Stop subbsidies to the Farming and their Grain monocultures:
Grass fed chicken and cattle, their natural diet, are high in Omega3, re-establishing the healthy ratio of Omega3 to Omega 6. Animal protein is the best source for Selenium, Zinc, D, chromium, DHA, taurine, the full set of essential amino acids, and for B12, which is not found in any other source. All of which are essential for brain health. The opposing thumb allowed us to use rocks and become the first animal to break into the cranial cavity of animals, providing us with the richest source of Omega3 and amino acids. The review of research is showing that the causes of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, bone diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, and even tooth decay is sugar and its close cousin grains, especially refined carbohydrates, and the lack of certain important parts of fish and animals. (1) (6) (16)
Research on present day hunter gathers in Africa whose diet is composed mostly of blood and milk and occasionally meat showed no heart disease or cancer, but when members moved and started consuming other diets, cancer and heart disease developed. Populations in different areas of India were compared. Those eating diets lower in sugars and don’t use refined carbs had very small rates of heart disease and cancer compared to other populations which had adopted refined grains and added sugar. The French have lower levels of cancer and heart disease than Italians. The French diet uses high fat sauces but less carbs compared to the Italian diet which is heavy on pasta and other grains. Research done on the Greenland Inuit tribe showed they consumed large amounts of fat but displayed virtually no cardiovascular disease. The high levels of Omega3 in the food reduced triglycerides in the blood. (6) Even child birth was quick and easy till they changed to a more modern diet.
AVOID sugar, refined carbs (a sugar), excess copper(chocolate), caffeine, and alcohol. All leach minerals from the body. All are things we tend to do in excess when stressed. All have high correlation with mental health illnesses, including depression. Stress causes the secretion of cortisol and also causes loss of volumes of vitally necessary vitamins and minerals.
CORTISOL is a stress hormone which releases amino acids from the muscles, glucose from the liver, and fatty acids into the blood stream to produce a tremendous amount of energy. These are released so they can be available for "Fight or Flight." Since our modern stresses don’t require either, the cortisol remains in the system and causes the release of more cortisol and continues the process of depleting our organs. Sustained elevated stress levels lead to widespread tissue destruction, muscle loss, bone loss, immune system depression and brain shrinkage! 200mg of CAFFEINE increases blood cortisol levels by 30%! EXERCISE is the natural way to use up the cortisol, getting it out of your system. (18)
The AMISH have low levels of Depression, Cancer, and Cardiovascular disease and eat grains, meats, lard, cookies, etc.. BUT they average 14,000 steps daily vs 2000-3000 steps by average American. A farmer planting a field was recorded at 51,000 steps.
Seventh Day Adventists are vegetarians and have excellent health and longevity but they don't smoke, drink alcohol nor coffee and are very health conscious. Mormons with the same restrictions but on a non-vegetarian diet have better health. (5)
EXERCISE lowers insulin, cortisol, and the symptoms of stress and depression. It’s one of the healthiest things you can do to calm stress and feel more able to deal effectively with whatever the day brings. (3)(8)(10) (12)(16)
So, consider grass-fed animals, eggs, and milk, plus vegetables and fruits. A couple of ounces of animal protein with every meal is all that's needed - excess isn’t healthy in any form- and exercise.
CHECK OUT THESE RESOURCES:
(1)Cure Tooth Decay: Heal And Prevent Cavities With Nutrition by Ramiel Nagel
Highly recomend this book
(2)Nutrition and Physical Degeneration [Paperback] Weston A. PriceError! Hyperlink reference not valid. Weston A. Price (Author) (Author), Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (Editor) The original researcher on tooth and jaw diseases and the foods that were involved. Cod Liver Oil helps counteract tooth decay.
(3) http://www.drlwilson.com/
(4) Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith Gorgeous powerfull metaphors, but very angry, so it is difficult and painful to read. The author lives in pain caused by the distruction of her body through veganism and its dependence on grain monocultures.
(5) Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin Salatin is managing to increase his soil by 1" per year
(6) GOOD CALORIES BAD CALORIES by Gary Taubes Great book. Cites a lot different studies, past and present. (7) Neanderthin byRay Audette, Roy Gilchrist
(8)CORTISOLE http://lowcarb4u.blogspot.com/2010/05/cortisol-versus-insulin.html
(9) Salinization - http://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/saliniz.htm
(10) What if Bad Fats Are Actually Good For You? http://www.menshealth.com/health/saturated-fat According to lead study author Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D., ... Insulin's job is to return your blood sugar to normal, but it also signals your body to store fat. As a result, your liver starts converting excess blood sugar to triglycerides, or fat. All of which helps explain why the low-carb dieters in Volek's study had a greater loss of fat in their blood. Restricting carbs keeps insulin levels low, which lowers your internal production of fat and allows more of the fat you do eat to be burned for energy. .. Volek's study, participants who followed the low-fat diet -- which was high in carbs -- also decreased their triglycerides. " The key factor is that they weren't overeating," says Volek. "This allowed the carbohydrates to be used for energy rather than converted to fat." Perhaps this is the most important point of all. If you consistently consume more calories than you burn, and you gain weight, your risk of heart disease will increase
( ) Sepp Holzer's Permaculture - By Sepp Holzer
(11)Saving US grasslands: a bid to turn back the clock on desertification By Judith D. Schwartz, October 2011 http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/1024/Saving-US-grasslands-a-bid-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-desertification
(12) CONQUERING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY THORUGH EXERCISE -Keith Johnsgard
(13) Putting it All Together: The Orthomolecular Nutrition -By Abram Hoffer, MD,phd, Morton Walker, DPM
(14) The Weston A Price Foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/
(16) THE DEPRESSION CURE – Stephen S. Ilardi PHD
(17) ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE FOR EVERYONE by Abram Hoffer, Andrew W. Saul"In the era of wonder drugs, medical schools forgot about nutrition." p.2 "nutritional treatment is effective, free of side effects, and cheap." uses blood and hair tests to determine deficiency
(18) SIX TIPS TO CUT YOUR CORTISOL http://www.womenshealth-naturalsolutions.com/6_tips_to_cut_your_cortisol_production.htm
(19) Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry Carl C. Pfeiffer Ph.D. M.D. (Author)
Pyroluria: b6, zinc, magnesium
PMS - same
Research on prisoners and the vitamins and minerals they are missing
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Follow Your Bliss & Loving the Work You Have
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"Follow Your Bliss" - mythologist Joseph Campbell - "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ." Robert A. Heinlein
http://positivesharing.com/2007/01/how-to-find-a-job-youll-love/
Focus on what you like at work, not on what you don't
when you’re picking a new job, it’s not enough to look at all the things you want to avoid. Partly because there are an infinite number of things to avoid. ... To be happy at work, you also need good things, not just the absence of bad. The best way to find out what you want at work, is to look at what has previously made you love your job.
Ask for what you want
It’s a lot easier to get what you want if you actually ask for it. In your job interviews, let them know that being happy at work matters to you, and tell them what it takes to get you to love work.
It’s true that asking for these things may mean not getting the job, and that’s precisely the point! If that job won’t make you happy, you don’t want it!
Ask yourself: What would I work on for free???
Do it on your free time and see where it leads
http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/
Start a lot of small projects and see which ones grab me. Rather than try to analyze my way to an answer to which opportunity is the best/will make me the most money/will be the most fun, I float a lot of ideas in a lot of places. Some happen, most don’t. The ones that happen are by definition the right ones, and they are always fun to work on. Always.
http://ask.metafilter.com/197798/How-do-you-find-what-you-love-doing
Another Perspective:
I think it is more important to "love what you find." I am not living where I thought I would live, I am not working in the field I thought I would, and I am not with the person I thought I would be... but, I love every aspect of my life because I have discovered how to love my job, how to love my city and ultimately how to love my partner (who is WAY better for me than the person I thought I should be with). It's all about perspective... in my opinion.
Another
I began opening my heart to friends, family, and even work supervisors, asking them what kind of work they thought I was suited for. In quick succession, I received the same response from three different people. It was something that for some reason hadn't occurred to me, but as soon as it was brought to my attention, my inner response was, "Of course! I organised to do some work experience in the field .... I gained education and (unpaid and then paid) experience.
I've found that trying to do something I love for money is a surefire way to make me quit loving it
The top 10 advantages of low-rent living
truly excellent reasons - Freedom
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
nearly all lured onto the rocks(hating the work) by prestige or money.
Similarly, if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.
Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The classic model of dicovery is as follows: you serach for what you know (say a new way to reach India) and find something you didn't know was there (America). ... almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity ... Alexander Fleming was cleaning his laboratory when he found that penicillin mold.... Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools... some of these tools bring us more knowledge. .. it is only the engineer's gusto and love for building of toys and machines that contribute to the augmentation of our knowledge. ... The Economist askes Charles Townes, the alleged inventor of the laser, if he had had retinas on his mind. He had not. He was satisfying this desire to split light beams.. Nor was the computer invented to let you talk to your friends in Siberia..
selection bias
What if everyone that existed was a Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Einstein, Voltaire, Renoir, Shakespeare, Galileo, etc... For instance, if all the most famous painters existed at the same time, many of them would have to be considered mediocre and even bad -depending on the tastes of the day. Which one of them would make the garbage cans, or be the meter maid, the government auditor, the farmer, or the grocer ???? I think someone would really enjoy each of these jobs.. Maybe we really have just settled... I can't think of anything more mind numbing than doing accounting, and I know people who absolutely love accounting.
"Follow Your Bliss" - mythologist Joseph Campbell - "If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ." Robert A. Heinlein
http://positivesharing.com/2007/01/how-to-find-a-job-youll-love/
Focus on what you like at work, not on what you don't
when you’re picking a new job, it’s not enough to look at all the things you want to avoid. Partly because there are an infinite number of things to avoid. ... To be happy at work, you also need good things, not just the absence of bad. The best way to find out what you want at work, is to look at what has previously made you love your job.
Ask for what you want
It’s a lot easier to get what you want if you actually ask for it. In your job interviews, let them know that being happy at work matters to you, and tell them what it takes to get you to love work.
It’s true that asking for these things may mean not getting the job, and that’s precisely the point! If that job won’t make you happy, you don’t want it!
Ask yourself: What would I work on for free???
Do it on your free time and see where it leads
http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/my-lazy-life/
Start a lot of small projects and see which ones grab me. Rather than try to analyze my way to an answer to which opportunity is the best/will make me the most money/will be the most fun, I float a lot of ideas in a lot of places. Some happen, most don’t. The ones that happen are by definition the right ones, and they are always fun to work on. Always.
http://ask.metafilter.com/197798/How-do-you-find-what-you-love-doing
Another Perspective:
I think it is more important to "love what you find." I am not living where I thought I would live, I am not working in the field I thought I would, and I am not with the person I thought I would be... but, I love every aspect of my life because I have discovered how to love my job, how to love my city and ultimately how to love my partner (who is WAY better for me than the person I thought I should be with). It's all about perspective... in my opinion.
Another
I began opening my heart to friends, family, and even work supervisors, asking them what kind of work they thought I was suited for. In quick succession, I received the same response from three different people. It was something that for some reason hadn't occurred to me, but as soon as it was brought to my attention, my inner response was, "Of course! I organised to do some work experience in the field .... I gained education and (unpaid and then paid) experience.
I've found that trying to do something I love for money is a surefire way to make me quit loving it
The top 10 advantages of low-rent living
truly excellent reasons - Freedom
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
nearly all lured onto the rocks(hating the work) by prestige or money.
Similarly, if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.
Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate.
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The classic model of dicovery is as follows: you serach for what you know (say a new way to reach India) and find something you didn't know was there (America). ... almost everything of the moment is the product of serendipity ... Alexander Fleming was cleaning his laboratory when he found that penicillin mold.... Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools... some of these tools bring us more knowledge. .. it is only the engineer's gusto and love for building of toys and machines that contribute to the augmentation of our knowledge. ... The Economist askes Charles Townes, the alleged inventor of the laser, if he had had retinas on his mind. He had not. He was satisfying this desire to split light beams.. Nor was the computer invented to let you talk to your friends in Siberia..
selection bias
What if everyone that existed was a Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gates, Einstein, Voltaire, Renoir, Shakespeare, Galileo, etc... For instance, if all the most famous painters existed at the same time, many of them would have to be considered mediocre and even bad -depending on the tastes of the day. Which one of them would make the garbage cans, or be the meter maid, the government auditor, the farmer, or the grocer ???? I think someone would really enjoy each of these jobs.. Maybe we really have just settled... I can't think of anything more mind numbing than doing accounting, and I know people who absolutely love accounting.