Drumming is like painting a picture. The hands act as the brushes that splash colour onto the skin of the drum, in order to create a picture of sound and colour that expresses your State of Being. MORE...
Archive for August, 2006
Most vegetarians I know are not primarily motivated by nutrition. Although they argue strenuously for the health benefits of a vegetarian diet, many see good health as a reward for the purity and virtue of a vegetarian diet, or as an added bonus. In my experience, a far more potent motivator among vegetarians-ranging from idealistic college students, to social and environmental activists, to adherents of Eastern spiritual traditions like Buddhism and Yoga-is the moral or ethical case for not eating meat. MORE...
Sauerkraut, sour cabbage, is a german lacto fermented cabbage dish. In the 18th Century Captain James Cook used sauerkraut to prevent the death of his sailors from scurvy but Germany's sauerkraut is actually a version of chinese kraut, brought to Europe by the hoards of Gengis Khan. MORE...
During his travels to visit primative peoples from every continent on earth, Weston Price found that while human diets are very diverse, there are some definite similarities - Raw animal food is one of those similarities. Price found that each group of people had some form of raw animal food in their diet, whether it be raw meat, insects or milk. Raw meat is a bounty of essential vitamins and enzymes, some that can not be found in any other source. B6 and B12 can only be found in animal foods, coenzyme Q10 and other unresearched anti fatigue factors as well as enzymes to help you digest the protein make raw meat a super food. It may prove a little difficult to get anyone older than 3 to slug down a chunk of raw steak, so here's a recipe for a South African delicacy, Biltong. When you dry meat at just below 65 Deg C, all the afor mentioned nutrients stay intact, the enzymes are still alive and it is preserved very well. MORE...
When you've guests coming and you forgot dessert, the kids are on the winge for something yummy or you just want a sweet snack, Apricot Butter is perfect. It's rich Butterscotch Schnapps taste makes it a winner on every occasion. You can put it with cream or quark, on porridge with cream, on pancakes or toast or just eat it by itself. Kids love it in their lunch boxes. It's a great way to give them a dose of bowel bacteria without stretching the friendship. MORE...
Ask any pig farmer, how they fatten up their pigs before slaughter and they will tell you, "feed them grains and skimmed milk." Funny, that's just what most modern dieticians will put you on to lose weight! While dairy farmers of bygone days always kept pigs and fed them the skimmed milk left over from butter and cream making, this is no longer the case. Now dairy corporations pick up the milk from the farmer and take care of the rest at their factory. So we have a problem. What do dairy factories do with the skimmed milk after thay make butter and cream? They don't have a quaint little pig sty out the back that's for sure. Dairy corporations, with the help of some friends in government nutrition departments, have invented a way to get rid of 'skim' milk as they slyly renamed it. "Sell it to the fatties" as a diet food. So after a week of trying to be strong and drinking skimmed milk, fattie begins to crave for what is missing from 'skim' milk - the fat. They find themselves at the freezer section of the supermarket, guiltily salivating over the brightly coloured packaging of litres upon litres of delicious ice cream. Unfortunately along with the cream, comes refined sugar, highly refined wheat (maltodextrin) and a whole host of scary chemicals. If you want to keep enjoying your commercial ice cream treats, please do not read any further. MORE...
The New Scientist today has published an article about Obesity. It seems "the number of overweight or obese people in the world now exceeds the number of undernourished" so says Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina, to a meeting of agricultural economists on Queensland's Gold Coast this week. I knew that two-thirds of the population of the 1st world was overweight or obese but I never imagined that this meant we have more obesity than starvation on the planet. This realisation has just blown my mind. Popkin and many of his contemporaries believe governments should tax high sugar foods just like cigarettes, saying it is the only way to combat the growing global crisis. "You can't handle the problem with simple solutions like education." says Popkin. I have two issues with this statement: MORE...
Seven Indian states have banned the sale of these and other soft drinks in schools. But they're not doing it for the same reason as Victorian schools did earlier this year. India's centre for Science and Environment last week released results of its tests on 57 samples of soft drinks made by Pepsi and Coca Cola which revealed they contained residues of pesticides 24 times higher than the Indian standards. CSE said almost all soft drinks sold in India contain high levels of pesticides. MORE...
You do not have to be a student of Astrology to understand this article Mars and Venus, are, of course, the archetypal Lovers of the Zodiac and we all, men and women alike, have a Mars and a Venus within us. Venus and Mars are indeed opposites - Venus the Goddess of Love and Mars the God of War and, in myth, it was only she who could quell his raw energy by making mad passionate love to him. MORE...
Let me tell you about two studies which were not published. The first was described by Paul Stitt who wrote about an experiment conducted by a cereal company in which four sets of rats were given special diets. One group received plain whole wheat, water and synthetic vitamins and minerals. A second group received puffed wheat (an extruded cereal), water and the same nutrient solution. A third set was given only water. A fourth set was given nothing but water and chemical nutrients. MORE...