Showing posts with label ORGANIC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ORGANIC. Show all posts

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Taco Tuesday (VEGAN WASTED STYLE)

Photo Courtesy HerStories Photography  

Photo Courtesy HerStories Photography


Photo Courtesy HerStories Photography
This is no Taco Bell garbage. This is made with organic corn tortillas, lightly sauteed in olive oil (you can use corn oil too), Daiya cheddar, organic avocados & Himalayan salt, Smart Ground for the filling, organic green leaf lettuce, and chopped Roma tomatoes, fresh, organic-grown cilantro, and green onions, lightly seasoned with cayenne pepper and garlic. Comes with "make-you-want-to-slap-someone-pineapple salsa"! 

Thursday, May 17, 2012

GMOs: The Threat to the Global Food Supply

The Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, and this company essentially owns majority of the seed supply in the world. 

Just about every non-organic food product available to consumers has some sort of connection with Monsanto. Anyone who can read a label knows that corn, soy and cotton can be found in just about every American food product. Upwards of 90% of all corn, soybeans and cotton are grown from genetically engineered seeds, also known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). These genetically enhanced products appear in around 70% of all American processed food products. And Monsanto controls 90% of all genetically engineered seeds. In other words, Monsanto controls -- and owns patents on -- most of the American food supply.

What are the ramifications of this? And do we really want the future of our food to be in the hands of a multinational company that was originally in the business of engineering nerve gas, mustard gas, and other forms of bio-terrorism activity?

Scientists are trying to raise public attention about the fact that global overuse of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide is leading to weed resistance. "Farmers are planting too many Roundup Ready crops," said Stephen Powles, an expert on weed resistance at the University of Western Australia. 


Mark VanGessel, a weed scientist at the University of Delaware spoke of the Roundup (glyphosate) pesticides saying, "My gut reaction is that we do need to limit the use of glyphosate-resistant crops." In response to the issue that farmers are purchasing and
applying a toxic chemical that is no longer working, Monsanto spokesperson Greg Elmore said people are overreacting. In other Roundup news, Denmark officially banned the pesticide this month, saying the toxic chemical is not breaking down in the soil and, as a result, is polluting their water at a level that is 5 times what is considered safe for the environment and human health. 

"Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt also voiced similar concerns, warning:

"The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself."

Outside of the public health realm, Roundup's startling environmental havoc is perhaps an even greater cause for concern. Despite being created to fend off weeds, Roundup is actually spawning resistant superweeds across millions of hectares (one hectare is 10,000 square metres), bankrupting farmers and destroying crop land. These resistant weeds currently cover over 4.5 million hectares in the United States alone, though experts estimate the world-wide land coverage to have reached at least 120 million hectares by 2010. The onset of superweeds is being increasingly documented in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Europe and South Africa.

Recently, a study by the International Journal of Biological Sciences revealed that Monsanto's Mon 863, Mon 810, and Roundup herbicide-absorbing NK 603 in corn caused kidney and liver damage in laboratory rats. Scientists also discovered damage to the heart, spleen, adrenal glands and even the blood of rats that consumed the mutant corn. A "state of hepatorenal toxicity" the study concluded.

It's time we go back to the days of our ancestors and begin to store our seeds and grow our own food. 

Friday, May 11, 2012

Herbs that REALLY work...


  • Feverfew: Migraine headaches, muscular tension, intestinal worms
  • Garlic: Normalizes blood pressure, yeast and bacterial infections, colds
  • Ginger: Expels gas, motion and morning sickness, flu, diarrhea, settles stomach
  • Ginseng: Energy, stress, endurance, depression, impotency/stimulant
  • Ginko Biloba: Memory, blood circulation, attention span, Alzheimer's, stroke
  • Golden Seal: Infection, natural insulin, cleanses urinary system
  • Gotu Kola: Brain food, memory, mental fatigue, vitality depression
  • Green Tea Extract: Strong anti-oxidant, strengthens artery walls, stronger than Vitamin E
  • Guggul Lipids: Cholesterol, reduce platelet adhesiveness, arthritis, fights infection
  • Hawthorn: Heart, hardening of the arteries, adrenals, stress, blood pressure 
  • Hops: Insomnia, nervousness, decreases desire for alcohol, hyperactive children
  • Horsetail: Stops hair from falling out, stops split ends, nails, tumors
  • Hydrangea: Arthritis, gout, kidney and bladder problems, dissolves stones, bone spurs
  • Juniper Berries: Diuretic, dropsy, uric acid, strengthens kidneys
  • Kava Kava: Anxiety, chronic fatigue, sleeplessness, panic attacks, insomnia
  • Kelp: Thyroid, goiter, helps take fat off hips, complexion
  • Licorice: Adjusts blood sugar, quick energy, cough, hoarseness, adrenals
  • Lobelia: Asthma, congestion, pneumonia, strong relaxant, dry cough, lungs
  • MACA; Improves sex drive & performance/increases physical/mental strength, concentration
  • Marshmallow: Bladder and kidney problems, bed wetting, inflammation
  • Milk Thistle: Powerful antioxidant for liver protection, helps liver filter blood
  • Mullein: Nervous cough, lung & sinus congestion, TB, lymphatic joints, hernia
  • Noni: Strengthens systems at cellular level, skin, painful joints, hernia
  • Olive Leaf extract: Energy, anti-viral, fungal, allergies, immune system




Herbs don't build up in the body or produce harmful side effects like synthetic drugs. They feed, regulate, and cleanse the body. Use them! They were created and designed for humans.


And as always, herbs accessorize beautifully with all non-hybrid, raw, organic fruits and vegetables.



Vegan & Vegetarian Celebrities


Basketball (Phoenix SUNS, Utah JAZZ) player Raja Bell has been a vegetarian since he was 2 years old.






After being diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Sjogren's Syndrome, professional tennis player Venus Williams switched to a raw, vegan diet. Her sister Serena Williams switched as well, for moral support.






Forest Whitaker- “Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made,” says Forest.


Prince- The musical legend lives a vegetarian lifestyle. In 2006, he was voted the “world’s sexiest vegetarian” in PETA’s annual online poll, and we definitely know why.



Erykah Badu- The neo-soul goddess swears by the goodness of vegan soul food. She told VegNews Magazine, “Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.”  She is raising all of her children Vegan, as well. 


Angela Bassett- The acclaimed actress and mother of two lives a vegetarian lifestyle, but enjoys vegan and raw food. She shared with the LA Timesthat these food choices often help her get in shape for her roles. At 53, Bassett looks amazing!






Singer, rapper, and actor Andre Benjamin, also known as Outkast's Andre 3000, was voted as one of PETA's sexiest vegetarian celebrities in 2004.



Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons has been a vegan since 1998.






Alice Walker- (The Color Purple) is a vegetarian, gardener, world traveler and spiritual explorer. She lives in Mendocino, California.



Common, once a vegan and now a vegetarian...

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Raw Vegan Annette Larkins: Straight Fabulous at 70



70-Year-Old Raw Vegan Annette Larkins...stays fit, healthy and fabulous by growing all of her own produce. Her garden includes herbs like Stevia, lemon balm, aloe, and Italian Parsley. She calls it her "Garden of Youth" Nothing processed or cooked passes her lips. 

Her husband, who is not raw vegan, takes medication for his high blood pressure. Annette won't even take an aspirin. Get her book, "Journey to Health" today!


Sunday, May 6, 2012

The Raw Living Food Lifestyle: Key to Abundant Health

The kinds of foods we eat determine so much more than we understand. The frequency of raw living fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and sprouts contain genetic information that downloads into our cellular data bank. For the evolutionary time we're occupying, it's imperative that we be able to access the light code information broadcast to this planet. We now know that living enzymes are literal codes of information that gets downloaded into our system when we take it in: it contains the DNA we need to evolve.

The cooked food diet is the single most destructive diet. It can consist of totally or partially cooked food. However, in either form cooked food has no enzymes in it and this is its most dangerous factor. 

The liver and pancreas have become more involved in digestion, whereas they were not originally designed to do so. This is what leads to constipation, thermal fatigue, and detrimental changes to the gastrointestinal lining, setting up a perpetual breeding ground for a diseased state. The cecum and appendix (former stomachs), just like all vegetarian mammals have, has atrophied to their current state in the human body.

When you eat junk, garbage, and cooked food (anything not grown in soil, in the sea, from a tree, vine, or root, which has been processed and/or cooked, microwaved, and genetically manipulated to death), you slow the rate of your atomic and molecular spin. You cut off access to solar energy and genetic information, and the lower your consciousness becomes. 

Only when you eat the correct foods and get cleansed can you increase your spin, help your cells to regenerate faster, and do other miraculous things...like self-healing, but that's for another post. Harvard Medical School researchers Dr. N.B. Marshall and S.B. Andrus and J. Mayer found that the internal organs such as kidneys, liver, pancreas, and heart get bigger on refined processed foods and, the brain gets smaller as the refined food dietary intake increases. Also, the endocrine glands such as the pancreas, pituitary, and thyroid get larger from eating refined food. Cooked food causes a rise in organ temperature. Fruit lowers body temperature. The constant demand on digestive organs to try to metabolize cooked foods and drugs (which are cooked) causes thermal fatigue.

The phytonutrients in fruit can prevent you from developing many, if not most diseases, increased energy, better sleep, better, more clear thinking, cellular repair, and regeneration. However, you must consume them in large quantities, vine-ripened (NOT RADIATED), organically-grown, and in its freshest form. You can do this through sipping a smoothie every morning, and juicing your fruits and veggies, being sure to drink it immediately, and eating enormous salads, and mono-meals of say 4-5 avocados, or 6-7 oranges, or an entire watermelon for lunch. You really do not need to cook vegetables; neither do you need dairy products and cooked animal flesh to survive. 

We are pro-fruit, pro-vegetables, and pro-organic, here at Vegan Wasted!





Friday, May 4, 2012



Do you know what MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) is? How about Yellow #5? Yellow #6? How about RBGH (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone)? Potassium Bromate?

Do you know what SPLENDA is made of? How about natural flavors? What exactly does that mean, natural flavor? What we can say is that they are all artificial! Many of them are engineered, constructed, and created in a lab and are highly carcinogenic additives. We can also say that these artificial substances were not around 100 years ago, and we now know from scientific studies that they have negative effects.


What can help counteract the effects of a body inundated with these harmful additives, aside from eliminating them from your diet?

CoQ10, is a universal substance used all over the body in what is called the glucose to energy pathway.  CoQ10 helps the body take fuel in the form of glucose, or blood sugar, and turn it into energy in the cells of the body.  CoQ10 has been of some benefit in reducing the symptoms of MSG Symptom Complex:
  • Organic fresh fruits and vegetables
  • Juicing organic fruits like carrot and apple and green vegetables
  • Organic frozen vegetables that do not contain added ingredients
  • Homemade rice milk, homemade almond milk, or homemade hazelnut milk
  • olive oil and fresh squeezed lemon juice as a salad dressing
  • quickly cooked homemade pasta sauces made from fresh vegetables

Learn to add these to your cooking:


fresh ginger
rosemary
oregano


Thursday, May 3, 2012

Spring time is Seed time

Photo Courtesy HerStories Photography


Organic food is increasingly popular but most shops treat it as a luxury item to be sold at a premium price. Being able to grow food without pesticides and eat it straight from the garden is superior in every way to produce that is pumped full of additives, packed to prevent it deteriorating, transported and then sold as ‘fresh’. There’s also the understanding that we’re contributing to the sustainability of our planet and reconnecting with the skills that helped past generations cope with climatic or economic disasters.

“I like being able to provide food for my family that is better tasting, more nutritious, and I can control what is used (or isn't) on the plant & soil.”
“I garden to reclaim the skills of self-sufficiency my grandmother and her generation took as routine.”
“Reducing the grocery bills, reducing chemical intake, reducing negative impact on the Earth, reducing reliance on ‘others’ to survive”

I challenge anyone who has tasted a fresh tomato from the vine or sweet corn straight from the plant to tell me that taste isn’t a factor in growing your own. For some it will be a primary motivation – gourmet chefs around the world now have their own gardens and that can be available at home too, picking out wonderful tasty heirloom varieties to grow each year. For others it’s more of a side-benefit but enjoyable none the less. I enjoy cooking so much more since growing my own, especially throwing together Italian vegetables and herbs – with such great-tasting fresh ingredients it’s hard to make mistakes!

Monday, April 30, 2012

Welcome to Vegan Wasted

Welcome to the wonderful world where all things vegetable, RAW, fruit, seeds, herbs, juicing, smoothies, and organic are honored and respected! We hope you enjoy the journey.

This is Fre's vegan shrimp sushi rolls; when Japan meets Atlanta, made seasoned veggie shrimp, with sticky rice, nori, chopped carrots, avocado, and cucumbers. NO MEAT!