Avoid BPA: Get Glass

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. 

COCONUT BUTTER IS HEART ENERGY

Coconut Butter: Heart Energy

Everybody finds their own path to 5 or 10% more health, more vim and vigor and vitality. Vigorous, competitive exercise achieves this goal pretty quickly.  Beyond vigorous exercise, there are some foods that help you reach this goal. Generally, it is functional foods that do this best.  We all pay attention to the effects of foods.  For me, raw milk has an excellent effect on boosting my immune system after a particularly stressful week.  Eggs sunny-side up also have a fortifying effect.  When it comes to heart strength, I reach for raw coconut butter.  I take 2 tablespoons on the recommendation of Dr. Donald Miller.

Not only is the food functional in that the energy is directed straight to my heart but the butter, which is more like a lightly sweetened paste, also tastes delicious.

ANTI-DEPRESSANTS: ARE THEY POISONS?

There are lots of good foods, vegetables, fats, meats, herbs, and spices out there to keep us healthy and to treat conditions, most conditions, and restore us back to a vibrant state of health more or less.  I encourage everybody to use food to medicate yourself but use it judiciously.  Above all do not use pharmaceuticals to treat conditions.  I was a school teacher for a few years and I used to hear how teachers were using this or that signature pharmaceutical to tinker with energy, headaches, stress, and whatnot.  Teachers took full advantage of their health benefits.  In fact, for some, their health benefits were more valuable than their salary and more important than their work.  I know how cynical that last statement sounds, but there was a weird psychological dependence develop with some individuals and their psychiatrist.  It seemed reckless and over zealous to treat psychiatrist as their personal and on-demand pharmacy.  Still, I was amazed at how teachers were using their bodies almost as laboratories.  And anybody who has tried this diet or that diet has done the same thing, but I think doing so with food carries far fewer long-term adverse effects.  If someone goes on an all-protein diet, for example, and they begin to lose the energy and strength they felt after the first week of such an onslaught of protein, then incorporating green leafy vegetables into their diets restores a balanced hormonal response and they begin to feel better.  But be on a drug regime for several weeks or months or years and then come off of it spells some serious, long-term consequences to organ and nerve tissue and blood.

Last night I was reading an article about anti-depressants and learned that the Eli Lily drug, Prozac, is made of fluoxetine hydrochloride.  That's right, fluoride, that toxic and notorious nerve destroyer.  Prozac is bad, though the pharmaceutical companies and their shills will celebrate its virtuous and harmless effects.  This stuff is not harmless.  Read the article just above that I linked.  If you're not feeling yourself and you want a quick fix, reach for food.  But never, never, never surrender self-ownership and stewardship of your condition over to doctors who are essentially drug dealers for the pharmaceuticals, like DOW, Pfizer, GKSmith, Monsanto, and others.  It's not worth it.  In fact, you will come to regret as that gentleman has in the article.  If you want to feel better, reach for pineapple.  If you want to feel better reach for a piece of cheese.  Get some good fats into your system, even bad fats which are certainly less harmful than Prozac, which is essentially a chemically-induced blunt trauma.  Don't do these things to yourself.  To your body, your good, strong body, be gentle.  If you are looking to rebuild or repair or restore nerve impairment, there may be no better medicine to achieve that result than a little light exercise.