Wonderful Women Of The World
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 28th, 2010
I was surfing the net when I came upon a poem written by Maya Angelou. I have heard so many wonderful things about her for many years, and when I found her website and started reading, I began to realize what an amazing woman she truly is.
Today, I decided I would honor her as a Wonderful Woman Of The World, and share what I discovered. I think you’ll find her pretty wonderful too. What can I say, she kinda captured my heart. :)
Global Renaissance Woman
Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.
Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture.
As a teenager, Dr. Angelou’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. At 14, she dropped out to become San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor. She later finished high school, giving birth to her son, Guy, a few weeks after graduation. As a young single mother, she supported her son by working as a waitress and cook, however her passion for music, dance, performance, and poetry would soon take center stage.
In 1954 and 1955, Dr. Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. She studied modern dance with Martha Graham, danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety shows and, in 1957, recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In 1958, she moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks and wrote and performed Cabaret for Freedom.
In 1960, Dr. Angelou moved to Cairo, Egypt where she served as editor of the English language weekly The Arab Observer. The next year, she moved to Ghana where she taught at the University of Ghana’s School of Music and Drama, worked as feature editor for The African Review and wrote for The Ghanaian Times.
During her years abroad, Dr. Angelou read and studied voraciously, mastering French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the West African language Fanti. While in Ghana, she met with Malcolm X and, in 1964, returned to America to help him build his new Organization of African American Unity.
Shortly after her arrival in the United States, Malcolm X was assassinated, and the organization dissolved. Soon after X’s assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked Dr. Angelou to serve as Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King’s assassination, falling on her birthday in 1968, left her devastated.
With the guidance of her friend, the novelist James Baldwin, she began work on the book that would become I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Published in 1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published to international acclaim and enormous popular success. The list of her published verse, non-fiction, and fiction now includes more than 30 bestselling titles.
A trailblazer in film and television, Dr. Angelou wrote the screenplay and composed the score for the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia. Her script, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
She continues to appear on television and in films including the landmark television adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots (1977) and John Singleton’s Poetic Justice (1993). In 1996, she directed her first feature film, Down in the Delta. In 2008, she composed poetry for and narrated the award-winning documentary The Black Candle, directed by M.K. Asante.
Dr. Angelou has served on two presidential committees, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000, the Lincoln Medal in 2008, and has received 3 Grammy Awards. President Clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his inauguration in 1993. Dr. Angelou’s reading of her poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” was broadcast live around the world.
Dr. Angelou has received over 30 honorary degrees and is Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
Dr. Angelou’s words and actions continue to stir our souls, energize our bodies, liberate our minds, and heal our hearts.
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Janet: It seems you and ZL were the only ones who could get in. Thanks for being persistent, and confirming my find. Pretty scary. I rarely use our microwave but now I am ready to dump it. In fact, it’s out the door.
Zen Lill: Hey there. iphones are meant to break down if you ask me. They count on their customers to always want the newest, hence they don’t need to last long. Why support them? I say ban the iphone. When everyone has one, it just isn’t cool anymore. Do you like to wear clothing that everyone has? “Nope.” Go for taking a stance, making a point, and being your unique self. Just my two. :)
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August 28th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I love this woman, I wanted to be her for a while ago but I’m better at being me : ) though I’d love to master all those languages, and live in a few more countries, and and and…there’s still time I think but in the meantime I will admire her for accomplishing so much.
I hear ya on the iphone sistah, though it was my own vanity that brought me to it – you can expand pages to large font and this I could forgo wearing the dreaded reading glasses, now I’m at one with the way I look while wearing readers, though I’m thinking all cell phones get their 3 T’s from the Congo so I’ll have to use an old phone, I loved my Motorla PebL but the synch software kept screwing with my computer, there’s always an ‘issue’ to be handled with cells or life though, no? And just fyi, I hate wearing what everyone else is wearing : ) though I think I might want a red net dress ala Carla if I can figure out what the heck it is and what it looks like!
Have a nice weekend, I’m going to complete a portion of the Zen master painting of my house : ) it is looking sooooo good, nothing like a Huckleberry painting party, hee hee hee…Luv, Zen Lill
August 28th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Q: If I buy a new energy-efficient air conditioner, how long will it take to pay for itself in energy savings?
A: The answer, of course, depends on how old and inefficient your old air conditioner is, and how often you use air-conditioning.
But in general, if you have a central air-conditioning unit that is more than 12 years old, you can expect to reduce cooling costs 30% by buying a new Energy Star-qualified unit. If you replace a 10-year-old window air conditioner with a new Energy Star-qualified unit, you may save $30 to $50 per year in operating costs.
Also: Tax credits may be available for energy-saving improvements to your home, such as upgraded central air-conditioning. To learn more about these and the government’s Energy Star program, visit its Web site, http://www.energystar.gov.
Our inside source: John Krigger, founder of Saturn Resource Management, an environmental consulting, training and publishing company in Helena, Montana, http://srmi.biz, and coauthor of The Homeowner’s Handbook to Energy Efficiency (Saturn Resource Management).
August 28th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
the world should be more concerned about China. It is positioning it self to challenge the US in a war arena.
It is planning to challenge the US for control of Taiwan. China is on the 2 year of a six year plan to be in position to invade and force Taiwan to accept China as its master.
The question is whether the US will have to courage to stand up to China
Xur
August 28th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Michelle
I tried to get in yesterday to say that I have always suspected that the microwave oven is a dangerous thing. This confirms it.
I am trashing mine.
Carol
August 28th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
What has bush done to us as a country? Now we are telling countries that we as a debtor nation can’t afford to pay back our loans.
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Kyodo: U.S. Says It Can’t Repay Japanese Loan To Build Infrastructure On Guam
Written by Kevin Kerrigan
Saturday, 28 August 2010 07:36
– Japan’s Kyodo news agency is reporting that the U.S. has told Japanese officials that it can not afford to pay back any loan from Japan to build infrastructure on Guam that is needed for the military buildup.
The Kyodo reports quotes unnamed sources as saying that U.S. negotiators have informed their Japanese counterparts that a repayment schedule can not be worked out for more than half of a $740 million loan to be extended by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
Read the Kyodo report
According to the report, while up to $435 million, or 58 percent of the loan, would be used to construct sewage facilities, the U.S. government planned to repay that portion with water charges to be collected by the Guam government.
But the Guam government refused to be liable for the repayment, according to Kyodo. And that makes it impossible for Washington to prepare a repayment schedule for the portion, Kyodo’s sources said, adding that the repayment of the remaining portion would be also difficult in light of financial conditions in Guam.
As a result, the Japanese government has begun to consider a delay in extending the loan, despite U.S. demands for its early provision.
However, the report quotes its sources as saying that as a long delay in the transfer could adversely affect the bilateral alliance, the Japanese government has not ruled out the possibility of shouldering the infrastructure-building costs.
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Damn Japan has more money that we do.
Chuck
August 28th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Hafa adai
Peter, I can see why you are proud of our Police Dept. I am too sometimes. But what does it take to catch a thief on Guam? This woman spent over $7,500 on a debit card on Guam in 12 days.
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A female Guam resident who earlier pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft was sentenced Thursday to 24 months in prison, followed by a one-year period of supervised release.??U.S. District Court Chief Judge Tydingco-Gatewood also ordered May Quichocho Perez to pay a $100 special assessment fee and restitution in the amount of $7,578.56, according to the statement issued by Alicia A. G. Limtiaco, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Perez pleaded guilty on Feb. 1, 2010. She admitted that between Sept. 13, 2009, to Sept. 25, 2009, she knowingly used a lost Bank of Hawaii Visa debit/ATM card belonging to another person.
Perez used the card on 56 transactions and obtained goods and services worth over $7,500 from different businesses.??Perez had prior convictions of multiple cases of forgery and theft, among other things, with the Superior Court of Guam.
??The U.S. Secret Service investigated the case, which was prosecuted by assistant U.S. Attorney Marivic David. (PR)
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When was someone going to get wise? And how come she only got 24 months for her theft?
Loni
August 28th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Thank you so much for your article on microwave ovens, Michelle.
I have gotten rid of all three. Here in France it is so common that restaurants use them openly. This report is apropos because like the microwave lobby they spend so much money bribing the politicians to keep quiet.
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Why drug studies can’t be trusted
Big Pharma sure knows how to get the biggest bang for its big bucks–a new study finds a remarkable success rate for drugs in industry-funded studies.
In fact, they almost never fail.
The government-funded review of 546 drug trials published between 2000 and 2006 found that studies funded by the industry had positive outcomes 85 percent of the time.
Remember that number–it’s going to come up again.
Government-funded trials, on the other hand, were like a coin toss: They had positive outcomes 50 percent of the time.
Studies funded by nonprofits and other organizations were positive 72 percent of the time. I’m guessing that’s because of Big Pharma’s substantial influence among these groups. After all, the researchers also found that when these organizations received industry money, their studies also came up positive… (drumroll please)… 85 percent of the time.
A remarkable coincidence, wouldn’t you say? If we could have that kind of luck at the racetrack, we wouldn’t need retirement funds.
Studies done by nonprofits that did not receive Big Pharma money, on the other hand, were positive just 61 percent of the time.
And by “positive” I mean they were positive for the drug, of course–because there’s certainly nothing positive about them for you. The researchers looked at trials for meds like antidepressants, antipsychotics and proton-pump inhibitors–some of our most overused, unnecessary and ineffective drugs.
What’s more, the study also found that Big Pharma-funded trials didn’t always get published. In fact, the researchers say that just 32 percent of industry-funded trials are published within two years of the study’s completion, according to the analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
That means 68 percent are being swept under the carpet. You don’t have to wonder what they found–because other researchers have reported that studies that come up negative often don’t get published.
That would explain that 85 percent success rate.
And that’s not the only way they game the system. I’ve told you before about some of the ways Big Pharma works to make sure its studies come up roses.
One of their favorite tricks is shortening the study… cutting it right off once they get the result they’re looking for. One analysis earlier this year found that shortened studies often dramatically overstate drug effectiveness. (Read “Shortened studies favor Big Pharma.”)
Another analysis found that studies often reach conclusions that are completely at odds with the actual data. (Read “The scientific spin cycle.”)
So while the latest analysis isn’t exactly new, it’s more proof that you simply can’t trust anything that comes from the drug companies
Not that you actually need more proof at this point.
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This can stand be repeated.
Ruth
August 28th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Michelle
This is another example of sick men abusing women.
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Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Doctors at a Sri Lankan hospital operated for three hours Friday to remove 18 nails and metal particles allegedly hammered into the arms, legs and forehead of a maid by her Saudi employer.
Dr. Kamal Weeratunga said the surgical team in the southern town of Kamburupitiya pulled nails ranging from about one to three inches from Lahadapurage Daneris Ariyawathie’s body. He said doctors have not yet removed four small metal particles embedded in her muscles.
“She is under heavy antibiotics but in a stable condition,” Weeratunga said.
Sri Lankan officials, meanwhile, met with Saudi diplomats in Colombo to urge an investigation into the incident.
“It was cruel treatment which should be roundly condemned,” said L.K. Ruhunuge of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment.
He said the Sri Lanka government has forwarded to Saudi authorities a detailed report on the incident including statements from Ariyawathie.
Ariyawathie left Sri Lanka on March 25 to work as a housemaid in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia after the bureau registered her as a person obtaining a job from an officially recognized job agency.
She was held down by her employer’s wife while the employer hammered the heated nails, Ruhunuge told CNN. She apparently had complained to the couple that she was being overworked, Ruhunuge said.
The nails were hammered into her arms and legs while one was on her forehead, he said.
“Most of the wounds are superficial but five to 10 are somewhat deep,” said Dr. Prabath Gajadeera of the Base Hospital. “Luckily, none of the organs is affected. Only nerves and blood vessels are affected.”
Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of two children who were opposed to their mother’s journey to Saudi Arabia for work.
Several countries across the Middle East and Asia host significant numbers of migrant domestic workers, ranging from 196,000 in Singapore to about 1.5 million in Saudi Arabia, according to a report published earlier this year by Human Rights Watch.
Many of the domestic workers are poor Asian women from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal. Widespread abuse has been documented by global human rights groups.
Common complaints include unpaid wages, long working hours with no time for rest, and heavy debt burdens from exorbitant recruitment fees, said the Human Rights Watch report.
Isolation and forced confinement contribute to psychological and physical abuse, sexual violence, forced labor, and trafficking, the report said. The abuse often goes unchecked because of a lack of government regulation and protective laws.
Ruhunuge said the registration of the local job agency that placed Ariyawathie has been cancelled.
“We have also asked [them] to pay compensation to the victim,” he added. “We want to bring those responsible for justice. We are doing our best in this regard,” he said.
He said his office was ready to accompany Ariyawathie to Saudi Arabia to testify if a case is brought against her former employers.
Ariyawathie’s dream was to one day return to Sri Lanka and build a house with the money she saved.
“We are looking at the possibility of helping her to do this,” Ruhunuge said.
Karu Jayasuriya, deputy leader of the main opposition United National Party, visited Ariyawathie in the hospital and said he was appalled.
“We want the government to raise this issue at the highest levels with the Saudi government. We cannot imagine that such crude and uncivilized things are happening to our workers,” he said.
Saudi officials were not immediately available for comment.
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Is oil worth this much ass kissing?
Cielo
August 28th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
I know that i sound like a broken record, but has anyone ever thought that our young males are being desensitized to the pain they cause females via the cinema.
White men flood the movie theater with movies about young men chasing, torturing, raping, maiming and murdering helpless females of all ages.
The white culture has condoned this while screaming at any mention of sex. White women are so lame about it. One would think they would be up in arms about all the movies have a movie house full of their sons laughing and getting hards on while watching females scream for their lives.
Do something about it you fucking hypocrites.
Robert
August 28th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Is there anything males won’t stoop to to satisfy their lusts.
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READ THIS ALL THE WAY , IT could save your life
Sad, especially if you are inclined to ‘help’ people…
While driving on a rural end of the roadway on Thursday morning, I saw an infant carseat on the side of the road with a blanket draped over it. For whatever reason, I did not stop, even though I had all kinds of thoughts running through my head. But when I got to my destination, I called the Canton PD and they were going to check it out. But, this is what the Police advised even before they went out there to check….
“There are several things to be aware of … gangs and thieves are now plotting different ways to get a person (mostly women)to stop their vehicle and get out of the car.
“There is a gang initiation reported by the local Police Department where gangs are placing a carseat by the road…with a fake baby in
it…waiting for a woman, of course, to stop and check on the abandoned baby.
“Note that the location of this carseat is usually beside a wooded or grassy (field) area and the person – woman — will be dragged into the woods, beaten and raped, and usually left for dead. If it’s a man, they’re usually beaten and robbed and maybe left for dead, too.
DO NOT STOP FOR ANY REASON!!!
DIAL 9-1-1
AND REPORT WHAT YOU SAW, BUT DON’T EVEN SLOW DOWN.
“IF YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT AND EGGS ARE THROWN AT YOUR WINDSHIELD, DO NOT STOP TO CHECK THE CAR, DO NOT OPERATE THE WIPER AND DO NOT SPRAY ANY WATER BECAUSE EGGS MIXED
WITH WATER BECOME MILKY AND BLOCK YOUR VISION UP TO 90%, AND YOU ARE THEN FORCED TO STOP BESIDE THE ROAD AND BECOME A VICTIM OF THESE CRIMINALS.
THIS IS A NEW TECHNIQUE USED BY GANGS, SO PLEASE INFORM YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES.
THESE ARE DESPERATE TIMES AND THESE ARE UNSAVORY INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL TAKE DESPERATE MEASURES TO GET WHAT THEY WANT.”
Please talk to your loved ones about this. This is a new tactic used.
Get started NOW – SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES TO BE CAREFUL AND AWARE OF EVERYTHING AROUND THEM SO AS NOT TO BECOME A VICTIM.
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Gina
August 28th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
One particular four-year-old prayed,
‘And forgive us our trash baskets
as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.’
August 28th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Is Your Dog Lonely?
Pam Reid, PhD
ASPCA Animal Behavior Center
Dogs crave friendship just as people do. To help your pet make friends: Walk your dog regularly, and go to parks where dogs congregate.
Create a profile for your pet at Dogster.com, so you can meet other people and their dogs. Bring your pet to a doggie day care for a few half days.
Ask the staff which dogs yours plays with so that you can contact the owners and arrange playdates. Join an obedience class to meet owners of dogs that are compatible with your pet.
August 28th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Robert, i’m with you on this one. Men make their psycho killers so supernatural and invincible. It gives the sick fucks that go out and mimic them the impression that they too will be invincible.
I am so sick of the crap men put out there as entertainment for our young men to emulate.
Lisa
August 28th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Robert
You nailed it. And don’t forget the pathetic reasons they give them as to why they became as they are. We are supposed to sympathize with the men because they somehow suffered sometime in their lives.
There are so many put in a year, it is sooo sick.
Sandra
August 29th, 2010 at 7:05 am
Robert
My 16 year old brother and his school buddies hang out at our house to watch those creepy movies you blogged about.
They have their favorites, I watched a bit of one of the ROAD KILL movies they are hooked on. It is just as you said.
Senseless violence. The torturing of another individual by a man portrayed as a strong fearless male in control of his environment and the people around him.
White boys like my brother are always compensating for their tiny penises, or lack of dating or social skills.
This disgusting material influences their minds at a very young and impressionable stage. They never recover from the desensitizing to violence and cruelty to females these movies leave them with.
Chloe
August 29th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Great topic Robert
I especially dislike the part where the villain always returns at the end of the flick to continue for the next series.
It is another example of the hypocrisy of the white moral society. Their horror movies encourage men to take advantage of women who experience car trouble along the freeways.
They treat the victims as if they are dumb because their cars broke down. As God is my witness, I am starting to believe that most white men secretly hate women.
They take advantage of every medium to put women down and to encourage the degradation of their feelings and safety.
Pearle
August 29th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Gosh, Robert, this is so needing to be discussed. My brothers grew up on the stuff.
I have been seeking up to watch them watch their psycho torture and maim women movies since I was 11. I am 22 year old Psychology Major at and I still feel the creepiness of those times.
They would watch the Ripper movies and comment on being able to see various parts of the screaming woman as she was being terrified or murdered. It was a sexual turn on.
I know that that is deliberate. The sick white directors and producers of this movie genre design the to titillate the young boys who watch them. They go away identifying violence with sex.
I really must disagree with some of the inferences that porn alone is responsible for the treatment of women we see so prevalent in society today. Porn that doesn’t degrade women can be a learning experience and release for some people of both sexes.
But the PG-13 and up rated horror movies of today are nothing more than a license to portray women as a means to a man’s hard on.
Young boys watching semi nude crying women begging for their lives or running in terror are having their brains implanted with those images as the sexual stimuli necessary to arouse them sexually.
Women become nothing more but a means to get an erection.
Gloria
August 29th, 2010 at 7:45 am
I especially hate it when I’m in a movie and the movie implies that because a woman is naive or easily frighten by something it is to take advantage of her.
Men in the theater laugh when a woman does something that though the male experience they know that to be the wrong thing to do.
It’s as if the producers are saying if you can get over on a woman then, what you force her to do is okay.
It is so ingrained that one can even hear the nervous laughter of women in the theater.
They make every effort to make those movies sexually stimulating to males. The moral of today’s horror flick is that women deserve what they get.
Tish
August 29th, 2010 at 7:53 am
Yeah, the real serial killers besides being mostly white are sick miscreants who get away with it because of a combination of ignorance by the investigating authorities and the random way they choose their victims.
They are not the super intelligent males that the horror flicks portray them to be.
Erica
August 29th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Michelle
The Right is going for the jugular. They have all but issued the order to get Obama for the sake of democracy.
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Dear Fellow Conservative,
David Limbaugh, a practicing lawyer and New York Times bestselling author, proves — beyond a reasonable doubt — that Obama is guilty of crimes against liberty.
Limbaugh builds a devastating case against President Barack Obama, detailing how his presidency is ambitiously unraveling the Constitution, actively rooting out American traditions and values, and encroaching upon our unalienable rights as Americans.
Find out the shocking revelations in his controversial new book, Crimes Against Liberty. If there was ever a must read, this is it.
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They are in a frenzied state of hate. The election of Obama has shown the extent of hatred one third of this nation has for black people.
Mike
August 29th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Hafa adai
I hear there is a tropical storm headed for Guam. Let’s keep each other informed people.
Peter
August 29th, 2010 at 8:24 am
Big Pharma is still trying every trick to to get us to stop trusting our vitamins.
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Supplements under attack
Consumer Reports wants you to believe that common supplements are poorly regulated and dangerous.
The magazine went as far as to issue dire warnings about kidney and liver damage, heart problems and even a cancer risk from some ingredients.
You’d think they were talking about the millions of prescription drugs people take every day!
But unlike those common and dangerous meds, the supplement ingredients that have Consumer Reports up in arms are actually, for the most part, rare and unusual. Most people have never heard of–much less taken–bitter orange, greater celandine, or coltsfoot, yet Consumer Reports singled them out on its list and distributed it to millions of readers in its magazine and through the media.
Their report inspired frightening headlines like “Report: Dietary supplements pose health risks” (CNN.com) and “Many dietary supplements are contaminated” (MSNBC.com).
Really? Many? From Coltsfoot?
This isn’t reporting for consumers. This is fear mongering, plain and simple. But at least it got them the attention they were looking for.
Of course, while all of the supplements on the list are somewhat unusual, not all of them are as uncommon as greater celandine. And in those cases, the magazine offers misinformation and lazy research.
For example, Consumer Reports warns against using colloidal silver. They say it’ll make you turn blue–which is true if you’re careless and use way too much of it.
But the fact of the matter is natural healers have successfully worked with colloidal silver for generations without creating a race of Smurfs. Dr. Jonathan Wright, one of the leaders in the field, says he uses it to treat infections. He even believes that colloidal silver may hold the key to defeating the drug-resistant superbugs created by our overreliance on prescription antibiotics. You can read more about that here.
Consumer Reports also warns of the supposed dangers of the natural relaxant kava, which should come as a surprise to the Pacific islanders who use it regularly. Never mind that kava is far safer when it comes to relieving anxiety and stress than the prescription drugs being given out every single day.
If you suffer from liver problems, kava may not be for you. But if you’re otherwise healthy and need some help dealing with anxiety, talk to your doctor about it–because it might be just what you need.
Consumer Reports also put comfrey root on its risk list– but if you read the fine print, the magazine says it’s only dangerous if you swallow it, and that “comfrey seems to be safe for most people when applied to unbroken skin for less than 10 days in small amounts.”
Guess how most people use comfrey? They rub it on the skin in small amounts to get some pain relief.
The best way to make sure you get what you need–with no surprises–is to choose supplements from a trusted source. And, of course, everyone who takes them should do their own careful research and work closely with a naturopathic physician.
But whatever you do, don’t be afraid to take your vitamins… no matter what Consumer Reports tries to suggest.
August 29th, 2010 at 8:38 am
I love the line “have you ever been face to face with a serial killer?”
They say it like the guy is some superior being in every way. When he is usually a sexual pervert who has to lie in wait for his unsuspecting victims.
The fascination men have for these characters show how sick they really are. To them women are but objects to get them off.
Madaline when you show bring it. You will have more willing women than you could ever imagine.
Zolia
August 29th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Shred Unwanted Credit Cards
Edgar Dworsky
ConsumerWorld.org
Shred unwanted credit cards or cut them into many small pieces, and dispose of the bits in separate garbage bags. The old recommendation to cut an old card in half is no longer enough.
Reason: Some cards give the entire credit card number on both the front and the back.
A crook who finds only one half of the card might be able to figure out the complete number by combining the numbers on the back with those on the front.
August 29th, 2010 at 8:49 am
It’s not that the man did not know how to juggle,
he just didn’t have the balls to do it.XXXX
August 29th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Q: What causes canker sores — and what helps them heal faster?
A: These painful ulcers on the inside of the cheek or lip or on the tongue or roof of the mouth may result from an abnormal immune response. They typically take a week or two to heal.
To hasten the process, dampen a black tea bag (a source of the natural anti-inflammatory tannin), and hold it against the sore for a few minutes… or try Tanac, an over-the-counter (OTC) medication.
To relieve pain, rinse your mouth for 60 seconds three times daily with one teaspoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide mixed with three ounces of milk of magnesia…
or use an OTC antiseptic with carbamide peroxide, such as Gly-Oxide. You also can try Zilactin-B gel or Kank-A Mouth Pain Liquid, which form a protective coating over the sore. All products are sold at drugstores.