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Chinese skin does not tan? It just burns red and painful?

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I made this observation while in our Palawan beach trip.  My kids probably spent 4 days on the beach.  I could only spend 2 days.  My skin burned hot red after 2 days so I copped out and rested the next 2 days.  My wife and my kids though tanned out really well.  Even my eldest child who is the lightest skinned, but not as light as mine, got tanned really well and never got burned.  None of us used sun tan oil, we don’t believe in that commercial chemical junk.

It would seem that the Ilocano blood my wife carries and passed on to our children gave them good skin protection and good skin color when tanning.  My wife looks more beautiful with all that sun on her skin.  I on the other hand have my Chinese, Malay and Spanish heritage which seems more sensitive to the sun.  I did not tan… I just got burned red.

I remember a long time ago, a business partner of mine was Chinese and he said that his family does not really enjoy going to beaches and getting soaked under the sun.  He said they just easily burn red painfully… they do not get tans.  Maybe this applies to me too?

During regular days in Manila in the morning I would stroll out with the kids bare chested and walk around under the morning sun.  But in Palawan, maybe the sun shone brighter, hotter, with less haze, and we were in the beach mid-morning and afternoons.

Until today I’m peeling off sun burned skin on my shoulders.  My children and my wife don’t have sun burns.  Ah, it must be genetic.

Ducks slaughtered with the kids watching with pictures and video

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If you can’t bear to watch slaughtering an animal then you are not allowed to eat it. This is what I teach my children. This is a basic philosophy, provincial children see this all the time, my city raised children need the same education.  *** Remember that we are Filipinos living in the Philippines and that slaughtering animals in our own back yard is socially acceptable… if in your country and culture you find seeing a duck slaughtered offensive, do not view the rest of this article as there are 2 pictures.

My cousin was available and he knew how to slaughter ducks. Our maids say they are not familiar about slaughtering ducks, they said it was different from slaughtering chickens. It was my cousin’s first time to slaughter a duck too. He tied the feet and tied the wings. Then he just got a small knife and slit away the main artery on the neck and sliced the wind pipe. The blood was collected as usual in a bowl of uncooked rice grains.

We even took a video. Which I’ll probably post on the internet soon for my raw paleolithic diet buddies.

The duck slaughter went on as normal as chicken slaughter.  I think those fears of ducks being harder to slaughter are baseless fears of the unknown.  I just reserved a raw breast for myself.  The rest of the ducks will be served at the grand family reunion Christmas party tomorrow.

The philosophy to caring and slaughtering our own poultry in our backyard is born out of me and my cook’s planning a few months ago that we need to be assured our poultry is clean and safe to eat.  That the poultry are not fed toxic stuff like commercial feeds.  That the slaughter process is clean.  That the meat is fresh.  That the ducks slaughtered were healthy.

The first of 2 ducks for slaughter

The first of 2 ducks for slaughter

Duck for dinner

Duck for dinner

Our male duck died in the cage

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On December 19, our male duck died in the cage. He was being held in the cage with 2 female ducks. My wife and the maids got tired of cleaning up their poop littered around the walkway. They decided to cage them. We went for our vacation for a week. I think the maids that were left behind did not bother taking care of the poor caged ducks. The male duck died.

So I ordered the release of the surviving 2 female ducks to let them graze and recover so they can be scheduled for slaughter this Christmas.

Maybe the male duck died due to verbal abuse by 2 wives? Seriously, we probably cannot match the living requirements of ducks free to graze on their own. They should never have been caged. I remember buying these ducks for immediate slaughter, not pets. Now, no eggs can be laid, there are no males.

We do have another female and 3 ducklings… they are set free every morning and caged in the evening. For some reason, the cats have not eaten the ducklings yet. Probably the stray cats are unfamiliar with ducks.

A parallel with humans here, maybe a couple of times a year we should be allowed to graze for our own food. Somehow get out of this self imposed captivity in the city jungle. I’m just upset with the duck that died… I felt like I threw out good money.

I bought a 22 inch LCD monitor for productivity and health reasons

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I just got myself a 22 inch LCD monitor for productivity and health reasons. This ASUS monitor came in at only 14 thousand pesos. And with a resolution of 1680 x 1050 I have a lot of real estate space on my screen. Besides the fact that I have multiple desktop spaces because I run Ubuntu Linux.

I read and I have noticed productivity gains. Meaning people get to work better, faster and save time with a big monitor. So hopefully this new monitor allows me to rake in more money. I’m a computer geek, network administrator, website developer and trying to be a business man. This health blog and hobby healing is for friends and family.

Anyway, if I save time on my tasks, I have more free time for my kids, and other healthy endeavors… like watching Star Wars Clone Wars the new 2008-2009 TV series? And my complete collection of Star Wars videos?

My 7 year old boy is diagnosed with Primary complex, bronchitis, and tooth decay

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My wife thinks our 7 year old boy has had a cold and a cough for 3 months.  2 days ago she went to Dr. Divina Hey-Gonzales the anthroposophic doctor to have our boy checked.  Dr. Hey’s diagnosis is primary complex, bronchitis, and tooth decay.  Now my wife wants a witch hunt for possible tuberculosis carriers in our staff.  I noted that our in laws’ driver Benny is well known to have tuberculosis.  And that my analysis is that driver Benny has one missing kidney.  So his lungs are being tasked to do what a missing kidney cannot.

Back to our son, Dr. Hey prescribed her anthroposophic solution.

For primary complex: to be taken for 6 to 12 months

Ferrum Rosatum / Graphites – 10 drops – 4 times a day

Phosphorus D12 – 10 drops – 2x a day AM only

Archangelica Ointment – apply on the neck and massage downward for lymph flow – 2 times a day

For cough:

Pertudoron 1 – 10 drops – 4x per day

Pertudoron 2 – 10 drops – 4x per day

Vitamin C:

Acerola – 1 tablet – 3x per day

Other strategies fall on my lap, finally, I get a free hand.  So I’m putting my boy on a more paleolithic schedule and more alkaline diet.  First adjustment is for him to only eat 1 animal meal per day at lunch, just 1 animal food purely whether raw or cooked, but preferrably raw.  Breakfast is fruit and fatty fruit, and if hungry raw or soft boiled fertilized eggs, eat until stuffed.  For lunch 1 animal meal say for example yesterday was seared fatty sirloin beef steak and today he ate 4 cups of goto – beef innards with liver with little rice in a soup – dinner are just some light fruits or cucumbers.  I figure, this eating schedule, will result in better sleep, and the first night’s experiment is he did sleep better, he said no bad dreams and he was hungry in the morning.  This is a good sign.

This Sunday my boy chose to stay home with me so he says I could attend to him personally.

Lately he plays the recorder, a wind instrument being taught at school.  See and hear Cush play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  He’s learning to speak some English.

My solution for tooth decay is already on the way. I had ordered the book Healing Our Children by Rami Nagel and it will arrive soon. It’s not for me, it’s for my wife to agree to the changes I need to implement in our diet. It’s time I killed this rice based diet lunacy. No amount of brushing or flossing will beat tooth decay as long as you stay in a rice based diet. I cured my rice addiction last year, it’s time the kids did the same while it is still early.

What is wrong with a rice based diet?

Rice is an original junk food, white rice is just empty carbohydrates.
Rice displaces more nutritious items like fruits, vegs and animal food.
The combination rice plus animal food is hard to digest and is highly acid forming.
Eliminating rice, we can switch to a high fat diet which allows to absorption of more vitamins and minerals.

Got bitten by sand flies in a beach in Palawan, Leishmaniasis again?

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The visit to Beach Walk beach was pleasant, it was a nice beach, very long, very wide, very shallow.  But my personal problem was I got bit by sand flies.  Many times.  Some 20 marks on my legs, my shoulders, and a few on my arms.  Reminds me of my 1994 suffering at the hands of sand flies in Boracay.  During those days i only had ignorant dermatologists who knew nothing and only made things worse with their innumerable injections and steroid creams.  I suffered for 2 years then.  I gave up on those dermatologists and let the itch run its course.

That isn’t going to happen these days in 2008.  We are smarter and well armed these days.  I’ve got clove oil, oregano oil, virgin coconut oil and zappers.  Much like in the youtube videos of protozoans being disintigrated by the zappers, I found much relief in zapping.  I merely step on my zapper terminals for 20 minutes, I have a don croft zapper.  I borrowed a barefoot herbalist MH dewormer bottle from my brother.  I am doing my kidney cleanses using avocado leaves tea.

And if all these measures fail, there are beam ray operators in Manila.  Beam ray machines are frequency generators and can shoot down all the protozoans that may be causing the leishmaniasis documented as being brought by the sand flies.  We shall see how these bites progress.

Luckily, the children were not bitten by the sand flies.  The victims were myself and my mother in law.

I came down with a cold and a headache for the first time this year.  Seems these sand fly bites have a lot more sting than the usual mosquito bite.  But this is Palawan, a strange place… who knows what is in those 20 bites?

Our family vacation in Natural, Pristine, Primitive, Isolated, Last Frontier Palawan

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The whole family went on vacation in Palawan for 5 days.  We stayed in the town of Aborlan in an educational organic farm.  Although we had visited this place once last year in December, we did not sleep over in the farm then.  This time we spent 4 nights there.  We went to 2 beaches.  We went to fresh water falls.  And the best part was the eating.  Being the last frontier of the Philippines, Palawan is a haven for us raw paleolithic diet practitioners.

My first stop was to visit the big wet market in Puerto Princesa city.  I chanced upon live ocean shrimp, sea weed and sea urchin already cleaned up in easy to eat plastic bags… I wanted some vinegar and most vinegars sold were organic natural tuba vinegar… from coconuts… just 6 pesos for a small bottle. (In my Marikina city market, there are ZERO organic vinegars available… just factory made chemical vinegar.)  We arrived at a restaurant my wife fancies and on our arrival I had my fresh from the market stuff.  The waiter instinctively knew what to do.  He did not ask me at all how I wanted my shrimps to be cooked… he merely asked me if I wanted my shrimps to be shelled… and the kitchen did, making a nice raw presentation of the raw shrimps with some slices of cucumber for beauty.  So the restaurant people appreciate fresh raw animal foods… because it is natural for them to eat fresh raw ocean catches.

In the organic farm, they had abundant organic, sweet and healthy papaya boosted by a sack full of cow dung upon planting.  And Palawan has its own fruits which are all organic by default, organic by neglect, because this is the last frontier.  There were guyabanos, bananas, balimbings, singkamas, etc.

In the Aborlan town Saturday and Sunday market were more freshly caught ocean food that we raw foodists will absolutely adore.  The people here are of the mindset that fresh sea food means no ice, if you have to put ice in it, it is no longer fresh.  I got live clams, live freshwater crabs (alimango), live ocean crabs (alimasag), fresh ocean tiger prawns / shrimps, never frozen blue fin tuna and many others I couldn’t stuff myself any more. All so fresh… all so good raw… tummy is happy.  In the sunday market I even got a chance to buy freshly slaughtered Palawan grown beef… good bone marrow… good sirloin… tasted like ham.

The more exotic things I tried there was the raw sea cucumber and the tamiluk.  Sea cucumber needed better cleaning, we didn’t know much how to do it.  But the tamiluk, our driver was an avid fan.  He had been eating tamiluk since 5 years old.  His wife is a fan too.  Tamiluk can be found in the market or in the highway.  Tamiluk are BIG WORMS that grow in the big dead mangrove trees.  Our driver says the dead mangrove trunks are chopped open, revealing the tamiluk inside.  The tamiluk is a foot long and less than an inch in diameter and has a hard shell for the head.  Our driver says the best part is the dark part… like the innards.  Contrary to the common city folk perception that the tamiluk worm may look slimy and may taste like intestines, it is not.  It is truly tasty, one of the best tastes around.  The dark part reminds of eating chocnut.  Tamiluk was so good we were looking for more after the first batch… and we were rewarded the morning before our flight.  You eat tamiluk either plain or with some vinegar.

Of course there is the clean air, the peace of mind, the relaxing environment.  The sights where there are lots of mangrove forests… which gives the supply of tamiluk.  The smell of a Philippine skunk… pantut… not bad, just unique smell.  There were gigantic bats that flew high up, slow flapping wings, reminds me of the movie Jurassic park.

At the corporate Christmas party there were the fantastic dancing talents from Palawan state university.  Awesome.  They danced different styles, you have to see the videos.

Now that I’m on raw paleo diet I have a better appreciation of nature.  Living, eating in the last frontier… in the natural setting… in Palawan is so cheap, easy and nutritious.  The coastal people I met had almost no need for money… they eat off the land.  I met a guy by the sea shore and he was picking shells for food.  He handed me one, I broke it open and ate the live creature inside… yummy.

Here are some pictures of food in Palawan.