Independently Healthy

Protein: The Least Understood Food Group

2011-10-14T16:51:00.007-04:00

I began this in 2011 but posted it today, January 13, 2012.

I want to share something here concerning protein and the absurd level of obsession the public has with "getting enough protein." Also, the source from which most people choose to get their protein. First off, it is my belief and experience that protein is NOT a nutrient, in the form in which most people eat. The form I'm referring to (flesh, dairy, eggs, seeds, legumes) is considered "concentrated" protein. Then there are those who gloss over the difference between the essential Amino Acids that make up a protein and the fully realized version listed in the previous sentence. It takes roughly 20 amino acids to form protein.

The major difference between the two states of these 20 amino acids is as follows: When we eat foods rich in amino acids the body collects and stores them until the key 20 are all present. Then the body builds protein. A concentrated form is dealt with in a very different way. Digestion of concentrated proteins is far more difficult than when we take in amino acids from fruits and vegetables. The foods themselves breakdown more easily. Concentrated protein has to be first broken down from the actual meat, eggs, seeds into amino acids, and further down to molecules, when taken from an animal source so the body can convert these molecules into a usable or recognizable amino acid. A recognizable form od amino acids comes from the vegetable kingdom.

A quick note on nuts and seeds. They are extremely difficult to digest because of the very dense nature of the nut. Seeds are covered in an anti-enzyme sheath meant to protect the seed through the digestive stage, so when the animal has a bowel movement, the seed is fertilized and can grow into a plant. What always gets me is the short sighted view taken by so many experts. Simply because they are chock full of nutrients, they are healthy! If they aren't digestible, they aren't nutritious. If we can't break a food down and absorb the nutrients, then how is that food nutritious? I'm sure there's lots of important nutrients in tree bark, but our bodies aren't capable of digesting tree bark. Therefore, those nutrients are useless for humans. It's like receiving a gift in a box, which is wrapped in a coating that can't be opened. The gift is useless.

Eating from an abundance of plant-based, whole foods will provide the body with all the components needed for the intestines and liver to formulate protein and serve your body, as it was meant to do. Funny thing about science, of which I'm a great believer. Science often isolates things to better understand the true nature and function of life. Yet, we believe we can extrapolate physiology from the whole body. This is why we are brainwashed with the worst, most nonsensical information about diet and nutrition. Eat concentrated protein sparingly and for your enjoyment, not necessity!

I wanted this piece to be short. It is. I will post something again soon. Most likely a second part to this, as there is much to share about the myths of protein. Wishing everyone a healthy and happy New Year! Remember, we are the only species that processes and cooks our own food. If a food doesn't exist naturally, it's not food for humans. If we can't properly break it down, and you love the taste, than satisfy that taste, but don't confuse it as life supporting.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

The Lords Of Deceit: Part 1

2011-08-04T16:48:00.006-04:00

Living in New York City I find myself surrounded by people, all the time. There is no escaping the crowds, the noise, the congestion, the traffic and the seemingly never ending symphony of sounds. To some people this may sound like a day in hell. To me and most native New Yorkers, it is business as usual. Or a day in the life in the greatest city in the world. One aspect of being in NYC on a daily basis is overhearing conversations from random passerby's. My ears perk-up every time I hear a food or diet mentioned. Also, when one person is teaching another about the new diet they are currently trying on for size. Often, I hear people telling their friends and co-workers about foods they should definitely avoid and of course the foods that must be consumed so their new diet is a success. Almost 100% of the time, I hear the exact opposite of what I know to be the truth. I've ranted and raved about this very issue and other related topics since I've had this blog. I began putting my thoughts together here at Independently Healthy, to share what I know to be true. I've learned more and more about just how deep this phenomenon runs. Because of limited time this piece will be shorter than usual. Thank goodness!

Same As It Ever Was. . .

I'm using this subtitle because of the great song by the Talking Heads. It's a perfect lyric and the name of the band is perfect for the point I want to make. Health and longevity doesn't need political posturing. By that I mean, talking points or talking heads repeating the same nonsense, ad infinitum. Still, people believe protein is the king or hero of food. "Carbs" are to be avoided. Fats and sugar are the evil villains of diet and the cause of everyone's personal ruination. I contend that carbs, sugar and fat make-up the cornerstone of the human diet. The cause of everyone's ruination is as follows: High protein diets; avoidance of the very foods that make-up the natural human diet; and the intake of wrongful or poisonous supplements. In short, we don't take meat in small amounts or in the right way—RAW! I don't want to go into great detail on the above topics so to be brief, I'll just touch on what I know to be the truth.

Protein from an animal source is simply not healthy, for many reasons. It is highly carcinogenic and mucous forming. And today, commercial meats are riddled with toxic poisons so that profit is at the fore and quality is almost ignored. "Carbs"aren't the problem—starch, which is part of the carbohydrate family is really the issue. Starch is acidic and constipating, carbs (fruits and veggies taken raw aren't). And finally, sugar and fat. Sugar from fruits and veggies is the best way to get our sugar, which is most important for blood cleansing (this is sorely missing from the American diet). Green or chlorophyll from veggies is most important for building our blood. Carbohydrates are the most important food we can eat. While fats from avocado, olives, olive oil and coconut oil are important for healthy nerve function. So put down that poison that is low calorie or carb free and eat some whole-foods. Stop counting calories! Counting calories is like trying to count raindrops. The two aren't comparable but they are both useless endeavors. Counting calories is not realistic and will amount to nothing but frustration. People will believe anything if the lie sounds scientific. Most people still believe calories exist as a substance! Okay, enough of that. Lets get to the heart of the matter.

The other topic people talk about often is cancer causing foods, chemicals or properties in foods better known as carcinogens. This is another misunderstood topic that I'd like to shed some light on and share what I learned from the author, T. Colin Campbell. His book the China Study is a worth while read. While I disagree with him as to the foundation of his beliefs, that "good" nutrition is the way to avoid illness—his research around animal protein is astounding. He believes that healing disease occurs by eating the right sources of nutrition—while I believe healing happens through elimination and avoidance of acidic foods. This is my experience and also the concept that all my teachers, living and dead believed.

Carcinogens

Everyone I know talks about these mysterious items, that we should fear and avoid. There's a lot people don't know about carcinogens. The story we've been told goes something like this: Try to steer clear of cancer causing agents and cancer may not develop. Turns out this is not entirely true. I've learned recently that diet has more to do with the result of being exposed to these powerful poisons. Wow! Now that's a real shocker. I'm not one to oversimplify things but this is almost a cut a dry case.

T. Colin Campbell's book, The China Study is a fascinating book that goes deep into this topic. Most of us who are conscious about health know how big of a role diet plays. But I'll bet most people don't realize how easy it is to avoid developing this dreaded disease. As I've stated repeatedly throughout my blog posts; Keeping the interior of the body oxygenated will insure that cancer cells are never "switched on," or activated. The way to keep the body oxygenated is by avoiding dead meats and other animal products, especially dairy and through healthy elimination. To take on a vegetarian or vegan diet, while juicing veggies and cleansing the bowels is a winning formula.

The cancer mechanism that switches on in the cells simply can't happen when oxygen is abundant. Conversely, turning-off the cancer switch won't happen when chemo is being used. Chemo kills cells, but doesn't allow the cell reset the cancer switch to off. Chemotherapy thickens the cell wall and makes it impossible for peptides to enter the cell and reset the cancer switch, so-to-speak, to off or normal. Which means, the surviving cells that are cancerous will re-seed, causing cancer to form again, after the treatments end.

Campbell performed clinical tests for over 30 years and his conclusions are profound. Not only because his findings are supportive of a vegan diet, but because he used the same exact methods the American Medical Association uses to prove their ideas and concepts. Here's what Campbell found. Aflatoxin is the most carcinogenic substance known to man. He used a group of rats to first conduct his tests. He fed half the rats a diet made-up of 20% animal protein (Casien or milk protein) and the other half were fed a diet of only 5% animal protein. The results were 100% consistent every time. Every rat that ate a diet of 20% animal protein developed liver cancer or the lesions, which precede liver cancer. Al the other rats, whose diets were made-up of only 5% animal protein didn't develop liver cancer nor the lesions. This is not a vague conclusion. This happened 100% of the time and was reflected when the people were the subject of the study.

As he expanded his study to people he found that when meat and dairy were abundant in the diet, so was the incidence of cancer. He found this to be true of the children of affluent people. He made distinctions between diseases of affluence and diseases of poverty. Suffice to say that this country suffers from diseases of the rich or Western diseases or as Campbell coined it, diseases of affluence. Disease is disease no matter where it comes from. The point in using Mr. Campbell's findings is to illustrate just how backwards the world's thinking is when it comes to protein, especially animal protein.

After The Fact

If you're wondering about people who've already developed the dreaded disease and how they can proceed, Dr. Campbell sites: By merely reducing animal protein to 5% or less, or eliminating meat and dairy entirely reverses the cancer. In my line of work, I speak to many people with cancer and am always shocked when the patient tells me their doctor suggests eating meat. Why are so many doctors so lost when it comes to this topic? Why don't they know or avail themselves to other research? Campbell's research was funded by the same agencies or sources that fund pharmaceutical companies. How can both sides be right. That will be Part 2 of this blog.

Most recently I learned of a woman with colon cancer. She underwent chemo treatments and is, for now okay. The doctor recommended soft foods to not hurt where the surgery was performed. He also suggested she eat meats as they wouldn't hurt her. What about the acidic nature of the food? What about the fact that meat is almost entirely undigestible? I believe everyone has the right to choose how to live and what foods to eat. Some people just don't care what difference diet makes and want to eat what they love. I respect everyone's right to choose how they want to live. I do believe that if people knew the truth, they'd make better choices. It's the backwards thinking in the collective public mind that allows that backdoor to open and the "wrong choices" to be made and justified. When people know the consequences of their actions, they typically do make better choices.

In Conclusion

The choices we make today determine our experiences for tomorrow. I understand doctor's thinking when it comes to food. They see all food as being made-up of the same molecules, which is true. All food is made from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen—except for animal products, which differ only in that they contain nitrogen and small amounts of sulfur. To them, there is little difference between a potato and potato chips! I see a difference between Oats and Oatmeal. I want my food to be real! Today, it's difficult to obtain foods that are truly pure and natural. Which is why I make it a point to eat organic foods and heirloom foods. Some consider me a "health nut" but I like my foods to at least belong to a species that actually occurred naturally and isn't spliced with animal genes or tobacco genes. Yeah, I'm a health freak because I don't want flounder genes in my tomatoes! Call me crazy, but I don't think both industry and health can be served in the same dish. Support local farming and in turn, support your health and longevity. Till next time. . .

Be well,

Tom DeVito

A Brief Note

2011-05-19T09:38:00.004-04:00

I began writing a blog because I wanted to share information and help people. In the process, I hoped to create enough material for which to write a book. I have a long road ahead and a whole lot of rewrites and corrections to make. I will write some short pieces from time to time.

I am not going to stop writing here. But the lack of new material is due to my attention being focused on my next project—the book. I don't have a title but I know exactly where I want to go. The tone and tact will change, somewhat. I want to continue to dispel myths about health but present my ideas in a less casual manner. Putting it all down in one book will make things simpler and I'll be edited! That alone will improve things greatly. I look forward to writing shorter pieces and producing a book. Be back soon.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

The Reluctant Prophets Of The Veganites!

2011-02-04T09:32:00.005-05:00

I can recall when I first became a colon therapist and worked with Gil Jacobs. I had known him for years prior, so I understood his philosophy and I began to shape my own, under his tutelage. To say I "hit the ground running" would be an understatement. Knowing I had a very toxic history I knew, through reading Professor Arnold Ehret's works and Dr. Norman Walker (the Kings of detox) that I should move slowly regarding my diet. My passion for this information, lifestyle, transformation was full on. It was palpable! I was too much. High on the concepts, blinded by hope, my view was pretty narrow. I've since loosened up my approach. I still live the same. "Mostly Raw," is how I refer to my eating habits. Meaning I eat cooked foods once or twice a week. More often 2 meals a week are cooked vegetables. I remained like this because I chose to include cooked foods after a few years of trying to go "all raw." All raw is amazing and wonderful.

Is Cooked Broccoli Going To Kill Me?
I do feel that I want cooked veggies in my life. Something about the comfort it brings, and the temperance to the lifestyle. I found living on raw foods, only was not the way for me. Now, when Gil and I used to talk and he would lecture to the raw food community, they would laugh or shrug his prophetic warnings off as lunacy. Granted, Gil is an eccentric character. Still, he is a very wise and experienced practitioner of this way of life. At Chakra 17, Gil, myself and the rest of the therapists would try to reach some of the people who seemed quite determined on the idea of "going raw." The quotes here are used to capture the language or vernacular of the movement. We spoke about the pitfalls of healing the human body. The risks involved with detoxification through fasting, diet change, colonic therapy, etc..

A Confusing Concept
What most people don't comprehend when first embracing our origins of diet, (the raw food diet) is: the process is akin to drug addicts getting off drugs or alcoholics getting off alcohol. Cigarette smokers quitting smoking. All things ingested either through consumption of solids and liquids, drugs, alcohol, intravenous drugs/medicines, etc., all leave residue in the body. Some substances leave an alkaline residue, while others leave an acidic residue. NO MATTER WHAT THE SUBSTANCE—DETOXIFICATION OF ALL NEGATIVE (ACIDIC) RESIDUE IS RISKY. This depends greatly on the amount and level of poison left in the tissue, bloodstream, cells.

Levels, Jerry! It's All About Levels! (Kramer to Seinfeld)
Think of it this way—if a heroin addict cannot access heroin and tries a another drug, one less toxic, they will get sick as though they took nothing. Likewise, when the average person, who has thousands and thousands of years of lineage to consider, gives up their cultural way of eating or the way in which their family has eaten for 3-5 generations, they will feel sick early on the process. Why? Beef leaves a dense, sticky acidic residue in the body. Mix that with potatoes and we create and stickier, more acidic residue. In fact, most of that food never leaves the body. Percentage wise, more remains trapped in the digestive and elimination organs of the body. Simply because each item is acidic and mis-combined. Take 2 foods which should not be eaten together and we double our trouble. Rather than our digestive system breakdown or decompose (dismantle) the foods we eat—the foods decompose before the body can digest them. They are cooked proteins and starches. Both highly acidic, both very sticky—BOTH REQUIRING OPPOSING ENZYMES TO DIGEST PROPERLY. That last sentence is an idealistic one. Meaning, all cooked meats are nearly impossible to digest. Mix them with starchy foods, which is a part of almost every culture on the planet, and viola! NO DIGESTION!

Drop That "Balls To The Wall" Attitude
As you can see the standard American diet or planetary diet is toxic and requires care, knowledge and experience to take on and see through correctly. Some people cannot get through the trials of the process. That is okay and understandable. This is not for everyone. It can and does benefit all that live this way. Not all of us have the physical, emotional or energetic strength to really see this through. Still there are levels to be embraced. We don't have to run the marathon to enjoy running. We don't have to play Chopin to enjoy playing piano. We don't have to hit a home run every time, at bat. This is what Gil tried to teach the people of the raw food community so many years ago. We spoke at length about this very issue. It felt as though the more obsessed types wanted to be right rather than know the truth. Wanted to be raw rather than healthy. We hit a wall. We could not continue to bang our own heads against the wall and expect they would get it. I haven't heard Gil speak in a while, but I'll bet he still tries to reach people. But there's been a twist. A turn of events.

Truth Or Consequence? (An old game show, circa 1970's)
Recently I heard some interesting news. Some "leaders" in the raw food community have taken to eating raw animal products. A sign that between their rabid disbelief in colonic therapy as a key to their own success and their obsessive adherence to a strict raw food diet—They had begun to hit a wall. Another sign that the raw food diet isn't really working for them, in the absence of colonic therapy is they are now beginning to eat cooked food. What has become of this movement? Where are they going? What in the world are they doing? Exactly what Gil predicted. He was very correct and prophetic when he tried to warn them of this eventual outcome. I am glad that the movement is shifting and now speaking more about incorporating lots of raw fruits and vegetables into the diet, rather than 100% raw! All the time!

Yikes!
Upon meeting a lot of these people, way back in the early 2000's, they would ask, "are you raw?" What percentage are you? Meaning, how much of your foods were eaten raw? "How long have you been raw?" Holy cow! No pun intended??? That used to drive me nuts. Don't get me started on nuts. That is what they all thought would sustain them. Nuts, in my opinion are not the super food everyone thinks it is. It is, idealistically. NOT, in actuality. They don't breakdown so well. Therefore we don't derive much benefit from them. They stimulate and to some satiate. For me they are non-acidic pebbles. That's what we do to them when we chew, which we don't do enough of with veggies, let alone nuts. So they go into the stomach like pebbles and leave the bowels the same way. So, how are we extracting nutrients from a chunk of nut?

The Raw Truth! (Someone must have a book by this title)
I've learned a prominent raw food restaurant, "Quintessence," which makes the best raw soup in the world! Peter's Pot soup may be the best flavor ever created. The Buddha Bowl is an incredibly satisfying salad. This restaurant was super radical and pretty much a turn-off. They have loosened up, due to the shift in their leaders. All of them are realizing this cannot be sustained! Actually, it can. But the level of constant bowel cleansing borders on the absurd. I won't even get into that now. Suffice to say it isn't easy or economical for the majority of people. Experience speaks volumes. Technical knowledge is important. Experiential knowledge is equally as important. It's good to know the technical details when parachuting, yet I want someone whose actually jumped and has lots of experience.

If First At Once. . .
I felt bad during Gil's lectures back then. He had nothing to gain. Except maybe some clients added to our extremely busy schedule at Chakra 17. We were the busiest place in NYC. Hands down. We didn't need to convince people to come see us. We had a 3-week wait for appointments. He tried. I tried. Many of us tried to reach some of the people in the community. Instead, with 3, 4, 6-years experience, they became authors and teachers of something they didn't truly understand. They hadn't experienced enough of the pitfalls to become prophets themselves. They didn't even take of the training wheels! On some level I see this change in the raw food community, as a good thing! Not a failing but a breakthrough! A success! Why? They finally got some truth. Now they can take a step back and look with eyes seeking truth, rather than seeking to see only what they wanted to see. They can perhaps augment their daily habits and finally thrive on this diet. The way all of us, who believe in the need for cleansing the bowels have and still are!

Nothing But The Truth!
What stands the test of time is what I tend to look at more closely. Whether it's good or bad, I pay attention. Like war—there's something in that silly arcane, violent energy that we like? Or at least accept. Perhaps the two camps can finally co-mingle. Maybe now truth can be shared, rather than shunned. Maybe now when people go to Gil's lectures, they'll not tune him out when he talks about the dangers of "not transitioning." The transition period is the most important aspect of this diet change. Remember, it's all about the journey. Not the arrival. There is no arrival with anything in life. Just the doing, being, experiencing of life. No finishing line. No prize for being raw. No trophies! Thank you, Gil for being that big mouth with that oddly high-pitched voice—that you didn't care what you looked like or how you were received. All for truth! This is why I'm honored to be a student of this man. Perhaps I feel more vindicated than he. Why? Because I so wanted them to get it! I've treated my share of tragedies that didn't think being 60 pounds and 5' 7", was a sign that not only was the diet (sans colonic) wasn't working but that they were detoxifying themselves to death!!! I applaud the movement and Quintessence for allowing the truth to be a part of this, our growing world.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

A Horse Of A Different Color

2011-01-11T08:49:00.003-05:00

These days I wonder about where we as a species is headed. Nothing is what it seems. Nothing is what is used to be—and never was. My father loves to say that. "Nothing is what it used to be and never was" is a very interesting word play. Meaning "the good ol' days" never were the good ol' days. We seem to romanticize the past as if it was better than right now! Every generation does it. They look back on the previous generation as if they lived in a better world. Truth is, they lived with different challenges and achievements. Life is a series of challenges. The cliche' "you have to take the good with the bad," for me is backwards. Shouldn't it read "you have to take the bad with the good?" The reason for the focus on cliches and word play—The flipping around of words to get a different view on the past, etc., is merely a forced changed perspective. If we look at the past as if it was better simply because of simplicity or innocence not yet lost, we do ourselves a disservice. Life is life. No better or worse. Just life. It is as it is. Plain and simple.

Days Of The Future's Past (The Moody Blues)
How will the future generations look back on us? How will they see us? What will they think when they look back on this generation? Are we living during the time of the Phantom? The time of the wolf in sheep's clothing? Or the tomato in flounder's clothing? We elect a president who is half African American because he spoke of change, real change we can count on. This country elected our first black president. Just for the sake of this point. His detractors don't see his white side. Has there been any real change? Not really. Is Obama's health care bill for the people? Or is it for the insurance companies to profit? Change? Or is our government doing to policy and democracy what Monsanto is doing to seed, in this country. It appears to be an apple—but from a molecular perspective, it is not! Is anything what it seems, anymore?

Let Me Take You Down. . . Nothing Is Real (John Lennon—Strawberry Fields)
We live in a time when nothing is what it seems. Here's a short list with interspersed comments. Hair extensions and transplants. Breast implants. Male enhancement. What a crock! Masculinity enhances males. Not pills or large suction devices! Sex change operations. Plastic surgery to the level of butchery. As people we live among Frankenstein monsters created by our most skilled surgeons. Our entire middle class is an illusion. Without loans, credit cards, leasing, etc., there is no middle class. Just upper class, and the poor. The middle has become the upwardly mobile from the lower class, propped up by thieves or loan sharks. Or a middle class with breast implants.

The Emperor's New Clothes
This country produces food which looks good but tastes like crap. We torture our animals. We poison our crops. We poison ourselves with junk food and materials which should not be used in the home or the human body, ie dental amalgams (mercury). Our rugs made of nylon poison the air in our homes. The list goes on and on. Lets face it. We must accept much of this as a matter of course. A matter of modern living. Our transportation poisons as it eases our sojourn to and from work. We cut down far more trees than we plant. Yeah, I'm a fucking tree hugger. For the purpose of this piece lets look at that one. Trees cool the earth and provide oxygen for our atmosphere. All plant life does this. The plants we eat make our blood and cleanse our organs. We live with the plant kingdom like bees to flowers. Or should. I will continue to root (get it?) for the tree. Without trees, we're screwed. Think about it. I am dedicated to planting trees and plants, till I die.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
Our communication is killing us. Cell phones are destroying our ecology not just in the dumps but in the air waves. Bees are dropping like flies! Ha! Yeah, I'm full of cheesy puns. Without bees natural pollination is screwed. What are we doing to rectify this? Zilch! Cell phones cause cancer. They radiate us. Our brain waves are bonkers from these devices. Yes, we are more efficient. We are efficiently killing ourselves and the creatures we deem pests, which of course support us in life. We got it all backwards. Still I use a cell phone. . .

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare A Sip?
Our water supply. . . There is not enough space here for me to expound on this topic. People need water. As our population grows—our share of water diminishes. This planet is reaching a breaking point. Soon we will have to get real creative. Time is a man made concept. Yet it is a damn good measuring tool. There is not enough time for us to right all the wrongs overnight. Yet, we can still make valuable changes. As individuals. To think in terms of we can be dangerous when communicating thoughts so I will write this part personally. I cannot change the seed industry, the pesticide and herbicide industry.

Ch-Ch-Ch=Changes—Turn And Face The Strange (David Bowie—Changes)
I cannot change health care. The petroleum crisis. The water supply. I cannot change the way the medical industry is run or how doctors treat patients. The way the government conducts itself nationally and certainly not internationally. I cannot stop my country from engaging in unjust wars. I cannot make right all the wrongs. I can, however, not participate in harmful practice. I can choose organic. I can choose to take care of my health and not rely on insurance and doctors to keep me alive and healthy. I can choose to become a stronger man, independent of "the system," within reason. I haven't had health insurance for 16 years now. I am independently healthy.

Is This Matrix? Or Is It Idiocracy?
Being on the fringe of society has its benefits. But still, fringe is part of the big picture. Change is not as simple as our president Obama claims. I wonder if after election, all presidents aren't given the blue pill or the red pill. Interesting color choices in the Matrix movies. Where does the campaign dreams go once elected? Ahhh, what's the use. I'm beginning to whine. That sickens me. So I'll stop. Truth is—NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS. Don't believe everything you see. My grandmother used to tell my mother, "believe nothing you read and half of what you see." Ida was a sharp woman. What we are doing is idiotic.

Since we eat phantom foods and breath dirty air. We grow these impostors (foods) in depleted soil and spray deadly chemicals on our costume food. We use deadly bacteria and virus to merge genetic code from animal to plant kingdoms. We live an illusion of middle class. We aren't at all what we appear to be. We dare not age! God forbid! We are slowly choking the life out of life. We are sucking every bit of goodness out of this gift, our home planet earth. And replenishing nothing.

Don't Give In Without A Fight! (Roger Waters—Hey You)
What will our genetically modified (monsterous) foods do to us in 1oo years? Imagine if we merged the flounder gene with a dog. Would we be comfortable owning such an unpredictable beast? How can we possibly determine the behavior of this man made creature? WE CANNOT KNOW! Yet we'll eat, willingly the foods or impostors grown. Can we fight this? I don't even know. There's nothing worse than a complainer without a solution. I'm not sure I have any. What I can offer is this: I will withdraw from people who don't share the common interest of a sustainable life plan. I will and haven't participated in the practice of torturing animals for my gluttony. Nor will I be gluttonous in any way. I will not support corporations that don't support a good cause. Slowly but surely I am and have been out of the norms of society. Not because I'm antisocial. Anyone who knows me would testify I am anything but antisocial. But because that is the way to effect peaceful, effective change. Don't contribute to that which is myopic and non-replenishing. This includes agriculture and all natural materials. To come from the perspective of what I can do rather than we, I hope this drives the point home, stronger.

This is not a sermon but a peaceful battle cry! I for one will not contribute to the process which does not sustain a healthy life for all species on the planet. Because after all, we're all equally important. Lets see how well human beings do without bees.

I'll leave you with a quote from a beautifully wise and powerful man, when asked if he'd like something to eat with his Starbucks coffee. "I'd like to eat everything here with my coffee, but I'm committed to my longevity more than the instant gratification I'll get from eating any of this."
I did not ask permission to use this gentleman's name so I won't print it here.

I've said the same in a different way. The benefit we get from eating junk food exists in 2 places for a very short period of time. In the mind (mmmm that's gonna taste good). Then in the mouth (mmmm delicious). Once the food is swallowed, the hell begins. The negatives far outlive the positives of thought and the taste. Once ingested. . . . well you all heard this song before.
Be well. Stay well,
Tom DeVito

Cancer Incorporated

2010-11-22T12:57:00.038-05:00

When most of us think of Cancer, we think this is one of the most important illnesses for which to find a cure. A large number of well intentioned people contribute money for the research they believe is getting us closer to curing this mysterious, persistent killer disease. Doctor's, scientists and researchers know the truth about this illness. It's been known for decades. The real truth is—the medical world and pharmaceutical corporations work much harder to keep us in the dark about how easy this disease is to cure or prevent, than they do to heal us and help end our suffering. Got your attention? Read on.

A Cure! A Cure! My Kingdom For A Cure!
Large corporations donate millions of dollars to this noble cause. Including Philip Morris! In case you are unfamiliar with this name—Philip Morris is one of the largest cigarette manufactures in the world. How nice of them. For all the years, and all the money, time, research, etc., which has been thrown at this illness—no advances have been made. No cures found. It seems as if the treatments keep people alive long enough for the manufactures of the Chemo and radiation drugs to make more money. No matter what they do—the cancer drugs drag people through hell and back before they die. No one gets out alive. If they do get a break from the disease, they ultimately have a second bout, which kills the person rapidly. The biggest problem with this disease is when the patient shows some strength or signs of hope, they are extinguished with more drugs, no change in abusive lifestyle, etc.

Things Are Not What They Seem
There is something very dark and shady associated with the way in which the statistics are calculated. I believe I wrote this previously—if a patient survives the treatments and lives 2 years without the illness, they are considered cured. Their statistic is considered "final" or absolute. The term used to be 5 years. The statistic is never recalculated when the patient dies, even if they die 2 years and one day later! This is the propaganda used to promote the sale of these harmful poisons. This approach is seen as the ONLY WAY. People who refuse the standard cancer therapies are considered lunatics. I say they are brave, courageous people who know the drugs not only won't work but will bring them to their knees in the process of "treatment." It seems as though this illness is kept mysterious to the layperson. People with no clinical background, can compete with the massive engine behind "cancer research." Nor the manufacturing of drugs and the fictitious claims, which are made to market these drugs as effective.

1 + 1 = 3
When a patient "survives" (2 years) the chemo-therapy sessions or radiation therapy. This produces a certain mentality in the laypeople. Like early civilizations who did not fully understand weather patterns, droughts, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc., stories were created to appease the masses. Gods were blamed. Evil spirits seeking vengeance were credited with storms and destruction. Coincidentally, people would pray or dance or sacrifice an animal or human—and when things improved, slightly it was believed that the somewhat silly ritual actually affected a more desirable outcome. When really, all that happened was nature, naturing. (a word I just made up, of course) Apply that to the treatment of cancer. One develops the disease and begins their journey on the allopathic roller-coaster. Thinking there's hope when numbers improve or being filled with doom when they plummet. This is the ups and downs part of this approach.

A Sort Of Ground Hog Day
A visit to the Oncologist brings "great news," the tumor markers have shrunk! Things are looking up. The patient is reinforced with statistics, which are "doctored," to say the least. The doctor tells the patient to have hope, that they can "beat" this disease. How many family members, friends, loved ones do we have to lose before we DON'T believe these false claims, hopes and slanted or fictitious statistics? Where are all these survivors. And how long are they actually surviving. There are fewer and fewer cases of people getting surgery and/or some form of cancer treatment who survive and thrive. How many people do you know that beat cancer 25-30 years ago? Way fewer than the people who have perished from the disease.

Who's Fighting? (a strange nod to Mick Jagger from the film Gimme Shelter)
These days more and more people are battling cancer. Lots of little cancers. Have you noticed a trend in the language I'm using. Where this disease and most illnesses are concerned, we have a fight mentality. Our bodies house the illness/disease. What are we fighting? Ourselves? Should we fight anything? Battle cancer? We often read that so and so "lost their battle with cancer." Battle? We've got this all wrong! And who the hell am I to make such a grand statement? I'm someone who has lost many family members, friends, etc., to this disease. There is no fight. There should be no battle. Gentle does it. Not chemical warfare. The inspiration for this piece is due to my watching an incredible movie: A Beautiful Truth. This movie covers a lot of areas of our culture and the problems we ALL face. From cancer to agriculture (which run hand in hand) to mercury poisoning from our illustrious dental industry. The man behind the inspiration of this movie is a man named Dr. Max Gerson. He declared a cure for cancer, in 1928. Like Professor Arnold Ehret, Gerson's approach was based on not poisoning the body to health. Which, of course is considered ridiculous and absurd—by the people selling and profiting from the sale of the drugs and therapies. I know there are cases where people survive illnesses based on drug therapy. These people are anomalies, minor players in this game. Doctors sell hope. Never healing. And almost never good results.

A Great Man At A Crossroads!
Dr. Max Gerson, like many doctors of his day knew the truth. He and others knew the medical community was moving further away from true science and the "real" scientific method, to an industry based system whose focus became sales and profit. Gerson was investigated by the AMA (American Medical Association) many times. Every time they investigated him, Gerson showed them many patients "sent home to die" by hospitals—for which he healed them and were declared CURED! Back then patients were sent home to die. They didn't occupy a hospital bed till their end. These patients were deemed "incurable." Gerson used a method, which almost no one in his community supported and brought the overwhelming majority of his patients, back to health. His approach was out in left field. Bordering on the unthinkable! No drugs? No surgery? Understand, this was a critical period in the development of the modern hospital and medical practice. For all the advancements made to deal with trauma and acute illness, the AMA were beginning to see the potential for profit. The manufacturers of the drugs being used more often than ever before, were seeing the enormous potential for profit and growth, which lie ahead. Max Gerson used a simple formula for healing cancer, which was also a cure for most degenerative diseases.

The Whole Truth. Nothing But The Truth.
I will attempt to layout this bizarre yet simple method of healing, used by Dr. Gerson. Here goes: the patient is put on a new diet! Wow! Shocking! This diet consists of fresh vegetable juices! In 1928??? Unheard of! The state of food was not nearly as bad as it is today. Truthfully, the agriculture system was worlds better. All food was more or less organic by default. The patients were taken off the standard American diet. No meat of any kind. No cheese. No eggs. No MILK!!! No processed foods of any kind! Sound familiar? Oh, I almost forgot—coffee enemas. Yes, it comes to this all the time. Here's why Gerson chose this to be a part of his therapy. By properly administering a coffee enema the "hemorrhoidal" vein, which runs along the descending colon, takes in the coffee and delivers it directly to the liver. This causes the liver to expel, with great effectiveness, the poisons which accumulate in the liver. Due to constipation, sluggish bowels, and a diet high in processed foods—the liver becomes congested. The process of the coffee enema frees the liver of poison. Which in itself is a major benefit to the body. Increasing the power of filtering the blood, with far greater efficiency. This decreases the amount of pollution in the bloodstream. Fascinating! Gerson believed 2 things to be at the root of all illness: Toxicity and deficiency. I believe deficiency is mainly due to toxicity from constipation and a lack of openness in the "tube system" (Prof. Ehret's terminology) of the body. Health is based more on the efficacy and power of the body's ability to keep clean and not so much on diet intake. We can bolster the positive with a whole foods, plant based diet, of course. But until we are properly detoxified/cleansed, the good food turns foul in the presence of rotting food matter and waste.

I believe, fully that nutrition is created in the body when the body is free of obstruction. *(Professor Arnold Ehret proved this in his work in 1922 in The Mucusless Diet Healing System—Ch. 5) Of course the intake of fresh juice and whole foods is vital. But the bulk of elements we need to be healthy is created internally. By now I hope you see the sarcasm in what I wrote at the start of the previous paragraph. There's nothing outlandish or difficult or foreign in Gerson's therapy. It's based on simplicity. Bringing people back to basics so the innate strength returns and the patient heals. Like wild animals heal from illness when they fast. Giving human beings the diet for human beings! Instead of the nonsense we call food. When human beings fast, we cleanse our tissues of accumulated waste. Another idealistic concept, to a certain degree. 5,000 years ago, fasting was different. Food was different. It was real and pure. These old timer's approach was simple and easy to understand. Oddly enough. . .it worked.

Maybe There's Another Way?
I've witnessed time and time again, people told they didn't have a chance for survival. That their cancer was terminal and there was no hope. Some were told to get their affairs in order. Talk about a grave prognosis. These people chose to eat a diet of fresh, raw green vegetables. Drink green juices. Keep their thoughts positive. Meditate. Some prayed. Some simply knew this experience was their body giving them one last chance, one more opportunity to STOP the process of poisoning. They knew, intuitively that they would heal. There was no fight. There was no battle. There was a gentle shift in their approach to life. They became more peaceful. They were softer in their demeanor. They let go of drama. They became closer and more harmonious with nature. In the sense that they lived on real foods. These people got in touch with the depths of their essence. They didn't believe the lies that abound in the AMA about this "incurable" disease. Our minds have the power to shrink tumors. To rid our cells of toxic poison. To cleanse our blood. We have not trusted in this process for many thousands of years. We don't realize the power of our thoughts. That topic deserves a separate post. Yet, when a person is told they have "terminal" cancer, the persons cells immediately respond to that information. Regardless of the truth of diagnosis. Our thoughts are more powerful than that which we perceive as reality.

Survival Or Profit?
The saddest most unfortunate aspect of this borderline epidemic-illness is the enormous profit made by giant companies by not healing anyone. To administer drugs, which only weaken the body, irradiate the patient and poison the tissue and bloodstream. This so called treatment ultimately brings the person to near death or simply kills them before the cancer dies. Not that dying from cancer is preferred. Of course, as I've stated many times—most physicians never advise cancer patients to change their diets. In fact, quite to the contrary, they are told to "fatten up" to offset the effects of the chemo/radiation. The "side effects" of cancer therapy cause people to lose weight, dramatically. They become so thin from not eating, the doctors actually tell them to eat the exact foods they should be avoiding. This is not an evil choice made by the doctor. This is the essence of the ignorance of this industry. They believe it is better for the patient to be fat, instead.

What we witness in the victims of cancer and the associated drug/surgery procedures is a slow poisoning of the patient. What ever pause, or appearance of progress we see is typically countered by the advancement of the cancer—due almost entirely to the drugs, lack of body parts and the horrific, tragically stupid diet the patient is put on. They are told to eat lots of carbs, (starches) cheeseburgers, pizza, etc. The weight gain will help them to battle the effects of the treatment! THIS IS WHY THE PATIENT IS SICK IN THE FIRST PLACE! SHIT FOR FOOD!!! They are sick because they ate shit most of their lives! This food and the weight gain will do one thing only for the patient—decrease their chances of survival, greatly. To withstand the level of poison that cancer "therapy" brings to the patients body requires a great deal of strength both physically and genetically. Most people cannot get through the treatments. Or eventually a new cancer appears, once the so called therapy is completed.

The Barn Burned Down Long Before The Legend Ever Did!
(Borrowed & Butchered from Elton John's Candle In The Wind)
In a previous post or two, I shared this metaphor, which is not mine—Referring to the use of chemo/radiation/AZT (AIDS meds), to fight cancer, HIV, Hepetitis, etc. Lets say you have a rat infested barn. The only way to get the rats to leave, is to set the barn on fire with the hopes that the fire can be doused before the barn burns down. The diet most doctors prescribe to cancer patients would be the equivalent of spraying gasoline on that burning barn. The rats will run or die. The fire will achieve that. But the damage done, most often cannot be repaired or reversed. All we can hope for is an easy death with the least amount of suffering. But what the patients and their loved ones don't understand, due to the grave fear we all have around this disease, is that the protocol is somewhat worse than the illness. The patient and the family would be much better off if the patient was put on the Gerson therapy. Or the modern version. A plant based diet, with fresh juices, whole foods, colonic therapy, movement, etc. It is criminal to allow our medical profession to knowingly poison us under the guise of healing. One cannot be a doctor of medicine and not know, deep down, that ALL DRUGS POISONOUS THE HUMAN BODY!

Now That's Some Good Drinkin'!
I took a break a little while ago and made myself a fresh vegetable juice made-up of Organic carrots, Lacinato Kale and celery. I made about a quart of juice and drank it all. The electricity circulating through my body feels amazing. It's crazy. I feel a great burst of energy, mental clarity, increased awareness and overall oomph. To think that a friend of mine was told not to have fresh green juice, take chlorella or eat salads while sick with cancer. She was told that moving her bowels would aggravate her tumors, which were attached to the fat around the lower belly. I covered this topic in detail in a couple of older posts. They told her the movement would make the tumors grow. This woman was put on a diet prescribed to her by DOCTORS! Called "the low residue diet." Pudding, jello, sugar smacks. Foods which produce a low amount of residue or SHIT. These geniuses put this poor woman on a diet, which fails to keep laboratory rats alive! This is either IDIOCRACY in real life or evil doing its best, really their worst. Doctors aren't taught the truth and most are too unintelligent to figure it out for themselves—and instead are taught the names of over 600 drugs and the effects of those drugs on the human body. This is not acceptable. Imagine if our car mechanics knew the names of the engine parts but not how to fix the engine!

Who Is Held Accountable?
Is it the fault of the doctor? The AMA? Or is it our friends in the pharmaceutical industry, who fund research and development to further the profit driven agenda. This is meant to produce the illusion of a necessity for drugs as therapy. Also to fictionalize the efficacy of drugs for health, treatment and healing. This is pure, unadulterated bullshit! Many arguments can be made to support drug therapy. I've made my stance clear throughout my blogging days and prior in my profession. When imminent death or acute illness threatens the survival of a person, by all means drug that person or cut them open and try to save their life. To operate on someone because things aren't as good as they can be is a business move with no regard for the actual health or future of the patient. I don't believe drugs should be used as therapy. However, the pharmaceutical industry is in business to profit, which is the only reason to be in business. Hello!

Make Money, Money. Make Money, Money (Snoop Dogg)

Perhaps that is why nationalized medicine seems to make sense on paper. The unfortunate result of industrializing pharmaceuticals is—the focus is no longer helping people to heal. Don't be fooled by the lies. Thinking along these lines is akin to thinking that any given president actually cares more about people than the industrial corporations that placed him in office. Don't be fooled. THIS IS NOT TRUE for pharmaceutical companies or politicians. Politicians are in place to carry out the mission. MAKING MONEY for the great corporations of the country. Stop believing campaign promises. Stop buying their bullshit and deceit. Even the politicians that have good intentions, once inside see and learn the way the game is played. They either play or die. Hopefully they only die, politically.

That Which Kills Us

We are being killed by the "things" manufactured for consumption, pleasure, enjoyment, entertainment. Whether we are talking about processed foods, electronic gadgets (cell phones, computers) or simply nylon rugs which poison the very air we breathe, until the nylon stops gassing. Which takes a very long time. Dental amalgams (Silver fillings) used for decades, which contain Mercury. This stuff is so poisonous, yet hardly ever considered an issue in mainstream medicine. The amount of undiagnosed illnesses in this country from the use of this material is incomprehensible. The utter disregard for health in exchange for profit is unforgivable. The amount of mercury in one tooth filled with silver mercury filling, upon contact with water (saliva or liquid consumed), gasses enough poison to shut down a factory for evacuation. It is almost twice the amount of mercury gas needed for a factory to be declared a hazardous environment. Mercury is highly poisonous and toxic. It is a neurological toxin or Neuro-toxin. It is the most toxic mineral that is not radioactive. We all suffer brain damage to some degree when exposed to this element. Crowded elevators with 3 to 5 people with mouths filled with one or more dental amalgams (silver fillings) is way above legal limits of mercury gas for a large building. Digest that one for a bit.

What Are "They" Protecting, If Not Profit?

The topic of dental amalgams is heavily debated. Of course the FDA claims that these fillings, which are 50% mercury are perfectly safe. Supposedly there's no risk to our health and all these claims are false or exaggerated. Do I even need to comment on the ethics of the FDA? Please! They okay every drug, which they eventually call back. These fake scientists call actual learned people who are real Master's of Science and PHD's, quacks—simply because they speak the truth about mercury poisoning and most other fantastical ideas they put forth for profit. They've even convinced people whose children have been permanently damaged by vaccines containing mercury, that the child's illness, which occurred just after a vaccination session, wasn't from the vaccines. Can you see the obvious trends being set in motion by the systems which govern every aspect of our health?

Don't Trust Industry

Bill Maher makes a great point on his show, In Real Time. He and I seem to agree on this among many topics—We grow food that is crap. We make "foods" out of the raw materials from that crap we grow. The foods & processed garbage we make causes us to become ill. Then we go to doctors that push drugs. The drugs provide a quick "fix" yet not a real fix. We get sicker from the drugs. We're told our diets have nothing to do with "this illness," by our doctors. We continue to repeat the process. Until we are diagnosed with a BIG illness. Which is typically cancer, stroke, heart-disease, diabetes, etc. Here is where the real money is made. Treatments (drugs/surgery) for the big illnesses cost enormous amounts of money. You see, when INDUSTRY drives culture, people suffer addictions to products. There's really no problem until specific areas of our culture become industrialized! To industrialize medicine, Health-care, food production—including agriculture, means profit is now the number one priority. How in the world can we expect to get quality from any of these outlets. It's bad enough people believe medicine helps chronic illness. Quality always takes a back-seat to profit when "industry" sneaks in. I say sneaks because it doesn't happen over night.

This Isn't Working
The images we have in our heads from all the people we've known who have suffered or died from cancer are, of course grim and sad and ugly. We watch our loved ones become zombies. Do all cancers do that to people? I don't think so. I believe it is the effects of the drugs. As I explained before, if you live past 2 years, you're considered cured. Most people, sadly succumb to the illness. Cancer as we now know is an end-of-the-line illness. Cancer comes when we ignore all the other signs of illness. There are no "real" signs. But instead, little illnesses. Or a general feeling of "blah" most of the time. We don't understand that our inner body is trying to tell us to get our act together. Instead, we move on like frat boys pledging to be a member of a fraternity. With the same blind faith we trudge on and try to act as if everything is fine. We don't realize that to be tired all the time, have headaches, backaches, colds, flu's, sinus infection, painful menstrual cycles, weight gain or struggles, bathroom issues, and so on, is not normal! These are the signs for which we need to pay attention. Not ignore. Not act like "we can take it". This is your body saying "hello! Do something different. This isn't working!"

Arrogance, Ignorance And The Cycle Of Suffering
Industry needs a constant demand for product. Have you noticed people being put on chemo drugs for life! Low dosage pills. No end in sight. Just taking these poisonous tablets, years after the threat of cancer is gone. Here's the scariest part. No one as made any real changes to how they live. This is perfect. A repeat illness is almost guaranteed. Cancer will return, depending on the indulgence and arrogance of patient and doctor. We can no longer act like the Standard American Diet isn't the problem. IT IS! We need to stop melting cheese all over everything we eat, and be arrogant about it. As though we've earned the right to clog our arteries or stop our hearts with roast beef sandwiches. Why? To make drug companies rich? Or for that fleeting moment of pleasure, followed by days of suffering. Then what? Tums? We are the most indulgent, obese, sick and immature culture on the planet. Just because we can stuff a turkey with 2 other animals doesn't mean we should. How maniacal can we be. We take away the bread and replace it with the flesh of another dead animal? This is irresponsible, childish, myopic and outright stupid behavior. It's no wonder we are falling apart as a nation. Our collective head is so far up our collective ass its a woneer we survive at all—worrying about who won Dancing With The Stars or who's had plastic surgery, or counting calories, or getting to the gym to work off yesterday's ridiculous contraption we call a meal! Wake up! Cut the crap. EAT FOOD. Put an end to dramatic thinking and focus on the now. This brings clarity. Even if we visit now for a few moments. Try it.

We Cannot Exercise Cancer Away—But We Can Exorcise Cancer From The Body!
The treadmill only removes the giggly stuff. Not the sticky residue from poor digestion and low-quality food, which is a major contributing factor to illness. Remaining on the diet treadmill, the medication hamster wheel, ensures that evil empires will stay in business. These chemical products act like time released booby-traps. Take any drug long enough and you will develop a so called "unrelated illness." BULLSHIT! Our foods, drugs, drinks, air, etc., all go through the same system. Different names and locations mean nothing. All illness comes from accumulation, constipation or obstruction. Fancy names for illness creates fancy names for drugs and the marketing thereof. We use different names to describe different physical locations of the same accumulation. This mystifies and confuses the average person—not to mention the average doctor. Don't let the names, symptoms and the variety of suggested treatments fool you. There is only one illness and that is the accumulation of poison caused by sluggish bowels, constipation, the formation of gas and mucus in the tissue, bloodstream and cells of the body. Simple. For medical science to have researched human beings and illness to the degree they have, is by no means a bad thing. What hurts their power and knowledge is agenda, money and profit. If they let go of their attachment to their education and all it encompasses (huge loans), they might see the truth. First step—letting go of their egos.

The Unprofitable Truth
Upon this awakening, doctor's would see the truth and that the system is a mess. People's fear, weakness and illness is used for profit. Once again, one cannot embrace science as a measurement of truth and defend the state of medicine today. Some of the research being done is fantastic. There are some scientists doing great work. The unfortunate aspect of industrialization is. . . truth/health takes a back seat to profit. Medically speaking: Healing is actually something we chase as an illusive, intangible, unreachable goal. Along the trek to health through medicine, we may reach certain plateaus, but we never actually reach the top of the mountain. Why? Because there's no money in the cure! John Joseph, author of "Meat Is For Pussies," drove that point home at his appearance in Brooklyn during his book tour. That is the truth.

Copacetic? Or Apathetic?
When people are diagnosed with cancer, the patient sees this as the beginning of real illness. The little or not so little illnesses have been overlooked as unrelated. Or irrelevant. All illness is the same. All symptoms can be considered warnings to teach us certain things aren't right. When cancer strikes we think the trouble begins. This is more or less the end of the patient's journey. Their body is giving into the rapidly growing cancer cells. Their blood acidic, filled with toxic poison. Their bowels filled with sticky, old, hardened feces, mucus, puss, blood, gas and all kinds of interesting life forms. Our good bacteria is long gone or in such small numbers their presence hardly matters. The job of "cleaning up" or "keeping the passage clear" is long since abandoned.

Hi, How May I Poison You?
Here comes cancer. Taking over the body, the nation, the world. Drugs don't do enough to kill the cancer cells, and seem to damage the good ones more. Why is that? Oddly enough, the cancer cells are significantly weaker than the healthy cells. The explanation for using chemo and radiation? This poison kills weaker cells. Yes, but it kills indiscriminately. Like bombing a city from a plane. Whatever is in the path of the bomb is badly damaged, wounded or killed. It seems while our loved ones are going through this horrific process, the "medicine" takes what little dignity and vitality they had left. It seems the same behavior comes over most cancer patients. I'm not saying cancer is not a devastating illness. It is. But the strange zombie like behavior, once the patient is under treatment for cancer is unmistakable. There is a hollow, far-away stare. As if their eyes only see black and white. The patient becomes something I cannot find a word to accurately describe. I imagine they are locked in fear, knowing they feel something worse than the disease itself running through their veins. The actual drugs and the effects are so powerful and painful, the patient morphs into a grayed out version of themselves. It is so deeply sad and heartbreaking to witness person after person, suffer the same fate as so many others. Yet, the same people grow richer still.

Our Fore Fathers
What people like Dr. Max Gerson, Professor Arnold Ehret, Dr. Norman Walker, Viktoris Kulvinskis, and many others all believed is this: All illnesses are preventable and curable through eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Drinking vegetable juice. Moderate exercise. Colon cleansing, enemas or coffee enemas. All of the aforementioned approaches to health will greatly improve, maintain and heal most if not all illnesses. Today we have new teachers singing the same song, maybe with different words. Maybe to a slightly different tune, with minor adjustments to meet the needs of people and modern diets and lifestyles. Understand when something "new" comes along or is "discovered," most often new discoveries are not new at all. We are waking up to a new yet ancient way of thinking—all we need to heal is ourselves, the natural foods which occur on our planet and some unnatural methods to help us through our unnatural lifestyle. We have for decades lived quite unnaturally. Some will argue that whatever we do, produce or develop is natural because we are natural creatures. Okay, fair enough. There's one thing I'd like to point out. Donuts, bagels, cheese, bread, sausage, hot-dogs, burgers, pizza, beer, booze, drugs of all kinds, ARE NOT NATURAL. These are synthesized items made from raw materials or made from other chemicals, synthesized chemicals or a combination, thereof. Juicing, colon cleansing, exercise are unnatural necessities of modern living. Yes, exercise is unnatural. Taking on unnatural practices is not a bad thing. We live with all kinds of modern poisons—perhaps these modern health aids are perfect reactions to our new demons of convenience.

Perception, Relatively Speaking. . .
We once woke-up with sunrise and went to sleep with sundown. We worked outdoors and got our exercise that way. We breathed fresh air and were exposed to sunlight in a healthy way. Our ozone layer was not compromised by deforestation, pollution and chemicals in the atmosphere. Obvious? Yes, but not often considered: There is no sunrise or sunset. It's really earth-rise and earth-set. We move around the sun and spin on our axis. The sun simply spins on its axis and moves around the galaxy with the rest of the stars, etc. As our sun hurls through the galaxy, we move with it. Perspective is everything. Because we stand on planet earth we see the sun rise and set. We don't see our planet's movement. Apply this concept where ever you can in life. Perspective is everything. How does perspective apply to cancer? Think of it this way: when a tumor is found, the first thought is "this is bad." This is the general attitude about tumors. However, the tumor is there to collect bad cells and associated fluids. To remove the tumor isn't a bad thing. But to ignore nature and its messages is why most people succumb to the dreaded illness.

What Would The World Look Like, If. . . ?
As I mentioned above. There is never any proper information given about changing the diet or ones habits, by the majority of doctors. The sad truth about cancer is it is a multi-billion dollar industry. It generates enormous amounts of money. If Dr. Gerson's therapy were introduced back in 1928, things would be quite different. We would still have a medical community—not an industry. Cancer would therefore be a rare illness rather than a common, almost everyday illness—now bordering on epidemic. Instead of cancer we live with Cancer Incorporated. The business of pain, suffering, virtual torture and worst of all deceit. Don't support their research. For your hard earned money will ultimately assist them in keeping you veiled from the truth. We support research that kills us? Demand a new way, with new thinking. Not new names for the same drugs. Or new formulas. Try something OLD! Like fasting. Try not stuffing your face, America!

Be well,

Tom DeVito

All I Want Is The Truth, Just Gimme Some Truth. . .

2010-11-18T08:25:00.013-05:00

The title of this piece is taken from the late, great John Lennon. I'm sure I don't need to go into this man's history. He was not only a painfully honest artist. He was an outspoken activist. He spoke out for all of humanity and he was a vegetarian, later in his life. He also never bowed to any power. He spoke his mind freely. Yes, he had a platform and lots of money. He did make a difference and so can we!

WARNING: This post includes harsh language.

I'm Back
For the past few years or more I've stayed away from the vegan, raw food movement. Most of what I witnessed in the early 2000's was a lot of people seeking answers to a formula that could not be adapted as a "one size fits all" program. We all have different histories and different roles in society. Some of us are more stationed in the cities and suburbs in which we've chosen to live. Some of us travel as if we are on the lamb and ducking the law or the mob.

The vegan lifestyle is a very different way of living. The raw vegan lifestyle is completely outside of this society and culture. One must consider, carefully where they are headed and more importantly, where they came from. I've said this many times. The reason I am reviewing this concept is because of a vegan event I attended, last night. Seeing as though I sometimes write these pieces in a few sessions, this may take a few days to post. The event took place in Dumbo, Brooklyn. For those of you outside the NYC area, this neighborhood's name comes from its location. Down Under The Manhattan Bridge overpass. Like SOHO—South of Houston (street).

A Night To Remember
The event was a book signing for a book, which was published about a year ago, called "Meat Is For Pussies," by John Joseph. For those of you who not familiar with the name, he is also the front man and lead singer for the punk rock band, The Cro-Mags. His book and his talk at the bookstore, The Power House, was very straight forward, very crass and vulgar. My kinda guy! In the spirit of Lennon and other outspoken activists Joseph reached his audience by using the language he used growing-up in the streets. As soon as he spoke I heard many similarities between he and I. His delivery, content and passion reminded me of me. So why write about him and his book? Because he went much deeper into researching the evils of GMO's and Monsanto. One of my favorite targets. What Joseph revealed was staggering and frightening. The power this company and others like it wield over you and I is truly unforgivable. We don't differ so much in content. I feel we do compliment one another, as I go deeper into the physiological effects of the foods on the human body.

Great Minds!
His research helped get me in touch with the virtual tsunami of food chemical companies, drug companies, agriculture and most importantly the inhumane and extremely NON-GREEN effects of factory farms for animal food production. Not to mention the movement of genetically modifying our foods under the guise of "improving" the quality of foods. The underhanded nature in which all these companies operate is far worse than you could imagine. I've been aware of most of what he spoke about, but this "balls-to-the wall" book really brings to light some of the atrocities we humans are committing on our animals, and on ourselves. As I've stated in the past—when we stop buying food-gadgets (non or junk-foods) the market or demand decreases, which would force these despicable cretins to hop on another band wagon and perhaps not seek to take over the planet. Something Joseph made clear last night.

I was moved by his passion and candor. His research and depth of knowledge on these very topics was riveting. He had a full house of curious people as well as members of the choir silently sitting or standing in silence. Everyone was attentive, everyone was moved, including my NY, cynical ass! While I respect and admire and support most of my peers and teachers and great people whom have braved this journey, this man blew me away because he most definitely did not put on airs. He made no excuses, didn't fake a British accent, or wear a turban, or a robe. He didn't use spiritual terms and most importantly, HE DELIVERED TRUTH! All I want is the truth now, just give some truth!

The Proof Is In The Guacamole
The great Dr. Fred Bisci was also in attendance. I consider Fred a friend. I've known him for several years. He has been on the vegan, raw food path for something like 60 years. Talk about experience. He's helped over 35,000 people world-wide. He spoke for a while and also delivered great information, at age 81, with amazing physical and mental agility. We all can only hope to be in his shape, on all planes of life when our ninth decade rolls around. My favorite line from Dr. Bisci was this, "I'm making plans for the next 30-40 years!" This is a man filled with positivity, love, compassion, wisdom, knowledge and experience. He has treated a broad spectrum of people and has really seen, through literally thousands of cases, THE TRUTH.

Again, why write a piece like this? For sometime I was turned off by the dogmatic and somewhat militant approach the raw food movement took in order to bring an important message to the people. They didn't look the part. Their energy was often low. Their complexions gray. Guts filled with waste, with limbs thin, lacking muscles. Their attitudes were negative and they seemed to be filled with anger and judgment of others. Except for a very few. The movement then felt like an exclusive clique rather than an inclusive "we're all in this together" vibe. This, I feel has changed dramatically and for the better. No more preaching to the choir of people with fractional knowledge. This is growing into a huge movement for the sake of all human kind. Not just people in the lifestyle.

Bring Back The Beam Green Movement, Please!
I recently met an amazing young woman by the name of Mary Boemer. She and her Mom started a group/movement called Beam Green. I hope I spelled it correctly. Well, if it's spelled wrong, its at least phonetically accurate. The movement came from illness in her family, which claimed the lives of her Dad and Brother. Soon after her son passed away, Mary's mom developed 2 brain tumors. Mary had been seeing my teacher for colonics. For those of you who don't know me very well or are new to this site, his name is Gil Jacobs. His knowledge of healing the body naturally, through detoxification (colonics and a mucus free diet) is unsurpassed by almost everyone else in this field. He is a pioneer and a brilliant man. His dedication to helping others is quite impressive. I owe my presence and all my early training and knowledge to him and his tutelage. I cannot say enough good things about Gil and his ability to safely guide people through the healing process. His generosity with people in sharing what he knows has contributed to my method of teaching and sharing. Sharing with nothing at heart but paying it forward. Mary's mom, whose name I do not know. Was healed of her cancerous tumors in a fairly short period of time. Both Mary and her mom continue to live according to this beautiful lifestyle and live free of illness!

Don't Buy Into The Lies
Meeting Mary and hearing about the organization and movement they created, inspired me. Primarily due to the oomph of this movement. It attracted young, upbeat professionals. People that were positive and not dogmatic and judgmental. Of course I'm judging the people I encountered early on my journey. Last nights event was proof positive that this spirit, this energy, is alive and well and thriving. I knew one thing for sure—something I've expressed in the past, was mentioned by both John Joseph and Moby. The only way to NOT be enslaved by these major, evil corporations is to not buy their products. To lessen the number of people eating a Standard American Diet (SAD)—which simply increases the number of people eating on a conscious, plant-based or mostly plant-based diet. Our former President, Bill Clinton is now living on an almost entirely plant-based diet as a result of his hear valves closing after stint surgery. He realized his diet needed to change in order for his health to improve. Just look at him and see for yourself. He looks 10 years younger.

For a moment lets forget the negatives, which eating dead animals have on the human being. Lets just focus on the biggest contributor to global warming—factory farms, food production-plants & GMO's. This myopic approach to "sustaining life" on this planet is equal to watering your garden with raw sewage! Oh wait, that's already happening—to our foods. Brought to you by The U.S. Agricultural department. Think about it. We create foods and burn enormous amounts of fuel. We build food gadgets out of raw material and use potent chemicals and dyes, which destroy the environment. Irradiating food seems to be okay with our government and a large number of people, in this country. Has anyone bothered to ask, what happens to the nuclear waste? Or the food? Is it still the same, molecularly? I believe not.

Fat, Drunk & Stupid. . . (Animal House)
Christ! Are we this pathetic, fat and addicted? Growing genetically modified foods from "Frankenseeds" destroys the soil. Hello! Soil is Earth! It's not just a patch of dirt to grow vegetables for the hippie tree huggers! It's where all foods are grown for we humans. It's where all foods are grown to feed the livestock. Of course we feed them as poorly as we eat. Why, because it makes them the animals fat. They are sold by weight. What would happen if cows were sold at a flat price, regardless of their weight. That might make a difference. It's our Earth we are completely fucking up! We come from this Earth. We are of this Earth. We are advanced, highly evolved, extremely adaptable organisms. We'll never hurt the earth as a planet. What will happen, as I've stated many times before—we will remove, temporarily, of course, the ability to sustain life on this planet! Enjoy that cheeseburger!

Can You See Yourself In The Eyes Of Other Creatures?
I can't remember if it was Moby, who by the way was riveting, or John Joseph who said "can you look into the eyes of an animal and say your own appetite is more important than that animal's suffering." Great way to think of it. The other way to think of this is, why are we so kind, loving and compassionate toward our house animals but not the rest of the animals on the planet? Are cows not cute enough? Are pigs too dirty to give your compassion? We behave in ways which are inexplicable. We can no longer live blindly, in the absence of consciousness. We can no longer behave that global warming doesn't exist. We can no longer act as though cars are the largest contributor to global warming! It's meat and dairy farms that contribute the most green-house gasses to our air. Food production? Not really, it's revenue production, really. 60 years ago, meat was meat. Today, we just can't be sure what's in the meat. Which is why so many European country's won't take our meat.

Gimme Your Lunch Money, PUNK!
The worst thing the U.S. does is force our will on others. We do this politically and through war. We are the big bullies. The asshole in the school yard that got in your face. Our government acts as if they believe our way is best. They know the truth. Our way is profitable. That's all. Our government, regardless of who is President, do exactly what they want to do. Presidents appoint people to positions in government, whom we do not choose. Those people are highly trained experts. They are dark figures in our society. They hurt us for money. They shit all over "other" the little people outside this country, like they torture animals. These despicable cretins were the kids that were bullied in school. Revenge of the nerds. These people make policy. They are worse than criminals. Give me a thug any day over a politician. At least they're honest about their role in society. Politicians are like the priests that molest little boys. They act as if they are your friend. That they have your best interest at heart. They want your pennies. The rich don't suffer like the lower and middle class do. When you consider the enormous imbalance of wealth in this country. They take our money, not the rich!

No Turning Back
I am at the point where there is only one way to go—BUY NOTHING THE VAMPIRE, PIMPS PRODUCE. NO FOOD OR CLOTHING MADE BY THESE PRICKS. Buy local organic foods, if you can find it. Buy clothing that does not depend on the inhumane treatment, torture and butchering of animals. Have you ever looked into the eyes of your dog or cat? Or a goat? Or sheep? A cow? A horse? There is no difference between these animals. Pigs are more like dogs than almost any other animal. In fact, their skin is closest to human skin. Still want to eat that pork? That bacon? Funny how beef is cow. Pork is pig. Veal is baby cow, calf. Yet chicken is chicken. Turkey is turkey and fish is fish. But the shit eaters are called "sea food." Are we that stepford?

Are we stupid? I don't think so. I think we are complacent. We are addicted to poison. Most people are unwilling to change because they have no solid information to guide them. Especially from the likes like Dr. Oz, Dr. Andrew Weil. Oz has had to have surgery on his face to hide his lack of health and vitality. He sometimes dispenses decent information, but is largely full of shit. Weil is FAT! Sorry, doc. You cannot be "a world renowned leader of integrative medicine" and BE FAT!!! Is it me? JEEZE! At least Oprah tried to speak out against the beef and dairy industry. They almost killed her and certainly would of had her taken off the air. But for the sake of her show, which I'm sure she believes helps people. And many people do say they learn a lot from her and her approach. But she caved. She's a billionaire. But the beef and dairy farmers have a huge lobby and many more billions. Power always wins.

Lies & The Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Author, Congressman Al Franken)
There's no truth in this country. There's no truth in advertising or marketing. Have you noticed, almost all adds on the TV are for really bad foods, which look like heaven and the drugs you will need from eating that food? Fat free lasagna is no better than normal lasagna! In fact, it's worse. As I've stated before, fat is easier on the body than protein. There's no truth in the medical industry. Obama is a lying sack of shit! And I voted for him! His appointments are downright evil. The men, and I use that term very loosely, are from these evil, giant corporations that have been raping the land and making you and your children, and your elders sick. Voting for a new president is like choosing whom you'd rather have your torture administered by. Either way, you are going to suffer. I've always known this. IT IS NEVER ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. IT IS ABOUT THE AGENDA, THE POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES!

It's Time To Change! NOW!
People, this is not about what you like to eat anymore. Give up your eggs, sausage, bacon, cheese, milk, yogurt, beef, chicken, fish, lamb, pork, veal, cold-cuts, fast food—ALL OF THIS IS POISONOUS TO YOUR BODY. IT IS ALL POISONOUS TO OUR ENVIRONMENT. AND IT IS EVIL TO TREAT OUR FELLOW SPECIES THIS WAY! We look at other cultures and judge them for how they treat their animals. Like China. They eat all living things, dogs, cats, bugs, roaches, centipedes, worms—it doesn't matter. They half kill animals like cats and skin them alive! Are they better or worse than we? At least they don't pretend to care. This country needs to awaken from it's collective denial and stop the shit already. We need to be conscious, decent people, if only for our own well being. Everyone that wants to continue eating from the list of American animal based foods, are destroying our environment and your all eating the anger, fear, rage, chemical poisons, hormones, etc. Look at what is happening around you. John Joseph pointed out at his lecture that one third of the entire nation is OBESE! ONE THIRD! What the hell is going on? Isn't this alarming to you all? We are supporting industries, their victims, and we're eating shit for food, taking their poisons, called medicine to continue to paint over rust! To hide the truth that the food in this country is UNFIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION! It is crap! Plain and simple.

No Fluff. No Fluffer Nutter!
I'm not one of those vegans who wants to share cute recipes, although I have quite a few killer dishes. I am the kind of vegan that wants to help future generations to realize we are killing ourselves on multiple levels. From our food to our soil to our air to our water! What's left? Of course these pimps have everyone believing the opposite of many truths. Milk and cheese fights Osteoporosis. Wrong. Pasteurized dairy causes it. Soy is a cancer fighter. This is a joke—especially for women. Meat is essential for human health. I haven't had red meat since 1987! I live illness free. Cured illnesses I was told I'd have for life! More bullshit. The late, great George Carlin had it right. "It's all bullshit and it's bad for you." We're told fluoride is good for our teeth. IT'S A CORROSIVE! In small amounts, it will break down plaque in the mouth. But to use this poison everyday will eat away at your enamel. Forget the plethora of items we use to prevent sweating, smelling, etc. All radically wrong. All very bad for human health. Go back to nature. Use deodorant instead of antiperspirant. Buy soaps without beef tallow and other animal products. The list is virtually endless. I think I should stop here. I have ranted long enough.

But Seriously Now, Folks. . .
I usually prefer to be humorous and fun about this very important topic. This time I needed to be a bit stronger and somewhat foul mouthed. I'm pissed off! I'm more aware, because of "Meat is for pussies," and the great work people like John Joseph and Moby and so many other activists are doing. This is beyond important. This is so much more vital to our survival than DANCING WITH THE STARS! Get away from your televisions. Watch documentaries, which will inform you of all we are talking about. I will do more and more to be a positive contribution to the well being of the people of this planet, the animals, and the planet itself. Join in. Take a small role. Recycle. Eat locally organically grown foods. Wear natural fibers. Don't support the leather and fur industries. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY—DON'T EAT FAST FOODS. Slow down. Enjoy life.

The Sky Won't Fall—We Will!
We are about to collapse as a society, like Rome did. Too much indulgence and pleasure and not enough responsible living. We need to adapt to a more sustainable lifestyle. Plain and simple. Every little bit helps. What can you do? The next time you eat a burger, a steak, a piece of chicken, turkey, lamb—think of the screams of horror and agony of that animal while it is witnessing it's fellow animals die at the hand of industry. While it is paraded to its death. Try to imagine how your dog or cat would scream in fear of annihilation. Can you really support that knowing this process and the foods produced by it is why we are all getting sicker and using more drugs than ever, in this society. Pick one thing. Try it out. See if you feel better doing it. You can and will make a difference. Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Lets stop this insane, repetitive cycle of death, destruction and weakening of all species, plants, seeds on this planet. We can win by not buying their poison. Drug dealers only go where the business is! If there's no demand, the supply goes away. I hope I've struck a chord. I also don't mind if I've offended some of you. I do it out of love and care for all living creatures.
Finally, a quote from my Dad, who has his misanthropic moments. "The meek shall inherit the earth. . .6 feet at time."
Be well,
Tom DeVito

It's A Rot Race, I Tell You!

2010-10-24T11:02:00.016-04:00

We all know what happens to food leftovers when left out, overnight. The food goes bad. Or rots. Or breaks down. Or decomposes. These are some of the ways one can explain the phenomenon of decomposition. Animal products are especially quick to decompose and make quite a stench. Meat, cheese, eggs all make a stink. If you cooked some chopped meat and real melted cheese on the burger, then used hamburger buns made from real grains, then left it on your counter for a few days—the food would rot and stink and grow mold, maggots would form. There would be all kinds of signs that nature was doing its thing. When an animal dies the same thing happens. When grain products are left out they grow mold. When animal byproducts are not refrigerated they rot. Eggs might be the worst of the batch. The stench of sulfur is no surprise to the common egg eater. They smell similar once they pass through the body. How ever much actually makes it out is debatable. Fruit and vegetables are also subject to this natural law, as is all natural food and even foods made with natural products and no preservatives. No hydrocarbon based life forms can escape this fate. We can all agree that Twinkies are not real food, but they will break down over a very long period of time.

Incredulous Disbelievers—DENIAL
Many people posted their comments below the actual story. Most of those people thought the story was absurd. The idea ridiculous! "Our stomachs have powerful acids, which break foods like this down. Air doesn't have the ability to digest food." I was so tempted to write in response to comments as short sighted and misinformed as this one. I resisted. Instead, I'll rant and rave about it here. Why do people insist on fighting against the information which was put out to help them. People make discoveries, engage in detailed research and exhausting tests to help people make better decisions about their health. The the very people that need the information most, fight, deny, argue, ridicule, jump up and down. etc. Yet tell them pollution is getting worse, or the Sun is bad for them, or aerosol cans are bad for the environment and they can work with this information. Why? Because they are victims to what they cannot change and they can easily switch to a pump spray. Makes no real difference in their lives. Ask them to give up their ham, salami and Swiss, on a roll with mayo and mustard, salt and pepper, and they are not happy.
To check this piece out for yourselves: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101012/bs_yblog_upshot/mcdonalds-happy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months

The information about McDonald's came to me from Dedra, the manager at Release—she's an all around amazing woman & colon therapist. She really investigates and digs deep for information, which she shares with many people. She posted 3 news articles and each blew me away. This next one packs a wallop.

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!

This is an excerpt from the story: The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health world with startling bluntness: Processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption. Consumers should stop buying and eating all processed meat products for the rest of their lives.

This is an amazing piece of information. Yet, will it make a difference in people's choices? Probably not. It does give vegetarians and vegans something to quote from the medical profession, on the topic. So many people use doctor's and their inane, uninformed opinions about the consumption of all meats, from fast foods to high quality meats. A large number of doctors claim "everything is okay in moderation." You know what I say? So then how about heroin? In moderation, of course. Kidding aside, this is not ground-breaking news. Many of us new this for years. But for an organization this prominent to outright say these products are not fit for human consumption, is huge.

Chicken Of The Sea?
The study also shows that chicken and fish don't fall into this category simply because the preservative Sodium Nitrite isn't used to preserve the flesh of chicken and fish. I do not believe chicken or fish is healthy, per say. I do think fish is best. I've said that before but thought this was a good place to reiterate that point. The meats that are preserved with this nasty carcinogen is used to make meats appear bright red and fresh. Flesh is gray. Not red. Here's a list of foods or food gadgets using this chemical: bacon, sausage, hot dogs, sandwich meats, packaged ham, pepperoni, salami, and virtually all red meat used in frozen prepared meals. Most of the people who read my blog probably don't eat red meat or packaged/processed meat.

What is the point of me writing this is? So we can all spread the word to friends and family who still partake in that way of thinking. They need to know there's a choice. If the people around us, whom we love and care for, are still eating processed meats, they need to know this. They don't have to become a "crunchy granola," as we are often referred to. They can simply go to restaurants that serve real meat. Not highly preserved "happy meal" meat! Nothing happy about that meal and certainly not the person eating it. Nor the animals that are processed into a bizarre combination of flesh, chemical and filler, to look like food.

FOOD Inc. Food Inc. FOOD Inc. Food Inc. FOOD Inc. Food Inc. WATCH IT!
Think about the inhumane treatment of the animals that go into the happy meal. These animals are never "happy." In fact, they never see the light of day and almost never walk on the natural earth. They are locked in boxes or cages. They know this isn't how their lives should be. Not in a cognitive way, but through instinct. This creates a deep frustration in the animal. They're fed the worst man-made food gadgets as to fatten up the animal for a greater price. All the animals we raise live a miserable existence of prison like conditions while being tortured on a daily basis. They suffer from chronic/acute illnesses, which require major doses of antibiotics. The consumer takes all of the above in their being with every bite. I remember, rather clearly how my overall mood changed. I felt better, lighter, cheerier and I became physically lighter. My skin color and quality changed for the better. My breath was better. My need for deodorant was decreased. My need for sweets vanished, almost entirely. I didn't feel the need for breath mints, or chewing gum, which contributes to a host of problems in the stomach. The improvements are lengthy. I normally do not climb atop my soap-box to preach the gospel of veganism. Most of the time I aim to reach people about eating whole foods and combining the foods in the meal, correctly. A few pro-vegan plugs cannot hurt.

Here's the link for this story:http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/2007/12/processed-meats-declared-too-dangerous-for-human-consumption/

The last piece was shared with me, by Dedra, is another McDonald's story. It's based on how they "manufacture" chicken McNugget's. They create a thick gummy, pink substance out of the chicken and byproducts and various additives. Once they have this pink goop, they need to make it consumable. Due to the fact that there is chicken in the actual recipe and it isn't protected from bacteria, they have to soak the pink slop in AMMONIA! How's that for the restaurant that serves BILLIONS. Disgusting. Once they are done soaking the pink poison in ammonia, it tastes like crap! So onto the next step. Creating flavor. Easy. . . just add some chemicals—the ones that taste good? There you have it. Have a wonderful day, in a one way world.—Peter Gabriel's—first album.

To think people are okay with this is a scary thought. You see, people don't want to know the truth. They want their truth preserved. They want their version of the truth about life, packaged and presented to them in an pretty, easy to understand, way. In other words, people would rather be lied to when their convenience is on the line. "The kids like it, though." What if the kids liked porn, or crime, or drugs, or god for bid, health food? Then what? What is a parent to do? My child is a health nut! Oh nooooooooo! All is good in America, just as long as we get our BULLSHIT in pretty packages, presented to us by dancing clowns, or imaginary Kings, or old men, posing as your friend, cooking the burgers for you, in the kitchen. Wake up! Not with an Egg McMuffin! Wake up with a glass of warm water with lemon. Try a fresh vegetable juice. Or fresh fruit. Eat a salad. Pick from the abundance of foods, which OCCUR here on planet Earth. Just a thought.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

Don't Waste Your Life Making Your Doctor Happy While Passing The Test With Flying Colors

2010-10-04T09:12:00.013-04:00

Here we go. . .
This insanity has gone on for a long time now and it is only getting worse. The technique used to medicate people has become about test results—not protection, prevention, maintenance, or healing. In fact, most medicines can put the patient in more danger, exposing them to the so called "side-effects" of the drugs. By getting good "test results," the drugs may be removing indicators of the very illness the drug is meant to treat. Take Lipitor as an example. Lipitor is one of the most dangerous drugs on the market. Pfizer developed and owns the exclusive rights to this drug. It's meant to help people with high cholesterol. With a little bit of research you can find that not only is cholesterol not the problem—it is actually necessary for good, healthy cell production (cell walls) and the synthesis of Vitamin D. Which of course is very important to healthy teeth and bones. Vitamin D aides in the absorption of calcium.

Live And Let Liver
The liver produces cholesterol to deal with the triglycerides or fats (usually from dense animal fat & alcohol). When we eat meat, cheese, dairy, eggs, etc., our liver is called upon to produce this waxy substance to process fats. Even though this waxy product can build-up in the vessels and arteries, it is necessary for breaking down fat. Cholesterol is also very important for healthy cell walls. The membranes are compromised when cholesterol is not produced sufficiently, by the liver. Also, without cholesterol the vitamin D we take in from sunlight and diet is not synthesized, therefore not utilized by the body. When Vitamin D is not processed due to suppression of the liver this results in a deficiency of Vitamin D.

How High The Dosage?
Using super high dosages of Vitamin D seems to be the medical "fix" for this issue. Supplements will never fix the deficiency, but you will pass the test! Vitamin therapy (not from a whole food source) will show up on tests as a positive change. When the blood is tested the Vitamins ingested are in the blood stream but are not and cannot be used by the body. These Vitamins (taken for decades by people thinking they are helping themselves) are incomplete and missing their other half. Vitamins are co-enzymes. When taken from a whole food source the body sees it as a complete product and can use it. When taken from non whole food sources, the body becomes stressed from having to cleanse the blood stream of foreign matter. Test the blood and there it is. But is the Vitamin being utilized by body? No. Yet it's in the bloodstream. Well, buses on the road doesn't mean anything unless they're taking people from here to there!

Clean Up Your Act!
This problem is becoming far too common and is very bad for bones & teeth. Of course we are taught to take milk, cheese and eggs to strengthen our bones and teeth. And of course this is the exact opposite of what we should do. We should get our calcium and all other nutrients from a plant based diet. NOT FROM DEAD ANIMALS! And certainly not from products created by man from the rotting carcasses of dead animals. Just google "how Chicken McNuggets are made" and you'll see the absurdity of how "man" makes his grub. Back to Lipitor. This drug helps lower cholesterol when the problem is triglycerides! It is the fat in our diets, mostly from animals or the by products of animals which is the culprit. Cholesterol is an agent to help us—NOT HURT US! If cholesterol is hurting us than it is our fault! It is our doing. We are eating incorrectly. If your cholesterol is high—CHANGE WHAT YOU EAT! If your car kept building up gunk in the engine from a poor quality oil, you would take care of that problem, pronto. You would immediately change the quality of oil you use for your engine. You might use an aid on occasion and pour some other agent which assists in cleansing the parts of your engine where engine plaque builds up.

When we take Lipitor and other cholesterol inhibitors, we expose ourselves to more risk of heart attack and stroke than we do without these drugs. High cholesterol is an indication that there is too much fat in the diet and risk of heart attack or stroke has increased. Remove this flag and doctors have even less information with which to determine cardiac & arterial health.

Reading testimonials about people that have taken Statin drugs (lipitor & other cholesterol inhibitors) actually create a vulnerability in people for many illnesses. There are so many side effects associated with these drugs. It is a phenomenon that so many people take such drugs. One can lose hair, experience debilitating muscle cramps, loss of bone mass, fragility in the bones, and the list goes on. The one thing Statin drugs do, they do well. They prevent the liver from producing cholesterol. Will we ever deal with the truth? Why do we live in a world of opposites. We claim to be a peaceful nation yet we wage war to control resources that are not ours. We live in an Orwellian society. Eternal war for eternal peace. This has nothing to do with health & medicine. This has to do with a deep seated problem in humanity.

WE DON'T SPEAK THE TRUTH
Well, we never speak the truth when industry is at stake. We say we want the truth. We really don't want the truth—we want a truth we can handle. One which does not upset us too much. Imagine if cardiac doctors recommended people give up their abusive lifestyles? Doctors advising their patients to NOT be gluttonous? Doctors that called on people to actually practice some control? Why would they do that? There's no money to be made. Planned obsolescence! Make them sick. . . drug 'em of cut 'em up. . . rinse, repeat. . . . sorry, we've done all we could. . . is ultimately where this merry go round, shit-show will land you. I'd rather drop dead of the actual illness the the off shoot illness the protective medicine gave me. Does anyone get to die from cancer or is it really chemo/radiation poisoning? What's worse? It's certainly not for me to say how a person should or shouldn't treat their illnesses. But with truth and real statistics people would never choose a therapy that kills faster than the illness itself. This is just sad.

My Child? A Heath Freak? No Way!
What kind of stupidity has permeated this culture? We act like little petulant children when we can't have our fattening/clogging foods. I hear things like "I want my son or daughter to be healthy but I don't want them to have an eating disorder." So to avoid your child being a "health freak," parents allow their children to eat blue cereal, fast food slop, cancerous Chicken McNuggets, and all the rest of the food gadgets fat America has concocted. God forbid we are health freaks. Why is it "cooler" to be an unconscious, over consuming, wasteful sloth than to be a "health freak?" I must apologize for writing that last sentence here and now. But have you visited other states in this grand country of ours? It's insane! People eat things that are so ridiculous. A family of four, in middle America needs a feeding trough rather than a table and some place settings from which to eat. Parents would rather feed their children THINGS which are poisonous and plant the seeds of disease, rather than teach them a better way. Why is this the way of the parenting? There are small circles of young parents educating themselves and not continuing this indulgent, ignorant way of life. Yet most parents have no clue as to what a healthy lifestyle is. Some would rather not know. Just look into any social network and see the emphasis on indulgence. Look and see how many people above 35 and 40 years of age that are still getting "hammered." How can these people teach anyone else how to live and take care of themselves? So the overriding mentality in this culture is—indulgence! Which results in drug therapy and surgery to deal with the effects of this lifestyle.

America, The Bountiful
People act as though it is their God given right to stuff their faces like they're at a contest or something. We still have our parents saying "finish what's on your plate" in the back of our heads. It's okay to eat till satisfied. America is a country of abundance. Does that mean be wasteful and drugged up with food? Does it mean to be sloppy drunks? Walk around NYC on the nights people "go out" and see for yourselves. Grown people still acting like idiots. Drinking till they can barely drag themselves to the cab. It's sad and revelatory at the same time. Everyone experiences pain in life. It's there for us to learn from. Some have trouble or have had real tragedy in their lives. To deal with this pain in a conscious, sober way is the only way to grow and be strong and independent. This "party hardy" attitude is why our government is running circles around most its citizens. "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life." Animal House.

"What are Electrolytes?" "Uh, this has 'em."
—Idiocracy by Mike Judge—A must see.
The culture defends ignorance. We accept lies from the "experts" because those lies keep us blissfully unaware of causation. We act as if our problems aren't all related to one another. The cigarette smoker discounts all symptoms that aren't lung related. Parents see obesity in their children as some kind of physical makeup their child just happened to be born with. Now this is true to a degree. Fat people make fat people. However, obese children are mostly built over time. Not born that way. Babies are fed foods to "fatten" them up. Absurd! We seem to still believe that fat is robust is healthy. That is just stupid. IT IS NOT NATURAL TO BE FAT! I'm not saying everyone should be waif like. But obesity isn't a body type. It's an illness.

Starkist Wants Tuna That Tastes Good, Not Tuna With Good Taste!
When illness strikes or symptoms arise—we go for tests. The doctor "runs some tests" to determine what is ailing the patient. Now here's where the smoke and mirrors are deployed and used with precision and skill. The doctor becomes fixated on achieving positive test results. As if the test results indicate anything more than test results. There is no real change in health, except for symptom repression and a lowered vitality, due to being poisoned by the new drug. The laymen sees this as a logical approach. It certainly makes sense—if tests are showing something isn't right in the body, then we need to correct the situation and run some more tests. Now here's the part I don't like. The doctor discovers you have high cholesterol or high blood-pressure. These 2 illnesses are rampant in our culture and many other cultures around the world—lets face it, one can find McDonald's in most countries today. Sad, but true.

Watch Your Step
Be careful with this next step. Here's where the doctor prescribes a drug to "help you." The good and knowledgeable doctor prescribes Lipitor or some high blood pressure medication, depending on the results of your test. Still makes sense? No? Well we know what Lipitor does, it stops the production of cholesterol, in the liver. High blood pressure medication, opens the vessels. Which in turn decreases the pressure! Excellent choice, doc! NO! Not a good choice. If the body is working extra hard to push the blood through the system, then the source of the problem needs to be addressed. And the source is not the blood vessels or the heart! It's the friction!

Is It Real? Or Is It Memorex?
An add for Memorex cassette tapes. Remember them?
Lowering the blood pressure is the goal. But not addressing the source of what raises the blood pressure is a mistake. Friction raises the pressure in the body. NOT JUST SALT! Opening up the vessels, veins and arteries with a dilating drug is a great way to fudge the test score. The pressure is decreased or lowered and everything is fine, right? Wrong. We need to change how we live and lower the pressure in the body or reduce the our triglyceride intake in order to be free of the risks associated with these conditions. If we follow blindly our well intentioned doctors, we often fall short of the goal—optimum health.

Time For A Cultural Tune-Up!
Imagine if every time you took your car into the mechanic and he offered you a quick fix. "You're okay for now." Would never fly. We wouldn't allow them to fix a flat with a can of flat fixer. We would want a real solution. Not a hold over. In fact, we'd probably call the better business bureau and report them for operating in an unethical manner. We don't accept faking the test results with our cars, otherwise the car breaks down even worse, costing us all kinds of money. But we can't taste food with our cars. We don't drink a beer through the car. We only "use" the car. Changing the fuel we use, getting tune-ups, changing the oil—none of these maintenance requirements cramp our lifestyles so much. But to actually become independently healthy, one must consider giving up donuts, ice cream, cookies, cakes, pies, cereal, cold cuts, white flour, processed sugar, dairy, poor combination's of food, indulgent intake of alcohol, drug use, etc. It is simply much easier and takes nothing away from our constant need to fulfill our pleasure center. We are pleasure seekers. I love to eat. It took me some time to fully appreciate the way I now eat and now love it to no end. I wouldn't live this way otherwise.

Are You Ready To Make A Change?
NOTHING ABOUT YOUR HEALTH WILL EVER IMPROVE UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO COMMIT TO CHANGE. And this means starting with REAL FOOD!

The above statement is true yet it doesn't mean one has to be vegan or vegetarian, even. However, a persons health is typically better when they live more in this direction. Remember, test results are nothing. Real health is achieved by living as close to an accordance with nature. Crumb cake and jelly donuts come from a species of the natural world, but are not themselves natural. Non-foods, food gadgets, junk food, fun food, call it whatever you like—will make you sick and lessen your vitality, cause illness and kill you sooner than later.

Like A Hamster On A Wheel?
Running on a treadmill to offset eating crap is like adding salt and spices to a dish to avoid the fact that the dish has horse shit in it. You may not taste it but its still there! So, you run for an hour or bike or climb the stair master, or walk in the woods! Still, you are fueling your bodies with garbage and will never be healthy consuming garbage. It's just that simple. Don't let doctors think you've evolved to digest non-food. That's a lie. Plain and simple. Just because it doesn't kill you on the spot, doesn't mean it's good for you.

I Got It, I Got It, I Got It!—I Don't Got it, I Don't Got It.
—History Of The World by Mel Brooks
You see, as long as the doctor can say, "ah, the medication is working—your blood pressure or cholesterol is much better, he or she is considered a good doctor. Still, nothing has been done to address the health crisis the patient is experiencing. All that has improved is the statistical evidence that Lipitor reduces cholesterol in the blood. BIG FUCKING DEAL! As I wrote at the start of this piece, I'd rather have high cholesterol than take a drug to block the flags which tell me things are NOT okay! If Lipitor actually removed or greatly reduced the risk of heart disease or stroke then perhaps I'd have a different 0pinion. It does not. As I said before, this drug and other Statin drugs increase the risks because we think we're okay when we are not. We are simply masking symptoms and fixing test results. UTTER NONSENSE.

Love Yourself No Matter Where You Are At—But Get Healthy, Too!
Make a change. Try something new. Do something your doctor doesn't support. Or perhaps they do support some real healthy choices. There are some doctors that are very open and supportive of this approach. Any doctor worth anything must acknowledge fuel intake as a main issue of health and must never use drugs as an ongoing therapy. That is known as poisoning. Trust how you feel—not test results. If you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, change your eating and say goodbye to illness and hello to taking your health into your hands.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

When Dr. Kildare Becomes Sam The Butcher

2010-09-30T09:14:00.012-04:00

I heard a heartbreaking story recently and thought I'd share it here. A young woman suffering from a condition which many, many people all over the world experience. Constipation. There are many contributing factors to this overwhelmingly common, all pervasive problem. It seems it is more common in women than it is with men. The woman I am writing about is well off and doesn't need to deal with networks or medical coverage. She can simply go to the best of the best doctors in NYC. She finds herself at "The Mayo Clinic" where one would think they are in good hands. The hands of a surgeon are skilled. The mind of the surgeon, sharp. The intentions of a surgeon—questionable. They too have a salary to worry about.

This young woman, whom at the time was 26 years old was told her colon didn't work and this is pretty common among women and was advised she had no choice but to have the organ removed. At this point I would like to thank all the brilliant doctor's, surgeons, and all medical practitioners for their dedication to finding truth. There are many good people in the field of medicine. To all the rest of you so called doctors and surgeons that work from "agenda" and remove organs from the human body as a method of healing—You are about to get slammed!

Something's Just Not Right
When things aren't working as they should within the engine of a car, the owner brings the car to the local expert. The mechanic then takes a look and figures out what is ailing the car. He discovers the a part is malfunctioning in the engine, say its the carburetor. Like the human heart the carburetor is most important to the performance of the engine. Without it—the car will not run. Like the human heart.

Apples to Oranges
The difference here between the two is perhaps there are a few parts of a car that can be removed that wouldn't hurt the overall performance of the car. Whereas the human body manages, in its innate wisdom, to figure out what's missing and try to compensate for the weaker function. We are simply wired for survival. Because human beings are living organisms the comparison is limited. But for the sake of this example—have you ever heard a mechanic anywhere say this "yeah, its the carburetor—I'm going to have to remove it." No you don't because it is impossible to live without it. No doctor would ever remove a heart, both lungs, both kidneys, or the brain. They are to integral to function. But of the so called less important organs. Watch out! If an organ doesn't directly keep us alive, it's up for grabs. The gal bladder? One of any of the paired organs? The PANCREAS??? The COLON???? These organs are considered by doctors, by people of science, whose mastery, whose expertise is the human body—okay to be removed. WHY? Because they have not opened their eyes and looked back on ancient medicine and considered natural healing techniques. Not to mention, surgery packs a nice wallop for their wallets!

Charlatans, Quacks, Liars & Actors
This is what doctors called those men with trench coats filled with "goodies" that tried to convince people healing can come from chemical poisons—medicine.
For a doctor to help a patient and advise on diet, lifestyle and natural methods of healing would mean the medical industry would have to retool the entire empire of factory butchery, which is far too prevalent in modern medicine. Now, there are those few doctors out there that speak about life unlike the rest of the doctors. They speak to you as you are—a human being looking for guidance from their teacher. Waiting for expert, sound advice. Most people do what their doctor tells them. After years of listening to fiction I decided to do the opposite of what my doctors told me to do and healed myself of a neurological disease. No thanks to drugs, surgery or any other arcane method of organ removal these "experts" practice. NOT FOR ME. I was born with them and they're coming with me when I leave.

The Colon? Really?
This is where I must let off some steam. The colon, which eliminates the waste of all foods we eat. The colon, which absorbs water from food and drink, absorbs minerals (in the cecum) and electrolytes. . . some doctors think is okay to remove? You must stand in awe of this level of utter bullshit! The woman I am writing about had no overt, life threatening symptoms and had years before such problem would kill her. In my 12 years as a colon therapist I have heard many clients say, "my doctor says my colon is dead" or "I have the colon of an 80 year old" or "this is normal and happens to a lot of woman, we'll have to remove it." These are examples of medical dementia or being a salesperson. Ask the doctor if this would be the route he or she would take with their own children. The woman of 26 years, at the time went to the Mayo Clinic is now about 30 years old and has no colon. They connected her small intestines to her rectum. It's not as if the woman was 85 years old. She was 26!

Hey Doc! Is That A Scalpel In Your Pocket. . .?
Surely there was some other solution. It is a disgrace that medical science knows no other way to help people without poisons and sharp objects. I know we've made advancements and save people's lives in many ways through medicine. What we have most definitely witnessed over the years—profit growth in medicine beyond many other industries in this world. Of all the medical practitioners in this country the ones that suffer are the ones that don't play the game and try to help people be healthy.

Take Your Filthy Hands Off My Organs!
With so much time to heal and no symptoms there were many avenues to take. A person shouldn't go for long periods without having bowel movements. With so many herbal products and gravity colon hydrotherapy available a young person has many more options than ORGAN REMOVAL. Yet in the medical world there are few choices because healing is not a possibility to the surgeon. They want to use their skills to chop, dice and slice. Lets face it—there are many surgical techniques and drugs and other methods used in medicine, the choices for healing under the methods known to medical science are never discussed. Remember, they practice medicine and work with the sick & the dying. Managing illness—NOT HEALTH. The chances of actually healing a disease under the care of a doctor are slim to none. In fact, most doctors would have to admit—healing is not the goal. Managing illness is the only goal because the concept of healing is a foreign one to most doctors.

Why with so much knowledge does the medical industry continue to think in this fashion? Well the clue is in the previous sentence. "Industry" is why. We have some messed up ideas in this country where health is concerned. The sad truth is most people would rather medicate themselves than be illness free. Especially that the new breed of medicine actually gets people high. Notice how all the new drugs are creating addicts. We don't just medicate for depression, we alter the moods of just about everyone these days.

Abortion IS NOT BIRTH CONTROL! Like Surgery IS NOT HEALING!
Decades ago we heard of a few people here and there, mostly celebrities, getting hooked on pain killers and sleeping pills. Today, your uncle, cousin, brother, mother all have some pretty colored pills to pop for a host of ailments. Everyone is walking around and driving in a daze—glazed over from some silly mood stabilizer or anti-depressant or mood elevator. I wish people could make the connection that food quality, consuming FOOD GADGETS or junk-food, taking drugs and drinking alcohol is why we are so screwed up. Haven't you all noticed yet? DRUGS DON'T REALLY DO ANYTHING BUT PROVIDE BETTER TEST RESULTS. Someone I know for my entire life took Lipitor for years to avoid heart disease—due to high cholesterol. Then announced he need quadruple bypass surgery! And didn't think there was anything wrong with his situation. He assumed even though he was medicated the illness naturally progressed, anyway.

Here's what really happened: When we eat meats and other animal based products high in triglycerides, our liver produces cholesterol, which aids in breaking down the fat (triglycerides) from the meat, cheese, milk, eggs. High cholesterol is can be a flag that we are taking in too much fatty foods. What kills people is not the cholesterol but the triglycerides. The fat! Cholesterol is an emulsifying agent aiding in the breakdown of this dense animal fat. What happened to this man is he passed the test because the Lipitor stopped the liver from producing cholesterol. Allowing the animal fat to build-up in his arteries and veins. Increasing the danger of a serious heart attack (is there any other kind?). Doctors have convinced the people their cholesterol needs to be lower not their triglycerides. Why? Remember what happened to Oprah when she spoke out against the beef and dairy industries? We cannot have people actually believing that meat, cheese, eggs and milk are not healthy products—there's an industry to support. So as long as you past the test, it really doesn't matter what the real state of your health is. Just so long as the Lipitor works! DISGUSTING.

The truth is perhaps not all of us are in perfect health. But perfection is human health in the absence of drugs. Not human health brought about by drugs. Taking drugs and being healthy is not only not possible, it is the antithesis of what will happen. Drugs, medicine, chemicals or poison (call them what you like) do not heal! I want to explain the dangers of this complete misinformation, in full. I will use Lipitor as the primary example of the what is the total opposite of preventative health care. What is happening in medical science, today is PREVENTATIVE HEALTH! DRUG PROGRAMS FOR FICTITIOUS ILLNESS PREVENTS PEOPLE FROM ACHIEVING HEALTH! Doctors should try practicing preventing illness by a) learning about health rather than only illness b) teach that information patients and non-patients alike, as teacher is their title. c) seek truth to help the sick in all possible ways—not just profit driven ways d) Read my post on the Hippocratic oath! And actually practice from that philosophy rather than willingly hurt people. They cannot claim to be men and women of science and ignore the facts about drugs any longer.

Because this is a scam of major proportions and deserves a full post, I will say goodbye for now but not for long. This post is long enough—stay tuned for my next post, which will be entitled: Wasting Your Life Making Your Doctor Happy/Passing The Test With Flying Colors!
Thanks for reading.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

God Block

2010-09-09T14:23:00.014-04:00

I was having a conversation the other day which lead me to come up with this. I want to share this because it made so much sense to me. The title of this post is called "God Block". As is typical from my posts, I like to play with words. This title is odd and doesn't flow. It doesn't even have a catchy ring to it. But it makes a great point about our thinking and our misconceptions of what healthy living is really about.

Hello From Planet Earth
From where I'm standing, which happens to be on planet Earth—I see the sun as our "everything." As the very giver of life. As the center of our existence. Earth is part of the SOLAR SYSTEM or Sun system. Unless you are an astronaut every single experience you've ever had or will ever have is from this Earth. The very existence of Earth is because of the Sun. First came the Sun. Then came the planets (wanderers). That's the meaning of the word Planet.

The Sun. The Beginning. The End.
Similar to the BIG BANG, the Sun came into being with a bang or explosion. Sending debris more than 4 billion miles away from the epicenter, the new home of the Sun. All the planets & their moons in our solar system came from the sun. Earth was the planet, which had the best location for life to develop and flourish. With a very long time of relative calm & consistency, this planet enjoyed about 3.8 billion years of nothing but microbial life. Sunlight & water was really all that was needed for microbial life to come into existence. Free oxygen, which was not present in the atmosphere all of that time lead to the demise of microbial life ruling the planet. Of course there are countless numbers of these invisible creatures on and around us. We are finding that not all life needs all the ingredients that we and the animals and plants require. Certain microbial life can be found at the bottom of the ocean where the sun never shines, under 6,000 pounds per square inch, in 32 degree liquid water. Life indeed finds a way.

Sun Block? No Junk-food Block!
So here we are on planet Earth. Where we owe our very existence to the SUN—and what do many of us do? We use Sun block! Umbrellas or better yet, parasols? To block the Sun? So let me get this straight. The Sun, from which everything in our solar owes its existence to—the very giver of life, is bad for us and we have to protect ourselves from it? I get the concept that too much of a good thing can still be TOO MUCH. That's easy to understand. The oven may cook the food, but leave the food in the oven too long and the food burns. Same thing with the Sun. We should treat the sun with love and respect, like we do our parents and our Religious God. To abuse the Sun is most definitely a mistake and we will pay a certain price for our relative abuse. There is much to consider before condemning our life-giver. Our GOD. God—in non-religious terms, that is.I certainly don't want to offend anyone who has a faith and believes in God. I'm using God and life giver metaphorically.

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
(a beautiful old song/standard—Fred Marsden/Gerrard Marsden/Less Maguire/Leo Chadwick)
I would like to point out a few things which may help shed some dare I say "light" on the subject. The very nature of our existence has not turned on us. The Sun does not want to hurt us and the Sun has not malfunctioned. Much like healthy food doesn't feel so great to the average person (in a state of toxicity), the Sun can bring about lots of suffering. Largely due to the state of the interior of its so called "victims." I'm not ignoring people with very light colored skin. But pointing out the fact that light or dark skin can burn and will burn when exposed to the Sun for too long. Consider this: The Sun pulls waste from within through the skin. Of course prolonged exposure to a hot sun will cause the skin to burn. It is a fireball made-up of Hydrogen and Helium. A seemingly never ending furnace.

There's Two Sides To Every Story
The Sun is detoxifying to human beings, as well as it is nutritive. For those of you that don't know the Sun is the greatest source of vitamin D known to us. And if one is carrying a lot of residue from consuming unnatural foods and chemicals, the sun will burn quicker. The Sun pulls poison through the skin to keep us healthy. When we lived totally on natural foods this was far less an issue than it is today. Which presents a bit of a quandary for many people. As it is difficult to convince large numbers of people that simple ideas, which do not go along with our economically driven media are often the truth. The information that trickles down to us comes through marketing filters and economics is at the foundation of the message being so nicely delivered to you on the mind control box (TV). The messages sell products and does not promote truth. Because the truth doesn't sell. Most people want the ease and the quick solution. Even with their children! They're so willing to slather that pretty smelling carcinogenic lotion all over their children—FOR THEIR PROTECTION! THE SUN IS BAD FOR YOU, is what trickles down. This is utter nonsense. We are bad for us! We can't continue to think everything keeps going wrong with our health and our lifestyles and choices have nothing to do with it!

A Bit Of Science
I'm not a scientist—duh. I like science and when it comes to astronomy, scientists kinda know a thing or two about a thing or two. So I default to their explanation of this next bit.
The sun gives off massive amounts of radiation in the form of Ultra Violet rays and Gamma rays. At the top of our atmosphere we have what is known as the Ozone Layer. Which is O3. The ozone isn't a canopy. It's a veil of O3. Like fizzy bubbles at the top of a glass of seltzer. Here's how it works. Oxygen rises from our trees to the upper atmosphere and the Sun's radiation breaks apart the Oxygen into single molecules of Oxygen, O1. Here's the part I'm not totally sure about. Somehow, 3 molecules of Oxygen join up to form O3, Ozone. Ozone then absorbs and converts the Ultra-Violet rays into something not harmful to life. This is the very essence and energy supply of life itself. This does not mean that there isn't life in absence of light. There is. As explained earlier in this piece microbial life lives without light, but could not nor would never develop or evolve into anything else.

An Unfortunate Truth
This is the unfortunate truth: It is the very act of cutting down trees to produce magazines and books that promote lies about health and our environment. Not to mention this tremendous slap in the face of nature—mags about celebrities, cellulite, better sex, writing crap about NON reality shows. Yuck. How pathetic and stupid our leaders are. All for money we don't care what we do. We cut down trees to produce Soap Operas Digest? People should pay a steep tax for what this is doing to our environment. This is what hurts the Ozone layer more than anything else. We are cutting off the supply of oxygen to the upper atmosphere. Simple as that. For what? Star magazine? The friggin' New York Post? What stupidity.

We Fight Wars For Oil, Which Destroy Our Environment!!??!! What Am I Missing Here?
Cars and pollutants, green house gasses, all contribute to eating away at the ozone layer. This most of us can agree on. Unless, of course you are a right-winger that disbelieves ALL the scientists around the world that say this is very real. Any denial of global warming is just a result of ignorance. It is quite Bush-ian to deny this real fact of nature.

We Once Worshiped The Sun
The Sun is the very essence of the nature of life. Natural foods are part of our habitat. We choose to eat foods that are made rather than be a "health freak." There is nothing that outrages me more than this incredibly stupid concept. Consuming pizza, bagels, cookies, ice cream, cheeseburgers, pasta, caked, pie, candy, protein powder, drugs, alcohol, et al, is why the sun feels so unfriendly. Upon cleansing my body to a fairly moderate place, early in my detoxification quest, I felt a noticeable difference after a colonic. On my way to the session the Sun hurt. It hurt my body, my eyes and especially my skin. That day I had a particularly heavy session, which means more waste than most can imagine leaving anyone's body came out in that session, alone. Upon leaving that session the Sun felt dramatically different. It felt soothing and warm instead of harsh, jagged, painful, sharp.

What A Difference A Colonic Makes
From that day forward I never used sun block again. I've been in tropical Sun since then as well as New York Sun and have never needed Sun block again. I also don't take the Sun for more than a couple of hours at a time. If on vacation, which hasn't happened in a very long time, I always take breaks. Just so I don't abuse the power of our Sun. And knowing that the Ozone layer is in trouble, one must exercise caution. I hope this helps in some way. I am trying to get back to a regular schedule of posting. But things at Release NYC are busy. We are in the process of incorporating all kinds of great additions and changes. My apologies for the infrequency's for those of you who care.
Thanks for reading.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

Food Gadgets!

2010-08-14T10:09:00.009-04:00

Why is it so easy to sell lies? Why is it so easy to convince people to do the opposite of what is needed to be healthy? Why is everyone so willing to be lied to. Why do the worst diets sell the most? Why do we people seek the same empty promises and tricks? All the while achieving the same results—failure. Why does this happen when there is truth in ever direction. It is in all walks of life. You can find truth in nature, which needs no advertising, marketing, packaging or salesmanship! The truth about health is in nature—not text books. I recently watched Dr. Oz on television, while waiting for my car to be serviced. I was part of the captive audience in the air conditioned waiting room. I'm no longer surprised by the absolute nonsense which is so freely dished-out on the TV. Yet when doctors are called upon for their "expert" knowledge, I expect to learn something of a scientific nature.

Case And Point
A large woman was the subject of an unspoken condition that many women face. When certain women urinate they spray. This is not a normal spray, but one that often causes embarrassment. It seems the urine goes everywhere so the sufferer of this condition needs to remove all their clothes for obvious reasons. This slows the sufferer down and creates all kinds of worry. A urologist was invited on the show to share her knowledge and expertise. Here's how it played out: The woman suffering from this unfortunate condition known as Incontinence (with a twist/spray) happened to be extremely overweight. It's not as though she simply has an overactive bladder (Incontinence), but that she can't control the direction of the stream. The urologist speaks about the woman's organs as though they are separate from her or people in general. As though the environment in which they exist is irrelevant. Can you imagine if we thought that way about our external environment. The polite doctor explained that over time the muscles of the pelvic floor weaken and can no longer hold the urine. She didn't explain what caused the lack of control of the stream or the spraying of the urine, really. She just explained that her muscles were weak and needed strengthening. She suggested to the obese woman that she should use these specific vaginal "cones" which were developed to strengthen the kegal muscles. Which in turn strengthens the pelvic floor. Problem solved. Wow! Those doctors sure know their stuff! I just may puke.

Is Blindness An Epidemic?
Here we have a woman weighing close to 3oo pounds and the doctor says nothing about her weight? Have we all lost our frigging minds? This woman is morbidly obese!!!! Her problem is not of a muscular nature! Her problem is based in pressure. Gas pressure and pressure as a result of enormous weight from fecal matter and FAT! Am I just so insane that I don't get something the "expert" knows? The great travesty of this ridiculous, glossy, marketing based bullshit show, using play doctors, was that no one said a thing about the lady being fat! The great travesty is that nothing was learned. Even the woman was visibly disappointed. I think she was hoping to hear about a lap-band thingy or a laser technique or whistling on one foot while facing east. Damn, something other than cones! I'm not going to be politically correct here. Never have been and never will. But for the purpose of brow beating and for driving my point home, I must be extra brutal. America is beginning to equal "fat & lazy." Once a land of opportunity because we were open-minded, capitalistic, movers and shakers. Now a land of opportunity because we're all becoming sloths and the only thing shaking is our FAT!

It's A Matter Of Give Or Take
No successful diet takes anything away from the potential dieter. All successful diet programs repackage the same old lies—calorie counting, portion control, low-fat, low-sugar, high-protein, bla, bla, bla. Funny thing is, diets are based on non-truths and a recipe for failure. They replace your favorite (non) foods with "low-fat" versions. People! Lasagna is not food! Fat free or otherwise it is going to make you fat because it is un-digestible shit! Delicious, indeed. But shit none-the-less. The truth about weight-loss is based on processing—not calories. If you've read my older posts, you know my feelings about this waste of time.

Rinse & Repeat
This has played out several times in the past as I talked to more people about health. Someone would call me seeking advice for an illness or symptoms. Knowing I'm not a doctor, but not being happy with the results from medicine or other suggestions from the doctor, they asked me for diet suggestions. Here's the way it goes when food is the topic of conversation. When a person asks about diet suggestions to heal a condition or illness, what they really mean is what can I add to my diet that will fix this problem. The answer isn't what we add for healing but what we take away from our daily intake. Now, if I say try adding salads and yams. Or more fruits and vegetables, most people think you might know something. Tell them to stop eating a food because it is a direct cause or major contributor to their illness and typically, the response is, "what the hell do you know? Are you a doctor? No words can convince them that doctors spend more time and attention on their loans for medical school than they do on diet for the human being! Isn't that insane?

Doctor's Don't Know Shit About Health! But We Do!
(An actual idea for a Tee-shirt for the place where I began as a colon therapist, Chakra XVII)
Get it? I'm a colon therapist! Don't know shit! You see, once again we must mention that health will not be achieved by adding substance to the body through diet. Health will never be attained by eating more or eating more so-called super-foods, such as meats and grains. Health will never be achieved through exercise alone or through pills powders and potions. WHEN SICK, ALL LIFE FORMS STOPS EATING OR REDUCES GREATLY, THE AMOUNT OF FOOD CONSUMED UNTIL WELL OR DEAD! That's that. That's life. The idea that health can be achieved through over eating is absurd. Professor Arnold Ehret talked about this idea way back in 1922. We cannot and will not eat our way to health. The idea is to not eat so much food that we bog ourselves down with debris caused by the body's inability to efficiently handle all the material we consume. We pretend to eat less food, while we actually process more material by eating these new "gadgets" we call food. That's right, gadgets. Food gadgets! That's my new term for "non-food!" And the title for this blog.

Be Real
Our diets can include the full array of foods available to humans on this planet. Including some of the gadgets, from time to time. However, we must consider the journey the food and waste takes from entrance to exit. From orifice to orifice. The mouth is connected to the anus. Nice image, isn't it? So, the amount of foods and gadgets we eat must be considered. Even plant based foods can be over-consumed and tax the digestive and elimination systems. Food gadgets are a problem because they are created like Frankenstein and called food. We eat this garbage and our health turns to? You guessed it! Shit. I know I'm being a bit vulgar today. Sorry. I'm not angry just a wee bit edgy. When we eat food gadgets the body is taxed because it is built for food not food imitations. Not additives. Vague term isn't it? Nor preservatives. A bit more descriptive but vague. The human body is designed by our environment. Earth. To produce food from other foods is a compromise. What do you think would happen if we replaced natural food with processed food for horses, fish, lions, alligators, zebras, etc. We would see a rapid decline in their health. Or a shorter life span—as seen in zoos. Animals in captivity don't live as long as those in the wild. Of course this does not account for premature death due to trauma (fighting, hunting, or accidents from genetic weakness, etc.). Finally, we need to consider the effects of the foods we eat on the digestive and elimination systems. Foods should cleanse as they pass. Not slime as they pass. Simple. Alkaline foods cleanse. Acidic foods slime and stick. Simple. No fuss. No muss. No package. No bull. No ads. Nothing to sell? Huh? How's that work? Why not not sell something? Why not share? Isn't that what we pretend to teach our children when we teach them morals? Just a thought.

My Too sense
I'm sure that subtitle will have "real writers" rolling their eyes. What can I say? I'm cheesy, sometimes. Funny to write that and be a vegan. Eating whole, natural foods is the answer. Eating them in proper combination is really wise. Decreasing the amount of flesh, especially beef, is even wiser. Keeping processed food to a minimum, wiser still. These ideas apply to vegetarians and vegans, too. Forget all that Tofu, Tempeh, Seitan, fake healthy vegan sheesh—eat the beautiful, sweet delicious foods our earth still grows. In spite of its superior race. Perhaps one day we will finally kill our soil. Or should I say, Monsanto will kill our soil? Right now, which by the way is all we have, we still have whole food available. No, it isn't the fine whole foods our grandparents or even our parents enjoyed, but it still grows. I know this is sad and pathetic, that we as the superior race allow ourselves to be ruled by ourselves. How does that work? Oh yeah, the government says what goes and they have the military and the military have the guns—so we have to listen and obey. Doesn't that also sound a lot like organized crime? Isn't it illegal when the mafia does something like that? Hey, wait a minute! Isn't that double standard? How convenient.

Hang In There
Don't be fooled with food gadgets. Eat real food. Don't believe that ill health happens to everyone. It does not. Illness is reached far easier when obese. Beware of heavy people teaching about health. And above everything else you ever learn about health. . . make sure your output equals your input. Rather than making your muscles stronger to combat your obesity—learn the truth about the human diet and say goodbye to lies and dependency. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I will leave you now. :)
Be well,
Tom DeVito

The Egg Has Many Faces!

2010-07-08T08:44:00.008-04:00

I am writing this piece as a request from a good friend. This friend eats a diet of mostly raw foods and very occasionally eats a little bit of cooked. The one non-vegan food he eats is raw egg yolks. He uses the organic, brown eggs. This may seem like a strange topic for me to write. I learned this from my teacher and I've shared it with people that have difficulty sustaining themselves on an all vegan diet. Or a diet of all raw vegetables and fruits. The egg yolks have something to offer.

Back To The Egg! (A title of a solo album by Sir Paul McCartney)
Lets talk about the many ways an egg can be useful, especially to vegans or "mostly vegan" folks. The egg in its nature, meaning raw is a mucusless food. Keep in mind how all nutritional value in food is determined. In a raw state! Once a food is cooked the nutritional value is now permanently altered. Denatured. What is alive in any given food dies upon being cooked. It seems that 118 degrees is the temperature where things begin to die or become compromised, this happens over a fairly short period.

This Is No Yolk!
There's a craze going on for some time now. The "egg white craze." This is born of the gym trainer mentality. The trainers that don't know any better, talk the high protein game. And they love those egg whites. Here's something I've talked about for years. Egg whites are used for carpenters glue! What makes up the egg whites is known as albumen. Modern doctors believe that albumen is an important protein, while Professor Arnold Ehret believed albumen is waste product in the human body. Either way you eat them, cooked or raw, the egg white is a rough food on the human body.

Wow! All That In This Little Egg?
It appears to me when looking deeper into albumen that upon being heated the protein becomes denatured. Which we already know happens. The difference here is that when the albumen is heated, it becomes less poisonous. In both states it is a coagulator. Meaning, it binds water. This is a good thing for the blood if you want to regulate the way drugs are absorbed into the body. This slows down or tempers the speed at which drugs are transported and therefore absorbed. This is why egg whites are so constipating. Remember the ideals we use to measure our food values? This is based on how the albumen in our blood plasma acts. We just go ahead and assume that a cooked egg white is beneficial. Like whey—if it's protein it's good! I say not at all.

Remember When White Foods Weren't On The "Healthy List?"
The best ways to consume eggs are as follows: Poached or soft boiled. The reason being, the whites must be cooked as to not be poisonous. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. Cooking the egg whites makes them far less poisonous and somewhat, slightly digestible. When they are raw they just gunk up the blood stream. Cooked, the egg whites are highly acidic, sticky, mucus forming and very slow to digest. When we poach or soft boil and egg, we don't overcook the yolk and we don't under-cook the whites. The whites are passable and the yolks are still beneficial. Once we fully cook the yolk we lose all that is beneficial. Lets also consider that the whites are lacking all of the fat soluble vitamins, such as A, D, E, K, and contain zero carotenoids.

Egg-celent!
What is beneficial in the yolk? When the yolk is raw all the B vitamins, the fatty acids, useful fat, etc. The ray yolk is packed with nutrients and contains 100% of all the carotenoids, which are organic pigments. There are about 600 known carotenoids, which are primarily found in plants, or more so in algae. This is a result of photosynthesis. Avocados are also very helpful for our absorption of carotenoids. Cultures that eat foods rich in carotenoids (fruits & vegetables) have lower mortality rates. Carotenoids can also act like anti-oxidants. They also protect the eyes from macular degeneration. The presence of carotenoids absorbs, directly damaging blue and near ultra-violet light.

To Egg Or Not To Egg! (This does not pertain to Holloween or Egging as a practice)
To take the raw egg yolk and receive this kind of support makes sense to me. I don't use egg yolks because when I transitioned to a vegan diet I did not need the support. Perhaps my heritage ate a diet rich in fruits and veggies, making my transition and easy one. But for those who come from other regions of the world , where the diet was more of a meat and starch nature, the need for raw egg yolks could be important. Just because this food is healthy doesn't mean it must be consumed. It means it should be considered, if you feel you need something more. The benefits can be very helpful. It will give a sluggish person some "get up and go" or someone feeling as though they are lethargic or low energy a lift.

Try it! You Might Like It!
My position on this topic is: If it works, go for it! If it's not necessary, then stick to what's working. You see, we don't have to be vegan, but we should try to be as healthy as we can be. Because I'm vegan for so many years I simply won't revert. But for those considering the transition over to a vegan diet and or lifestyle, I highly recommend this helpful food. It can be used blended in a fresh veggie juice with carrots for a real carotenoid blast! Carrots are very rich in carotene a non-oxygenated version of carotenoids. Which is beta carotene. This is why they talk about carrots being good for the eyes. If you are a long time vegan and have never needed the support from egg yolks, then don't worry about this for you. Keep it in mind for friends transitioning to a vegetarian or vegan diet.

Raw yolks can be used in dressings, ala Cesare salad dressing. Or you can eat a salad, with no nuts, seeds or avocado. Then eat a poached or soft boiled egg with no bread or starch of any kind. This is a good way to stabilize while transitioning. Or this can be kept in the diet for as long as you feel you need it.

When Is Nutrition, Nutrition?
Isn't it funny? When you think of how eggs, as they are consumed by most people (fried, or cooked very well in fat) are on the list of no-nos where cholesterol or unhealthy fat is concerned. Yet simply discard the whites and take the yolks raw and you've got yourself the super-food they were once considered to be! It's simple: Nothing is as it seems. What we are told about food is based on the ideal properties of the food. Not the properties after the food has been exposed to heat for the purposes of cooking. What is useful to humans in food should be taken in its raw state! Once we cook it, we change it. Broccoli isn't broccoli once cooked, it's cooked broccoli! Get it? A note about super foods. Animal foods were considered "super foods" by anthropologists, because these foods contained a high amount of "nutrients." When are these nutrients available and useful to us? IN A RAW STATE ONLY!

Gimme Some Truth! (Song title by the late & great John Lennon)
You all know I'm not a cheerleader for all raw or even all vegan. I'm a cheerleader for truth. What is truth for me may not be truth for you. However, I know this beyond the shadow of a doubt, all nutrition based thinking, all food values, all vitamin head mentality is based on the value of the foods before they are destroyed by heat. So don't go running out to spend your money on the next "super food" Dr. Phil talks about or Oprah has talked about. Take into consideration how that food is often taken. If they're talking about fruits and veggies, which can be eaten raw, great! If they're talking about starches and proteins—ask yourself if you can eat those foods raw. If the answer is no, you don't need them as foods.

All We Need Is. . .
All we need is what can be eaten raw. Not what NEEDS to be cooked in order to be consumed. Remember, cooked food is secondary as part of our regular diet. One final word on taste. You'd be surprised how good these yolks can taste when blended into a fresh veggie juice with carrots. I hear it tastes like a milk shake! Anyway, good luck and if you try this, write me and tell m what you think. I'd love to know your feedback. Write me at info@releasenyc.com.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

Read on.

Inforexia Or Liar! Liar!

2010-07-01T12:05:00.006-04:00

Every time someone comes along to tell me about this new discovery of some key missing ingredient in the human diet, I usually respond the same way. Over time, I've heard about the perfect prop-biotic. Soil based nutrients. Co Q10! MSM! These are the things that are lacking in our lives and will make all your problems go away! To all these well meaning, often very knowledgeable people, I say, "oh really?" None of these items are the answer or even important. The truth is in the simplicity of life. Observe nature!

Raw! Raw! Raw!
Lets talk about the raw food diet. That's how we lived for many thousands of years. The oven is a relatively new invention. 10,000 years is not that long. In fact, if we are here for 100,000 years, which is the maximum amount of time suggested by anthropologists, its only 10 percent of the total. Do I believe whole, raw vegan foods are the best foods we can eat. Well yes, I do. Of course there's a long transition needed for this diet to truly take hold. This idea that everything must be raw is a bit over the top. Unless we can live in a tropical climate. Some people do better on all raw foods than others. I like to keep a tiny bit of cooked food in my diet. Simply because I love the taste of some cooked veggie dishes. This brings me to my next topic: Orthorexia! Here we go.

Idiocracy Today!
Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, to denote an eating disorder characterized by excessive focus on eating healthy foods. In rare cases, this focus may turn into a fixation so extreme that it can lead to severe malnutrition or even death.[1][2] Orthorexia is not recognized as a mental disorder in any of the medical manuals, such as the ICD-10[3] or the DSM-IV,[4] neither is it part of the proposed revision of this manual, the DSM-5.[5]

This Appears Courtesy Of Wikipedia
Bratman coined the term in 1997 from the Greek orthos, "correct or right", and orexis for "appetite".[6] Literally "correct appetite", the word is modeled on anorexia, "without appetite", as used in definition of the condition anorexia nervosa. Bratman describes orthorexia as an unhealthy obsession (as in obsessive-compulsive disorder) with what the sufferer considers to be healthy eating. The subject may avoid certain foods, such as those containing fats, preservatives, animal products, or other ingredients considered by the subject to be unhealthy; if the dietary restrictions are too severe or improperly managed, malnutrition can result. Orthorexic sufferers have specific feelings about the foods they are avoiding. Products that are preserved can be considered dangerous and industrial products can be seen as artificial, whereas biological products can be seen as healthy.[7] Bratman asserts that "emaciation is common among followers of certain health food diets, such as rawfoodism, and this can at times reach the extremes seen in anorexia nervosa." In addition, he claims that "anorexic orthorexia" can be as dangerous as anorexia. However, he states, "the underlying motivation is quite different. While an anorexic wants to lose weight, an orthorexic does not desire to become thin[8] but wants to feel pure, healthy and natural. Eating disorder specialists may fail to understand this distinction, leading to a disconnect between orthorexic and physician."[1][9]

This seems like a sickness to me! I am repulsed by this so called "thinking." Or am I outraged? Perhaps I'm just disgusted with ignorant people having a platform. Just because they passed a few tests and can remember the names of over 500 drugs and the effects they have on the human body? That's essentially is one major step toward becoming a doctor! Help us, NOW!

Disclaimer:
I would like to begin this semi-rant with this disclaimer. In the almost 16 years I have been involved in the raw food, vegan "way of life," I have come across some very extreme and unhealthy people. I mean they are mentally unhealthy. Some people seem to take this on like a badge of honor, which will make-up for past failures and shortcomings. There are extremists in every group. The small fringe of lunatics do not make the whole. I would also like to point out that there are some very extreme people that choose to change all aspects of their life and live very well and are well balanced, happy people.

It's All About Perspective
I understand that I appear to the average person to be way out there and way off center. However, as I've said to my Dad, who believes what I do is great, but extreme. "What's more extreme, our species, which beyond the shadow of a doubt resembles the herbivorous creatures of this planet, which ate all raw foods, readily available to them. When early humans ate meat, (not more than once a month) they ate it raw! I eat whole, naturally occurring foods, of a vegan source and this is considered extreme. Isn't the way we raise our animals for food more extreme? For animals to live in absence of sunlight, walking the natural earth and to be fed unnatural foods designed to fatten them up. To be killed, (on a line witnessing the murder of the animals ahead) butchered then arrive at your local supermarket, already in a state of decomposition. They freeze this meat in synthetic material, you buy it and defrost it. As it defrost, decomposition is re-engaged, you then take the meat and cook it, augmenting all that is beneficial in the meat, then eat it. And what I do is more extreme?" Haven't we changed our views? We see the consumption of natural whole foods as odd? Extreme? Obsessive?

A Little Bit Of Knowledge Can be A Dangerous Thing
This doctor Bratman sounds to me like someone that knows very little about health and knows that technology achieves certain results. It is obvious that this man is making this assumption based on nothing. He sees a few people that are mislead or misinformed or simply don't practice this lifestyle with balance. When we enter into this way of life, we must take fresh vegetable juice, daily, on an empty stomach. We also must eat greens, as in salad. We also must partake in colon cleansing, some deep sweating and some movement, as in jumping on a trampoline or swimming, walking, biking and Yoga! This is how we change our lives as opposed to our diets. This is not just about diet.

Doctor Doctor, Give Me The News!
(Robert Palmer, songwriter)
My dear friend Martin of 88 years, a retired priest and all around brilliant man, says this, "people are usually down on things they're not up on." In this case, Dr. Bratman sounds like a man afraid of losing his position/status in society. If that's the case Doc, why don't you expand your thinking and look into the majority of people that live, thrive and heal themselves living as we do! Instead of focusing on the minority. I already know the answer to that. Because he'll lose his job or have much lower income.

Nutritious Slime!
I feel the good Doctor is missing the point entirely. There is very little "nutrition" in all foods that are cooked. The nutritional value of all foods are determined when the food is in its natural state. There is no point in talking about how great oats are because of the nutrition it has because we cook it and add milk and sugar, usually. Or fruit! We are eating a food which has been devitalized and now mixed with other unnatural choices, which turns the food into a foamy, stinky, rotten batch of fermentation. It is obvious this man knows nothing about health or diet, based on his comments.

See For Yourself
Please do a search for this man and read what he's written. This is indicative of what happens in this country. As long as you have a title, your opinion is taken as gospel. The regular folks, without degrees or titles or fancy little letters, which mean little more than feeding one's ego and creating a better marketing position for oneself, always bow to the "so called" experts. I know this is what we're left with and look to experts to tell us the truth. The problem is agenda. As always there is agenda determining a persons opinion.

A Real Offer
I have shared lots of information here. I will gladly send anyone real information and guide people, for free, to prove this point. I am actually thinking of taking a random person, living on a standard American diet and transition them to a vegan diet, not fully raw, and video tape the process and present the evidence on youtube. I'm sick of people who know nothing about health and actually are overweight, speak negatively about things with which they are completely ignorant. This is sad. As usual we are lead by people that know nothing about what they are opposing. Can drugs make a person healthy, vibrant or beam with health? Can the same old, lame nonsense we are taught by doctors somehow be true all of a sudden?

Dear Mom
My mom is worried about her blood pressure. She's under 70 years of age and her numbers are great. Well, the bottom number is actually a bit low and that is great! Her top number fluctuates, because her job (she's retired) is worrying. Therefore, she is constantly in a state of trauma, but that's a whole other story. The doctor tells her they are now paying close attention to that top number! What a load of crap! They are selling drugs. Business as usual.

A Real Plea
Do yourself a favor and don't listen to people that want to keep you from becoming INDEPENDENTLY HEALTHY! Don't allow yourself to be lead by the blind. Turn a blind eye to those that say the opposite of what we know to be truth. To be healthy is simple and requires very little knowledge, just look at all other life on the planet. To be sick takes years of work under the care of and expert!
Be well,
Tom DeVito

The Pirate Robots Are Taking Over!

2010-06-30T09:05:00.005-04:00

First off I must apologize for being away for so long. I've been up to my ears in home improvement work. A lot has happened since I last wrote. We are now almost 3 months into the worst oil spill in history. The environmental damage is still impossible to understand. We can certainly see our beach fronts are slowly being destroyed bringing untold loss of wild life and the ecology. Economically speaking most of these beach towns are in trouble because beaches are the main attraction.

WATER
While our fresh water supply hasn't been effected our planet has taken a major hit. This is something we did not bring upon ourselves. This was hoisted upon us by big business. This happened and continues to happen because BP says so. The U.S. government has leased this country to whomever wants a piece of it to do whatever they please. So long as money is being made. Our policy in this country is: if you can make money here, we want you. We don't care what it does to the land, water or the people. Just as long as money is being made. In fact, you can see this is at the base of all right-wing rhetoric. The right only cares when money is at stake. Notice how they are not getting all patriotic about BP being a non-American company.

Soil
Lets take a moment to look at what is happening inland. We don't really have "organic" produce anymore. The U.S. lawmakers have made sure of that. You do know that produce is grown organically by organic farmers. But, once picked the produce can be dipped in plutonium if the company pleases. Still the company is allowed to print "Organic" on the label. Once again we are dealing with illusion and not reality.

We are also in the middle of Monsanto, the chemical giant, pushing their alfalfa on farmers across the country. They've already monopolized soy and corn and through those crops they've virtually destroyed the soil and continue to do so. Growing this kind of food doesn't replenish the soil. It leaves the soil lacking in vital nutrients, therefore no matter what we grow, the food will be compromised. Genetically modified foods damage the soil and cannot re-pollinate. This is the kind of thing that convinces me that the real people of the U.S. aren't you and me, its the dollar bill. I'm not being dreamy by simply stating we should think just a little bit about what we do to the very ground we grow our foods in. The ground we walk on. Or the cement just above the ground.

What Is The Shelf-Life Of A Human?
We should stop thinking about shelf life and start thinking about our lives. We have a shelf life. Doesn't it make sense that if we grew healthier food, we'd live longer, work longer, live fuller? CONTRIBUTE MORE! Profit is important for this country to survive, but we've raised the bar-line way too high. Meaning, we've allowed the corporations to dictate our quality of life! It should be the other way around. We shouldn't be at the mercy of these companies. They should operate according to our wishes. Well, that's a laugh. And is most definitely dreamy. From my perspective, I'd rather give up the option to grow foods organically and get back to growing real food. Then we can expand to not using deadly chemicals. Just a thought.

Greedy Machines
We are being ruled by greedy machines. Or our machines are being programmed by greedy people. There is logic to a large company wanting to make a profit and doing what they can to do so. But when the cost of production actually destroys the medium used to make your product. . . UH DUH! How about a little revamp! A reshuffling of the deck perhaps? The U.S. government should step in on gigantor companies and force them to sell off divisions of the companies to "specialized" smaller companies. This way the monopoly begins to break and then real people will have a say—a choice. No "one" or for that matter "organization" is large enough to fight Monsanto. They are like a government, themselves. There should be a law that dictates how large a corporation can grow. I know that's kind of silly and won't happen. But doesn't it make some sense? I don't want to hand over that kind of power to the government. But what else is there?

Our last topic: Bottled water.
Here's a hot topic. Everyone needs water. Industry, development, over-population all contribute to our water supply being negatively effected. Tap water just isn't what it used to be. I have some friends that would argue. They would argue that NY tap water is "the cleanest in the world!" Indeed it is. However, our pipes aren't so clean. This can be said for most of the world. Imagine the pipes in Europe! I filter my shower at home and my water system at Release NYC, is quadruple filtered. When I change the filters I can see just how "clean" our water is. The source is awesome. What the water travels through to get to your tap is more the problem.

Pipes—The Subway System For Water
What do we do about our pipes? We don't drink that water. Okay, most of us don't drink it. Everywhere you look, people are carrying fancy bottles of water with them. And of course each brand has its pitch as to why they're the best. Which one is environmentally sound. Which is more alkaline. And the qualifications go on and on. For me, water that is alkaline and doesn't contribute to the polluting the planet, is the way to go. I drink Iceland water. It's alkalinity is 8.8! They have a clean record and the water is crisp and delicious. One small problem with the bottled water industry. MONEY! Have you realized how much more expensive water is than gasoline! Well for the time being. Wait until our oceans are filled with BP's oil. This may change. We are controlled by the very industry we created! Water is around $2.00 per 50 ounces. Think about that compared to gasoline!

Much like building robots and programing them to assist us—somehow they start to teach themselves, then they slowly take over. Okay, maybe that's happening for real. We created industry. Which is: mass production of products. Mass consumption of products. Boom! A thriving economy. Because we can build a machine to to build anything, we manufacture nonsense and force feed it to the people. This is why food and water are at the highest level of piracy in this country today. Monsanto is a pirate. All the food and water companies are pirates. No eye patches. No peg legs. In fact, these pirates are well dressed and smooth talking. They're here to enhance your life. Not hurt you. Yeah, uh huh. Right.

A Look Ahead
I wrote today to get the juices flowing again. There's a lot to talk about. I wanted to touch on some of the areas we should be talking about. I'm not trying to say these are the talking points, but for me, food, water and our environment are good places to start. I hope to be doing more. I am determined to post video footage on youtube, as well. Stay tuned. Talk to your friends that don't know about some of the things we are aware of. Suggest to your loved ones they eat whole foods before processed. That they avoid eating soy, corn and all GMO's. Try to find alternatives to the few choices remaining. Filter your water if the cost of buying it is prohibitive.

Hang in there. I believe we will be okay. Maybe we have to let the drone corpo pirates learn for themselves—one simple lesson. For your company to succeed, the soil must be healthy and the people that consume your product should stay alive long enough to consume your products and make your company profitable. Kill the soil and you kill the people. Kill the people with your product. . . viola! The corporation dies? Are we the food supply for corporations? Starve the company? No! This is not the answer. Boycott GMO's and mainstream food production companies. Stick to locally grown (if you can) and eat whole, healthy naturally occurring foods. And remember, JUST SAY "NO WAY" TO MONSANTO!
Be well,
Tom DeVito

The Hippocritic Oath

2010-05-08T10:35:00.012-04:00

It's been far too long since I last wrote something. I have been working on so many things these days. I'm preparing for a lecture, which keeps getting pushed later in the month of May. At this rate it will be June or July! It is as it is! That's how I see it. I'd like to start with this next piece to ease back into a more regular schedule. Pardon the pun.

I recently came to a realization while talking with my friend and colleague, Jamison Scala, Colon Therapist and Specialist in Blood Microscopy . The term "Hippocratic Oath" came up. I will reprint the modern version of the Hippocratic Oath so we can all look at something the people seeking to become doctor's and nurses are supposed to uphold as physicians. Here it is in segments, with a sprinkling of my commentary, weaved in and out. The fragmented oath for the purpose of commentary, will be in brackets.

[I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.]

So far—so good. Do they really honor those who have come before them? Often, we hear them say, "oh, that's old and antiquated. We have better techniques and knowledge, now!" Show me a more effective diagnostic tool than Iridology! Where the doctor once observed each sector in the iris and could determine a multitude of diagnostics and information about every patients health. A real and harmless tool. Lost and considered quackery!

[I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.]

["For the benefit of the sick"] should now read "for the benefit of the industry. I still believe there are good men and women out there, treating people with care and seeking health for their patients. However, the industry overrules or shall I say has a more overwhelming presence. As they do not allow for any other thinking or different concepts, which can and do bring about healing. ["All measures [that] are required. ."]

Well clearly that never comes into play. Seeing as though, when in the presence of most doctors, it's their way or the highway! Sounds more like a strict, conservative dad, trying to control his disobedient children.

["Avoiding those twin traps of over-treatment and therapeutic nihilism."]

Nihilism is based on the belief that life is void of purpose of reason. Or simply nothing. As in: to annihilate or make into nothing.

Where do I start with this? "Avoiding those twin traps of over-treatment and therapeutic nihilism." It seems to me, they are saying, quite simply, to not over-treat, with senseless medical procedures and medicine. As to "therapy someone to death." I know this is not proper grammer. I'm using it this way to make a point. All doctors seem to want to do is be salesmen for the pharmaceutical companies, ignoring this part of the oath, while constantly taking antiquated methods and sometimes barbaric measures to levels which are, in my "laymen" opinion, absurd, harmful and sometimes murderous.

Not that any doctor's intention is to murder. But the methods often cause death. This is a fact. I've watched many people die from the treatment. My grandfather for one. He was killed at age 59. He was given the medication his chart listed as: DO NOT GIVE TO PATIENT—HE IS ALLERGIC TO THIS MEDICATION. He as in for heart disease and died of kidney failure!

Here's another example told by the great and wise comedian, Henny Youngman: Guy goes to see a doctor. Doctor gives him six months to live. Guy can't afford to pay the bill. Doctor gives him another six months! It often feels as though the medication prescribed merely extends suffering, not the quality of life. It's as though, we've accepted physical breakdown as a matter of fact. We figure we might as well be treated for our illnesses and listen to the doctor. Ignoring the fact that we haven't given ourselves a tuneup or an oil change, or even rotated our tires. Another car care reference, I know. Just makes sense to me that we never even consider basic maintenance and then are completely reliant on a person who practices one method of healing, which really only temporarily extinguishes one fire and sets the environment for another to spark at a later date.

[I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.]

Yeah well, this one is full of holes. I disagree that there is an art or a science to medicine, anymore. Medicine once meant medical practice as well as the administering of drugs, for treatment. Which in some cases might be needed, if only to save a life. Our problem is we insist on making it a way of life, and not a means toward survival. Meaning, once we help a very sick person, instead of guiding them to a better way, a healthier way—the ignorant people of the medical industry scoff at the mere suggestion of diet change, acupuncture, chiropractic, therapeutic massage, or anything not drug related.

How do they tell people to stop smoking, drinking and taking illegal drugs, but suggest a lifetime of drug use, in the guise of health or healing. Forget most doctor's reaction when colonic hydrotherapy is mentioned. They become indignant or look at the patient with such incredulity, that the patient thinks he or she must be misinformed or nuts for even considering such a silly thing. This is seemingly the goal of the doctor, in these cases. To embarrass you into dependency on him and drugs. Sounds like the same thing that happens to folks with illegal drugs! If you've read my past posts, you know that colonic therapy began in hospitals and was discontinued when surgery, antibiotics, and chemotherapy became the rage! Why? Because there is more money in selling drugs, than in healing people!!!

["and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug."]

Now this is a very interesting piece—as this is what doctor's are supposed to uphold for their patients. Again, I must repeat. There are some wonderful people in the field. Some that truly care and want to help. Even if they are steeped in a method that poisons and provides an illusion of healing. However, there are far too many people in that field that are crass, arrogant, condescending, or even resort to belittling their patience for wasting their "precious" time on such nonsense as the above mentioned, alternative methods of healing, which do work! They just don't produce the same revenue as "MEDICAL HEALING." Or FICTITIOUS HEALING!

[I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.]

This is almost laughable! Mostly what we see is doctors never say I don't know, but instead blame conditions, which they do not understand, on stress. Stress is real and a contributing factor to all illness. Still, it's not a blanket answer for that which they do not understand.

["Nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.]

This is interesting. Most doctors now call in so called specialists, all the time. Through referral "kick-backs" everyone makes money. If I visit one doctor and pay him (insurance), then the first doctor sends you to another doctor, for his or her special talents. More tests are performed. Well, it is a performance, to some degree. Meaning, it all seems staged. The new "bedside manner" is crying wolf, as to alarm the patient, which creates fear and vulnerability in the patient. "Do whatever you think is right, doctor!" Is typically the attitude of the patient when the specialist reports back with "concern." This concern, after a battery of tests, is usually resolved with another office visit, more money, and a positive test result (meaning a good result). As in this scenario: "well Mr. or Mrs. Smith, it turns out everything is just fine!" Of course the patient is relieved by this news and actually believes that the tests were important and saved their life—when in reality, it was never being threatened.

As a car owner, I am to the mechanic as most people are to doctor's. Ignorant! I know where the keys go. Where the oil & gas goes. And that's about it. Oh, yeah. I know how to operate the sound system. This does not make me knowledgeable about cars. Yet still I can drive one. The more ignorant we are about human health. The easier it is for doctor's to send us running to save ourselves, when really, nothing is wrong. They're just running the meter. So to speak.

[I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.]

Doctor's are pretty good with keeping your information confidential. The second line here, is where my attention goes.

["Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God."]

Now this is a heavy topic. It is sad and unfortunate that doctor's are so callous and cold in matters of life and death. To them it is the reality of their work. Life and death are intrinsically linked. Yet, for most people dealing with illness, there is always hope in the family members of the sick. Some doctors seem to forget the human side of this reality. It is in their power to take a life, which is an awesome responsibility.

From my perspective, having lost a grandfather to poor care in a hospital. Where he was given medicine to which he was allergic. To the medical staff caring for my grandfather, it was a statistical fact of the day, of their careers, of any hospital. To us, this was a tragic loss. Some of the people on hand at the hospital treated the rapid demise of my grandfather as a matter-of-course. It is, to some extent. Yet, we lost a loved one. This is life at the hospital. Death is always waiting. Lurking in the, hopefully, distant future. Somehow, in the hospital, the risks are greater in meeting your end. This shouldn't be the case. Or is it me?

Every doctor should remember this part of the oath when dealing with people's health issues. Maybe doctor's wouldn't be so quick to dismiss and prescribe powerful poisons. I do see a small and slow movement, with a small percentage of doctor's who are opening their minds to some alternative treatments, which have been around for a very long time and have an amazing track record of success. However, most of the medical community have a vested interest in being right, not finding the truth.

[I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.]

This part is interesting. I believe most people begin their medical journey with this intention. Then quickly become jaded by the nature of their work, especially where finance, lawsuits, and insurance is concerned. The first sentence in the above paragraph is of particular significance. I feel most doctor's attitudes are in complete opposition to this concept. They don't see the forest for the trees.

They don't see themselves in the eyes of the patient staring back in fear, with hope and faith that the good doctor is of sound mind and body and will not lead them down a path of destruction. But instead a healing path/journey. The cold truth about being a doctor is—it is a job. Like any other. The doctor also has to survive. Unfortunately, most doctor's side with their salary and forsake integrity in respect to their profession and the very oath they're supposed to uphold. I feel for both sides. But feel that doctor's should default to integrity, not their own lifestyles!

[I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.]

Should I bother commenting on this? It is as though this was reversed or removed from the oath entirely. Truly, this oath has become nothing more than a formality. A symbolic ritual used to provide sufficient importance and dramatic "play" to the act of "becoming" a doctor. This is the saddest of all. Perhaps the only thing doctor's try to prevent is your mind from opening and expanding and finding less poisonous ways to heal yourself. Doctor's almost always frown upon all avenues of prevention. Especially the one's that work. Meaning the modalities that can actually heal are typically mocked or scoffed at by the medical folk.

Unfortunately, when we think about doctor's we convince ourselves that we are in good hands. That this person of science knows best and has our health at the forefront of their attention and care. In their defense, they do have many patients, for whom they have to provide care. This diminishes their potency, but also dilutes their spirit. Yet, if they followed this part of the oath, alone, I believe we would have a different world. One where pharmaceuticals (poison) wouldn't be publicly traded, therefore "pushed" on the patient! And prevention would be the top priority. Funny—build a beast out of a pit bull, then you must deal with a vicious beast. We created an industry out of healing and now need to feed it. The problem is, it lives off the sacrifice of knowledge, progress, growth, expansion and most importantly—HUMAN LIFE!

[I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.]

Often we are shown the utter pomposity of doctor's or worse yet nurses! When one enters the field of healing, they should know one thing. You have taken on a responsibility, which equals service. Service to others. Putting the art of healing first. Nothing else! Unfortunately, some of the people in that field exist above the common folk. With closed eyes, closed hearts and closed minds, they miss the very essence of their function—which is; to teach. More so, to guide the laymen/patient to safety. To health. How can we learn from overweight, cigarette smoking, arrogant business men and women? Where's the respect and admiration and honor in this important role in society? Do you want to see change? Well, change your participation. Change your habits and rely on them less for health. Become independent and self reliant. You will also tax our health care system less.

[If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.]

There are some wonderful men and women helping people in this industry. Doctor's and nurses do their best with the knowledge and tools provided. The sad truth is—like politics, most enter starry eyed and ready to change the world. After a short time, they're happy just to have a job to pay back the enormous loan for their education. I know I'm tough on everyone in the medical profession. Someone's got to point this stuff out. Change is needed. Change will come. Little by little and day by day, we change slowly. One person at a time. With every client I see and speak to, I try to impart and share my experience with them. I try to plant seeds. To show people that health is not only in your hands, it is your absolute responsibility. Which means to find the truth and practice that which heals and maintains health. Not the opposite. To take care of yourself is your number one responsibility.

A team is made up of individuals. Yet the individuals should never compromise themselves for the good of team. They should enhance and strengthen themselves for the good of team. Watching TV! Eating non-food! Justifying repetitious indulgence! Are all in complete contradiction to health and healing. Live for today and your tomorrows will greet you with health & wealth. Live for tomorrow and your today will slip past you and your tomorrow will be filled with the the agony and the ramifications of a life ignored. Live for all there is, NOW! A healthy now equals a healthy now, which equals a healthy tomorrow. The only way to effect change in others is to effect change within ourselves. We don't change in the future. We change now!
Be well,
Tom DeVito

The Food Of Man!

2010-04-22T08:33:00.007-04:00

I've written about Professor Arnold Ehret in recent posts. The revolutionary book, "The Mucusless Diet Healing System," written in 1922, begins the first lesson with this statement. "Every disease, no matter what name it is known by Medical Science, is CONSTIPATION!" Professor Ehret continues on this track throughout his life's work. His belief was that as we clog the entire "pipe system" of the human body with unnatural foods and poor combination's at every meal, we eventually cause a back-up of the tubes. From the rectum to the stomach. This is a concept I have studied throughout the years and experienced from. . . shall I say, all ends. What I know to be true, by living the concepts and practicing them in my life, is still known by few people. This book is now eighty-eight years old. For me, nothing has ever been written to improve or refute this great knowledge.

A Path Of Destruction
Applying this idea to our way of life, today leaves us in an interesting place. Way back in the days of Professor Ehret, people ate something then thatwe rarely eat, today—FOOD! Be it overcooked meats or even starchy vegetables or grains—the human diet, with some exceptions was made-up of mostly naturally occurring foods. Excluding the obvious processed foods that have been with us for a while—bread, cheese, pasta, desserts, etc. Today, we eat foods that are fortified with the nutrients we beat out of our soil! Today, we design food for maximum shelf life and nutrition. We color, preserve, shape, craft, CREATE "things" we call food. Sorry, Charlie! "We want tuna that tastes good, not tuna with good taste!" That was a TV ad for Starkist tuna. We've always marketed food. We put our money in the wrong places. We don't reinvest in the agriculture system. We never consider doing something good for the soil we use to grow our food. Instead, we continue on a path of destruction. Devitalizing the soil, till there's nothing left for the fruits and vegetables and grains! These foods are not even at half the nutritional value of what they were in the days of the great Arnold Ehret! He talks of the "modern diet!" What would he think now?

Man: The creator?
Man makes food. Man makes illness. Simple. Man makes chemicals. Man eats chemicals. Man makes new cancers. Man genetically modifies foods for improvement. Man genetically creates new disease. Man makes "things" in large amounts, because he can. Man makes problems too big to be solved. Man never looks ahead and considers how their actions effect others. Man finds himself declaring "Earth day," to force awareness on something that has been absurdly overlooked. Taking care of our home! Why is this so foreign to us? I'm using the word man for human kind, of course. They say it's a man's world. Maybe using "man" is more accurate. Just a thought. Once again I ask the question: just because we can do something or make something, does that mean we should?

Turn Around—Take A Look At What You've Done!
The food of man barely resembles food. The foods our bodies evolved from. We no longer have a natural connection to the earth or our environment. We live under artificial light in artificial air and rarely walk barefoot on the planet. So our concepts have changed. Our views of food have changed. We're so busy "doing," we never stop and be. We do so much, all the time that we don't ever stick around long enough to ascertain the results of our actions. The food of man is a perfect example. Just because kids like blue cereal or enjoy sweet tastes doesn't mean we should poison our children with our own stupidity. Or is it laziness? It seems we prefer to just soothe children and ourselves rather than deal with or work through issues. So what if little Johnny and Mary like Sugar Smacks! That makes them happy. Yes, perhaps. But this is what we are building our children from. Imagine what the human race will look like five-hundred years from now. Eating the same garbage we call food. We will most certainly be dieing younger. We will grow to sizes unfathomable to us, now. We already have XXL, XXXL, XXXXL sizes in our clothing stores. Soon, anyone under four-hundred pounds will be considered "FIT!" We'll shop in for tents instead of clothes.

Construction, Destruction, What's Your Function!
The food of man is the food of earth. Not the food of what man makes from earth. We all need to go back to basics and eat FOOD! Not things! Not creations. Or abominations! No good will ever come from the current diet of humanity, today. We all know this, but chance and gamble with our very lives. That's what is known as freedom of choice. Perhaps if we were just gluttonous with natural foods, we'd be in better shape. Instead, we gorge ourselves on chemical representations of a lost idea. The lost idea is what our earth once produced. Think that's far-fetched? Eat a commercially grown tomato. What the hell is that crap? We eat chemical "models" of items not produced by our mother earth. We eat our madness! We eat our insanity! My question, of course is, would we be mad if we never ate outside of our natural diet. Would constipation even exist as an issue for us? Would mucus be anything more than protection? Try removing non-food from your diet, slowly and methodically. Then see for yourself. Remove all synthetic sugars and engineered "treats," and watch yourself become "more human" in every way. We are becoming a super species in size only.

The Descent Of Man
We are beginning a descent to common obesity because common sense is not so common. Our brains are becoming demented as our bodies become distended. Our brains are shrinking, as our bodies expand. Making the changes I'm suggesting and you will slowly but surely begin to grow younger and resemble the species we began as. Fit, beautiful, vibrant, glowing, intelligent human beings! Try it! You might like it!
Be well,
Tom DeVito

A Cycle Of Poison Or The Standard American Way!

2010-04-08T08:10:00.005-04:00

Disclaimer
I would like to first state that I entered into a program with Google. It's called Google ads. This is meant to help generate some revenue, while spreading the good word. The program feeds off of key words taken from a scan of the blog posts. Because I've slammed the medical community and their antiquated, often barbaric methods of "healing," the program picks up on key words like chemotherapy or radiation, etc. The program doesn't read, it just scans. The actual content of what I'm saying is not reflected in the ads. Instead, some ads might appear on your end, which are pro medical treatments. The very methods I am against are being advertised on my blog site. Hopefully as the topic changes, so will the ads. Here's today's thoughts. . .

This occurred to me just the other day. American's, and for the most part, the civilized world, by now, lives on a cycle of poison. Here's how I see it: We are brought into this world, and most often the either the birthing process and or the fertilization process, involves drugs of some kind. When are we going to understand this simple truth? If you cannot get pregnant, either both the man and the woman haven't lived a healthy life. So now we need fertilizer? Like plants? Strange. Most babies are born with drug hangovers. Then we move on to the next step of poisonous fortification. Vaccination! This is a very hotly debated topic. Yes I would be in favor of this program, if it in fact worked. I don't believe that vaccinations ever did anything to stop disease. Protection from infectious disease comes from "herd immunity." I've explained this in a previous post so I won't repeat myself, again! When the vaccination gives a child a so called side effect (I wrote a long post on so called "side effects." Check that one out. I go into this topic in detail.) the child is given antibiotics. (anti=against/ bio=life), once your child receives their first dose of this so-called miracle drug, your child has been indoctrinated into the drug program of America. Congratulations!

Welcome To The Drug Program Of America!
From the point your child is drugged for any illness symptom or condition, your child will now require their food intake be something that does not create discomfort. Real food, healthy food, doesn't feel good when there is such a high presence of drug residue in the bloodstream. This leaves babies with a colic condition. Or simply put: GAS! As we know, the drugs and the healthy food make for a poisonous soup out of the bloodstream. All sugars ferment in the presence of acidic poison. The more this happens, meaning the child is treated with minor and major drugs for their health, the more the child needs more poison. Mirroring the process a drug addict goes through. Or the cigarette smoker. They constantly need to keep a certain level of poison in the blood as to avoid the discomfort of the human body trying to ALWAYS keep poison at bay or rid itself, entirely of poisonous waste, foreign matter & toxemia!

Bad Directions
Considering the way we live, this makes sense. As we enter the middle ages of childhood, meaning toddler to preteens, we are drawn to all kinds of colorful poisonous traps. Cereals, candies, cookies, cakes, and so on. Everything that supports a toxic lifestyle. This is the very process that leads all of us to illness. It starts with bad directions from our medical teachers. The origin of the word doctor means teacher. We're lead by them, down paths of destruction and profit. The latter of the two is the lantern that lights the way. The roads we take in life in regards to health and healing always seem to be circuitous at best. Or better put; it's like getting direction from "Mapquest." If you've ever used this online service, you know what I mean. If you need to go north east, somehow the directions sends you south west for a little while. It's almost as if these doctors/teachers are just feeling around, blindly, in a dark room, trying to not knock anything over, yet they never bother to turn on the light! Perhaps these doctor's are so overwhelmed with their own pressures and needs to survive, that they can't work within the realm of truth, but instead are stuck in a system, which does not fully address illness, but as we know, addresses the symptomatic effects of the illnesses and various medication cocktails, designed for profit, not healing.

Hey, Look Over There!
How can a drug heal anyway? It's merely another poison, to offset your body's attempts to rid itself of poisons accumulated over the years. We always delight at the onset of medications as they do their job in providing the doctor and patient with the illusion of improvement. Have you ever played fetch with a dog? You pretend to throw the ball, but instead hold onto it. This is what drugs do to both parties. We go running after a ball that was never tossed. Instead, we waste precious time looking for an imaginary ball. All the while, real science is waiting to be discovered. Real methods of healing overlooked, because we are still looking for the ball, the magic pill. Drugs get enough results, for just enough time, then they turn on us or our bodies on the substances. Lets now look at trying to maintain health through diet and exercise, with a polluted bloodstream.

Building The Perfect Consumer
Real, natural foods are not appealing to people living with medication as a part of their daily routine. Keep in mind, many children are being medicated for attention deficit illnesses and behavioral problems. When all the while they're really being medicated, poisoned to help them cope with bad parenting and piss-poor teaching, in an education system that lacks the true essence of learning. True exploration. If schools were to suddenly switch over to healthy foods in their cafeteria's, all the kids would become a bit sick or their ability to focus or comprehend would be negatively affected. Why, because poisonous, processed garbage, which we call food, is full of chemicals. The cornerstone of a good diet plan! That's what we do. We consume chemicals. We drink water from plastic bottles, we eat foods colored with dyes.

It's Just Easier To Give The Kids What They Want!
Which is what we taught them and "turned them on to!"
We eat foods preserved (for profit) with chemicals. We drink liquids that are built from chemicals and genetically modified sugars or purely artificial sugars. People still think sugar is bad for us! White sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup and all the other poisonous sludge, we call food and beverage, is needed to keep everyone relatively normal. Take away the poisons and the children will all be like mini-heroin addicts. Detoxing the stupidity of American culture. Why do parents defend "Chicken McNuggets" and Pizza Hut? Why do they fight for the right to slowly kill themselves, their children and the entire family? This I do not understand. Perhaps, it's just convenience. Boy is that a weak word.

Here's the catch
As we live through the cycle of poison, we constantly fake throwing a ball in a certain direction and our bodies respond, almost every time. We can do that for a while. Then, we see what we always see. People far too young become sick with bad illnesses. And everyone is shocked. GET OVER THIS ALREADY!!! What the hell do people expect? That we can subsist on red, yellow and blue #5 and never suffer the consequences? Have we convinced ourselves none of this matters? Here's my suggestion. EAT REAL FOOD. Transition slowly, but get there. Start today. Feeding your children their favorite foods is not loving your children, its ignoring the higher importance of their health. I do not enforce my children to eat what I want them to. Instead, I try to explain why this is or that is a better choice. I explain the pitfalls of the diet. As to not restrict but teach. When their bellies ache, I look at what they ate! I don't call it a virus! Or a bug! It's the fuel!

Clean up your act!
Clean it up. Don't listen to your doctor, when diet is the topic. In fact, don't listen to most of what they say, unless they are talking logically about health and not trying to sell you drugs. The first book I ever read about health was written by MD's. The quote that made me put the book down and look elsewhere is this: "We don't call it junk food, we call it fun food. Besides, we have such good medicines and surgical techniques, that you can enjoy your life and when illness strikes, and it will, we have what you need to be well." Okay, that's not really a quote, but an accurate interpretation of an evil statement. This is why everyone is so sick. Get off the disease train and ride the wave of health.
Be well,
Tom DeVito

Telling Tall Tales From A Shallow Pond

2010-03-27T18:12:00.009-04:00

I heard something today that was simply astounding. I thought to name this post "Dumb, dumber, dumbest." Which would have represented the fictitious, nonsensical, insane ramblings from people who consider themselves "experts" or "scientists." This may be the absolute worst thing I've ever heard from a "specialist." Okay, get this. An Oncologist informed a cancer patient of her new diet. This, the good doctor said "is the only diet you can have." It's called a low-residue diet. Yet it consists of nothing but high residue foods. Or better yet, the diet is comprised of pudding and jello, essentially! NON-FOOD! Have lost my bloody mind? Has the doctor? Has the patient? What in the world is going on in this world? This, my friends, is not the worst of it. He went on to say that she (the patient) is forbidden to eat salad! Now here it is. The single dumbest, most asinine, disturbing statement I HAVE EVER HEARD A DOCTOR UTTER!!! "Eating salad was making your tumors grow." And no one in the room questioned those words?

Post Script

I forgot to mention at the writing of this post that the doctors also explained that fiber was contributing to the growth of the tumors. When asked how so, the answer was "you will have too many bowel movements! And since there are tumors in that region of your body, the bowel movements will aggravate the tumors and cause them to grow!" NOT THE PRESENCE OF THE WASTE, ITSELF??? They literally consider pudding and jello low residue because the patient won't have many bowel movements! What's next? Cocaine for cardiac patients! We are better off consulting people in padded cells in straight jackets. At least you know who you're dealing with. My question is: what to these scientists see when they look in the microscope? LOONEY TUNES CHARACTERS—DROPPING ANVILS ON EACH OTHER'S HEADS!!!!! That's all folks!

Opposite Land—OR A Deep And Undetectable Ignorance?

No one asked the doctor if he realized he said it out loud, in front of other people? Not only is this statement wholly and entirely wrong! IT IS IN COMPLETE OPPOSITION TO THE TRUTH! Is it the doctor's intention to murder his patients! He also informed her that she now has a chance to live. He also instructed her that eating Sun Chlorella tablets also contributed to making her tumors grow! How is this man allowed to practice medicine? I guess because they live in "opposite land." This is the most disturbing thing I have ever had the displeasure to hear. I am beside myself. There are no words to describe how wrong this man is. But I will try. This is like giving the passengers on a jetliner, blow torches and cans of gasoline, during the flight to ensure safety in the cabin. It's like walking into a roady bar at two in the morning and handing our free pistols in an attempt to settle some unresolved disagreements and avoid unnecessary violence! It's like giving a four year old child an open vile of one hundred valium and telling the child not to taste the candy! What the hell has happened to the intelligence in this great land of ours? We turn to these highly educated people in politics, medicine, etc., and we seem to come up empty handed or a with handful of good, all American, unadulterated, unprocessed, homemade, special ordered BULLSHIT! One second, I need to wash my hands. . .

The Boiling Point Of No Return

At this point it might be wise to consider what is commonly known as preventative medicine for those of you who would like to avoid the pitfalls of being in the hands of raving lunatics. There is no reason why anyone should ever have to be at the mercy of these deranged madmen! Madmen, who must be programmed at med school. Told to make sure patients are treated like consumers. As a dear friend spoke of the jargon used in the mental-health industry. Patients aren't patients. They are "consumers of mental health." Hello! DO WE NEED MORE INFORMATION THAN THAT? Do we need to be told directly that a "for profit" system will only bend toward profit, never toward truthful solutions? That a "for profit" system researches the effectiveness of stock trade and marketing and never if the drug works, let alone won't kill you faster than your disease, which by the way was planted in you through their "healthcare programs, such as vaccinations, antibiotics and general drug therapy, as a method of healing" Imagine the success of a car mechanic, if they had the same track record as our illustrious medical industry? It would be laughable. No business, industry, company, corporation could ever survive let alone be a multi-billion dollar industry, with a reputation like the medical world has made for itself.

Darth Limbaugh—Luke! I Am Your Father—Luuuuuke!

The well has run dry. There is no room at the shallow end of the pond to float these titanic lies, anymore. Medical experts!? The only thing these types of doctors are experts in is BULLSHIT! Plain and simple. This special breed of doctors. The types who truly don't care one bit about anybody's health—have become politicians. You don't become a politician to live a straight and honest life. Lets be real. If truth were introduced to politics and medicine—our economy would collapse faster than a house of cards after Rush Limbaugh tip-toes by! Yet, not all doctor's are created equally. Or, should I say, not all doctor's fall to the dark side. They resist the dark forces of Darth Vader. I mean the pharmaceutical companies. And they base their practices on helping people, even with their limitations. They mean well. They speak, to the best of their abilities, the truth.

Second Hand Murder

We are at the point where debating the topic of healing with medical folk is like speaking German to someone from China, who thinks you're speaking Italian! I feel as though the only way to combat this willful ignorance, is to pay fewer and fewer visits to the doctor's, the pizzeria's, the donut shop, the steak house, the drug store, the diner, the bar, and so on. People will fair much better in the complete absence of interactions with "medicine people." I know that their are large numbers of people who think I am an idiot for making the claims I do. I really don't care. I'm at the point where I would rather risk my reputation speaking the truth, than sitting back and saying nothing about the lies pouring out of their mouths on an hourly basis. As these empty. robotic vessels float on the grand oceans of life, they seem to not care that they are polluting our waters of life with their ignorance, lies, deceit and second hand murder.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hide! (spelling intentional)

There are still some great, caring and loving doctor's. Unfortunately, they are not popular because they aren't drug pushers. They are labeled quacks by their mentally incompetent associates. I will say this. My life and health have only improved since I gave up on the medical industry and accepted the greatest honor and challenge of my lifetime. To take "real" care of myself and become a seeker. A seeker of the truth. I decided the only way to live in this "land of opposites." Is to seek Independent Health! It is my honor to share what I've learned with all of you. Don't stop. Keep on moving. Never accept anything that is too complicated to understand as a final answer. Challenge everyone to explain things more simply, because it's hard for our little brains to grasp. Like Professor Arnold Ehret said, "what cannot be grasped by simple logic, is humbug!"

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Rust Never Sleeps

2010-03-24T07:59:00.004-04:00

(the title is borrowed from a great song by Neil Young)

Even if we can't see rust because it was covered with paint, it is still there and oxidizing every minute of the day. Paint masks the reality of the underlying rot, which is still happening, regardless of appearance. If we don't remove our own decay from within, we are spinning our wheels. No paint. No varnish. No polish. No vitamins. No drugs. No THINGS will ever change this reality! There is one way to achieve REAL HEALTH! And that is DEEP TISSUE CLEANSING!

Swimming Pools

When I was much younger and working part time jobs, I worked for a man who installed above ground swimming pools. This was a very interesting job. I learned a lot about swimming pools, the physics of how they stand and hold all that pressure from the water they hold. When we weren't installing pools, we had to maintain them. We would replace the liners, fix the filters or teach the people how to keep their water clean and safe. Then there were the extreme jobs. We'd show up and the owner would tell us that they haven't cared for the pool in several years. The cover for winter protection, was torn. And massive amounts of leaves, debris, dead animals, and other various, unpleasant items filled the depths of the pool. These were jobs which required a bit more effort to restore the pool back to a safe and clean environment, for the people to swim in again. So dumping a bunch of chemicals and running the filter simply would not suffice. This required that we drain as much of the water as possible and then drudge out all the muck from the bottom of the pool, for which there was thousands of pounds of decomposed leaves, animals, waste, garbage, etc. We often did this work by hand and got down and dirty until we cleansed the pool. This is analogous to the human body, with regards to health and healing.

Inside Out Vs. Outside In

The human blood stream collects a great many pollutants over the years. Starting with baby formula, birthday cake, and jarred baby foods containing animal products. All dairy, grain, animal products and every non-food under the sun produces waste or pollution in the human body. Still, there are so-called experts that base their entire philosophical belief on the ridiculous notion that nutrition or putting so-called "super foods" in their stomachs will bring about healing. Most of the people who subscribe to this erroneous concept look the part. Most of these people are overweight and still circulating poisonous, toxic waste throughout their bloodstream, as they teach other's how to live a healthy life? Text book healing! Informational healing! Theoretical healing! This is what the idea of nutrition will bring about. Not to say that nutrition is useless. But that first we cleanse the waste, then we rebuild with high-quality material, instead of Twinkies, Oreos, pizza, bagels, hot dogs, pasta, etc.

Lets Get Something Straight!

There's no doubt that improving one's diet and increasing foods with real value will improve upon a persons health. However, we cannot and will not effect change, real change, and live independently, without fear of latent disease striking from our thirties on. Which is when most people begin to experience these problems. Imagine trying to improve the water quality of a swimming pool with a foot and a half worth of decomposed, mostly natural elements, at the bottom of the pool, with chlorine and filtration. That is essentially the idea some health experts will have you believe. The chlorine represents the liver and nutrition and the filter, the kidneys. Imagine how taxing this would be for the system of a pool filter and how draining it would be financially to keep dumping more and more chemicals into the pool. WITHOUT FIRST REMOVING THE WASTE PRODUCT, WHICH HAS ACCUMULATED OVER YEARS FROM THE BLOODSTREAM, TISSUE AND CELLS. WE ARE NOT FULLY RESTORING OURSELVES OR CREATING TRUE, VIBRANT, BOUNDLESS HEALTH! Instead we are merely circulating waste matter. Or filtering out minute amounts of waste, while feeling sicker and sicker each day.

Sweep, Then Mop!

You'll never see a janitor mop the floors before sweeping. Why? Because then we would just circulate all the debris on the floor. The janitor will eventually have to give in and sweep the floor in order to fully clean the floor. This is the foundation for all healing. One of my clients recently asked a very compelling question, "how much does one have to cleanse?" To which I responded, "depends." The answer is obviously different for everyone. What is the goal of the individual? And is there already illness? Or are we beginning to see illness. Some people want only to feel better, look better and reduce bloating, gas and discomfort. Other's want to get into what I call excavation! Really going back through their history, detoxifying the tissues, bloodstream and cells. Until a person has experienced this, what we refer to as "deep-tissue cleansing," it can never be understood. When a person experiences cell contraction, through detoxification, they will appear rather thin. People looking only at weight think the person is sick. They don't see the light in the eyes of the cleansed person. They don't see the vitality emanating from this person. We must first squeeze all the old waste out of the tissue, blood and cells, before the body can restore itself to a place of health unrecognizable to most people in society. Most people don't know such a state exists or can be achieved, at all!

Till The Soil Before Planting Seeds

Even though I'm a fan of "whole-food supplements." They are useless where healing is concerned. Don't waste your money. Cleanse first. Then feed. Remove the old, toxic waste, the old muck, the foreign matter which prevents us from experiencing vital, boundless, energy, from a body free of all the waste product accumulated over decades. One way to tell if your guts are filled with old fecal matter, gas and mucus is this: suck your gut in by exhaling all your air. Then pull in with the abdominal muscles. If your belly-button is about three to four inches away from your spine, you are in phenomenal health. If your gut is still protruding, you know there is some work to do, if your goal is to restore your health to a place where latent illness is no longer a concern. This is for the more hardcore. I don't use this term in an exclusive manner. I do not like exclusion. This is not some club of superior humans. Everyone is welcome. No one is excluded. To be "hardcore" about this is great! It is not for everyone.

Nothing Like The Truth—Simple Undeniable Truth

I use myself as an experiment. Everything I experience with regards to healing is my research. So don't come to me with this new product, which was extracted from some ancient sap, from the ass of a dead fly found, in an iceberg in the south pole, and tell me this is the missing key to my health. Indications that something not working dietetically, where healing is concerned, show themselves rather quickly. In the fifteen years that I am vegan and eat mostly raw foods, I have never needed all this scientific mumbo-jumbo! All I've ever needed was to cleanse the bowels, drink fresh vegetable juice, eat healthy green leafy salads and fresh fruits—including some moderate exercise, and viola! Oh and some good sweating. This is the secret, folks! NO SECRET! Human health and vitality is yours. You have it already, you just have to clean the muck from the inner terrain before you try to build your new eco-friendly house! Get it? I hope you do. Please feel free to chime in with feedback. Thanks for reading.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

The Sky Never Falls. . .

2010-03-23T08:15:00.003-04:00

. . . And there are no wolves. This is a continuation of a previous post titled, "When Chicken Little Cries Wolf." A friend of mine was diagnosed with matastasized cancer. Meaning it had spread from one organ or system to another. The doctor claimed it was in more than five major organs and scheduled this woman for immediate surgery. All this with NO BIOPSY! No official diagnosis! And the butchers were ready to "debulk" her. Debulk? How do we use these terms when speaking to people about their bodies, their health? Their life! What is going on in medicine, today? These people are beginning to really show how little they know about human health! For the record, it is cheaper for an insurance company if the patient dies, then if the patient lives and requires more treatment. So it is hard to determine the angle the insurance companies take. I'll leave that up to your analysis.

Perhaps I'm too cynical to judge this properly. Initially, my friend was told the cancer was indeed matastasized and she needed immediate surgery! She was told the surgeon would be removing part of her stomach, part of her bowels, one kidney, her cervix, ovaries and uterus! This pronouncement was made with no real diagnosis. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! WOLF!!!!! Nonsense. Here's what the biopsy reported. Cancer of the fat. Rare, but not matastasized! Cancer of the fat! Which seems like a cancer that has spread. When in-fact, the cancer is in the fat, therefore throughout the body. Not matastesized. No need for the scare.

Yes There Are Two Paths You Can Go By,

But In The Long Run, There's Still Time To Change The Road You're On.

A line from the great Led Zeppelin—from a little hit in the seventies, called "Stairway To Heaven."

When my friend was first diagnosed, she came to me and we worked together. She embraced this new lifestyle with passion and commitment. She was full of fear, but knew she was feeling better. She looked and felt better within three treatments. She also felt cared for and treated with compassion. Something she never felt from the medical community. Due to the imminent nature of her illness, which required surgery, she was told by her all the doctors and family members to stop doing colonics and the lifestyle, because it would mess with her electrolyte balance. This would be very bad for surgery. I spoke to a cardiologist/surgeon. His response was, "that's pure nonsense." My theory is it's better to go into surgery with a lot less waste than stable electrolytes. I've explained this idea prior to this piece. The oncologist reports to my friend that she won't be going in for surgery. They want to first shrink the tumors with Chemo.

The amount of drugs the doctors have her taking is incredible. The woman stopped the one thing that was helping her to heal for a potential future, which never came. Or won't be happening for a while. Which would have given us time to get her oxygenated and closer to wellness. Not to mention the damage all these drugs are doing to her vitality and strength. This is yet another example of planning for a future we know nothing about. No crystal balls! No wizards! No real knowledge of anything in the future, other than capitalism! Knowledge that money will be made—rather than progress or healing.

Illness? Wellness? What Is The Goal?

When a person becomes ill, some believe it is a random event. Some know it is not. The truth is, we have certain pre-dispositions or weaknesses. This is represented in the genetic make-up of all people. The weaknesses differ from one to the next, depending on the history or the lineage. People in the medical profession seem to think they are clairvoyant. As if they know the "undeniable truth." This is because they know no better. All they know is dousing a fire with gasoline and hoping things don't re-ignite!

Deceit? Ignorance? Or Profit?

Or do they know this crap doesn't work and still do what they do because they too have to make a living. But, to make their living from other's illness, misfortune or death is quite questionable. It's like going to an aerobics instructor and gaining weight! Or worse, gaining weight and continuing to go back because there's "no other way!" Enough is enough! The medical approach to healing illness is pure, unadulterated bullshit! I'm done with these cretins. They are vultures! The methods they use are arcane and invasive. They ignore most of the technics, which the whole science was founded on.

Real Time

Dennis Kucinch was a guest on the Bill Maher show, recently and said he is against this health-care bill, but signed it to pass because it was going to point us in the right direction. I don't agree with this. However, he went on to say, that if we really want healthcare to change in this country, we must address diet, exercise, alternative methods of healing, etc. Anyone thinking person can see—give people real information about how to stay healthy and they won't tax the system. Why doesn't that happen. BECAUSE THERE'S NO MONEY IN KEEPING PEOPLE HEALTHY!

This is an unfortunate state for us to be in. I am not stopping and will continue to write here and hopefully publish books to bring everyone's awareness to a different place. Perhaps this bill will improve or limit the prices these thieves can charge. I am skeptical. And will remain so, until I see something different. Not that I have any intention of ever having health insurance, ever again. I haven't had it for more than fifteen years. Instead, I have "health endurance."

DECLARE INDEPENDENCE! DON'T LET THEM DO THAT TO YOU!

—Bjork wrote that line for a song on her new album. Our independence is vanishing. Mandating healthcare is not reform but expansion. Keep your independence. Keep your freedom. Your health is in your hands. And your hands only. Besides, who cares more about you than you? This is not being self-centered, this is having self love. No doctor can give you that. No doctor can give you health. Just drugs.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Rainy Days And Mondays. . .

2010-03-22T08:07:00.009-04:00

always get me down. . . The Carpenters penned that somewhat dreary song, way back in the seventies. This sentiment belongs on that same pile of slogans we humans have come up with to show how much of life we miss the idea of life itself. We love these sayings, which sum up our attitude toward life. Which, in a nutshell is this: We want only sunshine, everyday should be friday, we want it now and we want it all, and so on. Now why shouldn't we always want the best from life? Of course that is just a positive, hopeful attitude. Right? I believe we all have the right to want an easy life and mondays to be sunny, all the time. But lets be real. We must accept the rainy days, knowing what they bring the earth. We must accept our "less than great" days, while cleansing, knowing what this brings us. Detox can be a bitch, sometimes.

The Big Picture

Somehow, we miss the big picture in regards to healing. We want constant ascension. I often hear comments from clients saying, "I've given up meat, wheat, junk-food, and booze, now I feel like crap!" "What gives?" We all know the story. As we give up certain foods which are molecularly heavy and concentrated, therefore pollutants are delivered to the bloodstream for filtration and elimination. You see, the laymen doesn't truly understand the simplicity of health and how to achieve it. Of course, technically, I am a laymen. This can be true for many doctors, who believe a totally different concept about health. They understand human health like they do a poorly designed machine, which by nature breaks down. When they cannot figure out the source of illness, they call in "stress" as the cause. However, the big picture is really about the health of the bloodstream, which effects the entire body. These are the rivers and oceans in the body. Like the earth, once they become polluted, more and more trouble result.

Garbage Floating On The Rivers Of Your Body

The average person does not understand human physiology, at all. And why should they? As we all become conscious of health and cleansing, we open our minds to greater concepts of health, we open our minds to a slightly different view of the human body. We have believed so many erroneous, so-called facts and truths about human health, that we never stopped to ask what these concepts are actually based on. We have believed and many still today believe that diet is the most important thing we can do to remain healthy. And I say, show me one athlete that has lived even close to one hundred years! They all pass at younger ages, like early to mid seventies. This being the average age we humans are meant to live to. I covered that misunderstanding in an old post. I'm not saying we should live forever or that we can. I'm also not saying we should live to a hundred and look and behave like most people we see that make it to that age. I believe we can live that long and look, feel and act like people thirty years younger!

How Do We Do It?

There are people in this field that so misunderstand what this "life" is about. The main reason for this is because they want to dissect every aspect of human life and not see how it all plays together as one beautiful symphony. One orchestrated song and dance, we call life. Does the bear, snake, monkey, rat, lion, eagle, etc., need anything other than their environment to survive? NO! I know I covered that a thousand times, too. I had to make that point before this next bit. If the blood of people has garbage floating through it, than the bloodstream, and the power of our blood to keep us alive and well, is somewhat weakened or compromised. Some still believe the absurd concept that super-foods or supplements will make a difference. They will, under the microscope or in a blood-test. They will not make a bit of difference where "real" health is concerned. We can bolster levels of this and that in the bloodstream. But we have to consider that vitamins pills from a jar are nothing more than nicer looking garbage floating through the bloodstream.

But That's Not What Everyone Believes!

Correct! I know something they don't know. They all believe in fiction. For the human body to truly heal, which means something different than it may sound. By healing, I mean, to heal a person of latent illness which, for now lies dormant in the tissue, bloodstream and cells of the body. Until we remove this toxic debris, we are "spinning our wheels!" We are painting the rusty fender on the car. Only to have the rust return. For real health to be present in people, real detoxification must be engaged. And, real foods must be taken, along with fresh juices, good, deep sweating, and mild exercise. More than anything else—to be outside, under the sun, taking in the best quality air you can find (wooded areas, mountains, beaches)

Until we embrace these simple concepts, we are merely throwing grapefruits at a dart-board.

Blood Is Iron!

Once again I will call upon the great spirit of the late and brilliant Professor Arnold Ehret. Yes, I know he died in 1922! Yes, I know medical science has come a long way. And yes, I know we understand far more now than we did then. Still, we miss the point so greatly that I feel it is vital to this community to express this here. The bloodstream is a very misunderstood aspect of humanity. The great professor wrote in his book "The Mucusless Diet Healing System" that our blood is essentially iron-oxide. And that it needs very little to be healthy. Firstly, it needs to be as free from toxicity as possible and secondly it needs fruit sugars, and green leaves as it's food. The fruit sugars do more of the cleansing of the blood. Ehret believed, quite correctly, that the blood needs iron from the green leaves and fruit sugar. The green is chlorophyl. Which, as we know, converts to hemoglobin, very easily. The fruit sugar is very special. Fruit sugar cleanses the blood of debris and helps to form hemoglobin as well. It is the combination of the two, which make-up this "quite special sap," Ehret refers to as our blood composition. He says the red color is iron-oxide, rust!

In Conclusion

In my humble, yet strong opinion, Ehret is one hundred percent on the money. Why do I think I am in a position to make such a claim. Because this is how I've lived for the past fifteen plus years. I have healed of all my illnesses and I know that I am constantly in a state of detoxification, removing debris on a daily basis, from the bowels, therefore the blood, tissue and cells. Until someone can show me where I'm lacking, by not eating protein or taking supplements of almost any kind and never taking in most of what people eat, I remain consistently and steadfastly in the belief that Arnold Ehret was right. Health is simple. "All concepts that cannot be grasped with simple reason are humbug!" These are the words of the great professor.

Today, as I sit and write this, I am dealing with some congestion. This is the first time I have experienced anything like this in many years. I had it coming! What is happening is a culmination of stress, and a bit of heavier eating. Allowing myself to eat some acidic foods and not exercising as I was on a daily basis. (rebounding) My lungs want to rid themselves of mucus. As my bowels empty, so do my lungs. So, in conclusion, I do believe that to truly become "Independently Healthy" we must not follow the medical community "out the window," as they say. And instead, look toward nature and the removal of debris from our bodies, so the vital functions of life can occur without challenge, obstruction and stress. Lets allow our bodies to live in absence of disease matter, waiting for our organism to weaken or simply become greater than that which brings us health. Clean, pollution free, iron rich, blood. Here's to living free of disease or the need for experts to achieve it for you and me.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Throwing Roses

2010-03-12T08:11:00.006-05:00

This must be written. This must be stated, once and for all.

Lets stop pretending that the "standard medical" approach for treating cancer actually works. Lets stop lying to ourselves and our loved one's who have been diagnosed with this dreaded disease. If the person diagnosed with cancer decides to take on some "holistic" practices like diet change, colonics, juicing, using chlorophyl supplements such as wheat grass and Sun Chlorella and uses an infrared sauna—we in the alternative field see this as a means to survival. However, friends, family and loved one's don't always agree. The surgeons and oncologists certainly do not agree. And don't expect the nurse sitting behind the window at the doctor's office to understand your new diet either, as she eats her fat-free, sugar-free jelly donut, with her coffee and two-percent milk. Whether or not the two sides agree doesn't really matter, just as long as the patient knows what he or she wants.

The Sky Is Falling!

Most often people are frightened out of their wits from the "chicken little" technic used. As chicken little cries wolf, the patient submits to the most arcane and poisonous treatments available. Because the doctors know nothing else but dousing a fire in gasoline—hoping the fire will be extinguished by the sheer volume of liquid, ignoring the fact that gasoline is highly flammable. Or they might insist on surgery, no referred to by some in the medical "profession," and I use this term very loosely, as "de-bulking." It is embarrassing that medical practice has become so careless and uncaring toward the sick. And yet the sick flock to them, like an abused partner returns to their abuser. The very people that want us to so want us to live, quite often INSIST we listen to the doctor. This is so haunting to me. It's like the mother that doesn't want to see that a close family member is sexually abusing her daughter(s), and brings her or them directly to him and puts her children in this demented freak's hands. This is the beginning of our tale. . .

Who You Calling A Charlatan?

A long time ago when charlatans appeared on many corners in every city in early America, these snake oil salesmen were to be avoided. The medical profession, then a respectable and scientifically based profession, referred to these gents as charlatans. Why? Because they claimed their pills, powders and potions (poison or placebo) were going to heal all their ills. At that time the medical community was one that looked at the irises of people to determine illness. Checked the frequency of bowel movements and the state of the patients bowels and also administered colonic hydro-therapy for all that entered within for treatment. This was standard practice. Lets get this straight. Doctor's were working with iridology (the reading of the iris of the human eye) and cleansing colons to maximize health or cure illness. And the charlatans were selling drugs! My how the tables have turned. Who's the charlatan now?

When Well Meaning Friends And Family Try To Help!

A person takes on certain behavior when diagnoses with illness. They may awaken and use the illness to really get their health together once and for all. Or they may put their faith in all they know, which is the medical approach. I would like to pose a question: where is there a single shred of evidence that a person with matastasized or matastatic cancer (cancer which spreads form the primary source or location to another part of the body or organ system) has any chance of survival upon taking on chemotherapy, radiation and or surgery, as their method of treatment. There is none! Now, check this out. When a person comes to me with this illness and it is advanced. The first thing we do is address diet and get them on a regimen of colon cleansing, juicing and using the infrared sauna. Dietetically, we change them, rather rapidly, over to a vegan diet. We suggest lots of green leafy vegetables. We also suggest juicing thirty-two to forty-eight ounces of fresh green juice, everyday. As well as, wheat grass juice taken orally and through rectal implants. Both are very beneficial. We quite often suggest using something like Sun Chlorella or E3 Live! This program of green stuff and colon cleansing is toward one goal—to oxygenate the system of the patient. Chlorophyl is the blood of the plant. Hemoglobin and chlorophyl are almost identical, molecularly. (I've written this in the past, but it bares repeating for the explanation here.) When chlorophyl is consumed and enters the bloodstream—the body quickly and effortlessly converts the chlorophyl to hemoglobin. Which is the main constituent of the red-blood cell. It is the carrier of oxygen. Hemoglobin and oxygen are like long lost friends when they meet. They connect and don't let go till the hemoglobin delivers the oxygen to where it is needed. Then picks up the carbon dioxide and brings it back for expulsion. The more hemoglobin we build the better oxygen is absorbed in the body. Infrared light also increases the cells ability to absorb oxygen. So the better our red-blood cells are. The more oxygen is present in the blood.

What does all this mean? Cancer cannot live in an oxygenated environment. Cancer appears or strikes when the body is highly acidic, therefore low in oxygen. Well meaning friends and loved ones all think this is too risky or not enough. They are often scared and scare the patient into the hands of the doctor or butcher! The patient is scared into accepting that which very commonly devastates them and the family as they suffer through the most poisonous nonsense these "mad unscientists" have ever come up with. People that mean to help their friend or family member have no idea that they are assisting in shortening the life of the patient. This is a travesty of humanity! We have been lead to believe the very opposite of what will help the patient. This in a country where WAR=PEACE!

Well Meaning Professionals? Depends On Whom We Are Referring To!

Lets take a look at what happens in the hands of "so-called" experts. The patient is often diagnosed pre biopsy. They may have received an x-ray. The often haven't even had a cat-scan or MRI. Still, they are told the prognosis is not good. The doctors and nurses have no problem telling you that you're not in good health and this is serious. The first thing a person does when they're told they have stage-4 cancer is begin dying! They tell themselves, therefore every cell in their bodies—I'm dying. What's next is amazing. They are either hacked to pieces as the "brilliant surgeons" take vital organs, because they are so afflicted with this disease. Remember, the bigger the surgery—the bigger the paycheck. If they don't remove organs, the patient is put on a very aggressive chemo/radiation therapy. All of which are highly poisonous and debilitating beyond human comprehension. We have all seen what this barbaric, so-called therapy does to it's victims. Cancer patients are less victims of cancer and more victims of barbarism. The chemo destroys the cells, good and bad. It is highly acidic and robs the body of oxygen. Radiation, last I check CAUSES CANCER! No other comment is needed here. Now here's something that is so profoundly scary that it boggles any free thinking persons mind. The patient is told to bulk up on cheeseburgers, pasta, breads, etc. THE VERY (NON) FOOD THAT BROUGHT THEM TO THE ONCOLOGISTS OFFICE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! This "diet" is recommended so the patient doesn't get too thin! Do you believe this crap? Even then these numb-nuts don't get it. The patient is told to eat garbage, as they face a disease, which thrives on a body poisoned by those very foods. If the patient undergoes surgery and has major organ removal, there is often little or no hope.

What's Past Is Prologue—Here We Are!

The doctors, friends and family have you right where they want you. What they fail to see is they usher the patient to "deaths door." The laymen, friends and family are so scared to loose you, they bring you to the wolves in sheep's clothing! They deliver you to the very thing that will ensure a negative outcome and or massive suffering for the patient, family and friends. The doctor's response—"there are no guarantees!" Really? The truth is there is no logic to this insanity. There is nothing under the sun that will ever convince me or any free and independent thinking person that this crap does anything other than kill people. It's consistent with our overall philosophy in this country. The land of opposites. Our loved ones, our neighbors all applaud the courage of the patient for "putting up a good fight." This isn't a fight. This is when we should surrender to nature. Surrender to the fact that our way of life is not working. In light of a recent statistic—thirty percent of the population of the U.S. has cancer! Hmmmmm, I wonder who benefits from this devastating statistic? Could it be. . . SATAN? No, but close! It would be the pharmaceutical industry. So in the end, the doctors must back away. Your friends and family begin to accept this inevitable end, that they will lose you to his horrible disease. When all the while, there was something that could have helped them to heal or at least live longer with some quality, instead of being turned into a virtual zombie—pumped with chemo, steroids (for fattening the skinny cancer patient) and all the other toxic nonsense we call medicine.

And in the end, when all has failed and enormous amounts of money has been thrown away in the hopes of a "miracle," the well meaning friends and family members are standing over a hole in the earth, with tears streaming down their faces—throwing roses onto the fancy box of the final resting place of this poor victim of "well educated experts, who obviously know more than someone who is not a doctor!" Sorry for the darkness. This needed to be written. I hope this isn't too much. And yet I do. We all should be outraged by the rampant ignorance of this culture. Lets make a change!

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Taxing Addiction

2010-03-11T09:02:00.005-05:00

Pardon any typos! Enjoy!

I've been laying low with regards to my posts. Sometimes life gets in the way. I am working my way back to posting more regularly and have a lot to say, or write. There's a shocker!

Over the past weeks I've noticed yet another tactic being used in this country by our illustrious government. This technic is based on making money, of course. Here's their game: They monitor the public and record the habits of the people. The lobbyists in Washington see to it that business is done in this country and tobacco lobby is hard at work all the time, making sure the people get what they want. What they deserve. What is their God given right! In light of recent so-called attempts to reduce the amount of smokers in this country, the government has imposed a heavy tax on cigarettes. This will help people to stop smoking? No! Smokers are addicted to that drug and will do what they have to, in order to obtain the very thing that relaxes them, soothes their nerves, reduces anxiety and helps them to focus better. This of course is the way the effects of cigarette smoking is explained. As if it's not really just satisfying addiction. The chemical loosens up in the body and begins to release from the tissue and organs, such as the liver, when the drug isn't continually administered to the body. Most of what people think is stress is really the smoker needing another fix. We've seen a fairly large reduction in the number of people that smoke. However, there are always new kids picking-up the habit, therefore new customers, everyday.

The Government Lends A Helping Hand?

It's an old game played by many less than honest people. Pimps play this game with the girls that work for them. The girls are often supplied for free certain drugs, which are highly addicting. The girl gets hooked and now needs the drug. The pimp in turn says he can't keep supplying her habit. Of course she had no self control! Right? Well, kind of. We are creatures of HABIT. We don't need much to lead us to places that don't really serve us. Where pleasure is concerned, people do crazy things. Once we are hooked on a substance, be it drugs, alcohol, food or sex, we make the means to reach an end. The government is no different than a common pimp. They watch the population and where they spend their money. They create the means for the customers to purchase, rather cheaply, the substances they need. They practically give the stuff away. Then, once you're hooked, the government becomes "concerned" about your health. Oh yeah? Is that so? Believe that one and you're in for a surprise. This is what they did with cigarettes. They gave the cancer sticks away for years from five cents a pack in the early days to seventy-five cents a pack, in the seventies. The price slowly increased. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the price increased from two dollars a pack to like four dollars and fifty cents a pack. That was many years ago. The other day I was in the deli buying water (another natural resource being raped by our government) and noticed that a certain brand of cigarettes was ON SALE for ten dollars a pack! See? Get them hooked, then increase the price, exponentially. Most people will find a way.

How's That Taste? Don't Listen To Anyone. It's Good For You!

Here we find ourselves hooked on strange products now called food. Chips, dips, candy bars, donuts, cake, cookies SODA, ice cream, pizza, bagels. The list goes on and on. What has your government decided to do? Tax your junk food, just like they did your cigarettes. They are imposing high taxes on things like soda and junk food. This will deter people! What fools. Our government is too stupid to see a very simple point. For the enormous amounts of money made from these illegal, unjustified tariffs, we only tax our economy in other ways. There is more strain put on our insurance companies to try to save the public from deteriorating from all the garbage they eat and the cigarettes they smoke. We live in a country run by thugs and pimps. It is disgraceful. There is no truth coming from our government. They were never honest. The difference now is all restrictions and laws protecting the people from its government are disappearing and being replaced with "programs" designed to help people to improve their lives. Just another lie. We sew peoples stomachs into one ounce pouches in order to dissuade people from eating this garbage. And still they find a way. Why not? There are many companies that produce "healthy" junk. These products come in the form of fat-free, sugar-free, non-foods. Face it. There is no such thing as healthy cookies, cake or ice cream. Just a marketing technic designed to give us the pleasures we want without all the nastiness. That's another lie. Cookies are cookies. Sugar for the most part, when mixed with flour makes beer in the stomach. Fermentation. That's that. No difference between an oreo or a healthy version, using better ingredients. Sugar, no matter what the source is will ferment grain, no matter what the source of state of the grain or flour is in!

Junk Is Junk!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HEALTHY JUNK FOOD. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HELPING PEOPLE BY RAISING THE PRICES OF THE SUBSTANCES THEY ARE ADDICTED TO. People will always find a way. If the government really cared, they would see to it that junk food wasn't as available everywhere. They wouldn't allow the Taco Bells, McDonald's, Burger Kings, Wendy's, Roy Rogers, Perkins, etc., to infest this beautiful country and homogenize every damn city in this great union! Remember when you went to somewhere and it was totally different from your home town. Maybe, maybe not. Every city is starting to look the same and the people in it are all getting fatter and sicker. The only advancement medical science has come up with is—how to keep the obese, sickly people alive long enough to take all their money, in the hopes of becoming healthy again. If anyone really cared, real information, like the stuff I post, would be discussed. Watch Real Time With Bill Maher, he sings the same song. Stop pumping everyone with so called antidotes. Pump people with truth. Help them to become Independently Healthy!

Be well,

Tom DeVito

When Chicken Little Cries Wolf

2010-03-03T09:37:00.004-05:00

I apologize in advance for any typos. Not enough time to "edit." Yes, I know. My posts are never really edited. Still, I hope this post is helpful as well as enjoyable. Tom

With each passing day. We hear about the so-called "medical advancements." We don't see much in the way of anything new and less invasive or outright dangerous. What I believe is happening is actually a prediction made by an M. D. in the very early nineteen-hundreds. Dr. Tyrell wrote a book called "The Royal Road To Health." The book is based on the health and functionality of the colon. Not medicine. In fact, the author/doctor was vehemently opposed to medicine being passed off as a method of healing. As I've mentioned in previous posts, he believed medicine does nothing more than poison the body chemically and force a change or create a new illness. This creates the illusion of one illness healing. Then a few months later a new illness develops and the doctor actually doesn't realize he's poisoned you! For some, doctor's can create some magical formula for a chemical cocktail that somehow keeps people from dying. This is only possible if the person is strong enough and the poison isn't too great. Still, slowly but surely, the patient is being poisoned to death.

Give It A Name!

I believe doctor's are beginning to see this. It is an unavoidable truth if one's quest is truth, through science. Unfortunately the wonderful world of medicine, like many businesses, exploded and became an industry, so to speak. Which means, supply and demand is at the foundation of the "medical business model." Doctor's are recognizing, as their patients seek alternative health, that perhaps there is something there worth investigation. It's called, if I may give it a name, 'the origins of medicine!" More and more I hear from clients that their doctor recommended colonic therapy or at least doesn't denounce it as if it were cavorting with the devil himself! Still, how can the "medical industry" survive? How can it still generate billions of dollars? Create panic and fear in the hearts and minds of their innocent patients! That's how. "The sky is falling. The sky is falling." "Doctors say things like, I see something that concerns me. I want you to go for these tests." Or they may suggest you see a specialist. What is really happening is commerce. Plain and simple. More business. People are starting to really catch on as the good doctor Tyrell predicted one-hundred and three years ago! He believed, emphatically, that people will realize that medicine is poison and will demand change. Well, it may have taken more time than he thought, but it is finally happening. Someday, I hope the pharmaceutical industry will be reduced to an adjunct department of "emergency medical care." The last resort! When all else fails!

Who Cried Wolf?

A dear friend of mine was told by more than one doctor that the cancer they detected is far advanced and major surgery and of course, chemo and radiation, etc., is her only option. Within two weeks, they changed their story to "it may only be this or that." Oddly enough, no medical person has actually given this woman an "official diagnosis." That is still pending. She hasn't even been given a cat-scan or MRI! Are doctor's that good now that they don't need actual proof before opening their mouths. Some doctor's really say a lot, yet have a shallow well from which to draw. Still, the fear of mortality will drive anyone to do anything. The sad thing is that most people put their faith in people that are so blinded by the industry that they miss the point, entirely. They actually still believe that cancer thrives on oxygen. Or that it is a mystery why cancer spreads so fast after surgery. Here's an idea: Maybe, just maybe major surgery takes a person's energy way down. Why? Organs were removed. Or just simply a person needs a lot of energy just to heal the massive wounds inflicted on them from the surgery. Hello! If it were a knife instead of a scalpel, we'd call it an attack and call the incisions wounds. Instead, because we are talking about surgery, we call the wounds incisions. Come on! These are doctor's and they don't realize a person's vitality drops as a result of the surgery itself. And lets not forget anesthesia and pain killers administered both for the surgery and post-op. Hello! Oxygen??? Truly, the collective medical practice needs a few cc's of logic. A little less dogmatic/fictitious babble and more sensible, logical, independent, critical thinking is desperately in need.

Let Simplicity Lead The Way

Another friend who was essentially made ill by pure butchery, took some advice and changed her diet entirely to, get this, FOOD! She cut out flour, dairy, eggs, alcohol, soda, etc. She lost twenty-five pounds and is off all her meds! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! (Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooner." People, once again I will write the words I once didn't really get. "DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE! You don't need medicine to be healthy. In fact, I guarantee, with diet or lifestyle change, we can all be 'Independently Healthy!" Now is the time. Today is just another now. Another opportunity to make a change and improve your health. Empty your medicine cabinets. Fill your pantry and fridge with fresh, organic produce. Juice! Eat leafy greens, fruits and vegetables. Cleanse your bowels. Jump on a rebounder. Laugh. Enjoy the only thing we have which is life in the now. Live fully. Remember this. We cannot live fully if we're full of shit!

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Life Is Relative!

2010-02-23T09:14:00.006-05:00

Substitute foods really come in handy when we are transitioning from the standard American diet to a more healthy, whole foods-based, cleansing diet. What is a substitute food? Rice milk to dairy milk. Is rice milk optimum or even food? No. Is it less toxic and clogging than regular milk. Yes. So for people transitioning, even when ill, this is a better approach than either going hard-core and changing radically. Improving each day with subtle changes like this, will help. Little by little we poison the tissue less. I haven't had rice milk in many years. Relatively speaking, rice milk is too toxic for me. There are oils in rice milk that aren't great. Still it is better than pasteurized cows milk. The important thing to remember is health is relative. If steak and potatoes was a typical meal for you, or worse, ham/salami & swiss on a roll with mayo! Some baked chicken breast with sauteed vegetables is a great meal. Is the chicken and veggies healthy? Well, it is a healthier meal than the two previously mentioned. The most important thing to remember is this; don't get stuck! Nothing in life is permanent. Go with the flow. Allow the natural ascension of your diet to occur. Which means, if you begin to not crave one of the newer transition foods you've been eating for a few months, perhaps there is something else you can eat that is a naturally occurring food. I would venture to say that even commercial chicken would be a better idea than eating hot dogs! You see, it's all about relativity.

Thought Creates Action

I know that "healthy eating" is not at the forefront of everyone's mind. However, in order to truly effect change in this country, to try to support this fading economy, to change the tides of health practices in this country, we should at least take a peek at some of the alternatives. We know that soy isn't a great alternative, yet a little tofu here and there isn't a bad transition food. We also know that most of the mock foods offered at health food stores and vegetarian restaurants are not the healthiest food, yet they are far better than a burger with cheese and fries! I never could have made the transition to a vegan diet were it were not for some of these foods. How I learned what was best for me was to pay attention to my stomach and my bowel movements. If things didn't feel right or didn't make it out the other end, I generally considered the experiment to have had negative results. To learn from the diet is all we can do. Do I believe apples, lettuce, avocado, melon, grapes, papaya, etc., are perfect foods? Of course I do. Will those foods feel the same in everybody's bellies? NO! Remember, more than any other factor—the environment of a persons stomach and digestive and eliminative organs will react either positively or negatively to any given food. Meat to someone eating it for years feels better than grapes. It's a matter of PH. If a healthy whole fruit or vegetable bloats you or creates other uncomfortable reactions, you can believe you need to cleanse the bowels and take the process of detoxification to the next level. I am not speaking about allergic reactions, which are quite specific—bloating is not an allergic reaction. All digestive issues are based on environment and the general vitality of the person. Allergies to foods involve break-outs, throat restrictions, anaphylactic shock, or internal inflammation, and so on. Not discomfort or inability to digest broccoli!

It's Just A Crutch!

When we break a leg or an arm, the doctor puts a cast on the broken bone and suggests we use a cane for a broken leg or a sling for a broken arm. Both the cast and the sling are temporary aids. Used until we no longer need them. Sometimes we need a wheelchair because the condition or injury is of a greater severity. Depending on a persons history they may use crutches till they can work the new cleansing diet on their own. Some may need a wheelchair for which to heal at a greater depth. All relative. Once detoxified, you will be well. It could take a long time, for some, years. Compare that to a life of misery as you get bounced from doctor to doctor, drug to drug, procedure to procedure, test to test! Hell no! Not for me. I stopped that roller-coaster/merry-go-round head trip, a long time ago. Even drugs used to heal an illness can be seen as a crutch, until a better way comes along. Like natural healing! The best way to achieve independent health is to not depend on anything other than natural foods and a natural approach to detoxification.

To heal the human body of it's historical damages, we only need to gently and slowly improve upon the quality of our fuel. Little by little, everyday. As we ascend to a higher quality food, our bodies will begin to move similarly. However, as you know by now, the drudging up of old waste product in our bodies opens a "can of worms." Make friends with this process and know that it is going to get easier and better. Remember this too, if you've made dietary changes but haven't taken on colon cleansing and you're not feeling well, change what you are doing and incorporate colon cleansing into this program. Can't win the lottery without first purchasing a ticket. Step-up! Make some changes. Don't rely on your doctor. Don't rely on your personal trainer. Rely on yourself! Feel free to comment on these posts. Ask questions. I will be glad to help. Seek knowledgeable people who speak the same language. Meaning, they believe in removing the old while changing the diet to a new cleansing diet. Life is relative and nothing, absolutely nothing is permanent. Enjoy the moment. Live fully. Be thankful.

Be well.

Tom DeVito

I'm So Tired

2010-02-22T08:42:00.007-05:00

I'm So Tired, I'm feeling so upset, although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette, and curse Sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid get! —John Lennon, The Beatles

I am so tired of hearing the same thing over and over. Everywhere I turn, someone else has been diagnosed with some deadly disease. More and more, I hear people being diagnosed with cancer. There are more ribbon wearing organizations and money draining research, researching the same dead-end street. A note to our scientists: Stop looking at the same mystery with the same stupid solutions. THERE IS NO WAY TO HEAL PEOPLE WITH POISON. POSTPONEMENT OF DEATH IS ALL YOU WILL EVER ACCOMPLISH. Put down the poison. Read the opinions of the doctors that have come before you and preached to a very small audience, MANY YEARS AGO. Both the believers and the preachers were laughed at and called quacks. Quack this! Enough of the same stupid method of operation in this country. We defend that which does not work. We also ridicule that which does!!!! We keep trying to make the square wheel roll. This will never happen. Cancer can never and will never be cured. It's like trying to stop the rain from falling from the sky. All that can be done in the interest of health is this: Stop beating the drum that brings commerce and no results. Start playing the game differently. Money can be made so many ways. Once people achieve "Independent Health" there won't be such a drain on our economic system. Instead of poisoning a sick body, lets try nurturing and nourishing sick people. What a novel concept!

Black Is Black

There is only one way to look at this. Information is easily manipulated and interpreted in many ways. To suit many agendas. But truth is truth. There is no way to see black as anything other than black. Black is black. It will never be white. Poison is poison and will never be anything but. No health can come from poison. Only a slight postponement of death will be the result. Of course we all have to die and will. I believe there is a way to live disease free. I believe there is a way to do this without the aid of medicine. Join me! I live outside the circle or cycle of drugs/poison for health. To douse our illnesses in poison for quick relief is like feeding your baby a Twizzler when hungry, just to "hold them over." But never feeding the baby real food for nourishment. This is how we heal? To heal cancer. To stop it from progressing and killing the host, we must cease all poison and douse the body in alkalinity. Green juice, green vegetables, lots of bowel cleansing. Lots of laughter. Lots of chlorophyll, in usable form. (No Spirulina!) Healthy eating. Good positive thoughts. Living in the NOW! Rinse and repeat!

A Personal Note

I just found out a dear friend has been diagnosed with this horrid disease. The disease that should say to us all; something isn't working for we humans. Why is no other species on this planet effected with this disease, like we are? Because all the other creatures live as part of nature. Meaning, they do nothing artificial if they can help it. Only when we jump in and "help" them do they live artificially. This friend I am referring to just found out they have cancer and that it is advanced. Yet again, I find myself wanting to help but knowing that all I can do is hope she seeks alternative methods rather than the "accepted, standard approach." I feel anger and frustration around this topic because lives are lost in the name of commerce. Health care? ENOUGH already. Stop calling it health care when it's really "finance care." When are we going to SEE this. When will we recognize that no matter how you package shit, it will always be shit! No words, marketing, packaging, advertising will ever change the fact that our methods of healing kill us as quickly and in some cases quicker than the diseases we claim to be attempting to heal. Revolution is needed. Peaceful revolution. Like me, revolt against the practice of "hey try this, it's never really worked in the past, but maybe this time it will. . . " Try instead, being a part of nature. Try to live free of the grips of industrialized medicine and seek independent health. I'm hear to help. I want to help usher in this new and positive approach to health—by simply stopping that which does not work. Which, of course includes MEDICINE. Peace & love to you all. My thoughts and hopes are with my friend, her family and her loved ones.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Intuition Vs. Nutrition!

2010-02-13T11:23:00.005-05:00

There is a common ground shared by the following vocations: Nutritionists, Dietitians, Doctors, Personal Trainers, Health Coaches, and so on. All believe that health is achieved by eating foods or combinations of foods, which are nutritionally balanced. Providing maximum support to the processes which maintain life. This theory gives not one thought to the residual effects of any given food, as it acts on the human organism. This explains the misunderstanding and exaggeration of certain foods as super-foods. Like oats. Oatmeal is considered the most perfect food. Especially if you've suffered a heart attack. You are advised to eat oatmeal as a protective, health providing food. All based on nutritional components found in this so-called super food.

Same Old Song

The human body reacts to every single substance that enters within. When this occurs, our body reacts in subtle or overt ways, depending on the chemical makeup of the substance. The physical response of our digestive system to a super-food such as oatmeal seems quite subtle, especially if the person eating it has eaten this way for many years. As we consume acidic food repeatedly, we simply create more and more mucus, which lines the tissue and impedes healthy function. One of the worst substances our body produces, is mucus. And yet its purpose is to protect. Mucus is one of the most misunderstood substances created by the human body—second only to GAS! Mucus contains no oxygen. Mucus is highly acidic, therefore poisonous to our tissue. It impedes the function of whatever organ it develops in. It dulls the vitality of the body when its presence becomes too much for us to maintain. Colds and most flu's are the result of too much mucus in the body. As I've said before, Influenza is something of a different nature than what is so easily diagnosed as a "flu." Not to beat a dead horse, but for an industry to survive and thrive to the level the medical "industry" has, there must be a steady and ever-growing dynamic of supply and demand, feeding the many different aspects of that machine. When a cold is suppressed the mucus is held within or prevented from being naturally expelled. The opposite function of the cold! The purpose of the cold is to raise the vitality by detoxifying the host of and overgrowth of this protective matter, which coincidentally is a highly poisonous substance. Just another example of a backwards or opposite explanation of a misunderstood component of health and sickness. The only acceptable version of a cold medicine I could imagine would be one that increases the activity of the cold, not suppresses it.

Should We Eat What We Are?

The results of nutrition based thinking or supplement theory is flawed and comes from a very fractionalized way of thinking. That by putting in the body through food or vitamin pills, health is attained. Because certain substances found in the body contribute to good health, we believe our food must be rich in those substances in order for us to maintain health. We are made up of almost all protein. Even though the body is seventy percent water, the tissue, bones, etc. are all composed of various kinds of proteins, all brought to every body through DNA. But that's for another post. We think because the human body is composed of protein, we should eat foods high in protein. When we consume animal protein, our liver is heavily taxed. As well as the entire system. This food is of the most sluggish and toxic of natural whole-foods. In digestion, the body has to dismantle the "concentrated protein." We are not amino-acids. All flesh is protein. Protein is composed of amino-acids. But flesh is the "realization" of those specific DNA strands. The information of the specific proteins, which are expressed as flesh are then protein. Think of concrete powder without water. Mix the two together and you have a result. A mixture that hardens and becomes cement. Amino acids are not necessarily always protein. But the building blocks. The human body is a chemical factory, so to speak. Our bodies do things without any input or conscious awareness from us. Functions so important and so minute that it boggles the mind when we try to consider the multitude of information needed for a simple and involuntary function like one of these involuntary functions—blood circulation, breathing or beating of the heart.

A Law Of Averages?

We can temporarily bolster the bloodstream with so-called healthy vitamins and minerals or eat super foods like oatmeal and broccoli or steak. Or whatever nonsensical ramblings the next "wonder" from "TV Land" comes up with. What everyone seems to completely ignore or almost not want to face is this. Oatmeal isn't a, natural whole food. It is a processed version of the oat grain. Raw oats are oats but cooked oats are not oats. The molecular structure is now different. It's now cooked oats. Broccoli can only be thought of as healthy when it is unprocessed or uncooked. Once heated, it is no longer natural broccoli. The molecular sequence or structure has been altered. I believe broccoli needs to be cooked well in order to be digestible. Just don't think it's important for your health. If you like it, eat it. The bloodstream remains consistently healthy and clean based on diet and activity. Health is about how we feel a lot more than the numbers. Besides, we are judged against an average result based on an overweight culture subsisting on processed foods. How does this determine real health.

Leave Your Surroundings Cleaner Than How You Found Them

A good concept to consider. . .

Changing the nature of a food through cooking is completely overlooked by the very people who base their entire theory on our need for nutritious elements from food to be healthy. The scientific fact that once a food is cooked everything about that food is different never enters the discussion. All food is augmented through the cooking process. Some foods, such as starch based foods need to heated in order to be consumed. The basis for my belief that all foods which need a process to happen in order for that food to be eaten, cannot be a natural food for humankind. The foundation of the theory of nutrition is based on the pristine nature of the so-called nutrients necessary for optimum human health. But, once cooked, the chemical change to the nutrients of all food is great. The vitality or life-force-energy is extinguished upon prolonged exposure to heat. Even raw foods lose this energy or life hours after they've been cut from the ground or tree. Yet much of the beneficial aspects of whole, raw foods are more or less unchanged. These plant based foods not only DO NOT leave behind a poisonous residue, they cleans up old residue from the pas. Nature is perfect. Think of early humankind. Hunting and gathering from almost the very beginning of our existence. Making a kill happened infrequently. Meat was the meal once every four weeks or so. In between the meals of raw, unprocessed flesh, we ate leaves, fruits, berries, some nuts and seeds. Clearing the resultant mucus and residue, which is present in the human body when taking animal flesh. Clearing the way of refuse for the next kill.

Every Action Has A Reaction—Except In Our Bodies?

We didn't see a separation between us and nature. Now it seems like we do see ourselves as separate, or perhaps above it all. We are just as natural as an bird or a fish. Yet no animal in nature relies on any science other than the innate science which drives all life. The inexplainable energy that fuels our bodies to "run." To breathe, pump blood and do all the "things" our bodies do, just to keep us alive. Think of this. Every single thing that enters our bodies affects us and creates a reaction. Even when we hold on to a subtle amount of waste in our digestive and elimination systems, our body is expending energy to maintain that situation. Be it gas, mucus or crap. All are poisonous and all, in varying degrees will block the body's natural ability to create and distribute all the necessary elements for our thriving survival. Therefore, we become exhausted over time repeating the same habits each day. Never putting two and two together. Then something happens. An illness strikes or you doctor says something one day and you realize, "I'm not really taking care of this machine at all!" You realize if you were a car you would have stopped running years ago. And why not? You never even once had you damn oil changed! When was the last time you had a tune-up? You get the point. We create the state or performance of our body through the fueling process. Obviously, DNA creates our body. DNA is not etched in stone or inalterable. Just because I was born with a predisposition or weakness in my neurological system and "Grand mal seizures were the result, doesn't mean permanence. When I lived in a way that was completely incongruous to health, poisoning my bloodstream in many ways, I needed to be medicated. To avoid suffering more seizures, risking brain damage. I changed how I ate and lived differently. And soon my need for medication (the illusion of healing) disappeared.

Two Sides To Every Story

Some would argue that I altered my genetic code. To make such a statement I want you to know this: I understand the enormity of DNA. I am not suggesting that I've altered the same coding that would determine species, of course. Just subtle changes which can determine strength or weakness in function—not structure. I now live free of all illness since becoming vegan, fifteen years ago. I've been free of my "seizure-disorder" for nineteen years. I also suffered from Allergies to everything air-born, seasonal, animal related, etc. I suffer from nothing today. Oh, don't let me forget, I gave up my daily practice of consuming countless vitamin pills and magic shakes for my health, right around the same I began to discover a simpler more logical approach to health. You decide. Oh, remember this? "Take care of the organs below the belly-button and the organs above will take care of themselves." Hippocrates—our first physician. We must consider the entire journey our food takes when we consider its health benefits or detractors. I'm sure there are things packed with vitamins or minerals that also contain overt poisons that we know and avoid. Why then is it okay to take in super-nutritious foods that are subtly poisonous. Devitalizing us over years of repeated use. Striving for health, many of us unknowingly achieve the opposite. Change your course. Steer your boat toward logical health. Not some scientific mumbo-jumbo that only the human species needs to be healthy.

The Super Sized People Parade Or The Fiction Of Indulgence

2010-02-11T08:32:00.010-05:00

I was shopping at Modell's the other day. I was there to find sweats for the winter and some socks, etc. As I was raking through the racks of sweat clothes I was once again reminded of the fact that I am part of the great minority. An oxymoron, I know. Not just as a vegan, raw food type, but as a person that is not SUPER SIZED! It was difficult to find mediums or even large sizes. I like my sweats baggy. Still the new medium is large so large has become extra-large. Searching for medium sized clothes, especially in the underwear section, is a real challenge. I had to walk over a sales woman and asked her if manufacturers still make small, medium and large? She kind of chuckled and said "yeah, ya just have to look a little harder. She said that the smaller sizes sell faster. This doesn't make any sense! If the store has lots of extra-extra-large sizes and fewer "normal" sizes, due to the fact that the public waist line has increased—then the store should have in-stock, lots of smaller sizes with all the larger sizes sold-out! I was confused by the logic used to answer this question. The reality is that our clothing sizes have changed without people realizing it. I guess this helps people to believe they are NOT expanding when in reality they are! If people don't think they're getting fat, they'll continue to eat, therefore BUY MORE FOOD! As I pointed out in yesterday's post, it is NOT NORMAL to expand, just because you are getting older. It is not normal to have symptoms of old age at forty.

The Food Here Is Terrible. . .

And the servings are way too small. . . (a line from "Annie Hall" A Woody Allen film.)

We live with this contrast. We may not be crazy about what we eat all the time, yet we still want a lot of it!

We are rapidly becoming "Super-Sized" people. We all need to stop making excuses for our fatness. Fatness is not something we should love. Loving ourselves while being fat is exactly what we should be doing. But being overweight should not be treated as an arrival or a destination where we remain. Some of us don't realize we've put on that much weight because it happens slowly and gradually, and clothing sizes are changing to assist our expansion. Imagine if one day you woke up and were forty pounds heavier than you were yesterday. You'd really feel it. As opposed to waking up one day and saying, "I just feel so sluggish and weighed-down." This process has been going on all your life. During your youth your bodily functions were taxed and called upon to bail you out of many indulgences. From so-called celebrations, which include alcohol, to vacations on cruise ships. Cruise ships should be renamed to vomitoriums! Feeding troughs! There is literally no time of the day or night when a person cannot find a plentiful meal on a cruise ship. Now, once a person acknowledges their excess weight, it is time to do something about it. Once our youth is over, the results are in. We're bigger. Simple. The number one most important aspect of weight-loss is not exercise! IT IS DIET CHANGE! Change what you eat, drop some weight, then begin your exercise PROGRAM. Love yourself the whole time. Just don't accept being fat as a natural component of getting old. That's outright bullshit! I weigh less now than I did the day I started high-school! And that was nineteen seventy-six! Don't believe your television set. It will kill you. Not the TV but the slime which oozes all over your mind as you watch the perpetual fiction which streams through your fancy LCD, twenty-four hours a day. I love my LCD flat screen. Yet I know that mostly everything coming through that poisonous screen is nonsense.

I Am The Slime. . . (Frank Zappa—from his song of the same title)

Don't believe the ads on TV. Don't believe Dr. Phil, he's fat! I know, that's mean, right? Is it? Political correctness is mind control. Control the language of people and you control their thinking, therefore their acts. Funny how the people most deeply racist come up with a sanitized language. I think its more so we speak sanitized words. Doesn't seem to do much FOR the general feelings of people around race in this country. Political correctness has done nothing to change racism in this world, one iota! PC language for bigots are putting speed bumps on the streets in front of elementary schools. Really? People need to be controlled and forced to drive safely around small children? Well, we seek lap-band surgery and gastric-bypass surgery, to eat less. I think it was Dennis Miller, before he became a psychopathic, right-wing, unfunny, nut bag who said: gastric bypass surgery for fat people is like sewing shut the nostrils of a cocaine addict to stop them from using the drug. Very funny. Yet true. We don't need this crap. We need real information. We need to study the human diet. Not the American Whey! If peoples daily routines consisted of healthy habits, we'd be having very different discussions about our economy, our healthcare system. Which are intrinsically tied together. Things would be very different in this country and therefore the world.

Don't Judge A Food By It's Cover!

In a nation where people believe that most of what we eat is not only food but healthy food is alarming, to say the least. We live in a country where industry rules. Where servings of meals grow larger every year, while the rest of the third-world nations continue to starve. Our belt sizes increase. We buy tents for clothes. We eat fat-free garbage. WE EAT CHEMICALS IN THE HOPES OF ONE DAY BEING BEAUTIFUL AGAIN. As we eat more and grow larger so does the number of starving people in poverty stricken countries. What kind of insanity has come over us, people? We are a nation of overweight people. That's a fact. We are indulgent. We justify our illnesses with stupidity like this: "I don't care, I'd rather die than live without chocolate." And die you will. This is a selfish act, perhaps. It is also similar to someone addicted to drugs. Except these drugs taste really good but feel really bad. Listen, judge this book by its cover. If it's packaged and has catchy slogans telling you how great it is, don't eat it! You never see anything on an apple trying to sell you on what it is or what it can do for you. All produce should have signs which say: HUMAN FOOD! But human food doesn't feel right for most people. It feels strange and unsettling. Unsatisfying. Why? Here's why. The human body becomes used to poison and doesn't even notice it's presence. In-fact, it only registers the absence of poison, once the environment within has changed over to a toxic one. Meaning, when the flow of poison is slowed or stopped, you can bet your body will respond. Depending on the poison, an illness will show itself. One word is all we need here. TRANSITION. Slowly including more whole foods will help you on your journey toward health. Soon the healthy foods will not only feel better but you will actually taste them and enjoy them. Try giving a heroin addict a Tylenol with codeine. That's like an elephant feeling a mosquito bite! Slowly, but surely.

Your Body Has Been Hijacked By Corporate America!

Allow yourself to return to yourself. Your body has been hijacked by Corporate America! Take it back! Take your power back. Your health. Your health is not only your responsibility, it is your choice! Dr. Ted Mortor wrote a great book, years ago, called—"Your Health, Your Choice!" That is a truth. Your health is your choice. No more excuses. No more justifications. No more celebrations that poison you for three days. That's for teenagers. I was leaving Release the other night. It was a Monday night. There's a bar right down the street that I walk passed, on my way to my car. It's one of several bars in the neighborhood. Outside, smoking cigarettes, was a man and a woman. The woman was passionately expressing to the man something that seemed very heavy, "no, you don't understand, this is important to me." That's all I heard. She slurred her words, her eyes were glazed over and practically crossed from her evening of imbibing. It's monday night before nine o'clock! I thought, what are adults doing in bars on a monday night, getting hammered. Shouldn't they be home, blah, blah, blah. The woman had a gripe about something. And I'm thinking, go home! That should be important. Not some dramatic, drunken nonsense. I guess I feel that people waste their time seeking happiness where it is not. Bars are not where happiness lives. It lives in our hearts, when we're not intoxicated. Then I realized something. Life isn't for everyone how it is for me. I don't know what pain that woman might be in. What may have happened in her life. So who am I to judge. I know this, though. The answers to life's greatest challenges will never be found in a bar or just outside during a cigarette break. We can decrease our suffering, when we decrease that which perpetuates our suffering. Eating garbage, drinking booze, taking drugs, all work for the moment—to ease the pain of life, for a few hours. But these actions have a fallout effect. The fallout is toxic waste. Except this toxic waste is not only physical. What I'm talking about permeates our beings. Our thinking. Our perception. Our outlook on life is clouded by our choice to "live under the veil of the fiction" or the "fiction of indulgence," being our God given right. Join reality. When we decrease our poisonous intake we achieve so much. Eat healthy—think healthy—and you will feel healthy. Believe you can be healthy. YOU CAN! It is your choice.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Under The Influence

2010-02-10T09:57:00.008-05:00

As the world outside slowly transforms into a black and white sketch. The dark grey sky sits low and heavy as though it's about to fall. Soon we will be blanketed in white. Under the cold of winter. Preserved and frozen. I often think of this planet and how it keeps restoring and renewing itself. The earth isn't alive like an organism. Yet it mirrors life. Over the billions of years of this planets existence, the landscape has changed many times. As volcanos erupt land increases. With earthquakes land is ingested by the earth and recycled. The surface of the planet is constantly under a barrage of eroding elements. The suns radiation, water, the weather and natural disasters. Tornados and hurricanes often destroy substantial portions of land. The earth seems to function like a life form. Sometimes accumulating and other times loosing land. Its as though the earth cleanses itself.

Ahoy Mate!

Seventy percent of the planet is water. This is true of human beings, as well. To be exact, the earth consists of three hundred and twenty six, million trillion gallons. Just to be clear—a billion is a thousand millions. A trillion is a thousand billions. These numbers are far too large for our minds to comprehend. Planet earth is one finely-tuned, smooth running machine. It is we that give it grief and create lots of things and that makes lots of junk. Of course the planet goes through its own cycles and processes, but we bring toxicity to our home. We create poisons for progress. Compounds which take thousands of years to breakdown. Leaving a foul, toxic waste or residue behind. Contributing to the demise of life which inhabits this earth. As the great George Carlin said: "The earth is just going to shake us off like a bad habit. Like a biological mistake and restore itself back to normal." (This is not a real quote. Just using quotes to show the paraphrase) It is believed by scientists that in about one-hundred years the earth would completely restore itself, as though WE were never here.

Do You Do That In Your House?

We can discuss many aspects of our origins, but for the purpose of this point, lets just stick to the physical plane. We grew out of this planet. Bacteria inhabited all of earth for almost four-billion years before any visible life appeared. We humans are here for seventy to one-hundred thousand years. Yet we are a destructive bunch. We not only take other peoples lives, we mistreat our animals and don't show much respect for our "mother." Our houses shelter us from days like today (Inclement weather). Our home is our sanctuary. The place we visit when we're not busy running things. Imagine treating our houses and apartments like we treat our earth. Our home. We bomb our earth to kill people! This is total insanity. There is no justification for that. Our ability to hurt our home and therefore ourselves is clearly repeated on a more personal level where lifestyle is concerned. We willingly poison our bodies and justify the reason for doing it. We do things that are obviously damaging and provide good reasons for living how we do. Due to our ingesting of poisons organic and not, there as been a slow diminishing of vitality throughout the human race—we have become accustomed to living with the proverbial "thorn in our foot." We live with discomfort and hardly recognize it as such. We explain it away by attributing things to old injuries or aging. We accept premature breakdown. We believe in the story we've been told. A tale of fiction based on capitalism. Of course medicine plays an important role in the system. I agree with that whole heartedly. Conceptually, though. I do not believe in the poison we trade on the stock market that we call medicine. I'm referring to substances that exist and are used as health and healing aids—rather than the economy builders we are indoctrinating the human race with.

Black Is The New White

We justify war for peace. We justify outright thievery in support of capitalism. We limit our freedom so we can be free. We poison ourselves when we celebrate. Some of us insult our children and say its for their own good. Some even raise their hands and strike their children claiming the same thing. Why live this way. As if our parents were right? Nothing against them—they mostly made it up as they went. They took the terrible job their parents did and reenacted their experience on you with some new twists. Have we become so numb to the simplicity and beauty of life that we need constant stimulation? Is that why our society is obsessed with sex the way it is? Nothing against sex. It's a wonderful thing. But we seem to have really lost our way. Women augment their bodies to satisfy the twisted desires of a creature who lives through a tainted perception. This from the poisonous results of his chosen way of life. How are gigantic fake boobs attractive to a healthy man? Maybe all that hormone infused meat and beer has made men into supermen? We have traded the grotesque and distorted for natural beauty. All illusion.

Here Comes The Sun

I don't know why I think this, but I believe the human race is going through a natural collective process of purification. Much like the earth renews and restores itself. Now is the time. Now is the time to shed the layers of the past. Shed your toxic refuse and allow your body to be restored to a more accurate version of itself. Allow your body to be vibrantly healthy. Allow the process to happen. Ride this evolutionary wave. I'm trying to say the species is augmenting itself to another category. But, I do think for human life to continue successfully on this planet, we all are going to have to become leaner and stronger. Our perception won't change unless we change internally. We think through the distorting effects of toxicity. We operate on polluted fuel. We grow polluted food. We apply poisonous chemicals to our foods in order to improve them. Wrap your head around that one! We cannot make proper positive decisions while under the influence of poison. We are a drunk species. Auto-intoxicating at every turn. We shrug it off with false bravado and then one day, it happens. The stroke. The heart attack. Cancer. If we survive the sudden visit of mortality, we might change how we live and use it as a wake-up call. Or we may succumb.

"Seasons will pass you by. I get up. I get down. (Jon Anderson—Close To The Edge-Yes)

Most of us believe that that's life. We say "what can you do?" One thing we can do is make better choices. I've said that before. We can change our genetic code with enough consistent clean living. Undo so called inherited weaknesses. Don't wait till you've run out of road. Like in cartoons when the character runs off the cliff. Bring your attention to your health. Be SELF centered. SELFish! What the hell else should you be? Just change the connotation of those terms for yourself. Give them positive meanings. The seasons will help you prepare for renewal. As the seasons change so does our inner ecology. We are in perfect harmony with nature because we are nature. Go with the flow. Enjoy life and live fully.

Be well.

Tom DeVito

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!

2010-02-07T10:06:00.005-05:00

What is real? What should we do with "our lives." What is life? Is life our story? Is life our past? Is it our future? By now you must know what I'm going to say. Life is now! Life story or situation is past. Hope and fear is about future. Our thinking creates more trouble and problems than anything else in this world. It is easy to understand why we have war. Individuals come from a specific self-centered way of thinking. Which makes sense. They are a self. They think from their self, so to speak. The world they livc in has them as the narrator. The commentator. Oh, you should have heard some of my commentary on the world. In the past, I've known it all. "Of course, I would never do things that way or never run a country like this," etc. While I still write about topics I believe need to change or improve. I write with the intention to spark thought. I do instigate with wild sweeping statements with the hopes of people wanting to disprove and therefore discover the truth on their own. This is a topic I think is often overlooked. The power of thought. Thought can bring us to beautiful places and creativity. When thought is the ruler of a person we begin to see a very scary thing take place. People create their own plays in their minds. You know this practice well, don't you? Let me use an example: "The next time he does that, I'll show him. I'm going to say. . ." I'll leave the rest for your imagination. Keep in mind, although we experience interpersonal conflicts at the workplace or in our homes, families and friendships, we are more often playing out conflict in our minds. When at work or home we see another situation arise and it's the first in days or weeks, yet we react as if it's the fourth or fifth that day. Because in our minds it is the fifth argument we've had with this person today. The only problem is the other person was not physically involved. The argument being imaginary seems real to the one imagining and creating fake scenarios in the mind. Outbursts seem justified to the one who bursts out! The person whom we feel is "wrong" or the culprit gets attacked or wrongly accused of something based on the fiction we play in our minds.

Toxic Thoughts—Toxic World!

The toxicity we create in the mind is very powerful. I believe we create more problems and drama through our thinking than perhaps everything else that actually happens. With negative thought, anger, stress through emotional turmoil, we create an acid environment in the body, this causes the body to create mucus. Mucus, as we know clogs the body and impedes its function and therefore its vitality. This can malnourish the body. Not from a lack of food or nutrients, but from a lack of ability to absorb through digestion, the value of the food. As the body holds on to waste product the blood stream, like the rivers and oceans of the planet, become polluted. All this without even mentioning diet! The entire body is affected by CHOOSING this approach to life.

The Great Conundrum!

The human brain is a very mysterious and very powerful organ. Calling it an organ almost feels as though I'm not giving it proper status. The human brain is so deep in its perceptive capacity, we can't even comprehend fully what this means. Everything about our experience is processed in the brain. Even when we sense through other parts of our body we process that feeling or sense through the brain in order for it to register as something. The delicacy of how we experience our world is profound. And still it is believed by science that we use a very small percentage of the capacity of the brain. We have self awareness. A blessing and a major curse. Very few creatures have this capacity. The gift in that awareness is—the total connection to the absolute oneness of life. Which is entirely missed by just about everyone! The source, which flows through all living things. Call it what you want. It does not matter. Is life and it exists only NOW. But, this brain of ours creates everything we experience. It acts like a converter of sorts. "Through our eyes, through our perception and our experience, the universe observes itself." Not truly a quote, more of a paraphrase, yet the thought is still conveyed. Our minds on some level creates the world we live in. We call it red or flat or wet or hard. It is through our sense systems that we experience our world(s) as we do. Including our interactions with the "other" people on the planet. Yet our lenses have become distorted with the grime of the past. We need to clean our lenses from the residue of the past, which colors the present experience. As though the mind is going through a file cabinet comparing this experience with one from the past and categorizing it for you. Telling you, (this is just like that time when. . . )

"Hell is other people." —Jean-Paul Sarte

Hell is what we create through our projected thoughts of "other people."

A New Definition For "Reality"

There is a funny thing about the human race. It is in our thinking. We have a serious thinking disorder. We kill each other and justify the necessity for this undeveloped, unconscious barbarian behavior! Perhaps we can never evolve the chimpanzee out of us. Perhaps we will always be a murderous creature. I believe we practice virtual murder in our minds through our constant negative screen-play, we develop. Through this twisted habit we practice everyday—without any cognitive awareness, we attempt to destroy people or the image of people we've created in our minds. We create images of people we never truly know. Largely because few people truly know themselves. How can you know me if I don't know me? What I mean by "know me" is this. We live through past experiences and judge the present through the filters of the past. Because of this concept and perception of a self, we create separation from what we consider ourself and our life. As if things, events or life happens to us. We fail to see the truth, which is that we create everything we experience through microscopic decisions we make, through our neurological matrix called the brain. Including our perceptions of another's behavior. We even go as far as to believe we know their intentions as well! This is pure insanity! And yet this is how most people live. All conflict comes from drama which is played out through interaction with other emotional (disturbance) people operating in a similar unconscious way. No one is immune. Except conscious people. I personally don't know anyone who isn't unconscious. Even if you're in a conscious state and feeling centered, another person's pain can arouse yours and right then, you're gone. Coming from pain and therefore, ego. Therefore, unconscious.

I've Got Thirteen Channels Of Shit On The TV To Choose From. . . (Pink Floyd)

(Now we've got thirteen-thousand channels of Shit!)

Now here's the funny part: Most of what is considered "entertainment" is "Reality TV," which is people watching other people's staged dysfunctional, disturbed "reality." We even include in our competition based shows—drama! Yes we see singers audition for American Idol and compete on the show. But the real focus is on judgment of others and the dysfunctional, emotional behavior of the contestants. We sit around and watch "other people's hell," then talk about it. We actually take sides of people we don't even know and live through their drama and pain. Wow! Is anyone steering the boat? Anyone looking to see what is going on while we live in texting world? (Guilty as charged) Or while we obsess over the mental illness we call entertainment?

SINNERS!

(Sin means—to miss the point) Definition for newcomers.

We seem to miss the simple fact that life is a miracle and a gift. We practically ignore life (our true selves). We don't consider the simple beauty that being a living creature is of itself, a gift. Why squander that? That we can go to the beach and marvel at the miles of white sand and blue ocean unfurled before us. And comprehend why our shores look the way they do and formed how they did. As the day turns to night we understand why. At night we look up at that same beautiful sky and see the stars and planets in our galaxy. Understanding the heavens above, too. Our power seems infinite and yet we seem to apply most of it to fiction. To that which ultimately brings more suffering to our already challenging lives. We waste our energy worrying. (Hi mom) We severely waste our energy running our movie projectors in our minds, watching the movies of our lives. Going over the so-called bad events. Our theater also shows futuristic movies, too. Using our past experiences, we create new ones. Playacting in these made-up scenarios, we literally live a virtual life. Make believe. I'm a fan of day-dreaming. To let the mind wander and create is beautiful. This is not what I mean. I mean living in a constant projected reality, through past, present and future misrepresentations of what really doesn't even matter at all. Other peoples behavior. Mind your own business. I say that not with the assumed tone. But with humility. Simply apply your mind and thought to your actions and choices and judgments and business. Our constant analysis of other people takes us out of ourselves. Separates us by taking us out of the now. We are such great masters at living this way, that we miss the simplicity of letting go. Let go of the story and the drama and just be here—be thankful you are here. And try to enjoy this brief, temporary experience we were given.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

If I Could Put Health In A Bottle. . .

2010-01-30T10:30:00.005-05:00

The late Jim Croce penned that beautiful song. Time In A Bottle. Just a nod.

Tabula Rasa!

As I sit with not much of an idea as to what to share today. I look out my bedroom window and see the grey clouds darkening. Yet they seem too high for snow. I love the snow. I love how it looks and feels during a snow storm. I feel inspired. This is an interesting word—inspire. The word comes from latin and originates from spirit. As in to breathe into or animate with life. A biblical term, essentially. The word is used in many ways today. As in to "impart knowledge or truth to another being." Yet to be filled with the spirit or to be "inspired," is the usage I'd like to focus on for now. Somedays I don't feel as though I'm filled with anything.

To be full? Or not to be full?

So much of what we learn about health is based on "filling" the body with what I would consider, WASTE PRODUCT! To be inspired with health or to be filled with life, we must be empty vessels. To be full of FOOD or NON-FOOD, therefore WASTE is the absolute antithesis of health. I had the pleasure of walking through a "Vitamin Shoppe" yesterday and was so disturbed at how deeply the concept of health is missed. First off the word "shoppe" isn't a real word. It's a made-up spelling designed to appear "old-time-fashioned." Or as the "dashboard" dictionary states: "A deliberately archaic spelling used in the hopes of imbuing a store with old-fashioned charm or quaintness." How nice. Subtle deception is everywhere. At this little health "shoppe" you can find some very helpful items, like "Sun Chlorella." A green supplement full of minerals and chlorophyl. They actually sell some very healthy products. Most of which I have no use for. This sounds pompous, I know. I say this to illustrate a truth about these products. They are health assistants and are available as aids but are not the key to health. The products that assist in emptying the bowels or detoxifying the tissues are important. Still, what is most important as we seek to achieve real health is, that which we don't do! Meaning, detoxification is all about abstinence. An animal heals itself by doing "nothing." Bringing something to a sick body often results in masking the current illness while planting seeds for future illness. Future as in: when the body reacts to the residue of the medicine or attempts to release that poison for elimination. We see this process as a "new" illness. Rather than fall-out from medicating the last illness. Using ancient herbs and natural remedies is not what I'm referring to. I'm obviously referring to drugs and so on.

Vita=Life! Yet Vitamins Are Dead!

Once I walked past the healthier products and saw the endless bottles of standard vitamins, I became cynical. I thought about the fact that vitamins are seen as foreign matter in the bloodstream when fractionated, as in—not from food! The body becomes stressed when on vitamin therapy and just works to eliminate this extraneous material you paid so much money for. Whole food vitamins are a completely different story and will provide what is needed for these elements to be usable and beneficial. These whole-food products are less available and very expensive. Since living the way I do; vegan and mostly raw. I've never sought vitamin supplementation. Or anything other than a chlorophyl supplement, for that matter. Which is used for bolstering, not survival. Meaning, we can live without it. Plain and simple. This approach can combine two things once separate. Our medicine cabinets and our vitamin cabinet. Meaning, when we take on this lifestyle and include freshly juiced vegetables, we have little or no need for drugs or supplements. Yes, juicing can be expensive. Take away Tylenol and Advil and all other poisons found in the medicine cabinet. Now consider you will no longer need all the other non-pharmaceutical, unnecessary poisons, and you see, we actually spend less money in the long run.

Way in the back or Whey in the back!

Way in the back of the "shoppe" is where the real horror resides. On the shelves in very attractive, extremely large, colorful containers is where the worst SINS are being committed. Remember the real meaning of the word SIN. (To miss the mark! Or truth!) Like an archer missing the bulls eye! We miss the truth about health when it comes to this reversal of truth. We do it in many areas of life and the food industry. High-Fructose Corn Syrup is touted as healthy. We make the same claims for Canola Oil, Soy, meat, dairy, religion. Had to slip religion in there, just for fun. Whey, as I've stated many times before is a vile poison. It is not only unnecessary, it is outright harmful to human beings. PEOPLE: THERE ARE NO HEALTH BENEFITS FROM DECOMPOSING PROTEIN! And that's that! No debate needed here. Decomposing fat as in yogurt, when not pasteurized is perfectly acceptable, beneficial and of course not necessary. Decomposing carbohydrates, done correctly can also provide benefit, as well. When protein decomposes, putrefactive bacteria begins the process of "decomposing" or dismantling the flesh. Try eating a rotten egg. We can't even be in the same room with a rotten egg, let alone bring it to our mouth for consumption.

Fermentation Is NOT The Same As Putrefaction.

No way. No how! The very problem with human beings consuming meat is based on the fact that putrefied waste accumulates and fouls-up our elimination system, by hostile takeover. The putrefied bacteria over powers the beneficial bacteria. We are speaking about life-forms in the billions. When eggs, dairy and flesh is a part of the diet, our beneficial bacteria has no chance of survival. Meats are decomposing once defrosted. With all animal products, we take on putrefactive bacteria in the billions. Every meal. Every day! Now take whey. A decayed, dead, poisonous waste product being passed off as food! Worse yet, as a VITAL health product! What else will they come up with? Better yet—what else will we buy? With enough marketing, we seem to buy into a great deal of lies and deception. All to sell that which we DO NOT NEED. Food is no different. And "health supplements?" Well that is a vast wasteland of distortions and half truths mixed in with a lot of ignorance as filler! Don't buy into the "health-in-a-bottle" concept. This is in opposition to health. To be inspired with the vitality of life or the "breath of God," we must be empty the body of waste product. To breathe fully the air. To absorb fully our water. To use fully the nutrients our bodies create and extract from our foods is all we need concern ourselves with. Empty the clutter. Free the organism. Loosen up! Lighten up! Let go! And most of all, BE HERE NOW! This is where life is. Not in future. Not in past. Here in this very moment. Don't be afraid of hunger of emptiness. Let that state lead you to a peaceful, wholesome meal. Rather than to clog the body with mucus because you felt "starving," so you had to stuff yourself with pizza, etc. Feel the difference. Live lighter and cleaner for a short period of time and you will KNOW the truth. Eat less meat and see how much better you feel. Imagine life without symptoms of aging always lurking. Achieve health. Experience life without illness or the fear thereof!

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Up In Smoke!

2010-01-28T09:07:00.004-05:00

I'm borrowing this title from a great Cheech & Chong movie.

. . .And now for something completely different. (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

For all the posts I've written, I've never once touched on this topic. Cigarettes. I've mentioned them. I've used them for example to explain cleansing from a substance that poisons the body. Today I'd like to write a bit about this nasty habit. My business is located in midtown Manhattan, on the east side. Right in the middle of a busy business district. Running errands in that neighborhood has me passing the entrances to many large buildings where "the crew" can be found. By "the crew" I mean the smokers crew. Every building has them. They're like fixtures in front of the buildings. In summer they seem to be enjoying the break from the air conditioner and the humdrum of work. Yet in winter they seem to suffer a great deal to get their fix. Their fingers blue, their lips quivering from the cold, they bring their shaky hands to their lips and pull on that cigarette as though it were the very air needed to sustain their lives. They engage in banter usually about the work load or the "drama de jour." The cigarette has burned down to a vile little nub as they suck one more lung full of mostly additives and very little tobacco. Then the part that pisses me off the most. . . the super-cool, ultra-hip, tragically childish flick of the butt to the curb. Even when depositories are supplied for the butts, the smoker prefers the flick to the cleaner more responsible way of disposal. For the life of me I cannot figure out what drives the smokers of the world to think it is acceptable to just drop their burning refuse to the sidewalks or streets. It's bad enough to have to breathe in that vile stench, let alone have to look at cigarette butts everywhere.

Second-Hand Information!

I read once about the explanation of second hand smoke. When a cigarette is burning and not being dragged on the temperature is lower and therefore does not burn the impurities, hence filling the air with chemicals and lots of carbon-monoxide. A little note about this wonderful gas. First lets turn our attention to the bloodstream. Hemoglobin is the main constituent of the red-blood cell. Its main function is to carry oxygen where it is needed. When hemoglobin and oxygen meet they "link-up" to achieve this task. Hemoglobin then carries carbon-dioxide to be released as waste. This is a basic & vital function which need to happen to keep us alive. Now lets look take the same view only with cigarette smoke entering the bloodstream. A major component of cigarette smoke is carbon-monoxide. When this gas enters the bloodstream, hemoglobin attaches to it and forms a tight, almost unbreakable bond. This is really why smoking contributes to cancer. I'll explain. When the bloodstream is filled with carbon-monoxide, the hemoglobin cannot accommodate, absorb or link-up with oxygen. The body then begins to suffocate. Cancer can be looked upon as an opportunistic disease. When the body is at its weakest, cancer begins to activate. Cancer thrives in a non-oxygenated environment.

Paving The Road With Good Intention & No Oxygen!

The more this process of oxygen deprivation continues, the greater the chances cancer cells will accelerate. Combine smoking a pack a day with drinking coffee with milk (very acidic), eating meats and junk-food (very acidic), drinking alcohol (very acidic)—and somehow people actually are shocked when the doctor tells them "there's a problem." Once again, we choose the veil of ignorance to keep us from facing the truth. If we want to live disease free, we must take our health into our own hands. We must take full responsibility for our health. And we must stop shrouding ourselves with two-way lies. You know the lies I'm referring to, don't you? These lies are the ones we hear from media and so-called health experts and choose to believe that which completely defies all logic. We believe them because they assist the process of justification. We justify why poisoning ourselves is okay and why positive change "just isn't that easy." Blah, blah, blah.

Gallows Pole

(Led Zeppelin has a song of this title) Gallows are structures made of two vertical posts and a horizontal post across the top where people are hanged.

As the smoke fills and rises to the top of gallows or entrances of buildings, large and small, people forget something very important. As the cigarette goes "up in smoke," so does their health. But what about the health of the "other" people? The non-smokers. We get the gift of free cigarettes! Due to the low temperature of the idle cigarette and the exhaled carbon monoxide/carbon dioxide cocktail along with, literally thousands of other highly poisonous chemicals filling the air—the non smoker actually gets a more toxic smoke to inhale. Wow! Thanks folks. That's so kind and generous of you. It's like the guy who walked into the restaurant I was eating a salad at last night. His cologne was so outrageously strong that I gagged. I find smoking and wearing perfume/cologne to share a behavioral component or lack of awareness. I believe this behavior to be self-centered, at the very least. The cigarette smoker often wears a lot of cologne to cover-up the foul stench they emit. The chemical smoke permeates everything. Skin, hair, clothes, etc. So the combination makes for a sickening camouflaged environment. Not too mention, somewhat deadly!

The Times They Are A Changing!

Tobacco was once used as a remedy for the lungs. This is a strange but true fact. Here's another one: One hundred years ago Marijuana, heroin and morphine were sold at drugstores as health aids. Clearly we learned a thing or two about these items. However, I do believe that if people smoked straight tobacco they would be far better off. The chemicals additives far out way the actual tobacco. Lets not just throw caution to the smokey wind. Lets take this habit more seriously. Just because there are a lot of non-believers out there or smokers who don't think cigarettes kill, doesn't mean this information should not be out there. Lots of people doing something does not make it right! If there were ten Hitler's would the horrible acts of the holocaust been accepted as a norm? SMOKING KILLS either directly or indirectly. No one thing is "THE CAUSE" of any illness. But why not remove as many contributing factors as possible and pave our way toward health rather than demise and disease. Just an idea! Even though we are witnessing a decrease in smokers. We need to spread more awareness on this terrible affliction of human kind. One last word on this topic: those of you that want to smoke and hurt yourselves, please consider doing it in your own chambers, where no one else can be harmed. And please don't smoke in your cars with you children in the same car, with the windows rolled up! This is not fair or remotely enjoyable to your children. In-fact you are providing them with the building blocks for their own demise later in life.

Tom DeVito

Stop Your Mind & LIsten To Your Body!

2010-01-25T08:35:00.006-05:00

Unedited. I'll do my best to get to it today. Enjoy!

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. My dad always loves to tell me that. He made a point of saying it slowly and methodically, as to really let the message of the words sink in. They did. Yet, as we claim to KNOW so much we must acknowledge that we only really know things from certain perspectives. Like we know so much about a tree when we kill it and analyze it. Yet we still don't KNOW the tree. Because we may not contemplate the tree as a being. As a living, breathing creature. Probably because it isn't an animal. Yet we claim to know the tree. As we learn how to become independently healthy, we must keep in mind that we are learning a lot about our bodies and yet our bodies know far more. This has been a point I've tried to make in various ways, throughout previous posts. Here's how I see it. We learn how to take care of ourselves and try different things. We learn about proper foods and proper combinations, juicing, cleansing, real exercise (low/non impact), deep sweating, proper sun exposure and proper hydration. And yet we search for more. So we get out the books and surf the internet and we find remedies and concoctions. Some are valid, some absurd. Most remedies we try, which are based in foods or herbs come from indigenous people who experimented over the years and found the healing properties within these herbs. To know these methods of concocting is an art and therefore must be treated with care and respect. These artisans of herbal health have taught us many things. The most important point would be, that which heals can also kill.

We are seekers. Most of us anyway. We seek out ways to improve our lives and increase our vitality. We take drinks that are meant for healing and we sometimes don't feel so well. We try so-called super foods and find, well they're just not that super. We try concoctions designed to cleanse and feel less clean than before. We then begin to retain, hopefully, these experiences and learn something about health. When healing becomes complicated we need to take a few steps back and think. Think about our health, our current symptoms, our state of mind, etc., and then do what we know works. Healing comes from within. We can use herbs and other "things" topically or ingest special ingredients to bring about a specific reaction. Still simplicity rules.

You're Soaking In It!

I have been recommending a healing bath to people for so many years now. I learned it from my teacher. I used it on myself for years and know beyond the shadow of a doubt that this is a safe and powerful healing bath. One that has no "side effects" or EFFECTS, which can be seen as negative or even risky. The bath is made-up of regular table salt 1.5 lbs. (kosher salt preferable) and hydrogen peroxide, 32 oz.. This bath is a miracle. This is important to consider. Most of what I write about is both for maintenance. Meaning, the diet I believe is best, both cleanses and supports. While herbal remedies are good, they are meant for the sick! Treat all healing remedies with care and respect. Something as simple as an Epsom Salt bath seems simple enough. Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate. It is a saline laxative. My friend had been suffering from all kinds of issues. Mostly due to a lack of bowel activity and cleansing. Drawing a hot bath and dumping an unmeasured amount of Epsom salt into the tub, she climbed in and said ahhhhh. How lovely. Healing, nice and simple, right? Well, sometimes it's just that not simple. But it's just epsom salt. Well, it's just magnesium sulfate. What I'm trying to illustrate is this; things aren't always what they seem. This bath might just feel nice to some and yet to someone whose been cleansing for a number of years, this bath will effect them differently.

Take A Nice Deep Breathe

When people have been cleansing for years and then feel they have become "toxic" or "poisoned" they believe they must "hit the ground running" or do something strong to help themselves. When all they really need is a gentle push. This magnesium bath was just too powerful for such a person. To begin with, this person has a delicate constitution. Using magnesium or overdoing the amount of magnesium sent her into a state of a very scary place. Her bowels became distended, her skin became inflamed with breakouts, she couldn't think straight, she felt weak, dizzy, and very sick. The next thing she did was tricky. She searched the internet for answers. Thankfully this person is experienced enough to be able to decipher, for the most part what was ailing her. Of course, she also thought her problems were far deeper than they were. She did learn, on her own that her electrolyte balance was off and that water distribution was being effected by this situation. She also thought it was something far worse. She phoned a very trustworthy doctor. One who really knows the truth and is vegan and does not use medicine, except for emergency and then the use is temporary. He corroborated her self diagnosis and explained that she needed to be careful with water, salt and most of all magnesium, while she was healing from this self inflicted remedy.

Wash Away The Past

What happened next is exactly what I knew would happen. I gave her a colonic and massive amounts of waste left her body. The amount of gas pressure that left her body was simply hard for anyone to comprehend unless they witnessed the session. The amount of waste and gas that was released from her bowels was mind-blowing. Her belly returned to flat and she felt instantly better. She felt relieved, to say the least. Before I gave her the colonic and she was frantically searching for the cause, I thought, who cares about the cause, lets get to the real remedy. Lets empty the bowels and see what happens. I should mention, she did fast for the day on coconut water and limes. This began to restore electrolyte balance while hydrating and not water logging her further. This was a great experience for my friend and for me. Both of us learned valuable lessons. Hers was to be more careful and not be so aggressive with nature. As nature is never aggressive with us. Nature brings us to places and allows us to do the rest. Like the animals in the wild, they listen to an inner sense, which leads them to plants or water or rest. We don't need science to heal, but we need to understand, at least the basics of the science of healing. I learned something valuable here, too. To listen to everything from the ailing person. Hear what they are conveying and what they feel they need. Not what they "think" they need. Often, what a person "feels" is that inner knowing. We all have the power to heal ourselves. What we lack is the power to shut the mind up long enough to hear the body. I knew one think: once her bowels were cleansed, sufficiently for that day, things would be easier to determine. I also thought she might be altogether better. The path chosen is a well-worn path, unpaved. More of the same. More of the same.

Don't Let It Get You Down!

2010-01-23T10:50:00.007-05:00

As I sat down to write today's post, I thought, what will I write? And the word healing came to mind. So I thought NO SHIT! Gotta love the puns. I thought a bit about healing and then looked it up on my handy "widget-dictionary, in the dashboard of my Apple computer, and found this. [Restore to sound health] The word has a few origins. Old English (haelan—[in the sense restore to sound health]), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heelen or German heilen, or to WHOLE. I copied this exactly as it appeared for accuracy. The ae in the Old English word is a diphthong. What struck me most about this word is the final word or definition. Whole. To heal is to be whole. When we are in a state of healing we may feel worse than we did when we were toxic. This is what we experience when we are healing. Even when applied to our emotional experiences we find that going through pain is the thing that heals. In some twisted way. It is the pain that heals us. If not for the pain, how could we know we are healing? This applies to all levels of healing. I often hear people claim that emotions are not a cause or related to illness. This is not only absurd, it is downright ignorant.

Don't Let It Linger

The pain of our emotional life can stay with us far longer than a physical ailment or symptoms. Why? Our minds. We choose those thoughts, don't we? Healing can be a difficult undertaking. Healing just one person, yourself, is no easy task. Mostly because we are unearthing our histories. I say histories because we have seemingly separate histories for the physical (mechanics), mental (thoughts), emotional (thought becoming physical) , spiritual (that which we generate/attract energetically) aspects of our lives. Remember that emotion means disturbance. These seemingly disparate realities we participate in all collect debris and therefore, to our own perceptions, they are all separate from one another. When in fact these separate planes are also an illusion. Meaning they are one or whole, as we are one with everything. Nothing is separate. So as we heal through a physical method we begin to awaken healing the collective that is the human being. We feel sick and depleted because we are not whole or healed.

Layers Of The Onion Make The Onion

We seek healing for certain things. Seek healing for one thing only, you! Whether you believe in these planes or not is irrelevant. You may create or subscribe to different opinions or theories other than these, but healing will take many forms and you will notice these shifts. Whatever your language is to describe this process, we will still be talking about the same thing, becoming whole. Or detoxifying. We are born whole. Yet as we grow and collect and think, we loose touch with the fact that we are not separate from anything. As we cleanse and eat healthy food we are moving toward being whole. As our physical bodies becomes less polluted from our unconscious past, our actual consciousness begins to return to presence. Our mind begins to relax. Not dull— just take a well deserved break. This is not the brain I speak of. But the one that rents the space of the brain. The one that moved in and will not budge. Look at the mind like a tenant that is quite reliable but a dark force. One that tries to sabotage things. Manipulates, lies, becomes angry, often makes a fuss over nothing, then makes excuses for foul behavior. Forgives nothing. The mind does all this to itself. Let alone what it inflicts on the world around it. Without our minds we couldn't function. Landlords need tenants! We need the mind. We need it to manage our lives. Yet somehow the mind has taken over and now runs or manages our lives. Drama and incessant thinking separates us from ourselves, so to speak. Believing our emotional history as truth does the same. For that matter, this life we've created is built on, created from human kind believing in this illusion of separation.

Corn Isn't Corn Isn't Corn!

Imagine that? Corn, a food we created, isn't even that anymore! Huh? My hope is for healing or returning to wholeness for everyone seeking it achieves it. For us to return to sound health and achieve independence we first must realize we live in dysfunction. Merely believing in separation. We are whole creatures. What is the human being is the collective planes we function in. And that is what we know at this point in time. We are finding at this very moment that we know so little about how huge we are. As we learn more and more about the infinite power of the human being, we must acknowledge that as we heal humanity, we heal the planet. As the planet heals or becomes whole so must everything. You see, we cannot just dissect this idea of healing. When we heal, the world heals. When we speak about such a grand concept we must remember this—our food needs to be returned to whole. We need to heal or make whole our food. In order for human kind to be healed/whole we must eat whole foods. As I've written in previous posts—Monsanto has seen to it that even our whole foods are augmented and no longer whole. It's like making people without a mind, emotions or spirit. Imagine a person without the metaphoric "heart." We are eating food without a heart, soul or a consciousness. We've cloned food but rearranged the molecules. While the food still looks the same, it is not. Looks like corn. Smells like corn. Kinda tastes like corn. Yet IT IS NOT CORN! Something inside is missing.

Closer To The Heart (A title of a song from Rush)

When we speak about the heart, we often speak of two different hearts. The mechanical heart, which pumps the blood and the other heart. The one that feels love, joy, sadness, anger and hate. When we heal, we heal both hearts. For real healing to happen for people, the quality of food is integral. We cannot eat food that is missing parts. We need our whole food to be whole again. We need our planet to be whole again. Heal thy self. Whole thy self. Knowing as you take on this courageous task—you cannot heal yourself without effecting your WHOLE existence, therefore those around you, and so on, and so on. That which exists is all connected. Healing is a transmutational, whole-istic experience for existence. Think about "The Butterfly Effect." A butterfly flaps its wings in California and there's a hurricane in China! So as you may suffer here and there, know you are on your way to freedom within yourself. Real wholeness. Peace. Contentedness. Dare I say. . . Independence! Ah, what the hell.

Be well,

Tom DeVito

Surrender, Surrender To The Gentle Power Of Colonics!

2010-01-20T08:09:00.006-05:00

I want to write about something today that I've touched on in the past. I'd like to go deeper into this phenomenon and share with you the miracle that is bowel cleansing. I know that sounds a bit strange to the new comer but this information is worth sharing.

I was treating (administering a colonic) a gentleman last night whom I've become great friends with. He's been challenged with diet and "entertainment." He works in finance and always finds himself at dinners or lunches that involve making deals. This means eating "with" the folks you're with and sharing in spirits (drink). As if drinking somehow closes the deal or seals the deal. Still, this is a reality. A lot of people are faced with social/professional pressures to "entertain." These occasions are not the time to take a stand and talk about salads and fruits. At these dinners we're talking steaks and vodka. We're talking indulgence. From family dinners to professional/social gatherings, to every single time we eat with our friends from work, we find ourselves feeling the pressure of the group or simply dimming your flame, where your new found passion has brought you. We eat and drink with the group. We love being part of something. When we're at the bar or restaurant we feel that connectedness to the group and that is a nice experience. This is just one of many examples of experiences that have good intention, yet leave a lot of us in trouble.

What Is Normal?

So the party's over. The meeting has ended. The drinks have been drunk. You're in your home and feel like shit! You're suddenly very hungry, even though you ate a meal four hours ago. Or you may be on your way home and feel this and compound the problem by stopping at the diner of deli and grabbing, whatever! This doesn't help. You wake up the next day and you feel like what is trapped in your body (Anyone care to guess? Anyone? Bueller?. Only now add dehydration, and gas pressure, with massive poison running through your veins for filtration and excretion. Guess who feels like crap? Remember, we want to try to live according to a cleansing diet when we take a colonic regularly. What to do with the lead in your gut and the rock hard abs (not from crunches) you've created. The abs is really the viscera blown out like a balloon. From the organs, which are inflamed and filled with gas. Now, the main focus of what I want to write about has still not been totally revealed. Why? Cause that's how I want to tell this story. Consider this: most people do this fairly often and repeat the same behavior over and over, again. This is how we compound our already devitalized life force. After three days or so, things seem to go back to normal, if alcohol was involved. When food is the only culprit, we may notice things "go back to normal" pretty quickly. But what is normal? Normal is exactly how one lives and feels each day. Regardless of the daily pains and ills they live with. Most people are walking around with the toxic fumes (gas), the solid waste and the resultant mucus from that which is considered "normal." Don't believe this is "normal." IT IS NOT!

Now we can get to the gist of the topic. My friend is waiting for the treatment (colonic) to begin. As I'm preparing things, he states, "I'm done. I can't do this anymore. I won't. I feel like my guts are about to explode. I feel like death." I, of course responded by saying, "great! Congratulations! Now lets get you back to center." The man I am talking about has been challenged with his love for taste and the desires to experience all the so-called "pleasures" of life. So he battles with his weight while dealing with bloating on a regular basis. Between the "power dinners" and his own unchecked desires, he finds himself suffering. This creates a pattern which begins to mirror addiction. He does his best. Which is the best one can do! Particularly at the moment we start the session, he is feeling dismal, hopeless, "just in a bad mood." As he put it. I said nothing. Half way through the treatment enough gas and waste had left his body that his belly deflated considerably. His midsection must have dropped four and a half inches. It was incredible. Miraculous! This man's attitude changed so dramatically, so profoundly. He began singing "Pride," the Martin Luther King, Jr. song, by U2. His favorite band is U2. He sang and joked around for the rest of the session. He literally started to giggle after another ten minutes or so. What I witnessed during that session, is witnessed quite often in those treatment rooms. I have experienced it myself, many times. This is pure, powerful healing. Yet done with a gentle, loving touch. I'm not referring to the therapist, only. But the act of the gravity colonic. Gentle, yet profoundly powerful!

All of a sudden you feel a deep relaxation unmatched by anything else!

The point of this blog is to point out something. This is unmatched anywhere else in alternative health or mainstream medicine. This man went from Z to A in a matter of minutes. His waistline decreased! There was a point, one which I've experienced many, many times. Somewhere during a colonic session, after a certain amount of waste and gas leaves your body. Often in one "release." Then, all of a sudden you feel a deep relaxation , which cannot be compared to anything else. The gas and waste is no longer poisoning the nervous system. It is no longer creating irritability. The blood becomes instantly cleaner. The thoughts improve. The spirit awakens, if only a wee bit, and takes a peek at life from clearer, happier eyes. The look that comes over a persons face at this particular point of the colonic, is the miracle. The therapist can actually see this. You feel this like nothing else. It is as though all the things that put you in a bad mood that day or the historical pain, both physical and emotional you may experience on a daily basis, passes. Or we get the sense, "I can deal with this now." This feeling is not something that can be explained. Like every experience of life. Experience is ours to have. What I'm trying to share is this surrender we feel just from having poop and gas and mucus leave our bowels. All I can say is what I said to my dear friend at the end of his colonic session. "Show me something, anything, that can do this! What can decrease someone's gut by four inches? Or change a person's mood from one moment to the next, with no use of chemicals. To have someone shift that rapidly, yet peacefully and gently is UNHEARD OF! I've had the great fortune to have stumbled upon this miracle of life. I have been blessed with the most powerful healing tool known. Now that's a huge statement. I know. I believe there is only one way to go about teaching people the truth about health and this is it. Find your way. Try different things. But, if someone tells you health will come from a pill or a powder. Or health is attained by that which you put into your body as opposed to removing waste from the bowels and poisonous foods from your diet. They are full of it! Get it? Bowel cleansing is the most rapid way to shift the chemical environment in the body and reset the system to move toward health!

To experience this phenomenon is the only way to know for yourself. As I tell my clients and friends, "If you are not juicing, cleansing the bowels, sweating (infrared sauna or standard sauna) rebounding (trampoline), you're missing valuable pieces to the puzzle. The first two are by far the most important practices to bring into your life. Not only will this help return your youthful vitality and increase your quality of life one hundred fold. This practice will bring you that reprise, that break, that pause button we wish we could press when life seems to be moving too fast. The respite I speak of is that moment or now when you feel a connection to the universe because there's less between you and the universal energy which flows in, out and all around you. Allow yourself this. This is a gift. This is the fountain of youth. This is the greatest and most powerful health aid on the planet. Hands down! I must say without hesitation: this IS the greatest method of detoxification we have available to us. This is the truth. And the truth shall set you free. . . free from suffering. Free from deleterious diseases. Free of rapid aging. OR, Independently Healthy!!!

Be Well.

TomDeVito

Let Vegans Be Vegans

2010-01-18T08:07:00.009-05:00

Vegans do not have eating disorders. Eating foods in a raw state isn't strange. Being conscious of our health and our diets isn't obsessive. I'm so confused by the twisted views of this way of living. There are people who are obsessive and have eating disorders who happen to be vegan. Or eat all their meals raw. There are all kinds of people living with awareness of their health and not obsessing about it. Now some have said I am obsessive because I won't have a piece of cake or won't just "give in" and have a burger. There are people that have strange rules they live by. Yet they are not called obsessive. Eating disorder is when there is a problem with the way a person eats. Disorder is used to describe a pattern of behavior that is harmful to a person. We often start down a path of a new regimen and sometimes "run with it." Like going to a new gym. Then we back off and reassess our new found practice and try different things. I've backed off raw foods for a bit, here and there over the years. Especially early on. It is good for perspective to change what we do in order to get a sense of where we are.

Are You Allowed To Eat This?

Often I find myself in groups of people at gatherings. Whether it is a birthday party or some other excuse for us to indulge. At these parties I hear people say things like "I hope dessert is good." Or, "I can't wait for dessert!" When asked about their eating habits, and how often they have dessert, they respond with something like this, "Oh, I have it at every meal. What can I say, I have a sweet tooth!" And I'm obsessive for eating a salad at every meal. People think I "have" to or that I don't enjoy it. Like there's a Nazi behind me with a rifle pointing at my head. "YOU VILL EAT ZEE SALAD!" Role reversal some how gets mixed up in all this. It's okay for one person to eat pizza everyday for lunch or have a snack/dessert after every meal, but not okay for people into health to practice positive repetitions of behavior. It's cute when little Johnny eats blue cereal every single morning for two years. It's weird to drink fresh vegetable juice everyday. Yeah, makes sense.

Location, Location, Location!

Am I obsessed with health or is the other mentality obsessed with seeing just how far they can stretch their own limits of abuse? Society has a strange way of looking at things. There's a bar every twenty feet selling POISON to anyone over the age of twenty one. Yet vegans are weird and obsessed. There's a Starbucks every six feet. Be careful! If you trip in the street you just might fall into someone's mocha frappacino. There's a McDonald's on every street. Every bodega sells nothing but crappy non-food and small section of food and flowers. How hard is it to find a "treat." You know what a treat is don't you? It's the thing most people eat every single frickin' day. It hurts their tummy. It makes them feel sick. But for that fleeting moment of false pleasure to this very temporary body. They go out and find their poison of choice. Just go over this very short list of poison outposts in every town. Sure, there was a time when different towns in the U.S. were actually different from one another. Not anymore. Where every you go! There they are! McDonald's, Burger King, Roy Rogers, Dunkin Donuts, Taco Bell, Starbucks! AND VEGANS ARE WEIRD AND OBSESSED?

Why Is Difference Met With Hostility?

There is no doubt that the human mind in a group setting, can be made to believe that anything is true. We will believe anything. By "we" I mean mainstream America. "We" believe that eating healthy is obsessive. "We" believe that taking care of one's health makes one a "health freak." What should we (the minority that cares about their health) call the rest of society, FAT AMERICA? Should people that go to the gym, eat well, meditate, practice yoga, etc., abuse the rest of society for not caring? For not wanting to better their lives? Of course not. It is everyone's choice to live how they like. Just leave the one's that want to feel better alone. We would rather not have to crawl to some doctor's office begging for drugs to fix what we didn't have the common sense to do ourselves. Maintain our health so we don't breakdown or simply care about our health. Care about how we live. Instead of obsessing over what "other's" are doing or not doing. I'm not even saying that those people that want to have their dessert are wrong or those that just don't care to think about health. They eat what they eat. They get sick. They don't get sick. They live. They die. Done. That's cool with me. Not that what I think matters, in the grand scheme of things. But I'm saying it's cool. It's all cool for people to live how they want to live. JUST STOP FOCUSING ON THOSE THAT DO CARE TO IMPROVE THEIR OWN LIVES.

Know Your Heart—Follow Your Truth

I know someone who is relatively new to eating vegan and raw, etc. They were faced with the idea that maybe this is too much or obsessive. I have this to say. Find yourself. Find your truth. Find what works for YOU. Not THEM. And most importantly, remember this; those of us choosing to live a vegan lifestyle are sort of trail blazers. We are leading a movement of health conscious people. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT! We are showing other's, including the boisterous, outspoken people who wrongly accuse us of being obsessive, a better way. It doesn't matter what other's think. It only matters how you want to live. Realization is a great thing. And perhaps you stepped into something that got ahead of itself. Perhaps a step back is exactly what is needed. The truth is. We are the normal ones. We are eating appropriately for our species. We (human beings) are not flesh eaters. We are plant eaters. And yet, somehow, at the end of the day, it's all as it is. What really matters, is that we all find our hearts and all find the things that get us through each day of this life. I choose to be vegan. I choose to be healthy. I choose to teach this way to other people. I do not care what anyone thinks of this way of life. Living in opposition to this lifestyle is also a choice. And to those who live without this knowledge, it is your loss. Yet perhaps the seeds we plant in our lively debates will one day blossom in your mind and show you this IS a great way to live.

Hey Wait! The Sun Was In My Eyes—Do Over!

Lets reset the game. Lets stop pretending drugs and junk-foods are the way to health. And that living blindly isn't what sends us to seek drugs to fix our ills. Lets be real. It's not obsessive to eat healthy. There are some that will obsess over this or anything, for that matter. Perhaps, living blindly, gambling everyday of your life is something to be examined. But that is not for me or anyone, vegan or otherwise to determine. It is up to the individual. So let vegans be vegans. As we let you be The Eaters Of The Dead. (A title of a Michael Crichton book)

Be well.

Tom DeVito

The Mother Of Intention

2010-01-17T11:27:00.001-05:00

There is a finite number of colors in the universe. We've managed to make millions of colors by rearranging pigments in various ways. We learned also that by rearranging molecules of most things we can come up with "new" things. Plastic comes from this molecular science. This is most fascinating and quite interesting. We can take anything in the world, analyze it, rearrange it, recreated it, call it something, move on to the next "creation." We are smart. We do have the capacity to understand just about anything. We understand things, scientifically speaking, to such depth and detail, it is astounding! Except for damaging ourselves and the environment with some of the creations and advancements we whip-up. So we took this concept of rearranging molecules and applied it to food. Look at all the variety! Really, the variety is variations on the same theme. All or most of the variety is soybeans and corn, made to look like "other things." The science of color is very interesting. When red fabric is made, the dye used for the fabric has all the pigment molecules in it, but the red. So red hovers or is attracted to that fabric. So we see not the full spectrum of color, but the only color not included. This was explained to me by a master printer, studying this strange science.

Soycorn! Just Like Mom Used To Make It!

When we rearrange our food molecules we find we can make many tastes and textures, which make-up a great many of the seemingly different varieties of foods available at the super-markets. So we can rearrange corn and soy molecules till we whip-up a cow! Or worse yet, Tofurkey! We make these things we call food and feed our children with augmented particles which once belonged to a body or family of molecules. On the surface, our bodies don't react too badly. Our bodies seem to handle, with little or no trouble these "cartoon character, super-tasty, time-released, life shorteners! These things we call food don't even resemble anything real in nature. Just look at the cereals we manufacture. I read something recently that was brilliant. We should eat foods that come from plants. Not foods made in plants. I love the play on words, if you haven't noticed. Thanks, Jamo! The human being is a self powered machine. Living in perfect sync with itself and therefore nature. Factories don't make food, they make disease!

The Forest And The Trees!

Like the green slime that grows from moisture everywhere on this earth, we are that. We're just a bit more advanced. Our bodies, up-close, look very complicated and looks as if it needs great understanding for it to function correctly. Like the directions that come with electronic devices, computers, etc. There are volumes of information about your computer you need to know, so as to operate it safely and effectively. Our bodies are like computers and we need to know even more about every detail to fully comprehend and do the absolute best we can for our health and survival. Right? I don't really think so. I think the reason we need to study the instruction manuals for our "toys" is, they're complicated and require the user to understand what the essence and nature of the machine is in order for us to get the most out of the gadget. Okay, that makes sense. Shouldn't we know even more about every microscopic detail of every cell in the body? Dare I say no? I am not saying knowledge, deep knowledge of the human body isn't vital to repaire damage. Or understanding how this or that illness occurs for prevention, of course. Sure, I can accept that. But when you look at the rest of the creatures inhabiting this earth, which are far less intelligent than we! Where are their doctors? Surgeons? Dentists? Personal trainers? Nutritionists? Psychotherapists? Spiritual teachers? This is somewhat silly. I know. But for the purposes of this point, please indulge me. Animals have no need for any of this because they are at one, entirely with nature therefore the now. They need no pointers to truth. They are truth.

We Think—Therefore We Are Nuts!

Our greater understanding of life is both a beautiful blessing and a damning curse! We think, therefore we are nuts! We can think ourselves into insomnia or out of sleep, every single night. Because we understand so much. Or simply believe that "things" need our thinking. The gift of thought is wonderful. The gift of intelligence is absolutely beautiful and powerful. When put to good use. We sin, miss the point of the whole as we dissect, with precision, the essence of human nature. You cannot separate us from ourselves or nature. You cannot look at parts of the body and expect to understand the whole. Like food—left alone, it is perfect. The food which grows is perfect. It doesn't need to be modified. Add a little yellow to red and we start to move toward orange. Add blue to red and we start to move toward violet. No harm in augmenting color to suite our needs. No harm in "understanding" these details. They say "necessity is the mother of invention." Today we must acknowledge that revenue/profit is the mother of invention. What is the mother of intention? This is a new question I'd like to pose. Why create something? What does blind creation/intention get us? More plastic? More candy? More chips? More dips? More toothpaste? More soda? More illness.

Capitalism? Or Planned Obsolescence?

When you really look into this modern way of life, it's kind of silly. We'll never improved on the tree or the flower. We've never tried. Nor should we. I'm sure somewhere, someone thinks they can. This is why humans find themselves almost being phased out of nature. We are phasing ourselves out. What to do with these needling, busy-bodies, creating mind-numbing, foods and products, which serve one master, CAPITALISM! Which in turn leads to disease. I'm not saying capitalism leads to disease. Making products we don't need and convincing the people they do, is part of capitalism. Apply that concept to food and viola! Disease. No real difference here. Is there? If you're sick, you'll need some money. Well of course you can't afford to pay the geniuses who know nothing about everything. So you'll need coverage. [That is a separate issue.] Yet creating food feeds capitalism. Convincing people they need the very foods they DO NOT—is kind of EVIL! Illness or the treatment thereof, feeds capitalism. That is fact. Can you see why there will always be poisons for our "pleasures." We need to arm ourselves with a protective coat of armor known as KNOWLEDGE!

A Couple Of Naive Ideas For Your Consumption!

Can't we just change what's not working for us? We change everything else in this world. Why not the system? Do medical fees need to be so high? What great healing is being dispensed in those little pill bottles? If everything were more affordable, we wouldn't need to rely, so heavily on insurance companies. Doctors can still make a good living. Even helping people to heal would become profitable. Here's another silly idea; why not give people the truth about health. Why not show people the best way to maintain their health so they rely on themselves instead of "the system." We wouldn't have a "health-care crisis" if we showed people how to keep themselves healthy. To empower people would mean they wouldn't tax an already weak system. Our mad-scientists rearrange molecules, which were perfect to begin with, to create yet another tasty bullet. This slowly sickens and kills people. If you don't believe that statement, think about this. Think about how many times you heard people developing cancer when you were a child. If you're in your forties, you heard this a lot less often than you hear it today. Today, cancer has become too damn common. Murder is illegal. Why is it legal to slowly kill people? Especially when they are sick and we treat them with more poison. Why are we so enamored with poison. With enough "doubt" supplied by so-called "experts," the folks that want the pleasure, no matter what the cost, will fight to defend the lies that kill them. This is proven by the existence of "The Atkins Diet." Which is still be advertised on TV.

Be Well.

Tom DeVito