Health is not something to take lightly. With today's show you'll learn that being healthy need not be so confusing with all the information and misinformation we're given. We'll learn a bit about how our diet can affect the drought! Rebecca Lee has given this all a lot of thought, but first, some news.
Equity Crowdfunding for the Rest of Us Crowdfunding—the fine art of raising money from
thousands of
strangers—has taken the Internet by storm in the past few years, generating an
eBay-ish level of enthusiasm. The
major success stories, like Pebble’s and Coolest Cooler’s, have already become
legendary.
This May, however, a giant holding dam is about to break. It involves
“unrestricted equity crowdfunding,” and it promises to unleash an enormous
deluge of capital in the direction of the world’s budding entrepreneurs. This
is a huge development that could rattle the country’s financial structure to
its core, given the immense size of the early-stage financing sector, which is
where startup hopefuls go for money. The
most important thing here is that equity crowdfunding adds in the element of
profit. If you invest in a normal Kickstarter offering, what you get back is
simply a promised reward, like a Pebble Watch. In
the brave new crowdfunding world, however, you can be not just a backer, but an
investor. You get a stake in the company, for better or worse. The whole story is here. ~~
The Water
Diet We’ve learned to consider the carbon impacts of our food.
Now, California’s crisis-level drought introduces the water footprint. This article compares how much water we use to produce food in various ways. As one would expect, raising animals, particularly cows, uses a LOT of water... over 700 gallons per meal! Here are two useful links. But let's get to our guest and her info!
Rebecca tells us how the water footprint is arrived at. Water to grow the food the cow eats amounts to a LOT of water. Larry suggests eliminating the middlecow. :~) We discuss how hard it is to change food habits. Neal asks how Rebecca got into reconsidering food. She's noticed how nutrition affects one's well being. Also, she was raised in an environment that helped her to understand nutrition. Rebecca mentions "Red Bull" which Neal likes to guzzle. Neal might be shamed into reconsidering his "habit". :~) Rebecca tells us how important it is to take responsibility and control. She suggests putting Neal on a smoothie diet for a bit to see how he likes it and if he can use it to get away from his energy drink. Larry gets called on the carped about the benefits of our addictions. Caught! Nutritional support is only part of the bigger picture though. Our desires and motivations matter as well. However, good nutrition can certainly have a dramatic effect on our health and well being. Rebecca has put together recipe for sale on her site, http://creativeandvitalhealing.com/ .
After the break we discuss why she came up with the smoothie recipe. It turns out supplements cannot be so easily absorbed as food. Also, we tend to make nutrition harder than it needs to be as Rebecca spells out with different examples. Things work together in our bodies. Taking pills for different symptoms may not really work out. One needs to understand the entire picture. One other thing that complicates things is that the information we're fed changes steadily. It makes it hard to know what the right thing really is. Rebecca discusses a "diet library" which points to the confusion. She tells a story of a man who healed cancer and blindness with nutrition. He won accolades, but then died an early death from poisoning. :~/ She gives examples of how we cannot seem to do a good diet, even in school. Cost is likely be a factor. Also, there clearly is politics involved. She gives concrete examples. Larry looks up the phrase "food as medicine". Turns out Hippocrates, the one who doctors quote, "do no harm" is the Greek who said it. Our medical system does very little to follow the "food as medicine" track. Rebecca discusses some of the history that's been discovered about how we've eaten in the past. It's enlightening. We continue the discussion into the field of "organic" and what it means. Growing your own food might be a good (and possibly, the only certain) answer to the question of what "organic" really implies. Turns out growing kale can be interesting. She has two kale trees in her yard. Another misconception is that only meat has the right protein. Green leafy vegetables can be a good source of protein as well. Who knew! We talk about "complete protein". Rebecca names names of what can give you good protein. Counting grams of protein in your food, helps. She helps us to understand what stress in our lives really means. We then discuss how to get enough complete "B" vitamins. The only vitamin you might want to have in pill form is "E". It seems certain we'll have another show with Rebecca. She has a lot to share.
Next show will be with Steve Baer, of Zomeworks in New Mexico. He knows more about solar, (he's basically the Godfather of solar in the US) than basically anybody! He's got strong and well reasoned ideas. It promises to be an interesting show.
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