Thursday, October 11, 2018


Food convenience can remove fat OR make you fat and sick….
Today's post:  Thursday, 10-11-2018

A. A CDC report that our local San Mercury wrote up yesterday, said nearly half of Americans who work long hours or commute too or have children, eat fast food from once to a few times a day. Of course this almost always includes the soft drinks they make the most money on!

Astonishingly people who make more money often do this more times a week!

Name any chronic illness you’d rather avoid from Alzheimers to being restricted to a wheelchair all your waking hours and being in pain a lot and headed for huge medical bills.

THAT form of convenience, research shows, causes or worsens ALL of them!

B.  Mercifully there is another form of convenience that can cost a bit less that removes fat!

Stop ever visiting a fast food place and stop all the semi-foods and soft drinks and dangerous additives they add to them.

Whack!  ALL that time and money gets lifted from your shoulders and your wallet.

This is a wise step for two reasons.  These things are so dreadfully harmful even once a week will harm you.

Second and perhaps most important, these things and their components are addictive and the fast food places and their suppliers make sure this is so!

Susan Peirce Thompson did serious research that found that most people who eat or drink ANY of these things trigger unstoppable urges to eat or drink more!

She found this both guarantees being fat and unable to remove it AND serious drops in self esteem by not being able to resist these urges.

The much better news is that if you choose to feel good about escaping this trap and eating only nutritious foods you eat by plan and never make exceptions, there are ways to make it as convenient!

One is to eat a high protein breakfast at home, take and eat zero food to work, and eat a high or moderate protein breakfast at dinner.  And you also eat organic low carb vegetables and organic whole fruit and health OK oils at breakfast and dinner.

I did that today!  I spent no time setting up food to take to work or driving somewhere to eat and no time eating at all.

Including extra drive time, someone who eats fast food and did so today will spend an hour or more and several dollars doing so.

I didn’t!  And, I do this once every week.

If you have been spending the time at fast food places instead, you can save time and make your day even more convenient too.

Both Dr Thompson and fatloss coach Isabel de Los Rios say to plan the food you will eat each week  and take some time to buy it once or twice a week.  Isabel de Los Rios likes to pre-prep meals for her family in batches on weekends so she can fix and serve it very fast on weekdays.

To have my weekends free except for the shopping trip, I do some prep work a few evenings a week depending on how that week is going.

Now, this can be even more time efficient by having someone else shop for you!

Best of all, you can pay for better quality organic food and even the shopping service with the money you are no longer spending at fast food places or buying those foods and drinks and lugging them home!

For people who want more information why this is so from me and Dr Peirce here it is from a previous blog post:

1.  In her book, “Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
                                                         by Susan Peirce Thompson PHD.”  --

She explains that the foundation of the success of her method is that the first two Bright Lines of the four are:

1.  Never eat or drink any sugars or sweeteners.

2. Never eat any wheat or foods that contain it.

This works for two reasons:

Both categories of things tend to cause your body to add excess fat even in small amounts.

AND about 90 % of the people find them addictive enough that including ANY causes brain activity that removes the control of the person eating them in a way that causes binging or consistent intake of more calories of these things to prevent fatloss.

Abundant research shows that these foods or semifoods fatten enough, it’s clear that not eating ANY is the best way to lose fat.

Dr Thompson’s contribution is that consuming ANY removes your control of your eating both in amount and content.

She’s done the cognitive science research that shows exactly how and why that happens!

The first new way to lose fat, in addition to that, is to know that both categories contain an extra fattener and health harmer that makes them even more important to leave them completely out of your food & drink.

We now know that both sugars & sweeteners AND wheat and other grains contain enough glyphosate and the unlisted poisons applied with it to kill weeds to be even more fattening.

II. Worse, even if you stop eating both sweeteners and wheat and even other grains,
your body very likely has enough glyphosate and the unlisted poisons applied with it to kill weeds to deplete tyrosine and turn down thyroid which reduces the calories you burn!

So, the second new way to fatloss is to take tyrosine supplements and other foods and supplements to sharply reverse this effect and increase the calories you burn and how energetic you feel.

Last Tuesday we posted on this in detail.

I’ve included that post inside this one next:

1.  High intake of glyphosate and the unlisted poisons applied with it to kill weeds tends to cause cancers and other health problems.

2.  Sugars and other sweeteners made from corn and hybrid wheat and other grains are addictive enough and harmful enough if eaten much at all, the only safe intake for most people is zero.

Foods made with wheat, particularly refined grain hybrid wheat and many other grains are addictive enough and harmful enough if eaten much at all, the only safe intake for most people is zero.

3.  Sugar beets and corn and wheat and oats and other grains are spayed with glyphosate and the unlisted poisons applied with it a few days before harvesting because killing them dries out the crops.

This does increase shelf life and reduce molds;
but drying the grain and beets in this way instead of using a dryer of some kind in the field makes it even more undesirable to eat them!

Steve Holman sent out an email recently that linked to a Mike Geary article.

Mike’s article is dated:  August 29, 2018

It’s so well done and clearly written I quote from it here. 

[As I often do, I add comments in brackets like these. The bolding is also mine.]

http://thenutritionwatchdog.com/glyphosate-in-your-cheerios/

“Cheerios levels of glyphosate at 470-530 parts per billion (ppb) are some of the highest levels present in any of the tested foods.

Doss states that “General Mills failed to disclose or actively concealed information reasonable consumers need to know before purchasing [Cheerios], and knew or should have known that Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios contained glyphosate, but withheld this information from consumers and the general public.”

This means that General Mills may be in violation of several state consumer protection laws.

Says Steve Gardner, legal consultant at Gardner Consulting, and former head of the food law practice at the Stanley Law Group, “In the wake of the $289m Monsanto damages award, we expect to see plaintiffs’ attorneys target products containing glyphosate, even in trace amounts…”

Independent laboratory testing ordered by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), shows heavy doses of glyphosate in almost all of 45 samples of cereal and snack products made with conventionally-grown oats (non-organic). 

What’s even scarier is that 75% of those samples had higher levels of glyphosate that what is considered acceptable and safe.

And, if you think you are safe from glyphosate because you are only buying organic, consider that 30% of cereals and snacks tested from organically-grown grains also had glyphosate.

Another lab, Anresco, a U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) registered lab, using one of the most reliable tests for glyphosate residues, tested thirty foods commonly found in grocery stores. Their findings were also consistent with EWG’s findings.

Some of the highest glyphosate residue was found in General Mills Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Stacy’s Pita crackers, Ritz crackers, Lucy’s oatmeal cookies, Kashi dark chocolate soft baked cookies, Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies, and Oreos, and dozens of other so-called ‘healthy’ cereals and snacks

“Frankly, such a high level of glyphosate contamination found in Cheerios, Doritos, Oreos…is alarming and should be a wake-up call for any parent trying to feed their children safe, healthy and non-toxic food,” Dave Murphy, executive director of Food Democracy Now!,” said.

Farmers often have trouble getting their grain crops like corn, wheat and barley to dry out quickly for harvest, especially in wetter climates. 

So, the Big Ag chemical companies came up with the idea to douse the crops with glyphosate one to two weeks before harvest to kill the plants and accelerate the grain dry-out. 

This pre-harvest use of glyphosate allows farmers to harvest crops as much as two weeks earlier than they normally would.

Crop desiccation with glyphosate is a very common practice, and farmers use massive amounts of glyphosate on non-GMO crops such as wheatoatssoybeanscorn and other crops right before harvest.

Along with wheat and oats, glyphosate is used to desiccate a variety of other crops including 
peanutslentilspeassoybeans, flax, rye, triticale, buckwheat, millet, 
canolasugar beets and potatoes

These food products are essentially drenched with glyphosate just a couple weeks prior to harvest, meaning even higher levels of glyphosate once these crops are harvested.

According to the EPA, glyphosate in used in the U.S. on at least 70 different food crops, including:
 grainsspinachavocadosalmondswalnuts, figs, plums, grapes, kiwilemonsgrapefruit, pistachios, and pomegranates. 

The widespread usage of glyphosate makes it nearly impossible to avoid, and sample testing shows 93% of us test positive for glyphosate in our bodies.

Additionally, 
glyphosate interferes with the activation of vitamin D in the liver by inhibiting the cytochrome P450 enzymes, creating a host of other problems related to vitamin D deficiency.

Thyroid Problems–
Glyphosate also depletes the body of tyrosine, an essential nutrient needed proper thyroid hormone. As a consequence, thyroid issues are increasing as well—often manifesting as hypothyroid problems, or autoimmune Hashimoto thyroid conditions.

{Mercifully, you can take 500 mg capsules of tyrosine to help reverse this problem directly in addition to not eating these foods.]

No matter how healthy and ‘clean’ your family’s diet may be, this pervasive chemical is extremely difficult to avoid! 

It is used on most all conventional crops, and its residues are in water run-off, streams, lakes, and rain. 

[Filtering water then can reduce glyphosate intake with a good enough filter.  <<<<< ]

It is also carried through the air, so that even 100% organic foods now show traces of glyphosate.

 If you choose to eat grains and legumes at all (which many people avoid if they follow a Paleo style diet), make sure to choose [only] organic grains and legumes. 

Eating an organic diet for 1 week reduces pesticide exposure in the diet by 90%.

• Avoid eating conventional grains and processed foods.

• Eat meat, poultry, eggs, butter and dairy products only from 100% grass fed or organically fed animals.

• Eat sulfur rich foods like eggs, organic cheese [from cows fed only grass], onions and garlic. Glyphosate exposure in the body depletes sulfur and also effects sulfate pathways.

[Taking deodorized garlic supplements and taking glucosamine sulfate does this and has other health benefits.]

• Eat fermented foods and probiotics. Especially important are fermented foods with a live culture of acetobacter. 

This includes organic apple cider vinegarsauerkraut, kimchi…. cheeses and yogurt.

Supplement with glutathione and manganese—two nutrients glyphosate depletes.

[I take manganese but just 10 mg twice a week as more can be toxic.

I also take NAC, n-acetyl-cysteine, that boosts glutathione in part because its cysteine is a sulfur containing amino acid.])

[ Get plenty of sun so your body can make vitamin D, or supplement with D3.      

Assuming that minimizing glyphosate and taking plenty of D3 will avoid this hazard, the combination of eating no sugars or grains and taking at least 10,000 iu a day of vitamin D3 may work.  It’s also safest and most health beneficial to take at least 90 mcg a day of vitamin K2 with   that much vitamin D3.]

[In addition, for this and many other reasons, it makes sense to filter the water you drink and cook with and wash dishes with.

https://fixtwater.com/products/ & https://fixtwater.com/ has an at home system that looks as if it does this well. ]   

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