Veganism, or even vegetarianism, would go far to reduce childhood obesity, but getting some people to change what they eat is not an easy thing. It would be good though to see schools make one or both of those choices.
I would also think it would decrease some of the illnesses that are prevalent in young children like autism, asthma, ADHD, childhood diabetes, obesity, etc. It is certainly alarming that many young children under the age of 13 are now being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, as reported by a friend that used to work for Kaiser Permanente in Honolulu. Twenty-five years ago this was almost unheard of, but is now becoming more common.
The onset of Type II diabetes, a fat disease, most often occurred in adults over 50 years of age, not in kids. And if anyone is to be blamed it has to be the fast food industry. So, you combine fat from oils and flesh foods with excess sugar and salt and you have a fat little kid with Type II diabetes.
My friend said that even back in the 90’s there were many physicians who did not approve the use of antibiotics to treat flu’s or colds in their patients. But, the factory farmed animals, the cows, all fowl, sheep, pigs, etc. are regularly fed antibiotics and growth hormones to appear healthy and to grow faster. As we know, there is a direct correlation between antibiotic resistance in humans and the consumption of factory-farmed flesh.
In medicine, it’s well known that if antibiotics are regularly administered to patients to treat viral-related conditions, which do not respond to antibiotics, the patients will build up a resistance to it and the antibiotic will no longer be effective to treat the condition for which it was intended.
My friend told me that she did some research a few years ago and found that 85 percent of all antibiotics manufactured by Big Pharma in the U.S. are not sold to medical facilities but rather to farm factories, with less than 15 percent sold to the hospitals or clinics.
From an animal standpoint, there are millions of farmed animals that are destroyed annually due to not being able to be sold for consumption because they suffered adverse reactions to the antibiotics they were being given daily; primarily deformities and organ failure.
Administration of antibiotics and growth hormones to animals is a cruel practice and needs to stop. We need to advocate for better farm conditions for animals in order to decrease the spread of bacterial infections. When chickens, cows or pigs are kept in overcrowded conditions, it is easy for bacteria to spread; thus the overuse of antibiotics. And why are they kept in overcrowded conditions? To enable the farmer to house more animals in the same amount of space increasing their profit margin. Once again, it all boils down to money.
We could advocate for vegan/vegetarian meals in the schools, but we would be up against the big-moneyed factory farm owners who stand to lose billions of dollars in sales and profits. The farm industry has a huge lobby group in Congress, and elected officials, who represent farming states, obviously get regular campaign contributions from the farm lobby, and that includes Hawaii.
Again, it’s the same ole’ argument: profits over people. These big cattle ranchers and factory farm owners are convinced that the flesh they produce is safe for consumption, so why the hell are we trying to get people to stop eating flesh and blood? Meat provides the protein that growing kids need, and on and on, endlessly. I guess they never heard of beans, lentils, quinoa, buckwheat, brown rice or tofu, what to speak of all the protein to be found in spinach, kale, and other leafy greens.
On the west side of Oahu, offering vegan meals would be a blessing due to the fact that the childhood obesity rate is way higher than in the more affluent parts of the island. It would be way interesting to see what would happen to the kids if the schools in those areas would accept the idea of offering vegan foods to the students there and it would be interesting to see the health of the kids who suffer from childhood medical problems improve by eating a vegan diet.
But, that ain’t never gonna happen. About seven years ago or so, a bill was heard that advocated that vegan meals shall be offered in the public schools. That bill was defeated by two governmental departments – the Dep’t of Health and the Dep’t of Education. Then the bill was revised and said that vegan meals should be offered in the schools, meaning they now had the choice to serve the foods or not. The bill passed. To this day, the meals never changed and the kids get fatter and sicker.
What’s sickening is to know that the DOH and the DOE, the very two departments that should encourage healthier eating, are still selling Hawaii’s kids down the river!
Go to a school for lunch and you will find crappy hot dogs full of carcinogens, as well as non-organic foods and GMOs. And yet they question why the kids have so many medical problems.
The solution? Homeschooling! Public schools, as a whole, simply undermine not only the kids’ health, but the very foundation of the family, which is the primary source of stability of the kids.
The other problem is that the DOE and our state/federal government want teachers to groom “sheeple” and not encourage creative thinking. It’s as if public schools are just like a fast food conveyor belt. Bring um in, spit um out, and kill um with degenerative diseases.
Aloha!
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In Hawaii, the TV stations interview local authors about the books they write and the newspapers all do book reviews. Not one would touch “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Why? Because it goes against their advertising dollars.
Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a "plastic" community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, " let's become vegetarians". I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, "okay"! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, "The Little Kitchen".
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I'll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to "The Little Kitchen". Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, "Let's make a deal. You do our tax return and we'll feed you as well". So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, "Hawaii". Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called," Mr. Natural's". I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at "Mr. Natural's." To make a long story short, that's exactly what happened.
So, I'm working at "Mr. Natural's" and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle - it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka'anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn't really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that's exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I'm asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn't thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, "You expected anything less"? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, 'enchilada's at "Natural's" tonight'. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That's when they found out I was an accountant and "Down to Earth" was born. "Down to Earth" became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD's that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii's premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn't refuse. She said," If you want to be with me you've got to stop working on naked women". So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a "chicken" or "egg" or "fish" or "pig" or "cow" was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
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Namaste!
