Five, Four, Three, Two, One…. . . .

      

…Happy New Year!

Thank you to all our loyal readers and posters in 2007. Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2008!

        Marsha, Cindy and Laura

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Five, Four, Three, Two, One…. . . .

      

…Happy New Year!

Thank you to all our loyal readers and posters in 2007. Best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2008!

        Marsha, Cindy and Laura

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Originally Syndicated via RSS from A Weight Lifted

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Go Ahead, Have A Glass Or Two. . . .

Mark’s Daily Apple reported that two recent studies found evidence that if you drink wine in moderation (two glasses a day or less), you will build up stronger immunity and resistance to cold viruses than those who abstain.  However, if you’re a smoker, this benefit doesn’t apply to you.  One of the studies from Spain found that people who drank 8-14 glasses a week (especially red wine) reduced their risk of getting a cold by up to 60%.

Bonus: Red wine is also packed with the vital antioxidant, reservatrol.

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25 Facts About Beets. . . .

Beets (beta vulgaris) are a member of the order of flowering plants called Caryophyllales, which also includes bougainvillea, cacti, amaranth, carnations, spinach, and venus fly traps.

Modern beets are derived from wild sea beets that originated around the coasts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Around 800 BC, an Assyrian text describes beets growing in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient world.

Beets were an important plant for both the ancient Greeks and Romans. Beets of this period were white or black rather than red. The Roman name for the beet plant was “beta” while the Greeks referred to it as “teutlion.”

At first, the Greeks used just the leaves of the plant, both medicinally and as a culinary herb.

The Romans used the leaves as a culinary herb and as a medicine and they also used the beetroot as medicine before the Greeks began doing so.

By the 3rd century AD, the Romans had begun using the beetroot as food rather than just medicine. They are considered the first to have cultivated the plant for the root rather than just the leaves.

The Greeks presented beets to the sun god Apollo in the temple at Delphi.

Aristophanes mentions beets in two of his comedies, Acharneans and Peace, both of which were performed in 420 BC.

Red beets get their color from a pigment called “betalain.” Betalain is also responsible for the red color of bougainvillea and amaranth.

Pliny the Elder wrote that beets were easily digested but that some doctors believed them to be more harmful to the digestive system than cabbage.

Some Roman physicians believed that beets needed to be boiled twice if one wanted to avoid gas and stomach aches.

The Romans considered beet juice to be an aphrodisiac.

The Romans spread beets throughout the Roman Empire.

In 812 AD, Charlemagne issued a “Regulation concerning landed property” that registered beets as something to be cultivated on the Imperial estates.

Borscht is an Eastern European soup made from beets that has been an important winter staple in countries like Russia and Poland since the 14th century.

In 1975, during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, cosmonauts from the USSR’s Soyuz 19 welcomed the Apollo 18 astronauts by preparing a banquet of borscht squeezed from tubes and other treats.

Since the 16th century, beet juice has been used as a natural red dye. It was even used as a hair dye.

The commercial cultivation of sugar beets began in the 19th century in France and Belgium.

Sugar beets are about 20% sugar while beets or beetroot are usually no more than 10% sugar.

In Australia, pickled beets are commonly put on hamburgers.

Beets are sometimes used to make homemade wine.

Some people are susceptible to “beeturia,” the passing of red colored urine and stools after eating beets. Beeturia is harmless but is often mistaken for the dangerous conditions of blood in the urine or stool.

Today there are several varieties of commercially grown beets. The most common variety in the United States is the Red Ace.

One cup of beets contains about 75 calories.

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Easy Calcium Calculation. . . .

Women’s Health Magazine described an easy way to calculate how much calcium is in the foods you eat. A Journal of Public Policy & Marketing study found that many women are not getting enough calcium because they do not translate the daily value (DV) percentages on food labels to actual milligrams. The recommended daily value for women is 1,000 milligrams of calcium (1,200-1,500 if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or at risk for osteoporosis).

Here is the simple formula to calculate milligrams of calcium:
Add a “0″ to the percentage of calcium on the label.

Example: If the label on your milk says 30% next to calcium, there is 300 milligrams of calcium in a serving.

Ref: Women’s Health, January/February 2008, p. 28

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Baked Pita Chips Healthy Quick Recipe. . . .

One of the easiest healthy snacks to make is baked pita chips. This food healthy recipe uses garlic and rosemary as a seasoning but you can use your imagination and top these with just about any combination of herbs and spices.

Ingredients
3 pita pockets
1/4 c. olive oil
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
3 T. dried rosemary

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil. Grease foil with a light coating of olive oil.

Cut pita pockets into triangles and then separate them where they are still connected to the other half.

Place triangles on cookie sheet (what used to be the inside of the pita should be facing up).

In a bowl, mix olive oil, garlic powder, and salt.

Using a brush, coat each triangle with the olive oil mixture. Don’t overdo it. All you need is a light brushing of oil.

Sprinkle dried rosemary over the triangles. (You can also mix the rosemary into the olive oil and brush it on, but it’s easier to get the amount of rosemary you want on each chip by sprinkling it separately.)

Place in oven and bake for 6-8 minutes depending on thickness of pita bread. You might want to do a couple of test triangles first to see what the right length of time is for your bread and oven. Going one minute too long will cause them to burn.

Let cool and enjoy!

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Juice Fasting Pt 5 - Keys To Good Nutrition & Tips To Eating Healthy With Uri Feast. . . .

SHOULD YOU USE AN ENEMA WHILE JUICE FASTING?

There is a lot of controversy in America about the use of enemas while fasting. There are some doctors and clinics in America that condemn the use of enemas completely while fasting. They insist that enemas are unnatural, unnecessary, habit-forming, and harmful.

On the other hand, virtually all European fasting authorities agree that using enemas while fasting is beneficial and advisable. They do warn against the regular use of enemas and colonics when not fasting because it is habit-forming. However, the exceptions to this general rule include times of fasting, treating of acute constipation, and treating acute infectious illnesses when the patient is bedridden for long periods and their bowel movements become sluggish.

According to Dr. Paavo Airola, “During fasting, the natural stimulation of the defecation-reflex from food is missing and therefore all the impurities, wastes, and toxins will remain in the body and may cause auto-toxemia, or self-poisoning. The main purpose of fasting is to help the body to cleanse itself from accumulated toxic wastes. By the process of autolysis, a huge amount of morbid matter, dead cells, and diseased tissues are burned; and the toxic wastes which have accumulated in the tissues for years, causing disease and premature aging, are loosened and expelled from the system. The alimentary canal, the digestive and eliminative system, is the main road by which these toxins are thrown out of the body. Since, during fasting, the natural bowel movements cease to take place, the toxic wastes would have no way of leaving the system, except with the help of enemas.”

It is for the above mentioned reasons that virtually all biological doctors in Europe administer enemas to all fasting patients (once, twice, or even three times daily). During both juice fasting and water fasting, using an enema will assist the body in its cleansing and detoxifying effort by washing out all the toxic wastes from the alimentary canal.

One of the most common and harmful ailments of modern civilized man is CONSTIPATION. The digestive tract, especially in the colon and lower bowels, becomes stagnant and slack with hardened residues clinging to the walls of the colon and filling its many folds and pockets as a result of long-term constipation.

One of the most common complaints of people over 50 is a condition called “Diverticulitis,” which is a chronic condition whereby small pockets of the colon are packed with feces. Often what happens is that the complete length of the colon is packed with hardened old fecal matter, cemented to the wall and pouches, leaving only a thin, narrow channel for soft feces to pass through. It would be unwise for a person to fast without making an effort to cleanse their body of these toxic tissues which are a constant source of auto-intoxication or self-poisoning. In addition, if these toxins are not eliminated through the alimentary canal, the body will try to get rid of them through other eliminative organs such as the kidneys. As a result, these toxins can overload the kidneys and even damage them.

According to Dr. Airola, here is what the European fasting specialists advise for their fasting patients.

1. All of their fasting patients are given DAILY ENEMAS, in addition to WEEKLY COLONIC IRRIGATIONS.

2. To assist the body even further in its detoxification and elimination processes, fasting patients are given DRY BRUSH MASSAGE twice a day. This is very important because it stimulates the eliminative capacity of the skin, which is the biggest eliminative organ of the body.

3. And finally, all fasting patients are advised to WALK and EXERCISE in FRESH AIR as often as possible to help the lungs in their blood-purification work.

For more information on juice fasting, watch for my next posting.

Fasting is a very healthy and healing habit to develop and one that you should consider establishing as you start the new year. I personally practice and recommend fasting one day a week (consistently on the same day) and fasting for cleansing, regenerating, and rejuvenating purposes twice a year. Always remember, juice fasting is one of the keys to good nutrition and eating healthy with the Uri Feast.

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As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I am also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day, and the best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh super juice powder drink.

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To your health, longevity, and prosperity,

Josiah Friberg
Health and Nutrition Educator

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