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1. You might want to look into arjuna for congestive heart failure. It will take a stage 3 down to a stage 1 (no symptoms). This is both research, and my personal experience.

   I did make the mistake of thinking that stage 1 meant cure. It isn’t. Had to start taking arjuna again, and this time won’t go off it.

   Arjuna is the bark of the arjuna tree from India. God gives us what we need.

   Also, hawthorne flowers (but NOT berries or leaves) will stop arrhythmia. It is hard to find as flowers, Solaray makes it. Or plant some in your yard. It makes an excellent hedge, and birds like to nest in it.

   1. sorry it was not there earlier, here is the link to the webs info google page on Ajruna..

      copy intact to google and see the happy smiling genie in the room (:-)

2. I know a little about the story. Two scientists made the discovery that white people in America were dying years before they should be. Every other racial group in America were showing a steady increase in life expectancy as they have been for decades. Except for Russia when its society was in freefall after the collapse of the Soviet Union, no other industrialized nation has shown a decline in life expectancy.
   Here is the heart of the story that is always missing any time the story is mentioned, which is rarely: The story is not about the lack of health care or income disparity, those issues are just icing on the cake. when the two scientists submitted the story with all of the supporting data to JAMA, the Journal of American medicine, it was rejected. It did not take them months to review the article before sending it back. it did not take weeks or days, it was returned in minutes. So, here we have a study showing white Americans are dying years ahead of their time,we have a silent epidemic killing white people by the millions that is completely absent from the current national conversation and the premier US scientific and medical journal refuses to run it or spend more than a few moments deciding if they want to publish it. To this day no one at JAMA has been fired or even identified. If you substitute black or Asian or Hispanic or Jewish or any ethnicity or race other than white in this story we would be having an uproar and people would be fired and careers ended and whole new departments at colleges would be formed to address the situation.
   Old bobbert may be right about evaluating the news, but first we have to have news to evaluate. If you leave out of the story that millions of white people are dying ahead of their time the fact that JAMA refused to even run the story and sent it back to the authors in minutes and no one has ever been identified or fired or even criticised we have bigger issues than lack of health care.We live in an occupied country but don’t even know it.

   1. YOU WILL HAVE MY THANKS FOREVER. THIS RESPONSE SHOULD ENABLE OTHERS WHO PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER THESE” NEW TO US” FACTS TO RETHINK AND REDO OUR MEDICAL LIVES AND EFFORTS AND ** SUPPLIES ***.
      THIS RESPONSE ID THE REASON I AM A READER, A WRITER, AND WHY I GRATEFULLY DO THE “SB” 10 CENT REQUEST EVERY YEAR
      TAHNKS AGAIN

3. Here’s a few indicators I use.

   “Experts/Some/Sources say” … means that they are unwilling to say who said it, but want you to think they are important people only hey have access to, in order to get you to think that way.

   “Could be/looks like/maybe/virtually identical”… they do not have enough evidence to say it as a fact and thereby risk a lawsuit over it. They want you to “think” it’s true but not enough to risk their own money.

   You pointed out the dual unrelated statements in a single sentence separated by commas.

   Replaying their own “opinion show” comments as though that is evidence or news.

   Doubling up and attacking alternative views, emotional vocal and visual queues, are other indicators but I’ll wait on part two to post on that in case you cover it.

4. Ol’ Remus at the Woodpile Report (there’s a link right here on the Survival Blog page) has a nice collection of these little word clues. OR check the Associated Press Style Book.

   And always ask the question “What is in this for Whom?” The modus usually dictated the method.

   You’re about to be lied to when they say-
   a hand up
   a new study shows
   a poll by the highly respected
   a positive step
   are speaking out
   arguably
   arsenal
   at-risk communities
   best practices
   broader implications
   climate change
   collectively
   commonsense solutions
   comprehensive reform
   cycle of poverty
   cycle of violence
   demand action
   denier
   disenfranchised
   disparate impact
   disproportionately
   diverse backgrounds
   divisive
   economically disadvantaged
   embattled
   emerging consensus
   empower
   enhance
   evidence shows
   experts agree
   extremist
   fair share
   fiscal stimulus
   fully funded
   give back
   giving voice to
   greater diversity
   growing support for
   gun violence
   hater
   have issues
   high capacity magazine
   history shows
   impacted by
   impactful
   in denial
   inappropriate
   inclusive environment
   insensitivity
   investing in our future
   linked to
   making a difference
   making bad choices
   marginalized
   marriage equality
   mean spirited
   most vulnerable
   mounting opposition to
   multicultural
   non-blaming
   nonjudgmental
   non-partisan, non-profit
   not value neutral
   not who we are
   nuanced
   off our streets
   on some level
   oppressed minorities
   our nation’s children
   people of color
   poor and minorities
   positive outcome
   potentially
   progressive
   public/private partnership
   raising awareness
   reaching out
   reaffirm our commitment to
   redouble our efforts
   research tells us
   root cause
   sends a message
   shared values
   social justice
   solidarity with
   sow discord
   speaking truth to power
   stakeholders
   statistics show
   sustainable, sustainability
   the American People
   the bigger issue is
   the failed …
   the larger question is
   the more important question is
   the reality is
   the struggle for
   too many
   too often
   touched by
   underserved populations
   undocumented immigrant
   value neutral
   vibrant community
   voicing concern
   war on …
   working families

5. I laugh every time I see the phrase “one of the largest” or some similar designation. It is always used to exaggerate some situation, making it seem better or worse than it actually is. Either something is the best, worst, biggest, smallest, or not. Give a ranking, like 2nd best, third biggest, fourth poorest, but not one of the _______ (fill in the blank). At what point does “one of the best” become “one of the worst”? Am I “one of the richest men in America”, since I am an American man with more than average wealth, but I am by no means Bill Gates or Warren Buffet? As the saying goes, 2nd place is first loser. Think of the Olympics, where medals are given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers. 1st is clearly the best, while 2nd and 3rd are “some of the best”, but actually lost.

6. Excellent real information on why we don’t live longer is in Dr. Greger’s book “How Not to Die”. Based on the world’s knowledge of real scientific research, not hype. He’s not pushing snake oil or another fad, just good solid information about the American diet. He will wean you from supplements real fast.

   1. From Bobbert hiss elk,
      I am thrilled at the knowledge and quality and genuine concern for others that we see in these first reply. WOW.. More replies of the stature we see here will enable an improvement in our collective knowledge base, thereby helping so very many families, and our single brothers and sisters, to achieve much more than just surviving the EVENT we are rapidly approaching. Of course every one submitting an entry wold like to win a prize, but these replys are the best result ever. Please continue this string

      And sorry about the innocent abuse of the rules of American english grammar, that just didn’t make it to the top of my list.
      After all, age 77 and sorta sick ain’t so bad and should count for a little acceptance, don’t cha think?
      bob

7. After reading all the remarks, i’d like to put in my two cents. Just for the record, be sure when you visit your doctor, I hope you have a good enough relationship with them to tell them what you want them to put in your notes, but whisper to them what you want them to hear. In my case I was a little chapped to say the least when I receive a letter reminding me of some lab work for Vitamin D level. It also goes on saying,” We encourage you to have the test completed within the next 7 days. Failure to complete lab work may result in a delay in refilling prescriptions. Are you kidding me?? Blackmail????? Really. Ugh, yes OH and by the way if your trying to be proactive about maybe long term care insurance, you better remember what they wrote in your “notes” in order to qualify at a decent rate of payment into the system. Eat like a bird, drop 25 lbs. and stop eating sweets.

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