Doing Your Bit To Save Our World
By Mark Schauss | October 22, 2008
In the most recent New Scientist magazine (October 18-24, 2008), its special topic was “The Folly of Growth: How to stop the economy killing the planet” The issue focuses on how our constant need to have things and push constant economic growth is killing our world. In one article, Susan George talks about we can “transform our shattered exonomics and halt runaway climate change” by thinking big.
But what struck me was a column within the article was quotes from a number of people on how we can take action and do our parts. Here they are:
“Buy less stuff. And join and support Friends of the Earth.” – Herman Daly, ecological economist, University of Maryland.
“Vote. Or better yet, get involved in politics at any level and advocate green economics.” – Julia Marton-Lefevre, director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
“In a speech in April 1967, Martin Luther King called on the US to shift from a ‘thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society’. It is a message that resonates with today’s challenges.” – John Beddington, chief scientific adviser to the UK government.
“Go outside much more and connect with the environment, and cut your personal consumption of meat in half.” – Gus Speth, dean of the school of forestry and environmental studies at Yale University.
“Pick an aspect of the crisis you are interested in, join an organization that tries to do something about it and build alliances with others.” – Susan George, chair of the board, Transnational Institute.
“Buy strategically: products that not only do their job more sustainably, but send market signals back through the economy.” – Alex Steffen, executive director, Worldchanging.com
“Sign up to take monthy actions at onehundredmonths.org, do a simple survey at happyplanetindex.org and join a Transitition Town Initiative.” – Andrew Simms, policy director, New Economics Foundation.
What we have to do is something. We need to begin slowly or all in, but we need to get going. The citizens of this world cannot continue to consume at the present level. The question each of us has to ask of ourselves, what are you willing to do to save our world? Whatever it is, start right now.
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Cutler Interview
By Mark Schauss | October 16, 2008
Ealier this year, I did an interview with Andrew Cutler, PhD talking about his thoughts on autism, mercury, and porphyrin testing. You can listen to it on my podcast site by clicking this link. Just recently, Michael Ross, did a transcript of the interview that you can download and read for yourself. Thank you Michael for the work. You can download the pdf file here.
Topics: autism, Drugs, Health, Healthcare, heavy metals, Laboratory Tests, Mercury, Neurological Disorders, Opinion, Podcast, Research, Toxicity | 1 Comment »
Recent Klinghardt Interview
By Mark Schauss | October 11, 2008
Just wanted to tell you that I just completed a 1+ hour interview of Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt. It was an amazing hour listening to him talk about the newest findings in medicine (his personal findings), autism and a 15 minute answer to my question about the stressful times our world is finding itself in. While he is a very controversial figure, he has an amazing heart and truly cares about making this world a better place in which to live in. The podcast will be posted in three parts. Part one can be found here, at my podcast site, www.labinterpretation.podhoster.com. The second and third segments will be posted in the next week. After that, I will have two further interviews, one with Mark Newman of ZRT Laboratories and Dr. Richard Lord, one of the researchers I highly respect, from the Metametrix Institute. Please go to my podcast site and leave comments, suggestions and thoughts about my topics and interviews. It’s starting to get a real following and I’d like to build the audience up to help inform people about what is out there.
Topics: Health, Healthcare, Mercury, Neurological Disorders, Opinion, Podcast, Research, Supplements | 1 Comment »
Plastic versus Paper – A Change in My Opinion
By Mark Schauss | October 2, 2008
In my book, Acheiving Victory Over a Toxic World, I wrote about the difference in the resources used by a plastic and a paper grocery bag was minimal. Plastic may actually use a wee bit less than paper in terms of energy and other limited resources. Since then one thing keeps coming to my attention that has caused me to change my mind and that is the enormous continent of plastic that sits in the Pacific Ocean with lesser masses being found in all oceans around the world.
While using Stumble, I came across this website/presentation that everyone should see. After looking at it, there is no choice between paper or plastic. It has to be neither, I bought my own reusable bag. If you forgot yours, go for paper as a last resort. The world’s animals and fish will thank you.
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My Podcasts Live
By Mark Schauss | September 19, 2008
In case you haven’t heard about my podcasts, you can scoot over to www.labinterpretation.podhoster.com and either download to a podcatcher like iTunes or just listen to it online.
I have already covered subjects like CODEX and DSHEA, cholesterol myths and truths, catecholamines, arabinose versus D-arabinitol as a yeast marker, and a few book, website and journal reviews.
Enjoy them and sign up to hear more of them. You can also find the link at my new company website, Lab Interpretation LLC. It has lots of other great info as well.
Topics: Health, Laboratory Tests, Opinion, Our World, Podcast, Research, Toxicity, Websites | No Comments »
I’m Podcasting!!! (Finally)
By Mark Schauss | September 9, 2008
Well, I finally did it. I started podcasting. The podcast name is – Let’s Talk Real Health and while it isn’t perfect (yet), it is something I hope you will download to your iPod or mp3 player, or just listen to it online. This weeks segment includes a discussion on PSA testing, styrene markers in urine, uric acid as a natural antioxidant and a book review.
Each week, any maybe more often, I’ll be putting new podcasts up whenever new research is released, I get a wild idea about something exciting, or I hear from a colleague or listener asking me to discuss something. I hope you find the podcasts interesting and helpful and definitely not boring.
Topics: Health, Laboratory Tests, Opinion, Podcast, Solvents | 1 Comment »
Laughter as Medicine
By Mark Schauss | September 8, 2008
We all know that laughter is the best medicine but a recent study done shows that it can help regulate blood sugar! The Bio-Laboratory, Foundation for Advancement of International Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan published a paper entitled “Laughter up-regulates the genes related to NK cell activity in diabetes” by Hayashi T, Tsujii S, et al. The study published in the journal Biomedical Research states that in patients with type 2 diabetes, laughter was found to upregulate genes related to immunity (natural killer cell activity) and suppress postprandial blood glucose levels.Having heard that, I think I’m going to pull out one of my Marx Brothers DVDs and get a couple of laughs in today.
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BPA is Safe! Just Believe the FDA and You’ll be OK. Yeah, Right.
By Mark Schauss | August 21, 2008
If you believe the FDA, you can continue to use bisphenol A laden products without any concerns. If you are a rational individual who realizes that the ones who decided the safety of this toxin is so beholden to the BPA industry that they couldn’t make an unbiased decision to save their lives. Sorry to say, but when you use only industry sponsored studies to make your decision, you are being disingenuous and you have stopped being the servant of the people and become slaves to the industry.
There are numerous reports and well designed studies out there on the health problems that can come from exposure to BPA, especially from places like the Environmental Working Group or the prestigous journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Go there, type in bisphenol A and see why scientists worldwide are condemming the FDA’s latest sham.
Topics: Environment, Health, Opinion, Petrochemicals, Politics, Research, Solvents, Toxicity | No Comments »
A Must Have Book
By Mark Schauss | August 20, 2008
While at Boulderfest 2008 in July, I had the pleasure of meeting Debra Lynn Dadd, who was one of the speakers. We swapped signed copies of our latest books and I have to say, her’s was very impressive. Home Safe Home, is a must have book. At over 400 pages, it is full of useful information on how to make your home a safe and non-toxic place to live. Not only that, many of the suggestions are big-time money savers.
As you know, I am constantly reviewing my own home, doing an inventory of toxins, trying to find alternatives at every turn. In her book, Debra has done all the work for you. If you want a safer environment in your home, buy the book today. It will pay you back for years to come.
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Is the Car You’re About to Buy Toxic?
By Mark Schauss | July 31, 2008
Healthycar.org just published its second annual consumers guide to car toxicity. They tested over 200 of the most popular cars and more than 60 child car seats. Not only are they ranking the cars on how toxic they are, they are also including fuel efficiency ratings to help you get both a low-toxin car and one with good gas mileage.
It has always been my belief that the only way to get the corporate world to clean up its act the consumer needs to vote with their wallets and purses. No amount of legislation will effectively tell big business to change its polluting ways. They simply are out for the maximum profit possible. If they see that they will not be getting paid for their toxic services, you can bet they will change in a hurry.
Better education about the perils of toxicity and the products that contain them, the better for our world and the better choices we can make. Go to healthycar.org today and find out which companies and cars are doing the best to lower their ecological footprint.
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