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Posts Tagged ‘Nutrition’
Moms, Can You Do Without Drugs?
Posted by Joette Calabrese on April 5, 2012
I can’t imagine what my life would be like without homeopathy. It has changed my life, and the lives of my entire family, too.
Years ago, I thought antibiotics were appropriate simply because my doctor said they were. I fell for immunotherapy and my allergies were driven to a deeper, more entrenched state. I firmly believed the falsehood that drugs, meds and medicaments were irrefutably valuable.
To think of the poor choices I made all of those years irritates me to this day. But, instead of getting caught up with my mistakes, let me share with you how I overcame them.
(By the way, if you’ve made similar blunders, you can overcome them, too!)
Instead of using drugs, my foremost medicines have long been homeopathy and nutrient dense foods. Thanks to this bold resolution, my family and I took a colossal leap into robust health. And we’ve never turned back.
I never doled out a single drug to my family; not a Tylenol capsule, not a spoonful of Benadryl and no antibiotics.
Zip, nada, zilch!
Does this sound impossible?
Well, it would be impossible without the correct tools, knowledge and motivation.
That’s why I have organized a FREE webinar called The 5 Most Common Mistakes Parents Make in Their Children’s Health.
Over the years, my clients and students have shared with me their mistakes and I’ve noted what the most popular errors have been. Many of them are made repeatedly by both parents and grandparents alike.
Some of these 5 blunders are grave, but others are minor.
Recognizing our mistakes is one thing – correcting them is another.
How did I correct my blunders? By using intelligent methods coupled with pig-headed determination.
And that’s what you can use, too. A knowledgeable mom can aptly deal with much of what faces her family’s health. There are methods you can employ today that will help you safely uproot illness instead of just covering it up with drugs. It takes perseverance and persistence, but really, what is more important than the health of our families?
I know you have the motivation already, so let me provide you with the correct tools and knowledge that took me decades to “get”.
I’ll get you started with my Free Webinar, The 5 Most Common Mistakes Parents Make in Their Children’s Health this Tuesday, April 10 at 8PM EST.
Let’s right the wrongs together.
I hope to see you there!
Note: If you can’t make my webinar, sign up anyway and you’ll receive instructions on how to hear/view the webinar later.
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Posted in health, Homeopathy, Joette Calabrese, Nutrition, wellness | Tagged: healthcare, Homeopathy, Nutrition | 3 Comments »
Long Winters, Hello Cod Liver Oil
Posted by Joette Calabrese on February 9, 2012
Where’s the sun?
Oh, those dreary, sunless, taupe-colored months. It’s just about this time of year when I wish I could fill up my battery bars with some revitalizing sun.
But without our free source of vitamin D, we’re left to fend for ourselves to keep vitamin D levels adequate.
No one wants the winter blues and it’s well established that they result from a deficiency of vitamin D, present in soluble fats.
How can we be certain that our families are getting enough vitamin D in their diet without relying on the so-called “fortified” cereals, milks and synthetic vitamins?
As a homeopath who teaches mothers and others how to maintain and restore heath, I often suggest using lard in baking (like our grandmothers’ pies!) and in sautéing. I also teach folks how to employ homeopathic remedies, such as Calc phos 6x, to help promote the proper absorption of nutrients.
All good stuff.
But truly, the easiest way to sustain vitamin D in the winter is to take fermented cod liver oil daily.
Yet, I’ll share a secret. I teach my clients that cod liver oil is essential even in the warmer months. Why? Because no matter how often our children are outside and getting vitamin D from the sun, they will not receive a priceless source of nutrition – liver, itself. Quite simply, liver contains more nutrients, gram for gram, than any other food!
It took me years to learn the importance of the consistent habit of eating liver, particularly that from a clean source. Yet, when I was raising my children, it was nearly impossible to get liver into them. After years of pâté, liver smothered in bacon and onions, and many turned up noses, I simply had to find a simple solution. Desiccated beef liver, available from Radiant Life in both powder and capsules, provides a convenient way to obtain all the legendary health and nutritional benefits of liver.
It can even be sprinkled into soups and stews and served to unsuspecting recipients of this sacred food!
Getting back to the importance of fermented cod liver oil…
Fermented cod liver oil is a time-tested method for consuming these most precious nutrients. Our ancestors instinctively understood the importance of daily cod liver oil long before the studies substantiated the findings.
My Italian grandmothers raised their large and robust families on such fare. When there was barely enough money for milk during the depression, they made certain that their children at least had cod liver oil. Fermented cod liver oil wasn’t available to them, but at least plain cod liver oil was.
Fermented cod liver oil is packed with fat-soluble vitamin D, which helps promote bone and teeth growth, as well as building immunity. Additionally, it supports healthy body weight and encourages brain development and lung function.
The high quality fermented fare wasn’t available in capsules when my children were young. So, I incorporated a nightly ritual of taking cod liver oil with a tall glass of fresh milk. My boys affectionately dubbed it the “spoon of doom”.
It made it more fun.
Things are different today. Now, my sons are young men and they take their fermented cod liver oil daily on their own. In fact, while in college, they often doubled up on their doses while studying for exams. The results were always high grades.
Radiant Life makes these age-old products available, and I make the recommendation to all my students/clients and anyone who asks, to take advantage of this near perfect food. For those who wish to avoid the cod liver oil’s taste, fermented cod liver oil capsules are the answer to skipping over the “spoon of doom”.
No need to let those clouds keep you and your family down this season. Instead, make Fermented Cod Liver Oil part of your daily routine and you’ll keep your brain sharp and your smile sunny, too.
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Posted in cod liver oil, Fermented Foods, health, Nutrition, Vitamin D, Weston A. Price Foundation | Tagged: Diet, Nutrition, wapf | 13 Comments »
Under Fire
Posted by Kevin Brown on December 19, 2011
Internal Documents Reveal USDA Dietary Guidelines Panel
Dominated by a Profession Under Fire
Washington, DC–December 15, 2011–Under pressure from the Healthy Nation Coalition, the USDA recently revealed the identities of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Independent Scientific Review Panel, which is credited with peer-reviewing the Guidelines to ensure they are based on the preponderance of the scientific evidence available. Seven out of the eight panel members are Registered Dietitians (RDs), chosen according to the USDA, for their knowledge in nutrition communication and dietary guidance.
At the same time, RDs across America are reeling from the news that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will not reimburse them to provide intensive behavioral counseling for obesity. While the Federal government appears to be relying on RDs as experts in the midst of Americas obesity crisis, it doesnt want to pay them to help people lose weight. This news comes as the American Dietetic Association (ADA)the professional organization for RDsis under scrutiny for its ties to food and pharmaceutical industries.
An ongoing investigation by Congress recently revealed that the ADA receives over $1 million a year in payments from pharmaceutical companies and an undisclosed amount from companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Hershey. In addition to receiving payments from industries with obvious conflicts of interest, earlier this year the Alliance for Natural Health-USA revealed that ADAs continuing education courses for RDs are being taught by the Coca-Cola Companys Beverage Institute, stated Darrell Rogers from Alliance for Natural Health-USA. RDs have voiced their dissatisfaction with the ADAs corporate ties, with members indicating that the ADAs relationship with corporate sponsors has a negative impact on the public image of RDs and undermines the credibility of the profession.
Credibility has been further undermined by the lack of evidence that the methods RDs use to treat obesity are effective. The ADAs own Evidence Analysis Library contains few studies that demonstrate that dietitian-led dietary interventions result in meaningful weight loss.
As a result, many insurance companies, and now CMS, do not reimburse RDs for its treatment. Tennessees state insurance doesnt cover seeing a dietitian for weight loss. Why? There’s really no evidence to support the fact that providing those services would result in a decrease in medical cost, certainly not immediately, and even in the longer term,” according to Dr. Wendy Long, chief medical officer of TennCare.
This lack of evidence may be due in part to the limited scope of dietetic education and practice. The ADA relies on the USDA as a scientific authority and follows its lead in most matters of nutrition, limiting the training of RDs to USDA-approved diet recommendations.
Valerie Berkowitz, RD, Director of Nutrition at the Center for Balanced Health and author of the award-winning nutrition guide The Stubborn Fat Fix states: “Registered Dietitians lack education and practice in manipulating macronutrients [protein, fat, and carbohydrate] to switch fuel sources from carbohydrate to fat burning. It is unfortunate that educators do not acknowledge the therapeutic value of lower carbohydrate consumption at least as an additional tool to increase the success of medical nutrition therapy for obesity prevention and treatment.
The ADA not only limits the training of RDs, it is sponsoring legislation in New York and multiple other states that would essentially restrict the practice of nutrition to RDs, and outlaw highly-qualified non-RD nutrition professionals from practicing. If successful, this would restrict consumer choice of nutrition professionals to those trained to follow USDA recommendations.
Given the ADAs close ties with the food and drug industry and the lack of effectiveness for USDA-approved dietitian-led interventions for obesity, the public should be concerned about the dominant role that RDs and other ADA members played in the creation of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines. In addition to the Independent Scientific Review Panel being comprised primarily of RDs, ADA members were also one-third of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the group of experts that creates the Report that guides the writing of the Dietary Guidelines. The majority of the USDA and HHS staff members who worked with the Committee or on the Dietary Guidelines are also RDs.
According to Adele Hite, Director of the Healthy Nation Coalition and lead author of a 2010 peer-reviewed article examining the limitations of the Dietary Guideline process, The ADA is an industry-friendly organization. The USDA appears to rely on the dietetics focus of ADA-trained Registered Dietitians to confirm their own industry-friendly guidelines. The self-supporting relationship between the ADA and the USDA does not benefit either the credibility of RDs or the health of Americans.
The Healthy Nation Coalition is an organization dedicated to improving the health of Americans through reforming national food and nutrition policy and does not solicit or accept contributions from the food or pharmaceutical industry.
Media Contact: Kimberly Hartke, Publicist
Hartke Communications
703-860-2711, 703-675-5557
Posted in Big Agriculture, Family Wellness, Food freedom, heart disease, liberation diet, liberation wellness, Nutrition, raw milk, weston price | Tagged: ADA, American Dietetic Association, Dietitian, MyPyramid, Nutrition, TennCare, United States, USDA | Leave a Comment »
Michael Schmidt – Hunger STRIKE
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 »
Surviving With Local Plants
Posted by Kevin Brown on July 25, 2011
Lehigh Valley Chapter of THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION®
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Posted in Big Agriculture, Family Wellness, Food freedom, heart disease, liberation diet, liberation wellness, Nutrition, raw milk, weston price | Tagged: health, Lehigh Valley, local food, Nutrition, Pennsylvania, United States, weston price, Weston Price Foundation | Leave a Comment »
Healthy News
Posted by Kevin Brown on July 25, 2011
Lehigh Valley Chapter of THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION®
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
About the Speaker
About The Weston A. Price Foundation
Posted in Big Agriculture, Family Wellness, Food freedom, heart disease, liberation diet, liberation wellness, Nutrition, raw milk, weston price | Tagged: Bone fracture, health, Lehigh Valley, Nutrition, Pennsylvania, United States, weston price, Weston Price Foundation | Leave a Comment »
Enjoying the Bounty of the Season
Posted by Maureen Diaz on July 25, 2011
A portion of what a 5 minute foray into the garden yielded
You may have wondered where I have been lately. It isn’t that there has been nothing to write about, nor that I’ve no longer an interest in this blog. But rather, we have been busy as beavers around this place, working hard and enjoying the bounty of the season!
Our family has a lovely 10 acre parcel in a mountain valley of South Central Pennsylvania. And on that piece of ground we raise much of our family’s food, something which I think most families could actually do so long as they have at least 2 or 3 acres of dirt and a little determination 
For years we have raised a family cow for fresh milk, yogurt, butter, cheese, kefir, and meat (the annual calf or two). 
This year our “Lady” blessed us with 2 calves-quite a delightful surprise! We will have plentiful beef in the coming years and for now have lots of good, rich milk, abundant manure for the garden and pastures, as well as enjoyment as we all work together in the care of these animals.
It doesn’t take a lot of land to raise chickens, and we have about 160 of them growing right now, some for eggs and most for meat. We started butchering 2 weeks ago and have already enjoyed our first delicious chicken dinner, with more in the freezer- mmm! There is nothing like a meal of roasted chicken stuffed with fresh herbs and homemade butter! We look forward to many such meals, accompanied by vegetables still warm from the sun and fruit from our orchard!
Years ago a variety of fruit trees were planted and an orchard formed. Were we to do it all over again, I believe it would have been lovely to simply incorporate these beautiful trees into the landscape. However as it is, we now have a beautiful, mature orchard which bears much fruit. The peaches are just on the brink of being ripe, and the blackberries will also be coming in by the bushel: I feel some blackberry/peach smoothies coming on, made with our own creamy yogurt and a touch of local, raw honey. What could be better?!
While we still could do far more with the land we have, I am grateful for what we have accomplished and what it brings to the table: milk, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit, and perhaps next year there will again be honey, lamb and pork. I want to encourage you to see what you can do where you are. Much of our salad greens & a few tomatoes were grown in a container on a porch, as are bountiful herbs. Chickens don’t take up much space at all, and are easy to raise (fun, too!). And all it takes is about 1-2 acres per large animal for meat and milk (for goats and sheep, even less), when managed properly. With today’s uncertain times and our government making it difficult at best to obtain good quality, nutrient-dense, and clean food, maybe it’s time we all think about what we can do to provide for our own?
Maureen Diaz is a homeschooling mother of 9, a WAPF chapter leader, and a certified LW Nutritionist. She also has produced 3 cooking DVD’s including her latest, Liberation Wellness Home Cooking. Check out & order her DVD’s on her website, www.nourishingtraditionalcook.com
Togetherness makes this job fun!
When the day’s chores are done, it’s time to go fishin’!
An assortment of chickens growing in a portable pen
Posted in Family Wellness, farm fresh, Food freedom, Food Politics, Food Safety, fresh and local, grass fed beef, liberation wellness, Local Foods, Maureen Diaz, Nutrition, raw milk, real food, real foods, Total Wellness, vegetables, wellness | Tagged: Butter, health, maureen diaz, Nutrition, raw milk | 4 Comments »
Low Fat Diet May Have Killed Danny Gans
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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World Premiere of Farmageddon
Posted by Kevin Brown on June 11, 2011
World Premiere of Farmageddon Comes to Three Cities
First Time Documentary Filmmaker Fights for Small Farmers
Washington, D.C. –June 10, 2011–If the FDA wasn’t defensive before about their raids against multiple small farms around the country, they soon will be when Kristin Canty’s documentary film Farmageddon–the Unseen War on American Family Farms debuts this month in three major cities–DC, LA, NYC.
The epicenter of bureaucratic and regulatory power, Washington, DC, is the first stop for the film. It opens here on June 17 for a weeklong World Premiere at the West End Cinema on 23rd Street, NW (between M and N streets). The filmmaker will be in town for the multiple 
events being coordinated around the film by groups such as Slow Food DC, Keep Food Legal, Grassfed on the Hill, and the Weston A. Price Foundation. Tickets go on sale at the West End Cinema box office, June 14, 2011.
A first time filmmaker, Kristin is a Massachusetts mom whose 4 year old son was healed of multiple allergies by adding farm fresh (raw) milk to his diet. She grew increasingly alarmed at the state and federal government’s armed raids of farm buying clubs and health food coops around the nation. In particular, the targeting of the very food that restored her son to perfect health, roused this mother of four children, to document on film the harsh actions against family farms.
Farmageddon tells the stories, in the words of the victims themselves, of the numerous trespasses of the health bureaucrats on farmers and consumers civil liberties. Canty also interviews experts on health and nutrition and leading local foods advocates to give a sobering assessment of the plight of farmers who seek to meet the growing demand for healthy, ecologically grown food. Congressman Ron Paul makes a cameo appearance decrying government’s overreach into the health and diet decisions of American citizens.
Kristin Canty is a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nutrition education and activist group, as well as the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. It was while hosting a fundraiser in her home for the latter, that she was inspired to undertake the making of the film. Her goal was to let the honest farmers whose food had harmed no one, tell their side of the story.
The D.C. premiere runs from June 17 through June 23rd. Showtimes for are weekdays 3, 5, 7, 9:00pm, and weekends 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:00pm. For tickets, contact West End Cinema, located at 2301 M Street NW Washington, DC 20037, the box office phone number is 202-419-3456.
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a non-profit nutrition education foundation dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. The Foundation is spearheading a national campaign to educate consumers about the benefits of farm fresh milk from pasture-raised dairy animals. Please visit their website westonaprice.org or realmilk.com to learn more about the Foundation’s Campaign for Real Milk.
For other screening dates and times, to request a screening or see the trailer, visit the Farmageddon website: http://farmageddonmovie.com
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