Not much time just now, but really wanted to get a little note out here:
There are improvements in my 100# goal... check my SPARKnEarthlyBest blog for details! :)
There is news in my new business as well... read about it in my Eco~Mom~Andee blog!
And in things around here moving in an earthly best direction...
using cloth shopping bags more consistently;
making more foods & meals from scratch;
removed about 80% of the toxic products from our home;
steadily finding more ways to conserve, to reduce, to reuse, to recycle, to repurpose more and more things in our lives in an effort to live healthier and more purposeful lives to our earthly best!
Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrition. Show all posts
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
It Takes Money:
So I just keep on keeping on, and hanging on, and going on!
There is so much I wish to do but this body of mine doesn't wish to cooperate so often. :( You know the saying, "It takes money to make money" ??? (Sure you do - everyone does) Well, it's true; but so is this! It takes money to regain health!
Why is it that the more you see a doctor, the more you need to see a doctor? And why is that when a doctor gives you a prescription for one ailment it causes a few others to develop for which you need a few more prescriptions for? Why aren't doctors really interested in helping people get healthy?
MONEY!
That's what it's all about! Money! See, if the doctors make you well then you don't need to see them so much so they don't make as much money. And if they don't give you a prescription when they see you then the pharmacy guys don't make as much money either. And somewhere in the picture are all the other entities that make a little money with every visit: the clinics, the hospitals, the labs, the insurance companies... there are so many people (jobs) with a vested interest in keeping you coming back time after time. You wouldn't come back if you were well!!!
HOW does it take money to regain health?
The basic recipe to regain health is to do what your body needs to be healthy.
1. You need to stop doing things that make it unhealthy.
2. You need to start doing things that help it be healthy.
3. It's best to both 1 & 2 at the same time until you regain full health.
Sounds so simple! So easy! Right?
Wrong!!!
Let's take #1 - what makes us unhealthy?
Pollution, chemical exposures, poor quality foods, a lack of nutrients in whatever we take in, lack of exercise. That's about it. "Garbage IN, Garbage OUT" is really all our unhealthy bodies are saying to us!
Let's stop it!
Pollution - just for us personally it's expensive to remove pollutants from our environment. Same with chemical exposures. Poor quality foods - we can buy higher quality at a higher price. So again we're back to money. Same thing for nutritional values of anything we eat or drink... takes more money to get more quality. Exercise is maybe the one thing that doesn't need to cost more for us - we just need to make it a higher priority in our lives and do it more often. But exercise alone generally won't make us completely healthy.
To regain health takes money!
Let's look at #2! Start buying better quality foods with higher nutritional values... those cost more, but aren't you worth it? Remove all the chemicals from your home - the cleaning stuff, the shampoos, toothpaste, body washes, soaps, cosmetics, air fresheners, etc. Watch for furnishings that contain chemicals that emit fumes into your home. And what about the foods and drinks you consume? Some are loaded with chemicals and carcinogens and other harmful stuff. Read all the labels carefully! Ask questions! Do your research!
But, to do a really top-notch job (there's a lot of stuff to replace!) with this it takes more money!
I mean, let's face it! Look around you! Who do you see with the most health problems? Those with the least money! I'd be willing to bet that if you could take away the money issue, make it so everyone has equal access to the best quality foods and the highest level of nutritional value for everything they ate and drank then you would find lots more healthier people. They would just keep on getting healthier too!
Right now I am so tired of always needing more money to keep doing what I'm already doing! It's making it harder and harder to save up for things I really need yet! I need to eat totally organic foods, and drink totally organic beverages. But the highly processed stuff is cheaper and fits my present budget better. :( I need to build up my own business more. But that means more printing stuff from my home computer (business cards, flyers, info sheets, invitations, etc.) or paying someone else to do it. I need to keep my bills (rent, utilities, phone, car, groceries, etc) paid up but that gets tricky when the cost for those things goes up and the income stays the same, or worse, goes down!
Bottom line... IT TAKES MONEY!!!
There is so much I wish to do but this body of mine doesn't wish to cooperate so often. :( You know the saying, "It takes money to make money" ??? (Sure you do - everyone does) Well, it's true; but so is this! It takes money to regain health!
Why is it that the more you see a doctor, the more you need to see a doctor? And why is that when a doctor gives you a prescription for one ailment it causes a few others to develop for which you need a few more prescriptions for? Why aren't doctors really interested in helping people get healthy?
MONEY!
That's what it's all about! Money! See, if the doctors make you well then you don't need to see them so much so they don't make as much money. And if they don't give you a prescription when they see you then the pharmacy guys don't make as much money either. And somewhere in the picture are all the other entities that make a little money with every visit: the clinics, the hospitals, the labs, the insurance companies... there are so many people (jobs) with a vested interest in keeping you coming back time after time. You wouldn't come back if you were well!!!
HOW does it take money to regain health?
The basic recipe to regain health is to do what your body needs to be healthy.
1. You need to stop doing things that make it unhealthy.
2. You need to start doing things that help it be healthy.
3. It's best to both 1 & 2 at the same time until you regain full health.
Sounds so simple! So easy! Right?
Wrong!!!
Let's take #1 - what makes us unhealthy?
Pollution, chemical exposures, poor quality foods, a lack of nutrients in whatever we take in, lack of exercise. That's about it. "Garbage IN, Garbage OUT" is really all our unhealthy bodies are saying to us!
Let's stop it!
Pollution - just for us personally it's expensive to remove pollutants from our environment. Same with chemical exposures. Poor quality foods - we can buy higher quality at a higher price. So again we're back to money. Same thing for nutritional values of anything we eat or drink... takes more money to get more quality. Exercise is maybe the one thing that doesn't need to cost more for us - we just need to make it a higher priority in our lives and do it more often. But exercise alone generally won't make us completely healthy.
To regain health takes money!
Let's look at #2! Start buying better quality foods with higher nutritional values... those cost more, but aren't you worth it? Remove all the chemicals from your home - the cleaning stuff, the shampoos, toothpaste, body washes, soaps, cosmetics, air fresheners, etc. Watch for furnishings that contain chemicals that emit fumes into your home. And what about the foods and drinks you consume? Some are loaded with chemicals and carcinogens and other harmful stuff. Read all the labels carefully! Ask questions! Do your research!
But, to do a really top-notch job (there's a lot of stuff to replace!) with this it takes more money!
I mean, let's face it! Look around you! Who do you see with the most health problems? Those with the least money! I'd be willing to bet that if you could take away the money issue, make it so everyone has equal access to the best quality foods and the highest level of nutritional value for everything they ate and drank then you would find lots more healthier people. They would just keep on getting healthier too!
Right now I am so tired of always needing more money to keep doing what I'm already doing! It's making it harder and harder to save up for things I really need yet! I need to eat totally organic foods, and drink totally organic beverages. But the highly processed stuff is cheaper and fits my present budget better. :( I need to build up my own business more. But that means more printing stuff from my home computer (business cards, flyers, info sheets, invitations, etc.) or paying someone else to do it. I need to keep my bills (rent, utilities, phone, car, groceries, etc) paid up but that gets tricky when the cost for those things goes up and the income stays the same, or worse, goes down!
Bottom line... IT TAKES MONEY!!!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Day 18 Comes to a Close
OK, we're now 18 days into my new plan... living greener, getting healthier, etc.
HOW ARE WE DOING?
UGH!!!
Change is never easy!
But we are making progress!
We are trying to remember to use the cloth tote bags we've gathered when we go shopping - but first we must come up with a plan to REMEMBER TO BRING THEM with us!!! LOL It's about 50/50 right now.
We have all agreed that we will not buy anymore chemical cleaning products. The little bits of the few we do still have will get used up unless I can find someone else who might want them. We don't feel it's right to just throw them out. But I do feel like I really don't want to use them anymore. Aside from the chemicals not being good for the environment, and not being good for us, I have some personal issues with how those chemicals affect me and my health as well as the health of some of my not-so-healthy kids! Maybe I will just dispose of them!
Some of the things we're using instead of those chemical cleaners:
Basic H2 - 1 dilution for windows and glass cleanings, a 2nd dilution for average household cleanings (counters, sinks, toilets, tubs, etc)... and even a 3rd dilution formula for the really greasy messes! We made 3 bottles (16 oz ea.) and have done lots of cleaning with them, we even made a 2nd bottle of the #2 formula, but we have only used about 2 teaspoons of the Basic H2 so far (and it's been a month since we started using it). I even wrote the date on it so I will know how long it lasted. (I'm keeping track of expenses - how much we spend on the products we're switching to, how long they last vs. how much the other stuff cost & lasted)
Vinegar
Baking Soda
Borax
We're learning lots of different recipes to combine those three ingredients with plain water to do all sorts of things. I'll try to post some of those here soon.
I also want to mention that we deal with lots of health problems here in my household. We talked some about how to handle this. My business kit came with a month's supply of Vitalizer - a basic supplement strip that includes vitamins & minerals, antioxidants, omega-3s, and even probiotics! I've been taking them for the last 3 days. I have to say they must go to work pretty quickly as I've been under tons of stress and had to do so much more physically than usual for the last several days and 4 days ago I thought I would end up with the whole weekend in bed unable to move, but that didn't happen! We'll see, I'm still skeptical of new stuff - especially if I'm swallowing it! BUT, I trust these supplements more than what I get at Wal-Mart! LOL
Sometimes I dream that coming back to this company will be a really positive thing for me. Though, after ten years of dealing with constant pain and seriously reduced mobility, I don't hope for anything to really reverse that, but it would be nice to find a way to lessen the pain, increase the mobility AND not be worried about side effects that all my prescriptions have! As I build up my business I'll add more of the supplements to my routine, replacing the ones I now get at other places. It's like I'm going to show everyone, personally, by my own experience, that these supplements work better for your body and even faster so you won't need as much of them as you do of the cheaper stuff you get at the discount stores. :) Who knows? I might even get really brave and try weight loss program too! Yes, like practically everyone I know, I need to lose weight too... but I'm even more leary of "weight loss plans" than I am of new supplements!
The other thing we've been working on is a garden!!!
Let me first say that I have the world's brownest thumb... the most success I could have in growing a garden is with a rock garden! LOL
However, we have to find a way to cut costs. We have to find a way to eat healthier. We have to eat organic produce as much as possible. SOOOO... We HAVE TO GROW A GARDEN!
My kids, my sister, my niece, everyone here wants to do it! So I figure if any of them might have a green thumb (we have no idea yet) then maybe we'll have more green thumbs than brown ones and that will make up for my really brown thumb! LOL
So to this effort - now that the snow is gone (except for just a few spots in the shadiest areas) we've been raking up all the debris from fall and winter. Right now it's just in big pile - that's getting rained on tonight. :( Guess we're going to try composting too! Hmmm... something else to work on.
A friend is going to loan us his tiller soon - after we decide exactly where in that back yard we're going to turn the ground over/under! He's at least grown a garden or two - so he's good for some advice too. Maybe he'll teach my kids while his wife & I go out for some sorely lacking girl time we've been missing! ;-)
Well, time to sign off for now. I'll try to post a little more often.
HOW ARE WE DOING?
UGH!!!
Change is never easy!
But we are making progress!
We are trying to remember to use the cloth tote bags we've gathered when we go shopping - but first we must come up with a plan to REMEMBER TO BRING THEM with us!!! LOL It's about 50/50 right now.
We have all agreed that we will not buy anymore chemical cleaning products. The little bits of the few we do still have will get used up unless I can find someone else who might want them. We don't feel it's right to just throw them out. But I do feel like I really don't want to use them anymore. Aside from the chemicals not being good for the environment, and not being good for us, I have some personal issues with how those chemicals affect me and my health as well as the health of some of my not-so-healthy kids! Maybe I will just dispose of them!
Some of the things we're using instead of those chemical cleaners:
Basic H2 - 1 dilution for windows and glass cleanings, a 2nd dilution for average household cleanings (counters, sinks, toilets, tubs, etc)... and even a 3rd dilution formula for the really greasy messes! We made 3 bottles (16 oz ea.) and have done lots of cleaning with them, we even made a 2nd bottle of the #2 formula, but we have only used about 2 teaspoons of the Basic H2 so far (and it's been a month since we started using it). I even wrote the date on it so I will know how long it lasted. (I'm keeping track of expenses - how much we spend on the products we're switching to, how long they last vs. how much the other stuff cost & lasted)
Vinegar
Baking Soda
Borax
We're learning lots of different recipes to combine those three ingredients with plain water to do all sorts of things. I'll try to post some of those here soon.
I also want to mention that we deal with lots of health problems here in my household. We talked some about how to handle this. My business kit came with a month's supply of Vitalizer - a basic supplement strip that includes vitamins & minerals, antioxidants, omega-3s, and even probiotics! I've been taking them for the last 3 days. I have to say they must go to work pretty quickly as I've been under tons of stress and had to do so much more physically than usual for the last several days and 4 days ago I thought I would end up with the whole weekend in bed unable to move, but that didn't happen! We'll see, I'm still skeptical of new stuff - especially if I'm swallowing it! BUT, I trust these supplements more than what I get at Wal-Mart! LOL
Sometimes I dream that coming back to this company will be a really positive thing for me. Though, after ten years of dealing with constant pain and seriously reduced mobility, I don't hope for anything to really reverse that, but it would be nice to find a way to lessen the pain, increase the mobility AND not be worried about side effects that all my prescriptions have! As I build up my business I'll add more of the supplements to my routine, replacing the ones I now get at other places. It's like I'm going to show everyone, personally, by my own experience, that these supplements work better for your body and even faster so you won't need as much of them as you do of the cheaper stuff you get at the discount stores. :) Who knows? I might even get really brave and try weight loss program too! Yes, like practically everyone I know, I need to lose weight too... but I'm even more leary of "weight loss plans" than I am of new supplements!
The other thing we've been working on is a garden!!!
Let me first say that I have the world's brownest thumb... the most success I could have in growing a garden is with a rock garden! LOL
However, we have to find a way to cut costs. We have to find a way to eat healthier. We have to eat organic produce as much as possible. SOOOO... We HAVE TO GROW A GARDEN!
My kids, my sister, my niece, everyone here wants to do it! So I figure if any of them might have a green thumb (we have no idea yet) then maybe we'll have more green thumbs than brown ones and that will make up for my really brown thumb! LOL
So to this effort - now that the snow is gone (except for just a few spots in the shadiest areas) we've been raking up all the debris from fall and winter. Right now it's just in big pile - that's getting rained on tonight. :( Guess we're going to try composting too! Hmmm... something else to work on.
A friend is going to loan us his tiller soon - after we decide exactly where in that back yard we're going to turn the ground over/under! He's at least grown a garden or two - so he's good for some advice too. Maybe he'll teach my kids while his wife & I go out for some sorely lacking girl time we've been missing! ;-)
Well, time to sign off for now. I'll try to post a little more often.
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