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Sugar Blues
Nobody
but nobody should ever be allowed to begin what is called psychiatric
treatment anyplace, anywhere unless and until they have had a glucose
tolerance test to discover if they can handle sugar. …
“[S]ince we only think we can handle sugar because we
initially have strong adrenals, why wait until they give us signs and signals
that they’re worn out? Take the load
off now by eliminating sugar in all forms and guises, starting with that soda
pop you have in your hand.
The
mind truly boggles when one glances over what passes for medical
history. Through the centuries,
troubled souls have been barbecued for bewitchment, exorcised for possession,
locked up for insanity, tortured for masturbatiory
madness, psychiatrized for psychoses, lobotomized
for schizophrenia.
How
many patients would have listened if the local healer had told them that the
only thing ailing them was sugar blues?
Sugar
Blues by William Dufty,
1975, pp. 72-3.
Raw Foods
You
will never heat milk again after studying heat treatments, nor will you want
pasteurized beer, pasteurized soy sauce, pasteurized fruit juices or
pasteurized eggs.
L. Carlton and M. Brauninger
in a letter to Dr. Joseph Mercola in “Pasteurized Milk and its Link to Autism“
quoted in The Untold Story of Milk
by Ron Schmid, 2003, page 331.
Food Faith
When…
dyes, preservatives, insecticides, hormones, herbicides, antibiotics —
chemicals! —are put into our food by strangers whose motives we have no
reason to trust, you can see how food anxiety can reach unreasonable
heights. … There’s a rise in eating disorders, food
phobias, children who turn vegetarian at the age of twelve. There can hardly be anything more unnerving
than to distrust the food one eats.
Noah’s
Children by Sara Stein, 2001, page 129.
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GUIDELINES TO HEALTHY EATING
Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.
- Hippocrates
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Enjoy:
 A balanced diet. Allow at least 40% of your diet to consist of healthy fats, with the
rest being equally divided between proteins and carbohydrates, with only a
small amount of starchy carbs. For dieters who are
afraid to consume a high-fat diet, read
Organic meat, poultry, eggs and dairy products from
pastured animals. Enjoy rich,
nutrient-dense animal foods from pastured organic sources such as pork bacon
and lard, beef and lamb tallow, and goose and duck fat. Be sure to include organ meats, particularly
liver, regularly in your diet. Fats from
foods such as raw, soaked, organic crispy nuts and seeds, organic butter and
ghee, full-fat dairy, rich raw cheeses from pastured animals, fatty meats and
wild-caught seafood and shellfish should be abundant in the diet. Vegetable oils should be organic and cold-pressed,
and include only traditional oils such as coconut, palm, and extra virgin
olive oil.
Vegetarians must consume large amounts of raw dairy products
and eggs in order to get the nutrients they need to give birth to healthy
babies. A vegan diet is not a healthy diet for expectant mothers or children.
·
The Myths of Vegetarianism by Stephen Byrnes, PhD, RNCP
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The Blood Moon by Jessica Prentice
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Vegetarian Tour
Unrefined sea-salt. Table salt is unhealthy because it is highly processed,
refined, and contains toxic additives.
Unrefined, unheated, unadulterated sea salt provides important macro-
and trace minerals. Choose salts from
clean, unpolluted sources, such as Celtic Sea Salt.
A variety of organic whole fruits and vegetables,
preferably from local farmers. Low-glycemic vegetables and whole fresh fruits in season are
high in antioxidants, trace minerals, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other
nutrients that are best absorbed when eaten the traditional way, with fats
such as butter and cream. Take advantage of a wide variety of greens, fruits,
and vegetables in season by shopping at our local Farmer’s Markets. Organic foods are
particularly important for children and pregnant mothers. Look at Jessica Prentice’s book, “Full
Moon Feast” for information on seasonal eating.
Live, Fermented food with every meal. Follow
the recipes in the “Nourishing Traditions” cookbook by Sally
Fallon and “Wild Fermentation” by Sandor
Katz, to create delicious healthy soft drinks, pickles, and condiments to eat
with every meal.
Soaked or sprouted grains, nuts and seeds. Soaking or sprouting, as recommended in the “Nourishing
Traditions” cookbook by Sally Fallon, will remove phytates
and other naturally occurring toxins, and render vital nutrients highly
digestible. Grinding your own whole grains to produce fresh flours is highly
recommended. A great series of articles on wheat and digestive disease can be
found at the following URLs:
Bone broths. Buy
pastured meats with bone included, and low-boil bones with a little vinegar
or whey for 4-12 hours to make delicious, gelatin-rich, mineral-rich bone
broths to flavor soups, stews and sauces. Purchase heads of deep sea fish at
Northwest Seafood at Thornebrook Shopping
Center, and
make delicious, nutrient-dense fish broths as a base for soups and sauces.
Raw food. Raw milk, eggs, cheeses, meat and
fish are found in all healthy traditional diets. Some important vitamins and
enzymes present in raw foods are lost through cooking. Steak tartare, sushi, uovo sbattuto (Italian raw beaten eggs), rare roast beef
and steak, milk yogurt, kefir, and cheeses (unpasteurized,
of course), are examples of foods traditionally eaten raw. Freezing meat and fish for at least 14 days
prior to eating insures freedom from parasites. Keeping the levels of
hydrochloric acid and proteolytic enzymes high in
your stomach offers resistance to bacterial and parasitic infections from a
variety of sources.
For more information see:
Pure water. Drink
half your body weight in ounces of pure water every day (about 8 glasses).
You need water to eliminate toxins. If you drink diuretics such as coffee,
tea, wine, or sodas (we recommend you do not), you will need to drink twice
as much again as the diuretic to keep yourself hydrated.
Exercise as
your doctor recommends, and according to what makes you feel good. Exercise guidelines for various health
needs are discussed in
Cooking at
home. Save money, develop your
family life, and buy your own groceries from farmers you know, so you can be
sure it is done right. Read
Avoid:
 Sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Fructose is the most toxic of all the
refined sugars, causing liver damage. The processing of HFCS often leaves traces of mercury
in the final product. Reduce sweeteners, and use only those that
are whole foods, such as organic maple syrup and raw honey. Fruit
juice is not a healthy food because of the high sugar content. A fun and
informative book is
- “Sugar Blues” by William Dufty.
 Hydrogenated oils. Hydrogenated oils promote inflammation and
cardiovascular disease, while decreasing immunity and hormonal health. Nerves
and brain function are also affected.
These toxic substances are outlawed in food in some areas, but check
labels to avoid these and trans fats.
Chemical additives. Toxic food additives make fast food and processed foods
addictive, and stress the liver and immune system. In particular, artificial
sweeteners such as aspartame, nutrasweet, and
even “natural”
flavors such as MSG in its many forms are excitotoxins,
and are very dangerous to the nervous system, especially in children and
babies. See Russell L. Blaylock’s
book,
·
“Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills.”
See the video here.
Refined grains. These
are not real foods. White flour and
other refined grains raise blood sugar, stress the adrenal glands, feed yeast
infections, and cause a myriad of health problems.
Pasteurized, processed, canned, and packaged foods. Industrial foods are devoid of real nutrition.
Processed and packaged foods create nutritional deficiencies and diminish
one’s health and vitality. Avoid eating foods with a label. Boxed cereals of
all kinds are particularly unhealthy. For the big picture, read “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by
Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS. Also “Fast
Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser and “Beating
the Food Giants” by Paul A. Stitt.
Microwaved or irradiated food.
Microwaves destroy and denature proteins, enzymes, and distort
the structures of the components of your food. Irradiation is another destructive force
that will render healthy food dangerous.
Rancid oils and too many polyunsaturated fats. Many nut and seed oils become rancid rapidly, and must
be kept constantly refrigerated and in a dark bottle. They must be used up
quickly or thrown out before too long, to keep them from becoming toxic. In
his research on healthy traditional diets, Dr. Price found that
polyunsaturated fats comprised a very small proportion of the diet, and
recent research has shown that too much polyunsaturated fat in the diet can cause
health problems.
Isolated and refined proteins. Isolated, processed (e.g. hydrolyzed) proteins are
denatured and removed from their natural context. These substances
are often found in sports or diet protein powders and as food additives, and they can damage your health.
Repetitious eating. Some food cravings and many food sensitivities indicate
allergies. You can use an allergy elimination treatment or food rotation diet
to relieve these symptoms. Food allergies can stress the digestive and immune
systems. Common allergens include wheat and other grains, dairy, corn, soy,
citrus fruits, nuts, chocolate, coffee, table salt, and soda. Read “Say Goodbye to Illness” by Devi S. Nambudripad, MD, DC,
Lac, PhD.
Over-the-Counter medications. Many common medicines can lead to nutritional
deficiencies that cause more problems in the long term than the initial
problem the medicine was taken for.
Before you decide to take any medicine, be sure to read the insert on
side effects and contra-indications. For more information, read “Nutritional Costs of Drugs: A Guide to maintaining Good
Nutrition While Using Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drugs”
by Ross Pelton and James LaValle.
Exposure to toxic chemicals. Mercury from silver fillings and all vaccinations, fluoride from fluoridated
water, toothpaste, and dental procedures, and phthalates from plastics, are all common
toxins that are wise to avoid in everyday life as well as in your food.
Toxins such as petrochemicals and heavy metals found in solvents, pesticides,
cosmetics, electronic equipment, fluorescent
lightbulbs, batteries, and household
cleaners including bleach, can damage your liver, nervous system, and alter
your hormonal balance. Out-gassing from new cars and household materials such
as synthetic carpets, flooring, particleboard, paint, etc. can make people
sick, especially children. Remove these toxins from your home, your yard, and
your workplace whenever possible. If you have your silver fillings removed,
be sure it is done by a biological dentist who understands the severe toxicity
of mercury, and takes precautions. For more on environmental toxins, read “Our Stolen
Future” by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers. For the closest
accessible safe dentistry that I know of, see Dr. Stephen
Hwang in Jacksonville, and for children, Dr.
Edwards in Sanford.
Exposure to radiation. Radiation from x-rays, CAT
scans, microwaves, cell phones, electrical appliances, and computers damages
cells, distorts cell division, and may cause serious health effects. Avoid
these. When your doctor suggests a CAT
scan, you can ask for an MRI. When mammograms are recommended, you may ask for
thermal imaging, instead. Certain
protective measures may be taken when radiation is unavoidable, such as using
Bio-Pro chips on cell phones and appliances, and taking iodine
supplements before and after exposure to radioactive substances or
gamma radiation.
Unfermented soy products. Unfermented soy contains phytates
and other anti-nutrients that bind up minerals. Soy is known to be a gender bender, having
a significant effect on the hormone systems of adults. It is particularly
dangerous for children and infants, and its use in formula should be
outlawed. The consumption of unfermented soy is associated with early
dementia and thyroid imbalance. Read “The Whole
Soy Story” by Kaayla T. Daniel,
Ph.D.
GMOs. Genetically
modified foods are not adequately safety tested, and may rival global warming
as an ecological threat to humankind. Read "Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government
Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You'reEating,"
by Jeffrey Smith.
Cholesterol NOT!
Cholesterol is an important nutrient, vital
for memory and brain function, hormone balance, cell membranes, Vitamin D production
in the skin, and cholesterol is the raw material from which all steroid
hormones are produced. Read
·
“The
Cholesterol Myths” by Uffe Ravnskov. M.D., Ph.D.
·
and check out
Chris Masterjohn’s website at http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/
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For
more information, contact
Maria
Minno, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
Mminno(at)bellsouth.net
Call
for appointments 352-375-3028 9:00 am to 9:00 pm daily
Phoenix Healing Massage
Weekend and evening hours.
Center for Balance
1705 NW 6th Street
Gainesville, Florida 32609
 
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Life Expectancy
What is the
average life expectancy of Americans? For a long time it has been the low
seventies for men and upper seventies for women. So it comes as a shock to
learn that the average life expectancy for Americans has dropped to 69.3
years, according to the America's Health
Rankings report, issued at the American Public Health Association's annual
meeting. This figure is exceeded by 28 other countries, including Britain, France and Germany and is
about five years less than the life expectancy in Japan. According
to Dr. Reed Tuckson, this dismal number reflects
increasing obesity, fewer people quitting smoking (although only 20.8 percent
of Americans smoke today, down from almost one-third in 1990), and increasing
numbers of people without health insurance. Officials made no mention of the
increasing consumption of processed foods containing refined sweeteners,
processed vegetable oils and toxic additives, and certainly did not allow
even a whisper about the almost complete absence of nutrient-dense foods such
as organ meats, shellfish and butterfat and eggs from grass-fed animals from
the American diet (Reuters, December
13, 2005).
Caustic
Commentary by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.,
IN Nourishing Traditions magazine,
fall 2006.
Radiation
Although not
widely recognized by the public or reported as such by the media, the primary
uses of industrial radioactive materials are medical. Industry uses radioactive isotopes
primarily for irradiation (sterilization) and in the manufacture of
radioisotopes used as radio-pharmaceuticals, as tracers, in gauges, heart
pacemakers, smoke detectors, and in x-ray equipment. Industrial irradiation includes the
sterilization of medical disposables and laboratory supplies (plastic
syringes, surgical gloves, non-woven drapes and gowns, Petri dishes, pipettes,
and test tubes), sterilization of materials used in the pharmaceutical and
cosmetic industries (e.g. raw products such as talc, cocoa butter, inorganic
pigments, enzymes, starch powder, laboratory animal bedding, corks, vaccines,
and manufactured pharmaceuticals), and sterilization of food supplies (as
yet, a small part of the industry).
There are approximately 20,000 commercial users of radioactive
isotopes in the United States.
The Lost
Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner, 2002, page 62.
Neuron Death
Vaccinations
contain at least four neuro-toxins: mercury,
formaldehyde, MSG and aluminum hydroxide.
Researchers at the University of British
Columbia have been looking at the possible
effects of the fourth item in this list. They injected mice with anthrax
vaccine containing aluminum hydroxide. After 20 weeks studying the mice, the
team found statistically significant increases in anxiety (38 percent);
memory deficits (41 times more errors than the sample group); and allergic
skin reaction (20 percent). On autopsy, brain tissue samples showed that 35
percent of the cells were in the process of destroying themselves. According
to Chris Shaw, lead researcher for the project, his research shows a link
between aluminum hydroxide and symptoms of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's disease. "No one in my lab wants to get
vaccinated," he said. "This totally creeped
us out. We weren't out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden,
oh my God--we've got neuron death!"
Caustic
Commentary by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.,
IN Nourishing Traditions magazine,
fall 2006 (here)
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