Community Institute For Self-Sufficiency

CISS is active in promoting free exchange of information, science and technology for empowering each individual to enhance one's own quality of life and hence collectively improve communities.

• Health & Wealth
  • Preventing and Mitigating Common Ailments
    • Headache
      • Common Cause:
        • Dehydration.
      • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
        • Drink an adequate amount of water and/or consume water containing fluids and foods. Note that you don't neccessarily get thirsty when you become dehydrated.
    • Upset Stomach
      • Common Cause:
        • Dehydration.
      • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
        • Drink an adequate amount of water and/or consume water containing fluids and foods. Note that you don't neccessarily get thirsty when you become dehydrated.
    • Lower back pain
      • Common Cause:
        • Herniated disc
      • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
        • Prevention of compromised herniated disc via poor circulation (see heart disease).
        • Mitigation/management via stretching such as outlined in the McKenzie Method
      • Common Cause:
        • Muscle group imbalance.
      • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
        • Prevention via regular exercise complimented with proper stretching (e.g. McKenzie)
        • Mitigation/management via stretching such as outlined in the McKenzie Method
    • Most common causes of death [1] (& common chronic diseases [2])
      • Heart disease: Causes [2] and Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
        • Major Cause: Blood Cholesterol Levels
        • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
          • Diet: Check both saturated fat and dietary cholesterol intake
            • See recipefactory.net or
            • http://nutritiondata.self.com/
          • Exercise: Adequate amounts, moderate and varied exersion
        • Major Cause: High Blood Pressure
        • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
          • Diet: Check sodium and saturated fat intake
          • Exercise: Adequate amounts, moderate and varied exersion
        • Major Cause: Diabetes Mellitus
        • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
          • Diet: Check glycemic load of diet
            • See recipefactory.net or
            • http://nutritiondata.self.com/
          • Exercise: Adequate amounts, moderate (e.g. brisk walk) and Varied exersion
      • Cancer
        • Major Cause: Diet promoting inflammation & including animal proteins
        • Prevention/Mitigation/Cure:
          • Diet: Check inflammatory promoting/animal protein intake
            • See recipefactory.net or
            • http://nutritiondata.self.com/
          • Exercise: Adequate amounts, moderate and varied exersion
      • Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
      • Chronic lower respiratory diseases
      • Accidents (unintentional injuries)
      • Alzheimer's disease
      • Diabetes
      • Influenza and Pneumonia
      • Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis
      • Septicemia
  • Expenses: Most Common, Every Day
    • Food/Diet
      • Create and/or use existing recipes for more delicious, nutritious and affordable meals.
      • Expand set of plants consumed for diet diversity and for food security:  http://communityselfsufficiency.org/_PhytochemicalBoundsEstimationViaMetabolomicsPhylogeneticsAndTaxonomy.html
    • Transportation
      • Self propelled
    • Energy
      • Heat
        • Self propelled
      • Electricity
        • Self propelled
• Education
  • Free Education
    • • Online lectures and coarses
        • freevideolectures.com
      • Libraries: For free use of books, periodicals, internet access, reference librarian to assist your research efforts, etc.
        • www.publiclibraries.com: Find libraries in your area (USA only)
      • Interlibrary Loans for free access to more specialized, expensive and/or hard to find books.
        • Via local library: Usually your local libary has a link via online access to their resources.
        • Via the Library of Congress
      • Independent Scholars Associations: find your local chapter of The National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS)
  • Rejuvenation: Recreation & Culture
  • Time Management Through Synergies
  • Politics

  References

  • [1] Center For Disease Control: Leading Causes of Death
  • [2] Center For Disease Control: Chronic Disease - Overview
  • [2] Center For Disease Control: Heart Disease Conditions: http://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/conditions.htm