OBESITY AND EXCESS FAT LINKED TO LIPASE DEFICIENCY

The excess intake of cooked fats leads to the exhaustion of the body's ability to manufacture sufficient amounts of lipase, or fat enzymes. This in turn can lead to obesity, adult onset diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Eskimos can eat up to a pound of lipase-rich raw blubber a day and everyday and have not have any signs of symptoms of cardiovascular disease. However when Eskimos began to cook their fats like Westerners they began to suffer from the same degenerative diseases of Western cultures.

Dr. David Galton of Tufts University School of Medicine examined eleven individuals weighing 235 pounds and found lipase enzyme deficiency in the fat tissue, as well as the fatty tumors.

Without the fat splitting enzyme lipase, fat builds up throughout ones body.

Even the small-town local paper in Hot Springs, Arkansas ran a piece entitled "Can Enzyme Regimens End Obesity?" The article was an account of a National Dietary Research Council Experiment in which the researchers had the test subjects consume at least six large meals per day along with an enzyme complex supplement that was thought might help the body overcome its resistance to weight loss. Of the 50 people who participated in the study the women lost an average of one pound a day. The men lost an average of two pounds a day.


Source   : "Survival in the 21st Century: Planetary Healer's Manual" by Viktoras H. Kulvinskas, M.S.

Related Links:

• Lipase and Fat Digestion (LIVESTRONG)
• Prolonged sitting turns off fat burning enzyme (Natural News)
• The Health benefits of lipase (Global Healing Center)
• Lipase: The Critical Balance of Fat in Your Diet (Enzyme Essentials)

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MIGRAINE HEADACHE LINKED TO COLON OR STOMACH ISSUES

According to physician Henry G. Bieler, a widely recognized pioneer in alternative medicine, MIGRAINE HEADACHE usually originates in the colon or stomach.

In his book Food is Your Best Medicine he says that "Migraine is a sign of indigestion due to excessive eating, allergic reactions, fermentation of starch and/or putrefaction of protein, producing the stomach a wide range of toxins. The resulting detoxification activities overwork the liver and kidneys; the endocrine glands  attempt to direct the toxins to the other eliminative organs. This hyperfunction can cause them to swell. As the pituitary glands enlarges, it presses against its bony enclosure , sometimes causing the severe pain of migraine headache."

This being said, eliminating certain foods could prevent the onset of migraines. Replacing the usual highly fatty, processed, dairy based and sugar packed diet with a clean diet of fresh organic fruits and vegetables, and juicing often is reported to help eliminate migraines for many folks. 

Other related links:

• Why migraines strike (Mercola)
• Are food allergies causing your migraines? (Mercola)
• How to halt migraines without prescription drugs (Natural News)
• Immunoglobulin G-based elimination diet curbs migraines and irritable bowel syndrome symptoms (Natural News)
• Six natural remedies to help relieve migraines (Natural News)
• 9 Common Migraine Triggers (Joy Bauer)

HOW SUGAR WEAKENS YOUR IMMUNE RESPONSE by Dr. Mercola

"100 years ago daily sugar intake was only about 15 grams and that was primarily from organic fresh fruit. What happened in the last century is that the average person is now consuming about 75 grams of fructose per day. That's 5 times increase, and fructose levels this high can devastate your immune response. About 80% of our immune response is a result of the functioning of our gut. Sugar is a fertilizer for these very dangerous pathogenic bacteria, yeast, fungi that can really set up your system to be assaulted by these viruses. Sugar weakens the immune system and exposes it to develop infection. It's crucial to minimize your sugar intake and to also increase the fertilizer for the good bacteria: the probiotics. Make sure to eat plenty of good healthy fresh vegetables because the fiber in vegetables serves as a nutrient, fertilizer and growth material for the good bacteria."

Dr. Mercola

Discover the Healing Power of Coffee and Reishi Mushroom With James Wood, Owner of Ascended Grounds

"Over time, I realized that reishi helps tremendously on a physical and energetic level to balance the caffeine from coffee. Ascended Grounds was born. My main goal is to share the medicine of the reishi mushroom, which is a medicine of balance and peace of mind."

JAMES WOOD

Single Springs, California

Meet James Wood, owner and operator of Ascended Grounds.

On both a personal and business level, James is focused on connecting human beings to a healthy lifestyle that promotes connection to nature, emotional contentment, and physical longevity. James' background in herbalism (plant medicine) has led him to discover many amazing medicines from the natural world. Two plants in particular, reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) and coffee (Coffea arabica), have sparked an intense interest in James that he has been exploring for years.

In the summer of 2009 while living in New Zealand, James took a trip to the Polynesian Island of Tonga to work on an organic coffee plantation. During this trip to Tonga, James developed a strong relationship with coffee as a medicine, something he could only discover while being in the physical presence of this strong and amazing plant.

James' vision with Ascended Grounds is to transform the way that human beings view and use coffee as a medicinal plant by bringing in herbs that work in synergy with the energetic qualities of coffee. (Source)

So blessed to share with you James' dream and vision.

Who is James Wood? Where is he now on his journey?

Hey, that’s me! 

In trying to describe myself, I would say that I am an advocate of living a life of excellence. I have been on a quest for self development for my whole life, but came to the realization that I was on this quest around three to four years ago. I grew up in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas where I was intensely exposed to the grandeur of nature at a young age. Nowadays, I am focused on health on all levels: physically, emotionally and spiritually. I frequently practice kundalini and bikram yoga as practices of meditation and discipline that have greatly impacted my quest for self development. I am learning more about the world everyday through my striving to be the best human I can possibly be.

What inspired you to build and grow 'Ascended Grounds'?

Ascended Grounds is a business that I’ve developed from my experiences with reishi mushroom, along with my love for a good cup of coffee. I was exposed to reishi at the onset of my ‘soul awakening’, and have been exploring its medicine ever since. Reishi was the catalyst for my realization of the underlying oneness of everything in the universe, and has been quite a strong ally of mine to say the least. I became a huge fan of coffee while working on a coffee plantation in Tonga years ago, and have incorporated this medicine into my life as well. Growing up, I often got migraine headaches, which I now understand was due to the caffeine and sugar I was consuming from soda and candy. When I stopped drinking sodas, the headaches went away. After getting into coffee, I witnessed this proclivity for headaches starting to come back, so I was looking for something to balance this out. Over time, I realized that reishi helps tremendously on a physical and energetic level to balance the caffeine from coffee. Ascended Grounds was born. My main goal is to share the medicine of the reishi mushroom, which is a medicine of balance and peace of mind.

I can see that you are an advocate of living Spring Water, how has this and growing your own food changed your health? 
Yes! My awakening was heavily influenced by drinking spring water that I began to collect myself. After engaging in this practice, I began to realize that the water I was drinking was becoming my body, 70% of my body that is. I decided that drinking chlorine and fluoride-laden tap water was not conducive to building a healthy body and mind. 

As for gardening, I don’t grow a lot of my own food, but I do shop at farmer’s markets on a regular basis to support the ones that do. Mainly, I am believer in the medicine of wild food. I like the concept of building my flesh out of my local ecosystem, which is why I forage from my locale as much as I can.

Years ago, I was eating a strictly (and slightly dogmatic version) raw vegan diet for over three months awhile back, which allowed me to tune into my body on an incredibly powerful level. I now eat all kinds of foods, including wild and consciously raised meat.

Your dreams and aspirations. What do you envision yourself doing in the next 5 years?

My dreams are big. I see myself running Ascended Grounds on a larger level by tapping into the American and global coffee culture. I would like the synergy of coffee and medicinal mushrooms to grow out of the niche market and reach more people. Reishi has a unique ability to elevate consciousness, initiate a cycle of benevolent health, and release karmic baggage. I think the American culture could use a little of that kind of medicine. I plan on roasting my own coffee in the next few years as well and distributing it as Ascended Grounds. I have a friend in South America that I am beginning to build a relationship with to import high quality coffee beans to roast here in Washington. In the long term I would also like to be growing my own high quality reishi to produce an ‘Ascended Grounds’ reishi extract. Bringing reishi to the collective consciousness one cup at a time.

What passions do you enjoy?

My passions mostly revolve around health. I enjoy spending time in nature gathering food and spring water, which deepens my connection to the life cycle that powers this entire planet. I consider myself an herbalist to some extent. I love learning about wild plants that have a medicinal or tonic effect on the human body, gathering, and making medicine from those plants.

I also enjoy physically demanding pursuits like rock climbing, slacklining and yoga. Lately I’ve been getting into fermentation as well. I love making my own meads and wines from medicinal ingredients like chaga mushroom, dandelion, reishi mushroom and other herbs.

I am also an avid fly fisherman and hunter. Through my hunting and fishing experiences, I have developed a deep connection with wild animals that has gifted me with an appreciation for the life cycle of my ecosystem. I have come to the understanding that life feeds on life. That’s the way nature works. When I am successful in my hunt or get a salmon on the end of my line, I give thanks for the nourishment that it will provide for me. I feel very close to the salmon, as they have provided nourishment for the people who have lived here in North Western Washington for millennia.

Your greatest mentors and teachers.

My greatest mentor/teacher is without question my own father. Growing up, my father instilled principles of character in me that I am beginning to see come out in every aspect of my life. Things like strength, integrity, honor, passion, FUN, courage, and others were all seeds planted in me by my father. My dad has always been an entrepreneur, believing that you can have anything you want in life. No limits. It takes hard work and dedication to live the life of your dreams, but it is without question very possible to do so. Nowadays, I am learning what the life of my dreams actually looks like. Every day I am discovering what I really want out of life, and using discipline and self development to reach my goals. All of this was influenced by my father’s guidance, love, protection and wisdom.

I have also been profoundly affected by the teachings of Daniel Vitalis, an advocate of ‘rewilding’. Daniel has impacted my consciousness on many levels, and has been a guide to living my truest potential as a physical organism. I was actually turned onto spring water by Daniel years ago. From this practice, my pineal gland has been cleansed ;). I have learned about the magic of wild nature from Daniel as well. Wild nature is our true essence, and from the wild we can gather the most strength in this life. Since incorporating wild foods into my diet, I feel stronger and more in tune with the life cycle of my ecosystem around me, giving me an intuition that I previously never knew existed.

What have you learned from yourself from this experience? What have you unlearned?

Reintegrating with nature has allowed me to see through the passing times of civilization and a culture of domestication. Granted, I have compassion for everything that has happened leading up to this point of illusion in our global consciousness, but I do not want to be a part of it. I am aligned with the principles which govern nature, not the principles that govern a civilization. Call me wild if you will. Reintegrating with nature and practicing self development has caused me to unlearn a lot. I have unlearned beliefs that hold me back from reaching my truest potential in this lifetime. Most all of these limiting beliefs that I have been letting go are caused by fear. Fear causes us to delay and procrastinate, to close off when we should open, to settle for less when we should shoot for the stars. I am mainly unlearning limitations. 

Now, I am focused on becoming a man of character. A man of integrity. Of right action, honor, endurance, sincerity, courtesy, respect, correct thought, and balance.

What is the meaning of the word "Love" for you? 

In a nutshell (if that’s possible), I see love as the dance between polar opposites that animates everything in this universe. The balance between yin and yang, masculine and feminine, dark and light, positive and negative. The dualism that exists in nature comes together to produce life, out of love. We can’t talk about the masculine without referencing the feminine. This is the nature of the universe. Love is the goal of nature, since love is what keeps everything going. As a culture I think we have forgotten this balance, and for me, nature has reminded me of this ancient relationship between the opposites of the universe. Love is our true nature, and when we strip away all the dust we've accumulated from years of illusion we find that love at the center of everything.

If you could share one message to the children of the world right now what message would you share? 

Follow your heart, and develop integrity along the way. I think the single most dangerous thing in our culture today is all the programming instilled in us from an early age. We are presented with a predetermined set of paths to take from a list of options. This limits our creativity and halts our ability to develop our minds and hearts to their truest potential. Following your heart, although it may be difficult, allows us to create whatever kind of life we desire. Desire has got quite a bad reputation, at least in the spiritual community. I don’t see desire as a bad thing at all. In following our heart, we go through many experiences that teach us right action, honor, character, integrity, endurance, compassion and other virtues. If you are committed to following your heart’s desire, you will be molded into someone whose desires are truly worth following.

Over the course of my own life, I have become dedicated to following my heart and have seen that my desires have begun to revolve around the greater good of the planet. Perpetuating the evolution of oneness is the underlying factor for my important decisions in life. So in order to find out what you need, and what the planetary organism needs, you have to go after what you want.

Any regrets?

Regrets? Any regret I have at this point in my life is not being true to my heart’s desires. But there are really no regrets. Every decision I’ve made in my life has led me to be the person I am today. I’m alive, thriving, and learning, and that’s beyond satisfactory.

Connect With James:

Website: www.ascendedgrounds.com

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/jamesfromthewoods 

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RECOVERY FROM ARTHRITIS AFTER 42 DAY WHEAT GRASS JUICE FAST by Martin V. Lesser

"My name is Martin V. Lesser, age 68, residing at 305 E. 86th St., New York City. I am an attorney, licensed to practice in the State of New York but inactive for the past two years. My inactivity and retirement from my profession resulted from ill health. I was suffering from protein deficiency, arthritis, muscular attrition, liver disturbance, and osteoporosis of the cervical spine.

The first physician who treated me was Dr. Benjamin H. Hyman, Professor of Surgery at New York Polyclinic Hospital. Under his auspices I was admitted to New York Polyclinic Hospital on Aug. 27, 1969. I remained there 5 days and he later treated me privately by prescribing synthetic vitamins and advised me to go on a liberal diet with cooked meats, potatoes, desserts. I followed this advice but my condition became progressively worse. Dr. Hyman died in May of 1970. I then went to a well-known neurologist, Dr. Lawrence I. Kaplan residing at 812 Park Avenue, New York City. He advised X-rays of the cervical spine which I had taken at Maimonides Hospital in September, 1970. The X-Rays showed osteoporosis of the upper cervical area of the spine. Dr. Kaplan prescribed synthetic vitamins and the relief of pressure in the spine by a weight pulley device. The synthetic device and pulley device did not prove effective and I became progressively worse. I lived on the average American diet: cooked foods, abundance of dairy products such as cheese, cottage cheese, ice cream, sweets, whole wheat bread, cooked vegetables, pasteurized fruit juices.

I began to suffer with restricted and painful movements of my shoulders, neck, upper arms and hands. Also I was experiencing post nasal drip and throat mucus. I went to another physician, Dr. J. Reuben Budd of Passaic, New Jersey. he gave me a thorough physical examination and then gave me NO ADVICE, JUST THAT I WOULD HAVE TO ACCEPT MY CONDITION AS PART OF THE AGING PROCESS. My condition deteriorated further. I then went to see a nutritionist , Dr. Stanley Bass of Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, a licensed chiropractor, in October of 1970. He prescribed a diet of sprouted mung beans and raw vegetable salads and recommended that I also try to obtain some Wheat Grass. Living in New York City I found it difficult to grow the Wheat Grass and was not able to obtain organic greens for salads. Dr. Bass gave me a book entitled "Be Your Own Doctor" by Ann Wigmore. I read it and decided to visit Ann Wigmore's establishment, HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE in Boston. It took me over a year to finally leave New York City and go to Boston. I thought I might stay a week in Boston to see at first hand Ann Wigmore's therapy and way of growing Wheat Grass, Buckwheat Lettuce and Sunflower Lettuce , all indoors according to her book. I took a small valise with enough clothing for a week's stay in Boston on November 8, 1971. It being a mild day I took a light top coat. After I arrived at the Hippocrates Health Institute and was there a few hours I knew I had been led to the right place for therapy. Despite my lack of sufficient warm clothing I have remained at the institute for six weeks and followed the therapy advocated.

The following program was suggested: rectal implants of about 8 ozs. of fresh Wheat Grass juice thrice daily every three hours. I adhered to this for 42 days. Occasionally I chewed some mung sprouts or alfalfa sprouts together with sunflower lettuce or buckwheat lettuce just swallowing the juice and discarding the pulp. This was to appease psychological hunger since I experienced no real hunger while on the fast.

Having been on this Wheat Grass juice fast for 42 days I am now ready, on Dec 21, 1971, to return to New York City. I have lost 25 pounds , weighing 135 and I am 5'11" and broad boned. I am thin but I feel vital. The skin feels firm despite the large weight loss. My pains have disappeared; arthritic signs are almost non-existent. My spine is flexible --without pain. I feel at least fifteen years younger. I intend to get a new series of X-rays to see if the X-rays show any changes in the area previously showing osteoporosis.

I expect to adhere to a diet of sprouted living foods such as : mung beans, alfalfa sprouts, lentil sprouts, and partially sprouted whole wheat berries, together with sunflower and unhulled sesame seeds; also, greens grown indoors plus avocado.

The diet suggested by Ann Wigmore eliminated all cooked foods and all refined, canned, processed foods, together with avoidance of all milk products, and meat, fish and eggs. No grains except sprouted grains are used. The diet has shown Ann Wigmore and Victor Kulvinskas to be in superb health and I know it will keep me in good health and correct any other latent conditions of ill-health still remaining.

The atmosphere at Hippocrates Institute evokes blessings and thanks for all those who have been guests and visited and observed what occurs"

Martin V. Lesser




Story taken from : "Survival in the 21st Century: Planetary Healer's Manual" by Viktoras H. Kulvinskas, M.S.

Natural Healing from Muscular Dystrophy by Robert Lodge Groves, ND, ThD, DD

At eight months old in 1952, I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy (MD) and sent home to die. However, I was not told this for the first fifteen years of my life and thus failed to get with the program. The doctor said that only an experimental treatment of injecting alcohol to the brain was being discussed in medical circles but recommended against it and instead to massage me and exercise me so that I would have a better quality of life until dying about age four or five when my lungs or heart would finally quit. 

I did better with regular massage from my parents, as I rolled over at about two and a half years of age and took my first few steps just before age three. My dad was a saint through the whole process of raising me and did most of the massaging and moving of my body. Massage increases the nutritional uptake of the muscles and helped me live longer. Many years were spent on the ground as I had little energy and slept a lot. My mother used to joke that I was the perfect child until I rolled over as she could put me anywhere and I would be there when she got back and I was always happy and content until being touched. It was one of her was of dealing with the daily fear of my dying and attempting to have a “normal” life in the 1950’s middle America with another child and a husband. It was also traumatic for her as I was so sensitive to energy and combined with the stagnant lymph and blood circulation that almost any touch other than caressing was very painful and I would cry. If they left me alone I was a happy curious child. This situation was way too far outside of my mom’s grasp of reality from her upbringing and her learning to bond in a different way than she had with my sister. By the time I was about 3 ½ old, she could not take it anymore and as a family we needed to increase our income for future medical bills and paying off college debt so she got a full time job and moved her crazy mother into the house to “take care” of us children while mom and dad were at work. Grandmother Bossing took delight in feeding us foods she knew we did not like or eat so she could eat more and say we ate it. Grandmother was a lot like Sybil’s Mother as in the book by that name; enough said if you read the book. So nutrition was not anymore available in that situation.

We ate the junk foods of the day as mom had not really ever learned to cook and dad worked most of the time. Dad would cook supper and often the weekend meals to make up left-overs to warm and mom would supplement with canned food, sandwiches, TV dinners or prepared snack foods. I also did not like food unless it was milk or sugar. I often would just say that I was tired and didn’t feel good and go to sleep, until they figured out that I was unconsciously avoiding foods. Then they made me sit at the table anyway and make me try at least one bite of everything they put on the plate. Usually that was all I could eat of it and sometimes my body would throw it up, so living with that was always a challenge for them. My grandma Groves would always put cookies in a jar with a loose lid in the bottom kitchen cabinet so I could crawl and get them anytime I wanted when visiting her house. She was the example of love that my dad learned from and I got to study with. 

Over many years my body would just collapse if I stood or walked for any extended period of time over ten minutes. Cats rubbing against my legs would knock me over at times and I learned to sit or kneel to greet all dogs that came my way. That helped the dogs not feel threatened and to see me as a child in need of help who just loved to pet them. It seems they knew I had a lot of healing energy around me that I was unable to access and would come to get healed as I petted and loved on them. I was always glad to share my food with them or let them have it all. After a while all dogs, even the guard dos loved me at first sight or sound. This connection served me well as it gave me protection from bullies in the neighborhood if the dogs were out and heard my cries. My house dogs would always sit by me at the table as I would sneak food off my plate when no one was looking and give it to them so it appeared I was eating more.

I managed to get bladder control by twelve and was blown over by the wind for the last time at fifteen. However, at age 23 standing 5’7” and weighing only 116 pounds, my body was mostly unhealthy fat yet losing muscle. I was exhausted, balding back to my ears, and my hair had turned about 25% gray. I was depressed and angry about waking up in my body again, cursing existence and fighting the increasing effects of gravity each day instead of finally getting to die.

At this point in life I went through a death experience leaving the universe and experiencing the re-creating of it, and since God has helped me turn my life around and get involved in natural healing. There were many years of struggle trying to figure out everything in the field of nutrition with all the confusing conflicts of ideas and the marginal science often used by medical doctors, dieticians, and nutritionists. However, with much experimentation to see what actually worked and made sense, I dramatically improved my health. By age 28 I had reversed the aging process eliminating gray hair, balding, excess diseased pounds yet finally gaining weight, and was so young looking that I was asked for my ID for the first time since eighteen at a restaurant that served alcohol. I was also asked by the management to leave this restaurant because they thought I was not old enough to drive and my license was a fake! I have since been consciously helping others rebuild and maintain their health since 1975.

One approach I developed from my death experience was to first comprehend food in the terms of light, or energy. The only difference between any two objects is the rate of vibration that forms the molecular structure. This text, your food, and even the human body are composed of the same elements of the earth. The difference is the rate of vibration in specific patterns that forms molecular structures into an object. This vibrational rate is controlled by, and reacts to energy. This principle can be seen when we apply energy in the form of heat to water by changing ice to liquid and then to vapor. The heat energy changes the molecular structure by the speeding up of vibration and the resultant re-arrangement of atoms occurs by the inherent nature of the energy contained within the sub-atomic particles. We eat our food for the energy contained within it. That energy is released when we break it down through digestion to power our bodies and supply the raw materials to recreate our bodies.  

Our trillions of cells have trillions of combinations and trillions of variables affecting their vibrational rates and help create the unique and ever-changing “symphony” known as you. This is your “song of life.” Therefore diet (and all other things) will always be your own unique and changing experience to lovingly embrace and live. I have learned to have fun with it by loving it. In that process I learned that eliminating processed foods, including the grinding of grains into breads and meals, is critically important and the major portion in what healed me and keeps me from regenerating Muscular Dystrophy. I found by personal experience and research into scientific facts that calories don’t count nor do fat grams by quantity, only in quality. In fact if they are in the proper condition and ratios, you can eat as much as you want and as often as you want and maintain your health with an appropriate weight for your bone structure and activity levels. I explain this much more in depth in my soon to be released book Unveiling Mysteries of the Universe Volume 1: Journey to the Heart.

The following excerpt from the book may help shed some light. “There is a lot of controversy about what foods should be eaten, and each group of proponents has its own expert who will defend that particular point of view while attacking all others. We must be free from rigid concepts and learn to experience growth of knowledge from all levels. The best way I have found is to follow common sense. As discussed earlier, we eat food for the release of energy (life-force) contained in it. Due to our own unique vibrational atomic structure, only certain foods and portions thereof are convertible to energy by our physical bodies. 

Each piece of food varies in its content of useable life force, even if it is from the same plant. This is due to three main reasons. First, the environment contributing to the growth of the food such as the condition of the soil or water, its composition of the elements, seasonal changes, and exposure to pollutants, determines the content of usable life force. Secondly, the moment you eat a bite of food, the need of the body changes and assimilates less and less of the following pieces of food. This is known as the principle of decreasing returns or law of entropy. Thirdly, each of us is bio-chemically unique, and our need for and energetic interaction with each nutrient will be different to varying degrees. This need and interaction can be measured in part by a system known as Maximum Wavelength Absorption Characteristic or MWAC. MWAC is the energy given off in relation to the energy absorbed by an element. If I take an apple and cut it into five equal pieces and give it to five people, they will each process it totally different due to the MWAC of the food nutrients and the MWAC of the structures in their body. Each person is unique in wavelength absorption characteristics and therefore no pre-set diet can be right for everyone all the time any more than everyone should only wear size five dress shoes all the time. 

The process of life-force exchange (absorption, assimilation, utilization, and elimination) requires energy from the body. The more difficult any or all phases of this process become, the less net energy you will obtain per calorie, and the sooner your body will wear out.  Preservatives prevent the biological breakdown of food and steal your energy for other tasks. This is due to the excess energy required in attempting to break them down. What the body can’t breakdown and eliminate, it surrounds with fat and stores mostly in places you don’t like! As a basic rule, eat as near to the beginning of the food chain as you can. This allows for easier breakdown and greater net energy gain. The chain begins with water and flows on to fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, grains, and meats from fertile soils in fresh organic form, free of pesticides and genetic modification.” You are never a slave to your genes as they respond and adapt to the factors I have mentioned when combined with your thoughts and feelings conscious and unconscious. I am now in my sixties and am still far younger than in my early twenties having re-grown my full hair and eliminating gray hair without dyes. There is far more to this story, but I hope this sharing sheds some light upon your path leading to a healthy life experience.

Dr. Robert Groves

ND, ThD, DD

www.robertgroves.com
Tulsa Oklahoma

PURE JOY TOWN : A Place to Learn, Giggle, Grow and HEAL!

I tried to find REALNESS on FB and this is the most real thing that I have found so far:  PURE JOY TOWN.  

Pure Joy Town is a collaboration between two kids, Jake (Raw Utah) and Patchie (Patricia Self) who were both blessed with the necessity and desire to heal themselves.

     Jake found himself labeled and medicated at a young age, struggling with depression, anxiety, chronic pain and digestive problems that traditional medicine could not cure. Patchie also struggled with these exact symptoms along with raising a son who displayed symptoms of “autism” and another son who had severe food allergies. They met through their passion to uncover the many paths to reversing the cycle of labeling, medicating and spiraling into more illness and self-destruction. They also witnessed that healing was potentiated on the ground, in the sun, with their hands in the dirt, drinking from the springs and learning from the plant nation.

     Their mission is to share the knowledge gleaned through Facebook, YouTube, books, articles, and interpersonal communications… to help and support others on similar paths…those who are…

“Waking up to dream in Pure Joy Town”. A place to learn….giggle…grow…and HEAL! (Source)

I look at this couple and the work they do each day, and I say to myself, "Dayyym!!! This is what you should be doing" in fact, "This is what everyone in this lost world should be doing!!!". From making homemade kraut to growing spirulina to  their own food forest or shoveling poo, every single thing they do is to create Paradise on earth... and perhaps to finally take back the power we had once given away, the power to heal and thrive on our own as human beings. 

I am grateful to have witnessed the love and devotion of a couple whose aim is to share the wonders and the true healing and rejuvenating power of Nature and to be true stewards of the planet. We need more Jake and Patchies in this world!

Visit :  www.purejoytown.com

Health Benefits of Wheatgrass

I have not tried Wheatgrass juice and I am about to do this soon. I've been reading up on it's benefits and just amazed at the wealth of nutrients a shot of wheatgrass juice can give to our bodies. According to recent articles I've seen: 

"Wheatgrass, as the name suggests, is the grass of young wheat plants.  It is also a powerful health food supplement that is packed with highly concentrated vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll and enzymes.  Nutritionally, wheatgrass is a complete food that contains 98 of the 102 earth elements.

Wheatgrass and wheatgrass juice are excellent ways to get dark greens in the diet.  Pound for pound, wheatgrass is more than twenty times denser in nutrients than other choice vegetables.  Since it is considered a vegetable in the grass stage, wheatgrass is safe for people with wheat allergies.  Juicing unlocks even more nutrients from wheatgrass, making them more concentrated and usable to the cells of the body.

Dr. Ann Wigmore, proponent of a "living foods diet", has embraced the benefits of wheatgrass in her teachings and writing.  According to Dr. Wigmore, wheatgrass has an exceptional ability to both nourish and detoxify the body.  

One of the ingredients with major benefit in wheatgrass is chlorophyll, which has the ability to draw toxins from the body like a magnet.  Considered the "blood of plants", chlorophyll can soothe and heal tissues internally.  The chlorophyll in wheatgrass is high in oxygen and light energy, which can provide the brain and body tissues with an optimal environment in which to function.  The chlorophyll in wheatgrass also has antibacterial properties, which can stop the development of harmful bacteria in the body.

Wheatgrass juice has external benefits as well.  It can be used as a scalp treatment to restore luster to hair, as a skin cleanser and astringent, and as a sinus treatment.

Wheatgrass juice can also be added to bath water to stimulate circulation, and it can be applied topically to help heal cuts and bruises.  In addition, gargling with wheatgrass juice can ease a sore throat.

A major benefit of taking wheatgrass juice is that it is easily digested with little energy.  Wheatgrass provides crude chlorophyll from a living plant, which is the most effective way to gain the full therapeutic benefits of chlorophyll.  Just an ounce of wheatgrass juice per day provides a host of benefits, while a therapeutic program to treat a specific condition or illness may include two or three ounces.  It is a complete food with no side effects.  Many people grow their own organic wheatgrass and use juicers to make their own juice."

One Shot of Wheatgrass Juice

-One ounce contains 103 vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

-One ounce of wheatgrass juice represents as much nutritional value as approximately 2.5 pounds of fresh green vegetables.

-Wheatgrass juice is high in chlorophyll.

-It is very high in vitamins A, B-Complex, C, E and K.

-Wheatgrass juice is a natural source of laetrile (B-17).

-It contains beta-carotene, which is found in red, green and yellow pigmented fruits and vegetables.  Beta-carotene acts as a scavenger against harmful molecules flowing naturally through the body or through toxins inhaled from cigarette smoke, air pollution and other damaging sources.

-Wheatgrass cleanses, purifies and feeds the body by activating the white blood cells, which boost the body's immune system.

Wheatgrass juice is also beneficial for people who need to lose weight or cleanse their bodies.

Some of the more superior qualities of wheatgrass and the juice that can be extracted from its blades include the following:

• Increases red blood-cell count and lowers blood pressure. It cleanses the blood, organs and gastrointestinal tract of debris. Wheatgrass also stimulates metabolism and the body’s enzyme systems by enriching the blood. It also aids in reducing blood pressure by dilating the blood pathways throughout the body.

• Stimulates the thyroid gland, correcting obesity, indigestion, and a host of other complaints.

• Restores alkalinity to the blood. The juice’s abundance of alkaline minerals helps reduce over-acidity in the blood. It can be used to relieve many internal pains, and has been used successfully to treat peptic ulcers, ulcerative colitis, constipation, diarrhea, and other complaints of the gastrointestinal tract.
• Is a powerful detoxifier, and liver and blood protector. The enzymes and amino acids found in wheatgrass can protect us from carcinogens like no other food or medicine. It strengthens our cells, detoxifies the liver and bloodstream, and chemically neutralizes environmental pollutants.

• Fights tumors and neutralizes toxins. Recent studies show that wheatgrass juice has a powerful ability to fight tumors without the usual toxicity of drugs that also inhibit cell-destroying agents. The many active compounds found in grass juice cleanse the blood and neutralize and digest toxins in our cells.

• Contains beneficial enzymes. Whether you have a cut finger you want to heal or you desire to lose five pounds…enzymes must do the actual work. The life and abilities of the enzymes found naturally in our bodies can be extended if we help them from the outside by adding exogenous enzymes, like the ones found in wheatgrass juice. Don’t cook it. We can only get the benefits of the many enzymes found in grass by eating it uncooked. Cooking destroys 100 percent of the enzymes in food.

• Has remarkable similarity to our own blood. The second important nutritional aspect of chlorophyll is its remarkable similarity to hemoglobin, the compound that carries oxygen in the blood. Dr. Yoshihide Hagiwara, president of the Hagiwara Institute of Health in Japan, is a leading advocate for the use of grass as food and medicine. He reasons that since chlorophyll is soluble in fat particles, and fat particles are absorbed directly into the blood via the lymphatic system, that chlorophyll can also be absorbed in this way. In other words, when the “blood” of plants is absorbed in humans it is transformed into human blood, which transports nutrients to every cell of the body.

• When used as a rectal implant, reverses damage from inside the lower bowel. An implant is a small amount of juice held in the lower bowel for about 20 minutes. In the case of illness, wheatgrass implants stimulate a rapid cleansing of the lower bowel and draw out accumulations of debris.

• Externally applied to the skin can help eliminate itching almost immediately.

• Will soothe sunburned skin and act as a disinfectant. Rubbed into the scalp before a shampoo, it will help mend damaged hair and alleviate itchy, scaly, scalp conditions.

• Is soothing and healing for cuts, burns, scrapes, rashes, poison ivy, athlete’s foot, insect bites, boils, sores, open ulcers, tumors, and so on. Use as a poultice and replace every two to four hours.

• Works as a sleep aide. Merely place a tray of living wheatgrass near the head of your bed. It will enhance the oxygen in the air and generate healthful negative ions to help you sleep more soundly.

• Enhances your bath. Add some to your bath water and settle in for a nice, long soak.

• Sweetens the breath and firms up and tightens gums. Just gargle with the juice.

• Neutralizes toxic substances like cadmium, nicotine, strontium, mercury, and polyvinyl chloride.

• Offers the benefits of a liquid oxygen transfusion since the juice contains liquid oxygen. Oxygen is vital to many body processes: it stimulates digestion (the oxidation of food), promotes clearer thinking (the brain utilizes 25% of the body’s oxygen supply), and protects the blood against anaerobic bacteria. Cancer cells cannot exist in the presence of oxygen.
• Turns gray hair to its natural color again and greatly increases energy levels when consumed daily.

• Is a beauty treatment that slows down the aging process when the juice is consumed. Wheatgrass will cleanse your blood and help rejuvenate aging cells, slowing the aging process way down, making you feel more alive right away. It will help tighten loose and sagging skin.

• Lessens the effects of radiation. One enzyme found in wheatgrass, SOD, lessens the effects of radiation and acts as an anti-inflammatory compound that may prevent cellular damage following heart attacks or exposure to irritants.

• Restores fertility and promotes youthfulness.

• Can double your red blood cell count just by soaking in it. Renowned nutritionist Dr. Bernard Jensen found that no other blood builders are superior to green juices and wheatgrass. In his book “Health Magic Through "Chlorophyll” he mentions several cases where he was able to double the red blood cell count in a matter of days merely by having patients soak in a chlorophyll-water bath. Blood building results occur even more rapidly when patients drink green juices and wheatgrass regularly.

Article Source/s:

http://www.hippocratesinst.org/wheatgrass/benefits-of-wheatgrass

http://www.greenhealthcanada.com/Benefits_of_Wheatgrass.html

QUINOA SALAD

I eat this almost everyday and it has replaced white rice for almost a year now. I have not gained a pound even lost excess weight. It's packed with protein, iron, lysine, magnesium and manganese. So yummy to the tummy, and a very energizing meal!

QUINOA SALAD

INGREDIENTS:
1.5 cups quinoa
1 cucumber chopped
1 tomato (take out seeds) chopped
1/2 red onion minced
2 tsp cilantro chopped
1 green bellpepper chopped
1/2 carrot chopped
1 lemon squeezed
3-4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp salt
pepper

- Cook quinoa as you would cook rice (quinoa requires LESS water) Let it cool down
- Mix the rest of the ingredients in a salad bowl
- Add quinoa to the mix

Health Benefits of QUINOA http://www.naturalnews.com/039528_quinoa_gluten-free_breakfast.html

FIXING HEALTH THE NATURAL WAY : Rika Stelcik Talks About Getting Off Her Diabetis, High Blood Pressure and Hyperthyrodism Medications By Eating The Right Food

For as long as I can remember, I have always been a chubby kid. Growing up, I ate the standard American diet (also known, appropriately, as SAD!), with a traditional Japanese twist. My dad spoiled me rotten, with candy and sweets. My mom, on the other hand, was always critical with sharp words, in an attempt to make me lose weight. I starved myself through high school senior year to fit into my prom dress.

College was stress in a growing snowball. I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, diabetes, and hypothyroidism. I pushed through to figure out what the “silver bullet” was to cure my weight. My frustration finally turned to alternative methods because western medicine with its pills and side effects wasn’t working. I spent thousands of dollars to “fix” my health, but nothing seemed to work. I finally went to see a naturopath who told me I needed to stay off gluten, soy, corn, and dairy. Within 3 weeks, I got off 90% of my medications and gradually tapered off the rest. I finally understood The POWER OF FOOD.

I graduated with my masters degrees in holistic nutrition and clinical nutrition. I knew what things helped me, but the weight was not coming off on its own. With hope, I experimented on numerous methods. I learned muscle testing and applied kinesiology. Using different techniques, I learned that I have an autoimmune issue and heavy metal toxicity. My hypothalamus was a wreck because citrus caused my body major distress. Having eaten a lemon every morning with my green smoothie, I tried an experiment to see how my body would handle it. Within ten days, I released 25 pounds very quickly. My body deflated, once the stressors were gone. I realized that not every “healthy” food is really meant to be healthy for me.

I have always struggled with weight. No matter how much I exercised, starved, tried dozens of diets, and considered surgery, I was also heavier than I wanted to be. I went on this quest to find “the holy grail” of weight loss and it went farther than I thought possible!

Bottom line, here are things that I hope you will walk away with inspired:

1) Your body truly is a temple. Call it sacred. Treat yourself with the best possible quality you can afford. Organic, grass-fed, no anti-biotics or chemicals, etc… Breathe and move. Consider yourself loving and kindness through mind, body, and soul!

2) Listen to your body. Do you listen? Carefully watch your thoughts.

Rika Stelcik
Irvine, California
http://havehealthtoday.com/

"CANCER IN ITS EARLY STAGES CAN BE COMPLETELY REVERSED" : Eilish De Avalon On Healing CIN3 The All Natural Way

I just wanted to let people know that cancer in it's early stages can be completely reversed.

I was diagnosed with CIN3 (Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia) and my Gynecologist recommended a hysterectomy at the age of 31.

I told him I'd have his balls first as a fair swap and picked up my medical files and left his surgery in disgust. I then went and studied Chinese energetic medicine, nutrition, homeopathy and other energetic practices and healed myself.

Early on in my research I discovered the benefits of apricot kernels, with kinesiology muscle testing I was able to prescribe how many apricot kernels my body needed a day. I also switched to a completely alkaline diet and drank lemon juice in filtered water with maple syrup and cayenne pepper, known as the Master Cleanse diet. I also used to juice the following carrot, celery, beetroot, garlic, ginger, parsley, apple. I also collected my menstrual fluid in a keeper and fed a wysteria plant in my garden that then gave me it's essence via a homeopathic tincture I made up.

I used the medical profession for biopsies to gauge how my own cancer treatment was going rather than just rely on them to fix me completely. I could have used just muscle testing but I wanted something tangible as a double-check.

I'm 43 now, healthy, still follow an alkaline diet, still drinking master cleanse, eating well and I've lost weight too! I also ditched the toxic boyfriend and rested more and stressed less.

Eilish De Avalon
Geelong Victoria Australia

MEDICATION FREE SINCE 1998: Paradise Hill Farm's Matthew Goodman Talks About Reversing His Nerve Damage With Raw Foods

It started in 1986 when in 9th grade I suffered and nearly died from appendicitis after 10 days of hell before it was diagnosed and operated upon.

Sadly, I would find in hindsight that they left me with a low-level leaky gut that eventually surely led to an auto-immune diagnosis of MS at UPenn and Jefferson hospitals, by world-renowned neurologists years later, in 1997.

All of the classic, nightmare, 'irreversible' neurological symptoms would ensue with the lesions on my brain: numb arms and legs, skipping and double vision, bladder control problems, vertigo and severe exhaustion.

I refused the medication at first, but eventually succumbed to injections, and the nasty side-effects of interferon once a week. I only shot it for 5 months before going it alone however. I was a successful personal trainer with an insatiable desire to learn about healing modalities, supplements, nutrition and ways of being. I even began to manage it to a degree with unsustainable amounts of supplements and a strict diet of low-fat foods (Dr Swank diet), until I had a horrible flare-up in 1999.

Then, most of my nutritional knowledge came together, after out of desperation, I watched a video of Rev George Malkmus from Hallalujah Acres that was previously collecting dust near my TV. He spoke clearly about the raw-food diet, and for whatever reason, it made complete sense.

I went 100% raw, felt like crap for 3 weeks with faith that I was cleansing, then great thereafter, but did not reverse the nerve damage for nearly 6 months of strict diligence. Then, I felt stronger and clearer than ever, despite being accustomed to top physical condition most of my life. I was climbing mountains, running, and leaping boulders in NY in ecstasy soon later.

Soon I'd learn about fasting, my most powerful tool. I would implement a schedule of raw foods, fasting, and daily yoga that I learned from classes and a Kundalini guru in national forests while traveling the country. My travels would take me to all but 6 US states.

In 2003, I hiked from Maine to Tennessee with my dog and raw foods on my back on the Appalachian Trail to prove an 'impossible' healing. I would pass nearly everyone, hiking 25 miles a day, six days a week my last month out, to prove the healing power of nature.

Now, I hardly have the enthusiasm and strict lifestyle of my youth, but still live medication-free since 1998, eat mostly raw, fast as frequently as life allows, and am a very active manager of a 1200 acre cranberry farm and a 2 million dollar/year health store. I am confident with my knowledge that I can turn up the heat and perform feats, but live a pretty normal, magical life on a huge farm, married with a bunch of pets.

My memoir is being considered for major publication and will be available whether published or not, as soon as I print it again.

Matthew G Goodman
Paradise Hill Farm
paradisehillfarm@gmail.com
facebook.com/paradisehillfarm

mattg95@gmail.com
facebook.com/mattgoodman99

SAYING NO TO ASPARTAME AND YES TO LIFE! : How Cassie Smith Got Rid of Dizzy Spells, Nausea and Falling Episodes Through Eliminating Diet Sodas

I began several years ago having incidences of stumbling and falling for no apparent reason. I also had dizzy spells and nausea. My husband insisted I have a brain MRI, which I did. We discovered from those images that I had the first indications and symptoms of multiple sclerosis. I refused to believe there was nothing I could do, as the doctors insisted.

Soon after that diagnosis, I came upon some articles by researchers and medical professionals about others who had the same indicators and all from an inordinant amount of "sugar free" foods and beverages containing aspartame. I realized I drank numerous diet sodas per day and was also eating numerous kinds of "sugar free" and reduced calorie products that also contained aspartame.

That was all I needed. I gave up the diet soda and began reading the ingredients on all the "diet" products and refused to buy or eat anything containing this "poison".

Within four weeks, the dizzy spells and nausea stopped. Within six weeks, I stopped having stumbling and falling episodes. And now, 5 years later, ALL symptoms are gone, I have lost 30 pounds and I feel better than I have in years!

Aspartame is a dangerous chemical and I would urge any and all who are consuming it in any food or beverage to STOP! It can and will change your life and it may just SAVE your life.

Cassie Smith

FROM JUNK FOOD TO REAL FOOD: Jia Ni Teo Talks About How She Lost Weight and Regained Lost Energy and Self -Esteem Through Healthy Eating

I grew up in a world where fast food was a family, soft drinks a form of hydration, and veggies were my nemesis. 

In my first 3 years of high school, I was a cheerleader – which meant I was physically active, and did not have to worry about my weight or self-esteem. This all changed in my third year of cheer leading, where I had an injury and had to undergo knee operation on both knees. 

The result? I lost all the flexibility and strength that I’d cultivated in my legs. I had to learn how to walk again. 

The worst? My doctor said I shouldn’t partake in any physical activity that could potentially be stressful on my knees.

After this experience, a downward spiral began. My waistline increased; my self-esteem went down; my relationship with food deteriorated.

As the weight crept up, I started restricting myself. Eventually, I was stuck in the negative cycle of diet. I ate emotionally, I binged, and then I felt guilty for not having ‘willpower’

I turned to the promises of ‘low-calorie’, ‘low-fat’, ‘fat-free’, and went on every diet under the sun that promised to help me lose the weight. It was crazy, and chaotic!

Short term weight loss resulted, but those instances were quickly surmounted by the gaining of that weight back – and then more. My energy depleted, my skin was dull, and then I slowly felt myself fading away. I had no energy, no drive. My inner fire was dimmed. The weight and moodiness clutched onto me.

I felt anxious. I felt depressed. I felt hopeless.

One day, something clicked within me. Somehow, within me – I knew that there had to be a way. I knew that health, energy, radiance were all simultaneously achievable. 

It is possible. 

And I can do it.

I started going back to ye’ olden days of eating. No junk, no chemicals, no highly-refined, processed food. Just whole foods, fresh food - real food.

I slowly added greens through smoothies into my diet, and soon I found that I had a huge amount of sustainable energy within me. 

I didn’t need java no longer. I didn’t need to rely on sugar to give me the short-term boost. I didn’t need to live on borrowed energy.

The weight magically disappeared. My metabolism increased. The cravings for unhealthy food stopped, and I was soon craving for delicious fruits and homemade healthy goodness.

Food, once my enemy, became my friend.

Food, once a destructive force, became my source of nourishment and energy. 

Life started to flow again.

I knew there was no going back. And once I got onto my daily routine of incorporating green drinks, oh boy – everything started going so well, and fast. 

The next thing I knew, I could enjoy food in their natural state. I could enjoy the juiciness of the sweet strawberry, I could enjoy the crunchiness of a fresh cucumber – I didn’t have to pour sugar or salad dressing onto it! 

It was a miracle.

As the processed, refined, microwavable foods made an exit from my life – I welcomed the colourful, luscious, nourishing whole foods into my life. 

As my skin cleared up, energy levels increased and remained steady, I was able to tune in and listen to my body. I could understand my body better – and I knew that my body didn’t agree with dairy, gluten and refined food.

I also made a choice not to consume meat after experiencing factory farming first-hand. My body never missed it. My body thrives without it. Since then, I feel myself more peaceful, calm, and easily inspired.

Today, my diet consists of vegetables, lots of greens, whole grains, seeds, nuts, and fruits.

Today, I am thriving. 

Many people don’t realize that healthy living and eating is so simple, and so delicious. Raw cheesecakes, raw organic dark chocolate, quinoa sushi rolls and so much amazing food await them. If only they’d approach life with an open mind and heart.

Many people don’t realize that health is the most important asset you can ever have. Our physical body is our sacred vessel, the temple in which our soul resides. We need to take care and honour our body by nourishing it with healthy food and lifestyle choices.

Many people don’t realize that a healthy diet is a long-term lifestyle choice. It is the greatest prevention from diseases. 

Today, we think that we only make drastic healthy lifestyle changes when our body breaks down or shows symptoms of disease and illness.

But the thing is – we can choose to be healthy all the time. Today. Right now. 

We can choose to have beautiful skin, amazing energy, and radiate positivity all the time.

We can choose to live a happy, healthy, abundant life for this whole life experience.

We just have to make that choice.

I’ve made that choice. 

Have you?

About Jia Ni Teo

Jia Ni is a life coach, health coach, writer and creator of the mind-body-soul blog Happy Healthy Abundant. She is inspired to guide others to create and live the life of their dreams, through her return journey from fear into love. You can find and connect with Jia Ni on her Blog, Facebook & Twitter!

How Fruits and Vegetables Gave Me New Life

It's been one year, 10 days, 13 hours on mainly fruits and vegetables. No pharma, no refined sugar, no wheat, no meat and dairy and I feel GREAT. 

I have no more migraines. No more extreme allergies. No more extreme stomach pains. I would get a cold, or cough but it would not be as bad as before. I am in the best shape ever. I have the energy of a child. I never thought I could do this. 

A year ago I was struck with an unknown gastrointestinal illness. I had been in three hospitals here in Manila and no one could figure out what was wrong with me. 

When I went to the US I was begging for a doctor to help me with my condition and when no one could help me , or see me (because I had no insurance) I had to just eliminate all the foods that triggered my allergies and reactions. And that did it. Along with daily exercise and workout and 8-10 hours of sleep. Not to mention, releasing all resentment, I did it. I was able to heal myself without doctors or drugs, and I lost all the excess weight. It was a full shift of mindset and a drastic shift in lifestyle that did it. 

I learned that Mind + Body + Spirit are interconnected and when one is not well, all is not well. 

I really am thankful for the pains that shook me so I can wake up to this day.

First published : http://junocristi.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-fruits-and-veggies-saved-my-life.html