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- Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck on Fox News as well as all of FOX NEWS! Glenn has lied about Health-care, called our President a racist, and is anti-gay rights.
- We demand immediate end of DADT. It is out-right discrimination.
- Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commerical by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to get be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Further, Bill said that McDonalds would never show a gay friendly commercial in the USA. Imagine, Bill is comparing Gays to Al-Qaida!
- Boycott Arizona because of their Hateful anti-Immigration Law that encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform.
- NEW: Boycott Target and Best Buy for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations.
Diet & Fitness:
The FDA is long overdue in addressing this as we have known for many years that high salt intake is associated with high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and strokes.
Yet Kristin Bibbins-Domingo and colleagues, from University of California-San Francisco published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine in January, 2010, that estimated that reducing salt intake for American adults aged 35 and 84 years by only one third could prevent 32,000 strokes and 54,000 heart attacks a year.
The Institute of Medicine estimates that nationwide reductions in salt intake could prevent more than 100,000 deaths annually, so this is important.
Whoa! All those fun foods that are so salty will taste bland if this happens, right?
"Salt and Vinegar" potato chips, hamburgers, beef, veggie chips, organic corn chips. All of them are going to turn to cardboard before our eyes and mouths.
I'm reading the articles about this radical change in America's culinary habits thinking, "Why are they missing the boat on this one? There's an easy solution to this problem and it doesn't mean you can't salt your foods and still have enough of that wonderful salty taste."
In fact, there's a way to salt your food and LOWER your blood pressure while reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and strokes. And it's right there on the shelves of every major grocery store in the country AND it tastes exactly like regular salt.
Well, maybe Wolfgang Puck can tell the difference, but I can't.
Several studies confirm that replacing table salt, which is sodium chloride, with salt made of potassium chloride can help to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and strokes. The product name is NO SALT®.
It's made out of potassium chloride, instead of sodium chloride, comes in a shaker and looks exactly like any table salt. There are two other products like it, AlsoSalt® and NuSalt®, but I didn't find them easily at Pavilions or any other major grocer near the hood, so I have NO SALT® in my kitchen and I love it.
Rather than gingerly put a little sodium salt on my favorite foods, I salt them to taste, knowing that the potassium salt I'm about to eat is great for my cardiovascular health and other aspects of my long-term health.
Potassium is even talked about in anti-aging medical circles as one of the nutrients that is good for skin so we'll have less wrinkles. Potassium is also required for building muscles. Now those are some nice added pluses.
In the interest of prudence, there are caveats attached to switching to potassium salt, just to be super careful. People with kidney failure, heart failure or diabetes should not use salt substitutes without your doctor's approval.
People taking the following prescription drugs should not use a salt substitute, unless your doctor tells you it's alright: potassium-sparing diuretics, such as spironolactone, triamterene, or amiloride, Dytac, Captopril and other angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, Eplerenone and Inspra.
You also don't want to take crazy amounts, like whole teaspoons of potassium salt at a time. Huge amounts of potassium have been known to stop the heart, as shown by Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
While the Institute of Medicine said in 2004 that the RDA for potassium is 4,000 mg (one level teaspoon), most people only get a couple thousand milligrams from a normal diet, with some nutritionists recommending 5,000 mg a day for optimal health.
Adding shakes of NO SALT® to foods will give you an extra few dozen milligrams, so salting foods to taste shouldn't cause normally healthy people any problem. Rather, you should be healthier.
However, although it is a rare occurrence, there is such a thing as too much potassium, which can cause the muscles and nerves to malfunction, leading to problems like irregular heartbeat.
Other symptoms of too much potassium are stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, muscle spasms, irritability, fatigue, uneven pulse and even heart failure.
It can also cause the skin on the hands, feet and tongue to tingle with a "pins and needles" sensation.
These are the "be careful" issues that should be noted, but really, most people using potassium salt to flavor foods will just be healthier -- and happier. I love NO SALT®.
Now run on down to Pavilions, or any big grocery store and buy some NO SALT® and toss out the sodium chloride salt in your kitchen today. You'll be glad you did!
******************Mr. Mooney, age 56, has written for numerous publications about exercise, diet, and the progressive use of dietary supplements. He co-authored a book about complementary medical options, such as nutritional and hormonal intervention for people living with HIV, called " Built To Survive."
And Now, Our War of the Fittest!
This group is called "Peckers PICS." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, you should select the guy that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!Remember your participation in discussion of health / news articles - appearing in this message is greatly appreciated!1
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You Decide!Mexico City Gay Pride; June 26, 2010Stoked?Mexico City Gay Pride; June 26, 2010Charlie's ChildrenThursday, September 16, 2010 / Alligator / Editorial StaffCall him Mr. Flip-Flop. Call him Mr. Cover-up. Call him Mr. I'll-Appease-Whomever-I-Can-Get-To-Vote-For-Me.Call him Mr. Independent.
Gov. Charlie Crist announced this week he plans to consider ending the state's appeal of a judge's ruling that labeled Florida's refusal to allow gay couples to adopt children as unconstitutional.
Calling his change of heart an "appropriate evolution," Crist now has the power to help Florida evolve from the prehistoric state of being the only state in the country to specifically ban gay couples from adopting.
And we couldn't be happier.
Keeping the embarrassing, stain-on-our-state ban in place only hurts the thousands of children awaiting homes in government services.
Supporters of the ban say it prevents children from being raised in homes without a mother and father, and is, naturally, good for the child.
As much as we wish that were true, we find it impossible to believe a child living his or her life without a family in a government-issued Oliver Twist existence will benefit more than being in a loving family.
We find it hard to believe the thousands of children living with widowed parents suffer the same pitfalls of "sin" as those growing up in a house without a mother and a father many bigoted and misguided Floridians who support the discriminatory ban so often cite as the main reason for the law.
Do the right thing, Charlie. Our children are counting on you.
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
Remember: Boycott Target and Best Buy for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations and to Proposition 8 (California) to prevent gay marriage. The Formal Boycott began this past weekend. I stopped shopping these stores - even though I want a new washer/dryer and new clothes for the Fall. I would not purchase "Blood Diamonds," nor should a person / organization be contributing funds to both Hitler / Nazi's and the Jews at the same time! Obviously giving money to the Jews and not Hitler/Nazi's is the right thing to do. Hence, these companies violated my trust and well-being. They gave money to my enemy who would terminate me from my job, deny me housing and send me to a Internment camp. Therefore, goodbye Target and Best Buy! The CEO's of these companies have been insensitive to our reaction and do not even comprehend their actions! What takes so long to "fire" these Neanderthals?
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