As small local businesses are replaced by national brands, communities become colonies where people hardly know each other and where neighbors are united not by social and economic ties, but by proximity only. Television and car culture contribute to the breakdown of community: no longer do we sit on the front stoop and watch people walking to the corner store, or chat at the baseball diamond and the post office. Instead we live our lives indoors, in private, except when we drive out of the neighborhood to shop, work, or socialize with carefully selected friends. Alarmed by these trends, social activists have taken up the cause of localism and the rebuilding of community. What many of us do not realize, however, is that localism is not just a worthy social cause, but an important health issue as well. MORE...
Archive for September, 2006
Taking raw liver as a superfood supplement is probably the best advice I have ever taken. I swallow about a teaspoon, frozen, cut into pillules, with a glass of raw milk and my energy level soars. This time of year is when I begin to take raw liver pills daily. In traditional chinese medicine Spring is the season the liver energy is at it's highest, so now is the time to heal thy liver. Lynn Razaitis, a writer and chapter for the Weston A Price Foundation reveals some interesting research on liver.... MORE...
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There's plenty of information on the net about 'detoxing'; bowel cleansing, liver cleansing, gall bladder flushing - the list goes on. The "you must cleanse" perspective on health is very convenient for shaming and shocking people into buying products: have you seen those poop pictures in the herbal bowel cleansing advertisements? We are told we're sick because we're dirty and we need to be cleaned, our bodies are broken and they need to be fixed. This is the age old story of 'original sin' in another disguise, and we fall for it every time because it's so familiar. But is it true? MORE...
Just another reason to eat organic (as if we needed any more). According to a recent article from the Institute for Responsible Technology, certain varieties of herbicides used on genetically modified (GM) crops -- though inactive inside the plants they protect -- can be re-activated after consumption and cause toxic reactions. MORE...
If my last post inspired you to want raw milk in your life, go to Real Milk Australia and sign their petition. Their dream is to have real milk - unpasturised, unhomogenised, milk from grass fed animals - available to Australians. A ... MORE...
Many modern nutritionists say that humans shouldn't drink milk, that we are the only mammal who drinks milk after weaning and the only mammal who drinks the milk of other mammals. Milk has been linked to acne, allergies, asthma, obesity, heart disease and cancer. It's enough to put you off for life, even if it does taste like heaven. Humans, however, have been herding ruminants for millenia. "Thirty thousand years ago, people in the High Sinai were confining and breeding antelope with the aid of fences, a human invention arguably as important as the spear," writes Joann Grohman in Keeping A Family Cow. Humans have herded and milked all manner of ruminants including sheep, goats, horses, yaks, llamas, asses, buffalo, camels, reindeer and cows on each continent of the globe. How is it that we now suffer illness from consuming the foods created by our generous friends? The answer, in short, is pasteurisation MORE...