Normally I don't publicly expound on a television program but last night I saw a first. Mind you it is not necessarily my favorite, but it caught my attention. CSI Miami had an episode on last night about the pollution created by GMO farmers fields that contaminates organic crops. I was astounded. Never have I seen a prime time entertainment based show use this as a topic.
Organic corn crops across the world are losing their hard earned status as USDA certified, due to "conventional" farm crops. How this happens is the corn grown on another farm that is GMO will shed it's pollen in the wind, this wind drift can travel many miles and mix with the pollen on an organically grown piece of corn, polluting the whole crop forever. Forever! The grower loses it's status and loses incredible amounts of money.
Last night's program show cased a problem that is happening now and the scary thing is that nothing can stop the contamination. I personally am suspect of all corn, even the beautiful local butter and sugar corn sold here on the Cape. Yes, I may be paranoid, but I've done so much research on organic issues that I think I know to much for my own good. It keeps me up at night.
As far as CSI Miami goes I am impressed with their topic choice, but I am still partial to the Las Vegas version. I miss Grisim.
Anyways keep up the good fight eh?- nan
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
A mother storm is brewing.
I have been thinking about my next blog and so far I seem to keep coming back to the idea of health. In the last few years I have done a lot of reading and dabbling in the alternatives to conventional health care. What I have found is that for me and my son natural and homeopathy remedies are working so much better than "drugs".
It was very clear to me that homeopathy works, when one day at work i experienced a blow to the bridge of my nose that left me nearly unconscious. My friend and boss gave me a remedy called Arnica. First you need to know that Arnica comes in pellet form, gel and cream. The pellet needs to be taken orally, and the gel or cream to be given topically. My eyes had already started to blacken in the corners and yellow underneath. Within ten minutes of taking the oral dose and using the gel topically the bruises were gone the swelling was down and all that was left was a scrape from the incident. I was totally amazed by the response my body did to this treatment. For sure I would have had two black eyes and a swollen nose.
In the months that followed I got some good books on the topic and took a class with a great group of women all looking for alternatives to conventional treatments.
I then followed up with a visit to a doctor of homeopathy, and I feel that I am doing very well, with it.
My biggest gripe is this: This form of treatment is not covered by health insurance. It should be. Europe has been doing Homeopathy for centuries and has a mercantile on every street corner selling remedies. Then again Europe is just a bit ahead of us in the fields of natural, and organic treatments. It is a very common acceptable form of health practice that tends to out-number the conventional doctors.
Further more, I have to pay for health insurance anyways. I would rather not have to pay for it because it does not cover homeopathy. AND I get hit with an added bonus of having to pay a fine if I do not carry a policy with a money grubbing industry that has turned this country into a lying self serving elitist group of hypocrites. But let me tell you how I really feel.....
To add to the problem doctors have over prescribed so many antibiotics that now we have super-morph bugs that won't be killed off by our manufactured, artificial so called health treatments. Antibiotics are no longer affective because mother nature knows better than us how to make flu and cold bugs bigger and stronger. And doctors don't let fevers do what they are supposed to do, and that is to kill off germs and bring us through the delirium with intense heat AKA a fever.
Yes there are great inventions made by many great scientist, like penicillin. It is the abuse of these drugs that has made us weak, and our doctors and universities are too closed minded to look at the bigger picture.
Worse yet, the government's efforts to create agencies like the FDA and EPA to so called regulate the drugs and chemicals leaves me skeptical. They say it is OK for a chemicals like Diazinon to be on the shelves for decades, then one day....it is not. Did you know that the EPA does not test any new chemicals? Nope, they leave that business up the the manufacturer of the chemical. hmmmm.... Makes me think, and it ticks me off.
And now in the news, stories of swine flu and the hysteria to create atmospheres that are free of germs is not only unrealistic, it is dangerous. The more we try to control germs, the more they learn how to be better at what they do, and it will only get worse.
My soap box is done today, and I feel deflated and sad. I don't like to write about the stuff that is wrong with our world. I want things to be better, and I want to remain positive. But once in a while I need to vent and be the "ticked off mom", because that is my reason, I am a mom.
It was very clear to me that homeopathy works, when one day at work i experienced a blow to the bridge of my nose that left me nearly unconscious. My friend and boss gave me a remedy called Arnica. First you need to know that Arnica comes in pellet form, gel and cream. The pellet needs to be taken orally, and the gel or cream to be given topically. My eyes had already started to blacken in the corners and yellow underneath. Within ten minutes of taking the oral dose and using the gel topically the bruises were gone the swelling was down and all that was left was a scrape from the incident. I was totally amazed by the response my body did to this treatment. For sure I would have had two black eyes and a swollen nose.
In the months that followed I got some good books on the topic and took a class with a great group of women all looking for alternatives to conventional treatments.
I then followed up with a visit to a doctor of homeopathy, and I feel that I am doing very well, with it.
My biggest gripe is this: This form of treatment is not covered by health insurance. It should be. Europe has been doing Homeopathy for centuries and has a mercantile on every street corner selling remedies. Then again Europe is just a bit ahead of us in the fields of natural, and organic treatments. It is a very common acceptable form of health practice that tends to out-number the conventional doctors.
Further more, I have to pay for health insurance anyways. I would rather not have to pay for it because it does not cover homeopathy. AND I get hit with an added bonus of having to pay a fine if I do not carry a policy with a money grubbing industry that has turned this country into a lying self serving elitist group of hypocrites. But let me tell you how I really feel.....
To add to the problem doctors have over prescribed so many antibiotics that now we have super-morph bugs that won't be killed off by our manufactured, artificial so called health treatments. Antibiotics are no longer affective because mother nature knows better than us how to make flu and cold bugs bigger and stronger. And doctors don't let fevers do what they are supposed to do, and that is to kill off germs and bring us through the delirium with intense heat AKA a fever.
Yes there are great inventions made by many great scientist, like penicillin. It is the abuse of these drugs that has made us weak, and our doctors and universities are too closed minded to look at the bigger picture.
Worse yet, the government's efforts to create agencies like the FDA and EPA to so called regulate the drugs and chemicals leaves me skeptical. They say it is OK for a chemicals like Diazinon to be on the shelves for decades, then one day....it is not. Did you know that the EPA does not test any new chemicals? Nope, they leave that business up the the manufacturer of the chemical. hmmmm.... Makes me think, and it ticks me off.
And now in the news, stories of swine flu and the hysteria to create atmospheres that are free of germs is not only unrealistic, it is dangerous. The more we try to control germs, the more they learn how to be better at what they do, and it will only get worse.
My soap box is done today, and I feel deflated and sad. I don't like to write about the stuff that is wrong with our world. I want things to be better, and I want to remain positive. But once in a while I need to vent and be the "ticked off mom", because that is my reason, I am a mom.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Stuck Off Cape????
I am in the hustle and bustle of a different life. I am in what I call the city. Close enough, Newton. I came up to take part in a voice class and have an oil change and I found out that my car is broke. Needs a whole exhaust system. Soooo what do ya do? I jump in the river, and go with the flow. I got time to spend with my Dad, and looked at buildings that are very rare to the Cape, at least in the volume they are accustomed to in Newton. I love the air, and the busy-ness of this area. It is such a town feeling and everything is easily reached. The plants are all in transition, not quite fall, though it is most defiantly here. I do miss being home and the warm sun heating up my living room, and getting my son off the bus. But I can appreciate where I am and take the opportunity be with my dad and Dodi in there home, while I wait for news on Ingrid. That would be my car. Ingrid.
Ingrid Zackemfroid.....if you have to ask.....I am happily nuts. So to say I am stuck here,off Cape... am I really stuck? I guess I needed to be here. Love peace and all that fuzzy stuff - nan
Ingrid Zackemfroid.....if you have to ask.....I am happily nuts. So to say I am stuck here,off Cape... am I really stuck? I guess I needed to be here. Love peace and all that fuzzy stuff - nan
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