Comprehensive Survival Food List & Storage Guide

Rady Ananda
Activist Post

Survival food storage practice doesn’t require Mormon membership, but the tradition, wrought from their first Utah winter, is worth emulating should disaster strike or technology fail, two survival books by Mat Stein. This guide, Part 2 of my survival series, relies on Stein’s books, and websites dedicated to survival preparedness.

At its most basic, food storage wisdom demands that you buy what you eat, and organize and label the [...]

Students strike against new federal school lunch rules

Mukwonago - By 7 a.m. Monday, senior Nick Blohm already had burned about 250 calories in the Mukwonago High School weight room.

He grabbed a bagel and a Gatorade afterward; if he eats before lifting, he gets sick.

That was followed by eight periods in the classroom, and then three hours of football practice. By the time he headed home, he had burned upward of 3,000 calories – his coach thinks the number [...]

Want to remember all your dreams? Start taking vitamin B-6 (or eat lots of bananas)

Are you desperate to wake up and be able to recount all your bizarre dreams to some poor friend or unsuspecting colleague?

If you want to be that person start taking Vitamin B-6.

According to a preliminary study, taking the vitamin may not only give people more vivid dreams but also help in remembering them the next morning. 

Sweet dreams: Vitamin B-6 may make people dream more vividly and help them recall the [...]

RED MEAT BLAMED FOR 1 IN 10 EARLY DEATHS

From Telegraph:

Small quantities of processed meat such as bacon, sausages or salami can increase the likelihood of dying within 30 years by a fifth, researchers from Harvard School of Medicine found. Eating steak increases the risk of dying by 12%.

The study found that cutting the amount of red meat in peoples’ diets to 1.5 ounces (42 grams) a day, equivalent to one large steak a week, could prevent almost one [...]

Moochelle is starting to change the military food menu.

“LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Obese Americans in the military are a national security hazard and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama wants to see that change.

Obama, who has led a healthy eating and fitness program for children for two years, lent her voice on Thursday to the military’s efforts to overhaul the food it serves.

In an event at Little Rock Air Force Base, Obama announced a new Pentagon [...]

USDA for 1st time set calorie limits on what kids eat in school cafeterias.

By BILL TOMSON, WSJ

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled new nutrition rules for school meals Wednesday in an effort to combat obesity in the U.S.

Students will have to be offered more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and the USDA for the first time is setting calorie limits on what kids eat in school cafeterias.

The new rules, the USDA said Wednesday, are “intended to respond to serious concerns about childhood obesity and [...]

Five Major Vitamin Deficincies & How to Avoid Them

There are five vitamins that, when lacking in a human diet, are associated with deficiency diseases: Vitamins A, B1, B3, C, and D.

Since vitamins don’t store well, how can you avoid vitamin deficiency diseases by eating right?

Vitamin A deficiency can cause night blindness, lower immune fuction, and can cause total blindness. While fortified foods and supplments are now cheaply and readily avilable, it’s good to know that diet can also keep [...]

There is no motivation for many people to come off their high horse and take a job….if it is less than their “benefits

All “social” programs, including Social Security need to be strictly means tested…and people who are on the dole…need to be given the minimum needed to survive.

There is no motivation for many people to come off their high horse and take a job….if it is less than their “benefits”.

For example I know a man who has multiple mathematics and technical degrees. He could have started teaching in our public schools over [...]

Great Britain’s Lancet predicts that “by the year 2030, half of all Americans will be obese.”

S. D. Wells
Natural News
September 15, 2011

(NaturalNews) According to the world’s leading medical journal, Great Britain’s Lancet, “by the year 2030, half of all Americans will be obese.” The Lancet suggests that the United States Government should somehow begin a top down approach to regulating and taxing unhealthy foods in order to reduce obesity, all while reducing the cost of healthy foods and making them more [...]

Tips: Whole Food Eating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have we forgotten where our food comes from? The importance of a whole foods diet has become more and more vital to our overall health and well-being, because, well, we’ve strayed so far from food. Farmers’ markets bring honest food to us. However, I certainly get lost and frustrated while shopping for food at a grocery store because a) there are too many products on the [...]

The medical profession and our government has been mis-educating us for 4 decades to do the very behaviors that have made us fat – “eat low-fat diets”, “eat less, exercise more”, “eat balanced diet”, “eat healthy whole grains”, etc

by OnionLover

It is not a coincidence that obesity and disease rates have skyrocketed since the government developed and socialized the food pyramid and associated advice. An entire nation of highly-motivated individuals have gotten fat during this time period – despite the fact that a multi-billion dollar health club industry was born and has thrived during this obesity boom. Doctors, food companies, farmers – [...]

Education IS important, particularly when it comes to overcoming decades of misinformation. What if you knew:

by Greg Connor

- Insulin regulates fat storage and increasing insulin makes you store more of the food you eat as fat (and prevents you from burning fat when you run out of blood glucose – instead you just get hungry again)
- Carbs stimulate insulin release. Or, put another way, carbs make you fat.
- People are have predispositions to getting fat (just like some people are hairy [...]