To me diet is not something you do for a short time to lose weight to fit into your favorite dress.

To me diet is a set of principles you adhere to in selecting what type of food or drinks you ingest to give you maxiumum nutrition to achieve optimum health.

When we look it at that way, then there are certain questions that arise, such as:

1. What is the effect of this food/drink on my health?
2. How is my body going to react to this food/drink?
3. Is what I’m about to ingest going to take me closer to optimum health or away from it?
4. And finally, what is the optimum diet for humans and more importantly for my body?

In my opinion, those are the questions we should be asking ourselves every time we make a decision to ingest something or not. And this decision in my opinion should be a conscious decision based on the research each one of us has done personally and continues to do so throughout life. As you continue to research nutritional science then you can incorporate the new data with your existing knowledge and the experience of what has worked for you in the past.

Unfortunately for many of us the decision of what we ingest is made for us subconsciously by the advertising and marketing messages we are bombarded with on a daily basis. We just cruise past the grocery store aisles with our carts, grabbing things from this shelf or that shelf without reading the labels, knowing the ingredients in the food item, or what it will do to our body once it’s in there.

To me the first important part of change is awareness, i.e. the knowingness or the feeling that things can be better, followed by a desire to improve the status quo. Second is education which brings about awareness of the benefits and dangers associated with various food items and that is hopefully why you are reading this blog.

The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, had said “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food”.

I do believe in that statement. I believe that our food was not only meant to sustain us with the energy necessary to accomplish our earthy tasks, but also to keep bodies healthy and safe from harm by foreign micro invaders.

After much research I have come to the conclusion that the optimum diet for the human body is one of raw, vegan, living foods.

1. The food must be in an uncooked state because heating up food beyond 108 degrees Farenheit (according to some 114 degrees) will denature the enzymes in the food. Enzymes are special protein molecules that speed up or catalyze certain reactions in the body such as digestions. There are certain digestive enzymes that are in our food and some that the body makes itself. The more we heat up or cook our food, the more food enzyme we destroy and the harder our body has to work at manufacturing these enzymes, which is a very energy-intensive process for the body.

Possible dangers of flu shots and vaccinations

In the past few weeks there has been a lot of talk about the H1N1 Swine Flu and the regular flu shot and forced vaccinations in several hospitals and NY State. This has prompted me to write this post and put all the data in one place to make you aware of the dangers of flu shots and vaccinations in particular.

This video is a good summary of some of the issues about flu shots and vaccines.

There is also a good article on Dr. Mercola’s website on flu shots that I would recommend.

1. Flu Shot can be ineffective

First it is necessary to understand how flu shots are made. Each year members of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and/or various other health organization travel to asia to take samples of the flu virus there in the estimation that it will hit United States the following year. This would give them some time to prepare the large enough batches to vaccinate a descent percentage of the population. As anyone who has studied Biology or immunology would know, a virus mutates fairly rapidly so by the time you take a sample and create a vaccine for it, that particular virus could have changed by the time it travels half way across the globe and you are most likely going to get sick from it if it ends up in your body.

2. Poisons in Vaccines

There are various additives in vaccines that are highly toxic and dangerous to human health. Most of these are scientifically known toxins, so it is not about how you and I “feel” about the subject. They may not paralyze or make you sick right away, but they are definitely a lot worse for your body than the flu itself. Who put them there and for what purpose is another discussion which I will not get into here.
A few examples of such poisons are:

• Formaldehyde is used to deactivate the virus. One Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) had this to say about the toxicology of formaldehyde: “Causes burns. Very toxic by inhalation, ingestion and through skin absorption. Readily absorbed through skin. Probable human carcinogen. Mutagen. May cause damage to kidneys. May cause allergic reactions. May cause sensitisation. May cause heritable genetic damage. Lachrymator at levels from less than 20 ppm upwards. Very destructive of mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract, eyes and skin.”
  Another MSDS states:  ”Death if inhaled or absorbed; severe eye irritation and burns; allergic dermatitis, skin burns; bronchitis, pulmonary oedema; headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting; abdominal pain; blindness.”
• Mercury in vaccines known as Thimerosal which is a mercury derivative, is added as a preservative and antibacterial agent to increase shelf life. Mercury is one of the most dangerous neurotoxins known to man and it can cause severe neurological disorders as well as paralysis and you’ll see below under the “side effects” section. One vaccine can contain as much as 25mcg of mercury. More information on mercury is available at Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website or Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s (ATSDR) website.
• Aluminum is toxic to central nervous system and is linked to Alzheimer disease
• Propylene glycol is antifreeze used in radiator of vehicles and very toxic
• Squalene is an additive used to turn the body’s immune system against itself. I wonder where all the auto-immune diseases come from.

Side effects of vaccines

There can be many side effects to vaccines, the most prominent one, and the least harmful one,  being catching the flu itself. Why not get the flu naturally and allow your body to develop immunity to it instead of getting the injection along with all the other poisons adn then get sick on top of that. That is just plain stupid. Besides, you may even not get the flu. 72% of doctors and nurses do not get the flu shot every year and still many do not get sick even though they are in contact with infected patients.

• Death – despite all the fears created in public’s mind by the media, there are normally only a few hundred deaths per year in the US from the flu itself. Ever since the introduction of vaccines the number of deaths in children has skyrocketed and so has the rate of autism.

• Dystonia - some of the side effects however are much more severe than that. As you’ll see in the following video the beautiful Washington Redskins Cheerleader Desiree Jennings is permanently disabled from just one flu shot:

Here she is in another heart-breaking video:

Here are some more side effects of vaccines: auto-immune disorders, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, autism-spectrum, pervasive developmental disorders, Asperger’s syndrome, sudden infant death, infantile paralysis, post vaccine syndromes (Gulf War syndrome, Guillain-Barre syndrome, cognitive impairment, etc.), seizure disorders, ischemic strokes, specific learning disabilities, and attention deficit disorders.   It is unknown what truly causes these effects, it could be the biological components of the vaccine which cause the immune dysfunction or any number of adjuvants used to boost an immune response as well as the preservatives such as forms of mercury which are toxic to the nervous system

So with all these side effects, who IS getting the flu shot? Well, one of the most popular doctors in the U.S., Doctor Oz is getting one:

But did you notice that Mrs. Oz, who is a health-care advocate and the author of the NY Times best-selling health book “You, The Owner’s Manual”, is not getting the vaccine and neither are their children?

When interviewed by Amy Royster of the Palm Beach Post on protecting her health, this is what she had to say:

Have you learned a new tip this year that you will put to use to protect your health?

I’ve started taking Vitamin D more regularly to not only ward off colds and flu, but to fight inflammation and improve balance. I actually learned about the vitamin’s many benefits from my father, Dr. Gerald Lemole, a heart surgeon and integrative medical expert.

You’re a producer, writer, actress, co-host of ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ on Oprah Radio, mother and wife, how do you achieve balance among all these roles?

Health is a combination of body, mind and spirit. I make sure that I nourish each aspect of myself – giving my body whole, nutrient-dense foods, plenty of clean water and exercise. I love to read about new things and try to keep an open mind by practicing non-judgmental observation, and finally, I renew my spirit with yoga, reiki and prayer.

What? Is this woman nuts? What is she doing being married to Dr. Oz?

I think we should be listening to Mrs. Oz instead.

But are all of the doctors mislead and  brain washed and have  sold us out to the big pharma?

No. Here are a few of them that have managed to maintain their professional integrity and are looking out for the people’s interest and telling the truth:

This is a video of Dr. Gary Null exposing the truth behind the vaccines and big pharma.  He is highly educated and appears to have studied the literature extensively. These 3 videos are a must see even if you watch nothing else on this page:

Dr. Gary Null Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QEhPnlUlk

Dr. Gary Null Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyT3dN9gEY

I highly recommend that you watch all 3 parts.

Dr. Larry Palevsky is a board-certified pediatrician trained at the New York School of Medicine and unlike most doctors, he  has taken the time to go through the scientific literature and studies. Not only that but he also shares his own experiences that he has had with many parents whose children were vaccinated and developed many diseases later on.  Here he is being interviewed by Dr. Joseph Mercola on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.

I highly recommend that you support the Nutrition Institute of America and get your free copy of the Vaccine Nation DVD.

After the State of New York decided to force all health-care workers to take the flu shot, may have protested against the government:

and Dr. Chris Shaw

Target population for flu shots

So who are these flu shots being promoted to? The elderly, young children under the age of 6 and pregnant women.

We already know that the elderly are the most exploited population segment by the drug company. Most are on multiple drugs and then they are put on a bunch more drugs to counteract the side effects of their primary drugs, and then a bunch more to counteract the side effects of the second set of drugs and so on. It’s not unusual for most elderly to be on 5-15 different drugs. They are literally guinea pigs for drugs that may not have even been properly tested on a wide scale, let alone the drug-drug interactions among multiple drugs. And if they protest and don’t like it, well then they must be senile and are put on psychiatric drugs.

Now we get to children and pregnant women. So let me ask you, if there was poison that was toxic to nerves (neurotoxin) that we were to inject into people, who would be most likely to suffer the damaging consequences of such poisons?

You’re right again: a developing fetus and young children, and those are the primary segments that are being targeted by the drug companies and “our” government. The question is “why?”

Politics of vaccination

There are many issues associated with the US government’s policy on vaccinations. The most obvious one being money. We must follow the money trail to see where it leads. Yes, you guessed it: the drug companies.

Let’s see who is to profit the most

The drug companies (and those who have invested in them such as the Rockefellor and Carnegie Foundations) have determined, shaped, and influenced our health care (sick care) system in the U.S. for about the last 100 years. They have decided what’s good for us, which naturo-pathic practices to suppress and which drugs to invent. Unfortunately they do not have the best interest or even the health of the public at heart.

But isn’t the H1N1 and the flu, aka influenza really dangerous and widespread? NO.

According to a CBS report the H1N1 is not as prevalent as feared. In fact the majority of those sicknesses did not even test positive for the flu, let alone the H1N1, and this could be one possible reason why the CDC abruptly ordered the states to stop testing for the H1N1. But why? Why does the CDC and our government not want the people to know that the H1N1 virus and infection rates are very low and almost negligible? Why is our government trying to spread fear in the population through the media and would this not be evidence of a collusion between the government, media, and the drug companies working together to poison the American public. And why are they not sharing the actual data?

Now we’re entering murky waters as it will always be the case when we “follow the string” in politics.

Instead of admitting that the H1N1 flu numbers have already peaked in mid October, president Obama declares H1N1 a “National Emergency late Friday October 23, 2009.

According to the White House, “declaration allows medical treatment facilities to better handle a surge in flu patients by waiving federal requirements on a case-by-case basis.”

“Waving federal requirements?” What exactly are they talking about?

Here is what Natural News claims is the reason behind declaring National Emergency and what it means to you.

Below is a video of an interview with Dr. Jerome Corsi where he explains the implications of a declaration of National Emergency by the president and its related documents. This interview was conducted during the Bush administration but the signing of these documents paves the way for what is happening now. Please watch.

In many parts of the country the government has tried forced vaccinations.

In NY the forced vaccinations of health care workers was met with much opposition and the government lost that battle.

Here’s what’s happening in Massachusetts:

Best protection against the flu (in my opinion and a few others)

In many studies Vitamin D3 appears to be a real champion against the flu. In addition to serving over 200 different functions in the body, it also boosts the immune system. Some experts believe that there is a rise in flu during winter months is due to closer interaction among humans, yet others believe that it is due to lower exposure to sun and therefore lower vitamin D levels in the body.

Other articles, links and resources:

CBS report on the prevalence of H1N1 flu

CBS – CDC keeping quiet and evading questions on the actual flu numbers

Fox News – President Obama declares National Emergency

NPR- President Obama declares National Emergency

Natural News – President Obama declares national emergency over swine flu pandemic; but why?

Monsanto Lawyers kill Fox News story on Milk

If that one doesn’t wake you up, then try this one from Robert Cohen, the author of “Milk, the Deadly Poison”:

If science is not enough to make you think twice about drinking milk, then watch this PETA video on the conditions that dairy cows are kept in factory farms.

Forgetting about all of this, if you just think about it from a common sense point of view, taking into account some basic principles you learned in biology class, you’ll see that cow milk is not appropriate for human consumption.

First off mammals, the family that the homo sapien species  (humans) belong to, do not consume milk after they are weaned off. You do not see that anywhere in nature. Humans are the only mammals that continue to consume milk beyond infancy and even puberty.

Second, no one out there goes to drink someone else’s milk, that is the milk of another species. You don’t see tigers drinking wolf milk, or sheeps drinking chimpanze milk, or cow’s drinking deer milk, or deers drinking elephant milk, etc. I’m sorry but that’s just plain dumb. And yes, I did consume dairy products for the first 35 years of my life.

The protein in milk, cascin, forms a guey solution in human stomachs and is not really digestable by human consumption.

Calcium is not absorbably in presence of protein and milk is basically liquid protein.

The hormone rBGH or recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is passed on from cows to humans and is bio active in humans causing various health issues including early puberty.

The rBGH also causes udder infection in cows and the puss from the udder finds its way into the milk as well. Yummmy. These infections are the reason why non-organic cows must be treated with antibiotics.

rBGH also creates painful and crippling joint disease in cows and that’s simply inhumane. It also causes the udders to grow painfully large and beyond normal capacity.

Still think milk does a body good?

But what about organic milk?

Of course if you have to drink milk, then I would highly recommend that you do not even go near any milk that is not organic. Also organic milk has the added benefit that the cows are fed with organic feed and you’ll be saving your body the added toxic effects of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, etc.

From what I have read it seems like goat milk is more closely available to human body than cow milk. Another thing that you want to keep in mind is that you should go for raw milk because the process of pasteurization destroys much of the protein and good bacteria that are in milk. And if you are going to go for raw milk, then I would highly recommend that you make sure that it is from a trustworthy source, i.e. that you check out the farm and the sanitary conditions that the milk is produced in and make sure that the milk is very fresh to avoid the potential possibility of food poisoning.

To recap my recommendations:

1. Avoid milk and dairy products alltogether
2. Or if you have to drink milk, then go for fresh raw goat milk from a sanitary and trustworthy source.

To your health,

Farhad

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One such chemical is potassium bromate. You can do a simple search on Google for this chemical and you’ll find a ton of resources.

The book “Skinny Bitch” describes potassium bromate as: “Found in baked goods, can cause cancer, kidney, and nervous system disorders. Banned worldwide except for U.S. and Japan”.

Other researchers know about these effects as well.

1. Potassium bromate is known to cause kidney damage and is toxic to the kidneys. ¹
2. It does also cause oxidative damage to the mammalian DNA and can cause large deletions in our DNA. ²
3. The EPA lists the potential health effects of water containing bromate as “increased risk of cancer”. ³
4. I wonder what other health effects this wonder “food additive” that is considered as “generally safe” might have.

Shouldn’t the FDA know about this? Apparently everyone else does. Shouldn’t the FDA protect us from such chemicals in our foods? Granted there are thousands of chemicals that are created each year and enter our food supply and the FDA does not have the budget nor the man power to research these chemicals. Apparently sending soldiers to the other side of the world to kill people is more important than protecting the health of Americans.

Apparently potassium bromide is also found in processed pumpkin seeds which I did not know until I came across this YouTube video:

Potassium bromate is supposedly used to “strengthen bread dough and improve the quality of flour”, but now it is turning up in Pringles Potato Chips:

According to the last video, it can also be found in dried seaweed from Japan.

So if this information is all over the place and in the media, is it safe to assume that the FDA knows about it? And if they know about it and do nothing, wouldn’t that make them an accomplice to poisoning Americans?

Now I don’t want to get into some kinda crazy conspiracy theory again, but the medical and pharmaceutical industries are definitely having a grand ol’ time profitting from all the nerve damages, kidney failures, and cancers in our society, and I’m sure that you can put 2 and 2 together.

It is interesting that just a day after I started looking into this matter, a friend of mine sends me an email with the title “Photographs of the Year-2008″ and guess what’s in there. Check out this photograph and the caption:

“Department of Water and Power workers are emptying out bales of plastic balls in the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2008. Department of Water and Power released about 400,000 black plastic 4-inch balls as the first installment of approximately 3 million to form a floating cover over 7 acres of the reservoir to protect the water from sunlight. When sunlight mixes with the bromide and chlorine in Ivanhoe’s water, the carcinogen bromate can form. (Irfan Khan/AP)”

Saving us from Bromate

 So apparently the Los Angeles DWP knows about it, but not the FDA

So what can you do?

Ultimately only YOU are responsible for your health.

So what can you do to protect yourself against potassium bromate and other food additives in general?

1. Make your own bread. This will be one of the most sastisfying and healthful changes you’ll make to your diet. When you make your own flour, you know what you are putting in there. YOU make the choice and YOU have the power. When you give that power away to someone else to decide what goes in your food and ultimately in your body, then you are at their mercy.
2. Read labels and check the ingredients of the foods that you eat.
3. Look up and research the chemicals that you are not familiar with to see what they are and where they are used and what their possible adverse health effects might be.
4. In my opinion the best thing you can do for your health is to adopt a raw, organic, vegan diet and bypass the entire processed food industry alltogether.

¹ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18092757?ordinalpos=13&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

² http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17428505?ordinalpos=7&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

³ http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html

Here is one example you’ll find in Houston, Texas:Hedayat Razaman was born in Iran on January 12th, 1904, before WWI, penicilin, cars, and even washing machines.  

 http://www.searchles.com/channels/show/4756

So what are his secrets?

1. No red meat (diet)
2. Plenty of fruits and vegetables (diet)
3. No alcohol (diet)
4. Work out 6 days a week (Exercise)
5. Gardening (Physical Activity)
6. And probably most importantly, a loving and supportive wife and family (Healthy relationships)

Not as hard or complicated as you thought, huh?

I bet he doesn’t pump his body full of drugs either.

For more healthy living tips visit my website at http://www.farhadkazemi.com/

Farhad

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
Albert Einstein

A friend of mine sent this to me recently and I found it to be rather inspirational so I thought I’d share it with you:

A son asked his father, ‘Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?’ The father who, despite having a heart condition, says ‘Yes’. They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying ‘Yes’ to his son’s request of going through the race together. One day, the son asked his father, ‘Dad, let’s join the Ironman together.’

To which, his father said ‘Yes’ .

For those who didn’t know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island .

Father and son went on to complete the race together. View this:

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8cf08faca5dd9ea45513

I realized how much life mirrors a highway. We are all on the same road (spiritual evolution), headed in the same direction (our Christ consciousness or God Realization).

Cars representing the amount of stuff, wealth, or baggage that we carry around with ourselves on this road. Some are driving in their Mercedes, or Toyotas, or Bentlies, or Hummers, or Ferraris, or in my case Hyundai Accents.

Some of us are taking an active part in accelerating our spiritual growth by taking part in some kind of spiritual tradition, organized or otherwise, and it could be said that those people are in the “fast lane”.
Some are taking the time in the slow lane.
Some are just cruising along in the passenger seat or the back seat.
Some are stranded on the side of the highway; may be they have a challenge they have in their life that they are trying to fix before getting back on track. May be that challenge is part of their evolution.

Then there are those who have taken an exit and gotten lost in the side streets, i.e. getting addicted to illeagal or psychiatric drugs or alcohol.
May be they are wrapped up on some video game, fantasy football, Dungeons & Dragons, or some other fantasy for 3 days straight.
May be they spend their time in casinos voluntarily handing over whatever the taxman has left of their hard-earned dollars.

May be they spend all their time working at a job they get no satisfaction from, and then come home and spend the rest of their time on reality tv and various series designed to get them hooked while someone else steals their country away.

There are many hooks, distractions, and traps on the highway of life.

But in any case, we are all part of this journey and we are on this road together, so let us show each other more compassion and respect, and lend each other a helping hand when possible.

God bless.

Farhad Kazemi
http://www.farhadkazemi.com

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Finally after a few years of procrastinations and deliberations and Q&A I got my first blog up and running.
I am at the same time working on my first website (www.farhadkazemi.com) which I started a couple of weeks ago. Things are going pretty good and ideas just keep coming to me.

As our Chinese friends have been saying for millenia, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. I figured that if I’m going to be coaching people back to health, or in business, or life in general, then I better start leading by example and take that first step. As they said in The Secret, you don’t have to see the whole stair case; just take the first step.

So often in life we get caught up in our own mental debate that we never make that first decision to start. If you wait like I did for many years to get everything right and see the whole plan before starting to take action, then nothing will happen, and your plans, projects, and dreams will never take shape.

I was just talking to my cousin in Germany a couple days ago and he told me that he wants to do something, and after a couple of questions he admitted that he likes to write. Then he presented me with his own “mental debate” that he is interested in it, but he was never good at it, but he likes it, but he doesn’t know in which language to write, when to write, how often to write, etc., etc. After a few of my encouragements he agreed that he would just start writing, for himself, that way there would be no fear of being evaluated or judged.

We all hate to be judged, specially when we create something that is so personal to us as writing.

Release and let go of your fears of being judged.

You are you.

You are valuable.

Take the first step.

The life of your dreams is waiting for you.

Just take the first step.

I have taken mine.