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    Healthy eating adds years to your life. Seriously.I know when I repeat the call to eat a diet that is full of fruits and vegetables and low in fat and sugar sort of makes me sound like a broken record at this point. Yet some folks are still sticking to diets full of red and processed meat, French fries, refined grains and sweets (aka a typical “western diet”), so when more evidence comes out stressing the importance of eating healthy, I like to share it with you.

    New research has found that a diet high in fruit, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, fish and poultry protects women against death from heart disease and other causes by as much as 22 percent more than if those who primarily eat red meat, fried foods and refined grains. So give yourself a pat on the back if you’re already eating healthy; if not then today is as good a day as any to start. After all, it could add years onto your life.

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Lots of people like to use natural beauty tips. They prefer to use natural products instead of synthetic ones and feel that these products will be gentler to their skin and cause fewer adverse reactions. While this may be true for some people, you need to be aware that natural products can cause serious reactions too. It is just as common to be allergic to natural products as to synthetic ones.

The best natural beauty tip is to live a healthy lifestyle. The healthier you are, the better you will look. Basics like eating a healthy diet including lots of fruits and vegetables and exercising regularly will help you to achieve natural beauty.

Many people claim that drinking lots of water is one of the best natural beauty tips. This will keep your body well hydrated which will make you feel and look much better. Some people even say this will help to keep your skin clear.

Natural beauty tips can also include beauty products that you can make from ingredients in your own kitchen. Facial masks, cleansers and hair treatments can all be made from produce in your fridge. The website www.pioneerthinking.com has lots of beauty tips and recipes for treatments that you can make at home. Many of these recipes have been submitted by readers who give their opinions on what works and what doesn’t.

Natural beauty tips can provide an alternative to the products found at the drugstore. Some people find natural products to be gentler than synthetics and feel better about using them. And making your own natural beauty treatments can be fun as well as being good for your skin and hair.

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There are lots of reasons to appreciate, even cherish for the body you have. For one thing, accepting yourself is a lot more fun, and wastes away less time, than constantly consuming over what you don’t like, don’t have etc. Your body is yours, uniquely yours, to use, take care of, and to treasure. Your mind rules your body, so learn simple ways to keep your body in line! You don’t need to diet to lose weight and maintain it. In fact 99% of dieters regain what they lost and gain even more weight. Instead of useless and frustrating diets, try simple, research-proven tips for keeping slim, trim and well:

• Alpha therapy: It uses light and sound waves to relieve stress and increase concentration level.
• Moisturizing treatment: Deep cleansing and exfoliation is followed by a massage and deep moisturizing treatment using marine sediment.
• Mud wrap: Treat arthritis and muscular ache by applying warm mud layer on the body and wrapping in warm blanket.
• Seaweed wrap: Reduce muscular and joint pains and cellulite using seaweed paste with essential oils that is applied on the body to relax and energize the body, nourish the skin and eliminate toxins.
• Steam bath: An enclosed room with steam diffused with essential oils open one’s pores, moisturize the skin and invigorates one’s body.

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Ideas To Save The Planet…

My new book, Ideas to Save the Planet, is now available. Please click on my book cover for a link to my publisher, WordClay, and their online bookstore to buy my book.

It took me 2 years to write this, my first book which I have self published, and for a time I was homeless and penniless. I currently live in a Shack with no running water or electricity. I have been planning to live in a 100% Zero Emission and Energy Independent Disaster resistant Super Adobe home, powered by Solar, Wind, Water, and Hydrogen for 7 years. The purpose of writing this book is to do what I can to save the planet by attempting mobilize the world to save it, and to raise the money I need to finally follow my own advice and manifest my dream home, so I can be Home-full and show the world how to live cleanly and sustainably.

(This website is still under construction and I hope to have more content on it soon, including excerpts for the book and a blog to discuss the ideas. Thanks for your patience.)

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Everybody is excited, it seems, about the new weight loss drug Alli, which will soon be sold over the counter (no prescription necessary). An FDA review panel gave it the thumbs up, saying it thought the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks to health. Alli is based on the prescription drug Orlistat, which has been on the market for a while and has been giving people diarrhea, anal leakage and other entertaining side effects for quite some time. I’m sure we’ll all hear more about these side effects as word about this weight loss drug spreads. Let’s take a second look at this drug. Why did the FDA review panel give it the thumbs up? Is this drug safe and effective? Those are the two criteria upon which these decisions are supposed to be made.

Well, it turns out that Alli is just barely effective in clinical trials. Patients who took this drug lost about 1 pound a month. That’s hardly any weight loss that all. That’s the same amount of weight loss that you could experience simply by eating about a thousand fewer calories a week, which comes down to just a few cans of soda per week. By the way, that weight loss reversed itself as soon as people went off the drug, meaning they gained it right back. Still, the drug is being heralded as a potential blockbuster because so many Americans are desperate to lose weight and it seems that they will do almost anything to accomplish that goal.

My question is, will they tolerate soiled underwear to accomplish it? That’s one of the most common side effects of this drug. People actually spotted their clothes with uncontrollable anal discharges. I don’t know about you, but to me that’s not worth losing a pound a month. I think losing your self respect might be more valuable than that, but I guess that’s up to each person to decide. I wonder how this works when dating? Do you wear, like, diapers?

Blocking healthy fats

However, it’s not the side effects that I’m most concerned about with this drug. What I’m actually concerned about is the potential harm this drug might cause. This drug works by absorbing fat; that way, when people eat fats like those found in milk or cheese or even salad dressings, this drug binds with those fats and carries them on out of the system where they can’t be digested. But at the same time, this drug also blocks all those essential fats that we need to be healthy. Those acids include omega-3 fatty acids, which is why you’re hearing about all the benefits of eating oily fish like salmon. But people who are taking this drug are inevitably blocking the absorption of these essential fatty acids as well as blocking the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins that go along with them. Some of those vitamins are extremely important to human health. The fat-soluble vitamins include vitamin E, vitamin A and vitamin D.

It is vitamin D that I am most concerned about, because right now vitamin D deficiencies are widespread across Western populations, especially those in the United States. A deficiency in vitamin D directly promotes a numbers of serious diseases including diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, schizophrenia, breast cancer, prostate cancer and even gum disease. For people who are already overfed and undernourished, taking a fat-blocking pill that will reduce the absorption of vitamin D seems like dietary insanity to me. It makes me wonder about the priorities of the FDA, too. Are they sure the benefits of this drug outweigh the risks?

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Smart Marketing in Japan
The clever “vending machine” pictured above is located in Japan. You can’t really buy a smart car from it, but you can get brochures and info about the various smart models. Yeah, it is anti-climactic.

Smart Car: Good and Bad
The smart fortwo is certainly a mixed bag. While the diesel version gets in the 60+ miles per gallon range and can be run on biodiesel, the gasoline version is only rated at a combined 36 miles per gallons by the EPA. But that doesn’t take away from the smart’s impact in making very small urban cars more mainstream, and making other compact cars look bigger in comparison.

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yes, all of those vines are kudzu. photo via flickr

Our colleagues over at Discovery News have brought attention to a new report that an invasive plant that literally covers some parts of the American South could be a potential feedstock for biofuel.

Kudzu is a vine which was brought to North American from Asia in 1876 to help prevent soil erosion, which has since become an utter nuisance in some areas of the country. It can grow up to 6.5 feet a week and its roots are nearly impossible to eradicate entirely.
New research published in Biomass and Bioenergy shows that kudzu could produce up to 270 gallons of ethanol per acre: Not very much when compared to rapeseed, jatropha or palm oil but easily as much as can be produced from corn.

The catch in this is that domesticating kudzu may not be possible, harvesting it in the wild would be difficult, and then there is the issue of invasiveness. Given how the plant spreads, do you really want to plant more of the stuff?

:: Discovery News

CLARIFICATION
Just to make sure we’re all on the same page: Kudzu is being proposed as a feedstock to produce ethanol, while the other feedstocks I mentioned generally are used to make biodiesel. Two different fuels to be sure, but ultimately each can be used with varying degrees of utility in the internal combustion engine. The point I was alluding to is that ultimately this is about how much liquid biofuel can be produced per acre and according to this report kudzu doesn’t have as high a yield as other feedstocks for liquid fuels. Sorry if my lack of specificity in the comparison has caused any confusion.

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