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—A young lady in Gainesville, Texas, has the longest hair in the world. It trails on the ground over four feet, and is of a beautiful red-gold color.

The Bucks County Gazette

Thursday, September 24, 1891 Bristol, Pennsylvania

 

A Gainesville (Tex.) girl has probably the longest hair in the world. It is 10 feet 6 inches long. The present growth is of the past seven years, as in 1881 her head was shaved daring a spell of brain fever.

 Middletown Daily Times

Saturday, May 09, 1891 Middletown, New York

 


Evidence ~ 1906

 

"Mabel Milton, Hair 5 1/2 feet."

 

Madam Milo
Queen of Hair


Girl from Finland

 


Jennie Myers Liebrienz

 

Photo by Carlson Bros. of Marengo, Illinois, and the woman is identified as Mrs. Josie Curtiss; date:  Nov. 1902

 

1910

 

 

 

 

 

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Miss Taylor, hair 6'3", Chicago

 

 


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 "Once so shy that they hid among the high weeds at the approach of a stranger at their secluded farm home..."

Pennsylvania | Titusville | Titusville Herald
 1973-10-12

 


The Thompson Collection

Mademoiselle Pettie Miss Taylor, hair 6'3", Chicago

Sutherland Sisters

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Thompson Photography

 

TopNew Books

 

The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children
The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

Wikipedia Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

TopNew Recipes


Thank you Jen....
12/11/2007
 

100# Castile soap powders
50 # powdered borax
3 oz. lilac perfume

mix perfume with borax.

add perfume mix.
makes 150 # shampoo

8oz in carton  $21.00 per doz. wholesale.
 

Nutrigenomics

Nutrigenomics is a new science which explores the relationship between nutrition and genetics.

The science of nutrigenomics is the study of how naturally occurring chemicals in foods alter molecular expression of genetic information in each individual.

Nutrigenomics: An Emerging Scientific Discipline, by Nancy Fogg-Johnson and Jim Kaput, FOODTECHNOLOGY APRIL 2003 • VOL. 57, NO. 4


Although scientists knew such a relationship existed between early diet and gene expression, they were unable to understand how the effect took place. Now, the integration of genomics and nutrition is providing an emerging understanding—at the molecular level—of how diet affects gene expression.

Institute of Food Technologists


Substance

pH

Hydrochloric Acid

-1.0

Battery Acid

0.5

Gastric Acid

1.5-2.0

Lemon juice

2.4

Cola

2.5

Vinegar

2.9

Orange

3.5

Apple juice

3.5

Beer

4.5

Acid Rain

<5.0

Very Acidic

Coffee

5.0

Tea

5.5

Healthy skin

5.5

 

5.75

 

6.0

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6.25

Milk

6.5

 

6.75

Optimal

Pure Water

7.0

 

7.25

  7.5

Too Alkaline

Seawater

7.7
  8.0
  8.5

Hand soap

9.0-10.0

Household ammonia

11.5

Bleach

12.5

Household Lye

13.5


Store Catagory
Acid-Alkaline Balance

The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide: A Quick Reference to Foods & Their Effect on pH Levels

Alkalize or Die

The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet : An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes

The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating Balance in Your Diet

The pH Balance Diet: Restore Your Acid-Alkaline Levels to Eliminate Toxins and Lose Weight

Vaxa pH Test Strips--pH Testing, pH Kit, pH Paper--Comes with pH Chart--100 Strips

Body Rescue pH Testing Tape, Test Your Bodys pH! ph Meter, pH Paper, pH Test Kit, pH Chart, 15 Feet

Alkaline and Acid Forming Foods

 

Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., the most recognized author on human physiology states in his Textbook of Medical Physiology...

 

"The first steps in maintaining health is to alkalize the body ( pH or acid/alkaline balance). This is one of the most important aspects of homeostasis. Changes in pH alter virtually all body functions."

"The cells of a healthy body are alkaline while the cells of a diseased body are below a pH of 7.0. The more acidic the cell, the sicker we become. If the body can not alkalize the cells they will become acidic and thus, disease sets in. Our bodies produce acid as a by product of normal metabolism. Since our bodies do not manufacture alkalinity, we must supply the alkalinity from an outside source to keep us from becoming acidic and dying."

 

pH (potential of hydrogen) is a measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. 

On a scale between 1 to 14, 7 is considered natural.

Saliva pH test

Urinary pH Test

Base or Alkaline Forming Foods  Most fruits and vegetables are "base-forming." Although citrus fruits, such as oranges and grapefruit, contain organic acids and may have an acid taste, they are not acid forming when metabolized, leaving no acidic residue

Acid Forming Foods  Most high protein foods (such as meat, fish, poultry and eggs), nearly all carbohydrates (including grains, breads, pastas) and fats are "acid-forming."

Acidic Symptoms

 


China's first lady of long hair reveals scalp secret
China Daily

 

Stay away from... Overexposure to sun light, Sea salt,  Chlorinated water & Heat

Eat... Nuts, Seeds, Fruits & Vegetables

Drink... Eight to 10 glasses of water per day

Do Not Brush Hair To Much !!!

 


72 years old grows exceptionally long hair

Zhao Guiqin, a Chinese 72-year-old senior citizen living in Tiexi District in Shenyang of Liaoning Province has grown very long hair, of which the shortest strand is as long as 1.7 meters, after she decided not to cut her hair any more 10 years ago.

 

Ordinarily she gets her hair coiled up with a lot of hairpins. What is more, her long hair is still black. The old lady explained why she can grow such long black hair. She said she likes fruits and vegetables which keep her in good health. "I am living a regular life. I usually get up at 5 o'clock a.m. Then I do some exercise. After that I go to my backyard to take care of my flower plants," she added.

 

By People's Daily Online

TopSomething to Think About

             Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

--Jules-Henri Poincaré Wikipedia


What one loves in childhood
          stays in the heart forever.

- Mary Jo Putney Wikipedia


          Let medicine be your food and food be your medicine

 - Hippocrates Wikipedia


What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us.

     What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

-Albert Pine


Well-behaved women rarely make history.

  -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


Every day
       you do one of two things:
                 build health
or produce disease in yourself.

- Adelle Davis


"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

 - Thomas Edison


1905Healthy Hair ~ No Gimmicks!

The secret to long & beautiful, healthy hair begins inside.  You are what you eat.  There are no gimmicks !!!  Today's fast lifestyle makes it harder and harder to eat right.  Plus, today's industry and commercial processing are cutting corners by adding toxic chemicals in every aspect of your lives.


undefinedAmazon Canada Amazon UK

Tao of Beauty

Chinese Herbal Secrets to Feeling Good and Looking Great (Paperback)

"The road to stunning hair does not begin from the outside; it begins with our internal health,"
says Helen Lee, Chinese herbal practitioner and author of The Tao of Beauty (Broadway Books, 1999).


Recommended ~ Awesome Books and Videos  Thank you Lisa !!!

Books & Videos by John Robbins

Diet for a New America- How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth

Amazon Canada Amazon UK


VHS Video

Diet For a New America

Amazon Canada Amazon UK

Visit John's website at The Food Revolution
He wrote "Diet for a New America" a few years back and his dad owned Baskin-Robbins - John gave up the money of the family business after finding out how unhealthy the products were for people - his books and videos are awesome.  -Lisa in Memphis, TN

Reclaiming Our Health- Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Sources of True Healing

Amazon Canada Amazon UK

The Food Revolution- How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

Amazon Canada Amazon UK

 

Mad Cowboy recommended by John Robbins....

MAD COWBOY- Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat

Amazon Canada Amazon UK

Review:  John Robbins author of Diet for a New America Buy ten copies; give them to people you love. This is the real thing.


Top Story First USA native-born tested positive for mad cow. June 6, 2005 

"Still, the emergence of a native-born case could cast a shadow over the nation's 96 million cattle, the largest herd in the world. Taiwan announced Saturday it was immediately renewing its ban on the importation of U.S. beef."


Aubrey Organics

NO SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate)

NO paraben preservatives

NO synthetic colors or fragrances

NO petrochemicals of any kind

NO hydrosols or floral waters

NO kidding !!!

I have looked into a number of "natural" and "organic" shampoo products.  After hours upon hours of research concerning toxic chemicals in shampoos, I cannot find fault with the ingredients in Aubrey Organics® .  They also have an excellent line of other chemical-free products.  -Webmaster

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Hi Everyone !!!

My wife passed away 2 months ago, day after Valentines day.

It has been a nightmare for me.  It's like waking up in a horror movie.

We have been married for 26 years, and known each other for 30, this Spring.  She was my childhood sweetheart.  Photo left, second anniversary

We did everything together.  People in church thought we were married... before the wedding.

We did everything together... that is why I'm slow in finishing this site.  She would ask for help, want to eat out, watch a movie, etc..  The site took second priority.


That morning, I was talking to her on the cell phone.   She was home sitting up in bed, and I was out driving around town doing errands. 

I came home.  She wanted me to pour a bath for her because her legs were aching.  I had scrubbed the tub clean, and told her the hot water was running, and I was coming right back after feeding the dogs.

I ran back to the bedroom, and she was not there.  I ran to the bathroom, and she was slumped-over on the bathroom floor.

I sat her up, and brushed her hair away from her face.  I screamed, and yelled at her.  I could not wake her up.  She was like a rag doll.  I could not lift her.  I started CPR.

I called 911, but we live 25 minutes from the emergency assistance.  She was gone before emergency aid arrived.  They did what they could.

The official cause was a blood clot from the legs, to the lungs.


I am slow coming back.  I have to come back.

I miss her so much.  I have never been alone before... and it's the creepiest, shocking feeling ever.  I feel like a zombie going through the motions necessary for life, like eating, cleaning, working, paying the bills, etc..

I made this site for health and hair care.  It's a passion for me to find the answers.  She thought it was great, and wanted to do before and after photos of herself.

My email inbox is a mess.  It will take me a couple months to answer.  Some have left condolences... Thank you so very-very much!

God bless

There is a heaven, beauty beyond compare.  The sky is blue, horses are white, and fly.  All dreams come true.  -Alan Parenti / webmaster

1Th 4:13   But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
1Th 4:14   For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
1Th 4:15   For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:16   For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of {the} archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17   Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18   Therefore comfort one another with these words.

NASB


I have received several inquires about how to grow hair really long.

I rely on the following statement made by Mary Shoman, Your Guide to Thyroid Disease.  Hair Loss Solutions For Thyroid Patients.

"Your hair is a fairly accurate barometer of your health. Hair cells are some of the fastest growing in the body, and when your body is under stress or in crisis, hair cells can shut down in order to redirect energy elsewhere, to places where it is needed."

So, growing long-long hair is based on avoiding stress and crisis.

Important Side Note:  In 1887, Gainesville, Texas, a woman grew her hair over 10 1/2 feet long from a shaved head in 7 years.  Click here.  If I do my math right, that yields a growth rate of 1 1/2 inches per month.  (1.5 x 12) x (7 yrs) = 10.5 feet.  I say this because  every stress and health related decision you make now, no matter how insignificant, over a seven year time, will either amount to waist length or floor length hair.

Avoiding Emotional Stress  Research has shown that there is actually a mind - body connection, even down to the cellular level..  Emotional stress can cause alignments of all sorts.  The opposite is true, laughter, positive attitude, and prayer can reverse sickness.  I knew a lady that lost all her hair because of emotional stress.  She knew it was stress, but would not let go and forgive those causing the stress.

Evidence of Emotions to Cells Communication.  On day In the 60s, the president of the polygraph institute, Cleve Backster Wikipedia, had nothing to do in his lab. So, out of boredom, he wired his indoor plant to his polygraph, just to see if the plant would react to stimulus, such as burning a leaf.  To his amazement, just thinking about burning the plant caused the polygraph needle to go off the chart !!!  This, launched 40 years of research known as the "Backster Effect".  Continued research evidenced human cells also react to their emotional environment, same as plants.  Click here to listen to interview. 

Avoid Negative Minded People & Emotional Vampires  There are people that will persuade you to cut your hair, or from letting you grow your hair long.  The worse culprits are family members.

Avoiding Physical Stress.  Physical stress can come in many packages.  Since the industrial age, foods have become devitalized, largely due to synthetic fertilization of commercial farm lands.  What foods do come from commercial farms end up being cooked and processed, further destroying any nutritional value.

  • Stay away from all processed foods including...
    • Refine sugar; your body considers this as a deadly poison, and will respond as such, overworking the immune system.
    • White Flour; your colon will become impacted with this. preventing the absorption of nutrients.
    • Processed Milk; cow's milk is notorious for mucus related illness.  Homogenization is worse.
  • Stay away from pseudo foods.  These are foods that pretend to be foods, which are not.




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See Lynn's awe-inspiring gorgeous hair!!!  Lynn has a website & two groups in Yahoo.

Lynn is offering a DVD and CD.  She is also planning to make another DVD in the near future.  Click here for more.

TopNew Health Alert !!!

Research shows sweating can keep you looking young

The Star, UK
04 February 2008

"HERE'S another good reason for doing some exercise - new research suggest that building up a sweat helps you to look years younger."      click here for more

Webmaster Note: sweating is one of many body's detoxification channels.  Cells will starve and suffocate without the movement of the lymphatic fluid.  The lymphatic system is your body's garbage collector, and only function by exercise, and best by rebounding.  Because of this, I am convinced that summertime's increase hair growth is related to increase in exercise, sweating, and drinking water.


Best evidence yet of caffeine-miscarriage link
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA -

"While there has been much research into caffeine and miscarriage - some of it dating back to the 1960s - no studies have been definitive, and the effect of ..."    click here for more


Sunlight + Wikipedia Chlorine = carcinogen Wikipedia Bromate

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 16, 2007

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Two reservoirs that supply drinking water to parts of the city have been shut down and will be drained after a rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday."  click here for more


Large Study Links Red and Processed Meat to Certain Cancers

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

"People who eat a lot of red and processed meats have a higher risk of developing several types of cancer, including lung cancer and colorectal cancer, according to a new study from the National Cancer Institute." click here for more

Original published/research document is available to the public for personal/educational use only!!!
User: public  Password: personal



Working the graveyard shift may cause cancer
Updated Fri. Nov. 30 2007 12:48 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

"Those who work the graveyard shift for long periods or who experience jet lag on a regular basis face a higher risk of cancer, according to a World Health Organization."

"Scientists suspect that overnight work is dangerous because it disrupts both the circadian Wikipedia rhythm and the production of the hormone Wikipedia melatonin. Melatonin can suppress tumour development, but is produced by the body primarily at night."


 Boost Your Vitality With Melatonin: Programming Your Internal Clock For Health & Well-BeingWebmaster Note:  Melatonin is produced in the brain by the pineal gland, from the amino acid  Wikipedia tryptophan-- the same stuff that put us to sleep after eating a turkey dinner.  Melatonin is a sleep aid and can be found in health food stores.


The Doctor Says Get a CT Scan.
Should You?

U.S. News & World Report, DC -
An expert on radiation offers some insights on how much is too much
By Matthew Shulman
Posted November 28, 2007

"A new report in tomorrow's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine raises serious concerns about the use, and overuse, of Wikipedia CT scanning. While individual risks of developing cancer from a CT scan, which emits high doses of radiation, are relatively low, the researchers worry that their rapid growth as a highly accurate diagnostic tool is exposing too much of the population—and an increasing amount of vulnerable children—to radiation and might be setting the stage for higher incidence of cancer in years to come."


Developing A Bald Patch? It Could Be A Hidden Tooth Infection

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2007) ---

"There is a close relationship between infection outbreaks on teeth and the presence of alopecia areata Wikipedia or localized alopecia, a type of hair loss which has an unknown origin. Alopecia areata starts with bald patches on the scalp, and sometimes elsewhere on the body. The disease occurs in males and females of all ages, and experts believe that it affects 1 out 1000 people."