Innate Healer

“If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free - Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.” (April 1968, General Conference Report)

“If the Gentiles on this land reject the word of God and conspire to overthrow liberty and the Constitution, their doom is fixed, and they ’shall be cut off from among my people who are of the covenant’ (1 Nephi 14:6; 3 Nephi 21:11, 14, 21; D&C 84:114-115, 117). (God Family, Country, p. 345.) (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson p. 618-119.)

The full talk can be downloaded by a link at the end of this link: http://www.awakeandarise.org/
Make sure you scroll to the bottom of the page to this link: Talk by President Benson

I always believe that animals have spirit, talents and emotions.  After watching this amazing video, you will be a believer as well.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5970310787521844571

Lecture on how diet can contribute to ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) by Dr. Michael R. Lyon, MD. at Mount Royal College , Calgary, Alberta . Dr. Lyon - “As the director of a medical & research centre, I have explored a variety of potential treatments to improve brain function in children and adults, without the use of drugs like Ritalin. Although I believe there is promise in certain herbal medicines and in non-drug treatments such as biofeedback, I have seen the most profound improvements in learning and behaviour through an intelligently applied nutritional.”

Nutrition and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD

This is not the lastest Stephen King horror movie, it is a British docimentary about how one generation’s environmental exposures: food, traumatic events, chemical exposures, can affect their future offsprings through many generations.  It reiterates what Pottenger found in his cat study that dietary mistakes can pass on many generations.

The scientists who believe your genes are shaped in part by your ancestors’ life experiences.

Biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance. The discovery of epigenetics – hidden influences upon the genes – could affect every aspect of our lives.

At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea – that genes have a ‘memory’. That the lives of your grandparents – the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw – can directly affect you, decades later, despite your never experiencing these things yourself. And that what you do in your lifetime could in turn affect your grandchildren.

The Ghost in Your Genes

This was a great talk at TED 2008.  Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor talks about how, in 1996, she woke up to discover that… “a blood vessel had exploded in the left half of my brain.  In the course of four hours I watch my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information.  On the morning of the hemorrhage I could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman’s body.”

“When I lost my left hemisphere, I lost all of the normal “in the box” thinking when we think about shifts in the brain it is inadequate to focus on the loss because with every loss there is a gain.  As a society we do not focus on what someone has gained in the absence of something they have lost.  When I lost the ability to define, organize and categorize information, I gained the ability to be intuitive and creative.  In the absence of the left mind and its dominating inhibition I gained a completely uninhibited right mind which processes information in a completely unique way when compared to the left mind.”  –Jill Bolte Taylor

Neuroanatomist Studied Her Own Stroke

For over 25 years, I have been shopping for organic foods and buying only organic brand snack foods for my growing children.  Many organic brands started by people who wanted to bring quality food to the market have been quietly acquired by big businesses.  I still remember Seeds of Change when it first came on the market with it goals of preserving plant seeds and vintage seeds that are not hybridized.  This company has be sold to M&M Mars!  That is the reason I stopped buying name brand organic snack and convenient foods.  Reporter have shown Dean Food is quietly mixing commercially produced milk with the company’s organic brands: Horizon and Aurora organic milk.  Here is link to find out more about the owners of many popular organic brands.  I just don’t trust the quality of these brands any more after they are sold out to the big junk food makers. 

http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/features/009/009buyingorganic.html

This is an article posted by another website written by a farmer on the state of our meat packing industry and the safety of our meat in the United States.  The so-called safety regulations by the USDA is frequenly ignored by big corporate meat packing house but leave small family operations unable to sustain their business.  Our food supply is not only unsafe but cost prohibitive.  Unless we do something now, the future of our food is going to be even bleaker than it is now.
http://grassfedcooking.com/articles/meatpackingscandal.html
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A Farmer’s Thoughts on the Hallmark Meat Packing Scandal

On January 30th, the Humane Society released a video showing the atrocious conditions under which beef cattle were processed at the Hallmark Meat Packing Company in Chino, California. Across the country, we have all been horrified at the animal cruelty. We’ve been equally appalled that this meat was distributed to Indian Reservations, to people in need of Emergency Food Assistance, and perhaps most shocking of all, to our school children. The use of downer cattle (animals that are so injured or ill that they are unable to walk) for human consumption has been banned for several years now. These downers were fed to our kids.

How could our government turn a blind eye to these atrocities for so long, knowing this food was to be administered to our fellow citizens and children most in need of good nutrition? As a farmer, I am not permitted to bring a single piece of my family’s beef, lamb or pork to our farmers’ market without first driving my livestock 40 miles away to a “Federally Inspected” slaughter facility to be killed – despite the fact that we have the resources to properly slaughter on-farm. If my beef animal is over 30 months old, the inspector assiduously orders the entire backbone discarded, under the aegis of Mad Cow protection. I don’t think we need to write our politicians and call for more stringent inspection standards. As a meat producer, I am very aware of how stringent these standards are. Strict standards and thicker bureaucracy will not eliminate corruption. Still, as citizens, we have a responsibility to take action.

The fact that meat from the Hallmark Meat Packing Company was distributed to our school children is deplorable. I see in our children the future of my family, of our farm, of our planet. Corrupt individuals may be at fault for this incident, but as citizens, we are largely to blame for the fact that potentially dangerous food was dished out to our youth.

We have allowed our school food service programs to devolve to a destitute state where the calories administered aren’t worthy of a dog. Hallmark Meat Packing was supplying beef – But what about the processed chicken nuggets, or the hot dogs that make up daily cafeteria fare? What pesticides remain in the salad mixes, or have been sprayed on the vegetables? How much high fructose corn syrup is in the dressings and sauces, the chocolate milk, sweets and other processed food items?

In many districts, food service programs receive little or no money from the school budget. They are expected to generate enough sales to cover the cost of staff, and they are supposed to procure the food as cheaply as possible, plus make a large portion of free lunches available to low income students. Unfortunately for many children, the food from these cafeterias is the best nutrition they will receive all day.

The nourishment that these children receive is the community’s responsibility, whether we are parents of school-aged children, home-schoolers, senior citizens or childless neighbors. The way our children are fed affects us all. Responsible nutrition plays a role in reducing criminal behavior, it reduces chronic health problems that our society will have to pay for, it ensures the intellectual health of our future leaders, it safeguards our planet. Furthermore, children will learn about food from what they see in the cafeteria, and those lessons will follow them through life.

It is our job to talk to our school boards and food service directors, to ask where our children’s food comes from. More importantly, it is our job to ask how we can support them in the pursuit of serving safe, healthy, local food.

Community responsibility for school nutrition is not a new idea. In our county, before government surplus programs, the farmers regularly made deliveries to the cafeterias, supplying them with fresh, local bounty. Cafeteria chefs knew how to make economical use of real foods, how to prepare large quantities of soups, stews and casseroles to nourish the children and teachers. Today, their jobs have been de-skilled to opening boxes and cans. Many of the ingredients they use come from federal surplus programs and cheap food sources…like Hallmark Meats. The number of petroleum-intensive miles this food travels is absurd and totally unnecessary. For example, much of the recalled beef from Hallmark Meats was actually found in Vermont – the state with the highest number of cows per capita in the Union.

Before we berate our politicians about inspection procedures for packing houses, before we challenge our school boards on the tax levy, before we worry about K-12 learning standards, I think we should first be asking: Are our children getting what they need to eat? Ecologically responsible, community-supported school lunch programs should not be the exclusive realm of well-endowed progressive private schools. Atrocious animal rights abuses are less likely to happen when the animals are sourced and processed from regional farmers who must be accountable to their neighbors. And our children’s health and safety are better safeguarded by the communities who nurture them than by the corporations who stand to profit from feeding them meat from sick and injured cattle. Healthy, clean food is a fundamental right everyone deserves. Our future depends on it.

Dr. Shannon Hayes is the author of The Grassfed Gourmet and The Farmer and the Grill. She works with her family raising pastured meats on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in Schoharie County. Learn more by visiting http://www.grassfedcooking.com or http://sapbush.com

Great info for keeping children healthy with traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. 

Keeping Children Healthy with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Home made Sauerfraut is the best way to keep our gut healthy by providing healthy bacteria. This is a couple of videos showing us how.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItDXpNyOmhA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAByu1Lb8GM&feature=related