Reigh Says

Welcome to author and Nutritional Food Consultant, Reigh Parker-Burch. She will be sharing her articles about health and healing along with the many insights she accrued during her thirty-plus year's experience of working with Dr. Henry Bieler who authored Food Is Your Best Medicine. Her knowledge and wit will be apparent to the reader and is also captured in her own book, Bieler, Burch, and Beyond. 

Chewing Wrigley's Out

I must confess that BB (Before Bieler – Mentor), gum and I were “too close”. My sister Mary, sweet teacher, has begged me to leave bubble gum out.  We all have vices, and that is hers. After noting many gum chewers, some very enthusiastic obvious ones, it occurred to me that gum has probably turned evil.  It has! Wrigley’s is an awful word, and very deceptive in their wording about their company’s practices.  To be fair, I will quote directly from their ingredient site.

Beautiful Cosmetics or Calamity?

Lest you dear reader think I’ve forgotten that toxins are everywhere, fear not.  Leaving no stone unturned, I even bought some “stuff” to get the low down on what’s being done to our cosmetics.  Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s only a surface color or moisturizer, etc.  These chemicals go through the skins and into the blood stream as do perfumes, shaving lotions, soap, you name it.  Sadly put, most of these items are hard on the pocketbook too! 

Look closely at the labels.  Not to be funny, but have you seen the tiny print?  You’d have to be a

A Gentle Poisoning of the South

This thought probably sounds too extreme, but let me assure you it is not!  The South could also be the East, North, or West.  Because I was born in Texas and enjoyed Southern “treats” in South Carolina, (where I once resided), and Texas, I was introduced to great hospitality primarily in restaurants with some wonderful atmosphere, and very little fanfare or warnings about ingredients. 

A long-standing manager of a huge chain was kind but a little reluctant to give away any “secrets”.  This plush restaurant makes approximately three gallons (more or less) of tea

Check Out Freaky Worldwide Frauds

The amount of exposes’ on many of today’s current and thriving frauds are probably so numerous that one begins to groan at the thought of reading another  expose’.

I shall try to make this short yet informative and hopefully interesting.  Dr.