tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58446692284757685782023-11-15T07:13:17.562-08:00BonSanteBonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-6281434840883397952014-12-12T09:19:00.004-08:002014-12-12T09:42:56.914-08:00Homeopathy for your First Aid Survival Kit<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Homeopathy for your First Aid Survival Kit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;">by Bonnie Camo MD</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If a natural or
manmade disaster occurs and you are cut off from all medical aid, the most
important thing to have on hand is a homeopathy emergency kit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homeopathy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is cheap, effective, and has no side effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
medical science uses natural substances to stimulate the body to heal
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most remedies are made from
herbs and minerals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is based on the
principle that <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">like cures like,
discovered by Dr Samuel Hahnemann over 200 years ago in Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Any substance that can produce
symptoms in a healthy person can cure the same symptoms in a sick person, when
prepared according to homeopathic principles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You have probably heard propaganda from Big Pharma and organized
medicine that homeopathy is quackery, but they are afraid of the competition
that could put them out of business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyone who has ever tried it will know the truth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Emergency kits and
individual remedies are available at health food stores and on-line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>30C is a good potency to begin with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My kits are among the most precious things I
brought with me to Italy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The most useful
remedy in your kit will probably be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Arnica
montana, </i>made from a type of daisy found in mountainous regions of Europe and
the US, which has been known since ancient times for its ability to heal wounds
and injuries quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This plant was also
known and used by the American Indians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
won’t have to wait for a disaster to put it to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the first remedy to take after any
injury, and the perfect solution for the everyday bumps and bruises, cuts and
scratches, and even tired muscles from overwork that come with gardening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a bit accident-prone, so I always keep
it handy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once punctured my thumbnail with a
screwdriver while trying to repair a window crank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few tiny pellets on my tongue relieved the
excruciating pain in seconds!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many home gardeners
are getting into beekeeping, not only for the honey, but to help promote
survival of the bees that we need to pollinate our gardens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bees are under siege from pesticides like
neonicotinoids, which have been banned here in Europe but are still widely used
in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Einstein reportedly said that
if the bees are wiped out, humanity will follow within four years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well cared for honey bees rarely sting (they
die when they do), but when it does happen, instant relief comes from the
remedy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apis</i>, made from bee venom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apis</i>
is also good for wasp stings and anything that causes burning, stinging,
redness and swelling, even allergic reactions to bee or wasp stings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wasps decided to build a nest under the eaves
right over our front door and frequently stung me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apis</i>
always relieved the pain and prevented any reaction.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For insect bites,
tick bites, as well as puncture wounds, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ledum</i>
may bring relief. According to Robin Murphy, author of my homeopathic “bible”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Lotus Materia Medica</u>, if given
immediately after puncture wounds, it prevents tetanus. If no hospitals,
doctors or tetanus shots are available, it could save you from a very painful
death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Silica</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
is a useful remedy for helping to expel splinters or shards of broken glass
from the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazingly, it also brings
welcome relief for the severe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pain of
infected teeth.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here in Italy,
gardeners are not bothered by poison ivy, but I encountered plenty of it in my
garden in New Jersey. A homeopathic dose of poison ivy leaf, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rhus toxicodendron</i>, proves again that
like cures like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also good for any
rash that resembles poison ivy, with redness, swelling, and intense itching. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rhus tox</i> is also well known as one of
the best remedies for arthritis, rheumatism, and fibromyalgia.</span></div>
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blessed relief.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you or your
children come down with a sudden onset of high fever, with headache, sore
throat, tonsillitis or earache, frequently worse around 3 pm, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Belladonna</i> is what you need.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For women who are
subject to bladder infections, with burning pains and constant urge to urinate,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cantharis</i> works like magic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been called a “maga” ( magician) by
people for whom I recommended this remedy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You don’t have to
wait for the breakdown of society to take advantage of homeopathy to overcome
and even prevent the flu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most readers
are probably aware of the dangers of flu shots, which contain brain-damaging<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mercury and many other disgusting elements
you wouldn’t want in your body or that of your children, born and unborn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vitamin D 5000 iu per day prevents the flu if
taken long enough to get your levels up, but if it’s too late for that and you
do start coming down with symptoms of any type of flu, or even the common cold,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oscillococcinum</i> will usually relieve
it within a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another handy cure for
colds is a medicine made from onions,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Allium cepa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></i>Since peeling onions<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>makes
your eyes water and your nose run, it is a good match for cold symptoms, and
cures them homeopathically.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For burns (including
sunburn) , <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Urtica urens</i>, made from
stinging nettle, relieves even intense burning, itching and vesicles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from homeopathy, many people are aware
of the burn-healing power of Aloe vera, whether the gel from a drug store or
just a fresh leaf from the plant itself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
easy to keep an Aloe plant growing on your windowsill. They grow very well here
in south Italy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have about a dozen,
and they keep multiplying.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If disaster strikes,
many people will suffer from severe anxiety, fright and shock, emotional trauma<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and fear of dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These natural reactions can prevent you from
coming to grips with the dangers you face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aconite</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>restores your mental equilibrium and allows
you to find solutions to promote your survival. </span></div>
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BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-15378373991504877162014-12-06T11:37:00.000-08:002014-12-12T09:41:30.036-08:00Chicken Stories from Italy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chicken Stories from Italy</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">January 7, 2012<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we moved
from New Jersey to south Italy in 2009, we had been hoping to get some
chickens. I never had any contact with chickens, but my husband’s grandmother
raised chickens when he was a chìld in Italy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband (a retired structural engineer)
designed and built a stone coop entirely by hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few days ago we bought nine young hens and
a rooster from a local farmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We let
them out of the coop today, after two days inside to make sure they knew it was
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We enjoyed watching them run
around the yard, scratching in the dirt, eating weeds and bugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found the first egg in one of the nest
boxes today, and I had it for breakfast, along with a store-bought egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The yolk of our egg was a much deeper red
than the other, and really delicious. Now we know why in Italian the egg yolk
is called the “rosso”, (red).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From now on, we’ll have an unlimited free
supply of organic free-range eggs, and can really “live off the fat of the
land”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">January 20, 2012<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Charlie lays an egg<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I sent my friends pictures of Charlie Chicken, who
we thought was a rooster (and so did the guy who sold him to us), until she
laid an egg! She certainly looks like a rooster. One day Charlie was missing
from the rest of the flock, who were happily munching weeds and bugs in the
yard; we looked all over and finally found him sitting in a nest box. My
husband said, “Why is he in a nest box? Maybe he's a hen.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, “I'll believe he's a hen when he lays
an egg.” When Charlie came out of the nest box, there was an egg! We're getting
one egg a day now; I think two hens are laying on alternate days. The rest are
still too young. I think we do have another rooster, though. Roger Rooster is
in one of the pictures with Charlie. He has longer and darker tail feathers and
is bigger than Charlie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least Charlie
is still a good name for a female.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">1/21/12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brother in law asked if Italian roosters
crow in Italian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, Yes, they do -
they say "kikeriki", instead of cock a doodle do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ours <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>haven't started crowing yet. I don't know when
they'll be old enough to crow, or for the rest of them to start laying eggs. I
think they were hatched <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in September or October.
They are very entertaining. They certainly have a "pecking order"
(which is where the term comes from). Calico is at the bottom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the smallest and has different
coloring. But I think she is the smartest. When the others chase her away from
some food, she goes somewhere else and finds more, then they all follow her
there. The other day they were all digging holes in the dirt and sitting in
them and throwing dirt over themselves, taking dirt baths and thoroughly
enjoying themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dirt kills
parasites like mites and lice by clogging their breathing tubes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I put some
meat-fat and skin out on a plate for the skinny cats that live next door, but
the chickens gobbled it up, and looked for more. Our Italian gardener Vincenzo had
told us chickens shouldn't be given meat because they'll get used to it, become
carnivorous and start eating each other!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think it’s more likely that they would do that if they weren’t getting
enough protein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2/9/12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's snowing all over Italy (which is
unusual), but we're only getting rain here. It's been cold and rainy all week
(February is the rainy season), but the chickens don't seem to mind it. We are
getting one extra-large egg every day from Charlie (who we bought as a
rooster), and a small egg every day or two from two other young hens who are
just starting - the eggs will get bigger as they go along. The chickens are
very interesting to watch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calico, who was originally the smallest and
got picked on by everybody, has now gotten to be the biggest, but she doesn't
realize it. She may turn out to be a rooster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Calico did turn out to be a rooster, and by researching on the
internet, I discovered he was a “Kabir”, an Arabian breed prized for their
ability to grow very large on little food. ]<span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Roger, the other
rooster, crowed several times one day last week, but hasn't crowed since. Maybe
because it's been overcast everyday and he can't see the sunrise.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">May 5, 2012<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have our first baby chicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, they are orphans. Their <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mother, Bianca, was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the only white hen in a flock of brown
Sicilians, and probably didn't feel like part of the group. She wouldn’t lay
eggs in the coop with the rest of the hens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was adventurous and independent, and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had actually gone out exploring along the
storm drainage ditch that runs outside the east side of the yard, and decided
to build her nest and lay eggs out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She made a nest in an inaccessible
place under a prickly pear cactus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
could see her through the fence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
laid her eggs there and sat on them, coming back briefly to feed on the whole
wheat grains we got from Vincenzo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
made it through 18 or 19 days, and then the next day she didn’t show up in the
yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All we saw at the nest was a bunch
of scattered white feathers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows
what finally got her – a fox, a big dog?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The eggs seemed to be undisturbed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With a little help, I climbed down into the ditch and rescued them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The eggs had only a few days to go till the
full 21, so I decided to rig up an incubator to try and hatch them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put them on a soft towel in the bottom of a
metal ash bucket with a lid, searched and found our little electric heat fan
that I had used a lot our first winter here, before we had a heating
system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By placing the fan at the proper
distance found by trial and error – about 6 inches - I was able to keep the
temperature close to the 99.5 Fahrenheit recommended by Carla Emory in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>The Encyclopedia of Country Living</u></i>
, one of the most valuable books I sent over here from my collection in
NJ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three chicks succeeded in hatching -
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two white and one brown. <span style="color: red;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8/19/12 Grapes and Chickens<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Early this August morning, I was out “weeding” the
grapevines, collecting the wild greens for salad and cooked greens (more
delicious and nutritious than anything you could plant in their place!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have 88 grape plants, from which we hope
to make wine in a few years. One was here when we moved in 3 years ago, a black
wine grape, which is also good for eating. I’m sure it’s loaded with all the
good blue and purple antioxidants, like resveratrol and anthocyanin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike most grapes, a bunch of these doesn’t
ripen all at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a few are ripe
at a time, and they are very small, just the right size for chickens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We watched<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>our chickens jumping up, flapping their wings and grabbing the tiny ripe
purple grapes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few a day, they
eventually ate them all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An interesting
thing we have observed, is that when the roosters find something good, they
don’t eat it themselves, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but instead
excitedly call the hens to eat it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now we have to figure out how to keep the chickens
away from the grapes that will eventually be growing on the new vines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suggested putting up a fence to keep them
in the back half of the yard, where the two coops are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the grapes are in the front yard,
lining the driveway and the fence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
chickens would still have a lot more space than most “free-range” birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my husband wants the chickens to be
totally free in our whole yard, and will try to find a way to make the grapes
grow higher, out of their reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
friend Giovanni said you can’t raise both grapes and chickens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we know what he meant.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Giovanni welded an inch square grid across the
lower half of our front gate to prevent the chickens (and neighborhood cats)
from walking through the gate as if it wasn’t there, like the unfortunate white
hen Bianca. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her chicks are now 15 weeks
old, 2 pullets, white like their mother, and a little brown rooster who has
just started to crow.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Besides these 3 young orphans, we have 8 hens, 2
roosters, and 10 baby chicks, (half male and half female.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get about 6 eggs a day, and manage to eat
most of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest we give away to
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In return, they give us bags of
oranges, tomatoes and other things they grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I believe eggs (especially organic, free-range and extremely fresh) are
very healthy food and do not contribute to heart disease. </span></div>
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</span>Since we have been keeping chickens in our yard for the past few years,
I have noticed that they have their own language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They utter different sounds for different
purposes, which they all understand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
roosters make specific very excited sounds to call the hens when they have
found some good food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will even
pick up a piece of food and offer it to one of the hens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hens make a similar sound when they find
food for their chicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mother hen
makes a particular constant cluck cluck sound to her chicks, while they make
constant peeping sounds so they all stay in communication as they move around
the yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hens make specific loud
cries when they have laid an egg, and the roosters take up and repeat the same
cry, even louder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a big
celebration whenever an egg is laid. The top rooster frequently crows <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the typical "cockadoodledoo", and
the number two rooster responds with something that sounds like "f**k
you"!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a
couple of clutches hatching mostly males, we ended up with too many roosters
“troppi galli<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>They
were chasing and jumping on the hens all day and not letting them eat. Our
chickens all have names and personalities and we couldn't bear to kill them. We
persuaded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alba, an Italian farmwife
friend of ours, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to do the dirty deed,
and gave her one for her trouble. We made the mistake of cooking the rooster
too soon, little did we know. It was in rigor mortis and the meat was very
hard. You are supposed to wait a few days until the rigor mortis softens
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also he was over a year old, and
they say if a rooster is more than 6 months old, the testosterone makes the
meat taste bad. We couldn't eat much of it. The cats liked it though.<span style="color: #333333;"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10/4/14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two of the hens were squabbling in the foyer
this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White Hen#1 (Bianca’s
daughter), who is sitting on 3 eggs in a nest in the foyer, was upset that the
black French hen, Suzette, was coming to look at the eggs, and would maybe try
to sit on them and lay another egg there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Chickens like to lay their eggs where there are already other eggs,
especially if someone is sitting on them. That way they pass on their genes
with little or no effort.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hens don’t
care whose eggs they sit on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will
even sit on duck eggs and hatch them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Then maybe the hen starts wondering why her babies are always going in
the water, and not drowning!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hen
who spends 3 weeks sitting on the eggs is the de facto mother of the babies,
the one who takes care of them, teaches them how and what to eat, and protects
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biological mothers take no
interest in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After about 6 weeks,
the chicks are big enough to take care of themselves and the mother hen will
start laying eggs again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Chickens are
well known for their dominance hierarchy - they invented the idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(That’s why it’s called the pecking order, an
idea which humans seem to have copied.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Suzette outranks the two white hens because she joined the flock before
they were even hatched (in my home-made incubator).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So White Hen #1 can’t make Suzette go away
from her nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s amazing that this White
Hen always comes to me for help, because she knows I outrank all the hens!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She comes up the stairs to the door to the
house, squawking loudly for me to come and get that other hen away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s the only one who seems to have
developed this personal relationship with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Another
interesting thing is that Suzette, the black hen who came to look at the eggs,
is actually the biological mother of the 3 eggs White Hen is sitting on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe she was coming to check on her
babies!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does she know they are
hers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows what animals know!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We have 2
roosters: Inky, who is a pure black “Gallo Nero”, and Goldy, who is black and
white and shines like gold in the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It will be interesting to see how the 3 chicks turn out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goldy is a very lucky rooster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was bought by a Chinese family, who have a
store called China Town across the railroad tracks from us, for their
dinner!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he escaped and made his way
over the tracks, ending up in our yard and even going into one of our coops!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happened to see him in there and closed the
door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later the Chinese family came by,
asking if we had seen the rooster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
even had a picture of him on a cell phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My husband thought he was too beautiful to eat and offered to trade one
of ours for Goldy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had too many
roosters, because the last couple of hatchings had been all males, until we
finally had one this Spring with 5 females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alba said the gender of the chicks depends on the phase of the moon, and
the temperature – higher temperature means females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t checked this out on Google yet.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Most people kill
the excess roosters and eat them, but we are unable to do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to get Alba to kill a couple of them
for us. The roosters had a very happy life, running around the yard, scratching
up weeds and insects , and chasing hens all day, and that’s the important
thing.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-57003504081601450652014-10-04T03:58:00.000-07:002014-10-04T03:59:49.964-07:00What do Animals Know?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Two
of my hens were squabbling in the foyer this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White Hen#1, who is sitting on 3 eggs in a
nest in the foyer, was upset that, Suzette, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the black French hen, was coming to look at
the eggs, and maybe try to sit on them and lay another egg there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Chickens like to lay their eggs where there
are already other eggs, especially if someone is sitting on them. That way they
pass on their genes with little or no effort.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And chickens don’t care whose eggs they sit
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will even sit on duck eggs and
hatch them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Then maybe the hen starts
wondering why her babies are always going in the water, and not drowning!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hen who spends 3 weeks sitting on the
eggs is the de facto mother of the babies, the one who takes care of them,
teaches them how and what to eat, and protects them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biological mothers take no interest in
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After about 6 weeks, the chicks are big enough
to take care of themselves</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Chickens
are well known for their dominance hierarchy, they invented the idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why it’s called the pecking
order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(And humans seem to have copied
this idea.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suzette outranks the 2 white
hens because she joined the flock before they were even hatched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So WH#1 can’t make Suzette go away from her
nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s amazing that this WH always
comes to me for help, because she knows I outrank all the hens!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She comes up the stairs to the door to the
house, squawking loudly for me to come and get that other hen away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s the only one who seems to have
developed this personal relationship with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Another
interesting thing is that Suzette, the black hen who came to look at the eggs,
is actually the biological mother of the 3 eggs WH is sitting on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe she was coming to check on her babies!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does she know they are hers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows what animals know!</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">We
have 2 roosters, Inky, who is a pure black “Gallo Nero”, and Goldy, who is
black and white and shines like gold in the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be interesting to see how the chicks
turn out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goldy is a very lucky
rooster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was bought by a Chinese
family, who have a store called China Town across the railroad tracks from us,
for their dinner!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he escaped and
made his way over the tracks, ending up in our yard and even going into one of
our coops!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I happened to see him in
there and closed the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later the
Chinese family came by, asking if we had seen the rooster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even had a picture of him on a cell
phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sante thought he was too
beautiful to eat and offered to trade one of ours for Goldy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">We
had too many roosters “troppi galli”, because the last couple of hatchings had
been all males, until we finally had one in the spring with 5 females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alba, an Italian farmwife friend of ours,
said the gender of the chicks depends on the phase of the moon, and the
temperature – higher temperature means females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I haven’t checked this out on Google yet.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Most
people kill the excess roosters and eat them, but we are unable to do
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got Alba to kill a couple of
them for us and gave her one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
roosters had a very happy life, running around the yard, scratching up weeds
and insects , and chasing hens all day, and that’s the important thing.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">There
is an interesting story about how White Hen #1 and 2 were hatched.</span>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-84726669629008129242013-12-26T01:41:00.000-08:002014-12-12T09:26:25.021-08:00Trebisacce by the Sea 2001<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"> by Bonnie Willson Camo<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>September 9, 2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I grew up living life through books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Till Goddess blessed me with his looks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Tall dark straniere swept me away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Shared my life up to this day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Forty two years of woes and joys<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">(lots of both from raising boys)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">My horoscope said I’d live abroad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">(But astrology is rather odd)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Now I hear you calling me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Pole beans on bamboo teepees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">at Bon-Sante B&B<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Brick oven baking tasty loaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">To dip in oil from our olive groves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Serves it up - a tasty dish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">With roasted vegetables to savor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Home-grown herbs enhance the flavor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Now I hear you calling me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Ginestre – yellow winter bloom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">[note - this was written 2 days before 9-11]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-8548582354265143292013-12-05T10:16:00.001-08:002013-12-05T10:16:59.877-08:00Heavy Metal Brain Damage
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</span>Trebisacce, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Lead
poisoning is thought to have led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ancient Roman water pipes were made of up
to 99.3% lead, according to Dr. K-G Wenzel in <u>The Earth’s Gift to Medicine</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually saw the remains of some of these
lead pipes on a recent visit to Pompeii, the Roman city buried by the eruption
of Vesuvius in 79 AD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The upper classes
also used lead-containing glazes on their ceramic drinking vessels. It seems
probable that lead was a factor in the rise and fall of insane, murderous
emperors like Nero and Caligula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Several
decades ago, Dr. William Walsh, former head of the Argonne National Laboratory
near Chicago, analyzed hair samples from inmates in the California prison
system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found high levels of lead, a
known neurotoxin, in all serial killers and mass murderers tested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serial killers are generally considered
sociopaths, people who lack a conscience and empathy, and kill methodically and
with premeditation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mass murderers, on
the other hand, seem normal until they suddenly snap under extreme stress, go temporarily
insane and shoot everybody in a McDonald’s, or a school, for instance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Walsh found both types high in cadmium as
well as lead, and low in zinc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mass
murderers also tended to have high copper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Walsh later went on to found the Pfeiffer Treatment Center (PTC), named
after my mentor, Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, with whom he collaborated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The PTC tests and treats people for heavy
metals, vitamin and mineral deficiencies and other imbalances related to mental
and physical illnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Zinc
deficiency is common in the general public in the US and in the Middle
East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Pfeiffer speculated that this
could be a factor in the “warlike, violent nature” of these areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Walsh was on the Phil Donohue television
show many years ago, and was asked which was more important in producing
violent behavior, heredity or environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He answered that it was a combination of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“a bad chemistry and a bad childhood”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is interesting to note that the crime
rate in the US went down sharply eighteen years after Roe versus Wade legalized
abortion in 1973, according to <u>Freakonomics</u>, by Steven Levitt and
Stephen Dubner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently many women
who want an abortion realize that they do not have the emotional or financial
resources necessary to raise a healthy child. Another reason for the decrease
in crime may be the removal of lead from gasoline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the EPA, blood lead levels declined by 37% in association with a 50%
drop in the use of leaded gasoline between 1976 and 1980.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Low
zinc is associated with anger, hostility and verbal abuse, according to <u>The
Crazy Makers</u>, by Carol Simontacchi, perhaps because low zinc allows lead
and cadmium to rise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many brain enzymes
require zinc for activation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">One
of the main sources of cadmium toxicity is tobacco smoking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cadmium is thought to contribute to
emphysema.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smoking also depletes vitamin
C, which is needed to help prevent cancer and, along with zinc, to help
excretion of heavy metals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other sources
of cadmium are refined foods, which have a low zinc to cadmium ratio, and old
galvanized water pipes, made with zinc that was contaminated with cadmium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newer water pipes made of copper seemed like
a good substitute, but copper levels can go too high, especially with acidic
well water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greenish-blue stains in the
sink and tub are a warning sign of high copper levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Copper,
unlike lead and cadmium, is an essential mineral, but excessive amounts can
lead to hypertension, depression, hyperactivity, headaches and other disorders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many commercial multivitamins have too much
copper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chocolate is also quite high in
copper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two milligrams is considered the
daily requirement, but this does not take into consideration the copper that is
being absorbed from food and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
epidemic of autism appears to coincide with increased vaccinations containing
mercury, aluminum and other toxic substances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>High levels of toxins and heavy metals in the environment, and a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>genetic inability to detoxify, contribute to autism
and other disorders affecting the brain, like attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), schizophrenia, and even sociopathy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-57359044117127334282013-05-20T05:24:00.001-07:002013-05-20T05:24:50.611-07:00Prevent Breast Cancer
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</span>Trebisacce, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Angelina Jolie's recent decision to undergo a 'prophylactic'
double mastectomy due to her </span><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/brca1brca2-prevalence"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">BRCA</span></b></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> status, was her choice, but those who may wish to follow in her
footsteps should be aware that there are other options.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">According to breast surgeon Susan Love of UCLA, at
least 30 percent of tumors found on mammograms would go away if you did
absolutely nothing.<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These tumors appear to be destined to stop
growing on their own, shrink, and even go away completely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your immune system is always on the alert,
removing most cancer cells that develop before they are able to multiply. One
way to strengthen your immune system is to minimize your exposure to mammograms
and other sources of ionizing radiation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You can strengthen your immune system by good diet
and lifestyle choices. First optimize your vitamin D3 level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vitamin D is actually able to enter cancer
cells and trigger apoptosis, or cancer cell death. JoEllen Welsh, a researcher
with the State University of New York at Albany, injected </span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/11/is-vitamin-d-the-silver-bullet-for-cancer.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">vitamin D</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> into human
breast cancer cells, killing half of them within days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vitamin D was as effective as breast cancer
drugs like </span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/23/shocking-revelation-this-cancer-drug-causes-cancer.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tamoxifen</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, without the side
effects and at a cost of pennies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer you should have your D level checked
and maintain a level of at least 70 ng/ml.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Vitamin A also plays a role in preventing breast
cancer; your best sources are organic egg yolks, raw milk and butter, and beef
and chicken liver from organically raised, grass pastured animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, c</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">ommercial red meat may be
a serious risk factor for breast cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When animal protein is cooked, especially at high heat, like frying,
carcinogens are formed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturated animal
fat is converted into a carcinogen by bacteria in your large intestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animal fat is also the storage site for all
the pesticides on the food the animal ate, as well as the antibiotics,
hormones, and growth stimulants the animals were given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grilling meat adds additional
carcinogens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Fruits
and vegetables are “virtual anticancer pharmacies.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phytochemicals in plants have many ways of
protecting you from cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carotenoids
which give color to red, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables are potent
antioxidants and block different steps in development of cancer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli,
cabbage and kale, contain indole-3 carbinole, which stops breast cancer cells
from growing, and converts estrogen into a non-cancer-promoting form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Broccoli also contains sulforaphane, which
promotes liver enzymes which destroy carcinogens and move them out of the
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, all these fruits and
vegetables should be organic, so you are not introducing more carcinogenic
pesticides into your body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">A
powerful anticancer spice is turmeric,</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">the
brilliant yellow-orange root used in curries and in Ayurvedic and Chinese
medicine for over five thousand years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Turmeric
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">destroys
toxins in the liver, is a powerful anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, and
prevents DNA mutations that lead to cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Herbs like black cohosh, artemisinin, and kelp have
anticancer properties. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Green
tea is the number one anticancer beverage, full of anti-inflammatories and
antioxidants, such as polyphenols like ECGC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Raw cannabis and “hemp oil” (not to be confused with hempseed oil, which
is highly nutritious, but not known to be a cancer cure) both look very promising,
for those who live in places where they are legal.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Avoid all forms of s</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">ugar, cancer’s
favorite food, as well as artificial sweeteners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stevia is a safe sweetener.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Good
sleep is essential to good health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During sleep the mind/body is repaired and purified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In darkness the pineal gland produces
melatonin, which promotes natural sleep and is a powerful cancer
preventer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best melatonin production
occurs when you go to bed by 10 pm and get up by 6 am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Exercise
lowers your risk of breast cancer, in part by helping prevent obesity which
increases your risk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aerobic exercise
causes the brain to produce healing neuropeptides which reduce stress and
prevent depression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">The</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> list of natural prevention methods should include
not wearing bras. There's lots of evidence for bras impeding the blood and
lymph flow that keeps tissues healthy, as documented in <u>Dressed to Kill </u></span><span class="ft"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">by </span></span><span class="ft"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-40586240871738121332013-01-21T04:54:00.000-08:002013-01-21T04:54:21.750-08:00Epidemic of Madness
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Bonnie Camo MD,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natural Medicine & Homeopathy,
Trebisacce, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Epidemic
of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Madness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Government
Accounting Office (GAO) reported in June 2008 that one out of every sixteen
young adults in the United States was seriously mentally ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has recently been estimated by
investigative journalist and health science writer Robert Whitaker that twenty
percent of Americans now are considered mentally ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of this rise is based on definition. Psychiatry
keeps expanding diagnostic criteria, trying to throw everybody into some
category of mental illness so they can sell more drugs. Children who are not
sitting quietly enough in school are said to have attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who are
grieving after losing a loved one are diagnosed with depression, turning a
temporary and appropriate emotion into a mental illness label and a life-long
drug dependency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I
recently read two of Whitaker’s books, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Mad
in America</u></i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Anatomy of an
Epidemic</u></i>, which describe how psychiatric drugs cause or aggravate the
very brain disorders they are alleged to cure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mr. Whitaker became interested in this subject when he learned that
schizophrenics in underdeveloped countries like India, Nigeria, and Colombia, had
much better outcomes than those in developed countries like the US, England and
Denmark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the difference?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mentally ill in poor countries, if given
any psychiatric drugs at all, received them in much lower dosages than in the
rich, developed countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going back to
old records, he found that before the advent of neuroleptics, the majority of
schizophrenics having their first episode recovered on their own in six months
to a year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">As
an MD practicing alternative medicine in New Jersey for thirty years, I
successfully treated thousands of psychiatric patients with orthomolecular
psychiatry (correcting nutritional imbalances as determined by blood and hair
tests) and homeopathy. I found depression to be one of the easiest things
to treat with homeopathy. The hard part was weaning people off the
antidepressants psychiatrists had put them on. It is interesting that the
PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference) tells doctors how to put patients on drugs,
but not how to take them off. I guess they assume (and it is a
self-fulfilling prophecy) that they will be on these drugs forever. Psychiatrists
and pharmaceutical companies falsely claim that psychiatric drugs are
correcting brain neurotransmitter abnormalities and need to be taken for life
“like insulin for diabetics”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Drs. Abram Hoffer and
Humphrey Osmond of Saskatchewan, Canada, did the first double blind controlled
studies in the field of psychiatry sixty years ago using niacin (vitamin B3)
and vitamin C. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On these nutrients, most acute
schizophrenics were cured and able to get a job and pay taxes (Hoffer's criterion
for a successful cure). This was before Thorazine, the first “antipsychotic“ drug,
was patented in 1954. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These “neuroleptics”
actually create a drug-induced brain pathology by blocking the neurotransmitter
dopamine, thus shutting down many higher brain functions. In fact, when first
introduced, psychiatrists themselves considered these drugs virtually indistinguishable
from a "chemical lobotomy," which they thought was a good thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Neuroleptics also block
dopamine in the basal ganglia, which coordinate body movements, resulting in an
incurable movement disorder known as tardive dyskinesia (TD), resembling Parkinson’s
disease, in up to 60% of patients treated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unknown to conventional psychiatrists, TD can be prevented by certain
vitamins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Contrary to psychiatric
propaganda, the new “atypical” antipsychotics cause as much or more TD as the
old drugs, in addition to many new side effects, like intractable weight gain
and diabetes.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">According
to Eva Edelman<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, <u>Natural Healing for
Schizophrenia</u>, </i>“Psychiatric drugs have the potential to induce a
supersensitivity psychosis in the world’s sanest human, forcing the individual
into a lifelong drug dependency.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Blocked dopamine synapses become hypersensitive, so when the drug is
withdrawn, paranoia and hallucinations become worse than ever. The natural
psychosis has become a “tranquilizer psychosis”, as Dr. Hoffer called it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This
drug-induced hypersensitivy is made use of by pharmaceutical companies in
designing studies to show their drug is better than placebo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patients are suddenly deprived of their
accustomed drug, become massively psychotic, and then are given the new drug
(same as the old drug), or placebo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Naturally, just as with heroin, a fix of the addictive drug will relieve
the withdrawal psychosis better than a placebo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drug companies have been fined millions of dollars for conducting false
studies, but to them this is just a business expense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the wake of recent mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sandy Hook elementary school in Newton,
Connecticut, it is interesting to note that virtually all mass murderers in the
US, going back to Columbine, have been on, or recently withdrawn from, SSRI
antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription
drugs are medicine’s best kept secret,” says </span><a href="http://davidhealy.org/david-healy-bio/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dr. David Healy</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, a world-renowned
psychiatrist who has written extensively about the lack of data in evidence-based
medicine, including in his latest book, </span><a href="http://davidhealy.org/david-healy-bio/"><i><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Pharmageddon</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is no evidence for modern psychiatry's claim that pathological biochemical
imbalances in the brain cause mental illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But treating people with these new wonder drugs is what creates
pathological imbalances, causing the epidemic of mental illness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-76356578489339907542012-11-12T11:38:00.000-08:002012-11-12T11:38:09.499-08:00Aspergirl
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">During my thirty years
practicing orthomolecular psychiatry and homeopathy, I have treated many
children and adults on the autism spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is now up to one out of every 88 children in the US, even higher in
parts of California, where my three year old granddaughter lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has recently been diagnosed with
autism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">It is said to be common in
children of engineers, maybe because people with Aspergers make good scientists
and engineers. Asperger people tend to focus on an area of special interest and
learn everything they can about it, which can eventually become the basis for a
career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are usually of higher than
average intelligence. They are more interested in figuring out how the world
works than social relationships.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">According to Sara Robinson,
“</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Asperger's Syndrome</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">
wasn’t named and identified until 1994, but by the 1950s, the defense
industries in California's Santa Clara Valley [Silicon Valley] were already
drawing in brilliant young men and women who fit the profile: single-minded,
socially awkward, emotionally detached, and blessed (or cursed) with a
singular, unique, laser-like focus on some particular area of obsessive
interest.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Now that I am a grandmother,
I am discovering that I have Asperger traits myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never been diagnosed, but I have
diagnosed it in some of my patients. I am reading in books like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Aspergirls</u></i>, by Rudy Simone, and on
the internet about how differently it presents in females, so is more often
missed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would explain a lot of the
funny little things about me. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Aspergirls, unlike most of
their teenage or adult peers, have little or no interest in fashion, make-up,
or hairstyles, or chatting with friends for hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like me, they hate shopping, prefer wash-and
wear hair, and comfortable, practical clothes with lots of pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One good thing for Dads, their daughter
might be happier helping him in his workshop rather than helping their mother
with housework.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Three years ago my husband
and I retired and moved to Italy, where he was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My possibly Aspergian attire (baggy blue
jeans, sweatshirts and Birkenstocks, here in the land of fashion), and demeanor
are probably attributed to just being American.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are no other Americans in this town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People ask my husband why I don’t talk much, don’t
I understand Italian yet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says, “Lei
e fatta cosi.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She’s made that
way.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do understand most of what is
said, but my taciturnity is more acceptable here, because there is seen to be
an excuse for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have become more
talkative now, and the Italians are very helpful because they don’t care if
everything I say is ungrammatical and pronounced wrong, as long as they
understand my meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do correct
me kindly, and don’t laugh unless I say something really funny (like saying I
made a cake with “mascalzoni” (rascals), instead of “mascarpone” (cream
cheese).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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once had a brain map done by Dr Les Fehmi, in Princeton, NJ, a pioneer of
biofeedback with whom I used to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
showed I was low in alpha brainwaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alpha waves, 10 to 14 hertz, are associated with a relaxed, creative, open-focused
state, in which the left and right hemispheres of the brain are in synchrony, together
producing the large, smooth alpha sine waves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(If you draw one vertically through a circle and add dots, it becomes
the Taoist yin-yang symbol.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
know if low alpha is a general characteristic of Aspergians, but it would help
explain their chronic anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Alpha waves can be increased
by things like yoga, meditation, and marijuana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>THC from this herb happens to fit the brain’s anandamide receptors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anandamide is the first endogenous
cannabinoid, discovered in 1992 by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Mechoulam" title="Raphael Mechoulam"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Raphael Mechoulam</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> , <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>named for the Sanskrit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>word “ananda” meaning inner bliss. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After smoking the herb, some Aspies discover
for the first time what it’s like to feel normal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can talk and converse like anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I invented the term “anandapenia”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to signify the condition of a lack of
anandamide, (or lack of bliss). </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Aspergers is thought to be
related to hypofunction of the right hemisphere, affecting things like:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recognition of faces and facial expressions,
body language, spatial orientation, sense of direction, remembering how to get
somewhere, (making it hard to drive).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
seem to lack the internal map that neurotypicals have in their brain that helps
them find their way around town, or hotels, airports and train stations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I call it “dysmappia”.)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">As for recognizing
faces - I seem to need to meet a person at least 3 times before I remember
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be very
embarrassing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When people say Hello to
me here, I’m always asking my husband, “Who was that?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s gotten used to my quirks.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Autistics may have
more problems with the left hemisphere, where the speech centers are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may think in pictures, as Temple Grandin
describes, rather than in words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animals
probably think in pictures too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
probably a primordial way of thinking that humans used before we acquired
language.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Aspies are generally
good at left brain functions like language and math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are very logical and generally prefer
science, nature or computers to interacting with other people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They often love to read, especially science
fiction and fantasy. I’ve always been a Sci-Fi geek myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was a kid in Allentown, PA, I used to
walk to the library a couple of times a week, check out some books, sit on the
library steps and read them, take them back in and get more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I guess children were only allowed to check
out 3 or 4 at a time, and I couldn’t have carried more than that home
anyway.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read all the science fiction I could
get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother said I taught myself to read at 4, and
I haven’t stopped since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-66974687099908512212012-11-06T12:44:00.001-08:002014-12-12T09:34:08.869-08:00Autism<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The
autism rate in the US is now up to 1 in 88.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My granddaughter who lives in California was diagnosed shortly before
her 3<sup>rd</sup> birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According
to my son, she had been regressing for about six months, talking less, not
making eye contact and not even responding to her name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I first
met her in May 2011, when she was a year and 9 months old. I was back in New Jersey,
trying to sell our house there, since we had moved to Italy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in the US, I took the opportunity to fly
out to visit my son and meet my granddaughter. Now that I think about it, the
little girl’s behavior was unusual even then. On the way to a big indoor
children’s playground/learning center, she had a screaming fit which could only
be stopped by her mother taking her out and walking around in the rain. My son
said at that time that she could say about 30 words, but I didn't hear any,
except maybe "No!" <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
playground, she didn't interact with any other children, just kept walking and
walking like a wind-up toy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
given chicken nuggets and French fries to eat in the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She screamed to have her new shoes taken off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">She hasn't had any
vaccines, fortunately! She’s been physically healthy and has never been on
antibiotics or had bowel problems as many autistic children do. She was
breast-fed for 2 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most kids,
her diet is high in wheat and milk products. I told my son to get her on the gluten
and casein-free diet, which Dr Bernard Rimland’s research indicates helps 66%
of autistic kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many children have
greatly improved after having all wheat and dairy products removed from their
diet, even though these are often their favorite foods. These children are
unable to metabolize gluten and casein proteins down to the basic amino acids.
Instead, they are broken down into peptides called gluteomorphin and caseomorphin,
which act like opium (morphine) in the brain, making it difficult to respond
normally to the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">California has recently
mandated insurance coverage for behavioral therapy (ABA) for autistic children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between the diet and the ABA, my
granddaughter appears to be improving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We may also have her tested for heavy metals and detox pathways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is a genetic component to autism, it
may be an inability to detoxify the body from the innumerable chemical assaults
that we are all now exposed to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a whole spectrum
of autism disorders. The mildest is Asperger's syndrome, which Einstein. Isaac
Newton, and many other famous scientists are thought to have had. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aspergians tend to be very intelligent, but
have trouble with social relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Many children develop more
severe types of autism starting around the age of 18 months, after getting a lot
of immunizations at once. They regress and often stop talking and lose other
skills. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like many doctors who specialize
in treating this, I believe many cases are related to the mercury preservative thimerosal
(which has now been removed from most, but not all vaccines.) It is still in
the flu shot. It could also be due to other "adjuvants", like
aluminum, or just the sheer number of shots overwhelming the immune system. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Some cases may also be
related to mercury in the mother's amalgam fillings passing into the fetus, and
then into the baby in breast milk. There may also be hereditary factors.
Asperger's, in particular seems to be common in children of engineers. (It
could be that the fathers had a touch of it, which made them good scientists
and engineers.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">I worked with a group of
doctors, called DAN (Defeat Autism Now) who specialize in treating and <u>curing</u>
autism through natural means. Dr Jim Neubrander, my colleague when I worked at
the Princeton Biocenter, went on to specialize in autism and discovered a very
useful treatment based on Methyl B12 shots. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some cases have been cured by homeopathy, as
described in <u>Impossible Cure</u>, by Amy Lansky. Orthomolecular nutrition
also helps, by supplying vitamins and minerals that may be lacking or needed in
greater than normal amounts. Although autistic children are often prescribed psychopharmaceuticals,
they are rarely beneficial, and may cause further brain damage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-9479262189971849452012-07-28T01:22:00.001-07:002012-07-28T01:22:09.258-07:00Are We Mermaids?<br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are We Descended from Mermaids?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">July 4, 2012</span><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>The
Littoral People<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Unlike the portrayal on Animal Channel’s special fictional
documentary, “Mermaids: the Body Found”, on Memorial Day weekend, we never
really turned into mermaids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We only
made it about a quarter of the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
really didn’t need to go all the way to aquaticness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were shore-dwellers, living off the “fat
of the land”, and especially the fat of the sea, in this special ecological niche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the high level of omega-3 fatty acids
and cholesterol in seafood that gave our brains the fuel to expand and grow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Littoral
apes become literary apes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Unlike your dog or cat, humans occasionally have the
misfortune of choking to death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we
choke on a pretzel, it can stop our breathing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is because our breathing tube (trachea) and our eating tube
(esophagus) intersect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other <span style="color: red;">(land)</span> animals they are separate. This was an
evolutionary adaptation for the ability to hold our breath while diving
underwater, a trait we share with other diving mammals, like whales and
dolphins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breath control is a precondition
for speech. Dolphins, whales and seals can obviously hold their breath, for a
long time, in order to dive and swim underwater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this is what allowed dolphins and
whales to develop their own extensive vocal communication systems, like whale
songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John C Lilly was one of the first
scientists to study dolphin communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He later did interesting studies on human consciousness and wrote books
like <u>Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1972).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chimps may learn sign language, but they are incapable of ever learning
to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would Semi-Mermaids eat? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">What would shore-dwelling people eat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Food from the sea, as well as food from land
near the shore line, starting with things that were easy to catch, like
shellfish, seaweed, eggs of seabirds, and fruits and berries growing along the
shore, like blueberries and beach plums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This would have been an extremely healthy diet, providing everything
needed for a growing brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Why
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Wading out to sea to look for food, while keeping our heads
above water, long-legged creatures have an advantage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our evolutionary path gave priority to long
straight legs, with a little webbing between our fingers and toes. For
swimmers, heavy, wet fur sure is a drag, so we became the Naked Ape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is certainly a more reasonable
explanation that all the fanciful stories trying to justify the Savannah
theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We retained the hair on our
head, to protect the brain from overheating in the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elaine Morgan has speculated that the reason
women tend to have long hair on their head is to give their floating babies
something to hold onto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Human babies are much fatter at birth than baby monkeys and
other apes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why should this be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a great caloric expense to pregnant
mothers to produce all that fat, and requires an exceedingly rich, high fat
diet. Also it would be burdensome to have to carry that fat heavy baby
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The simple answer is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fat babies float.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fat is less dense than water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fat people float easily, while skinny, bony
people have trouble staying afloat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
our ancestors were spending a lot of time in the water, fat babies would be
more likely to survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New born babies
instinctively hold their breath and paddle when placed in the water, learning
to swim before they can walk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not
exposed to water, they lose this instinct after a few months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humans of all ages have a layer of
subcutaneous fat (of varying thickness), a trait they share with marine
mammals, but not other primates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
fat layer serves as insulation to retain body heat in the water, and also
increases buoyancy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Eventually, with our new tall, hairless body and big brain,
we moved from the shoreline to recolonize the land, becoming hunters and
gatherers on the African Savannah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps some of us stayed in the sea and eventually became perfectly
adapted to it, like the dolphins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dolphins,
like whales, have evolved from land animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No one knows what the land ancestor was like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it was us! Scientists at Texas A&M
were surprised to discover many similarities between dolphin and human genomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-12456085170009088532012-05-21T12:55:00.000-07:002012-05-21T12:55:21.787-07:00Raw Cannabis Juice Miracle Healing Food<br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Cannabis is no longer just a
psychoactive drug that people use for its interesting effects on the brain. Raw
cannabis leaves and buds have been discovered to be filled with an anti-inflammatory,
antioxidant, anti-cancer and non-psychoactive compound known as cannabidiol
(CBD), a miracle "superfood" that can prevent and relieve many
chronic diseases.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Despite a huge amount of scientific data collected
over hundreds of years proving the tremendous therapeutic potential of cannabis,
the US government remains adamant against approving its use. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In spite of this, many dedicated researchers are
investigating new therapeutic applications for consuming raw cannabis.</span></div>
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Certainly less well-known than the psychoactive THC, the CBD found in the
marijuana plant is a powerful medicinal compound with unique immune-regulating
capacities. The human body, like most other animals, already contains its own
endogenous cannabinoid system, complete with cannabinoid receptors, which has
served to keep us healthy even before we evolved as humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last few hundred years, industrial
pollutants have been overwhelming this natural health-maintaining system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CBD from raw marijuana can supplement our own
natural cannabinoids to help normalize the body's functional systems, including
cell communication and proper immune function.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">“CBD works on receptors, and as it turns out, we have
cannabinoids in our bodies, endogenous cannabinoids, that turn out to be very
effective at regulating immune functions, nerve functions, bone
functions," says Dr. Ethan Russo, a physician in the Seattle area. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"There's a tendency to discount claims
when something appears to be good for everything, but there's a reason this is
the case. The endogenous cannabinoid system acts as a modulator in fine-tuning
a lot of these systems, and if something is deranged biochemically in a
person's body, it may well be that a cannabinoid system can bring things back
into balance."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">People suffering from autoimmune disorders, chronic
inflammation, cancer, and other chronic illnesses can improve their health
simply by consuming CBD. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
Dr. William Courtney, a medical marijuana expert and founder of <i>Cannabis
International,</i> CBD provides a cell communication system that completes a “positive
feedback loop” that functions like the body's own natural anti-inflammatory
endocannabinoid system.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Dr Courtney, who runs a Luxembourg clinic providing raw
cannabis to patients who need it, considers juicing raw marijuana leaves and
buds one of the best ways to ingest CBD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The leaves, with fibrous stems removed, could also be eaten raw in a
salad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">Although 15 U.S. states and Washington DC now recognize and
have legalized marijuana as legitimate medicine, the federal government
continues to classify marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug with "no currently
accepted medical use." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the US
federal government now has a patent on the medical use of CBD, so how can it
continue to maintain that cannabis has no medicinal value?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The FDA
has approved CBD as an “investigational new drug”, but the DEA is still raiding
medical marijuana dispensaries in states where this herb is legal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">One of the main reasons marijuana is still illegal is
its tremendous potential as medicine. Drug companies have been trying for over
70 years (since it was made illegal in 1937) to make drugs out of it, but they
were unable to separate the "high" (which just means feeling extremely
happy) from the drug effects they wanted, like relief of pain and muscle
spasms, control of glaucoma, nausea and anorexia, etc. The majority of the
sponsors of Partnership for a Drug-free America, which recently changed its
name to The Partnership@ drugfree.org, are pharmaceutical companies. They would
lose billions of dollars in drug sales if marijuana were legal and people were
free to grow their own. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You want medical marijuana? </span><a href="http://www.pharmatimes.com/Article/12-05-08/Ten_more_approvals_for_GW_Pharma_s_cannabis_spray.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Big Pharma is more than willing to sell it to you</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, as a hugely expensive drug under their complete
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;">GW
Pharmaceuticals, a British drug company, is utilizing CBD in a new marijuana
mouth spray known as Sativex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>International
expansion of Sativex is well underway since ten European countries recommended
approval of the drug for multiple sclerosis patients.</span></div>
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educate the public about why marijuana is an essential food, and how legalizing
it could change the world. See </span><a href="http://www.cannabisinternational.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #005a9c;">http://www.cannabisinternational.org/</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Toxic
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is there a
link between the American epidemic of obesity and chemical pollution of our
air, water and earth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are several
known mechanisms by which toxic pollutants cause obesity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Environmental
toxins include chemicals and heavy metals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The heavy metals that cause the most health problems are lead, mercury,
cadmium, arsenic, nickel, and aluminum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Chemical toxins include solvents and cleaning agents, prescription
drugs, pesticides and food additives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Organochlorine
pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) stored in body fat are
released when body fat is used as fuel during a weight loss diet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These chemicals cause a decrease in thyroid
hormone levels, lowering the metabolic rate and preventing further weight
loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Toxins also damage the
mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses in cells, interfering with their ability to
burn fat and create energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A
recent </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206198"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">study conducted</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> by the Mercer University School of Medicine examined whether
pesticide exposure played a role in worldwide childhood obesity. The
researchers observed nearly 6,800 subjects aged 6 to 19. Individual exposure
was determined through the use of urine tests for pesticide residues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The results showed that obese subjects had
high urinary concentrations of 2,5-dichlorophenol (2,5-DCP), one of the most
widely-used pesticides in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Children who were exposed to high
levels of PCBs and DDE (a product of DDT) in breast milk, averaged twelve
pounds heavier at puberty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Genetically
modified foods, hyped by MonSatan as requiring less pesticides, actually
require more pesticides than normal crops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weeds have become resistant to
Monsanto’s Roundup ready GM crops, so farmers are having to apply more
herbicides, and even more dangerous ones, like 2,4D, an ingredient in Agent
Orange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the GMOs in almost all
processed foods, damaging enough in themselves, are also loaded with
obesity-causing pesticides.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Toxins also
interfere with appetite-controlling substances in the brain, like leptin and
alpha-MSH, causing hunger to increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fatty
liver is the most common liver disease in America, affecting one in five.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not caused by alcohol, drugs or viral
hepatitis, but by excess sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sugar,
white flour and high fructose corn syrup are converted to triglycerides (fat)
in liver cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fatty liver is unable
to perform its job of detoxifying the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<a href="http://naturalsociety.com/antibiotics-promote-obesity-diabetes-metabolic-syndrome/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Antibiotics</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> have also been identified<span style="color: black;"> as being a promoter for obesity as well as diabetes and
metabolic syndrome. Antibiotics may succeed in destroying harmful bacteria, as
intended, but they also destroy good and necessary gut bacteria. These friendly
flora are responsible for regulating overall health, including weight
management.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We can avoid
toxins that cause obesity by eating organic foods, thus avoiding pesticides,
hormones, antibiotics, and GMOs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drink
filtered water rather than water in plastic bottles (that will end up in a landfill
or floating in the sea forever) and avoid the harmful effects of plastic ingredients
like phthalates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use HEPA filters to
remove dust, molds and volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) from the air, and
shower filters to remove chlorine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fill
your house with houseplants that help clean the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reduce heavy metal exposure by avoiding
aluminum pans and deodorants, mercury-laden large fish like tuna and swordfish,
lead paint, and tobacco, a major source of cadmium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Encourage
elimination of toxins by drinking plenty of water, and working up a sweat by
exercise, steam baths or saunas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stretching
exercise like yoga improves the flow of lymph and helps flush out toxins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eat detoxifying foods like cruciferous
vegetables, dandelion greens, garlic, and berries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drink green tea and herbal teas containing
dandelion, ginger, licorice or cinnamon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>High sulfur foods like organic eggs, whey protein, onions and broccoli
provide sulfur amino acids needed for detoxification.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Season your food with herbs like cilantro,
which helps remove heavy metals, and rosemary, containing carnosol which raises
detoxification enzymes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most fruits and
vegetables tend to alkalinize the urine, which makes it easier to remove
toxins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Supplements
that aid detoxification include a daily high potency multivitamin/mineral,
vitamin C with bioflavonoids, milk thistle – an herb which benefits the liver,
probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, N-acetyl cysteine, alpha-lipoic acid, and
L-carnitine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zinc may be low in a
vegetarian diet and may be supplemented to help displace heavy metals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), also called
organic sulfur, is another aid in removing harmful heavy metals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Geoengineering refers to the artificial modification of the earth's climate systems through two primary technologies, solar radiation management (SRM) and carbon dioxide removal (CDR). SRM is a way of controlling global warming by blocking sunlight before it reaches the ground. The most outspoken proponents of this idea are environmental scientists Ken Caldeira of the Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA, and David Keith, professor of applied physics at Harvard University. Keith particularly likes it because it is “very cheap”. Watch his TED presentation from September 2007 on Youtube. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Geoengineering, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, in their “Unilateral Geoengineering” workshop in May 2008, is defined as “Any of a variety of strategies, such as injecting light-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, that might be used to modify the earth’s atmosphere-ocean system in an attempt to slow or reverse global warming.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Now Global Geoengineering Governance Rules are being developed to control the amount of sunlight reaching the earth (SRM), on a planetary scale. Upper atmospheric releases of sulfates, aluminum oxide and other toxic chemicals are being planned without public consent or oversight. There have been three hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives Science & Technology Committee since November 5,2009 (two in 2010). Testimony has only been from those, for the most part, promoting geoengineering. The Final U.S. House Science & Technology Report was released on October 27, 2010, and is located on their website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">SRM is being discussed by the U.S. government as a global solution to global warming. It would reflect sunlight away from the earth by hazing the sky with reflective nano-materials (aerosols) that reflect sunlight. The aerosols would be dispersed via jet aircraft trails that expand into reflective artificial clouds. The first materials that have been considered for this are inorganic forms of sulfur, such as hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, to create the effect of artificial volcanoes, since eruptions such as Pinatubo blocked sunlight and cooled the Earth for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">But environmentalists have been working for years to prevent inorganic sulfur compounds from getting into the atmosphere, e.g. from coal-burning power plants, as they cause acid rain and deplete the ozone layer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reflective materials of choice are now barium, strontium, and aluminum oxide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The SRM sunblock is being discussed as a possible future necessity if it is not possible to control global warming sufficiently by decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Although no government in the world has yet admitted it, many people believe this is already being done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People observing the sky have noticed that jet “contrails” (condensation trails), which used to disappear within a minute, now last for hours, and expand and spread to cover the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The public refers to these as “chemtrails”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The program appears to have begun around 1997. Now the government is calling it geoengineering (and saying it doesn’t exist yet). <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Eventually particles injected into the stratosphere fall to earth and are breathed in, as well as absorbed by plants we eat. The residue has been analyzed by many investigators and found to be high in heavy metals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spikes of toxic chemicals like aluminum, barium and strontium are already showing up in drinking water samples across the United States. Aluminum has been implicated for decades as a possible contributing factor to Alzheimer’s disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watch the video “What in the World are they Spraying?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One way of removing the heavy metals they're spraying on us is to take organic sulfur (MSM), which helps detox your body from these toxic substances. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Many people find it hard to believe that the government would be involved in any secret program or experiments that could harm the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But by decreasing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, these programs may cause a decline in agriculture crop production, and make solar panels less effective, not to mention aggravating the worldwide epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. NASA stated 5 years ago that the earth is receiving 20% less sunlight than it did 10 years before. (Fifteen years ago is 1997, when the spraying appears to have started.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe this explains why some people believe that global warming is not happening, because the spraying is blocking the sun and cooling the atmosphere, but at what cost? So fossil fuel companies can continue to addict us to their polluting oil and coal, and block the sun that could supply all the power we need?<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The chemicals used in these programs may also have a negative impact on crops and trees. Aluminum changes soil pH and weakens trees so they can be finished off by insects and fungi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rosalind Peterson, of the Agriculture Defense Coalition, documents the decimation of trees around the country. Honey bees and other pollinators are also feeling the heavy negative impact of our escalating experiments. Everyone is encouraged to learn more about these topics, and look up at the sky!<o:p></o:p></span></div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-35789074856135808422012-01-21T00:42:00.001-08:002012-01-21T00:42:25.430-08:00Eggs are Healthy Food<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Eggs are Healthy Food<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1/7/12<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">We bought nine young hens and a rooster from a local farmer a few days ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We let them out of the coop today, after two days inside to make sure they knew it was home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We enjoyed watching them run around the yard, scratching in the dirt, eating weeds and bugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found the first egg in one of the nest boxes, and I had it for breakfast, along with a store-bought egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The yolk of our egg was a much deeper red than the other, and really delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From now on, we’ll have an unlimited free supply of organic free-range eggs, and can really “live off the fat of the land”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Of course, the nutrient content of organic free range eggs is far superior to conventional eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even supermarket eggs are a good source of the amino acids tyrosine and tryptophan, needed by the heart and brain, as well as lutein and zeaxanthin, which are yellow-pigmented carotenoids very beneficial to the eyes. Cooking reduces these antioxidants by about half.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Eggs are one of the most important foods to spend a little extra on and always buy organic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free range eggs contain more vitamin A, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin E, and beta carotene, because the chickens are out there, like my chickens, eating highly nutritious weeds and insects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the weeds chickens love is purslane, which increases the omega-3 content of their egg yolks. (</span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/10/20/beware-of-misleading-omega-3-claims.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Avoid eggs labeled as “omega-3 eggs</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">”, as they come from chickens fed poor-quality sources of omega-3 fats that are already oxidized.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Yolks are also loaded with bioflavonoids, brain fats like phosphatidyl choline, and sulfur, and can be eaten raw or added to breakfast shakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best way to cook eggs is to soft boil or poach them, leaving the yolks mostly raw. The worst way is scrambling, as it allows the cholesterol in the yolk to oxidize, which is what makes it harmful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/02/19/most-grocery-store-eggs-far-more-likely-to-be-infected.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Conventionally-raised eggs should never be eaten raw, as they are likely to be contaminated</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"> with salmonella, not to mention pesticide residues. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">The idea that eggs are unhealthy and promote heart disease is a complete myth. It's true that egg yolks contain cholesterol, but this is not really a bad thing. The cholesterol in egg yolks has little relationship to blood cholesterol levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Research published in the </span><a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/04/13/egg-myths.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">International Journal of Cardiology</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;"> showed that even eating eggs every day did <em><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">not</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>raise cholesterol levels. In most people there is a feedback mechanism that decreases the body’s production of cholesterol when more is consumed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Cholesterol has important functions in the body, such as controlling the fluidity of cell membranes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also the starting material for making vitamin D (cholecalciferol), the adrenal hormones aldosterone (which controls salt balance) and cortisone, for stress adaptation, as well as the male and female sex hormones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cholesterol can function as an antioxidant when there is an insufficient quantity of other antioxidants like vitamins C, E, B3, and carotenes and the minerals zinc, sulfur and selenium supplied by the diet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting enough of these antioxidants, especially C and B3 (niacin) can lower a high cholesterol level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fact that niacin lowers cholesterol was discovered decades ago by Dr Abram Hoffer, who also pioneered the orthomolecular treatment of schizophrenia with niacin.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Cholesterol deposition in arteries is a repair mechanism for artery walls damaged by free radicals, due to lack of antioxidants, especially vitamin C, according to Linus Pauling and Dr Matthias Rath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vitamin C is needed to produce collagen and mucopolysaccharides, the “glue”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that holds cells together. Without it, arteries weaken and bleed into tissue spaces (scurvy). Cholesterol is deposited to prevent this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Many people actually have cholesterol levels that are too low, either naturally or due to cholesterol-lowering drugs, which may cause depression.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 120%; margin: 0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">Even vegetarians who are opposed to killing animals can eat eggs in good conscience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As long as they are not “fertile eggs”, (for which you pay extra), there is no living embryo in the egg. The yolk and white are only a food supply for a potential chick, which will never develop without a rooster to fertilize the egg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But hens continue to lay eggs anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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</div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-77033522531265811942011-08-17T06:53:00.000-07:002014-12-12T09:34:55.630-08:00update to previous postI am updating and correcting errors in the previous post. Percy Schmeiser was not an organic, but rather a conventional, non-GMO canola farmer. Also, after losing to Monsanto, he then sued Monsanto <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and emerged victorious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In an out of court settlement finalized on March 19, 2008, Monsanto agreed to pay all the clean-up costs of the Roundup Ready canola that contaminated Schmeiser's fields.</span>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-46154014865088137202011-08-16T23:43:00.000-07:002011-08-16T23:43:36.128-07:00No Monsatan for Gaza<div style="margin-left: 0in;">Monsanto, or “Monsatan” as I prefer to call the GMO seed monopoly and pesticide giant, is well known for its evil practice of suing organic farmers for patent infringement when pollen from GMO crops blows onto neighboring organic farms, contaminating the seeds with GMO genes, so they can no longer be called organic, wiping out the livelihood of farmers like Percy Schmeiser, who spent a lifetime developing organic canola. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Schmeiser is a Canadian farmer who Monsanto successfully sued for patent violation after unlicensed Roundup Ready canola was found growing on his farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The company later admitted that it was possible for unintentional gene flow to have resulted in the initial presence of Roundup Ready Canola in Schmeiser's field.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now, organic farmers are fighting back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In March of this year a suit was filed by the Public Patent Foundation on behalf of more than fifty organizations, seeking a ruling to prohibit Monsanto from suing farmers or seed dealers if their organic seed becomes contaminated with Monsanto's patented biotech genes. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">According to the<a href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EU_Regulators_Monsanto_Glyphosate_Toxicity.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> Institute of Science in Society (ISIS)</span></a>, independent scientific studies in recent years have discovered a multitude of harmful effects of glyphosate (Roundup), including endocrine disruption, DNA damage, reproductive and developmental toxicities, neurotoxicity, cancer, and birth defects.</span></div><div class="style2" style="margin: auto 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Monsanto’s Roundup has also “spawned a new generation of superweeds that can only be killed with super-toxic herbicides such as 2,4,D and paraquat.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roundup Ready crops require “massive amounts of climate destabilizing nitrate fertilizer. Roundup use is literally killing the soil, destroying essential soil microorganisms, degrading the living soil’s ability to capture and sequester CO2, and spreading deadly plant diseases.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As an article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mother Jones</i> by </span><a href="http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott" title="Tom Philpott Blog Index"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tom Philpott</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> points out, <a href="" name="site-content"></a>Gaza doesn't need Monsanto's “Wonder Seeds”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as Cuba did when the US blockade made it impossible for Cuban farmers to buy chemical fertilizer and pesticides, people in the Gaza Strip, trying to survive under occupation as well as the Israeli blockade, are turning to organic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Poor farmers cannot afford Monsanto’s expensive seeds, which, thanks to patent laws, would have to be bought from Monsanto every year, subverting the traditional farming practice of saving some of the crop as seeds for next year’s planting, which not only saves money, but over thousands of years has adapted seeds to the local climatic conditions of farmlands around the world.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Palestinian farmers are returning to the ancient technology that saves water, preserves soil nutrients, and produces abundant crops: diversified organic agriculture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the United Nations is promoting organic agriculture as a response to scarce resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Guardian</i> newspaper quotes an official from the UN Gaza emergency food program,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“In so many other places, [organic] is terribly trendy and green. But in Gaza the resource scarcity is so bad this is actually becoming a necessity.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hamas government has developed a ten year strategy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“aimed at skirting the blockade and developing sustainable agriculture," <em>The Guardian</em> reports.</div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Farmers in Gaza have little land and less water, and cannot afford the high cost of chemical fertilizer, even if it were available. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palestinian farmers are forbidden by the blockade to purchase synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, which could be used to make explosives. All they are allowed to import is “fertilisers made from Israeli waste water run-off,” which is expensive—$200 per metric ton—and of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“uncertain safety.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A local group called <a href="http://www.pefrafah.org.ps/Default.aspx"><span style="color: #005a9c;">Palestinian Environmental Friends</span></a> (PEF) has begun producing homemade natural, cheap, and environmentally friendly fertilizer by composting manure and crop residue collected from local farms. It only costs $100 per metric ton to produce, and the profits stay in Gaza.</div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Farms are also setting up “closed-loop aquaculture/crop systems that recycle nutrients and generate bounties of food,” such as fishponds that deliver water rich in nutrients via drip irrigation.</div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Gaza's movement toward organic agriculture as a response to its critical lack of resources is consistent with the <a href="http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/06/vilsack-usda-big-ag"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">new consensus </span></a>among development experts that “low-input, locally adapted, appropriate technologies”, rather than expensive high-tech solutions, are the key to populations keeping themselves fed in spite of growing population and diminishing resources. And it certainly contradicts the agribusiness claim<em> </em>that organic food is a “luxury of the rich.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-50633660710322965672011-07-14T04:44:00.000-07:002011-07-14T04:44:55.742-07:00Hiroshima to Fukushima: No More Nukes<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Hiroshima to Fukushima: No More Nukes</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Scientific experts believe Japan's nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> "Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>according to Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">No nuclear reactors are designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 8.0. Yet there were 11 earthquakes greater than 8.5 last century, and only 11 years into this century, there have been five. Almost all were followed by tsunamis.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Even after Fukushima, Obama is still endorsing nuclear power as a "clean energy" source, and wants loan guarantees for corporations that build nuclear power plants. Corporations won’t risk their own money, which is why they haven't built any nukes since Three Mile Island (1979). Obama claims building more nukes will help prevent global warming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what the nuclear industry and Obama are not admitting is the fact that the overall nuclear "fuel cycle" - mining, milling, fuel fabrication, enrichment, and so on - contributes substantially to global warming</span></div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">In a nation-wide referendum in June, ninety-five percent of Italians voted against resuming their nuclear industry. All nuclear plants in Italy were closed down in 1987, after Chernobyl. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first solar power plant in Italy is now being built at Altomonte, in Cosenza, Calabria, a few dozen kilometers from where we live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will generate enough electricity to power 2800 households.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calabria is an ideal site for renewable energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most days are sunny, and there are frequent strong winds like the Scirocco from the south, and the Tramontana from the north.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Some so-called “environmentalists” think nukes are the answer to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, and dozens of near-misses and radiation leaks, and the ever-mounting pile of nuclear waste that no one knows what to do with for the next hundred thousand years, people want no more of it, and have made their voices heard.</div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">After massive protests by the Greens, Social Democrats, and tens of thousands of others, Germany has decided to phase out all its nukes by 2022, and to continue its rapid deployment of renewables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Germany already has low per capita carbon dioxide emissions and plans to keep reducing it. The US, Canada and Australia have twice the emissions and seemingly no plan or intention of forming one. </div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Renewable power generation in Germany has increased substantially in the past ten years, from almost none to seventeen percent in 2010. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that Germany has the infrastructure in place, that percentage will climb rapidly, especially with the plummeting cost of photovoltaic solar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Germany and Italy are going to demonstrate to the world that we do not need dirty, dangerous nuclear power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even France, which now gets most of its power from nukes, is investing heavily in renewables - far above minimum EU goals. If nukes were a better solution, France would be deploying more - but they're not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="sweet-justice" style="margin: 12pt 0in;"><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-cannot-solve-climate-change"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></a>A nuclear power plant takes over ten years to construct and bring on line, during which time coal (the worst source of CO2) continues to be burnt unabated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And nukes are not "zero-carbon", as some claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their lifecycle emissions are six times higher than wind and about double solar. Nukes also take resources away from low carbon renewables that can be rapidly deployed now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nukes are more expensive than ever, while the cost of wind and solar continue to fall.<span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">The majority of people in just about every country on the planet oppose nuclear power. Why can’t we have a referendum in the US to determine if we want to be exposed to the catastrophic risks of nuclear power?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People should have a say in how society is powered, not just a handful of plutocrats dictating what best suits them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who advocate one hundred percent renewables are on the right track - especially when entire countries like Germany and Italy are in agreement and committed to that policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 0in;">Finally, all nuclear reactors create the raw materials for nuclear weapons, like plutonium, as a by-product.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attempting to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through nuclear energy, thereby fueling the dangers of the ultimate global incendiary – nuclear war – could be the most tragic of all miscalculations.</div><div style="margin-left: 0in;"><br />
</div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-7380716813051971862011-06-27T07:44:00.000-07:002011-06-27T07:44:12.027-07:00Mediterranean Diet<div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Real Mediterranean Diet</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I visited Italy several times with my husband, who was born in Rome, before we decided to retire here, in south Italy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The everyday diet available to the average person here is much healthier than what most people eat in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no “health food” stores, but food in regular stores may be comparable to health food here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most produce is grown on small near-by farms by traditional methods that don’t rely on pesticides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Genetically modified food is not allowed in Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than have special “health food” for knowledgeable people, the aim is to have healthy food for everybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than take vitamins, they try to eat food that still contains nutrients.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although there are a few supermarkets, most people shop in small individual stores, each specializing in one locally grown product like breads, cheeses, meat, fish, or fruits and vegetables.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">We decided to settle in Trebisacce, a small town on the Ionian Sea, in the arch of the Italian “boot”, near the town where my husband’s father was born. On nearly every block there is a store selling dozens of varieties of extremely fresh fish (<i>pesce</i>), caught that day by local fishermen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One local specialty is <i>Rosa Marina</i>, tiny newborn fish less than an inch long, mixed with the hot peppers for which Calabria is world-famous.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Before buying our house here in Trebisacce, we used to stay at a small hotel called Parnasso.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hotel meals, prepared by a local woman, were simple, healthy and delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For lunch, vegetable and bean soup, then fresh fish and <i>sepie </i>(squid), lightly floured and sautéed in olive oil, followed by <i>insalate verde</i> (green salad) , finished with a bowl of fresh fruit, especially the locally grown small tangerines (<i>mandarini</i>) which were in season, and or course, grapes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">For breakfast, we would walk down the main street to the <i>“Bar Centrale</i>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Bar</i> in Italy doesn’t have the same meaning as a bar here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do serve wine and liqueurs, but mainly <i>caffé</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Cappuccino</i> is only served in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also get freshly squeezed juice (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spremuta</i>) from oranges grown near-by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sometimes serve a glass of water to drink before your <i>caffé</i>, supposedly to clear your palate so the coffee tastes better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is actually a good health practice, if you’re going to drink coffee, since coffee is a strong diuretic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Caffé </i>in Italy is what we call <i>espresso</i>, a few tablespoons of very strong coffee in a tiny cup. It is expressed from the beans by steam, which releases the aromas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American style coffee is called <i>café lungo</i>, (long coffee).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is paradoxical that Italy, known for “slow food”, drinks very fast coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pot of tea is also available for tea lovers like me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With their morning <i>caffé</i>, most people will have a <i>“cornetto”</i>, a hot roll shaped like a trumpet (not to be confused with <i>“cornuto”</i>, which means something bad).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The main meal, which could be at noon or late evening, follows a definite order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First comes <i>antipasto</i> (before meal), which could be an assortment of fish, cheese or salami appetizers, olives etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>primo piato</i> is usually pasta, but could be <i>risotto</i> (rice), or <i>polenta</i> (cornmeal) in certain areas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could also have a bean dish or vegetable soup as the “first plate”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>secondo</i> (second plate) is the main dish, meat or fish, served with <i>cortorno</i>, various vegetable dishes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of our favorites are <i>cicoria </i>(dandelion greens), and <i>carciofi</i> (artichokes).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delicious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After this there may be a plate of various local cheeses, walnuts, and always a bowl of fruits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then <i>caffé</i>, perhaps with dessert, like<i> tiramisu</i> (which means “pull me up”), <i>panne cotto</i> “cooked cream”, (like crème brulee or flan), or<i> gelato</i>, Italian ice cream, much more flavorful, yet with less fat and sugar than American ice cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wine and bottled mineral water are served with the meal. The wine is usually red, locally grown and delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best wines are not exported, as they don’t travel well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many families have olive trees and grapevines in their backyard or at their parents’ home in the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In late fall the family gets together to pick the olives by hand, or by shaking them onto nets below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are taken to the local olive press, where they are ground and pressed to release the oil mixed with the bitter juice of the raw olive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is allowed to stand for a month or so until the green-gold oil rises, and the bitter watery residue sinks to the bottom.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The real Mediterranean diet, as I have experienced it, is way more than just pasta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe pasta for Italians has nostalgic value as the survival food that sustained Italy during the impoverished post-war period, along with beans, tomatoes, wild greens and olive oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those wild greens, once disparaged as “some weed the Italians eat” are now sold in the US in gourmet stores at fancy prices as <i>arugula, broccoli raab</i>, romaine lettuce, <i>radicchio</i>, and baby wild greens.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-25560305368029523192011-06-26T13:30:00.000-07:002011-06-26T13:30:46.366-07:00olives, etc<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">October 2009<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olives, etc.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every Thursday morning, there is a farmer's market in town. We buy a lot of shell beans and make a big soups with the beans, tomatoes, dandelion greens (chicoria)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">, pumpkin, onions, potatoes and cabbage. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dandelion greens grow in the fall as well as spring here. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the fresh vegetables and fruits are local and seasonal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the peaches are finished, they don't import them from Chile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They go on to the next season's fruit: persimmons, pomegranates, apples, and in winter we'll have oranges and tangerines.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We bought a lot of fresh sardines, which are very cheap here, 2.50 Euros per kilo (about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$1.60/lb). All the other fish are a lot more. The local fishermen catch and sell them the same day. We pulled the heads off the sardines, split them open, took out the spine, then soaked them in wine vinegar for 1/2 hour and then lemon juice for 1/2 hour, drained them and covered with olive oil and they're ready to eat. They don't even need to be cooked. The acid replaces the cooking process.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last month we collected a bucket of olives from the trees in our yard. Frank pressed them one by one with his thumb to split them open. Then we soaked them in salt water for a week, changing the water daily, to remove the bitterness. Then we soaked them a few days in fresh water to remove the salt. I'm reading a book called <u>The Olive Route</u>, by Carol Drinkwater, an Irish actress who has an olive farm in France. She took a trip all around the Mediterranean to discover the origin of the olive tree. She found a grove of ancient olive trees, still alive, in Lebanon that were carbon dated as 7000 years old! She also found in Malta, olive trees planted by the Romans 2000 years ago that grow sweet olives that can be eaten right from the tree. Normally olives are extremely bitter and have to go through a process like we did, to be edible.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A friend of a friend manages an olive orchard in Israel and told her that much of the Mediterranean olive crop had "failed" this year because it had not gotten cold enough for a certain hormone to be produced by the tree which assures the olive production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was so glad to hear that olives in my part of the world had not suffered from that fate. They are involved with "peace oil", a joint venture between Israeli and Palestinian olive farmers to press and market their olive oil together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't realize that olive trees needed a certain amount of cold. I hope that global warming will not make that an ongoing problem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We don’t have a washing machine, so we wash our clothes by hand, heating the water on the stove. The stove works from a propane tank called a "bombola". We can get hot water to take a short shower, but it takes a half hour to heat up. You have to push a button and wait. We prefer to get clean by swimming in the sea. Frank and I still swim, in October, but we are the only ones in the sea now.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I'm learning to ride a bicycle again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I used to ride all the time, 30 years ago. I went to medical school on a bicycle, riding through the center of Philadelphia, to Hahnemann Medical School, (named for the father of homeopathy, but they hadn't taught homeopathy there in many years.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">I ride along the sea, not much in town yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They drive very fast everywhere in Italy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speed limits are considered "only a suggestion".</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Gas is $11 a gallon here, so we don’t use the car much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a big rainstorm a few weeks ago that washed away part of the beach, almost up to the road. The "road", Via Del Porto, in front of our house and running along the sea, is unpaved, made of rocks and sand. The storm washed away a lot of the sand, leaving the rocks, making it hard to ride a bicycle.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frank wrote a letter to the town council about getting the road fixed, and we went around to all the neighbors to get them to sign it. It was a good way to meet the neighbors. They all make you sit down and serve coffee or tea. Several of them keep chickens, and gave us gifts of eggs. They also have cats, to catch the mice that eat the baby chicks. One neighbor has about a dozen cats, all named "Mish”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don't buy cat food, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just give them leftovers from the table. Apparently, Italian cats like pasta.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div>BonSantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255389639738982267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5844669228475768578.post-55523291946622269462011-06-26T01:07:00.000-07:002014-12-12T09:26:03.490-08:00Trebisacce by the Sea 2009<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonnie Camo MD<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natural Medicine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homeopathy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">As promised, I am now writing from my new home in Trebisacce, Calabria, south Italy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I arrived Sunday Sept 13 at Fiumicino, the airport for Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fiumicino means “little river”, and is actually a canal built by the ancient Romans, to bring food and supplies from the sea to Rome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is still in use 2000 years later, full of fishing boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ancient Romans were master engineers, and built to last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the aqueducts they built to bring fresh water from the hills to Rome are also still in use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I will be writing from here about the real Mediterranean diet and lifestyle, as lived in this small fishing village on the Ionian Sea, the part of the Mediterranean filling the “arch” of the Italian boot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband came here to live six months ago, when he retired from his career as a bridge engineer, although he is still working from here as a consultant by internet for his old company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had planted a garden in our yard and harvested copious tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, yellow melons, and watermelons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">For breakfast here we usually have fruit and some “pecorino” cheese, made from sheep’s milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pecora</i> means sheep)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We bought some wonderful locally grown peaches, much more flavorful and colorful than even organic peaches in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t sell “organic” produce here, but they still use traditional growing methods that don’t rely on pesticides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They eat locally grown produce in season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the growing season is much longer here in the South.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The do have supermarkets even here in this little town, but most people shop at separate little shops each specializing in one thing, fruits and vegetables, cheese, breads, or meats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a fish store on every block, with dozens of kinds of fresh-caught fish, shellfish, octopus, squid, etc, caught by local fishermen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is also a farmer’s market in town a couple of days a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every yard has a few olive trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We picked about 2 quarts of olives from two of the olive trees in our yard this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have eight olive trees (called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ulivo</i>), but most of them are still too small to bear fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are going to soak the olives in salt water to remove the bitterness so we can eat them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olives right from the tree are extremely bitter and impossible to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Olives, of course are known for their health-giving properties, like lowering cholesterol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even olive leaves are used (and sold in capsules in health food stores in America) for boosting the immune system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We also have an apricot and plum trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asparagus and artichokes grow wild in our yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a huge agave plant growing on the railroad embankment behind our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Agave extract is sold in your local health food store as a natural sweetener with a low glycemic index.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We plan to put in some lemon, orange and tangerine trees next spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps also figs, persimmons, and pomegranate trees, and of course, grapevines along the fence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hope to have a greenhouse soon, to grow salad all winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our neighbor on the east side has geese, and the one on the west has chickens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We plan to build a chicken coop and raise our own eggs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Wild oregano grows on the eastern slopes of the hills in the near-by Pollino National Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oregano, besides flavoring pizza and pasta sauce, has medicinal and health-building qualities and has been described as “the cure in the cupboard”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also drunk as a curative teas, or tisane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most culinary herbs grow wild in Italy and other parts of Europe, and were brought to the US by early settlers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rosemary grows into a big bush and can even be used as a hedge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rosemary is a powerful antioxidant, once used to preserve meat, in the days before refrigeration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is good for the brain and helps preserve memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Wild greens like dandelions, chicory, arugula, broccoli raab, raddicchio, and Romaine lettuce, once disparaged in the US as “some weed the Italians eat”, of course grow wild here in Italy, and are now sold in the US at fancy prices in gourmet shops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wild greens tend to have a stronger, sometimes slightly bitter flavor, and are much higher in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals than cultivated salad greens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iceberg lettuce, as I’m sure you all know, is virtually devoid of nutritional value. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">We have been swimming in the sea, which is right in front of our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can probably absorb the minerals in sea water through the skin, if we don’t wash it off right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course, we get plenty of sun to make our own vitamin D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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