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November ~ 2009

Help Your Neighbor, Help Yourself

November 21st, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Food for Thought

As the year 2009 draws to a close and we approach the threshold of a new year, we can take a moment to look back over the year. It has been a very difficult year for almost everyone. Many are out of work or saddled with debt, schools are overcrowded and understaffed, the number of homeless persons is alarmingly high and charities are receiving fewer donations to care for an increasing number of people. There is hardly anyone who has not been affected in one way or another by the economic crisis.

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Food For Thought

November 21st, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Favorite Posts, Food for Thought

Take all your love that you are so eager to shower upon yourselves

And give it to your fellow man

So that a spark of longing will glow within him.

Then, you will easily make hundreds, nay, thousands happy.

And they will in turn, make you happy,

In the eternal reciprocity of the Laws of Creation.

For then, you will receive your love many times in return

From HIM, from God, and He blesses this love

With a thousand crystals from Heaven’s fountain!

~ Excerpted from A Glimpse into the Other World by Herbert Vollmann
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Vaccinations – To Give Or Not To Give?

November 20th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Homeopathy

Should I vaccinate my child or not?  Is there mercury in the vaccine? Does my child really need all those vaccines? Do vaccines cause autism? What is the risk to my child if I don’t vaccinate him? These and other questions are raised by parents faced with having to navigate the increasingly complex array of vaccines recommended for their children, starting right at birth. Many families feel coerced by their pediatricians to vaccinate their children. They feel powerless to argue against the campaign for universal vaccination for as many diseases as possible.

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Micronutrients: What are they and what can they do for you?

November 14th, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Nutrition

If you are struggling to return to your youthful pre-pregnancy weight and figure and are having a difficult time with it, you are not alone. For many women this is one of the most confounding problems. On the one hand you want to lose weight, but on the other hand you are hungry all the time because you are breastfeeding a growing baby who depends on you to manufacture a wholesome milk containing all the nutrients essential for his or her physical and mental development. So, how can you get the best of both worlds and lose some of the pregnancy weight and regain lean body mass, while at the same time ensuring that your milk has an optimal nutritional content?

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Why the Pain? Why the Suffering?

November 3rd, 2009 by Ifeoma Ikenze
Posted in Spirituality

Everyone has at one time or other experienced suffering or the suffering of a loved one through illness or an accident. Each of us has probably asked the question “Why?” Why is this happening?  And when it comes to our children, the “Why” is even greater.

We may do everything we can to safeguard our health; eat right, exercise, immunize our children, drive safe cars, enforce safety rules. And yet – one falls sick, a child has a hereditary disease, another is plagued with a lifelong depression or anxiety disorder. I appears that in spite of all out efforts there is more disease and distress today than ever before. Cancer strikes both young and old in alarming incidence. There is more pain medication and psychiatric medication prescribed than ever before, even in young children! Why??

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