Do you live within an injury zone of a Nuclear Reactor? Fill in your zip code and find out.
Fallout danger zones vary for each reactor and are the zones where injury or death are most likely to occur. The nuclear industry is proposing to build new reactors in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas & Virginia. They will pave the way for attempts to open up new locations for nuclear power plants in the future. According to Greenpeace, the new reactor models that the industry are considering are neither safe nor economically viable. Even if your area is not in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, you may face the threat from nuclear waste repository sites or nuclear waste transportation routes. Nuclear power plants may be cleaner than coal and oil, but there is nothing wrong with wind or solar power. Some say a good way to protect ourselves from radiation include kelp and other seaweeds and mushrooms like reishi. But they have to come from safe, clean sources.
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Arjuna tree bark (Latin Name: Terminalia arjuna Wight & Arn.) is a cardioprotective botanical used in Ayurveda (East Indian traditional medicine) since 2500 B.C. It has remarkable cardioprotective, heart muscle strengthening properties. Here are good reasons to take 250 mgs of Arjuna with meals once or twice daily. Continue reading ‘Twelve Good Things About Arjuna’
I will teach two workshops this fall that deal with MidLife health and beauty issues, including energy, sexuality, immunity, and family communication. MidLife offers opportunities to re-invent ourselves in order to live the fullest and happiest time of life. What is your MidLife story? How do you define MidLife–what age or situation? What are your concerns and blessings now? How have you changed and grown from the experience?
Are you looking for the up-to-the-minute form of exercise to reduce pounds and gain energy and lasting health? Here’s news: there is no new exercise. Walking, swimming, biking have been around forever. Our bodies are designed to walk – not run- and our brain is wired to walk 12 miles a day. Every time we move, a corresponding area of the brain is stimulated. That means new vital connections for vitality, youth and beauty. Look at this encouraging website: The Daily Dog Walk. Have fun.
Many health experts recommend feeding our body especially the brain with (low GI index) whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables (for antioxidants,) and healthy Omega 3 fatty acids from nuts and seeds. The brain is made up of about 60 percent fat! Babies need cholesterol for their brain to develop. Adults require healthy fats. Here are a couple of easy recipes.
Continue reading ‘Healthy Sweets Recipes’
Every year Tibetans in Dharmsala dress in their best traditional clothes and join the celebrations to mark the birthday of HH the Dalai Lama. The festivities include cultural shows from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, song and dance performances by school children and Tibetan artists. Sweets are distributed and businesses remain closed to mark the event. While some 2,000 exiles gathered at the Tsuglakhang temple in the city to pray and to listen to speeches by officials of the government-in-exile on Sunday, the celebrations of previous years were absent.
I was reading one of my favorite nutritionists today, Dr. Bernard Jensen’s book Arthritis, Rheumatism and Osteoporosis: an effective program of correction through nutrition. He says people over age 50 feel joint pain worse because metabolism slows, which allows toxins to accumulate. I sure feel my joints in these rainy Vermont mountains no matter what my age. Joints ache with humidity or a passing storm when barometric pressure drops. I use homeopathic dulcamara 30C which I have nicknamed “pain in the rain.” But a deep-cleansing, rejuvenating approach does more than alleviate pain. Jensen’s holistic approach includes: speed metabolism and cleansing with kelp, a source of minerals especially iodine, to stimulate the thyroid, hawthorn to strengthen circulation, sufficient liquid intake (8 glasses) of water, KB-11 tea or juniper berry tea, a diuretic, to tone the kidneys, fresh fruits and vegetables for fiber, foods high in calcium, sodium and potassium to neutralize acids, and vitamin D (and ultraviolet rays) from sunshine to increase calcium absorption. Add to that daily exercise (he likes gentle circular movements of all joints), sweating to cleanse impurities; and an “active, satisfying sex life”–and you’ve got it all–a holistic approach for joint rejuvenation. Here’s tonight’s recipe.
