Top 10 Quick Fixes When You Are Overtired

1. Go to sleep tonight and every night by 11 and wake up by 7
2. Take a :20 nap before 5pm
3. Do a body rub before your next shower
4. Give yourself an ear or head or foot massage 
5. Rub your palms together and put them on your closed eyes for a liver bath
6. Lemon water and vitamins A,B12, C,D,E and Endocrine Support
7. Take a nature walk and lie down on the grass or pine needles
8. Breathwork!
9. Stretching and yoga
10. Plenty of good water upon rising, before and after meals

Top 10 Tips For Less Stress In 2021

1. Resolve to watch less news, and have less screen time overall
2. Remember the most satisfying and healthy meals you cooked and repeat
3. Do a daily body rub (hot water, facecloth, in a sink) before showering
4. Avoid dairy. Start with cheese and milk (there are great substitutes)
5. Avoid beef and pork (the Earth and your body cannot tolerate it)
6. Eat more brown rice, but CHEW IT WELL 
7. Don’t forget other grains like barley, millet, oats, quinoa, buckwheat, etc.
8. Get superfoods like shiitake mushrooms, Ume plums, miso etc. in the mix
9. Take a daily nature walk, and try to lie down if you can
10. Be grateful for what you have, and who you have in your life

Top 10 Tips For Preventing Covid-19

1. Eat 75% less meat and dairy, choose organic foods and chew well
2. Use sea salt, sea vegetables, rice syrup and agave vs. salt/sugar
3. Eat boiled whole grains vs. bread, pasta, crackers, etc.
4. Enjoy daikon, shiitake, ume plum, lotus, burdock and sesame seeds
5. Take a nice nature walk in the morning, lie down if you can
6. Keep more green plants in your home, especially bedrooms
7. Do a daily body rub and self-massage
8. Be more grateful for everything and everyone
9. Use black tea, lemon, zinc, salt water rinses and PPEs

Top 10 Reasons to Stop Eating Animals

1. Illness. 95% of animal foods come from factory farms, where bacteria, pesticides, hormones rule
2. Pollution. Our soil, water and air is being devastated by methane, runoff
3. Water supply. It takes enormous quantities of water to grow beef etc.
4. Fossil Fuels. In addition to transportation, petroleum-based fertilizer is used to grow animal feed
5. Suffering. Cows, pigs and chickens are suffering needlessly. We cannot help but suffer also.
6. Karma. As factory farms have increased, so has our drugs, violence, stress, etc. Let’s change it!
7. Health. Eating a steady diet of beef, pork, poultry, eggs, and dairy brings almost all disease.
8. Vanity. Animal foods cause wrinkles, gray hair, body odor, and selfishness.
9. Economics. It costs less to eat a plant-based diet, today and tomorrow.
10. Love. Cats, dogs, hamsters, turtles, birds and fish are pets,  why not cows, pigs and chickens?

Top 10 Reasons Americans Are Dying Younger

1. Glyphosate is in most foods, from bread, to meat, to produce, to breakfast cereal, and of course from our lawns. It causes CANCER!
2. We eat too much, too often, and don’t give our bodies a chance to detox. We should compress our eating day so our body can detox.
3. We eat too much sugar and animal foods. Too much antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, salt, preservatives, colors and bacteria. This causes all types of disease, but especially cancer. Go organic, reduce portions, and say a prayer for animal and Earth, which are both suffering greatly for our enjoyment, and wasteful practices.
4. We are always on our phone, computer, TV, and exposed to so many other sources of radiation from networks to flying, to speed traps on the highway. All of these cause cancer and disrupt our DNA, endocrine and neurological systems.
5. We don’t sleep enough. Sleep is when our bodies clean. People who don’t sleep well are at high risk for Alzheimers. Go to sleep by 11pm, wake up by 7am, and take a nap if you need one!
6. We don’t walk in the woods, have enough plants in our homes, and get enough sunlight, exercise and clean air in our homes and workplaces. Go outside right now!!
7. City water is often filled with chlorine, fluoride, pesticides and meds, not to mention bacteria. We are even being bombarded by chlorine gas in the water we use to shower. Get a filter!
8. We work too much, and see too much violence and stress, in movies, games, the news, and in relationships. Switch to classical music, shut off the news, and don’t fight. Choose love.
9. We need to forgo toxins like smoke, alcohol and drugs, medications, hair and nail colors, anti-perspirants, diesel fumes, lawn mowers and snow throwers, jet fuel, cleaning products and paints.
10. Cancer is a wake up call. It means you are not living a sustainable life. Grow, forgive, work less and slow down to stick around longer.

Top 10 Secrets to Vibrant Health  

1. Filter your drinking water for impurities and fluoride, and your shower water for chlorine
2. Use a hot water bottle for your tummy before bed, and enjoy the steam from the dishwasher
3. Have lemon-water or cider vinegar upon rising
4. Drink spring water upon rising, and before and after meals, but not during meals
5. Do a daily body rub, with a white cloth and hot water, before your daily shower
6. Take a nature walk every morning, and lie down on the grass or pine needles
7. Avoid animal foods as much as possible, especially chicken, beef, pork and cheese/milk.
8. Use organic, especially for animal foods, greens, fruit, and even bedsheets. Avoid GMO.
9. Enjoy superfoods such as miso, daikon, shiitake, umeboshi plums, sesame, and seaweed
10. Do not have immunizations, nor take unnecessary medications. Avoid toxins everywhere

Top 10 Natural Backcare Tips

1. Take a :15 nature walk every morning and every night, preferably in the woods. Bonus points if you can lie down for a minute or two and really relax!
2. Take frequent breaks from sitting at the office and in the car. Stretch, rub, stand, walk, and improve your ergonomics or get a back support for your chair. Avoid lifting heavy weights, especially on stairs or above your head. Get a stool, a lifting belt, and a tool to reach your socks behind the dresser.
3. Drink more water during the day, especially when you wake up, and before and after meals. Please do not drink anything during meals. This makes digestion more difficult.
4. Develop a daily ritual of exercises and stretching, to be done sometime at least a couple of hours after rising, so you will not pull any muscles. Safe situps, pushups, and yoga or tai chi will get you more bonus points!
5. Avoid tobacco, sugar and corn syrup, caffeine beyond one cup of tea or cold brew coffee, and table salt. For bonus points, also avoid burned meats (especially in summer!), chips, salty and dried foods, and nightshade veggies (potato, tomato, eggplant, pepper is hard on the body, especially raw, and especially in winter). Also avoid pesticides and overeating.
6. Get occasional chiropractic or physical therapy, or a massage. Couples massage is great!
7. Eat more boiled brown rice, millet, barley, quinoa and corn. Grains offer balance, great nutritional support, improve digestion, and help the body eliminate toxins and heal. Well chewed whole grains add water to our cells, and fight cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and much more. They also have a low glycemic index, versus white pasta, bread etc.
8. Add superfoods to your diet, like miso, ume plums, radishes, mushrooms, sesame seeds, sea vegetables, and a few supplements like turmeric, green tea and dandelion.
9. Break out of your tightness, once you feel like you are safe and ready. Physically, mentally and spiritually, try new things and be flexible, and your body will back you up!
10. Doctors and pills and surgeries are expensive, risky and can come with side effects. If they work, it’s often only a patch. Why not fix the problem with better diet and lifestyle habits?

Top 10 Reasons to Ignore Trump’s Style and Trust His Policies 

1. We may have liked Obama, but our debt, healthcare and education costs, middle class prospects, immigration problems, and international policies were huge issues, and now all are in play.
2. He has good positions on vaccinations, shrinking government, tax reform, etc.
3. It was so important to be equal that now affirmative action stole fairness from white men. I’ve experienced this reality, and it has to end in America. Or we will have a revolution.
4. It’s interesting to see what may happen when the house, senate and white house are all the same party. Oops, that is now over.
5. I think the liberals have gone to far! The country was just a little bit too left of center.
6. Trump will fix our broken media. Not through Twitter I hope. But by being more transparent.
7. Obamacare was a disaster.
8. Trump offers family values. It’s not what he says, it is what he does. Look at his family.
9. He’s our oldest president. Maybe that’s a good thing.
10. Small businesses were getting crushed under Obama. No more.

Top 10 Fallacies In The U.S.A.

1. 9/11 could not have been avoided. In fact, the U.S. Gov’t wanted it to happen, and they benefitted.
2. The Federal Reserve is the government. No, it’s the big banks, and they want to own everything.
3. Our water is safe, our food supply is safe, drugs are safe, immunizations are safe. Wrong again.
4. Our justice system works. Nope. It’s rigged for the rich and those who know the law to win.
5. Inflation is low, around 5%. Sorry, not true. With minor exceptions, we are getting ripped off.
6. We are getting the truth in our newscasts, and our politicians care about us. Not a chance!
7. Our economy is stable. Not at all. Get ready for a bigger fall than 2008, it is being planned.
8. Home ownership is a right, and on the up and up. No sir, the government is using it to plunder.
9. Cancer is being eradicated, along with other dreaded diseases. No, they enjoy the money though!
10. You are free. Ha ha, not at all, the government owns you. Look into it!

Top 10 Restaurants In Metrowest Boston (For Health & Enjoyment)

1. Masao’s Kitchen
2. Green Leaf
3. Sweet Greens
4. Legal Seafoods
5. Pho Dakao
6. Big Fresh Café
7. Wasabi
8. Aoi
9. The Thai Place
10. Fresh City

Top 10 Ways to Reduce Stress & Heal 

1. Say no to work and yes to time off
2. Spend less time on the computer and smart phone
3. Relax outdoors in the early morning and the evening
4. Bring some plants home, garden, join a CSA, etc.
5. Do yoga, meditation, affirmations, chanting, stretching, naps
6. Eat less food at each meal, and drink water in between meals
7. Lay off the salty, dry, animal, processed and chemical foods
8. Buy organic when it comes to berries and greens, and more…
9. Live and let live, don’t use pesticides, compost
10. Smile more and notice good things about others more

10 Reasons We Are All Sick (1/3 of Americans have a chronic illness)

1. Immunizations
2. Pesticides in everything from Oatmeal to Wheat to Soy to Meats and Dairy
3. Hair coloring, nail polish, diesel fumes and chlorine and flouride in our water
4. Hormones and steroids in foods, and given by our doctors
5. Radiation from microwave ovens, speed traps, aircraft radar, wireless, RV, high tension wires, computers and phones
6. Too much time inside, with spores from air conditioning, and dust, and pet dander
7. Not enough time outside in nature
8. Eating too much, and poor elimination, and therefore high toxicity
9. Medications and drugs, alcohol and the like
10. Overworking, poverty, stress, fear, poor relationships, loneliness and depression

Top 10 U.S. Government Lies 

1. Polio was eradicated by the Salk Vaccine
2. 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were surprise attacks
3. The FDA is not paid off by corporations to fast-track drugs by big pharma
4. George W. Bush won the 2000 election fair and square
5. Big banks are not being allowed to water down our economy through bailouts, free Fed Loans and illegal home seizures
6. Immunizations are now safe
7. AIDS was not caused by the U.S. Government
8. Lyme Disease has nothing to do with Lyme CT well toxicity
9. GMO Foods, chemotherapy, mammograms, nuclear power and highway radar are safe
10. Pesticides, nail polish, hair dye and diesel fumes are not causing mass cancer

Top 10 Supplements Most People Over 40 Need

1. Vitamin D (along with milk, etc., important for many body functions, along with sunlight)
2. Vitamin B12 (along with organic vegetables with tops still on, deal with stress, etc.)
3. Glucosamine & Condroitan  (along with fish, intermittantly, for joints,)
4. Omega 3 and olive oil (with white fish such as sardines, cod, etc., good for tissues and heart health)
5. Vitamins A, C, E (along with assorted colorful vegetables, to prevent cancer)
6. Mushroom extract (along with Reishi, Shiitake, Maitake, etc. mushrooms, for immunity)
7. Astragalus and Echinacia (only when feeling run down)
8. Flax (or brown rice, boiled grains such as millet, barley, quinoa, oats, etc., helps with digestion)
9. Minerals (also available in sea vegetables, sea salt, etc., especially helps build tissues)
10. Quercetin (also available in many vegetable fibers, many functions in the body)

Top 10 Natural Mood Enhancers:

1. Take a long walk in a beautiful place (woods, the beach, Newbury Street, etc.)
2. Do a body rub and take a shower
3. Go for a swim or bike ride, play tennis or even a board game
4. Watch comedy on television or YouTube, or log into Vine etc.
5. Have some nice hot apple juice, hot carrot juice, hot sake or a beer
6. Get a hug or a back rub from a family member
7. Get something done on my to do list (return a book, paint the fence, clean the kitchen, etc.)
8. Listening to music or playing music
9. Calling an old friend
10. Meditating or chanting with sincere gratefulness, and satisfaction with life

Top 10 Ways to Ease Acid Reflux

1. Avoid tomatoes and tomato sauce
2. Cut soda, fruit juice, coffee, tea, alcohol and seltzer out
3. Cook fruits and limit raw salads in winter
4. Avoid all dairy foods
5. Avoid beef, chicken and pork
6. Avoid shellfish
7. Eat brown rice and miso soup ~daily
8. Have a pickle after each meal, and take a relaxing nature walk
9. Chew 25-50 times per bite
10. Drink water an hour before, and an hour after, but not during meals

Top 10 Ideas to Avoid Illness & Accidents

1. Get to bed before 11pm and wake up before 7am
2. Get a nature walk everyday, and keep plenty of plants in the house
3. Eat boiled brown rice every day, along with other grains
4. Do a daily body rub, and massage my feet and stretch
5. Do daily affirmations, chanting and be very grateful
6. Eat a well balanced, plant-based, organic diet
7. Spend time every day with family and friends
8. Do things for others and appreciate what I have
9. Develop my intuition by deep listening, reading and being in nature
10. Have a healthy skepticism of government, business, etc.

Ten Great Food Items For Better Health

1. Vegenaise
2. The Bridge Tofu
3. Rhapsody Tempeh
4. Sea Seasonings by Maine Coast Sea Vegetables
5. Mushroom Medley at Ocean State Job Lot
6. Impossible Burger!
7. Mitoku Macrobiotic Umeboshi Plums
8. Nama Shoyu by Ohsawa Macrobiotic
9. Trader Joe’s Organic Filtered Apple Juice
10. Organic Rice Nectar by Suzanne’s Specialties

Top 10 Healing Methods To Try

1. Shiatsu
2. Reflexology
3. Craniosacral Therapy
4. Network Chiropractic
5. Homeopathy
6. EFT (tapping)
7. Hypnotherapy
8. Positive Psychology
9. Alphabiotics
10. Juicing

Top 10 Ways To Create Peace

1. Drop sugar from your diet
2. Only see the good in others
3. Meditate every day
4. Live mindfully and modestly
5. Take a daily nature walk
6. Forgive yourself completely
7. Love, laugh and be grateful for freedom
8. Listen deeply to everyone, especially your adversaries
9. Take care of all living beings
10. Make an effort to drink clean water and eat clean foods

Top 10 Ways to Make Cookies & Ice Cream Healthier

1. Make treats dairy-free. Milk, cream, butter, half & half and cheese are arguably the most unhealthy foods. They also cause animal suffering and environmental problems. Almond milk, soy milk, rice milk, coconut milk, and earth balance, soy or corn oil work fine. When using chocolate, make sure sure the chocolate is dairy-free also. Trader Joe’s sells it.
2. Make treats egg-free. Most eggs come from hens that are treated horribly. Living away from family, eggs stolen, days shortened, beaks cut off,  the life of a chicken is hell. We’ll come back to the horrors of eating chicken. Instead, use egg replacer, or soy flour, or tapioca.
3. Instead of using sugar, why not use brown rice syrup, agave nectar, or grade B maple syrup? They give our pancreas a break, and taste just fine.
4. Stay away from chemical stabilizers, colorings, flavorings and preservatives. They allow longer shelf life, but shouldn’t we be buying local products or making things ourselves anyway, to support local businesses, and reduce fossil fuel use?
5. Make smaller batches, and have smaller sizes at stores and restaurants. Also, end the idea of a free dessert. It isn’t helping Friendly’s anyway.
6. Don’t eat dessert every day. Make it 2-3 times per week. And then, ice cream and cookies can be once per week. There are many healthy desserts, such as fruit, jello, pudding, breads, etc.
7. Don’t allow kids to have both cake and ice cream, AND a sugary drink at a party. Limit them. They’ll win, and you’ll win. And do the same with parties. One per weekend. Let them get some outside time. Pick and choose. Balance.
8. When you know a party is coming up, have a healthy meal before and after. With brown rice, cooked vegetables and beans, and maybe even miso soup. The latter is especially good after eating bacteria-laded milk products.
9. Try to have your cookies and ice cream earlier in the day, so exercise and a healthy meal can improve the blood chemistry.
10. Have a pickle or umeboshi plum after cookies or ice cream.

Top 10 Reasons to Eat Less Animal Foods

1. Lose weight effortlessly
2. Save money
3. Get Sick Far Less
4. Better Skin, Hair & Nails
5. Improve the environment
6. Reduce Animal Suffering
7. Prevent Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes & Osteoporosis
8. Lower Health Insurance
9. Live Longer
10. Improve Your Mood

Top 10 Ways to Lower Stress

1. Eat fewer baked foods, eggs and less salt
2. Eat less sugar and chemicals
3. Do a body rub every day
4. Take a :30 nature walk each day
5. Eat less meat
6. Replace coffee with green or bancha twig tea
7. Put houseplants in your bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen
8. Go to sleep by 11pm and wake up by 7am every day
9. Stop watching the news and violent television shows and movies
10. Meditate or do yoga or have a massage several days per week

Top 10 Ways Supporting Employee Health Affects Your Bottom Line

1. They will think less about taking a vacation
2. They are able to focus better at meetings be less forgetful
3. They will be less fearful about getting sick
4. They will work longer hours and take fewer sick days
5. They will get along better with peers
6. They will come up with better ideas
7. They will spend not increase your company medical costs
8. They will not infect other workers
9. They will be happier, and stay at the company longer
10. They will be grateful for their health, and want to give to others

Top 10 Important Changes For the U.S. to Survive

1. Defeat meat, dairy, sugar, chemical and bank lobbies
2. Revoke personhood status by corporations
3. Become a Transition Country
4. End the war on drugs
5. Sell the U.S. Postal Service
6. Ban nuclear power, strip mining, drag net fishing, assault weapons
7. Make it illegal to sell iodized or table salt, and high fructose corn syrup, and MSG as food
8. Change the presidency to one six-year term
9. Take ethanol out of gasoline
10. Make it illegal to radiate, add hormones, pesticides and antibiotics to food products

Top 10 Foods You Should Eat

1. Boiled brown rice twice weekly
2. Boiled millet, barley, oats and quinoa weekly
3. Shiitake and other mushrooms frequently
4. Umeboshi plums after sweets and on occasion
5. Home-cooked azuki beans, black soy beans, lentils, peas and chick peas
6. Daikon radish grated, dried in soups, stirfried and boiled
7. Sea vegetables such as nori, wakame, kombu, dulse, arame, agar and hiziki often
8. Rice syrup and agave nectar instead of sugar or corn syrup
9. Winter squash, onions, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale
10. Sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, almonds & chestnuts, lightly cooked with less salt

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Sleep

1. Wake Up By 7am
2. Walk for :30 Outside Every Day
3. Do Physical Chores Such as Cooking, Cleaning or Yard Work
4. Minimize Computer, Cell Phone and Television, and quit at 8pm
5. Avoid Animal Foods, Especially Eggs, Chicken, Pork, Beef and Cheese
6. Avoid Salty Foods, Baked Foods, and Sugary Foods and Beverages
7. Enjoy a Light Conversation or Light Reading or Plan Your Day In The Evening
8. Do Not Eat After 7pm
9. Do a Body Rub and Shower At 9pm
10. Meditate at 9:30pm and Lights out 10 or 10:30pm

Our lives are super stressful. Money is tight, and the government is currently not functioning. With winter closing in and the Red Sox and Patriot losses, there was probably a lot of unrest in the past few hours.

The bottom line is that animals can deal with stress, because they use nature in their lives more than humans. So focus on getting more nature in your life—not just once a year when you go on vacation, but every day.

Certain foods and activities cause more stress, such as meat, eggs, cheese, salt, and baked and dry foods. And other foods let that stress escape, such as soda, alcohol, drugs, etc.

Here are some food and lifestyle tips that really make a difference in lowering the incidents of minor (and major) domestic violence.

Top 10 Ways to Stop Anger, Fights, etc. at Home

1. Appreciate the little good things people do today vs. the mistakes
2. Avoid chicken, beef, pork and eggs, cheese, garlic, MSG, alcohol, drugs and soda
3. Serve brown rice, beans, and green vegetables, and chew well
4. Take a walk after dinner; Make sure you have plenty of green plants in the house
5. Don’t skip meals
6. Take a body rub and shower before bed
7. Skip watching the news
8. Do affirmations: you are loved and you are grateful for what you have
9. Get and give a hug
10. Coach your kids that tomorrow’s problems are not relevant today

10 Ways to Lower Health Insurance Premiums

1. Become mostly vegan (eat very little meat, eggs and dairy) and eat brown rice often
2. Choose organic when it comes to animal foods, greens, apples and berries
3. Exercise more, especially walking, biking and swimming
4. Do a daily body rub, to exfoliate, improve circulation, life your mood and detox
5. Consume fewer chemicals in the form of foods, medicines and body products
6. Get more clean air and water at home and work by filtering, plants and open windows
7. Take up yoga, meditation, self-massage, affirmations, journal writing and hobbies
8. Read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle & Health Your Self
9. Heal your emotional wounds through counseling, reading, courses, etc.
10. Have colon hydrotherapy and/or do a liver cleanse

Top 10 Ways to Prevent Heart Attacks

1. Reduce stress every day by taking a :30 nature walk before 9am or after dinner
2. Avoid eating eggs, chicken and cheese, and minimize all meats & dairy foods
3. Eat regular meals, but eat less, particularly dinner and afterwards. Chew more
4. Eat brown rice 5-7 x per week, plus boiled millet, barley and other whole grains
5. Minimize sugary drinks, fruit juice, coffee, tea and alcohol, corn syrup and honey
6. Eat well-cooked organic vegetables such as turnips, onions, squash, rutabega, radishes, mustard greens, kale, cauliflower and broccoli. Also eat sea veggies.
7. Minimize fried foods, and restrict to plant-based, small amounts fried in fresh safflower, sesame or olive oil, or a combination thereof. Eat a pickle afterwards
8. Stop smoking. Avoid dangerous fumes, chemicals and shocks at home and work
9. Choose yoga, tai chi, or martial arts over lifting weights or running
10. Do a daily body rub

Top 10 Ideas for Restaurants & Cafeterias

1. Serve boiled or pressure-cooked brown rice every day, cooked with sea salt or kombu. This improves digestion, cognition, and has more protein than you think. It’s easy to make it different every time with so many varieties and additives. But it needs to be chewed well. Supplement with boiled millet, barley, quinoa, oats and buckwheat, as well as whole grain noodles, and sourdough bread.
2. Eliminate all ground beef and hot dogs, as well as any meats with nitrates, nitrites, MSG, artificial colors and flavors, etc.
3. Introduce fried vegetables (deep-fried also), especially onions, zucchini, sweet potato, carrot, mushrooms, and lotus root. They are delicious, relaxing, and helpful for joints in healing. Rather than adding salt or using ketchup, dip in long-brewed soy sauce, or mustard. Limit portions, and have a real (sea salt) pickle afterwards.
4. Serve blanched and pressed salads with broccoli, cauliflower, chinese cabbage, carrots, scallions, cucumber, radish, etc. Blanching means boiling for under thirty seconds, then spreading out to cool fast. This activates nutrients and improves digestion and adsorption. Pressed salads by hand or with a heavy weight, with or without sea salt. Same benefits.
5. Reduce barbecued, broiled and baked animal foods such as beef, pork, poultry, fish or cheese, especially in the Summer. These meals add great stress and dry out the body, and the enormous energy of these meals is unnecessary for hospital patients, and can cause violence in a prison setting.
6. Do not serve any diet products, as the sugar replacements cause obesity, toxicity and cancer. If soda is desired, make your own or buy natural syrup. Use less soft drinks including fruit juices, and reduce coffee and tea. Main beverages should be twig tea, green tea and water.
7. Eliminate or greatly reduce milk, ice cream, cheese and other dairy products, as they cause osteoporosis, cancer, obesity, infections, allergies and skin problems.
8. Cook fruit in the winter, and reduce spinach, eggplant, tomatoes, potatoes and peppers in the winter, making sure to cook them well. These “nightshades” cause acidosis in the body, leading to osteoporosis, arthritis and other diseases.
9. Replace table salt with sea salt, use agave nectar and rice syrup instead of sugar and corn syrup, and refrain from salting food after cooking.
10. Use more sea vegetables, fermented foods such as miso and tempeh, shiitake mushrooms, legumes, nuts and seeds.

In general, eating more fresh, organic, plant-based foods that are well cooked (more raw in summer), and de-emphasising fat, salt, sugar and chemicals, will lead to faster and more complete healing, and more happiness, for patients, inmates and staff.

I believe this can be done without an increase in food costs over the long term.

Top 10 Ways to Relax at Home or at Work

1. Splash water on your face
2. Take a nature walk
3. Take a cat nap
4. Have some fruit juice (hot apple juice or hot carrot juice are nice) or seltzer
5. Take a shower
6. Give yourself a foot massage or do some yoga or meditation
7. Change into more comfortable clothing
8. Watch television
9. Eat some raw salad or a piece of fruit
10. Get a hug

10 Ways to Knock Out Common Colds & Infections

1. Stop eating dairy foods, especially cheese and milk. If you must, go organic
2. Lay off all soft drinks and candy, especially diet
3. Walk outside in the woods for :30 every day
4. Eat differently for each season. In Winter, more boiled grains, root vegetables, sea vegetables and low sodium soups are good, occasionally meat and fish stews and plenty of cooked beans. Lay off tropical fruits, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and chocolate.
5. Do a body rub, as described here, once per day in the morning or evening
6. Buy and eat superfoods such as shiitake mushroom, daikon radish, umeboshi plum, lotus root and burdock root, along with all kinds of vegetables
7. Double the amount of green plants in your home
8. Drink only filtered (not bottled) water, green and twig tea, and the occasional hot apple juice, hot carrot juice, or sweet vegetable drink (recipe here)
9. Avoid chemicals such as cigarette smoke, diesel fumes, hair spray and coloring, nail polish, perfumes, paint and harsh cleansers
10. Do yoga, meditation, affirmations, tai chi or self massage a few times per week

Top 10 Reasons To Give Up Eating Dairy Foods

1. The price of dairy products has skyrocketed over the past few years
2. Milk has been linked to thyroid cancer, which is found in approximately half of adults over 50. Comes from iodine used to treat mastitis. Also hormones, antibiotics, etc.
3. All dairy products cause weight gain—cheese is at the top of the list
4. Dairy foods have enormous amounts of bacteria, stressing our immune system. Pasteurization has consistently been found to be inadequate
5. Any woman, and especially any mother can tell you that being milked several times per day for months at a time is extremely taxing. Misery loves company
6. Dairy cows have a lifespan of just a 4-5 years, vs. 20 year normal lifespan.
7. While milk is touted as good for your bones, milk drinkers have the most osteoporosis
8. Milk has been linked to breast cancer, SIDS, Asthma, Allergies, leukemia, & diabetes
9. Dairy products promote air, land and water pollution
10. The U.S. Government, The Dairy Council and Big Pharma say milk is part of a healthy diet. They make huge profits while we sneeze and wheeze and choke down tons of addictive but harmful cheese!

10 Ideas For A Long & Happy Life

1. Cook and eat boiled grains 5-7 times per week. Today I’m cooking medium grain brown rice that I soaked overnight. Add a pinch of sea salt, use a ratio of 2:1, and boil covered for :45. What could be easier?
2. Chew rice well, and add steamed or sauteed organic vegetables, steering clear of nightshade vegetables. Also use legumes, beans, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, and a bit of fermented foods such as miso and pickles.
3. Improve circulation with a body rub, massage, yoga, walking and occasional holistic treatments.
4. Keep lots of plants in your home, and spend time outdoors.
5. Be grateful for what you have, smile, laugh and sing, and listen deeply to others.
6. Get a good night’s sleep.
7. Be generous. It comes back to you.
8. Spend time with family.
9. Create things and add value.
10. Be gentle on others and the planet.

Top 10 ways to be more green:

1. Compost at home and at work (or take it home)
2. Instead of buying flowers, buy plants (healthier too!)
3. Grow your own produce in your backyard
4. Drive a smaller car and walk or ride your bike more often
5. Eat less shrimp, beef, pork, chicken, turkey, eggs and dairy products
6. Buy local produce instead of China, Mexico or Chile
7. Recycle whenever possible, and hand down clothes, etc.
8. Conserve electricity and water whenever possible
9. Learn more about being green
10. Join Transition Framingham or a group in your town

10 reasons not to eat beef:

1. Linked to heart disease
2. Linked to cancer
3. Linked to obesity
4. Linked to alzheimers
5. Drains drinking water supplies
6. Damages soil through fertilizer and toxic runoff
7. Adds to climate change through methane and transport of beef
8. Adds to animal suffering
9. Adds to human suffering for those who must kill these animals
10. Adds to violence in the world as people try to deal with the suffering

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