Raw Food Diet Iodine Deficiency?
If you're vegan or vegetarian, you may want to consider upping your Iodine levels.
Iodine content in food of plant origin is lower in comparison with that of animal origin due to a low iodine concentration in soil. Urinary iodine excretion was assessed in 15 vegans, 31 lacto- and lacto-ovo vegetarians and 35 adults on a mixed diet. Iodine excretion was significantly lower in alternative nutrition groups - 172 µg/l in vegetarians and 78 µg/l in vegans compared to 216 µg/l in subjects on a mixed diet.
One fourth of the vegetarians and 80% of the vegans suffer from iodine deficiency (iodine excretion value below 100 µg/l) compared to 9% in the persons on a mixed nutrition. The results show that under conditions of alternative nutrition, there is a higher prevalence of iodine deficiency, which might be a consequence of exclusive or prevailing consumption of food of plant origin, no intake of fish and other sea products, as well as reduced iodine intake in the form of sea salt.
Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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The article above is from the Global Light Network Newsletter. Glogal Light Network is a source for may alternative products and suppplements including an Iodine supplement "Detoxified Iodine" Based on Edgar Cayce's formulation of Atomidine and through a proprietary process, Detoxified Iodine is 99 percent bio-available. http://www.globallight.net/
Detoxified Iodine:
DETOXIFIED IODINE is totally different from the typical toxic iodine in its denser state sold as an antiseptic, or as iodine tri-chloride (claiming to be atomized), or as added to potassium iodine to make it safer. It is also unlike glandular or prescriptions containing hormones that take over the thyroid’s job, instead of nutritionally building the thyroid to do its own job. Seaweed, seafood, greens and raw sunflower seeds, are good sources for iodine but may not have the levels necessary to support the thyroid fully for good homeostasis in the body.
Detoxified Iodine is extracted from edible seaweed in Japan. It is well known in the industry that Japan produces some of the best Iodine in the world. Once the Iodine is obtained and sent to the US, it is then processed with our proprietary process, which changes the Iodine into Detoxified Iodine. You don’t have to take shot-glasses full of standard Iodine to get improvement. Just take drops of Detoxified Iodine and see the result. You get 200mcg of Iodine absorbed into your body for every drop you take.
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Raw Food Wisdom is Not an affiliate of Global Light Network and receives no compensation for It's recomendationn of GLN as an excellent source for some "very" alternative products, ideas, and information. GLN is worth a visit.
http://www.globallight.net
Friday, November 7, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Solar Energy Papaya Bread Recipe
Papaya (Carica papaya) must certainly be considered as a "Healing" fruit. Beyond its pleasant taste similar to pineapple and peach but less acid, Papaya has many medicinal properties and is famed for its effect on the digestive process.
Raw Food Enzymes? The Papaya is famous for Papain an enzyme which aids digestion and is used in topical ointments for skin care throughout the world.
For a quick resource on Papaya see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya Then come back and lets make some Papaya Bread. Solar Baked of course.
This Recipe like the earlier Carrot Bread is from The Natural Foods No-Cook Book by John Tobe (Out of Print)
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PAPAYA BREAD from The Natural Foods No-Cook Book from the 70's
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups whole rye flour
1 small papaya, juice and pulp
Mix the two flours together
Add the remaining ingredients and enough water to make a batter.
Roll out on a floured board and cut into squares or use cookie cutter.
Place in Hot Sun to Dry.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Recipe..No Bake Carrot Bread
No Bake Carrot Bread recipe...
From John H Tobe's "The Natrual Foods No-Cook Book" This book is out of print. A paperback copy is listed at one of the rare book sites for $47. Hardback copies go for $70-$90. So start looking in your local used bookstore. It has over a thousand No-Cook recipes and a No-cook menu plan for 365 days a year.
NO BAKE CARROT BREAD
2 cups wheat flour (or use your imagination...chia seed flour?)
1/4 cup Honey
2/3 cup Carrot Juice
1/3 cup Thick Cream (more imagination?)
Mix the honey, carrot juice, and cream together, and gradually add the flour.
Knead until a nice dough consistency is obtained.
Roll out on a floured board to about 1/4 inch thick
Use the rim of a drinking glass to cut out round shapes from flattened dough or cut into squares as desired.
Place pieces of dough on a tray and place in the refrigerator until dough becomes firm.
From John H Tobe's "The Natrual Foods No-Cook Book" This book is out of print. A paperback copy is listed at one of the rare book sites for $47. Hardback copies go for $70-$90. So start looking in your local used bookstore. It has over a thousand No-Cook recipes and a No-cook menu plan for 365 days a year.
NO BAKE CARROT BREAD
2 cups wheat flour (or use your imagination...chia seed flour?)
1/4 cup Honey
2/3 cup Carrot Juice
1/3 cup Thick Cream (more imagination?)
Mix the honey, carrot juice, and cream together, and gradually add the flour.
Knead until a nice dough consistency is obtained.
Roll out on a floured board to about 1/4 inch thick
Use the rim of a drinking glass to cut out round shapes from flattened dough or cut into squares as desired.
Place pieces of dough on a tray and place in the refrigerator until dough becomes firm.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Irradiated Food is not Raw Food
Your choices for Raw Food are about to be eliminated as the FDA takes the first steps to irradiate all produce in the US see the reprint of an article from NaturalNews...
Reprinted from NaturalNews
http://www.naturalnews.com/
(NaturalNews) The FDA has announced that beginning today, spinach and lettuce sold across the United States may now be secretly irradiated before it reaches grocery store shelves. What's "secret" about it? The FDA previously decided that irradiation warning stickers would not be required on any food items because it would be "too confusing to consumers." (The word IRRADIATION apparently has too many letters to be understood to food buyers.) Thus, irradiated foods will not be labeled as such, and consumers are going to be left in the dark about all this (except for those who actually eat the irradiated food, in which case they will glow in the dark).
The FDA, of course, insists that the levels of irradiation used to kill e.coli will have no effect whatsoever on the nutritional value of the food. This astonishing statement comes from an agency that doesn't believe food has any nutritional value in the first place, so lowering the value to zero by destroying all the phytonutrients does not, in the opinion of the FDA, alter its nutritional value at all. Thus, destroying all the anti-cancer nutrients in a head of broccoli merely brings that broccoli into "compliance" as a non-functional food, according to the FDA.
Radiation, of course, destroys delicate phytochemicals in plants -- the very phytochemicals protecting consumers against cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, inflammation and other diseases. Microwaving broccoli, for example, destroys up to 98% of its anti-cancer nutrients. (The FDA has not yet acknowledged this scientific fact, either.) In a similar way, irradiating food destroys much of its nutritional content, including vitamins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and other delicate protective nutrients that are right now providing the last, desperate nutritional defense against the American diet of meat, milk, fried foods and processed junk.
Irradiating fresh produce will leave the U.S. population is a state of extreme deficiency in protective plant-based nutrients.
Does the FDA plan to destroy the health of the U.S. population?
Many people suspect that's what the FDA really wants. A nutritionally-deficient, disease-ridden population would mean a windfall of profits for the FDA's buddies in Big Pharma -- the folks who sell patented medications at monopoly prices. With the food supply destroyed by radiation, ordinary people would have virtually no remaining sources of protective phytonutrients!
In promoting this food radiation policy, the FDA has accomplished what all the terrorists in the world could not: The mass irradiation of the U.S. food supply -- much like setting off a dirty bomb over the nation's farms (but with less radiation). This destruction of the nutritional value of the food supply is a far greater threat to the health of the U.S. population than any terrorist event, including 9/11. And yet it is being done by our own people, TO our own people, by a lawless agency that answers to no one. FDA officials are not voted into office by the People; they are appointed by politicians. They answer to no one, they refuse to follow federal law, and they operate as tyrants over a quarter of the U.S. economy.
And now they have taken it upon themselves to destroy the national food supply.
We should be more than just alarmed -- we should be outraged! The FDA has committed an act of war against the People. With this decision, the FDA has firmly positioned itself as an enemy of the People, and a bringer of death and disease to the nation. Why are our elected representatives in Washington allowing this madness?
Think about this: If the FDA has its way:
• All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed
• All your children will be vaccinated
• All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals
• All your free speech about health will be suppressed
• All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed
• Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime!
Today it's spinach and lettuce; tomorrow it's all fresh produce
Don't think the FDA will stop with spinach and lettuce, either. They're already talking about irradiating tomatoes, peppers and onions. Before long, radiation could become mandatory for ALL fresh produce, and all the fresh fruits and vegetables that are supposed to contain health-protecting nutrients will be transformed into sterile, inert plant mass with no health benefits at all. (Brilliant scam, huh?)
This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that.
He who controls the food controls the People.
He who destroys the food can profit from the People's sickness.
The FDA's crimes against humanity
In pushing this radiation agenda, the FDA is committing a crime against humanity -- a nutritional atrocity that violates fundamental human rights. And yet the FDA's top decision makers continue to operate with zero oversight and zero accountability. They make decisions in a corporate-sponsored vacuum, absent any input from reasonable, health-conscious consumers or scientists. And because they have been granted tyrannical powers by Congress, the FDA operates above the law.
It is not subject to any laws whatsoever; not even the U.S. Constitution which is supposed to protect the People's right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" (as stated in the Declaration of Independence).
The mass irradiation of the food supply is a violation of the "Life" part of that phrase, wouldn't you agree? If we can no longer buy nourishing foods with their nutrients intact, then we are all doomed to degenerative disease and death... but not before paying out our life savings to doctors, drug companies and hospitals. That's the evil genius of the food irradiation plot: It kills you slowly, at just the right pace to drain your bank account before you expire from malnutrition.
I truly believe this irradiation of the food supply is the beginning of the end of America. No nation can survive the destruction of its food supply. The FDA is dooming America to a slow, painful, medicated death. In a generation, this nation will be lost, destroyed from within by short-sighted tyrants who violated nature and left the People to rot.
What you can do right now to fight this latest transgression by the FDA
For starters, you can:
1) Grow your own food. A little gardening is good. Grow whatever you can, even if it's just a few kitchen herbs.
2) Buy your food at farmer's markets, coops and CSAs. See http://www.localharvest.org/csa
3) Ask your grocery store if they are buying irradiated spinach. If they don't know, demand they find out!
4) Raise hell with your Senators and Congresspeople, demanding they pass new laws protecting consumers from the FDA and its plot to destroy the nutritional value of the food supply.
Also, listen to two podcasts I've posted on this topic. The first was recorded several months ago, where I publicly predicted the FDA would do exactly what we're seeing right now. Listen to that podcast here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...
The second podcast was just posted today. I recorded it right before writing this article. It goes into much greater detail about the FDA's plot to destroy the health of the U.S. population. You can listen to that here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...
Finally, don't stand for this food supply madness! Raise your voice. Write your local paper, call your representatives in Washington and tell them you strongly oppose the irradiation of the food supply. Teach people about phytonutrients. And stay tuned to NaturalNews as we continue to cover this important story.
The FDA has gone mad. Criminally mad. It is an agency that will literally kill you if given the chance, and it is up to all of us to stop this madness before we lose our health, our children and our very nation.
Reprinted from NaturalNews
http://www.naturalnews.com/
(NaturalNews) The FDA has announced that beginning today, spinach and lettuce sold across the United States may now be secretly irradiated before it reaches grocery store shelves. What's "secret" about it? The FDA previously decided that irradiation warning stickers would not be required on any food items because it would be "too confusing to consumers." (The word IRRADIATION apparently has too many letters to be understood to food buyers.) Thus, irradiated foods will not be labeled as such, and consumers are going to be left in the dark about all this (except for those who actually eat the irradiated food, in which case they will glow in the dark).
The FDA, of course, insists that the levels of irradiation used to kill e.coli will have no effect whatsoever on the nutritional value of the food. This astonishing statement comes from an agency that doesn't believe food has any nutritional value in the first place, so lowering the value to zero by destroying all the phytonutrients does not, in the opinion of the FDA, alter its nutritional value at all. Thus, destroying all the anti-cancer nutrients in a head of broccoli merely brings that broccoli into "compliance" as a non-functional food, according to the FDA.
Radiation, of course, destroys delicate phytochemicals in plants -- the very phytochemicals protecting consumers against cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, inflammation and other diseases. Microwaving broccoli, for example, destroys up to 98% of its anti-cancer nutrients. (The FDA has not yet acknowledged this scientific fact, either.) In a similar way, irradiating food destroys much of its nutritional content, including vitamins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and other delicate protective nutrients that are right now providing the last, desperate nutritional defense against the American diet of meat, milk, fried foods and processed junk.
Irradiating fresh produce will leave the U.S. population is a state of extreme deficiency in protective plant-based nutrients.
Does the FDA plan to destroy the health of the U.S. population?
Many people suspect that's what the FDA really wants. A nutritionally-deficient, disease-ridden population would mean a windfall of profits for the FDA's buddies in Big Pharma -- the folks who sell patented medications at monopoly prices. With the food supply destroyed by radiation, ordinary people would have virtually no remaining sources of protective phytonutrients!
In promoting this food radiation policy, the FDA has accomplished what all the terrorists in the world could not: The mass irradiation of the U.S. food supply -- much like setting off a dirty bomb over the nation's farms (but with less radiation). This destruction of the nutritional value of the food supply is a far greater threat to the health of the U.S. population than any terrorist event, including 9/11. And yet it is being done by our own people, TO our own people, by a lawless agency that answers to no one. FDA officials are not voted into office by the People; they are appointed by politicians. They answer to no one, they refuse to follow federal law, and they operate as tyrants over a quarter of the U.S. economy.
And now they have taken it upon themselves to destroy the national food supply.
We should be more than just alarmed -- we should be outraged! The FDA has committed an act of war against the People. With this decision, the FDA has firmly positioned itself as an enemy of the People, and a bringer of death and disease to the nation. Why are our elected representatives in Washington allowing this madness?
Think about this: If the FDA has its way:
• All your food will be irradiated, pasteurized or killed
• All your children will be vaccinated
• All your medicine will be based on pharmaceuticals
• All your free speech about health will be suppressed
• All informative labeling on food and supplements will be outlawed
• Growing and selling non-irradiated garden vegetables will become a crime!
Today it's spinach and lettuce; tomorrow it's all fresh produce
Don't think the FDA will stop with spinach and lettuce, either. They're already talking about irradiating tomatoes, peppers and onions. Before long, radiation could become mandatory for ALL fresh produce, and all the fresh fruits and vegetables that are supposed to contain health-protecting nutrients will be transformed into sterile, inert plant mass with no health benefits at all. (Brilliant scam, huh?)
This is by design. I believe the FDA wants the American public to be sickened and diseased. Why else would they ban Free Speech about healing foods like cherries, broccoli and garlic? Why would they outlaw the selling of herbs and nutritional supplements that claim to treat and prevent disease? The FDA wants you to be sick, enslaved and medicated, and irradiating the food supply is the quickest way to accomplish that.
He who controls the food controls the People.
He who destroys the food can profit from the People's sickness.
The FDA's crimes against humanity
In pushing this radiation agenda, the FDA is committing a crime against humanity -- a nutritional atrocity that violates fundamental human rights. And yet the FDA's top decision makers continue to operate with zero oversight and zero accountability. They make decisions in a corporate-sponsored vacuum, absent any input from reasonable, health-conscious consumers or scientists. And because they have been granted tyrannical powers by Congress, the FDA operates above the law.
It is not subject to any laws whatsoever; not even the U.S. Constitution which is supposed to protect the People's right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" (as stated in the Declaration of Independence).
The mass irradiation of the food supply is a violation of the "Life" part of that phrase, wouldn't you agree? If we can no longer buy nourishing foods with their nutrients intact, then we are all doomed to degenerative disease and death... but not before paying out our life savings to doctors, drug companies and hospitals. That's the evil genius of the food irradiation plot: It kills you slowly, at just the right pace to drain your bank account before you expire from malnutrition.
I truly believe this irradiation of the food supply is the beginning of the end of America. No nation can survive the destruction of its food supply. The FDA is dooming America to a slow, painful, medicated death. In a generation, this nation will be lost, destroyed from within by short-sighted tyrants who violated nature and left the People to rot.
What you can do right now to fight this latest transgression by the FDA
For starters, you can:
1) Grow your own food. A little gardening is good. Grow whatever you can, even if it's just a few kitchen herbs.
2) Buy your food at farmer's markets, coops and CSAs. See http://www.localharvest.org/csa
3) Ask your grocery store if they are buying irradiated spinach. If they don't know, demand they find out!
4) Raise hell with your Senators and Congresspeople, demanding they pass new laws protecting consumers from the FDA and its plot to destroy the nutritional value of the food supply.
Also, listen to two podcasts I've posted on this topic. The first was recorded several months ago, where I publicly predicted the FDA would do exactly what we're seeing right now. Listen to that podcast here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...
The second podcast was just posted today. I recorded it right before writing this article. It goes into much greater detail about the FDA's plot to destroy the health of the U.S. population. You can listen to that here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcas...
Finally, don't stand for this food supply madness! Raise your voice. Write your local paper, call your representatives in Washington and tell them you strongly oppose the irradiation of the food supply. Teach people about phytonutrients. And stay tuned to NaturalNews as we continue to cover this important story.
The FDA has gone mad. Criminally mad. It is an agency that will literally kill you if given the chance, and it is up to all of us to stop this madness before we lose our health, our children and our very nation.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Chia Seeds...more Ultimate Raw Foods
Chia Seeds are truly a Raw Food Diet Superstar.
Chia Seeds have long been known as a historical "SuperFood"
The Indians of the southwest and Mexico used this tiny little seed as a staple food. Chia is known as the "running food," Chia Seeds are used as a high-energy endurance food and Chia Seed use has been recorded as far back as the ancient Aztecs.
All it took was for Dr. Oz to appear on the Oprah show and recommend Chia seeds and now Chia Seeds are Hot!...and they can be expensive. The Dr. Oz seeds are pretty pricy. Be sure and read to the end and there will be some less expensive sources.
The big controversy seems to be which type of Chia Seed is the best, White or Black?
SALBA a Canadian importer of White Chia seeds claims that all of the human nutritional studies show that White Chia seeds have the highest nutrient content. It seems Salba funded those studies.
Others claim that all Chia seeds are the same and variations of nutrients are a function of growing conditions and climate.
Recently I received a promotional brochure from NorthStar Nutritionists promoting the Salba brand of White Chia Seeds. First, in my opinion NorthStar Nutritionals are the kings of product hype. However, upon further research I am convinced that Chia Seeds are a fantastic addition to the raw food diet...In fact Chia Seeds may be the single most nutritious addition to a raw food diet.
Some interesting Salba Brand (white chia seeds) claims:
6 TIMES MORE CALCIUM THAN MILK
15 TIMES MORE MAGNESIUM THAN MILK
3 TIMES MORE ANTIOXIDANTS THAN FRESH BLUEBERRIES
MORE PROTEIN THAN SOY
I purchased Salba at my local discount vitamin retailer for about $24.00 for 16oz. A special offer because the normal bottle holds 12oz.
A new favorite source for Raw Food information and products has White Chia Seeds for less than $13 for a pound bag. They also have it in 5lb bags which brings the cost per pound even lower. Click here Everything you Need to Learn Raw and Live Raw
At some point I may switch to the considerably lower priced black Chia Seeds but I will always have Chia Seeds as a daily Ultimate Raw SuperFood.
Chia Seeds have long been known as a historical "SuperFood"
The Indians of the southwest and Mexico used this tiny little seed as a staple food. Chia is known as the "running food," Chia Seeds are used as a high-energy endurance food and Chia Seed use has been recorded as far back as the ancient Aztecs.
All it took was for Dr. Oz to appear on the Oprah show and recommend Chia seeds and now Chia Seeds are Hot!...and they can be expensive. The Dr. Oz seeds are pretty pricy. Be sure and read to the end and there will be some less expensive sources.
The big controversy seems to be which type of Chia Seed is the best, White or Black?
SALBA a Canadian importer of White Chia seeds claims that all of the human nutritional studies show that White Chia seeds have the highest nutrient content. It seems Salba funded those studies.
Others claim that all Chia seeds are the same and variations of nutrients are a function of growing conditions and climate.
Recently I received a promotional brochure from NorthStar Nutritionists promoting the Salba brand of White Chia Seeds. First, in my opinion NorthStar Nutritionals are the kings of product hype. However, upon further research I am convinced that Chia Seeds are a fantastic addition to the raw food diet...In fact Chia Seeds may be the single most nutritious addition to a raw food diet.
Some interesting Salba Brand (white chia seeds) claims:
6 TIMES MORE CALCIUM THAN MILK
15 TIMES MORE MAGNESIUM THAN MILK
3 TIMES MORE ANTIOXIDANTS THAN FRESH BLUEBERRIES
MORE PROTEIN THAN SOY
I purchased Salba at my local discount vitamin retailer for about $24.00 for 16oz. A special offer because the normal bottle holds 12oz.
A new favorite source for Raw Food information and products has White Chia Seeds for less than $13 for a pound bag. They also have it in 5lb bags which brings the cost per pound even lower. Click here Everything you Need to Learn Raw and Live Raw
At some point I may switch to the considerably lower priced black Chia Seeds but I will always have Chia Seeds as a daily Ultimate Raw SuperFood.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Update on the "Ultimate Raw Food" post
Alternative Healing Update The Ultimate Raw Food may become harder to find...the complete update can be read on Strange Wellness
Next post will be The Ultimate Raw Food II
Next post will be The Ultimate Raw Food II
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