We live in a world where paying attention to your weight or how much you eat is part of your daily routine. Sometimes we can’t help ourselves to look over on what you eat. From taking in our calories to adding more vegetables to our daily diets, there are dozen ways to keep track on your eating habits. When keeping in mind of eating well, we always have to think of the difference between healthy food and junk food. Does it really matter? When it comes to calories, you will be surprised to see what the difference a cheeseburger could be in calories compared to a salad filled with various vegetables.
Comparing healthy food and junk food seems like a weird concept to do. They are so different, but imagine comparing these foods when counting calories. Let’s take 200 calories and see the amount of food is needed to make 200 calories. From fast food to fruits and veggies, just you wait and see the calorie intake for each food.
In this video, we take various favorite foods and compare them to 200 calories. Take a look at this video to see how many calories are really in a chocolate cake or a single almond.
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If you’ve ever felt like the food you’re eating has been getting inside your head, it could be because it contains parasites that do just that – moving through your eyes, tissues and, commonly, your brain.
In 2013, the first case of this popped up in the UK when a British man was found to have a tapeworm wriggling through his brain. Dr. Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas told CNN the worm had moved from one side of the man’s brain to the other, something very few species of parasite seem to do.
This GIF shows a tapeworm squirming through the man’s brain.
One species, known as Spirometra Erinaceieuropaei, is common to parts of the world like South Korea, Japan, Thailand and China, the latter of which was where the British man had recently visited.
The infection caused by Spirometra Erinaceieuropaei is known as sparganosis and often originates in cats and dogs, where the worm can grow to a terrifying length of 1.5 metres. Put simply, it’s not the sort of thing you’d want to meet in a dark alley on a Friday night.
A smaller – but still terrifying – example of the parasite.
Considering that we don’t (most of us anyway) eat cats and dogs, this parasite wouldn’t be a problem if it only existed in those animals. But sadly, there is another animal that harbors these worms, one the human digestive system is all too familiar with – pigs.
That’s not exactly surprising when you consider the diabolical conditions with which pigs are farmed.
I eat meat. But the one meat I’m always a bit hesitant to touch is pork. And after seeing this, I think the bacon chilli cheese poutine sold at my school will be on the backburner for a while.
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The brilliant Dr. Robert Weiss did something completely unheard of in the medical community. He sold his medical practice and decided to teach the importance of diet and nutrition in health by opening a “Farmacy”.
Dr. Weiss believes that we all need to change our focus for medicine and health and reconnect with the basic knowledge that has been shunned and suppressed by big pharma.
Dr. Weiss Opens the first ‘Farmacy’
After selling his New York medical practice, Dr. Robert Weiss built the very first farm-based medical practice on his 348-acre farm. Located in Long Valley, New Jersey the ‘farmacy’ is focused on treating patients with plant foods as the medicine.
“Plant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease-modifying tools available to practitioners — more powerful than any drugs or surgeries,” said Dr. Weiss.
Billions of people have been drugged with synthetic chemicals.
In order to treat diseases big pharma has pushed the sale and consumption of synthetic chemicals. All while the research and awareness for the benefits of plants and herbs have taken a major back seat in society. Even though plants have been used quite successfully since ancient times many people go straight to pharmaceutical drugs whenever they are sick.
Even our diets have become ridden with processed and highly preserved food like ingredients that perpetuate disease and illness in our bodies. Truly Dr. Weiss is following the advice from the father of modern medicine who said:
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates
The priority for the new Farmacy approach is to bring the body back into balance through eating vegetables, grains, fruit, nuts, seeds and beans.
“I am not saying if you fall down and break your ankle, I can fix it by putting a salve of mugwort on it. You need someone to fix your fracture,” Dr. Weiss said. “I am talking about treating and preventing chronic disease — the heart attacks, the strokes, the cardiovascular disease, the cancers … the illnesses that are taking our economy and our nation down.”
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The natural parts of plants contain nutrients that allow your body to heal. For example many foods such as turmeric act as an anti-inflammatory. Inflammation or swelling is believed to be the cause of many different chronic diseases.
During the interview for the new Farmacy Dr. Weiss spoke about the lunch that was prepared on location,
“a salad of baby kale, radicchio, purple carrots, cucumbers, onions and cherry husk tomatoes tossed with a walnut vinaigrette, followed by eggplant rollatini with tofu instead of cheese, and dairy-free chocolate pudding garnished with raspberries”
Even something simple like this salad contains many important medicinal ingredients.
Society needs to get its drug dependence under control.
The main goal is to reduce societies over-dependence on dangerous pharmaceuticals. This will help remove the negative side effects including addiction, overdose, and even death. Another one of his goals is to avoid unnecessary surgeries through bringing balance back to the body.
In the case of 90-year-old Angelina Rotella from West New York, Dr. Weiss mentions her incredible success story. The night before Christmas Eve Angelina Rotella came into his office with congestive heart failure and in a wheelchair.
“I asked her, ‘Do you want me to call 911 and admit you to Palisades General? Or will you let me feed you sweet potatoes and kale?’ Amazingly enough, with the help of her daughter, she chose this,” Dr. Weiss said. “She doesn’t have diabetes anymore and chronic heart failure. She is cooking, sewing and walking around town. I’m not saying it’s easy, but she seized the opportunity and she is transformed.”
Her prescription was a strict diet which included “grains (such as whole-grain brown rice and sweet potatoes), steamed greens (including kale and spinach), fruit (a big serving of wild organic blueberries is a must) and water.” Her daughter, Angie Rotella-Suarez, calls it “more than a miracle,” because her mother was able to stop taking her blood pressure heart medications 2 weeks later.
News of the great success spread and daughters Rotella-Suarez and her sister decided to try the same diet where they became no longer pre-diabetic and lost around 40 pounds.
90 families have joined the farmacy.
90 families have joined the local farmacy and in addition to paying a membership fee they volunteer their time harvesting vegetables and picking weeds. Not only is this great exercise but it helps people get more interested in eating healthy by becoming involved in the food production process.
“Human health is directly related to the health of the environment, the production of food and how it is grown,” said Dr. Weiss, who also got his undergraduate degree in botany from Rutgers College of Arts in Science. “I see this farm as an opportunity for me to take everything I’ve done all my life, all the biology and chemistry of plants I have studied, and link them to the human biological system.”
In addition to spreading awareness about health and nutrition, a recent study showed that when you work in the earth such as with gardening you make contact with bacteria in the soil that will release serotonin in your brain that helps you become smarter and feel happier.
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To discuss the issue and collaborate on potential solutions to ease the crisis, thirty world leaders met at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit and received an extraordinary – yet fitting – lunch to go along with the theme of hunger and climate change.
As was shared by UN_Spokesperson on Twitter, thirty leaders dined on a vegetarian spread made completely from food that would have been thrown away by stores or restaurant.
Former White House Chef Sam Kass and fellow Chef Dan Barber prepared the delectable lunch which featured everything from a salad made from vegetable scraps and veggie burgers made from leftover pulp from juicing, to a “cocoa husk custard” dessert created with parts of the cocoa bean normally discarded when making chocolate.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French President Francois Hollande, and Peruvian President Ollanta Humala were among 30 leaders Sunday who dined on the innovative and eco-conscious fare.
Besides highlighting the issue of food waste, the “Landfill Lunch” was designed to emphasize the importance of agriculture as an often overlooked aspect of climate change.
“Food production and agriculture contribute as much to climate change as transportation,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters at lunch. He said the dinner conversation revolved around ideas to fix climate change and poverty. As TrueActivist has reported before, a vegetarian and/or vegan diet is much more sustainable for the environment than a high meat and dairy diet, mainly due to the amount of water needed to produce grains to feed livestock vs people.
Disgustingly, about one-third of the food produced worldwide is discarded – some of it simply because it doesn’t look good on store shelves or on a restaurant’s plates. Furthermore, that wasted food ends up in landfills where it produces greenhouse gases and contributes to climate change. It is not only better for the populace to utilize all food produced – regardless of its aesthetic appeal, it is better for the environment.
Ban said the consensus among diners was that the UN must “strengthen resilience to climate impacts, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable.”
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