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.  :)

I saw this in Dr. McDougall’s newsletter and would love to try this!

Chile’s Pumpkin Nog

Chile is a McDougall follower and a regular contributor on the McDougall discussion board.  She posted this on the discussion board a month or so ago, and sent it to me to include with the recipes for your holiday celebrations!

Preparation Time:  5 minutes
Chilling Time:  at least 2 hours ahead
Servings:  makes about 3 cups

1 cup pureed pumpkin, chilled (canned is fine, but not pumpkin pie mix)
2 cups non-dairy milk, chilled
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla

Place all ingredients in blender and process until smooth.  Pour into glasses and serve with a bit of grated fresh nutmeg on top for a special presentation.

I saw this in Dr. McDougall’s newsletter this month and it sounds delicious!

Ola’s South West Black Bean and Sweet Potato Soup
By Ola Ellman

Use either regular sweet potatoes or orange Garnet yams in this recipe.

Preparation Time:  15 minutes
Cooking Time:  40 minutes
Servings: 4

1 onion, rough chopped
2 celery ribs plus the leaves, rough chopped
3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 large sweet potato, peeled and diced
1 dried Serrano pepper broken up or1 fresh jalapeno, minced
Cumin, sage, thyme, about ½ teaspoon each
Black pepper
1 to 2 cans black beans, slightly drained, or any left over beans that you have
Approximately ¼ cup instant mashed potatoes
Chopped fresh cilantro for garnish
Baked tortilla strips

Sauté onion in just enough water to cover for a few minutes, or until soft.  Add more water if needed.  Add the celery and garlic and sauté until soft, adding just enough water to keep from sticking.

Add 4 cups of water, the sweet potatoes and chili pepper and bring to boil; then turn down heat so it simmers. Add herbs to taste, about ½ teaspoon each.  Add black pepper to taste. Simmer until sweet potatoes are done, but still holding shape. Add black beans and simmer until well heated. Stir in enough instant mashed potatoes to just thicken the liquid slightly, if needed.

Taste and adjust seasoning and if necessary add a bit of soy sauce to taste.

Garnish with chopped fresh cilantro and baked tortilla strips.  Serve with Mary’s corn bread.

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.

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.

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

Video and Corresponding Notes from 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.

Notes from Charlotte Gerson Lecture:

Toxins are in our food due to processing, preserving, pesticides, bleaching, excess fats and proteins that your body can not break down properly, etc. Toxins are also enzyme inhibitors so as long as there are too many toxins in the body, the enzyme systems can’t work and you can’t digest properly, you can’t assimilate the nutrients that your body needs properly, you can’t break down the fats and proteins to their end products and so they accumulate in your body and cause damage.

Once extensive damage has been caused to all the essential organs, the body begins to develop chronic disease.

So you need to detoxify your body in order to get rid of the poisons and allow your body to heal. You need to restore the enzyme systems so that your body can assimilate the nutrients that it needs to function.

The food we eat needs to be oxidized in the cell systems into energy and in order to do this you need enzyme activity. If there’s too much inhibition of enzymes, the cell systems no longer oxidize and instead they turn it into fermentative energy to stay alive but with fermentative energy the cell can only do one thing – grow and split, grow and split and grown and split uncontrollably, which is cancer.

When you have enough toxins and enough damage to the enzyme systems and you’re not getting enough fresh enzymes into your body because of the depleted dead, cooked foods we, as a society, are eating and the enzyme systems are blocked because of the toxins and the cells have fermentative energy production, you have the beginning of cancer.

However, it does not necessarily become cancer because a normal, healthy body with the immune system functioning properly recognizes these malignant cells as foreign cells and they’ll attack and destroy them. So why doesn’t the immune system do this? Because the immune system is also toxic and not working – it’s made up of cells too and they too need live active nutrients and are blocked by excess fats, sodium, protein and chemicals.

Dr. Gerson showed that the beginning of all chronic disease was loss of potassium from the cell systems and invasion of sodium. In nature all of the foods that we get are high in potassium and low in sodium. But when foods are processed, cooked, jarred and preserved always the potassium is lost and sodium is added. We reverse the mineral balances that we need. We do need sodium but it needs to say within the fluid systems and the potassium has to stay within the cell systems because they activate the enzymes.

Potassium activates enzymes, sodium is an enzyme inhibitor and if sodium penetrates the cells, the cells can not work anymore. But why does sodium penetrate the cells? Because the foods we eat are so damaged, are so changed, the potassium has been lost, the sodium has been added so you’re constantly flooding the body with excess sodium. Your body tries to get rid of it through perspiration, urine, feces, mucus and even tears but it’s still flooded and when the body is not getting enough potassium, it can no longer function this way and collapses.

This collapse, whether it’s the immune system, enzyme system, skin system, pancreas, digestive system – it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what the disease is. When you are able to flood the body with nutrients and detoxify the liver, the body will begin to rebuild it’s systems and organs and it will heal itself.

Healing is not cutting out a tumor, radiating a damaged area, treating a symptom, giving a drug that causes damage and new disease. That is not healing. Healing is restoring all of the underlying systems – the kidneys, the liver, the brain, the bones, etc. Whether you are healing tuberculosis, hepatitis, cancer, diabetes, it makes no difference and that’s where we clash with Orthodox medicine – 1 treatment to cure all disease? What do you mean?

Doctors in medical school do not study biochemistry and that is what we are dealing with here – the underlying biochemistry of the whole body. The immune system, hormone system, endocrine system, enzyme system, minerals, digestion, detoxification, nutrition. Every part of the body needs to be addressed and restored and reactivated so that your body can truly be healed.

Why is this not advertised and common knowledge? Because unlike the $100 million/year cancer industry, there is no profit to be made on organic carrots!

Through fresh, raw, organic vegetable and fruit juices (Gerson Institute patients drink over a gallon of freshly juiced organic vegetables and fruits/day – this is equal to 20 pounds of fruits and vegetables/day) and vegetarian meals including soups, salads and potatoes the body can begin to assimilate the nutrients that it needs to heal.

Gerson Therapy Lecture:

Part One:

Part Two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yodbwC-BNRc&feature=related

Part Three:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQWHx-N_ms&feature=related

Part Four:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiS1hHlAEXo&feature=related

Part Five:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3IExQ3Orc&feature=related

Part Six:

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

Part Seven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME41oog34BU&feature=related

Part Eight:

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

Part Nine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WK7uwn23ig&feature=related

Part Ten:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-SayY7gj08&feature=related

Part Eleven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DkIr4ToJ-g&feature=related

Part Twelve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzCNEIY4Vpk&feature=related

Part Thirteen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrwUvy7VzlA&feature=related

Transitioning to a vegan diet from the Standard American Diet (also known as S.A.D.!) can be a pretty daunting task at first so here are some basic vegan breakfast ideas to get your mind thinking about all the options you have!

In addition, every single one of these recipes is kid tested, vegan mama approved!

Organic Oatmeal:

Make sure not to get instant oatmeal as it has been heavily processed.  Try Bob’s Red Mill (a company that produces a lot of great products) Organic Scottish Oatmeal.  Don’t forget you can add things like blueberries, dried fruit and nuts to your oatmeal to give it some more flavor.

Frozen Organic Waffles:

My favorite frozen waffle brand is Vans Natural Foods Wheat and Gluten Free in Blueberry or Apple Cinnamon)  They are vegan, made with whole grains and sweetened with fruit juice.  I also like Van’s Organic Waffles with VitaminBoost.  You can “butter” them with Earth Balance vegan butter and add organic fruit to make it more interesting.

Greens Breakfast smoothie:

My favorite morning smoothie consists of organic bananas, blueberries, soy, almond or rice milk, Pine’s Wheat Grass, Chlorella and All One Powder.  For more info check out the recipe here.

Soy Yogurt:

My favorite brand of Soy Yogurt is made by Whole Soy Co. I especially love the cherry flavor.  Regardless of what brand you buy, make sure that it is made with non-GMO organic soybeans.

Ambrosia:

If just yogurt is not enough to satisfy your appetite, try yogurt topped with granola, or as my Grandmother called it, Ambrosia.  My favorite brand of granola is Pumpkin Flax Plus Granola made by Nature’s Path.

Granola with soy, almond, rice or hemp milk:

Toast with Butter:

This isn’t just your average toast with butter since it’s vegan, although you’d never be able to tell the difference, I swear!

My favorite organic gluten free and whole grain bread is Rudi’s.

And, of course, the BEST vegan butter ever is organic Earth Balance!

Cereal:

Instead of those regular cheerios, why not try Nature’s Path Organic Whole O’s cereal?  Use soy, rice, almond, hemp or whatever alternative milk you like.

Add some flavor:

To make practically any of the above breakfast items even tastier and kid friendly, try adding a swirl on top of your breakfast of my 3.5 year old daughter’s favorite: Barlean’s Total Omega 3,6,9 Vegan Berry Swirl.  It’s a liquid omega 3,6,9 supplement that tastes delicious and also looks cool on top of breakfast cereals or waffles.  It has a yogurt-like consistency.

Not a breakfast eater?  In a rush?  Try:

Sambazon Acai Juice Blends make me feel satisfied and energized.  They’re tasty and loaded with nutrients and antioxidants and I can buy them while I’m out or take them with me when I’m in a rush.

Odwalla Superfood green juice smoothies are also incredibly handy, delicious and packed with nutrients.  You can buy them at a lot of convenience stores and they are satisfying too!

These are just some of the staple breakfast items that we have in our house.  Please feel free to comment with any other breakfast ideas you have come up with as I always love new vegan food ideas and products.

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!

Read more at www.natures-balance.com.

Why All One Powder?

My uncle, who has been a vegan for 20 years and reads extensively on vegan nutrition highly recommended All One Powder to me.  It’s vegan, gluten free and awesome!