How The Vegan Diet Could Be Much Better, The Bible, I'm sorry, Last Post

Stop promoting a very low fat diet.
Eat fat with your greens.
Look up which veggies are more bioavailable when cooked. Carrots are.
Remove canola oil and ALL vegetable oils except olive oil, sesame oil, coconut, flax, and red palm oil
Banish the raw to salads (with olive oil)
Eat Kelp with your soy.
Add coconut oil to your daily diet. Use it as a spread on your yam, or in your veggies.
Eat natto or take a K2 from natto.
Add red palm oil.
Make sure you get your D.
Take a taurine supplement.
Take a vegan multi from whole foods, if possible, and take that multi with the biggest meal of the day.
Stop eating so much bread and grains.
Combine your beans and rice and use less rice.
Take probiotics and digestive enzymes if you need them.
Take a 3/6/9 blend.
Stop saying it's natural, it's not unless you are from a traditional plant based culture.
Consistently take a chewable B12 as directed.
Listen to all sides of an issue even if it is icky.
Never stop learning.
Question "science" especially if it helps out the Statin manufacturers.
Question "science" when it helps out the meat industry too.

Some of us are extremely lucky to be able to follow this in this day and age where there's supplements to fill in the gaps.

I do want to point out that the supplement business isn't booming because of vegans, it's booming because there's lots of people lacking vitamins and minerals. Many diets these days are not that natural.

What about that thing where God wants us to be vegan in the Bible?
Now, let's say that God wants us to be vegan as indicated in the Old Testament. The Old Testament God would have an issue with eating animals, but He had issues in general. However, in the New Testament, He converts from being an asshole to being compassionate and understanding. Therefore, He knows that we have adapted to eating animals and that some people have to rely on animals for their nutrition. The human being is not as consistent a converter of vitamins and minerals from plants, as other beings. He'll forgive us, that's His MO after all.

My Agenda...
Each of us can only try to do our very best given the information we have before us. This website aims to place more of that information before you for your consideration. I hope that all this information inspires you to learn more about being healthy on the vegan diet, even if takes more effort for some. I also hope that if you are feeling like crap on the vegan diet, that you consult with JackNorrisRD.com. I also want current healthy vegans to stop thinking that this is the One Diet to Rule them All. It is not. Have some empathy for your fellow humans.

Grateful
I am grateful to be a vegan (coming up with a new word for it), it's not only aligned with how I feel about animals, my health/hormone issues went away. I had excruciatingly painful lumps in my breasts. I get my period every 28 days, how's that for an old woman? Pretty good! I am equally grateful to have read the article in VeganOutreach that opened my eyes, finally, to the health issues experienced by former vegans. Plus, the Universe/God confirming that few days later that with the meeting of the tooth decayed current vegan children here in Santa Rosa, California. Besides getting married, perhaps there's a reason why I moved here from Florida? What's interesting is that my husband is the one who met the family and I only had the opportunity to ask the mom about her children's health and teeth on the way out the door!

The more I read about ex-vegan health problems, the more I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry for the health problems they experienced and I'm sorry for being an asshole in anyway in thought, word, or deed to all former vegans and questioning, even slightly, their motives or inner life. WTF do I know?

Listen to your Gut/Intuition
I hope you investigate probiotics and consider taking them. I also hope you read all that you can on VeganHealth.org.

This is My Last Post
I am not a health professional, I'm not omniscient, and I have no magic 8 ball with some special insight into all the infinite variations of how each individual's intestines and genetics work. No one does. Unless you do, then you have no reason to speak about why a person ends their vegan diet. We are all different. There is no Average Man and there is no Average Woman.

Coconut Oil, Ketones, Spring Hill couple's Alzheimer's fight tries boost in brain superfuel

I don't know how I find this stuff, but this article really is amazing!

Mary Newport, a pediatrician who runs Spring Hill's neonatalogy clinic, scrounges for any Alzheimer's information she can find. Her husband is an accountant who began struggling with numbers in his mid 50s.

Last year, she ran across a report of Axona's clinical trials, well before it hit the market. Not wanting to wait, she began feeding her husband large doses of virgin, nonhydrogenated coconut oil, available at Wal-Mart for less than $7 a quart.

Coconut oil contains a mixture of saturated fats. The liver converts some into ketones. Others float around in the bloodstream, which is why cardiologists usually discourage its use.

The effect on Steve Newport was immediate.

"He said it was like someone had turned on a lightbulb,'' Mary Newport says. "He was alert, smiling, joking. He was Steve again. He was back.''



http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/research/article1024137.ece




They are brain boosters from caveman days that allow humans to survive on nothing but water.

They nurture newborns right out of the womb.

Now ketones — a kind of superfuel for brain cells— are drawing interest as possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

In March, a Colorado company began touting Axona, the first FDA-approved "medical food'' for people with Alzheimer's. The key ingredient is a saturated fat that the liver converts into ketones.

Meanwhile, a federal scientist is examining whether ketones might help soldiers think and fight better. He hopes to expand his work to people with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's.

Then there is Spring Hill resident Steve Newport. His wife retrieved him from an Alzheimer's funk 14 months ago by loading him up with saturated fats found in coconut oil.

He says he feels "alive again."

This does not mean the promised land is around the corner.

Coconut and other ketone-producing oils can cause diarrhea and cramping. Cardiologists say they will clog arteries.

Still, the science behind ketone bodies is intriguing and caregiver bulletin boards are sprinkled with hopeful anecdotes.

An 83-year-old woman in Connecticut is dressing herself again.

A 62-year-old man in California is cracking off-color puns.

And in Spring Hill, Steve Newport mows the lawn without disassembling the John Deere.

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Red Palm Oil, Udos' 3/6/9 blend, K2

If you read the article by Christ Masterjohn you'll see that he mentioned a good source of vitamin A is Red Palm oil. More specifically beta-carotene and alpha-carotene. I went across the street to get some, and couldn't find it. I'm going to check with Whole Foods this week.

Check this excerpt from an article about Red Palm Oil by Dr. Bruce Fife, ND:

Carotenes are valuable nutrients and powerful antioxidants. They are also important because our body can convert them into vitamin A, an essential nutrient. Vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness, weaken bones, lower immunity, and adversely affect learning ability and mental function. Vitamin A is only found in animal foods. Such foods, are too expensive for many people. Carotenes in fruits and vegetables can supply the needed vitamin A if an adequate amount of fat is also consumed. Carotenes require fat for conversion into vitamin A. Unfortunately, those who can’t afford animal products often do not eat much fat either. Populations with ample carotene-rich foods available often suffer from vitamin A deficiency because they don’t get enough fat in their diet.

Red palm oil provides a perfect solution. It supplies the needed fat and vitamin A precursors. Red palm oil is the richest dietary source of provitamin A carotenes (beta-carotene and alpha-carotene). It has 15 times more provitamin A carotenes than carrots and 300 times more than tomatoes. This has made it a valued resource in the treatment of vitamin A deficiency. Just one teaspoon a day of red palm oil supplies children with the daily recommend amount of vitamin A. Nursing mothers are encouraged to supplement their diet with palm oil to enrich their milk with the vitamin. Studies show that adding red palm oil into the diet can double or triple the amount of vitamin A in mother’s milk.

The children are not only getting the vitamin A they need but other important nutrients as well. Red palm oil is a virtual powerhouse of nutrition. It contains by far, more nutrients than any other dietary oil. In addition to beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, and lycopene it contains at least 20 other carotenes along with vitamin E, vitamin K, CoQ10, squalene, phytosterols, flavonoids, phenolic acids, and glycolipids. Palm oil is one of the richest natural sources of vitamin E. In addition to ordinary vitamin E, it also contains the highest amount of a super potent form of vitamin E known as tocotrienol. There are four tocotrienols. Palm oil contains all of them. These tocotrienols have up to 60 times the antioxidant activity of ordinary vitamin E. The combination of vitamin E, tocotrienols, carotenes, and other antioxidants makes palm oil a super antioxidant food.
Red palm oil is loaded with so many nutrients and antioxidants it’s like a natural dietary supplement. In fact, it is currently being encapsulated and sold as a vitamin supplement. The oil is also available in bottles like other vegetable oils for kitchen use.

I did get a K2 from natto that comes with a whole foods blend. I also got a 3/6/9 blend by Dr. Udo.

Very Good Information on the ABCs of Nutrition from a very non vegan perspective

Seriously, the man who wrote this suffered horribly as a vegan, he wrote this wonderful article on nutrition for the Weston A. Price Foundation. I don't care what you think, he's got lots of tips and good information. Some of the stuff on K2 is more updated on my site (a few blog posts ago), the study he sites is older.

ABCs of Nutrition by Chris Masterjohn

Coconut Update I'm in Love!

Yesterday, I posted something about how wonderful coconut oil was. I first noted the coconut and the inclusion of this Medium Chain Fatty Acid when I read the healthy vegan baby page (particularly how one child just slurps coconut milk down, good baby!) on VeganHealth and from a comment in one of the threads on JackNorrisRD.com site about how he uses Earth Balance, which is made with Palm Oil. Other than noting the inclusion of saturated fat — Medium Chain Fatty Acids — I did't know much about coconut oil nor did I read anything about it. I had a gut feeling about it, so I went out and bought some extra virgin, raw, organic coconut oil. I took two tablespoons about 3 hours before I pasted together yesterday's post about coconut oil and before I read about the numerous testimonials. I particularly noted the amazing fat loss results, especially concerning belly fat. I was a fat vegan, then I became a fit vegan, now I'm a medium fit/fat vegan. Before I read those testimonials, I have to say, with deep sincerity, that I have not felt so satiated and warm with so much energy in a long, long time. I was able work out longer today, think clearer, and I feel bright, more awake than normal. I don't want to use Earth Balance anymore, since I don't like what I know about canola and safflower oil (plus, I avoid most corn — unless explicitly non GMO — like the plague, that's just me). I am replacing my Earth Balance with coconut fat and a little sea mineral salt. I will be making a yam in a few min, I'll let you know!

I stopped eating the eggs last week or the week before. So now I'm an "ex-ex-vegan" Hah! I had a total of 5 eggs in 6 years. I noticed zero difference, except there is a dopamine effect after eating good protein. But you can get a dopamine effect after a banana too. Remember, I take a good bit of D after moving from FL and I also eat whole foods based green smoothies with every essential nutrient from food sources (not isolates). So I would not be the one to notice a difference, but I noticed a difference with the coconut oil. That's huge for me.

6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World — This Rocks So Hard

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html