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Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – www.seniordirectories.com
 

   Feel like you are getting older and you can’t do much about it?  75-80 million Americans will reach retirement age in the next 10 years and services for the aging will increase.  If you don’t need them now, you will – or someone you know will (mom, dad, uncle Harry, your Home Teaching or RSVT widow).

   Foresightful Senior Directories is the first Utah publication to make available a listing of State, Federal, and private service providers under one cover.  Focusing on the 55+ age group, they cover Salt Lake, Utah, Wasatch, Summit, Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties, and are soon to cover Tooele County as well.
   Easy to read Calendars, discount coupons and senior activities are included with alphabetical information from Adult Day Care to Veterans Services, health hotlines to volunteer programs.  Web access for your free directory, or for further information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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Whole Wheat Angel Food Cake Recipe?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Whole Wheat Angel Food Cake Recipe?
 

   “If they don’t have bread, let them eat cake,” said Marie Antoinette.  Surely she was speaking about whole wheat angel food (sponge) cake.  It is something to really loose your head over.  The only difference between angel food and sponge cakes is that the entire egg is used in the sponge cake.  We’ve never had anyone not like this, let alone know that it was whole wheat.  The flavor is THE BEST.  Try me on this.
6 large eggs, separated                 ½ tsp. Vanilla                       1 ½ cups sifted whole wheat flour 
½ cup water                                   ½ tsp. Lemmon extract       ¼ tsp. salt
1 ½ cups raw or brown sugar      ¼ tsp. Almond extract         1 tsp. Cream of tartar 
   In a small mixer bowl on high speed mix yolks, water, sugar, and flavorings for 5-7 minutes, until very thick and creamy.  Sift flour and salt together twice and add gradually to mixture on low speed. 
   Beat egg whites and cream of tartar together in another bowl until stiff.  Do not underbeat or allow whites to stand, but fold immediately into first mixture and pour into ungreased tube pan.  Bake at 325-350 degrees for 60-70 minutes, or until top springs back when lightly touched.  Invert pan and cool thoroughly before removing.  Delicious served with fresh fruit, ice or whipped cream, or all three.  The Wheat for Man cookbook, p. 97 recipe, is out of print.  BETTER HANG ON TO THIS, or call your EP specialist.
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Whole Wheat Bread Recipe. (Great bread at 15-cents a loaf.)

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Whole Wheat Bread Recipe.   (Great bread at 15-cents a loaf.)
 

   Ten years before Great Harvest, we raised our kids on this bread recipe. Couldn’t have made it without it.
 

   In mixing bowl blend 5 ½ cups warm water, ½ cup sweetener (honey, molasses, or sugar), ½ cup oil,
3 T. liquid lecithin, 2 T. salt, 6 cups fresh ground whole wheat flour, and ½ cup gluten flour.
On high speed mix for 5 minutes.  Add 1 T.  freeze-dried yeast (Fermapan or SAF yeast), and an additional 5-6 cups wheat flour so that the dough pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl, is thoroughly mixed, and is soft but not sticky.  Stop mixer, cover bowl with damp towel and let rest at room temperature for 90 minutes.  Empty bowl on lightly oiled counter and roll raised dough out like pie dough into 2 x 3 foot slab, ½ inch thick.  NEVER PUNCH DOUGH DOWN, or it will tighten up like a steel spring and not relax again.   Roll slab into 3 foot long log and cut into medium (or even small) length loaves.  Put in greased bread pans, and place in room temperature oven until dough raises 2-3 times its size.  Without removing, turn on oven and bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, until bread can easily be removed hot from pan and SMELLS done, not doughy.  Place loaves on rack, cover, and let cool.
   Any question about ingredients, contact (your emergency preparedness specialist). Happy, healthy eating.
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If You Can’t Eat Bread, You Might Try Cake

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – If You Can’t Eat Bread, You Might Try Cake
 

   “If you have a high roughage diet and no problems with gluten (wheat protein), your intestinal tract is buff and tough,” said the nutritionist.  “Modern refined food diets diminish basic digestive capabilities and addict people to additives as simple as common sugar.  A spoonful of sugar may make the medicine go down, but think what the sugar has already done to denigrate a diet and desire for good, wholesome foods.”
     Texture is a very important part of an efficient diet.  There is a reason for roughage and some think that course food is the answer.  Whole wheat, when ground to pastry flour fineness, still has its roughage.  So, if you aren’t up to whole grain bread because you don’t like the texture, try angel food cake.  Just make sure you grind to pastry flour fineness and use a recipe designed for fresh ground flour that has everything nature intended in it.  We’re talking good food here, and you’ll be a regular person for eating it.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
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Infectious Diseases

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Infectious Diseases
 

    The biggest threats of infectious disease after disasters don’t come from dead or decaying bodies, or even spoiled food.  They result from failure of basic public-health services:  sewage disposal and water purification.  That means disaster victims are at risk for enteric disease - intestinal illness.  The culprits:
– E. coli:  common cause of diarrhea, cramping, diminished fluids and malnutrition.
– Vibrio cholera:  mostly eradicated in the U.S., but acquired from poorly cooked shellfish in the South.
– Salmonella caused dysentery, more harsh than E coli, brings fever, and bloody and mucousy discharges.
– Typhoid fever:  Salmonella in the bowel causes high fever and dehydration to damage other organs.
    Modern medicine deals pretty well with all of these problems by prescribing antibiotics and anti-diarrheals and by aggressively replacing lost body fluids and salts intravenously to those unable to drink.  The more distant or limited the medical care, the more personal hygiene knowledge, stored resources and vigilance against exposure are essential for survival.
    So much of medical practice depends on electrical power.  No air conditioning,  no refrigeration, limited transportation and degraded hospitals could easily return medical care to the 19th century.  To have clean water to drink and to wash your hands with sanitizing soap could be most important until the doctor comes.
   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).
SEE THE NEED AND THEN PROCEED, TO BE PREPARED.

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Good Foods Sustain Good Health

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Good Foods Sustain Good Health

 

   It’s true – good foods can act like medicine, boosting your immune system and reducing cancer, heart disease, and other ailments.  Individual foods are complex packages of chemicals and compounds, but unlike pharmaceutical drugs, don’t deliver a concentrated punch to knock out a specific malady.

   Popular refined and processed foods may have little nutrition of what we expect.  Granola bars have fewer nutrients and nearly as much sugar as Pop Tarts.  1/3rd cup of banana chips has as much fat as a Big Mac.  A slice of multigrain bread has more calories and the same fiber as two chocolate chip cookies.

   What are the dependable good foods with the most medicinal value?  Apples, asparagus, avocado, banana, barley, beans, bell peppers, blueberries, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, celery, chili pepper, cinnamon, clove, collard greens, corn, cranberries, dates, eggplant, fish, garlic, ginger, grapefruit, grapes, kale, melons, mushroom, mustard, nuts, oats, olive oil, onion, orange, parsley, plums, potatoes, pumpkin, raspberries, rice, soybeans, spinach, strawberries, sweet potato, teas, tomato, watermelon, wheat, yogurt, . . . . . I didn’t say you would like them all.  But, I certainly feel better now about my chocolate chip cookies.

   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist).

SEE THE NEED AND THEN PROCEED, TO BE PREPARED.

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10 Safety Musts for the Home.

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – 10 Safety Musts for the Home.

  1. Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors
  2. Fire extinguishers easily accessible and located away from hazard areas
  3. First aid supplies and kits for vehicles
  4. Flash lights and/or chem.-lights for power outages
  5. Utilities shut off tools and instructions for water, gas, and electricity
  6. A family evacuation plan, including emergency phone numbers
  7. A sturdy step stool
  8. Rubber-backed mats and non-slip throw rugs
  9. Grab bars and non-slip appliqués in bath facilities
  10. Indoor nightlights and sensor-triggered outdoor area lights.

   For more information contact (your emergency preparedness specialist.)

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Give Big Rig Truckers a Brake. . .

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Give Big Rig Truckers a Brake. . .

 

   And they will probably wind up in the trunk of your car.
   Some interesting facts about those huge semi-trucks and those who drive them:

  • At 40 mph a partially loaded semi requires over 185 feet to stop.  A mini-van – 70 feet.
  • Professional drivers have 4:1 fewer accidents than other drivers.
  • There are 188 million vehicles on U.S. highways.  On the open Interstate about 40% are semis.
  • Semi drivers cannot log more than 70 driving hours in an 8-day period, and most do.
  • Most drive between 450-600 miles a day, or around 250,000 per year.
  • 77% of U.S. cities depend solely on trucking for getting goods to market.
  • It would take 5 days to bring the country to a standstill without trucking.

   After 9/11, 5,000 planes in the air were grounded by regulators in under three hours, and that industry was shut down for over a week.  We learned that what happens elsewhere quickly has local effects.  If regulators stopped all trucks for some reason, could you be self-sustaining until they get rolling again?

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We Have to Pay Taxes, . . . don’t we?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – We Have to Pay Taxes, . . . don’t we?
 

   “That which is taxed decreases, while that which is subsidized increases.”  Legislators know this rule well.  Governments need revenue, but will offer tax breaks to encourage things that promote self-sufficiency, valuable social and environmental policies, retirement, and charitable giving.
   If you knew that it only cost $.78 for every dollar you gave to charity, would you be more giving?  In higher income brackets, $.65 of every dollar given is all you will miss.  State and Federal taxes you would have lost, aren’t – and go with your contribution of take-home pay somewhere of your choosing.

   Tax sheltered money storage (retirement) plans are wise to participate in, and many can actually help you get out of debt by allowing you low interest loans of the assets.  You can own your own mortgage.
   Over 80% of all assets are owned by retirees over age 65 who can no longer save to beat taxes.  Charitable giving can still let them decide where untaxed money goes, thereby lowering their taxes and doing good where they see fit.  All expenses associated with donated time are also deductible.
   Blessings can follow giving, especially to those who give to 501-C-3 organizations.  Not for profit groups include all Churches and everything given in Tithing and Other Offerings is tax deductible. 
   Charitable giving today is better than during the Savior’s time.  Caesar offered no tax breaks at all.
   For more information contact your Bishop, CPA, financial or retirement plan administrator.
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Things We Keep.

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Emergency Preparedness – Things We Keep.
 

   I grew up in the late 40’s – baby boomer from practical, hard working parents.  My mother washed aluminum foil and reused it before recycling was ever a word.  Dad felt better in resoled shoes than  new ones.  Both were great at making do and fixing things – curtain rods, window screens, oven door, lawn mower, hem in a dress – things we’d keep.  That was our way of life, and it sometimes made me crazy.
   All that fixing, repairing, renewing:  I wanted just once to be wasteful.  Waste meant affluence.  Throwing things away meant you knew there’d be more.  A new replacement was always better.
   But some things you don’t throw away.  You learn to work hard, make do, and be grateful for good food, your marriage, children with bad report cards, adequate clothes and aging parents.  You see, if you strip away all that stuff that’s worth keeping, you’ll just accumulate a bunch of junk that’s not.  Plain and simple, the things we work for most we’re willing to give up least.  Conserve and preserve to keep your family together, regardless of the difficulties.  Food, clothing, and home – the rest is fluff.  Cherish, provide and spend time with the “keepers” in your life.   It will make your life important, and rich.
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