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

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.

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.

Momma Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be "Health Nuts"

We are labeled as wierd, different, strange, health nuts, and every other negative label society can find for us.

Eating a incredible tasting green smoothie with wild blueberries, bananas, kale, and flax seeds for breakfast is bizarre or boring. If someone eats bacon and sausage for breakfast then they are accepted as normal.

If it is not socially acceptable to boycott foods that destroy our arteries then I want to be on the fringe. I want to be like Tim Van Order. He didn't do any exercise for 18 years. A knee injury in high school and asthma stopped him from pursuing his professional athletic career.

Then he adopted a raw vegan diet and became one of the best mountain runners in the country in one year. He did this after 18 years of a sedentary lifestyle at the age of 37.

If we take care of our bodies and our arteries age means nothing. We can become ageless. Being "normal" in America is why we have kids on The Biggest Loser that are over 450 lbs.

Everyone told Jack Lalanne that he was going to die young from exercising so much. Doctors believed he was destroying his body. At 95 years old he still exercises for 2 hours a day and according to his book, Live Young Forever, he hasn't had a sick day in 60 years.

My role models aren't "normal" and this is awesome. I look up to the vegan fire fighters from Engine 2 fire house in Austin, Texas. I look up to people who aren't obsessed with "protein", but are obsessed with getting the most out of life.

Do the food companies that have spent our entire lives trying to brain wash us care about us? Is it too much to suspect that they benefit from treating healthy people like "misfits" more than the most obese country in the history of human kind?

I listen to that song by Michael Jackson, "They Don't Really Care About Us." and I know it is so very true. These big companies don't care about us. More people die of heart disease every day than died in the 9-11 terrorist attacks and no one is even bothering to tell anyone about doctors reversing heart disease like Dr. McDougall and Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn.

Our own media used Michael Jackson to keep us distracted for years. That whole time doctors were reversing diseases like multiple sclerosis, heart disease, diabetes, and many other health problems and our media just wanted to focus on celebrities.

During that time of distraction and misinformation my uncle died of a heart attack at the age of 37, a boss of mine died at 44 years of age, and a teacher died at 38 years of age of a heart attack.

We live in the richest country in the world and many people can't even expect to live to be 40 years old because our food is so deadly and toxic.

My own mother was more alarmed when I became a vegan than when I started smoking. Thank God I stopped destroying my body. It was difficult, because that is the cool thing to do.

Some day it will be seen as a positive thing when people decide to take responsibility for their health and eat healthier meals and exercise regularly.

Tim Van Orden - www.runningraw.com

The Scam

"As if their reputations weren't sullied enough, cancer researchers took another hit when Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize, said:

'The ways in which the American people have been betrayed by the cancer establishment, the medical profession, and the government are shocking. Everyone should know that the war on cancer is largely a fraud and a sham, and that the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society are derelict in their duties to the people who support them'"

-In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, And Human Experimentation by Andrew Goliszek

The sicker we get as a society the more money there is to be made off of our suffering by the medical establishment. Turn on your television and watch The Biggest Loser to see young 30 year old men who are 525 lbs. These same people go to doctors and all the doctors can promise to do is expensive surgeries.

My mother was scammed by this system. She was a medical nurse for 15 years and she believed in our medical system. She got excited about all the fancy medications she was offered for pain relief, allergies, depression, sinus problems, digestive problems and every other single health problem she dealt with.

Our current medical system doesn't want to know what is CAUSING the health problem. They only want to cover up symptoms with pills and surgeries and move on to the next money bag or patient.

Amber went to a doctor because she was having headaches and our bill was $1,600 dollars. All this genius told us was to take tylenol which will destroy your digestive system. His advice wasn't even worth .10 cents. His prescription was stupid.

Americans need to start waking up. One person and one family at a time. The Biggest Loser is the beginning of that revolution. I have seen people get off over 9 medications in less than two weeks of healthier eating and exercise on that show. One patient was only 28 years old and was on 8 different medications. They got him off of all those medications and Dr. Huizenga stated that it would save him $700,000 in medical expenses.

In the long run it will be cheaper to just take care of our health with diet and exercise. We will get the added benefit of looking good and feeling good.

Invest in your health and open your eyes up to the SCAM!!! The scam is our modern medical system trying to take every dime we ever earned by making our society think that disease is a natural part of the aging process or that it is genetics (God's fault). Read OverDosed in America by Dr. John Abramson for more information on this scam.

Life Style Power

Life Style Power - Check out this blog. This guy is 67 years old and is on zero medications. Just looking at his blog is like listening to myself. If this is what I have to look forward to then I am definitely excited. I want to be on zero medications at 67.

The whole message of this blog is that we have to take responsibility for our own health and that a healthy lifestyle is the key to healthy aging. There is also alot of information on this website about Dr. Fuhrman and Dr. McDougall.

This weekend we attempt the ultimate mini tri-athlon. Amber and I are going to do a 52.4 mile bike ride, 13.1 walk/run and a 1 mile swim.

May we all be healthy and on zero medications when we are enjoying our golden years!

Eating Green - Saving Planet One Bite At A Time

"If all Americans abstained from eating meat for five days a week, they would save 498 megatons of greenhouse gas emissions. This would result in carbon savings equivalent to planting 13 billion trees in your garden and letting them grow for ten years. That is 43 trees per American!"

-Meat The Truth documentary

Watch the new documentary Meat The Truth.

Meat the Truth trailer.

This is fascinating that we can help our planet by consuming less animal products, because Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn used a 100% plant-based diet to reverse heart disease. Dr. Esselstyn took 17 patients that were all told they would die within weeks or months. They are all still alive 20 years later after following the dietary advice of Dr. Esselstyn.

Murlan Murphy is one of those patients and is now 88 years old and feels better than he ever has in his life. Before he met Dr. Esselstyn there were no men in his family that lived past the age of 60.

It is so incredible that the same thing that can save the planet can also reverse heart disease.

The number one killer of fire fighters in this country is not fires. The number one killer of those brave fire fighters is heart disease.

Dr. Esselstyn's son, Rip Esselstyn, is a former world class athlete and knows the importance of following a plant-based diet to avoid heart attacks and strokes. In his book, The Engine 2 Diet, Rip points out that the 45 year long Framingham Heart Study never had one person with a total cholesterol of lower than 150 have a heart attack. His fellow fire fighters use this information and a plant-based diet to keep healthy.

Following this advice has really paid off for me so far. I am 33 years old and my total cholesterol is 116 last time I checked it. I am not on any medications. Doing something good for the planet has helped me stay away from cholesterol lowering meds. I have also seen major improvements in my athletic abilities.

Engine 2 Fire Fighters Keep Their Total Cholesterol Below 150

"Could you ever love a pot of gold?"

That's a line from one of my favorite songs by Michael Franti. It would be pretty hard to love a pot of gold or to love a million dollars.

Why are profits more important than the truth?

I want to live in a society where people are more important than profits.

I want to live in a society where our health care system profits when people get better.

This is the part of my post where you think to yourself, "This guy is crazy." It's so hard to understand what I am talking about because we have been raised to believe that our current health care system is the best in the world.

The more searching you do the more you will find that our current health care system only profits if we get sick. There is no incentive to make us better. The current system wants to make a profit so it is most profitable when the society is very sick and needs lots of pills and surgeries.

Let me just give you this bit of information. The cure for multiple sclerosis has been known for over 40 years now. No that is not a type out. I repeat: The cure for multiple sclerosis has been known for over 40 years now.

It was discovered by Dr. Roy B. Swank 40 years ago. Since then he has helped over 5,000 people cure themselves of MS with a 98% success rate.

Our current medical system in America is the most expensive system in the world, and a doctor in our system will tell patients that there is NO CURE!!! Then they will proceed to tell the patient how miserable there lives will become. They will also tell the patient how they will eventually spend the rest of their life in a hospital bed.

"Could you ever love a pot of gold?"

-Michael Franti

Dr. Roy B. Swank tells the patient something else. He tells them that diet can cure 98% of MS patients. He then tells them what to do and gives them a choice. The following two people cured themselves of MS following the work of Dr. McDougall based on the cure discovered by Dr. Roy B. Swank.

Donna McFarland Cures Multiple Sclerosis

Deb Tasic Cures Multiple Sclerosis

Money is really a good thing. It is very important in my life, but I want a society where we tell people the truth. I want to live in a society where people who are suffering are helped instead of just used for profits.

I really love having money in my life, but I love humans not money. The bible said to "love our neighbor", not to love his/her wallet or checkbook.

The Stressed Out Junk Food Cycle

It is a vicious cycle that keeps repeating in our lives and in our society.

We get stressed out and then we sit in front of the television to relax and unwind.

Unfortunately the television is trying to get us hooked on every type of toxic food there is out there.

Then we get in this cycle of using decadent foods to deal with stress.

Then we gain lots of weight and it stresses us out more. Then we decide to eat more food and feel sorry for ourselves.

First of all television is not a way to relieve stress. Exercise is an effective way to deal with stress. Just stretching for a couple of minutes here and there at work feels so good.

Why do most people not know how to deal with stress and avoid this cycle of self destructive behavior and food addictions?

I would like anyone out there to take a look at the work of Dr. Dwayne Dyer, Lori Lite, and Louise L. Hay on their children books. All of these authors have designed children's books to teach children how to think positively and deal with stress.

My idea here is simple. Let's use our money to support people that are making a difference. Then we will be making a difference with them. I bought some of these books for my niece because I want her to feel good about herself.

Lets teach kids how to deal with stress and strong emotions at a young age. Lets teach them to love themselves when they are young and build their self esteem up every day.

Stress Free Kids - This is the website where Lori Lite talks about her books. Imagine teaching kids how to do deep breathing, affirmations, and relaxation techniques at a young age. The Angry Octopus is a Lori Lite book that teaches kids how to effectively deal with anger.

May all humans on this planet find ways to deal with stress

May our lives get better every day as we learn and grow

Take Care of The Gift - No Excuses

You were given the most important gift of your life. No fancy cell phone or brand new car can compare to this gift.

We were all given the gift of life. We only get one body and it has to last our entire life time. Think about your body as the most highly technological thing on this planet.

Think of those 90 trillion cells that are making life possible for you every day. They are doing their job every single day so we need to make sure and do our job. We need to give them the right fuel.

Right now I am feeding my 90 trillion cells white flesh sweet potatoes with mushroom gravy and a salad with a fat free dressing.

Too many people treat their bodies like it is a piece of junk. Who on earth would ever treat their car as bad as some of us treat our bodies?

Ironically then we expect high performance out of it.

That is why I am telling you to take care of your gift. I am reminding you that you only get one body. In order to get the most out of this one life we get that we know of we need to take care of the gift.

Look at people like Jack Lalanne and Ruth Heidrich and see the firsthand benefits of taking care of this gift.

Ruth Heidrich Defeats Breast Cancer and Osteoporosis - Ruth Heidrich is now over 70 years old and she runs in over 54 marathons and triathlons every year. She defeated breast cancer and osteoporosis at 47 after adopting a low-fat 100% plant based diet. She got hit by a truck during one marathon when she was 67 and broke some bones, but it didn't stop her for long. She recovered and got right back to running.

Scott Jurek is taking care of his gift too. Scott Jurek has won the 100 mile Western Endurance run seven times now and has won the 135 mile Death Valley run two times. He fuels his body with 100% plant foods. Smart! These keeps his arteries clean and his immune system working at full strength.

May all beings everywhere reach their full potential

May all beings experience joy in every precious moment of life

Cost of Food Addictions - Up To $3 Million

The Biggest Loser showed on their most recent episode that premature death can cost a person up to $3 million dollars in medical bills, lost wages, and lost retirement income.

What is true health worth? Is it priceless?

There is only one doctor out there talking about it that I know of. His name is Dr. Fuhrman. He is talking about food addictions and how they destroy lives.

Every Tuesday I watch the Biggest Loser and see the effects of food addictions. No one is talking about it. Drug addictions are more glamorous and exciting and no one wants to admit that eating foods that destroy our health is not something a sane person would do.

Why do so many people eat doughnuts for breakfast? How can we justify starting a day off with a glob of sugar, white flour, and fat deep fried to perfection?

If it doesn't come directly from the Earth then maybe we should acknowledge how worthless and destructive it is to our bodies. At some point we need to ask ourselves how Moses managed to live to 120 years old. Did he wake up and eat junk food all day or did he eat foods from the Earth?

I witnessed food addictions destroy my family. I witnessed a 30 year old woman who was in the best shape of her life gain a large amount of weight in 14 years and it came down to choices.

That woman was my mother and I love her and I know she believed in the Bible, but how can we claim to practice the message of religion if we don't love ourselves.

Someone who truly loves themselves would never eat something that is bad for them. If that same person loved their neighbor they would only bring their neighbor healthy food. They would never bring their neighbor food that causes them to gain weight and eventually could lead to them missing out on $3 million dollars.

For our work wellness program I am going to make a "healthy" chocolate cake with zero refined sugars for my co-workers. This recipe can be found in the book Eat for Health by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

My co-workers are fathers and mothers and I want to give them food that will keep them healthy so they can take care of their families.

Give the gift of health. Whether it is a Christmas present or any gift it is the purest way to show people we care about them.

Imagine a world where we only made healthy foods for ourselves and our loved ones. Imagine what would happen if we loved ourselves that much just like the Bible asks us to.

Read Eat to Live and Eat for Health by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. Check out his website at http://www.drfuhrman.com/ and his blog at http://www.diseaseproof.com/.

We can learn to eat foods that are good for us. They can become addictive to us if we give them a chance.

The picture below is about a man who gave up his addictions to junk food and started to Eat To Live. Doing this allowed him to avoid surgery and all medications even at 84 years old.

Eat Better - Live Longer - Save the Planet

Good afternoon world!

My message is simple. Take care of yourself. Love Yourself. Love this planet. Educate yourself.

I learned the hard way that life is not fun when we don't take care of our health. My uncle passed away at the age of 37 of a heart attack, a teacher in college at the age of 38 of a heart attack, and my mother of cancer at the age of 44.

Let's take care of our health and help save the planet at the same time. Make your diet contain as many fruits and vegetables as you can and limit animal products that are loaded with cholesterol and fat.

Check out these links for more information:

• http://www.earthsave.org/ - Saving the planet with our forks and spoons. Awesome!
  
• http://www.heartattackproof.com/ - Dr. Esselstyn was the first doctor to reverse heart disease using a 100% plant-based diet.
  
• http://www.veganbodybuilders.com/


• http://www.thechinastudy.com/ - The most comprehensive nutritional study in human history. Jack Lalanne is living proof that this study is the most important information on nutrition there is.
  

The bible said we need to love ourselves. I believe it 100%. I love myself. Every day I say affirmations to plant seeds to create a better tomorrow.

Have a great day!

The most important thing to know in life is:

Self improvement = World Improvement