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The Tide Is Turning
Posted by John Chisholm on February 8, 2011
My impression has been that when Reader’s Digest starts carrying articles about a topic, it’s no longer of interest to just a few people on the fringe. When I ran across the February 2011 article on Gary Taube’s book, Why We Get Fat—and What to Do About It, I saw that the cogent and traditional way of eating is really gaining traction against the low-fat and high-carb conventions.
Parts of the messages of Kevin Brown and the Weston A. Price Foundation are starting to penetrate mainstream awareness. It’s encouraging, even though awareness by the mainstream press is still incomplete and still lags behind the more knowledgeable champions of healthy eating. Jimmy Moore posted an article on Gary Taube’s book months ago. (Jimmy also provided a convenient link to a podcast of his interesting interview of Gary Taube— good stuff.)
Conventional Wisdom Is Not Holding Up
Taube’s book echoes what Kevin Brown has been saying for years, in Kevin’s own book, in his lectures, and on his website: the standard American diet has been making the population overweight, obese 
and prone to disease. These observations challenge the simplistic thinking that says calories are calories no matter where they come from. In fact, the body responds to different types of dietary calories in different ways, and the low-fat, high-carb diet upsets the body’s ability to regulate fat tissue properly. Eating fat doesn’t lead to more fat storage in the body; eating high amounts of carbs leads to the insulin resistance that increases fat storage. The high-carb diet also correlates to increased incidence in a multitude of diseases, from heart disease, cancers, diabetes, and even gum disease.
The mounting evidence of researchers and mainstream publications who report on the failure of the standard American diet is like the proverbial handwriting on the wall. Animal-produced foods are eventually going to lose their demonization. So now what? Do we turn to the supermarket aisles for the cheapest and most readily available animal-produced foods? Not unless we want to trade in one set of health problems (obesity, diabetes) with another set (degenerative diseases such as arthritis and cancers).
Bad food Affects Us. Bad Food Also Affects Our Animals
We humans do get all kinds of health problems from eating foods that our ancestors never ate and that we weren’t designed for, such as highly-refined grains, sugars and fake oils (care for cottonseed, anyone?). Similarly, the livestock animals that produce our meat, eggs and milk get all kinds of health problems if forced to eat feeds that they weren’t designed for. In agribusiness’s factory farms, the food that the animals were designed for, such as natural pasture grass, is replaced by commercial feeds that are both cheaper and cause quicker weight gain, for bigger profits. The only thing that suffers is the health of the animals, and of the people who eat the unhealthful animals.
A mainstay of feeds for rapid weight gain is GMO corn, which has been shown to cause organ failure in animals, mostly in the kidneys and liver, but also in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and blood. Another important constituent of feed is cheap protein in the form of animal renderings, which is all the animal byproducts scraped up and thrown out by the factory slaughterhouses, such as bone, 
feathers, eyeballs, offal, hair, hooves, diseased organs and the occasional bits of metal (from animal-ID-tags), plastic, and some restaurant grease. Many rendering factories also accept roadkills and carcasses from animal shelters, and add them to the mix. To replace the mineral and chlorophyll of natural grass, the feeds for cows usually incorporate ground-up corn stalks and corn plant leaves that are left over after the crop of corn has been harvested; they can make up more than half the feed.
The feeds’ formulas are then topped off with hormones, to force rapid weight gain, and antibiotics, to combat the pathogenic infections that are bound to assail the animals. The animals on factory farms are kept in pens whose floors (of dirt or concrete) are covered with the animals’ feces and urine, which become an ideal breeding ground for pathogenic bacteria.
It’s Not Smart to Subvert Nature
Grazing animals that are designed to eat grass (e.g., with multiple stomachs) and that were never meat eaters have been forced to eat feed that their systems can’t handle, including bits of animals of their own species. Mad cow disease is just the most severe outcome so far of these unnatural farming practices. Other more common diseases and organ failures are inevitable for the animals subjected to modern factory farming. But agribusiness has figured out how to adjust feeds and hormones so skillfully that they can bring the animals up to harvest weight quickly enough to be killed just weeks before organ failure would debilitate the animals.
The result of all this tinkering with Mother Nature is to produce the most meat (or eggs or milk) for the cheapest cost. But it’s not really a healthful practice to keep eating food produced by animals pumped up on hormones and antibiotics and on the verge of disease.
The Right Food Raised Right
The truly healthful alternative to an ineffectual diet that’s low-fat and high-carb is to get our food from traditional farming, that raises livestock by having them graze (literally eat living grass). The 
animals are healthy because they’ve spent their whole lives feeding on their traditional diet in their natural environment: sunlit pastures where they absorb vitamin-D and the living enzymes and minerals from the grass. As a bonus, grazing in pastures is much better for the environment than force-feeding artificial diets in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The grazing keeps alive the native species of grasses as well as the food chain of animals that dwell there, from insects to small mammals to top predators. Grazing also does not lead to the concentrations of fecal and urine waste that typically pollute the land around the CAFOs.
Cheap, fake foods that look the same as real are not “just as good” as traditional foods. People are starting to question whether they’re eating the right things. Let’s keep going to make sure we’ll all have access to the right food raised in the right way. Let’s support our natural farmers and buy real food that’s been raised by them.
John Chisholm is co-owner of a small company that makes Good-Gums, a toothpaste-replacement that supports the body’s ability to heal its gums. When WAPF Chapter Leaders started carrying Good-Gums, John started learning and practicing Weston A. Price dietary principles, as lucidly explained by Kevin Brown’s Liberation Wellness. Already a regular exerciser and feeling pretty healthy, John didn’t anticipate how well his body would further respond to unprocessed, full-fat, pasture-raised foods.
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The Politics of Food – Sally Fallon Morell – Wise Traditions Conference
Posted by Kevin Brown on October 16, 2010
This Week on the Liberation Wellness Hour -
Sally Fallon Morell – The Politics of Food
Monday 2PM EST on Blog Talk Radio – The Politics of Food
Who Should Attend Wise Traditions?
Doctors, nurses, nutritionists, dietitians, parents, students, food writers, food providers, farmers, public servants, teachers, patients, activists, agriculture professionals, people interested in nutrition, people with no interest in nutrition, people who love to cook, people who hate to cook, people who like to eat, Baby Boomers concerned about their health, grandparents concerned about their grandchildren, couples who want healthy babies, people who want answers, people who love controversy. . . and You! Wise Traditions 2010
Sally Fallon Morell, MA (President and Treasurer), is a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. She is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels
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.
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Oral Health for Bodily Health
Posted by John Chisholm on September 7, 2010
Contrary to popular belief, it’s very clear what’s behind the epidemic of gum problems in America and the rest of the developed world, and it’s not lack of dental care. In our mouth, the carefully designed equilibrium among the strains of normally beneficial bacterial flora has gotten completely out of balance in response to humanity’s shift in diet from one that’s healthy-fat centric to one that’s 
refined-carbohydrate centric. For thousands of years, technologically primitive people on the earlier diet had excellent teeth and gums without brushing, flossing, or having any dentists. We won’t be returning completely to the diets of our primitive ancestors anytime soon, but we can take measures to reform our diet and make up the difference with a careful augmentation of behavioral habits using herbs, vitamins, and natural cleansers to keep gum disease, tooth decay, and associated bodily ailments at bay.
Where Oral Problems Come From
It’s a safe bet that, having lived most of our lives so far on a conventional diet, our mouths all contain similar monuments to a past of poor oral health: either fillings, crowns, implants, root canals, gum pockets, receding gums, or in extreme cases, loose teeth. All of these are the result of bacterial infection brought about by our modern diet. Because bacteria (both the beneficial and the harmful) are too small to observe directly, we don’t notice when a few strains of previously benign bacteria begin reproducing at such a terrific rate as to displace other beneficial strains that would otherwise keep them in check and harmless. Under the influence of refined carbohydrates and sugars, the population explosion of a few bacterial strains and the displacement of many becomes significant in just a few hours. (It’s not due just to direct exposure to the teeth; Dr. Weston Price demonstrated that dental problems occurred even after the ingestion of sugars through a tube, without direct contact with the teeth.)
The earliest signs of trouble are the formation of plaque, a colorless, sticky biofilm of bacteria, bacteria-by-products, yeasts, viruses, white blood cells, protozoa and mycoplasmas. Plaque takes hold on the substrate of the teeth, especially in the margin between teeth and gums. As a biofilm, the bacteria acquire abilities that free-floating (planktonic) individual bacteria cannot perform, excreting substances that are both adhesive and protective. While it can’t be seen, its stickiness can sometimes be felt with the tongue. In as little as 24 hours after attaching itself to the teeth, plaque have absorbed enough minerals from the saliva to start forming a hardened crystalline calcification (called tartar or calculus), which can be both felt and seen. The rough surface of calculus serves as an ideal substrate for additional plaque, and is so hard and so adhered to teeth that brushing and flossing usually won’t dislodge it.
Both the soft plaque and the hardened calculus excrete acids that irritate the gums and cause microscopic lesions in the gum’s epithelial lining, through which plaque-forming bacteria can invade and infect the interior gum tissue. The acids also dissolve molecules from tooth enamel, especially under the protective armor of the calculus, so that eventually there’s a pathway through which bacteria can enter and infect the soft interior of a tooth (a cavity).
The Immune Response
When bacteria infect the gums, the immune system goes to work to absorb or destroy the invaders, and any swelling, tenderness and redness are indicative of the battle between immune cells and the bacteria infecting the gums (acute inflammation). When gum tissue is infected but the cells are still alive, the condition is called gingivitis. If the immune system destroys the bacteria, and the lesions in the gum’s lining heal, then the temporary inflammation passes as merely a brief episode of gingivitis.
But often the bacterial reproductive rate is so rampant (under the influence of the modern diet) that the immune system is overwhelmed, and the infection proceeds to where cells of soft oral tissue start to die off, a condition called periodontal disease. The immune system’s response to unrelenting infection is to shift to chronic inflammation, an attempt to isolate the infecting agent from healthy tissue. Immune system cells identify the gum cells that are badly infected, and attach themselves to mark them for destruction. Other immune cells seek out the gum cells that have been marked, and either devour them or destroy them. This “amputation” of infected cells contributes to the death of a lot of the gum cells, but the tactic does not resolve the infection as long as the refined carbohydrate diet keeps sustaining the onslaught of additional bacteria.
Sometimes the infection and inflammation proceed fairly uniformly from the surface inward. As the cells near the surface die, the gums visibly recede. Sometimes, the infection follows a narrower path along the cells that attach the gums to a tooth; as these cells die a gum pocket forms between a tooth’s root and the gum tissue lying against it. In that pocket, anaerobic bacteria set up shop, and the infection aggressively continues down alongside the tooth’s root, eventually killing some of the thousands of ligaments that hold the tooth to the jaw (causing loose teeth), or even killing some jawbone cells. The common denominator of periodontal disease is some oral cell death, and it currently affects over three-fourths of the people over the age of forty.
Oral Issues Affect the Body
The damage caused by oral infection is not limited to the mouth. Bacteria that have infected gum tissue get picked up by the circulatory system and transported by blood vessels throughout the body. 
The same strains of plaque that are found in the mouth are also found in the blood vessels, and a very strong correlation between gum disease and cardiovascular disease has been found, where 91% of those patients had moderate to severe periodontitis. Immune system cells, particularly the cytokines that mark infected gum cells for destruction, are also spread by the blood vessels, and they tend to attach themselves to tissue anywhere in the body that is already somewhat weak, making them targets for destruction as well.
This is the mechanism postulated behind the proven correlations between infected gums and the increased incidence of bodily diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, arthritis, and even pancreatic cancer. The discoveries of these details by 21st century science confirm the observations made in the 1930’s by Dr. Weston A. Price that many instances of modern degenerative diseases can trace their origins to focal infections in the mouth. Oral health is not just a cosmetic concern, but is central to our bodily health.
What We Can Do
The most important help for oral health is to keep improving our diet. As pointed out by Kevin Brown, the essential nutrients necessary for human health include fats (essential fatty acids) and proteins (essential amino acids), but there are no essential carbohydrates. We can thrive quite well without consuming them, and in terms of oral health we could probably dispense with any additional oral care practices if we did. But a diet without carbohydrates might be too primitive to be feasible in the modern world, so we will have to deal with some bacterial response to our carbohydrate intake.
There are five related ways by which we can further help our body restore oral health: (1) Help control the overpopulated colonies of oral bacteria; (2) stop using products with toxins and irritants that make things worse; (3) remove bacterial plaque while it’s still soft and vulnerable; (4) help the body fight any infection already in the gums, and (5) help the oral tissues heal themselves.
Controlling overpopulated colonies of oral bacteria does not involve killing all the bacteria in the mouth, as many mouthwashes try to do. Bacterial flora is necessary in the mouth to start the digestive process, and the moist, warm mouth is an environment so inviting for bacteria that it can’t remain sterile. The idea here is just to take some of the edge off the huge numbers of oral bacteria in our mouths whose populations have exploded under modern foods. Gentle antiseptic action can be provided by some naturally antimicrobial herbs, such as peppermint, cranberry, cinnamon, and tea tree leaf.
(Note that it’s the highly pulverized whole leaf of the tea tree that’s recommended, instead of the very concentrated essential oil. The properties of tea tree are in the leaf, and have been used as an antiseptic for centuries by the Bunjalung aboriginal people of Australia. But the steam-distilled essential oil is relatively recent industrially produced concentrate that’s many times more intense than the leaf, and can be too intense for some people.)
Brushing With Natural Assistance
Replacing standard synthetic oral care products with natural ingredients is important because the toxins in standard products adversely affect both the mouth and organs throughout the body. Fluoride, a byproduct of the aluminum and chemical-fertilizer industries, is so highly toxic that each tube of toothpaste contains enough to kill a child. Fluoride also disrupts enzyme activity in the mouth, leading 
to increased gum disease. SLS is an irritant in toothpaste that’s a type of detergent de-greaser used on engines and added to make toothpaste look sudsy. Even the glycerin, while not directly toxic and while giving toothpaste its convenient paste consistency, prevents enamel repair by coating the teeth to stop saliva re-enamelization, a natural process that restores tooth enamel. Toothpastes rely on abrasives to clean teeth, but the amount that effectively cleans also scratches the enamel. None of the artificial or toxic ingredients are necessary for oral health, and all are detrimental.
The third strategy is to remove bacterial plaque while still soft and vulnerable to disruption. The intention is not necessarily to eradicate the bacteria, but to stop the plaque from calcifying into hardened calculus by mechanically breaking up the organization of plaque bacteria. This will only be a temporary setback to the bacteria, and they will start to regroup into a sticky biofilm again. But until reorganization, they’ve lost the ability to excrete the sticky and acidy substances that modify their surroundings for even faster bacterial reproduction, and also lost the ability to form calculus from saliva minerals. For most people the actions of brushing twice a day and flossing daily are frequent enough to stymie the formation of calculus.
Brushing with toothpaste is not recommended, but effective, natural tooth cleaners can certainly make brushing more effective. The traditional combination of baking soda and salt is a tried and true natural dentifrice, with the added bonus of baking soda’s ability to neutralize the acids produced by plaque. The salt crystals should be pulverized into an extremely small mesh size, to ensure the salt dissolves quickly and completely. The inclusion of cranberry and tea tree leaf powder will add an extra dimension, because they have the characteristic of countering the stickiness property of plaque, helping to loosen both plaque and calculus. There are some natural dental soaps that can be helpful, especially if the teeth and gums are already in pristine condition, if a brushing schedule is diligently followed, and no active help will be needed either to dislodge plaque and calculus or to support the gum tissues in trying to fight infection and heal themselves.
Fighting Infection and Helping Healing
The fourth strategy involves helping to fight infection already in the gums, and we can again turn to the antimicrobial herbs of peppermint, cranberry, cinnamon, and tea tree leaf. But bacteria within tissue aren’t as easily exposed as are the bacteria free-floating in the mouth. However, help is available in the form of the salt (used above as part of the tooth cleanser), if it’s full-mineral sea salt. High-mineral sea salt, such as French grey sea salt that’s harvested in clay-lined ponds, has nearly the same mineral composition and ratios as human blood and fluids, and the resulting compatible ion balance helps fluids move more easily through cells walls.
The fifth strategy is to help the gum tissues to heal themselves, and the greatest help of all is from vitamin-C with a bioflavonoid complex to help the body absorb and retain the vitamin-C. Vitamin-C is required for the growth of connective tissue, and the gums are made almost entirely of connective tissue. For someone with gum issues, no dentifrice should be considered unless it contains a healthy amount of vitamin-C. Another excellent source of healing help is myrrh, which has been famous since biblical times as one of the most effective natural soothers and healing agents.
There’s a tendency to think of oral health as being totally independent from bodily health, but they are intimately connected, each side having influences on and showing the effects of the other. A traditional, nourishing, “primitive” diet is the foundation of both oral and bodily health, and nothing will surpass its influence or make up for its lack. But upon that foundation, natural support is helpful and available.
The carefully selected combination of the herbs, vitamins, and natural cleansers described above are all incorporated into a powdered dentifrice called Good-Gums to augment the body’s mechanisms for oral health. Whether you use Good-Gums or mix your own dentifrice of natural ingredients, your body will respond well to its application through the conscientious exercise of oral care habits (which will be detailed in another article due in Sept. 2010).
John Chisholm is co-owner of a small company that makes Good-Gums, a toothpaste-replacement that supports the body’s ability to heal its gums. When WAPF Chapter Leaders started carrying Good-Gums, John started learning and practicing Weston A. Price dietary principles, as lucidly explained by Kevin Brown’s Liberation Wellness. Already a regular exerciser and feeling pretty healthy, John didn’t anticipate how well his body would further respond to unprocessed, full-fat, pasture-raised foods.
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Posted by John Chisholm on August 25, 2010
In school, we were sometimes presented with an example or case study which described all the salient facts and where the people of that time made the (obviously) wrong choice. The outcome, depending on the subject matter of the class, could have been families suffering, companies losing money, or countries being conquered. The correct choices seemed to be so hard to discern for the people in the examples, but seem so obvious in hindsight. During my school years, the general reaction to these examples was to adopt a vague sense of superiority over the “dumb” people who couldn’t see the obvious.
Even though case studies have been presented to generations of students, the lessons don’t prevent new episodes of breakdown that will take their turn as future examples. (In economics, lessons from 
the tulip-mania bubble of the 1630’s didn’t prevent the railway bubble of the 1840”s, the Florida land bubble of the 1920’s, or the dot-com bubble of the late 1990’s) Obviously the participants weren’t “dumb,” but they couldn’t accurately perceive reality until the resulting situation became quite dire. Because the pattern is so widespread and persistent in human history, perhaps we should quickly check to see if there is anything like that going on in our lives today.
Our Current “Case Study”
A likely candidate involves our current dire epidemic of chronic and degenerative diseases. A century ago, fewer than one in twenty Americans contracted cancer in their lifetimes; now the figure is about half the men and nearly two-thirds the women. Diabetes has likewise been on an explosive growth, with the percentage of those inflicted expected to double between the years 2000 and 2030; one 
third of Americans born after year 2000 are expected to contract diabetes in their lifetime. Heart disease and strokes have become scourges of the modern developed world. Even asthma has been growing tremendously since the 1960’s; in the 30 years since 1980 the rate has grown 250%. The growth of tooth decay and gum disease, noticed by Dr. Weston Price in the 1930’s, has become endemic, giving rise to a booming business today in crowns, root canals and implants. Obesity has grown from a tiny portion of the population a century ago to over a third; obesity rates have tripled in the last 30 years. Having so many degenerative chronic diseases increase at the same time is more than a coincidence.
What could be bringing this on? The worldwide increase in diabetes follows the adoption of a “Western-style” diet. The prevalence of asthma is growing worldwide, even though it varies from place to place, with some countries having up to 60 times the rate as others; the highest are the developed Western countries whose populations ingest the most antibiotics as children, such as given to food animals by modern agribusiness. The increase in heart disease and strokes follows precisely the dietary change in fats from those originating from pasture-raised animals to those artificially manufactured from hydrogenated plant oils. The rise in cancer mirrors the increase in sugar (from 5 lbs. per person per year a century ago to 135 lbs.), which has been found to feed cancer cells and suppress the immune system. Our diet has changed more in the last 75 years than in all the thousands of years that preceded it.
Objectively, it seems so obvious. Every correlation between dietary changes on the one hand and many degenerative diseases on the other has been documented. And yet, it’s still hard to accept that the denatured and artificial foods that dominate the American diet can be at the root of so much detriment to our bodies. What one day will be considered self-evident seems so controversial and hard to accept today. Why do we respond so much like the people in the case studies we had read about in school?
Why It’s Hard to Discern
Back in school, the historical case studies were presented to us with all their salient facts, but not all the background noise of obfuscation and half-truths that the people of that time also had to contend with. In hindsight, it’s easy to sort out the germane from the irrelevant. Not so easy when people with a vested interest pursue a hidden agenda of obfuscation. When it comes to our food supply, there’s a lot of motivation for confusion and deception: big money.
It used to be that our food supply came from many independent, decentralized farmers, all pursuing organic farm practices, the only kind of farming that existed at the time. When farmers made up half 
the population (around 1880), or 30% of the population (in 1920), control of agriculture’s income was diluted. By 1990, the situation had completely changed. All but 2% of the population had been driven off their farms, and even among the remaining farms there was tremendous concentration. Agribusiness applied the industrial manufacturing model to farming, and no longer did farmers raise many different types of crops and animals on the same farm, with the wastes from one operation becoming the inputs for another one. Monoculture and single species animal-raising allowed for dominance by the few. Just 3% of the remaining hog farms produce the majority of the hogs; 2% of cattle feed operations produce 40% of the cattle. Consolidation, uniformity, and cheap chemical inputs allowed a few to take control of our food supply.
The seven biggest agribusiness corporations, which pretty much dictate the food supply by controlling seeds, grains, animal feeds, fertilizers and herbicides, have annual revenues of over $250 billion. (To give some perspective on how large and influential such an amount is, it exceeds the annual federal budgets for the Departments of Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Energy, Interior, EPA and NASA combined). That’s the revenue of just seven companies, not of the whole agricultural sector. The small incomes of the many farmers who work at or close to breakeven are not included, but they are continually squeezed into a smaller share of agriculture revenue, while the giant agribusinesses take an ever larger share. Because food is not a discretionary purchase, the billions in current annual revenue are the anticipated trillions in future revenue stream. That’s a lot of motivation for obfuscation.
And obfuscation is necessary because the very agricultural practices that reduce costs and increase profits are the same practices that denature our food to the point of ruining our health. 
These practices include: chemical pesticides that are designed to poison living cells; chemical fertilizers that act like amphetamines for plants; CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) that continually expose animals to their own feces; artificial fats that humans were never meant to ingest; pasteurization to make dangerously contaminated milk safe (in the short term) but devoid of critical nutrients; artificial hormones given to milk-bearing and meat-bearing animals; a flood of antibiotics given to CAFO animals; animal feeds comprising waste by-products from other industries instead of the natural food they were designed to eat. Newer practices that further denature food are continually adopted in the search for lower costs and higher profits, such as irradiation of food and the displacement of natural plants with GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
Obfuscation Tactics
With an ugly truth to hide, and with a strong motivation and plentiful resources, agribusiness has hired some of the brightest minds to figure out how to shape our perceptions of food so that we’ll docilely keep ingesting denatured food that makes us sick, while convincing ourselves that it’s all okay.
First and foremost is to make sure that denatured food looks quite a lot like real natural food. Everyone is busy with so many demands on time and energy, that agribusiness can expect most of the denaturing practices to slip right past us if it doesn’t change the appearance of the food too much. Can we really tell if the milk has rBGH in it, or if the corn sweetener that’s in all the convenience foods is GMO? Especially if the politicians can be convinced (with campaign contributions) that labeling should be dismissed.
Another important requirement is that denatured foods cause only long-term degenerative or chronic diseases that will take years to manifest. Milk from cows raised in filthy CAFOs is all right as long as the fecal bacteria can be killed by heating the milk; no one will get sick immediately after drinking it, and the destruction of critical enzymes and vitamins from the heating will affect only long-term health.
In obfuscating the attributes of denatured foods, it’s also important for the producers to make the foods as convenient as possible to prepare and use. People don’t want their lives to be more 
complicated, so stressing convenience makes people more likely to snap up the immediate benefit while delaying or dismissing the effort it takes to become educated about the long-term implications.
Other tactics include claiming that any denatured foods that can’t be disguised are better than the natural foods they’re replacing. (Kevin Brown’s book “Liberation Diet” ISBN: 978-1439207390 has a good explanation and examples of this tactic.) Advertising and PR can really help sell denatured foods by claiming they have health benefits. Even if people don’t buy the idea of being better than what nature provides, many will buy the idea that it’s just as good—and cheaper to boot.
As the foundation of our food supply falls into the control of fewer and fewer people, the choices available through grocery stores get reduced to only the denatured foods that yield the lowest cost and highest profits. Retail chains can easily be convinced to dedicate their shelf space to products with the highest profit margins, the longest shelf life (further reducing costs), and the largest advertising budgets. As one grocery chain after falls in line, almost everyone winds up eating the same things and suffering the same repercussions.
When everyone suffers from the same maladies, it doesn’t take long before they’re accepted as being unavoidable and the new norm. I live near the Everglades, and I’ve read that the bird population has been reduced by 90% over the past century; but the reduction happened so slowly and steadily that everyone thinks the bird population there is fine. On the West coast, where 96% of the redwood forests have been cut down and won’t grow back, the majority of what’s left remains outside park protection and available for logging, because few people miss the grandeur of bygone years. The same phenomenon can be exploited here as well. “Of course everyone knows someone who has died of cancer,” or “…has diabetes” or “…we all have gum disease.” There’s comfort in having the same perceptions as the crowd. It seems to validate what we think, even if those ideas were fed to us by advertising and manipulation. It’s a rare person who can buck the trend.
Part of obfuscation is hiring “experts” to proclaim alternative explanations for all the degenerative ills that have arisen alongside the rise of denatured foods. “It’s not our diet; it’s a lack of willpower, …the lack of exercise due to videogames, …” etc, etc.
Seeing Clearly and Acting Wisely
All of these tactics clutter the landscape of our perception, making it hard for us to discern what’s best for us. There’s a common expression called “blowing smoke,” and we’re the recipients of a lot of it. Unfortunately it takes some effort to see through the smoke to discern what’s real and what the good choices really are. This is not an academic exercise like the case studies we saw in school. Being sick with degenerative diseases can affect every aspect of our lives, as well as those who’d have to become our caretakers. There are few things more important than learning to avoid or remove the underlying causes of degenerative diseases, and to maintain a solid foundation for health. Our choices will influence how long we and our loved ones will live and affect the quality of our lives while we live, so it’s an effort worth making. There is help available, in the form of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Liberation Wellness programs, such as 30 Days to Wellness. We don’t have to be so blinded by smoke that we become examples of people acting “dumb.”
John Chisholm is co-owner of a small company that makes Good-Gums, a toothpaste-replacement that supports the body’s ability to heal its gums. When WAPF Chapter Leaders started carrying Good-Gums, John started learning and practicing Weston A. Price dietary principles, as lucidly explained by Kevin Brown’s Liberation Wellness. Already a regular exerciser and feeling pretty healthy, John didn’t anticipate how well his body would further respond to unprocessed, full-fat, pasture-raised foods.
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Raw Milk Wins in Latest Legal Battle!
Posted by Kevin Brown on August 23, 2010
Raw Milk Consumers Win Round One
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Challenge to FDA’s Interstate Ban on Raw Milk
Falls Church, Virginia (August 20, 2010) – In a complex federal district court ruling, Judge Mark W. Bennett refused to grant a motion by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the agency by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) and eight other named plaintiffs. The lawsuit argues that federal regulations (21 CFR 1240.61 and 21 CFR 131.10) prohibiting raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce are unconstitutional as applied to FTCLDF’s members and the other plaintiffs named in the suit.
In his August 18 decision, Judge Bennett denied part of FDA’s motion to dismiss while reserving judgment on the remainder. As part of his ruling, the judge ordered proceedings in the case to be stayed sixty days to allow plaintiffs time to decide whether to file a ‘citizen petition’ with FDA. The petition would ask FDA to clarify its interpretation of the authorizing statutes and regulations giving the agency power to ban raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce. If plaintiffs choose to file the citizen petition, the court would continue to delay the suit until the administrative proceedings were completed or until FDA failed to take action within the time the law requires. If plaintiffs declined to pursue the citizen petition, Judge Bennett indicated the court would reconsider FDA’s motion to dismiss.
In Judge Bennett’s view, the main question FDA needs to answer in the petition process is “whether § 1240.61 applies to and proscribes the conduct of (1) persons who travel from one state, where it is not legal to purchase raw milk, to another state, where it is legal to purchase raw milk, legally purchase raw milk, then return to the original state where they consume the raw milk themselves or give it to their friends or family members; or (2) a principal and agent who agree that the agent will obtain raw milk out-of-state, where it is legal to do so, and to deliver it to the principal in the principal’s home state, where sales of raw milk are not permitted; or (3) a producer of raw milk who sells raw milk in an intrastate transaction to persons that he knows are from out of state.”
All of the individually named plaintiffs in the lawsuit fit into one of the three scenarios described above. Section 1240.61 provides in part, “No person shall cause to be delivered into interstate commerce or shall sell, or otherwise distribute, or hold for sale or other distribution after shipment in interstate commerce any milk or milk product in final package form for direct human consumption unless the product has been pasteurized….”
Judge Bennett sees the citizen petition as a way to resolve the question of “whether the plaintiff’s conduct involves or affects ‘interstate commerce’ sufficiently to fall within the proscriptions of § 1240.61, and, still more specifically, whether the plaintiffs’ conduct constitutes ‘delivery [of raw dairy products] into interstate commerce’ or ‘distribution’ of raw dairy products after shipment in interstate commerce.”
Plaintiffs have survived the first round in the case. They have until October 18 to determine what their next course of action will be.
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund defends the rights and broadens the freedoms of family farms and protects consumer access to raw milk and nutrient-dense foods.
Concerned consumers can support the Fund, a U.S. based 501(c)(4) nonprofit, by joining or donating online at www.farmtoconsumer.org or by calling 703-208-FARM(3276).
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For more information call 703-208-3276 or email president@farmtoconsumer.org
The press release is posted on the Fund’s website at:
http://www.ftcldf.org/press/press-FDA-lawsuit-round-one.htm
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.
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Liberation Wellness in HD
Posted by Kevin Brown on August 13, 2010
Liberation Wellness Members
Kevin Brown and Annette Presley on the Harvest Show
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.
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Bisphenol A (BPA) – Contaminating Our Food
Posted by Kevin Brown on August 13, 2010
The Video says it all!
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.
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Michael Schwatrz – Symbology of Health
Posted by Kevin Brown on August 7, 2010
Michael Schwartz, President of Michael’s® Naturopathic Programs, (MNP), has worked in the natural food industry since 1976 as a sales rep, a retailer, teacher and naturopathic counselor and as a producer of nutritional supplements and other products.
His first naturopathic formulas, designed to nourish and support the body in its natural return to harmony and good health, were created originally for family, friends and clients.
When Michael founded his supplement company in 1984, these formulas were offered to the public. Those formulas, and the ones for each of the nearly 100 products offered today, are designed to be synergistically complete. That is, they contain all the nutrients in the right amounts and combinations to produce optimum results that can be felt in the body in a very short period of time.
Michael pioneered the synergistically complete concept, which has become an industry standard, as well as his gender-specific supplements. His belief in the principles of naturopathy has led him to rule out offering anything not in the true spirit of health, such as hormone or glandular- based products or fads.
Michael’s® Naturopathic Programs uses only “tried and true” formulas based on basic principles of healing.
The author of “The Universal Teachings”, “The Art of Mental Healing” and his newest book “Health and Disease Symbology Handbook: A Mind Body Perspective”, Michael is a well- seasoned and inspiring speaker.
For more information on Michael’s books, visit www.innerhealthbooks.com
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.
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CURE for Cancer!
Posted by Kevin Brown on August 5, 2010
Hi folks
I’ve been interested in Coley’s toxin (CT) for many years. As a cancer therapy it had about a 50% cure (and I do mean cure) rate over all cancers. This compares to the dismal 2.5% ‘response’ rate (response doesn’t mean cure) of modern cytotoxic chemotherapy.
CT went out of fashion with Coley’s death in 1936, but it is still used with great success in countries which are not ruled by the Pharmaceutical and Cancer Industries (it can’t be patented, so Big Pharma isn’t interested).
Although suppressed in the US and UK, CT is still made and used. Now a US national radio statin is broadcasting three weeks of programmes about Coley’s toxin, or as it is now called Coley’s Fluid or Mixed Bacterial Vaccine.
With one person in two – that’s right, one in two – getting cancer today, you really need to listen to these programmes. They could save your life.
NPR, the public radio system in the United States, will air a three-part series about cancer immunology and MBVax Coley Fluid. Three weekly one-hour editions of “The People’s Pharmacy” hosted by Joe and Terry Graedon will be broadcast on Saturday and Sunday mornings beginning this weekend.
Program #1 – Saturday August 7th and Sunday August 8th
NIH Immunologist Dr. Polly Matzinger; and fever therapy authority Prof. Uwe Hobohn.
Program #2 – Saturday August 14th and Sunday August 15th
MBVax president Don MacAdam; and oncologist Dr. Jonathan Serody.
Program #3 – Saturday August 21st and Sunday August 22nd
Dr. Vikas Sukhatme, Victor J. Aresty Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Vidula Sukhatme, chair of GlobalCures.
To listen to these programs on the radio, check the schedule of your local NPR station:
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/radio-stations/
To listen to these program live on the Internet:
www.wxel.org Saturday mornings at 4:00 am PDT, 7:00 am EDT, 11:00 GMT.
www.wxel.org Sunday mornings at 4:00 am PDT, 7:00 am EDT, 11:00 GMT.
www.kcho.org Sunday mornings at 6:00 am PDT, 9:00 am EDT, 13:00 GMT.
Beginning August 15th, the shows will be available as a podcast at:
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/
For more information about Coley Fluid, visit www.mbvax.com
Barry Groves
Author: Trick and Treat: how ‘healthy eating’ is making us ill
Natural Health and Weight Loss
Co-producer: Be Slim Without Dieting (Video / DVD)
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk
http://www.diabetes-diet.org.uk
http://www.cholesterol-and-health.org.uk
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.
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