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IODINE RICHNESS because of greedy companies producing This interesting letter would explain
A Polish gentleman recently brought rubbish. why we find sour drinks, such as kombu-
to me a sampling of traditional Maori kai Mrs. J.A.Juliff cha, wine, or even water with a squeeze
(food), including some kina (sea urchins) United Kingdom of lemon so refreshing with meals.
which the Maori I knew down country PORK STUDY
used to eat even when I was growing up I have been following with interest GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
in the seventies. He loves them and dives the articles concerning live blood cell Last summer our family vis-
for them from time to time. analysis in the pork study. I can help ited Tuskegee, Alabama and toured the
I tasted about a teaspoon of the your readers understand why the blood George Washington Carver Museum.
roe―it was bright orangey yellow and clumps following eating improperly While in the gift shop I picked up three
smelled of Lugol's Iodine. Once upon prepared pork. booklets written by Dr. Carver when
the tongue, it was the most intensely The integrity of the red blood cells he worked with the Tuskegee Institute’s
flavored food that I've ever tasted―su- is maintained when the red blood cells Agriculture Experiment Station. I was
per rich in iodine obviously evidenced are coated with anions (negative charge); reading through one from November
by the color and smell, but oh, so good they begin to clump as the cations 1936, which was all about sweet pota-
for you, I would imagine. increase in solution and neutralize the toes, their cultivation, uses and recipes.
According to my Polish friend, the negative charge on the red blood cells. I came across instructions on how
roe can vary enormously in color from Pork is highly cationic but most en- to make compost fertilizers from two
area to area―some areas produce deep zymes (as would be found in sauerkraut) loads of leaves and muck (muck is
burgundy roe, others a pale rose color are anionic and vinegar is also anionic. simply the rich earth from the swamp)
but fortunately what he brought was so Therefore, your sauerkraut and vinegar which are spread out in a pen. One load
orange yellow that the penny dropped are protecting the red blood cells from of barnyard manure is spread over this.
showing me how much iodine these the cationic buildup of the pork. Readers were advised to “begin your
people traditionally used to consume. This job of maintaining the anionic- compost heap now; do not delay; let
No wonder weight and hormonal issues cationic balance is primarily the role of every spare moment be put in the woods
abound today when we are not getting the kidney, but to accomplish this the raking up leaves or in the swamps piling
nutrient-dense food like sea urchin roe! person must be well hydrated. Almost up muck.” We are told doing this “will
Caroline Marshall, Chapter Leader all foods are cationic in nature (lemons pay you many times in the increased
Auckland, South & East, New Zealand are a notable execption, being anionic). yield of crops.”
Pork, shellfish and catfish are highly Earlier sections bemoan the
RUBBISH cationic foods. This is the reason why “leachy” nature of the soils at the station
I grew up on milk straight from the the Atkins diet did lower cholesterol there in east Alabama, saying that it was
cow, warm and creamy, and was as fit as but was not so good for heart disease prone to washing away. What grabbed
a fiddle until the age of sixty-six. because of its high cationic balance, my attention was the paragraph detail-
But since then the milk has tasted which would cause an increase in blood ing the results from using the leaf and
like water. Now at seventy-seven years viscosity. In the laboratory this can eas- muck compost at the Experiment Sta-
old, I am full of painful arthritis and ily be measured by putting a probe in tion: “Three acres of our experimental
other ailments.The terrible rubbish that urine and measuring the conductivity farm has had no commercial fertilizer
is now put in our foods is also a con- of the urine; normal is between 5 to 15 put upon it for fifteen years. The land
tributor to bad health. Younger people millisiemens. has been continually cropped, but has
are dying today because they did not get John Kule, MD increased in fertility every year, both
good wholesome foods when growing Aiken, South Carolina physically and chemically, on no other
up, and I am a firm believer that it is all fertilizer than muck compost and the
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