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30 October 2008 »
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Mike Mozart of Jeepers Media (featured in video above) writes:
1. Chinese manufacturers are known to have added melamine to powdered milk products including baby food.
2. Melamine is not a permitted food additive in any country. It is an industrial product and is often contaminated with other toxins. It damages the kidneys and is particularly dangerous, [...]
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Tags: bush administration, candy, china, fda, halloween, kidney failure, melamine, renal failure, tainted milk
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29 October 2008 »
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If you’ve been reading the news lately, you know that babies in China have been getting sick and dying due to tainted milk.
Melamine, the cheap compound used to bulk up baby formula in China that has sickened at least 1,200 babies across the country and killed at least two so far. Source: Time Magazine
According to [...]
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Tags: cadbury, children, china, food safety, halloween, halloween candy, hersheys, kidney failure, mars, melamine, poison, renal failure, tainted milk
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26 October 2008 »
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Last night was Shellfish Night.
We try to eat shellfish or organ meats at least once a week because they are so chock-full of vitamins. Seriously, folks, they put veggies to shame.
It would take just over a quarter pound of beef per day to fulfill the minimum requirement for zinc, yet a single serving of [...]
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Tags: farmer's market, homemade salad dressing, oysters, rice, salmon, seafood, shellfish, sustainable agriculture, sustainable food, vitamin b12, zinc, zojirushi
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24 October 2008 »
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Kate is only 18 months old now and she’s already attracting interest from suitors.
This photo was taken at the farmer’s market last Sunday. We were getting ready to leave and I stopped to listen to the band that was playing. There were some toddlers dancing. Kate started bucking in her stroller, wanting to get out.
I [...]
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Tags: 18 months, farmers markets, kate
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23 October 2008 »
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Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D. on the concept of “herd immunity”:
Another myth is that vaccines provide long-term, even lifetime, protection. Linked with this is the grand deception of “herd immunity.” Herd immunity is based on the idea that if 80% of a population is successfully immunized against a disease, then the rest of the [...]
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Tags: dr. russell blaylock, herd immunity, immunity, immunization, vaccination, vaccines
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22 October 2008 »
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I’m not a scientist or an engineer, but I do consider myself to be a pretty logical person with great critical thinking skills. When I see graphs like the ones above, it makes me wonder why we put so much emphasis on getting vaccinated. I don’t know how you can look at those graphs and [...]
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Tags: dpt, homeopathic vaccination, homeopathy, immunity, immunization, measles, vaccination, vaccine injury, vaccines, whooping cough
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21 October 2008 »
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It’s that time of year… and I’ve been seeing commercials for flu shots — like this one:
But are flu shots safe? And are they even effective?
Watch the following videos.
Here’s Dr. Mercola on flu shots:
This one is from a guy who called a flu vaccine manufacturer and recorded the call — listen through to the very [...]
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Tags: big pharma, cod liver oil, dr. mercola, flu shot, vaccination, vaccines, vitamin d
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20 October 2008 »
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I haven’t had time to work on a blog post for today yet — I’ll get to it.
Right now I am busy working on setting up advertising for my site (this is part of a bigger project which I will be launching soon).
I am a bit irritated by the Tyson Chicken ad that keeps showing [...]
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Tags: advertising
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17 October 2008 »
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Everyone loved the coconut flour pancakes I made this morning. I only made a small batch but these pancakes are so dense and filling, you don’t need much to feel satisfied.
Coconut flour is extremely nutritious (much more so than regular flour, which is empty calories), it’s high in fiber, and it’s lower in [...]
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Tags: 18 months, butter, casein-free, coconut flour, coconut flour pancakes, gaps diet, gfcf, gluten-free, kate, pancakes, Recipes, scd
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16 October 2008 »
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Which saves more money, using a dishwasher or washing dishes by hand?
It is actually cheaper to use the dishwasher.
Compared to the dishwasher, washing dishes by hand:
Takes five times more effort
Uses six times more water
Uses more energy
Melinda at One Green Generation posted a great article recently analyzing the difference.
According to one study:
Each person washed 12 place [...]
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Tags: conservation, housework, saving energy, saving money, saving water, washing dishes