I strongly recommend a book...

I do a good bit of reading. A lot of books are Christian Biographies, well-read ministers are supposed to read those, right, but I also read alot about health and nutrition. The most recent book I've read is entitled "Salt your way to health" by David Brownstein, MD. The book gives a lot of references to clinical studies that show that low salt diets are NOT good for you. But on the other hand refined table salt is a cause for a multitude of avoidable health problems. I encourage everyone to read this book.

Salt Your Way To Health is well written and moves briskly through its 131 pages. It argues passionately for a total avoidance of regular table salt and the generous use of Redmond's Real Salt or Celtic Sea Salt. Real salt will provide 50+ of the 78 minerals the human body requires. Just a half teaspoon daily is the recommended usage but more than that will NOT be detrimental. (Brownstein's book lists a few more nutrients in Redmond's than in Celtic's but both products are much healthier than regular table salt).

Read this book and you will find THE TRUTH about salt and its important place in a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Sorry, Google does not have a copy of this book for you to preview at books dot google dot com. However, you can find this book at your local book store, Health Food store, or MAYBE at the library.

I'm terrible at Blogging

It was a week ago yesterday that Dad Mahin had his outpatient surgery in Salina, Kansas. Surgery was supposed to start at 11:30 AM but due to longer than expected operations in the OR than anticipated, Dad was finally wheeled into surgery atl 4:30 PM. Mom & I finally reconnected with him a little after 6 PM. Since it was so late they did keep him overnight to observe his blood sugar and possible bleeding at the surgery site.

They will not close/remove the chest dialysis port until they are sure the arm port will work. The arm port will not be used until the surgery site has completely healed. It could be weeks until they actually try to do dialysis in the arm port.

Dad has been dealing with a lot of weakness since the surgery; so please, Keep Praying. Phone Calls really encourage him.

More Later.

Dad Mahin Faces Outpatient Surgery

Tomorrow, October 22, 2009, Dad Mahin will be having outpatient surgery in Salina, Kansas, appointment time is at 9:30 AM. The dialysis port on his chest has been used for 3 years. Now the doctor is wanting to remove that port and install one in his arm. An arm port failed previously, so we are rather anxious about the proposed change. The chest port was supposed to be just a temporary one all along anyways. If an infection would have sprung up around that port, being so near in proximity to his heart and lungs, his life would have been endangered. So I guess I can understand why they would want to make the change. Please pray. We'll keep you posted.

Photo from the mid 1980's

Melinda Just Got Published

Miltonvale, Kansas, has its own little weekly newspaper; it's called the Miltonvale Record. My daughter Melinda has always aspired to be a writer and just this week has been hired by the Record as the newest member on its writing staff. While her most extensive work will be writing historical essays of what happened in Miltonvale 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago she has also been asked to write 'filler' articles. The following poem, actually prose, is her 'first-ever' published article.

The Garden

By Melinda Mahin

It started in a garden, so perfect, so pure.

No one by sin was hardened, No one from sin, poor.

Innocently Eve walked by the tree where sin lurked.

Satan, in that tree was sly, waiting souls to hurt.

"Take an apple," was his plea. "It won't hurt a thing.

God lied to you, you will see for joy it will bring."

Eve ate what was forbidden. Oh, the hurt it brought.

God knew this would happen, Now battles would be fought

It happened in a garden in the dark of night.

Jesus struggled deep within to make all things right.

The struggling, the weeping, the tears that did flow.

Jesus' heart now was breaking, through death He must go.

The pain He must endure, now weighed on His mind.

But to make all people newer, left those thoughts behind.

The prayers that were prayed that night, sent Jesus to die.

"Sin has now won this big fight", was Satan's glad cry.

It happened in a garden, at the break of dawn.

The birds that had sleeping been rejoiced now in song.

Jesus Christ, who bled and died, Now had fought and won the battles

Eve had started back in garden one.

Satan's plans were slaughtered at the victory Christ won.

All the wars he thought down pat, were conquered by God's Son.

So now there is a garden, so sweet and calm.

Christ is waiting there within to be your healing balm.