Mario Quesada

The nutrition tables you can find, can hardly be complete enough to know what you’re getting from your food for different reasons such as is the food organic or not?, is it raw or cooked?, how cooked is the food?, what kind of treatment it received?, is it irradiated?, if it’s a vegetable food, was it harvested ripe or green?, what kind of soil it was cultivated? Is it just sprouted?, is it dehydrated?

So, because you don’t really know precisely all the nutrients in a food, you can only have a good guess and keep in mind which food treatments low the nutritional value and in which extent.

What do you do with that lack or precise information?

You just put as many odds in your favor by consciously eating according to these guidelines :

– Many prepared foods display nutritional values based on added vitamins or other nutrients that are not necessary useful that way, so they are often in the list of ingredients for reasons of marketing.

– Some of those added vitamins are even bad for your health such as vitamin A added to cereals, which increases the risk of osteoporosis, especially if there is a deficiency of vitamin D.

– Organic better than non-organic Organic food is not only intended to not have the chemicals that causes many undesirable health conditions but is also much more nutritious.

– Freshly harvested better than not so fresh

– Ripen in the tree or plant is better to have the most nutrients possible as the tree/plant is still adding nutrients from the soil to the fruit or vegetable.

– Besides being pasteurized or cooked, bottled, canned or boxed juices from concentrate have more fluoride and other chemicals from the tap water they are reconstituted with. At least those not from concentrate are not that bad.

– Green house grown even if not organic is better than ordinary pesticide-laden food. For example, sometimes I get tomatoes, spinach and cucumbers grown in green house when I don’t find the organic ones

– Some vegetables that are harvested young require less or no pesticides to be grown. So non-organic baby spinach is often better the regular spinach.

– Local harvested organic food is better than imported organic same kind of food for freshness and economic-ecological reasons.

– Many foods and especially spices are irradiated supposedly for the “safety of consumers” and for the sterilization of seeds that agencies don’t want you to cultivate. That exposure to radiation destroys much of the nutritional value and it is also bad for your health http://www.ccnr.org/food_irradiation.html

– Sprouted seeds have more enzymes than raw or cooked same seeds.

– Vegetable sprouts (such as broccoli) as more nutritious than the ordinary vegetables.

– Raw food in general has more enzymes and nutrients than cooked food. So, because of the more enzymes the need for proteins decreases. Some scientists say that because some nutrients are more available after cooking it means that a cooked product (such as carrots) is more nutritious. That’s a touchy subject because like in this case the higher glycemic index of the cooked carrot makes it less desirable for other reasons. In the case of certain herbs we do need cooking to get the elements we desire out of the herb, but with ordinary food I tend to be in favor of raw eating. I’m not going to go deeper with this controversial subject, so just happily follow your heart.

– Intentionally fermented foods such as sauerkraut, natural pickles or nut cheeses are much more digestible and so they are more nutritious as a consequence. So this is a good way to eat more raw food with more availability of nutrients.

– Microwaving is the worst kind of cooking you can make in terms of destroying the nutritious value and creating very harmful toxins.

– Slow cooking is better than fast cooking.

– Frying can cause a lot of free radicals and many health problems as a consequence due to fat oxidation and higher cooking temperature. More details later.

* Frying with coconut oil or with organic ghee (clarified butter) is much safer as those fats are much more resisting the oxidation cause by heat.

– Roasting is not the best thing to do with animal products or other foods either because of the denaturation of proteins and starches, which can make them toxic even if we don’t experience immediate discomfort.

For example, acrylamide is used as an industrial chemical in mining and grouting. It was only discovered to be present in food in 2002. It forms as a side effect of the frying, roasting or baking of starchy foods, such as chips and crisps.

There are concerns about its cancer-causing and DNA-damaging effects in humans. It has been found to cause tumours in laboratory rats and is also neurotoxic in humans and may affect reproductive processes.

No specific limits for its consumption have yet been set by the EU, but food manufacturers are being urged to reduce levels and keep them as low as possible.

– On the other hand there is the Maillard reaction including caramelization, glycation and other effects of cooking mixtures such as sugars with fats, sugars with proteins or with starches. It not decreases the nutritional value but increases the presence of toxic waste-products.

– Dehydration is much better than cooking but not as good as eating fresh. In the case of sweet fruits particularly, the glycemic index increases and so it may have an undesirable effect on blood sugar which will affect some people more than others. For example those who suffer from Candida, hypoglycemia, diabetes etc.

– Canned foods are not only less nutritious because the enzymes are purposely destroyed to increase shelf-life , but also most of the time they contain substances that are undesirably toxic such as sulphites.

– Food additives such as artificial coloring and flavors are so evidently undesirable that I almost didn’t write about it. There are so many problems and health conditions caused by those additives, so at least, look for the foods that are prepared without them. Even some so called natural ingredients are undesirable, but that’s the subject for a whole book.

– Eating food that is prepared by a consciously happy person will make that food be more beneficial and probably delicious too. So, it’s not just about the ingredients or the treatments but about how much love vs stress brought that food to your plate.

– Some fruits and vegetables, when are not organically grown, are a reason so many workers get very serious diseases including deformities in children and cancers even is the consumers don’t get sick. For conscientious reasons we can avoid consuming for example non-organic pineapples or tomatoes.

– Some fruits and vegetables are produced in inhumane conditions of exploitation so that is another reason to do informed choices such as buying fair-trade foods. Personally I don’t buy unhealthy fair-trade foods either such as sugar.

– Adding some spices and herbs to your food can make it easier to digest also, so it is not only about avoidance of toxins but about conscious eating.

– Mixing foods while cooking can cause the Mailard reaction as I said before but even mixing raw foods can cause digestive problems. So, without getting too bored with your food, find your subjective balance between simplicity an pleasure. You can learn about food combining, mono-meals or just happily accept the possible consequences (as like when I go to raw potlucks I pay the consequences but have a lot of pleasure on the other hand).

Conclusion:

Now you may better know the difference in the quality of the produce that compose what you eat and you know a bit more about the effects of processing, stoking, irradiating, refining, caning, cooking, frying, microwaving, caramelizing, fermenting, sprouting, dehydrating etc. You can make more conscious choices about what you put in your mouth.

The real nutritional value of food cannot be so simply determined just by a laboratory analysis but you can feel it subjectively, when with practice you become more sensitive which is the only thing that counts.

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Introduction:

I will share here some information that it is not common knowledge and I assume that many readers are not going to agree with my message (at least not now).

 I just don’t want you to believe a word I say and weather you agree or not with me I don’t want you to make assumptions without verifying,.

 The assumptions we make prevent us from perceiving the hidden truths, so we better dare to verify, to ask questions, to do research but not assume that I am right or wrong.

 Please don’t take anything personally as I’m not implying that people ignore things willingly. It is human to make errors and we should keep doing our best, which changes every second of our lives. I want you to avoid any feeling of guilt, shame, remorse or judgment.

 So don’t feel I’m attacking anything else than misinformation and disinformation.

 You’ll probably want to verify by yourself all the information I’m sharing here.

 Please do it!! 

 This article is just a little piece of significant information. I am willing to answer your questions if you have.

 With time, it is no longer uncommon to question some previously accepted ideas such as concerning the use of drugs for the treatment of illnesses or the use of vaccines for preventing them. So, if I’m right, in a few years everybody will say “of course that’s the way it is…”

 Part 1- The problems

We’ve been told that there is an AIDS pandemic ravaging the African population and that we should do something about it.

 This implies that thousands of Africans are dying from a sexually transmitted disease.

 Doing a deep research we notice some anomalies around this assumption, especially these facts:

      1- In the rich countries there is a population at risk of AIDS, which makes about 90% of the cases, that is composed of male homosexuals, drug addicts and hemophiliacs while strangely, in Africa everybody is said to be at risk, women and men equally.

     2- In some of those countries such as the US, the sexual behavior is much more liberal with more changing partners than in Africa, so if it was a sexually transmitted pandemic, “American women would be equally at risk”, especially after more than 28 years of spreading this disease. But it’s not the case!

 Why is this?

 The statistics behind that idea of pandemic are based on a series of assumptions that start with the Bangui definition of AIDS established by the World Health Organization for Africa and which doesn’t require blood test.

 The Bangui definition of AIDS used in Africa consists on these simple signs:

      1- Asthenia (weakness) 

     2 -10% loss of body weight for two months

     3- Diarrhea for more than a month 

     4- Fever for more than a month

     5- Persistent cough

 Three of these signs can be enough to diagnose AIDS in most of these countries

Aren’t you surprised?  You’re not alone

 You can “google” Bangui AIDS definition” or whatever you prefer to verify this information. Or even better, ask an African physician about that. Here is one PDF document on that www.vordenker.de/hiv/bangui.pdf

 In Tanzania, just one of these symptoms can be enough for a physician to declare AIDS if he thinks so.

 Several conditions, especially tuberculosis can cause those symptoms and they are common in Africa long time before the so called AIDS pandemic.

 “There is nothing new but a new label for old diseases”.

 It is not the sexual behavior but the underlying social, economic and environmental conditions that are causing this crisis.

 Poor harvests, rural poverty, migratory labor problems, urban crowding, ecological degradation, civil wars, domestic violence, the inhumane conditions of exploitation and mistreatment, lack of proper water, malnutrition,  famine, deficient sanitary conditions, the panicking propaganda and the fatal misdiagnosis imperil and destroy far more African lives than the “allegedly widespread virus”.

 I make clear that there are people sick and dying, but that it is not because of the HIV virus and I’m not saying either that there are not sexually transmitted diseases, just that the AIDS definition is vague and dangerous.

Such a misdiagnosis becomes damnation if not a death sentence for many patients with all its implications. Think about it.

 Assuming many of them were diagnosed as having HIV with the use of tests, I’d like you to know that the pharmaceutical companies have disclaimers on the tests label saying that those tests are not intended to be accurate. You may want to read this sample label.

Why changing the focus?

The focus on the improbable cause of these deaths not only may keep us distracted from unarguable problems but could worsen the situation at large and the health of the patients for the following reasons.

     1- Besides that the very little probability that those patients are really infected with HIV, the antiretroviral treatments would cost 12 times the average African salary for each patient, and if subsidized they would compromise even more the African economy making the real conditions get worse.

     2- Assuming there were real victims of the HIV, if they were treated with the antiretroviral drugs they would get worse because the main drug that is used. AZT is extremely toxic, so much so that nurses have to use mask and gloves to handle the pills. 

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 I could keep giving you pages of information but you can do your own research about all the “whatifs” you may think about. But you’ve got the point so…

  We better find real solutions to unarguable problems rather than on an improbable cause.

 Now, take a deep sigh and here are some hints for the solutions

 Part 2 – Real solutions for real problems

Now that we realized something wasn’t really evident about the AIDS pandemic we need to be sagacious, curious, creative and inspired to find solutions and act accordingly.

 Let’s leave no room for doubts or assumptions. Keep asking and researching.

I want to emphasize that there are institutions and generous people that are doing already a lot of good for these people. My goal is to point out where corrections could be made by knowing all this.

 The first problem which we need to address is the emotional distress and desperation based partly on the ignorance of the resources that they have at hand and of their own potential as individuals.

 Underprivileged Africans need to be encouraged and supported to recover independence from unethical foreign and local interests that don’t care about the wellbeing of individuals.. They don’t need us to send food as much as they need to be reminded of who they are as creators of their own reality and that they can turn the tide of the crisis.

 This crisis we perceive is the sum of all the emotional distress of those who aren’t aware of their power within.

 So they need to recover faith and confidence in their own human nature, they need tools for inner freedom, they need care, love and playfulness, they need to trust their hearts and smile. They need tools for material autonomy as well. Those who are sick need to be respectfully and kindly touched and treated.

 They need to rely on their own material and human resources to eat better, to live better and to be healthier and wealthier instead of feeling powerless and sell their lives to inhumane corporations.

 In practical terms, for the social conditions they need to be supported for;

          -Spiritual support in a non invasive, non judgmental,  non doctrinal manner

          -Organizing mutual support groups     

          -Recreational programs 

          -Encouraging and helping their own elders to share their wisdom

          -Community traditional celebrations

          -Alternative economy such as barter and micro-credit

          -Libraries and ways to have access to information and use it responsibly (hopefully Internet)

          -Commissions to gather and keep their ancestral wisdom and knowledge of plants and nature.

          -Commissions to resolve their own problems such as housing and more desirable ways to get revenues

          -Social work and emotional-psychological help, including group therapies and other.

          -Tools for conflict resolution such as Non-Violent Communication for social and domestic problems.

          -Tools of self-improvement to empower individuals that want to make a difference

 For the health conditions and for prevention they can be provided with information about;

          -The internal conditions for illness and the real sources of health that they have at hand

          -How to organize their own “barefoot clinics”           

          -Alternative ways to improve soil fertility

          -Space efficient gardening systems

          -Companion plants to avoid the need for chemicals

          -Permaculture to improve efficiency and soil protection

          -Inexpensive watering systems

          -The wealth of knowledge from their own local traditions including their botany and herbal medicine

          -Nutritional information adapted to their environment and economy

          -Sprouting for availability of fresh foods

          -The importance and use of wild plants and weeds, which are more nutritious than anything else

          -Using indigenous grasses to consume the way we use wheat grass without the need of extractors nor imported seeds

          -How to get the most nutrition of each byte they get

          -Clever ways to get, purify and improve drinkable water

          -Clever sustainable ways to produce energy such as heat or electricity or simply replace the need of it

          -Using fermentation to increase the absorption of nutrients and to improve immune functions

          -Using clay and charcoal to detoxify, to relief digestive problems and to stop diarrheas

          -Using other natural means to treat illnesses such as the use of mold, which was traditionally used in different cultures for treating illnesses, wounds and infections

          -Natural and cheap means to health such as thermal treatments, mud treatments, water treatments available without the need of manufactured devices

          -Tools for emotional healing and resilience

          -Psychophysical practices such as yoga, meditation, Chicong, massage and other health and healing practices adapted to their culture and manners, which require just instruction and practice

          -Inexpensive oxidizing substances for treating malaria, dysentery, tuberculosis etc. that has been used successfully already in Africa such as hydrogen peroxide and sodium chlorite (MMS)

          -Information about the environmental problems that they need to resolve or stop

 Underprivileged from anywhere need to be kindly reminded that the answers have been within themselves and that they fell into the trap of the inhumane greedy interests.

 To stop the REAL PANDEMIC we need to focus on REAL SOLUTIONS such as the samples above.

 There is wisdom in nature and forces hidden in every human heart that need to be awakened so health and abundance are easily accessible

 How different is to focus on promoting health instead of treating illnesses!

 The truth shall set us free (and healthy)

 You want to watch a well presented video on the subject watch here

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5959613277992277447#

 Note:

In some countries the health systems are supporting their traditional medicines to different extents such as China, Korea and India and gladly in some African countries such as Ghana they are moving in the direction http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=185789

 Any suggestions, questions, critics or help will be joyfully accepted

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