It all depends upon who you purchase your organic milk and dairy products from which determines whether or NOT it is really "organic"! Labeling and words will not always guarantee that the milk you are buying from your grocery store is actually "organic".

Factions that have been discussing this subject for years have clouded the issues surrounding what is and is NOT truly "organic" in accordance with actual organic and sustainable agricultural practices as compared with USDA or corporate marketing rules and implied references. It has become a convoluted political, economic, and ideological debate that slowly drags on over time.

The only verifiable and utterly reliable way to ensure you are drinking organic milk is to milk the cow yourself. Your next best option is to know the family farmers or the commercial farming practices by direct contact with these suppliers. The remaining choices depend upon who is the "certifying" authority and by what standards they operate. Knowing that the milk you're drinking is authentically "organic" - it does a body good!

Many milk and dairy products produce allergic responses in children and adults. It can be related to lactose intolerance.

At times, the body will produce mucous when you consume dairy products and have an allergy to this food. You can replace dairy products with soy or rice products, if this is the case.

The Massage Therapist is trained to use a technique known as Tapotement to gently stimulate the circulation of fluids in the Lungs. It is a method that has been proven to both be gentle and effective for keeping the Lungs clear.

If you have a cough, then you can use this technique to support the Immune System in eliminating the cause for the coughing. Tapotement is useful for both therapeutic and preventive purposes to keep your Lungs free and clear.

Use Fenugreek Seed Tea to dissolve congestion and clear phlegm. Find organic Fenugreek Seeds that are fresh and could even be sprouted by going to our Marketplace and shopping at the Mountain Rose herb shop online.

A nation of "sustainable growers" and people who truly cherish the genuine 'staff of life' in its whole and natural state...these are the organic citizens who are our national treasure. They are the Artisans who bake their own bread daily in brick ovens. They mill their own flour. The fields are growing heirloom seed with brilliant and vibrant colors of amaranth. Those oats are eaten as groats. These folks know how to pronounce "triticale"!

Will the real Whole Grain Nation please take their rightful stand?!? Those who wear a big G T-shirt can stay seated. We would like to salute the people who actually bring us whole foods and whole grains. This is the Land of "Sustainability" and there's no getting around the facts that determine the difference between the whole grains from the processed marketing copy and nice TV ads.

My True Love's Berries! The Color of Blue that dazzles the eye and tantalizes the tongue. Blueberries are Nature's own little jewels, beaded berries filled with healing anti-oxidants and vitamins that keep the muncher healthy and happy.

Blueberries are one of the most delicious fruits that grow abundantly and please both the palate and the picker while supplying the body with nutrients that pack a berry, berry wonderful punch with every precious tiny morsel. Eat only organic fresh and dried berries that have been grown by those who care about quality and "sustainability" in their food production practices. The flavor of the blueberries will be as colorful as the character who cherishes the value of the health-giving properties that these blue beauties give us!

Insecticides can cause severe symptoms which will cause serious distress to both animals and humans. These poisons are tailor-made to kill bugs, but do some damage to other living organisms when ingested in food products, even by mistake or oversight.

Be watchful for maintaining one's food storage and pantry items in healthy surroundings. Store food for both animals and humans in secure and safe areas at home, at work, and in food production facilities. While caution is a good tool to avoid problems with contamination, it is always best to carefully select the highest quality products from reputable manufacturers.

We have heard it for decades: Calcium builds strong bones, teeth, and is one of the most essential minerals for our Health. The real issue is whether or not you are able to actually absorb the Calcium from the foods you eat and the supplements you swallow? You may think that you are getting your Calcium, but is it getting to the cells from your digestive system?

Remember...the new Health Adage is: You Are What You Absorb! It once was "You Are What You Eat", but this has had to change with emerging research and clinical evidence which verifies that many nutrients are simply not being adequately absorbed and being delivered to their cellular targets! As one of the first to make a point of "cellular delivery systems" and issues around assimilation, it is becoming more widely known how important this truly is to the long-term Health of the individual.

Be careful when selecting the best whole foods and the brands of nutritional supplements to ensure that you will be certain that the absorption of your nutrients, especially Calcium, is a daily occurrence.

The Days of Summer Sun are beginning to fade with the changing of the Seasons as we wander into the autumn days of subdued light and shorter days bringing less direct sunlight to our outdoor activities. People must have natural light to be healthy and there are now solutions to the requirements for sunlight with the advent of the development of Full-Spectrum lighting.

Research and the needs of people in extreme environments led to the creation of Full-Spectrum light bulbs, lamps, other fixtures and styles. These lights have solved the problem of getting light indoors that is as close as possible to natural sunlight. All colors in the spectrum, especially blue, are going to approximate sunlight for your body...keeping you in better health. So "Let Your Light Shine"!

Find Full Spectrum Bulbs Here

Energy Drinks were originally and are still designed to provide nutritional supplementation using a liquid beverage as a mode of delivery for herbs, essential oils, vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. The body readily absorbs liquids...making Energy Drinks an efficient method of getting some quick 'juice' to boost one's available energy levels.

Energy Drinks have become a commercial success, but many irresponsible companies are trying to take advantage of their success by bringing new products to market that have mixed high alcohol content with caffeine - a completely unsatisfactory combination of ingredients that need to be placed in the correct category of alcoholic beverages to be sold in liquor stores! Beware of these "intruders" to the real Energy Drink business sector! They are out of their League!

You most often hear about people being dehydrated and that is commonly the cause for many symptoms and conditions. Then again...how often do you discuss the core issue of true body hydration with pure water?

There is a profound difference between being completely hydrated with genuinely pure water and being dehydrated. Flavored drinks, coffee and tea, fizzy beverages, and even foods like soups and stews are inadequate when attempting to hydrate the body. It takes pure distilled water to actually hydrate the body to its original state!

One step in your Journey to a great Life of joy and Well-Being is "doing what you Love". It is just unsatisfactory to spend so much time engaged in work or relationships that you do not Love. It is unbecoming of a self-realized Being to diminish the meaning of one's Life by doing something you only "settle" for instead of something you feel great passion for on a daily basis!

Live Your Life Vibrantly! Live Your Life Fulfilled! Do What You Love!

When Students begin going back to School, it is extremely important to get "back to basics" with supporting their Immune Systems.

Brush up on knowing how to prevent exposure with good hygiene habits and careful observation of new surroundings and new people.

Begin to strengthen the Immune System with a regimen of daily supplementation of minerals and vitamins, especially Zinc, vitamin C, and Copper - with a nice little "assurance policy" of Essential Oils on the wrists before leaving home for classes.

If your children were affected by those toys from China which had high levels of Lead in the paint; then you must take measures to "Get the Lead Out"!

It is a difficult task, but a necessary measure to detoxify the poisonous Lead out of the bodies of the children or animals who had these toys in their mouths.

It's a ridiculous question actually! How much "organic" does it take to be "organic"?

Anyone with any degree of brain activity knows that the only "real" answer is 100% and any percentage less than 100% cannot be authentically called (or labeled) "Organic" by any reasonable standards. Someone forgot to turn on the lights for Government regulators!

95% is insufficient...96% is not enough...97% is shy 3%...98% is still not close enough...99% is not quite there - and here we go...the only "correct" answer that suits those of us who care whether a product is organic or not organic enough to be "certified organic" is 100% with no deviation.

It is a cut-and-dried issue for intelligent people! 100% is 100% certifiable and nothing less! Could someone kindly inform the numbskulls who have failed mathematics and have only the brainpower required for government jobs?

Organic Consumers Web Site

Is there still such a thing as true "integrity" in marketing campaigns in the Media? It is a question and a concern worthy and deserving of your attention! Living a healthy Lifestyle includes using your personal power to make purchases with companies who demonstrate the highest levels of "Integrity" and "Honesty".

Truth in Advertising is a constant concern as we see pharmaceutical companies wooing potential patients with promises of sexual prowess and instant fixes for any number of challenging diseases. Then you are also bombarded with lovely images of sparkling clean water with ads for companies' bottled water that comes from the Tap instead of a pristine spring in the mountains. If that's not enough to write home about, there are real problems with inferior and dangerous products from foreign countries like China who do not enforce stringent Quality Control standards posing serious health risks.

Use your Personal Power, including Economic Buying Power wisely and intentionally by making purchases from companies which have not tarnished the value we place on "Integrity", and "Honesty". Research companies thoroughly and completely before giving them your domestic dollars.

It is extremely important to make a conscious decision about the brands of products you buy both online and in your local stores. If you are expected to believe what you are fed in advertisements to be accurate and truthful; then you need to become a fully-informed and responsible consumer. Believe it or not...the choices you make have an enormous impact upon decisions made by the corporations and advertising companies.

You are being influenced and often manipulated daily by exposing yourself to advertising on TV or in printed Media as well as with online ads. Your purchasing power is the fuel which drives this huge machine! It is imperative for you to be a wise and informed consumer. You can believe that you make a difference when you give feedback to these companies.

Longevity is a worthy Goal for those who choose to adopt a healthy Lifestyle. Longevity is determined more by one's daily behavioral choices than one's genetic potentials. Genetic characteristics are inherited as a platform upon which to build experience, whereas daily activities will either serve to make those potentials firm or give them a conscious redirection with the energy expended each moment.

Both genetic potential and environmental factors play a powerful dual role in the determination of physical health or disease. You may have the strongest constitution broken by environmental toxicity. You may also be capable of altering the incidence of a risk for inherited diseases by changing daily behaviors using a healthy Lifestyle to restructure the physical body and lend support to its function to overcome any predisposition to a syndrome. Do what you can every day to increase your health status!

One of the standards of an advancing civilization is that it is considered a birthright of the citizens to live a long and healthy Life. So what exactly constitutes a long life?

Longevity is often measured by the proximity to being a centenarian with 100 years of age being a major benchmark. Recently a Japanese woman held the record for being the oldest living person in the world at 114 years of age. She died today, but attributed her long life to eating well and getting a good night's sleep.

So...for you...it appears to pay to eat healthy foods, get a sound sleep, and live a life worthy of longevity with purpose, value, and meaning!

Change is the eternal constant in this physical universe. It's the one thing that always stays the same! We can count on change to occur. How we implement and conform our Lives to these changes, determines our "Quality of Life".

You have the inherent capacity to be the instrument of Change in your Life. Either you choose to elicit the change from within your self, or you decide to respond to external changes. It's a remarkable process: Self-Discovery!

C'est toujours la meme chose - Change Happens!

It takes a great deal of dedication to continue to do all of the things necessary on a daily basis to achieve and maintain your Total Health goals. It requires extraordinary discipline and a committed attitude to approach your Life Plan as a way of Living instead of just a good idea.

It's easy to think that Health is a great concept. It is quite another issue to implement all the healthy strategies that contribute to Total Health and a Life of true Wellness. The trick is this: Live each day to the best of your ability to live fully and authentically.

Be true to yourself, be good to yourself and give yourself the most of what you have within and around you at that moment. The rest follows; day after day after day. It's a stairway, instead of an elevator to Total Health! Take daily disciplined steps with regularity until it becomes natural and second-nature for you, then add another regimen and take the next step!

If you find that you need a little energy lift during the day, there's a simple way to give yourself just the boost you need for a temporary fix. Locate the acupressure point known as "Heaven's Gate or Door". Massage it clockwise for two minutes.

Tap, tap, tapping on Heaven's Door - it gives you a nice little nudge from your own energy field. For those knowledgeable about Tai Chi...it pulls "chi" into your physical body from the miscrocosmic orbit.

When it comes to Rehab Centers, there has to be a working solution that serves the public as well as the Stars and Celebrities. The common man needs to know what is involved in learning how to manage behavior and make wise choices which align the desired goals with daily attainable objectives in easy steps that are realistic.

It is not that difficult to institute simple daily tasks and behaviors which guide to reasonable outcomes, instead of unbridled and uncontrolled bizarre actions. Young Celebrities are no longer genuine role models of ideal behavior when they appear in the Media every week out of Rehab and back in the crazy saddle! The people to admire and mimic are those who are leading healthy Lifestyles and productive lives.

One of the Founders of the Movement for Holistic Health in America was Dr. Bernard Jensen who provided a solid foundation of knowledge that would be the springboard for many excellent people in this Field to follow all these decades since he began to share his information. I was one of the fortunate people to be a direct recipient of some of his intelligent and practical wisdom.

In addition to his recommendation to eat a variety of Live Foods including vegetables, fruits, seeds and grains; he insisted upon keeping the "organs of elimination" working in perfect condition. He was particularly adamant about keeping the colon healthy through cleansing and detoxification. This still holds strong today and is even more of a challenge due to the processing of so many foods and beverages. But...You CAN and MUST do this to maintain ideal levels of total health and Wellness.

Let's Start Here! What's on your Mind? It will give you an insight to your Health status. You have created your personal State of Health or lack thereof by the way you process images, symbolic representations of Thought, and the emotive responses to the cognitive perception of the people, places, objects, events, and time reference points in your daily Life.

In other words...what you 'think' is going to shape your individual experience and your physical body will adhere to the mechanism which mirrors the attitudes you hold in your Mind. Your Inner World in effect creates your Outer World reality. Your personal 'point-of-view' ultimately is the causal instrument that gives form and substance to the quantum material that surrounds you and constructs your living matrices.

You become what's on your Mind...it may take years, it may be subtle, it may surprise you should you take the time to understand this phenomena - the 'Stuff' of Life!

Is there a Cure for every Disease? Do you actually expect Modern Medicine to continue to find funds for Research that promises to find those intrepid Cures when no Cures come from all the money spent already in the name of "finding a Cure"?

What a question! It needs to be asked "out loud"...because we have all wondered for decades why there are so few Cures found with all those Billions of dollars expended to find them! Why are the Cures so elusive, so difficult to extract from all the Research? Why does the Research always suggest that more Research must be done to be conclusive? These are valid questions and concerns.

It is a stance many are taking that there will never be a Cure for every Disease. Why? Because each and every Human Being is different, unique...with a different State of Consciousness and personality traits with emotional responses and mental ideologies which determine the way physical reality manifests in the material world. There simply isn't sufficient time or financial resources available to conduct what would be needed for every possible situation. So either you will have to conform to being on some side of a statistical model that may or most likely may not fit you...or you will find it better to adopt a Healthy Lifestyle to live in a perpetual state of Well-Being.

There are so many great products that will help you to keep your mouth clean and your breath fresh - it just makes your tongue twist trying to tell you about all of them! However, the key to choosing the best product for this purpose is to select the most natural and most effective ones available to you.

We offer an eBook that discusses this subject in depth. It goes into several methods that are both healthy and successful. Remember to use natural substances which do not irritate the mucous membranes of the delicate tissue in the mouth and support the gentle cleansing of the entire orifice, including the teeth, gums, and tongue.

Two Paths Diverged in a Wood and I...I took the Road Less Traveled By! And that has made all the difference! The Path to a Healthy Lifestyle is vastly different than a life filled with symptoms and illness that leads to a diagnosis for a disease with the search for a cure.

When you are following the pathway to Well-Being, you are not looking for cures. You are in pursuit of health and Wellness. Each day is a discovery of what it feels like to be in excellent health, filled with joy and happiness, exuding a gratitude for Life and looking forward to every experience.

Dealing with disease and symptoms entails a completely different daily outcome. It involves endless doctor appointments, seeking out specialists in the specific disease your body has been diagnosed with for some treatment for a cure. It means taking costly pharmaceuticals, drugs with side effects that often leads to more drugs, worsening conditions, little hope, more pain and discomfort, repeated hospital visits and even trips to the emergency room with sirens blaring. It is lacking a certain nobility or dignity which defines the ideal human experience. You become reduced to notes in a chart, insurance claims forms, and the recipient of a system that is disorganized at best.

So what will it be? Will you choose the Path of a Healthy Lifestyle or will it be a managed life with others making decisions about your efforts to find a cure for your disease?

It is always a good idea to check the FDA website to familiarize yourself with any recent Recalls of food products, if you purchase mainstream brands that have large mass-scale production facilities that lend themselves to oversights which can allow botulism and other pathogens to slip through their 'quality control' practices.

Recently 15,000 cases of canned green beans were recalled for potential botulism problems. Symptoms include dizziness, double vision, difficulty in breathing, or stomach pain. With all the Recalls from Chinese sources as well as US suppliers, it makes sense to stay informed and to survey your pantry occasionally.

FDA Recall Site

If you are weighing in on whether to breastfeed your infant or to use a formula...

Breast is Best! Yes, Breastfeeding is the natural choice. It is Nature's perfect and ideal food for an infant as long as the mother is in good health. Formula should only be used to supplement breastfeeding for times when you are not with your baby for any reason...travel, illness, or any extended time away from one another. Find a nutritious formula. Choose an organic product with natural ingredients and nutrients. Do not feed a human infant anything that you would not find in the natural plant kingdom!

If you are thinking about ways to improve your Health through incremental steps in small changes you can make in your daily Life, then one easy thing to do is to "Lock your Lips" to avoid the consumption of milk!

Billions of dollars have been spent over the years to educate (read that as indoctrinate) you about the importance of including milk and dairy products in your diet. Got Milk? What comes to mind? A milk mustache? Pretty effective advertising campaign...

Here is our ad: Drink only fresh milk from the cow, goat, sheep, or water buffalo that you know personally by name within hours of being milked...farm fresh! Eat only cheese, kefir, and yogurt from this milk.

Got processed, homogenized, pasteurized Milk? Throw it at someone instead, play with that food...while you "lock your lips"!

The Wisdom of Food Combining gives you one tenet that you would be smart to follow as a general guideline. Eat fruit alone. Fruit goes with...fruit.

Do not drink orange juice with a breakfast that includes any grain or cereal - like toast or Kashi or Frosted Flakes. Do not mix fruit with dairy products. Keep it Simple Sweetheart: Eat Fruit with other Fruits - the KISS of Food Combining!