-Come see the Cows, Goats and Sheep!
-Meet Farmers and Sennen! (mountain farmers)
-Watch and taste modern and old-fashioned alpine cheese making!
-Speak to Organic / Biodynamic farmers and cheese makers!

-Listen and ask questions at the Research Center Agroscope Reckenholz on the importance of mycorrhizae and soil health, also clean groundwater is pure money: see Europes largest modern facility measuring groundwater drainage and nitrates. Whats farming all got to do with it? Incl. field walk!

-Learn about Raw Meat, Blood- and Sausage preservation, tasting!
-Enjoy an herbalist guided Alpine Plant walk with Salve making!
-Ancient sourdough rye bread make/bake in a historical mountain village!
-Visit the Alimentarium (historical food museum) on the beautiful lake of Geneva, take the boat ride to the famous mid-evil Castle Chillon!
-Enjoy the 1000 Sheep festival on the Gemmi Mountain!

-Ride the route of the Glacier Express! Spectacular Mountain Views!
-Visit various museums/regions, walk the Ltschental where Dr. Price walked!
-Enjoy raw milk, cheese and authentic sourdough rye!
-Make new friends with like-minded WAPF members!!

Length of trip: 15 days, beginning Thursday July 21 until Thursday August 4, 2011. Must obtain own flight and Swiss Pass.

For more info please e-mail: reversemydisease@gmail.com Subject: WAPFCH11 or for slow mail: Please send self addressed, stamped envelope to: Judith Mudrak, 58 Cranberry Run, Southampton, NJ 08088 USA. Phone: 609 859- 3828 EST

Amanda:
I’ve always had a love of cooking. I think when the Food Network was beginning, they were marketing towards me. When I first heard about it, I thought what a weird topic to dedicate a network to. But, I fell in love. To this day, I have to have the best in my kitchen. I don’t use too many measurements when I cook, just a lot of love. I have opened up this blog to my family and some friends, so there will be a lot of recipes to enjoy. As always, please leave comments, and suggestions. If you try one of our recipes, please let us know what you thought of it! To find out more about me, visit my personal blogCurrently I’m doing a weightloss program called The Liberation Diet that falls in line with the principles set forth by the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Real Food Movement. The Liberation Diet is a very low carb diet that focuses on good quality high fats and oils. When I first was reading some of the literature it was quite mind blowing to see how the journey our culture took to leave behind butter, lard, ghee and other quality, vitamin-rich fats for the likes of margarine, soy-oils, canoloa and vegetable oils. If you follow the history it is all about making money and marketing.

For instance, the makers of Crisco were just trying to find a way to get rid of their industrial sludge leftover from making candles. Some one along the way thought it looked like lard (not too unlike the time my very own Mema thought she could substitute a bay leaf for basil in a pasta dish since they were both leaves and started with ba… they might have looked similar but they were definitely NOT similar!) This person took this lard look alike and baked a pie with it. Surprisingly it worked out okay and tasted okay. Viola! A new (cheaper) oil was introduced to the market. What they didn’t know then was that it is very damaging to humans in a very slow and unapparent way. For more of the whole story on Crisco, please see: The Rise and Fall of Crisco. Here is a link that talks about fats in depth, with several other informative links at the bottom of their page: Know your Fats

Well back to my recipe… I love mexican food! I often have made burritos and quesidallas and other tex-mex delights. But since I’m going low carb, I needed to find a way to have my favorite flavors without the tortilla. Then the other day when I was picking up my Kombucha scoby from Nicole she had a dish similar to this bubbling away on her stove. I told her I wanted the recipe but since she left for vacation the very next day she hasn’t had time to post. So I made something up myself.
-Amanda

Everyone knows that to lose weight, you have to cut out meat, butter and eggs and trade in your whole milk for skim.  Right?  Wrong, says Kevin Brown, certified fitness trainer, nutritionist and developer of the Liberation Wellness program.

According to Brown, America is sick, fat, confused, and in the midst of a national “health catastrophe.”  There is an epidemic of chronic disease driven by the fact that 72% of Americans are obese or overweight.  Is it because we are lazy and slackers?  No, says Brown, we are simply, horribly misinformed.

After receiving his nutrition training, Brown started working with clients in late 1990’s but found that the nutrition protocols he had been taught weren’t working and his clients were not getting the promised results.  He concluded that what he had learned about nutrition was simply wrong, and he started using the opposite of what he had been taught.  Within a year or two he was getting spectacular results with his clients.

Based in Palmyra N.J., Brown became famous for his success with clients and was named a fellow on the prestigious National Board of Fitness Examiners, helping to set the standard for all personal trainers.  Through Visionary Trainers, Inc., he has established a network of 50 personal trainers who visit clients at home or in their offices from New York to Washington, D.C.

A popular speaker, he has addressed cardiologists at Holy Redeemer Hospital and is scheduled for a return engagement at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.  On Saturday, November 13, Brown will be addressing the Wise Traditions Conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation in King of Prussia.  His talk promises to be one of the most widely attended and will disclose his eye-opening description of just how we have been misinformed on nutrition for the past 100 years.

The more Brown studied nutrition and saw his clients’ results, the more convinced he became that not only was the nutrition information given to the public wrong, it was “wrong on purpose.”

Brown believes that misinformation about what to eat, how to eat and how to exercise is intentional and is being used to hold us in bondage to the big food manufacturers.  He named his program “Liberation Wellness” because he strives to free his clients from false information and the constant struggle to lose weight, and to empower them to have excellent health and normal weight for life.

He speaks of consumers as victims of chemical warfare waged by the processed food industry.  The industry has been able to achieve a kind of mind control, observes Brown, making people fearful of eating something like butter, which is actually good for them, while at the same time making them dependent on processed or engineered fake foods.

Getting clients to understand that the goal of the food manufacturers is to make bad food sound good is a first step.  Once he opens someone’s mind to the misinformation and especially how long it’s been going on, they are more willing to make changes in their lives.  Brown likes to think of his first meeting with a client as a “cult deprogramming session.”  He warns them that what they are about to hear will shock them.  But once they get it, he says, they are free for life.

Liberation Wellness president Kevin Brown discusses tha Dr Oz show and Weston Price convention!

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.

Those of you who know me, heard me speak or read things I’ve written, know that I believe that we will lose our food choices if we merely buy the food items we like but ask someone else to take the risks and protect those rights. We all need to work to protect those rights, whenever the opportunity presents itself. We are at one of those points right now that requires your immediate action. It would be nice if we had more time but things are what they are.

This Thursday the Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) will hear “closing arguments” on the proposed revised dairy regulation, including the sections dealing with raw milk. We are past the discussion stage. The next step will be a yes or no vote by the IRRC. A number of groups supporting raw milk have expended considerable time, energy and other resources commenting on and trying to get changes made to the proposed regulations. While I certainly do not question their motives, the results of those efforts have not corrected the major deficiencies and in the overall scheme of things produced only trivial changes. Go to the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) at

http://pasafarming.org/our-work/advocacy or at www.irrc.state.pa.us for a copy of the proposed regulations.The proposed regulation adds additional hurdles and costs to raw milk producers under the guise of public health and safety, some problematic enough to possibly put some farmers out of business. It is a waste of time to debate the true intent of these regulations. If someone shoots and kills you, the fact that they didn’t intend to doesn’t make you less dead. The issue at hand is that these regulations must be stopped.

This is what you need to do!! First, email a letter to the IRRC by 10:00 AM, Tuesday, October 5th, expressing your desire that they reject the proposed regulation. Please make it forceful but civil. (Contact information for IRRC www.irrc.state.pa.us) A sample email follows:

My name is _________________, I am a raw milk consumer and I respectfully request that you reject proposed regulation #2777 Department of Agriculture 2-160: Milk Sanitation. I am an intelligent, discriminating consumer and do not need protection from my farmer-neighbor or local market or store. If they provide an unsatisfactory product or fail to appropriately correct a problem they will be out of business quickly. At that level, State regulation does not and cannot provide a higher level policing; every consumer polices that supplier with every transaction and has direct enforcement options. Where we need government involvement is where the suppliers or markets are no longer our neighbors but rather corporations created by the State. Food safety is not size neutral. Larger operations are more complex, problems have much more far-reaching impacts and we have no direct meaningful recourse if there is a problem. The regulation needs to focus on those operations.Although some regulations on this latter group are necessary, the regulation could be much simpler if they were performance standards, requiring that the end product achieves a desired result. How that result is achieved is the producers’ responsibility, not the State’s. That would result in the State’s role being to test for compliance, a function that could easily be contracted out, rather than inserting itself in micromanaging the operation.

Again, I view the proposed regulation as excessive, and in some cases onerous and unnecessary. These flaws warrant that the proposed regulation be rejected.

Second, the hearing for this regulation will be at 10 AM, Thursday, October 7th in the 14th floor conference room, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA.

I know this is short notice, but if you are from Pennsylvania and can possibly fit it into your schedule, please attend. This is a critical issue in the fight to regain control of our food and food choices. You can make a difference. And if your food is important to you, you need to let that be known loud and clear.Over our lifetime, we all get many opportunities. Successful people are those who (1) recognize an opportunity and (2) recognize that opportunities don’t always appear when it’s convenient and (3) are flexible enough to take advantage of the opportunity. This is one of those opportunities.

Respectfully,
Tom Maurer
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NHF NEWS RELEASE

TWO DANGEROUS SENATE BILLS:
S.3767 AND S.510 AS OF TODAY

September 29, 2010

 

For those wondering about the truth of the threat posed by Senator Leahy’s recently-introduced “Food Safety Accountability Act” (S.3767), especially in conjunction with the already-in-process S.510 bill, here is the National Health Federation’s take and action on this matter:

• S.3767 is a threat to natural and other food products.  If passed, it would mandate fines and up-to-ten-year prison sentences that the FDA could use as a club against natural-food-product producers who make even minor mistakes in labeling and/or food production that result in no harm to anyone.
• But S.3767 has no legs without a House companion bill. To be a real threat, it must be joined with an existing bill, as an amendment, such as S.510.
• S.510, however, exempts dietary supplements from its purview.  Therefore, if S.3767 is joined with S.510 as an amendment, as House Majority Leader Reid attempted to do but failed, it will not be a threat to supplements unless some major change is first made to S.510 in removing the dietary-supplement exemption.
• S.3767, however, remains a possible threat to other natural food products depending largely upon whether or not the House bill (H.R.2749) provision that exempts organic and small farmers survives a Senate-House conference committee and/or partly upon whether Senator Testor’s amendment to exempt small producers (that is under $500,000 in sales) is added to S.510.  We agree with those who say that the proposed Testor amendment is not protection enough for small farmers and other producers.  Thus, S.3767 still remains a potential threat.
• Regardless, S.3767 must be opposed as it adds major penalties and prison terms that are unnecessary and even counter-productive.  Our strong opposition to S.510 continues.

Unfortunately, some trade organizations such as the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) actually support the passage of S.510, because they claim it will bolster the safety of dietary supplements.  (See http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Regulation/CRN-backs-Food-Modernization-Act/?c=K/Fh6uqQ66DHgyRzALevrw%3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BWeekly#.)  Yet, S.510 exempts supplements from its purview, so CRN’s stated reason for support is rather bizarre.  We ask you to contact CRN (which has the ears of some Senators) and tell it exactly how little you think of its misguided approach to protecting the dietary-supplement industry.  CRN can be reached at 1-202-204-7700 or webmaster@crnusa.org.

Fortunately, many others strongly oppose S.510 and, with two exceptions, virtually all of its fly-swarm of legislative attachments.  NHF National Lobbyist Lee Bechtel notes that “NHF has concerns with S.510 and S.3767 as well as the House food-safety bills, not because of some of the blurring line claims being made, but because of the potential confusion with S.3767 and the House bills over these lines and potential impact between these bills and the S.510/H.R.2749 food-safety bills. There is not clear and consistent exemption language in all four bills as regards to supplements and small and organic farmers. These probably will not cause issues, but one can never be sure when unknowing bureaucrats get involved in implementing and enforcing whatever laws emerge at the end of the process.”

As for S.510’s prospects for passage as of this date, The Hill’s Alexander Bolton just reported, “Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, hopes Congress will pass food-safety legislation Reid tried to bring to the floor last week.  Democratic leaders pulled the bill even though they could have had enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster.  Durbin, who has made food safety a high priority, later told reporters that it could have taken nearly a week to jump through the procedural hoops necessary to pass the bill.”  (See http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/121223-dems-stuff-lame-duck.)

And Senator Jim DeMint has threatened to stop any legislation, including S.510, that is not approved by both parties before the Senate adjourns.  Since a hold such as this can only be overridden by a time-consuming procedural vote, this means that S.510 is unlikely to be considered before the pre-election adjournment of Congress.  So, it looks to NHF as if the Democrats will try to pass this legislation during Congress’ lame-duck session after their anticipated major losses in the November elections and before they lose control of at least one house of Congress.

Renew your opposition now to S.510 and signal your opposition to S.3676 by signing NHF’s petition at http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/s510_petition.htm.  These measures must not pass in any form.

S.510 Managers Amendment – To view the Managers Amendment [click here]

 

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As the oldest and best-respected health-freedom group on Capitol Hill, the NHF continues to be the credible source of objective assessment of, and proactive actions on, Congressional legislation and FDA matters that have material impact upon our freedom-of-health choices and access to dietary supplements and nutritional foods.

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Click here for the permanent link to this press release, use this link to inform others.

National Health Federation: Established in 1955, the National Health Federation is a consumer-education, health-freedom organization working to protect individuals’ rights to choose to consume healthy food, take supplements and use alternative therapies without unnecessary government restrictions. The NHF is the only such organization with recognized observer-delegate status at Codex meetings. www.thenhf.com

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