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What to Bring With Kids at the Beach
It is difficult to find children that don’t enjoy being around water. The same is also true for adults but with children, there is a need to make sure that they are protected in a number of different ways. This would not only include their personal safety when it comes to being around the water but it would also include protecting them from the damaging effects of the sun’s rays while they are outdoors. For that, you would want to, not only make sure that they have the right sunscreen but that they have the right swimming apparel.
As far as sunscreen is concerned, it is important to make sure that you make the best choices for your family. The zinc oxide sunscreen, for example, provides you with more of a natural way to protect your child’s skin and to avoid many of the harmful chemicals which may be included in other UV protection. Would it surprise you to know that not much research has gone into the harmful effects of sunscreen? Although it certainly is necessary to make sure that your child is protected, don’t put them in harm’s way in an attempt to protect their skin from damage. A sun hat can also go a long way in helping to protect your child from the sun as well.
For young children, having a swim diaper is also something that should be considered as well. This protects the safety for everyone that happens to be in the water with them, but make sure that you use one that is reusable for both the environmental issues and the potential pool pump damage that can occur with throwaway diapers.
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8 Steps for a Woman Dancing with Cancer
1. Submit. Give up. Make room for the miracle.
2. Inform yourself. Listen to your intuition. Examine all the options, but only use what feels right to you.
3. Accept support. Surround yourself with loving friends, healing music, special colors, prayer and affirmation. Create a ceremony of healing/wholing and invite your supporters.
4. Anoint your breast(s) with healing herbal oils such as calendula, dandelion, or poke. Visualize healing energies suffusing your tissues.
5. Maximize the healthy qualities of your diet:
Use organic olive oil and butter to the exclusion of other fats.
Increase your use of beans, especially lentils, and fermented foods such as yogurt, sauerkraut, miso, tamari, homemade wines and beers.
Include immune building and anticancer herbs in your diet:
• Daily use of a nourishing infusion, especially red clover flower or burdock root or violet leaf infusions.
• Daily use of fresh herb vinegars, especially yellow dock, burdock, and dandelion root vinegars.
• Frequent use of a long-cooked soup containing seaweed (such as kombu or wakame), astragalus root, and medicinal mushrooms (reishi, shiitake, puffballs, etc).
6. Increase you exercise level. Take a yoga or tai chi class weekly. Walk daily. Get a weekly massage. Pamper yourself with activity.
7. Use drugs (chemotherapy, tamoxifen, anesthesia, pain killers) as required but:
consider a short trial of a powerful herb such as poke root before resorting to drugs; and
always combine drug use with complementary herbs. For instance, protect the liver with milk thistle seed tincture.
8. Use radiation and surgery as needed but:
always combine with complementary herbs; and
be willing to set limits that you feel comfortable with – they can’t take your lymph glands if you say “No.”
