Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Gets the point across!
One of my best mates had a near fatal heart attack Friday.
He was a smoker till then.
As were most of the guys in the Cardiac Care Unit.
The nurse looked at an image of his heart and said he had been smoking for over 40 years – which was true. Apparently smoking causes a change in the shape of the heart and this young girl had seen enough to know pretty well by the shape of the heart how long a person had been inhaling cigarette smoke.
The idea that depression and other mental health conditions are caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that it seems almost sacrilegious to question it.
http://chriskresser.com/the-chemical-imbalance-myth
Obsessed is a term used by the lazy to describe the dedicated!
No matter how slow you are going you’re still lapping the person on the couch!
Canola is genetically modified rape seed oil – a poison. It is cheap so many manufacturers are turning to it. It’s not easy to find bread made without it. Not that we should be eating bread, just saying.
“Rapeseed oil is poisonous to living things and is an excellent insect repellent. I have been using it (in very diluted form, as per instructions) to kill the aphids on my roses for the last two years. It works very well; it suffocates them. Ask for it at your nursery. Rape is an oil that is used as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base and as an illuminate for color pages in magazines. It is an industrial oil. It is not a food. Rape oil, it seems, causes emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, constipation, irritability, and blindness in animals and humans. Rape oil was widely used in animal feeds in England and Europe between 1986 and 1991, when it was thrown out. Remember the “Mad Cow disease” scare, when millions of cattle in the UK were slaughtered in case of infecting humans? Cattle were being fed on a mixture containing material from dead sheep, and sheep suffer from a disease called “scrapie”. It was thought this was how “Mad Cow” began and started to infiltrate the human chain. What is interesting is that when rape oil was removed from animal feed, ‘scrapie’ disappeared. We also haven’t seen any further reports of “Mad Cow” since rape oil was removed from the feed.”
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/health_risks/canola_oil.html
This guy is awesome, please share this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=P-KA3ZTD6V4
Jon’s articles area great enlightenment on how your body works. Knowledge is power.
http://www.jonbarron.org/immunity/anatomy-physiology-immune-system-b-cells
Someone asked me for alternative sweeteners this week. Here’s what I jotted off to her:
Agave Syrup – Living Earth (www.raw-chocolate.net)
Blackstrap molasses – Health food shop http://www.naturalnews.com/026296_molasses_health_sugar.html
Honey – Coles or Health food shop
Maple syrup – Health food shop
Stevia – Coles, Health food shop or Morlife
Xylitol – Morlife
Editor’s note: This article and video are in reference to a 1997 four-part investigative series on one of Monsanto’s most controversial products, which never aired. The story remains an important lesson in media censorship and how Monsanto wields its high-powered legal division in order to silence the full truth from ever reaching a wide audience.
One of the most puzzling aspects of the GMO experiment in the United States is what’s going on in other nations in comparison to here.
For example, over 30 countries worldwide currently institute some sort of ban on GMO crops, and both Europe and Canada also have banned the bovine growth hormone drug rBGH, which has been the source of great controversy behind the scenes in the United States.
All that controversy reached a breaking point at one local news station in Florida, where two investigative reporters sought out to find the truth about one of Monsanto’s most highly profitable, and highly controversial, products.
The reporters, Steven Wilson and Jane Akre, went to great lengths in order to expose links to cancer and these Monsanto products, crafting a hard-hitting story that could have saved the health of millions of Americans.
But instead of being rewarded for their courage and due diligence, they were subjected to the ultimate betrayal, losing their jobs over what could have been the most ground-breaking health story in decades.
Let me tell you about a little girl who was born into a very poor family in a shack in the backwoods of Tennessee. She was the 20th of 22 children, prematurely born and frail. Her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she had double pneumonia and scarlet fever-a deadly combination that left her with a paralysed and useless left leg. She had to wear an iron leg brace. Yet she was fortunate in having a mother who encouraged her.
Well, this mother told her little girl, who was very bright, that despite the brace and the leg, she could do whatever she wanted to do with her life. She told her that all she needed to do was to have faith, persistence, courage and an indomitable spirit.
So at nine years of age, the little girl removed the leg brace and took the step the doctors told her she would never take normally. In four years, she developed a rhythmic stride, which was a medical wonder. Then this girl got the notion, the incredible notion that she would like to be the worlds greatest runner. Now, what could she mean — be a runner with a leg like that ?
At age 13, she entered a race. She came in last—–way, way last. She entered every race in high school, and in every race she came in last. Everyone begged her to quit. However, one day, she came in next to last. And then there came a day when she won a race. From then on, Wilma Rudolph won every race she entered.
Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a coach named Ed Temple. Coach Temple saw the indomitable spirit of the girl, that she was a believer and that she had great natural talent. He trained her so well that in 1960 she went to the Olympic Games in Rome. There she was pitted against the greatest female runner of the day, a German girl named Jutta Heine.
Nobody had ever beaten Jutta. But in the 100 metre sprint Wilma Rudolph won. She beat Jutta again in the 200 metres.Wilma had just earned 2 Olympic gold medals. Finally came the 400 metre relay. It would be Wilma against Jutta once again.The first 2 runners on Wilma’s team made perfect handoffs with the baton. But when the 3rd handed the baton to Wilma, she was so excited she dropped it, and Wilma saw Jutta taking off down the track.
It was impossible that anybody could catch this fleet and nimble girl. But Wilma did just that! Wilma Rodolph had earned her 3rd Olympic Gold Medal.That day she made history as she became the first woman ever to win three gold medals in the same Olympic Games. And they said she would never walk again……… !
Do you have someone telling you that you cannot do or achieve something that you really want to do?
Well, who do you believe?