Rebel With a Fork

I ran across this video – and I had to share it with you.

David Colon’s body was presented atop his Repsol-liveried Honda CBR600 F4, rather than the more traditional casket.

How would you like to be remembered?

Are you looking for how to loose weight fast?

I get asked this question all of the time. How fast can I lose weight?

There is no one answer.

Do you mean, how fast can you safely lose weight? Or

How can you lose weight permanently?

Or are you looking for a way to drop a bunch of pounds fast and return to your old eating habits?

The answer varies depending on exactly what you’re looking for.

Unfortunately, it seems most people are looking for a way to lose a bunch of weight fast so they can return to their old eating habits. Of course we all know that once you return to your old eating habits, all of the weight comes back, and more. That’s why everyone is stuck in the endless cycle of yo-yo dieting.

If you’re doing this, you have to stop!

You’re messing with your kidneys, your insulin production, and your thyroid when you do this.

Now let me ask you this- if you went to all this trouble to lose weight, why on earth would you ever want to return to your old way of eating?

Maybe you don’t know what to make?

Maybe you think its too hard?

Listen. Even my best friend and my sister are doing it. Not all the time, but they’re getting better If we can get those 2 to change, anyone can do it!

Do what they’re doing – a little at a time.

Login and pick some of the brain dead simple, quick healthy recipes to try.

Back to the original question – How fast can you lose weight?

If you take the little at a time method, it’s going to take you longer.

If you dive in and cut out packaged foods and all pop – and eat your 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables a day – you will lose weight fast.

The real answer is – it’s up to you.

But won’t it be nice to finally lose the weight once and for all? If you stick with your new healthier eating habits, the weight will stay off. And don’t worry – you don’t have to be perfect. I’m sure not!

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I know, I keep hammering on the food safety legislation that is perilously close to being passed. This is important!

If you value having organic food available for you and your family -

If you value farmers markets where you can gather and buy locally grown produce, jams, and such -

Visit this site – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5205

Click on the Take Action link in the Green Box.

Scroll to the bottom and sign and send the message.

It will just take a few minutes.

Thank you for helping to save healthy food!

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Are you looking forward to growing your own vegetables this year? Its been a growing trend. I’ve had a salad garden for years, and I love not only being able to step out my door and pick my salad fresh, but also the fact that it tastes so much better than what you can buy in the store

I just found this new organic gardening guide – Food4Wealth, and I wanted to tell you about it right away since its time to start our growing season here in the Midwest.

With all the food concerns going on lately, the best bet for you and your family to be sure that your food is safe is to grow your own, right? And nothing tastes better than homegrown vegetables.

But who has the time for that?

I found this amazing new ebook and training videos that shows you how to grown more vegetables than you can eat in a 8×8 plot, and he says only 8 hours of work a year!

This system uses principals that I’ve used in my flower beds for years – always have something coming up. I never thought of trying this in my vegetable garden – but it makes perfect sense.

I’ve been looking for a way to do more of my own growing, but time has been a limiting factor, right?

And I’m looking forward to learning about seed saving, especially with the GMO stuff going on. And the composting and natural methods are high on my priority list too.

He says he saves $100 a week on average. That’s a lot of vegetables. I know I don’t spend that much, let alone be able to save that much – but I’ll be saving enough to cover my investment, and even without the health concerns – homegrown always tastes best. That’s worth it in my book.

The name is kinda hypey I think – Food4Weatlh. But I guess health is wealth, even if you don’t really save $5000 a year.

If you’re interested in growing your own organic, healthy, great tasting vegetables with small space and little work – Check out Food4Weatlh

P.S. I do get compensated if you buy through this link. It helps keep this site running.

Well, now that health care is done, its time to go back to attacking safe nutritious food.

Don’t you love the tomatoes at a roadside stand? The corn? The homemade jams at the farmers markets? Going apple picking, or strawberry picking, or pumpkin picking?

The language in Senate Bill S510 threatens this very way of life.

This bill would require that all food grown for consumption have tracking codes, and licenses, and a bunch of expensive red tape that already struggling small farmers would not be able to afford.

 Under the current language, I would not be able to give you one of my homegrown tomatoes.

 Lets take a nostalgia break –

 And the funny thing is – the contaminated foods have all come from industrial farms. But under this bill, that would end up being our only choice.

 I haven’t seen any pre-made petitions yet. I’m sure they’ll be coming. I didn’t wait. I sent emails to Congresswoman Bean and Senator Burris. I’ll let you know how they respond. But I urge you to send an email to both your senators and representatives.

We have to act fast! This is being pushed through pretty quickly all of the sudden. Let them know we are paying attention!

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ANH-USA Victory! Supplements Are Exempted From Codex Language in Food Safety Bill – ANH-USA worked closely with our allies in the senate to ensure that dietary supplements are protected from Codex language in the Senate Food Safety bill.

And the FDA is hot on the trail of the Walnut scam -  

Tell The FDA That Cherries—And Now Walnuts—Are NOT Illegal Drugs!
The FDA previously attacked cherry producers. It now says that if you tell consumers about the health benefits of walnuts, you turn walnuts into a drug. Please join us in protesting this attack on both common sense and free speech.

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The first time I heard about it was when I was in high school in the 70s. Yeah, I’m old… A teacher was talking to a few of us about the research that was being done trying to farm oceans. It wasn’t part of the curriculum, but a few of us were into the seaweed craze, so she thought we would be interested.

I was confounded. Why would you want to grow food in the ocean?

She explained that as we needed more and more land for housing, less land was available for food. It would come to a point where we cannot feed the world population.

I’m guessing the farming the oceans thing didn’t pan out too well. But there was another solution – lab created foods.

The only problem was – no one would eat them. Not back then anyway. These fake foods had a chemical taste. Because they were cheap and easy to prepare, a lot of lower income households loved them. These foods were soon associated with lower class.

Then, slick marketing agencies went to work bombarding us with the message that these foods were cool. Slowly but surely, they caught on.

It’s not that these foods are any easier to prepare, because in a lot of cases they’re not much faster than real cooking. But now you don’t have to cut up anything, or think much.

And that would be fine, except for one minor detail. Our bodies are not designed to eat chemicals. These fake foods have practically zero nutrition.

The aftermath has been a skyrocketing increase in chronic and fatal diseases, and exorbitant increases in the cost of health care. 62% of bankruptcies in 2009 were because of medical bills.

I could see why these mindless foods would be attractive, if they tasted good. But they don’t.

It’s still lower class food. I’d say its even worse now as they try to make the foods cheaper to produce so they can squeeze out every cent of profit.

But at this point in our history, many people never grew up with real food. People have adapted their tastes and think this is good food.

Those of us who know better are a dying breed.

Even when I’m on my deathbed, you will never get canned ham or jarred spaghetti sauce at my house. I swear it!

If you are one of the remaining rebels, login and find a new recipe to try.

America’s supermarket bounty is deceiving. Of those hundreds of brands on grocery store shelves, the vast majority are owned by a handful of industrial food companies like Kraft, Conagra and General Mills.

This concentration of power in the hands of a few large corporations is repeated in all sectors of the food system — from Monsanto’s stranglehold on seeds, to Dean Foods and Dairy Farmers of America’s control over our milk, to Smithfield, JBS and Cargill’s near total dominance of meat processing. But there was nothing inevitable about this kind of corporate control of our food. Decades of deregulation and governmental inattention to industrial consolidation brought us our broken food system, one that features non-stop food safety recalls, an obesity epidemic and the hollowing out of rural America as family farmers are forced to sell out to corporate interests.

It’s time to stop letting Big Food control what we eat. Urge the Obama administration to fix our broken food system.

Fortunately, the Obama administration has taken the first step towards addressing this crisis. The Departments of Justice and Agriculture recently convened a set of “workshops” to discuss potential antitrust practices by the agribusiness giants who control of the food industry. Family farmers were finally able to air some of their grievances against the abusive practices by large food corporations. Though only a baby step, these workshops represent one of the first admissions from the US government that its past policies have weakened, rather than strengthened, our food system.

We can’t let this initiative lose steam. As consumers, we have a vested interest in the future of our food system. Tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that that it’s time to break up America’s corporate food monopolies before they do more harm.

Please join CREDO and our friends at Food Democracy Now in signing the letter thanking Holder and Vilsack for the workshops and demanding they follow up with real action on antitrust enforcement. The era of Big Food must come to an end.

Thank you for working to break up the food monopoly.

Adam Klaus, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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Of course, the best way to get your message heard is to not buy their stuff. Login and pick some real food for dinner tonight.