Living a Green Life

This page discusses our recent passion for living the best life that we can within our current duties to family and society. It's about changing the world from within and leading by example. And one purpose of this page is to provide a reference list of books and resources that we are excited about sharing with people in their quest to live healthier, less toxic lives.

Organic Farming:

A Cure for Global Warming, the Health Care Crisis,
and Our Toxic World

The Organic Revolution: How We Can Stop Global Warming by Ronnie Cummins Here is an excerpt: "...reverse global warming, by capturing and sequestering billions of tons of climate-destabilizing greenhouse gases in the soil, through plant photosynthesis, composting, cover crops, rotational grazing, wetlands preservation, and reforestation. The heretofore unpublicized “good news” on climate change, according to the Rodale Institute and other soil scientists, is that transitioning from chemical, water, and energy-intensive industrial agriculture practices to organic farming and ranching on the world’s 3.5 billion acres of farmland and 8.2 billion acres of pasture or rangeland can sequester 7,000 pounds per acre of climate-destabilizing CO2 every year, while nurturing healthy soils, plants, grasses, and trees that are resistant to drought, heavy rain, pests, and disease. And of course organic farms and ranches can provide us with food that is much more nutritious than industrial farms and ranches—food filled with vitamins, anti-oxidants, and essential trace minerals, free from Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), pesticides, antibiotics, and sewage sludge." Read the complete article

To learn more, I HIGHLY recommend these documentaries (many are available as streaming via "Play It Now" on Netflix):

• Food, Inc.
• Food Matters
• The Future of Food
• King Corn
  

Take action! Join the Organic Consumers Association to support their efforts and to be appraised of the many opportunities to speak out and defend our world and our food. Visit their website http://www.organicconsumers.org/ and click "Subscribe" to receive their newsletter.

The Gerson Therapy

A Cure for Cancer and Other Chronic Degenerative Diseases

Dr. Max Gerson developed a cure for "incurable" tuberculosis in the early 1900's. This cure was eventually discovered to also be effective in curing cancer, HIV, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, addiction, endometriosis, hyperactivity, depression, migraines, osteoperosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, hepatitis B & C, multiple sclerosis, morbid obesity, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and many other chronic diseases. Rather than trying to suppress and eliminate the symptoms of a disease, the therapy restores the body's ability to heal itself. Chronic disease is a result of deficiency and toxicity, and this diet and supplement based therapy addresses both problems. It's a long-term solution, requiring dedication and commitment and is empowering to the patient.

To learn more about the Gerson Therapy, watch one or more of these documentaries (available on Netflix):

• The Gerson Miracle
• The Beautiful Truth
• Dying to Have Known

Another source of these and other documentaries: Gerson Website

Next, read the book Healing the Gerson Way by Charlotte Gerson with Beatta Bishop

Find out more at the Gerson website about treatment options, such as:

• Baja Nutri Care Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico followed by home-treatment preferably with a full-time trained assistant or Gerson-certified caregiver.
• Treatment from home with a full-time trained assistant or Gerson-certified caregiver and/or Gerson coach.

Gerson cancer patient testimonials on YouTube: Cure for Cancer
Gerson cancer patient testimonials by blog: My Juice Journey, Smelanoma Blog

Recommended Reading

• Green Goes with Everything: Simple Steps to a Healthier Life and a Cleaner Planet by Sloan Barnett (Strongly recommended for EVERYONE to read.) Become educated about the toxins in your home and how to replace them with products that are gentler on your health and Mother Earth.

• Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place by Suzanne Sommers (view an online interview). This went to No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list after only five days on the market. I found a copy in our local library.

• Healing the Gerson Way for complete information on how to implement the Gerson Therapy by Charlotte Gerson with Beatta Bishop

• For a complete perspective on how Dr. Max Gerson developed the therapy and why it's not widely known and used throughout the medical establishment, read Max Gerson's biography written by his grandson: Dr. Max Gerson, Healing the Hopeless by Howard Strauss. But then again, cancer is a 100 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR industry. Do you think they want people to find out that we can cure ourselves with vegetables and cofee enemas?

You can subscribe to email newsletters about developments in holistic and natural health:

• Organic Consumers Association (subscribe!)
• Dr. Mercola
• Natural News with Mike Adams, The Health Ranger

What Are We Doing?

Here are some of the steps that we Beckmans are implementing at our Colorado farm to simplify and detoxify our lives:

• Plugging television and computer equipment into power strips and turning those strips OFF every night. This can save up to 10% of your electricity use.

• Eating raw, ORGANIC foods that have not been poisoned with sewage sludge, pesticides, fungicides, artificial fertilizers and now genetically modified ingredients.

  • (Scientific analysis of the nutrient components of organic versus conventional produce demonstrate that conventional produce is extremely deficient in the wide variety of vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to stay healthy.) We have bowls of fresh organic fruits, nuts and raisins on the table at all times. Our kids are welcome to eat these healthy foods whenever they want, and they do!

  • "Genetically modified corn produces a toxic insecticide in every cell. The gene may transfer into the DNA living inside your intestines, turning them into living pesticide factories. There’s plenty of evidence showing just how dangerous this toxin is and why it is worth the effort to remove it from your diet." — Dr. Joseph Mercola http://www.mercola.com/

• Avoiding foods that contain these three deadly ingredients:

  • Avoid high fructose corn syrup

  • Avoid aspartame (almost all foods that say "diet or sugar free") - an excitotoxin that kills brain cells and causes brain tumors in rats (and people).

  • Avoid Monosodium glutamate (MSG) - an ADDICTIVE excitotoxin that kills brain cells and causes obesity in rats (and people). Various forms of MSG and free glutamic acid are in 60% of processed foods on the grocery store shelves including on health food store shelves! To identify MSG, you'll need to learn the many different names used for MSG.

• Drinking raw milk from a neighbors farm. Dead, pasteurized milk is bad for you. All the beneficial properties of milk have been destroyed by the pasteurization process.

• Only put products on our face, hair, teeth and bodies that are completely non-toxic and eventually edible. These products are going down the drain into our water supply.

• Cleaning our home and dishes with non-toxic, biodegradable and preferably home-made, local substances.

• Using mostly solar power. We have 27 panels and are tied into the grid.

• Feeding our pets natural food: pressed fruit and vegetable pulp left over from the juices we make. Eggs from our organically fed chickens. Search for "vegetarian dogs" and "vegan dogs" and "vegetarian cats" on the internet. You'll be surprised what you discover! No more dried dog and cat food from the grocery store.

• More than half the family are currently vegetarians. We vote with our dollar bills at the grocery store and restaurants. We Americans support cruelty, slaughter, and pollution by buying conventional beef and dairy. If you must eat meat, I recommend eating organic, free range and cage-free meat.

• Avoiding compromising our immune systems and endangering our health with vaccines. Read more at the National Vaccine Information Center.

• Growing organic vegetables in our own garden and window gardens. In 2009, we participated in local community supported agriculture. We worked (weeded) at a local organic farm for 3 hours every other week, and paid a lump sum up front in exchange for a box of mixed organic vegetables every week throughout the growing season! It was a marvelous experience.

• Watching documentaries (on our computers using Play It Now on NETFLIX!) to learn about our food and world.

• Choose one area of life to change, and then change that. Next month, choose one thing to change... and then change that. :o) Wish us luck!