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Milk Campaign That Made Me Sick to My Stomach

February 5th, 2010

I have nothing wrong with someone working hard to make a good living and I respect all the hard work that farmers put into their jobs.

But…

I can’t stand when “associations” or “lobbyists” of farmers spend millions of dollars marketing GARBAGE to our youth about the supposed benefits of their product.

The most recent example is a campaign of TV milk commercials developed and paid for by the Prairie Milk Marketing Partnership (PMMP) – that’s a subtle name – touting the benefits of NEVER STOPPING DRINKING MILK!

It’s absolutely absurd.

These milk ads have been specifically targeted toward teenagers, predominantly girls, based on the TV shows during which they air. The sad part is that milk-pushing organizations like the PMMP are marketing bad messages and essentially brainwashing people who don’t know better.

As a result, these youngsters grow up believing a lie – that daily consumption of cow’s milk is actually good for us!

Nothing could be further from the truth.

To show you some of the nonsense that these ads and the website are dispelling, I’ve copied an image from the NeverStopMilk.ca website.

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Just in case you can’t read the so-called FACTS ABOUT MILK that this campaign is promoting, here they are listed again. I’ve also added my commentary after each of these “facts”.

The calcium in milk can actually help you lose weight by encouraging your body to use fat as a source of energy.

=> What on earth does that even mean? How does that make sense? I’m not sure how calcium helps you burn more fat? Try exercising a little.

Feeling tired? Milk can give you an energy boost!

=> How?

Milk can make you glow (but not in the dark). Drinking milk brightens your smile and keeps your eyes bright, and the proteins in milk help your hair shine and build stronger teeth.

=> I can’t believe they’re actually allowed to make these claims!

Milk makes you strong. The proteins in milk help to build your muscles.

=> Ah, the oldest trick in the book. This is the one statement that has led millions to believe that we should drink milk.

Milk is natural and contains 16 essential nutrients that nourish your entire body. Drink daily!

=> Opium is natural too. Most foods contain 16 essential nutrients (and even more). But let’s not forget to drink milk EVERY day.

Milk builds strong bones. By the age of 20, 90% of your bone mass will be built. 90 percent!

=> Milk doesn’t build strong bones. If it did, would countries that drink the most milk also have the highest rates of osteoporosis?

Can’t sleep? Warm milk can help you get your zzzzz’s.

=> There are other ways of getting the relaxing mineral – magnesium – into your body before bed. Plus, dairy has been associated with nightmares and increased incidence of bedwetting – mainly because it’s an allergenic food.

What’s My Beef with Milk?

Now, reading this you might be wondering why I keep bashing milk. After all, I totally dismantle it in my book, Eating for Energy, as well as in several other posts on this blog.

The truth is that I don’t have a HUGE  issue with cow’s milk itself. I just don’t believe that it does our body good. Once you understand the science of milk and how it interacts with the human body, it just doesn’t make much sense to drink it – certainly not every day.

At the very least, if you drink cow’s milk, make sure it’s raw.

My real issue is with the MONEY-HUNGRY ORGANIZATIONS that are pushing incorrect information on the masses.

What’s been happening is really a mass brainwashing of society into truly believing that milk is good for us. But hey that’s the power of “credibility” and “social proof” – we’ll save these powerful marketing concepts for another post.

In this most recent milk campaign, the PMMP, which includes the 1188 dairy farmers represented by Dairy Farmers of Manitoba, Dairy Farmers of Saskatchewan Inc. and Alberta Milk, is obviously reinforcing this message yet again…

Never stop drinking milk!

That’s pretty powerful.

My hope for you is that these kind of campaigns make you sit up and think. Because it’s only through education and awareness that we can begin to make change.

How about this one…

Think before you drink???

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Eating for Energy Review – 5 New Successes

January 28th, 2010

book_cover_webHere are 5 recent Eating for Energy reviews from some of our happy readers…

“Yuri, your book really helped me understand WHY I was doing some of what I had decided to do. That made it a lot easier to follow through! Also, I like the balance of your advice, including that one doesn’t have to follow 100% of the diet 100% of the time. Balance is very important, imo!

Thanks so much for your help Yuri!”

- Pamela Houck

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“The numerous healthy and delicious recipies in Eating for Energy have greatly helped me get in better shape. I exercise often, but found it difficult to find enough healthy food options to add to my diet until I consulted Eating for Energy. Also, learning about digestive enzymes and probiotics was helpful. I never used to take digestive enzymes or probiotics, but now I take probiotics every night and digestive enzymes after heavy meals. I’ve noticed a great improvement in my digestion and consistency in my bowel movements. The smoothie recipies are my favorite part of the book. I found that smoothies are the best way for me to incorporate vegetables into my diet, which I rarely used to do. Thanks for all the great information Yuri.”

- Nehal Shah

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“One thing I really love is to see you have organized the 12 weeks meal plans for someone like me who want to change to eat raw food with lot of energy….this made me very happy customer because I had challenge in putting the meals together for each week. This is a good starting basic foundation for me to develop a way of Eating for Energy until I learn to do on my own meal plan. I love to see the layout for each week meals that save me time to organize them…. and I love the way the food taste that make my body happy especially Mariana Sauce for Zucchini as pasta. The things you have written made perfect sense about the relationship with food and body actually save my time to figure out in term of which food to buy healthy food. Thank you Yuri! You know your stuff! : )

- Robyn Brooks

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“Love the recipies , still working towards my 80 percent raw diet, but already over all big improvement, even my family notice the leaness of my body. Noticable skin approvement, not bad for a 48 yr old. Thumbs up.”

- Sam Farmer

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“Hi Yuri, the facts speak for themselves! Since purchasing Eating for Energy less than 2 months ago I have subscribed to your program and not only lost 5 kgs but I am now at my lowest weight in 20 years and have the energy levels of a 20 yo!! (I’m 41).

The great thing about Eating for Energy is that the recipes are so simple and incredibly tasty – I certainly don’t feel like I am missing out on any food experiences. In fact, I am appreciating the flavours in my food more than ever!

I’d always known which foods I should be eating more of but you’ve made it easy for me to finally do it through the variety of recipes and food ideas in your book.

Thank you so much Yuri – my family and I feel like we owe you so much! Best regards,”

- Geraint Gearon
Bangkok, Thailand

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17 Signs and Symptoms of an Acidic Body

January 22nd, 2010

Maintaining a slightly alkaline internal physiology is important for good health. Other than the stomach most fluids in the body should range between a pH of 6-8 (with 7 being the neutral point).

One of the most important tissues in our body – the blood – needs to be at a pH of 7.35-7.45 to function optimally. And by optimally that it is able to circulate freely to distribute oxygen and nutrients to our body’s cells.

However, if your blood (and body) is overly acidic, many bodily functions, including oxygen transport, become impaired.

But how do you know if you’re too acidic?

Well, for one, if you eat a lot of grains, animal products, and sugar, then your diet is already adding a hefty acid load into your body.

But there are also more signs and symptoms of an acidic body. Here are 17 more that you can check up on:

  1. A decrease in bone mass (ie osteopenia)
  2. Tendency to colds, headaches, sore throats, flus
  3. Hair loss or dry hair
  4. Weak and brittle nails
  5. Inflammation of tendons and cartilage, aches and pains
  6. Stiff muscles and joints
  7. Lower energy, fatigue and lethargy levels drop
  8. Increased irritability
  9. Increased free radical damage (using up antioxidants much faster)
  10. Weaker of absorption of vitamins and minerals from foods
  11. Impaired enzyme function
  12. Deficiency of alkalizing minerals like calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium
  13. Excess mucus, chronic infections
  14. Arthritic joint pain
  15. Gallstones, kidney stones
  16. Formation of cysts and abnormal cell growth
  17. Atherosclerosis and cardiovascular complications

As you can tell, an acidic body can cause a wide variety of issues. This list is not exhaustive by any means.

The important thing to remember is that acidosis effects EVERY level of your body. It does not discriminate. If you have any kind of ailment, there could be a deeper link to an overly body.

But the good news is that “fixing” yourself is pretty straightforward. The tough part is just doing it. Most people know what to do, but they just don’t do it.

To help you out, here are 4 ways of alkalizing your body to minimize your acid load:

  1. Maintain a primarily vegetarian diet.
  2. Add seaweeds to your diet – nori sheets, dulse powder added to soups, seaweed salads.
  3. Practice deep breathing or meditation on a daily basis as oxygen intake is alkalizing to the body.
  4. Use a “green superfood” powdered supplement like wheat grass, barley grass, or Greens+. Just add any of these to a glass of water and you’re golden.

As you can tell, maintaining the proper acid-alkaline balance within your body is important. Ideally, your diet should be 80 % alkaline and 20% acidic. Unfortunately, most people have it backwards.

If you need help alkalizing your body, then I’d suggest that you grab a copy of Eating for Energy.

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Food For Thought – Wild vs. Domestic Animal Diet

January 18th, 2010

A little food for thought for you today. Now, I talk about this topic in my book, Eating for Energy, but I thought I would bring it up here as well.

When explaining to people the benefits of eating more natural raw foods (as opposed to heavily process garbage) I often ask them to think about wild vs. domesticated animals.

I ask them…

“How many wild animals do you know of that suffer from obesity or any other ‘human-like’ disease?”

“Why is that so many of our domesticated cats and dogs are falling prey to the same conditions that plaguing humans (think diabetes, cancer, obesity, etc…)?”

It’s an idea that many people haven’t spent much time thinking about. But there is a very simple reason that animals, that are taken from the wild and domesticated, begin to demonstrate human-like diseases.

Look the crap they’re being fed. Actually, the owners are the ones to blame. I know many dog owners who feed their dogs donuts, pizza, and other horrific foods!

Come on people!

Where on this earth, since the beginning of time, have animals been able to access processed foods?

Try never.

In one of the best nutrition books that I’ve ever read, Enzyme Nutrition, Dr. Howell discusses several experiments in which the transition of wild animals to a domesticated diet has negative consequences.

In one experiment, wild dogs were taken off their primal raw diet and fed a domesticated “dead” food diet. Now, before this happened, wild dogs did not produce salivary enzymes (like amylase) because they did not need to. Their diet was already enzyme-rich because they ate “raw” flesh.

However, once the dogs began feeding on the domesticated food, they begin producing salivary enzymes within less than 24 hours!

It was their body’s way of compensating for a lack of natural living enzymes in the feed.

Now, this may not seem like a big deal but the problem is that each animal/human has a finite number of enzymes that their bodies can produce. Once this limit is reached, it’s good night Charlie.

That’s just one reason why it’s important to eat more raw foods – so you can spare your body’s inherent enzyme stores.

It’s also interesting to note that wild animals don’t cook their food.

We do.

Who seems to be healthier?

Animals also get more fresh air, exercise much more, and probably have a great social network than most humans.

Nonetheless, the fact remains that animals eat what’s right for their bodies. 95% of humans don’t.

We eat what food companies tell us to eat. Not because it’s good but because it’s what makes them the most money.

Just something to think about.

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FTC Ruling and New Eating for Energy Reviews

December 16th, 2009

book_cover_webI’ll get to the Eating for Energy reviews in a second but first…

On December 1, 2009 the FTC started a crack down mission on any online business making erroneous claims and doing fishy business. You’ve probably seen hundreds of these sites promoting the acai berry diet or how Jenny lost weight, right?

As a result of those kinds of spammy, illegitimate sites, businesses like mine have taken a low blow with regards to what we (or our clients) can say about what we offer.

Specifically, testimonials and reviews must now be come with a disclaimer as to the generally expected performance of a product.

With regards to Eating for Energy, how on earth am I supposed to know that? I know that in general, you’re going to improve your health, have more energy, and most likely lose weight if you follow the recommendations I make in the book.

But if the FTC is looking for more that that, I’m not sure what to say.

I receive so many incredible testimonials each week and to not display them to the world would only be a disservice to millions of potential people who could relate to these true stories. None of the reviews I post are fabricated or untrue. I post them verbatim from what these great clients of ours send me in their emails.

Here are 4 new reviews of Eating for Energy to show you what I mean

“There were many parts in your book that I enjoyed, but probably the most interesting for me was learning how our diet causes stress on our body.  When we think of stress we think of traffic jams, work, family arguments, etc – we tend to forget that what we put into our body can cause us even more stress - a dangerous combination if we’re already feeling stressed.

Thanks for writing it – it’s a great read!

Audra Starkey
Brisbane, Australia

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“In January 07, I was very sick….in and out or hospitals for months with Doctors doing test after test and finding nothing wrong. Eventually, the cancer specialist told me to start watching my body for signs of changes…lumps etc. She said that I had a fast growing cancer. I was sent home on a prescription of prednisone.

The problem started again the following year. Since I have read your “Eating for Energy” book, I feel fantastic. I have plenty of energy and no longer have aches and pains. I don’t feel like I am 100 years old anymore (I am 57yrs). My ph level is close to 7 whereas before I was very acidic due to chronic inflammation of the colon. I have never heard of an acid/alkaline level which should be maintained for optimum health. I have also lost weight….not a lot, because I have always kept my weight down but the last two or three kilos were impossible to lose until I started the raw food diet.

The doctors were looking for cancer because I had a massive dose of calcium leaching out of my bones which made me feel very sick and very weak also resulting in osteoporous. I had no idea that too much acid leaches calcium out of bones.

Yuri, if I had read your book in 2007, I would never have been so sick and would have resolved my problems without me having to use a walker because I did not have any strength left in my legs. I would not have put on so much weight because of the drug prednisone. The answer to my health was simple. Just eat lots of fruit and veges (raw). I still have to watch for foods that cause inflammation but I am on the right track now for a healthy body. Thank You Yuri for “Eating for Energy”!

My health is fine now and I feel wonderful and confident that I have at last resolved my health issues and I want to thank you for sharing your book with me. Regards,”

Frances Jeffs

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“Hi Yuri, thanks for this book – you have hit the right button on eating healthy. After 3 weeks I have more energy, experience a more positive attitude towards problems in life, realizing there is a solution for every problem, thinking twice before just eating that LOOKS nice. Thank you for opening our minds to realize what God already provide for us. Keep up the good work!”

Ursula Visser

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“Hi Yuri,The facts speak for themselves! Since purchasing Eating for Energy less than 2 months ago I have subscribed to your program and not only lost 5 kgs but I am now at my lowest weight in 20 years and have the energy levels of a 20 yo!! (I’m 41).

The great thing about Eating for Energy is that the raw foods recipes are so simple and incredibly tasty – I certainly don’t feel like I am missing out on any food experiences. In fact, I am appreciating the flavours in my food more than ever!

I’d always known which foods I should be eating more of but you’ve made it easy for me to finally do it through the variety of recipes and food ideas in your book.

Thank you so much Yuri – my family and I feel like we owe you so much!”

Geraint Gearon
Bangkok, Thailand

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