Has anyone heard anything else about this from any other sources? I don't know how reliable Natural News is.

The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed

checked the memories and tags.....

how often do you need to reapply sunscreen? usually i am just out and about doing chores, walking to and from school/home/the apartment and that's about it. if i'm outside reading it's under a covered area. every now and then i may go to an outdoors concert or an event outdoors or walk outside, but not usually.

i put on shea butter every day and i use a face lotion with an spf of 15 i got at whole foods as my sunscreen.

so if i'm out, how often should i reapply? every 5 minutes, every 15, 30...etc?

   A lot of people who love to cook are very fond of herbs and spices and look for every opportunity to present them into a dish.
Some cooks go overabundant, and sprinkle them in everything on the off chance they will find something new.
Then there are those who avoid seasonings altogether for fear they will ruin an entire dish by over-seasoning, or worse, adding the wrong seasoning.

One such herb is thyme; its most active ingredient - thymol - is a well-known ingredient in products like Listerine and Vicks.
Thymol has antibacterial and antifungal properties, which makes it useful for a number of things.

Its oil, when inhaled, can help to loosen phlegm and relax the muscles in the respiratory tract and when made into a tea, thyme is helpful for colds and flu. Adding thyme to a dish infuses a whole new flavor and fragrance; its dry aroma and slightly minty flavor allow it to pair perfectly with minced garlic in rubs for lamb, pork, or even beef roasts, or by itself to enhance cheese, tomato, and egg dishes.

Try adding some thyme to stuffing, spaghetti, pizza sauces or chilli.
Thyme retains its flavor on drying better than many other herbs, and dried thyme, especially powdered, occupies less space than fresh, so less of it is required when substituted in a recipe.

As a rule of thumb, use one-third as much dried as fresh thyme, a little less if it is ground.
Thyme is slow to release its flavors so it is best added early in the cooking process to ensure proper flavor penetration.

Thyme is great on roast beef, which makes a great Kummelweck.
Kummelweck or a weck is a roast beef sandwich made famous in Buffalo, New York by being served on a special Kaiser roll topped with lots of pretzel salt and caraway seeds.
Its name comes from its creator who is believed to have been William Wahr, a German baker from the Black Forest, an area of Germany where bread rolls are known as wecks.
View video of how to grow Thyme

Please don't go see 'Speed Racer'. Take a stand against chimpanzee abuse. And tell your friends / loved ones not to see this movie also.

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/speed_racer_chimpanzee

I've been through the memories and tagged everything so I know this hasn't been covered.

I have acne scars on my face and under my jawline.  I've been using cocoa butter mixed with jojoba oil.  It's kinda helping.  Before I was using vitamin E and it didn't do anything.  rosa mosqueta oil didn't help either.

What else can I try?

A long time ago, and for a long time (1500 years?), Romans drank from beautiful stone aqueducts.   Legendary engineering, brilliant designs, our best engineers today would be severely challenged to match the feat.

These folks were smart, strong, tall and well fed.   Then, someone started making pipes out of lead, instead of the precision cut rock tubes and channels.  The easy way -- and the poisonous one.   To be fair, they consumed a fair amount of lead from many sources, there at the end -- soaked themselves in poisons.  Folks still bicker about which poison did the damage.  Which is amusing, actually.

Rome fell, from a city of a million (like Phoenix) to a city of 30,000.  Where did 970,000 people go?    No matter:  those that remained were blithering idiots.   Within 3 generations, there wasn't a bright star amongst them, and they were robbed blind by folks with sticks.    Children of children of poisoned fools.   They didn't have a chance, really.

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That was then, this is now.   Now, we make our pipes out of copper -- a deadly poison.   Well... its only poisonous (like anything) in certain concentrations, and only peels out of your pipes at certain acidity of the water within.   If  you have neutral or basic water, its likely not a real problem.     So.... what's your water Ph?     Truth is, most people don't know.   oops!     

Our water is extremely acidic.   Which is no big deal, completely  harmless... except when it sits in copper pipes all night, we wake up and pour ourselves a nice cup for coffee.    Then drink it....

EPA fact sheet on Copper
Symptoms:  resembles arsenic poisoning
                       permanent liver damage
                       brain damage (Rome II?)
                       mental illness
                       Insensibility
                       Convulsions
                       Gastric distress
                       Nasal inflammation  (masking as allergies?)

Australian Government's Copper Fact Sheet (PDF File) 

i'm not sure if anyone has talked about it in this community, but i thought i would bring it up, because i find it both fascinating and terrifying.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023004.html

"On August 1, 2007, the CDC issued the following statement regarding Morgellons Disease: “Morgellons is an unexplained and debilitating condition that has emerged as a public health concern. Recently, the CDC has received an increased number of inquiries from the public, health care providers, public health officials, Congress, and the media regarding this condition. Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of coetaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or lesions (e.g., rashes or sores) and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in vision. Moreover, some who suffer from this condition appear to have substantial morbidity and social dysfunction, which can include decreased work productivity or job loss, total disability, familial estrangement, divorce, loss of child custody, home abandonment, and suicidal ideation.”

As of February, 2007, approximately 10,000 families had registered with the Morgellons Research Foundation (MRF) and felt they or a member of their family met criteria for Morgellons as defined by the MRF. Of the U.S. families in the MRF registry, 24% reside in California with geographic clustering in the San Francisco metropolitan areas.

In New Science magazine, Sept. 15-21 edition, Daniel Elkan describes a patient who for years has been “finding tiny blue, red and black fibers growing from intensely itchy lesions on his skin.” These fibers appear like pliable plastic and can be several millimeters long. Some appear in a zig-zag pattern. These fibers can be as fine as spider silk, yet they are strong enough to distend the skin when pulled.

A May 18, 2006 story carried by KGW, a local news channel in Oregon, recounts the story of a family practice doctor experiencing the disease. She reported feeling like bugs were crawling under her skin. “If I fully tell people what has gone on with me medically, they think they’re in the twilight zone,” said Dr. Drottar who woke up with the feeling that fluid was flowing just below her skin. When black or blue hair-like fibers protruded from her skin, she reported thinking she had been exposed to asbestos. “I thought I was having asbestos fibers come out of my skin. I was pulling long, thin, small hair-like fibers that were extremely sharp that could literally pierce through my finger nail.”

According to Dr. Drottar, these symptoms were accompanied by severe depression, chronic fatigue and a weakened immune system. This debilitating condition forced her to give up her medical practice.

Effective treatment for Morgellons suffers has been elusive. Doctors have claimed that this type of disease must be caused by a parasite, but even the strongest anti-parasitic medications have not helped. In the past, psychologists have insisted that this was a new version of delusional parasitosis, a form of psychosis in which suffers hold a delusional belief that they are infected by parasites"

click the above link for more. i'm really interested in the discourse that could ensue.

First, I'll mention that I'm going to call my doctor as soon as he's back in the office (hopefully tomorrow)

I'm getting acupuncture for Fibromyalgia pain in my neck, shoulders, arms and back. Today they worked on my back...and now I'm in serious pain. I'm so much worse than when I went in (this hasn't happened in the two other treatments I've had)! One spot on my back is so sore that I can't even touch it. It feels inflamed, bruised, and the pain branches out from the spot (a bunch of places he worked on are tighter and more tender)...I even have random itches, along with some mild burning/tingling/stinging sensations.

Did he hit a nerve? Has anyone experienced something similar? I WILL call the doctor ASAP, but any insight in the meantime to put my mind at ease would be very helpful. THANKS!

This is Bike to Work week, but if you're not yet up to biking all week, why not make a commitment to try it out for one day? Friday is national Bike to Work Day, the perfect opportunity.

If you're in Vermont or New Hampshire, you can even drop in and have breakfast with fellow do-gooders. For breakfast locations, visit: http://www.bike2work-day.com/about.htm

If you're outside of that area, check out their website for more details on participating in your area (and to see the 2008 Bike to Work Day socks!) visit: http://www.bike2work-day.com/

My dog has been putting his nose through the fence and scratched the top of his nose pretty bad.  I know where he's nosing through the fence so that will be covered completely.  What can I put on his nose to make it heal up (it's nearly scabby!) that he won't lick off?  I don't know what's safe for dog ingestion salve-wise and I don't think it's serious enough to go to the vet.

I've decided to try a natural sunscreen this year and after browsing the memories and searching online, I have got it down to a choice of two I can get here in UK.

I'm fair with freckles, have acne-prone skin and work outdoors for 3-4hrs between 10am-2pm as a postie. I'm looking for something that has good SPF, can be worn under makeup and won't make my skin greasy.

The two options I can find that I can buy online (will also check my local health shop to see what brands they have) are:

Kiss My Face Sunscreen SPF30 which is £6.59 + £4 P+P

A choice of all the Jason sun care products including SPF 40 Active (£9.50), SPF 30 Daily (£8.50), SPF 20 Facial (£8.50) with £3 P+P

Does anyone have any recommendations?

I have 6 4x8 raised beds filled with horse manure compost that we create here at our barn. In one of the beds (specifically, one that we annually grow lettuces in) we seem to have a large number of grubs. The other beds so far don't seem to have nearly as many.

I'm assuming it is due to this that only a third of our lettuce sprouted this spring.

I know that having birds &wasps is beneficial in controlling grubs, both of which we have & actively attract. Is there anything else I can do (in the present as well as for the future) that is a little more aggressive without harming my plants?

(xposted to organic_garden)

Until I can afford to buy new bottles, how do I minimize the amount of BPA that leaches from my baby's bottle? Since it's released by heat, I've been washing them in cool water with antibacterial soap. She only gets about one bottle a day so I'm not too worried, but suggestions would be welcome.

My boyfriend and I just finished planting our very first plants together! Hurray!  Just a few different peppers, tomatos, and strawberries.  For both of us, it's pretty much our first gardening experience (besides helping mom plant when I was younger), so we're (I'm) doing a little bit of research but mostly kind of doing trial-and-error.  Yikes.

I've read through lots of articles so hopefully we have a decent start, but what I'm really curious about now is composting.  We don't have a lot of space - we're planting at his apartment, so I don't really know how much yard we can really take up.  I've read about tea composting and that sounds the most exciting for me but to be honest a lot of it is starting to run together and sound like just a lot of marketing.  So I need someone to dumb it down for me for the absolute basics.

Neither of us have a lot of money, really only have ten spare dollars every now and then.  Very, very tight budgets.  So I'm not excited that the majority of what I'm reading highly suggests purchasing some sort of bin or brewer for compost.  What can we do?!

This is probably the sort of question that I'm not supposed to ask, but this is the biggest community devoted to natural and sustainable living that I'm a part of, and I can't think of anywhere else to ask...

How do you deal with feeling overwhelmed?

Let me explain. How do you deal with the sense that, no matter how much you do, it's never going to be quite enough? That there's always something else you're doing wrong or wastefully? That there's always going to be horrible chemicals getting into your body somehow? I want to have kids in the next few years and I want to bring them into a natural, safe home, and I'm starting to get a little scared by everything I'm learning... and I don't want to wuss out and bury my head in the sand!

For example, I was indulging in a little experiment today -- my partner's off at work. I was going to take everything out of our bathroom with harmful chemicals in it. So, I printed the list... and there's literally nothing in our bathroom cosmetics that doesn't have at least something on that scary list on it!

We're not rich. I don't start my new job til the end of the month, so we can't just throw everything out and start again... and that would be wasteful anyway, wouldn't it?

I was watching a youtube video by the Ark collective on sustainable living recently and there was a quotation that stuck with me -- one that has helped lead this project along more and more. They speak of a "searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves and our lifestyle." I think that's what we're doing here, step by step... and it's amazing what we're finding.

The more we do, the deeper down the rabbit hole we seem to find ourselves...

So, how do you cope with living down the rabbit hole?

Has anyone tried a salt inhaler? Inhaling the salty air daily is supposed to help with respiratory and sinus issues and possibly shorten colds.

ETA: To give you an idea of it, here's one and one on Amazon, though I believe there are cheaper ones elsewhere.