Saturday, September 30, 2006

60-things a man should never do after he hits 30'

"Okay ladies I had to post this made me chuckle, pass it on to those men you know that fit this profile!!
1. Coin his own nickname.
2. Use a wallet that is fastened with Velcro.
3. Rank his friends in order of best, second best, and so on.
4. Hacky sack.
5. Name his "private part" his name plus junior.
6. Hang art with tape.
7. Hang The Scream, unless he stole it from the Munch museum in Oslo.
8. Ask a policeman, "You ever shoot anybody with that thing?"
9. Ask a woman, "Hey, you got a license for that ass?"
10. Skip.
11. Take a camera to a nude beach.
12. Let his father do his taxes.
13. Tap on the glass.
14. Shout out a response to "Are you ready to rock?"
15. Use the word collated on his resume.
16. Hold a weekly house meeting with roommates.
17. Name pets after Middle Earth characters.
18. Jokingly flash gang signs while posing for wedding photos.
19. Give shout-outs.
20. Use numbers in place of words or locations, such as "the 411" for information, or "the 313" for Detroit.
21. Hug amusement-park characters.
22. Wear Disney-themed neckties.
23. Date or move in with a women just because you don't want to be alone.
24. Compare the trajectory of his life with those of the characters in Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant."
25. Request extra sprinkles.
26. Air drum.
27. Choose 69 as his jersey number.
28. Eat Oreo cookies in stages.
29. Volunteer to be a magician's assistant.
30. Sleep on a bare mattress.
31. End a conversation with "later skater."
32. Hold his lighter up at a concert.
33. Publicly greet friends by shouting, "What's up, you whore?"
34. Wear Converse All Stars with a tuxedo.
35. Propose via stadium Jumbotron.
36. Decide anything based on the ruminations of Howard Stern.
37. Call "shotgun" before getting in a car.
38. Dispute someone else's call of "shotgun."
39. Whine.
40. Mist up during Aerosmith's "Dream On."
41. Purchase fireworks.
42. Google the word vagina.
43. Ride a pony.
44. Sport an ironic mustache.
45. Hit 13 against a 6.
46. Organize a party bus.
47. Say "two points" every time he throws something in the trash.
48. Buy a novelty postcard in another country of topless women on a beach and write, "Wish you were here" on it.
49. Keg stands.
50. Purchase home-brewing paraphernalia.
51. The John Travolta point-to-the-ceiling-point-to-the-floor dance move; also that one from Pulp Fiction.
52. Put less than ten dollars' worth of gas in the tank.
53. Keep a minuscule amount of marijuana extremely well hidden.
54. Read The Fountainhead.
55. Watch the Pink Floyd laser light show at a planetarium.
56. Refer to his girlfriend's breasts as "the twins."
57. Own a vanity plate.
58. Whippits.
59. Say goodbye to anyone by tapping his chest and even so much as whispering, "Peace out."
60. Last but least, tell a women he loves her while in bed or if he is trying to get her in bed for sex "if he don't really mean it!!"
Things A Man Should Never Do Past The Age of One
Buy Jasper Jacobs, age 17 month, Get circumcised, Spend more than ten minutes looking at a checkerboard pattern (exception: peyote & potheads)Look longingly at his mother's breasts(or any women's breast when hungry), Urinate in his mouth(or anyone else's),Be terrified of Mr. Noodle on Elmo's World, Cry at the sight of a wooden spoon, Eat pureed Wheat Thins, Suck on the corner of a laptop, Go willingly into the arms of strangers, Lose neck control, Have a favorite Higglytown Hero, "Make nice.",Wear a unitard, Read The Fountainhead."

Friday, September 29, 2006

Snakes on my head! In the grass! In my home

msnbc.msn.com:" Idaho couple’s fixer-upper turns out to be crawling with serpents : Wilford, Idaho - The Hepworths knew the house would require some maintenance. But they never thought they'd need a snake charmer.Shortly after Lyman and Jeanine Hepworth began working on a rundown property outside of town, they experienced a trauma more fit for Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Snakes on a Plane" than a pair of eastern Idaho do-it-yourselfers. Snakes, perhaps thousands of them, fell on Lyman Hepworth's head when he opened the door to a pump house near the small house the couple planned to buy. When it warmed up, we walked onto the yard and the whole yard moved," Jeanine Hepworth told the Rexburg Standard Journal, In Rexburg Idaho.
One day, Lyman Hepworth reached to turn on a light and discovered the pull cord was actually a snake. Last March, the Hepworths were having money troubles. Struggling to pay off their medical bills and make house payments, they sold their old home. They planned to buy a home and a couple of outbuildings from an acquaintance on a few acres outside tiny Wilford. Then they found the snakes — in the lawn, in the living room and in their hair.
Winter sanctuary: Turns out the property was a winter snake sanctuary, likely a snake den or hibernaculum where snakes gather in large numbers to hibernate for the winter, said Lauri Hanauska-Brown, a biologist with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
In the spring and summer: the snakes fan out across the wilds of eastern Idaho, but as the days get shorter and cooler, the snakes return to the resting place — in this case, the Hepworth's new home — where they ball up for heat. The snakes are likely a terrestrial garter snake, Hanauska-Brown said. Reptiles are a protected species meaning the Hepworths cannot bait them or kill them, she said.
The couple has not contacted Fish and Game to move the garters, Hanauska-Brown said. The department would attempt to move the snakes, but it could be difficult because if they move them too far they would die and if they move them close by the snakes would likely return to hibernate, she said.
‘That sounds kind of Indiana Jonesish’"They are used to going there and kind of balling up," Hanauska-Brown told The Associated Press. "That sounds kind of Indiana Jonesish. But this is a natural thing."
The Hepworths never moved in, but Lyman Hepworth's brother is still making payments, though the seller offered to refund their money when he found out about the infestation.
Their plan: They sent a videotape of the house, their children and, of course, the snakes to the producers of "Extreme Home Makeover," in hopes the television show would send its decorators in for a filmed renovation.
The video showed snakes slithering on the back porch, climbing up the foundation and a ball of snakes on the side of the home, Jeanine Hepworth said.
The couple will not find out if the show chooses their reptile refuge for a fix-up challenge until next year.
Meanwhile, summer has turned to fall. And the snakes that have been out for the summer are making their way back to Hepworth's little home in Wilford."

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Advice & Rules About Love

"PERSONALLY I THINK THIS COULD WORK FOR BOTH WOMEN OR MEN IF A MAN IS WONDERING IF HE IS WITH THE WRONG WOMEN...JUST AS IT HELPS WOMEN I THINK LOVE RULES GO BOTH WAYS!!
The Ten Most Dangerous Mistakes YOU Probably Make With Men And What To Do About It...Here Are The Top Ten Reasons Why Women Keep Themselves From Living The Love Life Of They're Dreams. And How To Make Sure You Avoid Every One Of Them...
MISTAKE #1: Betting Your Love Life On His “Potential”
Do you know any women who want the man they're dating to behave differently? Of course you do. And just like me, I'm sure you have friends who date guys who don't have much going for them or who don't treat them very well. Somehow these women always have an excuse for the guy's shortcomings. What's going on here It's actually very simple. Women (and men) don't base their choices of men on how "nice" or "good" someone is to them day-to-day. Women choose the men they do because they feel a powerful GUT LEVEL ATTRACTION for them. And guess what? Some women will continue to put up with a guy that doesn't treat them very well Sometimes for months or years...But why in the world would a woman do that!? Well, to put it simply, they confuse the strong attraction they feel for the guy with a deeper "connection". Women who do this are doomed to end up in failed relationships with the "wrong" guys. Thinking back on past dating and relationships I've had, and all the women I knew they did too...all the while hoping that this person they cared about would somehow change. The potential for something better and the potential to change and be a better lover, boyfriend, companion or whatever...But deep down women believed that if they tried hard enough, that it would make up for what was lacking. They believed that they could become someone else with them.... and that this would be easy. Talk about a losing battle. It doesn't make a lot of "logical" sense...But until you accept that lots of women do this AND that YOU could be doing it on some level, you'll NEVER have the success with men that you choose and want.
MISTAKE #2: Assuming You“Get” Men & Their Psychology Men are different from women. You need to accept this fact, and deal with it. When a woman sees a man, she can very quickly pick apart certain things about his style, body language, status and character that will tell her all kinds of things about him. Lot's of women don't even consciously see that they do this because the process is so obvious and simple for them. But does the same apply for men? As you probably already know, men are generally more visual. As a result, they often don't understand non-verbal communication as well as women. And men often lack what women have in emotional awareness and "intuition". Women don't seem to remember this about men. So do men feel sexually attracted to women based just on looks? Or is something else going on? I can tell you that men have their "attraction mechanisms" triggered by things OTHER than looks. Especially when it comes to longer term relationships. Looks just happen to be the most obvious way...But looks are NOT the most powerful. If you know how to use your body language AND communication correctly, you can make men feel the same kind of powerful sexual attraction to you that YOU feel when you see that hot, great looking guy that you got to know. But it's not an accident.You have to LEARN how to do this, use how you feel about this man and put it in your body moves and show him....
MISTAKE #3: Pretending To Be Something For A Man In the desire to please a man, women are constantly doing things to get a man's attention, to get him to like them or to make him more attracted or in love with them. Another HORRIBLE idea. Lots of women mistakenly think that doing unusual things to try and get a guys attention will make him magically see what a great catch they are and want to be with them. Wrong. Men YOU TRULY WANT are never attracted to the types of women who kiss up to them, make weak plays for affection or complain to get what they want... EVER. Don't get me wrong here. Things like being sexy for a man or encouraging him to share his feelings can be good, but it has to be genuine, unselfish, and most of all timely. You don't have to act like an "easy" woman for men to like you, and you certainly don't have to play like he's some gift to the Earth. Doing these things actually works to subtly, at an subconscious level, lower your social status with a man, which has EVERYTHING to do with how he sees you as a woman. For a man's approval, find your way into his heart through sex and being yourself and mean what you say or do with him, because he'll know...
MISTAKE #4: Sharing How You“Feel” Too Early With Him Another huge and unfortunate mistake that most women make with men is sharing how they "feel" too early on. Listen..Attractive, single, successful men are rare. They get a LOT of attention from women. Most women don't realize this, but attractive men are being approached in one way or another all the time by women. And guess what? Attractive men have usually dated a lot of women. That's right. They have EXPERIENCE. They know what to expect. And one thing that turns an attractive men off and sends him running away faster than just about anything...It's a woman who starts saying "You know, I really, REALLY like you" after one or two dates. This signals to the man that you're just like one of those "clingy" stereotype women who want to rush into a relationship, get married and have a baby and can't control yourself from wanting a man to fulfill them and complete their lives. This does NOT spell ATTRACTION for a man. Don't do it. Lean back. Relax. There's a much better way...
MISTAKE #5: Misreading The Important “Signals” That Men Send Men are constantly communicating how they feel about a woman and giving away big secrets about themselves. Most women don't pay attention to these signals or recognize them for what they really are. The signals men send have 4 main levels:
1) Social: Where the man is at in his own life - stability, confidence, direction
2) Emotional: Whether or not he's "emotionally available"
3) Physical: If he's attracted to you... and for what reasons
4) Love State: If he's open to building and growing a relationship in the future The funny thing is that men send signals in these areas completely on accident. That's great news to women...Men can't help it! You need to learn to recognize these signals to get anywhere serious with a man.
MISTAKE #6: Relying OnYour Natural Ability To Judge A Man's Character People aren't easy to figure out. Especially men. The last several years of my life I've spent hundreds of hours learning to understand people. I've studied peoples behavior, "inner psychology" and more specifically how they think and act when they're dating. From what I've seen, both men and women have their own secret ways of saying things. But you can only see these secret communications if you know what to look for. Women communicate with hints, body language, sarcasm, and flirting when they're first getting to know a man. They can either directly or indirectly let men know if they're open to something more serious. Men are different. Men generally communicate with sarcasm, humor, cockyness and other "indirect" displays of status. VERY RARELY will a man be able to honestly communicate to a woman whether or not he's ready or capable of developing a meaningful relationship. Aside from their sexual interests, men send very indirect signals about where they're at. If you don't know how to read through the signals men send, then you'll get the wrong message. Getting the wrong messages from men causes women more pain and heartache than any other issue around. You can avoid this pain if you learn to indentify a good man from a bad one.
MISTAKE #7: Expecting A Relationship To Make You Happy A mistake I've seen women make is thinking a guy will change her life and make her happy and fulfilled. And sure, there are situations and relationships where this happens. But those are the exceptions, not the rule. Nothing says "Run!" to a man faster than hearing or sensing that a woman immediately wants him to take care of her. And the men who ARE looking for this kind of situation aren't exactly the most healthy, loving, nurturing people out there. Think, "controlling, macho, or serious Mom Issues!" So let me be clear... I think it's important that people help fulfill each other in their lives, whether it's dating, a relationship, whatever. But if a woman communicates that she's looking for a guy to take care of her, complete her, make her whole, and all that kind of stuff - it has a VERY negative effect on what the man will think of her. It doesn't have to be spoken by the woman either... If a woman thinks or feels this way, the man will see it and pick up on it, regardless. This is arguably the worst thing a woman can do early on when dating a man. So what can you do as a woman? You can get the man interested and involved in your life in a more "natural" way, where he'll be motivated to make you care about your happiness and fulfillment on his own. This is the only way it really works for people - male or female. Self-motivation is much stronger than external motivation. But you have to know how to create this situation with a man... and it rarely happens by accident.
MISTAKE #8: Trying To “Convince”Him To Like You Or Love You What do most women do when they meet a man that they REALLY like... but he's just not that interested or isn't as serious? Right! They try to "convince" the man to feel differently. Well, I have news for you... YOU WILL NEVER CHANGE HOW A MAN "FEELS" WHEN IT COMES TO ATTRACTION! Never, ever, ever. You cannot convince a man to feel differently about you with "logic and reasoning". Think about it. If a man doesn't "feel it" for you, how in the world do you expect to change that by being "reasonable" with him? But we all do it. Men are the worst at this by the way. They're always complimenting women who don't like them and buying them gifts. Women like the behavior sometimes, but it NEVER makes the woman like the man. She might enjoy what she gets out of it, but it doesn't change the way she FEELS about him. When a man just isn't interested, women will try and chase, compliment, convince and do their best to change his mind with logical and rational approaches. Bad idea. Another one that will never work.
MISTAKE #9: Not Knowing What To Do In Each Type Of Situation A man has a clear idea of what he wants from a woman... And I don't mean just sex. I know, it might be hard to believe, but if you're out on a date with a man, he already has an idea of what he wants from you. And if you don't know HOW to find this out, and you just sit there looking at him and flirting, or trying things you think will make him want you, he won't help! If you don't know what to do in each situation, you'll probably screw it up... and LOSE EVERYTHING.
MISTAKE #10: Not Getting Help This is the biggest mistake of all. This mistake keeps women from EVER having the kind of success and finding the kind of man and relationship that they truly want. I know, you don't like to make yourself look weak or helpless. We don't like to ask for help. Hey, I've been there myself, and I'm not proud of who I was for the sake of a man. It frustrated the hell out of me and I made the decision to do whatever it took to help other women get rid of that sick, insecure feeling... the one you get when you're lonely, you've been hurt or lied to, or when a man you have feelings for says "he's not ready". You don't have to be afraid you might wind up being lied to, cheated on or that you'll end up alone. Because like the old saying goes...There is another man just down the road from where you left the last one, You just need to walk forward and not look back!!!...P.S. I found this on the web and saved it to use someday and today, I think is the day it needs to be said. Pass this on or save it if it helps you to understand things better, because I do believe that everyone of us have someone just waiting to meet us, and who knows maybe the next date we go may be the one. If not remember what you read here...Good Luck!!"

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Counseling & A New Beginning

"I need to learn to start doing things for myself and relax a bit. Been doing a lot of soul searching within myself with help from therapy now. I became a single women again in my heart (now the second time with the same man). I told my long time love I wouldn't be the second women in his life, or just a sex pleasure place for him to feel better about with no strings to me. Trying to figure out what happen within me, and why I seem to hold on to the love I have had for this man the last 4-years as to not repeat it again with my next man I before I should start to date, or trust again may take some time least for me.
What I have found out as a women and about myself is, that we tend to over look a lot of things men do or make excuse to or about with relationship with them, so as we don't have to be alone. I know a lot of you may say ...Oh I would never do something like that, because I like who I am more then I like the man I'm dating. Not true I feel then you have not met that one man that can make you do or say things that you look back on and say...Where the hell was my head and what was I thinking, it wasn't loving him for nothing more, what a fool I made of byself to sink so low.. !!
Thinking about it and be honest is what I found I had to do, because I looked back and thought? How did I let myself get to this point in my life? Well it didn't happen over night it was a slow process over time I found I was starting to trust him again and my love for him was still there. Till Last night when he told me in the same breath he missed making love with me and talked about the details of our love making and how he said he never hide the women he was dating now from me, and he was falling in love with her!! Boy was that a slap in the face.Not that he was still in love with me and and wanted to be close to me sexually, but just lets have sex,with no strings!! BUT !! I love someone else but you'll do like a (common whore) Because that was what I miss most about being with you....(Yes this is what I heard him say to me over the phone) Really made me feel like a nobody at that moment I heard him speak.
I told him he had hurt me and I maybe we should not talk ever again after hearing that....GOD!! It hurts so bad to hear those words thru the phone from this man, I thought he loved me as much as I still loved him...I am such a fool to almost agree to have sex with him because I thought he still loved me, but needed some time to trust me again and sort things out with this other women............................ But then came the next phase in this strange thing I did to myself in the name of love!! I thought I could stop it and change time back, to when we were a couple again and no one would know or get hurt! WRONG!!
Don't work like that...Wish it did, but it don't. Then that's when it happens you suddenly figure it out, you were so busy trying to show this man you are in love and want to be a part of their life again. Then by that time it has become to late ...Least it was for me. I was confused because I didn't want to lose him, I thought, when I had already lost him but to stupid to look at myself...
So That day we all wish we never had to have happened, and I and my lover parted ways..I was sad, cried, felt sorry for myself. But I had no one to blame but me, because I allowed it to get to the point it did and I gave control of me away to someone else all in the name of love.
Anyway I had to take a hard look at myself and make me learn to take better control of who I am and what I want in life, I need to keep reminding myself. I am worth loving and any man that I allow into my life will enjoy and be happy I picked him to share my love with, unless I want to be back here where I am coming from today, and I worth a hell of alot more then I gave myself...."

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Your Worth

" If you want something truly worth living for, then learn what it means to live for something that is capable of returning the love you give it."

Monday, September 25, 2006

What is Love anyway??

" Well again I have stupid egg on my face!! I broke up with this man back in May that I having been seeing for the last 4-years for a number of reasons, only to stupidly start talk with him again over the last month and thinking that he was feeling the same as me....NOT!! Here's just a few of the things I was dealing with since the first of the year.. I was going thru some heavy Legal stuff with my 16-yr. Old son that was killing any joy or money I had the last 8-months, he dated this girl last summer right after we moved to a new town for about a month till he found out she was not really the age she said she was. Guess he really liked her till he found out. Then it scared him and he broke it off. Which turned into a very ugly thing 8-months later when we got served with court papers saying she was preg. Well we did all the rope jumping thru the system, at this time I found out they had been having sex. Only to find out after he stood up to what he thought he did, he wasn't even the father of this girls baby! But it's to late now because he plead guilty to sleeping with her, even tho they both were under 18. The courts say it is against the Law for anyone under the age to have sex! So they gave him one year at a youth center, which is 6-hours drive from where I live. I am really sad for him because so many of our teenage kids are having sex, but yet he was the one that told the truth and is now being punished..Just hurts me to have him go thru this, but I tell myself and him that this is good for him because he told the truth and hopefully he will learn from what has happen.
Then my other child she's (19-yrs.) moved a guy into live with her that ended bad for her. In some ways but in others not, she is now 10-wks preg. And moved back in to my house as her and this guy broke up because he was cheating on her with her so-called girlfriends (some friends is what I told her) because she was really scared about what was happening to her and the fact that she was now alone.
Then I and my soon to be husband, who I was suppose to finally marry in Aug. Are fighting about all my problems with my kids, which just made everything worse for me to deal with. Well according to him this was the real deal breaker on why we broke up, because I told someone we both new that we were getting married and they told someone who contacted him, and told him what they heard. Well long story short , he didn't tell them the same thing I did about us getting married, said the date was off or something. Not really sure how he put it but it was quite clear to me that he didn't want to marry me I felt and I was hurt and broke it off with him. Yes I know I did it a crappy way, I dumped him while he was on vacation back east on the phone because I was very hurt. Well I tried to move on and get over him, but it hurt really bad and I missed talking with him and being with him.
But I did try for 2-months having no contact with him, but then I thought maybe I could talk to him and it would finally be okay or maybe he would miss me as much as I had missed him. Well he moved on with this women that his family tried to hook him up with while we were still dating!! Yes 4-months before I broke up with him they did this, guess I wasn't worthy of him in their eyes is all I can figure out as I never did nothing to them. I tried to get to know them from what I understood they was not going to happen. Any way he started going out with this women after we broke up and now he tell me tonight that he is falling in Love with her!! Bit yet has been talking to me over the last month on the phone about really personal things between us, and calls me tonight to tell me that him talking to me is causing problem with his new girlfriend and him in his head because he thinks about me and him in bed a lot...
But he Loves her and I need to back off, more or less. Well I had said to him I thought he loved me still like I still loved him and he then told me that he was falling in love with this women who he has been dating for 2-month, not that he still had feeling for me but that he loved her!! Well this ended bad for me I told him I was hurt and I thought it was best maybe we shouldn't talk at all if that was how he really felt and I said fine and he said fine as we both were very angry at this point and we hung-up our phone call ( as we now live in different towns as I moved.)
So I ask you what is love any way and how do you know if it is ever real? And If someone says they Loved you for over 4-yrs, how do they just stop loving you so fast? Maybe he never did love me just told me that to make me happy? Because I don't seem to move on as fast as he did, and can't understand why I can't stop caring for this ASS!! Now I ask myself, what did I ever see in him to want to love him??
And why can't I just find a man that really wants to love a women who is willing to treat him like a king of her world if she feels loved by him. And who wants to spend his life with only me and sharing good or bad times together and still caring for one another.
So to all the people out there who happen to come across my blog or are readers of it, tell me where are all the good guys that want a women to care about them and love them? If you know of a guy who is worth of dating and you approve of him send him my way....Because this women has a whole lot of body and love to give to the right man!!
Because I am tired of being a nobody this man I have cared about, he has moved on it's time I did the same and stop making a fool out of myself....."

Do You Have Bad Breath?

"My daughters friend came over last week and I felt so bad, because she had the most foul odor coming out of her mouth!! In fact the min. She entered the room the smell just seem to float around her, I tried really hard not to say anything but it got harder and harder. Well she kept moving closer to me every time I would get up and move away, so finally I had to say sometime to her and it made myself and her feel really bad!! Well I told her it wasn't her fault but I wasn't trying to be rude but her breath was making me want to throw-up!! So I found this and thought?? I wonder if anyone else has had this happen to them, sides if I had stinky breath I would want someone who cares about me enough to let me know, because this young girl didn't think or smell anything like we did.
So!! ...If you are one of 90 million Americans suffering from chronic bad breath, here are some of the possible causes, as well as remedies to restore your fresh breath and relationships.

Top Five Causes of Bad Breath
1.
A dirty mouth. Ninety percent of mouth odors come from mouth itself either from the food you eat or bacteria thats already there. Mouth odor is like any other body odor the result of microbes living in the body giving off byproducts. In the mouth, this means bacteria that normally live in the mouth interact with food particles, blood, tissue, etc., to create volatile (i.e., stinky) sulfur compounds. If you don't clean properly, the bacteria build up, and next thing you know ...That's not toothpaste on your tongue
2. A mouth out of balance. Certain mouth conditions can exacerbate bacterial growth and odor, such as gum disease and dry mouth. Gum disease causes bloody gums, creating more elements for those pesky bacteria to putrefy. But it is a dry mouth that is the more common cause of bad breath. Saliva helps flush out the mouth, keeping bacteria moving so they don't settle down and multiply, while drier mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria. In spring and summer, allergy medications can dry you out; in winter, dry heat tends to be the culprit.
3. Stinky foods. If it stinks going in, chances are it's going to stink coming out. The obvious offenders are onions, garlic, alcohol and tobacco. And foods don't only create a stench in the mouth. Plant oils are absorbed and the byproducts enter your bloodstream so you are actually breathing the odors out via your lungs three to four hours later.
4. Not enough carbs. You look great after four weeks on Atkins, so how come you still can't get a date? High-protein, low-carb diets cause your body to burn stored fats for fuel instead of carbs and can lead to a condition called ketosis. As fat burns, ketones build up in the body, and some are released through breath. Unfortunately ketones don't smell particularly good. And bad breath trumps six-pack abs.
5. Illness. Occasionally, bad breath can be a sign of a more serious illness. The most common systemic causes of bad breath are diabetes or GERD (or gastro esophageal reflux disease). Diabetes can also cause ketosis, and the resulting bad breath is sometimes one of first symptoms that lead to diagnosis. GERD is a backflow of acid from the stomach to the esophagus. Less common but possible are liver or kidney disease, when toxins from these organs are excreted through the lungs, causing bad breath.
Top Five Cures
1
. Keep it clean. Gum, breath mints, mouthwash these are all helpful stopgaps, but they won't cure bad breath. The way to get rid of bad breath for most of us is to brush, floss and tongue scrape twice a day. Yes, for fresh breath, the key is tongue scraping. You can brush and floss till the cows come home, but it won't help unless you get way back. A tongue scraper is available at most drugstores. Doctor's swears it helped when they are suffering from bad. For most of us, brushing, flossing and tongue scraping twice a day will control bad breath.
2. Keep it moist. The best way to keep the right saliva balance is to drink plenty of water or liquids. To prevent dry mouth in winter, use a humidifier. If you snore or suffer from postnasal drip, try saline nasal spray to keep nasal passages moist.
3. Watch what you eat. Avoiding the main offenders (onion, garlic, tobacco, coffee, etc.) is the best way to avoid food-related bad breath. Research suggests certain foods can help: Two cups of tea a day can prevent bad breath for some. The polyphenols, a plant chemical in tea, may prevent growth of bacteria responsible for bad breath. You can also chew parsley, which seems to curb offending smells from other foods and bacteria. And cranberries may eliminate offensive smells and make the bacteria less sticky, which makes plaque is less likely to form. Sugarless gums that contain xylotol may kill some bacteria and help reduce plaque.
4. Eat some carbs. Apparently the only way to help the ketosis caused by low-carb diets is to eat some carbs. Recommends fruits, vegetables and whole grains over frosted doughnuts.
5. See your doctor. If tongue scraping and carbo-loading doesn't do the trick, check with your doctor to see if he or she suspects a more serious cause. Diabetes, GERD or other diseases require specific diagnoses and treatments. One more thing good luck to everyone hope this helps you as much as it helped me!"

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

I'm Back !!

Hello....Just, stopping in to say I finally got my computer hooked back up and plan on spending some more time writing here. But not tonight, it's late and I need to go to bed. But plan on doing some thought writing for awhile to figure out what is going on in my head, Oh! this is just a reminded to myself to start writing again. ...Nite...zzzz