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A friend of mine just sent this to me. I thought I might share it with you. It is the hidden story behind vaccines, big pharma, and food.

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Basic Green Drink

This summer I am having two book signings in Redstone Colorado. I am really looking forward to getting up to the mountains. When I am up there, I am having workshops on the healing diet and raw food at the Redstone Art Gallery.

One of the recipes I am teaching is a basic green drink.

Here is my recipe, I am sharing this with you.

Basic Green Drink

1-cup greens (leafy)

1 or 2 pieces of fruit (cored and chopped into pieces)

1 to 2 dates (pitted

3 cups of water

Place in vita mix blender and blend.

Note: Greens can be lettuce, spinach, kale, beet greens, etc.

Fruit can be apple, pear, banana, mango, any combination desired.

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Almond Cookies – Raw, Healthy and Easy To Make!

Would you like to eat a healthy delicious cookie?

Easy too!

This recipe if one of many raw recipes in my book, “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian.”

Raw recipe

ALMOND COOKIES

I frequently make these living-food cookies using almond meal I have leftover after making almond milk.

I never wanted to waste the almond meal, and this is a wonderful way to use it. You can make these into small snack bars as well.

Store these cookies in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

2 c. almonds, soaked in water 12 to 18 hours, or almond meal

1⁄2–1 tsp. sea salt

1⁄2 c. or more honey

Directions:

1⁄4 c. almond butter

2 T. protein powder

1⁄2 c. organic, raw, shredded

coconut

1. Grind almonds and sea salt into a fine meal.

2. Slowly add honey, almond butter, and protein powder to make

sticky dough.

3. Roll dough into round long logs.

4. Roll logs in coconut.

5. Wrap logs in parchment or wax paper and then in foil. 6. Chill until firm.

7. Cut slices a little over one-quarter-inch thick.

Note:

I use Garden of Life brand protein powder.

Variation:

Gently press cookies in coconut after they are sliced, for a more coconut-y flavor.

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Super Chocolate Power Smoothie

I love delicious food. We all need nutrient dense food this summer, so we can do all the fun things we have on our agenda!

Here is one of my favorite raw, healthy recipes from my cookbook, which has over 115 yummy and easy recipes in it.

I thought I would share it with you!

Raw recipe

SUPER CHOCOLATE POWER SMOOTHIE

Yes, you can have chocolate for breakfast and it will be healthy! Cacao is one of, if not the top anti-oxidant foods in the world. It is nutrient- dense. Note that if you’re making this drink for someone who is diabetic, sweeten it with stevia instead of dates.

Ingredients:

2 1⁄2 c. almond milk

1 or 2 bananas

1 T. cacao powder or cacao nibs

2–3 dates, pitted and soaked in water for an hour or more or if you are diabetic – use a half dropper of toffee flavored stevia

1 T. nut butter of choice (almond works well)

1 tsp. chia seeds

1T. extra-virgin, pure coconut oil

1 scoop protein powder

Directions:

1. Blend all ingredients well in a blender and enjoy!

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Suzie Humphrey’s Greek Salad

SUZIE HUMPHREYS’S GREEK SALAD

My friend Suzie makes the best Greek salad!

She generously gave me the recipe for my book.

I am sharing it with you!

Ingredients:

1 c. romaine lettuce, torn in bite-sized pieces

1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and chopped

1 red pepper, seeded and chopped

1⁄4 c. red onion, cut into small, thin silvers

1⁄4 c. black olives

1⁄4 c. green onions

1 stalk celery, chopped

1 tomato, chopped

3⁄4 c. feta cheese

La Martinique salad dressing

Directions:

1. Toss all ingredients together with salad dressing.

Variation:

Substitute another vinaigrette salad dressing for La Martinique dressing.

Andrew Oerke ‘s Tribute

One of my dearest friends has passed on to be with God.

This is a tribute to Andrew, a truly great man, who will be sadly missed.

We are so fortunate to have had him here to share our world.

Andrew Oerke

1932 to 2013)

A great spirit has passed who has enriched us all.

A very happy, loving grandfather to Cashen and Odin, a loving and enormously supportive father to Kirsten, Greta and Jared, an intensely loving partner in all works and life to Anitra, a supporting friend to his many colleagues, an Oerke family caring kinsman, and to many, a leader moving by means of acts of service toward a better world .

Andrew’s outstanding contributions created “ tipping points” for the human condition within three separate fields: 1.) microfinance; 2.) the concept and structure of the Peace Corps during the JFK Campaign as well as innovations as Director of Peace Corps in Malawi and Jamaica; and 3.) his extremely original poetry about the world which he considered the real solution to changing the mind and spirit of mankind. He also participated with Anitra in “healing the Oceans”. For these former three he won the USA Club of Rome Lifetime Achievement award in 2009

All of his highly original, creative activities stem from his penetrating insight into the human condition. Because of which he chose to act at critical “tipping points” within: language, human poverty, diplomatic relations of the people of the US with other nations, and recently healing the dying seas which Andrew’s choices of where to focus his life’s efforts. These flowed from his unusually keen ability (as a poet) to think “out of the box”. Andrew brought about changes in the human condition of hundreds of thousands of humans in 60 nations by his prodigious work and the ripples from his and his colleagues: John Schiller doing poverty alleviation in West Africa, Jerry Glenn, pursuing solutions to millennium goals, Shari Berenbach,African Development foundation, and former head microfinance USAID. His consuming quest was to better the condition of humans and nature.

1.) Andrew’s Microfinance Work: In 1966 in Kakamega, Kenya, David Skull (a Quaker) began making very small loans to village women. When Andrew as the CEO of Partners for Productivity joined David Skull at a moment in 1973 when the microloan endeavor was struggling and about to go bankrupt. Andrew brought his insight and hard work into these projects and by 1987 Andrew and his colleagues at PFP had expanded the effort to more than 60 nations in 4 continents. Lending, savings and small business start-up in the informed sector needed to be formalized and institutionalized. Above all, it needed a recognizable and replicable methodology. Skull had developed what is now known as the “Peer Pressure” methodology. In the city of Kakamega the program eventually ran out of funds, principally because the city was too large and spread out to bring sufficient peer pressure to bear on borrowers, who eventually began to default. At this point donors gave up on microfinance and asked Oerke, who had just taken over the NGO PfP to simply give the money away for micro-business start-up since it would never be paid back anyway. Oerke refused, secured a small grant and loan fund from a group called PACT, and from USAID, who financially agreed to let Oerke charge going rates of interest. Oerke then radically re-defined the microfinance/small scale enterprise development methodology and replicated it in branch offices, local NGO start-ups and training programs in more than sixty countries in the newly industrialized world. His former staff and managers continue to run many of the large microfinance programs in the world, and second and third generation PfP trainees and workers are omnipresent in what has now become a multi-billion dollar industry reaching an estimated 19 million of the poorest of the poor.

The problem of poverty which much of the human race finds itself faced with brought to him the question, why can these people not find access to capital? He now continues with the next “sustainable and self-generating model wherein microfinance could be done throughout the world without the donor input now required. Andrew felt the present microfinance movement is content with merely winning battles, when its goal should be to win the war on poverty. Andrew maintained that poverty is systemic in the present system of capital flows and that the present sustainability model, which is the correct one for the environment, is too static, not dynamic enough to solve the enormous problem of poverty, which he sees as a nexus which is the source of most of the other great problems that we face – environmental degradation, population explosions, poor health, and inadequate education.

He worked hard on creating a generative, auto-generating microfinance model (as opposed to the present microfinance model which is still heavily donor-dependent). With the new model, he believed donor money can be used as multipliers for start-ups, replication, expansions, experimentation and adaptations to differing cultural conditions.

2.)The Peace Corps Concept. The US role was falling behind in the world during the cold war in late 1950’s. Oerke brought the concept that young people were the USA’s best asset to the friendly nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America-Caribbean. The concept of ordinary citizens doing diplomacy by everyday person-to-person activities in the midst of impoverished peoples of these nations, living and interacting with them in a wide variety of nations occurred to Oerke. He went to Senator Proxmire’s office in Milwaukee, where Andrew’s father was the head of the Immanuel Lutheran Church and outlined to Proxmire and Congressman Reuss his plan for engagement of US citizens sent abroad to work in developing nations. Proxmire said, “ Humphrey has an idea to send the army to build roads and bridges” Andrew said, “That’s the wrong message.” Then Andrew cleverly added, “Kennedy is behind in the polls and this will help cement the youth vote.” This Oerke model was presented to Kennedy and his campaign by Milwaukee Congressman Reuss and Wisconsin Senator Proxmire. Kennedy chose the Oerke model based on private volunteers serving on a non-political, person-to-person, subsistence budget directly with needy people over the Humphrey plan of sending soldiers to do infrastructure projects. Kennedy announced the Peace Corps at the University of Michigan a few weeks later; the rest was history.

Oerke was an innovator and a pioneer within the Peace Corps. Sent as desk officer to Uganda and Tanzania, then as Peace Corps director to first Malawi and then Jamaica, he directed the first environmental/preventative health program in Africa. It eradicated small pox and TB from Malawi and trained the Malawi Health Ministry and Malawian villagers in sanitation, disease prevention and nutrition.

3.)POETRY. Andrew’s first passion always was poetry. Andrew said the problem of the sustainability of the human spirit is as important as any other humanity now faces. Andrew believed poetry is the important key to sustain and to energize the human spirit. It is poetry that has given voice to the great ideals that we all live by and will save us from this prosaic, linear world we live in. He frequently said it was no accident that all the great wisdom of the world was presented in poetic form: Jesus in the beatitudes and his parables, by Buddha, by other enlightened leaders until Mohammed in the Koran. “Yet we spend trillions on technology but cannot afford to financially support even one poet except part-time in University cubby holes as educators. What does this say for the future of humanity?

In 2005, Oerke was awarded the United Nations Award for Literature by the UN Society for Writers and Artists for his books “African Stiltdancer” and “San Miguel de Allende”. One of his recent books translated into Bulgarian by Valentin Khusev as part of the William Meredith US Poet Laureate’s East-West Exchange commences during the cold war was the last book of the Meredith’s series and is “The Collected Andrew Oerke” in English and Bulgarian where Andrew did a poetry reading tour in 6 Bulgarian cities last fall during the Bulgarian Poetry week (organized by his colleague and translator Valentin Khusev).

Andrew wrote Fourteen books of poetry and over 450 poems in journals such as The New Yorker, and Poetry. These poems are meant to save and nourish the human spirit from the present world.

The outstanding Literary critic Harold Bloom has said of Oerke :

“Andrew Oerke has wandered over the entire globe. His eye is shrewd, his mind capacious, and his generosity toward humankind is endless. His poems invariably offer fresh perspectives upon the reality he has encountered.

An elegiac intensity permeates his work. He refreshes the reader with a singularity that cares both for itself and for others, unlike certain other poets who attain their individualities by being indifferent.

When I consider that Oerke is very much a person who lives out in the world, and aiding other men and women to live better lives, I am profoundly moved that he should also have his sustained ability to enter, again and again, the universe of reverie and of quiet contemplation. “

William Meredith, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet before his death several years ago writing with his partner Richard Harteis have said,

“Andrew Oerke’s work is a window on the world, a world seen through the compassionate eyes of a fellow pilgrim. In the exquisite particulars of Africa, he sings the human condition, “in the heart’s duress, on the heart’s behalf.” He is a marvel, moving from one stunning image to the next with the ease of a chameleon moving from fire to water. Such vitality and good will, a man at home in the sweet world.”

Andrew’s life in Miami was Poetry writing , but much more. He ran a restoration of houses business with Robert Griffith as partner, Derek Dean, Michael Grant, Favio Perez as associates who renovated foreclosed or damaged homes in marginal areas then sold them to first home peoples from the Caribbean who started new lives as home owners.

He started a major wellness program at Miami-Dade community college where he served as Dean of the Medical campus.

Andrew’s last hours were spent on poetry and the magnificent concept of healing the oceans by restoring seagrasses, finishing a major proposal with Anitra for restoring seagrass to Texas coasts.

We will always remember his twinkling, loving eyes, his gentle sense of what is good and what is just, his enormous intellect integrating life’s experience, his enthusiasm for embracing life, and the Oerke tradition of service to mankind through his grandfather and father, which hopefully he transmitted to his grandsons.

A great spirit has passed who has enriched us all.

From Andrew’s favorite poet, William Shakespeare, in Hamlet

“Good night sweet prince:

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! “

Water for Life!

Water is one key nutrient to our health and well-being. Our bodies are about 66–72% water. Blood uses the water to transport oxygen, nutrients, and antibodies to all parts of the body. Many illnesses are actually a result of dehydration. When we feel thirsty, we are already dehydrated. I always drink a glass of pure mineralized water as soon as I wake in the morning. When we wake up, our body is empty, so our body will absorb whatever we ingest like a sponge. Therefore, a glass of high-quality, mineral-rich water will be utilized more efficiently.

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj MD studied water while he was a prisoner in an Iranian jail. He treated and cured about 3,000 prisoners, using water and a little sea salt to treat what he called chronic intracellular dehydra- tion. He found that most people are sick because of dehydration. He wrote many books on the subject after his release. The “water cure” that he prescribed is:

1. Sufficient water. Drink an ounce of water for every 2 pounds of body weight daily. This means that someone weighing 200 pounds should drink 100 ounces of water a day. This is in addition to any other beverages. Consume water first thing upon getting up in the morning and then drink it all day long on a continual basis every two hours.

2. Sea salt. Put 1/8 teaspoon of sea salt on the tongue with every 16 ounces of water. This is a key component in the “water cure.” This is really important for people suffering from allergies or asthma; the salt acts like an antihistamine. (1)

Almost all public water supplies have added chemicals to the water supply, including sodium fluoride and chlorine, both of which are poisons. Chlorine was the first poison developed for warfare. Chlorine also destroys the Vitamin E in the body and the good probiotics in the intestines. “Industrial chemist J.P. Bercz, PhD, showed in 1992 that chlorinated water alters and destroys unsaturated essential fatty acids (EFAs), [14] the building blocks of people’s brains and central nervous systems.”(2)

While showering or swimming in chlorinated water, the chlorine soaks into the skin cells. Our skin is our largest organ. That is why the patch is used to give medicines to people; they absorb directly into the skin and from there into the blood stream.

Research linking swimming in chlorinated pools to cancer and other medical conditions continues to make headlines. The latest such studies come from the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, Spain. They indicate, among other things, that swimming in a pool with chlorine may increase the risk of developing cancer and damage lungs.(3)

Sodium fluoride and fluorosilicic acid are common chemicals added to our municipal water supply. Studies were done for tooth decay prevention with calcium fluoride. The companies that had a by-product of sodium fluoride (that can be contaminated with lead and arsenic as well) are companies that make aluminum and fertilizers. Sodium fluoride is the fluoride that the government adds to the water supply. This is added on the pretext that it is good for our teeth and health, but dental studies were done using calcium fluoride, so this is a different type of fluoride from what is being added to the water supply. Fluoride has been used in Chinese medicine as a tranquilizer and also in many places as a rat poison.

According to Paul Connett, PhD, “Fluoride is a cumulative poison. On average, only 50% of the fluoride we ingest each day is excreted through the kidneys. The remainder accumulates in our bones, pineal gland, and other tissues. If the kidney is damaged, fluoride accumulation will increase, and with it, the likelihood of harm.” (4) Fluoride affects the thyroid gland and all our enzymatic systems. Side effects from fluoride include weight problems, damage to our immune system, and other serious disorders. These chemically derived fluorides are completely different from naturally occurring fluoride.

Fluoride affects different people and ages differently. According to Connett:

The level of fluoride put into water (1 ppm) is up to 200 times higher than normally found in mothers’ milk (0.005–0.01 ppm) (Ekstrand 1981; Institute of Medicine 1997). There are no benefits, only risks, for infants ingesting this heightened level of fluoride at such an early age (this is an age where susceptibility to environmental toxins is particularly high).(5)

Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Norway, and France do not put fluoride in their water. Some of these countries have made it illegal to add to the water supply.

Huge numbers of Safe Drinking Water Act violations are reported each year by water treatment facilities. Many areas have old, dirty water pipes, and even some really old lead pipes, transporting the water. New Scientist reported that a comprehensive survey of US drinking water showed that it contained an array of hormonally active chemicals like MTBE (methyl-tert-butyl-ether), a chemical found in fuel and a poten- tial human carcinogen in high doses, and atrazine, a US pesticide that was banned in the European Union. Atrazine has been linked to reproductive problems in lab animals and is also linked to both breast cancer and prostate cancer.

In 2010, National Geographic reported that drinking water in schools in 27 states was contaminated with toxic substances including lead.139 In 2009, the Associated Press analyzed data from the EPA and found the public water for about 100 school districts contained lead, pesticides, and other toxins.(6) If it is being pumped to schools, then it is probably being pumped into homes and businesses as well. Because of the state of our municipal water supply, a good water filter can be a beneficial purchase.

The Reverse Osmosis is a really good water filter system, but it takes everything out, even the good minerals you need in the water. I add a pinch of my patent pending sensational sea salt seasoning to my water to increase the mineral content.(You can buy my sensational sea salt seasoning on my website at the store). Water purification also makes the water very acidic. I have a life ionizer on my faucet that raises the ph balance of my water.

Bottled water comes in a variety of choices. The EPA standards of the Clean Water Act do not apply to bottled water; there is very little regulation on bottled water, which is why I recommend having your own filter. I have my water purifier on my home water supply. I love not having to buy purified water. I can also keep my own glass water bottles there to fill up and use. I just wash them in the dish washer. That way, I am not getting plastic leaching into my water and I am not contributing to the landfill problem either.

Water for thought!

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Sources:

1. Batmanghelidj, Dr. Fereydoon. ABC of Asthma, Allergies and Lupus, First Edition (Global Health Solutions, Inc., 2000).

. Water: For Health, for Healing, for Life: You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty! (Hachette Digital, Inc., 2003).

. Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, Third Edition (Global Health Solutions, Inc., 2008).

2.   Hattersley, Joseph G. “The Negative Health Effects of Chlorine.” Available at findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/... ai_100767859/ or on Dr. Mercola’s website at www.mercola.com/Downloads/bonus/chlor... kwcid=TC|15735|chlorine||S|b|9483696664&gclid=CMjlxLKX6qw CFciC5Qod8y75Nw.

3.   Popke, Michael. “Studies Reveal More Chlorine Risks, Includ- ing Cancer.” Athletic Business website. September 14, 2010. athleticbusiness.com/editors/blog/def....

4.   Connett, PhD, Paul. “50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation.” St. Law- rence University (Canton, N.Y.). These “50 Reasons” were first compiled by Paul Connett and presented in person to the Fluorida- tion Forum in Ireland in October 2000. The document was refined in 2004 and published in Medical Veritas. See: www.fluoridealert. org/50reasons.htm. In the introduction to this 2004 version it was explained that after over four years the Irish authorities had not been able to muster a response to the “50 Reasons,” despite agreeing to do so in 2000.

5.   Ibid.

6.   Barclay, Eliza. “What’s Best for Kids: Bottled Water or Fountains?” National Geographic Daily News. March 3, 1020. news.national geographic.com/news/2010/02/100303-bo....

7.   Associated Press. “Drinking Water at Schools Contains Lead, Pesti- cides, Other Toxins: Study.” New York Daily News. September 25, 2009. articles.nydailynews.com/2009-09-25/e... safe-drinking-water-act-water-supplies-five-schools/2.

8.   “Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype?” Natural Resources Defense Council website. www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp.

Article from: How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian by Nancy Addison Pages 127-131.

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Take Control of Stress

As spring blooms and the school year draws to an end, we have more activities, errands, and social occasions that keep us busy doing so much for everyone else. I noticed most people are so busy that they forget to make time to nurture and take care of themselves.

Let’s face it; the better you take care of yourself, the better life will be for everyone. Take some time each day to slow down, calm the mind, and rest. If you don’t, stress can get hold of you. Stress is called the “silent killer” for a reason. Stress will put the body into survival mode and it will break down the immune system. The last thing you need to be doing to yourself during this busy time is break down our own immune system.

Indulging in a soothing hot bath or foot soak at the end of the day is always a wonderful way to relax and clean off the stress. Along with that, here are a few techniques on how to get a handle on stress and boost the immune system along the way!

First – Breathe! Breathe deeply into the diaphragm. When stressed, you tend to hold your breath and/or only breathe up in your lungs. When you do this, it cuts off much of the oxygen to the brain, which makes it hard to think. This type of shallow breathing also tells the body that you are in a fight or flight mode.

Research with deep breathing exercises has shown immediate positive impact affecting blood pressure and the blood pH. According to Esther Sternberg, a physician and researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and author of several books about stress; slow deep breathing can actually stimulate the body’s reaction that will calm us down. She says it’s like putting on the brakes to your car.

Pranayama Yoga uses breath work as regular part of the practice. Cleveland’s Integrative Medicine Clinic has their patients with chronic diseases learn and practice breathing using yoga techniques. Mladen Golubic, a physician at the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Integrative Medicine, says, “You can influence asthma; you can influence chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; you can influence heart failure. There are studies that show that people who practice breathing exercises and have those conditions, they benefit.”

According to Sternberg, when you’re stressed, the body immune system’s ability to do its job to fight infections is seriously compromised. So, if you want to handle a stressful situation, boost the immune system, and ultimately feel better; breathe deeply and slowly on a regular basis. It’s free, easy, and you can do it anytime and anywhere!

Second – Eat whole organic foods that are in their pure form, not from a package or fast food container and eliminate caffeinated beverages from the diet. Many people rely and become dependent on beverages that contain various forms of caffeine to help them deal fatigue, which can be caused by stress. Caffeine will actually raise the level of stress hormones in the body and coffee is a bowel irritant. Get off the roller coaster of caffeine and try for a steady even stride of energy. Eat 3 good meals a day. When your body is really fed on a deep cellular level, you are giving it the fuel to run on. Eating whole foods that are not processed or heated over 105 degrees that are rich with live enzymes and rich with nutrition, provides your body with the tools it needs to run efficiently and thrive.

Third – Get a good night’s sleep. Every night make the last 30 minutes before bed a time of reflection, gratitude, and positive peaceful thoughts. During sleep your body rejuvenates itself. A good night’s sleep can make a world of difference in your health and well-being. Make the list of things that are on your mind, write them down and get them out of your head. Release the thoughts about problems, additions to your To-Do list, and worries that have a grip on you. What you focus on before bed is what your mind is going to ponder throughout the night. Before sleeping, practice meditation. Play soft uplifting music or sounds of running water before bed. Breathe deeply; clear your mind, to bring healing and restful night sleep.

As life is speeding up; it is important to know how to slow down. Take some time to stop and smell the roses, and focus on what is important in life.

Ultimately it is a choice. Breathe deeply, eat and drink whole fresh food and focus on the positive to release stress from your life.

Take stress out of your life and make healthy living your lifestyle.

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Resources 1. : http://www.livestrong.com/article/360...

2. NPR- “Just Breathe: Body Has A Built-In Stress Reliever” by Gretchen Cuda December 6, 20103. http://www.lifespa.com/article.aspx?a...

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Rex Maughan, Nancy Addison and Jimmy Gomes at Southfork Ranch

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Southfork Ranch, where I spoke to the Forever Resorts Managers, is a beautiful destination. Rex Maughan, the owner and Jimmy Gomes, the vice president, were having their yearly meeting. This group has won numerous awards for having environmentally sound practices. Now all of the managers have my book and are making their restaurants healthier. I had such a good time meeting and speaking to this group. Many of their resorts are at our National United States Parks. Rex is also the owner of many Aloe Vera plant nurseries and farms.

I highly recommend staying at the Forever Resorts around the world.

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Have Healthier Hair!

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, we all think about wearing green and people with red hair. My son has red hair and so does my sister and brother. So, focusing on hair, I get asked quite often about hair and how can they have thick, luxurious hair. Sometimes we may find too much hair left in our hairbrush or that our hairline is looking a bit farther back than it seemed a few weeks ago. Our hair can definitely be influenced by what we are consuming. In many cases hair loss is the result of a deficiency of Vitamin B and other nutrients. Lack of the right kind of essential fatty acids can also be part of the equation. A lack of Vitamin B6, folic acid, magnesium, sulfur, zinc, and multiple nutrients in the vitamin B complex that the body needs in small amounts to function and stay healthy can result in hair thinning or hair loss. The combination of nutrients is what is important, including eating the right kind of proteins in the right amounts. Foods rich in B vitamins are brewer’s yeast, wheat germ, and lecithin. Beans and seafood are also high in protein and B vitamins.

There are many non B vitamins that contribute to healthy hair. Zinc works in cell reproduction and hormone balance, affecting hair growth and taking care of the hair follicles. If the body is low on zinc, the hair follicles can become weak. Foods heavy in zinc are seafood and nuts. Vitamin E is another important element of healthy hair, having been shown to improve scalp circulation because of its anti-cellular aging and increased blood oxygenation properties. Avocados, kiwi fruit, nuts, seeds, and olive oil are good sources of vitamin E. Next, Vitamin A’s protection of hair follicles has been documented, and can be found in carrots, spinach, and unrefined cold pressed seed oils, such as flax, walnut, pumpkin

Although it is best to get nutrients in a whole food form, all of these vitamins and minerals can be found in supplement form. When buying supplements look for organic whole food vitamins. Your body can read whole foods much better than it can an isolated vitamin.

Essential fatty acids are another vital way of promoting healthy skin and hair. Fish and fish oil supplements are also high in omega 3′s. Some other essential fatty acid sources are walnuts, avocados, almonds, pecans, pumpkins, hazelnuts, pine nuts, sesame, olives, and their respective oils.

A good coffee bean grinder is a great way to add some of these nuts and seeds easily to foods. These grinders are about $20 and are well worth the investment. Mine is about 20 years old and I use it constantly. Just grind the fresh nuts or seeds in the grinder and sprinkle them on dishes like you would a seasoning. My favorite is to add the freshly ground flax seeds to salads, smoothies, casseroles and soups. Don’t heat them though; add them to the food after it is cool.

by Nancy Addison CHHC, AADP

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