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WHAT KIND OF SURVIVAL FOOD SHOULD YOU STORE UP ON FOR DISASTERS?

This is a very important question that you need to answer. Is it enough to store up canned foods, bottle juices, and dry foods to prepare for the coming disasters?

To answer this question you would need to know something about good nutrition. I've studied nutrition and health for over 25 years, so I'd like to share with you some of the things I've learned that can help you make sure you're storing up the right kind of nutrient dense food and nutrition for a disaster or emergency.

Canned food is NOT nutritious or healthy for your body. It is loaded with sugars, salt, high fructose corn syrup, unhealthy preservatives, and "dead food." Canned food is NOT a good source of nutrition for you during a disaster or at any other time. Canned food is DEAD food and will leave you malnourished. It has been cooked or heated to a very high temperature during the pasteurization process, which means that any good nutrients have been killed by the heat.

What you need to eat during a disaster is live whole foods. You'll need to have access to grains, seeds, nuts, fruits, berries, greens, vegetables, etc. However, you need to plan as if you will not have any access to live fresh fruits and vegetables from your own garden or from a supermarket. Nevertheless, your body still needs them, so where can you get them in a dehydrated form that has a long shelf-life so that you can store them up for an emergency or disaster?

Your BEST CHOICE is to store up on low-temperature dehydrated powdered super juices that are made with live whole food based nutrition from fresh fruits, berries, greens, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and sprouts - all with no pasteurization, no preservatives, or no synthetic isolated vitamins or inorganic minerals. In this posting I would like to teach you HOW TO CHOOSE A SUPER JUICE nutritional product from the marketplace.


QUESTION: HOW DO YOU CHOOSE A SUPER JUICE NUTRITIONAL PRODUCT FROM AMONG SO MANY IN THE MARKETPLACE?

There are sooooooo many products and companies out there now selling healthy nutritional products, supplements, and super juice. I'm sure you've heard of many of them such as Xango, Himalayan Goji, MonaVie, Noni-Juice, Juice Plus, Mango-Xan, Thai-Go, etc.

My friend, if you're trying to decide which product is best for you, I'd like to share with you some insight that could help you make the wisest decision.

SEVEN THINGS YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHEN CHOOSING A SUPER JUICE PRODUCT

The biggest nutritional problems I've found with most of these products and companies include the following 7 issues:

1. Most of them are selling a liquid "super juice" that has been pasteurized and treated with preservatives to keep the product from becoming moldy on the shelf. By law, the FDA requires all liquid "juice" products to be pasteurized, which means that the fruit and/or berry juice has been processed by heating it to high temperatures to kill all bacteria. The process of pasteurization not only kills all of the bad bacteria, but it also kills most of the good bacteria and good nutritional compounds found in the juice. The original raw fruit and/or berry (such as mangosteen, wolfberry-goji, noni fruit, acai berry, etc.)certainly has a lot of powerful nutritive compounds in it, including antioxidants, vitamins, phytonutrients, etc. However, after undergoing the intense heating involved in pasteurization, the value of those fruits and/or berries have been greatly diminished and destroyed.

Now, let me ask you a question. Do you really want to be drinking a liquid super juice product that has been pasteurized with high heat, that has lost most of its nutritional value, and that has added chemical preservatives? I DON't.

2. Most liquid "super juices" sell you their product in a flashy heavy glass bottle that makes it look very appealing, but is very expensive to ship. However, the down side of this is that if you become a distributor for that product, you will end up having to pay a considerable amount on shipping and handling fees because, as everyone knows, glass is very heavy and expensive to ship. Can you imagine ordering a whole case and the exhorbinant cost of shipping? Even if the company doesn't use glass bottles, and instead uses plastic bottles, every one knows that shipping a heavy liquid product is much more expensive than shipping a light powdered product. Question: Do you really want to be buying and shipping heavy liquid products all over the country? Someone's going to be paying for that expensive shipping - either you or your poor customers.

3. Most liquid "super juices" are centered around one dominant super fruit or super berry. For example, whole companies have been built around noni fruit, or goji juice, or mangosteen, or acai berry. Granted, each one of these are truly "super" fruits or berries, but one super fruit/berry can't possibly have all of the 1,000s of nutritive compounds that a person needs in their diet. Yes, it's a great fruit or berry, but it's not enough. It's just one good food element. What about the many others that we need? Some of these companies have realized this point, and they have recently added additional fruits and/or berries to their formulas for this very reason. Now, instead of having just one "super" fruit or berry, they added 3 or 5 or 9 more to give them a more balanced and rounded product. Good for them, but it's still not enough. Question: Would you prefer getting the nutritional health benefits of 15 or 30 fruits and berries, or benefit only from 5 or 9? How important to you is variety and diversity in your super juice?

4. Most liquid "super juices" offer their customers a daily serving size of only 2 fluid ounces. In other words, a bottle of their super juice is a month's supply, and the daily serving size is only 1 fluid ounce. In my opinion, that is a very very tiny serving size that can't possibly have very much nutritional value over the course of a whole day. Question: Wouldn't you prefer having a daily serving size of 6-8 fluid ounces of your super juice? Wouldn't you feel like you were getting more nutrition from 6-8 ounces versus 1 ounce?

5. Most liquid "super juices" have compromised on the quality of their ingredients. As you're doing your research on various products and companies, make sure that they use all natural live whole food ingredients that are certified organic and/or are free of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. Also, make sure that they use NO PRESERVATIVES, NO FILLERS, NO EXCIPIENTS, NO ADDITIVES, NO DAIRY, NO GMO (genetically modified foods), NO PASTEURIZATION, and NO IRRADIATION. When it comes to your buying and consuming a super juice product, it's extremely important to make sure that you know what you're getting and where you're getting it from. You need to know what's in it and how it was processed. Ask lots of questions until you uncover the truth and the facts. Question: What's really in the product you're buying and drinking? Do you know all the ingredient and quality facts?

6. Some liquid "super juices" use processed sugars and/or artificial sweeteners that are unhealthy and cause all kinds of health problems. I was shocked to find that one very popular company puts high fructose corn syrup in their children's products. The only sweeteners that should be used in a super juice are raw honey, stevia, agave nectar, and naturally sweet fruit juices. Some of these companies actually put cheap "fillers" in their products in order to save money, resulting in the customer getting an inferior and less healthy product, so beware. Question: Are there artificial sweeteners and fillers in your super juice?

7. Most "super juices" only include fruits and/or berries, with very few if any vegetables and greens. Why is this? I don't know, but I can't see any reason for it. Question: Wouldn't you prefer getting fruits, berries, vegetables, and greens all mixed in your super juice for you and your children's nutritional health if it tasted good?

FOLLOW UP: In my next posting, I will be sharing with you more on this topic of dehydrated low-temperature dried super juice powders. I will share with you what I believe the BEST CHOICE is for you and your family. SO...keep checking back for my next posting.

Remember: the secret to surviving disasters is BEING PREPARED beforehand! Not next week, not next month, not next year, not when you have time, not when you think something bad is going to happen - but NOW.

Keep checking back with my postings as I will be providing you with a lot of more useful information and resources to help you get prepared now for the inevitable disasters on the horizon. You do not need to live in fear and anxiety - IF you're prepared to survive and overcome through whatever disasters strike next. BE PREPARED!

Thanks for visiting this resource blog on emergency disaster preparedness with survival dehydrated food meal pack supplies.

We provide disaster nutrition expert advice and resources on food storage, long shelf-life food, organic whole food nutrition, food packs, healthy MREs, and disaster meals.

We are committed to helping you get prepared for natural disasters, emergencies, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornados, fires, volcanos, tsunamis, storm surge, mud slides, droughts, ice storms, volcanos, terrorist attacks, quarantine, civil unrest, martial law, war, and transportation disruption of food and supplies.

Our Motto: "Be Prepared to Survive and Overcome Disasters"

Josiah Friberg, Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Nutrition Expert

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Commonly Held MYTHS About Disasters

"It won't happen." OR "It won't happen here." OR "It won't happen to me."

"It won't be that bad."

"I'll be alright through whatever happens."

"I can't do anything about it anyways."

These are some of the false beliefs or "myths" that people believe about disasters.

Most of these beliefs are some form of denial of the possibility of bad things happening to good people.

I felt like that during my first day of skiing back when I was in junior high school. I would see people fall and get hurt and think, "it won't happen to me." However, later that day, it did happen to me! I fell down and ended up with a 5 inch spiral fracture. As I cried in the severe pain, I looked up the hill and there was no one coming down the hill at all. I had to wait for the next skier to get help. It took a long time before the rescue team came and got me and took me to the ambulance and on to the hospital. All the while I kept thinking to myself, "Why me?" "Why did this happen to me? These kinds of things always happen to other people, but not to me. I don't understand. I can't believe this is really happening to me!"

Now, for the myth that it won't be that bad. Try telling that to the people who experienced the fury and flooding aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Try telling that to the people who died on September 11th in New York City. Try telling that to the tsunami victims in Asia or the fire victims in San Diego. If you were to talk to some of the people who survived these disasters, you would find that it really was that bad. It was much worse than they had ever imagined possible. The myth, "I'll be alright through whatever happens," just isn't true. People died. People drowned. People were burned to death. People who survived were not alright, they were severely traumatized and their lives were forever changed.

Now, for my favorite myth: "I can't do anything about it anyways." This is simply NOT TRUE! There is a lot that you can do to prepare yourself and your family, and even your neighbors, for what is coming. For one, you can prepare by storing up long shelf-life food and water. You can set aside extra clothes, first aid kits, camping and cooking supplies, etc. in order to be able to survive a major disaster. You can also talk about emergency preparedness with everyone in your home, and even with your neighbors. You can create a special disaster kit and add to it every week when you're out shopping. You can keep some extra cash tucked away and some extra fuel for heating and cooking. You can have an out of the area contact to use if your family gets separated.

There are a lot of things you can do to prepare to survive the coming disasters. The first is to give up your false "myths" about disasters and get out of denial. Second, you can start preparing yourself and your family for what's coming next. This blog will seek to offer you a lot of resources to help you prepare for the coming disasters, so please stay tuned and keep checking back to this website. Mark it as one of your favorites and subscribe to our RSS Feed.

Remember: the secret to surviving disasters is BEING PREPARED beforehand! Not next week, not next month, not next year, not when you have time, not when you think something bad is going to happen - but NOW.

Keep checking back with my postings as I will be providing you with a lot of more useful information and resources to help you get prepared now for the inevitable disasters on the horizon. You do not need to live in fear and anxiety - IF you're prepared to survive and overcome through whatever disasters strike next. BE PREPARED!

Thanks for visiting this resource blog on emergency disaster preparedness with survival dehydrated food meal pack supplies.

We provide disaster nutrition expert advice and resources on food storage, long shelf-life food, organic whole food nutrition, food packs, healthy MREs, and disaster meals.

We are committed to helping you get prepared for natural disasters, emergencies, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornados, fires, volcanos, tsunamis, storm surge, mud slides, droughts, ice storms, volcanos, terrorist attacks, quarantine, civil unrest, martial law, war, and transportation disruption of food and supplies.

Our Motto: "Be Prepared to Survive and to Overcome Disasters"

Josiah Friberg, Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Nutrition Expert

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PREPARING MENTALLY FOR COMING DISASTERS

When you think of disasters, what comes to mind? Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods?

As a nation, we face the daily threat of all kinds of disasters, both natural disasters and man-made disasters. These include hurricanes, storm surge, earthquakes, floods, fires, mud slides, winter storms and power outages, tornados, tsunamis, tidal waves, drought, etc.

But there are also other kinds of disasters that we must be prepared for mentally and physically. These include things such as national emergencies, terrorist attacks, biological attacks, chemical attacks, civil unrest, martial law, avian or bird flu, quarantine, and war. These kinds of disasters are not as common, but they are very real threats in this day and age of terrorism.

Many of the above disasters can result in martial law, quarantine, and the disruption of the transportation of food and services to affected areas of the country. In other words, if the bird flu broke out in Arkansas, for example, the federal and state governments could enforce a quarantine of that whole area of the country by using soldiers and martial law. As a result of a quarantine, all shipments of food and other supplies into the affected area could be stopped indefinitely. People would not be permitted to leave the quarantine area, and they would have to survive on their own for an extended period of time.

Are you prepared for a disaster scenario like this? Have you thought through the ramifications of a biological or chemical attack by terrorists or of the break out of a the bird flu or some other such epidemic?

I'm not sharing these possibilities with you to cause you to live in fear. That's the last thing we need. Instead, I'm sharing them with you for you to prepare yourself mentally for the possibility of these kinds of disasters happening in your area of the country. If you prepare yourself mentally now, then it will motivate you to get yourself prepared to survive such a disaster and overcome it. In other words, it doesn't have to be the end of you and your family. There is hope, and I believe that if you prepare now for it, you can survive what is coming next. In fact, I believe that if you prepare for it now, you will be able to overcome during such hard times and be able to help save a lot of other people in the process through proper preparation.

I can hear some of you saying that this is a kind of "doomsday" thinking that only creates panic and fear in people. All I can say is that our nation has experienced all kinds of disasters over the past 100 years, and none of the ones I mentioned above are improbable or impossible. Some may seem unlikely, yet all of them are possible. My point in this postings is to encourage you to start thinking about the possibilities and preparing yourself mentally for what could happen in our country. Once you prepare yourself mentally, then it is time to prepare yourself so that you can survive and overcome through whatever disasters strike our country next. Remember Hurricane Katrina and what happened to all of the people in New Orleans and the surrounding area who weren't prepared for what did happen.

Remember: the secret to surviving disasters is BEING PREPARED beforehand! Not next week, not next month, not next year, not when you have time, not when you think something bad is going to happen - but NOW.

Keep checking back with my postings as I will be providing you with a lot of more useful information and resources to help you get prepared now for the inevitable disasters on the horizon. You do not need to live in fear and anxiety - IF you're prepared to survive and overcome through whatever disasters strike next. BE PREPARED!

Thanks for visiting this resource blog on emergency disaster preparedness with survival dehydrated food meal pack supplies.

We provide disaster nutrition expert advice and resources on food storage, long shelf-life food, organic whole food nutrition, food packs, healthy MREs, and disaster meals.

We are committed to helping you get prepared for natural disasters, emergencies, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornados, fires, volcanos, tsunamis, storm surge, mud slides, droughts, ice storms, volcanos, terrorist attacks, quarantine, civil unrest, martial law, war, and transportation disruption of food and supplies.

Our Motto: "Be Prepared to Survive and to Overcome Disasters"

Josiah Friberg, Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Nutrition Expert

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ARE YOU PREPARED TO SURVIVE THE NEXT DISASTER?

I was a Boy Scout growing up, and I'll never forget our  MOTTO:

"BE PREPARED!"

When I think of all of the natural disasters and other disasters that have struck America in the last 10 years, I can't help wonder how many people's lives could have been saved - IF they had been prepared before disaster struck.

As a nation, the American people over the past 10 years have experienced terrorist attacks, hurricanes, floods, fires, tornados, earthquakes, civil unrest, martial law, and war. How many people have died in these disasters that could have been saved - IF they had been prepared?

The purpose of this blog site is to HELP PEOPLE GET PREPARED TO SURVIVE THE COMING DISASTERS that are only going to intensify over the next several years.

I WANT TO HELP YOU BE PREPARED TO SURVIVE what's coming next, and for you to be able to help others during the coming emergencies.

Let me ask you a few key questions:

1. Do you have enough food stored away for you and your family for 6 months?

2. Do you have long shelf-life dehydrated fruits and vegetables stored away as well?

3. Do you have enough natural spring water stored away for 6 weeks in safe containers and do you have a high-quality water purifying system that doesn't use electricity?

4. Do you have a way to heat water and to cook food that doesn't use electricity?

5. Do you have a survival kit that includes things like first aid kit, flashlight, batteries, extra warm clothes, sleeping bags and blankets, toilet paper, towels, toothpaste and toothbrushes, soap, bug spray, hats, compass, radio, flares, matches, cups & plates & utensils, and anything else you would need to live outdoors with your family for three weeks?

These are just a few of the questions that I have that will get you thinking about how prepared you are for the coming emergencies and disasters. If you don't have these basic things stored away in your garage or basement, then you're really not prepared for what's coming.

Remember: the secret to surviving disasters is BEING PREPARED - beforehand, meaning NOW! Not next week, not next month, not next year, not when you have time, not when you think something bad is going to happen - but NOW.

Keep checking back with my postings as I will be providing you with more useful information and resources to help you get prepared now for the inevitable disasters on the horizon. You do not need to live in fear and anxiety - IF you're prepared to survive and overcome through whatever disasters strike next. BE PREPARED!

Thanks for visiting this resource blog on emergency disaster preparedness with survival dehydrated food meal pack supplies.

We provide disaster nutrition advice on food storage, long shelf-life food, organic whole food, nutrition, food packs, healthy MREs, and disaster meals.

We are committed to helping you get prepared for natural disasters, emergencies, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornados, fires, volcanos, tsunamis, storm surge, mud slides, terrorist attacks, quarantine, civil unrest, martial law, war, and transportation disruption of food and supplies.

Our Motto: "Be Prepared to Survive and to Overcome Disasters"

Josiah Friberg, Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Nutrition Teacher

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IT'S TIME TO PREPARE
FOR THE NEXT DISASTER

The purpose of this blog is to inform and assist every day people in emergency and natural disaster preparedness.

We will focus on providing disaster nutrition expert advice that centers around survival food, dehydrated food, meal packs, healthy MRE's, disaster meals, long-term food storage, long shelf-life food, organic whole food, etc.

We will also provide practical and useful information on how to survive natural disasters, a national emergency, terrorist attacks, bird flu, avian flu, quarantine, hurricanes, floods, wilderness survival, and long-term disruption to the food supply.

I look forward to helping as many people as possible get prepared for the next disaster so that they can not only survive it, but also be able to help other people at the same time who weren't prepared.

God bless you,

Josiah Friberg
Disaster Nutrition Educator