Ebola

Why do we need an Ebola outbreak? Was HIV not enough, did we go somewhere and we hadn't gone far enough? Is the public not fearing enough tyrants in the world? What have we been doing in our lives that we haven't had enough taken away already?

Fear is what binds us in eternal servitude to the "lord of the flys" an entity that can neither be seen or heard. A prophecy that can never be fulfilled by their self-righteousness and blatant bigotry. Politicians get increasingly daring and cover-ups are constantly blown wide-open. But still our eyes are shut to the real world that is right in front of us. No one is hiding through obscurity, they're in the open, hiding in plane sight.

The information that is shared with the public is intentional, no one is uncovering anything, if they were it would be shut down. If they haven't been disbanded it's only because they have no following. You do the research and be the judge of what this is, but if you're trusting every word and hanging on the edge of your seat to see what the CDC says about the latest outbreak, if it is real, then it will be too late.

Sugar

Sugar. If it isn't the most poisoning thing on the planet then what is? It slowly degrades the health of those that consume it, as though they hardly notice their bodies slipping away. Of course I say that about sugar, but salt does just the same.

What is it that sugar does that salt does not? Sugar has the power to alter the body's ability to burn calories, essentially making the body lazy when accessing glucose i.e. breaking down food into glucose. If it continuously receives calories that readily give the body glucose without much work, it will always look for that solution and essentially crave it.

Let's break all this down into science, what is it that makes up sugar. We're literally saying sucrose, which is a disaccharide made up of two monosaccharides, a split of Glucose and Fructose, yes I just said Fructose. What are sources of Sucrose then? It comes in many forms, some that are natural, and I mean organic, and those that are artificial, I'll explain further later. Glucose is the energy that the body uses to trigger insulin responses to rebuild your body and provide ATP or energy in your cells. Fructose on the other hand does the opposite, it does not trigger insulin in your body and does not provide energy like Glucose, it is the "complex-carb" of the two primary sugars in nature.

Sucrose is virtually in everything and most abundant in table sugar and fruit. While I don't entirely agree that granulated sugar is natural, it is much closer that HFCS could ever be. Don't get it twisted, although HFCS has Fructose in the word it is not entirely made of Fructose, there are different types made, but the most common is a pretty even balance of Glucose to Fructose within the Sucrose disachharides.

You might be thinking that Fructose is awesome so I only want that, it doesn't trigger my insulin, the diabetic's wet dream. Insulin is what causes satiety in the brain, making you feel full, and fructose doesn't do any of that. But Fructose is also not calorie free and it's still a simple carbohydrate, so it's easy to over-eat when consuming any amount of Fructose. It's best consumed in fruit which has all the balanced Glucose, vitamins, minerals and fiber to compensate for any other problems that go along with the imbalance.

Juice, something I've never been fond of is a culprit in this same argument as it has the same properties as a soda. It's only the sugar nothing else and that's not helping us all that much, we need the solids from the fruit, the fiber and countless other trace elements that we miss with the processed juice. I've been told and heard about the bacteria on the fruit which also assists in digestion. Not to mention the fiber that goes with it.

I believe that's enough for now, but this discussion could go on forever. Heed every warning when consuming items high in sugar or entirely made up of sugar. While it may benefit you in the short-term, it will not over time.

Love and Relationships

Love is often an indescribably and always intangible thing, that while some cherish, others do not. It's no mystery that creatures all over the world sacrifice unimaginable things for others they love. Emotional intelligence is in this same category and requires a great amount of it in order to at least accept and understand the power of love.

People have been using love as a weapon for evil since our existence with cavemen or more intelligently the Egyptians. We were all led to believe in a greater being in that their love will show us kindness; at the same time enslaving them and spreading a fear into compliance. Love is a difficult thing to control without fear. The primary thing love gives us is hope, if it wasn't for this, what would we live for? Fear is what forces us together, to band for a common cause or benefit from each others' existence, but love does quite the opposite in that it instills trust.

A "prerequisite" to love is trust, when we refer to "consenting adults." Knowing a mother's love is more along the lines of care and worry. Although this occurs with couples, it is a nurtured love and not an innate one. We innately love our children regardless of their mistakes, misfortunes or greatness. This sounds so obvious, but it's ignored still today even with all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips. Lest we forget the role of the mother and the father and its play on someone's livelihood, namely our children. But where would all of this be if not misplaced when the relationship between wife and husband is broken?

A truly happy family requires all of the relationships within it to communicate and co-exist without social whiplash regarding consequences according to action. Each person must know their role and how they contribute to each person to fuel their relationships together. Families should by symbiotic and ever expansive to incorporate many circumstances to encompass everything in their lives ahead.

Diet

I've discussed foods, exercise and a few other things regarding health and the holistic connection between them all, but until now I had not truly discovered their significance. Over the course of about four months I've been subjected to foods that were not to my particular liking, but had limited choice in the matter, pseudo-choice technically. I'm going to discuss a series of diets I went through to test my body's reaction to them, these findings will be without regard to food ingredients/contents. Since energy drinks and sodas have become so popular, I'll start with those.

While energy drinks and sodas technically weren't part of an involuntary choice, I made the decision to test their potency and effect on my body. The jolt from the caffeine and B-Vitamins is obvious, but what's more the reaction was the same from either the sugar or sugar free option. Both caused immense bloating and a strong desire to consume more, the forming of an addiction. After a couple days in a row I became more tired than awake, no energy drink solution was enough to keep me awake. I could easily control my intake by limiting myself to one per day, but why put myself through those stressors by having to constantly combat an addiction, so I'll just avoid them.

I've decided to add in soda here so that energy drinks aren't singled out. Every soda or carbonated syrup drink is sweetened with either sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame or sucralose. There are stevia items that do exist, but I don't have any experience with them so I can't speak for them, although I imagine they're much cleaner considering my experience with stevia in my nutrition powders. All the items above had the same effects, this is very interesting because aspartame and sucralose have zero calories, yet caused the same feel of insulin spike I might get from their sugar or corn syrup counterparts. So maybe it's the caffeine right? I drink coffee every morning and no soda or energy drink comes close to 120mg per can. Essentially what I'm saying is that we're not saving ourselves by eating fake, calorie free sugar, it's still doing damage and probably much worse because they contain carcinogenic compounds. So when you go for a soda, try for one with sugar, it's real and it's harming you all the same, I'd actually lump corn syrup and fake sugars in the same category, because that's what it really is.

I consumed milk with every meal to determine its effects while combined with different foods. This was done on a meat diet and vegetarian diet on and off for a couple of weeks. My result was the intolerance of milk products, this was based on indigestion, poor bowel movements, gas and abdominal pains. Of course this is extreme, who drinks milk for every meal? But I continued to consume yogurt and cheese with no problems, it seems the culprit has been the cultivation of milk and its lactose. Although yogurt is from the same source, the active cultures are capable of neutralizing its negative affects. That leaves me with eggs and meat and how I determined which were a more suitable protein.

During the milk experiment I discovered which meats worked best consumed together, and that was no meats, they all caused intestinal inflammation. Without milk the only meats that didn't cause inflammation were seafood products, those not battered and fried, this also only covered catfish, salmon, alaska pollock, shrimp and I had crab legs once, what a waste of time. The fried items caused more inflammation than any meats, now moving on to eggs. I didn't always have eggs because I missed the serving times for breakfast most days. But eggs caused no intestinal problems, although they caused gas and sinus inflammation; other than their complete amino acid profile and 100 PDCAAS, they fall short in nutritional value and require a large number to compensate for other foods.

After I felt I'd tested everything I decided to take a few days off and go on what I would consider a detox diet. I still had Sunwarrior so I drank it throughout the day and felt wonderful, but I wasn't done just yet, now I wanted to test out the "American diet." How I did this was to consume exactly what was served, without complaint or any food restraint. After a week I couldn't take it anymore, I felt sick, lethargic and constantly bloated. I went on another detox binge for a couple days.

I continued on my vegetarian diet for about a week until I decided it was time for another experiment. This time it would be portion size and meal timing. I normally eat once every three hours and slowly increased it every day by a half hour. After a week I was eating about twice a day and it was a horrible torture. I was never hungry and when I did feel hungry, it was all at once and I felt starved. This was also on a vegetarian diet, so I decided to try it with meat and see if it changed anything, and it didn't. I could hardly stomach food and I would burp up food throughout the day from the large dinner I had the day before. I felt absolutely horrible and I still do, I'm currently coming off of that diet now with some really interesting stomach pains and heartburn; with these feelings I decided it was time to record my findings.

I've left out a lot of minor details like grains and what I ate at certain times to determine at what times of the day was best, but I'd like to keep this short. I've found that equally proportioned meals throughout the day assisted in metabolism and prevented insulin spikes. The one big meal I had for dinner on those days kept me up at night, my heart would race from the massive insulin spike I would receive. I suppose anybody could get used to these things over time, but if someone was used to it, how long before it starts affecting their health? It's hard to tell, but it was immediately adverse for me, I wouldn't want to imagine what damage it could do over time.

In conclusion, I'll be sticking to my six meals per day and eating them all equally, which includes dividing all my nutrients equally throughout all of my meals as I had somewhat done previously, but with greater scrutiny now. Eating any particular item for an entire meal, i.e. fruit, did not benefit me in any way, it only caused cramping and insulin spikes. A common "snack" for people is fruit and I'd advise against it, eat it in conjunction with meals. Overall after everything has been done, the outcome is balance, not daily balance, but balance for every meal. I want to be clear about the insulin spikes I keep referring to, and I only mention it because after every spike my energy levels dropped drastically after. I've recently had no energy for my workouts the past couple weeks and I'll post my recovery methods in a later post.