Thursday, February 14, 2013

Deadly Medication, Phenylpropanolamine (PPA)

This is definitely worth reading.
I checked out the FDA web site below and yep, there it is. Heads up! Eyes open..read it yourself.

I am passing this email forwarded to me this morning. It's about a medication that is familiar to many of us. Note also the FDA 's comments at the end of the message. I received this information from a friend whose mother recently passed away.

Apparently, this was caused by a medication that is deadly. Here are the details and I suggest you pass it on to your loved ones and others.

Subject: Phenylpropanolamine (PPA)

I would like to thank those of you who expressed condolences on the recent passing of my mother. She suffered ahemorrhagic stroke while she was driving home from my house at 7:30 and passed away at 8:30. My mother's stroke and passing was an enormous shock to my family because she did not have any symptoms or risk factors for a stroke. Just the week before she had gone to her doctor for a check up and received a clean bill of health. She did, however, develop a cold while she was visiting me and had taken Alka
Seltzer Cold Plus for 3 days. Since her passing, we have learned that Alka Seltzer is one of the many cold medicines that contains

Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) which can causehemorrhagic stokes& nbsp;or cerebral bleeding even with the first use.

I am forwarding a list of other medications that currently use PPA. These medicines are supposedly being recalled but my mother just purchased this medication less than two weeks ago. Pharmaceutical companies have known about this danger for years, we unfortunately, did not.

I urge you to review the list of medicines with PPA and avoid these medications. All drugs containingPHENYLPROPANOLAMINE are dangerous. You may want to try calling the 800 number listed on most drug boxes and inquire about a

REFUND.. Please read this CAREFULLY. Also, please pass this on to everyone you know. STOP TAKING anything containing this ingredient. It has been linked to increased hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in brain) among women ages 18-49 in the three days after starting use of medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA recommended that everyone (even children) seek alternative medicine.

The following medications contain Phenylpropanolamine:

Acutrim Diet Gum Appetite Suppressant
Acutrim Plus Dietary Supplements
Acutrim Maximum Strength Appetite Control
Alka-Seltzer Plus Children's Cold Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold medicine (cherry or or ange)
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Original
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Flu Medicine
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Sinus Effervescent
Alka Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold Medicine
BC Allergy Sinus Cold Powder
BC Sinus Cold Powder
Comtrex Flu Therapy & Fever Relief
Day & Night Contac 12-Hour Cold Capsules
Contac 12 Hour Caplets
Coricidin D Cold, Flu & Sinus
Dexatrim Caffeine Free
Dexatrim Extended Duration
Dexatrim Gelcaps
Dexatrim Vitamin C/Caffeine Free
Dimetapp Cold & Allergy Chewable Tablets
Dimetapp Cold & Cough Liqui-Gels
Dimetapp DM Cold & Cough Elixir
Dimetapp Elixir
Dimetapp 4 Hour Liquid Gels
Dimetapp 4 Hour Tablets
Dimetapp 12 Hour Extentabs Tablets
Naldecon DX Pediatric Drops
Permathene Mega-16
Robitussin CF
Tavist-D 12 Hour Relief of Sinus & Nasal Congestion
Triaminic DM Cough Rel! ief
Triaminic Expectorant Chest & Head
Triaminic Syrup ! ! Cold & amp;am p; Allergy
Triaminic Triaminicol Cold & Cough

I just found out and called the 800# on the container for Triaminic and they informed me that they are voluntarily recalling the following medicines because of a certain ingredient that is causing strokesandseizuresin children:

Orange 3D Cold & Allergy Cherry (Pink)
3D Cold & Cough Berry
3D Cough Relief Yellow 3D Expectorant

They are asking you to call them at 800-548-3708 with the lot number on the box so they can send you postage for you to send it back to them, and they will also issue you a refund. If you know of anyone else with small

Amazing Frozen Lemon

All it is.....is a frozen lemon

Many professionals in restaurants and eateries are using or consuming the entire lemon and nothing is wasted. How can you use the whole lemon without waste?

Simple.. place the washed lemon in the freezer section of your refrigerator. Once the lemon is frozen, get your grater, and shred the whole lemon (no need to peel it) and sprinkle it on top of your foods.

Sprinkle it to your vegetable salad, ice cream, soup, cereals, noodles, spaghetti sauce, rice, sushi, fish dishes, whisky.... the list is endless.

All of the foods will unexpectedly have a wonderful taste, something that you may have never tasted before. Most likely, you only think of lemon juice and vitamin C. Not anymore.

Now that you've learned this lemon secret, you can use lemon even in instant cup noodles.

What's the major advantage of using the whole lemon other than preventing waste and adding new taste to your dishes?

Well, you see lemon peels contain as much as 5 to 10 times more vitamins than the lemon juice itself. And yes, that's what you've been wasting.

But from now on, by following this simple procedure of freezing the whole lemon, then grating it on top of your dishes, you can consume all of those nutrients and get even healthier.

It's also good that lemon peels are health rejuvenators in eradicating toxic elements in the body.

So place your washed lemon in your freezer, and then grate it on your meal every day. It is a key to make your foods tastier and you get to live healthier and longer! That's the lemon secret! Better late than never, right? The surprising benefits of lemon!
Lemon (Citrus) is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells. It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy.

Why do we not know about that? Because there are laboratories interested in making a synthetic version that will bring them huge profits.

You can now help a friend in need by letting him/her know that lemon juice is beneficial in preventing the disease. Its taste is pleasant and it does not produce the horrific effects of chemotherapy.

How many people will die while this closely guarded secret is kept, so as not to jeopardize the beneficial multimillionaires large corporations?

As you know, the lemon tree is known for its varieties of lemons and limes.

You can eat the fruit in different ways: you can eat the pulp, juice press, prepare drinks, sorbets, pastries, etc... It is credited with many virtues, but the most interesting is the effect it produces on cysts and tumors.

This plant is a proven remedy against cancers of all types. Some say it is very useful in all variants of cancer. It is considered also as an anti microbial spectrum against bacterial infections and fungi, effective against internal parasites and worms, it regulates blood pressure which is too high and an antidepressant, combats stress and nervous disorders.
The source of this information is fascinating: it comes from one of the largest drug manufacturers in the world, says that after more than 20 laboratory tests since 1970, the extracts revealed that It destroys the malignant cells in 12 cancers, including colon, breast, prostate, lung and pancreas...
The compounds of this tree showed 10,000 times better than the product Adriamycin, a drug normally used chemotherapeutic in the world, slowing the growth of cancer cells.


And what is even more astonishing: this type of therapy with lemon extract only destroys malignant cancer cells and it does not affect healthy cells.
So, give those lemons a good wash, freeze them and grate them. Your whole body will love you for it!!!!!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Mormans,LDS, Hugh Nibley Parables

A TREATISE ON HUGH NIBLEY, HIS BACKGROUND, AND TWO OF HIS PARABLES

Webster defines parable as a simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson, or... a comparison; the NY Times Crossword Dictionary offers, a likeness; or a similitude; or an allegory; or a proverb, among other words.

Many of you know that Hugh Nibley was a giant of an intellect, a highly revered professor at BYU, a master of several languages and cultures, an often misunderstood man because of his depth and mannerisms in speaking and teaching engagements. Many ex-students have agreed that one had to take copious notes in his lectures and then thoroughly review them soon afterward, or all would be lost!

Many of you may not be aware of his military background. When World War Two began for the USA, he was just eighteen years old, and instead of awaiting the military draft as many young men did, he chose to enlist in the Army as an enlisted man, wanting to be with the men as he put it. Pearl Harbor was Dec. 7, 1941. Not long afterward Nibley enlisted, and was given all of the tests then given to draftees and others. His scores were so high that he was referred up to higher echelons and again tested, and offered an army commission, a higher field grade one at that which would serve the perceived intelligence. He refused! He next went thru Army Basic Training successfully, and was given more tests, scoring so high and impressing officers such that he was sent to Washington DC for higher evaluation

He was again offered a high level army commission in Intelligence, but refused again. Next he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, already preparing for shipment to North Africa and combat. He would head up Division Intelligence as an enlisted Master Sergeant! He never took jump training, so was assigned to a glider infantry regiment at first but soon then assigned to division Headquarters as head of intelligence matters, and soon was advising division on such matters as planning was being done. Nibley was knowledgable in many languages which aided him in all prisoner interviewing and decision making.

The 101st fought all thru North Africa, then in Airborne action in Sicily, then next D-Day in France, where rather than go in by glider as most Division Hdqtrs men did, he chose to go ashore by landing craft and driving his jeep across the beaches, which contained all of the communication equipment he wanted to do his job. Next the 101st went into the big airborne operation in Holland, many of you know from the movie "A Bridge Too Far." Following that battle, he was not sent into The Bulge with his unit, but was reassigned by top intelligence people to Hitler’s secret headquarters in the mountains at Bertchesgaden in Austria to do follow up intelligence work, still a master sergeant which he stubbornly continued to insist on.

Following World War Two release Nibley continued his learning and then into writing and teaching, and soon to a professorship at BYU. Mostly his subjects were Book Of Mormon related and Latter day Saint issues as well. He was highly rated and sought after by all for his knowledge as a speaker.

Now to the depth of this man, explaining part of it only with two of his parables. The first is an assignment he would offer or request of his Book Of Mormon classes on day one each semester. As you peruse it, bear in mind that he has converted the depth and complexities, and answered all of the criticisms of many noted critics of the Book and of Joseph Smith, in his description of a term paper he asks them to do and hand in at the end of the semester. This is a gem, a guide to one if he tried to write a similar book today! Here is parable number one.

HUGH NIBLEY’S FACETIOUS CLASS TERM PAPER

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Hugh NIbley would ask his Book Of Mormon classes at BYU, "Since Joseph was younger than most of you and not nearly so experienced and well-educated as any of you at the time he copyrighted the Book Of Mormon, it should not be too much to ask you to hand in by the end of the semester, (which will give you more time than he had), a paper of say, five to six hundred pages in length. Call it a sacred book if you will, and give it the form of a history.

Tell of a community of wandering Jews in ancient times; have all sorts of characters in your story, and involve them in all sorts of public and private vicissitudes, (authors interruption: the quality or state of being changeable). give them names...hundreds of them...pretending that they are real Hebrew and Egyptian names circa 600 BC, be lavish with technical and cultural details, manners and customs, arts and industries, political and religious institutions, rites and traditions, include long and complicated military and economic histories, have your narrative cover a thousand years without any large gaps ; keep a number of interrelated local histories going at the same time; feel free to introduce religious controversy and philosophical discussion, but always in a plausible setting; observe the appropriate literary conventions and explain the derivation and transmission of your varied historical materials. Above all, do not ever contradict yourself! For now we come to the really hard part of this assignment. You and I know that you are making this all up….we have our little joke---but just the same you are going to be required to have your paper published when you finish it, not as a fiction or romance, but as a true history! After you have handed it in you may make no changes in it, (in this class we always use the first edition of The Book Of Mormon), what is more, you are to invite any and all scholars to read and criticize your work freely, explaining to them that it is a sacred book on a par with the Bible. If they seem over skeptical, you might tell them that you translated the book from original records with the aid of the Urim and Thummim: they will love that! Further, to allay their misgivings, you might tell them that the original manuscript was on golden plates, and that you got the plates from an angel! Now, go to work and good luck!

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Imagine the concern in the minds of the students. “Is he serious?” “So that’s what the Book Of Mormon is all about! “No wonder all those early critics were doubtful that Joseph Smith wrote it! They could not even believe he may have stolen it from somebody! Who could possibly have written a book with all of those issues in it and yet covering over one thousand years of history? But this parable is quite an accurate description of the content and details and truth in The Book Of Mormon.

Now to Parable number two………

THE SARDONIC AND WITTY TALE OF THE FARMER WHO FOUND A DIAMOND WHILE PLOWING A FIELD

A young man long ago claimed that he had found a large diamond in his field as he was ploughing. He proudly put the stone on display to the public, free of charge, and everyone that saw it took sides on just what it was. A Psychologist, by citing some famous case studies, that the man was suffering from a well known form of delusion. A Historian showed that other men had also claimed to have found diamonds in fields and had been deceived. A Geologist proved that there were no diamonds in the area, but only quartz; the young man had been fooled by quartz. When asked to inspect the stone itself, he declined with a weary tolerant smile and a kindly shake of his head.

An English Professor showed that the young man in describing his stone had used the same language that others had used in describing uncut diamond’s, he was therefore simply speaking the common language of his time. A Sociologist (facetiously, I add) showed that only three out of 177 florists assistants in four major cities thought the stone was genuine. A Clergyman wrote a book to show that it was not this young man who found the stone, but someone else!

Eventually, an indigent jeweler named Snite pointed out that since the stone was readily available for examination, the answer to the question of whether or not it was a diamond had nothing to do with who found it, or whether the finder was honest or sane, or who believed him, or whether he would know a diamond from a brick, or if diamonds ever are found in plowed fields. Or if ever people have been fooled by quartz or glass, but could be answered simply and solely by putting the stone to certain well known tests for diamonds.

Experts on diamonds were called in. Some of them declared it genuine. Others made nervous jokes about it,, and declared that they could not jeopardize their dignity and reputations by appearing to take the matter seriously. To hide the confusion and bad impressions made, someone came out with the theory that the stone was really a synthetic diamond, very skillfully made, but a fake just the same.

The objection to this theory is that the production of a good synthetic diamond in the early 1800’s would have been an even more remarkable feat than the finding of a real one!

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In his Book Of Mormon class term paper assignment, Nibley cites in great detail, the complex content and complications, the great depth, of an over one thousand year history of two warring peoples who inhabited these two American continents from about 600 BC to roughly 400 AD when the last of the Nephites were eliminated by the savage Laminates….but he converts the content to as if it were to be written today by a learned BYU Book Of Mormon class member. No one has yet come up with that completed assignment…..coul d you? Probably not! The Book Of Mormon is truly the diamond!!

These two parables by Hugh Nibley have been used and referred to by speakers and teachers of NIBLEY and his genious since way before he passed away just before the turn of the century. Most of my information comes from THE JOURNAL OF THE BOOK OF MORMON AND OTHER RESTORATION SCRIPTURE, PUBLISHED BY the Neal A Maxwell Institute for religious scholarship at BYU. A biography of Hugh Nibley has been published, SERGEANT NIBLEY ,PHD, MEMORIES OF AN UNLIKELY SCREAMING EAGLE (The 101st Airborne Division), by his son, Alex Nibley, Shadow Mountain Publishers, SLC, Utah, available thru Deseret Boo k store.

RJJ Feb.,2013

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