Food Shortages: How to Prepare

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Cat

Jun 27, 2022

I just read an interesting article from Dr. Mercola about the problem of food shortages that began with COVID-19, and how to prepare. Because he deletes his articles after 48 hours, I’ve saved a copy: HEALTH-NUTRITION /PODCASTS-ARTICLES / MERCOLA > FoodShortages-HowBadWillGet_Mercola_062722.pdf. I copy his “Story at a Glance”, and his section on “How to Prepare for Food Shortages” below.

I may add my own comments, as I learn more. And I note specific text of interest to me in blue.

Perhaps the most important thing is to start a garden; I like to grow green-beans, peas, carrots, radishes, beets, garlic, and several herbs. I used to grow potatoes, but they didn’t do well.

  • Includes: 1. Mercola’s Story at a Glance; 2. Mercola’s How to Prepare for Food Shortages
  • See also: Diet and Health Menu

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Cauliflower, Garlic and Rosemary Bread (Keto)

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Cat

By Cat, May 5, 2022; photo, right, from Wikimedia Commons

Cauliflower

I received an email from Dr. Jockers (1) about this interesting recipe, so I copied it here so I can give it a try, and make any desired adjustments.

I eat a cyclic-keto plan: keto 4-5 days a week, and a regular diet the other days, as recommended by Dr. Mercola. It’s hard to find a “bread” that is grain-free and low on starch

See also: 1. Breads, etc Menu; 2. Ketogenic Diet (About) Continue reading →

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Heavy Metal Toxicity: Testing and Treatment

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Cat

by Cat,  March, 2007; updated July 2016, to add about the “Three Pillars…” and “Mercury Tri-Test”; updated Nov 2017 to add BioSil/PectaSol-C detox therapy, and to move the Chlorella-Cilantro Therapy details to a separate article on iWeb; it has since been moved to Cat’s Kitchen: catsfork.com/CatsKitchen/chlorella-cilantro-heavy-metal-detox-protocols/. April 2022: remainder of the article moved and updated to Cat’s Kitchen. 

  • Includes: 1. Testing and Diagnosis: Provocation Testing; Hair Analysis; and Self Assessment; 2. Provocation Agents (Chelators); 3. Treatment: Conventional Protocols: Provocation Agents; Natural Protocols; Other Considerations While Taking Chelation Therapy; EDTA Chelation Therapy for Arteriosclerosis; My Experience with Chelation Therapy;
  • Other Sites: 1. Wellness Mama on How to Detox Heavy Metals Safely (and Get More Energy (7) 2. Mercola on “Three Pillars of Heavy Metal Detoxification (6) no longer available;  3. Water Liberty’s Natural Treatment (8) no longer available 

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Affects of Mercury Toxicity

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Cat

By Cat, Aug 2007; moved to Cat’s Kitchen, and updated April 2022

Mercury may well be the most problematic of the toxic heavy metals, because it is a ubiquitous environmental pollutant.  Mercury poses a unique problem because it is routinely used in medical and dental practices.  Silver fillings are made with mercury; vaccines are preserved with thimerosol, a compound of mercury. 

For more detail on mercury toxicity:  disorders associated with toxic mercury, and how one can be exposed to mercury, refer to Mercury Toxicity:  Disease and Exposure.

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Mercury Toxicity: Disease & Exposure

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Cat

By Cat, August, 2007; moved and updated from iWeb 4/24/22

It was not generally known until the late-1950s/early-1960s that mercury was a very toxic substance. And its been only in the last 20 years that we’ve known how to detox from it. As a child in the ’50s, I was exposed to mercury from the following:

    1. silver amalgam tooth fillings;
    2. using mercurochrome to heal cuts (until it was banned);
    3. playing with mercury “marbles,” and
    4. certain lab experiments in graduate school that involved inhaling mercury.
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Heavy Metals: Exposure & Damage

Posted on April 23, 2022 by Cat

By Cat, July, 2007; moved and updated from iWeb 4/23/22

We are frequently exposed to toxic heavy metals without realizing it, until we begin to see the damage. Much of the damage doesn’t become visible for years. Some essential heavy metals such as selenium are  toxic if they are not chelated.

Read on to learn more about how you might be exposed to toxic heavy metals. One of the most common toxic metals is mercury: it has been added to many vaccines, and is included in “silver” tooth fillings. When I was a child, we used to play with tiny balls of mercury, breathing in the gas-form of mercury from the balls.

Includes: 1. How Does One Get Exposed to Toxic Heavy Metals? 2. How Do they Do Their Damage? 3. Where Do they Do Their Damage? Continue reading →

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Heavy Metal Toxicity Symptoms

Posted on April 23, 2022 by Cat

by Catherine M. Haug,  July, 2007; moved & updated from old iWeb site 4/23/22

Heavy metals are a class of minerals with a high molecular weight, and typically fall in the middle section of a periodic table. Some are essential (up to certain levels) for specific enzymatic activity in our bodies, such as copper, zinc and selenium and iron, but can be toxic above trace levels. Some require proper balance, such as zinc and copper require a balance of 15:8 (zinc-to-copper).

Iron is toxic in the blood if not bound by hemoglobin.  Other heavy metals, the so called toxic heavy metals, (such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and radium) are toxic at any level.

Read on for more.

  • Includes: 1. Symptoms of Toxicity

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Heavy Metal Toxicity (Overview)

Posted on April 23, 2022 by Cat

By Cat, April 2022 (originally from old iWeb site, July-Aug 2007)

What’s a Heavy Metal?

No, I don’t mean a type of rock music!

Heavy metals are a class of minerals with a high molecular weight, and typically fall in the middle section of a periodic table. Some are essential (up to certain levels) for specific enzymatic activity in our bodies, such as copper, zinc, selenium and iron, but can be toxic above trace levels. Some require proper balance, such as zinc and copper require a balance of 15:8 (zinc-to-copper).

Iron is toxic in the blood if not bound by hemoglobin.  Other heavy metals, the so called toxic heavy metals, (such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and radium) are toxic at any level.

Read on for more.

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Fasting to Reduce Insulin Resistance & Type-2 Diabetes

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Cat

By Cat, Feb 25, 2022

I’ve had insulin resistance since my early 20s (1970s). Back then, no one knew how to treat it, but I’ve since learned to minimize my sugar intake, and eat a good, healthy diet. I’ve been 100% off sugar (other than that naturally in fresh Organic fruits) since 2015. And I started taking Myo-Inositol (a B-vitamin) which stabilizes and improves the health of cell membranes, restoring insulin receptors.

I also started doing a bi-annual Veggie Juice Fast, at Kalispell’s WEC, or Wellness Education Center. The name has since been changed to Glacier Juice and Wellness, but they still do juice fasts. Now Mercola has a very interesting article on fasting to reduce Insulin Resistance and Type-2 Diabetes (far more healthful than taking the big-pharma drugs for this disease). Read on for his “Story At-A-Glance” (Summary Notes).

Now Mercola has a very interesting article on how fasting can reduce insulin resistance

See also: 1. Diet and Health Menu and scroll down to Insulin Resistance (IR), High Blood Sugar, and Metabolic Syndrome section for multiple articles on Insulin Resistance. Continue reading →

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Savory Chicken Tray-Bake

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Cat

Feb 23, 2022; photo, right, from Wikipedia

Chickens

I’ve adapted this recipe from one in our local newspaper, the Daily Interlake, in Kalispell MT, Feb 23, 2022 edition. The writer did not provide the source of the recipe.

Chicken breasts or thighs (bone-in, skin-on) are baked on a tray, flavored with fennel and coriander (in addition to salt and pepper); then a light sauce is made using the drippings, juice from a lemon, and olive oil, then garnished with fresh tarragon. Just reading the recipe made my mouth water.

However, I would prefer to use my 12-inch cast iron skillet rather than a tray (rimmed baking sheet), and I definitely would not use an aluminum baking sheet.  Conclusion after 2/25/22 testing: YES! using my cast iron skillet worked great, and was easier and safer to heat the drippings on the stove-top than using a tray.

See also: 1. Poultry/Fowl Menu; 2. Herbs & Spices (About) Continue reading →

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