The latest salmonella scare in Australia, which has prompted the recall of thousands of eggs from farms in Victoria, will have many thinking twice when walking down the egg aisle at their local supermarket.
Eggs sold at retailers across Australia including Woolworths and independent stores in the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and also at Coles in Victoria and South Australia. - are being recalled over fears they could be contaminated with salmonella (a bacteria that causes illness in humans and animals).
Which brand of eggs are used by dates are being recalled?
Eggs which may be affected have these best before dates:
March: 19, 20, 23, 27, 30
April: 3, 6, 10, 14, 17, 17, 20, 24, 27
Specific egg brands include:
Woolworths 12 Cage Free Eggs 700g
Victorian Fresh Barn Laid Eggs 600g
Victorian Fresh Barn Laid Eggs 700g
Victorian Fresh Barn Laid Eggs 800g
Loddon Valley Barn Laid 600g
Food Standards Australia have issued a warning and are asking consumers to return their egg products (as listed above) to the original store they purchased them from to obtain a full refund.
It advised people who were worried about their health to seek medical advice.
Signs and symptoms of the most common, non-typhoidal salmonella poisoning include:
Dr Josh Axe, Functional Medicine Doctor explains “Many individuals can carry Salmonella without displaying symptoms, but for symptomatic cases, people generally notice cramps, fever and diarrhea within eight to 72 hours of being exposed to the bacteria. Unlike viral gastroenteritis (the most common type of stomach flu), symptoms usually persist for two to seven days, with diarrhea sometimes continuing up to 10 days without treatment. For some people, the bowels don’t get completely back to normal for months after a severe Salmonella infection.”
Australian Eggs is currently working with both government health and agricultural departments to investigate the cause of this the salmonella incident.
The farms possibly contaminated have now been quarantined and strict measures are in place to protect the potential outbreak from neighbouring farms.
Agriculture Victoria has implemented controls on the farm preventing it from selling eggs while the possibility of salmonella outbreak is being further investigated.
Victoria's chief health officer, Dr Brett Sutton said the Department of Health and Human Services had identified five cases of illness that could be linked to this strain of salmonella - salmonella enteritidis.
Dr Sutton said all other eggs distributed were safe to eat, and thoroughly cooking eggs can prevent the bacteria from being contracted by humans.
"It is important to know that not all eggs are affected, but any eggs carrying the listed brands should return them to the point of sale for a full refund," he said.
"Alternatively, they can be discarded by throwing them into the garbage, not the garden or compost.
"These eggs should not be given to pets or livestock."
F45 Training, an Australian-born company founded in 2012, is now the fastest growing fitness franchise in the world. A press conference was held today in Los Angeles to announce an investment group led by Mark Wahlberg in conjunction with FOD Capital, confirming their minority stake investment in the company to accelerate its global growth plans.
Management for F45 have declined to confirm any details on the investment amount, however according to The Age, the deal has valued the gym at $US450 million (AUD$634 million).
This partnership was forged to continue high-growth and brand awareness throughout the United States. F45 Training was founded by CEO Rob Deutsch; and with his business partner Adam Gilchrist they will continue to drive the company through this next crucial phase of exponential growth, whilst still maintaining proven functional training methods to millions of health-conscious members around the world.
"This is a monumental transaction for F45 Training. When we started the company, we knew we had something special and had bold plans to create a global fitness movement," said CEO Rob Deutsch. "The immense interest we were able to generate through this process proved the strength of the F45 platform and we are excited to embark on this partnership with Mark Wahlberg and his team of investors. Mr. Wahlberg's genuine passion for fitness, proven business acumen and shared vision for F45 Training made this an ideal fit for the company, and we are proud to welcome him into the F45 family."
Currently the F45 Franchise has grown to over 1,500 studios across 40 countries and shows no sign of slowing down this momentum. Their core methods include 45-minute, station-based training sessions, whilst also incorporating heart-monitored functional training. Their workout regime mergers three leading-edge training styles:
High intensity interval training (HIIT)
Circuit training and
Function training
The fusion of these three styles has developed into 36 unique, 45-minute workout experiences, to keep members engaged and to ensure they achieve the best results and reach their goals.
"Together with my investors, we are excited to be working with F45 Training. The founders of F45 Training have done an incredible job building a global brand, and with this partnership, we hope to continue disrupting the fitness industry," said Mr. Wahlberg. He continued, "The strength of F45 is that people of all fitness levels will find motivation and support in an F45 studio. We look forward to inspiring people all over the world to pursue their health and fitness goals by introducing them to F45."
Hosted by Sydney Skinny & The Charlie Teo Foundation
The Sydney Skinny is Australia’s fastest growing casual, swim event. This collaboration was designed to raise money for brain cancer research, where the last event in the series kicked off yesterday in Sydney harbour, at secluded Cobblers Beach, Middle Head.
Members of the community and corporate heads whipped off their suits and professional attire to brave the torrential rain and dived deep to raise money for the Charlie Teo Foundation.
This year, just over $65,000 was raised by swimmers that will help assist in the search for a cure to this devastating disease, which is now the number one cancer taking the lives of Aussie children.
The Sydney Skinny was created as a life affirming and uplifting event which celebrates the good things in life - courage, acceptance and community. Despite the weather, event participants continued to express their love and gratitude for the event.
“The Skinny is never about being seen nude or seeing anyone else nude. Instead, it is about leaving all pretences behind, kick-starting a new and exciting chapter in life and focusing on the things that unite us; like kindness, friendship, adventure, laughter, diversity, charity, and above all, joy,” Founder Nigel Marsh said.
Returning once again as the charity partner for the Sydney Skinny is Australian neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, founder of The Charlie Teo Foundation, which raises funding for brain cancer research.
Professor Teo relates the swim to the experience that his patients endure in their treatments with him “For people like you and me who don’t have brain cancer to get out of their comfort zone for one day, is not a big ask.”
This marks the end of the seventh Sydney Skinny with over 1500 participants who joined in for the fun.
If you’re feeling kind of generous today, you can also donate direct to the Charlie Teo Foundation by clicking on this hyperlink.
More About The Charlie Teo Foundation
“The Charlie Teo Foundation was officially launched in March 2018 to shake-up the way brain cancer research is funded in Australia.
Charlie Teo is a global neurosurgeon, in demand across all continents for his willingness to offer surgery to those who have been given no hope. He devotes 3 months of every year for pro bono surgery in developing countries.
Charlie’s determination and inspiration to make a difference comes from his patients. Every day they teach him extraordinary hope and courage.
Brain cancer kills more children in Australia than any other disease and more Australians under 40 than any other cancer, yet the survival rate has increased just 1% over the past 30 years.
The Charlie Teo Foundation is working hard to change those numbers by running a low cost, lean and efficient charity. Charlie thinks outside the box to maximise the funding of innovative brain cancer research that has not traditionally been funded or supported. Together with Charlie’s incredibly loyal community of supporters, the Charlie Teo Foundation is fundraising big in the fight against brain cancer.”
VIDEO EPISODE 43: WHY JOHN & OCEAN ROBBINS (HEIR TO BASKIN-ROBBINS) WALKED AWAY FROM THEIR FORTUNE
Ocean Robbins was raised by two planet-loving hippies (hence the name "Ocean) and as a vegetarian, however Ocean’s father John, was raised in house with an ice-cream cone-shaped swimming pool and a lifetime supply of 31 flavours of ice cream containing wheat, dairy, sugar, soy and tree nuts in the freezer. John’s lifestyle was created by his grandfather who founded the global ice cream giant Baskin-Robbins.
John Robbins declined his birth-right to run Baskin-Robbins when he had reached his mid-twenties; changing the trajectory of the Robbins family and their children’s lives. John’s brother, Burt Baskin, died of heart disease at an early age with substantial wealth, but left behind a family he loved due to him not maintaining his health.
Ocean’s dad said, “I don’t want to spend my life selling a product that’s going to contribute to more people getting sick and dying.”
John raised his children to be part of a greener, more sustainable environment. “I was born to parents who lived in a 1-room log cabin in the middle of the Canadian wilderness. They grew most of their own food, practiced yoga and meditation every day, and named their kid ‘Ocean,'” he said. “I was raised as a vegetarian, and I’ve been plant-based from day #1.” Ocean said.
Image credit: Ocean Robbins
Ocean’s values and passion for plant-based food inspired him to spend his life educating others about health food choices and live a more sustainable life.
He recently launched a book called “31-Day Food Revolution” which delves into the nasty secrets of industrialised food. Ocean wants the rest of the world to know how we can put the power back in our hands when it comes to making the right choices about our health.
Ocean says, “When you eat the Standard American Diet you get the standard American diseases. Essentially our burgers and fries are weapons of mass destruction.”
In the U.S. poor diet is responsible for 700,000 deaths each year, and a further 11 million worldwide. This is a lot more than any war or any act of terrorism – and it’s legal to sell products that will eventually lead to serious disease and ultimately death.
Statistics show the average American consumes around 55 pounds of added sugar each year, which is a major contributor towards the diabesity epidemic. However, each step towards consuming real, wholesome, organic foods reduces your risk for chronic inflammatory disease and will give you a new lease on life.
Mark Hyman M.D. from The Doctor’s Farmacy, interviewed Ocean Robbins to talk about the current state of America’s food system and what the individual can do to be part of the food revolution to create a healthier and happier lifestyle for everyone.
Ocean is also the CEO and co-founder of the Food Revolution Network— who has more than 500,000 followers and is one of the largest communities of healthy eating advocates in the world.
“Ocean also shares some of the science and concerns on another hot topic, genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, and why organic is a safer option,” says Dr Hyman.
This is a very compelling interview and we hope you find the time to be informed.
One element missing from most people’s diets is a bit of roughage to help with removing waste. Fiber is essential to normalise our digestive health, as it feeds the good bacteria in you GI tract, which assists beyond adequate bowel movements.
What most people don’t know is the ketogenic diet (or keto diet) has been practiced for more than nine decades since the 1920s. It is known for being a low carb, high fat diet, based on a solid understanding of physiology and nutrition science.
When you eat food that is high in carbohydrates the body will produce both glucose and insulin in the following manner:
Glucoseis the easiest and first molecule for your body to convert and use as energy
Insulinis also produced and is used to process the glucose in your bloodstream by taking it around the body.
Given glucose is the main source of energy, the body doesn’t tap into fats as an energy source and are therefore not stored. This means the higher your diet is in carbohydrates; the body will always go to glucose for its main source of energy rather than fat. When you lower the intake of carbs it forces the body into what is known as a state of ketosis.
Ketosis is there from when we’re born and are only able to feed from our mothers’ milk. It helps the body survive when food intake is minimal. When in ketosis, we produce what’s known as keytones, which assists in breaking down fat in the liver.
The main purpose of maintaining a keto diet is to force the body into a metabolic state through starvation of carbohydrates – NOT calories. When the body has a higher rate of fat than carbohydrates it will begin to burn ketones (fat) as opposed to glucose as the primary source of energy.
So by changing our “fuel source” (from sugar to keytones) the body remains energized. This assists greatly with our general health, weight loss and both physical and mental performance.
The keto diet has been successful for millions of people around the world as it specifically targets the, underlying causes of weight gain. Dr Axe explainshow this includes “hormonal imbalances, especially insulin resistance coupled with high blood sugar levels, and the cycle of restricting and “binging” on empty calories due to hunger that so many dieters struggle with. In fact, these are some of the direct benefits of the keto diet.”
Dr Axe continues, “Making that switch will place your body in a state of “ketosis,” when your body becomes a fat burner rather than a sugar burner. Fortunately, if you’re new to this type of eating plan, a keto diet for beginners, or keto basics, is surprising simple to follow. Here’s how to do the keto diet:
Reduce one’s carb intake.
Increase your consumption of healthy fats, which help create satiety.
Without glucose coursing through your body, it’s now forced to burn fat and produce ketones instead.
Once the blood levels of ketones rise to a certain point, you officially reach ketosis.
This state results in consistent, fairly quick weight loss until your body reaches a healthy and stable weight.”
Image credit: My Know Brainer
THE BENEFITS OF THE KETOGENIC DIET
In today’s video, Dr Axe (Doctor of Functional Medicine) has shared the benefits of a ketogenic diet. Ketogenic diets can actually help weight loss, cancer (as cancer feeds off sugar), and even Alzheimer’s disease. When you are on a ketogenic diet, you are putting your body into a state of ketosis, which means your body is burning fat for energy rather than carbohydrates. The ketogenic diet could be the best diet for fat loss, however he doesn't believe anyone should be on this diet for more than 3-6 months. The reason why this diet works so effectively is your body stops feeding on sugar and starts burning fat. The diet consists of about 80% fats, 10% carbohydrates, and 10% protein.
The question is: what’s more important - counting calories or the effect food has on your hormone levels when consumed? And it seems the modern-day educated health and wellness consumer has already made that decision.
Weight Watchers International Inc (now known as WW), have suffered their worst week since going public more than 18 years ago after trading analysts have turned on the companies’ earnings and sustainable long-term vision.
On September 25, Weight Watchers (now 57-years-old) slimmed down its name to just “WW,” with the tagline “Wellness that works,” in the hope it cold fatten its customer base, however the company WTW, + 2.47% reported fourth-quarter results that vastly missed expectations and profit that was less than half of what was projected.
CEO of WW, Mindy Grossman stood firm on her stance regarding Keto saying “crazes” and diet fads come and go, so the company was not going to change its DNAbased on calorie counting. The keto (or ketogenic diet) is approximately 70% high quality fat, 20% adequate protein and 10% low carbohydrate intake, which forces the body to burn fat rather than carbohydrates.
“We’ve lived through this [competition from trend diets] for 57 years and we’re not going to play a game and we never have,” Grossman said on the post-earnings call, according to a transcript provided by FacSet.
“We’re going to be science informed and we’re sustainable for the long term,” she said.
Current investorsin WW are undecided if the brand has a strong future in keeping up with the wellness marketplace, or it’s just a case of the world’s greatest brand influencer (Oprah Winfrey, major shareholder), using her celebrity status to save this old-school weight-loss company that no longer connects with its core demographic being middle-aged female customers.
Dr Jospeh Mercolatalks us through how ketones mimic and support benefits of fasting:
‘’It is more than arguable that the ketogenic dietas another “craze” destined to eventually fade away, as there is now plenty of evidence in functional medicine to suggest nutritional ketosis is a most natural way of eating for health and weight management. However, this cannot be said the reverse for the WW program.
As noted in a 2014 article on ketotic.org, “Newborn infants are in ketosis. This is their normal state.”3 The article makes a compelling argument for ketogenic metabolism being “normal and desirable” because babies are in ketosis when born, and breast milk is ketogenic, so they remain in ketosis for as long as they’re breastfeeding.
Ketones — water-soluble fats your liver produces when converting fats into energy — appear to be particularly crucial during brain development.4 The article also presents the hypothesis that:
“… [E]xtending the period of ketosis after breastfeeding, by weaning onto ketogenic foods such as homemade broth and fatty meat, rather than cereal, fruit and starchy vegetables, would further promote brain development and reduce risk of disease.”
Moreover, research has confirmed that many biological repair and rejuvenation processes take place in the absence of food, and this is another reason why all-day grazing trigger biological dysfunction. In a nutshell, your body was designed to:
Run on fat as its primary fuel, which you do on a ketogenic diet, and
Cycle through periods of feast and famine, which you do when intermittently fasting
Indeed, we know that ketones mimic the life span-extending properties of calorie restriction(fasting), which includes improved glucose metabolism, reduced inflammation, clearing out malfunctioning immune cells, and reduced IGF-1, which is one of the factors that regulate growth pathways and growth genes and is a major player in accelerated aging and cellular/intracellular regeneration and rejuvenation (autophagy and mitophagy in the mitochondria).’’
Two days after a teen son of an anti-vaxxer told Congress he believed his mother was misinformed on Facebook, the company said it will no longer show anti-vaccination groups or pages in its recommended content. But it won’t remove anti-vaxxers altogether. Facebook believes their opinion of vaccinations is correct and will “tackle vaccine misinformation” by significantly limiting its audience.
'For my mother, her love, affection and care as a parent was used to push an agenda to create a false distress,' Ethan Lindenberger, from Norwark, Ohio, said during his testimony.
'These sources, which spread misinformation, should be the primary concern of the American people.'
Senator Isakson asked: 'Where do you get most of your information?'
'From not-Facebook,' Lindenberger replied. 'From the CDC, the World Health Organization, scientific journals, and cited information from those organizations like the Institute of Medicine, trying my best to look at accredited sources.'
In addition to removing them from users' recommendations, Facebook has also banned any ads they feel include misinformation about vaccines and will also stop showing anti-vaxxer groups and pages in search predictions. This action will also extend into Instagram.
Pinterest also made the decision last month to ban all searches for terms such as ‘vaccination’ and ‘vaccine.’
In November 2017, Mark Zuckerberg published a memo regarding its censorship. “What should be the limits to what people can express?” he asked. “What content should be distributed and what should be blocked? Who should decide these policies to make enforcement decisions?”
'Leading global health organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have publicly identified verifiable vaccine hoaxes,' Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president for global policy management, said in a statement Thursday. “If these vaccine hoaxes appear on Facebook, we will take action against them.”
In addition to this, there will also be some new guidelines and recourse if you've been banned or your content is consistently censored.
A concept aired might be something considered as a Supreme Court of Facebook. “I’ve increasingly come to believe that Facebook should not make so many important decisions about free expression and safety on our own,” Zuckerberg wrote. “In the next year, we’re planning to create a new way for people to appeal content decisions to an independent body, whose decisions would be transparent and binding.”
Child Vaccinations - The Doctors Debate Video
As measles make a nationwide comeback, are parents who refuse to vaccinate their children contributing to the problem? Or are the vaccinations more dangerous than the disease itself? Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, shares her emotional story of how a vaccination allegedly "took on her son" Chris, who immediately after being vaccinated with a DPT shot suffered a convulsion, went into shock and lost consciousness. He was later diagnosed with brain damage and attention-deficit disorder.
What can you do to improve your own immune system in general?
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OUR ECO-SYSTEM IS UNDER THREAT AND HIGHLY VULNERABLE DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
From extreme heat, to bushfires to floods. This is what the climate council is calling Australia’s angriest summer on record in a report that was released last Thursday. And if you were unlucky enough to live in Port August (Adelaide) this season, you would have experienced numerous days of record-breaking 49.5 degrees heat.
"This summer was so hot we witnessed fruit cooking on trees," Climate Council chief executive Amanda McKenzie said.
“The record-breaking heat in Australia over the 2018/19 Summer is part of a long-term warming trend from the burning of fossil fuels and land clearing.
For many years’ scientists have warned that climate change is driving worsening extreme weather. The Angry Summer is another example of the consequences of climate change today.
Protecting Australians from worsening extreme weather requires phasing out fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to renewables and storage technologies.”
The Federal Government has no credible climate change policy to drive down greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuel or anything in place to assist industry with the necessary changes.
Former Commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW Greg Mullins said in a statement that severe fire seasons are “now happening almost every year”. Mr Mullins said, due to the longer seasons, there wasn't enough fire services to defend Australia.
A new advocacy group has also emerged, Bushfire Services for Climate Change Action, demanding Parliament acts immediately and put climate change on the top of their priority list.
"There is a clear link between climate change and the frequency and destructiveness of bushfires," the website reads.
"The government can no longer ignore the way their climate change denial is hurting our communities and putting lives at risk. They must take Australia beyond fossil fuel projects like Adani and move to 100% renewable energy for all."
From a wildlife perspective, possums, koala’s, bats and other animals have been found dead on mass at the bottom of trees or not far from their habitat. In an article posted today from The Guardian reported more than 100 dead and injured ringtail possumswere found along a stretch of beach in Victoria due to extreme heat.
**Image credit: The Guardian
The article states 127 ringtail possums were found along the shoreline and even in the water at Somers Beach on the Mornington Peninsula after an extreme heat wave and bushfires.
Aware Wildlife rescuer and foster carer, Melanie Attard, indicated the animals had become so desperate and dehydrated they had left their normal habitat in an attempt to find water.
“We assume they’ve come out due to the heat stress heading for the water in desperation,” she said. “It’s not nice seeing a possum throwing itself into the beach and drinking seawater. It’s really desperate.” Out of the 127 animals found, only 27 had survived and would be released back into the wild when they had recovered.
Euan Ritchie, an associate professor of wildlife ecology and conservation at Deakin University’s Centre for Integrative Ecology, said “the extreme weather that had been predicted for decades was now affecting several species.”
“These recent heatwaves have been a disaster. The spectacular flying foxes. The bogong moths. This just really adds to that story,” he said.
“It’s not just we’re talking about endangered species. This is a common species and it’s falling over.
“That’s a pretty big reality check.”
Will you be a climate change voter in this upcoming election?
Send a clear message through the Australian Conservation Foundation to both majors parties now — “If you want my vote you must #StopAdani, end digging up and burning coal and switch to 100% clean energy.
How Fasting can Improve your Health, Reverse Disease & Improve Mental Clarity
Fasting can trigger stem cell regeneration, as well as weight loss. It is also one of the oldest known dietary interventions and is still practiced is some of the world’s most ancient religions. Modern science also confirms it can have a profoundly beneficial influence on your health.
Dr. Jason Fung is a nephrologist (kidney specialist) with a thriving practice located in Canada, who has written a comprehensive, well researched and studied book on this topic.
The book provides easy-to-follow guidelines for fasting and addresses some of the most common myths and fears that the general public may have from implementing a fasting regimen.
One common myth with men is that fasting will lead to loss of muscle mass, and of course nobody wants that outcome. However, the book clearly describes the process of protein catabolism (metabolic pathways that break down molecules that are oxidized and released as energy or for other anabolic reactions), and details how your body actually decrease protein catabolism and increases growth hormones in response to fasting.
Most people associate fasting with decreased levels of energy, however it’s scientifically proven to be the opposite. If you're overweight and/or continually lethargic, fasting helps unlock all that energy trapped in your body that you previously had no access to. Fasting forces your body to start accessing those stores of energy, and once that happens, your body suddenly has a near unlimited supply of energy.
Understanding the Role of Insulin
Insulin is the primary hormone (followed by cortisol to a lesser degree) that tells your body whether to store energy or burn it. When you eat, you're taking calories in and insulin goes up and the body stores some as energy. When insulin falls (like when you sleep or fasting), it tells your body to release that insulin as energy.
We’ve been sold this idea where we think we need to eat small, more consistent meals a day it will help us lose weight and it doesn’t actually make sense. When you eat or assuming you eat a mix of macro nutrients, your sugar levels go up and tells our body to store some of that food energy.
When you don’t eat insulin falls (like sleeping), the body then pulls it back out what you’ve stored so you can burn it – so there’s a balance. When you eat you store food energy, when you don’t eat you burn food energy – balance the food and you won’t gain weight. Keep eating and it’s going to make you continue to put on weight.
From 1977 – 2004 we went from eating our basic mix of three main meals a day (protein, carbs and fats) to six smaller, but more frequent meals a day, which means we’re eating for longer periods during the day (about 14-15 hours of the day) and causes regular spikes in our insulin, fat storing levels.
Where as in 1977 we only ate breakfast, lunch and dinner, no snacks, that’s it – eating between a 10-hour period and fasting (sleeping) for 14 hours a day. Eating for longer periods is not giving our bodies the time it needs to burn the energy, which turns to fat. So if we want to lose weight, don’t eat high insulin foods and give your body the chance to not eat so your insulin levels can fall and you can burn it.
Below is an extract from one of Dr Fung’s Interviews on “The Complete Guide to Fasting”
“For people who are into athletics, for example, you might do some different fast. There’s something called training in the fasted state, which is becoming very popular, which is again about a 20-, 24-hour fast. Then you exercise, then you eat.
That sounds very strange, but physiologically, there’s a huge number of benefits because what happens is when your adrenaline goes up, your growth hormone goes up.
Those two hormones are considered part of the counter regulatory hormones. That is, they run counter to insulin, so insulin tends to lower blood glucose, noradrenaline or adrenaline, and growth hormone tend to raise blood glucose, so as your insulin falls, you have higher levels noradrenaline and growth hormone.
Now you exercise, and you can exercise harder than you’ve done before because you’re pumped up from all the adrenaline. Then as you eat, your growth hormone levels are high, so you recover faster. So train harder, recover faster. That’s a huge advantage if you’re talking about any athletics. It’s an advantage you can’t ignore. That’s merely from adjusting your timing.
Another advantage of fasting, for example, some people find they have much higher mental clarity. Again, people think, oh I don’t eat, I’m going to not be able to concentrate. It’s actually the exact opposite.
If you think about a time you’re eating a huge meal, like at Thanksgiving or something, you had that huge meal, you’re not really sharp, right? All you can do is kind of sit on the couch and watch football. That’s about it.
Whereas on the other hand, when you think about somebody and you say, “Oh that guy’s really hungry,” you know, he’s hungry for success, he’s hungry for power. Does that mean he’s just sitting on the couch watching TV? No, it means he’s energized and out there getting stuff. That’s what it means when you’re hungry. You don’t have all that blood kind of digesting food, so your brain is sharp. Some people really feel that.
There’s a whole group of people out in Silicon Valley who do this as a sort of a biohack, that is, they’re trying to hack themselves into a higher level of mental performance, not just athletic performance, but mental performance. What they do is they fast and guess what? You’re saving time because you don’t have to eat, you don’t have to shop, you don’t have to clean up, so you get more work done, but the work that you do is on a higher level than you used to do. That’s fantastic because that’s free. It’s like, okay, if you’re in a competition in Silicon Valley, a higher level of mental performance means a lot of money.
It’s the difference between success and failure. For these guys, they’re like, okay, they’re going to hack themselves into a higher level of performance, and that’s terrific.
Then there’s the story of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician, required his students to fast before they could come to class. All these ancient Greek thinkers actually did a lot of fasting. Socrates, Plato and all those famous scholars. They did it not because they were fat, they did it because they knew that it gave them more mental clarity. We still talk about the classic Greek philosophers, right, the great Greek mathematicians.
Then you can talk about things like cancer prevention, I know we touched on that briefly, but there’s people who feel, and the research is more shady here, that you can actually prevent cancers from developing because cancers need glucose, and what happens when you fast is that you kind of lock down all that glucose and you kind of starve them out. There are people who suggest that you can actually do this in combination with say ketogenic diets and actually help prevent cancers.”
Why you Shouldn’t Fear Fasting with Dave Asprey & Dr. Jason Fung
What do Jesus, The Prophet Mohammed, and Buddha have in common? They all practiced fasting. Dr. Jason Fung and author Jimmy Moore reveal the numerous benefits of fasting. A process that can help people lose weight, improve brain function, promote longevity, speed up the metabolism, strengthen the immune system, and contribute to self-enlightenment. Plus, they'll also address one of the main reasons most people have never attempted to fast. Fear.
We are all genetically unique and need to find a way of eating that matches our personal needs, but also considers the worlds ever-increasing toxic environment. Rather than waiting for disease to set in (reactionary), we should focus on preventive health care (proactive), and there are some basic guidelines we can follow to achieve and maintain optimal health. The goal is not to be perfect, but rather to have simple guiding principles to keep us healthy for years to come.
Dr. Mark Hyman is a popular American physician dedicated to tackling the cause of all chronic disease and Director of the Cleveland Clinic Centre for functional medicine. He is a ten-time #1 New Your Times best-selling author; “Eat Fat, Get Thin”, medical contributor on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Today Show, CNN and The Dr. Oz show. An internationally recognised leader, speaker, author and advocate in his field, he is also the founder of The Ultra Wellness Centre, medical editor of The Huffington Post and chairman of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine. In short, he’s got all the right credentials.
Below are Dr Hyman’s top 12 principles for eating well:
1) Stay away from sugar. This means a diet low in anything that causes a spike in our insulin production--sugar, flour, & refined carbs.
Can sugar impact cancer risk? In a study completed at the University of Texas published in 2016, it found high amounts of sugar influenced enzymatic signalling pathways otherwise known as 12-LOX (12-lipoxygenase) that increases the risk of breast cancer.
2) Eat mostly plants. 70-80% of your diet should be from veggies, nuts & seeds. Stick with mostly non-starchy veggies; go easy on the potatoes.
3) Go easy on fruits. Eat 8-10 servings of fruit and veggies a day; only 2-3 should be fruit. It is easy to overindulge on grapes, pineapple & sugary fruits & forget about your veggies.
4) Stay away from toxins and inflammatory additives. Including foods that are non-organic and contain pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, GMO foods, chemicals, food additives, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, dyes.
5) Eat healthy fats. Eat omega-3 fats from small wild fish, extra virgin olive oil, nuts & seeds, avocados, whole eggs, grass-fed meats, grass-fed butter or ghee, virgin coconut oil & MCT oil.
6) Stay away from refined oils processed with heat, solvents and deodorizers. This means almost all vegetable oils including canola, safflower, corn & especially soybean oil.
7) Avoid or limit dairy. Especially from modern dairy cows. If you want to eat some, stick with goat or sheep milk & cheese. Always go organic and grass-fed.
8) Meat should be a side dish. Think of meat and animal products as a condiment or “condi-meat.” Eat grass-fed & sustainably raised to avoid the health & environmental consequences of factory-farmed meat. Broth should be consumed if you have digestive issues, an inflammatory disease or leaky gut syndrome.
9) Eat sustainably farmed or harvested seafood that is low in mercury. Stick with what Dr Hyman refers to as wild SMASH fish (salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, herring).
10) Avoid gluten. Modern wheat is not healthy. It has more starch, more gluten, is addictive and contains harmful preservatives.
11) Eat small amounts of gluten free grains. Especially less if you are overweight, have digestive problems or have an autoimmune disease.
Introducing Stock Broth (hybrid of stock & bone broth).
Ancient superfood and modern health trend that has proven results.
For as long as our ancestors have been able to simmer food over fire, broth has been an essential daily part of life around the world. It is one of the most healing foods to consume given it’s rich in nutrients such as collagen, gelatin and glycine. It helps heal and protect the lining of your gut, improve joint function and skin health.
At BioHax Australia we offer both organic beef and chicken stock broth (simmering bones, meat, above ground vegetables and minerals for a minimum of 24-48 hours) to eat daily as a meal or for detoxing.
It comes in a 500ml biodegradable, PLA container, is easy and convenient to heat up in 5-10 minutes (even add your own vegetables and spices to suit), home delivered (frozen) and at a low cost of $10.00 each inc GST.
• Allergy free (no gluten, dairy, tree nut, eggs, soy, peanuts, seafood etc.)
Hyaluronic Acid Benefits:
Helps support joint comfort
Helps support joint health
Helps support healthy joint function
Chondroitin Sulfate Benefits:
Helps support a healthy digestive system
Helps maintain healthy joint space
Helps support joint health
Helps support skin health
Which Is Better: Chicken Stock Broth or Beef Stock Broth?
You can select one flavour or a combination of either beef or chicken stock broth, but it is often a matter of personal preference. Some people describe chicken broth as having a lighter flavour, while beef bone broth has a richer, more dense taste.
Both broths have the same health benefits and are easy for the body to digest (especially those who suffer from leaky gut syndrome), as it is soothing to the digestive system.
Either broth can be used on a detox.
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BREAKING NEWS: Hobart first to ban single-use plastics
Hobart City Council have now paved the way by setting a precedent for the rest of Australia to ban single-use plastics by 2020, including takeaway food containers, coffee cups, plastic lids and straws.
City of Hobart councillors voted 8-4 in favour of a by-law on Monday night to support the ban and further impose fines for those who do not comply.
Councillor Bill Harvey lead the initiative stating Hobart City Council had to set the bar for other local governments to address and follow suit.
Hobart will now go down in history as the first capital city in Australia to ban single-use plastics, targeting petroleum-based plastics, utensils and packets used for sauces and condiments.
"What that says is that we're serious about leading by example and we're a council that takes the initiative, that makes bold decisions, and this is one of those decisions that will have impacts for councils across Australia," he said. "We've set a precedent that now hopefully many other councils will follow." – SBS.
There is now a statutory process to follow, which includes a 21-day public consultation to be set in motion before the by-law can be acted upon.
Environment Tasmania Director, Philip Cocker said the ban was a small but significant step in environmental sustainability for the city. "I am sure all Hobart businesses will be able to implement the by-law with positive effects on their businesses," he said in a statement.
In addition to this, Hobart City Council have also written to Elise Archer, Environment Minister, to request a state-wide plastic ban by the state government.
