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| | Tags: | autism, body ecology diet, depression, donna gates, food, immunity, lacto-fermentation, leaky gut, natasha campbell-mcbride, nutrition, probiotics, serotonin, videos | | Subject: | Why you should feed your baby butter, raw milk, and sauerkraut ... | | Time: | 08:28 pm |
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| ... and why you need to eat them too.
This whole series (videos 1-6) is worth watching. They are talking about nutrition for autistic kids... but it is important information for all of us.
Did you know that fermenting foods increases the nutrition hundreds of times? Isn't that exciting?
Did you know that serotonin is manufactured in the gut? Isn't that amazing?
PS: The woman on the right, Natasha Campbell-McBride, reversed her son's autism through diet. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| | Tags: | allergies, baby formula, california, eczema, food, immunity, kate, milk is milk, monsanto, nutrition, organic pastures, pasteurization, politics, probiotics, raw milk | | Subject: | Help save raw milk in California! | | Time: | 09:34 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/acedia/littlegent/predatory.gif) determined |
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| As it stands, there will be no more raw milk allowed in California next month. I'm really upset about this because I drink raw milk every day and use it to make Kate's homemade baby formula.
More and more dairies are going by the wayside across the country due to pressure from lobbyists from big money dairy factory farms. We can't let this happen in California, where raw milk has always been legal and available in stores.
I've posted before about Monsanto milk and their slimy "Milk is Milk" campaign. This is real, people. Freedoms are not taken away all at once. They are taken away one at a time.
Here's what happened... a couple of months ago, they slipped a few sentences into an amendment of the California food code. It was signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger -- even though he probably didn't even know what he was signing.
Here's the press release from Organic Pastures Dairy: http://www.organicpastures.com/pdfs/ab1735_press_release.pdf
Sally Fallon says, "The legislation is obviously aimed at getting rid of raw milk in California using standards that are unnecessary or impossible to meet."
If you live in California and you want the right to buy raw milk and dairy products, please read the following and do what you can to help. Even if you don't currently drink raw milk, please do what you can to fight for these organic dairy farms where the cows are allowed to be on pasture and eat grass all year long. If they get away with this, who knows what they will do next?
In fact, it was just announced that the USDA wants to start doing the same thing -- imposing ridiculous unattainable federal regulations on small growers and family farms -- for all leafy greens!!!
http://cornucopia.org/index.php/protect-fresh-leafy-greens-and-family-farms/
Pasteurization kills enzymes, folks. Enzymes are the building blocks for the absorption of nutrients. Without enzymes, we can't absorb vitamins and minerals.
Furthermore, pasteurization kills probiotics, or good bacteria. We need this bacteria in our digestive tracts in order to build immunity. Why do you think so many kids are allergic to EVERYTHING these days? They've been raised on pasteurized foods, most notably pasteurized milk.
The guy that sells us our milk at the Organic Pastures hub store said that his first-born son was sick all the time and had eczema for five years. His eczema cleared up in TWO weeks after they switched to raw milk.
Here is the page on what you can do (I am writing a letter to Nicole Parra and sending photos of our family with Kate drinking raw milk):
http://www.organicpastures.com/ab_1735_letter4.html
Write or fax letters (no emails) to Nicole Parra, Chair of the Agriculture Committee in the Assembly. Make it personal and real by including a picture of you and your family holding raw milk containers. Tell her to introduce new legislation that will let raw milk continue to flow freely in California.
Assemblymember Nicole Parra
Capitol Office
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0030
(916) 319 - 2030
(916) 319 - 2130 Fax
Also write your assembly members or better yet make an appointment and plead your case directly.
Please, please do what you can to help. Write a letter today. Not just for Kate, but for the cows! And for the right to continue to buy healthy food in California.
Please forward this post via email or blog. (If you post on your blog, please send me the link so I can send it to Organic Pastures -- they will post it on their site.) | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | beatrix, books, cavities, cows, food, grass fed, immunity, nutrition, organic, pastured, probiotics, raw milk, tooth decay, weston price, whole wheat | | Subject: | The Town Without a Toothache | | Time: | 08:44 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/acedia/littlegent/curious.gif) curious |
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| Dr. George Heard was a dentist in the early part of the 20th century who first practiced in Alabama, where he had a majority of patients with tooth decay that required fillings and extractions -- ultimately resulting in false teeth. He later moved to a small town in Texas where he was stunned to find very few cavities (average of 1.2 decayed spots per child between the ages of 6-18).
No, it wasn't fluoride. There were other Texas towns that had just as much or more fluoride in the water -- and their incidence of tooth decay was greater.
Dr. Heard attributed the town's excellent dental health to diet. Particularly homegrown vegetables from beds rich in minerals, whole grain bread, and plenty of raw milk. And avoidance of white flour and refined sugar.
I asked every patient who came to me: "How much milk do you drink every day. Do you drink raw milk? Do you drink buttermilk and clabber?"
For years I made inquiry of my patients as to their milk habits. Almost invariably I found that the possessor of a mouth full of sound teeth had been a consistent milk drinker from early childhood. A surprisingly large number liked either buttermilk, clabber or both.
The significant fact is that the milk those patients drank came from cows that had grazed on native grass in Deaf Smith County pastures. In winter, as a rule, the cows had grazed on green wheat.
from "Man Versus Toothache" by Dr. George W. Heard, copyright 1952
Why in the world are we drinking skim milk from GRAIN-fed cows? Not to mention cows that are fed corn, soy, dead animals, day-old pastries, etc. Skim, pasteurized milk is completely devoid of nutrition. You may as well drink water.
And cows that are forced to eat grain and other things are not healthy. Grain makes them sick. Which requires more antibiotics, etc. Which is why you don't want to drink pasteurized milk. Not only is it devoid of nutrition, it is from sick cows that are pumped to the gills with antibiotics (and hormones in many cases).
And just what are all those antibiotics doing to the delicate balance of flora in your intestinal tract, the very seat of your immunity?
Do you think the antibiotics are killed or inactivated by the pasteurization process? Does anyone know? I don't know -- I'm not a microbiologist, for godsakes.
But I do know that it can't be good to drink milk from sick cows who are pumped with antibiotics. I don't know how you can dispute that logic.
Cows are meant to eat grass in spring and summer, and hay in fall and winter. They are not meant to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in cramped factories eating grain and other abnormal things out of troughs.
Where are you getting your milk? Do you know the dairy? Do you know what they feed the cows?
If you like to drink milk (I hope you do, it's very good for you and delicious), not to mention eat cheese, ice cream, and butter, here are some good posts to read on my friend Beatrix's blog. These two posts illustrate the difference between real, healthy grass-fed-cow-produced raw milk and factory farm swill.
Please educate yourself:
The Sweet Sound of Cowbells Ringing Out in the Fields:
http://constantstateofflux.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/the-sweet-tone-of-cowbells-ringing-out-in-the-fields/
STOP DOING IT NOW:
http://constantstateofflux.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/stop-doing-it-now/
Think you can't get raw milk, pastured eggs, and grass-fed meat? Well you're probably right that you won't find it at Safeway. You might not even find it at Whole Foods (unless you live in California which does sell raw milk -- for now...).
Here are some resources to help you find good real milk and grass-fed animal food:
http://www.realmilk.com/ (click on WHERE to find sources for real raw milk)
http://www.eatwild.com/ | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I read Jenny McCarthy's book, "Louder Than Words" last night.
It totally blew me away.
So moving and absolutely gripping. What I love about Jenny McCarthy is how forthright and honest she is. She calls it like she sees it. And she's not afraid to be herself. I really love and admire that in a person.
What she went through with her son's autism was so horrendous -- and it makes you so sad to realize that one out every 150 people in America are going through the same thing. I can't even imagine how hard it would be.
And yet it is becoming commonplace in America. How can this be? How can something so horrendous become commonplace?
We think we've got it so good here in America. We're nothing like the poor slobs living in Beirut, sleeping to the sound of bombs going off. We're so lucky to live in America.
Meanwhile one out of every 150 parents is going through a living hell. Seizures, (SIDS? -- there is speculation), tantrums and screaming all night long, loss of language and socialization, total inability to function.
I, like Jenny McCarthy, am absolutely convinced that this hell is avoidable and reversible. Not for everybody -- some kids can't recover. But I think most or at least many can. They may not be able to cure it completely but they can reverse it. And I think most or many people absolutely can avoid this nightmare.
The thing I loved the best about her book was her sentence (I'm paraphrasing), "This is not a book about autism. This is a book about faith."
Faith is believing when you have no evidence. Seeing in the dark. Faith is something I have worked on building in myself over the years. I am now an extremely faith-full person. Full of faith. I have total knowing (not just belief -- but knowing) that the Universe is conspiring in my favor. Pulling out all the stops for my good. I always know things will work out. And guess what, they always do. It's not always instant (in fact it rarely is), but it is always consistent.
And how cool is it that Jenny McCarthy (a very faith-full person herself) ended up with a guy like Jim Carrey? He strikes me as a pretty spiritual guy. Yes, they are celebrities and what do we really know, but I do know that he wrote a song called "Heaven Down Here" which was recorded by Tuck & Patti. It goes like this:
"Let's bring Heaven down here
I don't want to wait for the angels
Let's bring Heaven down here"
Yes, he really wrote that. I heard Patti say so herself on a local San Francisco talk show. (http://www.tuckandpatti.com/song_lear.html)
The other really cool thing about the book is how much diet and nutrition impacted Jenny's boy. The story she tells is nothing short of staggering.
Within TWO WEEKS of starting her son on a gluten-free, casein-free (wheat/dairy) diet, he said his first sentence. He had been able to say single words before the seizures happened at around the age of two. Words like "juice" and "milk" and "mama". And after doing some testing, they realized that he didn't even know what those words meant; he was just repeating his mother. Like she would say, "You want some juice?" and he would say, "Juice."
Then he had the MMR shot and had constant seizures. After the vaccine and subsequent seizures, he lost all language (this is a common pattern).
After just two weeks of being on the diet, he came up to his mom, tugged on her leg and said, "Want to go swimming".
Aside: Another diet story was in the introduction -- a doctor with an autistic son said that two weeks after giving him a daily supplement of cod liver oil, he regained eye contact and language.
After she got her son on the GFCF diet, Jenny learned about candida (an overgrowth of yeast in the gut, the same thing BTW that caused my arthritis and allergies when I was in my mid-twenties) which is common among autistic kids. She started him on Difulcan, which is a drug that kills the yeast. After that he went on massive doses of probiotics (they also kill off the yeast).
Jenny believes that her son was born with a weakened immune system, and the vaccines weakened it even more. Because his immune system was so weak (they found a doctor who had it tested and it was weaker than that of an AIDS patient), he continually got sick and had to take antibiotics, which killed off the good bacteria in his gut. The good bacteria is what kills off the yeast. When you don't have enough good bacteria, you get a yeast overgrowth. Which she believes is what causes the autism in many kids. (I agree with her.)
Anyhow, TWO WEEKS after he started on the Difulcan and was excreting massive amounts of yeast, they were watching a show on TV and he laughed at a joke. He had never done this before. Autistic kids don't "get" jokes.
Then he laughed again. This was the moment she knew she had saved her child. This was the first time, she said, that she had ever seen the real him.
Heartbreaking but joyous. I cried. Because she saved him. She loved him more than anything -- and most of all she believed. She had faith. She saw, even in the darkness.
What an amazing woman she is. I think she is going to help many, many people with this book. I think every parent and every aspiring parent should read this book. Everyone who is close to someone with an autistic child should read this book.
Anyone going through a tough time and needs a shot of faith should read this book.
Hurrah, Jenny McCarthy! I'm glad you are alive on this planet with us and I'm glad you are brave enough to be you. You are a wonderful spirit. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | allergies, autism, cancer, health, immunity, lacto-fermentation, medicine, nutrition, probiotics, raw foods, raw milk, vaccines | | Subject: | Termites don't eat healthy trees | | Time: | 11:18 am | | Current Mood: | curious |
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| This is one of the most fascinating blog posts I have ever read:
http://yoursacredself.blogspot.com/2007/10/termites-dont-eat-healthy-trees.html
"The inner ecosystem of the body is the prime determinant in disease risk."
This makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
I love the part about his trip to the Himalayas -- how the more sickly people were bitten by leeches and the healthier, sturdier people were not.
I also really like his explanation of cancer. The toxins and waste matter in the body have nowhere else to go. So they try to localize -- into tumors. Gosh, doesn't that make sense to you? It does to me.
Allopathic (Western medicine) has never made sense to me. OK, sure, having a C-section was helpful when my baby was breech. I do appreciate Western medicine during those times when surgery is required.
It's just that the standard protocol of suppressing and covering up symptoms instead of treating the cause DOES NOT WORK.
Which leads one to ask the question -- logically, how would injecting vaccines into nutritionally depleted, sickly kids with weak immune systems and very few helpful bacteria in their guts help make their immune systems stronger? It doesn't make any sense.
Many parents with autistic kids have been speaking out about the lack of good bacteria in their kids' digestive tracts. These kids tend to be allergic to dairy and wheat (casein and gluten). Uh, for the most part that's pasteurized dairy and refined flour, by the way. I have read the testimony of some parents who say their autistic children tolerate raw milk just fine.
I wonder it all of this relates to the phenomenon of all these kids being allergic to peanuts. I wonder if they had more good bacteria in their gut, they might not be allergic to everything. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'm so excited to report that I made my first batch of homemade cream cheese yesterday!
It was astoundingly easy. And the best cream cheese I've ever tasted. (I haven't liked Philadelphia cream cheese and other commercial brands for a while now. So gummy and tastes artificial.)
Here's how you make it... (recipe from "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon)
1. Buy a quart of plain yogurt with nothing added (I bought 2 500g/17 oz containers of this brand: http://www.fageusa.com/products.html).
2. Put a strainer over a glass or stainless steel bowl, a dish cloth or cheese cloth (that's why they call it cheese cloth!) over the strainer, and dump the yogurt onto the cloth.
3. Loosely put another cloth over the whole thing to keep it covered and clean, and let it sit overnight (8-10 hours).
4. In the morning, you will have some liquid at the bottom of the bowl. That's whey! Pour into a glass container or Mason jar, cover, and keep in the fridge for up to 6 months (you can use this for lots of things, which I will get into later).
5. Now take your cloth with the cheese in it, tie it onto a wooden spoon (being careful not to squeeze), and rest the spoon on a glass pitcher or a glass Pyrex measuring cup so more whey can drip out. When the bag stops dripping, the cheese is ready.
The cream cheese will keep for a month in the fridge, and the whey will keep for up to 6 months.
I'm going to have some right now on toast. Yum! Especially good with a little raw honey.
Here's an article about the dairy, Organic Pastures, where we get our milk and butter (soon they are going to expand into cheeses!)
http://www.newfarm.org/features/0103/california/mcafee/index.shtml
If you live in California, you can probably get this milk at Whole Foods, Wild Oats, or other health food store. It's more expensive than regular pasteurized milk but it's totally worth it when you consider all the benefits:
* Clean, healthy milk from clean, healthy (and happy) free-range cows
* The milk is not boiled (pasteurized) so it still has enzymes (which help you assimilate nutrients and fight cancer-causing free radicals, as well as other things -- most foods we eat do not have enzymes)
* The enzymes also help you digest your food -- so if you are lactose-intolerant, you would probably digest raw milk just fine
* Because the milk is not heated, it also contains all the good microorganisms (probiotics) we need in our gut to keep us healthy. It is precisely these microorganisms that fight the bad germs (like the flu and viruses).
* Support a farm that is doing things the right way, letting their cows roam freely and eat grass -- not a factory farm where cows live in cages, eat soy and other grains (which they are not meant to eat) and are treated like machines, overmilked to a ridiculous degree (not to mention sick and pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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