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Excellent Toothpaste!

  • Posted on February 1, 2010

I’ve been using Vicco toothpaste for some time now and I’m absolutely in love with this stuff! I must be or else my last order for this would have been less than nineteen 200 gram tubes (i.e., 8.378 pounds) for my household (of 3)!

Ayurvedic Toothpaste

Read more about it at Vicco’s website. I stumbled upon while shopping in a Hannaford Supermarket.

I was determined to find toothpaste without fluoride, glycerin, or silica in it. Vicco was the first one I found. Immediately after the first time I brushed with it, my teeth felt more clean than even how they’ve felt after getting them cleaned in a dentist office!

Weston A. Price, DDS changed my way of thinking about what government schools taught me what good health is, especially his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Because of Price, I no longer will buy anything but raw milk.

Ramiel Nagel’s book pushed me beyond what Price started by convincing me to stop using the toothpastes dentists recommend.

Cure Tooth Decay

Here are just a few reasons why I didn’t want to use anymore toothpaste containing fluoride, glycerin, or silica:

Fluoride is a severe biological poison. Being intensely negative, it unlatches positive hydrogen bonds in enzymes and proteins. Toothpaste typically comes with this warning: “Warning. Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away.” Fluoride decreases IQ levels. Most states add at least 1 ppm of sodium fluoride or fluorosilic acid (radioactive toxic waste that contains fluoride) to the water supply, even though it has been proven that at least 113 medical side effects from cancer to headaches are caused by fluoride in the water.

Toothpaste contains viscous, sticky glycerin, the main ingredient in toothpaste, which coats the teeth and prevents re-enamelization from nutrients in the diet. Glycerin takes over 20 rinses to be removed and leaves your teeth coated. To get convinced, start with a clean sink and smear some of your toothpaste on the sink. Rinse it off and see how the water beads up because of the sticky glycerin. You will have to keep rinsing and rinsing to remove it. Your teeth are similar to a porcelain sink, and your teeth are being coated every time you use toothpaste. Coated teeth cannot re-enamelize from nutrients in the diet.

Most toothpaste has silica, which is sand. It can harm gums and abrade tooth enamel.

My gums used to hurt a lot when I’d brush my teeth. I was using special toothpaste for sensitive teeth and highly expensive mouth wash for sensitive gums. The combination of the two didn’t stop the pain in my gums.

As soon as I started using only Vicco toothpaste¹ and quit using the nasty mouthwash, my gums never hurt again! What does that tell you? It tells me the American Dental Association wants people to remain ignorant so that they can make more money. What angers me even more is that dentists would deny how poisonous amalgam fillings are.

If you’re interested, you can read more about what I’ve said on this subject in my posts Dentist Shopping by an Aspie and Raw Milk, Heart Disease, and More.

¹I started brushing with Vicco approximately one year ago. When a tube of Vicco was empty, I resorted to using a crappy tube of paste left around. After my last bout with pain while brushing over a month ago, I decided those other tubes could go right into the garbage where they belong for all I care!

Hen Humor

  • Posted on June 10, 2009


(Don’t worry, our eggs are not fertile…and our organic chickens are never allowed to drink cocktails.)

The above is a cartoon off of a carton of organic eggs. Can anyone see the humor in it that I do?

Now if I understand the motive correctly behind this gimmick, it’s to ease the consciences of those who would be disturbed to think that they might be eating little chicks which have not had the opportunity to hatch yet. Most of these types of people though don’t mind that unborn babies get torn apart when they’re sucked out of the womb before they’ve had a chance to be born.

The humor I find behind this cartoon is that I wonder how many people stop to think long enough to realize why there typically are so few roosters around to fertilize the hen’s eggs before they’re laid.

Those in the egg produce business purchase hens… well, because most know that roosters don’t lay eggs, right? Well then how do they know they’re buying hens and not roosters?

Ever hear of the term chick sexing? Most of the males (roosters) are disposed of within days of their hatching because they are irrelevant to egg production.

The term for this type of disposal is called chick culling. You can read about these different methods employed for killing roosters, but then you might feel insulted the next time you see a cartoon like this one on a carton of eggs.

No wonder most people prefer to remain ignorant. It’s so much more pleasant.

Raw Milk, Heart Disease, and More.

  • Posted on January 25, 2008

I remember chatting with others in my hometown about what our local Doctor (who’s been deceased for quite some time now) observed. He said his patients who drank raw milk had noticeably better health than those who consumed homogenized/pasteurized milk. I also remember how my father loved to drink raw buttermilk and make home-made yogurt. He didn’t really live to any exceptional age (he died just a few days before his 80th birthday). However, what he endured throughout his life earned him the nick-name “Timex.” He took a lick’n and kept on tick’n!

Those thoughts remained in my mind as I (a few years ago) got interested in researching and studying how what cultures ate affected their lives. Doctors today don’t seem to have the same mindset as those who lived over a hundred years ago. One particularly interesting man was Weston A. Price. He was a dentist, but one with much to offer us these days.

Dr. Price studied fourteen different isolated cultures to understand why these people had extraordinarily healthy teeth. He traveled to such places as the Swiss Alps, Alaska, Africa, and Polynesian Islands to stay with these people and observe their dietary lifestyles. He took photographs of skull structures, jaw bones, and teeth (included in his book) to document the interesting facts he found.

Price’s excellent book, of over 500 pages, reveals the destructive impact modern culture had when it changed their old ways of eating. I highly recommend reading Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and the articles from the website founded upon Weston Price’s research. If you don’t have the time for either of those, there is a brief blurb about Dr. Weston Price at the International Wellness Directory.

A little longer article, by Mary G. Eng, PhD, explains how milk homogenization can create heart disease. Her article and those like it, became a catalyst to change my life. I didn’t want to wait for trouble before considering what I could do to become healthier before getting older. I even endured a year of weekly dental work to have mercury amalgam fillings removed from my mouth.

The more I noticed feeling better, the more I wanted to learn what else I could do. I learned how important it is to focus on what sources of fat are healthy and necessary. My favorite change was to using the highest quality coconut oil from the Philippines and reputable extra virgin olive oil from California (you’d be surprised over the deceptive practices of popular olive oil brands!). I order coconut oil in a 5 gallon bucket since it stays fine in room temperature over a year (longer in cooler temperatures). I get a case at a time of Bariani’s Olive Oil so it’s in the kitchen a while. After having high quality fats, grocery store vegetable oil and shortening tastes disgusting! I haven’t used that crap in years and don’t miss it one bit. I could go on and on about how much the health of my family changed from this. If only I had known ahead of time what would happen, I would have taken before and after pictures. I’ll just say people who haven’t watched my son grow up, don’t recognize my son now.

I’m glad I don’t have health insurance and never had it, because if I did, I probably would not have been so interested in taking what responsibility I did towards a more enjoyable life. I thank God for His gift He gave me and I hope others too can enjoy some of what I’ve benefited from.

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