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Filipino Health: Check The Purity of Your Rice

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I just came from a vacation in Nueva Ecija and met a wholesale palay trader. He was encouraging me to get into the rice trading business so I got an entire list of rice species palay and corresponding prices. Then it struck me, as a health conscious father and healer, that the retail rice in Manila was corrupt, chemicalized, blended, unpure. A big issue was the purity of your rice… and we city slickers are just too ignorant to have ever questioned the Filipino staple diet you eat 3x a day… rice is UN-pure, UN-clean and most probably UN-healthy.

The ignorant city slicker that I am, I was looking for labels in the rice fields like dinorado, laon, ifugao, but I found none. They had funny numbers and names instead:

160 – long grain
134 – long grain
214 – long grain
Angelica long grain
82 – long grain
222 – long grain
c10 – short grain
super rice – short grain
super tila – short grain

And many more.

The process is that farmers store these palay in sacks in their homes. When they need money, they sell the palay. The palay buyers buy the palay and sell them to the wholesale buyers who send it to the rice mills with machines to turn the palay into rice… bigas. And this is where they BLEND… combine, different rice sources to come up with some rice name they sell retail like LAON, in the retail stores in Manila.

A big secret my rice trader friend told me was that the packers SPRAY the rice with some chemical fragrance so that you buying and smelling the rice are FOOLED into thinking… yeah this is good… NOT… it’s fake!

Another trick the rice packers do is to increase their profit margins by blending in inferior rice such as NFA rice. NFA rice in this context is given a bad name being thought of as cheap and inferior, mixed with more expensive rice and the packers sell the rice at higher margins by reducing their cost.

So this is the thing dear fellow urban dwellers. You and I have been had. Every time you go to a rice retailer or even buy those half sacks of whatever brand name they use… it’s just a brand name… a blend of different rice grains plus added artificial odors. Your urban retail rice is NOT PURE.

My new rice wholesaler friend gave me 4 kilos of white long grain rice with binhi designation 160. I had it cooked for my children’s lunch. I had forgotten about it as I visited them at lunch. These 3 children 9, 7 and 6 were all raving about how DELICIOUS the new rice was. “It’s sooooo goooodddd… the rice is delicious by itself without any ulam (meat) or sauce.” I was totally surprised as these comments were UNSOLICITED. I never asked for them. The kids just chimed in and were just plain HAPPY!

Rice is a staple food and has been for many hundreds of years. But it has been getting a bad reputation in paleo diet circles, but rice is the least harmful of all the grains. But now this, this new realization, that it’s not that rice is bad, rice is good… if it is PURE. Rice is good if there were no chemicals in it, if it was newly shelled / milled / husk removed. The very definition of organic.

Something like the Tinawon traditional white rice variety of the Banaue and surrounding Ifugao rice terraces, is always organic, pesticide free, organic water, organic soil… but expensive, harvests only once per year and shoots come only at 5 per stalk, manually planted and harvested… all leading to… expensive… 150 per kilo! The Ifugao usually keep Tinawon for themselves. It’s highly nutritious and heavy and filling. You will feel it when you eat it.

Banaue Rice Terraces Tinawon Palay being dried

Banaue Rice Terraces Tinawon Palay being dried

I am in the process of purifying our rice supplies. Last month I got lots of traditional Banaue rice, red rice, just yesterday I brought home 10 kilos of Tinawon. But this expensive Banaue rice is unsustainable. I will have to make arrangements with my contacts in Nueva Ecija and Quezon for cheaper but PURE rice.

If you want the best of health for your family, you need to go out now and investigate how you can get PURE RICE. This is your Filipino diet staple… your health depends on it. Now you know why the Ifugao do not usually sell their traditional rice. Now I know.

Banaue Hotels Visited in This May 6-8 Trip

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Banaue Hotels visited in this 2nd trip to Banaue. I was just so enchanted the first time with Banaue, I feel I was hypnotically seduced again to this place. This time around I went to different places and stayed in different hotels.

Banaue Ethnic Village and Pine Resort – just the right banaue hotel in this very hot summer time. It was cool in Banaue Ethnic Village and Pine Resort while it was hot in the Banaue town proper.

Visited Hapao and ate at Giovanni’s Farm and Resort and took a dip in their flowing stream.

Visited this other place with the un-documented musuem, I think it was called Banaue viewpoint.

Sanafe Lodge & Restaurant. Decided it was time to try some downtown stay. Sanafe Lodge was the best place in downtown for those with discriminating taste. It doesn’t seem much from the outside but inside, it was just majestic.

There are more places to visit in Banaue and I’m sure I’ll be back. Next time by bus.

Ah the wonders of newfound health. I can now travel.

Crohn’s Disease Treatment and Cure with Raw Meats and Raw Dairy

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Max Kane suffered from Crohn’s Disease for 20 years. He tried Jordan Rubin’s protocol but it made little difference. He followed his education with Dr. Joe Brasco who introduced Max to Jim Marlow.

Jim taught Max about the 7 Steps of Health and raw food nutrition. For the first time in his life, Max was able to understand the functions of the body, and he began to develop a greater understanding of what he needed to do to improve his health.

Jim Marlowe taught Max about the value of consuming high quality food, as well as the value of consuming raw food, as opposed to heat-damaged food. “I taught him about the value of eating raw meat, as opposed to cooked meat. In that first session with him, I even mentioned the value of eating raw poultry. There are very few people who I have worked with over the years who I even mention that to, because of the belief they have that poultry should never be eaten undercooked.

In that first session with Max, I introduced him to the concept of being a ‘nutrition first’ eater. Ultimately this way of eating becomes one of intention and integrity. The intention part comes from making your food choices primarily on the nutritional value of what you’re eating, rather than making your food choices based on taste, convenience, shelf life, appearance of the food and what’s on sale. Of course if you make your priority of food choice based on taste, convenience and price, then the nutritional value is only an afterthought, if a thought at all. You’re only going to nourish yourself by accident. And if you nourish yourself by accident, your health will likely be in a very precarious state. The intention needs to be ‘I am going to nourish myself’, that’s the priority.

Full article at http://www.metabolichealing.com/education/articles/healing-from-chronic-illiness-the-incredible-healing-journey-of-max-kane/

And later on Max benefited from the writings of Aajonus Vonderplanitz and consumed raw dairy and all became well. Incurable Crohn’s Disease is now cured, simply because of being on his version of raw paleo diet.

It’s been 2 years now on a raw paleo diet, specifically a raw primal diet as this has dairy and all is well with Max Kane.

Which shows that all roads lead to a raw food diet… and it has to include raw animal products… not those malnourishing vegan fantasies.

Art DeVany Paleo Diet Book: the New Evolution Diet and Exercise Program

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Some people say Art DeVany started the paleo diet concepts long ago. Art has been on paleo diet for several decades now and at 73 seems to be reaping the rewards. Art has aged gracefully, he’s fit and he’s strong.

From Amazon:

Astonishing as it may be, it’s a fact that human DNA has evolved very little since our Paleolithic ancestors roamed the earth. But while our genes may be similar, the environment in which they express themselves has changed radically. Living in an age when activity was mandatory and food was scarce, our ancestors thrived. Early man did not suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure, or obesity. In fact, a good deal of what we describe as “normal aging” is more akin to disease than any natural aging process.

Disease free and strikingly fit, 72-year-old Arthur De Vany—grandfather of the “Paleo lifestyle” movement—is living proof that it pays to live like a caveman. In The New Evolution Diet, De Vany offers you a roadmap back to better health. The plan is built on three principles:
– eat three meals a day made up of nonstarchy vegetables, fruits, and lean proteins
– skip meals occasionally to promote a low fasting blood insulin level
– exercise less, not more, in shorter, high-intensity bursts

By cutting out modern foods—including carbohydrates, dairy, and all processed foods—anyone can lose weight, gain muscle, and enjoy a longer, better life.

Chronic Lung Problems, Cough, Cold, Sinusitis, Headache, Shoulder Ache with Quantumin Mineral Plus Drops and Hydrogen Peroxide

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My family healing skills in action for my in-laws’ driver. His name is Benny. Benny has been diagnosed a long time ago with TB as the cause of his chronic cough. Yesterday he was feeling terrible he couldn’t drive for us to go to the organic market. He said he hasn’t slept well for 3 nights. His sinus is congested and painful. His nostrils are blocked full of mucus. His head is in pain and he was dizzy. And his shoulders were aching. And his cough was terrible.

Benny wants to know how to cleanse his lungs. I taught him that lung cleansing happens when his colon, kidneys and liver are all clean. Lungs are used as a secondary detox organ via mucus formation which is a cleansing process. Knowing Benny’s history, he has already done thorough colon cleansing and kidney cleansing. What Benny needs is thorough liver cleansing.

Benny’s first and only attempt at liver cleansing was egg yolk liver flushing. He drank his egg yolk liver flush at 7am and proceeded to poop wildly by 11am. Nasty sewage smell. It was a big hassle for him while on the job of driving. He since has not repeated doing any further liver flushes as it interferes with his job.

Solution to the busy driver’s schedule was to reschedule the egg yolk liver flush for evenings. I instructed Benny to do liver flushing at night around 9pm. He take his lunch at 12noon and not eat anything afterwards. Then take the egg yolk liver flush concoction after the 8 to 9 hour fast. I suggested 4 straight evenings of egg yolk liver flushing. Then rest for 7 days. Then repeat. Do this egg yolk liver flushing cycle until all sewage smell is gone. This will cure his lung problems.

For his immediate problem of cough, cold, sinusitis, headache… we first tried cayenne tincture. 1 teaspoon. Benny had a bad reaction to cayenne tincture. He looked like a cartoon character with mouth gurgling and eyes wanting to pop out. Then said he couldn’t breath. As if his instinctive reaction was to shut off his windpipe. Allergic reaction to cayenne? I gave him water to drink and that made him breath and opened his windpipe. For Benny, he was scared. So I said, let’s not use cayenne, lets use something else… Quantumin Minerals Plus drops.

Quantumin Minerals Plus drops are energized mineral drops invented by Dr. Delia Patawaran. This is what we did:

– One drop at a time and wipe on forehead sinus and nose bridge. The energy in these drops will help clear the sinus, decongest the sinus.
– One drop at a time in the nostrils while lying down clears the nostrils of all obstructing mucus.
– His shoulder aches were taken cared off by quantumin drops again and I covered it up by massaging ghee (clarified butter) on top of it all.

To be even more thorough I used a 50% combination of filtered water and store hydrogen peroxide and cleaned both his ears by putting drops in each ear and finishing the bubbling.

I gave him the Quantumin minerals drops bottle for him to take home and borrow and use as needed.

Free treatment and consultation mission accomplished. Benny’s TB is really just liver congestion that needs to be addressed by liver cleansing. Let’s wait a few weeks if Benny does what he’s supposed to do.

Oral Contraceptives, Breast Cancer, and the RH Bills of 2011

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Nice video made by filipinosforlife.com. Pass this on to your loved ones so that they may know that oral contraceptives, more specifically hormonal contraceptives are downright dangerous and full of dangerous side effects… one of them is merely breast cancer.

In my free healing practice, when I do initial interviews of women, the first thing I ask is what birth control are you on? And the first thing I require of them to heal them of their disease is to tell them outright to stop using birth control. The action of hormonal contraceptives is to make the female body unfit, hostile to human life, hostile to baby formation, hostile to baby nourishment, make the female body unhealthy enough in body and mind so that a baby cannot be formed, cannot be carried to full term. Hormonal contraceptives make women sick. Period.

I am an accomplished family healer and in my studies, all my mentors had come to the conclusion that hormonal contraceptives are unhealthy, disease causing in mind, body and spirit. That their whole point in healing was to heal, to make people and women absolutely healthy… which includes fertility. These go together. An absolutely healthy woman is also a fertile woman.

As a fertility advisor, the most important thing to do is for a woman to do is to become absolutely healthy. That means no drugs, no chemicals, no artificial hormones, no pollutants in the body.

Hormonal contraceptives will never heal, never cure sick people… there is no way they can ever be called “essential medicine.”

Video courtesy of filipinosforlife.com.

Know the status of RH Bills in Congress, visit http://alfi.org.ph/2011/category/congress-watch/

Diabetes Recipe This Lunch: Grass Fed Ox Tail with Stomach Towels Stew and Lightly Steamed Organic Spinach with Coconut Milk and Raw Garlic

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My new lunch or maybe dinner menu for the extended family this Saturday will be: Grass Fed Ox Tail with Stomach Towels Stew and Lightly Steamed Organic Spinach with Coconut Milk and Raw Garlic – something very much diabetic safe for diabetes stricken people. I’m documenting this for you my diabetes diagnosed loved ones, this is how it is done.

Friday morning I went to the wet market and bought half of a lovely grass fed ox tail. At the same time I bought various stomach towels, there are 4 stomachs in a cow so I bought all 4 types. And I also bought a cow’s foot. The cow’s foot is rich in gelatinous material that will be used as the stew base.

This Saturday morning at 6am we began boiling the cow’s foot. Then at 9am we are scheduled to boil the tail and the stomach towels. And some 1 hour before serving, we will season the whole thing with the usual onions, carrots and bayleaf, salt and pepper, cayenne. And maybe some other flavoring.

My wife does not like the the indian seasoning I added last time. I’ll use something else later. She suggested atsuete, but I’ll see.

I’m off to market now to buy some organic spinach, and will also buy some freshly grated coconut for the coconut milk and later we also have raw garlic from nueva ecija… not found in Manila markets.

The plan is to lightly steam the spinach, cook the coconut milk, serve the garlic raw in the milk after it has cooled off. Mix this with the spinach.

So diabetics, you can see how this works. This is in effect a paleo diet recipe. Nourishing traditions recipe.

The problem with the diabetic mindset is they are fraught with fear against FAT from the dumb, false, cholesterol – heart diseases scam. Let’s blow that fat hysteria out of the water shall we? Click here and learn more: http://www.thincs.org/