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Primal Diet / Re: Cheese from raw milk
« on: May 12, 2013, 02:09:41 am »
eck.. I already tried a tiny piece of it and it's not very tasty actually, can't I age it or something?  How do you make hard cheeses, does that involve heating it?  Or can I make a hard cheese without heating it?  How do I make cheddar or parmesean or even feta, it looks like feta kinda..

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Primal Diet / Re: Cheese from raw milk
« on: May 11, 2013, 01:36:44 pm »
Uuuuhm, okay so I used a coffee filter to separate it and now it looks like this..



...now what do I do?

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Primal Diet / Re: BOTULISM
« on: May 10, 2013, 04:27:46 am »
Botulism is about the only thing that really scares me about eating raw food.  The reason it is so dangerous is because botulism, which is caused by some sort of spore, causes paralysis.  What happens is that your entire body becomes paralyzed over time (I think over the course of hours to maybe a day or two at most, not sure exactly, how long, you can look it up.) until your lungs/heart or brain or something get paralyzed and you die.  However it is also the ingredient used to make botox.  Yeah, that stuff that all the movie stars use to make their face look younger, you see it get made fun of in movies where the person's face gets all stiff and they can't make any facial expressions.. it's made with botulism.

Botulism will only develop in air-tight or anaerobic environments though, that's why they say if you air out you meat it will be fine.  It seems to be caused a whole lot worse and much easier when in metal containers.  Some say it happens more in plastic too, but I'm not sure.  Safest is glass and ceramic type containers, of course.  Just make sure they get lots of air and there will be nothing to worry about.  Though I don't think I would trust meat in a metal container even if it gets aired out a lot.  That's just me though, I don't know if anyone here has done it without problem or would want to risk it.  But I would take e.coli and salmonella any day over botulism.

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Personals / Re: I now virtually have my own farm
« on: May 10, 2013, 04:08:34 am »
Where do you live?

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General Discussion / Re: Raw Eggs
« on: May 10, 2013, 03:40:59 am »
Quote from: lorenmark on May 10, 2013, 02:57:27 am
I switched to green tea from coffee a few weeks ago and my arthritis persisted, so I think it really is the caffeine or another molecule present in both coffee and tea causing, or exacerbating the problem.

Ah, well.. I just wanted to see if there was an excuse I could make to keep my mom from just switching to decaf coffee.. how do they even decaffeinate coffee anyways?  it seems to me like it would be a very degrading process.

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Primal Diet / Re: Cheese from raw milk
« on: May 10, 2013, 03:38:10 am »
I had bought some cheesecloth but the uh, the fabric is so loosely woven that everytime I ever tried to strain my curdled milk in it, everything went through and nothing was left in the cheesecloth.  I don't think I know where I put it anyways, so is there another cloth I could use as a cheesecloth instead?

And I just realized that the indian gulab jamun actually has flour in it.. so the one I want to make actually is the bengali rasgulla. 

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Primal Diet / Cheese from raw milk
« on: May 10, 2013, 02:40:02 am »
So I forgot about some raw milk I had brought to my room the other day, so it's been sitting in my warm room for about two days and I just saw it and it looks like this now:



So, what I want to do is turn it into cheese now, since it already looks half way there.  The only thing is that I don't know how, and all of my previous attempts to make cheese without much instruction ended up pretty bad with no cheese in the end at all.. just a bunch of wasted milk.  I've never seen my milk get so perfectly separated though, and especially that it doesn't even smell sour at all, I kinda just wanna eat that top layer by itself, but I don't think that would taste as good as making it into cheese.

So if anyone knows how I could turn this separated milk into either..
just some regular cheese
cream cheese
some other awesome cheese
those super sweet indian cheese balls thingies, called gulab jamun I will love you forever if you can tell me how to make these things raw because I tried some before and I was addicted to them but they're cooked so if I could make them raw omigosh

Please let me know, I don't want this glass of milk to go to waste especially when it looks so perfect..

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General Discussion / Re: Raw Eggs
« on: May 10, 2013, 01:52:22 am »
Quote from: eveheart on May 09, 2013, 10:16:50 pm
My coffee "experiment" ended quickly due to an arthritis flare-up, even though I was using good coffee and cold-brewed methods.

Have you tried decaf coffee to see if that causes problems too?  To see if it's JUST the caffeine, or maybe it's also the coffee?  My mom has carpel tunnel and I think arthritis too, and she drinks lots of coffee and coke, which I have been trying to convince her to stop drinking to no avail.  But at least here is one more thing I can use to try to convince her.  Even so, she still has the mentality that, "Oh, just a little won't hurt," so she thinks drinking half a cup of half-decaf coffee every morning will be fine.. sigh.

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General Discussion / Re: extreme closup meat raw vs cooked
« on: May 02, 2013, 09:44:24 am »
Quote from: eveheart on February 24, 2013, 03:12:34 am
I think you're forgetting that electron microscope images do not carry color information! Of course they added the color!

that still doesn't change the fact that they used the same exact picture and said one was a red grape and one was a white grape.

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Health / Re: Increases in intelligence, IQ, and EQ (emotional intelligence)
« on: May 02, 2013, 01:49:22 am »
I also believe animals are smarter than humans.

Also, I'm pretty sure EQ stands for Emotional Quotient, not Emotional Intelligence, seeing how IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient, and there is no I in EQ.

Regarding the topic, I actually feel that as I have gotten older, my ability to learn and to retain information has lessened rather than heightened even after eating much healthier.  However I am too poor to eat very good right now, but even though I eat a lot of rice and (lightly) cooked meat, at least I no longer eat any processed, junk, or fast food anymore (which used to be pretty much ALL I ate but I was tested to have an IQ of 131 in school by official test), and I don't eat any other grains than rice.  But I feel like my IQ is no longer as high as it used to be when I ate all that junk food and fast food.  Like seriously, pretty much the only things I ate were pizza, taco bell tacos with meat and cheese only, frozen dinners usually mac and cheese, frozen pizza, ramen, other fast food (meat and cheese only), hamburger helper, bean and cheese burrito, french bread pizza, and processed meats like slim jims, little cheddar smokies, and fried breaded chicken strips. I also NEVER drank water, it was either fake fruit juices or soda or regular commercial whole milk.  Though I was lucky and we'd go out to dinner a lot, and I would ALWAYS get a steak, cooked as rare as my parents would let me get.  With a side of french fries and a Shirley Temple to drink.

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General Discussion / Re: extreme closup meat raw vs cooked
« on: February 24, 2013, 12:48:19 am »
That would have been awesome if they didn't use the exact same picture for both the red and white grapes, just photoshopped the colours to be different.  That makes me feel like the rest of the article might be a lie, too.

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Off Topic / Re: diaphragm breathing
« on: February 09, 2013, 01:56:42 am »
Well, I'm 24 years old and pretty much my whole life the only time I've ever really sang is, when I was younger, only when I was alone and playing music that I really knew the words too(which was rarely), and when I got older, when I was alone in my car.  Once I started driving is probably when I started singing the most and the loudest, because there was no one else to hear me and I could blast the music loud enough to not hear my own voice even when singing at the top of my lungs.  I've also never really talked much my whole life, I've always been a shy and quiet girl.. hated talking on the phone and stuff.  I actually spent so much time online talking to internet friends, I probably had typed more words in my life than I'd ever spoken.  Only lately have I been trying to improve on my singing voice, and I've also been using skype to talk a lot more than just typing, so I've been a lot more vocal in the passed couple years than my entire life.  But yeah, my voice is just HORRIBLE for singing.  I can't sing worth crap, LOL, and no matter how well I breathe or position myself or any other little tricks like that aren't going to help me at all.  Though I actually really like singing, and I wish so badly that I had a beautiful singing voice, but I've been wondering if it's possible to actually practice enough  to develop an actually decent singing voice.  Like I mean, at least one that won't make people cringe like my voice does now LOL. 

But yeah, I didn't really make this thread to be about singing, it's just how I ended up coming across what breathing through your stomach was called, because I never knew there was a name for it, or even that it was normal, before.  A lot of those places say how diaphragm breathing is healthy for you overall, not just to help you sing better, which is what made me think to come and ask here, since we're all health nuts here.  Plus I read one that said diaphragm breathing is the way we're SUPPOSED to breathe, which sounds paleo to me.  Though I've always breathed that way, so it just seems weird to me that anyone would have a problem with being able to breath that way.  I even slouch a LOT.. like, if I don't have anything to lean my back against, I'm going to be slouched over pretty badly.  I try not to slouch so much but it's just most comfortable to sit that way when I have nothing to lean against.. so I just try to make sure I always have something lean against so that I can keep my back straight as much as possible.  I've never had problems diaphragm breathing while slouched.  Well actually right now I'm trying to chest-breathe while slouching and sitting straight I can't really do it either way lol.. slouching seems to be easier to stomach-breathe though.

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Hot Topics / Re: Sexuality
« on: January 31, 2013, 06:36:55 am »
There's every sort of sexuality out there, really.  Asexuality doesn't really have any specific definition, but there are plenty of other asexuals out there, I've even joked about myself being asexual, though in reality I'm just only sexually and romantically attracted to one man and one man only my entire life.

It's possible that it could be caused by a poor diet that destroys the libido, too. 

There's a website of other asexuals and a FAQ here..
http://www.asexuality.org/home/general.html

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Off Topic / diaphragm breathing
« on: January 30, 2013, 07:40:24 am »
I really wish I could sing well so I've been trying to look up videos of singing lessons, and nearly all of them tell you to do diaphragm breathing.. making your stomach move instead of your chest and shoulders when you breathe.  The thing is, when I was younger I noticed that when I breathed my stomach moved instead of my chest, and I had thought I was weird or something like maybe my lungs were in my stomach, LOL.  But I've always breathed this way, and now I find out that most people don't breathe this way, but that breathing that way is the better way of breathing?

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Off Topic / Re: Worrying trend
« on: January 30, 2013, 04:32:12 am »
See, I was right about the electric pulses being used to "work out" the meat..
I don't like that they're calling it cultured meat though, because that makes me think of high-meat.

Lab-Grown Meat

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Hot Topics / Re: Best time to take vitamins/nutrient-dense foods?
« on: January 30, 2013, 02:42:45 am »
Well the vitamin is just one a day.. but I also have the cod liver oil and bee pollen honey, and I was thinking to take all three at the same time in the morning.. but if they absorb better taken with food, do I eat them before or after eating?

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Hot Topics / Best time to take vitamins/nutrient-dense foods?
« on: January 30, 2013, 01:14:54 am »
I lost my job and have no money so I can only buy my food with food stamps now, and grass-fed meats are too expensive for me to buy enough to eat only meat, and I also can't find any grass-fed fat or organs and you can't buy online with food stamps.. so with my current poor diet I've felt that I'm probably lacking in some nutrition, I haven't felt all that great and my teeth had been feeling like they are loose (though they don't move when I push on them) and my gums were sensitive, had been tired a lot and sleeping a lot but my sleep schedule was all messed up and stuff, and just overall wasn't feeling the greatest.

Now I've never been a fan of vitamins or supplements even when I was an ignorant SAD eater, I've always felt that you should get all the nutrition you need from the food you eat.  But with me being unable to afford all the food I need, (I'm underweight too so I need to be eating a lot more to gain some weight as well) I figure it might be a bit necessary to supplement my diet, so I bought a Garden of Life RAW multivitamin.  I also had some cod liver oil that I bought a long time ago, and a whole bunch of local bee pollen I bought a while ago too, and since I've heard that bee pollen is extremely nutrient dense with all the nutrients we need, I've mixed a whole bunch of it in with my raw honey so I can eat a little bit of that everyday too. 

My question just is, when is the best time for me to take these supplements and eat my bee pollen honey?  I know the body doesn't absorb the nutrients from things like vitamins as easily as it does from food, so I want to take them when it would be the best/easiest time for my body to absorb the most nutrition from the supplements as possible.  Instinctively, I've figured the best time to take them is on an empty stomach, so I started taking the GoL RAW multivitamin first thing in the morning, and I've been feeling a little better than I had been.  I just found my cod liver oil last night though, and also mixed my bee pollen with my honey last night, so I hadn't started those yet, but I'm just wondering if eating them all first thing in the morning is the best time to eat them, or if I should spread them out through the day, or should I only eat them after eating something else?  and if so, after eating what?  I've never really taken vitamins or supplements before so I don't really know how it all works or anything you're supposed to do or supposed to avoid if anything..

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: Your experience with DATES?
« on: January 19, 2013, 10:05:34 pm »
I know I should have figured it as a good thing that meant pesticides had not been overused on the fruit, which I did consider even as I was being grossed out by it, however that doesn't rule out freezing or heat treating seeing how in every single one of them the worms were always completely dead. 
And even though eating raw meat has never grossed me out in my life, it still grosses me out to even think of eating any sort of bugs!  -v 

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Omnivorous Raw Paleo Diet / Re: Your experience with DATES?
« on: January 17, 2013, 12:13:19 am »
oh man, when I first tried dates a couple ramadans ago, I was so addicted to them, they were absolutely delicious.. I could have ate them all day long.  I have no idea if they were steamed or frozen or glucose coated, I just know I got organic ones, and they might have been local too, but then I do live in california.. but then one day I started ripping the dates open to pull out the seeds before eating them and found that quite a few of them had a whole bunch of eggs stuck to the inside wall of them always with a dead worm.. and it made me feel so sick to my stomach to think of how many worms and worm eggs I must have eaten, I just couldn't eat them anymore, and I haven't ate any since.  I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to warm up to the idea of eating any sort of insects.

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General Discussion / Genetic Roulette video
« on: December 09, 2012, 05:47:21 pm »
Genetic Roulette

Have you guys seen this video called Genetic Roulette?  It's all about GMOs from Monsanto, even though most of us don't eat any of that stuff anymore, but the main thing that scared me is that it said there's a possibility that the pesticide in the GMO corn could get into your gut and multiply in your gut flora, and then even if you stop eating all the GMO foods, your gut flora still produces it!!  This might also be a good video to show SAD eaters to at least convince them to stop eating most grains..

But how do I get this crap out of my system?

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Off Topic / Petition against GMOs
« on: November 14, 2012, 05:35:26 am »
Amoung all the hype of many states petitioning to secede from the USA, there is also a petition to prevent GMOs!  Which was actually my idea, to create a petition right now since so many people are hyping about the states, for a law similar to Prop 37 which failed in California, to label all GMO foods as well as irradiated foods.  However, someone beat me to it, but created a petition to entirely get rid of GMOs.  I have signed it, and I am linking it here for those of you in the USA to sign as well to help prevent GMOs from being used and created anymore!

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/prevent-genetically-engineered-modified-organisms-being-introduced-our-bodies-food-supply/FYd99VbV

Please sign!

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Off Topic / Re: Will do for money..
« on: November 10, 2012, 03:02:15 am »
Quote from: goodsamaritan on November 09, 2012, 12:55:49 pm
awesome.  made me smile!
Will post on facebook.

Thank you so much!  Any advertising is amazing, I really appreciate it!

Quote from: Dorothy on November 10, 2012, 02:36:36 am
Oh man - I wish I had skype so that you could draw me to use as my avatar here.

I've got to work on that. I'm just such a computer dunce.

That's such a great idea what you are doing!



The drawing on skype one is more for live tutorials on how to draw stuff where you can ask me to draw anything and I'll draw it right there while you watch me draw it!  But you don't need skype for the chibi drawing of yourself, if you like chibis.  I'm not really that good at drawing people though, unless it's anime-cartoon style and then usually only good at faces.  Chibis don't really require you to be good at drawing bodies which is why I'm doing those instead, they have more like powerpuff girl bodies lol.. with big heads and big pretty anime-eyes and hair but tiny little bodies.. like these http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1600&bih=809&q=chibi&oq=chibi&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1191.1796.0.2205.5.4.0.1.1.0.61.196.4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.AfYMBqFNTSs

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Off Topic / Will do for money..
« on: November 09, 2012, 12:11:53 pm »
So, someone here recently linked me to fiverr as a way to make money!  Well it looked like it had a lot of potential so I signed right up.. So, I don't know about you guys, but if any of you know anyone who could use my services please tell them about me!

http://fiverr.com/cassjan

I can photoshop pictures to do a bit of retouching, realistically enhancing and fixing pictures, or add so much makeup to make up to make the person look like an anime character lol, but I thought that might be popular among younger people/anime fans.
I'm also an okay artist, and can draw people as chibis (more anime stuff) or do live tutorials and drawings through skype.
I'm also really good at math up to Algebra 1 and can do any math stuff up to algebra 1 or tutorial someone in math up to algebra 1 through skype!

That's pretty much all I have, so if any of you guys need or know someone who needs a photshop retoucher, live art tutorial, or math tutor, please link them to my fiverr!

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Primal Diet / Re: No Water
« on: November 09, 2012, 07:55:03 am »
I haven't been drinking as much water as usual lately.  I only drink bottled water, Fiji brand.. I like the description on the bottle that the water is pumped from the aquifer straight into the bottle and so untouched by man until you open the bottle and drink it.. even if it is untrue, it is still the best tasting water to me.  I don't trust tap water at all, even if it is filtered.  I don't trust most bottled waters either, after hearing most are just tap water anyways.  But I tend to get headaches if I don't drink enough water.  I usually try to drink water first thing when I wake up, to hydrate myself before eating anything, and that's usually enough to prevent me from getting headaches.  I want to buy water in glass bottles though, but it's so expensive..

As for eggshells.. I did keep the eggshells from the eggs my aunt and uncle have given me from their home raised chickens, and crushed them up.  I don't trust any store bought egg shells, even organic or free range.. I think there was only one brand I ever bought that the eggs were still dirty, with clumps of dirt or poop still stuck to the eggs, but I think those chickens were fed a vegetarian diet which may or may not have included soy and certainly didn't have a high amount of bugs in the diet, so I figure they're probably nutritionally poor. 

I probably won't eat the eggshells myself though, since I drink large quantities of raw milk and consume a lot of raw dairy so I'm sure I'm already overdosing on calcium without consuming enough magnesium.  I mostly kept them because I was wanting to get my own chickens and I heard they need high amounts of calcium so I thought I might feed it to them.. but my dad won't let me get chickens.  I might feed it to my cat instead, since she doesn't get much bones to eat.

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Off Topic / Re: Proof of Precognition?
« on: November 05, 2012, 06:42:05 am »
Quote from: Iguana on November 04, 2012, 04:35:11 pm
You slept with the radio on?

Yes, I always liked falling asleep to music or some sound, so I would always fall asleep to the radio, or a CD playing, or something.. when I was much younger my grandpa would play tapes of orca whales sounds when I went to sleep.. and my mom said she used to vacuum while I was sleeping in my crib.  I've never much liked falling asleep to silence and I've probably fallen asleep to sound more times in my life than I've fallen asleep to silence.  Might be part of the reason I've been such a heavy sleeper, though I sleep lighter  now that I eat so much healthier.

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