Biochemical Balance & Sufficiency

Make your own Whipped Cream at home, without the guilt (or the chemicals). Fresh, Organic, Raw, and REAL. I am proud to introduce my darling wife in a new occasional Friday feature — Cooking with Joy!

Lorraine Joy, that is. . A wonderful cook, a talented improviser in the kitchen and a devoted follower of truly healthy eating, Lorraine has come up with a great collection of tasty recipes that I devour without putting on a pound. Real food is like that. It doesn’t make you fat the way fake food does. Real food tends to normalize your weight; if you are too heavy, you drop a few pounds. Too skinny, you gain a few. And you can always feel good about what you are eating because you know it is nourishing your body. Truly guilt free. And with that, take it away Lorraine:  Read more...

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The popularity of alternative/natural healing modalities is at an all-time high. The freedom to pursue those approaches is under constant  and unrelenting assault. Why is this? How did we get to where we are today?

If your child has cancer, do you have the freedom to seek the treatment of YOUR choice?  Answer: NO.  The recent headlines attest to this as an international manhunt pursued a mother trying to get natural cancer therapies for her teenage son. Call it Manhunt Medicine. Did you ever ask yourself why the “authorities” deemed the situation so dire that an international manhunt — usually reserved for the most dangerous criminals — was undertaken? Or how about this: have you asked yourself why raw milk is illegal in most states when it has been repeatedly proven to be  far safer and more nutritious than the dead pasteurized version from cows fed an unnatural diet and penned up unnaturally their whole lives, given drugs, hormones and antibiotics all in the name of   increased milk production? Or, perhaps you wondered why the medical “authorities” have  hounded Chiropractic doctors for the past century; or why traditional allopathic physicians turn their collective noses down at alternative physicians; or wondered why so many pharmaceutical commercials are on TV; or why drug manufacturers may legally claim their drugs treat disease (by which is usually meant they manage the symptoms as opposed to any actual curing) but supplement manufacturers can make no such claim. Land of the free? A friend reminded me the other day of a true story about some visitors from the USSR who were surprised you couldn’t buy raw milk in the so called “land of the free.” (They always drank raw milk back in Russia).  Read more...

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Also today: Organic buying tips, making your meals more nutrient dense, $50 million available for organic growing, local organic soups delivered in Portland and much more below!

Which is healthier: Local produce, or veggies that are certified organic?

Are you “local” or “organic?”

Back to basics: Some farmers use sustainable practices, eschew certification.

Organic soil solutions.

Organic farm tour video. This is a great video.

Organic booze? We do NOT recommend drinking, but…

Why Organic MATTERS.

“Every once in a while a new “report” comes out saying organic foods may be no better than non-organic. Really?”

In Portland, local organic soups delivered. Brilliant! Are you out or work? Let this give you an idea…

$50 Million Dollars in Funds for Organics Available.

Tips: Buying Organic Foods on the Cheap.

Farm City: Gardening in the Ghetto.

Marketing Labels Mislead, then Annoy.

Organic and Thrifty: 10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Meals More Nutrient Dense.

I honestly don’t know what to make of this post.

YouTube; Delaware: Birth of an Urban Farm…

YouTube: Organic Vegetable Gardening, Brooklyn Style! Simple but pretty cool…

YouTube: And now, the same gentleman tours his Fire Escape (!) organic garden:  Read more...

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Also today: Soy and Estrogen; Overdosing on Twitter, Nutritionists and Poo (yes-really!);  new books on contagious disease, It’s time to panic about obesity; Interview with Ana Jones of the movie “Fresh,” and much more below on today’s Real Health  News.

Cholesterol, Eggs, Shell  Color, More Egg Facts.

Is NAIS biased against small family farmers? Small farmers in Kentucky say big business gets long end of the stick.  Plus, an articulate consumer, Susan Blasko of Virginia, speaks up at a NAIS “listening” session here.

An interview with Fresh director Ana Jones.

Some interesting thoughts on The Best Medicine; integrating traditional and alternative therapies.

“Gender-bending” plastic bottles. Scary.

“One of the greatest tragedies of the Twentieth Century is the introduction of soybeans as food.” Watch…

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has Type I Diabetes.

WSJ says new FDA Commissioner rich with medical stocks.

Can there be TOO MUCH use of social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook such that it is unhealthy?

THEN, there’s this: Texting May be Taking A Toll.

“An insatiable fascination with contagious illness is hard-wired into all of us, as two new books make clear.”

“If you don’t have time to read the whole post I will summarize it for you in one sentence. Butter is good and margarine is poison.  Read more...

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Cow share threat in California? – Grass Fed Beef Certification – Farmers under 40 – Free Range Eggs and Fast Food – These stories and many others are all here! Read on…

Are cow shares being targeted in California? A new survey raises questions. Some analysis of the survey; California’s Senate Majority Leader, who has become Raw Milk’s best friend in California state government, gets involved and some thoughts by the ever astute Complete Patient on that involvement. This story will be worth watching as it unfolds. We will have the latest information as it becomes available.

“Cage free,” “certified,” “enriched;” what do they all mean? 26 Common Food Labels Explained.

Is fast food really moving toward using cage free eggs? 2% free range vs. 98% conventional has someone understandably mad.

Meanwhile in Britain more businesses are switching to using only free range eggs and the sector is set to grow strongly as the 2012 ban on conventional battery farm eggs approaches.

“Some of the biggest lines for today’s weekly farmer’s markets will form outside the trailer of Kurtz and Sons Dairy for two prized foods: raw milk and grass fed beef.”

Food policy in the new Administration: A Who’s Who.

Raw cheeses a step closer in New Zealand.

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Brief pre-Memorial Day weekend edition. Have a great holiday!

Headline of the day:  I’ll Take a Gallon of That “Rabies Immune Fly Repellent Chocolate Milk,” And Make Mine Unsplicable

Farming freedon: Dairy farmer gets right to open creamery and sell organic products from the milk his cows produce.

Raw milk and cheese coming to New Zealand?

10 Cultured Dairy Foods and How to Use Them. Probiotic goodness!

It’s way early to talk “Christmas dinner” but some lucky folk will be enjoying pastured geese at their yuletide table this year!

A review of 18 low-carb and health books. Some great books on this list; a must read!

“Flu Vaccine Contaminated with Live H5N1 Virus During Packaging? Baxter Pharmaceuticals, the maker of flu vaccines, had a glitch.”

4 in 10 college kids are depressed, hopeless. One wonders what the numbers would be if they replaced their typically abysmal dietary habits with nutrient dense whole foods and then cut the partying and got some sleep!

Dr. Michael Eades hits back in great detail at the “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine” and their anti-hi-protein, low-carbohydrate thinking. Long and worth the read.

Latest raw milk videos:

Jay of Wellness Mafia (no direct link found; if you know where to find Wellness Mafia please let me know)  on Why I Only Drink Raw Milk, Part 1/2  Read more...

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