Jan 31 21 comments
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The Cause of All Disease? Well, maybe

I like to read.  I read everything.  In the past few months, I have read tons of reports about acidity vs alkalinity. Well, as a matter of fact, I have been reading about it for more than ten years; but more facts have come to light in the past few years than ever before so I am willing to say, “hmm.  Maybe I’ll give this a try”.

Here is what I have learned: Your skin is acid.  Your blood is alkaline. Most all of the body functions require a slightly alkaline state, including immunity, cardiovascular, muscle, brain, tissue health and energy output functions.  Every minute of every day your body works to get rid of excess acid.  In fact, almost every cell of your body contains alkaline substances such as calcium, magnesium and bicarbonate.  These alkaline substances neutralize the acid in your body.  In addition,  your lungs regulate pH by breathing out acidic carbon dioxide.  Your kidneys filter out excess acid so that it’s excreted in your urine.  A perfectly choregraphed  balancing act, and it works wonders.

But, today there is a problem:  today’s  lifestyle creates a lot more acid than a body can handle.  Firstly, the typical American diet is filled with acid forming foods like wheat, dairy products, red meat, sugar and coffee.  In fact, the USDA did a study and found that the average American eats six times more acidic foods than alkaline ones.

Okay.  Here is a quick fix for too much pizza or steak and potato combination:  Try 1 tsp. of baking soda in 8 oz. water.  If 1 tsp. of baking soda does not work, try 1 1/2 or 2 tsp.  Baking soda is a bicarbonate and alkalizing in effect.  With a little thinking about it, you can recognize when your body is over acid.  Your mouth is a very good indicator.  Most of us produce mucous after eating dairy products; the mucous is acid. Wash the mouth out with baking soda and water.  Your breath will be as sweet as a newborn baby.  You may also help your body out by taking a calcium-magnesium-Vitamin D combination on a regular basis.  All of these elements are alkaline in nature.

Food isn’t the only culprit in producing acid conditions.  Frequent flying, air pollution and over the counter medications will make your body acidic.  If you are under physical or mental stress, you use more nutrients and generate more acidic waste products than your body can process and dispose of rapidly.  The aging process doesn’t help, either.  The older we get, the harder our bodies have to work to maintain an acid/alkaline condition.  After mid life,  your pancreas produces less bicarbonate that helps to keep your body alkaline so it starts taking calcium, magnesium and other alkaline minerals from your bones.

So how do you correct your acid/alkaline imbalance?  One way is to cut down on meats, dairy and starches while eating more fresh veggies.  This isn’t easy to do if you have a busy schedule.

One-third of American women get some form of cancer every year.  In women, the most prevalent form affecting about 200,000 women annually is breast cancer.  Other common cancers in women include colon, ovarian and lung. But when it comes to cancer prevention and treatment, studies show Cancer has a weak link — one that does not get much publicity. It is cancer’s reliance on an acidic environment in the body.  Cancer thrives in an overly acid environment.

Want to know if you are over acid?  Grab some pH strips from the drug store and check it for yourself.  The instructions on the strips will tell you how you rate on the acidity ladder.

Remember that the skin is an organ?  Strangely, the skin mantle is acid. That is why cider vinegar helps the skin to maintain its acid balance.  Do you get the itchies, break out with hives for no apparent reason, or just get red spots?  Try a poltice of cider vinegar and see if that doesn’t relieve it sweetly.

More on vinegar and its benefits in later posts.

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Jan 28 23 comments
Common Sense Health

Staying healthy requires committment

As we age, many parts of us stop working or get depleted.  The process usually begins at age 30-35, depending on how well we have taken care of ourselves prior to that age.  How many times, on the eve of a new year have we all vowed to lose weight, eat better, get more exercise?  How long does it last?  If you are like me, it usually lasts until I pass a Dunkin’ Donuts.  But as time passes on, the Dunkin’ Donuts choice begans to show on our faces, on our rears, in our hands and arms, in our feet and legs.  We either sleep too much or can’t get to sleep.  This phenomena relates directly to all the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe because these are the elements of cell regeneration or degeneration.

In this fast world, it is a much simpler choice to hit McDonalds or Pizza Hut  for the evening meal.  I know from experience that many times in my life, I was just too tired to prepare a nutritious meal for me and my family.  As a result, I managed too kill my pancreas, so now I have to be careful as never before. It seems sometimes that I live my life chained to my blood sugar monitor and insulin shots.  It is the same for anyone with any kind of degenerative disease, but along the way in this long road of learning, experimenting, falling down and getting up, I have earned an unofficial degree in tricks to make me feel better.

I have learned that natural food creates synergy with cells and is the best medicine.  Cures that come right out of the garden provide long term relief from much that ails us.  That doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with doctors, but sometimes there is much wrong with their medicines.  Pharmaceuticals may purge the symptoms of an illness for a while, but it seems that the same illnesses will come back again and again and we never ascend to a cure for what ails us.  How long has cancer research been going on?  I can tell you — it has been forever.  Billions of dollars have been spent on cancer research and no cure has ever been found. The reason, I believe, is because researchers depend on grants to earn a living and hospitals have invested in both equipment and pharmacology designed to “manage” cancer into remission, if  you are lucky.  It is economically expedient to manage diseases rather than cure them and as a result, healthcare employs millions of people and healthcare costs continue to rise astronomically.

What does this tell you? It tells ME that we better learn how to be responsible for our own health.  I cannot control when I die, but God willing, I would like for this body of mine to be comfortable until that day comes when I leave this world and I do not want to leave my children bankrupt because I could not pass up a Dunkin’ Donuts.  Stay tuned.

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Jan 25 3 comments
Common Sense Politics

The Subconcious Science of Fear

Has anyone (besides me) noticed how many documentaries on TV today are related to “Armageddon” or “End of Days” or “The Number One Threat to Life on Earth”? Or, “2012 and How It May Affect You”? There are thousands of ways we can be destroyed, from a encountering a black hole and be pulled apart like spaghetti to a comet striking New York and creating a nuclear winter. The thing I have noticed about these so called “documentaries” is that the same scientists tend to appear over and over again saying the same things. Al Gore says that the debate is over; that climate change is happening and it is the fault of the people creating greenhouse gases causing temperatures to rise. Well, yes, everyday I and others like me breathe in and out, sometimes we pass methane gas. Dogs, cats, cows, crickets and every other creature on earth must do the same things. The controversy rages with 650 scientists all over the world saying it ain’t so.

Then — remember back in September of 2008 when Secretary Paulson stood up before God and the whole world and demanded that Congress give him 700 Billion dollars? He said that as a nation we faced “dire consequences” if Wall Street was allowed to fail. Before that it was AIG. It was even reported by a member of Congress that Secretary Paulson threatened them with “martial law” if his demands were not met. Hmm.

The other day, Wednesday, I think, Barak Obama (you know, the black guy with the Mideastern name) addressed the nation, telling us all that he plans a trillion dollar spending program “to get the economy going again” and that if we don’t do it, we all will be facing more dire consequences and it will be our fault. Who is WE, Mr. Obama? You got a mouse in your pocket? More Hmmm.

Well, it just seems strange that everybody seemed to be doing okay and we were all thrumming along in our day to day activities when WHAM we were in a depression. Millions lost their jobs, others lost their life savings in the stock market. Everyone else stopped spending and started stocking up on water, rice and beans. Gun sales skyrocketed. With all this happening at once, I strangely began to feel manipulated. I may not be the most logical person on earth, but have learned that my intuition is rarely wrong.

Just how does a bombardment of TV documentaries, authoritarian pronouncements, best selling books, blogs online — information coming at you like a tsunami — affect YOU? All of it telling you to be scared, very scared — ?? For the older members of us, it pretty well gets taken in stride. We all remember the Y2K debaucle that didn’t ever happen, but the young with bright futures and hopeful natures have not had our experiences. Even so, the media influence sinks in the back of our minds and all comes back again the next time we hear the bad news on Fox & Friends. The only way to overcome the fear infection is to tell ourselves over and over again that we are being manipulated and just because someone says it, doesn’t make it so. How many times did my Mother say that to me? Eventually, the sunshine will overcome the darkness and our attitudes will change accordingly. Maybe, just maybe, we will create a more peaceful life for ourselves, our family, our neighborhood, our city and then perhaps, our country. This practice is not denial, it is facing our problems without the fatal fear factor.

Dec 29 2 comments
Common Sense Politics

It’s the Economy, Stupid

President Woodrow Wilson said

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.  Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men.  We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world — no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by convictions and vote of majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominate men.

I am a most unhappy man.  I have unwittingly ruined my country.

President Wilson regretted signing the Federal Reserve Act into law.

There are many  who do not know that the Federal Reserve is a privately owned central bank.  The biggest shareholder is The Bank of England.  Since 1913 the Federal Reserve has dictated how much money would be in circulation at one time and have been in charge of printing new money and destroying old money. They also created the National Debt by charging interest on the money they “loaned” the United States.  If the private sector became too rich, then recessions and/or depressions were created to transfer the wealth back into the hands of the ultra-wealthy.  The Federal Reserve has been, and always will be if it is allowed to continue, the real power behind the thrones of presidencies, congresses and senates.

Give me control of the economies of a country; and I care not who makes her laws. ~ Baron Mayer Amsel Rothschild

The 2008 looting of the National Treasury is buried in deceit. The loot took place in plain sight and the majority of Congress signed on.  Since then, no one seems to know what is going on.  No one knows where the money went, but one thing for sure, it did not help the American people.  We have barely begun to tally the cost of this “bailout” in lost property, lost jobs, lost sovereignty.

Excerpt from a letter to Dr. David Goldstein dated October 10, 1954:

The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power).  The world wide network of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians are sound asleep.  The Christian Clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other  Christians — it seems so sad.

~Benjamin H. Freidman

What conspiracy, you say?  It has to be the conspiracy which has been afoot for decades, perhaps even centuries.  The one all of us can sense, but few acknowledge.  Our economy lies in ruins, our children in bondage and the conspiracy or piracy, marches on into the future clothed in secrecy and denial.

Additional posts pending.