Also; When I have the time to find the right web-design helper - there will be a contact box on this page where you can mail in your opinions and responses for possible posting.

MY CREDENTIALS:  At this writing, I am 51 years old and have not been sick a day since 1998.  That makes it just about a decade since I was last sick. That's right, not a cold, not the flu, not a bug of any kind has gotten the best of me in 10 years now.  It's not circumstances either.  I work 80-hour weeks, and live inside the stressful Washington DC beltway.  What makes me healthy is practicing what I am about to preach.  Read on if you will:

LINKS: There will also be links on this page to bring you to what I believe are the more essential web sites that are 'out there' providing life's critical insights.  Thanks for reviewing them, commenting on them, and- by all means- passing them along to friends.

First of all, ignorance is inexcusable. 

Remember 'Question Authority'? It was a good idea 30 years ago and still is. 

DISCLAIMER: By the way, in light of our litigious society that sees the courtroom as a lottery system and refuses to research and then take responsibility for their own decisions, I am compelled to write this disclaimer:  Though I practice everything I preach, I am not purporting to replace your medical advisors, nor am I a medical practitioner.  So while I am practicing my 1st-amendment right to carry on the following conversation, you are responsible for all of the research that you perform - even at my provocation - and the decisions that you make accordingly. 

DON'T BELIEVE THE EXPERTS;  [necessarily]  I want to provoke you to begin by questioning things you may have taken for granted all your life. I've learned by terrible experience that no matter how boring accounting [for example] is, or auto repair, or plumbing, if you fail to ever harvest a working knowledge of  the most odious of these satellite tasks that are relegated to others - you're asking to be taken. Women know what I mean about auto repair, though I suffered for years through damage repair in the wake of an embezzling bookkeeper.  Even after I caught Hemlataben Patel stealing and forging Buon Fresco's checks, and even after her attorney returned a portion of the stolen money [as a plea to accept one felony instead of three] , Ms. Patel learned that her felony conviction would lead to her deportation so thanks to Virginia law she was able to withdraw her guilty plea and go to court to plead innocent! I appeared as a witness for the state of VA, and this gal who'd had 2 court cases already and was about to have 2 more, and had over 2 million socked away thanks to the proceeds of embezzlement from a Virginia hospital and a California bank, hired an expensive lawyer and in the local Fairfax Courthouse got herself acquitted!  But not before her attorney put me through months of grief - subpoenaing hundreds of documents, demolishing business productivity and then raking me over the coals in court in front of a jury of my own neighbors in Fairfax County, alleging that I was really the one to blame and was lying about her thefts!  After her acquittal and right outside the courtroom door in front of the bamboozled jurors Ms. Patel was handcuffed and extradited to California to stand trial there for embezzlement at Bank of America, and then returned to Arlington VA, finally to be hit with 16 felony counts for embezzlements from a local hospital.   I don't know if she is still in jail or if she ever finally got deported, but I do know that I might have saved myself a flood of grief had I not been so willing to 'trust the expert'.

But no one's life was ever at stake.  The stakes are much higher in medicine.  How much do you know about taking care of your body?  How many medications do you take without ever researching their contents and questioning their potential side effects?  Are you one of these people who reach for yearly flu shots without ever considering the long term effects?  Did you know that years ago a causal link was studied between the annual flu shot and Alzheimer's disease?  Do you know what goes into Vaccines that you are willing to inject directly into your bloodstream?

For now I wish you to consider the most vulnerable of all the medical world's patients.. ..children.

VACCINES: I will start by providing a link to an article that I believe everyone who is a parent should read.  It is called 'In the Wake of Vaccines' By Barbara Loe Fisher. http://www.mothering.com/articles/growing_child/vaccines/wake.html    ..................    Don't miss reading it through to the end. 

Then check the links [above right] to learn more about the chemical content of individual vaccines.  From there it is easy to Google the ingredients and to learn how these chemicals affect the health of your child, or if its a flu vaccine, how they may be affecting you! [I read an article 14 years ago in the New York Times, quoting information from a study first published by the medical journal, the Lancet, about possible correlations between the annual flu shot and Alzheimer's disease.]

I was fortunate.  When I was pregnant with my son, I was led by providence to information which persuaded me to refuse vaccinating my newborn. Since that time my son Nikolai has only ever been vaccinated against potentially fatal diseases such as Polio & Tetanus. [School requirements have never been a problem since there are laws in each state which allow for religious exemptions from vaccines.]  Today, Nick is a thriving, healthy 8 year old who is in Gifted Talented classes at school, has no allergies, no ailments and rarely gets sick.  I can count on one hand his illnesses in 8 years. That includes zero ear infections, two colds, and two routine childhood sicknesses.  He's had maybe 5 bouts of illness in his entire 8 years.  All short lived. On the other hand, I have friends and clients whose children have been severely afflicted by the administration of vaccines. One client of mine, an attorney, is writing a book about mercury poisoning, the result of research she has done since her formerly very healthy  -then 2 1/2 year old - became ill immediately after a round of routine vaccinations.  The child, now 12, is severely autistic.

I implore you to read the article [link above] and begin your own research if you have never done so. Especially if you or someone you know is going to have a baby, or has an infant  or young child already.

NEWBORN VACCINE:  Why should you do your own research?  Well a quick review of the 2 links offered above left, will show you a powerful case in point.  In the Vaccine Excipient Summary [found at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf ] you will learn that Aluminum Hydroxide is one of the ingredients in the Hepatitis B vaccine.  Consider that Hep B is routinely administered to newborns.  Then read the definition of Aluminum Hydroxide below [taken from the 'physician reviewed web site www.drugs.com]

Aluminum Hydroxide   'It is not known whether aluminum hydroxide will harm an unborn baby. Do not take this medication without first talking to your doctor if you are pregnant.  It is not known whether aluminum hydroxide will harm an nursing baby. Do not take this medication without first talking to your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.'

So, what we are finding here with a bit of simple research is that - a medication that is not recommended for a pregnant or nursing mother, due to the question of harm to an infant, is contained nevertheless in a medication injected directly into the bloodstream of a newborn baby.  

HEP - B is injected automatically into newborn infants in hospitals today.   Is it a law?   I was able to refuse it for my newborn.  When a mother is giving birth, unless they already have hepatitis, or are a intravenous drug user, the newborn is NOT at risk!   I'm 51 and have never had hepatitis.  SO what is this blanket inoculation of newborns for - when the risk of the disease is negligible but the danger of harm from the chemicals in the injection is legitimate?  ?Could the provocation be pecuniary? You Decide.

AUTISM and CHRONIC DISEASE:  Consider the astronomical growth of chronic disease in children in just the last 20 years.   In the 1980s one child in 2,500 had autism.  Today it is one child out of 175!  There is nothing that can possibly explain the explosive growth of this and other chronic diseases in children who live in a country with the clean air and water and plentitude of healthy food that we enjoy, outside of the concurrent explosive rate of new vaccinations in the same 20 + years.  This catastrophe is not related to income levels either, with an equivalent number of afflicted represented in every sphere of society. Rather the quantity of blood stream injected toxins via the vaccines that children are subjected to by the age of 6 in the United States, is mind boggling.  Is it any wonder that the bodies and minds of our nations youth are deteriorating at such a rate?  Could it be that we are at risk because we don't take the time to do our own research preferring to 'trust the experts'?

NEW VACCINE: Do you not know how it works with our lawmakers?  Consider that a little tested new vaccine has already become mandatory by LAW in parts of the United States at the behest and lobbying power of Merck, a drug making giant?  Having had no practical time frame of testing, Merck lobbied to have lawmakers on the hill make it compulsory for little girls of 6 years of age to have yet another vaccine administered before returning to school this fall. A vaccine against what is the low instance and currently remote presence of cervical cancer that is a result of sexual activity.  What does this have to do with a 6 year old?  It seems to me like Merck has been looking for yet another drug to foist on our population and the discovery of this relationship between cervical cancer [which vaccines do not prevent] and a biological element [which vaccines allegedly can interfere with] became their new golden goose..  At a cost of $85 and up per mandatory inoculation.

But the very new vaccine, though it is already law in some locations, has yet to be sufficiently tested for either effectiveness or long term effects. Do you want your child to become a guinea pig for this experiment?  And if they're vaccine harmed, and even if you were to win a judgment, will that return your beloved child to normal?

THALIDOMIDE:  Are any of you old enough to remember the thalidomide scandal?  Also not sufficiently tested, this drug administered specifically to pregnant women for morning sickness in the 1950s resulted in babies born with terrible deformities.  http://www.fda.gov/cder/news/thalidomide.htm

Do you disagree?  If you've done your homework then be peaceful.  If not, you owe it to yourself and your family to learn as much as you can, and then make informed choices. That is the point here.  Informed choices.  Ignorance is inexcusable.  Especially with GOOGLE around!

ANTIBACTERIAL HAND SOAP:  DO NOT USE HAND SANITIZERS!   It is just this type of anti-bacterial soap that is leading to the proliferation of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.**  Excessive use of external  antibiotic cleansers is just as harmful as the overuse of internal antibiotics.  Both practices work to destroy your natural immune system.

Plain Ivory soap kills as many of germs as these hand sanitizers without all the unnecessary chemicals and medications, and without harming your natural beneficial bacteria.  Do you wish to stay well?   The answer is to build your natural immune system - both internal and external.  We have already seen where medications are failing people who are fighting new strains of resistant bacteria. 

It also bears mention that ours is an over chemical'd society and this type of cleanser is just one more chemical infiltrating your pores and your blood stream. 

AVOID EXCESS CHEMICALS:  YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY CHEMICALS YOUR SKIN, NASAL PASSAGES AND DIGESTIVE TRACT IS ASSIMULATING DAILY!  HAVE A HAIR TEST DONE.  IT WILL ASTOUND YOU! 

GO TO http://www.naturalrearing.com/coda/a_could_it_be_your_fabric.html  -      TO SEE WHAT GOES INTO THE LIST OF TOXIC CHEMICALS THAT MAKE UP THE FABRIC SOFTENER THAT YOU ARE PUTTING IN CONTACT DAILY WITH THE SKIN OF YOUR INFANTS AND CHILDREN!!!!

On the subject of too many chemicals, avoid plug in air fresheners also.  Their usage amounts to more chemicals to ingest into your system.  If you need a nice smell somewhere purchase potpourri.   Go to www.sanfranciscoherbs.com.  They have a wonderful selection.

BUY PERFUME AND COLORANT FREE SOAPS OF ALL KINDS.  SOAP IS SIMPLE AND HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CIVILIZATION.  IT HAS LITTLE BEEN IMPROVED UPON, RATHER IT HAS MOSTLY BEEN HARMED BY THE ADDITION OF TOXIC CHEMICALS.  THE PLAINER THE BETTER.   IVORY SOAP KILLS AS MANY GERMS AS THE LEADING ANTI-BACTERIAL, WITHOUT DESTROYING YOUR SKIN'S NATURAL OILS AND PH  LEVELS WHICH SUPPORT ITS OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM.

Last word tonight on this subject of resisting harmful bacteria and viruses/ Learn to stop going around saying; "I always get a cold this time of year, or " I always get the flu" or, if anything's going around I'm the one to get it'.  You get what you say.  It's not folklore, it's Biblical. Your words are a creative force.  TO be used negatively or positively.              VIZ   Mark 11:23   For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he says.

**This fact happens to have been the subject of a recent Washington Post article.  [October 2007] which discussed how antibiotic soaps and cleansers encourage the proliferation of resistant strains of bacteria which may then contribute to untreatable illnesses such as those we're seeing now. 

TRANS FATS & MARGARINES:  Margarine is a trans fat.   Funny isn't it that the word 'trans fat' is used  today as a pejorative, something to be avoided, but no one ever points out that - that is exactly what margarine is.  A trans fat. [NOTE That Trans Fats used to be called, and still are classified as, Hydrogenated fats, which describes the process of making them.] The ploy continues that suggests that margarine is a superior alternative to butter.  When I was studying health in the 1970's providence showed me what was already common knowledge among health food adherents, that natural oils and butter are superior in every way to artificially produced butters [margarine] and other hydrogenated fats. Read the definition below from Wikipedia of Trans Fat:

Most trans fats consumed today are industrially created by partially hydrogenating plant oils — a process developed in the early 1900s and first commercialized as Crisco in 1911. The goal of partial hydrogenation is to add hydrogen atoms to unsaturated fats, making them more saturated. These more saturated fats have a higher melting point making them attractive for baking, and extending their shelf-life. Another particular class of trans fats, vaccenic acid occurs in trace amounts in meat and dairy products from ruminants.

The process of producing trans fats was developed for economy, no other reason.  Hydrogenated fats are fats which are liquid at room temperature that are spun at high speeds to create a fine 'bubbling' which then makes them as if 'solid' at room temperatures, as in Margarine. The spinning process however renders the oil difficult to digest, and suspect in ailments such as hardening of the arteries.

Hydrogenated and Trans fats were developed since they replace the - more expensive to produce - butter, and allegedly enjoy a longer shelf life than some oils.  [Though ironically, pure butter is fresh indefinitely.]   There is absolutely no health benefit to margarine over butter.  It is deleterious rather.  The idea that Margarine is some way superior is a result of the American paranoia about fat.  As if the slightly lower fat content of margarine were going to prevent weight gain. 

Inactivity and hidden SUGAR are the Culprits in American obesity.

OVERWEIGHT: It is not the fat content of food in America which is the culprit in our overweight population, but the sugar content.  The guilty ingredient is that which is hidden in our processed food products, breads, cereals, you name it its there.  Look at so called 'wheat' breads.  They are nothing more than colored white breads [if the ingredients do NOT say WHOLE WHEAT, then the flour is WHITE over- processed flour, to which perhaps colorants and some vitamins are added to make the overall vitamin content read like real bread.] But have you ever wondered why the breads in most grocery stores are so gummy and squishable.  Read the number 2 ingredient.  [You should know that by law ingredients in food products are listed in the order of quantity.]  The number 2 ingredient in most American 'wheat' bread is corn syrup.  That is nothing more than liquid high octane sugar.   Bread needs little or no sugar to be bread. 

Want to lose weight? - get used to the taste of real bread. Use a bit of real butter on the bread too, which small amount of fat has two powerful benefits [as Europeans have always known and do NOT eliminate the fat from their diets as Americans do]  #1 Fat satisfies.  When you eat a small amount of a quality fat, your stomach feels fuller and you do not have the powerful urge for more that sugared products create:  #2.  Without some fat in your diet, the critical fat soluble vitamins [A, D, E, K] cannot be absorbed & digested. #3 Quality fats like that in fish oils, Olive Oils and other types of un- refined vegetable oils, are beneficial, assisting in the absorption of vitamins, improving dry skin, and more.  Whereas white sugar adds NOTHING to our diet.

But read the ingredient listing of nearly every processed food and corn syrup is there somewhere in almost every case.   American grocery stores are FULL to the brim with sugar laced foods.

I was at my brother's house for Thanksgiving some years back and he was serving 'fat free half & half for the coffee service.  Fat free HALF & HALF?  That's like serving fat free fat!  Naturally I read the ingredients and they listed somewhat like a Bolar Pharmaceutical Catalog.   At the top of the list of course was corn syrup, and a host of other sugars.  I talked him into substituting the real thing for the substitute, and guess what, he did not gain weight!  But I can guarantee his arteries are better for the switch, and he's LESS likely to gain weight over time with the reduction in sugar in his diet.

Last word today on living in health; Scripture promises in Proverbs 3: verses 7 & 8  [King James Version]

8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

ALSO: Unforgiveness in your heart is CERTAIN to eventually become a sickness in your body.  A person CANNOT live in divine health  - while harboring unforgiveness for anyone for ANY reason WHATSOEVER.  Forgiveness is a COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD!  If you are sick with something chronic or life threatening - [cancer comes to mind] take a minute from your day to make a list of anyone and everyone you have ever failed to forgive for any reason, forgive them; then ask the Lord to forgive you!  Then you can ask Him to remove the cancer, and He will.  For more information on being healed from cancer; aids; tumors; and more log onto any of the following:  www.emilydotson.com   www.jglm.org  www.osborn.org or to be directed to more information email us at; awa@bfresco.com

So it is the fear of the Lord, forgiveness and the shunning of evil that ultimately keeps a man healthy.   It's not enough to eat and live well.  Without loving and obeying God,  and departing from evil, all the vitamins and clean water in the world won't keep a man healthy.  Perfect and divine health is a direct product of a healthy relationship with the one true God.  God bless you.