Archive for November, 2011

The Truth AND The Consequences

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The consequences of polluting our environment and of destroying the fertility of our soils to reap short term profits includes the tragedy of children with cancer and other degenerative diseases. At a time when they should be growing and developing, they are made to undergo the destruction we have built into the way we do things, the way we prefer material possessions above health, and the way we look at food.

A healthy body has the resources to regulate the functions of metabolism and to build strong, fully functional replacement cells for all tissues and organs. Health is a measure of your body’s ability to do all these things without mistake. The foundation for this health is the nutritional content we assimilate and deliver to our cells.

When encountering children suffering from cancer, you are looking at symptoms of dysfunction, symptoms of a fundamental metabolic mistake.

If, by one means or another, the cancer is “cured” and if the family has not addressed the underlying cause of environmental toxins and lack of nutrients in our diets, then the child has no foundation upon which to build recovery or to establish a lifetime of health.

To make a significant difference in health, you must begin by laying a solid foundation. You will not find the necessary abundance of nutrients in the foods at supermarkets. They are not grown in an environment enabling them to have a naturally balanced density of nutrients. Our agricultural practices are geared toward ship ability and shelf life.

To make a significant difference in your health, you must eat nutrient dense foods. These foods supply an abundance of naturally balanced nutrients in a form your body can easily get at, pass through the intestinal wall, and deliver to your cells.

In so far as I know, there is no food that can compare with the Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA) blue-green alga sold by Simplexity Health. I am brand specific because only Simplexity Health harvests in such a way that preserves the heat sensitive nutrients. This AFA provides a naturally balanced, nutritional package – minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, antioxidants – that closely matches what the human body needs.

Some foods may look like they are highly nutritious, but for one reason or another those nutrients are not available. Take, for example, a piece of beef. This should provide you with a lot of protein. Yet your body only gets 18% of that beef protein. AFA has about 60% protein by weight. Of that protein, your body uses 75%. The protein from AFA nearly matches the amino acid profile established by the Food and Nutrition Council. This means you can take that protein and begin using it without a lot of modifications.

When I first took some of this blue-green alga, every cell in my body stood before me declaring, “This is good for me.” This complete nourishment at a cellular level brings a resilience and a hope nothing else can. This nourishment is the birthright of every man, woman, and child, whether suffering degenerative conditions or not.

There are many things you can do about the nourishment you give your cells, one of which is to take Simplexity Health’s nutritional blue-green algae supplements. Other actions might include building your garden soil and growing a portion of your own vegetables, or seek out organic growers near you who make it a practice to produce nutrient dense vegetables. Perhaps you need to be doing all the above. The worst thing you can do is to remain passive about the foods you eat and feed your family.

Ellis Hein

Jerusalem Artichokes, A Lacto-Fermentation Recipe

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Jerusalem Artichokes, a member of the sunflower family, produces a nutritious tuber, long used as food. These tubers contain inulin, a substance beneficial for intestinal bacteria, but something I have found difficult to digest.

Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions, suggests baking the tubers for six hours. We have no oven so this is not an option.

But lacto-fermentation to the rescue! We tried lacto-fermenting raw tubers with little success. Yes, they will ferment, but I still can’t eat them. However, fermenting cooked Jerusalem artichokes produces a food that is both filling and soothing to the stomach and intestinal tract, a marked contrast to eating non-fermented ones.

The Recipe

  • Scrub, chop, and boil a quantity of Jerusalem artichoke tubers. Let them cook for about 45 minutes until tender.
  • Drain off the water and mash. Set them aside and allow to cool until they are no longer warm to the touch.
  • Measure the mashed tubers. If you have an assortment of pint and 1/2 pint jars, you can accommodate almost any measure by varying the head space you leave in the jars.
  • Add one tablespoon of Celtic Sea Salt and one Capsule of Spectrabiotic® for each quart of mashed Jerusalem artichoke. Mix well.
  • Fill the jars, leaving about one inch of headspace.
  • Put on good lids and allow the jars to incubate at room temperature for three days.
  • At the end of the incubation period, you refrigerate the jars. You can begin eating immediately.

Note: It seems necessary to use some kind of inoculants for this ferment. Since you are using a cooked vegetable, it is not likely to contain lactobacillus bacteria. I have not tried other inoculants and can only state that Spectrabiotic® produces good results.

By Ellis Hein

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Food is the Power of Life

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

The holidays are a time when we traditionally eat too much pi and spend the rest of the year reducing our circumferences. At this time of year, we are very mathematical. When asked, “More pie?” we remember that 2 pi r equal to C (emphasis on 2).

Feasts and famines have been part of our history since there were humans. The deprivations of the one are possibly balanced by the excess of the other.

But today is different. Our feasts contain substances that have little or no precedence in our history. Widespread use of refined sugar is new. You may think the early 20th century a long time ago, but if we compressed human history into one year, an abundance of refined sugar would cover 20 minutes.

Then we have these non-food additives. Aspartame, a known toxin, finds its way into all manner of food items. It masquerades as a healthy alternative to refined sugar. If sugar has been abundant for 20 minutes, aspartame has only been with us 4 to 5 minutes.

Take away the economics of the industries of health care, sugar production, and additive production. Then the real tragedy of this biological experiment becomes visible. We live in an age of accelerated degeneration. And we pretend we don’t know the reason why.

What we eat has the power to kill or give life, to heal or destroy. It is said that someone once told Churchill, “Winston, if you were my husband, I would put arsenic in your soup.” Churchill replied, “Violet, if you were my wife, I would eat it.” Today we find the poison liberally mixed in and served us out of genuine love and hospitality instead of hatred.

So today’s moral is don’t measure your girth or circumference, scrutinize your pi. These holidays, begin giving your cells a feast of the complete nutritional package found in Simplexity Health’s Alpha Sun Algae and other nutritional products. Contact me for more information.

Ellis Hein

The Significance of Enzymes in Food and Health

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

…the traditional use of enzyme-rich fermented foods and raw (versus cooked and pasteurized)dairy and other foods by “primitive” cultures is grounded in scientific fact, and is one of the important reasons for their vitality and relative freedom from degenerative diseases.

This quote taken from Enzyme Nutrition by Dr. Edward Howell, p. 31, summarizeds the the contrast between modern man and “priitive” man. If we have made advancements, why have we thrown away all that was valuable from the past?

Ellis Hein

Your Help Needed for a Gargantuan Task

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Do you help consume the 10 billion doughnuts per year we eat in this country? Do you drink your 50 gallons of sodas and other sweetened drinks? Do you pull your fair share in consuming 136.2 lbs. of refined sugars per person per year? These are documented figures taken from The Donut Book, The California Center for Public Health, and the United States Department of Agriculture.

If we took all these doughnuts and linked them together like a chain, if we figured they averaged four inches diameter, then our chain would be 1.3 times the distance to the moon. If we took all those soft drinks, all 15.35 billion gallons we drink each year, they would fill a sphere with a diameter of 3/10 of a mile. All the sugar we eat would weigh 41.813 billion pounds.

This is the burden the average citizen of the U. S. is working against trying to achieve a healthy state. These are the chains that bind us to chronic ill-health. This is the sticky ocean in which we swim trying to find a safe harbor.

Because I sell AFA algae related supplements, I often hear the excuse, “I can’t afford to buy ______, even though it sounds really healthful.” The more I look at the astronomical costs of supporting our poor health through our sugar habit, I have to ask, “How can we afford to be unhealthy?”

How much would you save per year if you ate no refined sugar products, drank no sodas or other sweetened drinks, stopped eating your way to the moon along the doughnut chain? Would you save as much as $1,000.00 per year per person in your family? What about secondary costs such as increased dental care and other medical expenses? How much is expended each year because of growing incidences of diabetes? How can we put a price on a healthy tooth?

Are you ready to kick the sugar/sweet habit? It doesn’t have to be an uphill battle of will-power. If it is a battle of will-power against sugar cravings, my bet is on sugar. Only real, nutritionally complete foods bring about a satiety that does not want nor crave the emptiness of refined sugar. It is this deep-seated satisfaction of your cells that signals your brain, “We, the cells of your body, are now complete, we want nothing more.” You will have now accomplished two things at once, a true economy. You have removed a source of degeneration and you have enabled your cells to function on their highest level.

Ellis Hein