Food Is Politics

The above video comes from this Reason article.

91-year-old Sy Perlis Sets Bench Press World Record

This should inspire you. Food is important to modify and regulate strength and vitality, but exercise, particularly weight-lifting, is an excellent way to maintain blood vessel and muscle integrity. 

91-year-old Sy Perlis from Surprise, Arizona pressed 187.5 pounds for his world record.

I like his wife's testimony on his behalf. That is a true partner.

REMINERALIZE YOUR TEETH WITH XYLITOL

The following was posted at askdrellie.blogspot.com, and I thought that you might enjoy reading it and that you might benefit from it.  Dr. Ellie recommends using Xylitol gum to fight the acid and bacteria in between and inside the crater of your teeth.  She states that once you neutralize the acid and bacteria, your teeth will begin to remineralize through the avoidance of acidic foods and drinks.  Check out her reply to a letter from a fan.

Hi Dr. Ellie:

Thank you for your explanation on remineralization. It makes sense. I don't know why more dentists don't tell their patients. Maybe they don't believe it. They would be doing their patients a big favor if they told them. It is still unbelievable that something exists that is so natural. You mentioned that you have seen large cavities heal themselves. Without sounding like a fool, what happens to the decay? They should make xylitol in a rinse formula.

M.A.

Hello M.A.,

To fully explain and answer your question I have written a book that will be published next year!

Decay (or cavities) are the result of a process of tooth disintegration and infection. First of all the tooth surface has to be softened by something acidic to the point of disintegration. The acidity can come from acidic drinks, foods (citrus fruits) or by acids from acid-producing bacteria.

Once the surface of a tooth has been softened by the acidity it becomes porous. The acids dissolve away mineral crystals which leaves microscopic pores or holes in the tooth surface. Now the bacteria can enter these holes and produce more acids deeper inside the tooth.

Over time the tooth becomes weak and full of holes very porous. Finally there is so little strength left that the tooth caves in when a cavity forms. A cavity is just the final process of disintegration as the weak tooth collapses and a crater is formed in your tooth. Up until the crater forms, it is very easy to reverse the process (usually it takes about a year to form).

Xylitol is anti-bacterial and will kill off acid-producing bacteria. Xylitol also helps to heal deeper layers of a tooth by bringing minerals and adjusting the chemistry of the mouth to help minerals flow into the layers of the enamel. As I mentioned before fluoride helps move minerals into the outer layers and xylitol the deeper layers of the tooth.

So the tooth will re-harden, harmful bacteria will disappear and the tooth will reverse the damage over time.

The most amazing thing to witness is the rebuilding of the tooth with an actual hole in it.

I do not know exactly how it heals and I do not know the maximum limit at which a cavity can remineralize. I have witnessed many teeth that had holes in them and remineralized.

I would not suggest this (except with the advice of a dentist looking at an X-ray) for anyone with sensations of hot, cold, or sweet discomfort. Such sensations may indicate that the inner dentine is involved in the process.

But if the "decay" is new and in the outer layer of a tooth, I think that anyone should consider giving xylitol and fluoride a chance to rebuild and repair: at least for 3-6 months. After all, it would obviously be preferable to avoid a filling and maintain a perfect and un-filled tooth.

If you never want a filling maintain your mouth with xylitol and dilute fluoride mouth rinses as I suggest. This way you will be constantly repairing your teeth every day as insurance against them getting damaged or weaker.

Hope this explains the chemistry of teeth a little more!

Dr. Ellie Phillips, DDS
Some YouTube videos of Dr. Ellie Phillips on the benefits of Xylitol and restoration of teeth.  If it's important to you, take a listen.
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UPDATE: Thursday, June 13, 2013
Dr. E. Phillips recommends fresh pineapple before and after extraction of teeth.  Here is why.  Teeth remineralization occurs in a mouth that is 7.6 alkaline.  Pineapple, though you might think is acidic, actually creates a 7.4 alkalinity in your mouth.  This is why it is recommended before and after tooth extraction.  Do you think that any dentist that you've ever had knows of this, let alone tell you of this?

Dr. Ellie makes some interesting comments about acid and the foods and drinks that produce it.  One point that she made was that stomach acid can dissolve teeth; someone with acid reflux is at greater risk of tooth destruction because of the acid.  This is important because the talk she gives in that video link covers the oral hygiene benefits of Xylitol.  Xylitol destroys acids. 

Dr. Ellie recommends Xylitol, which is a sugar alcohol derived from birch trees.  It's a popular end-of-the-meal candy in Finland. 

She makes the claim that when you combine Xylitol with topical sodium fluoride (the only acceptable form of topical fluoride) in toothpaste (I do not recommend fluoride in the water that you ingest), that the combination of the two remineralizes your teeth to help repair it completely.  That's right.  I said completely.  Now if you've got chipped teeth, it doesn't mean that Xylitol will regrow your teeth, no.  What it means is that if you've got your teeth with roots, pulp or dentin, and natural enamel crown, using Xylitol with fluoride repairs your teeth.  Topical fluoride in toothpaste acts as a catalyst to accelerate remineralization.  Xylitol heals the deeper layers, the flesh part of wounded teeth, whereas fluoride heals the surface of the teeth.  She says that you can see cavities reverse.

Though I link her video above, you can find her recommendations of Xylitol here along with a mouth hygiene program.

Native Americans used to bite into the bark of birch trees when they had bad breath.  Use a birch tree toothpick to clean one's mouth.  It raises the mouth's PH.  Men have alkaline saliva more often than women.  She says that women, particularly under stress, have a greater acidity that eats away at the side of their teeth.  So, consume Xylitol to make your mouth more alkaline and less acidic.

She says that Xylitol acts like a probiotic to encourage healthy flora in your mouth.  It changes the flora of the mouth; it grows healthy replacement bacteria to protect your teeth.  It cuts off acid production in your mouth.  You already know that acid is not good for your stomach.  It's the same thing for your mouth.  Under the influence of Xylitol, bacteria don't stick to teeth.  Lots of bacteria on one's toothbrush.  BACTERIA grow on toothbrushes.  Clean the toothbrush EVERYDAY with Listerine!!!  Antibiotics denude the teeth!!  Xylitol rescues (Yay!!) the old bacteria you don't want and grow the good bacteria that you do want!!  Toothbrushes in bags is a breeding ground.  Preschools in Scandanavia give kids Xylitol gum 5 times a day!!  They chew it just to get the sugars out of the gum and then spit it out.  They don't have to keep the gum in the mouth for hours.  They're just after the sugars.  It's what makes Xylitol unique among the rest of the sugar alcohols.  6.5 grams per day for 6 months turn around a mouth with diseased flora.  6 months!!!  Make it easy.  Chew gum with Xylitol.  One piece contains one gram.  Chew 6 pieces a day--2 after each meal.  She says that splitting up the doses over the course of the 3 meals is ideal.  So after each meal, chew some delicious Xylitol gum.  Also, with improved flora in the mouth and the throat, guess what--no more sore throats.  Her husband owns a restaurant that is known for its desserts.  She feeds her husband's employees chocolate made with Xylitol.  Talk about win-win!!

Xylitol reduces the strep mutant count. 

In every military MRE, the US military adds Xylitol to it to save soldiers from getting caries out on the battlefield.

80% of pregnant women had fewer caries (cavities) than the control groups who didn't consume Xylitol.  Check out these pictures.

There are baby mouth wipes that contain Xylitol that could provide excellent protection for young children and less of a need for a dentist.  She made an interesting observation that pregnant women have acidic mouths.  Xylitol reverses that and remineralizes teeth.  I'm still waiting to hear the downside of Xylitol . . . I'm waiting . . . still . . . still waiting . . . .

Wait, it also helps preserve muscle AND get rid of fat!! 

List of features of Xylitol.

Xylitol, according to Dr. Ellie, reduces middle ear infections in children by 40%!!!  Children with chronic ear infection, who have acid reflux in conjunction, reduce episodes and severity.  Also, Xylitol reduces the need for antibiotics. 

Xylitol is anti-fungal!!  Mouth sprays for elderly folks.  Lots of applications. 

Hope you find this useful.

UPDATE:  Tuesday, June 18, 2013 
I think that Dr. Ellie Phillips, and me by extension, may have oversold the benefits of Xylitol as an alcohol sugar to re-mineralize your teeth. It does what it promises--it reduces the acid-causing bacteria in your mouth after you eat.  And though I have tried the Zellies gum that contains Xylitol, I am optimistic about what it has been doing for my teeth.  Some caution may be due to what Xylitol can do to your body.   It can be extracted from corn cob, and corn cob has a near 100% likelihood of being made from GMOs.  I read about her tooth-care system and wanted to re-mineralize my teeth.  So I went out and got Listerine, Crest toothpaste with sodium fluoride, and Zellies gum that contains the Xylitol sugar.  For the most part, I eat no processed sugars of any kind.  So after a few days on the Xylitol, I began to feel strange.  I began to feel week.  I started the Xylitol on Tuesday, June 13.  This past Sunday, June 17, I had diarrhea, which is a symptom of taking larger doses of Xylitol.  But all that I was taking were single gram doses found in gum, eating a total of 6 to 8 pieces of gum each day and therefore 6 to 8 grams each day.  Then yesterday, Monday, I became so exhausted when lying down that I could not think.  I just wanted to sink into my body.  I woke from a 4-hour nap.  It was not a case of me being sleep-deprived from the night before.  The sugars were adversely affecting my liver, kidneys, intestines, and heart.  There are a few risks in higher doses, listed here, here, and here.  But the doses are so high that they seem impractical and unreasonable; Dr. Phillips's regime does not call for 50 grams.  One quote from the three articles states, "it's safe for adults to consume up to 50 grams of Xylitol each day."  50 grams a day!  That's chewing two pieces of gum 25 times in a single day.  You're only supposed to take the gum after you eat; also, Zellies that deliver the Xylitol sugar constitute only 50% of her program.  Follow her program.  You'll be surprised by the positive results.

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.

Here is California's Patient's Bill of Rights.

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.