Monday, September 5, 2022

The Clash of Prescriptions - The Harmony of Plants as Medicine









I want to point out that I eat meat and recently had a bacon cheeseburger at a family-owned stop - wow! I have had Schwan ice cream cones too. 

However, I am sticking to the Fuhrman plan of greens, beans, fresh fruit, and nuts. As I wrote before, this has lowered my BP to normal after I stopped using Benadryl daily. Arthritis in my hands is mostly gone and I have a lot more energy.

Since I am sensitive to salt, I can feel the BP go up with saltier meals. That has made me look at the food labels. The variations in salt are shocking. 

I also look at the nutritional values of everything I eat - very enlightening. That is where plants harmonize while prescription cures clash. Magnesium is found at various levels in plants, chocolate, and some fish. That is important because of the way magnesium enhances other minerals in fresh food. 

In contrast, prescriptions are so complicated that they are run through a computer program to make sure the patient is not harmed by the combinations. For example, two blood pressure medicines at once can help more, but also cause sudden, extreme dizziness. Magnesium boosts its effects without harm, if people are allowing the nutritional values of plants to dominate over highly processed foods, grease, sugar and sweeteners, and salt. 

We have two sets of complications. One is our body's needs and the other is the miraculous combinations of nutrients in foods. 

God created us with a need for variety in food, which directs us to those many different combinations we get when we eat selectively. The least in calories - like raw spinach - can also be the greatest in nutrition and satisfying hunger. 

Spinach Health Benefits -

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Of all the leafy greens, spinach is one of the most versatile. I whip it into smoothies, enjoy chilled spinach salads, steam and sauté fresh spinach, add it to stir frys, and even blend it into baked goods like brownies. Spinach also has many health benefits, and you can easily build it into your meals. Here are six perks of eating more of this powerfully protective plant, and simple ways to incorporate it into meals and snacks.

Spinach is nutrient-rich

Three cups of raw spinach provides just 20 calories, no fat, 2 grams of protein, and 3 grams of carbohydrate with 2 grams as fiber (so 1 gram of net carbs). Though it has so few calories, spinach is packed with nutrients. A three cup portion provides over 300% of the daily need for bone-supporting vitamin K. Spinach also provides over 160% of the daily goal for vitamin A, and about 40% for vitamin C, which both support immune function and promote healthy skin.

Spinach also contains 45% of the daily need of folate, a B vitamin that helps form red blood cells and DNA. And spinach supplies 15% of the daily goal for both iron and magnesium, 10% for potassium, and 6% for calcium, along with smaller amounts of other B vitamins.


Spinach is high in antioxidants

In addition to its many vitamins and minerals, spinach provides antioxidants tied to anti-inflammation and disease protection. These include kaempferol, a flavonoid shown to reduce the risk of cancer, as well as slow its growth and spread. Another, called quercetin, has been linked to possible protective effects on memory as well as heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Spinach is a functional food

In a study published in the journal Food & Function, researchers summarize the protective effects of spinach, based on the activity of its naturally occurring phytochemicals and bioactive compounds. They state that these spinach-derived substances can reduce oxidative stress, DNA damage, and disease. They're also able to positively influence the expression of genes involved in metabolism and inflammation. In addition, they trigger the release of satiety hormones, which can make you feel more full and satisfied.

For these reasons, the researchers conclude that eating more spinach may help fend off heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

Spinach supports brain health

The anti-inflammatory effects of spinach make it a key contender for protecting the brain, particularly with aging. In one study, researchers tracked the eating patterns and cognitive abilities of more than 950 older adults for about five years. They saw a significant decrease in the rate of cognitive decline among those who consumed larger amounts of green leafy vegetables. The data indicated that people who ate one to two servings of leafy greens daily had the same cognitive abilities of a person 11 years younger than those who consumed no leafy greens.

Spinach may help manage blood pressure

Spinach is a source of naturally occurring nitrates, compounds that open up blood vessels to improve blood flow and ease the workload on the heart. In one small study, published in The Journal of Nutrition, 11 men and seven women consumed four different nitrate-rich drinks, including a spinach beverage.

Researchers found that blood nitrate levels increased after downing all four drinks. The spinach drink, in addition to those made from beetroot juice and rocket salad (another leafy green), also lowered blood pressure. Diastolic blood pressure remained lower five hours after ingesting the spinach and rocket drinks. (Diastolic is the lower number on the blood pressure reading, which indicates the amount of pressure in your arteries between beats.)

Spinach protects eye health

One of the antioxidants in spinach, called lutein, has been shown to reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease that can blur the sharp, central vision required for activities like reading and driving. AMD is a leading cause of vision loss for people age 50 and older. There is currently no cure or treatment to reverse the condition, so prevention is key.

In one Japanese study, researchers examined the eyes of 11 healthy nonsmokers who consumed 75 grams of frozen spinach containing 10 mg of lutein daily for two months. The intake of lutein-rich spinach increased blood lutein levels, and it also increased measures of macular pigment optical density (MPOD). That’s important, because macular pigment acts like internal sunglasses to protect the eyes, and low or decreased MPOD is a risk factor for AMD. This research indicates that spinach may help curb AMD risk.

How cooking spinach affects its nutrients

While I recommend incorporating spinach into both raw and cooked dishes, some research shows that not cooking the greens is the best way to preserve its lutein content.

In a Swedish study, spinach was purchased at a supermarket and then cooked using various methods for up to 90 minutes. The longer the spinach was boiled, the lower the remaining lutein level. When fried at a high temperature, a large percentage of the lutein degraded within just two minutes.

Scientists say the best way to consume spinach for maximum lutein intake may be in a smoothie combined with a healthful fat, such as avocado or almond butter. That’s because when spinach is chopped into small pieces, more lutein is released from the leaves, and fat increases the ability to absorb the antioxidant.

Older research found that cooking also impacts the folate content of spinach; boiling slashed this B vitamin level by nearly half. Steaming, however, resulted in no significant loss of folate, even after four and a half minutes.

A recent study looked at the effect of different cooking methods on the vitamin content in selected vegetables, included spinach. Researchers found that microwaving resulted in the lowest loss of vitamin K. Blanching significantly reduced the vitamin C content, which was best retained by steaming. Cooking also diminished the vitamin E levels in spinach, but increased the vitamin A content. This occurs when the plant walls soften, which helps to release and absorb the nutrient.

Again, for the best results, mix up how you consume spinach—some raw, some cooked—but try not to overcook it.

Simple ways to eat more spinach

Doctrinal History - How the "Conservative" Lutherans and Mainlines Destroyed Themselves

 The King James Version: The Apostolic Text versus Fraudulent Texts and Heretical Translations.

 Tischendorf, you devil you, the Fauci of Biblical scholarship.

 "If we call this codex F, everyone will see it as last on the list and ignore Count Tischy. Let's call it Aleph, so it is always first, the fake first in line, Ja?"

 A Latin title page gives me goosebumps. The history of Sinaiticus is easy to discern - blatant fraud and snookering. 

A recent article claimed that independent congregations were more Biblical than those in various denominations. That claim easily fits the Lutherans, because ELCA lost the equivalent of the ALC in the years since 1987 and 2009 - about 2 million people.

The LCMS is very much an ELCA clone now, the latest display being Matt the Fatt in his glorious, costly, papal robes. He would love to have Jim Heiser's entire outfit.

The ELS and WELS sects follow Missouri rather closely, especially at the top, where the leaders are enticed through Thrivent insurance grants and Thrivent selling irrevocable charitable trusts. 

Some people like to go back to the 1960s or the Great Depression to explain how this happened. KJV history showed me that the turning point was really 1870, because that change involved all English-speaking people at once in the so-called Revision (of the KJV). 

From a Biblical perspective the background of the Revision is quite unsavory. Tischendorf's triple fake of codices (bound volumes) got the scholars hotter than Georgia asphalt for "text criticism." The Majority Text, with more than 5,000 examples (also called witnesses) was set aside for roughly five witnesses with variant readings.

Westcott and Hort were clergy but unbelievers. Their text criticism, hidden from the public in the Revision, remains the standard today, in the equally loathsome Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament.

Tischendorf gloried in his monopoly of Ephraim Rescriptus (written over), Sinaiticus (leather sheets ready to be tossed into the fire! - the stink!), and Vaticanus from the Antichrist Hisself. Given Tischendorf's habit of self-praise, it is difficult to claim that any of those three had any merit. However, Westcott-Hort grabbed the opportunity and crafted their own imaginary text, secretly pressed it upon the Revision "scholars" of England and America, and won - or lost.

The Revision was a world-wide, costly disaster, because very few readers accepted the miserable pile of claims foisted upon them. They could not sell the Bibles, which piled up in storage.

This winsome graphic, published by WELS, is exactly what the NIV, RSV, and ESV offer. And it smells like team spirit, with one diabolical coach.

However, the spirit of rationalistic Calvinism and the joy of modernism turned doubt in the text into rejection of the divine and miraculous. Once the text was sliced and diced, the same approach to the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and miracles prevailed. 

The Lutheran pastors of today are enchanted by the glories of their sect, all of them very papal in trusting and coveting the powerful. The pastors do not give genuine sermons because they do not believe. One convert to ELDONA wrote me (unsolicted) that he never thought the Chief Article was that important.

WELS, ELCA, and ELDONA are comedies without any laughs. They glory in themselves alone. Holy Mother Missouri and the fading ELS/CLC factions are no different. They are what their seminaries teach - unstable about the Scriptures when the majority of Americans favor the KJV. That is quite a gap between the nation and the bankrupt divinity schools. 

 
Why do they love the NIV so much at church headquarters? Could it be the financial incentives? Rupert Murdoch used to own the NIV.