Nov 16, 2016

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Mar 24, 2016

Field Medicine for Terrorist Attacks

Editor’s note: Lots of folks are asking about tactical first aid classes after yesterday’s bomb attacks in Belgium. Here is an article I wrote after the Boston bombing titled “Field Medicine for Terrorist Attacks.” It describes the basics of what you need to know about stopping serious bleeding and some links to trainers who can […]

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The problems of Sanitation and Waste Disposal After TEOTWAWKI

I read an article on medicine that said until the advent of antibiotics, plumbers probably saved more lives that Doctors. This of cause was because of the improvements in sanitation and waste disposal. During the middle ages, sewage and garbage disposal in most cities was simple; you threw it out the window into the street. Of cause, this led to all kinds of health problems, which included the plagues that were spread by fleas which lived on the rats that ate the sewage and garbage.

In some parts of the world, sanitation is not much improved over what we had in the middle ages. …

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Mar 19, 2016

Food Storage vs Shelf-Life

http://livingprepared.blogspot.com/2016/03/food-storage-vs-shelf-life.html

When I began storing food just before Y2K, there was much controversy and uncertainty about this subject. Most who wrote about it were new at it themselves and had no long term experience to draw upon thereby what they were writing about was just a guess. Because of their guesses I made some mistakes in the beginning but, through my own trial and error and not giving up, got me on the right track.

It's not as difficult as you think, just two rules for food storage.

Rule #1, Keep it very simple with minimal varieties!

Rule #2, Store only what you've already tested, eat and know how to prepare.

Another confusing area about food storage is we’ve all heard about long term and short term but. What are they and how long is each and generally what kind of food is stored in each? Here’s what worked out for me:

Short Term Storage:

Up to 2 years shelf-life.
Virtually all foods in your supermarket fit this 2 year time frame.
This is the food that's in your everyday pantry, just more of it.
It is can, pouched, bagged or boxed foods including your home canned food.
The source for this food is your everyday supermarket.
There should not be any foods in Short Term Storage that requires freezing or needs refrigeration because you cannot ever count on having dependable grid electricity in troubled times.
For Short Term storage there's no need for buying kit buckets of food, MRE's or other specialty survival foods.
All can or home canned foods needs to be protected from freezing.

Mid-Term Storage:

Up to 10 years shelf-life.
Most all #10 cans of dehydrated or freeze dried foods.
Most all pouched foods/meals like the Mountain House brand.
MRE’s (Meals Ready to Eat).
Kit Buckets of food, like the Mountain House 72 hour kit/bucket.

Long Term Storage:

Up to 30 years shelf-life.
Any purchased foods with a declared shelf-life of up to 30 years.
Typically this is all bulk purchased dry foods like; wheat, beans, lentils, rice, barley, pasta, etc.
It requires being sealed in Mylar Bags with Oxygen Absorbers.
Included are ‘some’ #10 cans of dehydrated or freeze dried food, verify shelf-life before storing.

Additional Information:
Stocking commercially canned foods, long term food storage and home canning always raise the same question. What is the shelf life? I look to University Extension Services for the most accurate research and tested methods. The links below will help answer this question with tested fact. Enjoy and be safe with your food storage and canning!

The shelf life paragraph below is from the Utah State University Cooperative Extension
http://extension.usu.edu/foodstorage/htm/canned-goods/

Shelf Life:
As a general rule, unopened “Home canned foods” have a shelf life of one year and should be used before 2 years. “Commercially canned foods” should retain their “best quality” until the expiration code date on the can. This date is usually 2-5 years from the manufacture date. High acid foods usually have a shorter shelf life than low acid foods.

For emergency storage, commercially canned foods in metal or jars will remain safe to consume as long as the seal has not been broken. (That is not to say the quality will be retained for that long).

Foods “canned” in metal-Mylar®-type pouches will also have a best-if-used by date on them. The longest shelf life tested of this type of packaging has been 8-10 years (personal communication U.S. Military MRE’s). Therefore, storage for longer than 10 years is not recommended.

Here’s a few very good links for more qualified canning information.

Utah State University Cooperative Extension
http://extension.usu.edu/foodstorage/htm/canned-goods/

39 Food Specific PDF’s about canning are at this link plus other informative topics.
http://extension.usu.edu/htm/publications/by=category/category=319

National Center for Home Food Preservation. Lots of trustworthy information at this site.
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/publications_usda.html

Mar 9, 2016

Anti-Hoarding Laws Will Enable GOV To Take Your Food Storage by Ken Jorgustin

I suggest that you take the following information very seriously. It is a fact that there are laws on the books that will enable .gov to take and redistribute what you have – as they see fit – under the same circumstances that many of you are prepping for…

Should those circumstances actually come to pass, they will actually have the legal authority to take what you have. It will be even easier for them to do so if they and their agents preemptively discover (e.g. through local word-of-mouth) that you are one of those ‘preppers’. In other words, if you’re ‘ratted out’.

The mainstream has labeled ‘preppers’ = ‘bad’ (and worse), and the fact is that their label’s have ‘stuck’ in the minds of many – that’s another discussion altogether… Those who are self-sufficient-minded, independent-minded, liberty-minded, Constitutionalists, gun owners, any of the above… (you get the idea), be aware of your ‘label’ and the anti-hoarding laws which will paint a big target on you and your abode…

Note: In the context of this article, “hoarding” is not that of having piles of so called junk all around one’s home and yard, instead we’re talking about things like a deep food pantry, food storage beyond a few weeks, extra consumable supplies that you’ve stored, things like that… ‘They’ (the mainstream) have also labeled this type of thing as hoarding (which is ridiculous).

So here we go… how can .gov actually take this away from you?

Mar 6, 2016

Trying Out Some Food Ideas by Suzanne

I've been thinking lately of trying out some of my food ideas:

1. Adding sprouted lentils to a pot of pinto beans for more nourishment.

2. Growing pinto beans and picking some of the beans at about 3" long for green beans, and leaving some to go to seed. That way you could re-supply your beans and still can or dehydrate some.

3. Try a few different recipes for hardtack to find one that won't break your teeth but will still store for years.

These are just a couple of the things I want to actually try for myself and see what is edible and what's not.

I'll be adding to this list and maybe some of you could comment with some ideas for me to try out.

I'll post my results as I get time to do them.

Blessings
Suzanne

Mar 2, 2016

How To Keep Water Bottles From Freezing

The Lost Arts – Processing A Chicken, From Coop To Table

Feb 26, 2016

The True Price of Free Corn

This parable needs to be shared as often as possible. You just never know who will take it to heart and help stop this country from marching even farther down the path of socialism. Think about this: most of the 20-somethings voting this year have really only known one president, they’ve been conditioned to accept surveillance and they’ve been brought up to think that only the government can bring them out of a crisis.

THE TRUE PRICE OF FREE CORN

Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions— especially his traps—and drove south. Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

It was a Saturday morning—a lazy day—when he walked into the general store. Sitting around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the town’s local citizens.

The traveler spoke. “Gentlemen, could you direct me to the Okefenokee Swamp?”

Some of the oldtimers looked at him like he was crazy. “You must be a stranger in these parts,” they said.

“I am. I’m from North Dakota,” said the stranger. “In the Okefenokee Swamp are thousands of wild hogs.” one old man explained. “A man who goes into the swamp by himself asks to die!” He lifted up his leg. “I lost half my leg here, to the pigs of the swamp.”

Another old fellow said, “Look at the cuts on me; look at my arm bit off!

Those pigs have been free since the Revolution, eating snakes and rooting out roots and fending for themselves for over a hundred years. They’re wild and they’re dangerous. You can’t trap them. No man dare go into the swamp by himself.” Every man nodded his head in agreement.

The old trapper said, “Thank you so much for the warning. Now could you direct me to the swamp?” They said, “Well, yeah, it’s due south— straight down the road.” But they begged the stranger not to go, because they knew he’d meet a terrible fate.

He said, “Sell me ten sacks of corn, and help me load it in the wagon.” And they did. Then the old trapper bid them farewell and drove on down the road. The townsfolk thought they’d never see him again. Two weeks later the man came back. He pulled up to the general store, got down off the wagon, walked in and bought ten more sacks of corn. After loading it up he went back down the road toward the swamp.

Two weeks later he returned and again bought ten sacks of corn. This went on for a month. And then two months, and three. Every week or two the old trapper would come into town on a Saturday morning, load up ten sacks of corn, and drive off south into the swamp.

The stranger soon became a legend in the little village and the subject of much speculation. People wondered what kind of devil had possessed this man, that he could go into the Okefenokee by himself and not be consumed by the wild and free hogs.

One morning the man came into town as usual. Everyone thought he wanted more corn. He got off the wagon and went into the store where the usual group of men were gathered around the stove. He took off his gloves.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I need to hire about ten or fifteen wagons. I need twenty or thirty men. I have six thousand hogs out in the swamp, penned up, and they’re all hungry. I’ve got to get them to market right away.”

“You’ve WHAT in the swamp?” asked the storekeeper, incredulously. “I have six thousand hogs penned up. They haven’t eaten for two or three days, and they’ll starve if I don’t get back there to feed and take care of them.”

One of the oldtimers said, “You mean you’ve captured the wild hogs of the Okefenokee?”

“That’s right.”

“How did you do that? What did you do?” the men urged, breathlessly.

One of them exclaimed, “But I lost my arm!”

“I lost my brother!” cried another.

“I lost my leg to those wild boars!” chimed a third.

The trapper said, “Well, the first week I went in there they were wild all right. They hid in the undergrowth and wouldn’t come out. I dared not get off the wagon. So I spread corn along behind the wagon. Every day I’d spread a sack of corn. The old pigs would have nothing to do with it.”

“But the younger pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn than it was to root out roots and catch snakes. So the very young began to eat the corn first. I did this every day. Pretty soon, even the old pigs decided that it was easier to eat free corn. After all, they were all free; they were not penned up. They could run off in any direction they wanted at any time.”

“The next thing was to get them used to eating in the same place all the time. So I selected a clearing, and I started putting the corn in the clearing. At first they wouldn’t come to the clearing. It was too far. It was too open. It was a nuisance to them.”

“But the very young decided that it was easier to take the corn in the clearing than it was to root out roots and catch their own snakes. And not long thereafter, the older pigs also decided that it was easier to come to the clearing every day.”

“And so the pigs learned to come to the clearing every day to get their free corn. They could still subsidize their diet with roots and snakes and whatever else they wanted. After all, they were all free. They could run in any direction at any time. There were no bounds upon them.”

“The next step was to get them used to fence posts. So I put fence posts all the way around the clearing. I put them in the underbrush so that they wouldn’t get suspicious or upset. After all, they were just sticks sticking up out of the ground, like the trees and the brush. The corn was there every day. It was easy to walk in between the posts, get the corn, and walk back out.”

“This went on for a week or two. Shortly they became very used to walking into the clearing, getting the free corn, and walking back out through the fence posts.”

“The next step was to put one rail down at the bottom. I also left a few openings, so that the older, fatter pigs could walk through the openings and the younger pigs could easily jump over just one rail. After all, it was no real threat to their freedom or independence. They could always jump over the rail and flee in any direction at any time.”

“Now I decided that I wouldn’t feed them every day. I began to feed them every other day. On the days I didn’t feed them the pigs still gathered in the clearing. They squealed, and they grunted, and they begged and pleaded with me to feed them. But I only fed them every other day. And I put a second rail around the posts.”

“Now the pigs became more and more desperate for food. Because now they were no longer used to going out and digging their own roots and finding their own food. They now needed me. They needed my corn every other day.

So I trained them that I would feed them every day if they came in through a gate. And I put up a third rail around the fence. But it was still no great threat to their freedom, because there were several gates and they could run in and out at will.”

“Finally I put up the fourth rail. Then I closed all the gates but one, and I fed them very, very well. Yesterday I closed the last gate. And today I need you to help me take these pigs to market.”

end of story—

The allegory of the wild pigs has a serious moral lesson. This story is about Washington politicians using tax money to bait, trap, and enslave a once free and independent people.

The welfare state, from “free” school lunches to old age “pensions” (SS), has reduced more than individuals to a state of dependency. State and local governments are also on the fast track to elimination, due to their functions being subverted by the command and control structures of federal “revenue sharing” programs. Please copy this story and send it to all your state and local elected leaders (and other concerned citizens). Tell them: “Just say NO to “free” federal corn—we can’t afford it.”

Feb 24, 2016

Cat parasite makes people psychotic

(NaturalNews) A new study, conducted by researchers from the Centre for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology in Montpellier, France, and published in the journal Current Biology, adds to the evidence that a parasite transmitted by domestic cats may cause psychiatric illness and instability in human beings.

The parasite in question, Toxoplasma gondii, has a complex life cycle. The organism can only reproduce if it infects the body of a feline, such as a house cat or leopard. There is no direct route of transmission for T. gondii from one feline to another, however. Instead, the parasite is shed in feline feces, from where it infects other animals. This infection is known as toxoplasmosis.

Long evolutionary history with primates

To date, research has focused on the parasite's infection of rodents. Scientists have conclusively shown that toxoplasmosis causes rodents to lose their fear of cats. This makes them more likely to be eaten, thus moving the parasite to a new feline host, where it can reproduce.

The new study shows for the first time that toxoplasmosis can also change the behavior of chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives. Researchers exposed both toxoplasmosis-infected and non-infected captive chimpanzees to the urine of various big cats. They found that infected chimpanzees were three times more likely to investigate leopard urine, which chimpanzees normally find repulsive.

"It has been shown ... that T. gondii can induce behavioural change in parasitized rodents, making them more attracted to cat urine, thus benefiting parasite transmission," lead author Clemence Poirotte said.

"For the first time, we've shown that such parasite manipulation occurs in a primate, in a very specific way. We found that in our closest relative, the chimpanzee, Toxoplasma-infected animals lost their innate aversion towards leopard urine, their only natural predator."

Notably, infected chimpanzees did not become any more likely to approach the urine of lions or tigers. This suggests that T. gondii has co-evolved with chimpanzees over enough time to cause precise changes in their brain function that make them more likely to be eaten by leopards.

This lends support to the hypothesis that T. gondii may also cause targeted behavior changes in humans – rather than, for example, accidental changes that are simply side effects of the changes it causes to rodents.

"Our study rather supports the hypothesis that manipulative abilities of T. gondii have evolved in the human lineage when our ancestors were still under feline predation," Poirotte said. "Behavioural modifications in humans could thus be an ancestral legacy of our evolutionary past."

Forms cysts in human brain

The findings are being interpreted as support for an increasingly compelling hypothesis that toxoplasmosis may cause psychiatric disturbances in human beings. Several studies have shown that people with toxoplasmosis have slower reaction times, are more likely to take risks, and have higher rates of self-harming, suicide and even schizophrenia.

T. gondii is known to form cysts in the amygdala of the human brain, a region involved in regulating fear.

"Latent toxoplasmosis was commonly assumed to be asymptomatic in humans, except in pregnant women," Poirotte said. "Recent studies have shown that it could represent a risk factor for some mental disease such as schizophrenia, but more studies are needed to understand all the impacts on human health."

Toxoplasmosis infection is incredibly widespread among humans, with an estimated 60 million people infected in the United States alone. Infection occurs after exposure to cat litter, either through pet cats or contaminated food.

Toxoplasmosis is highly dangerous for pregnant women or people with compromised immune systems. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) consider it one of the leading causes of death from foodborne illness, and have named it a "neglected parasitic infection," targeted for special attention.

Sources for this article include:

Independent.co.uk

CDC.gov

Science.NaturalNews.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/053078_toxoplasmosis_mental_disorders_cats.html#ixzz417DPo5wv

Feb 17, 2016

Mother beats cancer with JUICING after told she only had two weeks to live

(NaturalNews) When you become a parent, life changes a lot. Suddenly, you're responsible for another life and you realize that you can't afford to do a lot of things that you used to. Obviously, there are pros and cons, but one constant is that every parent feels a burning need to be there for their daughter or son. Particularly while the child is young, it falls on the mother and father to help their offspring understand this world and how to get by in it.

If you had two young siblings, a girl of six and a boy of five, they would definitely be your main concern, so much so that you couldn't imagine life without them. But what if you were told that you had stomach cancer? That it had spread to your lymph nodes, neck and almost all of your abdomen and you may have less than a month to spend with your children and husband?

A woman who refused to give up

This was the case of Natasha Grindley, a 37-year-old mom from Liverpool whose condition was deemed terminal by hospital doctors. In July 2014, healthcare advisers told Natasha that it was very possible that she would die before the end of the month. However, as a mother of two young siblings, she felt that she was yet to be beat. While doctors were hesitant to call the illness for what it was, the nursery teacher accepted her diagnosis and, together with her husband, started reading on cancer research.

Along with caring for her 5-year-old son Liam and 6-year-old daughter Gabriella, the couple made it their obsession to find alternative therapies for cancer. They accepted doctors' advice to begin chemotherapy, but they knew that there must also be other things they could do. On its own, chemo can cause even more cancer. In a couple of days, Natasha became acquainted with renowned author Deliciously Ella and started fighting cancer with proper nutrition.

More than just "alternative"

Even though her health was rapidly declining, Natasha's radical change to her diet helped her immensely. Contrary to everyone's expectations, she started looking better while on chemo. Her friends were simply amazed at her glow. Moreover, the newly acquired diet changed her outlook and improved her emotional state.

"I used the foods to power up my immune system and that helps me because my blood is then ready for chemo," Natasha said, as reported by the Daily Mail. "I noticed that every time I made a change to my diet, I saw a positive difference in how I felt."

The mom's secret is, actually, no secret to the world of nutrition. Many before her managed to stop or even cure cancer with major diet changes and juicing. What they all have in common is adjusting their diet to minimize artificial sugars and potentially harmful meat products while increasing their intake of organic vegetables, particularly carrots. Continuing to defy the predictions of her clinical diagnosis, Natasha hopes to spread the knowledge she managed to gain in the darkest moments of her life and teach others about the power that nutrition holds.

Two years from a two weeks' notice

Now it's been two years since Mrs. Grindley was told that she had no more than two weeks left with her family. Ever since, the nursery teacher's dedication and gratefulness to alternative treatments led her to complete a higher education degree in nutrition and start her own Facebook page. Backing up her experience with scientific arguments, the mother now hopes others will benefit from the power that diet has in curing various illnesses.

Neither doctors nor Natasha claim that cancer can solely be cured through diet, but changing one's food habits has proven to be at the root of numerous positive benefits, particularly in those cases where patients have to deal with terminal diseases. The harder it is on the body, the more pressure is put on the immune system, and a diet rich in fresh, organic produce is what powers an immune system to fight. How many servings of vegetables and fruit do you eat a day?

Sources include:

DailyMail.co.uk

OncologyNutrition.org

ChrisBeatCancer.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/053006_juicing_beating_cancer_plant_medicine.html#ixzz40PZ7Spvu

Careless hospital procedures could be spreading Alzheimer's to patients

(NaturalNews) Last September, the world of medicine shook their heads in firm disagreement at the study published by U.K. researchers that stated that Alzheimer's disease can be caused by certain medical procedures. Nothing like this had been done or proven in a serious study before and, so far, researchers and doctors have been accustomed to Alzheimer's being inherited, familial or even sporadic, but never acquired.

Even though the study was among the first advancing this hypothesis, and its findings still had to be corroborated by other studies, people immediately became concerned. In an attempt to settle the public worry about an outbreak, the U.K. Government's Chief Medical Officer officially declared at the time that there was no evidence that Alzheimer's could be transmitted in humans, particularly through a medical procedure.

Now, there IS evidence

The original, ground-breaking research concluded that a small group of people who were injected with human growth hormone when they were young and died from the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), had the amyloid-beta (A-beta) protein in their brains. There is no dispute concerning the function of the A-beta protein, which is considered to be a trigger for Alzheimer's disease. These proteins form plaques on the surface of the brain, which are responsible for impairing brain function and highly likely to cause Alzheimer's.

What was disturbing and really prompted agitation in the medical community, was the fact that the patients had died between the ages of 28 and 63. This unexpectedly young age, coupled with the medical procedure they all underwent, as well as the moderate to severe amounts of amyloid-beta found in their brains could not be swept under the carpet.

As it turns out, the study's findings have since been verified by two other reputable institutions. These confirmed that traditional medicine may yet have another side effect in store for us: dementia. The new study that corroborates the initial findings was published in the Swiss Medical journal. This time, researchers tried a different approach in an attempt to determine whether the initial hypothesis was verifiable.

From growth hormone to tissue grafts

The latest study also involved patients who died from CJD, since the latter can be transmitted during operations that involve grafting nerve tissue from cadavers. However, the focus was switched from human growth hormone to patients who received various amounts of dura mater or brain membrane.

The study also involved 21 control subjects who had died of CJD, but hadn't received any grafts. This allowed for a comparative and more objective analysis of the seven targeted patients who were subjected to the procedure.

The good news is that none of the seven patients had Alzheimer's when they died. The bad news is that they all manifested significantly higher amounts of the A-beta protein than is normal in their age group, meaning that the disease had high chances of developing.

How amyloid-beta can be transmitted

In all seven of the patients, other causes for high amounts of A-beta protein have been eliminated, leaving very little room for doubt. A-beta protein was transmitted during the grafting procedure. While the procedure itself was banned almost 40 years ago, the transmission can still happen inadvertently.

The seeds of amyloid-beta can adhere to metal surfaces, such as surgical instruments. They also have a proven resistance to conventional sterilization processes used in hospitals, as well as formaldehyde inactivation. Consequently, it may happen that when a patient undergoes brain surgery or similar procedures, the seeds of A-beta from the instruments are transmitted.

While some believe this is very unlikely, the fact that amyloid-beta is transmissible cannot be ignored any longer. What about those cases of Alzheimer's that are allegedly sporadic? Isn't it likely that some developed via contaminated surgical instruments or medical products? More research and fewer excuses are needed on the part of medical institutions.

Sources include:

ScienceAlert.com

Independent.co.uk

SMW.ch

Nature.com

http://www.naturalnews.com/053005_Alzheimers_transferrable_disease_amyloid-beta.html#ixzz40PYHm1HB

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