The Lords Of Deceit: Part 1

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

The Reluctant Prophets Of The Veganites!

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

Cancer Incorporated

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

It's A Rot Race, I Tell You!

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

Food Gadgets!

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

Inforexia Or Liar! Liar!

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