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

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

Healthy Whole Foods Chocolate Cake

Healthy Whole Foods Chocolate Cake (Recipe in Eat To Live II book) with TruWhip Natural topping

This is the whole foods chocolate cake I made for our potluck that everyone loved so much. Making healthy food for people is the most special gift there is.

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!

Breathe in...Breathe out

I have been trying to do deep breathing all day long lately. It is not easy, because society has pulled us away from our most natural state.

I often think of babies and how they just "are". They don't try to impress anyone and aren't in a high state of stress. There breathing is nice and calm.

Breathe in........Breathe out.

Deep breathing is so incredible for us. I recommend Super Power Breathing by Paul Bragg.

Every single day we think over 50,000 different thoughts. That is the reason it is so important just to try and get back in touch with the most simple thing on this planet and that is our breath.

Focusing on our breathing allows us to focus on the most important time there is which is this moment.

Speaking of breathing in and breathing out. I am really excited about the new Karate Kid movie coming out.

Have a good day!

Make sure to breathe in and breathe out!