Special Note: I am STILL working as a teacher in Chesterfield. I got the job with my completed University degree being verified, and I passed all criminal background checks back in the year 2019 when I was hired. Here are some of my latest classroom photos from this week’s projects pictured below. In addition I work two other jobs, and donate plasma. They drug test you REGULARLY when you plasma donate, and I passed ALL drug tests as clean. I point this out because I got an e-mail this week that a bitter wanna-be ex-boyfriend from a past job was spreading lies that I was an opioid drug addict. I would NOT be able to do teaching work, or plasma donation if this was true. Background checks and drug tests would have gotten me LONG ago as they check VERY carefully, and constantly, at both plasma and teaching centers.
Every year I watch teacher videos on “no sexual harassment in the workplace” and think “this could never happen” then I am sadly proven wrong when I open the newspaper. Please be aware that MANY men single and married have lost lawsuits for falsely accusing women of job or drug misconduct when they are REALLY bitter about being refused for dating and sexual advances in the workplace. Do people think sexual harassment offenders put on a billboard next to a freeway what they are doing? No they disguise it as “helpful” information. Many men hate competing with women for education, jobs, and money. This is where the anger is REALLY coming from in gender prejudice. I have been battling this so often in Virginia my voice is horse from repeating it at this point. No means no, and no woman owes men intimacy regardless of background.
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January is the month of the New Years Resolutions, and I am still working on my latest ones. It is the great equalizer to us all that Christmas pies and cookies look way too yummy. New Years Resolution time is one of the few times you can recommend and trade fitness ideas without too much hassle, and so one last fitness book is up for review.
Apple Cider Vinegar has been research heavily in studies recently from Finland, Japan, and the United States. CNN just printed an article called “5 Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar and a few duds according to experts” by Sandee LaMotte on August 30, 2021. Dietitian Carol Johnston a professor of nutrition in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University did verify the results. She cautions that it is not a “cure all” potion that fixes diabetes. Unfortunately some books have made this wild claim. However for light diets it does help.
“One tool in helping lower blood sugar a 10 point decrease in fasting glucose concentrations” and “They used to spoons of vinegar in a glass of water twice daily.” people had “2 to 4 pound loss in three months over a placebo” showing people lost pounds in the study with vinegar daily use.
The Patricia Bragg book is a fascinating written work on the subject. Her family has made Apple Cider Vinegar since 1912. Her father Paul Bragg heavily toured the United States promoting apple cider vinegar as a health tonic and diet drink for years. The book begins by saying many people including Hippocrates the father of medicine have recommended cider vinegar as a health tonic since 400 B.C. on page 1.
Many books on diet and gym fitness are only a portion about the body, and the rest is really a “self help” book about emotions. Patricia Bragg and her family’s books are big into the fitness and self-help industry worlds. Positive review quotes from Dr. Demartini of “The Secret”, and Mark Hansen of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book fame, and singer Katie Perry fill the introduction. They say Bragg’s older works were an inspiration to them. Emotions and eating go hand-in-hand greatly as one of the first things we do as babies is get a milk feeding from our parents. Eating is the first bond our subconscious forms with emotion, and this make it a touchy subject.
I had read articles on the Apple Cider Vinegar diet, but I am glad I read the books. I had been doing it wrong. First it must be unfiltered cider with “the mother” bacteria in it intact to work for diets. The Clear stuff from the cheap isles is made with petroleum product, and it is not good for you. This book is by the Bragg family so they say Bragg is the best of course, but bacteria is part of the process. Microwaves can destroy the bacteria so don’t eat it near one that is on. Second you must drink 2 spoons full in the morning AND afternoon. Also Patricia Bragg says raw honey is good to add, and so I added this daily. Patricia Bragg is very obviously a flower child, and has given her presentations heavily in Berkley and Oakland, CA as seen in the book quotes. She heavily recommends going vegetarian frequently. I did not expect her to go on a “Showers, Toxic Chemicals, and Chlorine” rant on page 97, but it was good information. My shower and drinking water pitchers already use filters, but I bought fresh filters after this book. Chlorine keeps water safe in some ways, but long-term is toxic if not filtered out. Public water in many areas is NOT safe, and can cause health issues including weight issues.
Vinegar is tasty, and an FDA approved food. It does NOT make you jittery like many diet pills. If people don’t use this as a health-kick they will use something else even WORSE for you so it has advantages. There is no “quick fix” for fitness. You will need a low calorie diet and movement for it to work. I give this book a good review for fun information and an inspirational tone. It definitely has me consuming 2 spoons in 2 glasses daily from now on as a resolution. I give it five stars, and will recommend it to friends.
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Episode 10 of Season 5 – The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
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Episode 10 of Season 5 was posted over a year after the 9th one due to a fire. I was in an apartment I have moved away from due to fire damage eating my old podcast equipment. The old elaborate and complex podcast I streamed heavily was largely a side effect of extreme pandemic boredom. Like many people sitting at home being isolated I wanted more human interaction, and talking about books was a fun way to start it off. I streamed it on many pages with over 5000 followers each on 4 service providers including Facebook and YouTube. However, I am now re-employed full time, and I do NOT have as much time to read, and video stream detailed interviews and reviews. Plus viewers and reader have no time for long reviews, and so I can not get the huge streaming crowds of the pandemic era so shorter things work better all around.
I have finally admitted the new format forever needs to be short podcast-blog hybrid posts. Podcasts promos will be on Podbean and YouTube with other services for advertisement. The blog at the address http:www.frozenhistory7publishing.wordpress.com will have the ONLY reviews for books. When it comes to Internet URLs “In the end there can be only one.” It is like the Highlander movie. These blogs will be short with a few sentences of praise for the things I like, and that is IT. I have way too much job-work to do these days, and so now it is short and sweet for posts on this blog.
I have chosen WordPress because you can load up many pre-scheduled post in a row. Keeping a posting schedule online is easier there, and so Tuesday 8 PM will be the new post-time. (This post however will be pre-posted online to kick off the new schedule quickly.
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The first book that has re-started my book praise kick is Anne Rice The Witching Hour as it is a great book I highly recommend. Not all books from the National Bestseller list or the Main Selection of the Book of the Month club are G rated, and this book is for older readers as it is R rated. This book is created by a female writer that is VERY homesick for New Orleans and the garden district there. It is filled with vivid imagery of jasmine and roses in poetic gloom. The TV channel AMC is making the book series of the Witching Hour into a TV series starting January 5, 2023. The fact that this book reenactment is right up the ally of my old book review podcast, and almost passed without comment on my podcast made the podcast gain new life. I first read this book as a teenager girl, and moved to New Orleans after reading these books. The series seems completely changed after I really lived next to and in the New Orleans Garden District for years as I went to Loyola University in New Orleans and graduated with my first University Degree there. Truth is stranger than fiction in New Orleans. I listen to the famous song “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong sometime and remember how homesick I was when I left. This book is written in the thrall of that emotion.
I highly recommend this book and show, and the revival of reading and book love this show represents. Book, movie, and TV show tie-ins were heavily a focus of my old podcast, and are part of the new format today.
That is all I have time for today. Thank for reading, and hit like, subscribe, and leave comments as much as you can today.
I do have some fitness resolutions for the New Year. They are to step-up the best working things I found in 2013 to 2018, and now need to resume on 2023. I am the ONE person who wears a Fitbit in the house, and am going to do 4 or more ten thousand step days per week. I will use my Planet Fitness membership for 3 or more check-in days per week. I will be logging my diet and fitness on the app MyFitnessPal under username Poedaughter7 weekly. Also I will resume using Alli FDA approved diet supplements after work, and Alli lost me ten pounds in 2018. I quit them in the chaos of 2022, but my resolutions are BACK for 2023! These are the methods I got 15 pounds of weight loss from in 2018, and I recommend them highly.
