Common Sense Living

I was thinking… always dangrous, right?

Everyone thinks exercise means running or going to the gym. I never liked running much, and since my daughter was born, I don’t have time for the gym. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get plenty of exercise.

I was cleaning my beach today. We had another major algae bloom and let me tell you – that is some back breaking work. I need one of these harvester things But I was thinking -

I was building my muscles

I broke a good detoxifying sweat

I got plenty of vitamin D

Some of you play volleyball. Some of you golf, or garden, or bowl, or walk the dog. You don’t really need some fancy workout program for basic healthy exercise.

Now toning and advanced stuff, I guess you might want something a little more advanced, but for the most part – get out and do something you like to do.

So then, while I was cleaning up my emails, I ran across an article that Jon Benson sent me that I never published. oops. It was a pretty good one too – and its on the topic of exercise and your brain. So here it is…

Exercise And The Brain
Jon Benson
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If you ever needed another good reason to exercise, I’ve got one for you:

Exercise makes your brain bigger.

Actually this isn’t entirely accurate. To be more specific, exercise was found to increase brain size slightly, but far more important to increase “spatial reasoning.”

This is the ability to recognize patterns, remember phrases, numbers, and so-on. This was discovered by researchers at the Universities of Chicago and Pittsburgh.

It is also one of the most important factors to the prevention of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

My mom suffered with dementia the last ten years of her life. But unlike most dementia patients she was fully functional thanks to exercise. She drove and had a mind that was unbelievably sharp right up until an accident injured her beyond the ability to exercise.

After that, she mentally went downhill rapidly. Thankfully, she passed in peace… and she had ten wonderfully active years thanks to her willingness to take up weight training at the age of 71.

She eventually walked up to 3 miles per day and trained in the gym 3 days per week.

That kept her mind sharp, along with fish oil and N-Acetyl L-Carnitine, a wonderful brain nutrient.

Once again, we see the power of exercise. It increases the QUALITY of your life.

Quantity is no where near as important to me as quality.

Your brain will thank you, as will the rest of your body.

One of the best ways to start exercising when you are over 40 is by using the routines covered in “Fit Over 40″.

This book profiles 53 different men and women, age 40 to 80, all sharing their workouts, nutrition plans, and mental empowerment techniques.

It is a MUST-HAVE for anyone wanting to begin exercising or improve their level of fitness after the age of 40.

For a free fat-burning course from Fit Over 40, go here –

 Free Fatburning Course

The latest from the GMO Wars! (From the Natural Solutions Foundation)

As we’ve said before… the GMO invasion continues and unless it is stopped, there will be NO CHOICE.
Action Item: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

This just in from our friends at the Organic Consumers Association: the OCA is leading a boycott Kellogg campaign due to the company’s pro-GMO stance. In response to consumer complaints, this is what the company says — please carefully read this short paragraph, it confirms exactly what we’ve long asserted:

“Biotech ingredients are [sic] safe and have become common in the open market. Sixty to seventy percent of packaged foods in the U.S. include biotechnology crops. Even organic ingredients can contain biotech ingredients due to cross-pollination.“
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Keep S. 510 from controlling our Food and Our Lives! Click here:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

For an In Depth Discussion of What Is At Stake If We Lose on S. 510, click here:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6300

We Still Need to Keep The Pressure On
New URGENT Action Item: Senate May
Sneak Disastrous Fake “Food Safety Bill” Through Unless We Act NOW!

Take Action NOW: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Short, But Not At All Sweet: We WILL Lose Access to Clean, Unadulterated Food If We Do Not Act Now In Huge Numbers. Even if you have taken action on this issue before, make sure you take action on this new item.  We need hundreds of thousands of emails to stop this bill – we’ve kept it off the floor for 9 months through our pressure.  This is vitally important.  Please act and motivate your contacts to do the same.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

November, 2009, looked like the end of the road for health freedom and healthy food.  Giant industrial segments of the Uber-Cartel had set their sights on eliminating, once and for all, local, clean, unadulterated and organic food growing while bringing Codex into full effect in the US.  After passing HR 1279, the House version of this horrific bill, the Senate took up the matter of this bill. 

And it seemed that there was simply too much power for us, who are, as the past president of BP called us, “the little people” to push back this onslaught of dedicated might, money and power.  But that is exactly what we “little people” have done. 

First, we made it so politically uncomfortable for members of the Senate that they could not openly take up the Uber-Cartel’s cause.  And then we kept on pushing them back with our emails – 150,000 of them in one weekend after which Senator Harkin said that the Bill would not be voted upon because the Senate has received “a few” emails over that weekend.  And we kept on pushing, helped along by our friend, the long time Washington lobbyist and insider.  From him we learned that the end of the Senate session before August recess was the most dangerous time for us.  If they could get away with it, the Senate would pass S. 510 by “unanimous consent” as if the bill were totally uncontroversial.  He also told us that if we could pressure the bill off the voting schedule, it was unlikely that we would have another battle to pass this bill in the fall when Congress reconvenes.

We, collectively, took his advice and the bill never came to a vote.  In the autumn, we have to make sure that the same kind of pressure yields the same results: NO food fascism!

Please take this simple action now to protect our right to eat real food –

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4252

I will be working on finding a list of all of the representatives who voted to pass HR 1279 and publishing it.