I've Been Thinkin'....

Lately I've been experiencing inner turmoil, dread, and overwhelming anxiety. Why the doom and gloom?? While, yes, it does have something to do with the most recent disaster in Japan and the radioactive plume that is inevitably coming our way, it also has to do with the government and their control over our food supply, the dwindling supply of nutrient-dense soil, the dwindling supply of fossil water, etc, etc, etc. It feels like disaster is everywhere. When I read and research to try to prepare my food storage and medicine storage, I get more and more discouraged at the vast amount knowledge I need to have. I feel like there is too much for me to possibly retain!!!

There is going to come a time when we experience food shortage. A lot of people know this and prepare for it. A lot of people have no clue. And what is extremely sad is that gardening and harvesting your own food is pratically a lost art. It's ridiculous of me to even say it's a lost art. Maybe not so much in the more rural areas of the country where farming and growing food is the way of life. But for cities where there are people packed on top of people, gardening and harvesting is a lost art. Why learn it when you can walk down the block or drive down the street and get any kind of nutrient-dead, processed, chemically-laden food in a box or a bag? I know I have been affected by this. My parents have alway done a garden my whole life, thankfully, so I feel like I am not too far behind however, I am still feel as if what I know is not enough and am trying desperately to catch up on knowledge that I should have acquired years ago.

It seems so foreign to me now that we rely on big companies to grow, process, package our food and then ship to us where we just buy it, happily thinking it will always be there. Somewhere along the way, knowledge of how to sustain yourself naturally has been lost to most of the population. It frightens me. Because for those who do grow and store their own food, they are going to have to fight tooth and nail to keep it once everyone else has run out of theirs.

And don't you find it funny that natural, organic food that you buy is more expensive and less available than the alternative? It's outrageous when you think about it. Natural food is what we were born to consume - it's our right as a human being to be able to eat food as it was meant to be. That we even have to label things organic instead of everything being grown the way it should be. I could go on and on and on!!!! I am so frustrated with the state of this country, with my own lack of knowledge, and with everyone else who points fingers at those who believe that nature has a cure for everything and then go right to the store to fill up on corn dogs and frozen pizza and soda pop (right after the visit to the doctor where they are told they have diabetes, clogged arteries, arthritis, etc and stop by the local pharmacy to fill up on toxic, poisonous drugs). What is wrong with this picture?? I could scream from the frustration it causes me.

Brussel Sprouts

Yummy Yummy Brussel Sprouts! Tiny little versions of cabbage heads that are soooo wonderfully delicious and nutritious :)

• Brussel sprouts contain phytonutrients that help our body to promote the production of enzymes involved in detoxification.
• Like all veggies, it can help you fight cancer....isn't amazing how all the cancer-fighting properties are found in the raw form of veggies that come from our Earth?? It's the way we are meant to eat!
• They have cholesterol-lowering benefits
• It's chalk-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants! Just check out the chart below!

(chart taken from whfoods.com)

For even more info on the benefits of brussel sprouts visit here.

Fluoride Reduction

Visit Pure Water Freedom here:

http://purewaterfreedom.com/osc/remove_fluoride.php


for some tips on reducing your fluoride intake.


Why is this important? Because sodium fluoride is a poison!! 1 part per million more than doubles the chance of bone cancer in boys and men! And there has been 900 parts per million has been found in powdered eggs!! Can you believe that?? Fluoride causes sterility, reduces IQ's and the list goes on and on! Nazi's used to add sodium flouride to the water of their prisoners to make them more docile! And the fact that it is in our water is FORCED MEDICATION - and should be against the law! But it's not only in our water and toothpaste, it's been added to hundreds of products including baby products which is completely unneccessary and with all this extra flouride to 'save our teeth', there is a whopping amount of children with dental fluorosis - a condition where they receive TOO MUCH fluoride and their teeth are being damaged.

Visit this website:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/sodium-fluoride-poison-in-the-tap-water.html
for some more facts about the dangers of fluoride.

Dave's Direct = The Best Meat I Have Ever Tasted!

Technology can be such a wonderful thing! Months and months ago, I received an invitation from a Facebook friend to "Like" a Facebook page called 'Freebies 2 Deals'. I looked at it and couldn't decide if I wanted to or not and so I left it alone and then forgot all about it. Well I decided it was about time to go and clear out invites I didn't want since they were piling up and I came across that one again. I decided to like it and am I ever glad I did!! I would glance over all the deals that Freebies 2 Deals would post and I either didn't need it or didn't want to go through the trouble. And then, blessedly, I happened upon a deal for Dave's Direct. Check out the website STAT!

Dave's Direct does only ALL-NATURAL, HORMONE-FREE, ANTIBIOTIC-FREE meats!! Ahhhh, now your talkin' my language Freebies 2 Deals! Their piedmontese beef (a double-muscled cattle) interested me immediately and I browsed through all their packages offered. You can even build your own package to meet your own taste. And GREAT prices is the cherry on top!

So, I talked to the Husband about making the purchase and ten minutes later I had a Friends and Family package ordered. They can deliver to your house but I opted for the pickup since it's cheaper. Lucky me they had the pickup just the following morning at the Thanksgiving Point Golf Club House in Lehi, UT and I made my order just in time!

An extremely friendly Christine helped me out and gave me information and even had a ribeye and all natural chicken breast on the grill!! I tried them both and I thought I died and gone to heaven! Why? Because meat that hasn't been pumped full of fillers and dyes and hormones and antibiotics is REALLY tender and flavorful!! Most people have no idea what they are missing. The only seasonings used was a little salt, pepper and garlic powder. The piedmontese rib-eye was FIVE-STAR. Delicious.

I truly wish that we didn't live in a country where an FDA or USDA exists - that there would be no one to outlaw drinking raw milk and squak about those who grow organic crops and meat - something we should be free to do as we please. Everyone would be incredibly healthier without people to decide for us what we take into our bodies. Grow your own gardens, even the smallest bit helps! And try to buy local and organic wherever possible.

I plan on giving Dave's Direct my business...I recommend you try them out and see the difference for yourself!

Exercise of the Week: Stability Ball Wall Squats

Exercise of the Week

Stability Ball Wall Squats: This exercise is so versatile. If you don't have a stability ball then just do it with your back against the wall. With your feet shoulder-width apart, and the ball between the wall and the small of your back, slowly lower yourself into a squat position until your thighs are parallel to the ground. Go even lower to really trigger those butt muscles. Slowly raise back to start position. You can also keep this stationary. Lower yourself into that squat position (with or without ball) and hold that pose for as long as you can. Not as easy as it sounds!!

Teach 'Em Early!

I have this cooking blog that I absolutely love to check in on. It's a smorgesborg of great looking food at For the Love of Cooking. She recently posted about an awesome trip where her children were invited to be a part of Frigidaire campaign called Kids (good-for-you) Cooking Academy. I thought I'd share this because I love the message: get kids involved in the kitchen early! Teach them how to prepare healthy food so they know HOW instead of reaching for easy to eat foods from boxes and packages! They are more likely to grow up and keep those good for you cooking habits!! Even Jennifer Garner realizes this and she was there to help out in the kitchen!!

11. Get All Your Immunization Shots.

In his book, The Maker's Diet, Jordan Rubin devotes a chapter to 27 recommendations on how to GET sick and suggests that if you want to remain as healthy as possible, go AGAINST these 27 suggestions if at all possible.


11. Get All Your Immunization Shots



"Despite massive media and government public relations campaigns to the contrary, certain childhood immunization injections may pose considerable risks to children. Most adults today received one to five immunizations in childhool, but schoolchildren today receive an average of twenty-two or more immunizations - most of them administered while he brain and nervous system are still developing!

An epidemic of juvenile autism and other neurological and dvelopmental disorders sweeping through America's school-age children generally coincides with the introduction of certain mandatory immunizations. A growing body of scientific and medical research appears to link this dangerous health trend to these childhool immunizations.

Vijendra K. Singh, Ph.D., an eminent neuroimmuniologist from the Department of Biology and Biotechnology Center at Utah State University, hypothesized in research published internationally 'that a measles virus-induced autoimmune response is a causal factor in autism, whereas HHV-6 via co-infection may contribute to pathophysiology of the disorder. Although as yet unproven, I think it is an excellent working hypothesis to explain autism, and it may also help us understand why some children show autistic regression after the measles-mumps-rebella (MMR) immunization.'

Dr. Singh's findings seem to confirm that results of a similar study published in the Lancet in 1998 by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and co-workers of they Royal Free Hospital in London, indicating a possible link between MMR vaccination, Crohn's disease of the bowel, and autism. Most states allow philosophical and religious exemptions from mandatory immunization programs should you decide this is the way to go."




I have included some links that leads to further links compiled on Natural News if you care to take a look.

http://www.naturalnews.com/025595_vaccinations_vaccines.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/027178_vaccines_autism_NaturalPedia.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/029334_flu_vaccines_seizures.html

Food, Inc.

As Anita Wolff, a staff member of Britannica’s Advocacy for Animals, says: "I’m left feeling powerless by the huge economic and political forces that work to keep the profits rolling to enormous chemical, agricultural, and food-processing companies who benefit from having Americans eat a certain way. The frustration is made worse by knowing that those forces also work to keep us in the dark about the real costs involved and collude to keep people at all levels—such as farmers, consumers, slaughterhouse workers, union leaders (and, of course, these groups overlap)—from having any place to redress their grievances."

But please, PLEASE, don't NOT watch this because you feel that ignorance is bliss. It's not. This food crisis affects you already whether you choose to look it in it's face or not. There is not one single person that can say they haven't been affected by it somehow, either by themselves or someone they love. Whether its cancer, diabetes, or any of the onslaught of MAN MADE disease and sickness, no one is exempt.

There IS something we can do because we as consumers ARE the greatest decision makers. With each purchase, we are making a choice.

Watch the film, open your eyes, take action and visit www.takepart.com/foodinc

Exercise of the Week: Calf Raises

Calf Raises: Using a weight of your choice stand with your feet about hip width apart. Keeping your feet parallel, raise up onto the balls of your feet really squeezing that calf muscle. Lower and then repeat. On your next set, point the toes inward (pigeon-toed) to change the angle of the muscle worked. On your third set, point the toes out with the heels in. To make it extra hard, stand on a ledge or step or even a pile of sturdy books to give yourself a higher range or motion. To make it extra extra hard, performe this exercise one leg at a time!

Cancer and Sugar

I am constantly trying to tell my family to cut out all things with sugar. I don't believe our bodies are made to be eating as much sugar as everyone does - and there is proof!! It is evident all around us. The health problems are too many to count, the costs too expensive. Read this article about how cancer cells feed off High Fructose Corn Syrup and use it to divide and grow faster. I hope it will make you think twice before putting syrup on your pancake or pouring a bowl of cereal or eating a packaged granola bar or drinking a soda or............