WARREN KING, L.Ac.

Blood Type Diet – Type O

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

www.DrLam.com

	Comments	Most Beneficial	Food allowed	Food not allowed
Protein	The more stressful your job or demanding your exercise program, the higher the grade of protein you should eat	Beef, Lam, Mutton, Veal, Venison
	Type Os can efficiently digest and metabolize meats		Any meat except for those listed not allowed	Bacon, Ham, Goose, Pork
	Cold-water fish are excellent for Type Os. Many seafoods are also excellent sources of iodine, which regulates the thyroid function.	Cod, herring, Mackerel	Any fish or seafood except for those listed not allowed	Barracuda, Pickled herring, Catfish, Smoked salmon, Caviar, Octopus, Conch
Dairy	Type Os need to severely restrict the use of dairy products and eggs		Butter, Farmer, Feta, Mozzarella, Goat cheese, Soy Milk	All other dairy products and yogurts
Fat	Type Os respond well to oils	Olive Oil, Flaxseed oil	Sesame Oil	Corn oil, Peanut oil, Cottonseed oil, Safflower oil
Nuts	These foods should in no way take the place of high-protein meats, and they are high in fat especially if you are overweight.	Pumpkin seeds, Walnuts	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Brazil, Cashew, Peanut, Pistachios, Poppy Seeds
Beans	Type Os don’t utilize beans particularly well. They tend to make muscle tissue slightly less acidic and inhibit the metabolism of other nutrients.	Aduke beans, Azuki beans, Pinto beans, Black-eyed peas	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Beans – copper, kidney, navy, tamarine. Lentils – domestic, green, red.
Grains	Type Os do not tolerate whole wheat products at all.	Essene Bread, Ezekiel Bread	Amaranth, Barley, Buckwheat, Rice, Kamut, Kasha, Millet, Rye, Spelt	Corn, Gluten, Graham, Wheat (Bulgur, Durum, Sprouted, white and whole, Germ and Bran) farina, Oat, Seven-grains, or any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these grain products
Vegetables	These vegetables inhibit the thyroid function for Type Os			Brassica family: Cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, mustard greens
	These vegetables help blood clot, Type Os lack several clotting fractors and need vitamin K to assist in the process	Kale, collard greens, romaine lettuce, broccoli, spinach
	These vegetables irritate the digestive tract and the high mold count can aggravate Type O hypersensitivity problems.			Alfalfa sprouts, shiitake mushrooms, fermented olives
	These vegetables can cause arthritic conditions in Type Os			Nightshades: eggplant, potatoes
	This vegetable affect the production of insulin, often lead to obesity and diabetes for the Type Os.			Corn
	This fruit agglutinate all blood types but Type Os.		Tomatoes
		Artichoke, Chicory, Dandelion, Garlic, Horseradish, Kale, Leek, Okra, Onions, Parsley, Parsnips, Red Peppers, Sweet potatoes, Pumpkin, seaweed, turnips	All kinds except those listed not allowed	avocado
Fruits	Dark red, blue and purple fruits tend to cause an alkaline reaction the digestive tract, and therefore balance the high acidity of the Type Os digestive tract to reduce ulcers and irritations of the stomach lining.	Plums, prunes, figs
	These fruits contain high mold counts which can aggravate Type Os hypersensitivity problems (allergies)			Melons, cantaloupe, honeydew
	These fruits are high in acid content which may irritate the acidic stomach of Type Os		Grapefruit, most berries	Oranges, tangerines and strawberries, blackberries, Rhubarb
	Fruits are not only an important source of fiber, minerals and vitamins, but they can be an excellent alternative to bread and pasta for Type Os		All kinds except those listed not allowed
	Type Os are extremely sensitive to this fruit.			coconut and coconut-containing products
Spices	Rich source of Iodine to regulate the thyroid gland	Kelp-based seasonings, iodized salt
	Soothing to the digestive tracts of Type Os	Parsley, curry, cayenne pepper
	Irritants to the Type O stomach			White and black pepper, vinegar, capers, cinnamon, Cornstarch, Corn syrup, Nutmeg, Vanilla
Condiments			chocolate, honey, cocao	Ketchup, pickles, mayonnaise, relish
Beverages		Seltzer water, Club soda and tea	Wine	Beer, Coffee, Distilled liquor, Black Tea

Blood Type Diet – Type O

 

Blood Type Diet – Type B

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

www.DrLam.com

Characteristics of Type B – Best on Balanced Omnivores Diet
	Comments	Most Beneficial	Food allowed	Food not allowed
Meat and Poultry	These meats contains a Type B blood agglutinating lectin.			Chicken, Cornish hens, Duck, Goose, Patridge, Quail, Pork
	These meats help to boost the immune system	lamb, mutton, Venison, Rabbit
	Give up chicken, but use these meats instead		Beef, Pheasant, Turkey, Veal
Seafood	Deep-ocean fish and white fish are great for Type Bs	Cod, Salmon, Flounder, Halibut, Sole, Trout	All kinds except those listed not allowed
	These seafood are poorly digested by Type Bs. They are disruptive to the Type B system.			All Shellfish (crab, shrimp, lobster, mussels, oysters, crayfish, clam, etc), Anchovy, Barracuda, Beluga, Eel, Frog, Lox, Octopus, Sea bass, Snail, Striped bass, Turtle, yellowtail
Dairy	Type B is the only blood type that can fully enjoy a variety of dairy foods. That’s because the primary sugar in the Type B antigen is D-galactosamine, the very same sugar present in milk.	Cottage cheese, Farmer, Feta, Goat cheese and milk, Kefir, Mozzarella, Ricotta, Milk, Yogurt	All kinds except those listed not allowed	American cheese, Blue cheese, Ice cream, string cheese
Fats	The oils not allowed contain lectins that are damaging to the Type B digestive tract.	Olive		Canola, Corn, Cottonseed, Peanut, Safflower, Sesame, Sunflower
Nuts	Most nuts and seeds are not advisable for Type Bs. They contain lectins that interfere with Type B insulin production		All kinds except those listed not allowed	Cashews, Filberts, Pine, Pistachio, Peanuts, Pumpkin seeds, Sesame seeds, Sunflower seeds
Beans	These beans interfere with the production of insulin for Type Bs.			Lentils, garbanzos, black-eyed peas, Beans (pintos, aduke, Azuki, Black)
Grains	Wheat reduce insulin efficiency and failure to stimulate fat “burning” in Type Bs			Wheat (bran, germ bulgur, durum, whole and white), Shredded wheat, Cream of wheat or any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these grain products
	Rye contain a lectin that settles in the vascular system causing blood disorders and potentially strokes.			Rye and any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these grain products
	These contribute to a sluggish metabolism, insulin irregulariry, fluid retention and fatigue.			Buckwheat, Corn (cornflakes, cornmeal) and any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these grain products
		Millet, Oatmeal (Bran, flour), Puffed Rice, Rice (bran, flour), Spelt	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Amaranth, Barley, Kasha, Seven-grain, Wild rice, Couscous
Bread		Bread (Brown rice, Essence, Ezekiel, WASA), Fin Crisp, Millet, Rice cakes	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Bagels, Muffins (Corn and Bran), Bread (Multi-grain Rye, Whole wheat), Soba Nooldes, Wild Rice, Couscous
Vegetables	This vegetable contain a lectins that irritage the stomach lining of Type Bs.			Tomatoes
	This vegetable has insulin- and metabolism-upsetting lectins for Type Bs			Corn
	The mold in this can trigger allergic reactions			Olive
	These vegetables contain magnesium, an important antiviral agent to help Type Bs fight off viruses and autoimmune diseases	Green leafy vegetables	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Artichoke, Avocado, Corn, Olives, Pumpkin, Radishes, Sprouts, Tempeh, Tofu, Tomato
Fruits	Pineappple has enzymes that help Type Bs to digest their food more easily.	Pineapples
	Avoid these fruits for they interfere with your digestive system			Coconuts, Persimmons, Pomegranates, Prickly pear, Rhubarb, Starfruit
		Bananas, Cranberries, Grapes, Papaya, Plums	All kinds except those listed not allowed
Spices	Sweet herbs tend to be stomach irritants to the Type Bs			Barley malt sweeteners, corn syrup, Cornstarch, Cinnamon
	Type B do best with warming herbs	Ginger, horseradish, curry, cayenne pepper	All kinds except those listed not allowed
	Avoid these spices also			Allspice, Almond extract, Gelatin, Pepper (black and white)
Condiments				Ketchup
Beverages	Generally Type Bs don’t reap overwhelming benefits from most herbal teas.	Ginger, Peppermint, Raspberry leaf, Rose hips, Sage, Green Teas		Aloe, Coltsfoot, Corn silk, Fenugreek, Gentian, Goldenseal, Hops, Linden, Mullein, Red clover, Rhubarb, Senna, Shepherd’s purse, Skullcap
	This is highly recommended for Type Bs because it seems to have a positive effect on the nervous system.	Ginseng
	This has antiviral properties.	Licorice		Distilled liquor, Seltzer water, Soda

 

Blood Type Diet – Type B

 

 

Blood Type Diet – Type AB

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

www.DrLam.com

 

Characteristics of Type AB – Best on Mixed Diet in moderation
	Comments	Most Beneficial	Food allowed	Food not allowed
Meat and Poultry	Type AB do not produce enough stomach acid to effectively digest too much animal protein. So the key is portion size and frequency.	Lamb, mutton, rabbit, turkey	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Beef, Chicken, Cornish Hens, Duck, Goose, Pork, Patridge, Veal, Venison, Quail
	Cured meats can cause stomach cancer Type ABs with low levels of stomach acid
Seafood	If you have family history of breast cancer, introduce snails (Helix pomatia) into your diet	Tuna, Cod, Grouper, Hake, Mackerel, Mahimahi, Monkfish, Ocean Perch, Pike, Porgy, Trout, Red Snapper, Sailfish, Pickerel, Sardine, Shad, Snail, Sturgeon	All kinds except those listed not allowed	All Shellfish (crab, shrimp, lobster, mussels, oysters, crayfish, clam, etc), Anchovy, Barracuda, Beluga, Bluegill Bass, Flounder, Haddock, Halibut, Herring, Eel, Frog, Lox, Octopus, Sea bass, Striped bass, Turtle, Yellowtail
Dairy	Cultured and soured products are easily digested for Type ABs	Yogurt, Kefir, Non-fat sour cream, egg, Mozzarella, Goat cheese and milk, Ricotta	All kinds except those listed not allowed	American Cheese, Blue cheese, Brie, Buttermilk, Camembert, Ice cream, Parmesan, Provolone, Sherbet, Whole Milk
Fats	Use sparingly	Olive		Oil (Corn, Cottonseed, Safflower, Sesame, Sunflower)
Nuts	Powerful immune booster for Type A and Type AB	Peanut, Walnuts
	Type Abs tend to suffer from gallbladder problems, so nut butters are preferable to whole nuts. Also eat small amounts with caution.		All kinds except those listed not allowed	Filberts, Poppy seeds, Pumpkin seeds, Sesame seeds, Sunflower seeds
Beans	These beans are important cancer-fighting food for Type AB. They are known to contain cancer-fighting antioxidants.	Lentils
	These beans slow insulin production in Type AB.			Kidney beans, Lima Beans
		Beans (navy, pinto, red, soy)	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Beans (Aduke, Azuki, Black, Fava, Garbanzo) Black-eyed Peas
Grains	The inner kernel of the wheat grain is highly acid forming for Type AB. Wheat is not adviced if Type AB is trying to lose weight. The inner kernel of wheat grain is alkaline in Type Os and Bs, it becomes acidic in Type As and AB.	Millet, Oat bran, Oatmeal, Rice Bran, Puffed rice, Rye, Speltand sprouted wheat and any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these grain products	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Buckwheat, Corn (any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these ), Kamut, Kasha, soba noodles, Artichoke pasta
	Type AB benefits from a diet rich in rice rather than pasta	All kinds of Rice and any products such as flour, bread and noodles made with these
Vegetables	Fresh vegetables are an important source of phytochemicals which have a tonic effect in cancer and heart disease prevention, these diseases afflict Type AB more often as a result of weaker immune system.	Broccoli, Beets, Cauliflower, Celery, Green Leafy Vegs, Cucumber, Eggplant, Garlic, Maitake Mushroom, Parsley, Parsnips, Sweet potatoes, Alfalfa Sprouts, Tempeh, Tofu, All types of Yams	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Artichoke, Avocado, All thype of Corns, Lima Beans, Black Olives, All kind of Bell Peppers, Radishes, Mung Bean Sprouts, Radish Sprouts
Fruits	Emphasize the more alkaline fruits to balance the grains that are acid forming in Type AB muscle tissues	All kinds of Grapes and Plums, Berries (cranberries, Gooseberries, Loganberries), Cherries
	Tropical fruits doesn’t agree with Type AB. But pineapple is an excellent digestive aid for Type AB.	Pineapples		Mangoes, Guava, Coconuts, Bananas
	Oranges are stomach irritant for Type AB, they also interfere with th absorption of important minerals. But Grapefurit exhibit alkaline tendencies after digestion. And lemons aid digestion and clearing mucus from the system.	Grapefruits, Lemons		Oranges
	Vitamin C-rich fruits help preven stomach cancer because of the antioxidant properties of vitamin cup	Kiwi	All kinds except those listed not allowed
Spices	Sea salt and kelp should be used in place of salt. Kelp has immensely positive heart and immune system benefits	Kelp, Miso, Curry	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Allspice, Almond extract, Anise, Barley Malt, Capers, Cornstarch, corn syrup, Gelatin, Tapioca
	The ingredients are acidic			Vinegar, Pepper (white, black, cayenne, red flakes)
	This is a potent tonic and natural antibiotic for Type AB.	Garlic, Horseradish, Parsley
Beverages	Type AB employed these herbal teas to rev up the immune system.	Alfalfa, burdock, Chamomile, Echinacea, Green tea
	These herbal teas and beverages build protections against cardiovascular disease and cancer.	Hawthorn, Licorice, Red wine (1 glass/day)
	These herbal teas aid in absorption of iron and preven anemia	Dandelion, Burdock root, Strawberry leaf
	Coffee increase stomach acid and has the same enzymes found in soy.	Coffee or Decaf Coffee (1 cup / day) and alternate day use green tea		Distilled Liquor, Sodas, Black Tea

 

Blood Type Diet – Type AB

 

Blood Type Diet – Type A

Michael Lam, MD, MPH

www.DrLam.com

Characteristics of Type A – Best on Vegetarian Diet
	Comments	Most Beneficial	Food allowed	Food not allowed
Meats and Poultry	Type As should eliminate all meats from their diet.		Chicken, Cornish hens, Turkey	Beef, Pork, Lamb, Veal, Venison, Duck, Goose
Seafood		Carp, Cod, Grouper, Mackerel, Monkfish, Pickerel, Red snapper, Rainbow trout, Salmon, Sardine, Sea trout, Silver perch, Snail, Whitefish, Yellow Perch	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Anchovy, Barracuda, Beluga, Bluefish, Bluegill bass, Catfish, Caviar, Clam, Conch, Crab, Crayfish, Eel, Flounder, Frog, Gray sole, Haddock, Hake, Halibut, Herring, Lobster, Lox, Mussels, Octopus, Oysters, Scallop, Shad, Shrimp, Sold, Squid, Striped bass, Tilefish, Turtle
Dairy	Most dairy products are not digestible for Type As		Yogurt, Mozzarella, Feta, Goat cheese, Goat milk, Kefir, Ricotta, String cheese	All other cheeses and milk
Fats		Flaxseed oil, Olive oil	Cod liver oil	Oil of corn, cottonseed, peanut, safflower and sesame
Nuts		Peanuts, Pumpkin Seeds	All kinds except those listed not allowed	Brazil nuts, cashews, Pistachios
Beans	These beans can cause a decrease in insulin production for Type As.			Beans – copper, garbanzo, kidney, lima, navy, red, tamarind
	Type As thrive on the vegetable proteins found in beans and legumes	Beans (Aduke, Azuki, Black, Green, Pinto, Red soy), Lentils and Black-eyed peas	All kinds except those listed not allowed
Grains	Type As generally do well on cereals and grains. Select the more concentrated whole grains instead of instant and processed cereals.	Amaranth, Buckwheat		Cream of wheat, Familia, Farina, Granola, Grape nuts, Wheat germ, Seven grain, Shredded wheat, Wheat bran, Durum wheat
Bread & Noodles	Type As have a wonderful selection and choices in grains and pastas	Bread (Essene, Ezekiel, Soya flour, Sprouted wheat), Rice cakes, Flour (Oat, Rice, Rye), Soba Noodles, Pasta (Artichoke)	All kinds except those listed not allowed	English muffins, Bread (High-protein whole wheat, Multi-grain), Matzos, pumpernickel, Wheat bran muffins, Flour (white, whole wheat), Pasta (Semolina, spinach)
Vegetables	Type As are very sensitive to these vegetables. They have a strong deleterious effect on the Type A digestive tract.			Peppers, olives, Potatoes, Sweet potatoes, Yams, All kinds of cabbage, Tomatoes, Lima beans, Eggplant, Mushroom
	These vegetables enhance the immune system of Type As	Garlic, Onions, Broccoli, carrots, collard greens, kale, pumpkin, spinach
	Vegetables are vital to the Type A diet, providing minerals, enzymes and Antioxidants. Eat vegetables in as natural a state as possible (raw or steamed) to preserve their full benefits	Artichoke, Chicory, Greens (Dandelion, Swiss Chard), Horseradish, Leek, Romaine, Okra, Parsley, Alfalfa Sprouts, Tempeh, Tofu, Turnip	All kinds except those listed not allowed
Fruits	Most fruits are allowed for Type As, although try to emphasize more alkaline fruits can help to balance the grains that are acid forming in Type As muscle tissues	Berries (blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cranberries), plums, Prunes, Figs	All kinds except those listed not allowed
	High mold counts of these fruits make it hard for Type As to digest			Melons, cantaloupe, honeydew
	Type As don’t do well on these fruits			Mangoes, papaya, Bananas, Coconuts
	These fruits are stomach irritant for Type As, and they also interfere with the absorption of minerals.			Orange, Rhubarb, Tangerines
	The digestive enzyme in this fruit is an excellent digestive aid for Type As	Pineapples, Cherries, Apricots
	These fruits exhibit alkaline tendencies after digestion which has a positive effects on the Type A stomach	Grapefruit, Lemon
Spices	The right combination of spices can be powerful immune-system boosters for Type As	Tamari, miso, soysauce, garlic, ginger
	Good source of iron, a mineral that is lacking in the Type A Diet	Blackstrap molasses
	Avoid these because the acids tend to cause stomach lining irritation			Vinegar, Pepper (black, cayenne, white), Capers, Plain Gelatin, Wintergreen
Condiments	These products should be avoided because Type As have low levels of stomach acid			Ketchup, Mayonnaise, Pickles, Relish, Worcestershire sauce
Beverages	These beverages help to improve the immune systems for Type As	Hawthorn, Aloe, Alfalfa, Burdock, Echinacea, Green tea, Red wine (1 glass / day)
	These beverages help Type As to increase their stomach-acid secretions	Ginger, Slippery elm, Coffee (1 cup / day)
	These don’t suit the digestive system of Type As, nor do they support the immune system			Beer, Distilled liquor, Seltzer water, Soda, Black Tea

Blood Type Diet – Type A

 

Podcast by Warren King, L.Ac.

Are you consuming a typical American diet? If so, you may be in danger eating what I call “plastic food.” Listen as I explain what common food ingredients to look out for and avoid and gain an understanding of potentially cancer-causing food preparation methods. To your health!

Warren King - Plastic Food

I believe in 15 years people will look back on all the drug company ads and commercials with the same disbelief that we have in seeing these old soda ads.

If you can’t read the small print, it says:

How soon is too soon?  Not soon enough. Laboratory tests over the last few years have proven that babies who start drinking soda during that early formative period have a much higher chance of gaining acceptance and “fitting in” during those awkward pre-teen and teen years. So, do yourself a favor. do your child a favor. Start them on a strict regimen of sodas and other sugary carbonated beverages right now, for a lifetime of guaranteed happiness.

This one says:

Why we have the youngest customers in the business. This young man is 11 months old-and he isn’t our youngest customer by any means.

For 7-up is so pure, so wholesome, you can even give it to babies and feel good about it. Look at the back of a 7-Up bottle. Notice that all our ingredients are listed (That isn’t required of soft drinks, you know-but we’re proud to do it and we think you’re pleased that we do.)

By the way, Mom, when it comes to toddlers-if they like to be coaxed to drink their milk, try this. Add 7-Up to the milk in equal parts, pouring the 7-Up gently into the milk. It’s a wholesome combination-and it works! Make 7-Up your family drink. You like it…it likes you!

(NaturalNews) A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered.

In a series of studies conducted over the course of three years and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Scripps Florida scientists Paul Johnson and Paul Kenny have shown that rats’ response to unlimited junk food closely parallels well-known patterns of drug addiction — even down to the changes in brain chemistry.

“What we have are these core features of addiction, and these animals are hitting each one of these features,” Kenny said.

In their first study, the researchers fed rats on either a balanced diet or on the same diet plus unlimited access to junk foods purchased at a local supermarket, including processed meats and cakes. Within a short time period, the rats on the junk food diet began to eat compulsively and quickly became overweight.

“They’re taking in twice the amount of calories as the control rats,” Kenny said.

The researchers hypothesized that the rats were eating compulsively because, like drug addicts, they had become desensitized to smaller amounts and needed more and more for the same rush of pleasure.

Many recreational drugs work by directly stimulating the brain’s pleasure centers, particularly the dopamine receptor known as D2. Overstimulation of this receptor causes the body to start producing less dopamine, leading the addict to compensate by taking more of the drug.

Since dopamine can also be released by pleasurable activities such as food or sex, Kenny and Johnson speculated that food addiction could develop in the same way. To test whether the rats had, in fact, become habituated to dopamine, the researchers took the rats from the first experiment and hooked their brains up to a device that would directly stimulate their D2 receptors when they ran on a wheel.

Rats eating a junk food diet ran on the wheel significantly longer than rats fed a normal diet, suggesting that their receptors had indeed become desensitized. This “profound” desensitization occurred after just five days on a junk food diet.

“They’re not experiencing rewards the way they should,” Kenny said. “When you experience that, one way of feeling better is to go back to the junk food.”

“They lose control. This is the hallmark of addiction.”

In another test of their addiction hypothesis, the researchers used a virus to block the D2 receptors in healthy rats. All those rats soon became compulsive eaters.

“This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings,” Johnson said.

Having established that the junk food rats had become addicted, Johnson and Kenny wanted to know how far this addiction would push them. So they took both junk-food addicted rats and rats that had not previously been exposed to such food, and exposed them to electrical shocks whenever they ate junk. Rats that had just been introduced to junk food quickly stopped eating it, while the addicted rats ignored the discomfort and kept eating.

Perhaps the most shocking finding came when the researchers took away the addicted rats’ access to junk food and started feeding them only healthy rat chow again — the same diets the rats had eaten as pups. When junk food was no longer available, the rats simply refused to eat for two weeks.

“They actually voluntarily starved themselves,” Kenny said.

“It’s almost as if you break these things, it’s very, very hard to go back to the way things were before. Their dietary preferences are dramatically shifted.”

The research strongly suggests that many modern humans also suffer from junk food addictions. Kenny notes, however, that unlike the rats, all humans with access to junk food do not become obese. He attributes this difference to the influence of health knowledge and social pressure in moderating people’s natural eating habits.

“The rats don’t suffer from the same social pressures that we do,” he said.

The idea of junk food addiction is not a new one, and the dopamine-junk food connection was actually put forward by former FDA Commissioner David Kessler in his best-selling book, The End of Overeating.

“Certainly, we see this addictive pattern in humans,” nutritionist Sandy Livingston said. “They know they shouldn’t overeat, but they do it anyway.”

Livingston expressed hope that better knowledge about the biochemical side of food addiction might result in lessened guilt and judgment surrounding obesity.

“A lot of people blame themselves — ‘Why don’t I have any willpower?’” she said.

“Food can be highly addictive,” said author and nutritional supplement producer Jordan Rubin. “When people describe overeating and weight loss as a battle, this is why.”

He called for more research into which individual components of junk food, such as MSG, might be behind its addictive effects.

Obesity researcher Ralph DiLeone of Yale University noted that more research is needed into the long-term effects of such addiction, even if an animal later switches its diet and loses weight.

“They might be a normal weight, but how they respond to food in the future may be permanently altered,” he said.

I have been pondering lately on why Americans are become so large so quickly. I think it is much more than we are eating more quantity of food and not exercising enough. It is true that we are what we eat, we take on the energy of the food we eat, it’s consciousness.  The chickens we eat mature in 42 days, half the time it took decades ago, cow’s are fattened on corn and given antibiotics to fatten them up. Now salmon has been genetically engineered to double in size and farmed fish are like couch potatoes, eating food not made for fish and with hardly room to move. Eggs are mostly made from chickens that are trapped in cages and can never move around. Milk has growth hormone to force the poor cows to produce an extra 10% more of milk. Even our vegetables and fruits have gotten larger with hybrids but more tasteless with less life force energy than they had in the past. Everything is big and fast, and we are getting fast big!  We need to get back to eating organic food mostly raised locally by loving and caring farmers.

 

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My 10 day cleanse

     As it has been at least 10 years since I have done a fast or cleanse of more

than 3 days I decided that it was time. During a fast or cleanse, the organs

don’t have work on processing food and can instead clean out their storage

of toxins. There is also spiritual reasons to fast, when we stop taking in

nutrition on the physical, we start absorbing energy from the spiritual

levels, and a high spiritual consciousness is attained.

     For the first two days I juiced pineapple and diluted the juice half with

purified water and ate fresh pineapple. I drank water as well. At the end

of the second day the pineapple started to slightly irritate my mouth. There

was only a little hunger that the juice and fruit would mostly assuage.

Days 3 began with 2 cups of water with the juice of one lemon and 1/4 tsp of

sea salt. Days 3 and 4 I only drank orange juice diluted half with water and

ate 3-5 oranges a day. On the night of day 5, I blended 1/3 cup of olive

oil with 12 ounces of orange juice. This was much more palatable to drinking

the olive oil straight which I had once done, and which made me avoid all

olive oil for years afterwards! The olive oil is supposed to contract and

cleanse the gallbladder. Many report myriads of small green stones coming

into the toilet the day after doing this, this happened to me last time, but

not now.

     My consciousness was definitely lifting. I noticed nature as being totally

alive, I could sense all the trees in the neighborhood at once and felt

their suchness or beingness without all the mental chatter that usually

blocks direct perception of reality.

     Day 5 was the most difficult as I just fasted on water and had some hunger

and mostly just rested.

     Days 6 and 7 was just on apple juice diluted half with water and eating

apples, grapes and pears. I also had 1/2 cup of pomegranate juice on most

days of the cleanse.

     Days 8 and 9 were on fresh made carrot juice. I also ate apples and pears.

To the carrot juice I added fresh parsley and the juice of chinese and savoy

cabbage from my garden. After reading books on the lives of stars, I

meditated more deeply than I can remember. I felt the mind of God

penetrating all the galaxies of the universe and felt they were all floating

within me and I within them.

     On day 10 I added steamed greens (chinese cabbage, bok choy and 3 types of

kale) from the garden along with some homemade fermented vegetables. Lunch

was greens in miso soup. In the evening I had some homegrown lettuce, celery

and leeks with olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

     I think everyone could use some sort of fast or cleanse. Short ones every

year and longer ones every few years. I feel that breast cancer and prostate

cancer could be prevented with a 10 day cleanse like this one every year.

During this cleanse I also took herbs and homeopathics that open the kidney,

liver, intestines and lymph to detoxify.

     If you ever feel an inner prompting to do a cleanse or fast I would be glad

to make a custom made plan just for your body.