"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.
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Some videos on Internet
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
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
-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.
-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.
- :
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.
Many thoughts from my wicked mind
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.
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.
==============
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.
=========================================
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.
--------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------
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.
---------------------
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.
rain, music, green tea, sun, energy, creativity
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.
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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.
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 :
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
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
Vaccine Fillers and Ingredients
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."
* 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
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.
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.
Xenoestrogens, poison of the new century
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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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
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 ?
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 ?
Endocrine disrupters
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
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 ?
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 !
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 ?
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
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.
The Truth about Meat
"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.
Toxicity
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.
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.
Raw
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.
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.
Did you know?
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?
FLOWmarket™ - www.theflowmarket.com
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?
FLOWmarket™ - www.theflowmarket.com
The True Medecine Man
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:
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
Nutrition Facts
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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