Green for life is an excellent book. I have been edging my way towards a raw food diet. I keep adding more and more raw foods to my meals. One of the things that I added to my diet was fruit smoothies. They make a great meal. I started adding the green smoothies to my diet instead of just fruit and it really makes a big difference. The author is not joking when she says that a green smoothie will fill you up and take away the cravings. I have been drinking them for almost two weeks straight and I really don't crave sweets anymore. If I do, I can just eat a fruit and be done with it. I have made the green smoothie my breakfast now. It really fills me up for the day. I can drink a big green smoothie for the morning and just have a few pieces of fruit for lunch and not be hungry until night time.

It really is important that you experiment with the different green smoothie recipes and find one that is for you. I started with just one leaf of kale. I now blend a whole bunch of kale and add parsley. I pack my 56 ounce blender to the top with greens, blend it down with water and pack it up with greens again. You really will get used to the taste after a few days. It might be harder for someone who is on the SAD (standard American diet) diet though. I have been vegan for 9 months so my taste buds have changed from the SAD diet.

In her book, Victoria compares the SAD diet with a typical Chimpanzee diet. Chimpanzees share an estimated 99.4% of genes with humans. She explains how chimps have a natural immunity to most diseases. Most of their diet is of fruits and greens. She also tells of a study that her family conducted with participants who drank 1 quart of green smoothies each day for a month and their reactions. The results of the study showed a lot of improvement for the participants. Almost all of them had more energy. Victoria says in her book that she has met many people who have survived cancer by switching to a raw diet with greens in it. There is a lot of other very important information in her book as well. For instance stomach acid, fiber, soil, etc.

I began researching nutrition nine months ago when I switched to a vegan diet. I began to realize after a very short amount of time, how corrupt the nutritional information is out there. Most of the data out there is somehow influenced by the pharmaceutical companies who are making billions of dollars off of the sick. Or it's influenced by the corporate companies. For instance the dairy industry spends around 180 million dollars a year in advertisement. There is no amount of advertisement for kale. I don't believe that if there was a cure for cancer out there, the cancer research programs would even mention it. The medical industry makes billions of dollars per year on people who have diseases. The medical industry makes money on people being sick. They don't make money on healthy people. It is in their interest for people to be sick.

We have to take care of ourselves. There are plenty of books out there to help us. This book is one of them. I also recommend The China Study by T. Colin Campbell. http://www.newstarget.com/ is a good site and starting point on nutrition. Visit http://www.nutritiondata.com/ to compare the nutrition of different foods.

The Great Global Warming Swindle is a must-see documentary for anyone 
interested in global warming.  The program demonstrates that science 
does not support the theory that humans are the cause of global 
warming.  The central pillar of human caused global warming is that CO2 
causes a global temperature increase.  This tenet is shown to actually 
be the opposite: a rise in global temperature is followed 800 years 
later by a rise in CO2 levels.  The vested political, scientific, 
journalistic, and social interests behind the global warming issue are 
explored to help explain why an allegedly scientifically bankrupt 
theory has taken hold of the world. 

Take a look at the video and let me know what you think.

Here's the YouTube video link to it:

Global Warming Video


here's the documentary's web site:

Global Warming Site

It has an interesting forum on it to discuss the program.

This is a great converstation between Alice and the Mad Hatter from Wonderland.  It's a bit long for the quote page so I thought I would put it here.



Alice: Where I come from, people study what they are not good at in order to be able to do what they are good at.

Mad Hatter: We only go around in circles in Wonderland, but we always end up where we started. Would you mind explaining yourself?

Alice: Well, grown-ups tell us to find out what we did wrong, and never do it again

Mad Hatter: That's odd! It seems to me that in order to find out about something, you have to study it. And when you study it, you should become better at it. Why should you want to become better at something and then never do it again? But please continue.

Alice: Nobody ever tells us to study the right things we do. We're only supposed to learn from the wrong things. But we are permitted to study the right things other people do. And sometimes we're even told to copy them.

Mad Hatter: That's cheating!

Alice: You're quite right, Mr. Hatter. I do live in a topsy-turvy world. It seems like I have to do something wrong first, in order to learn from what not to do. And then, by not doing what I'm not supposed to do, perhaps I'll be right. But I'd rather be right the first time, wouldn't you?

- Lewis Carroll