Thanks For Taking Care of Me
By: Author Unknown

Like most elementary schools, it was typical to have a
parade of students in and out of the health clinic
throughout the day. We dispensed ice for bumps and bruises,
Band-Aids for cuts, and liberal doses of sympathy and hugs.
As principal, my office was right next door to the clinic,
so I often dropped in to lend a hand and help out with the
hugs. I knew that for some kids, mine might be the only one
they got all day.

One morning I was putting a Band-Aid on a little girl’s
scraped knee. Her blonde hair was matted, and I noticed that
she was shivering in her thin little sleeveless blouse. I
found her a warm sweatshirt and helped her pull it on.
“Thanks for taking care of me,” she whispered as she climbed
into my lap and snuggled up against me.

It wasn’t long after that when I ran across an unfamiliar
lump under my arm. Cancer, an aggressively spreading kind,
had already invaded thirteen of my lymph nodes. I pondered
whether or not to tell the students about my diagnosis. The
word breast seemed so hard to say out loud to them, and the
word cancer seemed so frightening.

When it became evident that the children were going to find
out one way or another, either the straight scoop from me or
possibly a garbled version from someone else, I decided to
tell them myself. It wasn’t easy to get the words out, but
the empathy and concern I saw in their faces as I explained
it to them told me I had made the right decision. When I
gave them a chance to ask questions, they mostly wanted to
know how they could help. I told them that what I would like
best would be their letters, pictures and prayers.

I stood by the gym door as the children solemnly filed out.
My little blonde friend darted out of line and threw herself
into my arms. Then she stepped back to look up into my face.
“Don’t be afraid, Dr. Perry,” she said earnestly, “I know
you’ll be back because now it’s our turn to take care of
you.”

No one could have ever done a better job. The kids sent me
off to my first chemotherapy session with a hilarious book
of nausea remedies that they had written. A video of every
class in the school singing get-well songs accompanied me to
the next chemotherapy appointment. By the third visit, the
nurses were waiting at the door to find out what I would
bring next. It was a delicate music box that played “I Will
Always Love You.”

Even when I went into isolation at the hospital for a bone
marrow transplant, the letters and pictures kept coming
until they covered every wall of my room.

Then the kids traced their hands onto colored paper, cut
them out and glued them together to make a freestanding
rainbow of helping hands. “I feel like I’ve stepped into
Disneyland every time I walk into this room,” my doctor
laughed. That was even before the six-foot apple blossom
tree arrived adorned with messages written on paper apples
from the students and teachers. What healing comfort I found
in being surrounded by these tokens of their caring.

At long last I was well enough to return to work. As I
headed up the road to the school, I was suddenly overcome by
doubts. What if the kids have forgotten all about me? I
wondered, What if they don’t want a skinny bald principal?
What if I caught sight of the school marquee as I rounded
the bend. “Welcome Back, Dr. Perry,” it read. As I drew
closer, everywhere I looked were pink ribbons - ribbons in
the windows, tied on the doorknobs, even up in the trees.
The children and staff wore pink ribbons, too.

My blonde buddy was first in line to greet me. “You’re back,
Dr. Perry, you’re back!” she called. “See, I told you we’d
take care of you!”

As I hugged her tight, in the back of my mind I faintly
heard my music box playing… “I will always love you.”

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Cindy’s Gluten Free Success Story
When it seems impossible to loose weight

Sometimes no matter how much you exercise and how careful you are with your food intake, nothing works.
A food intolerance may be the problem.

Here is Cindy’s inspirational story. After finally discovering gluten was the problem, she lost 50 pounds (22 kilos).

Cindy got in touch with us after reading a couple of our gluten-free articles: Gluten Intolerance Symptoms, Gluten Free Food List, and The Benefits of a Wheat Free Diet. Thanks Cindy for sharing your story. We hope many people benefit from your experience!

“I’d been “dieting” for about 5 years with no success. I tried everything, and gave it my all. I even hired a personal trainer and was exercising up to 2 hours a day… still no success.

I tried every diet, read several books, and went to numerous doctors. One doctor I visited every month, showing him my food journals
and exercise journals. He kept prescribing meds. After 5 months he looked at me and said “Only you know how come you are not losing
weight. What is it?” ARG! I didn’t go back. I went drastic and lowered my calorie intake to 300-500 a day. That kind of worked, but
not reliably. I still had days and weeks where I gained weight. I wondered “How is that possible?”

It was then I realized that instead of how much, it had to be “what” I was eating. I did some research on the internet and found wheat allergies, and gluten intolerance. As soon as I read the symptom list, I knew I hit on something.

That day, March 2, of this year, I quit eating gluten. Within one week I lost 8 1/2 pounds! I could pinch my skin and not feel squishy! I lost a total of 50 pounds.

I am so excited I want to tell everybody! I am disappointed that not one health professional suggested looking into what I was eating. I think many people would benefit from trying one week without gluten, especially those who have battled with their weight, or have had problems with any of the other numerous symptoms.

The only problem is, for some, giving up gluten is a difficult task. My daughter and my sister for example. They are both sure they are also effected by the gluten. However, they both are overwhelmed with finding alternatives for everything they are used to and enjoy.”

Cindy’s last point is precisely why we are passionate about what we do. We want wholefood preparation to be easier and more fun for those who want to improve their diets. Our recipes are usually wheat and dairy free, and if not, there are always simple alternatives. Because Roger and I have had extremely limited diets at times, we’ve learnt how a little creativity and enthusiasm can give you thousands of delicious options.

Email us if you have any special requests about how to make healthy food and living with a food intolerance easy!

It Really Bugs Me

By: Beth Greer, Super Natural Mom

Imagine picking a fruit or vegetable from your garden, spraying it with bug spray, and then handing it to your child to eat. Does that seem absurd? Well, that’s exactly what we do each day with store-bought non-organic produce. The chemicals are invisible, odorless and tasteless. We do it because most of us are unaware.

For example, the teenage daughter of a friend of mine babysat for my eight year old for the first time the other night. I felt comfortable leaving my child with her; I told her to please feel free to help herself to any food she wanted in my refrigerator or pantry. The next day I touched base with her mom who said all went well, except that her daughter had phoned her from my home and exclaimed: “Mom, everything in their kitchen is organic. It’s so weird!”

I was stunned that a 16 year old would find a kitchen filled with healthy, organic* food to be weird and then I realized that “weird” to a teenager usually means something they haven’t seen before, or been told about.

So, here are the top three reasons to choose organic fruits and vegetables:

1. Pesticides are pervasive. Those juicy strawberries now being displayed in the market may look luscious, but they have a dark side. Their red color has been enhanced by a fungicide and they have been infused with methyl bromide, a gas that is injected by tractor into their growing soil. These substances then become part of fruits’ flesh, and can’t be washed off.

2. Organic foods have a higher nutritional value and can help fight disease in our body. An organically grown apple has 300% greater Vitamin C and 61% greater calcium content than a conventional or non-organic apple. Also, the amount of calcium in organic spinach is 7 times greater than in non-organic spinach and the potassium is an astounding 117 times greater in the organic. In addition, researchers found that organic fruits and vegetables have significantly higher levels of cancer-fighting antioxidants than conventionally grown foods

3. Pesticides are toxic to us and the environment. A recent study from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, found that women with high levels of DDE (a derivative of DDT) in their blood were four times as likely to develop breast cancer as women with low levels. Pesticides are known to harm the human neurological system as well as depleting the Earth’s protective ozone layer leading to more skin cancer.

Warning: peanuts, peanut butter, and coffee have the largest concentration of pesticides of any food.

Given all these facts, why do farmers still use pesticides? Well, mostly it’s because they believe it will save more crops from insects, weeds and disease. But that’s not true: before the 1950s, farmers lost about a third of their crops each year, and today, with over 21,000 pesticide products to choose from and pesticide costs exceeding $4 billion a year, farmers still lose the same – one third of their crops!

So what can you do?

Be an Aware Consumer:Be aware of the high toxicity levels of non-organic fruits and vegetables. Remember that pesticides can disrupt the endocrine system and be carcinogenic as well. Know, for example, that the FDA detected 30 different pesticides on the strawberries they sampled over a two year period; apples had 36 pesticides.

Make Eating Organic Produce a Habit: Go to Whole Foods, The Good Earth, or other health food markets, or buy at local farmers markets (ask your friends or go on the Web to:http://www.cafarmersmarkets.com/findMarkets for a full directory. Be sure you understand the vocabulary in this game: “conventional” means pesticides were used; “Free range” or “free-roaming” or “all natural” are meaningless. “Organic” means 95% of the product contains no pesticides; “100% Organic” means none of the product contains any pesticides. By the way, if “organic” prices frighten you, you might try planting your own garden, or buy a share in a nearby community farm (to find one, go to www.sare.com).

Begin with the foods that you and your family are consuming in the greatest quantities. For kids, consider switching to organic baby food, strawberries, rice, milk, bananas, peanut butter and apples.

Avoid giving children large amounts of the foods with the highest toxicity scores: Since their immune systems are more susceptible to the adverse effects of pesticides, it is especially important to make sure that your children eat as many natural and organic foods as possible.

Maybe as we become better informed and more aware of what we eat, we can pass this information along to our children and the good stuff won’t seem so “weird.”

*The term “organic” refers to food that is grown and processed in a practical, ecological partnership with nature, without the use of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers or herbicides. Organic foods are minimally processed with no artificial ingredients, preservatives or irradiation. And they taste better! Produce is sent to market as close to harvest as possible and may have suffered less nutritional loss by the time you eat it.

About the Author:

Beth Greer has helped thousands of people see possibilities and feel empowered to make changes in their lives through her role as former President of The Learning Annex, a nationally renowned alternative adult education school. She has lived through the process of discovering a tumor, then successfully shrinking it away without drugs or surgery, using alternative methods of healing. She lives in Mill Valley with her husband and 8-year-old daughter. Contact Beth at:supernaturalmom2@aol.com.

The Astounding Benefits of Soy

By: Dr Christiane Northup

As soy has made its way into Western diets, consumers have become interested in the many claimed health benefits. Soy products are often marketed specifically to women in part because of scientific evidence gathered over fifteen years suggesting that soy may be helpful for conditions and diseases associated with menopause, including hot flashes, vaginal dryness, night sweats, and mood swings. In addition, numerous medical journal reports have documented the positive affects of soy’s estrogenic properties on the brain, heart, bones, breasts, and uterus, as well as the skin, hair, and nails.1

More and more evidence shows soy’s many benefits when used as part of a healthy diet. Here’s an update on some of the recent, noteworthy news on soy:

Improved Memory and Brain Function

New studies show that isoflavones may improve cognitive function and protect against degenerative diseases of the brain, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. For example, results from the SOPHIA (Soy and Postmenopausal Health In Aging) study conducted in 2003 showed that significant improvements in markers such as “category fluency,” “logical memory,” and “memory recall” occurred after 12 weeks when postmenopausal women took 110 mg of soy isoflavones per day.2 An additional study showed improvements in “spatial cognition” a week after participants added soy to their diet in high doses.3

Further, scientists recently confirmed an increase in the frontal lobe executive functioning in women who added only 60 mg of soy isoflavones to their daily diet for six weeks! 4 After twelve weeks, the improvements were even more noticeable. In addition to helping with cognitive activity, soy isoflavones help protect nerve cells in the brain from free radical damage. 5

Only Two Glasses a Day!

In the fall of 2005, findings of a study of more than 24,000 Chinese women were reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Researchers noted that women consuming 13 gmor more of soy protein every day were half as likely to incur a bone fracture as those eating 5 gm or less per day.6 This is exciting, since you can get this amount of soy protein simply by drinking two glasses of soy milk a day or Taking 4Life Research Ltd BioGenistein capsules.

Another study was conducted in which half of the participants (postmenopausal women) were given two glasses of soy milk with isoflavones; the other half drank the same quantity without the isoflavones. Bone loss was measured after two years and four years. The first group had virtually no bone loss at either interval! The second group saw a decrease in bone mass by a little more than four percent—lower than what many postmenopausal women experience. Researchers concluded that although the soy milk they drank didn’t have isoflavones, the daily intake of soy protein still provided some protective benefits for these women’s bones.7

My Recommendation
I recommend 100–160 mg of soy isoflavones per day. Typically, a serving of soy contains 35–50 mg of soy isoflavones and 8 gm of soy protein. Some examples are 1 cup of soy milk, 1/2 cup of tofu; or 3 handfuls of roasted nuts. It’s always best to use a soy product that is made from whole, organic soybeans. The simplest way for the busy modern women is Taking 4Life Research Ltd BioGenistein capsules.

If eating soy isn’t currently a part of your daily ritual, I encourage you to incorporate it into your diet. You’ll be providing terrific protection against oxidative stress, adding a superior form of protein, balancing your hormones, protecting your bones, strengthening brain function, lowering your cholesterol, and so much more!

1. Anderson, J.J., et. al., 1999. Health potential of soy isoflavones for menopausal women, Public Health Nutr, Dec;2(4):489-504.
Celec, P., 2005. Endocrine and cognitive effects of short-time soybean consumption in women, Gynecol Obstet Invest, 59(2):62-6, Epub 2004 Nov 3.
File, S. E., et. al., 2005. Cognitive improvement after 6 weeks of soy supplements in postmenopausal women is limited to frontal lobe function, Menopause, Mar;12(2)193-201.
Jenkins, D.J, et. al., 2002. Effects of high- and low-isoflavone soyfoods on blood lipids, oxidized LDL, homocysteine, and blood pressure in hyperlipidemic men and women. Am J Clin Nutr, Aug;76(2):365-72.
Kritz-Silverstein, D., et. al., 2003. Isoflavones and cognitive function in older women: the Soy and Postmenopausal Health in Aging Study, Menopause, May-Jun;10(3):196-202.
Lee, Y.B., Lee, H.J., Sohn, H.S., 2005. Soy isoflavones and cognitive function.J Nutr Biochem, Nov;16(11):641-9. Epub 2005 Aug 10.
Lydeking-Olsen, E., et. al., 2004. Soymilk or progesterone for prevention of bone loss—a 2-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Eur J Nutr, Aug;43(4):246-57. Epub 2004 Apr 14.
Omoni, A.O., Aluko, R.E., 2005. Soybean foods and their benefits: potential mechanisms of action. Nutr Rev, Aug;63(8):272-83.
Sonee, M., et. al., 2004. The soy isoflavone, genistein, protects human cortical neuronal cells from oxidative stress, Neurotoxicology, Sept;25(5):885-91.
Zhang, X., et. al. 2005, Prospective cohort study of soy food consumption and risk of bone fracture among postmenopausal women, Arch Intern Med., Sep 12;165(16):1890-5.
2 Kritz-Silverstein, D., et. al., 2003. Isoflavones and cognitive function in older women: the Soy and Postmenopausal Health in Aging Study, Menopause, May-Jun;10(3):196-202.
3 Celec, P., et. al., 2005. Endocrine and cognitive effects of short-time soybean consumption in women, Gynecol Obstet Invest, 59(2):62-6, Epub 2004 Nov 3.
4 File, S. E., et. al., 2005. Cognitive improvement after 6 weeks of soy supplements in postmenopausal women is limited to frontal lobe function, Menopause, Mar;12(2)193-201.
5 Sonee, M., et. al., 2004. The soy isoflavone, genistein, protects human cortical neuronal cells from oxidative stress, Neurotoxicology, Sept;25(5):885-91.
6 Zhang, X., et. al. 2005, Prospective cohort study of soy food consumption and risk of bone fracture among postmenopausal women, Arch Intern Med, Sep 12;165(16):1890-5.
7 Lydeking-Olsen, E., et. al., 2004. Soymilk or progesterone for prevention of bone loss—a 2-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial, Eur J Nutr, Aug;43(4):246-57. Epub 2004 Apr 14.

About the Author
Christiane Northrup, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn physician, is today’s leading expert on women’s health issues. Her new Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women special airs in March 2007 on PBS. She just published The Wisdom of Menopause Journal. Check out the latest health products that over these problems: www.axel.4healthdirect.com

Four Essentials for Happiness
By: Brian Tracy

You may have a thousand different goals over the course of your life, but they all will fall into one of four basic categories. Everything you do is an attempt to enhance the quality of your life in one or more of these areas.

The Key to Happiness
The first category is your desire for happy relationships. You want to love and be loved by others. You want to have a happy, harmonious home life. You want to get along well with the people around you, and you want to ear n the respect of the people you respect. Your involvement in social and community affairs results from your desire to have happy interactions with others and to make a contribution to the society you live in.

Enjoy Your Work
The second category is your desire for interesting and challenging work. You want to make a good living, of course, but more than that, you want to really enjoy your occupation or profession. The very best times of your life are when you are completely absorbed in your work.

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The third category is your desire for financial independence. You want to be free from worries about money. You want to have enough money in the bank so that you can make decisions without counting every cent. You want to achieve a certain financial state so that you can retire in comfort and never have to be concerned about whether or not you have enough money to support your life style. Financial independence frees you from poverty and a need to depend upon others for your livelihood. If you save and invest regularly throughout your working life, you will eventually reach the point where you will never have to work again.

Enjoy Excellent Health
The fourth and final category is your desire for good health, to be free of pain and illness and to have a continuous flow of energy and feelings of well-being. In fact, your health is so central to your life that you take it for granted until something happens to disrupt it.

Peace of Mind is the Key
Peace of mind is essential for every one of these. The greater your peace of mind, the more relaxed and positive you are, the less stress you suffer, the better is your overall health.

The more peace of mind you have, the better are your relationships, the more optimistic, friendly and confident you are with everyone in your life. When you feel good about yourself on the inside, you do your work better and take more pride in it. You are a better boss and coworker. And the greater your overall peace of mind, the more likely you are to ear n a good living, save regularly for the future and ultimately achieve financial independence.

Control Your Attention
Life is very much a study of attention. Whatever you dwell upon and think about grows and expands in your life. The more you pay attention to your relationships, the quality and quantity of your work, your finances and your health, the better they will become and the happier you will be.

Action Exercises
Here are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, take time on a regular basis to think about what would make you really happy in each of the four areas.

Second, set specific, measurable goals for improvement in your relationships, your health, your work and your finances and write them down.

Third, resolve to do something every day to increase the quality of some area of your life - and then keep your resolution.

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Unlocking Your Creativity
By: Brian Tracy

Creative thinking can be stimulated by two things; intensely desired goals and pressing problems. Your creative capacities need something to hone in on and your job is to provide it.

A Continual Stimulus for Ideas
Intensely desired goals, clearly defined with detailed plans for their accomplishment act as a continual stimulus for ideas to achieve them.

Visualize Your Goals
To trigger your imagination, write out a clear description of your ideal end result or goal. Be clear about the goal, be flexible about the process. Think about it, visualize it as realized over and over. Project your mind forward to the picture of the realized goal and then look back to the present.

Define Your Goals Clearly
Think on paper. Make a plan and then work on the plan, updating it, changing it, adding to it as you think of new ways to work toward the goal. The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

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The Proper Approach to Problems
The second stimulant to creativity is pressing problems. The key to idea generation when you face a problem is to approach the problem confidently, expectantly, with the attitude that there exists a logical, practical solution just waiting to be found.

The most creative people have a relaxed attitude of confident expectancy that causes their minds to function in original and imaginative ways.

Diagnose Your Problems Accurately
Define your problems clearly in writing. Accurate diagnosis is half the cure. Sometimes you will find that you are dealing with a “cluster problem,” one that is made up of several smaller problems. Your job is to sort them out and then go to work on each one separately.

Break Up the Clusters
In many cluster problems, there is a core issue surrounded by a lot of symptoms. Creative thinking requires that you separate the core issue, and then focus on resolving that before worrying about the smaller problems.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to stimulate your creativity.

First, be absolutely clear about your goal. Write it down and make a plan to achieve it. Think of different ways you could accomplish it.

Second, define your problems clearly and then make a list of all the possible solutions to your problem. Take action on at least one idea immediately.

It’s a bit odd when I discover the berry that topped Dr Nicholas Perricone’s top ten superfoods is one most of us never ever heard of. Acai (ah-sa-ee) is an exotic gift from the Amazon. Acai palm tree is harvested in the rainforests of Brazil, acai tastes like a ‘vibrant blend of berries and chocolate’.
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Free radicals are produced in many different ways such as, normal metabolic processes, ultraviolet radiation from the sun and the breakdown in the body of spoiled fats. So, we can’t avoid them, but there is a way to stop them — antioxidants.

So how does it work, and what are the benefits?

Antioxidants work by donating an electron to unstable free radicals, antioxidants neutralize their harmful effects, and they remain still stable after donating the electron.

Research suggests that consumption of antioxidant-rich foods reduces damage to cells and biochemicals from free radicals. This may slow down, prevent, or even reverse certain diseases that result from cellular damage, and perhaps even slow down the natural aging process. This is the basis for the free-radical theory of aging.

How do we know which food is more effective than another in terms of antioxidant efficiency then?

Here we introduce ORAC, which stands for Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity.
ORAC is a way to measure the antioxidant capacity of a food. Foods with high ORAC values are desirable for their ability to inhibit free radical activity. The ORAC measurement was developed by a scientist at the National Institute of Aging in 1992 and has proven to be a valuable tool in quantifying health benefits associated with consuming fruits, vegetables and other antioxidant-containing foods and supplements.

The range of ORAC for common fruits was around 1.40 (watermelon) to 95 (cranberry).
A very recent paper by Schauss et al. published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reported an extremely high total ORAC value of 1027 for a freeze-dried fruit pulp and skin powder from the Acai berry (Euterpe oleracea) (Schauss et al. 2006). This is the highest ORAC value ever reported for a fruit or vegetable to this date.

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VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
A corporate attorney friend of mine sent the following out to the employees in his company.
It’s worth reading and doing.

1. The next time you order checks have only your initials (instead of first name) and last name put on them. If someone takes your checkbook, they will not know if you sign your checks with just your initials or your first name, but your bank will know how you sign your checks.

2. Do not sign the back of your credit cards.
Instead, put “PHOTO ID REQUIRED.”

3. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the “For” line. Instead, just put the last four numbers. The credit card company knows the rest of the number, and anyone who might be handling your check as it passes through all the check-processing channels will not have access to it.

4. Put your work phone # on your checks instead of your home phone. If you have a PO Box, use that instead of your home address. If you do not have a PO Box, use your work address. Never have your SS# printed on your checks, (DUH!). You can add it if it is necessary. However, if you have it printed, anyone can get it.

5. Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc. You will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call and cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. Also carry a photocopy of your passport when traveling either here or abroad. We have all heard horror stories about fraud that is committed on us in stealing a name, address, Social Security number, credit cards.

6. When you check out of a hotel that uses cards for keys (and they all seem to do that now), do not turn the “keys” in. Take them with you and destroy them.
Those little cards have on them all of the information you gave the hotel, including address and credit card numbers and expiration dates. Someone with a card reader, or employee of the hotel, can access all that information with no problem whatsoever.
Unfortunately, as an attorney, I have first hand knowledge because my wallet was stolen last month.
Within a week, the thieve(s) ordered an expensive monthly cell phone package, applied for a VISA credit card, had a credit line approved to buy a Gateway computer and received a PIN number from DMV to change my driving record information online. Here is some critical information to limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know:

1. We have been told we should cancel our credit cards immediately. The key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them.

2. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc., were stolen. This proves to credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one). However, here is what is perhaps most important of all (I never even thought to do this.)

3. Call the three national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and Social Security number. I had never heard of doing that until advised by a bank that called to tell me an application for credit was made over the Internet in my name. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen, and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. By the time I was advised to do this, almost two weeks after the theft, all the damage had been done. There are records of all the credit checks initiated by the thieves’ purchases, none of which I knew about before placing the alert. Since then, no additional damage has been done, and the thieves threw my wallet away this weekend (someone turned it in). It seems to have stopped them dead in their tracks.
Now, here are the numbers you always need to contact about your wallet and contents being stolen:

1.) Equifax: 1-800-525-6285
2.) Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742
3.) TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289
4.) Social Security Administration (fraud line):
1-800-269-0271

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Warm Regards,