If you’re going to indulge, this is good stuff!!

Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Cake

with Whipped Cream Frosting

1 Dr. Oetker’s organic chocolate cake mix

3 eggs, room temp

½ c. butter, room temp

2/3 c half-&-half

½ can (6-8 oz) pumpkin (room temp)

1/8 t ground cloves

1/8 t nutmeg

1+ T cinnamon

1 T coffee

2-3 T organic cane sugar

1/2 c raisins

Cream butter and then add pumpkin, eggs, and all other extra ingredients, then blend in the cake mix. Butter and flour a 10″ spring form pan or 2, 9’ inch cake pans, preheat oven 325. After pouring into pan(s), cover top with raisins then gently nudge them beneath the surface.  In big pan, cook at 315 for 40 min. 2 small pans, cook at 300 for 30 min. Let cool with cloth cover, then cover and chill

Icing:

2 pints heavy cream, 1 packet Knox gelatin, 2 T vanilla extract, 2T granulated sugar, pinch sea-salt, 1/4c powdered sugar, 2t cinnamon

Heat 1c of cream on low and sprinkle knox slowly into cream when it’s hot. Pinch salt and sugar will help it dissolve. A little extra vanilla won’t hurt either. Take small strainer and pour into coffee mug or small bowl when done and let cool to room temp. Put the rest of cream in chilled mixing bowl (I set mine in ice-water pan) and whip the cream, blending in vanilla, sugar, cinnamon. Slowly drizzle your gelatin cream when cool. Let it get super thick. It will set firmer in the fridge after icing cake. Dust top of cake with cocoa and cinnamon. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

I am certainly not the first, but I’m terribly angered at finding vital, truthful, and straightforward information, available in the 1960’s, banned finally and completely in the 1980’s because it encouraged people to think for themselves and consider what they could do, within their own power of choice, to eat healthfully and avoid disease.  The specific information in question comes from a biologist and physician who was a member of, no. 1, The National Association for the Advancement of Science; 2, The American Association of Cereal Chemists; 3, The Institute of Food Technologists; 4, A.H.A. Council of Arteriosclerosis; 5, American Oil Chemists Society; 6, P.M.P. Chamber of Commerce; 7, American Aging Association;  8, American Heart Association.  He was President of a major medical library and laboratory.  This man, a doctor, as above stated, dedicates his book, “Stale Food vs. Fresh Food” to “..a better life for all.”  In the dedication he encourages people to bring this information to their family doctor.   Dr. Robert Ford clearly, on p. 62 of his book, states that the food industry is obviously not the only cause of arteriosclerosis:

     The atherosclerotic condition of the people cannot wholly be laid at the feet of the food processing industries because the same disease from flour, bacon, ham, sausage, and so on existed to some extent long before development of the modern food industry…It is not desirable to point a finger at anyone, but only that all concerned should work constructively to improve the condition of our people.  Knowing the cleverness of industrial scientists, I would not be surprised to see arteriosclerosis begin to gradually fade away after they have had a decade or so to improve processed foods based on this new knowledge.

Well, that last wish never happened, did it?  That was written in 1968.  “This new knowledge” he was referring to is, that arteriosclerosis and related diseases such as arthritis are greatly caused by the “fatty rubbish”, or rancid waste materials in processed foods that the body is unable to break down.  Obviously the food industry had no immediate monetary advantage in such work as improving processed foods in that way.  And “Fresh Foods” have never had a monetary giant for an advocate. (Wait a minute, how about 300,000,000 people standing together?)  This book was banned through the US. Postal Service and then entirely from publication in 1982.  In the hearing where the judge decided against Ford’s book, the main premise for this was that some Dr. Murray said that “informed medical opinion” does not maintain that diet can in any way reverse arteriosclerosis, and that to read such material would cause people to avoid getting AMA approved treatment for their condition.  This is of course assuming that the person reading is dying of arteriosclerosis!  And the main premise of the book is prevention, not treatment.  And, as I stated above, the books dedication includes presenting the material for consideration to one’s doctor.   By the way, Dr. Murray was under 30 with obviously loads of clinical experience.  Gee, I wonder who he was working for. 

Today, see what a well-respected physician is saying about the food industry.  These days it’s getting more difficult to silence a doctor actually observing his Hippocratic Oath.  This particular article is from Bottom Line Health, information that is free and available to all.  In his article for November of this year, “Your Taste Buds are being Fooled!”, Dr. David A. Kessler, former head of the Food and Drug Association, asserts that, yes indeed, the food manufacturers do their best to trick your taste buds into wanting more, and more, and more “food”.   He goes on to say that will-power, (as with any addiction-my words), or lack of it, is to blame.  In fact, he asserts that our brains are being “hi-jacked” by certain combinations of chemicals that encourage dopamine release.  Indeed, “hyperpalatability” of the food-or, rather, stuff-to-be-ingested, is the desired characteristic of much research in creating new food products loaded with fat, sugar, and salt.  When questioned, what do the food manufacturers say?  As usual, they say they’re giving the people what they want.  This line of thinking is reminiscent of the unfortunate raped woman who avoids going to the authorities in dread of being accused of attracting the rape with her clothing choices.  Dr. Kessler’s article can be read here:  http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/article.html?article_id=50118

In some of my posts to follow, I will be examining the basic principles covered in Dr. Robert Ford’s book, now unavailable in print.  It can be found, however, at the online Soil and Health Library, and the link is provided below if you’d like to follow along.  His book is engaging reading and you may be amazed at how on-target most of his assertions have proven to be, over time.  Hopefully this will not enrage most of you as it has me…but I digress.  One of the things I found most interesting is the connection between arthritis and arteriosclerosis, which I hope to address more specifically in my upcoming posts.

Until then, think for yourselves and have abundant health! 

Dr. Ford’s book: 

http://soilandhealth.org/02/0203CAT/0203longevitylibcat.html