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Hola lovely people of the Passing Clouds community,
I’ve been having this idea in my head for 3 weeks now and I need to write it up, write it out, spread it and share it.
I know that most of us are health conscious people; we love our veggies, we know processed is bad, we have a processor in our cupboards and we maybe even dry our own fruits.
I had a Eureka moment with cheese.
I have always been in love with cheese; it’s actually the longest relationship I’ve had, long before I met bananas and way before I had pasta Bolognese for dinner. I come from an ex communist country you see, so we didn’t have anything imported until I was few years old.
Anyway, cheese is for me like an on and off lover, I know he’s bad for me but it just feels so good, and all my friends agree; and think I’m crazy for leaving him behind even for a day.
But I do it, more often now than ever.
After reading “the china study” it’s hard to purposefully hurt my body. I’m not a sado-maso (not that there is anything wrong with being SM).
The thing is that casein, which is a protein found in cheese and milk are very hard or impossible to digest, in the case of milk, and very acidic to the body all together.
So, what happens when you think you eat dairy to get CALCIUM?
Well, you create acidity in your body and then your beautiful, smart, godly body takes calcium out of the bones to neutralise the acidity levels.
I know it’s crazy, because we’ve been programmed to believe the contrary since before we were born.
But if you are a fighter, and you think I’m a conspiracy theorist, and that all that spinach I had went to my head, I dare you to read on it. Not what Sainsbury says, but actual research funded by someone else than the dairy industry. And also check connection to diseases such as osteoporosis.
Also, after cutting out my cheese intake drastically, doing vegan periods few times a year, fasting, cleanses and now raw alkaline diets, I have become aware that I was having just cheese. Not organic cheese, but cheese. Made of plastic and hormones probably, sprinkled with some unhappy energy from unhappy cows and goats and sheep.
So now, if I do decide I want cheese I have organic cheese. Not as easy to find and not as many varieties around yet, but it’s getting there. The more demand the more they will produce. Basic economics.
PS: you probably noticed I like to compare my relationship with food with the ones I have with people, and that is because love really is just love. And I love food, and I love people, even if I’m cheese-y J.