Can diabetes be cured with raw foods and fresh veggie juice?
Interview with Kirt Tyson, Former Type-I Diabetic, Featured in "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days"
(NaturalNews) Mike: Hi everybody. I'm here with Kirt Tyson today. How are you doing today, Kirt?
Kirt: I'm doing wonderful, and I'm glad to be here.
Mike: Now, just the fact that you are here is quite amazing in itself. You had quite a journey to get here and get on the raw foods lifestyle. Can you tell us a little bit about your history? What brought you to this point?
Kirt: Actually, it really was a tremendous journey. I was diagnosed with what was originally thought to be type II diabetes back in November of 2005. I was hospitalized with glucose levels of 1,200. I had lost 20 lbs. in about a week. I started losing my vision and I was at stage II kidney damage. I was hospitalized for about four days.
Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/027011_diabetes_food_raw_food.html
(NaturalNews) Mike: Hi everybody. I'm here with Kirt Tyson today. How are you doing today, Kirt?
Kirt: I'm doing wonderful, and I'm glad to be here.
Mike: Now, just the fact that you are here is quite amazing in itself. You had quite a journey to get here and get on the raw foods lifestyle. Can you tell us a little bit about your history? What brought you to this point?
Kirt: Actually, it really was a tremendous journey. I was diagnosed with what was originally thought to be type II diabetes back in November of 2005. I was hospitalized with glucose levels of 1,200. I had lost 20 lbs. in about a week. I started losing my vision and I was at stage II kidney damage. I was hospitalized for about four days.
Read more: http://www.naturalnews.com/027011_diabetes_food_raw_food.html
Video shows chicks ground up alive at egg hatchery
DES MOINES, Iowa – An animal rights group publicized a video Tuesday showing unwanted chicks being tossed alive into a grinder at an Iowa plant and accused egg hatcheries of being "perhaps the cruelest industry" in the world.
The undercover video was shot by Chicago-based Mercy for Animals at a hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period in May and June. The video was first obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
"We have to ask ourselves if these were puppies and kittens being dropped into grinders, would we find that acceptable?" asked Nathan Runkle, the group's executive director, at a news conference in Des Moines. "I don't think that most people would."
Read more...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_go_ot/us_egg_hatchery_investigation
The undercover video was shot by Chicago-based Mercy for Animals at a hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period in May and June. The video was first obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
"We have to ask ourselves if these were puppies and kittens being dropped into grinders, would we find that acceptable?" asked Nathan Runkle, the group's executive director, at a news conference in Des Moines. "I don't think that most people would."
Read more...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_go_ot/us_egg_hatchery_investigation
The Culture Of Food
The Culture Of Food
By Masanobu Fukuoka
1978
When asked why we eat food, few think further than the fact that food is necessary to support the life and growth of the human body. Beyond this, however, there is the deeper relationship of food to the human spirit. For animals, it is enough to eat, play and sleep. For humans, too, it would be a great accomplishment if they could enjoy nourishing food, a simple daily round, and restful sleep.
Things have many different colors, shapes and flavors, and people’s minds flit from side to side, attracted to the various qualities of things. But actually, matter and mind are one.
Color
In the world there are seven basic colors. But if these seven colors are combined, they become white. When split by a prism the white light becomes seven colors. When man views the world with “no-mind” the color in the color vanishes. It is no-color. Only when they are viewed by the seven-colored mind of discrimination do the seven colors appear.
Water undergoes countless changes but water is still water. In the same way, although the conscious mind appears to undergo changes, the original unmoving mind does not change. When one becomes infatuated with the seven colors, the mind is easily distracted. The colors of leaves, branches and fruit are perceived, while the basis of color passes unnoticed.
This is also true of food. In this world there are many natural substances that are suitable for human food. These foods are distinguished by the mind and are thought to have good and bad qualities. People then consciously select what they think they must have. This process of selection impedes the recognition of the basis of human nourishment, which is what heaven prescribes for the place and season.
Nature’s colors, like hydrangea blossoms, change easily. The body of nature is perpetual transformation. For the same reason that it is called infinite motion, it may also be considered non-moving motion. When reason is applied to selecting foods, one’s understanding of nature becomes fixed and nature’s transformtations, such as the seasonal changes, are ignored.
The purpose of a natural diet is not to create knowledgeable people who can give sound explanations and skillfully select among the various foods, but to create unknowing people who take food without consciously making distinctions. This does not go against the way of nature. By realising “no-mind”, without becoming lost in the subtleties of form, accepting the color of the colorless as color, right diet begins.
Flavor
People say, “You don’t know what food tastes like until you try it.” But even when you do try it, the food’s flavor may vary, depending on time and circumstance and the disposition of the person who is tasting.
If you ask a scientist what the substance of flavor is, he will try to define it by isolating the various components and by determining the proportions of sweet, sour, bitter, salty and pungent. But flavor cannot be defined by analysis or even by the tip of the tongue. Even though the five flavors are perceived by the tongue, the impressions are collected and interpreted by the mind.
A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.
Modern people have lost their clear instinct and consequently have become unable to gather and enjoy the seven herbs of spring. They go out seeking a variety of flavors. Their diet becomes disordered, the gap between likes and dislikes widens, and their instinct becomes more and more bewildered. At this point people begin to apply strong seasonings to their food and to use elaborate cooking techniques, further deepening the confusion. Food and the human spirit have become estranged.
Most people today have even become separated from the flavor of rice. The whole grain is refined and processed, leaving only the tasteless starch. Polished rice lacks the unique fragrance abd flavor of whole rice. Consequently, it requires seasonings and must be supplemented with side dishes or covered with sauce. People think, mistakenly, that it does not matter that the food value of the rice is low, as long as vitamin supplements or other foods such as meat or fish supply the missing nutrients.
Flavorful foods are not flavorful in themselves. Food is not delicious unless a person thinks it is. Although most people think that beef and chicken are delectable, to a person who for physical or spiritual reasons has decided that he dislikes them, they are repulsive.
Just playing or doing nothing at all, children are happy. A discriminating adult, on the other hand, decides what will make him happy, and when these conditions are met he feels satisfied. Foods taste good to him not necessarily because they have nature’s subtle flavors and are nourishing to the body, but because his taste has been conditioned to the idea that they taste good.
Wheat noodles are delicious, but a cup of instant noodles from a vending machine tastes extremely bad. However, advertising removes the idea that they taste bad, and to many people even these unsavoury noodles somehow come to taste good.
People nowadays eat with their minds, not with their bodies. Many people do not care if there is monosodium glutamate in their food; they taste only with the tip of the tongue, so they are easily fooled.
At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.
The first consideration should be to live in such a way that the food itself tastes good, but today all the effort goes instead into adding tastiness to food. Ironically, delicious foods have all but vanished.
People tried to make delicious bread, and delicious bread disappeared. In trying to make rich luxurious foods they made useless foods, and now people’s appetites are unsatisfied.
The best methods of food preparation preserve nature’s delicate flavors. The daily wisdom of long ago enabled people to make the various kinds of vegetable pickles such as sun-dried pickles, salt pickles, bran-pickles and miso-pickles, so that the flavor of the vegetable itself was also preserved.
When people rejected natural food and took up refined food instead, society set out on a path toward its own destruction. Food is life, and life must not step away from nature.
Living by bread alone
Nutrition cannot be separated from the sense of taste. Nutritious foods, good for the human body, whet the appetite and are delicious on their own account. Proper nourishment is inescapable form good flavor.
The traditional brown rice and vegetable diet of the East is very different from that of most Western societies. Western nutritional science believes that unless certain amounts of starch, fat, protein, minerals and vitamins are eaten each day, a well-balanced diet and good health cannot be preserved. This belief produced the mother who stuffs “nutritious” food into her youngster’s mouth.
One might suppose that Western dietetics, with its elaborate theories and calculations, could leave no doubts about proper diet. The fact is, it creates far more problems than it resolves.
One problem is that in Western nutritional science there is no effort to adjust the diet to the natural cycle. The diet that results serves to isolate human beings from nature. A fear of nature and a general sense of insecurity are often the unfortunate results.
Another problem is that spiritual and emotional values are entirely forgotten, even though foods are directly connected with human spirit and emotions. If the human being is viewed merely as a physiological object, it is impossible to produce a coherent understanding in diet. When bits and pieces of information are collected and brought together in confusion, the result is an imperfect diet which draws away from nature.
“Within one thing lie all things, but if all things are brought together not one thing can arise.” Western science is unable to grasp this precept of eastern philosophy. A person can analyse and investigate a butterfly as far as he likes, but he cannot make a butterfly.
If the Western scientific diet were put into practice on a wide scale, what sort of practical problems do you suppose would occur? High quality beef, eggs, milk, vegetables, bread and other foods would have to be readily available all year round. Large scale production and long-term storage would become necessary.
It is unreasonable to expect that a wholesome, balanced diet can be achieved simply by supplying a great variety of foods regardless of the season. Compared with plants which ripen naturally, vegetables and fruits grown out-of-season under necessarily unnatural conditions contain few vitamins and minerals. It is not surprising that summer vegetables grown in the autumn or winter have none of the flavor and fragrance of those grown beneath the sun by organic and natural methods.
Chemical analysis, nutritional ratios and other such considerations are the main causes of error. The food prescribed by modern science is far from the traditional Oriental diet, and it is undermining the health of the Japanese people.
The diet of non-discrimination
People living in the cities face tremendous difficulty in trying to attain a natural diet. Natural food is simply not available, simply because farmers have stopped growing it. In this sort of situation, if you try to eat wholesome meals or attain a balanced yin-yang diet, you need practically supernatural means and powers of judgment. Far from a return to nature, a complicated, strange sort of “natural” diet arises and the individual is only drawn further away from nature.
If you look inside “health food” stores these days you will find a bewildering assortment of fresh foods, packaged foods, vitamins and dietary supplements. In the literature many different types of diets are presented as being “natural”, nutritious, and the best for health. If someone says it is healthful to boil foods together, there is someone else who says foods boiled together are only good for making people sick. Some emphasise the essential value of salt in the diet; others say that too much salt causes disease. If there is someone who shuns fruit as yin and food for monkeys, there is someone else who says fruit and vegetables are the very best foods for providing longevity and a happy disposition.
At various times and in various circumstances all of these opinions could be said to be correct, and so people come to be confused. Or, rather, to a confused person, all of these theories become material for creating greater confusion.
Nature is in constant transition, changing from moment to moment. People cannot grasp nature’s true appearance. The face of nature is unknowable. Trying to capture the unknowable in theories and formalised doctrines is like trying to catch the wind in a butterfly net.
Humanity is like a blind man who does not know where he is heading. He gropes around with the cane of scientific knowledge, depending on yin and yang to set his course.
What I want to say is, don’t eat food with your head, and that is to say get rid of the discriminating mind. The prime consideration is for a person to develop the sensitivity to allow the body to choose food by itself. Thinking only about the foods themselves and leaving the spirit aside is like making visits to the temple, reading the sutras, and leaving Buddha on the outside. Rather than studying philosophical theory to reach an understanding of food, it is better to arrive at a theory from within one’s daily diet.
Masanobu Fukuoka (1914-2008) was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology. In his 20’s, he quit his job and returned to his family's farm on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He saw in a vision that all the "accomplishments" of human civilization were meaningless before the totality of nature. Fukuoka developed what many consider to be a revolutionary method of sustainable agriculture: a “do nothing” technique of natural practices that eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage and wasteful effort. To Fukuoka, farming was a spiritual path. He authored "The One-Straw Revolution” and several other books.
By Masanobu Fukuoka
1978
When asked why we eat food, few think further than the fact that food is necessary to support the life and growth of the human body. Beyond this, however, there is the deeper relationship of food to the human spirit. For animals, it is enough to eat, play and sleep. For humans, too, it would be a great accomplishment if they could enjoy nourishing food, a simple daily round, and restful sleep.
Things have many different colors, shapes and flavors, and people’s minds flit from side to side, attracted to the various qualities of things. But actually, matter and mind are one.
Color
In the world there are seven basic colors. But if these seven colors are combined, they become white. When split by a prism the white light becomes seven colors. When man views the world with “no-mind” the color in the color vanishes. It is no-color. Only when they are viewed by the seven-colored mind of discrimination do the seven colors appear.
Water undergoes countless changes but water is still water. In the same way, although the conscious mind appears to undergo changes, the original unmoving mind does not change. When one becomes infatuated with the seven colors, the mind is easily distracted. The colors of leaves, branches and fruit are perceived, while the basis of color passes unnoticed.
This is also true of food. In this world there are many natural substances that are suitable for human food. These foods are distinguished by the mind and are thought to have good and bad qualities. People then consciously select what they think they must have. This process of selection impedes the recognition of the basis of human nourishment, which is what heaven prescribes for the place and season.
Nature’s colors, like hydrangea blossoms, change easily. The body of nature is perpetual transformation. For the same reason that it is called infinite motion, it may also be considered non-moving motion. When reason is applied to selecting foods, one’s understanding of nature becomes fixed and nature’s transformtations, such as the seasonal changes, are ignored.
The purpose of a natural diet is not to create knowledgeable people who can give sound explanations and skillfully select among the various foods, but to create unknowing people who take food without consciously making distinctions. This does not go against the way of nature. By realising “no-mind”, without becoming lost in the subtleties of form, accepting the color of the colorless as color, right diet begins.
Flavor
People say, “You don’t know what food tastes like until you try it.” But even when you do try it, the food’s flavor may vary, depending on time and circumstance and the disposition of the person who is tasting.
If you ask a scientist what the substance of flavor is, he will try to define it by isolating the various components and by determining the proportions of sweet, sour, bitter, salty and pungent. But flavor cannot be defined by analysis or even by the tip of the tongue. Even though the five flavors are perceived by the tongue, the impressions are collected and interpreted by the mind.
A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human spirit are united.
Modern people have lost their clear instinct and consequently have become unable to gather and enjoy the seven herbs of spring. They go out seeking a variety of flavors. Their diet becomes disordered, the gap between likes and dislikes widens, and their instinct becomes more and more bewildered. At this point people begin to apply strong seasonings to their food and to use elaborate cooking techniques, further deepening the confusion. Food and the human spirit have become estranged.
Most people today have even become separated from the flavor of rice. The whole grain is refined and processed, leaving only the tasteless starch. Polished rice lacks the unique fragrance abd flavor of whole rice. Consequently, it requires seasonings and must be supplemented with side dishes or covered with sauce. People think, mistakenly, that it does not matter that the food value of the rice is low, as long as vitamin supplements or other foods such as meat or fish supply the missing nutrients.
Flavorful foods are not flavorful in themselves. Food is not delicious unless a person thinks it is. Although most people think that beef and chicken are delectable, to a person who for physical or spiritual reasons has decided that he dislikes them, they are repulsive.
Just playing or doing nothing at all, children are happy. A discriminating adult, on the other hand, decides what will make him happy, and when these conditions are met he feels satisfied. Foods taste good to him not necessarily because they have nature’s subtle flavors and are nourishing to the body, but because his taste has been conditioned to the idea that they taste good.
Wheat noodles are delicious, but a cup of instant noodles from a vending machine tastes extremely bad. However, advertising removes the idea that they taste bad, and to many people even these unsavoury noodles somehow come to taste good.
People nowadays eat with their minds, not with their bodies. Many people do not care if there is monosodium glutamate in their food; they taste only with the tip of the tongue, so they are easily fooled.
At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.
The first consideration should be to live in such a way that the food itself tastes good, but today all the effort goes instead into adding tastiness to food. Ironically, delicious foods have all but vanished.
People tried to make delicious bread, and delicious bread disappeared. In trying to make rich luxurious foods they made useless foods, and now people’s appetites are unsatisfied.
The best methods of food preparation preserve nature’s delicate flavors. The daily wisdom of long ago enabled people to make the various kinds of vegetable pickles such as sun-dried pickles, salt pickles, bran-pickles and miso-pickles, so that the flavor of the vegetable itself was also preserved.
When people rejected natural food and took up refined food instead, society set out on a path toward its own destruction. Food is life, and life must not step away from nature.
Living by bread alone
Nutrition cannot be separated from the sense of taste. Nutritious foods, good for the human body, whet the appetite and are delicious on their own account. Proper nourishment is inescapable form good flavor.
The traditional brown rice and vegetable diet of the East is very different from that of most Western societies. Western nutritional science believes that unless certain amounts of starch, fat, protein, minerals and vitamins are eaten each day, a well-balanced diet and good health cannot be preserved. This belief produced the mother who stuffs “nutritious” food into her youngster’s mouth.
One might suppose that Western dietetics, with its elaborate theories and calculations, could leave no doubts about proper diet. The fact is, it creates far more problems than it resolves.
One problem is that in Western nutritional science there is no effort to adjust the diet to the natural cycle. The diet that results serves to isolate human beings from nature. A fear of nature and a general sense of insecurity are often the unfortunate results.
Another problem is that spiritual and emotional values are entirely forgotten, even though foods are directly connected with human spirit and emotions. If the human being is viewed merely as a physiological object, it is impossible to produce a coherent understanding in diet. When bits and pieces of information are collected and brought together in confusion, the result is an imperfect diet which draws away from nature.
“Within one thing lie all things, but if all things are brought together not one thing can arise.” Western science is unable to grasp this precept of eastern philosophy. A person can analyse and investigate a butterfly as far as he likes, but he cannot make a butterfly.
If the Western scientific diet were put into practice on a wide scale, what sort of practical problems do you suppose would occur? High quality beef, eggs, milk, vegetables, bread and other foods would have to be readily available all year round. Large scale production and long-term storage would become necessary.
It is unreasonable to expect that a wholesome, balanced diet can be achieved simply by supplying a great variety of foods regardless of the season. Compared with plants which ripen naturally, vegetables and fruits grown out-of-season under necessarily unnatural conditions contain few vitamins and minerals. It is not surprising that summer vegetables grown in the autumn or winter have none of the flavor and fragrance of those grown beneath the sun by organic and natural methods.
Chemical analysis, nutritional ratios and other such considerations are the main causes of error. The food prescribed by modern science is far from the traditional Oriental diet, and it is undermining the health of the Japanese people.
The diet of non-discrimination
People living in the cities face tremendous difficulty in trying to attain a natural diet. Natural food is simply not available, simply because farmers have stopped growing it. In this sort of situation, if you try to eat wholesome meals or attain a balanced yin-yang diet, you need practically supernatural means and powers of judgment. Far from a return to nature, a complicated, strange sort of “natural” diet arises and the individual is only drawn further away from nature.
If you look inside “health food” stores these days you will find a bewildering assortment of fresh foods, packaged foods, vitamins and dietary supplements. In the literature many different types of diets are presented as being “natural”, nutritious, and the best for health. If someone says it is healthful to boil foods together, there is someone else who says foods boiled together are only good for making people sick. Some emphasise the essential value of salt in the diet; others say that too much salt causes disease. If there is someone who shuns fruit as yin and food for monkeys, there is someone else who says fruit and vegetables are the very best foods for providing longevity and a happy disposition.
At various times and in various circumstances all of these opinions could be said to be correct, and so people come to be confused. Or, rather, to a confused person, all of these theories become material for creating greater confusion.
Nature is in constant transition, changing from moment to moment. People cannot grasp nature’s true appearance. The face of nature is unknowable. Trying to capture the unknowable in theories and formalised doctrines is like trying to catch the wind in a butterfly net.
Humanity is like a blind man who does not know where he is heading. He gropes around with the cane of scientific knowledge, depending on yin and yang to set his course.
What I want to say is, don’t eat food with your head, and that is to say get rid of the discriminating mind. The prime consideration is for a person to develop the sensitivity to allow the body to choose food by itself. Thinking only about the foods themselves and leaving the spirit aside is like making visits to the temple, reading the sutras, and leaving Buddha on the outside. Rather than studying philosophical theory to reach an understanding of food, it is better to arrive at a theory from within one’s daily diet.
Masanobu Fukuoka (1914-2008) was educated in microbiology and worked as a soil scientist specializing in plant pathology. In his 20’s, he quit his job and returned to his family's farm on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan. He saw in a vision that all the "accomplishments" of human civilization were meaningless before the totality of nature. Fukuoka developed what many consider to be a revolutionary method of sustainable agriculture: a “do nothing” technique of natural practices that eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage and wasteful effort. To Fukuoka, farming was a spiritual path. He authored "The One-Straw Revolution” and several other books.
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