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PROBLEMS WITHIN THE FOOD INDUSTRY

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0700

In Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation calls body fat "The New Tobacco," meaning
that food, not tobacco, is now the leading cause of heart disease. Yes, you read that right:
food is the leading cause of disease. How can that be?

The answer isn't complicated: people are consuming a record volume of refined, pro-
cessed foods that exhibit three critical properties:

PROBLEM #1 Food Nutritionally deplete - This is especially true of all refined grains
like white flour, white rice, instant oats, and other similar items. They've all had their nat-
ural oils, fiber, vitamins and minerals stripped during the manufacturing process.

PROBLEM #2: Food Made with Toxic Ingredients - They are made with ingredients
that cause cancer, diabetes, brain damage and other disorders. These ingredients are
called metabolic disruptors. They include sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils (found in vir-
tually all margarine products, shortening products and baked cookies or crackers), high
fructose corn syrup (found in most soft drinks), aspartame (found in most diet foods and
drinks), monosodium glutamate (a proven excitotoxin), homogenized milk fats and other
similar ingredients. These ingredients are used to add color or flavor to foods, yet they
directly promote chronic, deadly diseases in the human body.

PROBLEM #3: Food is dead - Simply put, all processed foods have had the life cooked
out of them. They barely resemble foods from nature. They've been over processed, over-
cooked, preserved with chemicals, pasteurized, homogenized, and possibly even irradi-
ated. These are no longer the foods the human body needs, they are "products" that gener-
ate revenues for food manufacturers while adding absolutely nothing to the nutritional
foundation of consumers.

Lack of nutritious food is why the following statistics have come to fruition:

USA Obesity Rates Reach Epidemic Proportions
• 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese
• Eight out of 10 over 25 is Overweight
• 78% of American's not meeting basic activity level recommendations
• 25% completely Sedentary
• 76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 yrs old since 1990

Obesity Related Diseases
• 80% of type II diabetes related to obesity
• 70% of Cardiovascular disease related to obesity
• 42% breast and colon cancer diagnosed among obese individuals
• 30% of gall bladder surgery related to obesity
• 26% of obese people having high blood pressure

Childhood Obesity Running Out of Control
• 4% overweight 1982 | 16% overweight 1994
• 25% of all white children overweight 2001
• 33% African American and Hispanic children overweight 2001
• Hospital costs associated with childhood obesity rising from $35 Million (1979)
to $127 Million (1999)

Childhood Metabolic and Heart Risks
• New study suggests one in four overweight children is already showing early
signs of type II diabetes (impaired glucose intolerance)
• 60% already have one risk factor for heart disease
Surge in Childhood Diabetes
• Between 8% - 45% of newly diagnosed cases of childhood diabetes are type
II, associated with obesity.
• Whereas 4% of Childhood diabetes was type II in 1990, that number has ris-
en to approximately 20%
• Depending on the age group (Type II most frequent 10-19 group) and the ra-
cial/ethnic mix of group stated
• Of Children diagnosed with Type II diabetes, 85% are obese

SOURCE: Wellness International Network Ltd - web.winltd.com

CLEANSE YOUR BODY

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:53:14 -0700

Periodically you should do some cleansing to rid of toxins in your body and rejuvenate your
organs so that they can function at full capacity. Failure to cleanse your system can results in
degenerate diseases that slowly eat away at your essential organs. Keeping your organs
healthy is an essential part of living. There are a ton of different cleanses available. The
following cleanses are plenty to get you started on a path to a healthy body.

Steps to Cleanse your Body:

CLEANSE #1: Parasite Cleanse - IBS, diarrhea and other abdominal issues, skin
problems and various nutrition problems are thought to be potentially caused by parasite
infection. Somewhere between 80 and 90% of people have parasites in their systems.
Most of us consider parasites like round worm, tape worm and seat worm to be problems
in the Third World. Many people are shocked to hear that not only are they prevalent in
developed countries too, but they may be one of the primary causes of diseases ranging
from the common cold to even cancer! A parasite cleanse will rid your body of these
nasty little organisms and leave your immune system free to combat other diseases. Even
if the parasites are not the root cause of your illness, this cleanse will at least give your
immune system a hand in fighting it.

What are the symptoms of Parasite infection?
Many sufferers of parasites do not have any obvious symptoms, but if you tend to have
diarrhea or other abdominal issues, burning or itching of the skin, it is possible that you
have parasites. Other symptoms include IBS, inconsistent absorption of nutrients, blood
sugar fluctuations, fatigue and food cravings are al other symptoms.
So where do these parasites comes from? They can be found in the water you drink, the
food you eat (if you don't wash it properly) and you can contract them from your pets or
even your spouse! That's why there is such a large incidence of parasites in our
population.

Parasite Cleansing Techniques
Parasites can lay thousands of eggs a day, most of which are killed by your immune
system. But to kill the ones that are left you need some specific substances and
compounds. We list here the major substances that have been found to kill parasites. It is
possible to make your own deworming solution, but they are also available online or
from your local health shop..

Black Walnut - Originally a folk herbal remedy, Black Walnut is now commonly used to
kill the adults of around 100 different parasites.
Wormwood - Like black walnut, this kills the adult parasites. It can be found in tea,
liquid or capsule form.
Cloves - Cloves actually kill the eggs of the parasite. Its important to use these first three
remedies together, to kill both the adult parasites and the eggs at the same time so the
colony cannot re-grow.
Pumpkin Seeds - Mashed up and mixed with juice, pumpkin seeds have been found to
be effective against parasites.Garlic- Whether mashed up, whole or in tablet form, Garlic is a great tool to combat parasite infection.

Once you have eliminated the parasites, its time to remove them from your system with a
good colon cleanse.

CLEANSE #2: Colon Cleanse - Colon Cleansing uses herbs and natural supplements to
help your body mend its internal organs and restore you to health. The crucial part of a
colon cleanse is the addition of Psyllium to your diet. When taken with water, the
Psyllium expands in the bowels, forming a bulky, jelly-like substance. Its rough texture
helps it to scrape along the sides of the colon, completely painlessly, and remove the
excess waste matter and toxins from your digestive system.A laxative is often used with
Psyllium to aid in the movement of fecal matter from the bowel. However, when
Psyllium is in its liquid form many people find it sufficient.

Colon Cleansing Techniques
The first stage in a colon cleanse is to change your diet - eating fresh organically grown
vegetables is a great start and will stop any more toxins from entering your system.
Think about what you eat - fast food is overloaded with additives, beef has added growth
hormone, even fish are full of the various chemicals that are pumped into the oceans. So
the first stage in your cleanse is to cut out these unnecessary toxins. Don't drink any
coffee, alcohol or sodas. As for food, eat small amounts of vegetables and fruit,
preferably with high water content.

The second stage involves adding a cleansing supplement to your diet. The two most
common are Bentonite and Psyllium, which work best in combination. The Bentonite
absorbs the toxins, while the Psyllium pushes them through and out of your system.
Psyllium- Add one or two tablespoons to a glass of water and take with your meal, once
or twice daily. Psyllium is a natural fiber that helps the digestive system to work more
quickly and effectively. All that old waste matter that is clogging your colon will be
pushed right through.

Bentonite - The indigenous cultures have been using Bentonite clay's healing and detox
properties since before recorded history. It has been scientifically proven to absorb toxic
substances inside the intestine. The recommended dosage is to mix one teaspoon with
eight ounces of water. You can also pour 2-3 ounces into your bath water to absorb toxins
from the outside.

CLEANSE #3: Liver Cleanse - One of the main functions of the liver is to remove and
breakdown toxins from the blood. It also metabolizes ingested drugs, including
pharmaceutical drugs and alcohol. This imposes a large burden on the liver day to day -
liver cleansing is an effective way to give your liver a break and allow it to work more
effectively. In other words, your liver is your filter and it functions best when cleaned out once in a while.

How Does Liver Cleansing Work?

To remove gall stones from the liver is a process of several stages. Stage one involvesdrinking lots of apple juice. The pectin in the juice helps to soften and flatten the stonesin the gall bladder and liver. This helps their eventual passage through the bile ducts. The most important part of a liver cleanse is drinking olive oil and fruit juice, late at nightbefore sleeping. The act of lying down in bed allows the oil to go into your liver and gall bladder. This temporarily overloads the organs, causes a reaction in which the stones are expelled. Of course, the expulsion of these stones has the potential to be a very painful process. So the addition of Epsom salts opens the bile ducts nice and wide, so the stones (already flattened by the apple juice) to pass through freely.The grapefruit and lemon juice are used to produce more bile in the liver, trapping fat molecules and allowing them to be easily secreted. It also helps to decrease your appetite.

Liver Cleansing Techniques
Cleansing the liver of gall stones dramatically aids digestion, which in turn improves
general health. Here are the 3 stages in a successful liver cleanse:
Stage 1: Prepare for the cleanse by drinking fresh apple juice for 3 days. Meals should be
small amounts of raw salad or unprocessed fruit.
Stage 2: Buy the liver cleanse ingredients:
- Epsom Salts, 4 tablespoons mixed in 4 cups of water
- Olive Oil
- Fresh Grapefruit juice and Lemon juice
Stage 3: Do the cleanse. Choose a day off if possible! Here is the routine -
(i) Eat a very light breakfast and lunch of fruit and vegetables.
(ii) At 6pm, drink 1 cup of the Epsom Salt water. Repeat at 8pm.
(iii) At 10pm, mix the fruit juices and one cup of olive oil. Drink it, go to bed and get a
good sleep while the cleanse does its work!
(iv) At 7am, drink 1 cup of the Epsom Salt water. Repeat at 9am and finish the mixture.
(v) Eat only light fruits and vegetables for the rest of the day. Your liver should be
cleansed of gall stones and by the evening you should feel great!

CLEANSE #4: Kidney Cleanse - The kidney filters out all kinds of toxic substances from
your blood, like mercury and copper. The kidney is particularly sensitive to infections and
does its job much better when it is clean and functioning properly. A Kidney Cleanse requires large amounts of water to wash out any toxins that have built up over time. A good kidney cleanse will involve producing up to a gallon of urine every day!

How Does Kidney Cleansing Work?
The Watermelon Cleanse is the most famous of the kidney cleanses. It is a simple
process, involving the intake of large amounts of water and sitting in a bathtub to expel
the kidney stones. Watermelon is chosen because of its high water content. The passing of so much water through the kidney rapidly dissolves the stones and hopefully avoids any of the
complications that they can cause. Drinking lots of water is obviously of benefit in many
more ways, so many cleansers report feeling and looking better after this type of cleanse.

Kidney Cleansing Techniques
Got lower back pain and suspect it might be a kidney stone? Try this cleanse before an
expensive hospital visit. Small kidney stones can be dissolved a few weeks by avoiding
tea, coffee, carbonated drinks and eating more healthily.

Watermelon Cleanse
Probably the most popular kidney cleanse, not easy (and not for diabetics) but it provides
fast results! Purchase 30-50kg of watermelons (a few large ones). Now comes the boring
part.. You need to sit in your bathtub for most of the day, eating as much watermelon as
you can, whilst continually emptying your bladder into the water.

Kidney Cleansing Tea
A variety of teas are available that can help with a Kidney Cleanse. Watermelon seed tea
and Celery seed tea are both powerful diuretics that increase your water intake and flush
water more quickly through the kidneys.

Other Types of Cleanses you may want to look into:
− respiratory lung cleanse
− fat tissue cleanse
− lymphatic cleanse
− clay baths
− toxic removing foot pads

CLEANSING TESTS: figuring out your health issues

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:51:04 -0700

TEST #1: Blood type – certain blood types and ethnicities should stick to certain foods to
maintain a healthy system. Check out the book “Eating Right For Your Blood Type”

TEST #2: Hair Analysis - Mineral deficiencies / Metal toxicity - Hair analysis is an
accurate and informative method, using a snippet of hair sample, that will give you a complete profile of your mineral status to help you correct any imbalance and to achieve
optimal nutrition and the vitality and health that this brings. You will be amazed at how
easy it is to have a hair analysis done and how much benefit it will bring you. It is also
extremely useful for testing for heavy metal toxicity or poisoning such as mercury and
nickel toxicity.With a hair analysis, most test will test for eleven minerals:Calcium,
Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iodine, Magnesium, Manganese, Selenium, Strontium,
Sulfur, and Zinc. These minerals are of major importance in health and disease, including
diabetes, heart conditions, and osteoporosis. Hair analysis can also show the following
nine toxic elements:Aluminum, Antimony, Arsenic, Bismuth, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury,
Nickel, and Tin.

Mercury toxicity and other heavy metal toxicity can arise by prolonged exposure to
environmental contamination and can cause a range of symptoms, from headaches to
muscle pains, tremors, dizziness,depression and general neurological problems, among
others.

Mercury toxicity can arise from drinking contaminated tap water or even a high
consumption of fish with high mercury content or from leaching from dental fillings.
If you have unexplained symptoms and suspect mercury or other heavy metal toxicity
then the hair analysis test will give you the answer you need.
Lead toxicity can easily arise by prolonged exposure to exhaust fumes; aluminium
toxicity could arise from aluminium leaching from aluminium cooking utensils and from
food and drink sources; Arsenic toxicity or arsenic poisoning could come from the
arsenic present in some paints and in industrial waste, and cadmium toxicity from
cigarette smoke.

TEST #3: Allergy tests – There are a number of allergy tests out there. Some test 100 foods.
Others test hundreds of foods and drinks and/or environmental allergies like grass and molds.
It is imporatant to understand what your allergies are as eating or drinking or breating in even
small amounts of allergens can damage you immune system and cause more serious
problems with your health.

All 3 of these tests can normally be done through guidance of a Naturopathic Doctor.
These doctors will screen your system and look for problem areas and then will come
up with a game plan to combat the issues through cleansing, diet, exercise, and
nutrition

SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR FOOD

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:34:14 -0700

Solution #1: Start Eating Raw/Organic – If you don’t do anything else on this list, I
highly advise you to eat more organic food and support the organic community. There are
numerous organic farmers markets and stores around the world that sell organic foods
and products. When you goto these stores look for 2 stickers or labels. The first label is
the USDA green sticker. This label means that the food or product is made up of almost
entirely organic ingredients and/or is grown on an organic farm. No man made chemicals
ever touch the produce. No preservatives, no pesticides, and no additives are used. If it
doesn’t have this logo on it then it is NOT organic and is not any better than the food you
get at the supermarkets. The second sticker is on fruits and vegetables. There is a number
on these stickers. If it starts with a “9″…it’s organic. If it starts with a “4″, it’s not. If it
starts with an “8″, it’s genetically modified. Another rule is the total count of digits in the
number. 4 digits for non-organic and 5 digits for organic and genetically modified. Only
eat the ones with 5 digits that start with a “9”. You wont find many of these if any at all at
most standard grocers. You may have to goto a local farmers market or a place like
Whole Foods or Sprouts. The word NATURAL does NOT mean organic. Natural
generally means that the company creating the product is too cheap to use real organic
products so instead they substitute the would be organic ingredients with artificial man
made substitutes that may or may not contain ingredients from natural sources. Confused
yet? Well, that is the point. If the consumer is confused then they wont notice that their
food is not organic. When buying food go for raw and organically grown. If
organically grown is not available then look for locally grown. Locally grown food will
have less preservatives if any at all then regular fruits and vegetables since they dont have
to travel. Again, avoid the word Natural as it is just a word that is used to trick the consumer.

Solution #2: Replace your milk with USDA Organic milk or Soy - Organic dairy farms DO NOT inject their cows with antibiotics, growth hormones, or any other toxic chemical. The cows
also graze in open organic pastures where they can frolic in uber-healthy-land. This is your
food! Don't let it deteriorate. Organic tastes better and last months before it actually goes bad. An even better solution is SOY milk since it has more protein. Soy milk should be used especially if you have any digestive problems or any sensitivity to dairy.

Solution #4: Start reading the ingredients list– Start reading the ingredient lists of the food you are eating. At first this will seem a bit overwhelming as you wont know what half the
stuff is but after doing it for a while and continuing to educate your self about food, you will
see through the label and understand whether it is good for you or not. If you have any doubts then just stick with the USDA Organic labeled items. If you cant pronounce the ingrdients you shouldnt be eating them.

Solution #5: Replace your coffee and soda with tea – Try putting a nail in a glass of soda
and let it sit for a few days. The nail will completely dissolve! Regarding the PH balance of
soda. It is 2.0. Battery acid is 1.0 and water is about 6.5-7. An ideal and balanced PH level is
around 7+. Soda is very unhealthy. If you must drink soda, buy organic soda with organic
cane sugar. As for the type of tea to drink? I personally enjoy any of the following:
Kombucha, Yerbe Matte, Green Tea, Black Tea or any of the major Asian teas cold or hot.
Again, just look for teas with the USDA Organic logo printed on them. Tea without sugar is
far more healthier than Tea with sugar. Remember, too much sugar is one of the major
reasons people develop diabetes. Watch your sugar intake.

Solution #6: Stop eating “hot button” labels – like any product with labels stating "diet",
"fat-free", "no trans fat", "sugar free", "low carbs", etc... these products are loaded with
artificial chemical replacements that aren't good for you.

Solution #7: Avoid pastuerized and homogonized dairy products - Homogenization and
pasteurization destroy most of the living active nutrients found in dairy and juices. If you
drink a lot of juice look for unpasteurized and NOT from concentrate.

Solution #8: Eat raw organic uncooked nuts, not roasted – Avoid pasteurized and/or
heat treated nuts or seeds. Pasteurization of nuts and seeds can destroy active enzymes
and diminish the vitamin content of food. Roasted salty nuts that you find in the grocery store are about as healthy as eating potato chips. Also note that in the USA, Almonds are
usually pasteurizated. If you want to eat almonds, look for “Truly Raw” almonds. I
believe also that most cashews fall under this category as well.

Solution #9: If it sounds like a chemical, avoid it - you should be able to at least read the
ingredients list. If it doesn’t come from nature don’t put it in your mouth nor put it on your
skin. This goes for soaps, lotions, shampoos, deodorants, lip balm, makeup, etc...

Solution #10: Avoid diet drinks and fake sugars – dont eat high fructrose corn syrup,
dextrose, multidextrine, msg/monosodiumglutamate, nutrisweet, or apertame. Diet drinks are
packed with these chemicals. The diet drinks are actually worse for you than the regular
sodas. If you need sugar, use organic cane sugar. Its delicious!

Solution #11: Stop or reduce your Fast Food eating – I probably dont have to tell you why. If you must have fast food, move to healthier choices like soup and salad restaurants or delis or sandwich shops.

Solution #12: Limit your usage of the microwave - microwaves kill essential nutrients and
alter the molecular structure of your food.

Solution #13: Steam when possible – steam your vegetables and/or fruits instead of boiling
or cooking. It helps preserve essential nutrients.

Solution #14: use sea salt instead of regular salt

Solution #15: if you love chocolate, eat organic dark chocolate instead

Solution #16: replace white processed flour with whole grain flour.

Solution #17: Stay away from energy bars, diet drinks, and weight loss drinks. - They all
contain unhealthy chemicals.

Solution #18: eat lots of healthy snacks – raw nuts, raw seeds, organic fruits and vegetables

Solution #19: take a "whole food" supplement - NOT vitamin supplements ( vitamin
supplements use synthetic drugs since they are cheaper to make). Check out your local health
food store or visit iherb.com for a large selection of "Whole Food Supplement" items.

Solution #20: take herbal supplements and/or homeopathic medicine to address your
symptoms. There are homepathic medinces for headaches, stomach aches, heartburn, aches
and pains, cold and flu, etc...

Solution #21: Plant a garden or a fruit tree – now obviously this solution is a time
consumer but it would definitley be nice to have my own grapefruit tree.

Solution #22: Cook more – there are countless websites and books about organic and raw
food cooking. Pick up a few of them.

Solution #23: Move toward an all organic and/or all organic raw food diet – Some people are able to jump right into this. Others may take years to slowly move into it. The more you educate your self about food and your body, the more you will understand the benefits of
organic and/or raw foods.

PH EXPLAINED: ALKALINE Vs. ACIDIC

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:23:26 -0700

Human blood pH should be slightly alkaline ( 7.35 - 7.45 ). Below or above this range means
symptoms and disease. A pH of 7.0 is neutral. A pH below 7.0 is acidic. A pH above 7.0 is
alkaline. An acidic pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload,
and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals. If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur. An acidic balance will: decrease the body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it's ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it's ability to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness. A blood pH of 6.9, which is only slightly acidic, can induce coma and death. To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods. To restore health from sickness/disease, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.

Table: pH scale of alkaline and acid forming foods

Healthy Alkaline Foods
- Eat lots of them!

Vegetables
Alfalfa Grass +29.3
Asparagus +1.3
Barley Grass +28.1
Brussels Sprouts +0.5
Cabbage Lettuce, Fresh +14.1
Cauliflower +3.1
Cayenne Pepper +18.8
Celery +13.3
Chives +8.3
Comfrey +1.5
Cucumber, Fresh +31.5
Dandelion +22.7
Dog Grass +22.6
Endive, Fresh +14.5
French Cut Green Beans +11.2
Garlic +13.2
Green Cabbage December Harvest +4.0
Green Cabbage, March Harvest +2.0
Kamut Grass +27.6
Lamb's Lettuce +4.8
Leeks (Bulbs) +7.2
Lettuce +2.2
Onion +3.0
Peas, Fresh +5.1
Peas, Ripe +0.5
Red Cabbage +6.3
Rhubarb Stalks +6.3
Savoy Cabbage +4.5
Shave Grass +21.7
Sorrel +11.5
Soy Sprouts +29.5
Spinach (Other Than March) +13.1
Spinach, March Harvest +8.0
Sprouted Chia Seeds +28.5
Sprouted Radish Seeds +28.4
Straw Grass +21.4
Watercress +7.7
Wheat Grass +33.8
White Cabbage +3.3
Zucchini +5.7

Root Vegetables
Beet +11.3
Carrot +9.5
Horseradish +6.8
Kohlrabi +5.1
Potatoes +2.0
Red Radish +16.7
Rutabaga +3.1
Summer Black Radish +39.4
Turnip +8.0
White Radish (Spring) +3.1

Fruits
Avocado (Protein) +15.6
Fresh Lemon +9.9
Limes +8.2
Tomato +13.6

Non-Stored Organic Grains And Legumes
Buckwheat Groats +0.5
Granulated Soy (Cooked Ground Soy Beans) +12.8
Lentils +0.6
Lima Beans +12.0
Soy Flour +2.5
Soy Lecithin (Pure) +38.0
Soy Nuts (soaked Soy Beans, Then Air Dried) +26.5
Soybeans, Fresh +12.0
Spelt +0.5
Tofu +3.2
White Beans (Navy Beans) +12.1

Nuts
Almonds +3.6
Brazil Nuts +0.5

Seeds
Caraway Seeds +2.3
Cumin Seeds +1.1
Fennel Seeds +1.3
Flax Seeds +1.3
Pumpkin Seeds +5.6
Sesame Seeds +0.5
Sunflower Seeds +5.4
Wheat Kernel +11.4

Fats (Fresh, Cold-Pressed Oils)
Borage Oil +3.2
Evening Primrose Oil +4.1
Flax Seed Oil +3.5
Marine Lipids +4.7
Olive Oil +1.0

ALKALIZING MINERALS
Calcium: pH 12
Cesium: pH 14
Magnesium: pH 9
Potassium: pH 14
Sodium: pH 14

Foods you should only
consume moderately

Fruits
(In Season, For Cleansing Only Or With Moderation)
Apricot -9.5
Bananna, Ripe -10.1
Bananna, Unripe +4.8
Black Currant -6.1
Blueberry -5.3
Cantaloupe -2.5
Cherry, Sour +3.5
Cherry, Sweet -3.6
Coconut, Fresh +0.5
Cranberry -7.0
Currant -8.2
Date -4.7
Fig Juice Powder -2.4
Gooseberry, Ripe -7.7
Grape, Ripe -7.6
Grapefruit -1.7
Italian Plum -4.9
Mandarin Orange -11.5
Mango -8.7
Orange -9.2
Papaya -9.4
Peach -9.7
Pear -9.9
Pineapple -12.6
Rasberry -5.1
Red Currant -2.4
Rose Hips -15.5
Strawberry -5.4
Tangerine -8.5
Watermelon -1.0
Yellow Plum -4.9

Non-Stored Grains
Brown Rice -12.5
Wheat -10.1

Nuts
Hazelnuts -2.0
Macadamia Nuts -3.2
Walnuts -8.0

Fish
Fresh Water Fish -11.8

Fats
Coconut Milk -1.5
Sunflower Oil -6.7

Unhealthy Acidic Foods
- Try to avoid them!

Meat, Poultry, And Fish
Beef -34.5
Chicken (to -22) -18.0
Eggs (to -22)
Liver -3.0
Ocean Fish -20.0
Organ Meats -3.0
Oysters -5.0
Pork -38.0
Veal -35.0

Milk And Milk Products
Buttermilk +1.3
Cream -3.9
Hard Cheese -18.1
Homogenized Milk -1.0
Quark -17.3

Bread, Biscuits (Stored Grains/Risen Dough)
Rye Bread -2.5
White Biscuit -6.5
White Bread -10.0
Whole-Grain Bread -4.5
Whole-Meal Bread -6.5

Nuts
Cashews -9.3
Peanuts -12.8
Pistachios -16.6

Fats
Butter -3.9
Corn Oil -6.5
Margarine -7.5

Sweets
Artificial Sweetners -26.5
Barley Malt Syrup -9.3
Beet Sugar -15.1
Brown Rice Syrup -8.7
Chocolate -24.6
Dr. Bronner's Barley
Dried Sugar Cane Juice -18.0
Fructose -9.5
Honey -7.6
Malt Sweetner -9.8
Milk Sugar -9.4
Molasses -14.6
Turbinado Sugar -9.5
White Sugar -17.6

Condiments
Ketchup -12.4
Mayonaise -12.5
Mustard -19.2
Soy Sauce -36.2
Vinegar -39.4

Beverages
Beer -26.8
Coffee -25.1
Fruit Juice Sweetened With
Fruit Juice, Packaged, Natural -8.7
Liquor -38.7
Tea (Black) -27.1
White Sugar -33.6
Wine -16.4

Miscellaneous
Canned Foods
Microwaved Foods
Processed Foods

SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR HEALTH

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:01:24 -0700

The following solutions can benefit your health and well-being and increase your energy
levels. Supporting some of these solutions will also help in reducing the problems within the
Health Industry and within society. When you start to feel great, eat great, and enjoy life, this
spreads to others and they will ask you about the things you have done. As you share your
knowledge, this cycle repeats itself until all the problems in the society relating to health
disappear. So start now and spread these solutions to others.

You don’t have to do all these items at once but I highly recommend doing as many as you
can…

Solution #1: Avoid the latest fad in diets - look into pursuing a healthy lifestyle. Stop
chasing a dreamy commercial ad or magazine cover. Many fad diets starve your body of
essential nutrients which can make things worse. Instead follow the “solutions for your food”
section later in this chapter. A healthy diet will bring your body to a healthy weight, will
remove excess fat, and promote healthy muscle growth.

Solution #2: Start seeing a homeopathic or naturopathic doctor - explain to them any health concerns you have. These doctors will help heal your body from the inside out and can
provide thorough recommendations on how to correct your health issues naturally. Many of
them can also perform tests to determine any nutritional deficiencies and/or metal toxicities
that you have in your system.

Solution #3: Find Some Enjoyable Exercise – we aren’t meant to sit in front of computers
and tvs all day. Your body needs stimulation. If you don’t like to exercise, you can still come
up with fun activities to participate in. If you bounce on a large trampoline for 5 minutes a
day, this can help stimulate all your major organs including your heart rate. Other fun
activiies could include hiking, or climbing, mountain biking, buying the Nintendo WII Fitness program or the Xbox drumkit for Rockband, or a even a real drumkit, or dancing,
swimming, or rollerblading.

Solution #4: Do more walking, drive less – The average US citizen only walks 1/10th
of a mile a day. Take the stairs, park your car further away from the entrances. If you are going down the street, walk instead of drive. Driving your car is stressful for your body as it makes your body tense in high traffic. Ride a bike or walk when you can.

Solution #5: Learn about PH – PH is a ratio that determines whether an item or environment
is acidic or alkaline. Disease can not survive in an alkaline state. Learn about how to balance
the PH level of your body through diet and nutrition. Many books are available at your local
book store on the subject. Add the end of tis section, we will also give a summary of how PH
functions.

Solution #6: Take more deep breaths – This calms your system and allows it to function
better. You don’t have to do yoga or meditate daily but when stressed out at home or at work
just take deep breaths and close your eyes for a minute or so.

Solution #7: Reduce/Eliminate drug intake (when possible) – antibiotics, anti-
inflammatories, and other prescription and non-prescription drugs should be considered last
resort. If you visit a doctor in many other countries, this practice is common. The healthier
you make your body through good food intake and exercise, the less likely you will need
these drugs. Also, if you smoke cigarettes or take any narcotics, quit.

Solution #8: Filter your Water – they make water filters for your faucets, your shower, and
even for your whole house . Check http://www.consumersearch.com/ for some reviews on
various products.

Solution #9: Filter your Breathing Air – Look into getting a Hepa air filter either for your
bedroom or for your whole house. Also, if you work in an office, get a small one for your
desk. These filters eliminate 99.9% of allergens, bacteria, and other contaminants that might
be floating around in the air and can be an additional and very effective wall of defense for
you immune system. Also, get the air vents in your house cleaned at least once a year and
make sure you have a good clean filter in your HVAC system.

Solution #10: Wash your Hands – You don’t have to be a neat freak about it. Just remember to wash your hands before leaving the bathroom and wash your hands before you eat.

Solution #11: Get some sun – Sun is good for your body and your skin. 20 minutes a day in
direct sunlight with no sunglasses and no sun tan lotion is plenty but some is always better
than none. Remember anything you put on your skin absorbs into your blood stream in 8
seconds. Be wary of what you place on your skin.

Solution #12: Smile more – Smile, laugh, be thankful, think positive, speak positive, look at
the bright side. You don’t have to believe in Karma or go all religious on me but happy
people are always more fun than a negative Nancy.

Solution #13: Add some Plants – Add some live plants to the décor of your house and your
bedroom. Plants take in the air that you breathe out and expel oxygen for you.

Solution #14: Replace air fresheners – If you use air fresheners in your home or car, replace them with natural remedies like citrus oil or aromatheraoy products or something similar. You want to avoid the aerosols and avoid as much as possible any unnecessary chemicals in your breathing air.

Solution #15: Get more Sleep, but not too much – Your body heals itself while you are
sleeping. The ideal hours of sleep per night is 8, no more and no less. The ideal time to sleep
is 10pm-6am. Obviously, not everyone can fit into this schedule but if you are only sleeping
6 hours a night, trust me, it will catch up to you eventually.Solution #16: Replace your alarm clock – Abrupt piercing alarm clocks disrupt and shock your system. This is one of the main reasons people feel tired in the morning. There are alarm clocks available called “Progressive Alarm Clocks”. Some work by slowly lighting the room, other work by slowly increasing the volume of the alarm. They even make watches that monitor your heart rate and wake you up at the appropriate time. This is a far better investment than a trip to Starbucks.

Solution #17: Limit exposure to News and TV Commercials – If you haven’t noticed,
almost all news on TV and in newspapers is always about some tragic event or some
frightening situation. Just turn it off and tune it out. There is no need to sit through 30
minutes of “Oh my… wow… I cant believe it! Whats going to happen next?” Use that time
instead to read a book. As for television, every other commercial is a commercial for a “drug
that cures all your problems”. I don’t know about you but I don’t really enjoy willingly
sitting through 30-60 second sales pitches for products I don’t need.

Solution #18: Reduce debts – Come up with a plan to reduce your debt. Debt leads to stress and stress leads to disease. You don’t need those fancy shoes or that brand new car. Instead invest in your self and invest in your health.

Solution #19: Get a Massage – A good massage therapist will find knots in your muscles and
will push them out. If you work on a computer a lot you can probably feel the knots behind
your right should blade. A massage therapist can clear these out for you. Women generally
need more work done around their neck area while men tend to need it more in their lower
back and shoulders.

Solution #20: Stand up and Stretch – Stretch your muscles. Get up and move around. It
promotes positive blood flow.

Solution #21: Morning Glass of Water – When you wake up in the morning drink a large
glass of water as the first thing you do. Your body is most likely a bit dehydrated from not
eating or drinking all night so replenish it first thing in the morning with some water and do
not skip breakfast.

Solution #22: Write down your Goals – Writing down your ideas and your goals then
mapping them out and completing them like a checklist is very satisfying. This is good for
your well being and will provide much more happiness to your life.

Solution #23: Create a Library – Buy books and start building a healthy library of
information. It doesn’t matter what you read about. Try to learn something new each day.
Many older people will live long lives because they keep their minds active and continue to
do daily critical thinking about different subjects. Start learning about your body, your food,
your medicine, and everything around you and take action to live a healthy lifestyle through
educating your mind.

PROBLEMS WITHIN THE HEALTH INDUSTRY

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:47:01 -0700

The U.S. spends more per person on health care than does any other country – but fewer
people receive care on average than in any other country in the world. All of this is the
result of the fact that the medical system in this country is organized first of all to provide
profit, not care.

The deadly results are shown in a recent study carried out by the Institute of Medicine, an
organization of experts advising Congress on medical questions. They reported that more
than 18,000 adults die each year because they are uninsured and can't get proper health
care.

PROBLEM #1: Medical insurance for profit - At the center of the U.S. medical care
system is the insurance industry, which is dominated by for-profit insurance companies that administer the financial parts of the system. While there still is a part of the medical
insurance industry in the non-profit Blue Cross system, that portion continues to shrink.
Today, the non-profits cover less than 27 per cent of the insured. Not only is the health
insurance industry today dominated by for-profit companies, it's dominated by only five
companies, which cover 40 per cent of the insured. Such tremendous concentration has
made it easier for the insurance industry to increase premiums at a rate that is going up
much faster than is the cost of providing medical care, a cost which also increases out-
rageously.

PROBLEM #2: Hospitals for Profit - Six years ago, one fifth of all hospitals were for
profit. Today, a recent study, whose results were published in the New England Journal
of Medicine, found that for-profit hospitals are always more expensive than public or
non-profit hospitals. And they also tend to provide less care. Besides that, they don't usu-
ally provide extremely important medical services such as burn treatment, spinal cord in-
jury treatment, AIDs treatment, and neonatal intensive care, since these community ser-
vices generate little net revenue and are often operated at a loss. Private for-profit hospit-
als also provide almost no care for people who cannot pay.
Said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard and the co-au-
thor of the study, "It's a myth that for-profit hospitals are efficient. They save money by
laying off nurses, then hire consultants and bureaucrats to figure out how to avoid un-
profitable patients and maximize revenues. For-profits increase costs, decrease care and
generate windfall profits like the $359 million pocketed by Rick Scott [the CEO] of
Columbia/HCA [the biggest for-profit company]."
A study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that patients at for-profit hos-
pitals are two to four times more likely than patients at not-for-profit hospitals to suffer
complications from surgery or delays in diagnosing and treating an illness. In fact, the
only thing these hospitals are good at is generating profits that are often four to five times
greater than the surpluses generated by non-profit or public hospitals.

PROBLEM #3: Pharmaceutical industry for Profit - Drug costs are consuming an ever
larger part of spending on medical care. In 1993, prescription drugs made up 5.6 per cent
of all health care spending. It rose to 8.0 per cent in 1998. It has risen even faster in the
last five years. This increase is one of the reasons that the elderly pay a larger share of
their income today for health care than they spent before the advent of Medicare in 1965.
The giant pharmaceuticals may justify these rapidly increasing costs by saying that the
money goes to fund research and development of new drugs. But, in fact, only about 10
to 15 per cent of what these companies take in actually goes to what they call research
and development. Most of the rest goes to big marketing campaigns, administrative costs
– especially the high salaries and bonuses of the executives – or to profits. Pharmaceutic-
al companies regularly earn profits at rates that are three times higher than companies in
all other industries. It's not research but profit that has driven drug prices into the strato-
sphere.

PROBLEM #4: Bureaucracy and waste - The very structure of the health care industry,
which is organized around the production of profits, is incredibly fragmented, bureaucrat-
ic and inefficient. There are multitudes of private insurance plans, public programs and
no programs at all for the uninsured. Enormous staff are needed to create and revise pro-
vider plans, then administer them. There is a whole bureaucracy whose work is aimed at
keeping sick patients out of hospital beds and sick patients away from doctors. Armies of
administrators are used by hospitals to try to squeeze payments from insurance compan-
ies, and at insurance companies, armies of administrators do the reverse. And they both
are busy trying to squeeze down the prices they pay to the pharmaceutical companies.
Rather than work together, the administrators from one sector of the medical care system
are constantly at war with administrators from other sectors, wrestling over who keeps
each health care dollar.

Over the last 30 years, as the health care industry has become a more and more important
provider of profits, this bureaucracy has mushroomed, increasing in size 25 times! It
grew at a rate that was 10 times faster than the number of people who actually provide
health care and make the health system run, from doctors and nurses to technicians and
janitors. Last year, administrative expenses accounted for 400 billion dollars, or more
than 25 per cent of all health care costs. If the administrative costs were reduced to the
level of Canada, which has a single payer system of medical care, more than 286 billion
dollars would be saved. This is enough money to extend health care coverage to the unin-
sured – and better coverage to the rest of the population.

The fact that profit dominates the health care industry is what has been pricing health
care increasingly out of reach of people with ordinary incomes. According to Hewitt As-
sociates, a benefits consulting company, the annual out-of-pocket costs for employees of
large companies have more than doubled over the last five years to an average of $2126,
with bigger increases projected in the years to come. Part of this is due to the rising prices
that the health industry charges. But it is also due to the fact that companies large and
small are increasingly shifting the burden of these costs onto their employees.
Nowhere is the parasitic nature of capitalism more clear than in the very profitable health
care industry in this country.

PROBLEMS WTH VACCINES/SHOTS:

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:45:45 -0700

A vaccine is a biological preparation that establishes or improves immunity to a particular disease or virus. The purpose of a vaccine is to prevent a future dangerous infection of a virus by providing your body with immunity to the virus itself. A vaccine is actually a smaller less violent version of the original virus. You are injected with the engineered virus that your immune system is able to destroy. This process generally works because your immune system remembers how to destroy that type of virus and is able to fight off the original virus in the future. Vaccines do not cure you if you are already infected. They are only a preventative method and are usually used to prevent pandemics through what is called “herd immunity” (providing millions of people with vaccines or flu shots). Vaccines do not guarantee complete protection from a disease. Sometimes this is because the host's immune system simply doesn't respond adequately or at all or because the host's immune system does not have a B cell capable of generating antibodies to fight that antigen. Every human body is different and will react accordingly. Some people may have side effects and some may die due to the vaccine itself. Some religious groups do not allow vaccination as it is against their beliefs, and some political groups oppose mandatory vaccination on the grounds of individual liberty.

PROBLEMS WITH ANTIVIRALS/DRUGS:

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:43:11 -0700

Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections.
These are generally what you would consider prescription drugs as well as some over-
the-counter drugs. Antiviral drugs do not actually kill the virus, they only stall their
development and prevent the virus from completing a full blown infection of the host
(human body and its cells). This is a major concern and is the number one reason why
doctors will state “there is no cure for what you have”. This is partially true. What it
really means is that, “we do not have a drug available for you to take that will kill or
destroy the virus. We only have a drug available that you must take on a recurring basis forever to constantly contain the virus and prevent it from rising into a full blown infection again.” Also, a virus strain will eventually mutate and become immune to antiviral drugs. This is called drug resistance and some state that this time frame is about 10-15 years. As you can imagine this might put a nasty strain on your immune system over time. This is generally why many diseased or virus infected people might die a slow death. The antiviral drugs that have been successfully postponing the development of the virus into a full blown infection eventually wear off and the virus mutates over time and eventually becomes resistant to the drug's effect. In summary, antiviral drugs do a successful job in hindering the virus from spreading, albeit temporarily, but eventually the virus will win in the long run. Most doctors and patients fail to realize this information before its too late. The only solution to this problem would be to come up with a game plan to fight the virus itself before the antiviral drugs lose their effect.

HOW YOUR BODY FIGHTS INFECTIONS

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:36:29 -0700

The immune system is our body's defense system against infections and diseases. Organs,
tissues, cells, and cell products work together to respond quickly to dangerous organisms
(like viruses and bacteria). There are three types of response systems in the immune system:
the anatomic response, the inflammatory response, and the immune response.

Anatomic Response: This system physically prevents threatening substances from entering your body much like a brick wall protecting your house. Examples of the anatomic system include your mucous membranes (at the nostrils, the lips, the ears, the genital area, and the anus). Another easily understandable example is your skin. This is usually your body's first line of defense in preventing infection from a virus or bacteria. You wont really ever notice this system at work since it is constantly active and protects you from most bacteria and/or virus'.

Inflammatory Response: If bacteria or a virus gets past the physical system, the inflammatory system kicks in to overdrive by excreting or attempting to expel the invaders from your body. Sneezing, runny noses, fever, and swelling are examples of the inflammatory system at work. They work by trying to push the evil bacteria or bad virus out of your system like a fire hydrant popping open. It may also try to kill or isolate the bacteria or virus. An example of this is a fever. Your body raises its temperature in order to kill the bacteria in your body by overheating it. The purpose of swelling is your body isolating the bacteria or virus from reaching other parts of your body. While you may not feel well while these events are occurring, your body is actually fighting illness during these process' and it is generally a good sign of recovery.

Immune Response: This is the central part of the immune system and is made up of white blood cells, which fight infection by swimming through your blood stream and gobbling up antigens. Antigens are the parts and pieces that make up bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms that your body doesn't want in it. Antigens are the enemy in this war. Antigens include unwanted coats, capsules, cell walls, flagella, fimbrae, and toxins. About a quarter of white blood cells, called the lymphocytes, migrate to the lymph nodes (little war pods) and produce antibodies. Antibodies are like soldiers with swords ready to combat disease by attaching themselves to the antigens (toxins) in your bloodstream and destroying them.

When dealing with your health and dealing with an infection or a sickness you will generally
only be dealing with the “Inflammatory Response System” and the core “Immune Response
System”. Consider this fight a war with the enemy much like a war between countries or a
war between the feeble and the bully. Controlling your inflammatory response system will, at
a basic level, only address your symptoms. Most over-the-counter and prescription drugs
only address the symptoms created by the inflammatory response system. They might
eliminate your sneeze or they might reduce your fever but the problem with this is that you
have now cutoff one of your bodies defense systems and your last defense (immune response
system) must then go into hyper-drive because you just took a pill that is now tying up the hands of one of its strongest allies. These drugs don't address the root of the problem. They
only hinder and prevent your body from healing itself from within. If you really want to rid
of a disease, a virus, or a tricky bacteria, the immune response system is what you are going
to need to assist, not the inflammatory response system. You should only need to counter the
inflammatory response system if it gets out of control such as a high fever or excessive
swelling or excessive coughing that is affecting your ability to breath or affecting other
essential organs from functioning normally. Coughing, sneezing, and fevers are essential to
your body’s heeling process as they help rid of bacteria and viruses. If you properly assist
your immune response system with the appropriate strategy for your condition, the symptoms
will surely go away and the inflammatory response system will subside as your body heals
itself. When your dealing with a chronic or persistent condition your Immune Response
System is going to need some help in building up its army. Remember this is a war against
your health and well being. The proper strategy is what determines who comes out on top in
the end. You vs. the Virus.

MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING. You can easily use nothing more
than food and herbs to help build your proper immune system army, however, you MUST
determine what type of bacteria or virus you are infected with. This is because certain viruses
may be immune to certain antibodies that your immune response system is generating. If you
build up your army with the wrong type of soldiers eventually you will have a large number
of angry, tired, and exhausted soldiers. Eventually, these excessive antibodies (soldiers) will
turn on you and start harming the wrong cells. Its like you sent in the marines on foot to
battle a warship. IT IS DIRELY IMPORTANT to understand that certain foods and certain
herbs help to build certain armies. Knowing which armies you need to build is essential to the
successful butt kicking of the nasty enemy bacteria or virus'. The easiest example of how
building the wrong army can harm you is the Allergy. Allergies are antigens (evil enemies)
that may enter your system either through eating, drinking, breathing, or any other means of
entry. Your body is hypersensitive to the allergen meaning it gets really pissed off when the
allergen enters its turf. Your body in return overreacts to the the allergen and a huge
unnecessary army is built up in your system very quickly. At this point if you don't take
urgent action against your out of control army, this army may start destroying your system
from within and possibly even killing you in the process either by quick inflammation or by
slow deterioration through disease. This is why some people are able to survive cancer and
others are not. The ones who survived had the proper battle plan addressing the concerns of
their own body while the others unfortunately did not. Again, remember it is a war against
your health and well being.

The New MacrodotMusic.com... Web 2.0 Style.

kyle@macrodotmusic.com — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:29:10 -0700

So I've finally gotten around to making my website more Web 2.0 style. I've used the CakePHP framework to help build my new site. Im adding a new blog which will cover more than just music aptly entitled MACRODOT THOUGHTS. I will be able to easily keep my music releases, shows, and social information all up to date and in sync with a few clicks. Enjoy the new site.