Another Set of Tips on Being Greener
By Mark Schauss | January 14, 2009
With the new Administration of President Barack Obama about to take office, it is our hope that a change will be made from decisions being made based on an agenda to one based on fact. Science has shown what kind of a global mark humans have made on our environment but the U.S. government has seen fit to not only deny it, but to accelerate it all for the almighty dollar. An economy based on exploitation, be it of humans as in slavary and serfdom, or destruction of the environment is a very shortsighted one built on a weak base, one ready to collapse.
One built on innovation, one built on treading lighter on our world, one where we respect others rights and needs instead of on a singular greedy model is one that is sustainable and morally right. Weplaygreen.org is an organization “focused on bringing professional athletes together to help inspire the communities that support us into action to build awareness of the power we have to reverse the environmental crisis we are just beginning to recognize.”
They have a page on tips to make your day to day life greener and better for the world. Please enjoy and try a few of them.
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No Global Warming – No Holocaust, Cigarettes Are Not Addictive and Other Lies
By Mark Schauss | January 9, 2009
Having just watched the History Channel show Last Days on Earth, I heard a beautiful yet disturbing way of describing global warming denialists; when you want to talk about the Holocaust of WWII, do you bring out people who deny that it happened even though it did? Well, when it comes to global warming, thats what Fox News does. Let’s just repeat the tobacco companies CEOs testimony in front of Congress denying that nicotine and cigarettes are addictive. Global warming doesn’t exist, the Holocaust never happened and cigarrettes are safe are three lies that need to be thrown into the garbage.
Still, I think that humans will respond positively to the threat of global warming but only when the pain is very apparent and the denialists are looked at like the ideologic dinosaurs that they are. We can reverse this and make a great world better. We are such a unique planet who can save ourself from a comet, create the Internet and fly to outer space yet the one thing we need to protect ourselves from is ourself. Gain some moral standing to say that our world and our children’s world is worth saving. We need to be honest enough to admit our errors and do something about it. I have faith in our world. Do you?
Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Health, Life | 2 Comments »
The Truth About Weight Gain and Loss
By Mark Schauss | January 7, 2009
My mornings usually begin with a vigorous walk with my two dogs, Lexi and Samson. As we walk through the woods along the creek near my house, I listen to any number of podcasts about subjects ranging from science to history (my favorite being History According to Bob). Lately, I’ve been listening to the Stuff You Should Know podcast from the people who run the website howstuffworks.com.
One page on their site caught my eye which answered the question “Why does the weight come back so quickly once I stop dieting?” It is probably the best information I’ve seen on the subject of weight gain, loss and answers, at least in my opinion, the vexing question of why do diets never seem to work long-term.
Here is a brief bullet point list of what I got out of the page. Of course, you can just go to the page yourself and see what you take out of it.
- For each pound of weight you carry, you need 12 calories per day to maintain that weight. For instance, if you weigh 200 pounds, you need 2,400 to stay at that weight. At 150, you would need 1,800 calories per day.
- If you ingest 2,000 calories and you weigh 150 pounds, you are getting 200 more calories each day which will eventually turn to fat. You will eventually reach equilibrium at 166.67 pounds.
- 3,600 calories equals approximately 1 pound. If you ingest 200 calories per day, you will gain 1 pound every 18 days.
- Say you got up to 166.67 and wanted to return to 150 and you cut back to 1,000 calories a day for 60 days, you will lose 16 pounds. But if you go back up to 2,000 calories a day again, you will jump back up to 166 over time when you hit equilibrium.
- So basically, diets do take weight off, but unless you not only reduce your weight to where you want it to be, you need to use the 12 calories per pound number times your ideal weight to see how many calories you can take in to maintain that weight.
- Exercise is important to burn those excess calories above the equilibrium amount.
In my case, I want to get back down to 170 pounds. This means my daily caloric intake to stay at that weight is 2,040 per day. Since I am at 184 presently, and want to achieve my goal by June 1st, 2009, I need to run a deficit of 350 calories a day under the 2,040 or 1,690 calories a day.
If I additionally exercise each day to the tune of burning 250 calories a day, I can either speed up my goal and achieve it on May 17th (14 days earlier [3600/250 = 14.4]), or I can eat 1,940 calories a day. Since I figure I’ll mess things up once in a while, I’ll go for the early plan.
Bottom line is, diet’s work for the period of time you are on them. For a long lasting control, use the 12 calorie per pound theory and you may just get some success. Of course, if you are environmentally toxic, you might need to change that to 11 or even 10 calories per pound as the toxins can lower your metabolic rate enough to make it more difficult to lose weight and maintain it until you detoxify enough.
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FDA Over the Moral Wall
By Mark Schauss | December 18, 2008
In a stunning indictment, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington D.C. pro-environment lobby group, lambasted the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) for a recent uncovered secret document that stretches the imagination. The email that EWG sent out yesterday stunned even a jaded person like me. It read:
“On Friday, December 12, the Environmental Working Group made public internal government documents disclosing the Food and Drug Administration’s secret plans to reverse federal warnings that pregnant women and children limit their fish intake to avoid mercury, a neurotoxin especially dangerous to the fetus and infants.”
I read this and at first, I was so blown away, I couldn’t speak. Then, the anger grew in me to a point of fury. This is infanticide and homocide. First pointed at unborn children, secondly at pregnant women. This is moral terpitude that goes beyond anything this administration has ever done. To put unborn children at risk of neurological damage due to mothers eating mercury laden fish because the government, despite all scientific knowledge to the contrary is a low point which even I cannot fathom. Everytime I think they have reached the bottom of the moral barrel, they amaze me and they go lower. This though, is the true bottom.
There is absolutely no reason for this except to willingly wanting to cause harm to the citizens of the United States of America. This is an act as henious as the attacks of September 11th, 2001. The vaccinations that were laden with the mercury compound thimerasol damaging thousands and thousands of children were one case of wanton carnage. This is another. My hope is the incoming administration will prosecute these people.
Go over to my podcast site later today, to hear my latest rant about this important issue.
Topics: autism, brain nutrition, Environment, Food, Health, heavy metals, Life, Mercury, Neurological Disorders, Opinion, Politics, Research, Toxicity | No Comments »
More Bad News About Bisphenol A
By Mark Schauss | December 8, 2008
I know, I’m piling on BPA, but darn it, bisphenol A deserves a beat down. Every month I find yet another article in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that shows how it affects human health but this article about BPA and chemotherapy deserves a recognition. Seems that BPA can interfere with the effect of chemo as it stops the cancer cells from dying.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, bisphenol A is a money making machine for industry as estimates say that it generates $100 million dollars an hour in revenue worldwide. Still, the public has to ramp up the demand to remove this product from the market. Other safer alternatives are available and industry knows it, they just have to be forced to do so before any more damage is done.
Then again, our brilliant FDA thinks that there is insufficient evidence that bisphenol A is harmful to human health.
Topics: Environment, Health, Toxicity | 2 Comments »
Paradise Unpaved
By Mark Schauss | December 6, 2008
While Stumbling around the net, I came across the blog site of Franke James entitled, My Green Conscience. In it there was a page on unpaving her driveway in North York (Toronto), Canada. It was such a cool idea that I had to share it with everyone.
Imagine the impact if we decided to reduce the concrete in front of our houses and replaced them with gardens like Franke’s? Makes you think doesn’t it?
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LEAP MRT – A Tech Sheet on What the Test Does
By Mark Schauss | December 5, 2008
As anyone who has read my book or been to my other blog site – markschauss.com, knows, the LEAP MRT test by Signet Diagnostics helped save my daughter Tasya’s life. It was such an important tool in helping her not only control her seizures but in also helping to control her temper tantrums. We will be posting her newest test there as soon as it’s available in the next week or so (she got her blood drawn this past Wednesday).
Because of the help that this test has given the Schauss family, I continue to espouse its many uses at almost all of the lectures I give around the world. Because of this, I have been asked to post some additional information about it, explaining what it does and how it works. You can download the Word document and read about the LEAP MRT test. Go to my other blog site today.
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Household Toxins – What to Avoid
By Mark Schauss | November 14, 2008
Here is a link to a list of toxins people should be getting out of their homes. Most are simple to do, but will require some investment. Good health is an investment in your life as well as your families. Small price to pay in my opinion.
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Reducing Inflammation – Part I
By Mark Schauss | November 13, 2008
Since this blog site is entitled, Toxic World Blog, you might imagine that I would discuss the issue of environmental toxicity and inflammation first and you would be right. It’s the obvious first choice and one that needs to be addressed in both a global as well as personal way. Not only do we have to press for a better environment in our world by forcing our government to increase regulation of toxic chemicals but we have to look at our homes and work spaces and do whatever is necessary to lower our use of toxins.
There is little doubt that common toxins like xylene, toluene, benzene, mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic can cause an increase of inflammation. Avoiding them is difficult in today’s world but a concerted effort is a more cost effective process than taking Crestor. Get the book Home Safe Home by Debra Lynn Dadd and learn how to create a healthy home environment. Get my book, Achieving Victory Over a Toxic World to find out where sources of inflammation causing chemicals exist around you and how to help detoxify yourself.
In my next blog, I’ll talk about other ways to reduce inflammatory reactions.
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Crestor Jupiter Study – Problems, Issues and Solutions
By Mark Schauss | November 11, 2008
The recently reported study JUPITER, which shows that the drug Crestor, aka rosuvastatin, would help reduce inflammation in the arteries which would help reduce the number of heart attacks has got me puzzled. What struck me was the amazed reactions by physicians who were shocked, shocked that C-Reactive Protein, a marker for inflammation, was a factor in coronary heart disease. I’ve known this for years as have many of my colleagues. How could they be so suprised?
Anyone who has been to one of my lectures over the past few years can attest to, I have been touting the issue of inflammation over and over again. While it is an important mechanism in triggering immune responses, and helping to rebuild damaged tissue. As defined by this article pulled from the University of Stony Brook, inflammation isn’t all bad – The process of inflammation is designed to dilute, destroy, or otherwise inactive the agent that caused the injury in the first place. Ultimately, the goal of inflammation is to restore damaged or infected tissue to its original state, insofar as possible.
It is acute and chronic inflammation that is the problem though, not the beneficial type I just described. Constant injury to tissue through stress, infection, drugs (both legal and illegal) and environmental toxins that causes the bad type of inflammation that can lead to heart disease (amongst others). Lowering your exposure to these things will lower inflammation. But easier said than done. How do we accomplish this?
Over the next few posts, I will discuss a number of easy to do, economical and effective ways to lower inflammatory reactions that won’t cost $500,000 per person as Crestor will cost to reduce one heart attack. Instead of paying $10 billion a year to prevent 28,000 heart attacks, the methods I will discuss will save a lot more and cost less than 5% of that outrageous figure.
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