In terms of health, charcoal from plants has been used for thousands of years to treat a variety of human ailments, and conditions. The activated kind has been created by burning vegetable matter of various kinds under high heat conditions such that the porosity of the charcoal is increased substantially, giving it more surface to interact with.
But, all charcoal, even the kind created when you burn vegetables in a pan, or bread in a toaster can have beneficial effects. But Charcoal made from vegetable matter is not to be confused with charcoal produced from burning meat. Burned meat is another thing entirely, and evidence has seemed to tie it to various cancer in those who consume large quantities of it such as those chronic outdoor barbecuing enthusiasts.
The “good” vegetable charcoal has long been used as an antidote for poisoning when it quickly acts to absorb the offending poisons and pass them from the body. Charcoal also removes other toxins from your digestive tract where it helps to absorb and remove toxins. It also can calm an upset stomach and nausea, alleviate diarrhea and flatulence, and, maintain a generally healthy digestive tract.
Charcoal, especially the activated type, is highly absorbent above all else. It absorbs many times its own weight enabling it to bind to toxins and prevent them from spreading throughout the body. It also works like a sponge to absorb, and then expel, organic toxins from your digestive system which helps you feel better, mostly by giving you immediate digestive relief.
Charcoal is an ancient “folk” remedy used by many doctors today to “pull” toxic organisms from the body, and may also be used to help detoxify heavy metals from your digestive tract.
It is a relatively safe treatment that has been used for thousands of years to absorb poisons and calm stomachs, but because this product may interfere with absorption of food generally, or medications, it is best to take it two hours before or after eating, or after taking medications. It can be taken up to three times daily, but should be taken for no more than three consecutive days, or use as directed by your healthcare professional.
Charcoal’s earliest recorded use dates back to 1550 B.C. when the Egyptians used it for its healing effects.
Evidence also shows that Native Americans mixed charcoal with water to relieve upset stomach and other digestive problems even before the discovery of America. And in 1831, a professor boldly demonstrated the powerful absorbent effects of activated charcoal by ingesting a lethal dose of strychnine AND living to tell about it!
In an additional interesting anecdote, it is well known that animals love the burned vegetation that is left after a forest fire. Monkeys and all sorts of animals can be seen devouring large amounts of the remaining charcoal, presumably because they feel their system needs it.
On top of all else, the charcoal of vegetation retains large supplies of certain minerals that are not consumed by the fire and, of course, our body always needs minerals.
While activated charcoal in the powder form is often used to treat many poisonings, it has been recently “re-discovered” in capsule form as a remedy for upset stomach, flatulence, and diarrhea and is available in most health food stores.
Activated Charcoal is made by burning wood or vegetation at high temperatures in the absence of oxygen, thus producing a very large surface area compared to its weight, such that it can quickly absorb substantial amounts of gases, liquids, and other unwanted materials in your digestive tract to help you feel better quicker.
Charcoal works by quickly binding to toxic substances in your digestive system and preventing their spread throughout the rest of your body. These bound toxins can then be safely expelled. Basically, your gastrointestinal system loves charcoal.
An additional benefit is that Charcoal is a safe natural internal cleanser and deodorizer beneficial for assisting and maintaining intestinal hygiene and hence fresh breath. Charcoal has long been used as a natural aid to good digestion, because of its natural ability to absorb trapped wind and to help neutralize body odor and gas.
So next time you burn those vegetables or that toast, go ahead and just eat it. Some may not like the taste, but it can become an acquired taste for many, plus you are saving money on the food you would otherwise throw out.
The Chinese have figured about everything out, much like the Greeks did, but the problem is neither was able to consistently practice what they preached. In any case they have both left us a legacy of wisdom that can be life-saving to us, if we will but apply it.
One of the best Chinese Sayings relates to Food use and abuse, and tongue use and abuse. It goes like this:
“All Sickness enters in through the mouth, and all Trouble comes forth from the mouth.”
By mouth, of course,they mean consumed in some way, which would include drug addiction with shooting stuff in our arms and sniffing it up our noses, and smoking by sucking bad stuff into our lungs, and even by absorbing bad things through our skin.
Pure unadulterated Chocolate is very good for you. That is without the sugar and other additives that will destroy your health. You can buy 100% Chocolate bars at better healthfood stores, and best of all you can buy chocolate “Nibs” that are the small chunks of crunchy pure chocolate just as they come from the Cacao pod. You can also buy whole Cacao beans and break them open and eat the nibs, but they are harder to find. However you eat it, this pure unadulterated chocolate is incredibly good for you, and helps with every illness and disease. For best price, order them in bulk online, where you will have to shop around.
Cocoa, Without Sugar and other Additives, Is Good For Your Health
Specially formulated cocoa very well might soon be considered part of a treatment plan for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. (more…)
Coconut oil is better for you than soy or corn oil
Soy is way oversold in health food stores, and even has some serious side effects, especially on your thyroid. Corn oil is just a terrible oil to consume. Coconut oil is much better than either of these, but why not consume the whole coconut and get all the other good nutrients including substantial protein, fiber, minerals and vitamins. Eat a coconut a week or so. It will do you good.
The humble Cookie may well be the oldest food known on earth that antedates not only humans on this earth, but dinosaurs as well. No wonder Cookies are a staple in every mom’s kitchen, and standing proof of every girl’s ability to find the way to her man’s heart through pleasing his stomach.
The very first thing little girls seem to want to do is to pretend to bake cookies to give to their make-believe baby dolls. Baking make believe cookies for make believe children is quickly supplanted in a few years by the real thing, and we have another generation of loving caring wives and mothers baking cookies for real live husbands and children.
It is significant, and even somewhat humorous, that Hillary Clinton at the height of her husbands drive for the White House in 1992, took time out to be interviewed about how she would fit in. The interview turned confrontational over what role she would play as first lady when Hillary, suddenly, in a fit of pique, blurted out an amazing revelation concerning what she thought about cookies. The world was startled to hear her shocking words, “I could have stayed home and backed cookies, but I chose to have a career.”
The remarks were, at the same time, defiant and apologetic. How dare she sacrifice the revered role in society of cookie baker in chief for her little family, in return for merely being an attorney? The nation was shocked, AND divided, over whether it was more important for a woman to be able to bake cookies, or be an attorney in the White House. This debate is not settled yet, and likely never will be, but cookies made headlines for days, and the Cookie word itself may have been the most memorable word to come out of the landmark 1992 presidential election that put Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House. Cookies were never more secure and smug.
Joking aside, cookies are no joking matter when it comes to feeding humanity all these thousands of years. They were often the difference between life and death. The first cookie was made when some edible matter of some sort, got ripe, fell off a tree, ripened and spoiled some more on the ground, was stepped on by some animal or other, got rained on and mixed with other edible stuff, and then laid back to bake in the hot heat of summer until it turned into a dusty brown morsel faintly shaped like a cookie that was thence picked up by some animal or human and carried away to their den or cave and there fed to hungry young offspring. Likely they liked it very much, and mom went right out to find some other such offerings of nature.
Cookie gathering is still practiced today by any number of animals. Just watch a squirrel, and notice the little goodies he picks up and carries off to squirrel away for winter as a food supply for the family. Humans would still do it to if it came to that.
But, we are so well off that we now have available to us these marvelous ingredients and equally marvelous utensils and stoves to bake them. We are well able to turn out, yes, lots of cookies. Moms are still feeding their kids cookies just the way prehistoric moms did, and just like the animals do today. The cookie is the most basic, nutritious, easy to prepare, food known to living things. A compost pile is at its core just a big cookie making machine.
Cookies are a perfect food in so many ways it is hard to name them all. For example, it supplied the journeys of explorers around the world for thousands of years and it has been a mainstay for feeding armies and navies in war time since history has been written.
Without sea biscuits (cookies) Britannia could never have ruled the waves, and without hard tack (cookies) the armies in the Civil War would have had to suspend the war on many occasions.
A cookie is any edible material that has been alternatively soaked in water and baked by heat, whether by the oven or the sun. In the process it has the water baked out of it and everything it contains is cooked and sanitized. Any edible that fits this description is properly a cookie of one sort or another. It might be called in some cases a cracker, or other names, and in other cases a pancake, but everything that is a dried food turned into cakes are cookies. Scandinavian crisp hard bread is just another form of cookie.
Cookies can be made from any combination of edibles and water, which are then baked into a dry lump. In this dry state the cookie can last without any preservatives for weeks, months or even years if need be. The drier it is the less likely it is to spoil.
Dry cookies, by most accounts are the best kind. They crack, snap and crackle in the most tasteful ways. They are crunchy, crisp and wonderfully al dente. Chewable is what they are, and this is the best sort of food for our health and well being. The more you chew something the more digestive juices are created, and the more satisfied you are. Eating crispy things is a good way to cut down on calories, and cookies are great for backpacking and hiking as they weigh a lot less without all that water and moisture in them. Frankly, what the world needs is a lot more cookies. And meat can become cookies too. Beef Jerky is just a meat cookie.
But hold it, what is wrong with this picture? Ah yes, we have all heard that cookies are not good for you. Now why would anyone say that? Well, it seems that all cookies are not equal. Some cookies are better for you than others, a lot better. [Note: Like a lot of great things from the past cookies are not what they used to be, far from it.] Cookies of all sorts on sale today, and those made in most homes, are terrible food. They will literally kill you, and cripple your children.
So, what’s the problem?
Problem is, they are made from terrible unhealthful, and indeed, actually poisonous, substances. Some of these “ingredients” are so bad; it is an insult to food to call them food at all. Cookies of all sorts today are mostly made of four terrible non-foods, Sugar, Salt, Grease and Flour. None of these are really healthful, and none of them are needed, or required, to make wonderful, life giving, healthful, cookies.
The thought comes to mind that there ought to be a law to prevent this, but this is unlikely anytime soon. So, in the mean time, it is up to people like you and I to try to save ourselves, our families and friends, and as many of the rest of humanity as we can, and pray hard for the remainder. Cookies have come on hard times because of the continuing degeneration of society to such an extent that no one seems to care about anything, much less cookies.
The world needs to get rid of its horrible bad cookies and produce a lot more good cookies, along with acquiring the knowledge and education to know the difference.
It is very simple really. Good cookies are made from good ingredients and bad cookies are made from bad ingredients. Cookies are getting a bad rap from bad cookie makers who are using bad ingredients. Well, this is all simple to say, but putting this simple dictum into practice is like pulling off a worldwide revolution. It is definitely a hard sell.
The housewife wants quick, easy, and cheap ways to feed her family, and businesses just want to please customers at the lowest cost possible in order to effectively compete with their competitors. If they don’t make a cheap cookie their competitors will, and they will be out of business, and their employees with be without a job. Government is just into, as usual, their own comfort and self-preservation, and getting re-elected as often as possible, while doing as little work as possible for the highest wage possible.
Good ingredients are expensive and bad ingredients are very, very, very cheap. Bad food thus drives out good food. It is a law of life. Unless something like government intervenes to set some standards this is what invariably happens .
What makes Sugar, Salt, Grease and Flour bad ingredients, and are other there other bad ingredients in popular cookies? Point number one: Every single food on earth contains naturally occurring Sugar, Salt, Oils of some sort, and Flour, which is just finely ground grains for the most part. But turning grains and other things into powdery flour is not a very good idea from a health standpoint.
It destroys a lot of nutrients, sometimes most of them, and exposes the grain to spoilage of all sorts including rancidity, and gives us far less fiber, and gives our teeth, gums and digestive organs way too little work.
High quality oils are expensive, so both businesses and housewives shy away from them in favor of the cheapest of oils that really deserve to be called “grease.” Hog fat is one of the worst offenders, but corn oil and some other cheap oils are right up there with it. These cheap oils, (greases) are cheaply and badly processed, and should, by rights, be banned as food products. They do not even deserve to be called food.
Sugar is the worst of the non-food substances that we load into our food products, and into our cooking in the home. Human beings do not need any added sugar of any sort in their diets, whatsoever. Every natural food on earth is naturally loaded with plenty of both sugar and salt, and any additions just place our bodies on overload and lead to Heat disease and Diabetes among a hundred other killers that are produced by these Four deadly Horsemen of our Dietary Apocalypse, namely, Salt, Sugar, Grease, and Flour.
Sugar, Salt, Grease and Flour should at least be heavily taxed, if not outright banned for human consumption. Flour, depending on how it is made, is the least dangerous of the four, but none of these four are necessary to our health or well-being. And are, sad to say, basically, poisons being pumped into the food we eat and feed to our children.
There are also a witch’s brew of chemicals, most of them deadly, that are being routinely added to our food, including our cookies, without so much as a fare thee well. Government seems to not care anything about the citizens health, and businesses, bless their hearts, are only trying to compete and survive at home and abroad. They, like us, depend on government to set reasonable standards that apply to all equally, and that should strictly include both domestic products and foreign imports.
When these kinds of standards are universally applied, American Business will do just fine, as long as it is on a level playing field. But government seems congenitally unable to rise to the task of umpiring food producers. We cannot disadvantage some businesses while giving the green light to others to poison us as much as they want. You cannot force American food producers to follow rules that are not being followed by foods imported from elsewhere.
Reading food labels today is often like reading a chemistry textbook. Simple rule: If you don’t know what a word means and can’t pronounce it don’t buy any product that contains it.
Fact is, it is easily possible in any kitchen, never mind in any food manufacturing plant, to make perfectly healthy cookies of every imaginable sort, and it can, and must, be done.
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