“Democrats and Republicans brains: will not or is it 

they can not work together to find a common solution?” 

~ Cynthia G. Creel

She stared at her almost legal adult teen age daughter in disbelief as the realization that her daughter was once again going to run out the door to live inadequately prepared for life, to be angry and unable to make rational choices. Her daughter was intelligent, beautiful, talented, and like by many. None of that make a difference at that moment, only if in time she wasn’t able to break through the brick wall in her daughter’s mind or even to make the mortar crumble enough to bring back sane choices to the one she loved the most. The one she would give her life for to help. Right now the only chance of giving her power to make the correct choice would be the ability to create understanding instead of “breaking” her daughter. She had to be strong or just strong enough to redirect the river of emotions flowing through them all.

She knew all the signs and patterns every second she knew of past history that included calling the police to look for her with her daughter showing up unharmed and still having to deal with the police’s call of chastising that they had being looking for her, even in dumpsters not knowing if she was alive or dead taking many man hours that could have been used somewhere else. She didn‘t need to be told she knew all of this and so much more. This information was to overwhelming for her daughter to deal with the stress of the thought. It could have put her over the edge if her daughter had not sloughed it off. Everyone in the family knew that her daughter needed help, the family need help, no one was immune, all were at risk. Everyone had suggestions. No professional truly had answers, except for the option of a prescription drugs. She new that would only be a shallow choice, it may help in the short run, but never correct the underlying issue.

The stand off between parents and daughter intimately became a stand off between mom and daughter. She knew she had more tools to work than her younger counter part that could change the course of this river. She also knew it was like walking on egg shells, any wrong move and she would not be able to redirect, she would only be able to watch the reaction and the door slam shut.

For the moment she was stabilizing the situation and then the one word that pushed too much, that stressed the situations and cracked all the egg shells at once happened. She watch her daughter run out the door slamming the door behind her with the thoughts of success that would help them all become the family they should have always been disappearing as quickly as the sound of the “boom” from the door being closed so forcefully. into the air. With no evidence left behind to demonstrate the battle that had just occurred except the emptiness of the room and the feelings hanging heavy in the air.

She thought quickly about what she had done to set her daughter off and as soon as she went there she changed her focus from what was done to what to do now. She had paid thousands of dollars to understand the rule was not to empower the unwanted behavior. As she stood still she closed her eyes to quickly think of the solution that would work. She thought I was getting through to her for just a moment her daughters eyes had changed from steel cold to a warm glow as the ideas were getting through to make a new choice that included staying and working things out so everyone would get something. Instead of just throwing it all away and putting herself in harms creating a happenstance event leaving her a life of others in control rather then being able to create her own destiny.

At this moment the only strength she could rely on was her ability to think, plan and create a solution that would work even if it was limited to only one solution. There could be no night in shining armor to help her. She was the only one that could solve the problem, the war was between no one else except her daughter and her. Others could only offer different perspectives that may or may not help depending on their level of true understanding. No one had her understanding of the events leading up to this point.

She had a choice to stay in the house or run outside to see if there was time and energy to talk one again, to break through the wall. This time it was different, the wall had started to crumble just a little, she decided to take the risk she would be right if she could phrase things well enough to elicit a response not just a reaction. She caught up with her daughter just in time, who was about to get on her bike and leave, maybe this time forever. She couldn’t think of that right now, she needed to focused on the complications of a successful diplomatic act using every tool at her disposal that would reverses this situation and allow the life become the way it should have always been. In order for that to happen there had to be time to heal the wounds. To change.

During these dark days there was almost nothing that bonded her daughter to the home she had grown up in. The fact she was using her bike this time said to her that her daughter was going away faster and further. She had to act quick and if she became emotional all would be lost, just giving her daughter the idea she was weak and could not help her. It would be tricky to present with just the right emotion to not look uncaring or too over the top to deal with.

The car  and other tools made a narrow path and it gave just enough time for her to think as she stood near watching her daughter prepare to leave. She knew the fact that leaving her family behind would not sway her, her kitties that she had helped raised since she was 5 or the room she adored. The only thought she could think of that might work in this case, at this time was the fact admitting that she was wrong and if her daughter wanted to be happy in her life she needed to work together to find a way for everyone to be happy that her family would miss her, but they would live on. Her  kitty would miss her the most and she would never understand why she had left. If she did not stay there could be no improvement to create happiness.

The moment of truth came she waited the tenths of a second to see if there was an action planned or a reaction of anger and her disappearing down the street most likely not to be seen again for this had happened so often she knew the day would come there would be no string to hold her home or to come back and she would be lost to the world with no one who would truly care enough to put their life on the line for her.

She smiled as she saw the muscles loosen their grip on the bike just enough to make the wheel  be pulled by the gravity of the earth to it’s natural resting position. Her heart leaped with joy of the victory just won not for her alone, for her family, for her daughter. When the words hit the air like fireworks exploding into the night sky, “Ok, I will stay.”

This was the turning point, it was not one side wining over the other, it was both sides looking for a solution the worked the best for everyone. This could only happen with two willing parties.

This would not be the last time there was a battle that would be fought for wining a war. It takes may battles to be won usually to end a conflict such as war. It was the turning point that gave her the knowledge and power to redirect. It gave her hope of change for the better. She knew there was more to learn she just didn’t know how much more there was. She could only ask herself two question why is my daughter so fragile? How do I help her become who she should be to survive in this world that can be so self serving?

She would find the answers, it would take her 3 more years to learn how and another 2 years to move her daughter in a position of self power to say no or yes at the right times, to be able to act on the best choice and not just react.

I think of  families unable to function well, not being able to even agree on the smallest things and then I think at this moment how difficult it has been for the United States Congress, Senate and President to work together. After all I don’t believe there is any question that these men and women are intelligent and want the best for the country. That is not in dispute.  If all do not have the same ideas of working together towards a common goal how can any solution that will be acceptable all be worked out together? The one light I see is a leader who understands the complexities  of the situation knowing what to do and using every tool to bring everyone to a point of agreement. A difficult task indeed with many who criticize. Not protections, just an idea of moving together to find the best way.

This task is further hindered  with the way  each brain processes the information (1) which could push to a point of non negotiation with the differences in how to view the situation leading to very different solutions.

Leaders who are able to function well enough to get elected to their seat, yet hold them back from doing the job they are elected to do. We do not have the ability to change the function of each brain, however I do believe with a lifestyle change each person has that ability to modify thinking to include opposite points of view.

The one tool we have here in the United States in favor of change is the ability to apply enough pressure to create the idea of working together as a better alternative than not to work together.  For our leaders to come up with a solution for all to benefit from by having enough people voice that opinion. It would be up to those in power to figure out a way to work together, to be open to that idea, to look at things from the outside to see what is the best action to handle the complexes issues of today’s government.

Whether  we as a country taking the best action, we can all agree no action will lead us down the wrong path. Today that choice is most likely to happen with less then 24 hours before there is no choice, except to accept the plan that is place, that will change the stability of the country, costing billions. The good part is it will not be too late to regroup and make better choices in the near future for a better working country in the long run.

When our leaders come up a dollar short and a day late we all loose, for me it tells me that they are in need of a change of views, to change their ideas to see many different ways and interpreter them better to see the best way to move this country. The only way I know to make that happen is if each person in leadership steps onto the path of True Health becoming who they should be to begin with. A better version of themselves. I have seen many changes in leadership, I do think we have the right leadership on both sides of the isle, I am just waiting for them to become who they should have been all along.

Even with families not being able to agree to move forward or the United States government  the answer is the same for the underlying issue is the same. If a person is not on the path of True Health they are not who they could be. They do not carry the strength they need to see when they should say yes or no. Or the ability to see the best solution.

They live in a world that is too dark to see except the light as if sitting in the wilderness with the only light coming from the camp fire. The amazing part about when you put our the fire, your eyes adjust and you can see into the depths of the night, not even needing a flash light. The first time I went to camp and the generator was shut down for the night. I was in sudden absolute darkness and not having a flash light was the day I learned what I was missing. At first it was scary and I wondered how I would make it back to the cabin, within a few moments I no longer wondered, I could see what I needed to see and the path was clear, my eyes only had to adjust to the dark. I would have never seen this without the lights being shut off, it gave me a gift to know that things change and we have to adjust to the change before we know if it something workable.

In science there is tons of good studies that support this line of thinking. One that I came across was the idea of adult brain cells and the rest of the brain cells having  the potential of becoming adult brain cells allowing the person to obtain a higher functioning brain. (1) The other is the human brain shrinking with age (4)  or  growing. (5),

The incredible shrinking brain sounds like we are tied to a horror story with a study released by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) (4) finding chimpanzee brains didn’t shrink over time, unlike human brains loosing volume with age. With this information we know it is possible to “loose” our brains with age can we build them up over time also? It looks like a yes.

 One study from Brown University noted by the Franklin Institute that that learning produces a change allowing the human brain to store new information. (5) giving us all an option to improve. If we can remember more there are more recourses for our minds to create new ideas and choices.

From my personal experience I have seen growth in abilities, memories, thoughts and actions not only in myself, but my family.  I do not believe we are unique. This could only have been an option created by the lifestyle changes over the last 3 years. I can only wish I had a brain scan before and after to show the difference. All I can show people are pictures of me of then looking old and fat and  now looking younger now then 3 years ago. The best feeling of all for anyone who takes control and steps on to the path of True Health from each person  around the world to the leaders of countries around the world. Having a body and a mind that works at optimal levels is the one tool that helps to work together to solve the most complex problems.

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Kitty half inside and half outside unable to decide, no movement forward, just there.

2-28-2013
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(1) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/02/cultivating-mind-for-more-solutions.html

(2) http://www.livescience.com/8343-personality-predicted-size-brain-regions.html

(3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049165/

(4) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/07/20/1016709108

(5) http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/exercise.html

Republicans and Democrats have different brains

“Cultivating the mind for more solutions” 

~ Cynthia G. Creel 

She sat across the table from her best friend, they had attended college together with a history that went back over 25 years. It had been way too long since they had enjoyed each other’s company which now included their growing families. As they enjoyed a delightful meal she had helped prepared it felt like they were young again only in their 20’s, repeating the same event, only knowing a little bit more now. Without thinking she said something that she new was not appropriate, even though their ideas had once been on the same page, her friends page had turned to a new way of thinking that was supported by her husband and children.

She stated, a fact nothing Earth shaking, just that she love the news when it just reported the facts not an add opinion to the subject. This could have meant either a more conservative or liberal news cast, she had not pointed out either. As fast as the words came out she wanted to suck them back in, too late her friends husband said, “Well the liberal media…” She knew right then he did not understand what she had said, it wasn’t about liberal or conservative, it was about a style.

She could feel the “egg shells” crush under her feet as she attempted to “appease  the Gods” that hallowed ground had not be desecrated. She did just that by explaining a little further and agreeing that liberals might do this too. She just sat for a moment and wonder why would she have to worry so much to have a conversation that she couldn’t even give a general statement without crafting a story that would satisfy all, not bring in all the high emotions, just a conversation.  25 years ago all that would have happened was the response to the statement would have most likely been the idea we will have to agree to disagree and move on to the next topic. No challenge of who is right or wrong just an exchange of ideas to learn a better way.

Her friend and her husband  went to get something from the kitchen. That left her alone for a few minutes to think if I can’t even talk to some one without them getting over emotional how can the United States President, Congress and Senate work together to over come  a common challenge and end up with a solution everyone could live with? Why had life changed so much? There must be answers.

Without the ability to think beyond one point of view the solutions are usually lost. Most often in a successful negotiation no one gets everything and everyone gives in just a little to move things forward balancing ideas out to be not too much this way or that. A  FMRI study in  March of  2006 (6) discovered the human brain could assessed that knowledge of self can be considered without the consideration of others leading to an idea that a particular part of the brain might be more active related to political preference that this might lead to a discovery of a human brain processes exclusive to humans. (Keenan, Nelson, O’Connor, & Pascual-Leone, 2001; Keenan, Wheeler, Gallup, & Pascual-Leone, 2000).

Fast forward a few years and a new FMRI study (1) that liberals (Democrats) and conservatives (Republicans) have the same risk taking behavior and brain tissue when given a task of a gambling game two different areas of the brain were activated influencing the choices people make towards political attitudes and beliefs.  Each had an increase in brain cells the liberals in the anterior cingulated cortex and the conservatives in the amygdala. Public records showed which subject was a registered Republican or Democrat allowing the researchers to discover they could accurately predict over 80% of the time from a brain scan who was Republican having more activity in the left posterior insula ( responsible for processing fear, risk and reward) or Democrat with more activity in the right amygdala responsible for processing emotions which would include the “theory of the mind” ( 7)  that gives way to the possibility of having the ability to understand the perspective of another thoughts through clues demonstrated by the body giving a way of possibly knowing what another might be thinking.

 Leading researchers to the new belief that the brain activity gave better incite to why a person makes the political choices they make are believed to be more accurate than the model based on parental socialization of party identification. All of this supports the idea that conservatives and liberals use different thought process when thinking about the risk with the conservatives influenced more by threatening situations all.

No cause and effect was discovered by the study, the brain is constantly changing so there could be a plethora of reasons why this is. It might be because we are born this way or maybe because we think one way more often verses another  leading to more “exercise” of that part of the brain making the use of one part of the brain more prevalent over the others in making choices.

It does give a good explanation of why a person given the same facts come up with very different ideas of what happened and what needs to be done.

 Each person knows their own truth, comes to a conclusion of which actions are best to take. The choice that feels better may turn out to be chosen  because of the perception of the person and where the information is processed.   It is like asking someone who has done something 1,000 times what is the best way verses someone who has done it once. Both can be correct, but the difference could be the experience and knowledge the other obtained over a lifetime of choices influenced by the part of the brain that has the most activation.

I have come across people that have been very liberal when they are younger and turned very conservative when they age. I also know with health not maintained their are physical changes to the body. Could this mean different parts of the brain being activate thus coming to a different conclusion at a different time of life? Would this be the difference between very conservative and very liberal way of thinking? After all a study from Stanford University School of Medicine (10) points out one in ten brain cells are oligodendrocytes or “adult” brain cells mixed among these cells are not particularly proficient precursor cells that have the ability to change into oligodendrocytes brain cells. The oligodendrocytes produce myelin that creates a faster more efficient transmission of messages sent through the nerves. My thought would include the idea: where there are “adult” brain cells there is better performance and most likely better thinking beyond oneself leading to more ideas and the ability to see the best choice for the best results.


We are all human around the world and subject to the strengths and weakness of the body and mind. The difference in the representatives of the Untied States Government seem to demonstrate which part of the brain they are using. I seem to see a third way of looking at life, it seems part of the leaders have a more moderate view with some being slightly more liberal or conservative. It seems brains changing and moving thoughts further apart making it difficult to move forward. With those who can have more similar thinking even with differences in place it is still possible to move forward with the idea of the common good for all and the individuals. All the turmoil in Washington DC, I see hope for this nation and the world to do better together even when they agree to disagree they will still be able to come up with a viable solution.

If the health of a person can change the way of making decisions then it is not isolated to the United States, it would be a concern around the world. It just might not be reported on by the news media if it is just an everyday person instead of world leaders.

From personnel experience the minute I took control of my life and moved on to the path of True Health was the minute my brain begin to function better giving me a look at the world not only from eyes that view myself in the universe and also how the universe fits in me.

If each person helps themselves by stepping on to the path of True Health then there is hope this world can agree or agree to disagree and still move forward. As the video “Garden of Your Mind” (3) a remix of Mr. Rogers by PBS studios gives me the idea that we should all tend your garden in your mind everyday and it will grow ideas. "

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Everyday I tend my garden, Daffodils appear one day just like an idea .


2-27-2013
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(1) http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0052970

(2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/republican-democrat-brain-politics-fmri-study_n_2717731.html


(3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM

(4) http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0052970

(5) http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/study-compares-aging-human-chimp-brains

(6) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470910600670603?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed&

(7) http://www.livescience.com/220-scientists-read-minds.html


(8) http://www.livescience.com/10924-7-month-babies-show-awareness-viewpoints.html
(9) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11568425

(10) http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2010/march/barres.html

“WEIGHT WATCHERS: Are women employees willing to settle for less with companies profits in the millions?” ~ Cynthia G. Creel 2-26-2013

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~ Cynthia G. Creel 

The young women sat across from me hoping she would get a position. I had one rule to follow that the person who was going to represent me had to have their heart and soul in their job, not perfection just always doing their best at that moment. The minute they had mentally moved on was the moment I had to look for someone new.

The rule I always follow was to be fair to the ones who worked for me, mostly young women, not much younger than myself since I was only 21, leading a small group to offer superior service to the customer, offer the maximum to the people who worked for me and maintain a profit so all could work together with it being a win, win, win situation.

I just knew that I didn’t like being shorted myself,  why would anyone else. The most common reason for leaving, not because of the company, just the hours were too varied being tied to other peoples celebrations wanting someone to sing a special song for the honored guest could mean anytime between 6 am and 11 pm. A delight in most ways and taxing in many other that many could not handle on the long run. I was the only one that worked no matter what every single person had the right to say no without penalty, except a lost chance to earn money. This worked for over 25 years until I became unhealthy changing everything so the company is now only a memory and no longer in existence.

I have looked at many companies and wondered how people could live with the choices they make and it seems it all comes down to how much money a person is willing to exchange for their time. I have focused my studies and life around how to become healthy, not just thin. When I was so unhealthy and about to die I decide I had to change I did not even conceder any of the companies in the business of weightless because they just wanted me thin and my goal was to be healthy. Besides by the time I needed to truly change to live there was no $42.95 a month to spend, that money would be needed to buy quality, after all it wasn’t just about me, it was my brother who had been just diagnosed with type one diabetes, my better half with dangerously high blood pressure, me with chest pains and really awful blood work supporting the likelihood of death sooner than later and two lovely daughters that looked healthy on the outside yet rusting on the inside only projecting youth and health because of their age.

So as many of my friends counted points, I spent about 4,000 hours learning more and more each day. The conclusion many of the companies were taking advantage of people who where unhealthy seems to be true with new reports of the actions of the company, the employees and the customers.

The New York Times (1) reports many facts that indicate this could be true. The facts are what is happening should have never happened to begin with, a common situations where the CEO is making millions, the company is making millions, the lowest level workers doing the grunt work are being paid almost nothing and the customer is being taken care of to a level they are happy with, but  maybe lacking in the best goals for the person to obtain. Yes, we get what we pay for so, maybe they are being taken care of as well as can be expected with the money paid for services rendered.

New York times (1) tells of mostly women expected to be professionals and yet make less then a kid working at Mc Donald’s. The company had a decline in earnings last year of about 15%, yet that is deceptive in the fact that they still brought in  $1.83 billion with an income of $257.4 million plus the company’s chief executive, David Kirchhoff , who made $2.96 million in 2011  as reported by Forbes magazine (2) While a reported income for one female worker last year  leading four meetings a week in Wichita Falls, Tex being paid just $7,600 last year. Is the only reason Kirchhoff saying employees are top priority and offering on line discussions with 80 employees because of the public being aware of the situation. Or was it the past experience of having to pay out over $6 million after a class action lawsuit in California was settled due to how the employees were being treated unfairly including minimum wage violations, clear understanding of how a person was being paid or working off the clock.


Weight Watchers might not be the only one who do not serve this country well with their business practices there are pending lawsuits with other companies like Jenny Craig’s in New York State claiming that the work typically lasted through lunch hours that did not include pay. The company denies the claim as reported by New York Times. (1)


All of what has been reported by the New York times and what I have observed has led me to some interesting thoughts of a much larger picture. When people become  unhealthy and gain weight they could be like  the reports of the Marshall University 2005 paper written on The effects of Childhood Obesity on Self-Esteem by Heather L. Paxton (4). The paper stating if needs are satisfied the person has feeling of being valuable and self confident in the world. However when esteem needs are not met  the person feels weak, helpless, inferior and sometimes worthless. With low self esteem being associated with depression and suicidal ideas or other difficulties like loneliness compared to high self esteem influencing successes to qualities there is an affect on behavior and understanding of how the world works and how the person fits in to it. In 1994 the findings that attractive people have a distinct advantages in our society helping with their success while those who were obese endured negative actions like teasing, harsh treatment and rejection. Even from 1960’s researchers discovered a over weight child was least desirable. It was also found that obese children dealing with the impact on self esteem tend to feel as if there is no control in life including success affecting every thing from relationships to the ability to set and work towards goals including both school or work.  Women and men were both affected. Women in particular  who were overweight as an adolescents  were affected as an adult leaving them  with less education, higher poverty rate and more often single compared to an average weight peers.  Bringing the researchers with the conclusion children suffering from obesity have negative affects not only in early years but also as an adult compared to their average BMI (Body Mass Index) peers which included lower self esteem, with an impact lasting their whole life.

As a company who is focusing on people who are over weight, I would assume there would be a psychological impact in favor of the company that if that person was willing to work for a company that helped them to loose weight they had not been able to on their own that they would be more likely to accept a less desirable compensation for a position with that companies.

 If a company was only willing to set a true goal of profits then there most likely would be little considerations of the mind set of the people. After all most people, I am sure, are willing to pay each month to loose weight because they have not been successful in loosing the weight on their own. If the people within the company have lost their weight and become healthier there might be more likely not to accept what is being done to them and file a law suite.

One of the fact after I lost my almost 40 pounds is it took almost a year for me to stop thinking of myself as a fat person and to realize I was worth the effort and attention received by others and myself so I could be more effective in helping others to help themselves.  That if I was successful, I deserved credit, just like anyone else who earned it.

So my question to you is Weight Watchers treating their employees fairly, with fair pay for fair work or have they taken advantage of a select populations that is most likely have a lower self esteem then the average weight counter parts?  Would this give the company the advantage of manipulation in order to have people that were satisfied with low pay while the company was making millions including the head of the company personally making millions.

Secondly beyond the companies treatment of employees were they doing the best for their customers using a point system that I view only adequate to help some to loose weight without the consideration of the recommendations and the full impact on the body? The customer is getting what they are paying for just a way to loose weight with the heaviest consideration on the bottom line?


Yes, there are companies who want to help, just keep in mind is the company putting your needs and the employee’s needs below the bottom line? It is good to be proactive in life to make sure what is being paid for is truly a benefit for all. Believing the advertising without the research of how or why can leave a person with a shallow gain looking pretty on the outside and yet still rusting on the inside.

Ultimately, if a program gets you closer to being self correcting, in the long run it is a positive. However if it gives the idea that you are doing great and no longer need to change could lead to not becoming the person you should have always been and the possibility of being thin, yet unhealthy with the possible lost of years of life, happiness and peace within. The truth is we vote with our money what is acceptable, if we were not willing to pay for something that is inferior it would not last on the market place. Reward those companies who provide fair treatment to employees and customers while making money send a message to the others with less dollars spent.

The path of True Health is only interested in the creation of heath and becoming who you were meant to be. A world filled with 80% of the people on the True Health path would be a different world indeed. I often wonder how much success could be created in happiness and inner peace as a result of having the right goals.

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Daffodils just doing what they do best being sunshine yellow making people smile and the bees happy for some pollen and nectar.


2-26-2013
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Source:

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/business/devoted-to-weight-watchers-but-workers-rebel-against-low-wages.html

(2) http://www.forbes.com/profile/david-kirchhoff/

(3) http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=9081946-38858- (then click on the first line that says income statement to see the form)

(4) http://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=etd

“A creation of not willing” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

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She listened intently her mind had a daily haze creating a difficulty to think, that she had learned to ignore. It was like having a slight sunburn, there reaching the corners of her mind, with a tipping point reached with even the slightest increase of pressure, pain to bring the thoughts to a point of awareness, knowing that she would need to do something to have a good ending to this true life story.

She continued the conversations and realized this person acted as if they had told her this information before. Suddenly the conversation was out of focus and the realization hit her like a ton of bricks falling upon her pinning her to the floor. The thought screamed at her, It is not them that can’t remember, it is me. I can’t remember what I have been told. It all fit together now, the extra weight, the loss of ability to read, to stay awake, to think, to remember, the inability to lead her children, inability to help her husband. To find the person she had lost along the way or to become the person she really should be.

The brain that had been creeping along suddenly sprinted ahead putting the pieces of the puzzle that she could remember together. She asked herself quickly, Am I turning into my grandmother? She remembered her grandmother at 60 starting to loose her memory and  by 70 she was frying soap in the cast iron skillet because her mind knew she needed to cook and just couldn't remember all that was need to prepare the meal except something had to be in the pan and the pan had to be hot. Not even the stench the cooking soap being lifted into the air was enough to signal her brain that this was wrong, she needed to change something to create another out come. It was only because of her grandfather, that sanity came back in place. He took the soap off the stove, sat her down and said, “Everything will be alright.” As he fixed dinner, she could see on his face this is not the way it is suppose to be, the thoughts that crossed her grandfather’s face were so clear she could read them. This is not the girl I married. That girl is gone. How do I get her back?

Back in the reality of today, she finished the conversation and sat down in the nearest chair, thinking will my grandmother and I share the same fate. When she was growing up there were many discussions around the dinner table of the cause of her grandmother’s affliction. No diagnoses, just the assumption of Alzheimer’s, it must be, what else could it be?  The discussion would revolve around how we could bring back the person we loved, the person trapped within her own body. The idea in the 70’s was on target, a build up was happening. Back then it talked about aluminum building up in the body from aluminum pans being used. The conclusion of the family was there was a cause that could correct this early death of the brain while the body lived, we didn't know how to correct it, we would try. Ultimately the family failed in the short run, yet the discussions stayed with her to think about and mull over and wonder why?

She realized her mind had placed her right back at the dining table with her family discussing her grandmother, the only difference was there was not one else to brain storm with. The difference was she had been looking for answers for the last 35 years, she knew there was one. The only question was would she be able to remember and be able to put all the pieces together to solve this mystery in time before she might not have a memory at all as her grandmother had ended up or to die too soon to correct it? She had too much to live for to die or not remember.

Of course, we should all know today after 3 years that mystery was solved and the knowledge that my family was most likely correct about what happened to my grandmother is a bitter sweet success. The best part is knowing why and how. The way to create who I should be was not easy, it started with a step onto the True Path of  Health. Ultimately what the True Path of Health brings me is the ability to remember, solve and act, eventually building on each experience to bring me to a new height to share with others. To hopefully give them hope of change to new abilities of memories leading to new choices never even realized before.

Yes, at just 50, with 50 or 60 or even maybe 65 more years to live a healthy life, I was going to die and not even understand or remember why. I am sure others would have said if I had died, “She was so healthy, how could she be died?” or “She was doing so well until the last month or so then she didn’t look so good. I wonder why she didn't do anything to help herself?”

If this had been reality my answer might have been this: I was not willing. Not willing to understand what I must do to have the ability to remember. If we do not remember we are trapped into moving in circles, to view the same things over and over. If we choice to be willing we can move forward creating memories to base new better decisions on instead of the statues quo.

If we only look towards the professionals who care for us the answers may fall short. They may help in the short run taking a symptom away but never fixing the underlying problem. Currently they are using in trails spray insulin to help the brain to function. (1) Does this work yes, is it the answer in my opinion it is not the answer that helps create the person who they should have always been. The reality is most will stop their search for better answers if the main symptom is gone. We need to use all of our tools and see where that leads and yes it could mean using modern answers at first or if there is no modern medical answer something else must be found to bring things up to a new level of thinking.

Almost every time it is possible to change for the better when we take control over our lives and are willing to lead our lives to a better place. The moment I decided to change was the moment I became willing to change. The only question I have is how many others might travel this same path to become who they should have always been. I do hope there are many willing to change.

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She laid in bed with the fever raging, her stomach tied in knots and wishing all would be better now. She said a little prayer being thankful she had a vaccine knowing that had surly helped her, obviously not enough though. The only thing that could have been worse was to be elderly too. She had to stay away from her grandmother to protect her from giving what she had. She worried if she had already infected her by giving her that hug and kiss just yesterday, before she realized she was coming down with the flu. All she could do now was pray and hope because if she was this sick and her grandmother become infected, what would it do to her grandmother?

How long would this last? She had no time to feel sick, she had work to do, kids to care for, anything, but this. As she tried desperately to be distracted she blow her nose and watched  the movie Star Wars on her note pad. Nothing worked she would sleep and rest until the moment she felt better then she would move forward in her life with only a quick forgettable expiation of where she was by saying, “I had the most awful flu, thought I was going to die.” There might be a chuckle then the topic would  move on. That is unless she didn't get over it or worse yet be responsible for infecting her grandmother and she didn't live. She shuttered to think of that possibility and drifted off to sleep wishing there was some way to have made this all be a moot point, just not understanding how.

The flu doesn't sound so bad on the surface, it just makes people sick for a few days than right back to work. No one dies, unless their bodies fail to protect them even with help from our modern solutions sometimes are not enough. In the United States the first line of defense is to get a flu shot. Flu shots are the best guess from the people in the white lab coats what will be coming our way. The one thing that is for sure the flu keeps changing. It is natures way, change and the strongest survive, in this case microscopic little warriors ready to set up house keeping in any host they can find. The new Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (1) gave much incite of the effectiveness of the vaccine for the 2012/2013 flu season.  The 2012/2013flu vaccine has missed the mark for destroying the effects of the flu virus targeting  the N1N1 (swine flue) strain, a new strain of H3N2  and the 2010 influenza B strain for most as the most likely cause.

Keeping them on a healthy path with little or no effect from being exposed by this persistent pest that antibodies are not effective on any virus. According to the  Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Consumer Health Information report, “Although antibiotics kill bacteria, they are not effective against viruses. Therefore, they will not be effective against viral infections such as colds, most coughs, many types of sore throat, and influenza (flu).”(2) The second line of defense that is used against an attacker like the flu is just not effective. In fact if you take the antibiotics against a virus there could be a very negative effect on the environment that could possibly  affect the purity of our drinking water. (3)

Today we are well into the flu season and there is still a great risk for our elderly the CDCP reports for seniors  65 and older the flu shot will only give them a small amount of protection for about  9% of the time against the H3N2 strain. What does this leave for many? To suffer and hope this will not kill them? The (CDC) (4) also recommends two FDA approved influenza antiviral medications for use in the United States during the 2012 - 2013 influenza season which are chemically related antiviral medications as neuraminidase inhibitors that are effective  also recommending identification of infection and  treatments as early as possible if there a patient is hospitalized, has severe, complicated, or progressive illness, or at higher risk for influenza complications among other recommendations. Again leaving the pure drinking water at risk. (4)

We have options, the questions are they good enough? It seems to me that the first defense is being skipped by many. Before I stepped on to the path of True Health I didn't even consider that as my first tool to stop a virus before it can take up house keeping in the body. I would get my flu shot or not and hope for the best, not really thinking there was anything to be done by me. Once I stepped on the path of True Health I found that there was much to be done to protect myself from the world of changing on a daily bases. The flu virus changes every year and the people in control over the design of the flu shot will do their best to cover as much as they can as quickly as they can so the flu shot ultimately only gives only some advantage of staying unaffected by the smallest of attackers. The antiviral medications is the third resort allowing me to have the problem and still help me beat it. We do what we need to do to help our body work the best, it is better to be alive to fight the fight another day then loose the war.

What I see is all options: of getting the flu shot and still getting the flu having to stay home, buy and use and antiviral if things aren’t going your way, possibly ending up in the hospital with all have a chance of being avoided if the body is strong enough to begin with to defeat the attackers before the first battle even begins.

Judging if a flu shot is right for you to help you fight off the flu usually means the consideration of the side effects from the flu shot itself. Each of us has to ask which is worse the shot or the flu? So be proactive do your research to find out what is best for you. Contact  your medical care professional to find out all the options and consider what can be done in every day life that will give you the edge against these uninvited guests.

So far there have been many around me who have been sick enough to stay home. According to the CDC’s FluView  2012 -2013 influenza Season Week 7 ending February 16, 2013, the most current deaths from the 2012 -2013 so far have been 78 and counting with many more being not affect to ending up in the hospital before recovery. (5) I can’t stop the expose completely all I can do is limited it. I can’t stop the virus from changing all I can do is be as prepared as possible. I can only control what I do, not others and the advantage is mine so far no flu, no headaches, no colds, no fever, just a body that is working to protect me 24/7. If  the odds don’t go in my favor I will fall back on the other options as quickly as possible starting with my arsenal of tools that work with my body to fight and win the battles deep inside to my very core.  I am hopeful if I am successful it will be no accident, it will be By Design. My hopes for all is the same. Keep up the good work, it works at any age.

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“Success in the eyes of the beholder” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

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“Success in the eyes of the beholder” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

As I looked both ways I judged that it was clear to cross the 4 lanes of traffic. I started to cross and felt an unnatural presents of a  powerful object just outside my door, a car just a few feet away from impacting my car door. This was the last moments before the impact would shove my door in by 18 full inches, not killing me, but changing me for life. Not in a bad way, luckily, in a better way. 

The underlying issue wrapped around my ability to judge and others abilities to do the same. It told me it was ok to cross. The reality was the sky was darkened with rain clouds, the sun was just peeking above the horizon, the car that hit me was primer gray with not head lights illuminated and me affected by the modern world in a negative way leaving me with a judgment that was impaired just enough to change what I saw and what I did that morning.  The results leaving me with a broken body from the impact of a car I should not have been near. For the other driver the judgment to drive in a car that blended well in to  the streets with no headlights on to help visibility of the car, luckily created just a headache to take care of in the long run. A car that could be repaired and no injuries to speak of and a life changed with a very damaged body and car that would drive no more. 

Of course I paid a larger price, months of pain to become normal again and totaling the car were a large price, but I still had breath in my body. It was a small price to pay considering all that could have happened. One life change helped by the fact of walking every day that I am sure contributed to less damage on my body. No broken bones, I could walk, barley, but I could walk.

The life style I had chosen, like many Americans had made me weak in many ways and the largest effect is it stole my judgment away. I didn't die that day. I thought I was from the moment I say the car a few feet away to the moment I sat in the car and wondered if any of my main blood vessels had ruptured letting me live for only a  few more minutes. As minutes passed the thought I was going to die right them also subsided leaving me with just questions of when would I be normal again or would I be normal again. The answer would only come over time and lots of it. 

There was no money for physical therapy and I did not even go to the hospital. Unwisely, I knew insurance would not cover everything and the last two major events in my life cost over $20,000 with insurance. I got lucky there wasn't anything wrong enough that I was not able to handle to returning to a life of normally walking freely again.

Looking back on that day I realize poor judgment influenced by many factors  created something that should have never existed. Judgment is neither poor or good, it is what it is. Poor judgment is created by many factors that surround it not accounted for. One event of poor judgment does not create a low quality of life, a life time of events add up to low or high quality of life. True Judgment is created when we take in account many events that many aspects are taken into consideration before an act is created. In my case it was easy to see poor judgment on both counts that created  a large problem for both, more me then him. 

Poor judgment of  life is no different than an event. Poor judgment of life is determined with only a thought of how much money is made, how much educations  is accomplished, how many things that are owned or how many place we have seen. True judgment only takes the factors that allow a person to become successful in life with happiness and peace within that may include all or none of these factors listed above. 

Always a judgment of how deep the feeling runs of happiness and peace within is the final factor when life is coming to an end, of just dying or dying with the knowledge of having become the best that you could be. For no matter what, one day we all must die, it is how we live that counts the most, who we helped along the way to help themselves and most importantly how we helped ourselves to help themselves, to move forward together.  

We can show good judgment, teach good judgment, but to truly have good judgment usually is created by being on a path of True Health. I know of no other way to create a mind body connection that allows us to create as good judgment over a life time, not only for events, but life itself. To allow us the ability to take in all the facts and decide what is the best path for everyone, for yourself. 

For me on that day of gifts and destruction, this beholder saw the clouds, the light, the traffic, yet did not register the primer gray car traveling 40 MPH towards me, to change my judgment at that moment and time from good to bad. To know there was not enough power in my car to accelerate enough to cross the street and avoid others on the road. In my mind there was no car to deal with, it was invisible blending into the scenery leading me down a path of judgment I felt was good, only to realize too late, it was not and forever changing my life. 

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“Red hot, too hot to handle, I want my life back.” ~ Cynthia G. Creel 

“The package came in the mail, she ran to the door and it picked up. In an instant she was standing in front of me gaining her strength of body and mind by the 4 inches she had grown from the new high heals she donned on her feet.

They were fashionable and made her look hot, hot, hot, feel good about herself and gave her the feeling of power, something that is needed by all especially those small in stature. These were just a fast way to obtain the feeling. How long would it work some for a while. Strength does come from things for long but long acting strength come from within.

However there is a life long acting effect that could occur from a very physical effect of arthritis possibly caused by wearing high heals over 2 inches. According to CBS This morning with Dr.  Holly Phillips reporting (1) arthritis affects 50 million America becoming the leading cause of disability.  No, cracking knuckles doesn't cause arthritis, just might cause joint damage or weaken the strength of the grip of the hand. Yes, pressure on the foot from high heels may cause the arthritis to form over time with continued use. With the top cause coming from the excess weight we carry around with us ever day, 24/7. For every extra pound there is an added weight of 4 pounds of pressure on the knees helping to stress the joins and leading many times to a denigration of the knees and other joints. Arthritis is a fire waiting to be quenched.

So why do some have arthritis and others don’t? There are many underlying factors that cause the body to malfunction. There are many factors that increase the body’s ability to function and remain unaffected or less affected by a malfunction like arthritis.

Many are seen by a doctor and many take prescription or over the counter drugs to deal with the affects. Do these help? Yes they take the pain away, yet not much for the underlying causes. If someone is taking a drug then the other side effect from the drugs the body doesn't use end up in our water system for anyone to drink from adults to new born babies. (2)

So what will help. Do what makes sense, see the doctor, take what you need to help yourself under that doctor’s care. Don’t stop there keep going find out what will help your body to operate by being on the path of True Health all the time keeping your medical professional advised of your actions. Become proactive with a higher functioning brain.

There are people who are painfully affected by this degrading malfunction of the body, yet can minimize or eliminate the symptoms entirely. After all, when you come right down to it, Arthritis is just another sign the body is crying out for help that what is happening needs attention now to change the outcome.

What most do is just cover up the symptom with prescriptions. Never becoming proactive to find the root cause. Just the statues quo many times evolving great amounts of pain, without much relief and many unwanted side effects to deal with.

The words no one should have to hear themselves say or be told by anyone is  “My hands hurt, I think I have arthritis.” In a perfect world we would all be on the path of True Health limiting the effects of the world around us, so we can deal not with the fires of life constantly,  but become who we should be. To think and act on what help yourself and help others to  all move forward together creating a better world to live in.

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“Too old to dance?” ~ Cynthia G. Creel 

Driving down the road she asked me, “What are you doing mom?” Puzzled I could think of nothing wrong I was doing.  While I was still thinking she said, “Your moving to the music, why are you doing that?” Now that was a surprise to me, had I never been this way in front of her before. I thought for a moment, the answer had to be no. She thought I was too old to dance!

It was true I had been moving to the music just like I was 18 years old. That was the moment I realized I had been doing so poorly for years and  so close to deaths door recently  that it wasn’t really because of my age, it was because I was unhealthy. In fact I hadn’t really realized I was moving at all. I just moved to the music as anyone who was young would have, only I was over 50. It had been over 30 years ago that I had had this feeling of moving to music without thinking about it just knowing it was ok to do this in the car at that moment. It happened just as naturally as a fruit tree’s blossom opening. No thought, just a sign everything is moving in the right direction. A strong sign, just one of many.

After a while I looked in the mirror to make sure my hair was straightened out before exiting the car. A larger part of the whole truth was seen. Yes I was doing very well, yet why did I still have gray hair? Gray hair meant the toxins in my body were not being eliminated and if the toxins my body produced were not being eliminated  then what were they doing to my body besides turn my hair gray? I would work on this until I came up with a solution for my body  to work well enough to eliminate enough of the toxins that my hair would stay colored instead of  making me look and feel older.

A week later I watched a new type of dancing, it looked so easy. They made it look easy although I know it is not. The dance troop used mountain climbing equipment and danced on the sides of the building or other vertical structures. making them look as if they were defying gravity. I was mesmerized as they danced and then were interviewed.  They all looked so healthy, that was a good thing. Then I thought, I wonder if they color their hair to look younger? I wonder if they had plastic surgery for there face? I wonder if the amount of exercise, although, one great part of the body becoming Truly healthy,  yet was all that exercise just covering up other signs that would say there was  a problem?  There was no way of knowing unless blood work could be done and someone knew how to interoperate the numbers into optimal ranges instead of normal ranges.

One thing I do know if you move to the music through dance you are way ahead of the game as long as you keep looking for signs that say help is needed, then adjust. Change if you want to be Truly Healthy, to do more, to think more, to become more, to fill the body and mind with strength to handle any feat.

Step on the path of True Health to gain more life, to take control, to become who you were always meant too be. Settle for less and  you will never know what you are missing. Reach for more to live amongst the heavens, so to speak. A normal working brain can do extraordinary things.

I am still dancing, moving to the music every chance I can. The music just takes over and there I am no matter who is looking. The best part now I check to see if my hair is doing fine and there is no gray hair. That my friends did not come from a box, it came from living a life based on the path of True Health. I know anyone can be better all they have to do is step on and move forward.

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“Over the top kills many in two months.” 

~ By Cynthia G. Creel 

Winter time is suppose to be fun to go sliding in the snow and feel the cold tingling on your checks.  Too often there has been violent tragedies during the winter  leaving many to die and many to deal with the carnage after the fact with only prayers to comfort those left behind and no power to change the past for a better outcome. Could there be a connection I will let you decide after you have read the facts. There are always reasons why, we just don’t always know the why. Here are some thoughts of why, just maybe that is:


December 2012  Adam Lanza of Newtown, Connecticut, USA on a rampage  kills his mother, many others at a local school and himself:  a total of 27 people. CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, said on "CBS This Morning." (9)  reporting that Lanza spends time in a total dark rooms to play a violent video game  and sleeps in a room also totally blacked out.


January 29, 2013 a tragic story starts  to unfold here in the United States. About 1 minute into the video report by   John Miller on CBS this morning  (1) reporting that the victim, Charlie Poland and the shooter Jimmy Lee Dykes who was caught on tape shooting and killing Charlie Poland and kidnapping a young child ending up in an underground bunker. With the last gift of a pie from Poland the morning of the shooting and other reported other gifts of eggs and jam as a thank you for work done by Dykes from Poland.  Dykes had a message that was unclear in writings or request wanting to tell a female reporter his story.  With the only message clear that Dykes hated the Federal Government and dislike for the local government.  Dykes took his young kidnapping victim and ended up in the underground bunker before his death and the safe return of the child. (1)




Early February 2013  Christopher Dorner started a rampage and killing spree. John Miller, the former head of the Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) Major Crimes Division, on CBS This Morning (2)reported  Dorner had a hit list of people he wanted have a revenge style of killing after he had been fired from the LA police department that included a path of destruction killing many and enduing up with Dormer taking his life.  Dorner. In the most common picture of Dorner he is seen as a possibly happy person with dark complexion (maybe African American)  smiling. (2)

 At  first all three of these crimes seem to be unrelated, just three men angry at the world for different reasons focusing on one idea to get a message out without the regarded of life for themselves or killing others who are in the way or to make a point.

One of the common factors I believe would be common in both cases would be a vitamin D3 deficiency the three men having environmental factors as the “finger pulling the trigger on the gun”. According to Natural News (8) the symptoms of D3 deficiency ranges from predisposes children to respiratory disease to chronic kidney disease to asthma to cancer to schizophrenia and depression with the list continuing to grow. Other factors of the affects of sweeteners and high blood presser may have played a role.

The evidence is mounting,  but no direct proof that I am aware because no vitamin D3 levels were taken at the time of the events or before the fact have been disclosed by any report I have read. I have never heard of any blood work being preformed on a person of this intent to kill to send a message out. What I do  know is Vitamin D3 can be produced in the body from sun expose, eaten and or can be taken as a supplement to maintain levels. In the winter the sun expose is less in hours and intensity, if we combined being indoors in a dark room then the levels are most likely to drop even more. Another study from The journal of clinical Endocrinology and metabolism supports the idea that if our skin is blocked from expose to the sun, in this case sunscreen the interfered with the cutaneous production of vitamin D3.(4) With a third way of limiting the expose from the sun being the coloring of the skin a study form the British Journal of Nutrition (3) shows Vitamin D deficiencies wide spread among immigrant women of Pakistan, Turkey and Somalia descent living in Norway found vitamin D deficiency wide spread with the use of supplementation plus education having a positive effect on the vitamin D levels.

So what we know is all three spent time away from the sun either in dark rooms or having a darker skin color which would decrease the  effects of the sun when exposed plus the fact it is winter time in the USA all could contribute to the likely hood of a vitamin D3 deficiency.

All three were upset enough to take hostages and kill. All three died in the end, two suicide and one killed by authorities to protect the kidnapped victim. Unless testes were preformed on levels of vitamin D3 we will never know what the true levels were only the fact that people were angry enough to kill. We do know in some cases when there is a deficiency of Vitamin D3 some people end up having a side effect of schizophrenia to depression. (14)

The other facts I am aware of is the possible gifts of sweetness like jam or pie to Dykes. The others living in the United States having access to high levels of processed sweetened foods like sodas or sweet treats would have a high likelihood  of  poor glycemic control contributing to anger possibly. . A study of Loyola University (6) Chicago suggests that glycemic variability may be associated with lower quality of life and negative moods. This could have been a factor in people who where already on the edge.

One final factor that may have influence all three, but more likely Dorner and Dykes, but not Lanza is the facts surrounding blood pressure. With a study from University of British Columbia (10) showing a negative effect of high blood pressure resulting in an increase in anger.

In combination for Dorner who looks like an African American the answer might be in his heritage. If he was an African American he would be much more likely to have African-American men have higher levels of hypertension than white men. Hypertension is known as the silent killer because it can develop without the individual knowing it. According to a study from the Universality of Illinois (12)

For Dykes the risk was also being  over 60 it left him at an increased chance of having high blood presser as reported by WebMD (13)  one in three adult Americans have high blood pressure including over half Americans age 60 or older have over 90% risk of developing high blood pressure.


There are too many other items that might have contributed to these three tragedies. The largest is not knowing the physical reasons why. Knowing three very important items of vitamin D3 levels, glycolic levels and high blood pressure could give us and inside of some of the reasons why these events happened. We most likely will never know if these are a factor, but it makes me wonder if they were.

The underlying issues of health is clear when we feel good and our body is in a “normal” zone we are most likely going to do better and remain more calm. The negative affects of the environment on the body are clear, how much they affect us would be dependent upon the circumstances of each person.


The turmoil these men had to endure was greater then they were able to handle. The sadness they created will affect many for a life time. The hopes I would have is that these be the last of this type knowing for now it is most likely not going to be the last. My thoughts and prayers go to all who had no choice but participate in these events and the ones who decide this was the best way to handle life.


Stepping on to the path of True Health and knowing and maintaining normal Vitamin D3 levels, blood pressure levels and controlling the intake of food like sweeteners can decreases the odds of the body not having to deal with some function that is having a difficult time increasing the odds of success: happiness and peace within which should never include taking the life of another or oneself. And just maybe preventing another tragedy from unfolding in the future.

By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”

photo by Cynthia G Creel all rights reserved ©2013 from the farm lovely little yellow blooms that help me stay calm.

2-18-2013
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Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of By Design or Cynthia G. Creel. Consultation of a medical professional is highly recommended before any changes are considered.

Sources:

(1) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57567856/new-details-about-final-moments-on-bus-in-bunker-in-ala-hostage-standoff/

(2) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57569990/christopher-dorner-hit-list-targets-speak-out-on-life-in-hiding/

(3) http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5327088


(4) http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/64/6/1165.short

(5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23332530


(6) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22324383

(7) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57567840/firefight-ended-alabama-hostage-drama/

(8) http://www.naturalnews.com/035089_vitamin_D_deficiency_signs_symptoms.html

(9) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57570009/sandy-hook-shooter-adam-lanza-blacked-out-game-room-bedroom/

(10) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14979862

(11) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082046.htm

(12) http://www.the-aps.org/mm/hp/Audiences/Public-Press/For-the-Press/releases/Archive/08/38.html

(13) http://men.webmd.com/guide/high-blood-pressure

(14) http://www.naturalnews.com/035089_vitamin_D_deficiency_signs_symptoms.html#ixzz2LNif492a



“Cancer sparking an almost unquenchable wild fire in the body”

 ~  Cynthia G. Creel 

Just the word cancer struck fear in my young heart, it put a knot in my stomach to match no other.  I was just 23 a young adult as I watched the life drain from mother’s body slowly over 6 months. At first there was hope the cancer treatments were helping and then they just stopped working. From that point on it was a slow progression of the body struggling to do what it was designed to do, except it no longer had the tools to work with to self correct.  Some of the body’s cells were way out of control taking over the function of the body creating a wave that would wipe out one of the most important people in my life. In just a few months she would only be a memory.

As she passed on I was happy for the struggle to be over and yet I was left with an emptiness that could only be filled with shadows of memories of her in my life. The glue that once bonded us as a family dissolved letting us free, to flap in the wind. Until I had my children then some cohesiveness of the family returned. By then there was a new “enemy of the state” the unhealthy life styles were taking hold and made life difficult to function normally. Time would march on until I had lost my father, my closest aunts and uncles. Most everyone older in the family, except one Aunt and Uncle. It is difficult to creep up on becoming the eldest of the family at an early age.

I have spent a life time of studying to understand that one the largest threat to human life is not from a disease from a virus or bacterium. It is the bodies inability to repair and self correct. My best description of the consequences of this action in the body is aging having little to do with the rusting happening within the body just a simple fact of becoming unhealthy. The body malfunctions leading to one possibility of cancer cells growing from repeated attacks of viruses or the environment with a lack of defense to keep everything running normally. Prevention is always easies, rather then having to stop the wild fire of an actual cancer. Almost like putting out a spark rather than a forest fire that has turned wild.

The newest study from the UK (1) has offered us a new incite that alcohol causes the body to develop cancer. They do not know how much is the tipping point, just that an increase in consumption increased the chances of developing cancer along with the type of alcohol increasing the risk. Too much alcohol for the body to handle is  just any other way of many that takes the body away from True Health leaving it needy and helpless to defend from cancer.

Of course the most anyone can do is to minimize the risk and the likely hood of the unthinkable to happen is at a minimum also. The good part is there has been great advancements if cancer is developed. Better yet the ability to prevent has also increased.  It is said that by the time most reach 70 all people have cancer cells in their thyroid yet these cancers remain harmless until the day they are activated. The activation could be the alcohol that is drank or 1001 one reasons. The best defense against this is to step on the path of True health making the body the best warrior it can be defending against the weakness the environment places on the body and building it strong enough to defend against almost anything.

One of the best ways of making the body stronger is to maintain normal levels of vitamin D3 a medical professional should be consulted and a blood test is required to confirm the level of vitamin D3 in the body. True Health helps maintain a successful life of happiness and peace within allowing movement forward together. Lessen the chances of hearing those words that strike fear in the hearts of many, “You have cancer.” If there is no active cancer then the elimination of the stress of having to tell some one you love the news is eliminated altogether. Helping leave the most impact on our lives in our hands.

By Design ~ “Life is good By Design.”

2-18-2013
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Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of By Design or Cynthia G. Creel. Consultation of a medical professional is highly recommended before any changes are considered.


Source:
(1) http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-4/263-270.htm

“I just have a headache pass the …” ~ Cynthia G. Creel 

The effects were great and all I could do was sit and watch, there was nothing else to be done. I had changed half the water and yet they were still dying. I would watch and wait  until only one fish in my 10 gallon aquarium would survive my mistake as a 10 year old had devastating consequences.

I had accidentally picked up the container that had contamination of chemicals in it from plants being fertilized to who know what my mom had poured into it. Invisible to the eye yet so deadly.  The look alike container had no evidence it would be so devastating to my fish until I had filled it with water and  poured it into the tank. With in minutes the effects showed with fish slowing and dying then floating to the top continuing over the next 24 hours.  I believe the only actions  of quickly  changing out half the water was what spared one fish.

Small amounts of environmental influences make large effects on us all. If an 81 mg baby aspirin having positive massive side affect  of being an anti inflammatory that helping the body to prevent a heart attack then the negative could be just as harmful.  It is pounded into our heads that we need to take the correct amount of any drug or there could be consequences. The warning from my local pharmacist is never take anyone  else’s prescription because it wasn’t prepared for you with body weight being only one factor to affect the results.  The question could be asked how much is too much?

Fish are amazing they absorb substances right from the water that either help or hurt them allowing us to learn from those reactions. A new study  reported in the article  PHARMAWATER IPharmaceuticals found in drinking water, affecting wildlife and maybe humans, by Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard, Associated Press Writers tell the story of the pharmaceuticals affecting the water supply. It doesn’t take to long to find the negative affects of adding small amounts of pharmaceuticals or chemicals to the water supply. New studies have detected “more than 100 differed pharmaceuticals” (3) in everything from rivers to reservoirs throughout the world from Australia to the North sea to Europe to Canada even the Swiss lakes. Even more concerning is the idea that chlorine, commonly used to help keep water safe can make some pharmaceuticals more toxic. (3)

The idea that a pharmaceutical ingested in the body just used and excess being eliminated and disappearing is becoming evident it sticks around for much longer affecting so much of the water supply and wild life.

“A German study showed 10 percent of the steroid passed right through the animals” (3)  while in the Us  Male fathead minnows living down stream from a feed lot had “low testosterone levels and small heads.” The severity and range of  the effects not only on the wild life also humans with research showing even small amounts of medication affecting kidney cells to grow too slowly, breast cancer cells proliferated too fast and blood cells activity associated with inflammation. (3)

Just in the United States the  Health and Nutrition U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012, National Health Expenditures—Summary shows us not only that we are using a large amount of prescription drugs in the past and only increasing in the present,  from 1960 at $2,700,000,000  increasing  in 2009 to a whopping $249,900,000,000 (2)

It seems in America and around the world we love our drugs. FDA reports as in Table 2008 Estimated Use of Selected Drugs by State: 2007 to 2008 shows the use of any illicit drug from Marijuana to tobacco as  19,966,000 users. (2)  Any way you cut it in just the U.S. there is a lot of use. No matter where it comes from it the body doesn’t use it eliminates it into the environment affecting us all.

I have often heard people say when taking a drug. “I am not hurting anybody.” A statement of a person that doesn’t understand how to stop what they are doing and change to a better way for their body and the environment. The idea many people need drugs to function and maintain health is only  exacerbated more in the Untied States with advertising the prescriptions that are available for sale and use. TV commercials are so effective 3.8 million dollars are spent on one 30 second spot in the Super Bowl. They are like mini movies that move people to buy or think a certain way. Advertising works on humans that is a fact.   It is said that the ads for prescription drugs are to help the viewer be more informed. My question is for what purpose so the consumer will ask for a drug by name or that it is available if needed?

We buy regardless of what information is offered even a list of side effects won’t deter some from buying. According to The New York Times article I disclose…. Nothing by Elisabeth Rosenthal “When the Food and Drug Administration in the 1990s first mandated that drug makers list medicines’ side effects in order to advertise prescription drugs, there was a firestorm of protest from the industry. Now the litany of side effects that follows every promotion is so mind-numbing — drowsiness, insomnia, loss of appetite, weight gain — as to make the message meaningless.” (4) This seems to have made people oblivious to the real dangers of taking a powerful drug that can  change the body to relive symptoms  or create a side effect as large as death.

With even doctors jumping on the band wagon to endorse brand name drugs has created a new set of challenges prompting the Federal Drug Administration to respond  by requiring an accounting of money paid or gifts paid to physicians with the Medpac advising the Congress on Medicare issues reporting From the Public reporting of physicians’ financial relationships , march 2009

“Requiring manufacturers to publicly report their financial relationships with physicians and other health care organizations should have several important benefits. It could discourage physicians from accepting gifts or payments that violate professional guidelines. It would help media and researchers shed light on physician–industry relationships and explore whether manufacturers and physicians are complying with industry and professional standards. In addition, CMS and other payers could use this information
to examine whether physicians’ practice patterns are influenced by their
relationships with industry. “ (5)

There is much that can be done to help protect us through government act such as increasing the power  of the  FDA so the FDA “can detain food if it believes that the food is adulterated or misbranded. The agency can keep the products out of the marketplace for a maximum of 30 days while the agency determines whether to take further enforcement action, such as seizure.” (7)

These actions help in a small and yet large way. The real power comes from the masses. If the masses are more healthy they need less drugs to maintain a healthy lifestyle, in fact in most cases if drugs are illuminated by a path of True Health then the effects will be less. If you don’t uses any  drugs then no excess unused drugs will not show in your by product of urine or feces. It can’t hurt humans or wild life if it isn’t there.

Prescription drugs most likely will always be a part of life, the fewer the better. The use of any pharmaceutical drug should be considered as an emergency use only. I have found there are much better ways most of the time to deal with the pains and body not functioning at a optimal level than a pharmaceutical grade drug or over the counter man made drug. I have found the healthier a person is the less likely there is a need for a powerful pharmaceutical drug to help their body deal with symptoms. The more likely there are no symptoms at all and the body does what it is designed to do, function normally.

The idea of looking for better ways and be self correcting is always the first choice. If we do not change the world will change because of us. We will no longer have a human friendly endowment, the Earth potentially could become a more hostile environment that maybe host to only a few living organizes that most likely will not include most of or any of the 7 billion people on this Earth. The Earth like the body can handle only so much abuse before it collapses or changes beyond repair. The good part is the Earth can be self correcting as much as the human body and positive changes like less drugs helps everyone and everything just a little better.

The most anyone can do is change what they are doing and know it is making a difference. If billions change just a little then it all adds up to a better world and a better you.

By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”


Photo by Cynthia G. Creel  fossilized creatures from the Earth's past


Note: There has been no suggestion that anyone person should stop or change their current lifestyle including prescription drugs or over the counter drugs. No prescription or non prescription drug should be stopped without consulting your professional medical provider. Each person is unique in body chemistry and the effects of the environment should be considered including the a consult their medical provisional before any change in lifestyle or drug usage. Each person is responsible to find out what is best for themselves. We suggest that a medical consultation should be sot out before a change happens if a change is desired. including consultation with a medical professional.


2-16-2013
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Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of By Design or Cynthia G. Creel.

Sources:


(1) http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/pharmawater_site/day1_01.html

(2) http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/12statab/health.pdf

(3) http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2012/02/15/maybe-its-time-for-drug-companies-to-drop-tv-ads/


(4) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/sunday-review/hard-truths-about-disclosure.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&



(5) http://www.medpac.gov/chapters/Mar09_Ch05.pdf


(6) http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/PrescriptionDrugAdvertising/UCM076768.htm

(7) http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm337693.htm