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Reggie-Andersen blogReggie Andersen (143)   http://www.traffickingproducts.com Water Delivery and a Growing Public AwarenessPosted Saturday, July 12, 2008 (1 year 135 days ago.) Viewed 14 times. The City of Toronto recently added one more item to your growing Worry List: There's too much lead in your tap water. Bluntly put, the supposedly safe lead levels in water are five times higher than they should be, a recent report from the city's environmental protection office revealed. So, you've been told to run your tap water each morning until its cold to flush out the water that's been in the lead or lead-soldered pipes all night. If you've been out all day, you should flush the pipes out again when you return home. High lead levels in the bloodstream can cause brain damage, high blood pressure and nervous disorders. Lead is especially dangerous to children because their brains are still developing. This latest news about our water makes Toronto resident Jan Upfield especially anxious. "As far as I'm concerned there are no acceptable levels," she says. Upfield has been buying water delivery for more than a decade. This year, her family will spend nearly $700 on the bottled product, rather than drink the water that flows from Lake Ontario through Metro treatment plants. "When I turn on the tap in the morning my house smells like a swimming pool," says Upfield, of the chlorine stench. "I use distilled water to cook with and spring water for juices and drinking. You can taste the difference." If you can't swim in Lake Ontario, one of the most polluted lakes in the world, why would you want to drink from it. Now she's facing yet another dilemma. Bottled water is costing her a fortune, money that could be used on other essentials. She's thought about buying an inexpensive water delivery to hook up to the household plumbing, but is skeptical of the technology. "I'm sure water delivery would be a viable alternative," she says. "You have to do something about the source; you have to do something about the state of the lake." And if the technology does indeed do what the manufacturers say, why government doesn't use it - why should it be up to individual consumers, who may not be able to afford the devices. Concern over the safety of drinking water has sent sales of Canadian water treatment devices gushing. Annual sales of water delivery have more than doubled in three years, to $11 million in 2007, the last year for which figures are available. But choosing the suitable water delivery is still a murky area for consumers. There are no government standards, nothing that systematically ensures shoppers that a product does what its manufacturer claims. The issues for consumers are largely two-fold: Quality and taste. Taste is easy. It's either acceptable to you or it's not. The question of quality is more difficult. Water from municipally treated sources is supposed to be safe, but there are nagging doubts about what levels are acceptable over a lifetime. More and more consumers are questioning the ability of health and environmental officials to protect them from the host of contaminants that regularly invade their drinking supply. For the most part, municipal water treatment plants were not designed to eliminate synthetic chemicals. And the effects of many foreign substances remain largely unknown. Against that backdrop, it's no wonder the water delivery industry is booming. For more water delivery service options and availability, see: http://www.waterdelivery101.com or Water Delivery . 
Permalink Comments (0) Natural Parasite Cleanse and CleansersPosted Sunday, October 15, 2006 (3 years 41 days ago.) Viewed 638 times. The parasite infects cells in the intestinal wall and releases a toxin that causes a profuse, watery diarrhea and abdominal cramping. In healthy people, the disease is self-limiting; symptoms usually last a week or two, and then rapidly abate. Besides immune-suppressed patients, others at increased risk include children, foreign travelers, homosexual men, and close contacts of infected patients, such as family members, health-care workers, and day-care workers. The following treatments are the most effective against common parasites, such as roundworm, pinworm, and tapeworm. 1. Cleanse the intestinal tract. A number of intestinal cleansing and detoxifying herbal products are sold in health and natural foods stores. These detoxing programs include a wide variety of herbs--such as yellow dock, dandelion root, and red clover--which help to cleanse the blood and lymph of toxic byproducts generated by parasites. They also include laxative herbs--such as senna leaves--which speed elimination. In addition, you should consider following a simple, vegetable-based detoxifying diet for at least several days and up to two or three weeks. Such a diet will include mostly vegetables with small portions of grain, beans, and animal foods, little or no fruit or other sweet foods, and no refined or processed foods, caffeine, or alcohol (see "Rejuvenate Yourself in Three Weeks" in January/February 1993 Natural Health). 2. Modify the diet. The most important ongoing dietary recommendation is to eliminate sugar. Parasites thrive on sweets and simple carbohydrates, including fruit and fruit juices. Cranberries, papaya, and fresh pineapple are exceptions, since these have enzymes that are anti-parasitic. Eat unprocessed, high-fiber foods, which encourage frequent elimination. You may want to supplement your diet with a multi-vitamin and mineral formula, which may enhance your body's overall defense against parasites. 3. Take natural substances to eliminate the parasites. Parasite-fighting foods include fresh garlic (several cloves a day) and pumpkin seeds (a couple handfuls per day), which you may take until your condition is corrected. In cooking, you may use sage, cloves, fennel, and thyme, all of which act against parasites. Herbal preparations that contain any of the following will also help to eliminate parasites: black walnut, artemesia annua, senna, grapefruit seed extract, and pink root. (This latter herb should not be taken alone.) 4. Recolonize the gastrointestinal tract with friendly bacteria. Since parasites irritate the villi, or hairlike lining, of the intestinal tract, important intestinal flora that live in the villi and aid in digestion will be diminished. You can help to rebuild the populations of these flora by taking daily Lactobacillus acidophilus supplements as prescribed on the packages of these products (for further information on L. acidophilus, see article in May/June 1993 issue of Natural Health). Only by doing some detective work can you uncover why you played host to parasites in the first place. Ask yourself: Do you frequently travel or camp out? Do you get your water from a mountain spring? Are you a sushi lover? Do you eat at salad bars? Do you like your meat extra rare? Much prevention comes down to old-fashioned good sense: wash your hands before eating and after cleaning up, or after petting your animals; when eating out, order all dishes cooked to medium or well-done; do not dine in eating establishments where you suspect unsanitary conditions; order bottled or boiled water; consider a home water filtration unit; and make sure your child's day-care center disinfects all surfaces with an antiseptic solution. For some a great parasite control product, see: Paratrex
Permalink Comments (0) How to Take a SaunaPosted Sunday, August 21, 2005 (4 years 96 days ago.) Viewed 1,544 times. With the recent popularity of far infrared saunas and steam saunas comes the necessity of learning to use them properly and safely. Listed below are the traditional steps the Finns would take in order to benefit fully from their cleansing saunas. And the Finns should know, as roughly one in five inhabitants possesses a sauna. It should be stated that one should consult their health care practitioner before embarking on any kind of sauna program, though it's interesting that sauna usage doesn't seem to harm the five million plus Finns and many others who know how to take a sauna correctly. How to Take a Sauna - Traditional Finnish Style 1. First of all one should disrobe completely before entering. It is also important to remove watches, rings and all other jewelry because the heat of the sauna may distort the metal and burn the flesh that wears it. Contact lenses and glasses should also be removed, as should dental plates and the like. It is common to wear kick-off sandals to walk into the sauna though these are usually left on the floor and never used when on the benches. In the old country, sandals were not used, but instead a bowel of water is placed inside the sauna on the floor and the feet are dipped in this as one enters. 2. Hikoilu - When entering the sauna for the first stage, it is important to remember that there will be at least two levels of benches - the high bench is always the hotter, and the corner of the room diagonally opposite the stove is always the hottest. This stage is a dry heat where the outside cares of your life can be discarded and the mind and body refreshed. By tradition hikoilu is invariably a period of silence and lasts about 10 to 20 minutes. 3. Vilvoittelu - When a heavy sweat has been reached - one can hear the perspiration dripping down to the floor - this next phase of "vilvoittelu" has been reached and one can then leave the sauna. Traditionally users have sought a cool place of any kind like a swim in the lake or pool, maybe a cold shower, a roll in the snow, or just a bucket of very cold water. Some people simply sit down in the cool outside air. Instinct will tell you when the correct time comes to return to the hot room, usually when the heartbeat returns to the regular rhythm. Both the heat and the cold produce a slight increase in the rate of the heart beat, but this adjusts quickly to normal in healthy people. If there is a pounding or feeling of faintness, the person must leave the heated room and sit quietly. Drinking water with electrolytes would prove helpful also as well as fresh fruit juice. 4. Vihtominen loylyssa - This is the second session inside the hot sauna room. Traditionally birch twigs were heated in a bowel of warm water near the stove and the bathers sitting on the benches would use them to beat their bodies back and front to release the oil from the leaves and to open the skin's pores. Perhaps in modern situations, a dry skin brush would prove helpful before one's sauna session to open up the pores and remove dead skin cells. This third stage lasts about 10 minutes followed by a second cooling off before proceeding to the next step. 5. Peseytyminen - One brings a bucket of cold water, soap and scrubbing brushes into the sauna and scrubs the body. Traditionally, people would pair off to scrub each other's backs. 6. Huuhtelu - This is a longer session outside, rolling in the snow, a long swim or a washing with shower or buckets in the coldest water available. 7. Jalkilammittely - A fairly short warm up in the sauna which is usually followed by another short swim, dip or shower. Always finish with the cold, but not for a long exposure. 8. Jaahdyttely ja kuivattelu - This is an air bath for cooling and relaxation. Generally, except in harsh winters, one dries with a towel only the hair and back of the neck after a good sauna the body can dry itself and adjust naturally to any temperatue without difficulties or harm. The Finns really know how to take a sauna, you say? You may notice that a sauna is far from being another steam bath. The idea is that enough water is used to keep the hot, dry air from drying eyes and mucous membranes, but this depends upon the host. In Northern Finland, it was a social status symbol to be a man who could take a lot of hot steam and smile about it. Today this information about how to take a sauna may sound old-fashioned or impractical but in a few localities it still works and works well. Also, far infrared saunas have become popularity because of their ability to penetrate deep into the sweat and sebaceous glands to remove toxins. Some of the higher quality models are discussed here: Far Infrared Saunas For those who merely wish to read about the efficacy of far infrared sauna therapy a free guide to sauna usage is available online: How to Take A Sauna
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