Take the 90 Day Health Challenge!

I have written many blog posts regarding whole food nutrition and The Feast product. I have shown how various publications promote eating more fruits and vegetables for good health. I am committed to continuing doing this for as long as I can and to help as many people possible do something about their health. We as a nation are losing focus on the value of life and the value of our health. We all should promote the importance of health to our loved ones, friends and family.

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Cancer and Whole Food Nutrition

In the most recent issue of Consumer Reports On Health magazine, there is a special report inside titled "Making sense of cancer risks." It covers "today's best advice on prevention, detection, and treatment" of cancer. I have included below two paragraphs from the two page article that I thought readers of this blog could relate to:

Some foods - such as broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables - may have particularly potent anti-cancer properties. But studies that have looked at the cancer-fighting potential of specific nutrients in the form of supplements have yielded almost uniformly disappointing results.

Instead of obsessing about specific foods, nutrients, or supplements, it's best to eat a wide variety of healthful foods. Research continues to document the anti-cancer benefits of a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains, and relatively low in saturated fat, alcohol, and meat. (Consumer Reports on Health volume 20 Number 3 pages 8-9)

If you have read previous articles in my blog, you will quickly see how this information relates to Whole Food Nutrition. The power of fruits and vegetables goes well beyond a balanced diet. Fruits and vegetables are the bodies natural fuel for healing and health. No vitamin or supplement can even compare to the power of fresh, whole food nutrition.

Lisa Hark, PhD, RD wrote an article in the recent issue of Bottom Line Health titled "What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Nutrition." In the opening paragraph she states "for optimal health, the latest research calls for nine to thirteen servings daily" (of fruits and vegetables). She continues to say "This dietary recommendation is linked to lower rates of serious diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, but few Americans learn about this from their doctors." (Bottom Line Health volume 22 number 3 page 1)

Illness is on a steady rise in America and health costs are going through the roof. Save yourself the medical bills and prescription costs and start taking care of your health the way nature intended. Your body will heal itself as long as you give it the proper nutrition to do so.

Get all the servings of fruits and vegetables that Lisa Hark recommends, get the variety of fruits, vegetables, beans and grains that On Health magazine suggests. Take control of your health and make the decision to do something about it. As I have stated throughout this blog, the most convenient, lifestyle friendly way to get daily whole food nutrition is by consuming The Feast. There simply is no better source of LIVE whole food nutrition than The Feast.

Flu Shot Season is Here. What to do?

As we approach the winter months and temperatures begin to drop, we see the resurgence of the flu and colds. How do you get rid of your cold? How can you prevent yourself from getting a cold?

There are many options for you to consider. You can get a flu shot. You can take over the counter (OTC) medicine or prescribed medicine. You can take synthetic vitamins. You can use antibacterial soaps and lotions repeatedly throughout the day. You can take the miracle cures that many publications recommend. You can even rely on Grandma's secret home remedies. With so many options available to us, why are we all still getting sick?

The medical professionals recommend you get a flu shot to introduce the antibodies into your bloodstream to help you defend against the flu. This is usually the most popular method of defense by Americans. Why is that? You see them recommend it daily on the news, you see signs posted everywhere ("get your flu shots here!"), your job offers it to you and of course your doctor recommends it.

If all these people recommend it, why not get one then? Have you ever asked the person injecting the shot into you what exactly is in the liquid that they are putting into your arm? In all honesty, they probably couldn't answer that. The truth is that most of these vaccines contain cancer causing chemicals such as Formaldehyde and Triton X-100 plus one of the most toxic substances Thimerisol (also know as Mercury). Anyone I ask who gets the flu shot tells me they usually get sick right away (no wonder with all the crap that's in the shot) and typically they still get the bug later on. I am certainly not telling you what to do here but if you are thinking about getting one of these shots, you should do some research on your own first.

I can go through some of the other options I mentioned above but I know your time is valuable so I will get right to the point. I've said this before in previous blog posts, your body is designed to heal itself as long as you give it the proper ingredients to do so. No those ingredients are not flu shots, medicine or lab isolated vitamins. The correct ingredients come from whole food nutrition.

I know this is difficult, but you'll need to put down the holiday cookies and stop eating the fast food junk because you are too busy to cook. Looking for something sweet? Eat a juicy apple. Looking for something filling? Eat a ripe banana. Fruits and vegetables by nature are packed full of the ingredients you need to build a strong immune system to help combat the colds and flus all around you.

Knowing this, why do people still have a tough time with it? Well let's face it. If there is a fudge and chocolate chip brownie on the counter next to an apple, most anyone will choose the brownie. Besides, if you tried to purchase enough fruits and vegetables to consume the recommend daily dose of 5 to 9 servings everyday of the week, it could become quite costly, especially if you try to buy all organic (which I highly recommend).

So what's the solution? First and foremost, try to eat as many live raw whole foods as possible. Try to cut down on your sugar intake as it weakens your immune system (more on that in a future blog post). As I have mentioned before, I believe the most convenient lifestyle friendly way to get your fruit and vegetable nutrition is from a LIVE whole food nutrition source such as The Feast. It truly is the most convenient way to get your daily dose of fruits and vegetables and it tastes great! (Click here to get more information on The Feast).

Fruits and Vegetables... A Smoker's Best Friend!

Public smoking bans are appearing in more establishments across the US on a daily basis. The right to endanger your own lungs publicly is dwindling. One of the main pushing forces of this movement is fear.

The media (with EPA disinformation) does a fairly good job at convincing the public that second hand smoke causes cancer. This instills fear into the non-smokers at the local watering hole as people light up one after another to satisfy their nicotine addiction. This fear leads to massive movement and demand for public policy which in turn has led to this ban on smoking.

Wait a minute. This is a blog about nutrition and "going green" internally. Why does it sound like I am defending smoking as being acceptable?

No, I have not totally lost my mind. I have never been a smoker (thankfully) but I have watched many people become quite sick due to it and have watched some die from it. This article is in no way a pro-smoking publication. Stick with me to the end and you will see the connection.

I have recently read an article listed with the BNET Research Center called EPA caught red-handed on passive smoking. This article tells about how the EPA "had knowingly, willfully, and aggressively disseminated false information".

This article is further supported by the recent death of Dana Reeve, the late Christopher Reeve's wife. She passed away due to lung cancer. She has never smoked and has never been exposed to significant second hand smoke. This leaves the question "what else, other than smoking, causes lung cancer?" This is one question that has the American Cancer society scrambling for answers but begs for more valid research to be done than simply claiming all lung cancer is caused by smoking.

The BNET article also mentioned a website called The Fraser Institute. No, this has nothing to do with Kelsey Grammer. I went to this site and began reading some of the publication samples they have listed under the publications menu. I came across a book called The Misconceptions About the Causes of Cancer (Click the title to visit the link).

In this book (under the misconception 2 link) it states:

"Instead, other environmental factors have been identified in epidemiological studies that are likely to have a major effect on lowering cancer rates: reduction of smoking, improving diet (e.g. increased consumption of fruits and vegetables), hormonal factors (some of which are diet-related), and control of infections."

It's right there in front of you, let it sink in for a minute. An increased consumption of fruits and vegetables is likely to lower cancer rates. That's a powerful statement. How many of you eat fruits and vegetables on a daily basis? How many of you actually get the daily recommended doses of 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables? From reading this blog, you should know by now that the best source of fruits and vegetables comes from Live Whole Food Nutrition.

This book further goes into detail on each of the topics listed in the quote above. Under the smoking subtitle, the book says that "The oxidants in cigarette smoke, mainly nitrogen oxides, deplete the body’s antioxidants. Thus, smokers need to ingest more vitamin C than non-smokers to achieve the same level in blood but they tend not to do so." It continues to say "A recent Danish study indicated that smokers consumed fewer fruits and vegetables than nonsmokers. Additionally, people who take supplements of vitamins and minerals are less likely to be smokers".

If you are a smoker, I support your right to continue smoking if you want to. At the same time, I fully encourage you to stop for the sake of your own health. I also understand it is quite difficult for people to stop smoking. This book at least brings to light that smoking depletes your body of antioxidants and that you most certainly need to do something about replacing them.

It doesn't matter if you are a smoker or not. I will continue to encourage each of you to eat fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, that is why I rely on The Feast to give me the daily nutrition that I need.

New Look, Same Mission

I am striving to make improvements daily to this blog. While I will miss the green background, I think black and white looks cleaner and makes it easier to read.

I will not stop my mission to educate everyone on LIVE whole food nutrition. Check back soon (and often) as I will be including some videos in the blog postings.

I still encourage every one of you to do some research. Google the "dangers in our food supply" or "genetically modified food concerns". That should give you hours and hours of information to sort through and educate yourself on.

You have to start educating yourself on these things. Don't ever believe big business has YOUR best interest in mind when they make decisions. It is all about the money!

Do your own research and frequently visit my blog for more information. You have to look out for yourself and your family, no one else will!

In Loving Memory of Lorene Pittman

If you have lost any loved ones to cancer or are worried about it yourself, please read this article.

November 4th, 2001 was a day that changed my life, for the worse and then for the better. My mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1995. I was very close with my mother. She was my best friend. This hit me pretty hard as I had never thought about her mortality before. She did what most other patients would do, she had the surgery to get it removed and followed up with destroying her immune system with chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

I was in college and didn’t know any better. I assumed this was the best thing for her since the doctor’s recommended it. She went through with it and continued to live her life. Then in 2001, she discovered it had spread to a few other parts of her body. This time it was going to be fatal. I began to fall into a depression and then into denial that she was dieing. I continued to live as if I had all the time in the world. I didn’t know how else to deal with it, unfortunately I did not deal with it well. She passed away just before midnight on November 4th. I was a wreck. I was in quite a depression for some time afterwards. I still had my rough days for the next few years.

Then in December of 2005 my father told me that they had found tiny traces of cancer around his prostate. The emotions began again but this time it wasn’t depression, it was FEAR. Both parents had cancer, which means I am doomed. Realizing your own mortality is a difficult thing.

This led me to begin doing research. Not just reading an article here or there in my spare time but dedicating every minute of spare time to research. I would research for 4 to 5 hours a night reading books and visiting websites. What I discovered changed me forever.

Reading about the influence the pharmaceutical companies have over the government, the contamination of our food supply, the destruction or expulsion of inventions that would help society but hurt the pocketbooks of the medical world, the corrupt charity organizations …the list goes on and on.

When I read about numerous cures or natural treatments of cancer that were covered up or banned in the US, I was infuriated. The anger overtook me as I began to think that if I had done some research, I could’ve prolonged, if not saved my mother’s life.

I am not a doctor or medical professional but I do have advice to ALL of you. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! It doesn’t take long to start to uncover the truths about the world and the possible cures that may exist out there.

Did you know that some research shows a tumor is the body’s natural response to cancer in the bloodstream? It is actually the thing that is keeping you alive as it is drawing in all the cancer to it and keeping it from spreading throughout your body. The first thing every doctor wants to do is remove it! Remove your body’s only defense. That way they can tell you they removed the cancerous tumor (but in reality they removed the defense system your body created to save you) and thus allow the cancer in your bloodstream to move freely to other major organs. Than they poison you and break down what’s left of your immune system with chemotherapy and radiation.

Again, this is not my opinion. These are things I have read. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

During all of my research, I discovered many articles and stories on whole food nutrition. I tried a variety of products in this category and found one that stood out among the rest as the best source of whole food nutrition. The FEAST has changed my life and the life of my family. I am convinced that this is truly the best method of obtaining the nutrition that I need to live a healthy life (don't believe me, do your own research).

I would’ve never done all of this research or found this amazing product if it wasn’t for my mother. I feel she has helped me to lead the healthy life that I have now. I miss her dearly and will always think of her.

To everyone out there who has lost a loved one to cancer, God bless you and keep you. To the government who thinks they can continue to make billions and billions of dollars off of cancer patients, watch out, the American public is waking up.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH

10 Good Reasons to Eat Organic Whole Foods

There are many good reasons all of us should eat organic foods and whole foods. This list is not necessarily the "TOP" 10 reasons, but they are 10 good reasons to eat organic.

#1. TREAT YOUR BODY LIKE A TEMPLE

As I've said before, you are what you eat. Nature designed these fruits and vegetables to provide all creatures with a source of nutrition that no laboratory can recreate. People take isolated vitamins and think they are doing the best thing for their health. In reality, as many studies have shown, when you try to isolate the vitamin from it's whole food source (or worse yet, create the vitamin in a test tube), you cannot come close to the complex biology of the nutrition from an actual plant or other whole food source.

#2. INCREASE AGRICULTURAL DIVERSITY

Eating organic helps preserve thousands of agricultural varieties not accommodated by industrial agriculture.

#3. CREATE BALANCED ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES

Growing foods without harsh pesticides allows nature's independent web of life to work together to further build the rich microbial ecosystems found in organic soils.

#4. WE HAVE CHOICES

All the pesticides, herbicides and fungicides go somewhere after agribusiness sprays them on food. They go into our water supply, the air we breathe and thus into our bodies.

#5. AVOID BEING A GENETIC ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT

According to the Center for Food Safety "70 to 75 percent of processed foods contain at least 1 genetically engineered ingredient." Only organic foods offer us the ability to sidestep the risks of genetically engineered food.

#6. CREATE A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

It only takes about 10 families eating organic to support one small-scale organic farm.

#7. BLOSSOM THE PLANET

Our farmland is a thin web of living earth blanketing the planet. It needs to be nurtured and protected.

#8. LEAVE A LEGACY FOR OUR CHILDREN

How do we expect to have 7 generations follow us if we do not provide them a healthy future?

#9. MAKE YOUR CONNECTION

You get a tangible and edible relationship with the living Earth every time you eat organic.

#10. YUM!

Top chefs agree that you need great tasting ingredients to make great tasting food.

These are just some of the many reasons to eat organic whole foods. I know there are many more, but let's see what YOU think?

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