Health and Nutrition

Make water and juices your habit. Fruit for dessert. Small portions of meat and large portions of vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are anti-cancer, and chock full of vitamins that keep your cells strong and in good repair. Limit your meat to lean choices such as fish, chicken and game. You’ll find it takes just a small amount of meat in a dish of pasta and vegetables (heavy on the vegetables) to make a satisfying meal. Water, juice, fruits and vegetables fill you up, but with few calories. Soup and salads are therefore good diet choices if you want to lose weight fast. A soup can be hearty and filling without being fattening. Include lots of vegetables, with little fat and meat. Complex carbohydrates, such as noodles or rice, can be added for a filling and tasty meal. Last, but certainly not least, daily exercise is essential to a lose weight fast program. Walking, swimming and biking are good choices. Do something you really enjoy. Active sportslike volleyballor tennis really burn the calories.

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A wise athlete will do whatever it takes to make sure they stay healthy for every game; the more you eat right the better you will perform. A good place to start with trying to heighten your physical prowess by obtaining more lean muscle is to obtain more creatine. While most of the promotions and advertisements for sports nutrition companies still feature men and women with perfectly shaped bodies, the nutrition alone will not achieve those results. When establishing a rigorous diet and exercise plan, proper nutrition will vary depending on the training days involved. When it comes to potentially performance-enhancing supplements, consult a sport nutrition expert for help.

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In days gone by when homes were not so well ventilated and people were less aware of the necessity for good hygiene, people used herbs to freshen the living quarters. The simplest way of doing this was simply to strew the floor with the herbs. This would not be terribly practical these days, so one can compromise by making such things as pot-pourris, pomanders and herb pillows.

Pot-Pourri 

The dried herbs combined with a little fixative will make a potpourri last for a long time. Measure your herbs by the handful. Do it this way and you will get that important “feel” for the herbs.

Try this basic one:

3 handfuls of dried rose petals 3 handfuls of dried rose geranium leaves 3 handfuls of dried rosemary 3 handfuls of dried lavender

These give the general scent. Then add more exotic spices to give piquancy:¬

2 tablespoons of crushed cloves 2 tablespoons of crushed and ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons of allspice

A few drops of an essential oil of your choice, e.g. sandalwood.

Then add the fixative, which consists of 3 tablespoons of orrisroot and 3 tablespoons of gum benzoin or calamus powder.

Simply mix your herbs and place in an appropriate container or basket. Having made your fixative, sprinkle over the potpourri.

Herb Jars & Herb Pillows

Another method is to get a large jar and to drop your half-dried herb flowers or leaves in. Form a layer half an inch in depth, then sprinkle with salt. Compress this down and leave for a couple of days. Then add another layer of half an inch (of different herbs) and another sprinkling of salt. After another couple of days mix the layers up and compress them again before adding another layer of herbs and sprinkling of salt. The accumulating layers are mixed whenever a new one is to be added. When the jar is full it should be left in the dark somewhere cool for two or three weeks. This can then be used as a potpourri, or left as a jar with the lid off. Alternatively, the contents can be used in a herb pillow. To make this one merely make a linen pillow of about 4 X 6 inches into which the dried herbs are stuffed. With a little thought you can make herb pillows which would help with sleep, catarrh, etc.

Pomanders

You may not know but these were originally made for medicinal purposes. Different herbs were stuck into balls and worn for their protective amuletic purposes or for their supposed medicinal value.

Take a small orange and stick lots and lots of cloves into it. Then let it dry out over your cooker for a fortnight or a month. Then make a mixture of all sorts of exotic spices and mix with orrisroot. Then roll the orange in the mixture and tie a ribbon around it, doubling it back so that the fruit is held in quarters. Then hang it in a room or cupboard where you wish it to do its freshening work!

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I happened to mention this to my best friend, and it’s a good thing I did. As it turns out, she heard that people could purchase Proactive acne solution online for a fraction what it would cost if ordered directly from the company. At first I was a bit skeptical. I thought if I went that route I’d end up with some generic knock-off product instead of authentic Proactive acne solution. But after a few quick Internet searches, I discovered that my friend was right and that I had nothing to worry about. I saw many websites offering Proactive acne solution for as much as 30 percent off the regularly advertised price. That’s a pretty substantial difference, especially for someone who’s on a tight budget like I am.

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It is always amazing to me when I find a food substance that when taken in excess can cause pain the body. And sometimes these foods, and food additives that are regulated by the government, are supposed to be safe. When I test clients and their supplements, or ask about their dietary habits, or chemicals in their work environments, we often discover chemicals or foods that are causing their chronic pain symptoms. When these chemicals are removed, much of their pain subsides.

When I talk to clients, I often ask if they can decipher what foods tend make the pain worse or better, and if they crave certain foods in their diet. One of the foods I am always listening for are diet soft drinks with aspartame (Nutrasweet). From personal experience, I have been relieved of constant headaches when I was convinced to stop drinking Diet Pepsi. I was a regular user and once I stopped drinking it, the nagging headaches that I had for a long time totally cleared up. So if you are drinking diet soft drinks, STOP NOW, and see what difference it makes. I have had quite a number of clients feel much better just a couple weeks after abstaining from soft drinks.

Recently, we have been introduced to the new fake sugar called Splenda. Advertising for Splenda says that is made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar. But this doesn?t tell the whole story. Splenda is made by taking out 3 of the 6 molecules that make up sugar, and adding chlorine molecules. If you are avoiding chlorinated water because of chlorine toxicity, then you should be avoiding Splenda. You are getting chlorocarbons from Splenda that can cause immune system problems, such as thymus gland shrinkage, and other genetic and reproductive damage…

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 (Echinacea augustifolia)

Also called Black Samson and Coneflower

Appearance: This is a perennial herb which grows to about two or three feet in height.  It has purple flowers, the florets seated around a high cone. The leaves are eliptical. The rhizome has an aromatic odor and is long and cylindrical. 

Habitat: It is native to the American prairies, but is cultivated in Europe .

Action: This is a great antiseptic agent and antimicrobial. It helps free the body from infections of all sorts.  It raises the immunity. It will often provoke elimination from the system troubled by the infection. For example, a urinary infection might show increased passage of urine, rather than frequent small, burning micturitions; a respiratory infection may turn into a streaming, loose nasal discharge, rather than the previous thick catarrh.  

• It also has a reputation as an aphrodisiac.
• It has use in chronic and recurrent tonsillitis, recurrent skin infections, recurrent pyelonephritis, oral infections and vaginal discharges.
• It aids recovery of immunity after an infection, which has caused much debility  

Method: It can be taken as a decoction of the root and rhizome, or topically as a lotion or douche (for local infections)

• The dose is generally 1-1.5 gram equivalents of the root three times a day

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 If you check out and super market or drugstore, you will be overwhelmed with weight loss products.  It’s bizarre how much we advertise and consume these magic pills when we continue to make the problem worse with our processed foods.  Weight loss is a major concern that isn’t getting anything but worse.

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