Please help NOW

What would YOU do if you woke up one morning to the news that not one but a number of carcinogenic chemicals had been detected in your drinking water? I care about water. I love water. I believe in the 'sanctity' (for want of a better word) of pure water. That's why I'm signing the petition against fracking in Australia. Do you care and want to make a difference? This petition on the Getup website has the power to change pollies' minds and allow our beautiful country to continue to be one of the last clean places on the planet. (Go to the link below.)

Here's Debbi's story;

Carcinogenic chemicals have just been detected in 5 water bores around the QLD town of Dalby. Debbi (pictured with her daughter) is a young mother from the area.

"When my son first started developing the headaches, we thought he had a tumour. We were just so scared. He had CT scans and everything and it was all clear. Then we started looking into impacts of coal seam gas development as they had just started drilling in our area and - the headaches, the nosebleeds, skin rashes that some people in the area have - it's all consistent with what other people are experiencing. 

We know a local lady who lives within 200 metres of a gas well. She and her son both became quite ill - they were even passing out. Her young son's the same age as my boy and he was bleeding from the nose as well as the ears. This got us thinking as well as researching the impacts, because it was at the same time as coal seam gas came to our town, Tara. It's just scary. A lot of people won't come forward because they're worried about repercussions from the people working in the industry, so they wont speak out. 

I've written letters, I've told the Premier personally -- they are all not interested. There are too few of us here to get the Government's attention. Together, we can show the Government that people right across the country are appalled by the impacts of coal seam gas. That's why I'm asking for your help. 

Please join me and other locals in signing this petition to tell the government to stop this industry, stop it now - you can't replace people, don't let my kids and other families get sick. 

In the past 2 years the industry has drilled 11 gas wells within 3 kilometers of our house. They plan to turn our area into a fully developed gas field - thousands of wells, spread across the area 750 meters apart. It could happen anywhere: coal seam gas reserves have been found right across the country and the industry is moving in at a breakneck pace. 

When they are drilling, we can't sleep. You can hear the droning of the drill rig from inside my home over the sound of my five noisy children. When they drill, there is a sulphury-rotten egg smell in the air and sometimes you get a metallic taste in your mouth. 

Coal seam gas mining has already made our property unsellable. Nobody wants to live in a gas field. I don’t want to live in a gas field. We believe this industry needs to be stopped. We'll do whatever it takes to stop it but we need your help. "
Sign the petition now.

The Italian Cure

Spending a few days with an ex-Doctor was a real boost to my alkaline philosophy in many ways, some of which I trust I can share in this article. 'James' has been retired now for a few years and travels the world with Jane, his wife and partner. We've known each other for some years and share a fascination for all things alkaline, simply because we've been been privileged to see how alkalizing actually supports people's return to health. It's also great because I get the doctor's perspective and it very often sheds light on their perspective. 

Let's face it.. doctors are humans too and they get a real 'bum rap' from so many people on the net simply because it'sa easy. They don't react, they don't sue you if you say doctors hate people getting well.. but what about what the doctor says?

Doctors are not the medical establishment, doctors are not pharmaceutical companies. Doctors are not necessarily drug pushers. Doctors are individuals just like you and me.

James is a huge advocate of Italian water. he says that its high alkaline calcium and magnesium levels make it the best water in the world. Indeed, in my own experience the Italians also take their water very seriously, including exporting it all over the world.

A story James told me let me know just how much he believes in the water. He had a neighbour who had, for some unknown reason contracted not one but many 'layers' of unusual health problems. "I had to look some of them up in a book to see what they were!' said gerry. His neighbour was a typical Aussie.. drinking too much beer, smoking, eating processed food and too much of it, with little if any care for consequence. When he approached James he had been getting steadily worse even after a string of specialists had put him through every test imaginable.

I need to say that James is not what I'd call a run of the mill doc. He takes pride in being the best doctor he can be, and uses all the tools he has at his disposal. He told his neighbour in no uncertain terms that as far as he could see he was going to die, and then asked him, quietly and clearly, if he was willing to follow his advice. 

I emphasise 'quietly and clearly' because James told me that one of the most powerful healing tools he uses is 'suggestion' - also known as autosuggestion, sometimes known as hypnosis. His method is simple. Speak very slowly, no more than 3 words at a time, and then with a big gap, then another three. This technique establishes authority and breaks the patient's inner self-monolgue. It is, he says, extremely affective, and he made sure his neighbour saw him as his last appointment of the day so he could spend enough time with him to give him plenty of 'suggestion'.

Of course, he also suggested what he would suggest with any patient; lay off the beer and cigarettes, exercise regularly, rethink your diet.. and drink at least a DOZEN BOTTLES OF SAN PELLEGRINO water a week! "I tell them they should buy a water ionizer, but if they can't, or won't, I tell them to drink San Pellegrino." said James.

The finale to the story is that after being treated by a veritable chorus line of doctors, his neighbour got well with James. Was it the suggestion that allowed James to change the man's mind about his own health? Was it the dietary changes? Was it the exercise? Or was it the San Pellegrino?

He told me this story because we  were discussing miraculous healings. He says that the witnessing of miracles by ordinary doctors is far, far beyond the incredibly low healing instances of places like Lourdes, and he chose to discuss this case as an example of what could have been seen as a 'miracle healing'. He was very firm that these instances really have nothing to do with him, but that they occur far more frequently than most people imagine.

Here in Italy we don't have our own water ionizer and so we do drink San Pellegrino every day. We live only minutes from San Gemini, a spring that was known in Roman times to heal gout and arthritis. It makes me wonder if because Italians have grown up with the belief in the healing properties of their natural waters, they automatically reap the benefits, much as James' 'suggestion' exercise instils a belief in the authority a nd power of the doctor. 

The answer is irrelevant. Alkaline water has a history of healing longer by far than the whole history of allopathic medicine.

So what's it to be? A case of San Pellegrino every week? Or your own alkaline water system, for around $0.02c  a litre? It's a no-brainer wiith a historical pedigree that's hard to beat!

E-Coli in... Abu Dhabi? Rangoon? No.. Scotland!

2000 Scots are boiling their water tonight as three communities have been warned of an E-Coli outbreak in their local water supply. Honestly, I thought Scotland would be too cold for E-coli!
Check the story here.

It goes without saying that good water system management would never allow this to happen. But sadly, as local utilities, like the rest of us, suffer cutbacks in funding, the robust health systems of old are whittled down pound by english pound. The question becomes simply how long we think we can live safely without robust home water filtration protection.

It's in your Genes, Son

WASHINGTON: Israeli researchers trying to unlock the secret of longevity studied a population of Ashkenazi Jews who have lived to at least 95 and found their eating and lifestyle habits are no better than those of the general population.

In fact, men in the long-lived group drank slightly more and exercised less than their average counterparts.

The findings are published in the online edition of Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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''This study suggests that centenarians may possess additional longevity genes that help to buffer them against the harmful effects of an unhealthy lifestyle,'' said the senior author, Dr Nir Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The study involved 477 Ashkenazi Jews aged 95 to 122 who were living independently. Three-quarters were women. All were enrolled in a study aimed to uncover the secrets to longevity.

Ashkenazi Jews were chosen because they are more ''genetically uniform than other populations, making it easier to spot gene differences, the study said.

The elder group had similar habits in terms of height-weight ratio, smoking, exercise level and diet as similarly matched people in the general population.

Data on comparison subjects came from 3164 people who were born about the same time as the centenarians and were examined between 1971 and 1975.

Twenty-four per cent of long-living men drank alcohol daily, compared with 22 per cent of the general population, while 43 per cent exercised regularly compared to 57 per cent.

The longer-living group was less likely to reach higher levels of obesity. But researchers cautioned that the older set's secrets are not a good fit for most.

''Although this study demonstrates that centenarians can be obese, smoke and avoid exercise, those lifestyle habits are not good choices for most of us who do not have a family history of longevity,'' Dr Barzilai said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/secret-to-long-life-in-genes-not-lifestyle-study-suggests-20110803-1ibnn.html#ixzz1Tz1OMZ2G

Detect growths using your I-Phone

Is there any limit to what you can do with an I-Phone? At age 64 my regular visits to my skin specialist makes me realise how dumb I was as a teenage surfer with Scottish skin. 'Things' are popping out all over. 

Now with an I-Phone all you need to do is scan a growth to get a report.

So now I don't have to go to the doctor to freak out over the big 'C'.

Isn't is just great?