Conscious Disagreement - How to Disagree Consciously

Conscious Disagreement — How to Disagree without Fighting!

Robert Ross

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October 9, 2016

Conscious Disagreement — How to Disagree without Fighting!

Join me on the road less traveled & discover all that we have in common.

Constantly fighting, arguing and invaliding each other actually inhibits our ability get in touch with the “whole being” within each of us. There actually are measurable physiological processes that become blocked — often right in your brain. In addition, there are emotional and spiritual blockages. As you clear these your arguments can become a conscious disagreement — making you a healthier, more caring person. That is the true nature of a “whole being.”

A truly powerful “whole being” can take on

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life’s challenges with compassion, wisdom, balance and trust. You can embrace all life’s challenges more responsibly, learn from them and grow closer together. Whole beings — nurtured by raw, living foods — naturally experience themselves fully as an integral part of the “whole.”

I believe that is what we actually are when we aren’t inhibited by unnatural diets, beliefs and lifestyles. Over time a raw food lifestyle will help you experience that for yourself. It’s always simpler to disagree than to find what we have in common. But what we have in common is what we are really looking for. And that can come naturally from a healthy, empowered, whole being nurtured with raw, live and whole food.

While a conscious disagreement is much more likely to produce a satisfying outcome for both parties, it’s far from easy. Dropping our defensive armor may feel foolish or even dangerous. But being more open and vulnerable is far more likely to elicit a conscious response than being defensive.

Today, social networking, chat rooms and other online services has turned our writing into a virtual “conversation.” Just a few short years ago writers “wrote” and readers “read.” The Internet lets readers respond, make comments, reply to forums, share on Facebook and create their own blogs. And they do!

So today there even lot more disagreeing than ever before! That doesn’t always mean people are getting angrier. It’s just that he structural change in the way we communicate now is driving an increase in disagreement.There’s a danger that this will make people even angrier — particularly online where it’s easier to say things you’d never say in person.

So, if we’re all disagreeing more we should be more careful to do it well. I call that “healthy disagreement” — but what does that even mean?

The Disagreement Hierarchy

Name-calling – the lowest form of disagreement and probably the most common. We’ve all seen comments like, “u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!” Even more articulate name-calling has little weight. A comment like, “the author is a self-important dilettante” is really nothing more than a pretentious version of “u r a fag.”

Ad Hominem – an ad hominem attack is not as weak as name-calling. It might actually carry some weight. For example, if a senator wrote an article saying senators’ salaries should be increased, one could respond, “Of course he would say that. He’s a senator.” This wouldn’t refute the argument but it may at least be relevant to the case. However, it’s still a weak form of disagreement. If there’s something wrong with the senator’s argument you should say so, and if not then what difference does it make that he’s a senator? Saying an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is just another form of an ad hominem—and is a particularly useless one, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is right or not.

Responding to Tone – now we’ll see responses to the writing rather than the writer. The lowest form of these is to disagree with the author’s tone, for example, “I can’t believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion.” Though better than attacking the author, this is still a weak form of disagreement. It more important if the author is right or wrong or right than what his tone is. So if the worst thing you do is criticize the tone, you’re really not saying much.

Contradiction – Here we finally get a clear responses to what was said, rather than how or who. The lowest form of response to an argument is simply to state the opposite with no evidence. “I can’t believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion. Intelligent design is a legitimate scientific theory.” Sometimes just seeing the opposite stated clearly is enough to see that it’s right, though some evidence does actually help.

Counter-argument – Now we reach the first form of a convincing disagreement: counterargument. Arguments up to here can easily be ignored because they don’t prove anything. But a good counter-argument can prove something. When directed at the original argument, it can be convincing, but more often than not the people are actually arguing about two totally different things — or even agree with each other but don’t realize it.

Refutation – The most convincing type of disagreement is refutation. It’s also the rarest form because it’s the hardest. To actually refute someone’s argument you probably have to quote them, you have to find the part of their argument you disagree with and explain why they’re mistaken. While refutation uses quoting, quoting an arguments doesn’t necessarily mean you’re refuting it.

Refuting the Central Point – The power of a refutation depends on what you are refuting — hopefully, the central point of an argument. Truly refuting something means you have to commit to exactly what the central point is.

What Does It All Mean

The biggest advantage of understanding the different types of disagreements is that it helps us to see through intellectually dishonest arguments. An eloquent speaker or author can give the impression of winning an argument by using forceful words when in fact they may not have actually won the argument at all. However, most intellectual dishonesty is not intentional. The people making the argument with may really believe they’re really saying something. But the biggest benefit of disagreeing well is not it makes for better conversations but that it makes the people who have them much happier. Moving up the disagreement hierarchy makes people less mean so it can make more of them happier. People don’t really like being mean — they usually do it because they can’t help it.

“It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.” – Pete Seeger

“The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.” – Edward Kennedy

“Honest discussions – even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree – can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.” – David Price

“Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy – essential to keeping it alive.” – Madeleine M. Kunin

“Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.” – Daphne Guinness

“Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.” – Annie Besant

Some of the concepts used here courtesy of Paul Graham, the famous author of Lisp that Business Week included in the 2008 edition of The 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

Freedom, Terrorism & Raw Food — Nurturing a World of Trust

Robert Ross

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October 9, 2016

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Freedom, Terrorism & Raw Food — Nurturing a World of Trust

During a time of crisis, we often are required to self-reflect, to get past our pain and anger, and to discover the opportunities inherent in any difficult experience. One of the most nurturing things a “whole being” can do at such a time is to look for deeper meaning in the relationship between freedom, terrorism and raw food.

The real value of a whole, raw food lifestyle is that it empowers much more than just our health. You see, with a healthy body and mind we not only think clearly and less reactively, but with greater awareness, understanding, sensitivity and compassion. A healthy, whole being takes full responsibility naturally, doesn’t fall into fear and anger with a knee-jerk response to adversity, and has compassion for his enemies as well as his friends … albeit, in some cases, what I call “ruthless compassion.”

We have that whole being within us, just waiting to come out, and all we have to do is stop repressing it with a detrimental lifestyle and toxic diet based on death. We just have to stop killing our food and ourselves in order to rediscover ourselves. Death, in the form of dead food or any other form, creates death. Life, in the form of live food or any other form, creates life. It’s not profound. It’s just common sense!

This wisdom doesn’t diminish the horror of terrorist acts nor the guilt of the terrorists. But it puts it into a perspective in which we can be powerful, whole beings again rather than lose ourselves in a powerless “victim” state of mind.

I didn’t feel “called” to share my experience of raw, whole, live foods just because I am interested in health and healing. Personally, I am committed to transforming the world! That is the essence of a Whole Being — to nurture meaningful change on a planetary scale! And that is the power that raw food helps you get back in touch with. You really can begin to change the world just with your nutritional choices.

Whole beings are always naturally powerful. The toxins in cooked and processed foods, however, block our natural power. As you can see in my article “Toxins Created by Cooking,” many of these toxins actually have a sedative-like affect on your brain — putting you to sleep. Perhaps cooking was the evil knowledge given to Eve by a snake, a symbol of fire — and cooking perhaps, in the Garden of Eden.

Toxins rob your body of energy as the body struggles to survive and maintain some semblance of “homeostasis” or balance. Toxins from cooking, not to mention the artificial flavorings and chemicals in processed and “fast” foods, can block the molecular “receptors” in your nose and mouth that would otherwise have a natural ability to sense vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids and other nutrients normally found in “real” food. With less energy, your ability to think clearly is hampered. With your body in survival mode, taking care of yourself instinctively sometimes becomes more important than caring for others. With imbalanced brain functions, you may become less emotionally balanced, more prone to anger, depression, anxiety or violence. These are just some of the short-term ripple effects of an unnatural, unhealthy lifestyle and diet. There are many more, as well as many long term effects from cancer to heart disease.

The opportunity of rediscovering a natural, healthy lifestyle is to re-empower ourselves to be “whole beings” once again, as we may have been in the Garden of Eden. As “whole beings,” we can approach life’s challenges with compassion, wisdom and trust. We can embrace these challenges responsibly, learn from them and grow together.

True togetherness for all people can only come from within. It can’t be imposed from the outside, by another person, political party or philosophy. For that to manifest itself we need healthy bodies, minds and spirits. A whole being, nurtured by whole foods, naturally experiences himself or herself as part of the “whole” — part of the “web of life.”

Today, with the all the terrorism we see every night on the news, trust is more important than ever. Fear creates distrust, especially of anyone that looks like the “enemy.” When some tragedy happens, the media can whip our anger and fear into a war-like frenzy. We can quickly learn to distrust neighbors with the wrong skin color or cultural heritage. The danger of that is that it opens us up to manipulation by the very terrorists we despise, and vastly increases the real danger that may be confronting us – the loss of the founding principles of freedom that has historically made our country great. When that happens, the terrorists win because what they want to defeat is our freedom itself. So it is essential for us to learn to unconditionally Trust our fellow Americans again, regardless of their politics, heritage, accent, hair color or skin tone.

Such trust only comes from within. It is unconditional, and not dependent on external factors. It comes from consciousness, responsibility and awareness. If we don’t learn to Trust unconditionally, we can dilute our ability to actually perceive real threats, distrusting everyone with a certain accent or viewpoint. Then, we spend all our energy and time investigating, complaining and arguing about the wrong people. It would be much more productive to simply trust each other. Then those that are not deserving of our trust will quickly stand out and be easier to locate and deal with proactively. Meanwhile, we will be healthier and happier ourselves. That’s the real American way!

Terrorism is a battle between the rigid ideals of a fundamentalist theocracy and the liberated institutions of a republic or democracy. These two systems of thought cannot coexist. Religious or theocratic governments have no real personal liberties and often actually despise the concepts of freedom that make American unique. Merely having “free” neighbors is a threat to them, an insult to what they believe, and perhaps even an intolerable temptation for which they feel an overwhelming guilt. So freedom itself is their enemy. They hate us for being free. They want to kill freedom itself.

In this battle between freedom and terrorism, the terrorists are already winning. Anti-terrorist legislation in American threatens to destroy our constitutional rights. In the end, this has little effect on terrorists, but is devastating to the lives of most Americans. You see, terrorists today don’t want to make a philosophical argument or negotiate for anything. They want to destroy everything we believe in because it’s antithetical to their rigid perspective.

Even deeper, terrorists want to destroy our faith in our lifestyle so that we destroy ourselves from within. That is exactly what is happening when, out of fear, we are willing to give up our Constitutional rights in the mistaken belief that will enable the government to protect us. But the Constitution that has been protecting us for over 200 years. Suspending it only makes us weaker and plays right into the hands of the terrorists. By destroying ourselves, and our belief in everything we stand for, we give new life to their crazy beliefs. Supporting the Constitutional ideals uniquely fundamental to only United States is truly the only way to resist all such radical points of view.

Sure, we must defend ourselves … responsibly, intelligently, and with a heart founded in the liberties this country was founded upon. But ultimately, brute force only generates more brute force, and more terrorists. You see, terrorism is like the mythological Hydra with many heads, you cut one off and ten more grow back in its place. So Israel is an armed camp, not a truly free country. The Israelis have been in this mode for half a century, and are no closer to solving these problems then they were fifty years ago. They’ve merely become experts at living with fear and at protecting themselves from those whom they fear. Every time Israel has won a war, they created more fear and hate in their enemies. Every generation of Palestinians has had fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, sisters, brothers, cousins and friends killed in that conflict.

Do we want to export that negative energy to the shores of America? We have the highly sophisticated means today to create powerful, effective solutions without a knee-jerk reaction that kills everything America stands for — because when we do that, the terrorists kill much more than people…they kill our ideals.

Once we are willing to surrender our Constitution for perceived convenience, we’ll lose more rights as the violence escalates. For every bomb we drop there will be a dozen terrorists willing to die as martyrs on our own shores. We don’t need to paint scenarios of terrorists with biological weapons, nukes or fertilizer bombs. A simple can of gasoline in a shopping mall can become a weapon equivalent to several sticks of dynamite.

If the violence escalates, we’ll suspend even more rights. But it is inevitable that most of the impact of this “military rule,” will be felt by regular people, not terrorists. When all our police and military isn’t enough, the United Nations may be asked to lend a hand. Then, soldiers from foreign shores, who don’t necessarily care for our silly American notions of personal liberty, will be asked to help bring order further affecting regular Americans more than terrorists. Laws that regulate us, for our own safety, actually only impact the honest people who obey them. They rarely affect criminals who’ve chosen to operate outside the law.

I say this not to take a political stance or to go against our leaders and their difficult choices, but to demonstrate from a whole being perspective how violence ultimately only leads to more violence. Death leads to more death — and Life leads to Life. It’s the basic principle of raw food, applied to life itself.

Violence and death can’t ever result in true peace. It can’t create lasting security. It won’t really make us safe from terrorism. That isn’t even some profound truth, it’s just plain old common sense. And this all comes about simply from a lack of Trust. Trust for ourselves, to be able to deal with the problems and fears of today’s complex world. Trust for our neighbors, who may have a different cultural heritage than ourselves. And Trust for God, The Great Spirit, Allah, Buddha or Jesus, who is guiding us all through life’s lessons no matter how difficult they may be. And Trust is just one of the things that come naturally from within a healthy, self-empowered, whole being – who, of course, prefers to eat whole, live food!

Without trust, living in fear and anger, we become mere victims who do not take responsibility for what happens to us. Instead we blame someone else. As victims, we have no power. We want to lash out, to destroy our enemy in order to reclaim our power. However, power truly only comes from within. You can’t get it back by destroying whomever you think took it from you because the very belief that it can be taken makes you a victim. So even if you destroy your enemy, a new enemy will inevitably crop up. This is the very nature of animals – the strong always prey on the weak. And when you are not manifesting as a “whole being,” all that’s left is your natural animal nature.

Tobacco companies knowingly promoted lung cancer for many decades in the name of profit. Arms companies sell guns to both sides in a war. And fast food companies are happy to sell you 99 cent hamburgers laced with toxins that scientific studies clearly show have negative health effects – and even market them to little children using images of clowns, toys and happy faces.

Such businesses are happy to build an oil pipeline that makes a huge profit — and even to start a war in distant lands to achieve their ends. To such a business you represent not a human being but a human resource – a worker and a consumer. To be more than that you need to be aware, awake, alive and fully actualized as human beings … what I like to call a “whole being.” And, believe it or not, being whole begins with what you choose to eat.

Death creates death. People that thrive on dead food thrive on dead thinking, dead beliefs, dead politics, dead economics, dead lifestyles and the means of creating more death. On the other hand, life creates life.

You can choose if you want to be fully alive, with the conscious joy engendered by whole, live foods and without the sedative effects from toxins found in cooked foods. You’ll discover clearer thinking, more awareness, purer consciousness and much more. And this isn’t some new age psycho-babble, it is proven in numerous scientific studies (for some examples, see the scientific references throughout my website. It’s not just a fact, its common sense for people that have all the facts. Dead food kills. Live food gives life. And the good news is that You Still have the Freedom to Choose!

Opinion By Robert Ross
(C) 2009-2017 www.RawFoodLife.com

Also Read:

https://rawfoodlife.com/philosophy-of-raw-whole-food/

Good Health in a Bad Economy – Get a Raw Food Bailout

Robert Ross

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October 9, 2016

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Good Health in a Bad Economy – Get a Raw Food Bailout

In economics, a bailout is supposed to be when a bankrupt or nearly bankrupt company is helped by another party (like the U.S. government) giving them assets that can be converted to cash so that the troubled party can meet it’s financial obligations. What our country really needs during an economic crisis is a raw food bailout — when a sick body is helped by a healthy diet giving it assets (live food) that can easily assimilated so that the body can meet all its nutritional requirements.

Of course, a bad economy is more difficult to deal with when you are also struggling with bad health! Poor nutrition can exacerbate negative emotions and make it more difficult to think clearly. Many diseases start with a cocktail of toxins created by cooking combined with the immune-suppressing effects of anger, stress, fear and hopelessness.

A raw food bailout is a great way to face this kind of crisis. It will help you be healthier — saving on medical bills and insurance. It will help you act more responsibly and proactively to find solutions. And it will even help you save on your grocery bills. You see, organic, raw food is as much as 200-300% more nutritionally dense, making it more economical in the long run than less expensive and less nutritious conventional produce that may also be laced with pesticides or genetically modified organisms with unknown health hazards.

Also read:

Raw Food Basics — How to Enjoy a Raw Food Lifestyle

Guide to Natural Kitchen Tools & Why You Need Them!

Robert Ross

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October 9, 2016

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Guide to Natural Kitchen Tools & Why You Need Them!

First, as a raw foodist I’m at least 75% raw and 95% organic. So I rarely need to cook or even use natural kitchen tools. My poor stove is feeling a little neglected! But when I do, here is what I use.

Stay away from Teflon & PTFE or PFOA

These chemicals are used for making Teflon. The EPA has designated PFOA as a “likely carcinogen” and has already asked manufacturers to, pretty please, stop using PFOA. So polite! Of course, what’s not so polite is that PFOA pollutes over 95% of the blood of Americans — your blood! PFOA never breaks down in the environment, so every molecule produced since the 1940s when Du Pont invented Teflon, will be in our air, water and bodies FOREVER. In people and animals, PFOA causes cancer, birth defects and numerous other health problems. When you’re ready to replace your toxic non-stick pans with a healthy alternative, you’ll have 3 safe choices: ceramic, cast iron and stainless steel.

CERAMIC pans have no trace metals or chemicals that can leach into your food. For use on stove, in the oven or broiler – or the barbecue. Easy to clean, non-scratch, non-toxic.
CAST IRON: Cast iron is known for even heating, heat retention, durability and value. Remember to season cast iron pans to keep them rest-free with a permanent, natural nonstick surface. Cast iron is heavy and may not be the best choice if lifting is a problem for you. It’s also necessary to hand wash cast iron.
STAINLESS STEEL: Especially avoid alloys containing nickel (chromium and molybdenum may also be in some alloys). This is particularly important for people with nickel allergies. Get high grade 18/10 stainless steel, which may be sandwiched around an aluminum core. Benefits include helping to cook foods faster, retains heat longer, few hot spots, heats faster, uses less energy, doesn’t react with acidic foods, durable and long lasting, dishwasher safe, food doesn’t stick with use of oil (I prefer olive oil).
Copper cookware is also not recommended because copper cookware must be lined due to the dangers of copper poisoning.

Don’t Give Old Pots & Pans to Goodwill.

If it’s not safe enough for your family why would you want someone else using them? I recommend putting them in your recycle trash bin or taking them to a recycling company. You may want to check with your trash company first as some curbside recycling programs do not accept nonstick pans. If that happens, many scrap yards will take them.

Another alternative if other options fail is to look for a mail-back program. For example, Calphalon, a manufacturer of fine cookware, will take trade-ins and then safely recycle your old nonstick pots and pans.

Reminder – there are many other items and personal care products that that contain PTFE or “fluoro” or “perfluoro” ingredients including some brands of dental floss designed to “glide” easier between your teeth. This is not what I would call an important product “benefit.”

Other products often treated with similar toxic stain-repellents include new furniture, new carpets, water and/or stain repellent clothing, breathable fabrics like Gortex, flame-retardant products including baby items, padded furniture, mattresses and pillows. Fast food and microwave foods (you don’t buy those I assume) typically use packaging treated with PFCs. Always look for natural materials that are less flammable like leather, wool and cotton.

Eliminate the Microwave

I have I not used a microwave for almost 40 years! The microwave became popular in the 1960’s without any real research on the effects of eating microwaved food. What little research done more recently on the effects of eating microwaved food has shown that microwaves make fats and proteins much more difficult to assimilate. Studies in Switzerland also show that the microwave cause changes in vitamin content and availability. Eating microwaved food results in abnormal blood profiles like those that occur in early stage cancer. And please, never use a microwaves for heating baby bottles – the altered amino acids in microwaved milk can be toxic to the liver and nervous system particularly for infants.

Finally, damage to your food isn’t your only problem with microwaves. Many microwavable foods are usually processed and packaged using a variety of toxic chemicals, including benzene, toluene, polyethylene terpthalate (PET), xylene, and dioxins (known carcinogens). These chemicals can absorb into your food. One of the most dangerous of these contaminants is BPA, an estrogen-like plastic that leaks from most plastic packaging into the food, disrupting normal hormone activity.

Valuable Kitchen Tools

Vitamix & Blendtec: I have had a powerful high-speed blender (Vitamix (or Blendtec) for almost 40 years. I use it daily for smoothies, sauces, chopping – you name it! If I could only have one of the appliances on this list, I’d keep my Vitamix or Blendtec.
Ninja Blender: I also have a small but powerful Ninja for small but fast smoothies as well as sauces, soups, purees, and more.
Food Processor: I also use this often for chopping veggies for soups or salads.
Dehydrator: I’ve gone through many cheap dehydrators over the years, but now I stick to the better, square-design models like the Excalibur and Tribest. Dehydrators are great for drying fruits, veggies and more.
Water Filter or Alkaline Water Ionizer: I use my Life Water Ionizer every day to filter all the water I use for cooking, drinking, etc. This is the best water filter/ionizer option I’ve found. The model I use personally, and recommend highly, if from Life Ionizers.

Cookware

I prefer raw food but when I do cook is use cookware that is natural/eco-friendly and also easy to clean.

Ceramic skillets cook evenly and are easy to clean. However, they are breakable so I be careful when cleaning them.
Cast Iron: A cast iron pan can last forever.
Steel Pans

Kitchen Tools

French press for making coffee or tea without contact with plastic and much better flavor.
Fermentation crock pot if you want to make fermented favorites like sauerkraut — filled with live enzymes and flora.
Quality Knives are always one of the most valuable items in any kitchen.
Tea Kettle (glass, cast iron or steel): I drink a lot of herbal tea in my house.
A Julienne Peeler for carrots, sweet potatoes, zucchini, etc.
A Mandoline to grate, slice or cut your veggies.
Bamboo cutting board, an alternative to plastic or glass.

Other Handy Items

Cloth Napkins, an alternative to paper.
Large steel bowls for mixing and serving.
Stainless steel straws, eco-friendly option for drinking my smoothies every day.
Metal Water Bottles.
Glass water bottles.
Quart size & Pint Size Mason Jars for drinking glasses, food storage, etc.
Sprouting lids for mason jars.
Gallon size jars for fermentation and storage.

Also See:

How a Dehydrator Saved My Sanity — as well as My Health!

You Gotta Love Raw Virgin Coconut Oil

Robert Ross

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October 9, 2016

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I use raw virgin coconut oil every day. I put some in my smoothies every morning. I add it often to whatever raw food dish I am making. I even keep a jar in the bathroom and add a dollop to my natural PerioBrite toothpaste to brush my teeth with it! It is one of nature’s most miraculous foods!

Coconut oil is an edible oil that has been used in tropical areas for thousands of years. Studies on native diets high in coconut oil show that these populations are generally in good health and don’t suffer as much from the modern diseases of our culture – where coconut oil is seldom used.

Some of the recent research on coconut oil comes from research on Alzheimer’s disease, with reports of people improving or even reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s with coconut oil — meanwhile Alzheimer’s drug trials continue with no success.

Coconut oil also seems to be effective for people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, as well as hypothryroidism. Restricting carbohydrates and increasing coconut oil in the diet has also been shown to help with weight. Other conditions that benefit include candida, various skin conditions and for promoting healthy hair. It has also been shown to help fight bacterial infections and viruses. Finally, athletes and fitness trainers are using coconut oil for sustaining energy levels without stimulants or drugs.

READ THE BOOK:
Virgin Coconut Oil: How it has changed people’s lives, and how it can change yours!

“The most practical book written on the health benefits of coconut oil. Based on years of research and the experience of Brian and Marianita Shilhavy, this book documents how tropical cultures eating a diet high in the saturated fat of coconut oil enjoy long healthy lives. It also shows how a premium Virgin Coconut Oil has changed thousands of lives outside the tropics.”

REVIEW: “I absolutely love your book! Several pages into your stories I was so captivated I couldn’t put it down. I have been using Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil and your other products almost exclusively in cooking and exclusively on my skin since 2000, and I have been your cheerleader since that time. From my own experience and research and from the testimonials of the many people to whom I have recommended it, I have no doubt that you are the leading suppliers of the finest, purest Virgin Coconut Oil products in the world. Now, your excellent book will assist all who wonder about its value to share your wisdom and the positive experiences of many people. God bless you both for your tireless service in providing and explaining this ancient health food, which brings so many benefits.” — Marilyn Diamond, “Fit for Life”

Brian and Marianita Shilhavy actually lived in a coconut producing area of the Philippines for several years. Marianita grew up on a coconut plantation in a culture that consumed significant amounts of coconut fat. She later went on to earn her degree in nutrition in the Philippines. Brian noticed firsthand the differences between the diet and health of the younger generation and those of Marianita’s parents’ generation still consuming a traditional diet. This led to years of studying Philippine nutrition and dietary patterns first hand.

EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION

“When Marianita revived the traditional way of making coconut oil, as you will read about in Chapter one, only a few left in her home community from her parents’ generation still knew how to produce this quality coconut oil that we named “Virgin Coconut Oil.” A massive training program had to be instituted to teach the younger generation how to produce this quality product. We were within only one generation of losing this traditional skill. A few years later now, we have shown the world what a traditional skill, producing a quality product that cannot be mass-produced, can do economically for the Philippine economy and what it can do for people’s health, as is evidenced by the more than 100 testimonies recorded in this book.”

GET THE BOOK:
Virgin Coconut Oil: How it changed lives and can change yours!

See also:

Raw Guide for People Who Hate Vegetables

“Microclusters” Help Live Water Easily Penetrate Your Cell Walls

Robert Ross

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October 9, 2016

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“Microclusters” Help Live Water Easily Penetrate Your Cell Walls

The Science of Microclusters

Given how important water is to life, there are amazingly few actual studies on the nature of water and the science of microclusters. Many scientists are happy just to accept that water is just two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. More recently, concepts based on “quantum biology” are exposing more of the subtle characteristics of the ubiquitous water molecule. This makes sense since water is ultimately the basis for ALL life — so of course you’d expect water to have some quantum characteristics that mainstream scientists haven’t quite figured out – like microclusters!

The feature of water of particular interest to raw foodists, vegans or anyone interested in the highest quality water is called its cluster size! For the easiest, maximum absorption of water into your cells, the smaller “micro” clusters of water (5-6 molecules) are far superior — easily penetrating cell membranes through channels called “aquaporins.” Larger clusters of water molecules, from a dozen molecules up to several dozen, are too large to pass through these tiny channels.

Most of the water we drink today is either pumped from springs, long since corrupted by commercial “water mining,” or bottled in cheap plastic containers which damage its molecular structure and pollute it with toxic chemical plasticizers. Even even remote pristine springs are now commercialized and polluted, no longer producing the same quality they used to offer a couple of decades ago. Then the water is bottled or pumped though pipes for hundreds of miles. It is nearly impossible now to find pristine water that you can drink at home, and if you do it will cost you more than most drinks you buy at the corner store. Today, even Aquafina, bottled by Pepsi, costs more than a can of Pepsi. its also more profitable! Yet it is nothing more than filtered tap water. Same for Coke’s Dasani.

See the article by Dr.Mercola on Bottled Water and Tap Water.

The Hunzas

Believe it or not, there are still five (5) locations left in the world where you can find natural water with extraordinary characteristics, including microclusters. This is also where people there typically live to be over 100 years old in excellent health — with no cancer, no dental caries (cavities) and little or no illness. They still even have children well into their old age! These are Hunzaland in the Karkorum Mountains (north of Pakistan in the Himalayas), the Vilcambamba in Ecuador, a high mountain valley in Georgia, Russia, another in Mongolia and the final one in Peru. Though all these areas have different cultures and diets, they all have just one thing in common: their water has similar properties – especially the possibility of “microclusters!”

“Microclusters” in water are one of the least understood and most controversial subjects associated with alkaline mineral water, or ionized water. But there appears to be evidence using NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) technology that ionized water forms stable “microclusters,” which was once thought to be impossible … and still is today by many. You can’t “see” the structure of hexagonal water normally. However, when it is frozen, hexagonal (six-sided) crystals are formed (i.e., like a snowflake). In the pictures below you’ll see other comparison shots under a microscope of hexagonal water and ordinary tap water.

It’s important to note that “microclusters” aren’t literally physical “clusters” of water. A lots of folks marketing water io9nizsers love to “debunk” microclusters because they wrongly think that erms is literal. It’s not.

“Microclusters” is actually just a loose nickname that refers to an “electrostatic charge” that can loosely hold a group of water molecules together. Here are some good references:

Dr Michael Explains Microclusters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXaJXCZDPbs#t=51
Breaking the Water Cluster Code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxJvMoBiR-s
Icosaheral/Tetrahedral Water Structure:
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/icosahed…
The Expansion of Ice:
http://www.iapws.org/faq1/freeze.html

The water that comes from your kitchen sink is normally “clustered” in loose groups containing 10-20 molecules or more. These groups form through a weak bond that breaks and reforms very easily and is what gives “microclustered” water many of its unique properties. The process of ionization changes the electrical properties in water (ORP) and theoretically restructures the groups or clusters into about half their original size, or 5-8 molecules. This lets microclustered water penetrate the body’s cells more easily through aquaporins.

Aquaporins

In 2003, Peter Agre of John Hopkins University received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on aquaporins. Aquaporins allow the water we drink to pass through our cell membrane one molecule at a time. Theoretically, normal water with 10-20 molecules per cluster cannot easily penetrate aquaporins. But microclustered water with just 5-8 molecules can let single molecules penetrate more easily through cell membranes, hydrating the cell faster and more and effectively.

Fortunately, you actually CAN get “microclustered” alkaline mineral water right in your home home, without traveling to Ecuador — by making it yourself . You can either purchase a modern water ionizer system or learn how make your own water ionizer at home (see: https://rawfoodlife.com/build-your-own-water-ionizer).

Also see: Molecular arrangement in water, Petkov V, et al. J Phys Condens Matter. 2012, Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22418283/?i=34&from=hydrogen+rich+water+properties

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

We also know from NMR that electricity appears to reduce similar “clusters” in water to just 6 or so molecules, a property that lasts for up to 2 months. After that stored water reverts to large molecular groups again. Dr. Mu Shik Jhon originally did a study showing that there does appear to be a clear and well-defined difference between “Hexagonal Water” and tap water. Dr. Paul Shin, an NMR expert, tried to repeat this experiment and wrote, “Sure enough, I was indeed able to replicate his data precisely!”
See: https://rawfoodlife.com/organic-water

“Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a scientific method to measure the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the magnetic nuclei of molecular structure. NMR is one of the principal techniques used to obtain physical, chemical, electronic and structural information about molecules due to either the chemical shift, Zeeman effect, or the Knight shift effect, or a combination of both, on the resonant frequencies of the nuclei present in the sample. It is a powerful technique that can provide detailed information on the topology, dynamics and three-dimensional structure of molecules in solution and the solid state. NMR O17 is used to test the water cluster size, and hence make a determination of the molecular arrangement of the water under test, providing a measure of the quality and purity of the water. The line width in Hz is used to determine the change in the water through NMR testing. A line width of 50Hz to 60Hz is closer to water’s natural state, and better for human consumption. Water with a line width above 70Hz and more than 100Hz is common through man-made filtering and cleaning processes, which whilst treating the water, also de-structures the water into a more unnatural and unhealthy configuration.”

— Lemaitre V., Smith M.E., Watts A., “A review of oxygen-17 solid-state NMR of organic materials – towards biological applications”. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 26 (2006) 215-235. (SEE http://www.evolving-innovation.com/research/research-nmr/)

More Evidence of “Clusters” in Water

“Researchers are beginning to glimpse water’s secret social life .… Some say that the clusters’ apparent existence necessitates redesigning simulation models of life processes. And support is growing behind the idea that these intricate structures play key roles in operations ranging from molecular binding to turning on and off basic cell processes.”
See: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/16005/title/Structured-Water-Is-Changing-Models/

Secrets of Clustered Water: Interview with Dr. Lee Lorenzen By Uri Dowbenko

“What Dr. Lorenzen and colleagues discovered was that the water was microclustered, or structured in geometric rings, which look like six-sided snowflakes when frozen. “It was basically these hexagons-these forms that were most prevalent in the healing springs-that don’t really exist in a lot of other areas,” continues Lorenzen. “When you flash freeze them, you can do crystallography and X-ray analyses. It was really quite unique. We had no idea that water would form like this.

We published these findings in the Japanese journal Snow and Ice, a scientific peer review journal, last year: “One of the breakthroughs of the is that it tends to stay fairly stable with good biological activity. Biologically active means that the water works well in hydrating living tissue, unlike common [fluoridated and chlorinated] tap water. Most importantly, the size and shape of these unique [six-sided ring clustered] water molecules allows them to pass through cell walls freely, delivering oxygen, nutrients, proteins and enzymes, while removing toxic substances. After many years of experimentation and testing, Dr. Lorenzen applied for and was granted a patent for Clustered Water in January of 1998. “
http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=566460
http://www.lens.org/images/patent/US/5711950/A/US_5711950_A.pdf

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In 1976, Lee Lorenzen was a graduate student doing research at a University in California. Like so many aspiring researchers, his vocation was chosen because of his desire to make a difference in the health and happiness of others, but what he found was a model that wasn’t always working. Over and over again he saw that the medications he was researching appeared to be causing more harm than good.

“I remember saying to myself, over and over, in those days,” recalls Lorenzen, “Something is missing with this model.” Then it happened – a chain of events which ultimately led him to the discovery of water clusters and a method of stabilizing them.

During research using experimental rats, he was bitten and contracted a serious illness. Shortly thereafter, his wife was hospitalized with double pneumonia, and she began a downward spiral into chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, arthritis, Epstein Barr virus, and severe immuno-suppression. With Lee ill and his wife bedridden, taking care of their two toddlers became almost impossible. For the first time in their lives, they got on their knees and prayed for help. And slowly, the answers began to come.

“I went to the UCLA library, one afternoon.” says Lee. “As I walked down an aisle, I noticed a little red book which was sticking out from the shelf – a book which was written in 1962 by the Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi. As I read it, things began to make sense about cell water.” Months of research eventually led Lorenzen to the healing Spring of Lourdes, France. There, he found evidence of natural water clusters – something that had escaped decades of scientific scrutiny. He found the same phenomenon in ten other healing springs around the world and also found geologic similarities in the places where these healing springs were located. As he continued to research and more pieces of the puzzle came together, Lorenzen learned how to duplicate the natural conditions which produce water clusters. http://www.engineeredlifestyles.org/story-of-clustered-water.html

“ … the basic water molecule is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The angle between the two hydrogen atoms is 104 degrees. Some molecules have more energy than others however and in these the angle is 109 degrees. It is these energized molecules that form the basis of the ‘liquid crystal’. The centers of these three atoms form a sort of triangle. In three dimensions, this triangle becomes a sort of 3 sided pyramid shape. This shape is called a tetrahedron. The most stable liquid crystal is formed from 8 of these tetrahedron molecules and is called the Stella Octangula. The different charges at the corners give it a high, one sided, polar charge. This high charge gives the molecule a tendency to orient itself in an electric field. That means that when an electric field is applied to this pure water, the alignment of the molecules tends to neutralize the electric field. (This is called the dielectric constant). It’s the dielectric constant that makes pure water a very poor conductor of electricity.”

“… ordinary water is composed of highly structured liquid crystals possessing a strong charge separated by unstructured molecules and hydrogen ions, (isolated protons which have lost their electron), which is called “the sea of chaos”. But all water is not ordinary water. In the living system, water is highly structured, that is, it is composed of a high percentage of liquid crystals with a very low percentage of chaotic disorganized molecules. Ordinary water on the other hand is composed of a large percentage of unstructured molecules which contain a small number of structured liquid crystals. There is a constant energy exchange process between structured molecules and those which are not structured. This exchange is brought about by random thermal (heat) motion. When an animal or plant takes in ordinary bulk water it has to create organized liquid crystals before the water can play a vital role in the living system. This structuring is accomplished by means of natural high-energy colloids. High energy means that the colloids have a high electric charge. The living system manufactures these colloids from minerals, albumins, and sugar complexes. These charged colloids act as tiny ‘seeds’ of energy that attract water molecules and form the nucleus of a liquid crystal. Colloids can only act as seed crystals if they have a high electrical potential. The charge on ordinary colloids is not very stable. For our purposes there are two different types of colloids.– http://www.quantumbalancing.com/energized_water_2.htm

A professional laboratory in Germany (Hagalis Laboratory) did a crystallization analysis of two water samples: ordinary tap water and the same type of water run through a water structuring device.
https://sites.google.com/site/structuredwater05/european-lab-test-on-cns-water

“ … according to Dr. Yang Oh and Gil-Ho Kim, water possesses differing molecular structures, and the kind of water you drink may relate to bodily dysfunction and disease. Basing their work on the research of Dr. Mu Shik Jhon, the authors conclude that the three different molecular structures of water identified in this book have varied affects on the body. They even point to evidence that seems to indicate abnormal water structure could be related to the abnormal cellular activity that results in cancer and diabetes. Their conclusion: The hexagonal structure of water is the one that promotes health and increases longevity.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A native of Korea, Dr. Yang H. Oh holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard Medical School. He is retired from a professorship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He is currently Director General of his own YHO Bio-Science R/D Center in Houston and also in Korea.

“molecular clusters have been measured by NMR technology…. “The half line width of 17-O NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) curve of natural Ionized Microcluster Alkaline Water is around 80Hz which indicates smaller size of water clusters. On the other hand, the half line width of 17-O NMR curve of tap water, bottled water and other purified water is above 100Hz indicating large water clusters.”
http://www.waterionizer.org/site/898596/page/2866437

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Improve Your Family’s Health With Oxygen Producing Indoor Plants

Matthew Monarch

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October 8, 2016

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Improve Your Family’s Health With Oxygen Producing Indoor Plants

Being on a 100% Raw Food Diet, I am very sensitive many things — including the air I breathe. It feels so good to me to breathe clean air. Oxygen is essential for the body. It is essential for so many vital functions including brain performance and digestion. Because of this, it is imperative to make sure that the air we breathe is rich in oxygen and that our bodies are ready to make maximum use of this important substance through proper nutrition and plenty of oxygen producing plants throughout your home.

Houseplants are a great way to increase the oxygen present in our homes. Not only do they look great and provide many added benefits, such as stress relief, healing, air purification, and more, they increase the oxygen content in the air in a clean way (1). This added oxygen in the air we breathe, in combination with good nutrition, can make our homes a place of passive healing where cognitive health, muscle strength, and digestion can be improved.

Health Benefits Of Increased Oxygen

The health benefits of increased oxygen in the body are countless. Oxygen is essential for every cell in the body to function. With increased oxygen, the brain, muscles, and digestion can all work more efficiently. Without adequate oxygen in the air we breathe, we may experience dizziness, nausea, headaches, fatigue, exhaustion, irritability, anxiety, depression, frequent fevers, colds, or lung diseases. (2) Three of the most significant benefits of increased oxygen are:

Optimal Brain Function The brain uses about 25% of all the oxygen a person inhales, and would die within a few minutes without it. (3) Clearly, oxygen is an essential part of optimizing brain function. A recent study proved that increasing oxygen intake, especially during mentally challenging tasks, increased the brain’s performance (4).
Stronger Muscles Every muscle in the human body depends on oxygen to function. Without proper oxygen, muscles become fatigued (5). Increasing oxygen intake will allow our muscles to get more of this vital element, therefore allowing us to perform vigorous tasks for longer periods of time.
Improved Digestion Digestion depends on muscle contraction in the stomach and intestines. As stated above, muscles become fatigued without proper oxygen. This can lead to compromised digestive function (6). So ensuring lots of oxygen in the body, we are ultimately improving the digestive function as a result.

Using Houseplants To Oxygenate Our Home

Houseplants are a great and effective way to increase oxygen levels in our home. Plants vary greatly in their ability to increase oxygen levels depending on many factors including species, size, health, and light levels. Yet, even a small unhealthy plant grown in low light will improve oxygen levels to some extent. It is recommended that to noticeably improve air quality though, we would need to have at least one houseplant of medium size for every 100 to 120 square feet of space. (7)

Diet to Maximize Oxygen Absorption

Having lots of oxygen in the air we breathe is only one part of making sure our blood oxygen levels are sufficient. There are also a number of considerations related to diet and nutrition to take into account to make certain that our body is able to properly utilize the oxygen that it takes in. As raw foodists or overall veggie eaters, there are a few key nutritional considerations that we should be paying close attention to — mainly the intake of iron, vitamin B12, and protein. Your body leverages these, and other nutrients, in order to utilize oxygen (8). Making sure to add a variety of foods, such as a variety of greens and vegetables, sprouts, and seaweeds is key to ensure proper oxygen absorption.

Finding the Right Plants for Oxygenating

All plants produce oxygen, but they all vary in the amounts they produce. Some plants have the added benefit of being edible or having medicinal or cosmetic properties. Others are particularly good at purifying the air from common toxins such as formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene. There are even houseplants that can be particularly beneficial for removing mold. Here are some common houseplants that produce particularly high levels of oxygen, with the bonus of some other added benefits:

Aloe Vera
Aloe vera is a great plant for oxygenating the home, as well as boasting many other useful qualities. It is a very healthy edible, particularly great in smoothies, great for healing burns and cuts, and a wonderful skin cream. In addition, it removes formaldehyde from the air.
Peace Lily
The peace lily is one of the plants noted for removing mold from the environment. This makes it a great plant for bathrooms, laundry rooms and even basements with some natural light. It is happy in low light and thrives on heavy watering followed by long periods of dry. It also filters a very long list of air pollutants. On top of all this, it is a very attractive plant that flowers regularly.
Rubber Tree
The rubber tree is an attractive plant with very large leaves that can grow quite large. It does well in low light with infrequent watering making it a great choice for those with less than ideal growing conditions. Besides being a high producer of oxygen, this plant is very good at removing formaldehyde and other toxins from the air. It grows from cuttings, making it easy to multiply.
Ficus Tree
The ficus is one of the easiest plants to care for. It thrives in low light and can tolerate infrequent watering, and it takes well to propagation and pruning. It works great as a general air purifier.
Chinese Evergreen
This plant does well in full shade making it a good choice for areas farther away from windows, or in bathrooms where light is often limited. It acts as a great air purifier for formaldehyde, benzene, and other indoor toxins. (9)

It’s probably an obvious statement, but your local environment has a significant effect on your health. And, while nutrition certainly plays a role, we should be considering the overlap of other factors that affect our daily lives, such as oxygen producing plants. So, head to your local nursery today, grab one of the plants listed above, and improve your air quality and oxygen intake while simply going about your day!

by Matthew Monarch, June, 2016
Proprietor, theRawFoodWorld.com

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The Real History of the Biotech Company that Invented GMO’s

Robert Ross

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July 17, 2016

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MonSatan is a parody name that I created for the Monsanto Corporation many years ago. Now it is used all across the web — and I think you can blame it on me! This parody caught on over the years because MonSatan invented genetically engineered organisms (GMO’s). They also managed to completely underestimated Mother Nature, contaminating farms with super-weeds that resist their toxic herbicides. In the history of Monsanto they promised to end world hunger. Instead, they sued innocent farmers for accidentally growing GMO’s when “genetic drift” contaminated non-GMO farms with wind-born GMO pollen.

Until recently, MonSatan always won these cases even though the contamination was always their fault. Today, MonSatan is losing ground more than ever, with the latest non-GMO and organic farming methods out-producing GMO’s. But MonSatan isn’t giving up. They’re constantly developing new technologies they claim will improve farming when all they really want to do is charge farmers for every seed! Here’s how Monsanto morphed into MonSatan — the world’s #1 purveyor of biotech chemicals and GMO crops.

1901: MonSatan began by making an artificial sweetener called saccharin (today called Sweet and Low), which has been controversial ever since. You see, saccharin is made from coal tar, which is 700 times sweeter than sugar, when a scientist accidentally noticed it was sweet. Saccharin is made by combining anthranilic acid with nitrous acid, sulfur dioxide, chlorine and ammonia. Yummy!

1911: The USDA bans saccharin except for medical use.

1914: World War I begins, causing shortages in sugar so saccharin restrictions are lifted.

1915: MonSatan’s sales reach $1 million.

1964–69: MonSatan starts making Agent Orange, a toxic herbicide used by the U.S. in Vietnam War. One of the main ingredients is a chemical called 2,4-D — even more toxic than MonSatan’s Roundup. Today, Monsanto is once again planning to market 2,4-D because there are so many super-weeds resistant to Roundup and glyphosate.

1972: The FDA tries to ban saccharin but all they did was add warning labels. Decades later they removed the warning labels and by 2010 saccharin was removed from almost every list of carcinogens, despite studies that clearly show a significant increase in bladder cancer from the artificial sweetener.

1974: MonSatan introduces Roundup herbicide, one of the most widely used herbicides in the world.

1982: MonSatan’s scientists create the first genetically modified (GMO) plant — and today over 90% of the most commonly grown commercial crops are GMO’s.

1983: A study called, “A Chronic Feeding Study of Glyphosate (Roundup Technical) in Mice” looked bad for glyphosate, one of MonSatan’s most profitable agricultural chemicals. So they tried to convince regulators that the study made glyphosate look OK. However, it seems to me that the study says glyphosate is a powerful carcinogen! In the study, mice exposed to glyphosate developed serious tumors — with absolutely no tumors at all in the control group. An EPA toxicologist said “glyphosate is oncogenic, producing renal tubule adenomas, a rare tumor…” The EPA scientists signed a consensus review in 1985 that said glyphosate was,”possibly carcinogenic to humans.” MonSatan ignored them.

1984: Vietnam veterans win $180 million from for Agent Orange but the company doesn’t admit any liability. The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that the the America exposed almost 5 million people to Agent Orange causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, disfigurements and birth defects.

1985: MonSatan purchases the maker of the NutraSweet, an artificial sweetener also called aspartame. This is known to cause depression and headaches as well as oxidative stress in the brain. Aspartame break down into methanol which converts into formaldehyde creating many of the underlying health problems with aspartame.

1994: Monsanto begins commercial production of BST (bovine somatotropin), a synthetic hormone for dairy cows. BST (or rBGH) is a genetically engineered hormone designed to force cows produce more milk. BST has been shown to adversely affect the health and welfare of dairy cattle, making them prone to mastitis and sores. BST milk also may cause breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer in humans. It is banned in Europe.

1996: MonSatan introduces Roundup Ready seeds, genetically engineered to survive its Roundup herbicide. Roundup Ready soybeans, corn, cotton, and other crops now totally dominate every market where they’re sold.

1997: Two TV journalists making a documentary on the dangers of BST were fired by Fox TV under pressure from MonSatan.

1998: The Ecologist, an environmental journal, writes a special edition attacking MonSatan but the Ecologist’s printer destroys all the copies fearing a liable suit from MonSatan.

Monsanto Hazardous Pesticide — Farmer in Hazmat Suit & Gas Mask using Monsanto pesticide.

1998: MonSatan sells its chemical operations — and makes a big deal about their new commitment to biotechnology — to “help people lead longer, healthier lives … without continued environmental degradation.” The very next year they became the world’s biggest producer of genetically modified crops (GMO’s) which require many times the application of Roundup and glyphosate.

2008-2011: Saccharin is tied to a variety of allergic reactions including headaches, breathing issues, skin rashes and diarrhea. Nonetheless, it was still added to some infant formulas. In 2008 a study found “a significant increase of plasma insulin concentration was apparent after stimulation with saccharin,” after the participants merely rinsed their mouth with the sweetener.

2010: After a tragic earthquake, Haitian farmers actually refuse to accept GMO seeds donated by MonSatan, saying that MonSatan’s charity was, “a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on Creole seeds…and on what is left of our environment in Haiti.”

2011: The Public Patent Foundation — farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations — files a lawsuit challenging MonSatan’s patents on GMO seeds. Monsanto sues Vernon Bowman for patent infringement when GMO seeds contaminate his non-GMO crops, ruining the crops, and wins.

2012: A controversial study says Roundup and GMO corn cause tumors and organ damage in rats.

2013: President Obama signs the Monsanto Protection Act, forcing the USDA to approve GMO crops even if courts rule against them.

Hundreds of legal cases are still pending against MonSatan, claiming they have manipulated the science, manipulated the regulatory agencies and conned the public to hide and minimize the dangers of GMO crops and herbicides.

Non-GMO and Organic Crops — the Future of Real Food!

Today, non-GMO and organic crops are more important than ever before! The difference between healthy, natural crops and GMO’s is far, far greater than it used to be just a few years ago. GMO crops are genetically engineered specifically to survive many times the application of chemicals like MonSatan’s Roundup and glyphosate. Normal plants would just die from all those toxic chemicals. Why do they do this? Because MonSatan and Friends have been reaping huge profits from toxic chemicals and pesticides for well over 100 years — that’s always been their real business!

Making GMO crops so resistant to toxic chemicals that would kill conventional crops really only does one thing regardless of the hype — it sells more pesticides and herbicides. Some of MonSatan’s most profitable chemicals were originally part of chemical weapons in World War II. Now they want to sell them again to stop the super-weeds that they created with their chemicals to begin with. The chemical 2,4-D has been linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, lowered sperm counts, liver disease, Parkinson’s disease and many other adverse effects, and is one of the largest sources of dioxins in our environment. Dioxins are highly toxic and build up in your body and the environment over time.

Monsanto’s real purpose for inventing GMO’s was to increase sales of their most profit able items — the chemical fertilizers and pesticides that GMO’s are dependent on. But Mother Nature had something to say else about this and created weeds resistant to MonSatan’s Roundup and glyphosate. So MonSatan just re-engineered their GMO crops so that they could now withstand 3 times the levels of Roundup and glyphosate as they did before…which clearly is only a temporary fix. Soon they’ll need to be six times more resistant to chemicals, and then — who knows!

Our dependence on MonSatan’s GMO crops is just what MonSatan was hoping for. But now that is actually destroying the genetic diversity of our farms. It is also destroying the soil which is now no longer truly alive (with living bacterial organisms that have a lot to do with a plant’s nutritional uptake). This is also creating the super weeds that MonSatan cannot easily kill, resulting in more Roundup and glyphosate spraying. This has gotten so out of hand that it can actually be more profitable today to be an organic farmer an NOT grow any GMO crops at all — which were supposed to produce higher yields and profits for farmers, though that’s not how things turned out!

What actually is happening today is that GMO’s are destroying both our health and, ultimately, our entire food-delivery system — in the name of profit for the companies that engineer GMO’s. They pull every trick in the book to fool you and the rest of the world into believing short-term, heavily biased studies and outright lies.

Organic and non-GMO food are now the last defenses we have against this insanity. Please make a commitment to eat only fresh, raw, organic or non-GMO whole foods. You’ll soon discover that it’s both cheaper and healthier to eat when you consider all the real costs and the health consequences of a toxic GMO diet.

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Whatever You Think About Monsanto & Friends, it’s Worse — GMO’s are an Attack on Life Itself!

10 Scientific Studies that Prove GMO Food is Harmful to Your Health

Robert Ross

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July 11, 2016

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10 Scientific Studies that Prove GMO Food is Harmful to Your Health

The truth is that we just don’t know enough about GMO food to say its safe to eat — or even for feeding to farm animals! After all, farming has been around for several thousand years — GMO’s about 20 years (that’s just “twenty,” not twenty thousand).

Even if the science on GMO food was unbiased instead of bought and paid for by Monsanto and friends, it just isn’t possible that they’ve tested all the possible genetic combinations on a big enough sample size or over a long enough time period to be able to accurately claim they’re harmless. And in fact, it appears they’re not!

On the contrary, lots of research now shows that GMO food and their associated fertilizers and pesticides (like glyphosate) are not safe for human consumption. Many more are coming out every year — while simultaneously flaws and deceptions in pro-GMO research are being exposed. It seems that pro-GMO research is more often than not bought and paid for by Monsanto and friends.

By slipping it into our food without our knowledge, without any indication that there are genetically modified organisms in our food, we are now unwittingly part of a massive experiment. The FDA [often run by former Monsanto executives -ed.] has said that genetically modified organisms are not much different from regular food…. The problem is this … biotechnology allows us to do is to take this organis, and move it horizontally into a totally unrelated species …. to switch genes from one to the other without regard to the biological constraints. It’s very very bad science.” – Geneticist David Suzuki

Whenever someone says that GMOs are 100% safe they just have not done thorough research. In actuality, there is no reason for GMOs to be approved as safe for either people or animals. It’s really just a huge experiment that should have been confined to a sealed underground lab.

More importantly, we now realize that GMO’s actually cost farmers more than non-GMO or organic crops. We could easily feed the whole planet with organic, non-GMO crops for less than GMOs, especially when you consider the costs associated with the side effects of GMO farming — ruining the land for other crops, genetic drift destroying nearby farms, genetic abnormalities in farm animals and much more.

These studies have had a lot of controversy after the original article was initially published by Collective Evolution. However, the points they make are often very technical or picking at minor discrepancies rather than looking at the bigger picture. But my main points are still the most valid — that GMO food has never been adequately tested to prove they are safe for people, animals or the environment — nor has anyone been able to justify their increased costs for farmers over non-GMOs and organic food. These facts are still the overwhelming truths!

1. Multiple GMO Toxins In Maternal & Fetal Blood

Research from Canada has found pesticides associated with GMOs in women’s blood. They also found Monsanto’s Bt toxin. The study is from the Journal Reproductive Toxicology in 2011. You can read the FULL study here.

“Given the potential toxicity of these environmental pollutants and the fragility of the fetus, more studies are needed, particularly those using the placental transfer approach. Thus, our present results will provide baseline data for future studies exploring a new area of research relating to nutrition, toxicology and reproduction in women. Today, obstetric-gynecological disorders that are associated with environmental chemicals are not known.” (1)

2. DNA From GMO Crops Can Be Transferred to Humans

A study in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) shows that DNA fragments from food carry complete genes that get in your circulatory system through an unknown mechanism.(2) The study was based on analysis of over 1,000 human samples from 4 independent studies. This still doesn’t mean that GMOs can enter our cells but it’s definitely a possibility. PLOS is an open access, well respected peer-reviewed scientific journal.

“Our bloodstream is considered to be an environment well separated from the outside world and the digestive tract. According to the standard paradigm large macromolecules consumed with food cannot pass directly to the circulatory system. During digestion proteins and DNA are thought to be degraded into small constituents, amino acids and nucleic acids, respectively, and then absorbed by a complex active process and distributed to various parts of the body through the circulation system. Here, based on the analysis of over 1,000 human samples from four independent studies, we report evidence that meal-derived DNA fragments which are large enough to carry complete genes can avoid degradation and through an unknown mechanism enter the human circulation system.” (2)

3. GMOs Linked to Gluten Disorders Affecting 18 Million Americans

This study is from the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), and uses data from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency, as well as several medical journal reviews and other independent research. (3)(4) The authors relate GMOs to five conditions that may trigger or exacerbate gluten disorders including Celiac Disease. The Institute for Responsible technology is a worldwide leader GMO foods education on health, the environment, agriculture and more.

Intestinal permeability
Imbalanced gut bacteria
Immune activation and allergic response
Impaired digestion
Damage to the intestinal wall

4. Study Links GMO Corn to Rat Tumors

In a significant study that was later retracted, researchers examined the effects of GMOs treated with Monsanto Roundup herbicide. This was strange because the journal was a well known peer reviewed scientific journal. Just to get this published in the first place it had to go through a rigorous scientific review. But, it looked very bad for the big agrochemical companies like Monsanto so …

NOTE: hundreds of scientists around the world have condemned the retraction of this study. The correlation between GMOs and tumors found in the study can’t be denied. Something happened. Read the commentary from the original researchers here.

See Food and Chemical Toxicology, “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize,” Gilles-Eric Seralini, France’s Caen University, November 2012. (5)

5. Glyphosate Induces Breast Cancer Growth via Estrogen Receptors

A study in the US National Library of Medicine (4) and the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology showed glyphosate’s potential to be an endocrine disruptor. Endocrine disruptors can interfere with the hormone system in mammals causing developmental disorders, birth defects and cancer tumors. Researchers found that Monsanto roundup is an “xenoestrogen” — a foreign estrogen that mimics real estrogen. — causing an increased risk of various cancers, early onset of puberty, thyroid issues, infertility and more. (6)

Glyphosate exerted proliferative effects only in human hormone-dependent breast cancer. We found that glyphosate exhibited a weaker estrogenic activity than estradiol. Furthermore, this study demonstrated the additive estrogenic effects of glyphosate and genisein which implied that the use of contaminated soybean products as dietary supplements may pose a risk of breast cancer because of their potential additive estrogenicity. (6)

6. Glyphosate and Birth Defects

This comprehensive research review shows that European regulators have known since 2002 that Monsanto’s glyphosate causes birth defects. Regulators misled the public about glyphosate’s safety and told everyone that there was no evidence to suggest that glyphosate causes birth defects. (7)

Our examination of the evidence leads us to the conclusion that the current approval of glyphosate and Roundup is deeply flawed and unreliable. In this report, we examine the industry studies and regulatory documents that led to the approval of glyphosate. We show that industry and regulators knew as long ago as the 1980s and 1990s that glyphosate causes malformation – but that this information was not made public. We demonstrate how EU regulators reasoned their way from clear evidence of glyphosate’s teratogenicity in industry’s own studies to a conclusion that minimized these findings in the EU Commission’s final review report (7)

Multiple scientific literature shows serious health hazards posed by glyphosate
Monsanto & friends has known since the 1980′s that glyphosate causes malformations
Industry has known since 1993 that these effects could also occur at lower doses
The German government has known since 1998 that glyphosate causes malformations
The EU Commission knew in 1999 that glyphosate causes malformations
The EU Commission has known since 2002 that glyphosate causes malformations. This was also when final review for the approval of glyphosate was published

Another study published by the American Chemical Society, from the university of Buenos Aires, Argentina also showed that Glyphosate can cause abnormalities:

The direct effect of glyphosate on early mechanisms of morphogenesis in vertebrate embryos opens concerns about the clinical findings from human offspring in populations exposed to glyphosate in agricultural fields (8)

7. Study Links Glyphosate to Autism, Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s

When you consume glyphosate you are altering your body’s biochemistry — because it’s completely unnatural! When your body absorbs Glyphosate it creates CYP enzymes that are responsible for detoxifying xenobiotics in the body — such as the chemicals found in pesticides, drugs and carcinogens. Glyphosate inhibits these critical CYP enzymes. So humans exposed to glyphosate do not have the necessary signalling of the neurotransmitter serotonin, associated with weight gain, depression and Alzheimer’s disease. (9)

Monsanto Roundup is an “xenoestrogen,” a “foreign estrogen” that is nothing at all like the real estrogen in your body. This can cause an increased risk of various cancers, early onset of puberty, thyroid issues, infertility and more.

8. Chronically Sick People Have Higher Glyphosate Levels

A German study concludes that Glyphosate in urine and animal tissues is a major concern even at low concentrations.

Environmentalists, veterinarians, medical doctors and scientists … have raised increasing alarms about the danger of glyphosate in the animal and human food chain as well as the environment. The fact that glyphosate has been found in animals and humans is of great concern. In search for the causes of serious diseases amongst entire herds of animals in northern Germany, especially cattle, glyphosate has repeatedly been detected in the urine, feces, milk and feed of the animals. Even more alarming, glyphosate was detected in the urine of the farmers. (10)

9. GMO Feed Linked to Severe Stomach Inflammation & Enlarged Uteri in Pigs

A study published in the peer reviewed journal Organic Systems discusses the effects of a GMO feed on pigs. (11) Scientists fed pigs a mix of GMO soy and corn for about 23 weeks The GMOs were associated with gastric and uterine abnormalities in pigs. Pigs eating GMOs also had a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation. Because people and pigs share a similar gastrointestinal tract, this is a major cause for concern.

10. GMO testing is not adequate to ensure safety. (12)(13)(14)

The first guidelines to regulate GMO were created with ZERO attention to food safety. The Statement of Policy from the Food and Drug Administration that said GMOs were “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), were created while guidelines in Europe said safety evaluation should be based on “substantial equivalence,” However, since 2003 the EU agencies for food safety found that despite their guidelines, the risk assessment of GMOs have not been followed. (12) (15) So, if anybody ever tells you that GMOs are completely safe, don’t believe them! We just don’t know enough about GMOs to be able to make such a definitive statement — while there is now a lot of evidence that says they’re not safe at all.

References:

(1) https://www.uclm.es/Actividades/repositorio/pdf/doc_3721_4666.pdf

(2) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0069805

(3) http://rt.com/usa/gmo-gluten-sensitivity-trigger-343/

(4) http://responsibletechnology.org/media/images/content/Press_Release_Gluten_11_25.pdf

(5) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637

(6) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23756170

(7) http://earthopensource.org/files/pdfs/Roundup-and-birth-defects/RoundupandBirthDefectsv5.pdf

(8) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/tx1001749

(9) http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416

(10) http://omicsonline.org/open-access/detection-of-glyphosate-residues-in-animals-and-humans-2161-0525.1000210.pdf

(11) http://www.organic-systems.org/journal/81/8106.pdf

(12) http://static.aboca.com/www.aboca.com/files/attach/news/risk_assessment_of_genetically_modified_crops_for_nutrition.pdf

(13) Reese W, Schubert D. Safety testing and regulation of genetically engineered foods. Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev. 2004;21:299–324

(14) Schubert D. A different perspective on GM food. Nat Biotechnol. 2002;20:969–969.

(15) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19146501

Also read:

Why We Really Don’t Need GMO Foods

How to Buy an Alkaline Mineral Water Ionizer

Robert Ross

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June 12, 2016

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How to Buy an Alkaline Mineral Water Ionizer

Here are some of the more important specifications to consider when deciding which Life water ionizer is best for you:

The number of plates with which the water will have contact inside the unit — The more contact, the better the results. I recommend at least 7 or 9 plates.
The plate design. Life Ionizers optional MESH Technology creates more plate surface area while not requiring a bigger and thus less compact unit.
The power system: Life Ionizers exclusive SMPS Power System is the same power unit that is used on HDTV’s and will provide longer, more consistent power over the life of the unit.
Optional UV Light system: Life Ionizers’ exclusive UV Light Technology furthers the filtration effects on public water supplies. UV light kills bacteria as the water passes around the light inside the unit.
pH & ORP levels: Please note that your specific pH & ORP levels will depend on the original water source and the level at which you set the unit. The ratings in this comparison are based on the same water source.
The date the company started: Water ionizer technology is constantly changing. Life’s 20 years of experience puts them on top of the latest technologies for making the best ionizers on the market.

Obesity has become an American obsession, and there is no shortage of self-styled experts offering weight loss solutions. None of the traditional weight loss programs address the root cause of obesity. The culprit, according to Dr. Robert O. Young, author of The pH Miracle for Weight Loss, is not calories, fats, carbohydrates, or laziness, it’s excess acidity. The body retains fat as a protection against the overproduction of acids caused by the Standard American Diet. The secret to weight loss, says Dr. Young, is to decrease the body’s acidity by eating fresh, live alkaline-forming foods and drinking ionized alkaline water. This will balance your body’s pH, the measure of acidity.

Uses For Acid Water

Never drink the acid water produced by a water ionizer. However, it has certain characteristics that make it useful. Acid water has the ability to kill bacteria on contact. It can be used on the skin and hair, since both are slightly acidic. It can be used as a skin astringent to tighten and cleanse. Acid water can also be used on house plants since they thrive on water that is slightly acid.

Skin Care
- Natural astringent for improving complexions. Improves smoothness and elasticity of the skin. It removes skin oil and greasy dirt without harsh chemicals.
- Helps heal cuts, blisters, scrapes.
- Relieves chapped hands and dry, itchy skin.
- Soaking in warm acidic ionized water may improve healing for athletes foot, rashes, nail fungus infections and insect bites.
- Provides excellent relief from poison ivy and poison oak.
- Excellent treatment for acne and eczema.
Hair Care
- Use an a natural hair conditioner. Hair feels great after rinsing in it.
Antiseptic
- Highly antiseptic for cuts, abrasions and wounds
- Use as mouthwash after brushing teeth. Effectively removes plaque from teeth. (Not to be consumed)
Fruits and Veggies
- Wash vegetables, fruits, meats and fish with it to kill bacteria.
Plant Care
- Acid loving plants will thrive
- Helps promote plant and vegetable growth
- Cut flowers last longer
- Reduces fungus on rose bushes

Also See:

The Hidden Mysteries of Water – Beyond Enzymes, pH or ORP!