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Natural Health
The inspiration, birth and design of this site, comes from my profound respect for the natural world, full of wondrous energy, natural remedies and Medicinal herbs.
Some five thousand years before modern medicine there existed native herbal remedies and healing traditions in India, China, Australia and the Americas.
These natural healing beliefs wove their health concepts around the core of harmonious living within the natural realm; where the body, mind, spirit and all aspects of a person were viewed as an integral part of the whole person.
The word Holistic has been tossed about since the 1970's and commonly refers to a natural means of doing something, whether it's referencing education, medicine, building, psychology or eating.
Simple, pure natural food, natural herbs unadulterated and inexpensive natural home remedies are some of the thoughts that come to mind when considering all things natural.
Have you ever wondered why anyone would try to improve or radically modify Mother Nature's herbal remedies?
This Website is dedicated to all of us who share the belief that harmony and balance can only be created within holistic boundaries.
Applying these same simple principles to other aspects of our life will create the precise environment we need in order to emerge into abundance and radiant natural health, just as nature intended. Nothing more and nothing less.
Are We Truth Seekers?
If we are to be proficient truth seekers about natural health, how do we find the truth?
How do we know what to believe and what to dismiss? How are we able to separate fact from fiction or fact from self serving agendas or from out right misrepresentations?
How do we trust the person or media who is telling us something? Are they telling us or providing information for us to make our own decisions regarding eating right and natural healing?
Today, finding a truth is easier than ever, there are no important secrets floating around out there that don't eventually have a thread to the Internet.
Everything is at our finger tips....there is literally access to every major university in the world, the worlds libraries, newspapers and wire services. That isn't to imply that if it's online, it's a sacred truth, no more so than any other form of media
The Internet is simply an amazing tool we can use to quickly sift through enormous amounts of information about natural health, complimentary and alternative medicine, medicinal herbs and read stories form folks who believe in them. Research that used to take days and weeks pouring through libraries now can be accessed in minutes!
Our Friendly Telescreen?
Sixty years of television has changed this country, it's an invited guest into most of our homes, it serves as a baby sitter, it fills the silence of an empty room, it enables busy lives to be entertained 24/7, it helps people unwind after long commutes, it shows the latest fashions world wide, provides weather and news.
Or is it more than that?
Many believe that watching TV is a harmless, entertaining activity worthy of our attention, but there are some eye-opening things to consider. The average American family watches about 5 hours daily.
Television is essentially a platform for elite advertisers and policy leaders of the dominant society to peddle their wares by directly touching your emotions with a steady stream of images that distract your process of logical thinking.
How Much Influence Does $50 Billion Buy?
Did you know that every year the food and drug companies spend well over $50 billion on marketing messages to U.S. consumers, designed to influence your food and medical choices?
The majority (75 percent) of commercial network television time is paid for by the 100 largest corporations in North America.
Some of these companies even have budgets in the billions, and not surprisingly these budgets have the power to influence TV producers to create television that suits their agendas, and frequently, these agendas are not aligned with your best interests.
Watching highly emotional and dramatic programs affect our brains chemistry and puts us in a receptive state, thereby shutting off our logical process.
Pictures truly paint thousands of words and are carefully selected and chosen for the desired message, impact and target result.
To get you to buy something.
Why Are We So Unhealthy When We Try So Hard?
We're doing a great job trying to be healthy by eating right and eating, wearing, drinking and buying what we're told to.
There are two problems, in spite of doing what we're told, the health of our people is worse than ever before and rapidly deteriorating....... it only takes one look to see the soaring obesity rates, diabetes and other disorders, even amount young children.
The other problem is that our beliefs about natural food and natural health choices are being very heavily influenced with advertising dollars
Is the truth being massaged away by corporate interests and media propaganda?
Are we being programmed and manipulated into eating, drinking, wearing, bathing in and shampooing with things that serve the Corporate bottom line?
While there are many ethical businesses, the majority of products contain numerous known cancer and other disease causing ingredients.
Did you know that the average "fresh" supermarket fruit or vegetable has been sprayed with about 30 different pesticides? Others have been sprayed with almost 70 toxic pesticides!
If I can easily discover the harmful effects of particular chemicals, don't you think the Corporations already know?
They do know and don't care.
Isn't it a worthy goal to teach them to care about what their consumers want?
I want them to provide us with good, healthy, natural foods, all natural hair care and other pure household products?
What do you want them to provide you with?
The Corporations enjoy enormous financial health while we are ruining our health.
Do You Trust The Corporate Food Industry?
If you're happy with the Corporate Status Quo and your health, you might as well click to another website.
Instead, I'd like you to consider reclaiming, and enjoying, your optimal radiant health and then you can share the good news with your family and friends.
We can become a healthy family, a healthy city, state and country of healthy and informed people.
If Email jokes can navigate the globe in days, what positive effect would the right health information have? This isn't just about American health, it's about world health. We are all connected.
Personally, I'm not satisifed with driving a Corporation to another country where they can easily sell their toxic goods to an uneducated people or poor people.
Should anything less than vibrant, natural health be acceptable anywhere?
Why can't we all repair our broken connections with natural health?
Our journey will explore everything related to natural health, including the controversy surrounding Raw Milk or a raw diet, living foods, home remedies for dogs to folk remedies from the four corners of the earth, I'll even share my passion for dark chocolate!
And Yes, it's actually good for you!
Do herbal remedies, herbal teas, Herbal tinctures,Natural salves and natural home remedies passed down through generations really work?
I'll provide enough information to make my fingers sore from typing.
Even that is just a starting point for you to continue your journey.... but only you can decide for yourself what eating healthy and Living healthy means to you.
Don't we all deserve to enjoy a more holistic life?
Mother Nature
There was a time when the world was more simple and the term Organic would instill confidence that we were buying a product produced with completely pure ingredients, without contamination or any toxic synthetic chemicals.
Sadly that definition, as it relates to "organic" is being abused toda
What is Organic? "Organic" compounds are produced by "living or formerly living things that contain carbon."
What?
That means that anything that has or ever had any carbon in it is organic. Petrochemicals, human waste, horse manure, compost and Mercury can also be considered "organic" but would you really want to eat, wear or have them touch your skin?
Neither would I! And not on my dogs, horses, goats, chickens, cats, llamas either!
Recently you may have noticed more and more "organic" body care and food products. Thankfully, many of these companies are offering exactly what we consumers want, products that are wholesome, natural, pure, non toxic, safe and non contaminated by harsh synthetic chemicals. Others companies are not.
Some manufactures are taking advantage of the loose organic definition and may make claims such as "70% organic" or "contains 85% organic ingredients."
Does Real Food Have Labels?
But if you read the label you won't be deceived. Maybe.
This type of deceptive marking is legal, and the manufacturer is often referring to the "water" content of his product.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
For these reasons I have moved away from the term organic and am using the terms "natural or wildcrafted" instead. True, these terms are not as impressive sounding and lack certifications, but more importantly, they are completely natural.
My hope is that these definitions will not suffer the adulteration and abuse than government certifications have. Time will tell.
Currently the USDA allows 273 +/- synthetic chemicals in the production, manufacturing, processing or end "organic" product.
Not exactly natural is it?
And no labeling requirement showing those chemicals, so there's no way of knowing which cheimcals you're buying!
And the USDA is even considering allowing GMO vaccines in organic livestock production!
And they are supportive of GMO alfalfa that feeds all of the food production livestock in most of the world
Do you trust that they have your best interests in mind?
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) held a protest, March 2010, outside of the largest annual gathering of the natural and organic products industry, Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim California.
Right next to Disneyland
Members were picketing the entrance and distributing flyers to educate the public about the organic fraud and lack of ethical regulation in the organic personal care marketplace.
Might it indicate that their priorities, directions and understanding of what consumers want are unrealistic and geared more towards special corporate interests?
I consider their Organic Certification to be worse than meaningless, since it's deliberately deceptive.
Aren't you curious how USDA can support Monsanto GMO around the world on one hand and claim to support Organic on the other? There are other ethical organic or natural certifications that don't allow the same synthetics that the USDA does. So now, it's even important to know who the organic certifier is!
Good health is very natural. Here's to yours!
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I can never be what I ought to be, until you are what you ought to be.
This is the interrelated structure of reality." Martin Luther King Jr.
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Alternative or Traditional Medicine Indigenous cultures used medicinal herbs, natural plants, therapeutic mushrooms, and traditional, natural remedies as traditional medicine, on this continent, for some 10,000 years before the United States, the American Medical Association, medical doctors or the FDA existed and took control. Western medicine is under 100 years old, so is using the term, and implication of, Traditional medicine even a legitimate concept?
Essential Oils Aromatherapy benefits, essential oil properties, aromatherapy recipes, home remedies, essential oil uses, why MRSA isn't a big deal, how to stop toe nail fungus, staph infection, and which oils to fall asleep with or feel passionate about. Said to be the oldest form of natural medicine, learn how to make your own blends for holistic living, herbal bath teas and more
Natural Baby Care Congratulations on making the significant choice in giving your baby a solid foundation in his or her life by avoiding the bombardment of toxic synthetic chemicals. Too many children today suffer from skin irritations, rashes, eczema and compromised immune systems often caused by synthetic chemicals, fragrances and other additives in the products that we use. These conditions are anything but natural and can be relieved. Plus learn how you can be a Work At Home Mom.
Healthy Hair Healthy natural hair is a reflection of the total natural health of your body, mind and spirit, you can't have healthy hair without your entire body being healthy. Nourish your hair from the inside out with natural healthy food and from natural hair care products. Doesn't it make sense to be ensured that what you're putting on your body's largest organ contains only the highest quality natural herbal ingredients possible? You can radiate natural beauty at any age. Enjoy all natural hair care using Ayurvedic herbs,
goat milk shampoo, healthy natural oils, learn to create beautiful, healthy hair all naturally
Herbs Plus Create popular herbal remedies, herbal teas and natural healing herbal blends, appreciate how to wildcrafted herbs and easily include them as part of a healthy holistic life style. Included are important medicinal mushrooms too
Healthy Oils Confirum your suspicions about exactly which oils are healthy cooking oils and which are perfect for natural skin, hair and body care. You may never touch the supposedly healthy oils that you currently are using
Natural salves Learn how to blend your own organic salves as part of natural skin care using medicinal oils such as hemp seed, natural oils, butters and essential oils. These used to be medicine cabinet staples and still are in most of the world. Great for insect bites, deep wounds, minor scratches, itches and everything in between
Herbal tinctures Organic tinctures from medicinal herbs that are easy, inexpensive to make and to enjoy as part of holistic healing and a healthy lifestyle
Site Map Healthy Oils Healthy cooking oils are not just about healthy eating or holistic living. Many are an important part of natural health care for skin, hair and body. Great formulas to blend your own healthy oils to promote beautiful hair, skin and body
Healthy Skin Discover how eating healthy, natural living foods impacts your skin, and that everything in contact with your skin will effect you. You can have healthy skin and learn simple natural tips to healthy skin that will make a significant difference no matter what your age. Once you know the secret to healthy skin, eat a healthy skin diet, then your skin problems will disappear and you'll be ready for organic, natural body care products
Healthy Food Natural food doesn't require an identification label, you can easily recognize it as living food. It's either pure, unprocessed without additives, extenders, fillers, coloring, chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, steroids, antibiotics, cloning or pasteurization. It's food or a food like substance
Healthy Food Links Real people need real food, not food like substances, learn about healthy eating, fructose, glycemic loads, ORAC, super foods, natural cacao and what your body is designed to eat. This isn't your conventional list of herbal or medicinal plants, we include medicinal mushrooms and important Ayurvedic and TCM herbs and hundreds of delicious ways to eat raw or cook with herbs
Recipes Natural food doesn't require an identification label, you can easily recognize it as living food. It's either pure food or pure junk, share your recipes with the world and create your own webpage for your natural, delicious recipes
GMO Natural food doesn't require an identification label, and it isn't GMO. It's either pure, unprocessed without additives, extenders, fillers, coloring, chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, steroids, antibiotics, cloning or pasteurization. It's food or FrankenFood that needs to be avoided like the poison it is
Cacao Chocolate is known as The Food Of The Gods, appreciated for providing increased energy, delicious taste, sexual prowess, antioxidant rich with many health benefits, finally considered a healthy indulgence to enjoy, without guilt.
Healthy Living A healthy natural lifestyle is a decision you make to live healthy now. Holistic lifestyle secrets aren't engraved in stone, they are flexible, fluid, fun and as individual as you are. There are easy healthy changes that you can start today, and add to as you feel comfortable and get into the swing of living a natural life.
Healthy Home Some of the things we think of with an earth friendly home is that it's energy efficient, uses renewable energy sources, offers a low environmental impact, has crisp, fresh indoor air quality, is free of clutter and kept naturally clean with earth friendly products. This isn't a fantasy, you can create it to please you.
Bio Magnetics Magnetic therapy enjoys an ancient heritage and has occupied a central role in Chinese medicine for over 2000 years. Magnetic Therapy is a natural method used to relieve pain, restore energy and enhance sleep. It has proven to be a safe, effective, economical, and a simple to use form of natural therapy.
Little Healthy Changes A natural healthy life is within your reach, no matter what health condition you are in today. If you combine healthful recipes, healthy holistic foods, healthful eating and surround yourself with as many healthy lifestyle habits as possible, you will have accomplished much of what it takes to enjoy a healthy natural lifestyle.
Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen are fruits & veggies which contain dozens of toxic pesticides, there are other natural plant based foods with fewer pesticides, yet the Dirty Dozen are among the most common and popular foods. Conventional food is contaminated, learn to discriminate about what goes into your mouth. It's either pure, unprocessed without additives, extenders, fillers, coloring, chemicals, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, steroids, antibiotics, cloning or pasteurization. It's food or a food like substance
Glycemic Index Johns Hopkins University projects that by 2015 24 percent of all American children and 75 percent of all American adults will be overweight or obese. How fat can we get? Obesity is caused by over eating too much of the wrong type of carbohydrates, and eating too many empty calories. It's that simple, but not so simple to avoid the wrong foods. Obesity promotes a more sedentary lifestyle and makes you sick and miserable before it slowly strangles your organs in fat and then kills you. This is a battle for our health and we can win!
Resources Meet the faces behind this website, they may surprise & delight you! Share our passion for all things natural, including home remedies, natural foods and natural living. We don't just write about it, we live it!
ORAC We're not helpless to defend ourselves against the bad guys, the free oxygen radicals. We just need the right, powerful friends. We need powerful Antioxidant Terminators to destroy the bad guys. The FDA has recommended that people should increase their antioxidant consumption to 7000 ORAC units a day to help lower their risk of Cancer. As you can imagine, more could be better. So, how do you know which foods, herbs or supplements offer the most powerful protection from the damage caused by the free radicals?
Raw Goat Milk According to the Journal of American Medicine, Goat's milk is the most complete food known. Goat milk contains 50 nutrients including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, electrolytes & amino acids that the body can't produce. Learn the hidden dirty deal relationship between Whiskey distillation and pasteurized milk.
Superfoods Enjoying a superfoods diet with specific nutrients has been proven to be beneficial in the reduction, control and defense against many nutritional deficiency disorders such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and many cancers. It might be easy to think of these raw superfoods as super potent, turbo charged, power foods! Don't worry if you missed your invitation to the The Raw Food Revolution . People around the world are experiencing the health benefits of superfoods and they're excited about sharing their experience with others!
Food Wars In 2008, 180 countries declared that their citizens have a fundamental right to food. Only one country voted against this rudimentary right. Can you guess which country that was? There is no right to food in the land of the free and home of the brave. Further the FDA has stated that you do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food that you wish. Today you have a choice by voting with your dollars in selecting only pure, natural, healthy foods and rejecting GMO, pasteurized, irradiated and dead false
foods. Your health depends on making the right choice.
Live The Dream Maya Angelou said that making a living isn't the same thing as making a life. You can live the life you imagined which can take years of learning through the school of hard knocks, sometimes knock downs, or you can learn how to stop working for the man and start enjoying your life. It is possible for you, yes you, to easily learn to create a great and profitable website. You can even write a sample page here in a few minutes. If you don't take a little risk won't you always always wonder
about what could have been? This is like having the secret handshake.
Soy Nobody understands better than I do about the slap-in-the-face realization that the healthy food myth of Soy is a deliberate lie designed to deceive consumers. Does it make you livid to see Soy Products lining the shelves in the healthy food sections? Our friends at the USDA have strict regulations on the amount of soy that may be fed to animals because of the numerous known health consequences. The USDA has not set any limits on human soy consumption, we can gourge ourselves and fatten ourselves with as
much as we like. The foul smelling truth about Soy Lecithin revealed in detail
Healthy Animals Americans spend about $16 billion dollars yearly on their animal companions, while Europeans spend about $18 billion dollars yearly for their domestic pets, about 80% of those purchases are pet food related. Those figures suggest that we animal lovers are willing to support the multi billion dollar pet care industry. But what are we getting for those dollars? Are we helping our animals by buying them a better quality of life or are we loving them to death? As a
Naturopath and Co Founder of Happy Tails Rescue Association, it's my passion & pleasure to help empower you with information that will add years to your dogs lives.
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Bacteria Bacteria are a highly intelligent and adaptable life form, like all life forms their goal is to survive. Some bacteria are naturally immune to antibiotics and others quickly adapt a resistance in order to survive. Through synthetic pharmaceutical use we have created highly adaptable, antibiotic resistant bacteria, they do this through evolutionary trial and error. There's always a better way naturally.
Radiation Sickness Do not be comforted by the false sense of security that low levels of radiation aren't harmful. In 1972 Dr Abram Petkau discovered that low levels of radiation, over a longer period of time, were more damaging than higher doses over a short period of time.
Once you ingest or inale even very low levels of radioative particles this immediately starts potentially lethal tissue ionization. You are ionizing or irradiating yourself continuously from the inside out. This insidious burning at your molecular level will impair your body long before there is a diagnosable disease.
Free radicals are generated during long term exposure to extremely low levels of radiation. There are many things you can do.
Facial Butters What in the world are Facial Butters? Luscious, sensual, aromatic, delicious, organic blends that feed your face. You won't find any water in our all natural Facial Butters. Completely synthetic free, treat yourself to the finest globally inspired skin nourishing facial butters.
What Is Holism? What Is Holism? Where does this term come from, what is it's true meaning? Is it correctly used today.
Fix A Link Knowledge is either shared or wasted, if you have some thoughts, concerns or would simply like to express your natural healh and living experiences in written form, this will give you immediate internet exposure.
Fluoride Is Hazardous Waste What Is Holism? Where does this term come from, what is it's true meaning? Is it correctly used today.
Online Classes Today's world is changing quickly, knowledge is accelerating, new entrepreneur opportunities are being created. Online learning offers busy professionals, stay at home moms or dads, students and even the economically challenged new hopeful horizons. What better moment in time is there to take advantage of online classes, and continuing education classes, to improve your world?
Bird Flu Separating the hype and scare tactics from the facts and special interests is crucial in evaluating the true potential for an Avian Flu pandemic. These facts are lifted right from CDC, WHO and UN data and are easily verifiable. The truth regarding bird blue pandemic may ruffle a few feathers!
What if Happy Tails Rescue earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made with 2,400 top stores online went to support this worthy cause? Well, now it can!
GoodSearch.com is a fast growing Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate.
Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, without the built in biases of other search engines and watch how the donations really add up!
GoodShop.com also offers a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Thousands of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you'll be supporting your favorite cause.
Since it doesn't cost you anything and you get proven search results, there's no reason not to use it!
We hope you'll not only use GoodSearch as your main search engine from now on, but will also tell your friends, family and co-workers so they, too, can start using GoodSearch to support their favorite cause! Every little bit really does add up and can make a big difference for Happy Tails Rescue and the animals it supports. Why wouldn't you do it?
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