Removal of Ovarian Cysts Knowing Your Options

Posted on June 22, 2011 by katiem2

Ovarian cysts are small sacs filled with fluid that develop on the ovaries. There are varying types of cysts and each with its own symptoms and or complications.  Anyone suffering the pain ovarian cysts creates knows all to well the drill.

Although surgical removal of the ovarian cysts is an option there is no guarantee that more cysts won’t develop in the future.  Once diagnosed you soon learn this and are left to wonder, what can I do about my ovarian cysts?

When considering the surgical options there is much to think about before making such a choice let’s explore them now. Most women think purely about the surgical or medical options when considering removal of an ovarian cyst.

Surgery is expensive, is an invasive procedure which can run the risk of infection or internal bleeding. A proactive approach is needed regardless of your choice to have surgery as recurrence is common. Prevention is key!

Removal of Ovarian Cysts Knowing Your Options

Birth Control – Hormonal causes can be treated with birth control pills. There are side effects to consider after using birth control pills for extended periods of time. These are outlined per each individual birth control medication so be certain to review the warnings.

Natural Methods – This is a powerful option to consider as there are many natural choices to insure your body works optimally for the best present and future outcome.

The key is prevention so begin to build a healthier lifestyle by adding proven practices that have shown to work for others dealing with ovarian cysts.

Removal of Ovarian Cysts Knowing Your Options

Reduce Pain and Swelling – Hormones and insulin levels that become unbalanced are contributing factors to the onset of ovarian cyst, and may also be blamed for the recurring cysts that many women suffer. It only makes sense to address the cause to avoid future problems and lessen the pain and suffering of your current condition.

  • Take ibuprofen (400 milligrams) every 4 hours or 600 milligrams every 6 hours.
  • Relaxing in a hot tub or using a heating pad can help to relieve the pain.
  • Avoid strenuous activity or exercise as this can make it worse.

There are many very helpful options for Ovarian Cysts.

Removal of Ovarian Cysts Knowing Your Options

Herbs and Supplements

A variety of herbs and supplements help to minimize your ovarian cysts and prevent recurrence of the cysts.

Take vitamin E with fatty acids such as cod liver oil daily.

Other powerful nutrients for ovarian cysts are flax seed oil, borage, and evening primrose. Plus adding grape, garlic and onion to your diet can help.

Much Health and Healing, Katie

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Fisher Price Sing a Ma Jigs

Posted on June 22, 2011 by katiem2

Did you know the latest and hot new toy all the kids are raving about is the Sing-A-Ma-Jig? Sing-A-Ma-Jigs are cute and quirky soft characters that everyone’s falling in love with.  They are so cool, cut, fun and hey they sing.  Who doesn’t love a good song? Once you get one in your hands you grab hold and give their tummy a squeeze, their mouths open making an adorable singing pleasure.  Each squeeze of the tummy plays one pitch. As you continue squeezing your special Sing-A-Ma-Jig plays its special song tune.

Add another sing-a-ma-jig in the fun and they will sing together in perfect harmony. This is something you’ve just got to see for yourself. These happy little vocal wonders just arrived in stores this past May.

The Sing-A-Ma-Jigs

  • Yellow – Home on the range.
  • Pink – Skip to my Lou.
  • Red – Where oh where has my little dog gone
  • Blue or Teal – When the saints go marching in
  • Purple – Oh Suzanna
  • Green – On top of old smoky and more…

This very hot item has been named as one of the hot toys on kids lists of must haves. So do keep an eye out and buy them online while you can. Have a great time singing and playing with your kids new Sing-A-Ma-Jig.  This toy the sing a ma jig is sure to bring a smile to anyones face, lift the lowest of spirits and flat out bring on the laughter.  Sometimes it is best to say nothing at all and whip out a happy distraction.

I recently took one of these to the old folks home and it was a big hit in fact every bodies asking me how they can get one or all of them.

Have Fun,  Katie

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Think Your Way Happy How to Make Thoughts Work for You

Posted on June 22, 2011 by katiem2

Think Your Way Happy How to Make Thoughts Work for You

The Big Factor…
If you choose to think positive thoughts, your life will be positive.

Yes it really is that simple. You go about your day thinking and often it’s negative, right?Before you know it your complaining and headed toward being flat out negative setting the course for the entire day.

When your faced with negative people and situations, choose to focus on something else and don’t get sucked into their drama.  You don’t have to take what their offering, you have a choice.  Ignore the negative and accentuate the positive.   Ignore trouble, misery loves company so don’t be apart of it.   Anytime you choose to participate, regardless if just for the sake of being polite or not making waves, it will have an impact on your life.   You must learn to reject it in a quiet inner way.  The good news is this; it’s not hard to do.


Think Your Way Happy How to Make Thoughts Work for You

We are energy!

There are two types of energy in our world and you can only operate using one or the other at a time. Life has offered you enough proof to know which choice to make.

Just shift your thinking and yes although that sounds to good to be true with practice happy thoughts will soon be working for you just as powerfully as bad thoughts and attitudes.   After all where do you think you’ve generated all the negative things in your life to this point?

First thing to do is to begin putting positive information in your head. The book The Dream Giver is a quick and powerful must read to shift your life around!

Think Your Way Happy How to Make Thoughts Work for You

Remember Your Dreams

Go back in time, imagine the small child who day dreamed about wonderful and outrageous things? Why is it we’re born with such an ability to dream fondly? The ability to dream positive and happy thoughts is a function as basic as sight and touch.

Your dreams create life on a magnificent level. There is nothing that can distract or keep us from our individual purpose and desires as long as we stay focused on our dreams and desires all the while ignoring negative people.

Remember bad things happen all around us. The next time you find yourself in the middle of such a situation remind yourself it’s a normal part of life. It’s not what happens to you or around you, it’s how your react or better yet don’t react. Whatever the case act accordingly, ignore it, deal with it, be done with it and move on to the good stuff.

Think your way happy how to make thoughts work for you

The world drives this fabulous dream ritual out of us, beating us down if you will. Wait a minute, hold your horses, this dream mechanism can be brought back to life. Simply choose to dream again, day dream all the day long.   Are you a person who’s feeling defeated, as if nothing you do matters?  Not the case, you can think your way back into the game of life.

Simply allow yourself to think of what you want.  We all want good things, we long for prosperity in all areas of our lives.  We long for social, physical, emotional, spiritual and financial prosperity.  That’s our natural right and we should enjoy this.

The desire for such things never really goes away. Powerful human desires make it instinctively easy to dream about what you want just as you did while a child.

In time, as you once again develop your dream skills, you’ll move closer and closer to prosperity in all areas of you life. Take action and do something daily to enjoy life and have what you want.  Give to others and treat everyone with respect and integrity.  Just think about it! THINK GOOD!

Think Your Way Happy How to Make Thoughts Work for You

As you perfect your thoughts, you condition yourself to think your way happy! Anything left hungry and unfed will starve and die, so starve the negative in your life.

Don’t give it food which is attention, energy, thought or consideration. Feed only what it is you want to create more of.  So dream magnificent wonderful things, feed the positive and dream about what you want!

Much Love and Success,

Katie

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How to Bake a Poppy Seed Cake

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Aya Katz

I grew up partly in Israel, and one of my all time favorite desserts is poppy seed cake. Now, I don’t get to have poppy seed cake very often, anymore, and I don’t bake it, either, but it turns out that if you want to learn how to bake a poppy seed cake, there are a lot of very entertaining and  instructive video demonstrations available on the web. There are also some excellent recipes.

This one is about the Polish version of a poppy seed cake: a makowiec. It is usually in the form of a roll or a loaf, and many bakeries in Israel produce similar rolls and loaves.

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For a full recipe for a makowiec, try this article from the The Fresh Loaf. They’ve got a very appetizing photo of a poppy seed roll, which I’ve copied below.

This photo is from http://www.thefreshloaf.com/

This photo is from http://www.thefreshloaf.com/

My mother makes an excellent poppy seed cake, but it’s not a makowiec. It’s more like the one in this video:

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Here is a full recipe for a lemon poppy see cake from All Recipes The photo below is  from the recipe on All Recipes. It looks a lot like my mother’s poppy seed cake.

A lemon poppy seed cake from AllRecipes.com

Finally, it is also possible to find videos of Israelis baking cakes. This one starts out with a banana cake and continues with an orange babka poppy seed cake:

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If you are looking for a recipe for a poppy seed cake in Hebrew, you can one find one here:

מתכון לעוגת פרג

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Good Clothes For Teen Girls

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Peppergum01

If you’re looking for the perfect outfits for your teen daughter, friend, or even yourself you can get them at Walmart, Aeropostale, Target, Hollister, or at the mall. They come in all colors and sizes. The perfect time to do this is before school starts. Everybody wants a fresh new start at school. Normally for back to school clothes you should get things like jeans, tank tops, T-shirts, and shorts. Maybe a dress or something too for a fancy occasion.The best place to go is to the mall because malls have plenty of stores with clothes and if you don’t like one store you can move on to the next.

It’s also a good idea to get them new shoes like sneakers, flip flops, or any kind they want. You can find all kinds of things to get them for their first month of school. If they don’t fit in what you get them they can always wait until next year when it’s the perfect size.

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If Only Junk Food Was Healthy

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Peppergum01

Don’t you wish junk food tasted healthy? If only candy was healthy the way carrots are, ice cream was healthy the way juice is, or chocolate was healthy the way potatoes are. It’s healthier to eat foods that don’t have as much sugar in them and more vitamins but our bodies feel sugar tastes good. It does but it’s not really healthy if you have too much. It also gets onto your teeth and then when you go to the dentist they tell you to eat less sweets and brush your teeth more often.

People chew gum and it has sugar too but some people feel it wastes energy and time to chew gum for no reason if you’re never going to swallow it. Well some people swallow their gum but that’s a different story. A lot of people gain too much weight when they eat sweets all the time without exercising much. It’s better to stay on the healthy side than eat what you want but get sick in the process. It’s not that bad if you have a healthy meal and sweets once in a while as long as you exercise often. Some people also wish soda was as healthy as milk or water.

Coffee is okay though because it keeps you up in the morning and helps you stay awake. Certain people go on diets which isn’t too good either because it just makes them more hungry and want to eat more until they can’t stand it. But it’s your choice what you want to eat healthy or not. A good suggestion is not to go on a diet but not to eat too many sweets either and exercise as much as you can.

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Club Penguin Review

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Peppergum01

Club Penguin is a popular virtual site for kids ages 9 and up. Even some 16 and 17 year olds still play it. But ever since Disney bought CP it has been changing a lot. Some like the way it has changed but most don’t. I think their chat security is a little too strict. If you say something that isn’t a swear word but at the same time they just don’t like you using it won’t show up on the screen. The word “baby” won’t show up when I try to say “Baby brother”. It shows up on the user’s screen but it won’t show up on the other users’ screens. However your penguins get to go to the giftshop and buy themselves clothes and wigs. You can also buy furniture for your igloo from the catalog. And you can choose how big or small you want your igloo or how it will look like. You don’t HAVE to own an igloo, you can buy a cottage or a fishbowl.

The bad things about buying furniture or clothes for your penguin is that you need to be a member. You also need to be a member to open your igloo and let penguins that aren’t on your buddy list to come inside it. You can have up to 100 buddies on your buddy list. You can either block them, delete them as a friend, find out where they are, or visit their igloo. There are a lot of options although at time it can get boring. For more information look at this really old Club Penguin video review:

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Daniel Carter’s “Come Unto Him”

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Aya Katz

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is world renowned for its choral singing. Recently, a new album called This is the Christ released by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir made the news for its meteoric rise in the charts. One of the songs featured in that CD is by composer Daniel Carter. The song is called “Come Unto Him.”

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Daniel Carter is an American composer and songwriter born in Caldwell, Idaho, and known primarily for religious music that is performed by members of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

Carter began composing when he was quite young. This particular piece was written when he was still in college. Here is an excerpt from an article by Daniel Carter in which he tells in his own words how he came to write this piece:

Daniel Carter

“On a very hot summer July Friday night in 1978, I wrote a song called “Come unto Him”. I was living with my long time friend and former high school Spanish teacher, Eric Bjarnson and his family. I was in college, and Eric was a doctoral candidate working out of Indiana University. Eric and I were both employed at a factory, while trying to stay in school.

On this hot night, exhausted from work and school, I read the words from Matthew 11:28-30:

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

A few weeks previously, Eric and his wife, Dianne bought a new piano. It was a beautiful five foot upright with an ebony finish. They sacrificed to buy it. The piano was moved to the room I stayed in, not in the living room. I protested, but Dianne was firm about it remaining in my room, so that I would focus on my studies and composing.
Despite the hour being late, and all of us completely worn out, I needed to write this piece. I played as quietly as I could so I wouldn’t wake the others. After working on the piece well into the night, Eric came in the next morning and asked:”Is it finished?”I blurted out apologies for making noise and he stopped me and asked again: “But is it finished?” I said “Yes.” He asked if I would play it for him. Eric has a beautiful tenor voice. Some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard has been sung by Eric and his sister, Anna, a coloratura soprano. I played as Eric sang. There in a little yellow shack where the paint was peeling off, next to a rural road surrounded by green pastures, cattle, flies, and the bleating of goats came the sound of a tired, overworked tenor singing, “Come unto him, all ye who labor…” and we were both rejuvenated.”

During the decades that have passed since Carter composed “Come Unto Him”, the piece has grown in popularity, and this is why, when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir released its new album, Daniel Carter’s “Come Unto Him” was one of the pieces selected. If you would like to buy the new CD,  you can get it right here:

Recently Daniel Carter has been involved in composing for musical theater. If you would like to learn more about that, you can read about his new project, the Debt Collector, here.

© 2011 Aya Katz

 

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Separating the Yolk from the White

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Aya Katz

A couple of years ago, my daughter and I decided to raise chickens. I wrote about that here.
Our first four laying hens

In time, the hens grew, and they started laying very regularly. I thought this would be a good way to provide ourselves with cheap and nutritious food, cut down our dependency on store bought groceries, and even supplement our income in the event of a financial crisis. My daughter loves birds, and the chicken chores are her major contribution to our household economy. The eggs are plentiful, but up until recently, they didn’t cut down our grocery bill by much.

Why? Because even though I love eating eggs, I developed an allergy. Well, it’s not a full blown allergy, but eggs don’t agree with me anymore. I would feast heartily, only to be repaid with a day long stomach ache. I had to stop eating them, because that just wasn’t worth it.

Bow, our chimpanzee, also doesn’t like eggs very much. And we still don’t know how to sell them. So my daughter is the only one who has been eating eggs– and we give the ones we don’t eat to the dogs, along with other scraps. In time, even my daughter got tired of eggs.

A sunny side up egg

And then this morning, I discovered a way around my egg allergy. I had fried my daughter an egg sunny side up, and though she usually loves that, she didn’t feel like eating it. And there it was, just sitting there. I was hungry. “It won’t hurt if I just have a little of the yoke,” I reasoned with myself. So I took a taste, and then another and another until I’d finished the entire yolk. And you know what? I’m fine. Nothing bad happened.

That’s when it occurred to me to look up “egg nutrition” in the wikipedia. It turns out that most people who have a problem with eggs are really reacting to the proteins in the egg white. While some people are also allergic to the yoke, most are not. I don’t have a true allergy, anyway. I have a food sensitivity. Here’s what the wikipedia has to say about that: “In addition to true allergic reactions, some people experience a food intolerance to egg whites.”

So what is it about the egg whites? Here’s my theory: I think it’s because the egg white consists almost entirely of protein that I can’t tolerate it. It’s all a matter of percentages. It’s the percentage of protein in the part of the egg you are eating that matters. You see, about half the protein in the egg is in the yolk and about half is in the white.  (To be exact, 57% of the protein in the egg is in white, and 43% in the yolk.) But nearly all the fat in the egg is in the yolk. And all almost none of the fat is in the white. So it’s not the absolute number of grams of protein that upsets my stomach. It’s the percentage of protein that I’m trying to digest at a time.

Here is some overall nutritional information about the egg that I copied from the wikipedia:

Table 1: Overall Egg Nutrition

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy 647 kJ (155 kcal)
Carbohydrates 1.12 g
Fat 10.6 g
Protein 12.6 g
– Tryptophan 0.153 g
– Threonine 0.604 g
– Isoleucine 0.686 g
– Leucine 1.075 g
– Lysine 0.904 g
– Methionine 0.392 g
– Cystine 0.292 g
– Phenylalanine 0.668 g
– Tyrosine 0.513 g
– Valine 0.767 g
– Arginine 0.755 g
– Histidine 0.298 g
– Alanine 0.700 g
– Aspartic acid 1.264 g
– Glutamic acid 1.644 g
– Glycine 0.423 g
– Proline 0.501 g
– Serine 0.936 g
Water 75 g
Vitamin A equiv. 140 μg (16%)
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.066 mg (5%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.5 mg (33%)
Pantothenic acid (B5) 1.4 mg (28%)
Folate (Vit. B9) 44 μg (11%)
Calcium 50 mg (5%)
Iron 1.2 mg (10%)
Magnesium 10 mg (3%)
Phosphorus 172 mg (25%)
Potassium 126 mg (3%)
Zinc 1.0 mg (10%)
Choline 225 mg
Cholesterol 424 mg
For edible portion only. Refuse: 12% (Shell). One large egg is 50 grams.
Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults.
Source: USDA Nutrient database

But here is a comparison of the nutritional value of the yolk and the white taken from this article: http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Egg_Yolk.html

Table 2: Egg Yolks Versus Egg Whites

Nutrient White Yolk % Total in White % Total in Yolk
Protein 3.6 g 2.7g 57% 43%
Fat 0.05g 4.5g 1% 99%
Calcium 2.3 mg 21.9 mg 9.5% 90.5%
Magnesium 3.6 mg 0.85 mg 80.8% 19.2%
Iron 0.03 mg 0.4 mg 6.2% 93.8%
Phosphorus 5 mg 66.3 mg 7% 93%
Potassium 53.8 mg 18.5 mg 74.4% 25.6%
Sodium 54.8 mg 8.2 mg 87% 13%
Zinc 0.01 mg 0.4 mg 0.2% 99.8%
Copper 0.008 mg 0.013 mg 38% 62%
Manganese 0.004 mg 0.009 mg 30.8% 69.2%
Selenium 6.6 mcg 9.5 mcg 41% 59%
Thiamin 0.01 mg 0.03 mg 3.2% 96.8%
Riboflavin 0.145 mg 0.09 mg 61.7% 48.3%
Niacin 0.035 mg 0.004 mg 89.7% 9.3%
Pantothenic acid. 0.63 mg 0.51 mg 11% 89%
B6 0.002 mg 0.059 mg 3.3% 96.7%
Folate 1.3 mcg 24.8 mcg 5% 95%
B12 0.03 mcg 0.331 mcg 8.3% 91.7%
Vitamin A 0 IU 245 IU 0% 100%
Vitamin E 0 mg 0.684 mg 0% 100%
Vitamin D 0 IU 18.3 IU 0% 100%
Vitamin K 0 IU 0.119 IU 0% 100%
DHA and AA 0 94 mg 0% 100%
Carotenoids 0 mcg 21 mcg 0% 100%

What this means is that the egg white consists of 91% protein, 6 percent carbs and 3% fat, while the egg yolk consists of 35% protein, 63% fat and 2% carbs. So it seems to me that I can take a food that is 35% protein, but I cannot tolerate one that consists of 91% protein, even if the number of grams of protein in each is about the same. In a whole egg, it’s a little over fifty percent protein, and even that is too high a percentage for me.

You’re probably thinking that it could be the specific proteins in egg white that I’m reacting to, and that percentages have nothing to do with it. After all, egg white consists of  54% ovalbumin, a protein that blocks digestive enzymes. Yolk proteins are different, and they serve other functions, such as “sequestering calcium, iron and other cations for the developing embryo”.

Still, I hold to my theory: I can take the entire egg’s supply of proteins just fine, as long as they are a small percentage of the nutrients in the food I am eating. I can’t digest a whole egg alone, but the same absolute number of grams of protein, consisting of the same specific proteins, do me no harm when I eat them as part of a tagini.

Don’t know what a tagini is?

Here’s a recipe: take one whole egg, beat it, soak a white piece of bread in it until the egg is absorbed. Fry in a pan till golden brown. It’s a simplified Israeli version of French toast. If I eat that, the protein in the egg doesn’t bother me. If I eat a whole egg, I get sick. I’m thinking it’s because the overall enormous serving of carbs in the white bread diminishes the percentage of proteins in the tagini meal to an acceptable low.

But if you want to eat something that is actually good for you, I recommend egg yolk. It contains most of the vitamins and minerals that an egg has to offer and 99% percent of its fat, which is the most important part!

© 2011 Aya Katz

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Why I don’t like Ludwig Von Mises.

Posted on June 17, 2011 by nhkatz

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  Ludwig Von Mises was an Austrian economist of the twentieth century. He died in 1973, one year after I was born. I didn’t know him personally. So I don’t mean my title in the way that Murray Rothbard didn’t … Continue reading →

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