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Tip of the Month November 2009!  Swine Flu or H1N1
The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost
impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a
problem as proliferation is.
While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order
to prevent grow, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted
in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu). - 1. Frequent
hand washing (well highlighted in all official communications).
- 2. "Hands off the face" approach.
Resist all temptations to touch any part of the face.
- 3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water *use
Listerine if you don't trust salt). H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to grow and
show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents growth. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a
healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative
method.
- 4. Similar to #3 above, clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Try
a Neti Pot found in most pharmacies or blow the nose hard once a day and swab both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm
salt water which is very effective in bringing down viral population.
- 5. Boost your natural immunity
with food that are rich in Vitamin C. If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that is also has Zinc to
boost absorption.
- 6. Drink as much of warm liquids as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect
as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off growing viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot
survive, grow or do any harm.
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4, 2009
Roses – Recipes
Brought to
by: Melody Ann’s and “The Encyclopedia of Country Living” – updated 9th edition
by Carla Emery
These fragrant, hardy perennials grow 2 – 8 feet high.
Most have thorns. Modern roses are more varied in color than wild or old-fashioned roses, but as hybridizers have moved
the species toward more photogenic blooms their fragrances have weakened and even disappeared in the process.
The scentless rose is a modern reality. That’s why, to grow roses for use in potpourris, rose
jars, beads, and food you can’t start with just any of the vat variety of roses, use your noses!
The most fragrant types of old roses are the Damasks, Bourbons, Centifolias, Moss roses, Albas, and Gallicas.
Many hybridizers are bringing fragrance into the modern roses by combining them with the old roses for new varieties,
so you must use your nose in discerning fragrance.
Using:
The petals are the part of the rose where the fragrant oil for scent or
flavor is concentrated, so that’s the part you work with to make sachets or to flavor jelly, cake, etc.
You can do more with roses than perhaps you ever guessed! But first let’s consider the fruit
of the rose, used not for its fragrance but for its huge vitamin C content.
Rose Hip:
A rose hip (or “hep”)
is the round orange-to-reddish “fruit” (also called “haw”) formed after the flower of a rose has bloomed.
The hip is the seedpod of the plant. Some hops are better-tasting and bigger than others. Rosa
rugosa, the Japanese rose varieties, flower with large and lovely blooms in almost every color. They
also grow the largest rose hips, about 1 inch across. Which are much easier to work with. Sweetbriar
eglantine (Rosa eglanteria) also has good hips. The sweetbriars have the extra gift of aromatic
leaves that smell like ripe apples and can be added to your potpourri. Wild rose hips are also good.
There are wild roses in every state except Hawaii. The rugosa has escaped and gone native in some
areas.
Harvesting Hips:
Some people gather
hips any time after they have turned from yellow to orange and on to scarlet. Some wait for the first frost, convinced they
taste better after that. If allowed to get soft, they’re definitely not nice anymore.
Processing:
We’re talking vitamins here. That
means keep them cool until you can use or preserve them, and the sooner you do that the better – same day, if possible.
Stew, dry, or freeze. Wash and cut off both ends of hips with scissors. Cover if you
cook them. Use wooden spoons and earthenware of china bowls. Cook in glass or enamel
pans or stainless steel. Hips are so high in vitamin C that they are valuable for winter use to supply
that vitamin in tea, etc.
Cooking:
Process
into jelly; combine with honey to make a syrup; make granita, jam, extract, cold rose-hip soup, or hot tea.
Freezing:
Just toss them into plastic bags and freeze until needed.
Or make sugarless rose hip syrup by pouring boiling water to cover the hips and cooking on low heat 145 minutes.
Let that cool and steep 24 hours. Strain and freeze. When needed, use your sugarless
syrup to enrich soups, toppings, teas, etc.
Drying:
For
large hips, wash, cut open, take out seeds, spread, and dry in oven or dehydrator at 110° until
they are hard and brittle. For small hips, you can dry whole without cutting or removing seeds, or you
can cut into slices and dry, also without removing seeds. When thoroughly dry, store in airtight jars.
(If not very dry, they will mold). When ready to use, cover with water and simmer until soft. Use the pulp
to make jam or jelly. Hips mix well with other fruits like apple or cranberry.
Harvesting Rose Petals:
Gather just when the rose has fully expanded.
If you wait a day longer, until they start to fade, they will have lost some of that precious fragrance.
Gather in the morning after the dew has dried, but before they have gotten really warmed by the sun. When
removing the petals from the stem be sure that the stems and leaves are removes. Also cut the edge off
the petals that where connected to the stem (for this is bitter part). Dry before proceeding by pressing
them gently between layers of cloth. Dry them in a dehydrator or on a muslin cloth laid over a screen in
an airy, shady place.
Rose Hip Tea
Boil dried coarse-ground rose hips with water, about 1 Tablespoon for
each cup of tea. The longer you boil, the stronger your tea. Mash the hops with a spoon
to get out all the juice, and strain. Sweeten with brown sugar or honey.
Melody Ann’s
Hip mix tea
Rose hips are not strongly flavored, although they
are nourishing, so a hip mix makes for a tastier tea. Stem the hips, dry then, and grind. Mix
dried ground hips with mint or nettles, and well-dried strawberry leaves: ½ rose hips, ½ mint or nettles and
the rest wild strawberry leaves. Or leave out the mint and use lemon balm, etc.
Rose Pear Granita
This recipe is from Lane Morgan’s Winter Harvest Cookbook (Sasquatch
Books, 1990). “No special equipment is required for this simple ice from Le Gourmand.
The rose hips give the crystals a bit of tartness and a gorgeous red-gold tint. 1 quart pear juice,
½ cup rose hips, cut in half and seeded. Pour juice into a saucepan, add rose hips, and simmer,
covered, until liquid is reduced by half. Put through a food mill and pour into a shallow pan.
Freeze. Stir when mixture starts to get slushy and return to freezer until time to serve.
Makes 1 pint.”
Rose Hip Syrup
Wash
2 pounds fresh hips and remove stems (or soak dried rose hips in 6 cups of water until soft, use all of the water for boiling,
be sure that there is 6 cups of water for boiling). Put through food chopper using medium blade. Cover
with 6 cups boiling water and boil 2 minutes. Strain through sieve and put solids in a jelly bag to drain.
There should be 1 ½ pints of liquid. If more, boil it down. Add ¾ coup sugar and boil
for 5 minutes. Bottle.
Rose Hip Jam
If using fresh pick hips try to preserve the hips the same day you pick
them. Boil 4 cups hips with 2 ½ cups water until the hips are tender. Put through
sieve to remove seeds. Add 1 cup sugar for every 2 coups pulp. Add 1 teaspoon lemon
juice. Mix thoroughly and bring slowly to a simmer. Cook about 20 minutes depending
on climate. Seal.
Rose Hip Extract
Add it to breakfast juice, gelatin, desserts, meat sauces, soups or sherbet
for lots of vitamin C. If using fresh rose hips, chill, and remove blossom ends, stems, and leaves. Rinse
off. If using dried rose hips soak overnight in 1 ½ cups of water, be sure to use this water and
that there is 1 ½ water of water for boiling. For each 1 cup of hips bring to a rolling boil 1 ½
cup of water. Add the rose hips. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Mash with fork or potato
masher and let set 24 hours. Strain off liquid part. Bring extract to a good boil.
Add 2 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar or lemon juice for each pint. Pure hot into jars and seal. Another way to make an extract is: For each 1 cup of hips, pout over 1 cup boiling water. Let
soak 48 hours. Strain off the juice. Add ¼ cup honey per quart of juice.
Heat to boiling point. Pure into clean hot jars and seal. Take 2 teaspoon per
day in winter for you vitamin C.
Rose Hip Jelly
Wash, stem, and chop you hips (must use fresh hips for this).
For every 4 cups hips, boil 2 cups, water for 5 minutes and then let hang overnight in a jelly bag to get the juice.
For every 1 cups rose hip juice, add 3 cups real apple juice. Boil 10 minutes. Gradually
add 1 cup sugar for every cup of juice you are working with, and boil until it jells.
Rose Extract
Put petals into a wide-mouthed mason bottle and pour over them some vodka.
Let stand a month, and then strain (beside it’s out of the direct sunlight), and the strain. The
liquid is rose extract, or essence of roses.
Rose Water
Combine 1 part attar with 1 part vodka and 10 part distilled water.
Or 1 teaspoon extract mixed into ¾ coup distilled water. Or combine 1 ounce attar with 1 gallon distilled water.
Age 2 weeks. You have to shake a long time, slowly at first, to get a solution.
Rose Brandy
To flavor sauces for cakes and puddings, gather rose petals while the
dew is on them. Fill a bottle with them. Then pour into the bottle a good brandy.
Steep 3 to 4 weeks. Strain and rebottle.
Rose Vinegar
Boil 2 cups apple cider vinegar (be sure that it is apple cider vinegar
by reading the label) in a glass or stainless steel pan and pour over 1 cup rose petals. Add ½ teaspoon
lavender or rosemary. Cover and steep 10 days. Strain and bottle. You
can also use a Vin rose’ wine for a light wine vinegar, add some new rose petals for added beauty when finished.
Rose Petal Honey
Did you know that this recipe was a favorite of Martha Washington’s?
Bring 2 pints of honey to a boil. Add 1 pint rose petals. Let stand 4 hours.
Heat again. Strain into jars. Or you can just simply place the rose petals in
a mason jar cover with raw honey and let stand for two weeks. Enjoy both the rose honey and rose petals!
Rose Petal
Jam
Chop the petals into pieces and pack firmly into a
measuring cup. You’ll need 2 cups for this recipe. Cover the 2 cup petals
with 2 cup boiling water in a pan and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain, keeping the liquid. Add
2 ¾ cups sugar and 3 Tablespoon honey to water in which the petals were cooked. Simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
Add 1 teaspoon lemon juice and the chopped petals, and simmer 30 minutes more. The rose petals will
have dissolved. Have ready your clean, hot jelly jars. Pour hot liquid into the hot
jars and seal.
Rose Petal Bread
Add to a regular 2-loaf white or wheat bread recipe 1 cup lightly packed
rose petals, 1 teaspoon rose extract, 3 teaspoon lemon extract, and extra sweetening. Note:
You will have to make these extract beforehand. Lemon extract is made the same way Rose extract except
with the lemon you slice and use the whole lemon.
Rose Petal-scented
Tea
The Chinese use cabbage rose petals and/or jasmine
flowers to float on and scent a cup of steaming tea. I like any strong scented rose petals to float on
my tea or try the Rose Honey in your tea, the petals will float once the honey has dissolved.
Rose and Rhubarb Syrup
Simmer 1 ½ pounds chopped rhubarb about 20 minutes.
Strain. It’s the liquid you want to save. To that rhubarb juice add 1 pound
sugar and petals from about 8 red roses. Simmer 20 minutes more. Strain again, this time discarding the
rose petals. Bring the syrup back to boiling. Simmer until it thickens.
Pour into small (for it will ferment soon after opening) hot bottles and seal them. To use, add
to a milk shake for flavor or to hot water to make a tea.
Crystallized Rose Petals
My all time favorite candy!
This
project is rather tedious and time-consuming, but makes nice gifts when put in nice containers oat Christmas time.
They are pleasant to eat. Pick a few roses with short stems. This makes the roots
get stronger. Cut off the white part, which is the base of the rose, because it is bitter. Take the petals
apart and wash each carefully under running water; switch each petal in a pan of water and change the water quite often.
Put on paper towel to dry. Then take an egg white, add a little cold water, and beat slightly.
Dip each petal in the egg white, lift it out with a fork, and lay on granulated sugar, press gently, and carefully
turn it over and treat same way and lift and lay on piece of waxed paper. Let dry thoroughly, turn over,
let other side dry thoroughly. Then pack in a dark jar so they will keep their color. P.S. I make crystallized
Carnations also it taste nice clove-flavored candy!”
Rose Bud Ice Cubes
Freeze a tiny rosebud in each cube to float in special summer drinks.
Look for more Rose
recipe in the future!
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Harvesting Herbs!
Brought to by: Melody Ann’s
and “The Encyclopedia of Country Living” – updated 9th edition by Carla Emery
NOTE: If you want to gather wild herbs, keep
in mind that road-sides, fields and even forests can get unannounced and unrecorded but heavy doses of herbicide or insecticide.
Be cautious.
When to Harvest:
Gather herbs on a dry day, early
in the morning but after the dew is off. The season to harvest varies with the species. Parsley
and chervil are dried in May, June, and July; burnet and tarragon in June, July, and August; marjoram and mint in July; summer
savory and lemon thyme at the end of July and August. The tender young leaves that appear before the flowering
are usually best. Get leaves before the plants show sighs of going to seed. That happens after they blossom,
when the blossoms turn into seed clusters and their energy goes into making seed. At best the plant is
not at its prime; at worst it gets bitter.
How to Harvest:
Cut the herbs with pruning shears or scissors and put them into clean
pillowcases or some such. Don’t cut to the ground; leave at least a 4-inch stem if you’re topping
an annual. It it’s a perennial; leave at least two-thirds of the plant unharmed. Then
take the herbs home and carefully puck them over. Rinse in cool water and drain.
Preserving Herbs
If you can’t pick from
your herb plants all winter long or bring some into the house in pots, you either freeze or dry your herbs for winter use.
Whether freezing or drying, label all containers. Frozen and dried herbs tend to look alike, and
you may not be able to smell the difference.
Freezing:
Wash
if needed, shake off excess water, package in small amounts in baggies or boxes, and freeze right away. Herbs
that freeze well are anise, basil, chives, coriander, dill, lovage, marigold, mint, oregano parsley, rosemary, sage, savory,
sorrel, sweet marjoram, tarragon, and thyme. Take out of the freezer only the amount you intend to use.
Drying:
Outside:
Spread
individual leaves or leaves still on the stem (they’ll be easier to get off one dried) on sheets of clean cloth to dry
in the shade in an airy place, or dry in a very slow oven or dehydrator. Or put them in an outdoor dryer
covered with cheesecloth and place where there’s good air circulation all around. Direct hot sunlight
ruins leaves by burning or browning, a little sun early or late in the day is OK. The aromatic herbs shouldn’t
be exposed to too much heat, and don’t let them get rained or dewed on.
Hanging
Bunches:
Cut off the top 6 inches of the plant, or use whole plants, bunch them, tie the bundles with string, and
hang them up with the root end upward in a shady, airy place. (They hold the flavor better when not powdered.)
Allow at least 2 weeks for drying Hanging works well with anise, basil, marigold, marjoram, mint, oregano, parsley,
rosemary, sage savory, tarragon, and thyme. If you dry your herbs whole like this, crumble them or rub
them through a sieve to remove the stems, and midribs when you’re ready to use them.
In an Oven or Dehydrator:
Spread in shallow pans at 110°F, with the door ajar if you’re using an oven Don’t mix different kinds of herbs. It
takes an average of 8 hours.
Big Leaf/Small Leaf:
Some herbs are
huge plants (as tall as 6 feet high) with real big leaves, or evens trees. Drying big, moist-lived plants
is harder than doing small ones. With comfrey, forage, ginkgo and costmary, you can tear the midrib away
from the rest of the leaf and then tear the rest of the leaf into smaller pieces. That helps the leaves
dry better and prevents mold. Or hang these big leaves individually to dry.
Mint, lemon balm, and most other small-leaved kitchen herbs easily dry in the shade within 3 days.
Tearing the small leaves away from the stem (which can then be discarded) speeds up the process. The
problem with tearing the leaves is that they don’t hold their flavor as well.
Turn
all drying leaves once or twice a day keep good air circulation. Here are Melody Ann’s we prefer
to hang all herbs with a slow moving ceiling fan, most people to do have the room for this so, thick leaves tend to be frozen
more than dried.
Roots:
Herb roots are generally better fresh rather dried.
Dig in the fall after the leaves are dead and the roots are mature, or before they start growing again in the spring.
Wash in cool water. Dry in a place that’s warm enough to dry them soon but that’s not exposed to the sun,
such as an attic. Or slice and dry in a shady place where air circulation is good. Dry
in the sun or oven only if you can’t dry them completely the first way. Store when thoroughly dry
and brittle. If protected from extremes of heat and cold, the roots will keep fine for years.
Store so as to protect them from the air as much as possible.
Seeds:
To
save herb seeds, pick the entire stalk when the seedpods are fully formed but have not yet burst. Spread the pods on a cloth
in the sun to dry. If it takes more than one day, stir occasionally while they are outside and bring them in at night.
When your seeds are dry, shell and store them in a tightly covered container in a cool, dry place.
Flowers:
Don’t bruise or overheat. Collect
just after they have bloomed. Don’t pile them up; dry on a screen if possible. Harvest
orange flowers and elderberry flowers in May, June, and July.
Storing
Dried Herbs:
To store leaves, seeds or roots, I use baby food jars, cleaned, dried, filled, and with the lid on tightly.
Keeping herbs in airtight containers helps prevent flavor deterioration. The fewer times you open
the lid, the better they keep their strength. And try to keep them in a cool, dark, dry place away from
heat – not on a shelf over or beside your stove! The cool storage inhibits evaporation of the flavoring
oil in the herb, and the darkness protects the color, which fades when exposed to light.
Cooking
with Dried Herbs:
They are at least 3 times as strong as fresh. So figure
1 teaspoon dried herb equals 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh herb. Another way to figure it is about 1 teaspoon
dried herb in a dish for four.
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Ways
to Protect your back!
Presented by Dr. Paul Phillips, D.C. Chiropractic Clinic (360) 693-25976409 East
Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver, WA 98661
Stretch before you exercise or do other strenuous physical activity.
Don’t slouch when you stand or sit.
Make sure your workspaces are suitable for you and
don’t require straining to use them.
Sit
in a chair with good lower-back support and proper position and height for your work. A pillow or rolled-up
towel placed behind the small of your back can provide sup-port. If you must sit for a long period of time,
rest your feet on a low stool or a stack of books.
Switch
sitting positions often and periodically walk around the office or gently stretch muscles to relieve tension.
Wear comfortable, low-heeled shoes.
Sleep on your side to reduce any curve in your spine.
Always sleep on a firm surface.
If
you are a caregiver, ask for help when moving an ill or injured family member from a reclining to a sitting position or when
transferring the person from a chair to a bed.
Don’t try to lift objects too heavy for you.
†
When lifting something, lift with your knees, pull in your stomach muscles and keep your head down and in line with
your straight back. Keep the object close to your body. Do not twist when lifting.
Keep your weight down.
Eat a diet sufficient in calcium, phosphorus and vitamin
D to help promote bone growth.
Don’t’
smoke. Smoking reduces blood flow to the lower spine and causes the spinal discs to degenerate. Look for new information
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This was sent to me by The Herb Trader ~ Dave Wiles Info
about good Food!
Generated on 2/26/2007 Up dated on 10/23/2009
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Food Source |
Protects |
Prevents |
Effects |
Improvements |
Guards |
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Apples |
Protects
your heart |
Prevents
constipation |
Blocks
diarrhea |
Improves
lung capacity |
Cushions
joints |
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Apricots |
Combats
cancer |
Controls
blood pressure |
Saves
your eyesight |
Shields
against Alzheimer's |
Slows
aging process |
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Artichokes |
Aids
digestion |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Protects
your heart |
Stabilizes
blood sugar |
Guards
against liver disease |
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Avocados |
Battles
diabetes |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Helps
stops strokes |
Controls
blood pressure |
Smoothes
skin |
|
Bananas |
Protects
your heart |
Quiets
a cough |
Strengthens
bones |
Controls
blood pressure |
Blocks
diarrhea |
|
Beans |
Prevents
constipation |
Helps
hemorrhoids |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Combats
cancer |
Stabilizes
blood sugar |
|
Beets |
Controls
blood pressure |
Combats
cancer |
Strengthens
bones |
Protects
your heart |
Aids
weight loss |
|
Blueberries |
Combats
cancer |
Protects
your heart |
Stabilizes
blood sugar |
Boosts
memory |
Prevents
constipation |
|
Broccoli |
Strengthens
bones |
Saves
eyesight |
Combats
cancer |
Protects
your heart |
Controls
blood pressure |
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Cabbage |
Combats
cancer |
Prevents
constipation |
Promotes
weight loss |
Protects
your heart |
Helps
hemorrhoids |
|
Cantaloupe |
Saves
eyesight |
Controls
blood pressure |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Combats
cancer |
Supports
immune system |
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Carrots |
Saves
eyesight |
Protects
your heart |
Prevents
constipation |
Combats
cancer |
Promotes
weight loss |
|
Cauliflower |
Protects
against Prostate Cancer |
Combats
Breast Cancer |
Strengthens
bones |
Banishes
bruises |
Guards
against heart disease |
|
Cherries |
Protects
your heart |
Combats
Cancer |
Ends
insomnia |
Slows
aging process |
Shields
against Alzheimer's |
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Chestnuts |
Promotes
weight loss |
Protects
your heart |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Combats
Cancer |
Controls
blood pressure |
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Chili peppers |
Aids
digestion |
Soothes
sore throat |
Clears
sinuses |
Combats
Cancer |
Boosts
immune system |
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Figs |
Promotes
weight loss |
Helps
stops strokes |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Combats
Cancer |
Controls
blood pressure |
|
Fish |
Protects
your heart |
Boosts
memory |
Protects
your heart |
Combats
Cancer |
Supports
immune system |
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Flax |
Aids
digestion |
Battles
diabetes |
Protects
your heart |
Improves
mental health |
Boosts
immune system |
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Garlic |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Controls
blood pressure |
Combats
cancer |
Kills
bacteria |
Fights
fungus |
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Grapefruit |
Protects
against heart attacks |
Promotes
Weight loss |
Helps
stops strokes |
Combats
Prostate Cancer |
Lowers
cholesterol |
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Grapes |
Saves
eyesight |
Conquers
kidney stones |
Combats
cancer |
Enhances
blood flow |
Protects
your heart |
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Green tea |
Combats
cancer |
Protects
your heart |
Helps
stops strokes |
Promotes
Weight loss |
Kills
bacteria |
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Honey |
Heals
wounds |
Aids
digestion |
Guards
against ulcers |
Increases
energy |
Fights
allergies |
|
Lemons |
Combats
cancer |
Protects
your heart |
Controls
blood pressure |
Smoothes
skin |
Stops
scurvy |
|
Limes |
Combats
cancer |
Protects
your heart |
Controls Blood pressure |
Smoothes skin |
Stops scurvy |
|
Mangoes |
Combats
cancer |
Boosts
memory |
Regulates
thyroid |
Aids
digestion |
Strengthens
bones |
|
Mushrooms |
Controls
blood pressure |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Kills
bacteria |
Combats
cancer |
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content here |
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Oats |
Lowers
cholesterol |
Combats
cancer |
Battles
diabetes |
Prevents
constipation |
Smoothes
skin |
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Olive
oil |
Protects
your heart |
Promotes
Weight loss |
Combats
cancer |
Battles
diabetes |
Smoothes
skin |
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Oranges |
Supports immune systems |
Combats cancer |
Protects your heart |
Straightens respiration |
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Peaches |
Prevents constipation |
Combats cancer |
Helps stops strokes |
Aids digestion |
Helps hemorrhoids |
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Peanuts |
Protects against heart disease |
Promotes Weight loss |
Combats Prostate Cancer |
Lowers cholesterol |
Aggravates diverticulitis |
Pineapple |
Strengthens bones |
Relieves colds |
Aids digestion |
Dissolves warts |
Blocks diarrhea |
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Prunes |
Slows aging process |
Prevents constipation |
Boosts memory |
Lowers cholesterol |
Protects against heart disease |
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Rice |
Protects your heart |
Battles diabetes |
Conquers kidney stones |
Combats cancer |
Helps stops strokes |
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Strawberries |
Combats cancer |
Protects your heart |
Boosts memory |
Calms stress |
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Sweet potatoes |
Saves your eyesight |
Lifts mood |
Combats cancer |
Strengthens bones |
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Tomatoes |
Protects prostate |
Combats cancer |
Lowers cholesterol |
Protects your heart |
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Walnuts |
Lowers cholesterol |
Combats cancer |
Boosts memory |
Lifts mood |
Protects against heart disease |
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Water |
Promotes Weight loss |
Combats cancer |
Conquers kidney stones |
Smoothes skin |
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Watermelon |
Protects prostate |
Promotes Weight loss |
Lowers cholesterol |
Helps stops strokes |
Controls blood pressure |
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Wheat germ |
Combats Colon Cancer |
Prevents constipation |
Lowers cholesterol |
Helps stops strokes |
Improves digestion |
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Wheat bran |
Combats Colon Cancer |
Prevents constipation |
Lowers cholesterol |
Helps stops strokes |
Improves digestion |
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Daily Quotes from The Urantia Book Courtesy of Urantia Foundation
For the week starting Sunday, December 31, 2006
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December 31
When all is said and done, the Father idea is still the highest human concept of God. [The Urantia Book, p. 2097, par. 3]
January 1
The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God
[The Urantia Book, p. 22, par. 5]
January 2
The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction.
God can be realized only in the realms of human experience [The Urantia Book, p. 24, par. 2]
January 3
Those who know God have experienced the fact of his presence; such God-knowing mortals hold in their personal
experience the only positive proof of the existence of the living God which one human being can offer to another. [The Urantia Book, p. 24, par. 3]
January 4
It is not necessary to see God with the eyes of the flesh in order to discern him by the faith-vision of the
spiritualized mind. [The Urantia Book, p. 25, par. 3]
January 5
The more completely man understands himself and appreciates the personality values of his fellows, the more he
will crave to know the Original Personality, and the more earnestly such a God-knowing human will strive to become like the
Original Personality. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 6
You can argue over opinions about God, but experience with him and in him exists above and beyond all human controversy
and mere intellectual logic. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
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January 7
The God-knowing man describes his spiritual experiences, not to convince unbelievers, but for the edification
and mutual satisfaction of believers. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 5]
January 8
To assume that the universe can be known, that it is intelligible, is to assume that the universe is mind made
and personality managed. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 6]
January 9
If man's personality can experience the universe, there is a divine mind and an actual personality somewhere
concealed in that universe. [The Urantia Book, p. 30, par. 6]
January 10
The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him. [The Urantia Book, p. 38, par. 2]
January 11
Mercy is the natural and inevitable offspring of goodness and love. [The Urantia Book, p. 38, par. 4]
January 12
Though you cannot find God by searching, if you will submit to the leading of the indwelling spirit, you will
be unerringly guided, step by step, life by life, through universe upon universe, and age by age, until you finally stand
in the presence of the Paradise personality of the Universal Father. [The Urantia Book, p. 39, par. 4]
January 13
The experience of loving is very much a direct response to the experience of being loved. [The Urantia Book, p. 39, par. 7]
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January 14
For, as a father, a real father, a true father, loves his children, so the Universal Father loves and forever
seeks the welfare of his created sons and daughters. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 1]
January 15
God is love, but love is not God. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 2]
January 16
When man loses sight of the love of a personal God, the kingdom of God becomes merely the kingdom of good. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 4]
January 17
Love is the dominant characteristic of all God's personal dealings with his creatures. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 4]
January 18
In the physical universe we may see the divine beauty, in the intellectual world we may discern eternal truth,
but the goodness of God is found only in the spiritual world of personal religious experience. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 5]
January 19
Man might fear a great God, but he trusts and loves only a good God. [The Urantia Book, p. 40, par. 5]
January 20
Happiness ensues from the recognition of truth because it can be acted out; it can be lived. [The Urantia Book, p. 42, par. 7]
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January 21
Divine truth is best known by its spiritual flavor. [The Urantia Book, p. 42, par. 7]
January 22
Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. [The Urantia Book, p. 43, par. 5]
January 23
Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates
grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 5]
January 24
Is altruism -- service of one's fellows -- desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations
of social inequality. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 6]
January 25
Is hope -- the grandeur of trust -- desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities
and recurrent uncertainties. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 7]
January 26
Is faith -- the supreme assertion of human thought -- desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that
troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 8]
January 27
Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world
where error is present and falsehood always possible. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 9]
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January 28
Is idealism -- the approaching concept of the divine -- desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of
relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 10]
January 29
Is loyalty -- devotion to highest duty -- desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal
and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 11]
January 30
Is unselfishness -- the spirit of self-forgetfulness -- desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with
the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 12]
January 31
Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving
hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 12]
February 1
Is pleasure -- the satisfaction of happiness -- desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative
of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities. [The Urantia Book, p. 51, par. 13]
February 2
Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. The source of the streams of universe life and of the
cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestation. [The Urantia Book, p. 53, par. 1]
February 3
The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man's mind can be
truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. [The Urantia Book, p. 53, par. 1]
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