How do you feel about junk mail?

I do not like it one bit.  Recently a friend sent me this ... it's taken me a while to get into the habit of doing it, but when I do, it feels great!

Junk Mail Help: When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with

your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away. When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards

to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more

than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents

before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not

get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid

return envelopes.  One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.  Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza

coupon to Citibank.If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them

their blank application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything

you send them. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them

guessing! It still costs them 44 cents. The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk

back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know

what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice! Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting

into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again.

You get the idea! If enough people follow these tips, it will work. I have been doing this for years,

and I get very little junk mail anymore.

To your sanity!
Patty

Do you believe everything you read?

     I'm not talking about what the politicians have to say - that could be dangerous to your health!
     I'm wondering if you've ever read the doctor's column in your local newspaper?  Someone writes in and asks a question, and the doc comes up with an answer - sight unseen, one size fits all, and using out-dated theories.  For instance, the answer to, "should I take vitamins?" was answered with,  "No, you can get all your vitamins and minerals from your diet."  What diet does he refer to?  Is the person who's asking an organic and sustainable farmer, eating fresh food from enriched soil, or is the inquirer a thrifty shopper looking for the cheapest food, no matter how it's raised or from how far it's come.
     Take the mineral magnesium (and you should take it) - back in the olden days when soil actually contained minerals, and water was from wells and not softened, yes you could get  enough magnesium in your food and water.  But these days, industrial farming has depleted the soil, causing deficiencies in the modern diet - leading to - according to research - heart disease, cholesterol and triglyceride abnormalities, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, muscle cramps, depression, anxiety, and many many more.
     Here's something else you might read, or hear on TV: "take calcium for your bones."   Without magnesium, this can be dangerous.  The two work together and must be present in the body together, or the excess calcium can collect in cells other than bones: heart, arteries of the brain, breathing passages of the lungs, and on and on - all in soft tissue where calcium doesn't belong.  
     If there is magnesium present, calcium cannot enter and cause problems.  A simple solution, and perfect synergy!
     Since it's not possible to get enough magnesium in your diet, it would be wise to take a supplement of 300 - 600 mg. in the evenings.
     As always, I recommend you do your own research; for starters you can check out Dr. Michael Eades' article:  
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/uncategorized/magnesium-and-inflammation/


To your health!
Patty

Who likes telemarketers?

I don't!.  Here's something we can do about them:


REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public this month.
REMINDER.....  all cell phone numbers are being released to
telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.

.... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.
It is the National DO NOT CALL list It will only take a minute of your
time.. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from
the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a
different phone number.

HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON. It takes about 20 seconds.



https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

Please forward to family and friends.


To your peace and quiet, especially at dinnertime -
Patty

Beauteous Blizzard

It's Friday afternoon and it's been snowing and blowing most of the day.  This storm ought to make a whole lot of skiers very happy!  Powder on the mountain, and a finally good base on the cross country trails.  
I know a couple guys, both excellent skiers, who will enjoy the fresh snowfall, though they're on the mountain just about every day anyway.  It's impressive how these two have trained, ADAPT-style, to be in shape to strive toward their goals of skiing their ages - pushing 70, and way over 70.  I think there's a competition between them to see who can ski the most days in a winter!  
Enjoy yourselves everyone, and good luck you to two guys!
Patty

Lubed from the Inside Out

What fuel do you burn to heat your house?  What ever it is, I'll bet it's getting pretty dry inside.  And that can cause some problems ... plants wither, noses dry up, skin turns alligator-like.  You can use various methods to hydrate the air in your house - humidifiers, pots of water on the stove ... I know someone who throws wet towels on her heated cement floor!
For the thirsty parts of you that suffer, from nose to toes, here are some suggestions:
Use a Sinus Rinse or Netty Pot daily. 
Apply chap-stick with beeswax in it.
Use coconut oil on wet skin after showering, or take a bath and put in a couple big spoonfuls of coconut oil.
Rub your feet with foot lotion (Aveda has a good one) before putting on your socks.
And what about those poor hands?  We're told to wash them a lot to prevent picking up germs - good idea.  But they get so dry and rough and raw and cracked!  What to do?  Winter has only just begun!  You can apply hand lotion (not Vaseline) and wear gloves all the time but how practical is that?  Or just wear the gloves to bed.

Here's a question: when you take your car to be lubed, where does the mechanic put the grease?  I'm guessing not on the surface of the car, but into the places that need it.  So what might happen if you could lubricate your body from the inside?
Two things you can do that have been tried with great results: 
Take a big spoonful of Cod Liver Oil (Carlson's lemon flavored is a good one), and the Homeopathic medicine Petroleum.  Yech, you say, why would I eat petroleum?  As you may know, homeopathy uses minuscule amounts of a given substance which your body reacts to.  That reaction results in healing.  It works amazingly well!   
check it out:  http://www.elixirs.com/products.cfm?productcode=S40


Happy winter!


Patty

New Year, New Ways To Health

How many cards and greetings and wishes did you receive over the holiday season?   Wouldn't it be grand if they all came true!  Happiness, cheer, joy, peace, prosperity, rest, mental clarity, fun times, sunny days, health ...  How many of these can we actually do something about?  And what resolutions did you make for 2012?  I will bet that 80 - 90% of new year resolutions are related to health, and most of those have to do with losing weight.


Here are some suggestions on reaching your goals in that area.  And it's not about a Diet.  How many of those have you been on, and how many have actually worked for the long haul?  Instead, I'd like you to consider embarking on a new way of eating.  It includes breaking the addiction to sugar - or should I say the carbohydrates that become sugar in your blood.  Another perk to this eating plan is the elimination of the appetite stimulant  insulin.  Stay with me here, this plan has been proven to work for many people, and it hasn't even been difficult for them!  Well, maybe a little for the first week of boot camp ... but after that, no hunger or cravings ... you'll feel like a million bucks!


If you're game, read on:


The first week, cut out all carbohydrates: fruit, sweet and starchy vegetables (carrots, potatoes, yams), grains, breads, cereals, sugars.  Watch out for hidden carbs in salad dressings, processed food, soy, dairy products, especially milk and sweet yogurt.  
Eat lots of protein: meats, fish, cheese, eggs, cottage cheese, plain greek yogurt and nuts along with low-carb veggies and salads, and be sure to have plenty of fat (really).  Be sure to eat often, at least every 4 hours and drink plenty of water.  If you let yourself get hungry or thirsty, you risk making bad choices.  When you feel a craving sneaking up on you, munch on nuts and cheese - food with fat in it will help to eliminate sugar cravings in the first week.     
 By the end of 7 days, your metabolism will have made a radical shift from sugar burning to fat burning.  You will definitely feel a change, both in your energy level and mood.  At this point, you may notice your clothes fitting better, which reminds me, do not weigh yourself - put your bathroom scale in the garage!  If you really must weigh yourself, do it in the cold.  The scale really is not an accurate measure of how you're doing.

After a week, or two if you want, you can eat a few more carbs: total of 40 - 60 grams a day.  This would allow your body to continue indefinitely to burn fat successfully and easily.  But we're human and have a tendency to believe we deserve to have what we want, so we cheat and go off the program.  This will not happen because you will add in a 2x a week 'carb-load'.  This means that on two separate days you eat less that 30 grams of carbs during the day, and that evening you go for it and eat the carbs you've been sorely missing - beer and pasta, oatmeal, rice, potatoes, even some dessert.  It's like legally blowing it, because the next day you'll be back to low carb eating and still be burning fat.  Wait a couple days and do it again.  You must not carb-load two days in a row, because that will change you back over to sugar burning - and that means back to boot camp with you!

Once you settle in to this cycle, it becomes a healthy way of life.  When you're exercising, you're burning fat, and when you're sleeping, you're burning fat.  I think you will find this eating plan easy to do and you'll be amazed at how good you feel.  I hope so.

Next time we'll consider "not all carbs are created equal".

to you health,

Patty