New Online Magazine Opportunities

I'm both honored and excited to announce the upcoming launch of the magazine named after this blog. There was a struggle with the name of the magazine, but it was determined that "It's Your Life" fits with the natural living theme of the magazine.

With a desire to educate others in how to live a happy, healthy, natural life the name of the blog seemed to fit. After all it is your life and you have choices to make in regards to how you live it. Do you want to continue living sick and tired or are you sick and tired of it? Now this magazine gives no guarantees, but instead seeks to open minds to the various health and mental problems many suffer. What most do not know is how complex our bodies and minds truly are and what it can take to make or keep them healthy.

Through my journey to a happy, healthy, natural lifestyle I have learned alot and continue to learn. Sharing the experiences I have had personally and the inspiration of others who have also overcome physical and mental health problems without drugs is what this magazine brings to its readers. Striving for a unique magazine that has never been done before we have come up with some great ways to help our readers lead a happy, healthy, natural lifestyle.

What You Will Find in Our Magazine

• Unique articles geared towards natural healing of various health and mental problems 
• Articles geared towards physical fitness its importance and the many benefits it brings
• Self sufficiency on various levels rather you just want to grow your own food or strive to be totally off the grid
• How to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and improve your health along with unique recipes
• Superfoods are important for our bodies as they bring various vitamins and minerals other foods do not. 
• Herbs for health, healing, and growing
• Detoxing and avoiding heavy metals and other toxins
• World news that makes a difference to our health
• The mind is a terrible thing to waste yet so many of us do find out how powerful your mind is and how it can bring you peace, happiness, and financial freedom
• You will be introduced to coaches who can make a difference in various aspects of you life.
• Homeschooling is an important part of the natural living lifestyle as our children were given to us to raise and bring up. Each issue will include a topic with links for study, knowledge, and fun.
• All advertisements will be geared towards natural living if it be those who create, provide, or can bring to us something that effects our life in a positive manner.

 

This magazine incorporates all these topics into one magazine by writers who are either living what they write about or have a strong passion for the mentioned topics. 

Call To Action

• We are seeking more bloggers passionate about these topics to write for us in exchange for advertisement with a live link and bio.
• If you have a product you would like to advertise geared towards natural living we will do it in exchange for a link to the online magazine on your site, will include a live  link time span to be determined.
• FREE issue for those who will put up a link to the magazine in their sidebar for that issue
• If you have a topic you would like to see written about that no one else has addressed email me @ edjumpoff@yahoo.com.

These terms are for a limited time only to be determined.

The deadline for the first magazine is Monday March 16, 2015 contact Joyce Wheeler editor, writer, publisher, and co-designer for more information @ edjumpoff@yahoo.com.

April is Autism Awareness Month if you or someone you know has dealt with this health problem naturally we want to hear from you. We are seeking an article on a family who done this and know that they are out there. So, many families deal with autism and they need to know that if caught early enough it can be eliminated.

Free Health Conference

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Going through my emails this morning one email caught my attention. It came from The Institute for Responsible Technology which is an organization founded by Jeffrey Smith a man whose goal is to get rid of GMOs (genetically mutated organisms.) The email's subject was "FREE Real Truth about Health Conference Replay," being all about natural living, the right to know, and good health I had to check it out.

This free health conference includes twelve leading experts with seventeen talks. The majority of the speakers are talking about the ways various foods effect our health. Jeffrey Smith will be talking about GMOs for those who don't know about them this is the video you should start with. Once you request the conference you will receive an email with a link and password. Then just go to the January 2014 Conference tab on the site and select which video you would like to watch.

Learn from top health experts and discover what they have to say about achieving optimal health and preventing Alzheimer’s, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity, Stroke, Arthritis , Autism, Asthma, COPD(Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Crohn’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Gout, Inflammatory Bowl Disease, Liver Disease, Osteoporosis, Chronic Kidney Disease, Acid Reflux, Gerd, Depression and other health challenges. 


I watched the first speaker Elizabeth Grossman author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry . She spoke about all the chemicals we are exposed to on a daily basis, and how they effect our health. I was amazed to hear that man made chemicals like those in plastic go air borne. They are in our air, house dust, and in our bodies. Babies who have not lived long enough to be physically exposed to these chemicals have it in their systems. This proves that these chemicals have been transferred from the mother to the baby.

She also talked about how important it is for us to be aware of what is going on in our environment. There are many web sites, and other resources where we can obtain information, but she suggested two web sites that she has found accredited, Environmental Health Perspectives, which is a government web site. I don't wonder if that is the right web site, but this one Environmental Health News, looks good and I subscribed.

You too can watch this video and the others for free by clicking on  this link, no strings attached just knowledge.

Here are some of the important health topics you’ll learn about…

• Jeffrey Smith about genetically modified foods, what you don’t know and what is being kept from you.
• Hans Diehl about the state of disease today and the way different types of diets were effecting our health.
• Anna Marie Clement about what she has learned during her 40 plus years of studying womans health and how different diets affect a womans state of health.
• Dr. Brian Clement about the role a raw whole food plant based diet has on our health compared to mainsteam diets and what he has learned about diet and disease over the last 50 years at The Hippocrates Health Instittue.
• Cherie Soria and Dan Ladderman about how a raw whole food plant based diet can dramatically affect our health compared to a typical American diet.
• Devra Davis surprising information about cell phone radiation and safety and what the studies have shown.
• Steve Meyerowitz about the shocking benefits of sprouts that can easily be added to your diet.
• Joe Keon about what the studies across the world show regarding dairy foods and bone health.
• Elizabeth Grossman about how chemicals are spreading to all corners of the planet and into food, water, soil, air, consumer products and even seals in Antartica.
• Michael Greger about what the top health, nutrition and scientific journals really have to say about which foods support your health and which don’t.
• Richard Oppenlander about what affect eating animal products is having on climate change, deforestation, water shortages and overall resource depletion and environmental degradation.

Below is an hour or so long video I found on YouTube with Elizabeth Grossman.

 

Toxins in Your Indoor Air

I mentioned in another post my husband had brought me the book Toxic Free: How to Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick home from the library awhile back.

One of the things I read in it was about how there is formaldehyde in so many of our every day items. In our beds, bedding, clothes, shoes, furniture, rugs, and more. So, how did it get there? Alot of our clothes are synthetic, this is one way, also through making them fire retardant.There's no way to wash them out, oh and there is formaldehyde in other products you use, cleaning products, tooth paste, nail polish, and on, and on, and on.

You can do something about your cleaning products, go organic. Along with changing our food to real food we also changed all our cleaning products from what we clean our floors with, to what we clean our selves with. However, we have not gone organic with our clothing, shoes, towels, or bedding.

Not to fret our heavenly Father has created plants that actually clean formaldehyde out of the air, how cool is that. While there are various plants for indoors that can provide cleaner indoor air, we chose the following ones due to easy maintenance.

The plant above is an Ocean Spider this one hangs in our living room. I'm hoping it will cascade over the pot as it grows, if not I will buy a floor pot for it.

Next we chose  Golden Devil's Ivy, this plant should not be easily accessible to small children or animals, it is poisonous if eaten. As you can see we also put this one in a hanging basket, but in the kitchen, it's also a climber, and can be trained.

  

The last one is a Heart Leaf Philodendron it is also a climber. We chose all these plants because they clean the air in our home, and not just formaldehyde, but other toxins as well.

There are no windows in our house that get alot of sunlight, and all of these do not require sun. As a matter of fact at least one should not be in direct sunlight. They also do not require alot of watering, for one of them it can cause root rot.

While we are living in a very toxic world we should do all we can to protect our loved ones, and pets from harmful toxins in our homes.

To learn more about these plants or find others go to House Plants, great site for information.

While the formaldehyde within our household products is small considering how many we come in contact with every day leaves us exposed to its toxins.

So, what kinds of health issues are we looking at? Everything from insomnia to cancer, signs of formaldehyde poisoning resemble allergies, itchy eyes, sinus issues, coughing and others.

This my friends is just another reason to detox, for other reasons to detox, and what we use read my post Why Detox. Don't take my word for it research it for your self, or better yet buy the book. I was surprised at what I read, and how toxic our world really is.

This post was featured on the Pintastic Pinteresting Party #8, thanks for the feature.

Dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup

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I use to drink a two liter of Coke a day, even when I knew it takes 30 gallons of water to get rid of the toxins from one glass. Then one day I got a message from my step son on Facebook. It was a link to an article about how HFCS was contaminated with mercury.

My husband had mercury poisoning from the silver fillings in his teeth, and I saw how it effected him. I quit, I stopped that day drinking Coke, or any other brand name pop for that matter. Mercury is a heavy metal that our bodies are not able to get rid of, and I didn't want it.

There are other issues with HFCS as well. High fructose corn syrup comes from corn, 86% of corn is genetically mutant organisms, (term stolen from Mary.) Some think so what, what does it matter? It matters alot our bodies do not recognize the DNA of GMOs and does not, can not process it. So, what happens to it? Nothing, it sits in our bodies and makes us sick by attacking various parts of our bodies.

That is another issue with high fructose corn syrup, our bodies can not process it, not just because of the GMOs, but the DNA. We have been told that there is no difference between HFCS and cane sugar, not true, and our bodies know it.

Once I found about the dangers of high fructose corn syrup, especially the mercury, I started checking labels, this was before we started eating real food. I was surprised where I was finding it, in almost everything!!!!

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 Not listed is condiments, they mention salad dressing, but should have included all condiments.

 I probably missed some, but you get the idea. Some might be thinking well I'm glad I drink diet pop, or eat sugar free foods. Well then you are dealing with aspartame which isn't any better, and comes with its own issues.  If you want to know more about aspartame I blogged on the topic here, and have included a video, and links.

Still love that carbonated beverage, and know drink Natural Brew, which contains cane sugar. I only drink eight 12 fl oz a month because that is all I can afford, plus I have not seen two liter bottles. The local health stores here carry it, but I order mine through the local Azure Standard co-op.

Watch this short video did learn how it effects the health of your body.

What is TPP & How It Effects You

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TPP????? Never heard of it what does it stand for? Trans Pacific Partnership. This agreement currently is being constructed and being gone over by 600 corporations and 10 countries, U.S. is one of them. Oh but wait it is being done in secret and not even the press or congress is allowed in, ohhhhh? Why so secretive?

Because while they are referring to the TPP as a trade agreement, it is not. In all actuality it is just another way to protect big corporations enabling them to make more money at our expense. The TPP contains laws for the big corporations stating that if laws are set into place by states or countries they can be sued for hindering their profits. States or countries will need to attend a court set up specifically for this purpose, and run by the corporations them selves. That's right it would be a no win situation and states or countries would have to pay retributions to which ever company felt is was being hindered.

This would effect every part of our lives from the clothes we buy, to our jobs, health, food, and even the internet. It also would allow for Monsanto to over turn any labeling laws which have gone into effect, and sue the states for profit loss. This is concerning because what will happen next? Will they sue farmers for not using their product, causing them to lose profits? How about those growing their own food? Will they be able to sue us for hindering their profits?

Congress is in charge of any and all trade agreements concerning the U.S. oh that's right they are not even allowed to view the agreement. Why is that? Because the President has requested  "Fast Track" authority. What is fast track? It is when congress forfeits their duties to the president allowing the president to decide rather or not to pass the trade agreement. Congress is out for August contact them and tell them not to give the TPP fast track.

To find out more about TPP agreement and/or take action visit Expose the TPP web site. You can also download a script for calling, or a letter to email here. You may also want to join them on Facebook.