I don't know about everyone else, but I've read things by 'experts' my whole life that claimed diet had no link to acne. I'm glad I was smart enough to test this theory myself, as I found easily years ago that when my diet is healthy my skin is radiant, and when it's not it's less than exciting. Over the years I've seen it flip from smooth, minimal sized pores, clear even colour, to ruddy, large pores and mild acne seemingly overnight (so much for the theory that it takes 30 days for any 'treatment' to have an effect on skin). Thank goodness for raw as through my 20's I still had regular acne and was mortified that it didn't disappear when the teen years were over.
Natural News just had a good article on diet and skin that I thought I'd share http://www.naturalnews.com/023604.html. If anyone knows someone struggling with acne this would be a great thing to share. Considering some people resort to drugs that completely STOP oil production in the skin (Accutane) surely this information would be beneficial and appreciated. The information in the article really blows away the myth that diet does not affect skin. I know it's not the only factor... but do believe it's a big one.
I've never ever enjoyed eating mushrooms, but there are some pretty awesome medicinal ones out there that have been used for thousands of years. I'm starting to do some reading on them now. Friends of ours up here in Canada have a huge property and they have been buying Reishi bracket fungus plugs that you tap into trees to grow your own Resihi. It's known as the long life mushroom in China (it's technically a fungus... but usually called a mushroom). There have been some amazing studies on it... you can read more on Wikipedia if you want.
I've never been into mushrooms for food, I think I had a bad experience as a child with those yucky canned ones. So many people seem to love them though. There's just nothing in my though that calls for them, and if I get food with mushrooms on it I always pick them off.
I read yesterday that some Universities/drug companies are actually experimenting with the active ingredient in magic mushrooms as a psychoactive drug. They have been having people take it and have 'trips' and report on them in the lab (for the first time since the wild and crazy drug experiments of the 60's). Some people have reported that their experiences were so powerful that they felt more balanced and open to life even 6+ months later. Now that's a strong experience to have a lasting effect like that. So one day soon we might see a very expensive drug from magic mushrooms used by psychiatrists for treatments. Stranger things have happened.
Sunheart, why don't you pm me to remind me (I'm heading off for a visit with my sister for the weekend now) and I'll check in the Wild Fermentation book that RP stocks... it might be covered there. That book does cover things like tempeh and about 100 other fermented recipes, so it might have nama shoyu.
To me though it doesn't seem like something that would be fast to make. That's just a guess though.
This is off topic... but Goji Girl you look RADIANT!
Lately it seems many raw cook books are using lecithin as a binder to keep fats emulsified. I was doing a dinner for my sisters birthday and the first time I make a recipe I usually like to try the recipe as is. So I put Lecithin on my shopping list (non GMO) and when I opened it I just couldn't make syself use it. In a bottle it's just so unappealing.
From: http://www.food-info.net/uk/qa/qa-fi68.htm "Lecithin chemically is phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid that is part of the cell structure in both animals as plants. Phospholipids are needed by every cell in the body and are key building blocks of cell membranes; without it, the cell membranes would harden."
Cell walls are essentially a double layer of fat based molecules, and lecithin is part of that. So in reality all foods have some lecithin, and with a balanced diet it's probably quite difficult to get less than you need. Fattier foods are said to have more (since it's fat based).
With processed foods it's likely people get more (since it's used to emulsify so many products out there like Chocolate and used as an anti spatter agent in margarines to keep them from splashing when you fry things). However on a processed diet people's bodies need more of these protective substances to get by.
It looks like a good watch, and definitely a good one to share with people. Piers and I recently donated three DVD's to the local library. They were hard to part with, but we wanted more people to see them. It was Sicko, The Future of Food and The GMO Trilogy pack. I was sad to see though that only Sicko made it to the shelves, the other two were put in the $0.25 community sale. I bought them back! I'm going to try the main library though and see if our friendly librarian Maria will add them to her library.
Maybe you can find someone to split the cost of one DVD with you to bring the price down, and just rotate it around?
I've done wheatgrass without a juicer at times, but what I'd do is blend with water, then use a nut milk bag to strain out the pulp. I'm sure you *could* just drink it in a smoothie if you didn't use too much in any one drink too. It works quite well when straining and is often much faster than using a juicer.
Did anyone listen to this? I spent the hour sitting down on the dock with Piers watching the clouds float by and the sun set instead. It was gorgeous. We also held a conversation across the water with our neighbor two doors down. I think most of the lake probably heard us!
Just do a quick Google search on Durianrider and you'll find him in many other places too.
Bananapeel: Low fat raw vegan/natural hygiene/811 conversations always have been and always will be welcome. Jennie is in regular contact with Food 'n Sport and helped out on their recent tour of Australia. RP is also the importer that brings his books into the country. At Raw Pleasure the idea is to include many different types of raw vegan (Doug Graham, Alissa Cohen, David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousins etc) side by side, so people can try them, think for themselves and choose without being locked into a the single way they've ever heard of. As 811 is still minority around the world this has actually *helped* Dr Doug.
I think everyone has had plenty of chances to have their say here, and we're just looping now, so this thread is going to be locked. Anyone looking for Harley can easily find him at the link above.
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Regular exposure to the sun (not sunburns) is good! Even the USA Navy agree (see last link - they found indoor workers with little sun exposure had more skin cancer than ones that split time between indoor and outdoor work.
* The desire to do more, balanced with taking time to sleep (it's 2:30 am where I am right now!) (on the plus side I slept almost 12 hours last night so I'm pumped)
* Convenience vs time... you could tell people about how natural things often take less time than so called modern conveniences (Piers read earlier today that disinfectant wipes actually spread more germs than they kill)
* Modern societies rule on more is always better can be trying at times... how do you slow down and do less of the things that many consider important (ie read newspapers etc). Our families are horrified that we don't read newspapers daily.
Melb you really know your stuff! Thank you so much for sharing. I had heard that Jojoba oil was an amazing one to use and will definitely buy some soon.
Regarding 'active ingredients' or advertised ones.... it can be easy to fall for hype. I have some shampoo advertised as natural with organic fruit in it.. but when you look at the ingredients the shampoo is not organic, and the organic apple and mint is so far down the ingredients list as to be non existent (I've stopped using it). Someone gifted me last week with shampoo and conditioner from Dr Robert Young of the pH Miracle which is fairly natural and works well. Piers hasn't had to use shampoo in years and years and he has the best hair ever. I'm going shorter soon (having been growing my hair for www.locksoflove.org), and I look forward to using less shampoo too. I'm doing to using it about once a week though which is pretty amazing for me.
I'm so looking forward to shorter hair... when I sit back now it gets caught behind my back! I don't know that I've ever had it so long.
Last year, or maybe the year I saw someone that did photos of their summer garden in the USA. Seeing it go from dirt, to small plants to an abundant jungle in a few photos was magic! I shall see if I can do the same. I went to order a few square meters of soil, and it turned out that extra m2's were only $16.50 each! Since delivery was the biggest cost I ordered an ENTIRE dump truck full at $300 including all taxes. So far I think we've created about 5 garden strips, each about 1 meter wide and 5 meters long. That's 25 m2 of garden. An abundance. I think I'll have double that by the time I'm finished. We have also planted a few melon mounds, with 1 meter by 1 meter of soil piled, with 3-5 melon plants (assorted heirloom melons and cucumbers, included African Horned Cucumbers) in each mound. I plan to do more mounds tomorrow. I'm a little late with some of these plants, they ideally would have gone in over a month ago, but there is still time. Since we're in a new property we needed to see the trees fully leaf out to know where the sunshine was.
I planted things fairly thickly (how cheap are seeds!) so we've already been harvesting mini radish greens and tomorrow I'm going to make a micro kale salad. The kale has it's first real leaves right now and we have hundreds of plants that need to be thinned out with small 2-4 cm kale leaves on them. What a joy! My tomatoes are flowering too!
I'll see if I can get some sunrise photos over the lake too. It's gorgeous. I love living somewhere so wild. Believe it or not we had a BEAR come up to the window last week. We'd just got our bulk wholesale produce order in, and I think the boxes of berries, nectarines, peaches, apricots and apples must have attracted him. I looked out the lakeside window to see a 500 pound bear amble up the steps onto our deck and peer into the open window. He was scared away when I called Piers though. Good thing he wasn't too daring as I know people who have had bears come into their kitchen to eat.
Last week we feasted on blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and fresh figs (these were from California). And every day we are harvesting wild strawberries from our lawn. We've let it go wild as we can't bear the idea of mowing over the strawberries (there are literally 1000's of plants in our lawn). It's quite amazing as we've seen so many wild flowers spring up from what looked like a grass lawn.
We might never have to mow it at the rate I'm turning it into garden. I have about 35 different things planted now - 6 types of kale, 10+ types of lettuce, red mustard greens, many melons and more. It's wonderful seeing all the baby plants sprout up.
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