Throw away your toothpaste and never use it again. All you need is baking soda.....Flossing and brushing are far more important than toothpaste.
Sit down with a toothbrush and a glass of water.
I prefer a hard brush used with a gentle hand.
Brush, swish and swirl, brushing every tooth on all sides.
Brush for at least five full minutes.
Your mouth will feel and will be cleaner than it does with commercial chemical toothpaste.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Soap - make your own liquid laundry soap
Have ready:
1/4 cup borax
1/2 cup washing soda (sodium carbonate = Na2CO3). Sold with soap. Also sold as "pH Up" for swimming pools, or make your own by cooking baking soda (sodium bicarbonate = NaHCO3) in the oven at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes.
1/2 bar of soap grated into curls
2 1/2 gallon bucket with 1 1/2 gallons (= 192 ounces) of very warm water
2 1/2 cups (=20 ounces) of simmering water
A long-handled stirring spoon
PROCEDURE:
Stir the grated soap into the simmering water. Smash it up. Add it into the 2 1/2 gallon bucket of very warm water. Stir in the washing soda for 1 minute. Scrape the bottom. Stir in the borax for 1 minute. Let it sit for 24 hours. Bottle. Use 1 cup per load.
1/4 cup borax
1/2 cup washing soda (sodium carbonate = Na2CO3). Sold with soap. Also sold as "pH Up" for swimming pools, or make your own by cooking baking soda (sodium bicarbonate = NaHCO3) in the oven at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes.
1/2 bar of soap grated into curls
2 1/2 gallon bucket with 1 1/2 gallons (= 192 ounces) of very warm water
2 1/2 cups (=20 ounces) of simmering water
A long-handled stirring spoon
PROCEDURE:
Stir the grated soap into the simmering water. Smash it up. Add it into the 2 1/2 gallon bucket of very warm water. Stir in the washing soda for 1 minute. Scrape the bottom. Stir in the borax for 1 minute. Let it sit for 24 hours. Bottle. Use 1 cup per load.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Skin health
Temperatures persisting at 100 degrees F. and quite humid. Heat is enervating.
Sun is healthy for skin, but not sunburn. I like to use zinc oxide (order a pound from the pharmacist for about $15) and lanolin or coconut butter or glycerin or any fat and make a cream. (I would avoid all soy and canola and corn and other GMO's.) I would add any fresh ground fruit or vegetable with yellow or orange or red flesh, such as carrot, beet, orange, mango, avocado, watermelon, squash, pineapple.
This is also a good deodorant, and is also a good hair conditioner.
Sun is healthy for skin, but not sunburn. I like to use zinc oxide (order a pound from the pharmacist for about $15) and lanolin or coconut butter or glycerin or any fat and make a cream. (I would avoid all soy and canola and corn and other GMO's.) I would add any fresh ground fruit or vegetable with yellow or orange or red flesh, such as carrot, beet, orange, mango, avocado, watermelon, squash, pineapple.
This is also a good deodorant, and is also a good hair conditioner.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Birds in June, 2010
Ides of June. Hot. Humid. But still beautiful here next to the beach. We have rabbits, squirrels, and lots of pretty birds, such as red-headed woodpeckers, cardinals, blue jays, doves, wrens, finches and the like.
Seems that the earth's magnetic shield is dissolving and will flip soon according to a Netflix movie "Magnetic Storm: Nova". North will become South. Fascinating.
Seems that the earth's magnetic shield is dissolving and will flip soon according to a Netflix movie "Magnetic Storm: Nova". North will become South. Fascinating.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Winter
Last week we got lots of snow - looks to me like about fourteen inches. I love snow in the winter. Joseph Andrew Stack piloted his plane into an IRS building and died, seems he was just that frustrated with his tax situation. He said that communism is from each according to ability and to each according to need. He contrasted capitalism saying that capitalism is from each according to gullibility and to each according to greed. I thought that clever.
Monday, August 17, 2009
August 17, Happy Birthday, Charlie
Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Dear Charlie, happy birthday to you. And many, many more!!!
I will try to make a birthday cake.
We are going to be packing and moving. Looks like Roger will help us.
We will be moving the first week in September.
I will try to make a birthday cake.
We are going to be packing and moving. Looks like Roger will help us.
We will be moving the first week in September.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Dr. Jay's birthday, August 12
Happy Birthday, dear Jay, happy birthday to you. And many, many more.
It looks like Charlie will retire soon. They want him to work overtime 10 hour days and often Saturdays on top of that, It seems just too much. So we are thinking of going back to Morehead City and packing up and selling our beach house in Newport and buying a house in beautiful Arkansas.
It looks like Charlie will retire soon. They want him to work overtime 10 hour days and often Saturdays on top of that, It seems just too much. So we are thinking of going back to Morehead City and packing up and selling our beach house in Newport and buying a house in beautiful Arkansas.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Visit Us Before We Move; Southwest Airlines"
When will we leave Fort Campbell, Kentucky? Charlie is on a travelling team modifying six aircraft here. The team has to do it correctly or people will die, so time is not a consideration. His assignment here will last as long as it takes for the team to do the job the best possible safest way. The current estimate is that the team will be finished sometime between October, 2009 and December, 2009. Then the team moves on to modify another group of aircraft in Pennslyvania.
Last night we saw an unusual and good movie from Netflix, "A Man Called Horse". It is timeless and may be just as relevant one hundred years from now as when it was made.
Anyone who wants to visit us, we have a sofa-bed in our small living room. The nearest commercial passenger airport is Nashville Metropolitan Airport (IATA code is BNA) at 1 Terminal Drive, Nashville, TN 37214, phones are (615) 275-0147, -1675, and it is 73.91 miles southeast.
For an airline, I would choose SWA - Southwest - www.southwest.com and click on "Travel Tools" which gives a calendar displaying fares on each day, and one can choose the lowest fares which are called "wanna get away". Today I see some one-way $99 fares starting August 19, 2009.
One could use the Jarmon or Clarksville Airport Shuttle for ground transportation to Hopkinsville. See www.flynashville.com/Ground_trans/bus.aspx for phone numbers of about eight shuttle companies to make appointments and get estimates.
Our apartment is in a cove a few feet off the main drag which is about 2500 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard. See you soon ?
Last night we saw an unusual and good movie from Netflix, "A Man Called Horse". It is timeless and may be just as relevant one hundred years from now as when it was made.
Anyone who wants to visit us, we have a sofa-bed in our small living room. The nearest commercial passenger airport is Nashville Metropolitan Airport (IATA code is BNA) at 1 Terminal Drive, Nashville, TN 37214, phones are (615) 275-0147, -1675, and it is 73.91 miles southeast.
For an airline, I would choose SWA - Southwest - www.southwest.com and click on "Travel Tools" which gives a calendar displaying fares on each day, and one can choose the lowest fares which are called "wanna get away". Today I see some one-way $99 fares starting August 19, 2009.
One could use the Jarmon or Clarksville Airport Shuttle for ground transportation to Hopkinsville. See www.flynashville.com/Ground_trans/bus.aspx for phone numbers of about eight shuttle companies to make appointments and get estimates.
Our apartment is in a cove a few feet off the main drag which is about 2500 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard. See you soon ?
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Flu and Star Anise; Tamiflu; Spices
Monday morning, July 27, I got hit with flu symptoms, all of them. Tuesday I felt 50% better and today I feel about 80% back to normal.
There is a lot of talk about vaccinations and flu vaccinations. I won't get a flu shot because the flu virion is constantly mutating and the vaccine is merely a guess as to which of the thousands of virions to protect against.
I am concerned with child vaccinations which are now being given to young infants, way too young in my opinion. Why don't they wait until the child is at least 8 or 10 years old ? 50 years ago, smallpox was the only vaccine given. (Later it was found that it also provided immunity against some of the Herpes.) When a kid got chicken pox or measles or mumps, he stayed home and stayed in bed a week or two and his mother babied him and nursed him while his brothers and sisters tiptoed around. He was a star ! Autism was unknown.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is made from star anise mixed with talc (lung, skin and ovarian cancer), saccharin (cancers), propylene glycol (anti-freeze), iron oxide (aging), blue, red, and yellow dyes (carcinogens), titanium dioxide, maltodextrins (GMO corn), sorbitol, and on and on.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir) fights the flu because its active principle, shikimic acid inhibits the release of flu virions from the host cell. So far, scientists are actively fermenting GMO's (E. coli) and are making synthetic shikimic acid, but the yield is still too low, so the star anise, a seed from a bush grown in China, is also used.
Shikimic acid is also found in chinchona (quinine) tree bark, all of the sweetgum tree, the gingko biloba tree and from Christmas tree needles by a company called Biolyse Pharma in St. Catharine, Ontario, Canada.
And remember, the bioflavenoid, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory pain-reliever pycnogenol comes from the bark of the French maritime pine tree.
Sunshine prevents flu. So does frequent hand-washing. So maybe I will go outside nude and lie in the full sun for 20 minutes or so right at noon so I can get some of the important vitamin D3 that cannot be put into a pill, it can only be made in the skin when real sunshine hits it.
Why not make your own star anise tea? Knowledge that all the spices are microbicides has been passed down for over 10,000 years by our ancestors. After all, that is why Columbus discovered America in 1492 - looking for spices to preserve food.
I think I will make a tea by steeping star anise seeds and sweetgum tree seeds and some pine needles in freshly boiled water for 15 minutes. Maybe I will add cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg and just drink it all day.
The adult dose of Tamiflu is 75 mg. twice a day for 5 days.
There is a lot of talk about vaccinations and flu vaccinations. I won't get a flu shot because the flu virion is constantly mutating and the vaccine is merely a guess as to which of the thousands of virions to protect against.
I am concerned with child vaccinations which are now being given to young infants, way too young in my opinion. Why don't they wait until the child is at least 8 or 10 years old ? 50 years ago, smallpox was the only vaccine given. (Later it was found that it also provided immunity against some of the Herpes.) When a kid got chicken pox or measles or mumps, he stayed home and stayed in bed a week or two and his mother babied him and nursed him while his brothers and sisters tiptoed around. He was a star ! Autism was unknown.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is made from star anise mixed with talc (lung, skin and ovarian cancer), saccharin (cancers), propylene glycol (anti-freeze), iron oxide (aging), blue, red, and yellow dyes (carcinogens), titanium dioxide, maltodextrins (GMO corn), sorbitol, and on and on.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir) fights the flu because its active principle, shikimic acid inhibits the release of flu virions from the host cell. So far, scientists are actively fermenting GMO's (E. coli) and are making synthetic shikimic acid, but the yield is still too low, so the star anise, a seed from a bush grown in China, is also used.
Shikimic acid is also found in chinchona (quinine) tree bark, all of the sweetgum tree, the gingko biloba tree and from Christmas tree needles by a company called Biolyse Pharma in St. Catharine, Ontario, Canada.
And remember, the bioflavenoid, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory pain-reliever pycnogenol comes from the bark of the French maritime pine tree.
Sunshine prevents flu. So does frequent hand-washing. So maybe I will go outside nude and lie in the full sun for 20 minutes or so right at noon so I can get some of the important vitamin D3 that cannot be put into a pill, it can only be made in the skin when real sunshine hits it.
Why not make your own star anise tea? Knowledge that all the spices are microbicides has been passed down for over 10,000 years by our ancestors. After all, that is why Columbus discovered America in 1492 - looking for spices to preserve food.
I think I will make a tea by steeping star anise seeds and sweetgum tree seeds and some pine needles in freshly boiled water for 15 minutes. Maybe I will add cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg and just drink it all day.
The adult dose of Tamiflu is 75 mg. twice a day for 5 days.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Pennyroyal; Library of Forbidden Knowledge; Sister Zeus
July 22, 1998 - Gabi's birthday!!! Happy Birthday to Gabi.
Great weather here, they say it's cooler than usual. We seem to get refreshing rains quite often. Poor Janice is sweltering back in L. A.We have lots of trees and plants and wildlife, and Fort Campbell has a huge wilderness area. Yesterday Charlie passed three Amish buggies on his way home from work, he takes the back roads leaving the fort.
A museum here is named "The Pennyroyal Museum" after the pennyroyal that flourishes here. Pennyroyal is in the mint family, similar to spearmint, and is used as a cooking herb, as a flea and insect repellant (the concentrated oil) and the tea is used to cause abortion, stimulate labor or menstrual flow. The American Pennyroyal is called Hedeoma pulegoides and the European Pennyroyal is called Mentha pulegium.
The name "pulegium" is from Latin for "flea". Pennyroyal is called "fleabane", "mosquito plant" and "tickweed" because it is an insect repellent. It is also called "Pudding Plant" because it is used in cooking puddings and stuffings. Medieval herbalists called pennyroyal names such as Pulioll-royall, piliole-rial and Pulegium Regium. It is also called "squawmint" because it stimulates the uterus to contract to cause menstruation, abortion and labor contractions. Long ago, Aristophanes, in 421 BCE, identified pennyroyal as an abortifacient.
Recipe: For abortion: Make an infusion by steeping a full ounce of leaves and flowers for 15 minutes in a pint of freshly boiled water and drink a cup of tea up to four times a day for a maximum of five days. Do not eat grapefruit which depletes the liver enzymes.
Option: Add the oil infusion below. Another option: Add a plaster to the abdomen. Make a plaster by soaking wool flannel or cotton cheesecloth in a strong tea or oil infusion (but never essential oil) of pennyroyal. Know that you are inactivating your liver enzymes at the same time you are stimulating your uterus and know that you will be in an unpredictable and dangerous zone. I would take R-alpha lipoic acid (in divided doses, up to 800 mg. per day) to help my liver.
The dose to cause abortion is getting close to the lethal dose. So if doing the tea, the oil rub and the plaster together, only do it a day or two and listen to your body and stop at the first sign of any abnormality. (It seems to me that it would be better to pay a medical doctor for an induced abortion since abortions are currently legal.)
I want to say that no woman would ever want an abortion if the loving and caring father was there to help her to have food and shelter and to take care of her during and after her pregnancy.
Note that the pennyroyal tea is more effective for abortion when combined half and half with blue cohosh root (Caulophyllum thalictroides) in a tea.
Why it can kill you: Stop the use of pennyroyal at the first sign of nausea. Pennyroyal might make you sick or kill you if you consume too much or for too long . Sick people should not use it. Its activity is from its volatile oil, pulegone which is converted to menthofuran by the body which inactivates liver cytochrome - CYP450 A26). People have died taking prescription drugs and eating grapefruit because grapefruit uses up a lot of liver enzymes and combined with medications, the liver runs out of enzymes and is unable to function and the person dies. Pulegone affects the uterus and the liver and the nerves and the kidneys. So one could die from an inactivated liver from too much pulegone.
(Rest in peace, Kris Humphreys, died August 14, 1994 - She used Susan Weed's book "Wise Woman Herbals for the Child-Bearing Years". But her pregnancy was ectopic, tubal, outside the uterus so pennyroyal could not abort her. She kept using too much pennyroyal too long. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: "Pennyroyal Tea".)Never use the essential oil for abortion. Drinking even a few drops of the essential oil is lethal. One should never use the concentrated essential oil on the skin, because it will be absorbed into the blood stream. The essential oil should only be used as an insect or flea repellant.
See http://www.sisterzeus.com/
for Sister Zeus's "Library of Forbidden Knowledge" for information on fertility, herbal contraception, abortion and the like.
Recipe: Make an oil infusion by soaking the macerated plant in a good oil, like olive, walnut, jojobe, grapeseed for a week. For up to five days, rub this oil on the abdomen, on the Achilles tendon and on the heels (acupuncture points) to stimulate the uterus to contract.for Sister Zeus's "Library of Forbidden Knowledge" for information on fertility, herbal contraception, abortion and the like.
Pennyroyal (pudding plant) was used to flavor meat puddings and stuffings in medieval cooking.
Recipe: To make a stuffing or a meat dressing, mix 2 cups of bread crumbs with an ounce of chopped pennyroyal, 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper and 1/3 cup of honey. Moisten with water or any soup or stock, and stuff a chicken or roll up in sliced meats.
Pennyroyal in small amounts has been used successfully for centuries for medicinal uses: a garland worn around the head to ease giddiness, weak feelings, to ease headache; tea for whooping cough or any cough; tea for sudden chill or cold; tea for indigestion; tea for anxiety; tea for gout; plasters applied to bruises, burns, boils, tumors and insect bites.
The tea is often sweetened with honey.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Nomad living
It's nice to live as a wanderer. I have found that I use things daily that I did not pack and that I packed things that I thought that I needed, but I do not. I am remembering that there is a difference between "need" and "want". I appreciate items which are light-weight and small.
Living "light" and lean feels good.
KY is scenic, clean and serene. The air and water are clean. Traffic is light. I like the wildlife. The people in Abilene ( they call themselves "The Big Friendly" ) were quite open and about the nicest anywhere, the people here are much shyer. And there is a big difference in culture. The performing arts here are rare, and in Abilene they were richer and superior in every way, even superior to Los Angeles and Hollywood. Abilene was a wonderfully sophisticated city with less accompanying wickedness.
One amazing thing: this town has a population of 32,000 and the corporate chain stores are here in full force. Almost all of the shops here are nation-wide chain stores. I have only found one local restaurant, "Dots", named after its fried grated potato balls. Their food was excellent and at least some was made in their kitchen, and was not just heated processed commercial food.
Except for "Dots" and "Peebles" (a department store) I have not so far seen even one local shop. There is a Rite-Aid, a Walgreens, the usual car parts chains, the usual fast-food chains, grocery chains, and of course, a WalMart Super Center open 24 hours. We have a Salvation Army and a Goodwill and many, many Christian churches, but none of any other faith. The name of the county is Christian County.
This town is also called "Hop Town" because people used to hop off here to buy liquor because it was legal here but not in surrounding counties.
Living "light" and lean feels good.
KY is scenic, clean and serene. The air and water are clean. Traffic is light. I like the wildlife. The people in Abilene ( they call themselves "The Big Friendly" ) were quite open and about the nicest anywhere, the people here are much shyer. And there is a big difference in culture. The performing arts here are rare, and in Abilene they were richer and superior in every way, even superior to Los Angeles and Hollywood. Abilene was a wonderfully sophisticated city with less accompanying wickedness.
One amazing thing: this town has a population of 32,000 and the corporate chain stores are here in full force. Almost all of the shops here are nation-wide chain stores. I have only found one local restaurant, "Dots", named after its fried grated potato balls. Their food was excellent and at least some was made in their kitchen, and was not just heated processed commercial food.
Except for "Dots" and "Peebles" (a department store) I have not so far seen even one local shop. There is a Rite-Aid, a Walgreens, the usual car parts chains, the usual fast-food chains, grocery chains, and of course, a WalMart Super Center open 24 hours. We have a Salvation Army and a Goodwill and many, many Christian churches, but none of any other faith. The name of the county is Christian County.
This town is also called "Hop Town" because people used to hop off here to buy liquor because it was legal here but not in surrounding counties.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Fresh unprocessed milk - against the law in KY
Raw milk sales in KY are illegal with one exception.
It seems I can buy fresh milk here only if I have a written prescription from a doctor and then only for goat milk.
So it is against the law to buy fresh cow milk here in the land of liberty and freedom.
Isn't this crazy?
It seems I can buy fresh milk here only if I have a written prescription from a doctor and then only for goat milk.
So it is against the law to buy fresh cow milk here in the land of liberty and freedom.
Isn't this crazy?
Miracle: found address book; movie - "FRESH"
Be careful what you ask for, you may get it! I asked for the miracle of finding my old address book and this morning it turned up deep in the pocket of a briefcase. Thank you!!! It has been lost since last November, and its loss was a frustration for the past 9 months.
We are unpacking and at the same time planning a future move to Willow Grove, Pennslyvania sometime between October and December, 2009. Meanwhile, Kentucky seems nice. I have found a farmers' market open Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Now where is the fresh milk?
I look forward to viewing the movie "Fresh". I read about it on Ana Joanes (Huffington Post) and the link is www.freshthemovie.com/. Apparently "Fresh" will be the first in a series of movies on healthy food.
Michael Pollan, a wonderful food journalist and an author ("Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto", "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World", and more) appears in the movie.
"Fresh" also features urban farmer Will Allen, a former pro-basketball player, and the founder of Growing Power, an organization which now grows and distributes healthy food in Milwaukee and Chicago. Mr. Allen recently received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" of $500,000 for his work with healthy food.
Farmer Joel Salatin , owner of the beyond organic Polyface Farm, is in the movie and he has written six books, most recently "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front".
One can buy the "Fresh" DVD for $20 and I may do that instead of searching for a screening. One can buy the movie and show it free at home to up to 20 people without red tape. If one wants to sell tickets, one can buy the movie and rights to sell tickets to a maximum of 50 people for a total of $50, and up to 100 people for a total of $100. I hope people do this, and spread the fresh word.
We are unpacking and at the same time planning a future move to Willow Grove, Pennslyvania sometime between October and December, 2009. Meanwhile, Kentucky seems nice. I have found a farmers' market open Wednesday and Saturday mornings. Now where is the fresh milk?
I look forward to viewing the movie "Fresh". I read about it on Ana Joanes (Huffington Post) and the link is www.freshthemovie.com/. Apparently "Fresh" will be the first in a series of movies on healthy food.
Michael Pollan, a wonderful food journalist and an author ("Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto", "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World", and more) appears in the movie.
"Fresh" also features urban farmer Will Allen, a former pro-basketball player, and the founder of Growing Power, an organization which now grows and distributes healthy food in Milwaukee and Chicago. Mr. Allen recently received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" of $500,000 for his work with healthy food.
Farmer Joel Salatin , owner of the beyond organic Polyface Farm, is in the movie and he has written six books, most recently "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front".
One can buy the "Fresh" DVD for $20 and I may do that instead of searching for a screening. One can buy the movie and show it free at home to up to 20 people without red tape. If one wants to sell tickets, one can buy the movie and rights to sell tickets to a maximum of 50 people for a total of $50, and up to 100 people for a total of $100. I hope people do this, and spread the fresh word.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Vacating & Driving away; ETSY.COM
Phone is now cut off, we plan to get up tomorrow, donate the bed to the Salvation Army, and drive away.
Do you know about www.etsy.com/ ? It is the eBay for hand-made and crafts.
Many problems with address changes because my address book with a lifetime of passwords, serial numbers and the like was lost November, 2008. I have to contact people and tell them I lost my password, or customer number or ID and wait for them to verify and then follow up the next day or later. It is really a mess. Just when I think I have recovered, another lost information pops up and causes a problem. Today I tried to change my address on the state bar website, but my password is in my lost address book.
Not to mention I am cut off from some friends I have known since the 1950's and have no way of finding them. For example, Barbara Spivey, my friend from third grade through high school is now lost.
And I wanted to send Maria a birthday card May 22, but her phone and address is lost. I only have addresses for the "A"'s, those were the only ones I had time to copy before it was lost.
I am asking the Universe for the miracle of a found address book.
See "Nourished Magazine" for a collection health commentators in Australia.
See Rami Nagel for curing (not treating, curing) tooth decay.
See - adambetcher- ( on Twitter.com ) for many good health-topic links.
Abilene is a wonderful city - stable, sophisticated, helpful people, wonderful culture together with agriculture, farming, rodeos. They call themselves "The Big Friendly".
Do you know about www.etsy.com/ ? It is the eBay for hand-made and crafts.
Many problems with address changes because my address book with a lifetime of passwords, serial numbers and the like was lost November, 2008. I have to contact people and tell them I lost my password, or customer number or ID and wait for them to verify and then follow up the next day or later. It is really a mess. Just when I think I have recovered, another lost information pops up and causes a problem. Today I tried to change my address on the state bar website, but my password is in my lost address book.
Not to mention I am cut off from some friends I have known since the 1950's and have no way of finding them. For example, Barbara Spivey, my friend from third grade through high school is now lost.
And I wanted to send Maria a birthday card May 22, but her phone and address is lost. I only have addresses for the "A"'s, those were the only ones I had time to copy before it was lost.
I am asking the Universe for the miracle of a found address book.
See "Nourished Magazine" for a collection health commentators in Australia.
See Rami Nagel for curing (not treating, curing) tooth decay.
See - adambetcher- ( on Twitter.com ) for many good health-topic links.
Abilene is a wonderful city - stable, sophisticated, helpful people, wonderful culture together with agriculture, farming, rodeos. They call themselves "The Big Friendly".
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Skin & Guts,
We really only have one skin, or one gut. They are the same. Of course, the cells change as the skin changes at the lips, rectum, nostrils, eyes, ears, penis, vagina and goes inside the body from outside of the body. It is all one organ, the largest organ in the body.
Why do we care? Everything that touches the skin is absorbed into the body. More will be absorbed from an oily liquid than from a vinyl sofa, but at least a few molecules of anything we touch will get into our bloodstream. I even read a theory about prostate Cancer caused by sitting for many years on a plastic chair.
Read the labels on suntan lotion, make-up, deodorant, everything that will go on or in the body and they undoubtedly contain harmful chemicals and preservatives. Of course, the body can detoxify small amounts of toxins, but what if all your clothing is plastic, all your plates and napkins are plastic, all your furniture is plastic, everything you use or touch is plastic??? And it is proven that some plasticizers are carcinogens.
I prefer to make my own lotions, shampoos, toothpowder and the like. See Dr. Hulda Clark's book "The Cure for All Diseases" for some recipes. It is sold at www.newcenturypress.com/. I like her recipes because they are passed down for generations and use safe ingredients. See Dr. Mercola's site at www.mercola.com. One of his articles today discusses dandruff and shampoos and he cautions about shampoo chemicals absorbed into the scalp.
One of the most common problems are the types of toxic alcohols used in creams and lotions. I prefer to use triple-distilled vodka to make underarm deodorant and other grooming items. Vodka is ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and one probably cannot use enough as a cream, lotion, or deodorant to get drunk.
There are special large cells called "apocrine" glands under the arms and in the groin area. These soak up efficiently whatever cream, cologne or deodorant that is put there, so it is important to use pure products there, or better, make your own.
The transitional mucuous membranes (mouth, rectum, eyes, penis, vagina, nostrils) are especially absorptive and anything put there goes into the blood stream. Something put into the rectum is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and avoids the saliva enzymes, the stomach acids, the duodenal pancreatic enzymes, the liver. So if you put drugs or drinks or suppositories into your rectum, they will bypass normal digestion and go directly into the bloodstream. This is dangerous, and I read of some college men dying because they put too many martinis into the colon trying for a fast and cheap high.
Why do we care? Everything that touches the skin is absorbed into the body. More will be absorbed from an oily liquid than from a vinyl sofa, but at least a few molecules of anything we touch will get into our bloodstream. I even read a theory about prostate Cancer caused by sitting for many years on a plastic chair.
Read the labels on suntan lotion, make-up, deodorant, everything that will go on or in the body and they undoubtedly contain harmful chemicals and preservatives. Of course, the body can detoxify small amounts of toxins, but what if all your clothing is plastic, all your plates and napkins are plastic, all your furniture is plastic, everything you use or touch is plastic??? And it is proven that some plasticizers are carcinogens.
I prefer to make my own lotions, shampoos, toothpowder and the like. See Dr. Hulda Clark's book "The Cure for All Diseases" for some recipes. It is sold at www.newcenturypress.com/. I like her recipes because they are passed down for generations and use safe ingredients. See Dr. Mercola's site at www.mercola.com. One of his articles today discusses dandruff and shampoos and he cautions about shampoo chemicals absorbed into the scalp.
One of the most common problems are the types of toxic alcohols used in creams and lotions. I prefer to use triple-distilled vodka to make underarm deodorant and other grooming items. Vodka is ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and one probably cannot use enough as a cream, lotion, or deodorant to get drunk.
There are special large cells called "apocrine" glands under the arms and in the groin area. These soak up efficiently whatever cream, cologne or deodorant that is put there, so it is important to use pure products there, or better, make your own.
The transitional mucuous membranes (mouth, rectum, eyes, penis, vagina, nostrils) are especially absorptive and anything put there goes into the blood stream. Something put into the rectum is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and avoids the saliva enzymes, the stomach acids, the duodenal pancreatic enzymes, the liver. So if you put drugs or drinks or suppositories into your rectum, they will bypass normal digestion and go directly into the bloodstream. This is dangerous, and I read of some college men dying because they put too many martinis into the colon trying for a fast and cheap high.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Moving Update
Yesterday we saw "The Producers" at the great Paramount Theatre with its twinkling stars and slowly moving clouds on the ceiling. It was the best play I have ever seen, this troupe could do Broadway. The lead actor is a TV 5:00 p.m. news anchor. They were all as good as it gets. I am so impressed with all the talent in this town.
In the morning, we drove a chest of drawers, a box of plates, some dictionaries, some other books, a wire shelf and other things to the Salvation Army and donated them.
We also packed up maybe ten large and medium boxes of household items. We've been taking a box every other day to donate stuff since we were informed of the transfer.
Still some packing and planning left and we are very busy with this move.
Janice sent me the link to legal argument in the Anna Nicole Smith case which would be fascinating to hear, but I am just too extremely busy right now.
In the morning, we drove a chest of drawers, a box of plates, some dictionaries, some other books, a wire shelf and other things to the Salvation Army and donated them.
We also packed up maybe ten large and medium boxes of household items. We've been taking a box every other day to donate stuff since we were informed of the transfer.
Still some packing and planning left and we are very busy with this move.
Janice sent me the link to legal argument in the Anna Nicole Smith case which would be fascinating to hear, but I am just too extremely busy right now.
Concentrated poisons in foods...
Reading an article in the Spring, 2009, Volume 10, Number 1 , page 44 issue of "Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts" which is a magazine from the Weston A. Price Foundation.
The article discusses high fructose corn syrup - HFCS- in detail, which to me seems to be present in all packaged foods. And to make matters worse, it's usually the first or second or third ingredient on the label. At least they are putting HFCS on the label, GMO's and soy are not listed or are put under unrecognizable names. There are many tricks, called "creative food marketing" to trap us into ignorance.
And, of course, HFCS is a GMO (genetically modified) since the corn it is processed from is GMO.
I notice that GMO's are never identified and they are in most packaged foods but not listed on the label. Take cheese, for example. Rennet is an natural, healthy enzyme from the stomach of a nursing calf. If the label does not say "rennet" the cheese is likely made from E. coli bacteria or fungi which are genetically engineered to produce enzymes similar to natural rennet. Some raw plants (thistle) may be used, but are not, by the food makers. The only cheese I can find with rennet is European and a few mail-order artisan cheeses. I have stopped buying even Tillamook since 90 % of their cheese is not made from natural rennet, but from genetically modified fungi and bacteria. (See the Jeffrey M. Smith link at the bottom of this page to learn why GMO's are toxic.)
HFCS is a sweetener which is concentrated and cheap - the motive for the food manufacturers. It goes directly from the gut to the liver (fructose has a different metabolic pathway from glucose) and can cause cirrhosis and death just like in drunkards.
HFCS causes obesity. Prove it to yourself: cut out all drinks except water for a month and see if you lose any weight. (* You will.)
HFCS causes high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and depletes minerals.
HFCS is a source of toxic mercury in our foods.
Apparently Mother Nature meant for us to eat whole, sweet, tree-ripened fruits only in the short time they are in season. Sugar gluttony cannot be tolerated by the body year-round. Robbing a beehive in the late summer and eating that honey would be great, since our bodies have evolved to accomodate an occasional seasonal feast.
Another concentrated food poison is MSG which stimulates the "umame" taste buds. Delicious, meaty taste. Seaweed kelp contains fabulous nutrients and is a rich source of iodine and minerals and I try to eat a little with each meal. But MSG is way too concentrated (it is made from seaweed kelp) and MSG is so strong it could actually cause death if the dose were large enough.
Another concentrated toxin is carrageenan. It is concentrated from Irish moss seaweed or purple seaweed or red seaweed. The regular seaweed is a healthy nutrient, but when concentrated and used in food preparation it causes tiny holes in the intestines. This is because it is such a strong detergent that it melts tiny holes in the intestinal cell membranes. (Nonoxynol-9, a spermicide, is also a strong detergent that puts tiny holes into the cell membrane of a sperm and thus acts as birth control - the same mechanism of action as carageenan.) Read labels and you will see carrageenan in all products which can separate into oil and water, such as salad dressings, milk products, and in ice creams and in cheeses.
The food manufacturers use carrageenan liberally, it is cheap and its detergent action keeps the processed food materials together.
If you drink soy milk with carrageenan for several years you will probably be told you need surgery to cut out the top left part of your colon between the transverse colon and the descending colon. More and more people are getting this surgery.
And by the way, I avoid soy - see Dr. Kaayla Daniel's book "The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food" and you may want to eliminate it as a food for humans, too. Check out www.wholesoystory.com/.
"Hydrolyzed vegetable protein" and other terms are used in creative marketing to sneak soy concentrates into food.
Warning: Agave (yucca) is dangerous (because of its saponins) during pregnancy or nursing.
And of course, beets are now GMO's. So I'll stick to honey or raw dates or fresh fruit juice I squeeze myself or real maple syrup or real cane sugar.
It would be best for me to just avoid sugars completely, all carbohydrates are addictive, sugars and alcohol more than most.
The article discusses high fructose corn syrup - HFCS- in detail, which to me seems to be present in all packaged foods. And to make matters worse, it's usually the first or second or third ingredient on the label. At least they are putting HFCS on the label, GMO's and soy are not listed or are put under unrecognizable names. There are many tricks, called "creative food marketing" to trap us into ignorance.
And, of course, HFCS is a GMO (genetically modified) since the corn it is processed from is GMO.
I notice that GMO's are never identified and they are in most packaged foods but not listed on the label. Take cheese, for example. Rennet is an natural, healthy enzyme from the stomach of a nursing calf. If the label does not say "rennet" the cheese is likely made from E. coli bacteria or fungi which are genetically engineered to produce enzymes similar to natural rennet. Some raw plants (thistle) may be used, but are not, by the food makers. The only cheese I can find with rennet is European and a few mail-order artisan cheeses. I have stopped buying even Tillamook since 90 % of their cheese is not made from natural rennet, but from genetically modified fungi and bacteria. (See the Jeffrey M. Smith link at the bottom of this page to learn why GMO's are toxic.)
HFCS is a sweetener which is concentrated and cheap - the motive for the food manufacturers. It goes directly from the gut to the liver (fructose has a different metabolic pathway from glucose) and can cause cirrhosis and death just like in drunkards.
HFCS causes obesity. Prove it to yourself: cut out all drinks except water for a month and see if you lose any weight. (* You will.)
HFCS causes high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and depletes minerals.
HFCS is a source of toxic mercury in our foods.
Apparently Mother Nature meant for us to eat whole, sweet, tree-ripened fruits only in the short time they are in season. Sugar gluttony cannot be tolerated by the body year-round. Robbing a beehive in the late summer and eating that honey would be great, since our bodies have evolved to accomodate an occasional seasonal feast.
Another concentrated food poison is MSG which stimulates the "umame" taste buds. Delicious, meaty taste. Seaweed kelp contains fabulous nutrients and is a rich source of iodine and minerals and I try to eat a little with each meal. But MSG is way too concentrated (it is made from seaweed kelp) and MSG is so strong it could actually cause death if the dose were large enough.
Another concentrated toxin is carrageenan. It is concentrated from Irish moss seaweed or purple seaweed or red seaweed. The regular seaweed is a healthy nutrient, but when concentrated and used in food preparation it causes tiny holes in the intestines. This is because it is such a strong detergent that it melts tiny holes in the intestinal cell membranes. (Nonoxynol-9, a spermicide, is also a strong detergent that puts tiny holes into the cell membrane of a sperm and thus acts as birth control - the same mechanism of action as carageenan.) Read labels and you will see carrageenan in all products which can separate into oil and water, such as salad dressings, milk products, and in ice creams and in cheeses.
The food manufacturers use carrageenan liberally, it is cheap and its detergent action keeps the processed food materials together.
If you drink soy milk with carrageenan for several years you will probably be told you need surgery to cut out the top left part of your colon between the transverse colon and the descending colon. More and more people are getting this surgery.
And by the way, I avoid soy - see Dr. Kaayla Daniel's book "The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food" and you may want to eliminate it as a food for humans, too. Check out www.wholesoystory.com/.
"Hydrolyzed vegetable protein" and other terms are used in creative marketing to sneak soy concentrates into food.
Human bodies are great at getting rid of small doses of poisons such as MSG and HFCS and stress and viruses and bacteria and the like. But when over-whelmed with concentrated poisons, the body will eventually succumb to obesity, diabetes, aging , cancer, heart attacks and the like. Yes, stress is a poison. Sweetener overdoses are maybe our main food poison.
Back to the WAPF article, I wish everyone could read it. It goes into detail and cites scientific proofs. It also explains why commercial agave nectar is also processed with GMO toxins (label will say "hydrolized inulin syrup"), meaning GMO used) and no good as a sweetener. A trick is to call agave "chicory syrup" - same thing. (Real chicory is dandelion root.) The original healthy agave syrup is made from yucca sap, but the store agave is made from the root - big difference.Warning: Agave (yucca) is dangerous (because of its saponins) during pregnancy or nursing.
And of course, beets are now GMO's. So I'll stick to honey or raw dates or fresh fruit juice I squeeze myself or real maple syrup or real cane sugar.
It would be best for me to just avoid sugars completely, all carbohydrates are addictive, sugars and alcohol more than most.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Q: Why can't I buy fresh milk? A: It is a Crime
Ridiculous that I cannot drink raw milk. Did you know that it is a crime for the dairy to sell it to you? One must sneak around like a drug pusher and hide the milk and keep silent about it. I myself have not done this, but I have seen people with coolers sneaking around, looking in all directions before swooping down into the cooler to take out a bottle of milk to quickly and surreptitiously pass it on to the drinker.
About 1995 I bought some store milk and tried to make cheese. I had a rotten, disgusting mess which I threw out. Then I learned that the pasteurized, homogenized milk has been too processed to use for any kind of cooking.
About 1995 I bought some store milk and tried to make cheese. I had a rotten, disgusting mess which I threw out. Then I learned that the pasteurized, homogenized milk has been too processed to use for any kind of cooking.
Not so long ago, people used whey in all kinds of healthy fermentation and made their own cheeses.
Now many people tell me that milk makes them sick.
Then I learned that lactose intolerance is not present in fresh, unprocessed milk because raw milk has nutrients and enzymes and is digestible. The milk was not making them sick, it was the processing.
Ron Schmidt' s book "The Untold Story of Milk" is one I glanced through and it looks good. I plan to read it soon.
Fascinating Links - http://www.realmilk.com/
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http://www.realmilkaustralia.com/
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Weston A. Price Foundation link at the bottom of this page gives unbelievable stories of people charged with the CRIME OF RAW MILK.
Fascinating Links - http://www.realmilk.com/
-and-
http://www.realmilkaustralia.com/
-and-
Weston A. Price Foundation link at the bottom of this page gives unbelievable stories of people charged with the CRIME OF RAW MILK.
I notice all kinds of good people being charged with the crime of giving people fresh, unprocessed milk. "Something is wrong with this picture."
I found out about an organization called "Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund" and I joined. Link is http://www.farmtoconsumer.org. We need to fight back.I resent the FDA (government) telling me what I can eat.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Continuous Nursing as a Contraceptive...
Today I'm reading through "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" by Robert M. Sapolsky and on page 132 he discusses how prolactin suppresses ovulation (it suppresses estrogen and progesterone) and how breast-feeding may be effective birth control if done in a continuous way.
The way to keep the prolactin circulating so that it will stop ovulation is to keep it in the bloodstream by breast-feeding the baby about 1-2 minutes about every 15 minutes around the clock.
The original affluent society which sits around with lots of free time and mostly talks, dances, sings and plays games is the tribal hunter-gatherer people. They only actually work maybe an hour a day. The tribal mothers nurse 1-2 minutes at a time and nurse about every 15 minutes and will nurse during the night. They naturally get pregnant every 3-4 years.
In America today, a mother will nurse a long time each time, maybe 30 minutes or more each time. She will nurse maybe 6 times a day. She will avoid night nursing. The tribal mother will nurse maybe 50 times or more a day. Nursing 6 times a day is not enough to stop ovulation.
So when the mother goes out to dinner without the baby, she may ovulate.
Sperm can live four days. Suction or manipulation of the nipples to stimulate nursing would keep the prolactin circulating.
The way to keep the prolactin circulating so that it will stop ovulation is to keep it in the bloodstream by breast-feeding the baby about 1-2 minutes about every 15 minutes around the clock.
The original affluent society which sits around with lots of free time and mostly talks, dances, sings and plays games is the tribal hunter-gatherer people. They only actually work maybe an hour a day. The tribal mothers nurse 1-2 minutes at a time and nurse about every 15 minutes and will nurse during the night. They naturally get pregnant every 3-4 years.
In America today, a mother will nurse a long time each time, maybe 30 minutes or more each time. She will nurse maybe 6 times a day. She will avoid night nursing. The tribal mother will nurse maybe 50 times or more a day. Nursing 6 times a day is not enough to stop ovulation.
So when the mother goes out to dinner without the baby, she may ovulate.
Sperm can live four days. Suction or manipulation of the nipples to stimulate nursing would keep the prolactin circulating.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Lots to do for the move...
Kind of overwhelmed with the move. I need to keep track of all the bills coming due and get them paid on time since we will be on the road back and forth about ten days and we have several residences so this is difficult. We probably won't get settled and know our new temporary address until the middle of July.
We plan to drive back and forth about 4,000 miles. Will it be possible to visit Mark and Alice or Jay and Julie along the way? Probably not, but we will try.
I'm going to pack a food suitcase with tins of sardines in olive oil, some good cheeses, Bragg's vinegar, some raw olive oil, mason jars of pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and I will buy fresh mixed greens along the way and make salads.
Today I hope to pack up some books we bought at the big annual library book sale and media mail them to Jami, Gabi, Mark and Roger.
Excited and busy, busy, busy.
We plan to drive back and forth about 4,000 miles. Will it be possible to visit Mark and Alice or Jay and Julie along the way? Probably not, but we will try.
I'm going to pack a food suitcase with tins of sardines in olive oil, some good cheeses, Bragg's vinegar, some raw olive oil, mason jars of pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and I will buy fresh mixed greens along the way and make salads.
Today I hope to pack up some books we bought at the big annual library book sale and media mail them to Jami, Gabi, Mark and Roger.
Excited and busy, busy, busy.
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