Turn on Your Immune System

Hello,

I just found out that it is ideal to eat 3-5 servings a day of dark green leafy veggies like kale, the queen of all dark greens load with calcium, A, B , C , magnesium, phosphorous--phytonutrients and chlorophyll, trace minerals, proteins, fiber, all of which boost the immune system and make our cells happy and healthy and alkalize our bodies...whew hoo!

Now that is a lot of dark leafy greens...dang! Just try to sneak them in everything from eggs, to tomato sauces for pasta, to soups to on the side sauteed with garlic and olive oil. Raw is best such as the kale shake I describe in the last blog or finely chopped in a salad with red onion and cubed avocado along with your favorite dressing...now that sounds pretty good, yes?

What I really want to focus in on is MSG, monosodium glutamate--the real crack cocaine of the US....this flavoring literally causes you body to become addicted to it and want more, more, more....and it is in everything! What does this mean for the food industry? Money being spent on more food to keep us feeling hungry (that is the MSG doing its job!) which in turn makes the public buy more and more food. Money is made...it all boils down to money...keep folks addicted to processed foods and somebody out there is making boatloads of money while everyone gets poisoned...yuck...and then the medical community makes money on all the sick people who have ingested tons of MSG through the years and end up with dis-eases...yuck again!

In terms of product labelling, MSG can be listed as MSG or a host of other pseudonyms like 'hydrolyzed vegetable protein,' 'accent' , 'agino moto', 'natural meat tenderizer, or simply added flavorings. You can bet sure as the sky is blue and a third of Lake City is overweight that Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, TGIF, Applebee's Denny's , KFC and countless more franchised food establishments use massive amounts of MSG. In fact, at KFC, MSG is in every gravy and chicken dish and salad dressing.....maybe their secret ingredient is actually MSG...wow!

Need we ponder any further why the US is overweight? MSG has been scientifically proven to cause obesity and actually really is addictive....anything prepackaged at the grocery store has it listed in their ingredients. Other dis-eases have been connect to MSG as well such as diabetes, migraines, headaches, autism, ADHD, and Alzheimer's...if you want to read more studies, go to www.pubmed.com and type "MSG obese" to read the scientific studies.

Somehow, we have to obliterate MSG from our food system....legislation is being written to do just that. The movie, "Supersize Me" made great points, too.

Educate yourself and others around poisonous MSG, quit eating it in food establishments and buy whole foods and organic foods as much as possible. Feed kids lots of raw fruit and veggies!

That is one of the few rants I am going to do on this blog...my goal is to be uplifting and positively positive as much as possible.

Let's all take a deep breathe right about now, eat some kale and go for a walk!