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- www.organicforhealthsite.com
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- A breast cancer survivor who battled liver disease, I turned to organic foods to heal my liver and fight cancer recurrence. "Organic for Health" is that story.
My husband and I live in Englewood, FL, where we enjoy chasing after our grandsons.
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- http://sandyorganic.wordpress.com
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The Fractured Egg
The Fractured Egg
by Sandy Powers
“The perfect food,” my Mother would say as she scrambled our eggs for breakfast.
“All the elements for life,” she continued as she dished out the servings.
Then she would finish with, “Eat your eggs; they’re good for you.”
And they were—in those days. But something happened on the way to having my own children. Eggs became the “bad food.” Artery clogging cholesterol. Bad for your heart. One egg a week is plenty. I felt so guilty buying eggs when my children we… Continue
by Sandy Powers
“The perfect food,” my Mother would say as she scrambled our eggs for breakfast.
“All the elements for life,” she continued as she dished out the servings.
Then she would finish with, “Eat your eggs; they’re good for you.”
And they were—in those days. But something happened on the way to having my own children. Eggs became the “bad food.” Artery clogging cholesterol. Bad for your heart. One egg a week is plenty. I felt so guilty buying eggs when my children we… Continue
Posted on June 20, 2008 at 3:09pm —
America’s Life Expectancy Lags Behind Other Countries In international rankings, the life expectanc…
America’s Life Expectancy Lags Behind Other Countries
In international rankings, the life expectancy of Americans has been slipping. People in 41 countries are living longer than Americans. Where do these people live? In Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Jordan, Israel, to name only a few. This statistic is surprising since the United States has the most advance health care in the world. The question to ask is: how can this be?
Two indicators are commonly involved in li… Continue
In international rankings, the life expectancy of Americans has been slipping. People in 41 countries are living longer than Americans. Where do these people live? In Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Jordan, Israel, to name only a few. This statistic is surprising since the United States has the most advance health care in the world. The question to ask is: how can this be?
Two indicators are commonly involved in li… Continue
Posted on June 7, 2008 at 2:45pm —
Dietary Supplements Can Cause Liver Damage
Dietary Supplements Can Cause Liver Damage
By Sandy Powers
Dietary supplements such as vitamins, minerals, and herbal products can cause liver damage. I learned this the hard way.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer and scheduled for a mastectomy, my pre-opt tests revealed my liver enzymes were higher than normal. Liver enzymes are an indicator of the health of the liver. When the liver is healthy, the liver enzymes reside within the cells of the liver. When the liver is injured or unheal… Continue
By Sandy Powers
Dietary supplements such as vitamins, minerals, and herbal products can cause liver damage. I learned this the hard way.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer and scheduled for a mastectomy, my pre-opt tests revealed my liver enzymes were higher than normal. Liver enzymes are an indicator of the health of the liver. When the liver is healthy, the liver enzymes reside within the cells of the liver. When the liver is injured or unheal… Continue
Posted on June 7, 2008 at 2:32pm —
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A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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By Sandy Powers
When I was a child, my mother’s instructions in cleaning vegetables were to
discard the outer leaves and wash the rest thoroughly. For vegetables that could
be scraped, such as carrots or potatoes, she said to wash them well before scraping
them. Fruit should be washed before it was cut, peeled, or eaten. My mother
was ahead of her time. Even back then, she worried about the safety of food.
Today, pesticides and fertilizers are more potent than ever. They have to be to
battle the ever-adapting bugs. My daughter’s friend discovered this while she was
working on her doctorate in entomology (insects) at the University of Florida
in Gainesville. She spent long hours in the vegetable fields, especially the celery
fields, monitoring the success of pesticides that were sprayed on the crops to combat
insects. She tried to protect herself from the danger of absorbing pesticides
into her skin by wearing gloves and boots. Since vegetables don’t wear gloves or
boots, the vegetables absorbed dangerous amounts of pesticides.
The health toll of toxic pesticides and fertilizers on people is alarming.
In Washington State, where I once lived, farmers had a high rate of cancer
that researchers believed could be traced to the lethal pesticides and fertilizers
sprayed on the crops. The June 2006 issue of Movement Disorder reported a
study conducted by the Mayo Clinic that revealed pesticide exposure increased
the incidence of Parkinson’s disease in men.
Environmental Health Perspectives reported that American toddlers eating
mostly organic foods have only one-sixth the pesticide residues in their urine of
children eating non-organic foods. Preschool children in Seattle, Washington,
were monitored to assess their exposure to pesticides in the diet. The children
who ate conventionally grown, or non-organic, foods had six times the level
of pesticides in their urine than children who ate organic foods. The eating of
organic food lowered the children’s exposure to toxic pesticides from above the
recognized safety levels to below.
Malignancies in children linked to pesticides include leukemia, non-
Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and cancers of the brain. The risk of cancer for children
is greater than the risk for adults, suggesting that children may be particularly
sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of pesticides. Doctors Philip J. Landrigan
and Herbert L. Needleman, authors of Raising Children Toxic Free, estimate
that 80 to 90 percent of childhood cancer is caused by exposure to carcinogens
in the environment. Safe levels of pesticides are usually established for adults,
not children. A child’s body is smaller, as is the liver, so the body is not as well
equipped to handle toxins in the food or in the environment.
The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that toxic pesticide
ingestion by nursing mothers has resulted in breast-fed infants consuming unacceptable
levels of poisonous substances that can cause childhood cancers. This is
all the more reason for young women of childbearing age to eat organic.
It is never too early to begin cancer prevention for your children. Start with
organic foods. The absence of toxic pesticides and fertilizers in organic food,
along with the additional antioxidants and immune boosters present in organic
food, will enable the child’s immune system to help fight childhood cancers.
The USDA lists green peppers, celery, and green beans as highest in pesticide
absorption for vegetables. Strawberries, peaches, and apples rate the highest
in pesticide absorption for fruits by the USDA. For these foods switch to organic. Your child’s health depends on it.
A breast cancer survivor with liver problems, Sandy Powers turned to organic foods to heal her liver and fight cancer recurrence. She shares her research, her amazing results, and her recipes packed with antioxidants and immune boosters in her book, “Organic for Health.”
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