Dash For Power

“Take a Hike”

• Good advice, and we hope the one who said that takes his own advice.
• Walking is the cornerstone of our becoming humans, we walked our way out of Africa before our brains grew into what we now brilliantly possess.
• And nowadays after we worked physically so hard so long, we now so let our bodies down, when we let our physical self down.
• Poor diet, couch potato lives are creating an obese, unhealthy people who need to get off their duff and use their duffle bag and their minds to survive in this rapidly changing world. People are pouring out of the hinterlands in “Asia to make products, now often under more stringent western standards to create shoddy, but increasingly, superior crafted goods at a bargain to western buyers.
• So- take a hike. And to help you put the clicker away, we have found a great Dash for Power store for hikers like you- are soon to be.
• With these new high quality products beginning to appear in the west, enabling many of us to live at a standard we could normally only assume for the rich or notable.
• Well, take a look in our Healthy Supplements Dand notice the health aids we need, from our greens to our omega’s. Also in our Home Gym Essentials you will be warmed at your choices; gym, heart watch monitor, traini, HDTV, all it wants is you.
• Have fun, walk your dog, hike past Walden Pond and say good work on the clean up. You could help for an hour.

Smiles. Derek Dashwood

Clean drinking water is an essential need of all human beings daily…

• With expanding populations, subdivisions draining wetlands, access to cool clear water becomes more problematic, it seems, each year. We expect to hear of ancient water or sewage pipes bursting in third world countries, mixing their clean and polluted waters, killing, sickening, shortening the lives of millions.
• But as often these days it seems even hundred year old pipes, which includes most of North America, also now has old cast iron water and sewage systems bursting, septic fields and wells being contaminated by heavy industrial poultry and pesticides runoff, or other lifestock pens seeping into “organic crops” as recently in California where spinach became contaminated by adjacent cow pastures up hill.
• Even green Canada, with a third of the earth’s fresh water lakes, has water contaminationn scares, a few years back in Ontario, and even today in bucolic Sidney by the Sea, British Columbia, where a couple of clear and sewage water pipes not even one hundred year old pipes burst; and everyone was trying to make their tea out of very foul smelling brownish water. Even boiling the water 10 minutes still gave you an unpleasant cup of tea. Some Poo-bah some where might like it, but not the folks in today’s Sidney, drinking (gasp) bottled water.
• Which brings us to another article in which the advisory long term is that we fasten down our own little castle with as many preventatives as possible. If you can afford a water purifying system under the sink, it would be an investment in your family’s health, given the uncertainties out there. However, while until recently we would have suggested an ice cube maker, nut not so now. Researchers have found that cold water sticks oily fats to our linings, allowing particles to stick, ferment, cause fungal problems, cancers, death.
• That’s also why we suggest that you no longer drink your water or juices cold. Perhaps why they know drinking (usually cold) pops can increase risk of the above.
• Another reason to have hot coffee or tea at meal times, perhaps hot milk chocolate? Check out our new Pages Healthy Supplements and Home Gym Essentials. Wonderful, elegant quick seections of finest supplements, and a dream gym system.

Derek Dashwood

• While we can trust Natural Dog Diet, many other items can kill your Dog

• Melanin and lead in the soil of China comes to mind as an item recently found in many pet foods, particularly Dog Foods, many of which received and used these additives from China. This is hopefully being cleaned up now.
• But for us, we are selecting trusted closer to home suppliers of dog foods being producted in Canada and the United States that guarantee human health quality. We can now endorse and print good names that continue to rate 100% customer approval ratings in the open Amazon world of suppliers. Such as Discountpetdirect and petplanet2U and apdempsey2008. At 99.9% approval kpetstore had the salmon supplements and also at 99.9% customer approval Eastwestgifts had safe dental chew toys, at 98.8% customer approval Equiteric of Hazelton PA had pet supplements .
• But the pride in comfort that you cared enough to put highest quality people best food into your loved pet will also make you both purr and glow. That salmon oil supplement into the food sounds so obvious: they will have silky fur and a clean heart. What a nice mom or dad you are.
• When they taste their first “long grass free range fresh beef sticks”, our pets will thank us for, but from the sounds and looks, we would thank us for. How often does the beef we buy at our local market tell us that our beef was not only free range but in long grass, which would have kept it relaxed, not stressing for its next meal.
• We are feeding our pooch that relaxed japanese beef, or the safe American version. No China melamine or lead here, thanks but no thanks.
• And also, we will point out that some food items, beneficial to adult humans, is toxic to small pets, and small children. These are:
• Alcohol- it depresses brain function and can cause your pet to go into a coma. Watch no party drinks left over, if you have pets- or kids.
• Coffee-the methylxanthine in caffein can increase a dog’s heart rate and trigger seizures.
• Chocolate- the chemical theobromine can be fatal. Only 3 ounces of dark or 7 of milk can bring on vomiting in a 50-pound dog.
• Macademia Nuts- experts don’t yet know why only a few of these nuts can cause tremors, even paralysis in a dog’s hind legs.
• Garlic- garlic breaks down a dog’s red blood cells, leading to anemia and possible kidney failure from leaking blood cells.
• Onions-the damage to a dog’s canine blood cells builds slowly, so small tastes over time can be worse than wolfing down the whole bulb.
• Grapes- grapes and raisins can cause heart failure.
• Raisins- They are studying why, but we don’t know why grapes and raisins cause heart failure in our pets. So be careful.

So let all the family know of this, in case anyone forgets and leaves some innocent food to us, that could kill our pet. Our pets become such a party of the family, and are gone too soon at their healthiest. Here’s to long happy live to your dear pooch, or pussycat. This news is from NationalGeographic’s October 2007 issue.

Derek Dashwood

We all know by now to drink 6-8 glasses of pure water daily: we rarely manager to do it.

• We may not need to drink six to eight glasses of water daily. The water should be pure; some times we all find that it’s handy to have a case of bottled water on a road trip, and on longer trips even a small car fridge for soothing mountain cold taste, as long as we recycle the plastic bottles, and not add to landfill and slow decay. Isn’t there a better way? Well, yes, there is. First of all, you or your youngest go on the Internet and check on the quality of water for your area, Once you have found the PH level, the purity, distance from toxic fields or basins, so many factors, you will know whether you can drink your tap water, or will you need a medium filter that fits in your fridge, or for more protection, a power water filter under the sink connection. Here you can save precious fridge space for more power juice bottles.
• So, if that becomes a space problem consider a larger fridge/freezer. If you upgrade, make it for life: purchase a double side by side fridge and freezer with an ice-maker. Have your plumber install your Water Filter System under your sink, if that is your wiser solution and run a connection from the filter to your water supply in the fridge, this can be hidden behind the back shelves, and your ice cubes will be pure. Add this pure ice water to all your drinks and realize you are meeting your water needs while you enjoy your blackberry cocktail, filled with ice. Enjoy your drunken berries, take turns that he and she drop one drunken berry after another into each other, getting more powerful than drunk, how amazing, in front of a fire, at a luxurious time. Imagine if the Romans had know of this. Welcome signs of the times: more polluting, but many more of us taking action against it, starting at home with our own family. So here’s to our bringing back our precious earth to a more natural state, and learn to live in harmony with nature while we build our futures in a cleaner more aware sense of the earth and its cycles as well.

Your Dash for Power team.