Monday, January 4, 2010

Chesse Is A Legal Addition!

If you're detoxing from dairy you may needed a 12-step program. I found it so hard to give up cheese! Amazingly, little did I know that cheese has actually been proven to be addictive. It has been as equally harder for me to give up dairy as cigarettes were at one time. Perhaps more shocking thing is that the Dairy Industry has deliberately fed on cheese's addictive quality, with all of us being completely duped. I feel sickened by the following article. If you can honestly read the last paragraph of this article and not be furious, you are addicted.

Here is an excerpt from the article in the Orlando Sentinel July 13 2003:

Of all the potentially addicting foods, cheese may be the most complex. In research studies using vegan and vegetarian diets to control cholesterol or reduce body weight, most participants soon forget the lure of ice cream, sour cream, and even burgers and chicken. But for many people, the taste for cheese lingers on and on. Yes, 70 percent of its calories may come from waist-augmenting fat, and, ounce for ounce, it may harbor more cholesterol than a steak. But that cheese habit is tough to break.

Why is cheese so addicting? Certainly not because of its aroma, which is perilously close to old socks. The first hint of a biochemical explanation came in 1981, when scientists at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., found a substance in dairy products that looked remarkably like morphine. After a complex series of tests, they determined that, surprisingly enough, it actually was morphine. By a fluke of nature, the enzymes that produce opiates are not confined to poppies -- they also hide inside cows' livers. So traces of morphine can pass into the animal's bloodstream and end up in milk and milk products. The amounts are far too small to explain cheese's appeal. But nonetheless, the discovery led scientists on their search for opiate compounds in dairy products.

And they found them. Opiates hide inside casein, the main dairy protein. As casein molecules are digested, they break apart to release tiny opiate molecules, called casomorphins. One of these compounds has about one-tenth the opiate strength of morphine. The especially addicting power of cheese may be due to the fact that the process of cheese-making removes water,lactose and whey proteins so that casein is concentrated. Scientists are now trying to tease out whether these opiate molecules work strictly within the digestive tract or whether they pass into the bloodstream and reach the brain directly.

(some paragraphs about chocolate addiction snipped)

The cheese industry is miles ahead of them, having gone to great lengths to identify people who are most vulnerable to addiction. It dubs them "cheese cravers," and tracks their age, educational level and other demographics so as to target them with marketing strategies that are tough to ignore. With a $200 million annual research and marketing budget, the dairy industry is not content to have you just sprinkling a little mozzarella on your salad. It is looking for those Americans who will eat it straight out of the package, whatever the cost to their waistlines or cholesterol levels.

At a "Cheese Forum" held Dec. 5, 2000, Dick Cooper, the vice president of Cheese Marketing for Dairy Management Inc., laid out the industry's scheme for identifying potential addicts and keeping them hooked. In his slide presentation, which was released to our organization under the Freedom of Information Act, he asked the question, "What do we want our marketing program to do?" and then gave the answer: "Trigger the cheese craving." He described how, in a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the dairy industry launched Wendy's Cheddar Lover's Bacon Cheeseburger, which single-handedly pushed 2.25 million pounds of cheese during the promotion period. That works out to 380 tons of fat and 1.2 tons of pure cholesterol in the cheese alone. A similar promotion with Pizza Hut launched the "Ultimate Cheese Pizza," which added an entire pound of cheese to a single pizza and sold five million pounds of it during a six-week promotion in 2000. The presentation concluded with a cartoon of a playground slide with a large spider web woven to trap children as they reached the bottom. The caption had one spider saying to another, "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings."

Camber@ThinkFabulous.com
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Vegan Pasta Dinner Made Fast and Simple

Eat Fabulous: Dinner No. One

Capellini and Tomato sauce made fabulous


As the sky grew dark and dinner was on my mind, I wanted something fast, easy and delicious. I had a hankering for Capellini and all the fixings for dinner.

So I grabbed some Capellini pasta, through it into a pot of water with olive oil and Spike seasoning.

Now for the topper, Italian Tomato Starter Sauce. But still I felt compelled to ad to this puppy. Opening my refrigerator I found a bottle of Corn And Chile Tomato-less Salsa. Perfect, I exclaimed to myself! I used about four tablespoons of this delicious combination of corn, red peppers, onion and a touch of heat. This combo sauce was fabulous. One last touch was needed, so I used four or five tablespoons of Meatless Ground by Yves. This is a good source of protein.

I took a couple of pieces of Rustic Country Sourdough and layered them with Earth Balance organic buttery spread (79% natural Vegetable Oils) toasted them and took a bread plate where I poured Olive oil and Balsamic Vinegar right into the middle of my oil puddle.

Walla Dinner was delicious

After dinner a beautiful walk around the neighborhood and I was ready to settle down for the evening and watch a fabulous movie.

End of story
Italian Tomato Starter Sauce
Corn And Chile
Meatless Ground
Spike Seasoning
Earth Balance spread


Camber

Friday, December 25, 2009

Raw Green Smoothie

Well I got the first load of laundry on and the heater warming my home as I stand at the kitchen counter preparing to make the awesome Christmas raw smoothie… I need this baby to give me the steam to get going into my 30-minute yoga and five mile run along the Pacific Ocean.

Cucumber
Dulse
Baby spinach
Arugula for spice
Raspberries
Banana for creamy finish
Water out of my Brita water filter

Now chew this baby as you drink it to get a good amount of saliva mixed in for good assimilation.

Yummy and ready for the world of Camber

Eat Fabulous, healing the world one mean at a time

Wednesday, December 9, 2009





This morning Kenya could not keep her beak out of my green fabulous smoothie. Vibrant green with sprinkles of red dancing in my glass from the crisp apple. The creaminess is produced from the merging of one fantastic banana. An edge was garnered from a good palm full of parsley. My body, brain and spirit are stocked…..


Apple
Banana
Cucumber
Dandelions
Flax oil
Water: Brita chilled from the fridge.


This puppy is creamy sweet and delicious.

Eat fabulous, healing the world one mean at a time

Camber

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Famous Vegans: Thought of the day





"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men"


Leonardo Da Vinci

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