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Green tea for medicine

I watched The Gerson Miracle.  It also reminds me of MOA natural farming and healing, but also made me think about how green tea may not be benefiting us. There are so many researches done on green tea revealing how it can be healthy.  Antioxidants are talked about everywhere you go and people talking about how habitual drinking of tea can benefit our health.  Test results and the numbers are convincing, but I just feel that there gotta be something other than or more than antioxidants that benefit our well being and ultimately cure us. Why in the original text of Lu Yu's "cha jing" describes tea as a medicine, but we consume it as beverage that acts like medicine and even Eisai "kissa yojoki" he describes tea as the best medicine for the heart which in turn controls all organs. In Gerson therapy, coffee is consumed for cleansing, perhaps if tea is prepared correctly, it will have immediate cleansing effect. Freshness of green tea is directly influencing

Learning from Eat Local Challenge

It's unfortunate that eating local has to be a challenge.  Foods coming from close to home seem more natural choice, but since we live in an age of processed food and transportation, it's cheaper to produce with cheap foreign ingredients and industrialized food system.  Price tag is especially a determining factor in recession. We ate lots of vegetables.  Main source of starch was taro and sweet potatoes.  surprisingly enough if we look hard enough there are plenty of local source of vegetables.  Some are not organic and hard to tell if the farms are conventional style.  We can't look up. Sometimes farmers don't bother to change a few little details to be certified organic.  As long as people know that I don't use any chemical fertilizers and pesticides and non-GMO, etc, then most people are fine with it.  Basically organic but not strictly to the NOP rule.  often times they have lots of details that NOP organic rules don't allow such as field design, compos