When you smoke you inhale up to 4000 chemicals .
- Canadian Cancer Society

Deaths in Canada from almost all kinds of cancer have decreased dramatically over the past decade or two. Both organizations that address cancer as their main mission and individual doctors with a direct interest in oncology attribute this drop to two main causes:

(1) a precipitous drop in the number of Canadians who smoke tobacco (except in the 16 to 24 year age range) in recent years;

(2) better testing, of more patients, that detects cancer in its early stages, making treatment and recovery highly likely.

A few years ago, the Canadian Cancer Society published a postcard sized handout that listed some of those 4000 chemicals that tobacco companies add to cigarettes. Some you would recognize, some may be new to you. You will likely wonder why it’s necessary for tobacco companies to add these to their products. You should. One thing for certain, we won’t learn the answers from the tobacco companies.

Please read the list carefully. Imagine anyone ingesting these chemicals every day of their life:
- acetone (paint stripper, poisonous, dangerous when inhaled)
- mercury
- lead
- benzene
- dimethylnitrosamine (a known carcinogen)
- nicotine (world’s most widely used addictive drug)
- cadmium (used in car batteries)
- carbon monoxide
- benzopyrene (carcinogen, even present in the cheapest forms of olive oil)
- vinyl chloride (makes PVC)
- hydrogen cyanide (used in chemical warfare, interferes with the body’s ability to utilize oxygen)
- aminobiphenyl (carcinogen)
- urethane (modern form of varnish)
- toluene (industrial solvent)
- arsenic (poison for white ants)
- dibenzacridine (listed as a hazardous material in workplaces)
- phenol (listed as a hazardous material in workplaces)
- DDT (insecticide)

Those who ingest these chemicals in effect are committing a slow form of suicide. Yet tobacco remains legal and little has been done by governments to force tobacco companies to remove these harmful additions from their products.

Along with earlier testing of patients for cancer, paid for in Canada by provincial health care programs, everyone in the medical community has actively encouraged patients to have the necessary tests.

In my personal case, my family doctor recommended a colonoscopy when I was in her examination room for another purpose. Subsequently, procedures by two gastroenterologists removed four slow growing tumours from my colon. My wife would have become a widow within a decade had the tumours not been removed.

I was informed that my tumours meant that my children should be examined similarly when they reach age 40. Colon cancer can run in families.

In turn, I encouraged my wife to have a colonoscopy. Over the past few months she has had two fast growing tumours removed from her colon. Without encouragement from me (and prior to that from my doctor to me), I would likely have become a widower within one year. One year.

My sister and parents all died years ago of cancer, almost certainly caused by smoking and in my mother’s case from inhaling second-hand smoke over many decades from my father, a heavy smoker. My sister became a heavy smoker during her failed marriage. Addictions of all kinds take hold in people who can’t cope with the constant stress and anxiety they experience.

My wife and I have encouraged her siblings to have colonoscopies soon. My wife’s father died of cancer many years ago. He did not smoke, but he did have a colon. At that time it was not considered wise for doctors to discuss cancer with the families of cancer patients (and victims), especially colon cancer because it happened in a part of the body nobody wanted to discuss openly.

We consider ourselves very lucky to have learned about this one kind of cancer in time.

A very close friend is dying of colon cancer as I write this. He didn’t know about getting tested in time. Even if he did, he likely would not have been tested because he believed that cancer hits others, but would not strike him down. It did.

This brings us to cancer prevention and cures. A cure is what a medical professional or other consultant does for you. Prevention is what you do for yourself. My mantra is: don’t concern yourself with fixing it after it’s broken, prevent it from happening in the first place.

Our bodies come already primed with up to 150 specific micro-locations in which cancer can grow. Most of them, in most of us, never blossom into full blown cancer. Why does it happen in some of us, but not all? As cancer takes many different forms in our bodies, we may assume that, like the common cold, it is almost impossible to stop. We may be wrong.

Most of us non-chemistry-loving folk have a clue about what acid is. Vinegar, for example, is an acid. So is the liquid in lead-acid batteries, as evidenced by clothing I have had to discard in the past because it developed acid holes from my careless handling of car batteries. We can consume some mild acids, while others will kill.

Ordinary drinking water is mildly acidic. Our bodies, being mostly composed of water, tend to be mildly acidic unless we undertake measures to counteract the acidic effects of water.

Cancer cells tend to develop and reproduce in an acidic environment.

Fruits and vegetables tend to be slightly alkaline, the opposite of acidic. We have been told to eat fruit and veggies for their nutrition and their anti-oxidant effect. Anti-oxidants float around our bloodstream corralling little buggers called free radicals, that left on their own will find cancer starting places and tickle them until they grow into cancer cells.

Cancer cells do not thrive in an alkaline environment. In fact, they tend to shrivel and die when our body is slightly alkaline.

In general, our bodies function in a more healthy manner when they are slightly alkaline. That is, when our pH level is slightly below the even or balance mark of 7 (on a scale from 0 to 14).

I will leave it to you to google the subject of pH (Potential Hydrogen, the way acidity or basicity is valued). As to possible alkaline therapies or body maintenance, only people in extreme need of immediate pH correction (“Help, I’m dying of cancer and don’t know what to do to save myself”) need to adopt unusual measures. Everyone should eat fresh fruit and veggies.

Hydrogen peroxide and baking soda (not baking powder) are known to be alkaline if you are looking for places to start searching.

In conclusion, I leave you with one thought about your health: if you are not in control of your own health by being fully informed about what you eat, drink and breathe in, you leave your health and your life in the control of large corporations that make pharmaceuticals that supposedly cure you and chemicals that poison the food you eat.

Ignorance is not pretty. It’s comforting for a while, but it never ends well if adopted as a lifestyle.

Bill Allin is the author of Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today’s Epidemic Social Problems, a guidebook for parents and teachers who want to raise children with enough life skills to help them survive a world filled with harmful influences.
Learn more at http://billallin.com

Forum: Reports by Bill Allin ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5848877 Wed, 16 May 2012 18:14:39 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5843891 Wishing you all a Happy Mother's Day! 

Yesterday, we had a really nice surprise.  Our daughter Anna, Jamie, Chad, Lindsey and their dog, Buddy (a Pomeranian) came to visit.  Anna has been in two automobile accidents.  Two years ago a woman went through a red light, hitting her, demolishing her Jeep.  Last month she was hit from behind by drunk driver.  She had scrapes and bruises and neck injuries, but all in all she is not feeling too bad and has gone back to work at the V.A.  Since this new Jeep was just repaired, making her so happy, they decided to come and visit.

They came in with a Mother's Day cake, a hanging basket full of gorgeous Impatiens flowers, a purse with multiple compartments (yay!), Chanel No5 cologne which I haven't had for years, "Grandma coffee cup" from Chad and Lindsey, a beautiful keychain to hang on my purse, and a "Snoopy" birthday card with a Sears gift card in it for Eddie "Grandpap" who will be 70 years old on May 15th! 

Jamie, Chad and Lindsey took Buddy and Jezebel for a walk so the animals were happy!  When they left us, they were going to spend an evening at the movies watching The Avengers!, so they would get home late last night.

AsterLily had a blast playing with Buddy (she is bigger than he is) chasing each other around the television.  Jezebel is this huge dog who thinks she is little and chasing them both, so that was disastrous.  Hair was flying all over the house even though we brush them both constantly. 

We all had a good time taking pictures, looking Anna's Jeep over to see the wonderful job the Ford garage did when they repaired it and just enjoying the afternoon.  At 8:45 p.m. they left for the movies.

My mother passed away in 1978, too long ago.  I hope you have your mother and that you remembered to give her a card.  If you didn't, for shame.  You still have time.

Remember the veteran.  Say a prayer for them.

Happy Day.

Pami 

Forum: Pennsylvania By Pamela Simpson ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5843891 Sun, 13 May 2012 14:36:22 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5839190 Einstein’s Physics Crumbling Like An Old Building

If he had stuck with the Machian approach, Einstein might have attained the all-encompassing “theory of everything” that consumed the last decades of his life. He might have produced a version of his theory of gravity that would not conflict so fundamentally with quantum mechanics,” Barbour notes. But Einstein had lost his nerve.
- Zeeya Merali, in “Gravity off the Grid,” Discover, March 2012

Never has science been so devoted to praising a physicist as it has been over the past half century with Albert Einstein. Science’s love affair with Einstein was so pervasive that his philosophical thoughts about life were embraced as if heaven sent.

“e=mc2” may be quoted these days by everyone from school children to factory workers.

As everyone knows, “e” refers to energy, “m” to mass and “c” to the cosmological constant. That constant happens to be the same as the speed of light (in case we have trouble remembering, 186,000 miles per second or 300,000 kilometres per second). It was so easy to remember, only hard if you actually had to do the math for any calculation.

Here’s the catch. Light does not travel at exactly the same speed all the time. Therefore, the “constant” is not constant. Well, bear with me.

Who cares? The Bare Naked Ladies likely won’t change the lyrics of their song that is the theme for the TV series “The Big Bang Theory.” “Nearly 14 billion years ago” might not be accurate any more, but viewers will still keep watching as it’s (arguably) the best sitcom ever.

When Einstein devised his theories (special theory of relativity published first, then general theory of relativity) most people thought that space had nothing in it. It was even called a “vacuum.” The “ether” that was once considered to be out there, that accounted for the odd movement of planets in the earth-centred Newtonian universe, was more imagination than reality.

There was nothing out there, supposedly, between the planets and stars. But that didn’t work with the physics. Einstein’s theories wouldn’t work in nothingness. Then someone figured there must be dust from the original Big Bang, and neutrinos charging around as well. Still not enough.

Einstein must be right, so along came Dark Matter to patch up the theory. Still not enough. Cosmologists calculated that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, which didn’t fit with the theory. Let’s throw in Dark Energy. With the matter science knows exists, plug in Dark Matter, that left Dark Energy to make up 85 percent or more of the rest of the known universe, so that Einstein’s theory would work.

After all, as almost everyone agreed, Einstein was a genius--indeed “Einstein” and “genius” came to be synonyms--so any amount of creative imagination to make his theory work must be acceptable. Science hates it when religions tell people to “have faith” but it happily asked the same of people for its creations of imagination so that Einstein could continue to be the ideal of genius.

Here’s where it gets messy. Einstein’s theories depended on a fourth dimension, called space-time. Light--part of the “constant” remember--bends around large objects, just as river water bends around rocks in its way. Does light have to speed up to make up the extra distance required to divert around large objects, or does it slow down, thus throwing off calculations?

Time, as Einstein told us, is flexible. In relatively empty space, it speeds up, whereas in denser stuff such as galaxies it slows down. If light (the constant) travels at 186,000 miles per second and the length of a second can change depending on where it is being measured, what can be constant about the constant?

How accurate is the widely accepted belief that our universe is 13.7 billion years away from the Big Bang? That number was calculated based on the rate that supernovas great distances away were moving. The light from those supernovas bent around galaxies and changed speed as it travelled through larger ones. These were not considered in the calculations.

David Wiltshire, a New Zealand physicist at the University of Canterbury, claims that if the age of the universe were calculated based on light travelling through empty space, the age would be 18 billion years. If the light travelled at the speed it does passing through galaxies, the age would be 15 billion years.

Wiltshire’s “older” universe age results from his beginning from a different set of physical assumptions than those physicists who calculate it at 13.7 billion years.

Assumptions, you say? Exactly. Physical calculations change depending on which set of assumptions you begin with. What then should we believe?

To make things more awkward for Einstein’s legacy, CERN, the European Space Agency’s huge facility for studying super particles, recently reported that it had timed neutrinos travelling faster than light, a phenomenon that does not fit with Albert’s theories. While a few scientists search diligently for weaknesses in the CERN report, there is no doubt that many are still trying to find a way to travel faster than light. Like many other scientific marvels that came out of the original Star Trek classic TV series, time travel and faster-than-light space travel seem destined to come to pass some day.

I still believe in Albert Einstein, though his assumptions might have been inaccurate. I still believe in gravity, though no one at this point has any idea what it is or why objects attract each other--anyone who says he does is overconfident about his guess.

I am not certain what to believe about the age of our universe. Flexible time may be a problem. An undependable constant is troubling. Flexible space is still hard for me to wrap my head around.

Of one thing I have great faith. My wife has just called me to say that supper is ready and if I try to stretch time too much before completing this writing, my supper will be cold. I have confidence in that constant.

Bill Allin is the author of Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today’s Epidemic Social Problems, a book of big but simple ideas about how to change the material taught in our schools so we can all live longer, healthier and safer lives.
Learn more at http://billallin.com

Forum: Reports by Bill Allin ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5839190 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:36:45 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5809186 My husband brought some papers up from the house I call "Rainbow's End" with an envelope filled with Valentine's Day cards from kids I knew back when I was 9.  I figure the cards that were unsigned were from the boys because the girls all signed their cards in their newly acquired ability to "write" and not print!

There, amongst the cards, was an envelope that I am sure I opened long ago, but it had resealed itself perfectly.  Naturally, I couldn't wait to open it as it had my name on it and it was Easter, after all.  Inside was a card with a little girl dressed in a shiny black dress with a golden picture hat on her head with a black ribbon around the brim of the hat and a bright orange fuzzy feather on top. 

Here is what the card said: 

"To hope this Easter's just as bright As bygone Easters, Honey,... When you believed with all your heart, There was an Easter Bunny!!"

It was signed by my dad like this.  "To our darling, Pamela.  From Daddy and Mommie"  April 10, 1955

**My mother was suffering from asthma at the time and I know she thought she was not going to make it.  She had that contraption with the bulb on the end she would put medicine in and squeeze it while breathing in to keep her lungs open.  I know that that is the reason she just signed her "Mommie" signature and didn't make out the card.  Cortizone came out and the doctor prescribed it for her which was a life saver for her breathing.  After taking it for too many years, though, it also was her demise.**

It was as though this card was supposed to be delivered to me again this year.  I couldn't have received a better Easter present than hearing from my dad and mother again.  Mother passed away in 1978 and Daddy in 1979.  I am so happy that Eddie found this Easter card amongst the Valentine cards.

Forum: Pennsylvania By Pamela Simpson ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5809186 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:49:15 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5800077
Even prior to moving him to the nursing home he had not walked much since the cancer back in 2003. That just about killed him. He never was the same after that.

Putting him in a nursing home was NOT my idea. He was living with a lady friend for over thirty years. After he started to FALL frequently and was less able to take care of himself she kicked him out of her house. She would say " I don't want him to die in my HOUSE"  " I can't take it anymore"

So one day after he had been at his Dialysis treatment she told me and my sister " DO NOT BRING HIM BACK TO THE HOUSE"

We did not even have a bag packed for him. Not even a toothbrush, we had to take him to the nursing home just as he was dressed!

I was so PISSED OFF!  My father was kicked to the side of the curb like an old tin can.

OK, that was September 2011.

Since he moved in the nursing home they have done NOTHING SPECIAL to get him on his feet. They are basically just giving him three meals a day and a room to sleep in. He does not attend physical Therapy sessions, he does not eat quality food. In fact the food is CRAP. All from a can and or processed. I have YET to see anything fresh on his plate.

BUT The nursing home is the best in the area. Very clean, large rooms, in fact my father has a private room that over looks the valley. I guess you can say it is the NICEST nursing home I have ever seen. BUT that is where it STOPS!

THE CHANGES BEGIN:

The first thing he noticed was his sleeping improved. He used to wake several times a night and many times could not sleep for more than a few hours total. Of course that made him very tired thru the day.

Now he sleeps the entire night! He has more ZIP and feels fully rested and
 his feeling of "restless" legs that would bother him constantly has been eliminated.

His speech used to be SLURRED, he sounded like a drunken person most of the time I would try to talk to him. He was always so tired.

It was not caused by the medication he was on because he really was not taking anything unusual. Just a few vitamin tablets to replace the POTASSIUM that he loses from the dialysis and a Vitamin D and a prescription pill that he is taking because of his Renal Failure.

TODAY APRIL 16th, 2012

He is walking everywhere, not just from one chair to the next .
Last week he meet me at the lobby of the nursing home when I came to pick him up for dialysis treatment. His room is at the far side of the building, nearly 400 FEET from the lobby!  He was standing at the front door with his duffle bag and pillow. SOMETHING HE HAS NEVER DONE!

He WALKED without ASSISSTANCE from his room! No wheelchair, No walker!!

My mouth dropped open, I just could not believe what I was seeing. He acted like nothing special had happened, not realizing what a big deal this was. It was NOT until I mentioned this to him that he realized what he had done.

He is now walking everywhere, even outside of the nursing home grounds, walking in the parking lot, and now even leaving the nursing home several times a week to visit friends and family! This past weekend he even went shopping and out to dinner. Something he has not done for over a YEAR!

What has caused this? No special diet, no therapy, no prescription medications.

 
All of the nursing home staff, from the director, housekeeping, nurses, and dietary are asking me.
 
"WHAT IS HE DOING DIFFERENT ?"  " We remember when he came in here and he was just curled up in a ball"
 
They all say "Mr. Phillips, you look so good"
 
We tell them:
 
My father is using the supplement called "PROTANDIM"
 
It is amazing to us and everyone who knows my father, how he has made such a great improvement.
 
If you would be interested in HOW this supplement works click on the following links, read the articles and watch the video.

http://www.kitakitz.com/tagalogvideo.html

 

 

 NOW THAT MY FATHER IS DOING SO WELL WE HAVE PLACED HIM ON A WAITING LIST AT ONE OF OUR NEWEST AND NICEST APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN TOWN. 

WHEN I GET HIM THERE WE WILL BE ABLE TO IMPROVE HIS DIET AND HE WILL GET EVEN BETTER!!! AT THE RATE HE IS IMPROVING I THINK HE WILL MAKE IT TO HIS 90's JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER DID!
 





 

Forum: Kitakitz Archives ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5800077 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:57:03 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5800057  

A friend of mine, DR. TERRI COPPER has said. SOME WILL, SOME WON'T, SO WHAT, NEXT!   I have added this to her comment: Are you interested in feeling and looking better? If not , continue to do what you are doing and then let me know how that is working for you in a few months.    I use the above combined phrase everyday regarding everything I do. From promoting PROTANDIM, my BOXING for fitness gym, or for those working on WEIGHT LOSS OR WEIGHT GAIN GOALS. It is a choice that people make and I do not have the time or patience for those that are not willing to help themself feel or look better.   I heard a funny comment the other day about the 60 minutes newsman MIKE WALLACE, that just passed away. He was interviewing Barbara Streisand years ago and he asked her why she had been in analysis for over 20 years. "WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT YOURSELF THAT TOOK OVER 20 YEARS?" he asked her. He then said she was over absorbed that was so blunt it made her cry. BOO HOO.     I find that every person that quits on themself and or does not achieve their goals has the same condition as Barbara Streisand. Always looking for some sort of "reason' or "why" or excuse to blame their failures on, but in reality they are the one to blame.    For example: When a person continues to struggle with being out of shape but at the same time they continue to poison themself daily with the crap they put in their body.   PUT DOWN THE FORK! PUT DOWN THE CIGARETTE! PUT DOWN THE SODA! Etc.........   Or they blame God for not answering their prayers.     The MOST COMMON EXCUSE, they blame something in their past. You name it, their list of excuses are HUGE and endless!   It is called accountability. A forgotten cause of most of our problems in life.

Forum: Kitakitz Archives ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5800057 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:35:28 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5768397

Forum: Kitakitz Archives ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5768397 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:58:17 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5761963 Truth, Lies and Real Life

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, lecturer, and poet (1803-1882)

Apart from a few notable twists of truth in my childhood, to avoid punishment (deserved) for my misdeeds (my lies never succeeded in fooling my parents), I have always been a great supporter of telling the truth.

That has had me facing trouble when it was revealed (some said I should have kept quiet). However, trouble inevitably follows lies as a bad smell follows a skunk. Telling the truth allowed me to work my way through unpleasant consequences, where necessary, to find clear sailing beyond. The consequences were of shorter duration, requiring less subterfuge, when I was able to face them and work through them.

That sometimes had its own downside. People I worked with, or for, found themselves having to cope with someone who told everything "as it is." I avoided exaggeration and meanness, but my truth made them uncomfortable. The reason is that my truth often brought to light their own misdeeds or avoidance of fulfilling their own responsibilities.

Sometimes that meant that workmates avoided me for some period of time. Sometimes it caused me to have to look for a new job. They covered their failures and inadequacies and expected me to do the same with my own. To them, pretending was preferable to bringing the cold hard truth to light and having to face others who were upset by it.

It avoided forcing them to change.

We have this nebulous term "white lies." One dictionary I consulted described the meaning of this term as "an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite)." I question the value of the "unimportant lie."

A standard joke of comedians tells of the husband who, when asked by his wife if the dress she has just put on is too tight or looks good and will make her look fine at an event they are about to attend, replies (when he fears she might burst a seam) "Of course dear, you look great, as always." This, we are told, is an acceptable white lie.

Let’s lay this one out bare. The woman knows the dress is too tight or she would not have asked her husband for an opinion. The husband knows the dress is too tight but doesn’t want to make his wife feel bad. Problem solved, for the moment. Then the couple attends the event where every women who sees the wife can see she obviously is wearing a dress that is too tight--or simply that she has gained weight she doesn’t want to admit to.

That situation, we are asked to ignore, to claim that no one at the event will notice the too-tight dress. I submit that every woman at the evident would notice, and many men as well. Moreover, the penalty she will suffer for her social faux pas will be much greater than if she had simply faced the truth (or been told the truth by her husband) and changed to another garment before leaving home.

No one at an event wants to tell a woman that her cosmetics are smeared, as that might embarrass her. So she moves about advertising her messy face to everyone until she later sees herself in a mirror in the ladies’ room. Again, the embarrassment she feels when she realizes that so many others have seen her with messy makeup is far greater than what she would feel if someone had told her sooner.

By the same token, a man might emerge from a public washroom/restroom with his shirt tucked inside his boxers at the back and the waistband of the boxers advertised to the world until the next time he visits the washroom. Is a feeling of great shame in private any less significant than a slight embarrassment when something is revealed in public?

White lies and slight perversions of the truth to help someone avoid embarrassment "to be tactful or polite" always come out. The consequences are always worse later than they would have been at the time.

A white lie is simply a way to delay a worse consequence.

What is the attraction of a lie? Often a lie will produce exactly the results in a person that the person wants to have.

Lies are beautiful, in the short term.

An example that keeps thumping in my brain is the concept of the character of God. Every religion has a God (some, like Buddhism, are technically philosophies of life). Every religion admits that we have no way of knowing anything about God. Yet there are people in every religion who will happily tell you all manner of warm and comforting things they believe about God. Where did these things originate? In lies. Well meaning lies, I admit. Tell them what they want to hear.

Oddly, most religions grant a male gender to their God, yet the characteristics given by those with ready answers about their God almost inevitably fit better someone of female gender, a mother. Why? Those who do not feel personally secure want to feel that their God cares for them the way a mother would.

For some, it works. For a while.

Getting back to our original quotation by Emerson, I question just how beautiful most people find truth. Truth in nature, for sure. As the saying goes, truth is beauty and beauty truth. Even the truth of a natural disaster, when viewed after the fact and from a distance, can be seen as beautiful, in a way.

If we judged the truth of Emerson’s statement about truth and lies based on our own culture, we would have to say that we immerse ourselves in lies. Almost nothing we see on television or on the stage is true, the exception being documentaries (though some of them have political or social agendas with carefully edited "facts"). Virtually everything in every commercial or print advertising is a perversion of the truth (massaging truth to make it look better, making us want what we mostly don’t need).

We live in houses that convey a certain social status we may not have in reality, wear clothes that tell strangers we are something we may not be, drive cars or trucks to make others believe we can actually afford them.

Put simply, lies are more attractive than the truth. There are those among us who want to believe our lies so much that they actually come to believe them. Where is the truth? We expect others, even strangers, to "have faith" that the message we are trying to convey is the truth.

The hidden request is to "trust me."

No matter how many times we say a lie, it is still a lie. But we can believe the lie. That’s life. But is it really better than the truth?

Bill Allin is the author of Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today’s Epidemic Social Problems, a guidebook for parents and teachers who want their children to be able to cope, without fear and lies, with the world they will one day enter as adults.
Learn more at http://billallin.com

Forum: Reports by Bill Allin ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5761963 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:29:04 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5740782
It seems that when I, personally need something, a word comes to my mind.  Many would call it just a coincidence.  I call the words "miracles!"  When my stomach was really hurting me a few years back, the word that came to mind one morning was "water." This made me so happy, because my stomach was burning like fire and water put the fire out.  I haven't taken an antacid since that time about five years ago.  When I get indigestion, I drink more water.  It works for me.

Since that time other words such as lavender and peppermint have come to mind.  Every home should have a little bottle of lavender in it for burns, stings, poison and emergencies. 

Today, the word is "magnesium."  Do you know how much magnesium will help you if you suffer from constipation?  Get some relief each day with magnesium. Magnesium is so important for bones, asthma, the heart, leg and nerve pain and so much more. 

Google this word and see for yourself how important it is for the body.  It  has been depleted out of the soil as the years have gone by, and out of flour when it is bleached..  I asked my doctor if it would interfere with the medicine I take.  She said, "no."  If is best to check for yourself to be at ease with it, but it truly is a miracle word.  I hope that this little article helps someone like it did me.

Please remember our veterans.  Without them, where would we be?

Sincerely,

Pami

Forum: Pennsylvania By Pamela Simpson ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5740782 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:29:47 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5740249
KELLIE DYKSTRA: My Daughter

JULY 15th, 1979  to MARCH 4th, 2012





Kellie and Me with Lynzi and Kellen

Forum: From The Desk Of The Editor ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5740249 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:23:49 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5737370 Some of the most fit people I have ever met have NEVER Seen the inside of a fitness center!
by John Phillips

Forum: From The Desk Of The Editor ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5737370 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 02:39:29 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5737321 If all laws must be based on the Constitution…

Forum: Kitakitz Archives ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5737321 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:38:31 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5729445 CLAFOUTIS (Cla-foo-TEE. )

Ingredients:

• 1/3 C plus 1/4 C sugar
• 1 1/4 C half and half
• 3 eggs
• 1 T plus 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 C flour
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• butter for greasing your baking dish
• 16 oz frozen pitted cherries
• vanilla ice cream or whipped cream to garnish

Place the 1/3 cup of sugar, the half and half, eggs, vanilla, salt, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg in the carafe of a blender. Blend until combined and smooth – it shouldn’t take any more than 15 seconds. Allow the batter to sit for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, butter an oven-safe round glass pie plate. Once the batter has rested, pour a small amount into the bottom of your baking dish so that it is covered by a quarter-inch. Place on a rack in your medium-hot wood oven – you want an air temp around 400F. Allow to bake for 4-5 minutes, until the batter has set.

Remove from the oven. Spread the cherries evenly over the bottom of the dish. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup sugar over the cherries, then pour in the remaining batter.

Return to your oven and bake for 30-45 minutes, depending on the temperature of your oven. The clafoutis is done when it’s golden brown and set – a paring knife should come out clean when inserted into the middle.

Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes, then slice like a pie and serve with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.

Forum: Recipes, Survival & Preparedness, Homemade Natural Products ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5729445 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:00:29 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5729377 The title will evoke two entirely different, independent, even incompatible, lines of thinking. One will be about the survivors, their feelings of loss, their struggles to cope, even their guilt. The other would be about the person who died. We know what happens to the body, but what happens to the personality that inhabits the body once the body is gone?
 
Take a few moments to think about one or the other of these lines of thinking. I will take the unusual step of leaving a few lines blank to encourage you to mull over your own thoughts.
 
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When the body dies, it changes. As Albert Einstein said, everything is energy, though that energy may be in the form of matter sometimes (e=mc2). In nature, in every part of the universe we know anything about, nothing ever disappears. The matter that was the body of the one who died is conserved, by nature, either as energy or as a part of something else that is matter.
 
We bury the dead body, a ritual dating back to ancient times when it was believed the whole body might be resurrected in a future life. Nobody today believes that a dead body will return to life as a whole person, with the same unique characteristics and personality as it had in its original life. Who would want the decayed mess anyway? When we bury a dead body, we put away that body as we turn it back to nature to deal with as it will.
 
Did the person, while living, have a distinct personality? Not characteristics and features. A toaster has those. Did the person have something that clearly distinguished him or her, other than characteristics and features? Toasters may look and behave alike, but not people.
 
If so, then that personality--called by some the soul or spirit--must continue to exist. The natural law of conservation dictates that nothing disappears. That personality must continue to exist after the physical body is put away. We don’t know how it began, we don’t know where it goes after the body breaks down, we only know that something unique to an individual exists while we know that person.
 
We know nothing about the nature of that conserved personality. But then, we know very little--most of us know nothing--about energy. What do you know, for example, about the nature of electricity, of magnetism, of heat, or light, even of gravity? It doesn’t mean that something doesn’t exist because we can’t see it or touch it. Energy exists. Spirit can exist too. Science, through its own laws, says that the personality of a person who once lived must continue, even as the body transforms into something else.
 
The spirit has no need to transform because it is neither matter nor energy, the only two kinds of existence we can even slightly understand. To be truthful, even science knows very little about these two states of energy, though it claims to have great knowledge.
 
Conservation is not just faith, it’s the law, a law of nature. We don’t know where that conserved personality or soul goes, where it continues to exist. But we don’t know what happens to the energy that results when matter changes its form to energy either.
 
Does that personality hang around in the form of memory? Science might say that is a fictitious and unnecessary construct. But then, science has no explanation--not even a clue--about what memory is. Memory, like the continuation of personality or soul of a person who once lived in a human body, may be another form of energy, or something entirely beyond what science understands today.
 
Not long ago science taught us that our body consisted only of our cells. Now we know that we are a symbiotic collection of cells of our body and maybe 20 times as many bacteria (mostly on our skin and in our gut) that we can’t live without and that can’t live without us. Science has trouble distinguishing between fact and beliefs that scientists masquerade as "theory" (believe it because we said it) or fact.
 
Let’s return to the other line of thought, what continues in the minds of people who knew the dead person before death.
 
A person commits suicide because they can’t cope with the pain (usually emotional pain) that has become the main focus of their life. That person did not receive what he or she needed in order to be able to cope while alive. Didn’t receive what they needed from the very people who will regret the passing of that person.
 
As I write this, "sweet miracle" Whitney Houston’s funeral has taken place. The cause of death has not been revealed. The outpouring of grief and emotion about her passing matches that after the death of almost anyone in history. Her body was found under water in a bathtub. Police do not suspect foul play. Her death was likely some form of suicide, perhaps accidental from an overdose of something.
 
No one wants to spoil the outpouring of good wishes and goodwill in memories about Whitney. Before she died, the media portrayed her as a broken singer and actor, destroyed by twenty years of cocaine abuse. Now she is an icon of beauty in many forms. "Maybe the best singer ever in history" one of the speakers at her funeral said.
 
Unspoken at that funeral was that Whitney Houston needed something more than people who knew her were giving. The very same people who sat in the church at her funeral. Of course they would feel guilt as well as great regret.
 
Are they guilty? Under the law, you are considered guilty if you break a law even if you didn't know the law existed. There is no law about tuning into the needs of others. We know little about suicide, most of us, so we would not know what a person needed before they decided to end it all.
 
It’s not that no one knows what every person needs in order to feel useful, needed, worthy and secure. But very few do know. As societies, we don’t pay attention to those who know the answers because knowing would only add responsibilities to our lives. It’s easier to regret later than to commit now.
 
As important as these lessons are, we don’t teach them to our children, in general. We don’t teach them to each other. Most of us don’t want to know about these lessons because we don’t want the responsibility of knowing what we would need to do to help someone else who is emotionally at risk. It’s all we can do to look after ourselves.
 
Yet we have needs too, needs that are not satisfied. If we knew what our loved ones needed, we would also know what we need ourselves. If we knew what we should know to help others, we would be less needy ourselves.
 
The lesson we all need to learn is to listen to others. That’s what every one of us needs. We need to listen to others and we need others to listen to us. Of course there is more to it than that. Listening means caring. The other thing we all need, that is a basic need of our species, is touch by others. Touching means caring.
 
Very few people would commit suicide if they sincerely believed that someone cared about them. Those who care must show their care or the message will not get through.
 
Now you have a beginning. Listen. Hug. Care. Show you care.
 
Don’t wait to attend the funeral.
 
Bill Allin is the author of Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today’s Epidemic Social Problems, a guidebook for parents and teachers about what children need to develop socially and emotionally as well as intellectually and physically as they grow. What they need to avoid becoming statistics.
Learn more at http://billallin.com

Forum: Reports by Bill Allin ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5729377 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:57:44 GMT http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5726976
Even with the economy the way it has been, you would think no one would be able to get a loan.  But, there are lenders who are still anxious to give them out.  Even if you have a bad credit rating, you can still get a loan,... sometimes, in an hour. 

The very worst and #1 thing you should NOT do is answer the phone one day and allow a fast talking fellow to tell you that if you use your home as collateral you can get out of debt.  He is looking to make a nice commission and is not worried if you lose your home or not.

NEVER use your "paid off home" to repay unsecured debt.  Unsecured debt is the credit card you use for clothing and other necessities.  If you use your home as collateral, you are turning the unsecured credit card debt into a "secure debt" because if you do not pay that loan back, who will own your home?  Right!, the lender!  Do not lose your home and the beloved security you worked so hard for.  You could also be talked into taking out a loan using your car as collateral if you have the title for it.  Since collateral is something of value you put up just in case you don't repay a loan, you can lose it if you renege on the payments.

Of course lenders want to give you money.  Interest for loans given to people with bad credit could be as high or higher than $25 on each $100, and if you don't repay on time, guess what happens?  So, think before you take out any kind of loan!  Unless a horrible emergency comes up, Say no!

Forum: Pennsylvania By Pamela Simpson ]]> http://forums.kitakitz.com/post?id=5726976 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:51:13 GMT