Tahur and Toxins Don't Mix

Over the past few years Tahur has worked to perfect its hair and body recipes.  We created and tested a great many recipes until we settled on a select few that we believe are truly crafted to provide the most nourishing and health promoting products for your natural lifestyle.  

During this process, we have created and tested several natural body lotions and hair conditioners. We have found that adding water to any product creates a harmful environment within two to three days if some sort of preservative is not used.  We also discovered that even essential oils aren't 100% effective in stopping the growth of fungus and bacteria in the presence of water.  

The fact is, whenever water is present there is no combination of essential oils that will do anything other than delay, for a day or two, the growth of many harmful bacteria and fungi in handcrafted skin and hair care products.  

Because if this, Tahur has not and will not provide for sell or free any water-based products, including lotions and conditioners.  What we do offer are the most naturally nourishing, rejuvenating, and restoring products for your hair and body needs.  

We carefully choose every ingredient that goes into our products, and we formulate those ingredients in such a way that they penetrate your skin, scalp, and hair follicles, locking in moisture and offering protection from environmental as well as self inflicted damage. 

We aren't offering miracles, but we are offering a truly natural solution to your clean . pure. simple living.  

Listed below are Ingredients you will never see in a Tahur product, as well as brief definitions of the harm these ingredients can cause.  

Please note, that even some products listed as natural or natural derived contain many of the ingredients listed.  We urge you to carefully read the ingredient list of every product you put on your body, your scalp, and hair.  Because truly, if you wouldn't eat it, why would you wear it?

Acrylamides - thickeners used for a variety of cosmetic purposes. In personal care products they act as stabilizers to add richness and body. However the material may be a possible human carcinogen because of its potentially harmful impurities. It is already a restricted substance in European cosmetics.

Alcohol denat  (denatured alcohol) - petrochemical by product. Also usually contains benzyl alcohol making it undrinkable. Can cause systemic eczematous contact dermatitis and chemical sensitivities. Used in all commercial perfumes, used as solvent.

Aluminum ingredients - skin irritants, can cause Alzheimer's, lung disease

Benzoic Acid - while naturally occurring can be derived from plants or animals. When derived from animals it is derived from urine, viscera, muscles, and gland secretions.  Make sure your source is plant derived if using in vegan products.  Too much benzoic acid may affect the liver and kidneys, along with more serious issues like excessive cyclamate.

Benzyl alcohol - Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Severe irritant for eyes, skin and respiratory system. Petrochemical.

Bismuth Oxychloride - Bismuth is put in cosmetics because it gives a sheen to!the face, is soft to the touch, and is extremely inexpensive. A by-product of lead and copper refining, bismuth oxychloride is a heavy metal. Heavy metals have been linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s Disease.

BHA and BHT - Cancer, encourage the breakdown of vitamins such as vitamin D, can cause lipid and cholesterol levels to increase, endocrine disrupter. 

Dehydroacetic acid - synthetic preservative classified as harmful and toxic to use around the mouth.

 

Diazolidinyl Urea is mixture of different formaldehyde addition products including polymers, produced by the chemical reaction of allantoin and formaldehyde in the presence of sodium hydroxide solution and heat.  Is the 14th highest cause of contact dermatitis. 

Diethanolamine - DEA is used as a skin softener and humectant in personal care products. It can be carcinogenic when combined with other ingredients. It is a skin irritant. It’s close and dangerous cousins are TEA, and MEA

Ethoxylates - chemical compounds made as reaction products involving ethylene oxide. Ethoxylated materials include ingredients such as Laureth, Myreth, Ceteth, Ceteareth, Glycereth, etc. Trace contaminants in some ethoxylates have been implicated as potent carcinogens.

Formaldehyde - preservative which include Imidazolidinyl Urea, Diazolidinyl Urea, DMDM Hydantoin and Sodium Hydroxymethylglycinate. Known irritant and potential carcinogen. It is often hidden in other ingredients, banned in Sweden and Japan mainly because of its inability to inhibit the growth of acid producing bacteria and it's implication in cancer.

Fragrance - highly allergenic. Companies do not have to list the chemicals used in fragrances. They contain large quantities of toxins and chemicals not disclosed. Fragrance-free means that fragrance chemicals have been added to the product to mask the natural aromas of the ingredients.

Glycol - often used as solvents for preservatives and other materials. Glycols are potentially irritating and harmful to the skin. Examples are Propylene, Butylene, Pentylene, Hexylene, and Caprylyl Glycol.

Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate - IPBC is a suspected gastrointestinal and liver toxin, and is thought to present risks to human reproduction and development, having been linked to the potential for reduced fertility and increased risk of pregnancy problems. It’s a suspected teratogen, which means that it may increase the risk of birth defects.  IPBC can also increase your risk for contact dermatitis—skin allergies.  IPBC is also listed as: IBP Butyl-3-iodo-2-propynylcarbamate,  carbamic acid, Glycacil®, IODOCARB®. This product is under restricted use in Europe and Japan. 

Laureth family - sodium lauryl sulfate, any ingredient with laureth or lauryl in the name. Carcinogenic, skin irritants may be contaminated with large amounts of toxins in manufacturing process contains ammonium salts, mutagen, acne producing.

Mineral Oil - occlusive, non-nutritive petroleum derivative.

MMP (Matrix Metalloproteinase) -  an enzyme that breaks down collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. They are involved in wound healing, but also cause premature aging of the skin and tumor cell metastasis.

Myreth - ethoxylated compound used in various surfactants such as Sodium Myreth Sulfate.

Methylisothiazolinone - antimicrobial agent found in some shampoos and hand creams and widely used in industrial settings inhibits the development of particular neuron structures that are essential for transmitting signals between cells. prolonged exposure to low levels of methylisothiazolinone (MIT) may have potentially damaging consequences to a developing nervous system.

Octyl stearate - acne producing, contact dermatitis, allergic reactions

Parabens-petro-chemicals - (methyl, propyl, etc. - paraben family) implicated in a multitude of health problems, estrogenic, cancer causing, allergenic, found in breast tissue, replicates in dna, stored in fat cells.

Phthalates – Phthalates are synthetic chemical compounds mainly used as softening agents and to create fragrance. Look out for your plastics – squeeze bottles, shower curtains, soft plastics. Carcinogens, mutation agents.

Parabens - Parabens are synthetic compounds used as a preservative in most beauty products. You can find them listed as methylparabens, propylparabens, butylparabens, and ethylparabens. Parabens cause many allergic reactions and skin rashes. They have also been found in breast cancer tissue.

PEG (Polyethylene Glycol) - a water soluble polymer used as an emulsifier and plasticizer. Impurities in these materials have been cited as potentially carcinogenic.

Petrochemicals - derived from raw materials of petroleum or natural gas origin. These include materials such as propylene glycol, ethoxylates, acrylamides, mineral oil and polyethylene glycol (PEG). Peg ingredients - carcinogens, acne promoters, contact dermatitis.

Petrolatum - derivative also known as petroleum jelly. Petrolatum is very occlusive and can clog pores. Additionally it provides no nutritive value to the skin and contains no essential fatty acids petroleum by-products can pass through the brain barrier and cause ADD/dyslexia symptoms. Acne producing, may be carcinogenic, causes dry skin, respiratory toxin, may cause dizziness.

Phenoxyethanol - synthetic ether alcohol preservative. can cause contact dermatitis. synthetic preservatives are considered by leading dermatological associations to be the number one cause of contact dermatitis.  Toxic to infants via ingestion, and "can depress the central nervous system and may cause vomiting and diarrhea." Combined with chlorphenesin, these two chemicals can cause respiratory depression in infants.  May have neurotoxin potential.  

Silicone - synthetic additive used to provide emolliency. Some forms of silicone such as Cyclomethicone, Dimethicone and Cyclopentasiloxane, Methicone, and Phenyl Trimethicone can be harmful or irritating to the skin.

Sodium Laurel Sulfate  – SLS is put in many soaps, cleansers, and shampoos to enhance the foaming action of a product. It is a common skin irritant and is rapidly absorbed into the heart, liver, brain, and eyes, which can cause long-term effects. It has been linked to cataracts in adults and inhibiting proper development of children’s eyes.

Sodium Laureth Sulfate  – SLES is another form of SLS. When reacting with other ingredients, it can be carcinogenic and rapidly absorbs into the body. It is a skin irritant and may cause hair loss.

Sorbic acid, while naturally occurring involves condensation of malonic acid and trans-butenal. It can also be prepared from isomeric hexadienoic acids, which are available via a nickel-catalyzed reaction of allyl chloride, acetylene, and carbon monoxide. The route used commercially, however, is from crotonaldehyde and ketene. Crotonaldehyde is extremely Hazardous.  

Synthetic Dyes – Synthetic colors are a byproducts of the petroleum industry. The molecular structure of these products are so small that they can pass through the brain barrier. This can manifest itself as turning numbers backwards when writing or reading, peeling skin, acne, or ADD symptoms. Many people have allergies to artificial colorings, especially red 40.

Talc – Talc has asbestos in it. Asbestos is another dangerous carcinogen. Do not use on babies, linked to ovarian cancer, respiratory toxin

TEA - Triethanolamine ingredients with TEA in front such as Tea lauryl sulfate) severe irritants, can contain ammonium salts, eye irritant, sensitizer, may cause formation of carcinogens, mildly toxic.

The following are a list of Preservatives often found in many "natural" products:

Optiphen Plus contains Phenoxyethanol (and) Caprylyl Glycol (and) Sorbic Acid - see above list

Optiphen contains Phenoxyethanol and Caprylyl Glycol - see above list

Optiphen ND contains phenoxyethanol, benzoic acid, and dehydroacetic acid - see above list

Germaben And Germaben II contains Propylene Glycol (and) Diazolidinyl Urea (and) Methylparaben (and) Propylparaben - see above list. 

LiquaPar Oil contains Isopropylparaben (and) Isobutylparaben (and) Butylparaben - see above list. 

Liquid germall plus contains Propylene Glycol (and) Diazolidinyl Urea (and) Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate - see above list

For more information on toxic ingredients used in cosmetics and hair and body products visit www.ewg.org.

For information on essential oils, please visit www.mountainroseherbs.com

Boycott Seedless Fruit

To say I'm horrified is putting it mildly. Apparently the demand has gotten so great for seedless fruit that seeded fruit is almost non existent.

Many people do not care that man is corrupting our food supply and destroying the natural DNA of our food, thereby destroying our natural DNA as well.   I am not being overly dramatic. I'm being very real here. Sooner or later there will be no more real food!

Seedless citrus fruit makes reproducing citrus trees from seed pretty much impossible. 

Seedless fruit is obtained by grafting buds from existing seedless trees onto young trees. LABORATORIES grow seedless plant matter in a growing solution until it is vial me. Then they plant it in a growing medium until the plant is a small sapling and can be transplanted to a grove. 

These folks are playing Creator.  They are messing up the Eco system YHUH created. They are causing people to die through diverse diseases.  

And guess what??  As long as we buy it they will continue to make money.  And as long as they are making money they do NOT CARE!

At some point we should care enough about what we are putting into our bodies and the bodies of our future generations.  

Is it really that hard to deseed a pummelo or a mandarin?  Would you rather do that or try and figure out why your blood isn't absorbing enough iron resulting in some sort of chronic blood disorder? 

If you don't care about your body, care about our planet.  It is the only one we have.  Brashyth/Genesis 1 and 2 tell us that our purpose was to make it fruitful and to help it thrive.  Instead we are killing it b

Brashyth 1:29 tells us that seeded plants and fruit are supposed to be our food. Something grown in a laboratory can never be considered food. It's an experiment. We can continue to let science experiment with our world or we can do something about it. 

A Tahur Kitchen

Our recipe and Scriptural based nutrition book is on its way to copyright and publishing.  Be on the lookout for the ebook as well as the bound copy.  We will keep you posted as we get closer to printing.

Shalum,

Tamar

Thirty Day Salad Challenge

It's been a little while since I last posted here.. Wanted to do a quick update on the goings on with Tahur..

We completed the 30 day raw food challenge, and it was amazing.  The sisters and I had a great time of nutritional, spiritual, and physical growth.  During the challenge we gained mental clarity, emotional strength, a change in our appetites, as well as the kind of foods we desired to eat.  We became more energized, and slept better.  All in all, the challenge brought us closer together in fellowship and sisterhood.  It was such a success, that we decided to do another challenge.  One that wasn't as strict as the raw food challenge, but a challenge nevertheless.



A little over a week ago, we embarked on a 30 day salad challenge.  The challenge was to make at least one meal of your day a salad.  A salad that is that was simply a combination of fruits and/or vegetables and nothing else. 

We are on day 9 of the challenge, and so far it's been going great.  We've been sharing photos and ideas, and just enjoying the overall health benefits to be enjoyed during this challenge. 

It isn't too late to join us.  We still have a little over two weeks to go.  Look us up on Facebook, in the group Living Clean Pure and Simple...  the challenge is posted in that group.  You must request to join the group in order to be part of the group Salad Challenge.

If you don't desire to join the group or be present in the group challenge, you can still be a part of the challenge, by simply challenging yourself to create delicious fruit or vegetable or a mix of the two salads at least once per day.  Take photos for yourself to see what creative ideas you come up with.  If you cannot come up with anything creative or you get tired of what you are creating, search online for some ideas.  Either way, you will enjoy the benefits to this challenge.

Alykham Shalum,

Tamar

Don't Forget To Break Your Fast

Many new to a raw food diet find it hard to decide what to eat for breakfast.  Most people are so used to eating dead foods, heated foods, or dense foods when they do eat breakfast, that just thinking about raw food for breakfast can be intimidating.  Truth is, raw breakfasts are usually healthier for you, and can also be very simple to make. 

Why breakfast?

Eating within an hour or 2 of waking can make a difference in the way you metabolize glucose, or blood sugar, all day. Your glucose level rises every time you eat, and your pancreas produces insulin to shuttle the glucose into your cells, where it’s used for energy. Research is finding that keeping glucose and insulin in the right balance has important effects on metabolism and health.  

Many nutrition doctors and professors believe that after eating a healthy breakfast your blood sugar increases a little bit, but that it takes a while for your body to absorb the food.  This keeps you from feeling hungry longer. 

If you don’t eat breakfast, though, the prolonged fasting might lead to a bigger than normal boost in “hunger hormones” such as ghrelin, encouraging you to overeat at your next meal and leading to spikes and dips in glucose. Over time, if your pancreas is constantly producing insulin to compensate for high levels of glucose, it will burn out and you may develop diabetes.

What to eat?

After a meal, blood goes to the digestive system and away from the muscles, brain and other systems. After a big, complex meal most of the body’s blood goes to the digestive process and there is not enough oxygen for the brain– which is why you fall asleep after a big meal. 

So, what you eat is important.  If your idea of breakfast is a doughnut and a cup of coffee, or sugary cereal and a glass of fruit juice, or even pancakes, bacon, and eggs, you’re setting the stage for metabolic havoc. Fortunately, breakfast can be full of flavor as well as healthy
 

Food combining:
 

Fruits and vegetables, which are mostly water, take a short time in the digestive tract. The more complex, dense foods you eat at a meal, the longer digestion takes. If in the system too long, sugars and starches can ferment and proteins can putrefy. For this reason the optimum meal is the mono-meal: eating one food at a time. If you wish to eat more than one food at a time, it is good to know how to combine foods so that a meal requires as little blood for digestion as possible. This frees up more fuel and oxygen for the muscles, nervous system and brain. Correct combinations also encourage proper digestion, assimilation and elimination of food eaten.

 

• Eat fruit alone (an exception is acidic fruits- citrus and tomatoes- which will combine with vegetables and fats.

• Eat melons alone
• Don’t combine starches with acids or sugars (such as bread with tomatoes or sweet pastries)
• Don’t combine proteins with starches
• Try water or tea before your meal
• Try to reduce or eliminate eating between meals

Give it a try

 

Try a green smoothie, or a cup of plain goat or sheep milk yogurt with berries for a satisfying first meal of the day.  Even a small vegetable salad gives your body enough boost to help start your day. Vegetable salads are nutrient rich to boot! Breakfast doesn't have to be, and shouldn't be difficult or too dense, but it can be delicious and healthy.

Why Tahur is so important to me

I am feeling a need to tell my story.

Years ago I was having a hard time with my digestive system.  My doctor at the time didn't test me for anything.  She just said stop eating beef.  No reason. Just said stop.  So I did.  I felt better. But not completely.

I continued to suffer heartburn and what I later learned was reflux. I had diarrhea all the time.  It was horrible.

In addition to all of this, I had been a lifelong migraine, asthma, and allergy sufferer.  I never thought about why I had all of these ailments.  I just took the meds.

Then I read Brashyth 1:29 during study after coming to the truth in יהוה.

It hit me hard.  And while everyone else was focussing on Uyaqra chapter 11, I couldn't get past Brashyth 1:29.

So I began to seek an understanding of this way of eating יהוה planned for us.

During the time I was trying to discern this, I was also suffering from chronic neutropenia. For those that don't know what that is, is where you have chronic low white blood cells and this ailment makes you susceptible to illness and being unable to heal quickly.

I was being tested for everything.  I was very sick for over two years. But the disease had been afflicting me for about five years.  It had just gotten worse because it had not been treated.

I am thankful to יהוה for being my healer.

The study of Brashyth 1:29 led me to study Uyaqra 19:19 and Dbarym 22:9-11

What did YHUH really mean by two seeds and defilement?

After years of studying I still believe I don't have all of the answers, but this one thing I do know, and that is He never gave us meat to eat. He allowed it after we continued horribly in sin. And that He punishes those who crave it. Bmadbar 11.

So in all of my research and studies I have come to an understanding about the difference between natural hybridization which is also called cross pollination, and manmade hybridization which has been termed mechanical pollination.  I have been made to understand that manmade hybridization is pretty much the same as GMO.  It's mans way of altering the genetic DNA of a species to change its outcome.  This is a direct violation of both Uyaqra 19:19 and Dabarym 22:9

I have made it a mission of sorts to determine what foods currently available in this forsaken land we live in actually meet the criteria יהוה gave us in His word.

The paleo diet is not it
Vegetarianism is not it
Veganism is not it
Carnivorism is not it

He was very plain. Fruits and plants that bear seed as well as are not the result of man mixing seeds together or planting them together.

In the U.S. especially, this leaves us very limited.

I've heard a lot of people say it's too hard.

I've heard people use the excuse that we are in the diaspora.

But I've read the Word that said even in the land where I send you, be obedient.

It is important to remember that we are here because we failed to obey.  And we need to remember that even the land has been defiled.  And we need to understand that as a people we must humble ourselves and pray turn completely away from all manner of sin and seek יהוה.  If we do not do this, then the land will remain defiled and we will remain right where we are.

So what does this mean for those choosing to be obedient in this?  Well it means limited food choices. And it means learning to cook with the foods that we can discern to be clean. And it means pushing away from the pagan tables.  And it means trusting יהוה to provide our bodies with what we need. Even in the diaspora.

I can witness that I have not suffered a migraine, or an asthma attack in over two years.  Both conditions having been crippling my entire life.

I no longer have gerds or neutropenia.

And I am trusting completely in יהוה for complete healing of my mind body and soul.

At some point we have to get out of our own way and just trust Him.

It's really that simple.

That's not to say trials won't ever come. But it does mean that because we Trust Him we will be able to stand in the midst of those trials.

That's why this blog my website and Facebook group Living Clean Pure & Simple and their purpose is so important to me and so close to my inner being.

Learning to discern between the clean and unclean in all things is a requirement of this walk.  And learning to lean on the understanding of יהוה is what makes it easier.

Why Are the children of יהוה begging bread???

There are some things that I need to talk about that has my inner being saddened and broken.  

Lately I've been hearing so many stories about the plight of my sisters and their children in this forsaken land.  Women who have been down trodden, trying to do what's right, trying to live clean but truly unable to do so.  Not by choice but out of lack. 

In the face of all this turmoil that's taking place in their lives, they are surrounded by teachers and preachers and brothers and sisters who hear their tales of woe, yet offer nothing but words of "sympathy." 

Dabarym 15:7 If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which יהוה your Mighty One is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; 8but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.…

Mashly 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Creator but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him

Mashly 21:13 Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry 

Yashayahu 58:6 Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7 is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

All these folks talking about building communities seeking financial assistance to do that, yet won't lift a finger to help someone in their need???  Give me several breaks.  This is not of יהוה. This is selfishness and greed. 

How can we expect a healing of our land and a pardoning of our wickedness if we are not truly humble?  We cannot be said to be seeking יהוה if we are not being obedient to His commands to provide for the widow the orphans and the poor in our midst.  

I'm just sick and tired of being sick and tired of people being selfish and greedy and puffed up in their own righteousness while the people who are doing their darnedest to follow יהוה in all ways are being tossed aside and not looked after because they have a need others aren't trying to help meet.  If there are so many of who claim to be called by HIS name, why are there still so many we aren't taking care of?

We ALL have a responsibility to this call. And not enough people are answering it.  For surely if we were this plague wouldn't still be upon us. 

We need to stop being so self righteous and truly begin to act righteously. 

Raw Food Challenge Is Just Days Away

Shalum and welcome. 

I am glad to announce that we are just days away from our Raw Food Challenge beginning 10/7/15 and ending 11/6/15.   

The raw food challenge is about eating healthier to heal our bodies and maintain Ruach filled health.  It's about encouraging each other to eat to live instead of just eating.  

YHUH gave us some very clear instructions about eating. His original plan for His people was a seeded plant based and seeded fruit based diet.  

Chata/transgression/Sin caused a riff between YHUH and His people.  But He promised to return to us if we returned to Him.  

People say a vegan diet is difficult and too expensive.  I personally have been eating this way long enough to discover that it is actually more expensive to eat the current diet of the masses.  It's more expensive both physically and spiritually. 

Eating at least 70% raw and eating your cooked vegetables and grains certain ways will cleanse your system and create a healthier environment that can help you lose weight, feel and sleep better, as well as increase your energy levels, memory, and quality of life. 

The world takes enough from us.  We shouldn't be the ones adding trouble to it. 

I will be posting videos throughout the challenge on the 7shepherdess YouTube channel, and am posting the link to the first videos below. 

While we partake on this journey, it is my sincere hope that as we get back to eating the way יהוה intended for us to eat, that we look at this as not just a passing fad, but as a way to continue pass the thirty days into the remainder of our lives. 

So please join this challenge and let's start our journey toward healthy Scriptural eating for healthy Scriptural living. 

Alykham Shalum

Tamar 

http://youtu.be/2x5nNpJakG0

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Paleo Diet? I'm not impressed....

I am vegan.  however that is not the reason why I researched and wrote this post.  I wrote this post, because I looked at the “paleo” diet and was not impressed.   The word paleo is greek and it means ancient.

paleo- older or ancient, especially relating to the geological past.  "Paleolithic"  Origin from Greek palaios ‘ancient.’

The Greeks, though an ancient civilization, were not the first civilization on the earth, not to mention they were a highly pagan, idol worshipping civilization.  Personally, I feel unclean just thinking about eating anything even inadvertently to do with them. 

However, every time Yasharal was taken in captivity, they had become accustomed, just as we have today, to eating the food of the pagan captors.  Every time, the turah regarding food had to be given back to them.   We know from the accounts in Shamuth and B’Madbar that this didn’t always sit too well with them.  They groaned and complained all the time. 

Anyway, this paleo diet fad has become the thing to do, especially now that athletes and entertainers have jumped on the paleo bandwagon.  But, is this the diet of the children of Yasharal?  Is it a way of eating we should be partaking in? 

Well let’s take a look at the difference between the paleo diet, and what YHUH declared was to be our way of eating…..

As with eating paleo the way of eating in Scripture focuses on eating real, whole, fresh food that is sustainably raised. As well as not having anything GMO, or high in chemicals, additives, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, dyes, etc.  Yet here, is really the only place where the two are similar.

Breaking down the similarities and differences

Both ways of eating are high in vegetables and fruits.  We understand that fruits and vegetables are high in phytonutrients that protect and guard against many diseases.  And scripture points only to ancient grains and the grains of today, such as corn, wheat, and even oats are not the same as grains cultivated and eaten by our ancestors.

Something else to consider is that modern grains not only contain gluten (wheat and oats), but they also can also increase your blood sugar, especially corn.   In addition, grains though packed with fiber, are also starches, and should not be consumed with protein.   

Where the paleo diet recommends lower glycemic fruit such as berries, while according to Brashyth 1:29 all foods and fruits that contained tsara (seeds) were to be considered food.  ALL…  

Scripture also calls us to also not eat foods that are the result of divers seeds planted together.  Manmade hybrids would cover this, as well as planting different seeds in the same plot, box, etc. (Uyaqra 19:19 “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.  DBarym 22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, LEST THE WHOLE YIELD BE DEFILED, the fruit of YOUR SEED that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. )  This means no eating of foods that have been mixed and/or sowed or bred together.  That means no cow or chicken, and many fruits and vegetables such as cavenaugh bananas, oranges, lemons, and even most apples.  (natural hybridization is different than man deliberately changing the DNA of a food product.) 

The Paleo diet focuses more on eating low glycemic fruits, which can be any fruit.  Scripture on the other hands focusses on eating seeded fruits and vegetables as well as non-hybrid fruits and vegetables.

What about fats:

The paleo diet focuses on receiving fats from oils, nuts, seeds, and avocados.   And this would line up well with Scripture.  However, according to the paleo diet, people are encouraged to eat generous amounts of saturated fats like coconut oil and butter or clarified butter. Beef tallow, lard and duck fat are also good, but only if they come from healthy and well-treated animals. Beef or lamb tallow is a better choice than lamb or duck fat.  Olive, avocado and macadamia oil are also good fats to use in salads and to drizzle over food, but not for cooking.

It goes on to say that if you are eating goat and/or lamb milk, butter, yogurt, cheese to make sure they are consumed by these animals that are sustainably raised or grass fed.

Scripture most definitely differs on the account of fat.  In fact, Scripture specifically points out that we are not to eat blood or fat, even from clean animals. Uyaqra 7:23-27 where it states:

“Speak to the children of Yasharal, saying: ‘You shall not eat any fat, of ox or sheep or goat. And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it. For whoever eats the fat of the animals of which men offer an offering made by fire to YHUH, the person who eats it shall be cut off from his people. Moreover you shall not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, whether of bird or beast. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

Uyaqra 3:14-17: “Then he shall offer from it his offering, as an offering made by fire to YHUH. The fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the flanks, and the fatty lobe attached to the liver above the kidneys, he shall REMOVE; and the kahan shall burn them on the slaughtering place as food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat is YHUH’s. This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall eat neither fat nor blood.”

Uyaqra 5:15 establishes this further. The Kahanym were to eat from the meat, after doing the following: “… all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covers the inwards, And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver [the fatty membrane surrounding the liver], with the kidneys, it shall he take away: And the kahan shall burn them on the slaughtering place for an offering made by fire unto YHUH: it is a trespass offering

What about fish?

Per the paleo diet rules, if you are eating fish you should choose low mercury and low toxin containing fish such as sardines, herring and anchovies or other small fish and avoid tuna, swordfish and Chilean sea bass because of the high mercury load.

Scriptures states:  Dabarym 14: 9"These you may eat of all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, 10but anything that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.  Uyaqra 11:10 But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to regard as unclean.

As long as the fish above has fins and scales, it is tahar or clean to eat.  Should we worry about mercury?  But of course. 

What about dairy?

The paleo diet shuns dairy products, stating that it leads to obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer and may increase (not decrease) the risk of osteoporosis.

Scripture does not shun dairy.  In fact, we are told that YHUH lead the people to a land flowing with Chalab (milk) and Dabash (date syrup or tree sap).  Shamuth 3:8, 17, 33:3; Yachatsqal 20:6.

 

But does this mean that we were to partake of it?  Well there seems to be many verses that point to consumption of dairy products both in and out of captivity, and there is no command not to partake of dairy products. 

Though Chalab is translated mostly as milk, it appears that for human consumption, it pointed more to kefir like drinks or yogurt.  Scripture says chalab was both a drink as well as something that was eaten.  All the verses regarding milk referenced goat and/or sheep milk.  Never milk from cattle.  Brashyth 18:8; Mashly 27:27, 30:33; Shamual Alaph 7:9 (there’s more but too many to list them all)

The word chamaah is translated as curd and means butter usually although sometimes cheese.

Now, the way that cheese is made currently, it would appear that all the chemical pasteurization as well as the usually pork rennet and enzymes used to mold cheese and keep it from perishing, as well as the coloring that goes into most cheeses would render these products unclean.  However there are clean cheeses out there made from goats and sheep that do not contain these products.  In addition, the lactate from goat and sheep milk does not have the same effect on the human body as the lactate from cow milk.  One is led to wonder if this Is due to the fact that the cows we know today, are not the cattle of ancient times.

Meat is really where the differences get a little tricky

The paleo diets dictates that eating sustainably raised, lean grass fed meat, pastured poultry and lamb, wild fish, eggs,  and other esoteric meats such as ostrich, bison or venison as part a healthy diet is not likely harmful and is very helpful in reducing triglycerides, raising HDL (or good cholesterol), lowering blood sugar, reducing belly fat, reducing appetite, raising testosterone and increasing muscle mass. 

They only make the case that eating too much meat puts pressure on the planet – more water use, more climate change, and more energy inputs, and say to eat meat as a side dish or condiment, and only consume grass fed and sustainably-raised.

Now scripture says something completely different…

To begin with, Scripture explicitly states that YHUH planned for our diet to be seeded fruits and grasses.  Sin was the cause of the transition to the eating of clean meat.  (meats mostly used in slaughterings to YHUH)  Uyaqra 11 states emphatically which animals were clean and which animals were unclean.  Many stop there and say, well if it’s not listed, then it must be clean.  But we also need to look at a few other verses to get a better understanding of what types of meat were clean and unclean.  First off, ostrich most definitely was on the list of unclean meats.  But what about chicken, turkey, and cow meat?  None of these animals were on either list.  That’s why we need Uyaqra 19:19 and Dbarym 20:9 to give us clearer understanding.  According to both of these verses, we also were not allowed to eat meat from an animal that had been the result of mixing seed.  It has been scientifically proven that chickens are manmade and were created after the accounts in Scripture.  Most folks use this as their excuse to consume chicken.  However, a chicken is a manmade hybrid bird.  The result of crossing four different birds, one of which remains unknown, and one of which is a hybrid itself.  It is the same with modern cattle.  Bison, oxen, and buffalo are all descendant from ancient ancestors.  They were domesticated in some places, and left to run wild in others.  Used mostly for their hides these animals though domesticated are truer to type than the modern cow.  The reason being, is that the cow is a cross breed of several different types of ancient cattle.  While it is believed the auroch is the ancient ancestor of the cow, just like with some fruits and vegetables that have gone through manmade dna changes, modern cows are also unclean by scriptural standards. 

So there you have it.  The difference between the paleo diet and statutes and instructions of YHUH around clean and unclean foods.  Something to note, is that most people in the blue zones, eat mostly non-hybrid fruits and vegetables and consume mostly fish as their “meat”, leaving goat and lamb for special occasions.  This ties in with how our Scriptural ancestors ate, and accounts for their very low stats when it comes to disease, obesity, and illness. 

As for me, I prefer to eat Brashyth 1:29.  Just as it was the plan of YHUH for us from the beginning, it is His plan for us in the end.  (Yashayahu 11:1-9)  What a baruk day that will be!

Alykham Shalum

Tamar

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Raw Food Challenge

This is the first time I've blogged a challenge.  But let me tell you, I am super excited to be preparing to enter into this coming challenge.  Me, and some of my Yasharalyt sisters, will be embarking upon a 30 day challenge to eat as raw as possible.  Per the challenge, this means eating at least 80% of your food raw.  My goal is to eat 100% raw. 

In the meantime, I have begun detoxing my body of stuff that I normally (but shouldn't) be eating.  I have stopped drinking coffee, and aim to stop eating roasted and salted nuts, and consuming any processed foods and processed sugars.

I eat a pretty good diet, but I know that it is not as good as it can and should be. 

I welcome anyone reading this message to join the challenge.  From 10/7/15 to 11/16/15 I will be posting and sharing recipes and encouragement.  Not just my own, but submissions from the other sisters also. 

Hope you join the challenge....

(I will be posting a YouTube video
 titled raw food challenge, regarding why raw as it pertains to Scripture and our health)

Alykham Shalum

Tamar

Why I Only Eat Seeded Watermelon

Watermelons are a vine-like flowering plant that probably originated almost 5,000 years ago in the Kalahari Desert of Africa where botanists have found its wild ancestors still growing.

 

I love watermelon.  Watermelon is sweet and delicious, refreshing and nutritionally beneficial.  (I am referring to seeded watermelon). I eat it by itself, freeze it for smoothies, make salads with it, and sauces.

 

I love that Watermelon is good for prostate health, erectile dysfunction, dehydration, constipation, infection, detoxifying, kidney health, blood pressure, appetite, diabetes, and heart health, which all benefit (or improve) with watermelon.  Watermelon, since it is 91% water, can help with hydration and electrolytes.  Watermelon hydrates our cells and balances the pH in our bodies.

 

Due to the citrulline content, watermelon may also reduce and treat erectile dysfunction.  Citrulline relaxes and dilates blood vessels.  Watermelon also is high in vitamin C (antioxidant), vitamin A (beta carotene), lycopene (phytonutrient) and citrulline (an amino acid).  In fact, a same serving of watermelon is said to contain more lycopene than tomatoes. Scientists have found that lycopene molecules in tomatoes that are combined with fat and subjected to intense heat during processing are restructured in a way that appears to ease their transport into the bloodstream and tissue.  You do not have to cook watermelon in order to receive this same benefit.

 

Accessing the total medicinal benefits of watermelon is highly dependent on the variety of watermelon and the ripeness. Beta carotene and lycopene are usually bio-available in the highest quantities once the watermelon is completely ripe. Watermelon seeds and rind also pack quite a few nutrients as well, particularly roughage and fiber.

 

Blood Pressure

 

Relaxed blood vessels mean a lower blood pressure. The arginine in watermelon that relaxes blood vessels has other health benefits. It promotes production of nitric oxide. In addition to relaxing blood vessels, this compound has been shown to reduce blood clotting and encourage smooth blood flow, preventing heart attacks and strokes. Also, increased hydration helps lower blood pressure and can help detoxify the blood as well.

 

Prostate Health

 

Watermelon contains more lycopene than any fresh fruit or vegetable. Lycopene has known antioxidant qualities to keep the skin, heart, and prostate healthy. Studies have shown that people who ingest lycopene can help the prostate regenerate faster and stay healthier longer.

 

Colon Health

 

Watermelon is particularly useful in fighting colon cancer due to its cleansing effect, its alkalinity, and its ability to hydrate cells. Watermelon aids in flushing the colon, kidneys, and to a lesser degree, the liver.

 

Erectile Dysfunction

 

Arginine and citrulline make watermelon a wonderful natural remedy for impotence. Both arginine and citrulline relax blood vessels, including the vessels in the male reproductive system. Relaxed vessels allow for a natural erection response. Watermelon is also anti-inflammatory.

  

Macular Degeneration

 

With beta carotene, vitamin-C, lutein, and zeaxanthin, watermelon is one of the best foods for nourishing the eyes. These antioxidants will protect your eyes from other age-related ailments such as drying of eyes and optical nerves, as well as glaucoma.

 

Anxiety

 

Watermelon contains vitamin B6 which is a superb weapon against anxiety. This vitamin influences brain chemicals responsible for calming moods and allows you to make better decisions under stress.

 

Skin

 

Lycopene is also beneficial for the skin. The antioxidants decrease free radicals from the body known for causing age-spots, fine lines, and wrinkles. Hydration also plays a huge role in looking and feeling younger. Hydrated skin looks much younger and heals much faster than dehydrated skin.  Watermelon also aids skin in other ways as well, like removing excess oil from the skin that helps cause acne.

 

Detoxification

 

Dr. Ariel Policano, a naturopathic physician, says that watermelon helps the liver process ammonia, a toxic nitrogen-containing waste product left over from amino acid metabolism — and convert it into a molecule known as urea, a component of urine that is safely excreted from the body. Along with benefits to the colon, the liver, and the kidneys, watermelon is very good at flushing out the body, moving undesired waste to be evacuated.

 

Watermelon Seeds

 

Watermelon seeds also have properties similar to pumpkin seeds that are good for your prostate.  Watermelon seeds are a good source of the B vitamins Thiamin, niacin, and folate. Watermelon seeds are rich in minerals like magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, zinc, iron, potassium and copper. 100 grams of watermelon seeds provides around 139%, 87%, 82%, 74%, 44%, 20% and 37% of daily dietary values of these minerals respectively. Watermelon seeds are also a good source of dietary fiber which is essential for healthy bowel movements and digestion.

 

Watermelons are a vine-like flowering plant that probably originated almost 5,000 years ago in the Kalahari Desert of Africa where botanists have found its wild ancestors still growing. Today, in the United States, in the Southern states such as the Carolinas and Georgia, watermelons flourish as commercial crops.

 

Seedless Watermelon

 

Seedless watermelons are not genetically modified, in the way we think of genetic modification.  In other words, they haven’t been spliced and diced and genetically altered with the DNA from another species. 

 

However, they are genetic hybrids.  (In my humble opinion, there’s not much difference, and I’m going to try and share why)

 

Seedless watermelons are relatively new, having been created only in the last 50 years or so. Seedless watermelons are sterile hybrid fruits cross bred similar the way breeding a horse with a donkey creates a mule. 

 

Seedless watermelon is grown two ways. The first way is through breeders. Usually watermelons are diploid, meaning they have two sets of 11 chromosomes. Seedless watermelon is a triploid because it has 3 sets of chromosomes and are sterile. In order to produce seedless watermelons, a diploid watermelon is pollinated by a tetraploid (4 chromosomes) watermelon. In the process of reproduction, the new watermelon gets one chromosome from the diploid parent and two from the tetraploid which makes it triploid.  Since the triploids have three sets, the eggs inside the watermelon are never formed and thus, seeds don’t grow.  This change is a genetic modification of the original melon, which is why I consider it a genetically modified organism.

 

The second way to grow seedless watermelon is by using a drug called Colchicine, a chromosome-altering chemical widely used to treat rheumatism and gout. This drug is a toxic natural product and secondary metabolite, originally extracted from plants of the genus Colchicum (autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale, also known as "meadow saffron").

 

Since chromosome segregation is driven by microtubules, colchicine is also used for inducing polyploidy in plant cells during cellular division by inhibiting chromosome segregation during meiosis; half the resulting gametes, therefore, contain no chromosomes, while the other half contains double the usual number of chromosomes (i.e., diploid instead of haploid, as gametes usually are), and lead to embryos with double the usual number of chromosomes (i.e., tetraploid instead of diploid). WHILE THIS WOULD BE FATAL IN MOST HIGHER ANIMAL CELLS, IN PLANT CELLS IT IS NOT ONLY USUALLY WELL TOLERATED, BUT ALSO FREQUENTLY RESULTS IN LARGER, HARDIER, FASTER-GROWING, AND IN GENERAL MORE DESIRABLE PLANTS THAN THE NORMALLY DIPLOID PARENTS; FOR THIS REASON, THIS TYPE OF GENETIC MANIPULATION IS FREQUENTLY USED IN BREEDING PLANTS COMMERCIALLY.

 

When such a tetraploid plant is crossed with a diploid plant, the triploid offspring are usually sterile (unable to produce fertile seeds or spores), although many triploids can be propagated vegetatively. Growers of annual triploid plants not readily propagated must buy fresh seed from a supplier each year.

 

In certain species, colchicine-induced triploidy has been used to create "seedless" fruit, such as seedless watermelons (Citrullus lanatus). Since most triploids do not produce pollen themselves, such plants usually require cross-pollination with a diploid parent to induce fruit production.

 

Colchicine's ability to induce polyploidy can be also exploited to render infertile hybrids fertile, for example in breeding triticale (× Triticosecale) from wheat (Triticum spp.) and rye (Secale cereale). Wheat is typically tetraploid and rye diploid, with their triploid hybrid infertile; treatment of triploid triticale with colchicine gives fertile hexaploid triticale.

 

Side effects include gastrointestinal upset and neutropenia. High doses can also damage bone marrow and lead to anemia, and cause hair loss. All of these side effects can result from hyperinhibition of mitosis.

 

Organic Seedless Watermelon

 

What about organic seedless watermelons?  We need to remember that organic simply means that organic foods are produced by organic farming. While the standards differ worldwide, organic farming in general features cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity. Synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers are not allowed, although certain organically approved pesticides may be used under limited conditions. In general, organic foods are also not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or synthetic food additives.

 

But since chemicals or special hybridization methods were used to alter the seeds, even certified organic melons are genetically modified food.

 

Unfortunately, it is hard to find seeded watermelon in regular stores, even during season. You usually have to go to a local farmers market to get them.

 

The first and final authority on why I would never eat seedless watermelon even if it were “healthier” for me

 

B’Rashyth/Genesis 1:29  And Alahym said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

 

U’Yaqra/Leviticus 19:19 “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.

 

Dbarym/Deut. 22: 9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be destroyed  the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 11 You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.

Feeding my brain with cabbage and forbidden rice

Cabbage is a member of the Brassicacea family. Think broccoli.  But unlike most other foods from that family, cabbage has a very unique nutritional make up.  

While most identify cabbage as a Russian food (sauerkraut - fermented cabbage), it actually originated in the Mediterranean over 4000 years ago.  

How does this feed your brain one might ask?  

Well for starters, cabbage has more vitamin c than even oranges per serving and gives an individual approximately 61% of their daily requirement of vitamin k per serving.  In addition, cabbage is rich in vitamins B5, B6, B1 and the minerals potassium, manganese, iron, and magnesium.  

But, it is cabbage's high levels of antioxidants and phyto-chemicals that help boost the brain, detoxify and purify the blood, and fight colon, breast, and prostate cancer.  In addition to all of this, the phyto-chemicals, high levels of vitamin C, and sulphur in cabbage helps the blood rid itself of toxins such as free radicals and uric acid.  While the richness of iodine in cabbage also lends a hand in proper brain function.  

To help boost the disease fighting, brain boosting of the cabbage, I fished it up with forbidden rice.  

Forbidden rice has been around for thousands of years in Asian cultures.  Originally only eaten by royal families, forbidden or black rice improves brain function and anti-inflammatory properties.  

Rich in dietary fiber and as high in anti-oxidants similar to those found in blueberries and blackberries, forbidden rice has the ability to help stop the development of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.  Forbidden rice also can help lessen weight gain.  

At only 160 calories per cup, forbidden rice is rich in vitamin E which is necessary for skin, eye, and immune health.  Also high in dietary fiber, phyto-chemicals, iron, copper, and plant based protein, forbidden rice is reported to contain the highest levels of flavonoid antioxidants and anthocyanin of any other food other than blackberries. 

Worlds healthiest foods says this about flavonoids...."this nutrient group is most famous for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory health benefits.... And is one of the largest nutrient families known to scientists. Over 6,000 unique flavonoids have been identified in research studies, and many of these flavonoids are found in plants that are routinely enjoyed in delicious cuisines throughout the world. In terms of nutrient richness, we get far more flavonoids from plant foods than from animal foods, and in particular, vegetables and fruits can be especially nutrient-rich in this type of phytonutrient."

anthocyanins are antioxidant flavonoids that protect many body systems, and link with sugar molecules to form anthocyanins; besides chlorophyll, anthocyanins are probably the most important group of visible plant pigments. Anthocyanins, a flavonoid category, were found in one study to have the strongest antioxidizing power of 150 flavonoids. (Approximately 4000 have been recognized).