Sat Aug 14th
I will be whipping up a gourmet 8 course feast celebrating all the wonderful summer greens, squashes, nightshades and juicy fruits showing up in your local markets this time of year.
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Some or all video of this dinner event may be used for a What's For Dinner video show on my website.
This will be held in my space at
261 E 10th St #1C
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Black Botija Pitted Olives
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These Black Botija Olives contain no salt, no oil, no herbs, and have not been cured. They are 100% natural, sun-dried, ripe, certified organic olives with the pits removed. Each olive is nearly the size of a prune with thick, juicy, tasty and savory olive flesh.
It is said that Buddha sitting at his tree once said “the silence between the notes is just as important to the song as the notes are".
We often find ourselves wanting to always fill those moments of inactivity. Sometime we speak because the silence can be unsettling, or put something on a shelf because there was an empty spot. Sometimes we surround ourselves to avoid being alone or turn on the TV to keep a flow of stimulation going on. Why is this, what are we doing? Most, not all, but most people are afraid of their own thoughts. Left alone in quiet where there is no stimulus or influence we drift to our own inner dialogue. What that is whether you are distracted from it or aware of it, is a mish-mosh of worries, notes to self, flashbacks of yesterday, conversations, what you should have said, could have said, reminders, food or eating, planning tomorrow, dreams… everything that brings us frustration and feelings of being overwhelmed. For others the would of inner thought it is simply unfamiliar and they try to drowned it out all the time.
This month work on finding time where you have complete peace and let your mind go, Let thoughts run with no restraint in a flow of free thought. This can release so much pent up angst and stress it is really unbelievable.
"The future of life on this planet may depend on what we eat. Factory farmed junk food is the #1 cause of climate change, but we can save the planet by going organic."The greenhouse gas emissions from factory farms, deforestation, industrial crop production, food processing, and long-distance distribution make the food sector the biggest cause of climate change, responsible for at least a third of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Factory farmed meat, dairy and eggs alone may contribute as much as 51%!
"But we can change food system pollution into food system solutions. A worldwide shift to local, organic food production would drastically reduce food system emissions and turn the world's farmland into a carbon sink to capture and store 40% of global greenhouse gas pollution."
- Excerpt from Organic Consumers Association's "Food Agenda 2020: The Organic Alternative"
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OCA's Alerts of the Week
Toxic Sludge Is NOT Organic!
Why Won't Alice Waters Stand Up Against Sludge?
The toxic sludge end-product of the industrial, hospital, and household waste that passes through our municipal sewer systems is routinely dumped on non-organic farmland or fraudulently sold as "organic compost" to backyard gardeners and used to grow food. Sewage sludge fertilizer is banned in organic agriculture because it routinely contains hundreds of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and pathogens that threaten public health and the environment. Out of 80,000 chemicals in commercial use, only 10 are regulated in the sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer on thousands of non-organic farms and ranches across the country.
San Francisco, like most municipalities, struggles to find cheap ways to dispose of its sewage sludge. The city sends it to landfills, farmland in surrounding counties, and, believe it or not, has been giving it away it to Bay Area gardeners and schools, claiming that its sewage sludge is "organic biosolids compost."
When the Organic Consumers Association learned that San Francisco, where Gavin Newsom had been named "World's Greenest Mayor" by Organic Style magazine, was giving away sewage sludge and calling it "organic," one of the first persons we thought would want to help us was Alice Waters. Waters, the celebrity chef and author who founded the Chez Panisse restaurant, is one of the world's most famous organic advocates. Plus, she's a Bay Area community gardener who started the Edible Schoolyard movement. We were sure that Alice would be appalled by San Francisco's practice of calling toxic sludge "organic," and basically dumping sewage sludge on backyard gardens, schoolyards, and farms.
But, our request for help from Alice Waters and her Chez Panisse Foundation was rejected.
A conversation with Anna Lappé on climate change, industrial agriculture, and conversion to a climate-friendly food system
The most important challenge of our generation is to stop polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and to re-stabilize the climate before the climate crisis metastasizes into climate catastrophe.
Transforming our out-of-control chemical and energy-industrial food and farming system to one which is organic and sustainable is the most immediate and effective step we can take to safeguard our survival. Anna Lappé's new book, Diet for a Hot Planet, is perhaps the most important book of the year.
This is an awesome article and video done by Mathew Mannark. I highly recommend them both.
I feel that the technological advancement of creating systemic enzymes for human consumption is an example of science at its BEST!!! Enzymes are catalysts and they are responsible for accelerating positive chemical reactions in the body. When they do this they retain their own structure and do not become part of any action they perform.
Working as catalysts, enzymes group together any wandering inactive molecules and transform these molecule structures into new active-molecules that can be of use to heal the body. Once an enzyme catalyzes one group of molecules, making them active to help heal the body, the enzyme then moves on to the next group of inactive molecules. These “God-sent” enzymes do not die out after one positive chemical reaction. They keep going and going until their life force is completely depleted.
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Did you know that what you eat directly after exercising – typically within two hours – can have a significant impact on the health benefits you reap from your exercise?
Consuming sugar within this post-exercise window, will negatively affect both your insulin sensitivity and your human growth hormone (HGH) production.
A recent study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that eating a low-carbohydrate meal after aerobic exercise enhances your insulin sensitivity. This is highly beneficial, since impaired insulin sensitivity, or insulin resistance, is the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes and a significant risk factor for other chronic diseases, such as heart disease.
This is highly beneficial, since impaired insulin sensitivity, or insulin resistance, is the underlying cause of type 2 diabetes and a significant risk factor for other chronic diseases, such as heart disease.
In addition, as HGH Magazine explains, consuming fructose, including that from fruit juices, within this two-hour window will decimate your natural HGH production:
"A high sugar meal after working out, or even a recovery drink (containing high sugar) after working out, will stop the benefits of exercise induced HGH. You can work out for hours, then eat a high sugar candy bar or have a high sugar energy drink, and this will shut down the synergistic benefits of HGH.
… If you miss reaching HGH release during working out, you will still receive the calorie burning benefit from the workout. However, you'll miss the HGH "synergy bonus" of enhanced fat burning for two hours after working out.
This is an extremely important fact to remember if you want to cut body fat and shed a few pounds.
The University of Virginia research team demonstrated that carbohydrates are burned during exercise in direct proportion to the intensity of training. Fat burning is also correlated with intensity. However, the actual fat burning takes place after the workout, during the recovery.
This makes the "Synergy Window," the 2 hour period after a workout, very important in maximizing HGH, once it's released during exercise.
… If you are middle-age and want all the benefits from exercise induced HGH, then apply this strategy."
Fitness expert Phil Campbell, author of Ready, Set, Go! further explains how you can maximize your HGH production by limiting sugar intake for two hours post exercise, in this article on HowToBeFit.com.
Exercising one hour a week and getting the same results as traditional strength training might sound impossible. However, University of Florida orthopedics researchers have developed a system that may do just that, and as you will read in my comment below, the kind of exercise you perform can dramatically reduce the time you spend in the gym while still getting better results than you did before.
The system created by University of Florida researchers uses eccentric (negative) resistance training, which capitalizes on the fact that the human body can support and lower weights that are too heavy to lift.
According to UF Health Science Center:
"Through a system of motors, pulleys, cams and sensors it adds weight when a person is performing a lowering motion, and removes that weight when the person is lifting. As a result, the body starts seeing loads, resistance, and forces that it doesn't normally see".
Other scientists have found additional clues that explain how exercise reshapes and strengthens more than just your muscles.
It changes your brain too.
In the late 1990s, researchers proved that human and animal brains produce new brain cells, and that exercise increases the process. But precisely how exercise affects the intricate workings of your brain at a cellular level remained a mystery.
However, a number of new studies have begun to identify the specific mechanisms, and have raised new questions about just how exercise reshapes your brain.
In some studies, scientists have been manipulating the levels of bone-morphogenetic protein (BMP) in the brains of mice. The more active BMP becomes, the more inactive your brain stem cells become and the fewer new brain cells you produce. Exercise reverses some of the effects of BMP.
According to the New York Times:
"BMP signaling was found to be playing a surprising, protective role for the brain's stem cells ... Without BMP signals to inhibit them, the stem cells began dividing rapidly, producing hordes of new neurons."
Since its scandalous approval in 1981, it's been put in over 6,000 products. Meanwhile, there's been a 47-fold increase in brain cancer in the U.S. - with this food additive highly suspect. It caused cancer in lab animals during the approval process too, but the FDA looked the other way…
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