Fake Food --- Real Food
The Simple, Uncomplicated Basics of Truly "Eating Healthy"

You don't need to memorize a bunch of rules --- or even a bunch of facts --- When you understand the BASIC PRINCIPLES, the rest becomes pretty obvious --- when you really think about it.

All too often, we just fail to take time to shut out the noise and really think and reason --- rationally and logically --- (NOT RATIONALIZE) --- about REAL life in the REAL world --- instead of mindlessly taking for granted the purportedly "sophisticated", self-contradictory pseudo-scientific theories and speculations we've heard all our lives. ------------------
"Simplicity IS the
ULTIMATE sophistication."
--- Leonardo da Vinci
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With that perspective in mind ---- I ask you:

Do you EAT TO LIVE? --- OR --- do you LIVE TO EAT? --- Is there a difference? The words are exactly the same, but, rearranged, the values and objectives expressed are exactly opposite. Among the ancient Greek Philosophers, the Stoics believed, essentially, that all pleasure was absolutely detrimental to true quality of life. If that were so, a beautiful, fully ripe and nourishing, freshly plucked fruit should have absolutely no flavor (or taste terrible)! If the Epicureans were correct in believing that pleasure is everything and little else matters, the most deliciously flavored, absolutely indigestible SAND should produce the best life ever!

Hopefully, those senseless extremes awaken OUR senses to the vital importance of SOUND values and PROPER balance for the REALLY "good life". For human-nature-as-we-know-it, however, balance CAN be deceptive. If we're carrying 5-pounds in one hand and 20-pounds in the other, we tend to either LEAN toward the lighter side or ELEVATE the lighter load away from our body in order to FEEL balanced --- even though our body is not actually IN balance with EITHER method.

Likewise, when we aren't considering the eventual consequences of a decision (or may not even know about them), our FEELINGS often LEAN toward convenience or other pleasures; even though the factors that contribute to long-term TRUE quality of life carry much greater "weight". When that happens, it's our "life priorities" that are not truly in balance; and we may never experience REAL health (the FULLNESS of the biological processes that constitute life), only absence of dis---ease (distress, discomfort) --- and THAT only if we can find a medicine that will sufficiently block our AWARENESS of the ACTUAL illness ---the biological damage or functional deficiency CAUSING the dis---ease/distress/discomfort--- which will still be there, just waiting to "break loose" in some other way.

We can fool ourselves into IMAGINING that life and health are major priorities when, actually, our primary PURSUIT may be PLEASURE, while our real concern for life may be only in the enjoyment of the moment ---- with, possibly, an OCCASIONAL momentary fear of death or serious injury ---- which soon passes if we're still able to "have a good time". We may call ourselves "really living" --- "the good life" --- but deep inside --- biologically --- we'll actually be LESS alive than if we were NOT "living it up". Is it REALLY that serious?
Well, think about this:

Even a HEALTHY body must rebuild or replace worn-out cells ---the fundamental function of TRUE healing--- on a daily basis in order to STAY alive and healthy. And not just our skin and other "high-wear" areas; internal organs, muscles, nerve cells and all the rest. Yet, most of us are unaware of the many elements of our "civilized" lifestyle that SERIOUSLY SIDETRACK or even OBSTRUCT that internal biological rebuilding process and thus constitute the PRIMARY controllable, preventable cause of nearly all illness. ---Even the ones popularly considered "contagious"
---the biological relationships of which were explained in

Part 9. "Unconventional Concepts of Illness & Health" ,

and the Appendix 2. column: "Medicine Is A Blue Poly Tarp".

Of course, we all acknowledge we have to eat "good" food. But, does "good" mean something that is MADE FROM an edible living thing but is now only a DERIVATIVE OF that living thing; just as cardboard is MADE FROM wood, but is no longer ACTUALLY wood? (And we would surely NOT want our home built with it!)

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We tend to thoughtlessly IMAGINE that when whatever we're "eating" satisfies our appetite, we've been fed and nourished --- although, sometimes we feel full but still not satisfied --- that, in itself should tell us something. If a non-living chemical drug can deaden pain without addressing the ACTUAL CAUSE of the pain, should we find it surprising that a "dead and embalmed" food-like substance could "deaden" or pacify our appetite without satisfying our body's REAL NEED? -----------------------

While government appointed agencies in many countries are charged with TRYING to compel "food" product manufacturers to inform consumers what is actually IN their FOOD-LIKE PRODUCTS (which actually ARE mostly MANUFACTURED and only MINIMALLY grown --- chemically, at that, from what COULD otherwise be life-giving earth) WE still need to decide whether or not we WANT those materials or substances PRETENDING to nourish and repair our most personal "home" --- our body.

BUT DON'T BE INTIMIDATED! You don't have to be a chemist, a biologist, or any other "hi-tech" person (or even try to evaluate the qualifications of supposed "experts") to think and reason and make wise, rational (and, actually, very simple and straightforward) real-food choices.

For starters, just read a few "food" INGREDIENT labels (not the eye-catching advertising on the front --- the ACTUAL INGREDIENTS in the fine print around back or up and down the side of the label --- legally, it's supposed to be there somewhere); and see how many ingredients you recognize as a "living thing" compared to those that are only DERIVED FROM or MAY have never even been PART OF a living thing --- --- and then ask yourself ---
"How can a NON-LIVING material or substance
--- no matter how delightfully flavored ---
impart to us
life that it does not have?"
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(If I don't even have
"two nickels to rub together"
there's no way I can give you
a million dollars, now, is there? :)
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The fundamental concept of
truly-life-giving and healing food
is just that simple and that basic!
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Abundant speculation to the contrary not withstanding, life has never actually been observed or demonstrated to spring from non-living matter. Remember Louis PASTEUR's famous "experiment" that demonstrated just the opposite! Government-appointed "guardians" of health and "food safety" still endorse and often require PASTEURization (get the connection?) of certain food items ---- in tacit acceptance and acknowledgement of that ultimate fundamental "fact of life". -----------------------
(Of course, pasteurized ANYTHING
is no longer "live food" ---
it's now "dead and embalmed", too.
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Never ASSUME that ANY item that is widely sold as "food" ACTUALLY measures up to this "real life" criteria. Make your own investigation. If it isn't worth at least a quick label-read, how can it be worth risking your long-term true quality of life on its very-short-lived (and very questionable) "pleasure"?

How pervasive the problem really is can be seen in * this quote in Appendix 2 * from New York Times Magazine investigative reporter Michael Moss. (You really need to see the entire report if you haven't already. It's quite an expose'. The link to do so follows the quotation.)

If you've already read and absorbed the above three references, perhaps you can see why some of us consider natural healing ENTIRELY SUFFICIENT [---not a cause for panic---] and the only TRUE HEALING there ever is! Only IT addresses our body's REAL NEEDS --- hopefully, before the lack of such turns into serious damage or dire emergency.

Many years ago, a rather widely published (at the time) Nutritional Medical Doctor (Mainstream Nutrition AND Mainstream Medicine have largely relegated him to oblivion) had an elegantly simple guiding "formula" for this concept: "Eat only those foods which [readily] spoil or rot or decay ...before they do." (Quoted from personal interview in AWAKE! February 22, 1968 "How Fine are Refined Foods?" and his own book "Please Doctor, Do Something").

"REAL FOOD for Beginners" by Christy Pooschke --- Copyright 2014 --- (Highly Recommended! --- Please, download (AND READ) the FREE E-Book --- She did a great job.) --- expresses the same elegantly simple basic concept in a slightly different way.

She writes: "I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and told I would suffer with pain and fatigue for the rest of my life...
...I started reading the ingredient labels on every food I purchased, and I stopped eating things that I couldn't clearly identify as having come from a plant or animal in nature...
... And within just a few months ... all of my symptoms ... completely resolved!"

Her advice? Yep! The same basic concept-----
"...As a general rule, if you cannot easily identify every ingredient on a label as having come directly from a plant or an animal in nature, then I do not recommend you purchase the product."

For the most part, true health and wellness really is that simple and that basic; the main reason for its apparent decline in "civilized" countries is because the above principles of healthful living "go against the grain" of our increasingly mentally passive and pleasure loving human nature by requiring a certain personal involvement that many seem to find distasteful. -----What's become of our love of adventure?

So for those who need a little more "hand holding" while learning to apply the basic principles above (which is probably most of us in "western" so-called civilization who have never given any thought to this) the rest of the book contains basic starter recipes and a grocery shopping guide with examples of what to look for --- and, even more importantly, what to LOOK OUT for. If you're a "recipe person", check out her even more extensive additive-free cookbook (entitled simply and appropriately "Eating Addidive Free!") with lots more recipes and more extensive explanations of many "HIDDEN" food additives. (Some are "hiding in plain sight"; we just need to adjust our focus.) IT'S A FREE DOWNLOAD TOO; SO GO FOR IT! Even if you're not a "recipe person", the "food"/chemical explanations alone are priceless.



One last note--- If you find nutritional supplements to be a necessary addition to ---not a substitute for--- "live food", read THEIR labels carefully, too. Some individuals do appear to have acquired metabolic impairments that cause them to need a bit more of certain nutritional elements than the live-food available to them can provide. But you need THAT nutrition to come from living sources, also; not from some dead chemical that RESEMBLES a vitamin or other biological element --- or even a "natural" or "organic" material that has been "refined" away from its natural environment. This includes mineral supplements, as well. The Medical Doctor/Nutritionist quoted above also used to say, "Don't eat any rocks" --- as in capsules, pressed into tablets or any other way --- which also is supremely logical advice, because PLANTS are EQUIPPED to digest the minerals of the earth, but humans and animals are NOT.



Hopefully this will give you a "leg up" as you continue your research and self-analysis. You'll surely come across much conflicting nutritional and other health advice. Weigh it carefully and logically --- on the basis of the FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES of life described above and on the other pages of this website. "Nature" functions well --- if at all --- ONLY as a unified whole --- never as an isolated part.



Here's wishing you all the health and wellness you can cultivate!

--- NATURALLY!

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Mary had a little lamb,
A lobster and some prunes;
A glass of milk, a piece of pie,
And then some macaroons.

It made the naughty waiters grin
To see her order so,
And when they carried Mary out
Her face was white as snow.

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Interesting Statistics from -----
https://www.UN.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/
---> https://unstats.UN.org/sdgs/report/2023/
"Despite global efforts, in 2022, an estimated 45 million children under the age of 5 suffered from wasting, 148 million had stunted growth AND 37 MILLION WERE OVERWEIGHT."
---- [ Make no mistake; that 3rd group was EQUALLY MAL-NOURISHED, just in a slightly different way and with seemingly different results. ---ed.]




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A Word About Fresh Produce
---Three words, actually---
IT'S - LIVE - FOOD

The non-profit Environmental Working Group regularly reports tests of a broad cross-section of produce items and generally publishes two special lists at least once a year of the twelve found with the most pesticide residue and the fifteen with the least. (Dubbed "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Clean Fifteen")

https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/dirty-dozen.php

https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/clean-fifteen.php

Theoretically, "organic" produce SHOULD bypass the pesticide problem completely. But it sometimes has it's own problems. For example, when producing a "cash crop" becomes too "urgent" (even "organic" farmers need money to live), the compost that's used as "live food" for plants (instead of dead chemical "fertilizers") may not have time to decay thoroughly enough for its beneficial microorganisms to completely recycle and naturally "sanitize" all the biological waste that goes into it. Thus the occasional recalls you may sometimes hear for SOME organic produce items. --- Don't obsess over it, but do exercise good sense.

There are a number of specialty products sold for home cleaning of produce that contain an edible form of alcohol to kill surface microorganisms. (And IF it is concentrated ENOUGH, it should also "cut the grease" of oil-based pesticides) If you keep 90- to 180-proof spirits in the house already, you probably don't need anything else (except a spray bottle, perhaps) --- just give it a few minutes to "work" after you spray it thoroughly and before you scrub it gently with a soft nylon or other slightly abrasive pad. As another option, people in some countries routinely wash their fruits and vegetables in water with a little chlorine bleach added, as a "normal" part of their life. Personally, I'd feel safer with a "shot of bourbon" (and would much prefer to use it this way than to drink it:). But that's just me. You need to do your own research for your own life. The above cited website also has suggestions on cleaning produce.



One other thing you should research, if you want really LIVE food, is "sprouting". The Orient used to be "famous" for it's bean sprouts; but, you can sprout and eat almost any seeds (or grains --- they're seeds, too) and most sprouts don't really need cooking --- which de-activates their enzymes and then they're less alive --- which is also true of fresh produce --- the less cooking; the more life --- "no-cooking" surely being the ultimate "taste" to cultivate.

Your research may turn up paranoid-sounding concerns for "microbes", but if seeds are clean and edible to begin with (not toxic garden or other agricultural seeds) and you KEEP them clean as they sprout ----- Well ----- I've eaten home-sprouted seeds for decades with no problems ever (unless they're accidentally left in direct sunlight trying to green-up their new little leaves and start to wilt and decay --- which becomes SO readily discernible you won't even THINK about eating them --- No scary mysteries there). For most, just rinse in clean water twice a day and leave in a well-ventilated draining position.



Sometimes, we just need to exercise our uncommon "common sense"; and learn to be more afraid of toxic chemicals and less afraid of LIFE! Considerable current scientific research finds evidence that the "purpose in life" of nearly all life forms appears to be to SUPPORT other life forms IN SOME WAY --- not to attack them or to compete with them as is the popular theoretical view. (See Part 9. "Unconventional Concepts of Illness & Health" , if you missed that discussion.)


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You are reading the Free E-Book
"The Truth About "Natural" Healing
---Ten Things You Should Know"

1. What IS It --- REALLY? --- Scientific "Alternative Medicine"? OR Psychosomatic Occult Superstition?

2. The Issues --- Widespread Claims & Misconceptions

3. Is It Safe?

4. Is It Scientific?

5. Is It Legal?

6. What's the REAL Problem?

7. Is It Enough? --- Growing Up REALLY Drug Free --- A True Story

8. Is It For YOU?

9. How Does It Work? --- Unconventional Concepts of Illness & Health

10. How You Can Learn More

Appendix --- Questions from Readers and Other Observations

Appendix 2 --- Natural Healing/Prevention of the Alarming Illnesses Associated with Coronavirus and Other "Microbes" --- and --- why Medicine is a Blue Poly Tarp

Appendix 3 --- Fake Food --- Real Food --- The Simple, Uncomplicated Basics of Truly "Eating Healthy"
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