10 Reasons Why Summer Is THE Season for Eating Well There are so many reasons why I love the summertime: the green grass and warm sunshine, longer days and warmer evenings, more time to savor all the […]
GMO, elections and immune system Scott was on a trip around South America but was still able to join Martin and deliver another episode of Life Enthusiast podcast, this time provoking some burning questions about issues in todays […]
Food Freedom Forever: a book review Food Freedom. For some, these are just empty words, for others, this might be an over-exaggeration of a non-existent problem, but for many, this is a life goal with a rocky […]
Growing Healthy Food Here is a story from one of my friends on the alchemy forum: I live in the Chicago suburbs and I started using rock dust on my own apartment garden about 10 years ago. […]
Food Is Becoming Less Nutritious Even though the vegetables today looks great, they contain only about 30 percent of the minerals that they contained 50 years ago. Chuck Benbrook, science advisor to the Greenfield, Massachussets-based Organic Center […]
Farmed Salmon Troubles Please consider your buying strategies: it is important to know HOW your food is grown or raised. it is important that you vote with your wallet. It is important that you put your narrow […]
Sprouts Biodynamic (rich in SOD and catalase) Sprouts of Lentil, Soy, Wheat & Mung Bean Sprouts are a superior source of antioxidant and nutritional factors for energy and endurance. Sprouts support the reduction of cellular damage by […]
Sprouts: Lentil, Soy, Wheat & Mung Bean A superior source of antioxidant and nutritional factors for energy and endurance. Reduction of cellular damage by solar radiation and other sources of radiation. Early research indicates enhanced tissue repair […]
Raw Food Craze Cavemen may have thought nothing of sinking their teeth into the raw flesh of a freshly slaughtered animal, but things have progressed somewhat since then. Boiled, baked, griddled and grilled, almost everything we eat […]
Raw Truth As a researcher and practitioner of the healing arts I have devoted a great deal of time and energy to the study and application of what is variously referred to as “alternative”, “holistic” or “natural” […]
Raw Milk The Health Benefits Of Raw Milk From Grass-fed Animals In 1970, I went to live on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. I was quite ill with gastrointestinal problems. I began living mostly on seafood, fresh […]
Raw Eggs Free-range raw eggs are one of the best compact foods in nature. Eggs are the ultimate complete fast-food. However, the protein in eggs is not utilized for cellular reproduction. They are utilized for regeneration and […]
Milk: Don’t Drink It Don’t Drink It! Pasteurized, homogenized cow’s milk has been promoted as the perfect food for humans, especially for our children. This multi-generational advertising campaign has been so successful that the industry has a […]
Importance of Fresh Juices from Dr. John Christopher’s Newsletters – Volume 3 Number 5 One of the finest ways to obtain necessary nutrients in the diet is through the intake of raw fruit and vegetable juices. Many […]
Sprouting: Reasons to Start Economics: Seeds can multiply 7-15 times their weight. At $4.00/lb for seed that yields 26 cents for a pound of fresh spouted indoor-grown organic greens! Nutrition:Sprouts are baby plants in their prime. At […]
Kombucha Tea Kombucha tea is made from the kombucha tea “mushroom,” a large, flat, pancake-shaped fungus-like growth. Technically, the kombucha is not a mushroom, nor is it purely a fungus. Rather, it is part lichen, part bacterium […]
Benefits of Uncooked Food When food is heated above 118 degrees F for three minutes or longer, its protein becomes coagulated, its carbohydrate becomes caramelized, its natural fibers have been altered. This means this meal will take […]
Sprouting Off at the Mouth Judith Wade is a ‘sproutarian.’ The eating evangelist helps people who come to her seeking a healthier lifestyle adapt to new ways of eating and thinking. A dozen people gathered around a […]
Gardening: Soil Mineralization What did Paracelsus say about rocks? I live in the Chicago suburbs and I started using rock dust on my own apartment garden about 10 years ago. At first I crushed red and black […]
Zone Diet There is considerable evidence that obesity is a glandular problem. We all know people who can eat very large amounts of high calorie foods and stay slim. Others gain weight on 700 calories. But obesity […]
Is French Fry a Vegetable? Apparently yes! I learned that tonight on the American Food Revolution with Jamie Oliver (is he not lucky to have Ryan Seacrest as his producer?). Yes it is so, USDA guide that […]
Food For Thought Do you have enough to eat? See how other families around the world shop. Some buy a lot of bottled drinks, some don’t. Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: […]
Eating for your Body Type More effective than the New!/More! Craze The effectiveness of advertising message is it serving you, or the advertiser? The advertising specialists have been honing their craft since the advent of the science […]
Weighing Up Whey The science of protein manufacturing and processing has been growing by leaps and bounds in the past decade. As a person who has spent years researching the benefits of various proteins for use by […]
Vegan Against Meat A quart of whiskey, a pack of cigarettes and a cube of LSD is better for you than eating one piece of meat, a doctor once told Peter Burwash, former Hawaii resident and Davis […]
Health of French People I have an entire clan of uncles and cousins in France and have been there many times. I speak the language fluently and have also got “acculturated” into their social, gastronomic and cultural […]
Food Cravings If the food you crave is associated more with pleasure and immediate gratification than it is with pain, it’s going to be hard to stop eating it. So now the question has to be: How […]
GMO Foods: A Blessing or a Curse? How smart do we think we are? I mean collectively. We have allowed ourselves to be seduced by the promise of technology and science to solve our problems, no matter […]
Scary GMO foods GMO has become a common term in our modern vocabulary. However, not everybody understands what it stands for, what it really means, and if it is something we should worry about. Lets take a […]
Trans Fatty Acids: Proven Serious Health Effects After closely scrutinizing data from scientific studies and reviews, many European countries have either banned hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils altogether or have instituted future dates for elimination of their […]
Super Size Me: Corporate Backlash The Man Who Ate McDonald’s Faces Corporate Backlash When Morgan Spurlock stuffed himself with junk food until his doctors begged him to stop, he threw an industry into a super-size crisis. Now […]
Sugar: Armed and Dangerous Sugar is a major carbohydrate source but is completely devoid of protein, vitamins, and minerals and is not nutritious. Refined white sugar, in granulated or powdered form, and brown sugar are made from […]
Sugar Can Ruin Your Health 108 Ways In addition to throwing off the body’s homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar’s metabolic consequences […]
Splenda or Equal: Lesser of Two Evils While packages of the artificial sweetener Splenda claim, “made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar,” one competitor argues that this statement is nothing short of false advertising. In fact, […]
MSG: Monosodium Glutamate Food additive “MSG” is a Slow Poison. Slow Poisoning MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as “Natural Flavoring”. MSG is also in your favorite Tim Horton’s and other brand coffee shops! Pass […]
MSG Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills MSG (monosodium glutamate) is a taste enhancing and hydrolyzed vegetable protein. At the time of discovery, MSG was thought to be safe since it was a natural substance (an amino acid). […]
Microwaving Destroys Nutrients by Stephen Strauss, Globe and Mail Microwaving raw broccoli drastically diminishes, and in some cases nearly eliminates, some natural health-promoting chemicals, a new study says. Of particular note in the research was the post-microwaving […]
Microwave Effects on Food and Humans Microwave cooking ovens were originally researched and developed by German scientists to support mobile operations during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Had they perfected electronic equipment on a mass scale, […]
McDonalds Diet: Arch Enemy Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s documentary, “Super Size Me,” details his 30-day McDonald’s diet and subsequent health woes. – Julie Soefer January 22, 2004 – In February 2003, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical […]
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth Altered Genes Twisted Truth Let us all read it, and speak about it every chance we get. GMO foods probably are the single most important issue affecting our food supply, and our health. […]
Genetically Modified Foods Bet you didn’t know that cheese on your pizza pie had human hormones in it; that the genes of fish were inserted into the tomato that made your sauce; and that with all their […]
Food Irradiation Irradiation, or as it is sometimes euphemistically called, “cold pasteurization,” is a process in which food is submitted to ionized radiation in order to kill bacteria. This is described as a tool towards greater food […]
Food Additives A food additive is a substance or mixture of substances, other than basic foodstuffs, present in food as a result of any aspect of production, processing, storage, or packaging. The term does not include chance […]
Glutamic acid (also called “glutamate”) is the chief excitatory neurotransmitter in the human and mammalian brain (1-3). Glutamate neurons make up an extensive network throughout the cortex, hippocampus, striatum, thalamus, hypothalamus, cerebellum, and visual/auditory system (4). As […]
Eliminate Aritficial Sweeteners Aspartame is Poison and Extremely Acid Forming Aspartame is a sweetener made from amino acids that can change levels of chemicals in the brain that affect your behavior. Scientific testing to establish aspartame’s safety […]
Eating Wisely While eating is for most, an enjoyable activity, the constant intake of the wrong foods can quickly add up to a health problem. Generally speaking, you should avoid foods that are overly fatty (particularly hydrogenated […]
Dirty Dozen Food Additives The 12 Foods or Food Additives to Avoid and Why Packaged and processed foods get many a family through the day. They’re convenient, portable, and they stay fresh for a long time (thanks […]
Diet Making You Sick If you are experiencing headaches, depression or hair loss, your food choices may be to blame. Before you subscribe to the latest prescription or over the counter remedy to boost your immune system, […]
Carbonated Drinks Carbon dioxide gas or CO2 is added to water to produce sparkling water and club soda type beverages. In the human body, carbon dioxide is a deadly waste byproduct of cellular metabolism. It is carried […]
GMO Corn Stunning Difference of GM from non-GM Corn A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM […]
Aspartame in Diet Coke The photo of a crumpled can of Diet Coke told the story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Coke’s hometown paper. Fitting, poetic, just, but tragic for the company once rated “The Most Admired […]
Antibiotic-Free Pork & Chicken Say Thank You – Compass Takes Landmark Step Protecting Antibiotics You may not have heard of Compass Group, but chances are you’ve eaten their food. Compass is the largest food service provider in […]
HFCS – High Fructose Corn Syrup High Fructose Corn Syrup or HFCS sounds innocent enough, and apparently will soon be getting an even more innocent sounding name, corn sugar. At least thats what the Corn Refiners Association […]
Sugar and Mental Health A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are strongly linked to the consumption of ‘pure’, refined sugar. In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off their rocker. […]
Sucrose: Energy at a Price A multitude of common physical and mental ailments are strongly linked to the consumption of ‘pure’, refined sugar. When calories became the big thing in the 1920s, and everybody was learning to […]
Refined Sugar Is Not Healthy Refined sugar from any source isn’t healthy. You can confirm this with kinesiology (muscle testing). Holding any amount of refined sugar close to your body will make you weaker. Refined white sugar […]
Lawsuit Filed Over Aspartame A $350 million class action lawsuit was filed on September 15, 2004 in United States District Court in San Francisco, California, case no: C 04 3872. This class action racketeering (RICO) lawsuit […]
Evils in Aspartame Consumption I have used aspartame for years. I’ve also wholeheartedly recommended products containing NutraSweet to my clients, as well as promoting its use in recipes. So, when I was recently contacted by a sports […]
Phytochemicals Nutrients found in vegetables and fruits, have health benefits. The 1995 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released by the US government, states that “The antioxidant nutrients found in plant foods (vitamin C, carotene, vitamin E, and the […]
Mineral Supplementation “Our physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins, or upon the precise proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we consume.” United States Senate […]
Magnesium Levels in Foods Compiled by Ingrid VanTuinen from USDA and manufacturers All-Bran (1/2 cup) 120 mg Black or navy beans (1 cup cooked) 105-120 mg Great Northern or pinto beans (1 cup cooked) 90-95 mg Brown […]
Our Agricultural Situation During the time I spent learning about healthy living after a serious case of mercury poisoning that changed my life back in 1977, I discovered that the only two aisles at the grocery store […]
How About Metabolic Syndrome X? In case you have not heard, America is now officially the most obese country in the world! We now have two out of three people overweight, and almost half of them officially […]
Secrets of Metabolism There are seven secrets of metabolism, which, if known and followed, will lead to greater body wisdom and health. The first secret of metabolism is that the largest organ in the body has yet […]
Low-Carb Lifestyle for Blood Type O Ultimate Nutrition for Healing and Health Protein, Fat, Carbohydrate & Cholesterol Science This web site will prove that eating meat and natural animal fat while restricting carbohydrates is not only healthy […]
What Is YOUR Right Diet? Diet Success – Know Your Nutritional Typing Have you reached the realization that nutrition is important if you ever want to get well and stay well? But you may also have found […]
Metabolic Typing Test Discover How You Can Increase Your Energy, Improve Your Mental Clarity and Boost Your Vitality Metabolic Typing is a scientific approach to your health that carefully looks at your unique digestive system and recommends […]
Metabolic Types by Walter Last http://www.health-science-spirit.com/HF5-1.html Some foods, such as meat or sweet and acid foods, are good for certain people – and for these are not “problem” foods. On others, their effects are adverse. In order […]
Is food affecting your mood? Do you have a favorite comfort food? Is there a meal that makes you feel satisfied, calm, not stuffed, but happy and relaxed? Do you feel like eating a sweet breakfast drains […]
Allergies & Food Intolerances Poorly Diagnosed, Therefore Mistreated Because symptoms of food intolerance frequently present themselves very similar to other diseases, they’re often misdiagnosed. And many people have more than one food intolerance, further complicating the diagnoses. […]
Key to Health is Balanced Bowel Flora Health is possible only with balanced intestinal flora. It makes all the difference between a healthy life and early, painful death. To effectively address this critical aspect of your health, […]
Activation INSTANT PRESS Technology InstaPress Technology Pressing Seed Oils is an art. It is a very sensitive process – if you want to “keep the life from the seeds” intact. TO minimize damage, seed-oil needs to be […]
About E3Live Productss E3Live – The Most Vital, Wild-Grown Superfood on the Planet! The Source of E3Live Algae: Klamath Lake E3Live Algae is harvested from the wild in its 100% organic natural state. It comes to you […]
The Keys to Vitality The Trouble with the American Diet If you are reading these pages you are undoubtedly aware that is has not been working well. The rate of obesity is over 60% now, caused for […]
Books: Nutrition Conscious Eating Conscious Eating has been referred to as the “Bible of Vegetarians,” for both beginners and advanced students of health. This classic work in the field of live-food nutrition is an inspirational journey and […]
Biography: Sally Fallon Journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker and community activist, Sally Fallon is the author of “Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats.” This well-researched, though-provoking guide to traditional foods […]
Biography: Dr. Mary Enig Dr. Mary Enig is a world-renowned biochemist and nutritionist best known for her pioneering research on healthy fats and oils, and her early protests against trans fats more than twenty-five years ago. A […]
