Lemons should be staple of a truly healthy nutritional system.

Lemons have been used to heal the sick and prevent disease since ancient times.

What modern man would have ever thought that those little yellow bitter fruits we so take for granted could be so medicinal? From the Ayurveda of India to Roman Doctors to the Taoist herbalists of Ancient China lemons have been used in cure alls and remedies for a myriad of ailments and as a safeguard against ill health in general.

Health Benefits of Lemons

• Increased weight loss – Lemons Raises your Metabolism when consumed daily. The effect becomes very noticeable when continued for at least a week.
• Detoxification - Lemons have a cleansing effect on your digestive tract. They help to dissolve the dried up mucus that collects in your colon. This has major advantages to Health and weight loss
• Improves Breathing - Phlegm is a major problem today because of our modern diet. Lemon juice helps dissolve mucus all over your body, not just your colon. Lemons helped me to breathe better by helping to dissolve the mucus in my sinuses. Edmund Hillary, the first man to put his foot on the top of Mt. Everest, has admitted that his victory over Mt. Everest was greatly due to lemon. Improving your breathing is one of the best ways to raise energy, boost metabolism and thus quicken weight loss.
• More Energy – The high vitamin C value of Lemons helps maintain our energy levels.  When Vasco da Gama made his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope nearly two-thirds of his crew died of scurvy, a disease caused by lack of vitamin C. Innumerable boatmen moving in sea have saved their lives with the use of lemon.
• Sharpens your Six Pack Abs – When you lean out enough to have a six pack lemon juice’s diuretic like effects will help keep your water retention down which insures your six pack stays as sharp as possible.
• Anti-aging – The vitamin C, Citric Acid and other minerals in lemons have a restorative effect on your skin. Just one lemon a day can reduce wrinkles and add a natural luster to your skin.
• Alkalinizing - Having lemons in my water and in my Salad and Eating fermented lemons helped to cure my GERDS and Esophageal Redux Syndrome by reducing the acidity of my entire system. The processed foods in our modern diet are highly acidic and this leads to many digestive issues. High acidity has also been linked to cancer and studies have shownt hat cancer cannot thrive in a largely alkaline system.
• Antibacterial - Lemon-juice is a powerful antibacterial. It has been proved by experiments that the bacteria of malaria, cholera, diphtheria, typhoid and other deadly diseases are destroyed in lemon-juice.

How we should get our daily Dose of Lemons

Using the below methods you will get at least three servings of lemons every single day. You will notice more energy after three days and a luster to your skin after a week. Your digestive problems if you have any will be gone in about two weeks and you should be able to breathe much better in under a month. The effects of this system are immense and they all accentuate each other. Get ready to look and feel your best!

1. Charged Water – The first thing one should do every morning is to drink a glass of water with lemon juice and sea salt.
2. Essential Salad Dressing – Getting our greens is an essential part of a nutritional system gear for optimal weight loss and health. Lemon juice is a key component of salad dressing.
3. Fermented Lemons – The only thing better than lemons are fermented lemons. Have one a day with your meals, espcially cooked foods and you will get far more out of the meal. Fermented lemons help you absorb more of the nutrients from each meal and insures you won’t get heartburn. Check out my Lemona Meafina Egyptian Fermented Lemons Recipe.

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A truly Healthy nutritious way of eating demands the use of Lemon juice. Instead of throwing them away we can use the squeezed lemons to make an incredibly health fermented food.

Lemons, while common are among the healthiest foods we can eat.

You can’t ever get to many of them and they are even better fermented. My grand mother fermented lemons and orange peels because they couldn’t afford cucumbers in Egypt.  ”Meafina” is Egyptian slang for something that is fermented. Egyptians like most ancient peoples know how powerful fermented foods are and they work to ensure they get some every day. While this practice was done out of poverty by the people of Helwan, Egypt it has immense health benfits as the people from the area in Egypt where my mother’s family was from are known for their amazing strength, beauty and longevity.

Lemona Meafina Raw fermented Lemon Recipe

• squeezed lemons – as many as you have, orange peels also work great!
• 4 tablespoons of sea salt
• 4 cloves of garlic
• Your favorite spices – I use a dash of Cumin, coriander, turmeric and ginger
• a small handful of crumpled raw feta cheese
• 3 tablespoons of olive oil

Directions

1. Remove the hard ends of the lemons with a knife
2. Cut the lemons  into bite sized pieces with your hands or use a knife
3. Stuff the lemons into the jar
4. Fill jar with enough water to cover all the lemons
5. Use a garlic crusher to crush the cloves of garlic or mince them very finely with a knife
6. Add the garlic, salt and crumpled feta cheese to the jar.
7. Close the jar and shake it well
8. Open the jar and coat the top of it with some olive oil to act as a preservative.
9. Put a napkin on the jar and lightly put the top on
10. Store in a cool dry place for 5 days, You can even put this in the refrigerator from the beginning as it doesn’t last as long as other fermented foods.

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Sauerkraut is amazing Health Food, tastes great and is easy to make yourself.

Traditionally lacto-fermented foods have amazing health benefits and they can help you lose weight and have more energy.

The sad state of our American Diet means that all sauerkraut found in stores is not truly fermented and is useless. The sauerkraut found in stores is pasteurized and devoid of the enzymes which make it so healthy, hence why this is a “Raw” Sauerkraut Recipe. We must make it ourselves to enjoy the immense health benefits sauerkraut has.

• Scientists at Seoul National University in South Korea fed an extract of kimchi, a spicy Korean variant of sauerkraut, to 13 chickens infected with avian flu, and a week later, 11 of the birds started to recover
• Another recently released study at the University of New Mexico indicates that sauerkraut may reduce the risk of breast cancer by up to 74 percent
• Of the hundreds of Polish women and Polish-born U.S. immigrants observed in the study, those who ate four or more servings of sauerkraut and cabbage per week during adolescence were 74 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who ate 1.5 or fewer servings per week.

Raw Sauerkraut Recipe

• 1 Cabbage – Red or green doesn’t matter, you can even combine them to get pink Sauerkraut
• 1 Onion – optional
• 1 Cucumber – optional
• 3 cloves garlic – optional
• 4 tablespoons of Sea Salt – The only requirement next to the actual cabbage
• 1 Big Glass Jar – Always use glass, never plastic

Directions

1. Cut the Cabbage in half
2. Cut out the hard base steam in a v shape, do this for both sides. You can throw it away
3. Cut the cabbage up into slices small enough to fit into your food processor
4. Put the cabbage into the food processor such that it dices it into long but thin slivers
5. Do the same for the onions cucumbers and garlic if you choose to use them
6. If you don’t have a food processor then you will have to cut it up yourself with a knife
7. Stuff the slices cabbage into a jar an inch high at a time and then add a table spoon of Sea Salt.
8. Repeat until you put all the cabbage in and use up all the salt. The salt will make the water rise up out of the cabbage, this is good and the jar should be very moist now.
9. Your jar should be full now and the water should, put a napkin on the top then put the jar lightly on top such that air can get in and out
10. Put the jar in a cool dry place away from sunlight and at room temperature for at least 5 days.
11. After five days your sauerkraut should be ready. Eat and enjoy it and let it stay in the fridge to last longer.

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Saurkraut, Pickles, kimchee and my mothers Egyptian Lemona Meafina are all examples of fermented foods that are delicious, nutritions and energy boosting. The catch is you must make them yourself as the commercial fermented foods are all pasteurized and useless. It is fun and easy to make your own fermented foods. In one month of eating fermented foods three times a day I have lost over 15 lbs of fat, put on more muscle and have more energy than when I was eight years old.

Fermented Foods along with fresh greens and raw meat are the secret to Health, Strength and being Ripped. The secret is now out!

Examples of Fermented Foods include

• Beer
• Wine
• Bread
• Coffee
• Cheese
• Yogurt
• Miso
• Olives
• Sauerkraut
• Pickles
• Kimchee
• Tempeh
• Naato
• Kombucha

Benefits of Fermented Foods

• Weight Loss: Stop cravings for sugar and carbohydrates in processed foods – cravings for sugar and carbs are the number one cause of weight gain. Losing these cravings means losing weight fast
• Energy: Improve your digestion – the ENZYMES in lacto-fermented foods will allow your body to conserve it’s energy which means more energy to spend on life
• Muscle: Increase the ability to absorb nutrients in your foods by up to 100 times – which means more protein for even more muscle
• Health: Improve your immune system – 80% of your immune system is in your colon and fermented foods improve colon health via probiotics. you never get sick once you consume fermented foods daily
  • Rich in probiotics – or healthy microflora (beneficial bacteria) – they lay down the foundation for a healthy inner ecosystem and are much more potent than pro-biotic supplements
  • Scientists at Seoul National University in South Korea fed an extract of kimchi, a spicy Korean variant of sauerkraut, to 13 chickens infected with avian flu, and a week later, 11 of the birds started to recover
  • Another recently released study at the University of New Mexico indicates that sauerkraut may reduce the risk of breast cancer by up to 74 percent
  • Of the hundreds of Polish women and Polish-born U.S. immigrants observed in the study, those who ate four or more servings of sauerkraut and cabbage per week during adolescence were 74 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who ate 1.5 or fewer servings per week.

The Two Main Benefits of Traditionally lacto-Fermented Foods

1. Enzymes
2. Probiotics  aka beneficial bacteria

The Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) is basically composed of dead and over processed foods loaded with artificial sugars to cover their dead taste. Traditionally lacto-fermented foods are alive with good bacteria and enzymes which aid us in digestion. How this translates into health is simple.

Enzymes

Enzymes are molecules produced by our bodies that help us to digest the things we eat.

Think of enzymes as little widgets or tools your body uses to make things go faster and use less energy. Screwing in bolts would be alot harder without a screwdriver and take alot more time. Your body uses enzymes just like that. The food we et naturally has all the enzymes we need to digest it, but cooking and over processing of the food kills all the enzymes in the food so our body must make the enzymes itself to digest the food. Making enzymes is very taxing on your body and consumes immense amounts of energy, energy we could use for other things, such as work, exercise and life.

The beauty of traditionally lacto-fermented foods is two fold.

Traditionally lacto-fermented foods are uncooked, all antural and alive with good bacteria, thus all the enzymes in thema re retained. Your body won;t have to expend energy to digest them.

Traditionally lacto-fermented foods are so abundant with enzymes because of their bacterial processes that they actually add to your bodies storehouse of enzymes. This means you can use them to actually increase your energy and make up for any bad foods you eat. Traditionally lacto-fermented foods are healing!

Probiotics

Also known as good bacteria and flora, these living organism help aid in digestion and absorption of nutrients and minerals. Food today has less nutrients than it did just fifty years ago thanks to the erosion of our top soil by industrial farming methods so now it is even more important to get more out of food.

Traditionally lacto-fermented foods help us get more nutrition and thus more value from the food we buy. How probiotics do this is out of scope for this article. Prove it to yourself by having at leats one serving of traditionally lacto-fermented foods every single day, especially if you eat alot of cooked food. The benefits of this will become clear as you will start craving bad foods less as you are better nourished. This will lead to weight loss. You will also absorb more vitamins and proteins from your food which will lead to more muscle mass. As you can see getting ripped and hunky is a natural result of this.

Even more Benefits of Traditionally Lacto-fermented Foods

There are many other health benefits of fermented foods.  Fermented dairy products show increased levels of folic acid which is critical to producing healthy babies as well as pyroxidine, B vitamins, riboflavin and biotin. Fermented foods have also been shown to lessen the effects of anti nutrients such as Phytic acid, which is an antinutrient that binds up minerals – preventing full absorption of minerals in the gut. The bioavailability of amino acids – particularly lysine with its antiviral effects and methionine – increases with lactic acid fermentation.

You don’t need to read any medical studies to realize the importance of traditionally lacto-fermented foods. Humans have been consuming them since humanity began and they are at the basis of human civilization. Once we stopped consuming them due to the rise of the processed food industry we became fat and diseased. Common sense is all we need to understand the importance of Fermented foods.

Warning: Before you go rushing out to buy a jar of pickles so you can get ready for the beach keep in mind that the commercially fermented foods found in stores is not really fermented and has no health benefits. We have lost this knowledge through out the years. Read on to learn why this is now a secret.

History of Fermented Foods

Capitan James cook, The British explorer who far extended the reaches of the English empire used sauerkraut to sustain his crew on long voyages. Sixty barrels of sauerkraut lasted for twenty seven months. Not a single crew member got scurvy, which previously had killed many crew members on long voyages. Humans have used fermented foods to sustain themselves through lean times since humanity began. Fermented foods and human history  are so closely intertwined that is unimaginable how we have become so detached from them now.

It can be argued that fermented Foods are the basis of human culture. The word “culture” comes from the art of fermentation. Fermentation creates cultures in food that develop as the bacteria grows and multiplies, aiding in digestion and making food more nutritious. Cultures such as the French with their wine and cheese and the Japanese with their miso and naato  are known to be well cultured. Americans who are criticized for a lack of culture have largely given up on traditionally fermented foods. Instead we as Americans now consume canned, pasteurized and heavily processed (embalmed) foods.

Real Fermented Foods

For a food to be considered fermented it must be traditionally lacto-fermented. Lacto-fermentation is the process by which bacterium and yeasts consume all the sugars,carbohydrates and proteins in foods to produce lactic acid. This process makes foods much more digestible and nutritious. The pickles, olives and sauerkraut you find on supermarket shelves now does not use traditional lacto-fermentation. Rather they are brined, pasteurized and loaded with acidic vinegars to stop fermentation.

“If you leave a jar of pickles that is still fermenting at room temperature on the kitchen counter, they will continue to ferment and produce CO2, possibly blowing off the lid or exploding the jar,” says Richard Henschel of Pickle Packers International. This is why all “shelf-stable” pickles are pasteurized. We now know how bad pasteurization is from the dangers of pasteurized milk. Big business only cares about their bottom line and the result is the foods we think are fermented are just pale imitations that do nothing for our health.

How to Make your own Fermented Foods

Our food industry has failed us so we must do it ourselves. Real warriors have no problem doing things ourselves, we love it. You will love making your own traditionally lacto-fermented foods. I promise you they will be better tasting than anything you could ever buy and once the ladies have a taste of your pickles, kimchee or saurkraut they will always be coming back for more

All you need to fermented vegetables is

• the vegetables themselves – cabbage ferments very easily
• salt – sea Salt or Kosher Salt is best
• a jar – keep the lid on loosely or just place it on top without tightening it and put a napkin between the lid and the jar
• a cool dry place to store the jar – room temperature is best, the warmer it is the faster fermentation occurs, the colder the slower.

You don’t even need to add water as most vegetables such as cabbage will give off water once salted. Then you just put them in a jar and store them with the lid on very lightly in a cool dark place for three to five days. That is all you need to do. In those five days the fermentation will have already have happened so you can put them in the regenerators to slow down any further fermentation and have it last longer. Fermented foods can last for months refrigerated but once you get hooked on fermentation I can promise you the most any one jar will last is a week, because you will be eating them that fast

Traditionally Lacto-Fermented Food Recipes

• Pickles
• Sauerkraut – coming soon
• Kimchee – coming soon
• Lemona Meafina – coming soon

Sources

• All of Human Culture & Civilization
• My Six Pack
• Seattle Times

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Raw Meat is without a doubt the must nutritious thing you can put into your body.

What studies do I have to back this up? Only how I feel, how I look and how strong I feel after having some raw bison or raw fish. The next day I feel immensely strong, sexually activated and I am lean and ripped. I’ll take that over a medical study any day.

When you have meat raw you get far more protein, vitamins and minerals out of it than what is mentioned on the label. This is because those nutrition facts are collected only after the food has been boiled. This is how they do things in the lab. We know for a fact now that proteins are destroyed and deformed at anything above 118 degrees.

Is it Healthy to eat meat raw?

The answer is YES, it is far MORE HEALTHY TO EAT YOUR MEAT RAW.

There are only three things you must do to ensure you get the most out of it and never get sick.

1. Make certain your meat is from a good source. Avoid beef as it is loaded with steroids, locked up in a cage it’s entire life and feed the leftover flesh of it’s own kind. Opt for Bison every time you can. The FDA doesn’t allow bison to be given any steroids or hormones and is usually grass feed & open range. If you want fish make sure it is wild caught. Avoid pork and chicken.
2. Cold Cook the meat.  Cold Cooking is an old art where you use the natural base’s and acids in food to cook meat without heating it. This process also kills off much of any bacteria that has accumulated and acts as a natural preservative. It also makes food more delicious and the best chef’s marinate their meats in cold cooking sauce before they heat it. The prime cold cooking agents are, lemons, vinegar, salt and garlic.
3. Give thanks for the animal. This will be ignored by most people as superstition but their are studies that show that when people say prayers before they eat indigestion is cut down by 90% or more. I always pray before I eat and If I am having meat I give additional thanks for the sacrifice of the animal. Respect doesn’t just go two ways, it goes all ways.

My Cold Cooking Sauce Recipe

I use my Egyptian Koshary oil , aka Tomaya, recipe as a base and add a secret ingredient to flavor the meat. The below portions are for a pound of meat. I assume Bison for this article.

• 1 whole lemon, squeezed
• 1/2 a head of garlic , minced or crushed
• teaspoon of vinegar optional (added for extra enzymes, optional if you already have lemon juice)
• 1/4 cup of olive oil optional ( bison meat is so lean that I like to add some extra fat, optional )
• Red Miso Paste ( this is the secret ingredient that really helps bring out the flavor of the meat, required for bison, use yellow miso for fish )
• Celtic Sea Salt ( acts as a natural preservative so this should last in your fridge for about 3 days )

Put your ground bison or minced meat into this sauce for about 10-20 minutes and you will notice the meat will turn brown. This means it is now cold cooked!

Optional Extras

After the meat is cold cooked I like to add a few extra things to make it even better.

• 1/2 a cucumber minced
• 1 White or Red Onion minced
• A whole bunch of the Stems left over from my Green Salads. I mince them or put them into the food processor and then add them to the raw meat. Yum and no Waste!

Be creative and add what you like to your Raw meat Tartar. Just remember not to add any acidic fruits or starches as that will hamper digestion. More on Proper Food Combining later.

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Microwaves blast your food with high frequency radiation until the heat up and cook. Microwaving plastics is virtual garentee to raise your estrogen levels and thus raise the water and fat your body holds.

I got rid of my microwave last year.

It was one of the best decisions I ever made for my health and for my discipline. I don’t miss it at all. Losing all my belly fat and putting on more muscle quickly followed as I learned how to live without my microwave.

How Getting rid of my Microwave helped me Lose Weight and Gain Muscle

Sounds crazy but once my microwave was gone I was forced to think ahead and have a strategy about how I ate and when. Losing the convience of quickly heating up my food meant …

• Less Fast Food: Takeout was no longer an option because of the inconvenience of reheating the leftovers.
• More Raw Food: I hated using the stove so I turned more and more to Raw food which has extreme healthy weight loss potential.
• More Nutrition & Less Appetite: Microwaves can reduce the nutritional value of food by up to 50%. This means you will be less satisfied by microwaved food and want to eat more if you use your microwave.

Throwing out my microwave started a chain reaction that leads to rapid weight loss and more importantly sustained weight loss because of a new nutritional lifestyle. The other major benefit to losing your microwave are that you will cut your cancer risk by half and stop poisoning yourself  with xeno-hormones such as the estrogen that leaches from the plastics often used to reheat food in microwaves.

History of Microwaves

Percy Spency discovered microwave technology accidentally while working on radar for the Raytheon company.

In 1945 Percy Spencer, a self taught engineer working at the American company Raytheon, accidental discovered that the radar waves he was experimenting with had melted a chocolate bar in his pocket. His next experiments were to cook popcorn and an egg with these rays. After that he tried putting the radar waves into a box with food and the microwave oven was officially born.

Raytheon took a patent out on this radar technology as a method of heating and in 1947 they produced the worlds first commercial microwave. It used three times as much electricity as modern day microwaves, was over five feet tall, weighted over 700lbs and cost $5000.00 dollars. They called it a radar range and it wasn’t until twenty years later that they made a microwave oven that normal people could afford and use in their home kitchens. By 1975 microwave oven sales exceeded those of gas ranges.

How Microwaves Work

The actual micro waves themselves are about 4.5 inches in width, about the width of your head and they are simply waves of electromagnetic energy just like radio and radar just running at a different frequency as to not interfere with things like your cellphone or tv. Radar and radio waves are much bigger than microwaves, hence the “micro”.

These microwaves heat up food by dielectric heating which means they make the atoms in water vibrate millions of times per second, such that the water is heated by te friction of the molecular movement. Naturally anything with water will also be cooked, hence they heat up food with evenly distributed moisture well. Food that is frozen or has water unevenly distributed will not not be cooked evenly by microwaves.

Side Effects of Microwaves

It was believed that because microwaves heat up water that they did not affect the rest of the food but there is more and more research that shows that they affect the actual organic molecules and cellular structure of food. Research continues to show microwave heating damages food considerably.

• Microwaving food with plastic containers can lead to BPA’s leaking out into the food as the xeno-horomone estrogen which causes infertility, weight gain in men and potentially breast cancer in women.
• Microwaves destroy proteins and vitamins in food far worse than stove or oven heating.
  • The soviet Union banned microwaves in the 70′s
  • A study published in the November 2003 issue of The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found that broccoli “zapped” in the microwave with a little water lost up to 97 percent of its beneficial antioxidants. Steamed broccoli only lost 11 percent or fewer of its antioxidants.
  • Garlic, as little as 60 seconds of microwave heating was enough to inactivate its allinase, garlic’s principle active ingredient against cancer
  • A Japanese study by Watanabe showed that just 6 minutes of microwave heating killed 30-40 percent of the B12 in milk
  • Microwaving can destroy the essential disease-fighting agents in breast milk that offer protection for your baby. In 1992, Quan found that microwaved breast milk lost lysozyme activity, antibodies, and fostered the growth of more potentially pathogenic bacteria
• The Swiss scientist Hans Hertzel did a study on microwave sickness and found the following were caused by microwaved food.

• • Increased cholesterol levels
  • Decreased numbers of leukocytes (white blood cells), which can suggest poisoning
  • Decreased numbers of red blood cells
  • Production of radiolytic compounds
  • Decreased hemoglobin levels, which could indicate anemia

Sources

• “Microwave ovens: A danger to your health?” (January 26, 2010) Nutritional and Physical Regeneration
• Thomas W. “Cooked” Alive.com
• History of microwave ovens” Green Health Watch
• Mercola.com
• Study 1

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Raw Milk is milk straight from the breast. Human babies get raw milk when they are breast fed. We should always demand the best milk, as little processing as possible and never pasteurized.

Raw Milk has made me feel good about drinking milk and eating diary again.

I love the taste of Raw Milk. I grew up on a farm in Egypt and the milk I had there was warm fresh and alive straight from the cow. It made me a strong and healthy boy. When I came to the USA with my parents and we began drinking the milk in stores I changed. My mother was shocked to see me go from a strong healthy infant to a sickly little boy in just a few months.I came down with allergies to dust, insects, dogs and nearly everything. I also had serious respirator problems and my mucus became a problem. She still speaks about that transformation. She took me to the best doctors she could afford but they couldn’t help. My mother then, just like most people now had no idea how bad drinking pasteurized milk is for your health.

What is NOT Raw Milk

The milk sold in supermarkets is pasteurized. My research on the dangers of pasteurized milk convinced me to stop drinking any and all pasteurized diary. If you look at pasteurized milk under a microscope it looks as if everything has been exploded and bombed to death. The pasteurization kills off all the good bacteria and destroys most of the enzymes and proteins. Homogenization goes the extra mile and splits the fat molecules into smaller pieces which are more easily absorbed as belly fat by the body. Homogenized milk is always pasteurized because homogenized milk becomes rancid rapidly. Pasteurized milk is effectively a dead white liquid. For more research and studies on why pastuerized milk is to be avoided please refer to this article Milk, Pasteurization, Pus, Steroids, Lactose Intolerance and the Facts

Pasturized milk has been known to cause

• Excessive amounts of mucus –  The pus in pasteurized milk is way over healthy levels and will force your body to make more mucus to coat the toxins.
• Exaggerate allergies – The pesticides and in genetically modified pasteurized milk, all pasteurized milk in the USA is genetically modified, will worsen allergies.
• Calcium deficiency - The calcium in pasteurized milk cannot be absorbed into the body so those who reply on it for their calcium are actually calcium deficient. This is especially bad for children.
• Far more side effects of pasteurized milk exist read more about why pasteurized milk is no longer necessary

What is Raw Milk

When any mammal breast feeds it’s baby, they are drinking raw milk. Raw milk is milk that has not undergone the process of pasteurization. Pasteurization is highly damaging to milk and to we who consume it. Raw milk is far more than simply unpasteurized milk, it has come to be recognized by milk lovers and health professionals as milk that comes from no genetically modified cows, raised in good conditions and fed a mainly grass diet as was intended by nature. No steroids, pesticides or pus. This is what our grandparents drank everyday as children, before dairy became big business and got their lobbyists into our government.

Milk has been long considered a super food and anti aging medicine by cultures and religions around the world. If all these ancient books and cultures look to milk as super medicine then there must be a grain of truth to it. There is far more than just a grain. We all know milk is good for us. It is something hardwired into our minds by nature. We can skip the research there and just look to our gut.

Health Benefits of Raw Milk (unpasteurized milk )

• Enzymes that are destroyed during pasteurization. Without them, milk is very difficult to digest. So if you have lactose intolerance, it may very well disappear once you start consuming raw dairy products. It also contains phosphatase, an enzyme that aids and assists in the absorption of calcium in your bones, and lipase enzyme, which helps to hydrolyze and absorb fats. Enzymes are deactivated when you get above 120 degrees. By the time you get to 150, 160 degrees, almost all of them are completely inactivated, which is why you will not get ANY of these benefits from pasteurized milk.
• Natural butterfat, which is homogenized or removed in pasteurized milk. Without butterfat, it becomes very difficult for your body to absorb and utilize the vitamins and minerals in the water fraction of the milk. Butterfat is also your best source of preformed vitamin A.
• High omega-3 and low omega-6 ratios, which is the beneficial ratio between these two essential fats
• Good Natural Hormones: Colostrum. Colostrum is a certain kind of raw milk. Colostrum refers to the milk produced by the cow, human or any mammal for the seven weeks after they first give birth.  Colostrum is truly a super food. It is loaded with super natural pure growth hormones, souped up vitamin complex and the hardest to find trace minerals in abundance. The special fat found in colostrum manifests as a series of  hormones that boost immunity and increase all good kinds of growth, including height, muscle and cognitive development.

The Taste of Raw Milk

This is my favorite part. I love the taste of raw milk. It is exactly how I remember milk tasting as a small boy. All milk lovers are in for a special treat when they have their first glass of raw milk. It is like rediscovering milk all over again.

Where can you get Raw Milk?

Raw milk is legal to be sold in only the following states.

1. California
2. Connecticut
3. Maine
4. Pennsylvania
5. Washington
6. Arizona

If you live in the following states then the just head over to your local farmers market and you will surely see small farmers offering raw milk for sale. Check out http://www.organicpastures.com/ for more raw milk sources in your state.

Here are some questions to ask these farmers

• Do they do regular testing for pathogens? Pathogens are illness causing bacteria and organisms. The farms stock should have a low pathogen count
• Do they quickly chilled after milking ?
• Are the cows raised naturally, in accordance with the seasons ?
• Are the cows are mainly grass-fed?
• Are the cows given antibiotics and growth hormones to increase milk production? The answer better be no
• Do these farmers drink the milk themselves?
• Was this milk intended to be sold raw or was it intended to be sold for pasteurization? Always make certain the raw milk was always intended to be sold raw. This will ensure that the cows are non Genetically modified and were not given any steroids or other drugs.

Why You Never Heard about Raw Milk

The FDA has gone to war with raw milk farmers.

The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund filed a law suit against the FDA several months ago on behalf of Raw Milk consumers in an effort to overturn the interstate ban on raw Milk movement. The FDA response was a 30 page document that reads like a facist mind control document. Basically the FDA outlines it’s mission statement and it shows us who they truly are in regards to our health.

• There is No Right to Consume or Feed Children Any Particular Food…25
• b. There is No Generalized Right to Bodily and Physical Health…26
• c. There is No Fundamental Right to Freedom of Contract…27
• 5. FDA’s Regulations Rationally Advance The Agency’s Public Health Mission

Basically the FDA is here to push pharmaceutical drugs on us and while we are invisible to them, the lobbyists of big Dairy Business are not. Pasteurization is no longer necessary. Surpluses on farmers are no longer necessary. We could actually make the system produce good healthy food and milk from non tormented and abused animals. The politics of this game are tied to money and as usual it is the consumer who suffers.

The pasteurization of milk has caused all kinds of health problems for over 50 years. Those problems are treated with pharmaceutical drugs. The cycle goes from the cows to farmers who barely survive feeding those cows for big dairy to the big dairy executives to us shopping in the aisles. Our government has gotten involved over the years more and more as more money began to be available to them from big dairy. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s just business. Unfortunately the goals of business and our health do not match up, rather they are diametrically opposed.

Big Dairy wants to use genetically modified cows to produce as much as much milk as they can. These cows are  loaded up with steroids and antibiotics to treat their unnatural illnesses from being milked far too much. The bad treatment these cows get gets passed on to their milk. The milk big dairy produces is full of pus, herbicides and the pain of sick and abused animals. Of course they demand it be bombarded with radition, which is what pastuerization is. The milk they produce is not fit to be consumed raw. Raw milk from small farmers is the alternative and it is a good one.

Want to see a Change ?

1. Stop drinking pasteurized dairy
2. Educate your friends about the milk issue
3. Support your small local farmers by switching to raw milk

Do these things and you will be separate Big Dairy Business from your life. If all your friends do it and their friends do it then we will send a real message to big dairy that they will have to listen too.

Sources

• Michigan Fresh Raw Milk Study
• The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
• FDA Motion to Dismiss Document CFR 1240.61
• FDA Conspiracy against Raw Milk Dealers
• Dr Mercola -Mark McAfee Raw Milk Interview

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Having your own Raw kitchen is the best way to lose weight and keep it off.

My first kitchen was an empty fridge, three pans and a dirty microwave.

My current kitchen is a fully equipped raw kitchen that is run more like a small restaurant. A fully equipped raw kitchen is a grand thing to build, behold and have. The below are the items you need to get your Raw Kitchen up and running. All items are ranked from one to two stars. Real simple, the way I like things in my kitchen

1. star * Required
2. stars ** Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!

Follow this guide and you will have a fully stocked, loaded and ready Raw Kitchen. This will make it about 10 times easier to keep the weight off. Here is everything you need, to ..

Equip and Stock Your own Raw Kitchen

• Tools and Appliances
• Oils
• Herbs
• Spices
• Sweeteners
• Super Foods
• Thickeners
• Algaes
• Seaweeds
• Nuts & Seeds
• Roots & Risones
• Greens
• Fruits

Tool and Appliances

A Raw kitchen doesn’t need a stove and it certainly doesn’t need a microwave. There are essentials and there is what is nice to have. I let you know which is which in my Raw Kitchen Tools and Appliances Guide.

• Blender *  Required
• Rice Cooker *  Required
• Ceramic Pot *  Required
• Tupperware *  Required
• Measuring Spoons and Cups
• Ceramic Knife **  Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!
• Bamboo Cutting Board **  Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!
• Chocolate Molds **  Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!
• Dehydrator
• Nut Milk Bag
• Glass Jars *  Required – You don’t need to buy any, just reuse & recycle the glass jars you buy.

Oils & Butters

Cooking oils play huge part in the foods we eat. In a raw kitchen the oils are not used to cook food but are a part of all creations such as salads and smoothies. Coconut oil is my personal favorite cooking oil. Cacao butter is essential in the making of Chocolate.

• Coconut Oil *  Required
• Cacao Butter **  Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!
• Olive Oil *  Required
• Walnut Oil
• Flax Seed Oil
• Hemp Seed Oil

Herbs

• Dried Dill
• Cilantro
• Basil
• Mint
• Rosemary
• Thyme

Spices

• Black Pepper
• Cumin *  Required
• Curry
• Cinnamon *  Required
• Tumeric
• Chile Powder
• Nutmeg
• Cardamom
• Cheyenne *  Required
• Paprika

Sweeteners

Sugar is the biggest culprit in the obesity epidemic we are now facing. High Fructose Corn Syrup has been put into everything we drink and so many things we eat. We need more sugar just to even notice it anymore. The below all natural sweeteners will help you avoid the belly fat creating sugars and enjoy sweetness without guilt. Check my All Natural Sweeteners Article for more details.

• Yacon Syrup
• Stevia
• Raw Honey
• Maple Syrup
• Dates

Thickeners

• Irish Moss
• Psylium Husk
• Lecithin
• Agar

Super Foods

Some Super Foods really are super.  The important thing is are they a good value for the nutrition you get. Check out my Super Foods Page for a breakdown of the best super foods and how you can save money ordering super foods online in bulk.

• Cacao **  Required
• Maca
• Mesquite
• Lucama
• Nutritional Yeast
• Protein Powder **  Required
• Vanilla
• Acai
• Carob
• Hu Shou Wu

Algae

Blue Green Algae’s are natures most perfect protein source. They turn smoothies into elixirs and  elixirs into blessings.  Order Blue Green Algae online only for the best value.

• Spirulina
• Blue Green Algae – AFA’s ** Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!

Seaweeds

• Nori
• Dolce
• Wakame
• Kelp
• Arame
• Laver

Nuts & Seeds

• Brazil
• Macademia
• Almonds
• Cashews * Required
• Pine Nuts
• Sunflower
• Pumpkin
• Flax
• Hemp
• Cacao **  Essential for the Truly Serious and Devoted Only!
• Quinoa * Required

Roots & Risones

• Onions
• Garlic * Required
• Burdock Root
• Ginseng
• Tumeric

Greens

You need the fiber that greens have. Green Fibers are the building blocks of complex life on earth. Your local farmers market is the place to get amazingly fresh and non hybridized greens. The below greens are my personal favorite least hybridized greens and the highest in fiber, vitamins and minerals.

• Kale
• Collar Greens
• Swiss Chard
• Beet Greens
• Spinach
• Arugula
• Dandelions
• Watercress
• Stining Nettles
• Lettuce

Fruits

Let it be known that Avocado’s are the most popular fruit in a Raw Kitchen. The amazing texture and good fats of the Avocado are essential in so many raw food recipes.

• Avocado
• Apples
• Pears
• Prunes
• Figs
• Dates
• Tomatoes
• Goji Berries
• Citrus
• Durrian
• Jack Fruit
• Bananas
• Bell Peppers

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Wellness Coach Cat Erickson helped me evolve from a muscle dude to someone genuinely aware of my own body, what I eat and my attitude towards Health

A big part of strength is having the courage to put your ego aside and learn from a new source.

A few months ago I was in a bit of a rut. I was training twice before noon five times a week. After my run in the morning and my three hour boxing workouts I was exhausted. I would take four to five hour “naps” in the middle of the day that would really throw off my sleep cycle. The strange hours began affecting my eating and I started to gain weight. I still had a six pack but I did not like the direction I was going in. My apartment was beginning to resemble my situation; cluttered and lacking focus. I had my dream and my ambitions what I needed was a better way to live.

I’d heard about the miracles Cat Erickson of World Redress has worked on people as a Wellness Coach. I reached out to her and she told me she was booked solid for a few months between New York City, Los Angeles and Atlanta. When I told her that I was an athlete and my issues she was became curious. She had only worked with ladies up until now and she saw working with someone like me as a major challenge. When she told me some time had become free I commissioned her services as a Wellness Coach.

She finally showed up at my door and my first reaction was ” What can this little lady do for me? ”

What Wellness Coaches do.

A wellness coach is someone who shows you how to live better. We are complex creatures so showing us a better way to live in a complex world is involved but Cat made it easy.

The first thing she did was use her skills at observation and to figure out exactly where I needed the most help. She is very empathic and knew exactly what pace of learning was most comfortable for me so I was always eager to learn more. Cat focused her energies and my own into the things that would give me the most benefit first and most quickly. This kept my willpower and enthusiasm high.

• Posture
• Respiratory System
• Digestive Tract Health
• Lack of Nutrition
• Adrenal Distress
• Eliminating Processed Foods
• Environment

Posture

How we hold our bodies in motion and at rest deeply affects our mood. If you ever feel down stop and look at your posture and facial expression. You will most likely be hunched over and have a frown or have a notched brow. Instead try sitting upright and smiling with your chin up. It is impossible to feel bad like that. I dare you to try it.

Cat knew the power of our physical state to effect our minds so she had me focus on my posture. Cat is only 5’2 so she always keeps good posture to try and seem as tall as possible. This has helped her maintain excellent health so she knows the value of it. She also knew that us tall guys have a bad habit of hunching over. She showed me picture of me walking normally and me walking with my posture super erect. I was shocked! I looked so sick and pathetic walking “normally” and I looked normal when I stood super erect, even though I always felt silly standing that way.

I literary got the picture and now I always walk tall. We as men must walk tall. Watch women just start to notice you more. Improving your posture and sticking with it is the single best thing you can do to improve how you appear to the world and your own mood as well. We are all connected. Cat always said that and now I see how it is true in a very practical way.

Respiratory

Breathing is important. We have all heard it. It has become so cliche. I always had my doubts. While I am still trying to find the best breathing patterns for me I am now officially on the path since Cat introduced me to the concept. I now pay attention to my breathing all the time. Even as I type this I am monitoring my breathing. The beautiful thing about it is that it helps me turn off the extra noise in my mind. I am far more productive now and I don’t need to rest as much when doing cerebral work.

Breathing during exercise coupled with visualization also helped me to go deeper into what I was doing. My focus in training improved. Just knowing that all I had to do was focus on my breathing and let the movement come took away alot of my guilt and hence my ego out of it. Even things like having a bowel movement are made so much easier by being aware of your breathing.

Masters know the power of proper breathing. It takes alot of experimentation to truly find what works for you. Cat held my hand gently as I experimented and nudged me just right.

Digestive GI Tract

This is a big one.

Many health authorities, from doctors in the 1600′s to the most noted specialists in nutrition and gastro intestinal health now believe that poor colon Health is the number one cause of illness. Cat is obviously one of them as she told me flat out that poor Colon health and lack of hydration are the two biggest problems with people in general and were even bigger issues with me. I did suffer from constipation and gas but other than that I thought I was very healthy. I am always excited about being better and stronger so when Cat suggested that a Colon Cleanse could help me get rid of the baggage in my colon that was slowing me down I was all for it.

I was pretty shocked when Cat came back with a 14 day all raw, all liquid cleanse. I was even more shocked when she told me about the Gall Bladder and Liver Flush involved. Then cat mentioned the enemas and I laughed to hide my shock and a bit of fear. I saw that everything else she had recommended was working so I made the decision to just go for it all.

Wellness Coach Cat Erickson lead me through an all natural Colon Cleanse that transformed my body and more importantly my outlook on Health.

I dropped 15 lbs in ten days. I felt like a new man. The cleanse was 14 days yet I only made it 10 before I darted off into the night and had solid foods. Cat was impressed I lasted 10 days for my first cleanse and even survived the enemas. I noticed an amazing boost in my energy levels. Even after my workouts I did not feel the need to go for my five hour naps. I was amazed by this. It totally changed my days and this alone made everything worth it. Many more benefits came of course such as a super defined six pack and a natural glow about my face that had the ladies really looking.

Lack of Nutrition

Being a big eater I always thought I got more than enough nutrition. Cat looked at my diet and saw a lack of real nutrition. I was not having enough fiber, greens and nearly everything I ate was cooked. Cat added Real living greens to my diet, showed me the importance of enzymes and gave me an education on raw food.

Cat does not believe in Dogma or fascist food lifestyles. While she is mostly Vegan and almost all Raw she does not consider herself a Vegan or Raw Foodist. She believes that natural Health is obtainable by all through a lifestyle that is fun  and rewarding. The nutritional scores of all food that we see on labels are measured only after that food has been cooked. When food is cooked it loses much of its proteins, vitamins minerals and enzymes. When I added more raw food to my diet I noticed a huge increase in energy and mental clarity. I even started eating meat raw again. Cat introduced me to bison meat and the very best in food. We went way past organic and the benefits came to me in longer runs, more intensity and much less gas.

Adrenal Distress

Cat spoke about this alot but I still am not sure about the science of it. It seems the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) can really wreck havoc on your natural energy balance. The hormones that control this process are produced in the adrenal and thyroid glands. The unnatural chemicals and high amounts of sugar in processed foods can really change how they function over time. Cat made certain to watch my sugar intake and balance out my diet with foods that control sugar values. She said that doing this for a good month would be enough to reprogram my adrenal glands and detoxify my system of chemicals that were harming them. It obviously worked because my energy levels became steadier and higher overall.

Eliminating Processed Foods

Cat was very stern with me here. She showed me the research on things like MSG and High Fructose Corn Syrup and I started to see how devastating this was to our health. Things like the processed white flour in bread and pastas are basically fat going directly into our bodies. All the sugars in our foods and drinks were making us obese and quite frankly doping us up. She opened my eyes to seeing the difference between processed and natural. Just because something says “Organic” does not mean it is good for us.

My little Wellness Coach walked me through the supermarket and quizzed me on what was processed and what was not. I finally learned how to shop. Then she showed me how to prepare the food without relying on processed sauces, condiments or flavors. She even made me throw away my microwave because it contributed to the processed food lifestyle.

Environment

Cat’s final touch was to make sure that all these changes in my life would stick once she was gone. She showed me how to organize my space for Feng Shu, optimal air flow and light. She helped me clean up my work area, rearrange my bathroom and living room. Those changed really did help me feel like I was beginning something truly new and fresh. I  thought all these things would just waste my time but instead it freed up my time. I became far more productive and slept better. I finally began enjoying quiet time at home with myself.

My kitchen was transformed. What was formerly just a stove, fridge with some left overs and a microwave became a fully stocked raw kitchen that was more like a little restaurant. She showed me what appliances to buy, that I needed and what I didn’t need. She went shopping with me and showed me how what to buy and for what reason. The end result was that I truly had a home base for a healthy life. I never had to turn to the junk sold outside because I always had delicious nutritious food ready and waiting. This ensured that all my progress would stick.

The Final Word on Wellness Coaching

Having just a day with a true Wellness Coach can change your life.

More people are starting to call themselves Wellness Coaches but the real ones are very rare. A true Wellness Coach will give you one on one undivided attention and show you how to truly live within your own home and be aware of your body. Wellness coaches must have amazing powers of observation, be emphatic, patient, giving with their knowledge and have a very diverse and wide store of knowledge on various subjects. Nutrition, psychology, holistic medicine, herbalism and even  interior design are all required of a Wellness Coach.

Good luck finding a true Wellness coach one near you. Cat Erickson has done wellness coaching in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Ladies, Cat has dealt mostly with women and she knows how to help ladies lose weight, keep it off and know why. Gentlemen,  remember that behind the pretty face there is alot of knowledge that can benefit you and take her advice to action.

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