Pandemic Survival Blog

For over a century, Big Tobacco has manipulated the American Medical Association , the Food and Drug Administration, and even the Centers for Disease Control, using big money payoffs for thousands of medical doctor endorsements . They covered up and hid the science for over 30 years that smoking causes lung cancer , which they all knew about since the 1930s and 40s. Then came the early 1960s, when Marlboro (and Kool ) commercial cigarette manufacturers figured out they could freebase nicotine using ammonia, making the "hook" of the addiction much stronger, and thus much tougher to quit. They nearly put all the other brands out of business. It was called "ammonia technology" by Philip Morris, and it's said to deliver up to 100 milligrams of nicotine potency in one cigarette, even though machines that gauge the milligrams only read it as 20 - 30 milligrams. That's the hook, and it robs millions of people of their health and livelihood, every day. Loading t...

  Research shows that willpower is actually more important than IQ, which is why the point is not to become “smarter,” but to become more self-disciplined. Will power is the foundation of all human achievements. Everyone has some willpower, but we always feel that we need more, often because we tend to use up what we have. That’s called willpower depletion. The good news is that you can actually train your willpower like a muscle. A famous Italian author once wrote, “I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.” Mental and physical health are hinged on how a person feels at any given moment. We must remain in control of how we feel at all times, but how? The answer: balance. We all know how to balance our physical body so we don’t fall over when we stand up, or while we ride a bike, or hop across some stones over a flowing stream. So how do we balance ourselves mentally, and even spiritually, so we don’t “fall over” every time we run into an obstacle, or someone else di...