Will Your Child DIE from the FDA's Food Roulette?

B'SD

3 Kislev 5769


Only days ago I bemoaned the FDA's insistence that some levels of Melamine are "safe" for your bottle-fed baby. I lost count of how many Chinese infants recently died of the stuff. Do you care to remember? Me neither.

Just before that post mentioned above, I had praised organic foods full of vitamins, minerals, nutrition and LIFE. I often do.

You know how much I advocate for
sound nutrition.

Bear with me as I sound an alarm as in ALARM. Read:

FDA and Food Manufacturers Play Food Roulette with YOU and YOUR CHILDREN!

Folks, I suggest that you modify your lives in some way so that you can invest in organic foods and the time it takes to prepare them. Food shops are not the safest places for you or for the lives of your loved ones.

I wrote my book to explain how I survived a life-threatening though benign brain tumor. That HOW included a drastic change in sleeping, speaking, thinking and eating habits. My medical team includes brain surgeons, orthopedic specialists, neuroophthalmologists (eye doctors specializing in brain issues), general practitioners, physical plus occupational and speech therapists and a dentist, all of whom are SHOCKED at my unexpected recovery and ever-improving health. Each one of these medical specialists eventually recognized that my recently adopted nature-oriented lifestyle coincided with my vastly improving health. Now they admit that my natural living methods gave me back the life I'd been losing.


Want to fill this with happiness instead of grief?

My book and blog provide information about how to nourish yourselves properly. Neither my book or blog are exhaustive information sources but they're good starting points for learning about life-giving nutrition that's safer than the stuff on some store shelves.

I suggest you read my blog and my book. Yes, it's A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Now you can make it into a book that PREVENTS horrifically painful tears.

BUY It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To TODAY!

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

How to Believe in Yourself

B'SD

29 Mar-Cheshvan 5769


In today's post I am fulfilling a promise to a dear friend. Here we go:

A significant part of my technique in coping with adversity is the nurturing of my sense of self. It is the key to anyone's ability to cope.

"I am."

Those are words I use to grasp the solution to any problem I face.

I am all the insights, experiences, victories and failures gained and experienced in my brief existence. Individually, they represent isolated segments of my reality. As a whole, they comprise my mindset, my worldview. This is true of you, too.

In my Self-Help Coaching practice, I emphasize that everyone needs (as in NEEDS) a conscious, accurate awareness of their core self. And everyone needs to groom their sense of self, to make it ever-better. Bumbling along with the rest of society, or with one's group of friends and acquaintances, perhaps with your relatives, is heart- and mind-numbing. The decision to NOT engage in critical thinking skills cannot advance growth in a human soul!

Conforming in order to be part of a group is fine and normal, to a degree. We call that "Cooperation." But to be in lock-step mimicry of what everyone around you is doing is to destroy your sense of "I." Nobody can keep up with the latest styles, be they food, fashion, physique or anything else. That is, they can't unless they seek to enslave themselves to fleeting whims.

Now, what if you are experiencing a health issue (medical or mental/emotional)?

Stuff most people don't understand?

As we face hardships that others do not experience, we learn life lessons about coping mechanisms that work. We learn about strategies that do not benefit us. We make future choices based on that.

Thinking and functioning on that level of awareness leads to spiritual and intellectual growth: the growing sense of "Hey, I can do this, that, the other. And I sure don't need to take the options that hurt me in the past." It allows us to behave with courage, generosity and compassion.

Such thinking makes you immune to superficial standards of "worth" based on appearances, wealth, fleeting standards of popular entertainment and value; the mental junk that wears you down. External tastes come and go. It is the integrity of the personality that stands the test of time.

Integrity enables you to help people in your personal world: friends, family, business associates. YOURSELF.

Jealousy, anger, frustration, confusion; they fall to the wayside. With enough practice of your ennobling personality traits, you begin to forget to think in a jealous, angry, frustrated or confused manner. You become permanently stable. You are not beholden to others for a sense of self-worth.

Your permanent sense of I-dentity leaves you peaceful, friendly, and adapative to challenges as they arise. It is a blessing. And the blessing grows with your personal practice of those uplifting characteristics. It lets you appreciate the One Above, too. That sense of appreciation becomes part of an empowering cycle.

Want more help to grasp the principles described above?

BUY MY BOOK and read what

mental health therapists recommend

to people with a wide variety of

medical and mental/emotional ailments.

I wrote it to help people who need it.

Ah, one more thought: When I do Self-Help Coaching, I ask my clients lots of questions. Those questions provoke introspection. That leads to insights and solutions: the answers my clients seek. I do this because I KNOW: your answers lie within you. I'm willing to help you to find them.

You Need to Believe in Yourself. After a Fall, You CAN Get up Again. Watch:

US Baby Formula DANGER Alert!

B'SD

28 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

Folks, I cannot tell from here in Israel (especially in the wee hours of my local morning) how well the breaking news about dangerous baby formula is spreading in other parts of the world. So I'm providing a Public Service Announcement for you:

FDA finds Traces of Melamine in US Infant Formula

Melamine is one of the most effective
cancer-causing chemicals on the planet.

My approach to cancer is this: prevent or HEAL cancer cells. "Killing" them is demonstrably damaging to the person on such "therapy."

I very much disagree with the FDA's advice to merely continue feeding this Melamine poison to your precious, defenseless child.

What on earth could you do to save his/her life when it turns out that the FDA made the same "We advise taking Thalidomide to prevent miscarriage" mistake? THAT error led to terribly disfiguring birth defects. Or the medical world's horrific error in advising parents to remove tonsils and adenoids to prevent sore throats? THAT blunder led to cases of Lupus Erythematosus, Cervical and other cancers!!!!

(The medical world has since realized that tonsils and adenoids are part of the human body's defense system)

Please! Thoroughly check the labels of your child's formula packaging (if it includes numbers of suspect formula, DUMP IT), and do consider other safety measures.

I know that not every woman can breast-feed. Do what you can to eliminate danger from your baby's diet.

URGENT UPDATE: One full day after I posted the above, this NEW INFORMATION became available.

To your good health and your baby's,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Want to Stop Kicking the Other Person in Bed? Want to Lose that Leg Pain?

B'SD

27 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

Restless Leg Syndrome is the expensive name for that problem you might have with kicking the other person in your bed or simply kicking off the covers when you don't even realize what's happening.

The good news is that RLS is NOT a reason for a divorce. It's a treatable problem. But if you take allergy medications, your spouse might wonder WHAT is going on in your head! Allergy meds might make you kick more often and harder as you sleep!

Doctors at Johns Hopkins University say that the connection between allergy medications and RLS "is that histamine receptors -­ proteins found on the surface of some cells that are triggered by histamine ­ in the brain - work to modulate nerve responses. When activated, histamine receptors stimulate alertness or wakefulness."

So far, the solution is to minimize the allergens around you. Get rid of what causes your allergic symptoms. Then you can reduce your medication.

Guess what those JHU docs figured out about reducing arthritis pain?

GRAPE POWDER ALLEVIATES JOINT INFLAMMATION

The simple explanation: grapes have something that causes "antihyperalgesic effects... [in] joint inflammation." It's called flavonoids. They seem to have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

Yep, simple grape powder or grapes alone seem to be better at reducing pain than the nonsteroidal drug Meloxicam.

A combination of grape powder and painkiller meloxicam seems to lower pain even more and to reduce the knee swelling associated with inflammation.

"I think there are two important messages here," says Jasenka Borzan, Ph.D., a research associate in anesthesiology at Hopkins. "That consuming flavonoids through natural products like grapes can be beneficial to health in general and also specifically for reducing inflammatory pain; and that consuming natural products like grapes may also be beneficial in reducing the amount of medication necessary to reduce inflammation."

CURRY SPICE AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE?

Once again, those western-medicine oriented JHU professionals learned that another natural solution to a human problem exists in the kitchen cupboard: Curcumin, also called the curry spice turmeric, has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. That prevents oxidative damage ­ damage caused by oxygen ­ and inflammation implicated in the nerve cell death associated with Parkinson's disease. JHU researchers have shown in a laboratory model of Parkinson's disease that curcumin protects cells from dying.

"These results suggest that curcumin is a potential candidate for inhibiting the oxidative damage that leads to Parkinson's disease," says Wanli Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Hopkins. "This common curry spice could be a weapon to protect the brain."

OK, readers, my insistence on the healing and protective effects of an organic foods diet is being validated by medical professionals.

Read my book. Learn how I adjusted my cake and candy-craving, burger wolfing appetite and greatly improved my health when you BUY YOUR COPY of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To today!

It sure is A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Look Who Has Credibility!

B'SD

Lots of people populate the world of book promotion efforts. Some stand out from the rest.

Nikki Leigh (http://www.nikkileigh.com/), one of the leaders in book promotion techniques, has spotlighted many successful authors. See the URL on the right-hand margin about my previous appearance on HER blog.

I'm so pleased to let you know that, this week, Nikki included THIS blog in her about-to-be-published manuscript, Book Promo 201.

Nikki entitled the segment Build Your Credibility Through a Blog. Why? Because I keep proving again and again, right here, that my book beat journalists to the deadline when it comes to sharing necessary medical information. Readers find what they NEED TO KNOW long before they learn of it through mainstream media.

BUY YOUR COPY OF It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge TODAY!

Best of health to you, Yocheved

Here's How to Clean Out Your Arteries!

B'SD

26 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

Doctors from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) organization have evidence that excessive levels of our hormones can damage our arteries. That's NOT good for heart health. Evidence from one of their recent studies might explain why men with too much testosterone have even MORE risk of developing heart disease than do women with unhealthily high levels of estrogen.

I'll try to simplify things: The study seems to imply that women older than 65, with high levels of estrogen, are more likely than other women to develop coronary artery calcium (CAC) - part of the fatty plaque that builds up in blood vessels and hardens arteries. Men over 55, with higher testosterone levels than same-aged men with the lowest testosterone levels, were 48 percent more likely to develop CAC.

It's a worldwide problem. The dreary title of the findings and its conclusions, " Sex Hormones and the Risk of Coronary Artery Calcium Progression in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis," were announced November 11 at the American Heart Association's annual Scientific Sessions in New Orleans.

Ready for the perplexing part of this scary situation? Erin D. Michos, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute says that "We know many things that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol and diabetes. But 10 percent to 20 percent of people who get heart disease don't have these risk factors, so we need to understand other factors that might be involved. Our results suggest that someday, in addition to testing your cholesterol and blood sugar levels to assess your heart disease risk, your doctor may want to measure your sex hormone levels as well."

There's more to the story of course, and that will be revealed over time.

Let's cut to the good news:

OK class, what does MY BOOK recommend for lowering those excessive hormone levels that only seem to hurt your body, not to help it? Start learning the simple answer on page 101 ;^ )

If you need to have me clarify the solution for you, drop me a line at giveretgolani@gmail.com.

Er, the doctor who can address this health problem is listed in the Resources section of It's MY Crisis, too. I recommended him for a very good reason. He's one of the reasons why I wrote A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.




To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

To Be on the Safe Side...

B'SD

25 Mar-Cheshvan


Whenever I speak about my book in public, and as I indicate several times in my book, the emphasis is on being non-judgmental. A person who is ill can't choose or control their SYMPTOMS. Despite focused efforts and the best of intentions, a seriously ill individual can't always control their REACTIONS to those symptoms either.

Click on this New York Daily News article to understand why the ordinary acts of walking, chewing, seeing correctly (among other problems) can be more than some brain tumor patients can manage.

One item that the article does not address is the exhaustion that goes with brain tumors, especially after surgical removal. A human body works hard to overcome the trauma that surgery can be. The aftermath might include: healing scars, replenishing blood supplies, shedding drugs used during surgery, fighting off seizures and perhaps accommodating anti-seizure medication (wow does that stuff have side-effects). There's another adjustment going at the same time: learning to use nerves that are no longer compromised by the weight or other interference of the now-gone tumor(s). That adjustment is unique to each person.

Coupled with everything else going on in the person's body, a sense of sleepiness sometimes lingers for weeks or months. It's a sign that the body is tired from all the coping mechanisms it uses.

It is NOT a sign of unhappiness.

I'll say it again: Some people confuse the physical drain with emotional depression. Please don't. You'll just confuse everybody and choose unhelpful responses. That's not good.

Don't make assumptions. The perplexing state of affairs is true for many medical problems. Choose compassion, not panic. Ask questions of doctors and therapists; seek out solutions that improve life for the ill person and for you.


Winter's here with grayer days while the holiday season beckons us to be happy. A serious medical situation can complicate things. Here's my suggestion for minimizing the hardship:



BUY MY BOOK and read about some wonderful coping strategies proven effective over time. There's a reason that a minister, rabbis, scientists and doctors wrote their recommended reading praises on the cover of It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Wishing you a pleasant holiday season,


Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Hear Me on the Air! What's Gonna Happen in 2009? Or Before...?

B'SD

22 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

Late in Israel's afternoon yesterday, I was interviewed about my book on the Arutz 7 "Judean Eve" show with Eve Harow. We had to make do with a mere 15-minute timeslot about an hour or so after the show began, but I managed to speak of some essential ideas. Listen in by clicking INR, then click on LISTEN NOW.

On to another topic:

Stuff happens. Some of it affects our health and welfare. I tend to be concerned about the winter holiday season because so many defenseless shoppers and vacationers fill easily targeted areas.



Today's post is a simple plea: Please. Be careful out there.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

The Doctor Will Save You Now...

B'SD

It's so maddening to hear some flunky announce that "The doctor is not in right now..." when you are suffering. You just want to throw the phone or a tantrum at them!

Calm down. Some medical professionals have ears as wonderful as their hearts. I have a terrific story to share with you:

Mystery Solved By a Doctor Who Listened.

WOW. Some story, huh?

Read my book and learn how to talk so YOUR doctor (and nurses) can listen better to YOU!

To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

My Book Beat Medical Professionals to the Deadline!

B'SD

20 Mar-Cheshvan

Sometimes I am taken aback to discover just how valuable my book can be. That sense of surprise happens when Mass Media relates medical news or warnings to the public and I realize that MY BOOK ALREADY ADDRESSED THE TOPIC.

What made me catch my breath today, a year and a half after the publication of It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To? The Baltimore Sun newspaper just ran an article about how to prevent medication mistakes for people on several medicines at home or in a hospital. This advice is especially important for elderly patients (not just for the elderly, but especially for them. Younger readers can also benefit from the advice).

Check out Expert advice: Medication misuse.

My book addresses the problem on pages 36, 37 and 70. Readers of any age can protect themselves from medication errors by reading the information there.

As I've mentioned before on this blog, I highly recommend that you BUY MY BOOK TODAY to find out what other important information you need LONG BEFORE anyone else lets you in on it.

As my link for professional writers indicates, I'm a savvy and quite successful researcher. My book is filled with information YOU NEED. Click HERE, then on View Full Profile to see what I mean.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Free Stuff for Your Child's School!

B'SD

15 Mar-Cheshvan 5769


Here's an appealing announcement from the folks at Johns Hopkins University, on behalf of eight tribal colleges and universities and several Native American organizations, with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Indian Health Service (IHS), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

"Schools across the country

now have free access to an innovative set of

teaching tools designed to increase

the understanding of science, health, and diabetes

among American Indian

and Alaska Native students from

kindergarten through the 12th grade.

The comprehensive new curriculum,

called "Health is Life in Balance,"

is being launched today at the

Smithsonian's National Museum

of the American Indian in Washington, D.C."

Learn more about it when you click on

Indian Health Services.

For more information, see

American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The Centers for Disease Control offer free information about preventing diabetes at www.cdc.gov/diabetes

The National Diabetes Education Program also has information at www.ndep.nih.gov/

Want to learn about Diabetes from the National Instititue of Health's Office of Science Education? Click OSE.

Be sure to check out National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at NIDDK.

My book could have tipped you off about how to learn of this innovation. Can't imagine what you're missing by not knowing about other valuable information inside the pretty covers?

Click It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge and buy your copy today!

There's a reason it's still holding the #2 spot on the Musella Foundation site.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

2 BIG Reasons to Smile!

B'SD

14 Marcheshvan 5769

The medical world offers TWO reasons to smile today!

Reason 1: Surgery Helps People with Spina Bifida to Stay Dry & Clean





Reason 2: Smiling Improves Your Health!







Smile even more when you read my book. Buy it today ;^ )

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Save Your Wallet and Your Health with...

B'SD

13 Mar-Cheshvan 5769


Publishing world insiders let the rest of us mortals (authors included) in on sales trends. Mediabistro is one such source of information. This line in one of its recent updates knocked some breath out of me:

"Booksellers and publishers are hoping

a post-election flood of titles

by brand-name authors

can rescue their holiday season,

which arrives amid the

worst economy in 50 years. "

Here's how I interpret that thought: Bookshops and publishers are having a hard time selling books in an ever-worsening economy. But they've missed a crucial point in how to make sales. GIVE READERS WHAT THEY WANT!!!!!!!

Most of us are trying to survive on little income. We do NOT need or want more frivolous books by specific authors. We need books that help us to live and to feel better than we do.

Click on this ZOGBY Survey which proves how serious our health needs are:

New Survey Shows Economic Crisis Forcing Americans to Make Difficult Health Care Choices

Many Consumers Are Considering Drastic Changes in Health Care Behavior to Cut Expenses

Make

your special gift to someone this holiday season.

Good for Kwaanza, Xmas and Chanuka,

packed with humor and health-oriented information, it can save you

money and headaches.

It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To:
A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears
and to Cope with a Medical Challenge

It could very well put you in better health and perhaps a better mood as it did for the folks who praised it on the back cover or somewhere at this blog!

Do some one-stop shopping. CLICK HERE to buy your copy today!

To your good health and satisfying reading,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

It's Only DAYS Away!

B'SD

9 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

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Learn more about Dr. Yaffa's efforts and why I recommend his expertise when you read It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To.

The good doctor and my book can help you to dry those tears.

To your good health,

Yocheved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

A Simple Way to Calm Down...

B'SD

8 Mar-Cheshvan 5769

I meet with many upset people in my line of work (I do Self-Help Coaching, remember). They desperately need to calm down and to think clearly so that they can cope with a serious, possibly life-threatening medical situation.

I use the techniques I'm trained in, and a sense of compassion. I know the feeling of fear and sadness. Even panic. I can relate to the rush of jumbled thoughts in someone's frightened, angry mind.

And I know how to stop the sense of stress fast.

One of my favorite calming techniques is to read. I recommend soothing reading materials in my book. I also recommend CDs and tapes recorded by professional speakers, actors and actresses so that someone with impaired vision can benefit from knowledge and amusement, or both!

The RESOURCES section in It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge lists suggested reading and listening materials. Many of those items have won awards.

Find out what to get from your local library or book store when you order It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To today!

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Can YOU Pay for Proper Medical Care?

B'SD

7 Mar-Cheshvan 5769



World financial news is not encouraging. I suspect that things are about to get MUCH worse. So does the new head of of the World Medical Association.

Israeli WMA president warns of economic crisis's impact on health

One of the things I've done to ease your plight is to put my patient-empowering book on the market. For less than $20.00 you can save yourself hours upon hours of frustration, sadness and physical suffering. It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To teaches you how to cope with medical and emotional complications and points you in the direction of highly effective medical and mental health practitioners, organizations that help you to pay BIG bills, and so much more. It truly is A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

CLICK HERE and BUY MY BOOK TODAY!

It's still holding the #2 position on the
Musella Foundation
for Brain Tumor Research
"Recommended Reading" list.
You can vote for it on the Musella site daily at http://www.virtualtrials.com/books.cfm?bookid=47&vote=10.

I hope you'll choose a 9 or a 10.

(Sorry, I can't squeeze more speaking engagements into my US tour this December. I'm fully booked.)

I've done something else to improve conditions for people who need to heal. I became a sales agent for the company which makes the device that saved my once-shattered arm and many other highly effective rehabilitation appliances.

Israelis in need of superior physical therapy appliance can buy DYNASPLINT products from me. Evidence shows that these products significantly speed up the healing process - a BIG money-saver.

Orthopedic specialists throughout my little country are very impressed with DYNASPLINT.

Get more information about Dynasplint by clicking on giveretgolani@gmail.com.

To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life