It turns out that if you're looking for a healthy gut and healthy gut muscle tissue, it's not enough just to eat good, leafy green vegetables. To restore gut health, one needs fermented foods, like sauerkraut, dill pickles, etc. Fermented foods seem to be particularly effective, more so at least than sweetened keifer drinks. And the fermented foods don't just release digestive enzymes to break down protein found in meat, but it actually restores vital gut flora. This is essential. What are fermented foods? Not all fermented foods are created equal, nor do all fermented foods provide equal amounts of healthy bacteria. For example, beer has fermented yeast as does bread. Are these health foods good for you? Will these foods get you out chronic conditions? You know the answer to that. Here's an additional list of fermented foods. Eating meat becomes more enjoyable and healthful when you combine cabbages or sauerkraut with the meat. Check out this dish: Think of the foods that already come with sauerkraut, like a kraut dog or a dog and slaw: (Though I've eaten hotdogs and have loved them when I did eat them, they do have lots of preservatives and sweeteners in them. Want health? Eat fewer hotdogs.) A Reuben sandwich: A lot of people love pasta because of the chewiness and taste and tradition. It's a staple in their diet. Their moms at it before them as did their grandparent. But try sauerkraut as a substitute with meat and find some delightful surprises. If you're seeking to maximize energy and vitality while enduring specific conditions or trying to increase your overall health, I strongly recommend eliminating breads, pastas, and other food grains. Though it is true that there is fermented foods in bread, like fermentation of yeast, your gut, muscles, and nerves will really appreciate the fact that you abstained from wheat. If you haven't seen it or read it, be sure to check out Dr. William Davis' reports on wheat and his indictment of it in a slew, not a slaw, of chronic health situations. His lectures are excellent, too. According to Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride, author of the Gut and Psychology Syndrome, your gut flora is determined, or given to you, by your mother. She makes the claim that abnormal gut flora plays an important role in immune maturation. Following vaccines, well the damage to the immune system is worse. She connects an abnormal, pathogenic bacteria damage the gut lining, making the gut leak and unable to digest food properly. She makes the claim that the pathogens from a toxic gut get absorbed into the central nervous system and cause autism. Without checking the data, I think that she is correct. Ms. Donna Gates, who speaks with McBride, says that children need several pounds of fermented foods. Here is Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride's website, and here is Donna Gates' site is here and her site Body Ecology.
This presentation is given over 6 videos. The rest of them are here: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. Source of the above video is here. This article read pretty well and pretty consistent about which foods are good for your gut. The bacteria in keifer and yogurt survive passage through your digestive tract and into your colon where it does it good work.
"Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children's brain and nervous system development"
I notice a significant energy difference when I eat raw butter. I don't know about you, but the '80s with Ansel Keys and George McGovern's lipid hypothesis [great timeline here] and anti-cholesterol campaign scared people away from healthy, nutritious food and asked us to accept pasta and multi-grain breads as health food. I bought that and I paid for that. I used to consume large amounts of spaghetti for dinner, topped with butter, pesto or tomato sauce. It was tasty. I loved the chewiness of pasta, but it was filling.
1. Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A necessary for thyroid and adrenal health. 2. Contains lauric acid, important in treating fungal infections and candida. 3. Contains lecithin, essential for cholesterol metabolism. 4. Contains anti-oxidants that protect against free radical damage. 5. Has anti-oxidants that protect against weakening arteries. 6. Is a great source of Vitamins E and K. 7. Is a very rich source of the vital mineral Selenium. 8. Saturated fats in butter have strong Anti-Tumor and Anti-Cancer properties. 9. Butter contains conjugated linoleic acid, which is a potent anti-cancer agent, muscle builder, and immunity booster 10. Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium. 11. Protects against tooth decay. 12. Is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects against calcification of the joints. 13. Anti-stiffness factor in butter also prevents hardening of the arteries, cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland. 14. Is a source of Activator X, which helps your body absorb minerals. 15. Is a source of iodine in highly absorbable form. 16. May promote fertility in women. 17. Is a source of quick energy, and is not stored in our bodies adipose tissue. 18. Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children's brain and nervous system development. 19. Contains Arachidonic Acid (AA) which plays a role in brain function and is a vital component of cell membranes. 20. Protects against gastrointestinal infections in the very young or the elderly.
According to Dr. Edward Group, blueberries are an excellent brain food. He says that "Berries are rich in antioxidants which protect your brain cells from oxidation and free radical damage [1]. This means antioxidants may slow down brain aging and prevent disease, while promoting the growth of healthy brain cells." So when you're looking for food to increase brain energy, reach for blueberries. Think blueberry brain. Spinach does the same things. Create a spinach salad with blueberries and some goat cheese. If you're abstaining from food for the time being for whatever reason, Dr. Group recommends water as brain stimulant. He says water increases your alertness, "Did you know that water can actually increase your alertness? When
you’re feeling sluggish in the afternoon, instead of grabbing a
caffeinated, carbonated drink, pour yourself a tall glass of purified water."
Anthony Gucciardi interviews Dr. Edward Group on radiation exposure. Be sure to check out Dr. Edward Group's YouTube video at his channel. His website is here.
BPA was used as estrogen replacement in the 1930s. Dr. Group's dad was a chief chemist for Exxon.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Activity & Essential Foods
I was in a Vons store out here in Southern California earlier this week and overheard a young mother's reply to her child's comment about a certain food being good for your mind. And it struck me because there is so much press, propaganda, reports, all sorts of information that tell us which foods are good for us and which are not. I do the same thing here. But what is good for one person is not necessarily good for another person. And what is good for us one week or month is not that important for us the next month or week.
Though food is important for our health and well-being, so is activity; perhaps equally so, if not more so. Activities like thinking, figuring things out, assembling things, and so forth--these are excellent activities for your brain. Learning a new language is great. A new sport or activity, like dancing. Something that requires finesse and not brute strength or force. Swimming requires some strength. 80% of the balance in swimming is taken care of by the water. Okay, that's one thing I wanted to say. Another is that there are certain foods that work as valuable staples in an economy where prices are making certain goods more scarce. One food product that I really like and rely on is virgin olive oil. I consume this California Estate Olive Oil from Trader Joe's. The cost is $5. But as you commit to some challenging and vigorous activity, the power of these foods is increased. The health benefits of healthy food is maximized. Anyway, on the olive oil, I really like the peppery bite in the good olive oils. Mark Sisson made a great point that you should buy local whenever possible. We tend to think of really great olive oil coming from Greece or Italy, but oil from locally-grown olives is best. As the economy gets tighter, it is important to have healthy foods around. Almost everyone I read says stay away from canned goods because of the BPA in the containers and other nefarious ingredients. For the most part, I like this advice. But there are times when I crave a canned food item. But there are some products whose nutritional benefits outweigh the caveat. Liver pate is one such food. Liver pate is high in Vitamin A. The Vitmain A in carrots and other vegetables is beta-carotene. But the Vitamin A in animal meats is Retinol A, which is really good for immunity and differentiated cell growth. There are lots of pates on the market. Some stores sell only one or two, so I get what is available from them. Here is one:
The other food to consider is grapes. Not everybody likes grapes because they are a diarrheatic. Let that be a lesson to you--raisins and grapes are great constipation-fighters. But grapes certainly do activate your gut. That's a good thing in my opinion.
Finally, the last thing that I wanted to talk about was GMOs. Below is an example of how the GMO industry and Monsanto are able to influence kid opinions in US schools, circumventing parental consent. The sample below is a grammar and spelling worksheet or test. Here I've retyped a few of the sentences: #1: These foods come from organisms that have purposefully altered DNA fore a variety of reasons. Sum plants have been made moor drought resistant, which means life or death in some parts of the world. #2: Other plants are now more pest resistant sow that fewer chemical pesticide applications are necessary. #3: Buy inserting an antifreeze gene from fish into potatoes, scientists have created potatoes that can withstand colder temperatures. Based on the final question about reasons strengthening the paragraph, the task seems to focus on grammar only. But why use reasons that advocate for GMOs? It assumes the legitimacy of GMOs. It assumes that scientists are clever tinkerers who work only to benefit mankind. Ha!! Here is the original. The above page comes from an elementary textbook published by Evan-Moor Corporation. Check out the following: Direct message posted yesterday by CEO of the textbook company. https://www.facebook.com/evanmoorcorp/posts/10151842992454158 A message from the CEO of Evan-Moor: It has been brought to my attention that one of the activities in our
Daily Six Traits Writing books contains a biased article about GMO
foods. After reading the article, I must agree completely. I want to
thank the parents and educators who brought this to my attention. It was an error in our authoring and editing processes. The article
was intended to present both sides of the issue and did not. Normally
this would have been caught by our fact checking processes. Please
accept my apology for the error. I have directed our editorial staff to replace the article when the
book is reprinted and to make the new article available on-line free of
charge. Those of you who have e-mailed us will receive personal
notification when the article is available. We will also post the
availability on FaceBook. On a personal note, my wife and I have contributed to a number of
organizations that are campaigning for labeling of GMO foods: Organic
Consumers Association, Food Democracy Now and Yes on 522 in Washington
State. We do not allow GMO foods in our home, and we would certainly
never do anything to promote them in our publications. Sincerely, Bill William E. Evans, CEO Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Food is important to me because it is the difference between health and sickness, between strength and weakness, and between power and control. I read a lot of articles, many of them are disaster stories and for this reason I prefer not to share too many of those. But there is this one story I read yesterday by Ethan Huff, a staff writer over at Mike Adams' Natural News. It was an article on how pervasive BPA, the chemical of which plastics are made, is. Plastics are ubiquitous. If you drink bottled water, there's BPA in the bottle. And you know from personal experience that those bottles sit during transportation for hours in sweltering heat across desert terrain. When we see them on the store shelves, we don't see them inside 18 wheelers making their way across the deserts of the Southwest. That plastic softens and melts, leeching chemicals into the water. The waistband of our pants contain plastic. Shoe parts are plastic. Plastics are everywhere. They're in your car. In your bus ride. Everywhere. Not to mention the hallogens that appear in your living room furniture. This is one of the reasons I prefer to drink water out of a glass bottle. Not easy to find, which is why I do drink Perrier out of a glass bottle. It's not for everybody. But I like it. The more I drink, the more I find myself dehydrated. What's weird is that I found myself smelling like vinegar the other day. My nurse friend of mine told me that it is probably me detoxing with water. Okay. I can live with that. The Huff article focused mainly on fetal exposure to BPA. But it's in adults too, complicating hormonal and chemical processes. Choose glass when you can, if you can. Though the article was disheartening, you still have choices. Choose glass. BPA has a disastrous track record on sperm count and activity. Does it threaten our species?
Raw Milk: The Only Milk to Drink The only milk you should drink is raw milk. And I like Claravale's raw cow milk. I love the fat that is in this milk. And I don't say this to be a snob. I say this because apparently not only has the FDA, a federal government agency, given permission to milk producing farms to add aspartame to their milk but it seems as though they've incentivized it, encouraged it, maybe even mandated it. The last one sounds extreme, I know. But why would milk producers suddenly begin to add aspartame to milk? Were they getting complaints from parents, "Oh, your milk isn't sweet enough?" I seriously doubt it. Just last night I saw aspartame in a tea product at VONS in California.
The Power of Turmeric
I've written on tumeric before, but I have never tasted raw tumeric root. It is as you see pictured below, maybe even a little more orange inside that what is presented here. Initially, it tastes like a carrot, but a carrot with a zing. If you're tired of eating carrots, then try raw tumeric root. It's tastier, and it helps to reduce inflammation on your liver.
If you want to learn of all of the benefits of turmeric, then check out this list and this post. It inhibits Alzheimers, so if you are concerned for yourself or loved ones, you might want to read this short paragraph. It's a great brain tonic. The trick is to find a way to get the spice into your system that makes it easy. I consider this spice the most important also for liver health. So don't miss it. Find a way to get this into your system--a fruit smoothie, a vegetable smoothie, something tasty with a plain yogurt.
