Subtle and not
A clear plastic bottle appeared in the kitchen filled with something saying “made with real cheese” in large letters. The appearance of it I know would have appealed to me as a child. The huge list of ingredients said it was “bioengineered”. This cheese product contained 3 different shades of yellow dyes! I kept the container and threw the contents in the trash. Not fit for the “critters” in my yard.
The National Institute of Health knows about how much marketing is going on targeting young kids and adolescents. No one appears to be doing anything about it – except some parents and natural health groups.
Read MoreStevia
This is a ❤️ lovely plant which sweetens as it nourishes the pancreas. With all the diabetes in this country I think it is a great addition to our kitchens. Ironically the Food and Drug Administration has never approved of it.
In my neighborhood I recently saw an old popular brand of chocolate candy saying “with stevia” in large letters on the package.😊. Warning: It only takes a very tiny bit of it to sweeten. (See “Sweet Deception” 4/1/20)
Now there are wearable devices to measure blood sugar without pricking fingers. How nice!
However some, not all, are “Bluetooth” technology. Bluetooth technology is very damaging.
(See also 12/6/21 & this past month of January entries).
Read MoreHydrating
Our bodies are mostly water. The newest science of water is coming from Gerald Pollack, PhD. Older folks get dehydrated more easily and may wind up in the emergency room because of dehydration. I have met them.
Common USA foods helping us to hydrate:
Raw apple cider vinegar
Grass fed butter
Cinnamon
Cucumber
Ginger root
Raw honey
Lemons
Pears
Raspberries
Rock salt or sea salt
So I pulled this list from Quench, a book discussed on an online holistic summit this past year. There are more items and some hydrating recipes in the book. Here’s a recipe.
Coconut chia pudding. 2 or 3 servings
1 1\4 cup. Coconut milk
1/4 cup chia seeds. Crushed will be easier to digest & more powerful
1 Tsp maple syrup
Dash of vanilla
Top with berries!
Chia seeds are very hydrating. I didn’t include them above because I don’t think they are common. This is my first time using them. Consistency is thicker than tapioca. Yum!
Read MoreMarch
March is national nutrition month in the USA. The Weston A Price Foundation has lots of good information about nutrient dense foods. Eating on the Wild Side, by Jo Robinson is a fun book which can teach about how to choose the more nutritious foods. But our current farm system is depleting our soil of nutrients. She says over the last 30 years or so that process has been dramatic.
Dr Mark Hyman’s books educate about our current food system which he and others say is eroding our health if not killing us. These books also have some recipes. Not everything needs here to be cooked.🙂
In 2012 Mark Hyman released #1 bestseller, The Blood Sugar Solution. I think there is a lot of practical advice for everyone living in the USA. Starting the day with protein. Eggs are an excellent choice. There are some recipes included but it’s not a cookbook.
He explains about some of the doctors are now looking at the causes of disease, and addressing those. This is different from prescribing a medication for a symptom which he learned to do a long time ago in medical school.
The Food Fix, another Mark Hyman book, looks at the socio-political factors responsible for poor quality of food, poverty, and chronic disease. It is a call to action.
Read MoreSummits
There are various holistic health summits offered free online. Last month I listened to some segments on the “Brain Immune Gut” summit. They are addressing chronic disease looking at toxic exposures. Such practitioners talk about the onslaught of toxins in our current culture.
Toxic metals, pesticides, and products in our homes are included. Toxic teeth also.
Another “Holistic Oral Summit” was offered online in January. I learned It’s a good move to remove wisdom teeth. But the standard American Dental Association’s way of going about that is not for the most part helping folks “stay healthy”. To my knowledge several dental surgeons in this town were removing teeth many years ago thinking about what these holistic dentists are saying. No big sign outside.
I learned that Hippocrates (c375 – 460 BCE), the Father Of Medicine helped some folks’ medical conditions by removing teeth. My mother had many teeth removed before she was 40. She complained her teeth were making her sick. But today’s American Dental Association’s standards for dentistry are not acknowledging that at all. The groups of dentists
and others participating in “holistic oral summits” talk about mouth issues connected to chronic illness. This last summit described some of the American Dental Association’s $$ corrupt methods $$ of covering up this fact. (This is not to indicate your dentist is corrupt.)
Read More1999
The Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions group in Virginia showed the video, “Of Mercury Sheep and Man” in the spring of 1999 at the main library in Hampton, VA. The truth about how the mercury vapor escapes into the various organs was obvious for all to see. We collected signatures on the petition to ban these poisonous fillings.
The science of mercury in amalgam dental fillings. It’s been here. Our Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis (R) listened to our concerns and looked at the science. She was one of a small group who wrote a federal bill to ban these fillings. Unfortunately she died early. Her successor, Mr Wittman, was not interested in carrying the matter forward.
Read MoreANHE
Environmental medicine is looking at hazards in the home and work place. I took an online class and noticed that there was no mention of dental staff being exposed to mercury, etc. I wrote telling them this was a large oversight effecting some 400,000 people nationwide.
Somehow or other the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments asked me to write about the topic. So I did.
Last summer they had a petition online to try to force dentists to show the official FDA (Federal Drug Administration) infographic sheet to their patients. It was published and distributed in 2020.
MERCURY is a persistent neurotoxin, although it is colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Testing is available through quicksilverscientific.com. All you need to do is give them a call. You get a test kit in the mail and return samples of blood, urine, and hair. Cost includes interpretation of test. You may continue with them for treatment, or not.
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