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I so want a Chevy Belair 1957 Nomad but will take this Wagon!
I even found one on my Canadian roadtrip, but it looked like this!
Sending out the link love!
Hi All! Back from a great trip to Seattle and British Columbia and it is so good to be home! I want to thank all those who helped make traveling easy for me by guesting on my blog! I owe you all big time and please don’t hesitate to call in a favor! Lots going on this week, so let’s get this party started!
New Blog Hosts to Join Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop!
If you haven’t yet checked out or linked up to the Two for Tuesday Recipe Blog Hop, please check out the latest installment. This is a labor of Real Food Love initially hosted by Girlichef, Healthfoodlover, Bethstedman and Amoderatelife. We are so happy to have two more hosts joining this Real Food Sisterhood and we welcome Frugalchrunchychristi and Renderinglard to the ranks! Please visit their sites for more wonderful real food information and recipes! More hosts also mean more exposure for your gorgeous recipe links, so please consider linking up with us! The link goes up on monday evening in the US, but we have hosts as far and wide as Australia and Prague!
New A Moderate Life Blog Badge!
Just wanted to share this wonderful blog badge with you that Heather from Girlichef made for me! It was so sweet of her and I thank her whole heartedly for it! I will be putting it up in my sidebar shortly if anyone wants to grab it for their blog lover page.
I Won a Contest This Week and Got a Great Healthy Snacks E-book!
Amy over at Simply Sugar and Gluten Free ran an E-book giveaway and I won! I am so excited to read all the way through the Healthy Snacks to Go E-book that Katie from Kitchenstewardship put together. Definitely check it out if you need some real food snacking ideas! I love the giveaway vibe and I look forward to doing one myself in the near future!
The China Study Thoroughly Debunked by a Raw Foodist
If you have ever rolled with the vegan group or the raw vegan group, you will certainly have heard of T. Colin Campbell and the China Study which attempts to make a correlation that eating animal protiens in any form is bad for your health. Well, Denise Minger of Raw Food SOS who rather recently added animal protien back into her diet presents an exhaustive review of Campbell’s data and shows where at best, he got it wrong and at worst he fabricates conclusions in order to suit his vegan bias. It is a very long article, but at the end of the day, it supports much of what Sally Fallon Morell and the Weston Price Foundation have been talking about for a very long time, which is, eat a balance of whole, unprocessed traditional foods including animal products for optimal health.
I am Amazed to Find a Raw Milk Article on AOL Health!
But not really surprised because raw milk is going more mainstream as many people continue to search it out and demand their real food rights. This raw milk article, written by Victoria Stein, who is a dietitian even quotes Sally Fallon Morell and links to the Weston Price Foundation while decrying the “well documented dangers” of raw milk, but completely ignoring the many illnesses caused by pasteurized dairy. While not a supportive article, at least it gives the link to the Weston Price Foundation and in the last sentence briefly enforces safe rules for finding raw dairy, which includes researching the farmer, making sure the cows are tested for illness and they have a certification and a reputable safety record before making a purchase.
Also on AOL Health…High Fructose Corn Syrup Versus Sugar
This article is also by Victoria Stein and quotes Marion Nestle of Food Politics. The article says that sugar is sugar and it is calories in and calories out, but the biochemical makeup of high fructose corn syrup is not EXACTLY the same as sugar because it is man made through enymatic processing to increase the amount of sugar in each molecule. To me, this smacks of something akin to hydrogenating fats and we all know how transfats react in the body and why they are currently being removed from many products. At the end of the article Ms. Stein states that she avoids high fructose corn syrup because the jury is still out on how it reacts in the body, even though the corn industry is doing everything they can to “help consumers make informed choices” by running explanatory ad campaigns. I believe that sugar is far too abundant in the standard american diet, high fructose franken sugar should be avoided and natural sugars, like honey and maple syrup should be used sparingly for infrequent treats to balance health.
More Than Meets the Eye in the Gulf
While the media is focused on the awful environmental impact of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the disaster is impossible to ignore due to its severity, an expanding dead zone sits relatively undiscussed at the delta of the Mississippi river off the coast of New Orleans. This dead zone, which is identified as an area of greatly decreased oxygen or hypoxia, is the size of New Jersey and hugs the coast from Texas to Alabama, where few plants and animals survive. The Organic Consumers Association indicates that the major cause of this dead zone is fertilizers used to grow GMO corn to create the alternative or GREEN fuel Ethanol. Seems that even alternative energy methods are not without negative environmental impact, so explore this more fully so you can make an informed choice related to your transportation methods.
This article has been a part of Fight Back Fridays on the Food Renegade site. Enjoy the weekend folks and keep it REAL!
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Twitter: girlichef
July 9th, 2010 on 11:41 am
Great source of info, as always..thanks!! I’m so excited to welcome our newest hostesses…and thanks for the love on the badge!! I’m so glad you like it!! Have a great weekend, Alex
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July 9th, 2010 on 11:42 am
Oh, I forgot…I would LOVE to have that wagon!! Wagons are my fave, much to hubby’s chagrin…
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July 9th, 2010 on 5:27 pm
HFCS has been on my mind a lot lately because my college roomie and her kids are allergic to corn, which as it turns out, is in pretty darned near everything these days – from personal care products, to the wax they put on fruits and veg, to crazy things like yarn! The corn industry is a giant, which means that enormous amounts of money are at stake, which means we should all be very wary.
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July 11th, 2010 on 7:58 pm
Hi! I love the new badge – she did a great job! Looking forward to the Blog Hop on Tuesday!
I have an award for you if you do them!
http://frugalcrunchychristy.blogspot.com/2010/07/versitile-blogger-award.html
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July 12th, 2010 on 7:38 pm
Best of luck tomorrow christy and glad you won the award and thanks for passing it along to me! will check it out but might need some help for you to explain the concept to me!
July 12th, 2010 on 7:42 pm
Yep butter, it IS in everything and I was also noticing MSG in the form of “hydrolyzed vegetable protien” is also in a lot of stuff and so is SOY! You can avoid most of this if you make your own food from scratch, but it is still important to check non-food sources for these items as well!
July 12th, 2010 on 7:46 pm
Yep heather, I am really looking forward to our new blog hop hostesses premieres later this evening!
July 13th, 2010 on 7:56 am
Denise’s analysis of The China Study is heavily flawed and therefore invalid, not my opinion those words from a cancer epidemiologist.
Here it is…
http://www.30bananasaday.com/group/debunkingthechinastudycritics/forum/topics/a-cancer-epidemiologist
The proper testing procedure as stated by an expert on analysing stats…
http://www.30bananasaday.com/group/debunkingthechinastudycritics/forum/topics/my-response-to-denises
Campbells response to Denise..
http://www.30bananasaday.com/group/debunkingthechinastudycritics/forum/topics/campbells-response-to-denises
July 13th, 2010 on 11:04 am
Thank you freelee for the visit and for the information. Regardless of her flawed interpretation, based on a flawed initial study filled with bias, there simply are NO long lived vegan cultures period. Look at the traditional diets of all indigenous people and the ONE THING they crave and go to GREAT lengths to get are animal fats. There is no way around it. Look for a naturally occurring source of b12 that didn’t come from a drug store and is purely vegetarian and available to indigenous cultures and you would have found a vegan culture. Truth is, it simply is not available. Even Jon Robbins of vegan foodie fame did a book called healthy at 100 that he does not promote because it found unequivocably that animal fats in some form appeared in every long lived culture. Thank you for your comment.
July 16th, 2010 on 12:57 am
Gday crew,nice blog.
How come NONE of these pro meat bloggers have any real muscle with all that protein talk?
Come and see if ANY of you guys can out bench press/dead lift us at
http://www.veganbodybuilding.com
http://www.veganstrength.org
http://www.organicathlete.org
Here is the website for the doubters.
http://www.pcrm.org
Mike Arnstein ran a 2:28 marathon this year at Boston. He is the FASTEST runner in the raw food movement today. Long time vegan and now powered by sweet fruit. How come there is no competitive athletes eating this ‘paleo fat diet?’ Please shut me up and show me cos Im sick of seeing cardio and muscle deficient paleo crew trying to debunk the china study that us elite athletes are thriving on.
Can you debunk me with a high fat eating paleo athlete that is a national level runner, cyclist, power lifter, UFC fighter like us vegans clearly have provided.
Didnt think so..
Love, peace and banana grease.
Durianrider
July 16th, 2010 on 1:47 am
I have no doubt that in the short term a vegan high fruit diet can be a high energy diet! Hands down it stimulates the metabolism and the adrenals to excessive levels, but elite athletes are consistently short lived individuals. Do the research on that and you will see for yourself. For the record paleo and real food traditional nutrition are different. Additionally, real athletes like the indigenous Masai live almost exclusively on meat, milk and blood and their athletic prowess cannot be questioned. Best of luck with your athletic training and exploration of what works best for you!
August 31st, 2011 on 3:30 am
Thanks for advising in diet taking indeed. There were some other very simple changes I was looking forward too though. For example, we learned our local source for prosciutto was using sugar during the curing process so we had to temporarily stop buying that during our pledge. We were really just craving a little more freedom in our food choice but what had started as temporary was actually turning out to have a lasting effect on our family.