The Health Survival Newsletter
Purpose:
To give you greater knowledge so you can have better health.
Mad Cow Disease, Totally Logical!
Why do we have Mad Cow disease? Why shouldn’t we have Mad cow disease? Consider the following: the conventional confinement feedlots have 4-8 inches of a urine, fecal matter, and soil mixture. The poor cows don’t have a single clean spot where they may sit, stand or lay. If this wasn’t bad enough, many feedlot operators/farmers listen to the University recommendation that one can feed 5-25% chicken manure, waste meat scraps, candy factory waste, bakery factory waste, and other factory waste by-products to the cows. These cows seldom or never see green pasture grass. Instead, they are fed hay, GMO/Non GMO corn and soy and other grains. Of course we must not forget the non-therapeutic feeding of antibiotics in order to make the cows fat, and the various bovine growth hormones that are injected or mixed in their feed. Due to their filthy living conditions, there is a large quantity of antibiotic injections to overcome various diseases.
What do we call a person with chronic body complaints, who is overweight with flabby muscles? A sick person. What do we call a cow that is fat and sick with flabby muscles? Grade A tender beef.
For starters, cows are ruminant animals, that means Mother Nature had designed them to eat grasses, not grains. When one feeds grain to ruminant animals such as cows and sheep, they become overly acidic. This is why many health practitioners recommend people to avoid red meat, because when one consumes this type of meat one tends to get very acidic. This isn’t the problem with the meat, rather it is a problem with the growers.
Depending on the farmer, we have variable qualities of beef. There are four (4) types:
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Conventional beef
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Certified organic beef
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Grass -fed beef
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Mineral supplemented grass- fed beef
Even with conventional beef not all farmers have a 100% confinement operation. Some farmers don’t feed 5-25% chicken manure to their cows, though most still supplement with hormones and antibiotics. Some pasture the beef for most of their life, then send to a feedlot to force feed grain for the last 90 days. This still produces an overly acidic condition in the animal, due to the unnatural diet. Therefore, there is a great variable.
Most certified organic farmers still feed their animals grain, but omit the hormones and antibiotics. They will feed the cows grass for the first 15 or so months, yielding a cow that weighs 700 lbs. They then fatten it up by feeding it organic grain until it weighs in at up to 1400-1500 lbs. This is exactly the same unnatural diet that most conventional beef growers feed their animals. The only difference is that it is certified organic grain, minus pesticides and is non GMO. This difference may disappear as the degradation of the certified organic rules occur under the Federal standards.
Grass-fed beef, (the correct way to raise beef) can have huge variables too. For example, there is what I call “organic by neglect.” Here we have a rancher that puts the cows out to pasture to graze at will on one primary specie of grass.
The fourth and best quality of beef would be beef raised on 20-60 different species of grass and then supplemented with seaweed and other mineral supplements. What a difference! Both are classified as grass-fed beef. Which would you want to eat? The fourth type of beef is the type of meat that you derive energy from eating, instead of getting tired after a meal.
Why is grassfed beef better? Though it may taste a little different from the commercial grainfed beef, and be firmer (“tougher”), it contains from 2-6 times more Omega-3 fatty acids than grain fed meat. After an animal is force fed grain for 30-90 days, Omega-3s plummet to almost zero, and there is an increase in acidic Omega 6 fatty acids.
What do Omega 3 Fatty Acids Do?
Prevent or Handle:
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Coronary artery and heart disease
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Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
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Arthritis
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Cancer
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Inflammatory or autoimmune disorders
(American Society for Clinical Nutrition by Dr. Artemis P. Simonpoulos)
There is a lot of scientific proof and success stories about the wonders of eating healthy grass fed beef, but I will skip them to sum up simply:
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Grass-fed beef is naturally leaner than grain-fed beef.
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Grass-fed beef has the recommended ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 fatty acids (3:1).
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Grass-fed beef is loaded with natural minerals, vitamins, and amino acids that we must have in order to be healthy.
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Grass-fed beef is a great source of CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), a fat that reduces the risk of cancer, obesity, diabetes, and a number of immune disorders.
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Eating the fat from grass-fed beef helps to balance hormones and burn fat. The result is less obesity and more energy.
Beef in it’s natural grass-fed state is a health food of the highest order. Most primitive cultures ate a diet consisting of 75-85% red meat or dairy products, 5% grains, and 10-20% seasonal fruits and vegetables.
A certified organic label on the beef does not make it better than grass-fed beef. Cattle who have not been given hormones, antibiotics, GMO grain, or pesticides will be healthier and better than those who have received them. There is no question about that. But grain feeding to a ruminant animal (cattle, sheep, goats) is an unnatural diet under any condition, and still produces the same overly acidic, sick, tender condition. Sometimes in the health food store, you can buy conventional beef that has not received hormones or antibiotics. While this may be better than the regular beef available in the conventional grocery store, it is not much better. Why should you pay more?
The key is in the natural diet of grasses, and in the fatty acid composition of the meat, as this article so carefully points out. Range-fed is best and one should seek that out. If it is not readily available, the best way is to find a farmer who is growing beef and develop a relationship with him to make sure that you can confirm how the cows are raised. I am not as interested in “certified organic” as I am in the animal’s diet of grasses. That is only necessary if you don’t personally know the grower.
Alkaline Water Ionizer
We have a water ionizer specifically designed to handle the various high mineral contents in the American water. We also have available all the electrodes, filter membranes, and the circuit board for the unit. This will enable you to enjoy an extended lifetime of the unit.
One of the by-products that the alkaline water ionizer makes is acid water. This is a highly positive charged water, and the best disinfectant, fungicide, and bactericide. Acid water has many other wonderful applications.
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Most of your indoor houseplants love acid water. You can use it straight or dilute it.
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If you have fungus on your plants you can spray it directly on the leaves.
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If someone has fungus toenails, warm up the acid water, soak and scrub the cuticle, toenails, etc… for 10-15 minutes once or twice a day with an old toothbrush, and you should see a dramatic improvement in 3-7 days. To actually get over the problem one needs to drink the alkaline water to detox the liver.
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I frequently will use 2 cups of acid water to rinse out the shampoo in my hair. This prevents residues, which cause weakening of the skin and hair follicles, resulting in baldness. It is also important to get shampoos that do not contain SLS (Sodium Laurel Sulfate or Laureth Sulfate). On the side note of losing hair, because of the high estrogen contamination in our environment, many of us men and women are estrogen dominant, resulting in a progesterone deficiency. One of the 100’s of side effects is losing one’s hair. I have found by applying the above # 4, and getting an all natural progesterone cream to rub on the inner arms and directly on to the bald or thinning spot, I grew my hair back. (I do not have a thinning or bald spot anymore).
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For teenagers, acid water can be used to help reduce pimples, black heads, acne.
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This is also good for a large array of skin disorders , after testing on a small spot to make sure there is no adverse reaction. I have seen several people with open sores, which were swollen and purplish or reddish, get immediate healing by washing the infected area for 15-60 minutes.
New Fluoride, Arsenic, Chlorine, & Chloramines removing filter
I recently had a great breakthrough in discovering a filter that will remove fluoride, arsenic, chlorine and the new chloramines that all the cities are starting to add to our drinking water. This unit strictly removes the undesired chemicals and leaves the natural minerals alone. We have installed several units and the quality of the water has far surpassed our expectations. One of our clients was using just a carbon filter to remove the chloramines, and after using the new filter, his high blood pressure started to drop within 48 hours. We have an under the counter unit as well as a whole house unit available. Please contact me for more information.
Winston W. J. Kao
January 2004
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