Sunday, June 20, 2010

Delicious Lacinto Kale and Walnut Pâté

Hello Friends and Family,

More and more people are asking me.  How in the world are you eating a diet that consists mostly of raw vegetables and fruit?  First of all, I live by the following saying, from the very wise Jack Lalane: "If God didn't make it, don't eat it!"  Living by this mantra makes the choices pretty easy.  God DID NOT make...
  • meat dipped in ammonia, with estrogen-mimicking chemicals injected into it - all conventional, non-organic U.S. meat is treated this way
  • highly processed bread and grains masquerading as "healthy" and "whole grain," loaded with dough conditioners, sugar, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and genetically modified oils - all conventional, non-organic U.S. bread and pasta is treated this way
  • beef from cows that eat corn and other dead cows and pigs instead of grass - all conventional, non-organic U.S. beef is treated this way
  • chickens that eat chicken droppings and dead chicken, pork, and other animal parts - all conventional, non-organic U.S. beef is treated this way
  • super simple sugars that cause fatty liver like high fructose corn syrup - most conventional, non-organic pre-packaed and processed food and condiments have high fructose corn syrup in them
  • bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST) injected into dairy cows in the US to increase milk-production - all conventional, non-organic U.S. dairy is treated this way
  • genetically engineered corn, soy, cottonseed, aspartame, canola, Hawaiian papayas, and sugar beets that have all been genetically engineered to produce their own pesticide and/or withstand the application of huge amounts of deadly pesticides - over 60-70% of the foods in the U.S. are either genetically modified or contain genetically modified ingredients, which have been show to cause obesity, diabetes, organic damage, cancer, infertility and other health problems in animal feeding studies


I also like food to taste good, so I put the same level of effort into marinating and seasoning vegetables that I would put into marinating and seasoning meat.  Here's a great recipe (borrowed from Lynda Carter of aliveandraw.com, tweaked by The Black Libertarianess) for a raw, organic lacinto kale salad and walnut pâté, power packed with Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium and Omega-3 fatty acids.  Thank you for this great recipe Lynda!

Try this recipe once per week and you will be doing your part to prevent and even naturally reverse cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and even inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema!  You can substitute collard greens for the kale if you need or want a calcium boost. 

Lacinto Kale and Walnut Pâté

Lacinato Kale

Ingredients
2 bunches of lacinato kale
2 apples
1 ripe mango
1/2 red pepper
1/2 lime juiced
3 - 4 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil (to taste)
1/2 teaspoon of organic lemon pepper (WITH NO SUGAR OR MSG ADDED)
1/2 teaspoon of Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Pink Salt
pinch cayenne pepper


Directions
You will need a large bowl.  Wash and thinly chop kale, remove tough stems. Thinly slice and dice apples, onion, red pepper. Cut mango in half cut into small cubes.

Toss kale and all ingredients in a large bow.  Toss thoroughly.  Allow the greens to marinade for one hour or more.

(Note: use a food processor to dice kale for a finer texture that will resemble cooked kale; substitute collard greens for the kale if you want more calcium in your diet)

Walnut Pâté (for a living food meat substitute)


Ingredients
1/2 lb. Walnuts, soaked in water for 2 hours
1/2 onion
1/2 red pepper
3 stalks of celery
1 clove Garlic
3 tarragon leaves
2 teaspoons of Bragg's Non-Genetically Modified Liquid Aminos
pinch cayenne pepper

Directions
Using a food processor or a wet/dry blender, grind vegetables with Bragg's Liquid Aminos and set aside. Grind walnuts and tarragon leaves. In a bowl mix vegetables mixture and walnut mixture.

(*Note: soaking the walnuts will restore the life force of the dormant nut.)

Plate the kale salad with the walnut pâté on the side.  Mix the salad and the pâté in every bite and enjoy!  Yes, you can be healthy WITHOUT toxic drugs or risky surgery!  Yes, you can!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Eat Your Leafy Vegetables To Decrease Your Risk Of Cataracts

According to a Science Daily article, women who have higher dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin--compounds found in yellow or dark, leafy vegetables--as well as more vitamin E from food and supplements appear to have a lower risk for developing cataracts.  Did you know that there may also be a link between certain anti-depressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and cataract development?  The degree of risk varies among anti-depressants?  For example, a recent University of Minnesota study showed that taking fluvoxamine (Luvox) led to a 51 per cent higher chance of having cataract surgery, and venlafaxine (Effexor) carried a 34 per cent higher risk.  This is serious!  According to Natural News, of the 35 million Americans who are age 65 or older, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) claims about 7 million of them suffer from clinical depression.  Millions are also on the prescription anti-depressant drugs known as SSRIs such as Prozac, Paxil, Lexapro and Zoloft. 

Yellow and dark leafy green vegetables are loaded with vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin and all have tremendous antioxidant properties.  Yellow and dark leafy green vegetables, particularly raw veggies, prevent cataracts and depression!  Thankfully, yellow and dark leafy green vegetables ARE NOT genetically modified.  There are tons of other health benefits associated with eating yellow and dark leafy green vegetables as well.  They prevent and cure:
  • Cancer
  • Osteoporosis
  • Stomach Ulcers
  • Anemia
  • Acne
  • Immune System Deficiency
Yes, you can be healthy, mentally and physically, without toxic drugs and risky surgery.  Do what's good for your bones, your eyes, your stomach, and your whole body.  Eat more dark leafy green vegetables today!  Start with the following recipe for a savory kale salad:

The key to this salad is finely chopping the kale leaves.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice or preservative/additive free pre-packaged lemon juice
(avoid any lemon juice with preservatives like sodium benzoate or pottassium sorbate)
1 to 2 teaspoons chili powder
1/4 cup of fresh or thawed frozen blueberries
(you can also use fresh mandarin oranges or fresh or thawed frozen strawberries)
1/4 cup of carrot shreds
1/4 cup of sunflower seeds
Celtic Sea Salt or Himalayan Natural Salt to taste
2 bunches kale, stems and tough ribs removed and set aside, very finely chopped

Directions

In a large bowl, whisk together oil, lemon juice, chili powder, and sea salt. Add kale and carrot shreds, toss to combine, top with sunflower seeds and fruit of choice and serve.

Waste not, want not: Kale stems and tough ribs can be ground in a food processor and added to soups and/or burgers.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Prescription Drug Use in Children On The Rise

More and more children are using more and more toxic drugs with risky and unpredictable side effects to treat chronic diseases and mental illness.  According the this Reuters article, juvenile use of diabetes drugs and anti psychotics are on the rise.  Children were the leading growth demographic for the pharmaceutical industry in 2009!  Parents, drugging your child is avoidable in most cases.  Let me give you some examples...


Cold or flu?
-Cut out white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), white flour, corn syrup and genetically modified food.  Supplement with six to ten glasses of water per day (no juice!), along with Vitamin C and Vitamin D3 and your child will fight off that cold or flu within a few days, with no side effects

Attention Deficit Disorder?
-Cut out the white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), white flour, artificial colors and high fructose corn syrup.  Supplement with six to ten glasses of water per day (no juice!) and organic lithium orotate and you will see remarkable improvement

Depression?
-Cut out white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), corn syrup, and white flour and supplement with six to ten glasses of water per day (no juice!), flax seed oil and organic lithium orotate.  You will see an improvement within a few days.

Diabetes?
-Cut out all dairy, meat, eggs, sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), wheat, corn syrup and vaccines.  How?  Check out the documentary, Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days and the companion DVD, Raw for Life.  Supplement with six to ten glasses of water per day (no juice!) and switch to a sugar-free, corn syrup-free, no artificial sweetener, mostly raw food, organic if you can, vegan diet and you will see a remarkable improvement within a few days.  Your child may even reverse their diabetes within 30 days.  Type 2 diabetes in completely reversible on a raw food vegan diet.

Headache?
-Cut out white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), corn syrup, white flour, and genetically modified foods and supplement with six to ten glasses of water per day (no juice!).  Your child's headaches will disappear.

Indigestion?

-Cut out white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), corn syrup, white flour, and genetically modified foods and supplement with six to ten glasses of water per day (no juice!).  Take a teaspoon of raw, organic, apple cider vinegar with every meal and indigestion will be cured.

Constipation?
-Cut out antibiotics, white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), corn syrup, white flour, and genetically modified foods.  Supplement with prunes and castor oil to get rid of constipation for good.

Acne?
-Cut out antibiotics, vaccines, white sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar), corn syrup, white flour, and genetically modified foods.  Drink 10 glasses of water daily and feed your child mostly organic vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds.  Supplement with Vitamin D3 and Vitamin C.  This cures acne and a whole host of other skin problems, including eczema.

Our children can be healthy without toxic drugs and risky surgery if they are breastfed, avoid antibiotics, get plenty of exercise, and eat a diet loaded with mostly raw vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. Juice is loaded with sugar and does not count as a fruit.  Fast food and prepackaged food, including juice, loaded with monosodium glutamate, corn syrup, artificial flavors and colors, and sugar (pre-packaged juice is sugar) makes children (and adults) sick.  The drug companies are not interested in children's health and wellness.  They are more interested in selling more drugs and getting our children so sick that they become lifetime customers, taking drugs for the rest of their lives.  Recall the Tylenol scare of May 2010, where a Children's Tylenol plant knowingly used a bacteria-tainted ingredient.  And we cannot forget about the rota-virus vaccine that was found to be tainted with a pig virus in March 2010.

Yes, you and your child can be healthy without drugs in surgery.  Incorporate more raw fruits and vegetables into your diet, genetically-modified food free, and sugar free, today!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Why I Stopped Using My Microwave and Why I Plan to Throw It Out

Replace your microwave with a good quality, affordable toaster over or convection oven instead. Why? According to research done by Claire Nelson and others, published in the Journal of Natural Science and various other scientific journals, eating microwaved food is bad for human health.

1. Heating prepared meats in a microwave creates:

• d-Nitrosodiethanolamine (a well-known cancer-causing agent)
• Destabilization of active protein biomolecular compounds
• Creation of a binding effect to radioactivity in the atmosphere
• Creation of cancer-causing agents within protein-hydrosylate compounds in milk and cereal grains;

2. Microwave emissions also cause alteration in the catabolic (breakdown) behavior of glucoside – and galactoside – elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this way;

3. Microwaves alter catabolic behavior of plant-alkaloids when raw, cooked or frozen vegetables are exposed for even very short periods;

4. Cancer-causing free radicals are formed within certain trace-mineral molecular formations in plant substances, especially in raw root vegetables;

5. Ingestion of micro-waved foods causes a higher percentage of cancerous cells in blood;

6. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions occur in the lymphatic system, causing degeneration of the immune system’s capacity to protect itself against cancerous growth;

7. The unstable catabolism of micro-waved foods alter their elemental food substances, leading to disorders in the digestive system;

8. Those ingesting microwaved foods show a statistically significant higher incidence of stomach and intestinal cancers, plus a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues with a gradual breakdown of digestive and excretory system function;

9. Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritional value of all foods studied, particularly:

• A decrease in the bioavailability of B-complex vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotrophics
• Destruction of the nutritional value of nucleoproteins in meats
• Lowering of the metabolic activity of alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides (all basic plant substances in fruits and vegetables)
• Marked acceleration of structural disintegration in all foods.

10. Microwaved plastic wrap has 10,000 times the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limits of carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals).

Replace your microwave with a taster over or convection over as soon as you can.  You'll feel a whole lot better.  Yes, you can be healthy without toxic drugs and risky surgery!