Day 182

Thoughts: If you want to melt away some fat and reveal that lean machine of yours then try out some of these foods that I have found to be light and loving to my body! These foods have particular enzymes that injects a little booster of life to your metabolism!



1. Avocados

Avocados go in smooth and come out smooth, they do not clog up your bowel. I was so afraid of avocados for many years, firstly because a kid at school said I was weird for bringing a full avocado from home and eating it with a spoon, as opposed to her snack pack chocolate nutella, so in order to not be weird I stopped eating them. And 2, because everyone said they were high in fat, full of fat, fatty avocados, and I was also afraid of being fat. So here I am being afraid of being weird and afraid of being fat. Until I re-discovered avocados again on The Earth Diet and realized you can eat as much avocados as you want and the fat accumulated from processed foods slides off, like a piece of avocado in your throat does! My favourite thing about opening an avocado jacket is that each avocado is different in taste and colour. I never know what personality of avocado I will get! My favourite kind are the ones coloured a grace green and smooth, creamy and fruity!



2. Asparagus

I am not a fan of asparagus smell. It tastes like it smells too, though I do eat it as I cannot deny it's superb flushing system that removes unwanted fat deposits throughout the body. Perhaps that's why it smells so much the next day (To exactly what I am talking about that smells is left to your imagination - you may have more fun that way!) , well I suppose fat deposits would smell!



3. Almonds

Almonds are the graceful nut. Brazil nuts are bashful boss nut, peanuts are the silly circus nut, macadamia nuts are the deep alluring nut, walnuts are the wacky nut, and almonds are light and graceful and drop their snowy white flakes in my stomach and appease the hunger.



4. Spinach

The myth about spinach and its high iron content may have first been propagated by Dr. E. von Wolf in 1870, because a misplaced decimal point in his publication led to an iron-content figure that was ten times too high! Hehe funny mistake :) However it is still a vegetable with dark green leaves that are low in calories and rich in fiber, iron and beta-carotene, which aids in lowering cholesterol and alkalizing your body ;) Popeye Grin!







5. Green tea

Green tea and chocolate balls are the perfect like pow pow pow couple! I seem to experience a smooth, sexy, flow of energy through my body when I drink hot just brewed green tea. And I'm not talking about the green tea you get in tea bags, I'm talking the actual green tea leaves. The tea bags you buy from the supermarket are like the McDonalds of tea world! Ewww! And it also gives the brain and nervous system a boost, and you know what happens when your body is in alive boost mode, it is happily using up those excess calories.



6. My Chocolate Balls!

Yes you can eat chocolate and lose weight silly! Chocolate is one of the oldest things on this planet! The cocao bean is an aphrodisiac full of magnesium and iron, leaving you fulfilled, physically strong and happy and sexy! And you want to be happy and sexy when you are losing weight! Recipes for my chocolate balls will be in The Earth Diet book that comes out in November! Pre-sales begin in July so you can check them out!



7. Broccoli!

Oh my favourite tree to eat! Made up of love, vitamins and fibre! As soon as I made broccoli my friend and welcomed it into my life I just love eating it! Oh so green and lush and full of life! The best thing about broccoli, I think, is that it doesn't matter if it's branches get cut off, or the leaves full off, the broccoli is so present and unattached to it's arms, it simply keeps growing, it does not winge and complain that it lost it's arm, it keeps beaming it's broccoli goodness! I can learn alot from broccoli my tree friend!



Make broccoli your friend! Obviously she is happy about it!





8. Walnuts

If you have a habit of overeating like I do, I know we feel like we can't help it because the food is soooo good, I know I know yum yum, but actually we can help it hehe but if you do want a little bumpy reminder eat a wacky walnut! Walnuts seem to giggle all the way down my throat! Have a handful wackos before a meal will stop you from overeating ans also give you a healthy kick up the bottom of fibre, vitamin E and scrumptious fatty acids! And yes they are brain food as they do look like brains!







9. Apples

Apples are like the lollies, sweets and candies of natural earth food! They are such a treat, a delight, a buzzing sensation! Swap a machine made sweet for an apple one time and fall in love with it! And then feel it fall in love with you! Or try the warm apple crumble made from all natural earth foods, the recipe will also be in my book!



10. Jalapeno Peppers or 'Chilli's' as us Aussies say mate. Haha nah I just threw the mate in there, that's cheesy!

Chilli's are a strong does of heat, flavour and strength! If anything they will get you feeling your body! My favourite part about eating a chilli is that they are bashing fire into my body and I feel energetic and alive! If I sweat that's a great sign of something old coming out of my body, make way for the chilli, and out with the sweat!



11. Beans

I love beans! Long solid rich green beans. They are such a peculiar character! They kind of remind me of a skinny frog dressed up as a royal Brittish buttler! When I suck on a bean, I full out it's light, fruity, moist flavours! Mmm mmm mmm beany beany! The scientific world would say they are full of protein and fibre.



12. Grapefruits

Grapefruits are a sweet and intimidating fruit. It is sweet in it's name and taste, and intimidating in it's pungent case and acid name: galacturonic acid. Either way I love it and the acid breaks down fat and is full of fibre to fill up your stomach of goodness!



13. Pineapple

Oh wow pineapple, oh so sweet! Such a treat to have! When I eat a pineapple my body goes to an energetic place of music, beach, sun and a cool breeze! Pineapple is rich in fibre and vitamin c which dances down your bowel walls, taking any icky black sludgy bits with it!



14. Juicing

Beetroot or 'Beet' for the non-Aussies, carrot, celery and ginger juice! This combination in a juice is like a deep body cleanse. The beetroot in your digestive system, goes into the bowels, soaks the bowel walls and any toxin build up in there, any blockages go right down with it! Nothing stands a chance against the beetroot! It soaks the bowel walls sparkling clean! The the carrot makes the juice sweet and will also colour your skin a nice radiant sun glow, the celery is like a hit of focus energy, and ginger is the perfect zing zang energy to remind you that you are alive! You can also add a touch of sweet to your juice with apple or pineapple! Once a day is never too much!



This is what 2 kilos looks like (5 pounds for non-aussies) of fat looks like!



Challenges: Haha I think naturally blue potatoes in my bowels would be a challenge! I saw this today in the supermarket and so I took a photo of it! It was so funny, I stood there a while wondering if it was a joke, and then I realized how dumb my thinking was, it's not a joke, they are actually advertising naturally blue potatoes! Thank you manufacturer of the naturally blue potato chips for keeping us consumers amused, I loved it!



Have you ever seen a naturally blue potato?





Triumphs: It's nice to be alive.



What I Ate Today:



Breakfast: Water with lemon. Oats with pecans and agave syrup!



Lunch: Today at lunch I felt like treating myself so I got all my favourite foods and put them on the one plate! Mmm talk about indulgent! I had an avocado with walnuts inside (mmm it's smooth meets crunchy!) and black berries and strawberries! And then I had some peanut butter with strawberries together, mmm it's the ultimate reward of being a human!



Dinner: Homemade Liana Wedges cooked with Liana love and with some Liana sauce! Hehe or some potato wedges cooked in olive oil, with some tomato, basil and garlic sauce! Mmm mmm mmm!



Dessert: Sweet sweet sweet pineapple!



Snacks: A large juicy grapefruit in between breakfast and lunch!



Recipe: Recipes for chocolate balls, apple crumble and wedges with tomato, basil and garlic sauce will be in my book that comes out in November!



Exercise: Today was a sensational physical day! My beautiful husband and I went to the park, he ran and I skateboarded, and then we did some laps around the park, pull ups, swinging along the monkey bars (I remember doing that as a kid - and it seemed a lot easier then!) well the monkey bars were actually a soccer goal, and some squats, and stretches, then when we got home we did some gardening. We raked the mulch out of the way so we can plant some flowers, tomatoes, kale, and cucumbers. I am going to build quite a nice generous garden! You hear that garden? Hehe I am training it now so that it will give us lots of produce! Produce in return for love!



183 days to go!!!

Day 183

Thoughts: You body is magnificent! Really! It performs daily amazing feats to keep you alive! Your body can take multiple pieces of food, swallow and accept it, digest and absorb it, and spit out the waste! Ever wondered what happened to the food once the taste is over?

Food is first introduced into the mouth, where it is chewed by the teeth in order to break up large food particles and to mix it with saliva, thus beginning the process known as digestion. The food is then propelled into the esophagus by the tongue with the aid of the swallowing mechanism. The food travels down the esophagus until it reaches the stomach.

The stomach is a sac-like organ with strong muscular walls. In addition to holding food, it serves as the mixer and grinder of food. The stomach secretes acid and powerful enzymes that continue the process of breaking the food down and changing it to a consistency of liquid or paste. Food is stored in the stomach, mixed with acid and other digestive juices, and released at a controlled, steady rate into the entrance of the small intestine, where it is digested further and absorbed in the small intestine, the intestinal contents are mixed with pancreatic juice, bile and other secretions.

The intestinal contents continue down the long, winding tube of the small intestine until they pass into the thick tube of the large intestine, the main function of which is to absorb water, salt and other minerals, and certain vitamins. Stool containing inorganic (non-carbon containing) material, undigested plant fibers, bacteria, and water are excreted from the body through the rectum. It normally takes about 36 hours for stool to get through the colon.

Absorption of Food

Although limited amounts of water, alcohol, simple salts, and glucose are absorbed through the stomach wall, the small intestine is by far the most important organ for absorption. Absorption into the small intestine consists primarily of the transfer of nutrients from the lumen of the small intestine through the cells lining the intestinal wall into the wall of the intestine (the lamina propria). From there the nutrients enter the blood and lymph vessels. The nutrients are then carried to all parts of the body through the bloodstream. The waste materials are eliminated from the body via stool, urine, sweat, and expired air. The small intestine, then, is the main site of selection of the nutrients for use in the body, leaving the waste for eventual elimination.

Use of the Nutrients

The end products of the digestive processes discussed are amino acids of proteins, fat derivatives, and simple carbohydrates. These compounds are absorbed and metabolized in the body by various routes. The intricate details of their metabolism are studied by biochemists.

How do we get energy from the food we eat? The derivation of energy from a physical source is the most spiritual of our bodily processes. To function properly the body must be constantly supplied with fuel or energy, supplied by either digesting food or drawing on its fat stores when adequate food is not available. The chemical energy which derives from this as well as all life processes is held in the high-energy bonds of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), found in all forms of life.

Plants derive ATP from light energy when they produce and store excess carbohydrates, mostly as starch. Through the food chain, the stored energy of plants becomes the potential energy of animals and man. Animals and man, in turn, through their metabolic processes convert stored plant energy into a usable form of ATP to sustain their life processes. Most of the energy consumed as food is used up as heat, released either directly in the body's metabolic reactions or as a by-product of work performed by the body. Only that part of food energy which is captured in chemical form in the high-energy bonds of ATP can support these functions.

Jinjee's "Health & Enlightenment" article will keep you fixated on her musings, too. Jinjee says: "What if I only took in 'light' material for a year: spiritual literature, film, and music, the Bible, church services at Agape.... -- And only created 'light' material for a year: writing about spirituality and health, creating healing music, working in spiritual service to mankind.... -- And only took 'light' foods into my body for a year: fruits, vegetables, soaked almond milks, water..... -- And made 'light' choices for a year: being in nature, with my family, praying, meditating, hiking, dancing, yoga, chi gung, tai chi, kung fu..." Find out what conclusion Jinjee arrives at www.thegardendiet.com

What happens to your body an hour after you drink coca cola?

* In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
* 20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
* 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
* 60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
* 60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.



Challenges: Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful - Buddha

Triumphs: I love you Diana! You are a beautiful beautiful woman :)

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: Water with lemon squeezed in it! A beetroot, carrot, celery, ginger juice! Strawberries and blackberries and peanut butter (purely crushed peanuts!!

Lunch Avocado with walnuts!

Dinner: Raw cauliflower. Avocado and walnuts again :) Green Apple.

Dessert: Chocolate balls!

Snacks: Peanuts and an orange.

Recipe: Recipe for my chocolate balls will be in my book coming out this November!

Exercise: I exercised physically today when I rode to the store to buy a coconut! And in the arvo it was so windy so went for a walk in the wind!

182 days to go!!!

References: http://www.nutritionresearchcenter.org/healthnews/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-drink-a-coke-right-now/
www.kabbalaonline.net
http://www.medicinenet.com/the_digestive_system/page2.htm
www.thegardendiet.com

Day 184

Thoughts: Vibrations (Frequencies) and Food

Everything in the Universe has a vibration (frequencies), including your physical body. Each flower, plant, tree, mineral, rock, crystal, or gemstone has its own specific vibration. Each type of cell, organ, and system in each living organism also has its own specific vibration. Each thought and emotion has its own vibration. Each sound and color has its own vibration.

When an individual is not well their body's vibration lowers, the immune system weakens, and many invaders enter and stay in a person’s body. This includes parasites, worms, bacterial infections, viruses, and different types of fungus. These invaders not only affect the direct functioning of a body, but they also cause other problems since they daily unload many toxins into the human body. Today we are being exposed to many of these invaders on a regular basis. E.g. A simple visit to a hospital can expose you to many infectious bacteria.

Disharmonious or unbalanced vibrations show themselves in many ways including discomfort, dis-ease, illness, fatigue, and a variety of different symptoms. When a body is healthy is has a relatively high vibration, and this is reflected through the vibrations of individual cells, organs and systems. When a person is not perfectly healthy the vibrations in the body are lowered.

Following are general guidelines that will assist your body to eliminate cellular toxins and increase its cellular frequency:


EAT FOODS THAT INCREASE VITALITY AND REDUCE STRESS

* Whole foods.
* Organically grown foods
* Locally grown foods.
* In season.
* Food prepared slowly, with mindfulness and with love feed the body and the soul


DEVELOP HABITS THAT INCREASE VITALITY AND REDUCE STRESS

* Eat food in moderation.
* Eat foods that keep the body slightly more alkaline.
* Be calm and fully present while eating.
* Bless the food and all who made it possible for your nourishment and pleasure.
* Chew each mouthful well.
* Drink pure water.
* Exercise.


CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT THAT ENHANCES DIGESTION

* Quiet and peaceful (candles, soothing music)
* Low incandescent lighting
* Exercise.


AVOID "FOODS" THAT DECREASE VITALITY AND INCREASE STRESS

* Genetically modified
* Irradiated
* Cooked in a microwave oven.
* Refined (white flour, white rice, all grains that have the germ and the bran removed). Processed (all junk food; most snack foods).
* High glycemic. These sugary, starchy foods affect blood sugar levels and weight management.
* Hydrogenated (margarine; vegetable shortening, lard).
* Containing additives (chemicals and hormones), preservatives or color dyes
* Artificial sweeteners—all of them
* Coffee whiteners
* Canned.


AVOID EATING HABITS THAT DECREASE VITALITY AND INCREASE STRESS

* Eating more than the body can digest at a meal
* Drinking with meals dilutes digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid in the stomach
* Bolting food down.
* Being distracted.
* Eating while feeling tense or emotionally upset—very acid forming.
* Arguing while eating—more acid in the system


AVOID ENVIRONMENTS (INNER & OUTER) THAT WEAKEN DIGESTION

* Noisy
* Fluorescent or halogen lighting
* Drugs
* Worry
* Negative emotions

This article from http://www.2012unlimited.net/Vibrations_of_foods.html

Challenges: Is it possible for me to live a life drama free?

Triumphs: Every moment we are being given chances to add to the Light of the World and to improve the quality of life for ourselves and all Humanity - www.eraofpeace.org

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: Water with lemon juice squeezed in it. Sweet sweet blackberries and strawberries! mmm mmm mmm!

Lunch: A avocado with walnuts.

Dinner: Crunchy home made potato wedges with a tomato basil sauce :) Veggies on the side : zucchini, broccoli, spinach and eggplant cooked in olive oil.

Dessert: No dessert.

Snacks: Blackberries and strawberries!

Recipe: Recipe for the home made potato wedges and tomato basil sauce will be in my book being released November 2010!

Exercise: My body was exercised today by walking :)

181 days to go!!!

Day 185

Thoughts: Are you rotting from the inside out? The following are questions to Dr. Robert Young and his answers on how emotions can make us sick, tired and fat.

Can negative emotions affect the body's pH? Can negative emotions affect our bodies' health?

Dr. Robert O. Young: My research has continuously supported the theory that there is only one sickness and only one disease. This 25 year body of knowledge, based on the live and dry blood microscopy and dietary management of over 25,000 people, not only considers how your diet affects your physiology, but also how your psychology affects your physiology.

Your mental state is so very critical. Your mental state, in many ways, if it's negative, can create more metabolic acids than the food that you're eating. In fact, you can create two or three times more metabolic acids from your thoughts and your mental state than from ingesting acidic foods, such as dairy or animal protein.

So your thoughts are critical. Your thoughts or words do become matter and can affect your physiology in a negative or positive way. †And the way your thoughts become biology is as follows: when you have a thought, that thought requires energy for the brain cells to produce that thought. As you carry on with any thought that are having, you are using energy. †And when you are using energy, you produce a biological waste product called, acid. †If the metabolic acids from your thoughts are not properly eliminated through the four channels of elimination--urination, perspiration, respiration and defecation--then the acids from your thoughts are moved out into your fatty tissues and connective tissues. This leads to all sorts of symtomologies such as lupus, fibromyalgia, arthritis, muscle pain, fatigue, tiredness, obesity, cancerous breasts, cancerous prostate, indigestion, acid reflux, heart burn, heart attacks, and the list goes on and on.

For example let's say you are doing sadness or depression. And you are looping a negative experience in your head. Let's say you are constantly thinking about it, it's always on your mind, and you are worried about what you are thinking. You might say you are having feelings or being emotional. Emotions are "energy in motion." When you see someone that's emotional, they are energetic, either in a positive or negative way. And if they are energetic, they are "energy in motion." They are producing metabolic acids at a high rate. The rate of acid production is greater than someone who's jogging or working out. So, your thoughts become biology or metabolic acids that can make you sick, tired and fat.

When you start producing acids with your thoughts, this will activate the alkaline buffering system to neutralize these acids. If these acids are not buffered and/or eliminated, they can create serious health challenges in your body. Positive emotions, such as love, peace, hope, faith, and forgiveness, can all be alkalizing to the blood and tissues. The negative emotions of anger, resentment, and fear are the most powerful and acidifying of all emotions. The fear of the unknown is probably the most powerful and acidic of them all. Fear is so devastating to the body that even if you're on an alkaline diet, overcoming a serious health challenge is practically impossible. †In that kind of situation, you might think that the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet isn't working. You start thinking "what else am I not doing? †What's the matter with me? How come I feel the way that I'm feeling? Something else is wrong. I'm eating the right way and I'm drinking the right water. What's going to happen? What can I do? I'm doing what I'm supposed to, yet, I can't seem to have the type of health and energy that I'm seeking!"

The reason why you don't have the health you are seeking?
You are being consumed by all of these and similar types of negative acidic thoughts. People have "thought attacks" NOT "heart attacks." There are published studies showing that over 80% of all heart attacks are emotionally triggered. †People don't just die of a heart attack. They die of a long series of thought attacks, or even one violent and powerful emotional thought attack, that leads to the heart attack.

If a person is eating 100% alkaline diet and is still overwhelmed by negative emotions, can their body fluids stay alkaline? Can these negative emotions overwhelm a 100% alkaline diet?

If you're eating an alkaline diet and you're overwhelmed with negative emotions, then thank God that you're eating an alkaline diet or you'd be dead or too soon dead. Your acidic emotions can kill you. But the alkaline diet is the saving grace of all of this and provides the hope that you can hang on and be healthy both physically AND mentally. You can live without food for forty days, you can live without water for four days, you can live without air for about four minutes, but you cannot live without hope for more than a second. †Hope is the key and that's what a alkaline diet will also do for you. †It will give you understanding, insights, confidence, positive expectation--which is HOPE. †It leads to greater peacefulness which comes with hope. †An alkaline diet gives you the hope and expectations you need to breathe better, to start drinking the right kind of water, and to start eating the right kind of food that will lead you back to the right emotions so that you can start feeling better.

Do emotions have a stronger effect to create body acidity than foods?

Absolutely! As I have mentioned earlier, your emotions are energy in motion. And when you are consuming energy in your emotions you produce biological waste products called acid. When I have a client that's in negative acid-forming emotions, all the body fluids, including the blood, will show a decline in the pH even if this person has been eating an alkaline diet. In order to buffer the acid-forming emotions, the client will have to hyper-alkalize the blood and then tissues to bring the body back into alkaline balance. When the client is hyper-alkalizing, the pH of the urine will increase into the high 8's and 9's. Hyper-alkalization is necessary in order to overcompensate for the negative acidic producing emotions and to bring the body back to health, energy, vitality, hope, peace, harmony and love.

Can our emotions cause cancer?

Absolutely. This is beyond doubt and there is much research from both traditional and alternative schools of study to demonstrate this. †I have said that cancer is a four letter word - ACID. When you are doing negative acidic emotions such as anger, revenge, hate, sadness or depression, you are creating metabolic acids that can cause ANY and ALL cancerous conditions of the body tissues. If metabolic acids are not removed via urination, perspiration, defecation or respiration, then they are delivered to the body tissues. When constant excess acid from negative emotions are poured into the body tissues, the body tissues will degenerate causing a cancerous condition. Pharmaceutical companies are creating drugs that may give you the illusion of feeling better, but they DO NOT deal with the metabolic acids from negative acidic emotions. This can only lead to more physical and emotional pain.

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Challenges: Stagnant energy is like sticky thick brown nutty poop.

Triumphs: When I am being energetic, I am energy moving.

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: Water with lemon squeezed in it. Sweet sweet friendly pineapple!

Lunch: Avocado. A beet, carrot, celery and ginger juice.

Dinner: Brazilian Black Beans! Recipe below!



Dessert: A camomile tea using the flowers we found at the Spanish store! With peanut butter chocolate balls, blackberries and strawberries! Mmm mmm mmm my favourite dessert!



Snacks: Strawberries and blackberries and pineapple! Wow what a delicious bunch of fruits together on one sentence ;)

Recipe: The recipe for Brazilian Black Beans and others in The Earth Diet book being released this November!

Brazilian Black Beans
-Time 1 hour

* 2 bay leaves
* 1 package dried black beans

Saute:

* 1 large minced white onion
* Chilli optional
* 3 cloves garlic chopped
* 3/4 bunch of parsley finely chopped (no stems)
* Himalayan or sea salt
* Grind whole pepper
* 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
* 1 tbsp Paprika
* 1 tbsp Chilli powder
* 1 tbsp Cummin
* Quick dash of Cayene powder
* 1 tbsp corriander dried herbs or 3 tbsp fresh
* 1 tbsp corriander seeds


Soak beans over night.

Combine beans, and bay leaves in a large pot and add enough water
to cover beans at least 3 inches. Cook 45 minutes in a pressure cooker.

While that is cooking, in a large saute pan, saute onion, garlic, and parsley on a low flame. Add salt and pepper to taste and cook until onions are translucent.

When beans are finished cooking, combine onion mixture to the beans. Add all other herbs and spices and cook uncovered, 20 more minutes, or until beans have a thick consistency.

I served mine over brown rice cooked with paprika which makes them rich and creamy!

Exercise: Today I exercised my love, body and mind from doing some gardening. We planted some purple flowers, tomatoes and cucumber along side the spring onion and kale and other shrubs. I work out different things when I garden compared to the gym, I work out my fingers, my inner core strength, my mental strength, my integrity and clarity. I much prefer the garden workout :) Have you ever garden worked out.

180 days to go!!!

Day 186

Thoughts: You may or may not have seen the article today about the 83-year-old Indian man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water. Well he has certainly astounded the majority of the population including a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period.

The majority of the population find this fascinating or unbelievable. Some of you know this as truth. How you know this as truth depends on your consciousness.

Some people don't believe it and dismiss it as "Mabye theres a chees burger in that beard and a bottle of water under his chin?" Mark Seattle WA (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:29 PM

Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a hospital in the western India state of Gujarat under constant surveillance from a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed circuit television. During the period, he neither ate nor drank and did not go to the toilet.

Certain consciousness will simply not understand this, "We still do not know how he survives," neurologist Sudhir Shah told reporters after the end of the experiment. "It is still a mystery what kind of phenomenon this is."

Gurdjieff a spiritual leader said "It's astonishing how little of ourselves we feel, even physically. We live in our body and normally sense it very little, in any conscious way. And it's correspondingly amazing how much transpires emotionally and instinctively in us, which we normally do not feel. Most psychologists agree we are driven by unconscious impulses; many acknowledge a "script" driving our responses - but do we sense these patterns in ourselves?"

The DRDO hopes that the findings, set to be released in greater detail in several months, could help soldiers survive without food and drink, assist astronauts or even save the lives of people trapped in natural disasters.

"(Jani's) only contact with any kind of fluid was during gargling and bathing periodically during the period," G. Ilavazahagan, director of India's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), said in a statement.

Jani has since returned to his village near Ambaji in northern Gujarat where he will resume his routine of yoga and meditation.

A common question asked is 'well is he healthy?' During the 15-day observation, which ended on Thursday, the doctors took scans of Jani's organs, brain, and blood vessels, as well as doing tests on his heart, lungs and memory capacity.

Other results from DNA analysis, molecular biological studies and tests on his hormones, enzymes, energy metabolism and genes will take months to come through.

"If Jani does not derive energy from food and water, he must be doing that from energy sources around him, sunlight being one," said Shah.

"As medical practitioners we cannot shut our eyes to possibilities, to a source of energy other than calories."

So what about those displaced populations who lack food and water? Why are they dying?

Van Rooyen says that depending on climate conditions like temperature and humidity, an ordinary human could survive five or six days without water, maybe a day or two longer in extraordinary circumstances. We can go much longer without food – even up to three months if that person is taking liquids fortified with vitamins and electrolytes.

Bob Dylan sang. One can go with the general current, manifesting a semiconscious existence, generating a crude grade of energies to be used by the cosmos on one level - or one can choose the harder Way, to try to be, to consciously evolve, and move toward the capacity to receive and to generate a finer energy, in a higher service to the forces of creation. Either way, nothing is wasted - which idea dovetails with scientific observations of nature: Everything, in nature, is "food" for something; everything is utilized.


Gandhi was also known to go long stretches without food, including a 21-day hunger strike in 1932.

Prahlad Jani claims he has survived without food and water for more than seven decades.

You can see humans skepticism when we hear of such extraordinary events like these. "The human body cannot survive without it. The effects of food and water deprivation are profound" Van Rooyen explained. “Ultimately, instead of metabolizing sugar and glycogen [the body’s energy sources] you start to metabolize fat and then cause muscle breakdown. Without food, your body chemistry changes. Profoundly malnourished people autodigest, they consume their own body’s resources. You get liver failure, tachycardia, heart strain. You fall apart.” Well this man had better not try living without food or water. His thoughts do not permit it. He is not open to it. For one to be able to survive on this, it would take a thought pattern to have it be truth.

Some people on Earth do get it, "What this yogi is doing has been done by yogi's for millenia. It is an amazing feat in that it is real and it took this particular man an almost inconceivable of discipline to achieve. Our physicists are just beginning to skim the finest surface of understanding of our human potential and while going without food for so long may not seem to serve a purpose - it is one of many ways to make the journey inward that we all must make eventually. We are all connected and when one achieves the level of discipline and inward seeking that this man has - it is for all of us." John Patton (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:27 PM)

"What western medicine fails to recognize is that the human body has many secrets and capacities that few have explored. The human organism is not merely mechanical. And the capacity of the universe to surprise us with the unexpected should make modern doctors be more humble. For example: doctors dismissed germ theory as bunk just a 150 years ago. "Wash my hands? What rubbish." Be open minded and humble you masters of medicine and the knife!!" Chuck Henderson (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:28 PM)

"This can be a real event where a person gains his energy from other sources which are not nutritional in the usual sense. A term sometimes used is "breathers" getting energy from the prana in the environment." F, Jackson, MS (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:30 PM)

"Just another "breathairian... one who survives only by breathing air. This myth has been around a long time. Just wait long enough, and you'll see them sneaking in a twinky." C Norris, AZ (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:31 PM)

"We are spiritual being just having human experience and for many yogis that can transcend this dimension and exist in the 4th dimension which is beyond man's common understand." R W Arnold (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:31 PM)

It is beyond my common understanding, which reminds me that I am only scratching at the surface of my own consciousness and what is really possible.

"It not just about logic or reality because logic and reality in the 4th dimension is the illusion.

It may truly be an example of mind over matter. These are things that enligtened being have been doing since the beginning of time...Jesus stated, "You will do things even greater than I.

Study Quantum Physics......"

Dr. Elon Bomani, Missouri City, Tx. (Monday, May 10, 2010 8:32 PM)

The human body is a machine, plain and simple.



References below.

This blog thanks to Mike Baniasadi.

Challenges: “Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy” - Denis Diderot - French Philosopher

Triumphs: “In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically” - Vincent van Gogh

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: Water with lemon. Strawberries! A beet, carrot, celery, ginger juice.

Lunch: Brazilian Black Beans with brown rice from last nights creation. Mmm a hott creamy dish!

Dinner: Balls of chocolate with peanut butter. Yes I eat this for dinner! Yum yum yum! Just like the yogi showed - there is not set way we have to be - breakfast lunch and dinner are not necessary unless you say they are necessary.

Dessert: Sweet sweet Pineapple!

Snacks: Peanuts :)

Recipe: Mmmm recipes for balls of chocolate will be in the earth diet book that is published this November!

Exercise: Today I exercised my mind. I sat in a hott hott bath with epsom salts and lavender. I had the shower curtain closed so it was like my own little sauna. I sat in darkness with 2 candles burning their light, with some soft wordless music. The idea for the epsom salts bath is to relax the muscles and sweat out the toxins. There is always a point where your mind will say 'time to get out - too hott' and at that point I exercise the power of my mind - to stay in the bath until I feel my organs sweating! After the 'torture' period - and I say torture as it's like a battle between my mind and self. It's a very similar to experience to that of doing Bikram Yoga. :)

179 days to go!!!

References:
http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/05/10/2299480.aspx?GT1=43001
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/7205265/starving-yogi-astounds-indian-scientists/
teachings from Gurdjieff
www.elonbomani.com
http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/jsgurd.html

Day 187

Thoughts: A blast from the past, I found this article today from SCIENCE NEWS, March 30 1991 :

"Shocking" Treatment Proposed For AIDS

Zapping the AIDS virus with low voltage electric current can nearly eliminate its ability to infect human white blood cells cultured in the laboratory, reports a research team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. William D Lyman and his colleagues found that exposure to 50 to 100 microamperes of electricity - comparable to that produced by a cardiac pacemaker - reduced the infectivity of the AIDS virus (HIV) by 50 to 95 percent.

Their experiments, described March 14 in Washington D.C., at the First International Symposium on Combination Therapies, showed that the shocked viruses lost the ability to make an enzyme crucial to their reproduction, and could no longer cause the white cells to clump together - two key signs of virus infection. The finding could lead to tests of implantable electrical devices or dialysis-like blood treatments in HIV-infected patients Lyman says. In addition, he suggests that blood banks might use electricity to zap HIV, and vaccine developers might use electrically incapacitated viruses as the basis for an AIDS vaccine.

Before you can grasp the 'how' and 'why', before you can accept the very idea ­ yet alone the fact­that there is a treatment for every disease there is, you must understand the following information taken from Dr. Robert Beck's talks.

Mankind has the technology not only enabling him to go to the Moon but to send spaceships out of this solar system and we are asked to believe that modern 'medical science' cannot even cure the common cold. The health care system of every country is hopelessly bankrupt. We allow highly toxic chemicals to be put into our soil, spray on our crops, deliberately poison our water ways and reservoirs and the people wonder why they are getting sicker and sicker every year.

There is one simple reason why all this just goes on and on. It is a five letter word; m-o-n-e-y! While there is nothing wrong with earning money for a living, there is something very, very wrong when some people injure and kill others for it.

In one of his video taped lectures, "Blood Cleaning Device", Bob Beck summed it up nicely in just one sentence, " A patient cured is a customer lost."

Nowadays it is common knowledge that all living cells are tiny electro-magnetic organisms. Their field strength is absolutely minuscule. Any external electromagnetic force is either disturbing its functions and/or killing it and so it is easy to see that a certain amount of electricity kills every living organism, without a single exception! (Even medical science admits ­ in certain well guarded reports ­ that all viruses. bacteria fungi. microbes. etc. ­ are all very 'sensitive' to electrical changes) Medical science has done some good work and amongst other things they have found that the protective shell around our body cells are 100,000 times ­ yes, one hundred thousand times ­ stronger than the protective shell around pathogens.

The 'trick' was to find a method of application of the voltage and current levels (and to some degree the frequency, since everything has a 'resonance' frequency) to effectively disable or kill all pathogens and other invaders ­ without harming our body cells.

The 27 volt 'blood cleaner' feeds several milliamperes of current into your skin right above your two arteries, on the same wrist. Between these two points there is about 50cc of blood. Only about 50 to 100 microamperes of this current is going into the blood.

Since this is a vast subject, the intention of this short paper is only to introduce you to the basic principles of this relatively new healing method. If you want to learn more, there is lots of information available from many sources. However, the best source of information on the 27 volt blood cleaner is from the man who originated the in vivo (in the body) cleaning of the blood, Dr. Robert (Bob) C. Beck. He has given numerous lectures and some have been recorded on both audio and video tapes and are available. Keep one of these electronic devices in your medicine cabinet. When they release their new, genetically engineered viruses, you will be safe.

A quote from The Australian magazine, April 4, 1998: "Perhaps an explanation can be found in the Australian Government's own study released in 1995. Every year, 18,000 people die, it says, and 50,000 suffer "permanent disability" from complications caused by healthcare"

As for you, the reader of this paper, if you are not willing to look into this and try it for your self, it is your loss. You are the one who may be suffering, not me. I have already got rid of all my problems and so have many, many others I cannot talk about.

I no longer visit doctor's surgeries, I don't take drugs of any kind, not even a single Aspirin or Panadol. I am 60 years old and I feel better now than when I was 40.

Align probes parallel to pulse. This figure illustrates the hypothetical placement of the two probes on the same wrist.A double sided hook-and-loop (Velcro) strap can be used to hold the probes in place. It is easier to place the electrodes on the body if you first place the Velcro strap around the wrist, and then insert the electrodes under the strap.

This article was well hidden. Or I did not just call it into existence until now.

Reference below.



Challenges: What is the solution to the human species?

Triumphs: We are each others blood brothers.

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: water with lemon juice. Oats. Grapefruit.

Lunch: A cucumber, apple and ginger juice mmm mmm refreshing! A avocado.

Dinner: Curry potatoes. Ingredients : Green chilli, brown onion, garlic mmm chopped potatoes, milk from the coconut, crispy broccoli, green beans, and a dash of agave nectar for a sweet spicy green curry.

Dessert: Sweet sweet pineapple.

Snacks: Oats with agave nectar. 2 handfuls of peanuts in their shells - the best bit it cracking the nut cases open.

Recipe: Recipe for sweet spicy green curry potatoes in the earth diet book being published this November!

Exercise: I exercised the power of my mind in another epsom salts and lavender bath today. I exercised my physical self today by walking to the library and around Amityville.

178 days to go!!!

http://www.2012unlimited.net/treatmentE.html

Day 181

Thoughts: Why do fruits and vegetables cost more than things in a box?

Why is it cheaper to make unhealthy choices than it is to make healthy choices? Are we being rewarded for making consistent unhealthy choices?

Are fruits and vegetables becoming a luxury item?

I always wondered this, until I stop wondering on this day and chose to find out and let you guys know.

Well it started well after cattle domestication first begun. It was at a time of technology where humans could travel across the oceans to see a different kind of human being. The human beings of that time were playing with technology and new creations and certain people had stumbled, and I purposely placed the word stumbled, can you imagine sanely thinking, well if I mix these two main ingredients cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine and I will sell it for a patent medicine for five cents and call it coca cola? and so they stumbled across these new recipes and they decided that these new recipes would now be loved by the population. These were recipes like coca-cola, gum balls, evaporated milk, cracker jacks and instant mash potato, jello and nutella. These recipes were never tasted before and people were seeing a brand new thing that had never existed in life before. They were fascinated and loved these new things, so people went with it. Everyone agreed and everyone was happy. So the companies were happy that they were making money off these recipes, and the people were happy that the companies were making them. Then a few fellows had thought why don't we start a company that will appear to protect the people's health, and we will actually be paid by the food companies as it will be us who sells millions more for them. "How do we do that?" asked the quietest speaker. Well he was shot. Now the who that are left are all on the same page, and that page is the one which tells the story of lets make it cheaper to buy food from the supermarket than it is to buy food from the farmers. The cheaper it is the more people will be in supermarkets. And it is there that we will sell them other things as the walls will be smothered in advertising. Because there is this thing that everyone loves to hate and hates to love made from paper in a factory called money. So then they will get sick and unhealthy from all these new recipes and they will need something to make them feel better. As everyone thinks that feeling better is better. So we will make them things, and tell them those things will make them better, and then when they buy those things they will believe it will make them better, because they believe us we are in power, and then they will be better. And that's how the system is, and that's how it stays. And if anyone tries to change that system, oh we will make their life hell that they will want to stop ... Kevin Trudeau.

Well hehe that's my story of how it went, and yes I went into a darker mind, as I believe only darker minds could plot this way. This is the system.

This is what other people say when I researched in the universal conversation called internet:

The cost is excess hunger. The precipitous drop in blood sugar triggers primal mechanisms in the brain: "The brain thinks the body is starving," David Ludwig explains. "It doesn’t care about the 30 pounds of fat socked away, so it sends you to the refrigerator to get a quick fix, like a can of soda." Ironically, U.S. government agencies’ attempts to deal with obesity during the last three decades—encouraging people to eat less fat and more carbohydrates, for example—actually may have exacerbated the problem.

Take the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Guide Pyramid, first promulgated in 1992. The pyramid’s diagram of dietary recommendations is a familiar sight on cereal boxes—hardly a coincidence, since the guidelines suggest six to 11 servings daily from the "bread, cereal, rice, and pasta" group. The USDA recommends eating more of these starches than any other category of food. Unfortunately, such starches are nearly all high-glycemic carbohydrates, which drive obesity, hyperinsulinemia, and Type II diabetes. "At best, the USDA pyramid offers wishy-washy, scientifically unfounded advice on an absolutely vital topic—what to eat," writes Willett in Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy. "At worst, the misinformation contributes to overweight, poor health, and unnecessary early deaths.

"The food industry is huge and exerts enormous influence on government policy. Clearly, some food industries have for many years successfully influenced the government in ways that keep the prices of certain foods artificially low."



David Ludwig questions farm subsidies of "billions to the lowest-quality foods"—for example, grains like corn ("for corn sweeteners and animal feed to make Big Macs") and wheat ("refined carbohydrates.") Meanwhile, the government does not subsidize far healthier items like fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts. "It’s a perverse situation," he says. "The foods that are the worst for us have an artificially low price, and the best foods cost more. This is worse than a free market: we are creating a mirror-world here."

The 1950s was an era in which the kitchen—not the television room—was the heart of the home. "In some ways, you can see obesity as the tip of the iceberg, sitting on top of huge societal issues," says Willett. "There are enormous pressures on homes with both the husband and wife in the work force. One reason things need to be fast is that Mum is not at home preparing meals and waiting for the kids to come home from school any more. She is out there in the office all day, commuting home, and maybe working extra hours at night. This means heating something in the microwave or hitting the drive-through at McDonald’s. There really is a time issue—people do have less time. Yet, look at the number of hours spent watching television. Somehow we’ve lost an element of creativity and control over our lives. All too many people have become passive."

Personal responsibility surely does play a role, but we also live in a "toxic environment" that in many ways discourages healthy eating, says Ludwig. "There’s the incessant advertising and marketing of the poorest quality foods imaginable. To address this epidemic, you’d want to make healthful foods widely available, inexpensive, and convenient, and unhealthful foods relatively less so. Instead, we’ve done the opposite."

We are awash in edibles shipped in from around the planet; seasonality has largely disappeared. Food obtrudes itself constantly, seductively, into our lives—on sidewalks, in airplanes, at gas stations and movie theaters. Humans can eat convenient, refined, highly processed food with great speed, enabling them to consume an astonishing caloric load—literally thousands of calories—in minutes.

Pumping up portion size makes good business sense, because the cost of ingredients like sugar and water for a carbonated soda is so small, and customers perceive the larger amount as delivering greater value. The French aren’t so interested in the amount of food; they are more concerned with its quality. The restaurant industry—which employs 12 million workers (second only to government) and has projected sales of $440.1 billion this year.

The obesity epidemic arrived with astonishing speed. After tens of thousands of generations of human evolution, flab has become widespread only in the past 50 years, and waistlines have ballooned exponentially in the last two decades. In 1980, 46 percent of U.S. adults were overweight; by 2000, the figure was 64.5 percent. Childhood obesity, also once rare, has mushroomed: 15 percent of children between ages six and 19 are now overweight, and even 10 percent of those between two and five. "This may be the first generation of children who will die before their parents," Foreyt says.

Healthy eating really does cost more, the New York Times reported.

According to the paper, "That's what University of Washington researchers found when they compared the prices of 370 foods sold at supermarkets in the Seattle area. Calorie for calorie, junk foods not only cost less than fruits and vegetables, but junk food prices also are less likely to rise as a result of inflation. The findings, reported in the current issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, may help explain why the highest rates of obesity are seen among people in lower-income groups."

The study's lead author Adam Drewnowski came to this obvious conclusion:

“If you have $3 to feed yourself, your choices gravitate toward foods which give you the most calories per dollar. Not only are the empty calories cheaper, but the healthy foods are becoming more and more expensive. Vegetables and fruits are rapidly becoming luxury goods.”

"Chances are pretty good that if you're poor you're going to opt for junk food that gives you the most calorie bang for your buck. You're more than likely to buy potato chips than carrot sticks. That in turn is going to lead to more poor folks becoming obese. This is a particularly knotty problem with no easy solutions." - Serious Seats

The food industry’s major objective is to get us to intake more food, the restaurant industry’s major objective is to get us to eat there more often, the drug industry major objective is to get us to use more drugs and the TV industry’s objective is to get us to watch more television, to be sedentary. Advertising is the action that keeps them both successful. So you’ve got these huge industries being successful at what they are supposed to do: creating more intake and less activity. And since larger people require more food energy just to sustain themselves, the food industry is growing a larger market for itself.

In 1978, they note, only 8 percent of homes had microwave ovens, but 83 percent do today. Food that once took hours to prepare is now "nuked" in minutes. Cities are designed for automobiles, not for healthier ways of getting about like walking or bicycling. "In fact, we’ve made it dangerous and unattractive to do so. Our bodies were not designed to handle so much caloric input and so little energy outflow.It's becoming so obvious and so easy for us to see these days, how our eating habits and sickness is linked to billions of dollars. People's bodies are adjusting to the new environment, and that new body is obese.

We are all in this. Every human being on the planet, there is not one person to blame or 3 or 10 people to blame. I do not blame anyone. I know I am in it. What does blaming got to do with anything anyway? The restaurant owners are winning, the drug companies are winning, the manufacturers are winning, the people are winning that have a job in the factories, the stock traders get to win, we get to win because we like the food. It is a working world.

“A hundred years ago there was no such thing as a snack food—nothing you could pop open and overeat”, says Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook

References below.

Challenges: You pay more for healthier food. For organic produce.

Triumphs: You pay more for healthier food ...... so... soo what???! Hehe

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: Water with lemon. The last strawberry and the last 6 blackberries! Time to replenish!

Lunch: Avocado. A generous amount of peanuts! Brown rice :)

Dinner: Brown rice with basil potatoes! Last night's creation! Mmmm a sweet mix of basil, garlic, onion, carrot, zucchini, chilly, basil, lots of basil, coriander, and potatoes! Mmm chunky soft pieces of potatoe!

Dessert: Chocolate balls with pecans and peanuts! The p's are in town! And town is in my mouth! Hehe ;)

Recipe: Recipe for chocolate balls and basil potatoes are in my book coming out in November! So if you make it to November - check it out!

Exercise: I exercised today ... hmmm what did I exercise today? (You are witnessing my thought process here! Hehe) I exercised my lower legs walking up and down the stairs in our apartment quiet a bit, and I exercised my self - literally, I exercised generating myself new each moment, obviously it happens minimal as I allow my chittery chattery mind to come in and play! Hehe!

184 days to go!!!

---Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999 (p. 41-2)
http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/12/junk-food-costs-less-than-fruits-and-vegetabl.html
--Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Andrew F. Smith editor [Oxford University Press:New York] 2004, Volume 2 (p. 65-7)
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/06.13/01-cooking.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#History
Read more: http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/12/junk-food-costs-less-than-fruits-and-vegetabl.html#ixzz0nC4NdYgu

Day 180

Thoughts: The evolution of food.

If I had created 'The Earth Diet' before the 1st century the human beings who occupied the earth at the time would have laughed at me. Eating purely foods naturally provided by the earth is not the 'Newest Thing'. In fact, it's the oldest thing. Humans started out eating only what nature intended. We began to create new recipes, pastries, white bread, milk shakes, jelly beans, hot dogs, tv dinners, sugars and processed foods only after we mastered the technology to create it. The natural foods like fruits, vegetables and nuts we eat are not invented; they evolve. If you have ever wondered about the history of food, you don't have to anymore, I did the hours of research for you! I found it fascinating to trek all the way back to BC (Before Christ) today and see how our food has evolved : (And remember I did not write history, I wrote this using all the resources available to me today)

Water, ice, salt, oysters, shellfish and fish, eggs, mushrooms, insects, rice and millet were all traced back earlier than 10,000BC.

10,000BC Agriculture begins
10,000BC Bread, beer and soup
10,000BC Almonds and cherries
9,000BC Sheep
8,000BC Wheat, apples, lentils
7,000BC Pork and pistachios, beans: old world & new world, walnuts
6,500BC Cattle domestication
6,000BC Wine and spelt, maize and tortillas, dates and broccoli
5,500BC Honey, chickpeas & lettuce
5,000BC Olives and olive oil, cucumbers and squash, chilli peppers, avocados, potatoes, milk & yogurt
4,000BC Yeast breads: pitta and focaccia
4,000BC Grapes, watermelons, oranges
3,600BC Popcorn
3,200BC Chicken domestication
3,000BC Butter & palm oil, barley, peas, carrots, onions, garlic, spices
3,000BC Ice cream
2,900BC Figs, soybeans
2,737BC Tea
2,700BC Rhubarb
2,500BC Duck
2,000BC Pasta and noodles, radishes, carob, marshmallows & liquorice
1,500BC Peanuts, chocolate (cocao bean) & vanilla, horseradish
1,490BC Raisins
1,200BC Sugar
1,000BC Pickles, peaches, oats
900BC Polenta
900BC Tomatoes
850BC Celery
750BC Cider
700BC Cinnamon
600BC Cabbage
500BC Italian sausages & artichokes
200BC Turkeys and asparagus
55BC Devon cattle
1st Century Fried chicken, French toast, flan & cheesecake, The Haggis, lobster, crab and shrimp, truffles, strawberries & raspberries, capers, turnips & kale, chestnuts
3rd Century Lemons
4th Century Beets and bananas
5th Century Vinegar, pastries & appetizers, Anglo Saxon foods, peppercorns and gardencress, pretzels
6th century Eggplant
7th Century Kimchi,
9th Century Halva & goulash, coffee, cod
10th Century Medieval food, Peking duck
11th Century Lychees, corned beef & cider
12th Century Breadfruit,
13th Century Ravioli, lasagne, pancakes, waffles, couscous
14th Century Scrambled eggs, guacamole, pie, Mexican limes, kebabs,
15th Century Coconuts, sushi & sashimi
1475 Pork and beans
1490 First stove built in Alsace, France
1493 Pineapples, cows in America
1495 Marmalade
16th Century Salsa, quiche, puff paste, teriyaki chicken, pecans, papayas, turkeys in Europe, cashews, Japanese tempura, brandy
1517 Sweet potatoes in Europe
1529 Vanilla in Europe
1544 Tomatoes in Europe
1554 Camembert cheese
1587 Brussels sprouts
1590 Shakespeares food
1596 English trifle, skim milk
1597 Potato salad
1599 Hasty pudding
17th Century Pralines & coffee cake, cream puffs & éclairs, maple syrup, modern ice cream, cranberries in America, doughnuts in America, corn bread, hoe cakes, spoonbread, cheese pie, shortbread, French onion soup, salad
1604 Raspberry Jelly
1610 Bagels
1615 Coffee in Europe
1650 Rum
1653 Pumpkin pie and lemonade
1686 Croissants
1690 Rice in South Caroline
1691 Lemon meringue pie
18th Century Crab cakes, English muffins & chowder, sticky buns, Dutch Cuisine, coffee in America, root beer, French fries & ketchup
1708 Casseroles
1740 Pound cakes & cupcakes
1747 Mashed potatoes
1750 Grapefruit
1775 Dried apples
1756 Mayonnaise & tartar sauce
1762 Sandwhiches
1764 Bakers chocolate
1765 The first restaurant (paris)
1767 Soda water
1769 Tofu in America
1781 Tomatoes in America
1784 Lollipops
1786 Deviled eggs
1787 Toad-in-a-hole
19th Century Wedding cake, shepherds pie and pickled peppers, canapés & hamburgers, Sally Lunn, Victorian Era, hotdogs, The history of the calorie began in the mid-nineteenth century.
1807 Ice cream cones
1811 Corn syrup
1817 Toffee and butterscotch
1820 Lady fingers
1824 Steak sauce
1825 First metal cans for canned food
1828 Macadamia nuts
1830 Softdrinks in America
1835 Worcestershire sauce
1847 Chinese food in America, vanilla extract, peanut brittle
1848 Pesto, commercial chewing gum
1849 Sourdough bread, Cadbury chocolate
1850 Modern marshmellows
1855 Boston cream pie
1856 Condensed milk
1857 Australian James Harrison developed the world first practical ice making machine and refrigeration system,
1859 Baking powder
1860 Fish and chips, ice tea, can opener
1861 Beef stoganoff
1863 Breakfast cereal, fruit salad
1867 Synthetic baby food
1868 Tabasco sauce
1869 Waffle iron
1870 Margarine, California raisins, Neapolitan ice cream
1872 Philadelphia cream cheese
1876 Heinz Ketchup
1877 Campbells soup
1879 Nestle Chocolate , Lindt Chocolate
1880 Passion fruit, French dressing, meat loaf, vending machines for post cards in London
1883 Christmas pudding
1885 Milk shakes and Dr pepper, evaporated milk
1886 Coca Cola, pecan pie
1888 First vending machines in USA, New York city selling tutti-fruity gum,
1889 Pizza
1890 Ice cream sundaes, lipton tea
1891 Cafeteria Kansas City
1893 Cracker jacks, fudge
1894 Hershey bars, eggs Benedict, chilli powder
1895 Peanut butter, shredded coconut
1896 Oatmeal cookies
1897 Jello, 1000 island dressing, cotton candy, chocolate brownies
1898 Jelly beans and candy corn, pepsi
1900 Oysters kirkpatrick
1901 Peanut butter & jelly
1903 Canned tuna
1905 New York pizza, submarine sandwiches
1906 Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
1907 Gum ball machines
1912 Oreos
1914 Anzac biscuits
1917 Moon pies
1918 Fortune cookies
1920 First vending machine to dispense sodas into cups
1921 Wheaties, zucchini
1922 Gummi bears, vegemite, girl scout cookies, blender
1923 Popsicles
1924 Frozen foods, Caesar salad
1926 Ice cream sandwich
1927 S’mores
1928 Health bars
1930 Twinkies, pavlova cake, banana bread, soufflé
1931 Tacos, dry soup mix, refrigerator biscuits
1933 Peanut butter cookies
1934 Hawaiian punch, Ritz crackers
1935 Sloppy joes, jagermeister, cheeseburger (Humpty Dumpty Drive-in)
1936 Dagwood sandwhiches, drive in restaurants Glendale California
1937 Spam & krispy kreme, chicken kiev
1938 Canned soda, chicken & waffles
1940 Vending machine for coca-cola and pepsi
1941 M & Ms, cherries
1942 Corndogs
1943 Irish coffee & nachos, Chicago style pizza
1946 Nutella, instant coffee
1948 Frozen French fries, ready to spread frostings
1949 Seedless watermelon, instant pudding, minute rice
1950 Smoothies, frozen pizza, Kraft process cheese slices, dishwasher, first metal lunch box, Oleomargarine Act requires prominent labeling of colored oleomargarine, to distinguish it from butter. (Yes, swindlers tried to sell folks cheap margarine in the guise of butter.
1952 Diet soda
1953 Tv dinners
1954 Ranch dressing, Mc Donalds
1955 Chex mic
1956 Panini
1958 Instant ramen noddles, Food Additives Amendment enacted, requiring manufacturers of new food additives to establish safety. Going forward, manufacturers were required to declare all additives in a product.
1960 Brown rice in USA, green eggs and ham
1962 Instant mash potato
1964 Buffalo wings & pop tarts, chicken sandwiches (fast food), pita bread
1965 Gatorade & slurpees
1967 High fructose corn syrup
1969 Creamed ground beef
1970 Tiramisu, soft drink bottles grew 20 to 24 ounces
1973 California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) is formed. Begins with 54 farmers mutually certifying each other’s adherence to its own published, publicly available standards for defining organic produce.
1977 Happy Meal at Mc Donalds
1980 Mud pie, pasta salad
1984 Red Bull energy drink
1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) is passed. It requires all packaged foods to bear nutrition labeling and all health claims for foods to be consistent with terms defined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As a concession to food manufacturers, the FDA authorizes some health claims for foods. The food ingredient panel, serving sizes, and terms such as “low fat” and “light” are standardized. This is pretty much the nutrition label as we know it today.
1991 Nutrition facts, basic per-serving nutritional information, are required on foods under the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. Food labels are to list the most important nutrients in an easy-to-follow format.
1998 Grape tomatoes
2001 Omega 3 eggs
2002 The 2002 Farm Bill requires retailers provide country-of-origin (COOL) labeling for fresh beef, pork, and lamb. After repeated debilitation and stakeholder pressures, the law would finally go into effect only 6 years later, on Oct 1, 2008, and even then with many loopholes. AND The National Organic Program (NOP), enacted. It restricts the use of the term “organic” to certified organic producers (USDA).
2003 Announcement made that FDA will require food labels to include trans fat content. Labeling went into effect in 2006.
2004 Passage of the Food Allergy Labeling and Consumer Protection Act. Requires labeling of any food that contains one or more of: peanuts, soybeans, cow’s milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, and wheat. AND Baked Doritos in. Fried Doritos out.
2006 Deep fried coco cola
2009 Smart Choices launches formally with several hundreds of products labeled with the green check mark. Froot Loops becomes the poster child for everything wrong with an industry backed nutrition rating system.
2010 New product introductions like Wrigley’s 5 gum, Genetically Modified Foods

In the last 100 years, the choice of food, the food itself and human dependence upon it has changed more than in any other time in history. Now we have ‘pretend food’. It’s called Genetically modified (GM) foods, which are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering, using a process of either Cisgenesis or Transgenesis. The world population has topped 6 billion people and is predicted to double in the next 50 years. Ensuring an adequate food supply for this booming population is going to be a major challenge in the years to come. Genetically Modified foods promise to meet this need in a number of ways for example pest resistance, crop losses from insect pests can be staggering, cold tolerance and nutrition. Is it possible to continue living on the Earth without GMF?

A beautiful and intelligent friend of mine Leanne Bridges who is studying Anatomy and Physiology at Uni thinks it's dangerous ...

“So what does this mean when we look at genetically modified foods? When you modify the genes of a potato, you are introducing artificially created cells into your bodies cell environment and beyond. These genes attack our internal environment.”

Will we become genetically modified people?

Some call the 21st century ‘the end of living and the beginning of survival’.

In 1855 Chief Seattle wrote ‘Where is the eagle – gone’ to President Franklin Pierce .

“The whites too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than the other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket - gone - where is the eagle - gone - and what is it to say goodbye to the swift and the hunt.” - To read his full letter go to my blog Day 127.

The obesity epidemic arrived with astonishing speed. After tens of thousands of generations of human evolution, flab has become widespread only in the past 50 years, and waistlines have ballooned exponentially in the last two decades. In 1980, 46 percent of U.S. adults were overweight; by 2000, the figure was 64.5 percent. Childhood obesity, also once rare, has mushroomed: 15 percent of children between ages six and 19 are now overweight, and even 10 percent of those between two and five. "This may be the first generation of children who will die before their parents," Foreyt says.

Personal responsibility surely does play a role, but we also live in a "toxic environment" that in many ways discourages healthy eating, says Ludwig. "There’s the incessant advertising and marketing of the poorest quality foods imaginable. To address this epidemic, you’d want to make healthful foods widely available, inexpensive, and convenient, and unhealthful foods relatively less so. Instead, we’ve done the opposite."

We are awash in edibles shipped in from around the planet; seasonality has largely disappeared. Food obtrudes itself constantly, seductively, into our lives—on sidewalks, in airplanes, at gas stations and movie theaters. Humans can eat convenient, refined, highly processed food with great speed, enabling them to consume an astonishing caloric load—literally thousands of calories—in minutes.

Pumping up portion size makes good business sense, because the cost of ingredients like sugar and water for a carbonated soda is so small, and customers perceive the larger amount as delivering greater value. The French aren’t so interested in the amount of food; they are more concerned with its quality. The restaurant industry—which employs 12 million workers (second only to government) and has projected sales of $440.1 billion this year.

“A hundred years ago there was no such thing as a snack food—nothing you could pop open and overeat”, says Mollie Katzen, author of The Moosewood Cookbook

In 1978, they note, only 8 percent of homes had microwave ovens, but 83 percent do today. Food that once took hours to prepare is now "nuked" in minutes. The food industry’s major objective is to get us to intake more food, the restaurant industry’s major objective is to get us to eat there more often, the drug industry major objective is to get us to use more drugs - why would we do that? Because we are sick and have learned that taking these drugs it will make us better and we will feel great and live longer. Cities are designed for automobiles, not for healthier ways of getting about like walking or bicycling. "In fact, we’ve made it dangerous and unattractive to do so,"Our bodies were not designed to handle so much caloric input and so little energy outflow.

It's becoming so obvious and so easy for us to see these days, how our eating habits and sickness is linked to billions of dollars.

So... where to next people? What will the 21st century evolution of food look like?

And it's not good or bad or wrong or right, it is what it is, we have created the earth as it is, and we can re-create it however we want it. How do we want it?

References below.

Challenges: “Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of." Jamie Oliver

Triumphs:Jamie Oliver' - “We just need to re-discover our common sense."

What I Ate Today:

Breakfast: Water with lemon juice. A beet, carrot, celery and ginger juice! A chocolate ball!

Lunch: A avocado. Blackberries, strawberries and a chocolate ball.

Dinner: Basil Potatoes. With garlic, red chilli, onion, broccoli, zucchini, carrot and green beans! Oh it was so delicious! The vegetables and spice absorb each other and it is so rich in flavour!

Dessert: Chocolate balls and strawberries.

Snacks: 2 chocolate balls with 2 strawberries! Oh my have you tried my chocolate balls with strawberries! It is divine. I bite part of the strawberry and part of the rich chocolate ball (with peanut butter that is blended peanuts) and then whirl it around and push it to the top of my mouth where I absorb all the flavours mmm then I open my mouth a little to really taste the rich fruitiness!

Recipe: Recipe for Basil Potatoes will be in my book that is published in November!

Exercise: I exercised my body today and went for a beautiful walk and run in the sunshine and warm wind! Then I came home and danced to two of Travis's songs ... my favourite music! No rules, no dance 'steps', just abstract movin the body! ;)

185 days to go!!!

http://www.foodtimeline.org/
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---The Rituals of Dinner, Margaret Visser [Penguid:New York] 1991 (p. 159-160)
---Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece, Andrew Dalby [Routledge:London] 1996 (p. 12)
---Food and Feast in Medieval England, P.W. Hammond [Wrens Park Publishing:Pheonix Mill] 1993 (p. 104-5)
---Eating Right in the Renaissance, Ken Albala [University of California Press:Berkeley] 2002 (p. 112-3)
---Food in Early Modern Europe, Ken Alabala [Greenwood Press:Westport CT] 2003 (p. 231-4)
The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Gilly Lehmann (various references throughout the book; charts p. 385-6)
--Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Andrew F. Smith editor [Oxford University Press:New York] 2004, Volume 2 (p. 65-7)
http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gum.htm
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/gmfood/overview.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food
---Food in the Ancient World, Joan P. Alcock [Greenwood Press:Westport CT] 2005 (p. 136-8)
---America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking, Keith Stavely & Kathleen Fitzgerald [University of North Carolina Press:Chapel Hill NC] 2004 (p. 178-180)
---Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999 (p. 41-2)
According to an article titled "Serving up chicken and waffles," Los Angeles Business Journal, September 22, 1997 (p.1):