It has been a driving force of mine to be able to start a health food store for the last 15 years or so to help people.  I wanted to make health more affordable and to be able to help people looking for natural answers to their problems.  We certainly don't know everything, especially given the fact that everybody's body is different so what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another.  The most that we can hope for is to make as many options as we can available so that you  can heal your own body.  No body can know what is happening to you like you.  We all need to learn to listen to our bodies!

    I have applied for a job at a large local Health Food Store several times in the last 15 years and the question that stops me from being hired is always what supplements do you suggest for various health problems?  Well I always start with the cheapest and usually free advice - then I work up to supplements if the free information isn't enough and they need more.  They don't like that because they are "pushing" supplements and they want their employees to sell as many expensive supplements as they can.

    Well -  MY DAY HAS COME!!  I can do it "my way".
LOL  (laugh out loud)

    You will notice in my newsletters that I start out with Dr. Batmanghelidj's "Your Bodies Many Cries For Water" and work up from there.  Also when giving suggestions I give the best information that I can come up with, knowing that a lot of people will buy from their local resources instead of us, even though our prices are usually quite a bit lower. (convenience) (Buying from us means that this service will be able to continue because of the expenses involved. Natural law of life.)

    My Father and Uncle started a general merchandise store with my Uncle's father a German Jew from Archangel Russia.  He was the one with the real business knowledge.  One quote that I remember the best is to Never put your money in a rich man's bank - Put your money in a working man's bank.  Logic was that the rich men's banks don't turn over their money - it is left there for investments.  They were the first to crash during the depression in the 30's.  What is more of a working man's bank than a Credit Union?  They didn't crash in the last great depression.

    Sorry to get side tracked, just can't stop adding tidbits of information I have found to be very profound.  - Now back to the story - This store was in Cuba, New Mexico at the end of WW II.  This is where I got my start - I helped unload trucks and stock shelves, etc.  The summer I started to 3rd grade my father put me in charge of the candy counter.  My responsibilities were, selling, stocking & purchasing.  It was here that I was taught how to make change by another employee - a retired Navy man.

    After 4 years they sold the store and my father bought a real "Indian Trading Post,"  Not a tourist trading post.  It was in 1950 and I was 11 years old.  We had the trading post for 6 years before my father sold it.  This is the most learning and memorable time of my life.

    The Navajo's gave my father a name that meant "Honest little white man".  It was a great honor to have such a name.  He refused to participate in some of the common dishonest practices among the traders.   The trading post was also the post office and few Indians had cars at that time.  The traders would insist on the Indians cashing any checks that came to their store and then give them fake money - only good at their trading post.   (Checks were unemployment from working on the Railroad in the summer, Indian allotment checks oil revenues, etc.)

    The other traders bragged that they would bankrupt my father and run us out of the business within a few years.  Well, the closest trading post closed their doors within 4 years and we survived because of honest practices.

    All the traders bought their supplies in Gallup, NM.  When my father went there to buy supplies they wouldn't sell to him because he was an "outsider."  All of my father's former business contacts were in Albuquerque which was about the same distance away so he just went to Albuquerque for his merchandise.

    My life has been blessed with many obstacles for which I am grateful.  I was divorced with 3 daughters to support and $120 a month child support when I was about 30.  With Heavenly Father's help I was able to go back to College and get a degree.  I started back to college the same year my youngest started to kindergarten.  By going to college instead of working,  I got to be home when my children were home.

    I now have a wonderful, supportive husband and a 16 year old daughter who is graduating this week (5/99) from high school.  She is our blessing for our old age. ha ha!  My husband and I both have a grown family and she has 6 nieces and nephews older than she is.  My youngest daughter was 18 when she was born.  She was conceived in love and our desire to have a baby and she shows it.  She is full of love.  My other 3 daughters were born in a hospital the hard way.  She was born at home with a midwife the easy way.  What a difference herbs, nutrition and a caring midwife who had 17 or so of her own make.

    Growing up in a store,  we always had the whitest bread and most refined foods.  I ate 10 to 20 candy bars a day and drank 10 to 20 pop a day most of my growing up years.  Man! I must have really had a strong body to handle that! No wonder I am a Health Nut now - trying to recuperate from body abuse. It shows up in your old age.  LOL

    My first health obstacle was in my late 30's - rheumatoid arthritis.  My father came down with the same arthritis at the same age.  He followed the medical profession's advice and was dead by 63.  He was in a wheel chair and on crutches in his mid forties.  He had every kind of treatment and surgery available.  I shudder to think of what he went through. He always wanted to be a Doctor and loved being their guinea pig.  He would always encourage me to try their new treatments.  I would just look at him and say thanks, but no thanks.  At 60 most people can hardly tell I have arthritis even though 25 years ago I could hardly pick up a book because of the pain and lack of strength in my hands and arms.
My main treatment has been to get off of chocolate and white sugar.  I eat honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, etc. I have read health books that all indicate it is definitely a food "allergy" (Not sure if allergy is completely correct, but it is definitely affected by the foods you eat.)

    White sugar has had all vitamins, minerals, etc. taken out of it leaving only the sweet.  In the process of traveling through your body it draws all of those nutrients back into itself, which in turn depletes your body of those nutrients.  It is especially hard on calcium.  Rheumatoid arthritis is a blood disease and part of it's problem is the bodies inability to process/handle calcium. Calcium calms the system and has a lot to do with pain in the body plus we have all seen the effects of bone spurs (crippling).  People in prison eat many times the normal person's intake of sugar.  Really a problem in hyper-activity also.  Same reasons.

     Oh well, I am now off of my "lecture" for the day and now - on with the show surfing our web!   Hope you enjoy it. Do notice the little comments behind some of the pictures/graphics.

"Type two diabetes, which is fundamentally due to nutritional deficiencies (especially a lack of magnesium)" (quote)  I don't know if this is true, however, when you read all the benefits of magnesium it makes sense to me and it certainly is a very inexpensive supplement that might be considered.  Link to information on Magnesium.

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