Jaap's column
Jaap van der Woude is in 1957 naar Canada
geemigreerd en daar geleerd
hoe gezond te blijven door veel te lezen en anderen te helpen met gratis
adviezen. Jaap is nu 91 jaar en kwam op mijn pad en ik ga zijn berichtjes
bundelen op deze pagina.
Veel leesplezier..
Ron
Beste Ron!!!
De mensen vragen altijd "wat zit er
in de granen" en waarom "granen". De
meeste Nederlanders hebben vensterbanken voor hun bloemetjes en vaasjes enz. Ik zeg dan,
heeft U twee kleine glazen potjes of kleine kopjes? Ja dat hebben ze wel. Dan zeg ik"
Hier zijn wat graankorrels". Die doet U in dit potje, met een beetje modder en een
paar druppeltjes water. Ja en dan? Dat ene potje gaat dus aan de rechterkant op de
vensterbank, en in dat andere potje, doet U wat eten (wat U dus s'morgens voor ontbijt
normaal weg eet in.
Hetzelfde recept wat aarde en wat water
er op. En dan maar afwachten.
Een potje links en een potje rechts. Dan
na verloop van een paar weken
bellen ze mij op. "Mijnheer Van der Woude" Hier dus Mr. Vanderwood, en ik
zeg ja!! Het potje aan de rechterkant daar komen spruitjes naar boven. Ik
zeg prachtig en het andere potje aan de linkerkant? Nog niets! Wel dan maar afwachten. U
kunt wel een jaar wachten, want daar zal nooit een spruitje uit komen. Dan zegt Jaap"
Ziet U nu wel, in dat potje met de granen daar zit leven in. Ja dat is waar. En in dat
andere potje, dat is dood, daar zit geen leven in. Nu heeft U de keuze. Dood eten of
levend eten???
Zijn de granen niet goed? Not organic,
dan komen ze niet op. Het beste
bewijs om die granen niet te kopen. Teveel chemicalien!!!
Dus dat is een eenvoudige les. Dead food
or alive food!!!! Levend Voedsel
zei "Kristine Nolfi" De Deense vrouwen dokter, die het boekje schreef.
"Levend voedsel".
Nog een ander verhaaltje!
Vorige herfst klonk de deurbel. Drie
meisjes aan de deur. Wilden graag iets
hebben voor een goed doel. Dat hebben jullie daar in Nederland ook wel denk ik. Ze vroegen
geen geld, maar als wij niet wat busjes hadden in de Fridge? Het was koud en Jaap
zei:"Kom er maar even in" en kijk maar in de fridge of jullie wat kunnen vinden.
Daar stonden ze in de keuken en met de fridge deur open en maar kijken. Ze konden niets
vinden, want wij hebben nooit geen busjes enz. Onze fridge is half leeg.
No tins, no!!! Sorry! Ze gingen weer naar
de deur. De twee jongste meisjes
gingen naar buiten (10 en 12???) Maar de oudste bleef even staan (15 of 16 jaar?). En toen
vroeg ze:"Wat eten jullie dan?" What do you eat? Ze dacht zeker dat wij honger
leden!!!
Ze wisten niet beter. Het eten komt uit
een pakje of uit een busje of uit
een flesje!!!
Je moet ze hier eens zien. Een
verschrikking. Veel te dik. Ieder pondje
komt door je mondje! En van obesity, to diabetes, en van diabetes naar
lever ziektes, hart ziekte, long ziekte, en daarna kanker en dan de dood.
Wat een ellende, en wat een kosten!!!
Jaap
Jaap's granenpapje
Organisch granenpapje
Havermout - 10 delen
Gerst - 2 delen
Kamut - 2 delen
Boekweit - 2 delen
Rogge - 2 delen
Gierst - 2 delen
Sesamzaad - 2 delen
Lijnzaad - 2 delen
Meng dit goed door elkaar en neem iedere
dag als ontbijt 4-6 eetlepels en doe dit in een blender met een paar vruchtjes (appel,
peer, banaan of aardbei). Kook water, laat dit wat afkoelen tot je het kan drinken en gooi
dit ook in de blender en laat blender draaien. Je zult zelf moeten uittesten hoeveel water
je nodig hebt, ik neem zelf 3/4 theemok.
Wat eet Jaap?
1) S'morgens 2 grapefruits (vers)
2) Granenpap
3) Lunch: fruit, een stuk goed brood, tomaat, komkommer, advocado etc
4) 15.00 uur, wat appels, aardbeien, pruimen, druiven, perzik, abrikozen
5) Diner: salade van komkommer, selderij, ui, olijfolie, limoen, sla) en
gekookte aardappelen. Daarna wat gekookte groenten, beetje jus en 1
keer
per week een stukje vlees
Vermijdt:
- suiker
- bewerkt eten, zeker dingen die lang houdbaar zijn
- junkfood
- frisdrank
- koffie (max 1 per dag)
Houd je van vis, koop dan de duurdere
wilde zalm, geen gekweekte vis
Jaap groeide op 1915 tot 1940 met niet al
te veel. Wij hadden genoeg te eten, maar geen extra's. Er was geen geld in ons huis. Vader
brieven besteller (25 gulden per week). Moeder had schildklier problemen en was niet
sterk. Daarna kwam de oorlog en toen was er ook niet teveel eten enz. Na de oorlog had
Jaap zijn eigen zaak en dat liep perfect. Dus wat zei Jaap. Nooit meer gebrek, nu wil ik
alles hebben want ik kan het betalen! En dus gebak, en koffie en alle lekkere dingen die
ik nooit had gegeten.
Wat smaakte dat heerlijk. Na 5 jaar kwam
de les. "Door schade en schande wordt men wijs!???? Misschien! Maar het was weleen
lesje. Altijd moe, naar de dokter, medicijnen, in bed een maand, dan weer even aan het
werk. Zoo'n vier jaar naar de dokter met de nodige medicijnen. Daarna weer in bed voor
maanden en toen naar een specialist. Hij wou er twee rug werveltjes uit halen en Jaap die
geen held is, was bang.Tweede opinie. De andere specialist (In Leeuwarden) zei:"
Mijnher Van der Woude (de nadruk op Mijnheer)/" U moet nooit weer werken". Dus
einde van het verhaaltje. Drie kleine kinderen en wat nu?
Na een half jaar ongeveer gaf mijn zuster
mij een boekje, dat zij weer van een buurvrouw had gekregen. "Het boekje was van een
Deense vrouwen dokter Dr. Kristine Nolfi. "Levend Voedsel". Ik las het en zei
tegen mijn vrouw, "Ik kan dit niet alleen doen, wil je mij helpen". Ja hoor wij
deden het samen en na drie maand was Japie weer klaar en huppelde op de weg. Daarna nooit
meer een dokter gezien. Dus een les!!!! Wijzer geworden, ja wel een beetje. De meeste
mensen moeten eerst een lesje hebben. Een operatie, beenbreuk, darmen in de war, longen
(te veel roken), lever problemen, enz. Noem maar op. Naar de dokter, misschien een
operatie, en pillen en drankjes, totdat.........................ze de les (die meestal
pijnlijk is) leren. Na ons de zondvloed!
Ron
Laten wij eens aannemen dat Nederland 20 procent diabeti heeft. In Canada is dat 40%,
onder de jonge mensen. Ze hebben allemaal nu al een computer met E-mail. 20% van 16
miljoen is 3,2 miljoen. Neem nu eens aan dat die in tijds allemaal verzorging nodig hebben
(ziekenhuis, verpleeghuis,
operaties enz). Kosten per persoon geschat op 10,000 euro? Dat is laag denk ik. Totale
kosten over een periode van 20 jaar 500 euro per persoon.
Dat is dus ongeveer 1.6 biljoen euro's?
Dat kan Nederland besparen op haar ziekte kosten. Deze jonge mensen gaan naar het Internet
<www.hacres.com> enals zij doen wat hier is geschreven,dan kunnen ze zeker 90% van
al hun kwaaltjes oplossen.
De Nederlandse Regering heeft een
regeling met alle scholen, dat iedere school op Frijdag een uur besteed aan wat is
geschreven op >www.hacres.com> Kosten nihil. Je krijgt iedere week gratis advies.
Geen onderzoek meer nodig, geen dure rapporten! Wat een besparing.
Iedere week geeft de onderwijzer een lesje op papier, en dat gaat met de kinderen naar
huis met verzoek aan de ouders om dit te lezen!
P.S. Alle scholen hebben ook al een computer en kunnen dus E-mailen!!!!
Kosten een beetje papier en goede wil. Zo eenvoudig, zo goedkoop!!!!
Jaap
Commentaar Ron:
Jaap, helaas wil de overheid vriendjes
blijven met de industrie dus blijft zij de suikerindustrie en vlees/zuivel sector promoten
ipv te focussen op plantaardige rauwe voeding. De motor moet draaien en dus ten koste van
de gezondheid van deze generatie die de prijs gaat betalen voor de slappe houding van een
clubje ambtenaren die het logisch denken heeft verleerd. We worden een verlengstuk van de
Amerikaanse markt en voor hun chemische rommel. Snap goed dat de mensen achter deze
ziekmakende food industrie dezelfde zijn die miljoenen mensen aan longkanker helpen en
ervoor zorgen dat we geen schone energie hebben en de reden zijn dat de massa elke dag
synthetische/chemische toevoegingen in hun lichaam steken. Verwacht dus geen aktie van een
vriendenclubje in Den Haag, die hebben geld zat om goede voeding te kopen voor hun eigen
gezinnen, laat het volk maar leiden, zo was het en is het altijd geweest. We zullen zelf
beter moeten gaan nadenken en onze verantwoordelijk nemen en zelf ervoor zorgen dat onze
kinderen die troep niet gaan eten. Gewoon simpel boerenverstand en je
vertantwoordelijkheid nemen, het zijn toch jouw
kinderen ?
We kweken zieke verwende kinderen
Barbara Reed Stitt werkte in een
gevangenis met personeel en vooral met jonge mensen die in de gevangenis zaten en met
jonge mensen die al naar de rechter waren geweest voor kleine misdrijven. De rechter kon
Barbara en wist wat ze deed. Later als er weer eens jongens in moeilijkheden verkeerden en
voor de rechter kwamen dan zei de rechter. Jongeman ik laat je deze keer weer gaan, maar
je moet me beloven dat je naar Barbara gaat, want die kan je helpen. Maar als je dat niet
doet, en je komt hier weer voor een misdrijf dan ga je de gevangenis in. En je weet Ron in
de USA zijn ze wat strenger dan hier in Nederland. Barbara vertelde de jongens dan dat ze
anders moesten eten en genas hun met een dieet.
Ook hier in Kelowna (dat is al weer 20 jaar geleden) was een Moeder met een kind die hyper
nerveus was.Nooit stil kon zitten, over de banken heen vloog in de school,en dan naar de
dokter voor Ritalin? (Heet dat zo niet). Een drug die kalmeert. Deze moeder was verstandig
en luisterde en haar kind was in een half jaar genezen. Rustig en bedaard nadat ze alle
suiker (koekjes enz) niet meer aan haar kind gaf.
Een volledig rauwkost dieet. Het kind
gezond de moeder blij, en geen kosten. Blijven de kinderen aan Ritalin (ze worden wel
rustig) maar het is een drug en dus op de lange duur dodelijk. Een gezond kind, en anders
op den duur ziekte en narigheden en een verkort leven. Ik dacht je moet dit toch even
weten. Je weet hoe moeders zijn. Mijn lieveling, mijn schatje, nog een koekje, nog een
chocolaadje, ik houd toch zoveel van je. Dat is waar, maar als je hier naar de supermarkt
gaat en je ziet de moeders met de kleine kinderen voor de kassa. Daar staat van alles. Ook
als je benzine tankt. Vooral hier. Als je betaalt dan vragen ze je altijd nog iets anders,
en de O-Henry's enz, allemaal chocolade en ander rotzooi is te koop en ze verkopen het,
want die lieve kinderen houden niet op met zeuren. Ze zijn al verwend aan (drugs)
zoetigheid. Ze krijgen het iedere dag in een of andere vorm, en na 20 jaar of dertig jaar
zijn hun aderen vol met "plague" vet!!! Wel je weet het wel maar ik moest het
toch even kwijt!!
Ze worden te dik, en daarna?
Zwaarlijvigheid, suikerziekte, leverkwalen,hart kwalen, long ziektes, noem maar op. De
aderen zitten vol met vet en als er een stukje afbrokkelt en in het hart terecht komt dan
ga je dood. Het begint al als de moeder in verwachtig is en "slecht" eet. Dat
voedsel gaat naar het ongeboren kind en als het geboren wordt is het al bijna ziek. Daarna
voedsel uit een busje enz. Jaap is ook geboren, nooit voedsel uit een busje! Ook mijn
kinderen niet!
Ron, het eerste geslacht geboren (1915
tot 1940), Er was weinig te eten. Het tweede geslacht (mijn kinderen) geboren 1944 tot
1950. Nog niet te slecht, als Vader en Moeder het goede voorbeeld gaven!!! Het derde
geslacht 1970 tot 1980.Ze heben de welvaart mee gemaakt en ze zijn opgevoed met rotzooi.
Verpakt voedxel. Nu zitten wij al met het vierde geslacht, en die hebben geen schijn van
kans. De welvaart ziektes, de pillen!!! Praat maar eens met de jonge mensen van 25/30/35
jaar. Ze zijn wel opgevoed, verstandig, weten veel meer dan Ron en Jaap,en als ik met ze
praat? Oom Jaap ik weet het wel, zie maar ik ben veel te dik en ik doe er iets aan. Ik ben
aan het sporten, maar zeur nou niet altijd over dat voedsel. Hou toch ens op. Ik weet er
alles van en ik zal!!!! Je behoeft mij niets te vertellen.
En dan gaan we naar de verjaardags visite
van Oma en Opa. Moet je eens zien wat er niet allemaal op de tafel staat aan lekkere
hapjes. Kommetjes met allerhande spullen. En ze eten de hele avond uit die kommetjes. Zijn
er kleine kinderen bij dan moet je die eens zien. De handjes nooit stil, altijd in het
kommetje. Zoetigheid en zoetigheid. En zo gaat Jantje naar de bliksem toe, naar de dokter
voor pilletjes enz. En na 20/30 jaar zitten de aderen vol en ze kunnen maar niet begrijpen
dat ze ziek worden, beenderen breken, pijn in de rug,noem
maar op.
Ik hoor die verhalen van de jonge mensen
ieder jaar als ik in Nederland ben. Het zijn geen slechte jonge mensen, Ze zijn hoog
opgeleid, ze werken hard aan hun ondergang!!!
Het eerste geslacht geniet van het pensioen, leven lang (Jaap) en eten nog ouderwets. Het
tweede geslacht gaat nog wel, maar als ze ouders hebben die het goede voorbeeld gaven dan
hebben ze een kans. Het derde geslacht heeft weinig kans, en het vierde geslacht komt
terecht in het ziekenhuis, rusthuis, noem maar op. Ook al worden ze ouder, ze worden ouder
met pijntjes, en gewrichts aandoeningen, noem maar op. Geen plezier meer in het leven.
Bezoek de rusthuizen maar eens. En de revalidatie centrums en kijk maar!!! Prachtige
verzorging. Ze hebben allen een dietist in dienst, die niets weet van gezond eten. Ik ben
er geweest, ik heb er gegeten!!!
Dit moest ik weer even kwijt. Wat een
geluk om geboren te zijn in 1915. Van 1915 tot en met 1945 (dertig jaar lang, niet te veel
eten maar genoeg). Geen middelen in het eten om ze lang te bewaren. Geen chemicalien. Dat
was er toen nog niet. Direct uit de tuin naar de tafel. Met kerstmis een chocolaatje. Een
ei als je ziek was. Ron wij kwamen hier aan in 1957 en hadden geen huis! Een tekort aan
huur woningen. Wij waren voor een paar maand in een Motel. En dan kwam ik thuis en mijn
vrouw zei:" Jaap iedere week Woensdag komt een vrouw hier met eieren te verkopen. Ze
gaat van de eene cabin naar de andere. Ze klopt ook aan mijn deur maar wij zijn niet ziek
en ik koop dus geen eieren. Als wij ziek waren kregen wij een ei. Anders was het te duur.
Sien kon maar niet begrijpen hoe dit kwam. Zouden al die mensen ziek zijn vroeg ze mij? Ik
denk het niet, maar............................Zo leer je wat Ron!!!! Margriet was haar
naam. Later onze vriendin!!! We lachten er later om.
"Waar granen zoal niet goed voor
zijn!
!940 tot 1945.
Jaap ging in de Noorderbuurt 42 wonen toen hij "in zaken" ging. Boven wonen en
beneden een kantoor:"Assurantie kantoor "Van Manen". Allemaal jonge
zakenmensen in de Noorderbuurt. Hanke Siepel (de Vries), Klaas de Kroon, Comello, Lammers,
Gerritsma, Nicolai enz. Als je trouwde dan ging de vrouw in huis (gaf haar baan op en werd
huisvrouw). Ook by Jaap (zijn vrouw was apothers assistente en werd huisvrouw in 1941.
Wat is het verhaal gedurende de oorlog
onder de jonge mensen? Weet je waar ik wat melk kan krijgen?Of wat granen? Of wat
aardappelen?. Als je een fles melk kon kopen bij een boer en je had wat granen dan had je
een konings maal. (Haver of boekweit) De koffiemolen op je schoot en maar malen dat graan.
Dan de verhalen. Heb je het al gehoord
Jaap De Commelo's krijgen een kind. Of de Nicolais krijgen al hun tweede kind. Jonge
mensen zijn daar gek op, en in de oorlog wou dat wel. Geen brandstof, geen electriciteit.
Koud in huis, maar een warm bed was een hele uitkomst, vandaar de Babyboomers! Wat moest
je anders doen.
Maar met Klaas de Kroon zijn vrouw wou
het niet, al jaren niet. Voor de oorlog een goed leven (eigen zaak) wat extra's (taart,
gebakjes, en je kon het zien)!!!! Niet aan Klaas die bleef slank maar.................
Toen was het eind 1944. Armoede!!! Wat granen en wat aardappelen!!!
Jaap moet je eens horen, je gelooft het niet. Klaas de Kroon zijn vrouw is zwanger!!!! Pas
na de oorlog ging ons een lichtje op. Geen vet, geen koekjes, geen vlees, alleen maar
armoede:"Wat granen en
wat groente en wat fruit uit eigen tuin! Klaas de Kroon had een groentezaak!
Wat granen al niet goed voor zijn. Ook
vandaag hoor. Zij die geen kinderen kunnen krijgen moeten dit verhaaltje maar even lezen
en "Goed voorbeeld doet goed volgen".
Jaap
What we really need...
We all know, that our body needs:
minerals and trace elements such as-
Sodium; potassium; magnesium; calcium;
manganese; iron; cobalt; copper; zinc; nickel; chromium; molybdenum; phosporus; chloride;
fluoride; iodine; boron; selenium; silicon.
It also needs: vitamins such as
Vitamin E; alpha tocopherol; beta
tocopherol; alpha tocotrienol; beta tocotrienol; vitamin B-1; vitamin B-2; vitamin K ;
Vitamin B-6 ; Vitamin C; nicotinamide; pantothenic acid; biotin; folic acid; and amino
acids such as----alanine; arginine; aspartic acid; cystine; glutamic acid; glycine;
histidine; isoleucine; leucine; lysine; methionine; phenylamine; proline; serine;
threonine; tryptophan; tyrosine and valine.
It also needs: Fatty acids---such as
palmitic acid; stearic acid; palmitoleic acid; oleic acid; linoleic acid; linolenic acid,
and special carbohydrates such as -----glucose; fructose; sucrose; starch; pentosan;
hexosan; cellulose; polyuronic acid and phytic acid.
How did these Neaderthals know what they
needed in their food? Did they go to the University? To a High School? Did they ask their
Doctor? Tell me!
Now where do "WE" find all
these ingredients we need?
I tell you: IN OUR GRAINS, such as Rye; Spelt; Oats; Barley; Buckwheat; Flax; Sesame seed;
and Millet.
And yes, these Neatherthal people, our
Ancestors, your Great, Great, Great Grandfather, or Great, Great, Great Grandmother they
knew, what they needed to be healthy. They were eating "grains" and
"seeds" etc.
They did not die from Heart disease or Cancer, or Stroke, or 'Chronic' obstructive
pulmonary disease, or Diabetes, or HIV/Aids, or 'Chronic' liver disease, etc.
What I hear is this: "We cannot
afford "Organic food" it is too expensive. "We eat organic food", we
have organic grains. It cost us per day per person thirty (35) cents. Is that too
expensive??? To keep you healthy??
J.M. Vanderwood
A revolution?
Is there a revolution coming? I believe
there is. A revolution in our lifestyle. Are we aware of it? Perhaps not. We all are very
busy with our lives, we have to make a living, we are rushing through life and quite often
don't see what's going on. We don't have time for it. We don't have time to reflect, to
stop and think. Perhaps I do have an advantage. Why? Because of my age, and perhaps I have
a bit of experience.
Yin and Yang, plus and minus. There are
advantages and disadvantages in our lives. What I thought was an advantage in my life, it
sometime turned out to be a disadvantage and visa versa. My mother was not very strong,
she had goitre (en enlargement of the thyroid gland) at early age, and she passed away,
when she was only 57. That was a disadvantage for us, for our family, but in retrospect,
there was an advantage in the way we were brought up, without too much salt in our food
because of my mother's illness, we did not use pepper, salt, etc. My son Martin certainly
will remember this!
And then, I myself had some trouble,
which in turn was a blessing in disguise. The blessing was that I had some trouble, early
in life, (1948/1950) and again perhaps we were lucky that we went through a war. Why?
Because during the years (1940 to 1945), we had little food, and by 1943 we did not have
the goodies (tea, coffee, salt, soap, canned food, you name it). It was a question of
survival, and we were happy to get some very simple food (a bottle of milk now and then,
and "grains" from a farmer, with some potatoes etc). So simple that in the end,
we were healthier in 1945 than in 1940. Of course we did not realize that, we grumbled,
swore, we were mad, but… we did survive. Again Yin and Yang, advantages and
disadvantages. The disadvantage was, no light, no fuel for the stove, no heat, no salt, no
tea, no butter, no soap, you name it.
The advantage, we learned to appreciate what we could get, we learned to do with less, we
learned to survive.
Then after the war, scientist and doctors
wanted to know, what happened to the people who did survive, they wanted to know about
their health "before and after" the war, and……..they found out,
that…………….."you cannot live without food", but you can
live with a lot less food you think you can, need, or want, and…………you
are healthier because of it.
And today you read it in the newspaper,
that "tests" proof you live longer if you eat less. There is nothing new under
the sun.
Right across from us in the Noorderbuurt,
in Drachten (Friesland), Klaas de Kroon had a store, selling vegetables, potatoes etc.
They were married for quite some time, and………….in a small village,
everybody knows every thing about his neighours…….………Klaas' wife
could not get pregnant. Pity. We were young, had young children etc, but not the family
"De Kroon". What did happened in 1944???? Mrs. De Kroon got pregnant, the talk
of Drachten. How???
Later on reading about "food"
etc. I believe the answer is "Food". Very little but the basics.
"Grains" if we could get them, and with the "grains" we had some
porridge, and we could make bread in its purest form (no chemicals, no suger,
………….. simple food) and……we had more energy!!!! Resulting in
a baby for the family "de Kroon"!
During our holiday in Hawaii I had some
time to read, and I typed out a summary. Two books I value very much. "Food &
Behavior" by Barbara Reed Stitt, and "Sugar Blues" by William Dufty. Lately
I have read "Real Food for a chance", by Wayne Roberts, Rod MacRae and Lori
Stahlbrand.
The next couple of weeks I try to get you
a "summary" of this book. Why? Because I believe this "summary" would
complement what I have done before. Since last year so much has been written about
"Health" in the Vancouver Sun and other newspapers. Talk about an
"epidemic", it means "it is running out of hand" (we don't know how to
stop it)-------"Obesity", diabetes, etc. A few weeks ago, I met Bertha's doctor,
in Orchard Park. The first thing he said: " How is Bertha and how is Russell?)"
He delivered Russell in the hospital (36 years ago). He is retired, and we chatted for a
while. "Jack he said:" Do you see that? Pointing to some young kids in the hall?
(12 to 18 years of age). Then he continued: "Jack the Federal Government is very
concerned about the "unfunded liabilities" the pensions, they have to pay by the
year 2040/2050 etc. He continued: " You know Jack, the Federal Government does not
have to worry about having to pay those pensions. Look at those kids, they don't make it
to age 65. They even don't make it to age 50 he said. I could not agree more with him.
What a change? From 1920/1930 to 1999!.
Then my Dad went to his garden (100 feet away from the house) and we had "fresh out
of the garden" vegetables, potatoes, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, plums,
pears, apples, carrots, spinach, cabbages, you name. In ten minutes we had it all fresh,
juicy, no chemicals, no deadly sprays. Compare this with what we have now! We truck the
fruit and vegetables (half green) all the way from California, and they call it
"fresh"???
Now onto the book: "Real Food"!
What are you missing? Not the S.A.D.
(standard American Diet), sugar, salt, grease and caffeine. Not the pill-popper guides to
supernutrients, the miracle diets that promise to take off thirty pounds in thirty days.
We call this missing ingredient "Real Food".
This book pulls together the alarming details of what goes into most of the food we eat,
and "exposes Government and Industry silence" on this critical information that
you should know.
You want to find "health at the
kitchentable not on the operating table!".
What did Hippocratis say?. " Let the food be your medicine, and medicine be your
food". The U.S. Surgeon General's landmark 1988 report on "nutrition and
health" concludes that up to 71 per cent of death, including one-third of cancer
deaths, are "related to diet"! At least 20 percent of lung cancers, 33 percent
of breast cancers, and 66 percent of colon cancers are "preventable by appropriate
diets". That's what the World Cancer Research Fund recently concluded.
Our immune system is weakened by
malnutrition. "It's acceptable for Governments to finance doctors, drugs and
hospitals, but not food". This is why medicare is a "sick care system", and
not a "health care system".
Supermarkets work both sides of the health aisle: on one side are foods with fibre and key
nutrients removed, so that the food can stay on the shelf longer; on the other side are
laxatives and anacids. Nothing is removed from your "grains" and that's why you
don't have to purchase supplements (vitamins,etc.) And you don't need laxatives.
Don't get the microwaveable instant
entrée for dinner or the fat-and sugar-laden cereal bar for breakfast, gobbled down in
the car on the way to work. What's you favourite dinner? French fries and pizza's
"Dynamite", don't eat it.
Free Government training programs are
provided for people, who want to learn about computers, "not cooking". Home
cooking isn't classified as a basic skill.
Farmer's market.
The local farmers begin to cater to local
demand and start growing a score of crops, rather than endless fields of soy beans.
Switching to a variety of crops allows farmers to experiment with organic farming
practices, methods that are incompatible with monoculture. They plant onions with their
carrots, sidestepping the need for pesticides. They plant lettuce after beans, eliminating
the need for chemical fertilizers, since beans draw down nitrogen (the main component of
these fertilizers) from the air. Having cut their input costs for chemicals, the farmers
make money.
When you ask the kids, "where milk comes from, the answer is often "from a
carton". Cheese is not supposed to be bright orange and bread is not supposed to be
pasty white. There is a lot of upside-down thinking about food. Like Oscar Wilde's cynic,
the GNP (Gross Natural Product) knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. It
is no surprise that economists are the only professionals who are well paid for being
consistently wrong. The application of chemical sprays to farm fields was an early sign of
a food system at war with nature. "genetic engineering" (GE) escalates the war.
Scientists working in this field think
they know better than nature, and can come up with combinations of plants and animals that
stupid "old nature never got around to in over 4 billion years of evolution".
They are putting fish genes in tomatoes and sugar beets, scorpion toxin in rice and
tobacco. Genetic engineering, by its very nature (or lack thereof), has nothing to do with
life forces and natural cycles. That's the reason why "many GE foods don't go bad on
the shelf: they just stay bad".
Now we will tell you why the most
important move you can make is to go "Organic".
Eat organic!
Going organic is one of the best
all-round decisions you will ever make. It is a wise investment in long-term securities:
"your health". Food meets more than biological needs.
Organic food is delicious. Organic passes
the taste test of the world's most demanding chefs. Many are so keen that they have joined
organizations such as Chefs Collaborative 2000 or Knives and Forks to encourage local
growers who can keep them supplied with the best in the field. Something is cooking when
chefs are so particular.
Convential farmers, to compensate for
depleted soil, shoot up their fields with chemical fertilizers, usually made from natural
gas. The quick release of nitrogen from these fertilizers interfered with sugar formation
in plants. Our overconsumption of sugar (read: "Sugar Blues" by William Dufty)
can be blamed on the sweetness deficiency brought about by this interference with natural
sugar formation. Organic fruits and vegetables, especially beets and carrots, have a
richly sweet taste. Extra sweetness is also noticeable in dairy products from cows that
feast on new springtime growth in organic meadows.
To prevent the dry skin and wrinkles that
comes with old age, vegetables get a wax coating (often impregnated with fungicides) to
seal in their water. Bananas, usually picked green, turn yellow thanks to ethylene gas
applied in trucks and warehouses. Oranges from "Florida", owe their orange
colour to dye. The label indicating the use of dye is placed on the crate, which warehouse
workers get to see but not shoppers. Cosmetic expectations dictate excessive use of
pesticides to prevent the smallest spot.
Organic customers develop an eye that can
see beauty that is more than skin deep. If apple juice looks cloudy, that's because it's
apple juice, not apple water with all the fibre filtered out. If honey isn't transparent,
that's because the original minerals are still there. People need to ask themselves if
they'd rather have a spot on their apple or a spot on their lungs.
Nutrients in food come mainly from nutrients in the soil.
The growth spurt fuelled by synthetic
fertilizers leaves calcium, magnesium and zinc-all crucial to heart, bone and mental
health-in the dust. A feature of industrial processing is hydrogenation, whereby oils are
hardened into solid form by adding hydrogen. Margarine and shortening are the two main
products of this process.
Hydrogenation and high-temperature
refining have created a new health problem known as trans-fatty acids, or TEAS. Two of the
leading scientists, Harvard's Walter Willet and Bruce Holub from the University of Guelph,
tell us that trans-fatty acids do us a lot of harm. TEAS increase, what is known as bad
cholesterol and blood fat levels (both contributing factors to heart disease).
The Canadian Government has consistently
refused to require labelling of trans-fatty acids because of strong opposition from the
food industry. Without labelling, the best way to avoid TEAS is to go organic. Organic
oils are not hydrogenated.
Did you know that as much as 60 percent
of processed foods are liable to contain genetically engineered products? What if the
bacteria inserted in many seeds to poison pest end up poisoning people? In the United
States, Monsanto's New Leaf Potato seed is actually registered as a pesticide, not a seed.
Think about it. Trust your Government!!!!!
Canadian Government requires no
separation or labelling of these products, in stark contrast with Europe, where consumers
and Governments insist on their right to know. In Britain MP'S won't allow biotech in the
parliamentary dining room. Buy organic, which guarantees that no genetically altered seeds
were used to grow raw foods and that every effort was made to screen them out of processed
foods.
Irridation is the second experiment
conducted on our food without our knowledge or consent. Bombarding fruit, vegetables and
meat with rays from Cobalt-60 will delay spoilage and kill off salmonella and hamburger
disease. Since nuclear radiation's "glowing" reputation scares people off,
promoters call this process "cold pasteurization". Karen Graham, former chair of
the Canadian Dietetic Association's special committee on irridation, says that vitamins A,
B, C, D. E and K are burnt to such an extent as to seriously reduce nutrient levels.
George Tritsch of Buffalo's Roswell Park Cancer Institute says irridation can produce so
much genetic damage and create so many carcinogens that cancer rates will inevitable
increase. Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Chicago Medical School calls irridation one the
largest prospective toxicological experiments in human populations in the history of
public health.
U.S. beef is irradiated with the force of
30 million X-rays.
Since not all irridiated foods are labelled, the only way to make sure you are not
conscripted in this experiment is to buy organic, a label that's only issued to nuclear
free operators.
The deployment of atomic power on the
food supply is a reminder that the stock of weapons used in chemicalized agriculture
mostly comes from the military machine. After World War 11, nitrogen manufacturers had no
market for explosives, chlorine manufacturers had no market for poison gas, tank makers
had no market for tanks and nuclear manufacturers had fewer bombs to (6) rush to
production. Chemicalized agriculture became a makework project for them. Nitrogen went
into fertilizers, chlorine went into chemical sprays, tanks became tractors, and the
peaceful atom was used for sterilization equipment.
The origins of chemicalized food in the
military-industrial complex of the 1950s may explain the fondness for pesticide trade
names such as
Avenge and Machete, and standard references to pests as enemies that must be conquered and
destroyed. The same mind-set may also explain the Government's provision of information to
citizens on a "need-to-know" basis, just like in the military. At any rate, a
strange love for mad science experiments was carried over from war production to food
production.
In this perspective, going organic is a
declaration that the war is over, that government propaganda, secrecy and denial of civil
liberties are no longer needed, and that combat ethics must give way to ethics that
respect life. Organic food is better for your kids. Moving to organic is as important as
any safety measure you take.
Food testing by industry and government
does not take children into account. Risk levels from exposure to toxic chemicals are set
for adult bodies and eating patterns. But children are much more vulnerable than adults.
Their acutely sensitive nervous systems are developing rapidly. Pound for pound, they eat
four times more than adults. They drink twenty times more apple juice and eat seven times
more vegetables. None of this is taken into account when risk levels are set. It's child
neglect, pure and simple.
Theo Colborn, believes humans now show
the tell-tale signs of damage, she first observed lower down the food chain. In "Our
Stolen Future" (a book she wrote) she blames runaway rates of female breast cancer,
male infertility, and children suffering from attention deficit disorder on rogue
hormones. (read the book "Food & Behavior" by Barbara Reed Stitt). Because
rogue hormones migrate to body fat, the basic material in sperm, placenta and breasts
contains them in high concentration.
Avoiding foods that carry agents or reproductive pollution is the best way to protect
future generations. That means avoiding foods grown on fields fertilized with sewage
sludge, which commonly includes chlorine-based cleaners and solvents that have been
flushed down the toilet. Safety means avoiding foods with any residues from chemical
sprays.
Only organic producers follow a code that prohibits these products.
Ken McMullen, a farmer, who has 50 acres,
located at the Long Point Biosphere on Lake Erie, farms organically. He says: "One
acre of topsoil that's not "broken", includes some 3 billion bacteria and 25
million mites, ants and earthworms. He does not use toxic sprays, as they are expensive
and counter productive. (1% (percent) of sprays actually hit the target, 99 percent are
overkill. The excess kills worms that aerate soil, bees that pollinate plants, birds that
eat bugs. McMullen says tomatoes gain 80 percent of their vitamin C from the time they
turn pink to the time they turn ripe red, and they lose these nutrients almost as quickly
once they have been picked. He has a system with a one-day turnaround. The secret!
Direct, from the farm to the kitchen table (no middlemen, no packing, no long distance
trucking, no pesticides).
Pirmin Kummer, has a two-hundred-acre
farm near Port Elgin, New Brunswick. He grows potatoes, he wraps his potatoes in a bag,
affixes his label " grown without pesticides added", and sells them at a premium
price at roadside stands, farmers' markets and local groceries.
Monsanto, once know for barbaric weapons
of chemical Warfare-Monsanto's Agent Orange. Now the world's most powerful "life
sciences" conglomorate. (Monsanto's New Leaf Potato) is part of a new chapter in seed
breeding. It produces a seed that nature could never develop. Monsanto lab workers spliced
the genes of a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiences, or B.t., into a potato seed,
B.t. has long been the potato growers' helper. The bacteria live in the soil. When eaten
by a beetle, they release a poison that paralyzes the beetle, causing its digestive system
to shut down. The New Leaf Potato, approved by the U.S. government in 1995, and by Canada
in 1996, comes with its own built-in B.t.
The real hot potato, however, is the
human health impact of genetically engineered potatoes. No one knows how the gene of a
bacteri that poisons and suffocates a beetle will react in a human stomach over time. And
no one has any inkling of how potatoes with natural poison in their genes will react in
the human stomach when joined by the manufactured genes of other common food products.
Only organic growers can guarantee the
absence of genetically engineered plants. And only organic growers give the potato the
respect it deserves. Its storehouse of essential nutrients---one medium sized potatoe
helps fill daily needs for protein, vitamins, B and C, as well as iron, phosphorus,
magnesium and copper---greatly improved the health and energy levels of the poor
"Peruvian Indians" thousands of years ago, and also the emigrants who settled in
Canada from Europe in the early part of 1900. When more growers like Pirmin Kummer can
sell potatoes the way he does, success for organics will be in the bag.
Darryl Armey of Radisson, Saskatchewan
has a 320 acre farm, and he grows wheat organically! The ancient Romans put wheat at the
centre of their empire. Because it stored well, it was ideal for armies on the march
across continents.
Milk.
The era of hand-milking the family cow on
a three-legged stool is long gone. Milk production is thoroughly mechanized. Save for the
cows, milk is a purely industrial product. Milk is pasteurized at fairly high
temperatures, destroying enzymes that aid digestion, so that it can be transported farther
and stored longer. It is homogenized----shaken up to permanently dispense the fat---so we
have no choice but to buy cream as a separate product rather than letting it rise to the
top. The Government and dairy industry work together to thwart organic producers and
distributors.
Only Quebec and Ontario allow a few
organic dairies to hold their milk back from the pool and sell it separately. Recombinant
Bovine Growth Hormone, or rBGH, extends milk industrialization to its illogical
conclusion. It's a genetically engineered drug made by inserting cow genes into bacteria,
which causes cows to increase milk production. To cover up its role as a
performance-enhancing drug, government and industry refer to BGH as BST, the
innocuous-sounding Bovine Somatotropin BGH is legal in the United States. Canadians are
most likely to be exposed to it, when they buy imported frozen pizzas and TV dinners.
The case, against BGH is strong. The
label on Monsanto's brand states that it can reduce rates of pregnancy in cows and
increase rates of cystic ovaries, disorders of the uterus and mastitis. Indegestion,
bloating and diarrhoea are common reactions of cows to BGH. Most require treatment with
antibiotics, which ends up in the milk. But the most ominous human health threat comes
from another sustance stimulated when BGH is injected. It is called INSULIN-LIKE Growth
Factor or IGF-1, and it ends up in the milk.
Several reports by independent experts
link IGF-1 to breast and prostate cancer in humans.How is it that a performance drug that
does not perform, makes animals sick and may cause health problems in "humans",
could still have a chance to be licensed in Canada? What problems does rBGH solve??
For anyone who believes in playing safe
with milk, organic methods so outperform BGH on all counts as to rule out the need for any
further consideration.
Beef.
Lloyd Quantz, of Tanglewood Ranch,
Didsbury, Alberta, one of Canada's most respected cattlemen, formerly manager of the
Canadian Charolais Association, general manager of the biggest feedlot in the country,
president of the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, founder of AgriTrends Research, the
most influential farm consultants in the west, and dean at Olds College, the country's
biggest agriculture school----yet he ended up converting his million-dollar a year ranch
to "ORGANIC". Nobody thought he would, but he did.
Quantz raises Charolais cattle crossed
with Angus steers. He spends nothing on artificial insemination, letting nature take its
course. Quantz figures: "Hybrid vigour is what makes for fertility, longevity and
resistance to disease". The proof is in his vet and drug bills, which amount to next
to nothing. His own ranch is 160 acres, a backyard garden by Prairie standards.
"The feedlots are little more than
sickbays". "The cattle come in the door stressed from their truck drive and
dumbfounded by their surroundings". "They are fed a new high-protein diet that
the bacteria in their stomach cannot digest, many suffer from abscessed livers as a result
of this alien diet". "Up to a third are kept alive on antibiotics".
"They stand for eight hours without food before being slaughtered". "The
lack of digestive activity for this stretch of time encourages stomach bacteria associated
with E coli 0157:H7, commonly known as hamburger disease and responsible for more than
40,000 cases of food-borne illness each year across North America as well as several
death".
"E coli 0157:H7 is also associated
with Hemolytic-Uremic Synsrome, or HUS". "It is a life threatening disease
characterized by acute kidney failure, and is especially serious in young children".
"The meat from several cows is used for hamburger patty". "It does not take
much for disease to spread like the proverbial wildfire in the processing plant, where
thousands of cattle are slaughtered, butchered and ground up each day".
"Consumers have odd food obsessions, Quantz says. They want their vegetables frozen
when they should be eaten freshly picked; they want their meat freshly killed when it
could well be kept longer or bought frozen. Beef needs to be aged if enzymes are to
tenderize it naturally, without the addition of chemical tenderizers or flavour enhancers.
Meat does not go bad for at least a week if it is kept cool and handled with extreme care
for cleanliness.Can you now understand why Quantz converted to organic?
Poultry.
Glen and Kimberly on their Tilsley farm
in Cape Breton's Margaree Valley raise about five hundred chickens on an innovative system
known as "pasturing poultry". It features mobile chicken coops, ten-foot-by-ten
foot wooden frames covered with chicken wire that sit directly on the ground. The coop
protects the chickens from foxes and other preditors while they cluck away inside, picking
at weeds and insects. The light portable coop is moved daily so the chickens can clean and
renew a different section of pasture, removing weeds and pests and leaving a trail of
nitrigen-rich fertilizer behind them. There is no need for antibiotics. Customers flock to
the taste of range-fed chicken. The Tilsleys' market survey showed enough local demand for
ten such operations!!!
The supermarket chickens are packed cheek by jowl. Imagine living your entire life in a
crowded elevator and you will begin to get the picture. The birds are stressed by lack of
fresh air and exercise. The intense crowding overpowers their ancestral sense of pecking
order. As a result, their immune systems crash, leaving them vulnerable to disease. All it
takes is for one to get sick and an epidemic can spread. That's why antibiotic drugs rule
the roost in factory barns. The chickens are fed a steady diet of what are called
"subtherapeutic levels" of antibiotics, doses below what's needed to overcome an
acute disease. The drugs also work as a growth promotor, helping to fatten chickens for
the kill inside of a month. Antibiotic feeds, available without prescription, are now
standard for chickens, turkey, cattle, pigs and calves raised for veal. A third of all
"antibiotics" used in Canada-22,000 tons a year-----are fed to farm animals,
which become the meat on our supermarket counters.
Organic farmers forbid this practice.
Overuse of antibiotics is a
well-recognized threat to humans. It's now known that superbugs from factory chickens can
cross the road to the other side-to humans."We have documented cases of bacterial
resistance being transferred to humans", says Robert Hancock, professor of
microbiology at the University of British Columbia. "We are on the verge of a
significant health crisis in which the poor utilization of antibiotics with animals is a
significant contributor." In the Unites States, resistant strains of salmonella
bacteria from chickens raised in factory farms cause four million illnesses and three
thousand deaths a year. Drug abuse has come home to roost.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
tried to ban antibiotics use on animals in 1977 but failed. Since then, several other
motions in the U.S. Congress have been defeated. Canada bans animal use of only one
antibiotic: tetracycline.
Organic methods are not only about taste,
nutrition and avoiding senseless cruelty to animals, they have become fundamental to the
preservation of human health.
You remember the sick cows in England?
The ten million pigs killed in Holland, the dioxine-chicken's in Belgium??? Not convinced
yet????
Fish.
Ray Rogers a fisherman for twelve years
at the East Coast, is now a professor of environmental studies at York University in
Toronto. The industrialization of the fishing fleet changed the old fashioned system.
Read: William Warner's book "The Fish Killers" and Mark Kurlansky's
book---"a history of cod".
Fish farming, or aquaculture, is being
touted as the solution to the wild fish crisis. Ironically, this deadly process is being
funded by government subsidies. The United Nations calculates that worldwide government
investment in, and subsidization of, the factory fishery, amounts to $ 4 billion each
year, not to mention policies that directly or indirectly support overfishing and squeeze
out the small local fishers.
Ninety percent of the salmon consumed in
Canada today----and 40% wordwide---is farmed fish. In one operation in the Bay of Fundy,
six thousand fish are forced into each pen, which is no larger than fifteen square yards.
The conditions are ideal for disease to develop, and it has. Last year, hundreds of
thousands of fish were killed in an epidemic of infectious salmon anaemia in New
Brusnswick. The same disease has devastated fish farms in northern Europe. As a result,
the farmed fish are routinely fed antibiotics and washed with pesticides. There is also
evidence that these chemicals may produce superbugs in humans. In 1977 nine people in
Toronto were infected with a new strain of bacteria after handling farmed fish from the
United States.
Fish poses a problem. Usually it is impossible to know if the fish you are buying is
farmed or wild. It's more than likely to be farmed, making it a no more healthy choice,
than beef or chicken raised with hormones and antibiotics.
Shop organic.
As a general rule, the less animal fat
you consume, the less exposure you'll have to poisonous farm chemicals and other toxic
pollutants that gather in fatty tissue. If you cannot afford organic meat and dairy, you
might consider moving to a plant-centred diet. Grains, beans, nuts, fruits, and vegetables
contain a range of antioxidants, compounds that can heal damage from pollution and a
goodly portion of fibre, which helps to flush toxins out of your body. Animal products are
generally short of both antioxidants and fibre.
When you make the decision to go organic,
you'll find that it's not as hard as you might think. It might cost you a few pennies
more, but you're worth it.
Eat smarter.
Fully 89 percent of the candies and gums
sold at supermarkets are bought "on impulse"! Just look at the junk piled up in
a lot of shopping carts, and you will know that the easiest savings for health and the
pocketbook come from what you don't buy. The best foods have bargain-basement prices.
Barley, beans, beets, cabbage, carrots, garlic, kale, oats, onions, potatoes, turnips etc.
Beans are good for the heart, the more you eat, the more you get fibre, calcium, magnesium
and B vitamins. The same applies for your "grains"! According to a report issued
by the Canadian Heart and Stroke foundation in 1998. The Foundation issued a formal
"red-flag warning" on the diet of kids from six to twelve years old. Only 20
percent eat enough fruit and vegetables. Only 28 percent eat "grains" high in
fibre and complex carbohydrates. As many as 35 percent are obese, doubling since the early
1980s.
Foundation officials said these children
are prime targets for diabetes and heart disease in later life. The medical bill for
diet-related Type 2 diabetes is about $6 billion a year, for heart disease about $50
billion. As well, overweight North Americans now spend $40 billon a year on diet
treatments,which have a low record of success in reversing problems that set in during
childhood.
An investment in eating organic helps
ensure that your child doesn't become a medical or social statistic.
Barbara Stitt, a Ph.D. in nutrition with
more than a decade of experience as the head of Youth Probation Services in Ohio
concludes: " that the American way of eating is precisely
the sort of diet which will cause
"brain malfunction". This is called the Standard American Diet (SDA). (French
fries and pizzas!!!)
Fully half the costs of drug plans go to
treat five groups of illnesses and disorders that are more effectively treated with
low-cost foods; heart disease, diabetes, stomach ailments, bacterial infections and
stress. Vitamin C and zinc are proven cold and infection fighters. "High blood
pressure, a forerunner of heart disease, can be reversed within two weeks with a diet high
in fruits and vegetables and low-fat dairy products", according to a study by the
American National Institute of Health. The study also found that the dietary approach
outperformed hypertension drugs. Diabetes can be prevented and controlled by a diet high
in complex carbohydrates.
Grains
Oats, Jane Brody's "Good Food
Book" refers to oats as a "nutritional Cadillac", they are a good source of
B vitamins, vitamin E and several minerals, including calcium and iron. It's the fibre of
whole oats, which help regulate cholesterol levels. There is wide medical agreement that
oats can have positive effects on five major "chronic disorders": heart attacks,
cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. And no one doubts that the soluble
fibre in oats works as a natural laxative.
The prophet Exekiel told the ancient
Israelites to take, "wheat, and barley, and beans and lentils and millet and
fitches". Whole wheat is loaded with most essential nutrients, including
micronutrients such as zinc, chromium and manganese, which are hard to get from other
sources. Barley was a standard grain of biblical times, first domesticated as far back as
6000 BC.
Barley is a good source of protein,
niacin, thiamin, potassium and silicon. Both wheat and barley are good sources of vitamin
B 15. Millet is rich in protein, B vitamins and several essential minerals, including iron
and copper. As for fitches---who knows what they are?? Twenty minerals and vitamins are
lost in the process of milling (white bread)! Harvard medical researcher Kilmer McCully
links the rise in heart attack rates in the 1950s to hyper-processed breads and foods.
Many cholesterol and heart problems are caused by diets deficient in vitamin E, and in
particular vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid. If vitamin B6 is not present in the diet, a
substance called homocysteine can build up and damage artery walls, leading to heart
disease.
Home-made baby food.
Parents who want to give their baby the
best possible start and still save money would do well to steer clear of most prepared
baby food.
What's in most prepared baby foods will come as a shock to many parents. In some cases
there's more cornstarch or tapioca in the jar than there is fruit or vegetables. Other
kinds are high in (13) sugar and salt, despite warnings from the Nutrition Handbook of the
American Academy of Pediatrics that sugar and salt are unsuitable for infants. Most lines
of baby food come from food conglomerates that service people from the cradle to the
grave, making baby foods the training ground for a lifetime of taste addictions.
Juicing.
Juicing is a tasty, convenient and
economic way of getting the nutrients you need from vegetables. "A powerhouse of
nutrients". It's cleaning the body of cholesterol. Juices are an easy way to increase
your intake of raw foods, known to be higher in nutrients than their cooked counterparts.
Read: "No-cook" book by John H. Tobe; "Raw Foodist Propaganda" by Joe
Alexander "The Miracles of Live Juice and Raw Foods", by John H. Tobe and
"Living Food" by Kristina Nolfi.
Breastmilk.
Jane Upham a single mother living on
social assistance says: " I simply can't afford to be sick. I am getting older and I
have a young child (five years old): "Buying organic just feels better to me. I don't
like the idea that as human beings we believe we can come up with a better way to grow
things than nature can". Jane Upham said: " Breast milk might be the most
undervalued low-cost food of all." Breastmilk is "the gold standard" of
infant nutrition, says Marsha Walker, whose clients include insurance giant John Hancock.
"Breast fed babies" catch fewer colds and suffer half as many ear and lung
infections. The tab for drugs to combat child ear infections alone comes to $100 million a
year in Canada.
Coffee.
A small co-op called "Just Us",
based near Wolfville, Nova Scotia, roasts and sells organic beans from a farm co-op that's
guaranteed a fair base price. In 1988, two years after start-up, "Just Us"
(their phone number is (1(800)-NOT THEM) did $ 500,000 worth of business in Canada.
"We want people to buy our coffee because it's great coffee", says
"Just-Us" staffer Ria March.
Niche markets will unravel the industrial
food system and replace it with a craft system in tune with micromarkets.
Niche markets have also brought new life
to restaurants. "Chef" is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the country.
Many chefs are artist-entrepeneurs who work closely with local food growers to get the
highest quality ingredients. The trend is most pronounced in B.C. where "the Gourmet
Trail" in Vancouver, Vancouver Island and the gulf Islands has become a tourist (14)
destination. At Sooke Harbour House, Sinclair Philip serves only salads picked from his
own kitchen doorstep, where fourhundred varieties of fruit and vegetables bloom.
FarmFolk, CityFolk, 208-2211 W.Fourth Ave, Vancouver, B.C. V6K 4S2 phone: 1-888-730-0452;
fax: 1(604) 730-0451; E-mail <office@ffcf.bc.ca>
Genetically engineered foods.
It's performance throughout the decade
earned the biotechindustry a reputation as a "money-destroying machine".
"In 1996, for instance, 1,300 U.S. biotech firms swallowed losses of $4.6 billion.
Governments, however are standing behind the industry. Our Canadian Government hands out
about $ 400 miilion each year, refusing to pull the plug on this life-support system.
"Trust your government".
Eat raw food.
Raw food enthousiasts say their approach
to eating offers greater resistance to illness and aging and a key to greater
"aliveness". Cooking destroys nutrients. Eating in the raw also preserves
crucial enzymes. Enzymes are protein-like substances that act as catalysts in the body's
chemical reactions. Raw food enthousiasts encourage moving to a diet that is 80 percent
raw. But eating just 20 percent raw will have an impact on both your health and the
environment.
Raw food has an illustrious past. The
first known proponents of eating raw were the Essenes, a monastic Middle Eastern group
said to have influenced Jesus Christ. Ancient texts reveal instruction in the use of raw
foods to achieve mental, physical and spiritual health. Today their traditions are kept up
in Essene bread, a raw flatbread made of sprouted wheat berries and flax seeds. The famous
"Albert Schweitzer", attributed his recovery from diabetes to a diet of raw
foods.
The World Health Organization is making a
special study of the Italian town of Campodimele because of the unusually long and healthy
lives of its residents. The villagers eat lots of fresh fruit, vegetables, wild mushrooms
etc. The health value of good food will become the saviour of medicare in the next
century.
Other countries with more severe climates
and less fertile land than Canada's have organized food systems based on two concepts:
"The need for nutritious food end the need to develop food self-reliance".
Between 1970 and 1990, Norway increased its consumption of home-grown calories from 39 to
52 percent. Norway's Centre for Ecological Agriculture believes the country can go
"organic" and still be close to nutritional self-sufficiency.
Most prescription drugs and most medical
procedures rely on negative energy. Antibiotic, literally translated, means "against
life". While chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer inflict poisons on the
body. Food, by contrast, provides positive energy to the immune system.
Amazing grace.
Vegetarians were way ahead of us in some
way, based on the premise: "Don't kill animals". Now that we the
-non-vegetarians have discovered that meat is poison, we can shake hands.
That't what we call amazing grace. Perhaps the vegetarians can learn something from us,
the "raw fooders", and we can learn something from them. Let's try!!!
Summary of "Sugar Busters" by
H. Leighton Steward; Morrison C. Bethea ,M.D.; Sam S. Andrews, M.D.; and Luis A. Balart,
M.D.
The picture on page (19) actually says it
all. "It's the Sugar".
In 1976 William Dufty, wrote "Sugar Blues", which he said was inspired by the
late actress Gloria Swanson, who recognized sugar's "poisonous" effects on both
her mind and body.
Like alcoholics hooked on alcohol, we are
hooked on sugar. The statistic that men's life expectancy has increased by 50 percent in
the last century is accurate, but it is nearly all due to a tremendous decrease in infant
and early childhood mortality. Middle age American men (+/- 50 years old) only live
eighteen months longer than they did in 1900, despite the availability of flu shots,
penicillin for pneumonia, anti-biotics, and general surgical technology, including early
detection technology, transplant capability, and multiple life-support systems. And you
cannot go into any food store or drugstore without finding shelves and shelves of
vitamins, minerals and other supplements.
We believe the main culprit is the major
change to "refined foods and especially refined sugar". In fact we believe that
a middle-aged man's life expectancy has deteriorated---save and except for the medical
wonders--- and that his quality of life in his later years also has diminished on the
average.
It has always been a popular Myth, that
fats are bad. The fact is that fats, in and of themselves, do not necessarily cause weight
gain. Fats are present in so many food items, which are popular in this country: fast
foods such as doughnuts, fried chicken, french fries, pizza's. These are the saturated
fats. Now some fats lower cholesterol and others raise cholesterol.
Foods such as olive oil, flaxseed oil,
whole grains are helpful for patients with coronary artery disease. These are the
unsaturated fats. (See Layman's Glossary).
The Mediterranean diet (lots of
vegetables and fruit and olive oil (cold pressed) is the answer! Also walnuts and almonds
are both rich in monounsaturated fats. In a recent study between a Mediterranean type diet
and the Standard American diet (SAD) (french fries, pizza's, cola and other soft drinks)
there was a 79 percent decrease in major cardiovascular events after twenty-seven months
on the Mediterranian diet. Another class of fats which are beneficial for heart disease is
the omega-3-polyunsaturated acids or fish oils. These oils decrease the stickiness of
platelets (see Layman's Glossary). in the bloodstream.
Elevated triglycerides, or "sticky" platelets contribute to or cause,
"arteriosclerosis".
Cholesterol. Cholesterol alone is not a
reliable indicator for the risk of cardiovascular disease. E.g. In Crete, fat consumption
was 40 percent of total energy intake, but the incidence of heart disease was one of the
lowest in Europe. (Remember the Mediterranian diet)!
Alcohol.
Some forms of alcohol are worse than others. Beer has a high content of maltose, a
carbohydrate that causes a rapid increase in blood suger, so does liqueurs (they also have
a high content of sugar). Avoid them.
Eating foods containing a modest amount of insoluble fiber can effect the rate of
digestion and absorption of carbohydrates thus causing carbohydrates to have a much lower
insulin-stimulating effect . Eating your "grains" is a good thing for your body.
And fruit!!! Eat it by themselves, It digests better.
Everything we eat is either carbohydrates
which are broken down to simple sugar (80 percent glucose) and the rest fructose or
galactose depending on whether we have fruit or dairy products. Proteins, which are broken
down to amino acids. Fats which are broken down to triglycerides; and fiber which is
cellulose and cannot be broken down further. Of these four substances: carbohydrates;
proteins; fats and fiber, only three are absorbed from our digestive tracts: sugar, amino
acids and triglycerides.
Carbohydrates= sugar;----- Protein=amino acids;-----Fats=triglycerides.
Carbohydrates.
Found in plant and animal food sources.
(Sugar and starches). Simple sugars or more complex sugars, such as starch. Carbohydrates
are absorbed by the body and they are converted to glucose. Glucose is the main fuel for
our body. It provides energy or it is stored in the form of glycogen in the liver and in
muscle to be utilized later. Any remaining glucose then is stored as fat.
When a carbohydrate is eaten, there is a
rise in the level of blood glucose commensurate with the type and amount of carbohydrate
(e.g. higher for sugar (soft drinks, etc.) lower for fruit (fresh). This rise in blood
sugar (glucose) is then followed by the release of insulin, which causes a fall in the
level of glucose primarily as it is driven into cells of the body where it can be utilized
as instant fuel or stored mainly as fat. Following this, the glucose level returns to its
normal baseline. The pancreas is the regulator. When overloaded by too much sugar
(cookies, pastries, coke, white bread, french fries, pizza's, and sugar) it will break
down (cannot do its work any longer), and this then results in obesity, which in turn
results in diabetes, which in turn can result in cancer. They call this
"overload"!!!
Proteins.
Proteins, (the sources of which are meat,
nuts, dairy products, vegetables), are made of sub-units called amino-acids. These
amino-acids are released from the protein by the action of enzymes, secreted by the
pancreas. Without these enzymes, protein molecules would not be absorbed because they are
too large and complex to enter the bloodstream. When pancreatic enzymes are missing, they
can be provided in capsule form that can be taken with meals to aid the digestive process.
Amino acids can be converted into glucose, or sugar, by the liver through a process called
gluconeogenesis, which is the manufacture of glucose from non-carbohydrate food sources,
such as protein. The body's ability to manufacture its own glucose is important for
maintaining normal energy requirements during periods of low-carbohydrate consumption, as
glucose is the main fuel the body uses to meet its energy requirements.
Diet and the Cardiovascular System.
Diseases of the cardiovascular system
(primarily heart attack), hypertension, and stroke are public enemy number one, accounting
for twelve million death annually. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in
industrialized countries, and in the next ten years, coronary artery disease and stroke
will be the leading cause of death in most developing countries.
Heart disease, stroke and hypertension
are due to the deterioration of arteries through a process called "atherosclerosis,
arteriosclerosis, or just plain hardening of the arteries". This process is a natural
phenomenon of aging. As we get older, so do our arteries. The smooth inner lining called
the intima begins to crack, when the middle elastic, muscular layer can no longer fully
recoil after a pulse wave has expanded the vessel. In these cracks, platelets, fibrin,
calcium, cholesterol, and fat accumulate, creating atheroma, or plaque. any factors
significantly influence the process of arteriosclerosis. (heredity, diabetes, elevated
cholesterol, obesity, stress, sugar, and sedentary lifestyle), Those individuals with a
strong family history of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease should be especially
aware of the other risk factors so they can alter their lifestyle to minimize the negative
influence on their system.
Hyperlipidemia (increased fat in the
blood) especially hypercholesterolemia (elevated cholesterol) is associated with early
arteriosclerosis. There is a link between cholesterol and insulin, as insulin resistant
diabetics, those with high plasma levels of insulin, have abnormally elevated cholesterol
levels. The predominant cholesterol component in these indivuduals is the low-density
lipoprotein (LDL) fraction. Which frequently is referred to as "bad"
cholesterol. LDL, "L" means lethal. Some components of cholesterol, such as
hign-density lipoprotein (HDL) fraction, especially HDL-2 and HDL-3, exert a protective
effect on the cardiovascular system.
Remember:
(LDL)---lethal---"bad" cholesterol. (HDL-2 and HDL-3)----healthy cholesterol.
When obesity is low, life expectancy is greater. France has 50 percent less obesity (age
16 to 50) and 20 percent less cardiovascular and cholesterol problems, than the U.S.
Dietary sugar is now recognized as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
Sugar's effect on insulin secretion.
Insulin is now recognized as being atherogenic, that is, it causes the development of
arteriosclerotic plaques in or on the walls of blood vessels. In addition, insulin is now
known to (cause cardiac enlargement more specifically left ventricular hypertrophy. The
left ventricle is the main pumping chamber of the heart and the chamber involved in 99
percent of heart attacks. Plaque formation increases the tendency for clot formation.
The key to improving performance and health through nutrition involves insulin. Modulating
insulin secretion through diet is the most important variable, influencing the development
of cardiovascular disease.
Modulating insulin secretion is the key
to our SUGAR BUSTERS DIET. To control insulin you must control the intake of sugar, both
the refined variety and the kind so abundant and stimulative in many carbohydrates.
Refind sugar and processed grain products (cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, white bread,
pasta's, pizza's) stripped of their coatings or husks (that's why you need to eat your
"grains") are almost immeidately absorbed in a very concentrated fashion,
resulting in rapid secretion of large quantities of insulin. This is the case with most
candies, cookies, cakes, pastries, pies, white bread, pasta, pizza, etc. A diet of refined
sugar and processed grain products, produces a rather marked elevation in average insulin
levels throughout a twenty-four-hour period.
The additional insulin is then available
to promote fat deposition as well as many other previously discussed
"undesirable" effects. However, carbohydrates, in an unrefined form (grains),
and fruit, and green vegetables, require further digestive alteration before absorption,
with the end result: lower average insulin levels and less fat synthesis storage and
weight gain.
Remember it is not so much the ingested
fat that makes you obese, as the ingested carbohydrates (refined), that are converted
through the influence of insulin to fat.
The picture should now become clear. A
diet based on low-glycemic carbohydrates (high fiber vegetables, fruits, and whole grains)
and fats in moderation (olive oil), biochemically modulates the insulin-glucagon
relationship. This will result in overall body fat loss and a reduction of the adverse
effects of insulin on our cardiovascular system.
Grape skins, contain bioflavonoids,
called vitaimin P. This decreases platelet. Eat a diet composed of natural unrefined
sugars (whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts). Change you current eating habits. Finish
your evening meal at 7.00 P.M. Once dinner is over, the kitchen is closed---period. A
midnight snack? Get some fruit. One hour or two hours before you go to bed. Don't drink
with your meals (coffee, tea, or wine). Be careful, most colas, or popular sport
drinks are loaded with sugar, and some also contain large quantities of caffeine.
Most breakfast cereals are laced with
either white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, corn syrup. The same problem applies to
bottled, canned, or other packaged foods, sauces and dressings. When we really begin to
look at what we are eating, we quickly realize just how much sugar is present in
"almost everything we have been eating". The person who consumes a high glycemic
diet consisting of a sandwich with white bread, refined sugar, and cookies has a high
level of insulin in his body all day and half the night.
Why are Americans, Canadians, the British and several other westernized countries'
populations so obese and fraught with a high incidence of diabetes??? Right on!! Diets of
excessive sugar and high glycemic carbohydrates "spike" the insulin.
Protein: Rye= 8.82; Spelt= 13.33; Oats=
11.69; Barley= 9.84; Rice= 7.22; Buckwheat= 9.07; Flax= 24.40; and Sesame seed = 17.72
grams per 100 gram edible portion. Now do you now believe in "eating your
grains"???
Use the word "lifestyle" as
opposed to "diet". The negative effects of sugar has actually been described
best in the 1976 book written by William Dufty " Sugar Blues". How can sugar
possibly be so bad for us? Sugar largely acts as a stimulus in causing our pancreas gland
to secrete one of the body's most powerful hormones-----insulin! INSULIN SIGNALS OUR
LIVERS TO MAKE CHOLESTEROL.
P.S. What I picked up today. "Health
destroying imitation foods, such as white flour (and all its derivatives) white rice,
lunchen meats, processed breakfast cereals, margarine and literally hundreds of other
chemically produced micronutrient deficient wonders of modern food technology.
Then on to our water from the tap.
(contaminated with chlorine, bacteria, parasites, heavy metals and literally thousands of
man made chemicals).
Fresh Juices. ( The supermarket variety,
dead as a result of pasteurization. Frequently loaded with sugar, artifical colours and
flavours and a host of other chemicals for preserving, most of which are not listed on the
label. One such offender is brominated oil (BO), added to preent settling and the
formation of rings. BO is known to cause changes in heart tissue, enlarge the throid gland
and cause problems with the liver.
J.M. Vanderwood, 11021 Okanagan Centre
Road (W), Okanagan Centre, B.C. V4V 2J5. Phone: (250) 766-4372 Fax: (250) 766-0328
Email: <jmvan@direct.ca>
