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Congressman + Baby = Health Care Embarrassment

photo by: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos

I had to give it some thought before I figured out the logic behind this search.  But I did, can you?  I’ll post the answer in a few day to give you all some time to ponder the possibilities.

“hand sanitizer and goats”

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Sunday Search of the Week 11-8-2009

Many dairy and beef cattle operations crowd their animals in so close together that the cows are standing in mud, urine, and manure.  These cows, when they do the normal thing of swatting at flies with their tails, fling manure .  To prevent this, their tails are cut off.  Chopping off cow tails has been banned in Great Britain and  a few other countries, but not where most of the meat for U.S. and Canadian consultation is produced.  At first I was skeptical, but it is indeed true.  You can read more than you ever wanted to know about it at this PDF link.

Hopefully the next Did You Know post will be more upbeat.  Feel free to send a suggestion!

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Did You Know? Cow Tails.

Photograph is not the best, but can you believe where the trees are growing?

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Wordless Wednesday 11-04-2009

Anyway, this weeks search is one of several on the same topic and on a theme that has shown up a few times.  I am thinking the movie I reviewed a while back must have received some publicity this week. The search is: “am I made of corn”. There were 3 searchers who used the same phase and several more that used: “are people made of corn”.

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Sunday Search of the Week 11-01-2009

An injured branch responds with the beginnings of a “Witch’s Broom“.

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Wordless Wednesday 10-28-2009

1967:
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.

Plastics.  Plastics and their insidious chemicals that mimic human hormones, line the inside of baby formula cans, leach from our water bottles and off-gas from our non-stick cookware.  I have written so many times about all these problems and more and I continue to get comments and email from people who will have none of it.  Of course I am not a scientist or medical doctor, but I do read a lot and listen to interviews with doctors and researchers that are experts on the dangers of plastics.  This is one topic where I really feel there are only two competing scenarios.  The first involves people who are well informed and do understand that we should be concerned and that we should limit our exposure in as many ways as we can.  The second involves people, who like the unfairly accused proverbial ostrich, have their head in the sand.

I plan to write a few posts specifically detailing some of the recent research that shows the health problems that are being attributed to our persistent exposure to the chemical plasticizers found everywhere in our lives.  Of course we can not eliminate our use of plastic.  And in fact it admittedly may be the single most important contributor to many of the technological advances made since 1967, but we still need to be aware and careful in our use and exposure.  I was asked recently what I thought were the most important things a person could do to improve their health.  My opinion is the three most important are:

1. If you smoke, stop.  Today. For good.  If you don’t smoke, never start.

2. If you drink soda, stop or at least reduce to only a few per month.

3. Limit in any way you can your exposure to the chemicals in plastics

I am not a health expert, but I am convinced these three pieces of advice are the most important by far.  Number one is a no brainer.  Number two is less well known, but at the same time proven to be almost as important as number one.  Number three still only has a few people like me shouting out the warnings.  But it is gaining in publicity and you will hear more about the dangers as time goes on.  I really believe looking back years from now, the damage caused to human health by plastics will be as well known as the benefits gained by the rapid acceptance of plastics into our daily lives.

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Three Ways to Improve Your Health

“can drinking soda and water at the same time be deadly”

I guess it is not quite as strange as the soda drinking turkeys from a few weeks ago.

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Sunday Search of the Week 10-25-2009

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Did You Know? Benefits of Going Green

Another View of Wizard Island at Crater Lake

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Wordless Wednesday 10-21-2009