wonderful women of the world
Posted by Michelle Moquin on February 26th, 2011
Good morning!
The Art Of Choosing
I found this very interesting talk on choice that I thought would be so appropriate today.
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices, and how we feel about the choices we make. She talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.
About:
Sheena Iyengar looks deeply at choosing and has discovered many surprising things about it. Iyengar’s research has been informing business and consumer-goods marketing since the 1990s. Her ingenious experiments have provided rich material for Malcolm Gladwell and other pop chroniclers of business and the human psyche.
One area that Iyengar speaks about is the difference between how white Americans make choices compared to Asian Americans. How in one study with children, whites tended to make choices based on their own singular needs, where the Asians made choices with the collective in mind. I found this so very interesting. Iyengar explains it much better in her talk – a talk well worth listening to this morning.
Readers: Would our world change if we made choices with others in mind besides ourselves? – no brainer – Of course it would.
Ah…but can we still be true to ourselves and yet keep others in mind when we make choices that will have an affect on others? I think that is so much of the problem in this country. So many are only thinking of themselves when their actions of choice affect so many.
Is unlimited choice good for us? Does it give us the success, happiness, and freedom that we expect from it?
We have lots of choices in this world and we all know in our heart what the right choices are. All one has to do is put greed and racism aside, and the right choice will be the one that is left.
Just a few things to think about. Answers? Other questions? Blog me.
And if you want more information on my choice for Wonderful Women of The World today, Sheena Iyengar, check out Iyengar’s website.
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michelle
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February 26th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Detoxification for Ex-Smokers
Mark A. Stengler, NMD
Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine
Smoking is an extremely difficult habit to break. If you have recently stopped smoking, congratulations.
What you might not know: Anyone who has stopped smoking (whether recently or within the past year) needs to detoxify.
Detoxification helps to improve liver function and get rid of some of the toxins, such as cadmium and arsenic, that have built up in the body.
I recommend that all ex-smokers follow this detoxification program, which involves taking all of the supplements below for four weeks.
To further help detoxification of the lymphatic system, have a weekly massage or a dry or wet sauna, which is safe for everyone except pregnant women, children, frail elderly people and people with diabetes, heart or circulation problems. All of the supplements below are safe for everyone…
Milk thistle. This herb has been used for centuries for liver disorders and liver cleansing. Studies show that it enhances detoxification.
Take 250 milligrams (mg) of a product standardized to contain 70% to 85% silymarin twice daily 30 minutes before meals.
Psyllium husks. These husks of the seeds of an east Asian plant provide fiber and promote detoxification by regulating bowel movements and expelling toxins.
While you may know psyllium husk as the main ingredient in Metamucil, it also is available on its own in powder or capsule form. Take 5 grams (one teaspoon) of powder twice daily mixed into eight ounces of water.
Pneumotrophin PMG. This propriety blend, made by a company called Standard Process (800-558-8740, http://www.standardprocess.com), contains nutrients that support healthy lung tissue. Take one tablet three times daily before meals.
Omega-3 fatty acids. To reduce lung inflammation, take either krill oil (1,000 mg daily) or a daily fish oil supplement with a combined 1,000 mg of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
Choose the omega-3 fatty acid that is easiest for you to take. Some people prefer krill oil because it is less likely to cause fishy burps or aftertaste.
Multivitamin. Everyone should take a multivitamin as the basis of his/her supplement regimen. This helps to ensure that your body gets crucial nutrients.
Source: Mark A. Stengler, NMD, a naturopathic medical doctor and leading authority on the practice of alternative and integrated medicine.
Dr. Stengler is editor of the Bottom Line Natural Healing newsletter, author of The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies (Bottom Line Books), director of the Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine, Encinitas, California, and adjunct associate clinical professor at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. To learn more about his work, visit http://www.drstengler.com.
February 26th, 2011 at 10:52 am
I can see the logic of what Sheena Iyengar is saying about the myth of choice. We claim we are making individual choices when we are really making collective choices. We Whites aren’t choosing independently, We choose in a group based what someone tells us is best for our race.
Choice for us is more about who we envision we are than it is about what the choice is. Ergo it matters not the doctrine of the candidate if the two are of different race. To the majority of us the color of the candidate gives the individual a weighted advantage or disadvantage.
Hence the automatic trust in his veracity a white candidate gets for being white a candidate is not automatically given to an OTW candidate. An OTW will have to prove what he claims.
The amount of proof that would be needed to satisfy whites will be directly related to the degree of negative prejudices we secretly harbor against that race.
Now, I will admit that I have secret prejudices about certain races. Although I no longer automatically give a white candidate the benefit of the doubt, I still harbor some prejudices against certain races.
I work very hard to eliminate this but sometimes if I am not careful it creeps back into my subconscious choosing.
We have been bred to believe that we are better because of the color of our skin. That is why I accepted that idiotic rendition in the mormon bible that claimed Jesus sailed to Utah to make us white people his chosen people.
You have to be a racist to believe that shit. But a la ZL let me mention the other side. I have many OTW friends that stayed in the mormon church even when I told them that I was leaving because no sane person would believe that two men going around killing and maiming people over the women they got through polygamy and the financial control they got through a religion that claimed white superiority because god said so.
That says to me that we whites aren’t the only ones easily duped into believing that we are better because of the color of our skins. My OTW friends have been convinced because they are eating up that mormon bible bullshit.
Adam
February 26th, 2011 at 10:56 am
9) DEATH
?While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt.
Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
?The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said:
“Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and into the hole he goes.” (I want this line used at my funeral!)
February 26th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Hafa Adai Michelle:
Thanks for remembering me. I have not posted to your blog because I have been threatened by various sources about the things I have posted.
Plus many on the Island are so scared of losing their souls because the church can excommunicate them that they shun me.
I have a big decision to make. Maybe I will start posting under a alias.
Hafa adai everyone.
February 26th, 2011 at 11:20 am
That was great : ) thank you. I have a few friends from other countries who I openly show them what I consider choice for choice sake i.e. 19 different brands of mustard at Bristol Farms, for example, I mean….really….isn’t that a tad over the top and it’s pervasive here. and that’s just at the grocery store. they always say to me when I present more than 3 choices, try to remember that I’m from Yugoaslavia/Czech/Africa, etc…it’s funny but they’re right, it’s too many, too much and btw, I can tell Pepsi, don’t drink soda anymore but I did a blind test 4x’s and picked it every time : ) my kids’ pals were very impressed.
Sometimes, the amount of choices makes it difficult to make one without knowing ‘more’ which is a way of saying I’m freakin’ overwhelmed!
OK, now I am going…! Love, ZL
Al, you want me to call you Al or feminist or a taxi, bud-dum-dum, use to use \that taxi thing on drunk patrons when I was a young sarcastic bartender. P: Will you call me a taxi? Me: Ok, you’re a taxi. : ) and did you want a cof-a-cuppy with that?
February 26th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Ok, 2 seconds more…and like Peter I am afraid to post almost so I’ll use few words, and Misch, I would like to speak privately off line, a new aha occurred to me re: blog biz – and Adam, you’re statements re: Mormon book are so funny only it’s true stuff which therefore renders it unfunny, white or OTW. So here’s my few – elites, as in mostly old Euro whites, US white and one other culture run the show (we all know that) but there’s much more to that…can’t and won’t say right now. I wish Anonz was reading, maybe he could elaborate better or maybe I just want permission to disclose, but do I really need it? He and the other ptb might not like it if I flip this lid and let the phoenix rise. ~ ZL
February 26th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
ZL: Funny
Al
February 27th, 2011 at 10:05 am
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March 7th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
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