Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine: part 2 -The Good

This may be the most important blog I ever write.

For those that have just tuned in, there is a part 1 to this tale. It is bursting at the seams with information that simply points to a much bigger, hairier ordeal. We must take responsibility for our own bodies and learn to take care of ourselves. It is important that you understand where we are as a society, so that we can collectively move forward. I will attempt to address the good that is happening, and what you can do.



For those that don't know me personally, my father passed away one year ago from aggressive prostate cancer. To say that it sucked is an understatement of gargantuan proportions, but it caused me to delve deep into the medicine surrounding cancer treatments and what progress is being made. My father refused to do chemotherapy. I don't blame him. The cure rate for chemo is around 3%. (The odds are better if you are young...It also depends on the cancer itself.)

In my studies, I think I stumbled upon a secret that most do not understand...and I need to share with you....and you need to share it with everyone you know...

Are you ready?!
You ARE what you EAT!

You mean you've heard that before?! You should have. That was originally said by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, in ancient Greece. He realized ALL the way back then that eating a certain way seems to ward off pretty much Every. Single. Disease.

The idea is simple really. You body is an interconnected set of systems that run on a specific fuel source...like a car. If you were to put marine fuel into your car, It would not run well. (For those who are unaware, boats run on a slightly different fuel than cars.) It is the same with our bodies.

A moment about cancer:

Cancer naturally pops up in our bodies, but is wiped out by our own immune system before it can become a real problem. It is only when that cancer can get a steady supply of blood and nutrients that it actually takes hold and becomes an issue.

Dr. William Li with the Mayo Clinic has done a lot of research about angiogenesis. (AN-G-O-JEN-E-SIS) It's a big word that means blood vessels in your body can OVER grow. What he found first was that when we eat the typical western diet (aka--junk and bread and junk...and then maybe a vegetable...deep fried), we cause our blood vessels to grow so much that they can feed blood and nutrients to other things...and if a cancer can get hold of some of that....you get the idea....

Here's the good news: Dr. Li believes that 2 out of 3 cancers are caused by diet...and can potentially can be cured by diet! You can watch his TED  Talk here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_5Z31mUmtc

Cancer is nowhere near the only illness that food can fix! Diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure... Google how to naturally prevent these things from happening, and you will always get the same answer... Lots of organic veggies, lean organic meat, and less  (or less traditional) carbs.

 

Now, organic can be expensive, but it is worth it to keep chemical pesticides and GMOs out of your body. I'm notoriously cheap...I recite this mantra while grocery shopping: I can pay more money for the food now or more money for the doctor later.

HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS: Organic food is becoming less expensive and more available all the time! In fact, the struggle of farmers to hang on to GMO corn is FAILING SO MISERABLY, we actually had to import over 40,000 lbs. of organic corn to meet the demand. Companies like Hershey's are promising to be GMO free by the end of the year! Farmer's markets are more popular than ever...The food revolution is upon us! I know that my state recently legalized raw milk sales... (I'm very excited!)

***I may try to write a blog on how to shop for healthy food amid all the fake healthy food soon.***

With regards to vaccines, the good news is that a revolution is occurring all around you...and it has recently caught fire with a little film called Vaxxed. Vaxxed: From Cover up to Catastrophe is a documentary produced by a well respected film producer who worked many years on the show The Doctors. He joined forces with Dr. Andrew Wakefield (Yes...THAT Andrew Wakefield...who incidentally was vindicated by the whistleblower from the CDC) to expose the world to the CDC's fraudulent actions concerning the 2004 autism-mercury study.

It is changing lives. If you believe in transparent medical practices like I do, then support this film as it reaches your area, and get everyone you know to see it. The evidence is irrefutable. If you are particularly froggy and want to help more, try and join the support groups pressing to bring the movie to YOUR area.

Also, a local school in our area recently sent home flyers to every student giving some false information and scare tactics pushing the vaccine agenda. There are medical exemptions for vaccines in every state, and most also have philosophical and/or religious exemptions from vaccines. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO VACCINATE! Turn to social media...Look for local groups. Someone will help you.

Doctors are sold out to medicine, that's true. However, more and more doctors are coming to realize it, and many are switching over to a more naturopathic style of healing. Also, more people are opening natural offices of medicine. BE ADVISED: These people went to school and trained just as hard as a traditional M.D. You are NOT crawling into the hands of an amateur as some would have you believe. As with any doctor, check their background, but they put in the same 8 years as your doctor.

The herbs and minerals prescribed by these doctors are generally safer than pharmaceutical drugs, and they tend to treat the cause instead of the symptoms... (Big shock: They almost always start with your diet.)

The dental industry is waking up, too! You can now find natural dentists that will remove amalgam (mercury) fillings and replace them with safer materials. They also forego use of sodium fluoride. (which isn't the kind that helps teeth) (neither is what's in the water system...but that's a different blog.)

The one other area that I must address as good news is the legalization of marijuana.

Most of my conservative followers may not agree because they imagine people sitting around getting stoned instead of working. I'm sure some facets of that are true. (Although, data doesn't support that, and the marijuana industry has created thousands of jobs) Still, it has helped so many people that almost any amount of flunkies getting couch spread would be worth it. Our veterans are committing suicide at a rate of about 22 suicides a day... That's too many. They are currently only allowed access to pharma antidepressants which carry terrible side effects including suicidal depression. (THAT isn't a cure.) In areas where marijuana has been legalized, drug overdoses dropped more than 25% and suicide rates dropped by 10%. It has shown itself effective in treating cancer as an oil concentrate. It can cure skin cancer when the oil is used topically. Most impressively, it has helped thousands of people (including children...lots of children) reduce or end seizures.
You can help by voting to legalize. (If you can fully legalize to keep discretion out of the hands of corrupt doctors, that would be even better...If they don't get a bonus for prescribing it, some doctors simply won't.) You can't put a price on saving children, people..and people have a right to life...That should include their right to try this cure.

Everywhere you see corruption in the world, there is some sort of coup bubbling under the surface. If Batman were real, he would be preparing his vigilante bat-gadgets onto his utility belt because the whole thing is close to blowing like Mount St. Helens. There is a Chinese curse that says,"May you live in interesting times..." Well, I think it's safe to say we've been cursed, but it is also exciting. We all have a choice to become a part of the change that will be in history books 100 years from now. It is our time to make a difference...not by rioting or being violent or ostracizing like so many other groups for revolution, but through simple actions. Carving a different path by simply buying organic, buying local, growing a garden, choosing a natural doctor, refusing a flu shot, or voting...These small acts of defiance are the key. Not all superheroes wear capes. You can't change the world, but you can make a dent. Take the bull by the horns.(...and any other cliches you can come up with.)

Until my next rambling, I bid you adieu. Peace.

Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine: Part 1- The Bad

 It all started when my son was 6 months old. I was in the clinic awaiting the call back for his 6 month vaccines, and I picked up a Rolling Stones magazine. In it was an article discussing a possible link between vaccines and autism conducted by a Dr. Andrew Wakefield. As any parent who had never considered negative repercussions of vaccines, I was shocked and wanted more information before proceeding. I got up, took my child, and walked out. I spent the next few days wondering where to proceed. I attempted to obtain an insert from the vaccine box which supposedly would give me a list of ingredients. First, I was lied to.

Then I was simply told no. When I demanded to see the box the vial comes in, they escorted me out of the building. I knew at that point they were hiding things from the public. So I became a temporary anti-vaxxer...just until I could ascertain the details surrounding the doctors' dirty little secrets...

I researched for over 3 years...reading every study. listening to every news report. I spent time getting my hands on vaccine inserts to read.  The more I studied, the more disturbing evidence I found.

Within a few months of that article being printed, I could no longer find it online. The CDC came out with a blanket statement that there was NO link between vaccines and autism because they did a SINGLE study, and the matter was CLOSED! (Capital letter closed because it was covered on every media outlet that this ONE study was enough to debunk any and all other work on the topic.) (Where was responsible journalism?! Where was responsible science?! Anyone in the science field knows you need years of studies to "prove" anything.) Only recently, Dr.William Thompson, a top CDC scientist who worked on the very study that "proved" vaccines and autism weren't linked came forward as a whistleblower with documentation proving the CDC committed fraud by removing half the children from the study to alter results.

Since that time, every study that has shown no link to autism was skewed with the same bad science based on the 2004 study. Britain had ruined Wakefield's career for even suggesting a possible link.
Well, I had been looking into this...I wasn't so convinced.

 There were loads of studies from around the world that were linking vaccines to possible problems with allergies, ADD, ADHD, autism, SIDS,  and even the spreading of the diseases that they were trying to prevent!

 ( side note: Herd immunity is a myth because in order to have herd immunity, you need 90-95% of the population fully immune to a disease...We don't have that. THAT is why most outbreaks of measles and chicken pox happen in "fully" vaccinated communities...Without constant boosters every few years, your body is NOT fully immune. Also, it usually begins because a recently vaccinated person shed the disease. I had a grown friend contract the chicken pox because his daughter had recently received the vaccine.)


Here is a link to just 30 studies that suggest a connection between vaccines and autism. https://healthimpactnews.com/2013/30-scientific-studies-showing-the-link-between-vaccines-and-autism/
Oh...and Here is 125 MORE! https://www.scribd.com/doc/220807175/125-Research-Papers-Supporting-the-Vaccine-Autism-Link

The truth is, most (if not all) of the studies dismissing a link have some form of tie to the money.
These INDEPENDENT scientists had nothing to gain from these findings, and after seeing what happened to Wakefield, they had something to lose...like their career.

So, I did what my father taught me, and I followed the money.

Let's talk about what you..the American citizen...don't know.

I personally do not believe that organizations that control the healthcare and welfare of our country should be able to receive "donations" ...huge sums of money ... from the people who profit from us being sick. let's take the American Academy of Pediatrics. Their number one sponsor is Merck Pharmaceuticals... The parent company for many of the vaccines your child receives.

Oh! If your child suffers a serious reaction or death from a vaccine, you can't sue the company...Our government has created a fail-safe that bypasses due process. Instead, you must apply for an opportunity to be heard by a judge in a special vaccine court. You will wait years, you cannot appeal, and there will be no jury.

 Following Merck are several other pharmaceutical companies making "donations"...and then formula companies (which recently came down and said in a medical journal that doctors should no longer call breastfeeding natural....They are losing too much money.)
http://www.examiner.com/article/pediatrics-journal-says-to-stop-calling-breastfeeding-natural

Medical schools are no better.

 (taken from http://www.onegreenplanet.org/natural-health/how-medical-school-funding-from-big-pharma-impacts-your-health/)

"Did you know that, up until recently, U.S. pharmaceutical companies funded the majority of U.S. medical schools with very little regulation?

It’s nothing new to point out how flawed modern U.S. healthcare is in its treatment-based philosophies over preventative measures. This idea (and our doctors poor grasp on sound nutrition), however, seems to make a lot more sense when we realize just how far the Big Pharm arm reaches.

In 2008, AMSA (American Medical Student Association), in collaboration with The Pew Charitable Trusts, uncovered just how extensively pharmaceutical companies influenced medical institutions in the U.S. AMSA created a conflict-of-interests scorecard to show just how ethically academia was interacting with the pharmaceutical business:

• 40 out 150 schools received an “F”, including Harvard, which had no conflict-of-interests policies in place. (Note: Harvard received an “A” on the next survey.)
• Less than 15 percent of medical schools scored an “A” or “B,” insinuating the overwhelming majority of doctors have received a severely skewed education.  "

AS you can see, it is highly likely that most of what we know about modern medicine has had the opportunity to be seriously misled. If pharmaceutical companies write the paychecks, they control what is and isn't studied, what is and isn't learned in school. Is it so unlikely that they demanded the altering of results?! I mean, they are in the business of profiting only if they keep people sick.

  It is the same way with the food we eat. Do YOU think that the people in charge of our food safety should have monetary links to the companies that profit if we are sick?! I pulled this directly from the Monsanto website,"Prior to Sept. 1, 1997, a corporation that was then known as Monsanto Company (Former Monsanto) operated an agricultural products business (the Ag Business), a pharmaceuticals and nutrition business (the Pharmaceuticals Business) and a chemical products business (the Chemicals Business). Former Monsanto is today known as Pharmacia LLC. Pharmacia is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., which operates the Pharmaceuticals Business."

It gets worse. 

The USDA is indirectly controlled by Monsanto...the people who brought us agent orange.

 According to this link: http://www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-has-taken-over-usda-1368111215

 "Monsanto's growth hormones for cows have been approved by Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist turned USDA administrator and FDA deputy commissioner.  This was after Margaret Miller, a former Monsanto employee, oversaw a report on the hormones' safety and then took a job at the FDA where she approved her own report.

Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist, wrote the USDA's food standards, allowing corporations to label irradiated and genetically engineered foods as "organic."

The recently passed and signed law nicknamed the Monsanto Protection Act strips federal courts of the power to halt the sale and planting of genetically engineered crops during a legal appeals process.  The origin of this act can be found in the USDA's deregulation of Roundup Ready sugar beets in violation of a court order.  The USDA argued that any delay would have caused a sugar shortage, since Monsanto holds 95% of the market.

The revolving door keeps revolving.  Monsanto's board members have worked for the EPA, advised the USDA, and served on President Obama's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations."

These people are the best in the world at covering up corruption. 

As you can see (unless you simply choose to be ignorant to your own detriment), there are some serious conflicts of interest lurking in the very organizations that control our health and food. The food we buy at the store is mostly highly processed. Most of that food is filled with known possible carcinogens, preservatives, artificial color, and GMOs. In the part 2 of this series, I will talk about the good news...what we can do for ourselves...and what is changing for the better. 

Oooh, Baby It's Cold Outside!

Look at all the pretty snowflakes!!! So unique...So fragile... So, what's not to like about snow?!
It reminds me of a story about a man who moved up north...lol.

A Southerner Moves Up North...

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December 8,

5:00 PM. It's starting to snow. The first of the season and the first one we've seen in years. The wife and I took our hot buttered rums and sat by the picture window, watching the soft white flakes drift down, clinging to the trees and covering the ground. It was beautiful !!!

December 9,

We awoke to a lovely blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight. Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful white mantel. I shoveled snow for the first time in years and I loved it. I did both our driveway and our sidewalk. Later a city snowplow came along and accidentally covered up our driveway with compacted snow from the street. The driver smiled and waved. I waved back and shoveled it again.

December 10,

It snowed an additional 6 inches last night and the temperature has dropped to around 11 degrees. Several limbs on the little shrubs snapped due to the weight of the snow. I shoveled our driveway again. Shortly afterwards the snowplow came by and did his trick again. Much of the snow is now brownish-gray.

December 11,

Warmed up enough during the day to create some slush which soon became ice when the temperature dropped again. Bought snow tires for both cars. Fell on my butt in the driveway, $145.00 to a chiropractor, bu nothing was broken. More ice and snow expected.

December 12.

Still cold. Sold the wife's car and bought a 4 x 4 in order to get her to work. Slid into a guardrail anyway and did a considerable amount of damage to the right rear quarter panel. Had another 5 inches of the white crap last night. Both vehicles covered in salt and crud. More shoveling in store for me today. That darn snowplow came by twice today.

December 13,

3 degrees outside. More f...ing snow. Not a tree or shrub on our property that hasn't been damaged. Power was off most of the night. Tried to keep from freezing to death with candles and kerosene heater, which tipped over and nearly burned the house down. I managed to put the flames out, but suffered second degree burns on my hands and lost all my eyelashes and eyebrows. Carl slid on ice on way to emergency room and was totaled.

December 14,

Darn mother-f...ing white crap keeps on coming down. Have to put on all the clothes we own just to get to the f...ing mailbox. If I could catch the son of a bitch that drives the snowplow I'd chew off his ass and rip out his heart. I think he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then comes down the street about 100 MPH and buries our driveway again. Power still off. Toilet froze and part of the roof has started to cave in.

December 15,

6 darn more f...ing inches of f...ing snow and f...ing sleet and f...ing crap fell last night. I wounded the f...ing snowplow a..hole with an ice ax but he got away. Wife left me. Car won't start. I think I'm going snow blind. I can't move my toes. Haven't seen the sun in weeks. More snow predicted. Wind chill factor -22 degrees. I'm moving back to North Carolina.

I find myself relating to this man in so many ways. It is no wonder that conservatives have nicknamed the "social justice league" with "snowflake." Like the man in the story viewing only the positive side of snow, I began with the idea that being politically correct was a positive movement meant to promote politeness and a general respect for mankind. Well, as the old adage goes," When you assume...You make an ass out of you and me." ( Ass-u-me...In case anyone is not with me today...It might be a southern American expression.) In the stead of actually being polite, we have become a society that is afraid to hear opinions that do not match our own. The young people of the United States are demanding that they have the right to free speech, but no one else can have those rights. We have even come to the point where these toxic avengers no longer recognize the difference between protesting and rioting. 

How did our society move from comedy roasts to 3rd degree sunburn sensitivity? Did parents not hug their kids enough? Is it because people from the 1960's hippy era raised flower children of their own?

 Maybe...I personally think part of the blame falls on the current school system. When we were in school, being forced to read sonnet after sonnet of Shakespeare's droning...(which he probably wrote for either the wench down the alley or the young and strapping lad starring as Juliet in his latest showing at the Globe...)
The teacher would ask us repeatedly,"What do you think Shakespeare meant when he said__(fill in the blank)___? The question placed the importance on the accomplished writer's intentions. It taught students to see from another person's perspective. It emphasized the idea that "putting on the author's shoes" was the best way to analyze the situation.

This is no longer the practice of our schools. Now the question goes as follows,"How does this story make you feel?" As harsh as it seems, the only and correct answer to that question is,"Who cares?!" In one tiny question, we have moved the entire system of evaluating. The idea that the unaccomplished middle school/Jr, high/ high school student's unqualified opinion has any real value is absurd. It simply doesn't matter how it makes you feel! The single idea that this random person's opinion is as or more important than the intention of the person who wrote it is why we have a SJW problem today.

(The irony that a blogger said that opinions don't matter isn't lost on me...This is a blog... This is my opinion...We all have the right to one... at least for now...Take it or leave it...)

We have taught an entire generation of students that their feelings are as, if not more, important than reality.

I believe in affecting change. It does absolutely NO good to complain about something without offering up solutions to the problem at hand. Therefore, I have decided to compile a 3-step plan for undoing an entire generation of butt-hurt.

1: It must begin at home.

Ultimately the biggest influence a child has is his parents. Not simply because they are around first and more, but also because every child wants acceptance from their parents. My child was once in a school district that was filled with children who knew in the 5th grade that they would apply for welfare upon graduating high school.  Though some of the teachers quit trying long ago to make an impact, this was a result of parental influence. The administration had to bribe parents with raffles and gift cards and free meals to get them to attend an assembly. How can you teach children to better themselves through self drive and a solid education when their parents refuse to care?! You can't. It is a very sad situation. Between the parents who let technology be their babysitter to the parents who want to fight their children's battles for them, if we want the self entitled whining to stop before these children are old enough to make the laws, we must change ourselves. We must teach our children to expect greatness out of themselves through hard work, teach them to "suck it up, Buttercup" when people say things they don't like, and show them by example that life is what you make it...nothing more and nothing less.

2. We must change the schools.

Note: Most teachers are making amazing effort to educate children. However, they are given too many ridiculous guidelines, not enough money, and are stripped of power to control the students. This is not about them. 

I was asked about kindergarten the other day and what it actually taught children (They were considering homeschooling.) I began to explain that it covered numbers to 100, shapes, the alphabet, small words, etc., but it teaches other things... How to conform. How to think as a unit (walk in a single file line, raise your hand, etc.)... Are these things hurting our children? On the surface, I don't think so. I think it teaches children to function in a society that has rules. However, the long term ramifications of mass schooling may include not thinking for themselves, the inability to voice a differing opinion, and a personal need to "tell the teacher" and let someone else fight their personal battles. Couple that with the  now lack of evaluation skills, and viola'! You have an entire generation that needs safe spaces.

3. We must change  (back) the government.

When America was founded, the idea was to create a government that was small and efficient. It was designed to keep the power in the hands of the populous. The American dream was to live in a society where an individual could succeed or fail based on his own efforts. This is important to understand. People flocked to the United States for 400 years to ESCAPE GOVERNMENT CONTROL. We (especially this younger generation) have lost sight of this. At some point, we lost perspective.

We must not trade freedoms for comfort. Freedoms are only ever won back through bloodshed, and we would do well to remember that those freedoms are the most precious gifts ever bestowed on people without power.

 America should not be socialist. America should not have MORE government. If we want to maintain the integrity of what America stands for, we will push for less government.Here is the crux. In order to succeed in a restored America, we must accept that we create our own destiny.

 Free will, baby! It is our choice to better our situation or not. It is our choice to push for success. It is true that not everyone has the same starting point, but with the attitude of personal responsibility, each generation of every family will have it a little better than the last... and that is the American dream...THAT is winning.

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