Showing posts with label Vegan Wasted. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vegan Wasted. Show all posts

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Dr. Aris LaTham: The "Sunfired Gourmet" Grand Master Raw Food Chef

He's the promoter of 10-day mango mono feasts...10-day watermelon cleanses, which he claims are better than artificial colonics and enemas, that sometimes remove the friendly bacteria. He's a DYNAMIC proponent of the raw, living movement! He's a beautiful spirit from Panama. He has been thriving and revitalized since 1979! He is the father of raw, gourmet food.


Oh, and by the way...it is summer so he says drink cucumber juice and cleanse yourself. It will cleanse the bad starches out of your colon and intestines and fill your blood with electrolytes and solar energy from the sun. 













Hear him speak here:


Thursday, June 7, 2012

Vegetarian Paradise

Who says you can't get full on salad? This zinger kept us full ALL DAY! It is packed with red onions, spinach, romaine lettuce, baby arugula, broccoli, black olives, Kalamata olives, buckwheat croutons, baby spinach, carrots, sunflower seeds, cucumber, red and yellow peppers, raw sweet peas, soaked beets, quinoa noodles, and cornbread...all topped with raspberry vinaigrette.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Herbs that eradicate dis-EASE


  • Poor appetite: ginseng, Calamus, Genetian, marjoram, goldenseal, wood sage, origanum, chamomile
  • Aches: peppermint, angelica, scullcap, valerian, hops, catnip
  • Appendicitis: vervain, cayenne, buckthorn
  • Abcessess: slippery elm, lobelia, mugwort
  • Anemia: dandelion, century, fenugreek, red cloves, comfrey, agrimony
  • Arthritis: yucca, parsley, black cohosh, alfalfa, burdock, chaparral, buckthorn, comfrey
  • Asthma: hyssop, comfrey, saw palmetto, thyme, sage, colsfoot, labelia, horehound, elecampane, mullein, skunk cabbage, flaxseed
  • Bladder: yarrow, lily pond, uva ursi, goldenseal, aloes, wintergreen, vervain, hemlock, valerian, nettles
  • Blood Impurities: gentian, primrose,bayberry, yellow dock, red clover, bugleweed, chapparral, chickweed, goldenseal, comfrey root, myrr

more to come, so stay tuned...

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Blueberries...it's what's for lunch!


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. 

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Food that Kills

The human body has no physiological need for animal flesh or products. The food pyramid was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture to drive the sales of the meat and dairy industry farmers. And it has done precisely that. You need water, vitamins, carbohydrates, moderate protein, and fiber. All can be found in plant-based foods. Where should you get your protein? From the same place elephants, giraffes, and apes get theirs. Legumes, nuts, fruits, and green vegetables. Where should you get your calcium? From the same place cows get theirs...green plant based foods. 


Adult cows do not drink milk. And neither do apes, giraffes, goats, or elephants...unless they are in captivity and domesticated by man.


"I hope that no one is still eating white Kleenex bread anymore." That stuff takes the cake for food with the least amount of nutritional value. Soul Food is killing Black America in massive droves; in the form of record rates of  complications from diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, high blood pressure, and a breakdown of the immune system's ability to ward off harmful microbes. And soda pop? What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Except for maybe speeding up the deterioration of your teeth.


When archaeologists opened the stomachs of ancient Egyptian mummies they found no meat or dairy. They found grains, such as kamut and spelt. And the slaves who arrived on the shores of North America came with NO cavities. 


Further, the meat being sold today is not the meat that our grandparents were eating. 
There were no factory farms then, and as you can see, they did not see the level of salmonella poisoning and e. coli or mad cow disease that we see now. They did not eat antibiotic-resistant, genetically modified foods because they weren't invented back then. 


"You don't have to give antibiotics to broccoli." We are seeing heart attacks and Type II diabetes and strokes in younger and younger children, all diet-related disease. 


Our children are dying due to our inability to feed them life-sustaining foods.


Cow's milk is for baby cows. You do not have a need for milk from a cow, anymore than you need cow from a giraffe, gorilla, or anything else. In fact, studies have shown that if you administer pasteurized milk to a baby calf, it would be dead in a matter of days because that milk is totally devoid of nutrients. The only milk you need is from a human breast, and beyond your first few years of life, it is pointless. You can still enjoy a bowl of your favorite granola cereal with organic almond milk or coconut milk. Try it.


When you stop running animal fat through your veins, your arteries can unclog and atherosclerosis will diminish. Hypertension and heart disease will begin to reverse. 
Clogged arteries lead to kidney failure, stroke, and weakened ruptured artery walls lead to aneurysms.


Animal fats are solid at temperatures hotter than room temperature, whereas plant oils are still liquid even at very low temperatures. When you see fat hanging out around the waistline of heavy animal eaters (tire-tummy), that's not even their fat so much as it is the fat from the cows, chickens, sheep, and pigs they've been eating throughout their life. 
When you begin to run more organic, raw plant-based foods through your blood stream, that tire-tummy will begin to flatten out and normalize.


The human body has absolutely no need for animal flesh. Look at the largest animals in the animal kingdom, such as buffalo, cows, elephants, and apes who eat NO MEAT. Yet, they are strong and live long lives without cancer, diabetes, heart attack, and strokes. Namely, they eat RAW living food. No wonder they do not suffer the sickness that humans do with high fat, cooked animal diets.


Osteoporosis is a disease of calcium being sucked from the body via too much protein in the diet. The communities with the highest consumption of dairy and animal products have the highest rates of Osteoporosis on the planet. The first step is to get all of the animal products out of your kidneys and get your calcium from grains, legumes, raw living green plants, and fruits.


You are not a mountain lion, so you cannot eat how a mountain lion eats. Their jaw bones are made to chomp meat, carnivorous canine teeth to bite into live animals. You have flat molars like herbivores and other vegetarian animals, and you have a jaw that moves in motions which foster grinding up plants. We have long intestines, which gives us the ability to process plants and vegetables.


And if you think I'm bluffing, climb onto the back of a pig or cow or sheep and take a bite out of his back and see how delectable that would be. Not as easy as plucking a ripe peach or apple from a tree and taking a bite. If you would like to experience a nice, lean body...go Vegan. If you want your blood pressure to normalize and your blood sugar to balance out...go Vegan. If you want your body to fight off sickness and disease like a Superhero, go Vegan! The more raw, the better. If you want to eliminate the medications your doctor prescribes, eliminate the sodium, protein, and fat that comes with a high animal diet.


Put the proper fuel in and the engine will run fine. Our bodies burn sugars and starches, not fat and protein. Our bodies are electric in nature. Our Kreb's cycle is more effective when we put organically grown plant-based foods. More watermelon, avocado, grapes with seeds, spirulina, and Irish sea moss, and less eggs, fried chicken, ice cream, and pork chops


Diets high in protein and processed meat increases the risk of diabetes:
http://www.theheart.org/article/1279867.do


Research proves that the more animal flesh you consume, the higher your risk of developing a number of cancers. Animal protein is concentrated with sulfur, which goes into your blood stream and wrecks havoc over time, pulling calcium out of your body. 
http://www.cancerproject.org/survival/cancer_facts/meat.php







"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Herbs that REALLY work...



  • Guinea Hen weed: Known to South Americans as Anamu: kills cancer cells
  • Parsley: Bad breath, blood builder, high in potassium, kidneys, diuretic
  • Passion Flower: Eye infection and tension, stress, sleep, hyperactive children 
  • Pau d' Arco:  Historically used for cancer, leukemia, tumors, yeast infection
  • Paw Paw Cell-Reg: May modulate growth of blood vessels near abnormal cells, cancer
  • Psyllium Hulls: Scrubs colon, best fiber, diverticulitis, colon blockage
  • Red Clover: cancer, tumors, skin problems, relaxes nerves, spasms
  • Red Raspberry: Pregnancy herb, nausea, diarrhea, gastritis, strengthens/tones uterus
  • Red Yeast Rice: Helps maintain and lower cholesterol levels
  • Rose Hips: Natural vitamin C complex, colds, infections, blood purifier, flu
  • Safflowers: Gout, hydrochloric acid for digestion, diaper, hiatal hernia, ulcers
  • Sage: Stimulates hair growth, memory, sore throat/gum, nerves, hoarseness, clears mucous
  • Sarsaparilla: Testosterone, body building, impotency, hair growth
  • Saw Palmetto: Breast builder (small or saggy), colds, rids mucus, enlarged prostate
  • Slippery Elm: Acid stomach, indigestion, diaper rash, hiatal hernia, ulcers
  • Spirulina: High in protein, vitamins & minerals, 70% protein
  • Stevia: Natural sweetener, 200-300 times sweeter than sugar, calorie free, okay for diabetics
  • St. John's Wort: Anti-depressant, stress, relaxant
  • Uva Ursi: Spleen, bladder and kidney infections, diabetes, gonorrhea/cystitis, incontinence
  • Valerian: Natural tranquilizer, pain muscle spasms, nerves, promotes sleep
  • Wild Yam: Reduces PMS & menstrual irregularities, water retention
  • White Oak Bark: Hemorrhoids and bleeding, varicose veins, pyorrhea, pin worms
  • Yarrow: Obstructed perspiration, nosebleeds, chicken pox, colds/flu/fever
  • Yellow Dock: Anemia, blood purifier/builder, itching, liver, skin problems, hepatitis
  • Yucca: Natural cortisone, arthritis, reduces joint inflammation, skin problems

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, congestionpneumonia, 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.



Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Dandelion, the Magnificent!


Dandelion as a medicine was first mentioned in the works of the Arabian physicians of the tenth and eleventh centuries, who speak of it as a sort of wild Endive, under the name of Taraxcacon. In this country, we find allusion to it in the Welsh medicines of the thirteenth century. Dandelion was much valued as a medicine in the times of Gerard and Parkinson, and is still extensively employed.
Dandelion roots have long been largely used on the Continent, and the plant is cultivated largely in India as a remedy for liver complaints.
Daniel Mowrey PH.D, author of "The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine" states, "Dandelion heads the list of excellent foods for the liver." The herb has been used for centuries to treat jaundice and the yellowing of the skin that comes with liver dysfunction, cirrhosis, hepatitis and liver disease.
But liver function isn't the only use of this nutritious plant. It is also used to treat infections, swelling, water retention, breast problems, gallbladder problems, pnuemonia and viruses.Studies have shown that dandelion stimulates bile flow and has a mild diuretic effect.
Modern naturopathic physicians use dandelion to detoxify the liver and reduce the side effects of prescription medications.





Dandelion is on the FDA's list of safe foods and is approved by the Council of Europe.
The chief constituents of Dandelion root are Taraxacin, acrystalline and Taraxacerin, an acrid resin, with Inulin (a sort of sugar which replaces starch in many of the Dandelion family, Compositae), gluten, gum and potash. It contains substantial levels of vitamins A, C, D, B-complex, iron, magnesium, zinc, potassium, manganese, choline, calcium and boron.
Diuretic, tonic and slightly aperient. It is a general stimulant to the system, but especially to the urinary organs, and is chiefly used in kidney and liver disorders.
Dandelion is not only official but is used in many patent medicines. Not being poisonous, quite big doses of its preparations may be taken. Its beneficial action is best obtained when combined with other agents.

Dandelion Herb Information / Side Effects

Latin Names: Taraxacum officinale, Leotodon taraxacum
Common Names: Dandelion, Blowball, Canker Wort, Irish Daisy, Lion's Tooth, Puffball, Wild Endive
Properties: Diuretic, tonic and slightly aperient, mild laxative.
Uses: Anemia, Constipation, Gallstones. Kidney and liver disorders, jaundice and the yellowing of the skin that comes with liver dysfunction, cirrhosis, hepatitis and liver disease. Encourages normal digestion.
Do not use dandelion for longer than six weeks at a time.
Because of dandelion's diuretic effect, women who are pregnant or breast-feeding may want to avoid it.
Dandelion may intensify the blood sugar-lowering effect of the diabetes drug, glipizide. Use with caution. If taken in large quantities (much more than commonly recommended) it may cause a skin rash, diarrhea, heartburn, or stomach discomfort. Stop using the herb if these reactions occur.
Avoid if your doctor has advised you that you have a gallbladder problem, a blockage or inflammation of the bile duct, or an obstruction of the bowel (often signaled by persistent constipation or lack of bowel movements). Also, don't use dandelion during an acute gallstone attack; this requires professional medical treatment.

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!