"The other three quarters keeps your doctor alive." When you go into a medical office and ask for nutritional counseling, they sit you down and give you a diet that specifically meets your lifestyle and needs. They talk about counting calories and fat, good cholesterol and bad cholesterol, weighing portions, and so forth. You hear about these things on a day to day basis. Milk grows strong bones, meat builds muscle. What you don't hear about, however, are the nutrients our cells need in order to function properly. Why isn't this information easily accessible as well as good food sources that provide these nutrients?
It makes me so sad that fresh, local, organic produce is extremely hard to find, expensive, and often found places that do not accept EBT cards. I am lucky, however, to have a local grocery store that offers all the foods and organic produce I want. I buy my vegan soaps there, which I LOVE! Kiss My Face Chamomile and olive oil soap and some kind of bar shampoo are my favorites. Both come in a an earth friendly recyclable paper package and the do wonders for my skin and hair.
My parents sent me a wonderful Christmas present, an Amazon gift card. I was able to purchase more soil and organic seeds. I can't wait to plant the whole garden and especially when I can start harvesting the fruits and veggies. I'm going to have a full garden of vine ripened organic fruits and veggies at my disposal. Building this garden is going to be so much fun. I was at Big Lots the other day and found that they had topsy turvey tomato and strawberry growers for $1.50. I picked up three of them. I plan to use one for my blackberries, one for tomatoes, and the other for bell peppers. For everything else, I'm still on the quest to find empty plastic two liter bottles.
Apples are going to be difficult, however. I can't easily grow an organic apple tree in my apartment, but they are the best things to put in juice. They have a great sweet flavor that covers up the yucky veggie taste and can really bulk up the juice. Juices are my favorite means of incorporating fresh produce in my diet because you can get so many essential nutrients and enzymes in so little time. Its like drinking pure life nectar goodness for your body! The only thing that irritates me is that you need to both clean the juicer and drink the juice immediately after juicing. So I have to have a sponge in one hand a my juice in the other which is not very conducive to actually enjoying the juice.
My next step is to research composting and see if its something I can do. I haven't the slightest clue as to where to begin with composting. Can you even do it in the winter? Can you do it indoors? How do you tend to it? How do you deal with pests or the smell while keeping it organic? How is it used and when is it ready to be used? You guys should answer any of these in the comments if you know it.. Otherwise, it's off to google for me! No more produce waste!
Wow...just wow...as a son of a neurosurgeon, I studied medicine since I was born, always being around medical terms that determined my vocabulary, I knew I was different...I'm currently 14 years old and almost in the 11th grade, I should be in 9th. I can tell you that becoming vegan will KILL YOU. No milk= no calcium, no calcium=poor bone mass, poor bone mass= Osteoporosis (look it up) I'd by some chance your bones don't turn to glass this still leaves the matter of your Metabolism...all you're doing is starving yourself of protein, and that just slows down your Metabolism...which Tells your body to store fat rather than burn it. What people don't get is that Metabolism never stays the same, it's constantly changing, it's better to walk an hour in the morning, an hour in the after noon, and an hour a
ReplyDeleteT night than it is to walk 3 hours in the morning or three hours at night, when people come to me and ask "Fawkes I'm trying to lose weight but I just can't do it, what do I do?" You know what i say? Just go outside more often and turn off the AC for a month. I'll tell you what humans are meant to do, humans are built to walk NOT run, and were built to sweat. Just by not refreshing yourself with a cold lemon aid on a hot summer day you'll easily lose a pound every other day. It's like sweating the fat right off. In the real world there is no "mother natures magic remedy" there is no "non-organic fruit" and there's sure as shit no fucking fat-be-gone pill! If you wanna lose weight FAST then shiver outside in the snow, and sweat and burn out in the sun...also just a tip, don't use sun block, and don't treat your sun burns with anything but water and the common sense to know when to sit in the shade. If your ginger, use mud as sun block...it works. Now, as an outdoors man many things can be used as medicine. Say you get cut deeply and badly. You see trees, leaves, moss, and some other forest-y shit around you. You DO NOT have a cellphone or first aid kit. So what the fuck do you do? One look for ointment, Honey is antibacterial, it never goes bad because bacteria can't grow on it, next a bandage
ReplyDeleteCobb Webb is great at clotting blood, so that would be great. However Spanish moss is better because I to is antibacterial, in fact if you have Spanish moss you won't even need honey...(FACT: Alexander the Great was preserved in honey after he died, for 200 years you could see his face clearly. All until some FUCKING ASSHOLE burned the library down.) My point is that THESE things are medicine. Spanish moss is also in Viagra, but its alway best to leave medicine in pill form. Olive oil is good for the skin but you can say tat by eating this flower you'll lose weight just because someone told you about it. I guess what Im trying to say is...leave medicine to the doctors! Leave healthcare to the doctors! And just fuck off until you can find a good enough reason to schedule an appointment in a healthcare clinic.
ReplyDeleteYou also can't say that one quarter of what you eat keeps you alive, because its also not true...there's a lesson in this, only talk about shit you understand...don't say god hates gays if you didn't understand the message the bible gave you, that god loves all his children. Don't say that guns are bad if you never fired one. Don't approve gun control if you didn't know that it's easier to make a bomb, or even chemical warfare than it is to purchase a gun... Don't approve abortion just because you do t want a fucking child. Don't approve drugs if you don't know what people do when there high...and DON'T call me an arrogant republic because of what I believe in...I have no problem with liberals as long as they shut the fuck up, keep there Hands off my wallets, and keep there ideas to there self like i don't...after all isn't taking from those who work and giving to those who refuse to call slavery? Oh oh I'm sorry it's called welfare now in days isn't it. It's time you stop taking advice from people who haven't heard of a shower for health advice and talked to a doctor who actually cares for once...that's just my input, if you don't like it then ill delete it, but I feel you should read this.
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