“To Dairy, or Not to Dairy”

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People struggle with whether or not to consume dairy products.

I personally have gone for long stretches without consuming just about any dairy, with perhaps just some minor weekend cheating whereby some dairy will be included in a Mexican dinner (a little cheese and/or sour cream on top of my beans) or a potato soup that has some dairy ingredients added.

The lactose issue is especially important for people who may have a candida issue, a topic I put a large focus on.  If we’re taking in ANY liquids with ANY sugars…including lactose…we need to be very conscious of the fact that these inherent sugars will tend to feed yeast/fungal conditions in the body, especially in the gut where the center of the problem often is.

Another obvious issue is the actual quality of the dairy, and where it’s coming from.  The VAST majority of the time, the dairy product is coming from contaminated cows…cows not tended to in the most respected and appreciated ways, by feeding them non-native grain-type diets such as grains (and much worse), along with pumping them full of hormones and antibiotics, both of which are designed to fatten them up.

It is an entirely unnatural setting for the cows, and to make matters even worse, as if the above wasn’t bad enough, the milk these cows produce is then pasteurized, exposing the antibiotic/hormone residue-ed milk to high enough heat to then in turn partially or completely destroy the nutritional components such as enzymes and proteins, at least what little of them exist with cow’s milk treated this poorly.

Some people also simply have lactose intolerance of sorts, often experienced in the form of excessive gas or diarrhea…and it’s important to understand that for a lot of people, if they DO experiment with dairy elimination from their diet…that often when they return to incorporating dairy back into their diet, they interestingly then HAVE “newly” discovered lactose intolerance.

I used to drink raw milk on occasion, and found my body craved it like mad.  This was milk from grass-fed cows, who lived and enjoyed life on an open pasture, and were not exposed to hormones or antibiotics.  If you’ve never had it, whole raw milk, it is distinctly different from store-bought pasteurized milk, and I’ve heard others have the same experience I had with it.  The way to find it is to seek out a local farmer, or, as I recently discovered, one can be in California (Sacramento at least) and obtain it right in the health food stores there (in my state it can’t be bought in stores).

Sweating Candida.

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I am working on setting up a page here devoted to my personal anti-candida protocol over the next week.  I have learned a lot over the years about how to manage this little bugger, and I use a multi-pronged, rotating approach that is unique to me, and not utilized anywhere else to my knowledge.  The diet will still have to be a focus, with the reduction to virtual elimination of sugars and monitoring fat consumption, but there are alternatives, and we do not need to be AS strict as some diets since my approach will hit it from many angles, including both killing off the fungus, as well as altering it’s structure so that the immune system can come in and manage it with more effectiveness.

In the meantime, a video on one of the most important components of any anti-candida program in my opinion: that of sauna sweating:

Corn Syrup Ads and Coca-Cola Killing:

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I saw an ad about an hour ago, another one, where the High Fructose Corn Syrup industry is once again attempting to convince everyone that their product is safe, since there is now so much controversy about it.

Indeed, the product may be safe…in VERY small amounts.

What is not explained is that the amounts being consumed are so high by so many people, that it is indeed very poisonous, especially since it’s in so darn many of our food products.

Public perception is everything.

Gargantuan advertising campaigns are put into place, costing untold millions upon millions of dollars to help maintain specific kinds of public perception.  It is with the understanding that this mere perception, is what perpetuates sales and keeps the gears churning forward.

Look at the Coke ads of the 1970’s, when I was growing up…I absolutely adored this song as a child:

 And I drank a lot of Coke.

And I was a pretty miserable little boy.  (Ever see the child at the restaurant drinking Coke/Pepsi and screaming?)

With such a beautiful song promoting it, how could it POSSIBLY be bad for us???

And look at the Coke ads of today, with the polar bears that everyone is familiar with…cute, cuddly, adorable animated white bears with little baby bears to add to the appeal.

The corn industry is heavily invested into corn syrups and high fructose corn syrups.  It is a financial monster, considering how prevalent the ingredient is in foods.

…Such as Coke.

Used to be before the 70’s, Coke used regular sugar.  It’s still made that way in Mexico.

But not here.

Sugar costs far more than HFCS does.  Not only is it cheaper to use HFCS, you can even use LESS of it, due to its potency to sweeten.

Win-win on for the bottom line.

But still exposing people to too much HFCS.

Coincidentally in a sad news item today out of New Zealand, a woman’s family is claiming she was addicted to Coke…as are some form of “experts” in New Zealand…and it was this addiction that unfortunately lead to her death.  Her name was Natasha Harris, you can search the story.

And no one even discusses the phosphoric acid issue, nor the effect carbonation has on blood pH levels.

I used to drink one Coke each year during the holidays, up until about five years ago, when I cut it out all together.  At a time when I’m having fun and feeling good, I decided I no longer needed a temporary caffeine/sugar high, followed by the extended low, in order to accentuate the event.

No matter how pretty, polite, or fun an advertisement is in trying to convince you that something is safe, we need to use both our common sense, see the bigger picture, and take responsibility for what we’re eating…is it something that your gut tells you is a real “food,” or is it something that seems more manufactured, more processed, and perhaps has shareholders that want to be paid?