Saturday, January 28, 2012

Destressing Easily

Greetings,

I hope today finds you in well health. I'm currently taking a class at the local college called Creative Writing. One of the things we are supposed to do for this class is keep a journal. I really haven't done any journal writing since junior high & all of my journals, stories & poems were all thrown out when my grandmothers house was cleaned out.

Things have been a bit stressful the last couple of weeks around here. So, one night when I was too stressed out to sleep, I found a notebook & a pen & just started to write. I wrote 6 pages before I was finally tired enough to get some sleep.

So another way that is easy & cheap, just write out your feelings on paper. You don't have to show it anyone else, it can be just for your eyes only.

Have a good week,

Lori

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Dangers of Pork

Greetings,

I was surfing the net tonight & came across this article tonight. I thought it fit in perfectly with my To Eat or Not to Eat article I wrote last year.

A couple of highlights from the article are as follows -

PIGS are SCAVENGERS and will eat ANY kind of food, INCLUDING dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta including their own, garbage, and other pigs.

There are many diseases carried from swine to man, particularly parasite infestations.

Influenza (flu) is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is harbored in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and humans in the cooler months. Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who eat pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of influenza.


The human swine flu outbreak continues to grow...
The outbreak of disease in people caused by a new influenza virus of swine origin continues to grow in the United States and internationally. Today, CDC reports additional confirmed human infections, hospitalizations and the nation's first fatality from this outbreak. The more recent illnesses and the reported death suggest that a pattern of more severe illness associated with this virus may be emerging in the U.S. Most people will not have immunity to this new virus and, as it continues to spread, more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths are expected in the coming days and weeks.


Have a good week,

Lori

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Vertigo free & LOVING it!!!

Greetings,

As I type this I'm celebrating! I haven't had a vertigo attack - major or minor in almost 3 months!

As many of faithful followers know I fought with vertigo for over 2 1/2 years. I was going to physical therapy every 4-6 weeks to keep it in check so that I didn't get an attack when I was at school or I was out in the field working.

I'm sure many of you are asking what have I done differently that I no longer have this problem. Well, I'm going to contribute it to a few different factors.

1. Destress - I've cut back on my stress. I don't let things get to me as easily as I used to & if I do get upset, I try to keep it short lived. Let it out & then get back on track. My daughter & her boyfriend aren't quite sure what to think about this.

2. Change in my diet - Cutting back on sugars & other toxins in my life. As I said in an earlier post, mercury is in many food & may contribute to vertigo. I'm still doing research into this & hope to post more on this at a future date.

3. Exercise - This isn't what you think it is. I've looked back at when I first got vertigo & what I've changed over the last few months, there is one change that I've done that I think has a made a HUGE change in my life. I was an avid roller skater prior to my foot surgery in April of 2008. I didn't start skating again until the end of October. Just think the gentle loops that you are doing as you are going around the rink with an occasional quick loop if you are goofing off, or smaller loops if you are doing the "Hokey Pokey" around the middle loop of the rink. If you aren't that good at dodgeball or some of your kids' friends have it in for them, I would advise you to avoid this activity. It may sound harmless enough but if you are skating 15-20 mph to avoid getting hit you may get hit hard with a nerf ball (simple physics here) or you may wipe out & do more harm than good.

4. More sleep - I've been working at getting more sleep. I used to survive on catnaps if I had a bunch of work to do in a one week period or a lot school work to do in the same week. So I try to get at least 6-8 hours of sleep per night.

5. More me time - I used to think that I was selfish if I took time for myself. But now I give myself permission to take time for myself. Whether its to read, watch some TV, take a drive thru a local state park or do some needlework.

I head back to school on the 9th. In a way I'm looking forward to going back & in another way I wish I had another week of break to get more things done around the house.

Until next time, have a good week.

Lori

Friday, December 23, 2011

3 Million Dead

Greetings,

I came across this article when I was doing some new research for a new blog entry so I decided to do a short entry on this topic.

3 Million people have died because of pharmaceuticals over the past 27 years. But no one has died because of supplements. Hmmm......mainstream news would have you think otherwise.

You hear it at least once a week that vitamins don't help prevent certain cancers or certain illnesses. But yet, you hear the media portraying big pharma as our life savers. Big pharma wants us to be dependent on them from cradle to grave.

Vaccines starting at birth
Ritalin (a cousin of PCP) when a child enters school so they will sit still for the teacher
Birth control & Gardisil for our tween & teen girls
Various pharmaceuticals for women once they reach child bearing age & don't forget the obligatory gall bladder removal that doctors think that women should have removed at some point in their life. (I still have mine!) We have these organs & glands for a reason!
High blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, meds for GERD, diabetes meds, etc, do you see my point?

1,700 prescription medications were recalled from the market during 2009. This is almost 5 per day. Did you hear about this on the evening news? Of course not, big pharma wants us to believe that their drugs are safe. Approved by the FDA, dispensed widely to patients & 3million dead from pharmaceuticals over a 27 year period. Vioxx is a medication that comes to mind that was recalled & recently a diabetes medication was recalled because of the problems associated with it.

I've been watching the reactions from the Gardisil shot. Over 100 girls died from the it during the month of August & another 100 during the month of October. This is what was reported to VAERS. Remember, only about 1-10% of reactions get reported so that number is probably much greater! If this shot was anything but a vaccine it would have been pulled from the market already. If you know of any moms who are considering given this to their daughters, please show them this article!

Here is the link to original article that gave me the idea for this blog entry.

http://www.naturalnews.com/034372_vitamins_pharmaceuticals_deaths.html

Until next time, have a great weekend!

Lori

Monday, December 5, 2011

Confirming what we already knew about the Flu Shot

Greetings everyone,

I came across this article on Facebook tonight & I just had to pass it along. Six studies in recent months have confirmed that the mercury in the flu shot is toxic, especially to pregnant moms & kids.

Isn't that what we've been saying all along??!!??

Enjoy the read!

http://majortrend.tv/5607/new-study-verifies-mercury-in-flu-shots-is-toxic/

My finals for school are the 15th. I hope to write 1 or 2 big articles during winter break & a couple of smaller ones.

Have a good week!

Lori

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Consumerism & the Affect of Big Pharma on it

Hello Everyone,

I recently had to write a paper for a college class on consumerism, community & my opinions on 7 different sources from which I pulled info. I've been struggling with some of my papers this semester but this one I felt like I was in my "groove" on this paper & it came very easily.

I was so happy with it that I decided to share it with my readers.

Enjoy!!

Lori

P.S. If you are coming across this article while doing research for a college paper, you may use any part of this article. Just be sure you cite where it came from. Thank you. :)





Consumerism – we see this in greater quantity this time of year. People buying gifts that will only be used for a week or two and then will not see the light of day for a long time. Has consumerism affected our health? How has big pharma affected our consumerism towards the health of our children? Colin Beavan, Annie Leonard, Pico Iyer the cluster New Ethics of Consumption and Brenda Watson all talk about how our lives today affect our health.

The World English Dictionary defines consumerism(1) as “Advocacy of a high rate of consumption and spending as a basis for a sound economy. The U.S. pays the highest amount when it comes to medical costs but yet we are the sickest nation in the world. The income from vaccines alone for big pharma is $34 billion a year. Parents of children are the consumers of big pharma. They blindly line for these drugs without doing their homework first. The ingredients that are in these vaccines haven't been tested for short or long term health affects. Annie Leonard (2) states in her story of stuff “There are over 100,000 chemicals that are used in the production of materials today. And tests have only been done on a fraction of those chemicals.”

Big pharma is going to do anything and everything they can to protect their income. This is why you see so much advertising on TV today for drugs and for viewers to “talk to their doctors” about this drug. With over 140 vaccines coming down the pipeline over the next 20 years, big pharma won't make money if we are healthy only if we are kept sick. Many ingredients in vaccines haven't been tested for short term or long term safety. The affects of SV-40 from the Polio vaccine in the sixties is only now becoming apparent with brain cancer being the common denominator in these patients.

Colin Beavan (3) talks about kids that live in the big city have more cases of asthma because of all the diesel pollutants in the air from trucks that deliver goods for stores and other places. (203)

This is another area that big pharma doesn't want you to know about. Vitamin D3 taken daily can reduce or eliminate asthma attacks all together. I've had asthma since I was seven and haven't had a major attack in years. I contribute this to my high daily intake of Vitamin D3. Big pharma is trying outlaw supplements because they bite into their income, they can't regulate them. If Codex Alimentarius is pushed thru, then supplements will only be allowed thru prescriptions.

During Mr. Beaven's (4) visit, he talked about his daughter getting really sick during their trip to Italy. It was contributed to febrile seizures that the doctors said she would outgrow in time. What
aren't we being told about this episode? What medications or vaccines did Isabella receive prior to this visit?

I looked at the CDC website to see what vaccines are required for travel to Italy. No special vaccines are required but they do recommend the flu shot, chicken pox vaccine, Polio, MMR and the DPT shots. The flu shot alone has been known to cause reactions that are neurological in nature, including seizures. The MMR shot has been linked to autism. A good question for Mr. Beavan would be what vaccines did she prior to this trip?

Pico Iyer (5) talks about taking trips that are thousands of miles without a second thought. You are traveling with dozens if not a hundred other passengers. You are breathing the same recirculated air they are. Most of the time passengers get sick after traveling on air craft. Sometimes this can happen within a few days or sometimes it happens within a few weeks.

Our reliance on big pharma as part of our consumerism is one of the reasons we are chronically sick as a nation. We are the vaccinated country in the world. But yet our kids are the sickest in the world and we pay higher medical costs than other countries. Why are more people traveling when they are sick than they were thirty years ago? Many travel out of necessity for work but how many are traveling for leisure? When I flew on an airplane for travel during the late 70s and early 80s, you had
to be well in order to get on a plane. Currently they only worry if there is a big outbreak of a communicable disease.

In Ethics of Consumption (6) cluster, there is a section on “Our Thirst for Bottled Water”. The chart on page 567 shows some liquids that are consumed by the gallons per year by the average U.S. Citizen. Soft drinks are at the top of the chart followed by tap water, coffee, beer & milk. Bottled water is on the way up. Part of this trend is being fed by the fashion that its fashionable to carry bottled water around.

Depending on the plastic that is used, bottled water can leach chemicals into the water that is toxic to the human body. Styrofoam coffee cups leach styrene into the human body, this has been known to disrupt the endocrine system which is also linked to our hormones. All of this leads to stress on the body which lead to a breakdown overtime. This is one of the reasons why chronic illness is so prevalent today.

In Brenda Watson's youtube video (7) “Brenda Watson's Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps – Personal and Household Products, Watson talks about how many chemicals are in the average home for personal use and for use around the home. She also talks about how 89% of them haven't been tested for safety. “Even toothpaste comes with a poison control warning label.”

Everyday when we are watching TV, looking at a magazine ornewspaper we are bombarded by ads for cleaning products for our homes. The inactive ingredients are 99% of the product but these inactive ingredients haven't been tested for safety. We as consumers need to be more proactive by telling the producers of these products that we want to know what is in these cleaning products.

Its time that us as consumers stand up for what it right. We have a right to know what our food is being treated with. We have a right to know all of the dangers of the medicine we are being prescribed, not just the parts they want us to know about. We have a right to know about the dangers of the products being used in the making of furniture, carpets and other household goods. Its time the government stop taking the sides of big corporations and stand up for the people.


Works Cited Page

1. "Consumerism | Define Consumerism at Dictionary.com." Dictionary.com | Find the Meanings and Definitions of Words at Dictionary.com. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .


2"Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .

3. Beavan, Colin. No Impact Man: the Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Print.

4. "Colin Beavan." DMACC, Boone. 04 Nov. 2011. Lecture.

5. Iyer, Pico. "Nowhere Man." Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 327+. Print.

6. Sandage, Tom. "Our Thirst For Bottled Water." Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. 564+. Print.

7. Watson, Brenda. "Brenda Watson's Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps - Personal and Household Products - YouTube." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. .

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Redirecting for awhile

Greetings everyone,

I'm going to be redirecting my focus for a few weeks to maybe a month or so.

I only have 6 weeks left of the semester & I want to finish strong. I also have some personal issues that I need to take care of.

I will be updating you with the refocusing as soon as I know more.

Have a great week & a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Lori