Jan 19, 2011

Slow Down and Take Time to Chew Your Food!

Source: WHFoods.com

When you chew your food properly, your body releases digestive enzymes that help to break down food in the stomach so that your body can convert it into energy. When food isn’t digested properly, you could suffer from low energy, or even a nutritional deficiency if poor chewing becomes a lifelong habit.

WHY IS CHEWING YOUR FOOD SO IMPORTANT?

The physical process of chewing food in your mouth helps to break down larger particles of food into smaller particles.  This helps to reduce stress on the esophagus and helps the stomach further break down the food at a faster rate.  When you chew each mouthful properly, you also release a lot of saliva which contains digestive enzymes.  As you release these enzymes into the throat and stomach, you further improve the digestive process.  If the food you eat contains any fats, you’ll also start to absorb some of the nutrients with the help of enzymes located under your tongue.

Throughout the chewing process, the body undergoes several processes that trigger digestion.  Digestion is one of the most energy-consuming processes of the body, so it’s essential that you help your body along by doing your part!

OTHER REASONS TO CHEW YOUR FOOD PROPERLY

• Reduce the risk of bacterial overgrowth – food particles that aren’t broken down properly can cause bacterial overgrowth in the colon which leads to indigestion, bloating and constipation.
• Helping food move through the digestive tract – chewing your food sends messages to the gastrointestinal system that food is on its way.  This triggers hydrochloric acid production which helps speed up the digestive process.
• Relaxes the lower stomach – your lower muscle needs to relax before food can be channeled to the intestines. Releasing saliva helps to relax the lower stomach and also speeds up the digestive process.

HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD YOU CHEW YOUR FOOD?

The number of times you chew really depends on the type of food you consume.  Soft fruits and vegetables will break down more easily than chicken or steak, so you will need to make sure you chew your food as thoroughly as possible.  According to the experts at Ohio State University, you should chew softer foods 5-10 times, and harder foods up to 30 times before swallowing. (Source: netwellnes.org)

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Jan 19, 2011

One afternoon in Budapest I met Cameron, an Australian who has cycled 6,244 km alone around Europe. On this 118-day journey he spent 312 hours cycling, averaging 20.0 kph speed, visiting 13 Countries, 5 train journeys, 43 974 Vm of climbing and lots of fun.

Jan 3, 2011

There is a POWERFUL force that can drive any human to do crazy destructive things. That force is emptiness. Emptiness that comes from neglect. disconnection, the absence of love, attention, caring, The void of light, warmth and love is like death itself. It is anti-life. It is cold. It is pain. And that void is created in children by the emotional or physical absence or neglect of a parent. It is created by avoidance, distraction, withdrawal, abandonment, rejection. And the void it creates is a devastating vacuum that seeks to fill itself with a ferocity. And until it is filled, it will drive you your entire life in every way imaginable to avoid it’s devastation, and to fill it’s emptiness. From drugs and alcohol to food, sex, power, control, violence, co-dependency, work-a-holism, over achieving, religious fanaticism, and every kind of addiction from video games to excessive working out or gambling and more.

This year I finally touched, tasted and felt the depths of my own devastating emptiness. I have experienced a lot of physical violence in my life, but NOTHING as devastating as the EMPTINESS. And now I know what it is. I know how destructive it is. And I know what HELL is. And at least at this moment in time, I feel the lessening of my judgment towards those who try to fill this void in ways that hurt and damage others. And I feel a deep gratitude for life . . . for giving me EXACTLY what I needed to face this void. LOVE. First to have, then to lose. The love filled a void I didn’t know I had. And then the love was gone and I was faced with my own void. What a gift. To love someone so much that I would be faced with my deepest self. My own emptiness that I have been trying to avoid and fill my whole life with all kinds of things. I NEVER would have faced this on my own. I NEVER would have walked into that hell if it wasn’t for the fire of love and passion.

This has been the most painful and exhausting year of my life, because I felt every second of the emptiness and the pain, like I was 2 years old again. The first second felt like it would kill me. But then . . . a year later and millions of more seconds of the same pain . . . and I am still alive. I have found people to love and support me through this. I have let down my pride and reached out for help. I have cried like a 2 year old 3 days a week for an entire year, and sometimes in front of more people than my pride would EVER allow. But I couldn’t stop it this time, because I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to carry these walls around any more. Walls that have kept love out. And I have been comforted. A great man once said ‘you must become like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven’ . . . I know that well now. Because in that openness and humbleness there is room for love and light to come in. And it is in that deep sensitivity to life that we experience ecstasy and joy. He also said ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you.’

I know now that on the completion of healing this void, I will no longer to driven by its shadow. I will be free. I thank EVERYONE whose shoulder I cried on, who listened to me, who held me, who gave me love when I wanted to die. And I thank the one who showed me myself. It HAD to be that way. You were a blessing in the biggest way in my life. I will always love you for that.

And next time any of you think that there is something MORE VALUABLE to ANYONE in your life than your honest genuine presence and connection, or if you think that your belief system not matching your children’s is good reason to deny them your love . . . think again . . .

Jan 3, 2011

In the mid-1980s, Dervaes family set out to do the seemingly impossible: To create what they dubbed an urban homestead and live a self-sufficient, low-impact life in the heart of the city. For years Dervaes worked steadily to transform our ordinary urban lot in Pasadena, California, into an organic permaculture garden that supplies them with food year-round.

Dec 12, 2010

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

We live in a culture that doesn’t admit that women need sex every bit as much as men, if not more.

Conservatives put women on a romantic pedestal. Women are virginal and sexless. Feminists deny women need men for anything.

“Women are made to feel guilty for needing men,” my wife said. “We’re portrayed as weak, co-dependent or lacking in self-esteem.”

My teenage son also inculcated this message from TV: “Women don’t need sex,” he said. “They’re just doing men a favor.”

Sex and love have become horribly confused. When religion held sway, they were inseparable (i.e. marriage.)

But today “sexual liberation” has freed sex from love. It has taken love’s place. Millions of men and women behave like addicts. They use sex to assuage a desperate craving for love that only love can satisfy.

DESPERATELY SEEKING LOVE

An excellent independent movie, “The Business of Strangers” (2001) explores the effect feminism has had on modern women. Writer/director Patrick Stettner illustrates how American women have traded love for the sterility, banality and inhumanity of corporate culture.

This is what movies should do: Reflect modern life. Yet this brilliant movie bombed (or was torpedoed) at the box office, making less than $500,000. Fortunately, critics liked it and it is widely available on DVD.

Two women are stranded overnight at an airport hotel while on a sales trip. Stockard Channing plays “Julie Styron,” successful divorced 45-ish VP Sales whose best friend is her secretary.

Julia Stiles plays Paula Murphy, a tough 25-ish “writer” who works the overhead projector.

The movie shows how career has supplanted family for women like Styron. Feminism promised that women could have both, but this did not happen.

Forty seven per cent of 40-something women with professional degrees have no children. Only 14% of these women said they didn’t want children.  (“Creating a Life: Professional Life and the Quest for Children” by Sylvia Ann Hewitt)

Styron is fired without warning. But when she immediately lands an even better job as a CEO, she is strangely indifferent.

ODE TO WASTE & FRUSTRATION

In the hotel bar with Styron, Paula  recognizes Nick Harris (left) a slick young corporate head-hunter played by Fred Weller. He is the man who raped her best friend years ago at a frat party. She lures him to Styron’s suite and puts tranquilizers in his drink.

After he passes out, the two women indulge in an orgy of hatred over his unconscious body. They undress him, cover him with obscene graffiti, smear blood and strike him. Both women clearly despise men. Murphy confides it was actually she who had suffered the rape.

However, later it emerges that Nick is a rapist in her mind only. Styron learns that he had never been to the city where the rape had supposedly taken place.

Talk about hate. Men are “rapists” because they are not giving women the love they need. The result is self-loathing and resentment against men. Feminism first makes women and men incompatible; then it exploits women’s frustration and rage.

“WHAT DOES WOMAN WANT?”

The great Sigmund Freud was unable to answer this question despite  “thirty years of research into the feminine soul.”

Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” knew the answer: Woman wants to be loved. She’ll do anything for love, even if she has to become a feminist.

Many Western women today are dysfunctional because they are getting contradictory messages. Society tells them to be “strong and independent,” i.e. successful in a career.

But this behavior is masculine and makes men feel redundant. Men don’t like these women. Thus women are doing what society tells them to do, yet are not getting the male love they expect and need.

Women are loved when they put their husband and children before themselves. It is feminine to self efface. Men love these women because they become part of them.

I am not against a woman having a career, only putting it before marriage and family.

GETTING DATING STRAIGHT

A single friend characterized a typical date this way. He describes his work and seeks affirmation and respect. She describes her work and seeks affirmation and respect from him. They never see each other again. (They are already competing.)

This is NOT how heterosexuals mate. Women are hypergamous, which means they seek men of higher power and status. Nurses marry doctors.

On a date, a man reveals himself and his vision of life. She decides if she’s interested in him or not. If she is, she affirms him by her acceptance and encouragement. In marriage, she demonstrates her love by trusting him to take care of her interests.

He also affirms her by seeking her acceptance. Yes, he also wants her to be capable and successful. But his recognition and nurturing come later.

All successful organizations are hierarchical. The heterosexual family is male dominated. If you wanted to destroy it, you promote equality. Our culture is doing this.

THE FEMINIST TRAP

It is mind-boggling but our politicians, media and educators are deliberately sabotaging society. Feminism like its Communist forebear dogmatically denies human sexual differences, such as the fact that men have 10 times the testosterone levels of women.

There are over 900 Women’s Studies Programs in the United States teaching impressionable young women to deny their femininity. According to “Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women’s Studies” femininity is “patriarchal mind control.” The “best slaves are the ones who don’t even know they are slaves.” Who authorized this indoctrination in lesbian dysfunction?

This vicious state-sponsored hoax is ruining millions of lives. The CIA and the Rockefeller Foundation sponsor it. The super rich use tax-exempt foundations to promote Communism, according to the 1954 Reese Committee Report of the U.S. Congress.

Feminism is another manifestation of Communism, which was always sponsored by the international bankers and their corporate allies. Their goal is to transfer all power to a global state, which they control. By harnessing the authoritarian power of the state, Big Brother will serve Big Business.

The stated goal of the Communist Manifesto is to destroy the nuclear family. People without stable families are easy to distract and control. Sex starved, isolated, and dysfunctional, the few children they have are also messed up. The U.S. birth rate is at the lowest point in history.

WOMAN THE MULTIPLIER (MAN X WOMAN = CHILDREN)

A woman’s elaborate reproductive apparatus has a profound influence on her psyche. Each month she produces an egg and she is devoted to seeing that egg fertilized, then to giving birth and raising a child.

In a true marriage, two people become one. Each complements the other. Women’s strengths should not be the same as men’s and vice versa.

Independence is the big issue in feminist marriages. They are mergers, a pooling of assets designed to achieve economic and sexual synergies. The two people fail to bond and remain immature. They struggle for power and break up.

CONCLUSION

Heterosexual society has been under sustained psychological attack designed to arrest human development and decrease population. Feminism is the weapon of choice.  It encourages women to deny their femininity and act like men.

Feminine women are characterized by selflessness. They are not hunters. They are not killers. They are a little vulnerable in a worldly sense. How do men respond to them? By wanting to nurture and protect them. This is how men love. This is what women want.

In “The Business of Strangers” both women have become hunters. As a result, they hate men but worse they hate themselves. Victims of a diabolical  plot, they have mutated. They need a man’s love in order to be themselves again.

What are your thoughts on this?

Apr 28, 2010

LOS ANGELES — A new report says more than half of Americans still live in areas with unhealthy air, despite progress in reducing smog.

The Associated Press