Friday, June 7, 2013

Evita Ramparte Cures Ovarian Cancer With Fruits and Vegetables

Evita Ramparte reminds us what we can achieve as we introduce organic fruits and vegetables and eliminate dairy, meat, and eggs intermittently from our diet.
At the 2:20 mark, she describes the foods that she ate on her way to better health.  Could not believe it when she said that she passed 16 stones from her gall bladder.
I liked what she said about strengthening her liver in order to clean her blood, pancreas, kidney, and all the other organs that were healthy.
Was not shocked by the callousness of her doctors who when asked what the cause of her cancer was cynically retorted, "If we knew that, we'd be Nobel Prize winners."  Too many doctors are idiots.  They offer you choices, two choices: drugs or surgery.  When my mother, 89 at the time, was rushed by ambulance into the local Emergency Room, the ER doctor asked her what day it was.  Anybody rushed anywhere in a less-than-healthy condition while causing alarm among caring and loving family members is asked an irrelevant question about what day it was, which is the last concern on her mind,  particularly when she is in trouble health-wise and rushed to a strange and unfriendly place where family members facilitate a transfer of self-ownership to monsters in white coats feigning legitimacy, is not going to be quick on the uptake.  But the doctor asked her this question as a way to prove the existence of something--an unknown, unnamed something--in order to get her a hospital room (cha-jing!) and run more tests (cha-jing!).  Beginning that very night through to the following day, technicians wheeled in their holy hardware, and explained in very technical terms, with beeps and graphs in neon red against a gray screen what the machine did.  These technicians saw my mom with her full medical insurance as a very convenient and fully-functioning ATM.
I did a little checking.  I had to.  When my mother was advised (why did it feel like an order?) to stay in an Arcadia, CA hospital overnight by the Emergency Room doctor, she did not like it.  After a number of babies, my mother was familiar with hospital rooms and procedures.  She was not a fan.  So that first night when she was admitted, she really didn't want to be there.  She was 89 and was used to the comfortable surroundings of her home.  She wanted to go home.  My brother stayed with her in the hospital her first night, defending her against repeated tests that the nurses and Rn's had performed on her already earlier in the day.  She really, really wanted to go home.  So my brother told the nurse apologetically "My mom would really like to go home.  We're going to take her home."  The head nurse replied, "Her doctor is going to be really angry."  Does that sound like a threat?  It does to me.  If he's angry, what's he going to say or do that might cause legal or medical insurance problems for my mother later on?  I do not know.  So my mother stayed the night.
What my brother could have benefited from was an understanding of a patient's rights.  Who grants those rights?  I would say the individual patient has rights that come from her creator.  Rights certainly are not conferred by the government or hospitals.  No, rights come from the individual.  But I wanted to know, wanted something in writing.  Here's what I learned from talking to two representatives at the Arcadia Hospital.  One is that if a patient leaves the hospital on her own accord, on her own cognizance without a medical discharge she could be liable out of pocket for the expenses of being in the hospital for as long as she was.  In my mother's case, she was in the hospital for less than 24 hours.  The legal term, and bureaucracies love legal terms to intimidate patients and their families with legal terms is "against medical advice."  When I asked the hospital representatives if they had anything published on their website, one gentleman told me yes.  When I asked exactly where on the website it was, he said that he didn't know for he had never visited the site.  He transferred my call to someone else.  He got nervous for not knowing exactly where that code or law came from. 
I was transferred to the Risk Management Dept.  The woman there told me about the Patient's Bill of Rights.  Said that every hospital in the state follows the state's authority.  The Patient's Bill of Rights is posted throughout her hospital.  She explained that nothing about the patient's bill of rights was to be found on their hospital website.  She is the one who told me about the term "against medical advice."  That's legal speak for hospitals and doctors protecting themselves against malpractice and dereliction of duty.  When I asked her, the woman gave me an example of someone being on drugs and going AWOL.  Hell of an example.  I was calling to find out an individual's preference to say, "Hey, I don't like it here.  I want to go home where I am comfortable."  But his representative gave me an extreme example to emphasize that the hospital is more concerned about someone's health than the individual herself or that of the family.  Hospitals love to use rhetoric to scare people out of their rights.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

What's In Your Bacon?


Bacon.  I love it.  I love the fat.  Love the meat-to-fat ratio in my bacon. Delicious with eggs sunny-side up.  Delicious as a snack wrapped in Romaine lettuce leaves.  The perfect hors dourves  with wine or beer.  I want to continue eating bacon, but I want the right kind of bacon, the best kind of bacon.  How do I achieve that?  It depends on what hogs are fed.  I've seen pictures of hogs feeding on grass, but perhaps they are just foraging for something else, something more specific.  A friend of mine writes, "Ever see a wild hog (which are descendant of escaped domesticated pigs).  The meat is fantastic, a little dry maybe, but the critters eat what they normally would eat on their own and survive nicely without one grain of corn or soy.  I, unfortunately, have not had the opportunity to try the bacon from such an animal, but what I have had is wonderful and flavorful.  Pigs, as I understand them, are scavengers for the most part, and eat what they find, including animal flesh." 

Ask.com. Wild hogs eat "mostly acorns in the fall. Other things they eat include hickory nuts, pecans, roots, fruits, mushrooms, bugs, small birds, rabbits, eggs, and even dead animals."  Texas Parks & Wildlife explains that "Feral hogs are omnivorous, meaning they eat both plant and animal matter. They are very opportunistic feeders and much of their diet is based on seasonal availability. Foods include grasses, forbs, roots and tubers, browse, mast (acorns), fruits, bulbs, and mushrooms. Animal matter includes invertebrates (insects, snails, earthworms, etc.), reptiles, amphibians, and carrion (dead animals), as well as live mammals and birds if given the opportunity. Feral hogs are especially fond of acorns and domestic agricultural crops such as corn, milo, rice, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, potatoes, watermelons and cantaloupe. Feral hogs feed primarily at night and during twilight hours, but will also feed during daylight in cold or wet weather."  Based on these two sources, Ask.com and Texas Parks & Wildlife, grass is not a hog's primary source of food; they may eat it, though, as a digestive aid.  Some places do offer grass-fed bacon, but based on what I've found so far that grass is a blend of other grains.  Still, the cholesterol in bacon is terrific for signaling between organs. Has a healing effect.

Bacon comes from hogs. But the question remains, what are commercial farmers feeding their hogs, the meat of which ends up interacting inside the biochemistry of our gut? 

Bacon is a breakfast staple in many homes.  I would not want any GMO in my breakfast bacon.  I learned just the other day that Kellogg's Fruit Loops is made with 100% genetically modified wheat; ditto for the sugars.  Pray for the children. 

So, what are the hogs fed?  Free-range hogs tend to eat roots, flowers, and other things.  Commercially farmed hogs are fed corn and soy grain mix. Okay, what kind of corn are they being fed?

GMO Corn.

GMO Soy.
And other GMO products that increase estrogen into one's system while destroying testosterone, effectively feminizing men, is corn.  Many farmers that I have met have been overweight perhaps because they eat their own product which is fed on genetically-modified, synthetic, pharmaceutical foods.

A reader at the DailyPaul.com commented on the video below [emphasis is mine],
When he fed particular varieties of genetically engineered corn. The starlink corn, infamous for having been never approved for human consumption because of allergy concerns yet ending up in taco bell shells anyway, was one of them. The other one was Roundup Ready Bt Corn (see the link at starlink corn) if I recall correctly.

Of course, as the wise interviewer pointed out in the full video, 

even the GM corn that didn't cause that specific issue could be causing less obvious problems in people who eat the meat and drink the milk of GMO fed animals. It may not be so clear to people who experience health problems that it was caused by genetically engineered foods they were eating. Especially if those problems were sub-acute and that only gradually became worse over time. Just because people are being harmed by something doesn't mean they will automatically correlate the cause and effect properly.

For anyone who did think their health problems were caused by genetically engineered food, it would be pretty hard to prove. Just listen to what he says happened to the people trying to research the issue he was having with his livestock. They were reportedly threatened and told never to talk to him again.

. . . end quote.  The writer of the above comment owns the site, What Is a Dollar?

Be sure to check out the link to this video. The original interview is over an hour long, and it is on Vimeo below.  Be sure to check out all of the comments in the previous link. This is a terrific interview, in no small part, because of the threats that this farmer and others interested in reclaiming our food supply received at the hand of universities and associations supported by Monsanto money.  Folks, Monsanto food is poison and it is making us sick.  They've hijacked the food supply.  As best as you can, eat organic.  People rely on food for their health and strength.  GMO products are stripping us of vitality.  More and more this, to me, is becoming the number one issue concerning our well-being. We've got to take back the food supply.

Jerry Rosman from Ananda Guillet on Vimeo.

Here are some farms from which you can buy bacon online.

NC Smokehouse is located in Claremont, New Hampshire.

Poly Face Farms is located in Swoope, Virginia, owned and operated by Joel Salatin, his family, and staff.  He does not answer email questions, but he is more than helpful by phone, preferring more traditional ways of living.  I like it.  I will call him on Monday to ask for a recommendation on bacon and to find out more on what free-range hogs eat and why and how it is that commercially raised hogs are force-fed grains.  Are grains a hog's natural diet?  I will leave an update in the next few days.

Good Earth Farms is in Wisconsin.

Grass Fed Beef is in Loveland, Colorado.

1990 Rocky Mountain Ave

Loveland, CO 80538

1-888-586-2209 (M-F 8am - 5pm EST)

A tiny caveat: I have not tried the food products from any of the above-mentioned farms.  I have called Polyface Farms and asked to buy products, but they do not ship their products out of state.  All local distribution for Joel Salatin.  I have, however, contacted by email the other farms listed above and am waiting on replies.  When I get them, I will ask for permission to pass them on to you here.

UPDATE, Thursday, June 20, 2013 Wow, the news on pigs and their feed just gets worse.

Friday, May 31, 2013

What Odds Do You Prefer: 90% or 3%?

Ayurvedics has a 90% cure rate with some cancers.  Chemotherapy?  3% success rate.

Monsanto Madness

 

Wait, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was a hired lawyer for Monsanto back in the 1970s? Talk about a revolving door! One of the most powerful corporations in the world has one of its own on the Supreme Court. Conflict of interest? What's that?

Let's see, Monsanto has produced products such as Agent Orange, Aspartame, Ready-RoundUp, and bovine growth hormone found in milk.  A long history of being unkind to mankind.  Yet, our Congress approved a Monsanto Protection Act.  Fruit Loops are 100% genetically modified.

Friday, May 24, 2013

Today's GMO Wheat: Not the Staff of Life

Stop eating wheat.  Below is an interview that Dr. William Davis gave on CBS This Morning.  There is another interview he gave on CBS News Online with Oprah-appointed twit Gayle King here.


Dr. Davis is apparently the founder of the website http://www.trackyourplaque.com.

Here is Dr. Davis's book.  And be sure to check out some of his reviews.

And don't miss Lew Rockwell's interview.  He asks the best questions and shines light on the interested culprits.