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I just came across this on another health blog, which ties in well with my last post: Fifteen of the world’s leading researchers in diet and cancer recently reviewed more than 4,500 studies. Vegetables and fruit came out on top as the food most likely to help reduce the risk of cancer. Does consuming fruits [...]
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The current health paradigm proclaims “Sunshine reduces risk of some cancers” or “Vitamin D cures rickets,” or the most commercially popular “X compound in fruits and vegetables reduces risk of cancer.” You are bathed in this paradigm daily through newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Word of mouth and the grapevine solidify this view as “science [...]
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We’ve been brought up on the paradigm of symptom suppression. Have a fever? Take an aspirin. Have a runny nose? Take a decongestant. Asthma? Inhale this. Have arthritic pain? High blood pressure? Depression? Take a pill and carry on your merry (or not so merry) way. Fat? It’s okay. Don’t change a thing. Just take [...]
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Last summer I was talking with a woman at a fruit stand who told me that acids in fruit soften tooth enamel for up to an hour after eating them. It’s best not to brush teeth in that period because it may harm the enamel. I hadn’t heard that, so I did a few searches on [...]
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This is the claim made by an advertisement I received via email for a product called TurboTrim. It promises to be the final solution for those who want to look great, feel great and have more energy than ever imagined. But first, the ad claims, you have to toss out everything everyone is telling you [...]
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Do you remember this little kitten I found down the road? I adopted him and named him Arthur. From a young age he demonstrated a keen knowledge of the purpose of prey. One of my cats brought in a mouse several weeks ago and Arthur batted it around, possessively growling over it. This past weekend [...]
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Normally on Saturday mornings I like to sit at my laptop in my bathrobe with a cup of hot green tea with lemon and write my blog. It’s a day unpressured by work concerns. But yesterday I was really sick. This began on Wednesday morning with a slightly sore throat, followed by some lung and [...]
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It took a long time to crop and place these, but here are the pictures I promised in my last post:
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All bets are off today (Sunday. I’m late posting this.) I went to the 39th Annual Oregon Country Fair in Veneta. A piece of land normally flooded in winter is converted into a magical forest with over seven hundred artisans offering handcrafts, over fifty booths selling food and numerous musicians, performers and parades to delight your [...]
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I drove into town today to stock up on produce and spent over one hundred dollars. I can’t believe how expensive organic food is, and I’m getting very discouraged. I would like to buy at the farmers’ market and support my local farmer, but my local farmer doesn’t appear to want to support me. They [...]
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