That well-done steak can give you cancer

This last weekend while at friends BBQ cookout I was stuffing down my third sirlion burger as a stray thought entered my mind about how I’ve read over the years studies that have been done suggesting that eating charred and “well done” meats pose a risk of developing cancer.

Why is it that we do things we know could be potentially harmful to our health? Is it the “it only happens to other people” syndrome or is it that we really don’t believe the studies we read?

As life would have it that little thought stayed around waiting to attract some more of its kind and sure enough it found plenty of company today as I started reading the latest edition of the Life Extension Foundations latest magazine.

I think it’s safe to go on a limb and say that when you eat charred and well done meats you are exposing yourself to a heightened risk of developing cancer.

It’s not meat that is the issue but rather certain compounds like heterocyclic amines that are produced as a result of high temperature cooking.

“While heterocyclic amines themselves are not carcinogenic, they are transformed in the body into chemically reactive compounds that can interact with DNA to trigger the initiation of cancer.” – LEF Magazine October 2006

If you’ve read my web site you’ll know that I believe our thoughts and how we think about our health and wellness play a primary and vital role in the actual state of our health and wellness.

The key to improving your health is to start changing your attitude toward it.

One way to do this is to plant thought seeds into your thinking that can trigger during certain circumstances.

For example I’m going to use this thought seed next time I’m at Outback ordering a steak…

“Eating well-done meats can cause cancer”

I’ll have mine medium please.

Kahunka’s Amazing Muscle Pizza

Kahunka’s Amazing Muscle Pizza – This Kahunka in the Kitchen video describes a pizza I love to eat as one of my five meals over the course of a day. I actually have many varieties of this type of pizza all of which are really delicious considering they are made with mostly very healthy ingredients. Like the living foods video above, this video will have an article to accompany it that will describe in more detail the process of making this pizza.

Cut trans fats and these other ingredients from your diet for health

Michael’s “Cut the big bad 4″ diet.

Sometimes on MySpace and other online communities people ask me what I eat to keep my body the way it is and generally the following is my response.

I don’t think it is even as much about what to eat that may be as important as what NOT to eat.

If you are out of shape and are looking for a way to get started back on the track to health consider starting with only cutting the following items from your diet.

In other words if you are confused about what or what not to eat for health, if the food you are considering has any of the following ingredients, don’t eat it….OK, OK I know that will be tough but at least try to cut them out as much as possible.

Michael’s top 4 worst foods for the human body:

• White sugar and anything with “ose” in it like fructose, sucrose etc.
• White Flour and any products with white flour in them
• Trans fats and anything that contains them
• Hydrogenated fats and anything that contains them

As much as possible, keep these ingredients from entering your body.

New Ipanema Beach Video

New Video

This video is an update of one I did earlier this year with footage in Ipanema except this one came out much better. I think it does a great job capturing the atmosphere on Ipanema beach.

If you’ve been there I’m sure you’ll agree.

This video plays beautifully in it’s original h264 mpg4 format but I guess when it gets transferred to YouTube’s Flash format, the quality goes South.

Link to the prescription fish oil story I wrote about

A while back I posted a story about the new “FDA approved” fish oil pill. I’m amazed at the number of surfers who found this blog through that post. When I posted the story the magazine in which I got the story from was not online yet.

So here is the full story and the link to the original article…

Fish Oil Now Available By Prescription!

By William Faloon

For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has sought to limit competition by trying to get the FDA to regulate high-potency supplements as drugs. It was only because of intense consumer backlash that Congress passed legislation that protected the free sale of most supplements in the United States.

For those who have battled to protect health freedom, the introduction of an overpriced prescription fish oil drug provides absolute proof that every letter to Congress was well worth sending. I am enormously gratified that Americans were perceptive enough to not let the drug industry (and federal government) trample our liberties under the guise of “protecting” us against “unproven” products….READ ON>>>>>

Hair Today and Hair Tomorrow – Conquering Hair Loss

Hair Today and Hair Tomorrow – Conquering Hair Loss

I just got back from getting my hair cut. Here I am hitting 40 and sporting a, well, rather dorky looking Beatles type of a mop top hair doo but I know with a little more patience it will grow out to the length I want it.

The barber was shocked to see a bunch of new hairs growing out from the back of my head, an area which has fairly dense hair to begin with.

The only reason I can attribute to this new growth is that I have been more actively messaging my head in the shower lately, just like I describe in my original hair reverse article. 

Anyways, the point of this post is to express my views on hair loss and thinning hair and some of my beliefs surrounding the issue.

A long, long time ago when I was not much more than twenty years old, my hair started to thin out until at one point a friend told me to “comb it to the side and it will look fuller.” Well I wanted to cry that day and to make a long story short I started looking into why my hair was falling at such a tender young age.

If you’ve read my disclaimer, and you should because it is an eye-opening page, you’ll know that I don’t claim to be a medical authority of any kind but I  have lived on earth now for forty years and have actively sought health and fitness knowledge for the last twenty that I can use in my life.

In my opinion much of the mainstream hair-loss cures “endorsed” by the medical establishment is a crock of  crud and here’s why.

I cringe every time I hear a radio commecial in my area stating flat out that “pills and potions don’t work” and you should come and see us so we can cut follicles from one part of your scalp and put them in another.

I do not deny that there are plenty of “hair growth” scams out there.

I also don’t discredit that fact that hair transplant surgery may work but to flat out tell people that “our option is your only hope” when that is not true at all should be a crime.
Same with the prescription potions that once you start taking, you have to remain taking for life otherwise your hair starts falling out even faster.

Ads for these products claim that they are the only ones “approved” by the FDA and lead on to make you think every other protocol is quackery.

All one has to do is investigate the 3-way relationship between the FDA, medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry to see why as a society we believe that there is just nothing you can do about thinning hair unless you use some “approved” drug or surgical procedure.

My personal experience with this leads me to believe that is simply not true.

I personally reversed my hair loss and I know others who have done so as well by doing one or more of the following

1) Changing the way I think about hair loss

2)  Messaging and giving attention to your scalp – frequently

3) Keeping the follicles clean

4) Diet

5) Sleep

6) Controlling DHT

These are all more detailed in another article.

The point is while I do not claim using my approach will help everyone, I do believe if you still have hair, that is you are not bald yet, then focusing on as many of the items mentioned above MAY just work for you as well.

All I can say is I sure am glad I took my own initiative and reversed my hair-loss instead doing something I know now would not have been in my best interest.

Understanding the Ups and Downs in Life in the Third Demension

There I was jamming through life feeling good and having a great time.

I’m sure you can relate.

Things just go your way, business is great, the sky is blue and all the lights are green as you cruise through life feeling on top of the world.

Then it happens.

Out of nowhere the wrecking ball of reality crashes into your castle sending you plummeting back down to earth hitting the ground with a deafening thud.

Why does this always happen to me? ….and just when I’m thinkin’ life sucks and I generally feel like crap and want to scream at the top of my lungs or cuss out the rude driver in front of me, the beauty of “quantum thinking” comes into play.

All it takes is one single thought to interrupt any disempowering feelings and/or thoughts you may have to put the good times back on track again.

I know, here I go thinking about “thoughts” again.

People sometimes ask why I always talk about etheric, mystical new age stuff on a health and fitness site and I always say that understanding our very nature and the laws that govern energy are the single most important thing we can to achieve optimal levels of health and fitness.

You wouldn’t jump into a plane and try to fly across country without understanding the physical laws that affect aerodynamics but yet people try to go through life without ever attempting to understand some of the most fundamental laws that govern energy of which is 100% what we are!

Our dominate thoughts create the emotions we experience which determine the rate at which we resonate with the world ultimately dictating, without fail, our degree of health and the quality of life we live.

Unfortunately most people have it backwards; they are always looking some quick-fix outside of their own thinking to get to the place they think they want to go.

They want to loose this, so they take that drug. They want to look like him so they buy his sports supplements or they want her thighs so the answer must be in the cool machine she sells on TV.

Last month I read somewhere that there are now more fat people on the planet then starving skinny ones.

It’s obvious that the conventional approach to diet and exercise does not work.

Once people understand, I mean really sit down and come to the realization that they are actually a big blob of vibrating energy and then look to the laws that govern energy, why things happen in life start to make complete sense.

It really isn’t as hard as some would have us believe.

Anyway back to my bad day.

We’ve all heard the old sayings like “things always get better” and “life just has its ups and downs” but how true are those adages? To what degree, if any, can we rely on this wisdom?

Next time you’re having a bad day, consider what powerful forces may be playing a part in it and take comfort in knowing that things really are going to get better.

1) Einstein’s famous theory of relativity in a nutshell says that we only know one thing by our ability to compare it to something else.

We have bad days because if we didn’t, how would we even know what a good day was?

If you knew no bad days, it would be impossible to know what a good day was. We need the bad days to remind us how those good days feel.

2) The Law of Polarity- This law basically says that for a thing to even exist, so must its opposite. In fact, there is really no separate “this” and “that” rather varying degrees of the very same thing.

So, in other words wherever you are that may not feel good at the moment, understand that the exact opposite of that place is much closer than you may think.

Often that place is as close as a smile away.

3) The Law of Rhythm. Life is really all about change, a cosmic energy dance that starts at the most minute levels and repeats over and over again up to the incredibly huge celestial cycles and on and on.

You can see these cycles all around, the seasons, tides, financial markets and even our moods.

There is no escaping it. Things go good for awhile and then not so good.

Good days and bad that is just the way it is….it’s a law.

This means thank goodness that if times are bad, good things are on the way. It’s the law.

Conscience awareness of this will keep the cyclic ride smoother and more toward the top of the wave crests…

…it’s the law :o)

Michael

U.S. Rice Supply Contaminated – Genetically Altered Variety Is Found in Long-Grain Rice

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced late yesterday that U.S. commercial supplies of long-grain rice had become inadvertently contaminated with a genetically engineered variety not approved for human consumption.

Johanns said the company that made the experimental rice, Bayer CropScience of Monheim, Germany, had provided information to the Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration indicating that the rice poses no threats to human health or the environment….Read On…