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Lower Blood Pressure Naturally: 10 SuperFoods That Work with Susan Smith Jones, PhD High blood pressure is a 'silent killer,' but do you need to rely on drugs to lower your blood pressure? Our guest today, holistic health and lifestyle expert, Susan Smith Jones, PhD, will talk about 10 superfoods, validated by clinical trials, that can naturally lower your blood pressure. Among other foods, you will learn how flaxseeds, beets, and more, all covered in detail in her book A HUG IN A MUG, have additive mechanisms to produce double-digit drops, with flax seeds actually rivaling prescription medication. I’ll be taking notes on our discussion today since most people I know are dealing with blood pressure issues. Welcome Susan! For a woman with three of America’s most ordinary names, Susan Smith Jones, PhD, has certainly made extraordinary contributions in the fields of holistic health, anti-aging & longevity, optimum nutrition and balanced living. For starters, she taught students, staff and faculty at UCLA how to be healthy and fit for 30 years! Susan travels internationally as a frequent media talk show guest; she is also the author of many health books, including 1) A HUG IN A MUG: Revitalize with Superfoods & Healthy Living Extras and 2) UPLIFTED: 12 Minutes to More Joy, Faith, Kindness, Peace & Vitality Refer to her website for more info about Susan, her books and her empowering work. SusanSmithJones.com 𝕏 @ Susan Smith Jones https://www.instagram.com/susansmithjonesphd http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/ssj145.mp3

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Time for Trump's Patriotic Reparations by Thomas Redick Reparations time has come for American Blacks and Donald Trump is the key to making it happen. He can declare federal supremacy while dismissing the white supremacy charges he and other Republicans have faced. Polls show over 90 percent of Blacks and a majority of White folks will be okay with reparations by 2040. This book deals with the biggest challenge, the issue of reparations for slavery. This is too costly (seventeen trillion?), too unlawful (slavery was legal at the time, and Blacks owned slaves too), and fails to account for the credit of nearly seven hundred thousand men who died in the Civil War that ended slavery in the US. It is best left for later, if ever. The Civil War cost America trillions, making it a wash with slavery wages. America's been delaying payment of reparations since the end of the Civil War, when President Johnson took away the forty acres and a mule that General Sherman gave freed slaves. So Blacks were left with nothing during Reconstruction when the dark cloud or murder of crows called Jim Crow settled on the land in 1876. Reparations pioneer Callie House endured harassment and imprisonment in the early 1900s but got a movement underway that sought payment from rebel cotton, even if she was only offered an old folk's home. Federal reparations law would preempt the state attempts at reparations, forcing them to pay into the federal foundation that the law would create. California's report of over five hundred pages stops considering reparations after 1910, which is perplexing. They probably felt it was too much to cover Jim Crow and lynching since they included slavery illegally in the analysis. Donald Trump can reward families who suffered lynching, including Hispanics and Asians who were lynched. Churches, universities, and foundations are starting to fund reparations. These initiatives would be untouched by federal preemption. Precedents exist, including Ronald Reagan's payments to Japanese internees. Nazi nastiness toward Jews has everything to do with the US treatment of Blacks, and they paid for their killing of six million Jews, gypsies, gays, and others. The Germans paid Jews in 1952 and continue paying them into 2025. https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Patriotic-Reparations-Thomas-Redick/dp/B0FY4HQ8FW/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title https://www.ecpublishingllc.com/ http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/5726trec.mp3

Gone Surfing!: Ice Queen's Cave by Donna Voss While the world and sites to see seem vast and endless, there is connection and community smaller than we think. A series of short stories and poems, Donna Voss demonstrates connections on a global front: world-class pilots and children of a farm, a surfer traveling the globe, the united experiences of veterans returning home from war. About the Author: Donna Voss lives in Southern California. As a volunteer at her public grade school, she began the Garden Club when her daughter started kindergarten in 1997. Since then, many parents and teachers have contributed their energy toward building a "Farm to Table" public school program, which teaches kids how to grow, make, reuse, repurpose, recycle food, expanding the program throughout the district. When Donna's daughter became the Garden Club teacher, she developed an educational curriculum and got a grant for the first farmhouse. Now offsite tours at the school district farm are provided to all the K-6 graders who enjoy field trips of the ever-expanding farm site. By teaching the next generation how to grow sustainable food, they are also learning how to build a healthy community and develop good relationships, by promoting inclusivity and teaching the importance of considering another person's perspective. Also, by learning how to listen with empathy and the simple act that being kind really does matter and, in some cases, can make all the difference. https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Surfing-Ice-Queens-Cave/dp/B0FQBMSW14 https://mainspringbooks.com/ http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/5726dvmsb.mp3

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100 Life-Challenging Devotionals: Emphasizes Evangelism and Christian Growth by Pat Mann These devotionals are intended to evangelize, educate, and inspire individuals to greater Christian growth. Some of them are used as tools in leading others to come to faith in God through Jesus Christ. They do not follow any theme throughout, so they are in no particular order. Users should choose one they deem appropriate for the occasion for which it will be presented. Use the titles as a guide to choose just the right one. These devotionals are used by some groups as a prelude to a Bible study class or as an opening, preceding a committee or board meeting, either for a religious group or a civil gathering. They are useful in nursing homes, pastors or auxiliary planning meetings, youth events, and campfire events. Some of the devotionals are appropriate to use for a short children's sermon. Travel groups enjoy a brief morning devotional before the day's activities begin, either in motel lobbies or on a travel bus. They also make great gifts for any occasion, such as graduations, birthdays, bridal showers, Christmas, Mother's Day/Father's Day, Pastor Recognition Sunday, or just a gift that says, "Thank you for all you do." Think about adding this book as kind of a "stocking stuffer" add-on with another gift appropriate for the occasion. Some individuals enjoy using the devotionals in this book for their own personal "closet time with the Lord." "These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name" (John 20:31 KJV). Pat Mann has taught Bible lessons in many different settings, beginning at a very young age. Such settings include local church Bible classes, Vacation Bible School, Christian camps for youth and children, home Bible study groups, a thirty-five year weekly Bible lesson presented at the local county jail which continues to this day, and weekly Bible classes at two local nursing homes. She has served as education director at a local church, being in charge of the education program for all ages at that church. She has occasionally filled the pulpit in churches whose pastors are away, or for churches who currently have no pastor. She has always found it easier to write her own Bible lessons and devotionals rather than using pre-printed materials. She has served Woman’s Missionary Union, leading in missions education for youth at her local church, as well as serving as area director and a consultant on state and national levels of Women’s Missionary Union. She was commissioned by WMU to write a missions day camp unit used nationally, and om another occasion assisted in planning a year’s curriculum, also for WMU. She served as chaplain of a local nursing home for ten years, and continues to volunteer leading chapel services twice a week. AMAZON https://patmannbooks.com/ https://www.ecpublishingllc.com/

A Killing in the Keys by Sue Andrews After moving to Key West in semi-retirement, Wade Nevlin, the protagonist from Jacksonville Judas, finds a new love interest. This new, mysterious woman, finds a dead body shortly after hers and Wade’s chance meeting. Because she knew the man, Wade is not sure of her involvement. He must unravel the truth while protecting the ones he loves. Author Bio: Sue first started writing at age 62 after 40 years in public-school education. She has been a member of the CA Inland Empire Writers Club (IECWC) for the past sixteen years and received the Jack London Award for service in 2021. For the last five years she has also been a member of the Diamond Valley Writers Guild and last year chosen to be in their animal Anthology collection entitled, Menagerie, also on Amazon. Besides often writing in the monthly IECWC online magazines entitled Fresh Ink, (mostly memoirs) she has also written two other books. To Live and Love Again and Jacksonville Judas. AMAZON https://sueandrewsbooks.com https://www.kingpagespress.com http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/43026kpp2.mp3

The Leaf That Went On An Unexpected Road Trip by Laure Stack A leaf explores the challenges of embracing new things and overcoming fears as he navigates different circumstances that are beyond his control. Join the leaf's heartwarming adventure from Hollywood and Joshua tree to the beach. With over 20 years as an educator, Laure Stack has spent her career supporting children through their struggles and dreams. Her deep understanding of young minds leads to her heartwarming stories. Through Once Upon a Boy, Howie the Unusual Bear and more future books, Laure hopes to inspire children to dream big and never let doubt keep them from reaching their full potential. https://www.amazon.com/Leaf-That-Went-Unexpected-Road/dp/B0GS1QKCSV/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title https://authorlaurestack.com https://www.ecpublishingllc.com/ http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/43026lsec.mp3

Becoming the Moral Equal of God by Tim Effinger Biblical illiteracy abounds. Many, maybe most, churchgoers are not saved at all. Most children growing up in Christian homes will reject Christianity before they are twenty-two years old. Many Christians cannot give an accurate definition of such words as salvation, repentance, or gospel. If you don't know what salvation is, how can you know if you are saved or not? Salvation is, by far, the most important topic to understand because if you are wrong about salvation, then you will spend eternity in hell. This book is written to bring much accurate detail to the subject of salvation, but in a way that any ordinary person can understand. You will learn what biblical repentance is. You will learn what salvation is and how you can gain salvation from Jesus Christ. You will learn what "believing in Jesus" means. This book will lead the unsaved to salvation in Jesus, and the saved will become better witnesses. AMAZON https://www.kingpagespress.com/ http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/43026kpp1.mp3

Imagine the concept of tuning a radio to different stations. As the reader flips through the dial (turns the page), one frequency is a light whimsical poem, and the turning of the nob brings a sad and thought-provoking analogy of growing old, and next, the warm special-enjoyment of holding someone's hand. The reader will enjoy turning the dial and observing the life of two doves, and later, observing two ducks. (Yep, you're "gonna hafta" buy the book to read these fine works of literature.) As you read; enjoy "turning a knob" and finding something heartwarming, or tear jerking, or humorous or enlightening, or brilliant (well maybe not too bright) observations of life. I Promise, you will look forward to "changing the frequency", as you adjust the dial in "Channels of Delight". Daniel French was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and spent much of his youth in the Appalachian Mountains. After high school, he joined the Air Force and served as an Air Traffic Controller in Vietnam. Following his military service and time with the Federal Aviation Administration, he earned three college degrees and later taught Speech at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington. AMAZON https://daniellfrenchbook.com https://studioofbooks.org

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