Mom always knows what to do, if you listen to her. So call Mom. ‘Listen to your mom!’ Echos around the world probably every day in all different languages. But I’m talking about the Big Kahuna Mom, the one you don’t fool with, the Mother of us all who bestows Her miracles: conception, birth, our babies’ bodies growing and changing to adults…it’s magic, the body’s rejuvenation and rebirth after our wondrous immune systems repair the simple and the seemingly irreparable, given an even playing field… In the entire natural world around and within us She performs Her daily miracles. But we’ve become skeptical of Her talents and don’t notice Her miracles so much anymore not because they’re not happening, but because we’ve disrupted and corrupted Her and our natural order, pushed Her aside, have become afraid of ‘natural’ and have succumbed to….us – man conceived and made chemical health/living solutions. Fear is a product of bad health. We’ve succumbed to our fears which self perpetuate as we consume the same synthetic foods day after day — the proverbial revolving door. We hear about breaking ‘glass ceilings’. What about breaking the ‘revolving door’? It’s just another piece of glass. So what’s it gonna take, and who you gonna call?

It’s not good to mess with Mother Nature! She never meant for us to be lab rats. Willing to become aware is what we need to shatter the glass door. Just glass that’s all it is, put there by just people out there to profit from our just buying into their profit-from-fear sales pitches. Oh! This’ll cure you (and make you drug dependent) if the side effects don’t kill you first. Put organic/natural, green and sustainable back into your lives. Trust Mother Nature. She didn’t create all the chemicals we ingest every day. Man did. We did. We are our own worst enemy. We enslaved ourselves. It’s time to trust ourselves, our intuition and judgment again as our ancestors did. Just today a friend of mine was remarking on the number of deaths in her church in the past few months, all young people. She said, “They’re leaving all the old people all alone.” Very sad. This young generation is purportedly the first generation where their parents will outlive them. And it can be turned around.

I’ve just gotta get this out. We soiled our own backyards. We succumbed to the smoke and mirrors of the Big Businesses. We put all the chemicals into our ecosystem, our polluted food and water supplies, we corrupted our farm animal feed, our fertilizers, and our own pet’s food – our other children. We conjured all the prescription chemicals, all the ‘cures’, with the side effects. We did it all and we can undo it, or, at least, live side-by-side with all the different health beliefs to pick and choose from and combine.

Mother Nature is still all forgiving if we listen and act. Maybe these are our teenage rebellion years. Maybe. But now it’s time to grow up and take responsibility and then She’ll have our backs again. Start by a shopping awareness if planting is not an option (although window boxes can be very bountiful). Look for organic, learn about whole grains, read ingredient labels, be discerning and demanding about what goes into and on your body. Have long term goals and become the masters/mistresses of your own health fates. Download or invest in natural/organic cookbooks. Read. Become aware. Food is not the only answer, but it is the ultimate answer. It powers our whole body health and a healthy appetite to find out more. Her miracles are still there. We just have to call Her and listen.

“Docta, docta, what should I do? It hoits when I go like this.” Doctor’s reply: “So? don’t go like that!” Makes sense, doesn’t it?

An old joke usually delivered with a Jewish/Yiddish inflection but can be delivered with any or no inflection and is really universal for so many complaints and circumstances. For this blog, tho, I’m talking about health & wellness complaints from knee jerk reactions often imagined from ingesting too many TV commercials. People just love to complain and compare meds hoping for a one upmanship over another complainer. Nothing like the competitive comparative shopping for drugs from an electronic box by scripted acting touters paid by drug companies with the drugs’ names thought up by an ad agency yuppy think tank. Really. Since TV’s are here to stay, imagine commercials using a more natural approach grounded in common sense and education rather than following the Blind Big Pharma. Don’t get me wrong. There is a place for pharmaceutical meds, but within the Wellness spectrum. Just like with some natural food companies now advertising their products, Id like to see an equal distribution of commercials advertising natural vitamins and homeopathic/natural remedies for what ails you without having to ask ‘my doctor’ about the meds and the horrifying side effects. How about being given the choice of how I want to cure my problem? That way the airways are promoting education and the awareness of there being ‘another way’ so the herd breaks up into individuals and groups of who actually start to think and research independently taking control of their lives. Now that’s a healthy herd.

There’s ‘inside of’ or contents/liquid within and then there’s ‘in’ as in components of all including the plastic bottle itself. It’s truly a head knocking, disbelieving wonder that baby bottles and baby formulas are still being bought and used to feed babies considering all the deadly ingredients being disclosed in both:

(1) Bisphenol A – used to make the hard transparent polycarbonate plastic of the bottle for the formula and water bottles in case you pour water from one to the other. According to David Santillo, a scientist at the Greenpeace research laboratory in Exeter, England, “It is a hormone disruptor able to mimic and interfere with hormone systems in animals. Newborn babies are at a very sensitive stage of their development and the last thing you want to be doing is dosing them with a very potent hormone disruptor.”

(2) Monsanto Co.’s recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) or (rBGH) recombinant bovine growth hormone – an artificial version of the naturally occurring bovine growth hormone which forces cows to produce 15% more milk than usual. Regarding its safety, it’s rated with pesticides.

Even though most cows are not treated with rBGH, you must check the label or call the companies because milk from many dairies is mixed together before being packaged and that means most milk sold in the US probably includes some containing rBGH from treated cows. rBGH was approved in 1993 by the US Department of Agriculture. ‘Organic’ milk and milk not labeled organic but ‘rBGH free’ can be found but all labels must be read. The good news is that many stores and supermarkets are now selling the hormone free milk under their own store brands with more stores coming on board: Safeway, Walmart, Sams Club… (more…)