Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #13. Week ending Aug 16th, 2009
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click the image or click here for more info  1. My Wife And I Are Fine!One of my subscribers just called to order some more cases of VIRTUAL MEDICINE. He happened to comment he was sorry to hear my wife had run off and I was alone. WHAT??? Vivien is here with me, we are much in love and I assure you all is fine. I'm writing this because apparently he'd read something in Letter From Serendipity that made him think we'd split up. I hope it didn't confuse anybody else! I can only suppose it was this article in Issue #9: http://www.LetterFromSerendipity.com/serendipity9.htm#Love He must have misread it. This was about my first wife! Vivien (below) is my second and a dream too!
2. This is a historic week for women. Chocolate is GO!Chocolate is in the news again. Some years ago I did a lot of research on chocolate, prior to bringing out my designer product "The Doctor's Chocolate". I was surprised to find that even consuming average chocolate (schlocolate, as I call it) definitely added years [study in the British Medical Journal, Dec 1988]. This week an entirely new study from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and published in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine has shown the same thing. Apparently, heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff. Smaller quantities confer less protection, but are still better than none, according to the study, according to the researchers [The Karolinska Institute is one of the top trustworthy research sources on Earth]. So ladies, you are GO to eat the stuff, just don't get carried away. Which brings me to my own designer chocolate, "The Doctor's Chocolate". Click the packet here and find out, in a short video, why it's the number #1 healthy chocolate for everybody [hint: the secret is a special amino acid called L-theanine I sneaked into the mix!]
3. The End Of The World ScenarioAm I concerned about swine flu or any other pandemic? Not in the slightest. Terrorism? Nope? Global warming? Sooner than that. Asteroid impact? No! Economic meltdown? No. AIDS? Definitely not. An Islamic jihad? Naawww! You're not even close. I get it: Sun turns supernova? No, trillions and trillions to one against. I can live with the math! I'm concerend about seeds. What's happening in the world today is that we are not just losing wild species, a sad worry in itself. We are losing the foundations of civilization: basic foods. As crops dwindle to fewer and fewer species, we are at terrible risk of a worldwide disaster. Yet that's what is happening. When our food crops diminish to just one main strain, that's called "monoclonal". Just the one and that's it. If you are not afraid of this trend, you don't understand it! Monoclonal crop strains are easily wiped out by just ONE pathogen. It cost a million lives in Ireland when potato blight struck their crops in 1845- 1851. A million may not even sound much (did I write that?) but it represents 25% of the population of that little country. Imagine if 25% of the USA or Japan population were wiped out: do the math! The reason it happened is that blight attacked the potato crop one very wet season and there was only ONE crop which kept the people fed. Result = disaster. Now Monsato are playing tricks and trying to get the whole world on their monoclonal species seed program. The dangers of this greed and folly are beyond imagining. If all the world's crops are similar, any one thing could attack and kill our only food source! Have you heard of the wheat rust called Ug99? It broke out in Uganda in 1999. It's sweeping through Asia and will soon be here. When it hits the USA, the food queues and soup kitchens of the Depression could seem vastly abundant compared to what we will get with today's population burden. No wheat means no bread (or pizza, pasta, muffins etc). Variety is the keynote of Nature.Diversity is central to progress, adaptation and successful competition among species. Nature has been practising her role for billions of years (yes, blue-green algae have been on Earth for billions of years). She is a lot wiser than us and we should never abandon diversity. But Monsanto, in its greed and arrogance, doesn't care about Nature. They just want every farmer on the globe locked into their corporate hegemony. They send out spies to see if contracted farmers have gone back to Nature's way. They relentlessly sue even poverty stricken farmers who try to go back to the old seeds. Monsanto is going to kill us all if we are not very careful. The answer lies in the safety of seeds! That's why I am interested in them. We MUST, as the utmost priority, preserve as much variety of seeds as we can. Some people are already thinking ahead. The Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome aims to prevent the ultimate doomsday scenario from happening. The Trust announced it is "on track to save from extinction 100,000 different varieties of food crops from 46 countries." By focusing on staple crops -- such as rare varieties of barley, wheat, rice, banana/plantain, potato, cassava, chickpea, maize, lentil, bean, sorghum, millet, coconut, breadfruit, cowpea and yam —the Trust hopes to preserve the world's crop biodiversity, and ultimately our food supply. The crops will be stored at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, aka the "Doomsday Vault", a mountainside facility built by the government of Norway near the village of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, an icy group of islands nearly a thousand kilometers north of mainland Norway. The vault opened one year ago this week, and already houses a collection of 200 million seeds representing more than 400,000 unique species. Just this brief essay, I hope, will let you know how incredibly vital this is. And don't just heave a sigh of relief, it's all taken care of. Monsanto and its evil exectuives must be brought down at all costs, before they wreck our world. See also this example of a caterpillar plague in Liberia, devastating their main crops.
4. Can Your Kids Save Your Life With CPR?Children as young as 9 years old can and should learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), Austrian researchers say. In a study of 147 students who received six hours of life-support training, 86% of the children performed CPR correctly at a follow-up session four months after the training, according to the report published online in the journal Critical Care. "The usefulness of CPR training in schools has been questioned, since young students may not have the physical and cognitive skills needed to perform such complex tasks correctly," Dr. Fritz Sterz, of the Medical University of Vienna, said in a news release from the journal's publisher. "We found that, in fact, students as young as 9 years are able to successfully and effectively learn basic life-support skills. As in adults, physical strength may limit depth of chest compressions and ventilation volumes, but skill retention is good," he added. In the training program, the children were taught CPR, how to use of automatic defibrillators, the correct recovery position and how to call for emergency services. Body mass index, not age, was the major factor in depth of CPR compressions and amount of air exhalation. That means that a well-built 9-year-old child can be just as capable at CPR as an older child, the researchers said. "Given the excellent performance by the students evaluated in this study, the data support the concept that CPR training can be taught and learned by schoolchildren and that CPR education can be implemented effectively in primary schools at all levels," Sterz and colleagues concluded. SOURCE: BioMed Central, news release, July 30, 2009 Don't be lonely in your old age! This leads me to another important point: elder couples should each make sure they can perform CPR manouvers. You will probably be closest if your partner passes out. You might save your loved one for many more years! And while I am at it, let me answer this question: What is the correct action where someone needs to be moved to perform CPR, such as a car accident? Does the risk of additional harm (such as spinal injury or bleeding) outweigh the benefits of CPR if nobody qualified is on scene?
(CNN) -- Debra Bader was taking a walk in the woods with her 53-year-old husband one morning when suddenly he collapsed. At first she thought the situation was hopeless.
"I looked at him and said, 'He's dead,' because he wasn't moving or making any sounds at all," Bader remembers. "But I pulled the cell phone out of his pocket and called 911, and then a public service announcement I'd heard on the radio popped into my head." The one-minute PSA from the American Heart Association instructed listeners, in the event of cardiac arrest, to perform chest compressions very hard to the beat of the 1970s Bee Gees song "Stayin' Alive." "I sang the song and gave directions to the EMTs at the same time. It was like, 'Stayin' alive, stayin' alive -- take a right here, take a left here -- Stayin' alive, stayin' alive -- take this path down here -- Stayin' alive, stayin' alive,' " Bader remembers. For 15 minutes Bader, who had never taken a CPR class, pumped her husband's chest until the ambulance arrived. Christopher Bader survived, but 95 percent of people who go into cardiac arrest die before they get to the hospital.
5. Proud Of My SonTake a look at a blaze video, promoting my son Magnus as a chef. He's a prize-winning chef and been on TV 2- 3 times. http://blowndeadline.com/Magnus/ (can't say I like the music they chose though! I'm told it's Nirvana. Buddha would be bemused)
6. Here's a bonus bit of humor! No Bathing Suits Allowed In The Lobby (someone took it literally)
What's In A Word?Motley. Great word. It means 1 : variegated in color (a motley coat); 2 : composed of diverse often incongruous elements (a motley crowd). Motley can be a bit disparaging for a group of people. They may be a heterogenous group but to call them "motley" isn't very flattering. It's used particularly to describe the multi-colored coat of a court jester. Hence the expression "On with the motley": to prepare for a stage performance. Latterly also used more widely just to mean let's begin or let's continue. Shakespeare referred to motley as a form of dress several times in As You Like It, 1599. He often called the jester in his plays "the Fool", hence Motley Fool. Motley, and its variants motlé and motlegh, are Anglo-Norman words meaning variegated. Motley was also the name of a type of cloth made from two or more colours and later clothing made from such cloth. There are several citings of motley in the late 14th century, including this from the Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:
The first recorded use of 'on with the motley' is in Pagliacci, an opera by Leoncavallo, 1892. The text was translated into English in 1893 by F. E. Weatherly:
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This Week's Quote:The sign said “This door to remain closed at all times” Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a door? - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
So, that's all for this week! Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it! Prof.
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