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Posted by Kevin Brown on April 30, 2012
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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Posted by Kevin Brown on April 13, 2012
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Posted by Kevin Brown on January 4, 2012
The power of putting your intentions “out there.”
Today marks my 1 year “anniversary” as a blogger! I started my first post with a list of five goals for the past year and I when I went back to look at them, I realized that I did accomplish most of them. In some cases I exceeded my goals. Before I can put my new goals out there, I feel like I need to express some gratitude for the people who helped me this past year and reflect on what I have learned in the process.
So, in abbreviated form, here’s what I put “out there” for last year:
1. Lose 10 pounds– did this and more. Lost about 15- 20 pounds in last yr and saw body fat % drop by about 1/
3. What worked for me was saying it to others, finding a supportive gym community (thanks all the peeps at O2 Fitness! And the body pump and pilates crew. And thanks Kat for believing in me during some personal training sessions early in the year), continuing to find some new challenge to shake things up when I hit a plateau (Thanks Ramblin Rose and the two triathlons that I did but would never have thought I could do!, Dr. Stew and Total Body Fitness, Terrance and bootcamp), the midnight run ladies (you know who you are… the fun faces I meet at the corner really early when it is still dark and push me to run when I sometimes would rather be sleeping!) and really walking the eating walk of putting the right foods into my body (Thanks Dr. Cowan for suggesting Liberation Diet, and thanks Kevin Brown for your encouragement also).
2. Keep learning about traditional food preparation– because this is not as “measurable” a goal, it is hard to say but I count this as a “win” because I keep doing that every day. I had no idea that I would start in the Natural Chef Program at Central Carolina Community College this past year, but because I knew I was looking for ways to strengthen my culinary skills, it just felt right to jump in when I found out about the program. I also kept learning on my own to cook healthier and do that every day.
3. Eat More Greens: I know, also not terribly “measurable” but I DID eat more greens this past year. And I did get the Vitamix that I wanted… (thanks to my husband for getting it for me for my birthday 
and I have to say that I use that thing every day…multiple times. I started adding more pureed greens to smoothies, to soups, to meatloaf; you just never know where you will find greens lurking! Even Kale Chips! which turned out to be one of my most read blogs of the year. I have even made some progress in getting my kids to eat a bit more greens so I am counting this as a “win” also.
4. Eat More Oysters: I made several trips to Squid’s during happy Oyster hour last year and I have added putting canned oysters on salads in a pinch when I need some protein. I am laughing out loud as I write this because I totally forgot about this goal until now and just realized that maybe that was part of why I was drawn to try those Rocky Mountain Oysters!
5. Keep the Crock Crankin’: And yes, I did that also. There are times, like right now, when my crock is empty and so I have not achieved all I wanted, but I made many, many batches of kraut this year and enjoyed both eating and sharing these with friends so I’m going to say 4.5 out of the 5 goals set for the year.
I don’t think I would have had that success if not for this blog and putting those “intentions” out there. So if you are one of the 4,000 hits that came to my blog this past year, Thank YOU for helping me! I hope that somehow by sharing some of my story, I might be able to help others as well. That’s what really motivates me and brings meaning to this reflection.
I’d like to inspire anyone who has read this far to find a way to be good stewards of the gifts that God has given them and use them to help others. It helps to write some of our goals down–some stretch goals and some most likely to be attainable with some effort on our part. While it is good to be as measurable as we can in stating our goals, it is also ok to just note an interest area and then be open to new opportunities as they arise.
So now that I have expressed my gratitude, I feel ready to write my 2012 goals but I think I just wrote a post already! I’d rather savor the lessons of 2011 and I will put my 2012 intentions in my next blog post! I know you are busy….me too! Hope you’ll journey some more with me in 2012!
Also posted at Kelly the Kitchen Kop
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Posted by Kevin Brown on November 2, 2011
Real Food advocate Pam Killeen speaks with host Kevin Brown about the Michael Schmidt hunger strike and the human rights issues connected with it
for more information go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/supportmichaelschmidt/
and http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=671393100
Kevin Brown is president of Visionary Trainers, an In-Home Personal Fitness Company, and Co-Author of the Liberation Diet, a Real-Food traditional diet program that is helping many attain excellent health and normal weight. Kevin serves as a fellow on the National Board of Fitness Examiners, and is the principle force behind the online fitness website LiberationFitness.com 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.
Posted in Family Wellness, liberation diet, liberation wellness, Nutrition, raw milk, weston price | Tagged: Hunger strike, kevin brown, liberation diet, liberation fitness, liberation wellness, liberation wellness hour, Michael Schmidt, money bobm, Nutrition, Pam Killeen, raw milk, sally fallon, weston price | 3 Comments »
Posted by Kevin Brown on October 7, 2011
“Farmageddon,” which is opening Friday, Oct. 7, at the Majestic Theatre at the Conway Cafe, is a documentary that sheds light on an unseen issue: the government’s persecution of small family dairy farms. The problem is writer/producer/director Kristin Canty doesn’t really have much to say about the subject other than it is bad.
Canty, whose intentions are clearly noble, decided to make “Farmageddon” after discovering raw milk was able to cure her son’s allergies. In talking to local farmers she discovered much of their troubles and wanted to share their stories.
As a first time filmmaker, Canty deserves credit for putting together a film that looks professional. This doesn’t look like something slapped together over the weekend. It is clear a lot of time, care and effort was put into the film and it does show.
The first 30 minutes of the film are compelling as Canty shows some disturbing imagery of farms being raided at gun point. Farmers share anecdotes that are shocking. One family had imported sheep to start a dairy farm, but the USDA went after them, eventually killing the sheep out of fear of the spread of mad cow disease, which there is no proof of sheep carrying. Other families had milk and yogurt and supposedly contaminated feed confiscated.
This would be a good subject for a 15 to 30 minute news segment on such programs as “Dateline” or “60 Minutes.” As a film, the material is stretched too thin and is repetitive. We are shown more farms given the same cruel inexplicable treatment and hear more tearful stories that certainly carry emotional weight, but we are never given answers or context.
Canty and the numerous family she interviewed want to know why both national and state governments are picking on the little guys over safety and healthy regulation instead of going after big commercial farms.
The conclusion that Canty comes to is that agribusiness must have the government in its back pocket. It isn’t a huge leap to make and it is quite possibly the case, but Canty provides zero evidence to back up this assertion.
Canty only talks to the owners of small farms. There was no apparent attempt to talk to owners of larger farms. She does state that she tried to contact government officials to give the other side of the story, but was only able to get a couple to go on camera. Out of frustration she says, “People from the government don’t really want to talk for some reason, which bums me out.” In that moment, despite the slick look of the film, you know you’re in the hands of an amateur.
For the 85-minute run time, you mostly only hear one side of the story and sometimes her subjects make dubious statements. Kevin Brown, author of “The Liberation Diet,” states “Real food like butter, like real milk, like eggs have been made the devil in the world of food to the point where people are afraid to eat real food and unfortunately the result of that is 72 percent of the country is obese or overweight. Heart disease, cancer rates and diabetes rates are at all-time highs, and every year it is getting worse.”
That is just faulty logic. Would there be less obesity if people only ate “real” butter, eggs and milk? It is possible, but once again the film is dealing with ideas that are unsupported and Canty never seeks out the facts to support her claims. The inclusion of material like this does a disservice to her primary subject: the owners of these small farms.
Canty does provides interesting information about why milk pasteurization became standard practice and Dr. David Acheson, food policy consultant and former FDA/USDA administrator, offers some insight into why there are strict regulations on milk. No one ever explains or even attempts to justify the extreme behavior against small farms.
By the conclusion of the film in which Canty blatantly states, “I made this film to be a cautionary tale for consumers,” it is apparent that you’ve watched the visual equivalent of a school report. Is it a report worth seeing? A qualified yes. Seeing the way these farmers are treated is shocking, and the film is worth a look if only for that footage.
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Posted by Kevin Brown on August 11, 2011
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Posted by Kevin Brown on June 27, 2011
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Posted by Kevin Brown on June 27, 2011
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Posted by Kevin Brown on June 20, 2011
Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans, an impressionist who sold more tickets on the Strip than the Rat Pack or Elvis Presley, died early Friday, his manager said. He was 52.
Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans, an impressionist who sold more tickets on the Strip than the Rat Pack or Elvis Presley,died early Friday, his manager said. He was 52.
Gans, best known for his touching impersonation of entertainer George Burns, began a five-year headline gig at tycoon Steve Wynn’s Wynn Las Vegas hotel in February. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at the Mirage.
Gans earned Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year honors 11 years in a row in the reader poll conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal but was not well known beyond Las Vegas.
The cause of death was unknown. Gans’s manager Chip Lightman expressed his shock at the impressionist’s passing.
“The guy was healthy as an ox,” Lightman said. “I spoke to Steve Wynn several times this morning and both of us were shocked. I was with Danny the day before yesterday. Healthy as an ox. I mean, all he ate was egg whites and spinach and worked out religiously.”
Gans was a former minor league baseball player who turned to performing after a career-ending injury.
He appeared as a player in the film “Bull Durham” and found success in his 1995 one-man show in New York before moving the next year to Las Vegas.
He is survived by a wife and three children.
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George Burns, often imitated by Danny Gans, lives to 100 years, eating eggs, regular fasting, smoking cigars, and occasional drinks.
Mr Burns reported that he ate eggs and fasted 1 day a week- sounds like the Liberation Diet-
According to George Burns…I like eggs because they’re so versatile. They can be poached, fried, scrambled, boiled-soft-boiled, hard-boiled, medium-boiled-shirred, and Benedicted. It’s amazing how many things you can do with an egg after a chicken gets through with it.
Also he said – Sunday I eat nothing. I may have a martini or two… or three… but NO food…
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Posted by Kevin Brown on June 10, 2011
Liberation Diet author Kevin Brown talks about the healthy eating wisdom of the Bible
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