http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-16-2010/9-11-first-responders-react-to-the-senate-filibuster
They received their coverage!!
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Friday, December 17, 2010
First Responders Still Denied Medical Coverage By Senate
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-16-2010/9-11-first-responders-react-to-the-senate-filibuster
They received their coverage!!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
My Upcoming Book
The cover for my upcoming book The Memory of Health.
cover design by Richard Crookes
http://www.richardcrookes.co.uk/
Friday, November 12, 2010
"What in the World are They Spraying?" - Official Trailer
Vaporized Aluminum being sprayed in the air to supposedly affect global warming, since the early 1990's, called CHEMTRAILS.
Organic crops are struggling because of this Geo-Engineering.
GMO crops are designed to be aluminum resistant.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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Friday, August 6, 2010
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Your Best Allies In Weight Loss
The holidays are long over. Around this time of year many of us wonder what happened to our New Year’s resolutions to eat better and stick to an exercise program. Lucky for us it’s summertime, and it’s easier than ever to step outside, soak in some rays, and easily get right back on track doing our favorite activities. What’s yours? Hike, run, swim, camp, horseback ride? Take advantage of the long, warm days to get inspired in establishing a healthy fitness routine. Summer is an ideal time to naturally become more active.
Exercise. It’s a word many of us dread hearing or – even worse – doing. But it is one of the main keys in losing or maintaining weight. In fact exercise is so important to health that it would be the number one “drug” prescribed by many doctors if it were a pill. Exercise makes you sleep better, look better, makes sex better, and increases your chances of living longer. Still not convinced? Soldier on…
In January, fitness clubs are packed and gym memberships go up. The enthusiasm usually lasts for a couple of months until people realize that exercising and eating right take on-going work, discipline, and routine. Those aren’t exactly inspiring words let alone motivating factors when it comes to getting and staying healthy. When it comes to our personal lives, most of us operate on inspiration, not the promise of perspiration.
The key to sticking to an exercise plan then is to find something – anything – which you actually enjoy and look forward to doing. Yet some of us have an aversion just to the word exercise, let alone doing the deed. A better word is move. Just move as much as you can everyday, doing things you like to do. Think outside the box. For example if you love shopping, go walk around the mall as much as you can every day and only occasionally stop in a shop you can’t resist. This is called mall walking and is a popular way to exercise, especially in the early mornings before the stores open. Find a park, and go play with a frisbee. Or open your front door, and start walking. Your life is calling…
If you love dogs, take your dog out every day, twice a day. If you love to dance, turn on some music and dance around your living room, or enroll in a ballroom class, or salsa, or hip-hop. It doesn’t matter if you look or feel like a dancing fool. Everyone is a dancing fool, and you’re saving your life and having fun too no matter how goofy you feel.
There is always a way to find a way to move: gardening, swimming, martial arts, boxing, walking, housecleaning, bowling, roller-skating, etc. Find it, do it, and before you know it, you might become addicted to the way exercise makes you feel and look. And, by the way, you get to eat a ton more of food, or at least, more food, because your metabolism is elevated and you have more muscle mass. More food…motivated yet?
Diet is the other word most of us dread. It’s no wonder. No one wants be hungry. It’s in our biology to satisfy our hunger – now! – when we feel it. And if we wait too long to eat, it’s often sweets we go for. Raising and maintaining blood sugar shouldn’t be a roller coaster ride though. Along with exercise, which is non-negotiable to weight loss, how we eat makes all the difference in whether or not we lose weight. In order to have healthy, even blood sugar levels, you need to cut back or eliminate processed carbohydrates (like white flour, sugar, etc), and you should be emphasizing whole grains, whole fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and healthy fats. So where’s the inspiration, the thing that actually makes us eat this way?
Eating right affects our moods, especially long-term. Eating right also affects how quickly we lose weight. This information might inspire some of us. Here’s one new piece of information that might inspire a whole bunch of us. There’s a new ally in the mainstream marketplace (and, no, I don’t mean “Alli”). It’s called stevia. Stevia is a naturally sweet herb that’s been around forever and is 50 to 400 times sweeter than sugar depending on how it is processed. It’s all natural and has no damaging side effects like artificial sweeteners and, most importantly, no calories. You can bake with it, put it in your morning coffee or tea, or make smoothies with it. You can use it in main courses and in ice cream. You can use it anyway you would use sugar but it won’t have a negative impact on your weight and it might even help you lose weight.
Stevia was never able to be marketed as a sweetener in the past due to sugar and FDA politics, but it is now available in mainstream grocery stores as well as natural foods stores. You can also now find it in coffee shops as well as in restaurants and cafes. It’s been used very successfully in Japan. The Japanese had a very strict policy about phasing out chemicals in their food supply. They introduced stevia in 1970 and by the late 80’s it was extremely popular as a tabletop sweetener.
As many of us know, the Japanese have one of the healthiest diets in the world – consisting of rice, steamed vegetables, seaweed, and fish – and the additional use of stevia is very likely part of the overall picture of good health in that country. There are many stevia products available in liquid and powdered form: Truvia, Stevia In The Raw (from the makers of Sugar In The Raw) NuStevia, and SweetLeaf are a few of them.
It can be hard to lose weight. But knowledge is power, and creativity and inspiration are power too. There is always a way to get inspired to get healthy. Find what works for you. Talk to a friend and make a pact to do it all together. Take a goofy dance class or a cooking class. Get a dog and walk your dog. Try an early morning yoga class either in person, or on TV. Try some new foods like stevia. Before you know it, you just might be hooked and lo and behold you will have lost weight without even really thinking about it.
be well,
Friday, July 9, 2010
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Justice for Bella
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/201/justice-for-bella
She was gunned down by animal control for no reason. Please sign the petition.
thank you
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Elephant Treatment In The Circus
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Animals-Rock/108513992523452?ref=sgm#!/video/video.php?v=660639426522&ref=mf
Friday, April 23, 2010
Please Sign Petition to End Dolphin Slaughter
www.savejapandolphins.org
Please sign the petition to help end this cruel annual slaughter of 20,000 dolphins.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
The American Cancer Society:
The American Cancer Society:
Please support my sister in raising money for cancer awareness and prevention. My father passed away from esophageal cancer on August 31, 2008. He was only 70 years old. Let’s find a cure!
Thank you!
Monday, February 8, 2010
What is Chronic Fatigue? And How Do I Beat It?*
The following information is for educational purposes only and is not meant to diagnose, treat, or prescribe any kind of disease or illness. It is a good idea to seek the professional advice of a qualified health care practitioner (remember Naturopaths are doctors too) before making any major changes in your self health care routine. Be well...
*from my upcoming book "The Memory of Health" (due out this year):
"The truth is, no really knows, or at least there’s no general consensus on it. There are many theories out there however. Some of them include that it’s caused by some kind of virus. Other theories say that it due to “burnout,” is caused by unrelenting stress, or is caused by one initial stressful event like divorce or a car accident that fundamentally alters the way the body functions afterward.
It’s tough, unfortunately for those of us suffering from this illness, since fatigue itself is a marker of most disease states, and therefore it’s hard to pinpoint what this is exactly.
Chronic fatigue is feeling that you have no energy, absolutely zero energy – like you are at zero point energy -- and even below that if it’s possible. It feels like the main switch in your body that gives you energy has been turn off – or shorted out -- and you can’t turn it on again. It’s like your car battery has mostly died, but somehow it still sort of runs, sometimes by a miracle it feels.
CFS is categorized as a non-specific illness, yet there is nothing non-specific about feeling awful most of the time. To me, this is very specific: we don’t feel well. If it's true that fatigue is a marker of most disease states (and it is), then the fact that we have unrelenting fatigue should be a huge red flag to those who treat us, and to those who love us.
So many people deal with fatigue the numbers are overwhelming: something like 50 million people worldwide deal with fatigue in one capacity or another. 3- 4 million people alone in the U.S. are said to have CFS. 5 million people in the U.S. are said to have fibromyalgia.
Fatigue is a big topic. And yet it is still such a mystery. Chronic fatigue has been labeled many things: HPA disorder (hypothalmus-pituitary-adrenal axis), CFIDS – chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome, autonomic dysregulation, neuroanasthenia, and even a “women’s disease,” since two-thirds of all cases seem to be predominantly women of childbearing years.
But the truth is men get this illness as well. It does not discriminate. One man in a study said he became chronically fatigued after going through a stressful divorce. Trauma of some kind seems to be a possible indicator of future, unrelenting fatigue. Many people report getting CFS or even fibromyalgia after going through some kind of majorly stressful life event (job stress, divorce, death, etc.). There is a definitely a pattern to the onset of this illness.
Conditions That Can Cause Fatigue (from Suite 101.com):
· adrenal insufficiency
· anemia
· deficiency of some B complex vitamins
· multiple sclerosis, lupus, autoimmune diseases
· depression
· hypothyroidism
· sleep disorders
· stress/burnout
· cancer
· allergies
· mono
· mitochondrial diseases
· hypoglycemia
· diabetes (both types)
Please note that different illnesses cause different kinds of fatigue. But fatigue is fatigue. The question is, how do you make it go away? Remember, fatigue is a symptom. It is the reminder from your body that something or things (the body works as a whole) in your body are not working as they should.
The Shadow of Fatigue
To feel a constant pull of slight fatigue is beyond frustrating. It marks your day, it’s like a constant reminder that something is not right. You lose your freedom, in some sense. Which is why people who suffer from chronic fatigue are always looking for answers.
I was intrigued to run across a relatively new theory of chronic fatigue syndrome. It believes that, due to a reaction to extreme trauma of some kind, the autonomic nervous system is on high-alert, all the time. The hypothalamus – body’s internal alarm system – is stuck on overdrive, and the hypothalamus controls energy levels.
The hypothalamus controls energy levels, and “transforms emotions into physical response.” Since the hypothalamus is the emotional center of the brain, it is clear we have headed straight into mind body theory. I believe most illnesses are connected both through the mind and body, but in the case of CFS, this theory seems to take center stage.
Severe, extreme, and/or on-going stress can literally override the natural feedback loop of the HPA axis (hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal) which responds to stress. In cases of chronic fatigue, the theory is that the hypothalamus cannot calm the body down again as it normally would, because it perceives that the trauma is still occurring, or will occur again, even if this is not the case.
This does sound a lot like post-traumatic stress disorder to me. As coined by Dr. John Eaton, CFS, fibromyalgia, etc. are all energy disorders. Interesting to say the least. According to him, the body communicates through its symptoms. And if the body-mind can be reassured that it’s not under constant threat, then the symptoms can be reversed. He calls this Reverse Therapy. It is also known as Mickel Therapy.
The field of body-mind medicine is pretty new. You may have heard of it as psychoneuroimmunology as well (the study of the emotions, brain, nervous system, and the immune system, all interdependent of one another).
Whatever the cause or causes, I think it’s pretty clear we are in new territory as far as illness goes. The body and mind are inextricably linked. Indeed, they are one and the same. You cannot treat one part of the body without addressing it as a whole. This is where healing comes from.
Fine, But How Do I Beat It?
There is so much that can contribute to chronic fatigue. It is also not usually one thing that helps chronic fatigue go away either, although sometimes you find that magic supplement or diet that does wonders. Usually though it's a combination of the right kind of diet (for you), keeping stress levels very low, and loving yourself above all else that seem to work the best. Supplementation that is suited for your body can also be very helpful.
Here are some of the big guns that support energy:
Honor your emotions
Stay connected to others and yourself (love)
D-Ribose
No sugar
No stimulants (or very little)
No refined foods (sugar and flours)
Raw Foods
Sunlight/Fresh Air
Vitamin D supplementation (if you're not getting enough sunlight)
Magnet Therapy
Moderate Exercise
Spirulina (Nutrex)
Cell Food (for bioavailable oxygen)
Real Vitamin C (Camu-camu; Acerola Berry, etc.)
Wheat Grass
Sprouted Grains, Nuts & Seeds
Acupuncture
Asthaxanthin
Raw Vitamins
Glandular Extracts
Whole Eggs (adrenal hormones are made primarily out of cholesterol)
NADH
Valerian (valerian works as an adaptogen and helps you sleep well)
Potatoes (to produce natural serotonin for great sleep: Potatoes Not Prozac; www.radiantrecovery.com)
Adaptogens (to help the body adjust to non-specific stress):
-Licorice
-Rhodiola
-Ashwaganda
-Siberian Ginseng
-American Ginseng (for women)
-Korean or Chinese Ginseng (for men)
-Maca www.macaroot.com
Unfortunately, there are many causes of fatigue. But there are also a ton of things you can do to support healthy energy levels. My book “The Memory of Health” (coming out this year) will go over all of these subjects in great detail. Fatigue is a symptom, which means there are answers."
I believe there are answers to chronic fatigue. Stay tuned...
be well,http://www.connektwell.com/
The Holistic Coach
www.theholisticoach.com
*excerpt from my book "The Memory of Health" (due out this year); copyright 2009
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