Sensa, Atkins Diet, Hydroxycut, Weight Watchers, QuikTrim: What do these have in common?

All of the weight control programs/products I have mentioned, are deliberately promoting an anorexic diet. Sensa helps people suppress their hunger, by sprinkling a concoction onto your food, so you will eat smaller portions. Don't you feel like a science experiment when dousing Sensa on your food?
Weight Watchers is similar in that it uses a number system so you can control the amount of food you are eating. The Atkins diet aims for you to eat all of the low carb foods like meat and vegetables, without fruit, rice, and potatoes.

Every weight loss product and program is going to tell you to eat smaller portions, because they know you're going to keep eating animal products, which have the highest fat and lowest nutritional value. Fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, have zero fat and have the highest source of vitamins.

Furthermore, you don't need to pay someone to tell you how you should eat. You already know how you should eat. You know you should be eating 2500-3000 calories from grains (pasta, rice, bagels), fruit, vegetables, greens, and beans; while limiting or eliminating animal products (milk, eggs, dark & white meat, and processed foods.) 

If you eliminate animal foods, and FILL yourself up on fruits and vegetables, you'll be losing weight so fast you will rarely need to exercise. Not to mention, animal products and pre-packaged foods are more expensive than fruits and vegetables.

Weight Watchers, Atkins diet, and other weight loss programs have the money to advertise their product DAILY. These products are marketing off of your unhappiness and vulnerability. It's easier to brainwash people into thinking they need that product when they see the commercial everyday, while they sit bloated and lazy on their couch. 

I cannot stress this point enough: stop relying on products and "gurus" that are selling products, because these are the type of people that are JUST trying to make a living (they are not selling health information.)

It's not just meat eaters that are fooled into buying products. Vegans often buy superfoods and supplements that are being marketed by "health gurus", when they are totally being fooled into buying them. 

As long as you stuff yourself with fruits, vegetables, and greens -- you don't need powderized superfoods or supplements.

My advice to you is: eat fruit and vegetables till you are stuffed; and exercise for one hour, three times a week.

Speaking of exercise, here is my opinion on the exercise programs on the market: P90X, Insanity, Zumba, Julian Michaels: What do these programs have in common? 

How to Plan your Summer Garden

Before summer ended, I wanted to demonstrate what a regular summer garden looks like. Below is my garden that is located at my grandparents' house, which consisted of the squash, zucchini, cucumbers, cushaws, beans, peas, and potatoes.

This next picture is of my garden at my Mom's house, where I grew tomatoes, corn, cantaloupe, peppers, and my fruit trees (plum, peach, and pear.)

The next picture is what I grew in containers (which I kept on the porch at my Mom's house.)

I will be updating in a couple of weeks, what I am planting this fall and where I am planting everything. I will be planting greens and root vegetables, like: carrots, beets, turnips, radishes, broccoli, kale, cabbage, collard greens, arugula, and frisee. I am not sure if I can plant arugula, frisee, or Swiss Chard during this time of year in Kentucky, but I will look into it, considering I have many seeds of each I would like to be growing. 

Here is a video of some really good tips on beginning gardening & other garden prep techniques, from growingyourgreens.com:

The best sources of vitamins & how to avoid fat on a vegan diet

When people make the decision to diet, they try to avoid large amounts of calories or carbs, but never think about avoiding fats (meat, dairy, eggs, and oil.) Most people want to keep eating meat and dairy (fat), so they try to starve themselves of all other foods so they can continue to lose weight. Of course you can lose weight very fast by reducing your calorie intake, which is why people turn to that technique, especially men because they want meat. However it isn't realistic to believe you will maintain your ideal weight by reducing your calories and carbs. You'll binge out if you reduce calories and carbs for a long period of time.

Veganism makes more sense because you can eat large quantities of calories and carbs from veggies, fruit, grains, and beans which will make you feel full consistently, while giving you large amounts of vitamins that animal products lack. Why don't you eat a LOT of calories and carbs from fruit and vegetable sources so you can lose weight faster and get the most nutrition?

If you're concerned about vitamins on a vegan diet, I assure you that you can get the recommended amount of protein, calcium, vitamin D, and b12 from your calories through these plant-based sources:

Protein: Beans, nuts, seeds, oats, quinoa, soy products
Calcium: leafy greens, broccoli, cabbage, figs, dates, oranges, fortified soy products (soy milk has 50% more calcium than cow's milk)
Vitamin D: Mushrooms, sunshine, and fortified soy milk
B12: fortified soy milk (or other Silk products)


Below I have listed the most common ways to replace the unhealthiest of fats:

Meat (for protein and in baking): Beans, Quinoa, Nuts, Rice, and Oats
Dairy (for drinking and in baking): Water, soy(bean) milk, rice milk, coconut milk, almond milk. Store bought soymilk is fortified with 50% more calcium than cow's milk. It is also fortified with essential daily vitamins.
Eggs (in baking): Pumpkin (puree), applesauce, mashed potatoes (for hearty meals), mashed bananas, non-dairy yogurt, and flax meal + water. You can also purchase Ener-G Egg replacer (which contains potato starch and tapioca starch to bind baked goods).
Oil (in baking): Applesauce, non-dairy yogurt
Oil (for frying): Slowly add water to a heated pan with veggies you're frying.
Sugar: mashed bananas, maple syrup (pure), molasses, or dates (pureed)

Hope this was helpful~

Why Government Still Hasn't Found a Way to Help the Poor

It's basically this: government doesn't realize there are simple strategies to help the poor. They also don't realize the necessities of poor people (because they have never been poor.) Government, whether democrat or not, isn't really helping or siding with poor people, because officials are creating bills, laws, and programs without understanding where poor people come from, the situations they are in, and the stress that encompasses all aspects of their lives.

Government also forgets that the poor cannot afford luxuries in life, but would be satisfied with their basic needs met: Quality food (organic, fresh, and nutritious), quality/clean water, a piece of land, and a non-toxic home. How can poor people have all of those things with a little bit of money? The ONLY solution is homesteading.

Poor people can overcome ALL of their stresses in their lives by homesteading, because it teaches others how to live within the environment (without destructing the environment, without pollution, and how to live for free.) Homesteading also allows poor people to grow food that is better for them with a little bit of time, and little to no money.

Growing food does take time, but takes little knowledge and effort. Likewise, building your own home out of free materials also takes little knowledge. ANYBODY can grow food and build their own home out of earth (straw, clay, and sand), which are all free materials.

Traditionally, the poor (like myself) enjoy unwinding to a little bit of wine, beer, and smoke -- which can all be home-made by growing your own ingredients! What government is to say how you spend your money?

If the government is really concerned about how you're spending your money, then grow it all yourself and have a good time with the things you grew and created ;)

If government REALLY wanted to help the poor, they would implement a program that provided, those who apply for assistance, with: 2 acres of land and assistance in building their earth home. Government would also provide money for the seeds to grow their own food. Solar panels, rain collection, and other self-sustainable devices would be given to the applicants, as to work towards complete self-sustainability and to no longer require the aid (money and materials) that the government would provide for the first two years.
Everyone should be given 2 acres of land. No one should be able to buy up all the land OR sell land for outrageous prices! Everyone is entitled land. Land would adequately provide people with the opportunity to grow food and have a water collection system so everyone can drinking their OWN water.

Another idea I have, is: for a group of people to get a government grant (that reaches out to single mothers, run-away children, disabled) and assist those in growing their own food and building their own home to work towards independence from the government. The group of individuals would educate the applicants on how to use recycled materials, how to reuse materials, how to grow food, how to build ovens, homes, sheds, root cellars, and the like out of Earth; and educate them on the philosophy that homesteading encompasses; educate the poor on transportation (avoid buying a car to avoid buying insurance, and instead use a bike.)

It's that easy. So, why isn't everyone doing it? Well, this lifestyle is an INVESTMENT, which is why it would be better for the poor to be helped by the government to create this type of lifestyle. But what the government doesn't tell you is that: they don't want you to live self-sufficient and independent from them. Although they give much money through welfare, medicare, medicaid, and the like to all the poor, they still want you to FEED into the system (buy a toxic-home, buy health insurance, buy electric, buy water, buy a car, buy car insurance,etc.) Why would they want you to be a homesteader if it means you're going to break away from the things they want you to pay into?

I would like to finish by breaking down the necessities in life, and how you can implement natural/free resource alternatives:

• First of all, you don't need a job when you live like this because you're doing everything yourself as to not have to pay for the things government wants you to pay into. Y
• You do not need a vehicle to get you to work or the grocery store, because you're growing your own food. 
• Because you're growing your own food (instead of eating pre-packaged foods and meat products), you will become healthier, leaner, and fitter. 
• When you get healthier, it's unlikely you need health insurance because you won't be going to the doctor. 
• When you get healthier, you'll be able to bike and walk where you need to go, so you do not need transportation and the insurance for that transportation. 
• Catch your rain with barrels to water your plants with; and purify/filter the rain water for drinking water (as to break away from buying city water.) 
• Build rocket heaters (example) for your home and build your own fires to heat your home, instead of using electric or gas. Cook your own food over the fire you build! 

In other words, you can do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING with your OWN two hands and with experience.