Zukay Live Food Beverages
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Juniper Ridge: 100% wild-harvested Incenses
I came across these incenses last week at a small little health shop in Vermont. The idea of "100% wild-harvested incenses" sounded very real. I love me some Indian incenses, but many of them have harmful perfumes in them that become toxic when burned.
Cedar was good, but White Sage was better.
Just one thing, these incenses don't really smell like traditional incenses. They smell more like a campfire than an Indian temple.
Enjoy.
Security Threat from Within: a letter from Dr. Gabriel Cousens
A public service letter by Dr. Gabriel Cousens on X-ray based airport scanners.
Security Threat from Within
"Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society" ~ Thomas Jefferson
Now that we have recovered from the swine flu vaccination threat to our health and well-being, a new threat, using another level of security scare, is being used to expose the flying population to either excessive ionizing radiation or ultra high frequency radiation. Thanks to the radical Muslim effort, or whomever is behind this, to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day 2009, TSA Security Laboratory Director Susan Hallowell recently announced the agency’s intent to use back-scatter X-ray machines for passenger surveillance.
Obviously we need to refine our screening techniques to provide maximum safety for our air travel. This is not our objection. Our objection is that these X-ray machines, being field tested at JFK, LAX, and Orlando, penetrate a few centimeters into the skin and reflect back out a naked body image. While some will view this as a personal violation, this is not the immediate problem. Thomas Wiggins, a radiation company engineer, admits that before 9/11, proposing such a system would be like ordering his own death sentence. He has changed his mind and now states that they could “scan a pregnant woman 200 times without a health risk”. This is an entirely scientifically fallacious statement.
Those implementing this near-sighted, and ultimately genocidal, agenda have deliberately ignored the outstanding research of Dr. John Gofman (Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley) showing that THERE IS NO SAFE DOSE OF IONIZED RADIATION. This statement is based on years of serious unbiased research. Ionizing radiation in the X-ray spectrum damages and mutates both chromosomal DNA and structural proteins in human cells. If this damage is not repaired, it can lead to cancer. X-rays also damage the interior walls of the arteries. These radiation damaged cells are unable to process lipoproteins correctly, resulting in atherosclerotic plaques and mini tumors in the arteries thus stimulating atherosclerosis and heart disease. Dr. Gofman’s studies indicate that radiation from medical diagnostics and treatment is a causal co-factor in 50% of America’s cancers and 60% of our ischemic (blood flow blockage) heart disease. He stresses that the frequency with which Americans are medically X-rayed “makes for a significant radiological impact.” The bottom line is that the more people are exposed to these higher doses of radiation the greater their risk of real life-threatening cancer and heart disease.
A report in the British medical journal Lancet noted that after breast mammograms were introduced in 1983, the incidence of ductal carcinoma (12% of breast cancer) increased by 328%, of which 200% was due to the use of mammography itself. A Lawrence Berkeley National Lab study has demonstrated that breast tissue is extremely susceptible to radiation-induced cancer, confirming warnings by numerous experts that mammograms can initiate the very cancers they may later identify. Dr. Gofman believes that medical radiation is a co-factor in 75% of breast cancer cases. With this information, it would not be very intelligent to expose your breasts to radiation from X-ray machines at airports. This is an explicit danger to American women. (Infrared mammography is a far safer diagnostic tool. Research shows that flesh-eating women have a higher rate of breast cancer. A plant-source only diet is the best protection against breast cancer.) We always have to analyze the risks and benefits. In this case the risks of women dying from the radiation from these machines far out-weigh the risk of death caused by a terrorist highjacking. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t improve security, but these procedures must not introduce a scientifically proven life-threatening hazard to our health. Already, because of our toxic lifestyle, America’s cancer rates are rising in every category. It is a well known fact that airline pilots and cabin crews suffer more skin and breast cancer due to higher levels of radiation while flying. Dr. Abram Petkau has uncovered significant statistical research showing that a pregnant woman flying in an airplane, in her first trimester exposes her baby to enough radiation to increase its risk of leukemia sixteen times. I, myself, have measured radiation at 30,000 feet using a radiation counter and found it to be ten times higher at this altitude than on the ground. To add additional lethal radiation to people, already getting an unhealthy dose from flying, when there are other alternatives, seems genocidal, whether conscious or unconscious.
The other source of surveillance being considered is ultra high frequency radio waves. There are scanners available that produce a frequency 1000 times higher than is healthfully advisable. Some examples of this are radar, producing a wide variety of radiations, causing cancer and neurological problems. Microwaves are also noted to cause cancer in areas in which people are exposed. Swedish research on the use of ultra sound technologies on fetuses indicate that it may cause subtle brain damage, and may be associated with delayed development in infants, as well as learning disorders.
The attempted terrorist attacks do create some concern. We do need to think about appropriate security without creating a screening system lethal to our population. Although I am sure these extremists and terrorists would support such a lethal screening system with great humor.
There are many forms of security screening that could work, in addition to effectively enforcing those systems already in place. In this particular case, the young man’s father actually went the embassy in Nigeria and warned them of his son’s intentions. In every incident there have been traceable warnings. We have had sufficient evidence. Presently billions of dollars are being spent on technology that makes us less secure, because we are screening people who are not a threat, namely the US population. When we put our energy in one direction, we move it away from another. In this situation, they are rerouting attention away from the actual threats. A variety of security consultants have specifically said that we need to focus on identifying the terrorists and their patterns instead of their tactics, which are always changing. Their suggestion is not to put money into X-ray machines that will have a genocidal effect on our population, but rather into an intensive examination of evidence, as has been put forward in each of these bombings. In this way we would have a focus on the actual problem instead of on innocent global and national populations. The security systems in Israel are the best in the world, and they utilize this approach. It is not a “profile approach”, which could be considered against the US constitution, but it is an anti-terrorist approach. Given the amount of onslaught in Israel, they seem to be doing quite well without subjecting their population to this “needle in a haystack” methodology. Using a priority system for classifying travelers and people has been executed in some countries very successfully. People have the right to request a TSA non-radiation search, which may include dogs sniffing for chemicals, as well as, in high security cases, a strip search.
I am urging you to start expressing your concern now. We must strongly protest to convince authorities that this is a dangerous, thoughtless, and genocidal approach, which will increase the risk of cancer, atherosclerosis, heart disease, and brain damage to our population. The risk/benefit analysis does not justify these measures, which are at best foolish and genocidal.
Dr. Gabriel’s medical blog suggests four points of action:
- Demand that Congress mandate TSA’s radiation experiments be strictly voluntary.
- Demand the right to request that TSA conduct a non-radiation search of our persons.
- Demand our right to abstain from security procedures that may harm our children.
- Initiate an e-mail campaign to convince TSA and the airlines that forcible assault by radiation makes the cost of an airline ticket impossibly prohibitive.
TSA’s consumer e-mail address is: TSAContactCenter@dhs.gov. It’s toll free comment line is: 1-866-289-9673.
Blessings to your health and spiritual well being,
Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Dr. Gabriel Cousens’ medical blog can be seen on gabrielcousens.com on a regular basis. gabrielcousens.com will be launched by April 1st, 2010.
Smoky “Roasted” Garlic & Red Pepper Soup
My sister and her husband just got the Montel Williams Health Master so I've been sending them all the soups that I come across. This one looks fantastic.
Smoky “Roasted” Garlic & Red Pepper Soup via G Living
Dr. Oz Turns Meat-Eating Cowboy Vegan
Very cool! Big ups to Dr Oz. And big thanks to Veronica Bosgraaf for the link.
Dr. Doris Taylor: Meditation yields largest increase in stem cell creation she's ever seen
Speaking of Faith's host, Krista Tippett, interviewed leading stem cell researcher Dr. Doris Taylor about role of stem cells in healing the body.
The following is an exchange that blew my mind:
Stem Cells, Untold Stories
Ms. Tippett: Talk to me about the experiment you did with Matthieu Ricard, who is a famous French philosopher Buddhist who's worked with the Dalai Lama.
Dr. Taylor: Right. And …
Ms. Tippett: Oh, and he's said to be the happiest man alive, I think.
Dr. Taylor: Yes. He's written a book called Happiness.
Ms. Tippett: Right.
Dr. Taylor: He's doing some studies with some people at the University of Wisconsin where …
Ms. Tippett: Oh, Richardson Davidson?
Dr. Taylor: Yes. He and a number of his colleagues meditate, and as they meditate they measure differences in their brainwaves. Right? And I basically said I would predict that those very same things that when you meditate and you have positive brainwave changes would also have an effect on your stem cells. He very graciously, and this is an N of one, let us measure cells in his blood before and after meditation. And what we found was a huge increase in the number of positive stem cells in blood. Largest increase I've ever seen after 15 minutes of meditation.
Ms. Tippett: And so that meditation kicks in your body's own regenerative reparative powers?
Dr. Taylor: It's all about endogenous repair. And I don't think I said this earlier, but you know how when your son falls down, scrapes his knees, got a red spot?
Ms. Tippett: Yeah.
Dr. Taylor: That's inflammation. Inflammation, I think, is nature's cue to say, "Send me cells."
Ms. Tippett: OK.
Dr. Taylor: "I've got an injury. Send me cells." And if you get the right cells there you turn off that inflammation and you heal. If you don't get the right cells there and you don't heal, you get more inflammation. And I think your body's saying, "Hey, I said send me cells. Will you get with it and send me cells?" And if you don't get the right cells there, you ramp up inflammation and you start getting the negative consequences of inflammation.
Ms. Tippett: OK.
Dr. Taylor: Well, we see that on our skin when we fall down and scrape our knee or when we cut our finger or something, but that's going on inside our body all the time. We have inflammation.
Ms. Tippett: Every time you eat a cheeseburger, right?
Dr. Taylor: Every time you eat a cheeseburger.
Ms. Tippett: Yeah.
Dr. Taylor: We have inflammation going on inside our blood vessels, inside our organs, inside our tissues. And I think those are nature's cues to say, "Send me cells." Well, I would also say that meditation is essentially doing that without the inflammation. It's nature's way of sending those cells to the sites where you need them in a way to turn down the negative aspects of stress. So stress in my mind is another word for inflammation. I would say inflammation is the physiologic consequence of stress.
Ms. Tippett: Which also has mental and — it's also …
Dr. Taylor: Emotional, mental, spiritual, physical.
Ms. Tippett: Inflammation. We have all that too.
Dr. Taylor: Right.
Ms. Tippett: Yeah.
Dr. Taylor: If you don't believe stress ages someone, look at a president before and after they've been in office for four years.
Wow! Amazing. You can listen to the full audio interview here.
Spirulina Salad with Courtney Pool
Two of my favorite peeps! Tim Van Orden and Courtney Pool.
Crazy Sexy Love
I want to give some major love to Crazy Sexy Life and Kris Carr. They are really killin it over there with some of the most fantastic holistic health content I've ever seen.
If you haven't been there recently, def check it out sometime.
Philip McCluskey's Rockstar Birthday Party in NYC
Hey NYC Tribe!
It's time to do things BIG again in NYC. I'm taking nice venue, dope music, tons of hotties, lots of amazing food... You know, NYC RawkStar Style!
This time we're celebrating Philip McCluskey's birthday and how far our little NYC Tribe has come in the last 2 years.
Yes... I know Philip McCluskey is a Scorpio who loves to be showered with attention and love, but shit, I say let's use that as an excuse to get together anyway!
Full details listed below, hope you can make it out.
Philip's Rockstar Birthday Party
So you want to party like a rockstar? Join us on Nov 7th and part it up in honor of Philip McCluskey's birthday!
You can purchase your ticket here.
What: VIP early club admission, DJ, dancing, free Gnosis Chocolate all night long, cash bar, and of course... good vibes and chill conscious party peeps. It's Philip's birthday party, you know how we do it!
Where: Sutra Lounge, 16 First Ave, NYC (private Chakra lounge downstairs)
When: Nov 7th, 8pm (sharp)
Investment in your sexiness: $25 for early VIP admission, chocolate, and dancing if booked before Oct 23rd, $30 after. Purchase tickets here.
$55 for early VIP admission, chocolate, and dancing... Plus a copy of Shazzie's new Ecstatic Beings book. This is $10 off the U.S. price, special for this event only.
Alicia Silverstone pimps her new book, raw foods and Café Gratitude
How awesome is it that the host has been to Café Gratitude?
Maybe next time the crew rolls through we'll run into to Ms. Silverstone!
p.s. The whole segment is vegan, but not raw but now raw, but who cares!
How Safe Is Your Drinking Water?
NPR's Terry Gross interviews journalist Charles Duhigg on the status of American drinking water and how "one in 10 Americans have been exposed to drinking water that contains dangerous chemicals, parasites, bacteria or viruses, or fails to meet federal health standards."
Listen to the full interview here:
Duhigg reports on the "worsening pollution in American waters" — and regulators' responses to the problem — in his New York Times series, "Toxic Waters." In researching the series, he studied thousands of water pollution records, which he obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.
The Botany of Desire: PBS Documentary
PBS will be airing a two-hour-long documentary based on Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire, (via Kottke.org).
Selling Sickness: How Drug Ads Changed Health Care
A fantastic story by NPR about the rise in prescription drug use and its relationship to advertising:
Selling Sickness: How Drug Ads Changed Health Care
Prescription drug spending is the third most expensive cost in our health care system. And spending seems to grow larger every year. Just last year, the average American got 12 prescriptions a year, as compared to 1992, when Americans got an average of seven prescriptions. In a decade and a half, the use of prescription medication went up 58 percent. This has added about $180 billion to our medical spending.While there are more medicines on the market today than in 1992, researchers estimate that around 20 percent of the $180 billion increase has absolutely nothing to do with the number of medications available, or increases in the cost of that medication.
Why the increase in spending? Advertising! But why the spike in advertising during the 90's?
In the early 1980s, FDA regulations required that drug ads include both the name of a drug and its purpose, as well as information about all the side effects. But side-effect information often took two or three magazine pages of mouse print to catalog, and this wouldn't do for a major television campaign.
Flash forward to today...
Today, drug companies spend $4 billion a year on ads to consumers. In 1997, the FDA rules governing pharmaceutical advertising changed, and now companies can name both the drug and what it's for, while only naming the most significant potential side effects. Then, the number of ads really exploded. The Nielsen Company estimates that there's an average of 80 drug ads every hour of every day on American television. And those ads clearly produce results:
Quite fascinating. Read (or listen to) the full article here.
