In My Secret Life

Mumbai, March 13: Model turned actress Yana Gupta is among the sexy sirens of Bollywood. Her curvy figure and porcelain skin makes everyone crazy about her. Tagged as an Item girl, Yana reveals secrets of her beauty and health.

Being a health conscious person, Yana follows a certain diet."I eat only fresh and raw food. My diet consists of a lot of vegetables, fruits and juices. Being a strict vegetarian, I don't even touch any non-vegetarian food," she said.

Some Essential Products

2011-03-21T14:06:00.004-04:00

Miso: at first it looks expensive and just tastes salty with no pros... But, it is only around 5-6$ for 250gr (22,50$/kg) and this little 250gr can last you for a while, because miso tastes VERY salty, so you rarely need to use a lot. Got all amino acids, besides, its got many health benefits. and prevents infection, diseases, etc. You can put it in anything: stews, soups, etc.
Other fermented soy products like Tempeh: much better for health than tofu! more expensive, though.
Bragg's Liquid Amino Acid soy sauce: made of soy amino acids, 0 calories, low sodium: much better than regular soy sauce or Tamari sauce! More complex taste also, doesn't taste just salty.
Hemp seeds: another complete protein. High in protein, not a common allergen, excellent in salads, cereals, soups... everything!
Vegan protein powders: hemp protein powder chocolate flavour, delicious with a banana in smoothie. Pumpkin seed protein powder: almost tasteless: replace some of the flour with this in muffins, cake recipes to add more proteins!
Rice paper: there are different size. The larger ones are perfect for sandwich rolls. It is raw and is good replacement to bread!
ALL fruits and vegetables ! cucumbers, grapes, cherries, romaine lettuce, oranges...
sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, etc: to replace meat, etc. Buy it raw, you can let them soak overnight. Grounded sesame seeds are ideal to thicken sauces.
dates: the soft ones like Medjool or others, not the hard, dried ones. Tastes so good, so sweet, perfect snack when you crave for sugar!
avocados: complete protein, higher amino acid profile than beef or eggs! Perfect in sandwich, vegan sushi, salads, raw guacamole, etc!
kale chips: the best brand and less expensive: solar raw. There are 2 delicious vegan flavours: super cheesy and ranch sour cream with hemp.
Ruth's Chia Goodness: perfect for raw breakfast morning cereals. Around 8$ most places but sometimes 5$ at rare places. Can be eaten cold or warm or added to recipes like stews, soups or cookies!
Lentills: soak overnight, and then its cooked in only 20 minutes! Healthy, delicious in many recipes!
vegan burgers: you can make them out of lentills, hemps seeds, beans, grounded seeds and nuts, add spices, herbs, salt: eat in sandwich, salads, etc.
vegan raw lemon bars: I make them out of chia, raw peanuts, raw cashews and sunflowers, fresh lemon juice and zest, add stevia, agave nectar, raisins, raw cocoa, everything you want! Healthy fast food!

réponse à un commentaire sur un article sur le site de radio-canada

2011-01-27T10:31:00.004-05:00

J'ai écris ce commentaire mais il fut rejeté par le modérateur car jugé "injurieux".

http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/sante/2011/01/24/001-cancer-sein-poumon.shtml

Je le publie donc ici!

@Maxxx7,

"En outre, il faut arrêter de mettre de la morale ou il n'y en a pas. A lire votre pseudo, je pense comprendre que vous êtes du genre à considérer la mort d'un animal comme un sacrilège. C'est bien. Alors vous êtes choqué quand un lion tue une gazelle?
Oui?
Non?
L'homme mange de la viande, pas parce que c'est bien ou mal, mais parce que c'est comme ça, c'est la nature. On tue donc des animaux pour ça. Je ne vois pas en quoi utiliser un animal en recherche est différent."

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Dans votre tête, le monde est sans loi ni morale. Un animal peut en tuer un autre, donc un homme peut tuer un animal, ou est le mal, puisque vous dites que le mal n'existe pas...
Je vais vous expliquer quelque chose: en effet les animaux carnivores n'ont aucune notion de ce qui est bien et mal, ils ne font pas la différence, et ils tuent en n'éprouvant aucun remord ni culpabilité. Aucune sympathie ni compassion pour autrui. Ils ne sont pas humain. Et vous voulez vous comporter comme ces charognards, comme un psychopathe, et revenir à l'état sauvage, ou le meurtre serait impuni. Un chat qui prend plaisir à faire souffrir une souris, ce chat est incapable de se mettre à la place de l'autre. Cette faculté est réservée aux humains. Mais je vous dirais que, même si le Bien et Mal n'existe pas concrètement en dehors du sens que l'esprit humain lui donne, le Bien et Mal existe tout de même dans la Nature, tout comme le Jour et la Nuit, il faut un équilibre de prédateurs et proies, etc (en passant l'humain dépasse largement une fonction de prédateur, et cause un déséquilibre). La preuve que la notion de Mal existe: lorsque ce même chat qui torture une souris, pour reprendre l'exemple de tout à l'heure, si on prend ce chat à la gorge, qu'on le brasse, qu'on le lance au mur, qu'on lui crie dessus, il aura peur, il aura Mal, il sera terrorisé. Il ressent alors ce que c'est que d'être la victime, mais il ne fait pas le lien lorsqu'il cause cette même souffrance aux autres. Si on caresse ce chat il ronronne, il se sent Bien, en harmonie, paisible, ce sera un état différent, il est bien certain que le bien et mal existe d'une facon ou d'une autre, ou sinon rien n'existe ou tout est la même chose.
J'éprouve de la compassion pour la gazelle parce que je m'identifie à elle, je suis capable de me mettre à sa place, mais vous vous identifiez au lion, et vous justifiez ainsi qu'on a le droit nous aussi de causer de la souffrance.
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(seulement cette dernière partie fut publiée)
Bref, est-ce que le meurtre du lion par la gazelle est bien ou mal? Pour le lion il n'y a rien de mal, pour la gazelle peut-etre que oui - ou du moins il y a peur et souffrance , qui fait plus partie du mal que du bien, on s'entend -, pour l'humain, il y a mal. Un humain digne de ce nom ressent de la compassion en regardant un animal souffrir, et il sait aussi que tuer est mal.
Concernant la recherche sur les animaux, la recherche sur les animaux est cruelle, inutile et inefficace. Il y a souffrance, malgré ce que vous dites concernant les règles à respecter, qui ne sont bien sûr pas toujours respectée. Il faut toujours tester ensuite sur les humains, car ce qui est vrai sur une souris n'est pas transposable à un humain, qui est une autre espèce, avec une physiologie bien différente. Il existe des moyens plus efficace, comme l'expérimentation sur humains, in vitro , cellules souches et simulation informatique.
Et toute la recherche est vaine, car malgré toutes les avancées en matière de nouvelles technologies en science moderne, il y a aujourd'hui encore plus de maladies, malades et de morts qu'avant. Les taux des cancers ne cessent de grimper, de même que l'obésité et toutes les maladies qui y sont reliées, comme le diabète.

Good deals in Montreal for Food

2010-12-13T10:31:00.003-05:00

Raw nuts can be pretty expensive but at Tau on St-Denis corner Rachel you can buy raw cashews for 10,29$ per kilo. They're broken in half or smaller pieces so they're not whole cashews but it tastes the same anyway.

Fresh dates are expensive at most places. I remember just 1 or 2 years ago I could find 550 grams boxes for 2,50$ but now they're around 5,50$ everywhere. Some places its 4,50$, which is not to bad... But the other day I found out at La Vieille Europe on the Main (3855 St-Laurent) it is 4$ for 550 grams and they are mellow, tender, sweet frash dates.

Not far away from there, some more raw nuts: raw peanuts 90 cents per 100 grams, at Frenco (3895 St-Laurent)é

Also, Ruth's Chia Goodness, usually over 7$ everywhere is 5$ at Tutti Frutti, on Maisonneuve east, close to metro Beaudry.

Massage

2010-10-21T12:54:00.008-04:00

I offer Thai Yoga Massage and Swedish Massage

I am based in Montreal

Here are my rates

1st massage: 40$ (60 minutes)
60 minutes: 60$
75 minutes: 65$
90 minutes: 75$
120 minutes: 90$

Also, watch this amazing promotion:

Wellness Program at 130$ (Includes 4 massage of 75 minutes each and Ayurvedic recommandations for nutrition, yoga and lifestyle)
... Comes to about 30$ per massage, over 50% discount.

In addition, for each new client you refer to me, you get one massage at 50% discount !

Another special offer:

2 weeks unlimited Yoga class + 1 Thai Massage = 60$

At Magic19 Yoga & Fitness center.

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Add 10$ if I do massage at your place.

Ask me for the Promotions each month !
I sell gift certificates

I charge 50% of full price for No Shows.
Cancellations must be made 24 in advance.

Quotes

2010-09-05T22:26:00.000-04:00

"Do your best, don't worry, be happy" - Meher Baba

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go - Oscar Wilde

Breathe. Meditate. Live.

We are all prisonners in prison or in our mind.
Hostage of our emotions, fear and anger.
If you cannot solve the problem, then you are part of the problem yourself.
We are all human beings, therefore we deserve to be treated as human beings.
(documentary "Doing Time, Doing Vipassana")

Things are gonna slide in all directions
Won't be nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and its overturned the order of the soul
When they said Repent
I wonder what they meant
I've seen the future
It is murder
-Leonard Cohen, The Future

I am not Scientific

I am far from being infallible. I will learn more as I go along. But as between my world and that of the "science of medicine" and the " science of dietetics" I'll await the verdict of time with calmness and without fear, I am not "scientific" and in the present state of " science" I would be a fool if I were. I'd rather be right than to be " scientific".

Sept 1946
Hygienic Review
Herbert Shelton

MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY

Chemotherapy Quotes

2010-08-17T18:37:00.003-04:00

"My studies have proved conclusively that untreated cancer victims live up to four times longer than treated individuals. If one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all, he will live longer and feel better than if he undergoes radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, other than when used in immediate life-threatening situations."---Prof Jones. (1956 Transactions of the N.Y. Academy of Medical Sciences, vol 6. There is a fifty page article by Hardin Jones of National Cancer Institute of Bethesda, Maryland. He surveyed global cancer of all types and compared the untreated and the treated, to conclude that the untreated outlives the treated, both in terms of quality and in terms of quantity. Secondly he said, "Cancer does not cure". Third he said "There is a physiological mechanism which finishes off an individual".)

"Keep in mind that the 5 year mark is still used as the official guideline for "cure" by mainstream oncologists. Statistically, the 5 year cure makes chemotherapy look good for certain kinds of cancer, but when you follow cancer patients beyond 5 years, the reality often shifts in a dramatic way."—Diamond.
So, some patients who died after 5 years, their treatment is considered successful. But if this person would have had no traditional treatment but instead would have transitioned to an healthier lifestyle and get plenty of rest, most chances she wouldn't have died before 5 years, and maybe she would have lived 50 years longer.

"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy…Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumours…Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster with chemo than without it."—Alan Levin, M.D.

Some videos on Internet

2010-08-16T22:14:00.003-04:00

Ghandi 2 hours version of the Ghandi doc : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=199769506418852386#
5 hours documentary on Ghandi: : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8859891538096241080#
Life of Buddha : http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/faith_and_spirituality/watch/v16978077HfhHeY2g
Doing time doing vipassana (meditation in Indian prisons, full movie)
http://current.com/groups/cultura/91903721_food-for-the-mind-vipassana-meditation.htm
The Dhamma Brothers (2 trailers for this documentary on Vipassana meditation in Alabama prison)
http://vimeo.com/12063030
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHNj8LEkgbA

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2 extreme films showing the suffering of animal beings caused by humans.

Earthlings : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142&ei=6Um5SdDyHIiGqwKdpN2xAw&q=earthlings#

Chinese fur farms : http://www.peta.org/feat/chinesefurfarms/index.asp

FREE YOGA in MONTREAL

2010-08-16T21:38:00.004-04:00

-Studio Bliss: 1 week free unlimited yoga - find a coupon in lululemon athletica or other yoga stores.
-Yoga Bliss : 1 free yoga class - find a coupon in lululemon athletica or other yoga stores.

You can get free yoga classes in the 4 Lululemon stores, check on their websites for more info.
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Tuesdays at 9a.m at 1394 Greene Avenue, near Atwater.
Wednesday, yoga outside at noon at the statue at the Mount-Royal. During summer.
Sundays at 9:45 a.m at 394 Greene Avenue
Mondays at 12:15 at Sattva Yoga Shala, 1455 St-Mathieu, corner De Maisonneuve (metro Guy-Concordia)

-Sundays at 7 p.m at Sivananda, 5178 St-Laurent (near Lotus Palm)

Not free but cheap:
-The Prana Passport: a card valid for June to September for about 30$ you can go to one class in each of the 23 yoga studios valid with this pass. So it comes to just 2$ per class.
-1 week unlimited for about 20-25$ in many yoga studios like Moksha yoga, Bikram yoga, etc...

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ALSO, check out some free Vipassana meditation groups sessions at Ashtanga Montreal each wednesday I think, 397 Ste-Catherine West, 2nd Floor.

2009-12-26T15:38:00.003-05:00

I was walking outside, haven't seen the nature for a while I was in the city for months and months but now being in the nature for few days it revealed and showed something to me. I was walking in the cold, the snow, it is very humid and with a cold wind and it was even raining, the road is icy, but I wasn't even feeling the cold, I was warm. Or the cold that I wss feeling on my skin was soft. I was feeling really fine and while I was walking I was almost meditating, Life is about creation and destruction, its energy. To live and die. But cruelty and to kill by madness has no place in this world, that is why I decided to pray while I was walking, sometimes by closing my eyes, to pray for peace to all animals and humans and all living beings. And I was thinking about many things, everything but at the same time nothing. In plenitude, and in harmony with the trees around me and the snow falling down and the snow on the ground, in osmosis with everything. Thinking about my life and the paths that awaits me... All the things that surrounds me and my life... I could see energy from my mind in the form of a fire coming alive in my creativity, with flames of very intense colors. And visualizations of lightnings of artistic energy that I want to express, but positive and negative emotions that I don't want to keep in myself but want to create and transform with it. And was thinking about Marta. She's a wonderful woman, I don't want her to think she's like the others. She's so much than that to me, I want her to know that I think about her and that she is very important to me.

Many thoughts from my wicked mind

2009-11-14T19:12:00.002-05:00

So since 2 days I'm feeling hyperactive, because I finally got my life back. Found a job - a shitty one though - new place to stay - shitty too. But its a new life and I'm enthousiastic about it.

Since I moved in an hotel room in downtown, I have so much energy, mostly because I finally stay at my own place (well not completly, because its just an hotel room - and a cheap one and ugly one - but its better than when I was staying at my father's place, where I couldn't function at all - couldn't even make phone calls to find an appartment -- so I went in this hotel -- or search for as job -- but I found one luckily), and its in Montreal downtown, right between the Metropolis and Foufounes Electriques, so I just go out in the street and I'm already right there where everybody is shopping and walking, all the buildings, bars etc, I can go by walking to the gym, to the library, etc without even the need to take the bus or subway. Its funny, because I now live in downtown, I feel like I'm rediscovering the city, I feel like a tourist in my own city where I was born in and where I lived all my life, and I even feel like I felt when I was visiting New York city. So as soon as the night starts around here, we constantly hear the traffic, police sirens or the fire department trucks, people from the bars, etc. Crazy.
This is a shitty hotel - kind of like the place in Taxi Driver's final scene - with the ugliest carpet I've ever seen, but its ok. There's a tv, queen size bed, wi-fi, window, small fridge (which is not even in the room yet, but I asked for it).. and nothing else, which is good because I like minimalism and simplicity, my vision of perfection.
Anyways, this month I'll go to work, go on internet, take photos, train in the gym and in the room, eat a lot, I'll see some friends, go out sometimes at the movies, bars, etc.
I must save some cash to buy a new Mac laptop and pro digital camera. My goals for a near future are to become a pro photographer and filmmaker.
I want to study massaging too for one year, but this will cost a lot.
I want to travel to Europe again, in Finland, Paris, Berlin, Bruges, etc. Also, in the summer, maybe one week to Cuba or somewhere else in South America, its pretty cheap for a full package -- plane tickets, beach, hotel, food.

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From Hanna on Facebook

"The standard diet of a meat-eater is blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow secretions, hen periods and bee vomit. And once a year during a certain holiday in November, meat-eaters use the hollowed out rectum of a dead bird as a pressure cooker for stuffing. And people think vegans are weird because we eat tofu?"

I agree. People are fucking crazy.

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Those Internet providers, in Canada its companies like Bell and Videotron, they get Internet free and then they sell it, right ? Or do they pay something to the state ? I guess its like the companies that take water for free and then they sell it in bottles, making a fortune out of a free ressource that everybody/nobody owns. Like Internet, water, air, land, etc.

Here in Quebec I often hear in the news they talk about this new thing to make pay in airplane for using the restroom. What's so special about it, people already need to pay for WC in whole Europe so why not in planes too ? Both on land and in planes are ridiculous - why making people pay just to shit or piss; we already pay taxes and we pay for all kinds of services, and for food, etc... then soon we will have to pay for breathing and walking ? It is the airline Ryanair (which I used twice last month) that wants to make people pay for their shitty bathrooms, probably very small and not luxury at all (their airplanes look shitty : the seats, seatbelts, etc), the president of the company says its to make tickets less expensive. I dont understand his logic. THey also want to ask politely to the passengers to go to the bathroom before entering the plane, so that people will weight less and the company will save on fuel. They would save more money if they would refuse obese passengers !

GM Canada received 50 million dollars from the government and still this company says they are still in danger. Oh really and how much do they need ? In the US they got a total of like 4 billions $ I think. They say they are essential to the country. Sorry but a company that needs 50 millions or more to survive is not a good company at all. They say they are bankrupted and they lower the salaries of the employees (which were paid too much, sometimes 70$ per hour) but the CEO's are still taking hundreds of thousands or millions $ per year for themselves. Not a company: thieves; and a plague to the country and to the citizens, like a parasite that never wants to die or a cancer. With this money, imagine all the brillant new companies that young entrepreneurs would have been able to start and would have been profitable to the economy of the country. Also, this money to universities and research would have been very useful. But no, the governement decided to obey to the ridiculous demands of these assholes and then nothing new comes up while this money would have been enough to produce an outstanding new model of electric car. GM and other retarded car contructors of the past are still building SUVs, 4x4 and minivans with oil burning.

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We always see ads for milk and dairies on tv telling us we dont consume enough of it and that its dangerous, concerning osteoporosis for instance... Most people drink milk everyday at least with their cereals or at least they eat cheese or yogurt, but the milk industry will always tell us its not enough. Truth is even if you drink 20 gallon of milk each day they will tell you its not enough and you will still be at risk to get osteoporosis; in fact, the more you drink milk the more your chances will increase. So dont drink even a drop of milk or cheese and get your calcium from plant-based foods instead.

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THE SWINE FLUE

About the swine flue vaccine and the so-called ''pandemic'', some people think they need it, brainwashed by the medias... We know about 4,000 different viruses... you should get a vaccine for each one of those, otherwise you're in great danger ! ...right ?

One victim of the vaccine: nobody talked about it because I'm the only one who seemed to have understood (or the others keep it secret): the medias said a woman died of the h1n1 a few days after being vaccinated; they said the vaccine was not related to death because it takes about 10 days for the vaccine to take effect. When they say ''the vaccine is not related to her death'' they see the vaccine as something innoffensive. Let me show you the other side of the vaccine: she was already infected by the virus when she got a shot of the vaccine: this is what caused her death, because her immune system was already fighting something, and then they injected into her body the same virus and adjuvants, which weakened her body, she has been unable to win over the virus, while for most people it is not a problem.

A hundred nurses, doctors and other workers of an hospital in Montreal got a shot of the wrong vaccine. In fact, they received doses of H1N1 vaccines which contained twice too much the amount of adjuvants, an error that happened at the facility where it is produced. So they will have received in total 3 times more adjuvants than the others who got the vaccine, which already contains 10 times more adjuvants than all prior types of vaccines.

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It was called the SWINE flue and should have remain the same but they changed it for A (H1N1) because the pig farmers were mad. Like the avian flue, the swine flue came from intensive farming: overpopulation of chickens spread the virus so it had years to mutate into a strain able to break the specie barrier to humans. Now, the same happened with pigs. KARMA. Pandemics (#1 threat to the total extinction of the human specie) are the price to pay for domesticating animals 10,000 years ago. The meat and dairy industry are also the culpit for food intoxications: E.Coli, Salmonella and other dangerous bacterias all come from one comon thing: excrements of farm animals. We throw it where there is some space, which is anywhere they can find: on the soil, in our rivers, etc; the rest serve as manure to fertilize the soil to grow vegetables and grains, corn and soy (most of it goes to feed cattle...). So we end up with contaminated meat or milk, cheese, but also contaminated fruits, lettuce, spinach, vegetables, processed food... always consequences of meat-eating. It will never end until people stop eating meat, meat full of shit.

Travel Diary II

2009-09-17T02:14:00.001-04:00

FINLAND

Arrived around the 13th. Met Hanna in a café, she's the reason why I come to Finland -- and she's the main reason of this whole trip. When I think about it now, there were many situations where I would have asked myself if it wasn't of her: ''what the hell am I doing here, in this foreign country, this big city, in the middle of millions of strangers?'' but Hanna exists so I rarely asked myself this question or when I did I just started to think about her and I was fine, otherwise I would have felt a bit lost and this whole trip would be pointless or would seem like it.
Anyway its great that since I arrived I visited Tampere, Helsinki and Espoo and met many Finns (Hanna's friends). Eventhough the time we spent together wasn't perfect, its still great, thank you Hanna:) Kiss. Nothing's perfect anyway, things happen and that's how it is.
So we went to a vegan buffet, was really good. (When I'll be back in Mtl, I'll definitley go to that similar vegan joint which I never been because I thought I wouldn't like it). We went many times for a walk with the dog, a lovely dog named Tessa, always to different spots so that I see different things of Finland, like a lake, or an abandoned mansion. Those walks were great, thank you Hanna..

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FINLAND

Midnight, night of the 16th-17th of September (which day are we ? I don't even know).
I'm in a bar, cool place, in Finland. Nice place to chill out; called Ravintola Artturi - Ruoka & Baari. Probably much better (for me or at least at this moment) than this nightclub that I saw not far away and that had a long line-up just to enter. Had a big glass of beer, shot a small video, nice decoration, great music. Most songs are in English though; I like Finn music. Just chilling out, writing ideas for movies to make. There,s even old Finnish books on a shelve and some old artifacts. I took some Finn vintage magazines and books for kids with illustrations because I can't understand a darn word in Finnish of course.
i'm here alone because I had a little problem with Hanna earlier. We were supposed to go in town together but because I was taking time (a matter of minutes or seconds) she decided to just go. It would have been fine as for I went out 20 seconds after her to go catch the bus but I took the wrong path and then it was too late. Came back to take my stuff and took the bus. Its better like this maybe. As I always say: nothing happens for nothing. I don't like so much waiting in the morning that she wakes up, and then she writes emails for hours or send text messages. She has the right to do whatever she wants, its just that I dont have bus tickets or money to go in town and come back later, I felt kinda in a situation I where I can't move. I should have just go walking in the woods and explore. And this whole thing of having no cash, just a credit card, is stupid from me, and created some tensions between me and her as she had to pay for my tickets. But the worst is that Heini girl who decided to bitch about Hanna on the web just when I'm in Finland visiting and Hanna had to spend hours arguing with her, so I wa slike: 'I want to spend every minute with you beauty, you're so lovely and cute, I kind of like you, I like to just massage your feet and your legs and 2 feel your skin but you're there writing stuff on the internet and then you,re stressed and can't find your breathe.' ... Anyways, I'm not here to complain or whatever, I just needed to express my feelings; things happen, what's done is none, its the past and now I'm here.
I'm here now in that bar in Finland. NOthing so extraordinary but if I stop to think about it: hey, I'm in Finland, in a bar, who would have thought just a few months ago, back in Quebec. Its still pretty special. And I'll be in other cities and countries of the world soon. I hope I can travel many times in the future. So I'm here now and I think about her because she's a nice girl, very lovely. I hope at least I'll see her again before I leave the country... Of course I will; why wouldn't I?... She's a lovely girl.
The song ''No Woman No Cry'' by Bob Marley is playing in the bar, great song and I just listen to it, doing nothing else. So true, what he says in the song. At least I feel like this at the moment.

Travel Diary I

2009-09-17T02:13:00.001-04:00

LONDON
7th September
Once there was this teenager walking with his mother, I asked him politely where is this street I've been looking for hours, and he continued his way without looking at me and made a sound like ''euinh...'' as if he was gonna throw up just at the idea of helping a stranger. I laughed and told to this little bastard to go fuck himself in French.
I didn't like London especially because when I arrived I saw those restroom at the train station that we need to pay to enter. Never saw that before in America. So I had to go outside and search for free restrooms. But now I see bathrooms like this everywhere in Europe, so I often piss outside in the streets,. I also didn't like London because the city, the streets, are built as if it was designed by a thousand different retards, because there's one street in that way, then it changes name or most of the time the name of street isn't even written or not clearly, and then it turns and split into many streets. I had a map but never found any spots I wanted to go, like when I wanted to leave the country; and just to be even more fucked up, the cars are going in the opposite directions than in America and most of Europe... Didn't stay long in that damned city. But I will return in a few weeks and will probably enjoy it more because I will be more prepared, maybe with a couch at someone's place to stay overnight and then just go out with no stress and go to a vegan joint.

milk and osteoporosis

2009-08-26T22:59:00.004-04:00

http://healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca/Home/ContentPosting_50Plus?newsitemid=084c9522-a7fb-4c5e-bd43-d9c030cd11e6&feedname=50_PLUS&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False

This is sad: another article on osteoporosis, but they are not saying anything new. They write: osteoporosis does not have to be 'an inevitable part of aging'. Well, with the advices they give, it will continue to be inevitable, because what they are telling to do (taking calcium supplements, drink milk, eat dairy products, fish, and other sources of calcium) is what people already do, but they are still getting osteoporosis - millions of people... they are all eating cheese, fish, etc. And no matter how much they will increase their calcium intake, it wont change anything for this disease. You know the milk advertisement and the question all nutritionists ask 'are you getting enough?' (milk, dairies)... well, eventhough people eat more and more of this, they are still saying its not enough, because diseases related to teeths and bones are still high and getting higher; so they say: drink even more milk. Thing is: too much is like not enough. What they nned to say is: eat less proteins, eat more fruits and vegetables. These foods give plenty of calcium, without excess of proteins. No matter how much calcium you get, if you eat too much proteins, your body will acidify itself and it will leak calcium out of your teeths and bones for alkaline minerals (calcium). As soon as you get too much proteins (and we dont need a lot... only about 10% of your total calories intake, while people get 20-25%... so eat about 30-40 grams of proteins a dayrather than 70-80+)... so as soon as you get too much proteins, you have a negative calcium balance, and taking a ton of calcium supplements wont change anything.

Milk, dairy products, fish, etc are killing people.

Check out those videos from a new documentary on the truth about milk !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFweMS-Mj7o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQsVlA4sqtM

meat-eaters

2009-08-20T19:20:00.003-04:00

ok, youtube deleted my account where I uploaded some videos describing meat-eating...That's too bad but i oppened a new one... and I can write here also anyway :)

meat-eaters eat an average of 85 animals per year. We kill an estimated 53 billion animals for food each year in the world, this number does not include fish and all marine animals, so that comes up to an estimated 100 billion animals annually. Add the millions of animals killed for fur and the dozens of millions animals killed for testing shampoo and other cosmetics or medications...

Flesh-eaters: necrophages = corpse-eaters... assassins, serial killers, mercenaries, brutes... eating meat without hunting: scavengers, sapotrophs, detritivores... Vampires, bloodsuckers, parasites, leeches, worms, vultures, carnivores, cannibals... killing animals / eating dead animals with no remorse: psychopaths, schizos... eating carcass: freaks, sickos...

sugar

2009-08-20T15:23:00.002-04:00

ok I just have to rant about madness of society in little things, details that nobody would notice but its there: increddible amount of sugar -- when it is not necessary! -- I got this green tea bottle by Nestea -- they make adds saying its healthy and stuff, loaded with 'natural tea polyphenols' crap, but all there is in that is water and sugar - sugar/glucose-fructose syrup; 42g of sugar per bottle. If its for donuts and stuff, I understand it would taste crappy without sugar... but green tea tastes good naturally without any sweetening or just a little sweezed lemon or fruit juice. I regret I bought this but at least it wont happen again soon: I got at home some green tea leaves, ginkgo biloba, hawtorne, and I can even infuse them under the sun instead of putting boiling water on it. Then just some juice from a fresh grapefruit... got a nice, refreshing beverage perfect at anytime during the day.

rain, music, green tea, sun, energy, creativity

2009-08-20T15:18:00.002-04:00

The other day I saw a woman buying BLOOD PUDDING at the grocery store. How pathetic and disgusting... People are vampires! Parasites, mosquitos, carnivores...

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It rained since most of the summer... well it wasn't really 'summer' if it rains and if its cold almost everyday right? And then since 2 weeks its always really hot and humid, air filled with pollution due to smog... when too much is not enough... and then it rains again.
Anyways, I wont complain too much; I got a nice tan, I'm not working except if I want to, but I dont want to right now, maybe this week-end of next week, so I'm in vacation. And in about 2 weeks I leave for Europe, for my first ever real trip on my own. I went to Republics Dominican before but I was so young... A one-month trip to visit all the nice cities: london, paris, stockholm, etc...
...So now it rains, I'm at the main library of Montreal, listening and ripping some Cds of chillhout music, rap (ghost face killah, method man, and some french hip hop...). I'm blogging. Later today I'll go back home, chilling, maybe have an energy drink, then to the gym for full-body workout ending with yoga relaxation, then perhaps to vegan restaurant Aux Vivres. Life is beautiful. Soon (starting slowly today and then week-end and for the whole week ) I'll eat a clean vegan diet again, for cutting, detox, etc: mostly fruits, greens, green tea, hemp protein powder. I like the feeling it gives me, and increased energy despite the very low calorie, so I can focus on training, moving, create; healthy lifestyle.

some old text I've written offline

2009-08-20T15:17:00.000-04:00

In 1950, there were almost 3 billion humans on Earth. In October 2009, we will be 6,7 billion. And in 2042, we will be almost 9 billion on this planet. So in 100 years, total population tripled: 3 times more water drinker, 3 times more food needed to feed all the mouths; 3 times more of everything, but still only one planet to satisfy everybody. Already millions of people dying of hunger in 1950. Will there be 3 times more people dying of hunger? Probably even more.
Las Vegas is built in the middle of the desert where there is not a single drop of water. There's still people arrousing their grass, but there's more and more people beginning to be aware that soon their city will face a tragic shortage of water and people won't even have water to drink or to wash themselves.

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One day I was working with a boy of 16 years old or so. He went to McDonalds for lunch, and talked about pops many times throughout the day, eventhough I told him I'm not interested in that and I don't drink soft drinks or very rarely. He was talking about the cost of soft drinks and the quality of each brand, the different levels of carbonized water in each pop. Guess what he ate for dinner? McDonalds again. He bought a BigMac among other things. And of course he got acne.

Monsters

2009-08-19T03:56:00.003-04:00

I love all animals, even insects, but I don't like at all those that could eat me, and all those that suck my blood or attack me for other reasons then just for their defense. I understand a rhino that charge on me if I'm on his territory; he's afraid, he thinks I might attack him, if I show him I dont want to hurt him and I leave, perhaps he wont harm me. I don't like those carnivorous animals that will bite me just because they're fucked up in the head, just because they're natural born killers. I love plants but I wouldn't like if a fucking carnivorous plant eats me alive (I know its not really possible). Meateaters and other sickos eating corpses of dead animals in the form of a Big Mac... I hate those fucking vampires: bedbugs, ticks, catfleas that jump on you to suck your blood, red ants that eat you alive, fucking leeches, bats - all those blood suckers are ugly animals or is it just coincidence? - moose flies, black flies, mosquitos and other bugs that spread diseases, Aids and other viruses... intestinal worms, carnivores, killers and other predators,parasites and other calamities of this world that nobody likes. I mean I like cats, they're cute, and nice - when domesticated - but I dont like them when I see them having fun torturing a poor innocent mouse, totally terrified, pretrified with fear, her tiny heart beats so fast that it could explode, and those cats like that, they're not even killing the mouse, just hitting it with their paws and claws and teeths, playing for half an hour. What if I did the same thing to them, I'm sure they wouldn't like it, and I wouldn't like it either. For a few weeks I was being really stressed out because of work, and because of my cat itself always making noise because she was herself stressed of her first pregnancy, then she was stressed and acting insane with her new born kittens so sometimes I would throw my cat 5 meters away, I would just grab her suddenly and throw her, so she became afraid of me, and each time I was doing this I felt so bad for her and guilty, and she was getting even more stressed and unhappy, and me too, which is a sign that violence and brutality are bad. Good and Bad DO exist, no matter if there's a God or not, or justice, law, police, whatever: we feel fear, remorse, joy, these feelings represent abstract, yet real, values: good and bad. Yes death is natural. Yes a tiger killing an antilope is natural, but not necessarily good just because it is natural... Bad is natural too. But just because its natural doesn't mean we must do it. We can do the Good, natural way too.
I'd like a world without those parasites. If we cant make them disapear, at least let's change, us, humans that eat flesh like vulgar ogres.. come on, wake up ! are you so decadent that you eat some dead chickens with dead skin, dead muscles, with blood, nerves, and you always ask for more...

A vegan world and how it would be possible

2009-05-12T16:42:00.003-04:00

This is inspired by the comment of a Youtube user on my video 'Meat Eating : an History of Violence'

Comment :
I definitely think there is a correlation between meat-eating and violence.

That said, I don't think veganism is a panacea. It won't fix everything. But it will go a LONG way to creating peace on Earth.
(Kangarooelaine)

Of course wars and murders would not stop suddenly just because people are vegans, as if it was a miracle, because people can’t all become true vegans overnight. It depends how the change to a vegan diet happens. More precisely, it depends if people are on a vegan diet or if they become vegans. Two different things, with two different results. If people are forced to be on a vegan diet because we abolish meat, but they still want meat, they may become even more violent. They will be on a vegan diet, but they won’t be vegans, and they might even continue to kill eachothers and still be on a vegan diet… unless they eat eachothers. After a few generations on a vegan diet, meat won’t exist anymore in the culture and customs of people, and maybe the ethical aspect of veganism will appear and then violence will slowly disapear. The change may come from outside (for instance, the government abolish meat, or, overpopulation overflows and the meat industry cannot provide flesh for everyone – but let’s hope they don’t turn to human flesh… which is very probable), and then people are forced to change. Or they choose to change by themselves, but this option may take much longer, perhaps hundreds of years.
But in both cases, at the end, the change must come from within also, it is the only solution.

Statistics about women

2009-05-07T18:47:00.001-04:00

Prostitution : each year, over 2 million young girls aged between 5-15 years old end up on this market.
1,2 %: it’s the percentage of new women running the 55 biggest firms in USA.
WAR- 80% of victims of manual fire weapons (shotgun, machine gun, grenade…) are females.
Each second…a woman is victim of violence at home… in occident.
20% is the percentage of women in occident who are victims of a sexual agression or a rape attempt in their life.
Mutilation: over 130 millions of women were victim of genital mutilation in the world.

2009-03-10T14:07:00.008-04:00

WHAT SHOULD WE EAT ? may be biaised).
But my conclusion is that fruits are the only ideal food for humans.
Fruits ? Vegetables ? Animal products?
This post is mostly about wether or not we should eat vegetables. I'll let you judge by the links provided (but search for other sources too, for those here

http://www.13.waisays.com/plants.htm
http://www.fibermenace.com/
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml

So these are 3 links provided by someone who eats only raw meat and raw animal products (raw eggs, milk, butter...) telling me that plants are toxic because 1) fibers are not edible 2) most of vegetables contain built-in pesticides/insecticides to naturally fight against predators/to prevent from being eaten.

From the 1st link :

We are not pigeons.

We are not cows.

Therefore we don't have a crop to digest cereals, nor 4 stomachs to gradually digest grasses or leaves.

Right... and are we tigers ? Are we lions or hyennas? No, therefore we don't have the special enzymes and short digestive tract to degrade animal proteins.
We are primates, and like the anthropoid apes we are designed to eat fruits. Most apes eat a diet composed of 99% plant-based food, (most calories come from fruits, the rest from greens) and 1% animal food (the insects on the greens they eat).

My opinion about fibers: I don't think they are harmful to health in adequate amounts. Just because they are not edible doesn't mean they are harmful. They are not useful to digestion itself (unlike many ignorants and dieteticians tend to say or think) - in fact, they slow down digestion and make it harder - but they are good for afterwards : to help get rid of the other wastes (cuz fibers are wastes).

My opinion about the self-defense elements found in plants to protect themselves against species who wish to eat them... Ok, so cows and other herbivores have the digestive system to deal easily with those subtances but we don't ? Why not? 4 stomachs ain't necessary. We have 2 stomachs (1 stomach in two parts) unlike carnivores, who have only one simple stomach. I think we can digest grains and vegetables quite efficiently, but not necessarily optimally (worse with meat and animal products. But we digest fruits optimally).

We have the pro-meat/anti-vegans people who say those molecules are harmful to humans. On the other hand, I've heard from vegetarian dieteticians that those defenses of the plants against insects, microbes and viruses and beneficial to us when we eat them; when we eat those plants those same molecules are then protecting us from viruses, etc, rather than harming us.

Some people say also that plants contain too much insecticides/pesticides sprayed by humans. Not if you buy organic products. If you eat animal products, what you eat is even more toxic because it stored much more insecticides in the animal flesh, after years of intensive feeding.

Those phytochemicals are used both as ingredients for insecticides as well as making supplements supposedly scientifically proven to be effective for their potential health-promoting properties on humans.

Whatever if vegetables are good or bad for us, I don't think some greens everyday can harm us, especially if you choose the ones with no 'harmful' molecules, but I think the optimal diet for humans is fruitarianism.
For those wondering if only fruits can provide enough proteins, you can visit this website for infos. http://www.thefruitpages.com/sugar.shtml We can also add a few nuts and seeds to add some proteins.

I think that the ideal, and natural diet for humans is a low-fat raw vegan diet, has presented in the book 'The 80/10/10 Diet' by Dr.Douglas Graham. It consists of mostly fruits, and raw vegetables, with small amounts of seeds, nuts and avocados.

What's funny is that the diet suggested on the 1st link provided by the anti-vegan guy, is a mostly fruit diet. All meals are fruits, and some raw nuts. The only thing which is not fruits is 1 or 2 raw eggs per day.
http://www.waisays.com/suggestions.htm

Carnivores

2009-02-28T00:16:00.003-05:00

There's quite a lot of animal ingredients in the vaccine list. I don't know if they are all true, or maybe for some of them it's rarely used. But I'm pretty sure there are even more freaky stuff in other goods. Like for some soaps, do they use human fats ? What do they do with all the fats removed from liposuccion surgeries ?

http://www.vegetarianvitamin.com/vegetarian.php#gluten

Also in lots of food including bread, they use monoglyceride and diglycerides without citing if it's animal (cow or hog... or human? who know, lol) or vegetal derived.
Same with sodium stearoyl lactylate.

Some red dyes are made from the cochineal beetle. These are usually labeled as cochineal, carmine, or carminic acid.

And I've read also there's human hair in bread. Check if cystine, cysteine, l-cystine is listed (usually in industrial bread and tortillas, not artisanal bread) because sometimes this amino acid is taken from human hair, which apparently are not only used to put on the head of dolls...

Also known as l-cystine, our research indicates that the source of cysteine is human hair. Cystine is an amino acid needed by humans, which can be produced by the human body. A very small quantity is used in less than 5% of all bread products. Often the hair of third world women is used.

So if we eat bread that contains human hair proteins, are we cannibals ?
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and other great naturalists often said that eating animals is not far from anthropophagy and cannibalism. After all as humans we're animals, the human animal. And many carnivore animals and insects perform cannibalism. Humans performed cannibalism during Stone Age as well as "primitive" tribes and sometimes in our modern society.

And let's not forget all the crushed rodent parts and insect fragments that end up in peanut butter, pastas, flour, etc... Anyone wants millipede flavoured chocolate ?

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/29/how_many_insect_parts_and_rodent_hairs_are_allowed_in_your_food.htm

CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE LIQUOR

Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments

Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED

Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH

Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets

MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS

Insect filth: Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

PEANUT BUTTER

Insect filth: Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams

POPCORN

Rodent filth: 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples

WHEAT FLOUR

Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams

Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams

DRUGS

2009-02-27T21:33:00.003-05:00

In Kaboul, a bottle of wine costs more than enough heroin to suply a junkie for one full day.
There's some catacombs filled with semi-conscious junkies who lie down like zombies when they're not taking their drugs. The tv journalists say that there is an horrible smell made of the sweet odor of burned opium mixed with the odor of human excrements.
After a while the junkies are a bit bothered by the presence of the camera and they begin to talk louder:

"My life is a disaster"
"You make money and we smoke this poison"

After heroin and cocain, opium is really easy to find in Afghanistan because it is produced in large amounts from the near countries.
There is also new "drug" very popular over there: the toxic skin of a frog which when smoked is hallucinogenic.

There is 60,000 kids addicted to heroin in Afghanistan. A 12 year old girl who's nick name is Blue Angel has been addicted to heroin for half her life, since the age of 6 year old; her mother was supplying her the drug. Now at the age of 13 she's finally cured and she jokes about getting married and she wants to go to school.

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In Columbia, the traffic of cocain is huge since many decades. But now Mexico is even bigger. The state arrested 40,000 drug dealers and producers. Seized 8,000 tons of marijuana, 67 tons (not sure of this number, I forgot, it may be more) of cocain, etc...

What is not vegan

2009-02-27T20:43:00.003-05:00

So of course there,s animals in meat, and animal products in food : dairies, eggs, etc. And some clothes made of silk, wool, or litterally all the skin or fur of an animal. But what about the other things ? You would be surprised... There's animal products in almost everything. Vaccines with aluminium, mercury, antifreeze, human and animal tissues and embryos...

http://www.veganfitness.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=277611#277611

Beer with fish eggs, wine with egg whites, paper coated with gelatin and some dairy proteins in certain paper products like napkins and paper towels. tape, photography films contain gelatin, refined sugar filtered through bone char. Some condoms and almost all cosmetics, shampoos etc are tested on animals, almost all medications are tested on animals and many contain lactose and/or gelatin, a large number of mattresses contain wool, tennis balls contain wool. Animal products in surgery stuff like bandages containing cells cow brain, insulin made from pig tissue, medicine containing liver or other organs from cows, or extracts from animal hormones. Some animal by-products in rubber, plastics, car tires, glue, etc...

TIME BOMBS

2009-02-27T19:48:00.003-05:00

A new documentary about soldiers veterans who have been exposed to radiations for military experiments by the US army.

“We were sent there and they knew we were guinea pigs,”

I could see through my arm. I could see through the head of the guy near me and could see his fillings

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/life-style/television/time-bombs/

Time Bombs
Canada’s atomic veterans fight for recognition
Published November 8, 2007 by Drew Anderson in Television
The federal government has ignored the plight of Canadian veterans dying from exposure to radiation caused by nuclear tests in Nevada in 1957, according to Time Bombs, a new documentary to be aired on Global television November 10.

According to Eric Ruelle, who directed and produced the documentary with Guylaine Maroist, the initial seed for the film was a small article written by two journalists in Montreal in 1957. That article, small on details, spoke of a top-secret mission in the States. It took the duo 10 years to track down the necessary sources and find a television network interested in the project.

That mission was named Operation Plumbbob, the largest nuclear testing project ever undertaken, involving thousands of American soldiers and a handful of unknowing Canadian volunteers. The soldiers were exposed to six nuclear blasts and then ordered to participate in war games amongst the fallout, to test their reactions to orders after the explosion.

Jim Huntley lived through those blasts and helped organize the Canadian Atomic Veterans Association in 1995 to help fight for recognition of the veterans. “We were sent there and they knew we were guinea pigs,” says Huntley, who bristles with anger at the treatment the veterans have received from the government. “We flew in helicopters through that cloud.”

Huntley is leading the charge in the association’s fight against the government, a task bestowed on him thanks in part to his good health. Of 40 soldiers sent to Nevada in the summer of 1957, 22 or more are dead, and the survivors are riddled with cancer and arthritis. Jim is the healthiest surviving member of the unit.

The task has proven difficult. The group has been denied, ignored and shuffled through the storied Canadian bureaucracy, stymied at every turn and lied to by political officials. After years of trying to get information and compensation, the association was finally promised a package by former defence minister Gordon O’Connor, according to Huntley, but the deadline for that package has come and gone without a word.

“There’s no going back. They lied to us. The minister of defence lied to us. He came here in July and told us we were getting a package on the 15th of September. We have nothing, not even a phone call,” says Huntley after a screening of the documentary in Calgary. He says the government is now trying to send the group back to square one. “They told us they’ve never heard of us. I said to the secretary, ‘We’ve talked to you for a year and a half. You don’t know who we are?’” says Huntley.

Anger is pervasive amongst those still alive. The flashes of light, the shockwaves and the dust from the explosions remain seared in their memories. “I get angry and I get more angry… I’m ashamed,” says Bob Henderson, a veteran of the tests, clutching an oxygen tank that resembles a violin case. Most of the participants that he was acquainted with, he says, served in the military long-term. “They served their country with pride, with dignity and most of all with honour. What the hell has the government done for us? Nothing. They’ve tried to sweep us away.”

Henderson echoes a disturbing conclusion shared amongst the survivors: that the government is waiting for all of them to succumb to the radiation they ingested 50 years ago. “They’re holding back because they know we’re falling,” he says wearily.

In 1992, the American government finally admitted its culpability for exposing soldiers to nuclear blasts and awarded compensation. “They finally admitted that it was a human experiment, it’s written in black-and-white — a human experiment. They really wanted to see how they would react in a nuclear war. So they would say to the soldiers, ‘don’t worry about radiation, it’s OK, Mother Nature will take care of you,’” says Ruelle. “I’m now very ashamed of my government, I’m now very ashamed of my country.”

Ruelle and Maroist are not letting go of the story, or the veterans they have befriended while filming Time Bombs, and have pledged to continue fighting for them after the release of the film. “We’ve made a commitment to ourselves… we have a moral commitment to ourselves and to the guys, we cannot let them go,” says Ruelle. “We need to take this to the end, because if we don’t, we don’t succeed. Success is not having everybody clap at the show and everybody say ‘hey, great show.’ No, the success is having the government acknowledge and compensate those guys.”

Vaccine Fillers and Ingredients

2009-02-27T18:20:00.000-05:00

In addition to the viral and bacterial RNA or DNA that is part of the vaccines, vaccine fillers and ingredients include:

* aluminum hydroxide
* aluminum phosphate
* ammonium sulfate
* amphotericin B
* animal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain,
* dog kidney, monkey kidney,
* chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg
* calf (bovine) serum
* betapropiolactone
* fetal bovine serum
* formaldehyde
* formalin
* gelatin
* glycerol
* human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
* hydrolized gelatin
* monosodium glutamate (MSG)
* neomycin
* neomycin sulfate
* phenol red indicator
* phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
* potassium diphosphate
* potassium monophosphate
* polymyxin B
* polysorbate 20
* polysorbate 80
* porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
* residual MRC5 proteins
* sorbitol
* sucrose
* thimerosal (mercury)
* tri(n)butylphosphate
* VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells
* washed sheep red blood cells

The above information was compiled from the following two publications:

What About Immunizations? Exposing the Vaccine Philosophy, by Cynthia Cournoyer. Nelson's Books. Santa Cruz, CA; 1995.

The Health Studio Newsletter (Volume 1, Oct. 1997) Vaccine Fillers and Ingredients
In many cases the vaccine additives are far more toxic than the viral component. This is particularly true for thimerosal, which is mercury. In 2000, Congress "strongly recommended" that the pharmaceutical companies take the thimerosol out of vaccines (it was not mandated; simply recommended). The drug companies were not told to take the existing lots off the market. The recommendation only applies to new product lines manufactured. An unknown amount of vaccine containing thimerosal (mercury) may still be on the shelves."

Disparate brings dissonance, osmosis brings harmony

2009-02-25T23:53:00.006-05:00

Recently a cardiologist killed his 2 kids and then attempted suicide. His wife was out skiing for the week-end. When she came back she had no more kids. The cardiolog was an expert about heart but knew nothing about the mind, he didn't know he was depressed and he killed his kids... The cardiologist failed to kill himself with drug overdose and ended up at the same hospital he was working to, but his own hospital didn't want him so he was sent to another one.
This kind of things happens a lot here in Quebec: someone (usually a man - but often a mother too) kills all the kids before killing himself. Why ? Why can't you just kill yourself and leave the kids alone ? Marc Lepine shot 20 female students in 1989 at Montreal polytechnique... People lost touch with themselves. People don't live in a holistic way anymore, They don't gather all the facets of their own human being, body and mind, and they are disconnected from reality as well as the society and the other living beings around them, so when just one part fails to work properly, all their mind breaks, instead of repairing it with all the tools around them. But they are too weak to act on themselves only, because they all still connected to their own pathetic, material, insignificant life, so they need to remove another part, the most important one, of their own life : their kids; only after this they stop to exist and don't have any reason to continue on living so they commit suicide.

So nowadays people lost touch with the holistic aspect of life and everything is specialized. One studies the science of heart and knows nothing about the rest of human body. Another one knows feet. Another one about the health of teeth but not about the health of the whole body. Another specializes in reproductive organs... Doctors know about diseases, treatments, drugs, medicine and why we die but know nothing about health and how to stay healthy, they don't know anything about good nutrition.
Scientists say hot peppers are healthy because there is good molecules in it. But what about the other molecules ? And even dieteticans are playing the card of separating everything instead of looking at things as a whole. Take iron, Vitamin C, E, D, A, eat calcium, eat omega-3, zinc, magnesium...
NO : eat almonds, eat oranges, eat figs, dates, etc... We have dieteticians promoting alcohol consumption claiming it reduce cardio-vascular diseases, telling us to drink 1-2 cups of red wine everyday like alcoholics, and then after many years studies show that this doesn't have much benefits, not more than eating better, or regular physical activity. And then a recent study by the American National Cancer Institute (NCI) on 180,000 women says that women drinking those 1-2 drink of alcohol per day have 32% higher risks to developp breast cancer, and 50% increase for 3 drinks or more. Good for the heart and bad for the breasts ?? BAD FOR HEALTH !!!
Stop dissect everything, stop removing everything to keep just one thing, because it doesn't work like this. Synergy is essential to life. The universe is a whole, life is part of universe, we're part of the universe, and if you remove just one thing everything else will colapse.
Barack Obama's phrase "Yes We Can". Sure, but to be done, someone must do it. And only one person is not enough. Obama didn't say "Yes I can". The WE is of primary importance, it is everybody who must act in order to make things change.

LEO TOLSTOY:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

CHANGE

2009-02-24T23:30:00.002-05:00

My selection of quotes about Change from there: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_changegrowth.html

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER:
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

CHARLES DUBOIS:
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

CHARLES KETTERING:
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

EPICTETUS:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

G. K. CHESTERTON:
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

G. K. CHESTERTON:
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

GENERAL ERIC SHINSEKI:
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. [Chief of Staff, U. S. Army]

GEORG C. LICHTENBERG:
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

GLORIA STEINEM:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

GLORIA STEINEM:
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

HENRI BERGSON:
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

HERACLITUS:
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. ca. 500 BCE

HERACLITUS:
All is flux; nothing stays still.

HERAKLIETOS OF EPHESOS:
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.

IRENE PETER:
Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed.

JAMES YORKE:
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

JOHN F. KENNEDY:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

LEO TOLSTOY:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

MADAME DE STAEL:
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. (L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c'est progres en spirale.)

MARCUS AURELIUS:
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

OVID:
All things change; nothing perishes.

go vegan

2009-02-21T17:15:00.003-05:00

oh my god... there's really people eating this.

Xenoestrogens, poison of the new century

2009-02-19T20:58:00.005-05:00

They are alien oestrogens, which mimic real oestrogens that our body produce. But they are much more harmful, they last longer and it's difficult to get rid of them. They are endocrine disrupters, which may affect the proper functioning of thyroid, immune system and many organs. They can seriously affect the hormonal balance of men and women, as well as the fauna. Rivers are contaminated by xenostroegens, fish become hermaphrodites. Water treatment can not eliminate xenoestrogens, so now more and more cities install a new processing system with ozone.

Where are they?
Environment is full of it. We find those undesirable hormones in:
pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, petrochemicals,
tap water, bbq, paint, glue, solvents, paint removers, plastics, in meat of animals fed with food containing pesticides, detergents industry: cosmetics, cleansers, hygiene products, air pollution: gasoline, diesel, nail polish containing toluene or phthalates.
Dyes containing phenylenediamine, towels and tampons bleached with chlorine, phthalates, synthetic components that increase the flexibility of plastic, anti-lice shampoos (pesticides), cigarette smoke.

What they do?
if the body fails to dispose of estrogen excess, following disorders may occur: uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, cystic fibrosis of the breast, heavy menstruation blood flow, acute PMS, endometriosis, risk of breast cancer and other cancers.

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Xenoestrogens are synthetic chemicals that mimic or interfere with estrogen in our bodies. They form a subset of a broader group of chemicals known as endocrine disruptors.

Exposure to xenoestrogens, which are found in pesticides, PCBs, plastics, and other industrial chemicals, has been linked to breast and ovarian cancers in women and to decreased testosterone levels, prostate cancer, and lowered sperm count in men. These damaging effects have been found in fish, reptiles, birds, rodents, and humans.

These chemicals are found in soil, lakes, and rivers as pesticide run-off from agricultural usage. They are present in polycarbonate plastic food wraps and containers and are also found in herbicides and pesticides on fruits and vegetables. Because hormones such as estrogen act in the body at very low levels (parts per trillion), exposure to even small amounts of environmental endocrine disruptors concern scientists. Although the plastic and chemical industries refute the links between their products and the effects of endocrine disruption, the government environmental agencies in Canada and the US have begun to screen potentially xenoestrogenic chemicals and to undertake more research into the impact these chemicals have on animals and humans.

Source: alive #X

This is why you're fat

2009-02-16T20:45:00.002-05:00

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

Who likes sugar or chocolate on things like French fries or meat !? : Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgers, deep fried Mars bar, deep fried coca-cola, bacon donut... a tongue sandwich... wtf ? some bacon in ice cream, on cookies, a McDonald’s chocolate milkshake with BBQ sauce and garnished with a chicken McNugget. Sausage egg and cheese on a chocolate glazed donut... Is this evidence that meat-eating drives insane ?

crazy world

2009-02-15T21:21:00.011-05:00

100 million tons of plastic in the sea and in fish
The scientist Charles Moore discovered a while ago that there is tons of tiny pieces of plastic floating in the Atlantic. This is due to all the plastic used in society, all the plastic bags, drink bottles and all kind of containers we throw away in rivers, it's then ripped in tiny pieces in streams against stones or with errosion due to sunlight. It all end up in the ocean, tiny pieces (1-3 mm) or some larger (few cm) found in the stomach of fish. The explorer Marcus Eriksen fished a tuna he wanted to eat, he opened it and he found 14 different pieces of plastic in it. He didn't eat the fish. There is 100 million tons of plastic in the Atlantic between Japan and Hawaï. Those fragments of plastic float right under the surface of water, so it is visible from a boat, but not from satelitte photographies.

OBESITY: a man was too large to fit in the prison cell so he got released.

MafiaBoy, a 15 years old kid living in Montreal, became the biggest hacker of the history of Internet when in year 2000 he invented a system to overload a target, Yahoo.com. Then he did the samething on other big websites: CNN, eBay, etc... 1,7 billion $ in damage... He was proud and said to lot of people he was the author, so after a while he got caught. 8 months in a correction center for kids.
Fraud on the web, like stealing personal informations and credit card numbers is huge, as much as drug traffic.
Credit card numbers are sell online and you can buy one for only 1$, or a cc number with complete infos of the owner for only 5$.
Russian mafia decided to specialize on internet and they became cyber criminals.
Cyber wars between countries: to attack all the systems and infrastructure of the ennemy. Wars of the future ? It already happened. Russia attacked Estonia. Someone attacked Estonia's government and its economy, paralysed the banks, tv, newspapers, phones, etc.
United States once feared that Russia could make a cyber attack, but now they suspect China to make cyber spying. Not only companies, but also countries - the governement and secret agencies recruit experimented hackers.
The worm Storm is invisible until it attacks. The identity of its creator is still unknown, and we still ignore what is the purpose of this worm. But when it will attack, it could be huge, since it is in millions of computers now, forming an immense network, waiting... and we don't know when it will decide to strike.
8 years later, MafiaBoy says he could do it easily again, he says Internet is not safer than before, it's worse.

Brian Sinclair died in a hospital after waiting 34 hours in the emergency room without recieving any service. The administrator of the hospital said that Sinclair never went to the triage desk to register his arrival and to ask for help, but then a security video footage proved he was wrong and he admitted he was wrong. Sinclair was a homeless person, which may explain why he has been left aside and victim of prejudice.
http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2009/02/brian-sinclair-cover-up-timeline-tells.html

There is 35 millions debris in orbit around planet Earth, due to all rockets sent into space over the years.

Arvin, San Francisco, CA. The most polluted town of United States. The air is so polluted that there is over 100 days of smog per year and a high % of population is asthmatic.

Water in the region of Bruxelle is highly polluted. The freshwater of our planet is endangered, polluted by nitrates from intensive agriculture, especially due to the meat industry.
Fish from Rhone is prohibited to consumption.

United States spent 750 billion $ in 8 years to finance the war in Irak and Afghanistan.
For every dollar invested in development assistance in the world, there is 17 dollars for military expenditures, half of it from the U.S.
With only 1 million dollar we can nourrish 5,800 children for 1 year in Malawi, or pay the salary of 1160 teachers during 1 year in Ouganda.

The Lyme disease is now in Quebec, Canada. Larva have been found in a deer fly just recently, but many people have suffered from it already some years ago. Very hard to find doctors and medications for this in Quebec because it's new. Climate changes and all that made possible for insects and diseases from South to be able to move and survive in Northern areas.

A 12 yeard old girl sue her dad in court. The father surprised his daughter on the net browsing some porn websites. For punishment he cancelled the trip she was supposed to make with school. The young girl talked about it to her mother (custody) and they both initiated prosecutions

Americans often see Chinese as a nation who is too severe on punishement. But truth is that only 1,2% of Chinese population, which is 1,3 billion people, is in jail, while there is 7,7% prisoners for 300 million Americans. So the pourcentage of prisoners is much higher in United States.

Ethanol production is dangerous for quality of fresh water in the world, due to the huge quantities of water, pesticides, insecticides and toxic fertilizers to produce astronomical quantities of grains for fueling cars. W. Bush wanted to increase ethanol to 130 billion litres in ten years (6 times more than in 2006). Corn is #1 grain used to make ethanol, but it is also the type of cereal which require the most fertilizers and pesticides.
Study from EPA.

Milk could be the cause to hyperactivity in kids, shows a recent Norwegian study. Professors and doctors named Knivsberf, Noedland and Fosse, from Stavanger University in Norway, tried the lactose free diet on several kids suffering AD/HD (attention deficit and hyperactive disorder) and positive results appeared on the first day, they become more calm and can concentrate and study better; the kids who kept with the diet were able to have much better results at school than before.
Scientist Karl Ludvig Reichelt studied this subject for a long time and arrived to the conclusion that undigested peptids of casein (milk proteins) can have the same effects on the brain than opium does. Many studies show a connection between autism, schizophrenia and the non-disintegration of milk proteins. Many kids are lactose intolerant and this problem may cause certain behavioral disorders. But we must not belive that milk is the cause to all cases of Attention Deficit among all kids.

But, to end on a happier note (kind of)... Canadian artist Leonard Cohen donated 200,000$ to help the victims of the fires that hit Australia. Cohen is in tour in Australia this week.This is very nice of him, knowing that not so long ago he was bankrupt after his record manager has been stealing millions $ of him, so Leonard HAD TO DO this world tour, it wasn't a choice. He's now over 70 years old but still very active, after a dozen of successful records.

Endocrine disrupters

2009-02-15T20:16:00.004-05:00

MSG, GMO, more and more insecticides and pesticides for intensive agriculture to supply the meat industry, plastics, medications, et cetera, all this end up in our food and water, and then in our body. Endocrine disrupters. We notice some alarmous changes: hundreds of toxic substances (like PCB, DDT, mercury...) in everybody's blood, polluted flora, more and more mutations and malformations in the fauna (hermaphrodite animals, infertility...). Endangered species... including us, humans. Males' sperm is getting poor quality and penis gets smaller over generations. Hormones are inversed or amplified: 8 years young girls with huge breasts, pubic hair and menstruations, young boys with female breast...

http://forums.nightly.net/index.php?showtopic=59562

"It's official: Men really are the weaker sex

Evolution is being distorted by pollution, which damages genitals and the ability to father offspring, says new study. Geoffrey Lean reports

Sunday, 7 December 2008

The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.

The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.

Backed by some of the world's leading scientists, who say that it "waves a red flag" for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have "gender-bending" effects.

It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.

"This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat," says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects of chemicals, who wrote the report.

Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has admitted that 99 per cent of them are not adequately regulated. There is not even proper safety information on 85 per cent of them.

Many have been identified as "endocrine disrupters" – or gender-benders – because they interfere with hormones. These include phthalates, used in food wrapping, cosmetics and baby powders among other applications; flame retardants in furniture and electrical goods; PCBs, a now banned group of substances still widespread in food and the environment; and many pesticides.

The report – published by the charity CHEMTrust and drawing on more than 250 scientific studies from around the world – concentrates mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in species ranging from the polar bears of the Arctic to the eland of the South African plains, and from whales in the depths of the oceans to high-flying falcons and eagles.

It concludes: "Males of species from each of the main classes of vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.

"Feminisation of the males of numerous vertebrate species is now a widespread occurrence. All vertebrates have similar sex hormone receptors, which have been conserved in evolution. Therefore, observations in one species may serve to highlight pollution issues of concern for other vertebrates, including humans."

Fish, it says, are particularly affected by pollutants as they are immersed in them when they swim in contaminated water, taking them in not just in their food but through their gills and skin. They were among the first to show widespread gender-bending effects.

Half the male fish in British lowland rivers have been found to be developing eggs in their testes; in some stretches all male roaches have been found to be changing sex in this way. Female hormones – largely from the contraceptive pills which pass unaltered through sewage treatment – are partly responsible, while more than three-quarters of sewage works have been found also to be discharging demasculinising man-made chemicals. Feminising effects have now been discovered in a host of freshwater fish species as far away as Japan and Benin, in Africa, and in sea fish in the North Sea, the Mediterranean, Osaka Bay in Japan and Puget Sound on the US west coast.

Research at the University of Florida earlier this year found that 40 per cent of the male cane toads – a species so indestructible that it has become a plague in Australia – had become hermaphrodites in a heavily farmed part of the state, with another 20 per cent undergoing lesser feminisation. A similar link between farming and sex changes in northern leopard frogs has been revealed by Canadian research, adding to suspicions that pesticides may be to blame.

Male alligators exposed to pesticides in Florida have suffered from lower testosterone and higher oestrogen levels, abnormal testes, smaller penises and reproductive failures. Male snapping turtles have been found with female characteristics in the same state and around the Great Lakes, where wildlife has been found to be contaminated with more than 400 different chemicals. Male herring gulls and peregrine falcons have produced the female protein used to make egg yolks, while bald eagles have had difficulty reproducing in areas highly contaminated with chemicals.

Scientists at Cardiff University have found that the brains of male starlings who ate worms contaminated by female hormones at a sewage works in south-west England were subtly changed so that they sang at greater length and with increased virtuosity.

Even more ominously for humanity, mammals have also been found to be widely affected.

Two-thirds of male Sitka black-tailed deer in Alaska have been found to have undescended testes and deformed antler growth, and roughly the same proportion of white-tailed deer in Montana were discovered to have genital abnormalities.

In South Africa, eland have been revealed to have damaged testicles while being contaminated by high levels of gender-bender chemicals, and striped mice from one polluted nature reserved were discovered to be producing no sperm at all.

At the other end of the world, hermaphrodite polar bears – with penises and vaginas – have been discovered and gender-benders have been found to reduce sperm counts and penis lengths in those that remained male. Many of the small, endangered populations of Florida panthers have been found to have abnormal sperm.

Other research has revealed otters from polluted areas with smaller testicles and mink exposed to PCBs with shorter penises. Beluga whales in Canada's St Lawrence estuary and killer whales off its north-west coast – two of the wildlife populations most contaminated by PCBs – are reproducing poorly, as are exposed porpoises, seals and dolphins.

Scientists warned yesterday that the mass of evidence added up to a grave warning for both wildlife and humans. Professor Charles Tyler, an expert on endocrine disrupters at the University of Exeter, says that the evidence in the report "set off alarm bells". Whole wildlife populations could be at risk, he said, because their gene pool would be reduced, making them less able to withstand disease and putting them at risk from hazards such as global warming.

Dr Pete Myers, chief scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, one of the world's foremost authorities on gender-bender chemicals, added: "We have thrown 100, 000 chemicals against a finely balanced hormone system, so it's not surprising that we are seeing some serious results. It is leading to the most rapid pace of evolution in the history of the world.

Professor Lou Gillette of Florida University, one of the most respected academics in the field, warned that the report waved "a large red flag" at humanity. He said: "If we are seeing problems in wildlife, we can be concerned that something similar is happening to a proportion of human males"

Indeed, new research at the University of Rochester in New York state shows that boys born to mothers with raised levels of phthalates were more likely to have smaller penises and undescended testicles. They also had a shorter distance between their anus and genitalia, a classic sign of feminisation. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys.

Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls than boys, which may offer a clue to the reason for a mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls, but the ratio is slipping. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone.

And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per millilitre of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years. (Hamsters produce nearly three times as much, at 160 million.) Professor Nil Basu of Michigan University says that this adds up to "pretty compelling evidence for effects in humans".

But Britain has long sought to water down EU attempts to control gender-bender chemicals and has been leading opposition to a new regulation that would ban pesticides shown to have endocrine-disrupting effects. Almost all the other European countries back it, but ministers – backed by their counterparts from Ireland and Romania – are intent on continuing their resistance at a crucial meeting on Wednesday. They say the regulation would cause a collapse of agriculture in the UK, but environmentalists retort that this is nonsense because the regulation has get-out clauses that could be used by British farmers."

Should we supplement or not ?

2009-02-06T22:58:00.002-05:00

About 100 million Americans use vitamin pills because they are sure it helps them to be healthy and they spend 25 billion US $. But nothing proves that supplements help to live longer or healthier.

Here's an article that shows how "scientific" studies are ineffective at proving some stuff. It can't say clearly if vitamin pills are effective or not to protect from illness/reduce risks of disease. Some studies say vitamin pills don't really have any positive or negative effect - but they're not sure... A few studies show that certain supplements could reduce the risks of certain health issues... but they're not absolutly sure. And some other studies say supplements could even be counterproductive and cause premature deaths - but they're not sure...
Some scientists are so incompetent that in one study they consider the vitamins from fruits and veggies to be the samething as vitamins from supplements !

Some studies have even shown a negative supplement effect. Analysis of data collected from some 70,000 postmenopausal nurses showed that over an 18-year period, those who consumed the most vitamin A from food or from supplements had the greatest risk of bone fractures.

I've read today that a 40 years-old man got seriously illed because of a Vitamin D overdose due to supplements. He had been taking those pills for like 2 years and then had to go to the hospital and it took 30 months for the vitamin D blood level to go back to normal. I've read this in a magazine, but here's some quotes from the article on Canadianliving.com which summarize vaguely a bunch of studies. And here's the link to the article.
Do Multivitamins Work ?

A typical survey-type, or "observational," study involved over 83,000 healthy American physicians who filled out questionnaires about supplement intake and dietary habits. Roughly 30 percent of the doctors regularly took vitamin supplements. After about six years, 1,000 or so had died of some form of cardiovascular disease. Were the deceased more or less likely to have been taking antioxidant supplements? As it turned out, there was no relationship between supplement intake and cardiovascular death. Of course, it is possible that physicians are more health conscious that others and pay more attention to their diet, so that they already had a sufficient intake of antioxidants.

low vitamin E intake during pregnancy has shown to increase the risk of childhood asthma, and women who take vitamin supplements during pregnancy appear to have a reduced risk of having infants who develop brain tumours.

Vitamin C
How about studies of blood levels of vitamins? English researchers in one case found that among 20,000 people, those who had the highest level of vitamin C in the blood lived the longest. But was this because of the vitamin C, or was the vitamin C just acting as a marker for increased fruit and vegetable intake? Low levels of folic acid have been linked with breast cancer, heart disease and, most significantly, with giving birth to babies with neural tube defects. Still, such studies do not show cause and effect. You can never be certain that the observations are not due to some other dietary factor that happens to parallel folic acid in its presence. That's why intervention studies are the most meaningful. And in the case of folic acid in pregnant women, they certainly back up the observational studies. Supplementing the diet with 400 micrograms of folic acid daily significantly reduces the risk of neural tube defect.

Antioxydants
Researchers in Oxford, England, enrolled over 20,000 adults with heart disease risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure or high blood cholesterol in a major study. Half received a daily supplement of 600 IU vitamin E, 250 milligrams vitamin C and 20 milligrams beta-carotene, while the others got a placebo. The supplements were certainly effective in increasing blood levels of vitamins, as tests clearly showed. But after five years there was absolutely no difference in any form of disease or in death rates between the groups. Maybe, though, these subjects already had the beginnings of cardiovascular disease that could not be reversed with the supplements and perhaps in a healthy group, supplements can prevent disease. Maybe …

To supplement or not?
As is evident, it is possible to support either side of the "to supplement or not" debate by looking at the scientific literature selectively. But what happens when scientists put all the data together in a meta-analysis? Sometimes they just add to the confusion! That's what Goran Bjelakovic and his colleagues at the University of Nis in Serbia and Montenegro apparently did when they examined the relationship between dietary antioxidants and the risk of gastrointestinal cancers. Free radicals can form in the gut and have been implicated in cancer, and fruits and vegetables have been shown to be protective, presumably because of the antioxidant content. So it certainly seemed reasonable to expect that antioxidant supplements should be beneficial in preventing cancer. Bjelakovic scoured the scientific literature and identified 14 rigorous placebo-controlled trials involving over 170,000 subjects. All the trials used oral supplements, although amounts varied, as did combinations. Vitamin C ranged from 120 to 2,000 milligrams a day, vitamin A from 1.5 to 15 milligrams, beta-carotene from 15 to 50 milligrams, selenium from 50 to 228 micrograms and vitamin E from 30 to 600 IU. The supplements were taken for years, either daily or every other day. Such doses are typical of what average consumers might take.

Shocking results
The results of the meta-analysis were unexpected. No protection against esophageal, gastric, colorectal, pancreatic or liver cancer was found. Selenium supplementation in a few of the trials did show some optimistic results. Now for the real shocker: in seven trials, all of high quality, involving over 130,000 subjects, the supplement takers had a higher rate of premature death! The researchers actually calculated that one premature death would be expected for every 100 people taking supplements. Little wonder that this work prompted sensational headlines like "Vitamins Only Take You Closer To Death." How do we interpret this surprising finding? The study was well executed and has statistical weight, but is it not possible that people who are ill are more likely to take supplements and that this explains the increased mortality? Or that supplements are most effective when taken for longer periods? And maybe they don't protect against cancer but have other benefits.

Supplements proved not helpful
Dr. Bjelakovic decided to look into this possibility by mounting a second meta-analysis. His team tracked hundreds of published trials on the health effects of beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium supplements, and whittled these down to 68 that met the criteria for proper blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trials. Some studies used low doses of supplements, some high; some lasted months, other many years. Some used single antioxidants, others used various combinations. But the strength of a anti-meta-analysis lies in pooling results from many studies, evening out variables and allowing an overall conclusion to emerge. As in his previous study, Bjelakovic found no benefit from the supplements, and as before, he noted an increase in mortality among supplement takers. The data appear to be robust. More than 230,000 participants were involved in the 68 trials, 21 of which focused on healthy subjects who were taking antioxidants to prevent disease.

Better to get our vitamins from food than from pills
While I do not think that vitamin supplements are killing us, there is mounting evidence that it is better to get our vitamins from food than from pills. It seems that there is an almost magical blend of antioxidants, minerals and probably unrecognized other ingredients in fruits, vegetables and whole grains that cannot be replicated in supplements. A 13-member expert panel of the National Institutes of Health in the United States concluded that there is insufficient evidence for or against recommending vitamin supplements except in three cases. Supplementation with B vitamins in women of child-bearing age is beneficial, as is supplementation with calcium and vitamin D in postmenopausal women to prevent bone fractures. And the progression of macular degeneration can be reduced with a mix of beta-carotene, zinc, vitamin C and vitamin E.

Pollution

2009-01-22T17:38:00.002-05:00

I'm living in an apartment with many students, we all have our own room, of course I'm the only vegan. There's one especially who cook meat every night, like cook it a lot, because of course he wouln't like to eat this shit raw or just half-cooked, but there's no ventilation system over the stove and he wouldn't think about opening the window when it's -20 degrees celcius outside. So what results of burning animal corpses everynight is an odor of burned meat almost 24/7 and now it's even going in my room, like a deep fog or smoke of death or interior smog. As I'm breathing now, I can smell those carcinogenic molecules and feel them irritating my nostrils and entering my body. I became really sensitive to such pollution after not eating it for years now, and it's the exact samething with cigarettes. Even when someone smokes OUTSIDE and I just cross this person for half a second, this little cloud of toxic smoke intoxicates me a lot, way more than when I was smoking 10 cigarettes per day! I say cigarettes and all kind of voluntary and involuntary pollution should be illegal, prohibited and abolished! I know it's sad for the smokers who really enjoy ruining their lungs and body and to do the same to others who breathe the secondary smoke, and some will say it would be against their freedom to not let them smoke cigarettes anymore, but it's for their good and for others too.

Human and Animal

2008-12-23T16:29:00.003-05:00

Our anatomy differs from carnivores and herbivores, moreover we're almost identical to anthropoid apes, such as bonobos, our closest cousin.

So let's compare humans with frugivores (anthropoid apes):

both have same shape of placenta.
Both have 2 hands and 2 feets.
Nails.
No tail.
Eyes look in the front.
Skin have millions of pores.
No long or sharp teeth.
Same dental formula:
5.1.4.1.5
5.1.4.1.5
Well developped saliva glands.
Saliva & urine are alkaline (when eating the right diet).
Soft tongue.
Tits are on the chest.
Stomach with second part, with low acid gastric juices.
«Notched» colon.
Intestine 12x the lenght of the body.
Live of fruits and nuts.

I'm not even talking about DNA similarities, which doesn't give any information on the similarities of the ideal diet of different species, since DNA is very similar between completely different species. For instance: even plants and trees have a very similar DNA to humans, as well as prehistoric animals. That's because recent species carry the DNA of all the species behind, but those chromosones are disactivated. But if we compare monkeys with tails, their DNA is less identical to us; if we compare chimps, a bit more identical. But apes like bonobos have a DNA 97% identical to us.

6 Weeks Program

2008-11-25T20:18:00.002-05:00

to boost metabolism (and burn fat)

Week

Reduce carb intake for 4 days. Zero carbs for last meal each evening of the week.
Add more cardio sessions (30-60 minutes) at least 3x/week. Increase protein intake, decrease carb intake.
Reduce carb intake for 4 days. Zero carbs for last meal each evening of the week.
At least 2 cardio sessions (30-60 minutes) . Add a cardio session on empty stomach one morning or after a weight lifting session.
Cheat one day per week; eat more calories than what your body got used to. Add 50% more sets at training.
Take a break for 3 full days, then repeat program if necessary.

STOP KILLING AND POLLUTING !

2008-11-24T17:19:00.003-05:00

VEGAN

For the People. For the Planet. For the Animals.
Make the connection.

Go see this video and learn about the facts. It takes only about 10 minutes of your life.

http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/veganvideo.html

Fish Feel Pain

2008-11-21T12:14:00.003-05:00

This is in response to a ridiculous video on Youtube called "Fish Don't Feel Pain"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JRNHBZqxwM

From: http://www.fishinghurts.com/FishFeelPain.asp

"Fish Feel Pain

While it may seem obvious that fish are able to feel pain, like every other animal, some people
still think of fish as swimming vegetables. In fact, regarding the ability to feel pain, fish are equal
to dogs, cats, and all other animals. Dr. Donald Broom, scientific advisor to the British
government, explains that “The scientific literature is quite clear. Anatomically, physiologically
and biologically, the pain system in fish is virtually the same as in birds and animals.”1

Neurobiologists have long recognized that fish have nervous systems that comprehend and
respond to pain, and anyone who made it through Biology 101 knows that fish have nerves and
brains that sense pain, just like all animals.2 Indeed, scientists tell us that fish brains and nervous
systems closely resemble our own.3 For example, fish (like “higher vertebrates”) have
neurotransmitters like endorphins that relieve suffering—of course, the only reason for their
nervous systems to produce pain killers is to relieve pain.4 Claiming that fish do not suffer is as
intellectually and scientifically sound as arguing that the Earth is flat.

Interestingly, scientists have created a detailed map of pain receptors in fish’s mouths and all
over their bodies. A team of researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada recently surveyed
the scientific literature on fish pain and intelligence. They concluded that fish feel pain and that
“the welfare of fish requires consideration.”5 Dr. Lynne Sneddon, a scientist of fish biology in
the United Kingdom, explains, “Really, it’s kind of a moral question. Is your angling more
important than the pain to the fish?”6

Scientists at Edinburgh University and the Roslin Institute in the United Kingdom report that in
response to pain, fish also feel emotional stress and engage in “a ‘rocking’ motion strikingly
similar to the kind of motion seen in stressed higher vertebrates like mammals.”7 The research
team concluded that fish clearly experience pain in the same way as mammals, both physically
and psychologically.8

As you would expect from animals who we now know to be intelligent and interesting
individuals with memories and the capacity to learn, fish can also suffer from fear and
anticipation of physical pain. Researchers from universities across America have published

Dr. Lynne U. Sneddon, Dr. Victoria A. Braithwaite, and Dr. Michael J. Gentle, “Do Fish Have Nociceptors:
Evidence for the Evolution of a Vertebrate Sensory System,” The Royal Society Scientific Academy, 7 June 2003
. research showing that some fish use sound to communicate distress when nets are dipped into
their tanks or they are otherwise threatened.9 In a separate study, researcher William Tavolga
found that fish grunted when they received an electric shock. In addition, the fish began to grunt
as soon as they saw the electrode, clearly in anticipation of the torment that Tavolga was
inflicting on them.10

According to Dr. Michael Fox, D.V.M, Ph.D., “Even though fish don’t scream [audibly to
humans] when they are in pain and anguish, their behavior should be evidence enough of their
suffering when they are hooked or netted. They struggle, endeavoring to escape and, by so doing,
demonstrate they have a will to survive.”11

What happens to fish before they end up on your plate is nothing short of cruelty to animals—
whether they’re farmed or pulled from the ocean, fish are treated in ways that would warrant
felony charges if other animals were so horribly abused.

FOOTNOTE SOURCES

1
Richard H. Schwartz, “Do You Eat Fish?” Tikkun, Nov. 1999
.
2
L.S. Chervova, “Behavioral Reactions of Fishes to Pain Stimuli,” J. Ichthyol, 1997
.
3
L.S. Chervova.
4
K.P. Chandroo, I.J.H. Duncan, and R.D. Moccia, “Can Fish Suffer?: Perspectives on Sentience, Pain, Fear, and
Stress,” Applied Animal Behavior Science, 2004, p.11
.
5
K.P. Chandroo, p. 15.
6
Jennifer Smith, “Debate: Do Fish Feel Pain?” Newsday, 21 Aug. 2003
.
7
Alan Cowell, “Cruelty to Fish? Anglers in Britain Are Left Smarting,” International Herald Tribune, 7 May 2003.

8
Dr. Lynne U. Sneddon, Dr. Victoria A. Braithwaite, and Dr. Michael J. Gentle, “Do Fish Have Nociceptors:
Evidence for the Evolution of a Vertebrate Sensory System,” The Royal Society Scientific Academy, 7 June 2003
.

9
Martin A. Connaughton, Michael L. Lunn, Michael L. Fine, and Malcolm H. Tayor, “Characterization of Sounds
and Their Use in Two Sciaenid Species: Weakfish and Atlantic Croaker,”
.
10
Vantressa Brown, “Fish Feel Pain, British Researchers Say,” Agence France-Presse, 1 May 2003
.
11
Michael Fox., D.V.M., Ph.D., “Do Fish Have Feelings?” The Animals' Agenda, July/Aug. 1987, pp. 24-29."

What veganism is to me

2008-11-14T00:08:00.003-05:00

It's about doing good to me and around me.
It's about not harming myself, and not doing any bad to others.

When I'm hungry I'm naturally atracted by fresh fruits, like an apple or some strawberries, that will satisfy my hunger, my physiological needs, my desire for flavors and good tastes. Fruits are sweet and delicious.

I eat this because I want to.
I could eat meat if I wanted to. But I don't want to.
Why would I want to eat animals. Why would I need to put corpses and carcasses into my body? Who needs this? Nobody.

People force babies to eat meat. All babies are reluctant to meat.That's all natural. Offer an apple and a piece of meat, the baby will always choose the apple. That's a proven experiment that every parent can try at home.

Man has no claws, sharp teeths; nothing particularly agressive about the human body, we don't have a predator body. We don't have a killer instinct neither; unlike wolves and tigers, we're not natural born killers. Therefore we need weapons to hunt and kill, fire to cook. Man came before the axe or other tools, he couldn't have been omnivore or carnivore.
Fruits were on the planet way before tools. We couln't eat meat at the beginning. Because of climatic reasons and the impossibility to find anything that grows in trees or on the ground, at some times and some places, men needed to eat animal flesh in order to survive. Man is an opportunist animal, who will eat what it finds, anything which is edible, that's the survival instinct.
When man had a more developped brain, he invented agriculture, with more and more complex systems, there was always food available, and he ate less and less meat. There was no need to go hunt or kill. Larger societies formed, with poors and rich people. Meat reappeared in the diet, on the menu of the rich. 10kg of the food of the poor is needed to produce only 1 kg of food for the rich.

Today it's a big mistake to eat meat. People say that we always have been eating meat. Man made many mistakes during the history of mankind. One of them was to eat animals when there was other choices. Now it's getting worse and worse. Let's not perpetrate ad nauseam the mistakes of our past, but learn from the mistakes. Evolve.

Ideas of Books and other texts on veganism

2008-11-12T06:59:00.002-05:00

If you wish to learn about veganism, with facts, evidencies, stats, here are some titles and authors...

All texts by Dr. Douglas Graham. Or Superior Nutrition by Dr Herbert Shelton, as well as all his other books or articles on the web, they're all incredible common sense.

Other books: Diet for a new america, Thrive, The China Study, or Living Foods for Optimum Health by Brian Clement.

For plenty of interesting links, studies, testimonies, etc about veganism, rendez-vous on veganbodybuilding.com, on the forum board or read the Quotes, Articles on nutrition, etc...

The Many Contradictions About Meat-Eaters

2008-11-12T04:04:00.008-05:00

Here's just a few of the many contradictions in their stupid arguments.
Often they contradicts with eachothers, often they will even contradict with themselves, always trying to oppose what's proven as a fact and evidency.

Those who say it's impossible should not interrupt those who are doing it.
(author unknown)

So there's this guy, let's call him Johnny, who says he tried raw veganism for a couple of months. He says his health started to decrease dangerously, losing weight, etc.

Then he abandoned veganism completely to eat strictly animal products, raw. (What kind of vegan does that?!). Raw meat, raw eggs, raw milk, raw butter, raw cream. He claims he does this because it's the most normal, healthy and natural thing to do.
He says:
"I say a vegan diet is deficient because it is. There are no quality fat soluble vitamins which are abundant in butter, organ meats, and other animal fats. "

Yeah, as if products as fat as butter and cream were foods found in nature. What vitamins is he talking about, A, D, E? There are very little vitamins in animal products; just some vitamin A in butter, which is not even a natural product, and too fatty. On the other hand, there's so many vitamins and minerals in fuits and greens that I often score between 250-500% of the daily values, clearly showing that those ridiculous recommandations were designed for a deficient diet. Just one poor carrot is already 250% of DV ! One head of romaine lettuce (600g) is 726% Vitamin A, 250% Vit. C, and 800% Vit. K, all this, for only 100 calories. Now in which animal products is there Vitamin C and K is sufficient amount, as well as all the other vitamins? Eggs have some, but go ahead, 4 eggs is already 300% of cholesterol. You should rather go fo avocado, sesame seed, almond or other nuts, broccoli, spinach, carrot, guava, cherries or other berries. Go ahead, compare those with meat, butter, etc... Go on nutritiondata.com and see which contains vitamins and minerals, and which contains none, but saturated fats and cholesterol.

"I've eaten beef I let rot in a jar for over a year... Yeah, it was rotten, really rotten. Didn't get sick."

That's good, Johnny Rotten, you are truly mentally illed.

Yeah, I heard a story like his, about a woman who left an article on the web, she mentioned similar symptoms, and the only things she mentioned about her vegan diet, was that she often fringed for rice cakes with vegan margarine on them. Then she blames veganism. Good for you, and good riddance, go back to your meat, vegans don't need you at all!

So here come the contradictions:

Some will say "be a man, eat some meat", referring to the cavemen, I guess. Yeah, sorry, even if I don't like modern times so much, I prefer this than being a retarded cro-magnon eating raw meat in his cavern. Anyway, I guess they refer also to the act of killing the animal, which of course they avoid to do, paying mercenaries in slaughterhouses to have the job done for them. And the only persons who stay longer than a week working as an employee in a slaughterhouse are deranged psychopaths, or just stupid.
So some will say that we always ate meat...Then some others will say that we ate only fruits at the beginning, then it's only a few milleniums ago that we started to eat more meat, and that is responsible for the evolution of our brain to what we are now.

Some will say that vegan foods have too much calories, like nuts and all that, compared to yogurt, skimmed milk, lean meat, etc. Wrong, a vegan diet is perfect because you can find a large variety of foods, with different macros. Fruits and veggies will always rule when it comes to fat loss, being the most calorie-low, high nutrients foods available... Then some will say that vegan foods are not calorie dense and that someone on a vegan diet will automatically lose weight. Well, what meat or animal products are calorie dense except butter?? If you want to gain weight, eat some pastas, potatoes, rice, bagels, or even vegan junk food like chips, chocolate, or raw foods like avocado, nuts, seeds, bananas, dates; this is the most calorie dense food on the planet. If you lose weight, that's either because you're too fat, or because you don't eat enough, or not well enough. There's many skinny meat-eaters out there, and many morbid obese meat-eaters too. Most vegans are just fine. But there are some who are skinny, some are fat.

Here's another guy who tried veganism but came back to meat, and only animal products, fearing fruits and veggies, but contradicting himsel:

"I tried and tried to be raw vegan and vegetarian to the point I was physically ill." ... "The diet made me deteriorate into a horrible condition. My body screamed for beef and cream. I ignored it till the point my hair fell out, my joints and muscles were in constant pain, and had constant lethargy." ... "This is my experience of myself. I don't care about what anyone anywhere eats. This is just my story of being raw vegan for 6 months. As far as what I ate when I was on the raw vegan diet, raw fruits, raw vegetables, raw nuts and raw seeds. "

He changed completely his discours, and agreed with me when I told him that I have so much energy on a vegan diet that I always move, doing long endurance rides, or strength exercices, and I need less than 5 hours of sleep...

"I was already 100% raw vegan. I too had to bicycle 500-700kms a week when I was a raw vegan because I was SO STRESSED from consuming so much fresh fruit. The energy was horribly inconsistent and I had dramatic fluctuations of energy and fatigue. I also HAD TO eat a meal every hour. I was always hungry. It was clear that my constant hungry was that I was not getting what I needed from the diet. "

Well, I have all the energy, without the fatigue periods, except when I'm tired and go to sleep. It's been 5 years of "vegetarianism", with fish, cheese, yogourt, some eggs, but no milk. God I hated to eat those, but I was forcing myself to. And I did not have the energy that I have now, after one year of veganism (nor had I as an omni). But I was doing exercices too as an omni and as vegetarian, stress has nothing to do with that.
...How the hell is it possible to be stressed from fruits? They're the most relaxing foods on Earth, full of vitamins, antioxydants, anti-stress. Meat is stress, stress from the slaughtered animal, and stress to the body who then needs to deal with that rotten piece of corpse. Constant stress for the immune system trying to heal the organism after each time a pice (even a small one) or meat, fish, milk, whatever, is swallowed and enters the body like a billion of viruses installing cancer.

Eating lots of fruits and vegetables, I don't need to drink water, except if I do lots of endurance training. Fruits and greens : 70% water and more. Just like the planet. Just like our bodies. That should give you a hint. I don't need to drink the toxic tap water from cities, or worst, from suburbias, or the spring water at 2$ per plastic bottle. Now who on a non-vegan diet can do this? If you eat only raw meat, like some freaks do, the muscles from meat contains lots of water, which is not removed by cooking. But not enough, and you would still need to drink lots of water, to help your organism and kidney to deal with the metabolism and metabolytes of all those animal proteins.

So, some say that the Bible prone veganism, others say not. Some say Jesus was vegetarian, some others say he ate fish and lamb. Who cares? Some say that Einstein was vegetarian, while he wasn't. Some others say Hitler was vegetarian, while he wasn't. Which meat-eater will admit that eating meat involves the act of killing, and that it is judged immoral, and is one of the Ten Commandments, "thou shalt not kill". I personally don't care about religion and what the Bible says. But if some people have faith in those writings but act the opposite way... well I hope they know where they will go burn, just like the hundreds of animal corpses they burned all their life! ahah. The Ten Commandments were written by men, not god. It is a good guideline to follow, in order to honour Life. Some people just don't care. So the modern, perverted men, changed the Ancient writing; in the New Testament, we now see "you shall not murder", to permit the killing of other creatures than humans... technically : speciesm.

What were ancient people eating?

2008-11-06T19:57:00.006-05:00

People nowadays think that we always have been eating meat... Why would we have been eating meat? There were no ridiculous dietiticians saying : You need to eat meat. A vegan diet is deficient". People were rarely eating meat. It wasn't convenient at all to hunt and try to store meat, there were no fridge and freezer. On the other hand, preparing and eating sprouted/cooked cereals, grains, etc was easy and practical. The coutune to make bread is thousands of years old, and it was the base of the diet of many nations. For others it was rice.

Video about the ancient vegetarian diet: "Famous Vegetarians: from Buddha to the Beatles" - Rynn Berry"

It also talks about Hitler, his falonny vegetarianism. Hitler: nor vegetarian nor animal lover. His favorite dish was a carnivorous dish consisting of pigeon, with the tongue and everything, stuffed with eggs and dairies !

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Gladiators-Actually-Fat-Vegetarians/Article/200404113050005?lpos=Home_Article_Related_Content_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_13050005_Gladiators_Actually_Fat_Vegetarians

Gladiators Actually Fat Vegetarians

"Tests performed on bits of bone taken from the skeletons of some 70 gladiators buried at Ephesus seem to prove that they ate mainly barley, beans and dried fruit," said Karl Grosschmidt, a forensic doctor who took part in the study by Austria's institute of archeology.
"This diet, which has been mentioned in the oral history, is rather sad but it gave the gladiators a lot of strength even if it made them fat," he said.

He (Kanz) believes that because some gladiators fought with little more than their bare hands, they could have "cultivated layers of fat to protect their vital organs from the cutting blows of their opponents."

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It has also been demonstrated, by analizing the DNA of proteins found in fossilised excrements of different prehistoric ages, that our ancestors, of different eras and places, were eating mostly plant-based foods. In fact, most proteins found are from crushed nuts, seeds, shoots, roots, grains and vegetables, with very little or usually no traces of animal proteins. This discovery changed completely the way scientists and anthropologists see our ancestors, and therefore us.

The nature of muscle building

2008-11-01T13:11:00.002-04:00

Some articles about bodybuilding , that I took from a book

Calories and Muscle--Reposted 2/26/06

If one were to measure the caloric content of one pound of human muscle, using a scientific measuring device known as a calorimeter, he'd find it contained, or yielded, slightly over 600 calories. By contrast, a pound of human fat yields 3500 calories. This points rather clearly to the fact that it requires much fewer calories to provide for muscle growth than it does to add body fat.
Why such a disparity in caloric content of the two types of tissue -- muscle and fat? The following will explain:
Water Protein Lipids(fats) Inorganic Material
Muscle 72% 22% 4% 2%
Fat 15% 12% 70% 3%
Muscle is predominantly water; which, of course, is devoid of calories, hence its much lower caloric content.
Mike Mentzer
Not So Obvious--Reposted 1/25/06

It is obvious that humans possess differing metabolic rates as each of us gains fat, loses weight and develops muscles beyond normal levels at varying rates. What is less obvious, but equally important, is that the physiology underlying metabolism is universal, i.e., applicable to all. The chemical processes governing our utilization of food for energy, maintenance and repair had been clearly mapped out and circumscribed by physiologists -- (not exercise physiologists) -- decades ago. Pick up any textbook on physiology or nutritional science, and you'll be reading about what goes on inside yourself. . . your neighbor. . . your training partner. . . and everyone!
So, while we all possess the stamp of unique personalities, we aren't all that different inside. We all need protein, require rest and sleep and we all burn carbohydrates at the rate of four calories per gram. Also, each and everyone of us requires a high-intensity training effort to stimulate growth, we all possess strictly limited recovery abilities, and, as bodybuilders, none of us ever grow fast enough!
Mike Mentzer
In the End, There Can Be But One--Reposted 1/25/06
The essence of the above is that we're all basically the same creature, members of the same animal species -- Man. Genetic anomalies notwithstanding, all members of the species man have hearts, lungs, pancreas, livers, thyroids, muscles, bones, brains and so forth; whose anatomy and function are governed by the same physiologic principles. And, again, we all need protein for repair, maintenance and growth, we all burn carbohydrates at the rate of four calories a gram and each requires rest and sleep for growth and normal mental functioning.
If everyone possessed cells, muscles and organs that were constituted and functioned differently, i.e., if every individual were a unique physiologic entity unto himself, medical scientists couldn't make diagnoses, perform surgery or dispense medicines. The fact that we are all essentially the same anatomically and physiologically shows what is logically true -- that there is and can be but one -- and only one! -- valid training theory. And that one valid theory just so happens to be the theory of Heavy Duty, high-intensity training.

Mike Mentzer

Meat eaters are strange...

2008-10-23T00:55:00.004-04:00

A meat-eater was stunned when she saw me eating a kiwi. Just because I was eating the skin too. So in this world, people eat animal carcasses, but they're repelled by eating a fresh fruit. They eat animal corpses, dead since many days, and processed meat like sausages that contains nasty organs she's not even aware of. She didn't know that the candies she's eating are gelatin based (then she was horrified that kids eat this, and her own kid "but they can't do this to kids?")... well, seems like they do it... And then she's repelled by a fruit, just because the skin is a bit rough and hairy. Well I prefer eating some nice colorful fruit skin rather than some intestines of a cow.

A though I had:

Humans kill 53 billion animals per year... If it would be animals who would do this to humans, at the same rate but without forcing us to reproduce, there wouldn't be a single human left on Earth after just a couple of months.

This is me...

2008-10-20T20:36:00.006-04:00

Here's a video I like... Well I like all videos from Radiohead...

I consider myself : an artist, who likes sports... I need to express myself, in all ways... I like to train my body and mind, and improve myself, through everyday of my life, to be better today than yesterday, and more perfect tomorrow... to be an artist of life; hapiness is my goal, but my path too. I want to create, to discover and understand myself and what surrounds me, the places, the people...

And this is where I live right now...

I spent a quiet summer, rainy, pretty much alone all the time except when working or seing my family. And now that I know this special someone who's lovely and who lives in Finland, I keep thinking about her and maybe I should move to Finland... :D Belle Hanna :)

Some images of places close by...

The Truth about Meat

2008-10-14T19:44:00.002-04:00

"Meat itself does not have taste nor smell so we fry, cook, and season it to improve its taste. When meat is processed, it releases about 20 poisonous substances that can cause damage to blood vessels and the nervous system.The digestion of meat requires large amounts of vitamins and microelements. If we do not eat adequate amounts of raw vegetable salads together with meat, digestion is incomplete and the undigested meat putrefies in our intestines. The putrefaction processes increase the alkalinity of our large intestine, which leads to blood acidity. Alkaline environment promotes the development of diseased cells (especially cancerous). Those who excessively consume meat are the prime candidates for cancer."

Read full article "The Truth about Meat/The Time Bomb" on care2 website by clicking here.

Researcher Ethel R Nelson MD says meat eating is at the root of many health issues:

"For about the past twenty-five years, researchers in human nutrition have pointed to the unrefined plant dietary as a more ideal food than animal products. They have designated the Western world's high-fat animal product, fibre-poor, refined diet as the chief cause of so-called "Western diseases", e.g. coronary heart disease, diabetes, obesity, gallstones, appendicitis, diverticulitis of the bowel, hiatus hernia, hemorrhoids, osteoporosis, kidney disorders, varicose veins, cancer, and accelerated sexual development in children.

Some of today's most prevalent and devastating diseases in the United States have now been credited to excessive consumption of meat and animal products (milk, cheese, eggs) and insufficient ingestion of plant foods."

Some of today's most prevalent and devastating diseases in the United States have now been credited to excessive consumption of meat and animal products (milk, cheese, eggs) and insufficient ingestion of plant foods."

Harvey Diamond explains that humans are not natural carnivores:

"A carnivore's teeth are long sharp and pointed - all of them! We have molars for crushing and grinding. A carnivore's jaws move up and down only, for tearing and biting. Ours can move from side to side for grinding. A carnivore's saliva is acid and geared to the digestion of animal protein; it lacks ptyalin, a chemical that digests starches. Our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for the digestion of starch. A carnivore's stomach is a simple, round sack that secretes ten times more hydrochloric acid than that of a non-carnivore. Our stomachs are oblong in shape, complicated in structure, and convoluted with a duodenum.

A carnivore's intestines are three times the length of its trunk, designed for rapid expulsion of animal proteins, which quickly rot. Our intestines are twelve times the length of our trunks and designed to keep food in them until all nutrients are extracted. The liver of a carnivore is capable of eliminating ten to fifteen times more uric acid than the liver of a non-carnivore. Our livers have the capacity to eliminate only a small amount of uric acid. Uric acid is an extremely dangerous toxic substance that can wreak havoc in your body. All meat consumption releases large quantities of uric acid into the system. Unlike most carnivores and omnivores, humans do not have the enzyme uricase to break down uric acid.

A carnivore does not sweat through the skin and has no pores. We do sweat through the skin and have pores. A carnivore's urine is acid. Ours is alkaline. A carnivore's tongue is rough, ours is smooth. Our hands are perfectly designed for plucking fruit from a tree, not for tearing the guts out of the carcass of a dead animal as are a carnivore's claws."

Some more exerpts from the featured article on care2 "the truth about meat/the time bomb"

The digestion of meat needs large amounts of vitamins and microelements that are taken from the child’s blood. Depleted levels of these substances cause the development of hidden anemia and blood diseases. Ironically, all kinds of allergies, eczemas, and other disorders typical for the age of puberty are usually the result of our parents’ well-intended care. Unaware of the dangers, they cause damage to their children’s health by including too much meat in the diet.

...Eastern philosophy teaches that each food product we consume contains information about its place of birth and development: - the climate, the exposure to sunrays, moonlight, etc. What kind of information can be contained in meat? (Cattle) They are raised their entire lives without sunlight or fresh air. Instead of eating fresh, juicy grass, they are fed hormones and various synthetic feeds.

...Faced with aggression and driven by fear, a slaughtered animal’s body produces large amounts of poisonous hormones, which we consume later as we enjoy our steaks. No wonder that both adults and children become increasingly aggressive and hot-tempered. Aggression always breeds aggression - this old truth is confirmed by the results of high meat consumption.

Meet your Meat before you Eat your Meat

2008-10-14T18:55:00.003-04:00

Think about the life of the animal, who lived a miserable life in a dark and dirty slaughterhouse before it became the corpse that lie on your plate. Think about your dog or your cat, would you eat them? Why not ? other nations do eat these animals. This cooked slice of steak, with seasonings and condiments, had eyes, a heart, a body and a life.

Everybody knows now that animals are not treated well in the slaughterhouses. But most people prefer to act as if they didn't know, or try to convince themselves it's normal, that we don't have the choice, etc... We always have the choice. You have the choice to participate in this industry or not. If you don't already know how bad the animals are treated, I invite you to watch movies like Earthlings, Meet your Meat, Hidden Tears Behind the Iron Wall, Our Daily Bread, and many others, on the website of Peta, on Youtube, Google Video or here on my blog.
It's pretty easy to find images on the web showing the truth about the cruelty to animals, and those who stay impassive to this suffering should try to imagine being at their place, living in a constant fear of dying. Or this should visit a slaughterhouse - if only it was permitted - and hear the screaming of pain and distress, and be splashed with blood.
But if those strong methods don't work, you're hopeless, and doomed to burn in hell for eternity. Because the methods of teaching compassion and peace will never work neither. But it doesn't cost anything to try; so here are some interesting videos:

Here are some other videos.

55 billion animals are killed every year by sadistic humans, 90% of them live in factory farms and never feel the warm of the sun on their back. Every sentient being is a precious individual. To those who impose stress, pain and death to non-human animals, may we see that their suffering is directly linked to our own, or you shall recieve the same sentence.

“May those who turn a blind eye to the suffering of non-human sentient beings finally see” – Buddhist Prayer

But let's not forget that "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching"
Compassion is action. Be the change you wish to see in the world... ~Ghandi

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."

Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher

"Lobsters are fascinating. The have a long childhood and an awkward adolescence. The use complicated signals to explore and establish social relationships with others. Their communications are direct and sophisticated. They flirt. Their pregnancies last for nine months. Some are right handed, some left handed. They've even been seen walking hand-in-hand. Some can live to be more than 150 years old, though few (1%) survive the world's most devastating predator-the species with whom lobsters share so many traits-the human being."

Ingrid Newkirk
National Director: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Meat Eaters are Killers...or should I say, they're a bunch pussies! (since they refuse to kill the animals they eat)

2008-10-13T20:46:00.008-04:00

Some people say: "Hitler was vegetarian" ... uh, really? yeah, so? He wasn't. And even if he was... We could say that he was drinking milk. So milk is responsible for the hate against humany that Hitler felt ! Seriously, here's what they try to insinuate on www.vegetariansareevil.com: that those, like Hitler for instance, have this mentality: "to love animals, to hate humans", and therefore, those who avoid to eat meat by compassion, hate those who kill animals without any guilt and just for food. It's the typical stereotype of the "cause against the man", that vegans accord more importance and rights towards other animals than us. Well it doesn't work that way; vegans see life as a whole, and accord as much importance to animals than to humans. Meat-eaters are insensitive beings that don't give a damn about killing non-human animals, or human animals. This behavior also reflects on their relationship with human animals, on different levels, with agressivity, violence, and beyond. Hitler: not vegetarian nor animal lover. Just a deranged man who drinked milk, ate meat and seafood ! Also, despite what people think, Einstein wasn't vegetarian. He married his wife for her culinary qualities, her specialities involved meat as the ingredients, and Einstein often had digesting problems due to meat. That's good, otherwise meat-eaters would say: Einstein was vegetarian, that's why he caused the invention of the atomic bomb !

Gandhi was vegetarian too, Darwin, Platon, Pythagore, Socrate, Da Vinci, etc... doesn't seem to me like very violent persons. They're rather very intelligent persons.

This is just a message in response of what some stupid people say about vegetarianism and Hitler, or that vegetarians commits murders by eating plants. Wake up, you're killing ten times more plants when you eat meat. Those animals need to eat, before you cause their death.

Let's face the truth:

With their claims about the "original diet", our (non-existant) canines supposed to be designed to tear meat, and their other ridiculous arguments, meat-eaters wants us to be carnivores, necrophagous, saprotrophs, detritivores and even cannibals. And, ultimately, they want us to become sexually impotent, murderers and rapists.

"To admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering is to destroy the very basis of human society."

John Galsworthy
English novelist and dramatist

"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute to man."

Charles Darwin
English biologist and naturalist

The Russian author Leo Tolstoy became a vegetarian in 1885.
Giving up the sport of hunting, he advocated "vegetarian pacifism" and was against killing even the smallest living things, such as the ants. He felt there was a natural progression of violence that led inevitably to war in human society. In his essay "simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling - killing.

ahaha, there's some fucked up things on internet, like these evil websites, saying eating fruits make you violent and transform someone into a killing machine, they're trying to insinuate that 2 or 3 persons were evil because they were vegetarians or vegans, but how many monsters are meat eaters ? Way more than 2 or 3 let me tell you... I would say more than 2 or 3 billion. These websites and persons will try to say that Adolf Hitler, or Pol Pot, or Charles Manson, killed people because they would prefer to see humans being killed rather than to see animals suffering; well these crazy maniacs just need to look at themselves to see how mean and evil humans are. Yes, they hated humanity, yes, they were mad, but most of them never murdered a single person. It's the meat eaters who elected Hitler and chose him as their leader. The meat eaters (soldiers, etc) perpetrated all the killings ordered by Hitler, Pol Pot, ect... By the way, Hitler wasn't even vegetarian, and he killed nobody. Charles Manson was vegetarian but he killed nobody either. All serial killers, psychopath murderers, deranged and violent criminals, rapists or your neighbor who killed his wife and kids or went on a killing rampage at his office, they all eat meat. The stress, pain, fear and adrenalin injected in the muscles of the animal before it is butchered is then ingested by meat eaters who are then stressed and violent. With their cancers and heart attacks... and their sexual impotance, making them even more agressive and frustrated.

What are they trying to prove when they say "vegetarians are evil" ? Yes, Genghis Khan was a crazy sadist (and there's no proof of his vegetarianism), but does that mean all vegans are mass murderers? Oh so Henry Lee Lucas who raped and massacred 600 people, was a meat eater, so all meat eaters are like him? On their website, they omit to talk about all the assassins who eat meat. Like Richard Ramirez, Jack the Ripper, the Boston strangler, and so on, the list is endless.

First of all, Hitler wasn't vegetarian, eating sausage, squab, liver dumplings, ham and caviar. But even if he was vegetarian, he was reading books too, and he loved dogs, does that mean that everybody should stop reading books or having a dog in their families?

Let's not forget one thing: technically, all carnivores are killers. They can't do anything else than bad things and they're mean and violent. Wolves, etc, are natural born killers. We're not like them, do you wanna be like them? It seems like some humans want to be mean, sadistic, to torture, to kill. Just take a look at all the rapes, murders, wars, etc... Is that being "human"? Sometimes I see animals as living beings far more respectful towards others, even the carnivores. We've even seen wild wolves acting socially with humans, as long as the humans are respectful and don't try to dominate the animal.

By killing, Tolstoy believed, "man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself - and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." TOLSTOY

what's food and what's not

2008-10-13T19:57:00.004-04:00

There's a difference between fruits and meat. One is a food offered by nature, the other one is a waste of the nature. Corpses are only food for the necrophagous and detritivores. When a fruit is ripe and falls from the tree, it means it is ready to be eaten, and from this moment it's only destiny is to be eaten, or to rot in the next few days. When an animal is dead, it is food for the parasites, the carnivores and all the vermin.

Eggs are not food it's a chick. Milk is natural food for calves, surely not for humans. It's not even normal for an adult to drink human breast milk, let alone cow's milk. Why don't you drink the milk of your cat or dog directly from her tits like a kitten or a puppy?

So-called nutritionists and dieteticians will say you need milk. Excuse me? We don't need cow's milk, we don't need the milk of snakes or the milk of any other animal. Dr. Herbert Shelton said that adults who still drink milk are eternal runts. That's right. Grow up for Christ's sake !

All dairies are surely not what we can call "natural food" since it's not even found in the nature. There are no cheese, cream, butter or ice cream in nature. These are all concentrated fats made milk. Cheese is just a fermentation of a concentration of the casein proteins found in milk, in which we add salt and rennet (veal stomach) and let this mixture grow old for several months.

Politics

2008-10-12T12:45:00.003-04:00

I like the posts by this guy RawVgn on vbb board. I don't write English very well so I tought I could paste some of his posts here because it reflects my thinking too. Here we go with politics, concerning what the Bush Administration did over the past few years, what the right-wing did before and will continue to do if another republican is elected soon in the United States.

The republicans have controlled the presidency and executive branch, and at least part of congress, more than 80% of the time in the past 25 years. Their policies have turned our economy and financial system into a banana republic full of white collar criminals and scammers, they've wrapped a ten trillion dollar noose of debt around our families and childrens necks, they've manufactured an endless war in Iraq based on lies that has cost 3 trillion dollars with no end in sight and killed over a million people, they've Walmartized the economy and made jobs our biggest export, they've created a medical system that underinsures or doesn't cover almost a third of the population that is by far the most expensive in the world undermining the competitiveness of our companies and workers, they've created laws that prevent food manufacturers from being liable for creating the obesist and one of the most unhealthy populations in the industrial world. And then the fools scratch their heads and wonder why people lack confidence in the system they've created. We've been down the road of right-wing rule before; another republican presidency could easily drive the country into another republican Great Depression.

-RawVgn

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=15126

His other posts

Fruits! Fruits! Fruits!

2008-10-12T00:26:00.002-04:00

I'm becoming fruitarian, or frugivore, raw vegan, call it what you want. I've tried a while ago, with no success at all. It simply wasn't the time for me. But it's now set in my mind, the transition is already made in me. Eventhough I still eat pastas, rice, cooked yams, carrots, etc... I know that soon, once I have no more of these stuff I mentionned, I'll be eating only fruits. Small quantities of seeds and nuts, like half a cup per day (they're fruits too, or part of fruits), and greens, raw veggies. Some are vegetable-fruits (cucumbers, avocado, zuchinis, tomatoes, etc), some are simply vegetables (spinach, kale, lettuce, brocoli, etc). But those green salads, in which I'll add that daily portion of nuts, are less than 5% of total daily calories intake, that's why it is still a fruit based diet. But maybe I'll feel perfectly comfortable with only pure fruits, the fresh and juicy ones.

Toxicity

2008-10-11T13:07:00.004-04:00

Industries drop mercury in water and this mercury becomes hightly toxic once absorbed by the simple organisms in water: methyl mercury. It is consumend and accumulated during the food chain, so that we found out that the fish who are predators (salmons, tuna, etc) have in their tissues a concentration 10 millions more powerful than what is found in the water where they live.

Concerning all the toxic products we encounter in our food, water, air, cosmetics, household products, even our clothes, and that enter our bodies by nose, mouth and even by our skin, the researchers made some shocking discoveries: sometimes tiny doses (like 1 ppm or even 1 ppb) can be more dangerous than higher dose. The reason is that when the quantity of a toxic product is so tiny, our body don't even notice it, and all this accumulates everyday, until you developp a tumor at the age of 40.But when our body encounters bigger quantities of toxic products, the immune system is activated and tries to block or reject it.
Another important new discovery: the combinations of different chemicals together can produce even more dangerous products. PCB is just a molecular variation of the chlorine atom, yet it's the most toxic product made by man. When companies test their substancies, they do this on the substance alone, not associated with other chemicals. So governement authorize chemicals since more than 50 years that way. But a product is inoffensive alone may not be when combined with one or two other products, or more; there's now hundreds of different chemicals in our food, water, sprayed on plants, etc...

Researchers were wondering why the population of belugas in the St-Laurent river in Quebec, Canada, was decreasing and why many of them are so sick. We find corpses of them on the shore. Anylisis show that their flesh contains an astonishing cocktail of chemicals, and that may be the cause of many of their cancers.

A researcher discovered that too much residues of products of chlorine in tap water was responsable for anormally high level of misscarriage in a certain area. Her studies forced the governement to lower the maximum acceptable amount of chlorine in tap water.

The same researcher analyzed the sperm of 4 great cities like New York, Los Angeles, etc... and a rural area of Missouri. She tought the sperm would be better in the rural zone, away from the pollution of cities... No. She found out that the sperm quality of inhabitants of Missouri was incredibly poor. She went there and tried to find out what is different there and which is not present in urban areas... Agriculture: huge fields of wheat, corn, etc... and huge amounts of chemicals sprayed on these, going in the rivers, then ending up in tap water.

Half a century ago, before the crazy megalomaniac agriculture we have now, called agrobusiness, the fields were smaller, with no chemicals employed, and there were trees and ponds that were blocking, absorbing the chemicals if there was any, before they reach the rivers and ocean. Now it's different. Farmers cut down all trees until they meet the shore so they have more space to grow their stuff, and therefore more cash in their pockets. So their chemicals, sprayed before seeding, are not supposed to go in foods (eventhough there's some) and it goes straight in our water.

Now guess what, a mad scientist is creating plants that will be specifically designed to absorb huge quantities of nitrogen, or mercury, etc... to put them along the shores so they will pump all the chemicals before it reach the water. He's working on about 20 genes, for 20 genetically modified plants. Talking about trying to cure instead of removing the problem. It's like legalizing and encouraging pollution.

Happiness

2008-10-10T20:25:00.003-04:00

Read that in a magazine...

The 3 great arenas of Life:
WORK ::: PLAY ::: LOVE

When we master those 3, we are fully energized and immersed in what we do.
This state is the "flow"
In sports it is known as being "in the zone".

The 3 "happy" lives:

the pleasant life

the pursuit of pleasure

the good life

in the flow, but with occasional slips

the meaningful life

the only desire is spiritual, limitless. The Altruistic life, we extend to ourselves to & for others.

Of course, the third one is true happiness.

Read more about what Dr. Seligman has to say about happiness : www.authentichappiness.org

Raw

2008-10-09T20:46:00.002-04:00

How can an athlete thrive on only fruits or fruits with just half a cup of nuts per day? Ain't that not enough of proteins? Well, not really.

First of all, seeds, nuts, and even greens, are all part of a fruitarian diet, because anyway they're fruits (nuts are oleaginous fruits) or part of fruits (seeds). While greens are not fruits (except cucumbers, zuchinis, tomatoes, etc are vegetable-fruits) but they're like 5% of the calories of the day, while fruits are 95%. If not, then it's not a fruitarian diet.

The biggest benefit of a fruit diet is the pure energy you get : fruits contain natural sugar that can be almost instantly utilized as energy by your organism, and we all know that glycogen is the ONLY energy for the body. Everything else than fruits need to transformed with long digestion, requiring lots of your energy, only to be used as energy afterwards. That's a loss of time and energy.

So, let me get back to my first point: how is it possible to gain muscle or maintain lean mass on just fruits or any food high in proteins? That's because it is raw. We say that there's "x" grams of proteins in "y" food, but to study this food, we need to cook it. And we all know that cooking destroys most of the vitamins. But it doesn't destroy only this, but everything. The healthy fats become toxic because their molecular structure become unstable and they lose their balance; heat also modifies the nature of the carbohydrates and can change it's glycemic index (GI); when you cook food, you also lose some of the proteins... for fish you can lose 22% of the lysine. When you refine wheat or any other cereal, you lose about 20% of it's proteins too. Raw foods always contain way more proteins than what's written on it's label when you buy it.

No wonder bodybuilders on a cooked diet are being told to eat 250-500 grams of proteins per day. No wonder that raw athletes succeed without any foods high in proteins. Because basically ALL food contain proteins. Fruits contain only 1% proteins, but it's top quality amino acids, just like breast milk, which contains also 1% proteins. Greens are very high in proteins, in terms of calories, but we never think about it, because people are used to eat no vegetables, or just as a condiment. And they eat fruits as a dessert, or they cook a slice of orange with the duck in the oven.

http://www.thefruitpages.com/sugar.shtml

Tim VanOrden; this guy is simply a genius. All you need is some common sense.

More facts

2008-10-04T23:35:00.003-04:00

SPORTS

-Stella Walsh is a Polonese who's the first woman to run 100 meters in less than 12 seconds. That was in 1932, at Los Angeles olympic games. When she died, the autopsy revealed she was a he.

SOCIETY

-Scientists estimate that of 7,000 languages in the world, half will be gone by the end of this century. On average, one language disappears every two weeks.

-half of the languages in the world are on the verge of extinction.

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is the UN consortium that analyzes global warming; it includes all the worlds leading scientists working in the climate change area. They publish many, many papers (free online)discussing all aspects of climate change.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) published a 430 page report recently analyzing the environmental impacts of livestock agriculture: "Livestock's Long Shadow" also available as a free online download. One of its key conclusions: livestock agriculture is the second or third most environmentally destructive industry in the world

Did you know?

2008-10-04T23:14:00.002-04:00

Found this on the web...

DIET

Did you know...

At many fast-food restaurants, a single meal gives more than two times the recommended daily intake of fat, cholesterol, salt, and sugar?

Worldwide - more than 1 billion adults are overweight, and at least 300 million of them are obese?

Addiction to drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex, gambling or work may be an expression of the fact that people are unable to handle presence and intimacy?

The air inside the typical home is on average 2-5 times more polluted than the air just outside - largely because of household cleaners and pesticides?

Most people spend 90 percent of their time indoors?

Many people remain concerned about the effects of lifelong exposure to the chemicals in sanitary products such as e.g. tampons?

App. 300 million people will be suffering from diabetes in 2020?

50% of deaths in the world are linked to diet, tobacco and lack of physical exercise?

Eating disorders affect 70 million individuals worldwide?

Partly due to chemical pollution 14% of European couples are now affected by fertility problems?

In 1992, economists estimated that health problems caused by pesticides led U.S. health care costs to increase by $786 million each year?

Sugar triggers the production of the brains natural opioids, and the brain becomes addicted i the same way as with morphine and heroine?

12 million US citizens are addicts of gambling?

Medication against shyness and an anti-shopping pill are some of the later news from the medicine-industry?

In 2001 the Danes ate more than 54 million daily doses of anti-depressants?

1 out of 4 persons who recieve anti-depressants could have been without them?

In Sweden the costs of stress-related diseases and their consequenses was 80 billion kr. in 2001?

Half the world live on less than $2 a day - an EU-cow gets approx. $2 a day in farm subsidies?

99% of American families with children work 47 hours per week. 56% also work in the
weekends. 72% work overtime?

The average father spents the same amount of time shopping for groceries as for looking after his children, 24 minutes a day?

It would approx. cost $ 6 billions to provide basic education for all - world military expenditures in 2001 were estimated at $2.3 billion a day?

You receive at least 2000 inputs from commercials every day in the public space?

The average lifetime of a mobilephone is 1,5 years?

In the UK 52.649 incidences with a racist motive where reported to the police in 03-04?

In the United States, the annual spending on private security reached $52 billion in 1990, compared with a $30 billion budget for the countrys policeforces?

It is being estimated that from 2010 consumers will be introduced to aprrox. 500 million new products per year?

The western population comprimises only 20% of the worlds total population but consumes approx. 80% of the worlds resources?

Only 9 cent of each dollar spent at conventionel food markets goes to the farmer?

In Hungary and Estonia people spends 50% of their free-time watching television?

The developing world now spends $13 on dept repayment for every $1 it recieves in grants?

The anti-spam producers ”Spamfighter” protects people in 207 countries from spam and daily 1000 new users subscribe?

According to a large group of leaders the most important quality the ”leader of tomorrow” has to have is empathy?

The market for ”silence retreats” is rapidly growing? 20% of the people in the world account for 86% of total private consumption expenditures?

Globally in 1998 the consumption of oil amounted to 11 billion litres of oil a day?

By burning fossil fuels, people released some 6.44 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere in 2002?

The total weight of fossil fuels and chemicals used to produce a 2-gram memory chip is 630 times the weight of the chip itself?

By 2005, consumers worldwide will have stockpiled approx. 500 million cell phones that are likely to end up in landfills, where they could leach as many as 142 tons of lead?

Only 0.6% of the approx. 5000 billion plastic bags, that factories around the world produced in 2002, were recycled?

According to a study, the annual cost of environmental damage caused by industrial farming in the U.S. is $34.7 billion?

A comparison of the nutritional content between organic and factory farmed, conventional vegetables showed organic produce to have higher nutritional value?

Out of the 250,000 species of higher plants, only 2-5% have actually been studied for medicinal use?

We lose about one plant species every day? Last year more than 70 billion 1/2 litre nondegradable plasticbottles were produced worldwide for the market for tapped bottle water?

A study of over 8,200 university field trials showed that farmers growing GMO soybeans use 2-5 times more weed killer than farmers growing natural varieties?

1 kg of organic bluberries flown from new Zealand to England use 10.738 grams of CO2 in transport. 1.3 billion people have no access to clean water?

Water’s global availability has dropped from 17,000 cubic metres per capital in 1950 to 7,000 today?

Three generations; grandmother, mother and daugther have at least 18 manmade chemicals in their bodies?

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THE ANIMAL TESTING TRAGEDY II

2008-10-04T23:07:00.001-04:00

Found this on the web...

50 DISASTERS OF ANIMAL TESTING
1. Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial chemical despite clinical and epidemological evidence that exposure caused leukemia in humans, because manufacturer-supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.[1]

2. Smoking was thought to be non-carcinogenic because smoking-related cancer is difficult to reproduce in lab animals. Consequently many continued to smoke and to die from cancer.[2]

3. Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Not until 1991, due to human studies, did OSHA label it carcinogenic.[3][4][5]

4. Though arsenic was a known human carcinogen for decades, scientists still found little evidence in animals to support the conclusion as late as 1977.[6] This was the accepted view until it was eventually possible to produce in animals.[7][8][9]

5. Many humans continued to be exposed to asbestos and die because scientists could not reproduce the cancer in laboratory animals.

6. Pacemakers and heart valves were delayed in development because of physiological differences between animals on which they were designed and humans for whom they were intended.

7. Animal models of heart disease failed to show that a high cholesterol/high fat diet increases the risk of coronary artery disease. Instead of changing their eating habits to prevent the disease, people continued their lifestyles with a false sense of security.

8. Patients received medications that were harmful and/or ineffective due to animal models of stroke.

9. Animal studies predicted that beta-blockers would not lower blood pressure. This withheld their development.[10][11][12] Even animal experimenters admitted the failure of animal models of hypertension in this regard, but in the meantime, there were thousands more stroke victims.

Used with kind permission
of The Covance Campaign

10. Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the first human patients (The rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside, whereas the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface). Surgery is now performed only on the surface.

11. Combined heart lung transplants were supposedly 'perfected' on animals, but the first 3 human patients all died within 23 days.[13] Of the 28 patients operated on between 1981 and 1985, 8 died peri-operatively, and 10 developed obliterative bronchiolitis, a lung complication that the dogs on whom experiments had been conducted did not develop. Of those 10 humans who developed obliterative bronchiolitis, 4 died and 3 never breathed again without the aid of a respirator. Obliterative bronchiolitis turned out to be the most important risk of the operation.[14]

12. Cyclosporin A inhibits organ rejection, and its development was a watershed in the success of transplant operations. Had human evidence not overwhelmed unpromising evidence from animals, it would never have been released.[15]

13. Animal experiments failed to predict the kidney toxicity of the general anesthetic methoxyflurane. Many people lost all kidney function.

14. Animal experiments delayed the use of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia.

15. Research on animals failed to reveal bacteria as a cause of ulcers and delayed treating ulcers with antibiotics.

16. More than half of the 198 new medications released between 1976 and 1985 were either withdrawn or relabeled secondary to severe unpredicted side effects.[16] These side effects included complications such as lethal dysrhythmias, heart attacks, kidney failure, seizures, respiratory arrest, liver failure, and stroke, among others.

17. Flosint, an arthritis medication, was tested on rats, monkeys and dogs; all tolerated the medication well. However, in humans it caused deaths.

18. Zelmid, an antidepressant, was tested on rats and dogs without incident, but it caused severe neurological problems in humans.

19. Nomifensine, another antidepressant, was linked to kidney and liver failure, anemia, and death in humans. And yet animal testing had indicated that it could be used without side-effects occurring.

20. Amrinone, a medication used for heart failure, was tested on numerous animals and was released without any trepidation. But humans developed thrombocytopenia, a lack of the type of blood cells that are needed for clotting.

21. Fialuridine, an antiviral medication, caused liver damage in 7 out of 15 people. 5 eventually died and 2 more needed liver transplants.[17] And yet it had worked well in woodchucks.[18][19]

22. Clioquinol, an antidiarrheal, passed tests in rats, cats, dogs and rabbits. But it had to be withdrawn all over the world in 1982 after it was found to cause blindness and paralysis in humans.

23. Eraldin, a medication for heart disease, caused deaths and blindness in humans despite the fact that no untoward effects could be shown in animals. When introduced, scientists said it noted for the thoroughness of the toxicity studies on animals. Afterwards, scientists were unable to reproduce these results in animals.[20]

24. Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other animals without problems.

25. Zomax, another arthritis drug, was responsible for the death of 14 people and causing suffering to many more.

26. The dose of isoproterenol, a medication used to treat asthma, was calculated in animals. Unfortunately, it was much too toxic for humans. 3500 asthmatics died in Great Britain alone due to overdose. It is still difficult to reproduce these results in animals.[21][22][23][24][25][26]

27. Methysergide, a medication used to treat headaches, led to retroperitoneal fibrosis, or severe scarring of the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels in the abdomen.[27] Scientists have been unable to reproduce this in animals.[28]

28. Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release researchers had this to say about the animal tests: '...excellent safety profile. No...cardiac, renal, or CNS [central nervous system] effects in any species'.[29][30]

29. Surgam, another arthritis drug, was designed to have a stomach protection factor that would prevent stomach ulcers, a common side effect of many arthritis drugs. Although promising in lab animal tests, ulcers occurred in human trials.[31][32]

30. Selacryn, a diuretic, was thoroughly tested on animals, but it was withdrawn in 1979 after 24 people died from drug induced liver failure.[33][34]

31. Perhexiline, a heart medication, was withdrawn when it produced liver failure which had not been predicted by animal testing. Even when the particular type of liver failure was known, it could not be induced in animals.[35] 32. Domperidone, designed as a treatment for nausea and vomiting, made human hearts beat irregularly and had to be withdrawn. Scientists were unable to reproduce this in dogs even with 70 times the normal dose.[36][37]

33. Mitoxantrone, a treatment for cancer produced heart failure in humans. It was extensively tested on dogs, which did not manifest this effect.[38][39]

34. Carbenoxalone was supposed to prevent formation of gastric ulcers but caused people to retain water to the point of heart failure. After vivisectors knew what it did to humans they tested it on rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, but could not reproducing this effect.[40][41]

35. Clindamycin, an antibiotic, causes a bowel condition called pseudomenbraneous colitis. And yet it was tested in rats and dogs every day for a year; moreover, they were able to tolerate doses ten times greater than humans are able to.[42][43][44]

36. Animal experiments did not support the efficacy of valium-type drugs during development or subsequently.[45][46]

37. The pharmaceutical companies Pharmacia and Upjohn discontinued clinical tests of its Linomide (roquinimex) tablets for the treatment of multiple sclerosis after several patients suffered heart attacks. Of 1,200 patients, 8 suffered heart attacks as a result of taking the medication. Animal experiments had not predicted this.

38. Cylert (pemoline), a medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, caused liver failure in 13 children. Eleven either died or required a liver transplant.

39. Eldepryl (selegiline), a medication used to treat Parkinson's disease, was found to induce very high blood pressure. This side effect has not been seen in animals.

40. The diet drug combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine was linked to heart valve abnormalities and withdrawn although animal studies had never revealed heart abnormalities.[47]

41. The diabetes medication troglitazone, better known as Rezulin, was tested on animals without significant problems, but caused liver damage in humans. The manufacturer admitted that at least one patient had died and another had to undergo a liver transplant as a result.[48]

42. The plant digitalis has been used for centuries to treat heart disorders. However, clinical trials of the digitalis-derived drug were delayed because it caused high blood pressure in animals. Fortunately, human evidence overrode and as a result, digoxin, an analogue of digitalis, has saved countless lives. Many more people could have survived had the animal testing been ignored and digitalis been released earlier.[49][50][51][52]

43. FK 506, now called Tacrolimus, is an anti-rejection agent that was almost abandoned before proceeding to clinical trials due to severe toxicity in animals.[53][54] Animal studies suggested that the combination of FK 506 with cyclosporin might prove more useful.[55] In fact, just the opposite proved true in humans.[56]

44. Animal experiments suggested that corticosteroids would help septic shock, a severe bacterial infection of the blood.[57][58] However, humans reacted differently. This treatment increased the death rate in cases of septic shock.[59]

45. Despite the ineffectiveness of penicillin in rabbits, Alexander Fleming used the antibiotic on a very sick patient since he had nothing else to try. Fortunately, Fleming's initial tests were not on guinea pigs or hamsters because it kills them. Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin, stated: 'How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized'.

46. Fluoride, a cavity preventative, was initially withheld because it caused cancer in rats.[60][61][62]

47. The notoriously dangerous drugs thalidomide and DES were tested in animals and released for human usage. Tens of thousands suffered and/or died as a result.

48. Animal experiments misinformed researchers about how rapidly HIV replicates. Based on this false information, patients did not receive prompt therapies and their lives were shortened.

49. Animal-based research delayed the development of the polio vaccine, according to Dr. Albert Sabin, its inventor. The first rabies and polio vaccines worked well on animals but crippled or killed the people who tried them.

50. Researchers who work with animals have succumbed to illness and death due to exposure to diseases that while harmless to the animal host (such as Hepatitis B) are potentially or actually deadly for humans.

Endnote:
Time, money, and resources devoted to these experiments could have gone to human-based research. Clinical studies, in vitro research, autopsies, post-marketing drug surveillance, computer modeling, epidemiology, and genetic research pose no hazard to humans and provide accurate results.
Importantly, animal experiments have exhausted resources that could have been dedicated to educating the public about health hazards and health maintenance, therein diminishing the incidence of disease that require treatment.

THE ANIMAL TESTING TRAGEDY I

2008-10-04T23:03:00.002-04:00

Found this on the web...

33 FACTS ABOUT ANIMAL TESTING
(1) Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals.
(2) According to the former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human results agree only '5%-25% of the time'.
(3) 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately discarded as useless or dangerous to humans.
(4) At least 50 drugs on the market cause cancer in laboratory animals. They are allowed because it is admitted the animal tests are not relevant.
(5) Procter & Gamble used an artificial musk despite it failing the animal tests, i.e., causing tumours in mice. They said the animal test results were 'of little relevance for humans'.
(6) When asked if they agreed that animal experiments can be misleading 'because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans', 88% of doctors agreed.
(7) Rats are only 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans. Flipping a coin would be more accurate.
The pharmaceutical industry funds many groups and organisations, so...
( 8 ) Rodents are the animals almost always used in cancer research. They never get carcinomas, the human form of cancer, which affects membranes (e.g lung cancer). Their sarcomas affect bone and connecting tissue: the two cannot be compared.
(9) Up to 90% of animal test results are discarded as they are inapplicable to man.
(10) The results from animal experiments can be altered by factors such as diet and bedding. Bedding has been identified as giving cancer rates of over 90% and almost nil in the same strain of mice at different locations.
(11) Sex differences among laboratory animals can cause contradictory results. This does not correspond with humans.
(12) 9% of anaesthetised animals, intended to recover, die.
(13) An estimated 83% of substances are metabolised by rats in a different way to humans.
(14) Attempts to sue the manufacturers of the drug Surgam failed due to the testimony of medical experts that: 'data from animals could not be extrapolated safely to patients'.
(15) Lemon juice is a deadly poison, but arsenic, hemlock and botulin are safe according to animal tests.
(16) Genetically modified animals are not models for human illness. The mdx mouse is supposed to represent muscular dystrophy, but the muscles regenerate without treatment.
(17) 88% of stillbirths are caused by drugs which are passed as being safe in animal tests, according to a study in Germany.
( 18 ) 61% of birth defects are caused by drugs passed safe in animal tests, according to the same study. Defect rates are 200 times post war levels.
(19) One in six patients in hospital are there because of a treatment they have taken.
(20) In America, 100,000 deaths a year are attributed to medical treatment. In one year 1.5 million people were hospitalised by medical treatment.
(21) A World Health Organisation study showed children were 14 times more likely to develop measles if they had been vaccinated.
(22) 40% of patients suffer side effects as a result of prescription treatment.
(23) Over 200,000 medicines have been released, most of which are now withdrawn. According to the World Health Organisation, only 240 are 'essential'.
(24) A German doctors' congress concluded that 6% of fatal illnesses and 25% of organic illness are caused by medicines. All have been animal tested.
(25) The lifesaving operation for ectopic pregnancies was delayed 40 years due to vivisection.
(26) According to the Royal Commission into vivisection (1912), 'The discovery of anaesthetics owes nothing to experiments on animals'. The great Dr Hadwen noted that 'had animal experiments been relied upon...humanity would have been robbed of this great blessing of anaesthesia'. The vivisector Halsey described the discovery of Fluroxene as 'one of the most dramatic examples of misleading evidence from animal data'.
(27) Aspirin fails animal tests, as does digitalis (a heart drug), cancer treatments, insulin (causes animal birth defects), penicillin and other safe medicines. They would have been banned if vivisection were heeded.
( 28 ) In the court case when the manufacturers of Thalidomide were being tried, they were acquitted after numerous experts agreed that animal tests could not be relied on for human medicine.
(29) Blood transfusions were delayed 200 years by animal studies, corneal transplants were delayed 90 years.
(30) Despite many Nobel prizes being awarded to vivisectors, only 45% agree that animal experiments are crucial.
(31) At least 450 methods exist with which we can replace animal experiments.
(32) At least thirty-three animals die in laboratories each second worldwide; in the UK, one every four seconds.
(33) The Director of Research Defence Society, (which exists to defend vivisection) was asked if medical prgress could have been acheived without animal use. His written reply was 'I am sure it could be'.

Hannibal

2008-10-01T04:24:00.018-04:00

SOMEONE CREATED AND POSTED THIS IMAGE... what the hell is that?

OK... I'm a vegetarian (more precisely, a vegan), and... explain what ? I see some teeth... what is their to explain ? Oh I see, you're talking about canines and incisors...
You mean... LIKE THESE :

... ?? ... AND ALSO THIS :

And these...

The teeth thing... The guy that created the pic on top of this post is mentally illed and should be imprisoned.
There's corpse-eaters that will try to find all the wicked excuses in the world to try to prove they're right and that humans are supposed to be carnivore, that meat is the base of the original diet, and that basically all vegetarians and vegans are wrong and doing some kind of metaphysical mistake... (By the way, the original diet of humans is fruitarianism. We've almost never found any animal proteins DNA in fossilized prehistoric men excrements, but always vegetal proteins in large amounts. Even if cavemen did it some meat -- to survive-- it is not necessary anymore, now that food is easily available. If man was eating meat before, it is not a reason to perpetuate indefinitely their mistakes. EVOLVE. If you wanna use the Cro-Magnon man and the Neanderthal man as your role model, go ahead, but you're kind of a retard if you do this and behind the times). That's it, go back to when we had no brain.

So guess what, they use some of the facts that prove we are not designed to eat meat, and they reverse these facts to their advantage ! ahahaha ! Vegetarians use the teeth reason to prove we're not carnivores, because manifestly our canines our pathetic, shorter than even our molars, while carnivores have long sharp molars and canines. Some meat-eaters will say our teeth are like those of wolves... What ? Perhaps you need new eyes, or you're just a fucking liar with bad faith. We have a dentition of horse. There's even many people with huge teeth in the front like rabbits. But some carnivores say: look we have canines ! well what did you think ? We have canines, fruitarian animals have canines, carnivore animals surely have some, herbivores animals too. Someone even claimed our body is more similar to wolves than primates like chimpanzee and gorillas. This guy needs a new brain, or perhaps his perception of reality is altered by warewolves stories. But it's ridiculous, you can't go bite in a cow with a human dentition, lol. It will tear your teeth and your gum will bleed, while the cow will laugh at you and shit on your face.
Noticed there are two animals in these pics that are not carnivores ? Yes, the dog, is an omnivore, while the cat is a pure carnivore. Means the dog can easily live without meat, not like his cousin the wolf.
Noticed that there's a vegan/fruitarian animal among these above ? The gorilla. Look at these canines, yet, gorillas never eat meat.

It shows that teeth are not always a reliable indicator for which diet is the best. You can judge by all the other anatomy similarities with primates and humans, clearly showing that we're perfectly adapted to a diet based entirely on fruits, and meat will rot in our stomach and intestines for 3 days, while the meat leave the body after 3 hours in the case of carnivores. They also have special enzymes and good bacterias that we don't have and which are designed to kill bad bacterias contained in raw, rotten meat; these bacterias would kill us in no time, so we cook meat, to kill them.

"You can't tear flesh by hand, you can't tear hide by hand. Our anterior teeth are not suited for tearing flesh or hide. We don't have large canine teeth, and we wouldn't have been able to deal with food sources that required those large canines."

--Renowned anthropologist, Dr.Richard Leakey (Neal Barnard, The Power Of Your Plate, Book Publishing Company: Summertown, Tenn., 1990, p.170)

Scroll down on this page until you see the board with compared anatomy and physiology. To be more accurate, they should have put also the informations concerning fruitarian animals, because we are more similar to those than the herbivores. We are not herbivores nor omnivores or carnivores, but fruitarians.

We don't have long and sharp teeth, we don't have claws. Our body is innoffensive with nothing particularly dangerous; to prove it just try to measure yourself against any carnivore predator -- he'll show you and teach you what's a carnovore, by ripping your arms and legs and tearing your flesh and then eating your whole body raw in a single meal. Humans who eat meat are capricious and picky, they will eat lean meat. If you claim you're a carnivore, then do it right: eat like a carnivore : kill your prey yourself, eat it raw and the whole body, including all the organs and intestines, brain, etc.

Unlike natural carnivores, we are physically and psychologically unable to rip animals limb from limb and eat and digest their raw flesh. Even cooked meat is likely to cause human beings, but not natural carnivores, to suffer from food poisoning, heart disease, and other ailments. http://www.geocities.com

If you try all this: First of all, you won't even be able to catch and kill a prey, at least not everyday or enough to survive. Second, you will puke while trying to stuff the bloody guts into your own guts.

Eating corpses is SICK and in fact cause many degenerative diseases due to intoxication. You poor necrophagous, your eating habits are based on ignorance and this will cause your untimely death.

There's some maniacs, killers and mercenaries who want to make us become carnivores so they can make profits. And the doctors will tell you meat is necessary, so they can seel you their pills. But you will never heal, unless you stop eating meat and animal products and believing in an illusion of cure by drugs and surgeries.

Dr. Herbert Shelton says that all carnivores, insectivores, parasites, necrophagous and detritivores are not normal and are pathological cases. All these animals that spread pain and do evil, they can't do anything without killing. These diets based on morbidity are degenerative and inevitably leads to extinction because they owe their survival on the behalf of others.

Specialists and great minds also clearly pointed out that eating meat leads to cannibalism at some point (humans already experienced cannibalism at different times and in different areas and nations, even right now).

Socrate also predicted since long ago that eating meat cause wars and violence, for territory... countries fight to cut the forests of other countries to install pastures for cattle feeding... until the overpopulation and demand will be too grand... leading eventually to cannibalism... a future ressembling like Soylent Green is not far away. By the way you can watch the entire movie for free here.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2004/04/07/meat040407.html
CBC news article : Martin says anti-meat ads 'unacceptable'

"Prime Minister Paul Martin on Wednesday condemned an animal rights campaign linking the eating of meat to the murders of women in British Columbia.
Billboards in Toronto and in Edmonton paid for by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals show pictures of a woman and a pig accompanied by the slogan, "Neither Of Us Is Meat."

The allusion is to the women who disappeared during the 1990s in the Vancouver area. Port Coquitlam pig farmer Robert Pickton has been charged in the deaths of 15 women."

Pics of my body

2008-09-29T15:19:00.005-04:00

OK, I'm not an athlete. At least not right now, because I'm not really training these days, nor was I when these pics were taken. I was just cutting to minimize bodyfat, and did not had access to a gym, so I was basically just doing some bodyweight exercises. And gaining huge size wasn't my primary goal at all. But I always got lots of energy on a vegan diet, with sufficient calories, so I can easily make 100km bike rides and recover quickly. I want to get back to training, especially weightlift training in a gym, I liked that. Perhaps also some martial arts classes.

Anyway, I'm just showing these to show that the bias against vegetarians and vegans telling that they are weak, too lean, not strong, etc, is in fact just a bias, based on ignorance. Everybody wants to be lean, but then they accuse vegans to be lean ?? There are obese vegans too. But there are certainly more obese omnivores, with all the cholesterol and sat. fats in dairies in meat. Veganism is in fact the optimum diet to achive superior physic and mental skills. Eating corpses can surely be only detrimental to health and fitness.
I like this comment from someone on the web :

gyms I've been (…) are filled with skinny rats who stuff themselves with corpses to try (to) get big -- Mik

Like I said, I'm not a real athlete, watch THIS LINK to see real vegetarian and vegan athletes.

VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ATHLETES

2008-09-28T20:19:00.013-04:00

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NO NO, no need to eat corpses to be strong... !! Then why do it ? Go vegan please.
There are athletes who don't eat meat and who excell in all disciplines. Carl Lewis was the fastest man on Earth. May it be speed, endurance, or strenght, veganism is the way to go. There is a long list of vegetarian athletes in John Robbins' book "Diet For A New America", like Paavo Nurmi who's got 20 world records and 9 olympic medals or Murray Rose, olympic gold medalist at the age of 17.

Dr Irving Fisher at primate abuse Yale found that randomly selected vegetarians were able to hold their arms at length 9 times longer than members of the Yale football team) www.pcrm.org

17,003 Consecutive Situps: World Record Held By Vegetarian Alan Jones

US Marine Corps Captain Alan Jones of Quantico, Virginia was struck by polio when he was five years old. Now a vegetarian, Alan could be the fittest man on Earth by amassing a record of physical accomplishments unmatched by any human that ever lived. He holds the world record for continuous sit-ups (17,003 times). In a 15-months period, he accomplished possibly the most remarkable array of physical achievements ever attained by a human being:

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Lifted a 75-pound barbell over his head 1,600 times in 19 hours.
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Made 3,800 basketball free throws in 12 hours, with 96 pc hit rate.
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Swam 500 miles in 11 days, down a river to the ocean.
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Skipped rope 43,000 times in 5 hours.
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Skipped rope 100,000 times in 23 hours.
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Swam 68 miles in a swimming pool without a sleeping break.
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Swam half a mile in zero degree Celsius water without a wet suit.
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Performed 51,000 sit-ups in 76 hours.

www.members.tripod.com

Facts from the book "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins :

Only man to win Ironman Triathalon more than twice: Dave Scott, 6 time winner
Food choices of Dave Scott: Vegetarian
World record holder for 24 hour triathalon, swim 4.8 miles, cycle 185 miles, run 52.5 miles: Sixto Linares
Food choices of Sixto Linares: Strict vegetarian
Athlete who most totally dominated Olympic sport in track and field history: Edwin Moses, undefeated in 8 years, 400 meter hurdles
Food choices of Edwin Moses: Vegetarian
Other notable vegetarian athletes:
Stan Price: World record-bench press
Robert Sweetgall: World's premier ultra-distance walker
Paavo Nurmi: 20 World's records in distance running, 9 Olympic medals
Bill Pickering: World record - swimming English Channel
Murray Rose: World records - 400 and 1500 meter freestyles
Andreas Cahling: Winner - Mr. International body-building championships
Roy Hilligan: Winner - Mr. America body-building championships
Pierreo Verot: World's record for downhill endurance skiing
Estelle Gray and Cheryl Marek: World's record for cross-country tandem cycling
James and Jonathan deDonato: World's record for distance butterfly stroke swimming
Ridgely Abele: Winner of 8 national championships in Karate, including U.S. Karate Association World Championships

VEGAN BODYBUILDING AND FITNESS
veganbodybuilding.com, featuring athletes like Avi Lehyani , Robert Cheeke(founder of the website and forum), Steve Holt .

andreas cahling
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bill pearl
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Arnold Schwarzenegger says in his book, "Arnold's Body Building for Men":

"Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard when they discover body building and eat diets consisting of 50 to 70% protein--something I believe to be totally unnecessary... (In) my formula for basic good eating: eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight."

In the documentary "Pumping Iron", he says : "I drink no milk -- Milk is for babies"

ATHLETES

JIMI SITKO,personal trainer, strength athlete, vegan

BRENDAN BRAZIER, triathlon champion, vegan.

MAC DANZIG, MMA fighter (mixed martial arts) in UFC. Record: 21-4-1. "A vegan, naturalist, animal lover and serious photographer, Danzig transcends the typical stereotype of a combat athlete." (quote from his website). He's winning against all other fighters, like those who feed themselves with corpses and those who still drink milk like babies.

TIM VAN ORDEN, 100% raw vegan runner, winning most of his races at 40 years old, against runners who are 20 years younger.

RICHARD BLACKMAN : fruitarian fitness trainer, F.I.T (Fruitarian Intense Training), http://shudupntrain.com/,

CARL LEWIS: sprinter, track and field vegan athlete "who won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds... His 65 consecutive victories in the long jump achieved over a span of 10 years is one of the sport’s longest undefeated streaks." (wikipedia)

DURIAN RIDER: cyclist ultra endurance organicathlete, 100% raw organic fruitarian vegan

ANASTASIA ASHLEY : pro surfer, beautiful and vegetarian

Me, with OrganicAthlete outfit

There is an endless list of vegan athletes on the Animal Liberation Front website.

-Here are just a few:

VEGETARIAN SPORTS PERSONALITIES , on www.veggie.org

* Hank Aaron (home run champion, baseball) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
* B J Armstrong (US Basketball star)
* Al Beckles (body builder)
* Sorya Bonali (ice skater)
* Les Brown (veteran runner)
* Peter Burwash (tennis)
* Andreas Cahling (bodybuilder)
* Chris Campbell (1980 world champion wrestler)
* Joanna Conway (ice skater)
* Sylvia Cranston (triathlete)
* Sally Eastall (Marathon runner - UK No 2, vegan)
* Di Edwards (runner, Olympic semi-finalist)
* Katie Fitzgibbon (marathon runner)
* Clare Francis (sailer)
* Louis Freitas (body builder)
* Carol Gould (marathon runner)
* Estelle Gray (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
* Sammy Green (runner)
* Ruth Heidrich (3-time Ironman finisher, marathoner, age-group record holder, Pres. Vegetarian Society of Honolulu) (vegan) Source: personal acquaintance, also...her book--A Race for Life
* Sally Hibberd (British Women's Mountain Bike Champion)
* Sharon Hounsell (Miss Wales Bodybuilding Champion)
* Desmond Howard (formerly w/Washington Redskins, now w/Jacksonville Jaguars) Source: PETA
* Roger Hughes (Welsh National Ski Champion)
* David Johnson (BAA coach)
* Kathy Johnson (Olympic Gymnast)
* Alan Jones (British ski jumper)
* Billie Jean King (tennis champion) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
* Killer Kowalski (wrestler) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Jack LaLanne (Fitness guru) (vegan)
* Donnie LaLonde (Former Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. (Lost title to Sugar Ray Leonard)) Source: Article in San Jose Mercury News
* Tony LaRussa (Manager of St. Louis Cardinals - US team) Source: PETA, Animals Agenda, Animals Voice, Veg Times, others
* Silken Laumann (Olympic rower) Source: Cooking Television Show
* Judy Leden (British, European & World Hang Gliding champion)
* Marv Levey (Buffalo Bills Coach)
* Jutta Müller (multiple Windsurfing World Cup Champion) Source: Flutlicht 95/6/18 on Südwest 3 (German TV program)
* Jack Maitland (triathlete and fell runner)
* Cheryl Marek (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
* Leslie Marx (fencer;1996 woman's epee national champion)
* Kirsty McDermott (runner)
* Lindford McFarquar (body builder)
* Robert Millar (cyclist)
* Katherine Monbiot (world champion arm wrestler & nutritionist) (vegan) Source: Vegan Society UK
* Monika Montsho (weightlifter, 2 x runnerup GB Championships 60kg, NW woman weightlifter 1991)
* Edwin Moses
* Martina Navratilova (Retired Tennis Champion) Source: Magazine Interviews/Genesis Awards
* Julie Ann Niewiek (Basketball commentator) Source: Grand Rapids press/ Image Magazine
* Paavo Nurmi
* Robert Parish (Center - Warriors, Celtics, Hornets, Bulls) Source: Hearsay
* Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder, Mr America) Source: Getting Stronger by Bill Pearl, pg 399
* Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe and bodybuilder) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
* Anthony Peeler (NBA Grizzlies basketball player) Source: NBA web site profiles
* Sopata, Craig (well known golfer in the New York TRI state area. and also a semi-pro skateboarder. He went to Purdue University).
* Dave Scott (5-time winner of the Ironman Triathlon) (vegan) "The New Laurel's Kitchen" cookbook
* Debbie Spaeth-Herring (Georgia State power-lifter) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
* Jonathon Speelman (chess)
* Lucy Stephens (triathlete - vegan)
* Jacques Vaughn (All American point guard, #1-ranked Univ of KS Jayhawks) Source: Lawrence (KS) Journal World (numerous editions)
* Kirsty Wade (runner)
* Bill Walton (basketball player) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Let's not forget the greatest martial artist and one of the greatest athlete of all time, as fit as one can be, Bruce Lee. Yes, he wasn't totally a vegetarian. But he wasn't eating a lot of meat, he also stopped drinking those whey protein shakes that made him look like a big bodybuilder, then he was able to achieve the physique he wanted: lean, incredible definition, fast, incredible speed and strength.

And finally, some pics of me:

( More here )

Famous Vegetarians/Vegans, Celebreties

2008-09-28T17:50:00.012-04:00

Why showing that some famous people are vegans ? Just to show that it's not only hippies, punks, nature fanatics, etc...

"oh you don't eat meat you will become anemic, you need b12 and you'll miss this and that" yeah yeah yeah.Some of the most beautiful, brillant and intelligent persons in the world chose to avoid eating meat.

Order a FREE 'Vegetarian Starter Kit' at GoVeg.com.

Read what they have to say here :

Josh Hartnett:

"I gave up meat when I was 12. … One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood all over the place. That was enough for me."

Kim Basinger:

"If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat."

Wu Tang Clan's Masta Killa:

"I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before [going vegetarian] that you loved—like turkey slices—they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find."

Mmm, Alicia Silverstone, Naomi Watts, such nice bodies, with absolutly no meat rotting inside their beautiful bodies. They're as pure as fresh fruits ; )

Lists of vegans/vegetarians:

http://home.netcom.com/~axleplus/stuff/veggie/celebs.html
http://al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/vg-vip/query/index.php
Only vegans: http://www.vegansociety.com/

Me and My Long Rant About Veganism, Animal Rights, etc...

2008-09-25T09:43:00.012-04:00

A little girl ended up in a slaughterhouse, she was found holding the corpse of a calf, like a mutilated doll.

One carnivore asked me a question, in a human and polite way --which is rare. Why us, vegetarians and vegans, always feel the need to tell other people how to live? Saying it is a very superior attitude towards others. He continues with this :

If you are truly a person who seeks peace, then you would not be trying to push your beliefs onto other people. Ghandi said:

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

I do not try to force my beliefs on you, so what's your problem?

That's great. But I'm not forcing anyone or anything, just writing stuff. I'm not even an active activist for animal rights, not yet.You choose to read my words or not. You choose to try my doctrine on you if you want, to see if I'm lying or not. To quote Gandhi, he also said :

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

By some circumstances in my life, I came to a point where I finally understood something about life, animals, and my health. I changed, and became vegan. I'd like to share that discovery with others. But I can't make them change or even understand. It has to come from within their heart, I can only try to convince them to open their eyes and hearts, to at least try, so they could see another world that is presented to us with the milk and meat packed in cellophan in the grocery stores around the country, another world that McDonalds and Burger King show us. What's behind all this, it is kept secret. It is this that people need to see, the endless list of tragic consequences.

Cutting dogs in China

So here's my problem. The problem is that it is not only my problem, but the problem of everybody, of all inhabitants of Earth, animals included, and the problem of the planet itself.
If it was about wether or not to eat olives, that wouldn't bother me at all. But eating meat, dairies and eggs is something completely different.

PINK

Eventhough I don't eat animal products anymore, the fact that some other people do it concerns me. I don't like to mind the business of others and vice versa. But your business must not cause death and suffering all around.
The meat industry cause full of externalities. This notion applies to economy, ethic, health, ecology, etc. Rise of air pollution, water pollution, rise of healthcare, of violence, etc, etc...

You, meat eater, you contribute to the Holocaust of billions of innocent animals.
Thousands of animals are slaughtered every second, only in America.
I won't write all the numbers and statistics in this post, but see my posts labeled with "Stats/Facts". Suffice it to say that the extermination of 53 billion animals PER YEAR is the biggest massacre that humanity has ever perpetrated.

All those poor animals didn't chose to be the main participant involved in this industry of murders.
You chose for them, in the name of the so-called human superiority over other species.
That attitude of superiority is specism, like racism, fascism, and sexism. (see the movie Earthlings on Google video)

All carnivore animals are murderers. All human carnivores kill or order killings by paying mercenaries. ALL MURDERERS EAT MEAT.

They say: "we are omnivores", "we crave for meat", "we are carnivores", "we have canines", "cavemen ate meat", "humans are omnivores"... indeed they are, but they shouldn't be; they should be vegans, according to anatomy, physiology and biology; following the basic laws of life would avoid them their cancers and heart attacks. Humans are fruitarians. Humans are frugivores. Humans are whatever it is natural for them to be: Go in nature : will you pass a tree with fruits to go kill a cow? I don't think so.
MEATEATERS ARE JUST RETARDS FROM NEANDERTAL UNABLE TO EVOLVE.
Look, if you claim that humans are carnivore animals by nature, act like one, "walk your talk, or get back in your pram", like Harley would say. Go in the nature, go bite in the leg of a cow. Just try to kill an animal. You won't even be able to catch a squirrel. All you'll be able to kill are caterpillars, beetles and cockroaches. You'll have to eat ants, or a crushed skunk on the side of a road. But that's meat, so why don't you try it? Don't be so picky by choosing only lean meat and removing the skin, but rather eat the whole body, like real carnivores do. Meat eaters are ridiculous; you should eat the eyes, the brain, the sexual organs, everything, otherwise your diet will be incomplete. These body parts should be appealing to you. You're supposed to be attracted by blood and rotten flesh, and you should enjoy to stuff your head in some stinky guts. Well, guess what, it's not the case... We're primates, and just like apes, the bonobos, the closest cousin related to our specie, eats fruits, nuts, dark leafy greens, but no meat. If he eats animals, it's small insects, usually the ones that are on the greens, always a very small pourcentage of his diet. We have innoffensive bodies, except maybe Bruce Lee (who was a vegetarian), there is nothing agressive about how hands, our fingernails, our teeth. We are perfectly adapted to grab fruits in trees, we are not predators like lions and tigers.

Honnestly I don't see a huge difference physically when comparing my vegan diet to as when I was eating meat. But that's because it's hard to tell. It's many years ago, I had a different activity level too, and I made a long transition from omnivore to vegetarian for 5 years and then vegan. But I do see improvements in physical activities that I do, and I notice a big increase of energy. But don't be fooled; energy ain't only physical. I think part of my energy comes from the mind; being happy or depressed for instance, has a huge impact on your health, and not only mental health. Personally I feel way better with myself emotionally and intellectually, and happiness gives energy.

I agree with what Jeremy Moore says here :

I like the fact that I can wake up every day knowing I’m not going to be responsible for killing others. I only wish those other people woke up every day thinking about they animals they kill on a daily basis.

Some say "I need meat" some others say "I don't need meat" some others say "I need coffee or I won't function normally" and some others say caffeine is poison. I don't believe in that crap "what's poison for someone is good for someone else", we all have similar bodies with nearly identical digestive systems. Just different calorie needs.

Someone eating raw meat and stuff said about veganism and raw vegans: "Idealistic diets don't work. The body isn't nourished on ideal"... well what do you think your diet of raw meat is for you ? (He claims his health dramatically decreased during his 6 months as a raw vegan, losing his hair and muscles) and what was your mindset when you were raw vegan? happy or persuaded you were making a mistake? To be fit you need to believe it. You can't be in shape if u don't believe it.

Socrate predicted that meat eating would cause wars. We're now cutting down trees in other countries to have more territories to grow and feed cattles for meat.

Dr. Herbert Shelton, as well as other naturalists before him like Thielden, said that meat eating automatically and inevitably lead to cannibalism eventually. He was right.

PETA event

MEET YOUR MEAT

Cholesterol is only in the animal kingdom. Fibres are only in the vegetal kingdom. Vitamins, oxygen, chlorophyll, enzymes are mostly in fruits and greens. It is obvious that the wise choice to make is to opt for foods offered by the nature. Not wastes of the nature, like the animal corpses that are the animal products you eat.

Do you wanna be guilty of 100 murders per year, as well as being constipated by eating food with no fibres at all, and to die prematurely of an heart attack or cancer ?? Think about it.

Peace.

Diet/DNA/Exercise

2008-09-24T20:04:00.007-04:00

I post this, inspired by the discussion on vbb forum, in search of the ideal workout routine.

When we watch a bodybuilding video on utube about Arnold for instance , we often see in the comments someone just saying:"genetics", then someone saying "hard work", and finally someone saying "combination of good genetics and hard work".

I'm not saying that good genetics aren't important. We're made of what's encoded in our DNA. Of course it is important, but once we're created, what's done is done. Only Diet and Exercise can make a difference between 2 identical twins. We're not all twins in the population, but we're very similar overall.

The workout program defines the body. The genetics defines the limits. Thing is, very rare are the people who reach their potential limits, so genetics are not so important. Of course, good genetics can help achieve a certain goal easier and faster, with less effort. Still, it's the exercises and nutrition that will build this physique. I'm not talking about details. The encrypted code in your DNA will define how your skin look like, muscles, etc. But most people have a similar code.

Let's make an analogy with building a body and building a house. Arnold was saying he saw himself as an artist creating a sculpture, putting some clay here and there to shaphe the muscles the way he wanted them.

The DNA is the first architect of the body, or the foundation of the house, the nature of the soil on which it is built.

The bodybuilder is the worker of his body (house).
The workout program, the dumbells and weight machines are the tools (hammer).
The foods are the materials (nails, clay, etc).

All DNA are different for each person. Usually with just small differences. An infinite numbers of small differences, that are not so important when it comes to desigh the perfect workout routine. There's different ideal workout plan for different goals, different disciplines or sports, or for different body types. When I mean body types, I mean male/female, or very small versus very tall, etc. But the workout of Mr. America may be perfect for most bodybuilders too.

The shitty houses, it's not necessarily because of the architect, it may be because of poor materials(foods, weights) or workers (the bodybuilder).
Genetics are rarely to blame or the opposite. We've found a person with a gene that makes him immune to AIDS, but he's the only person discovered with this.

There's no identical DNA (except perfect twins), but we're all built around the same model, all coming from the same origin.
Most houses or cars are similar, because they're from the same models, with small differencies: the material used (foods for the body) and the quality of the workers (us).

The True Medecine Man

2008-09-24T18:07:00.004-04:00

Let me take a few minutes of your life to talk to you about a real hero: Dr. Herbert M. Shelton. He took care of hundreds and hundreds of sick persons in his fasting center, curing severe diseases with fasting with water or natural, living foods. For him, health is the greatest wealth of man, and it was important for him that he spread his message, by doing conferences and writing books.

I've only read 2 of his books yet, Food combining made easy and Superior Nutrition, but it is good, it makes sense all the way.

LINKS
You can read a selection of some of his articles here.
A resumé of his good food combining rules.
A biography
I think you can listen to lectures of some of his books there, haven't checked yet
Go on RawFoodExplained.com, there is some interesting articles by Shelton :
The Paradise Diet
The Elements of Nutrition

He wasn't selling any products or promoting pills of medecine or artificial vitamins. What he promoted was living foods (fruits, greens, nuts), exercise, rest, sun, pure water, fasting, a peaceful mind... For him, the health is in the body. Diseases come from the outside, like bad foods, who are poisons that intoxicate the body. Good foods are not medecine, they're only supporting the body, by providing only what's essential to maintain an healthy life. To be healthy and to stay healthy, it is useless to ask the scientist or the chimist; one must nourrish himself from all the essential nutrients that Nature offers.

He didn't believe it is possible to be cured with drugs and poisons, like the multi-billionnaire pharmabusiness try to make us believe. He promoted a "drugless healing", by removing the causes of the symptoms, rather than trying to kill the symptoms, which will always reappear if we don't solve the problem at it's source.

Short Biography from wikipedia. This article denigrates Shelton and reduce his life to prison sentences. His life was way more than this, he's the one who contributed the most to hygienism, he's known as "The Father" of the Hygiene movement eventhough he is not the founder of it. The article doesn't say he saved hundreds of lives but mentionned that one or two died, one from an heart attack. How many people die in hospitals ? at least a hundred each day. The whole wikipedia article is from this site, using only the texts about his mistakes, and leaving the exploits he accomplished. I suggest you to read it there then.

This explains why he's been arrested so many times, rarely trialed, kept in jail for many weeks, one time for 10 months, (he always use this to fast and write), it was always " in New York, for "practicing medicine without a licence." The great irony is that Dr. Shelton would never "practice medicine"! Still, that is what the authorities call it when someone tells people how to live, how to sleep, how to eat, and how not to take medicines!"
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/shelton.bio.bidwell.htm

Notes about the wikipedia article:

"The majority of this article is copied almost verbatim from another site (with the exception of my addendum of Dr. Shelton's cause of death). The article seems to me to be top heavy on Dr. Shelton's personal mistakes rather than accentuating the multitudinous successes which he experienced. Recent scientific discoveries are now demonstrating that Dr, Shelton was WAY ahead of his time. These negative statements made in this Wikipedia article have been distributed in other areas of the Internet which is unfortunate since the art and science of fasting is an invaluable source of healing for many people who have exhausted other medical and alternative therapies for restoration of their health as well as finding relief from PTSD. I feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility in distributing the word that an alternative option exists. I have seen many people who were given the death sentence by the medical profession make a stunning recovery through fasting and these recoveries have been medically documented." - CWatchman on Wikipedia

Devour the Earth

2008-09-24T14:55:00.005-04:00

Even if this documentary is pretty old, it is still very accurate. The facts are just worse now, more than 10 years later, things are not getting better, on the contrary.

FACTS from the 1995 documentary "Devour the Earth" narred by Paul McCartney

In Holland , the ratio cattle/humans is 7 for 1. The forests are dying due to acid rains, caused mainly by cattles.
-we need 2 times more superficy to feed a meateater than for a vegetarian and 4 times more than a vegan.
-In certain area, wastes from cattle ranching are responsible for 70% of the acid rains.
-England could feed 250 millions of vegans
-If everyone on Earth would eat like Americans, half of the world population could not eat at all
-Meat production requires 12x more water than vegetables
10 kg of grains needed to produce only one kg of meat
-Fish industry is not better at all : to produce 1 kg of salmon you need 5 kg of fish.
-PCB, one of the most toxic product of all, is in the whole food chain but especially in water and the animals living in it.
-40% of captured fish for consumption are sigh and have cancerous tumors.
-About 240 000 tons of PCB polluted the oceans before it got banned from countries. Now it will stay in the environment, and food chain, for centuries.

ENVIRONMENT

-Before 1950, 14% of the world’s land was tropical rainforests. Now more than half are gone.
-Half of animals live in rainforests and 90% of all the different species on the planet can be found in the forests
-Each year, we cut trees of a superficy of Britain. Around 200 000 km2 per year
-Most of this to make space for cattles or to grow soy to feed cattle
-71% of cut trees in Costa Rica is for cattles. Nepal lost half of it’s forests in 20 years due to this too.
-1 hectar or 2,5 acres are needed to raise only one animal
-in 1991, latin america exports 8 millions tons of soy just to feed cattles
-In 1989, astronauts saw from their spacecraft the smoke of thousands of fires : a surface of 2,6 millions square kilometers of trees burned in Amazonia. It was rainforests being cleared for cattle ranching.
-Since 1970, the destruction of rainforest in south america caused a waste of 1,5 billion tons of carbon dioxyde in the atmosphere

-An acre of orchard produces about 35 times as much food as an acre of livestock agriculture and twice as much food as an acre of grain

(If the link of the video doesn't work, go on GlobeTransformer.org)

Nutrition Facts

2008-09-24T14:25:00.003-04:00

AGRO-FARMING, AGRO-BUSINESS
Half of antibiotics goes to livestock. Pharmaceutic companies make billions by selling to agro-farming

MILK
Free, in nature, a cow can produce up to 5 liters of milk per day.
But confined by humans, and stuffed with drugs, a cow can produce up to 44 liters per day.

animals killed for food in the US only

27 billions/year
2 billion/month
700 000/ day
863/ seconds

British send 5000 horses to the slaughterhouse each year. In Canada, it is several hundred of thousands.

Sometimes as much as 90 000 chickens are in the same warehouse. The battery cages are worse.
IBP, Kansas, the largest slaughterhouse in the world. 6000 cows killed every day. Trucks arrive all day long like in a vision of the Holocaust.
Each year in Canada and USA, over 7 billion animals are killed for their flesh. Excluding fish.

MEAT
1950-2000
In 50 years, human pop. Doubled, but meat consuption 5 times
In 50 years, fish consumption went up by 600% in the U.S
Americans now eat as much chicken in a single day as they did in an entire year in 1930.

HEALTH
The average North American sperm count has dropped over 25% since 1975
The average American has stretched their stomach to 2 or 3 times its normal size.
Type 2 diabetes accounted for 2 to 4 percent of all childhood diabetes before 1992, but skyrocketed to 30 to 50 percent by 2004.
The prevalence of obesity quadrupled in the past 25 years among boys and girls

Currently 15% of the U.S. population. In minority youth, this statistic climbs to 20%.
Agri-business and food processing account for 60% of US oil consumption.
In 2006, 1.5 million Americans died from dietary related diseases at a cost of $800 billion.

Cholesterol: typical daily dietary intake is 200–300 mg in the United States and societies adopting its dietary patterns.
A 2007 study pooling data on almost 900,000 subjects in 61 cohorts demonstrated that blood total cholesterol levels have an exponential effect on cardiovascular and total mortality, with the association more pronounced in younger subjects

There is no cholesterol in plant-based foods

Allergies and Diseases
About three million Americans are severely allergic to soy protein, wheat protein, peanut protein and many other products used by farmers to grow their cattles. These animals would normally just eat grass and they are not designed to digest these types of foods. High concentrates of these foods go in milk and meat, humans eating these especially when fetus and kids become allergic.

Foods on the top of the food chain (fish, meat, milk, eggs, etc) contain 80 000 x more toxic products than those at the bottom of the fod chain (plant-based foods: fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, etc)

At least 50 chemicals used in agro-business can cause cancers.

Meat usually contain 15 times more toxic residues than foods of the vegetal kingdom.

Plant/Meat comparision

2008-09-22T13:22:00.006-04:00

There's not many vitamins, minerals and essential micronutrients in animal products.
There's some decent amount of fat in many foods, not just butter, oils, etc. There's fats in lean meat too. Even cereals like oats, it's 16% fats. But, do you want that fat to be liquid and flow in your body and to be used as energy, or do you want that it stick in solid fatty matter into your veins, blocking the blood flow ? Think about it...

See this video that explains all about animal products and their effects on our bodies.

Human: The Herbivore Animal

2008-09-20T22:24:00.005-04:00

People who eat shark thins think it will preserve them from cancers, because sharks have less cancers than humans...

People who eat brains from monkeys or cows think it will make them more intelligent...
If they could eat Einstein's brain they would do it...
I bet they don't know that Einstein was so intelligent without eating any brain, nor any other form of meat, in fact he was vegetarian.

It is common to hear : "eat meat if you want to be muscular". Because people think : "eat muscles to have muscles. Eat proteins to have proteins." Of course. But their logic don't go any further than that. They don't seem to know that these animals gained muscles by eating grass. This is first order food. All proteins, in all food, including our own proteins, all come from plants.
Vegetarian animals eat grass, grains, etc. Carnivorous animals eat vegetarian animals, to have some of the nutrients found in the vegetarian diet. Meat is a second order food.

Most carnivore animals are weak parasites that have less stamina and strenght than herbivores. They are out of breathe after running for ten seconds and will not catch most of the preys. They need a factor of chance : to attack in the middle of a large group of preys so that they might catch a baby or one that is weak or sick.
Hervivores, vegan and fruitarian animals are the strongest animals on Earth, with increddible strenght and endurance. Horses, donkeys, camels are used as slaves to do the work that humans are not able to do by eating meat, like pulling heavy loads over long distances.

Some big herbivores and vegans :
Gorillas, horses, rhinos, elephants, some of the largest dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus (about 40 feet tall) and the Stegosaurus.

Some dinosaurs were carnivores (meat-eaters)(35%) but most were herbivores (plant-eaters) (65%). In any food chain, there have to be more organisms at the lower levels of the chain because the transfer of food energy is inefficient and much of the energy is lost at each stage of the process.

www.enchantedlearning.com

vbb forum - Nutrition

2008-09-20T21:13:00.004-04:00

Some stuff I posted on the vbb forum, w/ some editing

My Training Log
My Food Log

FASTING
Fasting can be a good thing. Prehistoric men were fasting for few days each time they didn't find food, it's good to regenerate the body. It cleans the organism, but it's especially the fact that you're burning fat, including toxic products stored in it. Some toxins are eliminated everyday, some are stored in internal organs. So after fasting/cleansing, when you start eating again it stores new, cleaner fat, more or less depending how much food you eat and how healthy are these foods. It's better to regenarate some of that fat every month, than to do a cleansing every 20 years or never. Never is too late...
Dr. Shelton said water fasting is the best cure against any disease or infection, because the body must concentrate on fighting the virus, not waisting energy on digesting food. The body still need energy, but takes it directly from fat storage.
Our bodyfat is pure energy, fat being more energetic than carbs and proteins. The usual people have more than 100 000 calories in fat waiting to be used.

Vegan since beginning of 2008. My nutrition is always evolving.

DIET
PROTEINS
With at least 30 grams of complete protein per day you don't lose lean mass, that's a minimum standard for relatively sedentary people, with a normal amount of calories
You should eat more proteins (let's say 1g-2g/kg bw) if :
you train a lot, especially with weights
you reduce a lot your total calories intake
you have a huge lean mass
you have a serious injurie, requiring building new tissue
you are a pregnant woman or breastfeeding a child

FOOD and POISONS
They (so-called nutritionists) say that poisons are good. There was a time they were even saying that tobacco was good, also some were claiming that dirty water had miraculous healing powers, most modern medecine are made with poisonous plants.

Nothing ever proved those things work or are true. Of course, some substances have some effects on the body, that inhibits other poisons. But what's the point to counter a poison with another poison if it's only to end up with another poison in the body? But that's the kind of medecine the doctors have chosen to promote. None of these products are necessary good for health. Some say that all alcohols are good in small quantity, some other say it's only the red wine because of the antioxydants. Fermentation is poisonous and can't be compared to fresh grapes.
For something to be called a food, it needs to be beneficial for human health. Only good, not in part poisonous. Something cannot be a food and a poison at the same time, it's either one or the other. A food can't be beneficial below 2 cups per day and become a poison for more than 2 cups. But that's what they say about alcohol. They say it is good for the heart. Even if this is true, what's the use of drinking something that is good for the heart and poisonous for the rest of the body. Our body is not many organs working independently from each others. Everything work together, everything is linked. Something that is not good for the body is not good for the heart neither.

A poison in high dose is still a poison in small dose

Today, we see all poisons as good substances good for health : coffee, tea, chocolate, salt, sugar, wine, medecine. All medecine are made in laboratories out of poisonous plants. Scientists search the Amazonia rainforests for the most dangerous rare plants to make poisons to fight other poisons and this is modern medecine.
If some nutritionnists say that coffee and tea helps to fight cancers and stuff because of the antioxydants, I really doubt that many vitamins survive in a cup of boiling water, even your own hand will almost die. Cells affected by drugs can become tumors.

the beginning of the end of everything

2008-09-20T15:49:00.004-04:00

Facts from the movie "11th Hour"
Don't wait until it's too late

We increased Co2 by 30-35%, methane by 150%.
Methane has an effect 300% more powerful than Co2...
(strange, I heard somewhere else it's 21 times more... anyway, it's still shit... don't eat meat)

Now, 20% of ice in the artic has melt
Speed and lenght of cyclones has increased by 150%

Asthma has increased of 30%.
A few decades ago, there was 0 asthma

90% of US forests are gone
70 countries have no more intact forests

Man see Nature as property
As if Nature as no rights

It would cost 35 trillions $/year to do with machines what Nature does for us, (pollenisation by the bees, breathing the Co2 with the trees)
Nature do all this for free
And it would cost us 35 trillions. But the sum of all economies of all countries equals 18 trillions $...

In the world, for each truck of final products, there's 32 trucks of waste.

99,9999% of all species that ever existed on Earth are extinct.
If the planet had 1 year, humans started in the last 60 seconds.

Do you really think that all those chemicals are not harming our health ?
The farmers are sich and die because of what they spray on their plants.
Do you really think this is healthy?
The plants and the soil feed themselves with the chemicals and it goes into our bodies.

Food, Exercise, Body and Mind

2008-09-20T14:06:00.005-04:00

(some stuff here are from my posts on vbb forum. Some notions from Dr. Shelton in the second part)

I don't think there's a perfect workout routine. First, you find a program you like and you think it is perfect, then you don't like it anymore and replace it with another that match your new idea of perfection.

One thing people don't understand is that the brain values habits. If you repeat an exercise over and over for many years, of course you get better at it because you learn how to do it well and because the body adapts to this movement so it can perform it even better. I hear people say this :

my body responds very good with light weight and large repetitions. Also my body seems not to like too much cable excercises.

How would that be possible?
Is there a scientific proof that an exercise is better for the body of a person and less for someone else? It's only that doing lots of light weight, your body adapted to it and became more efficient than with heavy weight. It is you and the exercises that defines your body.

Is amazing that a lot of people can train years in the gym and never realise what is the best for their type of body.

It is probably that the person don't like to workout and the training is performed in an inefficient way, therefore the body doesn't adapt.

I don't think there's different ideal exercises for different bodies. Because we all have similar bodies: same number of muscles once adult age, same organs, etc. Of course there's some leaner than others, a lightweight can perform faster on a bike than a heavyweight. But you can change this with diet and exercises. We shouldn't use our body to decide which exercises are better, it's the exercises (and diet) that define the body. And the mind choose what it prefers. The body adapts. It is the exercises that defines the body, not the body that defines the exercise.
Of course, genetics change things a bit from a person to another, but not that much. Genetics can make someone grow muscles faster, or being stronger in general, but genetics will never make someone's body better at cable exercises and someone else body bad at free weights or bicep curls in particular.

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Samething with food. Some say : I don't like carrots (that's just an example, in fact I adore carrots). Same body than someone who like carrots. The only difference is the diet for children, and even the mom's diet while the child was still a fetus, all this affects the personal tastes but doesn't change the body.
The fallacy that a healthy food for one person is a poison for another, is wrong.
They say this, but they all eat the samething: the same junks like meat, dairies, coffee, etc., everywhere in every house, restaurants, hotels all over the country, the same poisons, but they say "a poison for someone can be healthy for someone else", so they don't feel healthy to eat only poisons. They use this phrase as an excuse, like : "I smoke tobacco, my body likes it", or "I know for some people coffee is not good, but for me it is beneficial". Who would say that calcium or vitamin C is a poison for certain people ?

POISONS

A poison is a poison for everybody, all humans and all animals. Even if certain animals can survive to amounts of poisons that has no effect on them while it would kill 3 humans, it's still not beneficial to those animals.

A poison in high dose is still a poison in small dose; it doesn't miraculously become good, it's still harmful, but less.

Today, we see all poisons as good substances : coffee, tea, chocolate, salt, sugar, wine, medecine. All medecine are made in laboratories out of poisonous plants. Researchers look for the most dangerous rare plants in Amazonia rainforests and make poisons to fight other poisons and they combine this with another poison to counter the effect of the first one, etc... The more a plant is a powerful poison, the best medecine we consider it to be... while fruits and greens can cure everything except maybe the venom of a snake. I drink green tea but I'll never say it's good out of bad faith.

If some nutritionnists say that coffee and tea helps to fight cancers and stuff because of the antioxydants, I really doubt that many vitamins survive in a cup of boiling water, even your own hand will almost die. Cells affected by drugs can become tumors though.

Conversations w/ G-d

2008-09-19T21:22:00.002-04:00

(from the movie... and book)

You are not to worry about making a living. True masters are those who have chosen to make a life rather than a living. Do whatever you really love. Do nothing else. You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something foa a living that you don't like to do? That is not a living. That is a dying.

Rules for training

2008-09-19T21:13:00.002-04:00

I must...:

Be happy, do not fear the training
Work hard, eat well, sleep well
Love to train, have fun
Contract muscle as hard as I can
As you isolate a group of muscle, use the abs as the center of energy, not the back.
All day long, always keep abs tight, good for posture.
Change program often, about every month.
Use all techniques...
reverse grip, rest-pause, high rep, low rep, slow rep, fast, isometric, angle variation, grip position, etc...

stuff 2 do...

2008-09-19T20:57:00.002-04:00

Yoga, meditation, tai chi, martial arts: kung fu, jeet kune do, judo--eat well learn create travel make money make love share enjoy see discover listen dream watch read write take pictures draw paint... run jump walk lift throw pull push strike sweat sleep eat dream see relax...

Happiness

2008-09-17T20:57:00.003-04:00

I'm was so happy today (for no apparent reason) that I feel like I'll stay like this for the rest of my life. I guess I'll have to wait and see...

The deadly results of human madness

2008-09-17T11:38:00.003-04:00

On the forum where I often post, I ("I'm Your Man") wrote about something I've read on internet:

RawVgn

Did you know that many of the deadliest diseases in human history evolved from human proximity to livestock? Influenza, which killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic and threatens billions more today, evolved from poultry farming; smallpox, which wiped out tens of millions of indigenous people in colonial times, evolved from cattle farming. Most food poisoning, like e coli and Listeria, are also effects of livestock agriculture (...)

I’m Your Man

That's true and I would like to extend this to the notion of externalities when there are consequences (positive or negative) on third parties who are not involved in an economic transaction.
Concerning the meat industry they are only negative consequences. And I want to extend this not only to economy but to health, etc...:

-Ethic: The animals slaughtered don't chose to be involved in this, yet they are the base of all this, but they don't receive any money, on the contrary they pay the price with their lives.

-Environment: the planet Earth never said she agreed to participate in this killing but she pays the price too with the pollution of water, air, land, forests are being vandalized.

-The trees are being cut down to become pasture. All the animals that were in those forests don't have any place to live.

-Economy:
-State subsidies to support a mode of production deficient debt that the worker, consumer, business, government, and society as a whole). Those who choose to stay away from meat still suffer from a price increase of all the food due to the almost limitless quantities of grain wasted in the livestock.
-We also pay state taxes and federal taxes so the government give billions in subsidies to farmers and ranchers to support a weak mode of production based on waste

-Health : The infections, contaminations and diseases mentioned by RawVgn, as well as the mad cow diseases that easily jump the specie barrier and affect human health with Parkinson and Alzheimer. We drink the water polluted by the manures and wash our food with it. We eat plant-based foods that are grownt with infected manures used as fertilizers. If we eat those fruits or veggies raw we seriously put our lives at risk. Humans are paying the price by a decrease of air quality that we breathe, and so on, the consequences are endless in the life cycle because everything is linked.

Nature's way

2008-09-16T15:50:00.005-04:00

I'm reading a fascinating book these days. By Dr. Herbert Shelton. Second book I read from him in French and I advice everybody to read his work. He's someone with immense common sense. So much that most people prefer to ignore him because they refuse to accept the truth. Modern scientists prefer to trust their experiences on rats to talk about human health. Well, let them continue to try curing with poisons a society that is becoming more and more sick... I'll write some of my thoughts after reading this book, but here's my impressions of the pages I've read last night :

Carnivorous animals are out of breath after running 10 seconds, no stamina and no strenght. Take a close look at the endurance, speed and strenght and size of several vegetarian animals : horses, rhinos, gorillas, elephants. The gazelle escapes from the claws of the lions most of the times, due to superior speed, agility and stamina. These are the animals that survive to everything, while the carnivorous are weak, live upon others like parasites, eating corpses and are doomed to extinction.

Animal proteins are second class proteins, plants are the only thing on the planet able to synthetize their own proteins (except simple organisms), from the minerals in air, soil and water, and therefore everything else on Earth live on plants. Vegetarian animals eat plants. Carnivorous animals eat vegetarian animals. Humans can choose the clean source (fruits, greens, nuts) or the toxic wastes from nature (corpses) that are degenerative. Meateaters are poor and sad necrophagous, human graveyards.

My Blog

2008-09-15T21:50:00.004-04:00

My blog is getting better -- But I need to make it better -- I'm writting on many different subjects--No reason to start a whole new blog for each matter -- But I'm writing in English, and sometimes in French my mother tongue -- and in which languages there's several subjects, being part of several Big Topics -- I should have a French blog, and a blog written in English -- I'm obsessed with perfection -- But I've learned that perfection can't be acheived since it wouldn't be perfection then, therefore perfection doesn't really exist, only an ideal of it -- Perfection is only in the Mind -- Then my tactic becomes different, forget everything, focus on the essential -- since Perfection don't exist in the real world and can't be acheived in reality, make it real and possible in your Mind. In fact it is the only possible way to achieve perfection... perfection in the real world is impossible, it is only possible in the mind -- Some people want to find perfection through complexity : a perfection of materiality in a material world, by having the largest amount of objects, they will never be happy because they will never achieve perfection in their mind or in reality -- The only way to acheive perfection is to forget about perfection, you're happy when your life becomes perfect -- imperfections are things we don't need -- have nothing but yourself and the vital needs : food, clothes and shelter-- do what you gotta do to fulfill your personnal life, love life, your life at work and your recreations -- I want to achieve perfection through simplicity and minimalism, purity and positivity -- of course, to achieve perfection and simplicity is not as easy as solving all materialistic problems, because many problems can occur in the mind too... it can be worse than any physical pain in the reality -- But the easiest way to clear the mind is to be satisfied of what you got, rely only on yourself, so you can't be disappointed...
So I was saying about my blog... I don't aim for perfection as a final result, just perfection in every moment of the present : I must like each of my posts, otherwise why writing ? I should not think of my blog as a way to say all of the things I want to say now or later, just a medium to express what I feel at each moment.

vegan cheese, sauce, pastas

2008-09-14T21:23:00.003-04:00

vegan mac & cheese photo organicbluespiral.

I experimented to make a cheesy sauce with that :

(fat-free) soy milk (or other non-dairy alternative), nutritional yeast, cornstarch or potato starch, lemon juice, garlic, onion powder, mustard, paprika, turmeric, pepper, miso, tahini… Add oil, Veganaise, Earth Balance butter or margarine if you want fats.

Nachos Cheese sauce
0. ½ c nutritional yeast
0. 3 T flour
0. 4 t corn starch or arrowroot powder
0. ½ t salt
0. 1 c water
0. 1 T olive oil
2 t Dijon mustard

Heat while stirring.

Tahini Rich Spaghetti

This is so good. Just add a spoon or more of tahini to your spaghetti sauce, or sunflower seeds butter if you don't have sesame. I like to add some curry spices too, chopped onions and yeast extract.

Why not adding some MEATBALLS on top of that:

different ingredients for vegan meatballs : bread crumbs, 1 Tbsp. olive oil 1/2 small onion, diced 1 green bell pepper, diced 1-2 cloves garlic, chopped 2 lbs, Yves Ground-Beef style 3 Tbsp. ketchup 3 Tbsp. spicy mustard 3-6 Tbsp. Texas Pete brand hot sauce  1/4 cup wheat germ 1/4 cup vegan parmesan cheese Salt and pepper, to taste

some biscuits I've tried out

2008-09-14T21:21:00.003-04:00

photo par organicbluespiral.

I changed this recipe a lot, added more chocolate chips, less pure fat, etc.

Chocolate chip cookies
(from vegcooking)

2 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Egg Replacer equivalent of 2 eggs (Ener-G Egg Replacer works best, but you can also mix together 2 tsp. cornstarch and 1/4 cup water)
12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, brown sugar, sugar, vanilla, and egg replacer mixture. Stir in the flour mixture and mix well. Add the chocolate chips and mix.
• Drop the dough by spoonfuls onto a lightly oiled cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

veggie burgers

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photo: organicbluespiral.

Some that I ate recently

There's all kinds of burgers you can make, you don't need to put a corpse between the bread, but use something more edible.
There's veggie burger, lentill burger, tofu burger, seitan burger, probably more that I never heard of. There's far more varieties of vegan burgers than traditionnal ones (choice of different meat, poultry or fish).

Sesame Burger

Cheese burger (with vegan cheese of course)

Use onions, spices, tofu, or grains or seeds or nuts or a legume of your choice, mix. make patties and heat ! No salmonella or E. colli risks if you don't cook it enough ; )

This simple recipe is pretty good:

TOFU BURGERS
1 tub extra firm tofu, mashed
1 cup oats
1/2 cup cashews, ground
4 tbsp soy sauch
Pinch garlic powder
Pinch salt
2 tbsp chopped onion

Mix all ingredients, form into patties, and pan fry.

You don't even have to stick to this recipe. I used macadamia nuts instead of cashews, and I've tried also without any nuts, all were good.

Cookies and other desserts

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photo: organicbluespiral.

Those were really decadent. You could add also some vegan caramel inside.

Recipe for Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Shells

Recipe for vegan snowballs, aka Russian tea cakes.

I found that these were too heavy and dense. I prefer the cakey ones, without all these nuts.

Oatmeal banana- chocolate cookies

I made some with extra chocolate, that was divine:

Maple walnut cookies

I don't even remember where I got the recipe, perhaps it was this one. Anyway, these surely look good ;)

I found it tasted too much walnut. Use less walnuts for the dry mix. And on the top, put just a small piece of walnut, not half of it.
Put some raisins. It wasn't sweet enough. Add stevia, agave nectar, etc.
I don't use pure fat when I do recipes, so usually I substitute the margarine for tofu in salted recipes or with a banana in sweet recipes. A banana instead of all the fats is perfect and just common sense.

The dry mix. I added some maple flakes.

I tried those carob- chocolate cookies

The carob chips burnt while the chocolate melts.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Squares

The wet mix : melting peanut butter, maple syrup and chocolate.

The Recipe here.

The Poutine Experiment

2008-09-14T21:11:00.002-04:00

photo : organicbluespiral.

What is poutine ? Just some French fries in brown gravy with cheddar curds. I loved to eat poutine once in a while before I went vegan. And it has been the hardest meal for me to quit. Like a drug. Strangelly I wasn't eating this that often.

Anyway, as a vegan I can eat some vegan poutine so I don't see why it was such a big deal.
On the picture above I used avocado (use a very riped one, and let it soften a bit in the gravy), because I had no vegan cheese. They pretty expensive. But once I bought some and made a vegan poutine that really looked and tasted like the real traditionnal one.

pancakes, French toasts and more

2008-09-14T21:05:00.002-04:00

photo: organicbluespiral.

Some ideas for vegan breakfasts

Fruit salad: Blueberry with bananas, or nectarine with banana slices.

Crunchy eanut butter and raspberry jam.

Banana slices, dark chocolate in peanut butter, blackberry jam, agave nectar...

Pillsburry turnovers (the ones that are vegan are the apple one and the cherry one I think. Anyway it's disgusting, I had to add many things to make them edible.

FRENCH TOASTS

Now this is super easy, quick, and delicious.

Just take the amount of bread (thick sliced is better) that you desire to eat. Soak them 5-20 minutes in soy milk (like one cup for 4-5 french toasts) with a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon. You can add a bit of soymilk powder too to make it more heavy, less liquid toasts inside. You can use other milk alternatives than soy.

Spray a pan or use a few drops of veg oil. Then heat 2-3 minutes on each side, using a bit of vegan margarine. Cook until golden and crispy on the outside but mellow in the inside.
Pour agave nectar, or maple syrup, strawberry jam, etc...
I loved French toasts before I went vegan, especially when I was really young. But sometimes it tasted eggs. Who honnestly like how eggs tastes !? everybody put a mountain of salt on their eggs or eat them with something else.
One thing is sure, those vegan French toasts are the best ones I ever had in my entire life. It's not perfect every shot, sometimes it depends of the day, your mood, little details in how you prepare them that makes all the differences. But it's better than with fucking eggs that come from concentration camps or from sick cows.

Enjoy

PANCAKES AND CRÈPES

Buckwheat pancakes and Breton crèpes recipe here
Just substitute tje eggs for an egg replacer.

With molasses

Good morning !

vegan chocolate cake

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photo organicbluespiral.

This is a pretty easy "recipe", and pretty good ;) it was made with the Duncan Haynes cake mix, which is supposed to be vegan. I don't even remember if you're suppose to add eggs to the mix, if yes theu use eggs replacer or baking powder.

Chocolate Frosting

You can use silken tofu (or margarine if you like more fat) whipped with chocolate or carob chips or powder, melt these at low heat while stirring, add vanilla extract, and sugar until creamy.

Lunch at Chuch

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Imperial rollsphoto Guillaume Désilets.

When I went to Montreal several weeks ago.

Chuch is a vegan restaurant on St-Denis street, right next to ChuChai, a less cheap version of it.
I found the service was bad and the fod too expensive, probably microwaved. I don't know if it is the cashier (which was also the maid) who prepared the plate too, if so I hope she washed her hands...

The World According to Monsanto

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photo par Hughes Léglise-Bataille.

(Lire le texte en Français -- more complete text in French) Monsanto could argue that they’re a good company claiming that otherwise they wouldn’t have stayed a hundred years. Others could say that the people don’t pursue a good company that often, or that a good company don’t pursue honest farmers that are just trying to make a living… Monsanto have been in hundreds of cases in court, and still is in another hundred right now, always and always.

Check out this great article that reviews many points about GMO's and Monsanto.

Reproductive changes:
Cows injected with genetically modified growth hormones (rBGH) had more birth defects, reproductive disorders, difficulty getting pregnant, foot and leg injuries, metabolic disorders, indigestion, bloat, diarrhea, lesions, increased size of heart, liver, kidneys, ovaries and adrenal glands, and shortened lives. In the face of this data, Monsanto dismissed this evidence in its own report to the FDA as harmless physiological shifts. [p.88-89]

Research result: Rats that were fed GM potatoes suffered damaged immune systems. Their white blood cells responded much more sluggishly than those fed a non-GMO control diet. Other GMO-fed rats in this experiment had smaller, less developed brains, livers and testicles, and had enlarged tissues, including pancreas and intestines. Some showed partial atrophy of the liver. Furthermore, significant structural changes and a proliferation of cells in the stomach and intestines of GMO fed rats may have signaled an increased potential for cancer. These rats developed these effects after just ten days. Some of the above changes lasted after 110 days, a time period corresponding to about 10 years of human life. [p.12]

SUMMARY
For those who don't know, Monsanto is a sick company about a century old, and is now considered as the most controversial multinational ever. It is the creator of good products such as PCBs (now banned, this is one of the most toxic and dangerous substances ever created by man. There was some in everything, from freezers to air conditionners. An estimated 240 000 tons of PCB went in our environment, especially water. Now it will stay in the food chain for centuries. Everybody has some in their organism. To eat fish is the best way to increase your dose of PCB.)
Before that, Monsanto was the main participant in the race to nuclear bomb for the governement of USA. The scientists of Monsanto were developping the first atomic bom that was soon to be launched on Hiroshima.
But other laboratories were involved with the Pentagon and White House. Still, Monsanto was a big part in the Manhattan Project.
Between this and the PCB, Monsanto made the Agent Orange that waas sprayed over Vietnam jungles during the war. It destroyed the forests, killed thousand of people, injured many others, many are physically disabled and still today we observe a high rate of malformations at birth. An hospital in Vietnam displays what resulted of this deadly substance that is dioxine on human health : in bocals, human foetuses with monstrous difformities : a 2 headed baby, a body with no head, one with no brain, another with a gigantic brain. A foetus with a penis between the eyes.
Then in the end '80s they come up with BGH (bovine grownt hormones) to give to dairy cows to make them produce up to 40 liters of milk per day instead of 5. With all the diseases that comes with it. So the cows need astronomic amounts of antibiotics in order to survive.
After this, they arrive with the Roundup, an herbicide for big and small farmers, falsly presented as "biodegradable and good for the environment", they're gonna have to pay a fined for this and remove this label. Note that this product contain some of the agents that were found in the Agent Orange used by the army. In fact, it is a very harmful product and is the #1 herbicide used for suicides.
They then started to invest in the agrobusiness domain and put on the market their GMOs (genetically modified organisms) like the corn Bt, or Soy RoundUp Ready, designed specially to resist their herbicide. Indeed, you could empty a whole bottle on this soy and it would be like nothing happened while just a few drops kill any other plants or 125ml kills an human.
They made a fortune, every farmer buy this new soy, AND the RoundUp as a special package, because GM soy requires this herbicide in order to grow. Reason is this is a like a plant on steroids, it needs huge amounts of fertilizers, more water, it drains all energy from soil, leaving an poor dirt.

Now Monsanto is attempting to acquire water rights in countries with water shortages in a move to control the people's basic means of survival

Then they try to patent the genes of pig, so all farmers would pay them royalties for each pig they own.
They also tried to put the Terminator seeds on the market, nothing less than infertile crops, to rule once and for all over all the farmers of the world by taking them the right to grow plants when they want.
What’s next, Monsanto is gonna try to own the rights on the soil we’re walking on and the air we breath ?
This is like science fiction, but nothing is too much for Monsanto, a company that "don't want to lose one dollar" even if it means to kill people.

The problem with GMO is not only the health issue on humans (though Monsanto claims there’s no risks of harm on short term, but nothing says there’s no problems after long exposition. And nothing says GMO are not partially responsible for the increase of cancers and other diseases), no, the most harm can come from the abundant use of pesticides and insecticides, especially Roundup. Another problem concerns the ethics of life and the environment. Now that life can be patented by big lobbys such as Monsanto, not only they own and control the food, at the same time they rule over the world, they own us. In fact, someone from Monsanto once said : "we own you, we own everyone who buy our products". -

The other big issue is concerning the planet : GMO spread and the perspective that one day the whole planet will be genetically modified is possible, all the plants, insects, animals will be affected, infected... Yes, Man made himself the new God.

Monsanto’s cotton seeds are 4x more expensive than normal cotton seeds. Monsanto owns most of the seed market, forcing poor Indian farmers to buy Monsanto’s seeds. The GM cotton is inefficient on Indian soil, it simply doesn't grow. Many farmers got ruined becaus ethey had to borrow money to buy the seeds. When they don't have anything left... Each 8 minutes, an Indian farmer kills himself, often with the very same product that caused his misery, the Roundup herbicide.

Today, and since many years, movements around the world, especially in France and Europe, milite against the giant of biotechnologies Monsanto, and it's crazy products :

tomatoes+pig
toad + potatoes
soy + virus
salmon+strawberry
sourmon+corn

Some ask for decent laws of GMOs labelling. Others want that this company returns to hell and with it's products too.
We must not wait to see what the future will show us, we must act now before it is too late.

MODIFIED FOOD AND PLANET, DO WE WANT A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FUTURE?
In England, GreenPeace militants are fighting against GMOs, like blocking a cargo full of 125 000 tons of transgenic corn.

Cows feed with gmo corn produce gmo milk. Some cows have difformities like : shitting by the tits. Not to mention the other thing from... guess who : Monsanto -- BGH that make HUGE tits to the cows, sometimes it is so big and heavy that it touch the floor or the cow cannot move, is sick. In fact the vast majority of dairy cows are on those hormones and dozens of other drugs and antibiotics to try to counter the many infections afflicting cows. Because of all this, their milk is unfit to consumption, containing high levels of pus, viruses, bacterias, blood, toxic residues of the nombrous chemicals and drugs, not to mention that the hormones go in the milk too. And people drink this, beleiving blindly what the national association of milk producers present as the "perfect" drink, essential to human health.

Truth is : www.notmilk.com

When we want to ask questions to big gmo societies, they never respond. They work in the dark, protected from medias and public. They hide like the criminals and murderers that they are.
Gilles Eric Seralini is a scientist that begins to scare big companies like Mosanto, he critics openly gmo’s and what he says is based on scientific facts. Since many years, this molecular biology professor patiently collects all proofs of gmo’s dangers. Often, Mosanto and others tried to buy his silence. He has secret files showing the nocive effects on animal’s health. Effects on blood cells counts, sugar level in blood, female and male hormones, etc. To know if this is also dangerous for humans, he’s making experiments in his laboratory. Monsanto employs ex-cops and ex-CIA agents to work as secret agents, to spy or to intimidate farmers. They will enter in a private property such as a flield and take samples of crops and grains in plastic bags to analyze them. If the searchers of Monsanto's laboratories find out it contains even just a small pourcentage of their genetically modified crops, they will pursue the farmer and win. Even if the farmer never bought or never sowed any GMO in his field... thing is that the contamination of GMO's are a big problem. The wind, bees, pollen, trucks, etc... It should be Monsanto who should compensate the farmers for the contamination, not the opposite. This is a crazy world...

me

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me
Mise en ligne par organicbluespiral

I tought I could talk a bit about myself
Right now I'm living in Val-David which is 45 minutes from Montreal city, where I lived pretty much all my life and will probably return soon.
I'm 27 years old... Not much to say right now but perhaps later
Visit myspace for more details
-Here's some recent (summer 2008) pics of me. I wanted to be more fit than this but things went wrong ! No summer at all, I mean that it was raining everyday, really depressing.
Besides, there was no gym to train.
I can't wait to go back in town, work, train, go out, etc.