Lizzy likes to travel, so she heads for China, behind the red wall, to magical Leshan to see the Giant Buddha in Sichuan Province. The size of the caves before arriving are boggling. China is enormous and very advanced, which we rarely here about by a critical U.S. media, although a quarter of its land was stolen from Tibet, which it now claims with an eye on Taiwan. Certainly, the Chinese government does much harm, but are there no upsides to its culture and creativity? Could Westerners so love the Chinese that they might even adopt one and give her everything?
It can't just be our ears. This song and aesthetic are so very reminiscent of what? Remember a hit ("Unholy") for transgender Kim Petras and her chubby co-singer, what's his name, Jam Jiff? It's also so very Charli XCX. What a rip, Tate. (Tate's previous hit, "Greedy," is great but too sexy a striptease video for us to have posted; of course, in light of what Olivia, SZA, Megan, Taylor, Chapel, Katy, Bey, and others have to do to get noticed, it's brutal out there). See McRae on tour (tatemcrae.com), where she's "Miss Progressive," an insult to political liberals who are more forward thinking than all the regressive forces arrayed against us. Her new smash hit follow-up album release drops at midnight and can be heard for a first listen on KISS (102.7 KIIS-FM Los Angeles | iHeart).
Heal the body, lose excess weight, and get free from toxic food with this simple guide focusing on sustainable food that has "depth, spirit, and [a] breadth of information."
- Rip Esselstyn (New York Times bestselling author)
The 31-Day Food Revolution is a guide to liberation from a toxic food world. Ocean Robbins reveals the secrets the industrialized food industry doesn't want us to know: Specific ingredients and cooking methods could be making us sick -- and what we can do about it.
Hippies named me Ocean
Robbins shows us how -- in just 31 days -- we can use the amazing power of delicious food to heal our gut, lose excess weight, and lower our risk of disease, all while contributing to a healthier planet.
Robbins' plan includes 31 simple and affordable step-by-step actions that give a road map to healthy, ethical, and sustainable food. He breaks it down into four parts:
Detoxify: Get rid of the unhealthy foods and environmental factors making you sick.
Nourish: Fuel your body with the healthy micronutrients you need to thrive.
Gather: Build your community and surround yourself with supportive, positive people.
Transform: Be part of the solution.
Family: Michele, John Robbins, Ocean Robbins, Deo, Bodhi River (oceanrobbins.com)
It's a lot easier to change the world than we imagine!
Discover amazing secrets, such as how to stop food cravings, why [raw, soaked, dried] nuts are one of the best snack foods, time-saving habits, and how to spot dangerous ingredients hiding in food labels.
In his nonjudgmental and down-to-earth way, Ocean Robbins meets us wherever we are on our personal journey with food.
He then provides us with tools that make it easy to eat less sugar, processed foods, and unhealthy animal products -- and to happily enjoy whole plant foods, and more fair trade, local, organic, and otherwise consciously sourced fare.
They were going to call me Kale, so I got lucky
Robbins helps us make small improvements that lead to big results. If we want to feel better, enjoy our food more, and help sustain the planet, start reading this book today.
In just 31 days, if we change our health for the better, our body will thank us for the rest of our life. More
Everything you thought you knew about protein is wrong | Stanford Prof. Christopher Gardner
(ZOE) April 17, 2023: ZOE Science & Nutrition Podcast
Proteins, carbs, and fats…most people understand what the last two are. Carbs are sugars, and [saturated] fat is fat [fatty acids].
It's protein that’s important to our diets, but often misunderstood — by the general public, that is.
Since the 1950s and 1960s, scientists have been measuring:
how protein affects our performance,
how it supports and maintains the body’s structure, and
how best to incorporate it into our diets.
From big slabs of slaughtered flesh to plant-based protein shakes, tofu to amino acid supplements, nuts to lentils, protein is more available now than ever before.
With so many options, surely we’re getting enough protein?
In today’s episode, host Jonathan speaks with a leading nutritional researcher to find out.
Dr. Christopher Gardner is a professor at Stanford University and a member of ZOE’s scientific advisory board. He’s pioneering the movement to redefine how we understand the quality of our protein intake.
Creative genius cartoonist Dan Pirarro draws comics at bizarro.com
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - Quickfire questions
03:13 - What is protein?
07:29 - Can our bodies make the proteins we need?
08:00 - The mechanism for our bodies creating amino acids.
09:00 - What is an essential amino acid?
10:35 - Crazy study Stanford scientists did to find the Estimated Average Requirement of protein.
15:28 - How much protein should we consume?
18:29 - How much protein do we already consume?
23:39 - Can our bodies store protein?
24:41 - What happens to excess protein in our bodies?
25:39 - Protein Scam Alert!
26:16 - Stanford Study: Does the type of protein we consume affect physical performance?
29:21 - Protein requirements for kids and pregnant women.
32:21 - What is Amino Acid Distribution?
34:27 - Are plants missing certain amino acids?
35:12 - How is AAD like the game of Scrabble?
39:35 - What is the healthiest source of protein?
39:46 - Dr. Gardner’s case for changing the way we define “protein quality” in the US
42:52 - Jonathan’s summary
45:25 - Goodbye’s
46:13 - Outro
If we want to uncover the right foods for our body, head to joinzoe.com/podcast and get 10% off personalized nutrition program.
Studies mentioned in this episode.
Maximizing the intersection of human health and the health of the environment with regard to the amount and type of protein produced and consumed in the United States: academic.oup.com/nutrition...
Follow ZOE on Instagram: instagram.com/zoe. This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions.
CONCLUSION
Love animals: Let them live. Cows are cute.
Kidney damage from too much protein (with daily excess turned into acidic ammonia excreted in urine and sweat, with accumulation of unskillful karma, hormones, pesticides, chemicals, animal wastes like urine, fecal contamination, and toxic foods fed to cows to fatten them quickly, which fattens humans even more quickly.
We all get more than enough protein. This is not the third world. The fear of "protein deprivation" is doing everyone harm -- making us acidic and unhealthy.
Vegans and vegetarians get more than enough, and no one needs to worry about it. Eat a varied vegan diet, and you'll be fine. "Eat beans not beings." And omnivorous professor told you so.
Food combining for the best digestion is much more important than food complementing to get all of the amino acids in a day (as from complementing beans and rice). The latter is not necessary to do, because they cannot be well digested together. Eat them separately (by two or more hours).
If eaten within 24 hours of each other, the body will get ALL of the essential amino acids in sufficient quantity for optimum health without stress or worry. And tummies will be much happier due to the improved digestion (no bloating, no gas, no queasy feeling of overeating).
The Buddha was very clear on this point. There's a defect in our unenlightened mind, numerous defects to straighten out, but one in particular is attachment to rites and rituals as if they could awaken us. For example, we may think bowing in front of a particular statue, or fasting, or eating a particular food, or abstaining from a particular thing will do the trick. It won't (as it won't get to the root of why we're swimming in passion, aversion, fear, and delusion). What does get at the root? This Ennobling Eightfold Path, because "noble" (arya) means enlightened.
It's the Way, the Path, and in particular there are 37 Requisites of Enlightenment and Seven Factors of Enlightenment to focus on. But that not to say that we can't purify our bodies by pure diet and fasting, exercise (like yoga or breathwork), and mellowing the mind and emotions by thinking differently or relaxing. It's just that these mundane things should never be confused with what is path and not-path.
I'd like a clean liver, a clean conscience, a clean colon, clear skin, and a flexible back. Is it possible? Yes. Let's start with the liver.
Drinking celery juice in the morning for one year changed my life
(Mary Allyson) As someone who's been drinking celery juice for the long-term (not just 7-30 days like everyone else), I want to share my celery juice experience. I drank celery juice in the morning for an entire year, and I actually still drink it! I don't drink it as often as I used to, but it's definitely still part of my routine because it helped me with my acid reflux problems, which is just one of the amazing celery juice benefits I found. All in all, I've had a very positive experience with celery juice and would recommend trying it.
Imagine it: odor-control for the WHOLE body (underarm, feet, crotch, bum) for 15¢ a day. It's the world’s best natural deodorant. [FREE TIP from WQ: Need something cheaper that works like magic? Try a pinch of aluminum-free baking soda under the arm. It's as easy as that not to reek of B.O. Then drink chlorophyll and Vitamin C for an internal cleansing and naturally fresh breath from the inside out.]
Now in convenient cream and underarm stick
Live elegantly with Lume. It's aluminum-free, so it doesn’t trap toxins in your pores and skin like common antiperspirants. (Read the label of your product and that hunk of Alum crystal). Stop the stink for 72 hours straight. Lume was invented by an OB-GYN. It's naturally derived and skin safe, free of synthetics and safe for any external use. More
Prince talks about chemtrails with interviewer Tavis Smiley in 2011 about Dick Gregory's comments on the poisoning of malt liquor with lead and manganese and the skies [with nano-aluminum, blood cells, and barium]. A town in Australia has a murder rate 200 times its population because of manganese poisoning. But these substances are being used on purpose on our black, Native, and white populations. There were 8 presidents before George Washington?
In 2008 music execs asked Homer to murder Prince for not obeying them (The Simpsons).
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April 22 is "Earth Day," celebrated around the world to remember the planet, Bhumi or Gaia or Tierra, our Mother Earth, Nature Goddess with its complex ecosystem earthlings (humans) are ruining to the detriment of all earthlings.
Today is a great day to go vegan, the single most significant an individual can do to improve health and the planet, to reduce water waste and world starvation. No movement is necessary because it's a personal choice, an action (karma) motivated by compassion for animals and other humans and oneself and wisdom.
(Dr. Russell Blaylock) What are chemtrails (aerosol spraying) doing to our brains? Neurosurgeon Dr. Blaylock, MD explains. Some nutrients can counteract harm (Min. 40). More
They (the ones who do things, i.e., the powers that be) have been spraying chemtrails (aerosol toxins that modify the weather to either increase or prevent rainfall because the drought is not an entirely natural phenomenon this time around). Whenever rain is forecast because of a weather front in the distance, the planes go up and crisscross the sky. Are they after rain in a drought, or are they causing the drought in the south by shunting moisture north with particulate matter that causes flooding elsewhere?
What makes Prince so famous? Purple Rain. Super Bowl XLI halftime show
Sometimes they start at the beaches and get blown inland. Today they were being sprayed over the San Gabriel mountains from the Inland Empire to the Pasadena foothills. It was clear blue skies with an occasional tuft of chemtrail haze.
But that haze finally grew until it was overcast with clouds high over the mountains. Interestingly, Prince knew something about that. Celebrities have more access than ordinary worldlings not working for the military-industrial complex, government, spy agencies, or select civilian corporations.
Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, et al. play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans hit the streets to protest the environmental effects of more than 100 years of uncontrolled fossil-fueled industrial development in the US. It was the first Earth Day.
What was intended to be a college campus teach-in soon spread to every community and city across the United States. It was and remains the single largest secular event in history.
The sheer size of the protest -- along with increasing visual evidence of dire health threats associated with air and toxic pollution -- soon forced Congress to pass some of the world’s toughest environmental laws, most of which include community right-to-know provisions and allow citizens to sue their government if it fails to enforce the law.
Solar plane coasts over Pacific Ocean over the mainland of western US (AP PHOTOS)
Solar plane readies to land in California by Earth Day after 3-day flight A solar-powered airplane on a journey around the world was preparing to land in California on Saturday night to complete a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean. The Solar Impulse 2 was flying in a holding pattern off the San Francisco coast on 70 percent of stored energy while waiting for winds to decrease for landing at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View.
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Citizens’ rights have been enshrined in every major environmental law from that point on. These laws spawned others around the world -- many more stringent than those in the US -- and most recognize the role of citizens in the enforcement of environmental laws.
Nearly 50 years later, Earth Day remains a day of reckoning, and now more than one billion people take action each year in almost every country on Earth. Some protest, many clean up their communities and plant trees, and millions more have their first exposure to environmentalism through educational programs at schools and universities.
Governments large and small make commitments and meet with their constituents, while corporations make pledges to be more sustainable and responsible for the pollution they create.
It is fitting, then, that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chose Earth Day (April 22) for world leaders to sign the historic Paris climate agreement at UN headquarters in New York. At least 150 world leaders are expected to sign, making it the largest single signing of an international agreement in world history -- another Earth Day first.
And it’s happening not a moment too soon. On every front, global warming is becoming more immediate, more threatening and more irreversible, while scientific consensus and data on the health effects of climate change -- particularly on the poor -- mount. More
Amber Dorrian and CC Liu (edited by Kalyani and Seven), Wisdom Quarterly
A cleansing program? There are less expensive and healthier alternatives but they are not as convenient as a program (Dr. Gray via cellularwellfare.com). Women need oxytocin, men need testosterone, women need more serotonin, men need more dopamine. Then everyone can be happier and healthier, better able to meditate and enjoy this life.
Dr. John Gray wants us to have cleaner bodies, better partners and relationships, and more sex.
"Health is wealth." Plant-food is medicine. And when our food is our medicine, we don't need medicine.
We certainly are more harmed than helped by pharmaceuticals. Fasting can remove the toxic residues we take in from daily living in a toxic world.
The best cleanse? They come in many forms. The "best" for one person or one time may not be suitable for another person or even the same person on a different occasion.
H2O - Water fasting is fantastic and simple. Stop eating. Start drinking a gallon of distilled water (with a level teaspoon of Himalayan pink salt) throughout the day.
Even one day of resting the internal organs is helpful. But if one continues to three days, the body will begin to cleanse. This could lead to a confusing healing crisis -- such as a rash or fluctuations in vital signs even dizziness or bad breath or a coating on the tongue. Poisons are moving out.
JUICE - Another good type of fasting-cleanse is to begin with a purgative (herbs to cause the bowels to move so that the digestive system is empty from the start, which is like adding one or more days to a fast) is just to drink fresh juices.
FRUIT - Yet another is to take only fresh fruits, preferably in season and organic, for as long as one can keep it up. (Avoid overly sweet Frankenfoods like our modern supermarket bananas, strawberries, grapes, oranges, and apples. These may be America's favorites, but they are also the most boring, flavorless, hybridized and tampered with fruits). Try the unfamiliar instead.
SOUP - Taking only the broth of soups can also be called "fasting" -- never canned, salted, containing body parts, or MSG, which hides in many forms food corporations call "spices," "yeast extract," "extractives," and other deceptive terms for excitotoxic flavorants. Make your own soup from fresh green leaves, and colorful vegetables, sea salt or rock salt (aluminum-free). Flavor with miso paste, tamari, seaweeds, roots, leaves, or chiles.
RAW - Eating only raw fruits and vegetables, separate since they are digested very differently, is also a gentle way to cleanse and is a much better way to start. The longer it has been since one fasted, the more gunked up the system is likely to be. And it will take some doing on the part of the body, and rest and faith that the body knows what it is doing on the part of the mind and spirit (breath).
VEG - Finally, eating only pure vegetarian foods can also be stretched to mean "fasting." If one is normally eating animal byproducts (dairy, guts, gore, flesh, slime, and things with urine and blood residue generally called gravy or au jus), this will certainly allow the body to cleanse very gently. Paradoxically the MORE whole, raw, in season, unprocessed foods one consumes, the more one will fast and cleanse. Eating this way all the time is the secret to youth and vitality so long as flax is avoided, which will be difficult because it is like eggs to raw foodists and vegans who use it to hold everything together when chia works so much better and is so much more nutritional avoiding the harm of fatty acid imbalance by a preponderance of Omega 6 which throws the body off. (Hint: avoid flax).
AIR - The best fast, which some say is the only true fasting, avoids everything but fresh air ("spirit," prana, chi, spiritus, which form the basis of "spirituality") and solar waves (manna from space). This may work for breatharians and bhumi-devas, but it is not recommended. (Yogis and monks taught St. Issa, Rabbi Jesus in India, to fast for a reason).
We need clean (non-tap) water, and we need more of it when cleansing to flush out the toxins. Dehydration is the enemy of health, and even junk food wouldn't be so harmful if we took in more water, at least a gallon a day spaced out in small amounts.
See your doctor before starting any new diet, fast, exercise regimen, or lifestyle. Fasting and cleansing are times of rest not activity and exercise. Take a steam. Take a walk. Get lots of fresh air, go barefoot, be in nature. Meditate so the mind/heart can cleanse, too.
Why fast?
Even one day of abstaining from food makes us realize how we USE food, not for nutrition or sustenance, but for comfort, boredom, neuroses, socializing, and a myriad of other things that have nothing to do with being healthy or staying alive. We shorten our lives the way we eat.
Stay. Live and live well! Cleanse internally. Just as you would not go a week without cleansing externally, why do we not fast even one day a week? Meatless Mondays are a start. How about a cleaning Sunday? It seems religious observance must have included a fasting day in the West. Weekly fasting days It certainly did in the Buddhist East. One translation of the Lunar Observance Day (Uposattha, on the full, new, and quarter moondays) is the "fasting day." Buddhist monastics fast after noon every day, and they live very long for doing so.
Modern Mahayana monks and nuns, perhaps due to living in a colder climate far from India, gave up this rule instituted by the historical Buddha. But it is still observed in all climates by Theravada monastics.
The Lunar Observance Day was around long before the historical Buddha. Vedic adherents, many following in the tradition of brahmin priests and seers (rishis), fasted according to a calender that would seem inconvenient and complex to our food based culture in the US today.
But the Moon is useful in leaving off food. In Christian Ethiopia, Christians fast for 40 days every Lent. But "fasting" has been redefined as eating vegetarian food. Many Mahayana Buddhists are at least vegetarians, so they may be keeping the monastic precept after all if they steer away from contaminating themselves with meat.
Not as much could probably be said for Vajrayana. Ladakhi, Tibetan, Sikkimese, Nepalese, and Bhutanese practitioners are very influenced by Hinduism today and their own witchcraft-shamanism-black magic-tantra (Bon and other pre-Buddhist animistic wizardry traditions).
A spring cleanse is rejuvenating. And it should always be remembered that the word "vegetarian" has NOTHING to do with the word "VEGETABLE." The term stems from the Latin root vegetus, "vigorous," "growing," "vitality." A vegetarian is "one who aims at vigor."
This vitality and life force is found in fresh, living plant foods even the Bible once advocated, until someone came around and mistranslated the word "food" as "meat." When "meat" is met with in the Bible, the word is food.
As the proto-Judeo-Christian world grew more brutal, no doubt some titans (asuras), cretins (nagas, reptilians or simply large creatures), "demons," ogres, or giants encouraged slaughter and cruel consumption of other creatures.
And before long slaughter laws (kosher and halal) were instituted. Christians today laugh at all the trouble observant Jews go through to follow the same God's injunctions. Yet, the legend lives on of a more peaceful paradise on Earth where vegetarianism was the norm just as it was in a Buddhist version of Genesis (see the Agganna Sutra, DN 27).
For then [the tribal] God said: We "give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food (Genesis 1:29, NIV). To see the word food mistranslated as "meat," see the King James Version because since when did seed-bearing plants and trees start yielding up dead animals?
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