Food and Health Carnival Jan. 27

Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.

All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.

This week I will share with you: People with Celiac Disease can Declare their "Gluten Free Food" as Tax Deduction

Be sure and check out my current giveaways located on my right side bar. Have a great week.

Triumph Dining Review and Giveaway

This is a review and giveaway for Triumph Dining. Triumph Dining is being very generous they are giving away to three of my reader's their Gluten-Free Restaurant Guide. Look after my review to learn how to enter this giveaway. Thank-you Triumph Dining for this wonderful giveaway.

Since 2005, the Triumph Dining team has spent thousands of hours developing the most comprehensive gluten-free restaurant guide in North America, dining cards that help you order gluten free at restaurants where language barriers can make things even more difficult, and a popular gluten-free grocery guide to help you find the groceries you need — even if you’re traveling and all that's available is a supermarket whose brands you don't know.

I had the opportunity to check out all three of Triumph Dining's products. I will give you a brief run down about all three products and what I think of them.

The Gluten-Free Restaurant Guide there has over 6,500 gluten-free restaurants. It has gluten-free menus from chain restaurants like P.F. Chang's, Outback Steakhouse and Red Lobster's. It covers all 50 states. It is a gluten-free restaurant data base where every listing is verified and updated every year. It is in it's 5th edition with over 460 pages. Every gluten-free restaurant I could think of that is in this guide. It is so easy to use. It has tips on how to get a gluten-free meal anywhere and a dining out checklist. It has the restaurants listed by state and locations. For instance Outback Steakhouse in Washington, it shows all the location's address and phone number's. On the right hand top side it has symbols, Outback Steakhouse shows a book. The book symbol means that this is a chain restaurant. I absolutely love this book, this is an essential guide that I want to carry around in my car. I give the Gluten-Free Restaurant Guide 5 stars out of 5.

The Gluten-Free Grocery Guide has over 30,000 brand name and store brand gluten-free products at grocery stores across United States of America. It has a color coded system that makes it easy to plan your menus and for finding your favorite foods. It is now in its 4th edition with 280 pages. This grocery is also very easy to use. It has great tips for grocery shopping and I love that it shows me which manufacturer's disclose information about cross contamination risks, dedicated production lines and facilities and gluten testing of their products. It makes it much easier knowing I am getting gluten-free foods that I am not going to get sick from. The foods are are color coded and listed in their own food group, so it makes it really easy to find certain foods. For example the frozen foods are listed in purple, so I just have to flip to the purple section. So I want to look up pizza & crust, it shows several brands. One of them is Amy's Kitchen Rice Crust Spinach Pizza, which is one of my very favorites. And it has a symbol with it, the symbol is a circle with an i and a check mark. These symbols mean, cross contamination and gluten testing. Which means that there is a possible cross contamination issue and that the company has tested its ingredients, finished products, machinery and equipment for gluten. This guide makes it so much easier to find gluten-free foods. I absolutely love this grocery guide, it is too an essential guide that I am going to keep it in my purse. I give the Gluten-Free Grocery 5 stars out of 5.

The dining cards are laminated and portable and you can easily fold them into your wallet. You can safely order from a restaurant in 10 different languages. The cards are tailored for toe each cuisine. It takes the chef less than one minute to read and to understand. These great little cards helps you to avoid cross contamination. The dining cards explain very simply that you have celiac disease and lists what you can not eat and what you can eat. As well explains about cross contamination. They are so easy an simple to use. I love these cards, they are going to stay in my wallet, very essential. I give the dining cards 5 stars out of 5.

Check out Triumph Dining's website, you can sign up for there news letter and check out their blog.

Now for the giveaway.

Three lucky winner's will receive a copy of the "The Essential Gluten-Free Restaurant Guide".

Entries:

1) Order any of the Triumph Dining products off my link. (10 entries)

2) Follow me on Google Friend Connect. (1 entry)
3) Subscribe to my RSS Feed, E-mail and/or my Newsletter (in the blue box on the right hand column). (1 entry each)
4) Follow me on Twitter. (1 entry)
5) Tweet about this giveaway daily and/or post on your Facebook. (2 additional entries a day) You can use this for an example,
"#Win The Gluten-Free Restaurant Guide (3 winner's) @superglutenfree from @TriumphDining #giveaway http://nblo.gs/dvEVG, Ends 2/12/2011".
6) "Like" my blog on Facebook and/or Networked Blogs. (1 entry each)
7) Blog about this giveaway and link to Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living and to Triumph Dining. (3 entries)
8) Add my blog to your blog roll. (2 entries)
9) Add my button to the side bar of your blog. (3 entries)
10) Follow Triumph Dining on Twitter. (1entry)
11) Check out my Squidoo Lens and/or create your own Squidoo Lens. (2 entries each)
Please leave me a comment while you are there as well leave me a comment on here telling me you checked out my Squidoo Lens.
12) Vote for my Blog on these Blog Directories by clicking on each of the following buttons. One additional entry per click. You can do this every 6 hours. Top Mommy Blogs can only be voted for once a day. Make sure to make a separate comment for each button you click on.





That gives you several entries for this giveaway. Enter as many of them as you want. Leave a comment for each entry.

This Giveaway is available for USA Only.

Giveaway goes through till February 12, 2011.

Giveaway Rules: All entries must be received by 11:59pm PST on February 12, 2011. A winner will be chosen by random.org. I will notify the winner by February 13, 2011 via email (please respond within 48 hours). I will also announce the winner on my blog. Leave a comment for each entry. Be sure and leave me your Twitter user name and Blog URL of your post. Leave me your e-mail address or make sure it is visible on your blog so that in the event that you win this giveaway I can contact you.

DISCLAIMER: I was not financially compensated for this post. I received a sample of this product for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.

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Easy Swaps For Your Diet That Deliver Big Results

As you go about your fat loss diet, rather than aiming to make an entire diet overhaul and change practically everything that you're eating, try and focus on just making minor alterations that can have a big influence on your total calorie intake and the progress you make.

Those who do attempt that big diet overhaul tend not to fair very well because they are quick to fall off the program entirely and just feel overwhelmed during the process.

By taking small steps and making one or two adjustments here or there, it becomes that much more manageable and something that you can easily stick with.

Let's take a quick look at a couple changes that you can make that will help push you forward towards greater overall weight loss.

Choose Oats Rather Than Cereal

The first simple swap comes at the breakfast table. Rather than going with a commercial variety of cereal, which still may be a decent option as far as health and weight loss is concerned, earn top fat loss marks and go for oatmeal instead.

Oats are very low in total sugar content and incredibly high in fiber so will fill you up and keep you satisfied throughout the entire morning.

Oats are very easy to prepare and take just two to three minutes as well so being busy is no excuse to forgo these first thing in the morning. (oats are gluten-free, you just need to make sure the oats you buy are not cross contaminated with gluten products).

Have Eggs Rather Than Sausage

The second smart swap you can have at breakfast is trading in your sausage for some egg whites instead. While if you're choosing turkey sausage it will likely provide some protein and will be lower in fat, nothing beats egg whites as far as a fat loss protein source is concerned.

These contain just 16 calories per egg white so will be able to easily be integrated into your plan regardless of what your personal calorie intake target happens to be.

Eggs are also quick to prepare and are reasonably cheap to purchase, further providing a reason to start adding these to your meal plan.

Choose Quinoa Rather Than Rice

One grain that so many people completely forget about in their diet is quinoa. If you want to see better overall fat loss results and maintain your energy levels to keep up with those intense workout sessions, this is definitely a grain that you should consider.

Rice is usually the top pick among most people and while rice is still considered healthy, quinoa contains a complete source of protein so will be even healthier yet.

Plus, quinoa is also loaded with fiber so by eating it you can help ward off cravings shortly after the meal. Quinoa can be replaced in any recipe that uses brown rice quite easily, so there is really no shortage of ways to work this into your daily diet plan.

Choose Greek Yogurt Rather Than Regular

Moving along, one food that not enough people are eating regularly is Greek yogurt. Instead, regular yogurt tends to be the food of choice and while this is healthy, Greek yogurt packs in so much more protein than the regular variety does.

Greek yogurt is also very low in sugar content and is a good source of calcium so you really can't go wrong with including this food as part of your diet plan.

It will taste slightly different than regular yogurt so if you need some time to adapt to it, consider mixing half Greek yogurt with half regular for the time being.

Choose Nuts Rather Than Chips

Finally, if you're craving something salty to snack on and feel like having a bag of chips, opt for a few salted nuts instead.

While both will be higher calorie choices, the benefit of having the nuts is they will provide a great source of healthy fats and will contain some protein as well.

Chips are essentially devoid of all nutrients and will only serve to damage your health, so something that you just don't want to be going for.

Nuts, when eaten in moderation to keep calories in check, can be a healthy part of any diet plan.

So there you have some quick and easy swaps to consider making in your diet plan. If you can do these along with any others you might think of then it's not going to feel as much like a total diet change and will be much more sustainable long-term.

This article is contributed by Lima, an avid traveler who owns a website offering high quality adjustable dumbbells for sale.

101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes Giveaway Winner

Congratulations to the winner of the 101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes Giveaway from Microwave Mug Cakes, written by Stacey J. Miller. And the winner is #92, SLS(atlmuzikfanzinc) you have won. I used random.org to determine the winner.

Stacy was on the Rachel Ray Show back in June. Stacy had come across a mug cake recipe and loved it and when she tried to find other recipes she could not find any, so she decided to make her own recipes. She started out with the 101 Microwave Mug Cakes and now has the Gluten-Free version of the book.

Now you can make a single serving of cake without having to make a whole cake and a gluten-free cake at that. Here is a great little book just full of gluten-free cakes and muffins for you too enjoy. The recipes are fun and easy to make and are healthy. All you need is a microwave oven, a mug, a saucer, and a mixing bowl.

The book provides a mix of recipes, that, in addition to being gluten-free, include snacks that may have one or more of the following properties: no added eggs, no added dairy products, no added sugar, or no added oil. Gluten-free microwave mug cakes are the ultimate healthier single-serving snack.

Check out the Microwave Mug Cakes website, they have a couple recipes you can try out for free. You can get the 101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes on Amazon.

Thank-you everyone for entering my giveaway, it was allot of fun.

Split Pea Soup

This is the perfect time of year for cooking split pea soup. I don’t know about you, but in the summer when temperatures are hot and fresh vegetables are abundant, I have no interest in pea soup, but six months later in the cold of winter, it’s just perfect.

Pea soup has not always been a favorite of mine. In fact, I wouldn’t eat it for years, but I have learned to really enjoy it. This recipe contains the ingredients that I personally enjoy in the soup, particularly potatoes. However, you might like adding carrots or other vegetables.

I love using a pressure cooker to make pea soup. I love using a pressure cooker for many things, but it is a real time saver with this. Therefore, I will give directions for cooking with a pressure cooker or without. If you use a pressure cooker, be sure it can be cooked on a low (8 psi) setting. Peas should not be cooked under high pressure. Also, be sure your pressure cooker pot is no more than half full.

Split Pea Soup
1 lb. dry split peas, washed
1 large onion, chopped
2 large potatoes, peeled and chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
6 c. chicken broth*
1 bay leaf
1/2 lb. ham, chopped (or bacon, vary amount to your taste)*
pepper to taste

Pressure Cooker: Combine all ingredients except the pepper in the pressure cooker. Heat and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Close the lid and bring to low pressure using high heat. Cook for 22 minutes. Remove from heat and let the pressure come down naturally. Remove bay leaf, stir, and add pepper to taste.

Stove Top: Combine all ingredients except the potatoes and pepper in a large heavy pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 1 1/2 hours. Add the potatoes and continue to cook until they are tender. Remove bay leaf, stir, and add pepper to taste.

Leftover soup will be very thick the next day. You can thin it with more broth, water, or milk if desired.

*Split pea soup can very easily be made gluten free. Check your chicken broth ingredients (I make my own or use Pacific brand) and make sure the ham is gluten free.

Linda Etherton began her gluten-free journey in 2000 when she was diagnosed with celiac disease. She shares recipes and information about living gluten free on her blog, The Gluten-Free Homemaker. Linda believes that gluten free can and should be delicious and never apologizes for serving gluten-free food.

Food and Health Carnival Jan. 20

Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.

All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.

This week I will share with you: Gluten Intolerance Group

Be sure and check out my current giveaways located on my right side bar. Have a great week.

CSN Stores Upcoming Review

I was contacted by a representative from CSN Stores. She asked if I would do a review a product from their store on my blog, and of course I said, Yes! You would not believe the merchandise that they carry. They carry a little bit of everything, from home decor to bread machines and more. Check out their laptop messenger bag.

Here is a one I like.

I decided to do a review on this hand mixer, which is what I need for my gluten-free lifestyle. I can't wait until it comes so that I can tell you all about it.

In the meantime, check out CSN Stores, you can click on their website for a full list of categories they carry. Happy Shopping.

So check back with me in a few weeks for my review on Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living.

Brain Fog

Have you experienced "Brain fog"? It is one of the symptoms of celiac disease/gluten intolerance. "Brain fog" can be described as any one of these symptoms:

• Difficulty Concentrating
• Mental Confusion
• Forgetfulness
• Detached
• Grogginess

Many patients with celiac disease and gluten intolerance experience "brain fog", the term is not yet understood by the medical community.

The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness has recognized that this is an important area in need for dedicated study. In an effort to provide some of the information needed to carry out this study, NFCA is collecting information from people with celiac disease about this important symptom.

Please spread this message to others and invite them to take this free online survey. It should not take more than five minutes.

Click here, http://bit.ly/dO5Vrt

Subway Going Gluten-Free?



Subway is testing gluten-free sandwich buns and gluten-free brownies at 700 locations in Dallas and East Texas. If it is successful expect it to be available nationwide.

According to Celiac.Com and QSR Web the gluten-free sandwich buns and gluten-free brownies will come prepacked and individually wrapped. The same worker will prepare the sandwich from beginning to end and will be trained on how to cut the sandwich buns with a pre-wrapped knife for one time use, to avoid cross-contamination. The bread is made of egg whites, corn starch and tapioca starch. The brownie is made of potato starch, cocoa and sugar.

You may be interest in checking out Subway's U.S. Allergy Information and Subway's Canada Allergy Information.

Subway was always one of my favorite places to eat before I found out that I am gluten intolerant. Now it seems that I might be able to eat there again. Now if we could just get Papa Murphy's to serve gluten-free pizza, Papa Murphy's is another favorite restaurant of mine that I wish I could eat at. We who are gluten intolerant and have celiac disease can contact restaurants and tell them that they need to have gluten free options in their menu and be persistent, they will get the idea.

Check out my list of Gluten-Free Restaurants.

Food and Health Carnival Jan. 13

Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.

All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.

This week I will share with you: Gluten Sensitivity Symptoms

Be sure and check out my current giveaways located on my right side bar. Have a great week.

101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes Review and Giveaway

This is a review and Giveaway for the "101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes" from Microwave Mug Cakes, written by Stacey J. Miller. Stacy was on the Rachel Ray Show back in June. Stacy had come across a mug cake recipe and loved it and when she tried to find other recipes she could not find any, so she decided to make her own recipes. She started out with the 101 Microwave Mug Cakes and now has the Gluten-Free version of the book.

Now you can make a single serving of cake without having to make a whole cake and a gluten-free cake at that. Here is a great little book just full of gluten-free cakes and muffins for you too enjoy. The recipes are fun and easy to make and are healthy. All you need is a microwave oven, a mug, a saucer, and a mixing bowl.

The book provides a mix of recipes, that, in addition to being gluten-free, include snacks that may have one or more of the following properties: no added eggs, no added dairy products, no added sugar, or no added oil. Gluten-free microwave mug cakes are the ultimate healthier single-serving snack.

Here is one of the recipes I tried, it is the "Strawberry Muffin Microwave Mug Cake". It was very simple and fast to make. My five year old son was amazed that I was making a microwave mug cake. My son was watching the whole time from start to finish, which wasn't very long. The ingredients in this recipe called for, an egg, strawberry yogurt, milk, oil, vanilla, baking powder, xantham gum, cinnamon, brown sugar, sorghum flour, millet flour, potato starch and vanilla pudding powder, very simple. It is easy to substitute an ingredient for another if there is an ingredient that you cannot have in your diet. It did seem rather odd to be only using small amounts when I usually make a whole cake, but there was not left overs to figure out how in the world my small family was going to eat the whole thing. When I was done mixing it, I put the mug in the microwave for 4-5 minutes and it was done. When it was cooled off, I topped it off with some more strawberry yogurt and fresh strawberries. It tasted so good and moist. I just can't wait to try out some more of the recipes. I give this recipe book 5 stars out of 5. I would recommend this book to anyone who is on a gluten-free diet.

Check out the Microwave Mug Cakes website, they have a couple recipes you can try out for free. You can get the 101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes on Amazon.

Now for the giveaway.

One lucky winner will receive a copy of the "101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes". Thank-you Stacy for sponsoring this wonderful giveaway.

Entries:

1) Order the 101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes on Amazon. (10 entries)

2) Follow me on Google Friend Connect. (1 entry)
3) Subscribe to my RSS Feed, E-mail and/or my Newsletter (in the blue box on the right hand column). (1 entry each)
4) Follow me on Twitter. (1 entry)
5) Tweet about this giveaway daily and/or post on your Facebook. (2 additional entries a day) You can use this for an example,
"#Win 101 Recipes for Gluten-Free Microwave Mug Cakes @superglutenfree #giveaway http://goo.gl/fb/Jmlsj, Ends 1/23/2011".
6) "Like" my blog on Facebook and/or Networked Blogs. (1 entry each)
7) Blog about this giveaway and link to Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living and to Microwave Mug Cakes. (3 entries)
8) Add my blog to your blog roll. (2 entries)
9) Add my button to the side bar of your blog. (3 entries)
10) Check out my Squidoo Lens and/or create your own Squidoo Lens. (2 entries each)
Please leave me a comment while you are there as well leave me a comment on here telling me you checked out my Squidoo Lens.
11) Vote for my Blog on these Blog Directories by clicking on each of the following buttons. One additional entry per click. You can do this every 6 hours. Top Mommy Blogs can only be voted for once a day. Make sure to make a separate comment for each button you click on.





That gives you several entries for this giveaway. Enter as many of them as you want. Leave a comment for each entry.

This Giveaway is available for USA Only.

Giveaway goes through till January 23, 2011.

Giveaway Rules: All entries must be received by 11:59pm PST on January 23, 2011. A winner will be chosen by random.org. I will notify the winner by January 24, 2011 via email (please respond within 48 hours). I will also announce the winner on my blog. Leave a comment for each entry. Be sure and leave me your Twitter user name and Blog URL of your post. Leave me your e-mail address or make sure it is visible on your blog so that in the event that you win this giveaway I can contact you.

DISCLAIMER: I was not financially compensated for this post. I received a sample of this product for review purposes. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.

Crunchmaster Coupon

Get a $1.00 off coupon for the Crunchmaster Multi-Seed Crackers, all you have to do is sign-up for the Crunchmaster Community. Crunchmaster Crackers is one of my favorite gluten-free crackers as I have mentioned on my My Favorite Gluten-Free Foods post. They are now available at Wal-Mart. You can also get them at your favorite nature's store, Costco and on Amazon.

If you haven't tried these crackers yet, I encourage you to check them out, they taste so good.

Crunchmaster Crackers are:

• All Natural
• Low Sodium
• Cholesterol Free
• 0g Trans Fat
• Gluten-free

Food and Health Carnival Jan. 6

Happy New Year!!!

Do you have a Favorite Recipe, a Great Tip, a Great Resource or a Giveaway? Do you have a Giveaway Linky or Recipe Carnival on your blog? Or maybe you would just like to share your Food or Health Blog/Website.

Add your link to my Food and Health Carnival.

All I ask for in return is for you to add my blog button above to your blog and/or a link to my website. Lisa's Gluten-Free Advice and Healthy Living. Another idea is that you could add my link to your blog roll. Thank-You.

Add Your Gluten-Free and/or Healthy Living Blog to my Directory.

This week I will share with you: Gluten-Free Books

Be sure and check out my current giveaways located on my right side bar. Have a great week.

Whole Foods Gluten-Free Coupons

You can get gluten-free printable coupons from Whole Foods in their bi-monthly publication, The Whole Deal.

You have to search around to find them, but they are there.

To name a few of the coupons in the Jan/Feb 2011 publication:

$1 off Udi's Gluten-Free Baked Goods
$1 off any Two Larabar's
55¢ off any one bottle of San-J Organic Gluten Free Tamari, Cooking Sauce or Dressing

Whole Foods also has allot of gluten-free recipes on their website, a healthy eating meal planner as well as some great health tips. I encourage you to check out their website, Whole Foods, it is a great resource. Whole Foods is one of my favorite places to shop for groceries as well as for natural supplements.

Living and Eating for the Future

Perhaps one of the most overlooked facets of a person's life is their diet. Not many fully understand the full effects of a bad diet. In order to remain healthy, it is important to maintain a balanced and nutritious diet. At the same time, avoid dreadful ingredients in food such as corn syrup, or bisphenol A. With so many processed foods on the market, it can be difficult to find whole foods and natural food suppliers. The average super market is stocked and loaded with all of the most harmful foods, meanwhile the FDA makes it increasingly difficult for whole food providers to stay in business.

There are countless harmful additives and ingredients within the foods we eat. High fructose corn syrup, for instance, is hardly edible at all. The ingredient is made in a factory, and is beneficial for corporations and food producers because it mixes well with many types of ingredients, tastes nearly the same as sugar, allows food to remain on store shelves for much longer, and is altogether less expensive than actual sugar. Note, it is beneficial for the producers of the food, and not the customers. Recent studies have been released to the public which show links between high fructose corn syrup and cancer. Is it no surprise that the cancer rate has reached such high levels? Cancer cells are much more likely to consume fructose over other sugars, such as glucose.

Another chemical that regularly comes into contact with much of our food is bisphenol A. While not strictly a food ingredient, this chemical is found in many plastic containers, and leaks into the food through contact. Mason jar lids, water bottles, and pretty much every kind of plastic container available on the market contains bisphenol A. When plastic containers are put into the microwave, the food is literally bathed in bisphenol A. The effects of this chemical includes hyper femininity in females, and femininity in males. Other affected areas of the body include the brain, reproductive system, and metabolism. Despite studies dating back to the 1980's and 1990's showing evidence of these adverse effects on humans, this chemical can be found contaminating practically every food imaginable in the supermarket.

One of the main reasons the FDA has seemingly failed in its attempt to regulate the food market, is because its definition of what is food is completely incorrect. The FDA treats food as if it were dead material, but this is not the case. For instance, the sale of raw milk has been essentially banned within the United States. Milk must be pasteurized, which means heating the milk to the point where any bacteria will be killed. This process does not simply kill bacteria, but also 20% of the beneficial qualities of milk. The attempts to make milk 'safe' for consumption has been all but completely pointless, as pasteurized milk has been found to contain even more diseases than the raw milk. It is entirely true that human beings can exist solely off of milk, due to raw milk providing all eight essential amino acids.

It has really become the responsibility of every individual to improve their own diet for their own health. As the FDA and most food producing companies have shown the public, they care little for our actual health, as they sell us what can absolutely be called poison. A good option for anyone looking to inform others about the health benefits they will receive from eating healthy would be to visit some of the accredited online medical schools to see what degrees are offered. A career as a dietitian is an incredibly viable option as so many are ignorant to how the food they eat is doing harm.