FamineFoodsForbidden:

APhilosophyforHealththroughDiet
by

AindriasHirt
Ph.D.Candidate,UniversityofOtago

Introduction
AnumberofpeoplehaveaskedmetowriteasimplepaperconcerningwhyIapparentlylost30 poundsoffatwithouteffort.Thispaperistheresult.Itsnotfancy,writteninPoMoBabble,ora registerthatfewacademicsorpriestsunderstand,butinasimple,straightforward,directway. ThatdoesntmeanthattheresnotagooddealofresearchorunderstandinginwhatImabout to say, its just that Ive noticed that people tend to use logic to justify their emotions. Ive noticed this particularly in academia (18 years of tertiary education can do that to you). It soundslikeanoxymoron,butsmartpeopleareprettystupid.Thewordstupiddoesntmean unintelligent;itmeansunawareofyoursurroundings:inastupor.Wealldothistosomeextent. We are comfortable with the things that surround us. We like them. Any change in our environmentorthewaythatweorganizeourworldcausesusmilddistress.Yet,ourbehaviour does not make any sense to someone who has a more distant perspective. This, then, is the purpose of this little manual: to give a headoutofthesand, larger perspective to our eating habitsinoursocietytoday. Inessence,Ivefoundoutthatthemajorityofproblemsthatwearefacingwithregardtodiet andhealthinourlivestodayisduetotheslowmovingchangeawayfromthedietthatwewere designed to eat by nature and moving toward food that is convenient to store. We developed thesestoragetechniquesinNorthernEuropetogiveussomethingtoeatduringthefamineof winter. To do this, weve had to change the very nature of the food so that it wont decay. Unfortunately,thistransmogrification(asCalvinandHobbeswouldsay)altersyourbodyafter youingestit.Youarewhatyoueat.Moresimply,ifyoupreservecucumbersbyputtingthemina chemicalbathandtheneatthem,youpickleyourself.Theresultisfarfromhumorous.Incidence ofcancer,CeliacDisease,IrritableBowelSyndrome,CrohnsDisease,AcidReflux,andespecially obesity etc. are exploding out of control, particularly where people eat famine food. The good news is that the problem is clearly identifiable and easily eliminated. Really; its easy. The problem is that you have to change the way that you think and eat in order to regain your health.Youhavetoreorganizeyourheadandunderstandthattheveryfoodthatcomfortsyou becauseitisfamiliarisunnaturalandshouldntbefamiliaratall.

Background
There are many ways to change the way that you think. Many would think that schooling is important. While thats true in many cases, its not true here. Tertiary education is not concernedwithexploration,butbygivingstudentsthetoolstodotheirownsearchingintheir field of study when working. Ive found that, while trying to improve oneself through formal educationisimportant,thegreatestbenefitisactuallytravel.Whenyouliveinaforeignculture forawhile,yourmindbecomesaccustomedtohowpeoplethinkinthatplace.Whenyoucome home,peopleseemabitoff.Younoticethattheydooddthings.Forexample,crosswalklaws inCanadakillaboutathousandpeopleayear.Therearesomanypeoplewhodieatcrosswalks thattheaverageCanadianknowsthatchildrenandoldpeoplearemostlikelytobekilledthere. TheaveragepersonintheUnitedStatesdoesnotknowthis.Theydontknowthisbecauseno one dies at crosswalks or when crossing the road. Why is this? The answer is obvious. Unfortunately, the solution would infuriate a Canadian. Heres another example: thousands of people die in the United States from handguns. Preventing this is simple. Unfortunately, the solutionwouldinfuriateaU.S.citizen.Therearemany,manymoreexamples.Theproblemwith allofthesolutionsisthattheproblemislinkedtodeepersocialissues.Ifyouchangeonething, theresafloodofrepercussions.Theproblemsarealsotiedtohabitsthatarecomfortable. Irememberreadingasentenceinanoldbookonce.Thatsunusual;younormallyjustgraspan ideaandmoveonquickly.Heresthesentencewhosesourceisnowlosttomypast:Notonly people,butotheranimalsarealsoaffectedbythiscondition.Thesentenceisabitodd.Itdidnt read,Notonlypeople,butanimalsarealsoaffectedbythiscondition.Hmm.Oddthat.Sothere arepeoplewhoareanimals,andotheranimals.Thatmeansthatwereanimals.Whatastriking thought.Wearenttaughttothinkthisway.Sohowdoanimalslive?Howdotheyeat?Ifanimals eataccordingtotheirnature,whatisournatureashumananimals?Howshouldweeat?How dowebehaveasanimals?Dootheranimalshavehabits?Dowehavehabits?Aretheythesame? If we study other animals, can we then see our own habits in them, or can we become aware thatwehavehabitsthathavebecomedestructivebecausetheyaredifferentthanotheranimals habits? How do you break an animal from a destructive habit? How can we break ourselves fromabadhabit?Thefirststepincuringabadhabitisknowingthatthehabitisdestructivein thefirstplace.Thenextstepistrainingtheanimaltochangeitshabits.Thesestepsaredifficult tofollowifyou,yourself,aretheanimal. Let me give you an example of why the first step of knowing that a habit is destructive is difficulttobecomeknowntous.Imetagirlandtookheroutonadate.Itstartedoffwell,but slowlybecameawkwardforsomeunknownreason.Itookherhome.Shementionedinthecar, You know, I really wish would wouldnt drink (alcohol). That was weird. I only had two glassesofwine;mybloodalcohollimitwaswithinthelimitofthelaw.SoIwenttoseemyfriend Mark and asked him if my personality changed after one drink. He said, Yeah in that Duh, obviouslytoneofvoice.Yousee,Iwasnotawareofmybodychanging.Therestaurantwasnt changing; the walls stayed the same colour; the lighting was the same. I was looking at the world through my own eyes and the world wasnt changing. How was I to know or become awarethatmybodywaschanging?Wearerarelyintellectuallyawareofourshiftingemotions. HeresanotherexamplethathappensallthetimewhereIlive.Iwastalkingtoagirlwhosaid, YouknowAndy,yourecriticalperson.Butletmesaythis...andsheproceededtocriticiseme tonoend.Anothertime,Iwalkeduptoadrunkpersonwhosaid,Andy,youredrunk.Whydo

yougetdrunkallthetime?Ihadnthadadrop.Anothertime,Iwaswatchingapoolgame.A woman walked up to me and said, You know, I wish youd stop staring at me all the time. I didntnowthatsheexistedandcouldntcareless.Ineachofthesecases,theproblemwiththe person came from within that person. They had a reaction to their environment and looked outside of their bodies to see what was going on. The first person wanted to criticise me; the second as drunk; the third had a sexual response to me. In each of these people, their subconsciousbrainprocessedexternalstimuliandproducedanemotionalshiftinthemwithout informing the intellectual, thinking part of their brain of what was going on. So they looked outsidetheirbodiesforthecauseoftheemotioninsteadofrealizingthatitwasbeinggenerated insidethemselveswithouttheirconsciousbrainbeingawareofit.Sothefirststepincuringa badhabitisknowingthatthehabitisdestructiveinthefirstplace,whichisdifficultbecauseyou arenotawareofyourownhabitsandhoworwhyyoubehavethewaythatyoudo;evenifyou dobecomeawareofsuchhabits,howcanyouchangeahabit? Letssaythateventuallyyoubecomeawareofthatyouhavedevelopedadestructivehabit.How doyouchange?Ah,nowhereiswheretravellingtoforeigncultureschangedmyunderstanding andmakeswhatIhavetosaymoredifficultforyoutounderstand.Wereanimals;therefore,we cant change things through dint of will. That is, you cant put your mind to it and decide to changeahabit.Itdoesntwork.Willpowerisamyth.

Intellectvs.Conditioning:
Heresanexampleofhowourperceptionsandcultureconspiretolimitusfrommakingpositive changesinourlives.WhenIwasyounger,Igotadegreeinphysicsandmath.Iwantedtoshow peoplethatIwassmart,pleasemyparents,andgetahighpayingjob.InowrealizethatIwas just terribly frightened. I then served as a naval officer for seven, hard, painful, lonely years. Later,inmythirties,IwentandgotafullscholarshipandAssistantshiptogetaMastersdegree in Music with a specialty of Vocal Performance in Opera. A bit different you might say from physics.Ithenmadeabigmistake(ordidI?).IdecidedtobethebestoperasingerIcouldbe,so I trained to be a good actor. I studied the Meisner Technique of Stanislavski acting. Method actingisayoungerformofthistypeofactingthatmostpeoplehaveheardof.Iwasfortunateto betaughtbyastudentofStellaAdler,thepersonwhobroughtStanislavskisideastoherfriend, Stanford Meisner. I have to say; I now know what apostolic means. When you work that closelywithsomeonewhowassoclosetotheoriginofamovement,somethingrubsoffonyou. Asmostpeopleknow,thestandardofactinginoperaisexceedinglylow.Youdthinkthatwhat Idlearnedwouldhavehelpedmeintheoperaticworld.Itdidnt.Itmadethingsworse.Yousee, opera singers live in a culture, just as you live in yours. It is as unacceptable for me to Stanislavskiactinoperaasitisforyoutowalktothestorenakedonahotday.Itsawkward andinbadtaste.IthentravelledtoCommonwealth(formerBritishColonies)nationsandsaw the acting there. It was just like an opera house. Im being a bit generalistic, but this is how operaticandBritishactingworks:actorsusetheirintellectstodecideuponwhattheywantto do and then force their bodies to do what their brain have determined is best. I call this Pantomime Acting or Pretend Acting. The actors preconceive what to do on stage at particular points. They then condition their bodies to do that thing during rehearsal. The problemis,wedontliveourlivesthatway.Therearesubtle,smallelementsthatareorarent taking place when you force your body to do something; this is much like that bad date I mentioned.Youarentawareoftheodditiesthatyourconsciousbrainisforcingonyourbody

and how others perceive that. In the very end, British acting and singing is inferior to StanislavskiactingandOldItalianschoolsinging.Theformerisintellectualbased;thelatteris emotionalbased,oratleastwithanunderstandingofhowweareconditioned. SowithPantomimeActing,youlearnyourwordswithaninflectionorattitudethatyouthinkis correct,called a LineReading(wherewe getthe expression of giving a line to someone in a bar).Thenthepitchandvolumethatyouvechosenbecomeonewiththewords.Itsthenahabit andcannotbeeasilychanged.Then,whenyouspeakthewordswithyourpartneronstagefor thefirsttime,thegiveandtakeofvolumeandinflectionbetweenthetwoofyoudontoccuras wouldinarealisticconversation.Notonlythat,butoncethelinereadingislearned,itisalmost impossible to change. It is now a part of you. So, if you learned a line as an angry statement whenyouwereathomeandthenfindoutthatitwasmeantasasarcasticcomment,youhavea bigproblem.Yourspeechhasbecomeahabit,anditwillbealmostimpossibletochangeit. Hereshowthisrelatestodiet:withtheMeisnerTechnique(Stanislavskiacting),youknowthat linereadingconditioningresultsinbadacting.Soyoupreparememorizingyourwordswiththe understandingthatyouareacreatureofhabit.Thesolutionistolearnthewordswithoutany attitude, and, whats truly strange for a Pantomime actor, without stage direction. You simply placeinyourheadanimaginarysetofcircumstances(givencircumstances)thatsurroundthe character youre playing, and then act (literally) accordingly, without any preconceptions of whatyouwilldo.ThisisperhapswhyStanislavskiactingisonlypracticedmypeoplewhoare on the fringe of society. The style implies that the only difference between any two people is howtheyseethemselvesintheirworld.Environmentwinsovergenetics.Thereisnodifference between a whore and your daughter, Jesus and Jeffrey Dahlmer, Mother Teressa and Hitler. They are the same; they merely see themselves in their world differently. So beware. The differencebetweenyouandsomeoneyoumayrevileismicroscopicallysmall.Thatisnothow we are trained to think in our materialistic society today. We try to separate ourselves from ugly,uneducated,lowclasspeople.Whowantstoleadabeggarslife?Unfortunately,ifyoudont understand and acknowledge your animal, habitual nature, you may start to behave like the very people you revile. If you dont acknowledge your habitual nature, you can never change yourcircumstancesandtherebyaffectpositivechangeinyourlife.

WhoWeAre(OurGivenCircumstances)
Weareanimals.Weeatfood;wepoop.Wesweat,throwup,arefrightened,love,hate,getangry, andgethungry.Thedifferencebetweenhumanferalanimalsandcivilizedhumanbeingsishow we are conditioned by our parents and society. Our flesh, our minds, our instincts, our brains andemotionalreactionsarehardwiredintousandnotonlyarebeyondourabilitytochange, but are part of what we admire in others. For example, when someone is valorous, loyal, trustworthy, loving, protective, etc., those are root, animal emotions, not that of some learned sophisticated,civilizedethos.Inshort,weneedtounderstandwhoweareandwhywedothe thingsthatwedosothatwecanseehowourconditions(givencircumstances)havechanged, particularly in the last few hundred years. This change has caused massive and profound un health in us as a species. Once we know what that root creature is, we can see how our circumstances over the last few hundred years and changed, and then change them back to produceapositiveresult. Deconstructing who we have become back to our origins is difficult. We are slathered in our conditioning and dont pay attention to small, nagging truths. Theyre annoying. They dont

make sense. Theyre not important (we think). If you look at who you are and your own personalgivencircumstances,smallpointsofanomaly(pointsofconflict)areeasilydismissed or ignored. Heres an example: we have small canine teeth (fangs). OK; big deal. Who cares. Whether you have big or small canines or none at all mean nothing in our society today. Yet, many years ago, it was an issue of survival. You didnt eat what you couldnt eat. Our teeth dictatedwhatwecouldeat.Insocietytoday,thefoodissoftandwehaveknifesandmachinesto mechanically break things down. So we now eat things that we couldnt eat a thousand years ago. Yet, the human animal has not changed much in the last nine thousand years. We have machinestodoworkforus,andwehaveaccumulatedmachines,oneontopoftheother,yetour brainsandbodieshavenotchangedonebit.Wearegeneticallythesame.Ourfoodhaschanged, andwehavebecomeunhealthy. LetscontinuewiththecanineteethreferenceIjustmade.Wehavecanineteeth,buttheyare not large. Omnivores and carnivores all have these teeth, but they are longer for carnivores. They are designed to rip the flesh off of large animals. That balltugging game that your dog playscanyouremember?Heputshisbumintheair,lowershisfrontlegsandbouncesupand down,tuggingattheballinyourhand.Thatoriginatesfromwhenhewouldsinkhislongfangs intothefleshofadeerorbison,orsomelargeanimalthatthepackbroughtdownandtugtorip the flesh off the bones. We cant do thatour teeth are too short. If we were starving and we stumbleduponadeadcowlyingontheground,wedstillstarve.Wecouldntpullthefleshoffof the animal. People might argue with triumphant certitude that Ah ha! Thats why we have brainstomakeaknife!Thatsmuddledthinking.Wewerentbornwiththeknowledgetomake knives;therefore,theconstructionofourbodiesisnotdeeplylinkedtomakingknivesandwhat thatcanprovideforus.Feralhumansdontknowhowtomakeknives. Speaking as a scientist, once our society found the knowledge to make knives, it affected our genetic makeup through natural selection: only people who could eat and digest the flesh of large animals could survive if that was the only food available. That has begun to change our geneticmakeup,butonlyslightly.Ourcanineteetharestillshort. Thisalsoworksinacontrarymanner.Youhavesmallcanineteeth.Youredesignedtoripthe fleshoffofsmallanimalslikefowl,rodents,fish,etc.Avegetariandietisflawed.Withoutsome protein, you will die. Vegetarians counter that there are some vegetables that are high in protein.Unfortunately,thosevegetablesarenotavailableorgrowingthroughouttheyear.More tothepoint,wehavecanineteeth.Ourbodiesaredesignedtoeatmeat. This may seem petty. Why should anyone focus such a small meaningless point? But its not meaningless.Noneofthepointsaremeaningless.Theyrethere,onepointafteranother.When you add them up, they all spell the same story. Were not eating the food that we used to eat thousands of years ago. In order to understand our dietary requirements, we have to understand how we have moved away from our natural diet to a diet designed to only get us throughthefamineofwinter.Wenoweatthatfaminedietallthetime.

History
When Ive travelled to other countries, I immediately noticed the local diet. One of the most striking points to me was the nature of the food that was brought from Britain to Commonwealthnations.Ialsonoticedthebrutallyoppressiveeffectithadonaboriginalpeople. For example, consider a British breakfast sausage. Im from North America, so breakfast

sausagestherearemadefrommeat,seasoning,casings(realorfauxanimalinstestine),andfat. This is not so in Commonwealth nations. There, theyre made from what appears to be bread saturatedbyfatorbloodandputinacasing.Strange.Aflavouredbreadtube.Wheredidthis comefrom?TheresaninterestinganswerthatIllgivelateron. On the topic of strange, how about cheese. Why? Why do we have cheese? Its like what the French say about tomato ketchup: why? Do you know how cheese is made? Bizarre. To make cheese,youneedtoseparatemilkintocurds(solids)andwhey(liquid);rennetdoesthat.You then take the curds and process that into cheese. So, thats strange enoughdrinking or eating bovine (most often) milk product (Cheese Whiz: processed cheesefood spread). You are weanedfromyourmotheratoneyearold,andnowitssomehownaturaltorunoutintoafield andsuckontheudderofacowwhenyouretwenty.Strangethat. Forcheese,youhavetoturnliquidmilkintoasolid.Alsostrange.Toreallyspinyourheadon your shoulders, consider how rennet is made. Rennet is what you add to milk to get it to separate into solids (curds) and liquid (whey). Rennet is made from the stomachs of young calves(notoldones;itsnotaredundancylikebabypuppy).Right.Sotheresthisguysitting aroundwithnothingbettertodothansay,Hey,Iknowwhattodo!Illkillacalfafewdaysold, extracttheinnermucosaofthefourthstomach chamberandadditto itsmothersmilk.Sure. Hey, the solids are separating! Maybe if I squeeze the excess water out, this time, something mighthappentomakeitlastawhilewithoutspoiling.Toamodern,educatedperson,ourfood seemstocomefromsomeoddplaces.Yet,theresareasonformakingcheeseandareasonfor whyandhowitdeveloped;wevejustforgottenthosereasons.Weveforgottenalotaboutwhy weeatthefoodsthatwedo.Soletstakealookatlifealongtimeagoand,likeanactor,createin our heads the imaginary circumstances that surrounded people who could have intentionally createdsomethingasweirdascheese. Imagine the world as it was nine thousand years ago. There had been a slow movement of peoplefromtheAfricatotheMideasttoEuropeandthenNorthernEurope.Thelandbeganto bedifferentfarthernorth.Itwascold.Nothinggrewinthewintertime.Thiswasntthecasein Southern Europe. When I was in Sicily and Italy, they had two to three growing seasons. That doesnt happen farther north. In most northern areas, the winter and snow are synonymous terms. Scholars talk about huntergatherers but most people dont consider that the act of gathering changes as the seasons, particularly in the north (or south, if youre below the southernequator),change. So imagine yourself standing outside your shack, cave, or rude blackhouse (stone hut) in the dead of winter. Youre hungry. What will you eat? Before winter, there were green plants, running bunnies, swimming fish. Now theres nothing moving. Everything is white or brown. Youcanthibernate,andyourenotasquirrelsoyouhaventstoredanynuts;orhaveyou?What canyoudotostorefoodthatwilllastuntilthespringandsummer?Whatfooddoesntrot?Well, Ijustmentionedsquirrels,soyouvegotnutsonyourmind.Thatworks.Whatelsedoesntrot? Seeds; seeds dont rot. Unfortunately, theyre made mostly of starch, so you cant really digest themandpullenergyfromthem.Butarentweclever?Ifyoutakegrassseedwhichyoucant digest well, grind it, and add yeast (small bugs), they can change the starch to a type of carbohydrate.ThebugsbelchoutCO2andpoopoutcarbohydrate.Breadisaprocessedfood.Its heatedupbugshit.Rufflespotatochipsarelessprocessed. OK, bug poop is not enough to sustain you; you need some protein. You look around. Theres twofeetofsnowontheground.Youneedsomemeat;whatareyougoingtoeat?Ifyoukillone

of your livestock, youd seriously eat (pun intended) into your wealth. A dead animal cant produceoffspring.Notonlythat,butiftheweatherwarmsup,themeatwillspoil,anditwillgo towaste.Youneedsomeproteinforthefamineofwinter.Sinceyoudontwanttoeatintoyour principalinvestmentofyourlivestock,youcanliveofftheinterest.Youeitherbleedyouranimal (addingittobreadandputtingitinacasingcalledblackpudding)ormilkit.Nowthepurpose of having dairy products and livestock in general becomes clear. Its a gimmick to get you throughwinter.Itsbadforyou,butitsenoughuntilspringcomes.Unfortunately,wereeating anddrinkingthisfaminefoodproteinallthetimenow. Ifyoustandbackandlookatit,winterfaminefoodisallverybadforyou.Youcanseethisby thewayNorthernEuropeanfaminefoodadverselyaffectspeoplefromothergeographicalareas of the world. Ive seen this up front and personal. If you understand natural selection, this impactmakessense. Evenifyoudontbelieveinevolution,youwouldhavetoadmitthattherearesmallethnictraits associatedwithagroupofpeoplewholiveinacertainarea.Thosevariabilitiesseemfittedfor the climate and geography to give people living there an advantage. If you believe in natural selection, the explanation is simpler and clearer. But that requires that you understand the process of natural selection, and that understanding is difficult to grasp because it has to do withmathematicalprobabilityandanenormoussamplesize. If you dont know the concept or need a refresher, here is, roughly, how natural selection is supposedtowork.Letssaythatsomepeoplehavejustinventedawaytosurviveinthesnowy winterinNorthernEuropebycreatingatleasttwofoodprocessingsystems.Theysowatypeof grassseedandharvestit,threshit,andgrindit.Whentheyneedcarbohydrate,theyaddwater, yeastandthenbakedthebugshit.Forthesecondsystem,theyslaughterayoungcalfandsave andprocessitsstomach.Thentheymilkthelactatingcow(orgoatorsheepyouneeditsown young for the rennet) and add the appropriate rennet. Then you separate the curds from the whey and then add a specific yeast strain (or not) and then store the cheese. Now you have bread and cheese for the winter (I knew a Swedish woman who absolutely HAD to have a cheese sandwich every day). Now people take this new technology and move north. They eat this stuff during the winter and survive; well, some of them survive. Some cant handle this weird new food, and since theres nothing else to eat, they starve to death. Only those people whocaneatthisfoodwillsurviveandreproduce.Thosethatcanttoleratethenewfooddont reproduce. The result is that in a few hundred years, almost everyone now being born can handlethisfood.Almost.Theoddonehereandtheremightpopupwitharecessivetrait,which preventsthemfromprocessingthenewfood(actually,perhapsitsnotrecessiveitsunnatural foranadulttoprocessmilkwhentheywouldnormallybeweanedatayear;lactoseintolerance isanormalandhealthytraitinanadult).Ittakesalongtimeandanenormoussamplesize(a greatmanychildrenbeingbornwhohavetoeatthisnewfoodandperish)fortoleranceforthis food to become normal in the gene pool. For an ethnicity to undergo such a shift, thousands uponthousandsofpeoplewhocannottoleratebreadanddairy(newfaminefood)mustdie. Nowimaginethis.Youtakethisfoodthathaskilledoffagreatnumberofpeopleninethousand yearsagowhenagriculturewasbroughttoEuropeandintroduceittoanethnicgroupthathas never experienced this natural selection process. The result is an extreme response that kills any who cant tolerate it, which is a relatively high percentage. Look at the average Maori, Hawaiian,FirstNations,orNativeAmerican.Theyrefat.Imeanreallyfat.Theiroutsidesmirror their interior. They are now suffering from massive heart disease and other internal organ

damage.Thisisadirectresponsetoeatingwheat,dairy,andotherNorthernEuropeanfamine foods.ImofEuropeanancestry.Ican,somewhat,handlebreadanddairy.Mywifecant.Ithink Europeans ability to process famine food diminish as they get older. An average aboriginals definitelycanthandleEuropeanfaminefoodatall.Whatsmallpoxcouldntdo,wheatanddairy food certainly will. The understanding that people may have intentionally given Native Americans/FirstNationspeople(aboriginals)blanketsinfestedwithsmallpoxseemsshocking to us today. So why is it that feeding such a vulnerable group of people Northern European faminefoodissomehownotasshockingwhenitsproducingthesameeffect? If you consider all of the different geographical areas and consider the different famine foods thatdifferentcultureshaveproduced,youcanperhapscometorealizethenegativeimpactthat oneculturesfaminefoodhasonanother.FaminefoodfromanEskimowouldnotgooverwell withme.NorwouldricefromAsia.Faminefoodsofmyancestorswouldhaveatremendously illaffectontheChinese.SowhyaretheChineseeatinganddrinkingNorthernEuropeandairy productswithsuchabandon?Goodquestion.Theyreimportingdehydratedbovinemilkfrom New Zealand at such a rate that the traditional supply of lamb from New Zealand is being strangled. Farmers are shifting from sheep to dairy production to feed the Chineses new addiction. Whenwedonteatthefoodthatispresentduringthedifferentseasonsandfollowtheseasonal food cycle according to our particular heritage, we get ill. Were not supposed to eat winter faminefoodafterthewinter.Eatingwinterfaminefoodyearroundwillbegintohurtus.Eating winter famine food from ethnicities different from our own will most assuredly hurt us. We needtoknowourownbackground,noteatforeignfaminefoodandalsostopeatingfaminefood whentheseasonchanges.Moreover,eatinganyfaminefoodatallisnotgoodforus. Thistendencytoshiftwiththeshiftingseasonswasoncenotuncommon.ConsidertheFrench and their cuisine concerning chicken eggs. The French (like most people) did not feed their chickens food, but let them scavenge around their home. The chickens would eat insects. The cyclesofinsectlifevariesbyinsecttype.ThetermsJunebugandMayflyexistinNorthAmerica becausetheyappearmostoftenduringthosemonths.Theflavourofthechickenseggswould change depending upon what insect the chickens were mainly eating. Therefore, the French changed what they cooked depending upon the season: omelettes, souffls, or pastry types variedbytheseason.Youdidntusetoorderwhateveryouwantedatarestaurant.Ithadtobe inseason.Ifnot,youdbeconsideredarube. So the word diet in this context does not make sense in our modern way of thinking since people changed their diet to meet the changing environment. Diet did not mean some fixed thing, but a rotating, shifting pattern. Yet we are not taught that today. A diet is a fixed, unvaryingsetofingredients.Youeatwhatyoueatalltheyearround.Eventhenormaltimingof acowgivingbirthinthespringisnowbeingalteredsothatwecanhavemilkyearround.They didnt do that a hundred years ago. Cows gave birth when they did; you didnt artificially inseminate them so that theyd give birth in November, December, January, etc. This keeps a portionofthecowsalwayslactating.Ourdietnowisayearround,consistent,fixed,unmoving thing.Howodd.Now,ourdietonlymoveswhenwegoonadiettoloseweight.Afterwelose weight,wegobacktothedietthatcausedustobefattobeginwith.Howstrange. Id like to discus some of the most significant diets, perhaps fad diets, that are the most well known and how there is a modicum of truth to all of them. Ive combined them in a way that seemsthemostwellbalancedandhealthfulbaseduponmyownrationalityandexperience.

FadDiets:
Faddietsdontwork.Thewholeconceptisludicrousifyoulookatit.Letssaythatyourefat. Yourgivendietaryconditionsgotyouthatway.Ifyougoonadietinordertoloseweight,you may succeed. Unfortunately, after youve lost the weight, you somehow think that you wont gaintheweightbackusingyourolddietandfollowinghabitsthatgotyoufatinthefirstplace. Whywouldyoudothat?Followingthiscycleofnormaleating,goingonadiet,andthengoing backtonormal eating meansthat yourefat,you loseweight, and then you get fat again. Why notjusteatahealthydietandfirstlynotgetfat,andthenifyouhappentogetfat,realizethat youre diet is causing you to be fat and then shift your diet to a healthy one so that you will slowlygethealthyagain.Theproblemisthatnooneknowswhatahealthydietisbecausetheir dietissaturatedwithfaminefood.Eatingwholewheatbreadinsteadofwhitebreadmadewith bleached flour just means that the poison that youre eating isnt quite as poisonous as white bread.Whyareyoueatingpoisonatall?

Atkins
TheAtkinsdietisadangerousone.Sinceitsbasictenetisthatitisadiettoloseweight,itsafad diet. If you think that it is a diet for life, you have made a serious mistake that I mentioned above. The Atkins diet came about because someone noticed that some tribal people who primarilyhuntforfoodwerenotfat.ThesehighproteindietsarefineforEskimosbecausetheir ancestorsperishedwhocouldnteatsuchahighproteindiet.EatinganEskimodietisasbadfor me as an aboriginal eating my Northern European famine food diet. Furthermore, the Atkins high protein diet places your body in an active state. It makes your cell reproduce at a high rate which promotes cancer and other dangerous conditions. You want your body to be in an inactivestatesothattheenergythatcomesfromthefoodthatyouareconsumingistargetedat maintainingandrepairingyourbodyinsteadofspendingenergyonreproducingcells.Idalso like to point out that Eskimos are being pressured into eating a balanced diet (from the mentalityofaEuropean)andarenowgettingfatandunhealthy.

52Famine
The52dietisaresultoftheobservationthatfastingcausesyourbodytobeinapassivestate whichhasmassivelypositiveconsequences.Thefirstislongevity.Peoplewhoroutinelyfastlive longer than people who do not. If you fast, your body thinks that there isnt much food in the environment, so it switches from an active state where energy from food is directed from reproducing cells into a passive one where it repairs itself. Bad cholesterol drops; good cholesterolincreases.Insteadoffastingcontinuouslytoproducethisresult,itwasfoundthatif youreduceyourcaloricintaketo600caloriesadayformen,500forwomen,twodaysaweek (nonconsecutivedays),yourbodythinksthatitsfastingandgoesintoapassivestate.Thisdiet is not for athletes but for moderately active people and certainly for sedentary ones (people whohavedeskjobs). AfterIstoppedeatingfaminefood,mybloodsugarlevelevenedout.Mostpeopleexperienceup anddownswingswhentheyeatbreadandotherprocessedfood.SinceIstoppedeatingthose foods, my body never had to dump large amounts of insulin into my blood to handle excess sugar.Therewasalwaysalittlesugarthere,soIfeltgood.SowhenIfastedabit,Ireallydidnt notice. I wasnt hungry. The cycle of eating and being hungry within a few hours and then

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needingtoeatagainisafunctionofeatingprocessedfood,particularlywheatandotherfoods that are converted too readily by our bodies, into glucose (blood sugar); its a vicious roller coaster.StoppingthisterriblerideproducedanantidotetermedTheZoneDiet.

Zone
TheZonediet(sometimesreferredtoastheCaliforniadiet)isdesignednottoloseweight,but tomakeyouhealthybykeepingyourbloodsugarlevelwithinazone.Thelowerlimitiswhere thereistoolittlesugarinyoubloodwhichmakesyouweakandhungry.Theupperlimitisthe pointwherethereistoomuchsugarinyourblood.Thislatterconditionisextremelydangerous. Yourbodydoesnothaveamechanismtopreventtoomuchfoodfrombeingprocessedinyour intestinesandturnedintosugar.Havingfoodquicklyconvertedintosugarisnotsomethingthat is normal in the nonprocessed/nonfamine food world. Your body does not have a way of metering how fast to process the food that is in your intestines. It just digests it at the same speeditalwaysdoes.Withfaminefoodssuchasbread,itisalreadysomewhatprocessedsothe absorptionrateisveryhigh.Soifyoueatasliceofbread,yourbodyconvertsittosugarvery quickly,sendingitintoyourblood,andraisingyourbloodsugarabovethesafezone.Atthis point, your body sees that there is too much sugar in your blood and goes into an emergency state,sendingagreatdealofinsulinintoyourblood.Thisimmediatelylowersyourbloodsugar level.Italsoconvertsthesugarintofat.Thisishowyougetfat.Toomuchsugarinyourbloodat anytimetriggersthecreationoffat.Eatingfatdoesnotmakeyoufat. In order to keep the blood sugar level within this zone, a measurement was created to help peoplemanagehowquicklysugargetsintotheirblood.TheGlycemicIndex(GI)isameasureof this.Avaluebelow55isconsideredlow,between56and69isconsideredmedium,andabove 70isconsideredhigh.AhighGImeansthatyourbodyrapidlyabsorbsthatfoodandconvertsit intosugar;alowGImeansthatittakestimeandisthereforesafer.Althoughlessconvenient,the Insulin Index (II) is a better measurement tool for a person trying to eat more healthily; it measures the insulin response to various foods. Unfortunately, II varies somewhat by person andislessaccurate.ThesimplereasonpreferringtheIIovertheGIisthattheGIonlymeasures foodswithcarbohydrate(therearenoGIvaluesformeat).Also,whiletheGIandIIarealmost perfectlycorrelated,theyvarysharplywithregardtodairyandbakeryproductstheverythings that are important. Researchers found, [P]roteinrich foods and bakery products (rich in fat andrefined carbohydrate)elicitedinsulin responses that weredisproportionatelyhigher than theirglycemicresponses. 1Anotherfound,Therearesomeinstances,however,whereafood hasalowglycemicvaluebutahighinsulinindexvalue.Thisappliestodairyfoodsandtosome highlypalatableenergydenseindulgencefoods.Somefoods(suchasmeat,fish,andeggs)that contain no carbohydrate, just protein and fat (and essentially have a GI value of zero), still stimulatesignificantrisesinbloodinsulin.2ThisisfurthersupportedbyHoltandotherswho havenotedthatthereisastrongcorrelationbetweenGIandII,highproteinfoodsandbakery

1 "An Insulin Index of Foods: The Insulin Demand Generated by 1000kJ Portions of Common

Foods"intheAmericanJournalofClinicalNutrition1997,Vol.66:pages12641276bySusanne HAHolt,JanetteC.BrandMiller,andPeterPetocz. 2 TheNewGlucoseRevolution(NewYork:MarloweandCompany,2003,pages5758.JanetteC. BrandMiller

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products that are rich in fat and refined carbohydrates, [E]licit insulin responses that were disproportionatelyhigherthantheirglycemicresponses.3 The people who advocate the Zone diet also noticed that combinations of carbohydrate and proteinslowtherateofabsorptionoffoodandconversiontosugaraswell.Ideally,youshould eat about 1/3 of your food as protein, 2/3 as carbohydrate. You must always eat them in combinationandnotseparately;forexample,ifyouwantadrinkofalcohol,alwayshavesome protein with it to counteract the carbohydrate. Weve known this for centuries. Cheese goes withwine,nutswithbeer,andpeanutbutterwithbread.Theresultofthispairingisthatwhen youcomplimentproteinwithcarbohydrate,youfeelbetterforlonger.Youdontgetmanicand theninafewhoursneedmorefood.Youfeelbetterlonger.Youalsowillwanttoeatless,and thecarbohydratesthatyoujustatewontgoasquicklyintoyourwaistline. Theyalsonoticedthat,verygenerally,lowGIvalueswereassociatedwithfoodthatwasgreen; broccoliandgreenbeanshadalowerindexthanpotatoesandparsnips.Greenvegetablesgrow abovetheground,tubersbelow.Ishouldalsopointoutthattubersingeneralaretraditionally used as famine foods. So again, avoiding famine foods lessens our insulin response, which in turndecreasesfoodenergytransferredtoourwaistline. GItablefromHarvard: FOOD
BAKERYPRODUCTSANDBREADS Bananacake,madewithsugar Bananacake,madewithoutsugar Spongecake,plain Vanilla cake made from packet mix with vanillafrosting(BettyCrocker) Apple,madewithsugar Apple,madewithoutsugar Waffles,AuntJemima(QuakerOats) Bagel,white,frozen Baguette,white,plain Coarse barley bread, 7580% kernels, average Hamburgerbun Kaiserroll Pumpernickelbread 50%crackedwheatkernelbread 34 61 73 56 58 30 30 30 30 30 7 9 12 7 12 42 44 48 76 72 95 111 60 60 35 70 30 24 13 9 10 25 15 47 55 46 60 60 63 14 12 17

Glycemicindex (glucose=100)

ServingSize (grams)

Glycemicload perserving

3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index


Whitewheatflourbread Wonderbread,average Wholewheatbread,average 100%WholeGrainbread(NaturalOvens) Pitabread,white Corntortilla Wheattortilla BEVERAGES CocaCola,average Fanta,orangesoftdrink Lucozade, original (sparkling glucose drink) Applejuice,unsweetened,average Cranberryjuicecocktail(OceanSpray) Gatorade Orangejuice,unsweetened Tomatojuice,canned BREAKFASTCEREALSANDPRODUCTS AllBran,average CocoPops,average Cornflakes,average CreamofWheat(Nabisco) CreamofWheat,Instant(Nabisco) Grapenuts,average Muesli,average Oatmeal,average Instantoatmeal,average Puffedwheat,average RaisinBran(Kellogg's) SpecialK(Kellogg's) GRAINS Pearledbarley,average Sweetcornonthecob,average Couscous,average Quinoa Whiterice,average Quickcookingwhitebasmati 28 60 65 53 89 67 55 77 93 66 74 75 66 55 83 80 61 69 150 150 150 150 150 150 30 30 30 250 250 30 30 250 250 30 30 30 9510 44 68 78 50 38 250mL 250mL 250mL 250mL 250mL 250mL 63 68 250mL 250mL 71 73 71 51 68 52 30 30 30 30 30 30 50 50

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10 10 9 7 10 12 8

16 23

40 30 24 12 12 4

12 20 23 17 22 16 16 13 30 17 12 14

12 20 9 13 43 28


Brownrice,average Converted,whiterice(UncleBen's) Wholewheatkernels,average Bulgur,average COOKIESANDCRACKERS Grahamcrackers Vanillawafers Shortbread Ricecakes,average Ryecrisps,average Sodacrackers DAIRYPRODUCTSANDALTERNATIVES Icecream,regular Icecream,premium Milk,fullfat Milk,skim Reducedfatyogurtwithfruit,average FRUITS Apple,average Banana,ripe Dates,dried Grapefruit Grapes,average Orange,average Peach,average Peach,cannedinlightsyrup Pear,average Pear,cannedinpearjuice Prunes,pitted Raisins Watermelon BEANSANDNUTS Bakedbeans,average Blackeyepeas,average Blackbeans Chickpeas,average Chickpeas,cannedinbrine 40 33 30 10 38 150 150 150 150 150 39 62 42 25 59 40 42 40 38 43 29 64 72 120 120 60 120 120 120 120 120 120 120 60 60 120 57 38 41 32 33 50 50 250mL 250mL 200 74 77 64 82 64 74 25 25 25 25 25 25 50 38 30 48 150 150 50 150

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16 14 11 12

14 14 10 17 11 12

6 3 5 4 11

6 16 18 3 11 4 5 5 4 5 10 28 4

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Navybeans,average Kidneybeans,average Lentils,average Soybeans,average Cashews,salted Peanuts,average PASTAandNOODLES Fettucini,average Macaroni,average MacaroniandCheese(Kraft) Spaghetti,white,boiled,average Spaghetti,white,boiled20min,average Spaghetti,wholemeal,boiled,average SNACKFOODS Cornchips,plain,salted,average FruitRollUps M&M's,peanut Microwavepopcorn,plain,average Potatochips,average Pretzels,ovenbaked SnickersBar VEGETABLES Greenpeas,average Carrots,average Parsnips Bakedrussetpotato,average Boiledwhitepotato,average Instantmashedpotato,average Sweetpotato,average Yam,average MISCELLANEOUS Hummus(chickpeasaladdip) Chicken nuggets, frozen, reheated in microwaveoven5min Pizza, plain baked dough, served with parmesancheeseandtomatosauce Pizza,SuperSupreme(PizzaHut) 80 36 100 100 46 100 6 30 51 35 52 111 82 87 70 54 80 80 80 150 150 150 150 150 42 99 33 55 51 83 51 50 30 30 20 50 30 60 32 47 64 46 58 42 180 180 180 180 180 180 31 29 29 15 27 7 150 150 150 150 50 50

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9 7 5 1 3 0

15 23 32 22 26 17

11 24 6 6 12 16 18

4 2 4 33 21 17 22 20

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Honey,average 61 25

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ThisissomeinformationfromaInsulinIndex(fromhttp://mendosa.com): Food
BREAKFASTCEREALS AllBran Porridge(Oatmeal) Muesli SpecialK Honeysmacks Sustain Cornflakes CARBOHYDRATERICHFOODS Whitepasta Brownpasta Grain[rye]bread Brownrice Frenchfries Whiterice Wholemealbread Whitebread Potatoes PROTEINRICHFOODS Eggs Cheese Beef Lentils Fish Bakedbeans FRUIT Apples Oranges Bananas Grapes SNACKSANDCONFECTIONARY Peanuts 12 20 50 39 79 74 59 60 81 82 42 55 21 62 28 114 31 45 51 58 59 120 46 68 60 104 71 110 97 100 141 40 40 56 62 74 79 96 100 121 40 60 60 70 60 66 76 32 40 40 66 67 71 75

GlycemicScore

InsulinScore


Popcorn Potatochips Icecream Yogurt Marsbar Jellybeans BAKERYPRODUCTS Doughnuts Croissants Cake Crackers Cookies 63 74 56 118 74 62 52 70 62 79 118

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54 61 89 115 112 160

74 79 82 87 92

Notice how high the processed wheat food (baked goods) numbers are for both the Glycemic and Insulin Indexes. Also note yogurt and ice creams high GIs, but look at how much higher theirInsulinIndexes:
Icecream Yogurt 70 62 89 115

Both GIs and IIs for ice cream and yogurt are extremely high. The baked beans numbers are alsohigh.Vegetariansneedtobeawareofthisastheproteinthattheydogetfrombeansmight beprocessedtooquicklyintosugartheymayneedtofindatypeofbeansorapreparationthat havealowGIandII. Ialsowanttopointoutthatprocessedbreakfastcerealsarearelativelymoderndevelopment. Processed breakfast cereals didnt pop up until the 1890s. Traditional cereal and milk isnt traditionalatall. Hereisanother,morerecenttableoftheInsulinIndex:4 Food
AllBran Porridge Muesli SpecialK Honeysmacks Sustain Cornflakes

FoodType
BreakfastCereal BreakfastCereal BreakfastCereal BreakfastCereal BreakfastCereal BreakfastCereal BreakfastCereal

Glucose score
407 6012 437 709 607 666 7611

Insulin score
324 404 465 665 676 716 758

Satietyscore
151 209 100 116 132 112 118

4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index

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Whitebread(baseline) WhitePasta Brownpasta Grainbread Brownrice Frenchfries Whiterice Wholemealbread Potatoes Eggs Cheese Beef Lentils Fish Bakedbeans Apples Oranges Bananas Grapes Peanuts Popcorn Potatochips Icecream Yogurt MarsBars Jellybeans Doughnuts Croissants Cake Crackers Cookies

Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Carbohydraterich Proteinrich Proteinrich Proteinrich Proteinrich Proteinrich Proteinrich Fruit Fruit Fruit Fruit Snack/confectionery Snack/confectionery Snack/confectionery Snack/confectionery Snack/confectionery Snack/confectionery Snack/confectionery Bakeryproduct Bakeryproduct Bakeryproduct Bakeryproduct Bakeryproduct

1000 4610 6810 6012 10418 7116 11015 9717 14135 4216 5518 218 6222 2813 11418 506 397 7910 749 124 6216 529 7019 6215 7913 11818 6312 749 5614 11824 7411

1000 405 405 566 6211 7412 7912 9612 12111 316 4513 5116 5812 5918 12019 594 603 815 826 205 549 6114 8913 11513 12215 16016 749 7914 8212 8712 9215

100 119 188 154 132 116 138 157 323 150 146 176 133 225 168 197 202 118 162 84 154 91 96 88 70 118[n3] 68 47 65 127 120

Inshort,usingtheGIinsteadoftheIIisabitdangerousastheGImasksournegativeresponses todairyandbakery(wheat)products.Thislastpointisimportant,aswheatproductshavecome underscrutinylatelyforthis.

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WheatBelly
A recently published book has documented the problems with wheat. The author (William Rodale Davis) clearly documents the ill effects of wheat on our bodies today. His point is directed mostly at how the wheat plat has undergone severe genetic manipulation that has causedthisproblem(inhisopinion).Hemaintainsthatbread,inanyform,nowcomesfroma geneticbasethatiscorruptanduntestedforhumans.Soanywholewheat,pumpernickel,white, multigrain,organic,etc.breadthatyoueatwillmakeyoufat.Generallyspeaking,hescorrect.I stopped eating bread (and dairy) and went from 205 lbs to 175 in three months. It is often dangeroustolosesomuchweightsoquickly,butIfeltgreatandateasmuchasIwanted.Iwas neverhungry. Like the Zone Diet, Daviss antiwheat diet wasnt designed necessarily to have people lose weight.Iwasdesignedtohelppeoplewiththeirhealthissues.HemadeacommentIfoundto resonate with me, What convinced me further were the many instances in which people removedwheat,thenpermittedthemselvesawheatindulgence:acoupleofpretzels,acanapat a cocktail party. Within minutes, many would experience diarrhea, joint swelling and pain, or wheezing.5 BoththeZoneDietandthe WheatBelly(antiwheat)DietfitwithinmyFamineFoodForbidden Dietboundaries.Ihighlyrecommendthatyoureadthem.Thislittlemanualisnotdesignedto reiteratewhattheysay.Theresnoroomhereforthat.SoifyoureadtheZonediet,trynottoeat cheese or a slow absorbed bread if they say to; substitute something else. If you read Wheat Belly,followthewheatproscription,butdonteatdairyproductswhenDavissuggestsit. Theadvantagethatmydiethasisthatithelpsyouwhenyouaremakingachoiceofwhattobuy atastoreortryingtodecideifyouwanttohaveavegetablegarden.WhenIgotoastore,Ihave very clear and obvious choices to make. I try to limit the damage that my body will suffer. Be warned:freshvegetablesareoftentheworstchoiceyoucanmake.Moreonthatlater.

Alcohol/Liquids
The first thing that a fad diet tells you to do is to drink a lot of water. Often our bodies are storing something that might be in short supply in the environment. If you are dehydrated, drinkingwaterwillmakeyoubodystoptryingtohordeitandyouwillloseweight.Sothefad dietthatyoujuststartedseemstobeworkingbecauseyoustarteddrinkingwaterandlostfive pounds.Thatsthefirstthing. Thesecondpointisthis.Whatdootheranimalsdrink?Water.Theydrinkwater.Howbizarreis itforyoutodrinksomethingthathasflavourtoit.Thinkaboutit. There are no wild orange juice trees. There are orange trees. Fruit juice is unnatural. Eat the fruit.Drinkwater. Alcoholisfermentedwheat(orsomefruit/vegetable)juice.Itssomethinglikewetbreadwith the bad carbohydrates replaces with a mild poison. Its another processed food thats bad for you.Ifyouregoingtodrinkalcohol,inimizethedamage.Beerandalehavewheatinit.Trynot to drink alcohol with wheat in it. Try to have the wheat removed (like vodka) or made from
5WheatBelly,Davis,WilliamRodale,2011.NY,NY,p.910.

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somethingbesideswheat(likepotatovodka).Personally,Ihaveanallergicesquereactiontoale and beer. Two glasses of beer makes me very fuzzy and almost drunk. Two shots of vodka (whichisthesameamountofalcohol)doesalmostnothing.Itsthewheatandthestillpresent yeast.Ifyouareanalcoholicandyoumustdrink,shifttosomethingwithaslittlewheatresidue in it as possible. That means no NA beer or no lowcarb beer. You need to get away from the wheat. Elegantwomeninapastageusedtodrinkdiuretics(thingsthatpullwateroutofyou)during the day before going to a party that night. Homes didnt have sewer systems, so there was no whereforthewomentogotorelievethemselves;themencouldalwayswanderouttoatree, butthewomencouldntgooutsideandsquatonthegrass.Iguessitjustwasntconsideredlady like.Sotheydranktea. Iknewamanwhowouldbringacase(yes,acase)ofDietPepsitoworkeverydayanddrinkit all. You see, one can of Pepsi made him slightly dehydrated which made him thirsty; so hed drink another, then another, and another. He was thirsty all day and would try to solve the problem by drinking something that dehydrated him. It made things worse. At the end of the day,helookedgauntandtired. I have another friend who had onetoomany bad experiences with alcohol. So he devised a patternofactionthatmitigatedamassivehangoverthedayafterdrinking.Hissolutionwasto drinkcopiousquantitiesofwaterbeforehegoesout.Healsoputsalitrejugofwaterathisnight tablebeforeleavingthatnight.Thenhemakessurethathedrinksthewaterbeforeheliesdown forsleep.Ithelps. WhenIsangoperafulltime,Iheardfromadoctorwhoadvisedsingersnottodrinkflavoured waterbeforesinging.Hesaidthatyourbodyseestheflavouredwaterasfoodandthrowsacid into your stomach to digest the food. For a singer, this means that acid is bubbling up onto yourvocalchordsforthenexttwohours.Soyoushouldntdrinkflavouredbeveragesforatleast threehoursbeforeyouhavetosing.Mostpeopledontnoticethisproblembecausetheydont havetosingattheextremelimitoftheirvoicesformoney(toprovideforthemselves).Itstrue; hes right. Ive found that this also applies to people with acid reflux (like me). When I was diagnosed with acid reflux, I was told to stop eating food three hours before going to bed; I stoppedandtheacidrefluxceased.Ialsothennoticedaproblemwithacidrefluxandflavoured beverages. I stopped drinking flavoured beverages (I was having a cup of decaffeinated tea beforegoingtobed),andtheacidrefluxstopped. Your body treats food and water in very different ways. Confusing your body by giving it flavoured water does nothing to promote good health. At the very least, you should connect drinking water with having a food snack. When you are thirsty because you are working (physically stressful work), only drink water. If you drink flavoured water, your body thinks that its food. Give your body what it needs when it needs it. If youre thirsty, drink water. If youre hungry, eat food (unprocessed food); if you are lazing around the house and want somethinginyourmouthtosavour,butknowthatcoffeeandteadehydratesyou,drinkaglass ofwaterandthenhavesometeaorcoffee. Theres a famous song, Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the Noonday Heat. The English hadastrangebehaviour.Theyddrinkhotteaonaveryhotday.Theheatoftheteawouldheat up their body (and dehydrate it) and make them sweat. The evaporating sweat would cool

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them.Strange,butitworks.Itisalsobadforyousinceitdehydratesyouasadiureticandthen onceagainwhenitmakesyousweat. As an aside, dehydration has been linked to cancer. Most people in the United States dont realize how fortunate they are to have the number of drinking fountains per square foot mandated in public buildings. That is not the case in Canada. It is also mandatory for gas stationstohavepublicwashroomsintheUnitedStates.InoticedthisinCanadabecauseIjust couldnt find water fountains anywhere. I was just in a public library that had no drinking fountainandalsoinalargecollegehall;bothplaceshadnodrinkingfountains.Ivealsonoticed thatthereisamisconceptionthatdrinkingfountainsmusthaveamechanicalcoolerattached.I find this condition rather shortsighted and detrimental to good health. When youre thirsty, youneedwater,notreallycoldwater.Ifthewaterisverycold,youcantdrinkenoughtoquench your thirst. It hurts and you stop. Water fountains should be everywhere because they dont needsomeelectricpowereddevicetofunction.Youjustneedavalve(andperhapsasink)anda drain.Whyistheresomuchemphasisinonlyhavingcooledwaterfountainsthathavetheresult ofmakingpeopledrinklesswaterthantheywouldnormallydrinkifthewaterwasnotcooled? Theideathatyoucouldbuywaterlikesoda(inbottles)didnotexistafewdecadesago.What didtheydothen?Dieofthirst?Well,IguesslittleJohnnyhastoruntheriskofgettingcancerso thatafewpeoplecanmakemoneysellingwaterinbottles.Mostbottledwaterisjustmunicipal waterthathasbeenfilteredandbottledanyway.Advertisingsuggestingthatabrandsbottled waterisfromsomespecialsource(likeaspring)isexaggeratedabestandablatantlieatworst.

MyCombination(FamineFoodsForbidden)
Likeacting,weneedtohavesomemotivationinordertodosomething,likechangethewaywe eat.Notdoingsomethingisnotanaction.Soyoucantnoteatcertainfoods;youeat(other) certainfoods.Itslikethejoke,Stopthinkingaboutpenguins.Yourethinkingaboutpenguins. Stop.Stopthinkingaboutpenguins.Ofcourse,rightnowyourethinkingaboutpenguins.Not doing something never works. You have to do something. In many ways, this can be very dangerous.Oncewehavesetinourmindsthatthereisonepathorgoal,wegetconfusedwhen thingsgetcomplicated.Whetheryoureareligiousfanatic,anengineer,oranaficionadoofsome political movement, being singleminded can blind you to all of the small, nagging truths that dontfitintoasimplesystem.Havingsaidthat,thissimpledietsystemiseasytounderstandand follow.Itsimplymakessense.Followtherules,andgoodthingshappen. Forme,IhadaseriesofchangesthatmademechangethewaythatIate.Ihadknownhowto eat properly for a while. I knew not to drink flavoured water for over ten years, but that just seemedtoomuchofabizarre,weirdchangeofhabits.Iknewhowbadprocessedfoodwasfor you(yes,breadisaprocessedfoodasisdairyfood/drink)andjustdidntcare.IlefttheUnited StatesforschoolingandspenttenyearsinCanadaandNewZealandaswellastravellingallover (Ihadalsoseentheworldasanavalofficer).IwentbacktotheU.S.totakecareofmyparents andwaitformyimmigrationvisatoCanadatobeprocessed;Iimmediatelygotsick.Iwaseating storebought processed food and drinking U.S. beer and ale. Canadians dont realize that U.S. beer has become stronger than Canadian beer and has been for the last twenty years. Having said that, something was universally wrong with the beer in the U.S. whether is was simple, cheap Bud or Sierra Nevada IPA. Canadian beer doesnt get you as sick. Netherland beer/ale didntmakemeillinanyway.TheresalessonintheresomewherefortheownersofAnheiser Busch. So I stopped drinking beer. There wasnt much of a change. I got bloated, had IBS

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(IrritableBowelSyndrome),wasbleedinghalfthetime,andgenerallysatonthecoachwhenI wasnt working since I was so lethargic and in pain. As I have mentioned, most people dont reallycareenoughabouttheirlivestomakeanychange,andIwasnodifferent.Ijustdidntcare enoughaboutmyself. Then my wife, who had been (sometimes notso) patiently waiting in Canada for my visa to come through got sick. Everything changed for me. My visa was approved after a tenmonth wait(thefactthatwehadbeenmarriedforayearandwerelivingtogetherfortenyearsdidnt speedthingsupmuch),andIwentbacktoCanada.Mywifehadbeenhomefromschoolwhere she teaches for over two weeks. She couldnt move. She sat, in pain, on the couch. Motivation flooded through me. It wasnt that kind of New Years resolution motivation that fades after a few feeble weeks, but something deepdown. I got rid of all processed foods first. She was inflamedontheinsidesoIremovedallroughage(Ipeeledtomatoesandremovedallseedsand hard cellulose). She only had thoroughly mushified green beans and potatoes (I shifted eventuallytosweetpotatoes).Wehavewhitefishreadilyavailable,soweatethat,chicken,and nobeef(shehasntbeenabletoeatbeefinyears).Shehadnobreadandnothingfromabottle, can,orbag.Sheslowlygotbetter.Iaddedbackinnonbleachedflourbymakingbreadmyself. Afterawhile,Iknewthatthiswasnotreallyright,butIwantedtoseeifshecouldhandleit.She couldnt. I got rid of bread. I also found that she couldnt handle dairy very well, so out that went.Shecouldntdrinkalcohol,andIhadbeendrinkingtoomuchbeerandcoffee,soIstopped drinkingeverythingflavouredexceptanoccasionalsmallcupofjuice(absolutelynocanesugar, sucrose,orfructoseadded)forvitaminCduringthewinter.Itriedtoproportionthefoodby1:2 protein:carbohydrate(ZoneDiet).Ialsotriedtofollowthe52dietwhenIthoughtofit. Afterthreemonths,Ihadlost30pounds. Ilevelledoutabitat175.Iknewthatafewhundredyearsago,Iwouldweighmaybe155atthe mostandsorealizedthatIwaseatingordoingsomethingwrong.IrealizedthatitwasthatIhad beeneatingfloursubstitutes.Yousee,mostpeopleavoidwheatbecauseofthegluten,andthere has been a massive surge in producers switching to nongluten bread products; the substitutionswerejustasbadforusasthewheat.WhetherIeatwheatorriceflour,thereisno difference for me since I dont have a gluten sensitivity. That doesnt change the fact that rice flourisaprocessedfood.Riceisafaminefooditself,alone.Theeffectsofthewheatsubstitutes onyourinsulinlevelsarethesameasthewheat.Myinsulinlevelswerestillonarollercoaster ride. I began to see that there was a much deeper issue going on here than cutting out wheat anddairy.Iknewwhatitwas;Ijustdidntwanttobebothered.Butthen,theresmywife,soIll dealwiththebother. Whatfollowsisthebother.Frankly,itsapainintheass.Thedifferencebetweenhealthand unhealthisbother.6Itstheconvenienceoffoodsthatmakefoodsunhealthy.Themorebother it is, the better for you it is. And its not that it takes longer to prepare (cook) that makes it bothersome; its the obtaining good food thats the real problem. Its the growing/getting and preservationthatsthebother.Letslookatallofthewaysthatwepreservefoodandwhythatis badforus.Letusalsorankthepreservationprocessessothatwecanmakeawisechoicewhen facedwithachoicebetweentwopreservedfoods(whenwehavetoeatafaminefood).
6 As my uncle Bill used to say, Sometimes when you lose your health, you dont ever get it

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FamineFoods
Herearethefaminefoodsandwhytheyarebad,innoparticularorder: Pickling: You soak something (even meat and eggs) in a chemical bath. When you ingest the food, you ingest the chemicals which have the same effect on you as it did with the food it preserved. Common pickled foods are apples (yes, apples are soaked in a chemical bath so that theyre crisp for a year after theyre picked), cucumbers, and beets. Hunters often eat pickled deer hearts.IfriendofminementionedthatwhenhewasaU.S.soldierinEuropeduringWorldWar II,theywouldoftenstealpickledchickeneggsfromGermanhousewives. Corning: Corningiswhenyoubathemeatinsalttopreserveit.Youthenhavetopullthesaltoutasmuch asyoucantoeatit.Youmightfindthefollowingstoryinteresting: The tradition of eating corned beef in North America during St. Patricks Day is an odd and twisting one. In Ireland, the meat for that feast day is bacon. The Irish stored their food in souterains. These were holes or caves dug in the earth. The temperature of the earth is generallycoolerthanthetemperatureabovegroundinthesummerandwarmerinthewinter. When immigrants came to the New World, they were met with cold that they had never experienced.Thefoodkeptinsouterainsfrozeandtheycouldntgetthemout.Sotheymadeuse of the beneficial affects of the cold climate and froze meat. Theyd wait until the last freeze occurredinthelatefallandthentheydkillandflayacalf.Theydhangitinthebarnwithatarp over it. Each day, theyd come out and carve off a 5 lbs. chunk of meat and cook it. If a warm spell (Indian Summer) came, their meat was going to rot quickly, so theyd butcher what was left, roll the 5 lbs. pieces in salt and leave it on the table before going to bed. In the morning, theydbrushoffthesaltandmakeabrine(strongsaltwater).Theydputthemeatinabarrelat thebottomofthestairsintotherootcellarandpourthebrineoverit.Eachmorningthewoman of the house would go downstairs, break a hole in the ice and pull out a chunk of meat. Shed thensimmer(notboilthatwoulddrivethesaltintothemeat)themeatinapotofwaterallday to pull out the salt. Theyd then eat it at night. It was still salty and considered lowclass and poorfood.Theywoulddothiswithporkaswell(youhavetomakesurethatthebrineiscooled for the pork before pouring it over the pork or it would ruin the meatthis isnt necessary for beef).SoforSt.PatricksDay,theydgodowntogettheporkfromtheporkbarrel,butsinceit tastedbetter,itwasinvariablygonebythen,sotheydhavetoeatthecornedbeef. Saltedmeatisbadforyouandisonlydoneifyouhavetodoit. Smoking: Smokingiswhenyouputmeatoveraslightlyburningfiresothatthesmoketouchesthemeat. Smokeisacarcinogen(causescancer).Donteatit. Pastramiissmokedcornedbeef.Itsadoublewhammieandreallybadforyou. Jerking: Thisiswhenyoudryfood,generallybytheheatofthesun.Itislessbadforyouthantheother methodsdescribedabove,butstillnotthebestchoice.Addingflavouringsimplymeansadding chemicals.

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This is less forceful than jerking, but to make the food not cause illness, they add a tonne of chemicals. Sausages: Sausages are dried meat and fat and herbs. True sausages (unchilled) can go bad. Today, so manychemicalsareaddedtopreventthis,thatitsatoxicwastegroundofpestilence. Freezing Thisisthebestmethodofpreservation.However,inordertostopenzymesformactingofthe food while it is frozen, you have to blanche it. Blanching means boiling it in water for a few minutes before washing it in cold water and then freezing it. The blanching process removes many of the nutritional value of the food (often wiping out some of the vegetables vitamins), butitdoesnoharmtothefood. Canning: This process takes most of the vitamins away from vegetables and does harm meat slightly. However, it does not significantly injure the food and make it carcinogenetic or toxic with chemicals. VacuumSealing: TheNewZealandershavedevelopedawayofdoingthiswithapples.Theydisplaceoxygenin theairwithCO2andtheapplesstaycrisp.Theapplesneedoxygeninordertodecompose. Fresh Oddly,thisisone ofthe worst choices that you canmake.In ordertopreserve thevegetables lying on the counter, water infused with chlorine is sprayed on the vegetables. Chlorine is a chemical that is horrifically bad for you. It is used, like other chemicals, to kill small bugs (bacteria,etal.)onthefood.Italsokillstheflorainyourintestinesandpoisonsyou. Ifyoudrinktapwater,youshouldalwaysleavingitout(intherefrigerator,nottomakeitcold todrink,buttoslowanybacterialgrowth)sothatthechlorinecanevaporate.Thisisactually importantforyourhealth. DryGoods: Dont eat anything that is in a box or a bag. Often chemicals are added to the food so that the surroundingcardboardboxdoesnotdeterioratebecauseofthefoodwrappedtouchingthebox. Really. I should also point out that heating food covered with plastic in a microwave releases carcinogensontothefood.

PrioritieswhenShopping
Sowhatdoyoueat?Penguins.Seriously,whenyouwalkintoasupermarket(youshouldtrynot to do this but to grow your own food or buy it from a farmer you know is not putting non organic fertilizers on his fields and freeze it yourself), you should have the following pecking orderinyourhead.Eat: 1. Frozen food. It should not come from a foreign country but where you know the food hasnotbeengrownwithpesticidesornonorganicfertilizer.

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Iwouldalsoliketopointoutthatcapitalismhasmanyadvantages,butafewdisadvantagesthat shouldbecounteracted.Grocersmakemoneybyminimizingwaster.Sothefoodthattheyput outhasaslongashelflifeastheycanmakeit.Unfortunately,foodwithhighnutritionalcontent decays quickly. Therefore good food means more waste. They dont want that and limit your choices so that they make the most money possible. This is understandable from both your perspectiveandtheirs.Unfortunately,theirperspectivecanmakeyouill.Theydontcare.Also, whenyougotothestore,youaretrainedtothinkasacapitalist,soyouarealwayslookingfor themostthatyourmoneycanbuy.Thisinvariablymeansthatyouwillchooselowqualityfood becauseitscheaper.Youhavetotrainyourselftoshopforthehighestqualityfoodthatyoucan afford,whichisnothowyou(andmyselfaswell)havebeentrainedtodo.

CitiesandtheIndustrialMentalitytheRealProblem
In the discipline of physics, one of the fundamental laws of nature is that energy is neither creatednordestroyed,justmovedaround.Ifyouthinkthatyoucancreateit,yourboundaries are not set properly. If you reset them, you find that the energy is not created/diminished. With food and how it is grown, our boundaries have become confused. If you have an acre of landanddrawastiffboundaryaroundit,thereisplentyoflandandsoiltofeedyouandyour family. The problem is that the boundaries have become extended. Things pass across the boundariesthatshouldnt.Thisismainlyduetoourmentalityofindustrialprocessesandour overconfidenceinourtechnologyandourownmetalcapabilities.

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Our boundaries are porous. Ingredients are being transferred from one system to another withoutbeingreplenished.Soallofourarable(growable)landisbecomingseriouslydenuded ofnutrients,loweringtheabilityofthelandtoproduce.Letmegivetwoexamplesofthis.For the first one: where I grew up, there was a plain that came down to the lake outside of Chittenango,NY,U.S.A.Thesoilwasblackitwassorich.Theygrewonionsonit.Thelandisnot palegreyandthecropispoor.Thenutrientsinthesoilwereshippedoffthelandtocitieswhere people lived. In another example, lawmakers in New York (mainly from NY City) decided that farmersinNewYorkshouldpayataxforspreadingmanureontheirlands.Afterall,theywere improvingthelandandweremakingitmorevaluable.Therefore,theyshouldbetaxed.Itnever occurredtothemthatthefarmersweretryingdesperatelytoreplacewhatwasbeingshipped off.Soenergywasbeingpreservedinalargersense.Iftheboundariesarebroadenedenough, theamountoforganicmatterisconserved.But,theproblemisthatthenutrientssenttoacity arenotreturnedtothelandwhencethenutrients(food)havebeentaken.Soifyoudrawacircle aroundthelandwherethefoodisgrown,whatleavesasfoodshouldcomebackasfertilizer.It doesnt.Thelandsnutrientbaseisrapidlydeclining. Manybelievethatifweputpetroleumbasedfertilizeronthelandwherethefoodisgrown,then a balance is made. It doesnt work that way. Petroleumbased fertilizers lack much of the nutrients that excrement (brokendown vegetation) provides. The scientific approach in farmingdoesnotwork.Letmegiveaparallelsituationtomakemypoint.Classicalsingerssing badly. We all can tell this because they just dont sound right. Ive been trained to know why. Classical singers are taught to sing on pure vowels. They dissect the sung (for me, spoken) word into discrete units They then put them back together again and sing them. The result is barelyrecognisable.Thereasonforthisisthatthereareinterfacesbetweensoundsthatcannot bewrittendownorannotatedproperlyinanyway.Thereisaslur,aslideoftongueandpalate from one pure sound to the next. So they miss the normal fluid stroke of movements that makeupaspectrumofsoundthatwerecogniseasawordandphrase.Inmathematics,itislike drawingrectanglesunderacurveandsumminguptheareasoftherectanglestofindthearea underthecurve.Nomatterhowhardyoutry,youwillbeoffslightly. Inanecosystemwherefoodisgrown,thecomplexityofthesoilorganismsandinsectsandthe interplayofnutrientsinthesoilaretoocomplexforourmindstofathomwithafewsimplistic addon ingredients. Throwing this fertilizer on the soil and then another to get the soil to functioninordertoreplenishwhatwastakenoffsimplydoesnotwork.Youmissthings.Nature istoocomplexforustohaveasustainablegrowsystemthroughremovingmassivequantitiesof ingredientsthatmakeupthevolumeofvegetablesorfleshbythrowingonpetroleumproducts, antibiotics, calcium, potash, this or that. The interfaces between all of these things are not knownandcannotbesimplisticallygenerated. The solution is to return organic matter for organic matter across the boundary or not allow organicmattertocrosstheboundary.Thatmeansthatyoushouldgrowyourownfoodasmuch aspossible. InthetownwhereIlive,thepeopleareagenerationbehindtheU.S.Oldpeoplestillremember how they grew all of their own food. Mind you, this is in a town, not the countryside. Every househadalargegardenaslargeasthehouseitself(actuallyslightlylarger).Youcanseeiton alloftheoldmaps;youcanhearitinthestoriesthattheolderfolktell.Iftheydidnthavethe room for a larger animal to slaughter, they contracted out to a local farmer for the meat that theyd need or went to the butchers shop. Interestingly, the butchers shop where I live

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(Vasseresse Meats) is cheaper than the supermarket. Yes, grassfed beef is cheaper at the butchersthanmontholdArgentineanimportedbeefwhichiswhatssoldatthegrocerystore. WhoknowswhattheArgentinesfeedtheircattle.IknowthattheMacDonaldfellowinArasaig whoraisesthecattlethatVasseressebutchersdoesntputchemicalfertilizersonhisfieldsnor doeshegivehiscattlesteroids/growthhormones. The point is that you should set the boundaries and try to keep your organics inside the boundaries. If we cold recycle our own excrement and learn how to keep down the possible resulting disease through proper composting, wed be much closer to a healthier life. If we churnthesoilwehaveandtrytoimproveitwhilenotexportingthefoodoffofit,ourownlittle ecosystemwouldbehealthyandvibrant. Maintaining the boundary is difficult. Ill give you an example of a friend of mine whos just a little off the mark, but closer than most people would be to a healthy lifestyle. Kenny keeps chickensandhasagarden.Healsomillshisownlumberandhunts.Ivehadhischickeneggs. Theyre the darkest, richest Ive ever seen, but he gets his feed for them from off of his farmstead. Where does that fed come from? What was in that soil? Hes importing chemicals acrosshisborderwithoutrealizingit.Heneedstomakesurethatheknowsthatthefeedhasnot had antibiotics added and was grown on soil that was not fertilized by petrochemicals. He doesnt.Heneedsto. His story reminds me of another. People want to eat (other) animals that are suited to us as omnivores.Sotheylookforanotheranimalbesideschickenandfishthatissmall.Theybecome interested in raising rabbits. Living in a scientific age and following the problems that I mentionedabove,theywantsimple,shortsolutions.Sotheyfindfeedfortheirrabbits.Itseems that the only acceptable food or rabbits according to everyone is rabbit food pellets. I had no ideathattherearewildrabbitfoodpelletstrees.Whatwouldwildrabbitseatbutfortherabbit food pellets trees? Theyd undoubtedly starve. Where is the boundary? In this case, its a thousandmilesawaywheretheymakepelletsinafactoryandthepelletfooddoesntdecay.You shouldnteatanimalsthateatfaminefood.Yourboundariesareoff.Speakingofwhich,whatis dogfoodandwhywouldyouevergiveyourdogfoodthatcansitinabagforayear?Howcrazy isthat?Whatdowilddogseat?Givethemthat. Theres another point that Id like to make before wrapping this tome up. People gets used to inferior quality things and then see that as the new standard. For example, beef turns slightly brownwithinafewhoursofcuttingit.Peoplegotusedtogrocerystoresthrowingreddyeon themeat,sotheyexpectbeeftoberedallthetime.Ifyoulookcloselyatthecutsofmeatina grocerystore,youcanseewheretheythrowreddyeonthemeatbylookingatthebonesinthe meatthewhitebonesareoftenstainedred.Peoplehavealsogottenusedtoblandeggs,bland turkeyandchickenmeatandahostofothernutritionallydeficientfoods.Peoplegotusedtothe quicklygrownfoodusingsubstandardfeed/fertilizerandnowtheythinkthatitisthestandard. MyfriendgavemeacookbookforChristmaswherealloftherecipesusedingredientsthatall came from packages. Everyone of them. Every ingredient was in a can or bottle. My friend found nothing wrong with this. I did and do. You should eat food as it comes up out of the groundandnotpreservedorprocessedinsomeway.

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Motivation
AsImentionedabove,Ilackedmotivationandfounditinmywife.Ihadknownwhattodofor the most part, I just didnt care. I had been conditioned by my environment and, since my environmenthadntchanged,Icouldntchange.Idgorightbacktothesameoldbehaviourthat wascreatedbymycircumstances.Willingyourselftodosomethingisfutile.Youhavetocreate thecircumstancesaroundyousothatyouwouldnaturallymakeahealthydecisionwhenfaced with a choice. Most of our lives are spent with the back of our brain choosing for us, not our intellect. IlearnedthiswhenIwastaughtItalianschoolsingingandStanislavskiacting.Youshouldnever force yourself to do something through force of will; it doesnt work. You have to seduce yourself.Admittedly,thissoundsweird.Letmeexplain. Singing is structured speech. If you make a difference between speaking and singing (as conservatory singers are trained to do), you sound odd; in effect, youre speaking a foreign languagethatnooneunderstands.Theonlysignificantdifferenceisthatwhenyousing,youre speakingbydeclamation,andfewpeopletodayknowhowtospeakloudlytoassembledpeople wehavemicrophones.PresidentObamadoesnotknowhowtodeclaim;MartinLutherKingJr. does. So consider the reverse. When you speak, youre actually singing. Your vocal chords are vibrating,therefore,theyrecreatingpitch.Mostpeopledontnoticethisbecausethepitchslurs upanddown.Singingisjustmakingthepitchdiscrete.Itslikethedifferencebetweenwalking upahillandwalkingupahillwithstepscarvedintoit.Soheresmypoint.Whenyouareliving you life and you are where you are in the world, you have the pitches that you have. If you openedyourmouthrightnowandsaidsomethingthatwasonyourmind,youwouldproducea seriesofpitchesthatcouldbemappedonacomputerapplication.Theproblemisthatthemusic thatyoumightbeaskedtosingrightnowhaspitches(normallyhighones)thatareoutsideof gamut of any of the pitches that you would speak right now. Conservatory singers force their bodiestomakethosemandatedpitchesbyalteringafewvariables(tongueplacement,airflow, etc.).Unfortunately,yourbodyistoocomplex,therearemanyvariablesthattheconservatory trained singer cant produce. They might try to manage three variables at once (this is impossible;youcanonlytrytodoonethingatanyonetimethisishowyouaretrainedtokill peopleincombat:youshootatthemfromtwopositionsandtheyresoconfusedtheycantfight back). Unfortunately, there are ten to a hundred variables that combine to make that pitch occur. Conservatory trained singers always miss those few nagging points and so constantly misspronounce the sound or sing the wrong pitch. The solution to the problem is to imaging when you would naturally speak that musicallymandated pitch when you are comfortably speaking.Soifyouchangeyourattitude,thepitcheasilypopsout.Really;itworks.Theproblem is,ifyouuseforceonyourbodyasdirectedbyyourintellect,yourbodyreactsasthoughthereis an outside force pushing your body to do the act that your intellect wants. In other words, if someonepointedagunatyourheadandtoldyoutodosomething,yourbodygoesthroughthe sameunconsciousresponses(calledfightorflight)asifyouuseyourwillpower.Thesolution is to deceive your body and seduce it by setting up the circumstances around it so that it naturallydoeswhatyouwantwithoutforce. With food, you have to control your environment (what you have in the house and when you travel) and then you will eat what you should without thought. So you need to remove bread

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anddairyproducts,buyfrozenvegetables,putthevegetablesandthemeatofsmallanimalsin containersforlunchatwork,getapitcheroutandaddtapwaterandputintherefrigeratorto letthechlorineevaporate,removeeverythingthathascaffeineandgetherbaltea,etc.Whenyou gotothestore,youwillhaveaveryoddexperience.Youwontbeabletouseanythinginthe storeexceptforfrozenfoodandfreshmeat.Thegrocerystorewillappeartobebasicallyempty. Sowhenyougethungry,youwilllookforyourusualfoodoutofhabit,butitwontbethere.You willthenlookforasubstitute;youshouldhaveithandy. You can eat as much as you want. It just has to be green vegetables, the flesh from small creatures, and water. If thats too much, thats OK. Just try to remove bread and dairy (even a smallamountcanhurtyou,soyoucanhavenone).

Conclusion
Inconclusion,Ijustwanttoreiteratethatfaminefoodisfoodthathasbeenmanipulatedtoget usthroughthefamineofwinter.Thatfoodincludeswheatandwheatsubstitutes(includingrice, spaghetti,pastaofanykind),pickledfood(includingmostapples),smokedmeat,cornedmeat, alldairy(includingmilkandmilksubstitutes,cheese(includingtofuwhichisaprocessedfood), yoghurt, ice cream, cream for coffee/tea, etc.). To prevent food from decaying as it naturally would,weeitherhavetochangeitsverynaturewhichmakesitbadforus,orwehavetoadd chemicalstoit(smokeparticles,vinegar,chlorine,sugar,TSG,MSG,etc.).Evenifthefoodhasno apparentaddedchemicals,oftenthechemicalsarethere(grapeshavepesticidesalloverthem as do fresh green beans and peas). Also, grocers take advantage of Genetically Modified (GM) vegetablessuchassometomatoeswhichhavealmostnonutritivevalue.Theyaremodifiedso thattheydontdecayontheshelf,savingthegrocermoney.Theresultispaper(cellulose)with aredvegetabledyeexterior.Yougetmorenutritionfromthetomatoeswithhighernutritional valuethattheypulpintosauceor,asmyfrienddoes,blanche,peel,deseed,andfreeze.Hesays thethawedtomatoesarealmostasgoodasfreshtomatoesinpastasauce(heobviouslydoesnt sharemyviewsonwheat). Stayawayfromflavouredwaterifyoucan.Ifyouregoingtohaveacupofcoffeeortea,havea glassofwaterrightbeforetominimizetheeffectsofdehydration.Sodaispoison. Try to have less protein in proportion to the vegetables that you eat. Stay away from large animalmeatlikebeef.Theratioshouldbe1:2,meat:vegetables.Trytoeatgreenvegetables insteadofroot(carrots,potatoes,onions)orwhitevegetables(likechoy).Eatsomefruits,but notalot. Donteatordrinkflavouredwatertwotothreehoursbeforeyougotobed. If you do this diet, you will notice that you will be less hungry. Since youre not on a sugar rollercoaster,yourbloodsugarlevelswillevenout.Oncethishappens,youmightwanttotryto fast(fewerthan500caloriesaday)onceinawhileforadayortwoaweek.Itwilllowerbad cholesterolandraisegoodcholesterol.Yourbodywillalsotrytohealitselfinsteadofbeingin an active, producing state. This is actually very easy and causes no stress. If you routinely eat wheatproducts,fastingisverydifficult,emotionallypainful,andannoying.Idontnoticeitatall nowsinceIdonteatdairy,wheatorwheatsubstitutes.

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RecentDevelopments
SinceIcameheretoNovaScotiaandchangedmydiet,thesearethechangesIvenoticed(asof 05July,2013):
Inowweigh170lbs.Ivelost35lbs. Ifeelbetteramlessdepressed. Ihavemoreenergyandamlesshungry.

Ivealsoreachedaplateauwithweightloss.Imnottryingtoloseweight,buthavedecidedto continue with eating along the lines of the diet Ive mentioned above. So I have now stopped eatingwheatsubstitutesandalsorootvegetablesexceptforflavourfoodssuchasgarlic.Well seewhathappens. I also wonder about soap. My face gets a bit numb when I leave home in the morning and I wonderifsoapisthecause.Soapisoriginallymadebypouringwateroverashes.Youcollectthe liquid(calledlye)andaddittosomethingthatthinsandholdsitabit(likepurifiedanimalfat). Theproblemis,ashisacarcinogen.Iwonderofitseffectsonme.Ialsowonderaboutfluoride. Fluoride was found to be the reason why a tribe of Native Americans had little tooth decay. I havenocavitiesorfillingsbecauseoffluorideinmywaterandtoothpaste.Istilldowonderabit aboutitthough. Illkeepthisupdatedifanythingchanges...