My Favorite Pesticide

There have been a number of agricultural chemicals that were declared safe only to be found highly toxic and harmful to human health later on. This leaves questions hanging over the approval process. How can chemicals like dioxins, Agent Orange, and glyphosate be passed through an independent assessment process and approved. How can they be declared safe for the public and approved worldwide. Glyphosate (round up to you and me) has recently been declared probably cancer forming. Media reports said that was based on a split vote by the World Health Organisation Committee where half the committee said it was definitely carcinogenic the other half said it was probably carcinogenic so the declaration still reflects the best possible comment for Monsanto but the least protective to the public.

Monsanto immediately challenged the WHO finding and asked why their findings didn’t agree with Monsanto’s’ own research. It’s not rocket science.  If an independent researcher wants to do research on Monsanto’s’ genetically modified products they have to sign non-disclosure agreements so Monsanto can control the release of the research before they will even allow access to their patented seeds. Farmers are not allowed to make them available either. They too are tightly control by legal agreements. Monsanto is a prodigious litigant. In May 2013 over 2 million people in 52 countries and 436 cities and towns throughout the world participated in protest against Monsanto, their chemicals and patented G.M. foods. If you didn’t hear much about it you may ask yourself why. You would think that’s pretty newsworthy.

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There is a great soup that I highly recommend at any time of the year but especially in winter. Miso. What I love about Miso is along with other fermented foods, it’s great for the gut and this recipe helps to feed the thyroid. When people think of probiotics to aid the intestinal flora they usually think of Acidophilus and Bifido-bacterium. They are both good things (if they aren’t swimming in sugar like many commercial brands). The problem is there are literally tens of thousands of bacteria that are required to make a healthy gut micro-biome. This means fermenting food is better than just supplementing with just one or two different types.  When I muscle test and find weakness with the Teres Minor, Pectoralis major Claviclular or Quadriceps muscle I recommend Miso soup. I also recommend it when you are hungry.  It’s easy to make and is said to be strengthening. There are many different types of miso. I recommend brown or dark miso for soup which is salty and more savory. Whole food chef T.V. Tony Chiodo recommends it for breakfast, as a pick me up, or as a light evening meal. When you use wakame you may boost your iodine levels which is essential for many organs including the thyroid.

Miso soup

Finely slice half an onion

Thinly slice 3 mushrooms, dried shitake is good, soak for ten minutes in one cup of water

Julienne half a carrot

Two pinches of dried wakame seaweed (Tasmanian if possible)

Half a Chinese radish thinly sliced

Tablespoon of miso

Greens-Sliced chinese cabbage, bok-choy, or kale. 1 cup

2 tablespoons of thinly sliced spring onion

Boil the onion, wakame, mushroom and soaking liquids with 4 cups of water. Cover and simmer for ten minutes. Add the cabbage and chinese radish and simmer for 3 minutes. Take some broth and dilute the miso, add in with the greens. Serve in bowls topped with spring onion. Serves 4

My three Grand Dogs

I love my sons three dogs. They have their own unique and totally different personalities. They love me because they associate me with food and walking. They go crazy when I come around to take them for a walk and we have had to train them not to jump all over us from over excitement. The reason they love walking is because that is what they are meant to do. A dog in nature loves to wander around, get his exercise, hunt, chase, and play.

We have a place on the river where we can let them off the leash. They love running free off the leash even more than walking. It’s just a joy to watch them charge up and down in the mud along the river, climb the 2.5 metre banks and charge off again. The reason its so good and so right is because that’s the way it is in nature.

Of course not everything that occurs in nature is great. What we aim for in health care is an optimised natural environment. Its good not to get eaten by a tiger, but it’s bad not to walk, solution…walk, but walk where there are no tigers.

A dog, or a human for that matter, can’t be healthy without natural food, the right exercise, the right rest, work and play balance. Get the balance right and health is the normal natural state. These are needs we have from nature and they can’t be ignored except at the expense of your health. You cant cheat nature.