"Floride" Spill Burns Hole in Concrete

A Chemical spill at a water treatment plant in Rock City, caused the whole plant to be evacuated and  teams in Hazmat suits  to be deployed to clean up the spill.  Before the spill could be contained it burned a hole in the concrete driveway. The chemical, Hydrofluorosilicic acid is used to add fluoride to the plants water.  It is highly corrosive.  Yikes!!


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"Floride"  (Hydorfluorosilicic)Spill at Water Plant Burns Hole in Concrete


Maybe we shouldn't be adding this chemical to our water. You think?

Energy Green Smoothie

Smoothie of the Day

Fill the container loosely with fresh spinach

Add:

2 peeled carrots, organic

2 handfuls red grapes

1 kiwi, peeled

¼ cup almonds, raw

¼ cup sunflower seeds, raw

¼ cup pumpkin seeds, raw
1/4 cup cashews, raw

1 can coconut milk

Add:water or cooled Green tea, to fill to 3 cup mark 

Blend start on low, turn to high for 15 seconds - to liquefy into a emerald green soup (I call it green sludge)

See picture:

Add:

1 cup bananas, frozen

2 cups berry blend, frozen

Blend on high and it turns purple. 

I pour out drinks for the adults then take the remaining smoothie  and add more berries and a squirt of Agave for the kid.

I blend it for about 20 seconds on high.

It looks like this…tastes like kiwi.

Energy Boosting

Body Repairing

Healthy Goodness!

Note: you may blend it more - I blend less because I like to chew the blackberry seeds.  You may blend these away.

Also, If you have plain yogurt or kefier, stir it in after blending.  Blending kills the probiotics.

What Is In The Water We Drink?

Now that is disturbing....This is  a small sampling of the crispy brown crud that is left behind after a gallon of Nashville city water has run through my water distiller.  It feels like brittle dried paint.  I am curious if it was analyzed what the chemical content would be?

Sustainable Agriculture - The Root Source of Our Health Problems and Solutions: CLICK LINK BELOW TO SEE INTERVIEW with FARMER BRAD - VERY INTERESTING!!

http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E5E67E052067D69F408212B68E37DE72

America is undeniably having a health/obesity crisis.  Don't believe me?  Just go to Wal-mart and people watch.  So many of our modern prolific diseases have its roots in the last generation's chemical stripping of the soil and new "factory farming" methods that focus on profit rather than the quality of the product. 


Simply, if our bodies aren't getting the nutrients they need for fuel and repair, they bog down and become disease prone.  It all starts with the quality of the fuel.


This is a fascinating, interview with a farmer practicing sustainable agriculture -a true American Hero.  Farmer Brad simple explains why we need a farming revolution in order to facilitate a healthy nation .  It all starts back at the farm - not the factory. 

THE GREEN SMOOTHIE HEALTH CHALLENGE

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The Green Smoothie Health Challenge



The challenge is to drink a green smoothie each day for one month. It will boost your energy and immune system. It helps level blood sugar, lowers cholesterol, curbs the craving for sugar as well as helps you reach your daily fruit and vegetable requirements in one drink.


The Green Smoothie is really purple. We call it “green” because we try to sneak in as many vitamin packed greens as possible before we sweeten it up with antioxidant berries. This drink is high in fiber and low in calories. Fiber is so very good for us because binds with excess cholesterol (fats) and toxins and helps sweep them out of the body.


The best blender to make your green smoothie in is a Vitamix or Blend-tech, an expensive purchase, but worth every penny of the investment. If you don’t have one then try your food processor or use whatever blender you have available.


Mix your green veggies and liquids first to make a “green sludge” out of them. Make sure no one watches this step until they are hooked. Blend well, if your kid ever bites into a chunk of spinach – well, your busted! It is important to have nothing green visible and for it to taste like fruit especially when you are trying to getting your kids or Hubbie to drink it without drama. Empty glasses and Ahhhs are good, euuuew and eu-yuuuks – leaving you to drink an entire batch - not good.

Purple Passion
Blend into green sludge:


• 2-2 ½ cups water, filtered (or 1 cup coconut milk and 1 cup water)
• 2 large handfuls spinach
• 2 Carrots – organic, peeled
• ¼ Cup Raw Almonds

Add and blend:


• 1 Teaspoon Flax Seed Oil
• 1 Banana, frozen
• 2 Cups Mixed Berries, frozen (or blueberries, frozen)
• 1 Teaspoon Agave or 2-4 frozen dates for sweetness (I don’t care for the after-taste of stevia)


Stir in:


• ½ cup Yogurt or Kefir (don’t blend because blending kills the probiotics)


I pour into glasses for whoever is having one and pour the rest into a mason jar with a plastic screw top lid for later. Sometimes I add vitamin-C crystals to preserve the nutrients if I have to take it to work.


I buy from Costco:

• Big bag of spinach
• Bananas (freeze them)
• Mixed berries (frozen)
• Organic Carrots (baby peeled for convenience)

I buy from Trader Joe’s:

• Raw Almonds
• Raw Cashews
• Raw Pumpkin Seeds
• Raw Sunflower Seeds
• Coconut milk
• Vitamin C crystals

I use distilled water I make with a machine or “Zero Water” from the “Zero Pitcher”. I make my own Kefir with raw milk when I can get it.


Things I have added:


• 2 Kale leaves instead of Spinach
• 1 Apple cored, peel on
• Green Grapes
• Red Grapes
• 2-4 Kiwi (more potassium than a banana, 3 times the vitamin C of an orange)


What I have noticed since I started our daily smoothies:


• Increased Energy
• Haven’t gotten sick during flu season –although I cared for others who had it – and when that happens I usually get it too.
• Sleep better – all night – without body aches
• Wake up alert
• Don’t have “brain fog” in the morning
• Don’t have to have coffee to wake up – only if I want it
• Don’t need as much sleep
• Back doesn’t ache
• Don’t feel hungry until around 2:00 pm
• I don’t crave sweets as much and when I do eat them – they taste too sweet and I eat less

I feel so much more healthy and energetic when I start the day with the “Purple Passion” and I am sure you will too.

GMO Food

GMO Food

I look for the “contains no GMOs label” especially on corn chips.  One of my favorite grocer stores, Trader Joe’s will not carry products that are GMOs.

You can pretty much assume that all corn, soy bean, cotton, and canola (rape seed as it is known in Europe) are GMO products.  Monsanto is now working on GMO alfalfa, wheat and sugar beets.  Forty plants like tomatoes and cantaloupes, according the FDA, have already completed Federal requirements to enter the market place.

Because the US subsidizes corn and soybeans production they are consequently very inexpensive to use in human and animal food manufacturing.  Who would guess that corn would be in your Twinkie?  Some variation of corn and soy are in virtually all baked goods, processed food and even in our medications/vitamins, in forms of corn syrup, oil, corn starch, fillers etc.

The powerful Monsanto lobbying arm was able to bypass all government requirements for honest consumer labeling of GMO products.  A top Monsanto executive was quoted as saying “If GMO products had to be labeled, no one would buy them” and Europe agrees.   Europe insists that GMO foods be labeled and has banned  most GMO foods sighting overwhelming evidence from numerous independent studies that GMO foods are detrimental to our health.  Monsanto’s studies assert the risks are minimal.

Organic "Kettle Corn"

Whirley pop Method

1/4  Cup Extra Virgin Coconut oil

1/3 Cup Popping corn (Non-GMO)

1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Coconut oil

1 Tablespoon Agave

On stove top gently melt 1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Coconut oil and 1 Tablespoon Agave.

Put corn and oil in popper.  Fasten the lid securely.  Begin stirring, using high heat.  Popping with begin in about 1 ½ minutes.  Continue stirring until popping almost stops.

Air Pop Method

¼ to ½ organic pop corn (non- GMO)

1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Coconut oil

1 Table spoon Agave

In a sauce pan warm 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Coconut oil and

1 Table spoon Agave.

Pop popcorn.  When the coconut oil is melted stir in agave and spoon over hot popcorn.

I love the old fashioned movie theater taste that you get using the Whirley Pop and  Extra Virgin Coconut oil.  It is quite easy to eat the whole bowl in one sitting.

Natural Cough Syrup

Natureal Cough Syrup
and
Immune Booster

Wow! This is some pungent smelling stuff. The funny thing is that it doesn't taste like it smells. It is a very sweet tasting and delicious syrup.  Last night we even enjoyed it as a salad dressing - yum!

How to make:

Get a clean glass jar with a lid

• Chopped Fresh Ginger
• Chopped Red (or any type) Onion

• Whole peeled Garlic Cloves  (Elephant Garlic is milder.  I use regular)

• Organic Dehydrated Cane Juice (sugar)


Make a parfait by layering the Onion, Ginger, and Garlic then add about 1-2 inches of sugar. Repeat

I am told this concoction will last 6-12 months un-refrigerated. At the end of that time you can compost it and make a new batch next flu season.

The recipe is from Amanda McQuade Crawford - Herbalist.  I am sorry that I was not able to ebed this wonderful video but you may view it at the address below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q2Um560fTI

Honey - the "Come-Back Kid" - Honey as Medicine - Honey as Food

The Honey Bee and her products have amazing health benefits.  Honey's antibacterial properties were known and used by ancient civilizations such as the Chinese, Egyptians, and the Greeks.  Apitheropy, the medical use of honeybees and their products, was practiced regularly until World War II.  With the discovery of modern antibiotics honey was taken out of the medicine cabinet and relegated to the the kitchen pantry.  Today however, honey has made a medical come back and is in the gleaming high-tech spotlight.  It has even been awarded  the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval!  You can't get more respectable than that!


Medical supply labs are actually packaging honey soaked bandages for wound and burn application. For details see:  MSNBC Report 

Now that viruses have adapted to many of our twentieth century antibiotics  science is looking back to some of the old tried and true remedies that have enjoyed historical success.   Recent research has shown that components of honey even diluted 50 times kills the newly antibiotic resistant  "Golden Staph (staphylococcus aureus) bacteria".   


Some astounding healing properties of honey when consumed or applied topically are : 

• Effective antibacterial-producing hydrogen peroxide on wounds
• Anti-inflammatory
• Speeds healing by promoting new tissue growth
• Minimizes scaring and keloid formation
• Moisturizes
• Draws lymph and dirt out of a wound
• Replenishes energy
• Enhances stamina
• Aids in absorption of nutrients
• Improves the immune system
• Promotes sleep
• Coats and sooths sore throats

Apitherapy - is the term for the medical use of product made by honeybees which includes bee venom, honey, propolis ,royal jelly, bee's wax etc.  It includes treating infectious wounds, replenishing energy, chronic pain relief, tissue rejuvenation, and alleviating symptoms of major diseases among other things.


Honey was the base or was included as an ingredient in many natural remedies. Have you heard of the old time cure for sore throats, colds and the flu -  the "Hottie-Tottie"?  It is fresh squeezed lemon juice, mixed with a teaspoon of honey and a shot of whiskey.  Stir it up, drink it down, then straight to bed under a quilt with socks on and a warm hot water bottle.  Owwee!  Sounds like natural Ny-quil.


I have heard some people say they have tried honey cures and they didn't work.  Yep, that is right - honey cures don't work now-a-days.  The reason is that most honey that you buy in the grocery store is cooked, processed and imported from overseas - mostly Chile.  High temperature along with UV light and microwaves kill the enzyme activity in honey.  Light and heat particularly effect the Glucose Oxidase (GOX) enzyme as well as honey's Gluconic Acid  which produce the antibacterial properties of honey.  


So when you try to do it Grandma's tried and true way - do it her way - with real unpasteurized, raw local honey.


Now you can throw out that Neosporine and Nyquil and eat or smear on that raw organic local honey instead.  Now if these go out of date in your medicine cabinet you don't have to waste money and throw them out.  Just eat them instead.  Right honey?

The Flu - What Cures Me?!

Ever since my immune system was compromised by an incompetent Florida dentist nine years ago I have annually contracted a serious bout of influenza between the end of Christmas and the fist couple of weeks of January. Not a good way to start the New Year to say the least.  It always develops into bronchitis and takes weeks to get over and down time in bed.  I now avoid antibiotics (which made no difference  when I did take them - other than bad side effects) and I believe the flu shot does more harm than good beside the fact that the chemists guess as to what type of hundreds of strains of influenza to target.


Last year I tried a cough syrup/immune builder called Sambuca it is a syrup made of elderberry, vitamin C, Zinc and other good stuff.  It was pretty good.  I could tell a difference and it seemed to shorten the time I had the flu.  It cost around $17.00 for a small bottle.


This year I hit the mother-load simply, natural, stinky, garlic cloves! I was in bed feeling terrible - head pounding, coughing, congested, fever, sore throat - the whole deal - when my dear husband suggested I take a clove of garlic.  To appease him (he brought it to me on a plate) and feeling so bad that at least it couldn't hurt, I took it.  I actually cut it in half and only took half of it.  Within hours I unexpectedly felt better.  I began to take one half to one clove with every meal.  The next day I was 50% better.  I got up, did some light exercise (because my back was hurting from being in bed for so long) and took a shower.  The next day my symptoms were reduced to a mild cold - then gone.  Wow!  Nothing has ever worked so dramatically in the midst of the full blown flu before!  I may not smell great but I feel great and the vampires are leaving me alone.

Treating Hypothyroid Naturally

This video is a little bit technical - but very very important to watch if you have or think you may have thyroid problems.