Library of Blogress: Healthy Living Information

By James Bittner

Acne occurs in children and adults. It doesn’t matter if you are young or middle age if you are going to get acne you don’t have a choice it’s just the way of life. But you don’t have to live with acne, there are things you can do to get rid of it. There are many forms of acne medicine available on the market today.

There are creams, gels, solutions some of those recently added like foam. I had acne for years up to when I was middle age. I tried many products ones that worked in the beginning and the acne came back. I was jumping with joy when I finally found an acne treatment that worked.

There are some alcohol based treatments that work on acne, but some makes your skin peel and it doesn’t make it look too good. So my warning to you is to be careful and don’t get a treatment with a very high alcohol base. If you lived with acne for a while and tried all kinds of products you are probably frustrated by now.
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With the staggering increase in the number of mesothelioma cases, it’s a wonder that more was not done earlier. Asbestos in poor working conditions is something that has been around for decades, but only recently has it been put into the media spotlight. Is it because people started dying or because the media finally shed light on this preventable disease?

Because of the increase in mesothelioma cases in industrial nation workers, it became apparent that these workers, from the miners who removed it from the ground, to the builders and others who used the finished product and all those others in between such as the wives who washed their husbands work clothes all needed some form of protection. If only those people who knew how dangerous asbestos in certain forms was, had passed their knowledge onto people working with asbestos products much of the tragedy we are watching today and will continue to see in the future would have been adverted. Although it had been known for many years that asbestos was dangerous, little was done to protect workers. I have first hand experience of this as I was an employee of James Hardie in Auckland New Zealand for three months in 1965 and I wasn’t even issued with a face mask. Read the rest of this entry »

“No one can improve upon Nature, yet that’s what man attempts to do when he subjects his food to the heat of fire, destroying it vitality and changing its chemical constituents. The product of mother earth, given us for sustenance, are uncooked save by the heat of the sun—the source of all energy.

“The sun is productive of life. Fire is destructive of life.

“Cooking destroys the life cells in food—the cells which make and sustain life in man. Cook a seed thoroughly and see whether it will sprout when planted. Or graft a dead cutting to a live limb and see whether it will grow or whether it will help the growth of the live branch. All live vegetation is capable of either reproducing its own kind or of furnishing life or vitality to other organized living things; take away its life and it can do neither. Life cannot come from death. Read the rest of this entry »

There is, however, much to be learned along this line and it would be well for those inclined to be reckless to await the results of the experiments of those who have given the subject careful study before seriously considering the advisability of giving such a diet a trial. An experiment made by the U. S. Agricultural Department has clearly shown that cooking tends to decrease the digestibility of foods in the case of animals. Though it will naturally be argued that this proves little or nothing as to the value of cooking foods intended for the human stomach, because of our having been accustomed to cooked food for generations; still, it shows quite clearly that there is reason to believe that prolonged experimenting with raw-food diet for human beings may reveal some valuable information.

I quote the following from the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Bulletin No. 22:

“Ladd, while connected with the New York State Station, reported analyses of cooked and uncooked clover hay and corn meal and determination of digestibility of the same. These showed that the percentage of albuminoids [Ed. Note: Any of a class of generally insoluble proteins, such as collagen, found in skeletal and connective tissue.] and fat and the relative digestibility of the aluminous were more or less diminished by cooking. The experiments made by our experiment stations in preparing food have been mostly with pigs. At least thirteen separate series of experiments in different parts of this country have been reported on the value of cooking or steaming food for pigs. In these cooked or steamed barley, meal, corn meal and shorts; whole corn; Nature’s laws. It is a crime against Nature to potatoes, and a mixture of peas, barley, and rye have been compared with the same food uncooked (usually dry). In ten of these trials there has not only been no gain from cooking, but there has been a positive loss, i. e., the amount of food required to produce a pound of gain was larger when the food was cooked than when it was fed raw, and in some cases the difference has been considerable.”

Prof. Byron Tyler has some interesting theories about raw food which I quote here-with:

“All disease is the result of disobedience of nature’s laws. It is a crime against nature to eat the food she provides in any other condition than that in which she provides them.”

Nature doer not err.