Month: January 2024

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Don’t Touch Starfish

Starfish

This is a request to all tourists, don’t touch starfish.

What happens when we lift a starfish out of water for an impromptu photo session?

All over the body of starfish are papules called dermal gills. Carbon dioxide gases are exchanged for oxygen between the coelomic liquid of the starfish and the water. Essentially, it’s how they breathe, like having hundreds of tiny noses all over your body.

As fresh air is toxic to starfish and they can’t hold their breath for very long, each time they’re lifted out of the water for a photo op, they are drowning and suffering from a build up of carbon dioxide. It’s the equivalent of someone filling your lungs with water for a little while and then emptying them again. It’s not a good day out. When this is done repeatedly, it’s a flip of the coin as to whether the poor creature can die from drowning or the stress of being semi-drowned so many times.
Wildlife are not our playthings. Just because a creature is slow enough to be caught by human hands, that doesn’t give us the right to do so, and the social media attention gained certainly does not justify the harm caused to the critter.

This is an act we’re all guilty of at some point. What was happening to that animal in the moment didn’t cross our minds. But now we know better, so we must do better.

Shared from Caluya Municipal Tourism Office

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What Is The Product Of Eating?

I wanted to share with you a concept I have of abundant versus inadequate or minimally adequate nutrition.

This concept is the culmination of many hours of reading articles and watching videos and observing life, both specifically in relation to nutrition as well as more generally in life.

Part of it comes from my wife saying to our kids when they were teenagers, “Something is not clean just because you passed a cloth over it. It is clean when it has no dirt on it. After you wipe it you need to look and see if it is clean.”

Being a software developer elevated the importance of this. Just because I wrote some code was no guarantee it would perform as desired. I needed to test it to make sure it did.

This idea of checking to see if the action performed had accomplished the desired result took another notch up in importance when, during the Covid lockdowns, I was painting a carved balustrade staircase.

Sitting on the upper floor I would reach around to the side I could not see and do what I thought would put paint on the whole thing. I would then get up, lean over the top and see all the spots I had missed. Never ceased to amaze me at how much I had missed, how necessary was the quality control function of inspecting what I thought was the finished product.

Only by stopping production (taking off the painter hat) then putting on the quality control hat and looking at what I had done to see if I had gotten the product of a fully painted surface could I be sure that I had. All too often I had not. So then I took off my quality control hat, put back on my painter hat and filled in the gaps where I hadn’t.

I am sure that this action of checking the product to see if it was complete before moving on would be a huge shock to many people. Anthony Fauci included. Let alone politicians. If they even understood the concept of a product and that their actions should produce one. But I digress.

Let’s bring this concept a little closer to home. You and your body.

With nutrition, your body does the best it can with what you give it. Give it perfect nutrition, a stress and toxin free life, fresh air and exercise and who knows, it might give you good service for 150 years. After all, the adult life of most mammals is 5-7 times their growth span. So if we are fully grown by age 25, then 5-7 times that is a lifespan of 150-200 years.

Trouble is, the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink are laden with toxins, as are the clothes we wear and the cosmetics, sun screen and cleaning products we apply to our skin. And most of us do not maintain an optimum exercise regime.

And that’s not factoring in the fact that most of us eat a nutritionally deficient diet.

When we do not take in an adequate amount of nutrients for the body to operate optimally it cannot perform all functions. It has to reduce the functionality it performs. What’s it going to reduce? It does not tell the lungs to skip every third breath, the heart to skip every second beat or the brain to only perform every second calculation you request of it.

It puts on hold the maintenance functions, the anti-cancer, cleansing and restorative functions that are not required 24/7. It puts them on hold till next day or next week or next month, when we up our nutrition. You can see where I’m going with this. If we never up our nutrition to make up for what we missed, we never catch up on those deferred functions.

So, how do you determine what is an adequate level of nutrition? Well, don’t trust the RDI (Recommended Dietary Intake) as published by the government bodies of various countries. I was horrified to learn the criterion by which they set the level of RDI is that quantity of a nutrient that is sufficient to ensure 95% of people do not suffer a clinical deficiency of that nutrient. WHAT! So at least 5% of people are going to be clinically deficient even if they diligently consume the RDI! Let alone what other functionality we miss out on by only aiming to barely attain the minimum! No thought of abundance or flourishing. Just, “Let’s almost hit minimum for all.”

(Just went looking for a reference for this and the latest data I found: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/images/nutrient-refererence-dietary-intakes.pdf
Said, “Usual intake at or above this level has a low
probability of inadequacy”)

If civil engineers did that with their specifications we’d be having collapsing bridges every other day! I believe they factor in a 20% margin over maximum recommended load. And nobody would aspire to be an astronaut if rockets designers had that parameter!

So, why do we have it in our food specifications? It couldn’t be that the biggest funders make money from people being fat, sick and lazy and on their drugs. That’s just a conspiracy theory.

As a matter of fact much of what we regard as an “acceptable standard” in society is far less than optimum. It is regarded as “commercially viable”.

So, if you were being smart about it, how would you ensure you lived a healthy, enjoyable life for as long as possible? Well, you’d consume the best nutrition you could, you’d minimise your exposure to toxins, you’d do what you could to remove toxins from your body, you’d maintain a regular exercise routine, minimise your stress .

Those are the actions you would take to achieve the product of an optimally operating body.

But how do you do quality control on your body? How do you ‘look on the other side of the balustrading’ to see if you are attaining your product.

Every so often you’d get a blood/hair test of key nutrients and toxins to test your progress. To see if you were achieving the product you were working hard to attain.

Some of the key blood tests I mention in my book, ‘How To Live The Healthiest Life’ are:

CoQ10
C-Reactive Protein
Glutathione
Homocysteine
Insulin
Sedimentation Rate
Triglycerides
Vitamin D3
Vitamin B12

Super Nutrition:
https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Greens-Plus.html
Standard Detox:
https://www.healthelicious.com.au/Nutri-Blast-Detox-Blend.html
Anti-Spike Detox:
https://www.healthelicious.com.au/NutriBlast-Anti-Spike.html

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What imagination can do!

Kermit and Jim

Back in 1955, a mom named Elizabeth Henson was cleaning out her clothes closet. You know how it goes. Things get old, tattered, don’t fit anymore or become out of style. The smell of mothballs and mildew accompanied these things.

Eventually Elizabeth came to an old, fuzzy, frayed lightweight green jacket. It had outlived its usefulness for sure. It was fit only for the throwaway pile. However, to her surprise, her college age son asked if he could have it.

Why would he want a worthless thing whose time had come and gone? The request didn’t make much sense, but she handed over the green coat.

The son went to work. Armed with scissors, needles and thread and a ton of vision he shaped, crafted and designed. He cut a ping pong ball in half for eyes.

Who would have ever imagined that a misfit green garment would become an American icon, date a prima donna pig, play an Oscar nominated song and impact millions.

The old green coat became the first Kermit the Frog, and the son was Jim Henson.

Credit: Michael Sprague

(Tom: Stick THAT in your pike and smoke it Yuval Noah Harari!

Man IS is spiritual being who DOES have free will, rights and is NOT just a meat body!

Despite what Materialists say, imagination does not come from one cell or an aggregation of cells in the body. It is the direct product of a being. Some would even say that the prime purpose of a being is the purpose to create.)

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Yuval Noah Harari, says “Human rights are a fiction.”

Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari, says “Human rights are a fiction.”
“Like Heaven and like God – it’s just a fictional story that we’ve invented and spread around.
It’s just a story – it is not a biological reality. Just as ostriches have no rights – homo sapiens have no rights.
States and nations, like God and Heaven they are just stories. Israel and United States are just stories.” – Yuval Noah Harari
(Tom: This is the Materialist hard at work invalidating God, the fact that you are a spiritual being, the fact that these artificial constructs (Human Rights) are agreements between ourselves, civilizing influences on which we agree to make a better world by providing ‘lines in the sand’.
We have rights because we agree that we have rights. We do not have to have a “human rights” organ in our body to have human Rights.
Get enough people to agree that we do not have rights because they are an agreement and not an object and we will cease to have rights. This is what Yuval wants.
Well I say ‘phooey’ to Yuval! I agree we have rights so I am going to set an example and spread the word to you that YOU DO HAVE RIGHTS!
I hope you also agree that we have rights and also share the word.
If enough people share the word that we have rights then his words will fade, unheeded and be lost in the echoes of a planned dark future that we successfully avoided.)