100 Benefits of Meditation

100 BENEFITS OF MEDITATION

Meditation is so incredible! Why?

Is it the 100 different benefits? Is it the fact that doctors are curing diseases with it in books like Meditation as Medicine?

Is it the fact that it helps with stress?

For me one reason it is so incredible is that it is so difficult. I know that I need to do it because it is so hard to do.

I have run for over 5 hours and it is still not as difficult as sitting still for 20 minutes and breathing. It just shows me how far I have gotten from my source of energy.

I love doing it and do it every night. Books like the Law of Attraction by Esther and Abraham Hicks have really made me a bigger fan of meditation.

I also find it fascinating that some of the most successful people have admitted to meditating most of their lives like Jerry Seinfeld. Did meditation help him become one of the most successful comedians of all time? It very well could have.

Jerry Seinfeld:“I’ve been practicing Transcendental Meditation most of my life. I think that does something to your nervous system. It has givenme a calmness I don’t think I had at 19.”Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Permanent Peace Through Meditation

Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More

I bought this CD set at a thrift store for two dollars. It is about a Hawaiian method of healing our lives by practicing a simple meditation that is used to heal our past memories with love.

The CD focuses on a practitioner of this ancient method that healed an entire mental ward in a hospital by working on himself. Eventually that mental ward shut down because all the patients were released. Fascinating recording! See if you can get it from the library.

I have been practicing the simple method ever since and it makes me feel good. It really is a peaceful meditative practice.

This is the next book I want to read. Can we create world peace with meditation? This book documents over 19 different studies that all show we can change this world and make it less violent with meditation.

These studies also showed that groups of meditators meditating affecting the economy in the area where they were meditating in a positive way.

I love you

I am sorry

Please forgive me

Thank you

Love The World...

What if we could heal the world with love???

Eat Right...Eating Garbage Doesn't Make Sense!

I just read yesterday that it takes running or walking 35 miles to lose 1 lb of body fat or you could do 17,150 sit-ups.

If Michael from the latest season of The Biggest Loser would have just did exercise and followed his same diet he would have had to run/walk 9,170 miles or do 4,585,000 sit-ups. That is the equivalent of running or walking 25 miles a day or doing 12,561 sit-ups for a year.

Wouldn't it just make more sense to eat healthy food instead of running or walking 9,170 miles to burn off the fat and calories in unhealthy junk food???

It just makes too much sense to put good fuel in our bodies. The body is the temple of God. Make sure to treat it like that at every meal and you won't have to do just under 5 million sit-ups.

145 Species Killed During Modern Tuna Fishing

How can we justify this? How can we justify destroying our oceans for food that clogs our arteries and causes heart disease? The work that Dr. Esselstyn is doing is a miracle, because he is reversing heart disease with a diet that does not result in 145 species of sea creatures being killed for food that is not good for us. Not to mention that all the literature shows that cattle grazing and growing crops for livestock is the #1 cause of species extinction.

Humans are destroying the planet for animal protein that causes cancer according to the most comprehensive nutritional study in human history, The China Study.

www.heartattackproof.com

“Or take tuna. Among the other 145 species regularly killed—gratuitously—while killing tuna are: manta ray, devil ray, spotted skate, bignose shark, copper shark, Galapagos shark, sandbar shark, night shark, sand tiger shark, (great) white shark, hammerhead shark, spurdog fish, cuban dogfish, bigeye thresher, mako, blue shark, wahoo, sailfish, bonito, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, longbill spearfish, white marlin, swordfish, lancet fish, grey triggerfish, needlefish, pomfret, blue runner, black ruff, dolphin fish, bigeye cigarfish, porcupine fish, rainbow runner, anchovy, grouper, flying fish, cod, common sea horse, Bermuda chub, opah, escolar, leerfish, tripletail, goosefish, monkfish, sunfish, Murray eel, pilotfish, black gemfish, stone bass, bluefish, cassava fish, red drum, greater amberhead turtle, green turtle, leatherback turle, hawksbill turtle, Kemp’s ridley turtle, Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, Audoin’s gull, balearic shearwater, black-browned albatross, great black-backed gull, great shearwater, great-winged petrel, grey petrel, herring gull, laughing gull, northern royal albatross, shy albatross, sooty shearwater, southern fulmar, Yelkouan shearwater, yellow-legged gull, minke whatle, sei whale, fin whale, common dolphin, northern right whale, pilot whale, humpback whale, beaked whale, killer whale, harbor porpoise, sperm whale, striped dolphin, Atlantic spotted dolphin, spinner dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, and goose-beaked whale.”

Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer

The Jungle Gym

Jon Hinds invented the jungle gym and I am forever grateful. I did 25 assisted one legged squats yesterday. That is the hardest leg exercise in the world!!! I was able to do 25 in one day. I love doing the pushups, tricep extensions, dips, chin ups, one arm chin ups, and the body rows. The body rows are incredible!!! Jon Hinds is one awesome vegan personal trainer. Please God give me enough money to become a Certified Natural Trainer!!!

You can do pushups, tricep extensions, chest flys, body rows, assisted chin-ups, assisted one handed chin ups, full chin ups, assisted dips, full dips, kip ups, hip ups, runners, mountain climbers, crawls, assisted one legged squats, squats, lunges, back bends, knees to legs, and other exericses. It is designed to help people progress from the most basic to the most difficult. The concepts are that anyone can get in incredible shape using their own body weight in just minutes per day. The piece of equipment is portable and can hold up to 1,000 lbs. It is designed to be able to use at parks as well as on door frames.

www.monkeybargym.com

Engine 2 Food Makes 'Em Smile!!!

People love it when you feed them healthy food. I always bless my food with love and positive thoughts and always get positive responses.

The Poker party was a huge success. Everyone loved the Sweet Potato Lasagna, but next time I will bring a much smaller dish of it because it is a little expensive to make for people. I would rather make a big dish for me and Amber.

People at the Poker party loved the whole grain cholesterol free Engine 2 Chocolate Chip Cookies. The next day I brought leftover Sweet Potato Lasagna to my family and they loved it and then I gave them some fresh Engine 2 Chocolate Chip Cookies and they loved those.

Making healthy food with your family is one of the most incredible experiences on the planet. Think of those kids watching you make those vegetable dishes and healthy whole grain cookies. What kind of message does that send to them?

It might tell them that we care about our health and your health and the planet. Then they will teach their children the same thing.

Engine 2 Sweet Potato Lasagna

Click Here for Engine 2 Sweet Potato Lasagna Recipe

Tomorrow night I am going to a Poker party and I am bringing some Engine 2 Sweet Potato Lasagna and hopefully if time permits some Engine 2 Chocolate Chunk Cookies.

This recipe is incredible. We made some this weekend with homemade red sauce and it was so good.

Check out The O2 Diet for an incredible Bok Choy and Tofu stir fry. We have also been making that every night with brown rice and it is incredible.

I am also planning on bringing a salad to this party, because no meal is complete without an incredible out of this world tasting salad. Add some pecans for 19 vitamins and minerals and because they taste incredible.

Watching The Wheels Go Around...

Just enjoying my runner's high I got from my 3.9 mile run on lunch break and listening to John Lennon.

What would the world be like without music?

I am also dreaming of my Jungle Gym that I am getting on Friday. Jon Hinds is the genius behind that invention.

I love life. I have also been reading about the dust bowl in the book, The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.

Imagine what it is like to work for an entire year and not get paid. That is what happened to the majority of the wheat farmers in the dust bowl region. There was too much wheat so they were told "You get nothing" for one year's worth of hard labor. It makes you sad hearing stuff like that.

Thank God for FDR.

"I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round..."

-John Lennon

Chicago Fire Fighters Adopt Plant-Based Diets!!!

Chicago fire fighters heed obesity alarm - More fire fighters die from the Standard American "suicide diet" than from fires. Dr. Oz talked to a fire fighter that stated that more of his fellow fire fighters were dying from the fork than fires. Dr. Oz helped three fire fighters adopt a vegan diet based on the principles of The Engine 2 Diet and now those fire fighters only eat animal products in moderation...very small amounts and very infrequently.

Heart disease is 100% preventable. I eat vegetables all day long and am trying to figure out why I don't get sore after 22 mile runs and after running 4.5 miles and lifting weights for 1 hour in one day.

If you switch from the"suicide diet" to a diet that is actually good for you, you won't ever want to go back. Trust me on that. My bok choy stir fry with broiled tofu last night was so good...I can't wait to have it again and again and again.

www.heartattackproof.com

www.theengine2diet.com

Saving 83,731,100 Gallons of Water in 62 Years

My plan is to at least live healthy and strong like Jack Lalanne until I make it to 95 years of age.

According to the world peace diet I save 1,350,500 gallons of water a year by avoiding animal products.

In 62 years I will have saved 83,731,100 gallons of water. That is awesome!!!

Without water their would be no life on this planet!!!

Conserving water resources with a 100% plant-based diet is a spiritual way to preserve life for future generations!

What ever is good for the human body is good for the planet!!!

www.earthsave.org

www.heartattackproof.com

30 1 Minute Sprints

Sprints are my favorite workout!! They are incredible. I have read that they increase growth hormone output by up to 300%.

Every time you do them you are telling your body something profound. You are telling your body to be ready to be able to go at 80 - 100% at a moments notice. Your body is intelligent and will listen to this message.

Kids are always sprinting for fun and it is one of the secrets to their youth. They can find joy in that simple act of running as fast as you can.

Try doing 30 1 minute sprints. After each sprint take a 1 minute break (no running). I like to do my 1 minute sprints at 10 mph.

It's incredible when you do this workout from the Biggest Loser how long you can maintain high speed sprints.

Eischens Yoga Training DVD - Monkey Bar Gym

Jon Hind is such an incredible trainer. He is so open minded. When Jon found out he had arthritis at the age of 40 he needed an answer and surgery didn't make sense to him. He read The China Study, and adopted a 100% vegan diet and his arthritis disappeared in two months.

Now that is open minded for a guy who spent the majority of his life strength training to just adopt a plant-based diet and fix the problem.

He did the same thing with his knee injury that he sustained while training professional basketball players. He was unable to use it the way he used to for two years, but within one month of trying Eischens Yoga all of his knee pain was gone and he was able to dunk. This was after not being able to play basketball for two years.

I just started Eishens yoga about five days ago and it is really impressing me. Yesterday I did a 22 mile run and today I am not even sore. That is an awesome feeling! I love this type of yoga because it is quick and to the point. 24 minutes a day.

Save 1,350,500 Million Gallons of Water Per Year

"Few of us are aware of the tremendous strain imposed on our water supplies by animal agriculture. Agriculture consumes fully eighty-five percent of all U.S. freshwater resources, mainly to produce animal foods. A day's production of food for one omnivore human requires more than four thousand gallons of water, compared with less than three hundred for a vegan.."
The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle

Do the math:

365 x 4,000 = 1,460,000 gallons of water per year (omnivore)
365 x 300 = 109,500 gallons of water per year (vegan)

How much water do we save by going vegan according to The World Peace Diet?

1,350,500 million gallons of water saved per year

My salad today tasted so incredible. My beans and rice was out of this world. I kep thinking about the 15,000 antioxidant units in those organic black beans and the 70 different antioxidants in the brown rice. I thought about the thousands and thousands of phytonutrients and antioxidants in my HUGE salad with Zesty Tomato dressing from Eat To Live.

Then I bit into a walnut, tomato, salad, and Zesty Tomato dressing. The flavors were indescribable. Beyond anything I ever rememeber eating at a Fast Food restaurant.

Feels good knowing I am making a difference and getting to eat the most flavorful foods on the planet.

One Cup Pinto Beans = 15,000 ORAC units

Antioxidants are incredible!!! They make us younger from the inside out. They are little helpers that clean all the oxidants out of our body every second. I was really impressed recently to learn about all the antioxidants in brown rice.

“Rice bran contains more than seventy antioxidants, including well known aging fighters vitamin E, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), coenzyme Q-10, proanthocyanidins, and inositol hexaphosphate. It is no wonder that rural farmers in Asia, who eat brown rice because white rice is too expensive, live longer and develop fewer health problems than their city dwelling counterparts, who eat mostly white rice.”
-Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds of Ways To Live To Be 100 by Dr. Maoshing Ni

Nothing prepared me to learn how many antioxidants are in simple and cheap foods like beans. One cup of pinto beans has 15,000 ORAC antioxidant units. The new book, The O2 Diet is teaching us about the power of antioxidant foods and how to include them in our diet to get 30,000 ORAC antioxidant units per day. Awesome!

Below are some of the antioxidant levels in beans. The book also shows how you can make a green smoothie that has over 17,000 ORAC antioxidants.

It's incredible that you can find simple, cheap foods that are this powerful and healthy for us.

Vegetarian Options
Black beans (or black bean soup) 1 c= 15,600
Kidney beans 1 c= 15,600
Pinto beans 1 c= 15,000
Lentils 1 c= 14,000
Black-eyed peas 1 c= 7,300
Edamame (soybeans) 3⁄4 c= 5,400
Chickpeas 1 c= 1,700
Split peas 1 c= 1,000
Hummus 4 Tbsp= 400

Which Veggie Burgers Were Made With a Neurotoxin?

Which Veggie Burgers Were Made With a Neurotoxin?

This article says it all. You cannot trust processed food. The article has a long list of veggie burgers made by corporations that have toxic neurotoxins in them.

It's best, cheapest, and easiest just to make your own. You can find some great recipes for veggie burgers at www.theengine2diet.com.

Editor-in-chief, The American Journal of Cardiology

"Human beings are not natural carnivores. When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores."

-William C. Roberts, M.D.,

Editor-in-chief, The American Journal of Cardiology

Beating Heart Disease - Eat To Live

Ronnie has lost 120 pounds in 7 months and credits Dr. Fuhrman and his 'Ask the Doctor' forum for his success! - Check out the whole story here.

The Standard American "suicide" diet is dangerous. Ronnie learned the hard way when he ended up getting heart surgery at the age of 46. Three years later after more surgeries doctors told him it was time to die.

Imagine being told it is your time to die at 49. The most expensive medical system in human history couldn't even help Ronnie live past the age of 50.

That is when he discovered www.drfuhrman.com and reversed his heart disease on his own. Today he is "alive" and off all medications.

He is no longer on the Standard American "suicide" diet. He is following the Eat To Live diet and he looks about 25 years younger. His total cholesterol is also now at 101 mg/dL.

“Since starting Eat to Live, my progress is as follows: I've lost 120 lbs., down to 180 lbs. (remember I pegged the scales @ 300 pounds), just 10 lbs away from my goal weight of 170, have stopped taking Lipitor and Avapro for blood pressure, have gotten my exercise tolerance up to where I can exercise without having PVC's, the angina has ceased, quit drinking, and quit smoking by following the <>6 week weight loss program. My most recent lipid panel had my cholestrol at 101, ldl-51 hdl-34, trig 91.”
-Ronnie

Rich Roll - Vegan Athlete - Voted One of 25 Fittest Men in the World

There aren't many vegan athletes in the world yet, but it is really incredible when you find out that an athlete exists like Rich Roll.

He didn't exercise for 20 years. At the age of 40 he felt out of shape so he changed his diet to a vegan diet and started exercising.

The plant-based diets that are best for the planet are also best for human health and athletic performance.

• At 42 he completed a double ironman triathlon which consists of a 6.2 mile swim, 260 miles of cycling, and a 54 mile marathon.
• He finished in the top 10 after not being involved in competition for 20 years.
• Men’s Fitness Magazine voted Rich Roll one of the 25 fittest men of the world in 2009.

Diet For a Hot Planet

How hard would it be to convince someone in the early days of sailing that vitamin C deficiency was the cause of scuvy?

Well, if you read the history of scurvy you will see that it was almost impossible to prove this simple truth to society and the scientific establishment.

Humans weren't ready to accept the simple fact that we will die if we eat zero plant foods.

Today, we are faced with another simple truth. Humans die prematurely when fed animal products and when humans consume animal products it destroys our planet.

The livestock on this planet are creating more emissions than all the trucks and cars on the planet and the methane emissions are 200 times more powerful as global warming agents than carbon dioxide emissions.

Now go find a skeptic and try to convince them that if humans don't stop eating a diet based around animal products it will destroy the planet. You will find the same thing that was found out during the time of scurvy.

The truth shall set us free, but the truth is not something people are willing to accept.

Healthy Honey Mustard Dressing

Ever since I was a kid I have loved salads. I remember eating massive amounts of salads as a kid. I loved them.

I am probably the only person that remembers eating every vegetable in our house all the time. No vegetable was safe with me around.

When I found out I could prevent heart disease by avoiding animal products I didn't even need a second to think about it.

I stopped right there. While everyone was eating turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy I was eating a salad.

The problem with salads is the dressings today are so fattening and loaded with salt and sugar.

One container of ranch has over 8,000 miligrams of salt and 288 grams of fat. That is the same amount of fat as would be found in 738 baked potatoes.

Try this dressing on a salad and make sure you have a good calorie source with that salad. I like to use beans or brown rice.

Honey Mustard Dressing
1 tablespoon Apple cider vinegar, lime, or lemon
1 tablespoon liquid amino
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon dairy free honey mustard
Seasoning (any herbs you want in it)

Whip this up till it is nice and creamy. Then pour it on a HUGE salad and mix it up really good. Healthy nuts like pecans and walnuts really bring out the flavor of this dressing in a salad.

Pecan have 18 vitamins and minerals in them so they are a great addition to a salad. Brown rice has over 70 different antioxidants in it so that is a great source of calories.

This dressing will make you fall in love with vegetables for the first time, or if you are like me for the thousdanth time. It will also make it so you can eat a guilt free meal that is incredible tasting.

Avoided Cholesterol from 116,070 Slices of Bacon

In the book, Milk The Deadly Poison, the author makes it very clear that the average American consumes the equivalent amount of cholesterol from dairy products every day that they would have from 53 slices of bacon.

His book explains that by the time the average American reaches the age of 52 they have consumed the equivalent amount of cholesterol from dairy products as they would have from 1 million slices of bacon.

When I read this everything became so clear. My uncle didn't die of a heart attack at 37 because he had bad genes or a party lifestyle. He was consuming products that every single one of us did and these foods kill. That is why heart disease is the number one killer in America!

We want to blame it on genes, because it makes life easier for us. It gives us a chance to point a blame finger and not take responsibility for our own actions.

That ended my love affair with dairy products. Now my total cholesterol is 116 and I feel better than I ever have in my life.

In the last six years I have not been sick one time with the exception of one food poisoning incident. I can also exercise longer and more often than ever before.

So far after six years of avoiding dairy products I have avoided consuming the cholesterol that would have been found in 116,070 slices of bacon. No wonder my total cholesterol is 116.

Bacon

What clever name would I have to come up with to justify eating something this adorable?

Is the word "bacon" enough to make us completely forget that every single creature on this planet wants to live?

My total cholesterol is 116 because I prefer to eat plants. Even though the screams of that head of cabbage and the murdering of each tomato keeps me up late at night.

It's hard to believe that heart disease is the number one killer in this country and no body wants to acknowledge what is causing it.

Jon Hinds - Super Strong Vegan Fitness Trainer

A Plant-Based Diet Will Improve Athletic Performance

What kind of fuel are you using? Are you filling up on donuts, macaroni&cheese, and peanut butter sandwiches or whole foods?

Jon Hinds is an incredible athlete. He is 45 years old and he is the owner of Monkey Bar Gym. On the link above you can listen to a recording of his story.

I was inspired by his story about how he defeated arthritis with a plant-based diet and how he taught Tony Gonzalez how to consume a whole foods plant-based diet.

Why would we want to put garbage in these incredible bodies? When I have my green smoothie in the morning I feel incredible! I can't wait to taste that incredible smoothie that has been blended to perfection by my blender that has the same type of motor as some boat motors.

Why would we want to just look strong and poison ourselves at the same time? Jon Hinds is looking strong, and feeling strong and doing it the "healthy way".

Destroying Rain Forest for Palm Oil

Greenpeace Report Links Nestlé to Rainforest Destruction - Everything that is bad for human health is also bad for the environment. Vegetable oils like palm oil are just one of the many things that destroys the environment and human health.

Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn reversed heart disease, but he had to get all of his patients off of vegetable oils to do so. This is why any vegan out there can die of heart disease because vegetable oils destroy the arteries like cigarette smoking destroys the lungs.

Dr. Esselstyn told me on the phone that every single high fat meal damages the endothelial cells in our arteries and that damage can be seen with medical diagnostic equipment for up to 4 hours after a meal. Do this for 30 years and your arteries will not be able to function like they are supposed to?

We should all work at limiting proccessed food in our diet and boycotting palm oil to save our rainforests from destruction and to improve our quality of life.

The bible asked us to love ourselves and that entails taking care of our bodies and our health. You can't love yourself and destroy your health at the same time.

Humans haven't listened to this simple message and as a result have turned places like the Sahara Forest into the Sahara desert. We have continued to do things that are bad for our health and the planet's health and eventually the planet will exterminate us if we keep it up.

Forks Over Knives - New Documentary Coming This Summer!!!

My uncle died of a heart attack at 37 and my mother died of cancer at age 44. It is criminal that our government is subsidizing foods that cause disease right now.

Why does our government choose to subsidize foods that cause heart disease and cancer?

Why is the government subsidizing foods that are turning this country into a gigantic desert?

Why is the government subsidizing foods that are making our health care system more expensive than any health care system in the world?

The world needs to see this movie so we can regain our sanity as a culture. How much longer can we poison ourselves at every single meal? The American suicide diet is just not sustainable. There are not enough resources for Americans to eat this food for too many more decades.

Forks Over Knives - Movie Trailer - Watch the trailer for the new documentary Forks Over Knives coming out this summer.

Beyond Beef - Destroying the World One Bite At a Time

Escapism. So many of us are spending every second trying to escape reality through television, movies, video games, ipods, and an endless amount of distractions.

We spend so much time doing this that many of us aren't educated about what we can do as individuals to make this a better world for those around us and future generations.

The sad thing is we are not living mindfully and are not opening our eyes up to the destruction caused by the American lifestyle.

The same thing has been happening for thousands of years. At one time the Sahara desert was actually a forest that was thriving with life. Deforestation and livestock grazing turned that land into the largest desert in the world.

Please read Beyond Beef by Jeremy Rifkin so you can live more mindfully and understand how destructive consuming beef is to the environment. Cattle grazing and growing crops for livestock is the primary cause of deforestation, desertification, species extinction, water depletion, water pollution, topsoil erosion, world hunger, and results in more green house gases than all the vehicles in the world according to the Food and Agriculture division of the United Nations.


Why bring children into this world just to destroy it? Learn how to cook some meals that have zero animal products in them and you will be on your way to reducing our resource consumption. According to one estimate switching to a vegan diet can save up to 300,000 gallons of water per year. Professor David Pimentel found that it takes up to 12,000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef and documented this in his book, Ecological Integrity.

I love myself so I don't eat things that clog my arteries. I love myself so I don't eat things like beef that result in this planet being turned into one gigantic Sahara desert.

Hundred Years of Lies

“You are poisoning yourself! Before you eat another bite of food... before you take another pill... you owe it to yourself (and those you love) to read this book!”
—David Rippe,Author of The Flip

“This is a must read for anyone truly interested in a healthier life.”
—Book Sense,The American Bookseller's Association

“The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health, is one of those books that not only needs to be read by every thinking person in America, it also needs to be in the hands of political leaders and policymakers who have been controlled by the very industries that have created the massive health crisis Fitzgerald so clearly exposes.”
—Elissa Meininger,NewsWithViews.com

We have been lied to for over 100 years by the food industry and the medical industry. When my mother passed away from cancer at 44, and my uncle passed away from a heart attack at 37 I was just supposed to blame it on genetics and go on with my life. I was supposed to continue poisoning myself at every meal.

Instead I decided to start reading and I didn't stop. I am still reading about what is going on and I am always learning. Learning about Jack Lalanne really made me think. Here is a guy who is 95 and doesn't have cancer or heart disease. That was one thing that made me realize I had been lied to. For my whole life we were supposed to blame all of our bad diseases on genetics.

Then I read about the Okinawans and the Hunzans that live in disease free societies where nursing homes don't exist.

Eventually I worked my way to The Hundred Year Lie by Randal Fitzgerald. I don't know about you, but I don't like being lied to. I don't care if I am enjoying my bacon double cheeseburger or not...I don't like being told that heart disease and cancer are just bad genetics when that is a LIE.

Read this book and you will be shocked at how things changed in America. How heart disease went from being almost non-existent to being the number one killer. You will see how we traded in our farm grown food for junk food and processed food and then we ended up with the most expensive health care system in human history.

We live in a nation that started off by boycotting goods that didn't fit our ideals. Now each of us can begin to boycott junk food and start to support local farmers as we revolt against one hundred years of lies.

Cross Fit Workouts

Try a Cross Fit Workout. The exercise routines above are some of the examples of Cross Fit workouts.

I really am excited about the simplicity of these workouts and the fact that each workout is supposed to be a different Cross Fit workout.

Our muscles get so weak sometimes by doing the same machines and exercises.

What would our body do if we all of a sudden did 100 pull-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 squats?

Find out more about Cross Fit by learning about the various Cross Fit communities across the country. This is becoming the exercise routine for fire men, police men, and the military.

Inside of each one of us is a warrior that is ready for battle. These routines will help us achieve more than we could imagine, and they are based around sprinting run routines. I love sprinting.

Last night I tried a cross fit workout that just felt incredible. I did one set of 25 assisted pull-ups, 1 10mph 400 meter sprint, 1,000 meters rowing, 100 jump ropes, and 25 bosu ball push-ups. I only did two rounds of that but it felt so good.

Gladiators Were Vegan

Gladiators Were Vegan -- John McDougall MD - Ancient gladiators were referred to as the "Barley" men. Watch this video to learn about the Roman Gladiators who followed a vegan diet.



How did these gladiators have such strong bones? It's because they were eating a diet that is natural to the human species. The Roman soldiers followed a similar diet accord to historical records.

No Hunger, No Pollution, No Unemployment - Working Villages

Working Villages - Imagine a village with no pollution, no unemployment, and no hunger. Working Villages uses the principle that Ghandi based his non violent revolution on to create sustainable villages in Africa.

There first village was able to produce over 50,000 lbs of food in one month.

When I think about this project it makes me think about the Tarahumara Indians. The Tarahumara Indians live in a society with no heart disease, diabetes, and cancer is extremely rare. These people follow an ancient way of life that makes them invincible to disease and super human when it comes to running distances of 200 miles and beyond without stopping.

The Tarahumara live simply and eat a diet that is over 90% plant foods. Dr. Fuhrman uses a similar diet based off 90 - 100% plant foods to reverse disease.

Isn't fascinating that the ancient cultures of this world have so much to teach this advanced society? When America was first being explored we spent alot of resources destroying "primitive" societies and now as we move forward into time we are learning that cultures like the Tarahumara have alot more to teach us than we can teach them.

Green For Life - Green Smoothie Every Day!!!

Last night I had a dream that I got a substantial raise. It was pretty fascinating, because I have been saying affirmations for some time about being more financially successful.

The dream let me know that the messages have finally reached my subconscious. That was the whole point of saying affirmations to start changing the direction of my life by consciously choosing different thoughts to repeat out loud.

I love my life so much. I love every day of it. It is such an adventure. There is always another great book to read, or a new exercise to add to my routine, some great event to train for, and wonderful people to work with and for.

I am so thankful for everything in my life. I am thankful that I can wake up in the morning and have a green smoothie made with wild blueberries, organic kale, and bananas after a great one day fast.

Why do I love life so much? I am not sure. I think it might have something to do with eating high nutrient foods like green smoothies, salads, and healthy foods like the Tarahumara eat (beans).

Basically my point is we have life really good. We are very fortunate to have so much abundance in our lives. We can make it even better by choosing better thoughts and making good eating choices.

I recommend Green For Life as a book that I want you out there to read. Try to get it from the library. Chimps share 94% of our genetic code and over half of their diet is green leafy vegetables. If you aren't eating spinach, kale, cabbage, collard greens, bok choy, or some type of green leafy vegetable every day then you are officially crazy.

I repeat: We share 94% of our genetic code with chimps and they don't eat junk food in the wild. Make yourself a green smoothie and find out what you are missing.

If it doesn't taste good it means your blender probably sucks. I got a Vitamix, but the next cheapest high powered blender is Montel William's Health Master blender.

When I taste a green smoothie with those wild blueberries, greens, and bananas blended up I feel like I am in heaven. Nothing I have ever eaten has compared to this taste explosion in my mouth. I have tried to make these smoothies with cheap blenders and they just don't taste as good. I am close to heaven, but still have a couple hundred miles to go.

Invest in your health. Get a Health Master blender if you want to experience something that to me is the most fulfilling and delicious food combination on the planet.

The Fluoride Deception

Deception. Lies. Greed.

Living in a capitalistic society we are surrounded by deception everywhere we go. Our neighbors want to make money off of us so they use sophisticated methods to lie to us.

The lies start when they tell us that dairy products prevent osteoporosis, when the scientific facts show that the countries that consume the most dairy products have the highest rates of osteoporosis.

The simple truth is we allow this to happen. We need to educate ourselves to how corrupt the actual system is and then understand how to use our "boycott" power to support organic farming and a healthier and more sustainable future.

I recommend The Fluoride Deception by Chris Bryson, because it is fascinating and is also very illustrative of how far companies will go. Once we understand how unethical capitalistic greed can get then we have more power over our lives, because we can live more mindfully.

What Would Jack Do? WWJD

According to Jack Lalanne these exercises are the secret to the fountain of youth. I always ask myself, "What would Jack do?" Personally I think Jesus was great and I really dig the whole I will sacrifice myself for a greater cause thing, but the word of Jack is a little more uplifting.

You can check out Jack Lalanne's Hydronastics at http://www.jacklalanne.com/.

We have been spending more time in the pool lately because it is a relaxing way to exercise, but I wanted to get this DVD to get more out of my time in the pool.

Chi Running

Checked Chi Running book and DVD out from the library. I am preparing for my 50 mile run physically and mentally. The mental training is almost more important than the physical training. Every day I repeat to my self:

I am able to run the Wild Idaho 50 mile run faster than
anyone else without any pain or discomfort.

Mentally I know that the Tarahumara Indians are able to run 100 miles without any signs of fatigue or pain. This book has really helped me understand how they are able to do that.

Focusing on my running form is extremely important to my success in this upcoming 50 mile run. I want to run this 50 mile run without any pain or discomfort.

Check this book out if you are interested in learning some great secrets to pain free running. More people are getting running injuries now than ever before in the history of running.

The Tarahumara run distances of 200 miles or more and experience zero running injuries.

Former Football Player Goes Vegan To Reverse Disease

http://myveganquest.blogspot.com/ - This is Terry's website. This guy was the tough college athlete that could eat anything and burn it off. Later in life he found out that this is never true. He lowered his total cholesterol 100 points on a vegan diet by the incredible Dr. Fuhrman.

Interview with a Nutritarian: Terry - Read the article at diseaseproof.com here.

I Will Wait for You All at The Finish Line

Wild Idaho 50 Mile Run - David is the winner of the 2010 Wild Idaho 50 Mile Run!!! Congratulations! You did it!

I would like to take this moment, to say "Thank you" for everyone's support. I would like to thank Amber for every thing she has done for me and my running dog, Pinole.

I am the able to run the Wild Idaho 50 mile run in Cascade, Idaho faster than anyone else.

I am able to run the Wild Idaho 50 mile without any pain or discomfort.

I am able to run the Wild Idaho 50 Mile run in Cascade, Idaho faster than anyone else.

The Cliff...

What does it feel like to be walking towards a cliff? What does it feel like to follow millions of other Lemmings to a premature death?

The Standard American Diet is lethal. It's deadly. It's not safe for human consumption.

What percentage of kids age 4 - 11 have signs of heart disease in America?

75%

75% of our kids have clogged arteries. One study found that today's over weight kids have the arteries of 45 year old Americans.

Ask yourself what happened to some of our great athletes and you will find that they died of heart attacks and strokes. The Tarahumara are still going strong at 95 and beyond, but America's athletes die pretty young if they don't watch their diet.

Why is the America diet so lethal? Why have I met 16 year olds who had heart attacks and read about 13 years old dying of high blood pressure?

Dr. Milton Mills examined 19 different physilogical characteristics of humans, omnivores and herbivores. Humans share all 19 characteristics with herbivores and only one with carnivores. Our diet is lethal becasue we are not anatomically designed to eat a corpse. We are designed to climb trees and pick fruit.

This explains why I cannot run and catch a deer, but I can do hundreds of pull-ups.

So start making more meals with 100% plant foods and stop fighting with our anatomical design. Stop walking toward the cliff and following the other Lemmings.

Many of those lemmings were my family members who died of strokes, heart attacks, and cancer which is also a result of clogging our arteries. The immune system is useless if our arteries are clogged.

Engine 2 Fire Fighters on Dr. Oz Show

Engine 2 Fire Fighters on Dr. Oz Show - A truth always has to go through stages before it is believed. When I first started a vegan diet I was treated like I was crazy. Every person and restaurant treated me like I was a misfit. Now the vegan fire fighters are on Dr. Oz teaching American fire fighters how to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Then vegan world class runners like Scott Jurek are in books like Born To Run along with one of the most incredible vegan athletes of all time, Ruth Heidrich.

It's kind of funny. They keep telling you that you are being crazy, but no body is paying attention to what is actually going on. Things are changing.

Tarahumara Energy Foods - Ancient Energy Bars

Pinole & Chia Fresca - The Tarahumara live in a society without heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or diabetes and they can run up to 300 miles. I want to make some of this stuff for my long runs. It is cheap and easy to make and is more affordable than modern day energy bars, and has a better track record.

Some of our modern day energy bars are pretty highly processed, and I read that Scott Jurek doesn't consume any gels or energy bars when running. He just eats real foods like the Tarahumara.

Pinole

Tarahumara Indians - The Men Who Live Forever

Tarahumara Indians - The Men Who Live Forever - Men's Health article about the men who live forever. Why spend our whole lives working just to end up dying prematurely before we get to enjoy retirement? Why not just live simple like the Tarahumara and enjoy an entire lifetime instead of just a portion of one.

“In Tarahumara Land, there was no crime, war, or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn’t get diabetes, or depressed, or even old; fifty year-olds could outrun teenagers and eighty-year-old great-granddads could hike marathon distances up mountainsides. Their cancer rates were barely detectable…According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit. Other Tarahumara runners reportedly went three hundred miles at a pop.”
-Born To Run by Christopher McDougall

What Is Wrong With Us? How Did Most of Us Guys Get So Dumb?

I am a guy. I know how dumb we can be and how dumb we often are. I have known many guys that would spend every single dime they make on weapons to go "kill" stuff. Meanwhile, having these neanderthals help raise a generation of Americans has not worked.

Women are the stronger part of this yin yang equation. We need both for harmony, peace, and enlightenment, but women have been pushed aside from their rightful place in history.

We need women to start educating themselves and steer this ship back on course before we hit a really big ice berg and end up destroying this incredible country.
This book is next on my reading list after I finish the five books I am digesting at the moment. I am overwhelmed with books right now, but Pam Reed is incredible.

She beat the guys and girls in the 135 mile Badwater run in 130 degree temperature and she didn't even feel hot at all. Women are stronger than us. They can endure more pain and can beat us and I really think they are smarter than us, but our media is pushing our entire society towards dumbing ourselves down.

I have met so many women and men who don't read. They spend the majority of their time watching t.v. shows that do nothing to educate us and very little to inspire us to get off the couch and DO something!

The picture below is from an article by Dr. Fuhrman showing what is happening to kids today on the SAD (Standard American Diet). We are killing our own kids with high fat foods.

The Tarahumara let women have an equal place in society and they have no cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, war, theft, running injuries, carbon emissions or any of the other problems we have created in this society.

The message is simple. Women need to start smartening up their guys. We can see that the Tarahumara Indians have a society without our problems and if we want that for America we need to use our brains.

Every time a woman reads a book like Born To Run or Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease we will be that much closer to a society where our quality of life lasts a life time and we don't have to spend the last part of our lives in nursing homes and wheel chairs. We can spend the last years of our lives hiking, biking, and out in nature doing stuff like the Tarahumara do when they are 95 and walking 26 miles in the Copper Canyons.

Black Bean Brownies for Valentine's Day

Dr. Fuhrman's Black Bean Brownies

I made some of these Black Bean Brownies this week from Dr. Fuhrman. I thought they were incredible. I used Wonder Slim 99.7% caffeine free cocoa powder, because caffeine makes it so I cannot sleep good. Black beans actually have 10 times more antioxidants that oranges do. Just one cup of black beans provides 30% of your protein for the day and 20% of your iron per day.

I am going to make another batch for Valentine's Day. I like to give healthy gifts instead of unhealthy gifts for holidays. I always think about what someone would have gave someone thousands of years ago before there was junk food. At one time we just had what the Earth provided and that is what I like to give.

Dr. Fuhrman has successfully helped many patients reverse their disease. If you go to his website you can look at the success stories there. Check out http://www.drfuhrman.com/.

I always get amazed when I read about Julia and how she had three heart attacks and was on over 11 medications before she met Dr. Fuhrman. She could barely even walk one block she was in so much pain and so overweight.

Now she has reversed her heart disease and is off all medications. She has lost 105 lbs and is living her life again.

No Heart Disease, Crime, War, Theft, Obesity, Drug Addiction...

“In Tarahumara Land, there was no crime, war, or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn’t get diabetes, or depressed, or even old; fifty year-olds could outrun teenagers and eighty-year-old great-granddads could hike marathon distances up mountainsides. Their cancer rates were barely detectable…According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit. Other Tarahumara runners reportedly went three hundred miles at a pop.”
-Born To Run by Christopher McDougall

Give Yourself a Brain Massage

There are so many different things to tell you. So many things to share with you and so many things that you (reader) can share with me. Even if there is no one out there reading this is therapuetic for me.

I am always trying to forgive and let go of things. I am always trying to find ways to bless the people around me with love. I am not 100% successful. I have negative thoughts, but every day I try to be more positive and become a better person.

Relaxation is almost more important to me than exercise. It is an incredible part of a balanced life.

I would like you to learn the power of relaxation and maybe check out some of these great products from Kelly Howell at http://www.brainsync.com/.

Brain massage is incredible. It feels so relaxing to listen to this music that is scientifically designed to change your brain waves. After listening to it for half an hour I just feel super relaxed and good.

Winning is a subliminal CD that Kelly Howell has made and it also has the brain waves included to help change our brain waves to a more relaxed and natural state.

I love this CD, because the affirmations are exactly what I am always thinking about. A life that is not based on excuses, but one that is always about pushing ourselves to be our best.

• I play to win
• I am a success
• I have unlimited stamina
• I am strong* I feel great
• I am centered and focused
• I am enthusiastic and full of energy
• I revel in new challenges
• I’ve got what it takes to win
• I adjust effortlessly
• I do the right thing at the right time
• I am confident
• I believe in myself
• I achieve with ease
• I am highly skilled
• I trust my intuition
• I possess unlimited potential
• I am resourceful
• I’ve got the winning edge
• I know I will win, victory is mine!

Check out www.brainsync.com some time and see if any of these CDs will help you reach your potential. I like to listen to them while I am working and practicing my deep breathing core strengthening exercise.

Society Can Evolve - We Can Save The Planet

Individuals make choices every day. Collectively our choices as individuals make up the choices that a soicety makes. Jared Diamond wrote the book, Collapse, that looks at cultures that destroyed their environment and it led to the collapse of their civilizations. These civilizations were destroying their enviornment ignorantly just like we are today in America. In the book, Beyond Beef, by Jeremy Rifkin the author explains how growing crops for cattle and cattle grazing are the primary cause of desertification, deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, global warming, world hunger and water depletion.

Interestingly, consuming too many animal products is the primary cause of cancer and heart disease according to The China Study and Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Esselstyn.

Jared Diamond makes sure to look at cultures that avoided collapse by taking care of and protecting their environment. In the book one culture lives on a really small island and there are no islands near by. This is how life is on Earth for us. We are here by ourselves and if we don't take care of Mother Earth then there are no inhabitable rocks left for us to go live on. This island culture turned their island into a garden of eden to help save themselves environmentally. Every single plant on the island produced some type of food or something to make clothers or other useful items.

Imagine walking through a city surrounded by trees producing every type of edible fruit imaginable. That would be a city where everyone would always have nutritious food and those trees would produce oxygen for the environment. Every time you eat fruit that is a message to the world to plant more fruit trees. The same is not true for a hamburger, because according to Jeremy Rifkin an acre of forest is destroyed every five seconds for cattle grazing or growing crops for livestock. In the book, Diet For New America, John Robbins points out how over 80% of crops are used to feed livestock instead of people.

Food For Life is an organization that is aware of how producing animal products is the primary cause of world hunger. They have been feeding 100% plant-based meals to hungry people around the world for over 30 years.

We have a choice about our own future and the future of this planet. Humans can evolve and so can societies.


Dr. Will Tuttle wrote the book The World Peace Diet. His message is basically the same as Collapse. Our society needs to stop eating so many animal products if we want to save ourselves and this world. My favorite song in the world is called, "If You Could Save Yourself, You'd Save Us All" by Ween. It is so true.

My favorite part of The World Peace Diet is when Dr. Will Tuttle explains that the World Cancer Research Fund looked at 4,500 different studies and then concluded that animal products cause cancer. There recommendation was to avoid animal products and eat fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts. That is the same diet that Dr. Fuhrman and Dr. Esselstyn are using to reverse disease in their patients.

The ultimate message here is if we want a better world we need to start working on ourselves. We can't point fingers and blame someone else or just pretend that things are fine. We also can't avoid the truth because it is too depressing. We need to face the facts and start learning how we can help save this planet.


According to the book, Ecological Integrity by professor David Pimentel it takes 12,000 gallons to produce one pound of beef and 60 gallons to produce a pound of potatoes. Every time I eat a pound of potatoes instead of a pound of a beef I am saving up to 11,940 gallons of water for future generations. The same goes for when I choose beans over meat. One cup of beans provides 30% of my protein for the day and 30% of my iron.

Eating this way has gotten my total cholesterol to 116 so far.


Check out http://www.earthsavetv.org/ for some videos on the problem and the solutions. Eating more meals that are 100% plant-based is definitely the solution.

Excuses Are Not Natural

This is something I have had to learn and relearn and am still learning again every day. Every day there are so many excuses we can use to hold us back from our potential.

Every one of these excuses does nothing for us to help us improve our quality of life and they are not a part of our nature. A little baby doesn't make any excuses. The baby just exists and does. Even if a baby cannot do something it doesn't even phase him/her. They just keep trying and eventually they walk and then run.

What is the potential of our human body? This is something I am always thinking about. This weekend when I did a 54 mile bike ride I wanted to push myself closer to my physical potential.

If you read the book, Ultra Marathon Man, you will start to understand our true physical potential. Dean Karnazes has ran 350 miles in a row. It took him 81 hours to complete this task. He has also completed a 12 man 200 mile relay over 8 times by himself.

The plus to reading this book is it is facsinating and a really good book. If Dean Karnazes can do that and Jack Lalanne can do 1,023 pushups in 23 minutes on National television then what is my excuse. These inspirational people let me know that I can do incredible things with my body and mind.

I also recommend watching 50 Marathons in 50 Days. It's a documentary where Dean Karnazes runs 50 marathons in 50 days. Medical researchers did tests on him and found that after doing 50 marathons in a row his body had suffered less muscle damage than someone who ran one marathon.

Excuses are not natural. Don't let excuses keep you from staying physically fit, mentally fit, and getting the most out of life.

Cadillac Man in Land of The Lost Souls

I am almost finished reading Land of The Lost Souls by Cadillac Man. This is an incredible book! I love it. I have not been able to put it down all weekend

This book really helped me understand what homelessness is all about. Please do not treat these people badly. I ALWAYS give money to homeless people when I see them and have cash on me. I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY DO WITH THE MONEY!

Giving is more rewarding than receiving and that is not just during Christmas. I give homeless people $5 or $10 sometimes. I don't care if they drink with it. I just want them to know that someone cares about them.

If I was in their situation I pray to God someone would help me and treat me like a normal human being. This book shows the ugly side of discrimination that these people face on a daily basis.

Please read this book. Get it at the library or buy it. I think it is one of the best books I have ever read.

I am so grateful and thankful that I have a job, house, and healthy food to eat. Right now I am eating an incredible soup with all organic ingredients. It has potatoes, kidney beans, green chiles, kale, and a tomato base. Thank God I have the money to afford to feed myself good food.

Cadillac Man says that women are always the cruelest and most judgemental to homeless people. They laugh at them and treat them badly. That hurts my feelings. Please do not treat any of God's children like this. Just like Michael Franti says, "I'm a human being!" We are all human beings.

Thank you Cadillac Man for sharing your story with us.

Read about Land of the The Lost Souls.

May all beings everywhere be happy, healthy, and free

May all beings everywhere have a place to sleep and people who love them

May all homeless people in America be happy, healthy, and free to enjoy their lives