Every week, I usually learn new things.

This week is no exception.

I’m going to share with you 7 things I learned this week about health (and more).

Maybe they’ll help you learn too…

1. If the feed has salmonella, those chickens are sick.

News on Thursday told us that one possible cause of the salmonella poisoning of eggs across the country was contaminated feed.

Feed is pasteurized before selling, so chances are, where ever that feed is being stored is just as nasty as the bottom of the chicken coop.

This industry does not care about life.

Those chickens (not the birds) should be forced to spend 3 months in their own coops eating the same food they were feeding these poor animals.

Do you think it would change their minds?

Today, in this video, Mike will share some of the amazing, shocking and frightening things that he’s heard over the years about how health news is filtered and how companies are unfairly treated by government agencies.

It’s pretty scary stuff, but make sure you watch it!

Here you go…

Your question of the day: What are your thoughts on the national (or global) health media?

Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave your comments now!

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Here’s where you can go to read more… http://www.rawkathon.com/special

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Kev

Annmarie and I were psyched because we haven’t seen Mike in 2 years since he’s been in Ecuador.

(It was also nice to see his wife Sheh again!)

Today, Mike talks about gardening, health care reform, optimism and if you should stockpile food.

Take a look…

Your question of the day: What can you do right now to help improve the health of your family for the next 5 years?

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For more info on Mike, please visit www.NaturalNews.com

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Kev

For those of you who know Mike, he’s a journalist for health freedom and he doesn’t hold anything back. This show is no exception. (You can find him at www.naturalnews.com)

We got some great and fun content from him as we drove through Red Rock Country.

Take a look…

Your question of the day: (As per Mike’s request) Should the government take away children from families that are feeding their children raw food?

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Have a great weekend, everyone! We’ll have footage of the event on Monday!

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Kevin

Before we go any further, I need to get this out on the table.

There is NO way I could fit all the great resources on health and nutrition in a Top 10 list!

Just not possible.

So what I did was put the resources that I visit and re-read on this list (and keep in mind these are extremely general). Maybe you’ve heard of them, maybe you haven’t.

Take a watch and tell me what you think… and if you have a guru, mention it below in the comments!

Your question of the day: What great health resources did I leave out?

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Please sign up for health book summaries if you haven’t already here: Click here now!

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Kev

PS. Here’s a shout out to the ones that I’ve not included in this list…

Dr. Bernard Jensen
Dr. Norman Walker
Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Dr. J.E. Williams
Dr. John Christopher
Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Eric Schlosser
T. Colin Campbell
Dr. Jonny Bowden
Dr. Richard DiCenso

And a whole bunch more…

A way for you to learn more about health in a fraction of the time. A silver bullet for those health conscious individuals like you who want to learn more but have busy lives to balance.

Since I spend a ton of my time reading and researching health information, I know how time consuming it is and I know how you feel.

Sometimes my head spins knowing that regardless of all the information I’ve read there are hundreds of thousands of pages that I haven’t laid my eyes on just yet.

About 6 months ago, I had just finished up an interview with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and I mentioned how difficult it was to keep up with all the research.

He agreed and we joked that there should be some sort of program that would summarize health books for us and send them to us for fr@e.

Kind of like a concierge of sorts…

A service that would give us the best information out there–in easy to digest chunks–and still leave us with some time to provide great health information, workout, hang out with our wives and do all the other things that we like to do.

After the laughs subsided, Mike said “why don’t we do it?”

That was just the beginning.

We had no idea how long it would take nor how much effort and resources would be needed to create a service like this.

The only thing we knew is that, you, the user of the service would now be able to get high quality health information from top books in the health industry and still have time to live your busy life.

The service that we’ve been working on for the past 6 months is called Health Book Summaries. It’s like a Cliff’s notes for health.
Each month we break down the top health books in the industry into actionable and informative summaries for you to apply to your own health.

The summaries are in the form of downloadable e-books so you can read them on your computer or print them out. The best news is that it costs you nothing to get them. We’ve contacted industry sponsors to help pay for the costs of getting the summaries to you for fr@e.

Each and every step of the way, Mike and I wanted you to get the best part of this deal… which is more great information and unbeatable value.

So here’s the next step to become a part of this new service…

The only thing you need to do today to access the 3 summaries that we have ready for you as well as the future summaries that we release is this…

Visit the Health Book Summaries website and register with your name and email address.

Here’s where you can do that:

==> Click here to register now!

It’s simple, your email will remain private and you will get immediate access once you confirm your email address.

(Please note, you may need to wait 30 minutes for the confirmation since the servers are bogged down because of this announcement!)

Go ahead and give it a try, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them!

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Kevin

PS. As an insider, I obviously have access to the summaries before they’re released. So when the first summary crossed my desk for review back in February, I didn’t know what to expect–particularly for the first go at it.

When I had finished reading through it I was absolutely blown away by the accuracy and detail that could be covered in (I had read the book before!). I immediately emailed Mike and told him we have a winning formula.

I’m sure you’ll feel the same way when you sign up today..

==> Click here to register now!

I didn’t even plan on answering the question “How do I know if I’m getting the right amount of nutrients” in this episode, but over the weekend I found at least 5-6 posts on the blog of people that asked this specific question (in various permutations).

So first I have your “take action” step and secondly I have the answer to the question above…

Your question of the day: What place did you find to explore?

Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and add your place!

BTW: Mine is Huntington State Park in Redding/Newtown/Bethel CT. I actually have pictures that you can check out from a couple of weeks ago… click here.

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Kevin

PS. Just got off the phone with Mike Adams… the free project we’re working on is literally going to change the way you’re delivered health information. I can’t give any more details, but I can say that in a few short weeks we’ll have a full blown announcement! Stay tuned…

I think he’s a stand-up guy and is committed to providing great, unbiased health content. He’s also a content creating genius and spends hours a day on the news that isn’t really being covered by main stream media outlets.

The power of the internet has given people like Mike Adams, Joe Mercola and many others a chance to compete. (I truly think it’s only a matter of time until the major papers stop their presses.)

But the message here is that YOU have a role in spreading all of this great information as well…

Mike recently launched “The Health Ranger Radio Show” which is a real-deal, national broadcast. Mike will be interviewing some of the top health experts for these shows (I know because I’ve seen the line up ) and they promise to be hard-hitting, applicable information that you can take straight to the “bank”. (If that applies here!)

What I’d like to do, with your help, is help Mike get his show on more radio stations. You see, how it works is like this…

If listeners call their radio station and say they want his show, the station will pick it up. Simple supply and demand.

So when you have a minute visit the show’s site (click here) and find the phone number of your local radio station and give them a ring… the site will give you instructions on what to say when you call up…

Thanks for helping us spread the word!

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Kevin

PS. You can also call your local TV station and ask them to carry the Renegade Health Show…

The Week In Review:

It is nice to be back from California and spend some time with Annmarie again.

I like traveling, but would much rather travel with her than alone. Hotel rooms are pretty lame when you don’t watch TV.

After being in 60+ degree weather, I’m really starting to despise the cold weather. This is probably our last winter in the Northeast.

Anyway, I meet a bunch of great people out west… some of them are… drum roll please…

(In no particular order! I have some pictures, but have no idea how to take them off of my phone…)

Adam Collins of www.SuperfoodSnacks.com. He’s coming out with some superfood smoothie mixes that I sampled. Awesome.

Ruth Shamai from www.RuthsHempfoods.com. She’s a sweetheart and she has a new chia cereal that I really like.

Robert Cheeke, who gave me a vegan bodybuilding DVD. I havent’ watched it yet, but he’s got some guns… so I imagine it works. www.VeganBodyBuilding.org

Brendan Braizer from Vega. He gave me a book and we chatted for a while. Nice guy. www.MyVega.com

Mark Perlmutter of www.Rawfor30Days.com. Mark and I went out for dinner which was great and he is a master networker!

Rod Rotundi of Leaf Cuisine who has an amazing service and growing business. www.LeafCuisine.com

I ran into Dr. Weil on the floor and he seemed skitish. But he actually was thinner than I thought! I took a picture with him, but it mysteriously disappeared from my phone… same happened with Patrica Bragg! Weird.

Of course, Mike Adams and Jonny Bowden. Jonny and I had a great lunch and Mike, his wife, and I had an amazing dinner @ Au Lac. (The curried rice was insanely good.)

Mike and I are working on a project now that we’re both really excited about and should be launching in April or so… we’ll keep ya’ll posted.

If I forgot anyone, please post a comment and I’ll rightfully apologize

Other important notes, findings…

I’ve been spending more time on Twitter, which I think is a whole lot of fun.

It’s a place where you can see what I’m up to as well as where I can see what you’re doing. The posts are 140 characters long, so we’re both required to keep it short.

I’ve been giving a health “twit tip” daily over there as well, so if you want to get those, please go over to Twitter and sign up. It’s free.

Click here: http://www.twitter.com/kevingianni

If you write to me over there, I’m pretty good at getting back, too.

Thoughts on progress…

I’ve been “rearranging” the way the online business is going…

Once I started the “Renegade Health Show” I basically decided to max it out for you guys. That means, commit to providing the information that counts with a “rain, sleet or snow” mentality. “Whatever it takes” is a powerful mantra.

I am working on a few projects: a clean, pure water interview series, a raw smoothie book and the gig with Mike, but mainly I’m working to provide information and much of it free.

I took a look at my goals a few weeks ago and realized that they were good for the short term, but not in alignment with what I wanted long term.

What I want long term is to provide health information on a major scale. I’ve always wanted to have a TV show and frankly… the Renegade Health Show is the first step.

But different.

You see, I don’t like rejection.

I get plenty of it, but still don’t like it.

So instead of putting together a pilot and sending out queries, I decided to take the initiative and put in the work to get noticed. It’s much easier when people contact you.

So my commitment to you is doing the show and answering your questions. Simple.

If you could do me a favor, that would help as well…

Please tell your friends!

We have over 25K people who receive our emails… if every single person sent out the Renegade Health Show to 3 other people… that could possibly be another 75K people.

So pass it on!

BTW: If you want to receive daily updates, please fill out the form at the end of this post.

Thanks so much for being a fan, keep asking questions and I’ll keep answering them… and, yes, together we CAN change the health of the world!

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Kev

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for your effort to bring people back to be “living” again. I truly appreciate your effort. When I saw those poor cows mutilated on recent news… I thought what was I thinking for all these years…. I truly felt pain in my heart.

I am dying to ask you this question. I cannot keep wondering any longer. When I started to research on good rebounder, somehow landed on this website called **** [Sites are anonymous] and somehow it took me to this **** website. So I started to read about this person or group of people. It took me a while (reading every single word on this website several times) to understand who & what they are but I am a way beginner in rawfood so a person like me, this website was rather “deep” and “shocking”. In this website, they promote a blender by Waring Pro 3+HP. But others promote Vitamix… You use Vitamix as well…I am saving my money to buy blender but don’t know which one to buy. Also… these people say no need to take supplements. They don’t believe in vitamins. They also say carrots are bad (organic, non-organic, hybrid) so they don’t eat them. They eat wild carrots… Juicing is absolutely bad for you… Even can cause illness (sometimes cancer) if you juice and drink it.. Is that true? This is scaring me a little since I only have juicer right now and that is the only way for me to make veggie juice.. But I don’t want to make myself ill. I found Mike Adams last January ( was a turning point of my life) and ever since I found him, I have done juice fasting twice and been almost 80% raw and no pharmaceutical pills whatsoever. But this site took me to a whole new level.

Like to hear your thoughts…Jean

My comments:

Hi Jean,

I can only speak from my own experience in this case on many levels.

I use and recommend the Vitamix because it has a great history of reliability and it makes incredible consistency of just about everything.

I have not used the Waring Pro 3+HP, but once you get into the high powered blenders I can’t imagine there’s too much difference besides a few features.

The key to getting a good blender is really spending the money for something that isn’t going to break. We’ve been through 3 cheap blenders, so the last time we bought something we made sure it would last.

The Vitamix has a 7 year warranty, so that speaks pretty loudly about their product.

As for the site you visited, you have to do your own due diligence. (Yes, even with mine!)

There are many sites out there that talk about health and wellbeing as it pertains to raw food/veganism. Some have amazing information, others do not. Others have pieces of great information mixed in with fallacious claims. This is the benefit and downfall of the Internet world.

Here are some guidelines that I follow when it comes to holistic nutrition and health in regards to your questions and comments above, you can agree or disagree…

(1) Supplements – There’s plenty of discussion on whether supplements are good for you or not. That was part of the discussion that generated over 100 comments on this blog recently. Jonny Bowden, who I interviewed recently, put the supplement issue into perspective, by saying (paraphrase) that ideally we wouldn’t have to supplement, but that doesn’t leave us any protection from our unnatural surroundings.

Here’s an actual excerpt from his discussion!

Do we need supplements? No. We also don’t need indoor toilets and we don’t need our cars. There’s a lot of things that we don’t need in order to survive. I think what everyone listening to this call is interested in is not what I call, minimum wage nutrition, what we need to stay alive, what we need to fend, nutritional deficiencies like Beriberi, scurvy and rickets, which we really don’t see very much. So we can get enough B vitamins to stave off Beriberi and enough C to keep scurvy probably with meals at McDonald’s.

So if, however, by “need” you mean what is going to give us optimal health. What’s going to really give us that super health, that extra level of energy and vitality and have everything running well — my car doesn’t need an oil change every 3000 miles. It will run, but it runs better when you give it that. So it depends what you mean by “need”. Now, I’m all for whole foods. I’m 1000% for whole foods and I think we should absolutely eat whole foods. The problem with getting all the nutrients for optimal health, just from food is twofold. One is, most of us don’t do it. Two is, even when you make a real effort to eat nothing but whole foods the mineral that we get are largely dependent on what kind of soil those foods are grown in and a lot of soil is very depleted in minerals. There are some nutrients, like vitamin E, that you would have to — the amount of food you would have to eat to get 400 IUs of vitamin E is so enormous, it’s just not going to happen. Number three, there are conditions that we are exposed to in modern life. Unless you’re living – I wrote this in one of my older books. If you’re living on an organic farm, you don’t go into the city, you’re not exposed to car exhaust, you don’t have much stress in your life, you go to bed when the sun goes down, you wake up in the sun comes up and you don’t have a computer and all that, okay. You don’t need supplements. You’re fine. The fact is, I live in L.A. I don’t care how many whole foods I eat. I’m breathing smog. I’m exposed to pollutants. We take medications. Our liver doesn’t know the difference whether they’re prescribed not. They still have to detox them. It still has to get rid of them. There are things in our food, even organic foods. There’s stuff that our body needs to get rid of and there are stresses in modern life that are probably greater than the stresses of any time in the past. These things eat up nutrients. They eat up vitamin C. They eat up B vitamins. There are what we call, designer nutrients, alpha lipoic acid, which you can get tiny amounts from food. There are things in which the only real source is brains and organ meats and nobody’s going to eat those anymore. So I think that supplements fill a wonderful need and that need is, it’s a delivery system for the nutrients that your body needs to run optimally and again, it depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re just looking to run a clunker car that you can park anywhere and you don’t have to worry about it getting scratched and you just need to take it down to the general store once a day, no problem. You probably don’t have premium gas in there. You probably don’t have to do an oil change every 3000 miles. You probably don’t have to have a Formula 1 team work on the car. Everyone listening to this call wants Formula 1 performance out of their body and that’s why I really do believe that supplements are — as a supplement. Remember, as a supplement, not as an excuse. Remember it’s a supplement not an excuse to eat bad food all day, but as a supplement to a great whole food diet, I think carefully chosen supplements make a huge difference.

I like that approach and I generally use the rule, that the closer to a whole plant, herb or natural substance the supplement is the better it is for you. Extracts, green powder, tinctures and other things like this make up my supplement routine.

(2) Juicing – I’d have to see what citations and other information they have to back up the claim that juicing can cause cancer. I imagine in a few cases–just like everything–that juicing may have caused an illness, but it’s a bold and blanket statement to say that it is absolutely bad for you.

I do think that juicing is done incorrectly in some cases. When I or my clients go on a juice fast go on a juice fast, they are missing fiber in their diets. This can cause constipation. If your intention it to detoxify and you’re not able to eliminate the toxins through bowel movements, this can cause a problem. I just interviewed Mark Hyman about this and he’s seen this happen fairly consistently. So I’d suggest taking fiber with a juice fast. Now if that is the case, does it make sense just to blend the veggies instead? Not necessarily, because when you’re juicing you are concentrating the nutrients from the vegetables and then adding back less fiber in the form of psylium husk or apple pectin or a mixture of a few.

(3) Wild Food vs. Organic Produce vs. Conventional Produce – If you can find wild carrots and have the time to forage for them, then I’d definitely suggest you get them when you can. We get wild berries every summer/fall that are amazing here in the Northeast US. Should you never eat organic carrots? I don’t eat many carrots, but I don’t think it is necessary to avoid them. (The reason I don’t eat them is because I don’t really like them. I used to take them off my dinner plate, stick them in my pocket and flush them down the toilet when I was a kid… my mom found out when she was doing the wash and I had forgotten to dispose of the evidence)

There, at times, can be a need or a desire in the raw food/natural health/vegan (any…) world for perfection or complete cleanliness of food and drink. I think it’s amazing to strive for this, but I also think it can create neurosis. Neurosis–I think–is far more damaging than a plate of steamed kale or a “cheat” now and again. I used to think otherwise, but I think I’ve gotten a little wiser as time goes by… Your diet is a significant portion of your health profile, but not the end-all of it. Please keep that in mind when you find yourself in a crisis or a stressful situation around food.

(4) Testing – You need to know your own baseline of health. I used to think, until recently, that testing was unnecessary. But the more I read and look into programs that are getting great results I realize that having a baseline to start with is a great way of tracking progress, letting you know what works and what doesn’t and in the long run saving you money and extending your life. I think everyone likes to hear those two things!

As for testing, I’m working with Dr. Richard DiCenso to bring some of his extensive knowledge and experience to RenegadeHealth.com readers. I realize that some of you have issues that I am just not qualified to really even have an opinion about… so in the near future expect more information about how you can test for many baseline issues in the future.

If you want to learn more about Dr. D, then get a free copy of his book by clicking here!

The bottomline?

I’d do the research yourself, coupled with a thirst for knowledge. Great health is a journey. It takes years to learn many things and even then there’s more to learn.

Be sure to always ask “Why?”

Learn from many teachers. They all have much to offer.

Let me know your thoughts and your own personal and trusted health resources with your comments!

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Kevin