"Spring a time of renewal" ~ Cynthia G. Creel March 31, 2013

"Spring a time of renewal"  ~ Cynthia G. Creel

March 31, 2013

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Spring is a time for renewal. This is a time of new growth for those observing their Holly week and the world around us with new leaves, buds and flowers promising us a better tomorrow. 

It is a great time to step on to the path of True Health. Remember vote with your dollars, every dollar given  to a company that doesn’t care means more products that are just marginal. Together we can make a difference in the world. 

“Solar plane flying 24 hours brings us a new idea from developer Bertand Piccard: Usually we are prisoners of common assumptions.” ~ Cynthia G. Creel 2013

“Solar plane flying 24 hours brings us a new idea

 from developer Bertand Piccard:

Usually we are prisoners of common assumptions.”

~ Cynthia G. Creel 

March 30, 2013

My story:

At 5 I gained a new perspective on the world, my uncle gave me the very best gift of all, a 15 minute flight in a small 6 passenger plane. The world changed that day for me. It became clear that the details in life I could see from the ground was only one way to look at life. However, if I truly wanted the whole idea it would take the ability to see the whole world from a distance. 

The idea I learned that day has served me well, the most difficult part is finding the way to look at the world from a overall view. Without a plane it is only the imagination that can give the gift.

A new idea:

One of the Swiss creators of a new solar plane powered by about 12,000 photovoltaic cells on its wings, Bertrand Piccard, as seen on CBS news this week, tells of a team that build a solar plane able to store enough energy to fly 24 hours. Piccard and Andre Borschberg will soon be piloting the plane across America non stop.  

During a press conference Piccard made a statement: “This project belongs to all the people who would like to invent a better future. Those don’t believe people, who say it is impossible. Usually we are prisoners of common assumptions, Prisoners of the fear of failing. We can be pioneers as soon as we identify very, very honestly and try the opposite. Like this (invention of the 24 hour solar plane) we can invent completely new things.” 

Final thought:

We all have thoughts, we all do the best we can at the time we are presented a challenge at work, school, or everyday life. The mind that is at it’s best is able to accomplish more and look at the world from a different angle to find that they have been able to break away from common assumptions that are there, but do not allow us to fly free to see the world from a bird’s eye view.

The creation of a better mind starts by stepping onto the path of True Health. Vote with your dollars to create the mind, body and world you want to live in. There is no better day then today to state. Together we can create the world we can live in to have a successful life of contentment and inner peace.

In the next few days, look up, and you just might see an idea that went against common assumptions. 

By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”




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Sources:

(1) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/solar-plane-prepares-u-s-tour-article-1.1301072#ixzz2P37xRKwF


(2) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50143822n

“Scooter and drug companies use DTC ads for people or profit? United States and New Zealand only 2 countries in the world to use DTCA. Why?” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

“Scooter  and drug companies use 

DTC ads for people or profit? 

United States and New Zealand only 2 countries in the world to use DTCA. Why?” 

~ Cynthia G. Creel

March 29, 2013
Up date March 29, 2013

My Story:

One of the best things about having children are the activities you have an opportunity to participate one more time only this time as an adult. A totally different feeling.

I was excited! I had not been ice skating in about 10 years. My daughter who was about 55 pounds at the time was giddy to go for her very first time. We glided on the ice with my daughter unsure of herself. We turned she grabbed me and as we both fell my foot grabbed the ice and my leg twisted while my foot stayed put.

Yep, I had a spiral fracture to my lower leg which required surgery, prescription drugs, crutches and the use of a scooter. Back then I used prescription drugs were needed to control the pain  and the crutches or scooter were only used until I could walk with full weight on both legs, Again only a temporary use for both.  I was thankful I had both when I needed them, I am happy to say I no longer need them.

The challenge:

When I had my skating accident the idea was only to use the drugs or an aid in walking as much as needed. The results of my injury wouldn't be known for a full year.  I never feared I wouldn't be able to walk, just how well.

For years I have seen many ads for prescription drugs and offers for a “free” scooter from the Scooter Store. How much does this affect our health? What we buy, what we ads push us to buy and our actions creates an effect that may not be all that positive in the long run.

Out of the people I have talked to may quote commercials for the drugs to take care of symptoms creating a connection from  an ad campaign to “inform”  or to present a need  for mobility that only a chair can provide or relief that a only a particular drug can help.

 Mail online (9) reported on new critics are claiming that industry leaders like The Scooter Store and Hover round (marketing motorized scooters or wheelchairs) are misleading the public by possibley promising more mobility than actually possible creating sales reaching nearly $1 billion in the US for power wheelchairs and scooters. Members of Congress indicate the ads leads to hundreds of millions of dollars to people that most likely do not need assistance with reports find that up to 80% of the people receiving power wheelchairs or scooters did not met Medicare’s criteria to qualify for one.

With the drug industry and scooter stores company are both using is direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) that can educates patients  about what is available for medical needs.

All of this advertising could place an idea of a need and the patients may be putting undue presser on doctors to provide this possible ad induced need.  In 2011 the Scooter Store and Hoveround both spent upwards of $180 million  on ads to “educate” and encourage people on items that they may qualify for with ads stating “Nine out of ten people got them for little or no cost.” Recently the Scooter Store was raided by Fedral agents creating a reaction of massive layoffs.

The drug industry also uses DTCA to “educate” consumers in the Untied States on a disease or disorder that matches one of their drugs. In a study (2) it was also found that  the DTCA had a large impact on patients’ asking for specific drugs from their  doctor’s with no added benefits to health.

According to the Bulletin of World Health Organization ( 10 )Pfizer spent about US $260 million that was only one ad campaign to promote Lipitor using a non licensed doctor never having been able to subscribe prescription drugs before or when the ad was produced. The DTCA have been legal in the US since 1985 and only became popular starting in 1997 with last years ads totaling nearly US $5 billion. The only other country using DTCA in the world is New Zealand with population of about 4 million.

With another study showing DTCA in 2005 drug companies spent US $4.2 billion with another US $7.2 billion towards doctors with a median increase of sales on 64 drugs of $2.20 per every $1 spent.


New ways to get around laws:

If we include the influence of advertising though online interactive social media “Web 2.0” technologies (eDTCA) the effects from indirect advertising may be much more effective in creating a want.  The Journal of Medicine Internet research shows in 2010 drug companies used eDTCA  100% of the time to market themselves and their top selling drugs. There is a warning that globally this is a way to circumvent the traditional way of DTCA a regulators on a global scale must attempt to create new policies or safety goals addressing this new way of gaining profits.

Results:


The DTCA seem to create an increase in sales not only educating patients that there is a need but possible creating the need itself with the programming of asking  a product by name for a doctor to prescribe that brand or product. The end result billions on ad campaigns creating a need to bring in more profits for the company  spent to create a larger income.

Is the true goal of these companies to educate or to educate to buy. I have a hard time with the idea that a company is only interested in education if they tie the commercials with a want to buy the companies product of going places with a motorized wheel chair or scooter or describing a health problem with the name of a specific drug attached. Education would seem to be only to support the sale of a product not to just increase the knowledge of a group.

The effect:

It seems as if the target market for these companies are seniors with some difficulties. Are they an easy target to make money without regarded of the total effect of their actions? At the very least the effects of someone moving less increases the likely hood they will move less in the future with a possibility of creating an negative backlash in the long run.

Final thoughts:

As I talked about in a previous article “Following the wolf in sheep’s clothing: Super bowl ads worth every penny for the company if you buy.” (11) the power of advertising is seen everyday and is duly noted when the super bowl comes around each year with last years ads reaching almost $4 million for 30 seconds. The real question comes to mind are companies doing what is best for their customers or are they just increasing sales to earn larger profits for the company and share holders?

How much real harm there is, we may never be able to calculate.  How do you judge a change in thought from having to do something that helps  enforce the idea if I want something I have to move to get it vs. the idea all I have to do is get on my scooter or take this drug to be able to do?  Does this take away incentive to find a different way? Will the thought change one day to the thought of taking a drug or using a scooter as overwhelming leaving the person at a weaker point in their life then if they had not had the extra help?

In the long run time will tell. In the mean time be proactive helps keep everything moving by stepping on to the Path of True Health. Remember vote with your dollars, every dollar spent is a profit for a company. Support those who will help create a world that works for everyone. Together we can change the world for the better.

By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”

Note: No company mentioned in this article is considered to serve “healthy or unhealthy” food, they were only used as an example of how business works though their history and public information. The focus was on how advertising works to sell products.




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Sources:

(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661977/

(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16076787

(3) http://www.healthcouncilcanada.ca/cnt_nws.php?id=123&typ=news “
(4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1863525/

(5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16076787

(6) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1744049/

(7) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1863533/

(8) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1151006/


(9) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300904/Grand-Canyon-mobility-scooter-ads-resulted-millions-Medicare-dollars-wasted-unnecessary-chairs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

(10) http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/8/09-040809/en/index.html


(11) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/03/following-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-super.html

(12) http://www.npcnow.org/App_Themes/Public/pdf/Issues/pub_related_research/pub_dtc/Consumer%20Reports%20on%20the%20Effects%20of%20DTCA.pdf



(13) http://www.jmir.org/2011/3/e64/

“Step away from the Chocolate and no one will be hurt: Will designer chocolate help America grow strong?” ~Cynthia G. Creel

“Step away from the Chocolate and no one will be hurt:

Will designer chocolate help America grow strong?”  

~Cynthia G. Creel 

My Story:

I looked at the perfectly round truffle covered with decant coco powder from Belgium. I popped it into my mouth and thought, Oh my, this is not what I had in mind. How could anyone think this is chocolate. It isn’t even good!

I had to be polite to my host and I tried to be a good guest and act like I loved it just a little. As I swallowed I said the only positive thought that came to my mind, “That is very different than a Dove bar. It would take a little getting used too.” 

My thoughts about 25 years ago was, I could never in a million years like that stuff, how could any one? I was wrong, I did learn to love it and the saddest part is all of the chocolate I used to eat I now realize how truly immature plates it was designed for giving only a “big bang“ with not much substance behind it. I could have thrown my money on the ground and have gotten as much benefit. Well at least if I had thrown my money on the ground someone else could have found it and used it. What a waste. 

Coming to a story near you:

There is hope today there is a new movement to developed the taste of the finer things in life like the true tastes of chocolate, not just sweet and chocolaty. Not just a “fake chocolate” but one that actually uses 100% high quality cocoa. The new book Raising the Bar: The Future of Fine Chocolate by Jim Eber  and Pam Wiliams gives a new depth to the taste of chocolate for any one to discover. From sweetness to bitter sweet to savory to fruit flavor to acidic flavor. Real flavor most American chocolate hasn’t provided until now. We are voting with our dollars that we want more than just a 20% real chocolate. It is out there, the new American chocolate some for as much at $18 per bar. 

Final words:
If America is ready for the grown up taste of designer chocolate what else will our dollars bring to us? This is a start to a change that will happen. Be brave try something new even if it cost a few more dollars. Don’t be fooled by a "faked real", it is just not the same. 

Or be like me create a new chocolate that is equally high quality and only cost a few dollars. It is one of the highlights of my day each day I taste its bold creamy  chocolate flavor melting in my mouth. Maybe my chocolate will be coming to a store near you someday or maybe not. A girl can dream can’t she. 

What we buy tells all  who we are. Vote with your dollars to create the world we can all live in. We are in this together. We are stronger together.


By Design ~ "Life is good By Design”

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This is my creation of chocolate, I eat it everyday. If you are not up to creating buy a chocolate bar that offers more.




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“500,0000 deaths from super bug MDR TB globally, Vitamin D to the rescue again: helping to cure pulmonary tuberculosis in some” ~ Cynthia G. Creel March 27, 2013

“500,0000 deaths from 

super bug MDR TB globally, 

Vitamin D to the rescue again: helping  to cure pulmonary tuberculosis in some”

 ~ Cynthia G. Creel 

March 27, 2013

My Story:

I opened the can of cat food and the next thing I knew I had a deep small cut on my finger from the edge of the can, no big deal. It didn‘t even hurt. I did the normal precautions and cleaned the wound and covered it. The next 5 days I worked on the farm with gloves, a wrapped finger and manure to spread. I felt just fine.

Saturday morning my jaw felt funny. It felt tight on the right side by afternoon each tooth’s nerve ending started to ache on my right side. I started to correct my actions and travel closely to the path of True Health. That was helping, but by Sunday night I felt my stomach and neck were tightening just a little, The thought Lock Jaw came to mind a nasty little bacteria that can live on cans or in manure.

This could be life threading so I did go to the doctor, there was no blood test run to confirm (test results aren’t always reliable) so I was given some antibiotics. I took these in tandem with staying on the path of True Health. In the long run I had all the classic symptoms of Lock Jaw and never looked sick for the rest of the week. The most I had to do was rest a lot! I am thankful what ever I had it wasn’t worse. I smiled all week long, this was a good thing. I do wonder if I could have healed myself without the antibiotics. I will never know. I am just glad I was able to over come this small bump in the road.

What is Tuberculosis:

I have never had Tuberculosis, I had never had something that felt like Lock Jaw before also. My little adventure convinced me I would always be at risk of something.

Most people in the Untied States knows what it is like to get a tuberculosis (TB) test given to children and adults.  It is easy just a TB skin test (TST) or a TB blood test.  No big deal except if you have the disease or  you  have a latent TB infection showing no signs that is not infectious. Sometimes a latent for becomes active when the immune  system becomes weakened turning into the TB disease itself.

According to The Center for Disease control (1)  reports in 2012 in the United States there were nearly 10,000 new cases. The CDC (4) also warns about an increasing risk of  multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB. The immune system can fight off the TB bacteria while others may get sick years later when their immune is weakened for some reason.

Globally there are more than 9 million new cases each year causing about 2 million TB-related deaths  with nearly 500,000 new cases of MDR TB diagnosed each year. TB is being reported in 58 countries.

All about Tuberculosis:

CDC (1) reports also TB is caused by the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis bacterium usually attacking the lungs or any part of the body including kidney, spine and brain if left untreated it could be fatal. It can be spread though simple everyday acts such as shaking hands, exposed from some one infected with TB that is coughing,  touching an affected area, kissing, shared tooth brush, food or drink or touching. Some people can carry the TB  bacterium and are never infected well others

CDC photo http://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/default.htm 

New Treatment:

The new reality of the world is the diseases are changing to be unaffected or less affected by our traditional antibiotics.

The best defense to any disease is your bodies own immune system. Vitamin D is an important part of the immune system supported by a study (2) found Vitamin D treatments had a significantly hastening effect on pulmonary tuberculosis.
Vitamin D working with they body’s immune system seems to be the most important when MDR TB is diagnosed.


Final words:

No one picks the day they are exposed or contracts a disease and if it happens to be a particularly nasty MDR, there is not much modern medicine can do except help your body work with things like vitamin D.

The best choice as always is to avoid any disease to begin walking the path of True Health, it is the best defense to the smallest attackers just lying in wait to hitch a ride in your body.

The best way to know what your vitamin D levels is to ask your doctor for a blood test other wise you are just guessing and the might be the opening these little guys are waiting for to set up house keeping in you.

There is no choice when things go south there is a war to deal with in the body. I don’t see bacteria becoming weaker, I do see medications become less and less effective or totally ineffective.  Be proactive everyday to be ready to win the battle of your life.


By Design ~ "Life is good By Design”

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Sources:

(1) http://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/default.htm

(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21215445

(3) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6211a2.htm

(4) http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2012/chapter-3-infectious-diseases-related-to-travel/tuberculosis.htm

“Human Rights protects us all from ourselves” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

“Human Rights protects us all from ourselves”

~ Cynthia G. Creel

March 26, 2013

My story:


I felt in my pocket for my money and found only $2. I didn't have a credit card or debit card, all left behind. There was some food at the meeting, but not enough. I felt like a homeless person walking the street, no home, no real money, no access to money, no ID, nothing. Yes , I could have asked some one for a few dollars, but I didn't.

Little in money in my pocket and no access to more until I could get home.  I had to beg for  extra or stand on my own two feet and find a way to eat while I was several hours away from home in San Francisco and only half way thought the day of meeting. I was at a business conference and saw a hamburger for a buck. A whole meal I could eat one now and one on the way home. It was tempting.

Bad for me yes, a little bad won’t hurt. I  rushed over bought the $1 burger asked for some water and found myself an hour later hungry than before and so sleepy I didn’t even care about the meeting, the people, what I had paid to be there to learn. All I could think of was being home where food was. There was no logic left in my brain or a way to retain any information, it was all about me and my need.

By the time the afternoon was over the second hamburger didn't even touch the hunger. I walked by several homeless people and just thought you need to get a job. That was all I could think of, there was no thought, no compassion, no solution, just a desperation on my part that even left out self-compassion. At that moment I couldn't even help myself let alone others.


New day new thought:

Today, I have changed with the world and have become proactive. Learning everything has a connection to everything else. It’s like the 6 degrees game where you can connect a famous person though 6 people and yourself. Even with a couple of dollars I could find a way to feed myself and avoid the roller coaster ride of that day without buying a $1 hamburger.

Final thoughts:

If we do not help ourselves there is very limited ways of helping others. When we loose our human rights by feeling less then human there is no connection to others or their rights. We have lost our connection to ourselves leaving us to live in the dark.

Human rights start with the basics of taking care of yourself and stepping on the Path of True Health. I paid a terrible price that day, I lost more then my money that day. I lost the price of admission, the information presented, the building of a network, a piece of me, my history, part of my poetical, becoming just a little less human.  It was like the perfect storm came and erased the day except the strongest memory of all, how hungry I was and how long it took to fill that need.

Creating Human Rights really protects each of us from ourselves reminding us what is important to one is important to all.


By Design ~ "Life is good By Design”

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The old tractor, no longer used,  in the shadows on the By Design Farm a reminder of the past.




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"Unfairly accused of murder, cleared: actually just a Vitamin D deficiency" ~ Cynthia G. Creel

"Unfairly accused of murder, cleared: 
actually just a Vitamin D deficiency" 

~ Cynthia G. Creel 

3-25-2013

My Story:

I was an undiagnosed person with a Vitamin D deficiency.  I am lucky I wasn't part of the  epidemic of rickets that can be caused by a vitamin D deficiency. I was lucky I only have the tip of my breast bone that points outward slightly that I can feel when I rub my tummy as a left over sign. It is the only effect I have left from being low deficient of vitamin D. The only reason I became aware and was able to stop this silent devastation of the body was because knew to ask.  I asked about 3 years ago because I had read a small article suggesting it as a possible undiagnosed problem in the Untied States and around the world that would be easily fixed by identifying it from a test the doctor could give.  

The challenge:

I was lucky even though my children were breast fed they never had a fracture of a bone to be questioned and look as if I may have been an abusive parent. As a family we all had were low on  vitamin D3. Now that that has been all corrected it is just a distant memory of more difficult times.

What if things had been different? I could have been like one of the parents in the article in mailonline (1) where surprising new evidence shows parents who have been  falsely accused of child abuse with some being convicted of murder or a crime  of child abuse.

Jayden Wray, a 16 year old mother was accused of murder after her son died at the age of four months with head injuries due to the parent having severe vitamin D deficiency that would have been passed to him though his mom. Only when it was discovered the baby had a vitamin D deficiency could the injuries be explained as something other then murder or abuse.

Dr. Marta Chohen, of Sheffield Children's Hospital was reported to say "It was likely that many children suffering from rickets had wrongly been placed into foster homes because their parents had been suspected of abuse."

Also Dr. Cohen told BBC Radio 4: "
Dr Marta Cohen, of Sheffield Children’s Hospital, said, “If you have bones that fracture easily they will fracture with any normal movement. Like trying to put a baby grow on a baby, you will twist the arm in a child whose bones are weakened. It is easier for them to get these very tiny fractures or big fractures."

According to a Vitamin D Expert Panel Meeting in 2001 reported by the Center for Disease Prevention (CDC) (3) nine per million children in the United States were hospitalized with rickets between 1990 and 1998.  The CDC (4)  also reported between 2001 to 2006 two-thirds of the population had sufficient vitamin D with about one fourth at risk of vitamin D inadequacy and 8% were at risk of vitamin D deficiency.

The problem has been clearly identified in England  is the United States doing as well? I can not find any data that tells of a problem.  How many people are deficient if the test is not part of a regular check up for adults and children?

According to the New England Journal of Medicine (5) being undiagnosed with vitamin D deficiency is no uncommon with vitamin D being a clear indicator of risk of bone health, risk of cancer and other chronic diseases.  Decreasing the risk for postmenopausal women rescuing there risk of cancer by 60 to 77%  by increasing the levels of vitamin D.  With recommendations of sensible sun exposure (or ultraviolet B irradiation) and the use of supplements
are needed to fulfill the body’s vitamin D requirement.


Summary:

If a parent has unexplained fractures with a child in their care a simple test can prove a why to their innocents. It creates a proactive parent to avoid the problem all together if they know to ask for a simple Vitamin D3 test. In England today one family escaped not only the legal procedure, but the emotional battle of being accused of something they did not do. Sadly they are left with the lost of their baby because that knowledge was missed by all. There are 7 other cases currently under review with the expectations of a reversal of the original finding.  There are many other cases that can not be proved because the child was taken from the home fed differently and no sign of a problem  could be detected after it was eliminated.  Most were affected because of breast feeding, not because the parents didn't take care of the child.

This is an example of people thinking they were doing the right thing without  the whole picture. Rickets are a part of all developed countries including the United States today. It has be thought to be a third world problem until the last few year. Unfortunately the US is way behind even with diagnosing the problem while England seems to be on top of things getting the vitamin d challenge under control.



Final Words:

It is clear Vitamin D is quite important. The loss of each baby, each parent that if falsely accused of abusing or murder is unthinkable one of the cruel outcomes of this epidemic. No one is a winner  even Jayden Wray who was cleared of murder still will come home to an empty crib. This should happen no no parent or child. In our modern times it should be a routine test and corrections made easily. My hope is by writing this blog, it may save a family the heartache of going through such a loss.

 One of the first ways of stepping on to the Path of True Health is making sure your doctor orders a vitamin D test. This will help you on your way. Just like blood pressure your vitamin D level is important to know.  Children are at risk too ask your child’s pediatrician to check your child’s vitamin D levels. Be proactive ask question and find answers.  I wish I had asked before my children were born. I will never know what was missed or lost. I know now, I can check this off my list of thing to do, until the next time I visit the doctor.


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(1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2092128/Vitamin-D-deficiency-Parents-wrongly-accused-murder-abuse-babies.html

(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7334122

(3) http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/Vitamin_D_Expert_Panel_Meeting.pdf

(4) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db59.htm

(5) http://www.grc.com/health/pdf/Vitamin_D_Deficiency_Medical_Progress.pdf


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"Nature at it's best, almond and bees from California" ~ Cynthia G. Creel

"Nature at it's best, almond and bees from California" ~ Cynthia G. Creel
March 24, 2013

Nature recharges our batteries, I see the fruit and nut trees that help feed the  world all round me everyday   Enjoy the central valley of California with the bees pollinating the almond trees from CBS This Morning:

Source:
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"Eating disorders no discrimination for young and old alike Are we creating our own problems with ads that sell sex, beauty and happiness?"

"Eating disorders no discrimination for young and old alike

Are we creating our own problems with ads that sell sex, beauty and happiness?"

 ~ Cynthia G. Creel
3-23-2013

I look at the women, young, teens, young adults, mid life adults and elderly.  It seems many have difficulties with food and the feeling of being satiated, too hungry or never hungry. There are thin and heavy women who seem to share one difficulty the appropriated consumption of food. This can affect men also. 

According to Dr. Cynthia Bulk interviewed on CBS This Morning (1)  in the past 10 years eating disorder treatment centers have seen a nearly a 50% increase in the people using their services. That's 40% to 50% increase in people over the age of 35. 

This seems to be a symptom of a larger problem in America of everyone consumed about their weight. The industry for weight lost is large bringing in Billions. In The article "Weight Watchers: Putting women in "chains"? Is it enough just to loose the weight? Just say No." (2) if their formula for weight lost in imperfect only taking in consideration  fat, carbohydrates, protein and fiber, where is the health coming from? Weight Watchers brings in  $1.83 billion in one year. If they imply you will do fine and you can be "bad" on your diet eating the "extra large" things in the world  and a beautiful actress is talking how good she looks and how good she feels is that right? Does that lead to some of the problems we have with this new challenge of so many with eating disorders?

Could the beauty, fashion, fast food, and food industries each contribute in their own way? It is typical to see a thin, beautiful girl for beauty, fashion, fast food and food industries. After all Coke is happiness, Diet coke has zero calories  Do these imply that you will be happiest thin and won't gain weight? The vanity sizing in the fashion industry keeps the person thinking they are still a size 12 even thought the material stretchy or the waist size is larger now because they increased it but left the size the same. More inches in the waist from more material or stretchy material gives an imply that the person is still the same. When a fast food place advertiser the fact The main message wrapped around the visual  "The simple joy of making the grade." What do all of these things have in common is that they do not talk about the quality of the product or how healthy the product is, or if it is truly going to help you be healthy they only imply you are the same, you will be happy, you will be thin, you will loose weight and it won't matter if you are bad you can still loose weight.

I think companies walk a fine line, if it wasn't legal they would be sued  it doesn't make it something that will help us all do better in the long run, reaching for True Health. It sells the product they are advertising. Is it time to demand more from companies and just say no to the bad and yes to the good?


Do many products and companies contribute to our newest challenge that eats up time, money and resources?  I do believe if a person has True Health then they do better and use less resources in the long run. Excess weight  is hard on the body. Vote with every dollar to buy what is going to help you and give companies the message to create different products that make them profit and help others do better then before. Stepping on to the Path of True health helps each person help themselves and help others help themselves. It is up to each person to decide what is right for them, if they want to support a business or any products. We do have the power to change the world if we work together. As anyone seen the coffee bags that are like tea bags? 

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Sources:
Are they really selling hamburgers? 

Is she selling eat bad and still feel good, thin is all that matters?




Is Coke selling happiness and how can you not help the polar bears? Why can't they just make a donation and not tie the donation to direct sales?

Could Dove be doing things right? Are the products good for you and help the environment?

(1) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50142659n


(2) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/03/weight-watchers-putting-women-in-chains.html

“Avoiding the perfect storm created by an imperfect life: The olive branch created from Sandy Hook helps those left behind.” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

“Avoiding the perfect storm created by an imperfect life:

The olive branch created from Sandy Hook helps those left behind.”

~ Cynthia G. Creel 

3-22-2013

My story:

When I grew up I had many pets that I loved dearly, unfortunately some died at my hand because I didn’t understand, the loss was only magnified by that fact. I would tell my friends about the loss and said they were sorry or that was so sad. It didn’t take long to realize they had moved on and I was still stuck with the feeling of loss. I knew only time and acceptance would help me I would think  I will not make this same mistake again. I noticed others who had lost a pet would appreciate the condolence and stop talking or possibly even thinking about their pet. The understanding of the why helped me with an unchangeable fact, my pet was gone forever in life and would only live in my heart from that day forward. 

Pets are there for us to understand, bonding, love and loss. Most of all, I think, they allow us to learn how to handle the unexpected, so we don’t fold when there is nothing we could have done or we missed an opportunity to prevent.

 The facts:

Almost a month as passed and the forever loss of a small girl is still very real for her parents and sisters. Life is forever changed. This family who were one of the people who lost the most in the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newton, Conn. shooting where their oldest daughter, Emily was killed spoke out on CBS This Morning (2). Emily’s parents Robbie and Alissa Parker met with Peter Lanza, the father of the Shooter Adam Lanza, as parent who both lost a child. Robbie Parker realized after the death of his child there was no changing the facts, something else would have to do, so an olive branch was spoken that prayers and thoughts for everyone including the shooter’s family were offered. 

This olive branch was taken and an offer for The Parkers to find out answers only a father might know was created.  The parkers were able to put their pain aside and think to of a way to help themselves move beyond the fact their daughter was never coming home. They choose a way that didn’t call for some one to pay a price, to punish, but to move forward. What came for one statement of hope right after the tragedy came an opportunity to grow pass the loss and meet with the father of Adam Lanaz, Peter Lanza. Out of the hour long meeting came some understanding and a message giving that there was hope and opportunity to learn. That in helping themselves it also gave an opportunity for a dad, who’s son had created such tragedy to reach out and with someone else, someone who had lost so much on that day also. Alissa Parker voiced an opinion that the parents had a responsibility for their sons actions and there was no way for her to understand the dynamics of the family to understand  what went so wrong. 

Growth:

In life sometimes we can do everything right and still end up with the short end of the stick. The Parkers just sent there little girl to school expecting her to come back home that afternoon. The moment this tragedy unfolded and it seems like the Parkers understood there was no changing what happened and made the best of a horrible situation. These two sets of parents were able to have an intelligent conversation (3)  to help move both forward to remember the past while moving into the future together.  This is a way of thinking that can only come from a person who is meek, one who does not anger easily. It took one statement to start the conversation and did the facts change of the loss, no. What did change was the feeling of the ones who lost the most their children so they could live on without one there. 

The Parkers and Peter Lanza may never have all the answers of the why. I do not know what conversation they had, it was private. What I do know is if we understand what happens in life we can not change the past, the understanding gives us a change to prevent tragedy in the future to avoid the pain of having to try to understand.

 In an article I wrote previously, “Over the top kills many in two months.” (1)  I reported about facts that surround  the shootings all about the same time as Sandy Hook. That my thought if a family did not understand the dynamics of what affects a person like the effects of having  low levels of vitamin D3, high blood pressure, or high consumption of sweeteners  could create a perfect storm that a person and others can pay the largest price for the death of a person.  

A parent that doesn’t understand how to protect themselves or to help their child is a parent at risk, it could be any child or any family. The end results can be a formation of a deep depression that can end up being focused on the outside world. The saddest part is many times depression can be prevented by caring for the bodies  and minds needs by simply seeing a doctor, knowing if the levels of vitamin D3 are optimal though a blood test and correcting the levels under a doctors care. Or any number of signs that show something building. The answers just might be there in front of a parent hidden from view because they don’t know what to ask for and don’t know how to fix what is hidden or seen. 

The worst happens and the child’s tipping point is reached with the decision to act out by murdering others to send a message to all to see and hear. Usually angry suicidal depressed person acts out to create this tragedy. On CBS This Morning the author of Columbine, Dave Cullen (6) reports that 61% of attackers in the recent past mass murders had feelings of extreme depression or desperation and were suicidal. Cullen descries on a youtube video Why Columbine? NY Times bestseller summarizes killers' motives for Columbine shooting (5) that the act of mass murder as “a slow evolution”  and not to rush the healing, those who did the best after the tragedy from Columbine forgave the killers the quickest. The healing takes time, it can’t be rushed.  

Final thoughts:

There are no winners, the ones who lost were those who lost someone or who lost their lives. The adults, the children and the shooter(s) were all part of the perfect storm that no one saw coming or knew how to stop. The loss of a child for each parent was great, the olive branch that was extended and held by both, didn’t rush the healing, it was part of the healing. We can not change the past we can only learn from it. Maybe anger is a common answer, yet I think the best answer is we must move accept what is not changeable and to find, if possible, the reason why. Or will the “madness of tomorrows” continue?. 

Possibly the best way of  preventing the “madness of tomorrows” is to help create the ability to have intelligent conversations of the meek (not angered easily),  to step onto the path of True Health, to make choices that help and not hurt. To vote with every dollar spent to shape the world we want to live in. The more we can help ourselves to have intelligent conversations the more we can help others help themselves to do the same. We are in this together no matter what happens. 

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(2)   http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57575756/newtown-victims-parents-do-they-blame-shooters-parents/

(3)  http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/03/intelligent-conversation-can-save.html 

(4) http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-270_162-4929050.html 

(5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EA22SKaQ5hU#!

(6) http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137350n 

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“Weight Watchers: Putting women in “chains”? Is it enough just to loose the weight? Just say No.” ~ Cynthia G. Creel

“Weight Watchers: Putting women in “chains”?

Is it enough just to loose the weight? Just say No.” 

~ Cynthia G. Creel

March 21, 2013

Update: March 23, 2013

Yes they are loyal, they love the points, the other women and they just lost weight feeling better then ever before. The company Weight Watchers did what they promised to help these women and a few men to loose weight. In the process the company, CEO and a few have gotten rich. Is this enough or is this like a movie that starts out great and ends up being the worst movie you have ever seen? Could this be more than a company, but a whole industry?

The commercials say it all that you can go out and eat “bad food”. The new Weight Watchers TV Commercial (3) featuring Jennifer Hudson states that  “I love bread I love cheese I love chocolate I am human and the new 360 program, the reason I am still in this body isn’t because I don’t enjoy extra large, extra cheese world we live in it is because I do” The question might be how much “bad food” and still maintain healthy” So they promise to let a person be “bad” and to loose weight, sounds like a fairytale ending. The heart of the problem is I don’t know how you have a goal of only to loose weight and have a body that can function the way it is designed too. Our beauty industry promotes skinny, buying beauty in a box, a jar, tube or pill. Weight Watchers is no different they are there to make a profit and provide the person what helps them to bring in business to make money wrapped around the idea that they are helping women and a few men. The question of are they helping or hurting especially women that have low self esteem and lack the ability to create self compassion. Women are not the same emotional package as men. I would suggest if Weight Watchers was for mostly men the company would be designed very differently. What I see is Weight Watchers taking what they can and leaving very little behind except some women that feel so grateful and have the feeling of being healthy, not truly healthy, just some what better off. They look good on the outside, but are they rusting on the inside?



Flawed system:

Yes, it is obvious the Weight Watchers system helps people to loose weight. What happens if the formula used to create a point system is great to met the goal of loosing weight  some times, but doesn't take into consideration of a healthy weight loss is more then general fiber, carbohydrates, protein and fat. A fast way to calculate the points that has been used in Weight Watchers in the past is to divide the carbohydrates in a food by 10 to equal approximately what the real formula does. This system is flawed if a person is trying to actually become healthy. It is too general, helping weight loss often, but does not consider the health of the cells and intertwined system of the body. If becoming healthy is the goal then the side effect of gaining health is becoming the weight your body was designed to carry. The body will work the way it is designed too.

Punitive damage to each using Weight Watchers:

I have been told if a women is part of the program there is a small fine for gaining weight. Is this a punitive damage? Is it fair? Or a way to make more profits?  A formula to follow that does not take into consideration of the dynamics of weight gain, which is only partly responsible by the food that is consumed is not even close to being perfect. It seems highly likely it is possible to stay within their points system, gain weight and have to pay money for the right to be in their program, even when doing everything correct. The food formula doesn’t take into account sleep patterns, stress, or other life style choices.

It is also possible to eat a totally empty calorie item for a meal and still be on target with their formula. I have a friend who is a faithful Weight Watchers women that has been in the program  for many years. Most Fridays I watch her consume an Elephant Ear pastry for a late breakfast snack. She keeps track of the points by writing them down and talks about staying within the program. This has kept her thin, is she healthy? In my opinion she is thin, and lacks True Health. It is the little things that make the difference like having smooth, soft vibrant skin vs. pale, dry, whitish, puffy skin. The fading dry, coarse hair maybe even gray vs. depth of many colors, smooth, soft hair.  Of course being bald as a women or maybe as a man should signal there might be a problem with the functions of the body that needs care from a medical professional to reveal the why behind the sign.

A system that does not allow an empty calorie food to be consummated as part of the lifestyle choices helps to create good health, it is a system I have developed and used over the last three years to help me and others to stay on a path of True Health.

Preying on the needy:

Is Weight Watchers preying on the needy, knowing some that come to Watch Watchers have tried before and failed. That if they gain their loyalty that they will be able to get them to not only ignore what they are doing is not quite great to defend all parts of the company no matter the facts. If they are promising only weight loss and are saying how good some one looks and in reality they are ignoring other signs of health issues does that say they are helping or hurting the person? And through out this process pulling a little payment her and a little payment there, helping only their bottom line.  They promote they know what they are doing, that skinny is what is good, which leads women and some men down a path that is a dead end. If there is beauty on the outside and a heart attack or cancer or diabetes on the inside waiting to happen how does this justify what they are doing to make money? Is it implied by them that the beauty of  Jennifer Hudson or Jessica Simpson means long life and good health? That it is ok to eat some bad and be thin? We don’t have a weight problem in this country we have a health problem and those only concerted about weight may not become healthy.




Only one goal vs. more goals:

The question is should loosing weight be anyone’s
only goal? Would a better goal be to become healthy to help your telomere to become stable to increase the ability to stay healthy much more likely to avoid  catching a common cold as I wrote in the article,  “Old “age” starts at 22: Keep life rolling with healthy telomeres. Valerie Harper is hoping for the best” (2) A telomere is simply put is the tip of the DNA which is in each cell ready to reproduce, and new evidence says the length of the telomere is relevant to maintaining health leaving the body often times strong enough to fight off the common cold before the virus can set up housekeeping. Along with the studies that show a reversal in the aging process of mice by manipulation of the telomeres. It seems the answer to the question when do we start aging can be answered by the study of the telomeres.





The challenge:

I believe the largest effect from a company like Weight Watchers is it leaves women mostly with a “new body” that is thin and maybe even they exercise so there is some fitness, but leaves them with a weak body unable to defend itself well from the common cold or many other signs that the body is healthier, but not healthy. This would be ok if the women I talked to thought they still need improvement and they looked beyond Weight Watchers knowing it was a great start to at least stepping forward with an imperfect system. I am sure there are some women who go beyond Weight Watchers and do head for True Health. As I wrote in a previous article “WEIGHT WATCHERS: Are women employees willing to settle for less with companies profits in the millions?” about law suites and profits (1) I am sure the strength it took the people that worked for Weight Watchers and sue Weight Watchers to win a $6 million  class action lawsuit in California was settled over 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. These women and/or men had to be able to make decisions from strength to be able to go up against the ones that had helped them become thin and earn money. From a companies stand point if they gross $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. This is an institution that has power, money and means to help themselves and not do anything unless forced to. The lawsuit say they didn't think they would have to pay in the long run or could delay a payment. If they lost a lawsuit it would be a calculated risk and most likely would still be a “great” business decision paying out only $6 million while having income for one year of $257 million. I am not sure how many years this company policy was enforced, but if it went on for 5 years that would be $6 million against lets say an average of $200 million income, so that would still make the company profits of almost $1 billion. If a company only goal is to make a profit it is a winning situation.


Does Weight Watchers truly want there women employees to be successful creating a fair wage system or are they just taking advantage of women who are grateful enough to stay with the company knowing they would be able to help other women and some men. Who would work for hours and hours each week and only make $7,600 per year? As a women did in Wichita Falls, Tex, running 4 meetings a week. Now just like teaching isn't just time in the classroom for 6 hours a day neither is running meetings that last only a few hours a week. There is set up, inventory, plus so much more like convincing women and a few men that they can do this. This is no easy task to hold and maintain someone’s attention that is in need of a major change in their lives. One wrong word, look and some one is out the door never to return. I am always impressed by the ground floor women and some men who run meetings, they have great talents and are paid little.

Final thoughts:

Really this could be any company out there not promoting health, but weigh loss. Weight Watchers over all are they helping women and some men or hurting them? They do what they promise and are legally bound to except the lawsuit they lost and were forced to show they didn’t take care of the workers.  They give a great impression of health by having talented, young, stars talk about feeling  better and look great by loosing weight without promising, just implying heath. They make the weight loss  a big deal so no matter the cause of weight gain you get a penalty instead of just focusing why are you gaining the weight. They do what they promise and help women and some men to loose weight, is that enough? Do they do more harm then good for women and a few men? Are women being “chained” down  by the feeling of being so thankful that you will work with little compensation? Are  women and some men  being “chained” to ideas that are less helpful then they think? The idea that there is health in Weight Watchers, not just weight loss? That is for you to decide.

For me an my thoughts about weight has never been about the weight. It is to be where the body works the best and follow the Path of True Health. It helps the body support a system that not only brings a beauty to the body and a mind that is capable of intelligent conversations that  lead to common ground to move life forward. If the body can defend itself against the world with the side effect of becoming the person who was always there to make decisions out of strength not weakness. This is the best goal I can think of.

Vote with every dollar you spent who you want to support and what products you want to be offered. If you don’t lead, the industry will lead you where ever they want you to go and that might not be the best thing for you.

By Design ~ “Life is good By Design”


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A kitty roiling over on the sidewalk enjoying the sunshine.



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(1) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/02/weight-watchers-are-unhealthy-employees.html

(2) http://lifeisgoodbydesign.blogspot.com/2013/03/old-age-starts-at-22-keep-life-rolling.html

(3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu9kR0nRspU