Vegan Mamas

Avocado Chocolate Pudding | Raw & Vegan

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:12:23 +0000

My first attempt at this pudding was an adaptation of a recipe I found at Forgiving Martha. I doubled the recipe for my use and I used all organic and raw ingredients including raw cacao powder.

Chocolate Avocado Pudding
vegan, gluten-free
2 ripe avocados
1/2 cup raw cacao powder
1/2 cup raw agave nectar
1/2 cup raw almond milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cut avocados in half and carve them out with a spoon into the blender.
Add all remaining ingredients into the blender and blend!

Now, I thought this recipe was alright, however, my 5 year old daughter (and taste tester), Helen, was not having any of it. So, I added two more ingredients that made quite a big difference.

1/4 tspn sea salt
1 tbspn. shredded coconut

It ended up making it quite a lot tastier in my opinion, however, Helen was still cringing when I would give her a bite! I was also having a hard time calling this desert “healthy” given that it had 1/2 of a cup of Raw Agave Nectar in it. Agave Nectar has received a lot of heat lately due it’s high fructose content. Dr. Mercola argues that Agave Nectar is no healthier than High Fructose Corn Syrup. However most HFCS is typically made with genetically modified corn so if I’m going to use a sweetener high in fructose, I’m opting for Agave Nectar any day over HFCS. Global Healing Center has a great article challenging Dr. Mercola’s article and explaining why Agave Nectar is a far better choice than HFCS. That being said, I still wanted to find an alternative that did not utilize so much agave nectar and I also wanted to figure out how to get my daughter to eat it too.

So, I ended up creating a new recipe on my own that both myself and Helen love!! Here it is…

Chocolate Avocado Orange Banana Pudding
vegan, gluten-free
1 ripe avocado
1 ripe banana
1/4 cup raw cacao powder
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 tspn orange zest
1/4 tspn sea salt
1/8 cup raw agave nectar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cut avocados in half and carve them out with a spoon into the blender.
Add all remaining ingredients into the blender and blend!

This recipe not only tastes amazing but uses less agave nectar as well. Woo hoo!

Vegan Chocolate Cake: Happy Birthday To Me!

admin — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +0000

My fabulous mother made me a vegan chocolate cake for my birthday and it was so good. I don’t know where she got this recipe or who the originating author is, but thank you. It was moist, chocolaty and delicious.

This is what it looked like right out of the oven. When it cooled I added some homemade vegan frosting, which didn’t look so pretty afterwards. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tablespoon vinegar
5 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 cup cold water

Preparation:

In a large mixing bowl, mix all dry ingredients first, then add wet ingredients. Pour into 8 x 8-inch pan.

Bake at 350°F. oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until it springs back when touched lightly.

Black Bean and Quinoa Veggie Burger – Vegetarian Times Recipe

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:16:00 +0000

I got this recipe from Vegetarian Times. The photo and recipe below can all be found at the link above. Delicious!!!

Serves 8

Here’s a delicious veggie burger you can whip up from scratch. Any steak seasoning (which is just a combination of herbs and spices) will work to give the patties a rich, hearty flavor. Stash a few in the freezer for busy weeknight meals. For super-easy cookouts, bake the patties ahead, then reheat them on the grill. Serve with your favorite burger fixings.

½ cup quinoa
1 small onion, finely chopped (1 cup)
6 oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, drained and finely chopped (¼ cup)
1½ cups cooked black beans, or 1 15-oz. can black beans, rinsed and drained, divided
2 cloves garlic, minced (2 tsp.)
2 tsp. dried steak seasoning
8 whole-grain hamburger buns

1. Stir together quinoa and 1½ cups water in small saucepan, and season with salt, if desired. Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer 20 minutes, or until all liquid is absorbed. (You should have 1½ cups cooked quinoa.)

2. Meanwhile, place onion and sun-dried tomatoes in medium nonstick skillet, and cook over medium heat. (The oil left on the tomatoes should be enough to sauté the onion.) Cook 3 to 4 minutes, or until onion has softened. Stir in ¾ cup black beans, garlic, steak seasoning, and 1½ cups water. Simmer 9 to 11 minutes, or until most of liquid has evaporated.

3. Transfer bean-onion mixture to food processor, add ¾ cup cooked quinoa, and process until smooth. Transfer to bowl, and stir in remaining ¾ cup quinoa and remaining ¾ cup black beans. Season with salt and pepper, if desired, and cool.

4. Preheat oven to 350°F, and generously coat baking sheet with cooking spray. Shape bean mixture into 8 patties (½ cup each), and place on prepared baking sheet. Bake 20 minutes, or until patties are crisp on top. Flip patties with spatula, and bake 10 minutes more, or until both sides are crisp and brown. Serve on buns.

July/August 2011 p.60

Roasted Root Vegetables Scented With Apple and Mustard by John Ash

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:19:00 +0000

Two years ago at a New Year’s Eve party someone brought this dish and everyone, including myself, was going crazy over it! So, just a week ago, I was at another party at this same house and the woman who had brought that dish brought a bunch of copies of that recipe. Thank God because I’ve tried to recreate it myself and it was never the same.

It appears to be from a magazine titled Your Organic Kitchen (pg. 194).

Roasted Root Vegetables Scented With Apple and Mustard

by John Ash

Ingredients:

3 cups apple cider or juice

1 cup fruity white wine such as Fetzer Gewurztraminer

2 tablespoons smooth Dijon mustard

3 tablespoons butter (obviously you can change this out for vegan butter)

4 – 5 pounds root vegetables, both sweet (carrots, parsnips, and/or yams) and savory (turnips, rutabagas, and/or celery root), peeled and cut into 1/2″ cubes

Salt and freshly ground pepper

Directions:

In a saucepan, reduce the apple cider or juice, wine, and mustard over high heat to 1.5 cups. Whisk in the butter and pour over the vegetables tossing to coat. Season with salt and pepper and place the vegetables in a single layer in a large roasting pan (s) in a preheated 375 degree overn. Roast for 1 hour or so, or until the vegetables are lightly browned and tender. Stir the vegetables 3 or 4 times during the roasting process to promote browning on all sides.

Makes 8 servings.

Now, this photo, on the other hand is actually a photo of some sauteed carrots by SuperHero Foods… but, you get the idea!

My Favorite Morning Smoothie

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:14:22 +0000

My favorite morning smoothie is a mixture of frozen organic bananas, frozen organic blueberries, organic rice, almond or soy milk, Pine’s Wheat Grass, Nature’s Balance Chlorella and All One Powder.

For anyone suffering from anemia, this shake has cured my anemia time and time again.

For convenience purposes, I like to make my shake in a Magic Bullet. As cheesy as the infomercials may be, the Magic Bullet is pretty handy. What I like about it is that it serves as the cup that you drink out of so you don’ t have to clean a bunch of big blender parts, you just add the ingredients in, blend it up and rinse the blade off real well immediately after. Very handy!

I use the following ingredients:

1 organic frozen banana (I keep broken up pieces of frozen banana in the freezer always)

1/2 cup of organic frozen blueberries

1 serving of Pine’s Wheat Grass

1 serving of Nature’s Balance Chlorella

1 serving of All One Powder

Fill the blender or Magic Bullet up with rice, almond or soy milk until the ingredients are covered with liquid.

Why Wheat Grass?

Just check out this graph showing the nutrient levels of wheat grass compared to standard fresh green vegetables. Enough said!

Why chlorella?

Chlorella has a long history of scientifically-confirmed therapeutic benefits ranging from its ability to detoxify your body of stored heavy metals; mercury, cadmium, lead etc., and chemical pollutants such as pesticides, PCBs and dioxins, – through safe LDL cholesterol and triglyceride reduction, and blood glucose regulation – to its capacity to slow down, and even reverse the dangerous decline in immune cell counts for those taking chemotherapy.

Chlorella has also been found to reduce toxins in mother’s breastmilk therefor reducing chemical exposure to newborn infants!

The Cow’s Milk & Colic Connection

admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:36:47 +0000

When my first daughter was about 6 weeks old, she started projectile vomiting quite frequently after nursing. I met with a few pediatricians as well as a few lactation consultants and questioned whether it was the fact that I had recently started eating dairy again (after being vegan). All of them said that it was not possible that the dairy would be causing it. Well, after many weeks of elimination diets and researching on my own, I found hundreds of stories on www.mothering.com forums with Mothers who had similar issues and after removing dairy the issue went away.

Now, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. Removing dairy doesn’t mean just for a day or two, it can mean for sometimes 2 or 3 weeks before you start to see any results. So, it’s not just something that you try and then give up on after a few days. It takes quite a long time for all of the protein to get out of your system.

The other important thing to remember is that dairy includes so many food items that you may not even realize contain milk. You really need to read the ingredient list. Luckily, now there are usually allergy warnings at the bottom of the ingredient list that will alert you if they contain dairy but it used to be that you had to read through it. So, here is a list of all of the words and products that include dairy (some are fairly obvious, but you’d be surprised how often people seem shocked when I mention a product that to me is so obviously dairy):

Obvious:

Milk

Cheese

Butter

Yogurt

Sour Cream

Not so obvious:

Whey

Casein

Lactose

Any word that begins with or has “lact” in it

For a more in depth list, check out this great article from MIT titled, “Eating Without Casein – A Practical Primer For People with Allergies to Milk” and another helpful article I found on a blog about nursing Mom’s who need to stop eating dairy for their baby’s sake.

You can also check out some of the other posts on this blog for dairy substitutions and recipe ideas. :)

The Dangers of Mercury

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:10:38 +0000

Dangers of Mercury

Interview with Dr. Len Fazio, D.D.S. on the dangers of mercury amalgam, and how to remove them safely.

Click here for article.

Heavy Metals, Mercury, and Cancer

Click here for article.

Mercury Amalgam causes chronic toxicity

Click here for article.

The FDA’s own scientific panel urged the FDA to stop using mercury amalgam in pregnant women, children, and hypersensitive adults.

Click here for the article.

The Dangers of Fluoride

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:05:58 +0000

In order to keep my family fluoride free, there are a few measures we have taken. Our toothpaste is Nature’s Gate fluoride free toothpaste. We also do not do the fluoride treatment that our dentist recommends where they douse your children’s teeth in fluoride. Horrible when you read about the side effects of this procedure. We have a Nikken PiMag Waterfall water filter that not only removes fluoride and chlorine from our drinking water, it also adds back essential minerals as well as PH balanced water. Next on my list is to get a filter for our shower head so that we are not showering and bathing in fluoridated water. Children, especially infants, are very vulnerable to fluoride toxicity so it’s important to take any measures you can to protect them. One of the best things you can do is to start a local campaign to get your City to remove fluoride from our drinking water. Over 300 cities in America have removed fluoride from their public drinking water.

To learn more about the dangers of fluoride, hands down, the best resource for information is the Fluoride Action Network. You can also like them on Facebook so that you can stay up to date on the latest fluoride news.

Here are some more resources on the dangers of fluoride:

Dr. Mercola on Fluoride including interview with Dr. Paul Connett.

Radio interview with Alan Drobnak on the dangers of fluoride from Food Integrity Now.

Dangers of fluoride and its ineffectiveness as a treatment.

Photo courtesy of Our Interesting World.

Online Resources Regarding The Gerson Therapy

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:24:52 +0000

About the Gerson Therapy

Overview of Gerson Therapy, its history and basic protocol.

Click here for article by Paul Fassa

Books and DVDs available from the Gerson Library

http://www.youtube.com/gersoninstitute

Scientific papers supporting the Gerson Therapy.

Explanation of missing information and why Dr. Max Gerson’s work is censored on Wikipedia.

Gerson Documentaries

The Gerson Miracle

http://www.hulu.com/watch/180363/the-gerson-miracle

The Gerson Miracle, with Polish subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY-HsoJ0gr0&feature=related

The Gerson Miracle, with Russian subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkV6GHOYcjc&feature=related

The Beautiful Truth movie trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4XZzhJfHFE

Interview with Steve Kroschel, director of The Beautiful Truth.

http://www.nycmovieguru.com/stevekroschel.html

Chatting with Charlotte

Interview with Charlotte about Dr. Max Gerson’s alternative cancer treatment approach.

Interview with Charlotte about popular American diet, the Gerson Therapy, and how and why it works.

Radio interview with Charlotte on cancer & medical industry fraud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDuCcXNl1I

IAmHealthyRadio interview with Charlotte on the Gerson Therapy

http://www.iamhealthyradio.com/recipes_for_life_broadcast_guests.html

Radio interview with Charlotte on the Gerson Therapy and current mainstream medical care.

www.foodintegritynow.org

Charlotte speaking at UCSD on the topic of aging.

http://www.gerson.org/Audio/Charlotte_Gerson_UCSD.mp3

Charlotte Gerson and Howard Straus interviewed on Healthy Planet, Healthy Me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZFOAZvEROA

Dr. Max Gerson

Dr. Max Gerson: Persecuted for Curing Cancer Naturally

Lecture given by Dr. Gerson in Escondido, CA in 1956

http://doctoryourself.com/gersonspeech.html

Interviews and Patient Testimonials

Prostate Cancer

Video of recovered cancer patient Issa Khalaf’s testimony of his Gerson healing experience.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheIncurablesVid

Melanoma

Interview with Howie Doan on curing melanoma via the Gerson Therapy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnQ0bMlcpU

Interview with Lisa Mendoza on curing melanoma via the Gerson Therapy

http://www.youtube.com/gersoninstitute#p/a/u/1/9JfVL2u4bu4

Blog website of Mike, melanoma patient.

www.smelanoma.com

Epitheliod Sarcoma

Blog website of Jess Ainscough, recovering cancer patient, with recipes and wellness tips.

http://thewellnesswarrior.blogspot.com/2010/04/woman-you-see-posing-in-photograph.html

Ovarian Cancer

Blog website of Cathy, recovering ovarian cancer patient.

www.myjuicejourney.com

Gerson Supporter – Casey Alls

Interview with producers of Food Matters: http://web.me.com/cbsunshine/Holistic_DIVA/Explore.html

The Beautiful Truth and Food Matters trailers

Dangers of Fluoride

Radio interview with Alan Drobnak on the dangers of fluoride.

www.foodintegritynow.org

This article states facts about fluoride and fluoridation

http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=9940

Dangers of fluoride and its ineffectiveness as a treatment.

Click here for article.

Dangers of Mercury

Interview with Dr. Len Fazio, D.D.S. on the dangers of mercury amalgam, and how to remove them safely.

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=5E769B23234401DF45B7E7CD54D83527

Heavy Metals, Mercury, and Cancer

http://www.healthtruthrevealed.com/articles/11180013605/article

Mercury Amalgam causes chronic toxicity

http://www.icnr.com/articles/mercuryamalgamtoxicity.html

The FDA’s own scientific panel urged the FDA to stop using mercury amalgam in pregnant women, children, and hypersensitive adults.

Coffee Enemas

Coffee enemas – What they are, what they do and how to do them.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/185888-Use-Coffee-Enemas-for-Detoxification

More on coffee enemas – history, detoxification and procedure.

http://www.naturalnews.com/022905.html

Series of articles on coffee enemas, organic foods, juices, lethal effects of chemotherapy drugs, and curing cystic fibrosis.

http://www.healingtalks.com/?s=gerson

Juicing

Comparison of Juice Extractors: Enzymes

http://www.hacres.com/pdf/documents/other-juice-extractor-comparison-2007.pdf

Juicing video with Gisela Sommer from Norwalk Juicers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yz2U8fIYfk

“Juice Feasting” diet and lifestyle.

http://www.naturalnews.com/022368.html

Watercress: its importance in juices

http://www.naturalnews.com/029860_watercress_cancer.html

Source of organic apples in Oregon, US. Please note that Gerson patients should not use any of the real sweet varieties like red delicious.

http://www.cogojuice.com/index.php/fruit/category/apples/

Source of farmers in the US

www.localharvest.org

The Best Juicers for the Gerson Therapy

http://juicers.organic-knowledge.com/article-16-best-juicer-for-gerson-therapy.html

Guide to Buying Juicers, on Wellness Warrior

http://thewellnesswarrior.blogspot.com/2010/11/read-this-before-buying-juicer.html

Farmers Markets/Organic produce

Local harvest website: www.localharvest.org

USDA search engine: http://apps.ams.usda.gov/FarmersMarkets/Default.aspx#

Current-Day Health Concerns

Series of articles on coffee enemas, organic foods, juices, lethal effects of chemotherapy drugs, and curing cystic fibrosis.

http://www.healingtalks.com/?s=gerson

Kathryn Alexander’s article downloads on health and uncovering health myths

http://www.kathrynalexander.com.au/free-publication.htm

Article about acidic effects of too much sodium and too little potassium.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/jhphtup0jne8u63k/

Dr Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr Dean Ornish on CNN talking about Bill Clinton’s “new diet”

The media assault on Mexico’s alternative cancer clinics (from Mike Adams)

http://www.naturalnews.com/017410.html

“Why Factory Farms Threaten Your Health,” by John Robbins

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/meat-antibiotics_b_656414.html

Pesticides may be a leading cause of degenerative diseases

http://www.naturalnews.com/029550_pesticides_disease.html

Make Mine Organic (excerpt from The Organic Manifesto, by Maria Rodale)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/make-mine-organic_b_690890.html

“Shopping for the Cure” from Breast Cancer Action

http://bcaction.org/index.php?page=newsletter-63a

“Think Before You Pink!” By Mike Adams, on FoodMatters.tv

http://www.foodmatters.tv/_webapp_418743/Think_Before_You_Pink

Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? Interview with William Li

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/william_li.html

How you can help end the criminalization of supplement and vitamin producers in America, article by Mike Adams

http://www.naturalnews.com/029840_free_speech_nutritional_science.html

A safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products

http://cosmeticdatabase.com/

5 tables of ingredients to avoid

http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/Tables_cospcp.htm

Samuel Epstein’s new book Toxic Beauty http://www.preventcancer.com/documents/ToxicBeauty_pressrelease_FINAL.pdf

Caring for a Loved One Who Has Cancer—Stress Management Tips. (Guest post by Dr. Suzanne Gelb on Gerson patient Jessica Ainscough’s blog, Wellness Warrior) http://thewellnesswarrior.blogspot.com/2010/11/guest-post-caring-for-loved-one-who-has.html

How to make a castor oil pack, demo video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaCT80TzlY

Please note that this video was not made with the Gerson Therapy in mind, so a Gerson patient should be aware that when doing a castor oil pack on the Gerson Therapy:

Using an electric heating pad is not recommended.
Drug store brand castor oil is not acceptable, nor should one use baking soda to clean up.
Use caution when putting the castor oil pack in the oven, as the wool cloth may burn easily. Do not use a microwave.

Online Support Group

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/GersonTherapy/

Recipes

http://gersoncooking.blogspot.com/

http://www.recipething.com/recipes/user/sMelanoma/Gerson

http://thewellnesswarrior.blogspot.com/p/recipes.html

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Letter+from+Italy–recipes+from+Rosita’s+Kitchen%3a+Gerson+Therapy…-a0207705509

Hippocrates Soup demo video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB0FaWXt0Mo&feature=related

Social Media

Gerson Institute’s Facebook Page

http://www.facebook.com/GersonInstitute

Facebook Causes: The Gerson Institute

http://www.causes.com/causes/368554?m=0d43bb06

Gerson Institute’s Twitter Feed (@GersonInstitute)

http://twitter.com/#!/GersonInstitute

Gerson Institute’s E-bulletin Archives

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs094/1101330299260/archive/1103280990514.html

The Perils of Dairy – By Dr. John McDougall – VegSource.com

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:06:38 +0000

If there is only one thing you pay attention to on this entire website, it should be this video. I find myself sharing this video with anyone who is questioning whether dairy is really as good for them as they had thought.

Below is a link to the video as well as corresponding notes I have taken from the video.

Perils of Dairy Lecture by Dr. John McDougall

p.s. skip the first 15 minutes of this lecture - it’s just a lot of thank you’s to people at this conference…

Cow’s Milk NOT Human Breast Milk

When I am talking about milk, I am not talking about mother’s milk.. human breastmilk is absoultely essential for human babies. If you fail to breastfeed your child, you’re causing some problems that can be immediate, lifethreatening and can also be long term. It’s estimated that bottle feeding kills more than 1 million children a year across the world.

If you bottle feed your baby, your baby has:

2 – 4 times risk of crib death

60 times more chance of that child developing pneumonia within the first 3 months of life

10 – 12 times greater risk of going to the hospital in the first year of life

Reduced intelligence – IQ is decreased

Behavioral speech difficulties

Problems early in life such as infections, asthma, eczema, type 1 diabetes, cancers including leukemia and lymphomas are increased early in life

Then, as an adult, there is a greater risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, food allergies, ulcerative colitis and chron’s disease

Human breastmilk is the only acceptable food for human babies!

If I were surgeon general of the US, one of the things I would do is make formula a prescription item. A doctor would not be allowed to prescribe in unless it was justified – this is a life and death situation.

Dairy Products

When I’m talking to you about dairy products, I’m talking about all dairy products. That means non fat milk, kefir, yogurt, butter, cheese, cottage cheese, all the dairy products.

The Dairy Industry

The dairy industry is supporting an 11 billion dollar/year milk business and a 16 billion dollar/year cheese business.

They have dedicated 165.7 million dollars this year to promoting dairy products and to show the healthfulness of dairy products.

They’re are going to pay with that 165.7 million dollars to get research to show benefits of their products.

Cow’s Milk is For Cows!

This evolution has gone on for as long as cows have been in existence to develop this ideal food for baby cows called cows milk. It does a good job, it grows baby cows really well.

But cow’s milk is not the right food for people. Milk is specifically designed for a species of animal. One of the qualities of the milk is that it has to fit the needs related to growth. Let’s look at some figures concerning the growth of an animal compared to the protein content, which is vital to growth. Let’s look at the protein content relative to the rate of growth. The rate of growth here is the amount of time it takes to double the size of an animal.

Human Breastmilk: Protein: 1.2 grams/100 ml; Doubles in Size in: 180 days

Horses: Protein: 2.4 grams; Doubles in Size: 60 days

Cows: 3.3 grams; Doubles in Size: 47 days

Goat: Protein: 4.1 grams; Doubles in Size: 19 Days

Dogs: Protein: 7.1 grams; Doubles in Size: 8 Days

Rats: Protein: 11.8 grams; Doubles in Size: 4.5 days

So, cows milk is a food that has the protein content ideal for an animal that doubles in size about 4 times as fast as we do.

Cows, Calcium and Strong Bones:

Calcium content:

Calcium content of cows milk is 4 times as high as human breastmilk.

Milk is sold to people as the ideal food to build strong bones. Originally milk was sold to you based on it’s calcium content. If you consumed the gallons of milk and handfuls of calcium pills that are recommend you would die. You would die from soft tissue calcification, your kidneys would get calcified, your muscles would get calcified, your lungs would get calcified, you would die.

We have a very intelligent gut wall that when you overload it with calcium, it will block it from getting into your bloodstream to save your life. If you give your gut the correct amount of calcium that you can very easily get from a plant based diet, your gut will allow it into your bloodstream and it will ALWAYS meet your calcium needs!!

Now, how do I know that it will always meet your calcium needs? Because I have searched, the World Health Organization has searched, the US Government has searched for a single case of calcium deficiency caused by a low calcium diet. There has never been a case of dietary calcium deficiency ever reported in the world literature. There is no such disease.

Yet, billions of people live on diets that contain no dairy products, no tums, no calcium pills and they grow normal adult skeletons.

So, the calcium pitch didn’t work. So, now the dairy industry has turned their focus to how dairy builds strong bones. Now, they are claiming that the protein causes the bones to grow stronger. They have spent millions of dollars in research and advertising to tell you this.

The Dairy Association has this 3 A Day campaign now to build strong bones. They’re telling you not just to consume low fat products, but any of their products.

Calcium is a mineral that comes from the ground. It does not come from milk, it does not come from the plants, it originates from the ground as do all of the essential minerals that we need. No animal eats ground, so we want to get the mineral from the next closer source: plants.

Plants are so sufficient in minerals, that mineral deficiency is almost non existent in the world except for some very rare cases in third world countries (iodine, selenium, zinc) – very isolated situations, nothing we would ever have to worry about in our society.

Recommendations given for calcium intake:

Nursing or Pregnant: 150 – 200 mg/day

Average intake in underdeveloped countries: 300 – 500 mg/day

Average American: 500 – 600mg/day

World Health Organization: 400 – 500 mg/day

Dairy Industry Influenced US Organizations Recommendations:

US Food and Nutrition Board: 1000 mg/day

National Institutes of Health: 1000 – 1500 mg/day

How in the world could we have recommendations so varied? Because calcium intake has little or nothing to do with the health of the bones.

The dairy industry has paid for almost all of the research studying the effects of calcium on bone health.

Whenever you read a study, look at who paid for it.

Out of only 57 they conducted, they decided that just 21 of them were worth considering. You’d think that with the amount of money they are spending on this research and advertising these studies, they would have 1,000′s of studies. Of these 21 studies, in which it was clear to all parties that the study was paid for by the Dairy Association:

57% showed no benefit from cow’s milk on bone health

29% were favorable

14% actually showed that cow’s milk hurt the bones

There are only 7 studies published in the literature on the effect of cows milk that are randomized, controlled studies! Of those 7 studies, only ONE tested the effect of fluid cow’s milk on post-menopausal women, which are the subjects that are most likely to develop osteoporosis, and that one study, published in 1985, shows that cows milk hurts the bones and it was paid for the by the national dairy industry.

Read the study here: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in February of 1985, but remember that the results were written by the Dairy Association, so read through the twisted interpretation.

Those who got the milk lost twice as much bone as those who didn’t get the milk! They will never ever do this study again!

The protein having a detrimental effect on the ca

Recker and Heaney, who performed this study, say that “the protein content of the milk supplement may have a negative affect on the calcium balance possibly through an increase in kidney losses of calcium or through a direct effect on bone resorption”. Focus on those words: PROTEIN HAVING A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THE CALCIUM. Don’t forget those words, because the dairy industry has forgotten them. They go onto say, “This may be have been due to an average 30% increase in protein intake during the milk supplementation”. It says it right there in their paper!

What causes osteoporosis? The bones are designed to last a lifetime, your bones aren’t designed to dissolve when you are 40, 50, 60 years old so this has to be a disease. We are eating a diet not intended for human beings. This is a diet that we did not evolve upon.

Acidity and Alkalinity

One of the more serious problems of this kind of diet is that it is filled with acid. Below 7 is acid, above 7 is alkaline.

Certain foods are very acidic. Things like cheese. Parmesan cheese is the most acidic of all foods commonly consumed. Poultry, fish, seafood, all of your animal products are loaded with acids.

Alkaline foods are your fruits and vegetables.

So, we eat all of this acid in the SAD diet and our bodies maintain a slightly alkaline PH and then when we eat acid the body has to neutralize that acid. Why? Because the PH has to be maintained precisely and if it isn’t, other chemical reactions of the body don’t work and you get very sick.

So the body maintanis the PH by neutralizing the acid. How? The primary buffering system of the body is the bones, the bones dissolve, they release bicarbonates and other kinds of alkaline materials which neutralize the acids and that’s how you lose your bones. You essentially pour acid on them and they dissolve.

When we look around the world what we find is a direct correlation between animal protein intake and hip fractures. You see countries that consume a very alkaline diet have very low risks of hip fracture, when you see higher protein intakes, you see higher hip fracture rates. The more calcium you consume in a country, the higher the rate of hip fractures. You can not deny this data, you can not argue against this data.

In order to get the calcium balances, you measure the calcium in the urine and the feces and then subtract that from the amount of calcium that you eat and you get the calcium balance. Well, when you’re on a low protein diet you’re in positive calcium balance on a diet of 500 milligrams of calcium. You’re still in a positive calcium balance on 1400 milligrams of calcium. If you eat a high protein diet which is typical of Americans, even when you’re consuming 1400 milligrams of calcium per day, you’re still in a negative calcium balance. The moral of the story is no matter how much calcium you consume, you will not correct the problem until you deal with the cause, which is the high protein, high acid American diet.

This is not a problem of modern society. They have studied Eskimos from 500 years ago and have found the same issues.

Insulin Like Growth Factor – 1

Insulin like growth factor one (IGF-1) is a very powerful growth hormone. It will promote bone growth. When you feed protein to people, you increase ILGF1 in their bodies and you increase bone growth and you can actually see that only if you neutralize the acid first.

You can also increase ILGF1 even more by increasing the amount of recumbent bovine growth factor (rBgh) that they put into milk to increase milk production. So when you put this into the cows in the production process, the milk that they produce also has more ILGF1 and by the way it’s not destroyed in pasteurization.

The end result is published in two studies. One on adolescent girls and one on post-menopausal women. And what they show is that if you feed milk to women, either adolescents or post-menopausal, you increase their ILGF1 levels by 10%. So, now the Dairy Industry has the mechanism for bone growth by feeding dairy products. Now, they’re not going to tell you all the details like you’ve got to neutralize the acid first, now they’ve got it. Unfortunately there are going to be people like myself that are going to tell you the rest of the story… the rest of the story is:

ILGF1 is the strongest cancer promoter that people have identified. Not only do you grow body tissue, but you also grow cancer with ILGF1. It grows, breast, colon, prostate and lung cancer tremendously. It prevents cell death which you don’t want to happen when you are growing cancer cells and and increases cell proliferation. It is a very powerful cancer stimulator.

Whole vs. Low-fat vs. Skim Milk:

Whole milk is 49% fat and low-fat milk is still 31% fat! How could that be when it says on the side of the milk carton 3.5% fat – well, that’s 3.5% fat by weight, but no one eats their food by weight, you don’t eat a 5 pound diet, you eat a 2000 calorie diet. The denominator for all discussions in science on nutrition is calories, not weight, so of the calories that are in milk, 31% of those calories are from fat. So, what happens to the other relative concentrations of calories that make up skim milk? Remember you have to ultimately end up with 100% in terms of total calories.

Whole Milk: 49% fat, 21% protein, 30% carbohydrates (carbs = lactose = milk sugar)

Low Fat Milk is 31% fat, 28% protein, 41% carbohydrates

Skim Milk: 2% fat, 41% protein, 57% carbohydates

When you switch from whole milk to skim milk, you double the amount of protein! So what you’ve done is you have damaged the bones and you’ve created a situation in which you get kidney stones. Those bones that you lose pass out of the body through the kidneys, they solidify and that’s how you get kidney stones.

Raising Children Without Dairy? Can you imagine?

The dairy industry has targeted children, and this is one of the areas that we’re going to go after them. Their efforts to target children concerning the importance of cows milk. They tell you it’s necessary for growth, it’s necessary for bones, it’s actually essential.

The brainwashing is so dominant, they’ve changed our minds to even when we know the facts, we still know that we have to consume this cows milk for our children’s health and we’re afraid to take them off the cow’s milk. It’s a deadly kind of thinking. I will try to show you why and hopefully give you enough information so that when those emotions come up you will be able to fight them a little bit and you will be able to do the right thing for your children and your grandchildren.

From The Dairy Industry: “The goal is to guide school age children to become lifelong consumers of dairy products. 2003 activities will target students, parents, educators and school food service professionals.”

Similar words have been said by the tobacco industry. You’ve heard the exact statement, “we’re gonna hook em when they’re young and we’re going to keep them on for life”, and that’s what they’re doing.

Annual milk consumption among kids aged 6 – 12 increased to 28 gallons per capita, the highest levels in 10 years. Children under 18 consume 46% of the milk in this Country.

Let’s Talk About The Problems With Dairy

Not all the white color in milk comes from the calcium. Some of it comes from the white blood cells. White blood cells are also commonly known as puss cells. The cells that occur when you get a pustule on your hand, they’re called white blood cells.

The dairy industry has standards: You can not have more than 750,000 puss cells per cc of milk or you can’t sell it. In New York the milk was analyzed and on average it had 363,000 puss cells per cc. A cc, by the way, is 1/3rd of an ounce! And they 24,000 of bacteria per cc.

Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through September 30th, 1998, for problems such as:

Salmonella, staphylococci, listeria, deadly e.coli 01573, mycobacterium, paratuberculosis, which some people believe causes chron’s disease.

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