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I'd like to dedicate this post to what I started to teach about eating a good diet on my show. My tactic is to say YES. I like to tell everyone what they can eat to be in great shape.

I'm going to point out what I call the Six White Poisons but I won't leave you with just "Don't Eat Them!" I'll add what you can substitue them with so you can really enjoy yourself.

1) WHITE FLOUR

White flour has no nutritive value. When white flour is produced, the bran and wheat germ are removed which are the most valuable parts of the grain of wheat. When you were in kindergarden do you remember making glue out of white flour and water? Well that is exactly what eating refined wheat flour does to your intestines...it "glues them together" making it tough for an agile digestion. Substitute white flour with WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR.

2) WHITE RICE

Same problem as with white flour. White rice has its outer skin removed where all the richest nutritive value is found. White rice has almost no nutritive value whatsoever. Since the industrial revolution, the human diet has been drastically damaged. The machines made it easy to produce refined flour and rice, therefore affecting a much larger proportion of the population.

In the Second World War a doctor discovered the valuelessness of white rice.

In Switzerland there was a time when food was scarce.

In a hospital patients were on a diet of only white rice being that there was nothing else to eat.

The brown rice (thought to be an inferior product) was given to the chickens in the hospital yard.

Patients began to develop beri-beri but the chickens were doing just fine. A doctor noticed this and experimented by giving brown rice to the beri-beri affected patients. The patients recovered (Brown rice has a good quantity of vitimin B while white rice lacks it. The deficiency of this vitimin causes beri-beri). Substitute white rice with BROWN RICE.

3) SUGAR

Sugar is sucrose and is not found as such in nature. When you eat pure sucrose you blood sugar rises immediately (sucrose is coverted into glucose). That's why when people have a coffee break with a donut they feel an energy jolt. This "false energy" quickly turns into a dull thud when the pancreas secretes insulin to normalize the blood sugar level. Most people eat sugar 10 times a day, so ten times a day your pancreas has to do the job. Eventually this organ gets sick of being overworked and can go crazy. That's the beginning of diabetes. There's a lot more to say about the bad of sugar but for the moment I'll recommend you substitute with: Honey, dried fruits, bananas, ripe plantain bananas, and sweet potatoes. Later on in this blog we can see how you can use these ingredients to make sweet delicacies that won't make you fat!

4) MILK

Cow's milk is great for cows! They have four stomachs that are made to digest their cow mother's milk. Humans are made to drink human milk. The composition of the two are vastly different. Cow's milk has much more salt and fat than mother's milk. It is very hard to digest compared to breast milk. Many people have a hard time with cow's milk, especially babies.

When breast milk is changed for cow's milk most babies can't hack it. I do suggest you consume NATURAL YOGURT. Yogurt made with cow's milk is three times easier to digest than regular milk. Also it contains valuable bacteria needed for excellent digestion and a healthy intestine. You can also make yogurt from goats milk although it doesn't have as creamy a texture as cow's milk yogurt.

5) SALT

I don't add any salt to my cooking. A human being needs three grams of salt a day to maintain excellent health. We easily get those three grams from a balanced diet. When you eat a lot of salt you retain much extra, unnecessary water in your body. This could even turn into edema. Coronary diseases, overweight, hiperactivity and nervousness are all related to high salt consumption. Substitue salt with: GARLIC, RED PEPPER, BLACK PEPPER, ALL AROMATIC SPICES (oregano, bay leaves, savoury, thyme, etc.), MUSTARD, CUMIN, etc. etc.

6) FAT

I don't add fatty foods or just plain old fat-lard-and even oils of all kinds to my recipes. I use a little olive oil so that things don't stick to the pan and in salad dressings, but besides that I don't add extra fat to my recipes. I never deep fat fry anything I eat. Substitue with BOILING, BAKING, and COOKING WITH VERY LITTLE OLIVE OIL. You'll never regret it!

So there you have it! I strictly go by these rules and others as well and I am enviously healthy!

Questions:

1) Do you think the diet you eat is affecting the way you feel?

2) Are you interested in trying some of the above suggestions?

3) Which one do you consider the hardest to eliminate from you diet and apply the substitutes?

White Poison, By Shanti Rangwani

The supposedly hip milk mustache is actually a creamy layer of mucus, live bacteria, and pus.

Got milk? If not, then thank your lucky stars. Because if you do, medical research shows that you are likely to be plagued by anemia, migraine, bloating, gas, indigestion, asthma, prostate cancer, and a host of potentially fatal allergies--especially if you are a person of color.

Ignoring this, the government declares that milk is essential to good health, subsidizes the milk industry to the tune of billions of dollars, and requires milk in its public school lunch programs. And celebrity shills sporting milk mustaches tell us that milk is rich in proteins, calcium, and vitamins--and very cool to boot.

They forget to tell you about the dangers lurking in that innocuous-looking glass of white. Once criticized only by naturopaths and vegans, now the health effects of milk are being decried by many mainstream doctors. The supposedly hip milk mustache is actually a creamy layer of mucus, live bacteria, and pus.

Former Chairman of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, Frank Oski, M.D. even has a book called Don't Drink Your Milk which blames every second health problem kids suffer on hormone-ridden commercial milk.

Sixty percent of ear infections in kids under six years of age are milk-induced, and milk consumption is the number one cause of iron-deficiency anemia in infants today according to the American Association of Pediatrics.

But milk is also a racial issue. Almost 90 percent of African Americans and most Latinos, Asians, and Southern Europeans lack the genes necessary to digest lactose, the primary sugar in milk.

The milk industry's response is classic: they have launched new campaigns arguing that non-whites can digest milk if they take in small sips during the day. There is a burgeoning industry worth $450 million a year churning out products designed to minimize lactose intolerance.

Lactose intolerance is the most common "food allergy," but to call it an allergy is to take a white-centric view that trivializes the fact that most of the world's people are not biologically designed to digest milk.

To call lactose intolerance an "allergy" is to take a white-centric view that trivializes the fact that most of the world's people are not biologically designed to digest milk.

Milk does no body good, but for the vast majority of the world's people--people of color--it is a public health disaster.

No other animal drinks cow's milk, not even calves once they are weaned.

The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, the U.S.'s leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding "cow's glue" to children, saying it can cause anemia, allergies, and diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease, the number one cause of death in this country.

Most of milk's much-vaunted protein is contained in casein--which is also a raw material for commercial glue. Undigested, it simply sticks to the intestinal walls and blocks nutrient absorption.

The mainstream media and the government ignore the medical studies showing that milk is a serious health threat, in part because people of color are the main victims. The institutionalization of racism is highlighted by U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesperson Eilene Kennedy's statement on milk, that the government's recommended food pyramid is intended for "the majority of Americans. It doesn't communicate to all Americans."

The USDA continues to require that school lunch programs include milk with every meal, and recommend that we glug milk for calcium, even though Harvard studies show an increase in osteoporosis and bone-breakage in people who consume milk. It says we should drink milk to prevent heart disease (and is echoed by Larry King) even though saturated fat constitutes 55 percent of milk solids.

The dairy lobby perpetrates lies to ensure its profits. It benefits directly from the exaggerated support prices the government shells out for this "health food."

The government pays over a billion dollars a year for surplus butter. A General Accounting Office (GAO) study concluded that a reduction in the government price support system would have netted consumers savings of $10.4 billion from 1986 to 2001. And the USDA pays inflated prices to purchase dairy products for both the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and federal school lunch programs--milking the taxpayers and actually getting them to pay for poisoning 26 million school kids.

The milk lobby has whipsawed its way into the highest echelons of power. Staffers under Richard Nixon were indicted for accepting $300,000 from the dairy lobby for making milk part of the school lunch program.

Dr. Robert Cohen of the Dairy Education Board, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing the milk lobby, contends that the dramatic 52 percent rise in asthma deaths among minority kids in New York coincided with the surplus milk, cheese, and butter pumped into them under the USDA's free school lunch and breakfast giveaway programs.

The incidence of asthma deaths may be even higher since asthma is not a reportable disease, and asthma deaths are sometimes certified as cardiovascular disease.

There is also a direct link between milk consumption and prostate cancer among African Americans, who have the highest incidence of this disease in the world.

A study in Cancer has shown that men who reported drinking three or more glasses of whole milk daily had a higher risk for prostate cancer than men who reported never drinking whole milk.

The controversial Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH)--banned in most countries--is pumped into U.S. milch cows to increase annual yield (50,000 pounds of milk per cow today compared to 2,000 pounds in 1959).

Milk from cows treated with BGH is likely to contain pus from their udders since the hormone leads to mastitis, or udder infection.

BGH use results in a tumor-promoting chemical (IGF-I) that has been implicated in an explosive increase of cancer of the colon, smooth muscle, and breast.

The antibiotics dairy farmers use to treat BGH-caused infections in cows appear in their milk and greatly hasten human tolerance to most antibiotics, a potentially life-threatening state of affairs.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that 38 percent of milk samples in 10 cities were contaminated with sulfa drugs and other antibiotics.

A fightback is beginning. Protesters picketed New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's planned milk promotion campaign with a photo of the mayor wearing a milk mustache over the caption, "Got Prostate Cancer?"

Giuliani (who, like his father, has prostate cancer) dropped the campaign. And doctors from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) persuaded Washington, D.C. Mayor

Anthony Williams not to declare May 11 as "Drink Chocolate Milk Day" by presenting evidence that milk is harmful, especially to people of color.

The PCRM--composed of some of the leading doctors in the U.S.--has campaigned extensively in the health and consumer press and led a successful legal effort in 1999 to make dairy products optional in the federal food guidelines. The campaign was supported by a number of prominent civil rights organizations and leaders, including the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, Martin Luther King, III, Jesse Jackson, Jr., the National Hispanic Medical Association, and former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.

The dairy lobby remains cozy with most medical practitioners to perpetrate its "drink milk" propaganda. However, not one of the 1,500 papers listed in Medicine that deal with milk points to its goodness--only to the pus, blood, antibiotics, and carcinogens in milk, and the chronic fatigue, anemia, asthma, and autoimmune disorders milk consumption causes.

The time has come for the milk industry to face the kind of scrutiny that the tobacco companies face today. Meanwhile, discard the moo juice.

I am glad I do not like milk and never have Gigi

i foudn this very interesting.

in our family, we use goat milk. it actually states on the box, more easy to digest than cows. it has no hormones, and stuff.

we had to make the switch to help my son who is allergic, he can not have anything from a cow (excpet steaks of course, but doesn't like them!) we get goat yogurt, goat cheese (his fave is drunk goat cheese, the reason it is called that, it is soaked in red wine) sort of like a port wine cheese.

i have also found that in other countries (after talking to my friens who were born and lived in other countries, sheep and goat milk are common)

in regards to the flour, we also had to switch, cause my son has a gluten allergy too. some other alternives too are almond flour (makes great tasting breads and cookies, brown rice flour, corn flour, ect.)

there is my 2 cents worth,

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