Let Your Kids Get High

Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(Na)

Wait. Did you think I meant…….
No, no. Not that kind of high.
I‟m talking about a high fever. In fact, it‟s high time we all understood that getting a fever has phenomenal value in the short and long term.
This was known back in the late 1700‟s, when Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the Father of Homeopathy, acknowledged that fever is an occasion.
An occasion for what though?

First off, a fever provides lifelong immunity by completing a short term illness. Secondly, fevers help to prevent what would otherwise become chronic illness as long as they‟re not suppressed. But when a fever is suppressed, so is the illness it was trying to combat. In the end, that same illness is simply heaved into the future. And there it looms in the form of chronic disease.

Let me explain.
Fever is the marker of a stimulated and activated immunological reaction. The virus or bacteria is the provoking agent which triggers a normal response from the white blood cells. The pain, fatigue and fever that ensues is what we call being sick.

My goal was to be sure that my children were allowed to complete their childhood illnesses with a good high fever, so that the cell remediated responses could clear the illness fully. I never used sponge baths of alcohol or warm water. Instead, allowing the fever to flourish was paramount to the long term wellness of my child. In fact, it was an opportunity for wellness.
In other words, when someone (especially a baby or child) is sick, not only is a fever a natural response, but it‟s also an indicator that there‟s a “so far, so good” action occurring.

Fevers symbolize positive reaction.
But you might ask, “Can‟t fevers be dangerous?”
Well, it depends on the temperature. Some say that 106.7° is the danger point and that this kind of fever is usually caused by an intracranial hemorrhage from trauma, as opposed to a
strep or viral infection. Other medical experts are convinced that above 107° is the threatening high point.

Nonetheless, most infections in childhood diseases limit the febrile response to about 105°.
Fevers do not just build up immunity and gird the body against future colds and flu‟s. In fact, Dr. Thomas Cowan, a recent speaker at the Weston A. Price Conference in Dallas, aptly said, “Every time I treat fever, I‟m treating cancer in the future.” He was referencing evidence which shows that cancer is the result of suppressed fever and he went on to say that the fever‟s response is the way we maturate our white blood cells.
His sentiments are that we should embrace the febrile response because fever is not an illness at all…it‟s simply a symptom. Indeed, an illness can cause damage, but a fever is not the illness, it‟s only the febrile response.

And this response is a therapeutic one, too; fevers cure the problem by “cooking” off the virus or bacteria.
In the last 50 years, there hasn‟t been even one thread of evidence showing that fevers cause damage, unless they‟re outside of the normal range.
Why then, have we treated it? If you ask a candid pediatrician, he will tell you that it‟s because the parents entreat him to “Do something!” Then, if you ask parents, they say the reason they treat fever is because their doctor told them to do it.

Sounds like the cat running around trying to catch its tail…a rather silly reason to place our children into a risky setting, wouldn‟t you agree? Instead, let‟s base our parental decisions on sounder judgment.
If you must treat fever, let me share the methods I‟ve used for my own children and which I‟ve taught to mothers and others over the years.
Yes, fevers are uncomfortable, but the authentic goal is not to suppress the fever, but to keep your child hydrated with lots and lots of good quality fluids. Here are my guidelines:

Treating Fever Guidelines
· Offer kombucha
· Give your child water with fresh lemon and Bioplasma (a homeopathic mixture made by Hyland‟s)
· Hand over a cup of ice chips…flavored with lemon and raw honey
· Make some freshly squeezed fruit juice (at home) and dilute it with water
· Offer a warm cup of raw milk with a splash of vanilla

· Provide a tall glass of refreshing cold milk
· Have your child sip on a mug of bone broth
· Suggest a glass of kefir
· Mix some yogurt in water with a bit of raw honey
· Blend raw honey with a splash of vinegar in water
· Whip up some homemade ice cream with raw milk and cream
· Brew herbal teas, such as chamomile or rose hip
· Freeze some popsicles made from any of the above drinks

Then, keep your child in bed. Hold him, read to him, pray with him and smile with confidence.

That’s how we treat fever. The only thing that goes into his mouth is what you‟ve concocted in the kitchen via your motherly hands. No suppression, no synthetic pills and no short term illness thrown into the future to bankrupt your child‟s long term health.
Once you understand how important it is to allow the body to finish the good work of healing via fever, you‟ll be girded for an important step in autonomy. And autonomy is a critical step in authentic family wellness.

So the next time the kids get high, instead of calling in the psychologists, celebrate with a tall glass of kombucha and know that your parenting skills have developed enough to allow your child to cure himself.

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With this article I would like to spend some time talking about an area that I feel receives entirely too little attention – whether by patients, or dentists, for that matter.  Possibly, this comes about for the simple reason that by the time many patients arrive at the dentist they are looking for resolution of a specific problem.  In this sense, the market has conditioned both patients and doctors into focusing upon the end-game.

This has its place and fills a need.   Patients who are in pain do not generally want to hear about what they should be eating – they want to handle their pain.   Yet, knowing what foods can repair teeth may be a key element in establishing their future long-term dental stability.

In today’s economic climate, health care has undergone many challenges and the consumer has been faced with high medical and dental costs.  Consequently, health care is not infrequently reserved for the handling of emergencies.  This is actually counter-productive, as emergency dental care is also expensive.  Couple this with efforts by the patient to reduce costs, and the “treatment” may be a decision to remove the offending tooth.  Later, when the patient starts to regret his choice and seeks tooth replacements, he may find that replacement costs are many times more than had they handled the problem once discovered.

Economics can also influence the quality of the food we consume.  In an effort to save money many consumers will also select lowest cost items.  These are typically quite profitable for the producer but are usually highly processed and very unprofitable for your health.

So what do you need to know?

Let’s start with this simple concept:  If what you eat comes out of a box, a jar, a can, or a plastic wrapper, it has been processed.

Your diet is the single most important thing that you can control to create or maintain a healthy mouth.  When you eat too many processed foods – especially those that contain sugars and bleached flour – you create effects that may not be immediately noticed by you.  For example, the level of blood sugar can become elevated and with it a person can experience elevated cortisol.  Cortisol is a hormone produced by your adrenal gland and is responsible for raising blood sugar.   It also affects the flow of parotin (a salivary gland hormone) and, in so doing, can lead to cavities.  Cortisol also counteracts insulin which regulates carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body, and it slows down bone formation.

The inability to metabolize fats, in turn, can keep you from benefiting from the healthy foods that can help you to repair your teeth.

So, you see, it is a little like the children’s song “The foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone.  And the ankle bone’s connected the leg bone.”  The bottom line: what we do – or don’t do – can have unseen and unwanted effects when it comes to our diet and teeth.

Maintaining healthy hormones is very important to your dental health as well as to your general health.  The relationship between demineralization and remineralization is balanced when hormones are healthy.  When unbalanced, calcium and phosphorus can be pulled out of the blood and create deficiencies in our bones as well as the teeth.  It can also create a condition wherein your body becomes excessively acidic. An acid environment is more receptive to the growth of bacteria and fungi.   If there is one take-home message that you take out of this article it should be that real food – namely unprocessed food, as nature intended that it be consumed – will not only support your general health, but will also support your teeth.

What foods, then, are good for your teeth?

1.  Proteins:  Eat proteins in order to regulate blood sugar.  As mentioned above, blood sugar fluctuations are one of the key reasons that we lose minerals.  High quality proteins such as grass fed, or wild game are best.  While I realize that this may pose a problem for vegetarians, it doesn’t alter the fact that the most productive stores of minerals, protein, and fats are derived from meats.  Vegetarians must rely on eggs and cheese for their protein.
2. Foods with phosphorus:  Possibly more important than calcium for your teeth, phosphorus can be obtained from milk and cheese.  Raw, unpasteurized milk is best.   Unless, strictly vegan, vegetarians should have no trouble getting their phosphorus from these sources.  Other good sources of phosphorus include organ meats of both land animals and those from the sea.  Muscle meats (most common meats consumed, i.e., not from organs such as liver or kidney, for example) are also a good source, as are beans and nuts.  Organ meats have more phosphorus than muscle meats.  Although present in some grains, the quantities can be insufficient or difficult to absorb, and this may not be the best choice for your teeth.
3. Trace minerals are important:  In addition to phosphorus, the following deficiencies can also lead to problems with tooth decay – iron, copper, magnesium and manganese.  Foods with iron include shellfish and organ meats.  Copper is found in liver and mollusks.  Smaller amounts exist in mushrooms.  Magnesium can be found in fish, nuts, and spinach.  Manganese, also important in the regulation of blood sugar, occurs in liver, kidneys (organ meats), mussels, nuts, and pineapple, to name a few sources.  Other trace minerals may also play a role, but are too numerous to mention here.
4. Healthy fats: These are a great source of energy, but are also important to help maintain hormonal function and balance.  Among the healthy fats are olive oil, butter, beef, chicken, pork and duck fat.  Avocado and coconut oil are also healthy fats, especially if from organic sources.  Vegetable fats do not generally contain the vitamins that help to re-build our teeth.
5. Fat soluble vitamins D and A: Simply put, without adequate stores of these two vitamins, we can’t get the calcium and phosphorus into our bones or teeth.  People with tooth decay are typically lacking these two vitamins.  Seafood is an excellent source of Vitamin D.  If you don’t have easy access to seafood, or if you don’t like it, lard, or pork fat, will help. Suet, or beef fat appears to be more effective, however.  Another excellent (and relatively simple) way to get Vitamin D is with daily exposure to sunlight.  Consuming fermented cod liver oil is still another easy way to get Vitamin D into your diet.

Eating healthy is the single-most effective action you can take to protect your teeth – and your overall health.  It is also one thing that you can control.  Take the time to learn which foods can provide you with proteins, phosphorus, healthy fats, vitamins D and A, as well as trace minerals, and you will be well on your way to healthier teeth and gums!

Known as the Doctor of Dental Wellness, Dr. Richard Walicki is a graduate of the Temple University School of Dentistry. Dr. Walicki is a general dentist with a focus on wellness and has maintained an active private practice in Philadelphia for over twenty years.  His mission is to help people attain practical solutions for their dental health problems through education, prevention and nutrition. Dr. Walicki is a contributor to the LiberationWellnessBlog and a supporter of real food. Additional articles of related interest can be located on his website.  A free newsletter and bonus report are also available.

Generally, more attention is given to the former than the latter.  From a viewpoint of prevention, this has its value.  Nevertheless, a good understanding of which foods are beneficial to dental health is, in my opinion, of no lesser importance.  In actual fact, this understanding may hold the key to not only improving an individual’s dental health, but very possibly their general health as well.

While there are usually several components to any program that leads to improved dental health, of these, it is my opinion that diet is paramount.

Dentists generally spend the bulk of their time discussing the importance of hygiene.  I, too, have addressed this topic in several articles.  Nevertheless, over time, I have come to see the value of spending a great deal more time with patients reviewing and modifying their diets.  Truthfully, this is more challenging – and meets with greater resistance.  But it is vitally important.

I don’t think it is important to the exclusion of hygiene, however.  Yet, I have come across some opinions that promote diet only.  So let’s take another look at this area more broadly, just to put it into perspective.

Hygiene involves care of the entire body.  Naturally, that includes the mouth.  While good personal hygiene is generally something one should practice for themselves – it is also important to insist others maintain it as well.  Consider the following example:

Let’s say you have adopted a diet of fresh organic food and you are now on your way to your local butcher to purchase some fresh meat.  You arrive and are greeted by someone who smells as though he hasn’t bathed in a week.  His hair is greasy.  His hands are dirty and after he unceremoniously coughs into them, he wipes one hand on a dirty shirt.   Then he reaches over for your fresh cut of meat and holds it up for inspection.

You would have a right to refuse it.  Not because there is anything wrong with grass-fed, hormone free meat.  Rather, it would be because the person clearly practices poor hygiene and may infect you – and whoever else they come into contact with.  You wouldn’t be wrong to say something about it.

Similarly, good oral hygiene is simply a reflection of the total care of one’s body.  This also means getting sufficient rest and exercising regularly.

That having been said, let’s take a quick look at what types of food cause people dental problems.

These can be simplified into three broad categories.  As you will see, however, they comprise a very wide array of commonly consumed foods.

1. Sugar and Sweeteners.  The first category I will mention is the one nearly everyone focuses upon and possibly falls into the category of “common knowledge.”  Despite this fact, you might be surprised by the quantities of sugars and sweeteners that are regularly consumed in a typical diet.  When the quantity of sugar in the blood rises it upsets the balance of calcium to phosphorus in the blood as well.  This has the effect of pulling calcium out of our teeth and bones.  Low phosphorus levels likewise affect the mineral content of dentin, which is the layer of tooth structure supporting tooth enamel.
2. Low Fat Foods. This includes such items as skimmed or low-fat milk, which many individuals assume helps their teeth if they consume it in sufficient quantities.  Unfortunately, this is a fallacy that gets many people in trouble. Milk that is homogenized and pasteurized has been stripped of its nutritive value.  Pasteurization kills off the probiotic (good bacteria) quality of raw natural milk.  Paradoxically, this can allow pathogenic (bad) bacteria to grow more easily in pasteurized milk.  Also, the absence of healthy fat can affect hormonal function which, in turn, may affect mineral levels adversely.
3. Bleached (White) Flour.  Products that contain white flour can also be damaging to teeth – especially when combined with sugars and in the absence of healthy animal fats.  If one stops to consider how many foods are made with white flour, this can create quite a dietary challenge.  Furthermore, if not removed after meals, these foods will create a thin sticky layer of what is basically a form of sugar.  Because this, in turn, can stick to the teeth for hours – and becomes acidic – it can accelerate that demineralization process that breaks down the outer layer of your teeth, resulting in tooth decay.  Also, the bleaching process typically adds chlorine dioxide or benzoyl peroxide to make the flour appear bright white.   You don’t need these in your diet.

In the next article, we will cover what foods are good for your teeth.  The positive side to this story is that there is good news and you can do something to remineralize or rebuild your teeth; however, knowing how foods come into the picture and which ones are detrimental to your teeth and gums is a critical element for taking control of your dental health.

Known as the Doctor of Dental Wellness, Dr. Richard Walicki is a graduate of the Temple University School of Dentistry. Dr. Walicki is a general dentist with a focus on wellness and has maintained an active private practice in Philadelphia for over twenty years.  His mission is to help people attain practical solutions for their dental health problems through education, prevention and nutrition. Dr. Walicki is a contributor to the LiberationWellnessBlog and a supporter of real food. Additional articles of related interest can be located on his website.  A free newsletter and bonus report are also available.

Steve Jobs died October 5, and the animal rights organization PETA  stepped right up to honor him as a vegetarian who was deeply committed to animal welfare and the environment.  PETA, of course,  has yet to acknowledge the role that Jobs’s near vegan diet may have played in his death, and continues to maintain that their particular brand of “right eating” will virtually guarantee freedom from cancer and other major health problems.

When I blogged about this topic in October,  I promised I would follow up once I learned more about Jobs’s dietary habits from Walter Isaacson’s biography Steve Jobs (Simon & Schuster, 2011).   This column delivers on that promise.

The bullet points below include every reference to diet in the entire book, followed by page numbers.  My brief comments are found at the very end.

• Jobs came to appreciate organic fruits and vegetables as a teenager when a neighbor taught him how to be a good organic gardener and to compost. (14)

• Between his sophomore and junior hear of high school, he began smoking marijuana regularly and by his senior year was dabbling in LSD as well as exploring the mind bending effect of sleep deprivation. (18-19)

• Toward the end of his senior year in high school, he began his “lifelong experiments with compulsive diets, eating only fruits and vegetables so he was as lean and tight as a whippet.”  (31)

• He attended the love festivals at the local Hare Krishna temple, and went to the Zen center for free vegetarian meals. (35)

• During his freshman year at college he went to the Zen center for free vegetarian meals and was greatly influenced by the book Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe.   At that point, he swore off meat for good and began embracing extreme diets, which included purges, fasts or eating only one or two foods , such as carrots or apples for weeks on end.  (36)

• For awhile at college, Jobs lived on Roman Meal cereal.   He would buy a box, which would last a week, then flats of dates, almonds and a lot of carrots.   He made carrot juice with a Champion juicer, and at one point turned “a sunset-like orange hue.”  (36)

• His dietary habits became more obsessive when he read the Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret.     Jobs then favored eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables, which he said prevented the body from forming harmful mucus, and determined to regularly cleanse his body through prolonged fasts.   That meant the end of his consumption of Roman Meal cereal — or any bread, grains, or milk.     At one point, he spent an entire week eating only apples, and then began to try even purer fasts.  He started with two-day fasts and eventually stretched them out to a week or more, breaking them with large amounts of water and leafy vegetables.    “After a week, you start to feel fantastic,” he said.  “You get a ton of vitality from not having to digest all this food.  I was in great shape  I felt I could get up and walk to San Francisco anytime I wanted.”   (36)

• As a $5 an hour technician at Atari, he was known as “a hippie with b.o.” and “impossible to deal with.”   He clung to the belief that his fruit-heavy vegetarian diet would prevent not just mucus but also body odor.   As Isaacson writes “It was a flawed theory.” (43)

• “He was doing a lot of soul-searching about being adopted .  . .  (with) the primal scream and the mucusless diets, he was trying to cleanse himself and get deeper into his frustration about his birth.”  (51)

• He was a fan of the Whole Earth Catalog and particularly taken by the final issue, which came out in 1971 when he was still in high school.   On the back cover it said “Stay Hungry.  Stay Foolish.” (59)

• The name Apple Computers came to him when he was on one of his fruitarian diets.  “I had just come back from the apple farm.  It sounded fun, spirited and not intimidating.   Apple took the edge off the word ‘computer.’”  (63)

• His mother Clara Jobs didn’t mind losing most of her house to piles of computer parts and house guests, but she was frustrated by her son’s increasingly quirky diets.  She would roll her eyes at his latest eating obsessions.  She just wanted him to be healthy, and he would be making weird pronouncements like, “I’m a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight.”  (68)

• He was still convinced against all evidence that his vegan diet meant that he didn’t need to use a deodorant or take regular showers.   .  .  .   At meetings people had to look at his dirty feet. Sometimes to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet.  (82)

• A colleague who recommended he bathe more often was told that “in exchange” he  would have to read fruitarian diet books.  “Steve was adamant that he bathed once a week, and that was adequate as long as he was eating a fruitarian diet.” (82-83)

• In 1979 or so he “put aside drugs, eased away from being a strict vegan, and cut back the time he spent on Zen retreats.”   (91)

• He decreed that the sodas in the office refrigerator be replaced by Odwalla organic orange and carrot juices.”   (118)

• The kitchen was stocked daily with Odwalla juices (142)

• At the launch of the Lisa computer in 1983, he ate a special vegan meal at the Four Seasons restaurant.  (152)

• He had edged away from his strict vegan diet for the time being and ate vegetarian omelets. (155)

• In 1984 in Italy, Jobs demanded a vegan meal and became extremely angry when the waiter very elaborately proceeded to dish out a sauce filled with sour cream.  (185)

• The menu for his 30th birthday day celebration included goat cheese and salmon mousse. (189)

• He had a lot of mannerisms.  He bit his nails.   His hands were “slightly and inexplicably yellow” and in constant motion. (223)

• At a meal with Mitch Kapor,  the chairman of Lotus software, Jobs was horrified to see Kapor slathering butter on his bread,” and asked, “Have you ever heard of serum cholesterol?”   Kapor responded, “I’ll make you a deal. You stay away from commenting on my dietary habits, and I will stay away from the subject of your personality.”  (224)

• At a 1988 NeXT product launch, the lunch menu included  mineral water, croissants, cream cheese, bean sprouts. (233)

• Jobs was a vegetarian and so was Chrisann, the mother of his daughter Lisa.  Lisa was not vegetarian, but Jobs was fine with that.   “Eating chicken became her little indulgence as she shuttled between two parents who were vegetarians with a spiritual regard for natural foods.”  Jobs’s “dietary fixations came in fanatic waves,” and he was “fastidious”  about what he ate.  Lisa watched him “spit out a mouthful of soup one day after learning that it contained butter.” (259-260)

• “Even at a young age Lisa began to realize his diet obsessions reflected a life philosophy, one in which asceticism and minimalism could heighten subsequent sensations.  “He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint.  He knew the equations that most people didn’t know:  Things led to their opposites.”   (259-260)

• Once he took Lisa on a business trip to Tokyo and they stayed at the Okura Hotel.   At the elegant downstairs sushi bar, Jobs ordered large trays of unagi sushi, a dish he loved so much that he allowed the warm cooked eel to pass muster as vegetarian.    Lisa later wrote, “It was the first time, I’d felt with him, so relaxed and content, over those trays of meat; the excess, the permission and warmth after the cold salads, meant a once inaccessible space had opened.  He was less rigid with himself, even human under the great ceilings with the little chairs with the meat and me.”  (260-261)

• Jobs had hired a hip young couple who had once worked at Chez Panisse as housekeepers and vegetarian cooks (264)

• At his wedding to Laurene Powell, the cake was in the shape of Yosemite’s Half Dome.  It was strictly vegan and more than a few of the guest found it inedible.  (274)

• “Since his early teens, he had indulged his weird obsession with extremely restrictive diets and fasts.  Even after he married and had children, he retained his dubious eating habits.   He would spend weeks eating the same thing — carrot salad with lemon, or just apples — and then suddenly spurn that food and declare that he had stopped eating it.  He would go on fasts, just as he did as a teenager and he became sanctimonious as he lectured others at the table on the virtues of whatever eating regimen he was following.”  (477)

• Jobs’s wife ,Laurene Powell, had been a vegan when they first married, but after her husband’s first cancer operation, the partial Whipple procedure, she began to diversify the family meals with fish and other proteins.  Their son, Reed, who had been a vegetarian, became a “hearty omnivore.”  They knew it was important for Steve to get diverse sources of protein. (477)

• In early 2008, Jobs’s eating disorders got worse.   On some nights he would stare at the floor and ignore all of the dishes set out on the long kitchen table.  He lost 40 pounds during the spring of 2008.

• Dr James Eason “would even stop at the convenience store to get the energy drinks Jobs liked.” (485)

• He remained a finicky eater, which was more of a problem than ever.  He would eat only fruit smoothies and he would demand that seven or eight of them be lined up so he could find an option that might satisfy him.  He would touch the spoon to his mouth for a tiny taste and pronounce  ‘That’s no good.  That one’s no good either.’”   His doctor  lectured him: “You know this isn’t a matter of taste.  Stop thinking of this as food.  Start thinking of it as medicine.” (486)

• Early in 2010, Jobs went to dinner and ordered a mango smoothie and plain vegan pasta.  (505)

• At the launch of the  iPad2, Isaacson reported “For a change he was eating, though still with some pickiness.  He ordered fresh squeezed juice, which he sent back three times, declaring that each new offering was from a bottle, and a pasta primavera which he shoved away as inedible after one taste.   But then he ate half of my crab Louise salad and ordered a full one for himself followed by a bowl of ice cream.”  (527)

• Jobs’s eating problems were exacerbated over the years by his psychological attitude toward food.  When he was young, he learned that he could induce euphoria and ecstasy by fasting.   So even though he knew that he should eat — his doctors were begging him to consume high-quality protein — lingering in the back of his subconscious, he admitted was his instinct for fasting and for diets like Arnold Ehret’s fruit regimen that he had embraced as a teenager.  Powell kept telling him it was crazy. ‘I wanted him to force himself to eat,’ she said ‘and it was incredibly tense at home.’”  (548-549)

• Bryar Brown, their part-time cook would produce an array of healthy dishes, but Jobs would touch his tongue to one or two and then dismiss them all as inedible.  One evening he announced, “I could probably eat a little pumpkin pie,” and the even-tempered Brown created a beautiful pie from scratch in an hour.  Jobs ate only one bite, but Brown was thrilled.”  (549)

• During the final years of his life, Powell talked to eating disorder specialists and psychiatrists to try to get help, but her husband shunned them.   (549)

That’s it.    Not a lot to work with, but more than enough to show a longstanding pattern of eating disorders.

On the plus side, Jobs’s diet seems to  have been consistently organic and high quality.    He employed chefs who’d worked at Chef Panisse, and his wife Laurene Powell founded Terravera, a company that produces ready-to-eat organic meals for stores in northern California.    Jobs does not appear to have ever been a junk-food vegan who indulged in all-American junk foods such as soda, chocolate, cookies and crackers.

Soy is not mentioned at all in Isaacson’s biography.   Although the Apple culture was soy friendly with soy milk readily available in vending machines and at coffee stations, Jobs himself may well have rejected it.   Jobs had a longstanding fascination with the book The Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret (1866-1922), who claimed the human body is an “air-gas engine” that runs well only on fruits, starchless vegetables and edible green leaves.   Soy and other legumes, according to Ehret’s way of thinking, were to be disdained as mucus-producing forbidden foods.   Ehret not only condemned protein and fat as “unnatural” but said they could not be used by the body.   Inspired by such theories, Jobs appears to have eaten a diet low in both fat and protein for most of his life.  And what did he eat instead?  Carbs high in fructose.

Whether or not Jobs was in one of his fanatic fruitarian phases, he favored a lot of fruit and fruit juice.   These are not only high on the glycemic index, but loaded with fructose.   Fruits and fruit juices greatly stress the liver and pancreas, contribute to diabetes and many other blood sugar disorders, and have been linked to pancreatic cancer.   Jobs suffered from a type of pancreatic cancer known as islet cell carcinoma, which originates in the insulin-secreting beta cells.

Research published in the November 2007 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded there was “evidence for a greater pancreatic cancer risk with a high intake of fruit and juices but not with a high intake of sodas.”   More recently, in the August 2010 issue of Cancer Research, Dr. Anthony Healy of UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center proposed that aberrant fructose metabolism — and not just aberrant glucose metabolism — might be involved in the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer.   Seems fructose provides the raw material cancer cells prefer to use to make the DNA they need to divide and proliferate.    Although the UCLA findings are preliminary and more research needs to be done, the Reuters headline “Cancer Cells Slurp Up Fructose” is fair warning to all of us addicted to fruit and fruit juices.

Clearly Jobs broke away  from strict veganism from time to time and indulged in a few eggs, salmon and unagi sushi.   The words of his daughter Lisa (quoted above) provide a moving testimony to how well Jobs’s body and mind responded to eating eel, a fish rich in protein and fat.   That said, vegans who would like to think Jobs became sick because he failed to be “perfect vegan” now have evidence to support that belief.

Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, is The Naughty Nutritionist™ because of her ability to outrageously and humorously debunk nutritional myths. A popular guest on radio and television, she has appeared on The Dr Oz Show, ABC’s View from the Bay, NPR’s People’s Pharmacy and numerous other shows. Dr Daniel is the author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food, a popular speaker at Wise Traditions and other conferences,  Vice President  of the Weston A. Price Foundation and recipient of its 2005 Integrity in Science Award. Her website is www.naughtynutritionist.com and she can be reached at Kaayla@DrKaaylaDaniel.com.

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NEXT HEARING:  THURS, JAN 5

We understand the next hearing is Thursday, January 5, although we are not 100% certain.  Please keep the day open, and watch for the next action alert a few days before the hearing to confirm.

Please come back again and bring even more supporters.

If you can come early and stay after the meeting too, it should be a good time to speak with senators in the hallways.  Garden State Raw Milk will have a one-page fact sheet available as a handout for Senators, and to help clarify information in conversations.

VOTE ON BILL:  THURS, JAN 5

We believe there will be a vote on the bill Thursday, Jan 5.  This vote comes at a critical time to get the bill out of committee to the whole NJ State Senate.  If the bill isn’t voted out of committee on Thursday, January 5, then it may be pushed off to the next legislative session.

COME TO TRENTON:  THURS, JAN 5

Please clear your calendar so you can come to Trenton on Thursday, Jan 5.  Stay tuned for the next action alert as soon as we learn the meeting time (probably in the morning).  If you’ve come to hearings before, please come again.  If you haven’t been there yet, your presence makes a huge difference — this will be the most important day of this legislative session to stand up and be counted.

HEARING PROCEDURE:

- Please submit any written testimony (multiple copies if possible) to the committee aide before the meeting starts.

- Please fill out a witness slip to indicate your support for the bill, and use the checkboxes to indicate if you wish to speak.

NEXT IMPORTANT DATE:  MON, JAN 9

If the bill is successfully voted out of committee on Jan 5, then we hope it can be posted to the full Senate for a vote on Jan 9, so please keep this day available also — it may be important to show support on Jan 9 too.

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- Find Economic Growth, then click View Schedule

- Click the meeting date, check for A743 & S2702 on the list of bills

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In Episode 524 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” I’ve got a doozy for you with what is arguably one of the most controversial podcast interviews ever as evidenced by the kind of feedback I have received about it since it aired earlier this week. It’s returning podcast guest Kevin Brown (listen to my previous interview with him in Episode 369), author of The Liberation Diet, who maintains the bold position that there’s really no such thing as the “Paleo diet” based on his understanding of the Bible. Earlier this year I wrote a blog post entitled “Can A Christian Follow A Paleo Low-Carb Diet?” and Kevin responded to my question by denying the existence of an evolutionary perspective. I knew when I recorded this episode that it was gonna fire people up–boy did it ever! When you receive both praise and hate mail from people about the same interview, you must be doing something right.

One of the people who e-mailed me after hearing this podcast, which he described as “bad,” exclaimed matter-of-factly that “evolution is a fact…the Bible is a fairy tale.” Because I shared in a follow-up e-mail with him that I’m a Christian who does not believe in the Darwinian theory of evolution and that the Bible has great meaning in my life, he actually cancelled his reservations for The Low-Carb Cruise coming up in May 2012. Oh well, it’s his loss and seems rather immature to do over a simple disagreement about something a podcast interview guest shared. Very strange.

Another more reasonable response was an e-mail that stated “as I listened I wondered why you weren’t hitting him with the science, but what emerged for me was an amazing demonstration of just how easy it is for humans to fall into believing all kinds of things and how important it is for all of us to seek the truth and question things.” Finally, another voice of wisdom in the comments section of my podcast web site noted that “the free exchange of ideas is central if we are going to make any progress. Granted, this openness to expression can give some views, which may seem ostensibly idiotic to some, a platform to be heard, but that is the price we pay for progress.”

Wanna hear what all the fuss is about in today’s podcast? Then you gotta listen to my half-hour interview with what is sure to be my most interesting, thought-provoking guest of 2011…maybe ever! ENJOY!

Listen to Kevin Brown explain his strict anti-Paleo stance:

“Spiritual Side Of Healthy Eating”

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What did you think about Kevin Brown’s Biblical argument against the idea of a Paleo diet? Share your thoughts (good, bad or ugly!) in the show notes section of Episode 524. Check out more from Kevin Brown at “Liberation Wellness,” listen to my June 2010 interview with Kevin, and read his column about today’s featured topic called “Spiritual Side Of Healthy Eating.”

This was the final podcast of 2011 and I’m grateful for another fantastic year of exponential growth in this show thanks to the amazing word of mouth so many of you have given us. THANK YOU! We’ll be taking some time off during the holidays but will return with BRAND NEW INTERVIEWS from your favorite guests of 2011 during “Encore Week” 2012. You’re gonna hear again from Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, Paul Jaminet, Jenny Ruhl, Dr. William Davis and Dr. Jack Kruse. I’m recording these interviews over the next week and will air them January 2-6, 2012! I CAN’T WAIT! Then starting on January 9, 2012 we’ll begin airing THREE new podcast interviews weekly on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Onward and upward in 2012!

If you have something to share about what you heard on “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show,” then drop us an e-mail at our dedicated podcast e-mail address–LLVLCShow@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you about what you think about the show, interview guest suggestions, show topics, and anything else you want to share! I LOVE hearing from my listeners, so share what’s on your mind.

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Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their three cats!

]]> http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/the-llvlc-show-episode-524-kevin-brown-makes-the-case-that-the-paleo-diet-doesnt-exist/feed/ 0 lowcarbjimmymoore LC Foods LC Foods Bookmark and Share http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/a-little-wine-2/ http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/a-little-wine-2/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:10:31 +0000 Kevin Brown http://liberationwellnessblog.com/?p=7570 ]]> A Little Wine is now on the Liberation Diet

Based on overwhelming scientific evidence, and the Bible’s clear statement, Wine becomes the first official update in many years to the Liberation Diet

God first, then science confirms, don’t drink water, but drink a little wine-
1Timothy 5:23   Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

I couldn’t agree more, as I have been telling my clients for years not to drink water, as it is not healthy, but I missed out on the great health alternative WINE.
Wine is also helpful for Weight-Loss

Here are some of the health benefits as listed in Health Magazine
The list of wine’s benefits is long—and getting more surprising all the time. Already well-known as heart healthy, wine in moderation might help you lose weight, reduce forgetfulness, boost your immunity, and help prevent bone loss.
With America likely to edge out France and Italy in total wine consumption in the near future, according to one analyst, and with women buying more than 6 out of every 10 bottles sold in this country, we’re happy to report that wine may do all of the following:

1. Feed your head
Wine could preserve your memory. When researchers gave memory quizzes to women in their 70s, those who drank one drink or more every day scored much better than those who drank less or not at all. Wine helps prevent clots and reduce blood vessel inflammation, both of which have been linked to cognitive decline and heart disease, explains Tedd Goldfinger, DO, of the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Alcohol also seems to raise HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which helps unclog your arteries.

2. Keep the scale in your corner
Studies find that people who drink wine daily have lower body mass than those who indulge occasionally; moderate wine drinkers have narrower waists and less abdominal fat than people who drink liquor. Alcohol may encourage your body to burn extra calories for as long as 90 minutes after you down a glass. Beer seems to have a similar effect.

3. Boost your body’s defenses
In one British study, those who drank roughly a glass of wine a day reduced by 11% their risk of infection by Helicobacter pylori bacteria, a major cause of gastritis, ulcers, and stomach cancers. As little as half a glass may also guard against food poisoning caused by germs like salmonella when people are exposed to contaminated food, according to a Spanish study.

4. Guard against ovarian woes
When Australian researchers recently compared women with ovarian cancer to cancer-free women, they found that roughly one glass of wine a day seemed to reduce the risk of the disease by as much as 50 percent. Earlier research at the University of Hawaii produced similar findings. Experts suspect this may be due to antioxidants or phytoestrogens, which have high anticancer properties and are prevalent in wine. And in a recent University of Michigan study, a red wine compound helped kill ovarian cancer cells in a test tube.

5. Build better bones
On average, women who drink moderately seem to have higher bone mass than abstainers. Alcohol appears to boost estrogen levels; the hormone seems to slow the body’s destruction of old bone more than it slows the production of new bone.

6. Prevent blood-sugar trouble
Premenopausal women who drink one or two glasses of wine a day are 40 percent less likely than women who don’t drink to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a 10-year study by Harvard Medical School. While the reasons aren’t clear, wine seems to reduce insulin resistance in diabetic patients.

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.

]]> http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/a-little-wine-2/feed/ 0 40.004377 -75.028988 40.004377 -75.028988 Kevin Brown wine Enhanced by Zemanta http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/under-fire/ http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/under-fire/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:50:29 +0000 Kevin Brown http://liberationwellnessblog.com/?p=7553 ]]> 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 America’s obesity crisis, it doesn’t want to pay them to help people lose weight.  This news comes as the American Dietetic Association (ADA)—the professional organization for RDs—is 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 ADA’s continuing education courses for RDs are being taught by the Coca-Cola Company’s Beverage Institute,”  stated Darrell Rogers from Alliance for Natural Health-USA. RDs have voiced their dissatisfaction with the ADA’s corporate ties, with members indicating that the ADA’s 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 ADA’s 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.  Tennessee’s state insurance doesn’t 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 ADA’s 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

]]> http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/under-fire/feed/ 0 40.004377 -75.028988 40.004377 -75.028988 Kevin Brown usda Enhanced by Zemanta http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/50-new-paleo-low-carb-health-blogs-for-december-2011/ http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/50-new-paleo-low-carb-health-blogs-for-december-2011/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:15:53 +0000 Jimmy Moore http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/?p=7549 ]]> Merry Christmas everybody! It’s that time of year again when people’s attention naturally turn to friends, family, food, fun and fellowship. While the stress of the holiday season can get to a lot of people, I choose to enjoy these few weeks of the year when we can reflect on the blessings we have in life and sharing those with the people we love the most. To that end, Christine and I will be getting away for a few days this next week to just enjoy each other’s company and to have time to refresh, rejuvenate and get charged up and ready to go for 2012. It’s been a challenging year for us losing our twin babies in August that we attempted to have through embyro adoption. But we know and trust that God has a great plan for us that may or may not include kids. We are becoming more and more at peace about this as time passes. Of course, we still believe in miracles and perhaps getting the testosterone issues I recently blogged about under control might make that happen. We’ll see.

Before I go into my usual tradition of sharing lots of Paleo, low-carb and health blogs I’ve recently discovered (I’ve got 50 more for you today!), there are a few things I wanted to pass along to you. I’m a HUGE fan of the “flash mob” concept and here’s one from the Carlson School of Management to get you in the holiday spirit with their rendition of the Christmas classic “Deck the Halls” (watch the security guard):

http://youtu.be/uH8FvERQHtM

How cool is that? My church choir will be singing at our local mall here in South Carolina on Saturday afternoon and we’ll start each of the four performances with a flash mob of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” in a cappella. That should be a lot of fun! We do our Christmas musical in two performances beginning on Sunday afternoon and there is one song in the program that people won’t soon forget called “Christmas In Heaven.” It is sung at the piano by a teenager in our church named Stephanie who was traveling home with her dad in May and they were involved in a horrible accident that injured her and took the life of her father Jim. Stephanie’s mom Mary had the Christmas book sitting out at their piano at home and Stephanie turned right to the page with this song and started singing and playing it. She wanted to share this message with others who might be without a close loved one for the first time this Christmas. I captured it on video during our final rehearsal on Wednesday:

http://youtu.be/oDvb6GCZQhQ

What a courageous young woman and I’m so proud of her willingness to use her gifts and talents for God’s glory despite enduring such a personal tragic loss just six months ago. I’ve known Stephanie since she was a kid (she was in my children’s choir back when there was a whole lot more Jimmy Moore moving around the earth) and I just know she is destined to do some really great things in her life that will honor her dad’s memory for many years to come. God bless you Stephanie!

I wanted to announce who YOU voted on as your favorite podcast guests of 2011 on “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” earning them an invitation back on the show for “Encore Week” 2012 coming up January 2-6, 2012. Congratulations to Dr. Jack Kruse, Dr. William Davis, Paul Jaminet, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, and Jenny Ruhl. Brand new interviews will be recorded the last week of December and I NEED YOUR HELP! Please send me any questions you would like for me to ask these guests during this special “Encore Week.” This is YOUR opportunity to ask the questions you care about the most of these top low-carb and health experts. Send the questions to me ASAP via e-mail at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. I’ll begin recording these interviews on December 23, 2011, so don’t delay in sending me what you’d like for these guests to talk about during this special week of podcasts. THANK YOU!

I’ve got a special incentive for you to click on the blog links below while I’m away. Our friends at CarbSmart.com have generously offered a very special prize for one lucky reader of a $50 gift certificate for anything in their store. They are the Internet’s leading low-carb retailer offering all sorts of products to fit within your healthy low-carb lifestyle. To become eligible to win, all you gotta do is click on the blogs I have listed for you today, find your favorite one of the bunch, and tell us which blog you like the most and why in the comments section. I’ll pick a winner from all the comments submitted now through Christmas Day. GOOD LUCK!

So how about we get to these 50 new Paleo, low-carb and healthy blogs already, right? It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the Paleo, primal, low-carb, ancestral community continues to grow and I’ve noticed something that is extremely encouraging lately about these new blogs. The QUALITY has improved dramatically as some very talented writers, recipe makers, graphic designers and more have jumped on the blogging bandwagon to give it a go. People think blogging is a cinch, but it really does take a lot of hard work to build an audience, keep the content interesting enough to encourage repeat traffic, and to do it over the long-term. Sadly, too many people come into blogging with high expectations of immediate success. But it doesn’t work that way. You have to build a relationship with your audience, invite them into your life just a bit, and find some sort of connection with them. That’s why it gives me great pleasure to regularly introduce my readers to some of the best new bloggers who are working towards that end. I encourage you to visit as many of these blogs as you can, leave them a comment, write them an e-mail, and bookmark their page if you like what you see there. In case you missed any of my previous blog listings–check ‘em out here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Here are 50 Paleo, low-carb and health blogs for December 2011:

1. PALEO BLOG
2. PRIMAL BALANCE
3. ALL THINGS DENTAL
4. ALL THINGS LOW CARB
5. LOW CARB TRAVELER
6. UNSEENMENACE
7. THE PALEO MOM
8. PRIMAL LOW CARB
9. THE PRIMAL BOOMER
10. PALEO DIABETIC
11. SARAH WILSON
12. PAUL’S HEALTH BLOG
13. ONE FIT FOODIE
14. CALORIEGATE
15. THE LOWCARB DIABETIC
16. DON’T WAKE THE MONSTER
17. THE WELL FED HOMESTEAD>
18. ARIZONA CAVEMAN
19. PALEO OMAHA
20. THE SOULFUL SPOON
21. REAL FOOD UNIVERSITY
22. PRIMAL BITES
23. FEEL GOOD EATING
24. PALEO PASSAGE
25. GO PALEO GET LEAN
26. PALEO FAMILY DOC
27. LOW-CARBLIFE.COM
28. LOW CARB FREAK
29. NUTRISCLEROSIS
30. MANGO Y SAL
31. PRIMAL ZEN
32. SCD LIFESTYLE
33. PALEOMONALISA
34. IT’S ALL GONE PALEO SHAPED
35. SEEKING FATLESSNESS
36. ANCESTRALIZE ME
37. THE RECOVERING VEGETARIAN
38. WILDMOVEMENT
39. THE SAM EFFECT
40. SEE YOUR TOES
41. PRIMAL AWESOME
42. ELANA’S PANTRY
43. PALEO DISH
44. JOSEFINLCHF (Swedish)
45. SWEET WITHOUT SUGAR (Swedish)
46. DUTCH GIRL GETS HEALTHY
47. PROJECT GUINEA PIG
48. ROAR OF WOLVERINE
49. THE TRIATHLETES GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
50. GNOWFGLINS

If you or someone you know has a low-carb, Paleo or health blog or web site that you’d like to see featured in a future blog post here at “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb,” then I’d love to know about it. E-mail me the name of the blog and the URL to livinlowcarbman@charter.net so I can add it to my next big blog update. If you’ve been successful in your weight and health by eating a healthy high-fat, moderate protein, low-carb diet, then you should DEFINITELY consider starting your own low-carb blog to pass the message on to a world desperate for answers. Working together as one unified voice we can make a strong statement to those who need to break out of the mold of conventional wisdom regarding diet, fitness and health. We ARE making a difference!

I’ll be out of town through December 23, 2011 when so many of you will be well on your way to be with family for Christmas. Christine and I decided to just take it easy and stick around close to home for the holidays this year (of course, the $1400 in car repair bills that we had to endure this week for a new alternator, cylinder and some other thingy didn’t help our budget much–LOL!). She tells me she has something very special planned for my 40th birthday coming up on December 27th (and it better not be those car repairs–HA!). Whatever it is oughta be a hoot and I still like being surprised!

I’ll be recording those Best of 2011 “Encore Week” interviews for my “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” podcast during the last week of December and it’s always an exciting week of podcasts to start the new year. DON’T FORGET TO GET ME YOUR QUESTIONS! Thanks guys. By the way, if you case you haven’t heard, we’ll be expanding the LLVLC Show podcast to air three days a week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting on January 9, 2012. And we’re gearing up for our brand new LIVE podcast called “Ask The Low-Carb Experts” coming to Thursday nights at 7PM EST beginning on January 12, 2012 (more details on this show coming VERY soon)! Also, brand new episodes of my Friday podcast called “Low-Carb Conversations with Jimmy Moore & Friends” will kick back into high gear on Friday, January 13th! 2012 is gonna rock and I’m so excited to have you along for the ride as we keep educating, encouraging and inspiring people about the life-changing power of livin’ la vida low-carb!

Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their three cats!

]]> http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/50-new-paleo-low-carb-health-blogs-for-december-2011/feed/ 0 lowcarbjimmymoore Bookmark and Share http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/well-fed-is-a-well-done-cookbook-for-people-following-a-paleo-primal-or-low-carb-lifestyle/ http://liberationwellness.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/well-fed-is-a-well-done-cookbook-for-people-following-a-paleo-primal-or-low-carb-lifestyle/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:59:49 +0000 Jimmy Moore http://liberationwellnessblog.com/?p=7544 ]]> When we look back on the year 2011, it will remembered by those of us who closely follow nutrition and health as the year of the Paleo cookbooks. Here is just a small sampling of the most amazing and best recipe books that have released this year highlighting the virtues of healthy low-carb, Paleo-friendly dishes for you to nourish the bodies of your health-conscious family:

- The Paleo Diet Cookbook by Dr. Loren Cordain
- Paleo Comfort Foods by Charles and Julie Mayfield
- Make It Paleo by Bill Staley and Hayley Mason
- Primal Blueprint Quick and Easy Meals by Mark Sisson

It’s an impressive assortment of books that absolutely must be on the bookshelf of anyone and everyone who makes this way of eating their preferred plan of choice. And the good news is there are MANY more to come in 2012 and beyond as people start becoming more and more familiar with the benefits of going grain-free, sugar-free, legume-free, and dairy-free to attain optimal health. Whether you are new to the Paleo, primal, ancestral or low-carb lifestyle or if you’re a long-time seasoned veteran at it, we all need help sometimes sprucing up our diet and keeping it from becoming the drab, boring and undesirable lifestyle that it is stereotyped as being.

That’s why I’m happy to share with you one more truly amazing cookbook gem that released in 2011 that I’m sure will become a go-to resource in health-focused kitchens across the United States and around the world. It’s called Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat by Melissa Joulwan from “The Clothes Make The Girl” blog (NOTE: There’s also an e-book version of the book and special sneak peek of the book available at Melissa’s web site).

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Melissa’s blog and story about how she came to the Paleo diet, I highly encourage you to check out her blog and learn more about the woman behind this book. Of course, she divulges much of her life’s story at the beginning of Well Fed which will give you an appreciation for who she is now and why a cookbook was a logical choice for her to write. The “Dina-Chow” that’s sprinkled throughout this book is simply awesome and there’s no other way to describe it. The photos of the food accompanying each recipe is the actual finished recipe right before it was devoured by the Joulwan clan. Your mouth can’t help but become a waterfall in anticipation of what is sure to be some of the most interesting food you’ve ever eaten. Where else can you get Paleo low-carb versions of a wide variety of ethnic-based foods like “Chocolate Chili,” “BBQ Fork Fried Rice” (made without rice), “Shepherd’s Pie,” and so much more in these 174 pages of absolute decadence? Flipping through the pages of this book, I honestly wanted to try EVERY SINGLE RECIPE–it’s THAT good!

I could appreciate that Melissa made a convenient one-page called “The ‘No’ List” on page 3 followed immediately by another quickie one-page called “The ‘Yes’ List.” I HIGHLY encourage you newbies to this way of eating to photocopy these pages and post them on your refrigerator door, kitchen cabinets, bathroom mirrors…wherever you’ll look at them on a daily basis! Absorb what is shared on these pages and you will quickly become smarter on nutrition than about 99% of the population, including most doctors, dietitians and those who pretend to know what the heck they’re talking about regarding nutritional health on television (*cough* Dr. Oz *cough*). These really are the bare knuckles basics to Paleo eating spelled out more succinctly than anything else I’ve ever seen. And that’s saying a lot because I’ve seen it all. The bottom line: just eat real food! This is a MAJOR theme of what it actually means to be “well fed.”

While this book will likely be placed in the “diet” or “health” section of bookstores or on places like Amazon, Melissa is quick to point out that she considers this book as neither. It could more accurately be called an “inspirational” book that will tickle your taste buds with recipes that will as she puts it “make you want to smash in your face with joy.” Now that’s an image I won’t soon forget! It’s part and parcel of the magic that Melissa Joulwan brings to the table as an ever-enthusiastic and unapologetic defender of her simple philosophy of “Just Eat” and everything else will fall into place and take care of itself.

Since much of the book includes recipes that you won’t likely see anywhere else, I recommend that you pay close attention to the “About The Recipes” where you can get a lesson on the most common ingredients and cooking tools/methods you’ll be using and how they work to produce these recipes. You’ll save yourself a lot of headaches later if you heed this advice from someone who’s been there, done that already. And Melissa also reminds you that the presentation of the food is an important element in being Well Fed as well. You’ll rarely eat out in a restaurant again if you apply what she teaches on page 13.

The nitty gritty of how to make this book work well for you is on page 16 when she describes “The Weekly Cookup” that includes shopping lists, meal planning, and how to construct a meal that will knock the socks off of the people you are serving (yes, even your kids will think you’re a culinary rock star after eating these meals!). Making sure you have the right amount and kind of foods on hand at all times that you can grab and start cooking with is the key. Then it’s just a matter of opening up “Your Paleo Pantry” and pulling out your choice of some of the most remarkable spices and seasonings that will awaken the foods you are about to consume. Melissa also tells you what “Essential Kitchen Tools” to use to be the best darn cook in your neighborhood. Sound impossible? I guess you gotta get Well Fed to find out!

I’m always curious about how the recipes in cookbooks like this one are displayed. But Melissa made it a lot more fun than I’ve ever seen before. She gives you the title of the recipe, adds a cutesy yet descriptive subtitle (i.e. for the “Olive Oil Mayo” recipe, she included the subtitle “You’ll Never Consider Store-Bought Again”), tells you the serving size, how long it takes to prepare and cook the recipe, a brief commentary on the recipe itself, the ingredients to use, the directions, an empty “Notes” section for you to add your own variations to the cookbook for your personal use, a “How You Could Do That” section for suggested variations, as well as “Tasty Ideas” about what you could make to complement this particular recipe. It’s this kind of practical, real-world advice that sets this cookbook apart from the ones I’ve seen a million times before.

If you wanna know what being Well Fed is really all about, then all you gotta do is gaze your eyes at the photo used on the back cover:

‘Nuff said! Isn’t it time you became Well Fed?

Jimmy Moore is the popular blogger, podcaster and author of Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb who lost 180 pounds on the Atkins diet in 2004 and quickly established himself as a highly influential layperson in the field of health and nutrition. His wildly successful Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Blog has been educating, encouraging and inspiring readers since 2005 and his accompanying iTunes podcast The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore is one of the most listened to health broadcasts online today featuring hundreds of enchanting interviews with the leading voices in the world of diet and healthy living! Jimmy’s latest book compiling all the knowledge he has learned along his journey is called 21 Life Lessons From Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb: How The Health Low-Carb Lifestyle Changed Everything I Thought I Knew. He lives in Spartanburg, SC with his beautiful wife Christine and their three cats!

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