Author Deb Nicholson

Take a week 2 picture of your Fast Food and post it in your blog if you can. Write a post describing any changes in appearance or smell.

As that pondering question remains on McDonalds hamburger after two weeks it still remains looking the same as the first time you buy it. As far as smell goes there is not really one. You would expect food to go spoil and just smell nasty but there is no smell. This kind of makes you think twice about eating a hamburger.

RLS raises blood pressure in women

2011-10-11T08:10:00.000-07:00

RLS raises blood pressure in women

Eat chocolate, don’t exercise, lose weight?

2011-10-10T12:10:00.000-07:00

Eat chocolate, don’t exercise, lose weight?

National Chiropractic Month spotlights technology injuries

2011-10-10T08:31:00.000-07:00

National Chiropractic Month spotlights technology injuries

28 Day Experiment

2011-10-09T10:14:00.000-07:00

For those of you who don't know I am going to Southwest Institute of Healing Arts to become an Alternative Medicine Practitioner. In Nutritional Therapies the following question was posed:
Purchase a Hamburger or Cheese Burger from your choice of fast food restaurant and take a picture of it to post in your blog. Comment on what changes you would expect to see a burger without any preservatives or chemicals look like in 28 Days.

My theory With the high amounts of fats and chemicals in it would preserve it if you did not place it in glass or plastic containers which would then create moisture.
Without chemicals and preservatives I venture to gather it would turn to mush and not smell very good.
This of course prompted me to see why McDonald's burgers do not go bad after reading this it explains why I don't go to McDonald's

Here is link
http://nomsandsciunce.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/why-wont-those-mcdonalds-burgers-go-bad/

Spicing your way through disease

2011-10-08T08:04:00.000-07:00

Spicing your way through disease

More dangers lurk from the tanning bed

2011-10-07T13:05:00.000-07:00

More dangers lurk from the tanning bed

Is giving your kids yogurt worth it?

2011-10-07T08:50:00.000-07:00

Is giving your kids yogurt worth it?

Men reduce your heart attack risk by vigorous exercise

2011-10-06T08:26:00.000-07:00

Men reduce your heart attack risk by vigorous exercise

Weight loss secret; Green Tea

2011-10-05T12:35:00.000-07:00

Weight loss secret; Green Tea

Less smoking, less TB, more lives saved

2011-10-05T09:22:00.000-07:00

Less smoking, less TB, more lives saved

Antibiotic for OCD in children

2011-10-04T08:34:00.000-07:00

Antibiotic for OCD in children

Childhood vaccines good or bad?

2011-10-03T11:04:00.000-07:00

Childhood vaccines good or bad?

Exercising reducing Breast Cancer risk

2011-10-03T08:08:00.000-07:00

Exercising reducing Breast Cancer risk

Doctor’s not thrilled with Snooki Zantrex-3 diet pill pushing

2011-09-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

Doctor’s not thrilled with Snooki Zantrex-3 diet pill pushing

Tabex works to stop smoking naturally

2011-09-30T07:38:00.000-07:00

Tabex works to stop smoking naturally

Pre-Hypertension poses stroke risk

2011-09-29T07:56:00.000-07:00

Pre-Hypertension poses stroke risk

More businesses raising awareness for Breast Cancer

2011-09-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

More businesses raising awareness for Breast Cancer

Men are the weaker sex

2011-09-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

Men are the weaker sex

Kroger doing their part for Breast Cancer

2011-09-27T10:14:00.000-07:00

Kroger doing their part for Breast Cancer

Coffee the Slasher of Depression

2011-09-27T07:38:00.000-07:00

Coffee the Slasher of Depression

Need fitness buddy? Experts suggest Fido

2011-09-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

Need fitness buddy? Experts suggest Fido

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not caused by XMRV virus

2011-09-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome not caused by XMRV virus

Army suicides lessened by Omega 3’s

2011-09-23T10:01:00.000-07:00

Army suicides lessened by Omega 3’s

Strings of colored beads for birth control

2011-09-23T07:22:00.000-07:00

Strings of colored beads for birth control

Bullying a Hate Crime

2011-09-22T09:42:00.000-07:00

Not very often do I get soap box and preach nor do I want too. However, this time is a little a different. As you know I write news on Detroit Examiner. Searching for this mornings news not only I find it but what I had found had turned this bright sunny day into a dark one.

Jamey Rodemeyer made today’s top news headlines. Jamey had made the news not for a crime that he had committed but for a crime that was committed against him which had led to this young man’s soul being gone at the young age of just fourteen. Jamey. Jamey just like any other teen had his social networks, friends and just your normal teen. Did I mention Jamey was gay? Due to his sexual orientation he had endured years of torment and teasing, in one word bullying.

Back in May of this year he had made an up beat and encouraging video “It Gets Better”, unfortunately it did not get better for Jamey or others who had lost their young lives to bullying.

Ryan Patrick Halligan, was thirteen years old when this young soul had left the earth when he had hung himself. The cause; online bullying. Another nine year old boy had hung himself in the school’s nurse’s office bathroom the cause; bullying. Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover also hung himself due to bullying, constantly being taunted from kids that he was gay.

Kids are cruel and now they are taking cruelty to a whole new level. As adults we do not wear rose color glasses and are fully aware that children can be bullies. Most parents try and help their child deal with bullying or explain why they should not tease and torment others. Like I said most adults and parents. Then there comes a parent who is to be an adult and role model for their child and acts more like the child by creating a fake profile to tease and torment a thirteen year old girl. The girl Megan Meier, committed suicide due to the actions of an adult, and I use that term loosely.

We are to be role models to our children. Most parents try their best. We are to teach our kids respect of others and most do. Then comes that one parent that acts like a child leaving us to wonder who the role model for their child is?

Paul McCartney had written the song “Ebony and Ivory” citing living together in harmony. Somehow, children had lost this concept along the way. Children and even adults need to learn it does not matter if Joey down the street is overweight or if Kathy stutters, if Jake is had darker skin or if Ray talks with an accent. It does not matter if the solider you stand next to fight is gay, you are there for a common cause not based on a persons own personal life choices.

That brings us to the U.S. Military notably a bully in their own right. The “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy of the militaries wisdom of keeping so called “dark secrets” has taken a fall this week when the policy has been eradicated in the military. Why should it of matter of what sexual orientation of a solider was? The military hushed it up for it was not to mentioned but yet at the same time while the military was having issues of soldier’s openly noting they were gay they did not have an issue with them fighting for this country and giving their life for it. That seemed to be okay. Bullies.

Today we have the internet and social sites. A play ground for people who believe they are self righteous and have the God given right to bully others.

Social site creators should have enough common sense to suspend accounts of those who use their site to bully others before another child is lost.

Children should be accountable for actions especially when it leads to death of another child. What did these children do to deserve to be pushed over the emotional edge so far that the only way the saw to have peace was to end their life.

There is no need to bully anyone. If you do not agree with a persons appearance, sexual orientation, race or whatever trait they may have do one easy thing Shut Up. Ask yourself how you would like to be that child in the corner who hides, the child who cries themselves to sleep every night not understanding what they did to deserve all the hatred they had received when all they wanted to do was make a few friends.

Personally, I am not a Lady Gaga fan but I do admire the woman for taking a stand against bullying. She has a point bullying is a hate crime.

Another child should not lose their life due to a few cruel kids running away thinking they can do anything to anyone. They should and must be stopped.

I will personally back anyone group or organization or anyone who takes a stand against bullying.

For the all the bullies in the world, you are not special, you are not important nor are do you have the right to dictate to anyone what they should believe. You do not have the right to hate someone and bully them because their skin color may be different, did you ever think just for one second you may look funny to them.

Too many lives have been lost bullying. Jamey had tried to make his voice heard and as he put it “What do I have to do to have people listen to me?” It is too late to save this child’s life but it is not too late to let his voice among the other children’s voices be heard.

We now need to be their voice and put an end to bullying.

I created a Facebook page called Stop Bullying for Jamey. Please stop by and like. Be the voice for Jamey and other kids who lost their life to bullying. Make your voice heard for them.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Cyber-Bullying-for-Jamey/126962630736975