The problems:

Most Americans consume milk and dairy products. Whole milk is 49% of calories from animal fats. "2%" is 34%, "1%" is 28%, and even "skim" is still 5% of calories from animal fats. It takes ten pounds of fatty, hormone and toxin-laced cow's milk to make ONE pound of 74% of calories from animal fats CHEDDER CHEESE. It takes 12 pounds of milk to make one pound of ice cream, and 21 pounds to make one pound of 100% fat butter.

All the fats, cholesterol, toxins, allergens, antibiotics, viruses, bacteria, E-coli, salmonella, listeria, blood, pus, feces and more have a tremendously negative impact on human health. The typical American high-protein high-fat diet leads to obesity (over half of Americans are significantly overweight), heart disease (over 900,000 will die this year), faster growing cancers (over 500,000 will die this year), diabetes, asthma, behavioral problems, digestive problems, memory problems and more.

Eliminating aspartame, MSG (most processed foods), and cow's milk and dairy is a huge plus for the overall health of every consumer. However, years of damage need to be repaired as best as possible... and it is my hope to provide some leads on what to explore.

Parts of the solution:

Perhaps the most beneficial suggestion is to consume much more clean water... mother natures truly perfect drink for all critters.

With dairy out of your life consider cutting way back (or better yet, eliminate) all manner of animal proteins... meats, fowl, fish, and eggs. Besides being grossly inhumane to the critters we enslave and slaughter for "food", we are poisoning ourselves with PCB's, dioxins, herbicides, pesticides, industrial strength pollutants... all of which were consumed in large amounts in order to "grow" a food critter. Drink a glass of unclean water and you get a 1 to 1 amount of unhealthy substances IN that water. Eat a pound of beef... and you consume pollutants and carcinogens concentrated from over 2500 gallons of water that is required to make that pound of beef (some sources say as that it takes as much as 5000 gallons of water to create one pound of beef). The one to one ratio of pollutants and carcinogens that MAY be in fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains is FAR safer than the 2500 to one ratio in each bite of fat-laced meat. The same idea applies to all other critters regardless of type. Concentrated pollutants and carcinogens are locked into the critters fat (the really tasty stuff). Over 500,000 Americans will die of cancer this year... and almost a million from heart disease.

Interesting Observation:

Now that I am fighting what might be my "end game"... going through chemotherapy for terminal prostate cancer, being tired and tethered to a catheter, I spend a lot of time watching TV. Commercials are hard to ignore... so I have taken to analyzing them. I have come to the realization that most of these drug companies KNOW the cause of many problems... and are SO confident that YOU, the consumer, will never wake up to the causes... or if you do, BELIEVE the truth... that they put the real truth right under YOUR noses!

Examples:

One ant-acid commercial has three fellows seated around a table loaded with what remains of PIZZA... and the drug commercial matches one over the counter ant-acid with another for gas, bloating, etc. Well... the NO-COST answer to the "problem" is to refrain from milk and dairy... in this case CHEESE. No dairy, no gas, bloating, and no need for drugs.

A Nexium commercial has a woman listening to a secret voice from a chef... telling her of impending acid reflux, pain, and more... IF she partakes of the offered dishes. One of the last comments from the chef in the commercial mentions Parmesan cheese as something that will keep her tossing and turning all night. Again... dairy... cheese!

These folks KNOW... and put the visual truth before YOUR eyes... only to be ignored by the "remedy"... a drug.

Finally... how many commercials end with "NOTHING is better than (insert brand name)!" Well... in many cases "NOTHING", which COSTS nothing, may well BE better. Try believing them for this one, too.

Specifics:

Need a healthy replacement for that polluted dairy? Look no further. Make your own grain, nut, soy milks... complete with hearth-healthy and immune-system building nutrients. Make your own pea/bean/grain soups, too!

Get your OWN SoyToy machine... make your own LIVE plant-based "milks" to replace the hormone, toxin, and allergen-laden "dead-meat" animal milks.

Eat more FRESH fruits and vegetables, whole grains, either raw or partly cooked (still crunchy). (unless, of course, you have an allergy to one or more of those real foods). The more RAW the better, because heat destroys vitamins and enzymes.

Create more plant-based dishes such as a potato pie. Use your imagination and make an infinite variety of this one healthy dish.

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