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General Discussion / Re: Freshly squeezed juice is pasteurized
« on: July 29, 2015, 08:46:14 am »
I never see them pasteurize freshly squeezed juices. They just squeeze from orange to your cup or push the carrots through a macerating centrifuge with your cup at the spout. Wouldn't it be hot if they pasteurized it?

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Science / Re: Health benefits for women who have sex without condoms
« on: July 28, 2015, 08:56:52 am »
You know that I try every single thing that is mentioned on this forum, don't you?

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 27, 2015, 02:04:58 am »
Quote from: TylerDurden on July 25, 2015, 04:54:49 am
Large countries can work, just look at China or India.

Good comparison, illustrates the exact point I was making. Large countries have a range of problems based on their size alone. Some problems are simply more visible in a large country. Poverty is one such example: a few beggars in a small country turns into teeming slums in a large country. Other problems arise because diverse needs and customs prevent consensus throughout the country.

I am saying that the U.S. works! This is what working looks like: not like Utopia, more like Reality.

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Carnivorous / Zero Carb Approach / Re: Why are vegetables bad?
« on: July 27, 2015, 12:53:42 am »
Quote from: political atheist on July 26, 2015, 10:31:12 pm
did you increase significantly your salt intake and magnesium intake while on near zero carb diet?

Although I never tried a near-zero carb diet, I count carbs so I can control diabetes by diet alone. My daily target carb number is less than 100g, more likely 50g of carbs per day. IMO, I would see no reason to limit carbs as strictly as I do if you had no medical reason to do so.

I was never tried salt restriction. I buy a colorful (unrefined) salt and use it whenever I want. I never measure salt.

I supplement magnesium with Epsom salt baths (ahhhhh!) or Natural Calm powder in water. I gauge magnesium need by sleep quality and bowel regularity. Transdermal magnesium supplementation (baths) works the best for me. When supplementing magnesium by mouth, the unabsorbed magnesium irritates the bowels. I avoid bowel irritation whenever possible. I can buy Epsom salts from chemical supply houses in 25 or 50 pound bags at a very low price. [Note to parents/grandparents: putting magnesium in the children's evening bathwater is a sure-fire way to get them to sleep. When I babysit my grandbabies, we "play" in the Epsom salty bathtub for about 30 minutes. Then I put on their jammies, read them a bedtime story, and get their sleepy heads into bed and watch them drift instantly to sleep. Works every time.]

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General Discussion / Re: Lets Discuss Raw Eggs
« on: July 27, 2015, 12:32:48 am »
I eat eggs alone (no smoothies) and only in season when I can find the ones from chickens who are fed a biologically-appropriate diet. Not only do I interrogate the egg rancher about the hens' lifestyle, but I visit the ranch to make sure I see chicken coops for nighttime safety, not battery houses with 10,000 hens and a tiny door at one side of the building. Here in California, the label on the egg carton can be deceiving and still be worded legally.

I have never found hens that are raised/fed perfectly (like the wild, foraging creatures they were meant to be), but I suppose that's the compromise: unless you want to forage for wild eggs in the springtime, even the practice of gathering eggs to keep the hen from becoming broody and stop laying is not a natural thing.

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Personals / Re: Dating a paleo man
« on: July 27, 2015, 12:25:10 am »
I think you're wise to include eating style as one of the cultural similarities you want in a man, not that different eating styles would break the harmony of a good relationship, but it would be a ton more fun with someone who explores the same culinary avenues that you do.

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Health / Re: How to transition back to some cooked foods
« on: July 27, 2015, 12:15:48 am »
Quote from: BurritoJimmy on July 26, 2015, 08:35:28 pm
Eveheart - If I were able to I'd prefer to go back to cooked diet so long as I was not having health issues. I am glad I learned about the raw foods diet 15 years ago so I have a tool now for when docs aren't helping me out much. I agree 6 weeks is not long but 99% is far more difficult for me than say 90% or even 95% since it's very difficult socially at 99%. If I could continue to get better a little at a time at 90% I would be happy since I feel pretty good now.

In that case, consider something like Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Diet Roadmap, which I think you can still get for free if you enter your email at his site. In that way of eating, you avoid the "kryptonite" foods (like sugar and alcohol) and cooking methods (like frying). Molds can also be a culprit - I know they were for me - and Asprey talks a lot about that in his books, blogs, and videos.

As others have mentioned, get some blood values for minerals and such. I supplement Vitamin D and magnesium because of low blood values. Not surprisingly, those two are very common deficiencies in a modern lifestyle.

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Off Topic / Re: Give us a laugh !
« on: July 26, 2015, 02:13:06 am »
I'm very sensitive to both humorous and serious bashing of other people's race, religion, gender, sexual proclivities, etc. I cannot see that it leads to anything but hatred, distrust, and division. Because of that, I have a struggle of conscience being part of this forum when bashing occurs. I don't see what anybody gains by intolerance of others, and I think the whole world loses its peaceful possibilities when bashing occurs.

It's not a Northern California thing, it's a global thing. Here in NorCal, we have enough peace between cultures to make us realize that getting along is a good thing, and getting along starts with how we tolerate one another's differences.

As a polite, considerate person who follows a raw diet, I understand the male-predominant nature of this forum, and I have no complaint when I read testosterone-driven threads that do not pertain to me. However, I have to draw the line at "hating on" people who are different from me. Even if "those" people are not here, bashing behind someone's back leads to no good result.

"... what can I do?" Considering that I don't want my name, not even my internet nickname, associated with bashing, I can withdraw, leave the forum. I have a wealth of raw flesh information that I love to share with others on a raw diet. Does the forum want to lose my experience?

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Health / Re: How to transition back to some cooked foods
« on: July 25, 2015, 11:13:21 pm »
Non-cardiac chest pain is probably intestinal gas or intestinal inflammation. The pain shows up in the chest because the large intestines is right underneath the chest cavity. You may not be passing much gas, but even a little bit can cause that kind of pain. Headaches and congestion can often be intestinal issues, too.

Asking your body to process the toughened protein of cooked meat is a lot to ask. You didn't say why you want to transition back to cooked foods, but I'd say that you should play "detective" and put your health first: eat what heals you. Six weeks of healing is not a lot of time.

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Off Topic / Re: Give us a laugh !
« on: July 25, 2015, 11:04:09 pm »
Quote from: TylerDurden on July 25, 2015, 04:26:30 pm
The Vagina Monologues is, after all, a tired, leftwing piece of trash that insults and denigrates men and, at the end of the play/theme, tried to imply that all women should become lesbians like the author of the Vagina Monologues as men are supposedly all rapists etc.

The Vagina Monologues is a monologue(!), a theatrical presentation by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud. The author/performer Eve Ensler, whether performing her own opinions for fun or profit, is entitled to her opinion, IMO. She only speaks for herself. I don't see the point in going beyond one's own opinion of her opinion by blasting others for their opinion of the Vagina Monologues; that amounts to reviewing a review.

I belong to this forum because of its connection to a raw diet. I would love to encourage my dear friends to join this forum, but I don't because of the attitudes of some other members towards a diverse society. My friends are all heterosexuals who have no beef with people who are different from us in various ways. In the past on this forum, we've had vicious thread-fights over the diverse opinions among our member; now, we seem to have directed our desire to flame outwards to people who are not in the conversation. What's the point? Why waste one breath (or one keystroke) putting someone else to shame for their lifestyle or opinion? I find it both offensive and not funny.

Where are we going with these threads that label other lifestyles as "humorous"?

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Off Topic / Re: Give us a laugh !
« on: July 25, 2015, 12:13:09 pm »
Quote from: RogueFarmer on July 25, 2015, 11:34:47 am
It is strange indeed. It seems like they have removed the meaning behind sex so why are they still excluding men who identify as men? I tend to despise men, I like women and am affectionate to women. Does this mean I identify as a woman? What if I identify as neither but instead identify as merely a human being?

Relax, RogueFarmer. Just because some people have differing thoughts and feelings about their "identity," it doesn't mean that we all have to examine our "identity," whatever the hell that means.

Years ago, I had some lesbian acquaintances who claimed that all women were lesbians; therefore, I should give it a try. I thought about it long and hard for, uh, about a tenth of a second, and knew for sure that I was not attracted to any woman. I mean, "Nice try, ladies, now move on along." Just because they try to sell something, doesn't mean you have to even consider buying it.

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Off Topic / Re: Give us a laugh !
« on: July 25, 2015, 07:33:24 am »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on July 25, 2015, 06:39:30 am
Women’s college theater group cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ amid concerns that it could offend transgender people

GS, you are posting items in Give Us A Laugh, but I don't see the humor in what you have been posting here.

I do understand that you are opposed to the way that certain people are, but how is that funny? Would you point to a "different" person in the street and laugh at them? Maybe your answer would be yes, but I find that behavior offensive, and I would no more want to tolerate someone pointing and laughing in public than I would having them point and laugh online.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 24, 2015, 09:33:00 pm »
Quote from: TylerDurden on July 24, 2015, 02:42:21 pm
Yet more proof that democracy is a waste of time....

From where I stand, the problem with U.S. democracy is not democracy itself; rather, the problem is with the size and diversity of the U.S.A. There is no consensus among our elected leaders because there is no consensus among  the citizens. Life is an obstacle course, and the U.S. is a sea-going tanker ship. In that sense, the U.S. will eventually fall apart from within or from without. That's the way it goes with large countries.

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General Discussion / Re: MAGGOT FISH LATEST!
« on: July 24, 2015, 09:26:35 pm »
I understand that maggots' excretions turn to ammonia quickly, so I was wondering if there is much ammonia odor from your process. That's the one factor that has prevented me from raising maggots to eat. If there is ammonia, do you ignore it? Rinse it off?

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Off Topic / Re: Give us a laugh !
« on: July 23, 2015, 09:32:01 pm »
Quote from: RogueFarmer on July 23, 2015, 05:22:09 pm
Lol I think GS knows it's meant to be ironic. He may not know that in Idaho women could be charged with indecent exposure. It is actually pretty recent in many states that breast feeding in public is protected by law. Also some women in America chose to use breast pumps and bottle their milk and then feed it to their baby.

Choose to pump? I'd hardly think that is a free and open choice. It's more of an economic or social necessity.

I hate to be a stick in the mud about what's funny and what's not funny, but whenever humor is directed at people who are acting in their culturally-normal ways, I can't see the humor. Some of the "humor" posted in this topic makes me stew and think about resigning the forum. I know that's my cultural bias, and I hate to judge what somebody else finds funny, but intolerance is not funny to me, no matter which side is being made fun of.

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Off Topic / Re: Give us a laugh !
« on: July 23, 2015, 12:37:32 pm »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on July 23, 2015, 12:11:01 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LURZqBig734


https://youtu.be/LURZqBig734

Women Should NEVER Breastfeed in Public

Funny. Maybe in the society she lives in their public thinks this way.

Yes, it's funny, GS, but not for the reason you think.

This video used irony (the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect) to poke fun at those who prudishly do think that breastfeeding a child in public is a form of exhibitionism.

P.S. Those who do feel uncomfortable about breastfeeding have other cultural or psychological body-image issues; their discomfort includes any natural body function and often the body itself, not just breasts, lactation, and breastfeeding.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 23, 2015, 08:01:08 am »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on July 22, 2015, 11:30:57 pm
"Egomaniac" is a criticism?

At the level of running for President, I expect ALL of them to be egomaniacs! 

“Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.” ? Donald Trump.

Even amongst us healers we have egos.

My dictionary does not give ego as a synonym for egomaniac. For example, ego means "a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance," while egomania means an obsessive preoccupation with one's self and applies to someone who follows their own ungoverned impulses and is possessed by delusions of personal greatness."

In the context of Mr. Trump, his flippantly impulsive comments point to egomania, even though his political platform is appealing. If he were president in a democracy, he might not be able to work cooperatively within the U.S.'s representative form of government. That happened in California when Mr. Schwarzeneger was governor: he was elected with his splendid rhetoric, then spent his term deadlocked with the California Senate and House of Representatives because he couldn't dismount his super-sized ego.

Cooperation is a trait that gets the highest nod of approval in the U.S. Perhaps it is different elsewhere.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 22, 2015, 09:31:43 pm »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on July 22, 2015, 05:49:06 pm
Second, Trump is establishing a hotline and email address for veterans to share their stories on how the Veterans Administration should be reformed. He pledges that if elected president he will take care of the veteran complaints “very quickly and efficiently like a world-class businessman can do, but a politician has no clue.”

That kind of Trump move is both the good news and the bad news.

Good news: The V.A. has shamefully slow to respond to poor performance complaints. Something should be done...

Bad news: It's not in the POTUS's job description to act like a businessman, only like the executive branch of government. In a healthy democracy, one person's brilliant idea is not everybody's brilliant idea. That only works in a healthy dictatorship. The U.S. rejected monarchy a few centuries ago.

Like CK said: egomaniac.

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Info / News Items / Announcements / Re: Woman ate nothing but bananas for 12 days
« on: July 20, 2015, 09:27:12 pm »
Quote from: dariorpl on July 20, 2015, 08:20:32 pm
Ehh.. So she ate bananas for 12 days, and couldn't get pregnant before, but with the banana diet, she soon gave birth to a child? I thought it took a bit longer than 12 days to go through that process.

Yes, that's the beauty of the banana diet. It shortens the gestation period in humans, especially useful if you don't want to be preggers in the heat of summer.

Seriously, though, dontcha love those N=1 articles? You can really get to the truth about biology and dietology without all those complicated scientific experiments.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 20, 2015, 07:48:04 am »
Quote from: cherimoya_kid on July 20, 2015, 07:20:55 am
Prima Donna? You're better off waiting for a real job to come along, or at least one with advancement opportunity, instead of taking a dead-end low-wage job, in many cases. I'm not saying it's black and white, but those are the facts.

I am talking about real jobs with advancement opportunities, jobs where you can learn about the business, demonstrate your worth, and then get promoted. Many goal-less students get their degree in sociology or comparative religions and flash their diploma as if it were the Golden Key to management. Then, they move back home to mom and dad's and get high every day, waiting for someone to worship them with a high-paying job.

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General Discussion / Re: MAGGOT FISH LATEST!
« on: July 20, 2015, 07:06:39 am »
LOL I call everything "sashimi," although I just can't think of an euphemism for maggots.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 20, 2015, 07:04:35 am »
Quote from: dariorpl on July 20, 2015, 05:01:54 am
Because of this, many businesses have been firing full time workers and replacing each with two part-time workers instead. But as far as the employment figures go, if two people find a new 20hs a week job, and one person has just lost a 40hs a week job, the economy just gained a new job. And of course, the part-time employed are not counted as being unemployed even if they would rather be working full-time, so the unemployment figures appear to go down on paper.

... a-n-d part-time workers do not need to be paid benefits. As a full-time worker, I am paid again 25% of my wages in additional benefits, including retirement contributions and full health insurance. If I work more than 40 hours per week as overtime, I get paid at 1.5 my hourly rate. In contrast, the four half-time positions that my company just posted do not include benefits for the same work I do. Read it again: four positions, or the equivalent of two full-time people, will save my employer from paying benefits and overtime to those workers.

Curiously, my company is constantly understaffed; even in a poor economy, it's hard to find workers who are both qualified and willing to work here. That is another factor that has to be figured in to unemployment figures - prima donna job-seekers who want their ideal job or no job at all. This includes older displaced workers who want to earn what they earned in their prime and recent graduates who reckon that their 4-year degree qualifies them to start at the top.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 20, 2015, 02:15:29 am »
Quote
Today's Huffington Post News: A Note About Our Coverage Of Donald Trump's 'Campaign'

reported by Ryan Grim, Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, and Danny Shea, Editorial Director, The Huffington Post

Posted: 07/17/2015

After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won't report on Trump's campaign as part of The Huffington Post's political coverage. Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump's campaign is a sideshow. We won't take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you'll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 19, 2015, 10:24:26 pm »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on July 19, 2015, 09:36:42 pm
So I gather with this shift in the kinds of jobs in the usa, there is no unemployment or underemployment problem?

Or maybe welfare and ebt cards fill the gap and most are happy?

That's what I mean, GS. How could you possibly believe the broad generalizations that you write, except by an extreme lack of research? Maybe you need to stop reading the pundits and start reading history and economics.

Like every national economy, we have our ups and downs. Overall, we have less unemployment than we did a few years back, but that is moderated by a shift in reporting (some people ran out of unemployment benefits, some stopped looking for work, etc.) and a large disparity in our so-called inner-city sector (where unemployment can run upwards of 25%, even in the good years).

Just as the Philippines has an outpouring of educated workers pushing into the U.S. who tell me that "the Philippines is a violent place where women are kidnapped in broad daylight and forced into prostitution, and where certain social classes have no work opportunities but to be someone else's maid," I know better than to believe that their truth is absolute truth for all of the Philippines. That's not to say that these immigrants are lying. There is more than one side to every story. But that does not give me the right to generalize that all Philippine women get murdered in the streets or kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

I know, that sounds bizarre, but so do your broad statements about the U.S. I get the impression that the U.S. is bigger but less powerful than you think. Where you want to see good guys and bad guys, there are really just regular ol' guys.

Oh, and back to Trump - if he does get elected, he'll only be in office for 8 years, maximum. U.S. politics is best watched from a safe distance and enjoyed, if possible.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Trump for President of the USA
« on: July 19, 2015, 09:27:13 pm »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on July 19, 2015, 01:49:34 pm
From what I've been reading, the past presidents of the USA have done wonderfully in outsourcing almost everything.

I can't complain, a lot of Filipinos today are doing the office jobs Americans used to do.
The factory jobs are now in China and Mexico.
What are the Americans who used to do those jobs do now? 

If you were interested, you could study the shift from agricultural jobs to service-sector jobs to info-tech jobs over the last 150+ years in the U.S. I'm in the service sector, doing a job that didn't even exist until the late 20th Century. When I say shift, I do not mean elimination, as you imply; we do not lack factories or factory workers in the U.S.

Not only does the U.S. outsource; within the U.S., we use our "foreigners" (voluntary immigrants, if you study John Ogbu) to do both agricultural and service-sector jobs, and we have an "elite" class of voluntary immigrants in the info-tech sector. Outsourcing (of work or workers) was neither invented nor implemented by our chief executive, but by our business sector. The government gets involved in international business practices whenever there is a need or a chance to define international alliances.

You strike me as an intelligent man, GS. Perhaps your information sources are betraying you by feeding you half-truths and faulty assumptions.

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