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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Okay, I just realized it’s not still morning … so that makes it even wilder, lol ;) 

 The “Wolf” totem is coming to me (have seen “wolf” around me several times in the last day or so)…  I was just now reading on a site about Goji berries (healthy exotic berry), cacao-covered ones, which sounded particularly yummy.  And then my mind started wandering…thinking about the late (very late) breakfast I’d just enjoyed.  I was having passionate thoughts about my grapefruit, lol   Wondering what others might think of my thoughts.  I looked up and saw “wolfberry” right in front of me on the Goji page.  It says the wolfberry is a larger version of the goji…  Anyway, I took that as another wolf sighting :)  Maybe an encouragment to share my thoughts.  I’ll  do another post for Wolf Totem interpretations.

I’ve recently greatly altered my diet.  I used to be vegetarian, and then for a time, “vegan,” and up until recently I referenced myself as “almost vegetarian,” still eating very little animal products.  This type of eating has done me no favors, and I’m so grateful that I’ve finally come to my senses in that regard — and most especially grateful for my coming upon this special blog on this topic. 

I feel my vegetarianism (which spanned a lot of years) has been another version of my decade of starving myself via anorexic behavior in my twenties.  I’m intuitively getting the “vegetarianism” was a mask of that continuing, when I had thought I had overcome it. 

Now, I’m beginning to eat healthy, organic, REAL food — organic meat, eggs, raw-milk cheese, oh-ma-gawd delicious healthy butter…  I never woulda thought, but I (and I think most of us do) truly need these foods to be healthy.  Not the screwed-up variety of them, which most of us eat, but the real deal, as Nature intended…  And I’m seeing my health improve — finally — with the addition of these wonderful foods…and realizing that grandma and grandpa ate these foods, and did just fine and dandy on them :)

So here are some, um, more of my wild thoughts :)  I used to cringe at holding a package of red meat.  It’s still not my favorite thing, but I’m seeing differently now.  I always bless and thank the animal that it was, but it’s not that animal anymore.  Although I do think that our food, even after processed and all that “refining” still has some “life energy” to it or it would be of no value to us whatsoever — and, of course, a lot of our food today is like that.  But the core of the animal, it’s spirit (yes, animals, all things, have “spiritual” energy), is no longer in the meat.  Meat is just a material thing now that was designed by Nature to further sustain our lives, and the lives of other animals.  But it is still a gift from that animal…  If it was gross, bad or wrong for me to eat it, then it would not be healing my body…  What more would be an indication that this is aligned with Nature?  Animals eat animals, nothing wicked or evil is a part of that.  But how that animal may have been treated prior to its sacrifice to sustain another being’s life, there is often much “evil” in the mainstream process of that.  But that’s another topic.

And then I was thinking about balance, and how we hold on to our extremes…  And how raw foodists avow that their diet is the best because the foods are “alive.”  And that sounds good to me, but is “alive” all we need?  How do we know that too much “alive” isn’t a good thing? :)  If our lives were always totally, totally about love, would we really be “getting it”?  Both the understanding and the love? :)  Don’t we need to experience a dab of the “hate” to understand how amazing the love is?  Do we need a few healthy “dead” foods to balance it all out? :)  But let me put an emphasis on “healthy,” I don’t see most mainstream food as healthy — very “dead,” but also infused with “poison” on a variety of energetic levels.  I don’t feel my body wants or needs any of that.

But this post was actually spurred when I was enjoying my grapefruit :)  I love grapefruit.  And I know a fresh grapefruit still has a lot of ALIVE energy in it.  (And lotsa Vitamin C, yay!)  Vegetarians have no problem eating a grapefruit, and yet it has more alive energy than a piece of meat, I think.  Alive!  Vibrating with aliveness — and I think that means “consciousness” :)  So what keeps it from knowing I’m eating it??  :)   From our limited thinking, wouldn’t that seem more cruel than eating the “dead” foods?  See?  Wild thoughts, eh? lol

And I know how everything takes on energy, how we continually exchange it with everything around us.  So I’m eating my grapefruit, enjoying it out the wazoo :)  I’m taking in  its energy, it’s feeling mine…so I’m having this delicious, vibrantly energetic dance with my grapefruit, lol! ;)  And I’m thinking, can my grapefruit feel this?  If it can, then it’s feelin’ a lot of joy and gratitude :)  That must be fun for the grapefruit too…even though it’s dying in the process.  Was this ritual something the grapefruit lived for, came about for, looked forward too? :)  Hmmm.  Death and joy intermingled… And then thoughts came of the short lives of butterflies, and bees …   They come and go lightly through that doorway that is death/rebirth (same thing) … all just part of the “flow” that is this magical life on Earth :)   Hmmm, maybe the butterflies and bees…and grapefruits, and wolfberries, know something we don’t ;)

Peace,
Dove

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Rediscovering sauerkraut.  I love me some kraut, lol  I’ve loved it since I was a kid, but then started thinking it was too salty (per the myth that all salt is the same…and unhealthful), so I stopped eating it…  But since now I know REAL salt (sea salt) is good for us, I’m back to enjoying kraut!  Yay! :)  I just had a luscious mound of it (healthfood brand, Eden, organic cabbage and SEA SALT).  Ah man, I had so missed that wonderful flavor.   

 And look at how good this stuff is for us.  Just came upon this elaboration (I’ve bolded my fav parts) of all the health benefits it provides our lovely bods. 

Yay, kraut’s awesome! :)

 Dove

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Sauerkrauts Specific Health Benefits

Sauerkraut as immune booster

One of the not so secret benefits of sauerkraut is the boost it gives to immune systems. Packed with vitamins and minerals, sauerkraut has been used as a lay immune booster for centuries.  Sauerkraut contains phytochemicals which are created during the fermentation process. These naturally occurring, beneficial by products of sauerkraut help boost the immune system which leads to a decrease in a number of health problems. The common cold, skin problems, weight gain and tainted blood are all fixed by a healthy functioning immune system.

Sauerkraut as cancer fighter

The most recent evidence of sauerkraut’s status as a Superfood is found in numerous studies on the cruciferous wonder’s cancer fighting properties. The results of a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry concluded that sauerkraut is a cancer inhibitor. The study discovered that the fermentation of cabbage produced a substance called isothiocynates, which prevents cancer growth, particularly in the breast, colon, lung and liver. Although raw cabbage is normally rich in a compound called glucosinolate, the researchers found that during the fermentation process enzymes are released that completely decompose the compound into several breakdown products. The majority of these products are cancer-fighting isothiocyanates. The University of New Mexico published a study linking sauerkraut consumption by adolescent females to a reduced risk for breast cancer earlier studies indicate sauerkraut may reduce the risk for other forms of cancer including lung, colon, prostate, and liver We are finding that fermented cabbage could be healthier than raw or cooked cabbage, especially for fighting cancer, says Eeva-Liisa Ryhanen, Ph.D., research manager of MTT Agrifood Research Finland, located in Jokioinen, Finland. A recent study by the American Center for Cancer Research has found that sauerkraut has a profound effect in preventing and healing breast cancer. Based on reports that breast cancer rates amongst polish women in the United States were much higher than those in Poland researchers set out to find out why. Their answer; the women who still lived in Poland ate significantly larger amounts of sauerkraut especially important while they were in adolescence. The research found that the women who immigrated Americanized’ their diets and stopped eating as much of the super food that is sauerkraut thus increasing their rates of breast cancer.

Digestive Aid

Eating sauerkraut is a great way to protect the balance of bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract. Sauerkraut is one of the few foods that contain the bacterium Lactobacilli plantarum. L. planatarum is a very dominant strain of healthful bacteria which helps your digestive system in the following ways: boost the immune system by increasing antibodies that fight infectious disease help inhibit pathogenic organisms including E.coli, salmonella and unhealthy overgrowth of candida (yeast) create antioxidants (glutathione and superoxide dismustase) that scavenge free radicals which are a cancer precursor transforms hard-to-digest lactose from milk to the more easily digested lactic acid. It neutralizes the antinutrients found in many foods including the phytic acid found in all grains and the trypsin-inhibitors in soy generates new nutrients including omega-3 fatty acids, digestive aids and the trace mineral GTF chromium. These various properties are the best scientific reasons given for what has been known by loyal users for millennia, sauerkraut cures an upset stomach and is the best natural physic there is. Many sources say raw fermented foods are beneficial to the digestive system by increasing the healthy flora in the intestinal tract or creating the type of environment for them to flourish. Sauerkraut and its juice are traditional folk remedies for constipation. Fermentation actually increases nutrient values in the cabbage, especially vitamin C. Fermented foods are also said to facilitate the breakdown and assimilation of proteins. They have a soothing effect on the nervous system. The benefits of sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice have been recognized for generations. In some families of southern Germany, the children are fed raw sauerkraut twice weekly to support their intestines. Today it is thought that these benefits may relate to a high proportion of lactic acid in sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice that naturally supports the digestive processes, maintain intestinal flora, and increase the feeling of well-being.

Flu Fighter

With the spread of Avian Flu spreading across the globe, one enterprising Korean scientist, Kang Sa-Ouk of Seoul National University, took 13 chickens infected with avian flu virus and a couple of other diseases, fed them Kim chi extract and found that 11 of the birds recovered. Experts think the vital bacteria are created during the fermenting process and this gives the dish its health-boosting qualities.

 Source:  http://www.sauerkraut.com/benefits.htm

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Not “table salt.”  Real salt, as nature intended.  Sea salt.  We need salt, people.  If you’re having health issues and you’re not using salt, try adding a quality sea salt back to your diet.  YOU NEED SALT.  Real salt, not the egomaniac humanoid’s version of salt, “refined,” “table salt.”  That crap is crap :)  And that’s what you should avoid like the plague — it will kill ya’.

We’ve been avoiding all these things for years — salt, red meat, chocolate, dairy — because we were told they are unhealthful.  I’m discovering that it’s all BS.  Those foods, in their natural form (not “refined” “pasteurized” and otherwise screwed with), are wonderful healthful foods.  But definitely avoid them if they’ve been tampered with.  Nature, it knows best :)

Here’s some info on REAL SALT and why we need it, all the good it does for the body.  Read the rest at the curezone website, link below. 

Dove

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Excerpt from website:

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Vital Functions of Salt in the Body

1. Salt is most effective in stabilizing irregular heartbeats and, Contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure, it is actually essential for the regulation of blood pressure - in conjunction with water. Naturally the proportions are critical. 2. Salt is vital to the extraction of excess acidity from the cells in the body, particularly the brain cells.3. Salt is vital for balancing the sugar levels in the blood; a needed element in diabetics.4. Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy in cells in the body. It is used for local power generation at the sites of energy need by the cells.

http://www.newstarget.com/019680.html

http://www.eco-natural.com/greysalt/saltquiz.html
 

Here’s an excerpt from one of my favorite websites, www.newstarget.com, on the big “C” industry and their total disregard for the lives and health of women.  I love pink, but those pink ribbons are a wicked sham…

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While tens of millions of women are developing undetectable, early-stage breast cancer right now, the cancer industry does nothing. They will not tell these women how to halt the growth of cancer tumors; they will only wait until the cancer becomes large enough to see on a screening test, and then they will scare the women to death with harmful, authoritative medical demands and toss them into chemotherapy — a treatment that causes permanent, irreversible harm to the brain, heart, liver, kidneys and other organs.

Yet even the World Health Organization admits that 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple changes in food and lifestyle. That number is probably conservative, though. My own opinion is that 90 percent of all cancers can be prevented through simple food and lifestyle changes. Yet no one in the cancer industry seems interested in teaching any of these strategies to women. In the cancer industry, there is no incentive to teach women how to avoid breast cancer, because to do so would eliminate a future customer! Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake here, and the cancer industry is banking on the continuation of this disease among the population.

That’s why I started the Education Not Medication program. It is a humble effort to teach women how to prevent their own breast cancer through scientifically-supported natural health strategies that are easy to understand and simple to follow. They include things like eating more broccoli and garlic, getting more natural sunlight on your skin (to generate the anti-cancer nutrient Vitamin D, which has recently been shown to prevent an astonishing 77 percent of ALL cancers!) and avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in manufactured foods (such as sodium nitrite, found in bacon, sausage and virtually all packaged meats). A more detailed list is offered below.

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The real answers to breast cancer prevention

Here, for the benefit of women everywhere, is a partial list of the things that cause cancer and things that don’t. You’re not going to find full descriptions and citations here, as that would require an entire book all by itself, but this is a very useful reference list that tells the truth about what causes or prevents cancer in the human body.

18 things that CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order)

• Smoking cigarettes
• Mammography radiation - see articles on mammograms
• Chemotherapy and radiation
• Perfumes and fragrance products
• Cosmetics and personal care products - see articles on personal care products
• Home cleaning products, including laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc.
• Drinking non-organic milk or eating non-organic dairy products
• Hydrogenated oils and trans fatty acids - See Poison In the Food or articles on hydrogenated oils
• Plastic food containers - includes plastic lining inside food cans
• Sodium nitrite - found in most processed meats, see articles on sodium nitrite
• Pesticides, PCBs, chlorine and other chemicals
• Acrylamides (formed during high-heat food processing such as frying)
• Watching television / lack of exercise
• Severe emotional distress or relationship stress
• Refined sugars / refined grains
• Dry cleaning chemicals
• Hair color chemicals
• Nail polish remover

22 things that PREVENT cancer:

• Vitamin D and sunshine - see the Healing Power of Sunlight and Vitamin D
• Anti-cancer foods - see articles about anti-cancer foods
• Medicinal mushrooms - reishi, shiitake, agaricus blazei, etc. See www.MushroomScience.com or www.DragonHerbs.com
• Green tea - see articles about green tea
• Broccoli and cruciferous vegetables - see articles about broccoli
• Lycopene and tomatoes
• Infra-red saunas and sweat lodges - because sweating expels toxins
• Chlorella - see articles on chlorella, or check out a recommended chlorella product: Rejuvenate! From IntegratedHealth.com (product to be launched soon)
• Pomegranate seeds - see artiles on pomegranate or http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=32
• Omega-3 oils / chia seeds - available from GoodCauseWellness.com
• Rainforest herbs - There are many anti-cancer rainforest herbs, including graviola and Cat’s Claw (Una de Gato). Recommended sources is Terry Pezzi of the high-integrity Amazon Herb Company (also helping to preserve the Amazon rainforest) - Another great source of rainforest herbs is Rain Tree with Leslie Taylor
• Juice detoxification - Read books by Dr. Gabriel Cousens or visit his retreat in Southern Arizona
• Acupuncture - helps move blood and chi (body’s energy)
• Sprouts - ALL sprouts are anti-cancer. Best sprouting machine is the EasyGreen Automatic Sprouter (use any search engine to find resellers)
• Red clover - Helps cleanse the blood. Find from any supplement maker.
• Deep breathing / oxygenation / stress reduction - Best product is called Stress Eraser (highly recommended)
• Yoga, Tai Chi or Pilates - These all boost lymph circulation
• Cacao - (real chocolate) - Good sources are NavitasNaturals.com or Superfoods.com
• Therapeutic massage - helps move lymph, boost circulation
• Mint - grow your own (the easiest plant to grow)
• Apricot pits / laetrile / vitamin B17 - View this World Without Cancer video featuring G. Edward Griffin
• Blackberries - Most berries contain some form of anti-cancer medicine

Click here to read this article:  http://www.newstarget.com/022157.html

I recently happened upon this stuff — Maca Powder.  I was ordering a case of another item from a site, but still needed to order something else to get free shipping, so this is what I got :) 

It sounded amazing.  Although I don’t need it (at all) for libido or fertility (eek), there were other key health issues that were very on point for me (menopause, etc).   

But I was reading some reviews on it — I think it was on Amazon — and they were saying it tasted, really, really, nasty, lol   So now I have it…and have been looking at it sitting on my kitchen counter for about a week now, trying to muster up the courage to actually eat a dab of it.  Not sure how or how much I should start with. 

In my efforts to find out how others are using it, I came upon this elaboration (below) on it.  So I thought I’d share it for those who haven’t discovered it yet.

I think I’ll go have some in some cranberry juice :)

*Note, this site isn’t the website that I ordered from, so I’m not endorsing it or anything — it was just the first site I came upon in doing a search.

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Raw Organic Maca Powder

Maca is a nutrition-packed root vegetable, also known as “Peruvian ginseng,” that grows in the mountain plateaus of the Peruvian Andes. It is rich in amino acids, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals, and has been used as a traditional source of both food and medicine by indigenous people since the time of the Incas.

This plant has been credited with many healthful effects, including:

• Increasing energy, stamina and endurance
• Enhancing libido and treating impotence
• Stimulating fertility in both sexes
• Supporting the immune system and adrenal function
• Reducing chronic fatigue
• Regulating and supporting the endocrine system

Maca is a powerful adaptogen that has long been used to treat menopausal symptoms and is now being prescribed by many health practitioners as a safe, effective alternative to Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Maca’s reputation as a powerful enhancer of strength and stamina and as a libido-fertility herb goes back more than 500 years, and today it is gaining worldwide attention for its effectiveness.

From a nutritional standpoint, maca is rich in sugar, proteins, starches, and important minerals, such as iron, magnesium, calcium, and phosphorous. It also contains numerous trace minerals (including iodine), B vitamins, linoleic and oleic oils (essential fatty acids), and 18 amino acids, including 7 of the 9 essential amino acids.

As a food, the dried root is sweet and spicy, and is considered a delicacy. When boiled in water, maca is sweeter than cocoa; when roasted, it tastes like butterscotch. It can be used to make jams, puddings, broths, and juices. The dried powder has a unique flavor that blends especially well with teas.

Many people use maca as a daily tonic added to their super green drink or smoothie, or just plain in water. Add it to your favorite food bar recipe for an extra energy boost.

Our organic maca is made up of roots dried at low temperatures and then ground into a powder.

Source:  http://livesuperfoods.com/LSF026.html