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Boosting Your Immune System: 6 Things You Need to Be Eating |
Boosting Your Immune System: 6 Things You Need to Be Eating |.
Do you want glowing skin, boundless energy, and a nearly super-human resistance to germs and viruses?
It’s time to step up your nutritional game. With flu season bearing down on us, we’re hearing a lot in the media about how we should be rolling up our sleeves for a toxic flu shot. Instead, perhaps we should be focused on immunity-boosting foods that will help our bodies to fight off the bugs that come knocking. Last week, we discussed what NOT to eat, but it’s a lot more fun to think about the delicious bounty we should be consuming.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
~Hippocrates
There are so many wonderful nutritious whole foods out there that it would be impossible to make a comprehensive list of everything that enhances your immune system. It probably goes without saying that I strongly recommend organic, local versions of these items whenever possible. If you can’t get the food locally, the next best choice is usually frozen, since that was done at peak ripeness. Food that was picked two weeks ago while unripe, then shipped and artificially ripened, just doesn’t have the same benefits. As well, not all of these foods are healthy for everyone. Obviously, if you’re lactose intolerant, you shouldn’t be downing a glass of raw milk. If you’re a vegetarian, look for other sources of certain nutrients. Adapt these suggestions to fit your lifestyle.
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Surviving a blizzard or winter storm without power
Surviving a blizzard or winter storm without power.
With winter coming to most of the country, I thought I’d write something about how to survive if you’re stuck at home during a blizzard or winter ice storm and the power goes out. We don’t really have that problem down here in Phoenix but I’ve lived in places like Alaska, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and others where it can be an issue.
Normally, winter storms aren’t really an issue. Unfortunately they can occasionally be a REALLY BIG issue if you aren’t prepared for them.
Just to give you an idea of just how bad things can get, check out the list of blizzards that have hit the US that are listed on Wikipedia. Brrr!
During these storms, the safest thing you can do generally is get home and stay home. Unfortunately, not everyone is prepared to do that. Some of this is similar advice to what I wrote in what you need to know about Ebola and what you can do, but big storms like this have a tendency to knock out power, leaving some without heat, light, or a way to cook while you’re stuck at home.
Determine Your Food and Communications Preparedness
Determine Your Food and Communications Preparedness.
Ninety percent of Americans will have no idea what to do the day they turn on their water faucet and nothing comes out; the day they go to the supermarket only to be greeted by metal bars; the day that obtaining gasoline is no longer as simple as heading to your local convenience store. These are the people who will succumb to a government-administered dystopia where you’re rationed food and water as long as you comply with Orwellian-type rules.
Technology will likely still be around in some capacity post-apocalypse because the New World Order has seen how effective it can be controlling the minds and thought processes of the people. But free souls will know how to survive mostly from the land and hand hard work.
Food And Water
During the Great Depression and World War II, the U.S. government issued ration books to all Americans. You could only buy a fixed amount of meat, sugar, and other goods from the supermarket in a given month due to massive food shortages. Many pundits and scholars believe World War III has already arrived due to all the conflicts in several Middle Eastern countries which Washington D.C. has its hand in.
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The Three Survival Essentials
The Three Survival Essentials.
Yes, I said your survival plan. The difference between a dream and a goal is a plan. It’s not a plan until you write it down. Only then can you look at the whole plan at once and see what’s missing. As we already know, the three survival essentials are clothes, water, and food. We require all three at all times. We require all three no matter what disaster befalls us.
1) Clothes
You and your family can live quite comfortably and survive the elements easily with no clothes at all – if you live in Polynesia. But, here in the United States of America the weather is far too extreme for that. For those of us in the mountains, we would freeze to death in one winter’s night without clothing. For those of us in the desert, we would suffer burns in one summer’s day. For those of us on the plains I need only say bees. For those of us in the forests; poison ivy anyone? thorns? For those on the beaches; seen any broken glass lately?
Think about where you live. Think about the physical hazards your clothing protects you from. Now think about living outside in that environment for weeks without shelter. What type of clothing do you need to face both natural and man made hazards? No one else can tell you what is “best” for where and how you live because only you live there. But, I can offer some things for you to consider.
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Survival Skills Checklist – The Stuff That You Need to Know!
Survival Skills Checklist – The Stuff That You Need to Know!.
The debate between skills vs. stuff is a big one. I know many articles have been written on it and I’ve been in many a forum debate about which to focus on. I write this as a fellow preparedness geek and a friend to all those out there who are working towards a secure future.
It is interesting to me how many preppers talk about getting off the grid and having self-sufficiency, but they end up just trusting their existence to yet another set of systems. You may have solar panels and well pumps but what if SHTF and a panel gets shattered by flying debris, or your well pump stops working as the bearings seize? There are a million what if scenarios and many are not that unlikely. You need something to fall back on; you need a final line of defense.
When you have skills that means you have applied knowledge and experience. If your water system fails survival skills and knowledge of water purification techniques can keep you alive. If your livestock dies suddenly from disease, trauma, or whatever else hunting skills can keep some food on the table. If all else fails and you have the skills to make fire from nothing but the materials around you, if you can hunt with traps and simple weapons created from the forest, these things are powerful. Stock up on supplies and establish self-sufficient systems but always have a backup plan.
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Archive: Forget Doom and Gloom: Preparedness is the Ultimate Act of Optimism |
Archive: Forget Doom and Gloom: Preparedness is the Ultimate Act of Optimism |.
Note from Daisy: With all of the hullabaloo about Ebola lately, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves of why we prepare. We don’t do it out of fear. We do it because we like the peace of mind it brings. When we are ready for anything from a job loss to a power outage to an outright apocalypse, we know that we can handle whatever life sends our way. A preparedness lifestyle is a constant affirmation that we will persevere.
Does this sound familiar?
You’re talking to a friend or family member who isn’t on board with preparedness. (And it’s even worse when they think they know what’s going on in the world but garner their so-called “information” from network news sources.) You try for the millionth time to get them to consider stocking up on a few things and they say this:
Life’s too short for all of this doom and gloom. Live a little! You’re such a pessimist!
My response to this is that preparedness is the ultimate form of optimism.
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This Interview Could Save Your Life: “Consider This Your Last Wake Up Call”
This Interview Could Save Your Life: “Consider This Your Last Wake Up Call”.
There is no shortage of potential worst-case scenarios that all seem to be converging. The Ebola crisis has been at the top of the headlines as of late, but though they’re not being talked about in any serious capacity, we are still facing other threats to our livelihoods elsewhere – mass migrations of people and criminal elements across our southern border, a military face-off in Europe, terrorist armies in the middle east, and the real possibility of an unprecedented economic collapse on a global scale.
In a recent Daily Coin interview Survival Blog founder James Rawles suggests that this may well be our last wake-up call. Consider, for example, that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans out there right now with no idea what to do should this virus spread. They assume the government will soon have the contagion under control, and even if Ebola can’t be stopped, people are banking on the notion that emergency responders will be there for them when they need help. Assuming the hospitals don’t get overwhelmed and that food doesn’t get stripped from the store shelves in panic buying, then yes, things should be just fine. But what happens if the worst-case scenario does play out, and Ebola continues to infect more people across America?
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