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- ***The Best Food: There is no mystery about which food creates health - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongMost people believe the average diet based upon the official food pyramid is just fine. Some eat predominantly fast food. Others advocate veganism (eating only plant foods), or lacto-ovo vegetarianism (plants plus dairy and eggs). Others set their eating practices by the standards of holy writ ...
Views: 3143 - ***The Power of Money: Money is the power to do good - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongEveryone thinks about money. Few, however, stop to think about how money originated and then evolved into a mechanism of power that institutions and any common person can wield to exert great good or bad. Money’s original purpose was to serve as a convenient medium to replace barter. It ...
Views: 2897 - ***PET KEEPING - A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY: Pets are not toys - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongPets are remarkable creatures. They are: • Masters of life in the moment and in the art of simplicity • Reflections of a world forgotten, presynthetic, more complete • Reminders of the quiet strength and dignity of creation not tinkered with • Keepers of gifts we have ...
Views: 2903 - ***Healthy Eating Ideas: Common sense nobody follows - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongModern living, individual circumstances, and tastes that have been formed over a lifetime may not permit us to eat perfectly. That’s okay. If we keep our sight on the goal of matching food to our genetic design, we can slip here and there. The body is forgiving and health does not require ...
Views: 1459 - ***HEALTHY DOS AND DON'TS: Common Sense Can Prevent and Reverse Almost Any Health Condition - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongThe purpose of this article is to show several specific ways that philosophy can be implemented for making healthy decisions. Here goes, one idea for each week in the year: 1. Responsibility—Take responsibility for yourself. You alone are the master of your own health destiny. 2. ...
Views: 2614 - ***Food Ethics: Eating without working for it is stealing - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongThe thought of a creature, any creature, dying in order for people to eat is very unsettling for many. It is also puzzling that humans seem to be the only ones who make a fuss about it. Other creatures just eat what they are designed to eat and apparently never give it a second ...
Views: 1517 - ***Exercise: The price we must pay for food and health - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongThe benefits of exercise are myriad. It makes us feel good, burns excess body fat, grows and maintains muscle, strengthens bones and joints, helps flexibility, deepens sleep, improves appearance, creates a high, provides goals to achieve, lifts depression, relieves stress, increases self esteem, ...
Views: 1298 - ***Being in Love: Realistic love can last forever - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongAs children we are weaned on Cinderella and acculturated by an endless parade of romantic fantasies in novels, television and movies. It would be easy to assume that if we are not madly in love there is something wrong with us. The euphoria of being in love is like an hourglass, with the heart ...
Views: 4493 - ***Being Health Smart: Relying On Modern Medicine Is Disastrous - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongOur great intellect is in large part necessary because of the quest for food. A cow is as smart as it needs to be to figure out how to eat what is always underfoot. The apex predator—clawless, fangless man—needs great cunning, memory, logic, and analytical thought. The spear and ...
Views: 1465 - ***Animal Rights: How we treat animals reflects who we are - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Randy WysongFrom a purely biological perspective, no creature inherently has rights beyond that which it has the power to impose. What is able to survive does, what cannot does not. But our world is not just biology. It is ethics as well. “Might makes right” cannot be the operating paradigm in a ...
Views: 5544 - ***Life Is Uncertain - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2008 from Randy WysongPublishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to ...
Views: 1114 - The Best Food: There Is No Mystery About Which Food Creates Health - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2008 from Randy WysongPublishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to ...
Views: 826 - ***Possibility Thinking: Reason Is The Answer To Virtually Every Human Problem - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2008 from Randy WysongPublishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to ...
Views: 1022 - Healthy Dos and Don'ts: Common Sense Can Prevent and Reverse Almost Any Health Condition - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2008 from Randy WysongPublishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to ...
Views: 1638 - ***Growing Older: How To Die Young As Old As Possible - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2008 from Randy WysongPublishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to ...
Views: 2633 - Exercise: Exercise Is The Price We Must Pay For Food And Health - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2008 from Randy WysongPublishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print free of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to ...
Views: 1108 - ***The Greatest Threat to Your Health - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2008 from Randy WysongWhy more or free access to medical care, better insurance, and subsidized meds is not the answer to your health: There is a prevailing belief that modernity translates into better health. A corollary of this logic is that we can live our lives pretty much as we want because we can always buy ...
Views: 2416 - Germs Don't Cause Disease, You Do - by Submitted on May 30, 2008 from Randy WysongAt one time at our office we had a day care. It was complete with a classroom, an area sectioned off for indoor play, kitchen, and outside playground. There was a full-time monitor/teacher and lots of little munchkins around the office interrupting us during the course of the day. It was great ...
Views: 1814 - Anabolic Hormones - A Two-Edged Sword - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Randy WysongWhen I was a young boy, emerging muscles were the coolest thing. If a vein popped out a little, that was even more awesome. There were no fitness centers or body-building gyms to amount to anything back then (Stone Age). If you aspired to brawn, Charles Atlas paraphernalia advertised in comic ...
Views: 1216 - The Case AGAINST Raw Frozen Pet Foods - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Randy WysongFor some 25 years I have alerted the public to the dangers of exclusively feeding heat processed foods. Companion animal feeding has progressed – actually digressed – from table scraps and real foods the family could spare to today’s “100 % complete” processed foods ...
Views: 1951 - Fish Out Of Water - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Randy WysongWe measure our world by the limits of our knowledge and experience. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything like nails. Bigotry, bias, and prejudice are all words that describe this limited view (hammer) each of us tends to embrace and apply. A dog does not ...
Views: 984 - Keeping A Distance From Religion - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Randy WysongA primary reason evolution is believed by many is because what is thought to be the alternative, religion, is feared, dreaded and unthinkable. And it is true that scientific advances only occurred because knowledge was wrested from the autocratic clutches of religion. Our age of wonderful ...
Views: 1036 - The Myth of 100% Complete Pet Food - by Submitted on Aug 13, 2007 from Randy WysongEvery day, people by the millions pour food from a package into their pet’s bowl. Day in and day out, meal after meal, pets get the same fare. This strange phenomenon is widely practiced by loving pet owners who believe they are doing the right thing. Why? Certainly because it is ...
Views: 1317 - Is Common Sense or Research Needed to Cure Cancer? - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2007 from Randy WysongIt is an incredible feat that organisms can begin from one cell and then differentiate and compartmentalize into the millions of diverse tissue and organ niches that represent a mature body. Why brain, fingernail, liver, intestine and bone cells ever become what they are is mystery enough. Why ...
Views: 1208 - Biophilia - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2007 from Randy WysongHave you ever wondered what causes that warm glow inside, the sense of peace and exhilaration when walking through the woods or sitting by the ocean and watching the sunset? How about the beauty of a fresh snowfall clinging to trees, the smell and feel of the first warm day in spring, or the ...
Views: 1986 - The Pet Food Ingredient Game - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2007 from Randy WysongAbout 25 years ago I began formulating pet foods at a time when the entire pet food industry seemed quagmire and focused on such things as protein and fat percentages without any real regard for ingredients. Since boot leather and soap could make a pet food with the "ideal" percentages, it was ...
Views: 1755 - Why Child Bearing Is Healthy - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2007 from Randy WysongFrom a purely biological perspective, bearing children can be considered the most important reason for a woman’s existence. For that matter, the same could be said about men, since both sexes are, in effect, disposable packages of genetic material. We die, but our genes continue on ...
Views: 1256 - The Myth of 100% Complete Processed Pet Food - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2005 from Randy WysongEvery day, people by the millions pour food from a package into their pet’s bowl. Day in and day out, meal after meal, pets get the same fare. This strange phenomenon is not only widely practiced, but done by loving owners who believe they are doing the right thing. Why? Certainly because it is ...
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