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Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 22:06 in preparedness
For several years I've been clipping and saving newspaper and magazine articles on being prepared for emergencies. They were neatly stored in a folder in my desk.In the middle of October I began putting the information in that folder to work. We no...
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Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 21:29 in recipes
I made Mom's recipe for beef burgundy in the oven a couple of Saturdays ago when beef stew meat was on sale at Whole Foods. We had it for Sunday dinner and I put the rest into the freezer with rice--six dinners I can defrost in the refrigerator over...
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Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 22:56 in health books
Here are thoughtful books by two American doctors about reforming our health care system.A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicineby Len Saputo M.D. promotes the concept of integral-health medicine based on serving pa...
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Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 09:44 in Cancer, health books
I just discovered last night that when I published a post called Outsmarting Cancer a couple of weeks ago, I linked to the Amazon.com record of an earlier, out-of-print edition of the book I was so enthusiastic about promoting. Here's the link to th...
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Posted on Sunday October 4th, 2009 at 23:14 in self-help, personal growth books
I love this book. I wish I could memorize it so I could remember what it says when I get stressed out. It's been a refuge I've enjoyed visiting over the past few weeks.The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Ope...
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Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 21:30 in breast cancer, health books
Here's a book about alternative cancer treatments that is energizing and hopeful. And it is also maddening, because much of the information has been suppressed for decades in the U.S. I feel really cheated about that. Outsmart Your Cancer: Alterna...
Bob Oshel
Beautifully written and insightful. I recently started putting freshly ground flax seeds onto my steel-cut oatmeal with goat milk in the mornings - you can't imagine how many systems are flowing much better now. I bought the Cuisinart SG-10 Electric Spice-and-Nut Grinder, which has a removeable bowl - very nice design. Keep those blogs coming, Gwenyth! Sooner or later everyone will realize that we are killing ourselves slowly when we buy processed food-like products and toilettries/cosmetics saturated with cheap, unregulated poisons. When we stop buying stuff in the center aisles of the grocery store and start buying from the local farms and markets, we will begin to win the battle and become a healthy population that no longer strains our "sick-care" infrastructure. Shopping is a political act. Learn to decipher the literary genre that is label-reading, and vote for health by not buying cheap food-like pruducts. Michael Pollen's guideline is "if the label has more than 5 ingredients, don't buy it." I would add, if the product includes an ingredient that you can't pronounce, don't buy it. Remember, you are the only person in the world that has a vested interest in your own health - stay informed, keep reading, ask questions, and don't buy it if you don't know what's in it or where it came from.
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