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