1. We are going to find that more than 100,000 gallons per day have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deep Horizon BP Oil Rig.

JUNE 13 GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL

2. As the oil spill foot print moves down the coast and starts dominating the environment it enters people are going to have to evacuate the area for an extended time.

3. Home owners within five miles of the beach will be forced to leave due to the overwhelming fumes and therefore will become a class action against BP, BP will be forced into bankruptcy as thousands of homeowners will seek direct and indirect costs of carrying their existing debts and cover the costs of temporary housing as well as punitive damages.  This is going to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

4. As the spill continues down the coast of Florida the scenario above will replay itself over and over with some of the most expensive communities in America devastated.

We are looking at three or four years of clean up initially and an impact lasting fifteen to twenty years.

Click this link to see a pdf of the report rptEODSales

I would appreciate any input on what you think should be included or removed from the report.  We are currently working on a comment window for Openbravo POS v 2.30 that provides a comment window and the ability to attach images to a line item for reporting with evidence.

Some of my first impressions where how can this possibly work, then the technician asked if I had any issues with my eyes – sure enough I had recently started wearing contacts and I had a very low grade infection developing in my eye.  A few minutes after this she asked what was going on with my throat – I have had an annoying deep problem for about six weeks – impossible but she found it in just minutes.  From there we explored more than thirty conditions that have effected me.

In my experience this is one of the best diagnostic secessions I have ever had in my life.  I am going to document this journey on my blog to provide others with a look into this form of “Energy Medicine” here is a link I found to more information on the subject: http://barbfeick.com/ceds/

Sea bass en papillote

• It’s easy and delicious to cook fish fillets in packets of parchment paper, a technique called en papillote (pronounced en pap-e-YOTE). If you don’t have parchment paper on hand, use aluminum foil.

Serves 4

Ingredients

1/4 cup almonds
4 sea bass or halibut fillets, each 5 ounces and about 1-inch thick
1 small tomato, diced
1/4 cup minced yellow onion
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 teaspoons dry white wine
1 tablespoon chopped fresh flat-leaf (Italian) parsley
2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
1/2 teaspoon saffron threads, steeped in 2 tablespoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon each salt and freshly ground white pepper

Directions

Put the almonds in a food processor and process to the consistency of fine bread crumbs. Set aside.

Preheat the oven to 400 F. Cut 4 15-inch squares of parchment (baking) paper. Fold 1 square in half to create a crease, then open up. Place 1 fillet next to the crease. Repeat with the remaining squares and fillets.

Top each fillet with 1/4 of the tomato, onion, almond meal, olive oil, wine, parsley, thyme, saffron, and salt and white pepper. Working with 1 square, fold the paper over the fish and vegetables, then fold the edges several times, crimping to seal the packet completely. Repeat to make 3 more packets. Place the packets on a baking sheet.

Bake until the paper is starting to brown, about 15 minutes. (If the fillets are thin, bake for 12 minutes.) Place the packets on plates. To serve, slit an X in each packet and fold open.

Penne tossed with cherry tomatoes, asparagus and goat cheese

Ingredients

• • 1/3 pound whole-wheat penne pasta
  • 1/2 cup asparagus, chopped into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped, plus whole leaves for garnish
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 ounces soft goat cheese

Directions

Fill a large pot 3/4 full with water and bring to boil. Add the pasta and cook al dente (tender), 10 to 12 minutes, or according to the package directions. Drain the pasta thoroughly.

While the pasta is cooking, put the asparagus and water in a microwave-safe bowl. Heat the asparagus on high power until tender-crisp, about 3 minutes.

In a bowl, combine the cherry tomatoes, basil, garlic and pepper. Add the asparagus, pasta and goat cheese and toss until well mixed. Place in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes to cool.

Divide the pasta between the plates. Garnish with fresh basil leaves and serve.

Serves 4

Ingredients

1/2 cup mirin
2 tablespoons minced fresh chives or green (spring) onion tops
1 tablespoon yellow miso
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1 teaspoon tahini
1 teaspoon peeled and minced fresh ginger
4 salmon fillets, 5 ounces each, skinned
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro (fresh coriander)
1 teaspoon sesame seeds, toasted

Directions

In a shallow baking dish, whisk together the mirin, chives, miso, soy sauce, tahini and ginger. Add the fish to the marinade and turn to coat. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours, turning the fish occasionally.

Prepare a fire in a charcoal grill or place a grill pan over high heat. Remove the fish from the marinade and pat dry. Discard the marinade. When the grill or pan is very hot, place the fillets on it and cook, turning carefully with a spatula, until grill-marked, firm to the touch, and opaque in the center, about 4 minutes on each side.

Transfer the fillets to a serving platter. Garnish with the cilantro and sesame seeds and serve immediately.

I think that is a fair question – We rank #1 in spending, no suprise there.  So do you think we rank ahead of Europe, Sweden, how about Chile or Moroco — Nope we are behind them all and falling further back.

The time for change is now!

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So we have all heard the quote “you are what you eat”, well along those lines I have had the opportunity to work with researchers pushing the envelope on what food and nutrition really means to our bodies.  Today I can confidently say that we have less nutrition in our foods than we have ever had and that number is continuing to decrease.

The attack on our food supply is not simple, easy to identify or overt.  In terms of where the attack began I would say it is one of those changes that over time make inroads to our society then when no one screams it becomes a norm.  The attack came in the form of mass farming for profit at the expense of the quality of the food delivered to the consumer as well as time to market issues allowing our food to be harvested before it is ready and allowing it to become ripe off the vine.  These changes along with issues with soil quality and trace minerals have led to extreme changes in the nutrition we derive from our consumption.

Where does this leave us?

Well in the long run it has provided a steady stream of patients with degenerative conditions – cancer and diabetes being the most evident.

The good news is that with drastic changes an individual can turn things around.

- you can garden and tend to your families needs directly.

- you can make every effort to buy from farmers markets and speed the time from the vine to the table.

- you can look for those foods higher in nutritional content and become healthier simply by eating more quality foods.

Should your situation be more critical there are physicians working with patients to deliver the highest quality nutrition in a more clinical form to provide a more massive amount to your system quickly.

A great resource – Food Matters DVD

Food Matters for Cancer – Click Here

Food Matters for Diabetes – Click Here

A few suggested resources -

Dr. Dan Rogers http://www.gersonplus.com

Dr. Ralph Moss http://www.cancerdecisions.com

Pride & Prejudice

Why some doctors have a problem with Complementary Medicine (and the patients who ask about it).

Graham Henderson is a public health doctor working for the NHS in Surrey. He trained at the Royal London Hospital and worked in children’s and adult medicine, and in general practice in Australia, before specialising in public health. He has been a consultant for ten years and is a former medical director of an NHS trust hospital.

By Dr. Graham Henderson

Medical Report

Taking the kids to school this morning came the inevitable comments from the back seat; “Dad, you’re going too fast; Dad, you forgot to signal at that junction”.

How many of us love back-seat driving, even when we love the people who’re doing it more than life itself? It’s even worse, especially if you’re having a bad day, if the back-seat driver is right, and you know that you did in fact make a tiny little error of judgement on that last roundabout!

It’s in all the training – give the patient
confidence

When we’re ill we feel insecure, dis-empowered, unable to assert ourselves. We see our advisors, our doctors, as wise, all-knowing, confidence-inspiring. At least, that’s how we want them to be. They know that. It’s in all the training – “give the patient confidence”. But the doctor also knows that he’s human; he’s not all-knowing; sometimes he makes mistakes; sometimes he can’t deal with the emotional stress of the consultation.

So what happens to the doctor when:

He (or she) hears you asking about vitamins, dietary approaches to cancer, or reflexology?

You arrive with a sheaf of printouts from the internet?

You want to know his views on a book by a cancer sufferer that he’s never read?

He gets scared, that’s what.

Because suddenly, he can’t do his job. The doctor’s professional respect, self-esteem, position in the community, everything, is tied up in his/her ability to give you the information, reassurance, treatement you need, or to send you to a man who does. You don’t say that someone “works” as a doctor; you say he or she “is” a doctor. So if he’s not a good enough doctor, he might feel he’s not good enough at anything at all! And most doctors don’t know much about dealing with illness other than with conventional (allopathic) medicine.

You don’t say that someone ‘works’ as a doctor; you say he or she ‘is’ a doctor

Clearly, it’s not the same for all doctors. They come in different shapes and sizes, like everyone else. But there is a pattern, conditioned by medical training, of feeling threatened by the knowledgable, questioning patient.

Modern medical training has spotted it, and younger doctors have been shown ways of dealing with it. But we’ve all heard too many stories of patients who “couldn’t get the doctor to listen”, felt brushed off, or even, in the worst cases got laughed at, to believe that it isn’t a problem.

So, to go back to the surgery. We’ve got one sick person (you) who’s frightended because you’re ill. And on the other side we’ve got another person, the doctor, who’s frightened as well, because your efforts to help yourself, to get some control over your illness and what’s happening to you, have accidentally threatened the doctor’s very sense of self-worth.

Now we have to careful here. You, the patient, are frightened because you’re ill. Horrible things are happening to you. You’re in the middle of a disaster. You’re entitled to be scared. The doctor, on the other hand, is a professional who ought to be able to deal with this.

What both doctor and patient need is to get into a constructive
conversation

His difficulty dealing with it is professional weakness; letting that develop into irritation or anger is professionally unethical. So let there be no confusion about who’s right and who’s wrong. The point of this article is not to dish out blame. What both doctor and patient need is to get into a constructive conversation.

In my experience there’s three groups of doctors when it comes to complementary medicine – apart from the rare enthusiasts who actually know something about it. If you can spot which one you’ve got, then you can try and make the relationship work for you.

The first, and easiest to deal with, are the ones who accept that they ought to know about complementary therapies, but have never quite got round to finding out. These are the best ones to deal with, because you can challenge them to find out about it; perhaps even work with them to explore the subject together. You might want to offer them some info (gently!), but you should probably let them go off and do some research on their own before coming back to the discussion later. That way you can have a proper conversation; otherwise it’s just you giving them a lecture. Ideally, the conversation ends with “I’ve always wanted to find out about this, but never got round to it. Now you’ve given me a reason. Come and see me later in the week and we’ll go into it together”.

The second group are the doctors who really don’t think it’s anything to do with them, and are fundamentally unpersuadable. They’ve either looked into it and decided its a load of old codswallop (of which more below) or, even worse, have not really thought about it but have decided the same thing anyway! Quite frankly, there’s not a lot of point pushing your ideas in this situation. You probably know more about it than the doctor, you’re very unlikely to bring them round to your point of view, and you’ll just be wasting your time. Take what they’re offering in the way of allopathic medicine and look for complementary help elsewhere. Or, if you need your doctor to understand complementary medicine, change your doctor.

Finally, and perhaps the hardest to decide about, are the doctors who know very little about complementary medicine but could be persuaded if you (and they) had enough time. Here is your opportunity to lead them into the subject gently. Not intimidating them and making them feel stupid with your superior knowledge, but leading them gently to the point where they actually want to spend the next few evenings reading the book you’ve suggested, researching the internet, or going to the library.

When I worked in a factory before becoming a doctor, the woman in the packing department gave me a piece of advice I’ve never forgotten. “If you want someone to do something for you” she said, “make sure they think it was their idea in the first place”. I’ve since found out that you can earn a fortune as a “change management consultant” for telling people things like that. It was good advice then, and it’s where you’re trying to get to with your doctor. You want to leave him with the sense that he’s missing something really useful and interesting. Something that he really can’t afford not to know about.

If you want someone to do something for you, make sure they think it was their idea in the first
place

The other thing I ought to mention, in a piece that’s trying to tell you how to understand your doctor, is why conscientious, caring doctors sometimes reject the complementary approach. Doctors today are trained in the scientific approach, although the best doctors combine this with the “art” of medicine, which accepts that science can’t explain everything about people. The scientific side of medicine asks that everything, all medicines, all operations, all treatments, be subjected to rigorous testing and “proof”. So when a new drug is invented, or a new operation suggested, it has to be put to the test. Compared with the existing treatment, under controlled conditions, preferably in a “blind” trial where neither the doctor nor the patient knows whether they’re taking the old or the new treatment.

This means that all bias is put aside, and only rigorous objective measurements show whether the new treatment is as good as, better, or worse than the old. And as patients, we want nothing less. We want to know that we’re being offered the best treatment, not just the latest fad from a “modern” doctor, or the stuff they’ve always used from a traditionalist.

But a lot of complementary treatments haven’t been tested through this sort of process. Partly, this is because the process takes a long time, and is expensive, so it can only be done if you can get the money back from drug sales when the tests are complete. Or because many complementary approaches tailor treatments precisely for individual patients, making it very hard to test a “standard” treatment.

But perhaps most often complementary approaches are hard to test objectively because they rely heavily on drawing out the patient’s inner resources to fight the illness. This is often in combination with a very strong relationship between therapist and patient, and these factors are just not amenable to standardisation and reproduction so they can easily be measured.

Remember, in the end, it’s your life

So, sometimes, even the very best and most caring doctors find themselves unable to accept that complementary approaches may be the right thing for you; they may honestly believe that, in recommending you explore alternatives to their allopathic approach, they may be doing you harm. I know this article appears to ask a lot of you, the patient. It asks you to try and understand your doctor when he doesn’t understand you. It asks you to consider his vulnerability at a time when he really ought to be considering yours. But the ICON approach is about helping YOU to take control of YOUR illness.

Use your doctors for what they can give you. Help them to a greater understanding if you can. Listen to their advice, and understand their perspective. But remember, in the end, it’s your life.

The final decisions are your yours to make.

Many orthodox medical ‘experts’ claim there is no research evidence behind Complementary and Alternative Therapies. Yet when there is evidence – consistent evidence – it often gets ignored. When it comes to Beneficial Bacteria, perhaps the experts have not had time to read and digest the research results? Perhaps they are not aware of it? After all there is so much of it – and all very recent. Or could it be that the research poses some nasty questions about the direct conflict with current orthodox treatment methods? Judge for yourself.

1 Over 80 clinical trials and more than 4,000 research studies have been conducted in the last 4/5 years on the essential role of Beneficial Bacteria in your good health.

2 Scientists believe over 800 strains of bacteria inhabit your gut – they have already identified over 400 strains.

3 Thirteen strains have been studied most frequently. All offer significant benefits to your health and well-being. They are Lactobacillus Bulgaris, Acidophilus, Shirota, Caseii, Lactis, Rhamnosus, Plantarum; Bifidobacterium bifidum, langum; Streptococcus thermophilus; Saccharomyces boulardi.

4 A fundamental finding running throughout the research is that many of key beneficial bacteria strengthen your immune system, particularly stimulating the production of immunoglobulins, cytokines and Natural Killer cells.

5 Kids growing up on farms and those with pets in the home have stronger immune systems – you need to eat a bit of dirt. You need more bacteria to build your defences.

6 Natural birth babies have stronger immune systems. Mothers give their children some good bacteria as baby passes down the birth canal. Breast milk contains important prebiotics – the perfect food for beneficial bacteria – these stimulate the growth of important good bacteria. (So much for ‘caesarians’)

7 Our strong immune systems keep invading viruses, bacteria and cancer cells in check. Without the beneficial bacteria – our defences are greatly weakened, allowing disease to take hold more easily.

8 One hundred years ago, we ate beneficial bacteria all the time – but pasteurisation, sterilisation and irradiation of food have ended much of that.

9 Worse – our modern world kills the good guys, and alters the balance nature intended in our gut. Chlorinated water, stress, alcohol, too much salt, antibiotics in our chickens etc all reduce the levels of good guys within us.

10 Worse still, the drugs your doctor prescribes actually kill off even more; for example, antibiotics, chemotherapy, even certain statins and mercury in vaccines. Most drugs actually weaken your defences.

11 But these good guys do even more than build your immune system: at night time when you sleep, they attack, neutralise and ingest the invading microbes and yeasts you consumed during the day. Without the good guys your enemies can take control.

12Yeast and fungal infections are now commonplace among  adults – yellow toe nails, thrush, cystitis, bloating, wind, allergies are all signs.

13 Now, fungal infections in the body are increasingly being linked to serious diseases like diabetes, MS, and cancer.

14 Beneficial bacteria are essential to the processes that release vitamins from your food. Their action increases blood levels of anti-cancer vitamins like B vitamins folic acid and B-12, and vitamin K.

15 Some beneficial bacteria have been proven to make short chain esters from your food – these pass across the gut wall and reduce bad cholesterol levels.

16 Some beneficial bacteria have been shown to neutralise excess toxins, biding to nitrosamine and oestrogenic products and to heavy metals, helping the body to eliminate these dangers.

17 Some beneficial bacteria destroy the Helicobacter pylori bacterium known to play a part in stomach cancer; they may even neutralise a microbe US researchers believe is linked to colon cancer.

18 Some beneficial bacteria can even rebuild and repair the gut lining, damaged in diseases like IBS and Krohn’s.

19 It’s not mumbo jumbo – you can increase your beneficial bacteria by supplementing with probiotics – a probiotic cannot be called a probiotic unless clinical trials have proved it delivers a real benefit in the gut!

20 Every day you need as many beneficial bacteria strains as you can ingest – and you need to feed them their favourite whole foods. Rare ones you ate as a child may never be replaced if you destroy them. Without them all, can you really hope to beat cancer?

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