I share because I care

Menu Mailer giveaway

2011-10-19T11:14:00.001-07:00

CTF has launched a Real Food Challenge and link up for bone broth information and recipes that runs through Valentine’s Day. Come join us!

I promised on the CTF Facebook page that I would do another big giveaway when we hit 4,000 fans. So here we are!

One winner of this giveaway will receive a 52-week subscription to both the Menu Mailer and the Recipe Archive. One runner-up will receive a 13-week subscription to the Menu Mailer.

Trying to put a button on my page...

2011-08-26T15:22:00.001-07:00

http://themagiconions.blogspot.com/search?q=Friday%27s+Nature+Table)

New Blogs I am finding

2011-07-28T06:55:00.000-07:00

Buy American: Try just 1% - that will make a difference for our grandchildren.

http://www.americansworking.com/

Back to Basics Kitchen

http://www.backtobasicskitchen.com/kitchen-blog/

A collection of blogs

http://realfoodmedia.com/

Others

http://www.nourishingdays.com/category/nourishing-food/

http://toomanyjarsinmykitchen.com/

http://cheeseslave.com/

http://www.mommypotamus.com/

Joel Salatin, Beyond Organic : Local Foods to the Rescue

2011-07-21T07:01:00.000-07:00

At the Farmer's Market yesterday Transitions Colorado had a booth advertising events August 27th to September 4th. Includes coop tours, farm tours, programs and the keynote by Joel Salatin at Chautaugua.

http://eatlocalguide.com/bouldercounty/2011-eat-local-week-aug-27-sept-4/
http://chautauqua.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=57037&eid=65048
__._,_.___

Joel Salatin, Beyond Organic : Local Foods to the Rescue
Join Transition Colorado for an evening with Joel Salatin, the world's most-recognized "beyond organic" and strictly local, clean food farmer, prolific author and inspiring speaker. Salatin, with his family owns Polyface Farm in Virginia, featured prominently in the NYT bestseller "Omnivore's Dilemma" and the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Food Inc.," as well as "Fresh: The Movie."

In this dynamic presentation, Joel will reveal the astonishingly obvious steps we all must take towards a food future that is beyond sustainable. If you are a farmer, understand your potential to renew and inspire your local community through clean food. If you live in town, discover the power you have to patronize your local farms and decouple them from wholly unfair corporate forces. Help your local farmers transform their farms into profitable and wholesome operations producing food you can trust. Become instrumental in the conscientious transformation of the current dysfunctional food production system to the regenerative model that Polyface Farm has proven wildly successful.

Ride the free HOP 2 Chautauqua shuttle to this event.

Learn more here:

http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9185&Itemid=3070

Birthday jumping and climbing

2011-07-20T09:55:00.000-07:00

Love this one too...

Gianna Birthday craft

2011-07-20T09:51:00.000-07:00

Doing the crafts ...

Safe Kids - raising awareness

2011-07-01T16:01:00.001-07:00

2010-05-07T01:19:00.000-07:00

I have seen this before ... my favorite brands are in here : ( " Here is a chart by Dr Philip Howard on the Organic Processing Industrial Structure, just in case you thought your favourite organic brand was safe from this restructuring. Probably the root of why it is getting difficult to get local food is increasing government regulation." I really like how eatkamloops.orgexplains the farming dilema in her blog of April 18, 2010

Campaign for Healthier Eating in America

2009-10-28T05:34:00.000-07:00

The Campaign can end the genetic engineering of the food supply by creating a tipping point of consumer rejection of brands with GMOs. It already educates consumers about the health risks and provide clear non-GMO choices through GMO Health Risks brochures and printed Non-GMO Shopping Guides.
It's easy to help, and we need your vote!

How to VOTE for us on Changemakers:

1. Login to Changemakers: http://www.facebook.com/l/5d48f;www.changemakers.com/en-us/user/login.

2. Complete the registration page, and submit it. You are now logged in.

3. Navigate to our competition entry http://www.facebook.com/l/5d48f;www.changemakers.com/en-us/node/64975.

4. You will see a box on the right hand side labeled ‘Take Action.’ Click on the‘vote for this entry’ button. You have now cast your vote, thank you for your support!

Yum - Organic Peaches

2009-09-01T01:16:00.000-07:00

I have more recent pics of them eatting peaches but they are still on my camera.

A Plan Comes Together: The Sheep Obey

2009-09-01T00:52:00.000-07:00

http://drtenpenny.com/a_plan_comes_together.aspxhttp://drtenpenny.com/a_plan_comes_together.aspx

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

May 4, 2009

News With Views

......
And if he is right and we do see another sizable pandemic –whether the virus is man-made or created by some natural, random reassortment of viral genes – my hope is that everyone will take a deep breath, exercise normal health precautions, increase their Vitamin D, A and E intake, get lots of extra sleep and remember the lessons from history so we do not repeat them.

Do I dare to eat a peach? Not a conventional one, says Tribune study

2009-09-01T00:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.ethicurean.com/2009/08/13/tribune-peach-study/
Another day, another facet to the debate over whether organic produce is worth the extra moolah. Unless you’ve been living on a remote mountaintop with no wireless, you’ve probably witnessed the recent frenzy over a UK study [pdf] claiming that organic food has no nutritional benefits over conventional. The study elicited many insightful responses from organic defenders, including The Organic Center, and commentary from Grist and Civil Eats among others. Many cited studies countering the UK finding: Organic food has more antioxidants; organic food has fewer nitrates; organic production is more than just a little good for the environment in which we all live.

Enter yet another study boosting the argument in favor of buying organic — but also boosting the case for buying conventional produce from smaller local farms if you can’t find or can’t afford organic. (Though non-organic local food may not always be less expensive.)

Using preliminary data from USDA pesticide-residue tests conducted on produce last year, the Chicago Tribune found the residues of no fewer than fifty different pesticides gracing the skins of conventionally-grown peaches from domestic and foreign sources. Five of the poisonous compounds were present at levels higher than the EPA allows, ... go to link to read more

Children 'should sleep with parents until they're five'

2009-08-31T23:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1083020.ece

Margot Sunderland, director of education at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, says the practice, known as “co-sleeping”, makes children more likely to grow up as calm, healthy adults.

Sunderland, author of 20 books, outlines her advice in The Science of Parenting, to be published later this month.

She is so sure of the findings in the new book, based on 800 scientific studies, that she is calling for health visitors to be issued with fact sheets to educate parents about co-sleeping.

“These studies should be widely disseminated to parents,” said Sunderland. “I am sympathetic to parenting gurus — why should they know the science? Ninety per cent of it is so new they bloody well need to know it now. There is absolutely no study saying it is good to let your child cry.”

She argues that the practice common in Britain of training children to sleep alone from a few weeks old is harmful because any separation from parents increases the flow of stress hormones such as cortisol.

Her findings are based on advances in scientific understanding over the past 20 years of how children’s brains develop ... go to link to read more

Transition Colorado

2009-04-15T13:26:00.001-07:00

Here is a positive movement.... Transition Colorado

Here is the event page ...
http://transitioncolorado.ning.com/events

Fluoride Deception

2009-04-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

I have found a dentist in Lakewood who is anti-fluoride and anti-mercury. ... will have to post the information later.

There is a video on my facebook log that I haven't watched yet, but want to share.... you have to copy and paste the following link ... then poke around if the video doesn't work (it did for me but now it won't)

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=66565692798&h=aw1SN&u=khCzX&ref=nf

I am finding facebook a bit confusing. Maybe get to know it this week.

Kids are enjoying their cousin Chief. I forgot my camera, so I'll see if my sister (Regan aka Jade Goldhawk) can post some from her camera.

Spenda Research

2009-02-10T16:26:00.000-08:00

New research on effects of Splenda ... decrease of beneficial bacteria and intestinal coating of glycoprotein (so body does not absorb nutrients, supplements, or medications) ...

James Turner, the chairman of the national consumer education group Citizens for Health, has expressed shock and outrage after reading a new report from scientists outlining the dangers of the artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose).

In animals examined for the study, Splenda reduced the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50 percent, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to increases in body weight and affected P-glycoprotein (P-gp) levels in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected.

The P-gp effect could result in medications used in chemotherapy, AIDS treatment and treatments for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines, rather than being absorbed by the body.

According to Turner, "The report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda and its key component sucralose pose a threat to the people who consume the product. Hundreds of consumers have complained to us about side effects from using Splenda and this study ... confirms that the chemicals in the little yellow package should carry a big red warning label."

Globe Newswire September 28, 2008

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A 2008;71(21):1415-29

The truth about Splenda
http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/

Eat dirt?

2009-02-05T14:33:00.000-08:00

Here is a great article about the hygiene hypothesis ... babies know: A little dirt is good for you http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27brod.html?emc=eta1

COOL! ... we don't have to worry about being ultra clean ...
Here is Gianna 1.5 yrs old (too little to appreciate sitting on a beach in the Virgin Islands)And here is Giovanni at 1.5 yrs old

Mercury found in Corn Syrup

2009-02-05T12:21:00.001-08:00

In a new study published Monday in the scientific journalEnvironmental Health, mercury was found in nearly 50 percent of testedsamples of commercial high fructose corn syrup. The news is disturbinggiven that this ingredient is present in a large portion of processedAmerican foods. According to David Wallinga, M.D., co-author of thestudy, "Given how much high fructose corn syrup is consumed bychildren, it could be a significant additional source of mercury neverbefore considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industryand the FDA to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of thefood supply." A separate study by the Institute for Agriculture andTrade Policy detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popularbrand-name food and beverage products where high fructose corn syrupis the first or second highest labeled ingredient-including productsby Quaker, Hershey's, Kraft and Smucker's.
To Learn more ....http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_16627

Gianna makes Giovanni laugh

2009-02-05T11:32:00.001-08:00

Click on the play button and turn up the volume to hear Giovanni laughing :o)
This was in our hotel room in Avon, CO while I was doing email or something and I didn't realize what was going on right away.

Baby Bears in Bear Country clip 2

2009-02-05T10:47:00.000-08:00

Click on the play button to see the baby bears play ...

Bears in Bear Country - clip 1

2009-02-04T17:31:00.000-08:00

We went to South Dakota for my birthday in 2008. Click on the play button to see the baby bears play ...

This is so cool ... we had a great time watching these baby bears :o) the above video is over 4 minutes ... enjoy

Friends Forever

2008-12-22T14:11:00.000-08:00

Summer 2008

The Dotted Snake

2008-12-22T14:09:00.000-08:00

Gianna draws many pics November 2008, this is my favorite:

Giovanni at the creek 2008July11

2008-12-22T14:05:00.000-08:00

Christmas update

2008-12-11T15:50:00.000-08:00

Would like to send out a Christmas cards... we'll see how that goes.... didn't carve the pumpkin, almost didn't finish turkey dinner preparations so I could have my "Left Over Turkey Dinner Soup" ... now it's time to get Christmas set up and all that. One year we had our Christmas up passed Easter ... we'll see how that goes. My life being a FTWM of two beautiful well behaved children (thank God) is challenging. Giovanni is running when he is chased by me or Gianna. Gianna is such a great big sister ... usually very caring. Hopefully I'll post some pictures soon.

Wishing you the best!
Merry Christmas

Letters from Santa

2008-11-29T12:28:00.000-08:00

Letters from Santa

Santa is so busy at the North Pole this year that he has asked me to help him send letters to some of his special friends. The letters from Santa are personalized with information you provide and written on beautiful, heir-loom quality Christmas stationary suitable for framing or adding to your child’s scrapbook for a memory that will last a lifetime!!

WHAT YOUR CHILD WILL RECEIVE:
• Beautiful Christmas stationary (acid-free paper)
• Personalized with thoughtful, specific information provided by you about your child, grandchild, niece, nephew, student, or friend
• Postmarked and mailed from the North Pole, Alaska (only on orders received by November 30th)
• A unique and individualized letter for each child in the family
• Each letter dusted with magic North Pole snow

PRICING:
First Child - $9.95
Second (+) child (children) - $8.95 each

PLACING AN ORDER:
TIMELINE:
• For Priority Processing, please place your order by November 15th. (I will be taking only a limited number of orders so that I can spend quality time on each one)
• All orders placed by November 30th will be sent to the North Pole, Alaska for their special North Pole postmark.
• No orders will be taken after December 5th.

HOW TO: There are 2 ways to order your Santa Letter
• Print out and fill in the form (pg.2) in this attachment with any information you would like included in the letter. Mail completed form and a check made payable to:

My Magic Lantern
Paige Hilfer
16482 West 55th Place, Golden, Co. 80403
303-432-7317 pdeaton2001@yahoo.com

• Send me an email with all the information from the form so that I can get started on your letter(s) right away. Then mail payment or hand to me the next time I see you!

2008-11-19T12:33:00.000-08:00

November 15, 2008 Gianna puts her own pony tail in and Giovanni gives "fives" and waves byebye to dad and sis

2008-11-19T12:23:00.000-08:00

Here is a recent photo ... Tigger, the Natural Hunter and a Ladybug

March2008 Family Update

2008-03-31T12:35:00.000-07:00

Giovanni is rocking on his hands and knees ... getting ready to crawl ... 6 months old, sitting up and I swear I heard him say "Luv you ma" but we haven't recorded his first word yet.

Gianna is pumping her own swing (not sure when this started) and apparently not closing her eyes at nap time (I have to check with the school to find out if what she is telling me is true).

Gianna is quite the conversationalist ... last night she told me to come home, after I told her the doll wasn't done, she told me to finish it at home.

Peer pressure starting to affect what Gianna eats...uggh!

Mom had her third day/night out in almost 4 years .... I spent 6 hours with Waldorf moms making a purple flower fairy. Some say I am spreading myself too thin ... cooking from scratch, making dolls, attending and holding meetings, keeping the house clean (NOT), working 40 hours and loving my family of four.
Dad is wearing many hats ... The Fixer, Mr. Paul (who does it all), Great Husband, Great Dad, and I love it when Gianna says "My Daddy" ... "can you fix this my daddy?"

Real Food Groups

2008-03-17T10:02:00.000-07:00

I am now the Westminster Chapter Leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Hope to have a new website soon. Check out the yahoogroup ... http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=WestminstercoWAPF ... also check out the Denver Chapter at www.nourishingconnections.org for local resources, potluck meeting times and other educational items for you and your children.

2008-02-01T09:11:00.000-08:00

Wow, now I have two children. Here is a family picture. Life goes by so fast when your working 40 hours a week and trying to keep a house ... what do they call it ... clean, stocked, happy.

Boycot

2006-11-23T20:01:00.000-08:00

Currently boycotting Starbucks and Horizon Dairy.
Starbucks continues to use rBGH
Shame on them for continuing to use milk that has rBGH in it, and doubly shame on them for not working to increase the percentage of Fair Trade coffee that they sell. They could at least make an effort, rather than ignoring the requests of their customers. It's not unreasonable. And don't get me started on the baked goods they sell...

Horizon Dairy is one of the "Shameless Seven"
Read more at . . . http://www.organicconsumers.org/
wholesalers and major “organic” brands are continuing to sell milk and dairy products labeled as "USDA Organic, even though most or all of their milk is coming from factory farm feedlots where the animals have been brought in from conventional farms and are kept in intensive confinement, with little or no access to pasture.

Gianna's pictures

2006-07-20T13:30:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of Gianna...

4 days old

3 months old
6 months old
9 months old
1 year old
Gianna is 2 years old now.

God Bless Her.

Family 2005

2006-07-20T13:23:00.000-07:00

Family Portrait Christmas 2005

Self Portrait

2006-07-17T14:06:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of me. I was meeting with Paul St. John on a Healthy Adventure cruise. The cruise was a good time, but not so healthy in my opinion because it was primarily raw and vegan and there was too much sugar and soy to be had. I lost my will power on day three. Plus I needed my own air purifier for my room.

It was the first adventure for Healthy Adventure (http://www.healthyadventure.com/) so I am hoping they learned from guest comments.
http://adventure-cruises.gordonsguide.com/healthyadventure/index.cfm

I would like to go on another Healthy Adventure some day.

I share because I care

2006-07-14T13:37:00.000-07:00

Hopefully you have time to check out my web page . . . there are many resources at http://bodyecology.ws

This is my second blog, just testing the waters.

The cleaner we live, the better for our livers to do the many jobs it has to do. -Delicia Beaty

The Body Ecology Diet saved my life

2006-07-10T09:01:00.000-07:00

This is my story about how the body ecology diet saved my life. Now I know the inner ecosystem is very important.

It has been a long road to health for me. As far back as I can remember, I was constipated, having very difficult bowel movements. I remember having very painful ear aches. When I was 14, I started "the pill" to regulate my periods. In my late teens, I developed eczema and the doctors prescribed cortisone cream. I suffered from eczema, sinus infections and stomach pain all through college. I was diagnosed at some point with "Trapped gas" and told to eat raw vegetables. For many years, I suffered with extreme pain during bowel movements causing me to sweat and turn white as a ghost. Then at about 27 years of age I could not walk, especially in the morning, due to severe feet pain.

The doctors' diagnoses were: Fibromyalgia, Irritable bowel, and leaky gut. They told me there was "No cause and no cure," and prescribed: Bentyl, Claritin, two pills for dry itchy skin (one was an antihistamine), Celebrex, and Acifex.

Reading the Body Ecology Diet (BED) book gave me hope. I scored 413 on the Yeast Questionnaire in the BED book?(indication of extreme yeast overgrowth). Symptoms the diet helped me with: Fatigue/lethargy, feeling drained, poor memory, feeling spacey, indecisive, numbness/burning/tingling, muscle aches, muscle weakness, pain/swelling in joints, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, bloating/belching/intestinal gas, troublesome vaginal burning/itching, loss of sexual desire/feeling, menstrual cramps, PMS, attacks of anxiety/crying, cold hands/feet and chills, shaking/irritable when hungry, drowsiness, irritability, incoordination, inability to concentrate, frequent mood swings, headaches, loss of balance, pressure above ears ... feeling of head swelling, chronic rashes/itching. indigestion/heartburn, mucus in stools, rectal itching, dry mouth/throat, blisters in mouth, bad breath, body odor not relieved by washing, nasal congestion/post nasal drip, nasal itching, sore throat, cough, pain/tightness in chest, wheezing/shortness of breath, urinary frequency/urgency and incontinence, burning on urination, spots in front of eyes, burning/tearing of eyes, recurrent infections in ears, ear pain, and sinus pain.

The last pill prescribed to me was Acifex. After taking a couple doses I had terrible stomach pain. I read the side effects of both the Bentyl and Acifex and they were counteracting each other. It was at this time I was reading the book and decided the doctors could take their pills -- I wasn't going to anymore. In November 2002 (Age 35), I made a live changing decision to quit all drugs (including smoking), alcohol, bread, dairy and continued staying away from sugar and caffeine.

In January 2003 I started the BED. After 1 month I felt better. After 3 months, I scored 187 on the yeast questionnaire.

I was dedicated to the diet for 1 year and I felt great. I wish I would have seen Dr. Arne at this time. It has now been a few years since I was on the diet and I am feeling some of the pain in my feet, liver and gall bladder issues. Dr. Arne has run some tests and we will start to detox my body while paying attention to what foods and supplements are right for me. For information about the body scan go to http://www.biomeridian.com/index.htm and make your own decision about what you want to do for your health.

I did a gallbladder cleanse. I read you have to eliminate 200 or so stones before you feel permanent relief. I counted about 50 over the course of two hours. There have been reports of extreem pain while on the cleanse, having to call 911. I didn't feel a thing (lucky in some respects I guess). I read you can do the cleanse every two weeks. Best to do a parasite cleanse first. Read The Cure for all Diseases.