Adding just 1/2 tablespoon of lemon juice to each of your 8 daily cups of water (distilled water is best) provides nearly 20% of the daily value for vitamin C. This major antioxidant not only fights heart disease and boosts immunity but also helps form the collagen we need to heal tendons, ligaments, bones, and blood vessels. An antioxidant help prevent damage to your body cells or repair damage that has been done. Antioxidants may also improve immune function and perhaps lower your risk for infection and cancer.
The antioxidant process can be compared to stopping an apple from browning. Without fail, when you cut an apple, it begins to brown. The vitamin C contained in orange or lemon juice prevents the browing. If you dip it in orange or lemon juice, the apple remains white.
My sister who is a naprapath recommended that I follow this procedure. Squeeze two whole lemons in your tea, seltzer, or other beverages to get your daily vitamin C quota; fresh juice offers almost twice the C of bottled varieties. According to my elderly uncle's doctor, lemon juice is filled with potassium and will nourish the nerve cells. His doctor has him sipping it all day.
The infamous Jethro Kloss author of Back to Eden says, On page 659 of Back to Eden, Mr. Kloss points out that, “The lemon is a wonderful stimulant to the liver and is a dissolvent of uric acid and other poisons, liquefies the bile, and is very good in cases of malaria. Sufferers of chronic rheumatism and gout will benefit by taking lemon juice, also those who have a tendency to bleed, uterine hemorrhages, etc.; rickets and tuberculosis. In pregnancy, it will help to build bone in the child. We find that the lemon contains certain elements which will go to build up a healthy system and keep that system healthy and well. As a food, we find, owing to its potassium content, it will nourish the brain and nerve cells. Its calcium builds up the bony structure and makes healthy teeth. Its magnesium, in conjunction with calcium, has an important part to play in the formation of albumen in the blood. The lemon contains potassium 48.3, calcium 29.9, phosphorus 11.1, magnesium 4.4. Lemons are useful in treating asthma, biliousness, colds, coughs, sore throat, diphtheria, la grippe [flu or influenza], heartburn, liver complaint[s], scurvy, fevers and rheumatism.”
Lemons are very beneficial to overall health and general cleansing, a good for constipation. Simply adding 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice to a glass of water in the morning will help the colon to ease out any waste left over from yesterday. It helps to free the body of impurities. It also helps build the immune system providing the body with almost 1/4 of its daily vitamin C requirements. Lemon juice acts as a powerful antioxidant that also helps fight 'dis-ease' and helps to form necessary collagen needed to heal tendons, ligaments, bones, and blood vessels. Fresh lemon juice is more beneficial than bottled because it is twice as potent. It supports the liver by providing a natural strengthening agent to the liver enzymes causing it to make more enzymes. Lastly, the juice of a lemon supports oxygen and calcium in the liver because it helps to regulate blood.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
While They Scream at Each Other
While the brothers scream at teach trying to figure out who gives the best lesson, who knows the most, and who can unlock the deep things, the family has gone to amuck.
While the brothers figure out what to call Him, sisters need to call on The Most High in whatever language we speak. Our babies are in trouble.
That's been the problem; the brothers can't agree on what to call The One Who Created us all. In the meantime, what about the children?
They argue about what day to serve him while our sons kill each other in the streets daily.
They can't figure out what to eat or not, yet our young girls lie with each as men lie with women. Teach your daughters to be women.
The brothers want to convince us that they can more than one of us when they don't even feed and clothe the first set of seed.
They want to talk about whether to read the New or the Old Testament, when from what I read, real men of God were kind and patient in both.
They want to decide whether to read the Bible or the Qur'an - yet, 1/4th of them don't really live by either one. Listen to the walls talk. Look at the faces of their wives, watch how their children play.
While they are busy screamimg at each other they are not attentive to their women nor do they direct their children. The ones closest to them feel badly most of the time.
While they are busy screamimg at each other they are not attentive to their women nor do they direct their children. The ones closest to them feel badly most of the time.
They want to spend far too much convincing each other which one is right, yet in 2011, 1/3 of our children can't even read the word.
Good night I have to on the Westside at to serve the youth who didn't find a place to rest tonight because their parents didn't provide it
Correction. I have to serve the ANGRY youth who didn't find a place to rest tonight because their fathers didn't provide it.
The next day I’ll be on the Southside to serve the youth who didn’t eat at all yesterday because their mother was too busy getting in her “me” time.
I need to stop slammin the brothers, because sisters ain't right either. More and more I never thought I'd see the day when sisters didn’t nurture their offspring.
Yes, the scripture said our young men would be hidden in prison houses but it didn't tell you to push them into those doors with your neglect or your abuse.
Got an idea, every MAN hit the street, grab just ONE boy by the collar mentor him, feed him, smile at him, and teach him to read that holy book you scream so much about, but be sure to teach them to do as you say not as you do. Problem solved.
It will be time to flee and they won’t know it because they’ll be so busy screaming at each other.
T’aint Nothing Like a Bowl of Soup in the Winter
Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. Traditionally, soups are classified into two broad groups: clear soups and thick soups.
Slow cooking is a great option for cooking soups. Because slow cookers work at low temperatures with lids on, there is hardly any liquid lost during cooking. With most cooking methods, the water in meats and vegetables turns to steam and evaporates. With a slow cooker, there's nowhere for the steam to go. It just collects on the lid and bastes the food.
A bowl of soup and a hefty salad are really good ways to add more veggies to the diet. When I eat a good vegetable soup before a meal I am likely to eat far less of the meat and potatoes. The soup helps to curb your appetite and also forces one to eat slowly. The best part is that many soups are low in fat and calories so if you are famished, you can eat a hearty helping without fear of weight gain. Just be careful which soups you choose. Go for soups that are broth based and is loaded with vegetables for added nutrients. Avoid creamy soups like and those with bacon.
Slow cooking is a great option for cooking soups. Because slow cookers work at low temperatures with lids on, there is hardly any liquid lost during cooking. With most cooking methods, the water in meats and vegetables turns to steam and evaporates. With a slow cooker, there's nowhere for the steam to go. It just collects on the lid and bastes the food.
A bowl of soup and a hefty salad are really good ways to add more veggies to the diet. When I eat a good vegetable soup before a meal I am likely to eat far less of the meat and potatoes. The soup helps to curb your appetite and also forces one to eat slowly. The best part is that many soups are low in fat and calories so if you are famished, you can eat a hearty helping without fear of weight gain. Just be careful which soups you choose. Go for soups that are broth based and is loaded with vegetables for added nutrients. Avoid creamy soups like and those with bacon.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
"...with God all things are possible." St. Mark 10: 27
What do you desire? Do you really desire to lose weight. Do you desire the Lord send you in the arms of a kind and loving mate? Do you desire your husband treat you better? Do you desire to finally get your college degree? Do you desire to be a better person? Be clear. My mother used to always say, "be careful what you ask for, you might get it." God hears everything. Somethings we ask for we forget we asked for it until it comes or it happens. Don't forget, that faith without works is dead. So if you want your situation to change, you have to be willing to do something about it as you pray.
Take time to think about it thoroughly weighing all sides. Think about the good and the bad of yor desire. You can even pray and ask God to even help you with being clear on what you want from him. Read his word. All of it! At least a few minutes three times per day like Daniel did. Learn to praise him with you lips as well as your actions. Cry to him, tell him what you feel, what you think, what you need, ask him to correct your thinking, to strengthen your heart, TALK TO JESUS! Sing to him, shout his name when you are happy, when you are distressed, when you are working, even in your mind while you sleep! Love him and find out how he wants to be loved.
Remember that love is a verb, it is an action word as well as a noun. It is a thing, an idea. It requires that we think as well as act upon it. If you love God, do something. Read 1 John 4 to find out about God and the kind of love he requires. In loving him, keep your mind on Jesus, daily. Psalms 119:164 also said to praise him 7 times each day. Once you are clear, pray, ask God for whatever you want. If you commit your self to him, delight in doing so, trust him, wait on him, and forgive others, God made you promises that he will keep.
If your life and your desire is within his will then he made a obligation to make it happen for you. Learn what it is that he wants his servants to do with their lives, the book will tell you that. The scripture says eat it, that simply means to read it all the time pray for understanding, meditate on it, recite it, write down passages
you feel. Eat his word rather than over indulging in any vice. Eat it rather than overeat on food. God is your strength and your comfort, not food and the love of man or woman.
Take time to think about it thoroughly weighing all sides. Think about the good and the bad of yor desire. You can even pray and ask God to even help you with being clear on what you want from him. Read his word. All of it! At least a few minutes three times per day like Daniel did. Learn to praise him with you lips as well as your actions. Cry to him, tell him what you feel, what you think, what you need, ask him to correct your thinking, to strengthen your heart, TALK TO JESUS! Sing to him, shout his name when you are happy, when you are distressed, when you are working, even in your mind while you sleep! Love him and find out how he wants to be loved.
Remember that love is a verb, it is an action word as well as a noun. It is a thing, an idea. It requires that we think as well as act upon it. If you love God, do something. Read 1 John 4 to find out about God and the kind of love he requires. In loving him, keep your mind on Jesus, daily. Psalms 119:164 also said to praise him 7 times each day. Once you are clear, pray, ask God for whatever you want. If you commit your self to him, delight in doing so, trust him, wait on him, and forgive others, God made you promises that he will keep.
If your life and your desire is within his will then he made a obligation to make it happen for you. Learn what it is that he wants his servants to do with their lives, the book will tell you that. The scripture says eat it, that simply means to read it all the time pray for understanding, meditate on it, recite it, write down passages
you feel. Eat his word rather than over indulging in any vice. Eat it rather than overeat on food. God is your strength and your comfort, not food and the love of man or woman.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Crock Pot Recipe - Chicken Soup
Before there was soup, there was broth, which people used to pour over a piece of bread in a bowl. That bread was known as "sop." From sop came the word used for today's winter favorite, soup.
Is chicken soup, in and of itself, really a "medicine" of sorts? Does it actually possess healing capabilities, or is its magic all in our heads? Many doctors say that chicken soup to help alleviate a cold is an old wive's tale. Old wive's tale or not, I have found that when I cover my head, ears, neck, and limbs and bless my body with a large bowl of hot chicken soup, then curl up in my bed under the covers, my cold symptoms almost immediately subsides.
"Chicken contains an amino acid called cysteine, a substance released when you make the soup. This amino acid is similar to the drug acetylcysteine, which is prescribed by doctors to patients with bronchitis. It thins the mucus in the lungs, making it easier to cough out. And hot chicken vapors have been proven more effective than hot water vapors in clearing out the cold in your nose." http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/12/14/does_chicken_soup_have_healing_powers_004.htm
Combined with a plethroa of healing and healthy vegetables, such as garlic, onions, carrots, celery, parley, and others, no wonder my body thinks chicken soup is a great 'medicine' for my cold.
This is what you will need to get your pot of winter cold medicine brewing in your crock pot:
4 cups of fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
3 large cut up carrots
3 stalks of celery
A bunch of chopped parsley
2 parsnips cut up
A turnip or two
2 large chopped onions
5-6 large gloves of chopped garlic
2 cubed wash chicken breast ( I always parboil the blood and fat out of my chicken before use)
An array of chicken parts (washed and parboiled)
1/2 cup of uncooked noodles
Salt and pepper
This is what you need to do:
Place all the ingredients except chicken and noodles in your slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for up 4 hours. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add the chicken and noodles and cook on low for another hour. This is 'medicine' that is good for the soul. If you like it hot add a few hot chile peppers or cayenne pepper to taste.
Eating soups can help you stay on track with your weight loss. Many nutritionists suggest that one should chase it with a nutritious and filling meal. A recent study found that people ate 20 percent fewer calories overall when they started lunch or dinner with a bowl of vegetable soup. Experts suggest that one should limit themselves about 1 cup of soup before a healthy meal and make sure it's broth based. It seems creamy soups are pack with hidden fat and salt that will sabotage the shedding tactics.
When you want to make soup your meal, add your favorite bean, eat a little more than a cup, add a fresh salad, a few crackers, or cut up pita bread. Then you have yourself a nice healthy meal useful for shedding extra pounds. Soup made from scratch and including a variety of fresh vegetables is low in calories. Enjoy!
Is chicken soup, in and of itself, really a "medicine" of sorts? Does it actually possess healing capabilities, or is its magic all in our heads? Many doctors say that chicken soup to help alleviate a cold is an old wive's tale. Old wive's tale or not, I have found that when I cover my head, ears, neck, and limbs and bless my body with a large bowl of hot chicken soup, then curl up in my bed under the covers, my cold symptoms almost immediately subsides.
"Chicken contains an amino acid called cysteine, a substance released when you make the soup. This amino acid is similar to the drug acetylcysteine, which is prescribed by doctors to patients with bronchitis. It thins the mucus in the lungs, making it easier to cough out. And hot chicken vapors have been proven more effective than hot water vapors in clearing out the cold in your nose." http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/12/14/does_chicken_soup_have_healing_powers_004.htm
Combined with a plethroa of healing and healthy vegetables, such as garlic, onions, carrots, celery, parley, and others, no wonder my body thinks chicken soup is a great 'medicine' for my cold.
This is what you will need to get your pot of winter cold medicine brewing in your crock pot:
4 cups of fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
3 large cut up carrots
3 stalks of celery
A bunch of chopped parsley
2 parsnips cut up
A turnip or two
2 large chopped onions
5-6 large gloves of chopped garlic
2 cubed wash chicken breast ( I always parboil the blood and fat out of my chicken before use)
An array of chicken parts (washed and parboiled)
1/2 cup of uncooked noodles
Salt and pepper
This is what you need to do:
Place all the ingredients except chicken and noodles in your slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for up 4 hours. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add the chicken and noodles and cook on low for another hour. This is 'medicine' that is good for the soul. If you like it hot add a few hot chile peppers or cayenne pepper to taste.
Eating soups can help you stay on track with your weight loss. Many nutritionists suggest that one should chase it with a nutritious and filling meal. A recent study found that people ate 20 percent fewer calories overall when they started lunch or dinner with a bowl of vegetable soup. Experts suggest that one should limit themselves about 1 cup of soup before a healthy meal and make sure it's broth based. It seems creamy soups are pack with hidden fat and salt that will sabotage the shedding tactics.
When you want to make soup your meal, add your favorite bean, eat a little more than a cup, add a fresh salad, a few crackers, or cut up pita bread. Then you have yourself a nice healthy meal useful for shedding extra pounds. Soup made from scratch and including a variety of fresh vegetables is low in calories. Enjoy!
Monday, November 28, 2011
I want to Live Longer Than They Did!
A few years ago, I was depressed by the fact that I am almost the oldest living relative on my mother’s side of the family. I can now claim to be one of the elders. Amazing! I never thought this day would come. The thought of it caused me great anxiety. I always knew that my elder family lived on diets that would kill a horse. I never really fathomed the day that their diets and unhealthy lifestyles would cause me to be a family elder knocking on the doors of the age of 54.
I was already conscious of diet and health, since I have spent my tenure as wife and mother trying hard to make sure my family ate properly. I consciously explained to my children issues of health including committing to God, prayer, praise, immunizations and preventive health care utilizing tools such as herbal, vitamin, and mineral supplements. I can say of a surety that I taught my children how to take care of themselves. I have consciously given them the information and tools they need to live longer than my elders. However, I, like many women neglected to spend enough time and energy taking care of myself. On my 49th birthday, I made a commitment to myself and to my grandchildren, who are unborn to do better in this regard.
Metabolism is the amount of energy your body burns to maintain itself and function from moment to moment and day to day. The body burns this energy in the form of calories whether you are eating, reading, sleeping, performing household chores, or walking. The amount of muscle in the body compared to its amount of fat determines a person’s metabolism. The muscle in the body requires more calories for maintenance than fat. Therefore, a person who has more fat than muscle has a lower metabolism. My lifestyle had no allowances of regular exercise. Very often I forgot to eat when it was time to eat, even though the children ate on time. While they were eating, I was often busying performing other household or business tasks. I called myself using my time wisely.
Thus, when nighttime feel upon me, the children were in bed, my books were put away, and the work for the day done, I finally thought about eating. Some nights I would be so famished, I could not be satisfied. My cells were unnourished and functioning improperly. I began to see the same signs of an unhealthy body in which my elder relatives experience before their bodies literally shut down. I looked in the mirror one day and wondered, who that robust women, who was a a hefty size 26 looking at me in the mirror. I wanted to teach my grandchildren how to read, so they could learn what it takes for salvation. I knew I wouldn't have this honorable pleasure if I didn't do something and do something fast. So, I committed to a different and healthier lifestyle. I began to put the knowledge I have imparted on others to practice. I started by doing what I needed to do to loose get my metabolism moving so I could lose weight. I got out more, I helped others in need, and I made occassions to laugh with old friends. I made a committment to myself to eat better, move more, and laugh. Today, I feel so good both emotionally and physically.
Take out you journal. What is it that you need to change in your life? Do you need to lose weight? Stop smoking? Go back to school for certification or a degree? Get out from in front of the TV, my mother used to call an idiot box. Spend time with your children. What? How can you change it? What do you think you need to do first? What are your next steps? What is your ultimate goal? What resources do you need? Who can you ask for help? Who can hold you accountable? What is your action plan? When will you start? What is your timeline? Write your plan. Pray over it. Now work your plan. Be sure to write it down and keep track of your progress.
I was already conscious of diet and health, since I have spent my tenure as wife and mother trying hard to make sure my family ate properly. I consciously explained to my children issues of health including committing to God, prayer, praise, immunizations and preventive health care utilizing tools such as herbal, vitamin, and mineral supplements. I can say of a surety that I taught my children how to take care of themselves. I have consciously given them the information and tools they need to live longer than my elders. However, I, like many women neglected to spend enough time and energy taking care of myself. On my 49th birthday, I made a commitment to myself and to my grandchildren, who are unborn to do better in this regard.
Metabolism is the amount of energy your body burns to maintain itself and function from moment to moment and day to day. The body burns this energy in the form of calories whether you are eating, reading, sleeping, performing household chores, or walking. The amount of muscle in the body compared to its amount of fat determines a person’s metabolism. The muscle in the body requires more calories for maintenance than fat. Therefore, a person who has more fat than muscle has a lower metabolism. My lifestyle had no allowances of regular exercise. Very often I forgot to eat when it was time to eat, even though the children ate on time. While they were eating, I was often busying performing other household or business tasks. I called myself using my time wisely.
Thus, when nighttime feel upon me, the children were in bed, my books were put away, and the work for the day done, I finally thought about eating. Some nights I would be so famished, I could not be satisfied. My cells were unnourished and functioning improperly. I began to see the same signs of an unhealthy body in which my elder relatives experience before their bodies literally shut down. I looked in the mirror one day and wondered, who that robust women, who was a a hefty size 26 looking at me in the mirror. I wanted to teach my grandchildren how to read, so they could learn what it takes for salvation. I knew I wouldn't have this honorable pleasure if I didn't do something and do something fast. So, I committed to a different and healthier lifestyle. I began to put the knowledge I have imparted on others to practice. I started by doing what I needed to do to loose get my metabolism moving so I could lose weight. I got out more, I helped others in need, and I made occassions to laugh with old friends. I made a committment to myself to eat better, move more, and laugh. Today, I feel so good both emotionally and physically.
Take out you journal. What is it that you need to change in your life? Do you need to lose weight? Stop smoking? Go back to school for certification or a degree? Get out from in front of the TV, my mother used to call an idiot box. Spend time with your children. What? How can you change it? What do you think you need to do first? What are your next steps? What is your ultimate goal? What resources do you need? Who can you ask for help? Who can hold you accountable? What is your action plan? When will you start? What is your timeline? Write your plan. Pray over it. Now work your plan. Be sure to write it down and keep track of your progress.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Hope in God
You can get caught up in the trap of self-pity very quickly and without being conscious of it. If this happens then shift your perspective. Firstly, look around you. Be grateful. When things in life are challenging, it is very difficult to look around and see things to be grateful for. Think about those things for which you can be grateful. Life can always be worse. Consider the things you have in your life, the things that have gone well for you that you have taken for granted. Think about those things that others would love to have, to be, or to be able to do that you have and are able to do. A minister told me once that I needed to learn to be content with my situation and with what I had. I finally learned and guess what happened, I began to feel better about thinkgs and things changed completely for the better. However, I am noting that they did not make an about face until I was stopped fretting about what they were.
Secondly, practice my "How to Let Go" exercise.
http://michellerhnea.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-11-24T19:00:00-06:00&max-results=5
Lastly, another way to shift your perspective is to do something for someone in need. Visit a sick relative, assist a helpless neighbor, volunteer at a food pantry to feed people who have no food. Take a bag lunch and a blanket to a homeless person living on the street with no shelter from the rain. Visit the hospital and read a story to a child who has no legs, no arms, or who is dyeing from a terminal disease. Think about your blessings, count them and thank God for them one by one.
As bad as things are, believe you me, it could be far worse. Think about it. Take a moment to think about how bad it could be instead. Don't sit in these thoughts too long though. Allow these brief thoughts to shake you out of self pity. There is no need to sit in self pity for self pity's sake. Get out of it and get out if it quickly or things may just get worse. Thoughts are spirit and we can bring about calamity by thinking about calamity too long. The human brain is an amazing instrument. Use it to grow you faith instead of increase your troubles. With God's help, I have learned that being grateful, learning to let go, and being content will shatter the difficulty and make life change for the better. Remember, it worse things could happen. Let your face smile for the things that are good right now. Never forget to thank the Heavenly Father for the blessings, gifts,and talents He has given to you and realize that He didn't have to give them.
Secondly, practice my "How to Let Go" exercise.
http://michellerhnea.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-11-24T19:00:00-06:00&max-results=5
Lastly, another way to shift your perspective is to do something for someone in need. Visit a sick relative, assist a helpless neighbor, volunteer at a food pantry to feed people who have no food. Take a bag lunch and a blanket to a homeless person living on the street with no shelter from the rain. Visit the hospital and read a story to a child who has no legs, no arms, or who is dyeing from a terminal disease. Think about your blessings, count them and thank God for them one by one.
As bad as things are, believe you me, it could be far worse. Think about it. Take a moment to think about how bad it could be instead. Don't sit in these thoughts too long though. Allow these brief thoughts to shake you out of self pity. There is no need to sit in self pity for self pity's sake. Get out of it and get out if it quickly or things may just get worse. Thoughts are spirit and we can bring about calamity by thinking about calamity too long. The human brain is an amazing instrument. Use it to grow you faith instead of increase your troubles. With God's help, I have learned that being grateful, learning to let go, and being content will shatter the difficulty and make life change for the better. Remember, it worse things could happen. Let your face smile for the things that are good right now. Never forget to thank the Heavenly Father for the blessings, gifts,and talents He has given to you and realize that He didn't have to give them.
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