NASA Tests Queensland Recycled Water

This video has just been released showing what appears to be a NASA scientist testing the results of Queensland's sewerage water recycling system. Warning: bad language.

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

Levitating Water?

Wind Power Turbine on a string

For you alt.energy afficionados out there, here's an intriguing approach to wind power that bypasses the normal 'turbine' approach completely. I love to see young people coming up with such e-of-field concepts!
See the video here

Comparing Apples with Apples

Following a reader's request, here's the new website that compares all major brands of alkaline water ionizer.

It's the only test procedure I have yet seen where the actual laboratory technician states that he is totally impartial.

>>Here's the report and video

What Everyone Really Needs This Christmas

An inflatable fruitcake. Yes, you heard right. And check out the outrageous video that sells this bit of junk! Just think, someone may be married to this guy!

Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days: The Video.

It's all systems GO! We have organised a screening of this amazing video at the Byron Bay Cinema on Monday December 1st at 7pm. if you are within running, crawling or motoring distance, and have any any friends who are diabetic, this can be your very special Christmas Present to your friend.

Bring them along, meet me and the Ion Life team, and enjoy a movie that had me alternately laughing, crying and hooting in joy.

This movie energized me like no movie I've seen in years. Why? Because a simple solution created massive change in ordinary folks' lives by incontrovertibly proving to them that there was a simple, drug-free way out from this insidious disease.

Because it's only a 100-seat cinema, we have to ask you to book to avoid disappointment. You can do that here.
For a sampler of what's in store, Here's the trailer.

Keep it UP! We've got 'em Rattled!

Here's a telling small video of the managing Director of Nestle Water in the US. He is reacting to criticisms of the environmental damage we see with bottled water. Note carefully; he talks all about green initiatives in his factory. But he says nothing about NOT manufacturing BILLIONS of bottles year.

Here's the video

New Acid/Alkaline Food Chart

It's done! It's printed! And it looks great!

My new Acid-Alkaline Food Chart has been printed in a size designed to fit on your fridge door, making healthy menu planning a breeze. I've spent months on it, using as my source Dr Susan E. Brown's great 'Acid Alkaline Food Guide' Book, and adapting as much as possible to Aussie food. So because you are my special readers, I'm sending it out up to the end of the month freight free. anywhere in Australia. And if you buy three (one for you, one for those you love the most) there's an even better deal. Check it out here.

More water Classes in Perth

Readers on this blog would be familiar with Robyn Backhouse. She's that amazing lady from Perth, WA who has got her biological age way down on her er.. actual age, and she has let me know that she's holding another series of water classes very soon. Well worth going to. She's done the work and now she wants to share what she has applied to her life. To learn more click here

Doctors 'rely on Chemo Too much".

This BBC report on the apparent excessive use of chemotherapy comes as no great surprise.

Frankly, of all the jobs in the world... I'd rather not have that of cancer surgeon!

Here's the report.

Investors Required for this fabuous new fitness and health Invention

A go-anywhere, fitness on the move concept ideal for anyone; the mum going shopping, the commuter, the daily jogger. Wow!

Click here if you are interested.

Fat Kids' Arteries. A Big Uh-Oh!

There's depressing news.. like the Congo, Darfur. the environment and the economy. It makes you sit lower in the lounge as the TV 'educates' you, go to bed ealy and wake up feeling like you've been drugged.

Then there's 'Uh Oh' news that gives you a wakeup call that you want to respond to, and are able to deal with and take advantage of.

The following an 'Uh Oh' item.

The neck arteries of obese children and teens look more like those of 45-year-olds, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2008.

“There’s a saying that ‘you’re as old as your arteries,’ meaning that the state of your arteries is more important than your actual age in the evolution of heart disease and stroke,” said Geetha Raghuveer, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and cardiologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital. “We found that the state of the arteries in these children is more typical of a 45-year-old than of someone their own age.”

Using ultrasound to measure the thickness of the inner walls of the neck (carotid) arteries that supply blood to the brain, Dr Raguveer's team found our 'Uh Oh' moment.

It seems that increasing carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) indicates the fatty buildup of plaque within arteries feeding the heart muscle and the brain, which of course, can lead to heart attack or stroke. The plumbing is blocking up.

Obviously, we're not designed for oday's environment we have created for ourselves. Some of our responses to that environment are maladaptive. Historically calorie malnutrition was the biggest killer of our ancestors. So we have genes that make us like food, especially fatty sweet food. As a result some kids have vascular systems that are undergoing accelerated aging.

The children’s “vascular age” — the age at which the level of thickening would be normal for their gender and race — was about 30 years older than their actual age, Dr. Raghuveer said.

So where's the 'Uh Oh'? in all that? Here's an item we can work with. A kid isn't so old that he or she isn't damaged beyond repair. A kid is adaptive. A kid wants to be accepted and will follow behaviour that rewards him with love and approval. A kid CAN be weaned off junkfood and bad physical habits.

Yes, yes, we've all heard that it's genetic and therefore.. or 'our whole family is obese'.. or 'I can't hurt him; he's such a good kid'.

But can we really hear what Dr Raghuveer is saying? The arteries - the plumbing of the body - are going to wear out THIRTY YEARS before your beautiful kid does! As so many people around the world chanted only last week;
"YES WE CAN!"

Astralagus Study reveals anti-aging effect

I freely admit to great respect for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Not just because it follows the same principles as acid/alkaline in the form of Yin/Yang, but because I've seen for myself many, many people derive great benefit from 'the little Chinese man around the corner' who gave them a mixture of herbs, barks and bits of wood to boil up and drink. And all this after they received no assistance from Allopathic sources.

I am in awe of the great job Fusion Health, a company begun right here in Byron Bay has done in creating TCM support formulae and going the extra mile to source safe and dependable suppliers so that their remedies can meet the stringent requirements of the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration.

So it's not surprising when I see this report on the effectiveness of Astralagus as an anti-ageing strategy. Astralagus, a commonly recommended for immunity boosting, is a member of the vetch family, and the study has shown that drug derived from Astralagus has had significant effect at the DNA level to slow up telomere degemneration.

More about the report
More about Astralagus

Water: The Lubricant of Life

Sue Kira is an old friend of ours for whom I have great respect as a practitioner and a person.

A longtime experienced Naturopath, she has been performing live blood analysis for many years and is a staunch alkaline life advocate, probably because she has seen the results that people have gotten from alkalizing in their live blood analysis.

She is also a fount of information and she writes some seriously competent articles on alternative health. Here's a link to what Sue wrote on alkaline water.

If you are gluten intolerant, and anywhere nearby the southern end of the Gold Coast, I recommend attending her Gluten ad dairy free food preparation class on November 29, from 9:30 to 3:30pm. at Pottsville.

• Learn how to make delicious Gluten and Dairy Free foods for all the family · Includes breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, drinks, dips and Christmas treats
• Nutritional advice e.g. where do I get my calcium if I am not having dairy?
• Alternative food choices to dairy & gluten
• Feast on the fine foods that are demonstrated
• Sprouting and dehydrator use
• Includes printed recipes and information

Many people have made the change to a gluten and dairy free diet because of the benefits to their health such as less bloating, more energy, easier weight control, allergy reduction and to energetically 'FEEL' better. However, many think that a gluten and dairy free lifestyle is too hard to manage, especially when it comes to keeping the kids happy. Sue has the answers. Been there, done that!

Sue's email is suekira@lifeforcevitality.com.au or you can call her on 1800 338 332

Art in the Eye of a Needle

I just have to share this!

Did I hear right?

Can it be true? I just heard that there are 224,000,000 overweight people in the USA.

And then I hear we are fatter in Australia!!!

And yet, and yet, and yet... there is a completely different way of looking at fat. One that may indeed explain why there are so mnay fat people today.
Click to download 'The Untold Truth About Fat' here

Sepsis: The Reason I don't want to go to hospital!

There are 750,000 cases of sepsis in US hospitals every year. In Germany, 162 people die every day in hospitals of sepsis. If you land in Intensive care, you have a 1 in 2 chance of getting sepsis.

This report adds a lot more, but I'd love some of these experts to take a look at this video from Japan. Please note: The video makes medical claims. We do not make medical or therapeutic claims the use of alkaline ionized water, and recommend that you contact your health professional before any change to your current health regimen. if you agree with all this, then this link will take you to the video.

It's the way you look at things.. even at 100

A friend dropped by yesterday. She's my age or thereabouts and have extremely bad arthritis; she's had it for yours yet she still has the drive and energy to work fulltime at Wild Mountains Trust in the hills behind Brisbane.

Joan was telling us that she visits a 100-year old lady in a nursing home nearby. She heard that she was lonely and wanted someone to talk to, so Joan took on the 'job'. (Non-paying)

The old lady - let's call her Gladys, is legally blind.

Not long into Joan's visits, she began to hear the same sort of complaints about how awful it was to be old, how awful it was to be blind... and one and on. Joan took her on drives, to singalongs, yet the moans kept coming.

We talked about how to manage the repetitive moans from the centenegarian, and as we discussed it, Joan related a lovely story I'd like to share.

Sitting with Gladys at the lunch table, Joan was introduced to another home resident we'll call Ethel. Ethel was also blind, but was a mere 90 years old.

Gladys began moaning about the dessert, saying that she hated the fact that 'they' - the nursing home - always gave her too much to finish, how it was a terrible waste, how awful it was that they were so unthinking. Joan gritted her teeth and said nothing.

Ethel, who was also partaking of the same dessert paused, looked sightlessly towards Gladys, and said "Oh? I think it tastes just so good! And it's so nice of them to give me as much as I can eat!"

Joan, who had been contemplating telling Gladys that she should be less grumpy because there were others in the home in more frail states then her, paused and thought.

"How can that be? Two old ladies with years of life experience behind them.. yet they have absolutely opposite ways of looking at the world."

She decided to say nothing to Gladys, realising that her approach would probably only entrench Gladys' negativity. Yet we had a wonderful discussion about how to look at life. And we came to the same conclusion we always seem to come to.

There is always a choice. not, perhaps in what actually happens to us, but always, always, in how we choose to see it.

Microlite Preloved for sale

A very good value secondhand Microlite water alkalizer here.

Voting for America

Last week I published a mini-poll for people outside of the USA who wanted a voice in the election tomorrow. I wonder if Americans realise how much we care about the result (speakin' as an Aussie!). My minipoll gave a result overwhelmingly towards Obama, but a reader sent me this link that has done the same thing but on a far, far grander scale.

Take a good mouse-over world tour in the results section. When you see the sort of country that supports each candidate, it's a real eye opener! To whoever did this website, I say thank you and congratulations!