ThanksGiving - A Liberation Wellness Protocol

• Posted by Kevin Brown on November 23, 2009
• 194 comments

  Thanksgiving, the very American holiday which was developed to give thanks to God for all his many blessings is still observed today in the United States but has developed into a much different event. Today, most of the so called 'Holiday', which is short for 'Holy Day', is spent focused on food, family and football. In spite of this, many in America do give thanks to God on Thanksgiving, and for some, it is the only time of the year that they give thanks at all.

The Liberation Diet Book and our adjoining Liberation Wellness movement encourages giving thanks at every meal. If we eat less often, eating becomes more special, and we hope to some more spiritual. It is a reminder that God is faithfully feeding us and providing for us every day of our lives, and bringing this fact into mind is very healthy indeed. God Himself in the Bible emphasizes giving thanks when we eat to sanctify the meal.

As the economy in America gets worse and worse, we should start appreciating more and more the food, clothing and shelter that we have received continually, and we can be thankful for this economic downturn as well, as we realize how dependent we are on Him and His kindness every day.

Give thanks at every meal, and you will soon discover you have an integrated opportunity to pray in our busy life, stress is reduced, and health is improved. Gods’ recommendations involving food are always right, and giving thanks at every meal is just one way to improve the quality of your life!

2012 Blockbuster - but what about 2011?

• Posted by Kevin Brown on November 22, 2009
• 91 comments

The Blockbuster movie 2012 is a huge hit in theaters, and when you think about the behaviour of mankind in these days, as millions are destroyed from a food, medical and government three-headed monster that promotes toxic food and remedies that create more disease, when we think about the millions of babies murdered for convenience, we can have some inkling that judgment day is not too far away. Here is a story from a Jamaican newspaper about a real end-time scenario... 

WORLD WILL END IN 2011? - US church group predicts judgment -

Jamaicans not convinced If we are to believe the words of Family Radio, a non-profit organization based in California in the United States, the world as we know it will come to an end May 21, 2011. The non-denomination Christian organisation with its headquarters in Oakland, California, has been making a worldwide effort to warn people that the coming of Christ is closer than they may think. Representatives from the organisation recently visited the island handing out tracts, warning of the impending disaster which is to befall the earth in 2011.        Read the rest of story here...

Low Fat: The Great Deception

• Posted by Sadiqua on November 19, 2009
• 304 comments

Is Your Glass Half Full?

• Posted by Debbie Wysocki on November 18, 2009
• 229 comments

The core of this week’s blog entry  comes from Dr. John Maxwell:

READ THAT ONE AGAIN!

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For me, it's the 'is the glass half full OR half empty' approach to living life!

What do you do when someone complains about a situation?

It just happened to me yesterday.  And, immediately I went to

'What can you create with what you do have . . . instead of focusing on what you can't get because you're not where you want to be. 

When you've got your health, your mind, your family's love, and the moxie to not just survive, but thrive . . .

then you've got no long-term worries!

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So what does a smart person do when faced with a challenge? 

Here's what Dr. Maxwell says:

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

REFUSE TO GIVE UP . . . even if things look impossible.

REFOCUS YOUR THINKING . . . Mastermind with people who are solution oriented.

RE-THINK YOUR STRATEGY . . . Break a few rules . . . perhaps even arrive at absurd solutions.

REPEAT THE PROCESS . . . until you have your solution firmly in hand!

Soy and Torture - The Illinois Prison Saga

• Posted by Kevin Brown on November 16, 2009
• 106 comments

What Do You Believe?

• Posted by Debbie Wysocki on November 10, 2009
• 69 comments

A colleague shared this piece with me, and when I shared it in my Motivational Message last week, it got an overwhelming 'thumbs up.'

Here it is for you:

The world doesn't stop for your grief.

I Believe...
Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,
But we are responsible for whom we become.


I Believe...
You shouldn't be e so eager to find
Out a secret. It could change your life forever.

I Believe...
Two people can look at the exact same
Thing and see something totally different…

I Believe...
Your life can be changed in a matter of
Hours by people who don't even know you.


I Believe....
Even when you think you have no more to give, when
A friend cries out to you - you will find the strength to help.


I Believe...
Credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.


I Believe....
The people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.


I Believe.....
You should send this to all of the people you believe in, I just did.


'The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of anything.’

 954-781-6629

This Week on the Liberation Wellness Hour!

• Posted by Kevin Brown on November 6, 2009
• 39 comments

H1N1 and Louis Pasteur

Canadian Real Food advocate Paul Ericson shares his insights about the germ theory and the devastating long term effects it has had on mankind's health! Interesting thoughts on how the germ theory fallacy is still with us today as we face the swine flu vaccine question and wonder how did we even get to this place. Dr.Weston Price and his nutrition principles will also be discussed.

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Power FROM the People?

• Posted by Janet Demeter on November 4, 2009
• 105 comments

“Power (knowledge) from the People:  the Food,  Diet, and Medical Industries Suppression of Information”

I am certainly not the first, but I’m terribly angered at finding vital, truthful, and straightforward—A+B=C-type information, available in the 1960’s--banned, finally and completely, in the 1980’s because it encouraged people to think for themselves and consider what they could do, within their own power of choice, to eat healthfully and avoid disease.  The specific information in question comes from a biologist and physician who was a member of, no. 1, The National Association for the Advancement of Science; 2, The American Association of Cereal Chemists; 3, The Institute of Food Technologists; 4, A.H.A. Council of Arteriosclerosis; 5, American Oil Chemists Society; 6, P.M.P. Chamber of Commerce; 7, American Aging Association;  8, American Heart Association.  He was President of a major medical library and laboratory.  This man, a doctor, as above stated, dedicates his book, “Stale Food vs. Fresh Food” to “..a better life for all.”  In the dedication he encourages people to bring this information to their family doctor.   Dr. Robert Ford clearly, on p. 62 of his book, states that the food industry is obviously not the sole cause of arteriosclerosis:

     The atherosclerotic condition of the people cannot wholly be laid at the feet of the food processing industries because the same disease from flour, bacon, ham, sausage, and so on existed to some extent long before development of the modern food industry…It is not desirable to point a finger at anyone, but only that all concerned should work constructively to improve the condition of our people.  Knowing the cleverness of industrial scientists, I would not be surprised to see arteriosclerosis begin to gradually fade away after they have had a decade or so to improve processed foods based on this new knowledge.

 Well, that last wish never happened did it?  That was written in 1968.  “This new knowledge” he was referring to is, that arteriosclerosis and related diseases such as arthritis are greatly caused by the “fatty rubbish”, or rancid waste materials in processed foods that the body is unable to break down.  Obviously the food industry had no immediate monetary advantage in such work as improving processed foods in that way.  And “Fresh Foods” have never had a monetary giant for an advocate. (Wait a minute, how about 300,000,000 people standing together?--oops, I was forgetting for a moment that that would never happen, or if it did it would somehow make me a socialist)  This book was banned through the US. Postal Service and then entirely from publication in 1982.  In the hearing where the judge decided against Ford’s book, the main premise for this was, that some Dr. Murray said that “informed medical opinion” does not maintain that diet can in any way reverse arteriosclerosis, and that to read such material would cause people to avoid getting AMA approved treatment for their condition.  This is of course assuming that the person reading is dying of arteriosclerosis and rejecting all medical help upon reading!  The the main premise of the book is prevention, not treatment.  And, as I stated above, the books dedication includes presenting the material for consideration to one’s doctor.   By the way, Dr. Murray was under 30 with obviously loads of clinical experience.  Hmm, I wonder if he was doing any research for the chemical companies.  Bonuses for drugs, anyone? 

Today, see what a well-respected physician is saying about the food industry.  These days it’s getting more difficult to silence a doctor actually observing his Hippocratic Oath.  This particular article is from Bottom Line Health, information that is free and available to all.  In his article for November of this year, “Your Taste Buds are being Fooled!”, Dr. David A. Kessler, former head of the Food and Drug Association, asserts that, yes indeed, the food manufacturers do their best to trick your taste buds into wanting more, and more, and more “food”.   He goes on to say that will-power, (as with any addiction-my words), or lack of it, is not to blame.  In fact, he asserts that our brains are being “hi-jacked” by certain combinations of chemicals that encourage dopamine release.  Indeed, “hyperpalatability” of the food-or, rather, stuff-to-be-ingested, is the desired characteristic of much research in creating new food products loaded with fat, sugar, and salt.  When questioned, what do the food manufacturers say?  As usual, they say they’re giving the people what they want.  This line of thinking is reminiscent of the unfortunate raped woman who avoids going to the authorities in dread of being accused of attracting the rape with her clothing choices.  Dr. Kessler’s article can be read here:  http://www.bottomlinesecrets.com/article.html?article_id=50118

In my next 2 posts I will be examining the basic principles covered in Dr. Robert Ford’s book, now unavailable in print.  It can be found, however, at the online Soil and Health Library, and the link is provided below if you’d like to follow along.  His book is engaging reading and you may be amazed at how on-target most of his assertions have proven to be, over time.  Hopefully this will not enrage most of you as it has me…but I digress.  One of the things I found most interesting is the connection between arthritis and arteriosclerosis, which specifically the next post will address.

Until then, think for yourselves and have abundant health! 

-Janet Demeter 

Dr. Ford’s book, "Stale Food vs. Fresh Food":

http://soilandhealth.org/02/0203CAT/0203longevitylibcat.html

7 Essential Networks

• Posted by Debbie Wysocki on November 3, 2009
• 238 comments

You’ve probably always heard ‘word-of-mouth’ is the best  advertising there is . . .Have you ever wondered what you can do to encourage more referrals?

It starts with you.

Are you active in your communities?  How many ‘communities’ (aka networks) are you a member of?

Here are what I believe to be Seven Essential Networks you need to develop.

1)  Spiritual -- where we worship

2)  Social -- who are our friends

3)  Professional -- we need to belong to our profession's industry organizations.

4)  Ethnic -- if you have ties to ethnic and/or cultural communities, this network can  be critical to you.

5)  Gender -- Particularly women - we are natural networkers - socializers.

6)  Community Service - translates into volunteer work.

7)  Interests or Hobbies - be part of a club that  celebrates the activities you like to do!

As you go through your daily activities, how many communities will you touch (just by the nature of living your life)?

When you are working, socializing, volunteering, being a parent and at worship how many lives can you touch?

When you do this, people will go out of their way to help others (and you) by making referrals.

Debbie Wysocki is the owner ofWomen with Dreams and residual Money secrets – companies that empower the average person to live an extraordinary life by teaching how to build profitable businesses in the network marketing arena. She is a wife, mom, volunteer, a top producer in the MLM industry, a real estate investor, author, trainer, and former Beverly Hills financial analyst who is passionate about helping others succeed. Her motto is ‘How you do anything, is how you do everything!’For more information or to contact Debbie directly:  Debbie@WomenWithDreams.com 954-781-6629

Germ Theory and the End of Antibiotics--Part 3

• Posted by Paul Ericson on November 3, 2009
• 296 comments

Pasteur was decorated by the Emperor Napoleon early in his career. This blessing from on high secured his position as the preeminent scientist of his day. Despite having no credentials at all in medicine or physiology he now had a license to steal so to speak.

Scientists at the time were grappling with mankind's first look at fundamental questions about the nature of living matter.

• What makes something alive or dead?
• Where does the life force come from?
• Why do things rot, ferment, or decompose?
• Is there something in the air, or something inside the organism that has these effects?
• What effects can man-made chemicals have?

For the first time in history, we were beginning to answer these questions. Many discoveries were being made about these fundamental questions, but in fits amnd starts.

It was a great time for an opportunist like Pasteur to take advantage of the general uncertainty and lack of understanding. He could claim that he understood all the issues involved, and that he had thought of the answers first. Pasteur played both sides of an issue he didn't understand, and then later, he would only quote the parts of his earlier writing that supported the later finding, always claiming that he had thought of it first.

The problem was that only scientists understood the complexities of these emerging ideas. The press, governments and the royal courts only knew that something important was going on. Though they didn't know what, they would act as though they did. A huckster like Pasteur was the perfect frontman for these powerful elites. Power and politics never change. The same process that imprisoned Galileo for writing that the earth went around the sun, the elite's eternal attempt to control the minds of the commoners, were the processes that cast Pasteur, into a position he did not deserve--the trailblazer in the science of modern biomedicine.

Like so many other things, a discovery doesn't catch on until the commercial aspects of that discovery have been worked out. Howard Hencke, in his 1995 book The Germ Theory: A Deliberate Aberration, notes that it was critical for the new medical industry.

"... to indoctrinate the public in the Western world with the belief that the salvation from all, especially physical ailments, lay outside the individual's system and responsibility, because it was caused by external factors...and that chemical remedies (drugs) will keep him free from disease, independent of his own vigilant responsibility."

This is a marketing process.

Hume writes in Pasteur or Bechamp?:

"Had it not been for the mass selling of vaccines, Pasteur's germ theory of disease would have collapsed into obscurity."
- E. Douglas Hume

17 years before Pasteur, Florence Nightengale, the most famous nurse in history, said this:

"Diseases are not individuals arranged in classes like cats and dogs, but conditions growing out of one another. The specific disease is the grand refuge of the weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions."
F.N. 1860

The Doubters

From the beginning, the notoin of piercing the skin with a needle for any reason was suspect. Even more so was injecting novel proteins and chemical into what was supposed to be the inviolable environment of the circulatory system. Injections are a complete violation of natural laws.

Normally everything is introduced into the bloodstream by going through the complexity of the digestive system or the mucous membranes. This is how nature protects the blood from external attack. There were literally hundreds of researchers opposing inoculation:

"The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood...into a medium not intended for them may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena."
- Bechamp

Walter Hadwen, MD, in his book Microbes and War notes that the Boer war itself killed 86,000 men. With a 100% inoculation rate, there were an additional 96,000 casualties from disease alone!

Dr. Montais studied 21 cases of tetanus, each had received a Pasteurian inoculation. His conclusion, which appeared in the 23 Oct 1915 issue of the Lancet, was that in every case, the tetanus had been caused by the inoculation. Dr. Montais concluded that "Pasteur had created a new form of disease."

Pasteur began the fashion of studying artificial disease conditions: "inducing sickness by morbid injections in human and animal subjects, instead of studying naturally diseased subjects."

Pasteur also began the practise of vivisection and other horrific animal experiments. In the natural state, animalstypically have different diseases from humans. But even the animals bodies are different. For example most animals can produce ascorbic acid, humans cannot. When sick animals can produce up to 100x more ascorbic acid than normal.This one error has led us down a very costly and ultimately fruitless path. It seems a folly to hope to cure human disease by giving animals diseases they would never have gotten in nature, pretending such diseases are the same ones we get, then seeing which drugs cover up the animal's symptoms. We incorrectly conclude that those same drugs will have the same effect in humans. Mistaken as that sounds, it's pretty much how many prescription drugs have made their way to market since Pasteur's time.

So with many major researchers eventually coming around to the above conclusions, how is it that st the start of the 21st century, organized medicine still acts as though the Germ Theory is carved in stone and all policy proceeds from this premise? And most people still believe it? The answer is out there, it's not hidden, but it's also not well known or much talked about. Fast forward to the 1880s and 1890s. The Industrial Revolution has created massive wealth, two figures towered over this era, wielding more power over science, industry, finance, and politics than possibly anyone else in history: Andrew Carnegie and J.D. Rockefeller.

The amount of control Carnegie and Rockefeller had over most aspects of American life is something to marvel at and appreciate, even to the present day. Much like today, change was occurring faster than the politicians could control it, and for the first time in our history, control was firmly in the private sector. Many things changed, but the rise of organized medicine has had profound effects on how everyone, doctors and patients, think about disease, treatment and being healthy itself.

Before 1880, most medicine was a mosaic of folk remedies, herbs, crude surgery and dentistry, more so than today, there was much quackery. For centuries leading up to this point, there had not been much change in the area of medicine. Superstition was as much a part of medicine as the actual remedies themselves. The use of leeches and bleeding was still common, the reason being to "let out the bad blood,'" which was in the same category with getting rid of evil spirits. Even trepanation, drilling holes in the skull, which had been around since the time of the Pharaohs, was still being performed.

In Renaissance Europe, barbers and surgeons actually were the same people, combining the services of shaving, pulling teeth and blood-letting. The origin of the red and white striped barber-pole is well-known: an enterprising barber/surgeon, having just bled a famous nobleman, proudly displayed a bloody white towel used in the procedure by wrapping it around a pole outside his establishment. In the 1700s, King Edward IV of England instituted a corporation of "barber-chirurgiens"(surgeons) who performed the above services. This lasted until 1800 when King George II separated barbers and surgeons into two separate professions.

Among their many enterprises, Carnegie and Rockefeller controlled the oil and coal industries. By 1900, they began to realize that these industries were producing mountains of waste every year. What if these chemical waste materials could somehow be turned to profit? Medicines, were the answers. But novel medicines never seen before. Medicines made from chemicals: Pharmaceuticals.

Healthy Eats Going ‘Old School’ with New Wellness Certification

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 31, 2009
• 573 comments

Liberation Wellness LLC., a health and wellness company based in the metro-Philadelphia area, announced today the release of a nutrition certification program, teaching people how to remove highly processed, fake food from today’s diet.

The multi-part Nutrition Wellness Educator (NWE) nutrition program contains everything needed in order to get started in a career in wellness.   “The education program revolves around the Liberation Diet, which has been helping people get thin and healthy as part of an entire wellness program,” reports Kevin Brown, President, and Co-Author of the Liberation Diet Book. “Virtually every week we get wonderful heart-warming stories posted on our blog about people that have changed their life as a result of making lifestyle changes as taught by the Liberation Wellness program.”

The certification program is composed of the Liberation Diet book, two information-rich audio programs detailing many of the leading diet programs and exercise myths, a professional 50-question exam, a powerpoint presentation to teach others and an educator assistance package to help students get started, in addition to all the support one needs to complete the certification program via websites and a telephone line for students.

This Week on the Liberation Wellness Hour!

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 30, 2009
• 411 comments

Pamela Tudor - Mental Fitness

On of the most interesting and neglected part of an holistic wellness program involves the mind and practicing good mental fitness. Executive coach and Motivational Speaker Pamela Tudor shares some of her interesting and time-proven techniques to help anyone achieve the goals and dreams they are striving for. Pamela Tudor is an executive coach and organizational consultant with 23 years of experience working with Fortune companies and the public sector, Pamela's expertise is in facilitating leadership development, strategic planning and team building. She has broad and deep experience in the financial services, pharmaceuticals and technology industries, as well as with non-profits and universities. Having moved from being President of her own successful business in New York City to consulting to organizations, she brings to her clients a unique blend of practical leadership experience.

Tudor Consulting provides executive coaching and organization development services designed to create sustainable results for organizations, and enduring success for the people in them.

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Germ Theory and the End of Antibiotics--Part 2

• Posted by Paul Ericson on October 27, 2009
• 177 comments

 Antoine Bechamp

In 1932 a booked titled “Bechamp or Pasteur?” was published under the name E. Douglas Hume. Hume was actually a woman who had to ghostwrite under a male name to get her book published. Hume wrote about Antoine Bechamp, a contemporary of Pasteur. Bechamp was department chair at the University at Lille, France and the most respected professor and researcher at the time.

Bechamp was a talented and committed researcher who cared more for what was going on in the lab than awards, politics or personal appearances. He worked nearly everyday of his life until his death at age 93. Bechamp reasoned that it was not the pathogens that caused disease, but rather the condition in which pathogens lived. Disease happens when an imbalance causes some of pathologen (bacteria, viruses, yeast) to take over. What causes the imbalance? Poor nutrition, overloaded or weak immune system, stress. This seems like such a simple idea, but it is the fundamental question of the whole controversyto this day. Even Pasteur, agreed that pathogens do not cause disease alone. Dr. Price was convinced that the change from traditional diets high in vitamin A and D to "foods of commerce" was a significant factor in the rise of TB rates.

I encourage you to do a little research on Pasteur, you will discover the following:

• Pasteur had background no in medicine or physiology; he was trained as a chemist

• Pasteur likely created the disease known as "hydrophobia," rather than found a cure for it.

• Pasteur started the horrific practise of vivisection. Still in use today, it is responsible for much needless suffering of animals.

• Pasteur was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people inoculated with his unproven vaccines, and indirectly for thousands more when disease was introduced by other unproven procedures developed by Pasteur.

• Pasteur was more a merchant than a scientist, with his frequent reporting of false test findings and fraudulent data, which always had two purposes: self-promotion and profiteering from the sale of drugs and vaccines that were often made mandatory by legislators.

• Pasteur's methods of treatment actually killed Alexander, the King of Greece, for a disease he did not even have.

• Pasteur frequently avoided working on naturally diseased subjects, instead he introduced the idea of inducing sickness by giving disease injections into healthy subjects.

As for his Germ Theory, there was a great deal of opposition to it among many researchers of the time.

In a lecture given in London 1911, M.L. Leverson, MD stated:

"The entire fabric of the germ theory of disease rests upon assumptions which not only have not been proved, but which are incapable of proof, and many of them can be proved to be the reverse of truth. The basic one of these unproven assumptions, wholly due to Pasteur, is the hypothesis that all the so-called infectious and contagious disorders are caused by germs."

Rudolf Virchow,the discoverer of the cell theory, with respect to the Germ Theory, commented:

"Germs seek their natural habitat - diseased tissue - rather than being the cause of diseased tissue."

Virchow thought that the presence of germs identified a tissue as diseased, and was not the cause of disease. A weakened or diseased tissue was a target for pathogens, providing a hospitable environment in which they can thrive. Quite different from germs having caused the weakened tissue in the first place.

Bechamp graphically showed the same idea when an amputated arm was brought into his lab. The patient's elbow had developed gangrene within eight hours after a sever blow, amputation was the only option to save the patient. Bechamp began to examine the severed limb using his microscope. To his amazement he found no bacteria in the gangrenous tissue. After a few hours bacteria began to appear, where initially there were none. Bechamp's associate, Professor Estor, remarked "Bacteria cannot be the cause of gangrene; they are the effects of it."

Robert Koch

Robert Koch was racing against Pasteur to find the cause of anthrax, which was killing great numbers of cattle in Europe at the time. He took blood from the diseased cattle and isolated bacteria from it and injected mice with the bacteria. Of the mice that died, Koch cultured their blood and compared it to the original bacteria from the cattle. His postulates are still memorized by medical students the world over as the foundation of the Germ Theory:

1. The organism must be present in every case
2. Must be isolated
3. Must cause the disease in a healthy host
4. Must be isolated again

Each postulate has been proven false, both at the time and even today, but his postulates are still basic tenets of the Germ Theory “religion”. Both anthrax vaccines that Koch and Pasteur developed were near total failures, thousands of sheep all over Europe were killed as part of the "experiment". Both Koch and Pasteur did everything possible to alter and cover up the results of these failures.

Strike two

Koch developed the first vaccine for tuberculosis, using his postulates. The vaccine was called "tuberculin". In Berlin, 2000 patients were inoculated with tuberculin. They died at a higher rate than TB patients who hadn't been treated at all. Tuberculin simply did not work.

Even more upsetting to Koch was the revelation that the Prussian government had made an exclusive agreement with Koch to sell tuberculin and share the profits. This was a political disaster for the Prussian government and a huge blow to Koch's reputation. It was also an embarrassment for the cause of scientific medicine when the prestige of the scientific method suddenly suffered this failure. Koch never recovered his credibility and today is only remembered for his "Postulates." However Koch helped arrange the marriage of science and marketing, for which divorce does not appear likely any time soon, especially at present.

Terrific Tuesday -- Faith Doesn't Make Sense . . .

• Posted by Debbie Wysocki on October 27, 2009
• 96 comments

We know that what youfocus on can make a difference in ALL areas of

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Weston A. Price Convention

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 24, 2009
• 269 comments

WISE TRADITIONS 2009
10th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
FARM AND RANCH PROGRAM
 
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation teamed up to create three unique educational tracks at the conference. While an obvious audience is farmers, these sessions were also created with consumers in mind. Since consumers direct the flow of money within this holistic model, many farmers are scrambling to use more sustainable techniques, have more livestock on grass, provide more products and create more distribution avenues. An educated consumer is a good friend to small farmers.
 
FRIDAY - WHAT EVERY GRASS-BASED FARMER (AND CONSUMER) SHOULD KNOW  -We'll explore transitioning farms to grass based livestock farming. Some farmers (and cows) are finding that too much of a good thing, is not a good thing. Instant consumer demands for "all grass" dairy and meat can unwittingly upset small farm sustainability. We know the benefits of slow cooking pastured meats, we'll now learn the benefits of slow (yet innovative) changes to support soil, pasture, livestock, farm and farmer/consumer health.
 
SATURDAY  - ARTISANAL FARMING WITH LIVESTOCK:  BRINGING ANIMAL HUSBANDRY BACK TO ANIMAL SCIENCE - Will Winter, DVM will distill his experience as farmer, educator, distributor and holistic veterinarian in a day-long workshop covering grass based livestock, grass genetics, holistic herd health and pastured pork.
 
SUNDAY - FARM DIRECT - THE NEW FACE OF MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION - We'll highlight two new private and successful consumer-driven distribution models and highlight one farmer who used raw milk to open the doors to more diversified distribution.
 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, Visit http://westonaprice.org/conferences/2009/index.html or call (304) 724-3006.
 
 
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WISE TRADITIONS 2009
Tenth International Conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation
 
HONORING THE SACRED FOODS
Friday, November 13 - Saturday, November 14 - Sunday, November 15
Plus special activities Monday November 16
 
Our First Mid West Conference!
RENAISSANCE SCHAUMBURG HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER
Schaumburg, Illinois (near Chicago)
 
A Showcase for Delicious Traditional Food.
A Unique Opportunity for Health Professionals and
Laymen interested in Diet and Health.
WAPF Members Networking, Friendship and Fun
 
SEMINARS AND SESSIONS ON
        Gut and Psychology Syndrome
        Radical Medicine 
        Traditional Diets
        Healing with Traditional Foods
        Holistic Cancer Therapies
        Natural Plant Toxins
        Pasture-Based Farming
        Direct Farm-to-Consumer Sales
        WAPF Lifestyle and Economics
        Traditional Food Preparation
        Live Blood Cell Analysis
        Spacial Dynamics
 
 
 
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Dan Barber, master chef
Ted Beals, MD, raw milk expert
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, author of Gut & Psychology Syndrome
Meg Cattell, DVM, grass-based farmer
Thomas Cowan, MD, author of Fourfold Path to Healing
Karl Dallefeld, Prairie Creek Cattle Company
Kaayla Daniel, PhD, author of the Whole Soy Story
Charles Eisenstein, author of the Yoga of Eating
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, author of Nourishing Traditions
Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, holistic cancer expert
David Gumpert, author of The Raw Milk Revolution
Scott Gryzbek, CEO, Zukay Live Foods
Sarah Hearn, E. F. Schumacher Society local currency expert
Steve Heyer, alternative energy on the farm
Anore Jones, author of The Fish We Eat
Pete Kennedy, Esq., President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Amanda Love, The Barefoot Cook
Chris Masterjohn, expert on fat-soluble vitamins
Jaimen McMillan, Spacial Dynamics
John Moody, founder of Whole Life Buying Club
Mary Newport, MD, on coconut oil for Alzheimer's
Kathy Pirtle, author of Performance without Pain
Gerald Pollack, PhD, author of Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life
Stephanie Rivers on healthy school lunches
Beverly Rubik, PhD, author of Life at the Edge of Science
R. J. Ruppenthal, author of Fresh Food from Small Spaces
Anne Sergeant, PhD, on budgeting for nutrient-dense food
William Shaw, PhD, Director, Great Plains Laboratory
Garrett Smith, NMD, expert on nightshades
Kim Thompson, movement educator
Jennette Turner, author of Cooking with Jennette
John Turner, DC, CCSP, DIBCN, sports physician
Tim Wightman, author of the Raw Milk Handbook
Louisa Williams, ND, author of Radical Medicine
Will Winter, DVM, journalist and lecturer on sustainable agriculture
 
LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATION
The conference will be held at the beautiful Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois Friday, November 13 through Sunday, November 15 (with additional activities held Monday, November 16).
 
To make your hotel reservations, please contact the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center in Schaumburg, IL at 1-800-228-9290 or 1-866-204-0549.
 
The rate for occupancy is $139.00 per night, plus applicable taxes.
There is no additional charge for double, triple or quadruple occupancy.
There is no fee for parking.
Be sure to mention the code "WISWISA" to receive the discounted rate.
All rooms have mini-refrigerators.
 
CUT-OFF DATE FOR MAKING HOTEL RESERVATIONS IS November 2, 2009.
 
You may make your hotel reservation online by clicking here http://cwp.marriott.com/chirs/wisetraditions/ or cutting and pasting this address into your browser.
Should you have any difficulty making your hotel reservations, please contact the meeting registrar at (304) 724-3006.
 
MONDAY ACTIVITIES
Monday activities include the annual chapter leaders meeting with Sally Fallon Morell, a farm tour with Kathy Kramer, a Spacial Dynamics workshop with Jaimen McMillan and cooking classes with Jeanette Turner and Stephanie Rivers. 
 
Additional fees apply for the farm tour, cooking classes and Spacial Dynamics workshop.  Space for the farm tour, Spacial Dynamics workshop and the cooking classes is extremely limited so be sure to sign up for the Monday activity of your choice when you register for the conference.
 
For details on Monday activities, go to http://westonaprice.org/conferences/2009/schedule.html.
 
CHILDCARE
The Wise Traditions Conference is pleased to provide a children's program for this year's meeting. $100 per child, includes lunch. Children 3 - 12 who are potty trained are welcome to Wise Traditions 2009 as long as they are enrolled in our children's program. For the sake of other conference attendees, we ask that parents refrain from bringing children to the conference sessions.
Please note: We will serve nourishing traditional food (including fruit and natural sweeteners) but we cannot cater to special diets in the children's program. There may be casein and gluten in the children's lunches and snacks. Parents will need to supply their own food if their children are on special diets.
 
New this year: A special room has been set aside for mothers of infants who want to attend the conference. There will be a live audio feed from one of the sessions to that room throughout the day's events. There will be no child care provided for infants and children under age 3.
 
CONFERENCE FOOD
As always, the conference will feature delicious traditional foods.  To view the menus, visit http://westonaprice.org/conferences/2009/menus.html. (Menus are subject to change without notice.)
 
This year, for the first time, we will also provide gluten-free, casein-free alternative meals. Participants requiring gluten-free or casein-free meals will be served in a separate buffet with the exception of the Saturday banquet which is GF/CF with sauces served on the side. If you wish to have this option, please select the GF/CF option on your registration form.
 
FOOD DONATIONS, DISCOUNTS AND BARTERS
The conference is a great place to showcase your nutrient dense foods.
View the menus http://www.westonaprice.org/conferences/2009/menus.html and read the many benefits including links to your website from the menu or recipe pages listed here. http://www.westonaprice.org/conferences/2009/food-donation-barter.html
 
TO REGISTER, Visit https://www.ptfassociates.com/secure/wisetraditions/2009registration.htm  or call (304) 724-3006.
 
ROOM SHARES AND RIDE SHARES
Connect with other conference attendees using the Room Share/Ride Share Forum: https://www.ptfassociates.com/secure/wisetraditions/forum/default.asp
 
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS for many health professionals attending the full conference.  For further information visit http://westonaprice.org/conferences/2009/ceus.html.
 
POSTER PRESENTATION: Submissions of abstracts for poster presentations from health professionals on a broad range of topics relating food and nutrition to health are welcome. Contact info@westonaprice.org for further information.
 
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So how do I make Bread and Butter?

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 23, 2009
• 58 comments

Every wanted to learn the proper way to make bread, or yogurt, or butter?

Weston Price Chapter leader Maureen Diaz, is an expert in proper food preparation techniques, and has recently lost 35 pounds on the Liberation Diet, as she has incorporated the Weston Price principles and Liberation Wellness way of living.

Maureen has created traditional foods cooking DVDs and has just completed a Liberation Wellness Food Preperation DVD that will be available November 13th

Maureen Diaz lives a very home-centered life with husband George and their 8 (soon to be 9) children. Homeschooling & homesteading keep her busy, along with working as a chapter leader for the foundation, and teaching anyone who will listen about proper nutrition and how to make great food the Nourishing Traditions way!

Saturday Oct. 24th 12:00 PM
Maureen Diaz - Cooking Traditional Foods
at Home - The Liberation Wellness Way

Why You Don't Want to Eat Vegetable OIls

• Posted by kimh on October 22, 2009
• 102 comments

Vegetable oils like soy, corn, cottonseed and canola are polyunsaturated fats. These fats are very unstable (because they have several double bonds that are easily broken, making it easy for free radicals to attack), especially when heated so they go rancid quickly. Humans have only been consuming these oils for about 100 years whereas butter, lard, beef tallow, coconut and olive oils have been consumed for thousands of years.  It is interesting to note that we didn’t develop epidemic rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity until we stared eating vegetable oils and decreasing our intake of animal fats.

Vegetable oils are generally high in omega 6 fats and low in omega 3 fats so if we eat a lot of them (which we do in America because everything is made with them) we get too much omega-6 and not enough omega-3 causing our fatty acid profile to become unbalanced.  Omega-6 and omega-3 fats compete with each other for absorption which means that a diet high in omega-6 fats will deplete the body of omega-3 fats.  This imbalance leads to inflammation, pain and disease.

The vegetable oils you buy at the store are most likely already rancid when you purchase them and products containing these oils are also already rancid.  We can’t tell they are rancid because deodorizers are used to disguise the rancid smell.  Heating these oils causes even more damage to these delicate oils which translates to more free radical production and inflammation in the body.

Another serious problem with vegetable oils is that, unless they are from an organic source, they are genetically modified.  Allergies have increased significantly since we have been eating genetically modified foods and these foods can also contribute to infertility and other problems.

The best fats to use are butter, coconut oil, olive oil, lard, beef tallow and palm oil, with small amounts of flax and sesame oil.  These fats promote health in the body and have nourished and strengthened humans for thousands of generations.

Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness

Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.  She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life.  She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.  

Terrific Tuesday -- Put Your 'Game Face' On

• Posted by Debbie Wysocki on October 21, 2009
• 132 comments

Being able to start each day with the right mindset is important.

My sixth grade son calls it his ‘game face.’ 

Quick Question:  What is your game face and what is it telling the world?

Here are some shared reflections to make the your week laser focused and filled with gratitude. . .

The first is a universal truth:

Out of every adversity comes a seed of equivalent or  greater value.

When one door closes . . .another one opens

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My friend Max Steingart says it this way:

Failure is one of the surest stepping stones to success.

No element can do as much for you as failure can,

if you're willing to study it and make capital out of it.

The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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For those of you that see the glass half full . . . here are a few short quotes to get you in the 'hmmm' mode:

"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to

paint the canvas of our lives."

                                   -- Louise Hay

"A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the

testing point of our character and competence."

                                    -- Stephen Covey

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important

as what you become by achieving your goals."

                                    -- Zig Ziglar

"Trust that still, small voice that says, This might

work and I'll try it."

                                    -- Diane Mariechild

"Success and True Lifestyle Freedom are in the Foundations

that you build on a Daily Basis"

--John DiLemme

Read Zig Ziglar’s quote  it again:

'What you get by achieving your goals is not as important

as what you become by achieving your goals.'

Take a minute to identify where it is that you want to go . . .

Put you 'game face' on and know your consistent daily actions

will yield BIG results.  Be like a pro football player  . . .  keep 'em

guessing until you're at the goal line!

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Germ Theory and the End of Antibiotics--Part 1

• Posted by Paul Ericson on October 19, 2009
• 355 comments

In just 50 years antibiotics are well on their way to becoming obsolete. And the reason is that nature adapts faster than we can innovate. Antibiotics first came out as a nearly miraculous cure for common infections. But little thought was ever given to two key questions:

1. Why do some people get infections and others do not?
2. How will infectious agents respond to antibiotics over time?

The history of antibiotics and the antibiotic-age that they ushered in involves several historical figures, some famous, some not so famous. Men like Pasteur, Bechamp, Koch, Bernard, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Fleming, all had a hand in it.

Whenever there is an outbreak of disease there are always people that never get sick and sick people that don't die. So why is that? The answer is nutrition. But unfortunately modern medicine and nutrition researchers don't see it that way. And this is the core of a long brewing controversy in science.

In France during the 1870s, three scientists were conducting experiments with yeast, and the newly discovered micro-organisms called bacteria. All were conducting similar research and there was a great deal of borrowing in the competition for novel discoveries. There were two french men, Louis Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp, and a German, Robert Koch. These individuals worked independently and each knew that he was onto a whole new area of human discovery, and the race was on to influence the medical world and make a fortune.

Pasteur won the race of politics and influence and today students memorize that Louis Pasteur "discovered" the Germ Theory. Not only is this inaccurate, but Germ Theory itself is unsubstantiated even today. Pasteur himself, recanted the theory and admitted that his rivals had been right, and that it was not the germ that caused the disease, but rather the environment in which the germ was found.

The Germ Theory

Germ Theory states that there are separate diseases and that each disease is caused by a particular micro-organism. It is the job of science to find the right drug or vaccine that would selectively kill off the offending bug without killing the patient.

Sounds like a good idea at first. But nature is a moving target--both the infectious agent and host.

Bacteria and viruses are "environment-specific." That's why some people get the flu and others do not and why some die and some do not. That's why some doctors and nurses are immune to disease even though they're surrounded by it day in and day out.

Deepak Chopra tells a story where the influenza virus was isolated and implanted directly onto the mucous membranes of a group of subjects, with only 12% of them getting the flu. If it was the germ and not the environment (subject), then more people should have gotten sick. Instead what happened is that 88% of the subjects were able to fight off the virus.

The Germ Theory is weak and Pasteur knew it, hence the death bed confession. But Pasteur had a gift for self-promotion. He would never let his research keep him from an opportunity to address royalty or a medical society at a prestigious university.

He was well published, frequently quoted, and given practically every honorary title and chair in Europe. The record establishes fairly clearly that Pasteur "borrowed" research for some of his most famous discoveries, and then capitalized on his celebrity of being there first.

Before his death, Pasteur left instruction not to release over 10,000 pages of lab notes after his death. It wasn't until 1975, after the death of his grandson, that the secret notes were finally made public. Professor Geison, a historian from Princeton, made a thorough study of the papers. He presented his findings to The American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston in 1993. Dr. Geison concluded that Pasteur published a great deal of fraudulent data and was guilty of multiple counts of scientific misconduct, violating rules of medicine, science, and ethics.

Both Koch and Pasteur were motivated by money and fame. In the race for an anthrax vaccine, not only did Pasteur not test it on animals before using human subjects; it was also established that Pasteur actually stole the formula from Toussaint, a colleague. Toussaint died a few months later of a nervous breakdown after being unable to prove his claim at the time.

 To be continued...

In Honor of our Father

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 19, 2009
• 73 comments

Cathy Raymond

My Blog  - http://saveafarm.blogspot.com/
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CHOLESTEROL LEVELS AND WEIGHT LOSS

• Posted by Janet Demeter on October 18, 2009
• 129 comments

If, while on the Liberation Diet, you are working with a doctor who is checking your blood cholesterol levels often, you may expect an increase as you lose weight, and may not begin to see a marked decrease until well after you have lost the excess weight.  Keep in mind that the unhealthy cholesterol built up in the body by eating processed food and chemicals is more difficult and takes longer for the body to eliminate than does fat.  The blood cholesterol will begin to drop a few weeks after weight loss stops.

Give yourself time.  It is not only in the arteries that unhealthy fatty deposits have been made, but in all areas of the body.  Food materials readily change into durable (shelf-life?) non-food forms when processed.  When absorbed in the bloodstream and circulated, it accumulates mostly in the artery walls, joint cartilage, and fibrous parts of the body because these have a dense structure and poor blood supply so that the material is filtered and trapped inside, clumping together, and deposits tend to form in certain spots.  The body has the ability to rid itself of this very slowly, but the unhealthy materials have been eaten over time faster than the deposits can be removed.  Over time it of course builds up to a greater and greater extent, making us older than our years, dulling us and diminishing vitality before any sign of disease appears.1  

Often the body regains its vigor within weeks of eating fresh, real food.  While following the Liberation Diet, your body will begin rebuilding itself and cleaning itself and you will notice short term and long-term effects. So if closely monitoring cholesterol is part of your regimen with your doctor, it would be safe not to expect marked, long-term decreases to begin until 4 to 6 weeks after weight loss has ended.

1 Stale Food vs. Fresh Food, Robert Ford, copyright 6^th edition 1977 by R. S. Ford. 

Renown Author Shares Accolades for the Liberation Diet!

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 17, 2009
• 69 comments

Worlds Greatest Diet Book -

There aren’t many diet books that interest me anymore, especially one that I would sit and read fully in a single sitting.  However, “The Liberation Diet” easily kept me captivated throughout its entirety.   It is rare to find a book on diet today that is based on common sense and historical precedent.   Kevin Brown and Annette Presley have managed to cut through our contemporary nutritional garbage and bring to market a book constituted on solid dietary principles and a simple rationale.

Much of their content flies in the face of the vast majority of our current dietary “experts,” many of whom represent political and/or pure commercial interests.  What I found refreshing was how their suggested protocol aligned almost identically with one of the greatest natural bodybuilders of the 20^th century, Vince Gironda.  In order to strengthen and state their case, Kevin and Annette went back in time to chronicle the works of our nutritional and Physical Culture pioneers.  They lay out a history that clearly supports their claim that our traditional North American dietary staples were sound in nutrition and facilitated excellent health.

The mandate of “The Liberation Diet” is to both free the general laymen of the current confusion surrounding healthy food and make simple alterations for safe and effective fat loss that have stood the test of time.  Hopefully this book will see wide spread distribution.  Excellent job!

- Randy Roach,

Author of “Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors”

This Week on the Liberation Wellness Hour!

• Posted by Kevin Brown on October 16, 2009
• 1 comments

Breast Cancer and Iodine

• Posted by kimh on October 15, 2009
• 194 comments

October is National Breast Cancer Month and people are sporting cute pins, buttons and bracelets encouraging everyone to ‘support ta tas’ and ‘feel your boobies.’  Women are being reminded to get their yearly mammogram and eat lots of fruits and vegetables.  What no one is talking about is iodine.

Iodine is a very important mineral that is stored in the thyroid gland, ovaries and breasts.  Breast Cancer has several etiologies but one of them is iodine deficiency coupled with bromide/flouride toxicity.  Bromide, fluoride and chlorine, found in swimming pools, our water supply and the artificial sweetener Splenda, all compete with iodine for absorption.  Flouride is also in the water supply and in foods prepared with fluoridated water, toothpaste and medications such as the antidepressants Paxil and Prozac.  Flonase and Flovent also contain fluoride.  Bromide is found in such things as furniture, carpet, cars, fire retardant clothing and mattresses, asthma medications and flour and bread products.

Iodine is important for thyroid and breast health and a connection between hypothyroidism and breast cancer was first reported in 1896.  Iodine deficiency can cause estrogen production to increase and when you add increased estrogen production to the increase in exposure to environmental estrogens in plastic, pesticides, meat and dairy foods, you have a ripe environment for the development of breast cancer.  On top of that, we are bombarded with bromide and fluoride on a daily basis which further deplete iodine.

One of the best steps to take in preventing cancer is to get an iodine loading test and discuss the results with a knowledgeable physician who can prescribe the right dose of iodine for you.  You want to get plenty of unrefined sea salt in the diet as the chloride component of salt helps to rid the body of bromide.  Vitamin C, magnesium and selenium need to be taken along with iodine, so again, it’s best to consult a knowledgeable physician.

For more information on iodine and breast health, go to http://www.drbrownstein.com, http://www.breastcancerchoices.org and http://www.hakalalabs.com.

Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness

Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.  She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life.  She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.

STUDY OF MANGOSTEEN AND DEPRESSION AND OTHER CHRONIC DISEASE

• Posted by Janet Demeter on October 15, 2009
• 380 comments

CASE STUDY OF MANGOSTEEN AND DEPRESSION AND OTHER CHRONIC DISEASE

I don’t really know why I’ve waited so long to report on this, but I’ve never been one to make claims--even if it’s backed by solid science and actual, documented experience.  Sales was obviously never my forte, nor my raison d’etre if you will pardon my French.  However, the results reported here are at the very least significant, and I hope, inspiring.  The case in point is my very own, and I admit to have made myself a guinea pig on more than one occasion to prove a point to my own self in my lifetime.  Now it is time to share it with a larger audience because the resulting effects I’ve enjoyed with mangosteen have been so positive and so incredibly healing in all areas of my life.

I first discovered mangosteen by mistake.  I was not looking for it, but I did have my “radar” on the lookout for natural ways of treating liver disease, from which my husband was suffering at the time, hepatitis C to be specific.  We’d just been married and baby Sophie-Marie was 3 months old.  I was fortunate enough to find mangosteen in its most natural and efficacious, whole fruit form, and if you are interested in it you may contact me after reading this at the address below, or contact Kevin Brown himself and mention this article.  I decided to try it with my husband.  The list of possible benefits sounded too good to be true.  They turned out to be too good, and true!  However, as with any natural supplement, you must use it consistently and over time to fully discover the benefits.  So we did.  Not only did my husband’s hepatitis C disappear over the course of a year, but his chronic pain from a torn rotator cup and other cartilage damage diminished about 75%, and that occurred within 2 weeks of taking the supplement 3x daily.  But I digress, because I was going to talk about ME!

I was happy to discover that, along with the immune system support I was looking forward to, I experienced significant relief from chronic, major depression within 10 days.  A normal week for me was to have 2 good days, 3 if I was very lucky.  These were days when I felt good about what I was able to accomplish, or was able to enjoy being outside or being with people part of the time.  Within 2 weeks, I found I was functioning.  Every day!  And after 3 years, I will have maybe 2-3 days out of the month where I would feel like withdrawing—which I consider to be natural for most females.  I also have the herpes virus, which would affect me at least once a month without fail.  I would have to take acyclovir regularly to keep it at bay.  The difference drinking the mangosteen supplement has me having to take medication 25% of the time that I used to have to take it.  I rarely have to take the acyclovir now.  The other change I’ve enjoyed is the loss of my chronic bronchitis.  Every time I’d get a cold I’d get this embarrassing hacker of a cough for at least a month that would often blend in to the next time I’d get sick.  Now I get colds ½ as often as I used to, and IF I EVER get a cough at all, it lasts one week at the most.

Mangosteen contains nearly every phytonutrient available on the market today, except for enzymes found in aloe, plus it has something that no other supplement has, natural or otherwise.  Scientists have identified well over forty different kinds of XANTHONES in the mangosteen fruit rind.  Xanthones are super-antioxidants, perhaps the most powerful antioxidants known to man.  Just go to www.pubmed.com and enter keywords,”xanthones”, and “garcinia mangostana”(the scientific name for mangosteen).  Up will come a good deal of the scientific research already documented on the anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-tumor properties exhibited by these molecules and other phytonutrients present in the rind of the mangosteen.  Mangosteen has been used in Southeast Asia for centuries for skin diseases, dysentery, and host of other ailments.  Mangosteen is a very recent find for the western world; in fact, your computer word programs won’t recognize it, and none of the herbal and nutritional journals that I swear by even mention it.  Be very thankful that the pharmaceutical companies didn’t get a hold of it first.  A privately owned wellness company brought it to the world market in 2002 and remains the best producer of the highest quality organic mangosteen as a nutritional supplement.

Needless to say, I was very happily surprised to see it work on my depression, which had been an unhappy companion for most of my life.  I immediately started researching it, making phone calls etc, and I found that indeed, some doctors were finding mangosteen to have a beneficial effect for patients with a variety of mental illnesses, that there was some helpful neurological component, possibly a specific set of xanthones, that were having a real, physical effect.   I had heard of cases where patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 60-90 days into the mangosteen trial, were finally experiencing significant relief…but this personal, mental freedom was completely unforeseen.  I had been on medication for over 10 years, had been put on everything initially and only one medication “worked” for me.  It is also hard on the liver over time.  It took me 18 months to finally get off of it, because I wanted to be careful.  I’m so glad I did!  But I would NEVER recommend doing so without supervision of a doctor who prescribes the medication you’re taking. 

How do I know for sure it’s the mangosteen?  Well, I do know my body well enough, but a forced withdrawal for 3 months recently occurred.  We went through a rough patch where our house burned down a year ago, and relocating has been difficult.  About 6 months ago I had to stop buying my supplement and went without for 3 months.  The results were, return of depression, the need to use acyclovir regularly again, and the return of the psycho-cough when I caught a slight cold.  I also noticed that my skin started breaking out again when the time of the month (for ladies) came, and that I was having severe emotional difficulties associated with PMS that would occur before I was on the mangosteen, that I had previously attributed to my depressive disorder.  I don’t know to what else to attribute the relief!  My diet is not perfect but pretty amazingly healthy compared to the average person; I do follow the Liberation Diet.  I have not had a return to my eating disorder(that was a companion to depression for 22 years) through any of this, nor did the depression  become as severe; I feel my overall health has still, over 3 years, greatly benefited from mangosteen.  But I’ll tell you what!    I won’t go without ever again!  Believe me, I thought the results were psychological at first.  I couldn’t believe it then, but I’m not waiting for the other shoe to fall anymore.  This IS the other shoe and it fits great.

If you or someone you know suffers from depression whether or not it’s related to auto-immune disease (often it is), mangosteen is definitely worth trying.  If there’s even a small chance you might find some relief and freedom it’s at least worth looking into.  You are welcome to contact me at www.xanetplanet@yahoo.com or contact Kevin Brown directly, and mention the article. 

May blessings abound on your path to healing!

–Janet Demeter

7 Keys to Building Your Dreams

• Posted by samzotto on October 10, 2009
• 122 comments

You’ve got goals and dreams.  Right?

Most people do.  The question is what are you doing to achieve them?

What do ‘dreamers’ and ‘achievers’ have in common?  The have a vision – they start with the end in mind.

What is the difference?  Sometimes dreamers will keep their dreams and goals a secret .  Achievers, take their dreams and goals, and apply laser focused action.

We’ve identified 7 Keys to Building a Dream Board (aka Vision Board) to help you get where you want to go.

1. Describe your perfect day.  Even your perfect week.  What would you do from the time you woke up until the time you go to bed.

2. Identify (in writing) what you want to create for you and your family in four critical areas:
a) Self-Development
b) Relationships
c) Serving Others
d) Materially

3. Write a ‘WHY’ statement that encompasses your perfect day and the 4 critical areas.  This is a statement that you will read morning and night – saying your dreams aloud day and night creates unshakable belief that you will achieve your ‘WHY.’

4. A picture is worth 1,000 words.  Put pictures to Critical Step #3.  Grab a poster board, foam board, or extra large picture frame.  Start with your birth certificate – because after all, weren’t we all born champions.  If a spouse or partner is part of your ‘WHY,’ put a picture on the board.  If there is a car you want, visit the dealership and have a salesman take a photo WITH YOU IN THE PICTURE.  The more photos you have with you in them, the more personal your board will be that will allow your subconscious will go to work on.  If you have an income goal, make a check out—payable to yourself with your company’s logo.  Date it for the date you want to earn that amount of money.

5. Visit your Dream Board and your ‘WHY’ daily. 

It is YOUR WHY that will keep you going when someone tries to steal your dreams.

This is what one of my mentors, John DiLemme, author of ’10 Life Lessons’ has to say…Why a WHY?  Because it will change your life’s results forever.

If you want to hear more of what John has to say, here’s a link to his book:

http://snipurl.com/findyourwhynowdebbie



6. Invest in some secret time.

Whatever you do today will predict your future – your habits of today will predict your future.  What you read and listen to will predict your future results – guaranteed!

7. You can have more than one copy of your Dream Board – and your
   ‘WHY.’
  
Keep your Dreams front and center.  Having your dreams where you are – in the bathroom, your construction zone (aka your office), your handbag or briefcase – anywhere you would consistently be.

Now, take a brief journey with me . . .

Take your beautiful Dream Board and tear it up!  That’s right, you heard me, tear up your Dreams – what does that feel like?
 

OUR FREE GIFT FOR YOU:  We are here to support you in the process of building your dreams.  If you would like to receive the world famous complete eBook ‘7 Keys to Dream Board Building,’  (a $30 value) simply send Debbie an email at Debbie@WomenWithDreams.com and she will make sure you receive this exciting eBook to help your reach your dreams!

MORE ABOUT DEBBIE:  She is the owner of WomenWithDreams.com and residualMoneysecrets.com – companies that empower the average person to live an extraordinary life by teaching how to build profitable businesses in the network marketing arena.

She is a wife, mom, volunteer, real estate investor, author, and former Beverly Hills financial analyst who is passionate about helping others succeed.

Her motto is ‘How you do anything, is how you do everything!’

Whether you have a job you love, own a business you are passionate about, have been newly downsized or retired, almost everyone has been impacted by the economy and are looking for a back-up plan – we call it a ‘Plan B.’ 

Helping you create your 'Plan B'
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FIND THE REAL PROBLEM BEFORE YOU TREAT IT

• Posted by samzotto on October 8, 2009
• 80 comments

Autoimmune disorders are becoming more common affecting around 5% of American women today.  It’s hard enough being a mother, wife, career woman and homemaker without the addition of a debilitating disease.  So what should you do if you find yourself diagnosed with a disease such as lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or multiple sclerosis?

Modern medicine, if it even recognizes the above conditions, will find a way to treat the symptoms instead of trying to find the cause.  The symptoms include things like fatigue, hair loss, pain, depression, and brain fog.  Taking drugs to fix these symptoms may lead to further problems since drugs tend to affect the thyroid , adrenal glands and nutritional status.

In many cases, there is an underlying infection or thyroid problem that can be responsible for the symptoms of these autoimmune disorders.  The first thing you should do is have your thyroid checked by a doctor who will not only look at the lab result, but your symptoms.  Sometimes the tests come back normal, when things are not functioning normal.  The next thing to do is get tested for the Mycoplasma bacterium.  Getting these possible underlying conditions fixed could help you recover completely from the autoimmune disease without taking harmful medications.

Once you rule out hypothyroidism or infection, you need to fix your diet.  Start by eating real food the way God made it.   Eat more saturated fat and avoid the toxic vegetable oils like soy, corn, cottonseed and canola oils.  Take cod liver oil and look into iodine therapy.  Dr. David Brownstein is an authority on iodine and hypothyroidism so check out his books at drbrownstein.com.

Your health is your responsibility and you have the choice to live a full and abundant life, or a life dependent on debilitating medication.  Don’t take a diagnosis of an autoimmune disorder lying down.  Get up and do something about it.

Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness

Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.  She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life.  She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.

New artificial flavors now coming to a can of food near you

• Posted by kimh on October 8, 2009
• 104 comments

There is a new threat to our health from synthetic food ingredients. And like Aspartame, the regulatory approval process that is suppose to protect us is failing again. You may have noticed lately a growing number of products that claim in their ads and on their labels that they have “Less Salts”, “Less Sugar”, “Less MSG”. This type of claim should make you think, “What are they putting in to let them take this stuff out”. It should be obvious that they are not just going to remove some of the salt, sugar and MSG. These three ingredients are the key to increasing sales. So they are the geese that lay the golden egg of the processed food industry.

What they are putting in is a new class of food ingredients that are novel molecules, never consumed by humans before. And you may have already eaten them because they don't have to be on the label. These chemicals turn off bitter receptors on the tongue and enhance the salty, sweet and umami (savory) receptors. Companies like Kraft, Nestle, Coca Cola and Cambell's Soup are already putting these chemicals in their products. These chemicals are so powerful that the amount of salt and sugar can be cut nearly in half, yet the same level of salty or sweet flavor is maintained.

While some food companies will admit they are contracted with Senomyx, they will not reveal which foods have these chemicals added. The foods most likely to contain these chemicals are soups, vegetable and fruit juices, ice cream and sauces. Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder has said, “We are helping companies clean up their labels”.

The company that developed these new chemicals is called Senomyx. They took data from the human gnome project and used it to analyze human taste buds. This has allowed them to develop multiple chemicals that work in very low concentrations, often less than 1 ppm. By comparison, artificial sweeteners have concentrations of 200-500 ppm. These new chemicals do not have to be separately listed. Instead they are allowed under “artificial flavors”.

The fact that they are used at concentrations of less the 1 ppm means they don't have to through the rigorous FDA approval process for novel chemicals. Instead they automatically get Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status. It only took Senomyx 18 months to get GRAS status on their MSG replacer and they did this with a single safety study on rats for 3 months. A study like this is not generally considered adequate to determine safety. A minimum of two years on multiple species will produce more realistic results.

This is just another reason to avoid processed foods, especially if they contain salt, sugar or MSG and “artificial ingredients”.

-Paul Ericson, contributor Liberation Wellness

Muscle, Smoke and Mirrors

• Posted by kimh on October 5, 2009
• 97 comments

This week on the Liberation Wellness Hour

Randy Roach - Muscle Smoke and Mirrors - Volume 1 

business and how it affects our health today.

The research for this extensive, two volume project... represents a comprehensive effort to establish a complete context from which the sport of bodybuilding arose. "Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors" is the rise and fall of what was truly once an extraordinary discipline associated with a term known as "Physical Culture". Experience what bodybuilding was originally and learn just exactly what "Physical Culture" really is.See what growing philanthropic power flexed its financial and political muscles to foster its corporate agenda, compromising human health internationally.Read how the merger of technology and politics culminated in the industrialization, commercialization, federalization, internationalization and finally the STERILIZATION of a nation's food supply, rendering it suspect not only to the general public; but also to the most elite of athletes. Whether you are a novice, an elite bodybuilder or simply sports-nutrition minded, learn how the emerging forces of the Iron Game evolved. Ultimately, the factions of this industry would grow powerful and manipulative while fighting for control over the Game.It took the running of several parallel histories on bodybuilding, nutrition, supplements and the role of drugs to offer a complete, first-time unraveling of the web of confusion and politics that still permeates the sport into the 21st century!Volume I of "Muscle, Smoke & Mirrors" is truly the untold stories surrounding "Bodybuilding's Amazing Nutritional Origins."

Are You Afraid of Swine Flu?

• Posted by kimh on October 1, 2009
• 78 comments

Everyday it seems we hear something about the swine flu.  People are visiting emergency rooms for every ache and sneeze due to fear of getting the swine flu.  Is our fear grounded in fact?  So far, the swine flu has not been any worse than any other flu.  Most people get the usual flu symptoms for a few days and then they are fine.  Some with compromised immune systems have died, but that happens with every flu that comes around. 

The swine flu, or any other flu, is not fun to go through, but we don’t need to be afraid.  Just try the following preventative tips:

1.       Eat real food the way God made it.                                                        

2.       Eat saturated fat found in butter and coconut oil daily.                                

3.       Make homemade chicken broth and drink some daily. 

4.       Take cod liver oil and vitamin C daily.

5.       Avoid refined sugar.

6.       Get plenty of rest.

7.       Wash your hands in soap and water.

Taking the above precautions may help prevent the flu or make the symptoms less severe and they are much more reliable and much safer than a vaccine or drug.

Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness

Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.  She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life.  She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.

Sugar and Cancer - The Real Story!

• Posted by kimh on September 29, 2009
• 116 comments

One Daughter Fights to Save Her Fathers Life -

From the Medical System!

 This Week on the Liberation Wellness Hour Radio Show    

Molecular Biologist Kathy Marticello tells the incredible story of her fathers struggle to defeat terminal cancer with the Liberation Diet, and how the Doctors and Medical System are undermining their efforts in this incredible fight for life story. 

Also RD Annette Presley and Kevin Brown defend real food on the worldwide broadcast of the Harvest Show.

The Liberation Wellness Hour is broadcast @ 12noon on Saturdays, and archives of the show can also be played at www.LiberationWellnessHour.com

Roanoke Gets Liberated!

• Posted by kimh on September 26, 2009
• 56 comments

 

Medical Doctor Defeats Cancer with God's Help!

• Posted by kimh on September 22, 2009
• 235 comments

Dr. Lorraine Day, M.D. -

Cancer Doesn't Scare Me Anymore!

Don't miss Dr. Lorraine Day this week on the Liberation Wellness Hour, at a special time, Thursday Sept. 24th, 2PM EST

www.LiberationWellnessHour.com

Call-in Number: (347) 838-9516

Dr. Lorraine Day reversed her severe, advanced cancer by rebuilding her immune system by natural therapies, so her body could heal itself.

As a physician who developed cancer herself, Dr. Lorraine Day was well aware that physicians are more afraid of cancer than patients are, because doctors KNOW that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are NOT the answer to cancer. She will help you understand why you don't need to fear cancer. Dr. Day helps explain so the layperson can understand all the confusing medical jargon you will hear from doctors. 

Dr. Day is an internationally acclaimed orthopedic trauma surgeon and best selling author who was for 15 years on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine as Associate Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics. She was also Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital and is recognized world-wide as an AIDS expert.

She has been invited to lecture extensively throughout the U.S. and the world and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including 60 minutes, Nightline, CNN Crossfire, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King Live, The 700 Club, John Ankerberg Show, USA Radio Network, Art Bell Radio Show, Three Angels Broadcasting Network and Trinity Broadcasting Network.

for more information about Dr. Day visit her website  www.drday.com/

This Weeks Show! - Coach Mo Running

• Posted by kimh on September 19, 2009
• 160 comments

Coach Mo Running

Don't miss Coach Mo this Saturday, Sept. 19th, 12 Noon. Just click:

  www.LiberationWellnessHour.com

  Call-in Number: (347) 838-9516

Maurice Rene Weaver began his athletic/wellness journey at Power Memorial Academy in New York City.

By the time he graduated H.S. he was one of the most promising distance runners in the United States. After smashing the American Flat-floor Indoor Record in the 2 mile run, a sensational American Record in the Distance Medley Relay & a sterling mile time of 4:08, he was awarded a scholarship to Eastern Michigan University where he pursued a degree in Social Work.

Looking for some place to fulfill this passion for sport and wellness, Maurice began using his own experiences from training and competing to assist others in attaining their running and fitness goals, or more aptly put, taking their well-being to another level.

As Maurice did so many times while competing, he began infusing mind, body, and spirit concepts to coaching his runners/clients. "The synergy between Mind, Body, and Spirit is the chasm by which success happens." says Maurice who had by now began to formulate his philosophy of coaching, which is to empower individuals with tools or strategies for success.

Whether it is through coaching, a runner, a client, or motivational speaking, Coach Mo's positive energy is contagious. With enthusiasm, humor & a holistic philosophy, he challenges one to fulfill their maximum potential.

Coach Mo's Website is  www.CoachMoWellness.com

Fasting - The Single Healthiest Thing You Can Do

• Posted by kimh on September 16, 2009
• 321 comments

There is No Money in Fasting!

By Janet Marsh Demeter, Staff Writer

Fasting is an ancient techanique for healing and detoxification of the body from a variety of ills, and for maintenance of optimum health. Studies show that we are designed to fast and fasting is in part an evolutionary development of times of food scarcity.

As with other areas of the Natural Healing arena, general consciousness of its benefits are not well-known; in fact, people tend to be fearful of fasting. This fear of fasting is really the fear of feeling "hunger", or what people think is hunger. More often than not, the sensations of withdrawal from irritating substances are confused with hunger and do not come from the absence of real, natural foods. What constitutes "real food" is well researched here with our Liberation Fitness staff and at westonaprice.org, but basically, sudden restriction from anything that is not natural and/or is super-refined with preservatives and other toxins, can create the lightheadedness, headache, cravings, stomach pains, and other symptoms that people mistake for real hunger. Actually, the willingness to "sit through" these feelings of withdrawal can eventually free a person, through fasting, from a bad eating habit, among other things.

Considering again the benefits and very basic physiology of the fast, the first 3 days are the most dramatic whether it's a 4, 7, 10, 30 day water fast, because during the first 72 hours the body switches feul sources. During the first day, the body generally consumes all of its stores of glycogen in the liver(normal source of glucose), so then it must find another source. It begins to break-up fatty acids(ketosis) as feul, and also (catabolizes)breaks down amino-acids from the muscles to make glucose, about 2-3 oz of muscle on the second day. By the third day, the ketosis or breaking down of fatty acids becomes very efficient so that the body can begin conserving protein, thereafter catabolizing only 1/2-1oz of muscle per day. The conservation of protein was important for the protection of the organs and muscles when no food was available; over 30 days a person will go through 1-2 lbs. of muscle tissue.

Much like sleep, the body during a fast uses its energy to break down and expel toxins, and to heal itself. As the fast continues, the body will use-up everything it can that is not necessary for its functioning, such as microbes, fibroid tumors, wastes, inflammation, and stored fat of course. Generally, the body switches its fuel source in the first 3 days, when the most dramatic effects, if any, are felt. So fear not; the body is actually designed to do this--and can manage very well for quite some time. Some of the diseases and conditions that clinical studies have shown fasting helps either partially, or permanently, are: hypertension, chronic cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, obesity, epilepsy, acute pancreatitis, osteo- and rhumatoid arthritis, auto-immune diseases including lupus, severe toxic contamination(7-10day fast), poor immune function, psycho-somatic diseases, gout, bronchial athsma, allergies, MS, insomnia, and more.

There have been enough animal studies that suggest life-span enhancement through fasting, and also individual case studies, not to mention common sense. Cancer research is, of course, controversial with fasting(as with most natural approaches), however there is data to suggest it may help prevent cancer. Most people can safely fast, but there are special cases when one should not fast. Always consult your health professional for when considering fasting as to your goals, the length and type of the fast, etc... Starving people obviously should not, pregnant diabetic women, nursing mothers, those with anemia, those with porphyria should not fast. There is also a rare genetic fatty-acid deficiency which prevents the body's switching to ketosis.

Knowledge of fasting should be available to everyone as a natural and safe (with some exceptions) healing and health maintenance technique. The more you know about health and wellness, what good things with which to fuel your body, the more sense it makes to take advantage of fasting to cleanse and heal. Often the fear of it is no more than a bad habit not wanting to lose his position of authority in the mind. Fast and be healthy; fast and be free, too!

Swine Flu - Incredible Coverup!

• Posted by kimh on September 15, 2009
• 99 comments

How to Make Millions of Dollars,-

and Lose Relativly Few People!

This VIDEO interview has been banned for 20 years...this expose' should be enough info to make an intelligent decision on what we should do about taking this vaccine and OTHER vaccines too.  Download this video if you can....
 
   Here is the link for the soon-to-be-famous 1979 CBS 60 Minutes episode concerning the 1976 swine flu pandemic in USA and the massive vaccination that followed. Note that this episode was banned after its first showing on television. It is now being released publicly on the internet for the first time, after 20 years!!!

Help! They're Trying to Poison my Baby!

• Posted by kimh on September 8, 2009
• 44 comments

 Human Rights Being Destroyed by Medical System!

To Mr. Kevin Brown,