"In the most general terms, there are but two world views.One can take the view that life is sacred or that life is a commodity.A sacred view of life gives birth to feelings of duty, protection, and love.It emphasizes values of joy, beauty, happiness, and caring and sets up an internal constraint against the exploitation of other individuals, groups, or species.Our word sacred comes from the Latin sacer from the root seen also in sanus, sane.A sacred view of life, then, is a sane view of life.A commodity view is interested in profit, domination, and control.It seeks to "gain the world" and subjugate it to the will of man (and only "the fittest" men at that).At the core of the commodity view of life are two seeds: individual self-interest economics and man against nature technology. Planet Earth is choking on these seeds."
The usual prescription for MS is a cartload of highly toxic medications. But a number of natural methods can produce a profound effect on this debilitating disease.
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
Before I delve into the topic at hand, I want to remind you that the information imparted here are my personal findings and recommendations – the result of seeing some 20,000 patients or more, and doing my own research within the field of natural medicine. It’s by no means a comprehensive or decisive review.
I urge you to add your own comments in the forum below, called Vital Votes. Many of you have knowledge and insights into disorders like multiple sclerosis that I do not, and it’s only by sharing our knowledge that we, as a community, can create a body of effective solutions for those who struggle with these types of diseases.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a very serious illness, and I used to dread when people came to my office with MS because there really wasn’t much I could do for them. Since that time, and in researching a vast array of natural health therapies, I realized there are a number of different strategies available, some of which I’ll share with you here.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
MS is a chronic, degenerative disease of the nerves in your brain and spinal column, caused through a demyelization process.
Myelin is the insulating, waxy substance around the nerves in your central nervous system, and when the myelin is damaged by an autoimmune disease or self-destructive process in your body, then the function of those nerves deteriorate over time, resulting in a number of symptoms, including:
Muscle weakness
Imbalance, or loss of coordination
Astigmatism
Tremors
If you go the conventional route, you should know that neurologists (the specialists who typically monitor these types of diseases) routinely prescribe a variety of very toxic and dangerous medications to their MS patients that in no way shape or form address the underlying cause of the disease.
It is my strong recommendation to not accept these drugs, and if you’re already on them, to wean yourself off, as they are some of the most toxic drugs used in the field of medicine. These drugs include:
Prednisone, a steroid hormone that can significantly impair your immune system, and cause diseases like osteoporosis and cataracts
Interferon. This drug is quite deceptive, because even though it’s a natural substance, it’s typically given in a dose that shuts down your body’s natural feedback loop. As a result, it tends to do more harm than good
Fortunately, there are many alternatives to these toxic treatment methods offered by conventional medicine.
How to Treat Muscular Sclerosis Without Dangerous Drugs
Many of the recommended strategies for MS are identical to the principles I’ve been teaching on my site for years, but a few stand out as being specifically applicable to the treatment of an autoimmune disease such as MS.
Optimize your vitamin D levels – As with virtually all other autoimmune diseases, optimizing your vitamin D levels is an essential step. Ideally, your level should be somewhere between 70-90 ng/ml, which is done through a simple blood test. I recommend using LabCorp for this if you’re in the U.S.
Ideally you’ll want to raise (and maintain) your vitamin D levels by regularly exposing large amounts of your skin to sunshine, or by using a safe tanning bed.
If for any reason neither is available to you, you can use an oral supplement of vitamin D3. Doses for an oral supplement could be as high as 10,000 IU’s a day depending on your current level, so it’s very important to monitor your levels regularly.
Personally, I believe it’s medical malpractice to treat someone with an autoimmune disease and not address and monitor their vitamin D levels.
Optimize your essential fat intake – Secondly, you need to make sure you’re getting a good supply of essential fats, such as omega-3s.
Part of optimizing your essential fats includes avoiding damaged, processed fats found in most all processed foods. Especially damaging are the omega-6 fats found in soy-, canola-, and corn oil. These are usually highly oxidized and also contain trans fats and cyclic fats that imbed themselves into your cell membranes, distorting the cellular functions.
You’ll also want to increase your intake of healthy omega-3 fats. My favorite is an animal-based source such as krill oil, or fish oil. But plant-based fats high in ALA are very beneficial as well. Good sources include flax seed and chia seeds.
Eliminate sugar – Another crucial element is to eliminate as much sugar as possible from your diet. Cutting out processed foods will go a long way to reduce excess sugar, in addition to eliminating the majority of damaging fats in your diet.
Eat raw food – This is an important principle for optimal health that I normally recommend for everyone. However, I’ve found that for people with severe autoimmune disease, it’s even more important. Some of the most dramatic improvements we’ve seen in patients using nutritional changes have come about as the result of eating their food raw instead of cooked. That includes eggs and high-quality, organic meats as well.
Supplements and Other Helpful Strategies
There are a number of supplements that can be helpful as well, including:
Low-dose Naltrexone and alpha lipoic acid – One of the newer ones is low dose Naltrexone (LDN), along with alpha lipoic acid. Naltrexone (generic name) is a pharmacologically active opioid antagonist, conventionally used to treat drug- and alcohol addiction – normally at doses of 50mg to 300mg. As such, it’s been an FDA approved drug for over two decades.
However, researchers have found that at very low dosages (3 to 4.5 mg), naltrexone has immunomodulating properties that may be able to successfully treat cancer malignancies and a wide range of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s, fibromyalgia, and Crohn’s disease, just to name a few.
As explained on the informative website www.lowdosenaltrexone.org, when you take LDN at bedtime -- which blocks your opioid receptors for a few hours in the middle of the night -- it is believed to up-regulate vital elements of your immune system by increasing your body’s production of metenkephalin and endorphins (your natural opioids), hence improving immune function.
Dr. Bert Berkson is an expert on this regimen. For more information about his findings and successes using this combination, please review this previous article. If you’re a member of my Inner Circle, you will have already received the full interview with Dr. Berkson on this topic.
Mercury detox – Mercury is clearly a neurotoxic poison that should be avoided, so avoiding eating fish and refusing or removing mercury dental amalgams are also important aspects. Many still do not realize that the majority of a “silver” filling is in fact mercury, and despite its obvious risks mercury fillings are still used in the field of dentistry.
We are making strong efforts to have mercury eliminated from dental practices in the U.S. and will hopefully succeed in that mission within the next few years. Until then, however, it’s up to you to choose a dentist that has the good sense not to use it.
Additionally, there are now a few new supplements to help eliminate mercury from your system. One in particular that appears to be very effective, developed by Dr. Boyd Haley, is called Oxidative Stress Reliever, or OSR for short.
Very Important to Address All Early Childhood Emotional Traumas
I also want to emphasize the emotional component of autoimmune disease.
Just as vitamin D deficiency seems to be present in most cases of autoimmune disease, there is also typically an emotional element involved.
More often than not, some form of hidden emotional wound can be found in patients suffering with autoimmune diseases like MS. Typically, this wounding occurred at a very young age, almost always before the age of seven; typically before the age of five.
At that age your consciousness is not yet well formed, and it’s easy to incur a serious emotional insult that would not have been nearly as devastating if you’d been a few years older.
Frequently, these emotional injuries result in physical damage decades later, and we’ve found that without effective intervention to address these underlying emotional injuries, you may not be able to get significantly better.
Strategies like meditation, prayer, and energy psychology techniques are particularly effective and need to be part of your overall treatment strategy in order to truly address the root of your illness.
By applying these principles and others available on this site, we’ve seen phenomenal results, and I'm confident that if you suffer from MS and apply them, you too will notice a dramatic improvement in your condition.
God's Pharmacy! Amazing! A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes. A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All o f the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food. Grapeshang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food. A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function. Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body. Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them). Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility. Sweet Potatoeslook like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics. Olivesassist the health and function of the ovaries
Oranges, Grapefruits, and otherCitrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts. Onionslook like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
(NaturalNews) For decades, people have begun to choose vegan and vegetarian diets over more resource-consuming standard diets. The last ten years have also given rise to an additional type of earth-conscious eater: the raw vegan. People choose these diets for health, environmental, animal rights, and also spiritual reasons. Now we sit on the threshold of a new global issue that requires our awareness and action: rapidly arising global climate change. We can help to combat this change with our dietary choices. The newest diet to directly address this issue is increasingly known as the "Low Carbon Diet."
Our diet is one of the largest causes of greenhouse gas emissions
Some estimates predict that one third of our greenhouse gas emissions comes from our food and agriculture industries (1).
(NaturalNews) Executives from Baxter, Novartis, Glaxo-Smith Kline, and Sanofi Pasteur have seats at the advisory group that on July 13th recommended mandatory H1N1 vaccination of everyone in all 194 countries that belong to the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a report just issued by journalist Jane Burgermeister. WHO spokesperson Alphaluck Bhatiasevi confirmed that Dr. Margaret Chan did not give the press briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva as anticipated. At short notice, Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny stepped in to announce that "vaccines will be needed in all countries."
According to WHO documents, vaccines "such as those that are formulated with oil-in-water adjuvants and live attenuated influenza vaccines are important." Health workers, pregnant women, healthy young adults of 15 to 49 years, and healthy children will be the targeted groups of the world wide vaccine effort.
The European Union got strongly admonished this month by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) after the release of a report that is more than a decade late and comes to disheartening conclusions. The EU is giving only 0.1% of its budget to nature protection, with drastic consequences. Due to the miniscule investment in protecting wildlife, more than half of European habitats and species are under threat of extinction.
With the EU putting in so little money for the protection of its animals and natural places, it is no wonder the results are so unfavorable for plants and animals. The likelihood that this wildlife will survive is a reflection of the 0.1% the EU is putting in for them.
Andreas Baumüller, from the WWF’s European Policy Office, says: “Each European citizen pays every year about 300 euro to the European Union, but just 30 cents are used to safeguard our natural heritage.”
As a result of the poor investment in conservation, 65% of habitats and 52% of species are in bad or unfavorable condition.
National Hotdog Day celebrates global warming, animal cruelty and chronic disease by Virginia Messina, MPH, RD July 22, 2009 Link to full article below
There is some confusion about the exact date of National Hotdog Day. Some say July 19, others celebrate on July 21, 22, or 23. But no matter; there is never a good day to eat hotdogs. Here are three reasons why hotdogs should be off the menu today and every day.
Hotdogs promote cancer. When a food is linked to cancer risk, it’s usually high intakes that are dangerous. But the American Institute for Cancer Research—a nonprofit group that closely evaluates links between diet and cancer—found no safe level for consumption of processed meats like hotdogs. That means that any intake may increase risk for cancer.
Modest fisheries reduction could protect vast coastal ecosystems Science Centric 22 July 2009 Link to full article below
A reduction of as little as five per cent in fisheries catch could result in as much as 30 per cent of the British Columbia coastal ecosystems being protected from overfishing, according to a new study from the UBC Fisheries Centre.
The study, by Natalie Ban and Amanda Vincent of Project Seahorse, proposes modest reductions in areas where fisheries take place, rather than the current system of marine protected areas which only safeguard several commercially significant species, such as rockfish, shrimp, crab, or sea cucumber. The article is published today in PLoS ONE, an online journal of the Public Library of Science,
Using B.C.'s coastal waters as a test case, the study affirms that small cuts in fishing - if they happen in the right places - could result in very large unfished areas. For example, a two per cent cut could result in unfished areas covering 20 per cent of the B.C. coast, offered real conservation gains.
North Carolina to Ban Mountaintop Wind? By Kate Galbraith July 22, 2009 Link to full article below
Some North Carolina politicians consider this type of thing an aesthetic blight — and want to ban it from the state’s peaks and ridgelines.
A furious battle over the aesthetics of wind energy has erupted in North Carolina, where lawmakers are weighing a bill that would bar giant turbines from the state’s scenic western ridgelines.
The big machines would “destroy our crown jewel,” said Martin Nesbitt, a state senator who supports the ban, according to a report in The Winston-Salem Journal.
The New Wave of Solar-Thermal Energy By Michael Scott Moore July 22, 2009 Link to full article below
A consortium of 12 firms wants to provide Europe with up to 15 percent of its energy from African solar-thermal sources by about 2020.Desertec Foundation
Where did Desertec come from (and why did it take so long)?
Large-scale solar power may still be a shimmering mirage on the desert's edge, but since last week, when a group of European companies laid out a half-trillion-dollar plan for a solar power plant in North Africa, it's a mirage with international financing. Siemens and a consortium of 11 other firms want to provide Europe with up to 15 percent of its energy from African solar-thermal sources by about 2020.
Navajo Nation pledges to go green July 22, 2009 Link to full article below
The Navajo Nation says it is going green.
On Tuesday, the Navajo National Council voted to enact the Navajo Green Economy Commission, which would oversee the use of federal, state and private funds for green job initiatives. Through the measure, community members could apply for funding to create projects that the commission deems "green."
"We're encouraging our people to come back and create weavers' co-ops and farmers' markets and revitalize our agriculture," said Nikke Alex, who works for the Black Mesa Water Coalition and organizes young people for the Navajo Green Jobs Coalition.
Trading Places: IPCC Boss Slams U.S. Plan for Carbon Tariffs By Keith Johnson July 22, 2009 Link to full article below
The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, is the latest to take aim at U.S. “carbon tariffs” that would be slapped on imports from countries that don’t take steps to reduce emissions.
He said carbon tariffs undermine the chances of a global deal on climate change by angering developing countries. AP reports:
“This is a dangerous thing, and I think people in Congress must understand this,” said Pachauri, who spoke with the AP after he addressed the National Press Club. “Please don’t use this weapon. I’m afraid that those that have been pushing these provisions probably don’t realize that all of this can cause a major negative reaction,” Pachauri added. “The United States has always stood for a free market system. … Legislation to move away from that principle is clearly counterproductive.”
NEW BRANCH OF ARCHITECTURE Grow Your Own Skyscraper By Philip Bethge 07/22/2009 Link to full article below
Three young German architects are designing structures made completely out of living trees, including a pavilion for concerts in downtown Stuttgart. But designing the ultimate treehouse turns out to be trickier than one might expect.
Ferdinand Ludwig grows trees on trees. That's what he does. And he has grafted together -- trunk to top, top to trunk -- seven young willow trees.
At the moment a scaffold supports the young architect's unusual tree tower. The roots of individual trees protrude sideways and into containers of soil. But soon the roots will be cut off. And "at that point," the young architect says, "the trees will finally have merged into a single organism."
Ludwig calls this technique "plant addition." To do it, he uses one-year-old willows that are thin and flexible but at least 10 meters (33 feet) long. Once the willows have matured to full strength, the strands will be able to support the eight-meter (26-foot) tower that Ludwig plans to begin building near Lake Constance in southern Germany at the end of July, as though they were steel beams.
Note: I have been corresponding with the Union Health Minister and his department on this subject since 2006. Neither the Minister nor the Ministry have any answer to these points.. Even when Dr Abdul Kalam, then President, raised the subject based on my inputs there was no sincere attempt to clarify the position. I have since then continuously educated the doctors on the subject. I have also written to the current President, Vice President, PM, Sonia, the NHRC, NCPCR, CM's of various states, MP's of various political parties and all the medical institutions I can think of. I have also written to the WHO, GAVI, UNICEF & PATH, premier institutions that promote this highly controversial medical intervention . Doctors sympathetic to the cause opine that unless the public realise the dangers from vaccines it will be very difficult to stop this industry sponsored menace. You will agree that there should be a public debate on vaccines, otherwise the unfortunate children do not stand a chance.
There is no scientific study to determine whether vaccines have really prevented diseases. Rather disease graphs show vaccines have been introduced at the fag end of epidemics when the disease was already in its last stages. In case of Small Pox the vaccine actually caused a great spurt in the incidence of disease before public outcry led to its withdrawal. There are no long-term studies on vaccine safety. Very short-term tests are carried out where the vaccinated subjects are checked against another group who are given another vaccine. Technically the tests should be carried out against a non-vaccinated group. No one really knows what protocols are followed at such industry-sponsored trials. There has never been any official attempt to compare a vaccinated population against a non vaccinated population to know what vaccines are doing to the children and the society. Independent private studies (Dutch & German) have revealed that vaccinated children suffer much more than their un-vaccinated counterparts. The child receives not one but many vaccines. There are no tests to determine the effects of multiple vaccines. There is no scientific basis for vaccinating infants. As per senior doctors quoted by the Times of India, "Children suffer from less that 2% of vaccine preventable illnesses but 98% of the vaccines are targeted towards them." The vaccine pioneers who have recommended abundant caution before vaccinating the population have never advocated mass vaccinations. Children are vaccinated simply because parents can be frightened to forcefully vaccinate their children. Vaccinating infants is the most profitable business both for the manufacturers as well as the doctors. Infants, who are advised ONLY mothers milk till the age of six months and beyond because their fragile system will not tolerate anything else are given 30 extremely toxic vaccine shots, including booster doses, an act that defies both logic and science. The Government of India has come out with a quarter page advertisement in The Hindu warning parents not to vaccinate beyond the Government approved vaccines. Parents have been advised against vaccinating in private clinics and hospitals. The Orissa Chapter of the Indian Association of Pediatricians has admitted in a letter to the CM, Orissa, that private clinics and hospitals are ill equipped to store vaccines and warned parents not to vaccinate upon the advise of private practitioners and hospitals. ALL THE VACCINE INGREDIENTS ARE EXTREMELY TOXIC IN NATURE. Vaccines contain heavy metals, cancer causing substances, toxic chemicals, live and genetically modified viruses, contaminated serum containing animal viruses and foreign genetic material, extremely toxic de-contaminants and adjuvants, untested antibiotics, none of which can be injected without causing any harm. The mercury, aluminum and live viruses in vaccines may be behind the huge epidemic of autism (1 in 10 worldwide as per doctors in the USA, 1 in 37 as per a private study by doctors in New Delhi), a fact that (vaccines cause autism) has been admitted by the US Vaccine Court. The CDC of USA, the vaccine watchdog, has publicly admitted that its much-publicized 2003 study denying any link between vaccines and autism, is flawed. The Chief of CDC Dr Gerberding has confessed to the media (CNN) that vaccines can cause "autism like symptoms". The Autism epidemic is found only in those countries that have allowed mass vaccinations. In the year 1999, the US Government instructed vaccine manufacturers to remove mercury from vaccines "with immediate effect". But mercury still remains a part of many vaccines. The vaccines with mercury were never recalled and were given to children up to the year 2006. "Mercury free" vaccines contain 0.05mcg of mercury, enough to permanently damage a infant. As per an American Academy of Pediatricians study: "Mercury in all of its forms is toxic to the fetus and children and efforts should be made to reduce exposure to the extent possible to pregnant women and children as well as the general population." IN INDIA NO ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE TO ENSURE THAT MERCURY AND OTHER HEAVY METALS ARE REMOVED FROM VACCINES SIMPLY BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE VACCINES COSTLIER. In a reply to then President Sri Abdul Kalam, the Health Ministry informed, "mercury is required to make the vaccines safe". To the author's query that "what are these vaccines that it requires the second most dangerous neurotoxin, mercury, to make them safe?", there was no reply. Mercury used in vaccines is second in toxicity only to the radioactive substance, Uranium. It is a neurotoxin that can damage the entire nervous system of the infant in no time. Mercury accumulates in fat. The brain being made mostly of fat cells, most of the mercury accumulates there giving rise to the peculiar symptoms of the autistic children. The mercury used in vaccines is ethyl mercury. According to Indian doctors this is an industrial toxin and is 1000 times more toxic than the usual methyl mercury. The aluminum present in vaccines makes the mercury, in any form, 100 times more toxic. As per an independent study aluminum and formaldehyde present in vaccines can increase the toxicity of mercury, in any form, by 1000 times. As per a Tehelka article on Autism, if one considers the WHO limit for mercury in water, they are receiving 50,000 times the limit. The limits set, incidentally, are for adults and not infants. Autism in India has emerged as the most rapidly growing epidemic amongst children. As per a private study done by doctors in New Delhi, from 1 in 500 it has steadily climbed to 1 in 37 today. As per Indian doctors, "You can go to any class of any school today and find an autistic child." Autism is a permanent disability that affects the child physically, mentally and emotionally. It makes the child loose social contact. It impedes both the physical and mental growth of the child. It destroys the brain causing severe memory and attention problems.The majority of symptoms displayed by autistic children match symptoms of heavy metal poisoning. According to vaccine researcher Dr Harris Coulter, vaccines cause children to become pervert and criminal. Majority of the school shootings by the children in the USA have been committed by autistic children. Vaccines can cause more harm that even the medical community privately acknowledges. Autistic children also suffer from severe bowel disorders. As per Dr Andrew Wakefield, this is due to the vaccine strain live measles virus in the MMR vaccine. Nearly all children become fully autistic after the MMR shot. As per a recent study the MMR vaccine has an adverse effect on the vital mucosal immune system. The very basis of trying to prevent childhood Mumps and Measles has been questioned in this study. The DPT also causes children to regress giving rise to fears that multiple live virus vaccines are an important cause behind autism. If three live viruses can cause so much harm we can well imagine what today’s five and seven viruses vaccines will do to children. Before the autism epidemic, it was already well known that vaccines have caused the cancer epidemic in today’s society. Both the Small Pox and the Oral Polio Vaccine are made from monkey serum. This serum has helped many cancer causing monkey viruses, 60 found so far (SV 1 to SV60), to enter the human blood stream. As per recent revelations these viruses continue to be in the vaccines. It is also known that it is the use of green monkey serum in vaccines that has led to the transfer of the Simian Immune deficiency Virus (SIV) from monkeys into humans. The SIV and the HIV that causes AIDS are very similar. Not only AIDS, a blood cancer in infants (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) that is affecting children in thousands may also be primarily due to the extremely toxic nature of vaccine ingredients injected directly into the blood stream. Infantile jaundice and also infantile diabetes is also scientifically connected to the toxic vaccines. The live polio viruses used in the Oral Polio Vaccine has caused Vaccine Attributed Paralytic Polio in more than 1,25,000 children (up to the year 2006) as per doctors of the Indian Medical Association and the Jana Swasthya Abhiyan. The OPV has also let loose a new strain of polio in both India and Africa. The OPV is banned in the USA & European countries. Vaccines contain serum from not only chimpanzees and monkeys but also from cows, pigs, chickens, eggs, horses, and even human serum and tissues extracted from aborted fetuses.. Deaths and permanent disability from vaccines is very common and known by the medical community. They are instructed by the Government to keep quiet and not to associate such cases with vaccines. Many doctors argue that diseases during childhood are due to the body exercising its immune system. Suppressing these diseases causes the immune system to remain undeveloped causing the various autoimmune disorders like diabetes and arthritis that have become epidemics today. Vaccines suppress the natural immunity and the body does not have natural antibodies anymore. The mothers milk therefore does not contain natural antibodies and can no longer protect the child against illnesses. By stimulating humoral (blood related) immunity alone vaccines have caused an imbalance in the whole immune set up leading to an alarming increase in auto immune disorders. This is acknowledged by the immunologists themselves. In the USA vaccine adverse effects are recorded and the Government offers compensation of millions of dollars to victims (the most recent case in its Vaccine Court may have received upto $200 million in damages). The Indian Government simply refuses to acknowledge that vaccines can cause deaths and permanent disability. It has been scientifically proven that vaccines cannot prevent disease. Vaccines try to create humoral (blood related immunity) whereas it has been found that immunity is developed at various levels, humoral as well as cellular. We still do not know enough about the human immune system and therefore should not interfere with it. In the USA parents are informed about vaccine after effects and their consent has to be taken before vaccinating their children. In India the Government assures the population through massive advertising campaigns that vaccines are extremely safe. Parents refusing to vaccinate are threatened by the administration. THERE IS NO SYSTEM OF TREATMENT TO TREAT A VACCINE DAMAGED CHILD. The parents have to run from one hospital to another. The Government turns a blind eye and refuses to even acknowledge the vaccine connection. Attempts by private practitioners worldwide to treat vaccine damaged children by flushing out heavy metals and toxins from the body have been frowned upon and discouraged. Senior medical doctors have challenged even the vaccines recommended by the Government of India. The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis has been extensively tested in India as long back as 1961 and found to be totally ineffective. The OPV is causing polio and other neurological and intestinal disorders in tens of thousands of Indian children. The Hep-B vaccine introduced recently is not meant for children at all, it is a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease that should be targeted only at promiscuous adults. The tetanus vaccine contains both aluminum and mercury besides the tetanus toxoid. The doctors themselves avoid giving the DPT to their children and relatives as per a survey amongst US health care professionals. The measles vaccine is a vaccine that regularly causes severe adverse effects and the health workers I have interviewed want it out. The pediatricians are introducing dubious vaccines in India, which are being opposed by the doctors, politicians, and public in American and European countries. The Rotavirus vaccine, Hib vaccine, HPV vaccine and the various multi virus vaccines being introduced without any kind of testing is only because the vaccine manufacturers and the doctors administering them want to ensure a good income from them. They care two hoots about medical ethics and the fate of the children who will receive these vaccines. Vaccines containing nano particles and viruses and also plant based genetically modified vaccines are being opposed by honest doctors worldwide. Various independent studies, notably the Dutch and the more recent German study, comparing vaccinated with unvaccinated children have found that vaccinated children are prone to asthma, dermatitis, allergies, hyperactivity etc. The death rate amongst vaccinated children is much more than the unvaccinated ones. Vaccines, being a mass medical program which is accepted without question, becomes the perfect launching pad for bioterrorism. The powerful countries can spread lethal epidemics by just polluting the vaccines with bio warfare agents. The USA has handed over vaccine research to a bioterrorism research unit called the BARDA which functions under the Pentagon. A warning to this effect has been sounded by the Vice President IAP in a letter to the DGHS. Besides "investigating" into the small pox virus, it is reported that a "weapons grade" bird flu vaccine has already been devised by the Pentagon to be used as biowarfare agents. Vaccines have also been used to ensure population control. A batch of the tetanus vaccine has been used in many Asian countries to make the female population sterile. This was done by introducing a hormone that by inducing antibodies would abort the foetus when it is formed. In India, Saheli, a NGO fighting for the rights of women filed a PIL against this when the fact surfaced. Mercury, a part of vaccines, is known to interfere with the endocrine system and induce sterility in both males and females. Through a new Public Health Bill that is being drafted the Government of India is planning to introduce forced vaccinations and threaten anti-vaccination activists with steep fines and jail terms. This is obviously at the instance of foreign (read US) vaccine giants who are shifting base to India reeling at the tremendous opposition to vaccines in US and European countries. The Govt of India is planning a "vaccine park" at Chennai where these vaccine MNCs will set up base. This itself is an act of bioterrorism which ironically the proposed bill seeks to oppose. As per the IOM, USA, vaccine research for a probable link between vaccines and autism should not be conducted. The Institute of Medicine in its last report on vaccines and autism in 2004 said that more research on the vaccine question is counterproductive: Finding a susceptibility to this risk in some infants would call into question the universal vaccination strategy that is a bedrock of immunization programs and could lead to widespread rejection of vaccines. The IOM concluded that efforts to find a link between vaccines and autism "must be balanced against the broader benefit of the current vaccine program for all children". What does this add up to? Infants should be sacrificed in order to perpetuate an unscientific procedure?
The above points are not exhaustive. For a more detailed article please write to me at jagchat01@yahoo.com.
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Dear Dr _____, Namaste. I am sorry I got your name wrong the first time. The title of my article is now "50 Reasons to Protect Infants from Vaccines", as I have added 5 more points. I can add much more but that would test the patience of the readers. An article very similar to mine by Dr Guy Lanctot, MD, appears here;
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/vaccinationsilentgenocide14nov05.shtml Before I reply to your arguments I wish to emphasize a few points. Science is about discovering the truth about the physical universe. Truth which is measurable and verifiable. There is no bias in science. It just states the fact for the society to interprete it and apply it. Science is guided by ethics and morality. The findings are utilised to serve humanity. Technology is about putting scientific theory into practice. As far as I have read, it is about harnessing science to serve mankind. There is a lot more human interference with technology than with science. Often scientific findings are compromised to make technology viable. This is not bad in itself if the intentions are good and the aim laudable. Todays technology is dominated by the industry. Private enterprise is about earning profits. It is known that laws can be circumvented even legally as laws are subject to various interpretations. Scientific institutions today are funded by private enterprises. If a scientific institution conducts a study sponsored by private enterpreneurs it gets paid only if the findings are favourable to the sponsor. This is particularly true of the medical industry. It often happens that the data of the institution may be honestly generated but intentionally misinterpreted to suit industry needs. We know that the Lancet, a premier medical journal, has conceded that it has no way to verify the research articles published in it. This is also true of other journals. It is up to each individual scientist to be ethical so that science prevails over industry profitability. I will point out to the issue of mercury in vaccines. The vaccine decontaminant Thiomersal is 49.56% ethylmercury by weight. Ethylmercury is an industrial toxin whose use is fraught with great dangers. The bottles of Thiomersal have the skull and dagger mark on them. Thiomersal has been pushed out of many a medical product because of its severe toxicity. Products using Thiomersal have been recalled from the market. Mercury in its any form is known to be dangerous. A study by the Americam Academy of Pediatricians has clearly stated that mercury is particularly dangerous for the pregnant mother and the infant. However study after study in the USA reveals that Thiomersal is safe. The latest study hopes to "put at rest all doubts". The doctors who are sympathetic to my cause and medical scientists scoff at such studies. I am personally aware of meetings in the Health Ministry that have discussed this very sensitive issue. Even then mercury will not be shifted out of vaccines. Even "mercury free" vaccines contain this heavy metal.
This is because, as intimated to me officially by the Govt of India, mercury is essential to "make vaccines safe". Without this decontaminant the vaccines would cause "more harm". I wish to also define this "harm". Vaccines consists of bacteria and viruses that are cultured in animal tissues and serum. This is the prime source of contamination. You talk about "pure vaccines". There is no such thing as a pure vaccine, the term is an oxymoron. There have been attempts to replace Thiomersal by 2Phenoxyethelene, another very dangerous neurotoxin. But the results, as informed to me, are "not encouraging". I have with me the PPT presentation that was used by a very senion health ministry official that details all this. I cannot share it with you. So mercury continues to be pumped into infants. Along with that goes live and genetically modified bacteria and viruses, contaminated serum, heavy metals like mercury and aluminum, carcinogens like formaldehyde and monosodium glutamate, antibiotics that ought not to be injected without skin prick tests and God alone knows what else. The other aspect of this "harm" is the effect on the financial health of vaccine manufacturers and even the government. The manufacturers would be inundated with court cases if by chance an "official study" concedes that Thiomersal can cause harm. As it is, in the US itself, around 8000 cases are pending against the industry. The first case has been decided upon and has gone in favour of the complainant setting back the US Govt by several hundred million dollars, as assumed by activists as the amount of compensation has not been revealed. In a case where the amount was revealed the compensation was seventy eight million dollars. No wonder both the government and the industry are jittery. The industry has appealed to the government to shut down operations. The US Govt's response has been to grant immunity to vaccine manufacturers, put up a special "vaccine court" and put a surcharge of $60 per vaccine to set up a vaccine damage compensation fund. In India, the government is in no position to even have "mercury free" vaccines. The process of removing mercury from the end product (mercury is used in the process) will increase the cost of vaccine 4 to 5 times. The government cannot afford this. The very fact that "scientific studies" repeatedly stress that the presence of mercury, aluminum, squalene and other toxic ingredients in vaccines are "safe" to be injected into infants makes me wary of such studies in the official domain. Thus I prefer to state the facts to people without depending upon distorted studies. The parents need to have all the information they have before they decide to vaccinate. That vaccines are dangerous is openly conceded and even declared in writing by the biotechnology department of the Govt of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, who promise that genetically engineered and plant based vaccines would relieve the burden on children who are now injected with animal serum, heavy metals and other toxins. What they don't say that the health effects of genetically engineered vaccines will also never be revealed. Regarding the points raised by you I have already sent a detailed article which will answer many of your questions. I have also sent you a link which clearly shows the disease graphs based upon US Govt data and the fact that vaccines have been introduced at the fag end.
The government announcement in the Hindu has found mention in an article in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics by Dr Jacob Puliyel who is a very senior IMA member and the Co Chairman of the IMA immunisation committee. I have mentioned the name of the article in the article sent to you. The IAP, Orissa, instructions appeared only on print and not on the net (like the TOI article) and I will send it to you separately. I must also mention that scarlet fever and the plague have come and gone without vaccines "eradicating" them. Your contention about empirical evidence should also be applied to the fact that illnesses amongst children have shot through the roof after vaccines have been introduced. Why should this evidence be ignored? The nature of vaccine ingredients and the harm they cause can be found here;
http://www.vaccination.inoz.com/ingredie.html Regarding vaccine safety and testing, a CDC website states, "No matter how extensive the testing, it is impossible to allow completely for the infinite variation among individuals, their immune systems, and their reactions to the introduction of new substances into their bodies. Serious systemic reactions to vaccines can occur, although they are very rare." However such reactions are not rare as revealed by the growing epidemic of diseases amongst children who are clearly showing signs and symptoms of the ingredients they are being injected with. Vaccines are never tested against a plain placebo. The usual procedure is to either test it against a comparable vaccine or a diluted version of the same vaccine. This newsreport will educate you;
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/1079/1/How-Are-Vaccines-Tested.html In India vaccines and drugs have been tested without even the participant's knowledge. A case in North India revealed that an experimental vaccine was tested on pregnant women. This was widely reported by the press. Such trials are carried out in other countries too;
Homeless_die_in_Poland_of_bird-flu_vaccine/UPI-39641215100179/ Vaccine tests leave a lot to be desired. An unbiased report, the full version of which has been pulled out of the net, points out, as salient points: " How vaccines are tested - typically a new vaccine is tested on 10,000 - 20,000 people before the FDA approves it, is this enough to reliably detect rare complications?... Two safety lapses - in two recent cases, vaccine-safety agencies were slow to act on emerging problems... The antivaccine argument - arguments and suppositions of antivaccine activists... Compensating the injured - the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created in 1988, funded by a small tax on every lot of vaccine, it is an insurance plan against childhood-vaccine injuries..." This study points out that vaccines are a matter of "trust".
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/181126/292 Doctors are instructed not to report vaccine damage. This was publicly admitted by the IMA when it blew the whistle on the OPV and the cases of paralysis caused by it. The government had instructed physicians not to report damage. Personally I would request you to pose as a ordinary non medical person and take a vaccine damaged child to a pediatrician. You will yourself realise how the system works. I have taken many such children to doctors and have received open threats. A doctor, Dr P... M...., who is a office bearer of the Indian Academy of Pediatricians openly challenged me that, "no doctor will "dare" certify that this child is vaccine damaged." That is the system for you. In case of the OPV the IMA has pointed out that the vaccine surveillance system reports only up to 5% of cases. There are no official studies comparing vaccinated versus non vaccinated children. Activists have all along been shouting for such studies. The findings of independent studies can be found here;
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/unvax.html For presence of monkey viruses in vaccines I will cite an official study so that you will be at ease. This article states that SV 40 is not cancerous and yet details all the steps that are taken to keep vaccines SV40 free (just as the US Govt repeatedly says that Thiomersal is extremely safe and yet is trying to reduce it in American vaccines). However in practical circumstances such tests are very difficult to carry out. A vaccine whistleblower has pointed out that vaccine batches are often monitored "visually". Cases of contamination being found is very regular in the vaccine industry. It has happened with the OPV in India also. Vaccine testing is indeed a "matter of trust".
http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/bwp/141202en.pdf This official very scientific study borders between "no incidence" and "probably". Interestingly it tries to rationalise the presence of the SV40 in Indians to "man-monkey" physical exposure. Have we ALL been bitten by monkey's? Then there is also the case of "false tests". "We say it is not there so it SHOULD NOT be there". Typical scientific conclusions in today's profit oriented world.
http://www.sv40foundation.org/ Regarding the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), this PubMed study reveals the need to study this virus to develop a vaccine for AIDS. So while seeking to develop a highly profitable vaccine in the market we recognise the dangers from SIV but we say that the SIV delivered to humans via the small pox vaccine and the OPV does not have any relation to AIDS. Typical scientific thinking again.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15731236 I will strongly object to your view that vaccines strengthen immunity. Vaccines have nothing to do with stregthening immunity. A strong immunity would reject the invasion by way of vaccines. Hence adjuvants are used to "put the immune system on hold" so that the body is forced to accept the intruder. You will find allergies in all vaccinated children. This very fact reveals that the vaccines severely affect the immune system. How the vaccines affect the immune system is described here by Dr Rebecca Carley, a medico legal expert on vaccines. Her article was deleted from the WHO website, where it once appeared;
http://www.rsvpbook..com/custom_pages/50942/popup_chapter.php Regarding 30 vaccine "shots" that I have mentioned (not 30 vaccines), the IAP recommends 24 shots without the consultation of parents and 5 vaccines (Hep A, Varicella, Pneumococcal, Meningitis, Japanese Encephalitis) (6 shots I think or maybe more) after consulting. Thus the figure of 30 shots is correct, the actual may be more. All these vaccines are being routinely given to children by private practitioners. I will object that you accuse me of lying and misleading the public. To the contrary I am trying to educate parents about the dangers from vaccines, a fact that is being increasingly admitted by even pediatricians. Their first reaction has been not to vaccinate their own children and relatives. There are many pediatricians today who are not vaccinating beyond the IPV as far as their own children and relatives are concerned. I would appeal to them to extend this facility to their patients also, infants who have no voice to protest, but they do protest by persistently crying and trying to make it known that they do not wish to be vaccinated. And finally here is a link to pictures of vaccine damaged children, at the end. These are only from the small pox vaccine. I must mention that autistic children are severely damaged and do not show any external damage. Thus most vaccine damage will be permanent and internal. Diseases can indeed disfigure children but most of the damage occurs because of trying to meddle with eruptive acute disease. I remember my brother being severely affected by measles and recovering normally under homeopathic treatment. If I have left anything out kindly let me know. I am marking a copy to some senior doctors of India, USA and Canada. They may kindly correct me if I have stated anything wrong here. Regards,
Violence Escalating Against Anti-Coal Activists by Mike Gaworecki July 23, 2009 Link to full article below
Coal is the dirtiest fuel around, which is why movements are springing up across the country to end our reliance on this supremely destructive fossil fuel. The epicenter of this movement is Appalachia, which once produced two-thirds of America's coal.
These activists are often being met with hostility and even violence by the coal miners and their families, tens of thousands of whom still rely on King Coal to put bread on the table.
The frontline in the fight is no doubt West Virginia, the heart of Appalachian coal country, where a constellation of small, citizen-led groups have been working to stop environmentally devastating mountaintop removal mining. Among them are some of the environmental movement’s biggest heroes: Maria Gunnoe, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, received a 2009 Goldman Prize (sometimes called the "green Nobel") for her work to stop mountaintop removal in her native West Virginia. She's pursued this work despite harrassment and threats of violence from coal miners.
Predators battle bugs, become pests themselves Imported insects have been deployed as foot soldiers in the fight against invasive bugs and plants that cause billions of dollars in damage each year. But some of those imports are proving to be pests themselves that upset the balance of nature and threaten native species. By SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press Writer Link to full article below
Imported insects have been deployed as foot soldiers in the fight against invasive bugs and plants that cause billions of dollars in damage each year. But some of those imports are proving to be pests themselves that upset the balance of nature and threaten native species.
A weevil released to attack a weed has veered off target and is gobbling up a native plant in Nebraska. A fly that was supposed to kill invasive moths is wiping out native moths in New England. And an insect introduced to combat a pesky weed led to a spike in the population of mice carrying a potentially deadly virus in Montana.
Despite such scattered scientific mishaps, the Associated Press found the federal agency that has approved the importation and release of hundreds of insects over the past three decades seldom tracks their effects on other species and the environment and does not even know whether most of the introduced bugs have died off or thrived unchecked.
How Much Rainforest Fits in a Coffee Cup? One cup of shade-grown coffee will preserve more than two square feet of rainforest -- and the birds that inhabit the trees. By Arbor Day Foundation 7.23.2009
How much rainforest can one cup of coffee help preserve? For those who buy coffee grown in the traditional manner, under the shade of rainforest trees, the answer is roughly 2.3 square feet per cup.
It would be zero for many coffee drinkers because much of the coffee that people drink is not shade-grown coffee; most plantation owners remove native trees and forest to grow coffee.
Source: http://prgnews.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/mauna-kea-selected-as-site-for-30-meter-telescope/ (click title above for full article)
Posted on July 21, 2009 by Wendy Osher
The group tasked with selecting a site for the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope selected Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, today as its preferred site.
Image Courtesy: tmt.org, An artist’s concept showing the segmented primary mirror, which has 492 hexagonal segments arranged into an f/1 hyperboloidal mirror
Governor Linda Lingle praised the decision by the board of directors of the TMT Observatory Corporation saying, it marks “an extraordinary step forward in the state’s continuing efforts to establish Hawai‘i as a center for global innovation for the future.
“As we work to address immediate fiscal and economic challenges facing the state, it is imperative that we also remain focused on investing in our long-term future and building the foundation for a diverse and robust economy. The TMT is another important advancement that will help us achieve long-term prosperity for Hawai‘i,” said Lingle.
In terms of job growth, Lingle says the project is expected to generate an estimated 140 full-time employees one it begins operations.
“Having the most advanced telescope in the world on the slopes of Mauna Kea will enhance Hawai‘i’s high-technology sector, while providing our students with education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields,” said Lingle.
The other location under consideration during the review was Chile’s Atacama Desert. Cultural sensitivities to the site location on Hawaii island was one of the hot topics raised during the island’s mayoral elections in November.
The Hawaii location has also drawn opposition from some groups of cultural and environmental advocates who argue against additional construction because of the sacredness of the summit area and the extent of development that already exists at the site.
The project is a partnership between UCSB, the California Institute of Technology, AURA and an organization of Canadian universities.
In the juice bar a while back I’d noticed a piece of paper taped to the tip jar with “Good Tippers Make Better Lovers” written on it. One of the staff in there had written it of course (and I think I know who too). A few in-house managerial opinions were that it was inappropriate for our customers to be faced with such a note. I disagreed. I thought we should let it go. Leave it. I liked it. Why? Because I’m pretty sure it’s generally true. If you think about it, would you want to be in bed with (or otherwise spend quality time with) someone who was generally a stingy tipper? Or someone who freely offers up more of what they have, who likes to see people smile, who thinks about other people and what would make them happy, who likes to know they’re going to make someone’s day a bit better? I say let the stingy tippers read that note, and maybe they’ll stop and think about it.
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Menu Planning for Raw Food Beginners Made Easy by Alina Vladimirova May you enjoy her site: Radiantonraw.com
If you have been on a diet before, you must be quite familiar with the concept of menu planning. It is a great tool that helps you keep on track, allows you to make sure you are getting all the nutrients that you need and enough calories to get you through the day, and also makes sure you get a good variety into your raw food diet.
Having a menu can help you make sure that you are always prepared and will never find yourself in a situation where you open your refrigerator and see empty shelves; it helps you see at a glance if all your nutritional needs are being met; it makes the whole process of eating raw foods easy and straightforward.
But first, let's cover the basics on a truly healthy raw and living foods diet:
1. 75% of what you eat must be fresh fruit, vegetables, and greens. Many people fall into the trap of eating lots of dehydrated, nut-rich, "gourmet" recipes and end up failing because they are not getting the results they desire and actually get the opposite results: feeling tired, sleepy, gaining weight, and overeating. 2. Eat as many greens a day as you can - that can be easily achieved through making green smoothies, green vegetable juices, and eating at least one big salad every day. And don't forget sprouts, the most nutrient rich foods on earth! 3. Drink plenty of clean, preferably alkaline water - 6-8 glasses at least: hydration is the key to good health! 4. Your last meal should be no later than 3 hours before your bedtime or 7 pm if you tend to stay up late (remember, even though your mind is up and running, your body still follows its natural rhythms). 5. Eat only when hungry - that is the most important advice I can give you to avoid overeating. 6. Keep your diet interesting - try new recipes, discover new fruits and vegetables, bring as many raw food groups into your diet as possible (I cover at least 20 of them in my Raw Food for Beginners Class). 7. Remember, raw and living foods are about pleasure, not deprivation or forcing yourself. If you don't like something? Don't eat it! Find some other food that will bring you the same kind of benefits but you will also enjoy eating it.
Now, keeping these basic guidelines in mind, let's dive into menu planning.
Here is your easy and simple step-by-step guide to creating a menu that will work for YOU:
1) Take a sheet of paper, and list down all of your favorite drinks and meals - cooked or raw, anything allowed - just write them down without any judgment.
2) Now take a look at your list and cross out any food and drink that you definitely no longer want in your life. Be very honest with yourself here! In the case of comforts such as coffee, bread, alcohol, chocolate or whatever, be realistic: these things may take weeks or months to let go off, however, they will fall away in good time, when you are ready.
3) Now, make a list of foods that you would like to bring INTO your diet (or know you should, such as greens, sprouts, sea veggies, etc), things you want to try or eat on a regular basis.
4) Looking at the lists you have created, come up with a new list of recipes that will incorporate all those foods and drinks that you love and enjoy. If your list of recipes is not very big, go explore the world of Internet - there are thousands of raw food recipes now available online and you can definitely find easy ones to make that will include your foods of choice.
5) Now take a page out of your weekly planner (or just make a table on a blank piece of paper, which will outline every day of the week, with three main meals and two snacks on it). Start filling out the grid with the recipes you have chosen.
A good rule of thumb for breakfast is fruit (unless you have candida) - however much you want, whatever type/s appeal, until satisfied. If you have high metabolism and process fruit really quickly, then try a green smoothie smoothie or nut mylk. A green smoothie is a particularly great way to start your day since it meets your "consume lots of greens" criteria as well as tasting delicious and being easy on your body.
For lunch, your choice will depend on whether you are going high raw or 100% raw. In any case, make sure most of your plate is a big green salad with lots of vegetables, the rest call be a healthy cooked food or a raw dish such as nut pate, sun burger, crackers, zucchini pasta, or whatever else you chose for your list.
For dinner, again, same rule applies. You can also bring a desert on your menu, however, keep in mind that fruit should be eaten before a meal or at least an hour afterwards.
6) When you're done, make sure that your menu meets the following criteria:
Inspiring - you should be getting excited just by looking at it!
Easy and doable - you know you won't follow your plan if it means hours of soaking, sprouting and dehydrating are required, so choose recipes that are quick to make and/ or that will last for days in the fridge. Leave those complicated recipes that take days to prepare for special occasions.
Nutritionally sound - you don't have to have a degree in nutrition, but do check that you have a good variety of foods that will meet your needs for cabs, protein, and fats, as well as all essential vitamins and minerals. Also think in terms of different colors as well as different food groups - try to eat all the colors of the rainbow, ideally every day - this is a classic guideline to go by for ensuring variety in any diet. Also make sure you eat greens every day and don't forget plenty of clean water.
If you are trying to lose weight, make sure to concentrate more on greens and veggies since they are low in calories; fruit and nuts are calorie-dense foods so keep a healthy balance here. If you want to make sure you are getting enough calories but not overeating, you can use an online food journal FitDay.
7) The last step now is to check in with yourself about "life happens" stuff - eating on the run, in the car, while traveling, when hungry and in the middle of nowhere - that kind of thing. What can you make or pack that will help you out in those kinds of situations? Consider making or buying flax crackers or raw snack bars. These travel well and are more calorie dense than fruits and veggies so will keep you going longer. As time goes by you'll soon discover where and when your vulnerable moments are and in time you can become better and better prepared for them.
When you have your menu all filled in and are 100% happy with it, all that remains to be done is to go shopping and have your kitchen stocked and ready for the week ahead!
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