I could not agree more Helen, about the supplements as long as they are good quality they can help tremendously but too many of them are so chemically laden they can actually do more harm than good.

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Hi again

Well, that is really interesting especially the gym membership. I didn't know that ...learn something new everyday. They should supply everyone with good quality supplements while they are at it. If they knew what they did for people, they probably would supply them. It would be easy to find out how effective they might be. They could first supply them to a test group for a year, for example.

You should try to put this idea to them because if their costs go down, it could also make your premium costs go down. Tell them it must be a good multiple vitamin and mineral tablet/capsule and a 500mg vitamin C. Powdered vitamins in a capsule is best as they are easier to swallow and more assimilable. Tell them if they are going to fool around with low dose supplements, they can forget the whole thing. If you or someone else takes me up on this, please let me know what happened. I would be extremely interested in any feedback.

Someone should also send them this video. Then instead of having yearly physicals they could use any money they save to pay for the supplements.

I've always said that our Canadian government should make good quality supplements available at a very cheap price, cost perhaps, because I believe it would keep our health care costs down. I don't think giving people something free makes them appreciate it as much as if they have to pay something.

Helen

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Helen their theory, so they say, is to try and keep us healthy so we won't need more expensive treatments. My insurance carrier even pays for a free gym membership and I went for a while but there are too many retirees here and the gym was always packed and I got tired of standing around waiting for a machine to use so I quit going.

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Hi Evelyn

That is strange that an insurance company would want you to get a yearly physical so much that they even call you about it. Something is fishy. Usually insurance companies just want your money but don't want you to take advantage of the 'benefits' because the less you use the health care it covers, the less it costs them. Very strange.

I haven't gone to a doctor for 11 years but when I do it would only be to find out what is wrong and then I head to the internet or my favorite MLM company or a health food store to find out what natural health herb or supplement I need to take. I've seen these work many times to take care of a medical problem. If the doctor wants to write me a prescription I let him but I usually never fill it. I am not saying this to say how wonderful I am. (Psst ..I know I am wonderful but I don't want you tell everyone :)) I am mentioning what I do as it may help someone else.

Another thing, I don't always wait until something goes wrong. I take herbs and supplements on a regular basis as prevention ...as I am sure many others do as well. The pharmaceutical companies hate people like us. Yesssss! When they hate me, I know I am doing the right thing.

Helen

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Helen I could not agree more with what this gentleman says and someone needs to tell the insurance companies. I kept getting recorded calls from Humana, my insurance carrier, over and over telling me that a yearly physical was included in my benefits but I never did go although I do have to have blood work done every six months for my thyroid and I also have another minor problem or two that I see a doctor for every so often. It's good to know they're there if you need them but I know people who never go to the doctor and one in particular, who had not been to a doctor in years, had to get one for his primary care doctor after he retired and went on Medicare. Now how stupid is that??

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A powerful 2 minute video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahELa5oYrkM

Helen

When I read stories like this, it just breaks my heart for lost innocence and a lost carefree childhood but at least it has a happy ending for mother and child.

Courage: Raped, Impregnated 13-Year-Old Girl Keeps Baby

by Jill Stanek | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 2/11/13 2:54 PM

I blogged last week about a Ms. Magazine article lamenting how difficult it is for “young women of color” to get abortions. The author used the story of her 14-yr-old cousin to demonstrate the trouble an adolescent has getting a clandestine abortion. Never once did Ms. or the author worry about how the girl got pregnant.

I used Planned Parenthood’s own statistics to show the younger the pregnant mother, the more likely it is she is a victim of rape or incest. Bottom line: Abortion covers up child rape.

I received an amazing email from Anna, who gave me permission to post her story and her name. It is Anna when she was 13-yrs-old in the photo above, with her newborn daughter Josey. Here is their powerful story:

When I was little I was molested for eight years by my stepfather. He was an accomplished liar and fooled everyone, even my mom. No one knew. I was afraid to tell anyone; when you grow up hearing that bad things will happen if anyone finds out, you believe it.

I got pregnant the first time when I was 12. I was scared and told him. He hit me and then loaded me up on drugs, telling my mom that I had been injured while out playing with some other kids. He killed my baby. Of all the things that happened to me, this is what haunts me the most. I will never know who my child might have become. My only hope is in the promise I will get to see him or her in heaven when I get there, and Jesus will take care of my baby until then.When I was 13, I became pregnant again. This time I did not say anything to him. My mom noticed that my body was changing, even though I was only about two months along at the time, and asked me about it. I remember that morning clearly. It was a Saturday, and my mom had the day off from work, but my stepfather did not. She had borrowed one of those kits to put fake nails on from my aunt, and was doing my nails. I finally got the courage and told her everything. She immediately packed up my brother, sister, and I and took us to our Aunt’s house. From there she called the police.

They arrested him and took us to the hospital for some tests, and then we had to go in for questioning ourselves. In the end, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting not only me but my sister. If he had not killed my first baby, my sister and I would have been free an entire year earlier. This is how I know that abortion protects pedophiles.

I was told by therapists, friends, teachers, family, and even strangers, that it would probably be best if I had an abortion; but I couldn’t. Earlier that year, I had learned in my science class that a child’s DNA comes from both parents, and that meant that this child was also half mine. I also figured that since I was the one who would carry her in MY body for the next several months, that made her mine, not his. I knew from my first pregnancy that he didn’t want me to have the baby. I knew that if I had an abortion, I would be doing just what he wanted, and he would win again. He would not have only killed all of my innocence, he would have killed my daughter.

It might have been easier to choose an abortion. There are many things that I would not have had to go through if I had. It was harder than I have words to describe. But there are some things in life that are worth fighting for, and she was one of them.

I’m not a very big person, 5′ 0″ and 95 lbs. I wasn’t big then either. So, due to my size and my age, I was deemed a high risk pregnancy. I had my first ultrasound at around 3 months, where I got to see her heart beat, and I fell in love. That was when I decided that I couldn’t give her up for adoption either.

The next several months were hard. The looks and comments that I received from people everywhere were difficult to deal with, to say the least. I lost all but two of my friends. But knowing that I would have that little girl soon kept me going. I decided to name her Josey Ann, after a character in a book I had read.

On Friday, July 28, 1995, roughly six weeks before my due date, I went into labor. I was flown from Vernal, Utah, to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. They gave me some drugs to slow down the labor (my water had not broken yet), and steroids to help develop my daughter a little faster so she would have a better chance of surviving. She was born the following Monday, July 31. She weighed 4 lb. 2 oz., and was 18″ long.

Because she was so premature and needed much medical help, they kept her in the NICU. They kept her there until the end of August. Words cannot express the joy I felt when we got to bring her home the day before I started the 7th grade.

I still had nightmares, but I would wake up and have that little smiling face to greet me. When I would get nasty looks and comments, I would go home and hear her giggle. She truly was a light in one of the darkest times of my life. I shudder to think of what that time would have been like had I aborted her.

My mom was amazing, she watched my daughter so that I could finish school. I did graduate and was my class historian. I met a wonderful man who loves both me and my daughter, and we now have four children.

At the time I had Josey, I believed in God, but I didn’t like Him very much. I couldn’t understand why a loving God would allow me to go through all that I did. It wasn’t until I was 26 that I truly found a relationship with Jesus Christ. A wonderful neighbor of ours showed me how much Jesus loves me. Because He loves us, He gave us free will. My stepfather abused that gift when he abused me. But like Romans 8:28 says, God used something horrible to bring me one of the greatest blessings in my life. Knowing her now, I would go back and do it all again.

Josey is 17 now, and is a beautiful young woman, inside and out. She loves writing, drawing and music. She is learning to play the guitar and skateboard. She volunteers in the nursery at our church and helps the worship team at one of our local ministries. She plans on going to college after she graduates to study computer animation.

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