Emergency Preparedness – Sizable Seismic Events Worldwide 284,010 people died in 2004, and 89,354 in 2005, in earthquakes, Utah’s biggest threat. An earthquake is Mother Nature exercising her option to reshuffle resources. She is quite regular about it, too. During the week ending 2/3/2006, there were 146 quakes in the world of 2.5+, 62 quakes were greater than 4.0, and one was 6.7 on the Richter scale. Of the total, 85 quakes were in the US with…
Emergency Preparedness – WHEAT MAY NOT BE GOOD FOR YOU, MAN ! ! ! Thomas Brunoski, MD and specialist in food allergies and nutritional medicine in Westport, Connecticut, says of gluten intolerance (also known as Celiac disease), “. . .more than two million Americans may be gluten-intolerant, and most don’t know it. When such a person eats gluten – found in wheat, rye, and barley – the small intestine becomes inflamed and nutrients are not absorbed properly. Classic…
Emergency Preparedness – Understanding the Evils of Weevils “They are all over. They must have come in somehow from outside,” said my mother to the installer. “We’ll underlay your new cabinets with DDT and your kitchen will be weevil free forever,” he replied. DDT was not the answer. Why? Because microscopic insect eggs are in all grain products from the field and no amount of processing or refining can get them out. With heat for incubation…
Emergency Preparedness – Anyone Need an Abacus? Time was then memory was something you lost with age, an application was filled out for employment, a program was a TV show, a cursor used very bad language, a keyboard was on a piano, a web was a spider’s home, a virus caused the flu, a CD was a bank savings account, a hard drive was a grueling road trip, a mouse pad was where a mouse lived, and bits…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Emergency Preparedness – Unimix and Atmit. The LDS Church’s food relief effort in African and East Asian nations had an abysmal start when wheat was identified as “too high test” a food to save near starving souls in metabolic distress. “Malnourished little children and the elderly cannot digest whole grains and foods made with course flour. To recover, their stressed and tender digestive systems require frequent feedings of easily digestible food in small amounts,” said a Welfare Services…
Emergency Preparedness – Infants Farewell The following is text from a SITREP from William Griffith, 315th Wing Deployment Officer and Shelter Commander of 731 people, Keesler AFB, Miss., DAY THREE (30 Aug 05) of Hurricane Katrina: “. . . SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT. Most critical shortfalls: food, diapers, baby food, and feminine hygiene products. Issue MREs for adults. Assign “Baby POC” (Person Of Command) to track baby supplies. Develop new metric for morning/evening briefings – diaper burn rate. 17…