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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zopiclone + Seniors = Bad Mix</span></span></h2>
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cyclopyrrilones which also include eszopiclone (Lunesta), zolpiderm (Ambien)
and zaleplon (Sonata). They are also called Z Drugs, because they all start
with Z and it’s a convenient, neat marketing tool for drugs that helps you get
the ZZZ’s. So clever, these pharmaceutical people. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">increase in GABA activity produces relaxation</span></td></tr>
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them as non-benzodiazepine, removing them from the tainted reputation of
Xanax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The developers of the drug found <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a different <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mechanism of action. Whereas benzodiazepine
drugs mimic GABA (gamma-amino butyric acid) at the receptors, the
cyclopyrrilones increase the transmission of GABA. The net effect is the same:
they both increase the effect of GABA. Side effects and drug cessation symptoms
are similar between zopiclone and benzodiazepine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not necessarily a better drug, but the
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neurotransmitter in the brain and reduces excitability of neurons. It manages
this by increasing the passage of chloride ions into the neuron cells, leading
to decreased neuronal activity, increased relaxation and decreased anxiety. </span></span></div>
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energetic and jittery? Caffeine does this by neutralizing GABA in the brain. So
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plasma levels in seniors. When compared to non-seniors, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plasma levels were higher by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>168% and the plasma<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>half-life of the drug increased from 5.1
hours to 8.1 hours. In seniors, not only does the drug stay around longer, it also
reaches more than double the blood level. Gaillot (1987) explains that this
double whammy is a result of the extensive hepatic (liver) metabolism of the
drug. Reduced liver metabolism in seniors causes the difference. The real
effect of this is morning sedation and grogginess through the day after. </span></span></div>
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zopiclone, temazepam and a placebo on the driving ability of the elderly and
found that zopiclone impairs the driving ability for 11 hours after it is
taken. This poses a hazard for the typical senior who sleeps at 11 o’clock and
drives at 9:00 the next morning to go to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tim Horton’s .. because he needs that cup of doubledouble. He/she<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is more likely to have driving impairment
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zopiclones action is through its active metabolite, desmethylzopiclone, which
is even more powerful than the parent compound. Although the hypnotic (sleep
inducing) activity of the drug is from the unchanged parent drug, the active
metabolite desmethylzopiclone inhibits NMDA (N-methyl-D-asparate) in the brain
as well as blocking nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. NMDA is an excitatory
neurotransmitter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and has been studied in
the breeding o<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">f</span> “Doogie Mice”. These mice learn very quickly ( the reference is
to Doogie Howser, MD) since their NMDA receptors are stimulated. NMDA is
responsible for learning and remembering new information. Suppression of NMDA
activity by the zopiclone metabolite leads to degradation of these learning
skills. Is it possible that zopiclone makes you dumber? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blocking of the nicotinic acetylcholine
receptors causes anti-chollinergic side effects such as dry mouth, loss of
balance and bladder infections. Most seniors already suffer from these
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disturbance<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of motor coordination. This
is a result of three effects:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
blocking of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by desmethylzopiclone causes
dizziness. Secondly, the prolonged grogginess is from the extended half-life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thirdly, the inhibition of GABA transmission
affects body balance through a mechanism called the sway effect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A study by Mets (2010) measured the impairment
of body balance and concluded that the elderly patients on zopiclone are more
likely to fall, leading to possible fractures. Combined with increased
incidence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of osteoporosis in the elderly
(especially in female seniors),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the sway
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In North America, every 18 seconds, a senior is admitted in the hospital due to a fall</td></tr>
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</span>measured cognitive and psychomotor impairment in elderly patients who
have been taking zopiclone and found that the problem persists for six months
after the drug is stopped. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do not stop your zopiclone suddenly. Talk to your
physician. There is complete list of drugs that are not recommended for the
elderly. It was first published by Dr. Mark Beers in 1991 and in this list,
there are recommended alternative prescription drugs. Called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Beers List</b>, it recommends low dose
trazodone and low dose doxepin as alternatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Please do not ask your doctor for his beer list, that is another thing
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Beers List, not the beer list</td></tr>
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to successfully navigate the withdrawal from the drug so that the cessation
symptoms are reduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes
described as the wash in-wash out method, it involves compounding dilutions of
the zopiclone (as little as 5% increments) over a period of ten to twenty
weeks. This is available with a prescription order from you doctor and can be
compounded by Marigold Compounding Pharmacy.</span></span></div>
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considerations are sleep hygiene techniques, meditation, Traditional Chinese
Medicine, homeopathic medicine,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>teas,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>progressive muscle
relaxation, magnesium and medicinal herbs. In combination, these strategies
have been found successful in restoring sleep.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">magnesium helps sleep and is a common deficiency</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Godzilla...meet a scarier monster: Diarzilla!</td></tr>
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movie Godzilla, the scary monster rises from the sea and everyone runs. With
the attack of Norovirus (NV), aka Diarzilla, people run…to the bathroom.</span></span></span></h4>
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vomiting and explosive diarrhea unabated for three days is no laughing matter.
It will literally bring you to your knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are about 21 million norovirus cases per year in North
America and it is often confused with food poisonings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Understanding the virus gives us tools on how
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know its Diarzilla? The mark of the virus is its virulence and speed. One day
you are on top of the world and the next day you are in deep..umm.. doodoo
(scientific term). This will last pretty much continuously for 20 to 60 hours
and then it will stop. The gestation period is two to three days so in that
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symptoms are similar to bacterial food poisoning, but there are few
differences. If it is a bacteria (for example, salmonella), you will be the
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cases, loss of body electrolytes lead to other symptoms of fatigue, muscle
pain, headaches, stomach cramps and dizziness. This is of special importance
for infants and children who can get dehydrated just like that! You did not see
me snap my fingers, but I did.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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thing to keep in mind is that NV is a nosocomial virus. This super fancy word
means that is incubates in closed settings such as nursing homes, hospitals,
cruise ships, schools, and restaurants. All it takes is for one person to start
the contamination pattern, such as a worker not washing hands after going to
the bathroom. In cruise ship epidemics, the virus has been traced to shellfish
or oysters which pick up the virus from sewage waters running into the ocean. Maybe
it’s a cycle of cruise ships dumping sewage into the ocean. How many cruise
ships get norovirus epidemics? About 14 a year. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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happens? The virus spreads by fecal-oral route…fecal matter carrying the virus
makes it way into your gut either through food (contaminated by a food handler)
or more simply, by your hands touching your mouth. In a study by Verani (2014)
on contamination of surfaces in a hospital setting, 78% of surfaces were found
contaminated. This included counter tops, door handles, bed rails, telephones,
floors, windowsills… all of these outside the bathroom. A person flushing the
toilet creates an aerosol of droplets which contaminate surfaces. Once these
droplets spread on hard surfaces (floor, sink and counter top), they are carried
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Verhoef (2010) traced two genotypes of the virus and determined that 21% of all
outbreaks are from food borne sources (for example, shellfish) with the rest
being from fecal transport. This implies that the virus itself mutates when
inside the human host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The study shifts
the focus on hygiene measures as the main consideration in controlling spread
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is one of the smallest particles known: 38 nanometers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To get an idea of how small this is, a stack
of 1,215 noroviruses is the thickness of tissue paper. A red blood cell is
7,000 nanometers across, relatively huge. The small size of the virus presents
a problem. The dust mask you bought at the hardware store will not filter the
virus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even an N100 mask, the highest
density available,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>filters down to 300 nanometers.
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seats are often made from injection molded polystyrene which are porous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I hope you don’t have a wooden toilet seat,
even worse) The 38 nm virus imbeds into the plastic material of the toilet seat
and is small enough to stay in the plastic even with cleaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cursory wiping with disinfectant is far
from an effective method. Who in his right mind would remove the toilet seat
(not that easy) and soak in hydrogen peroxide for 10 minutes (expensive) and
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is an alternative: of course there is. Would we stand stymied by 38 nanometers?
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solution to the problem: The toilet bowl itself is made from vitreous china...quite
dense and guess what? Non porous. The solution is this: remove the toilet seat.
Then the next step is to get used to cold unforgiving china touching your
derriere. I said we are smart, I did not say we are gracious.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> The virus
enters your body through the nose, mouth, eyes. It can not enter the skin,
unless the skin is broken. It will adhere to the skin and if you touch your
eyes, nose and mouth, it gets you that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The virus begins to multiply in the small intestine, taking 12 to 48
hours to do so. The invasion triggers an immune response, first with T cells and
then B cells. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Beta cells will kill
the virus but the key strategy is to have good immunity, The immune response
also triggers the “dump-and-flee” response which protects the body by vomit and diarrhea. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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are throwing up with projectile vomit and sitting on the cold seat-less toilet
with rocket poop, you have to repeat this mantra:</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">The virus sheds for about thirty days</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">In a study
on the shedding dynamics of the norovirus, Kirby (2014), researchers measured<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stool viral titers over a 35 day period and
found that the virus was shed in stools up to three weeks after the resolution
of symptoms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This indicates that
preventative measures to reduce transmission have to be maintained for this
long after the remission of symptoms of the last member of the household.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Now we get
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> At this
point, nobody is sick, but you have heard of some people in the neighborhood
getting the norovirus. Maybe a nursing home or hospital ward has been
quarantined. You get prepared by strengthening your immunity. Start by taking
20 billion CFU’s of probiotics a day starting now. If no infections happen,
then it still helps your immunity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Makes
sure that you are eating a 2:1 ratio of vegetables to everything else. Take
immunity builders such as echinacea, elderberry, goldenseal and astragalus
everyday (pick one or a combination).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Take
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">How many people used that toilet?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Try not to
visit prisons, day cares, train stations, airports, submarines, nursing homes,
hospitals and avoid public washrooms if at all possible. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Review and
practice proper hand washing technique by watching this YouTube video. Remember
that the food handlers of the household have to wash their hands all the time,
before handling food and after going to the washroom.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Let’s
tackle cleaning the bathroom. First remove any clutter, bottles, rubber duckys,
and those decorative soaps-that-you-will-never-use from Aunt Matilda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There should be no clutter to catch or trap
viral colonies. After your bathroom is bare, clean it thoroughly as normal, but
this is just the “pre-clean”. Then comes the real cleaning: disinfect by
spraying all surfaces (toilet, counters, walls , floors, window sills) with 3%
hydrogen peroxide, allowing it to dry off completely. Then spray it again with
a 50% solution of vinegar and water, again allowing it to dry off completely. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">think of all this clutter as virus traps</td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Always take
a shower after you clean your bathroom, putting your bacteria-splattered
clothes and towels in a plastic bag to wash separately, and to finish off,
disinfect the shower. Singing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La Donna Y
Mobile</i> at the top of your lungs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>finishes off the job with aplomb.</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
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<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Get in the
habit of using your dishwasher for all utensils and plates within 24 hours.
Include your toothbrushes, plus any glasses that you use in the bathroom, in
your dishwasher load.</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
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<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h2>
</h2>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Kit Number 2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Diarzilla Claims the First Victim</span></u></span></span></span></span></h4>
<h2>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h2>
<h2>
</h2>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Not
counting the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kenny G Relaxation Vol. 1
and II </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tapes, here is a complete
list of supplies that you may need:</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
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</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"> </span><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Wide aluminum foil, one box</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Nitrile
gloves from Costco</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Two boxes
of disposable unscented baby wipes in plastic bins</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Shower caps</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Ski mask or
diving mask</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">N91 or N100
face masks from Midland Tools</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Heavy Duty
Ziploc bags, 1 box</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">5 gallon
bucket with lid, with handle (available at paint stores)</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">2 spray
bottles, marked V-Mix and HP-Mix</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Disposable
coveralls (sold at paint shops or at Midland Tools)</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Vinegar ,
diluted 50:50 with water to make V-Mix</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hydrogen
Peroxide 3% to make HP-Mix</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Distilled
Witch Hazel, alcohol free ( for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>hemorrhoids)</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Activated
Charcoal Capsules</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Probiotics
20 Billion </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Bananas </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Rice </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Apple Sauce
</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Quinoa </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Broth
ingredients (soup bones, celery, ginger, inions, garlic)</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Hydralyte
powder</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Homeopathic for diarrhoea: Aloe 200CH, Arsenicum 30CG</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Homeopathic for vomiting: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ipeca 200CH, Nux Vomica
200CH</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHSnR6jlrc42Rzpgz9DVLaq4B_k-9mkLGB_wMRMf0CvZtMvVGFHgFUeli5fe4G41iV1idnFTdFBCfXl_HBoE9Du5E5BbnzXDtjuDH1HFkLv5yJE0qMRSq1Z7WZ16AXJANljRp9j1kIZQM/s1600/peroxide.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHSnR6jlrc42Rzpgz9DVLaq4B_k-9mkLGB_wMRMf0CvZtMvVGFHgFUeli5fe4G41iV1idnFTdFBCfXl_HBoE9Du5E5BbnzXDtjuDH1HFkLv5yJE0qMRSq1Z7WZ16AXJANljRp9j1kIZQM/s1600/peroxide.jpeg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HP-Mix is 3% Hydrogen Peroxide</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ__temva2JAjGdXwQV50jCQQwmbDirjCwYOaowY48VPG8OD1J_1vbZY_5peYGmDIb-AjqAjBzPvs1Ezsxy1UQbJ8C3Xt6bYDC9IaIVqLTC_9dmIT3lwdKdxLE4Ox3ph7Ko6F_ufwh1Q/s1600/vinegar.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQ__temva2JAjGdXwQV50jCQQwmbDirjCwYOaowY48VPG8OD1J_1vbZY_5peYGmDIb-AjqAjBzPvs1Ezsxy1UQbJ8C3Xt6bYDC9IaIVqLTC_9dmIT3lwdKdxLE4Ox3ph7Ko6F_ufwh1Q/s1600/vinegar.jpeg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">V Mix is 50:50 vinegar and water</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</span></span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Replace
lost electrolytes by dissolving one packet of Hydralyte in a glass of water.
One glass per 50 pounds of body weight per day. This is very important in
children since their body fluid volume is smaller. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This prevents fatigue, dizziness and loss of
energy. The general rule, one throw up: one glass. One poopdemeanor: two
glasses.</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Activated
Charcoal will help reduce diarrhea and scrub the gut, two capsules three times
a day for three days. This is really helpful at the first stages <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and helps vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea and
cramps.</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Homeopathic
Aloe and Arsenicum are for diarrhea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take two pellets of Aloe every 2 hours on day 1, change to Arsenicum on
day 2 following the same dose, revert to Aloe on day 3, Arsenicum again on day
4. For children, the dose is one pellet each time instead of 2 pellets.</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></h4>
<h4>
</h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Homeopathic
Ipeca and Nux Vomica are for vomiting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take two pellets of Ipeca every 2 hours on day 1, change to Nux Vomica
on day 2 following the same dose, and revert to Ipeca on day 3, Nux Vomica
again on day 4. For children, the dose is one pellet each time instead of 2
pellets.</span></span></span></span></h4>
<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">BRAQ Diet: bananas, rice, applesauce, quinoa (substituted for toast)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> The
recommended food follows the acronym BRAQ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a variation of the BRAT diet (T for toast). This is a bland diet
consisting of bananas, rice, applesauce and quinoa. This maintains a minimum
level of energy while allowing easy digestion. In cooking your rice and quinoa,
use bone broth. Bone broth is prepared by boiling for two hours, one pound of
bones (chicken, bison, beef or deer) in one gallon of water to which two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar is added. Add celery, ginger, onion and garlic as well. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> How to
vomit: the best technique is to vomit directly into a Ziploc bag, holding it
close to your mouth. Immediately, close the Ziploc bag and throw it into your 5
gallon bucket and close the lid. Once a day, this bucket is to be directly
emptied into a garbage bag (outside the house) and thrown away. The bucket is disinfected by spraying with the HP-Mix , and then V-Mix (first hydrogen
peroxide and then vinegar).</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">unscented baby wipes in vinegar or hydrogen peroxide soak</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> How to
disinfect the skin after throwing up? Take the box of unscented baby wipes and
dump 500mls of hydrogen peroxide in one, label it HP Wipes. The other one gets 500
mls of 50% vinegar solution and this gets labelled V Wipes. These hand wipes
are your sanitation wipes. They are used to wipe hands, mouths, bums, legs. For
hard surfaces, the spray method instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The wipes are used in sequence: HP Wipes, wait for 5 minutes and then V Wipes
after. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">For wiping after diarrhea, wipe with toilet paper nromally , then disinfect the skin. The HP wipes will not sting (for wiping bums), but the V Wipes will, so
this can be skipped for that area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the case of hemorrhoids developing, then you can substitute witch hazel for
the V wipes to reduce pain and swelling. It still needs to be preceded by the
HP wipes. After the first few bouts of diarrhea, the burning can be relieved this way.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Back to the seat-less toilet:</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">This is your friend</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Remember that flushing causes dispersion of droplets. What are we going to do about the toilet flush if we have removed the seat? Solution: remove the cover portion of the toilet seat and wrap it with aluminum foil. If you use the wide foil, it should cover it without any seams. Before you flush the toilet, cover the toilet with your aluminum clad seat. Then you can flush away. The foil can be removed and replaced on a regular basis. Foil is cheap.. do not skimp. Remember to fold dirty side in, clean side out. These are things than your grandmother taught you, just reviewing.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a
very important piece of the puzzle: the sick person is quarantined to eat in
his/her room. The bathroom that he/she uses is not used by any other person.
All plates are soaked in V-Mix in a bucket before transport. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This batch is disinfected in the dishwasher as a single load. </span>As noted, this has to be maintained for 30
days, since the virus is still shedding after the symptoms are gone. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Continuity of the sanitation cycle (dirty to dirty, clean to clean) has to be maintained for 30 days. Breaking this continuity allows transmission out of the loop or into the loop. Breaking
this 30 day rule is one of the simplest causes of norovirus spreading. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Just repeat: I am more smarter than this virus. I mean, am smarter than this virus. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Who gets to
clean the bathroom?</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Meet T101 , The Terminator, not afraid of muck, yuck and the color brown</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Obviously,
not the patient. We will call this person T-101 (this is the name of the robot
in Terminator.. unfazed by poop)</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> T-101 puts
on the garb: coveralls (from experience, disposable coveralls withstand washing
up to 7 times, bit hang to dry only), shower cap, nitrile gloves, diving mask.
He has a full roll of paper towels, his two spray bottles of HP (hydrogen
peroxide 3%) and V (vinegar 50%). He goes in the bathroom and disinfects it as
above, disinfecting the seat-less toilet, garbage can, tub, shower, counters,
floors, walls and doorknobs. Spray everything with HP-V (one after the other.
All the garbage goes into the 5 gallon bucket which is taken outside directly
to the trash. T-101 jumps into the shower and puts all his/her clothes,
including the towel and shower curtain, into a garbage bag. The laundry is
immediately done as a separate load. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Diarzilla Kit No. 3: The Whole Family
is Sick </span></u></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Things get
serious if the infection was not controlled by the quarantine measures. The
dishwasher is used everyday and each person’s cutlery and plate is marked with
a tagging system so these are not shared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bathroom used by the people who are sick is
separated from the bathroom of the people are not sick. </span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Remember
the 30 day quarantine for the last person sick, as the members of the household
are carriers for all this time, even though they are asymptomatic.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">you get attached to the bathroom/prison after a while</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Also, it is
debated if there is immunity granted the first person who was sick. Will this
person likely contract it again. As viruses are able to mutate, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the study by Verhoef (2010), immunity is
more likely within the same set of infections. In this case, the first person
sick will not get it back. However, it does not prevent anyone from getting the
norovirus again in the future, being that it will be a different genotype.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;">Very
Important Lesson from T101: Suck It Up</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt;"> The lesson
learned: any squeamishness on your part, or on person known as T101’s part, in
dealing with vomit and faeces, will be construed by the enemy as weakness and
it will win this battle. So be strong, cowboy up and deal with it. ( Jump
around to the theme from Rocky … raise your hands!! Yeah!!! We won!! We beat a
38nanometer virus!!!)</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">take this s**t and stuff it...wait a minute...NOOOOO!!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Epsong Salts: 25 Uses 25 Songs</span></b></span><br />
<br /> <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><span lang="EN-US">Here are 25 creative uses for Epsom Salts and a mixed tape of 25 songs to match. Happy epsinging!</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">1. Epsom Salt Zen Garden: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">spread Epsom salts
in a shallow tray and make a portable Zen Garden. If you can find a box picture
frame from the thrift store, remove the backing and use the frame as your
fence, placing the frame upside down. I used a piece of floor foam and cut a
hole in the middle. One 4kg pail of Epsom salts should make a nice 16 x 20 garden. Place a few rocks and rake your portable garden once in a
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that are in Epsom salt are both beneficial to plants and will help grow
greener and thicker foliage, produce higher yields and have more blooms. It
increases chlorophyll and makes plants healthier. As well, if you are growing
vegetables, what better way to increase you magnesium stores by feeding your
plants the magnesium? Harvest your magnesium! It will give you a green thumb even
if you have purple hands. Music to garden by:<span style="font-weight: normal;">
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contain some of the most toxic products on the planet? They usually contain plastics, petroleum
products and hormone disruptors. The answer? Epsom salts! Combine equal parts water, aloe
vera gel and Epsom salt. Using your
fingers, pinch through your wet hair and leave for 20 minutes. The result? Hair
full of volume! Big hair often leads to big results. On the drive in to work,
turn up Duran Duran, Hungry Like the Wolf and bring back the 80’s. Go to your
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—Mix 1/2 tsp of Epsom salt into yogurt, add two drops of oil of grapefruit, massage into skin using small circles to give
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minutes. When it has cooled to the proper temperature, add essential oils of
lavender, lemon balm and sandalwood. This mix will melt your worries away and
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has the crackly sea salt spray feel-look. You can get that by combining 1 cup of hot
water, 2 tablespoons Epsom salt, 1 teaspoon aloe vera gel and 1/2 tsp
conditioner in a spray bottle. Spray this salt mixture into hair and scrunch
hair with your hand for crinkly waves. Put on Brick House by the Commodores and
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to make eco-friendly fabric softener. Use 1/4 cup per load and add at beginning
of wash. This is a perfectly healthy alternative to toxic fabric softeners.
Your wash will come out fluffy as a baby koala bear. Music to launder your
clothes by: Walking in Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. The first bar is pure
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pain in the butt. My brother once got a splinter on his butt from an old teeter
totter and it was one of the funniest things getting the splinter out. He now owns
a ballroom dancing school in Portland, so he has survived. Soak your finger (or your bottom, if that is
where the splinter is) in a warm Epsom salt bath for ten minutes before attempted
splinter extraction. It relaxes the muscles and allows the easy removal of the
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Epsom salts and add the juice of half a lemon. Add four drops of essential oil
of sweet orange. Add a teaspoon of
grapeseed oil. Mix well with a spoon. After showering, massage handfuls of this
body scrub over wet skin to exfoliate the skin. Shower off the dead skin with
water or jump into a pool of guppies. Music: Levon by Elton John... man, he can
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drops of lavender essential oil. Gently massage into dry patches for smoother
skin. For rough parts of the feet, you can pre-soak in warm water with Epsom salts
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— Epsom salt can ease the symptoms of mosquito bites. Make a compress by
soaking a washcloth in hot chamomile tea mixed with Epsom salt (2 tablespoons
per cup of tea), and then gently apply the warm compress to the bite area for
30 seconds. This is great for children and perfectly safe, even around the
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to find relief. Add 2 cups of Epsom salt to your very-warm bath water, agitate
the water with your hands to dissolve it then soak for 15 minutes. Music to
relax by: Barry Manilow’s All By Myself: classic Manilow before the Botox. Now,
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Mix equal parts of dish soap and Epsom salt for a super easy and effective tile
cleaner. Rinse with clear water. This is one of the most frugal Epsom salt
uses, a great way to save on cleaning supplies and to use a natural alternative
to harsh chemical cleaners. Great for cleaning the entire bathroom. Music to
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drops of Japanese Peppermint. Soak a face cloth and wring dry. Fold the face
cloth into three and lie down with this on your forehead to relieve a headache.
While doing this, ask your partner to make a nice cup of chamomile tea. When the tea is made, have him/her redo it
because it is too cold. If he/she does
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of hot water, add half a cup of alcohol free witch hazel, and add the juice of
half a lemon. Transfer to a spray bottle and spritz this on your skin after
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stink. To remove odor from your shoes, put a tablespoon of Epsom salts in your
coffee grinder and sprinkle half a teaspoon of the fine powder in the shoes
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only occasionally and reduce dose if it causes diarrhea. Food grade Epsom salts available at
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is danger lurking, but of the not-so-obvious kind.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The famous shower scene in Psycho (1960)
was so effective that people were scared to take showers for a while. However, even without Norman Bates lurking in
your bathroom, here are ten things that are harmful and may be contributing to
your demise, ever so slowly.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">(dark and brooding cello in the background…
furtive shadows in the periphery… pharmaceutical sales reps offering swag)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">No. 1 Thing in Your Bathroom That May Be
Killing You</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Vinyl Shower Curtains</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vinyl shower curtains will off-gas when exposed to heat</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Believe it or not it or not, Janet Leigh
was already in trouble as soon as she stepped into that shower. Apparently, the
famous scene took one week to shoot and 77 shower curtains.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Vinyl shower curtains should be banned, but
they are not. The combination of heat, open pores and cheap plastic within an
enclosed room is a recipe for inhalation and absorption of tiny particles of
vinyl chloride and its volatile gases. Production of PVC requires a large
amount of chlorine and this is released as dioxins when PVC is exposed to heat.
As well, in order to make your $4.99 shower curtain more elegant and
aesthetically pleasing, a plasticizer called diethyl hexyl phthalate (DEHP) is
mixed in with the PVC to give it softness. This is the famous “new car smell” which
is actually a toxic brew of VOC's that is now suspected as carcinogenic DEHP.
You inhale this for about a year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The only thing worse than a vinyl shower is
a vinyl shower installed in a new car.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> What
to do? You have four choices. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">You can take cold showers</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">2.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">You can trade in your vinyl
shower curtains for a natural fiber one.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">3.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">You can have your shower
glassed in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">4.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">You can buy Stotan falls,
donate it us as a park on the days you are not using your shower-falls thingy. (Valley
Trivia: Stotan Falls is a used-to-be-but-now-off-limits
local swimming spot that is currently being developed for residential lots by
its owner. However, it is for sale at the right price… so we would really
appreciate a buyer and WE as a the appreciative common folk, will agree to stay away
during your shower time)</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Why don't you buy Stotan Falls.. it is a wonderful giant bath.</td></tr>
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Killing You</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">showering with hot water is opening the door to chlorine</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">OK. Now you have traded in your beautiful
IKEA vinyl shower curtain and traded in you new 2014 Audi A8 for a Prius. (Gwyneth Paltrow drives one, so there)... I am
proud of your commitment. We still have to deal with the water.</span></span></span></div>
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What’s the problem with water?</span></span></span></div>
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is where I insert Jonathan’s yomama joke. Jonathan works in our lab and he is
the current Marigold Champion of bad yomama jokes. They are ridiculously lowbrow, but we’re not
too cool for lowbrow.</span></span></span></div>
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got brainwashed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Back to the intelligent and sophisticated blog.
Municipal water has chlorine. (If you have well water or are the new owner of
Stotan Fall, skip this part) Chlorine is bad. How bad? It disrupts thyroid
function by blocking iodine, for one thing. It kills cells upon contact, when
released as gas. So you are in a hot shower, with your pores all open and you
are literally swathing you body in chlorinated water. </span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US">The Stotan Falls
solution (… pushing for this)</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US"> The Rob Pattinson solution: never shower
again.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Let bathwater stand overnight,
boil water, mix into bath.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Install a chlorine shower
filter. The good ones have Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C)</span></span></span></div>
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Killing You</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Deodorant and Antiperspirant</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uncap the deodorant, apply toxic chemical right next door to your lymph nodes..hmmm</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Deodorant is one of the top three (with
toothpaste and hair gels) most toxic products you put on your body because of
the proximity of the armpits to major lymphatic nodes. Toxins in underarm
products pour straight into the lymph nodes and stay there. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">That is why it is very common to stink when
you stop using these products because these toxins are leaving your body. So
you stink, then you think you need it, so you get sucked back into using it.
When you are switching to a natural toxin-free alternative, allow it ten days for
the new product to work.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This brings us to one simple rule about
personal products. Your skin is the largest organ of your body and what you put
on your skin goes inside your body. Some of it, sometimes all of it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Most products have one or several of these:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Aluminum: linked to disruption of metal
homeostasis in the brain between magnesium, copper and zinc leading to
cognitive disruption.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Parabens to retard yeast: known hormone
disruptors, terrible when applied in close proximity to the breast (applies to
men as well…contributes to the dreaded “moobs” effect)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Propylene Glycol: accelerated absorption of
toxic chemicals into the tissue</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This is the plot: first we advise to not
shower, now we advise against deodorant and antiperspirant? This sounds like an evil plan for Planet
Stink, so what to do? Look at the ingredients of your product and switch to a
natural, chemical free brand. We have several effective and safe products at
Marigold. One effective type uses honeysuckle sap. Very amazing.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in some countries, toothpaste is not used at all</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Toothpaste makes it into the top three most
dangerous products because you are applying it repeatedly to a highly
absorptive surface: your mouth. It can also harm one of the most sensitive
ecosystems of your body: your mouth. It can also build up over time in one of the most used areas of your body: your mouth.
Plus it has the whole dental profession behind it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Soundtrack comes in for one of my go-to-songs (You know, you are playing your guitar at BC Ferries and some guy comes up to you and says.. play us a song...c'mon) It is Moonshadow by Cat Stevens...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> ...If I ever loose my mouth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> ...All my teeth , north and south</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> ...If I ever loose my mouth, oh iiiif, yey iiiif</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> ...I won't have to talk no more</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Thought I'd thrown that in there as I notice you are losing interest and want to back to your falafel. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Studies show that fluoride increases uptake
of heavy metals into the brain, including aluminum. Therefore, combining
fluoride and aluminum trisilicate in a toothpaste formula is bad. Look at your
toothpaste label, specially is it is a red tube, made by a giant company that
might also happen to also sell Alzheimer’s drugs.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Glycerin is a very common ingredient in
commercial toothpaste and seems innocent enough. It is added to give the paste
a smooth texture. It forms a film on the teeth that may prevent the
remineralization of the teeth from saliva. It has been shown to require 20
times brushing (with a non glycerin toothpaste) to remove this film. Over time,
this filming effect builds up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Sodium lauryl sulfate is a common foaming
agent in toothpaste formulations and it is best to leave it out. Toothpaste
does not have to foam to work. If your toothpaste foams, it probably has some
form of SLS.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Switch to natural toothpaste made with
essential oils, clay, salt and coconut oil as ingredients</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Oil pulling with goldenseal
powder and coconut oil</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US">Neem powder</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dental adhesives are full of chemicals that you swallow in small, deadly installments. Huge lawsuit happening against Poligrip.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">No. 5 Thing in Your Bathroom That May Be Killing
You</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That no-more- tears shampoo is sure foaming up a bit too good. Suspicious.</td></tr>
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brand top selling shampoo that is head and shoulders above the rest in sales. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Fragrance(s)/perfume(s)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Sodium citrate
(Trisodium citrate) <br />
Citric acid <br />
BAD Benzyl alcohol <br />
BAD Monoethanolamine (MEA) <br />
Sodium benzoate <br />
BAD Glycol distearate <br />
BAD FD&C (or D&C) Yellow #5 <br />
BAD Ammonium lauryl sulfate <br />
BAD Methylisothiazolinone <br />
BAD FD&C Blue #1 <br />
Sodium chloride <br />
Water <br />
BAD Dimethicone <br />
Zinc pyrithione <br />
BAD Methylchloroisothiazolinone <br />
BAD Ammonium xylene sulfonate <br />
BAD Ammonium laureth sulfate <br />
Cetyl alcohol <br />
Cocamide <br />
BAD Guar hydroxypropyltrimonium chloride
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BAD 1-Decene, homopolymer, hydrogenated <br />
BAD Trimethylolpropane tricaprylate/tricaprate </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I am going to simply address SLS (Sodium
Lauryl Sulfate) and of course, its variants, Ammonium Laureth Sulfate and
Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES). These are highly absorptive and get trapped in the skin. They are irritating and often cause
eczema, starting with the more sensitive areas of the body, starting with the eyelids, maybe the forehead and the ears. The
harshness of the SLS is reduced by treating it with ethylene dioxide
(ethoxylation), but this results in SLES/SLS being contaminated with 1,4
dioxane, a carcinogenic by-product that is toxic to the brain and central nervous system,
kidneys, and liver. It is also a leading groundwater contaminant.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">SLS/SLES and ALS end up in streams and rivers and is a
pile of trouble for the delicate ecosystem.. see Earth Day post on frogs and laundry detergent.</span></span></span></div>
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shampoo labels and check your ingredients with the database in these two websites:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Second, get used to washing you hair with
just water most of the time and an SLS free shampoo once a week. This will keep
the natural oils on you scalp which are essential for controlling scalp fungus. Just be forewarned: these shampoos do not foam up very well. You have done OK without gluten...now you have to be foam-free. The gluten-free movement will spread to hair salons..."This Salon is Foam-free" signs will pop up, just because of this post.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">No. 6 Thing in Your Bathroom That May Be
Killing You</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bieber called...he wants his hair gel back.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">If you think shampoos were bad, there is
something worse: hair gels and hair mousse and the rest of that goopy stuff you leave on
your hair. With shampoos, it is contact with your scalp for a few minutes; with
hair dressing products, it stays on your scalp for the whole day or until you
rinse it off. Here are some common ingredients in your hair goop.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Mineral oil is a derivative of crude
oil (petroleum) that is used industrially as lubricating oil. This
commonly used petroleum ingredient coats the skin and hair just like
plastic wrap. The skin’s ability to release toxins and wastes is impossible
through this “plastic wrap”.If it enters the body, we do not have any enzymes that break down petroleum based products. Even in the soil, it takes thousands of year for the bacteria to break it down. Last time I checked, "thousands of years" is a little bit longer than our lifetime.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">PEG: This is an abbreviation for
polyethylene glycol that is used in making cleansers to dissolve oil and
thicken products. Because of their effectiveness as a solvents, PEGs are often used in
caustic spray on oven cleaners and yet are found in many personal care
products.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> PROPYLENE GLYCOL (PG): As a “surfactant”
or wetting agent and solvent, this ingredient is actually the active
component in antifreeze. There is no difference between the PG used in
industry and the PG used in personal care products. It is used in industry to
break down protein and cellular structure (what the skin is made of) yet is
found in most forms of hair products because it forms beautiful gels.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">IMIDAZOLIDINYL UREA and DMDM
HYDANTOIN: These are just two of the many preservatives that release formaldehyde.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">What to do: we have an effective leave-in
hair gel that is made from bee pollen and tree sap! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">No. 7 Thing in Your Bathroom That May Be
Killing You</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is there lead in your lipstick? If it's red, it may have lead.</td></tr>
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through the day, little bits of this are swallowed.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Many lipsticks when tested have unacceptable
levels of mercury, lead, arsenic, chromium, barium and cadmium. </span></span></span></div>
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lipsticks brands on their website. Learn more: <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/043963_heavy_metals_lipstick_womens_health.html#ixzz2yXBBlz50">http://www.naturalnews.com/043963_heavy_metals_lipstick_womens_health.html#ixzz2yXBBlz50</a></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scented candles produce a cloud of unidentified toxins.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">This is so much fun. Run a bath and add
some essential oils and light scented candles surrounding your romantic oasis. Sorry to burst your bubble bath, but scented candles emit more toxic
gas than a cow in a telephone booth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The combination of toxic gasses, artificial
fragrances and enclosed bathroom space is dangerous to your health.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"> No. 9
Thing in Your Bathroom That May Be Killing You</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">When was the last time you took the cover
off your bathroom vent and inspected it?
This is the perfect breeding place for mold: dark, warm and humid. After
all, its job is to suck up all the moisture so the bathroom is not so humid. Most
people seldom look under the grill except when it stops working. Most houses
are equipped with the cheapest vent that will suffice, so it may not be as
adequate in removing the humid air. Humid air gets trapped + mold spores = perfect mold hive. The vent
should be inspected, vacuumed and cleaned out with vinegar and water on a regular basis. Do not electrocute yourself: that is also damaging to your health.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Otherwise, every time you turn the vent on, it
sprays the entire bathroom with mold spores. Spores are microscopic and invisible. By the time you see mold, it is too late.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">No 10 Thing in Your Bathroom That May Be
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">No, not this bleach, the one that comes in a gallon jug.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Bleach is a chemical called Sodium
Hypochlorite and the reason it is used is that it is cheap and very effective.
This harmful substance is not only toxic to bacteria and mold; it is also toxic
to you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">One particular danger is when the bleach
comes in contact with ammonia (which is a common ingredient of glass cleaners
and bathroom cleaners) that can cause the release of chlorine liberated from the bleach, and
is quite capable of causing you harm when inhaled!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Chlorine gas is highly reactive and when
inhaled, the gas tears into your nasal passages, trachea, and lungs causing
massive cellular damage.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">What to do? Replace bleach with vinegar and
water, mixed in equal parts is an effective alternative. You can add essential
oils of lavender and eucalyptus to give it a fresh smell. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Hydrogen Peroxide is also a good
substitute, but is a little trickier to handle as it will burn the skin until
it is diluted.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Just got back from Vancouver and I am tired,
stressed and worn out. Each time this happens, I am reminded of why we moved to
Vancouver Island twelve years ago.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vancouver is busier, people are busier... more hurried.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As soon as the rubber hits the
ground at Horseshoe
Bay, I feel different. Not
bad different, not Oprah-different, just different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here, I have tried to express
this disappointed cynicism into a list. I know it smacks of sardonicism, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but fortunately for me, I am not Shia LaBeouf,
so it is a plain rant, not oh-my-god-he-has-lost-it rant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vancouver</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is considered one of the best cities in the world,
but from someone who used to live there but does not anymore, “the best city in
the world” thing is getting a little bit too smug. It reminds me of Perfecto.
In our high school, he was THE guy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
too-good-looking guy who is too-good-at-everything and too-nice. Also, his name
was Perfecto… are you kidding me? Not to be trusted. Anyway, poor Perfecto did
not make it into my circle of friends. Vancouver
is like Perfecto… too eco-friendly, too self-congratulatory, too smug, too hipster.
Good place for Perfecto, if he has a beard and glasses now. He might, I think
he is a judge. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beards and Plaid= Happy in Hipsterhood</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> Here
are Ten Things I Hate About Vancouver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No. 1: Entitled Panhandlers</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entitled Panhandler Giving Two Thumbs Up, Streetstyle</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Just as annoying as irritable
bowels, except without the running. I am sympathetic to the homeless, I am.
They are courageous as hell and I could not do what they do. I would make a
terrible panhandler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is me panhandling:</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rudy: Excuse me, do you have some
Red Reishi?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stranger: What?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rudy: Red Reishi, Ling Zhi it’s
called. Ganoderma lucidum? Grass of Heaven? </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stranger: What are you talking about? </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rudy: It will help my immunity!
My energy! Make me less irritable!</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stranger:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Get away from me...what kind of panhandler are you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">However, what I do mind are the
entitled ones. I mean, at the very least, it should be treated as a business
transaction with me the customer agreeing to exchange my money for whatever
potential benefit I feel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>might be
forthcoming (basic human kindness, safe passage, endorphins, whatever) Everyone
who works with the public<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>should
understand the basic guiding rules of customer interaction: be nice, smile,
show some appreciation. Do not let them see you get annoyed, not matter what.
This just makes sense, because they (the “customers”) are the boss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now this happiness rule is
inverse proportion to the value and rarity of the services you are offering.
Brain surgery, go ahead and be rude. Panhandling? You just have to be a little
less demanding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No. 2 Ferry Lineups</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ferry lineups require preparation: ferry line up food + pillow + eyeshades + music</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The most terrible and undeniably
irksome fact of life in living in Vancouver Island
is being at the mercy of BC Ferries. It is like being held hostage. It is like
paying through the nose for greasy popcorn at the Mega Cineplex. It is like
paying for a DVD that turns out to be something you watched already but was so
bad you forgot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When we moved to Courtenay 12
years ago, it was $65 for a family of four to cross the water; now it is over
$100.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No. 3 Failing at Walking 101</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8MYCuE66wWfhBhRFkarHeDRJoUJBV37JtwvrRD_yVlxkvK9zmrjyQykoAuffNvMfYi0p3HWg_c_TS7u9iFU-3N77YWk3MPddUgOw5EqNJBmbISAiBm_vjNTik0NPcv_bHgNeOxVgeyY/s1600/hate+crowds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8MYCuE66wWfhBhRFkarHeDRJoUJBV37JtwvrRD_yVlxkvK9zmrjyQykoAuffNvMfYi0p3HWg_c_TS7u9iFU-3N77YWk3MPddUgOw5EqNJBmbISAiBm_vjNTik0NPcv_bHgNeOxVgeyY/s1600/hate+crowds.jpg" height="265" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do not walk in a flank...This is a sidewalk</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walking in public should not be
allowed unless you know how to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One simple rule, you walk on the
right and the people walking in the opposite direction walk on their right. Keep
a straight line for Pete’s sake. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not
stop to suddenly to look at a window. Do not walk in a flank of five. This rule
does not apply in Courtenay, where it is actually encouraged that you walk into
each other, ending up in a social hug of some form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Number 3.1 Corollary to Failing
at Walking 101</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Walking PLUS Eating </span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Not only do you risk walking into
each other, there is the possibility of exchange of glop. This rule does not
apply if you are John Travolta<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in a
three piece White Suit or the soundtrack from Chariots of Fire starts playing
in Dolby Sound.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you are John Travolta, go ahead and eat a pizza in public</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> No. 3.2 Corollary to Failing at
Walking 101</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Texting PLUS Eating PLUS Walking</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have seen this. One thumb
texting, other hand holding a burrito of some sort while walking down Robson St. (AKA
madness). Text your friends on how good your falafel is! Talk while walking,
but only between bites! This increases your chances of eating your cell phone
by mistake should you get confused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4. Food Courts:</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPJfnxf5i1wQp1g63QRuw3YxZ76ss6k3IpGtsTiusRd8r_uNCxQDXz1UypO5KP9nbdaAit7un-N8neNbNDXdIV8xqcmFvv1phpPHcw7s0ROgzU8btTWt4uPsyY_H4HCO9ALcgusD9OFqw/s1600/hate+food+court.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPJfnxf5i1wQp1g63QRuw3YxZ76ss6k3IpGtsTiusRd8r_uNCxQDXz1UypO5KP9nbdaAit7un-N8neNbNDXdIV8xqcmFvv1phpPHcw7s0ROgzU8btTWt4uPsyY_H4HCO9ALcgusD9OFqw/s1600/hate+food+court.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's People's Court, there's tennis court, then there's Food Court </td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> These abominations of the dining
world are very popular, specially in underground malls. No windows, but lots of
bright lights. As far as dining experiences go, it is its own category. A array
of stalls of fast food, fried mostly, in copious amounts. I watch as the
mountain of garbage is emptied continually… a continuous stream <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of coffee cups, plastic straws, food wrappers,
Styrofoam trays, plastic spoons and aluminum condiment packets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It makes my head ache and there
is a voice that is saying “Get out of here while you still can.” But I can’t, I
don’t have a cell phone and my wife asked me wait by A&W. I am trapped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">5. Dressing Out of Context <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larry Bird called, he wants his shorts back.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am talking boots in the summer,
shorts in the winter. Inappropriate fashion has always transcended
inappropriate taste, but lately, the two have crossed over into uncharted
territory. Shorts are now worn in the middle of winter, and paired with
leggings or high socks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boots on the
other hand, can be worn just like sandals, especially if paired with shorts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6 Traffic</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roadwork commences at the start of traffic, or is it the other way around?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> You can not escape Vancouver without being
caught in traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can mitigate it
by leaving early or arriving late, but you pretty much have to allow an hour to
get anywhere. 200<sup>th</sup> St
in Langley
still gives me nightmares. Coquitlam
Center: 20 minutes to
traverse two blocks, you get passed by a senior in her scooter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is there somewhere on this planet
that I can go anywhere in town in under 15 minutes (including parking). Oh
yeah. I live there already. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">6.1 Corollary to Traffic:</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Permanent Road Constructions
Projects </span></div>
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and the corner of North Road
and Austin has been in construction for all this time and is still under
construction. How does this happen? Are they just digging black holes? Are they
looking for lost innocence? Is it a tunnel to Vancouver
Island? </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This should be just stopped. I
would find it less offensive if the term Karma is actually being used properly.
Otherwise, it is simply blatant psycho-blackmail: “If you do not tip me, you
will return as the underside of a chair to which gum is stuck to”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do not fall for it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Actually, what <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would help my karma a lot is if I find a note in
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</span>PIN for our bank account… please empty it to zero …then <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>walk to the corner of Main and Hastings and give the
entire sum to the first person you see… and then walk away”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If the establishment does this, I
will change my mind about your Karma Jar in my next life. Unless I come back as
a Karma Jar.</span></div>
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screens?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why does one need a phone the
size of a TV ? Why are Starbucks across the street from each other? Why do I
need a Trenta coffee? </span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do people in Vancouver even have bladders? I see them
drinking coffee and yet there are no public washrooms around. If you need to
pee, you will be immediately faced with this sign:</span></div>
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Un-suitable for Trucks.</span></div>
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of the people in Vancouver Island, I do drive
a truck. This is out of necessity because we have to haul stuff and we occasionally
have unplowed country roads in the winter to contend with. So, when it is
necessary to venture in Vancouver,
we do not have the zippy cars that are such the fashion. However, it seems that
parking stalls are designed for zippy car dimensions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please give us some properly sized parking
spots and THEN, you can park your car under our trucks and it all works out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1 cent for every 6 seconds for
meter parking in Gastown? $40 daily parking rate if you check into a hotel and
park your car while you are at the hotel? Good thing they have not caught me
taking up 1.5 zippy-car stalls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kreegah! Bundolo!</span><br />
<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Now I have to post </span><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ten Things I Love About Vancouver.</span></div>
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Ten Things I Love About Vancouver</h4>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">…OR Whoever Said the Best Things In Life are Free Named His
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Some foods I have to stock up on
whenever I go to Vancouver:
green papaya, purple taro, Jaggary sugar, black bean paste, cassava, adzuki
bean. I really miss Vancouver’s
ethnic markets and enclaves of Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Filipino, Indian.
Chinese and Persian delicacies, to name a few.</span></div>
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House on Main Street</span></div>
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in fabric and they will sell you a whole bolt of cloth and you will have a lot
of fun haggling over the price. Glorious experience for the sew-ciable type.
Bet you did not know…I was a tailor at one point.</span></div>
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neighborhoods. I lived off Commercial
Drive and First (Salisbury Street) in my University days
with my brother and we fixed up this 100 year old house. I loved those days and
now, the community has not just survived, it has flourished.</span></div>
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the accidental joke. Where else would you find joyous establishments such as: Happy
Date, Foo’s Ho Ho and Negative Space Chinese Restaurant.</span></div>
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relatively inexpensive. You just have to be prepared to walk a long way from
parking. Red bean shaved ice on a hot summer nigh? Oh Yeah.</span></div>
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spot in Vancouver.
I worked some summers at the restaurant in the park and got some serving skills
in “Fine Dining”… such as “develop the prescient skills<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to read the customer so you don’t have to
ask” As poor students in Vancouver, this was central to the bus routes and was
a great spot to spend an afternoon dreaming about the future.</span></div>
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dream of and now we dream of the time we were dreaming of today. Hey!....I am
caught in a loop here…someone should beatbox right about now. </span></div>
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My all time favorite is the Brentwood Station which looks like the airship in
Star Wars, the one in which Hans Solo is captured and frozen.</span></div>
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Abbey in Mission</span></div>
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pray, sit, chant. It is all here. We take every chance to visit this place and
it is special. When we lived in Port Moody, it was a special day to get up
early and drive to Mission
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Port Moody is cool. Port Moody is natural. Port Moody is family. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> This is our homebase in Vancouver and most of our
family live in the area. Rocky
Point Park
rocks and walking on the mudflats at low tide is still allowed. The site of
many family picnics.</span></div>
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the Skytrain being built right through the center of town, so it’s a mess right
now traffic wise. But it still has its proximity to the lakes and mountains and
offers a good balance of the artsy and active lifestyles. We miss living there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The dining choice in Vancouver is mind
boggling but one of our nieces shared her secret list of restaurants of which
we have tried a few. We got stuck because the few that we tried were so good,
we just kept coming back. There remains so many undiscovered secret restaurants
to find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To make it on our list, they have
to offer top notch novel food at reasonable prices and be consistent. All these
places are going to be busy, so be prepared to wait. It will be worth it.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ap Gu Jung soup..the side dishes are free</td></tr>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do not ask what it is...and
definitely do not ask for gluten free, you will be kicked out. Asian definition
of organic is: it used to be alive, now it’s on your plate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Do not attempt to change or
substitute, you will get the same stuff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with your own personalized “condiment”. Do not complain and return
anything to the kitchen to be “fixed”. Unspeakable things will happen.</span></div>
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making you uncomfortable while you eat, they want your spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Japanese: Fuji
Sushi in Coquitlam, Shabusen on Georgia</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flota serves dimsum (old-school...with carts) starting at 7:00 AM</td></tr>
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Cindy’s on Nanaimo
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kumare Filipino Restaurant... order the Sisig (do not ask what it is)</td></tr>
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at Nuffy’s Doughnuts on 49th<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(open all
night, offers fusion food and yes, doughnuts too)</span><br />
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Have We Forgotten How To Play? </h2>
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by Rudy The Pharmacist</h3>
I have recently viewed two TED talks on the subject of play and they have inspired this piece on how I have to incorporate more playfullness into my daily life. Not for amusement , but as an integral part of a well balanced life scheme. I now realize that 30-30-20-20 rule works out well for me. It goes like this: plan the 30%, be surprised by 30%, ponder the 20% and for the balance...unplan. The humble play corner at Marigold has been a source of this insight. It is one of those things that intuitively felt right, then we did it wrong, then we stood back and it fell into place. We planned then we unplanned.<br />
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Two Browns on Play</h3>
Tim Brown is the CEO of a design and innovation company and he talks about the seriousness of play. It leads to creativity and looseness and imparts the inadvertent ability to think outside the box. Perfectionism and regimentarianism are the kryptonite of creativity. The only perfect truth is that perfection is an impossible standard; an idea that is untenable. Especially so in a creative environment, which is admittedly, the only environment that spirals upwards and not downwards. Downwards spirals are useful in limited applications, for one, the water as it flushes down the toilet. However, it is what happens when creativity dies. Ask any creative person (actually, ask any person): what have you done today that is creative. If they start reciting a long list of activities, you are talking to a real living individual. Creativity is the oxygen of inventiveness. Here is a link to Tim Browns enjoyable talk.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim Brown heads an innovation think tank and studies the role of play in sparking creativity.</td></tr>
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Click to see Tim Brown's TED talk:<br />
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Another Brown, Dr. Stuart Brown (no relation....but mmm) got intrigued about the subject of play when he was investigating the lives of convicted murderers. He found a link to the absence of childhood play and devoted his career in psychiatry to the subject of play as a behavioural template. According to Brown, play develops our ability to read signals and creates the early modes of conduct. He stresses the importance of play in the workplace as a stress reliever and promoter of a social network. Play can be the effective alternative to social network's evil twin, Facebook and its megalomaniac sister, Twitter. Robert Fulghum wrote a brilliant book called <i>All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten</i>. The lessons are simple: play nice, wait your turn, share, don't hit. <br />
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The Marigold Play Corner</h3>
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A few months ago, I was walking by the window of <b>Too Good To Be Threw</b>, which is a fantastic thrift store on 6th Street. It is fantastic because it is right next door to Marigold, plus all the proceeds go to the Transition Society. I saw a beautiful beaded bright green table. I pictured it as child's play table and the next day, we cleared the front area of the store and created a play center. It worked out beautifully. We had all the elements in the store already: the brown carpet, the wooden box, the seats, the fabric for the seats, the benches. By the end of the day it was all set up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspired by a play table, the play center materialized out of things we had already.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Then we eagerly watched what happened. <u>Nothing</u>. The kids did not play. We had to play with them.Since I love playing, that was OK. I would, you know, just get things rolling. However, I could not give up my other "important" duties to be the official Ronald McMarigold. So short of making balloon animals (which I am really good at by the way), we analyzed what was happening. One of the staff came up with a brilliant idea. Put the toys at the child's level. We put the toys on the floor and guess what happened? It worked immediately. It turns out children know what to do. It was not what we thought they would do. We had forgotten how to play.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nancy's beautiful stained glass fills the corner with green and yellow sunbeams. </td></tr>
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We bought a Connect Four game and challenged the kids to a game. If they beat any of the staff, they get to win a toy from the toy box. I got beat by a nine year old and then I got beat by a ten year old. I made a little girl almost cry when I raised my hands and stood up with a loud <b>YES!!!</b> when I won. It was a pretty brutal unmasking of the ego that lurked within. It was so hilarious, I laughed out hard at my stupidity. We dropped the Connect Four Challenge thing that day.<br />
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Play should be removed from gamesmanship...it is enough to promote pure play at its essence. There is no requirement for rules, or trophies of green jackets or yellow jerseys. These just leads to all sorts of trouble. What to do you do with your livestrong bracelet now?<br />
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Play without the fear of not winning. Children are naturally good at this. So at the Marigold Play Corner, we needed to let go of planned play. We had to back off, not direct, not guide, not hover. Soon, we noticed the children inspecting the corner. In time, the children would let go of their parents hands and suss it out. Then they fell into play. It became their space. The play changed from child to child. Always, they invented games and came up with elaborate set ups. Two kids took all of the Jenga blocks and three sets of dominoes and lined them up in a spirally circle six feet across. This took them two hours to do. Three seconds to knock down.<br />
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Some parents (the wise ones who would have creative geniuses giving TED talks one day) will go with the flow and linger in the store or watch from a distance. Some parents (the hurried ones who have places to go, lattes to sip and boots to buy) would cut off the play mid-play and round up the kids like kettlecorn....pop, pop, pop. <br />
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Free to Be a Child Play</h3>
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So, the play corner has freed itself from our ill-conceived plans and attempts at "intelligent" design. It is a really popular corner now and to see a child immersed in self-designed play right in the middle of our store restores the energy of the place like a fog machine of happiness. It has assumed its own intelligence, with little help from us.<br />
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Our role is simple: remove poky things, no small bits to swallow, nothing too heavy to crush toes, no lead in the plastic. Other than that, the rest is up to the children. Everyday, we look over to the play corner and learn lessons on how to play from the children. They always have it right. Its their turf. <br />
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about ground and surface water contamination, the idea that fresh water could
become a limited resource is still not part of our awareness. It’s a difficult
concept, especially for those of us living on this soggy rain-coast. Our
problems invariably seem to be too much water: dampness and mold abound; indoor
allergies and respiratory problems are rampant. However for millions of people
in many parts of the world peak water is already the daily reality and the
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the world’s most precious resource. Unfortunately development of the tar-sands
and the practice of fracking for natural gas pose a huge risk to this abundance.
The Navigable Waters Act [1882], a major impediment to the proposed Enbridge
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one barrel of tar-sands oil. The tailings ‘ponds’ would be more accurately
termed tailings <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seas</b>. They are so
huge they can be clearly seen from space. They are so toxic air canon are used
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above national averages and, for the first time in our history, Canadians
families have become refugees in their own country abandoning homes in
north-western Alberta’s Peace River district that are too toxic to be
habitable. Other families in the same community equally aware of the health
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-2515639615366178922013-03-19T17:33:00.002-07:002013-03-19T17:33:51.848-07:00Chocolate Peppercorn Popsicle<h2>
Hot Peppercorn Chocolate Popsicle: Endorphins on a Stick</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bitter, Sweet, Spicy meets Soft, Smooth and Crunchy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">raw cacao , coconut and dates in the center with a kick of cayenne</td></tr>
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The Experience:</h3>
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Here is the perfect treat for everyone who loves raw cacao and all its goodness. It is served on a popsicle stick and is so beautiful you don't want to eat it. But then you do and you are in chocolate heaven.<br />
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For the brave, put the whole thing in your mouth and pull the popsicle stick away. Do it without hesitation... you will get the full taste and sensory experience. Do not call your mother in Sointula to ask for permission.<br />
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You immediately taste the crystalline sweetness of the beet. It melts as soon as it hits your mouth. Count to three and it gives way to the soft chewy mix of the melting chocolate center. As the chocolate melts, the juice of the goji berries is released and this lingering tart juice is subtle and gentle. The cayenne soon decides to come out and play. The roguish heat has been lingering in the background and you are not sure whether to trust it or not. Your pulse quickens and you are tempted to start chewing the crunchy peppercorn. Should you play it safe and just spit them out? It taunts you to go ahead and do it. You call your friend Alex, The Accountant, and he advises to not do it. So, you do it and there is an explosion. This one, it makes your eyes water with its intensity, but wait.... all the minerals from the dates and cacao cool down this fire and you are left with the lingering joy of the endorphin release.<br />
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Happiness ensues all around and life is good. The colors are brighter and the smile on your face is not from medication or boots at 50% off. You are left musing what the hell just happened.<br />
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Life is too short. Enjoy the chocolate.<br />
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They say that the benefits of endorphin release, from a good laugh or a good healthy dose of peppers, can last up to twelve hours. Twelve hours from a five second jolt of heat. Not a bad return. Imagine if you ate this chocolate treat while watching Rusell Peters. (early Russell, not the recent stuff)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">12 hours of benefits from endorphin release.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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RECIPE:</h3>
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Center: <br />
Popsicle sticks or whittle a hickory stick if you are a purist<br />
10 Dates, not the Adam Sandler movie. I prefer naturally sun-dried sulfite free dates from Iran<br />
8 tbsp of raw cacao powder. look for fair trade please<br />
3 tbsp of coconut oil<br />
Himalayan Pink Salt , a pinch ( I always use Salt of Life Himalayan Pink Salt)<br />
3 tbsp Goji Berries<br />
1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper<br />
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Put a marble or stone slab in the oven at 200 degrees and use this as a surface. Mash the dates after removing the pits and then mix in coconut oil and roll on the heated slab until it is melted. Add the cacao and using the choku-zuki punch, roll it over and over until the cacao is smooth and firm. Roll it like dough until the slab is cold, as this makes a perfect stretchy chocolate. Make sure everything is bone dry, The chocolate should shine at this point and hold its shape when pressed.<br />
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Form balls with your hands and with popsicle stick, impale it like a Hun.<br />
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Chocolate Coating: <br />
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In a double boiler, melt together:<br />
8 tbsp of cacao powder<br />
4 tbsp of cocoa butter<br />
4 tbsp of coconut oil<br />
dash of salt<br />
dash of chivalry<br />
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Take off heat and stir continously until chivalry is dead. The chocolate sauce should be thick and homogenous.<br />
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Dip popsicles. three times, letting them harden between coats. On the last coat, dip into a tray of the garnish.<br />
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Garnish:<br />
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Beet crystals, the best thing on earth that is not a Rudy blog<br />
Pink Peppercorns<br />
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Roll the tops of the popsicle in the beet crystals , coating them generously and then sprinkle the pepercorn on the exposed areas. You have to work quickly before the chocolate sets. Immediately throw in the freezer to flash cool and harden.<br />
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How to Enjoy:</h3>
Invite one person you love, three people you like and one person you abhor. Observe them. The next time, do not invite the person who took the last piece. Repeat for the next five recipes and you will now have a select group that will last forever. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-70393569284088345442013-03-07T15:13:00.001-08:002013-03-07T15:13:24.191-08:00Cooking with Intention: Sattvic food<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sattvic Food: How to
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="color: #ffd966;">What Works Well for Terrible Cooks</span></span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sattvic food is nutritious and pure.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sattva in The Kitchen</b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sattva in principle is the beginning, preserving and ending with the essence of purity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To live with this principle assists a mind
that is steady, peaceful and at ease. To work with this principle allows work without attachment,
because everything has value and nothing has insignificance. At the same time, nothing has significance. It
is an ideal state, which is assisted by preparing and consuming food that
follows the sattva philosophy: sattvic food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To cook with sattva is to begin with pure ingredients, cook with intention in a pure environment. Then, it does not matter how terrible a cook you are: the food will turn out fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sattvic food in its entirety is first of all, pure. You might say that it is purely pure. It is
pure in terms of ingredients that are unadulterated, unmodified and fresh.
There are no harmful additives, flavors and colors. It is prepared in a clean
kitchen, with clean utensils, using pure materials. The recipe does not include
masking, correction or flavor enhancement. The ingredients are allowed to create their own
natural chemistry. When these principles are followed, it always works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have many recipes that have failed for no reason; the ingredients just
don’t work together. Maybe I was rushed, maybe I was missing my favorite knife. I have recipes that work in spite of accidents. The joy of sattva is to leave the final result to faith. If you have sattva, you do not have to taste the food. You expect it to be good. Last summer, I made a drink out of goat’s milk, cantaloupe
and lemon balm. It was a very strange concept, but it worked well together.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yams boiled in jaggary: two ingredients, that's it!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sattvic foods are without
question nutritious and good for the body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It goes beyond the nutritional profile of the foods, but delves a little
bit into the energy of the food. That is why Thanksgiving meals always turn out good. It is the energy of a good mood. The same dish fails when you are in a
hurry or a foul mood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My wife enjoys
cooking with her favorite Earth Wind and Fire songs blaring out of the
kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> She can cook all day and dishes will all turn out perfect. Why not? It's powered by Earth Wind and Fire!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To drink Matcha Tea is an exercise in elegance, power and serenity.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One example of sattvic food is kale chips. It is simple to
prepare, tastes fantastic and is so good for you. Another favorite from my youth is Yams and
Jaggary. Organic yams are available most time of the year (I recently bought a
bag at Extra Foods) and Jaggary may be ordered by mail or found in the Indian
grocers in the city. Another example of sattvic food is Matcha tea. It is
simple, exquisite and if prepared properly, just as enjoyable as coffee. It is
one of the best known immunity boosters and is rich in cancer fighting
polyphenols. Very, very sattvic.</span></div>
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</span></span></span>The kitchen starts clean and orderly. Pretend
you are in a sanctuary and the floor and counters have to be
cleaned before you cook.</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Sharpen your knives (Buy one really expensive
knife and you will double your cooking skills)</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Play music that you like. Turn it up to
the neighbors-will-complain setting.</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Choose fresh ingredients, organic if possible,
from your garden is the best. Otherwise, always buy your ingredients the same
day you are cooking.</span></div>
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</span></span></span>If ingredients are frozen, they are thawed in
water, not in the you-know-what</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Pot has to be sparkling. </span></div>
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</span></span></span>Choose the best plate. Don't reserve your best
china just for your guests. Use them for the really important people in your life. Never use chipped plates or glasses. </span></div>
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</span></span></span>Decorate the table with flowers and candles, as
often as possible</span></div>
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</span></span></span>Try eating in the dark with candles only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This brings me to the interesting part of the article: bacon
roses. These are undoubtedly one of the strangest ideas that I have seen in a
while. They look like roses and they were very popular for Valentine’s Day. They
are made out of bacon! What a strange idea. OK, no big mystery here: this is
not sattvic food. </span></div>
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this if you have not seen the movie, but are intending to. I totally give away
the plot. The plot in three words: boy, boat, cat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t let me spoil the movie. See it first. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Friday, I saw Ang Lee’s award winning Life of Pi with my
wife and son and I walked away moved by this movie. It was exactly as
advertised: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very epic, very expensive,
and deserving of all the awards. Besides, the book was written by a Canadian. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While I was watching this visual spectacle, I was making
notes on some useful health tips. Well, not really. Although I was blown away by
all the CG tricks, having read the book, I had this constant reminder that it
was a contrived reality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had this
nagging feeling that the whole time, I was being manipulated. Firstly, shelling
out $40 (for the three of us) including extra for the 3D glasses (why do we not
buy these things once and keep them for the next 3D movie, I don’t know). Secondly,
I wear glasses, so putting the glasses on top of my glasses gives me a
headache. Thirdly, the movie is not about boy-boat-tiger at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, I told you so. This blog gets better,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am hoping that my accountant will allow me to write off
the 3D glasses if I make an argument that this was all research for a blog I
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Put on your 3D glasses now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Pi’s father tells him “If you believe in everything,
you will end up not believing in anything at all”, I was reminded of the many important
lessons that I learned from my parents. Many of them were not delivered as
lessons; I never remembered ever being lectured at. These were of the
nature of gentle life observations on how to conduct myself. In short, they were at the cellular level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a common practice for my mother to send me at 5:00 PM
to the corner store with an empty tin cup to buy rice before supper. I would
walk the two blocks with an empty cup in hand and at the store, scoop a cup of
rice from the big mound of rice that was just there, fragrant, precious and
glistening like a mountain of silver. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can not remember how much it was, but I do remember paying in coins. I would
walk back home with the now filled cup, being careful not to spill a single precious
grain. (bad luck) This cup will be cooked right away, soon imparting a
fragrance from the kitchen. My sisters, at the same time, would be collecting
water spinach from the river, which was a block away. The spinach never tasted
the same if it was collected any sooner. The rice and the spinach constituted a
simple meal, with a single dried fish per person. Maybe two on a special
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was a simple lesson in simplicity (no packaging, no garbage),
frugality (no waste, no money tied up in groceries) and freshness (no extra
food, no spoilage issues). It is idyllic in my memory. At the time, we were
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today in natural health, everyday we are offered new
discoveries and the latest big thing. Here is the first lesson from Pi: do not believe everything. We are not supposed to follow
all of the health tips from Dr. Oz, Dr. Mercola, Dr Weill, Kevin Trudeau, and Sayer
Ji. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are only so many anti-oxidants
and super foods that we can realistically fit into a regimen. When Dr. Oz finds
the latest miracle break-through on Monday and another one on Tuesday, he does
not mean for you to throw out what you are already doing. What you are already
doing may be redundant or just as good, or even better for your own situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no miracle cures out there. There
are many choices to suit your budget and lifestyle. The only truth is that you
can not achieve different results if you keep doing the same thing. Pi’s lesson
from his father applies to natural supplements: do not take everything.</span></div>
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absolutely not use it in this space, but it is implied, and since you are so intelligent to even be reading this, I trust that you insert your own,
prn)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As Pi is starving and is offered the flying fish, he weeps
and bows in prayer. This is a fantastic moment in the film and is a reminder
for us to always eat with gratitude. Pi thanks Lord Vishnu for appearing in the
form of a fish. He eats it raw, full of gratitude. He does not say, “I wish I
can have a little bit of wasabi just about now.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know many vegetarians and I admire them for their
discipline and applaud them for their commitment to the planet. The so called
Big Mac Effect (the demand for cheap meat) leads to the startling and real destruction
of the rainforest. I get that. Cattle rearing accounts for 65% of Nitrous Oxide
emissions, mostly from manure. Nitrous Oxide’s effect on global warming is 296
times more than carbon dioxide. The Fart Effect accounts for 37% of the methane
emissions, which is 23 times greater than carbon dioxide. OK, I get the fart
thing as well. A five year old gets the fart thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However, when Pi makes a choice between staying vegetarian
or eating to stay alive, he eats the fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Eat the rice with the gravy”, the sailor said. However, there was no
rice, and there was no gravy. (Poor sailor, I really liked him.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is an account of a real life Richard Parker who was a
cabin boy marooned with three others on a boat after the yacht Mignorette sank
in 1884.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He met an unfortunate fate. It
was not vegetarian at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yann Martel, the Canadian author (Yaay for these clever
Canadians!) who published <u>Life of Pi</u> in 2001, was initially criticized
for not acknowledging the influence from Marcy Sclera’s book <u>Max and the Cats</u>.
Sclera’s book, which was an allegorical book on Nazism, involves a man and a
panther together in a boat. In my opinion, Martel has the cleverer allegory:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the struggle between man and himself, the vegetarian
and the carnivore. A vegetarian zookeeper who spends his
life devoted to animals is forced to eat animal flesh or die. Martel’s fascination with
this subject is revealed in later writings after the success of Life of Pi. It
is not pretty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the book, Martel devotes quite a bit of space to the
alternate reality. In the movie, this is used by skillful Ang Lee as a clever twist: a
subtle, winkish nod at the end of the movie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The note is so silent, so subtle, that most of
the audience (most of who have not read the book), still high from the luminous
acrobatic whale, miss it entirely. However, the last five minutes turn the
whole movie upside down, inside out. This duplicate reality, in which the zebra
is the sailor, Orange Juice is mother, the hyena is the cook and Pi is the
tiger, is a contrast of light against dark, humanity against inhumanity,
salvation against damnation. The whole movie takes on a different meaning. </span></div>
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challenges. The four most common ones that I encounter are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Iron, especially heme iron. Since heme iron is mostly found
from meat in the diet, it is a common deficiency. One alternative is to cook vegetables
rich in Vitamin C in a cast iron skillet, allowing the Vitamin C to pull iron
into the food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Calcium is another common deficiency for strict vegans who
avoid dairy and cheese. Good choices are turnips, collard greens and rhubarb.
This is especially important for children as their bones start to grow and as
well for the post-menopausal women who are more prone to osteoporosis as a
result of hormone changes.</span></div>
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trickier to source from plant based food. This is not only a common deficiency in vegetarians,
but for the general population as well. Fortunately, this is a simple nutrient
which can be delivered in sublingual tablets (methylcobalamin is preferred) or
injections if you are so inclined. From food, I would recommend Brewer’s Yeast,
Nori, chlorella and my favorite super nutrient: spirulina!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Zinc is another common deficiency and is particularly
dangerous for aging men, as it is important for prostate support. It is also very
important for young men for prevention of testicular cancer. If you are a young man from Vancouver Island, get your zinc tested. Four out of five islanders test deficient in zinc. For food sources, focus on what
germ, lima beans and chard. Otherwise, it is a simple nutrient to get. My
favorite form is Zinc Monomethionine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cutting to the alternate movie that no one is watching, Pi
finds the algae island that is both a lifesaver and a life threat. It is both
beautiful and deadly. It is a body innocent and a spirit diabolical. Ang Lee
deftly touches on juxtaposed realities and duality of existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was one of the more fascinating aspects of the movie
and I think it is actually the main theme of the movie: the duality of
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is not as always as we see it
(Do not believe in everything…again). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
should at the same time, have faith in the unseen while questioning what is
seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At night, the island eats the
living things, turning the freshwater pools into deadly vats of acid. It both
provides and consumes, nothing unfair about that deal. The earth provides does
it not? The earth consumes, will it not?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a non-fictional island off of Naples called Castello Aragones. This killer
island actually has pools of corrosive salt water high in carbonic acid in
which no life will survive. This natural phenomenon is a result of volcanic
vents on the ocean floor through which the sea water absorbs carbon dioxide,
becoming more and more acidic. Interestingly, as planetary CO2 emissions increase,
the rate of absorption of CO2 by the oceans is slowly acidifying the ocean
water, which is normally about 8.2 pH. It is predicted that if the current
acidification of the ocean continues, the seawater will be 150% more acidic by
the year 2100. In this planet, we are indeed the meerkats. Except, there are no
3D glasses to take off. The danger is real and it is already happening. A plug
for Dr. David Suzuki right about here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The eye-candy-how-did-they-do-that-spectacle of the movie is
a trap: Ang Lee is tricking us with a dazzling display of digital tigers (the
tiger is completely computer generated, sorry to tell you that) and then
underpinning a darker story of human tragedy. The sleight of hand is very, very
clever. Or not. You are given the
choice as to what to believe: it is either a pretty story or a disturbing one.
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with Pi finding the incredidle floating algae island. The whole island is edible;
the water is clear and pristine. It saves Pi’s life. Or does it? In the story,
as in health and as in life: things are not as they seem. The island is edible,
but it also eats. The pretty story is not the real movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oops. We are the meerkats, falling for the
trap. Too late, we have already paid extra for the 3D glasses. We are glued to
our seats, and if the theatre was carnivorous, we would be too engrossed and
too trapped to run for the exits. </span></div>
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Or is he merely good, with his cleverness magnified by our uncleverness? I
don’t like to use the word stupid, but there is a general dilution of the brain
cells when Gangnam Style (805,000,000 views, probably a few million more per
day) is more popular than <a href="http://youtu.be/oHQu3SeUwUI" target="_blank">The Fracking Song</a> (important, but a piddly 70,000
views). ‘nuff said. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most downloaded video of all time is not a TED talk.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wrote recently about how the bacteria in the gut can
actually help reduce allergies and asthma symptoms. (read my tweet…I am not
going to be redundant. There is just too much stuff to tell you that if I
repeat even one, it will create a cascade of redundancy and before you know it,
I will be reduced to insignificance). There must be some rule against
parenthesizing such a long digression... but, I just write what comes into my
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Therefore, it seems that we are slaves to the bacteria and
for our own good; we have to maintain the balance of good and bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This delicate balance in the gut responds
significantly to changes in fiber, changes in pH and changes in minerals in our
food. The health effects of this balance are multifold: inflammation, pain,
immunity, brain function, serotonin levels, testosterone recycling, just to
name a few off the top of my meerkat head. Multiply this by an infinite number
of times as to what is happening in the soil, the soil we usually disturb and
pave over to create a parking lot for Target. We disturb the balance when we
deplete the minerals by mono-cropping, fertilizing and clear-cutting. OK, let’s
just throw in the F word here: fracking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about disturbing the balance at a global
level?</span><br />
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bioluminescent bacteria in the water. This amazing ability is present in 90% of
bacteria in the ocean and is a very accurate determinant of the balance between
a healthy ocean and a sick planet. As the ocean becomes more polluted, the luminescent
bacteria die off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">No argument at all: k</span>illing luminescent
bacteria just feels instantly bad.</span></div>
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bioluminescence as a measure of the effects of heavy metals and pollution from nitrogen
and phosphorus in the water. Using the bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio
fischeri, she uses light sensitive equipment to measure how toxins in the water
decrease bacteria populations. This shifts lead to algae blooms which further
deplete the amount of oxygen. By measuring these small changes at the bacteria
level, she is able to predict larger scale of environmental damage. As Dr Widder
says, “It’s my belief if we can make pollution visible, and let people know
what small things they are doing are actually making an improvement in this
incredible environment, I think it could make a huge difference. It can be a
game-changer.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pi learns to live with Richard Parker, but only after
running out of options. First, he fashions a raft on which he stores all his
necessities and niceties: his biscuits and his canned water. However, this
leads to disaster as the raft is overturned during a storm and he is forced to
co-exist with his enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Often we see disease as the enemy. Our very own Richard
Parker. So we build our raft and on it we put all our essentials: our
supplements, our prescriptions, our yoga classes. Then a storm comes around and
turns this all upside down and we are forced to deal with our Richard Parker.
Until we do so, we are just negotiating and compromising. For example: we are
in pain from gout, but we do not want to give up the red wine. We have acid
reflux, but the coffee is just soo good. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can not turn the mind off, but we have no
time for meditation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A common conversation sounds like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: Well, it looks like you are too acidic; your rosacea may
improve if you are alkaline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: It’s only a problem when I ski all day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: What did you have for breakfast today?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: Today was not a typical day. Don’t pick today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: OK, what did you have for breakfast yesterday?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: Steel cut oats which is organic, Greek yogurt, organic,
frozen strawberries, two slices of multigrain toast, a banana, and coffee, free trade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was in the
coffee?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: It was a double double.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: They serve Greek Yogurt at Timmy’s now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: No, that was later. I had coffee at home and then again
at the drive thru.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: Then you went skiing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: Yes, then I went skiing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Me: Everything you ate and drank were acidic. All.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You: Did I say the yogurt is organic?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am not picking on skiers and I am not picking on Timmy’s
fans. Coffee is perfectly fine. However, you are on the raft and Richard Parker
is still on the boat. At some point we need to come face to face with Richard
Parker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In case I have meandered out of reach, Richard Parker is
disease and to achieve health, we have to overcome our fear of disease. The
body signals its ability in fighting disease in the strangest ways: pain,
inflammation, swelling, heat, and fever. It is hard to accept that these are “good” signs…because
it shows that your body is fighting for you and you are feeling sick while geting better. It is backwards, like Richard Parker scaring Pi into being braver.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like it when I get a stomach
ache in the middle of the night because it reminds me that I should not have
had the greasy plate of pasta at 10:00. If I eat well, I will still get sick,
but not as sick. If I eat, like, not-well, I will get sick a lot more often and
with more severity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have to learn to co-exist with disease, as Pi with Richard Parker.
Remember when Pi devised a way of training Richard Parker with his whistle? He
first studied. Then he planned. Then he acted. This approach can be followed
when we deal with disease: study, plan, and act. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Universal Individuation: the planet is us and we are the planet.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pi and Richard Parker are after all, the same. The movie
demonstrates Pi’s struggle of individuation: how he finds his true self. The tiger
is his animas, his unconscious, to which he is connected, but first, in conflict. Individuation is the result of harmony between the two. In health, we have
our conscious health and our unconscious health and the two have to be in
harmony. Disease can be contained, just as health can be maintained. The
two exist in perfect harmony. They co-exist: just as if they were in their own
lifeboat (our bodies), at the mercy of the ocean (our environment) and in this
fragile vessel, we balance health (Pi) and disease (the tiger). </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That is why in the end, Richard Parker disappears into the forest. He is no longer needed , because truly, Him and Pi are one. He is Pi and Pi is him. Once we are one with our own Richard Parker, we are truly in harmony. Dis-ease becomes ease. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then we can enjoy the beautiful movie that is balanced health.
Without fear and without regret.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Post-notes:</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to the Lindemann-Weierstrass Theorem, pi is a tanscendental number. It is irrational. Computers thus far have been able to measure up to 10 trillion decimals. It is accepted that it is an infinite number. It signifies the unity of the circle and the square.. which is as illusive and tanscendental as the universe.</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was a very enjoyable blog to write, as it crystallized
some important concepts for me. I hope you enjoyed it. Man… Ang Lee is a
genius. Martel… call your mom and tell her you love her.</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What if there was proven remedy that was safe, tastes good
and will reduce your flu symptoms by 90% within three days? What if this
natural medicine is safe for children? What if<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>it works for other viruses? Let’s find out the interesting facts about
Black Elderberry: Sambucus nigra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The ripe berries of Sambucus nigra (Black Elderberry) have
been shown to effectively control the growth of the H5N1 Avian flu strain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A study in Israel, published in the Journal
of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, showed 20% of patients taking
elderberry extracts had dramatic improvements in symptoms including fever,
muscle pains and cough. This increased to an improvement in 73% of patients by the second
day and 90% by the third day. Compared to the placebo group, in which only 16%
improved after two days, there was a clinically significant improvement in the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There were two
positive results: there was a greater percentage of the patients improving and
the improvements manifested four days sooner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Children in the study took two tablespoonfuls daily and adults took
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study
in Norway showed a reduction of flu symptoms<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>by four days. This study concluded that elderberry extracts stimulate
the healthy immune system<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by increasing
the production of immune system mediator cytokines. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ripe berries are used, devoid of twigs or branches</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The medicinal part of the plant is the ripe berries. It
contains several flavonoids, the most important ones<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being the anthocyanidins cyanidin-3-glucoside
and cyanidin-3-sambubioside. Elderberries are also rich in the bioflavonoids
rutin, isoquertin and hyperoside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
anthocyanidins are quickly absorbed, showing significant plasma levels in
thirty minutes. Excretion is through the kidneys as glucoronide conjugates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The mechanism of action seems to be two fold. The first
mechanism is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>immunomodulation
through increased production of inflammatory response cytokines such as
interleukin and tumor necrosis factor. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This implies that Elderberry is beneficial for immunosupressed patients, for example, someone undergoing chemotherapy. Patients with autoimmune conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis can also benefit from the properties of elderberry without worsening their condition. This is an important consideration when they get viral infections. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Immunomodulators are substances that regulate or modify the function
of the immune system. Immunosuppressants inhibit
the immune response and immunostimulants stimulate the immune
response.It is unclear
how immunomodulators work, but it is hypothesized that they act on
certain points of the immune activation pathways. Cytokines present in the elderberry are natural immunomodulators<u></u>. They have multiple interacting roles in the immune pathways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In a study in Israel in 1995, Elderberry
Extracts have also been shown to have antiviral effectiveness<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against several flu strains including human,
swine and avian strains. The extract is thought to inhibit both hemagglutinin
activity and viral cell replication. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A well designed berry pickers that separates the berries and branches</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Orally, elderberry extract is well tolerated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is sweet and fruity tasting and is suitable
for children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ripe berries are used
and the proper preparation involves removal of all twigs and branches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The raw and unripe fruit has been reported to
cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Therefore, it is recommended that home
preparations of elderberry juice, extracts, wines or tinctures not be consumed in large quantities and cannot be used for
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The flowers of the elderberry tree are used effectively for
sinusitis. There is insufficient reliable information about the effectiveness
of the elder flower for its other uses. The mechanism of action is from the
flavonoids lectin, rutin, choline tannin and lipophilic triterpinoids. It also
exerts antioxidant activity from sterol compound such as lupeol and
beta-sitosterol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The elder flowers are often prepared in an extract or a tea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15080016" title="The Journal of international medical research.">J Int Med Res.</a></span> 2004
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Randomized study of the
efficacy and safety of oral elderberry extract in the treatment of influenza A
and B virus infections.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Inhibition of several strains of influenza virus in vitro and reduction of
symptoms by an elderberry extract (Sambucus nigra L.) during an outbreak of
influenza B Panama.</span></i><br />
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was wrong. I thought Kombucha was a variation of the Kefir strain: a sort of a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gentler, more palatable version of the mighty Kefir
(see my blog: My Fear of Kefir). Turns out that Kombucha preceded Kefir by
about a thousand years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">More
than 2,000 years ago, the Chinese relied on the health benefits of <b>Kombucha
Tea</b>, and they called it the “immortal health elixir.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a story of a Korean physician named Kombu
healing the emperor of Japan though this medicinal tea, which propelled its
immense popularity in Japan. The
biggest contributor to the spread of the Kombucha was a fellow by the name of
Gengis Khan. It was carried in skin flasks by his armies who drank the sour
drink for immunity and strength. Yup. Nothing like a drink of immortality before you
invade a foreign territory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Kombucha
Tea is made from the fermentation of a mixture of sweetened tea and a SCOBY,
which is a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jaggary, a beautiful, mineral laden form of sugar cane</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oolong tea is the traditional tea and will give beautiful, white scobies.</span></td></tr>
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favorite tea base is made from equal parts of black tea, green tea and oolong tea. I have brewed successfully in hibiscus tea, tulsi tea, rooibos tea, white tea, and red reishi. I have discovered a molasses tasting sweet version with Jaggary and tulsi tea (Holy Basil). On the other hand, I have killed some cultures with overly strong ginger, chai, ginseng and dan shen teas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I purposely over
brew the three teas separately in alkaline water overnight. I always use alkaline water set at a pH of 10.6, which is ideal for pulling
the minerals from the tea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The minerals
are an essential food for the bacteria. I have used different sugars and prefer
Jaggary, the raw sugarcane cubes from India. It is unpasteurized and unprocessed, retaining the minerals from the sugar cane , which adds to the overall happiness of the culture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Benefit: Detoxification</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Through
the growth of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beneficial commensal gut bacteria
, as well as providing enzymes and yeast to the digestive tract, Kombucha tea can
help detoxify your body. It increases pancreatic enzymes, improves protein digestion
and assists the liver. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It contains
glucoronic acid which is a potent detoxifier. A properly fermented culture should not be too
overly acidic (it should not taste like vinegar). Taking the slightly acidic Kombucha<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assists in digestion if taken at the beginning of a meal.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Benefit: Digestion</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Kombucha has
been shown to contain several strains of beneficial bacteria including Bacterium gluconicum, Bacterium xylinum, Acetobacter xylinum, Acetobacter xylinoides and Acetobacter ketogenum. The health of the colon is aided by the yeast strains <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saccharomycodes ludwigii, Saccharomycodes
apiculatus, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Zygosaccharomyes and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
It also contains Vitamin B12 , Niacinamide, Nicotinic acid, Pantothenic acid, Riboflavin
and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thiamine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Benefit: Cancer Defense</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Kombucha
tea’s detoxifying properties and its high content of glucoronic acid can aid in
the prevention of cancer. Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander
Solzhenitsyn wrote in his autobiography that his stomach cancer was cured by
regular consumption of Kombucha tea. After President Ronald Reagan came to know
about the author’s claim, he decided to use Kombucha tea to prevent his cancer
from spreading. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Benefit: Lowers Inflammation</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Kombucha
tea contains high amounts of glucosamine which enhances the production of hyaluronic
acid, an acid that can help preserve cartilage structure and reduce arthritic
pain. HA attracts up to one thousand times its weight in water and will
increase lubrication and flexibility of joints.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">By
improving the gut flora , Kombucha increases base immunity by decreasing
the amount of toxins entering the body. The gut permeability is preserved and
protein digestion is improved, diminishing protein putrefaction which can lead
to dysbiosis and bowel inflammation. It contains the important Sacharomyce bouiilardi strain which is beneficial for irritable bowel disease. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A healthy gut is the key to improved
immunity and has far-reaching benefits for overall health, including hormone health. It
will manifest as improved resistance to disease, improved digestion and
increased energy levels.</span></span><br />
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Kombucha</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Prepare a strong tea by brewing your choice of green tea,
oolong tea or black tea. Avoid herbal teas and spicy teas (chai) as the culture
can be killed by the spices.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Allow the tea to cool to room temperature and add one cup of
sugar per litre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ratio of sugar to
tea is 1:2. Do not worry about all the sugar: it will be consumed by the
bacteria and yeast and will not be present when the ferment is finished.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From the tea that you were given, pour out half to drink
over the next ten days. The dose is four tablespoonfuls a day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Replace the tea that you have poured out with the sugared
cold tea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Place a breathable fabric over the jar such as cheesecloth
and secure with a rubber band.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Place the culture in a warm, dark place. Do not disturb for
at least 7 days. The ideal temperature range is 21 to 29 degrees Centigrade.
The wrong bacteria will grow if the temperature drops below 16 degrees. Do not
make Kombucha if you can not regulate the temperature: your culture will sour
and harmful bacteria will have harmful effects. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">After 7 days, inspect the culture daily. It is normal for a
culture “mushroom” to form on top of the liquid. If you smell a little bit of
vinegary smell, then it is ready to harvest. If you smell a bit of sweetness,
it is not ready to harvest. The time it takes to harvest will depend on the
temperature in your house. The warmer it is, the faster it will ferment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If it is ready to harvest (smells or tastes slightly acidic,
but NOT vinegary), then pour out half and repeat the process from step 3.</span></span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ecZ6GuxdZznSNFUnsYgQEiFc5x-Nvevkh1nX0vYOl_WO6T18PE1wdncopsFD4jWly4VPoZ3mNNszc_Xqp2E4G8ff3GgsT6wkO_lO1-PLIeBGLd03YiqX6vBIX-HWNcfOwiuKHUhw8Po/s1600/kombucha+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5ecZ6GuxdZznSNFUnsYgQEiFc5x-Nvevkh1nX0vYOl_WO6T18PE1wdncopsFD4jWly4VPoZ3mNNszc_Xqp2E4G8ff3GgsT6wkO_lO1-PLIeBGLd03YiqX6vBIX-HWNcfOwiuKHUhw8Po/s400/kombucha+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A happy scoby is firm, white and clear</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Over time, the “mushroom” will get to the size of a
hamburger patty and will start forming layers. Once you have several layers,
you can start a new culture by peeling and separating the layers. If you are
starting a brand new culture, make sure you include at least two inches of the
old liquid, as well as the mushroom. </span></span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Happy, Healthy Scobies</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1</span> A happy, healthy SCOBY is white to yellow-beige, but never black. It may have dark spots which
is from the yeast, but it should be even coloured, firm and smooth. It should
look luminous and glowing. If your SCOBY is sickly looking, discard it and start from scratch from a
secondary ferment and allow it to grow a new SCOBY. Check your temperature and acidity regularly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A
healthy culture fizzes when you shake the bottle. Once in a while, shake the
culture to check. It should also have small bubbles visible at the top of the
culture. The more fizz, the happier the culture is. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Tell us how your Kombucha experience goes.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There is a new holiday this year: Family Day and it is this coming Monday. This is the first year it is being celebrated in British Columbia. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thinking about this,</span><u> </u></span>I dug up an old photograph with me sitting on my mother’s lap at one year of age. There were two more sisters born after this photo, so I come from a big family.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidobGzN9S55K48t98d0moAnhQFHctFF8wjR5RSIbs5UAsZQVdxEXnkflrAyrMROPCIifHNPuIxPTWjks-AgcZ5dWu1Cv-KJxUOs6txFTrPGUSMufyc1qqM4QkFGrL1Z57O3EqtqrKPHyo/s1600/family+A.jpg"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidobGzN9S55K48t98d0moAnhQFHctFF8wjR5RSIbs5UAsZQVdxEXnkflrAyrMROPCIifHNPuIxPTWjks-AgcZ5dWu1Cv-KJxUOs6txFTrPGUSMufyc1qqM4QkFGrL1Z57O3EqtqrKPHyo/s320/family+A.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjsPwuZMQ2UCa0OAFXV8Sm8l1tJyqV5BFXCQJb5AOTqLuV3jMycN_v0arSpY9YMLX7HEJ1cViFCEP50MycYCTrdHlmwoHhpJmUgAQkY0bPS1kNheuo8BYKCKgf-o_EXFcSpYbOCBdIzwA/s1600/family+A.jpg"><br /></a>Family brings to mind the first aspect: the need for faith. It is true that we can pick our friends but never our family. Our families are the source of our greatest joys, and our greatest sorrows. Our family is who we are, in our DNA, in our cells<u>,</u> in our very fibre. They give us allergies. I have often told my two children that no matter what, no one will come closer to them than each other. In fact, they are closer to each other than they are to us, their parents. It is often believed that we are the product not just of our parents, but of seven generations past. I added it up: 284 energies guiding each of us. Our instincts, intuition and clairvoyance are propelled by the connection to these unconscious factors. It gives us a compass, it guides us invisibly, it holds us to our foundation, like invisible threads. It provides us with a trust: that everything will work out, with our family behind us. This is the first aspect.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />From the first aspect of faith, we are enabled to rise to the second aspect: the need for courage. From our foundation of the family, we experience growth; in our abilities and in our confidence. Always, our biggest fan club is our own families and it is true that our achievements are their achievements. ( I have a nephew who at age six is a fantastic and gifted singer and it always gives me a special sense of pride to watch his videos. *)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Family is the training ground and the greenhouse where we get to try new stuff out. Let our talents sprout. This gives us courage to venture on our own and pave our own paths. It allows us the social grace to form friendships and kinships of our own. And then, it is these partnerships that lead to the most courageous venture of all: creating our own family. There exists many modern versions of this: the partner, the co-mortgagee, the soul-friend, or if you are conventional, the wife or husband. This is the second aspect.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />* Here is a link to a my nephew Tyson's youtube video:<br /><br /> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL2kywdKCkYVR5r-zJ5dnF0g&v=bCh1mmU8Ddg&feature=player_detailpage">http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL2kywdKCkYVR5r-zJ5dnF0g&v=bCh1mmU8Ddg&feature=player_detailpage</a><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggWhvfKRY0wafR2f1x7xhKPy5HOpD5GbSAyldsXhp8pbR5ArlRxK4rajloMq_6Au4B-N38Ilp5nsk26ca-rnLum4bHWUoU9aMbGhmG8CEuNIz5riMqYK-1VeUbtM60ty0oCR0ydmzpiXQ/s1600/family+C.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggWhvfKRY0wafR2f1x7xhKPy5HOpD5GbSAyldsXhp8pbR5ArlRxK4rajloMq_6Au4B-N38Ilp5nsk26ca-rnLum4bHWUoU9aMbGhmG8CEuNIz5riMqYK-1VeUbtM60ty0oCR0ydmzpiXQ/s400/family+C.jpg" /></a><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Through the aspect courage, we begin the third aspect: the need for questionability. This may seem a strange and final culmination, but this is the most important aspect of all. If we do not question, we cease. We stagnate. We are lulled into a false security. We die in spirit. Questioning is the opposite of doubting. It is the opposite of insecurity. It is the opposite of terminating. When we question, we allow ourselves to simultaneously reflect in gratitude for our past, enjoy our present and propel into the future. It allows us to grow and to excel. When doubt and uncertainty creep into our thoughts, we should welcome it as necessary refinements to our game plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Perfection is therefore not the objective. Rather, we return to the first aspect: have faith in ourselves; the second aspect: have the courage to do what is required and the third aspect: question ourselves as to what next. The aspect of questionability allows us to transcend our limitations. Each generation should transcend the previous.<br /><br /> <br />The three aspects repeat in our lifetime. Over and over again.<br /><br /><br />And this is will go on for seven generations. Our spirits will continue to soar through our descendants. More so if they are aware of this gift. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The gift of family. <br /><br /> So, have a great Family Day to all of you and may you pause on this day to look back to where you came from in order to achieve a sense where you are. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7P4etmjSDQFV6WTDzlsOjID4ZKv29YG4bXc8syLI2wP_s6zAd2QBbzVoLp9wiDcn08Ibca56yo5VQKEGZ_4fACG41vftTEd1sj7559R9npI7cOTyC0lRmgEz_B24hGju3PqCPPhpeYQ/s1600/family+D.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7P4etmjSDQFV6WTDzlsOjID4ZKv29YG4bXc8syLI2wP_s6zAd2QBbzVoLp9wiDcn08Ibca56yo5VQKEGZ_4fACG41vftTEd1sj7559R9npI7cOTyC0lRmgEz_B24hGju3PqCPPhpeYQ/s320/family+D.jpg" /></a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-24894771331447164462013-02-08T09:59:00.001-08:002013-02-08T09:59:09.247-08:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-36075563031435558462010-11-04T14:25:00.000-07:002010-11-05T10:17:32.843-07:00An Update: WATER AND STONE<div style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What's softest in the world</b></span></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>rushes and runs</b></span></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>over what's hardest in the world.</b></span></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The immaterial </b></span></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>enters</b></span></div><div style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the impenetrable.</span></b></span></div><div style="color: yellow;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: yellow;"></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I<span style="font-size: small;"> have to remind myself that water will defeat stone, given time. I have to accept that time, as we measure it, is merely an artificial attempt to contain what has no boundary, to measure what has no dimension. If it takes another planet 10,000 years to move around the sun, then a minute can be 10,000 minutes. Therefore, I have to be patient. My patience should not be measured by the day or the month, and although I feel weary, any impatience adds to my weariness. My patience has to match the cadence not of the hour, but of the seasons. Its measure is the time it takes for a drop of water to evaporate, congregate in the clouds until it falls back as a drop of water on the ground. Let my patience be 10,000 drops.</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If the key word is patience, then Marigold is doing relatively well. We have been able to re-open the front store and return to business-as-usual, as best as we can manage. The pharmacy department is still closed. Our hours have been slightly changed: open at 10 AM and close at 6PM from Monday to Saturday. We have made three specific changes to our practice and you will notice when you come in the store that there is now a service counter, behind which you will find many of the Marigold products. These are all the products with any health claims and this is necessary so we can provide proper advice on what product will work best for you. Also, if it is the first time you are returning to the store. you will be asked to complete a patient information sheet. This makes you a registered customer of Marigold and we can better keep track of all the Marigold products you use. It also formalizes the patient-professional relationship which is a requirement of Health <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Thirdly, our products are now identified with a label indicating the expiry date and the batch number. These changes are necessary in order to improve and continue the services that we provide.</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are expecting the pharmacy to re-open in the near future and we appreciate your patience. Our discussions with the BC College of Pharmacists have been positive and together, we are working towards the re-opening of our pharmacy. </span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are also pleased to announce the opening of our herbal dispensary which will provide herbal tinctures, teas, dried herbs, essential oils and functional foods. Our staff herbalist Janette Cormier, R.Ac, RH has carefully selected medicinal Eastern and Western herbs and will be happy to assist you. She will also be able to do custom herbal formulations for patients and practitioners. She is also a registered acupuncturist and is available for drop-in acupuncture. Her acupuncture treatments have been effective for a variety of ailments such as gall bladder issues, bed-wetting, pain, stress and tiredness and low immunity. She offers a free 15 minute consult and can discuss if acupuncture is a good alternative for you.</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dr. Erica Kneeland is accepting new patients. She is a Naturopathic Doctor with a special interest in women's health and pediatrics. She will assist in hormone balancing, prenatal and postnatal care and thyroid issues. She is currently studying to get her pharmacology designation. Naturopathic Doctors are now allowed prescribing privileges in BC and she will have this included in her practice in the future.She also administers Vitamin B12 shots on a drop-in basis.</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We now have three nutritionists on our staff: Kira Neumann, Kim Mutchler and Cathy Riopelle. They will assist you in selecting any vitamins and supplements that you will need as well as establishing a solid foundation based on lifestyle and food. They are available for consultations as well. Kira is a long time resident of the valley and has been busy replenishing our shelves with new lines of supplements. We are introducing the new line of Mega Foods supplements, which deliver a food-based form, allowing the preservation of native intelligence which can be easily destroyed by heat, pressure and the addition of extra ingredients. Kim is a new addition to our staff, having recently moved back to the valley after working at Pure Pharmacy in White Rock. She has an expertise in the use of alkaline water and will be glad to give you a free sample of alkaline water which will have tremendous health benefits as it adjusts your acid-alkali balance. Kathy is well known in the valley and is currently getting her accreditation in the interesting field of Metabolic Typing. This is a diet based approach to long lasting relief from food cravings, low energy, weight gain and low immunity. </span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So please drop by and visit us. We thank you for all the support and notes for encouragement. They have been invaluable as far as advancing our case with the authorities and in fact, they have been very powerful and influential. There have been hundreds of letters that relate true and heartfelt Marigold stories and all of these have been compiled. </span></div><div style="color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-76697504040287383642010-06-29T12:21:00.000-07:002010-06-30T08:32:00.042-07:00A Generative Force<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It has been 15 days since the raid and the store is still closed. Each day in a small business such as ours is a lifetime. The expenses continue and the cash flow stops. It is a bit like drinking through a straw and the glass is almost empty. The slurping noise is the sound of the bank account drying up. There are days when I feel depleted. There are nights that my thoughts are filled with impossibilities. I find that my meditations are frequent, deep and necessary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When we were seeking financing for the business, I was approached and was offered seed money from a retail drugstore chain. They were very impressed and interested in our concept and offered "no-strings attached" financing, enough to open several stores. They assured us that we would call the shots. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Will you let me paint the store a bright pink?" I asked.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Why would you do that?" was the reply from the company representative. He was confused.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">" Well, you say we call the shots. I really, really like pink. Fuschia-bright pink, to be exact." I said. Of course I was joking, but he was still confused by the question.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">" I don't think that will fit our corporate guidelines," was the final answer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have somehow managed, still independent, not affiliated with any drugstore chains or banners or buying groups. Also, not pink. But: we could be; and that is the difference.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The human body can survive on about 1200 calories a day. Fish, rice, water. The human spirit, that is a little more complicated. Your many letters and emails provide us all here at Marigold with the sustenance for our spirit. They are very much appreciated. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We thank you for caring, we thank you for your support.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When this event started, Gaylene noted that this is merely a different manifestation of our mission. We have all been focused on providing reliable, dependable and complete natural medicine through our practice and our store. We felt that this was taking shape, that we were emerging through the initial phase of growth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vis Curatio Intentio (To Heal as Nature Intended) is our motto.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is happening now a different sort of healing. To heal the rift, to heal the intransigence, to heal the inertia of stuck. To allow the message to spread; to start the generative force that fuels true and lasting change. Maybe this is what this is. Maybe this is just as important. Maybe this is the true mission.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are many letters from people that are just discovering the current issues surrounding natural medicine. People who have never heard of us. They are interested, curious, supportive. We appreciate that. We want all of you to be engaged. This is not just Marigold. This affects health food stores, supermarkets, practitioners, manufacturers, sales reps, growers, bee keepers and many more involved in the production and delivery of natural health products.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write in with a letter of support, do at least that. We are collecting these letters and will use these as our tools to affect the change. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> These letters are the arrows of change. Let us have 100,000 arrows. Address the letter to your elected official, as this shift has to come from our leaders. The leaders have to have the will, just as we have to have the will. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your MP can be found through your postal code at<b> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">www.canada.gc.ca</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The MP for the North Vancouver Island is John Duncan and his email is <span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red;">duncan.j@parl.gc.ca</b>.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anything that matters is never easy and demands of us three things: commitment, impetus and belief. Commit to writing a letter today. If 80% of the natural supplements disappeared from the shelf today, how will that affect you? Let this be the impetus for your own initiative to learn more, to act with integrity and to care. As in nature, the generative force starts with the smallest seed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most importantly, believe this simple truth: the change is you and I. </span></span><br />
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-62531801937085459562010-06-22T14:03:00.000-07:002010-06-24T17:43:28.248-07:00Acting Without Action: The Art of Falling<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the day of the raid from Health Canada and the College of Pharmacists, there came a point when it became hard to see through the frustration, disappointment, and simmering anger.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Over time, I had to learn the lessons of falling. Only by doing so. was it possible to accept the events as part of a greater unfolding. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Acting without Action</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Taking no action is anathema to the extreme sense of urgency. In an immediate crisis, the natural response is to do something; to act upon, to react. The next obvious step to take is not necessarily the best one. The next step might be to step back, allowing one to notice the subtle lay of the grass which may well be the path. But, this takes clarity, concentration and resolve. It requires a stutter: to stop and not do anything . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Take a step back, then another step back, then another. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> When everyone else is saying take action; take no action. Accept inaction as a form of action.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the inspectors started to act on their mission , it became very hard to watch. They started emptying shelves of products, throwing them into boxes. There was no attempt to keep jars upright, or use packing material. The bottles of tinctures clang together in protest. ( We don't want to go. Let us stay on the shelf, all in tidy rows!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The boxes filled and soon littered the floor of the store. Boxes all in a row, waiting for the pick up. The inspectors had to walk around them as they were too heavy to move when they tried to push them with their feet.The boxes lay there in curvy rows, like the hay bales on a Merville field. As the inspectors completed filling one box, they then filled up the next. The strapping tape made a loud sound as the boxes were taped shut. Raackk. Raackk. Another box finished. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The movements of the inspectors were brisk and methodical. They were working hard. They might as well be baling hay. There were boxes filled with over $5,000 worth of inventory per box. It reminded me of moving day. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The boxes were loaded into a u-haul truck parked outside. Sad, NPN-less, bales of hay.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I could not stay in the store and watch. It was heart-breaking. The staff and customers had immediately been asked to leave, so I was the only one in the store with the six inspectors and two RCMP officers. My throat was getting dry and my legs felt bloodless. I decided to go home. I gave them my phone number and told them I would be returning at the end of the day.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was nice to walk in the sunshine. I walked around the block twice and I felt better. I thought of things that I could do in the middle of the day. Normally, I would not be able to leave the store (as pharmacists are required to be in the premises as long as the store was open). Simply walking around in the sun in the middle of the day was a strange enough experience. I watched people walking down 5th Street. I could easily be one of them, just going about my list of things to do on a sunny downtown Monday. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What would be on my list? The first thing that I thought of was to get some guitar strings, as my favorite guitar store was closed on my regular day off. I then realized that I did not have a vehicle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I decided to take the bus home and caught the 12:20 No.4. I was pretty proud of myself because:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. I knew where the bus stop was</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 2. I had change and I knew how much</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3. I got on the right bus</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sitting on the bus, I was thankful for how it goes around and around, and back and loop-de-loop, taking its time to go through all the smaller streets.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It gave me time to fall.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling is an art. How to fall involves reducing the action to its basics.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Removing obstructions (you do not want to fall into sharp objects, for sure).</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Removing paraphernalia (you do not want to fall with a computer laptop in your bag).</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Removing distractions (you do not want to be falling worrying about your expensive linen suit).</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While I was in the bus falling, I reduced myself to my very very basic being.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Remove</b> the layer of worry. Everything will work out to its natural conclusion.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Remove</b> the layer of responsibility. Feeling responsible for our staff, I knew that we were blessed with dedicated people who truly believe in what we do at a very deep level.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Remove</b> the layer of doubt. What we do is important. Not only important in terms of improving health, but maybe, a new importance in uncovering the politics of health care. The truth is healthy.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Remove</b> the layer of pride. There will be people who will question the events and judge, but it does not change me and it does not change what we do. The sky is still blue after the day is gone.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And when everything was removed, I was left only with my belief in myself. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And that belief is true and it is intact.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And that belief is all I need. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> In the bus, I ended up almost whispering: if I am true to that belief, then this too shall pass.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then, the most frightening thought that ever happens to every married man:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> How to explain this to my wife.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My wife apparently, knows the art of falling just fine. She will get big-upset if the kids leave a plate of lasagna in the living room. But a raid + seizure + lock-down? She was calm and focused. She actually said these words..."You know, this might be a good thing."<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> If the fight against intolerance is with anger, any victory is hollow. If our actions are driven by the wrong motives (pick any of the three: ego, greed or vanity) and not by love, then any achievement is temporary. We have to love what we do, we have to be compassionate about each person we deal with. We have to behave with restraint. If we do, then what we do will be honest and true and lasting.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To act without action means that in the end, the obstacles put in our way makes us stronger and more committed. Water will always find its own way: It may take time, but it will find its own way and the only requirement of me is to get out of the way and be ready to see the answer when it presents itself. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can not see through the fog. I wait for it to lift.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can not see through a dirty window. I wash it first.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can not see with a headache. I sip a drink of tea.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I can not see with my eyes closed. I open them.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I shall fall with grace.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I shall wait with restraint.</span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What awaits is beautiful and perfect.</span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They left the store at 11:30 PM. We heard movement in the lobby and cars starting. They did not say goodbye. They left through the receiving door and the store was suddenly empty. On the counter was a list of the inventory taken. It was 46 pages long.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-12397953366780646072010-06-22T11:20:00.000-07:002013-03-24T18:23:11.537-07:00Ire and Fire: Progressive Pharmacy Draws Attention<div style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The Most Progressive Pharmacy in Canada </span></b></h2>
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History</h3>
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Marigold Compounding and Natural Pharmacy in Courtenay, BC is the first of its kind. It is one of the most progressive pharmacies in North America as far as the scope and the mode of its operation. It is the true integration of pharmacy, homeopathy, Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine and other modalities at a professional level. </div>
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It has been recently caught in the controversy that is affecting the delivery of natural health care and natural products in Canada. As one of the most innovative pharmacies in Canada, it has drawn attention to its role in promoting the legitimacy of complementary alternative medicine alongside conventional pharmacy services. This is a unique environment where you will find products and services from different modalities. </div>
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On June 14, 2010 four inspectors from Health Canada, accompanied by two RCMP officers, and inspectors from the College of Pharmacists of BC raided the pharmacy and seized products without NPN's (Natural Product Number) and ordered the closure of the store.</div>
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The total value of the products taken away by Health Canada was $146,290.85 (valued at cost) </div>
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Marigold is no ordinary pharmacy. First of all, the philosophy is based on Vis Curatio Intentio (to heal as nature intended). They do not carry regular drugstore items such as Tylenol, Nyquil, not even Band-aids. Instead, you will find a wide selection of the best quality vitamins and supplements, including professional lines such as Thorne, Seroyal, Metagenics, AOR, and Waiora. They carry functional foods, medicinal mushrooms, Ayurvedic medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, homeopathy, tissue salts and chemical free dermatological preparations. They also have their own line of products which are prepared in the compounding pharmacy. </div>
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The NHPR (Natural Health Products Regulations) came into full effect in January 2010. It is federal legislation through which Health Canada would legislate the sale of natural health products as it does drugs through the Food and Drug Act and the Food and Drugs Regulation. With the classification as drugs, the intent is to have all natural products develop a body of evidence based on science. The fact that natural ingredients can not be patented poses a dilemma for manufacturers. Natural ingredients can be isolated and purified and even chemically altered, but does this change the properties? Are they still natural? </div>
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For the quarterly reporting periods (2008/2009 and the first three quarters of 2009/2010) which represents 37.9% of the product licensing applications received since the start of the NHPR in 2004, a total of 19,402 applications have been processed of which 11,195 were licensed, 2,493 were withdrawn and 5,714 were refused. (Source: Clash of the Regulatory Bodies by Andrew Waldie, Integrated Health Practitioner, Special Report, Vol 10-2) This represents just a small fraction of natural products on the market. These are products already currently on the shelves, and does not count products in development. Already, many suppliers have stopped shipping to Canada and many small companies who cannot afford to comply are waiting in anticipation of what will happen. Larger companies are caught in the application process for NPN's and there are many products somewhere along the process.</div>
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Since 2004, there has been a growing backlog of applications and the CHFA (Canadian Health Food Association) has described the backlog as alarming. </div>
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In January 2010, NAPRA, the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities, of which the College of Pharmacists of BC is a member, issued a position statement advising pharmacies to stop selling any products that do not have a DIN ( Drug Identification Number), an NPN ( Natural Product Number) or a DIN-HM (Homeopathic Medicine DIN). This has been adopted by some provincial College of Pharmacists and is now being implemented through the removal of products at the retail level. </div>
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Marigold does not fit in neatly into any category. Although we are a full service pharmacy with prescription services, we are very different from a traditional drugstore. Our expertise is in natural medicine, but we also understand the language and complexity of pharmaceutical drugs. </div>
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Marigold Compounding and Natural Pharmacy creates its own line of chemical- free products. In our formulations, we consciously and carefully select natural ingredients and avoid toxic chemicals. As much as possible, we try to stay close to the natural state of the medicine. We avoid using parabens, petroleum distillates, artificial colours, triethanolamine, magnesium stearate, butylated hydroxyanisole, butylated hydroxytoluene, PABA, sodium lauryl sulfate, artificial flavours and clay fillers. We formulate our capsules using alfalfa as the filler, rather than lactose or magnesium stearate.</div>
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Authorities from Health Canada have advised us in the past that as a compounding pharmacy, we have the ability to prepare products without an NPN registration as long as it fulfills the following criteria: </div>
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1. It is prepared in a proper laboratory with good manufacturing processes. </div>
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3. There exists a professional relationship between a health practitioner and the patient.</div>
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Our ability to deliver professional advice is unparalleled in the industry. We have the following ten accredited practitioners on our staff:</div>
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Janette Cormier, AA, RH, R.Ac. Registered Herbalist, Registered Acupuncturist</div>
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Michel Duhaime, R.Ac,, DTCM Registered Acupuncturist, Transformation Acupuncture, EFT </div>
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Raje Harwood Registered Reflexologist, Auricular Therapy</div>
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Dr. Erika Kneeland, B.Sc., ND Naturopathic Physician with a specialty in obstetrics, pediatrics and women’s health</div>
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Dr. Lise Maltais, FCAH, ND Naturopathic Physician, Registered Homeopathic Physician, Bowen Practitioner </div>
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Charlese Nan, RMT Registered Massage Therapist, Injury Specialist</div>
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Kira Neumann, RNCP Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Nutrition Consultant</div>
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Sharon Niscak, M.Sc., RH Registered Herbalist </div>
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Carol Smith, BA Reiki Master </div>
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Rudy Sanchez, B.Sc. Pharm. Consulting Pharmacist, Formulator</div>
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The store was closed and has been closed since, as we comply with the requirements set out by the College and Health Canada. </div>
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All Natural Sunscreens containing zinc oxide in various concentrations</div>
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Buttspackle containing calendula, peru balsam and zinc oxide</div>
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Arthrotopik Cream for inflammation, containing devil’s claw, calendula and arnica</div>
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Jocamu Ointment containing arnica and Rhus tox</div>
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Wild Oregano Oil, pure oil</div>
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Arnica Ointment 10% </div>
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Shatavari Ayurvedic Powder </div>
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Oil of Lavender pure essential oil</div>
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Goldenseal Powder in Manuka 16+ Medicinal Honey</div>
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Health Canada has seized inventory which does not bear NPN’s. Part of this inventory are products that we make based on our own formulas. Part of this inventory is from suppliers who have not complied with NPN regulations. The store is closed by the College of Pharmacists of BC pending compliance with regulations. </div>
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Marigold is a very unique and progressive pharmacy that happens to be right here in Courtenay. We appreciate your support during this period and ask you to participate as much as you can in the protection of natural health not just for this store, but for all natural health retailers and practitioners. </div>
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1. For more information about Health Canada regulations regarding the requirement of NPN’s, please go to the website for NHPPA (Natural Health Products Protection Association) and watch some of the videos of Shawn Buckley, constitutional lawyer and advocate for protection of natural health products.<br />
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2. Visit the site of CHFA (Canadian Health Food Association) <br />
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3. If you want to write a letter of support for Marigold, (especially if you have had a chance to use our services and have a story you want to share about outcomes), please send emails to: </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-38851145935998323292010-02-03T20:13:00.000-08:002010-06-24T16:08:29.922-07:00Crooked Hand of Fate<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi-QPaipxZiM6r-QGVrvgVAAdosXUh9XABPXvhyphenhyphenRJpx8VoM8GrdgvUrJ7tHzR1O1FS1CMBPbWC7tB8HFxFN_PQjdZhalQy5r2CQ5OxvYr3ZClRYwWj6ege_l36K1SfbS6Smj1K9YZZbaU/s1600-h/bone3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434237179277136386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi-QPaipxZiM6r-QGVrvgVAAdosXUh9XABPXvhyphenhyphenRJpx8VoM8GrdgvUrJ7tHzR1O1FS1CMBPbWC7tB8HFxFN_PQjdZhalQy5r2CQ5OxvYr3ZClRYwWj6ege_l36K1SfbS6Smj1K9YZZbaU/s400/bone3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 328px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>crooked hand of fate<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>like me, just bone and sinew<br />
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<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Surprisingly, for all the fuss about calcium, we only have a relatively small amount of it. The average female has one kilo of calcium. The average male, 1.5 kilos. You can carry this amount of calcium in a lunch bag. However, what we do with this lunch bag of calcium is amazing: it gives us hard teeth to chew with, bones to karate chop with, nails to scratch an itch with, and it fuels nerve and muscle activity.</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bone is living tissue and is constantly changing, giving up calcium when asked and absorbing calcium when it needs to get stronger. It behaves much like a calcium bank. The health of your bones is relative to the health of this bank account. It is a matter of balance. Most of us treat our bones like we treat our bank account. We don't really know how much is in there, we just know the "look" that the waitress gets when the debit card does not work. By then, we have already eaten the food and we're not in a position to be returning it.</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The basic bone health strategy is this: deposits should at least equal withdrawals.</span></b></span><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Top Tip: The best strategy for bone health is to maintain an alkaline body pH between 7.4 and 7.8. An acidic environment is disastrous for bone health, as the body will withdraw calcium to use as a buffering agent to neutralize the acid. You don’t want to use your precious bone as “internal antacid”. </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tip No. 2: Take Strontium Capsules to boost bone strength. Stontium has been shown to work in two ways. It supports osteoblast activity to reduce resorption (loss) of calcium. It also imparts flexibility to the bone, creating a calcium trap. It has been shown to be able to grow new bone.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tip No. 5: Maintain a schedule of w</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">eight bearing exercise. If possible, shoot for 30 minutes of moderate-intensity weight-bearing exercise daily: strength training and bouncy activities such as stair-climbing, mini-trampoline jumping or just plain walking. Less popular, but equally effective are: uphill pogo-sticking, moon shoe kick-boxing and unicycle-bouncing-on-a-trapeze-wire-over-the-Niagara. These bone-densifying activities signal the activity of osteoblast cells which act as spackle, gluing the calcium to the bone. In effect, if you need your bones to be stronger, the body will take care of it, no problem. However, if you are sitting on your buttocks and using your thumbs to press the remote, then you will get calcium deposits in these two areas. You asked for it; no problem there too.</span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tip No. 6: Choose your calcium as you would choose your friends: not all calcium is equal. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Confused about absorption rates? </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Calcium bis-glycinate (best) </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Calcium citrate-malate ( very good)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Calcium citrate (good)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Calcium carbonate (not bad, better than milk)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Milk (well, it's better than water)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Magnesium, when taken at the same time as calcium, will work to increase calcium absorption. It acts like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Tenille</span></span> to the Captain, or Herb to the Peaches.If you get the reference, you need calcium and magnesium right about now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tip No. 7: Get enough </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Vitamin D. In the summer, sun exposure for 5-10 minutes on bare skin activates Vitamin D stored in fat cells. Supplements are needed in the winter or if you wear a T-shirt that says "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">spelunkalot</span></span>". Vitamin D3, the activated form, is non-accumulative, and is safe even in high doses. When shopping for Vitamin D, make sure it is D3, the activated, non-accumulating form. Look for super concentrated Vitamin D 3 drops in rice bran oil delivering 1,000<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">iu</span></span> per drop. </span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tip No. 8<i>: </i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Don’t forget fruits and vegetables.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <i><span style="font-style: normal;"> Eat a minimum of 5 to 10 servings of a variety of different colored fruits or vegetables daily. Important for alkalinity and Vitamin K. Avoid the <b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">three terrors</span></u></b> (not the three tenors): alcohol, smoking and coffee.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUmQCPKdTUPd4EMr-18mOWXDzs64Xhw-36ieJzY-gdZPHtJ8AN938QMnu2hsxH0szl2N-jKKI3zYEpVK4W-lgwtWCRl7EReNXijloWai3SvSuoAcm4AAi_R1Bv34uzHp8S3urPiTHx_Y/s1600-h/bone2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434245998821490818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCUmQCPKdTUPd4EMr-18mOWXDzs64Xhw-36ieJzY-gdZPHtJ8AN938QMnu2hsxH0szl2N-jKKI3zYEpVK4W-lgwtWCRl7EReNXijloWai3SvSuoAcm4AAi_R1Bv34uzHp8S3urPiTHx_Y/s320/bone2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 292px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 381px;" /></a></span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">This computerized image shows the air pockets in the bone magnified. These air pockets start appearing as the bone loses its integrity. Hormone changes, injury, inactivity and acid-loss all contribute to the acceleration of bone loss.<br />
</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">When bone loses calcium, the air pockets increase in proportion to the calcium. The density of the bone starts to drop. As the supporting matrix collapses, the collagen protein which gives bone its resiliency gives way to soft, brittle bone.</span></div><div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Unfortunately</span>, this happens over time with little warning. It is common to discover osteoarthritis only after a fall which has resulted in a fracture.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Tip No. 9:</span> </i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Eat enough protein</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">:<i> </i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">Vegetarians and raw <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">fooders</span></span></span> in particular should make sure they are consuming adequate dietary protein. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for protein is 56 g/day for adult men and 46 g/day for adult women. Clean protein is hard to find, but consider brown rice protein of hemp protein. </span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Tip No.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">10:</span> </i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Avoid excess salt: </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;">Higher salt intakes increase urinary calcium loss. <i><span style="font-style: normal;">Keep salt intake below 5.8 g/day (2.3 g/day of sodium). Avoid salty, packaged, processed foods and preserved meat. If you add up all the salt in packaged food, you will soon discover that there is salt in everything. How to know you are not taking too much salt? Eat in a restaurant. Order soup. if you find the soup salty, congratulate yourself, your taste buds have adjusted to low salt.</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Free Bonus Tip: Avoid excess Vitamin A (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">retinol</span></span></span>). </span></b><i><span style="font-style: normal;"> Look for multivitamin supplements that contain no more than 2,500 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">iu</span> of vitamin A or choose a supplement with Beta-Carotene instead. </span></i></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-2910503488238802832010-02-02T08:34:00.000-08:002010-02-03T05:20:44.401-08:00My Fear of Kefir<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiU_vTFr4_lcmtaT3KM23myN3-y9KMvGF7TSJqOupVjuIT2vgFbB3nstesfHdr8HmHtIQvWIUECrug50p41k0MdrywUvShvAal5T3-IMtilueMcYGT9Crm2PsUHLqI0Y8y07soAyRBxZ0/s1600-h/kefir2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiU_vTFr4_lcmtaT3KM23myN3-y9KMvGF7TSJqOupVjuIT2vgFbB3nstesfHdr8HmHtIQvWIUECrug50p41k0MdrywUvShvAal5T3-IMtilueMcYGT9Crm2PsUHLqI0Y8y07soAyRBxZ0/s320/kefir2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433690751105664226" border="0" /></a>Kira gave me some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">kefir</span> starter yesterday and I have made my first two batches, using some organic milk that we had in the fridge. From the time she gave me the "babies" yesterday, to this morning, they have grown in volume by 50%. My mutual funds should take note. Kefir babies sounds cute , but they are actually a bit scary. Knowing that this army of many tribes: some bacteria, some yeast, has grown trillion-strong overnight is both impressive and humbling. A kefir horde.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Kefirnology</span>: How do you even say it? Most people mispronounce with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">kay</span>-fir. Some say kiefer (Hello, I'm Kiefer Sutherland, I was named after bacteria). The correct way: say "veneer". Now put a k in place of the v. Now say <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">keh</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">feer</span> with the the emphasis on the second syllable. Finish by making it heavy and guttural, as if you have a ball of.. uh, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">kefir</span> stuck in your throat... <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">keh</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">fihrr</span>.<br /><br />This ancient, magical food has been around for along time and was studied as far back as 1907 for the beneficial benefits of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">lactobacillus</span> bacteria. Even then, the people of the Caucasus and Bulgaria were living very long life spans and this fermented milk was one of the main reasons. No <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">healthcare</span>, no cold-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">fx</span>, just <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">kefir</span>. It is interesting that the popularity of the technique grew from a practical means to preserve food without refrigeration. There was no kefir section in the corner market. They just discovered (or their mother told them so) that they did not get sick if they added the white cheesy stuff to their milk. Brilliant in it simplicity, instead of pasteurizing to kill any bacteria, they fermented the food to prevent spoilage. In the process, the fermentation not only preserved the food, it also preserved the foodie.<br /><br />A host of very beneficial bacteria and yeast have been identified. There are different variations depending on the origin of the strain, but some species of microorganisms are always present. You will find <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Lactobacilli</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Acetobacter</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Leuconostoc</span> and yeasts like <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Zygosaccharomyces</span>, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Saccharomyces</span>. Consider that your puny grocery <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">yougurt</span> tub will have maybe five million cells of bacteria. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Kefir</span> can contain 200 times more.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-eyuNuu45WgZSi8y5JCsydvDeTl7c8yRyU1aPAbQ1atcy4olkLap5ukYuQdCibgNs1jGPitw-9y0aLPHWpQ9_bbnXM0D0s6IP2YBlCdEJjJlx6S9gTWJhGqFVKFIufyJCU47GyRpYyo/s1600-h/kefir3.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 197px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ-eyuNuu45WgZSi8y5JCsydvDeTl7c8yRyU1aPAbQ1atcy4olkLap5ukYuQdCibgNs1jGPitw-9y0aLPHWpQ9_bbnXM0D0s6IP2YBlCdEJjJlx6S9gTWJhGqFVKFIufyJCU47GyRpYyo/s320/kefir3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433720036961764610" border="0" /></a>The process produces beautiful "mushrooms" of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">cheesy kefir</span> clumps, which is strained off from the curdle of solids. (Use a plastic salad strainer) The remaining solid mush is ready to eat. The mushroom pieces are then used to start the next batch. I poured the mushrooms into a two pound jar of 2% organic milk which is right now sitting on my desk at room temperature. It is poised to topple unto my laptop keyboard as I write this. I can feel the kefir army pushing against the wall of the plastic jar in waves, " OK, you ladies...on three, we all surge forward and give this fella a nice little kefir surprise, yeah? Hey you! On the 30- milllionth row... put your psp down for crying out loud. "<br /><br />Tomorrow, I will repeat the process.<br /><br />Kira warned me that it is very important to start with a sterilized container, either glass or plastic. No metal should touch the culture (neither vessels, stirrers or lids) and that the culture should be checked after 24 hours, as the rate of production of solids is surprisingly very fast. Better to avoid a blast of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">kefir</span> splattered into the ceiling and all over my laptop. She recommended using milk, rather than the coconut water that I was planning to use. (Much thicker, faster results)<br /><br />It looks daunting to first try it. First I smell it. Then I take a gulp. The taste is not unpleasant. It is not pleasant either. It is very...primeval. Primeval yogurt. A slice of banana would easily fix it. I immediately realize that I have been spoiled by the easy texture and pleasing flavour of commercially produced yogurt. An entire civilization is softened by leisure and convenience.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUMXsnIrE5vLlYFYGidjYZiwz7Bmibf15V5k3BabaUsqUB9Vtj0SJe01UXmnTUd2x2brmSGBNDLaqx2CmS3jftWvgzFjjs742M8x4hXfYNjdZ1TpP_iGwwNQdUlg13otph0oKbahLETs/s1600-h/caucasus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 437px; height: 115px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwUMXsnIrE5vLlYFYGidjYZiwz7Bmibf15V5k3BabaUsqUB9Vtj0SJe01UXmnTUd2x2brmSGBNDLaqx2CmS3jftWvgzFjjs742M8x4hXfYNjdZ1TpP_iGwwNQdUlg13otph0oKbahLETs/s320/caucasus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433856204104959698" border="0" /></a><br />The fact that this bacteria is many centuries old transports me. I am sitting at dawn on the ridge of a minor hill in the Caucasus. I have a three day hike in rugged terrain ahead of me, until I can deliver a package of herbs to my ailing friend Desislav. He has had the misfortune of eating some bad goat at the wedding. I have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">kefir</span> in my bladderbag and I take a swig of its creamy fetidness. I am now sustained. A mini-cloud floats in the air as I clear my throat. .. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">aackk...kehfirr</span>.<br /><br />A yogurt's quality is always measured by the chatter of the digestive tract. It is either quiet (such as when I took bargain <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">probiotics</span> which likely had no live culture left) or market-day lively (my belly sings, as if the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">commensal</span> bacteria are having a heck of a block party). I would say that the effect of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">kefir</span> was evident right away. I am now eagerly awaiting the next batch.<br /><br />I salute the Caucasus mountains that gave us this amazing food. I get up from my laptop which is very unlikely to outlive the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">kefir army</span>, swivel around on my man-made-materials-only Staples chair with three (yup, three) adjusting levers and go back to my day. At least my bacteria now makes sense.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-82993324303111295092010-01-29T13:23:00.000-08:002013-03-23T17:35:19.728-07:00Top Ten Ways to Balance Your pH<span style="font-weight: bold;">TOP TEN TIPS ON ALKALIZING YOUR INTERNAL pH</span><br />
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One of the givens in achieving health, maintaining energy, reaching vitality and increasing immunity is a proper body pH. The surety of this all-in-one season's pass to good health is based on the fact that our body contains about 60% water. Our being in balance is dependent on a large part on the chemistry of acids and alkalis.<br />
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Human blood is slightly alkaline, maintained to precision by the body’s systems to operate between a very narrow range of 7.35 and 7.45. If the pH falls below 6.8 or rises above 7.8, it has a very immediate effect: <span style="font-weight: bold;">cells die</span>. That is how important acid-alkali balancing is.<br />
Here are the top ten tips in achieving a perfect body pH.<br />
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1. Eat more vegetables. Put two hands out, that's how much vegetables. Put one hand out, that's how much carbs. Put the fingers of one hand together, that's how much protein. Stick your thumb out as if hitching for a ride, that's how much fat.<br />
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Vegetables are alkaline producing and carbohydrates (starches, breads, sugars) and protein (fish, meat, dairy ) are acid-producing. At every meal, balance alkaline foods to acidic foods at a ratio of 70% to 30%. It does not work if you have a salad for lunch (good) and a KD for dinner (bad), as the neutralizing effect of the vegetables happens if present at the same meal.<br />
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2. Avoid coffee. The acidifying effect will last for several hours. Four cups of coffee a day will create an acid storm which can last for the entire day. If you are after the caffeine, then it is better to have an expresso or an americano. <br />
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3. Choose carbohydrates carefully, restricting choices to carbs with a low glycemic index. Reduce sugary snacks. This will include chocolate, cookies, doughnuts and cakes, pastries and desserts. Since you’re skipping the coffee anyway, that doughnut won’t be the same.<br />
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4. Limit the consumption of dairy products. You may consider switching to almond milk, which is lower in fat, protein and sugar. And: it does not complicate the hormone thing.<br />
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5. Drink sufficient amount of water and absolutely avoid carbonated soft drinks. It is a very potent combination of sugar, carbonic acid and phosphoric acid. It will essentially deplete calcium instantly. Carbonated drinks have a pH value of about 2.8. Since the pH system is exponential, this is about 100,000 times more acidic than water.<br />
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6.Drink lemon water. Lemons maybe acidic, but once digested, they form alkali residues which are left to neutralize acidic foods.<br />
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7. Eat fermented foods such as fermented sauerkraut, specially at the beginning of a meal. Bacteria and enzymes create a digestion factory that will neutralize acids. There are now enzyme supplements cultured in yeast for this purpose.<br />
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8. Apple cider vinegar taken at the start of a meal supplies a neutralizing agent for acidifying foods. Make sure you choose a brand with at least 5% Acetic Acid. Cider Press in Courtenay makes a beautiful pristine product with 6% Acetic Acid.<br />
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9. Take a supplement of colloidal minerals. These will scavenge for acid fragments and comb the landscape for acids. There are many excellent choices made from sea vegetables, algae and plankton that are packed with trace minerals that will do the trick.<br />
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10.Reduce stress. Stress produces more acid. Acid will destroy cells. Stress can be very distressful to cell function…so you may be sorry for the worry. OK, I’ll stop now.<br />
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If you want more information, we can provide you with a complete list of acid-alkali foods and a recipe list of perfectly tantalizing, but alkalizing meals.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-67207770105571726092010-01-28T07:36:00.000-08:002010-01-29T18:05:08.230-08:00My Top Ten Top Ten<strong>The Top Ten of Top Ten Lists</strong><br /><br />In the next ten postings, I will be listing the top ten of my top ten lists. Of course there are probably books and TV shows devoted to top ten lists, but these are my favorites, and they are topics on natural medicine.<br /><br />I think that it should really be a Top Six List, because in my experience, interest falls precipitously after the sixth one of anything. I can remember six numbers in my head. My to-do list for each day maxes out at 6. I just can't get to that seventh one. I look at the first six pages of an instruction manual, and figure I'm an expert by that point. A common salutatory conversation should be limited to six words: good to see you...call me. There are six people that I would like to meet. There are six people I would spend the rest of my life with. I was trying to be clever and come up with six points here, but you are far too cleverer and have seen the ploy, I can now see.<br /><br />So here are the Top Ten of my lists, of which in reality, you will only be interested in the top six, so the last 4 are fodder and if I stop at the sixth, nobody will notice, I think. The lists will appear in sequential order ( as opposed to random ) in the next ten postings. Give yourself a pat on the back if your interest is held until the tenth and last list. Good luck to all of you and remember the rules of long distance running: do not buy new shoes.<br /><br />The Top Ten Top Ten Natural Medicine Tips<br />1. Top Ten Tips on Alkalizing Your pH<br />2. Top Ten Tips on Bone Building<br />3. Top Ten Tips on Reducing Allergies<br />4. Top Ten Tips on Stress Busting<br />5. Top Ten Tips on Sleep<br />6. Top Ten Tips on Chronic Inflammation<br />7. Top Ten Tips on Immunity Building<br />8. Top Ten Tips for GERD Management<br />9. Top Ten Supplements<br />10. Top Ten Foods You Have to Eat Regularly<br /><br />You notice that I have (with difficulty), refrained from some of my personal favorites, such as :<br /><br />Alternate List:<br />1. Top Ten Uses For Duct Tape With No Other Tools<br />2. Top Ten Robin Williams Movies: 5 Dark 5 Light<br />3. Top Ten Bee Gees Songs<br />4. Top Ten Guilty Pleasures (the it's-unhealthy-I-know-but-I've-been-so-good type)<br />5. Top Ten Words That End with Icious, not at all related to No.4Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-66092731482267159842010-01-19T07:42:00.000-08:002013-03-23T17:32:45.340-07:00My Blog CommandmentsThis being my first blog, I will abide by the following rules:<br />
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1. I will not backspace. What is written is wrote. No editing.<br />
2. I will first-write. Thoughts will transfer directly from my mind to the keyboard.<br />
3. I will not write about other people, that is gossip.<br />
4. I will offer opinion, that is ... that is conviction...I think.<br />
5. I will do good. Contribute. Participate. Engage.<br />
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I think that is it. My thoughts count. My thoughts count. One more time, with conviction:<br />
My thoughts count.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822977120717137778.post-20161302063741500532010-01-18T15:05:00.000-08:002010-01-18T15:32:19.686-08:00WelcomeProbiotic Olympics<br />Marigold Natural Pharmacy offers a wide variety of probiotic supplements. We now carry one of the best probiotic lines on the planet: Dr. Ohhira's Probiotics. Developed by award-winning microbiologist Dr. Ichiroh Ohhira from Okayama University, they contain very specific strains of lactic acid bacteria.<br /><br />If they held an Olympics for bacteria, these strains would be podium contenders in increasing energy, improving repair mechanisms, supporting immune system and supporting optimal health. The formula will decrease anxiety, improve mood and support restful sleep.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03478994932738402311noreply@blogger.com1