Thank you to One Year Bible Blog for this awesome photo on the reading today!!! (Their widget is on the right side of this page.)
If you still have not signed-up for Ebates – you have got to do this if you shop online at all! For example, Old Navy just had a promotion for 25% off and triple reward points for card holders. Card holders also get free shipping over a certain dollar amt (usually $50 to $100). THEN, if you shopped through your Ebates link – you would have also gotten 11% cash back deposited to your Paypal Account! Here is a video explaining how Ebates work and here is a link so you can sign-up. CLICK HERE AND GET A GIFTCARD WITH SIGN-UP!
Tags: Sign-Up for Ebates if you shop online just about anyplace at all!
This is a great post on Dr. Mercola’s blog about two products that most of us use all summer long. Read by CLICKING HERE. You can purchase products from him there too or just use this info as guidelines to go out and find other safer products. I ordered his because they sound great and are on sale so I will spend less by purchasing his anyway…
Here is a summary of his long and detailed post:
“…Toss your sunscreen in the trash if it contains any of these questionable chemicals:
- Para amino benzoic acid…
- Octyl salicyclate…
- Avobenzone…
- Oxybenzone…
- Cinoxate…
- Padimate O…
- Dioxybenzone…
- Phenylbenzimidazole…
- Homosalate…
- Sulisobenzone…
- Menthyl anthranilate…
- Trolamine salicyclate…
- Octocrylene…”
ALSO some info from Dr. Mercola about DEET (You can see references on his post HERE):
“…DEET sprays can melt plastic bags and fishing lines….
Exposure causes neurons to die in several parts of your brainiii – including areas that control muscle movement, memory, concentration and learning….
Heavy exposure to DEET and other insecticides can cause eye and skin irritation, memory loss, headaches, weakness, fatigue, muscle/joint pain, nausea, tremors and shortness of breath. Symptoms can appear months or even years after use….
Exposure causes neurons to die in several parts of your brainiv — including areas that control muscle movement, memory, concentration and learning. Abou-Donia says rats given small doses of DEET for 60 days had a harder time accomplishing even the easiest tasks, things as simple as walking….
Insecticides aren’t the only problem though. Skin care products containing various chemicals can put you at increased risk of chemical contamination with DEET. Products you use on a daily basis, like deodorants, soaps, make-up and sunscreens (except Natural Sunscreen), when combined with DEET, create greater exposure than DEET alone.
Medications, both prescription and over the counter, can also react with DEET and increase your risk of problems.
Long-term and regular use of DEET — especially combined with these other chemicals or medications — can cause brain deficiencies in vulnerable groups, particularly children.v
Children are more susceptible than adults to subtle brain changes caused by chemicals in their environment, because their skin more readily absorbs them. Their still-developing nervous systems are potentially more affected.vi …
FROM: healthfreedomalliance.org
The e.coli threat lurking in a free dab of lipstick
Women are putting their health at risk by dabbing on lipstick, moisturizer and mascara from cosmetics tester packs at high street beauty counters. In a shocking study, researchers found that every make-up tester pack they analyzed was contaminated by the e.coli bug.
A two-year investigation found the highest levels of bacteria were present on Saturdays, the biggest shopping day of the week. As well as e.coli – which causes stomach cramps and diarrhea and, in severe cases, can be fatal – staphyloccus and streptococcus bacteria were found, which can cause infections. Women could also be unknowingly passing on viruses such as herpes to fellow shoppers.
While Dr Elizabeth Brooks, a biological sciences professor at Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania, who led the study, said: ‘Wherever you can see e.coli, you should just think e.coli equals feces. ‘That means someone went to the bathroom, didn’t wash their hands and then stuck their fingers in that moisturizer.’
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Tags: cosmetic testers contaminated with e-coli, lipstick samples contaminated with e-coli bacteria, staphyloccus and streptococcus bacteria
This is such a beautiful movie! Get your tissues ready! Use the “add this” bar to share this short, 3 minute movie with some teachers!
http://www.heartofateachermovie.com/
Here’s a cool Earth Day T 
Family Christian Store Discount Code:
25% Off Any Regular Priced Item or 10% Off Any Sale Item – Enter Code 1284508 at Checkout
Tags: Family Christian Store Discount Code for Online Purchase at familychristian.com
In Honor of Tax Day, I’ve assembled some quotes from The Truth Project
The Founders of the U.S. understood – The Rights of man come from our creator, not from the state:
“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights…” From The Declaration of Independence.
From Benjamin Rush, “The only foundation for a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”
From Daniel Webster, “To preserve the government we must also preserve morals. Morality rests on religion; if you destroy the foundation, the superstructure must fall. When the public mind becomes vitiated and corrupt, laws are a nullity and constitutions are waste paper.” From: Fourth of July Oration Delivered at Fryeburn, ME, in the Year 1802.
From Benjamin Franklin, “…only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” (From the Writings of Benjamin Franklin, in a Letter of Benjamin Franklin to Messrs. The Abbbes Chalut and Arnaud, dated April 17, 1787.
(hmmmm…)
From Abraham Lincoln, “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God…
…We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us…and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own…
…Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
(From “Proclaimation Appointing a National Fast Day“)
Tags: Founding Fathers of United States, Freedom and Humility, The Truth Project
AdvoCare_BioTools_Epigenomics (pdf file)
Healthy Aging Information – newest scientific research regarding Epigenomics.
Tags: AdvoCare BioTools and Epigenomics, Healthy Aging for Baby Boomers, How to age and be healthy
