Posts Tagged ‘disaster’

Escaping a Survival Situation

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Being lost or separated from civilization can always create an emergency survival situation. Mother nature herself can sometimes create the worst of all disasters. People are more and more starting to realize that it is up to them as individuals to be prepared. People, who spend much of their time hiking, camping or in the out of doors, are starting to acquire more skills for wilderness survival. Water shortages, earthquakes, floods and fires are capable of striking at any time without any notice. A person placed in an emergency situation ought to understand the methods of handling a forest fire just as they should comprehend how to escape from a bomb site or even a burning building. The one concern should always be getting to food. If a person is hungry and their blood sugar is low, this can greatly affect their mental clarity and judgment. When the appetite is satisfied, people can be more effective in helping others. Since food becomes scarce in an emergency, food pills could be the answer.Survival

You don’t always have to be far away from society to be trapped in an emergency survival situation. Military maneuvers, civil turmoil or natural disasters can be reason enough to block you from getting to supplies that all of us so often take for granted. Again, it would be up to you to administer all of your own resources and skills for the well-being and survival of you and your loved ones.

Central heating, air-conditioning, hot water and lighting would no longer be of any use without power. Without power, food would start to go bad within hours since there would be no refrigeration. Cell phones, email and newspapers would no longer exist. However television and battery powered radios could give local news of any disaster situation. A short wave radio could be useful, as well as a home generator. These items are expensive and are not always affordable to most people. Taps would start to run dry and toilets would become unusable as the main water supply would cease to exist.

The countryside would carry an abundance of natural resources. In large suburban city areas shops would be drained of food very rapidly (sold, stolen, or rationed) and parks and gardens would be quickly raided of their produce. Individuals who live further away from largely populated areas would have more of an advantage since they most likely would have more supplies on hand. The majority of farming community families will always have some sort of food storage, such as fresh fruit and vegetables in a root cellar.

The ideal solution for food for residents in large cities would be a simple food pill. These food pills are small and easy to store. They usually come in a packet or bottle, have a long shelf life and require no refrigeration. They will keep you alive and will take away hunger. It would be wise to keep them in your car since one never knows where or when a disaster or emergency could strike. Food pills are also a must for people who spend time in the wilderness. They too may find themselves in an emergency survival situation.

Replacing the 72 Hour Survival Kit

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

All sorts of people from the military to civilians have at one time or another searched the web for the best survival kits or maybe they are simply looking for products to include in building their own survival kit. Water of course is the first consideration.

Pack lots of Food, but a pill? Is it possible to live on a pill? LifeCaps has introduced the first survival pill. A capsule you can either chew or swallow that contains all the necessary nutrients you need to survive. The capsules comes three to a packet, breakfast, lunch and dinner. The pill curbs hunger and could come in pretty handy for wilderness survival or in the case of some emergency or disaster.Wilderness Survival

Does the LifeCaps survival pill work? Does it do what it says it will do? According to Russ Bianchi the LifeCaps formulator,

he says “It Works.” Russ has formulated hundreds of products over the years including the majority of the top selling energy and power bars on the market today. Russ says “When the body is satisfied with the nutrients it receives, it will not feel hungry and will give up it’s own stored energy or body fat to stay alive.” Could this be the next new diet pill? Some people I’m sure are using LifeCaps as a weight management tool, however it was never intended to be a diet or weight loss pill.

The idea came to Daryl Stevenett, the LifeCaps founder a few years ago. At the time there were some trapped miners underground in Utah. The search and rescue teams were drilling four-inch holes down to the miners trying to reach them. They supposedly had plenty of water but no food. Daryl thought, “Why can’t someone come up with a pill that people could live on? How hard can it be to put all the vitamins and minerals the FDA recommends as well as calories into a small pill?”

He then contacted his long time friend and formulator Russ Bianchi and asked if he could make such a thing as a survival pill. Daryl asked Russ, “What about adding a stimulant for energy?” Russ immediately said “NO WAY.” He explained that people in an emergency situation would have low blood sugar and if their system was spiked with a stimulant it could cause cardiac arrest. So no stimulants were or ever will be used in the LifeCaps product. A small amount of pure cane sugar was used which helps drive the nutrients into the blood stream within about 20 minutes or so. Anyone who has LifeCaps in their survival kits, has a much greater chance of survival in an emergency.

Since it would be impossible to include the 2,000 calories the FDA recommends into such a small pill, the body could burn its own stored energy or body fat if it needed energy. The body only gives up this reserve energy when it receives nutrients without the calories.

Severe obese people who weigh in excess of 800 pounds find it impossible to exercise to lose their weight, so what do they do? They usually end up in a hospital with their stomach stapled receiving nutrients only through an intervenes line. This solution contains very few, if any, calories which forces the body to burn its own stored energy or again, body fat. This was the idea Russ had for LifeCaps along with his understanding of the Krebs cycle of the human body.

On the LifeCaps web site you can try a free sample of LifeCaps. They do work. The LifeCaps company offers a refund if you are not satisfied with LifeCaps for any reason.

So is LifeCaps a possible solution for being prepared? You bet it is. LifeCaps is the answer to many things from the military to wilderness equipment, disaster emergency preparedness, extra emergency food supplies and even to just add to your survival kits.