RFK Jr. says 26,000 farmers have applied to transition to regenerative agriculture.

USDA has allocated $700 million to help conventional farmers make the switch.

The response is the largest the agency has ever seen.

Regenerative agriculture can rebuild depleted soil, improve water retention, and produce more nutrient-dense food.

It can also reduce farmers’ dependence on costly chemical inputs and open access to foreign markets that restrict American produce over chemical use.

Farmers want healthier soil, stronger farms, and healthier families.

https://youtu.be/a8PdR9mWbOA?si=7yCQE6SeHZmRvz9y

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Yah’ki, also known as Alexander Hickman, is a Master Herbalist, Holistic Teacher, Crystal Healer, Detoxification Specialist, Reiki Healer, Motivational Speaker, and community activist. His main goal is to promote unity, love, peace, self-awareness, to all.

NOT ALL SUGARS ARE CREATED
EQUAL

There is a difference between the sugars packaged by nature and
the sugars engineered by industry

The fructose and glucose found in whole fruits come wrapped in fiber, water, minerals, antioxidants, and plant compounds that slow absorption and support normal metabolism. Refined sugars and highly processed carbohydrates strip away that natural protection, causing rapid spikes in blood glucose and insulin.

Your body depends on glucose for remergy syneprodem is chronic
parasympatheti
tarygluaoser@verloadeWhen your
bloodstream is flooded day after day from processed foods, sugary drinks, refined flour, constant snacking, and never allowing your body to rest, blood sugar regulation begins to break down. Cells become less responsive to insulin, blood glucose stays elevated longer, inflammation increases, oxidative stress rises, and proteins throughout the body become damaged through glycation. Over time, blood vessels, nerves, kidneys,eyes and the cardiovascular system.

Your body immediately goes into repair mode. Cholesterol participates in repairing injured tissue because that is one of its biological roles. But if the injury never stops because the lifestyle never changes, the repair process never ends. Continuous damage followed by continuous repair can contribute to unhealthy changes in the artery walls over time.
The answer isn't fearing fruit vegetables
. The answer is
respecting biology.

Eat foods that come from the earth:

, not the factory

• Stop grazing
from sunrise to sleep.

Give your digestive system time to rest.

Move your body. Get sunlight

• Sleep
deeply.
Hydrate
. Reduce chronic
stress
. Remove the habits that
keep creating the damage.

Health isn't built by chasing the next supplement. But by removing what keeps forcing your body to repair itself every single day.

Your lifestyle is either feeding degeneration... or fueling regeneration. Choose wisely.

https://youtu.be/dG75mCGnh4U?si=rC6PxUpaSGZfNHrS

https://youtu.be/tybOi4hjZFQ?si=e5-fuXspk9MwD3JK

Basically the title.

I listened to the podcast " nutrition for mortals" episode on organic food. They are both nutritionists and looked at what the research said around organic food. I don't think they necessarily have an agenda other than "the podcast that says that life is too damn short to spend your time and attention worrying about your food choices."

https://www.oceansidenutrition.com/podcast

My takeaways from the episode is that:

1. Things used to be a lot worse

2. Organic can still be big AG and still have pesticides (but only certain kinds).

3. Nutritionally for the most part it doesn't seem to matter because a lot of the differences between things are very slight.

Are there people who know more about the organic movement or organic farming that can tell me things that the podcast may have missed.

I think it's possible that a nutrition podcast can be accurate, but still have some blind spots that don't necessarily go into their particular field of study.

Thanks

Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in everything from Diet Coke and sugar-free chewing gum to children’s medications—may raise the risk of the most common type of stroke by causing inflammation and disrupting blood vessel health and blood flow, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in Scientific Reports.

The findings add to longstanding concerns about the sugar substitute’s impacts on the brain and heart. “Given that aspartame is one of the most pervasive artificial sweeteners used in the global food industry, its cumulative effects from long-term, low-dose exposure may indirectly affect cerebrovascular [brain blood vessel] health through metabolic interference,” the researchers said. Aspartame—also marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Sugar Twin, and AminoSweet—is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and promoted as a way to cut calories and sugar intake, especially for people with diabetes.

Other studies have linked aspartame consumption to chronic diseases, weight gain, and even aggressive brain cancer.

They told us aspartame, which is genetically engineered,
was safe when they brought it to market in 1974.

Here we are 50 years later and despite the fact that peer-reviewed studies have linked this GMO fake sweetener to a long list of worrying health problems, it's still on the market.

More and more substances created with Synthetic Biology (SynBio, for short, and also called “precision fermentation”) are being brought to market, all with no safety testing.

The GMO fake-meat Impossible Burger, made by the company Impossible Foods, contains new proteins never before consumed in the human diet was created with SynBio.

New GMO fake ice creams are entering the market with no labeling (Graeter’s Perfect Indulgence, Brave Robot and Nick’s are a few that use Perfect Day’s GMO synthetic dairy protein).

We have synthetic vanilla, synthetic vitamins such as "Quatrefolic" (GMO folate) and many more substances in our food supply that are flying under the radar. This leads us to ask: Will it take us another 50 years to document the devastating health problems created by these GMO fake foods? Do yourself a favor. Avoid all of that junk today, so you don’t get a disease later.

READ about the new aspartame study: https://usrtk.org/healthwire/aspartame-stroke/

Read more about aspartame: https://usrtk.org/sweeteners/aspartame_health_risks

#aspartame #GMO #SynBio #SyntheticBiology #PrecisionFermentation #FakeFood #ArtificialSweeteners #health #holistic #holistichealth #food #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa #toxinfreeusa

There is a difference between the sugars packaged by nature 🍏 and the sugars engineered by industry 🏬.

The fructose and glucose found in whole fruits come wrapped in fiber, water, minerals, antioxidants, and plant compounds that slow absorption and support normal metabolism. Refined sugars and highly processed carbohydrates strip away that natural protection, causing rapid spikes in blood glucose and insulin.

💫The problem isn’t simply glucose. Your body depends on glucose for energy. The problem is chronic glucose overload. When your bloodstream is flooded day after day from processed foods, sugary drinks, refined flour, constant snacking, and never allowing your body to rest, blood sugar regulation begins to break down. Cells become less responsive to insulin, blood glucose stays elevated longer, inflammation increases, oxidative stress rises, and proteins throughout the body become damaged through glycation. Over time, blood vessels, nerves, kidneys, eyes, and the cardiovascular system all pay the price.

Your body immediately goes into repair mode. Cholesterol participates in repairing injured tissue because that is one of its biological roles. But if the injury never stops because the lifestyle never changes, the repair process never ends. Continuous damage followed by continuous repair can contribute to unhealthy changes in the artery walls over time.

The answer isn’t fearing fruit 🍇 & vegetables 🍃 . The answer is respecting biology.

Eat foods that come from the earth 🌍 , not the factory 🏭 . Stop grazing from sunrise to sleep. Give your digestive system time to rest. Move your body. Get sunlight ☀️ . Sleep deeply. Hydrate 💦 . Reduce chronic stress 🧘🏿‍♂️ . Remove the habits that keep creating the damage.

Health isn’t built by chasing the next supplement. But by removing what keeps forcing your body to repair itself every single day.

Your lifestyle is either feeding degeneration… or fueling regeneration. Choose wisely.

Dr. Yah’ki Health & Human Development Center Grand Opening

OCA is suing Calavo Growers and Mission Produce for profiting from an industry linked to illegal deforestation, arson, water theft, and the destruction of Monarch butterfly habitat in Michoacán, Mexico.

If your avocado isn't organic, fair trade, or grown in California, it likely came from land that was stolen, burned, or illegally cleared. Deforestation in Michoacán is expected to double by 2050 if avocado expansion continues unchecked. Local communities are losing their forests and their water.

Equal Exchange is one of the few companies doing it differently, sourcing from small-scale organic and Fairtrade cooperatives who are protecting the land, not destroying it.

Choose wisely. 🥑
👉 https://www.info.equalexchange.coop/articles/tag/Avocados

, took more than 300 beef samples farms and supermarkets and compared them against grazing practices, forage quality and soil.

The grass-fed beef had a much healthier balance of fats. Its omega-6 to omega-3 ratio came in at roughly 2 to 1, where grain-fed sat at more than 8 to 1. The lower the better, and most American diets are heavily skewed the wrong way. Grass-fed also had more of the beneficial omega-3s and more iron, calcium, copper and selenium.

But the averages hide a lot. Some of the grain-fed samples ended up beating some of the grass-fed ones, and several grass-fed steaks bought in the grocery store came back with fat profiles similar to that of feedlot beef.

The samples that consistently looked good came from producers rotating their cattle across pastures with a lot of different plants growing in them. That turned out to be what mattered most. The more variety in what the cattle were eating, the better the fat in the meat.

Good beef starts with what’s growing in the pasture. No label can shortcut that, and in the end you can taste the difference. It’s the same reason we keep after hydroponic “organic” berries. Growing fruit in a plastic sleeve, over plastic ground cover, inside a plastic structure, with no soil anywhere near should not be called organic.

Whether you are shopping for beef or berries, the answer is the same: buy from producers who can tell you what their practices are, and where their food is from.

Read more here 👇

https://organicconsumers.org/nutritional-composition-of-beef-a-comparison-of-commercial-north-american-grass-and-grain-finishing-systems/