Autumn Vegetable Pasta with Sage and Walnuts.

In our modern industrial society we live a highly unnatural lifestyle.  From the vegetables sprayed with pesticides, GMO's, the house cleaning products, makeup, toothpaste, hairspray, cell phones, microwaves, etc....  It is know wonder so many of us get sick.  Did you know that many of these large pharmaceutical companies also own pesticide manufacturing companies as well?  And that the pesticide companies produce GMO's.  In Europe, it is the law that they have to put GMO on the label if it contains GMO, even for animal food.  I can not believe that this is not a constitutional right.  To have the right to know what we are feeding our children and ourselves.

That is why it is so important to eat mostly whole organic plant based foods.  The National Cancer Institute is pursuing over forty studies in the area of nutrition that involves enzymes, fiber, fat, micronutrients, vitamins, and phytochemicals.  Many pharmaceutical companies are merging nutrient manufactures into their corporate structures.  With that being said,  the American pharmaceutical industry rules the way medicine is allowed to be practiced.  If a therapeutic substance or method is unpatentable, without profits to be made from a synthesized drug, it is usually ignored or suppressed.  Another problem with the system is that most medical doctors have had extremely poor education in the nutritional sciences.  That is why they barely ever speak about diet and if they do they may misinform you about what and what not to eat.

Environmental polluters have been releasing into the air, soil and water, many new cancer causing agents.  This creates new ways to suppress people's immunity and inhibit the enzymes necessary to our life processes.  There are at least 50 stressors that exist and which contribute to acute or chronic physical, mental, and emotional deterioration.  Incorrect cancer treatments have been used for over 50 years to attack the tumors without correcting the underlying causes that stimulate their development.

How does cancer get started in our bodies?  It is through carcinogens and or some other contributing factors that continuously are bombarding our bodies until our cellular genes are broken, our body's ever-weakening enzymatic, hormonal or other defense system are broken and then the cancerous growth is switched on.  This can come from malnourishing synthetic unnatural foods.  But it can also come from smoking, drinking to much alcohol, industrial toxins, overhead power lines, food additives, dental amalgam fillings, chronic physical or mental stress, industrial toxins, and on and on.

So what is the best way to combat all of this?  By eating a plant based diet.  Eating a rich, colorful blend of fruits and vegetables daily will increase your odds on beating down those degenerative diseases that are overwhelming our medical establishments.  And that is why you must try my Autumn Vegetable Pasta with Sage and Walnuts.

Autumn Vegetable Pasta with Sage & Walnuts

by Jeff Harter

Prep Time: 1/2 hour

Cook Time: 1/2 hour

Keywords: saute appetizer entree vegan vegetarian Italian fall

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All of these vegetables are from our garden except the leeks. The pasta is organic whole wheat. And what makes this pasta so healthy and deep in flavor is the variety of ingredients.

Ingredients (serves 4)

• olive oil
• 1/4 cauliflower, cut into florets
• 1 medium eggplant diced
• 1 red pepper diced
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 leek cleaned and chopped
• 2 garlic cloves minced
• 1/2 cup walnuts chopped
• 20 sage leaves
• large pot of salted water
• fettuccine for 4

Instructions

• In a large saute pan over medium heat saute each individual vegetable about 5 minutes each then place in large bowl. Add more oil if needed. Then add walnuts and sage and saute about 5 minutes as well, then add to vegetables.
• Next, bring water to boil and add pasta and cook until Al dente. Do not rinse with water. Let strain but do not rinse. In the large pot where you cooked the pasta, rinse out and dry then add 4 tbsp olive oil and heat over medium heat. Add all vegetables from bowl and cook for 2-3 minutes then add pasta, salt and pepper and some cheese if your allowed. Divide the pasta between 4 warm plates and enjoy.

Braised Purple Carrots with onion, sweet potato, maple syrup and soy sauce

The population of the western world are the leaders in the consumption of meat and the leaders of cancer.  Countries with high per capita meat consumption were shown to have higher incidence of colon cancer than those with low consumption.  According to the most recent 2008 compilation of cancer statistics by the International Agency for Cancer Research through the GLOBOCAN Project, there were 12.7 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide. -->

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11352852?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg

 A recent review of epidemiologic studies of red meat and prostate cancer determined that 15 of 21 studies found over 30% increased risks associated with higher red meat intakes, six of which were statistically significant 

--> Kolonel, 2001)

 Diets high in red meat also tend to be low in vegetables and track with other unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, which may contribute to the observed associations 

Fruits and vegetables have long been studied for their role in cancer prevention because they contain numerous substances with potential anticarcinogenic activity, including folate, carotenoids, flavonoids, vitamins and limonene.  In most of these studies, subjects who consume diets high in certain fruits and vegetables have lower risk of some, but not all cancers.

Another interesting fact is that populations with greater exposure to ultraviolet light generally have lower risks of breast

--> Garland et al., 1990),  colon --> Garland and Garland, 1980 , and prostate cancer  --> [Hanchette and Schwartz, 1992).

Lycopene from food is relatively consistently related to an inverse risk of some cancers.  Lycopene, the most abundant carotenoid in the plasma in some populations, is not converted to vitamin A and thus may be entirely available for other functions, such as anti-oxidation and quencher of singlet oxygen and free radicals.  Lycopene can be found in tomatoes and tomato products, watermelon, and pink grapefruit.  In a recent review, 57 of 72 epidemiologic studies reported inverse asociations between tomato intake or blood lycopene level and the risk of specific cancers, with approximately half reporting at least 40% lower risks.  Evidence being strongest for cancers of the prostate, lung, and stomach.

Antioxidants may reduce the risk of cancer by neutralizing reactive oxygen species or free radicals that can damage DNA.  Vitamin C is the major water-soluble antioxidant, and vitamin E

is the major lipid-soluble membrane-localized antioxidant in humans.  Studies of dietary vitamin C support an inverse association, particularly for cancers of the stomach, mouth, esophagus, lung, pancreas, and uterine cervix.

--> (World Cancer Research Fund & American Institute for Cancer Research, 1997]

Vitamin E (tocopherol) may help prevent cancer by reducing free-radical damage to DNA and through effects on the immune system.  Fats and oils are the major sources of vitamin E and the amount and form varies by type of oil. 

--> (Institute of Medicine, 2000]

Selenium helps reduce cancer because of its anticarcinogenic role that it plays defending against oxidative stress.  The amount of selenium depends greatly on the selenium content of the soil where the plants are grown or the animals raised.

A large European study involving 10 countries found a 25% lower risk of colon cancer associated with higher fiber intakes compared to low intakes.(Bingham et al., 2003a)

I hope you get the point.  By eating a plant based diet and eating less red meat you will greatly decrease your odds of getting cancer or other diseases.

A little fusion

Purdy purple carrots

Chopped and ready to go in the oven

Delicious and ready to go

 

 

Warm Autumn Butternut Squash Soup with Apples, Mint and Basil

     A lot of my friends on Facebook are into health and well being.  One of my friends from Australia who lives here in Mallorca posted a very scary but true article (http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/bitter-pills-20121008-277yj.html)  about the power of Pharmaceutical Companies in Australia and how they have created laws that allow children to be taken away from their parents if they do not do exactly what the doctor tells them to do.  From antibiotic injections to chemotherapy and on and on.  Four in 1,000 children are taken away from there parents each year in certain parts of Australia for not listening to the doctor.
     I mostly just focus on the bad doings of the powerful lobbyists in the United States but this article just has me flabbergasted.  The rein of the Pharmaceutical lobbyists has stretched far and wide.  For doctors in Australia if you don't do as they say the police are just a phone call away.  It's not that bad in the states yet but it sure is a scary thought though.  The problem with the judicial system is that if a law gets past that says you must obey your doctors orders then you the patient, the love one or the parents must fight the system through the proper channels which most likely will involve a lawyer and mucho dinero.
     Hopefully that day will never come.  But then again I hoped the day would never come that GM foods would hit the market shelves.  Well they have hit the shelves and these foods are not marked.
Have you ever eaten a tomato that tastes a little fishy?  Do you know why?  It's because that tomato has been spliced with a fish cell for god knows why.  The FDA has approved these GMOs with no scientific studies on human consumption of GM foods.  Only time will tell.  Until then do your best to avoid eating GM foods.
     I also hope the day will never come that every 1 in 2 persons will get cancer but we are not that far off.  Right now it is every 1 in 3.  If you ask anyone if they know someone with cancer they will at least have one or 2 personal stories about cancer affecting someone in there lives.  Off the top of my head I can think of 5.  So much for "The War on Cancer".
     You must have your own war on cancer.  And the best way to wadge war on cancer is to not let the war get started or to not let the cancer get started.  And the best way to do that is to eat a mostly plant based diet.  And eat only food that you can identify.  For example, don't eat cheese puffs, what are they?  Or twinkies or pop tarts or captain crunch or skittles or, or, or.  You get the picture.
     Now what about meat.  You can identify a chicken leg, pork rib, steak but do you know what kind of life that animal lived and do you know what antibiotics or hormones it has been fed to make it stay alive in horrid circumstances.  Unfortunately, we believe mostly what we read.  Milk, it does a body good.  Bullshit.  If it did a body good then why does the milk association (lobbyists) have a $128 million a year budget.  And why can't they put this information on the milk cartons?  Because the FDA won't allow them because it has to be backed up by facts and they can not do it.
     The list goes on and on with lobbyist over here saying this is good for you.  And they get some smart scientist who will back it up and well if he says it it must be true.  And again bullshit.  But we are naive because if it is said by him then it must be true.  He wouldn't say that because he is getting payed huge sums of money to endorse these products would he?  Hell yeah he is. 
    And that is how the system works and the sooner you realize that and snap out of this desensitized monetarily controlled media manipulated world in which we live and just realize that eating right can save your life, now!
    Can I tell you a great way to get started today?  Well that would be to make this beautiful autumn soup.  Easy, healthy and al natural.

fall vegetables

chopped and ready

sweating

almost there

herbs, spices and liquids added

last minute prep

hot german friend

final touches added

Tati and me

Warm Autumn Butternut Squash Soup with Apples and Mint

by Jeff Harter

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Keywords: blender appetizer soup/stew low-carb nut-free soy-free sugar-free vegan vegetarian Butternut Squash American Thai fall

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This lovely soup is the first fall soup I made this year because it is one of my favorites.

Ingredients (serves 4)

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion chopped
• 2 carrots chopped
• 1/2 butternut squash peeled and chopped
• 1 leek white part only chopped
• 1 celery stick chopped
• 1 beet peeled and chopped
• 1 garlic clove minced
• 1 tbsp fresh ginger minced
• 1 small potato
• 1 apple chopped
• 1 tbsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp curry
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tsp oregano
• 4 cardamon seeds
• 4 cloves
• 1 can coconut milk
• 4 cans water/vegi stock
• juice of 1 lime
• 5 drops fish sauce
• salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

• In a large deep pot heat oil over medium heat for several minutes then add onion, carrots and squash and cook for 10 minutes stirring frequently. Then add leek, celery, beet, garlic and ginger and cook another 10 minutes then add the remaining ingredients except coconut milk, water, lime juice and fish sauce and cook another 5 minutes. Then add the rest of the ingredients, bring to a simmer and cook for 1 hour over medium low heat. Take out cardamon, cloves and bay leaf and in several batches blend ingredients until nice and smooth. Place back in pot and bring to boil. Remove from heat and cover until ready to serve. Serve with chopped sauteed apples and small mint leaves. I added a drizzle of walnut oil as well.