PURPLE POWER  PROLOGUE " DEARLY BELOVED, WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TO GET THRU THIS THING CALLED LIFE -- ELECTRIC WORD, LIFE . . . IT MEANS FOREVER AND THAT'S A MIGHTY LONG TIME . . . BUT I'M HERE TO TELL YA, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE . . . " - PRINCE JUNE 25, 1984 / MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA WHAT IF COLORS COULD CHANGE THE WORLD ? THE RUBY REDS OF TROPICAL TOADS, THE IRIDESCENT BLUES OF INDIAN PEACOCKS, THE MARIGOLD YELLOWS OF MONGOLIAN SUNFLOWERS ? WHAT IF A CERTAIN COLOR IN AND OF ITSELF HAD THE UNIQUE PROPERTIES TO TRANSFORM A GLOBAL CULTURE AND WORLD SOCIETY IN A WAY FAR SURPASSING ALL THE OTHERS, EVEN TO THE COMBINED STRENGTH OF ALL OTHER HUES AND TINTS COMBINED ? WHILE THERE ARE CURATIVE PROPERTIES WITHIN THE YELLOWS, GREENS, AND ORANGES OF THIS WORLD ( AS WELL AS THE MAGENTAS AND SCARLETS ), IT IS PUT FORTH IN THIS ESSAY THAT THE COLOR PURPLE AS FOUND IN THE FRUITS AND FOODS OF MODERN HUMANS HAS THE UNIQUE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM DRAMATICALLY A WORLD WHICH TEETERS UPON SEVERE ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE IMBALANCE. THE WAY FORWARD, WITH THE FOREVER - MISSED ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE AS OUR GUIDE, IS ON THE ELEVATOR, PUNCHING A HIGHER FLOOR : THE PURPLE DIET ACTE I : I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING YOU ARE ENVISIONING AN ALL - PURPLE FOOD SMORGASBORD EXTENDING OUT TO THE INFINITIES AND HORIZON, WHERE ALL OTHER COLORS ARE BANISHED FROM THE DINING TABLE, AND ALL THAT ONE EATS IS PURPLE. THE PURPLE DIET HOWEVER IS FILLED WITH RICH YELLOWS, LUSH GREENS, SUCCULENT REDS, AND VIBRANT ORANGES ; IT IS ONLY THAT THE PURPLE FOODS ( TO BE DISCUSSED ) SERVE AS THE KEYSTONE AND THE BEDROCK OF A DIET AIMED AT NOT JUST PERSONAL WELL - BEING AND LONGEVITY, BUT ONE COMPATIBLE WITH A GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR PRESERVING THE WORLD'S RAINFORESTS AND CHIEF AMONG THEM THE AMAZON JUNGLE ( SEE 500 YEARS OF SOLITUDE ). BUT EVERYTHING DEPENDS UPON THE POWER OF THESE PURPLE FOODS AND THE MAGIC THEY PRODUCE WITHIN THE HUMAN BODY. THE PURPLE DIET IS FOUNDED UPON TWO OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES : 1) THE FEAST - FAST APPROACH, WHERE YOU WILL HAVE LARGER MEALS ( AND OVERALL SPEND MORE TIME EATING ) WITH PERIODS OF FASTING IN BETWEEN, AND 2) THE ELIMINATION OF ALL PIG AND COW MEAT AND DAIRY FROM THE DIET THUS, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, ( OR ADONT ) HERE IS THE PURPLE DIET >< ./\. <> ?? ? ≥÷≤ YERBA MATE TEA ( OR ICELANDIC WATER ) ( ONE CUP UPON ARISING ) [ eleVator I ] THE BREAKFEAST ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- McBROMELETTE * * ( OLIVE OIL / EGG WHITES / PEELED GARLIC / TURMERIC ROOT RED KALE OR BASIL LEAF / SWEET RED BELL PEPPER ON EZEKIEL 4:9 SPROUTED BREAD WITH STONE GROUND MUSTARD, MOZZARELLA GOAT CHEESE AND HALF AN AVOCADO ) BROMELITTO ** ** SAME AS McBROMELETTE BUT WITH EZEKIEL 4:9 TORTILLA PURPLE PORRIDGE *** *** ( BOB'S RED MILL STEEL CUT OATS / CHOCOLATE ALMOND MILK FROZEN BLUEBERRIES / BANANA / HONEY ) 100 % BLUEBERRY JUICE [ THE ABOVE MAY LOOK LIKE A BREAKFAST MENU OF CHOICES, BUT IT IS THE OUTLINE OF A THREE COURSE MEAL, AND FOR MANY A LARGER BREAKFAST THAN THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED TO EATING ] LUNCH (IF NEEDED) ------------------- BRAZILIAN BOWL **** **** ( ACAI / BLUEBERRIES / PLANTAIN OR BANANA / HONEY ) 100 % BLUEBERRY JUICE [ eleVator II ] THE SUPPERFEAST ----------------------------- McTUNA OR McSALMON SANDWICH ***** ***** ( OLIVE OIL / SAFE CATCH TUNA OR SALMON / RED KALE OR BASIL LEAF / RED FRESNO CHILI PEPPER / PURPLE POTATO ROASTED PUMPKIN SEEDS / GROUND RAINBOW PEPPERCORNS ON EZEKIEL 4:9 SPROUTED BREAD WITH STONE GROUND MUSTARD, MOZZARELLA GOAT CHEESE AND HALF AN AVOCADO AVOLITTO ****** ****** SAME AS McTUNA OR McSALMON BUT WITH EZEKIEL 4:9 TORTILLA PURPLE ACAI PORRIDGE ******* ******* SAME AS PURPLE PORRIDGE BUT ADDING ONE PACKET OF SAMBAZON ACAI UNSWEETENED ROASTED AND UNSALTED CASHEWS RED SEEDLESS GRAPES ONE PURPLE OR YELLOW (RAINBOW) CARROT 100% BLUEBERRY JUICE AND FINALLY WITH AN ADDITIONAL DESSERT ( ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK ) OF ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FRUITS WHEN IN SEASON : MANGO / PAPAYA / DRAGONFRUIT ACTE II - LOVIN' THE ELEVATOR " ARE WE GONNA LET THE ELEVATOR BRING US DOWN ? OH NO, LET'S GO ! " - PRINCE THE MOST IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE ABOVE PURPLE DIET IS NOT ANY OF THE FOODS OR MEALS LISTED, BUT THE TWO ELEVATORS ( ELEVATORS I & II ). THE " ELEVATOR " IS NONE OTHER THAN EXERCISE, BUT A FORM OF EXERCISE WHICH YOU ACTUALLY ENJOY DOING. THE ELEVATOR IS ELEVATING YOUR HEART RATE AND BRINGING OUT THE INNER OLYMPIC ATHLETE WITHIN, TO PUSH YOURSELF TO YOUR PERSONAL LIMITS AND THUS EARN THE FOOD YOU ARE ABOUT TO EAT. THE PURPLE DIET CAN BE EATEN ALONE WITHOUT THE TWO ELEVATORS, BUT THE ELEVATORS ARE WHAT PUT THE FOODS AND JUICES OF THE PURPLE DIET TO WORK FOR YOU, REGULATING METABOLISM, SLEEP PATTERNS, AND STRENGTHENING YOUR BODY TO PERFORM BETTER WITHIN THE ELEVATORS. IT WILL BE LEFT TO THE IMAGINATIONS OF THE READER TO DETERMINE WHAT THOSE TWO ELEVATORS MIGHT BE FOR THEM, BUT IT MAY INCLUDE ANYTHING FROM MORNING YOGA PAIRED WITH SITUPS AND PUSHUPS, TO STAIRCLIMBER AND FREE WEIGHT EXERCISE, TO SWIMMING IN OCEANS OR RUNNING THROUGH FORESTS. BUT SOMETHING WHICH BOTH TESTS AND CAN BECOME A REGULAR AND ESSENTIAL PART OF YOUR ROUTINE AND LIFE. IF YOU CHEAT ON THE ELEVATORS, YOU ARE ONLY CHEATING YOURSELF AND YOUR FUTURE HEALTH. WITH THE ELEVATORS IN YOUR PERSONAL SERVICE HOWEVER, THE PURPLE DIET WILL BUILD A STRONGER AND MORE ENERGETIC YOU, ALONG WITH THE MYRIAD HEALTH BENEFITS FROM THE ANTIOXIDANTS, ANTHOCYANINS, AND OTHER COMPOUNDS PRESENT IN THE PURPLE FOODS OF THIS DIET ( ACAI, FROZEN BLUEBERRIES AND 100% BLUEBERRY JUICE, PURPLE CARROTS AND PURPLE POTATOES, RED KALE AND RED SEEDLESS GRAPES ). NOTE THE ELIMINATION OF NOT ONLY ALL PORK AND STEAK FROM THE DIET, BUT ALL COW CHEESE AND DAIRY, AS A FOUNDATION FOR THE PURPLE DIET TO WORK ITS MAGIC. ONLY THEN CAN WE JOIN PRINCE, TO " LOOK FOR THE PURPLE BANANA^ UNTIL THEY PUT US IN THE TRUCK ! " ^ THE PURPLE BANANA ACTUALLY EXISTS, ON THE SMALL AFRICAN ISLAND OF SAO TOME, ALTHOUGH ITS CULTIVATION IS NOT CURRENTLY WIDESPREAD. ITS POTENT HEALTH BENEFITS COULD LEAD TO A GLOBAL REVIVAL OF THIS RARER BANANA. ACTE III - PURPLE RAIN " I NEVER MEANT TO CAUSE YOU ANY SORROW I NEVER MEANT TO CAUSE YOU ANY PAIN I ONLY WANTED ONE TIME TO SEE YOU LAUGHIN' ONLY WANT TO SEE YOU LAUGHING IN THE PURPLE RAIN . . . " - PRINCE JUNE 25, 1984 / MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA WHAT IF THE WORDS OF THIS SONG EXTENDED BEYOND THE PARAMETERS OF THE PRESENT, BEYOND TWIN LOVES KINDLED IN TANDEM, THE EACH FOR THE OTHER, TO ENCOMPASS A LOVE WHICH STRETCHED OUT TO NOT ONLY OUR GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT - GRANDCHILDREN, BUT OUR GRANDCHILDRENS' GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AS WELL AS THE GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT - GRANDCHILDREN OF OUR GRANDCHILDRENS' GRANDCHILDREN ? WHEN THE PRESENT BECOMES AS A GRAIN OF SAND, WITH ALL PASTS AND FUTURES STRETCHED AS A SHORELINE MELTING INTO THE SKIES, ONLY THEN IS A TRUE PERSPECTIVE GAINED OF THE SERIOUS AND IRREVOCABLE DAMAGE CURRENTLY BEING INFLICTED UPON THE REMAINING TROPICAL RAINFORESTS WITH CONSEQUENCES WHICH WILL AFFECT THE BILLIONS DESTINED TO LIVE UPON THIS EARTH IN THE NEAR AND FAR FUTURE. [ SEE ACTES I THRU IV OF 500 YEARS OF SOLITUDE ] ONLY WHEN OUR LOVE EXTENDS BEYOND OUR NEIGHBORS TO INCLUDE OUR " NEIGHBORS " OF THE FUTURE AND THE FAR FUTURE, AND TO LOVE THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF THIS EARTH AS MUCH AS OUR OWN, WILL WE HAVE THE POWER TO CURTAIL AND THEN OVERCOME THE NINE AMAZONIAN KILLERS. [ 500 YEARS OF SOLITUDE ] THE AMAZON GENERATES CLOUDS AND REGULATES RAINFALL OVER LARGE AREAS OF SOUTH AMERICA, SUSTAINING THE AGRICULTURE OF AN ENTIRE CONTINENT AS WELL AS THE OXYGEN AND BIODIVERSITY OF A PLANET. IF ONLY WE COULD PEER INTO THE FAR FUTURE, JUST ONE TIME, TO SEE OUR DISTANT DESCENDANTS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS, WITH ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH, LAUGHIN' UNDERNEATH THE PURPLE RAIN, WITH AN AMAZON, CONGO, AND NEW GUINEA RAINFOREST STILL INTACT AND THRIVING, STILL PRODUCING THOSE PURPLE CLOUDS, AND STILL GIVING BIRTH TO THAT PURPLE RAIN. THE PURPLE DIET IS AIMED AT REDUCING AND THEN ELIMINATING THOSE INDUSTRIES MOST HARMFUL TO THE PRESENT AND FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST, CHIEF AMONG THEM THE NINE AMAZONIAN KILLERS AS DESCRIBED IN 500 YEARS OF SOLITUDE. THE CATTLE RANCHES AND SOY FARMS WHICH SO THREATEN TO EXTINGUISH LUSH AMAZONIAN JUNGLE WOULD SEE GLOBAL DEMAND FOR THEIR DAMAGING COMMODITIES CURTAILED AND THEN ELIMINATED WITH THE GROWING TRANSITION BY CONSCIENTIOUS FREE WILLED INDIVIDUALS TO THE PURPLE DIET. THE PURPLE DIET WOULD THEN REWARD THOSE SAME INDIVIDUALS WITH LONG LASTING HEALTH BENEFITS, IN A DIET DESIGNED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL CANCER FIGHTING REGIMENS IN THE WORLD. IN ADDITION, PARTAKERS OF THE PURPLE DIET WOULD BE BLESSED WITH INCREASED STRENGTH AND STAMINA, MENTAL ACUITY, IMMUNE SYSTEM FUNCTION, AND HEART HEALTH. A GLOBAL POPULATION WHICH ESPOUSED THE PURPLE DIET WOULD SEE REDUCED COSTS FOR THEIR MEDICAL CARE AS INDIVIDUALS LIVED LONGER NATURALLY WITHOUT PRICY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OR VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS. THE QUAGMIRE OF 21ST CENTURY CLIMATE CHANGE STARING HUMANITY IN THE FACE HAS MANY ON EARTH LOOKING FOR THE MAGIC SOLUTION OR THE SILVER BULLET ; IN OUR ESTIMATION, THE SILVER BULLET IS NOT SILVER, BUT PURPLE. PURPLE IS FOUND ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE LIGHT SPECTRUM VISIBLE TO HUMANS, WITH ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT ( I.E. UV RAYS ) IN THE INVISIBLE BEYOND ( OF WAVELENGTHS 9 TO 369 NANOMETERS ). PURPLE ******* OCCUPIES THE LIGHT WAVELENGTHS FROM 369 TO 452 NANOMETERS, THE PURPLE EDGE OF THE RAINBOW, AND CLOSEST VISIBLE MANIFESTATION OF THE ULTRAVIOLET BEYOND. PERHAPS ONE REASON WHY PURPLE FOODS AND FRUITS ARE SO POTENT AND PROTECTIVE AGAINST THE CANCER - CAUSING ULTRAVIOLET IS THEIR PROXIMITY TO THESE WAVELENGTHS ON THE LIGHT SPECTRUM. THE PURPLE CORN OF THE PERUVIAN HIGHLANDS, THE ACAI OF THE BRAZILIAN JUNGLES, THE PURPLE POTATOES OF BOLIVIA PERHAPS ALL EVOLVED WITH THE SUN TO PRODUCE ANTIOXIDANTS AND ANTHOCYANINS AS A PROTECTION AGAINST CELLULAR DESTRUCTION AND DISEASE CAUSED BY UV RADIATION. IT THUS MAY BE NO COINCIDENCE THAT MANY OF THE PURPLISH SUPERFOODS ( ACAI, FROZEN BLUEBERRIES, 100% BLUEBERRY JUICE, PURPLE CARROTS, PURPLE POTATOES, RED SEEDLESS GRAPES, RED KALE ) HAVE CERTAIN PROPERTIES UNIQUE TO THIS VISUAL BANDWIDTH. ACAI BERRIES IN PARTICULAR POSSESS ELLAGIC ACID ( A POWERFUL IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTER SHOWN TO REDUCE CANCER CELL PROLIFERATION ) AS WELL AS TEN TIMES THE AMOUNT OF ANTIOXIDANTS AS FOUND IN GRAPES. EGGPLANT CONTAINS A PHYTONUTRIENT ( NASUNIN ) WHICH PROTECTS BRAIN CELL MEMBRANES FROM FREE RADICAL DAMAGE, AS WELL AS CHLOROGENIC ACID, WHICH COMBATS LDL CHOLESTEROL, MICROBES, AND VIRUSES. PURPLE POTATOES PACK FOUR TIMES THE ANTIOXIDANT POWER OF THEIR UN- PURPLE COUNTERPARTS ; PURPLE CORN AS GROWN IN SOME HIGHLAND FIELDS OF PERU HAVE OUNCE FOR OUNCE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF ANTHOCYANINS IN THE PLANT KINGDOM. AND PURPLE CARROTS NOT ONLY POSSESS MORE ANTIOXIDANTS AND BETA CAROTENE THAN THEIR ORANGE BRETHREN, BUT POWERFUL ANTI - INFLAMMATORY AND ANTI - BACTERIAL COMPOUNDS. THE GLOBAL SUCCESS AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE PURPLE DIET COULD FINALLY BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL AND TRUE COLOR OF CARROTS : PURPLE. IT WAS ONLY IN THE 17TH CENTURY THAT ORANGE CARROTS WERE GROWN IN MASS BY DUTCH FARMERS AS A POLITICAL TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM OF ORANGE, WHO LED THE DUTCH IN REVOLT AGAINST THE SPANISH IN THE LATE 16TH CENTURY. BEFORE THIS TIME, DUTCH FARMERS ( AS WELL AS FARMERS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN EUROPE AND ASIA ) HARVESTED PURPLE CARROTS GOING BACK CENTURIES TO THE FIRST WILD AND CULTIVATED STRAINS OF YELLOW AND PURPLE CARROTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND TURKEY. IF IT COULD BE IMAGINED THAT THE GREAT SPIRIT OF MOTHER EARTH LIVES WITHIN HER VAST PLAINS, JUNGLES, AND MOUNTAINS, UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE, THEN LET THESE PURPLE CARROTS BE AS TEARDROPS FROM ABOVE, OF A GENERATION AWAKENED TO THE PRESENT, SAFEGUARDING ITS FUTURE WITH THE TREASURES OF ITS PAST. WITH THESE MAGICAL PURPLE TEARDROPS TURNED INTO RAINDROPS IN A SUBTERRANEAN SHOWER OF PURPLE CARROTS AND POTATOES, WE SING TO OUR MOTHER EARTH WITH ALL THE AFFECTION OF A PARENT FOR HER NEWBORN CHILD, " I ONLY WANT TO SEE YOU BATHING IN THE PURPLE RAIN ". OF COURSE THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET, OR EVEN A PURPLE BULLET, THAT WILL MAGICALLY HEAL ALL, AND GIVE IMMUNITY AND LONG LIFE TO THOSE WHO FOLLOW ITS COURSE. THERE ARE THOSE DESTINED THROUGH GENETIC OR ENVIRONMENTAL TRIGGERS TO DEVELOP ORGAN DISEASE OR CANCER DESPITE THEIR BEST EFFORTS IN DIET AND EXERCISE ; IT IS TO THESE INDIVIDUALS IN PARTICULAR THAT THE PURPLE DIET IS PRESENTED, THAT THEY MAY HAVE THE STRONGEST NATURAL COMBATANTS AGAINST HEART DISEASE AND CANCER IN THEIR ARSENAL. BUT THE PURPLE DIET DELIVERS THE GREATEST ODDS TO EACH PARTAKER THAT THEIR BODY WILL NATURALLY FIGHT THOSE CELLS WHICH ARE PRE - CANCEROUS OR DAMAGED THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL MEANS SUCH AS THE ULTRAVIOLET RAYS OF THE SUN. DR. ANDREW WEIL AND WINIFRED ROSEN, IN THEIR BOOK FROM CHOCOLATE TO MORPHINE, OUTLINE THE DANGERS AND TOXICITY OF MANUFACTURED SUPPLEMENTS AND PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS IN COMPARISON TO THEIR NON TOXIC AND EFFICACIOUS NATURAL ALTERNATIVES ; WITH THE PURPLE DIET, THE MOST POWERFUL ARROW IS PLACED WITHIN YOUR QUIVER, TO NATURALLY COMBAT THE INVISIBLE ULTRAVIOLET, AND TO HAVE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF HEALTH AND LIFE POSSIBLE FOR NOT ONLY THE BENEFIT OF YOURSELF AND YOUR LOVED ONES, BUT YOUR LOVED ONES WHO WILL LIVE MANY CENTURIES HENCE, AND THE CREATURES AND MAGICAL PLANTS OF THE AMAZON JUNGLE NOW AND IN THE DISTANT FUTURE. FOR TRULY, NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN OR WOMAN THAN THIS : TO LAY DOWN THEIR COMFORT FOODS AND CONVENIENCE DRINKS FOR NOT ONLY THE LIVES OF UNBORN ( AND VOICELESS ) BILLIONS, BUT FOR THE LIFE OF OUR MOTHER EARTH AND HER VERY HEART, THE AMAZON JUNGLE. TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND BEINGS OF THE DISTANT FUTURE, AND TO THE STILL BEATING MOTHER HEART ( THE AMAZON ) AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, MAY WE JOIN THE PURPLE ONE IN PROCLAIMING, " I WOULD DIE 4 U " !  Y MAY 22 2016 ******* THE COLOR PURPLE AS PRESENTED IN THIS ESSAY IS KNOWN SCIENTIFICALLY AS VIOLET AND RESIDES AT THE END OF THE LIGHT SPECTRUM VISIBLE TO HUMANS ( 369 TO 452 NANOMETERS ) |