Guest guest Posted December 26, 2004 Report Share Posted December 26, 2004 Going along with our posts today about natural foods for our pets and now this e-mail about using horse feed for humans I'd like to share this story with you on Christmas day to remind us that there are humans today on Christmas Day too poor to have money to eat and if you order this big bag of Stabilized Rice that may go bad before you can eat it all, think of donating some of it to a homeless shelter. There are many corrupt things going on in the Madison County Courthouse. When I could get no coverage from the local media about civil rights violations I paid $200 to run for Mayor so they would have to let me be on TV during the Mayoral forums. A twice injured bragin injured man contacted me who had been committed involuntarily to a psychiatric institution by the Probate Judge while he was voluntarily seeking medical care for his brain injuries by telling his parents there was no where else to send him other than N. Alabama Regional where they had closed their brain injury wing earlier without telling them about the Spain Brain Clinic at UAB. A couple of years before that the Ala. Dept. of Rehabilitative Services had funding during he first two years after after a brain injury for a counselor for the brain injured. He'd gone there several times but no one had helped him. Before that shortly after his brain injuries he'd lvied in a trailor with no transportation having managed many properties and worked as a construction laborer all his life unable to go grocery shopping on the $645/mo. disability check. Too proud to ask for help, when a friend gave him Alpo for his two companion dogs, he'd survived by sharing that dog food with himself the winter of 2001. This year he returned to get help, was put on a military productio factory line working in pain not making enough money to buy food but given a " free " meal at the end of the day to motivate the workers paid at $5.50 by the CEO of the non-profit organization taking advantage of the disabled tax benefits and was used to move heavy logs from their investment property. The " Rehab " refused to tell him where to go for medical treatment of his work injuries until after telling him to go where he wanted and then refusing ot pay the copayment from the Medicare/Medicaide expense that should have been paid by the corporation. They have not been to happy about my being his private citizen volunteer advocate refusing to provide record copies for my review BEFORE he allows them to examine him to give them an opportunity to write a report indicating he's not injured when the pain has not remissed since August. Therefore, the Alabama Rehabilitation Services Department refers 1/2 its' applicants to this Rehab foundation that trains the disabled to work at a military production factory line making military bags and flags for a military contract, expecting them to work in pain at substandard wages without medical treatment for injuries on the job and refuses to authorize payment for a 2nd opinion when worker's comp laws mandate that there be 4 on the panel of physicians while the full time permanently disabled man is in too much pain to walk to find a job to have enough money to buy food. Since I met him in August, first his beloved dog, Samson, died after being his companion for 14 years before his wife died of cancer that was diagnosed 2 months before he fell 17 feet head first onto concrete, died on the way to the hospital 2 minutes and 37 seconds and then was allowed to fall out of hte bed at the hospital causing a 2nd brain injury on the other side. Samson was the nice inside dog that had kept him warm in winters past when alone after loosing his wife and job now permanetly disabled. I attended his " funeral " where he was buried in the back yard. When Ceasar died about a month ago, he was in too much pain to dig the grave. He called the Humane Shelter for help. They sent someone over in 3 hours to help him handle the grievous task of digging the hole for the burial of his dog. I have sent the CEO of that Rehab corporation who salary, health insurance benefits and retirment fund is being generated by the labor of the disabled at the military productio factory and told him that the Humane Society takes better care of dead dogs than they take of disabled human Americans. Today this disabled America is home alone on Christmas with a few cans of food that are not as healthy as the dog food recipes that were posted on this that he was able to get when a friend gave him a ride to the Toys for Tots. I have brought him intermittently to Atlanta to provide complimentary chirorpactic care. I grew up on the other side of the Madison County from this man. I attended the best schools, went to college, got my degree, raised my daughter and have never know a day when I didn't have a full cupboard of food. I am thankful for lessons about povery and hunger and the digusting treatment our federally funded " rehab " programs provide to the disabled. Any of us could be disabled in the twinkling of an eye and be in his same boat. He has taught me so much about courage when he has changed his diet from your basic blue collar junk of caffien, soft drinks with aspartame, white bread, vienna sausages, cigarettes, sweet tea and slowing not only eliminating the junk but eating more fruits, vegetables and unprocessed meats. It's disgusting the thousands of dollars that have been paid by Medicare/Medicaid for this man's health care that has resulted in prescribing prescription drugs that have cause many of this symptoms as evidenced by their remissing upon his decidign to discontinue them while there has been absolutely no education about how to EAT so you don't get sick. Those of us who understand the higher levels of nutrition have a responsibility of educating others so that they are at least eating basics without the carcinogens, caffien, aspartame, etc. If we don't, we all pay the price when it was reported that the average state budget nationwide for Medicade expenses is 22%.(I think) not to mention Medicare for the elderly that end up dependent on expensive medications in nursing homes, assisted living, etc. On this Christmas Day when so many refrigerators are stuffed to the brim with more leftovers from the family reunions that you have room for, let us remember the least of these our bretheran who are poor and disabled unable to work to make money for food and resolve to take political action as time allows when the opportunity arises to help ease their cruel and unusal punishment to which they have been sentenced having committed no crime in a society that gives lip service to caring for the disabled, but in actuality does not accomplish the mission statement for which the legislature appropriated monies to accomplish. Sometimes just listening to the cries of the poor have been more stress than I can handle. I think this forum for this opportunity to communicate this brief overview of these experiences so that I can better see that the task is not too great to overcome regardless of the obstacles that are put before you by those being paid to " rehabilitate " the disabled so that they can work and support themselves living independently from expensive institutionalization. Thank you very much, Sandra Lance, D.C. Political Activists' Number 404 231 1999 M-F 5-7AM;6-11PM; Weekends DrLance Lenox Chiropractic Clinic 404 233 4433 7AM-7PM ______ " Satin Finish " bag, (800) 742-3272 Here's an interesting e-mail I got (you can pay over a hundred bucks for the same thing at the health food store) I'm thinking of getting some if anyone knows a goood sourse . Stabilized Rice Bran I called the number on the bag of " Satan Finish " stabilized rice bran for horse feed. With artful questioning, I got them to assure me that there was nothing in it detrimental for human use whatsoever, and that moreover, It all came out of the same hopper whether being used by the boxcar for cereal manufacture, by POST and Kellogg, etc, or being sold to bakeries and health food stores, or indeed to supplement concerns to be sold as a high priced food supplement, or as a nutritional performance booster and hair improvement for horses. I then put some water on to boil, and added about one part rice bran to four parts water. After it boiled a few moments, I covered it and shut the heat off. After 5-10 minutes I found it had settled a bit but was easily stirred into a somewhat milk like consistency. Tasted really strong of the brown rice taste, which I love, but therefore not bland like milk. When added to my favorite cereal which is a mixture of lightly steamed oatmeal and rolled barley, along with a little dark brown sugar, the flavor was robust but delicious and the texture just as it would have been with milk over the cereal. I have had unusual energy since that meal, which backs up what you have to say about stabilized rice bran being good for my diabetes, and neuropathy. Looks like I will be using a lot less milk since using milk over cereal is my main milk consumption. I had already visited with them at the number on the " Satin Finish " bag, (800) 742-3272. They said they had a distribution system in Canada, " Hi Pride, ltd " I believe, but I have already misplaced their 888 number. They have now left for a long weekend, but you can call and get the number from them Monday. I am sure that, just as in the US, stabilized rice bran will be sold through feed stores, country and western stores, farm supply stores, etc., as a supplement to make your horse both beautiful, AND A WINNER. Hmm, wonder what uses it could have in gardening? Now, you can fill me in as to what form and how you are using it. I will find many more dietary ways to use it, cooking, etc. For example, the brown rice flavor will go really well with peanut butter, and other nut butters. So, I am stopping on the way home to get some old fashioned peanut butter to stir it into. I filled a one gallon jar with the stabilized rice bran, and it appeared that there were probably ten more gallons in the forty pound bag I bought for $25. It appears this will be a very cost effective addition to my diet. Plz advise me of anything else I need to know. - " Dan " <granadahills2002 Saturday, December 25, 2004 6:29 PM Stabilized Rice Bran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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