitamin’s many benefits from my father, Dr. Gerald Lemole, a heart surgeon and integrative medical expert.
You’re a producer, writer, actress, co-host of ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ on Oprah Radio, mother and wife, how do you achieve balance among all these roles?
Health is a combination of body, mind and spirit. I make sure that I nourish each aspect of myself – giving my body whole, nutrient-dense foods, plenty of clean water and exercise. I love to read about new things and try to keep an open mind by practicing non-judgmental observation, and finally, I renew my spirit with yoga, reiki and prayer.
What? Is this woman nuts? What is she doing being married to Dr. Oz? I think we should be listening to Mrs. Oz instead. But are all of the doctors mislead and brain washed and have sold us out to the big pharma?
No. Here are a few of them that have managed to maintain their professional integrity and are looking out for the people’s interest and telling the truth: This is a video of Dr. Gary Null exposing the truth behind the vaccines and big pharma. He is highly educated and appears to have studied the literature extensively. These 3 videos are a must see even if you watch nothing else on this page:
Dr. Larry Palevskyis a board-certified pediatrician trained at the New York School of Medicine and unlike most doctors, he has taken the time to go through the scientific literature and studies. Not only that but he also shares his own experiences that he has had with many parents whose children were vaccinated and developed many diseases later on. Here he is being interviewed by Dr. Joseph Mercola on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
I highly recommend that you support the Nutrition Institute of America and get your free copy of the Vaccine Nation DVD.
After the State of New York decided to force all health-care workers to take the flu shot, many have protested against the government:
and Dr. Chris Shaw
Target population for flu shots
So who are these flu shots being promoted to? The elderly, young children under the age of 6 and pregnant women. We already know that the elderly are the most exploited population segment by the drug company. Most are on multiple drugs and then they are put on a bunch more drugs to counteract the side effects of their primary drugs, and then a bunch more to counteract the side effects of the secondary set of drugs and so on. It’s not unusual for most elderly to be on 5-15 different drugs. They are literally guinea pigs for drugs that may not have even been properly tested on a wide scale, let alone the drug-drug interactions among multiple drugs. And if they protest and don’t like it, well then they must be senile and are put on psychiatric drugs.
Now we get to children and pregnant women. So let me ask you, if there was a poison that was toxic to nerves (neurotoxin) that we were to inject into people, who would be most likely to suffer the damaging consequences of such poisons? You’re right again: a developing fetus and young children, and those are the primary segments that are being targeted by the drug companies and “our” government. The question is “why?”
Politics of vaccination
There are many issues associated with the US government’s policy on vaccinations. The most obvious one being money. We must follow the money trail to see where it leads. Yes, you guessed it: the drug companies. Let’s see who is to profit the most The drug companies (and those who have invested in them such as the Rockefellor and Carnegie Foundations) have determined, shaped, and influenced our health care (sick-care) system in the U.S. for about the last 100 years. They have decided what’s good for us, which naturo-pathic practices to suppress and which drugs to invent. Unfortunately they do not have the best interest or even the health of the public at heart. But isn’t the H1N1 and the flu, aka influenza really dangerous and widespread?
NO. According to a CBS report the H1N1 is not as prevalent as feared. In fact the majority of those sicknesses did not even test positive for the flu, let alone the H1N1, and this could be one possible reason why the CDC abruptly ordered the states to stop testing for the H1N1. But why? Why does the CDC and our government not want the people to know that the H1N1 virus and infection rates are very low and almost negligible? Why is our government trying to spread fear in the population through the media and would this not be evidence of a collusion between the government, media, and the drug companies working together to poison the American public?
And why are they not sharing the actual data? Now we’re entering murky waters as it will always be the case when we “follow the trail” in politics. Instead of admitting that the H1N1 flu numbers have already peaked in mid October, president Obama declares H1N1 a “National Emergency late Friday October 23, 2009. According to the White House, “declaration allows medical treatment facilities to better handle a surge in flu patients by waiving federal requirements on a case-by-case basis.”
Below is a video of an interview with Dr. Jerome Corsi where he explains the implications of a declaration of National Emergency by the president and its related documents. This interview was conducted during the Bush administration but the signing of these documents paves the way for what is happening now. Please watch.
Best protection against the flu (in my opinion and a few others)
It is no surprise that flu happens mostly in winter months when we are getting less sunshine and Vitamin D, which is involved or essential in regulating more than 200 functions in the body. Take a Vitamin D3 supplement or attempt to get as much sunshine as possible.
Get plenty of rest. Try to go to bed at or before 10pm as the most restful sleep occurs before midnight. Rest, relaxation (meditation, yoga) and sleep are essential to the recuperation of body’s many systems including the immune system
Wash your hands often, specially after coming into contact with public items such as door handles, rest rooms, general shopping items or shopping carts, money, etc.
Drink plenty of fluids such as water or fresh organic orange juice which will supply your body with Vitamin C
Other articles, links and resources:
There are a ton of resources and links online. Please do not take my word or anyone else’s word on this very important issue. Please do your due diligence and get educated:
