Strange pingbacks and links.

I know we must all get spam links, but is anyone getting linked to another blog….only they always attribute your link to another name. I quite frequently get linked to http://mentalillness.thehealthsite.info/

I check my  Akismet spam and these links show up…but when I go them my work is attributed to strange names:  Articles Blog,  North Country Gazette, Fit For Health Guide, Pregnancy Calendar Signs Welcomes All The New, Pro Dosi

There is another site, http://alternative.holisticmeds.info/ is also reposting other people’s work.

I can’t seem to find a contact or an about page. Do you suppose it is a “bot” doing this. I wouldn’t mind if they were sometime part of the discussion like other who post links to me…but it doesn’t make any sense..

Go visit it http://mentalillness.thehealthsite.info/ and see if you recognize your stuff….I haven’t recognized anyone who I usually read being reposted. I just wish they would use my real title and I wonder if it is a money making thing for them.

Today I went to the farmers market. I love going to farmers markets. You get to visit with the farmers and see your friends and it is a pleasant walk for me.

Here is what I purchased.

1.  Pretty flowers….no pesticides.
2. Cheese, tenderloin beef tips, and sausage from a the same farmer
3. Cookies and a caramel roll
4. Beets, the farmer said I could cook the greens and gave me suggestions for the roots (beets). I have never liked beets that much, but I will try the greens and use the roots to add color to salads. She also suggested cooking them with vinegar, sugar and cornstarch.
5. Swiss chard, we used to grow this when I was a kid and we ate it steamed every night; picked fresh from our own backyard garden.
6. Eggs. I am actually going to let them sit a bit because I want to make potato salad and they peel better when they are old(er).

I am sorry I have posted as much lately. I am very busy. I have been trying to get other things done and I am using a timer when I am online…it went off two minutes ago.

Do any of you shop at farmers markets? Do you have some within walking distance…or an easy drive? What is your favorite thing to puchase at a farmers market?

PS. I lost two pounds last time I weighted in…better not eat another cookie today.

I just set my timer for 10 minutes and worked on clearing paper off my table. I had gotten so engrossed in other chores that I let it become swamped with papers. Anyway, one of the biggest problems to side-tracked housekeepers is reading papers they are supposed to be pitching in the garbage or filing. (Actually, I don’t pitch paper in the garbage, I shred my papers and give them to a chicken farmer at the farmers market who uses them for bedding.)

I decided to read one newsletter. It was said that cauliflower, broccoli and other cruciferous vegetable may help fight cancer. It quoted a study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which involved 6,000 Chinese women, and found that those who ate locally common calciferous vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage and white turnips, had a lower breast cancer risk after menopause.

Before I started blogging, I hadn’t even heard the term cruciferous.

In another part of the newsletter, “Ask the Pharmacist” some one asked why there are more and more television ads for prescription drugs directed at “me”.

The answer in the newsletter?….To get you to buy their product. Well, that is entirely true. But what they didn’t touch was that it wasn’t too many years ago that it was considered improper to advertise directly to the “consumer.” It wasn’t that long ago that the medical profession put themselves above that.

Okay, I can finally see the top of my table, and I did wait until my timer went off to post this.

So I learned something, posted something….and did a little straightening up.

I will get my place looking good….a little bit at at time. Hopefully by this time tomorrow, I will have a cleared off table graced with a bouquet of flowers from the farmers market. There will be no marathons for me. Just gradualness.

If you are like me and get engrossed in everything other than keeping house take a visit to Flylad.net or the Organizer Lady at messies.com

Oh no,  I joined a support group for dog owners and when I checked it this morning I found a rapid discussion going about the glories of medicating your anxious dog. I know Gianna mentioned pets on psycho-actives a few weeks ago. I am so sickened I don’t know what to do. I really am not ready to come out to these people. It is a short term solution to their anxious Fido. I have problems with my dog, or else I would not have joined the support group…but if you don’t have the lifestyle or the time to cure a dog’s anxiousness, you probably shouldn’t own a dog. And believe me, it takes time!

I found a cartoon here:

Mike Adams www.NaturalNews.com

Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

The following is from NaturalNew.com comments on doggie prozac

(NaturalNews) Big Pharma is constantly looking for new ways to develop its markets and generate more profits. This is the inescapable directive of all corporations: Be more profitable, regardless of the cost to society. In Big Pharma’s case, the pursuit of this mission inevitably leads to the targeting of an ever-increasing selection of pharmaceutical consumers who have the potential to become lifelong customers.

With antidepressants, deeply depressed adults were targeted first. When that market was saturated, drug companies began selling the idea that antidepressants were “happy pills,” suitable for use in not merely serious depression states, but even as “depression prevention!” (So-called “early intervention,” where you use antidepressant drugs in perfectly healthy people in order to “prevent” depression from appearing.) This was a major breakthrough for Big Pharma: Now they could sell drugs to healthy people and were no longer limited to merely selling drugs to the sick.

When that market was saturated, they went after the children. Multi-million dollar marketing and propaganda campaigns convinced children that virtually any experience of sadness — say, losing a pet or having a friend move away — was a disease that could be treated with pharmaceuticals. Soon, millions of children were put on drugs like Prozac, and the great push towards diagnoses of bipolar disorder was underway by the hopelessly corrupt psychiatryindustry, which is wholly owned and controlled by Big Pharma.

When a sufficient number of children were drugged with antidepressants and amphetamines (like Ritalin), the drug companies realized there was still one non-drugged entity in a typical household that could potentially become a new revenue source: The family dog. So Big Pharma lobbied the FDA for the approval of antidepressant drugs for dogs, and in February, 2007, the FDA approved Prozac for dogs. Because, apparently, dogs have “chemical imbalances in their brain” requiring treatment with patented synthetic chemicals, just like children and adults, right? (See the book Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients.)

Prozac liquid drops for your pet fish are, apparently, just around the corner. And don’t be surprised to see Ritalin for “hyperactive” dogs, too. There’s no emotion, behavior or experience that’s safe from the disease labels of Big Pharma and the FDA.

See related: Disease Mongering Engine:
http://www.NaturalNews.com/disease-monge…

Every day is a challenge. Every where I go people serve food and I have to decide if I should eat it. First, whether or not it is healthy for me? Is it organic, is it what my brain needs; then for the salt content. Then for it’s effects on the environment.

Hi,

Sorry that I have been so busy lately. A friend emailed me this about Coke and water and I thought it was interesting. I hope to post more personal stuff soon.

WATER

#1.   75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
(Likely applies to half the world population.)

#2.  In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak
that it is mistaken for hunger.

#3.  Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as 3%.

#4.  One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs
   for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of
Washington study.

#5.    Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

#6.   Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of
    water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain
for up to 80% of sufferers.

#7.   A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term
     memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on
the computer screen or on a ! printed page.

#8.   Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of
  colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast
cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop
bladder cancer. Are you drinking the amount of water
you should drink every day?

COKE

#1.   In many states the highway patrol carries
     two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from
the highway after a car accident.

#2.    You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke
and it will be gone in two days.

#3.   To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the
   toilet bowl and let the ‘real thing’ sit for one hour,
then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes
stains from vitreous china.

#4.   To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers:
     Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds
Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

#5.  To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour
    a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble
away the corrosion.

#6.  To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola
to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

#7.  To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into
the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake.
Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the
drippings to mix
with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.

#8…   To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke
into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run
through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen
grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your
windshield.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION:

#1.     the active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid.
It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric
acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major
contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.

#2.   To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.

#3.    The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!

Now the question is, would you like a glass of water? or Coke?

Yesterday, I received several emails to contact Nevada Senator Harry Reid to stop the FISA bill. Forgien Intelligence Surveillance Act.  My heart pounded as I made the call. His Washington, D.C. line was busy so I phoned his Nevada office. And aide suggested I phone the senators of my state also. I had already emailed them, so I phoned them also.

One of them was also against the bill. The other senator’s aide said he didn’t know how the senator felt. Come on, the vote was the next day, how could he not know?

It was scary for me to phone, but I did it.  I feel that those of us in the alternative mental health cybersphere need to  protect our rights. Thirty years ago if we knew the government was listening in on our phone conversations, we would have a fit!  Sure, we want people to read our blogs, but I certainly don’t want the government reading my private emails.  What if I don’t agree with Big Pharma?  You know who funds most of the candidates? ….Big Pharma.  In fact there are four, yes count them, four lobbyists for ever one member of congress.

Anyway….on to the bad news

Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill

A few days ago I posted What’s in the Cool Whip?  Well, after that post, what should I find as I walk into the co-op but some packages of scrumptious looking ripe strawberries and a cannisters of whipped topping, Sooyatoo, beside them. So on an impulse I bought some to compare it with Cool Whip.

That night I cut up the stawberries and I mised the Bisquick (yeah I know I need to quit using Bisquick), to make some shortcakes. After I bake the shortcakes I cut them in half and put strawberries and the whipped topping on top of one have, and cut up pies of the rest of the shortcakes on top mixed with the whipped topping and strawberries.

Hubby loved it!  I made it again tonight.  (You have to be careful or the bottom of the short cakes will burn.)  I told hubby what it was, he wasn’t too thrilled. I wish I would have never told him.

This stuff is great, kinda expensive, but oh boy, it is a treat! It seems to be good for you and looks like there are barely any points or calories.

Ingredients: Organic soymilk (water, soybeans), organic coconut oil, organic fractionated palm kernel oil, organic sugar beet syrup, organic maltodextrin, tartaric acid, carrageenan, sea salt, natural vanilla extract, propellant (nitrous oxide)

Okay, does anyone know what maltodextrin, tartaric acid or acrrageenan is?

Nutritional information:
Serving size – 2 tablespoons
Servings per container – about 33
Calories per serving – 10
Total fat – 0.5g (0.5g saturated)
Sodium – 0mg
Total carbohydrate – 1g (0g fiber, 1g sugars)
Protein – 0g

I don’t know how to upload this video to wordpress, but you can watch this interactive video posted to the Charlotte News Observer

http://www.newsobserver.com/1181/story/958236.html

Mental disorder: The failure of reform

News & Observer

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