Water

Now that I've bored people with my spiel about how important water is to the body, I want to talk about where we might get that water from.  It's all a matter of personal preferences but it should be as pure as possible no matter where we get it from.
I checked into getting a machine that filters, oxygenates and alkalizes the water but my main objection to those are the cost of the machine and the expense of replacing the filters or the electrical grids that can erode away if the machine isn't built correctly; and some of these machines have chemicals you have to add to them.  And a real concern to me is whether the filter is really doing what I need it to do and if it is how long will it do it for?
As for me I like distilled water.  Why?  Because it's as clean as nature knows how to make it.  There won't be any harmful pathogens, no toxic metals and chemicals or toxic organic compounds; just plain water.  There aren't any expensive filters to replace or costly electrical components to burn out or leach away into the water you will be drinking  I don't have to worry about plastics leaching into my distilled water because I store it glass containers.  And if I drink it fresh from the distiller then it will often have a kind of "sweet" quality to it.
There are critics who speak out against the possible side effects of drinking distilled water all of the time and their major complaint seems to center around the idea that distilled water can leach the minerals out of your body..  I suppose that this issue may have some validity  to it but, the answer seems simple: add some sea salt to the water before you drink it.  Real sea salt has a mineral content almost in the same proportions as the mineral content of our blood.  How much sea salt?  From what I gather you won't need to add more that a quarter teaspoon full to every gallon of water.  This sea salt also has one other benefit: it tends to neutralize the slightly acidic quality of distilled water.
Sea salt:  No discussion of water could possibly be complete without a discussion of salt.  I've done some checking on the subject of the health benefits of sea salt and what I found mostly debunks my theories on it.  Basically my theory is that sea salt is healthier for you.  The Mayo Clinic says there's very little difference between table salt and sea salt other than the slight elemental differences; sea salt contains them and table salt doesn't..  Many other sites on the internet say the same thing.  But is this really the truth?
Table salt is basically sea salt with the minerals removed and that has been dried out using high heat and then has had anti-caking agents(aluminum compounds) added along with a chemical form of iodine added for the thyroid gland.  The problem with table salt is just that: it's stripped down chemically altered, due to heat, sea salt that the body may not be able to properly process without the other elements that are found in sea salt.
Sea salt is evaporated salt water that still contains the minerals found there and usually, but not always, lacks iodine.   There are many forms of sea salt and they have a wide variety of crystalline structures and often various mineral combinations that make them differ slightly from one another.  These differences come from the differences found in the various places where they are harvested from.  We need to choose a brand that we know has been harvested from unpolluted sources.  Celtic Sea Salt is supposed to be one such brand.  But, why is salt so vital to our body?
This is a quote from Wikipedia:

Normal saline (NS) is the commonly-used phrase for a solution of 0.90% w/v of NaCl, about 300 mOsm/L or 9.0 g per liter.^a Less commonly, this solution is referred to as physiological saline or isotonic saline, neither of which is technically accurate. NS is used frequently in intravenous drips (IVs) for patients who cannot take fluids orally and have developed or are in danger of developing dehydration or hypovolemia. NS is typically the first fluid used when hypovolemia is severe enough to threaten the adequacy of blood circulation, and has long been believed to be the safest fluid to give quickly in large volumes. However, it is now known that rapid infusion of NS can cause metabolic acidosis.^{[1]
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Basically, salt regulates the water content of the cells, from the cells in the blood to the cells in our skeleton.  Higher than normal levels of salt in the blood will "dry up" the red blood cells which if severe enough will interfere in their ability to transport nutrients to the cells in the form of oxygen.  Too little salt in the blood will cause the red blood cells to absorb water which under extreme conditions can lead to them bursting which could pose a life threatening situation.  I've actually seen, under a microscope,  what both extremes of salinity has on the blood when I was in college.  The red blood cells looked smooth and kind of kidney shaped in normal saline conditions, the red blood cells resembled spiked balls under high saline conditions and the red blood cell burst when plain water was introduced to them.  
So the body works to maintain the proper salinity of the cells.  But, minor temporary changes in salinity of the blood could be beneficial to the cells as this change may help transport nutrients and wastes into and out of the cells through the movement of water in and out of the cells.  I would speculate that we wouldn't have to worry about any problems either way as long as we're getting enough  of both clean water and good salt.  The body will tell us as long as we learn to listen to it.
Here's a quote from www.health-benefit-of-water.com/}


 Sea Salt and high blood pressure

• Salt is not bad for you. It does not raise the blood pressure
  - It is the insufficiency of other minerals that normally hold on to and keep water inside the cells that causes a rise in blood pressure.
  - Contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure (in conjunction with water and the other essential minerals).

  - One or two glasses of water with a little salt will quickly and efficiently quiet the racing and "thumping" heart and, in the long run, will reduce the blood pressure.

Read more: http://www.health-benefit-of-water.com/sea-salt.html#ixzz1pgILoxft

So we need to learn how to listen to our body and it will tell us.  Does this remedy from above really work?  Well, I don't often suffer in this way, in fact it's something that's rare but, on occasion, I've been roused from my sleep by this uneasy tossing and turning and found that all I needed was a drink of water and this was just my body's way of saying so. 

Trying to find a source for what you need can be a challenge but, here's a good place to find almost anything you want:  Grandpa's Mart

Here's to your health

 

Way of Kings

Ultimate Health

I can't treat, diagnose or cure any disease except my own.  There, got that out of the way.
I've been actively working on several physical limitations of mine for the last several years.  The progress has been gradual but steady and recently that gradual progression increased it's pace.  It's these changes that have prompted some of my posts and that includes this one.
I was going to include everything in one post but, I have a tendency to go on way too long so I'm breaking it up into pieces and I'll devote a little more energy into each piece.
Our bodies are made to be in motion.  This gift of motion can only be fully realized through one thing only and that is through health.  In fact our health and our ability to move are intricately linked and you can't have real health without the ability to move under your own power.
I'm going to include a list of things that I believe that we must do to achieve and maintain our health and our ability to move:

• Drink lots of good clean water.
• Eat the right kind of foods
• Breath properly
• Quality Rest
• Plenty of movement
• Stretching
• Messaging
• Blinking

I've listed things in a rough order but, all of them are important.  I covered Water before in one of my previous posts but, this item is too important not to make further comment.
Water is essential to our life.  We start out to be about 98% water at conception, 90% at birth, 75% at middle age and if we live long enough we'll be about 50% at death.  Is there a link between dehydration, aging and degenerative disease?  I think so.  If we shortchange any part of the body of the water it needs to function we shortchange the whole body.  I don't believe that there is any metabolic process in the body that doesn't somehow rely on water.
Many of us don't even like to drink water, instead we prefer flavored beverages, many of which are really harmful for us if we are dehydrated because those beverages have a diuretic action on the body and this only serves to exacerbate the existing dehydration.
Our ability to move as anything but a newborn infant is directly linked to our level of hydration.  Newborns can't walk as their musculoskeletal systems are too fluid and water doesn't walk it flows.  Our ability to move under our own power comes as the muscles and bones begin to solidify.  Then after about the age of twenty five we begin the battle in earnest to keep ourselves properly hydrated.
Have you ever noticed how old people move about, that is those who are still ambulatory and not just getting around in their power chairs?  Their stride is short and halting, most often being nothing more than a short shuffle.  Their ability to balance is compromised by muscles that are no longer able to function properly.  Why?
It's my firm conviction that they are suffering from a lifetime of dehydration.  The bones are dry, the joints have dried up and rubbed away through friction, the muscles, ligaments and tendons have shortened and become inflexible just like leather that has dried out in the sun and every other vital system has been compromised due to this dehydration along with those mentioned above.
Can kidney stones form when there is an adequate amount of fluid to keep the kidneys properly flushed out?  Will the skin dry up and become leathery if it is properly moisturized?  Will the eyes continue to be "bright" if there is enough moisture to produce tears?  Will toxins be able to build up in and under the skin if the circulatory system is able to carry them away?  Will the sinuses and lungs be able to keep themselves clear and functioning properly if there is an adequate amount of water in the body?  This is only a partial list of things that come to mind concerning water and the body.
There are several rules of thumb as to how much water to drink.  Some say: eight glasses of water a day and others say one half ounce of water for every pound of body weight and there are even some who claim that we shouldn't have to drink any water at all as we should be able to get what we need from the food we eat.  Which one is right?
In my opinion none of those are right.  The closest one would be the one that says we need one half ounce of water per pound of body weight but this is only a guideline as the body will tell us the real amount we need.  Our level of activity could increase the amount we need above what the guideline says.  We have to learn to listen to what the body is telling us.
Our bodies don't have any way of talking to us except through comfort and pain.  We are comfortable, that is without disease, when we are doing what the body asks and we experience pain, that is we have disease, when we fail to attended to the bodies needs.  A dry mouth is not just a cry but a scream from our body to give it water.  Stiff aching joints or the presence of kidney stones may be the body's anguished cries for water.  Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are the body's last gasps for water.  In fact it's astounding as how many ways the body has of asking us to drink water all of which would be unnecessary if we only drank what the body requires.   Can the body cure all diseases by just providing it with enough water?
No it can't and that's why I created the list of things I believe to be necessary for real health but to a large degree I consider water to be one of the most neglected nutrients in our diet.
A better guideline for drinking water:  We need to drink water when we first wake up even before we get out of bed.  How much water?  Until the mouth feels fully hydrated which can take a while to determine.  We don't want to drown ourselves with water by drinking a half gallon at a time but drinking a quart or more over fifteen or twenty minutes won't hurt. Then we need to respond by drinking water every time we begin to feel like the mouth is drying out. Warning: the mouth should never be dry to the point where you can't make spit.  There are times that we shouldn't drink water: we shouldn't drink any water one half hour before we eat, not while we're eating and nothing during the two hour period after we eat. It'll take time to learn to recognize our bodies requests for water.
Drinking water when we first wake up helps to create adequate amounts of fluids to help flush out the kidneys that have been holding urine all night and will help to give the lungs and sinuses the extra moisture they need to clear themselves and will also give the bowels an adequate amount so it can clear itself.  We've been breathing all night long and the lungs, sinuses and kidneys are the major users of water during this time.  The air we breath has to be moisturized with every breath we take and that moisture is lost to the atmosphere as we exhale.  The point is that we lose so much water as we sleep that we need to break the water fast with enough water to put things back on track which includes giving the body enough water to make enough saliva to mix with the food and enough water so that the stomach will have enough digestive juices when the food gets there.

This should be a good enough place to stop with this subject of water; enough to get you started on the right track.  There are is a good book on this subject written by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj entitled "Your Body's Many Cries for Water"

If we learn to listen to the body it'll respond and say thank you by being comfortable. More with the next post.
Katrael.

Well, it looks as if I got more than my hand slapped and that's like it should be.  What am I talking about?  I have another blog at Wordpress.com.  I tried, for the second time, to include an affiliate link.  I wouldn't have done it if I knew they would shut my blog down.  Oh well, if they don't reactivate it then I'll put all of my efforts into this blog.  I had the Wordpress blog first and that's why I put so much energy there.  I'm going to check this blog platform out to see if I can include affiliate links in it.  There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Living in the Police State

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The Source For Income

I just read an article by The Healthy Home Economist.  Here's the post: The Police State run Schools
Not only are we increasingly being subjected to the unwanted intrusion of the government into our lives but, they are forcing our children to eat poison.  I don't feel that you could consider what they serve in public school cafeterias  to be anythinhg but poison.

Want to Make Money From Home?

The internet has made more millionaires worldwide than any other medium ever.  But, it's not a friendly place for newcomers.  There are many things that you will need to know in order to find your way into the hearts and pocket books of  internet users.  It helps to have as much help as possible and there really are no cheap shortcuts to doing it. 

I've responded to dozens of "get rich fast" internet marketing programs and they all promise massive results and you start out paying $49 to get started but, then you find out you can't do much with the forty nine dollar deal and that there is a better package that costs more.  It's the standard bait and switch con game.

Well, there are ways to do it cheaply but, they aren't fast.  You've got to have something that people are looking for and you've got to find a way to get that idea before the people or you won't go anywhere.  There are solutions and one of the best is to get help from people who know what they are doing.  That is seldom very cheap.  But, if you are serious about any business you'll be willing to invest in it.

Here's a good place to go to find out how to make money from home on the internet:  The Source For Income  Check this site out.  It offers many things. 
Katrael

Concerned about weight loss?

If you're concerned about weight loss then maybe your metabolism is too slow.  Here's some good information about your metabolism:

Measuring Our Metabolism


Advertising has been strong when it comes to losing weight products and services. Through this medium, people are becoming more interested and captivated with the promises and the assurances these ads hold. In this modern world, everything that meets the eye is marketable- sad to say.

We need not carried away with these commercials. Increasing your metabolism is the best means of doing so. You just need your self, and a little help from outside factors. The first step is to measure your metabolism.

How do we measure metabolism?
A metabolic test comes in two ways. The first method is direct calorimetry. This method measures the energy expended in the form of heat. The other one is indirect calorimetry, it measures the amount of oxygen consumed over a period of time. Traditionally used in hospital and research facilities due to the cost of the machine and the need for trained technicians.
What are the needed preparations for the test?
The aim of the test is to gauge the RMR or the Resting Metabolic Rate of an individual. Therefore, he or she needs to avoid eating a meal 1 and a half hours before the test, avoid exercising on the day of your test and avoid the use of stimulants such as caffeine on the day of the test.
What happens in the testing bed?
You will relax in a seated position; the doctor will ask you to do this. A mask or mouthpiece would be used and you have to breathe in there for ten to fifteen minutes. A report after the test would be printed out by the machine. The most important part is that you discuss the results with the doctor in order to come up with the next steps for your diet plans.
Would the test results be useful for good?
No. You have to retest after some time. Your RMR and your total metabolism changes through time. Change in any element of your lifestyle would directly affect the result. For you to keep a track of your metabolic rate, seek help from a doctor.
There is a need for one person to give value to his metabolism because it will not just decide your size but it will have an impact on your lifestyle and on your entire life.

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

Surprising Lessons For Work At Home Moms.

No I'm not really Johnny Cash but, this writer has pulled some great lessons for moms who want to work from home from some of Johnny Cash's songs. Here's the article.
Katrael

I've unearthed some surprising bits of wisdom for new wahms by listening to Johnny Cash lately. I thought I would share some of these tidbits from the Rockabilly legend.



1) Understand Your Man ...er, target market!
That's right. Do you understand your target market? Are you aware of her needs, desires and driving ambitions? Does your website speak to your target audience? If not, perhaps you should make some changes or your website visitor or customer will be "as gone as a wild goose in winter" too!

2) A Boy Named Sue
Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue...and life ain't easy for a wahm either. In your business you will have those confidence killers, dream stealers, fun suckers...whatever you want to call them. You will have people who try to tell you that you can't achieve your goals, that what you try won't work. Don't let them get you down! Sue's father told him, "This world is rough, and if you're gonna make it, you've gotta be tough." How can you get tough in your business?

3) Man In Black- or Branding 101
J.R. Cash didn't don the all black suit because he didn't have anything else to wear. It was his trademark. He wore all black for a reason. What about you? Are you working on your brand? In a world full of Elvis Presleys and Jerry Lee Lewises, how will you stand apart? And remember, your target market doesn't have to be just like you- Johnny Cash wrote Folsom Prison Blues and connected with inmates when he had never yet step foot in jail!

4) The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
This song has two bits of wisdom:

a) Learn your business and you will succeed John Henry's Daddy told him to: "Learn to a turn a jack, learn to lay a track, learn to pick and shovel too." Are you learning all you can about Internet Marketing so that you can succeed in your business? Do you reinvest in ebooks, coaching and mentoring, and software like John Henry's hammer?

b) Technology has its place but it can't take the place of humans. When the steam engine threatened to take the place of men, Johnny proved that in the end, humans are more valuable. Learn to use technology (like autoresponders) but remember that your website visitor is a human and inject some of yourself into your marketing efforts.

5) One Piece at a Time
This ballad is about a man who decides to build a Cadillac. He steals one piece at a time from the assembly line "and it didn't cost him a dime". But in the end, it didn't work out exactly like he planned! Does your website look like a pieced together jalopy? Are you unwilling to spend any money on your own domain and hosting, content with a free site cluttered up with ads?

6) In The Jailhouse
Now Please don't throw away your hard work by doing one of the following things: Spamming
Copying other people's articles or content
Stealing graphics
Clicking on your Adsense ads
Not keeping records and neglecting to pay taxes It just isn't worth it, and you may find yourself in the jailhouse. Much better to Walk the Line so you can sleep at night.

7) Ring of Fire
Maybe you've made a bad choice... entered into a shotgun romance with a business that's not right for you. Don't be afraid to realize this, chuck everything and start over! Don't beat your head against the wall if, after working hard on a project, you decide it's just not profitable. Better to find your match and pour your energies into that. In this song, June Carter Cash chronicles her growing attraction to John. Though they were both involved with other people, they were obviously soul mates and ended up making music and growing old together for the next 40 years. May you make beautiful music with your business!

I hope you find this article as refreshing as I did.

Warning, It's the End Of The World

I'm not a financial genius, a prophet or anything like that, I'm just a person, average or not, who thinks he can see the writing on the wall.   What's the writing say?

There is going to be some very tough times ahead.   What kind of tough times?  Things are going to get tougher economically.  The world is going to wake up to the  fact that the dollars we spend with it are only worthless pieces of paper or just worthless digits in digital system and it'll be to bad for us when they refuse to accept them as payment for the myriad of things we need from them.  Every dollar that the Fed prints dilutes the value of the dollars that are already out there.  The longer someone holds onto that piece of paper means that those dollars they hold are  losing value.  All of those trillions of dollars in stimulus money(currency) have no value because there isn't anything real behind it.  That stimulus money has only diluted the value of the currency you earn by about fifty percent and the problem is the rest of the world hasn't caught onto that fact yet but, be prepared for it when it does. The work to produce something those dollars hasn't even been done yet and the Federal Reserve system is busy cranking out more worthless currency.  You know this already don't you?   Is it really the end of the world?  No, just the end of another age and the beginning of a new one.  What does all of this mean?

It means that when the rest of the world won't accept our dollars for the things they export to us, like food and clothing, we'll have to find a way to produce it ourselves or go naked and hungry.  The land will always be there so at least you'll have a place to stand on or lay down on while you're dying naked and hungry waiting for the government to solve the problems.  Can that really happen here?  Yes it can because it's happened before and in many other places. 

Will the new age be any better than the previous one?  That depends on the people who survive to the new one.  People have to become better educated in all manners of things from: business and economics, nutrition and health, spiritual matters, the right ways to behave toward each other and so on.   It's probably the, "right way to behave toward each other" issue that is the most important. 

Gandhi said something to the effect that if it comes down to an eye for an eye that the world will go blind.  The real point is that we need to learn to treat each other better.  We can have a difference of opinion as long as it doesn't deteriorate into violence because then it's a matter of who's the strongest or trickiest.  I once knew a real tiny guy by the name of Louie who believed in equalizing a situation: he'd hit you over the head with a tire iron, or just shoot you if you turned your back on him.  A gun or a tire iron; which ever was the handiest.  So, there are plenty of Louie's out there and you'd better be prepared for them because they'll take everything you have away from you when it gets tough out there.

How can the next age become better than this one?   Learn that a business has to make more money than it spends in order to stay in business and that this principal holds true for families and governments.  That you can't just print more money when you think you need it.  That, generally, it takes more than one person to provide for your future if you can't provide for your own.   You can't just eat anything you want to and remain healthy.  That the food in your stomach comes from the earth and not a factory.    That you have to take an active part in teaching good behavior practices onto your children and that you can't leave that kind of thing up to a school or a church.  That as long as long as you're not sure about somebody that you can't trust them especially if they've demonstrated improper behavior in the past.  There is so much to know and you can't trust anybody else to know it for you; you'll be sorry if you do because few people are that trustworthy.  

Our problems stem from our ignorance so it's time to become educated about every aspect of life if your going to make the next age a better one than this one.  The sad fact of the matter is that we're rather lazy in some departments.  We're too busy to spend time teaching morals to our children so it's easier to let them learn them on their own or to let a school or church teach them.  But, it's also hard for us to know whether something is really true or not especially when we'll reserve our opinion until we've had a chance to hear it from some person we perceive as an authority figure to tell us what opinion to have.  People have become so indoctrinated by those authority figures until they can't see the truth when it's stares them in the face.  People will even claim that something is true because they've been told it's true even when they read something else because they'll read it like it's been told to them and not like it was written.  So what's this got to do with the end of the world?

Well, the world's not going to end but, like I said before: a new age is upon us.  We'll have to work to make it a better age if we want it to be better.  For now we have to function in the present age but, you'd better begin to get ready for the transition because it's very difficult to give birth, so I've been told, and the new age is awaiting it's birth.

Contest

My dad started another business and it's with a product called Mileage Maxx.  The product does many things: reduces emissions, increases fuel economy, reduces maintenance, eliminates sludge from diesel storage tanks and is a few stabilizer among even more things.  This product has been on the market for some time now and it's been approved by the EPA. 

It only makes sense, in this day and age of rising costs, to find ways of reducing the costs of everyday living.  This product can help.  One bottle, which is one quart, will treat one hundred sixty gallons of either gasoline or diesel fuel.  The average savings per one hundred sixty gallons of fuel runs between $50 to $100 at the price of $3 per gallon for fuel.  The higher the fuel costs the more savings that will be realized.  So, you owe it to yourself to try some. Here's a link  Mileage Maxx 

Now about the contest:  We will be running a contest that will award free bottles of Mileage Maxx to those lucky winners who leave the best comment about this site Mileage Maxx.  More details on this contest later.  Leave a comment if you're interest in this contest.
Katrael

To Believe, a beutiful song

I know that this site was meant to be about health and wealth and it still is.  This post is about what makes us feel good; like beautiful songs.  Here's a song sung by a beautiful young lady who's voice doesn't seem to match her age.  I think this is fantastic stuff.  A beautiful song that with one or two word changes would be even better.  Anyway, listen to this song and enjoy.
 http://videos2view.net/2believe-JE.htm
Katrael