“Everything in Moderation” and Celebration Justifications

We tend to feel safe and secure when we follow the masses. Many desire to fit into society as it has already been designed. I'm sure you have heard the phrase “thinking outside the box.” Everyone wants your money, and the food business is no different. Marketing is everywhere and the more a company can convince you that you will be sexy, lose weight, or have a good time consuming their product, the more their revenues will spike.

There is a statement that does not make sense to me, and one I hear the most for justification to eat whatever we want. Many speak of eating certain foods in “moderation.” Or perhaps your friends say the phrase “everything in moderation.” This saying is regurgitated more times than I can count. We can give ourselves diseases at any rate we choose. We can line our organs with plaque at a fast or a slow rate. Food is a natural chemical and our body responds accordingly. Would you moderate strychnine, or cocaine, or any other poison? While it is factual that a little of poison sometimes has less effect than a lot, eliminating it altogether, whenever possible, is best. Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people who continue a justification process of what they consider normal.

It takes a very intelligent, strong-willed person to say “no more” to easy temptation, to be open to changing their patterned lifestyle, and to tell their family that they are making a change. Humans have preserved, fried, killed, packaged, baked, molded, and aged anything resembling food, and then they produce studies trying to prove why you should consume that product. Because a large government agency passes it as edible does not mean it should pass your lips. But you say "I work out and burn it off." Can you seriously "burn off" the cholesterol, plaque, acidity, and animal fat from your bloodstream and organs by exercise? You can choose the positive route and not add anymore to your body.

Are we scared to go against what the masses are doing? People who make food choices that are healthy are considered weird and strange and even un-American, while people are considered normal whose eating habits promote disease. If you are at a sporting event or barbeque, and you do not have alcohol and meat, you are often criticized or viewed as "weird." People will say you "have issues" if you do not want a beer and pizza. People will roll their eyes at you, asking you how you get your protein. Thankfully, now you understand the truth, after reading the protein myth chapter in this book.

The packaging in our stores and commercials are very deceptive. We see on packaging that a product has 1/3 less fat, no carbohydrates, no fat, etc. Guess what? Processed sugar has no fat, but it has horrible side effects. It lowers your immune system and causes diabetes and unhealthy weight gain, among many other adverse effects.

Has anyone stopped to think with common sense? Are we in denial? If you eat the dead, will you feel alive? “You are what you eat”—that simple phrase is so true. Our body odor reflects what we eat and how fast it can pass through our body. Meat takes, on average, 48 hours or longer to pass through our body because we are designed with very long intestines. That is, what your body allows to pass through and does not stick as plaque to your organs and candida inside intestines and artery walls. Your breath, sweat, and body fluids all reflect what you put into your body. Along with the pH balance you create inside your body by what you eat, pills you take, what you drink, animal products cause acidity. Most meat eaters do smell and taste different when you kiss them. Raw green vegetables are alkaline. If you like kissing decaying carcasses as the acidic breath rises from the stomach, then you are more adaptive to our current society than I am.

Our bodies are remarkable at pushing through the toxins and eliminating the bacteria, but our bodies can only take so much before they scream for us to stop the torture. Meat is very difficult for the body to digest. Organic meat is no easier for the body to digest, and being organic does not make meat non-acidic.

Have you ever wondered why there is a lobbyist for everything that kills humans? We have gun lobbyists, tobacco lobbyists, oil, pharmaceutical company lobbyists, and of course, dairy and meat council lobbyists. Where are the vegetable lobbyists, the pH balance lobbyists, and the prevention lobbyists? Not enough money is available in those categories for them to be backed by the government yet.

One hundred years from now, what might we know? Have you learned much in the past 20 years? Is your knowledge different now than it used to be? Remember when the world was believed to be flat? Scientists, doctors, and researchers have changed theories over the years and the pattern will continue this way.

What we know now is from a compilation of our experiences. How do we know what to eat? Past history? Our parents? Our teachers? Advertising executives? Our schools? Fitness trainers? Doctors? Government? Nutritionists? Where do all of these people gather their knowledge? From studies and research, right? If you follow a marketing and money trail, you might just come up amazed. Who was in charge of devising the original four food groups? The Meat and Dairy Counsel. Why wouldn’t they add those two groups as necessary for human health? The government has controlled our nutritional education, which is hard to understand until we dig deeper. Interestingly, they have control over health care as well. Who teaches who? Who funds the education of all the professionals listed above? The government, pharmaceutical companies, and the Meat and Dairy Counsel, mainly.

Self-love needs to come first. You are what you eat, so utilize your consciousness. Lead your life with your head first. Obtain knowledge and commit to treating your body right. Food is just like dope in that no matter how much you eat, you will never feel complete. You need to solve what is eating at you inside first. The smaller amounts of food we eat, the better. Our bodies are taxed way too much from digesting food and do not have enough energy left to heal us internally.

Sweet Holiday Festivities and Sickness

Have you noticed all the people at the office becoming sick around the holidays? Have you ever noticed all the sugar treats lying around the office at that time of year as well? What about the alcohol at office gatherings and holiday celebrations? What about all the animal products causing your body to turn acidic, and your immune system to tank? Sugar and alcohol are severe when it comes to dropping your immunity levels, and your body becomes much weaker when consuming these products. Someday, perhaps offices will ban bringing sugary sweets with a ton of refined sugar to work because it is not productive for business to have everyone out sick.

So what if it is Thanksgiving? If you look in the history books, the pilgrims did not eat turkey. I'm not sure why is it considered “normal” for a family celebration to focus on eating a dead carcass that will end up doing more harm than good to your family.

Since Roman times, celebrations have taken place in which people are gorging on poultry, seafood, and game. We celebrate victories in war, sport, politics, and bring family together through a feast of the dead. We look at peasants and poverty as those not able to afford to eat such extravagant foods as a filet of the finest steak. While it is more expensive to eat meat, it is not doing anyone a favor. Our costs include inefficient use of land, water, heavy pollution from livestock feces, heart disease, obesity, destruction of rain forests, and endless illness. Do we want to reward ourselves by clogging our arteries, lining our heart with plaque, gaining weight, having acidic breathe, feeling lethargic, aging rapidly, and not being able to sustain a quality of life as we age?

Isn’t it a strange custom to poison ourselves in order to celebrate as a family tradition? What do we do when we celebrate a big event, a goal accomplished, weddings, rewards, or any big victory? We toast with alcohol. We eat sugar or animal products. Are we toasting to our speedy death or to hoping disease will find us faster? Are we eating the birthday or wedding cake so that we can lower our immune system and age more quickly? Nonetheless, I am definitely not saying that staying clear from as many toxins as you can is easy.

Have we considered that food might not be intended to be used as we use it? Neale Donald Walsch said:

Food was intended to be used as nourishment. When you use food as fun, your body has no fun at all. It works harder, and it ultimately can't fight off the effects of mistreatment. It carries more weight, which puts more strain on your heart. Arteries are clogged, which adds more strain. You could, of course, define fun another way. You could decide that "fun" is being healthy and happy. But you might have to change your whole idea about food.

I became aware of food choices at a very young age. My mother did shop at health food stores in Eugene, Oregon, where I grew up. However, I rebelled and wanted junk food more often than not. It was what the other “normal” kids were eating. When I was 13 years old, however, I saw a segment on 60 Minutes that opened my eyes for good. The show went inside the slaughterhouses and showed all the tumors, cancers, bacteria, and urine found on meat. That's all it took to prove to me that eating a ton of cancers and tumors was probably going to cause one in myself. That was the beginning of my eye opening experience. Back then, I had no idea what an astonishing impact animal products had on human health. As with everyone else, I justified continuing to eat dairy, fish, and some chicken. Then, I started to understand that chicken was not any healthier than red meat. In fact, I discovered it was just as dangerous, but because it is marketed as healthier, I had bought into that notion.

As years went on, I started realizing that dairy was probably not good because it created mucus in my throat. I read two important books, Do Not Drink Your Milk by Frank Oski M.D. and Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which sealed my intuition on dairy. Later, reading The China Study really helped me to understand how much of our bone loss and acidity was linked to dairy. Dairy was also connected to cancer growing at rapid rates, but I still somehow justified fish as an easier fiber to digest. After all, it provided great omega fatty acids and fish oil. Boy, was I a fool! Fish carry endless parasites and larva, which are incredibly acidic to the body. This is something I just recently learned. A friend of mine sent me endless information on fish, and then sent me links to numerous videos of fish parasites available on YouTube. Soon, I got the message that it was not a product I was going to put in my body anymore. Omegas are easily found in flaxseeds and walnuts.

"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegans who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say it’s a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway." —Scott Adams