My thoughts on being a genius means you get too much of one thing and too little of the other, brain overload on one side of the brain.....hence MJ`S music and creativity on one side and on the other side what we would consider strangeness (you notice geniuses are always people we consider quite mad) although the quote of the memorial service belonged to Al Sharpton "there was nothing strange about your Daddy,it was strange what he had to deal with"...Is it because we just don`t understand? Some people are convinced that MJ's "strangeness" - the masks, the plastic surgeries, the reinventing himself etc. was orchestrated to keep him in the public eye, so he might have truly been a genius on all sides of his brain.
Who but MJ would ask if people invented harps and violins and trombones and pianos how come we can`t invent a new instrument? Makes perfect sense doesnt it?
Who else but MJ wanted to use his body as a guitar or a drum etc......Who else but MJ could think of making his music video into a short film (THRILLER)- a first! Who is going to sell 150 million albums? Britney Spears??? Give me a break!
Who else but MJ would think that since he was Peter Pan and they said he couldn`t have children playing with him all the time,as it was improper, then he would have his own children so he could have permanent playmates....Which other entertainer can dance,sing, choreograph and write music at his level....which other entertainer can dance better than the back up dancers?.....and finally, who else but MJ could decide that since he couldn`t sleep (geniuses rarely do, they can`t turn off their brain) he would use an anesthetic to sleep! An anesthetic! As a sleep aid???????
As someone who has had anesthetic 24 times.....this is just mind-boggling. As he said "It knocks you out like that!" It certainly does and it kills you like that too...Look how many people having surgery in hospital settings do not wake up from anesthetic much less when it's used as an at home drug! I can`t wrap my head around it....
He is the King of pop. Bigger than that says Barry Gordy. In death he is going to make Elvis look like he`s not trying..... his indebtedness is going to go through the window just go on Amazon.com now he holds the top 9 positions of record sales. He knew he could spend and give away money (300-500million given to humanitarian causes without fanfare) as it would all come rolling back, pressed down and multiplied.
SO HE`S NOT A FREAK - HE`S A GENIUS!
To quote Dallas Austin:"THIS GUY IS FROM ANOTHER PLANET!"
sorry,WAS.......
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
TRAVELLING WITH RAW FOOD
Listening to Kevin Gianni and his wife talk about the top 10 raw foods to take on the road from an episode of The Renegade Health Show I got the impression that raw food was not exciting, as most of the food were in powder or seed form, and I understood clearly (although I have always known) why it's so hard for people to eat raw food, much less eat healthily on the road..... I can just imagine Jamaicans who want their rice and peas and chicken eating Chia seeds or any form of food in powder form......most of them don`t even want to have porridge without condensed milk ( I eat no form of porridge, cooked or raw) so I can't imagine them putting any form of powder in a bowl, adding only water and drinking it !
They then showed all kinds of things to add flavour to salads etc. most of us are salad-ed out, so on top of the dressings we are going to need something else......big food as Jamaicans would say...... I can also imagine the reaction to the fermented foods, as most of us think fermented means the thing has spoilt......well I am here to tell them that Kombucha is the fermented health drink that G.T.DAVE used to cure his mother of breast cancer...... he is now enjoying all the perks of this amazing drink - millions of dollars. Here is his story according to an article on SFGate.com :
On the video they were wondering why their melons had very little seeds, sometimes none.....I guess it's like the seedless grapes I wonder about?......Thank God our melons are all local and have plenty seeds and as to our other delicious local fruits,what a blessing! MANGO SEASON THIS YEAR WAS A LITTLE TOO KIND TO ME AS I GAINED 9 LBS.!!!! 6 MANGOES A DAY WILL DO THAT TO YOU. But honestly,I must say that this mango season has been like none other. My holistic practitioner nearly had a tree as it's much too much fructose going into my body on a daily basis...ah dear, hope I didn`t do any damage.......It was good though!
On to the next season of fruit.....did I hear GUINEP? CAN`T WAIT!
They then showed all kinds of things to add flavour to salads etc. most of us are salad-ed out, so on top of the dressings we are going to need something else......big food as Jamaicans would say...... I can also imagine the reaction to the fermented foods, as most of us think fermented means the thing has spoilt......well I am here to tell them that Kombucha is the fermented health drink that G.T.DAVE used to cure his mother of breast cancer...... he is now enjoying all the perks of this amazing drink - millions of dollars. Here is his story according to an article on SFGate.com :
Twelve years ago, Dave was a teenager living in L.A.'s tony Brentwood district with his parents, whom he describes as "very spiritual." He had dropped out of Beverly Hills High School because he found it difficult to relate to the values of his peers there. "I started feeling like my high school environment was not healthy for me," he recalls.So maybe fermented food is not such a bad idea after all - I also have a few tips of my own for eating healthily while on the road. The things that I carry with me are mainly the following:
With his parents' blessing, he took the GED test and, shortly thereafter, enrolled at Los Angeles City College. Then his mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.
When she underwent testing, the doctors were amazed that her large tumor, which consisted of precancerous cells, had not metastasized. When asked whether she had been doing anything unusual,she said the only thing she could think of was that she had been drinking kombucha. The doctors told her whatever it was she was doing, that she should keep doing it.
Dave's parents had received their mushroom tea from a friend who had gotten it from a monk, and they loved it. It made their skin glow, his mom lost weight and his dad's hair thickened. After the diagnosis, Dave's mom researched kombucha and found evidence that it deters cancer. (She continues to drink it long after a successful course of chemotherapy and a lumpectomy and has been cancer free since then).
Dave, 16 at the time, decided to quit school altogether and dedicate himself to making the beneficial beverage. "My mom is everything to me," he says. "Thinking that I could lose her and that there was something that could help her and help others motivated me to start the company."
Purified water in stainless steel containers,I think my road-food selection sounds a little more interesting than the Giannis, don't you?
'Raw' dehydrated sweet potato or yam chips,
Any kind of cookies that my son has prepared (this week was walnut),
Teas:last week was black walnut, guinea hen weed, pau de Arco and dandelion root.
If my son prepares cho cho or cauliflower pate I take that in a container packed with ice paks and when I reach my destination I use lettuce and make rolls with them.
If ackee is in season I buy ackees, take them out the pods and take out and discard the red tissue in the middle (I don`t know what it's called) and eat them as a snack as I drive along, or put cayenne pepper on them and there is a meal....also any fruit that is in season and found as I drive along also goes in the car for later.
Add to that my glyco nutrients (Avanced Ambrotose powder),my 'Greens Best' powder which is a blend of organic greens and I`m good to go.
On the video they were wondering why their melons had very little seeds, sometimes none.....I guess it's like the seedless grapes I wonder about?......Thank God our melons are all local and have plenty seeds and as to our other delicious local fruits,what a blessing! MANGO SEASON THIS YEAR WAS A LITTLE TOO KIND TO ME AS I GAINED 9 LBS.!!!! 6 MANGOES A DAY WILL DO THAT TO YOU. But honestly,I must say that this mango season has been like none other. My holistic practitioner nearly had a tree as it's much too much fructose going into my body on a daily basis...ah dear, hope I didn`t do any damage.......It was good though!
On to the next season of fruit.....did I hear GUINEP? CAN`T WAIT!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
COMFORTING RITUAL?
Reading this N Y TIMES article Losing a Comforting Ritual: Treatment I realized that what I`ve thought all along is so true. A lot of us find comfort in our cancer treatments.......we form a bond with our caregivers and some of us are happy like that. We look forward to going to our treatment as it's time to link our friends.
I`ve always felt that a lot of us use illness to get attention. We thrive on being ill, some of us cry wolf, wolf so often that we don`t even know when we are pretending and when it's real.....
We know what we call to us usually manifests,but we still succumb. Some treat it, as the man in the NY Times piece does as a habit,something to do and when it's not there we have withdrawal symptoms. Then there are the ones of us who don`t like being sick for a minute and do everything we can to bond with no one. Our bout with cancer is a bad memory....everything is in temporary mode, in other words "I`m here now but I`d rather be at work, so I need no one praying or fawning over me".....It's always harder for those around us because although we are the ones feeling the pain, our loved ones have this feeling of helplessness. Maybe treating going to do radiation as if we are going to a job helps all concerned, so maybe he has a point, but that's a "job" I need to lose quickly, just the smell of it all jars me into wanting to be better and quick.
Recently a close friend of mine died of cancer and the lesson I learnt out of it is we need a close friend going through it with us.......someone between us and the caregivers .... someone other than our spouse, they are usually too upset to focus. We need someone who knows our likes and dislikes before illness took us down..... someone who can tell us it's all right to let go as a lot of us fight to stay,and talk for us when the pain gets too much for us to communicate .... I notice Alana Hamilton was always at Farrah Fawcett's side, very important!
I`ve always felt that a lot of us use illness to get attention. We thrive on being ill, some of us cry wolf, wolf so often that we don`t even know when we are pretending and when it's real.....
We know what we call to us usually manifests,but we still succumb. Some treat it, as the man in the NY Times piece does as a habit,something to do and when it's not there we have withdrawal symptoms. Then there are the ones of us who don`t like being sick for a minute and do everything we can to bond with no one. Our bout with cancer is a bad memory....everything is in temporary mode, in other words "I`m here now but I`d rather be at work, so I need no one praying or fawning over me".....It's always harder for those around us because although we are the ones feeling the pain, our loved ones have this feeling of helplessness. Maybe treating going to do radiation as if we are going to a job helps all concerned, so maybe he has a point, but that's a "job" I need to lose quickly, just the smell of it all jars me into wanting to be better and quick.
Recently a close friend of mine died of cancer and the lesson I learnt out of it is we need a close friend going through it with us.......someone between us and the caregivers .... someone other than our spouse, they are usually too upset to focus. We need someone who knows our likes and dislikes before illness took us down..... someone who can tell us it's all right to let go as a lot of us fight to stay,and talk for us when the pain gets too much for us to communicate .... I notice Alana Hamilton was always at Farrah Fawcett's side, very important!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Michael Pollan gets it
“The chronic diseases that now kill most of us can be traced directly to the industrialization of our food ” - Michael Pollan.
I loved the 'Omnivore's Dilemma' and now Michael Pollan has a new book out called "In defense of food".... ...that phrase you see popping up everywhere comes from it.......EAT FOOD, NOT TOO MUCH, MOSTLY PLANTS.....I guess that's the summary.
Pollan is the person that Obama has been listening to....in a Time interview of Obama , he quoted quite a bit from a open letter Pollan had sent to him while he was a Presidential candidate. People are campaigning for Pollan to be the next Secretary of Agriculture,there is even a petition going.....but no matter what, he is knowledgeable and I love what he says, : "the modern way of eating leads to chronic diseases. As soon as you get away from the western diet you are going to get healthier. It's the elephant in the room that the food industry would rather not pay attention to."
In case most of you reading this in the west didn`t realize...this is serious business!
Recently on GMA they were telling us that the healthiest diet is the Mediterranean diet. VEGETABLES, FRUIT& NUTS, BEANS,OLIVE OIL, and the RED WINE which they have with their meals..... all in moderation.
The survey was carried out on 23,000 Greek men and women and it showed that they all live well into old age so the conclusion is that eating like they do improves survival because it helps guard against heart disease,cancer, diabetes etc.
Check out these videos from Dr. Mercola on this whole Genetically Engineered Foods thing and whether or not they are dangerous.
I loved the 'Omnivore's Dilemma' and now Michael Pollan has a new book out called "In defense of food".... ...that phrase you see popping up everywhere comes from it.......EAT FOOD, NOT TOO MUCH, MOSTLY PLANTS.....I guess that's the summary.
Pollan is the person that Obama has been listening to....in a Time interview of Obama , he quoted quite a bit from a open letter Pollan had sent to him while he was a Presidential candidate. People are campaigning for Pollan to be the next Secretary of Agriculture,there is even a petition going.....but no matter what, he is knowledgeable and I love what he says, : "the modern way of eating leads to chronic diseases. As soon as you get away from the western diet you are going to get healthier. It's the elephant in the room that the food industry would rather not pay attention to."
In case most of you reading this in the west didn`t realize...this is serious business!
Recently on GMA they were telling us that the healthiest diet is the Mediterranean diet. VEGETABLES, FRUIT& NUTS, BEANS,OLIVE OIL, and the RED WINE which they have with their meals..... all in moderation.
The survey was carried out on 23,000 Greek men and women and it showed that they all live well into old age so the conclusion is that eating like they do improves survival because it helps guard against heart disease,cancer, diabetes etc.
Check out these videos from Dr. Mercola on this whole Genetically Engineered Foods thing and whether or not they are dangerous.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Colorectal cancer increasing in the young
Colorectal Cancer Increasing in Young screamed the headline.......how can that be when overall incidence rates for colorectal cancer have declined over the past 2 decades.........especially recently as we have become more aware, not to mention Katie Couric's campaign on the importance of having a colonoscopy.
According to a study published in this month’s issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, colorectal cancer rates are dropping 2.8% per year in men and 2.2% per year in women, BUT DUE TO YOUNG PEOPLE'S LIFESTYLE THE INCREASE IN THE AGE GROUP 20-29 years ROSE BY 5.2% IN MEN AND 5.6% IN WOMEN.
That's frightening! But I could have told them that.....young people think they are indestructible so they eat like there is no tomorrow. My eldest son never met a piece of jerk pork he didn`t eat, along with jerk sausage and a couple festivals MADE WITH WHITE FLOUR wash it down with some Magnum and there is his fabulous meal.....Vegetables......what's that?
His mother is a multiple cancer survivor so he should take a little more care than that.......Red meat and processed meats are the loves of young people these days, they prefer to go to a steak house or eat pepperoni pizza than say a vegetable pizza.....Hamburgers, french fries, you name it - bad for them - they love it more!
Then there is the smoking of cigarettes and weed. THIS is the next thing that young people do without any regard to the fact that unfiltered smoke is the worse for you so there is nothing healthy about weed.....they smoke as if someone legalized it.
I have two words for them..... LUNG CANCER!
The sodas and energy drinks which you can`t pronounce what's in them,is young people`s drink of choice,so it makes it less likely they will be around for long, and that's a shame as science is showing us that living right and tuning up our body means we can live to 150.
Look on some of them ,they look like old, old people.......
Talking about our age group is it that we ate so badly that we poisoned these children's minds ? Or are our our own minds poisoned why we are addicted to snicker bars etc.? Well this NY times article How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains has an interesting take on the matter.
According to a study published in this month’s issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, colorectal cancer rates are dropping 2.8% per year in men and 2.2% per year in women, BUT DUE TO YOUNG PEOPLE'S LIFESTYLE THE INCREASE IN THE AGE GROUP 20-29 years ROSE BY 5.2% IN MEN AND 5.6% IN WOMEN.
That's frightening! But I could have told them that.....young people think they are indestructible so they eat like there is no tomorrow. My eldest son never met a piece of jerk pork he didn`t eat, along with jerk sausage and a couple festivals MADE WITH WHITE FLOUR wash it down with some Magnum and there is his fabulous meal.....Vegetables......what's that?
His mother is a multiple cancer survivor so he should take a little more care than that.......Red meat and processed meats are the loves of young people these days, they prefer to go to a steak house or eat pepperoni pizza than say a vegetable pizza.....Hamburgers, french fries, you name it - bad for them - they love it more!
Then there is the smoking of cigarettes and weed. THIS is the next thing that young people do without any regard to the fact that unfiltered smoke is the worse for you so there is nothing healthy about weed.....they smoke as if someone legalized it.
I have two words for them..... LUNG CANCER!
The sodas and energy drinks which you can`t pronounce what's in them,is young people`s drink of choice,so it makes it less likely they will be around for long, and that's a shame as science is showing us that living right and tuning up our body means we can live to 150.
Look on some of them ,they look like old, old people.......
Talking about our age group is it that we ate so badly that we poisoned these children's minds ? Or are our our own minds poisoned why we are addicted to snicker bars etc.? Well this NY times article How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains has an interesting take on the matter.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
MJ - PEACE AT LAST!
MJ...........A warm and gentle soul finally getting the love he so craved all his life. Has anybody gotten this before I'm trying to wrack my brain ? I guess Elvis died before the 24 hour news reports but I`ve never seen this before except for Princess Diana.
People just spontaneously celebrating his life and enjoying his music..waking at 3am to get ready to head out to give a talk there is LARRY KING STILL ON THE TV ... Can`t be happening....is there no other news is nothing else happening ?
Of course he knocked Farrah off the news - people were remarking about it but it didn`t need to be remarked on, she was not in his league..The world is now in shock!The little black boy from Gary Indiana is the biggest performer we have seen...
I would like to ask one question....Do we really believe as we bought out the tickets to his concert in London in a record time of 5 hours that this man that could barely walk and had to use a wheelchair was going to be able to perform as we remembered? They say he was looking good in rehearsals....now we`ll never know and I for one prefer he goes out on top.
He is in a better place now and will not be WACKO JACKO in the media anymore....His true legacy will live on.... a pure heart.
He was a musical genius who worked ceaselessly to perfect his art - in his own words:
Thanks for leaving my Ipod full of your music, MJ.......MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE.
People just spontaneously celebrating his life and enjoying his music..waking at 3am to get ready to head out to give a talk there is LARRY KING STILL ON THE TV ... Can`t be happening....is there no other news is nothing else happening ?
Of course he knocked Farrah off the news - people were remarking about it but it didn`t need to be remarked on, she was not in his league..The world is now in shock!The little black boy from Gary Indiana is the biggest performer we have seen...
I would like to ask one question....Do we really believe as we bought out the tickets to his concert in London in a record time of 5 hours that this man that could barely walk and had to use a wheelchair was going to be able to perform as we remembered? They say he was looking good in rehearsals....now we`ll never know and I for one prefer he goes out on top.
He is in a better place now and will not be WACKO JACKO in the media anymore....His true legacy will live on.... a pure heart.
He was a musical genius who worked ceaselessly to perfect his art - in his own words:
"In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. Work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. Really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours. That's what I've always tried to remember." - Michael Jackson
Thanks for leaving my Ipod full of your music, MJ.......MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
FARRAH FAWCETT`S COCONUT CREAM PIE
THIS IS SAD, JUST SAD................THIS IS LIKE ME WITH MY PLATE OF STEW PEAS WITH THE BIG, FATTY PIG'S TAIL smiling broadly at the camera for a picture taken for Nyam Jamaica about one month before my last diagnosis ...........difference is I changed my diet......Farrah didn`t!
I again watched with horror the segment in the documentary Farrah's Story where they showed her baking cream pies . How come nobody suggested that she needed to change her diet? With her fighting spirit who knew what the outcome would have been?
Check out this recipe for Farrah's Coconut Cream Pie that she shared with Good Morning America prior to the opening of her last movie The Cookout - no doubt the ingredients are similar to the pies that she was baking in the documentary:
I again watched with horror the segment in the documentary Farrah's Story where they showed her baking cream pies . How come nobody suggested that she needed to change her diet? With her fighting spirit who knew what the outcome would have been?
Check out this recipe for Farrah's Coconut Cream Pie that she shared with Good Morning America prior to the opening of her last movie The Cookout - no doubt the ingredients are similar to the pies that she was baking in the documentary:
IngredientsNow that is cancer in waiting!
1 frozen ready-to-bake pie crust (9-inch)
3 eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons of corn starch
1 can unsweetened coconut milk (13.5 ounces)
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
Cooking Directions
Preheat oven to 325 F.
In a medium-sized bowl whisk eggs thoroughly. Whisk in whole milk slowly to thoroughly combine. In another medium-sized bowl, whisk the sugar and corn starch together.
Whisk in the coconut milk. Whisk the egg/milk mixture into the coconut mixture making sure the combined mixture is thoroughly smooth and there are no lumps.
Place the frozen pie crust on the bottom rack of the preheated oven. Carefully add the combined coconut mixture. Top with 1/2 cup of the flaked coconut.
Bake for 30 minutes. Carefully move pie to the top rack of the oven and top with the remaining 1/2 cup of flaked coconut. Continue baking for an additional 30 minutes until the pie sets and the coconut flakes on top turn golden brown.
Carefully remove the pie from the oven and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
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