That confirms it.........., I'm NUTS!!!!!!

If this wasn't so ridiculous, I think I might scream!  To think that people actually get paid to come up with this junk

http://www.naturalnews.com/z029098_o..._disorder.html


Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) In its never-ending attempt to fabricate "mental disorders" out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.

This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs. The Guardian newspaper reports, "Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder" and goes on to claim this "disease" is called orthorexia nervosa -- which is basically just Latin for "nervous about correct eating."

But they can't just called it "nervous healthy eating disorder" because that doesn't sound like they know what they're talking about. So they translate it into Latin where it sounds smart (even though it isn't). That's where most disease names come from: Doctors just describe the symptoms they see with a name like osteoporosis (which means "bones with holes in them").

Getting back to this fabricated "orthorexia" disease, the Guardian goes on to report, "Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out."

Wait a second. So attempting to avoid chemicals, dairy, soy and sugar now makes you a mental health patient? Yep. According to these experts. If you actually take special care to avoid pesticides, herbicides and genetically modified ingredients like soy and sugar, there's something wrong with you.

But did you notice that eating junk food is assumed to be "normal?" If you eat processed junk foods laced with synthetic chemicals, that's okay with them. The mental patients are the ones who choose organic, natural foods, apparently.

What is "normal" when it comes to foods?

I told you this was coming. Years ago, I warned NaturalNews readers that an attempt might soon be under way to outlaw broccoli because of its anti-cancer phytonutrients. This mental health assault on health-conscious consumers is part of that agenda. It's an effort to marginalize healthy eaters by declaring them to be mentally unstable and therefore justify carting them off to mental institutions where they will be injected with psychiatric drugs and fed institutional food that's all processed, dead and full of toxic chemicals.

The Guardian even goes to the ridiculous extreme of saying, "The obsession about which foods are "good" and which are "bad" means orthorexics can end up malnourished."

Follow the non-logic on this, if you can: Eating "good" foods will cause malnutrition! Eating bad foods, I suppose, is assumed to provide all the nutrients you need. That's about as crazy a statement on nutrition as I've ever read. No wonder people are so diseased today: The mainstream media is telling them that eating health food is a mental disorder that will cause malnutrition!

Shut up and swallow your Soylent Green

It's just like I reported years ago: You're not supposed to question your food, folks. Sit down, shut up, dig in and chow down. Stop thinking about what you're eating and just do what you're told by the mainstream media and its processed food advertisers. Questioning the health properties of your junk food is a mental disorder, didn't you know? And if you "obsess" over foods (by doing such things as reading the ingredients labels, for example), then you're weird. Maybe even sick.

That's the message they're broadcasting now. Junk food eaters are "normal" and "sane" and "nourished." But health food eaters are diseased, abnormal and malnourished.

But why, you ask, would they attack healthy eaters? People like Dr. Gabriel Cousens can tell you why: Because increased mental and spiritual awareness is only possible while on a diet of living, natural foods.

Eating junk foods keeps you dumbed down and easy to control, you see. It literally messes with your mind, numbing your senses with MSG, aspartame and yeast extract. People who subsist on junk foods are docile and quickly lose the ability to think for themselves. They go along with whatever they're told by the TV or those in apparent positions of authority, never questioning their actions or what's really happening in the world around them.

In contrast to that, people who eat health-enhancing natural foods -- with all the medicinal nutrients still intact -- begin to awaken their minds and spirits. Over time, they begin to question the reality around them and they pursue more enlightened explorations of topics like community, nature, ethics, philosophy and the big picture of things that are happening in the world. They become "aware" and can start to see the very fabric of the Matrix, so to speak.

This, of course, is a huge danger to those who run our consumption-based society because consumption depends on ignorance combined with suggestibility. For people to keep blindly buying foods, medicines, health insurance and consumer goods, they need to have their higher brain functions switched off. Processed junk foods laced with toxic chemicals just happens to achieve that rather nicely. Why do you think dead, processed foods remain the default meals in public schools, hospitals and prisons? It's because dead foods turn off higher levels of awareness and keep people focused on whatever distractions you can feed their brains: Television, violence, fear, sports, sex and so on.

But living as a zombie is, in one way quite "normal" in society today because so many people are doing it. But that doesn't make it normal in my book: The real "normal" is an empowered, healthy, awakened person nourished with living foods and operating as a sovereign citizen in a free world. Eating living foods is like taking the red pill because over time it opens up a whole new perspective on the fabric of reality. It sets you free to think for yourself.

But eating processed junk foods is like taking the blue pill because it keeps you trapped in a fabricated reality where your life experiences are fabricated by consumer product companies who hijack your senses with designer chemicals (like MSG) that fool your brain into thinking you're eating real food.

If you want to be alive, aware and in control of your own life, eat more healthy living foods. But don't expect to be popular with mainstream mental health "experts" or dietitians -- they're all being programmed to consider you to be "crazy" because you don't follow their mainstream diets of dead foods laced with synthetic chemicals.

But you and I know the truth here: We are the normal ones. The junk food eaters are the real mental patients, and the only way to wake them up to the real world is to start feeding them living foods.

Some people are ready to take the red pill, and others aren't. All you can do is show them the door. They must open it themselves.

In the mean time, try to avoid the mental health agents who are trying to label you as having a mental disorder just because you pay attention to what you put in your body. There's nothing wrong with avoiding sugar, soy, MSG, aspartame, HFCS and other toxic chemicals in the food supply. In fact, your very life depends on it.

Oh, and by the way, if you want to join the health experts who keep inventing new fictitious diseases and disorders, check out my popular Disease Mongering Engine web page where you can invent your own new diseases at the click of a button! You'll find it at: http://www.naturalnews.com/disease-...

Sources for this story include:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2...

Pictures, news and whatnot......

Another masterpiece necklace that Cortney custom made for a friend's wife.

I think it is the most beautiful one she's made thus far, she just keeps getting better and better.

She is very talented at picking the colors, shapes of beads and designing them.

Here is a close up, the wire wrapping takes practice, so she's still in the beginning stages with that but is really improving.

Updated photos of the garden, at least now you can see some of the plants above the furrows*wink*, we're making progress now!  Of course the weeds and keeping them in check is a full time job in and of itself.

The corn is Painted Mountain and only takes 58 days to complete the growth and produce beautiful ears of colorful corn. It's always fun the shuck them back to see the wonderful color designs God put together. Beyond the corn is the salad items; turnips( for turnips but green as well), spinach( New Zealand), lettuce, kale and swiss chard, mustard.  Then two rows that are currently empty( possibly one will be planted with parsnips) and the other used as a multi crop continuing grow row*wink* and finally Cortney's Cinderella pumpkins.

The corn goes across the entire width of the garden 80ft, then two rows of bush beans( Bocchocia), zucchini, one row of Kentucky Wonder pole beans, and closest to the hoop house, cucumbers( Delicatessie).

The potatoes( Caribe and Russet) already in bloom, they enjoyed the cool wet Spring and in the middle are parsnip going to seed for collection of new seed stock.

The inside of the hoop house is now complete, planted on the right side are sweet peppers( near) and hot peppers( far) with rosemary, bee balm, root beer hyssop and okra interplanted with the peppers. In the middle are the tomatoes( obviously*wink*) with Basil and cantaloupe inter planted and down the left side are two eggplants, more peppers( sweet banana), Thyme, Lemon Basil and more Okra inter planted among the late tomato plants( farthest down the bed). The pots are all tomato plants too.

Looking from the opposite end, you'll see the bench still hold tomato plants, cabbage, asparagus and our planter of early lettuce mix.  I ended up with 25-30 plants leftover after planting our 50 plants and could not find a taker for them, so may plant the best ones in pots and compost the rest.

The poppies are beautiful this year and grew so tall. :o)

Our Yarrow is flowering and some of the plants blooms this year are pink, while the others are white, Hummmm anyway it's very pretty. We have already made one cutting of Chamomile and now have Yarrow, Greet Oregano, Dill and Borage ready for harvesting too.

The pink tea rose and those purple flowers( not sure of their name) were the ONLY flowers here, all the other beds and flowers we've added over the last 7 yrs.  I usually kill roses, but these are doing quite well, in fact I transplanted two runner plants last summer to our  front door sidewalk beds and both have blooms as well, YEAH!!!!

The Mama hen with 7 chicks is about to move back into the main coop with her brood. You can see the netting around their pen, because they aren't satisfied to stay in and keep flying out. They are getting on my nerves because I don't have time to play ring around the brooder coop with them*Grrrr....*

She is two solid white, three black, one black and white and another one that is a through and through MUTT!, but looks to be a very interesting bird and I think it's a little roo*wink*

Not a whole lot new here, except that we now think the Addy is NOT pregnant, but she also has NOT been in heat so we're stumped. I think a visit to the vet, just to be 100% is in order and them if she truly isn't she'll be enroute to the butcher. As much as I hate to do this we simply can't afford to put anymore $$, time or energy into her, it's time to cut our losses and pray we can get her heifer bred for a calf next year. By then we'll have forgotten how to milk, how to make butter, cheese and what real milk tastes like*wink*  I don't know maybe dairy cows are NOT our thing, as we've sure had a run of bad luck with them.  I'm thinking if we simply raise beef and we'll have the option of milking Button if we so desire and call it good*sigh*  Oh! well on the bright side we've been out of ground beef for several months so the added beef is a blessing, it's just all the time I spent working with her and getting her into the stanchion and being able to milk her that hurts a bit.

Well, I'm off to weed whack and move waters in the garden and yard. Mike is constructing two chicken tractors for us, so we'll be better set up for chicks and poults next go around and Cortney is working on odds and ends projects and getting VERY excited about her trip with my Dad to AZ to see my Grandma for her 95th Birthday. It's turned into a sort of family reunion and birthday celebration. She'll leave early on July 1st and return on the 4th. That leaves me with all the chores, garden and whatnot, I think when she gets back I'm taking a vacation*wink* 

Blessings for your weekend :o)

For those of you who live where tornadoes are common, you won't be surprised, but here in Montana and in this area in particular, there hasn't been a tornado of this size since 1959( according to the local news) We did have what was called a Micro burst in 1999, while we lived in the heights, but the funnel never touched down.  We lived in Billings heights we lived just 2-3 miles NE of this damage before moving to our homestead. Photos of the damage in the Billings Heights area

Today we're fore casted to receive similar weather, so praying it doesn't do anymore damage anywhere like yesterday afternoon.

This was one of five tornadoes that hit the Billings area today at 4:30 pm. This video does contain the use of bad language in the very beginning. So far no injuries are reported, PTL!  Several building were destroyed. This particular building is the designated Civil Defense building, I guess they found out it isn't structurally safe for tornado protection.  This sort of stuff just isn't in the norm for Montana, makes me worry about what the rest of the summer has in store for us.

This storm passed right over our place,PTL we only say lightening, thunder, 3/10th of an inch of rain in 20-30 minutes and some wind toward the tail end of the storm.

We didn't forget you.... we're just swamped with fighting weeds, mowing, and life in general*wink*

                                 My B-day/ Father's Day treat! We've always wanted a wooden one and our metal one
                                 was beginning to fall apart( it is almost 10 yrs old)

Cortney's new job, bottle raising this calf until weaned. Of course he has a name now, Hoss!

She is so good with animals and children, see after just a couple of days Hoss is warming right up to her.

The lambs went home last week, they were weaned and ready to join the herd. We'll miss them.

Things are beginning to grow now that we've got a bit of sunshine and warmth *wink*

Working on hilling up the potatoes more as they grow. You'll see the parsnips we let go to seed , they are almost 6 ft tall.

                                    The flowers on the root cellar, beginning to look lovely.

This is only the second season since we planted this pie cherry tree and it's simply loaded! YEAH! I'm so excited, now to get it netted to keep the birds out.

                                                             

What is happening? Any thoughts about this? I have my theories but want to know what your think.

  http://www.wreg.com/videobeta/27c94098-39bd-4244-87e9-214c7444d43b/News/Millington-Damaged-Crops

Our weekend in review....

This morning my Dad called and said our wild turkey hen was back again. She's been here off and on all weekend, it's kind of sad, she seems lonely and wants to hang out with our flock but is after all wild.

Here she is going down our driveway, she only made it halfway and decided to come back and visit the Toms. I just hope the three we have roaming loose don't take off with her. We seriously need to butcher some turkeys. We have 8 toms that need to be sold or butchered. We have a man who said he was interested in two of the toms but now seems to be dragging his feet, saying he doesn't have a pen built yet. He may end up with nothing or pay for two that are already butchered.

Cortney took some snaps of our flowers that are just beginning to bloom( all the flower photos are hers)

Our two surviving turkey poults, the Bronze poult died mid week, leaving us these two Narragansets. PTL they seem to be doing well and the mama is doing a great job.

This is the first White Plymouth Rock hen, with the three mutt chicks, see how much they've grown. It was cleaning and preening time this morning that is the only way they hold still long enough to get a good shot*wink*

This is the other White Plymouth Rock hen and she hatched out 6 chicks( two that appear to be Black Austrolope, three White rocks and one mutt) and we took the two remaining eggs and placed them under our oldest hen( who is broody, even though she isn't laying eggs, she's 8 yrs old) and if they hatch we'll give them to their original mama. Cortney doesn't think this is fair but our oldest hen is a proven mama and she's setting on eggs due to hatch on the 26th.

This is one of our White Plymouth Rock chicks bought as meat birds. Some of the hens will be replacement hens when we butcher our older hens for soup birds. If a chicken can find trouble they will, she was roosting on the wire cage inside the shed( the temporary quarters for the chicks) and must have somehow fallen down onto the floor below and couldn't get back up. Thankfully Cortney was getting out our push mower and heard her faint peeps and found her. We think she must have been down there for several days as she was very dehydrated and weak. So we brought her in and put her under a heat lamp, mixed up some cider vinegar, water and honey as an electrolyte for her, then mixed up yogurt, sunflower seeds, wheat berries and farina for her to eat. She is 200% better this morning but we'll keep her inside for another day until she regains her strength or begins to become a problem*wink*

Okay I wanted to show the amber Depression glassware we have, but it isn't a complete set. I've been looking at garage sales and antique shops for years trying to find the same pattern and color. Amber must have either been very popular and people are collecting it or it wasn't popular at all, because I've found multitudes of red, blue, green and even yellow but not much amber and never in the same pattern as ours. Well..... on Sat. Mike worked, so Cortney and I made a trip into the city for supplies and on the way home stopped at a garage sale and look what we found!.....

I didn't even know they made plates. The plates have a place to hols the small coffee/ punch cup( see the picture below) and it also came with a creamer, sugar cup and a platter to hold both.

The price on the box was $30 but it was almost 4:30pm, so before I could ask if they'd take less the lady said if you're interested( okay now I was trying to act calm and cool) she'd let us have them for $20 and only one of the coffee/ punch cups was chipped, everything else is in beautiful condition. I was so tickled to find these I told her,"sold"! Now looking back, I was a bit excited and maybe could have gotten them for less, but I'm still thrilled to have found them. They are just a bit darker than our original glassware but not noticeable enough when set on a table. :o)  Now to rearrange our china cabinet to make room for the new glassware and we'll have to have a potluck or something, so we can use them.

Yesterday we all had our own projects we worked on, Mike was cleaning and rearranging the garage and getting rid of stuff( junk), Cortney was caring for the calf( she was hired to bottle raise a calf by a neighbor rancher) and moving the lamb pen to a weedy area out by the wood shed, for the lambs to graze on and helping Mike and myself when we needed her.  I was working in the garden( weeding and watering in the hoop house), then mowing and weed whacking. I didn't get all the weed whacking finished( typically takes several hours) before we had to leave to pick up our Azure order at 6pm., so will finish it today.

The river is high, especially for this time of year and we are under a county wide flood watch. I dislike this time of year, when the snow melt raises the rivers and creeks. It's as high now as it ever was last year and we're only in the low to mid 70'sF. Praying it is a gradual warm up and the farmers really start drawing irrigation waters off to  help keep the levels down. At the lowest point along our bank edge, it's only approx. 2-1/2 to 3 ft. from coming over into the bottom of our pastures. If it would just flood that area, that would be fine, as it needs irrigating anyway, but it's the not knowing that worries me. If you live where there is water you chance flooding, if you live in a forest area, you chance fire, if you live where there are tornadoes you chance destruction, so it really is a gamble pretty much wherever you live.

Today is laundry day and we have to keep ahead of the bindweed*sigh* and we'll work on finishing up weed whacking and odds and ends jobs( putting away our Depression glassware*wink*)

Picture update.....( heavy laden)

Our White Plymouth Rock hen and her MUTT babies!  It will be interesting to see what they end up looking like. We have an eclectic flock; Buff Orphingtons, RIR's, Speckled Sussex, Barred Rocks, White Rocks, Black Austrolopes, Americanas, a Delaware and mutts!

Mama turkey( Lucy is her name*wink*) holding really still so we don't see her, LOL!

Here is one of the remaining poults, it appears to be a Narragansett

Two days old and already hunting for bugs.

I haven't been good at getting pictures of our progress in the hoop house, so here are a few. We're still working on getting the last raised/bermed bed in on the left hand side so we can plant late tomatoes and cantaloupe.

Here are sweet and hot peppers with hyssop and basil mixed in.

Close up of the tomatoes, they were pretty root bound when we planted them and they got a bit shocked. This hoop house environment has a learning curve, it doesn't take long to get above 100F inside, even though the outside temps are only in the 70'sF

You can see my poor tomatoes are root bound and showing it. We NEED to get our final bed done, otherwise I will have to re-pot them into larger pots*sigh*  So many things to do and so little time*wink*

If you have been a follower since last summer, this was our salad garden last season and this season is our potato patch, with Parsnips going to seed( for collection)

Our new strawberry bed, the old one was totally taken over by bindweed*sigh*, so we transplanted our saved strawberries into this new raised bed and then mulched them. They seem to be doing well, although not sure we'll get berries this year. Beyond the strawberries I planted fennel and then there are the walking onions, garlic( planted last Fall), garlic( planted this Spring) and finally at the far are Little Dumpling squash.

Here is a close up of the fennel we started from seed, it's looking good!

Fall planted Garlic and the Garlic planted this Spring is up about 3-4" tall just beyond this patch, we need to mulch them too.

Three rows of Cabbage, of which there are 6 red plants, all total we have 20 plants. :o)

We love coleslaw, freezer slaw and my favorite, sauerkraut!

One of our herb beds( the length of the main garden) coming along nicely. The only winter kill we suffered was a loss of one of our Sage( the purple one) but we have seedlings to replace it :o)

You can see we have the mamas close to the house, this is because the coons are thick already this year and we want to be able to hear if there is anything going on. We have doors to lock them in but coons are smart, so we don't trust that 100% *sigh*

Look closely and you see one of our many mama Robins. Funny thing is she nested really low. Maybe she feels safer from the grackles, as the grackles are horribly mean to the Robins and kill the Robin babies whenever they have the chance*Grrrrrrr...*

Here is a close up and you can see one baby getting some air, LOL!