Cancer & Oxygen

Love this article by Green Smoothie Girl, Robyn Openshaw.  

http://blog.greensmoothiegirl.com/2012/12/04/just-take-a-deep-breath/?utm_source=GSG+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=1d077786a5-Newsletter_Nutrition_to_combat_anxiety_9_17_2012&utm_medium=email

I have become a holistic-cancer-treatment junkie and save any and all info I find on cancer treatment (naturally, of course) even though I don't have cancer and thankfully I don't have a single loved one who does.  However, that may certainly change as the years go by (and no I'm not trying to wil the universe to test that) but if it ever DOES happen, I want to be ready.  No one in my household will be safe from me - the kill Cancer nazi.

Cancer World Summit - Free Seminar!

Most of the people in this seminar I recognize and follow.  I love their message, I love their dedicated hard work to clue in people to the real cures for cancer - and there are cures, make no mistake about that.  If you know someone who has cancer, I hope you'll benefit from clicking on the link below.  If  you don't know anybody right now, you will some day and this information could save lives.  I don't know anybody but I constantly research and compile information on treating and preventing cancer so that if I or somebody dear to me ever faces this, I will be far more ready to help than if I sat and did nothing years in advance.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cancerworldsummit.com/index-launch-day.html

GMO Foods You Should Know About

http://www.thealiveacademy.com/genetically-engineered-foods

30 Days, 30 Reasons, 30 Ways.

October is Vegetarian Month so I'll be posting quite a bit on the benefits of passing up that too-large portion of chicken or steak every night on top of that chicken sandwhich for lunch and the bacon and sausage you maybe had for breakfast. ;)

I love this article - 30 Days, 30 Reasons, 30 Ways: Go Vegetarian In October!  Go ahead and click on it - I dare you.  It's really not that hard to say "No Mo'" to the beef.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-stevens/thirty-days-thirty-reason_b_1923921.html

No Such Thing As Humane Farming?

I learned a thing or two when reading this article and without a doubt you will, too.  Please take a moment and read...some of the pictures alone will resonate louder than the words.  I can't understand the senselessness. I can't go buy the meat department without thinking of things such as this:

http://freefromharm.org/food-and-ethics/a-comprehensive-analysis-of-the-humane-farming-myth/

Healthy At 100

Worth the ten minutes for anyone curious how a vegetarian/plant-based diet is superior than any other fad diet or calorie counting program out there!

Chemicals Are Making Us Fat by Jessica Ainscough

I love her honesty at the beginning - both about her own vanity and the sad truth that most women aren't motivated into health unless it does affect their jean size.  Read on peeps and see a short list of dangerous chemicals in products you use every day.

http://www.thewellnesswarrior.com.au/2012/09/chemicals-are-making-us-fat/

FDA At It Again.

Anything pure, wholesome, natural and God-given is a target to the FDA.  They will not be happy until all our rights are stripped away and we are a docile, drug-laden herd of Americans.  News articles like this one:

http://wholenewmom.com/reaching-out/fda-to-ban-natural-supplements-in-us/

are all over the net.  Everyone is trying to do their part to ensure that the FDA cannot continue robbing us of our freedoms and choices.  They do not decide what is best for you or me to put into our bodies or what we decide to use to heal ourselves.  I like this blog because she does her homework and she's included ways to get in touch with our 'government' and let them know how we feel.  I've signed more petitions this last few weeks than I have in my lifetime.  It's so vitally important that everyone get educated, become aware of what's going on and what the FDA's evil plans are and, most importantly, GET INVOLVED!!!!  Please take a few seconds to scroll through and see what you can do and I recommend signing this petition:

https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=833

Watermelon Bowl

Check out my snack:

Awhile ago I was curious if there was a better way to cut up a watermelon - one that didn't take half my life and wasn't so messy.  I got on YouTube and was very happy with the first video I clicked on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBdMonan20

I love that this older guy is up with the technology and posting videos on YouTube.  I don't even know how to edit videos...I'm sure it would be easy if I just decided to learn how.  But I don't and he does so I think he's cool.  

Anyway, I had this mini watermelon and I cut it using the fancy new way I learned and went outside to enjoy the sunshine, ate my melon out of it's 'bowl' and read a good book.  Yay!

Don't be fooled by all the media coverage falsely saying that organic foods are no healthier than conventionally grown foods. It's simply not true.  Here's a little article about GMO's and why you should care about the labeling Proposition 37 going on right now.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/09/04/whats-gmo-and-why-should-we-care

Broccoli: Eat It!

Always A Better Way

I just read this article published today over at Natural News.  It's just one more example of how God created everything we need to take care of ourselves naturally.  We live in an age of knowledge and information...we just need to be able to sort out the right stuff.

http://www.naturalnews.com/037063_vitamin_B3_superbugs_infection.html#ixzz25Vcarlkg

Ps.  You'll notice in the article how the government's recommended level of B3 is way lower than need be to fight off infection...just as it is for Vitamin D and probably every life saving vitamin/mineral.  This is to keep you sick, folks, so that you stay in need of Dr. visits, antibiotics, drugs, vaccines and surgery.  It's way more profitable than sunshine and B3.

Will We All Be Forced To Be Vegetarian?

Speaking of leaving our world a better place...

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/will-we-all-be-forced-to-be-vegetarian-by-2050/#

I'm a religious person and my religion tells us to eat very little meat, only in times of winter or famine.  There are great many reason for avoiding meat, both health and environmental.  I encourage all my friends and family (and anybody who may read this little blog of mine) to consider eating less meat.  And who knows?  From there you may decide to cut it out completely. I did - and I never thought I'd see the day!!

Plastic Bottle Wall

This is so sad!  We all need to be aware of our choices and the effect we are having on our planet!  We have to make changes and leave this place better for our children and their posterity.

http://www.startribune.com/local/yourvoices/167725245.html

Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry

I urge you to read this article!  Urge, URGE I say!!  It doesn't matter if you already know that food processing is bad for you - this shed a little more light on some subjects and I learned some things I didn't know before (the behind the scenes aspect).  Read it, my friends and be enlightened.  As I've said before, ignorance is not bliss :)

http://www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/dirty-secrets-of-the-food-processing-industry

Vegan Smash Cake :)

My little baby turned 1! It was an exciting and fun celebration for us.  It was also a little crazy on my end because I wanted him to have the smash cake experience but I didn't want him to have any of the cake!

I contemplated doing just a vegetable or fruit, such as an apple.  I researched raw desserts like crazy but, as raw desserts always have nuts as a base, I didn't want to take the chance of some sort of nut reaction.  Now, my baby up until about 1 month ago, has been exclusively breastfed.  He hasn't shown much interest in food until recently and so now we have introduced foods that we can give him that are as much in their raw natural state as possible - specifically fruits.  Out of curiosity we let him try something (now I can't remember what it was) other than fruit or veggie and he didn't care for it.  So with that in mind, I decided to make him a cake because I didn't think he would have any interest in putting any in his mouth anyway.

I actually did two different recipes.  One for his 1 year pictures and one for his birthday party.

I ended up going with a vegan carrot cake recipes that didn't have any sugar in it.  

In this picture, I used the 'Single Lady Cupcake' recipes called Five Minute Carrot Cake from Chocolate Covered Katie.  Her desserts look delish and I thought this carrot cake would have a super cute look paired with my kiddos outfit.  As expected, he didn't care to eat it, he only cared to swirl the stuff on the ground with the candle :)   I used Coconut Milk frosting instead of some vegan soy crap.  I had to do a bit of experimenting with that one, too and I'll have another post on that.

For his big birthday bash I made him a big smash cake.  Although in hind sight I kind of wish I wouldn't have worried about the cake itself since I already knew he wouldn't eat it and just worried about what was on top.  Instead I worried about both.  

For this cake, I used a recipe found on this blog.  I made a little variation and used the rest of my spelt flour instead of wheat flour and I made it into a cake using a round cake pan instead of going with the cupcakes.  I  wasn't too impressed with the taste though (I stole a bite after the smashing was done - hence why I wish I wouldn't have worried about having actual cake under that frosting - it ended up being a waste).  I was, however, super happy with my raw chocolate icing found on one of my favorite raw dessert websites, The Rawtarian.  You can find this particular recipe here and I liked it a lot because it was so simple and made with ingredients I already had on hand. It's creamy and has a dark chocolate taste which normally I wouldn't care for but Husband and I wanted to keep on licking. It also spread incredibly easy. 

Again, my baby wasn't too into smashing.  He was a little curious but I think he has a thing about getting super dirty!  He had to have help from some kiddos to get a little dirtier :)  I thought he would actually like eating this frosting because I let him lick a little off the spatula when I made it and he was really into it.  However, when I helped him out and put some in his mouth, he gagged.  Not the first time he'd done that but   I promise it wasn't because the recipe sucked cuz it didn't..or doesn't!

Hopefully someone else finds this information a little useful.  :)

How To Afford Eating Raw

Hey all!!

Thought I'd share this YouTube video by Kristina from Fully Raw.



She's got some great tips!

Just How Bad Is Sugar?

Click on the following link to watch an eye opening 60 Minutes interview on the dangers of sugar.  It's as addictive and dangerous as cocaine and yet, nobody realizes this as they consume pound after pound of the white stuff!  I think you'll learn some interesting things that you may have not known before.  I also believe that it is TREMENDOUSLY important to get your kids off of sugar completely.

http://www.truthaboutabs.com/toxic-sugar.html

Ps - the notes from the author of the article found below the video are worth reading as well and I tend to agree with him on those points :)

6 Ingredients You May Not Want In Your Food

6 INGREDIENTS YOU MAY NOT WANT IN YOUR FOOD

By: Food Republic, Huffington Post

Garden burgers. Power bars. Protein brownies. Bottled water that makes you thin, young and smart. And we used to wonder what they put in Pop Rocks...

These days it's hard for even die-hard foodies to know what they're eating or drinking. That's because food has changed from something that didn't need a modifier -- if it walked, swam, flew or grew out of the ground, it was food -- to something that stopped off at Mr. Burns' nuclear plant on the way to your plate.

Let's call it "foodiness." Like Stephen Colbert's truthiness, which wasn't about truth, we're not consuming food as much as we're consuming an edible manufactured doppelganger designed to look and taste like food, but isn't actually food: like veggie puffs with no vegetables; fruit bars with no fruit; like goldfish crackers with no goldfish.

And now, below, a look at some typical foodiness ingredients that are packaged, flavored and presented as food.

1. TBHQ, A.K.A: Butane

Turns out butane isn't just for lighters anymore - it's also an artificial antioxidant that they put it in chicken nuggets to keep them "fresh" tasting. So instead of your chicken nuggets being fresh, butane keeps them "fresh." Eating butane probably wasn't what you had in mind last time you lit up, got the munchies, and ordered those nuggets. Try homemade chicken wings instead, for fuel-free food. 

Found in: Frozen, packaged or pre-made processed foods with long shelf lives such as frozen meals, crackers, chips, cereal bars and fast food.

2. Estrogen

Regular milk is full of hormones used by the milk industry to keep the cows knocked up and lactating all year round. Sound gross? It is. So when you drink regular milk you take a shot of hormones with it. And all you wanted was a bowl of cereal. 

Found in: All non-organic dairy, so organic is recommended. 

3. Spinach Dust

Think that green sheen on your veggie snacks is giving you your daily serving of vegetables? Think again. That's just powdered spinach dust, which is spinach that has been dehydrated and sucked dry of its nutritional value. So the upshot is that green sheen is about as nutritious as actual dust.

Found in: "Healthier" vegetable flavored snack foods.

4. Propylene Glycol, A.K.A: antifreeze 

Antifreeze is used in cars, pills, cosmetics, deodorant, moisturizer... And, in a way, food! It keeps your car from freezing over, your moisturizer moist, and your fat-free cookie dough ice cream creamy, smooth and juicy. If it's good enough for your SUV it's good enough to eat, right? Right?? Right???

Found in: Cake mix, salad dressings, low-fat ice creams and dog food.

5. Wood Pulp: Vanillin 

Vanillin, which is a byproduct of the pulp industry, is used as an artificial vanilla flavor. Ester of wood resin, which comes from pine stumps, is in citrus-flavored sodas to keep the citrus flavor evenly distributed through the can 

Found in: Artificially flavored yogurt, baked goods, candy and sodas

6. Castoreum

Castoreum comes out of a beaver's behind - it's extracted from their anal glands and is used to make artificial raspberry flavoring. Try not to think about that next time you order the diet raspberry tea.

Found in: Artificially raspberry flavored products such as cheap ice cream, Jell-O, candy, fruit-flavored drinks, teas and yogurts.


Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/food-republic..
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obtained from the Food Matters website

Whooping Cough Outbreak Mostly Among The Vaccinated.

Here is another example of how vaccines aren't always the answer:

http://www.naturalnews.com/036585_whooping_cough_outbreak_vaccinations.html#ixzz21dyPCxsW

To Buy Or Not To Buy? That Is The Question.

Ever wonder what the big deal is about buying organic?  Read the following article and it may answer some of your questions.

http://www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-organic

Liver Cleansing Foods Infographic!

What Women Must Know About Their Hormones

  Even if you don't think you have a hormone issue, if you don't have fertility issues I still URGE you to listen to this interview. These are very important issues that most people aren't even aware of!!! It's a short video (short considering the lengthy topic of each subtopic covered) but is a great overview and eye opener because the majority of women don't know these truths!!!  Dr. Sellman has so much great information here:

• Besides the fact that this covers mostly hormones, the underlying message that I love is that we HAVE TO GET HEALTHY!!  We have to understand what truly being healthy means and we have to take action!  Our bodies are crying out for us to heal ourselves, to treat the cause  and not the symptoms (which is what traditional medical doctors are trained to do).
• It was probably about ten years ago that I first learned the dangers of birth control.  Besides all of the things Dr. Sellman mentions, the biggest thing that stood out to me at that time was that you automatically earn yourself a nasty case of Candida - which is another source of health problems too numerous to count here.  It so important to me to never be on birth control and I'm so happy I stuck with that decision!
•  A lot of this applies to men, too!  They are half of the equation in conceiving and creating healthy children.  They are affected by hormones as well.  Testicular cancer, as well as breast cancer, is caused largely by the excess of estrogen in the body.  Did you know that if you are buying and consuming meat from the grocery store, you are buying and consuming meat that is pumped full of estrogen, not to mention antibiotics and diseases?  Something like that contributes to too much estrogen in the body!  
• If the mammogram portion seems a bit too 'out there', please don't brush it off! It's true! It's true I tell you!!  I won't allow my mother (yes, you read that right) to get a mammogram.   The agenda that women need to get mammograms regularly is simply outrageous.  The radiation exposure causes cancer.  It's not new news that radiation causes cancer.  The radiation from cell phones, routers, wireless devices, baby monitors, etc is a scary, serious issue.

I love this Jessica Ainscough - she battled and beat cancer and then set to spreading the word, nay...THE TRUTH - about real health.  Plus, she's Aussie and I could listen to Australians talk all day, he he. Here is her page with this interview:
http://www.thewellnesswarrior.com.au/2012/07/wellness-warrior-tv-interview-with-dr-sherrill-sellman/

Marinated Vegetable Salad.

MMMmmmmm!  I want to try this!!

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Marinated-Vegetable-Salad

Decayed Meat Treated With Carbon Monoxide??

Did you know this???  I didn't until now.  Am I surprised??  Not at all.


http://preventdisease.com/news/12/031112_Decayed-Meat-Is-Treated-With-Carbon-Monoxide-To-Make-It-Look-Fresh-At-The-Grocery.shtml?utm_source=031112&utm_campaign=031112&utm_medium=email

The Importance of Vitamin D!!

http://www.naturalnews.com/036303_vitamin_D_outlawed_nutrition.html

Why Is Pasteurization Bad For Me?

Well, here is a simple explanation of that by Dr. Axe:

http://www.draxe.com/video/pasteurization-homogenization-raw-milk/

Like this infographic? Get more natural health tips from DrAxe.com.

As is stated in the article, it is not always easy to find raw milk, especially from a dairy farmer you can trust.  This site http://www.realmilk.com/where.html helps you track down someone in your area.

MMR Causes Autsim?

Proof of the link between vaccines (and specifically the MMR) and autism continues.  For me, personally, there is nothing that the drug companies could say or do that would convince me that vaccines 'really are safe'.  For me, the proof is in the thousands of parents who watch their children change overnight after having received their shots.  It's not coincidental.  I have read many reports by parents whose children suffer the exact same thing as mentioned below (loss of apetite, screaming from being in pain, etc).  It was enough to convince me.

http://www.naturalnews.com/036255_MMR_autism_court_case.html#ixzz1ydSgTJe9

Saying NO to Vaccines.

Another vaccine post!  I read this interview with Dr. Tenpenny on how to legally say NO to vaccines.  
I read it and am in total agreeance with everything she stated.  I also checked out her website DrTenpenny.com and, while I don't have time right now to really research everything on her site, just by glancing over it I can tell that this will be a great resource for me.  If you're a little curious about all the debate going on about vaccines, you'll want to check out this website.  Answers and proof that vaccines are ineffective are out there - and I am glad I came across this site that has so many of them in one place.

The Dark Side of Calorie Counting

A great article by Sheleana from Young and Raw called The Dark Side of Calorie Counting on why calorie counting isn't all it's cracked up to be.  For the longest time, I refused to calorie count.  I just made sure I was eating mostly 'healthy'.  And compared to most Americans living off the Standard American Diet (so SAD, indeed), I was.  But when I was in college, my health and my health knowledge isn't what it is today.  But even then, I still didn't calorie count.  The only time I did was a short period of time when I was working on getting into 'Bodybuilder Shape' and in that world macronutrient and calorie needs are monitored very closely.  It worked for me - I lost body fat and looked the best I had in my life....however, I wasn't quite where I wanted to be and knew that I could be.  But at that time, while I was eating milk or processed foods and the like, I was still eating meat, cottage cheese and the like.  I then became pregnant.  Fast forward 9 months, and my changes that I was making for the benefit of my baby, took my health to a whole new level.  I wasn't planning on cutting out meat, but it happened (and I love it!!).  I didn't make it a goal to be Vegan (well, mostly Vegan right now!) but suddenly it just happened.  And one of the many plus sides to that??  I don't have to count calories - I have never even bothered since I had my baby.  I don't count protein or carbs or sugar. I eat plants as much as I possibly can and the weight (more specifically the body fat) just rolls off.  I do lift weights three times a week and try to squeeze in some High Intensity Interval Training or a jog or a walk with my baby whenever I can.  But no calorie counting here for me - not again!

There are also some great tips on what to do and what NOT to do to lose weight! I agree with them!

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Top 10 Food Additives to Avoid

This is from Hungry For Change...I've just added it to my 'Free Resources' sidebar.   I hope it enlightens and helps keep us on the 'straight and narrow path' of whole foods!!!

http://www.hungryforchange.tv/top-10-food-additives-to-avoid

10 Ways to Us Apple Cider Vinegar

 

Real Food on a Budget

Thought I'd share the following article called Real Food on a Budget from Mommypotamus.  Some great advice and tips!

http://www.mommypotamus.com/real-food-on-a-budget-25-tips-to-make-healthy-eating-affordable/

Chemicals and Health Risks

Define Quality.

We hosted a surprise party a couple weekends ago and during clean up I happened to grab this container of macaroni salad somebody brought just to check out how super nasty the ingredients list would be.  It was super nasty indeed:

And then I read that is 'made from scratch every day using quality ingredients'.  Hmmm?  Since when is soybean oil, sodium benzoate, calcium chloride, etc considered quality ingredients?  And made from scratch?  I don't think so.

And yikes!  Check out those fat calories.  That alone would be enough to scare most people before they even got to the ingredients list.  This would probably take a week or ten for your body to digest! Just more proof we need to eat less of the processed, chemical-laden junk and more wonderfully raw and nutritious foods!

Say What?

Not surprising in the least.

In the following article, you can read and hear Merck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hilleman admitting to the presence of SV40, AIDS and cancer viruses in vaccines.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Maurice_Hilleman_SV40.html#ixzz1y1UjmjH1

Detoxify Your Home

I love this article on Detoxifying Your Home by Dawn Lorenz over at Raising Natural Kids.   I plan on buying several glass drinking bottles, even one for my little one.  I have also been collecting and compiling recipes for homemade cleaners, soaps, etc.  When I can get it all organized, I'll pass it along.  Hopefully I will also have been able to put some to the test and can share that as well!

I love discovering new websites from the raw and natural health community - I'm all about the knowledge and I try my best to soak it up like a sponge.  Of course, new recipes are always great and I love to find new things to try.   Here are some new finds, some of which I have also added to my sidebar:

http://www.healthfulpursuit.com/

http://www.rawfoodrecipes.com/

http://blogilates.com/

10 Tips For A Healthy Pregnancy

Came across this today from Food Matters and wanted to share.  I wholly agree with everything listed here.

http://www.foodmatters.tv/articles-1/10-tips-to-prepare-you-for-a-healthy-pregnancy

My own little note about #2 - Folic Acid.  I would encourage pregnant women and those trying to conceive to EAT their folate as much as possible.  Here is a list of some sources high in folate from WH Foods.  I myself never took a prenatal vitamin.  I don't trust anything pharmaceutical and I would never trust anything off the shelf of Wal-mart or GNC, either.  I was given a couple samples from my OBGYN, I took them into my holistic health care provider (mostly out of curiosity) and he found, through Kinesiology, that they weren't effective at all and one of them my body rejected, which meant it was harmful.  I did take a Folic Acid supplement, which my body and my growing baby tested positive for, made by Standard Process.

Immunization Graphs

This Pdf called Immunization Graphs:

http://genesgreenbook.com/resources/Natural_Infectious_Disease_Declines_Immunization_Effectiveness.pdf

shows the decline of infectious disease LONG before vaccines were introduced.  I found it interesting and thought I would pass it along.

Dangers of Aluminum

Dr. Mercola interviews Dr. David Ayoub about the dangers of the aluminum in vaccines and their relation to several major illnesses including, but not limited to Alzheimer's, ADHD and, of course, Autism.   Aluminum is not only in our vaccines but deodorant, cookware, toothpaste and much more.  

You can click here to watch the whole thing in part  or watch it on YouTube broken down in five parts. 

Some key things that stood out to me (some of these notes were also displayed below the video so I copy and pasted them and colored them purple, because purple is cool) were the following:

You will find aluminum in the earth’s crust, and in air, soil and water. However, although aluminum is a common, “natural” substance, it’s important to realize that it has absolutely no biological role inside your body.

Mercury levels may have gone down in vaccines (I'm sure because of all of the bad rep) but Aluminum levels have basically skyrocketed.  

Based on the number of vaccines given, children today are receiving 17 shots that contain aluminum, compared to four vaccines in the 1970s into the mid-80s. According to Dr. Ayoub’s calculations, the milligram dose of aluminum received has more than doubled in that time.    So yes, 30 or 40 years ago, we were all administered vaccines and Autism wasn't as prevalent then  as it is now...but the amount of vaccines and the toxicity of each of those vaccines has drastically changed.

This can have significant implications, as aluminum is not only toxic in and of itself, but it also impairs your body’s ability to excrete mercury, and it impairs glutathione synthesis. As a consequence, aluminum will make whatever amount of mercury you have in your system even more toxic.   Dr. Ayoub then says that with the aluminum interfering with the body's ability to excrete mercury, enter the flu shot (full of mercury) and you have even more cause for concern.

Remember, you and your children are exposed to mercury from other sources as well, not just vaccines. Fish and amalgam dental fillings are two major sources of mercury exposure as well.

I really REALLY urge you to take the time to listen to this interview.   I listened to the whole thing, probably in 30-40 minutes while sitting at the computer taking care of some things so I could multi-task.  It's very eye-opening and as Dr. Mercola put it:  "just one more nail in the coffin" against vaccines.  I, too, believe that there are safer, more effective alternative ways to protect yourself against diseases than to load you or your precious infant with their tiny, tiny bodies up with dangerous toxins.  

Chocolate Spinach Shake :)

My post-workout creation tonight??

12 oz filtered water
1 scoop Sunwarrior Raw Vegan Chocolate Protein Powder
1 small handful of baby spinach
1/2 frozen banana
a generous sprinkle of spirulina, flax seeds, and cinnamon

all blended together for creamy deliciousness in my tummy :)

What's On My Food?

I wanted to share the following website I came across while researching a few things:

http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/

More and more I feel terribly frustrated and angry at the fact that our food supply is loaded with toxins and poisons, making it seem impossible to take anything into our bodies that isn't somehow tainted.  I can't understand why all of these known carcinogens, chemicals and toxins aren't illegal, especially since they are sprayed directly onto the food being grown.  It's no wonder we are as sick as we are and yet, still, people rarely stop to wonder about their food and the crucial part that it plays in our health and our ability to heal naturally.  Instead, we keep right on eating processed, dead and fake food and then fork out hundreds of dollars for drugs and shots and treatments that only treat the symptoms and never the actual problem.

The reason I go off on that little tantrum is because, going back to food being crucial to our health, even the good stuff is bad stuff.  Organic foods have most certainly seen higher demand but I think there needs to be more.  More people to be aware of what's on and in our food so that more people demand that the food grown and sold be safe and organic, free of poisons.  More people need to be aware  of where true health comes from...and it's from, primarily, our food - in its purest and most natural form.

  It is a terrible injustice that fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides are used so abundantly and carelessly and not disclosed to the consumer.  Think about it - if you were perusing the aisles of produce and decided to pick up an apple, would you still buy it if there were an 'ingredients' list of everything used on this apple and the effect it would have on your health?   Gone would be the bad food because instantly the demand for organic produce would take it's place in record speed, and then organic produce wouldn't be the more costly choice.

Take a look at what is called the Dirty Dozen.  Does it make you want to run out and buy a bushel of apples or bunches of spinach??  Only if it's organic.

Peruse through What's On My Food site, click on a few of your favorite and most commonly used foods and learn just what it is your consuming when you eat that apple, celery stick or strawberry.  Click on the Get Involved tab and do what you can to help spread the word and, therefore, the demand for clean, organic foods in their natural state.  I just did.

Plie Squat

Plie Squat:  Can be done without a weight for beginners.  With toes pointed diagonally outward, wider than shoulder-width, lower yourself into a deep squat until your thighs are parallel to the ground.  Keep your back straight and shoulders back and down.  Knees should not go past your toes on the 'down' position.  Exhale and come back to starting position.  Repeat.  For extra burn, at the end of your set hold your last squat in the down position for 20 seconds.

Vaccine What??

I am opposed to vaccines.  Not new news.  And I am greatly opposed to this ludacris idea of putting candy in the form of vaccine shots.  What brilliant mind thought this up?   "Hey kids!  Medicine, drugs, and vaccines are like eating candy!"   This 'flavored liquid candy in a safe plastic injection' is just plain wrong.  

First of all - the 'flavored liquid candy' is just sugar!  Bad, bad, bad sugar.  I couldn't find anything that posted the ingredients list but most likely you would see the dangerous High-Fructose Corn Syrup along with equally dangerous dyes and coloring.  This is not something fit for consumption for our kids!

Second of all - I have felt very strongly lately that with the rise of parents becoming more informed of the dangers of vaccines - and yes, I would even say uselessness of them, - the vaccine companies are scrambling to dig their greedy little claws into unsuspecting parents even further.  Have you noticed all the vaccine campaign ads popping up like crazy on our televisions and billboards?  They are there to scare you.  Placing fear into people who don't know any better will assure that they get their kids vaccinated for anything and everything.  Is this candy just another tactic for conforming everyone to the idea that vaccines are safe, harmless and even wonderful?  

Now I know that there are people out there who have, sadly, been affected by something that "could have been prevented by a vaccine".  There are an even greater number of people out there who have been affected by the vaccine itself.   However, the more I read and research, the more I am convinced that it all comes down to our diet of cooked, dead, devoid-of-life food.  Even as mothers, the food we eat that we pass onto our infants through breastmilk greatly affects our children's their immune systems and their ability to fight off infection and illness.  Another reason why I urge you to consider eating as much  of a raw food diet as possible, void of as much animals as possible.  The proof is out there if you're willing to find it.

I admit it can be scary.  As a new mom, I went into my traditional doctor's office for a checkup and refused the vaccinations.  I was immediately questioned why and felt judgement from this doctor.  For a tiny second, listening to her and all the reasons why she feels babies should be vaccinated, I admit I wavered and questioned my own beliefs.  But I will not vaccinate my baby without feeling 100% sure about it and that is something I never will be.  And I'm glad I didn't.  I am still convinced that vaccines are useless and cause more sickness and deaths and only serve to make the drug companies richer.  

"The truth about nutrition quite obviously threatens the power and profits of the pharmaceutical industry -- an industry that thrives on nutritional ignorance and highly deceptive marketing of its poisons to the uninformed masses."


--Mike Adams

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/035691_dieticians_free_speech_nutrition_advice.html#ixzz1tBBvuqeB

Save A Million Lives

One of the many things that influenced my decision to become a vegetarian:



It's 2.5 minutes of smartness.  Powerful smartness.

Make a difference AND vastly improve your health.   Duh..why wouldn't you want to??

DIY Alkaline Water

When I worked for a holistic chiropractor almost 9 years ago, I had access to the very first model of Ozonated Water (the smell and taste of it was amazing!). I happily hoarded as much water as I could. After leaving there, access to filtered water was a bit trickier.

With our water supply being fluoridated aka POISONED (violating our rights and wreaking havoc for our health) and the environmental issues such as metal toxicity (which is something I struggle with constantly if I do end up using the tap water for anything), etc, etc, I am not keen to drinking or using tap water.

Since I married 4.5 years ago, I have kept a 3 gallon jug of Reverse Osmosis water in my fridge  (the water here also makes me gag so I have to have it!!).  I figured it was the best thing that I had access to while I tried to find answers to what the best option for water.

Recently I have learned about Water Ionizers that alkalize your water and therefore help to alkalize you!  To learn more about the importance of this, I recommend reading The pH Miracle by Robert O. Young and Shelley Young.   Funny thing about all this is...I read this book ten years ago, so I basically had the answer staring me in the face for a decade and I forgot all about it.  I seriously need some brain pills (or maybe some alkaline water???).  It wasn't until perusing through Green Smoothie Girl's blog some time ago that I learned of the importance of this water and how you can obtain it through Water Ionizers.

Alkaline water balances the pH in your body, obviously, and provides you with important minerals needed for cellular function that your body can leech from your bones and tissues if it doesn't get them from your water. I recently read, and I need to remember where I read this so I can site it later, that nearly every disease can be traced back to a deficiency in minerals.  And with all the information I've read over the years, I believe that whole-heartedly.  

The problem??  Water Ionizers be a lit' bit pricey.  I have decided to go off of Robyn Openshaw's recommendation of using a Life Ionizer (www.phmiracleliving.com also has some on their site) and I checked into the group buy.  However, right now it is not something I am going to be able to purchase even with the stellar discount and freebies that I desperately want to take advantage of.  So...I'll be saving my pennies for one of those, too.

Happily, I came across the Do It Yourself version of alkaline water from Young and Raw that I plan on taking advantage of and wanted to pass it along.  Hopefully, you find this helpful if you are in a small boat like me whose large boat has not quite made it in yet :)

Also, adding the juice of one lemon to your filtered water is another simple way to alkalize and cleanse the body and is used in this FREE 3 Day Cleanse from The Earth Diet.

Sources:  

http://greensmoothiegirl.com/robyn-recommendations/water-ionizers/why-drink-alkaline-water/

http://www.lifeionizers.com/water-facts/ionizer-how.html

http://www.taoofherbs.com/articles/76/Water_Ionizer_and_Ionized_Water.htm

Hungry For Change

I highly recommend that you go to this site, watch the trailer and even the first 20 minutes, then download this 10 Step Action Guide, and make it your goal - your life mission!!! - to apply and adhere to the steps given for truly amazing health!  And remember, if you're new to juicing, green smoothies, and foods in their raw and unadulterated state...don't get overwhelmed or discouraged!! Baby steps, people!  It can happen and it WILL happen even if you take it one change a month.  I beg of you!  Health is not in the sodas (even diet soda) and sugary juices, it's not in boxed and processed cereals and bars that are 'part of this complete breakfast', or in the pasteurized dairy drinks and yogurts, in the synthetic man-made vitamins and protein drinks available at GNC or even in the GMO vegetables that are cooked til dead!!!

What is the World Coming To?

Knowledge is power.  Or as I rather say, the RIGHT knowledge is power.  

Disease has become an industry.  The food that fuels disease is an industry. So when the television comes on and I see an add for something that is obviously not healthy being touted for being 'healthy', I want to scream!  It's bad enough that food companies LIE as they advertise, but it's ridiculous the amount of people who would fall for it.  I'm not trying to be insulting.  The ignorance of so many is astounding.  But seriously, wouldn't common sense and a little usage of brain power spell out to people "There is no WAY that is healthy!!" no matter what the TV or magazine ads say??  Isn't it obvious that chocolate milk (just as regular pasteurized and homogenized milk) is full of sugar and can't be healthy just because it has calcium?  Isn't it obvious that children's nutrition should come from real, whole and natural food and not 'jump-started' with a so-called nutritious chocolate drink full of synthetic vitamins and, oh yeah, more sugar???  What about the new Shredded Frosted Wheat that has 'a touch of fruit' in the middle?  The crazy thing is that there really are people out there who would pick that off the shelf of a grocery store and say 'Hey - fruit! It's healthy!'  No! No! NO!!  
Read the ingredients! Become familiar with what you're seeing on those ingredient lists.  In fact, I think I shall compile a list of stuff you'll see on most packaged foods that you will want to avoid.  In the meantime, food it's most natural, unprocessed, uncooked form is the food you should be eating!