In my " looking around bookshops time" I came across this little gem:
The Raw Transformation: Energizing Your Life with Living Foods
URL http://www.amazon.com/Raw-Transformation-Energizing-Living-Foods/dp/1556435894/
ISBN 1556435894
Amazon.com description: Developed over a lifetime of healthy living, and tested by the author while teaching a raw food program at a San Diego spa, the recipes in this lively book blend wholesome ingredients with scrumptious taste. Part one introduces raw cuisine, giving information on nutrition and the benefits of adopting this lifestyle. It connects raw food to other modalities - such as yoga, breathwork, meditation, and bioenergetic resonance — to enable the whole process of physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation. Parts two and three feature over 300 recipes that are diverse and simple to make, with readily available ingredients. They include mouth-watering entrees like Indian Vegetable Curry and Pad Thai, irresistible desserts such as Banana Coconut Cream Piece, and a wide variety of salads, breads, crackers, side dishes, shakes, smoothies, soups, marinades, dressings, dips, and more.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
A real gem of a website for today
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/
This shopping site has lots of information on diseases as well as articles and old newsletters on anything natural that you can think of.
This shopping site has lots of information on diseases as well as articles and old newsletters on anything natural that you can think of.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
What Natural healing is not:
Natural healing is in no way connected to religion nor does it run counter to any religious beliefs. Instead it is concerned with promoting good health and wellness as well as healing.
Friday, April 20, 2007
A Juice for a Fast:
Here is a suggestion for a juice that is good to drink during a fast. Juice these ingredients together- three carrots, three kale leaves, two celery stalks, two beets, one turnip, 1/4 pound of spinach, 1/2 head of cabbage, 1/4 bunch of parsley and a 1/2 clove of garlic. If you do not own a juicer then what you can do instead is to place all of the vegetables listed here in a pure vegetable broth and then boil them gently, but do not add any type of seasonings to them. You can substitute this homemade juice for any of the other kinds previously listed. Save all of the vegetables that were used in the making of the broth to consume after your fast is finished. Keep in mind that no solid food is allowed during the course of the fast. However if you must eat something then consume a slice of watermelon by itself or else make fresh applesauce in a blender or food processor. Always keep the skins on the apples and never cook them. Of course if you do not want to go to the bother of making your own juice for a fast you can always use Aloe Vera: try this site to buy some www.aloveraexpress.com
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Continueing our Natural Healthing Brief
Christina Cooks: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Whole Foods But Were Afraid to Ask
URL http://www.amazon.com/Christina-Cooks-Everything-Always-Wanted/dp/1557884234/
ISBN 1557884234
Book Description:
TV's Christina cooks more than 200 recipes. Public television cooking show host Christina Pirello is the woman who put the fun back into healthy cooking. In Christina Cooks she's responded to the hundreds of questions that her viewers and readers have put to her over the years-with lots of sound, sane advice, hints, tips and techniques-plus loads of great recipes for scrumptious, healthy meals with a Mediterranean flair. A whole foods cookbook, Christina Cooks offers inventive ideas for breakfast, special occasions, and what to feed the kids. Chapters include Soups, Breakfast, Kids' Favorites, Beans, Grains, Vegetables, Beverages, and Desserts-Christina addresses popular myths about dairy and protein amongst other often misunderstood ideas about healthful eating.
URL http://www.amazon.com/Christina-Cooks-Everything-Always-Wanted/dp/1557884234/
ISBN 1557884234
Book Description:
TV's Christina cooks more than 200 recipes. Public television cooking show host Christina Pirello is the woman who put the fun back into healthy cooking. In Christina Cooks she's responded to the hundreds of questions that her viewers and readers have put to her over the years-with lots of sound, sane advice, hints, tips and techniques-plus loads of great recipes for scrumptious, healthy meals with a Mediterranean flair. A whole foods cookbook, Christina Cooks offers inventive ideas for breakfast, special occasions, and what to feed the kids. Chapters include Soups, Breakfast, Kids' Favorites, Beans, Grains, Vegetables, Beverages, and Desserts-Christina addresses popular myths about dairy and protein amongst other often misunderstood ideas about healthful eating.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
A web site to look at!
http://www.naturalhealers.com/
For those of you looking for somewhere to learn more about natural health practices, here is a directory of massage therapy schools and schools of acupuncture, chiropractic, naturopathy, herbal, ayurveda, homeopathy, midwifery, massage schools and more.
For those of you looking for somewhere to learn more about natural health practices, here is a directory of massage therapy schools and schools of acupuncture, chiropractic, naturopathy, herbal, ayurveda, homeopathy, midwifery, massage schools and more.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Water: who needs it!
Today in the UK it is 75f which is quite warm for this time of year...lovely..but you must drink water
Becoming a water drinker on a consistent basis will provide a boast to your energy level and it will improve both your mental as well as your physical performance on a day-to-day scale. Drinking plenty of water helps the immune system and toxins are carried out of the body at a much faster rate with the help of this "wonder drug." People who drink lots of water report less headaches and fewer incidences of fainting or dizziness and respiratory problems such as flu's and colds are decreased with the help of water.
It is relevant to note that a person is dehydrated by the time their brain registers thirst. When dehydration takes over, blood takes on a thicker consistency and the body therefore has to work a great deal harder to move blood through the system. When this happens, the brain is less able to focus and concentrate on the work at hand and less activity is noted in the brain's cells. The body then becomes tired and sluggish and this makes getting things done much more difficult.
Becoming a water drinker on a consistent basis will provide a boast to your energy level and it will improve both your mental as well as your physical performance on a day-to-day scale. Drinking plenty of water helps the immune system and toxins are carried out of the body at a much faster rate with the help of this "wonder drug." People who drink lots of water report less headaches and fewer incidences of fainting or dizziness and respiratory problems such as flu's and colds are decreased with the help of water.
It is relevant to note that a person is dehydrated by the time their brain registers thirst. When dehydration takes over, blood takes on a thicker consistency and the body therefore has to work a great deal harder to move blood through the system. When this happens, the brain is less able to focus and concentrate on the work at hand and less activity is noted in the brain's cells. The body then becomes tired and sluggish and this makes getting things done much more difficult.
Friday, April 6, 2007
Easter: What is it all about?
Chocolate eggs, fluffy bunnies, hot cross buns?What does Easter mean to you?
Where do all these additions to a serious religious festival come from anyway?
To answer that, we have to look at the very beginnings of Christianity.
The early Church faced two problems: how to convert people who didn't really want to be converted, and, how to avoid being persecuted in the mean time. They came up with a clever and very practical solution.
Wherever possible, the early Christians adjusted their festival days to coincide with feast days of the other religions. This helped both problems.
Firstly it meant that they didn't stand out by celebrating when everyone else was hard at work, and second, by sharing feast days, and taking on a lot of the existing trappings of celebration, they de-mystified themselves and appeared more like regular folk.
Easter is an excellent example.
The Christians needed a special day to celebrate the resurrection - just about the most important day in the Church calendar. Luckily, the pagans, who populated most of Europe in the 2nd century and earlier, celebrated a spring renewal festival in the name of one of their goddesses, Eastre.
So the early church missionaries made a takeover bid and subsumed the Saxon feast day to their own ends. The Church liked order, though, and Eastre was celebrated variously on all sorts of days of the week.So, in AD 325 at the famous Council of Nicaea, a new 'Easter Rule' was declared stating that Easter would always fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.
To them, this was imposing order! Simply put, it meant that Easter would now always fall on a Sunday, between March 22nd and April 25th. Although different branches of the Church have tried to change the dating of Easter at various times in history, this rule still generally applies today, almost 1700 years later.
The Easter bunny may seem like a particularly modern invention, but in fact, predates Christianity by millennia.
The Saxon goddess Eastre was the same lady that the Babylonians and Assyrians worshipped as Ishtar and the Phoenicians as Astarte. This many-named deity had as her earthly symbol, a hare. In fact, unlikely as it seems, the Easter bunny and Easter eggs are bound together in the same ancient tradition.
Legend had it that in order to impress some children, Eastre changed her pet bird into a hare for them. The hare then proceeded to lay colored eggs.That would have impressed me!This story also explains why eggs are so inextricably linked to Easter. Eggs as icons of rebirth date back into prehistory.
Certainly, the Egyptians buried eggs in their tombs and the Greeks put them on top of graves. But the giving of colored eggs as spring tokens seems to have started with the genetically modified hare that Eastre created.
The early Christians couldn't be seen to take all of the pagan beliefs unquestioningly, so they got their own PR gurus to come up with a suitable Christian tradition to explain the colored eggs.
The Church said that Simon of Cyrene, the kind soul who helped Jesus to carry his cross to Calvary was an egg merchant. When he returned home to his farm after witnessing Christ's death he found that all the eggs laid that day had miraculously turned into a rainbow of colors. Although few records exist from early centuries to prove that early Christians kept the tradition, it seems likely.
Surviving records from the accounts of the court of King Edward I show that in 1290 he ordered 450 eggs to be hand colored and coated in gold leaf to be distributed as gifts to members of his household.
Easter egg hunts, loved by children everywhere, had a much more sinister beginning.
In dark age Europe, it was an annual tradition for men to go hunting through the forests looking for eggs bearing specific patterns on their shells. Such an egg, when found, was much prized as a magical talisman. As belief in magic declined, the hunt continued but now with colored eggs being hidden in advance.
I don't know ... a Cadbury's Cream Egg is still pretty magical to me!
The hare symbol may well have died out were it not for the Germanic Saxons who kept the image going through their own folklore.
When many Germans moved to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they brought their traditions with them.
At the time, American Christianity was very puritan and the idea of colored eggs and fluffy bunnies was far too frivolous. But after the Civil War, the nation needed a symbol of rebirth and so the celebration of Easter became more widespread along with a relaxation of dogma.Frivolity had come of age.
At the same Council of Nicaea, in AD 325, it was also decided that the cross would be the official symbol of Christianity. It was a good thing too, because Christian folk had been using the sign for ages, unofficially.
Which brings us to hot cross buns.A modern culinary treat?Not in the least!They were the official food of the festival of good old Eastre way back before the Christians had anything to do with it.
The word 'bun' comes from the Saxon 'boun' which means 'sacred ox'. At the ceremony an ox was sacrificed and little cakes whose top was scored with the sign of the ox's horns were passed to the celebrants. As this was such an integral part of the pagan feast, the Christians kept the cake, but moved one of the lines on top so it was less of a 'V' and more of an 'X'. Anyway, hot vee buns doesn't have quite the same ring.
Interestingly, in the archeological digs at Herculaneum, the city destroyed with Pompeii in AD 79, hot cross buns have been found still in the baker's ovens.Only not quite so hot anymore.
Of course, in those early days, the recipe lacked currants and raisins, and sticky glazed frosting hadn't been invented.But the thought was there.
Which came first, the bunny or the egg?
As far as candy treats are concerned, it must be the bunny. Those Germans who made it to Pennsylvania can be blamed for much of the tooth decay that happens at this time of year.
In the early 18th century, they used to make elaborate confections from pastry and sugar in the shape of a rabbit to celebrate Easter.
The earliest known chocolate eggs were made in France and Germany in the early 19th century. Before then, eating chocolate was not able to be molded.
The first truly modern chocolate egg was not made until 1875, when John Cadbury introduced them to his range.
So, this Easter, as you are enjoying your candies and cakes, spare a thought for the goddess Eastre, for the early Christians, desperate to spread their word and avoid persecution and for tradition-bound Germans.
Without them all, our modern-day celebrations would be very different.
But most of all, remember who this is all in aid of. Without Him, it would all be rather pointless. _______________________________________________________
Where do all these additions to a serious religious festival come from anyway?
To answer that, we have to look at the very beginnings of Christianity.
The early Church faced two problems: how to convert people who didn't really want to be converted, and, how to avoid being persecuted in the mean time. They came up with a clever and very practical solution.
Wherever possible, the early Christians adjusted their festival days to coincide with feast days of the other religions. This helped both problems.
Firstly it meant that they didn't stand out by celebrating when everyone else was hard at work, and second, by sharing feast days, and taking on a lot of the existing trappings of celebration, they de-mystified themselves and appeared more like regular folk.
Easter is an excellent example.
The Christians needed a special day to celebrate the resurrection - just about the most important day in the Church calendar. Luckily, the pagans, who populated most of Europe in the 2nd century and earlier, celebrated a spring renewal festival in the name of one of their goddesses, Eastre.
So the early church missionaries made a takeover bid and subsumed the Saxon feast day to their own ends. The Church liked order, though, and Eastre was celebrated variously on all sorts of days of the week.So, in AD 325 at the famous Council of Nicaea, a new 'Easter Rule' was declared stating that Easter would always fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.
To them, this was imposing order! Simply put, it meant that Easter would now always fall on a Sunday, between March 22nd and April 25th. Although different branches of the Church have tried to change the dating of Easter at various times in history, this rule still generally applies today, almost 1700 years later.
The Easter bunny may seem like a particularly modern invention, but in fact, predates Christianity by millennia.
The Saxon goddess Eastre was the same lady that the Babylonians and Assyrians worshipped as Ishtar and the Phoenicians as Astarte. This many-named deity had as her earthly symbol, a hare. In fact, unlikely as it seems, the Easter bunny and Easter eggs are bound together in the same ancient tradition.
Legend had it that in order to impress some children, Eastre changed her pet bird into a hare for them. The hare then proceeded to lay colored eggs.That would have impressed me!This story also explains why eggs are so inextricably linked to Easter. Eggs as icons of rebirth date back into prehistory.
Certainly, the Egyptians buried eggs in their tombs and the Greeks put them on top of graves. But the giving of colored eggs as spring tokens seems to have started with the genetically modified hare that Eastre created.
The early Christians couldn't be seen to take all of the pagan beliefs unquestioningly, so they got their own PR gurus to come up with a suitable Christian tradition to explain the colored eggs.
The Church said that Simon of Cyrene, the kind soul who helped Jesus to carry his cross to Calvary was an egg merchant. When he returned home to his farm after witnessing Christ's death he found that all the eggs laid that day had miraculously turned into a rainbow of colors. Although few records exist from early centuries to prove that early Christians kept the tradition, it seems likely.
Surviving records from the accounts of the court of King Edward I show that in 1290 he ordered 450 eggs to be hand colored and coated in gold leaf to be distributed as gifts to members of his household.
Easter egg hunts, loved by children everywhere, had a much more sinister beginning.
In dark age Europe, it was an annual tradition for men to go hunting through the forests looking for eggs bearing specific patterns on their shells. Such an egg, when found, was much prized as a magical talisman. As belief in magic declined, the hunt continued but now with colored eggs being hidden in advance.
I don't know ... a Cadbury's Cream Egg is still pretty magical to me!
The hare symbol may well have died out were it not for the Germanic Saxons who kept the image going through their own folklore.
When many Germans moved to Pennsylvania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries they brought their traditions with them.
At the time, American Christianity was very puritan and the idea of colored eggs and fluffy bunnies was far too frivolous. But after the Civil War, the nation needed a symbol of rebirth and so the celebration of Easter became more widespread along with a relaxation of dogma.Frivolity had come of age.
At the same Council of Nicaea, in AD 325, it was also decided that the cross would be the official symbol of Christianity. It was a good thing too, because Christian folk had been using the sign for ages, unofficially.
Which brings us to hot cross buns.A modern culinary treat?Not in the least!They were the official food of the festival of good old Eastre way back before the Christians had anything to do with it.
The word 'bun' comes from the Saxon 'boun' which means 'sacred ox'. At the ceremony an ox was sacrificed and little cakes whose top was scored with the sign of the ox's horns were passed to the celebrants. As this was such an integral part of the pagan feast, the Christians kept the cake, but moved one of the lines on top so it was less of a 'V' and more of an 'X'. Anyway, hot vee buns doesn't have quite the same ring.
Interestingly, in the archeological digs at Herculaneum, the city destroyed with Pompeii in AD 79, hot cross buns have been found still in the baker's ovens.Only not quite so hot anymore.
Of course, in those early days, the recipe lacked currants and raisins, and sticky glazed frosting hadn't been invented.But the thought was there.
Which came first, the bunny or the egg?
As far as candy treats are concerned, it must be the bunny. Those Germans who made it to Pennsylvania can be blamed for much of the tooth decay that happens at this time of year.
In the early 18th century, they used to make elaborate confections from pastry and sugar in the shape of a rabbit to celebrate Easter.
The earliest known chocolate eggs were made in France and Germany in the early 19th century. Before then, eating chocolate was not able to be molded.
The first truly modern chocolate egg was not made until 1875, when John Cadbury introduced them to his range.
So, this Easter, as you are enjoying your candies and cakes, spare a thought for the goddess Eastre, for the early Christians, desperate to spread their word and avoid persecution and for tradition-bound Germans.
Without them all, our modern-day celebrations would be very different.
But most of all, remember who this is all in aid of. Without Him, it would all be rather pointless. _______________________________________________________
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Herbal Healing
I have found another web site that is worth a look for all you herb lovers out there
http://www.herbshop.com/
One stop resource for herbs, nutritional supplements, alternative health and natural healing products and information, although the shopping experience itself is rather annoying.
http://www.herbshop.com/
One stop resource for herbs, nutritional supplements, alternative health and natural healing products and information, although the shopping experience itself is rather annoying.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Alzheimer's Tip
Considering that we are coming up to long week-end (for most people ) I thought this tip would do us all good!
enjoy.
http://www.aloeveraexpress.com/site/1345660/page/908179
enjoy.
http://www.aloeveraexpress.com/site/1345660/page/908179
Sunday, April 1, 2007
New web site review
I have been away for a couple of days and also tiring to sort out my news letter. In my Net searching I came across a very good website
http://www.heartlandhealing.com/
This website is full of information about alternative medicine, natural healing, complementary therapies and the healing arts. Also includes a directory of natural healing resources available in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska.
well worth a look.
http://www.heartlandhealing.com/
This website is full of information about alternative medicine, natural healing, complementary therapies and the healing arts. Also includes a directory of natural healing resources available in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska.
well worth a look.
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