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"Let
food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" - Hypocrites
I've been
one of those "granola, tree loving" (ok, I do hug &
sniff) nuts for over 20 years. My daughter grew up on brown
rice/whole grains, soy/tofu, beans, nuts, fruits, and a huge
variety of veggies. It's not like we never had meat, but "M"
was a natural "vegetarian" (she just didn't like it), it was
never forced. Now an adult, she still eschews meat, for the most part.
As a child, I packed meat in my cheek and woke up in the morning with
it still there! I was "forced" to eat it.
I don't deny or disparage
food I'm being served as a guest in someone's home. I let them know,
if asked, but don't demand "special food". Allergic reactions
may be valid (and some are genuinely hereditary - not most), but that's
a whole other story...
I preferred
being outside; running with friends, riding my horse, catching horny toads
and snakes. We had well-balanced meals (mom always told me "you're
going to die-yet", whenever I "dieted" in my teens). We
rarely ate out, or had chips, pop, candy, etc in the home... Now, I hike/backpack,
showshoe, play tennis, swim, bike, walk, and am currently building a sustainable
structure. I'm not the "perfect" size, mainly because my "jobs"
keep me in a chair, and my metabolism has slowed to a crawl! But, I am
HEALTHY... and I still backpack, just not as much! A friend is going with
me this summer to finish a 500 mile backpack (52 miles left)l... The Colorado
Trail.
My 1st
choice for food, no matter what it is, has always been: Quality
First! Rarely is it a price decision. Although I'm very far from
being wealthy, quality food is affordable. Because I've always chosen
food that costs more (organic, natural, fresh, whole foods), I don't miss
the few pennies, or even dollars. It's a natural, and the most important,
part of my budget, and my health! After decades of this I know what companies
to trust, what to buy and how to fix it. And Vitamin Cottage has been
the most stringent store in which to buy these foods, herbs and
alternative remedies.
I consider what
I put into my body one of the most important things I can do for health.
I've gone 6 years without a cold. It's not that I never get
sick, but I rarely do. Last time I had "the flu" was over 15
years ago. The only thing I took was cough syrup and aspirin for the
headache. The cough syrup? Hycomine (sp?), now that's a cough syrup!
Never had one work as well since - the "drug nazi's" made it
unavailable. A few stupid people must have O.D.'d on it! Why are we treated
like children, unable to choose for ourselves what works best, or to
allow our doctor to decide? To me these "accidents" just cleans
up the gene-pool! Isn't that "god's way"? I'm not sorry if
I offend, but life is just a path to death and some just get there quicker
than others... No one will make it out of this alive. In fact one might
say that each second is a death, and birth, that we fail to recognize.
But I digress, of course...
Anyway Mom made chicken soup,
the old fashioned way (Jewish meds). That was enough. Old wives tales...
? Maybe. But, who cares... if it works?!
I dumped Allopathic (traditional)
"doctors", when they began dispensing legal drugs religiously...
that didn't work. The first thing we must understand is that "they"
(pharmaceutical/insurance industry) are not in business to cure you.
Their bottom line is MONEY! To cure you is to lose money. A healthy
person is a useless mass of flesh, and if you advocate natural/alternatives,
then you are a THREAT.
I found a naturopath who's
been my "physician" for over 20 yrs, and I rarely see her.
I learned about natural, non-invasive, herbal and homeopathic
remedies. I pay out of pocket. One can find Naturopaths
who are also MD's... which can be very helpful (for insurance), but beware...
their primary allegiance may
be Allopathic through force or for the dough! This is what I found
from the one I saw.
I took
to Macrobiotics. Basically,
you eat what naturally grows in your region, or temperate zone. This can
be difficult for many who are addicted to all the processed "phood"
available at one's fingertips (yet is shipped thousands of miles, using
vast amounts of energy to grow, process, ship, and store it), that one
wouldn't even know existed if it wasn't trucked or flown in. Most of our
food now travels thousands of miles. We're losing natural farms &
ranches... real food, to centrallized "phood" conglomerates.
Macrobiotics
could be considered indigenous, or "caveman" food. In Colorado,
it would mean eating whole grains (not the heavily refined "carbs"
that has everyone frightened), beans, vegetables, squashes, root vegetables,
nuts, fruit (peaches, apples, etc). If you eat meat... deer, buffalo,
grouse, trout... and "cattle". As I've said for years: We're
the only species that hasn't been weaned. I RARELY do dairy - maybe a
little cheese now and then.
Genetic
Engineering is used extensively now... Instead of canning, or dehydrating
foods of spring, summer and autumn, we buy food that is adulterated, picked
too early, waxed, packaged, shipped and stored. Not enough time you say?
That's the plan... to keep you harried, inconvenienced, ignorant, and
apathetic... so you will need "convenience phood",
and become dependent upon them. Soon, your children will not
know what the phood you buy is even made of. It's already happening...
One care barely recognize what is being served as (packaged) food, such
as heavily breaded items. I consider the USDA/FDA to be complicit and
corrupt, so you can't get the information you need to make informed decisions
to keep you and your kids healthy. Ever see the movie Soylent
Green? Most phood is unidentifiable, like heavily processed hot
dogs, baloney, and even chips.
We're now afraid of our
"damned" food, and water! We buy water
in bottles, but don't know where it comes from. By purchasing con-venience
phoods we destroy what we need to be, and stay, healthy! Ironic
isn't it? Our dependence on the centralized grid, has produced phood
that we can't tell where/what/how it's bred, grown, fed, injected, adulterated,
butchered, refrigerated, nuked, transported, handled, and shelved for
months. Whether it's genetically engineered with pesticides, fish or
spider genes, inhumane conditions... Giving us Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting,
Whirling, etc... Or are those things bred in a petrie dish somewhere?
There's always the new and improved disease coming out of "nowhere",
to breed fear and make you beg for the "antidote". Very convenient
for those drug manufactueres, wouldn't you say?!
We're made to "believe"
that we need government (USDA, FDA, WHO, NIH, CDC...) to keep us safe.
Nothing could be further from the truth. WE need to
make sure that our food is grown, processed and forwarded to us within
a relatively short time, from a local farm/ranch. WE
must not become dependent upon phood corporations (Phillip Morris, now
Altria, is the largest phood producer - Kraft) for our survival. This
is Food Tyranny! Water Tyranny is beginning to be poured over us too...
We must take back our farmland... think global, act local!
Most doctors
today are primarily drug pushers
for antibiotics, vaccinations, flu shots, and a miriad of "color
coded" pills! They're in bed with pharmaceutical companies. And,
they do not have your best interests uppermost in their mind. Drug corporations
"control" doctors, as do insurance agencies - both are very
nasty omens for health. They no longer tell us to get off our ass and
do something. They don't tell us that our eating habits are killing us.
They don't tell us that prescription drugs kill more people than
all illegal drugs combined! They don't tell us that we can help
ourselves. They don't tell us about their Hippocratic oath: "first
do no harm" (that's changed). Is this where the word HYPOCRITE is
derived? They won't tell you that your ability to buy unadulterated
vitamins and herbs are under attack! They won't tell you that you
can heal yourself with food and herbs, among other alternatives! For this
would cause great gnashing of teeth and rage, from those who's livelihood
depends upon your reliance on "legal drugs" to fix what you,
and they, have done to your body.
The FDA,
USDA, and drug corporations, are trying to ban herbs and supplements (CODEX),
so that you won't be able to heal yourself, and thus be even more dependent
on pharma-cons. Hmmm... isn't there a quote in the Bible that says: "Heal
thyself" (could be wrong about that - I'm not a "believer").
Sign the petition at Vitamin Cottage
(Colorado) to keep alternatives FREE!
I treat
myself. A couple of times my hand was snagged by my cat. It was such a
tiny puncture (but went well into a vein) that it did not bleed outwardly.
The top of my hand filled with blood and began spreading out. I was soon
to leave on a short trip. It became infected (a RARITY) - red, black &
blue. I'd been taking herbs and it was working, but I forgot to take them
with me, and it began to spread again. I used an item that one can find
in most stores to draw out the infection through the skin, Epsom Salts..
It really helped! By the time I got home it was coming back. I used another
skin treatment to draw out the infection... it was completely gone in
two days, even the black & blue. No doctors, no drugs, no injections
(tetanus). The 2nd natural "medicine" was an ingredient in pancakes,
used as a poultice. Buckwheat! Food as medicine? Old wives tales.
So don't
go making any New Year's Resolutions that you know you'll break. Re-Evolution.
Begin. Eat well. Get out and enjoy the sunshine, the snow, the rain, the
heat, the cold... never mind rigid "programming" and diets...
When your pants get tight, cut back on the portions, or the junk. When
you find yourself spending too much time on the couch... Get up, get out...
Walk the dog. Visit a neighbor,
that you don't really know. Play ball with your kid... walk up a hill,
sled down (on plastic bags)... make angels in the snow... notice the
beauty of the brownness of winter without snow... go to bed early...
get up late, or early... fix a wonderfully huge breakfast and skip lunch...
or fast for a day... rollerblade with your child down the middle of your
street - reclaim your neighborhood (if people knew that kids would be
playing in the streets, like we used to, they would automatically
be more careful!)! Watch the birds and squirrels, or the golden eagle
that perches in the trees above... look up... smell the flowers around
your knees, eat dandilions (powerful blood purifier), lay in the grass
and see how many types of bugs you can see, or faces in the clouds...
enjoy a great bottle of wine... play frisbee with your dog, or your wife...
make love... PROTEST WAR... Go fly a kite... Heal
Thyself!
Also
read : Paying
Dearly for Free Prescription Drugs - by Rep. Ron Paul
(Oct 6, 2003)
"Be careful in reading
health books. You may die of a misprint" - Mark Twain
"The
carpenter desires timber, the physician disease" - unknown
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