JAPAN'S WAR #14

JAPAN'S  WAR  #14

1945  -  JULY  -  POTSDAM:  A  VILLA  IN  THE  SUBERB  OF  BERLIN;  THE  ALLIE  LEADERS  MEET  TO  DISCUSS  HOW  TO  END  THE  WAR  IN  THE  PACIFIC.  THEY  OFFER  JAPAN  A  CHOICE:  EITHER  UNCONDITIONAL  SURRENDER  OR  UTTER  DESTRUCTION.

11  DAYS  LATER  WITH  NO  ANSWER  FROM  THE  JAPANESE  THE  AMERICANS  DROP  ATOM  BOMBS  ON  HIROSHIMA  AND  NAGASAKI.

10  YEAR  OLD  MAGI:  "THERE  WAS  A  TERRIFIC  GUST  OF  WIND  AND  A NOISE  LIKE  THUNDER.  THE  BIGGEST  THING  THAT  EVER  WAS,  UGLY  AND  BEAUTIFUL.  THIS  WAS  LIKE  A  PILLAR  OF  FIRE;  I  THOUGHT  AN  AIRPLANE  HAD  CRASHED  INTO  THE  SUN."

NAGASAKI

ON  THE  DAY  BEFORE  THE  BOMB,  DOCTOR  NAGI  SAID  GOODBYE  TO  HIS  WIFE  AND  WENT  TO  WORK  AS  USUAL:  "THREE  DAYS  LATER  I  MANAGED  TO  RETURN  HOME.  I  FOUND  HER  AT  ONCE,  A  BLACK  LUMP  IN  THE  REMAINS  OF  THE  KITCHEN,  JUST  HER  PELVIS  AND  OTHER  BONES,  SCORCHED  BY  THE  FIRE.  SHE  WAS  STILL  WARM.  I  PICK  UP  MY  WIFE  AND  PUT  HER  IN  A  BUCKET  AND  I  CARRIED  HER  TO  THE  CEMETERY."

OVER  200,000  PEOPLE  HAVE  BEEN  KILLED  INSTANTLY,  MANY  THOUSANDS  MORE  WILL  DIE  IN  THE  MONTHS  AND  YEARS  TO  COME.

A  16  YEAR  OLD  WRITES  IN  HIS  DIARY:  "WAS  THE  ARMY  COMPLETELY  UNAWARE  THAT  THE  ENEMY  HAD  A  WEAPON  LIKE  THIS?  IT  WAS  STUPID  TO  HOPE  THAT  WE  COULD  POSSIBLY  WIN  THIS WAR  WITH  BAMBOO  SPEARS.  OUR  WILL  TO  FIGHT  IS  MELTING  AWAY."

SIX  DAYS  AFTER  THE  BOMBING  OF  NAGASAKI  THERE  IS  A  SPECIAL  ANNOUNCEMENT  ON  THE  RADIO.  JAPAN'S  DIVINE  RULER  EMPEROR  HIROHETO  WILL  SPEAK  TO  HIS  PEOPLE.

"TO  OUR  GOOD  AND  LOYAL  SUBJECTS.  AFTER  PONDERING  DEEPLY  WE  HAVE  DECIDED  TO  EFFECT  A  SETTLEMENT  BY  EXHORTING  TO  AN  EXTRA-ORDINARY  MEASURE."

FOR  THE  FIRST  TIME  THE  JAPANESE  PEOPLE  HERE  THE  VOICE  OF  THEIR  LIVING  GOD,  WITHOUT  ONCE  MENTIONING  THE  WORD  "SURRENDER"  -  HE  ANNOUNCES  THE  END  OF  THE  WAR:  "IF  WE  CONTINUE  TO  FIGHT  IT  WILL  NOT  ONLY  RESULT  IN  THE  ULTIMATE  OBLITERATION  OF  THE  JAPANESE  NATION,  BUT  IT  WOULD  ALSO  LEAD  TO  THE  TOTAL  EXTINCTION  OF  THE  HUMAN  CIVILIZATION.  SO  WE  HAD  DECIDED  TO  PAVE  THE  WAY  FOR  A  GRAND  PEACE,  BY  ENDURING  THE  UN-ENDURABLE."

THE  BOY  MAKIMOTO:  "AFTER  WE  HAD  LISTENED  TO  THE  EMPEROR,  NO  ONE  SPOKE  ABOUT  THE  ENDING  OF  THE  WAR.  EVERYONE  IS  HEART-BROKEN,  WORN  OUT.  YES,  THERE  IS  RELIEF  IN  KNOWING  WE  WOULD  HAVE  NO  MORE  BOMBS;  BUT  WHAT  WAS  LEFT  FOR  US?  FAMILIES  WITHOUT  HOMES,  CHILDREN  WITHOUT  PARENTS.  WHAT  WOULD  HAPPEN  TO  OUR  BELOVED  COUNTRY,  CONQUERED  NOW  BY  WHITE  MEN  FROM  THE  WEST?"
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JAPAN'S WAR #13

FROM  BASES  ON  THE  NEWLY  CAPTURED  ISLANDS,  THE  AMERICANS  BEGUN  A  NEW  OFFENSIVE  -  THE  FIRE-BOMBING  OF  JAPAN'S  CITIES.

HASHIMOTO  IS  AN  AIR-RAID  WARDEN  IN  TOKYO:  "THE  FIRES  BURSTING  OUT  FROM  THE  BOMBS  SPREAD  LIKE  A  MAGIC  CARPET.  IN  FRONT  OF  MY  EYES  WAS  A  REAL  SCENE  OF  HELL.  ON  BOTH  SIDES  OF  THE  ROAD  THERE  WERE  PEOPLE  ON  FIRE;  IT  WASN'T  POSSIBLE  TO  TELL  IF  THEY  WERE  MEN  OR  WOMEN."

THE  LADY  MISCO-SYTO: "WE  WERE  SURROUNDED  BY  A  SEA  OF  FIRE;  I  RAN  WITH  MY  3  CHILDREN  AND  JUMPED  INTO  THE  RIVER.  THERE  WAS  CREAMING,  I  SHOUTED, 'PLEASE  GOD  LET  MY  FAMILY  BE  KILLED  IN  ONE  GO.'"

IN  JUST  ONE  RAID  ON  TOKYO  ALONE  MORE  THAN  100,000  PEOPLE  ARE  BURNT  TO  DEATH.

THE  AMERICANS  HAVE  COMPLETE  MASTERY  OF  THE  AIR  OVER  JAPAN.

THE  OLDER  AND  SLOWER  PLANES  OF  THE  JAPANESE  AIR-FORCE  ARE  NO  MATCH  FOR  THE  AMERICAN  FIGHTERS.

WITH  ITS  SHIPPING  LANES  LEFT  UNPROTECTED,  AND  VITAL  SUPPLIES OF  FUEL  CUT  OFF,  THE  JAPANESE  WAR  MACHINE  IS  ALMOST  HELPLESS  TO  RESIST.

A  LADY  ON  A  TRAIN  ON  HER  WAY  HOME:  "THE  SOUND  OF  A  PLANE MADE  ALL  THE  PASSENGERS  SCREAM  WITH  FEAR,  IT  WAS  LIKE  A  WILD  ANIMAL  ATTACKING  ITS  PREY.  ONE  AFTER ANOTHER  PEOPLE  WERE  GETTING  HIT,  I  COULD  FEEL  THE  HEAT  OF  THE  BULLETS  AS  THEY  SHOT  PASSED  MY  FACE.  ONE  WOMEN  WAS  KILLED  RIGHT  IN  FRONT  OF  ME.  DEAD  BODIES  AND  BITS  OF  FLESH  AND  BONE  WERE  ALL  AROUND  ME."

THE  JAPANESE  ARE  UNDER  SEIGE;  USA  SUBMARINES  ROAM  AT  WILL, PICKING  OFF  JAPANESE  MERCHANT  FLEET  SHIPS  ONE  BY  ONE.

WITH  ALMOST  NO  FOOD  SUPPLIES  GETTING  THROUGH,  THE  JAPANESE  PEOPLE  ARE  BEGINNING  TO  STARVE.

KOMASO:  "DESPITE  GOVERNMENT  CENSORSHIP  EVERYONE  IS  AWARE  THE  AMERICANS  HAVE  THE  MEANS  OF  WINNING  THE  WAR.  WE  HAVE  HARDLY  ANY  SHIPS  LEFT  BY  NOW.  WINSTON  CHURCHILL  SAID  WE  WILL  HAVE  TO  SURVIVE  BY  EATING  SAND.  ONLY  NOW  DO  WE  REALIZE  WHAT  A  FORMIDABLE  ENEMY  WE  ARE  FIGHTING."

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REMEMBER  NOW  AS  I  WRITE  DOWN  THESE  WORDS  FROM  THE  DVD,  I  AM  LOOKING  AT  REAL  LIFE  COLOR  FILM  OF  THE  ACTUAL EVENTS  AS  THEY  HAPPENED,  CAUGHT  ON  CAMERA.

IT  IS  ALL  VERY  VERY  DISTURBING,  THE  DESOLATION,  THE  DEATHS,  THE  STARVING  PEOPLE,  THE  CITY  OF  TOKYO  WITH  ONLY  A  FEW  BURNT  OUT  BUILDINGS  LEFT  STANDING  -  DESOLATION  FOR  MILES.  

WARS  ARE  HORRIBLE,  DISGUSTING,  REVOLTING,  SICKENING,  VILE, NAUSEATING,  DETESTABLE,  RANK,  HORRID,  ODIOUS,  ATROCIOUS,  GHASTLY,  DESPICABLE,  AND  WHATEVER  OTHER  WORDS  YOUR  "WORD  FINDER"  BOOK  GIVES  YOU.

SATAN  THE  DEVIL  AND  HIS  CLONES  THE  DEMONS  LOVE  TO  SEE  HUMANS  KILLING  EACH  OTHER  IN  THE  MOST  HORRIBLE  WAYS.  THE  SATANIC  WORLD   WILL  USE  EVERY  AND  ANY  MEANS  TO  DECEIVE  PEOPLE  INTO  BELIEVING  THE  KILLING  IN  WARS  IS  THE  ONLY  WAY  TO  GET  WHAT  THEY  WANT,  OR  TO  KEEP  WHAT  THEY  THINK  THEY  HAVE,  THE  VANITY  OF  POWER,  AND  ALL  THAT  GOES WITH  IT.  BOTH  SIDES  USUALLY  END  UP  KILLING  INDISCRIMINATELY,  WHICH  EFFECTS  THE  INNOCENT  CIVILIANS  - MEN,  WOMEN,  AND  CHILDREN.  WE  SEE  THAT  RIGHT  NOW  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR  IN  SYRIA.

IT  IS  HARD  TO  WATCH  THIS  DVD  ON  "JAPAN'S  WAR"  -  THE  VANITY  OF  WANTING  TO  RULE  MOST  OF  THE  EASTERN  WORLD,  COUPLED  WITH  THE  DECEPTIVE  MENTALITY  THAT  THEY  HAD  NEVER  LOST  A  WAR  SINCE  BEING  FOUNDED  2,600  EARLIER,  LED  JAPAN  INTO  A  WAR  THAT  BROUGHT  HORRIFIC  KILLING  ON  BOTH  SIDES,  AND  A  WAR  THAT  JAPAN  COULD  NEVER  WIN  AGAINST  THE  GIANT  THAT  WAS  THE  USA  AND  BRITAIN.

HOW  WE  LONG  FOR  GOD'S  KINGDOM  TO  COME  TO  EARTH,  WHEN  IT  IS  WRITTEN,  NATIONS  WILL  LEARN  WAR  NO  MORE. 

JAPAN'S WAR #12

RADIO  TOKYO  HAS  BEGUN  A  PROPAGANDA  BROADCAST  IN  ENGLISH, AIMED  AT  THE  AMERICAN  TROOPS.

20,000  OKINAWANS  ARE  CONSCRIPTED  TO  FIGHT  IN  THE  JAPANESE  ARMY.

16  YEAR  OLD  SCHOOLGIRL  IS  MADE  A  NURSE  IN  AN  UNDERGROUND  HOSPITAL:  "WOUNDED  SOLDIERS  ARE  BEING  CARRIED  IN,  IN  LARGE  NUMBERS;  SOME  DON'T  HAVE  LIMBS,  SOME  DON'T  HAVE  FACES;  YOUNG  MEN  IN  THEIR  20s  AND  30s  AND  SCREAMING  LIKE  BABIES,  THOUSANDS  OF  THEM."

THE  OVER-WHELMING  POWER  OF  THE  AMERICANS  BEGINS  TO  FORCE ITS  WAY  THROUGH  THE  JAPANESE  DEFENSES.

THEN  ON  MAY  8TH  1945  THE  NEWS  IS  ANNOUNCED  THAT  GERMANY  HAS  SURRENDERED  TO  THE  ALLIES.

JAPANESE  RANKING  OFFICER:  "WE  NOW  REALIZE  WE  ARE  DOOMED.  IT  IS  NONSENSE  TO  CONTINUE  THE  WAR,  AFTER  OUR  ONLY  REAL  ALLIE  HAS  COLLAPSED.  OUR  LEADERS  GOT  US  INVOLVED  IN  THIS  WAR  TO  RESERVE  THEIR  OWN  POWER.  WHO  CANNOT  NOW  DISPARE  KNOWING  THAT  OUR  SOLDIERS  ARE  DYING  FOR  THE  SAKE  OF  SUCH  PEOPLE."

FOR  THE  FIRST  TIME  IN  THE  WAR  THOUSANDS  OF  JAPANESE  SOLDIERS  SURRENDER.

AS  THE  AMERICANS  ELIMINATE  THE  LAST  POCKETS  OF  RESISTANCE, THOUSANDS  OF  CIVILIANS  WHO  HAVE  BEEN  FORCED  TO  SHELTER  IN CAVES  ARE  TRAPPED  IN  AN  INFERNO  OF  EXPLOSIVES  AND  NAP-BOMBS.  WHEN  THE  SURVIVORS  EMERGE  THEY  ARE  TERRIFIED,  STARVING,  AND  CLOSE  TO  DEATH.

KIKI KOMIAVI  IS  ONE  OF  THE  LAST  TO  COME  OUT:  "THERE  WAS  A  RAIN  OF  BULLETS.  THE  AMERICANS  MUST  HAVE  THOUGHT  WE  WERE WITH  THE  SOLDIERS.  THREE  OF  MY  FAMILY  WERE  KILLED  INSTANTLY,  THEIR  BODIES  FELL  ON  TOP  OF  ME;  THEN  THE  FIRING  STOPPED.  THE  AMERICANS  MUST  HAVE  NOTICED  THEY  WERE  SHOOTING  GIRLS.  MY  10  CLASS-MATES  WERE  ALL  DEAD.  I  WILL  NEVER  FORGET."

OVER  20,000  AMERICANS  AND  MORE  THAN  200,000  JAPANESE  HAVE  BEEN  KILLED,  INCLUDING  A  QUARTER  OF  THE  ISLAND'S  POPULATION.

IT  IS  THE  BLOODIEST  BATTLE  OF  THE  PACIFIC  WAR.

THE  ONLY  TARGET  LEFT  IS  JAPAN  ITSELF.
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TO PREVENT.....Alzheimer's Disease

How to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease—A Neurologist Speaks Out

September 29, 2013 |

By Dr. Mercola

Alzheimer's disease is at epidemic proportions, with 5.4 million Americans—including one in eight people aged 65 and over—living with the disease.¹ In the next 20 years, it is projected that Alzheimer's will affect one in four Americans, rivaling the current prevalence of obesity and diabetes.

There is still no known accepted cure for this devastating disease, and no effective treatments. Alzheimer's drugs are often of little to no benefit at all, which underscores the importance of prevention throughout your lifetime.

Fortunately, Alzheimer’s prevention is actually easier than you might think. There’s exceptionally compelling research showing that your brain has great plasticity, which you control through your diet and lifestyle choices.

Here, Dr. David Perlmutter—probably the leading natural medicine neurologist in the US, from my perspective—shares his insights into this pervasive problem. I don’t know anyone who exceeds his level of expertise in traditional neurology and still shares the same philosophical orientation that I have.

He has a clinic in Naples, Florida, and he’s been very active in publishing his findings in peer-reviewed medical journals. He’s also a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, as am I.

“I have a very strong background in traditional neurology,” Dr. Perlmutter says. “As a neurologist for many years, I became more and more frustrated with our lack of ability to actually treat diseases. We were really only treating symptoms.

When I finally began to understand what the proximate cause of the various illnesses we were dealing with was, I realized that mainstream neurology, though I don’t want to sound too critical, really pays no attention to the causation part of the story.”

The Role of Grains in Disease Propagation

He realized an answer would never become apparent by simply writing prescriptions and hoping for the best. Instead, he began investigating the role of nutrition on brain health. Alzheimer’s, according to the RAND Corporation, is currently costing us some $200 million a year, yet it is largely preventable. And virtually no one talks about that!

“This is a disease that is highly revenue-producing for mega factories of various so-called Alzheimer’s drugs,” Dr. Perlmutter says. “The point is there is no meaningful treatment in 2013. It is a disease predicated on lifestyle choices primarily, because of the high amount of carbohydrates/sugar that we now, as Western-culture individuals, are consuming.

It’s a preventable disease. It surprises me at my core that no one’s talking about the fact that so many of these devastating neurological problems are, in fact, modifiable based upon lifestyle choices.”

Dr. Perlmutter specifically looked at the impact of gluten and casein, or wheat and dairy primarily, on autoimmune diseases. His New York Times Bestseller,Grain Brain, reveals his findings, the cornerstones of which are the powerfully toxic role of glucose (sugar) and carbohydrates in one's diet.

He also stresses that gluten sensitivity is involved in most chronic disease, including those affecting the brain, because of how gluten affects your immune system. Unfortunately, many people, physicians included, still believe that if you don’t have celiac disease, gluten is fair game and you can eat as much of it as you like.

Full-blown Celiac disease, which is gluten sensitivity affecting your small intestine, affects an estimated 1.8 percent of people in Western cultures. But  gluten sensitivity may actually affect as much as 30 to 40 percent of all people, and according to Dr. Alessio Fasano at Massachusetts General Hospital, virtually all of us are affected to some degree.

This is because we all create something called zonulin in the intestine in response to gluten. This protein, found in wheat, barley and rye, makes your gut more permeable, which allows proteins to get into your bloodstream that would otherwise have been excluded. That then sensitizes your immune system and promotes inflammation and autoimmunity. This kind of gut permeability is also promoted by things like antibiotics and chlorinated water.

The Gut-Brain Connection is Critical to Understand

Once gluten sensitizes your gut, it then becomes more permeable and all manner of previously excluded proteins—including casein and other dairy proteins—have direct access to your bloodstream, thereby challenging your immune system.

“They’ve been talking about it for years and years (which is now just gaining traction in mainstream medicine) that our health really depends on maintaining a barrier of the intestine from the bloodstream,” Dr. Perlmutter says.

“We now understand that the so-called blood-brain barrier, or that barrier that keeps things out of the brain where they don’t belong, is also affected by gluten, according to new research. It’s a very exciting time when we recognize that our biggest exposure to the environment is actually the lining of our intestines – not our lungs, not our skin. We are in fact very much dependent on the microbiota, the bacteria living in the gut, to maintain our health.”

According to Dr. Perlmutter, much of our current disease burden stems from the fact that we are contaminating our immune systems with proteins to which the human immune system has never, in the history of humankind, been previously exposed to. While not discussed in this interview, a MAJOR factor is the development of genetically engineered (GE) grains, which are now pervasive in most processed foods sold in the US. These GE crops create proteins never before encountered in any natural grain or food, so GE grains deliver a double-whammy against your immune system. Food allergies clearly appear to be one of the most noticeable side effects of a GE-grain diet.

“We recognize that food is far more than protein, carbohydrates, fat, and micronutrients, and that food really does represent information. The foods that we consume are instructing our genes. Therefore, that’s a very empowering notion: you can change your genetic destiny based upon the food choices that you make,” Dr. Perlmutter says.

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, another neurologist who has also done remarkable work in this area as a result of seeking a solution for her autistic son, came to the same conclusion discussed by Dr. Perlmutter. Essentially, preventing and treating neurological disorders requires severe restriction of gluten and casein. You also need to address your gut flora.

“With specific response to your comments about autism, we do know that some of the milk-related proteins tend to lead to antibody production in the brains of autistic children, blocking what’s called the folate receptor,” Dr. Perlmutter says. “One of the propositions is that there’s this blockage of the ability of folate to get into the brains of certain children, and this leads to all kinds of cognitive and neurocognitive issues.

The State University of New York has actually developed a screen for looking at folate receptor antibodies. We have found that to be actually very helpful... It’s a very exciting time for those of us not just in neurology but in all branches of medicine, who are suddenly realizing that we’ve come full circle. We’re now back to understanding that nutrition plays a pivotal role in the health of humans.”

Avoiding Dairy Does NOT Include Avoiding Dairy Fats

I believe it would be wise for most people to avoid pasteurized dairy (primarily casein but also other proteins) and gluten. That said, there are subgroups of people who are particularly prone to harm from these proteins, and as a rule must avoid them in order to maintain their health. Bear in mind that dairy fat like butter, which has virtually no protein, is not problematic and can be consumed even by those who are sensitive to milk proteins. As stated by Dr. Perlmutter:

“We need to eat fat. We’re suggesting a revolutionary dietary change, telling people they should go on this new diet—which is only the diet humans have eaten for the past 2.6 million years! We’ve always eaten fat. Fat is the most wonderful health-providing food that we can obtain in the human diet. Of course, we have to qualify that with what typeof fat you are eating.”

Beneficial health-promoting fats that your body—and your brain in particular—needs for optimal function include organic butter from raw milk, clarified butter called organic grass fed raw butter, olives, organic virgin olive oil and coconut oil, nuts like pecans and macadamia, free-range eggs, wild Alaskan salmon, and avocado, for example.

According to Dr. Perlmutter, our current dietary fat phobia “has absolutely been the cornerstone of our most common degenerative diseases of the day, including Alzheimer’s.” Why? Because when you cut dietary fat and keep protein about the same, you’re going to fill in the gaps with health-harming carbohydrate foods, predominantly grains.

“This whole grain goodness, as the US Department of Agriculture is trying to convince us we should focus on in terms of our dietary choices, is the cornerstone of our most devastating diseases. I mean, brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, and obviously, what leads to them, diabetes, which is so prevalent in Western societies. Again, it’s the getting away from fat and the substitution with wheat- and corn-based carbohydrate (high-fructose corn syrup) that really, in my opinion, explains this huge explosion of degenerative conditions that are crippling us medically and crippling us economically as well,” he says.

“But the quality of the fat that we consume is absolutely fundamental. When we’re saying high-fat diet, we’re not talking about prepared foods on the Twinkie aisle at the grocery store that contain modified trans fats; hydrogenated fats that are clearly coffin nails. They’re a great risk for brain disorders, heart disorders, diabetes, etc. We’re talking about these beautiful, natural fats that we have been consuming for more than two million years.”

Recommended Tests to Evaluate Disease Risks

There are specific tests that can help you determine your level of sensitivity to dairy proteins like casein, as well as gluten. The most effective test for gluten sensitivity, according to Dr. Perlmutter, is a test called the Cyrex Array 3 test. Most laboratories, when you order a test for either gluten sensitivity or celiac disease specifically, will look for antibodies against just one type of gliadin. However, there are dozens of different types of gliadin that can incite immune reaction or immune reactivity. The Cyrex test looks at 24 different parameters of gluten sensitivity, which gives you a much clearer picture.

“Most commonly when I’m seeing patients, they’ve already had some form of preliminary gluten sensitivity test which was negative, and we find [out the truth] by doing the Cyrex test,” he says.

The same lab offers another test, Cyrex Array 4, which looks at cross-sensitivity in people who are gluten-sensitive. This test includes a dairy product panel as well as amaranth, spelt, quinoa, rice, coffee, chocolate, and other foods that may be cross-reactive with respect to gliadin. Two other tests recommended by Dr. Perlmutter that are potent predictors of Alzheimer’s disease specifically are:

• Fasting blood sugar, as this is a powerful predictor of your risk for Alzheimer’s disease. In this interview, he discusses research showing a very direct correlation between your fasting blood sugar and the rate at which your brain shrinks.  The higher your fasting blood sugar, the greater your risk. Interestingly, brain shrinkage occurs at blood sugar levels that are currently considered within the normal range (90-100), and even small elevations of blood sugar directly correlate to increased risk for having shrinkage of your hippocampus, your memory center, which is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
• Hemoglobin A1c. This is a marker of your average blood sugar over about a three-to four-month period of time. Again, there’s a striking correlation between hemoglobin A1c and the rate at which your brain is shrinking.

Both of these factors, your blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c, are entirely within your power to control, as they respond to dietary changes. Quite simply, you lower them by reducing your carbohydrate consumption. As stated by Dr. Perlmutter:

“You can absolutely control your blood sugar. It’s a lifestyle choice. Do you eat grain? Do you drink orange juice in the morning? Are you having cereal in the morning? Have you decided to go low-carb and high-fat? In the latter case, your hemoglobin A1c will come down, your fasting blood sugar will come down, and lo and behold, you have taken positive steps to reduce your risk of brain shrinkage.”

How the Science of Neuroplasticity Changes the Game

It’s important to realize that, despite what the media tells you, your brain is not “programmed” to shrink and fail as a matter of course as you age. We now know that every activity in which you engage—be it exercise, the foods you eat, the supplements you take, your personal relationships, your emotional state, your sleep patterns—all of these factors dramatically influence your genetic expression from moment to moment. Any given gene is not in a static “on” or “off” position. Neither are theydeterministic. You may be a carrier of a gene that never gets expressed, simply because you never supply the required environment for it to turn on.

“We interact with our genome every moment of our lives, and we can do so very, very positively,” Dr. Perlmutter says. “Keeping your blood sugar low is very positive in terms of allowing the genes to express reduced inflammation, which increase the production of life-giving antioxidants. So that’s rule number one: You can change your genetic destiny.

Rule number two: you can change your genetic destiny to grow new brain cells, specifically in the hippocampus... Your brain’s memory center regenerates. You are constantly growing new brain cells into your 50s, 60s, 80s, and 90s – throughout your lifetime – through a process called neurogenesis.

That said, these two ideas come together because you can turn on your genes through lifestyle choices that enhance neurogenesis and that enhance regrowth of cells and expansion of your brain’s memory center. This was proven by researchers recently. They demonstrated that there are factors under our control that can make that happen.”

Lifestyle strategies that promote neurogenesis and regrowth of brain cells include the following. All of these strategies target a specific gene pathway called BDNF or brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which promotes brain cell growth and connectivity as demonstrated on MRI scans.

• Exercise. In one year-long study, individuals who engaged in exercise were actually growing and expanding the brain’s memory center one to two percent per year, where typically that center would have continued to decline in size.
• Reducing overall calorie consumption
• Reducing carbohydrate consumption
• Increasing healthy fat consumption
• Increasing your omega-3 fat intake and reducing consumption of damaged omega-6 fats (think processed vegetable oils) in order to balance your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. I prefer krill oil to fish oil here, as krill oil also containsastaxanthin, which appears to be particularly beneficial for brain health. As explained by Dr. Perlmutter, it belongs to the class of carotenoids, and is very “focused” on reducing free radical-mediated damage to fat, and your brain is 60 or 70 percent fat

The Importance of Vitamin D and Cholesterol for Brain Health

Vitamin D also plays a fundamental role in brain health, immune function, and inflammation. According to Dr. Perlmutter, vitamin D influences the expression of more than 913 genes. Sadly, a vast majority of people are dramatically deficient in this critical steroid hormone, in large part because they’ve been fooled into fearing sun exposure. You’ve also been deceived into fearing cholesterol, which is another critical component of health.

“Obviously, sunshine makes vitamin D in your body from some precursor. When I ask my patients what is that precursor, nobody seems to know. I tell them it’s this horrible thing called cholesterol, and their eyebrows go up,” he says.“Cholesterol is so drastically important for health, because (1) it’s the precursor for which you make vitamin D and (2) it’s a fundamental compound of every cell in your body and made by every cell in your body. It’s a brain antioxidant. It’s a precursor for all the steroid sex hormones – it’s fundamentally important.”

According to Dr. Perlmutter, research shows that elderly individuals with the lowest cholesterol levels have the highest risk for Alzheimer’s. They also have the highest risk for dying. As he says, the war on cholesterol is fundamentally inappropriate and harmful.

“I say to my audiences very frequently, “If cholesterol is so bad, what you’re saying is that if you believe in evolution or if you believe in creation – either way – either nature got it wrong or God got it wrong by putting the ability to make cholesterol in every one of our cells. Why would that be a mistake?”

It’s not a mistake. We are desperate for cholesterol. It’s a fundamental player in every cell membrane. We’ve been on a high-cholesterol diet for millions of years, and it has served us well. In fact, our genome has been selected based upon that diet, being on a high-cholesterol diet – eating eggs, animal fat, and animal protein.”

The Benefits of Fasting

Dr. Perlmutter places most of his patients on a ketogenic, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that is gluten-free, along with prescribed aerobic exercise. Certain supplements may also be used, especially if the patient is vitamin D deficient or has any other critical deficiency.

I’ve previously interviewed Dr. Seyfried, who is a researcher at Boston University and connected with Harvard. He was one of the leading investigators to adopt the ketogenic diet for a neurological condition, the treatment of seizures, and then from there started investigating its use for treatment of cancer. Another PhD, Dr. D’Agostino in Florida, is also doing similar work in this area.

It’s interesting to note that it all stemmed from the treatment of intractable seizure disorders; before they realized that it was also a potent treatment adjunct for cancer patients. Most interestingly, cancer cells do not have the ability to any significant degree to metabolize fat and are almost completely dependent on metabolizing sugar. When you go on a ketogenic diet, you effectively deprive the cancer cells of sugar, which starves them, while allowing normal cells to thrive. Beyond that, you also need to recognize that the balance of organisms in your intestine play a critical role in maintaining your immunity. Clearly, if you’re fighting disease of any kind, you want your immune system to function optimally.

“When you damage your microbiom, the balance of bacteria, in your gut by taking chemotherapy, at the very least add in an aggressive probiotic approach to keep bad bacteria count healthy,” Dr. Perlmutter says.

I’m particularly fond of using fermented vegetables, because they can deliver extraordinarily high levels of beneficial bacteria. Most people aren’t aware that in a healthy serving of sauerkraut – two to three ounces or so – you’re getting the equivalent of nearly 100 capsules of the highest-potency probiotic you can buy. It’s clearly one of the most cost-effective alternatives. Furthermore, if it’s fermented with a starter culture, which we’re going to be offering soon, you can also get very high levels ofvitamin K2, which is crucial to balance vitamin D.

Dr. Perlmutter also highly recommends fasting. Contrary to popular belief, the ideal fuel for your brain is not glucose but ketones, which is the fat that your body mobilizes when you stop feeding it carbs and introduce coconut oil and other sources of healthy fats into your diet. A one-day fast can help your body to “reset” itself, and start to burn fat instead of sugar. As part of a healthy lifestyle, I prefer an intermittent fasting schedule that simply calls for limiting your eating to a narrower window of time each day. By restricting your eating to a 6-8 hour window, you effectively fast 16-18 hours each day. To learn more, please see this previous article.

“The easiest way to become ketotic is just to stop eating. Because if you go through your sugar stores and then your glycogen stores relatively soon, you begin to burn fat, the most incredibly powerful source of fuel for human physiology and especially for the brain,” he says.

More Information

To learn more, I highly recommend Dr. Perlmutter’s New York Times Best Selling book, Grain Brain. You can also find more information on his web site, DrPerlmutter.com,² or on his Facebook page, which he posts to every day, highlighting recent research and upcoming conferences and lectures. You can also find more tips and guidelines in this previous article onAlzheimer’s prevention.

“These changes that people can make in their diets are not draconian,” he says. “The only thing that makes it difficult is because of what we are told by society we should be eating. Those statements are not given to us with good, sound scientific backing. Again, these are simple but profound choices that people can make.”

I couldn’t agree more. Applying the strategies discussed in this interview and article can dramatically reduce your risk of succumbing to Alzheimer’s and other chronic diseases. Overall, it will also raise your general quality of life. Clearly, prevention is much easier than treating it after the fact. And even though there is this element of neuroplasticity, it’s far better to prevent brain degeneration to begin with. As Dr. Perlutter says:

“The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining. That’s the segment of the population I really want to target – people who have not yet had cognitive issues but are at risk, which is basically all of us. In fact, this is the time to make the changes – while you’re still healthy. Time to cut back on the carbohydrates, increase your consumption of good fats, get out and exercise... these are the fundamentals that could keep these problems from happening in the first place.”

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THREE  BOOKS  I  HIGHLY  RECOMMEND  ARE:

WHEAT  BELLY - Dr. Davis

CHANGE  YOUR  BRAIN  CHANGE  YOUR  BODY - Dr. Amen

FOREVER  YOUNG - Dr. Perricone

Touched by an Angel....good and sad

I'VE  JUST  WATCHED  ANOTHER  EPISODE  OF  THE  OLD  TV  SERIES  "TOUCHED  BY  AN  ANGEL"
AND.....YES  AS  USUAL  SHED  SOME  TEARS.

I  DO  THAT  A  LOT  WHEN  I  WATCH  "TOUCHED  BY  AN  ANGEL."

THAT  IS  JUST  THE  WAY  I  AM.  GOT  IT  FROM  MY  MOM...... AS  A  KID MOM  AND  I  WOULD  WATCH  SENTIMENTAL  MOVIES  ON  TV  [MY  DAD  WORKED  A  NIGHT  SHIFT]  AND  WE'D  BOTH  BE  SHEDDING  TEARS.

WELL  THIS  EPISODE  WAS  DIFFERENT  IN  ONE  WAY  ESPECIALLY..... ALL  THE  MEMBERS  OF  THIS  FAMILY  WERE  JUST  REALLY  NICE  PERSONS.

THERE  WERE  THE  THREE  YOUNG  BOYS,  REAL  SWEET  AND  NICE.

THERE  WAS  THE  MOTHER  AND  WIFE,  REAL  SWEET  AND  NICE.

THERE  WAS  THE  FATHER,  A  CANVAS  PAINTER....... REALLY  GIFTED,  AND  YES  A  REALLY  NICE   HUSBAND  AND  FATHER.

A  PICTURE  BOOK  FAMILY.

BUT....THE  DAD  HAD  COME  DOWN  WITH  LOU  GARRICKS  DISEASE.

THE  ANGELS  WERE  SENT  TO  HELP  THEM  ALL  THROUGH  TO  THE  END.

THE  DAD  WAS  GOING  TO  HAVE  A  PAINTING  DISPLAY AND  SALE.  BUT  THERE  WAS  A  FIRE.  ALL  HIS  PAINTING  WERE  LOST  BUT  ONE.  THEN  TIME  WAS  UP.  HE  HAD  TIME  TO  INDIVIDUALLY  SAY  GOOD-BYE;  TWO  OF  THE  BOYS  WHILE  THEY  SLEPT [THE YOUNGEST TWO];  THE  THIRD  BOY  WOKE  UP  AND  HIS  WIFE  CAME  IN.  HE  WAS  ABLE  TO  SAY  GOOD-BYE  TO  THEM  BOTH.  HIS  LIFE  ON  EARTH  HAD  COME  TO  ITS  END  THAT  NIGHT.

HIS  WIFE  WAS  ENCOURAGED  BY  THE  ANGELS  THAT  GOD  WAS  WITH  HER  AND  THE  BOYS,  ALL  WOULD  BE  FINE  FOR  THEM.  SHE  SAID  SHE'D  MISS  THE  PAINTING;  THEN  THE  OLDEST  BOY  CAME  IN  WITH  A CANVAS  TO  PAINT.  THE  ANGEL  TESS  TOLD  HER  THERE  WOULD  BE  MANY  MORE  PAINTING  COMING  IN  THE   FUTURE.

A  REALLY  NICE  FAMILY.  THEY  HAD  NO  BITTERNESS  TOWARDS  GOD.

JUST  ONE  OF  THOSE  VERY  DIFFERENT  EPISODES  OF  "TOUCHED  BY  AN  ANGEL."

SO  IT  IS.....  BAD  THINGS  CAN  HAPPEN  TO  GOOD  PEOPLE.

WISE  KING  SOLOMON  SAID: "...THERE  IS  A  JUST  MAN  THAT  PERISHES  IN  HIS  RIGHTEOUSNESS,  AND  THERE  IS  A  WICKED  MAN  THAT  PROLONGS  HIS  LIFE  IN  HIS  WICKEDNESS" (ECCL. 7:15).

ALSO: "I  RETURNED  AND  SAW  UNDER  THE  SUN,  THAT  THE  RACE  IS  NOT  TO  THE  SWIFT,  NOR  THE  BATTLE  TO  THE  STRONG, NEITHER  YET  BREAD  TO  THE  WISE,  NOR  YET  RICHES  TO  MEN OF  UNDERSTANDING,  NOR  YET  FAVOR  TO  MEN  OF  SKILL;  BUT  TIME  AND  CHANCE  HAPPENS  TO  THEM  ALL" (ECC. 9:11).

NONE  OF  US  KNOW  WHAT  LIES  AHEAD  OF  US  IN  OUR  DAILY  LIFE,  IN  THE  OVERALL.

THIS  EPISODE  BROUGHT  THAT  OUT...... SOMETIMES  THE  GOOD  HAVE  A  BAD  BREAK,  AND  YES  TROUBLES  AND  EVEN  DEATH  IS  THE  RESULT.

THERE  IS  NO  PROMISE  THE  RIGHTEOUS  SHALL  LIVE  LONG  SWEET  LIVES.

YES  SADNESS  CAN  COME  TO  GOOD  PEOPLE,  AND  INDEED  EVEN  DEATH.

SO  YOU  FELLOW  CHRISTIAN,  YOU  DO  NOT  KNOW  WHAT  SHALL  BE  YOUR  LENGTH  OF  DAYS  IN  THE  PHYSICAL  PRESENT.

BE  THANKFUL  FOR  EACH  ONE  YOU  HAVE,  PRAISE  HIM  EACH  MORNING  YOU  HAVE.

YES  IT  IS  TRUE  SOMETIMES  THE  RIGHTEOUS  YOUNG  DIE  EARLY.

SO  ENJOY  EACH  DAY  YOU  HAVE.

GOD  WILL  BE  WITH  YOU  NO  MATTER  HOW  LONG  YOU  HAVE  IN  THE  FLESH.

AND  THE  DAY  WILL  COME  WHEN  THE  NEW  AGE  WILL  BE  ON  THIS  EARTH;  SORROW  AND  CRYING  GONE,  SICKNESSES  HEALD.  GOD  SAYS  PEOPLE  WILL  LIVE  LIKE  TREES.....A  GOOD  LONG  LIFE.

IN  THAT  AGE  PEOPLE  WILL  NOT  DIE  WAY  WAY  TO  YOUNG.

IT  WILL  BE  THE  MOST  BEAUTIFUL  AGE  THIS  WORLD  HAS  EVER  SEEN.

The Blessings of God's Seasons

We know we must pass through

the seasons God sends,

Content in the knowledge that everything ends,

And oh, what a blessing to know there are reasons

And to find that our souls must,

too, have their seasons—

Bounteous seasons and barren ones, too,

Times for rejoicing and times to be blue —

But meeting these seasons of dark desolation

With the strength that is born of anticipation

Comes from knowing that every season of sadness

Will surely be followed by a springtime of gladness.

Helen Steiner Rice

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What we are DOING to our CHILDREN!

How Do Babies Become “Too Fat to Toddle”?

September 28, 2013 | 

By Dr. Mercola

..........one in four preschool children in the UK were overweight or obese, closely matching childhood obesity rates in the United States.

According to the latest statistics,¹ 30 percent of British children between the ages of two and 15 are now overweight or obese.

Similarly, in the US, more than one-third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese. Eighteen percent of American children between the ages of six and 11 are in the obese category—up from seven percent in 1980.² Five percent of American children are “severely obese,” which puts them at grave risk for chronic diseases typically reserved for adults, such as heart and liver disease.

One interesting fact is that, in contrast to third-world countries, in the US thepoorest people have the highest obesity rates.

This seeming contradiction is, I believe, a clear indication that the problem stems from the diet itself. Something in the cheapest and most readily available foods is creating metabolic havoc.

In short, the obesity epidemic is a direct outgrowth of a diet of processed foods with their cheap non-nutritive fillers, artificial ingredients, and synthetic chemical additives (many of which are banned in other countries due to health effects).

Most importantly, virtually all processed foods are loaded with refined fructose, primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup—and in the US, most of it is genetically engineered (GE) to boot. This type of diet is a major factor in the recipe for obesity.

Obesity Is an Inevitable Outcome of a Processed Food Diet

Many parents, including those featured in this film, are confounded and befuddled about the cause of their child’s excess weight gain. The root of the problem becomes quickly recognizable when you start looking at the foods your child eats, and that includes baby food.

If you feed your child commercial infant formula, baby food, and/or miscellaneous fruit juices, you need to beware that you’re feeding your child enormous amounts of sugar, several times a day.

In fact, some baby foods contain as much sugar and saturated fats as chocolate cookies or cheeseburgers. One 2009 survey of more than 100 foods for babies and toddlers found examples that were 29 percent sugar, and others that contained trans fats, which have been linked to heart disease.

When a child starts out with a diet of processed fructose and trans fats, excessive weight gain is not a mystery outcome—it’s more or less an inevitability.

Parents need to wake up and face the reality that processed foods have dramatically changed  over the years. The level of processing and chemical additives has increased exponentially and a majority of foods are now boxed or canned for your convenience.

Today’s pre-packaged convenience foods have been processed and altered to the point of being virtually unrecognizable, nutritionally, from the real deal.

The documentary features Paul Gately, a Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Metropolitan University, who organized Great Britain’s first weight loss camp for kids under the age of five. As Gately says, it’s important to get your child’s weight under control as early as possible, as obesity dramatically increases his or her risk of a wide variety of chronic diseases, including:

Diabetes, which can lead to a whole host of other medical issues	Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart can’t pump enough blood to your body’s other organs
Pulmonary embolism, a potentially fatal blockage of an artery	Fatty liver disease, in which large pockets of fat accumulate in your liver cells
Osteoarthritis	Gout, caused by uric acid accumulation in your blood
Gallbladder disease, resulting from high blood cholesterol levels, which can cause gall stones	Cancer, particularly estrogen-sensitive cancers like breast cancer

Are You Feeding Your Child Sugar All Day Long?

I disagree with the notion that young children are simply eating too many calories and not getting enough physical exercise. Toddlers have eaten heartily for many centuries without getting obese and sick. Again, the heart of the problem lies in thesource of those calories.

If you want to give your baby the best start nutritionally, do not follow the advice in most baby books encouraging you to start your baby out on rice cereal—a refined carbohydrate. Other than breast milk or formula, rice is the number one source of calories for infants in the first year of life, according to Stanford University pediatrician Alan Greene, and this is nothing short of a nutritional disaster.

For many kids, it’s downhill from there. Refined fructose, typically in some form of corn syrup, is now found in virtually every processed food and fast food meal you can think of, and fructose actually “programs” your body to consume more calories and store fat.

Grains are another culprit, as they are quickly converted into sugar and then fat in your child’s body. These types of carbs (fructose and grains) affect the hormones insulin and leptin, both of which are very potent fat regulators. (Fats and proteins affect them to a far lesser degree.) So please don’t fall for the flawed notion that cereal is an ideal breakfast food. Two years ago, Kellogg had the gall to claim, on their web site, that “sugar does not cause obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease or hyperactivity.³" At the time, I commented that, was the truth to be accepted, they’d be fined for advertising fraud. Since then, they’ve removed that crazy statement, and now just urge you to “put sugar in perspective,” pointing out that:⁴

 “Sugar in cereals — including kids cereals —contributes less than 5 percent of daily sugar intake. Yet it adds taste, texture and enjoyment to cereal, while encouraging the consumption of fiber, vitamins and minerals — essential nutrients that you and your kids might not otherwise get from any other meal.”

Their assertion is still ridiculous, as the nutrients your child really needs are found in whole fresh foods; not in a box of processed cereal loaded with sugar and synthetic chemical additives, but at least it’s not blatantly fraudulent like so many other food industry lies and deceptions.

Many Kids Are Hooked on Soda and Sugary Fruit Drinks

Many children also drink soda every day. Many also drink ‘fruit juices,’ some of which contained little, if any, actual fruit juice and hundreds of grams of sugar in a liter. Parents often believed that fruit drinks were healthy for their kids, and that is precisely what the manufacturers want them to believe. As recently reported in the Guardian Express,⁵ kids are 40 percent heavier today compared to just 25 years ago, and a growing number of studies have linked rising childhood obesity rates to increased consumption of sugary beverages (including those sweetened with no- or low-cal sweeteners).

As a general rule, the beverage industry has denied or strongly downplayed its role in the childhood obesity epidemic, despite the fact that beverage companies spend over $1 billion annually on youth-targeted marketing—especially in school settings. According to the Guardian Express, 80 percent of American schools have contracts with Coke or Pepsi to stock their products in school vending machines. It’s an untenable position, really. Clearly, marketing WORKS, or else they wouldn’t be doing it, and when ads target an audience of 2- to 17-year-olds, it’s hardly an accident that kids in that age range opt for soda whenever they’re given a choice.

Children Are Also at Increased Risk from GMO Side Effects

In the US, parents also have to contend with the fact that a vast majority of corn-based fructose is genetically engineered and heavily contaminated with the toxic herbicide glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup. Experts like Dr. Don Huber strongly believe that glyphosate is actually more toxic than DDT.    

Compelling evidence now suggests that glyphosate residues, found in most commonly consumed foods in the Western diet courtesy of GE sugar, corn, soy and wheat, enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal body functions and induce disease. Glyphosate also severely disrupts your gut flora, thereby further exacerbating metabolic havoc and poor health. 

Other genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can also be found in infant formulas, and no one really knows what the health risks of such ingredients might be, especially long-term. It’s important to remember that pound for pound, infants experience greater exposure to chemicals than adults, and have immature and porous blood-brain barriers, which allow greater chemical exposures to reach their developing brains. Hence an all-organic diet is really crucial for infants and young children.

Breastfeeding Is the Healthy Start Your Baby Needs

Breastfeeding is clearly the best option. Besides lacking the full arsenal of critical nutrients obtained from breast milk, many infant formulas also contain far too much sugar (your baby doesn’t need any). But it's not just a matter of vitamins, minerals, proteins and fats that makes breast milk far superior to formula. Breast milk also contains substances that may significantly enhance your baby's gut and support the healthy development of her entire nervous system.

If you are unable to breastfeed, you may want to consider the option of purchasing human breast milk, which is becoming a hot commodity online. Nursing women are now selling their extra milk to other families, many of whom are pairing up online via Craigslist and other classified sites. This trend harkens back to ancient times when wet nurses (women who breastfeed babies other than their own) were used. For more about this option and some cautions, please refer to this article on the sale of breast milk.

Please avoid feeding your baby soy based formula, as it can contain dangerously high concentrations of manganese and estrogenic compounds. Aside from GMOs, infant formulas have also been found to be contaminated with a variety of problematic chemicals over the years, including:

• Perchlorates (a component of rocket fuel)
• Melamine
• Advanced glycoprotein end products (AGEs)

How to Introduce Solid Foods

Outside of breast milk, the best foods you can give your baby are those you prepare for your family fresh at home. Store-bought versions just cannot compare nutritionally, as they frequently contain unhealthy ingredients your baby is far better off without. When your baby is ready to start eating solid foods, introduce new foods one at a time at intervals of two to three days. This helps your baby get used to the food, and will also help you reveal any food sensitivities or allergies. Small serving sizes, even just a spoonful or two, are best to start.

As your infant gets older you can progress from pureed whole foods to finger foods she can feed herself, but be sure they are chopped small enough so they are not a choking hazard. Raisins, nuts, popcorn and other small foods should not be given to young infants due to the choking risk. For some simple baby food recipes and ideas for homemade solids, see this previous article.

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is also a great way to establish long-term healthy attitudes to food among children. For more information, please see the article, The What, Why, and How of Baby-Led Weaning.

Your Child's Healthy Diet Is Up to You

Children will simply not know which foods are healthy unless you, as a parent, teach it to them. Remember, wholesome food is "live" and typically raw food, and the hallmark of live food is the fact that it will wilt and decompose. The fact that fast foodburgers, buns, and fries do not decompose, even after a decade, is a clear sign that it's just not real food and serves no beneficial purpose as part of your child’s diet.

It’s very simple: kids need real nutrients, not man-made chemicals that are nonexistent in natural food! These substitutes are NOT equivalent to the real deal.

Food is a part of crucial lifestyle choices first learned at home, so you need to educate yourself about proper nutrition and the dangers of junk food and processed foods in order to change the food culture of your entire family. To give your child the best start at life, and help instill healthy habits that will last a lifetime, you must lead by example. If you're not sure where to start, I recommend reading my nutrition plan first. This will provide you with the foundation you need to start making healthy food choices for your family.

The simplest way back toward health, for children and adults alike, is to focus on WHOLE foods -- foods that have not been processed or altered from their original state; food that has been grown or raised as nature intended, without the use of chemical additives, pesticides and fertilizers. You, a family member, or someone you pay will need to invest time in the kitchen cooking fresh wholesome meals from these whole foods so that you can break free from the processed food diet that will ultimately make you sick.

By doing this, and eating meals together as a family, your children will receive the proper nutrition their bodies need during the important developmental years while also developing a love for whole fresh foods that will last them a lifetime.

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