Roger Drummer discusses the connection between inflammation and all major disease including heart disease, Alzheimer’s, high blood pressure, and cancer.
He explains how the inflammation that drives chronic disease is caused by a lack of good nutrition over a long period of time and how consuming things like artificial sweeteners or colors, MSG, and preservatives eventually leads to cellular damage.
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How childish……all those damn !!!! relegate your comments from possibly serious to irrelevant.
Well said!!!!! But there was nothing on Chinese Herbs. Disease is caused by bad, wrong, diet, and deficiency. We eat too much junk, with too many artificial, or processed foods, and additives, that do not have any LIVE GIVING PROPERTIES!!! WE ARE STARVING AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL, SO YOU GET WEAK CELLS!!!!!! Like breathing through a bad Halloween mask!!! WE ARE VAMPIRES!!!!! WE NEED LIVING FOOD!!!!!!!!!!! FRUITS AND VEGGIES!!!! LIVE CELLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEEEAAAHHHH! —my vampire sound!!! It is processed sugar and flour products that are causing the problems, the process destroys any life for the sake of SHELF-LIFE!!! So, ALL PASTRIES ARE BAD FOR YOU!!!!!!!! Cookies, pies, cakes, candy, pop, donuts, ice cream, chips! Anything with the LIFE COOKED OR PROCESSED OUT OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You want to lose weight????? NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!! So, for every bad thing you do to your body to something GOOD FOR IT!!!!! Eat a cookie? Fine, Eat a BANANA NEXT TIME!!!! A bowl of ice cream, fine!!! EAT SEVERAL ORANGES!!!!! BALANCE YOUR DIET WITH WHOLESOME NUTRITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I make a big bowl of steamed veggies, and fry ground turkey breast in olive oil in a separate pan. I mix them all together at the end in the same bowl with a cut up slice of cheese. I put, green beans, Brussels Sprouts, half a carrot or more, lettuce, a red potato, broccoli, and you can have what you want. I steam that for 10 minutes. I put tomato and basil pasta sauce on that with Bragg’s Liquid amminos and it is DELISH!!!!! Sometimes I have an oatmeal cookie, but I also eat an apple a day!!!! So BALANCE WHAT YOU ARE EATING and supplement if you need to!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very good suggestions from Steve with whole heartedly agreement with all of suggestions. Real veggies and fruits are always raw. I eat almost all raw all day and have lost 20lbs. Now it is winter and the steaming is interesting and will try that for this winter season. I suppose one can get a steamer from a kitchen supply store or maybe walmart. 🙂 Yes eat as much fruits for desserts. Eat fruits in the restaurant with family or friends! Help them do the same by letting them see you eat raw veg and or fruits. For breakfast I eat a bowl of berries and chopped apple with chopped walnuts and raisins with homemade almond milk. YUmmmmy!! Try this and watch your pants fall off! Ha and your health improve with high energy big time, too.
The only problem with eating all raw is that many veggies need to be cooked in order to break the protein bonds and allow the nutrients to be released. This is particularly true for leafy greens as well as red, orange and yellow vegetables. And not only are they better cooked, but they also need fat for transportation and absorption of fat soluble nutrients. Carotenes are fat soluble. The best fats for cooking are actually animal fats (sorry, but true) as well as coconut oil. No vegetable oil, including olive oil, should be heated because their flash points are too low. If they are heated beyond the flashpoint, then we’ve created a rancid oil which will only increase inflammation. You can water saute the vegetables, then add the the fat. Sure, one will lose weight on a raw diet, but that doesn’t imply that one is healthier. Fat soluble nutrients act as hormones and they are absolutely essential for good health.
Good suggestions. The only thing I would add is that if you do fry anything, it’s better to do it in coconut oil than olive oil. Olive oil is good for everything else but breaks down under heat whereas coconut oil does not, and it is a very good oil as well.
All excellent points and good helpful info from good people trying to help others, but let’s be nit picky with the AMA, not amongst ourselves. It’s not the format but the content that counts. TTThank u aaall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How childish……all those damn !!!! relegate your comments from possibly serious to irrelevant.
Well said!!!!! But there was nothing on Chinese Herbs.
Disease is caused by bad, wrong, diet, and deficiency. We eat too much junk, with too many artificial, or processed foods, and additives, that do not have any LIVE GIVING PROPERTIES!!! WE ARE STARVING AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL, SO YOU GET WEAK CELLS!!!!!! Like breathing through a bad Halloween mask!!! WE ARE VAMPIRES!!!!! WE NEED LIVING FOOD!!!!!!!!!!! FRUITS AND VEGGIES!!!! LIVE CELLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEEEAAAHHHH! —my vampire sound!!!
It is processed sugar and flour products that are causing the problems, the process destroys any life for the sake of SHELF-LIFE!!! So, ALL PASTRIES ARE BAD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!
Cookies, pies, cakes, candy, pop, donuts, ice cream, chips! Anything with the LIFE COOKED OR PROCESSED OUT OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You want to lose weight????? NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!
So, for every bad thing you do to your body to something GOOD FOR IT!!!!! Eat a cookie? Fine, Eat a BANANA NEXT TIME!!!! A bowl of ice cream, fine!!! EAT SEVERAL ORANGES!!!!! BALANCE YOUR DIET WITH WHOLESOME NUTRITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I make a big bowl of steamed veggies, and fry ground turkey breast in olive oil in a separate pan. I mix them all together at the end in the same bowl with a cut up slice of cheese. I put, green beans, Brussels Sprouts, half a carrot or more, lettuce, a red potato, broccoli, and you can have what you want. I steam that for 10 minutes. I put tomato and basil pasta sauce on that with Bragg’s Liquid amminos and it is DELISH!!!!!
Sometimes I have an oatmeal cookie, but I also eat an apple a day!!!! So BALANCE WHAT YOU ARE EATING and supplement if you need to!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be well and happy!!!!!
Steve
Very good suggestions from Steve with whole heartedly agreement with all of suggestions. Real veggies and fruits are always raw. I eat almost all raw all day and have lost 20lbs. Now it is winter and the steaming is interesting and will try that for this winter season. I suppose one can get a steamer from a kitchen supply store or maybe walmart. 🙂 Yes eat as much fruits for desserts. Eat fruits in the restaurant with family or friends! Help them do the same by letting them see you eat raw veg and or fruits. For breakfast I eat a bowl of berries and chopped apple with chopped walnuts and raisins with homemade almond milk. YUmmmmy!!
Try this and watch your pants fall off! Ha and your health improve with high energy big time, too.
The only problem with eating all raw is that many veggies need to be cooked in order to break the protein bonds and allow the nutrients to be released. This is particularly true for leafy greens as well as red, orange and yellow vegetables. And not only are they better cooked, but they also need fat for transportation and absorption of fat soluble nutrients. Carotenes are fat soluble. The best fats for cooking are actually animal fats (sorry, but true) as well as coconut oil. No vegetable oil, including olive oil, should be heated because their flash points are too low. If they are heated beyond the flashpoint, then we’ve created a rancid oil which will only increase inflammation. You can water saute the vegetables, then add the the fat. Sure, one will lose weight on a raw diet, but that doesn’t imply that one is healthier. Fat soluble nutrients act as hormones and they are absolutely essential for good health.
Good suggestions. The only thing I would add is that if you do fry anything, it’s better to do it in coconut oil than olive oil. Olive oil is good for everything else but breaks down under heat whereas coconut oil does not, and it is a very good oil as well.
All excellent points and good helpful info from good people trying to help others, but let’s be nit picky with the AMA, not amongst ourselves. It’s not the format but the content that counts.
TTThank u aaall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!