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Hazelnut Coffee $8.49 Our 100% Arabica gourmet coffee is infused with the smooth and nutty tasted of fresh hazelnut. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Decaffeinated Coffee $6.49 A distinctive and balanced flavor for those who love the richness of a darker roast and the smooth flavor of a lighter roast coffee. Ground 13 oz. |
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Crescent City Blend® Coffee $8.49 A tribute to the rich, bold coffee served in New Orleans. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Dark Roast Coffee $6.49 The rich aroma of our original coffee blend will awaken your senses. Ground 16 oz. |
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Brazil Santos Bourbon Coffee $8.49 This delectable gourmet coffee yields an enticingly smooth cup with a rich aroma and mild acidity. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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French Vanilla Coffee $8.49 A truly delectable and luxuriously sweet French Vanilla coffee you are sure to enjoy. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Pecan Praline Coffee $8.49 Our Pecan Praline flavored coffee is a truly delightful Southern treat. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Fresh-O-Lator® Coffee Canister $29.95 Our airtight canister will preserve the freshness of your favorite coffee. |
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Kenya Coffee $8.49 Bright acidity and fruity flavors combine for a wonderfully aromatic cup with a taste that maintains a refined winey character. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Around the World Gourmet Coffee Sampler $34.95 Explore four specialty coffees from distinctive coffee-growing regions around the world. Whole Bean Four 12 oz. packages. |
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Indiana Illinois and Iowa Railroad Company Share Certificate $34.99 Indiana Illinois and Iowa Railroad Company Share Certificate – Giclee Print |
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Medium Roast Coffee $6.49 This extraordinarily aromatic and light-roasted blend produces a fragrant and mellow cup. Ground 16 oz. |
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Kona Blend Coffee $8.49 Our Kona Blend is light-medium roasted and produces a sweet and mellow floral tone. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Café Special® Coffee $5.99 Roasted medium-dark to a rich brown color for a distinctive café taste and aroma. Ground 12 oz. |
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Breakfast Blend Coffee $8.49 Ease into the day as we do down in New Orleans with the smooth and mellow flavor of our Breakfast Blend. Ground 12 oz. |
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Iowa Atlas and Gazetteer by Delorme Mapping Company Edition , 2 $21.49 Iowa Atlas and Gazetteer. Delorme Mapping Company |
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New Orleans Blend® Coffee and Chicory $5.49 Indulge in a delicate combination of fine Arabica beans and high quality chicory that is steeped in the traditions of New Orleans. Ground 16 oz. |
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Louisiana Blend™ Medium-Dark Coffee $8.49 This blend of gourmet Latin American coffees embodies the distinctive flavor of Louisiana. Whole Bean 12 oz. |
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Preventing Bone Loss…The Billion Dollar Lie
Preventing bone loss to preclude osteoporosis as you age has become a BILLION dollar business. It is no wonder that calcium supplements are the number one selling mineral. The dairy industry is the number one provider of calcium in the US diet. All the beverage companies are adding it for marketing benefit. These companies just grab onto your fears of the osteoporosis epidemic (up 7-fold in ten years), put a little calcium in a tablet or beverage, and make billions while giving you piece of mind.
It sounds like everyone wins…the population gets protection while the companies giving protection make money. Guess what? IT’S NOT WORKING and the 7-fold increase in a decade (according to the Center for Disease Control) proves it. One of the big questions is not only why is it not working, but what can you do about it.
Let’s start with why our current model for preventing bone loss, as well as why the alternative treatment for osteoporosis, are not working.
Currently, we are being advised by the government and the dairy industry to make sure we getting our calcium from dairy, and for those that are lactose intolerant, to take calcium supplements. Many beverage companies have included calcium in fruit drinks and just about anything else they can think of to help market products. Calcium supplements have exceeded a billion dollars in sales. The U.S. population consumes more dairy then virtually all the countries in the world, and yet has one of the highest rates of osteoporosis disease. How is that possible?
There are three basic reasons why the current government guidelines for preventing bone loss, as well as the alternative treatment for osteoporosis suggestions by companies selling calcium supplements, are not working:
- Inadequate calcium consumption.
- Inadequate absorption of the calcium.
- Excreting or utilizing too much calcium in the body.
There are several interesting explanations behind these reasons:
Inadequate consumption of calcium is said to occur in over 65% of people in North America. Many in the health industry dispute those claims, especially in light of all the consumption of dairy and calcium supplements. It certainly is possible that people are not getting enough calcium, and for those that are not, it is critical that your consumption of the right type of calcium be increased. Adults are recommended to have 1200 mg. total daily.
There is false hope provided by the dairy industry. The Harvard Nurses’ Study showed that of the 78,000 nurses tested, the ones that consumed three glasses of milk per day over twelve years had the highest rate of fractures, as compared to those that had virtually no dairy consumption. An Iowa study showed that those on whey (milk) protein had significant bone loss, and that it could lead to increase risk of Osteoporosis.
The promotion of stand-alone calcium supplements, such as calcium carbonate and other inorganic forms of calcium (including Tums and other over the counter antacids, as well as oyster shell, dolomite, and coral calcium) has no scientific basis in preventing bone loss. If there was, with all the money spent we would have seen a decrease in the incidence – but instead, we have a 7-fold increase. Clearly, we have been misled into a false sense of security by these powerful financial promotions.
Inadequate absorption of calcium is a huge problem. The reason we have such an increase in bone loss is that we cannot absorb the forms of calcium we are taking in. The calcium must be combined with other minerals, such as magnesium, boron, and silica, as well as vitamins D3 and K, to have maximum effectiveness. Properly chelating the minerals with an amino acid to create an inorganic form will improve absorption into the bone by 75%. (Most companies not only fail to do this, but some of them go so far as to stick some chelate in the formula so you think the products are chelated. This is false marketing, by companies that are more concerned with their profits than your health).
Adding green foods to the formula in the form of organic juice powders will further increase the absorption. For example, Magnesium taken under the above guidelines, is 87% absorbed into the bones vs. 16% in typical supplements.
A poorly functioning digestive system and faulty flora may also contribute to the absorption issue; however, it is mostly the poor product quality and mass marketing playing on your fears that are giving you the problems.
Excreting or utilizing to much calcium compared to your absorbed available stockpile can greatly contribute to your bone loss. You probably know that over 99% of all the calcium in the body is stored in your bones and teeth. The rest is utilized by the body on an ongoing basis for muscle contractions, blood vessel contraction and expansion, secretion of hormones and enzymes, and use by the nervous system. It is also utilized by the blood stream for maintaining the proper PH level, and pulls from the bone reservoir if more calcium is needed.
When you eat meat protein, take in processed acidic foods, soda, sugar, and especially dairy, the balancing of the acidic nature of those foods uses up more calcium then was absorbed from them. When this occurs, the body has to pull calcium from the bones and teeth to balance the body. It will always do this as the blood stream must be maintained in a very narrow PH range to survive. With the current American diet, it is almost impossible to absorb enough calcium through the current guidelines to offset depletion. This is a huge problem facing the U.S. and other countries adopting the Western diet.
Finally, when you add in drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, and other depleting habits, it is easy to understand that we have a major issue, and the increases in the disease proves it. There are a lot of steps you can take to solve this issue, but that is too lengthy a discussion for this article. We intend a follow-up article which will lay out the specific steps you need to take. However, until we finish the research and interviews for that article, we suggest you at least realize you have been mislead, and take a properly formed product.
Enerex Botanicals of Canada has an excellent product – Osteo Rx - that can help insure you are giving your body what it needs for proper bone health. You can find Osteo Rx at the on-line retailer Herbal Integrity. They also carry the complete line of all-natural supplements made by Enerex, along with several other products, all of which are backed by science and research studies.
Conservative GOPers battle each other in Iowa (San Francisco Chronicle)
(12-29) 14:34 PST Des Moines, Iowa (AP) — With time running short, Republican
presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich battled
Thursday to win over a pivotal crop of undecided conservative…
6 Teriffic Reasons For Buying Des Moines,IA Houses For Sale
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