Hi Hakan You should prowl around our Small Farms Library a bit, loads of interesting stuff there. If you liked This Famishing World, and in view of the UN quote (I feel the same about that, for a LONG time!), try Weston A Price (THE classic!) and the estimable Dr Wrench (and then McCarrison et al). Those who know this ground-breaking work shake their heads at the efforts of modern medicine and nutritionists. No use how smart you are and how wonderful your equipment if you start in the wrong place and head in the wrong direction.
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html Small Farms Library - Journey to Forever >Keith, > >Very interesting reading and especially if you think that it was >from 1918. In those times the nutrition was much more of a >medical science than today. All geared up to keep a body that >would survive illnesses that was fatal at time. A knowledge that >should be saved and used even today. Very good point! >The arrival of antibiotics was a "silver bullet" for this situation and >this valuable knowledge started to be disregarded. Something that >I belive was a big loss. Malnutrition is a serious problem, even in >the more developed countries, but is masked by successful >treatment of illnesses. The other side of this coin is over-use, and sheer abuse - the abuse being in agricultural antibiotics use. The nemesis of this hubris is now upon us, with last line of defence antibiotics now useless against several killer diseases. The first *official* warnings of this danger came more than 30 years ago. Bayer, eg, was still in denial about it until very recently, maybe they still are - the bottom line is so much more important! See "Antibiotic use": http://journeytoforever.org/fyi_previous2.html#0405 >I was involved some years ago in Swedish donation campaigns for >"barefoot doctors" and education in third world countries. One of the >UN statistics that stayed in my mind since then is the following >statement, > >"Two thirds of the world children have irreparable brain damages >because of malnutrition, half of them because of lack of food and >half of them because of religious beliefs or traditions. It is dependent >on the mothers nutrition during the pregnancy and the child's >nutrition during the first 9 month. A mother with a proper diet who >is breast feeding, is the best guarantee for a healthy child and it's >future". Again, read Weston Price! Please! http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#price and: The Wheel of Health by G.T. Wrench http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#Wrench_WoH And, for the downside: http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=1646&bulletin_ID=48 "Chiefly because of this false advertising [of infant formula], according to UNICEF, 1.5 million infants die each year because their mothers unwittingly prepare infant formula with contaminated water, causing fatal diarrhea." This is a shocking story. Re the brain damage, protein deficiencies in the first five years will permanently stunt brain growth. >This means that it is a serious problem were 50% can and must be >addressed only by education. It is therefore not only a problem >of poverty and lack of resources. It is only 50% is an availability >and resource problem. > >I learned this 30 years ago and it is still not common knowledge. >It should be screamed out from all the rooftops in the world. I always >state this whenever i get an opportunity and this is one of them. By >improving this we will give the world more people capable of making >biofuels and avoided the Saddam/George problem. This to prove it's >relevance as topic for this list. All the same subject as far as I'm concerned, and I think you as well, though others will no doubt disagree. Regards Keith >Hakan > >At 10:27 PM 3/5/2003 +0900, you wrote: > >Hi Hakan > > > > >I was trying to joke. -:( > > > >No, not a failure! > > > >The trouble is... > > > > > > >that US already started the chemical warfare a long time ago. This > > > > >places are against the Chemical Weapons Convention. Otherwise we > > > > >had a good day. > > > >... it's true! > > > >See for instance: > > > >"This Famishing World" by Alfred W. McCann, 1918 > >The subtitle says it all: "Food follies that maim and kill the rich > >and the poor -- that cheat the growing child and rob the prospective > >mother of health -- that burn up millions in treasure and fill > >untimely graves -- and the remedy." McCann was a journalist and food > >campaigner, and this is his story of what happens when food is > >divorced from its nature and function to become a mere industrial > >commodity. "Every pound of food juggled, changed, denatured or > >chemically treated is balanced by a pound of human flesh." Now more > >and more researchers are belatedly questioning the nutritional > >quality of our food, but most of them still only see a tiny part of > >the full picture McCann painted 84 years ago, and Price, McCarrison, > >the Cheshire medical panel, Pottenger, Cleave, Yellowlees and others > >after him. Full text online (with thanks to Kirk and Karen McLoren). > >http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/Famish/famworldToC.html > > > >:-( > > > >Keith > > > > > > >Hakan > > > > > >At 02:29 PM 3/5/2003 +0900, you wrote: > > > > >Hi Ken B, > > > > > > > > > >At 10:48 PM 3/4/2003 +0000, you wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >I good diversionary subject could be Obesity. This one will > > satisfy dear > > > > > >Hakan since obesity kills ( and kills twice over) > > > > > > > > > >It is a problem for Europeans and for me too, I am smoking and > > > > >like good food. Have some overweight and am aware of that in my > > > > >age I would be a high risk insurance object. I try to look after my > > > > >eating and drinking and if I have to do it, it should be >quality stuff. > > > > > > > > > >It is very seldom I am persuaded to eat at a well known US hamburger > > > > >chain, mostly when young people insist. The other day was one of this > > > > >rare occasions and I could not refrain myself of making the reflection > > > > >that US already started the chemical warfare a long time ago. This > > > > >places are against the Chemical Weapons Convention. Otherwise we > > > > >had a good day. > > > > > > > > > >Hakan > > > > > > > >Hi Hakan > > > > > > > >He's just trolling, take no notice. He'll take no notice of these, > > > >but have a look, very interesting: > > > > > > > >http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15119 > > > >America: The Fattest Country > > > >(Review of Greg Critser's book "Fat Land: How Americans Became the > > > >Fattest People in the World") > > > > > > > >http://www.paho.org/English/DPI/100/100feature30.htm > > > >The Faces of Poverty: Malnourished, Hungry and... Obese? > > > >(Debunks the noxious idea that so many poor people can't really be > > > >poor at all because they're fat and can obviously afford to over-eat) > > > > > > > >http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/rollingstone1.html > > > >Rolling Stone magazine (USA), Issue 794, September 3rd 1998 > > > >Fast-Food Nation: The True Cost Of America's Diet > > > >By National Magazine Award winner Eric Schlosser > > > >(Long but good!) > > > > > > > >Best > > > > > > > >Keith > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Others will be happy since > > > > > >it is principally a US problem and it is on theme since >all those fast > > > > food > > > > > >outlets supply us with WVO. Is the collective conscience up to > > this one? > > > > > > > > > > > >Ken Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! 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