If you are interested in knowing how to donate to the Natural Medical Trip to Nicaragua in April for the medical students of National University of Health Sciences (NUHS), click on the link below for the complete donation letter and donations list.  The donation letter is included in the first two pages along with the medical donations list on the third page.

We are in need of your help and support!

Be well and realize that all peoples are in need of great health and wellness.  You have what it takes to serve not only those around you, but the greater human macrocosm of this world!

Donation Letter and Medical Donations List

• Know what you find JOY in or what you enJOY.  These words are synonymous in similar ways, but work in different tenses.
• Use what you enJOY to serve the highest purpose, which is to give and serve others.
• Now… how do we serve others?  We do only what God (Universe, Jehovah, Yahweh, Para Brahman, Allah) would do for its own creation.
• But… then how do we know what God would have us do?  This is simple.  For God, only wants us to love God, not the gifts that God gives, but the giver itself.  When we love God for God itself, we become aware of how to perform God’s will which is to serve our brothers and sisters to the highest, whether these brothers and sisters love us or not.

There are a few ways that I have found work the best to discover what God’s will is for our lives.  (I want all to know that I don’t use the phrase “God’s will” generally as though it is something so simple that can be derived from a sacred text, although sacred texts throughout religions and time immemorial provide valuable information as to how other seekers have discovered it.)  In an age where ancient texts are so difficult to apply to modern times, so simple disciplines can be performed to determine God’s will for one’s life.

1. MEDITATE (pray, chant, etc.) – essentially create a quiet time for yourself at least twice a day; once in the morning and once in the evening to quiet the mind and completely give oneself to God.  Use the phrase, “Wake up with God, and go to sleep with God,” to remind yourself of performing this simple quiet time.
2. EXERCISE – another way to meditate just with activity.  In a world with extremely sedentary activities (including me writing this blog…), ALMOST EVERYONE needs some sort of body motion activity whether it is lifting weights, jogging, yoga, walking, swimming, cycling, rock climbing, you name it and if it creates full body motion, DO IT!  Activity helps to rewire the brain neurologically so that you can think more clearly and the increased circulation in blood vessels helps to grease those joints of yours.  Overall you feel healthier –> thus you are more joyful –> thus you love more easily!
3. FOOD – what you put in, is what you get out.  Don’t think that eating that cheeseburger won’t eventually catch up to you… because it will!  Trust those that not only talk the talk, walk the walk, but also live to ripe old ages with their mind, body, and libido still intact.  You laugh  but it is true!  You know those folks that I am speaking of… raw vegetables and fruits along with good protein sources and ample good fats will all the difference in how your emotions are played out.  Stable body = stable emotions = loving more easily!

These three basic things will help ANYONE to come to a level of joy that creates understanding in mind, body, and soul.  My suggestion is find a good Chiropractic/Naturopathic physician (such as myself…) to make sure that the body is tune-up, ready-to-go and receive the meditation, exercise and that with which you feed yourself more efficiently and effectively.  Any additional treatments that you decide to do on yourself… please, please consult your physician before doing so.

FINAL THOUGHT: If you feel joy, it is easy to feel love.  If you feel love then give it!  Do not be afraid.  For when your love is it given to others, it only grows exponentially. When you decide to give your love back to God, by only MEDITATING on how good God feels, then your joy will become infinitely present within yourself.

God’s will is simply this:  Love God with all your heart, mind, and body and love your neighbor as yourself.  If you don’t love yourself as well, try your best to love others, even if they don’t love you.  Reflect God’s love in every instant, for you do not know when it will mean the most in an individual’s life.

Remember friends, (great) food is medicine, and your health is truly your wealth.

Thanks for reading and be well in all things,

Dr. D. Simpson, B.S., D.C., P.A.K.

Take a look… and see with eyes that see and hear with ears that hear, for this will not be the last time that you will experience the information seen below.  This documentary is just the beginning of “food awareness education” for all of those out there to seek to understand.

KING CORN

by Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis

http://www.kingcorn.net/

disclaimer: Grain-fed = Corn-fed

HFCS = high fructose corn syrup

Two friends made notes on what they ate because they discovered that their generation will end up living less years than previous generations because of the quality of their food.

Hair analysis of their heads showed that most of their carbon in their bodies are made from corn, meaning that the majority of what they eat is corn.

When they say the phrase “grain-fed,” they really mean “CORN-fed”.  All products that say “grain-fed” really mean that a majority of the feed used is corn for the cattle, pork, and now fish.

Essentially they decide to plant an acre of corn to see what happens to it.  How it is farmed, processed and packaged into our food; answering their initial question.  How can an acre of corn possibly get in their hair?

Native corn started in Mexico and originally had a higher protein content.  When the corn was bred out to just Yellow Dent, the corn became about 80% starch and 20% protein, if not less.

Yellow dent was the one species that came to dominate all other corn species.  This one type of corn is in a majority of the 47,000 products they have in a modern-day supermarket. Check out the links I have provided below for some extra education…

• A Zillion Uses for Corn
• Corn Allergen Food List

Government gives farms subsidies (money) to raise corn – if you raise it by yourself without the government you will end up losing money – the more corn you grow, the more money you get.  Famers usually only get about $18,000 per year on average and usually are in debt up to their ears (of corn), literally!  Reliance on the government for payment prevents them from truly making any real profit.

Using anhydrous ammonia fertilizer that helps to yield 4x as much crop creates more corn which is more money – it is all subsidized by the government.  These towns that use the fertilizer create so much corn that they do not have space to provide… so they have to utilize it somewhere….

These days it takes only 18 minutes to plant an acre of corn.  That is a lot of corn friends!

The corn seeds have been genetically modified to resist an herbicide called “liberty” that is used to kill the weeds – otherwise the herbicide will destroy the corn crop.

The commodity corn that is grown cannot be eaten by humans.  It is crop that has to be processed into something else before it can be eaten.  This is a vast majority of the corn crop that is grown.

Out of 10,000 lbs of corn, below is where it all ends up going to:

• 32% exported or turned into ethanol (byproduct can be eaten by cattle)
• 490 lbs will become sweeteners like HFCS
• 5,500 lbs fed to animals to become meat or about 50%
• 60% of ash fed to cows is corn

*I also want to direct you to this blog written by Deltaflow. One of the responses includes a reference to a website about how much of Iowa’s corn is used for different products.  You will also notice that when you go this reference it is no longer present.  It is under this link instead: http://www.iowacorn.org/cms/en/CornEducation/Corneducation.aspx

Corn has replaced grass as the principle feed for cattle

Most cattle do eat grass before they go to the feed-lots.  They go to these lots to get fatter quicker, but in reality they do not spend much time there at all.  There is less space for movement and so they get fatter quicker.  Cattle are not meant to be on that kind of diet – after 120 days of a corn raised diet they get ulcers in the stomach which is a high starch meal over a short period of time that causes acidosis – the corn feed also has small amounts of antibiotics as well – this helps to battle the acidosis.  Cattle consume 70% of the US antibiotics supply.  This helps them not get sick in their containment during fattening.

Some of the larger cattle facilities produce as much waste as city as large 1.7 million people

The cattle produced… their obese bodies create meat that looks more like fat tissue that muscle tissue that is seen in wild animals.   Grain-fed cow has as much as 9grams of saturated fat whereas a grass-fed animal will have 1.5g of saturated fat

America demands cheap food – these are the ideals of America.

Yellow Dent #2 is the kind that will yield the most amount of starch and this is why it is used to make HFCS and other sweeteners.

The two friends tried to make HFCS and realized it was terrible.  (Need to see the looks on their faces!)

Their ending conclusions = their acre of corn = was really an acre of sugar – go figure..

Yellow dent has like 80% starch and like 20% protein.. maybe less à that starch is then converted to HFCS which has no nutritional value, empty calories, and is linked to causing metabolic syndrome – this is the precursor to Type II Diabetes now seen very frequently in CHILDREN that drink soda pop flavored with HCFS.

1 soda per day doubles your chance of getting diabetes

Usually the fat that fries are fried in is corn or soy oil – essentially you are always eating Iowa food!

Farmer’s don’t eat their corn… really.  They may grind it up into cornmeal.. maybe…

They spend $350 to grow their acre of corn.  Basically they don’t make money off of selling the corn, it is money they get from the government from selling the corn.  That is what keeps the farmers afloat and that is why they have to continue to sell more and more of it.

So… that was the end of my notes.  I apologize is something is misspelled or grammar/syntax is not perfect… I don’t have interns that do this for me.  I am the one writing all my own material.

Be well friends!  Please comment and tell me what you think!

Dr. Derek, D.C.

No, no.. that is not how it happened….

The story really begins here: Dr. Derek Simpson is asking all those that are interested in serving the people of the world to support him on his journey to the Island of Ometepe of Lake Nicaragua.  The native peoples there are without any type of formalized/emergency medical care except for the help of the brave physicians, medical students and volunteers that choose to go there through the non-profit organization Natural Doctors International (NDI).

Dr. Derek’s personal goal is to make medical mission trips a regular occurrence in his own life so that he can expand his own healing abilities to all peoples, cultures, creeds and ethnicities.  Nicaragua is a first of many for Dr. Derek in his natural perseverance to overcome the barriers that plague modern industrialized societies.  A major barrier is fear.  The fear of having too much or not enough.  The fear of uncertainty.  Possibly even the fear of being aware of too much. Once an individual understands their own true potential to change the world for the better, they have two choices:  run from it or.. embrace it.

Please join the good doctor in his own challenge to raise enough money to begin his journey into uncertainty, having not enough and possibly knowing too much.

Be well friends!

If you are interested in donating:  www.firstgiving.com/dereksimpson26

All in all, I am excited to be here to share my knowledge, wisdom, and understanding with the world!  Let us co-create in joyous offering!