Mr Cabbage Head would like to present his own personal diet for you to try. This is not a short term fix; this is a daily routine to use for the rest of your life. The daily routine can be varied, but make sure the rules at the end are not broken. This page will be updated from time to time.

Morning wake up

Himalayan Crystal Salt washed down with lots of water.

You can purchase Himalayan Crystal Salt as large stones. Place these stones in a glass jar and fill with pure water. Always keep as a saturated solution by adding more stones if they all dissolve. Add 1 teaspoon (5mL) of this solution to a glass of water each morning. This has many minerals including trace elements not found elsewhere. This is the only form of salt that should be consumed.

Before breakfast

1 fish oil capsule.
10g Spirulina. (if on a budget, have at least 3g).
25 mL Aloe Vera juice.
A good multi-vitamin, preferably without iron and iodine.
A calcium & magnesium supplement.

Breakfast

1 or 2 pieces of fruit.
Optionally, have some high quality cereal with soy milk

For hungry people try the The Mr Cabbage Head Power Breakfast.

Lunch

Your choice, but the rules below must be followed. Pasta, pizza and potato chips are not allowed. A salad without dressing would be a good choice.

Afternoon snack

1 or 2 pieces of fruit.
Nuts may be eaten, but raw and un-salted.
For hungry people add the The Mr Cabbage Head Smoothie.

Evening meal

A small portion of meat (about 200g). Mostly this should be fish. Chicken is allowed. Red meat can be consumed once a week, but avoid beef. Lots of raw or lightly steamed vegetables. Always include a large portion of leafy, green vegetables.

Drinks during the day

Try not to drink for 30 minutes before and after a meal.
Drinks lots of water in between meals.
Freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juice is good.
For hot beverages, green tea or herbal tea is best.

The rules of the Mr Cabbage Head Diet

Foods you must eat all the time

fresh fruit and vegetables
nuts
seeds
fish

These items may be consumed in moderation

alcoholic drinks
tea and coffee (if you must - only 1 cup a day)
red meat
fresh eggs
whole grain based food
honey

These items must be avoided

salt
sugar
soft drinks
bottled fruit juice
wheat
potatoes
all diary
beef
margaine
canola oil
refined grains

Warning

If you have a serious illness, seek professional advice before making a radical change to your diet. It is your responsibility to ensure your daily intake of all essential nutrients is adequate.

Try this breakfast which is high in nutrients and fibre.

Ingredients:

10g ground flax seeds.
10g ground pumpkin seeds
10g ground sunflower seeds
10g chopped walnuts
10g chopped cashew nuts
10g psyllium husks

The flax seeds can be purchased ground, make sure they are refrigerated at the point of purchase. The pumpkin and sunflower seeds can be ground in a coffee grinder. Everything must be raw and unsalted.

Mix the ingredients in a bowl and add soy milk or water to make a consistency to your liking. This is a filling meal, so allow time to sit down and eat in a relaxed manner.

The quantities can be varied according to your needs. If you are still hungry afterwards then you need to increase the quantities.

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Used in Japan for years, spirulina is a microalgae grown in alkaline, warm-water lakes. Spirulina’s green colour is due to its chlorophyll content. Chlorophyll acts as an antioxidant and may have medicinal benefits against cancer. Spirulina is also rich in phycocyanin, a pigment with anti-cancer properties.

Studies show the anti-cancer properties of spirulina.

Beta carotene is one of the most effective substances for deactivating free radicals, which damage cells, leading to cancer. Spirulina is the richest beta carotene food known, having over ten times more beta carotene than any other food, including carrots. Studies show that vitamin A and beta carotene inhibit the development of various cancers and tumors. Beta carotene (and not the preformed Vitamin A from animal sources) correlated with lower cancer rates.

A 1987 Israeli study demonstrated natural beta carotene is more effective than synthetic beta carotene. Natural beta carotene is better assimilated by the body because it contains the 9-cis carotenoid isomer which is lacking in synthetic carotene molecules. This means that beta carotene in algae and vegetables has a greater antioxidant power than synthetic beta carotene.

An Indian study found that spirulina inhibits the growth of oral tumors: “We evaluated the chemopreventive activity of Spirulina fusiformis (SF) (1 g/day for 12 mos) in reversing oral leukoplakia in pan tobacco chewers in Kerala, India. Complete regression of lesions was observed in 20 of 44 (45%) of subjects supplemented with SF, as opposed to 3 of 43 (7%) in the placebo arm.”

The Harvard University School of Dental Medicine reduced oral cancer cells with spirulina extracts. A beta carotene solution applied to cancerous tumours in mouths of hamsters reduced the number and size of tumours or caused them to disappear. When a beta carotene extract was fed to 20 hamsters pre-treated to develop mouth cancer, none developed the disease. Tissue samples contained an immune stimulating substance believed to have destroyed cancer cells before they could multiply.

Spirulina as a supplement

A traditional food source in parts of Africa and Mexico, spirulina is a rich source of vitamins, minerals, and protein, GLA (essential fatty acid) and one of the few vegetable sources of vitamin B12. AS well as its potential anti-cancer properties, spirulina is a good supplement with many benefits.

References:

Amotz, B.A. Presentation to Polysaccharides from microalgae workshop. Duke University, 1987.

Balch, P.A. and Balch, J.F. Prescription For Nutritional Healing.

Mathew B, Sankaranarayanan R, Nair PP, Varghese C, Somanathan T, Amma BP, Amma NS, Nair MK. Evaluation of chemoprevention of oral cancer with spirulina fusiformis. Nutrition and Cancer 1995; 24(2):197-202.

Menkes, et al. Serum beta carotene, vitamins A and E, selenium, and the risk of lung cancer. N.E. Journal of Medicine, Nov. 1986, p. 1250.

Pitchford P. Healing with Whole Foods.

Schwartz, J., Scklar, G., Suda, D. Inhibition of experimental oral carcinogenesis by topical beta carotene. Harvard School of Dental Med. Carcinogenesis, May 1986, 7(5) 711-715.

Shekelle,R.B.etal. DietaryVitaminA and risk of cancer in Western Electric study. Lancet,1981,8257:1185-1189.

Molasses is made from sugar cane. Juice is extracted from crushed sugar cane and boiled. This causes sugar to crystallise so it can be extracted. The left over syrup is molasses, which is high in minerals and vitamins. This process is performed three times; the syrup from the third boiling is called blackstrap molasses. Blackstrap molasses has the lowest sugar content and the highest nutrient content. Sulphur is sometimes added to molasses as a preservative; look for un-sulphured blackstrap molasses.

Blackstrap molasses contains vitamins and minerals

Blackstrap molasses contains large amounts of calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese and potassium. Blackstrap molasses still contains some sugar, but is much healthier than pure sugar. Two teaspoons will give you 10-20 percent of your daily requirement of these minerals as well as 5 percent of your daily vitamin B6 needs.

Using blackstrap molasses

Blackstrap molasses has a sweet, but strong flavour. Some people use blackstrap molasses in place of sugar in tea or other hot beverages. Blackstrap molasses may be used in baking in place of sugar with varying degrees of success. This probably works best in simple baked food such as cookies.

If you want to take blackstrap molasses as a supplement, but don’t like the taste, simply take a teaspoon twice a day and wash it down with water.

Note that molasses is often fed to livestock as a mineral supplement.

Blackstrap molasses cures

Blackstrap molasses has been said to cure or help with many conditions such as constipation, diabetes, amenia, anxiety, acne, fibroid tumours, insomnia, arthritic pain, high blood pressure, heart palpitations and symptoms of menopause. Some people have reported grey hair returning to the original colour.

Some of these folk remedies are unproven, so do your own research and consult your medical practitioner. As a sweetener that is much healthier than sugar, consider adding blackstrap molasses to your diet in moderation.

References:

Scott, C. Crude Black Molasses: a natural “Health -food”. 1948

Wikipedia

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fats in human nutrition and cannot be manufactured by the body, and must be consumed in the diet. The two main biologically active omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), are found in fish oil. There is also alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) which is found in vegetable oils.

Omega-3 fatty acids reduce mortality

Swiss researchers published results of clinical trials in the April 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine showing decreased risk of mortality using omega-3 fish oil. The trials also included statin drugs. The results combine 10,000 clinical trials from 1965 to 2003 which included 275,000 subjects.

In the trials statin drugs reduced overall mortality by 13 percent. Statin drugs advocated by conventional medicine to reduce cholesterol have side effects such as muscle pain, muscle loss, memory loss, liver failure, and fatigue. Omega-3 fatty acids reduced overall mortality by 23 percent.

Cholesterol

There are two types of cholesterol. LDL cholesterol is bad cholesterol that can lead to heart disease. HDL cholesterol is the good cholesterol. Low HDL cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease.

Not only do omega-3 fatty acids reduce the bad LDL cholesterol, they also increase the good HDL cholesterol.

Sources of omega-3 fatty acids

Good sources of omega-3 fatty acids include flaxseed, walnuts, and soybean oil. Cold-water fish such as salmon, mackerel, herring, and sardines have high concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids. To maintain the heart-healthy benefits of fish, bake or grill it. If dietary intake is insufficient, take fish oil capsules.

Other factors

Many other contribute to cholesterol levels and overall health. Maintain a normal body weight, avoid smoking and eat healthy food.

References:

Studer M, Briel M, Leimenstoll B, Glass T, Bucher H. Effect of Different Antilipidemic Agents and Diets on Mortality: A Systemic Review. Archives of Internal Medicine 2005 April 11; 165(7):725-30.

Vaccination has enjoyed an unchallenged reputation after the elimination of many diseases such as polio, but is this reputation earned and has this reputation lead to complacency when it comes to the increased use of vaccines? Many scientists are now challenging the fundamentals of vaccination. Is vaccination really the saviour we are lead to believe or is profit the main motive?

Polio epidemic caused by vaccination

Statistics for four USA states are listed below, showing the number of cases of polio during 1958 before compulsory vaccination, and during 1959, after the polio shots became compulsory.

(From U.S. Public Health Reports)

Polio increased 300% in states which had compulsory vaccination. “Every one of the handful of polio cases each year in the United States is caused by the vaccine itself.” (Peter Radetsky).

The late Dr Robert Mendelsohn, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois wrote that the great polio epidemics in the U.S.A. in the 1940s and 1950s were caused by: the previous almost total disappearance of breast-feeding, the national change to junk-food diet and the widespread use over the preceding decades of whooping cough vaccine.

Hygiene the key to health

“All the major medical historians of our century agree that the decline of the epidemics which had wrought havoc in the Middle Ages was not due to the introduction of vaccination, but of hygiene, for they had diminished long before large-scale inoculations had begun. And hygiene, in the broadest sense of the word, physical, mental and alimentary, is the only key to health. The overwhelming majority of people vaccinated all over the world against polio have been inoculated with potentially carcinogenic substances. i.e. theoretically capable of producing cancer.”
(Hans Ruesch, Slaughter of the Innocent.)

Vaccines are affecting our children’s health

Recent studies show a relationship between vaccines and various health problems in chidren. For example, many USA manufactured vaccines contain thimerosal which contains ethyl mercury, a known neurotoxin. Thimerosal has been linked to many cases of autism, ADHD, OCD, Tourette’s Syndrome, and anorexia . It is interesting to note that the Amish in the USA do not vaccinate their children. They have only 3 cases of autism out 150,000; one was adopted from overseas already vaccinated, the other two were vaccinated in the USA. Note, the rate of autism in the USA has risen from 1 in 10,000 in 1970 to 1 in 500 in 1990; it estimated as 1 in 150 today.

Build immunity without vaccines

How do we build immunity without vaccines? The answer may lie in sunlight, and it is free. A crucial vitamin, vitamin D, is produced by our bodies when exposed to sunlight. Vitamin D increases the body’s production of anti-microbial peptides which destroy the cell walls of bacteria and viruses including the influenza virus. Vitamin D cannot be obtained in sufficient quantities from food, so modest exposure to sunlight or a vitamin D supplement is needed. Also important for building a healthy immune system are: Vitamins A, C, E and the minerals iron, zinc and selenium.

As well as ensuring an adequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals, foods that weaken the immune system should be avoided. This includes alcohol, sugar, refined carbohydrates, excess fat and processed foods.

References:

Institute of Medicine. Immunization Safety Review: Thimerosal Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine; 2001.

Mendelsohn R.S. Confessions of a Medical Heretic. 1990.

Neustaedter, R. OMD, FLU: Alternative Treatments and Prevention. North Atlantic Books, 2005.

Radetsky, P. The Polio Problem. N.Z. Listener, October 29 1990. p98.

Ruesch, H. Slaughter of the Innocent.

Ruesch, H. Naked Empress.

Sheppard, J. Super Healthy Kids, Strengthening Your Child’s Resistance to Disease.