The thought of doing yoga, breath-taking stretches and the like, makes my joints ache, but not so much as political correctness about yoga:
  https://nypost.com/2018/01/29/people-who-practice-yoga-contribute-to-white-supremacy-professor-claims/ 

“White people who do a downward-facing dog are contributing to a “system of power, privilege, and oppression,” according to a Michigan State University professor. Shreena Gandhi, a religious studies professor at Michigan State, claims in an article she recently co-authored that Americans who practice yoga are contributing to white supremacy and promote the “yoga industrial complex.”

     Here, for the scientifically minded is the abstract to a study that showed evidence of the protective effects of spices on DNA:

“Spices are rich sources of antioxidants due to the presence of phenols and flavonoids. In this study, the DNA protecting activity and inhibition of nicotine-induced cancer cell migration of 9 spices were analysed. Murine fibroblasts (3T3-L1) and human breast cancer (MCF-7) cells were pre-treated with spice extracts and then exposed to H2O2 and nicotine. The comet assay was used to analyse the DNA damage. Among the 9 spices, ginger, at 50 μg/ml protected against 68% of DNA damage in 3T3-L1 cells. Caraway, cumin and fennel showed statistically significant (p < 0.05) DNA protecting activity. Treatment of MCF-7 cells with nicotine induced cell migration, whereas pre-treatment with spices reduced this migration. Pepper, long pepper and ginger exhibited a high rate of inhibition of cell migration. The results of this study prove that spices protect DNA and inhibit cancer cell migration.”

     So, the majority of Millennials do not know how to boil a light bulb or change an egg…wait, senile me, I got that wrong, change a light bulb and boil an egg:
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4338132/Milennials-don-t-know-change-light-bulb.html

     The British survey showed that most, quite capable in the use of IT equipment, failed at practical domestic tasks. The survey did not venture outside of the comfortable domestic sphere, but if one considered basic survival skills previous surveys indicate that Millennials lack these skills too:
  http://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/2017/01/16/poll-millennials-lack-basic-survival-skills.html 

     When Trump is good, he is very, very good, but when he is bad, he is wicked. However, on the question of vaccination freedom, he has been a leader, standing up against the power of Big Pharma:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/president-trump-fighting-the-morlocks-one-battle-at-a-time_02122018

“The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom. OCR is the law enforcement agency within HHS that enforces federal laws protecting civil rights and conscience in health and human services, and the security and privacy of people’s health information. The creation of the new division will provide HHS with the focus it needs to more vigorously and effectively enforce existing laws protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom, the first freedom protected in the Bill of Rights.”
https://www.hhs.gov/conscience

     Conservative websites are celebrating Trump’s food boxes:

““The Trump administration is proposing to save billions in the coming years by giving low-income families a box of government-picked, nonperishable foods every month instead of food stamps. White House OMB Director Mick Mulvaney on Monday hailed the idea as one that kept up with the modern era, calling it a “Blue Apron-type program” — a nod to the high-end meal kit delivery company that had one of the worst stock debuts in 2017 and has struggled to hold onto customers. Mulvaney said the administration’s plan would not only save the government money, but also provide people with more nutritious food than they have now. …”
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2018/02/13/trumps-food-boxes/

     In the US, and probably right across the West, increasing numbers of teenagers are now identifying as transgender, according to recent studies:
  http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/boy-girl-teens-identify-transgender-52840089 

“The study looked at students in ninth and 11th grade and estimated that nearly 3 percent are transgender or gender nonconforming, meaning they don’t always self-identify as the sex they were assigned at birth. That includes kids who refer to themselves using neutral pronouns like “them” instead of “he” or “she.” “Diverse gender identities are more prevalent than people would expect,” said lead author Nic Rider, a University of Minnesota postdoctoral fellow who studies transgender health. The study is an analysis of a 2016 statewide survey of almost 81,000 Minnesota teens. Nearly 2,200 identified as transgender or gender nonconforming.

     In articles to come I will be dealing with the Plan C, or is it Plan D (?), strategy of prepping for coming disasters, collapses or just the Spenglerian processes of social entropy that have taken down all previous civilisations. I know that the great majority of us expect that the world which we see today, and enjoy with its technological creature comforts will continue into the future, forever. Yet, it may not, and breakdown in some places of the world has been rapid, and there is even argument that the fall of Rome was quicker than most scholars think, due to migration and barbarian invasions, rather than just some particular economic libertarian reason like more taxes:
  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/dec/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview9
  http://collapse.news/2018-02-08-are-earths-magnetic-poles-about-to-flip-university-researcher-warns-the-reversal-is-approaching.html 
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/selco-the-brutal-truth-about-violence-when-the-shtf_02092018

     The strategy of many has been to go “off grid,” and to homestead, trying to be a self-reliant, if not self-sufficient as possible. The American sites celebrate this, but often are too preoccupied with firearms questions to produce in depth discussions of just how hard it is to do this, even to grow one’s own food. I have sorted through a long list of internet sites to now cite some realistic appreciations of these difficulties:
  http://www.askaprepper.com/5-unforeseen-problems-encountered-went-off-grid/ 
  https://modernsurvivalonline.com/heres-why-all-preppers-should-start-homesteading/

     The flu season is in full swing in America, and already about 44,116 people have died from the H3N2 outbreak:
  https://www.prepperwebsite.com/the-flu-is-far-worse-than-were-being-told-tens-of-thousands-of-americans-are-dying-1-27-18/ 

     It was argued at Natural News.com: that this mortality rate was nor due to natural variation, and that flu-vaccinated children are also dying:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-01-28-vaccine-industry-in-panic-mode-as-vaccinated-children-keep-dying-from-the-flu-all-across-america.html

     Young men are told to drink their soy, and to dilute their “toxic masculinity,” because women like weak, sensitive guys. There is even a move to promote “cuckolding,” as part of the new politically correct gender relations for the last remaining heterosexual males:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSvLKY7HEk 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=_PFVN0zlzuA
  https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/25/health/cuckolding-sex-kerner/index.html

     The problem is that women do not like these soy boy males, but instead, go for the traditional John Wayne style man:

     I have discussed this some time back, but the topic is important enough to revise: the decline in the quality of sperm throughout the developed world:
  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-human-race-could-be-infertile-in-50-years-a-push-for-depopulation-will-be-global-crisis_01302018 

“Last summer, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found that male sperm counts had fallen by almost 60 per cent in 40 years. In what was the largest study of its kind, they analysed data from 43,000 men from North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, taking in 185 studies from 1973 to 2011. Its lead author, Dr Hagai Levine, decreed the result an ‘urgent wake-up call’.”

     Here is an interesting article for Plan C people, who like me feel that things have gone so far, that we will be down to survivalist strategies in a post-collapse world:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-24/would-rural-areas-be-safer-shtf-situation
The possibility of economic collapse, let alone breakdown from war and nuclear strikes, is a realistic threat today:
  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-24/davos-participant-unveils-what-would-collapse-stock-market

     Rural areas will not have the problems associated with high density population centres, which would quickly become disease pits after only a few days of collapse of essential services, such as electricity, rubbish removal and sewage management. However, as the article notes for the US, and this is applicable in Australia too, most rural towns are under-funded and not prepared for any grid down situations. This is so especially in Australia, where rural townships have been economically gutted, so that foreigners can buy up land cheaply, thanks to our local traitorous elite. Nevertheless, one will still be safer in the country than the city, for no other reason than that the cities have been basically lost.

     Academia never ceases to amaze me. If it is not producing absurd politically correct material, then it delights in producing debunkings of the “life world” of common sense reality. This applies to physics right through to biology and neuroscience. There, the research strategy has been to deny the existence and/or causal powers of the mind, and to reduce the mind to the brain, and eliminate the mind. The less than hidden agenda is to get rid of the soul, so this is all a long argument against Christianity. Readers almost certainly have not heard of the attack by neuroscience on the idea of human freewill, so here is a good summary of what they are up to:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will

“It is quite likely that a large range of cognitive operations are necessary to freely press a button. Research at least suggests that our conscious self does not initiate all behavior. Instead, the conscious self is somehow alerted to a given behavior that the rest of the brain and body are already planning and performing. These findings do not forbid conscious experience from playing some moderating role, although it is also possible that some form of unconscious process is what is causing modification in our behavioral response. Unconscious processes may play a larger role in behavior than previously thought.

     More bad news for Cape Town, which runs out of water in a mere 90 days:
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/01/18/mad-max-scenario-cape-town-run-out-water-90-days/#4ba8deaa5414

“Cape Town, South Africa is in crisis mode right out of a Mad Max movie. Given current water consumption, the city has approximately 90 days until it runs out of water. The city recently pushed forward what they call Day Zero, where the city will be forced to shut off water supplies to all but essential consumers, such as hospitals. This would mark the first major city in the world to run out of water, a result of a prolonged 3-year drought. The city has mandated that every household limit their water consumption to 23 gallons per person per day. However, only 54% of households are meeting that target.

     As reported at:
http://collapse.news/2018-01-09-double-threat-may-wipe-out-the-honey-bee-scientists-warn-pesticides-killing-them-off.html
https://naturalpedia.com/clothianidin-toxicity-side-effects-diseases-and-environmental-impacts.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5195389/Pesticides-food-shortages-killing-honey-bee.html
the honey bee is facing extinction:

“For many years now, scientists have been warning us of the decreasing honey bee population. A new research reveals that honey bees could soon go extinct due to the increased uses of chemical pesticides and the severely low amount of food supplies for these poor creatures. A University of California, San Diego study shows that chemical pesticides, as well as a lack of food for honey bees, are threatening their already low population.
Clothianidin and thiamethoxam are two of the neonicotinoid pesticides that are killing off these vital insects. Researchers found that these chemicals, combined with low nutrition, highly impact the life span of honey bees, and severely increased the number of bee deaths by 50 percent. The effect of both these lethal factors are the same as giving poison to a person suffering from malnutrition – both are lethal individually, but together accelerate mortality. The chemicals as mentioned above affect honey bees by decreasing their hemolymph (bee blood) sugar levels and cause the insect to lose energy.”

     Just before the latest moral outrage over Trump by the liberal/Left/progressives, there was the previous move, still going, to impeach Trump because he is, according to the progressives, “insane.” Here, for example is one report:

“A psychiatrist has called for Donald Trump to be physically detained for an “emergency” mental health evaluation, sparking a debate about the professional ethics of “armchair” diagnosis.
Dr Bandy Lee, assistant professor in forensic psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, met with a dozen Democratic politicians last month to “brief” them on Mr Trump’s fitness for office — despite never having met or evaluated the US President".

     A woman has eliminated stage three cancer, using only curcumin, one of the active compounds in turmeric:
http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2017/bcr-2016-218148.full 
the report occurring in the British Medical Journal:

“Myeloma is a haematological malignancy which typically follows a relapsing-remitting course. While treatment can control the myeloma and improve quality of life for given periods of time, remissions generally become progressively shorter with subsequent relapses, and patients ultimately enter a final refractory phase. To help control symptoms and enhance quality of life, some patients use complementary therapies as an adjunct to their conventional therapy. Here, we describe a myeloma patient who started a daily dietary supplement of curcumin when approaching her third relapse. In the absence of further antimyeloma treatment, the patient plateaued and has remained stable for the last 5 years with good quality of life.”

     Many people have Leftoids as pets in their home and have the problem that apart from difficulties in house training them, as they tend to go do their toilet whenever the urge is great, and wherever, these strange furry, or fury, pets chew up everything. Well, this article explains that this is just the Leftoids way of exploring the environment, as they investigate with their noses:
https://www.livescience.com/61096-why-dogs-chew-everything.html

     Wait! In my senility, I just made a terrible error and confused Leftoids with dogs. It was a bad mistake. Sure, in a metaphorical sense, Leftoids really do chew everything up, but your dog does it because he/she loves you, while the Leftoid just wants to kill you, maybe literally:
http://www.catholic.org/news/politics/story.php?id=75241
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/06/21/ann-coulter-left-one-argument-kill/

     A sad story, indeed:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/12/07/august-ames-suicide-sjw-mob-condemns-refusal-work-gay-actors/

“Porn star August Ames was found dead of an apparent suicide Wednesday, one day after the adult actress was apparently bullied by social justice warriors on social media for explaining she would not perform in scenes alongside male actors who also perform in gay porn, due to health concerns.
Ames, whose real name is Mercedes Grabowski, “died of asphyxia due to hanging” in what has been ruled as a suicide, according to Ventura County, California officials. She was 23 years old.
Grabowski was bullied on Twitter after she announced her refusal to do porn scenes with gay porn actors, citing what she claimed was a higher likelihood of contracting HIV.”

     Following in the aftermath of the glorious victory for human rights in the same sex marriage vote, something which the entire history of humanity has been building up to, there has been other noteworthy achievements in previously, somewhat slow Australia, namely:

“It’s a big win for transgender teens today in Australia.
Australia was the last place in the world transgender children needed court authorisation to receive Stage 2 hormone treatment, even if they or their parents consented to the procedure.
That’s now no longer the case thanks to a landmark decision in the country’s Family Court on Thursday, ending the need for the unnecessary and stressful legal process.
Since 2013, it’s been a requirement that courts need to approve Stage 2 treatment.
Stage 2 hormone treatment involves the administration of oestrogen or testosterone, allowing an adolescent to develop the pubertal characteristics of the gender they associate with. It follows Stage 1 hormone treatment, which delays puberty.”
http://mashable.com/2017/11/30/transgender-teens-ruling-australia/#VMuQyMJzeaq8

     Here is a quick summary of some good health advice I have read, which is particularly relevant for older people.

     Cognitive decline can be halted, it is hypothesised, by a combination of omega 3, from oily fish or capsules, and B vitamins:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-10-halt-mental-decline-with-omega-3s-and-b-vitamins.html
https://www.iospress.nl/ios_news/omega-3-levels-affect-whether-b-vitamins-can-slow-brains-decline/