Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Restaurants are getting dinged by the convenience of Netflix, the advent of pre-made meals, the spread of online grocery delivery, plus crushing student debt and a focus on healthy eating. Eighty-two percent of American meals are prepared at home — more than were cooked 10 years ago, according to researcher NPD Group Inc. The latest peak in restaurant-going was in 2000, when the average American dined out 216 times a year. That figure fell to 185 for the year ended in February, NPD said.
This meme is an appropriate encapsulation of where this society is headed.
I received this email about a topic that is of great importance to any woman who has taken a hormonal birth control pill.
I just didn’t know this affected so many women. Or that so many of the women I love might be at risk.
In a recent conversation with my friend Dr. Jolene Brighten, I learned that every woman who has used hormonal birth control is at risk for Post-Birth Control Syndrome.
PBCS is defined by Dr. Brighten as ”the collection of disruptive symptoms women face once they’ve concluded the use of hormonal birth control.”
Women may struggle with any of the following since starting or getting off birth control:
Headaches
Hair loss
Libido loss
Mood swings
Insomnia
Depression
Anxiety
Chronic yeast infections
Chronic UTIs
Cystic acne, outbreaks, and rashes
Irregular or nonexistent periods
Painful or heavy periods
And the most heartbreaking part? PBCS can make it impossible to have children on your own once you’ve stopped birth control. Know anyone struggling to conceive? This could be why.
To help women everywhere, Dr. Brighten is hosting Post-Birth Control Syndrome Awareness Week November 5-11, 2018.
During this special week, you can take online classes (without paying anything) to learn more about PBCS, how to heal it and how to avoid it.
Because this is so critically important and because over 90% of women will take birth control at some point in their life, I’m going to ask you to do something I rarely do: share this.
Together we can put an end to the silent suffering women face and we can let women everywhere know that it’s not “all in her head.”
Learn more and sign up for Post-Birth Control Syndrome Awareness Week here
Gotta love Mark Twain!
I read this little story on Facebook and wrote this comment. Read the story first then my comment. Hope you get something from one of them!
While this is true, progress comes from constructive impatience with the way things are compared to how they could/should be.
Personal growth comes from closing the gap between where we are and our full potential.
No great person (by that I mean a person of great accomplishment) was ever satisfied to rest on their laurels.
Major changes for the better in society will only occur when we as individuals step up to the challenge of making them happen. Each day your actions, large and small, send out ripples in our mutual pond. Make your ripples count for the better!
Ignore your looks, they matter but little. It’s who you are that matters more. Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s life as an example of that! (https://www.thoughtco.com/eleanor-roosevelt-1779802) Only yesterday I was reading a story of how much she was invalidated in her youth yet she was able to get the Universal Declaration of Huma Rights enacted. What a great accomplishment!
Currently solutions are being conceived and implemented for many of the things that are wrong with society. If you are not happy with some aspect of your personality, your actions or your results, create or forward a purpose in which you believe and this will make you feel a whole lot better about yourself and others!
To a happier you!
I signed a petition to members of parliament a while ago. Since then I have been on Labor’s email newsletter list. Today I received an email detailing the week’s activities in parliament from their perspective. So I responded.
Tony, thanks for your email documenting what you consider to be the highlights of this week in Parliament from Labor’s perspective.
But I fear you have completely missed the boat on two of the most treasonous acts ever to be waged on the Australian people by those the elected in trust to do right by their constituents rather than their corporate sponsors.
The first was the passing of the TPP with the provisions intact that corporations can sue our government in court. Not just any court of peers as specified in Magna Carta, but one not of peers of the realm. This has the potential of exposing we the public, via our government, to billions of dollars of damages awarded to companies against whom the government legislation was perceived as impacting negatively on their profits. Never mind the benefit of the legislation to the people or the harm of the company’s activities! Hang your head in shame both Liberal and Labor for that one!
The second act of treason was the failure to enact legislation to break up the banks and separate their deposit taking activities from their risky investment activities, exposed as they are to trillions of dollars worth of derivatives bubble. This puts at risk the savings of every bank depositor, large and small, corporate and private, of having those savings “appropriated” via a “bail-in” measure. Hang your heads in shame again, both Labor and Liberal!
October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the U.S. National Mammography Day is October 19. Vitamin D optimization could potentially eliminate a vast majority of breast cancers, yet this key information is completely ignored by conventional breast cancer awareness campaigns
Most cancers occur in people with a vitamin D blood level between 10 and 40 ng/mL, and the optimal level for cancer protection has been identified as being between 60 and 80 ng/mL
Research shows having a vitamin D blood level above 60 ng/mL lowers your risk of breast cancer by more than 80 percent, compared to having a level below 20 ng/mL
Recent research shows postmenopausal women who receive a diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to have low vitamin D and be overweight than women who receive a negative diagnosis
This year, do your breast health a real favor and get your vitamin D level checked. One of the easiest and most cost-effective ways of doing this is to enroll in the D*Action Breast Cancer Prevention project, which now includes both vitamin D and omega-3 testing
The Morning Call of Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania is now reporting that one nurse’s aide has been awarded $11.6 million for being paralyzed with GBS after receiving a flu shot. This is newsworthy, because pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued in civil court for damages due to vaccines. Congress gave them total immunity to such lawsuits in 1986 and that law was upheld by the pro-Pharma Supreme Court in 2011. Sales of vaccines include a tax that is paid to fund a special court where government attorneys fight for the U.S. government to prevent paying out damages due to vaccines. It is a long and difficult process, so settled cases represent only a tiny fraction of the amount of vaccine damaged people in our society.
