World Vision Australia
August 1st, 2010
Promoting Child Sponsorship
This is a little post to promote World Vision Australia and World VisionNew Zealand. I feel it is very important to give some publicity to World Vision, who are trying to help children in many parts of the world to get a better life through the Child Sponsorship programme.
Today is the 2nd August, my own daughter's birthday, as it happens. Last night, the 1st August 2010, there screened on telly a programme called "Lucy Lawless - Five Days in Bangladesh". For those of you who do not know, Lucy Lawless is a New Zealand actress who got famous ...
How to Stop Overeating
August 1st, 2010
Compulsive overeating:
This is a problem for many of us at some time during our lives. What are some of the things which can cause us to be compulsive eaters? Emotional causes, depression, stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, toxins held in the body, feelings of self doubt, boredom, and/or nutritional deficiences can fuel our cravings for more and more food.
One very nice remedy for obsessive overeating, which you might add to your well rounded programme to lose weight, is given by Dr Vasant Lad in his Ayurvedic Medicine book, see details below. His Ayurvedic suggestion is to eat bananas. Here ...
Side Effects of Calcium Supplements
July 31st, 2010
Are Calcium Supplements Safe?
Today is the 1st of August 2010. We were warned on our news last night in New Zealand about the possible side effects of calcium supplements. It is possible that taking calcium supplements can lead to heart disease, we were told. But we need calcium for a healthy heart, for healthy nerves, good sleep and a calm brain, and to prevent colon cancer. So now what?
Calcium build-ups can occur in the veins and arteries in people who have never touched a calcium supplement in their life. This doesn't mean that they are eating too much calcium, ...
Fermentation of Garlic
July 30th, 2010
How to Ferment Garlic and Enhance its Health Giving Properties.
Recipe for Fermented Garlic. This is a recipe from my book which came out in the 1980's, entitled 'The No Cancer Notebook'. I was given this recipe by Walter Last when I began a detoxifying programme with his guidance in about 1977. My health had been very bad, as was that of my elder child, since being aerial sprayed with the chemical 245T, or Agent Orange, in 1975. My unborn child suffered because of this spraying episode which had contaminated our drinking water, our house, and our whole environment. She died three months ...
Does the Olive Oil Treatment Work for Lice
July 30th, 2010
Olive Oil Treatment for Head Lice.
'Does the Olive Oil Treatment Work for Head Lice?' you may ask, and with good reason.
Head lice are certainly difficult to eradicate: even with the use of harmful commercial insecticide preparations, head lice can be pesky, determined little creatures.
Olive Oil Treatment for Head Lice is a perfectly natural way in which you can get rid of head lice. It takes a little more effort than using a commercial poison, but the effort in protecting your child from harmful potentially carcenogenic poisons is certainly well worth it.
There are, of course, some commercially made herbal or homeopathic ...