tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44705750689988147242024-02-02T01:49:38.123-07:00MR PALEOTHE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-77310326572598249162014-03-27T21:24:00.000-06:002014-03-27T21:24:57.901-06:00<div class="separator" sab="748" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">THE WAY IT SHOULD BE...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-large;">Or, WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, MR. PALEO, part three...</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So... what would my choice be ???</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">That's a "no-brainer", in my book. Treat the animals with dignity and respect, let them live life free of our indignities... Since we ARE omnivores, and meat IS a part of our diet, this is the least we can do... </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">Buy local, from someone you know who treats their animals with respect... it is worth a few dollars more, isn't it ??? </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">Besides, it is better for you, in the long run...</span></strong></div>
THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-78889787093394083402014-03-27T21:06:00.001-06:002014-03-27T21:06:43.817-06:00<div class="separator" sab="717" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Where's the Beef ? </span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An abundance of labels on meat and dairy products make such claims as "grass fed," "cage free" and "natural." What exactly do these labels mean, especially in terms of animal welfare?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the claims represent better conditions for animals than those suffered by the billions who are raised on standard factory farms, while others don't relate to the animals' welfare at all. So, how meaningful <em sab="141">are</em> these labels?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following are the most common labels, decoded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Certified Organic</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The animals must be allowed outdoor access, with ruminants—cows, sheep and goats—given access to pasture, but the amount, duration and quality of outdoor access is undefined. Animals must be provided with bedding materials. Though the use of hormones and antibiotics is prohibited, painful surgical procedures without any pain relief are permitted. These are requirements under the </span><a href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/indexIE.htm" sab="145" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">National Organic Program</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> regulations, and compliance is verified through third-party auditing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Free-Range Chickens and Turkeys</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The birds should have outdoor access. However, no information on stocking density, the frequency or duration of how much outdoor access must be provided, nor the quality of the land accessible to the animals is defined. Painful surgical procedures without any pain relief are permitted. Producers must submit affidavits to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that support their animal production claims in order to receive approval for this label.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Grass-Fed</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ruminant animals are fed a diet solely comprised of grass and forage, with the exception of milk consumed before they are weaned. These animals have access to the outdoors and are able to engage in some natural behaviors, such as grazing. They must have continuous access to pasture during the growing season (defined as "the time period extending from the average date of the last frost in spring to the average date of the first frost in the fall in the local area of production"). Painful surgical procedures without any pain relief are permitted. Producers must submit affidavits to the USDA that support their animal production claims in order to receive approval for this label.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Animals are raised according to different levels of welfare standards, from Step 1 to Step 5+. In essence, Step 1 prohibits cages and crates. Step 2 requires environmental enrichment for indoor production systems; Step 3, outdoor access; Step 4, pasture-based production; Step 5, an animal-centered approach with all physical alterations prohibited; and, finally, Step 5+, the entire life of the animal spent on the same integrated farm, with all transport disallowed. Hormone and subtherapeutic antibiotic use is prohibited. The 5-Step program is audited and certified by independent third-parties. The 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating Program is the initiative of </span><a href="http://www.globalanimalpartnership.org/" sab="152" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Global Animal Partnership</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Animal Welfare Approved</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The animals have access to the outdoors and are able to engage in natural behavior. No cages or crates may be used to confine the animals, and growth hormones and subtherapeutic antibiotics are disallowed. Some surgical mutilations, such as beak-mutilation of egg-laying hens, are prohibited, while others, such as castration without painkiller, are permitted. Compliance is verified through auditing by the labeling program. </span><a href="http://www.animalwelfareapproved.org/" sab="155" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Animal Welfare Approved</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">is a program of the Animal Welfare Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Certified Humane</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The animals must be kept in conditions that allow for exercise and freedom of movement. As such, crates, cages and tethers are prohibited. Outdoor access is not required for poultry or pigs, but is required for other species. Stocking densities are specified to prevent the overcrowding of animals. All animals must be provided with bedding materials. Hormone and non-therapeutic antibiotic use is prohibited. Pain relief must be used for physical alterations (castration and disbudding) for cattle. For other mammals, anesthesia and analgesia must be used over 7 days of age, but not earlier. Poultry may have parts of their beaks removed without painkiller, though not after 10 days of age. The program also covers slaughter methods. Compliance is verified through auditing by the labeling program. </span><a href="http://www.certifiedhumane.com/" sab="158" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Certified Humane</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> is a program of Humane Farm Animal Care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No Tail Docking</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the United States, some dairy cows have up to two-thirds of their tails amputated without anesthetic, usually by using tight rubber bands to restrict blood flow until the tail detaches, or is cut off with a sharp instrument. This is painful and renders the cows less able to fend off flies. </span><a href="http://www.bornfreemilk.com/animal-care" sab="161" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Some dairy producers</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">label their milk specifically as “no tail docking” to let consumers know their cows have full tails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hormone-Free, rBGH-Free, rBST-Free and No Hormones Added</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These labels on dairy products mean the cows were not dosed with rBGH or rBST, genetically engineered hormones that increase milk production. Hormones are commonly used to speed growth in beef production, and their use by both the beef and dairy industries are associated with animal welfare problems. Chicken and pig producers are not legally allowed to use hormones. These claims do not have significant relevance to the animals' living conditions. Painful surgical procedures without any pain relief are permitted. There may be some verification of this claim, but not necessarily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unlike birds raised for eggs, those raised for meat are rarely caged prior to transport. As such, this label on poultry products has virtually no relevance to animal welfare. However, the label is helpful when found on </span><a href="http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/guide_egg_labels.html" sab="166"><span style="font-size: large;">egg cartons</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, as most egg-laying hens are kept in severely restrictive cages prohibiting most natural behavior, including spreading their wings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These animals may be given a more natural feed than that received by most factory-farmed animals, but this claim does not have significant relevance to the animals' living conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the United States, a </span><a href="http://default.pub30.convio.net/hsi/policy_and_trade/treaties/the_dolphin_safe_label/" sab="171" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Dolphin Safe label</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">on a can of tuna means that no dolphins were intentionally chased, encircled, traumatized, injured or killed in order to catch tuna swimming beneath the dolphins. Due to pressure from other countries, the U.S. government has made multiple attempts to weaken the rules and allow the use of the label even if the tuna were caught by deliberately setting nets on dolphins. The HSUS and others have won a series of lawsuits to maintain the integrity of the label, so a Dolphin Safe label in the United States still means that the tuna were not caught using methods that harm dolphins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These claims have no relevance to animal welfare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This claim has little relevance to animal welfare, but feeding ruminants—cows, sheep and goats—high levels of grain can cause liver abscesses and problems with lameness. As such, beef products labeled "grain-fed" most likely come from animals who suffered lower welfare than beef products labeled "grass-fed."</span> </div>
THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-18165001396255953352014-03-27T20:48:00.000-06:002014-03-27T20:48:34.733-06:00<div class="separator" sab="222" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnwS0oCabvlvA3dBDRpwzRcRI2BTnFw-xLsKfUc_I5_Yy28BDVCKXtKTgK5rxSSOfxCvm3Ae6e90S1uMByIVtUbowWyg4uzo-O9NhVe02-_dpwAdmeYRimE6GXAWXx_uaueAsrA9vVp3h/s1600/commercial_leghorns.jpg" imageanchor="1" sab="223" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnwS0oCabvlvA3dBDRpwzRcRI2BTnFw-xLsKfUc_I5_Yy28BDVCKXtKTgK5rxSSOfxCvm3Ae6e90S1uMByIVtUbowWyg4uzo-O9NhVe02-_dpwAdmeYRimE6GXAWXx_uaueAsrA9vVp3h/s1600/commercial_leghorns.jpg" height="252" sab="224" width="320" /></a><span sab="225" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"Free-range" ? "Cage-free" ? "Natural" ?</span></div>
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<span sab="226" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> SO... what's it all about, Mr. Paleo ?</span></div>
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<span sab="227" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><strong sab="228"><em sab="229">I have excerpted this DIRECTLY from the official Humane Society website...</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The truth is that the majority of egg labels have little relevance to animal welfare or, if they do, they have no official standards or any mechanism to enforce them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Certified Organic</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The birds are uncaged inside barns, and are required to have outdoor access, but the amount, duration, and quality of outdoor access is undefined. They are fed an organic, all-vegetarian diet free of antibiotics and pesticides, as required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's </span><a href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/indexIE.htm" sab="143"><span style="font-size: large;">National Organic Program</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. Beak cutting and </span><a href="http://default.pub30.convio.net/farm/resources/research/economics/forced_molting_econ.html" sab="144"><span style="font-size: large;">forced molting</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> through starvation are permitted. Compliance is verified through third-party auditing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the USDA has defined the meaning of "free-range" for some poultry products, there are no standards in "free-range" egg production. Typically, free-range hens are uncaged inside barns and have some degree of outdoor access, but there are no requirements for the amount, duration or quality of outdoor access. Since they are not caged, they can engage in many natural behaviors such as nesting and foraging. There are no restrictions regarding what the birds can be fed. Beak cutting and forced molting through starvation are permitted. There is no third-party auditing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Certified Humane</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The birds are uncaged inside barns but may be kept indoors at all times. They must be able to perform natural behaviors such as nesting, perching, and dust bathing. There are requirements for stocking density and number of perches and nesting boxes. Forced molting through starvation is prohibited, but beak cutting is allowed. Compliance is verified through third-party auditing. </span><a href="http://www.certifiedhumane.com/" sab="149" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Certified Humane</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> is a program of Humane Farm Animal Care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Animal Welfare Approved</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The highest animal welfare standards of any third-party auditing program. The birds are cage-free and continuous outdoor perching access is required. They must be able to perform natural behaviors such as nesting, perching and dust bathing. There are requirements for stocking density, perching, space and nesting boxes. Birds must be allowed to molt naturally. Beak cutting is prohibited. </span><a href="http://animalwelfareapproved.org/" sab="152" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Animal Welfare Approved</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> is a program of the Animal Welfare Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">American Humane Certified</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This label allows both cage confinement and cage-free systems. Each animal who is confined in these so-called "furnished cages" has about the space of a legal-sized sheet of paper. An abundance of </span><a href="http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/farm/welfare_issues_furnished_cages.pdf" sab="155" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">scientific evidence</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> demonstrates that these cages are detrimental to animal welfare, and they are </span><a href="http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/farm/welfare_issues_furnished_cages.pdf" sab="156" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">opposed by</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> nearly every major US and EU animal welfare group. Forced molting through starvation is prohibited, but beak cutting is allowed. Compliance is verified through third-party auditing. </span><a href="http://thehumanetouch.org/" sab="157"><span style="font-size: large;">American Humane Certified</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> is a program of American Humane Association.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the term implies, hens laying eggs labeled as "</span><a href="http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/confinement_farm/facts/cage-free_vs_battery-cage.html" sab="160"><span style="font-size: large;">cage-free</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">" are uncaged inside barns, but they generally do not have access to the outdoors. They can engage in many of their natural behaviors such as walking, nesting and spreading their wings. Beak cutting is permitted. There is no third-party auditing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also known as "free-range," the USDA has defined this claim for some poultry products, but there are no standards in "free-roaming" egg production. This essentially means the hens are cage-free. There is no third-party auditing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Food Alliance Certified</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The birds are cage-free and access to outdoors or natural daylight is required. They must be able to perform natural behaviors such as nesting, perching and dust bathing. There are specific requirements for stocking density, perching, space and nesting boxes. Starvation-based molting is prohibited. Beak cutting is allowed. Compliance is verified through third-party auditing. Food Alliance Certified is a program of the </span><a href="http://www.foodalliance.org/poultry" sab="165" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Food Alliance</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">United Egg Producers Certified</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The overwhelming majority of the U.S. egg industry complies with this voluntary program, which permits routine cruel and inhumane factory farm practices. Hens laying these eggs have 67 square inches of cage space per bird, less area than a sheet of paper. The hens are confined in restrictive, barren battery cages and cannot perform many of their natural behaviors, including perching, nesting, foraging or even spreading their wings. Compliance is verified through third-party auditing. Forced molting through starvation is prohibited, but beak cutting is allowed. This is a program of the United Egg Producers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These birds' feed does not contain animal byproducts, but this label does not have significant relevance to the animals' living conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Natural</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This label claim has no relevance to animal welfare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These eggs were laid by hens who lived with roosters, meaning they most likely were not caged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This label claim has no relevance to animal welfare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong sab="178">†</strong>Virtually all hens in commercial egg operations—whether cage or cage-free—come from hatcheries that kill all male chicks shortly after hatching. The males are of no use to the egg industry because they don't lay eggs and aren't bred to grow as large or as rapidly as chickens used in the meat industry. Common methods of killing male chicks include suffocation, gassing and grinding. Hundreds of millions of male chicks are killed at hatcheries each year in the United States.</span></div>
THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-67138030093297117552014-02-27T16:31:00.000-07:002014-02-27T16:31:10.949-07:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" sab="601" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody sab="602">
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<span sab="649" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">There are many names today we are all familiar with, Gerson, Cordain, Saul, Campbell-McBride, Mercola, Whitaker, Sears, LaLonde, Wolf, Masterjohn, Kresser, Yasko, Sisson, Gedgaudas, etc...</span></div>
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<span sab="652" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">But we owe a debt of gratitude to those who came before us, paving the way for the legitimacy of nutrition as a true SCIENCE, not programmed dietary nonsense from those who would have us sick and debilitated... eating cheap crap grown in contaminated human waste, buying hidden GMO's, and taking their "medicines"... </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">From amalgam fillings to recycled human "waste" to "organic" food grown near highways... </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">THERE IS NO ESCAPING EXPOSURE TO THIS NIGHTMARE... as if nuclear pollution and GMO's aren't enough to deal with... Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, et al... unseen toxic substances that cause a myriad of DEADLY serious consequences for ALL living beings... add to this mess "genetic susceptibility" and geometric toxicity, and you have a recipe for a world of tomorrow where NO ONE is immune, NO ONE is "healthy". </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Go to : <a href="http://www.quicksilverscientific.com/">www.quicksilverscientific.com</a></span></strong></div>
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THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-29999781090493322692014-02-04T19:03:00.000-07:002014-02-04T19:03:01.621-07:00<div class="separator" sab="1042" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT !!!! I cannot scream this loud enough... the GREATEST threat, to you and this planet, is NOT Climate Change, Pollution, War, or Congress... it is <u>GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS</u> !</span></span></strong></div>
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THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-41484811034001299262014-01-23T21:43:00.001-07:002014-01-23T21:43:54.605-07:00<div class="separator" sab="637" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">SUPPLEMENTS, et al, or... GAG ME WITH ANOTHER PILL !</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>I really never saw this one coming... but one of my friends started in on the same old dialogue... "It's just expensive (albeit colorful) urine..." Yeah, well... <strong>NO !!!</strong></em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">There are several factors to consider when considering (non-prescription) supplementation... My view is fairly simple and straightforward...</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">I take a dozen or so daily supplements on a regular basis, and another dozen or so, as necessary...</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Why ? First of all because there is little guarantee that you are getting the "full" nutritional value from your food, for several reasons... including the lack of nutrients available in the soil (which affects both plants, AND the animals that eat them). If you are eating REAL, then processing should not be a significant factor, but elapsed time & storage need to be considered... Also, most of us don't eat the same thing at every meal, every day... so most of the vitamins, etc., aren't necessarily covered, and, I don't see a lot of people who eat the ENTIRE food, like I'll bet we used to... when I eat an apple, I eat the ENTIRE apple (the seeds of which contain a minute amount of cyanide, which intestinal parasites despise)... I've even been known to eat the peel of my "little cuties" (vit. C, bioflavonoids, d-limonene)... but I haven't mastered eating the entire bone in my steak (S, Si, K, Mg, P, etc.), or the peel of my pomegranate (PPE). I also don't crush and eat the shells of my oysters (Ca), nor do I eat dirt (microbes). Are ya kinda getting the picture ?</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">NOW, worst-case scenario... I actually eliminate the majority of my intake of supplements... that simply means my body did not need them, or could not utilize them at that moment... GREAT !!! </span></em></div>
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THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-35667306872286216722013-12-29T10:09:00.000-07:002014-01-05T16:28:25.858-07:00<div class="separator" sab="597" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong sab="609"><span sab="610" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Many paleo followers actually "cheat" in this direction by using butter as part of their "program". Even many lactose intolerant individuals (such as myself) find they have no problem with "fermented" organic dairy such as cottage cheese, sour cream, yoghurt, kefir, and normal cheese (whatever that is... lol). Raw milk from cows or goats can often be tolerated as well...</span></strong></div>
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<strong sab="627"><span sab="628" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Going "Primal", which is the addition of dairy products to the general paleo diet, has certain parameters which one needs to be aware of. "Dairy", in America, vs. elsewhere in the world, can be problematic, to say the least. Between the reality of "mass-production" factory farming, the feeding of dairy cattle grains, massive overuse of antibiotics, pasteurization, homogenization, etc., can contribute to dairy "intolerance" in many individuals that might not have occurred had the dairy been fresh, raw, from natural grass-fed dairy cows. In addition, if that were not complicated enough, there are numerous other factors that one needs to consider as well... are you allergic to a component of what the cow ate ? Are there genetic factors which predispose you to an allergic reaction ? Are there other contributing food intolerances as well ? What else is going on in your body ? This subject is not as "simple" as some would have you believe, and can take time, patience, and perseverance on your part to find the answers...)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">That is the question...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">So... you've decided that perhaps this whole Paleo/Primal thing might be of benefit, but you aren't sure what to do about the carbs...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Ok, that's a fair question. Here is my answer...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><u>No</u> sweets and/or baked goods of ANY kind, with the exception of really good dark chocolate (in small amounts/day), and the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">White potatoes (peeled), not more than 3x per week...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Sweet potatoes/Yams (peeled), not more than 2x per week...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Tubers (malanga, boniato, yucca, etc.), not more than 2x per week...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Now, you have to pick and choose among these choices for not more than 5 meals per week... So, if you eat two meals a day, that means 14 meals per week, and of those 14, 5 can contain items mentioned above. The rest of your carbs should come from healthy fresh vegetables, limiting your intake of beets, carrots, and fresh fruit to three or four servings per week. AGAIN, I will re-iterate, fruit should never be eaten WITH a meal... two hours before, or half-an-hour after. (The only exceptions to this rule are papaya and pineapple, both of which should be consumed WITH protein !) Limit your consumption of banana to 1/2 a banana, and make sure you are getting sufficient Mg (magnesium) to balance the P (potassium) in the banana.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Yes, I hear you... "but what about rice, quinoa, etc.?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Consumer reports did a complete survey of commercially available rice in the U.S., and found arsenic contamination in ALL their samples<span style="color: red;">*</span>... arsenic, in both of its forms (organic and inorganic), is a slow deadly poison, almost as toxic as mercury or lead.<span style="color: red;">**</span> I have given up rice. As for quinoa, I don't consume it for "ethical" reasons.<span style="color: red;">***</span> And as for other non-grain "grains" like quinoa, the research is not in yet, as far as I could find, so I choose to avoid these potential problems as well...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">*<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>http://consumerreports.org/cro/arsenicinfood.htm</strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">**<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/12/27/toxic-metals-part-one.aspx</strong></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">***</span><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/01/quinoa-good-evil-or-just-really-complicated</strong></span></span><br />
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THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-19830176895722689802013-12-26T19:20:00.000-07:002013-12-26T19:20:55.430-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-large;">That's what your health, or rather, <em>the lack of good health</em>, means to certain businesses... primarily BIG Pharma, CON Agra, quite a few major Universities, the FDA, and many members of the AMA and ADA...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I am hardly the first to mention this... but it bears repeating, most importantly because you have been continuously mislead by all of the above...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, (CL) in your water, (BR) in your spa & (F) in your toothpaste are NOT healthy,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, mercury amalgams in your mouth are NOT harmless,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, vaccines are NOT without consequence,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, most prescription meds are NOT a panacea,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, supplements are NOT worthless,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, saturated fats do NOT make you fat,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, polyunsaturated fats are NOT beneficial,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, sugar is NOT a food "group",</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, whole grains are NOT good for you,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, homogenization and pasteurization of dairy do NOT benefit you, </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, "farmed" fish and shrimp are NOT clean,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, "modern" farming methods are NOT healthy, sustainable, or ethical,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, "GMO's" are NOT harmless, and,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NO, "organic" is not necessarily better...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">-just to name a few...</span></strong><br />
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First, and foremost, is the removal of its primary food source which, if you don't already know, is SUGAR. And that means ALL sweets, complex carbohydrates, dairy, and fruit. Then one can take several natural supplements to regain the natural flora balance, including caprylic acid (coconut oil), olive leaf extract, probiotics, etc., based on the recommendations of your naturopath. Re-establishing your natural intestinal balance will take time based on the strength and resilience of your immune system, and the state of imbalance that exists in your microbiota.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Sadly, it is yet nearly unrecognized by "mainstream" medical science... </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">But if you do the research, it becomes evident...</span></strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">If you think that Paleo/Primal is difficult because you can't see yourself going without that pizza and beer, or fresh bread and jam, or pies, cakes, cookies, chips, crackers, soda, etc., you may very well be addicted to carbohydrates...</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Put another way, if you crave sweets and starches... you're hooked on something FAR more insidious than illegal drugs... and just as addictive... this is just a start...</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Well, you know what they say... there is "good" news, and there is "bad" news... lol...</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> First of all, if you have candida overgrowth (candidiasis), fruit in ANY form is out... and most of you (particularly grain-eaters) will have this condition, usually without being aware of it. This particular topic, however, will be discussed in the next blog post... back to our discussion...</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> In the first six weeks of converting to the Paleo/Primal dietary regimen, I usually recommend abstinence from all forms of fruit, due to their innate sugar content, as the purpose of switching to Paleo/Primal is to convert the body's fuel source from sugar to fat. This would also include carrots and beets, as they are high in "natural" sugars, although this is not absolutely necessary.</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> After the initial six-week period, reintroduce ONE fruit per week, starting with green apples, moving to berries, then eventually pears, melon, etc. Pay close attention to how you feel with each successive fruit !!! Leave bananas for last, as they are not only high in sugar, but can imbalance your magnesium levels. You will get plenty of potassium from dark leafy greens, fish, avocados, and most of your meats. It should be noted that I do NOT recommend dried fruits, except on rare occasions, as the natural sugars are concentrated. Sure, you can throw some in to your recipes for a bit of sweetness, but don't go overboard.</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> I suggest limiting fruit to a between meal snack, so as not to tax the digestive system, due to the switch in enzymes required for digesting fruit. Not less than two hours before a meal, or less than half an hour after...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;">Botanically speaking, all cereals are grains, and all grains are seeds.... confused ??? </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> A "seed" is the fertilized, mature ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant... still confused ?</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> Let's try another approach... "cereals" are any plant of the grass family yielding an edible grain (e.g., wheat, rye, millet, oats, kamut, triticale, rice, barley, or corn). "Grains" are a small, hard edible seed of a flowering plant, not limited to grasses (e.g., purslane, chia, hemp)... except for buckwheat, amaranth, and quinoa, which are called "pseudo-cereals", and then there are nuts (almond, hazelnut, pecan, walnut, etc.), which are botanically a hard, dry fruit with an edible kernel. No, peanuts are not true nuts, but actually a legume... and that brings us full-circle to legumes, which are nitrogen-fixing plants bearing pods with edible seeds... if you're not TOTALLY lost by now, you must be a botanist !!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> What is important to understand here, from the Paleo/Primal perspective, is if you have to cook the seed, <em>it's not allowed as part of the diet</em>. "Processing" seed is a relatively recent occurrence in human history... early hunter/gatherer/scavengers were not cooking their food, let alone going thru the labor-intensive process of separating seed from chaff, grinding the seed, and then immediately consuming it (it would have gone rancid quickly, unless roasted or thoroughly dried).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"> For a very brief organic biochemistry lesson, grains contain chemical compounds called "phytates", "lectins", and "gluten".<br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>"Phytates"</strong></span></em> are known by eight different names but the most common are phytic
acid, inositol hexaphosphate and IP-6. Phytate is found in all plants because it
stores the phosphorus needed to support germination and growth. An enzyme called
phytase neutralizes the phytate to release the phosphorus. Plants and most
animals have their own phytase. Unfortunately, humans do not. Bacteria in the small
intestine produce small amounts, but not enough to digest phytate. The phytate
then binds with iron, calcium and zinc, which means the minerals can’t be
properly absorbed. The amount of phytate you'll get from any food source varies depending on
growing conditions and processing techniques. Measurements used to report
phytate content are sometimes stated as a percentage of dry weight and other
times as milligrams in a 100-gram portion. Regardless of these differences,
you’ll find wheat bran, rice bran, whole wheat, corn, rye, oats and brown rice
at the top of the list. Phytate is highest in bran-based products. Whole-wheat
flour has about half the phytate of bran but double the amount in corn, oat,
rice or processed white flours. You can count on beans and nuts to contain phytate, but the amount ranges
from approximately .4 percent to as high as 2 to 3 percent of dry weight. Soy, pinto, kidney and navy beans, as well as
peanuts, are at the high end. They have double the amount of phytate found in
peas, lentils, chickpeas, white beans, walnuts and mung beans. Unlike grains
that have a large concentration of phytate in the bran, phytate is equally
distributed throughout seeds. When dry weights are compared, potatoes have almost as much phytate as seeds,
according to a study published in the April 2004 issue of the “Journal of Food
Composition and Analysis.” Even though cooking typically eliminates some
phytate, that’s not true in potatoes. Whether potatoes are baked, boiled,
microwaved or fried, they retain virtually all of their phytate. Based on
average consumption, the researchers noted that phytate consumed in cooked
potatoes may account for a substantial portion of the average American’s daily
intake of phytate. Some methods of commercial food processing destroy phytase, which means that
the food retains more phytate. Other processes that actually reduce total
phytate are soaking, fermenting and sprouting. Soaking rice, beans and raw nuts
for 24 hours, followed by cooking them for the longest time possible, can reduce
phytates by 50 percent, according to the Weston A. Price Foundation. When beans
are sprouted, total phytate goes down by as much as 75 percent. Sprouting
retains nutritional value, but the longer you soak and cook food, the more
essential vitamins and minerals you’ll lose together with the phytate.<br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>"Lectins"</strong></span></em> are a class of molecules called glycoproteins (molecules that contain a protein and a sugar). Because we don’t digest lectins, we often produce antibodies to them. Almost everyone has antibodies to some dietary lectins in their body. This means our responses vary. Certain foods can even become intolerable to someone after an immune system change or the gut is injured from another source. The presence of particular lectins can stimulate an immune system response. There are some lectins that no one should consume. Ever wonder why you don’t see sprouted red kidney beans? It’s due to phytohaemagglutinin – a lectin that can cause red kidney bean poisoning. The poisoning is usually caused by the ingestion of raw, soaked kidney beans. As few as four or five raw beans can trigger symptoms. Raw kidney beans contain from 20,000 to 70,000 lectin units, while fully cooked beans usually contain between 200 and 400 units. While many types of lectins cause negative reactions in the body, there are also health promoting lectins that can decrease incidence of certain diseases. Furthermore, the body uses lectins to achieve many basic functions, including cell to cell adherence, inflammatory modulation and programmed cell death. Ingesting lectins can often cause flatulence. Consuming legumes and grains in their raw form can even result in nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. Indeed, some researchers have speculated that many apparent causes of bacterial food poisoning may actually be lectin poisoning. Often, GI distress happens because lectins can damage the intestinal lining. As food passes through the gut, it causes very minor damage to the lining of the GI tract. Normally the cells repair this damage rapidly. Since the purpose of the gut lining is to let the good stuff past and keep the bad stuff contained, it’s important for the cellular repair system to be running at full efficiency. But lectins can blunt this speedy reconstruction. Our cells can’t regenerate as fast as they need to in order to keep the intestinal lining secure. Thus, our natural gut defenses are compromised after the damage occurs and the gut can become “leaky,” allowing various molecules (including stuff we don’t want) to pass back and forth amid the gut wall. We may also not absorb other important things, such as vitamins and minerals, properly. When enough lectins are consumed, it can signal our body to evacuate GI contents. This means vomiting, cramping and diarrhea. It’s similar to consuming large amounts of alcohol, which can damage the GI lining and cause GI evacuation. When lectins affect the gut wall, it may also cause a broader immune system response as the body’s defenses move in to attack the apparent invaders. Symptoms can include skin rashes, joint pain, and general inflammation. Other chronic disorders may be correlated with leaky gut — for example, <a href="http://www.ebmonline.org/cgi/content/full/228/6/639" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">researchers have even noted</span></a><span style="color: #b45f06;">*</span> that children with autism have very high rates of leaky gut and similar inflammatory GI tract diseases. </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><a href="http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/228/6/639.full"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/228/6/639.full</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><em><strong>"Gluten"</strong></em> <span style="color: #783f04;">is made up of several families of proteins. The scientific name for the most studied of these sub-fractions of proteins is called "Gliadin".</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">Our distant ancestors ate almost no gluten grains. Grains started to be cultivated only ten to twelve thousand years ago, and even then, only in some parts of the world. The American continent, for example, had no gluten grains until they were introduced a few hundred years ago. Of all the grains, wheat is the number one culprit. Modern wheat is also very different from the wheat that grew in the Bronze Age and before because the United States genetically modified the grain to contain a higher percent of the wheat protein under the misguided premise that it would “feed the masses better” and be more nutritional. What they did not realize was the digestion of this protein was too broad a step for our genetics to go from hunter-gatherer and expect the body to genetically adapt to a higher concentration of this protein in the grain. Many of us have simply not yet adapted to tolerate grain, unlike ruminant animals that live off grasses and grains. Gluten constitutes 78 percent of the total protein in the modern wheat. Countries that adopted the use of this genetically modified wheat for a higher gluten content show a direct correlation to inflammatory and auto-immune diseases! This may explain why grain sensitivities are so widespread. There is now plenty of research to show that it is the specific subset of gluten, gliadin, that is an intestinal irritant and causes the inflammation to multiple tissue systems. Tragically, gliadin frequently causes the immune system to react as if it is not a component of nourishing food, but an invading microbe or worse, as though it is indistinguishable from normal organ tissues found in our bodies. The effects of gluten on the immune system, and brain, along with profound nutritional deficiencies that so often accompany gluten sensitivity, contribute to many modern inflammatory diseases that did not exist before the widespread use of gluten products. In those people who are genetically predisposed to gluten sensitivity, eating these grains has serious detrimental effects on the body’s immune system. Gluten grains often trigger autoimmune disease (such as insulin- dependent diabetes, hypothyroidism, etc.) where the immune system, instead of protecting the body, aggressively turns against it, causing these chronic, debilitating inflammatory responses. If not a direct cause, gluten/gliadin’s presence in the body aggravates these conditions significantly. Other inflammatory diseases having potential links to gluten/gliadin proteins are Crohn’s disease, Celiac sprue, irritable bowel, arthritis, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Make it tasty, addictive, and innocuous.... give it fifty different names, and put it in just about everything.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">I promised myself I would not venture into a personal tirade on this blog, but this subject just keeps coming up everywhere I turn... and so few people really get it, even those that should know better....</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Sugar, in almost all its forms, and so-called "non-nutritive" sweeteners are, for the most part, detrimental to human health.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Contrary to popular opinion, it makes little or no difference if it is white sugar, brown sugar, honey, agave, maple syrup, or any other form of sweetener, with the lone exception of xylitol, manuka* honey, stevia, and sodium saccharin for "artificial" sweeteners. EVERYTHING else is a deceptively slow, eventually toxic substance.</span></strong></div>
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<span sab="608" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> Being a staunch proponent of the Paleo/Primal lifestyle seems to automatically put me at odds with a particular segment of mankind.... I am speaking of vegans, vegetarians, fruitarians, and raw foodists....</span></div>
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<span sab="774" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">...And two more things, there is no such thing as "cruelty-free" vegetarianism... whether you are talking about the death of microbes, earthworms, insects, or even animals killed by harvesting crops (and that are NOT at least consumed by us, so die for no good reason), and if you "abhor" the thought of eating animals, why do vegetarians always make their vegetables LOOK like meat ??? What is that all about ? We don't make our meat look like vegetables... who would want a steak that looked like a squash ? </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">How To Get Started On The Paleo Way Of Eating For Health And Healing....</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b> Essentially, you want what you eat to follow the following ratio: 60-70% calories from high-quality SATURATED fat, 20-25% calories from protein, and 10-15% calories from GOOD carbohydrates. "Good" saturated fats for use with moderate HEAT (organic) are coconut oil, palm oil, lard, tallow, butter, ghee, chicken & duck fat, and peanut (not "saturated" unless highly refined, and only for very high heat cooking if you can't get lard). "Good" unsaturated fats for use COLD (organic) are olive oil, sesame oil, avocado oil, and most nut oils. All the following are GOOD protein sources (organic): beef, lamb, pork, turkey, chicken, fish, & game meats (most game meats are actually LOW in fat, so you need to add fat when serving them). Don't forget your veggies, and remember to only eat fruit in limited amounts BETWEEN meals. You will also want to limit (occasional) alcohol consumption to dry wines, scotch, and vodka. No cordials, liqueurs, etc., and try to minimize your consumption of fluids within an hour of eating (before OR after).</b></span>THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-63797833665745557472013-03-26T17:31:00.000-06:002013-03-27T14:02:44.825-06:00WHAT IS PALEO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;"><b> Agriculture was not a part of human existence before 10-12,000 years ago, by all available recorded history of our species. Our teeth and digestive system are that of an omnivore (an animal that eats plants and animals). Keep in mind that the many of the most primitive cultures on the planet were cannibals. Two of the healthiest native populations on the planet are(were) the Inuit of Alaska, and the Maasai of Eastern Africa. Quoting Patricia Cochran, of the Alaska Native Science commission, </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;">“Our meat was seal and walrus, marine mammals that live in cold water and have lots of fat. We used seal oil for our cooking and as a dipping sauce for food. We had moose, caribou, and reindeer. We hunted ducks, geese, and little land birds like quail, called ptarmigan. We caught crab and lots of fish—salmon, whitefish, tomcod, pike, and char. Our fish were cooked, dried, smoked, or frozen. We ate frozen raw whitefish, sliced thin. The elders liked stinkfish, fish buried in seal bags or cans in the tundra and left to ferment. And fermented seal flipper, they liked that too. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Cochran’s family also received shipments of whale meat from kin living farther north, near Barrow. Beluga was one she liked; raw muktuk, which is whale skin with its underlying blubber, she definitely did not. “To me it has a chew-on-a-tire consistency,” she says, “but to many people it’s a mainstay.” In the short subarctic summers, the family searched for roots and greens and, best of all from a child’s point of view, wild blueberries, crowberries, or salmonberries, which her aunts would mix with whipped fat to make a special treat called <i>akutuq</i>—in colloquial English, Eskimo ice cream." </span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;"><b>And the Maasai, </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 26px;"> "The traditional Maasai diet consists of six basic foods: meat, blood, raw milk, fat, honey, and tree bark. Wild game (except the eland), chicken, fish, and salt are forbidden. Allowable meats include roasted and boiled beef, goat, and mutton. Both fresh and curdled milk are drunk, and animal blood is usually drunk at special times—after giving birth, after circumcision and excision, or while recovering from an accident. It may be tapped warm from the throat of a cow, or drunk in coagulated form. It can also be mixed with fresh or soured milk, or drunk with therapeutic bark soups <i>(motori). </i>It is from blood that the Maasai obtain salt, a necessary ingredient in the human diet. People of delicate health and babies eat liquid sheep's fat to gain strength. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 26px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Honey is obtained from the Torrobo tribe and is a prime ingredient in mead, a fermented beverage that only elders may drink. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"> Their preferred meal is a mixture of meat, blood, and fat<i>(munono), </i>which is thought to give great strength." </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;"><b>So, to recap, two of the oldest, healthiest peoples on the planet eat Paleo.... and that is, <u>a diet high in fat, adequate animal protein, and very limited carbohydrate</u>. The burger in the picture would only qualify if you threw away the bun.... There are exceptions, of course. One which comes to mind are the Hunzas of the Himalayas. Their diet consists primarily of raw milk, cheese, yogurt, fruit, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, chicken, and the occasional beef or mutton. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"The energy and endurance of the Hunzakuts can probably be credited as much to what they don't eat as what they do eat. First of all, they don't eat a great deal of anything. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that the average daily food intake for Americans of all ages amounts to 3,300 calories, with 100 grams of protein, 157 grams of fat and 380 grams of carbohydrates. In contrast, studies by Pakistani doctors show that adult males of Hunza consume a little more than 1,900 calories daily, with only 50 grams of protein, 36 grams of fat, and 354 grams of carbohydrates. Both the protein and fat are largely of vegetable origin". (Dr. Alexander Leaf, National Geographic, January, 1973). </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;"><b>It is unknown at this time if the Hunza longevity might be due to calorie-restriction, genetics, or other life & environmental factors....</b></span>THE WANDERING MYSTIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12965643010349726624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4470575068998814724.post-76471555870457978142013-03-25T13:48:00.002-06:002013-03-25T13:48:43.815-06:00INTRODUCTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Let us just say that, <i>whatever</i> his origin, early man ate RAW. And "raw" is not a bad thing.... it's just that our digestive systems are not used to consuming all of our food today, raw. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying most people aren't going to do it.... So the purpose of this website is to provide you with the information you need to eat <b>"healthy"</b>, and/or assist you to recover from any current health issues to <b>be</b> healthy. I am required by law to present the following "disclaimer"....</span><br />
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