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Heal Cavities

The world is slowly waking up to the fact that, when you give the body what it needs, it can heal things we previously thought were impossible. A fine example of what is often deemed as an incurable health problem is dental cavities, but extensive research is now becoming more public about the true nature of tooth decay and the fact that there are proven remedies that can remedy it

The lies perpetrated about tooth decay

According to the American Dental Association, the reason we have tooth decay is as follows:

"[Tooth decay] occurs when foods containing carbohydrates (sugars and starches) such as milk, pop, raisins, cakes or candy are frequently left on the teeth. Bacteria that live in the mouth thrive on these foods, producing acids as a result. Over a period of time, these acids destroy tooth enamel, resulting in tooth decay."

There are a few problems with this theory, including:

• Groups of indigenous people who had fermentable carbohydrates stuck on their teeth all the timethat did not brush or floss were mostly or completely free of tooth decay.
  
• Bacteria do not consume processed sugar or flour because of the lack of nutrients in them.
• Foods that bacteria like to eat, such as milk, vegetables, meat, fish and fruit, are not commonly implicated in causes of tooth decay.

So if the modern explanation of tooth decay is not accurate, what is actually the cause of tooth decay?

What actually causes tooth decay

Tooth decay, as researched by Dr. Weston Price and other dental pioneers, boiled down to three factors:

• Not enough minerals in the diet.
• Not enough fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) in the diet.
• Nutrients not being readily bioavailable, and your intestinal system not properly absorbing them.The presence of phytic acid largely influences this factor.
  

Over a period of time, if your diet lacks vitamins and minerals from a poor diet and/or contains high levels of phytates (from grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes), the blood chemistry and the ratio of calcium and phosphorous become out of balance, which results in minerals being pulled from bones, causing tooth and bone loss.

So, the long-standing belief that sugar causes tooth decay is true, but as a result of it depleting nutrients from the body, not because bacteria eat it and produce acid that ruins your teeth.

The food remedies that can heal cavities and tooth decay

In order to restore the ratio of calcium and phosphorus in our blood, and to enable minerals to bond to our teeth, it is not enough to just avoid eating too many sweet or processed foods. We must also eat health-building foods, containing copious amounts of minerals and vitamins that will build a glassy hard tooth structure.

Foods to focus on are:

• Coconut oil, grass-fed organic dairy (especially butter), grass-fed meats, seafood and bone broths.
• Organic cooked vegetables (soups with bone broth are ideal).
• Organ and gland meats, like liver.

Limit foods that are high in phytic acid, like grains, beans, nuts and seeds, as well as limiting processed food intake full of processed flours and sugars that upset blood sugar balance.

Supplements to consider are:

• Fermented cod liver oil - very high in fat soluble vitamins A, D and K.
• Magnesium - required to use calcium and phosphorous effectively.
• Gelatin - if you don't have time to make bone broth, this is a good alternative and is great for gums and digestion.

Now go get your pearly white smile back.

Read more: http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/how-to-heal-cavities-naturally.html#ixzz2k3oVZ927

Man used a 3D printer to make a Prosthetic Hand for his Son

Using plans available to download for free, a man used a 3D printer to make a prosthetic hand for his son for only $10.

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ANNWFN

ANNWFN was the chthonic kingdom of the otherworldly sylvan hunter, Arawn. There it was that Arawn hunted stag with his albino hounds. It was a kingdom opposed to the realm of the summery Hafgan and lay on the other side of the crossing from it. It was a place of hunting and Saturnalian festivities and furnished with brimming cauldrons from which only brave men supped and which maidens attended. The interpretation of the name as representing a former *en-dubno- ‘inner world’ is based on the view expressed in Sioned Davies's recent translation of the Mabinogion.

FOCHAIN MACHA

FOCHAIN MACHA was one of the ten daughters of Partholon. She is not of the same lineage as the Macha Mórrígu of the Túatha Dé Danann but it is tantalising to wonder whether she be a duplicate of her. In Old Irish, “fochain” (nf) meant a ‘outcry, call, shout, outburst, quarrel, fight’ and “macha-” (v.3.sg.pres) meant “to quell, destroy”.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November

Remember, remember the Fifth of November 

When shadowy horrors did come to dismember...

SAMHUIN celebrations in Scotland have long involved bonfires as with all the great festivals. Bonfires at this time of year had some practical application in clearing up dead leaves and unwanted cuttings after the harvest reaping was well and truly done. This provided some closure to end of the toil of the harvest and to the beginning of a relatively leisurely quarter of the year marked by feasts, fires, weaving and hunting before the ploughing season began nearer to Imbolg. These bonfire practices were absorbed into such synchronic Christian festivals as All Hallows’, All Souls’, Martinmas and Saint Catherine’s Day. The mid-point between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is in fact nearer to the 5th November. In Britain, this is marked by ‘Bonfire Night’ when impassive British rigidity is briefly lapsed to engage in riotous explosions and burning. These traditions began in England when many Scots were settling there after the King of Scots became the king of the whole isle of Britain whereupon the Scottish kings chose to rule the whole island from England rather than from Scotland. An act of insurgence against the Crown gave the Scottish settlers an ostensible pretext to continue in England the types of bonfires that had long taken place in Scotland, and it gave them this pretext at a time when any superstitious behaviour was met with disapproval from a very puritanical establishment. The pretext of the bonfires’ celebrating the king’s triumph over insurgency was flattering to the establishment which then refrained from disallowing the bonfires and the addition of other patriotic outpourings of emotion.
The times in which the English adopted these Scottish customs were fraught with religious fanaticism from an absolutism-obsessed monarchy which the English people had to obey or be tried for treason. In this atmosphere, the customs had to take on a pro-establishment thread or be lost entirely to the all-levelling force of the Crown.

 

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HALLOWTIDE

Art by @[183257461736766:274:Luis Royo] HALLOWTIDE was a time for purgative rites. It was the beginning of the dark period when the earth seemed to enter the underworld. This journey in the underworld was a time to cast off the old self to be purged for a new awakening. Among traditional peoples New Year is often characterised by orgiastic and shamanic rites intended to scare away old demons. These took place at the Calends in Gaul, and were denounced by councils and preachers. In Ireland the merriment at Samhain is often mentioned in the texts, and similar orgiastic rites lurk behind the Hallowe'en customs in Scotland and in the licence still permitted to youths in the quietest townships of the West Highlands at Samhain eve. Samhain, as has been seen, was also a festival of the dead, whose ghosts were fed at this time.

Solar Eclipse Sunday

Watch for Sunday's strange solar eclipse on East Coast 

A partial solar eclipse shines in the skies over Manila Bay in the Philippines in January 2009. Observers on the U.S. East Coast could see something like this if they have a clear view to the eastern horizon at sunrise on Sunday. A total eclipse could be seen along a narrow strip of the planet passing over the Atlantic and Africa.

Got eclipse glasses? If you're on the East Coast of the U.S., you might want to get 'em — so you can try catching a glimpse of a solar eclipse at sunrise on Sunday.

And no matter where you are, you'll want to be watching the Web as well — so you can catch the show when it's totally at its best.

Sunday's eclipse is a strange one, known as a hybrid. Millions of observers on the eastern edge of the America, in southern Europe and nearly all of Africa have the potential to see a partial eclipse. Over a narrow strip of the western Atlantic, there'll be an annular eclipse, with a tiny portion of the sun's disk remaining visible as a "ring of fire." But as time goes on, the eclipse will turn total: Skywatchers along a thin band of African territory, stretching from Gabon to Somalia, could see a completely blacked-out sun.

Only 5 percent of all eclipses are annular-total hybrids. The most recent one occurred back in 2005. All solar eclipses involve the moon getting right in front of the sun and casting its shadow on our planet. But here's why Sunday's hybrid eclipse is special: During the course of the day, the moon's distance from the spot where its shadow falls on Earth changes just enough to make the transition from leaving some of the sun exposed, to covering up the entire disk.

For detailed information about the eclipse's track, check out Eclipse-maps.com, NASA's eclipse website and this interactive eclipse map from Xavier Jubier.

The partial phase of Sunday's solar eclipse can be seen over a wide swath of the world, but the annular-total phase is visible only along a narrow track. The eclipse begins as a "ring of fire" annular event, but turns total by the time the moon's shadow reaches the African coast.

In the partial eclipse zoneFor East Coasters and others in the partial-eclipse zone, here's the important thing:Don't gaze at the sun without proper eye protection.

You can buy special eclipse-viewing filters at planetariums or science centers. You can look through No. 14 welding glass. You can make a "pinhole camera," hold out a colander orknit your fingers together to create projected images of the crescent sun. You can hook up with a local astronomy club that has the proper viewing gear. But trying to see a partial solar eclipse with unprotected eyes will just lead to vision problems.

Technically speaking, the partial eclipse could be visible as far inland as, say, Tennessee. Sky & Telescope projects that 57 percent of the sun's diameter could be covered over at sunrise in Boston, 48 percent in New York, 44 percent in Philadelphia, 35 percent in Washington, and 36 percent in Miami. But you'd have to have a clear view of a flat horizon — and no matter where you are on the East Coast, the partial eclipse will be over within an hour after sunrise. (Use this TimeandDate.com calculator to find out when the sun rises in your locale, and remember that daylight saving time ends on Saturday night.) 

Watching it online
All these issues about logistics and safety go away if you're watching the eclipse online. And unless you're in Africa, the only way you'll see totality in real time is via the Web.

Totality is well worth witnessing: When the sun's disk is fully covered, the delicate outer solar atmosphere — known as the corona — can be seen gleaming against the black sky. The total phase will be relatively short on Sunday, lasting somewhere between a second and a minute or so.

The Slooh virtual observatory plans to broadcast video feeds from telescopes in Gabon, Kenya and the Canary Islands. Slooh's host and technical officer, Paul Cox, has joined an expedition to Kenya and will be participating in three and a half hours of live coverage beginning at 6:45 a.m. ET Sunday. You can also watch the show via Slooh's iPad app.

“This will be the most difficult eclipse we’ve covered at Slooh over the years," Cox said in anews release. "Our expedition will be made in a series of 4x4 vehicles carrying our delicate observation equipment across some of the harshest terrain in Africa. After three days across country, we’ll be setting up camp near the home of the largest population of crocodiles in the world — Lake Turkana."

Slooh's show will feature commentary from Cox as well as astronomer Bob Berman, documentary filmmaker Duncan Copp and other guests. Viewers can email questions in advance to coxy@slooh.com, or tweet questions to the panel during the broadcast using the Twitter hashtag #solareclipse. The eclipse should reach totality at Lake Turkana around 9:25 a.m. ET.

Another expedition is setting up on the shores of Lake Turkana with backing from BRCK, an African venture that produces Internet connectivity devices. BRCK's team members are planning an eclipse webcast, and they're already posting updates on the operation toTwitter, Flickr, Instagram and the Web.

More TV coverage may be available via Gabonese television, Kenya's KTN or other African outlets. And after the eclipse is over, there should be lots of great images to see onSpaceWeather.com. Did you snap a picture? Share it with us via the NBC News Facebook page or tweet it with the hashtag #NBCeclipse.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/watch-sundays-strange-solar-eclipse-east-coast-online-8C11509922

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