"The only thing that separates the strong from the weak, is their level of consciousness." -Dr. Jewell Pookrum
Today, after much tribulation throughout my life with the intake of milk and dairy products like ice cream, yogurt and pasteurized eggs, I must let my voice be heard on the very possible perils of this food choice. Most recently, after 3 weekends of having pizza and pork on that pizza (two things i NEVER eat) I noticed having significantly stiff and painful joints (specifically inflammation and swelling of middle fingers of each hand and both middle toes on each foot), fatigue after 8 hours or more of rest, cold hands and feet to the point of numbness and acne outbreaks. I couldn't help but notice this a day or two after eating these two products. And, being the modern day progressive that I am, I can't help but believe that these signals in my body are NOT of a disease but more my body telling me that its rejecting these kinds of foods and I am possibly killing myself with each time I intake these things. As these symptoms are that of an auto-immune disease response. I believe that ANY if not ALL diseases can be reversed through natural foods, herbs, the right combining of the right foods and proper fluid intake.
After several days of removing these items (pork and cheese which I had for the first time in God knows how long) from my diet and staying on a 100% real food/raw food diet, my symptoms subside, slowly return and then subside again. I also believe emotional health and well-being are also toxic to the body so it is important that you maintain a level of consciousness where you are feeding your body healthy thoughts or "cleansing thoughts" that further eliminate toxins in the body and brain.
After reading and much researching on this issue I can't help but share the following ground-breaking pieces of evidence that are worth pondering the next time you have a glass of milk, cup of ice-cream or slice of pizza.
The following is provided by DetoxifyNow.com, (on the topic of Milk and Dairy) "
Now we come to one of the most controversial and misunderstood items in the Western diet.
Orientals and Africans have traditionally avoided milk- except as a purgative. But in the Western world, people are told to drink milk everyday throughout their lives.
If we look at nature, we see that the young feed exclusively on milk until weaned away from it with other foods. The natural disappearance of the milk-digesting enzyme lactase from the human system upon reaching maturity proves that adult humans have no more nutritional need for milk than adult tigers or chimpanzees.
Though milk is a complete protein food when consumed raw, it also contains fat, which means that it combines poorly with any other food except itself. Yet adults today routinely 'wash down' other foods with cold milk. Milk curdles immediately upon entering the stomach, so if there is other food present the curds coagulate around other food particles and insulate them from exposure to gastric juices, delaying digestion long enough to permit the onset of putrefaction. Therefore, the first and foremost rule of milk consumption is, 'Drink it alone, or leave it alone.'
Today, milk is made even more indigestible by the universal practice of pasteurization, which destroys its natural enzymes and alters its delicate proteins.
Raw milk contains the active enzymes lactase and lipase, which permit raw milk to digest itself. Pasteurized milk, which is devitalized of lactase and other active enzymes, simply can not be properly digested by adult stomachs, and even infants have trouble with it, as evidenced by colic, rashes, respiratory ailments, gas and other common ailments of bottle-fed babies. The lack of enzymes and alteration of vital proteins also renders the calcium and other mineral elements in milk largely unassailable.
During the 1930's, Dr. Francis M. Pottenger conducted a 10-year study on the relative effects of pasteurized and raw milk diets on 900 cats. One group received nothing but raw whole milk, while the other was fed nothing but pasteurized whole milk from the same source.
The raw milk group thrived, remaining healthy, active and alert throughout their lives, but the group fed on pasteurized milk soon became listless, confused and highly vulnerable to a host of chronic degenerative ailments normally associated with humans, including heart disease, kidney failure, thyroid dysfunction, respiratory ailments, loss of teeth, brittle bones, liver inflammation, etc.
But what caught Dr. Pottenger's attention most was what happened to the second and third generations.
The first offspring of the pasteurized milk group were all born with poor teeth and small, weak bones- a clear cut sign of calcium deficiency, which indicated lack of calcium absorption from pasteurized milk.
The offspring of the raw milk group remained as healthy as their parents.
Many of the kittens in third generation of the pasteurized group were stillborn, while those that survived were all sterile and unable to reproduce.
The experiment had to end there because there was no fourth generation of cats fed on pasteurized milk, although the raw milk group continued to breed and thrive indefinitely.
If that is insufficient proof of the ill effects of pasteurized milk, take note of the fact even that newborn calves fed on pasteurized milk taken from their own mother cows usually die within six months, a fact which the commercial dairy industry is loathe to admit.
Despite such scientific evidence in favor of raw milk and against pasteurized milk, and despite the fact that until the early twentieth century the human species thrived on raw milk, it is actually illegal to sell raw milk to consumers in all but a few states in America today.
It is far more profitable to the dairy industry to pasteurize milk to extend its shelf-life, though such denatured milk does nothing whatsoever to extend human life.
Furthermore, pasteurization renders milk from sick cows in unsanitary dairies relatively 'harmless' by killing some, but not all, dangerous germs, and this too cuts costs for the dairy industry.
It required only three generations for Dr. Pottenger's pasteurized milk fed cats to become sterile and enfeebled. That's about how many generations of Americans and Europeans have fed on pasteurized milk. Today, infertility has become a major problem for your American couples, while calcium deficiency has become so rampant that over 90 percent of all American children suffer chronic tooth decay.
To make things worse, milk is now routinely 'homogenized' to prevent the cream from separating from the milk. This involves the fragmentation and pulverization of the fat molecules to the point that they will not separate from the rest of the milk. But it also permits there tiny fragments of milk fat to easily pass through the villa of the small intestine, greatly increasing the amount of denatured fat and cholesterol absorbed by the body. In fact, you absorb more milk-fat from homogenized milk than you do from pure cream!
Women worried about osteoporosis should take note of these facts about pasteurized milk products. That such denatured milk does not deliver sufficient calcium to prevent this condition is abundantly evident from the fact that American women, who consume great quantities of pasteurized milk products, suffer the world's highest incidence of osteoporosis.
Raw cabbage, for example, supplies far more available calcium than any quantity of pasteurized milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, or any other denatured dairy product.
Recent studies at the Human Research Centre in Grand Folks, North Dakota, indicates that the element boron is also an essential factor in absorbing calcium from food and utilizing it to build bones.
Even more noteworthy, the level of estrogen in the blood of women given sufficient quantities of boron more than doubled, eliminating the need for estrogen replacement therapy, which is a common stopgap measure against osteoporosis in the West. And where do we find boron? In fresh fruits and vegetables, especially apples, pears, grapes, nuts, cabbage, and other leafy vegetables, where we also find calcium. Nature has already provided abundant sources of all the vital nutrients we need in synergetic form, but man insists on cooking and processing them to death, and then wonders why his diet doesn't 'work'.
Adults should seriously reconsider milk as a constitute of their daily diets, unless they are able to obtain raw certified milk, which is an excellent food.
To stuff children with pasteurized milk in order to make them grow 'strong and healthy' is sheer folly, because they simply cannot assimilate the nutrients.
Indeed men, women, and children alike should eliminate all pasteurized dairy products from their diets, for these denatured dairy products only gum up the intestines with layer upon layer of slimy sludge that interferes with the absorption of organic nutrients."
The solution: Bananas and spinach are fabulous sources of calcium. Do NOT cook either of these items. The nutrients are most helpful to you when the food is not dead food. Protein is the building block of LIFE, yes life. So food that has life is the most important to get in your diet!! Most appropriately veggies!! Green ones!!! Then fruits and spices such as cinnamon, ginger, curry, Miso, mustard and Sea salt. Great protein choices are whey protein powder (minimally processed), almonds, chestnuts, millet, tofu, mushrooms, spirulina.
Milk/dairy-free alternatives: Almond milk, almond ice cream and probiotics that would typically be found in yogurt can be found in select teas. Soy milk I would NOT recommend just based on how our culture is oversaturated with soy and not all natural soy, genetically modified (GMO)-- which means just that--reproduced by scientists in large amounts. It is said that 90% of the world's soy is GMO. Soy has natural properties that are estrogenic. I stay away from soy as often as possible. Men, you don't need alot of soy as it would interfere with your testosterone. Ladies, you don't need to overdo it either as a condition known as estrogen-dominance is steadily climbing with each bite you take of anything processed. As numerous items contain this chemical: soy lecithin. READ YOUR LABELS!! Too much of anything is a bad thing!!!
I still eat chicken, but i spice it with lots of curry to further an alkalizing effect. I don't eat grains as I feel more easily digested without them. I do sweet potatoes and alot of acorn squash, spinach, asparagus and try to drink iced tea with every meal as well as water.
To read further information on this topic visit:
http://www.detoxifynow.com/Food_diet.html (discusses how to appropriately pair your food in each meal)
Youtube:: Dr. Jewel Pookrum Dis-Ease parts 1 - 7 (very enlightening on taking your body to the next level of health)
