Over the last few years I’ve become more health conscientious and I now look for organic food sources. Organic food is made without any pesticides, hormones, and anti-biotics. Knowing what I do now, I would never give my pet dog the traditional pet foods out there. They aren’t organic and they are full of grain and other preservatives, some additives that are even banned for human consumption. They aren’t banned for “animals” because profit is more important than a dog and no one can look out for them like humans. But to dog owners, our pet dog can become like a human companion and you only want what is best for him like yourself.

Most dog foods have corn and wheat as the first ingredients, meaning there is more grains than actual meat. I’ve read that grains are especially bad for dogs because dogs are made to eat meat, not corn and wheat like they put in dog food in large amounts. Corn and wheat often contain a toxic mold Aspergillus, that grows on it and releases aflatoxins, which are known carcinogens (cancer causing). This is the same mold that commonly grows on peanuts, which may have heard about. Corn is very common in dog foods and is especially susceptible to this fungus. Many times whole crops will be severely infected with it, depending on the weather conditions.

Since it’s hard finding natural and organic food in regular stores I always buy it from Only Natural Pet Store. They have a wide assortment of different types of pet dog foods from different natural blends. You can also find natural supplements, dog care products, and many things there too. If you want to extend the life of your dog, stop buying cheap dog food at wal-mart with pesticides, anti-biotics, dangerous additives, unhealthy grain, and instead find mostly meat based organic dog food. Yes, organic and natural dog food is more expensive, but I think it’s worth it if you care about your pet dog.

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DermaIonx is a proprietary natural product made by Vetionx, to help prevent and cure skin ailments of a pet dog. Our pet dogs tend to be more susceptible to skin ailments than humans because of the thick furry coat and because we tend to not wash their coat as often as we would our own head hair. I want to take a look at some of the ingredients in DermaIonx to see how helpful they actually would be on a Dog’s skin condition.

The listed active ingredients of DermaIonx are; Silica, Calcium, Vitamin C, Zinc, Aloe Vera 10x concentrate, and selenium. Silica is in the largest quantity as it is the first ingredient. Silica is the clear looking tiny grains we see in sands, used also to make glass. It turns out silica makes up the structure of everything in a dogs body, including it’s skin. Many other pet dog skin care products include silica as a ingredient in their products too. Silica helps maintain healthy skin because it is an important constituent of it’s structure. It also helps keeps moisture in the dog’s skin and give it a nice shiny look.

Calcium is the second largest ingredient. Many people think of calcium as just beneficial for strong bones, but it plays very crucial roles in skin health too. National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) even did a study that showed those with low calcium had more premature aging of skin and higher indicence of skin cancer. Zinc is extremely crucial for skin health because it plays a crucial role in hundreds of enzymes and also the immune system. The immune system plays a big role in healing wounds or skin irritations. 10 X concentrate aloe vera is added because it is a proven skin treatment. Many human cosmetics now use Aloe vera because it works well in a variety of ways on the skin. Aloe vera has been used for centuries to treat skin disorders, even when taken orally. Selenium and Vitamin C are two important anti-oxidants in the body, that have countless benefits including reducing inflammation, allergic reactions, and skin flaking. I’m not sure what

VetIonx believes in this product so much, they are giving a 90 day moneyback guarantee. Vetionx takes a lot of care and research into developing their products, they only sell this and 3 other innovative dog products that they believe in. You can only buy DermaIonx directly through the official VetIonx.

Holidays are fast approaching and most of us have a lot of credit card debt or have trouble getting a credit card. Did you know its almost impossible to get a credit card or a raised credit limit with the current credit crisis? I heard on the news recently they are bringing back a system called “lay away”. Lay away is what everyone used to do years ago before everyone and their grandma had a credit card. Lay away allows everyone to pay periodically to the store the money in small payments. You don’t have to worry about credit checks or high interest rates. Kmart Lay-Away is now available and is Kmart is one of the first major national retailers to bring it back in the nation.

An example of an item eligible for the Lay-away program is the Basic Editions Men’s Long Sleeve Striped Henley Shirt:

Lay away is simple at Kmart. First just make a down payment at the counter when you purchase your item. Then make a payment every 2 weeks and once you are finished you can take the items home. Its a good idea to start now on the lay away program, so you can pay off and take your items you purchased home before Christmas. Go to the website to look at what Kmarts in your area have the lay-away program and which items you can put on lay away.

You or your husband might already own a type of Dremel power tool. Dremel makes rotary power tools that are used commercially to grind down things. Dremels also make great alternative dog nail clipping tools to the traditional dog clippers. This is because instead of cutting your dogs nails through clipping, which leads to pain, splintering, and bleeding, a Dremel painlessly grinds down the nails. Many dogs can’t stand regular nail clipping and for some dogs, it is so traumatizing they won’t let you do it. However, most dogs will get used to the Dremel over time. It might take them a while to not associate you using the dremel on their nails with their previous bad experiences with nail clippers.

There are about 3 different Dremel models that are commonly used to effectively grind your dog’s nails. Which one you pick depends on your dog’s size. Large dogs do best on the Variable Speed MultiPro, which has a range of 5000 to 35,000 RPMs. You will want to stay in the 5000 to 8000 RPM range because if it gets too fast your dog’s nail will get too hot and cause him pain. Do not get the cordless multipro dremel because the minimum RPM starts at 10,000 on that model. Dremel also has a Cordless Pet Nail Grooming Tool, specifically for dog nail grooming. That model has a range of 7000 to 14000. The cordless MiniMite model has a range of 6,500 to 10,000 RPMS. Both the Cordless Pet Nail Grooming Tool and the MiniMite model are ideal for the smaller dog breeds.

The Dremel is a nice dog nail clipping tool, but I and many other dog owners prefer another dog nail timmer called the Peticure. The Peticure works on a similiar rotary nail grinding action like the Dremel. The difference is that the Peticure can also catch flying debris and tends to be less of a rough grind. You can only buy the Peticure through their official website. You don’t need to go out and buy a Peticure to have the abilitiy to catch nail debris because the Peticure site sales a Peticure Safe Guard. This accessory can be attached on certain Dremel models. You can read more about my experience using the Peticure in my previous Peticure review post.

Vibecellular.com is a large online store featuring a wide range of cell phones for sale. They also carry unlocked cell phones, and cell phone accessories. They sale all major cell phone brands including Motorola, Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Palm, GSM PDA, LG. They have really great prices too. For example their Plantronics voyager 521 bluetooth headset is only 42.99 and their Nokia E71 - Gray is $446.96.

Here is their Blackberry Pearl 8100 - Gold selling for $299.99

It’s a great phone and I have one myself. The BlackBerry Pearl offers new features never before seen in a BlackBerry like, a 1.3 mega pixel camera, voice recognition, and an MP3 player to name just a few cool options. Another reason why you may want to buy this pone from VibeCellular.com is they also have special promotions when you buy this phone. Right now you can save $10.00 when you spend $100.00 or more on All Cell phones offered by VibeCellular. Save $10.00 when you spend $50.00 or more on all items offered by VibeCellular. All you have to do is enter the coupon codes given right on the product page when you buy the minimum amount and meet the other requirements.

I encourage you to check out Vibecellular.com for great prices on Unlocked Cell Phones and more!

Pet Insurance is now fairly common in the U.S.A, with over 1 million now having a insurance plan for their dog or cat. Sometimes a unexpected illness can develop like cancer, where pet insurance allows you to cover the expenses of chemotherapy. Having pet insurance is often the difference between keeping their dog alive with hope or having to put him to sleep because they cannot afford thousands of dollars in bills. Embrace Pet Insurance was started in 2006 and although it is a relatively new company, I believe it is one of the better, if not the best one.

Embrace Pet Insurance will cover all chronic or pre-existing conditions. Some other pet insurance plans will not do that because they consider them a genetic or pre-existing problem. Embrace will also cover accidents, lab tests, chemotherapy, medical scans, alternative therapies, and surgery. If you want your policy to cover prescription drugs or advanced dental illnesses then you have to get optional coverage for that though. Embrace doesn’t cover teeth cleaning or the cost of a general vet visit.

Average premiums per month on for a small dog are about $25, for a deductible of $200 and a maximum lifetime payout per claim of $10,000. You can choose the deductible amount and total claim amount. Actual monthly premium price will depend on the dog breed, it’s health, and the actual policy you choose. Embrace Pet Insurance will cover all pre-existing conditions that weren’t known to already exist before the policy starts. Other companies either charge extra for pre-existing conditions or not at all.

Embrace Pet Insurance is very flexible. They don’t have network vets that you must go to. They also will reimburse your vet bill directly instead of a benefit schedule. I found the customer reps very friendly and up front too. I think Embrace pet insurance gives you a lot of freedom and good coverage for the right price.

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Zenni Optical is the best online source for hundreds of prescription eyeglasses starting as low as only $8.00! I couldn’t believe it when I saw their prices, I didn’t think it was possible to have such low prices. They have every kind of style of glasses for unbelievable prices including; women’s fashion, children’s, sunshades, half rims, full rims, euro classics, goggles, single vision lens, sunsensor (potochromic) lens, tinted sunglasses lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens, leading edge designs, memory titanium, bifocal / progressive frames, memory titanium, and many other styled glasses.

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Why should you buy your glasses from ZenniOptical? Well they are able to sale prescription glasses at a lower price than anyone else because of lower overhead. They have thousands of satisfied customers and were even featured on a local Fox news channel and Clark Howard radio show! By the way here is a funny glasses story

Diabetes is a serious disease effecting humans and dogs and other pet animals. DiaIonX is a natural glucose lowering supplement available by the innovative company Vetionx. If your pet dog is borderline diabetic, then this may help, since it is claimed to help lower glucose levels. Diabetes is when your body loses tolerance to insulin, causing excessively high levels of glucose to stay in the blood. This excessive glucose can lead to all sorts of health problems. Normally, a person shuttles a lot of that excess glucose into their cells by secreting insulin. However, diabetics because of their insulin desensitivity, wind up having too much glucose in their blood to sit around and do damage. Thats why people with diabetes or borderline diabetes get thirsty and urinate a lot because your body is trying to flush out the excess glucose.

Now Let’s look at some of the ingredients of DiaIonx to see what it contains. Calcium, Potassium Gluconate, Chromium Picolinate, and Zinc (Amino Chelate). Chromium picolinate has long been known to help with insulin sensitivity and is recommended supplement for borderline diabetics. A lot of people are deficient in Chromium because it is hard to absorb, but Chromium Picolinate is the easiest absorbed form. Chromium helps create the growth factor called Glucose Tolerance Factor. This factor helps insulin bind to the receptors, to increase sensitivity. Many studies have shown chromium having a beneficial effect on diabetic rats including American Society for Nutrition J. Nutr. 136:415-420, February 2006 and The American Society for Nutritional Sciences J. Nutr. 132:1107-1114, 2002. This abstract published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol 16, Issue 5 404-410 pointed out the large body of evidence supporting chromium in helping diabetes. They also say that dosage and chromium form is important, citing a chinese study where the 500mg 2 times a day chromium picolinate group had results after 4 months, whereas the 100mg 2 times a day group had little. You can’t take too high of doses of chromium picolinate because there is side effects at the very high levels.

Vetionx adds zinc because it used by enyzmes that are important in insulin binding and buildup. They also claim that zinc supplementation research has shown lower insuline levels with the same glucose levels, thereby proving zinc increases insulin sensitivity. I looked up some studies myself and found some supporting zinc’s role in glucose. A study published in Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2006 Dec 8;351(1):165-70. Epub 2006 Oct 11. showed an improvement on rat’s type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndromes, from zinc complex use after 4 weeks. A study published in Dustri, Deisenhofen, ALLEMAGNE (1994) (Revue) by the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, TURQUIE showed that high doses of zinc decreased serum glucose levels after 22 days on 100 male rats. Interesting enough, I found a study published in Biol Trace Elem Res. 1991 Feb;28(2):123-33. that showed acute doses of zinc did not change glucose metabolism in humans like it did with animals in studies. A study published in J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2007;21(2):113-9. Epub 2007 Mar 6 showed that rats fed with zinc plus high fructose diet, had higher insulin sensitivy compared to high fructose diet without the zinc. From my research on zinc on other processes in the body, it also plays a crucial role in many other complex factors dealing with cells and glucose metabolism. You do not want to take zinc excessively though, as it can cause side effects, as pointed out in a study published in Indian J Exp Biol. 2006 Sep;44(9):705-18. It showed excessive zinc for 6 months led to symptoms of metabolic syndrome-x.

The potassium is added to DiaIonx for energy for ATP (Which is the basic energy “currency” in cells). Not sure exactly how that has to do with insulin sensitivity and glucose, but it probably just helps make sure all the enzymes in the body are working at optimum.

Overall, DiaIonx seems like it could help because the Chromium and Zinc in DiaIonx, have extensive research to indicate they help with glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. You can only buy DiaIonX directly through Vetionx. They offer a 90 day money back guarantee too, so I think it’s worth a try.

When the internet first came out most people didn’t want to look for someone to date online. More and more people these days however are becoming more comfortable looking for a date or long term relationship online. I used to be hesitant at first, but I actually tried it myself a few times and I was surprised that I wound up meeting some nice women as friends or relationships a result. I know a lot of people in their 20’s who have gone on dates or even started a relationship from registering a profile too. Most were skeptical at first or just did it out of curiosity, but they also wound up actually going on an actual blind date or even a long term relationship.

True.com is one of the fastest new dating website classifieds. You might want to take a look because you can search for free listings and even signup is free too. You can search the site without registration, but if you want to contact people’s profiles and do other things, you have to register.

Just to name a few of the great features of True.com are; they have a automatic compatibility check using a chart, you can email or chat, view multiple photos and their detailed profiles, rate them, and much more. I did a search of some women in my area, which is pretty rural area and I found a few dozen ranging in many ages and backgrouns. Please don’t forget signing up for True.com is totally free, so check it out and search the profiles for free because you have nothing to lose. You never know, you could gain the love of your life!