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A crash course in changing the world.
Learn to Nurish yourself
Food security should be looked at on the personal level as well as globally. Think of what happens to yourself from the things you eat now. I am not going to go into detail about everything that is bad for you, I don't have the time. I do have a few things to say.
I will be as bold as to say that if comes in a package you should avoid it. What? This is not an ironclad rule but a good rule of thumb. Things that come in packages are usually packed with unhealthy additives, just look at the ingredients? "Natural" and "Healthy"does not mean "good for you" and you may see it as unappealing if you knew what some of these natural ingredients really are. Organics are on the rise and I believe in it but I want to warn you to still be wise about processed food. Chessy poofies, chips, frosted cake snacks are crap whether they are organic or not. Expose your self to the truth.
There are things you do have to buy in packages, especially if you really want specialty or ethnic items. It's not likely you are going to find fresh locally grown saffron at your farmers market. That brings me to produce.
In general you should always buy your produce as fresh as possible and personally inspect it. Don't look perfect produce to be always be available. Learn about seasonal availability. Try and meet the people who grows or raises the food you eat. They can answer questions on how to prepare the food too.
Another reason to avoid the supermarkets are because of their impact on the environment. Lots of air pollution from transporting stuff, They buy from large suppliers who use chemicals that run off contaminating our water sources and kill the ground they grow food on. Inhumanly treated animals they are given drugs that can harm you. The food processing companies don't pay the farmer's fairly and pump out toxic commodity as food.
There are some things that seem really gross in idea of what they really are but are good for you. Think of naturally fermentdd foods and their health value. Kombucha tea, which is made from a SCOBY or Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast, sounds bad huh. Spirolina, Straight up algae. Honey is regurgitated flower nectar. You love it though.
Processed foods are hurting you and your children Weston Price learned that about a hundred years ago. There is a way to eat better. It requires a little more effort and the desire to learn. If you with to boost the healthy inputs in your diet, learn what you are eating.
Eat healthy food
Know what healthy food is
Weston A. Price, DDS
Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the "Charles Darwin of Nutrition." In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them- the isolated "primitives." The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected-nutritional deficiencies.
Price travelled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.
When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples he found that they provided at least four times the calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats.
The importance of good nutrition for mothers during pregnancy has long been recognized, but Dr. Price's investigation showed that primitives understood and practiced preconception nutritional programs for both parents. Many tribes required a period of premarital nutrition, and children were spaced to permit the mother to maintain her full health and strength, thus assuring subsequent offspring of physical excellence. Special foods were often given to pregnant and lactating women, as well as to the maturing boys and girls in preparation for future parenthood. Dr. Price found these foods to be very rich in fat soluble vitamins A and D nutrients found only in animal fats.
These primitives with their fine bodies, h***geneous reproduction, emotional stability and freedom from degenerative ills stand forth in sharp contrast to those subsisting on the impoverished foods of civilization-sugar, white flour, pasteurized milk and convenience foods filled with extenders and additives.
The photographs of Dr. Weston Price illustrate the difference in facial structure between those on native diets and those whose parents had adopted the "civilized" diets of devitalized processed foods.
napd-seminole1 napd-seminole2
CAPTION: The "primitive" Seminole girl (left) has a wide, handsome face with plenty of room for the dental arches. The "modernized" Seminole girl (right) born to parents who had abandoned their traditional diets, has a narrowed face, crowded teeth, and a reduced immunity to disease.
The discoveries and conclusion of Dr. Price are presented in his classic volume Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. The book contains striking photographs of handsome, healthy primitives and illustrates in an unforgettable way the physical degeneration that occurs when human groups abandon nourishing traditional diets in favor of modern convenience foods.
In addition to his work on nutrition, Dr. Price conducted extensive research into the destructive effects of root canals, detailed in his two-volume work Dental Infections Oral & Systemic and Dental Infections & the Degenerative Diseases. His conclusions, ignored by the orthodox dental establishment for over 50 years, are gaining renewed acceptance as holistic practitioners are discovering that the first step to recovery from degenerative disease often involves removal of all root canals in the patient's mouth.
The principles of holistic dentistry, based on the research of Weston Price and Francis Pottenger, are as follows:
* Eat nutrient-dense wh*** foods, properly grown and prepared.
* Avoid root canals. If you have root canals that you suspect are causing disease, have them removed by a knowledgable dentist.
* Avoid mercury (amalgam) fillings. If you have amalgam fillings, have them removed by a holistic dentist who specializes in mercury filling replacement.
* Orthodontics should include measures to widen the palate.
* Extract teeth only when necessary, and then in such a way as to avoid leaving the jaw bone with cavitations, which can be focal points of infection.
"We can now visualize our universe, its light, gravity and heat, its seasons, tides, and harvest, which prepare a habitation for the universe of vital forms, microscopic and majestic, which fill the oceans and the forests. We have a common denominator for universes within and around each other, our world, our food and our life have potentials so vast that we can only observe directions, not goals. We sense human achievements or ignominious race self-destruction. Every creed today vaguely seeks a utopia; all have visualized a common controlling force or deity as the most potent force in all human affairs. Yes, man's place is most exalted when he obeys Mother Nature's laws."
--Weston A. Price, DDS
About the Author
Sally Fallon MorellSally Fallon Morell is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and ch***sterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on wh*** foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.
Weston Price Foundation
http://www.westonaprice.org
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. Dr. Price's research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense wh*** foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy formula for infants.
The Foundation seeks to establish a laboratory to test nutrient content of foods, particularly butter produced under various conditions; to conduct research into the "X Factor," discovered by Dr. Price; and to determine the effects of traditional preparation methods on nutrient content and availability in wh*** foods.
The board and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.
The Foundation's quarterly journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts, is dedicated to exploring the scientific validation of dietary, agricultural and medical traditions throughout the world. It features illuminating and thought-provoking articles on current scientific research; human diets; non-toxic agriculture; and holistic therapies. The journal also serves as a reference for sources of foods that have been conscientiously grown and processed.
Look these sites up too
Fermentation
http://wildfermentation.com/
Wild Mushrooms
http://wildfermentation.com/
Permaculture:
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/
Think permaculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Urban farming
http://urbanfarmingadvocates.org/
vermiculture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicompost
http://homepage.mac.com/cityfarmer/PhotoAlbum23.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cityfarmer/comiclife/Worm%20Composting/Comi...
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
http://www.vermiculture.com/
Composting
http://homepage.mac.com/cityfarmer/comiclife/Backyard%20Composting/...
I will be as bold as to say that if comes in a package you should avoid it. What? This is not an ironclad rule but a good rule of thumb. Things that come in packages are usually packed with unhealthy additives, just look at the ingredients? "Natural" and "Healthy"does not mean "good for you" and you may see it as unappealing if you knew what some of these natural ingredients really are. Organics are on the rise and I believe in it but I want to warn you to still be wise about processed food. Chessy poofies, chips, frosted cake snacks are crap whether they are organic or not. Expose your self to the truth.
There are things you do have to buy in packages, especially if you really want specialty or ethnic items. It's not likely you are going to find fresh locally grown saffron at your farmers market. That brings me to produce.
In general you should always buy your produce as fresh as possible and personally inspect it. Don't look perfect produce to be always be available. Learn about seasonal availability. Try and meet the people who grows or raises the food you eat. They can answer questions on how to prepare the food too.
Another reason to avoid the supermarkets are because of their impact on the environment. Lots of air pollution from transporting stuff, They buy from large suppliers who use chemicals that run off contaminating our water sources and kill the ground they grow food on. Inhumanly treated animals they are given drugs that can harm you. The food processing companies don't pay the farmer's fairly and pump out toxic commodity as food.
There are some things that seem really gross in idea of what they really are but are good for you. Think of naturally fermentdd foods and their health value. Kombucha tea, which is made from a SCOBY or Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast, sounds bad huh. Spirolina, Straight up algae. Honey is regurgitated flower nectar. You love it though.
Processed foods are hurting you and your children Weston Price learned that about a hundred years ago. There is a way to eat better. It requires a little more effort and the desire to learn. If you with to boost the healthy inputs in your diet, learn what you are eating.
Eat healthy food
Know what healthy food is
Weston A. Price, DDS
Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the "Charles Darwin of Nutrition." In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them- the isolated "primitives." The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected-nutritional deficiencies.
Price travelled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.
When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples he found that they provided at least four times the calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat-soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats.
The importance of good nutrition for mothers during pregnancy has long been recognized, but Dr. Price's investigation showed that primitives understood and practiced preconception nutritional programs for both parents. Many tribes required a period of premarital nutrition, and children were spaced to permit the mother to maintain her full health and strength, thus assuring subsequent offspring of physical excellence. Special foods were often given to pregnant and lactating women, as well as to the maturing boys and girls in preparation for future parenthood. Dr. Price found these foods to be very rich in fat soluble vitamins A and D nutrients found only in animal fats.
These primitives with their fine bodies, h***geneous reproduction, emotional stability and freedom from degenerative ills stand forth in sharp contrast to those subsisting on the impoverished foods of civilization-sugar, white flour, pasteurized milk and convenience foods filled with extenders and additives.
The photographs of Dr. Weston Price illustrate the difference in facial structure between those on native diets and those whose parents had adopted the "civilized" diets of devitalized processed foods.
napd-seminole1 napd-seminole2
CAPTION: The "primitive" Seminole girl (left) has a wide, handsome face with plenty of room for the dental arches. The "modernized" Seminole girl (right) born to parents who had abandoned their traditional diets, has a narrowed face, crowded teeth, and a reduced immunity to disease.
The discoveries and conclusion of Dr. Price are presented in his classic volume Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. The book contains striking photographs of handsome, healthy primitives and illustrates in an unforgettable way the physical degeneration that occurs when human groups abandon nourishing traditional diets in favor of modern convenience foods.
In addition to his work on nutrition, Dr. Price conducted extensive research into the destructive effects of root canals, detailed in his two-volume work Dental Infections Oral & Systemic and Dental Infections & the Degenerative Diseases. His conclusions, ignored by the orthodox dental establishment for over 50 years, are gaining renewed acceptance as holistic practitioners are discovering that the first step to recovery from degenerative disease often involves removal of all root canals in the patient's mouth.
The principles of holistic dentistry, based on the research of Weston Price and Francis Pottenger, are as follows:
* Eat nutrient-dense wh*** foods, properly grown and prepared.
* Avoid root canals. If you have root canals that you suspect are causing disease, have them removed by a knowledgable dentist.
* Avoid mercury (amalgam) fillings. If you have amalgam fillings, have them removed by a holistic dentist who specializes in mercury filling replacement.
* Orthodontics should include measures to widen the palate.
* Extract teeth only when necessary, and then in such a way as to avoid leaving the jaw bone with cavitations, which can be focal points of infection.
"We can now visualize our universe, its light, gravity and heat, its seasons, tides, and harvest, which prepare a habitation for the universe of vital forms, microscopic and majestic, which fill the oceans and the forests. We have a common denominator for universes within and around each other, our world, our food and our life have potentials so vast that we can only observe directions, not goals. We sense human achievements or ignominious race self-destruction. Every creed today vaguely seeks a utopia; all have visualized a common controlling force or deity as the most potent force in all human affairs. Yes, man's place is most exalted when he obeys Mother Nature's laws."
--Weston A. Price, DDS
About the Author
Sally Fallon MorellSally Fallon Morell is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and ch***sterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on wh*** foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.
Weston Price Foundation
http://www.westonaprice.org
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. Dr. Price's research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense wh*** foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy formula for infants.
The Foundation seeks to establish a laboratory to test nutrient content of foods, particularly butter produced under various conditions; to conduct research into the "X Factor," discovered by Dr. Price; and to determine the effects of traditional preparation methods on nutrient content and availability in wh*** foods.
The board and membership of the Weston A. Price Foundation stand united in the belief that modern technology should be harnessed as a servant to the wise and nurturing traditions of our ancestors rather than used as a force destructive to the environment and human health; and that science and knowledge can validate those traditions.
The Foundation's quarterly journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts, is dedicated to exploring the scientific validation of dietary, agricultural and medical traditions throughout the world. It features illuminating and thought-provoking articles on current scientific research; human diets; non-toxic agriculture; and holistic therapies. The journal also serves as a reference for sources of foods that have been conscientiously grown and processed.
Look these sites up too
Fermentation
http://wildfermentation.com/
Wild Mushrooms
http://wildfermentation.com/
Permaculture:
http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/
Think permaculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
Urban farming
http://urbanfarmingadvocates.org/
vermiculture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicompost
http://homepage.mac.com/cityfarmer/PhotoAlbum23.html
http://homepage.mac.com/cityfarmer/comiclife/Worm%20Composting/Comi...
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
http://www.vermiculture.com/
Composting
http://homepage.mac.com/cityfarmer/comiclife/Backyard%20Composting/...
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