Healthy People     by Desiree_Richardson

Veriuni Hair & Body Shampoo
Veriuni Hair & Body Shampoo leaves the skin and hair feeling silky clean. Conditions as it cleanses for tangle-free hair.

Veriuni Hand Soap
A super-concentrated hand and body soap gentle enough for babies and safe for most skin types.

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How common cleaning products could be a ticking time bomb in your home or office!

If your home or office is typical, it already has dozens of cleaning and personal care products that contain harmful chemicals. Recent studies have revealed that most households/offices contain over 63 hazardous products that together contain hundreds of chemicals. These chemicals have the potential to greatly harm or even kill your children, your pets and you, should they accidentally not be used with the utmost caution.

Could these tragedies happen in your home or office?
When little Jennifer Smith of Salt Lake City, UT was but a year old she crawled over to the dishwasher while her mother was unloading the dishes. She put her small finger in the detergent dispensing cup and ate a finger full of wet but un-dissolved commercial dish detergent. In minutes her face was red and blistered, the inside of her mouth and tongue were burned white. Luckily she was rushed to a nearby hospital emergency room for quick medical attention. She recovered in a few days.

Another documented case was a 20 month old boy who had to be fed through tubes for five months and suffered through many operations. Again, the culprit was dishwasher detergent.

This is only two of thousands of cases reflecting children ingesting and being exposed to, what most consider common household products, terrible life threatening consequences.

It is estimated that the U.S. Poison Control Center has nearly 1.5 million reported cases of accidental ingestion of poisons every year. Sadly most of these cases were under 12 years of age.

Have you ever wondered what the strong odor in the cleaners isle of your supermarket is?
Ingestion is only one of three major ways that these products enter the body. Inhalation is even for more dangerous because when breathed in these harmful chemicals go directly into the blood stream and can quickly affect the lungs, heart, brain liver and kidneys.

By the way, that strong smell in your supermarket cleaner isle is caused by what industry experts describe as "out gassing". Out gassing is the vapors escaping from the "sealed" containers on the supermarkets shelves. Which obviously are extremely harmful to your health.

Have you ever been literally driven out of your bathroom shower while using one of the most popular tile cleaners? These types of cleaners must contain strong chemicals in order to do the job. The job may get done but you are at risk from the strong vapors that are generated. By the time you have exited the bathroom the chemical vapors have entered your blood stream and are wrecking havoc with your health.

Where are your rubber gloves?
Do you know that one square centimeter of skin (the size of a dime) contains 3 million cells and 4 yards of nerves? How do you think nicotine and hormone replacement patches work? Do the chemicals somehow enter the body from the patch through the skin to do their work? Of course they do.

This same absorption occurs every time a cleaning product touches your skin. By the way, if your baby happens to crawl across your nicely scrubbed kitchen floor, even several days after, the skin will pick up and absorb whatever harmful chemicals happen to be in the cleaner.

Consumer Beware!

Why isn't the consumer informed and protected from the potentially dangerous chemicals contained in cleaning and personal care products?

The government has very limited power to regulate and require proper testing.
Products that kill 50% of lab animals can still get designated as "non-toxic".
Of 17,000 household chemicals only about 5,100, or approximately 30%, have been adequately tested and less than 10% have been tested on the nervous system.
No law requires manufactures to list the exact ingredients on the package label.

Veriuni All Natural Cleaners!
Just imagine your peace of mind if you never had to be concerned again about your family suffering from the misuse of harmful cleaning chemicals.

Veriuni's environmentally safe cleaning products provide a powerful answer to the harm that ingestion, inhalation and absorption of common household products. Veriuni's products combine all-natural ingredients and vigorous cleaning action for the ultimate in consumer safety and environmental health.

All-natural, gentle and powerful, Veriuni Cleaning Products use only citrus-based oils, as well as ingredients from corn and other replenish able materials. They contain no dyes, artificial fragrances, or pesticide residues. Even our packaging and labels are constructed solely from recycled materials.

The news is incredible, Veriuni's line of environmentally safe cleaning products work like no other cleansers on the market today. Consumers everywhere, including those at businesses, hospitals and schools are switching to environmentally, safe, effective cleaners to increase health among family members, clients and employees.

"Our company has been using the All Purpose Cleaner for over four years now. It has no hazardous chemicals and my employees love the fresh orange scent. Your cleaner is truly an all in one product that works on every surface in our bakery from floors, walls, equipment, counters, baking pans and dishes."
B. Rooden

Just how good are these cleaners?
The Veriuni formula is used exclusively by the over 30 National Parks, a few which include Yellowstone, Grant Teton and Yosemite. The formula was also chosen by the City of Santa Monica after conducting tests for the most effective and environmentally safe cleansers for the city's cleaning needs. Warner Brothers and Fox Studios, the University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ and world-famous resorts have also chosen these products to clean their facilities. And most recently, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is testing these same products for use on its fleet of air and water quality testing ships.

"The staff had high marks for this product which completely removed organic stains and all trace odors from carpet and upholstered furniture without emitting any noxious fumes or leaving any residues. No other product performed all of these tasks better."
B. White

Now, Veriuni makes these safe products available to you, for use in both your home and your office. A powerful, effective and non-toxic alternative to traditional cleaners.

"The Bathroom Cleaner really does a good job on soap scum in the bathrooms. We have a number of children that come through our business on a daily basis. I wanted our cleaners to be safe for them and the environment. We chose your products because they have no hazardous ingredients. I don't want to dump that stuff into our septic system."
K. Stevens

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When we begin to think about health, we must start from the inside out. Meaning what we put into our bodies should be healthy. Women and men should take a multivitamin daily.

I recommend Ultra Herbals Women's Formula, which was specifically designed for women looking for an effective and complete multi-nutrient formula. Our Women's Formula contains a specially formulated combination of adaptogenic herbs, vitamins and minerals to meet the unique nutritional needs of women, while balancing the hormone system, stimulating the immune system and enhancing energy levels.

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True or False...almost all wellness deficiencies are part of the normal aging process. There's nothing you can do about it.

True or False...all required nutrients are obtained from your average daily food intake, therefore supplementation is a big waste of money.

The answers? False and False!
There are two major problems with the current food supply, they are:

We eat too much...estimates are that 61% of the population is overweight, and
We are not getting the minimum amounts of the building blocks (nutrients) that our bodies need for good health.

Have you had your spinach today?
In 1948 you could buy spinach that had 158 milligrams of iron per hundred grams. By 1965, the maximum had dropped to 27 milligrams. In 1973 it was averaging 2.2. That means you would have to eat 75 bowls of spinach to get the same amount of iron that one bowl might have given you back in 1948. We have to have cobalt to process vitamin B12. We need vitamin B12 for healthy red blood cells. Sadly most of the vegetables that supply cobalt in the diet now test zero.

The top soil over most of the land used to grow fruits and vegetables is very depleted. This in turn produces crops that are severely low in the necessary vitamins and mineral that our bodies need for optimum health.

The typical daily diet does not supply the necessary proteins, vitamins and minerals to properly replace the dying cells in our internal and external organs. If we fall short our immunity system is weakened leaving us vulnerable to sickness and disease.

So...are you getting the 20 essential amino acids, 14 essential minerals and 13 essential vitamins in your daily diet to insure your "good health"?

Who's looking out for your health?
Our fast paced lifestyles have prompted the food industry to produce products that satisfy consumer demand. As a result, these quick to prepare processed foods do not contain the proper nutrients to maintain good health. The fresh food part of our diet is totally eliminated and is replaced with high calorie low nutrient substitutes that promotes weight gain. Too often the consumer purchases food based on price, taste and convenience.

Mass media advertising promotes the processed foods that the food industry is offering. This advertising over shadows conventional education which is grossly lacking. Today a person can go through the entire educational system and not have one class in nutrition.

Easy access to "sickness care" (more commonly known as health care) and employer supported health insurance has promoted a mind set that the doctor is responsible for the health of the entire family.

Governmental support of public health is dictated largely by the food and medical lobby. Their agenda is for large sales and profits which most times do not line up with prevention, wellness and sensible diets.

Pay for good health today, or pay for bad health tomorrow!
Take control and responsibility for you and your family's health. The first step is to insure they get the basic nutrition through proper diet and exercise. It is almost impossible to get a daily balanced diet so the logical answer is to allocate a portion of your food budget to include a supplement product that supplies the recommended daily minimums. This should not be looked at as an additional expense but part of your grocery list of required items.

Veriuni Nutritionals...all the health insurance you need!
Veriuni Flagship Nutritional Products

Veriuni's Liquid Nutrition offers you a great tasting peach-flavored liquid multivitamin that supplies 100% of your daily vitamins and minerals. The liquid, unlike many tablets, is highly absorbed by the body so that all the benefits from your investment are realized. Veriuni Liquid Nutrition consists of all natural ingredients taken from plants and the earth itself, with no fillers or binders.

Just one ounce of this unique supplement taken daily supplies 127 of the best vitamins, minerals, herbal complex and amino acid complex available.

Veriuni's Advanced Antioxidant formula helps to combat the harmful free radicals that enter the body through the food we eat and the air that we breathe. This product is a highly concentrated natural extract derived from grape seeds. It contains a number of unique beneficial flavonoid compounds which have demonstrated many times the antioxidant activity of vitamins C and E in in-vitro studies. They act as free radical scavengers, help resist blood vessel and skin damage, inhibit inflammatory enzymes and inhibit histamine formation.

Be sure to put these two Veriuni Nutritionals on your shopping list TODAY!

Fill your shopping basket with Veriuni Nutritional Products. Have the peace of mind that you are investing wisely in you and your family's health today and for the future.

Don't gamble on the most precious asset you have (your good health) and place your order today.

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Live a healthy life with Veriuni. Liquid Nutrition. Tasty liquid multivitamin ensures you'll get nearly every daily nutrient required for prolonged health. Powerful antioxidant unleashes the power of red wine extract and polyphenols for the ultimate mind and body energizer. All-natural ingredients. No sugar or artificial preservatives.

Energize your body and boost your mental power with Veriuni own liquid multivitamin and antioxidant formulas. Gleaned solely from plants and the earth itself, Veriuni all-natural ingredients and minerals contain nearly every nutrient you need to fuel your body, mind, and spirit.

Get your daily minerals from the source. Packed with ingredients and minerals plucked from plants and the earth itself, Veriuni liquid multivitamin and antioxidant formulas offer an all-natural alternative to artificial supplements.

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Start Destroying Free Radicals Today.

One dose (two capsules) of Veriuni Advanced Antioxidant includes 500 mg of Vitamin C, 400 IU of Vitamin E, and 30 mg of red wine extract.

The potential benefits of these ingredients has been well documented through years of scientific research. According to medical studies cited in the New England Journal of Medicine, for example, Vitamin E, has been shown to reduce risks of coronary heart disease in men and middle-aged women. What's more, scientific evidence continues to mount over the benefits of Vitamin C antioxidants for combating risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic illnesses.

For even more benefits, Veriuni's Advanced Antioxidant mixture also includes a red-wine extract, which has been shown in several studies to reduce the risks of stroke and contains polyphenols, a potent antioxidant for even more healthy benefits.

Size: 60 capsules
Serving Size: 2 Capsules
Servings Per Container: 30

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Tastes Great...Mixes Great...Works Great

Advanced Weight Loss is formulated to give you a wide and complete array of nutrients. This ensures you receive all the nutrition that is contained in a well prepared and balanced meal. You can have full confidence and peace of mind that you are getting the very best science can provide to help you reach your weight loss goals.

Lose those unwanted pounds and look and feel great!

Full meal replacement drink
Only 134 calories with water, 214 with skim milk
Great source of balanced nutrition; vitamins, minerals and calcium
Excellent source of vitamin B12 with 100% recommended daily value
Excellent source of a high quality protein-10 grams for lean muscles
Only 21 grams of carbohydrates
Low fat, just 1 gram
Cholesterol-free
Three delicious flavors; Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry
Sixty-one percent of the 28 essential vitamins and minerals are at 100% of the recommended daily value

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HOW VERIUNI NATURAL DIGESTION WORKS
AMYLASE digests starches, CELLULASE digests cellulose (the fibrous component of most vegetable matter), PROTEASE digests proteins, and LIPASE digests fat. Other digestive ingredients include Marshmallow Root and Slippery Elm Bark, known to have a high mucilage content which soothes and protects mucous membranes, such as the digestive tract and bowels. L-Glutamine is an esssential amino acid, used for digestive and immune systems. Gamma Oryzanol is a compound made from brown rice, which offers help for digestive problems, lowering cholesterol and helps with menopausal symptoms.

Veriuni Natural Digestion

Improves digestion and absorption of essential nutrients.

Important link in stamina, energy level, and utilizing vitamins and minerals.

These enzymes are very stable and retain activity in the intestinal tract.

Helpful for symptoms involved with indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon, acid reflux, flatulence(gas), bloating, and hemorrhoids.

SUPPLEMENTATION WITH VERIUNI NATURAL DIGESTION:
Raw foods, fruits and vegetables, are excellent sources for enzymes. When food is processed, canned or cooked, enzymes are destroyed. Supplementation with enzymes replaces those lost in cooking an enhances the enzymes found in raw foods. Naturally occuring enzymes and supplemental enzymes begin the process of digestion earlier in the digestive tract. Without these enzymes, digestion occurs in the small intestine. The chance of undigested food entering the colon is increased. Incomplete digestion of food gives colon bacteria the opportunity to feed, producing gas and toxins that can leave people feeling uncomfortable and even sick.

WHEN TAKING THE VERIUNI NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT:
You can start with ONE NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT capsule before each meal. By the third day, you should be up to TWO NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT capsules before each meal. You may notice that you have an increase in number of bowel movements. This is normal, as these enzymes are very stable and retain activity in the intestinal tract. This means that more food has been broken down and absorbed by the intestinal tract. Energy levels and alertness may also increase as you are using less energy to digest your food and your food is being better utilized by your body, creating more energy. Gastric distress may also be reduced as acid production is triggered by the presence of food in the stomach. The NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT digests food very quickly allowing faster passage into the intestine thus reducing acid production.

WHAT IS THE NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT??
Enzymes are fundamental to all life. They are in every living thing. Enzymes are substances that make life possible. They are needed for every chemical reaction that occurs in the body. Without enzymes no biological activity would occur. Enzymes are protein catalysts necessary for metabolic functions. They move your muscles, stimulate your nerves, make your heart beat, keep you breathing, and allow you to think. Supplementing with the NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT can be beneficial, especially if you suffer symptoms involved with indigestion, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic colon, acid reflux, flatulence, bloating, and hemorrhoids.

WHY TAKE THE NATURAL DIGESTION SUPPLEMENT?
Enzymes enhance the digestive process. Nearly every person will benefit from Veriuni Natural Digestion Supplementation. Vitamins, minerals, hormones cannot perform their vital roles without enzymes. People may see improvement in their absorption and utilization of nutrients. Benefits will vary depending upon the diet of each individual and general health. Most people will feel LESS FULLNESS after meals and experience increased energy levels. Changes in bowel habits also occur with decreased gas and more regular bowel movements being common. Anecdotally, people have noticed being able to lose weight more easily as they feel "full quicker". Since the body is utilizing the nutrients in the foods more completely, the hypothalamus (in the brain) gets the signal from the digestive tract, it is full.

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Lavendar has been used for centuries as a spice in food and even for healing. Lavendar can be used to treat acne, athletes foot, upset stomach, disinfectant, headaches, scenting linens, and as a spice in your recipe's. Lavendar Love is company that embraces all aspects of lavendar by selling bath, cooking, and other products of lavendar. We want to make sure that we maintain our mental health. One wonderful use of lavendar is aromatherapy. It helps to releive stress after a long day. Take the time and visit lavendar love by clicking any link. For my women entrepreneurs, you can join Lavendar Love as a consultant. Oh, don't forget to look at the recipe's on the site for ways to use lavendar.





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What is an Essential Oil?  Peel an orange, walk through a rose garden or rub a sprig of lavender between your
fingers, and you are instantly aware of the special aroma of that plant. 
Technically, what is that smell?  Well, it is essential oils that give flowers, fruits and herbs
their distinct aromas.



The oils are derived from various parts of the
plant.  Some come from seeds, bark, root, leaves, peel, flowers, wood,
balsam or resin.  Also, some plants produce numerous oils, such as one from
the flower and another from the leaves.  Different oils from different parts
of the plant may yield different results.



Essential Oils have been used for thousands of years for bathing, healing and perfumes.



How do Essential Oils Work?  They can be used in numerous ways to treat skin complaints and conditions, once absorbed
into the bloodstream they can be beneficial to the circulatory system and
inhalation is an effective way to treat nose, throat and lung ailments and they
may be applied externally for stomach and digestive complaints.



Immune System:  Virtually all essential oils have bacterialcidal properties, and by promoting
the production of white blood cells, they can help prevent and treat infections
illness.



Nervous System:  Some oils are known to have a balancing or normalizing effect on the systems
of the body.  Some are relaxing, uplifting, or reviving.  Some work
more on an emotional level as others on a physiological level.



The Mind:  Essential oils have been used throughout history for their power to influence the
emotions and state of mind



Essential Oils and/or Aromatherapy should not be used in lieu of a doctor's care,
none of the below essential oils are to be used to self diagnose or 'treat' oneself
for ailments.

All Essential Oils Should be Avoided by those whom are pregnant or nursing.

**EXTERNAL USE ONLY - NOT FOR CHILD USE - ADULT USE ONLY**



We use 6 oils in our products, 4 are 100% pure essential oils,


the other 2 are cosmetic grade fragrance oils*



Grapefruit - *Aroma:: Fresh, Sweet Grapefruit Citrus*   Citrus x Paradisi; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of chills, colds, flu, depression,
headaches, performance stress, circulation, stiffness, water retention, acne.



It shares the nutritional qualities of other citrus species, being high in Vitamin
C and a valuable protection against infectious illness.  Grapefruit oil
has astringent and skin conditioning qualities.   It is said to have
a toning effect of the skin making this oil suitable for treating cellulites. 




Lavender - *Aroma:: Crisp and Clean Lavender Flower*   Lavendula Angustifolia; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of stress, calming, skin conditions,
headache, migraine. See .



This amazing plant is used for acne, athlete's foot, comforting the stomach, as a
disinfectant, for headache and migraine relief, healing burns and insect bites,
an insect repellent, scenting linens, stiff joints and sore muscle relief, sunburns
and more!



Lemongrass - *Aroma:: Fresh Grassy-Citrus With Earthy Undertones*  Cymbopogon Citratus; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of fever, relieves nervous exhaustion,
stress, muscular pain, poor circulation, acne, athlete's food, excessive
perspiration, opens pores.



It relieves some of the symptoms of jetlag, clears headaches and helps with nervous
exhaustion and stress-related conditions.  helps tone the muscles and slack
tissue, relieves muscle pains and helps with poor circulation. It has great
benefits as a muscle and skin toner, assists in clearing up oily skin and acne
and revitalizes the body and mind.



Peppermint - *Aroma:: Cooling, Refreshing Peppermint*  Mentha Piperita; 100% Pure Essential Oil.  Aids in relief of circulation, colds/flu/fever,
cramps, nausea, fainting, headache, migraine, vertigo, acne, ringworm, scabies.



Has natural healing powers that can improve your well being. Peppermint has been
used through the ages to treat a wealth of ailments. It is used for gastrointestinal
disorders as well.  Many claim it can also help with the common cold,
respiratory problems and migraine headaches. There are psychological peppermint
benefits as well. Its vigorous scent is a mental stimulant and can bring clarity
to the mind.



Rose - **Aroma:: Soft and Warm Rose**  Cosmetic Grade Fragrance Oil



It takes 60,000 rose blossoms, picked in the early hours of dawn as they are unfolding,
to gain 1 oz. of Rose Essential Oil. The harvest is rushed to the distiller
and the oil crafted immediately. For this reason the price is as much as $1300.00
per oz for the pure oil.  To keep our costs low we use a high quality fragrance oil.



Vanilla - **Aroma:: Warm Vanilla**  Cosmetic Grade Fragrance Oil



After a few years of reduced harvests, the price of Vanilla Essential Oil has sky-rocketed,
and is now comparable to the precious oils such as Rose. This of course
has caused most vanilla products to now contain synthetic vanillin instead
of the real thing.  For this reason the price is as much as $330.00 per oz for the pure oil.  To keep our costs low we use a high quality fragrance oil.

All Natural Mineral Makeup

Why Monet Minerals?
When you get down to it, there are a lot of mineral makeup companies who's products contain the exact same ingredients as the ones in our products.

So what makes Monet Minerals the better choice?

We custom blend our minerals, using bases from several different reputable suppliers, to formulate the perfect amount of coverage. All of our shades are unique to Monet Minerals and we are constantly adding new shades.
Monet Minerals is 100% natural mineral makeup. Monet Minerals does not use fillers such as Bismuth Oxy-Chloride (see ingredients) or Talc or other ingredients such as dyes and carmine.
We offer very affordable prices, superior customer service and fast shipping.
Inexpensive samples are available to try and we have Monthly Specials.
We have a Mineral Consultant program if you are looking for more personal service.

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The Jungle

My Life as a Working Mother

In between cheering for Billy Jean King and singing "I Am Woman," I went to college and graduated with a double major in math and computer science. In keeping with my feminist life course, I had chosen two of the more nontraditional female courses of study that I could find. However, I do have to admit that I had also calculated that I would find the most favorable boy/girl ratio in my math classes. How's that for sisterhood?

After graduation, I went to work in the avionics department of a large computer company. My main job while there was modeling- no, not like Cindy Crawford-I did mathematical modeling of pressure transducers. The avionics group produced computers that are used on airplanes-you know, those black boxes you always hear about. Each transducer had slightly different characteristics over pressure and temperature ranges, so the flight computers were programmed to adjust for these differences. My job was to write software that would "fit" each transducer with an equation that matched its output. To collect data on each unit, we would run them through temperatures from minus forty degrees Fahrenheit to about two hundred degrees in huge industrial ovens. It was probably my most productive kitchen work to date.

I met my future husband my first week of work. I had had orthodontic surgery a few weeks before I started my new job, so my jaw was wired shut and I could only nod and smile. I was his dream girl.

By the time the wires came out and I could talk again, it was too late. We were in love. We were married the following year. We knew we wanted children right away, maybe two or three. I got pregnant and expected to continue working through my pregnancy and then search for day care. I honestly didn't think that I would even consider staying at home. I remember my mom saying to me, "Well of course you'll want to stay home with your babies." And I remember looking at her as if she had sprouted horns.

But life had different plans for us. My mother died of breast cancer that summer. When things were looking particularly bad for Mom, her doctor gave her some alternatives. She could cease treatment altogether, or they could do more surgery and extend her life for a short while longer, but the cancer had gone beyond any hope for a cure.

"Could you keep me alive long enough to see the baby, until October?" she asked the doctor.

The answer was no, and so with that prognosis, my mom decided that her fight was over. She died June 30. I was six months pregnant and at her side when she died. "You are going to be the best mom in the world" were among her last words to me.

A couple months later I went into labor. It was a little early, but my obstetrician didn't seem to be too concerned, even when she observed that the baby was breech. Everything switched into high gear. The staff became quiet and efficient, prepped me for surgery, and wheeled me in for an emergency C-section. Just before they put me under, the nurse asked, "What would you like us to tell your baby when he gets here?" "Just tell him to be healthy," I answered.

Mike arrived at the hospital just after the birth. He was armed with his video camera, ready to tape those first precious moments. The nurses met him in the hall with bad news. Our baby boy had just been born and he was going to die. There was nothing they could do to save him. His condition was what the medical community calls "incompatible with life."

There are times in life that you can't possibly be prepared for. The death of a baby is one of those times. They put Mike in scrubs and brought him into the delivery room. I was still under anesthesia, so he was alone. The nurses asked if he wanted to baptize the baby. He did, but we had decided to wait until we saw our baby before we made a final decision on his name. Since I was still asleep, Mike didn't want to make that decision without me. The nurses brought him a bowl of water and Mike baptized our baby, saying that we didn't have a name picked out for him yet but that God would know him when he got there.

I was awake by then and the doctor told me the news. I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep. It had to be a dream. "I don't think she heard you," the nurse said, "tell her again." So it wasn't a dream. "No, I heard."

Mike was holding our son, and I got a chance to hold him too before he died. Looking at his precious face and not being able to do anything for him was the hardest thing I've ever done. I was his mom. Aren't moms supposed to fix everything for their kids? Here I was, a brand-new mom, and I was already screwing up.

The nurses took Polaroids, our minister arrived, we held our baby a little longer, and then they took our son away. I guess my mom got to take care of her grandson after all.

Now, even on the craziest days, when the house is a wreck and I have way too much to do, I think back to that day. Having held my son as he drew his last breaths, it's pretty hard to get upset about crumbs in the car or fingerprint smudges on the windows.

I got pregnant again after several months, and at the end of a stressful, anxious pregnancy, our daughter Nicole was born. She was perfect and healthy. I knew then, after all we had been through to have her, that I didn't want to leave her to go back to work. But I didn't want to quit working either, so I started searching for alternatives. At first my husband and I worked split shifts, and then I did contract engineering work from home for my old employer. I hadn't quite reconciled myself to the idea that I might just quit work. I felt that I had invested so much in my education and career; I didn't want to just walk away from it all. But even with all our creative scheduling and solutions, I always felt torn. I liked working, and we enjoyed the things we could do with the extra income. But when we worked split shifts, my husband and I hardly ever saw each other, meeting just for a short baby handoff. I felt that neither one of us could completely devote ourselves to our careers, and we were always having to make compromises. When the baby was sick, one of us would take time off. Working overtime was out of the question. We were viewed at work as not being completely devoted to the company, and we couldn't completely devote ourselves to our home lives either. Mike's boss (who had a stay-at-home wife) even commented that he knew he couldn't count on Mike to do after-hours projects because Mike "always had to run off to day care."

When Nicki was about three, I returned to work full-time. Even after everything we had been through, I couldn't become "just" a mom. Whenever I thought about staying home, I could hear Helen Reddy and Billie Jean King in the back of my mind saying "After all we've done for you, this is the thanks we get?" I read all the books, the articles, the magazines; I watched the TV interviews. If other working mothers were successfully "having it all," then I wanted to have it all too. So we hired a nanny-she was a friend of the family and Nicki loved her. We then licensed our home for child care, and our nanny took care of a couple neighborhood children too. Nicki got to stay home every day, and she had her friends over every day to play too. But I still wasn't happy with someone other than me taking care of my daughter for the majority of her waking hours. We continued to try to have another child, but after more losses, a total of six pregnancies and only one living child, we just couldn't do it anymore. We decided that Nicki would be an only child.

In 1992 my husband got a job offer that moved us from Minnesota to California. Nicki started kindergarten that year, and then I found a job with a software company. With Nicki in school, I assumed that fitting a full-time work schedule into our daily routines would be easier. It wasn't. There were still sick days, school holidays- tons of school holidays-business trips. I learned the language of school calendars, minimum days, superminimum days, supersecret minimum days. It took a personal computer just to keep track of when I was supposed to do drop-offs and pickups. The stress of it all was hard on the three of us, and still neither Mike nor I could fully devote ourselves to either our careers or the family. We searched for balance, but it was elusive. Nicki was growing up so quickly, and I was sad that I was still missing so much of her life.

Living in California gave us a new appreciation for the natural lifestyle, and we decided to forgo chemical birth control in favor of a more natural calendar-watching method, using condoms during the "danger days." I decided I'd just pick some up where I always shop- the warehouse shopping club. Of course, one can't buy just one or two of anything at the warehouse store, so my only choice was a case of condoms. Twelve boxes, 12 condoms in each. . . sounded about right to me! The young cashier couldn't believe I was buying 144 condoms and set them aside until everything else had been rung up. She held them up high for the entire line behind me to see and said, "These aren't-like-yours, are they?"

Yes, you little vixen, they were indeed mine. But I might as well have-like-given them to her, because a month later I was pregnant again. And after an anxious nine months, we prepared to deliver another beautiful, healthy little girl. I investigated the maternity policy at my new job and we checked out local child-care alternatives. We were so far away from our old friends and family, and I couldn't imagine leaving my new baby with a stranger. Maybe this time I would stay home for good.

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2. Declare a "meat out" at least 1 to 2 days a week (that includes ALL dairy/liquid meat)
3. Once a month buy a book on natural health and nutrition, especially recipe books
4. I buy the reverse osmosis filtered water from a local outlet for about 35 cents a gallon.
5. Get a high quality juicer and search the web for some good juice recipes
6. Get a quality herbal laxative and drink at least a quart of non-filtered, no sugar prune juice every week
7. Increase your water intake to 64 ounces a day (pee a lot)
8. Include a bounteous garden salad in your diet every day, lots of color and variety
9. Have a couple of vigorous exercise and/or walking sessions 5 times a week (15-30 minutes)
10. Try at least two new foods each week; healthy is the key determinant.
11. Eat only fruits before noon or whole grain cereals
12. Eat your highest protein meal between 2-4 PM
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Interesting reviews on this site. To be clear, I do not sell Aloette products. I have used many of their products and have been ordering them from the shopping channel in Canada for 4 years. I only order when they are on sale, for the great deals. I like Aloette more so than any other line I have ever used. I pretty well only use Aloette now. My experience has been that there are certain products that work and some than have not worked for me.

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