Month: August 2009
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Superfood!
Chlorella is a green algae that grows in freshwater ponds in the Far East. A minority of people around the world have been experiencing the health benefits for decades but new studies in Japan show it to be very effective in fighting lifestyle diseases. We here in the western world know all about lifestyle diseases.…
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Oops, Big Drug caught using ghost writers to pimp products?
Is it a medical conspiracy to the nth degree? It’s no secret that drug companies make big money from their wares, but do they cross the line between science and capitalism by hiring writers outside their own research staffs to publish “review” articles to reach conclusions supporting the drug in question? That’s the question asked…
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We really do walk in circles when lost.
It turns out that it’s not all a figment of Hollywood’s imagination. Humans really do tend to walk in big circles when we’re lost, and eventually cross our own tracks and double back on ourselves. Why do we care about this at HolisticSurvival.com? What if you’re lost in the woods or displaced by national emergency…
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In a pinch, wash your clothes at home.
No matter what sort of emergency you might find yourself in the midst of, there’s one thing for sure, everybody likes clean underwear! Clothes too. There’s no sour outlook that can’t be improved by putting on fresh smelling garments. Let’s say the power grid is down because the state forget to pay the bill. You’re…
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How long will canned meat last anyway?
Everybody likes a good canned meat joke, right? You know, Spam, stuff like that. But determining how long a shelf life you can expect from your food provisions is deadly serious business to the modern survivalist. The short answer is “a heck of a long time.” More than 100 years to be precise. The following…
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Self defense for your lifestyle.
Do you think self defense means being a trained martial artist who is determined to be the number one bad-ass walking the street, prancing around like a peacock ready to fight at the slightest perceived provocation? Sorry, Charlie, that’s not self defense. It’s more like a death wish if you run into a professional criminal…
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Average people ready for anything.
It used to be that the word “survivalist” conjured up images of crazed, camo-clad citizens skulking around out in the woods outside their cabin, eating MRE’s and waiting for the next poor sap to stumble into their razor wire perimeter. These days things are a little different. Sure, there are still a growing number of…
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HS 4 – Emergency Food Storage Preparedness and Management
View Transcript Food storage is a wise investment for future individual and family stability. Many believe the idea of food storage is for extreme disasters, but there also are many everyday reasons to put extra food away… especially in uncertain times. Visit https://holisticsurvival.com/podcast-with-holistic-survival.php. We are all subject to events beyond our control. Electrical blackouts, unexpected…
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A bankrupt state will be no walk in the park.
Though still a chilling thought, the prospect of a state(s) in the United States of America declaring bankruptcy is not as far-fetched as it used to be. What if it’s your state? What would the immediate aftermath look like? For starters, you can expect an immediate shutdown of state-funded services and programs, followed by widespread…
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What if Wall Street took your nest egg?
It’s one thing if you’re a young whippersnapper in your twenties when the Wall Street crooks came pillaging in the night for your money. Sucks to be you but chalk it up to a life lesson learned. You’ve got time to recover. We’re talking about an entirely different scenario if you’re getting on in years…