Tarryall.net Newsletter October 07

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NEWSLETTER
October 2007

The test of the morality of a society is
what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best index to a person’s character is
(a) how he treats people who can’t do
him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can’t fight
back. Abigail van Buren

What's New

Dynamite CCF -- An almost miraculous new plant growth enhancer that
is used with HumiZyme. Click here for a pdf flyer.

Dynamite OxE Mega -- A super equine supplement especially vital for
stalled or dry-lot-fed horses, it's based on Chia seeds along with added
Vits E & C, C complex, and SOD. Early results are incredible! Click here
for a pdf flyer.

Dynamite FreeFree Offer -- The Dynamite Free Choice Minerals are so
important, that for the month of October ONLY, Dynamite is offering a
SPECIAL of all 4 Free Choice items (NTM Salt, Izmine, 1-To-1, & 2-To-1)
in 5# buckets PLUS 2 Jeffers MinFeeds (4 compartments)! flyer

Barefoot Horse Trimming Clinic -- EquusLoco is hosting a Paul
Chapman clinic on October 13-14th. For details on a pdf flyer, click here.

Standlee Hay Products -- Not REALLY new except to me! When it is
impossible to feed good grass hay for whatever reason but especially
with geriatrics or babies who may not be able to chew standard hay or
pasture properly, or IR horses to limit their carbohydrate levels, do
consider these hay pellets and/or cubes. Remember to soak them all
first and stick with just the timothy or orchard grass. Standlee states
that their products are produced from Idaho Certified Noxious Weed
Free Forage and that there are no chemicals used in either the field or
in processing. Many Dynamite distributors have found them to be so
helpful with certain situations, that they have become distributors. And
yes, they do offer beet pulp pellets but what is far, far more healthful in
my experience is the BOSS (Black Oil Sunflower Seeds) and/or the Chia
seeds (see above). For more information, click on: http://www.
standleehay.com/index.html.

Paso Fino mare Sirena turns 31! - see Sirena's story here.

Did You Know?... (from various sources)

Depression Tied to Low Folate Levels -- Results of a new study
confirm an association between folate levels and depression. The study,
a pooled look at various studies on the topic, showed that people with
lower levels of the B vitamin had an increased risk of depression.
Whether their low folate status caused the depression, however, is
unknown. "Our study is unique in that for the first time all the relevant
evidence in this controversial area has been brought together," Dr.
Simon Gilbody, of the University of York, in York, UK, said in a
university statement. "Although the research does not prove that low
folate causes depression, we can now be sure that the two are linked,"
he added.

Grocery Store Cancer Fighter -- Green tea's cancer fighting ability has
been well established in both animal models and human trials. One
mechanism by which green tea fights cancer is by blocking the
production of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in our body.
Doing so halts the growth of tumors; a welcomed benefit to cancer
victims.

Why NOT Artificial Flavors - Two professors at Purdue University have
discovered that when you're eating, artificial sweeteners block the
feeling that you're getting full. In other words, they disarm your body's
first defense against obesity. Their results, published in the
International Journal of Obesity, showed that "mouth feel" plays a
crucial role in the body's ability to sense the number of calories that are
being consumed - and that artificial sweeteners disrupt the natural
calorie "count" based on sweetness.

Is there a difference between a calorie from an Oreo cookie and a
calorie from grass-fed beef? - The calories from an Oreo cookie cause
a rise in insulin - telling the body to store fat and the brain to eat more.
The calorie from grass fed beef has little effect on spiking insulin. This
allows meat eaters to feel satisfied, while ensuring that their body can
release excess calories as heat - thermogenesis. The more low calorie
(or even zero calorie) sodas and foods you consume, the more your body
demands payback for the calories it was deprived.

"Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy" - According to Dr.
William Campbell Douglass II, MD, sunshine does NOT cause
melanoma. In fact, it's just the opposite. In studies all over the world,
as sun exposure increases, malignant skin cancer risk goes down. In the
sunniest parts of Australia, lifeguards have lower skin cancer rates than
office workers.

Good fat equals LESS breast cancer -- Fat phobia may be the height
of fashion, but according to Dr. Douglass, it's junk medicine.
Researchers studied 88,795 women over the course of 14 years, and
what did they find? Not one sign that high-fat diets promote breast
cancer. Not one hint that low-fat diets protect you. And in fact, they
discovered that women who consumed the least fat got breast cancer
more often.

Cancer Detection -- A new blood test called the AMAS test is the best
source for detecting any cancer in your body and nothing else even
comes close to it. If your doctor runs it twice, your rate of false
positives and false negatives drops to under 1%. How important is this
accuracy? Life or death. For example, if you find prostate cancer early
enough, you've got a 99% chance of a cure. And the test couldn't be
easier. The doctor takes a blood sample and screens it for a substance
called Anti-Malignan Antibody (AMAS). No squeezing the breasts. No
poking around anywhere. The antibody is manufactured by your own
immune system, in response to any common kind of cancer cell. Thus, if
you simply test for AMAS, you can reliably surmise when cancer is
lurking somewhere in your body. And get treatment before it spreads.

Low Cholesterol Can Trigger the Deadliest Kind of Stroke -- It's
called a 'massive stroke,' and it happens when blood vessels in your
brain are so weak, they burst open. Even moderately low cholesterol
levels, under 200, can raise your risk of these strokes. Yet many doctors
routinely prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs if your cholesterol level is
over 200. The British Medical Journal recently announced:
'CHOLESTEROL SCREENING IS NOT WORTHWHILE!' This is because they
discovered that folks with lower cholesterol were just about as likely to
develop heart disease as those with higher levels. They also discovered
that a far more accurate judge of cardio-vascular problems was the
homocysteine level in the blood caused by a lack of proper fats and
sufficient amounts of red meat in the diet.

Magnesium vital for proper cardiovascular function -- Reported by
the National Institute of Health, magnesium maintains normal muscle
and nerve function, keeps heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy
immune system, ensures the integrity of the arterial wall by controlling
blood pressure and keeps bones strong. It also helps regulate blood
sugar levels and is known to be involved in energy metabolism and
protein synthesis. The most advantageous food sourcse of magnesium
are leafy green vegetables, avocados, nuts, and whole grains.
[Dynamite's Izmine is very high in naturally occurring, colloidal
magnesium while their TriMins+ and PMS are excellent sources for
higher levels if needed.]

The death knell for HRT --Another nail was driven into the coffin of
hormone replacement therapy (HRT) when researchers at Kaiser
Permanente recently released study results concerning the now
controversial therapy.The researchers looked at the medical histories of
7,386 women who had been diagnosed with and treated for breast
cancer. The time span covered 26 years—from 1980 to 2006. From the
early 1980s through the early 1990s, breast-cancer rates increased 26
percent. Continuing on through 2001, they increased an additional 15
percent on top of that. But from 2003 to 2006, when the number of
women taking HRT plummeted, the rates took a dip by 18 percent. The
increases occurred mostly in women over age 45 who had a specific type
of breast cancer—estrogen receptor-positive. The researchers in the
Kaiser Permanente study specifically noted that mammography-
screening rates remained the same. Premarin and Prempro are "chemical
soups" derived from the urine of pregnant mares held under cruel
conditions. No one really knows everything that's in these medications.
On the other hand, bio-identical hormones are designed to mimic
exactly the body's own hormones in proper proportions.

Cocoa Cure -- A Japanese study that was recently published in the
journal "Nutrition" found that daily intake of cocoa by diabetic mice led
to a significant drop in blood sugar levels. The results of this study
suggest that regular intake of cocoa may be helpful in preventing type 2
diabetes in addition to boosting antioxidant defenses in rats.

Excellent Eggs -- Two recent studies are proving that eggs can once
again be considered as a wonderful food that actually can maintain
healthy cholesterol levels while increasing the antioxidant lutein and
zeaxanthin. Study number one tested two levels of egg intake, versus
zero egg intake, in a cohort of 24 women. Cholesterol levels rose in the
zero intake group. Meanwhile, lutein and zeaxanthin levels increased in
both of the egg groups, but cholesterol levels did not. In the second
study, researchers asked 33 subjects over the age of 60 to eat one egg
each day for five weeks. Cholesterol levels didn't budge, but blood
samples showed that lutein levels increased by more than 25 percent,
and zeaxanthin levels increased by nearly 40 percent.

Driving & Hormones -- As reported by BBC News, the study suggested
that estrogen may enhance neuron activity in the frontal lobes of the
brain. This is the zone of the brain that is most involved in maintaining
focus, processing multiple sensory inputs, and governing actions within
a series of rules…It isn't, however, the area of the brain that governs
map reading, navigation, reflexive emergency maneuvering, or parallel
parking. Those skills use different gray matter for the most part, and
still require a healthy dose of testosterone, some research suggests
(and I believe).

ADHD Meds Makes Kids Shorter -- Want to make your child shorter
than his peers? Give him three years of medication for Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder – that ought to do the trick. Children who are
medicated to address ADHD tend to decrease in growth rate with no
evidence of growth rebound after three years of treatment, according to
the results of a National Institutes of Mental Health study.
Interestingly, at the outset of the study, these pre-medicated kids, as a
group, actually tended to be taller than their peers.

Fight flab with rest -- Taking a break during your workout may result in
your burning more fat than the same amount of exercise without a
break. Kazushige Goto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo
studied seven men with an average age of 25. On different days, the
men did no exercise, exercised on stationary bikes for 1 hour, or
exercised at the same intensity for two half-hour periods separated by a
20-minute rest. During the rest period, levels of free fatty acids in the
men's blood increased rapidly, indicating that stored fat was being
mobilized. The levels were also higher in the second half-hour of
exercise if this followed a rest period than when it was part of a
continuous bout, and remained higher during the hour after exercise
finished, the researchers reported in Applied Physiology.

Flu Aid -- With all the concern about colds and flus, consider washing
your hands frequently with just plain soap and water; adding a drop or
two of Tea Tree Oil to your daily neti pot nasal irrigation; avoiding
sugars and simple carbohydrates; taking good, natural vitamin/mineral
supplements; and using homeopathic compounds rather than standard
OTC (over-the-counter) medications. Useful early homeopathic
preventionincludes the use of Oscillococcinum or other potentised flu
products or Ferrum phos cell salt for early stages of feverish conditions.
Sometimes these homeopathic medicines can stop an illness in the
early stages.

Have Some Prozac with That Water --Traces of the antidepressant
Prozac (fluoxetine) can be found in the nation's drinking water, it has
been revealed. An Environment Agency report suggests so many people
are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater
via treated sewage. Although exact amounts are unknown, they
concluded it is potentially toxic.

Point to Ponder #1 - Get Fit in 12 Minutes a Day by
Maggie Spilner with Sarah Robertson http://www.prevention.
com/article/0,5778,s1-2-92-752-313-1,00.html

Counting steps instead of miles can boost your walking workout--and save
you time.

Researchers in England and Northern Ireland asked 12 sedentary women
to climb a 200-step staircase, progressing from once a day to six times a
day. (They were allowed to take the elevator down.) Each ascent took
about 2 minutes, so by the end of the study, the women were exercising
only 12 minutes a day.

In less than 2 months, they saw a boost in their fitness level, along with
improvements in their cholesterol level that were enough to cut their risk
of cardiovascular disease by 33 percent.

"This is among the best evidence that short bouts of exercise can have
tremendous health benefits," says study author Colin Boreham, PhD, of
the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.

In a second study of nearly 13,500 men, those who climbed up and down
at least 700 steps a week, or 100 steps a day (half that of the first
study), reduced their risk of death by nearly 20 percent. This reduction is
comparable to what you'd achieve by walking about 2 miles a day, which
takes most people 35 to 40 minutes. From a calorie-burning perspective,
you'd have to walk briskly for 30 minutes to burn the same number of
calories that you would climbing stairs for 15 minutes.

Stairclimbing is vigorous exercise. The higher intensity seems to be a key
factor in these benefits, explains Dr. Boreham.

....... remember though, that the INTERVAL of taking the elevator down
was a very important factor. Also important is to bear in mind the state of
your individual back, hip, knee and ankle joints! Be sure to stay hydrated,
well-mineralized, and eat optimally according to my Human Nutrition
guidelines.

Points to Ponder #2 -- Cholesterol Facts by Shane
Ellison, Life-Saving Health Briefs, www.healthmyths.net

Cholesterol is a versatile compound that is vital to the function of the
human body and just like everything else; cholesterol levels differ greatly
among individuals. In humans, cholesterol serves 5 main functions:

1. Cholesterol is used by the body to manufacture steroids, or cortisone-
like hormones, including the sex hormones. These hormones include
testosterone, estrogen and cortisone.

2. Cholesterol helps the liver produce bile acids. These acids are essential
for digestion of fats and ridding the body of waste.

3. Cholesterol acts to interlock "lipid molecules," which stabilize cell
membranes. Therefore, cholesterol is the vital building block for all bodily
tissues.

4. Cholesterol is an essential part of the myelin sheath. The myelin
sheath, similar to the coating on copper wire, ensures that the brain
functions properly by aiding the passage of electrical impulses. Without
the myelin sheath, it is difficult to focus and we can lose memory.

5. And finally, cholesterol has beneficial effects on the immune system.
Men with high cholesterol have stronger immune systems than those with
low cholesterol, as can be seen by the fact that they have more
lymphocytes, total T-cells, helper T-cells and CD8+ cells Many strains of
bacteria, which cause us to get sick, are almost totally inactivated by LDL
cholesterol.

In closing, lowering such a vital molecule might be considered suicide in
slow motion. To illustrate, imagine that your house represents your body
and the nails holding it together, cholesterol. Now start pulling just a few
nails out of the house. What happens? The house turns to a pile of
rubble. The same is true for the human body.

Point to Ponder #3 -- Drive your car to death, save
$31,000 http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/30/autos/cr_drive_200k/index.
htm?cnn=yes

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- By keeping your car for 15 years, or
225,000 miles of driving, you could save nearly $31,000, according to
Consumer Reports magazine. That's compared to the cost of buying an
identical model every five years, which is roughly the rate at which most
car owners trade in their vehicles.

In its annual national auto survey, the magazine found 6,769 readers who
had logged more than 200,000 miles on their cars. Their cars included a
1990 Lexus LS400 with 332,000 miles and a 1994 Ford Ranger pick-up
that had gone 488,000 miles.

Calculating the costs involved in buying a new Honda Civic EX every five
years for 15 years - including depreciation, taxes, fees and insurance - the
magazine estimated it would cost $20,500 more than it would have cost
to simply maintain one car for the same period.

Added to that, the magazine factored in $10,300 in interest that could
have been earned on that money, assuming a five percent interest rate
and a three percent inflation rate, over that time.

The magazine found similar savings with other models.

To have much hope of making it to 200,000 miles, a car has to be well
maintained, of course. The magazine recommends several steps to help
your car see it through.

Follow the maintenance guide in your owner's manual and make
needed repairs promptly.
Use only the recommended types of fluids, including oil and
transmission fluids.
Check under the hood regularly. Listen for strange sounds, sniff for
odd smells and look for fraying or bulges in pipes or belts. Also, get
a vehicle service manual. They're available at most auto parts stores
or your dealership.
Clean the car carefully inside and out. This not only helps the car's
appearance but can prevent premature rust. Vacuuming the inside
also prevents premature carpet wear from sand and grit.
Buy a safe, reliable car. Buying a car with the latest safety
equipment makes it more likely you'll feel as safe in your aging car
as a newer model.

The magazine recommends several cars that have the best shot at
reaching the 200,000 mile mark and a few that, according to its data,
aren't likely to make it.

All the cars in the magazine's "Good bets" list are manufactured by Honda
(Charts) and Toyota (Charts). (One extreme example was not enough to
get the Ford Ranger onto the list.) The "Bad bets" are a mixture of
European models and two Nissans.

Consumer Reports' "Good bets" for making 200,000 miles: Honda Civic,
Honda CR-V, Honda Element, Lexus ES, Lexus LS, Toyota 4Runner, Toyota
Highlander, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Prius, Toyota RAV4

Consumer Reports' "Bad bets" for making 200,000 miles: BMW 7-series,
Infiniti QX56, Jaguar X-type, V8-powered Mercedes-Benz M-class,
Mercedes-Benz SL, Nissan Armada, Nissan Titan, Volkswagen Touareg, V6-
powered Volvo XC90.

Point to Ponder #4 -- John Edwards' Universal Health
Care Plan Would Make Regular MD Checkups
Mandatory Associated Press http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,
2933,295555,00.html

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his
universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the
doctor for preventive care.

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get
preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the
Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't
choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be
checked and make sure that you are OK."

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular
mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem."
Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her
breast cancer had returned and spread.

......is this REALLY what we want? MANDATORY mammograms which
have proven to be inconclusive and downright dangerous? Why not the
simple AMAS test (see above) or thermography testing? Why not change
the diet from the modern fad of eating agri-business/processed foods and
return to REAL FOOD? Why not increase Omega 3's and Vitamin C and
fresh veggie juice, all of which have proven effective against any form of
cancer? Why is Edwards supporting an outmoded test? How much else
would become mandatory even if diametrically opposed to all common
sense and our own holistic sensibilities? Why support such a broken
medical system with it's proven failures (the US has dropped to 17th in
health care and its physicians are rated as the number 3 killer of
individuals based on the AMA Journal) and fat-cat insurance and
pharmaceutical companies?
As for the mammograms themselves, I have long surmised that both the
squeezing of delicate breast tissues and their exposure to dangerous
radiation actually exacerbated cancer development. Consequently I have
never had one and never will. Wonder how many men, Sen. Edwards
included, would submit to having a similar test involving a search for
possible testicular cancer?

Point to Ponder #5 --How to Prevent Osteoporosis by
Dr. Ben Kim http://www.drbenkim.com/prevent-osteoporosis.html

Based on my work experiences over the past several years, I'm convinced
that osteoporosis is one of the most misunderstood health conditions
that we know of. The purpose of this article is to help you identify the
essential choices that you must make on a regular basis to minimize your
risk of developing osteoporosis. Put another way, this article is intended
to help you understand what it takes to build and maintain healthy bones.

Understanding how to prevent osteoporosis requires that you have a clear
understanding of the physical structure and functions of your bones.

Your bones are active organs that are filled with a number of different
tissues, the main ones being bone tissue (hardened minerals), bone
marrow, specialized tissues that line different sections of your bones
(endosteum and periosteum), cartilage, blood vessels, and nerves.

Why are there so many different types of tissue in your bones? Because
your bones need to carry out a number of functions, the most important
ones being:

Production of blood cells (hematopoiesis) - The inner portion
(medulla) of your long bones is where most of your blood cells are
formed.
Maintenance of delicate acid-alkaline balance within your blood -
Your bones act as storage sites for minerals, providing a buffering
mechanism that allows the pH of your blood to stay within a slightly
alkaline range (approximately 7.35 to 7.45).
Provision of structural framework and protection - Your bones serve
to support your entire structure and protect your internal organs. For
example, your ribcage serves to create and protect your thoracic
cavity, home to your heart and lungs.
Transduction of sound - Small bones that exist in your inner ear
region help you hear and distinguish different sounds.

Due to the number of functions that your bones carry out on a daily basis,
they are constantly being remodeled according to your needs and
circumstances. This remodeling process is mainly carried out by two types
of cells that exist within your bones:

Osteoblasts - Responsible for new bone production.
Osteoclasts - Responsible for removing damaged or unneeded cells.

Together, osteoblasts and osteoclasts remodel your bones on a
continuous basis with three primary goals in mind:

Repair areas that are damaged from stress associated with your
activities of daily living - most of this damage is microscopic.
Regulate calcium levels in your blood.
Optimally shape your bones while you are growing.

If you are not yet impressed by the amount of activity that goes on within
your bones on a second-to-second basis, consider the fact that virtually
all of the hormones that your body produces have some effect on your
bones. Here is a severely truncated list of hormones that you produce on
a daily basis that affect the activities and health of your bones:

Growth hormone
Testosterone
Estrogen
Progesterone
Thyroid hormones (T4, T3 and their derivatives)
Cortisol
Erythropoietin

At this point, it should be clear that primarily focusing on how much
calcium you need to take each day is not likely to ensure that you build
and maintain healthy bones. As dynamically alive as your bones are, I
also hope it's clear that you can do so much more than take the right
daily dose of alendronate (fosamax) or any other osteoporosis-related
drug to keep your bones strong as you age.

So what should you be doing to keep your bones strong and flexible as
you age? Read all about it here.

..... interestingly, many years ago it was reported in the Dynamite
Newsletter of that time, that one woman, part of study group, totally
reversed her osteoporosis with the addition of Dynamite Herbal Green to
her food & supplement program. Rather than study HER to find the cause
of her success, she was booted from the study because what they were
after was testing of a calcium-type medication.

Point to Ponder #6 -- Recent Fluoride Developments
by Cathy Justus (Those of you who are familiar with my book,
HorseSense, are familiar with Cathy Justus, the owner of 5 horses who
died of fluorosis, who has since dedicated her life to stopping fluoride in
drinking water. You can contact Cathy at j ustusoriginals@pagosa.net.)

A lot has happened nation-wide concerning fluoridation, not only before
Pagosa Springs discontinued the practice but since. In the January/March
2006 issue of "FLUORIDE" The Quarterly Journal of the International
Society For Fluoride Research there was a peer reviewed scientific
manuscript written on the fluoride poisoning documentation here in
Pagosa. There was so much world wide stir among fluoride scientists that
a second peer reviewed manuscript was requested to reveal more
symptoms that manifested in our horses. This is in the April/June issue
and both can be accessed at "back issues", www.fluorideresearch.org

After this I was contacted by Elizabeth McDonough, an English journalist
for several interviews that preceded her writing an article on my fluoride
horse story that was published in "Namaste Magazine". They have now
condensed the article and made it into flyers that are being distributed all
over England and Ireland. (Almost all of Continental Europe has rejected
water fluoridation as being either ineffective or too dangerous but
England and Ireland are still fluoridated.) Andrea Lyle wrote an article
published in "Natural Horse Magazine" and Lisa Ross Williams did a radio
interview and published an article in "If Your Horse Could Talk Magazine".

Last summer I was asked to speak at The International Fluoride
Conference in New York about my experiences with fluoride poisoning in
my horses. There were scientific researchers from all over the world there
and I was the only non-scientist to speak. What an honor.

At that conference I met, among others, Dr. David Kennedy DDS, past
president of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology,
who came to Pagosa and is now making a DVD on our horse fluoride story
soon to be released. He has done several documentary DVDs on fluoride
poisoning world wide.

It was also revealed at this conference that recent research has proven
that the toxicity of fluoride along with other toxins like lead, aluminum,
arsenic, etc. is intensified significantly by higher altitudes like we have
here in Pagosa.

Last summer the US National Research Council, the highest scientific body
in the US, published its 3 year study on water fluoridation. It found
evidence of harm at levels below that of fluoridated water and could find
no safe level of fluoride. The review identified groups at high risk from
fluoridation such as: kidney patients, diabetics, infants, and the elderly.
It also noted that approximately 1-5% of people are allergic or
hypersensitive to fluoride.

Last fall the ADA, in a memo to their members, said that infants under 1
year should not be given fluoridated water, nor should fluoridated water
be used to make up infant formula. The Centers For Disease Control
(CDC) stated the same thing. How many of you were made aware of this
by your dentists, our government, the news, etc.? This is a prime example
of the suppression of information put upon these and other organizations
by the multi billion $ fluoride polluting industries. With the latest
research findings that many bottled waters are just mere tap water that
has been fluoridated and put into fancy bottles, there is no alternative
but for parents to buy distillers. Where does this leave the poor who
cannot afford distillers?

A 2006 study from Harvard provided evidence beyond reasonable doubt
that boys aged 6-10 who consume fluoridated water are at a 700%
greater risk of teenage bone cancer. In fact all age related studies have
revealed this.

Yet another study was conducted that reiterated others that fluoride
consumption increases the incidence of skeletal fluorosis often
misdiagnosed as arthritis.

In August the Lilly Center filed ethics charges against the US Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) for failing to warn high risk groups of the dangers
of fluoridation documented in their own reports.

I was contacted last year by a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences who
specializes in water quality and toxicology that also has horses that had
experienced the same problems as we did. She relayed to me that
besides fluoride being a potent toxin she had found that municipal water
companies often use ALUM (aluminum) as a flocking agent to collect
organic matter and if the water is also fluoridated, that increases the
hazard to the body. Fluoride breaks the blood brain barrier that protects
the brain from toxins and we all know that aluminum is directly related to
Alzheimers.

Yet another thing that she revealed was that aluminum displaces copper
in the blood that is needed to keep the elasticity in the heart, veins,
arteries, skin and all soft tissue. I had my horses tested and they were
extremely high in aluminum and low in copper. In fact the lab called
immediately when they found these results to say that my horses were in
immediate danger of having an aneurysm. PAWSD uses ALUM so I would
suggest that everyone get on the phone and let them know this practice
should cease immediately. There are better alternatives for a flocking
agent. [... if you are giving your horses fluoridated city water, consider
adding Dynamite SOD - this extra copper may be a key to its health,
especially if it's experiencing thyroid issues. Rowan]

Recently over 11,000 petitions were presented to the EPA workers union
to join with their over 7,000 petitions, from that union alone, to be
presented to Congress. Also last month within just a few days over 600
pros, (doctors, dentists, scientists, etc.) signed on to urge Congress to
stop fluoridation citing new evidence of serious health risks and it's
ineffectiveness.

Since there has never been a single study that shows fluoride is effective
that wasn't flawed and or the results paid for by the multi billion $
fluoride polluting industries and since there has never been a single
safety study done, in over 60 years of fluoridation, on the products used
for fluoridation (silico-fluorides) this practice should cease immediately.

Menu of the Month - Halloween Treats
Well, Halloween is coming around again! So many of us mindlessly get
into the popular candy treats at Halloween, and then wonder why the kids
start getting colds and flus. Let's start thinking differently! One of the
most simple, yet satisfying “candies” I used to make for the kids was to
stuff pitted dates with a raw almond. However, as good as they were (and
soooo easy!), we all loved the ground dried fruit/nuts/seeds treats even
more.

You have a choice of processing the ingredients with the fine blade of a
food processor, using a good blender, grinding them by hand using the old-
fashioned hand-cranked grinder, or just chopping finely by hand as I’ve
always done. Here is a collection of goodies that are good enough for
company and nutritious enough to use instead of common energy bars or
trail snacks. Make a variety ahead of time so you have plenty on hand.
The combination of dried fruit and nuts/seeds and/or coconut, is an ideal
for avoiding insulin spikes while still satisfying the sweet tooth!

Of course, feel free to adjust and change ingredients to suit your tastes,
what's available, and according to personal food sensitivities. You may
notice that there are no peanuts or peanut products in any of these
recipes.

NOTE: remember to soak your seeds & nuts 8-10 hours to both neutralize
phytates and enhance enzymes; many, but not all, dried fruits also need
to be soaked in order to plump them up a bit.

APRICOT ALMOND-BUTTER BALLS Grind separately 1 cup @ dried
apricots, figs, dates and 1/2 cup raisins. Mix together 1 cup unsweetened
coconut, 1/2 cup almond butter, and 1/2 cup honey and combine with
ground dried fruit. Form into balls and refrigerate

APRICOT HAZELNUT BALLS—Grind together 2 cups @ apricots & pitted
dates, 1/2 cup coarsely ground hazelnuts and perhaps 1/4 cup water until
smooth; roll into balls and roll balls into more hazelnut meal or coconut
meal

CHOCOLATE NUTBUTTER BALLS—Mix together 1 cup almond butter, 1/3
cup honey & 2 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder; then mix in 1/2 cup @
raisins & chopped dates, and 1/8 cup shredded coconut; refrigerate
overnight. Using a teaspoon to measure, roll nut butter dough into small
balls and roll each ball into shredded coconut; refrigerate 30 min before
serving

FALL BALLS—Grind together 1/4 c. dry roasted cashews, 1 1/4 cup
walnuts, 6 black figs, 1/2 cup pitted dates, and 1/4 cup @ dried apples &
seedless raisins. Then blend in: 1/4 tsp. lemon juice &1 T. apple cider.
Using about a tablespoon at a time, roll the mixture into balls rolling each
in shredded unsweetened coconut. Allow to stand uncovered for a day or
two to dry; store in refrigerator.

PEACH PECAN BALLS—Process together 1 1/2 cups moist dried peaches,
2 3/4 cups pitted dates, 6T water, 1/2 cup @ ground sunflower seeds &
hulled sesame seeds and 1 cup ground pecans; roll into balls and roll
balls into pecan meal—press pecan half into each ball if desired.

PECAN DATE BALLS—Grind together 2 cups soaked pecans and 1 1/2
cups dates. Form paste into bite-size balls.

RAISIN WALNUT BALLS—Process together 1 1/2 cups golden raisins, 2
3/4 cups pitted dates, 6T water, 1/2 cup @ ground sunflower seeds &
hulled sesame seeds and 1 cup ground walnuts; roll into balls and roll
balls into pecan meal—press walnut half into each ball if desired

LEMON-NUT MACAROONS - Grind together 1 cup soaked cashews (or
pecans, hazelnuts or macadamias) until they are pasty in consistency. Mix
in zest of 1 lemon, ½ cup fresh lemon juice (app. 2 lemons), 1 cup dry
shredded coconut, and 1/4 cup honey/agave. Drop by the tablespoon-full
onto a parchment covered baking sheet and “bake” on lowest oven setting
(150 if possible) until dry and crunchy.

SUNFLOWER FRUIT COOKIES—Grind into a nutty consistency: 3 cups
sunflower seeds, 10 pitted dates, 1 cup @ chopped/dried/soaked apricots
& raisins (2 hours), and 1 cup almond butter. Roll into small balls and
flatten out to about 1/4 inch thickness. Cover and refrigerate for one hour
before serving.

Words of Wisdom? .... Say WHAT??? (Thanks, Nancy!)

A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest. They were looking for
people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. The >
following were voted among the top ten quotes in corporate America:

"As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using
individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday, and
employees will receive their cards in two weeks." (This was the winning
quote from Fred Dales, Microsoft Corp. in Redmond WA)

"What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might
encounter." (Lykes Lines Shipping)

"E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be
used only for company business." (Accounting manager, Electric Boat
Company)

"This project is so important we can't let things that are more important
interfere with it." (Advertising/Marketing manager, United Parcel Service)

"Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule." (Plant
Manager, Delco Corporation)

"No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been
working on it for months. Now go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you
know when it's time to tell them." (R&D supervisor, Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing/3M Corp.)

Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say."
(Marketing executive, Citrix Corporation)

"We know that communication is a ! problem, but the company is not
going to discuss it with the employees." (Switching supervisor, AT&T Long
Lines Division)

No Left Turns (another one from Nancy)....

This is a wonderful piece by Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers large
and small and president of NBC News. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer
Prize for editorial writing. It is well worth reading, and a few good
chuckles are guaranteed.

My father never drove a car. Well, that's not quite right. I should say I
never saw him drive a car. He quit driving in 1927, when he was 25 years
old, and the last car he drove was a 1926 Whippet.

"In those days," he told me when he was in his 90s, "to drive a car you
had to do things with your hands, and do things with your feet, and look
every which way, and I decided you could walk through life and enjoy it or
drive through life and miss it."

At which point my mother, a sometimes salty Irishwoman, chimed in:
"Oh, bull----!" she said. "He hit a horse."

"Well," my father said, "there was that, too."

So my brother and I grew up in a household without a car. The neighbors
all had cars -- the Kollingses next door had a green 1941 Dodge, the
VanLaninghams across the street a gray 1936 Plymouth, the Hopsons two
doors down a black 1941 Ford -- but we had none.

My father, a newspaperman in Des Moines, would take the streetcar to
work and, often as not, walk the 3 miles home. If he took the street car
home, my mother and brother and I would walk the three blocks to the
streetcar stop, meet him and walk home together.

My brother, David, was born in 1935, and I was born in 1938, and
sometimes, at dinner, we'd ask how come all the neighbors had cars but
we had none. "No one in the family drives," my mother would explain, and
that was that.

But, sometimes, my father would say, "But as soon as one of you boys
turns 16, we'll get one." It was as if he wasn't sure which one of us would
turn 16 first.

But, sure enough, my brother turned 16 before I did, so in 1951 my
parents bought a used 1950 Chevrolet from a friend who ran the parts
department at a Chevy dealership downtown. It was a four-door, white
model, stick shift, fender skirts, loaded with everything, and, since my
parents didn't drive, it more or less became my brother's car.

Having a car but not being able to drive didn't bother my father, but it
didn't make sense to my mother. So in 1952, when she was 43 years old,
she asked a friend to teach her to drive. She learned in a nearby
cemetery, the place where I learned to drive the following year and
where, a generation later, I took my two sons to practice driving.

The cemetery probably was my father's idea. "Who can your mother hurt
in the cemetery?" I remember him saying more than once.

For the next 45 years or so, until she was 90, my mother was the driver in
the family. Neither she nor my father had any sense of direction, but he
loaded up on maps -- though they seldom left the city limits -- and
appointed himself navigator. It seemed to work.

Still, they both continued to walk a lot. My mother was a devout Catholic,
and my father an equally devout agnostic, an arrangement that didn't
seem to bother either of them through their 75 years of marriage. (Yes,
75 years, and they were deeply in love the entire time.)

He retired when he was 70, and nearly every morning for the next 20
years or so, he would walk with her the mile to St. Augustin's Church.
She would walk down and sit in the front pew, and he would wait in the
back until he saw which of the parish's two priests was on duty that
morning. If it was the pastor, my father then would go out and take a 2-
mile walk, meeting my mother at the end of the service and walking her
home. If it was the assistant pastor, he'd take just a 1-mile walk and
then head back to the church. He called the priests "Father Fast" and
"Father Slow."

After he retired, my father almost always accompanied my mother
whenever she drove anywhere, even if he had no reason to go along. If
she were going to the beauty parlor, he'd sit in the car and read, or go
take a stroll or, if it was summer, have her keep the engine running so he
couldlisten to the Cubs game on the radio. In the evening, then, when I'd
stop by, he'd explain: "The Cubs lost again. The millionaire on second
base made a bad throw to the millionaire on first base, so the
multimillionaire on third base scored." If she were going to the grocery
store, he would go along to carry the bags out -- and to make sure she
loaded up on ice cream.

As I said, he was always the navigator, and once, when he was 95 and
she was 88 and still driving, he said to me, "Do you want to know the
secret of a long life?"

"I guess so," I said, knowing it probably would be something bizarre.

"No left turns," he said.

"What?" I asked.

"No left turns," he repeated.

"Several years ago, your mother and I read an article that said most
accidents that old people are in happen when they turn left in front of
oncoming traffic. As you get older, your eyesight worsens, and you can
lose your depth perception, it said. So your mother and I decided never
again to make a left turn."

"What?" I said again.

"No left turns," he repeated. "Think about it. Three rights are the same
as a left, and that's a lot safer. So we always make three rights."

"You're kidding!" I said, and I turned to my mother for support

"No," she said, "your father is right. We make three rights. It works."

But then she added: "Except when your father loses count."

I was driving at the time, and I almost drove off the road as I started
laughing. "Loses count?" I asked.

"Yes," my father admitted, "that sometimes happens. But it's not a
problem. You just make seven rights, and you're okay again."

I couldn't resist. "Do you ever go for 11?" I asked.

"No," he said " If we miss it at seven, we just come home and call it
a bad day. Besides, nothing in life is so important it can't be put off
another day or another week."

My mother was never in an accident, but one evening she handed me her
car keys and said she had decided to quit driving. That was in 1999, when
she was 90.

She lived four more years, until 2003. My father died the next year, at
102.

They both died in the bungalow they had moved into in 1937 and bought
a few years later for $3,000. (Sixty years later, my brother and I paid
$8,000 to have a shower put in the tiny bathroom -- the house had never
had one. My father would have died then and there if he knew the shower
cost nearly three times what he paid for the house.)

He continued to walk daily -- he had me get him a treadmill when he was
101 because he was afraid he'd fall on the icy sidewalks but wanted to
keep exercising -- and he was of sound mind and sound body until the
moment he died.

One September afternoon in 2004, he and my son went with me when I
had to give a talk in a neighboring town, and it was clear to all three of
us that he was wearing out, though we had the usual wide-ranging
conversation about politics and newspapers and things in the news.

A few weeks earlier, he had told my son, "You know, Mike, the first
hundred years are a lot easier than the second hundred." At one point in
our drive that Saturday, he said, "You know, I'm probably not going to live
much longer."

"You're probably right," I said.

"Why would you say that?" He countered, somewhat irritated.

"Because you're 102 years old," I said.

"Yes," he said, "you're right." He stayed in bed all the next day.

That night, I suggested to my son and daughter that we sit up with him
through the night. He appreciated it, he said, though at one point,
apparently seeing us look gloomy, he said: "I would like to make an
announcement. No one in this room is dead yet"

An hour or so later, he spoke his last words:
"I want you to know," he said, clearly and lucidly, "that I am in no pain. I
am very comfortable. And I have had as happy a life as anyone on
this earth could ever have."

A short time later, he died.

I miss him a lot, and I think about him a lot. I've wondered now and
then how it was that my family and I were so lucky that he lived so long.
I can't figure out if it was because he walked through life, Or because he
quit taking left turns

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat
you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens
for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely
be worth it.

Until

ovember

. . .

Rowan & John

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tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will
have been all of these. George Washington Carver