"Based on the research and information I have on May 06 the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright © 2006

See also" our article on the PH factor (body acid or alkaline) in this issue.

Getting your enzymes it turns out makes a big difference.

Caveman got his enzymes in quantity because he likely ate 98% of his food raw.

Fire was a lot of work getting it started and fueling it and was a development that showed up only in the last ten thousand years.

My favorite modern man appliance, the microwave, turns out to be a real villain in killing off important food components since it is VERY high temperature. (*that's how it cooks so fast")

So relegate your microwave for reheating, thawing etc.

 

Ran across a study that shows that Foods Cooked at High Heat are Linked to Inflammation.

Inflammation is the villain in cardio vascular problems. Also the same study showed that in tests with animals with a high deposition for diabetes, those on a low heat diet had lower rates of developing diabetes then those on diets cooked at high heat.

We switched to steaming as the least harmful but you are far better off eating as many of your foods raw as you can.

Turns out we really like our vegetables steamed, and quit just as they are still just crunchy. A steamer is just a screened inner pan that raises the veggies just above boiling water at the bottom of the pan.

When we stay in suites that have kitchen facilities on the road, (not much more expensive then ordinary motels) (such as Studio Six, of Motel Six) we carry a food strainer in our suit case, pans are furnished. The strainer is a size that fits in the top of most pans and just put the lid on top of that. It does not have to be air tight or even near to keep enough steam in.

The cooked food merely sits in the strainer.

I should not be writing about this yet because I have not done it yet but it is on the list before next issue. Never the less you need to know about it. Jack LaLane, if you remember him, the exercise guy on TV that was on for a record number of years has a book out and his regimen always included "juicing" as well as his exercises. Turns out he is 91 and going strong. (seems to work).

That was the idea, get your enzymes intact by juicing your vegetables
and then your body really worked well if you exercised right. He has lots of good exercises for senior citizens that will work for anybody.

Next up, I picked up a book on a lady that has cured her own cancer. Used a system developed by another lady, and it has
a juicer, sprouts and wheat grass as keys to her success. She claimed cancer patients had trouble handling meat, (all veggie diet gives you an alkaline body balance which she never mentions but is the key to other healings of various diseases including diabetes.) (see other books)
The "greens" seem important in this book and the main book on controlling diabetes with ph balance
is big on greens as the key, and we will be checking and trying that out.

Outside of the no meat in her case, because of it being cancer, her food list looks almost like the caveman diet except in addition to cutting out meat, she cut out cooking entirely, covered her stove and used it for a stand for her juicer.

She claimed right off that cancer patients could not handle sugar and it has to go. Half way thru her remission she got into eating some high sugar dates and noticed her cancer symptoms coming back. She went off dates and resumed the recovery which eventually turned out to be complete. By the way, she and her husband both automatically lost weight as a side benefit (just as folks on the caveman diet do automatically, and it maintains itself within 3 or 4 pounds now year around eating as much as they want and never going hungry etc.

We may be eating the right or nearly right as we can, foods, but we may be shooting ourselves in the foot by killing off the key food elements by cooking them.

This issue we take up the caveman food storage system that made it possible to get thru the winter in good health eating a balanced diet out of a bag made from an animal stomach. (we have plastic) That is called "pemmican" and is based on caveman sun drying food, grinding it to powder and mixing back in fat to the dry mixture. Storing it in air tight bags for years if necessary with no refrigeration needed.
We use a dryer appliance or the oven instead of the sun and this system made portable meals from natural foods that have not been cooked..

Many of them dried as low as 95 degrees. Pemmican is a mixture of about 50% dried meat.

Do Not dry fruits and eat them by themselves. Drying concentrates sugar.

Dried apples for example in a pemmican mixture may be around 5% of the total or whatever you make it, since you will have many ingredients so the concentration of sugar from drying apples does not matter since it is well diluted..

Turns out drying and juicing are two options that will allow you to keep the same elements in your food that caveman did.

In addition make special effort to switch to eating as many of your foods raw as you can.

Eggs for example are much better for you raw the way caveman ate them. This likely turns off many but you likely have been eating raw eggs in things you did not know were in there. For example, I used to make a pick me up drink from orange juice, honey and a raw egg in the blender. When you ordered a malt in some drug store lunch counters way back, they would ask if you wanted an egg in it for ten cents more, (raw of course).

When my kids were growing up I was always home on Thursday nights so Thursday night was malt night. Each malt got an egg in it and I am not sure if they were ever aware of it or not but they looked forward to and loved "malt night". (in addition the usual milk and ice cream we enriched them with powdered milk.) (extra calcium for growing bones)

So just crack an egg in your juices blender and you will not even be aware it is there.

Some of this will turn you off for now but you learn to like what is good for you and works.

We will be writing much more on this as we get into it.....and can report from personal experience.

You and I eat fruits and vegetables picked green days early and ripened in the super market where they develop no enzymes.

Buy fruits and vegetables at the farmers market where they were picked ripe, usually the same day.

Babys have 20 times the enzymes that of an adult has and a 70 year old has 1/2 that of a twenty year old.

Not surprising to see 80% of diabetics listed as short on enzymes. Enzyme Amalase shown to lower blood sugar and an enzyme Lipose, lack interferes with Insulin metabolism.

Next issue we will do an article on my experience with fruit and veggie juicing to enhance enzyme input. This article here, We list cooking killing all enzymes at 122. Most authorities say it is killed at 116. Eat it raw and you will get it either way.

Enzymes may be the major advantage caveman had that modern man, you and I are being denied due to food picked green and/or cooking what enzymes we do get to death. Caveman likely had 100% enzyme input, you and I wind up with zilch. We need to fix this.

At Last, A Diabetic Fast Food

Handed Down From Our Ancestors.

• Nearly Perfect Balanced Meal.
• Does Not Spoil
• Several Days supply fits in purse or pocket.
• Can eat alone or supplement
• Light Weight to Transport
• Hi Energy Ingredients
• Delicious, nutritious, satisfying,
• Healthy Alternative For Diabetics or anyone
• Great For snacking anytime.
• All Natural, no preservatives, etc.
• It goes where you go.
• Immediately available on demand.
• Proven healthful and tested for hundreds of years.

Can Be Purchased Or Make It Yourself.

Pemmican may be one of the world's oldest fast foods. (and nearly perfect balanced) It is made from pure protein, fat, berries, nuts and seeds, in a nearly perfect ratio.

Contains dense nutritional values in a light weight simple to transport, hand-fed non spoiling food.. Very high energy ingredients are tasty, satisfying and feeds the body everything it needs. Light weight, simple to store, easy to carry, simple to eat anywhere.

Pemmican. it goes where you go in your pocket or purse in a zip lock bag. It is a good food to eat any time of the day or night,

It is delicious, nutritious, satisfying, easy, and the original hunter gatherer "fast food".

Get on with your busy schedules. Eat on the go.

This is a healthy alternative for diabetics,

it will curb hunger and give nutritional support and if made with the usual mixtures will promote only a little raise in blood sugar.

Pemmican as made by the North American Indians is a mixture of dried meat and suet plus dried berries nuts and mushrooms, fruits, wild veggies, seeds and whatever else edible they can find that can be sun dried.

It is normally eaten unheated, but can be used as a base for soup or stew, throw in anything you find to supplement along the way..

Sealed in an air tight bag (Indians used animal stomachs and intestines, sealed with tallow.) (we use zip lock bags) it will keep for years under reasonable conditions.

North American tribes, nearly all had a version of pemmican. (particularly the plains Indians that followed the bison across the plains.

Dried buffalo made into pemmican was easy to store, fed them on the trail and got them thru lean times in the winter. Explorers, fur traders, trappers and others bought hundreds of pounds from the Indians to keep them going on the trail.

The American Indians were healthy active, and relatively disease-free cultures, and only developed health failings such as diabetes, cardio vascular problems and cancer when forced by the government on to the "modern man" processed foods diet.

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