Celebrate Healthy Drinks on National Beverage Day May 6th
National Beverage Day is a chance to kick back with your favorite beverage and enjoy the day.
The term “beverage” is broadly defined. So, we are talking about celebrating all types of beverages today – Hot or cold
BE BOLD! Take advantage of Beverage Day to try a beverage that you have never had before.
This doesn’t mean you should indulge in sugar-filled, diet or alcoholic beverages that are more harmful to your body, than healthy.
Handbook To Health stresses how important it is to drink pure water, and lots of it, everyday to stay healthy. But sometimes you want a bit of flavoring to make it more interesting to your palate.
Check out Discover Essential Oils for Optimum Health to learn how you can add food grade essential oils to pure or sparkling water to create a refreshing drink on a hot summer day. Or add them to hot water for a soothing tea to help fall asleep at night or warm your body on a chilly winter day.
Beverage Day should be a day of pleasure and relaxation.
These are just some of the beverages Vivian and Edie suggest you can enjoy today that will be both healthy and satisfying:
• Green tea (Caffeine in green tea is milder. Green tea has antioxidants and less caffeine.)
• Rice drink beverages
• Almond milk
• Organic fruit or vegetables juices—dilute with one-half with purified water
• Herbal teas
• Purified or distilled water
Sit down in a comfortable chair . . . indoors or out. Slowly sip and savor one of these healthy drinks.
Life is good!
If you are ready to learn more about how make simple lifestyle changes to create your optimum health, check out our book: Handbook To Health.
Make a pledge to yourself to avoid beverages that are harmful to your health and begin enjoying beverages that create, rather than rob you of health from this day forward.
Share a Healthy Meal on Mother’s Day
Looking for a new way to Celebrate Mother’s Day this year?
What do you think your mom and grandma really want?
Perhaps all they really want is to spend just a little time with you.
Here’s a suggestion to help you create a memory this year.
If you have gone out to dinner in years past, maybe it is time to make a change.
Instead of fighting the crowds and sitting in a noisy restaurant, offer to cook your Mother and/or Grandmother a meal using organic or whole foods. How many meals have they cooked for you when your were growing up. Isn’t it time to show them a bit of your cooking?
Perhaps Sautéed Shrimp with Sherry would be the perfect treat. You can find this easy to make and very delicious recipe on page 87 of Handbook To Health.
Maybe Beef Paprika is more your style, find that recipe on page 71.
Or for Vegetarian fare, check out the recipe for Spelt Pasta and Spinach on page 91.
It’s National Salad Month, so be sure to include a salad with the meal.
Handbook To Health has recipes for a great variety of salads that can be used as a full meal or as a starter for a healthy meal.
With you doing the cooking, Mom will be able to relax and enjoy her special day while having a healthy meal and great visit with you.
As you can tell from the recipes mentioned above, Handbook To Health will help everyone create their optimum health, whether you are a vegetarian or carnivore.
If you, or your mother would like to learn more about how to eat healthier check out our book: Handbook To Health.
This handy little eBook is a great place to start your journey to Optimum Health.
Start a new tradition this year.
Give a gift that will help create or maintain your loved one’s optimum health!
Free Range
What does the label “Free Range” mean?
Free range (or free roaming) is an eco-label which would seem like the eggs or meat came from an animal that was raised in the open air or was free to roam.
However, the use of free range on beef is unregulated and there is no standard definition of this term.
Free range is regulated by the USDA for use on poultry only (not eggs) and USDA requires that birds have been given access to the outdoors but for an undetermined period each day.
In other words, five minutes a day of open-air access could be adequate for manufacturers to use the free range claim on a poultry product.
“Free range” claims on eggs are not regulated at all.
So beware of these labels. What you think you are readind isn’t always what you are getting.
Research the company you buy from to see how well cared for the animals are where the live. You may not be supporting a practice you believe you are supporting when you read these labels!
Wild Rice May 2007 Volume 14 Number 5.
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Organic Food Facts to Ponder
1. If organic farming methods were practiced on all the planet’s food growing land, it would be like taking more than 1.5 billion cars off the road.
2. You can increase your antioxidant intake by 30 percent by choosing organic.
3. The average child in America is exposed to five pesticides daily in their food and drinking water.
4. The U.S. water system is regularly contaminated above safe limits immediately following chemical fertilizer applications to farm fields.
5. Farms in developing countries that use organic techniques produce an average of 79% more than farms that don’t.
Take time to know where your food & water comes from to have a healthier life.
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Wild Rice November 2008 Volume 15 Number 11.
Campylobacter Bacterial Food Threat
Here’s a good reason to listen to Vivian about ONLY eating organically grown fruits or vegetables and free-range animals/ dairy.
Have you ever heard of Campylobacter?
Big outbreaks of food poisoning & Listeria have been making headlines again.
Recently in the news have been stories about finding the E. coli bacteria in apple juice and alfalfa sprouts. Listeria in cantalope, cheeses and hot dogs. Salmonella in eggs and on poultry products.
And although Campylobacter is the most frequently diagnosed food-borne bacterium it rarely makes the news.
“Most Campylobacter infections are sporadic and not associated with an outbreak, but we know it causes up to 4 million human infections a year,” says Frederick J. Angulo, D.V.M., an epidemiologist with the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For years, federal and state health experts recognized that Campylobacter causes disease in animals, but proof that the bacteria also causes human disease only emerged in the 1970s.
In 1996, Campylobacter was considered the number one bacterial heap cause of all domestic food borne illness.
Start of a New Holiday Gift Giving Tradition
All of my holistic healers, artist and musician friends would appreciate this as well as everyone who has a business to promote.
Let’s all support our talented friends and think about the true meaning of Christmas.
Christmas 2011 — Birth of a New Tradition
As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods — merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes there is!
It’s time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?
Gym membership? It’s appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.
Nutritional Consultations are one of the fastest ways to gain insight to creating a healthier body.
Tired Mom’s or your beloved partner could use a gentle massage. Find a holistic massage therapist and give them a gift of relaxation during these stressful times.
Perhaps Aromatherapy could help get someone you know through a difficult time or ease an achy muscle. (http://usingessentialoilsforhealth.com/ )
That Persistent Cough That Just Won’t Go Away
Teaching from Experience by Vivian Rice
I have seen many people, and heard them on the phone dealing with a new development in the “Care and Feeding of Your Human Being.”
It has become the dominant factor in the last few months in many of your lives.
Namely, your cough that won’t go away.
The bottom line problem turns out to be a fungus or yeast imbalance in the throat or bronchii which causes a dry cough.
The bacteria and/or virus that has made the body very sick with a respiratory problem apparently sets up a condition that causes the fungus problem. In “Handbook to Health” we look at Candida, a naturally occuring yeast or fungs that belongs in our bodies, and how it increases with stress and an unhealthy diet. On page 30 we offer Candida Menu Plans to help bring the body back in balace.
One of the easiest solutions is drinking Pau d’Arco tea or Quassia tea or taking Myrrh capsules. These herbs assist the body in recovering its balance in the intestines and throughout.
They need to be backed up by the proper foods, which are: raw, organic, predominantly dark green veggies, i.e. kale, chard, spinach, asparagus, broccoli blossoms, chives, green onion tops, parsley, (Italian parsley is best due to having more nutrients). Parsley tea would be a great addition to your healing path for this cough.
If you want a soup, choose three or four of these greens and add Quinoa or brown rice.
Avoid all dairy products while using these herbal remedies.
Dairy is one of the 8 most common causes of food allergies and intolerances. In the FREE Food Allergy Knowledge Report there are articles pertaining to how many people have these types or allergies and what the long term effect on your body is when you continue to eat dairy products.
You will also want to avoid eating any meat products.
Although Organic chicken broth is OK.
Drink at least 2 quarts of purified water a day.
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How to Avoid Poisonous Foods
Teaching from Experience by Vivian Rice
Most People Give More Thought
to What they’re Going to Wear
than What they’re Going to Put in Their Mouths.
When it comes time to get groceries, they simply make a run to the local store and stock up, thinking the FDA is watching over us and keeping food supplies safe.
Recent scares with salmonella poisoning in our foods ranging from tomatoes to chicken to beef products show our food supply may not be as safe as we think.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that every year 76 million Americans get sick from the foods they eat, and 300,000 end up in the hospital. Another 5,000 end up in the cemetery.
But the actual problem is much worse.
In addition to contaminated foods, many more subtle diseases occur because of food additives legally permitted by the government.
In addition, there is the rising danger of imported foods and beverages. Increasingly, we get our foods and food additives from dubious sources such as communist China and other countries where there are little or no personal or government standards for processing.
In “Handbook to Health” Vivian and Edie share their whole food diet plan based on purchasing as much local foods as possible and how garden-fresh foods support a healthy living diet. You gain optimal health by combining sunshine and exercise to create the best nutrition and healthy eating plan possible.
Remember the pets that died over a year ago from contaminated wheat gluten imported from China?
As bad as the problems are from imported foods, domestic food processing also offers significant health worries for you and your family.
Commercially produced foods contain many additives, such as MSG, as well as herbicides and pesticides. All have been linked to an increased risk of neurological diseases and other health woes including cancer.
Read about the steps you can take to reduce the risk of eating foods that poison your body.
Getting Away From It All
by Edie Wogaman, Life Coach/Counselor.
As Summer approaches, it is time to start thinking about VACATIONS or rethinking how we think about vacations.
Summer time is when most people have the urge to break away from their every day routines and we begin dreaming and planning for taking one or more vacations.
There are many ways you can take mini-vacations even at home.
Or if you are fortunate enough to have the time and finances to ‘get away from it all’, you can treat yourself to a trip to a new place to explore or enjoy visiting a favorite get-away.
Ever notice how things come in bunches?
I have recently been working with clients who have become so burdened with life’s responsibilities that they are having many physical symptoms mixed with their emotional overwhelm
It seems the caretaking of elderly parents, children who come home, plus the day to day for each of us can sometimes feel as if it more than we can handle.
While it is important to be of assistance to others, it is also important to take care of self.
This brings up the age old question is: “How to do it?