A518 NJ Raw Milk Bill

STEP ONE — SUCCESSFUL !!!
The bill got voted out of committee in the Assembly today.

The Agriculture and Natural Resources committee of the NJ State Assembly heard powerful supporting and opposing testimony for the NJ Raw Milk Bill and voted unanimously to pass the bill out of committee.

PLEASE SAY THANK YOU
The members of the committee heard alot of really negative things about raw milk today and every single one of them voted to pass the bill out of committee so it can go to the whole Assembly for a vote.   (This vote will come after the bill is amended to include additional warning information in bottle labels.)

Please contact every committee member and say thank you:
Nelson Albano (D), Chair
(609) 465-0700
AsmAlbano@njleg.org

Gilbert Wilson (D), Vice Chair
(856) 541-1251
AsmWilson@njleg.org

Marlene Caride (D), new committee member
(201) 943-0615
AswCaride@njleg.org

Robert Clifton (R), new committee member
(732) 446-3408
AsmClifton@njleg.org

Ronald Dancer (R)
(609) 758-0205
AsmDancer@njleg.org

NEXT STEP
Please contact your Assemblymen and/or Assemblywomen (you have two) to express your support of raw milk.  If your legislator needs more information to make a decision, you will be able to find PDFs at www.gardenstaterawmilk.org and can contact www.foodshedalliance.org for additional information.

FIND YOUR LEGISLATORS
- Go to www.njleg.state.nj.us
- Under MEMBERS, click Find Your Legislator
- Click Municipality, find your town and note the district number
- Then click Legislators for your district number
Look for two people under the Assembly heading.  Office phone numbers are included.  If you prefer to email, use the legislators’ emails follow this pattern — Asm or Asw followed by last name, then @njleg.org.  For example, to thank Assemblyman John DiMaio, one of the primary bill sponsors, email him at AsmDiMaio@njleg.org.

TALKING POINTS
You can tell your personal story of how raw milk has helped you and your family.  You may want to say how long you have been drinking raw milk.  If raw milk has contributed to your health, and has not made you sick, that is important to say too.

Other important points are:
- consumer right to choose
- economic opportunity for NJ farmers
- keep raw milk dollars in NJ

POWERFUL OPPOSITION
Opposing testimony today came from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the regional milk conglomerate, Cornell University Extension staff, a dairy testing lab, health officers, and many others.  These groups can apply strong pressure to our legislators, so it’s important we continue to make our voices heard.

THANK YOU TO YOU TOO
Thank you to everyone who is part of this important effort, with phone calls, emails, written testimonies, trips to Trenton — it is all so important to the success of this legislation.

MORE INFO
- Sign up at www.foodshedalliance.org
- Garden State Raw Milk on Facebook
- Go to www.gardenstaterawmilk.org
- Join www.westonaprice.org, click “get involved” at the top
- Subscribe to bill alerts for A518 at www.njleg.state.nj.us

by
Eric Blair
Activist Post

This week, the United States government, working closely with local authorities, heroically raided and arrested raw-food terror kingpin James Stewart in Venice, California. Stewart, who runs the private healthfood cartel, Rawesome Foods, “posed a major threat to the establishment,” claimed an unnamed but armed, undercover double-agent involved in the arrest.

After two SWAT-style stings in one year, Stewart now faces several felony charges including: conspiracy to sell milk to minors; conspiracy to operate a private club without paying protection money to the authorities; conspiracy to educate the masses; and conspiracy to make people healthy and independent.

The authorities warn that the news of Stewart’s arrest and pending environmental tribunal may awaken his cult of followers, called foodies. These extremists typically come from the political left, once believing that boisterous regulations were actually for the public’s safety. They are generally a peace-loving group, but with their bright smiles, chiseled bodies and fully-functional minds, they may prove to be a formidable threat in the war of ideas against the establishment. These foodies, hopped up on natural vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, no longer believe the FDA or the government is there to protect them. For our safety, such nonconformity must not be tolerated.

The establishment must do everything it can to make an example of Stewart and his accomplices before the contagion of natural health awareness spreads to critical mass. Food choice is a privilege that must be fully enforced with more firearms and badges in order to maintain the corporate-government monopoly over food. Anyone who demands food freedom should be considered a threat — not just to themselves, but to society as a whole. And like animals backed into a corner, foodies who lose their rights should be considered dangerous extremists and monitored like al-Qaeda.

“Without the corporate-state food monopoly, we would all starve,” warned Michael Taylor, former Monsanto executive and current head of the FDA food safety division. He added, “Therefore, these foodies are a direct threat to national and international security, and their freedom must be smoked out. You’re either with us or against us.”

Furthermore, so-called natural health experts challenging the State’s health recommendations should be taken to re-education camps, or have their assets seized for intent to commit crimes against humanity. Likewise, normal citizens growing food for neighborly trade should face felony charges of “intent to sell.” The loss of food freedom is a small price to pay for the safety and rule by the genetically modified majority.

Here are eight reasons why raw foods should be illegal, and foodies should peacefully give up their rights:

1. Big Brother knows best: Citizens aren’t smart enough to make proper health choices. That’s why they gave their rights and authority over to the State in the first place. The FDA protects them from their neighbor’s eggs that come from chickens that eat bugs and worms, not the genetically-approved feed. Gross!

2. Amish farmers have pitchforks: Given the sordid history of peasants fighting their masters with pitchforks, Amish farmers should be considered armed and dangerous if a food revolution takes root.

3. Health Effects: Raw milk, like many other raw foods, is a “superfood,” loaded with vital antioxidants. Healthy food makes strong independent humans who are difficult to control.

4. Economic Threat: The sick-care industry is about 20% of the U.S. economy. Big Ag and Big Pharma are utterly dependent on keeping the public away from healthy foods. Supporting underground organic food cartels is a risk to economic recovery.

5. BGH and GMO: Bovine Growth Hormone and GMO-fed milk creates more patients for Big Pharma than grass-fed raw milk. Dairy farmers that use BGH and subsidized GM feed maximize profits the American way. Natural dairy farmers hate technology and advancement.

6. Contagion: If more people are allowed to discover the benefits of raw milk, they may get addicted to other natural health foods and remedies not offered by central controllers. As such, raw milk should be treated as a gateway food.

7. Black Markets: Some food cooperatives operate as private clubs, or through barter systems. In other words, they operate outside of the reach of the corporate government. This is a shadowy world where illegal currencies are traded and tax revenues are difficult to extort for the public good.

8. Regulators: The staff of the FDA and CDC are people too. They need to pay mortgages and put processed food on the table. They wouldn’t have such a generous budget without taking away the rights of small farmers and foodies. Naturally, this angers foodies and may cause them to revolt.

Known as the Doctor of Dental Wellness, Dr. Richard Walicki is a graduate of the Temple University School of Dentistry. Dr. Walicki is a general dentist with a focus on wellness and has maintained an active private practice in Philadelphia for over twenty years.  His mission is to help people attain practical solutions for their dental health problems through education, prevention and nutrition. Dr. Walicki is a contributor to the LiberationWellnessBlog and a supporter of real food. Additional articles of related interest can be located on his website.  A free newsletter and bonus report are also available.

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Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment and the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects?

What security of self is there in mandating that one’s children be forcibly drugged by the state?  Have people really become so blinded that they believe forcible mind-altering drugging is actually in the best interest of the child?

Making a stand against law enforcement officials can never be expected to go well.   Evidently, this is what Maryanne Godboldo is accused of – and which, no doubt, compounded her troubles.  Yet it is not so hard to understand a mother’s instinct to fiercely protect her young.  We can see multiple examples of this in nature and no one questions it, as it is Natural law.

Yet Man’s law would appear to mandate that when faced with a direct threat to our person, our mind, and even our spirit, we have little recourse.  I believe, conversely, that we can always do something.  If little else, we must remain aware, vigilant, and be prepared to speak out against such injustices.

The Ninth Amendment to the Constitution reminds us that “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”

Be neither denied nor disparaged.  Know and defend your rights.

Originally posted at www.thedietsolution.co.uk

Written by: Sean Croxton http://undergroundwellness.com/

Meet Charles North.

A smooth talker and astute businessman, Mr. North forever altered more than 40,000 years of nutritional wisdom with a new invention and a little fear. The year was 1907, a time when milk was mostly produced by happy grass-fed cows and rightfully consumed in its raw form. With his newly invented batch-processing pasteurization machine in tow, North made it is own personal mission to rid the country of raw milk-induced disease.

The problem was that there was no raw milk disease epidemic. Yet, that did not stop the inventor from traveling through small towns alerting the people of an outbreak of illness in the previous town he had visited. Drinking unpasteurized milk caused the illness. The solution was his machine. The story was fictional.

To the naked eye, milk treated by North’s machine did not appear much different from its raw predecessor. And to the fearful mind, it was safer to consume.

More fiction. Let us take a closer look.

The Grand Designer engineered raw milk with a vital microstructure intended to provide nourishment and to complement proper digestive function. Milk’s structure consists of somewhat of a separation of powers. Its protein and fat components are meant to function independently with little to no interaction. In her book Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food, Cate Shanahan M.D. takes us under the electron microscope to show us a side of milk seldom seen.

“…we can see the casein micelles, which are amazingly complex. Imagine a mound of spaghetti and meatballs formed into a big round ball. The strands of spaghetti are made of protein (casein), and the meatballs are made of the most digestible form of calcium phosphate, which holds the spaghetti strands together in a clump with its tiny magnetic charge. This clumping prevents sugar from reacting with and destroying milk’s essential amino acids.”

Dr. Shanahan goes on to describe the fat globules, each one unique in size and enclosed in their own phospholipid membranes. These membranes are home to various specialized proteins that protect the globule from bacterial infection. Other proteins act like special transit passes, signaling the intestines to absorb the globules without inspection. This feature allows for effortless fat digestion without the assistance of the gallbladder. As long as the fat remains disconnected from the aforementioned casein and calcium, everything runs smoothly. When the components get too close for comfort, it can be a bumpy ride.

After the heat and strain of pasteurization and homogenization, the organized world that was raw milk comes to resemble a war zone. The population of beneficial bacteria that once protected the milk (as well as its consumer) from infection is wiped off the map. The utilitarian structures of the fat globules are destroyed as the homogenization process forces them through microscopic holes. The transit passes that allowed for easy digestion go missing. This slows the digestive process, thus the myriad of digestive disturbances experienced upon consumption of pasteurized milk including gas, bloating, and constipation.

“Processing can render milk highly irritating to the intestinal tract, and such a wide variety of chemical changes may occur that processed milk can lead to diarrhea and constipation. During processing, the nice, soft meatball of colloidal calcium phosphate fuses with the fatty acids to form a kind of milk-fat soap. This reaction, called saponification, irritates many people’s GI tracts and makes the calcium and phosphate much less bioavailable and more difficult to absorb. Processed milks contain anywhere from one-half to one-sixth the bioavailable minerals of the fresh products.”

The heat of pasteurization also denatures amino acids. These damaged proteins remain in the milk where they can become toxic, allergenic, and inflammatory. And if that were not enough, an enzyme called xanthine oxidase can hide within the fat globules, passing intact through the intestinal barrier and into circulation. This is not supposed to happen. In its unpasteurized form, xanthine oxidase is broken down and rendered inactive by the digestive process. When it passes intact into circulation it wreaks havoc on our arteries causing atherosclerosis, as well as free radical damage. Ouch.

Times have changed. And so has our milk. Raw milk was once adorned for its nourishing, immune-building, disease-protective benefits by people the world over. Now it is feared. But what is to be feared is its pasteurized, homogenized, so-called “safer” alternative; a lifeless source of digestive dysfunction, damaged proteins and fats, inferior nutritional value, and clogged arteries. Not to mention the sick cows from which it comes.

One hundred years later, Charles North’s story is still being told. Despite the fact than no outbreak of illness has ever been attributed to raw milk from grass-fed cows, we remain steadfast in our willingness to trade a milk product that causes imaginary illness for one that actually contributes to poor health.

Mr. North would be proud.

Source: Deep Nutrion: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan, M.D.

Twenty one percent don’t like the environment in traditional schools. Another 17 percent are home schooled because their parents are dissatisfied with the academic instruction that’s available to them in traditional schools. “We’ve become more experimental about the way we offer education to children,” says David Chard, Dean of the School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University. “Many parents are able to provide strong educational opportunity for kids,” he added. But it’s not all about reading, writing and arithmetic. Chard said he worries home schooled students may be lacking in less tangible subjects, things like developing social or coping skills. Programs have sprung up over the years to help with that.

In Texas, the state with the largest number of home schooled kids, there are athletic leagues and learning “co-ops” where kids may attend classes with other children on a variety of subjects. John Manning helps organize the Home School Athletic Association in Dallas. He says the group has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade, not just because the number of home schooled students has increased, but also because most parents realize the need for this kind of activity. “What’s important to us,” says Manning, “is to try to provide opportunities that kids in any school, public or private, have.” One of Anne Gebhardt’s kids says she feels anything but deprived. Eighteen year old Meghan Gebhardt graduated from home school last year and has been taking online college classes while planning her next move. She said she feels like her education was better than what she could have received in any traditional school, public or private. “The parent, because she knows the kids, she knows how they learn,” Meghan Gebhardt said. “She can shape the way she teaches so they can learn better.”

The word ‘propaganda’ as it is used today, did not always have the primarily negative connotation that has become associated with it after World War II.  The Third Reich made extensive and effective use of this technology enabling it to generate support to prosecute wars of hatred and intolerance against people inside and outside the country.  And, if you stop to think about it for a moment, such powerful and effective societal manipulation obviously did not simply fall into the dustbin of history and cease to exist when the Third Reich fell.  Hence the need and desirability of this Primer on Propaganda.

Before WWII, the science and practice of propaganda was still a maturing and relatively untested technology.  Hitler’s Germany became its first society-wide success story, setting the stage for its planetary application which has now become so ubiquitous, so deeply and unconsciously embedded and accepted in our experience, as to be practically invisible.  Prior to the second world war, however, this emerging field was much more openly discussed and was widely heralded as having great promise to ‘educate’ and ‘inform’ the masses.

The pioneer of this new field was an Austrian-born American by the name of Edward Bernays, who is widely recognized as “the father of modern public relations.”[1] His personal background, intentions and understanding as to its need and purpose (not to mention his future employers) are generally less well known however.  In the early 1920s, Mr. Bernays published the seminal work in this new field.  The book was simply titled “Propaganda” and was used as a graduate level text.  At the time, it was presented as a necessary and benign means of ‘e

ducating’ the common man.  The issue at hand was how to generate public support for national social and political policies in the most efficient and effective manner.

Being the nephew of Sigmund Freud, Mr. Bernays was no neophyte when it came to his understanding of unconscious and subconscious human desires and motivations.  Taken as a whole, he believed these unconscious drives led to the necessity of “enlightened despotism” in order to control the otherwise dangerous “herd instincts” of society.[2] He made no effort to hide his motivations and reasons for developing technology for the expressed purpose of controlling the public mind.  In his own words:

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?  The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible…”[3]

This is the most fundamentally important aspect of modern ‘public relations’ to understand and to appreciate.  Namely that its primary purpose is, was, and always has been, to control the public mind, to generate the accepted realms of discourse, understanding and perceptions of the public at large, without their conscious knowledge or consent…for their own good.  This process is called propaganda, public relations, advertising, and more honestly, brainwashing.  Despite what more (potentially) innocent modern-day media moguls and advertising experts may believe or say, all of these practices essentially refer to the same process and objective, namely, using mass media to effect control of public beliefs, desires and actions by manipulating the subconscious.

The second primary distinguishing characteristic of conditioning/propaganda/advertising/brainwashing is that there will always be resistance to uncovering it, to becoming conscious of it and its effects.   It is always designed with built-in protective mechanisms, otherwise it would not remain as well hidden, underexposed or effective.  Therefore, anytime anyone is being pushed up against belief systems that have been impressed upon them in this way, they will feel resistance of some kind.  It will often come as an emotional response, ranging from slight discomfort and disquiet to extreme upset and anger.  It will often take the form of ridicule, derision or dismissal (think how most people react when they hear the words “conspiracy theory”).  This is the second defining characteristic of conditioning.

We’ve all seen pictures of goose-stepping soldiers.  This kind of conditioning did not stop with Hitler’s Third Reich, with Russian Communism or with China or North Korea’s statist control structures.  It did not, and is not, just happening to them.  It is happening to us, now.  The disquieting reality I have accepted about my culture, and about myself, that I am asking you to consider is that, in many ways, we are those goose-stepping soldiers; and not only are we them, but we are conditioned to resist acknowledging it.

We have all been deeply and powerfully conditioned, in ways we often don’t recognize, to see things a certain way, to believe things that suit the interests of others and not ourselves.  And at some level, we know it.  Those of us familiar with the information on this blog see it every day.  We hear it on radio and TV talk shows, in the papers and in books.  People being told, doctors, nurses, politicians, radio and TV talking heads and the man on the street parroting what they have heard, and know to be true about cholesterol, saturated fats, heart disease, and all manner of misguided understandings regarding health and wellness. We can easily see such conditioning…in others.  It’s all around us.  Many of us, probably most of us, are painfully aware of it every day.  In the public realm, on talk radio and in print media such recognition often carries large helpings of sarcasm and ‘how-can-they-be-so-hopelessly-ignorant’ rhetoric along with it.

But it seems we all think it hasn’t happened to us.  We all think that we alone (or nearly alone) have risen above and reasoned our way out of the trap of unconscious manipulation.  We all pretty much know what we believe, why we believe it, and why we’re right and everybody else has got some, or most of it wrong.

And don’t you see?  It can’t be that way.  It can’t be that we’re the only ones who’ve got the straight scoop about it all.  But most of us honestly seem to think we do.  And that’s the whole point right there.  Because even when we have recognized, dissected and marveled at specific areas where we have seen behind the curtain, we are all still swimming in a sea of manipulation and conditioning that effects our belief systems; that has informed the choices we make about our diet and our health; that has provided the ideas and understanding we have about what’s so, what’s not so, what’s possible and what’s not possible.  Most of you are well-acquainted with the misleading information and ideas promulgated about food and health that inform the majority of public opinion.  Now consider that a similar depth and degree of misinformation and manipulation adheres to the realms of energy, money, medicine, and media.  Consider that we all are conditioned in ways we are not aware, to think, to feel, to believe, and to act in accordance with some external intent and purpose.

The point here is not to become paranoid, it is to become conscious.  It’s not time to see through the looking glass anymore, it’s time to step outside the looking glass altogether and challenge, consider and reset our own belief systems and take greater responsibility for all the material we ingest and propagate, be it physical or ideological.  The best place to start is with the food we eat, the next place is the information we accept as truth.  To me it seems one of the hardest lessons, to accept that in today’s media-mediated society, there will probably always be areas where I, and others, have been misguided and misled.  A big part of how well we navigate all the changes we see coming and happening around us will be how open and willing, how supple and flexible we can learn to be with regard to much that each of us has taken as ‘truth’ to this point.  Food is an obvious example for all of us here, but be assured it is not the only example for any of us.

By David Barker
essencequest@hotmail.com

[1] The Century of the Self, 2002 BBC documentary.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_of_the_self.shtml

[2] Wikiipedia, “Edward Bernays” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

[3] ibid

The Senate is coming back for the lame duck session, and the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) is scheduled for a cloture vote this week.  We have asked you to take action on this issue several times this year, and now were in the final push.  It is critical that you call your Senators NOW to urge them to amend or oppose S.510!

S.510 greatly expands FDAs authority over both processed foods and fresh fruits and vegetables, and would give FDA authority to impose extensive, burdensome requirements on even the smallest processing facilities and farms that sell to local consumers.

We need the Tester-Hagan amendment to protect our vulnerable local food producers!

TAKE ACTION

Please call BOTH of your Senators.  You can find their contact information at www.Senate.gov or by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Urge your Senators to amend or oppose S.510, and specifically to:

1) SUPPORT the TESTER-HAGAN AMENDMENT to prevent the imposition of new federal regulations on small-scale, direct-marketing producers.

2) OPPOSE any amendment to add criminal penalties to S.510.

As it is currently written, S.510 would make our food supply LESS safe by harming local producers, increasing our reliance on imported foods due to the burden on domestic producers, and giving FDA new powers without holding the agency accountable for its failures.

TALKING POINTS

1.  Small, local food producers have not contributed to the highly publicized foodborne illness outbreaks and should not be subjected to extensive new federal regulation.   Although S. 510 includes some provisions that call for flexibility, the bills current language still imposes extensive new requirements on even the smallest farmers and food producers.  State and local regulation have already proven to be enough for local food producers; we dont need new federal regulations.

2.  Increased regulations and record-keeping obligations could destroy small businesses that bring both jobs and food to local communities.  In this time of economic hardship, we need more local food businesses! Congress should work to reduce regulatory burdens on them, not increase them.

3.  Food safety and security both come from a diversified, vibrant local food system.  Local foods give consumers the choice to buy from producers they know, creating a transparent, accountable food system without federal government oversight.

4.  Additional FDA regulation is counterproductive.  FDA has not used its existing authority well.  Instead of focusing its resources on the problems posed by imported foods and large processing facilities, FDA has chosen to target small processors.  While approving unlabeled GMOs to enter our food supply, it has opposed raw milk and interfered with the free choice of informed adults who want access to this healthy food.  Simply giving FDA increased authority and power will not improve the food supply unless Congress requires the agency to focus on Agribusiness and not small, local producers.

5.  Increased regulation of our domestic food suppliers will lead to greater dependence on imported foods, harming both our economy and our security.  The bill will create incentives for retailers to import more food from other countries, because it will burden family farms and small business and because it will be practically impossible to hold foreign food facilities to the same standards and inspections.  The bill will create a considerable competitive disadvantage for ALL U.S. agriculture and food production (see analysis at http://ftcldf.org/news/news-20Oct2009-2.html).

6.  S.510 does not address many of the fundamental problems with our food.  The bill does not cover the factory livestock farms that are the source of dangerous E. coli 0157:H7, nor does it address issues such as BPA, pesticide and herbicide contamination, GMOs, or the many other contaminants that impact our health.  It is not productive to focus on bacterial contamination and nothing else.

I use the term “proclamations,” because to call this a diagnosis would unnecessarily dignify the allegation as scientific.  Frankly, since there appears to be very little actual science found in psychiatry at all, no one should be worried if they feel that eating healthy foods will lead to malnutrition.    (By the way – that was one of the psychiatric study conclusions.)  Of course, psychiatry deals largely in opinion.  Opinion does not require proof, but it is a form of evaluation by which nearly anyone and everyone can be classified as mentally ill.    Just as significantly, by taking almost any aspect of human behavior and classifying it as a disorder, one can then bill for it.

This is actually a very effective business model for the sale of pharmaceuticals:  invent or “sell” a mental illness, and then provide the chemical “solution.”

Without belaboring this point much further, because that probably would be a little batty, I would like to refer you to both a sensible article on the subject and an excellent website hosted by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR).  CCHR believes that no one should be deprived of their rights under the guise of “mental health” and has done a great deal to protect those rights – both in the United States and abroad.

It would appear that this latest psychiatric proclamation is just one more covert attempt by the pharmaceutical industry to regulate an area it is just itching to cash in on.  And if it can’t outright control it, then it will at least have people who are interested in eating real foods look like some fringe group of lunatics.

I believe it was Henry Kissinger who said:  “Control the oil and you can control entire continents.  Control food and you control people. . . .”

Label them mentally ill and you have one more “reason” or manner by which to control them.

The Liberation Diet By Kevin Brown and Annette Presley

People these days feel trapped by the obvious failure of conventional wisdom when it comes to their diet and health.  They have faithfully followed everything they’ve been told is good for them down to the last bit of whole grain bread and tofu burgers that are most commonly associated with the standard low-fat, high-carb, plant-based dietary recommendations but they still inexplicably deal with obesity and chronic disease like never before!  What the heck is going on here?  Its one thing to fool around with your personal fitness and nutrition where you are expected to gain weight and have unhealthy blood sugars, lipids and the like.  But what can explain these things happening when you’re supposedly doing everything 100% right?

That’s the answer that personal trainer Kevin Brown and registered dietitian Annette Presley answer for readers in their counterintuitive book called

The Liberation Diet: Setting America Free from the Bondage of Health Misinformation!.

Brown and Presley do an outstanding job of explaining the breakdown that is happening with nutrition in the 21st Century. They correctly identify whats wrong with a one-size-fits-all approach to promoting the same diet to

everyone without taking into account the specific individualized factors that make one way of eating better than another for certain people. Challenging this conventional wisdom on nutrition is what you get early and often from The Liberation Diet and the authors d

on’t hold back in blasting away at the nonsense that pervades from the so-called health experts and government policymakers responsible for perpetrating these lies on the unsuspecting public.  The stories behind how foods like Crisco came into being are truly fascinating and should make you shudder about what the food industry is feeding Americans that we DON’T yet know about.  We learn that clever marketing and a little sleight of hand is all it takes to convince people to start eating something their great-grandparents would have never even entertained a thought about eating.  From margarine to Cool Whip to Wonder Bread, we’re surrounded by so many fake foods that the message this book implores on the reader is to simply get back to eating real, whole foods again.  Duh!

As you turn page after page of The Liberation Diet, you’ll no doubt find yourself becoming angrier and angrier by all the preponderance of the evidence presented that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have been

lied to about what constitutes a healthy diet.  And even more egregious is the story you’ll read about entrepreneurs Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller who were the ones who set up the accreditation process for medical schools.  Because they saw the potential for billions of dollars in profits from pharmaceutical sales, the only schools that would be accredited were ones that taught students about how to prescribe expensive drugs to their patients rather than having them learn about the equally effective nutritional therapies.  Unfortunately, this model for teaching medical school students still exists today while millions of people in the United States are needlessly suffering from mostly preventable diseases related their diet.  You may need to start breathing deeply or take a walk in between chapters to get your blood pressure down again because this information will have you up in arms!

Brown and Presley also point readers back to the infamous Seven Countries study by Ancel Keys that has become the standard-bearer for the low-fat diet quagmire that is surprisingly still in existence today despite the fact there have never been any scientific studies published proving it is effective for weight loss or improving health.  In fact, there is ample evidence that the diet has been a dismal failure for people with obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases of modern man.  But rather than admitting they’ve been wrong all these years, the purveyors of the high-carb, low-fat diet keep touting it as the gospel truth while tens of millions more are getting sick and dying from the biggest health scam in the history of the world.  And the politicians on Capitol Hill are partially to blame for this as well.

Senator George McGovern and his committee on nutrition in the mid-1970′s were the ones who created all the mass hysteria and fear-mongering about saturated fat when they promoted the now-infamous Dietary Goals for Americans that was later picked up by the United States Department of Agriculture to help them promote the sale of more key crops like grains, corn and bean (which just so happen to be very high in carbohydrate).  The authors write in their book, They liked the idea of a low-fat diet because if people cut the fat from their diets, they would have to add carbohydrates.  Again, this is still the overriding theme of the USDA Dietary Guidelines released every five years in the United States with seemingly no dramatic changes each time new recommendations are released. This is why The Liberation Diet book was written and so sorely needed in modern-day society.  Its time for public revolt against the status quo!

So if everything is so grim and bleak, do we have any hope at all? You bet we do!  Its called THE TRUTH and you get a lot of it within the pages of this book.  Learn why saturated fat and cholesterol are not the reasons why we have heart disease, how eating butter, lard, and coconut oil are actually good for you, why high cholesterol foods like eggs are healthy, why consuming real whole (raw) milk is optimal for your health, and why the highly processed hydrogenated fats (trans fats) and vegetable oils are the real villains in our diet along with sugar and excessive consumption of carbohydrate.  And there are some real doozy stories you’ll read about how common carbohydrate foods consumed by most Americans like cereal actually came into existence.  You’ll never believe it until you read about it.  This book is peppered with ample evidence that should convince you that eating carbs will make you fat, diseased, and eventually dead from some preventable chronic health problems that nobody is talking about.  You’ll learn that there is absolutely zero science supporting a high-carb diet and that livin la vida low-carb is NOT the fad diet it has been made out to be by the anti-low-carb members of the health media.

Other topics of interest covered in this book include calories in, calories out, salt, water, exercise, supplements, and more! Real-life examples of how people have changed their lives by implementing the strategies of The Liberation Diet are also included to encourage you as you take this newfound journey for yourself.  Of course, you also get lots of recipes, references and other resources to help you along as you improve your lifestyle for good.  Having interviewed both Kevin Brown and Annette Presley for my health-based podcast, I can personally attest that they are the real deal when it comes to articulating information that will help you in your personal weight and health goals.  If you’ve been frustrated and felt trapped by the low-fat lie that’s been heavily promoted for far too long, then why not give the concepts outlined in this book a try for yourself?  It could be the answer you’ve been looking for all along.

Jimmy Moore author of LivinLaVida Lo-Carb

Kevin Brown is President of Liberation Wellness and co-author of the Liberation Diet. He serves as a Fellow on the National Board of Fitness Examiners, and is president of Visionary Trainers. Kevin and his wife Tracy are Chapter leaders for the Weston A. Price foundation, a non-profit organization that is helping restore real food to its rightful place in the American diet.