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It’s time to get da’ blues
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health fair, a sweet
gal told me her friend
watches my WISH
TV segment and reads Anti-Aging
in the South Side Times.
Eat Well and Prosper
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and breathing,
eating should be
our most valued
act. Eating is sacred; the family
supper table, an altar of
humble thankfulness.
Dietary Intertia
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burning bush moment
If good folks suffer with
chronic disease and spend cash
they don’t have on heath care; then why
don’t they nourish their Temple with the
celestially ordained foods needed to stay
mentally and physically healthy?
Booze: Satan’s drink or the elusive 5th food group
“Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.” Proverbs 31: 6-7
Shhay there, you; … hiccup, stagger, did you know that ten, ‘pardon me,’ burp, ten out of four people drink booze?” Today, as a transformed alcohol over-user, I look into the mirror of my past, flinching when in public, I recognize someone’s values’ dissolving into an excessive slurry of ice cubes chilling their fourth Scotch whiskey; “I don’t care about my new shoes, urp, blurp, splat. Taxi!”
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Need a little ‘green’ tea and sympathy?
Wherever I wander, friends jest on the subject of my ever-present mug-o-tea. Tea’s my morning java, diet coke fix, and cocktail; my ‘longevi-tea’. The simple, focused act of brewing tea touches our souls. Tea is a ceremony; a stand-up performance in simplicity.
After decades in the wacky food industry, I corroborate food servers consider tea drinkers pains in the tea bag because serving a proper cup of tea requires more attention than simply topping off a steamy cup-o-Joe. The bag needs refreshing, the water needs to be kept hot; topped off, and, “Would it kill you to warm the stone-cold cup with a bit of hot water first?” I queried as the waitress’s eyes rolled back into her head. I accept I’ve morphed into a needy nerd. Yes, I am a tea-junkie; snob sounds too severe. For if I am too cold, tea warms me up; if I’m too heated, it will cool me down; if I’m depressed, it will cheer me up, and if I’m excited, it will calm me down. After water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world. Green tea has always been, and remains today, the most popular type of tea from China where historians and botanists believe the plant originated.
Good news! Green tea drinkers appear to have a reduced risk for a wide range of diseases, from simple bacterial or viral infections to cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, periodontal disease, glaucoma and osteoporosis. Might it be due to the fact one cup of green tea provides 10-40 milligrams of polyphenols and has antioxidant effects greater than a serving of broccoli, spinach, carrots, or strawberries? Tea contains antioxidants that mop up the free radicals before they trash the Temple like an attention-seeking rock star. Green tea contains heavenly-gifted catechins; powerful antioxidants created to mop up free-radicals. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, in laboratory studies using animals, catechins scavenged oxidants before cell damage occurred, reduced the number and size of tumors, and inhibited the growth of cancer cells. White tea is said to be even more effective. Smell what’s brewing?
The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry reports the antioxidants in green tea are absorbed into the lens, retina and other eye tissues. They speculate the antioxidant catechins in green tea protect the eye proving that eye structures can absorb significant amounts of catechins that reduce harmful oxidative stress in the eye for up to 20 hours. Hootchie Momma! Visualize your good health if you drank five cups a day.
If you have the propensity to clot a lot, green and black tea act like aspirin by blocking the formation of thromboxane A2, hence reducing the risk of heart attack and thrombotic stroke. If you take Coumadin, don’t fret, just be consistent and inform your phlebotomist.
Recently, the Journal of Preventive Medicine published a study revealing the correlation between tooth loss and green tea consumption. Those who drank one to two cups daily had 18 percent less risk of losing teeth, and those who drank five or more cups daily faced 23 percent less risk.
Regarding the glittery caffeine conundrum, a 5-ounce cup of coffee contains 80 milligrams; a 1-ounce bag of black tea 40 milligrams; Oolong, 30 milligrams and 1 ounce of green tea a paltry 20. The reason I say this is because some of us with heart concerns, including me, cannot let their heart become over-stimulated for we will roll into arrhythmia.
In the book, The Green Tea Book, “Despite a high percentage of smokers (75 percent of adult men), Japan has an astonishingly low rate of heart disease. It seems possible the polyphenols in black and especially green tea cause the same paradox that polyphenols in red wine lead to. An encouraging Japanese epidemiology study concluded drinking eight to ten cups green or black tea per day can positively affect cholesterol levels whether you smoke, drink or are overweight or obese.
Armed with these nutritional nuggets, it shouldn’t be too long till you’re brewin’ Oolong.
Yeast Raises more than Bread
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degree of balance.
However, like all good
plans of mice and men,
things often go awry. If you’re
offended by blunt talk about female
problems, or seek corporate-
sponsored, FDA-approved
Pure food: A healthy investment or yea! We’re no. 44
After presenting my Eat Right Now program at a continuing education health conference in Chicago last week regarding Autism, ADD & ADHD, celiac disease and food allergies, I confidently proclaim my wacky passion regarding the subject of nutritional stewardship of the Temple as widely common. Yes, dear readers, it’s a disturbing thought, but there are millions of everyday folks and scientists who believe like me. The unanimous conclusion; our toxic American diet of dead food has led us into this health care ‘snafu.’
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Farmers’ Markets: Connect with All Things Good
Other than flowering blossoms curtsying from their load of morning dew, there’s nothing equal to the intoxicating perfume exuding from community farmers’ markets spilling over with Earth’s charitable harvest. Deeply inhaling whiffs of the ethereal aroma instantaneously transports one back to youthful days of incorruptibility.
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We only get one shot
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)
Do you consciously eat to be alive and thrive, or do you simply eat for oral pleasure, amusement, and instant gratification? Read the rest of this entry »
Most people are unable to associate what they eat with disease. With our daily lives exposed to low-grade food at every intersection, many folks take the biological necessity of eating for granted, opt for instant convenience, blissfully trusting the source’s mascot; eating on-the-run with little or no contemplation regarding the outcome of their excessive, un-holy dietary choices.
Good news for ex-smokers and midnight tokers
Sandi, my wife and best friend, successfully put her cigarettes down six months ago and never looked back. Now, she’s focusing on repairing the damage and renewing her pink lungs after 30 years of inhaling combustible microscopic particles in a nicotine-infused pottage of chemicals.
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