The Role of Magnesium in Preventing Bone Loss

Magnesium is a co-factor with calcium in preventing bone loss. According to the Nutritional Magnesium Association 75-80 percent of Americans are chronically deficient in it. Here’s what you need to know about how magnesium works to create bone, and the best sources to get it from.
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What if you are at risk to develop Osteoporosis?
For anyone at risk of osteoporosis, the picture is quite different than the conventional norm. The trend has been to recommend calcium supplements to prevent bone loss, but scientific studies do not support such large doses especially after menopause. Soft tissue calcification can result from taking too much calcium. Continue reading

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The Skinny on Preventing Bone Loss

Preventing bone loss is important. All through our lives, we are warned by doctors, health advisors at health food stores, ads on TV, and well meaning family and friends, to take calcium to keep our bones strong. The ads tout “Drink Milk!” But are calcium supplements and milk really the answer to preventing bone loss? Consider this.
cow eating grass
We are told to drink milk because of its calcium. Well, if that’s the case where do cows get their calcium from? A cow doesn’t drink milk. What do cows eat? Grass! Grass is a green plant. Cows get their calcium from eating green plants. Keep that in the back of your mind as you read this. Continue reading

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The Rise of Tyranny An Interview With Jonathan Emord

Book by Jonathan EmordA riveting interview by Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot with a man who has eloquence, intelligence, vision, and above all honesty and a passion for justice.

Attorney Jonathan Emord contends that the drug companies own congress. They control the passing of laws in their favor. They get passed almost 100% of laws that they want to put into force. They write and decide what congress will pass. They influence the FDA commissioner, push drugs with adverse side-effects, and they heavily influence the conduct of congress.

Congressman Dan Boren affirmed: “There is really no bill, that if the drug industry wants it bad enough, won’t get passed”. Continue reading

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Will Flying on Long-Haul Flights Shorten Your Lifespan?

Air Travel is part of our lives. There is mounting evidence that flying shortens your lifespan. This is especially true for those who frequently travel long-haul flights. Airlines have conducted studies and found shorter life expectancy among airline personnel, but these studies have, as yet, not been made public.
passengers boarding a plane I recently came across some interesting information on how air travel affects the human system, and can disrupt our health. Even holiday flyers need to know how flying can stress the body and how to protect themselves from adverse effects when traveling. This is based on the understanding of the body as an electric field, which can be disrupted and experience interference with normal functioning during long-haul flights.

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Are You Living with Brain Fog?

brain fogOne of the scariest “brain fog” episodes I found myself in, happened about ten years ago. I was in a mall and casually going from store to store, when I realized I couldn’t remember why I had gone there. Now that’s not uncommon. I could have easily rationalized it by saying: “Well I’m just browsing around the mall”. However, when I got back to my car, I drew a blank on how to find my way home. For a few scary moments, nothing would register. Eventually, it all came back to me. But after that I started asking around, to see if others were experiencing anything like this.

I found that “Brain fog” is happening to more and more of us. If it happens once, you can laugh it off. But when it starts to happen with some regularity, you start to wonder: “What’s happening to me?” Continue reading

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Your Conscious Feelings Create Your Reality

the matrixIs it true that our conscious feelings create our reality? Watch this video and decide for yourself.

In this 10 minute video, you’ll hear short snippets from: Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, David Wilcock, David Icke, Michael Talbot, Gregg Braden, David Lynch, James Traitz, Robert Anton Wilson, Neil Kramer, Grant Morrison, and Bill Hicks.

The video ends with Bill Hick’s epic performance of “Life is Just a Ride” which he gave in London in 1992, just two years before his death at the age of 32. For excerpts from this video see below. Continue reading

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How to Protect Your Thyroid

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I’m not a medical expert but I like to share useful information along with the sources, when I find it in my online research, so you can check it out.

That way you can get some quick information here and decide if you wish to explore it further. Continue reading

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Healthy Fats vs. Deadly Fats

right fatsThe word “fat” throws off a lot of people. But not all fats are bad. In fact, if your brain is to continue running clearly, and your memory is to remain intact, you need essential fatty acids (EFAs) in your diet. People who don’t have enough EFA’s in their foods eventually start to complain of brain fog. The key is to be able to distinguish the ‘good fats’ from the ‘bad fats’.

Which Are the Bad Fats?
There are ‘saturated’ and there are ‘unsaturated’ fats. It’s saturated fats that have given ‘fat’ a bad name. Continue reading

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Navigating the Menopausal Years

Menopause the Musical Most of us sail along in life unaware of the key role our hormones play in our everyday lives until we bump up against Perimenopause and later Menopause. Then all of a sudden things change.

We can’t get a good night’s sleep, our libido disappears, things that never bothered us before, begin to irritate and annoy us, moodiness and impatience seem to take over our lives. We start to gain weight, experience brain fog, short-term memory lapses, tiredness. Hot flashes, night sweats, and heavy periods signal unmistakably, that something is happening to our hormones. Our family and friends are the first to notice the changes, and no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to find the way back to normalcy. Continue reading

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10 Ways to Protect From Radiation Fallout

Radiation Warning Sign
Daily Exposure to Radiation
In March 2011, we all began living under daily radiation, both chemical and biological. Much of it is invisible to the naked eye. The effects of it may not be felt for years, even decades. But nonetheless, we are living in a time when man-made catastrophes are threatening the health of all humans living on earth.

Why? Because we must now eat, and drink contaminated food and water. We must breathe the heavy metal particles in the air that are circulating around the atmosphere from the Japanese Fukushima nuclear reactor explosions. Continue reading

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Food Cures For What Ails You

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Are you suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, headaches, or arthritis? You may be able to turn things around and feel better through your food choices.

Treating Diabetes with Chromium Containing Foods
Diabetes, can be brought on by a deficiency in a mineral called chromium which helps the body use insulin. Chromium is found in onions, tomatoes, beef and sweet potatoes. Eating these foods can lower your LDL cholesterol levels too. One of the most effective foods for lowering blood sugar levels is cinnamon. Cinnamon mimics insulin and lowers blood sugar by up to 20%. Look for recipes that use this ingredient and make it a staple in your diet.

Treating High Blood Pressure with Celery
High Blood Pressure responds to celery. There’s a compound in celery called “apigenin” which dilates the blood vessels and releases the pressure. And another component called 3-n-butylphthaide which lowers adrenaline. See if you can eat a couple of uncooked stalks of celery each day. They taste great with a little mayonnaise on them. Other foods containing apigen are: apples, cherries, and green tea. Continue reading

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What’s Wrong with Drinking Soda Pop?

I grew up drinking Pepsi, Orange Crush, Root Beer and 7-Up. My father used to buy wooden crates of it – in glass bottles of 24. He would keep the crates in the garage. And we all knew where to get our favorite drink. By the time I was eight, my teeth were full of cavities.
Is soda pop a familiar part of your day?
This is an actual advertisement from 1955. The small print says:

“Why we have the youngest customers in the business. This young man is 11 months old and he isn’t our youngest customer by any means. For 7-Up is so pure, so wholesome, you can give it to babies and feel good about it. By the way Mom, when it comes to toddlers, if they have to be coaxed to drink their milk, try this. Add 7-Up to the milk in equal parts.”

Unbelievable! Can you imagine an ad like that today? But the advertisers of that time knew what they were doing. They were establishing family habits. Because they knew the habits that we grow up with are passed on through generations. Perhaps you may need to take a closer look at what kind of soda you drink. Continue reading

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Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Making You Fat?

made with real sugar Pepsi

You know that something is wrong when you see ads touting: “Made with Real Sugar“.

What’s Wrong With High Fructose Corn Syrup?
Foods used to be made with real sugar, which was something we tried to avoid. Now manufacturers have discovered how to save money by using corn syrups instead of sugar to sweeten their products.

We are seeing the results of this change on the streets, as people balloon up into grotesque shapes and sizes.

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Hidden Dangers in Your Home

Hidden Hazards at Home

We all know that there are chemical hazards in the household cleaners we use. Cleaners – for clothes, floors, carpets, dishes and cookware are something we come into contact with on a regular basis. Yet more and more toxic chemicals are being added to these cleaners to make them more powerful. It’s wise to spend a little time reading the ingredient list on your cleaners – that is, if you can find it – and to look for eco-friendly products when you buy your cleaners. If you can’t understand the ingredient list that’s a clue that maybe you should not be using that product.

But cleaners aren’t the only thing that pose a health risk in our homes. Here are some hidden health hazards you may not be aware of. Continue reading

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The Secrets of Lucky People

Lucky Cards

‘Luck’ goes by many names: premonition, synchronicity, intuition, hunches — whatever we call it, it is a creative channel through which warnings or information that are beneficial to us in some way flow into our lives.

Winston Churchill Relied on Intuition
During WW2, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had numerous premonitions that not only saved his own life but the lives of many around him. His wife, Lady Clementine, described one occasion in her biography My Darling Clementine: The Story of Lady Churchill, which occurred during the London “blitz”.
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How to Create the Life You Want – in 30 Days

Live, Laugh Love
Here is a mantra to help recreate your life in 30 days:
Today, no matter where I go, no matter what I am doing, no matter whom I’m with, it’s my dominant intent to look for that which I am wanting to see, which makes me feel good when I see it.

It takes 30 days to establish a new way of thinking or acting, so it becomes a comfortable habit. The video below called “Setting Your Vibrational Tone” by Esther Hicks offers some pointers to help you create the life you want. See if it’s worth the effort to you.

After the video you will find a summary of my thoughts with a selection of quotes taken from the video.

What Vibration are You Offering to the Universe?
“We are vibrational beings living in a vibrational universe. What I am thinking and what I am receiving are always a vibrational match.” Continue reading

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How to Be Happy Now

Be Happy“I’ve got the bowl, the bone and the big yard. I know I should be happy.”

Recently – while waiting my turn, during one of those fleeting moments in a line up, I shared a few moments with a woman, who told me she had traveled all over the world.

She was wearing fashionable clothes, and had a toned and fit body. Her long blond hair was silky and healthy. She and her husband, of 20 years, were planning a trip down to the Bahamas to ‘Columbus Isle’ over Christmas. Continue reading

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The Game is To Find Out Who We Already Are

Cat Looking in MirrorWhen I think back, I realize that I spent the first 30 years of my life trying to “become” something. I saw everything from that perspective. I wanted to become really good at everything I did – at school, on the job, my relationships and so on. I believed that I wasn’t good enough the way I was, but if I could become good at something, then I could be someone.
Now I know I had the game wrong. The game is to find out who we already are, not to become something.

It’s Not the Differences But the Similarities Between Us That Matter
In our culture we’ve been trained to look for individual differences in each other. The other kid is brighter or dumber, taller or shorter, richer or poorer, than we are. We make a whole lot of dimensional distinctions and put people in categories, label them and treat them that way. And we get so, we only see others in the ways that they are different or separate from us. Continue reading

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Where will you be 5 years from today?

5 Year Plan

Have you set up your New Year’s goals yet? January is a good time to set your goals for the New Year. Make it fun. Sit back, close your eyes, and let yourself dream.

First You Must Dream
Dream about what you’d like to have, achieve, do, accomplish in the next year.

Imagine Yourself Living Your Dream
It’s important to imagine yourself with that new figure, new car, new house/apartment, working in a new job, in a new lifestyle – whatever it is you want. If you can see yourself in your mind’s eye in that dream, chances are better that you’ll get there.

Decide What You Want
Begin deciding on what you really want. Set a time frame for each goal, from 1 year up to 5 years. Continue reading

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Is Time Really Speeding Up?

Time Speeding Up

Over the past five years I’ve noticed time speeding up. At first I thought it was my imagination. Then I thought I just wasn’t being efficient enough with my time. Then I thought it was me slowing down as I got older. I kept blaming myself because I couldn’t get through all I wanted to do in a day.

But I hear it from so many people of all ages. We are rushing around struggling to get it all done, believing that eventually we’ll get it all done and then we can relax.

Will I Ever Get It All Done?

Even on vacation, I kept thinking, this is such a waste of time sitting here trying to relax, when I could get on the computer check my email, and do all those things now, that I’ve postponed, that are waiting for me when I get back. Continue reading

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Is Triclosan in Your Toothpaste?

Here is an example of using something for years that I never even knew was dangerous to my health.
Triclosan
Triclosan has been used for decades as an antibacterial or antimicrobial in common household products like toothpaste and liquid soap and even cosmetics. Yet it is known to disrupt hormones, lower sperm production and harm the immune system.

It was first approved for use in 1969, as a pesticide only, by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . In 2008 it was reviewed again, and it continues to be approved only as a pesticide, due to its damaging effects on the human body: including paralysis, sterility, and damage to the liver, kidneys, heart and lungs. Continue reading

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Living Consciously

Living ConsciouslyI’ve started this blog as a way of becoming more conscious and mindful of my life – to slow myself down, so that I’m going about my daily life with more of a subjective awareness of each moment.

I’ve been trying, off and on for years to get into a habit of meditation. I knew I needed it to slow myself down, so that I’m going about my daily life with more of a conscious awareness.

My Journey to Consciousness

On Dec 11th, 2010 as I was preparing something in the kitchen using a hand-held blender, and without thinking of what I was doing, I put my finger near the blade to scoop something out from around it, and I ended up in emergency waiting 5 hours for a Plastic Surgeon to reattach my finger.

Update: A year later – January 2012, my finger is fine, the nail has grown back, it looks normal, I have normal use of it, and normal feeling has been restored to about 85%.

Let me say that really slowed me down — and got me thinking. What am I doing with all this running around like a mad rabbit? I don’t live in the present moment anymore.

This isn’t the first time I’ve been both figuratively and literally hit on the head. I think it’s to make me stop and re-examine my life.
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