Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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That looks like a pretty good prescription. I would qualify the animal 
products by saying that they should be consumed in relatively small amounts 
and more as condiments than fundamental sources of nutrients, but we have 
talked about that before :-)


---- Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> EAT: [organic if possible.  From: garden, CSAs, farmers, ranchers, farmer's 
> markets, farm stands]
> 
> 
> 
> Bread, tortillas:  100% whole grain
> Butter
> Cereals:  100% whole grain
> Chocolate: natural dark
> Coffee 
> Dairy [grass fed]:  whole milk, cream, cheese, yogurt, full-cream powdered 
> milk.
> Eggs [free range]
> Fish: farm raised?
> Fruit:  fresh, frozen, canned, dried
> Grains:  whole 
> Juices:  pure fruit
> Lard
> Meat [grass fed,]:  fresh, frozen, canned
> Nuts
> Oils:  unrefined, cold pressed
> Pasta:  100% whole grain
> Poultry [range raised]
> Sugar:  Deremara
> Tea
> Vegetables:  fresh, frozen, canned, dried
> 
> 
> RARELY EAT: [read labels]
> 
> 
> 
> Chips/snacks 
> Corn syrup
> Fast food [most but not all]
> Fried foods [only at home]
> Frozen dinners
> Processed foods
> Salt
> Soft drinks
> 
> 
> NEVER EAT: [read labels]
> 
> 
> 
> BHT, BHA, TBHQ
> Brominated vegetable oil [BVO]
> Colors, artificial 
> Energy drinks
> Flavorings, artificial 
> Flour - bleached
> Food dyes
> Food from China
> Fruit drinks
> Genetically modified [GMOs]: Hawaii pineapples, Aspartame, AminoSweet, MSG, 
> etc. 
> HF corn syrup [Corn Sugar]
> Hydrogenated oils: Crisco, etc.
> MSG [names such as natural, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, yeast, malt 
> flavoring, yeast extract, textured protein, etc]
> Nitrates/nitrites
> Oils: cottonseed, palm
> Olestra
> Packaged cereals
> Packaged mixes
> Salt
> Sweeteners: Aspartame, AminoSweet, Equal, NutraSweet, Saccharin, Sweet'n 
> Low, Sucralose, Splenda, Sorbitol, etc.
> Vegetable drinks
> 
> 
> READ/View:
> 
> 
> 
> Article:  "What Really Makes US Fat" Mother Earth News, Oct/Nov 2008  [$1 
> ppd]
> Book:  "Eat Fat; Lose Fat" $11. 
> DVD: "Food Inc" - factory dairies, poultry, etc.
> Toxic America, CNN, Dr. Gupta [$3 ppd.]
> 
>  
> In the supermarket, do not use a cart [must for junk food]; use only a hand 
> basket [large enough for real food].
>  
> 
> Information:
> 
> 
> 
> New borns pre-polluted with chemicals. ewg.org
> Constipation - 1 T or more unhulled, organic Sesame seed per day.
> DVD: "Flu Factories" Boy near Mexican pig factory [American owned] was 
> first case. humansociety.org/swineflu  [$3 ppd]
>  
> Ken Hargesheimer, minifarms@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
>