When you hear the word “organic”, the first thing to come to
mind is gardening and farming. While these are large aspects of
an organic lifestyle, organic today reaches much further to the
clothes we wear and the things we use in our homes. The
interesting thing is that prior to the 20th century, the foods
grown and animals raised were done so essentially without
chemicals. However, agricultural and livestock practices began
to change, which wrecked havoc not just on the foods being eaten
but also the soil and water supply. If you look around, you will
see people everyday walking around miserable, feeling tired,
nervous, exhausted, dealing with aches and pains, disease, and
looking prematurely old - maybe you are even one of them.
The thing is that many of these people could live vibrant,
healthy lives simply by changing the way they live. The key is
to choose organic foods that will not clog or obstruct your
arteries; to choose furniture, fabrics, and even apparel that do
not emit chemicals; and to stop polluting the air you breathe
through inorganic cleaners.
Start to create your very own garden that is filled with
wonderful, fresh foods that are completely void of pesticides
and other harmful chemicals - you’ll be amazed at how much
better you and your family feel after you start eating your own
homegrown vegetables.
Find the five components of organic farming and how each
component contributes to producing a healthy finished product -
you may be very surprised to see what steps are taken to ensure
the quality of organic food.
Before starting living a organic lifestyle you have to know how
to determine if meat and dairy farms are “100% organic” - not
all organic foods are equal, find out how to separate the true
healthy products from the scams.
As you begin transforming your life to include only organic, you
will find the levels of toxic poisons diminishing while the
healing begins. Soon, you will have:
More energy, Be free from headaches, Notice fewer wrinkles, And
overall feel like a brand new person.
You will also notice that:
Your eyes are brighter, Your skin softer, And your muscle tone
firmer! I know because I was once in that very situation. But
now I have never felt better!
For further information go to The Ultimate Organic
Lifestyle
For those with a mind for fashion and music, the Nokia 2310 phone offers a compact design matched with an equally outstanding array of color covers. A dedicated short-cut key activates the built-in FM radio which features “sound visualization” -graphics that move in sync with your music. The Nokia 2310 also offers polyphonic and MP3-grade ringtones.
The 2310 is very similar looking to the 2610, but maybe more targeted towards everyday use and the younger generation. The Nokia 2310 will be available in Europe, Middle East and Africa in the third quarter of this year. The estimated retail price, before subsidies or taxes, is expected to be 65 euros.
2310 Screen
The phone has a 65,536-color screen (CSTN = color passive matrix, 96 x 68 pixels) and an animated icon menu. You can personalize the phone with themes and wallpapers or use full size animated screensavers. The date and time can be displayed as your screensaver and the phone has as animated icon menu.
The 2310 weights 85 grams, has a talk time of up to 6 hours and a standby time of up to 16 days.
The Nokia 2310 also features the Nokia Prepaid Tracker, a network supported application which automatically updates your prepaid account balance after each call or message.
According to Informa Telecoms & Media over 70 percent of all cell phone users in new growth markets are prepaid customers so I guess the Prepaid Tracker is a handy feature. I must add that I listen more to the radio than speak with my phone. So a big Pro is the radio.
By Nicolas Fogelholm, http://www.nokiainfo.net/
“Off with her head” the queen shouted at Alice in the Lewis Carroll story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Now I’m not sure if Lewis had an interest in gardening but he could well have been giving us some horticultural instruction which will give us a longer flowering season. There is a technique known as dead-heading, it is a simple task which takes a few minutes however adds days and sometimes weeks to your flowering display.
How to dead-head
If you’ve never dead-headed before here’s how go about it…… Firstly keep a watchful eye on your flowering plants, paying close attention to blooms that are past their best. Once a flower has started to fade remove it from the plant with a quick snip from your secateurs, alternatively knip it off with your thumb and forefinger. When doing this try to remove just the spent flower leaving the new buds beneath intact.
The many benefits
Your beds and borders now look neater due to the lack of fading blooms but how else has this deadheading process helped us? Well by removing the spent flowers we have prevented the plant from setting seed which if it did would trigger the production of a hormone which causes flowering to shut down completely. So by our slight tinkering with Mother Nature we can often force the plant to put its energies into a second flush of flower production instead of seed production. Bear in mind that your planting should have a plentiful supply of nutrients to give a secondary flowering.
Plants that respond well to dead-heading
Dead-heading works particularly well on perennials and most annual bedding especially Antirrhinums (Snapdragons), Violas (Pansies) and Dianthus (Sweet Williams) although it can sometimes be impossible to carry out on very small flowers or on very large and floriferous shrubs. Shrubs which react well to dead-heading include Buddleia (Butterfly bush), Syringa (Lilac) and some Spireas. Roses of course are ideal candidates for this technique to ensure more blooms before the rose-hips form.
James Kilkelly runs a professional garden design service in Galway, Ireland. He has a regular gardening column in a Irish regional newspaper. Visit his website at www.gardenplansireland.com/ He also regularly posts his expert advice on www.gardenstew.com/
Article location: www.gardenplansireland.com/articles/article26.html
There is so much awful news and information out there about breast cancer. These days it seems that every magazine, newspaper, radio show, and piece of mail has a headline declaring that every woman’s risk of developing breast cancer is increasing. There is a numbing feeling of inevitability in all this information we hear and read that more and more women tend to think about breast cancer as a ‘when’ rather than an if.
There is so much frightening information about the disease out there. The stats available are horrible and this bring one major question to mind; ‘what can be done to prevent breast cancer?’ The bulk of medical advancement in the area of breast and indeed most cancers, involves what should be done after, and not essentially before, getting the disease. There is more to preventing breast cancer than the ritual yearly mammogram. Of course this may help detect the breast cancer at its early stage, but that is about the best it can do. It won’t prevent you from getting the disease. To prevent breast cancer, we need to be more proactive, we need to take individual and collective action.
The first step towards proactively preventing breast cancer is to understand the causes and risk factors of breast cancer and what decreases breast cancer risk. However, there are few conclusive answers to these queries, partly because most research focuses on eliminating breast cancer after - not before - it occurs. Medical research has validated so few risk factors for breast cancer that almost 70 percent of the women diagnosed with breast cancer are not associated with any clear cut risk factor.
To make matters worse, our sex, age, reproductive history, family history, exposure to radiation (such as fallout from above-ground atomic bomb tests), race, culture, and height are factors beyond our control. When we’re told that these factors play crucial roles in the cause of breast cancer, we can be left with feelings of hopelessness and panic. For instance, being a black woman or being from a family with history of breast cancer, puts you in the forefront of those at risk of breast cancer. These are things we don’t decide for ourselves.
When we include risk factors that are considered “not well substantiated”, but which are clearly contributing to breast cancer incidence, including ingestion of and exposure to prescription hormones, hormone-mimicking organochlorines, prescription drugs, petrochemicals, and electromagnetic fields, as well as unwise lifestyle choices such as smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol immoderately, wearing tight bras, or not exercising, then we can find that there are indeed many ways we can reduce our chances of getting breast cancer and in essence preventing it.
Individually, we can prevent breast cancer by buying and eating organically grown food, filtering our water, building powerful immunity, living wisely and vigorously, being in touch with our breasts, using natural remedies for menopausal problems.
Try out the following tips:
- Aerobic exercise 3-4 times a week
- Maintaining a positive mental attitude
- Breathwork and deepening body-awareness
- Expressing your feelings to keep your energy flowing
- Eating healthy foods and taking the “right” supplements
- Avoiding toxicity
Try as much as you can to avoid the following and you will be as far from breast cancer as you humanly can:
Any medication containing acetaminophen
Products such as Tylenol, Sudafid, Bromo seltzer, vicodin, and many others which drive down the glutathione levels in the body. Glutathione is an essential antioxidant and detoxifier.
Aspartame (not to be confused with aspertate) has been proven to cause cancer in rats. It is a common ingredient in many no-sugar products such as yogurt, ice cream, desserts and carbonated beverages. Splenda is also harmful.
Toxins. Use toxin-free, organic products. Wash all fruits and vegetables thoroughly with soapy water to remove chemical residues. Better yet, buy only organic products and non-GMO (non-genetically modified) foods. Read labels (veggies and fruit will have an 9 to indicate organic and an 8 for non-GMO).
Active computer screens should be at least 18 inches away from your body. You need to be at least 36 inches from your active television screens.
It is obvious that several factors that are known to predispose someone to breast cancer are not completely within our control. It makes more sense therefore, to be very keen about your breast. This serves a dual function. Even when it does not completely protect you from cancer, it allows for early detection of the cancer when it does occur. No one knows your body as well as you do. That’s why it’s essential to examine your breasts at the same time every month - so you can detect any changes that might occur. When you do the self-examination, you are reassuring yourself that your body is still in great condition
Breast Self Exams still remain the number one method for detecting changes in breast health. Although, finding any symptoms does not really mean you have cancer but when you have it, early detection means your survival probability is very high. Very high! It also means you have a broad range of alternative and complementary treatment options.
When we talk about breast cancer, the second worst killer after lung cancer, knowledge is not just power, it is your life!
Michael Russell
Your Independent guide to Breast Cancer
