Empowered Pathways Newsletter
 
               January 27, 2003

         Gen Abrams, Publisher
        Gen@empoweredpathways.com
 
        
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In this Issue:
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 Health, Nutrition and Supplements
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A January Blizzard!
 
And not the one this week in North Carolina...
But the ongoing flurry about Omega 3 Fatty Acids!
 
I have seen so much information over the past week, and 
have had several inquiries as well, about essential fatty acids
it has almost been overwhelming!
 
One article in the American Medical Association's (AMA)
Journal of General Psychiatry is titled  
"Omega-3 Fatty AcidsThe Missing Link?"
 
The benefits of this nutrient are numerous and long-established.
They include helping with premenstrual syndrome, hormone
synthesis, healthy blood pressure, weight loss and joint function
as well as improving the condition of your hair, skin and nails.
There is evidence that Omega-3s may help reduce the risk and
symptoms of many disorders such as cancer, heart disease,
arthritis, macular degeneration (age related blindness), all
inflammatory disorders.  Research has shown that they:
Other research I have found states that Omega-3s decrease the
risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
 
The Heat Wave...
 
The hottest area of research currently, and what I find absolutely
fascinating, is the effect of essential fatty acids, including the
Omega-3s, depression, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality
disorder.  Successful trials of treatment for people with these
diagnoses have been documented very recently. 
 
The possibility that so many health issues could be alleviated and
treated with naturally available fish oils, and that potentially harmful
and sometimes ineffctive drugs that have been used to treat these
disorders could be replaced, is incredible! 
 
I am just blown away! 
 
Essential fatty acids can be found primarily in oily fish that live in
cold water, especially salmon, mackerel, sardines, herring, and
albacore tuna.  Tofu and other forms of soybeans, canola, walnut
and flaxseed, and their oils contain alpha-linolenic acid (LNA). 
This is a less potent kind of omega-3 fatty acid.
 
The ideal amount to take isn’t clear.  Evidence suggests that
taking EPA+DHA ranging from 0.5 to 1.8 grams per day
(either as fatty fish or supplements) significantly reduces deaths 
from heart disease and all causes.  For alpha-linolenic acid, a
total intake of 1.5-3 grams per day seems beneficial.  American
Heart Association (AHA) Dietary Guidelines recommends including 
at least two servings of fish (particularly fatty fish) per week.
 
Don't want to eat that much fish???
 
If you, or anyone you care about, have any of the
following health conditions: high cholesterol,
diabetes, symptoms of PMS, coronary artery disease,
breast cancer, memory loss, depression,
insulin resistance, high cholesterol, or rheumatoid
arthritis- you should get more information about
essential fatty acids! 

Email me for more information...
Gen@empoweredpathways.com

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 Tips for Frugal Living
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       *The next time you find yourself drawn to the mall to shop for more
stuff, call or write a friend you’ve lost touch with instead. You’ll conserve
money and friendships.

      *Be happy with what you have. If you make a habit of thinking in terms
what you have, rather than of what you don’t, you may well find that you’ve
got enough.
 
     *The experts all agree -- the fastest way to earn 14% to 21% on your
money is to pay off your outstanding credit card balances. Use a portion
of your savings if necessary. Credit card interest is devouring the interest
you earn on those savings, anyway.  A Visa logo debit card, offered by
many banks, takes care of those purchases that may require a credit card
and is accepted the same as a credit card.  Quit paying other people to use
money, use your own, and you will find you have more of it!   

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Gen's Soapbox
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 SP*M is a Four Letter Word
 
But is it a crime?  And what exactly is it?  Here is the story which brings me
to these questions.
 
About a month ago, my husband was notified by our ISP that he was now
the lucky recipient of a wonderful service- a sp*am filter on his email
account.  It seems they just decided they could filter his email, by some
unknown standards, and keep it for him on their website in a special folder. 
To access this mail, he had to go to the website, access the web-based
email, go to this special folder and then he could view the email, instead
of it just coming to our Outlook Express inbox with the rest of his mail. 
Upon his first notification of this, he emailed our ISP, letting them know
that he did not wish to recieve this "service".  After several online chats
with the techies, the 'service was still intact.  What our ISP did not tell us
is that they also had given me this service, on a separate account. 
When we examined our "special" web-based mailboxes, we found lots
of email- some of which we had asked for, subscribed to, and wanted to
recieve. 
I called our ISP, and after several hours of following their menu (for ____,
 please press 1...), being on hold, transfered somewhere else, another
menu, on hold...a telephone nightmare...we finally got a woman who said
she could change some settings and remove the "service".  A tech
person we talked to on the way was absolutely incredulous that we would
not want this service, he actually said "So you want all this junk mail?" 
To which I replied-
"It's MY email!"
That's right, it is mine, and I want it.   If I don't want it, I have the power
to delete it, remove myself from the list, just like changing the channel
on the television, it can be gone.  What I don't want is someone or
something censoring my mail- sorting it to see if it will be acceptable
for me.  I will take responsibility for my own email, just like it is stated
in my ISP's terms of service.  After all, no one is out there censoring
our telephone calls, we have to do that ourselves.  And no one is
censoring our snail mail, we get junk mail every day.  Maybe some
people would like that to happen, but personally I like to be
accountable and responsible for my own interactions in the world,
have control and make choices.
Who is in charge here?
Did you know there are no laws regarding sp*am that are consistent? 
The state I live in has none at all.  Some states here in the U.S. have
laws only regarding adult oriented email, and some have them only
for advertisers of products.  Television or radio commercials should
have such restrictions, I mean, no one blocked beer commercials
from returning to television recently, and I don't recall subscribing to
them!
Legal rumblings have begun, however.  In December, America Online
was awarded $7million in damages in a suit against a junk email
company. 
What???
AOL also has a spam blocker, and I know a reputable company
that last week sent an email out which could not be delivered to
any AOL members,  people who had double opted in for
information from the company.  AOL said they had "unusualy heavy
traffic", and they were working on it.  Well, boo hoo! 
So what do you think?
Is sp*m a crime?  And just what is it?  Who should decide? Should the
"information superhighway"  have check lanes?  Should those few 
people out there who abuse the capabilities of the internet infringe
on all of our rights?   Think about it, take some action about it!
I would welcome your feedback and opinions on this censorship issue!
Talk back to me-  Gen@empoweredpathways.com

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 Bible Verse
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"Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also
                 to love one another."
                     1 John 4:11
 
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Remarkable Quote
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your
mind young." -- Henry Ford

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