28 day experiment day 1 week one

This is an experiment for my nutrition class at South Wests Institute of Healing Arts.

We are to take a hamburger or cheese burger and let it sit for 28 days untouched. This may sound like a nasy thing to do, but it is to prove how our processed foods we consume are truly not healthy for us.

Day one within hours shows a dried cardboard effect to the food. The smell of flavor is nearly gone and the edges have started to curl.

 Foods you prepare from fresh products that are not pre processed will rot and behave normally. Foods we aquire from fast food chains or preprocessed products from the grocery are fillers and contain as little as 35% of the nutritional value to as little as none at all.

 It is no wonder our children say in this country they are hungry. They lack consentration and ability to learn. The brain has no fuel to power the cells that think.

So stay tuned here for the experiment results and the nutritional advice I will be journaling weekly.

teaching others

Today was a great day even though I was at work. I was so happy to use the knowledge I have been learning to teach someone else. It was so rewarding and exciting.

A co worker and I were out doing our customer service work and at a break we got to talking about food as we stopped for a coffee. We talked about how bad food really is for you and then it turned into an organic discussion. This led to a suggestion by the co worker. he said hey let's go to the grocery store and you can show me what you are talking about. well, it was so exciting to have products in my hands and take the person around and teach them what organic is and is not. How to choose the best quality and make the comparisons to the regular foods out there. He became so pumped up and excited. he can not wait to go shopping this week!

It is so much fun to help others and guide them in the right direction. I love doing what I am studying to do.

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DO NOT USE CAT FECES NEAR VEGETABLE GARDENS

Toxoplasmosis

Toxoplasmosis is the infection that can result if the tiny parasite Toxoplasma gondii inhabits the human body. The only way to catch toxoplasmosis is to ingest the parasite. This happens if the owner touches their mouth or doesn't thoroughly wash after coming into contact with cat feces or cat diarrhea. Most healthy people's immune systems can keep the parasite from causing symptoms. For the unborn fetus, toxoplasmosis can cause serious defects. Pregnant women and other people with compromised immunity should avoid cleaning the litter box or should wear gloves and make sure to thoroughly wash their hands after litter box cleaning. It is important to note that only cats who themselves have come into contact with the parasite will have infected cat feces. If a cat eats raw foods, their feces might be more at risk for the parasite. Most indoor cats do not have the parasite in their feces and a cat can be tested for the parasite. It's best to treat all cat feces as if it is infected, however.


Read more: Health Risks Associated With Cat Feces - VetInfo

arsenic in chicken !!!

Here is some information that you must read. I receive emails from the Natural News Insider Alert news letter. I subscribed for free as a suggegestion from my college SWIHA. I have never been sorry. Now you too need to read this important information:
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The FDA has finally admitted what NaturalNews has been reporting for years: There's arsenic in your chicken meat. And why is it there? Because they feed arsenic to chickens to control parasites. So if you're eating non-organic chicken almost anywhere in the world, you're gobbling down cancer-causing arsenic, too!

Not surprisingly, the FDA says this is all perfectly safe for you and there's nothing to be worried about:
http://www.naturalnews.com/032659_arsenic_chicken.html

fennel

I have never used fennel very much but the class I am in now is whole foods. We are making some very nice recipes. The one I tried today was to take pita pocket bread, split it so it is thin and cut into chips. I then brushed with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and ground fennel. I baked them till crisp and ate for a snack.

They were very good and I would make them again. They would be a nice addition to any dip plate. The fennel surprised me as to the fact that when I ground it it smelled like licorice, but the taste was earthy and just tasty.

The book we are using is The Garden of Eating by Rachel Albert and Don Matesz
It is A Produce-Dominated Diet 7 Cookbook

As I try these recipes in our class I will keep you posted on the results.

As for the garden it is growing great with one exception. The wild rabbit ate all my cucumbers down to the dirt and all but one of my zucchini. So now it has a fence to keep nature out. Replacing the cucumbers will set me back on time of harvest. It will still be glorious to harvest my own veggies.

I am toying with the idea of going as vegetarian as I can to improve my health by reducing weight. My job some times requires eight hours of walking and on various levels of ground surface. I hope this will be a plus to help me lose the weight.

happy memorial day

Today we did what most do, bar-BQ and get together as a family. it was lovely to have the grand children over and get out the blow up pool for the squeals of delighted children. life was simple and fun. no cell phones, TV, computers, or battery powered toys. Just old fashioned fun.

I also thought of my Grandfathers dedication to his military life and the wars he had fought. he has been gone since 1961, but a flag has always been placed on his grave as a memorial on this day. he was a veteran of foreign wars. His life was orderly, planned, and he raised the flag on the flag pole daily with a salute.

We as a people do not think of our lives daily and the sacrifices made for us. We go about our days and without meaning to be, selfishly, think only of our needs. Our military is out there with our boys going into the fight for freedom any where they are told to go, without question. Do to their unselfish acts, I say thank you. We are in troubled times. Times that are hard to understand. Not too confusing to know when to be appreciative of our boys, and the long standing of sacrifice.