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Healthy Choices: Cinnamon and Honey (Natural remedies).
We all know that before pharmaceutical products (drug companies, people were or became ill even though in those days the death age was lower. The aborigines, in no matter what continent found ways to treat the people. They called him the sorcerer, the medicine man, name whatever you want but they found ways to treat & heal. So here are a few tricks with honey & cinnamon.
I'm not saying to stop taking your products but it's always good to know of certain alternatives.
Cinnamon and Honey Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey..
However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call "crystallizing". When this happens I loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water, turn off the heat and let it liquefy. It is then as good as it ever was. Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey. I bet the drug companies won't like this one getting around.
Facts on Honey and Cinnamon:
It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a 'Ram Ban' (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases. Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.
Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada , in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:
HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada , various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.
ARTHRITIS: Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.
BLADDER INFECTIONS: Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.
CHOLESTEROL: Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.
COLDS: Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.
UPSET STOMACH: Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.
GAS: According to the studies done in India and Japan , it is revealed that if Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM: Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION: Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
INFLUENZA: A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ' Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu..
LONGEVITY: Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increase and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
PIMPLES: Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
SKIN INFECTIONS: Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.
WEIGHT LOSS: Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet. I've just discovered this and will try to add this.
CANCER: Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.
FATIGUE: Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.
BAD BREATH: People of South America , first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS: Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing.
Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter & honey and cinnamon sprinkled on it!
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Astrid
10 Ways Food Advertising Tricks Mislead Us
10 Ways Food Advertising Tricks Mislead Us
I am deeply disturbed by the state of our food industry. The countless food advertising tricks that are used to persuade us to buy their products are out of control. Food manufacturers and marketers are pushing the limits of what is considered truth and what is considered a simple technicality. Take a look at these 10 products that I found shopping the grocery store. Understand how marketers use these food advertising tricks to persuade you.
Less Sugar – Reduced Sugar Heinz Ketchup
The first food advertising trick has to do with the common “reduced sugar”, or “less sugar” slogan. Reduced sugar Heinz ketchup only has 1 gram of sugar per serving. That’s 75% less sugar than their regular ketchup. Who wouldn’t want to pick this product over the regular one? After all, sugar is unhealthy, and if you have the choice of less sugar or more sugar, you’d probably choose the one with less.
Here’s the thing with these reduced sugar, or less sugar products – they replace the sugar with artificial sweeteners. Take a look at the back of the bottle at the ingredients. Sucralose, an artificial sweetener, is listed as one of the ingredients. Given the many negative health effects artificial sweeteners have on your body, I’d pass on this one. If I had the choice, I’d take the regular ketchup – even if it has more sugar.
Low Carb, 0 Trans Fat Flour Tortillas
Many low carb products hit the market back during the Atkins craze. This one is a low carb tortilla that has only 6 net grams of carbohydrates. The other 11 grams of carbohydrates are fiber. Sounds great! You can eat tortillas now on low carb diets.
What bothers me is the 0 grams of trans fat this product claims to have – and it does have 0 grams, but only on a technicality. Look at the back in the ingredients. It clearly shows that there is hydrogenated oil. However, based on FDA regulations, if the product has less than .5 grams of any fat per serving, they are allowed to list it as 0 grams. If that sounds misleading – it is. Something should be done about that. Here’s the FDA rounding rules straight from the FDA.gov website. Take a look at it and be shocked at what’s allowed. This food advertising trick is common in more products than you might imagine.
Contains Antioxidants – Cherry 7up
Really? We should drink cherry 7up for its antioxidant benefits? Maybe people think that if they’re going to buy soda, they might as well choose the one that has antioxidants. I’ve got news for you – any antioxidants that might be present as a result of the cherry flavoring is totally negated by the rest of the ingredients. What if I added a little cherry flavoring to some sugar? That’s called candy. I could use this good old food advertising trick, and slap the antioxidant label on there and make it seem healthy. 7up never claims that its product is healthy, but it sure tries to use the power of suggestion.
Whole Grain Trix
General Mills seems to have started a new marketing campaign. On all of their boxes is the graphic “More Whole Grain than any other ingredient!” It’s whole grain, so it must be healthy…right? They even say it twice on the box to drive home the supposed health benefits. Claiming health benefits is one of the biggest food advertising tricks in the book. Now, take a look at the back. Sure enough, the first ingredient on the back of the box is whole grain corn. Ingredients are listed in order of weight from highest to lowest. Now, take a look at the second ingredient – sugar. The third? Corn meal. Forth? Corn Syrup. The list of chemical ingredients continues from there.
So what if whole grain is the #1 ingredient in the product by weight? If there were a gram of crack in there, would that make this product healthy? What if it were the last ingredient (least amount)? Would that make it healthy? The marketing department does its best to persuade you that Trix is healthy. I’m not going to say if it is or isn’t – I’ll let you be the judge.
Heart Healthy Quaker Weight Control
Quaker tries to promote its “Heart Healthy” instant oatmeal. It says “Weight Control” in big letters on the front and says it’s for your weight management plan. Who doesn’t want to lose weight? If the box says this oatmeal is for weight control, why wouldn’t you buy it? And hey, it’s heart healthy too. **Food Advertising Trick # 135 – claim that your product is good for the heart and will help you manage your weight.
Now, let’s take a look at the back of the box. In the ingredients you’ll see maltodextrin listed as the #3 ingredient by weight. Maltodextrin is basically glucose – one of the highest glycemic processed substances out there! What this means is that maltodextrin is easily digestible. So easy, that it is absorbed quickly by the blood stream – causing a surge of insulin. Insulin is a fat storage hormone. Tell me how that helps with weight control. You’ll also see acesulfame and sucralose – 2 artificial sweeteners. Is this product really supposed to be heart healthy?
Smart Baked – They Must Be Healthy
This is an easy one. I don’t think anyone thinks these snack cakes are healthy. However, let’s point out some of the food advertising tricks being used. First, they call them “Smart Bakes”. Marketers know that putting the word “smart” on a package makes it more likely you’ll purchase it. Using the power of persuasion, they make you think you’re making a good decision. Plus, it’s 100% whole grain and has 3 grams of fiber. Awesome!
On the back of the box you’ll see that they list trans fat as 0 grams. However, as I’ve circled in the ingredients, it has partially hydrogenated oil. It obviously has trans fat. And again, they are able to get away with this because it has less than .5 grams per serving, so they are allowed to express this number as zero.
And 100% whole grain? Come on! More like 100% whole wheat flour! I guess that’s technically whole grain…but it’s flour. They are trying to portray this product as healthy, yet the first 3 ingredients are sugar, flour, and cornstarch. Yum – that will do wonders for your midsection.
Water is Healthy – Right?
I like this one. They market it as water. There’s no artificial colors, so the product looks like water. Makes it seem healthier. And hey, there’s no artificial flavors either! On the food label, it says there’s 0% juice. I would love to know how they got this natural strawberry kiwi flavor without either strawberry or kiwi. Not to mention, the product contains an artificial sweetener (sucralose). I guess “no artificial colors or flavors” doesn’t include the artificial sweeteners that you can taste. The best part is that this product will help you earn green points. So, if you are a fan of the environment, you’ll be doing the earth a favor by buying this product.
Naturally Sweetened Vitamin Water
Next up on the list of food advertising tricks is Vitamin Water. They really know how to choose their wording. With words like vitmamin, water, zero, and naturally sweetened, why wouldn’t you think this is good for you? Not only do you get all the benefits of water, but there are vitamins in there too!
Don’t get too excited. The label lists Stevia extract as an ingredient. Stevia is the hot new sweetener on the market. It’s being marketed as natural because it comes from the stevia leaf. I’ve got news for you – unless you’re eating the stevia leaf whole, there is nothing natural about this sweetener. Coca Cola lists out its 42 step process for deriving the Rebiana (Stevia extract) from the stevia leaf. The steps include the uses of methanol, ethanol, isopropanol, and many other chemicals. Not to mention, there are several heating and cooling steps involved. You tell me how natural that looks.
WhoNu Nutritious Cookies
Next up…nutrition rich cookies. Finally, you can have your cake and eat it too – or can you? Food advertising tricks are everywhere on this box. They say they are “nutrition rich”. They have “as much fiber as a bowl of oatmeal”. They also have “as much vitamin C as a cup of blueberries!” Not to mention, there’s no trans fat, no hydrogenated oils, and no high fructose corn syrup. With cookies this nutritious, why eat just one?
On the back of the box always lies the truth behind the tricky advertising tactics. First of all, all those vitamins and minerals are fortified. See that separate section labeled “vitamins and minerals”? It has its own section because it’s not naturally found in the product. You might as well eat some Oreos and take a vitamin pill – the effects would be the same. Now, let’s look at the ingredients. Let’s forget about the fact that nearly every ingredient is some kind of processed food. Take a look at the circled “corn syrup”. The front of the box says there’s no high fructose corn syrup. I suppose that’s true, but that doesn’t mean corn syrup is any better! Instead of fructose in the corn syrup, there’s dextrose instead. Dextrose is a simple sugar. It’s basically glucose in its purest form. This means it’s broken down quickly, creating a quick rise in blood sugar, and a resulting release of fat storing insulin hormone. All these companies get away with these advertising tricks on technicalities.
100 Calorie Right Bites
Last on the list of food advertising tricks is 100 calorie right bites. Marketers make you think it’s not bad for you because they’re only 100 calories. What’s that going to do to your waistline after all? A calorie is not a calorie! They also call them “Right Bites”. Why? Because you are right to be making such a right decision. Right, smart, healthy – these are all keywords advertisers use to make you purchase the product. Last but not least, these cookies have 0 grams of trans fat.
And again, the truth lies on the back of the package. They claim zero grams of trans fat, yet in the ingredients, there lies partially hydrogenated oil (ie trans fat). If you haven’t figured it out by now, they get away with this because the FDA allows them to express any trans fat that is less than .5 grams per serving as zero. Since this package has 6 servings, and each serving could potentially have up to .5 grams of trans fat, this product could have up to 3 grams of trans fat – not exactly 0, huh?
Food Advertising Tricks
I had a lot of fun writing this article. It felt a little odd taking pictures of food in the grocery store while people strolled the aisles, but it was well worth it. Being that I usually ignore what’s in the aisles, and shop the perimeter of the grocery store, I hadn’t realized how out of control these food advertising tricks had gotten. There were hundreds of products like this.
The next time you’re in the store, look for yourself. Check both the front AND the back of the box.
So, what kind of food advertising tricks have you noticed?
One soft drink a day brings you closer to the prostate cancer!!!
I know that November was the prostate cancer prevention month but I thought this would be of interest.
A recent study shows that drinking a bottle of soft drink 330 ml every day increases by 40% the risk of developing prostate cancer.
In reaching this conclusion, Swedish researchers followed 8,128 men aged 45 to 73 years for fiftee...
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Among them, 817 were diagnosed with prostate cancer. This result is not surprising nutritionist Stéphanie Côté.
>>>>Excess calories<<<<
"Long ago we made an association between excess calories, obesity and prostate cancer." And long ago as you know you drink a lot of soda. Too she said. "Imagine, they drink more soft drinks than milk!"
If however, the study found that while simple carbohydrates such as sugar soft drinks, had serious consequences, we could say the same complex carbohydrates, such as those found in pasta and rice.
The researchers conclude that men who eat more of these carbohydrates suffer milder forms of prostate cancer. The study is published in the November issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Frequent & lethal
1. The proportion of new cancer cases that are related to prostate cancer is 27%. This happens to be the most frequent cancers cases in this country (Canada).
2. The percentage of prostate cancers cases that brings deaths is 10%. Prostate cancer happens to be third most lethal cancer after lung & colorectal cancers.
Why I think we should put emphasis on this it's because most of men don't really take care of themselves. They neglect many signs and are afraid to go to the doctor. They accept (I say most not all because there are so many distributors in many different health MLM's) but I look towards the majority. So try to bring this info to the market, it's very valuable.
In conclusion: Prostate cancer is the hardest one to detect. The web site www.Extenso.org (unfortunately it's in French but you can use the translator) the reference center of the University of Montreal in nutrition and gives many nutritional info on how to prevent this cancer.
Cancer of the prostate is a very difficult disease to detect. Here as elsewhere, prevention is better than cure. Extenso.org website, the center of reference on nutrition at the University of Montreal, gives several tips diet to prevent cancer.
Source: Journal de Montreal, 10 December 2012
Have a great Saturday
Astrid
HEALTHY CHOICES: Why is brown rice better than white?
A grain of rice is composed of several different layers. Only the outside layer, the 'hull', is removed during the production of brown rice and very little goodness is lost by the grain in the process.
But during the production of white rice, the grains are milled to remove more layers - the bran and almost all of the germ. This process strips the grains of the majority of their nutrients.
In the final part of the process, another layer called 'aleurone' is removed and the grains are polished. But aleurone is a good source of essential fats, which play such an important role in your diet.
So what are you left with?
White rice - a refined starch that offers your little one very little in the way of nutrition.
Source: Mayo Clinic (Whole Grains)
Why is brown rice such a healthy choice for baby?
Just look at what it contains!
- vitamins B1, B3 and B6
- manganese (essential for healthy bones, manganese also reduces the
symptoms of asthma and is a powerful, energy-providing antioxidant)
- iron
- phosphorus
- selenium
- Essential Fatty Acids
- fibre
Other important benefits gained from eating brown rice include a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes and lower levels of cholesterol.
Yet a very large percentage of these valuable nutrients are lost during the production of white rice.
By law, white rice in some countries must be 'enriched' and certain nutrients must be added back in. So it should be just as good for you as brown rice, right?
Wrong - because the nutrients are not in their original form, they are far less beneficial to health. In fact, enriched white rice is STILL lacking 11 valuable nutrients that are NEVER replaced (see The World's Healthiest Foods for more information).
Brown rice is full of flavour
Some people say that brown rice does not taste as good as white. But these people have often grown up ONLY eating white rice, which actually has very little flavour (unsurprising, when you consider how much is removed from the grain to produce it!). Brown rice does taste VERY different to white! Its flavour is almost nutty and - conversely - people who regularly eat brown rice find white rice very bland and unappetizing.
That's why it's a good idea to get you accustomed to the full flavour of nutritious brown rice from an early age!
any comments are highly appreciated!
Smile & Have a great day
Astrid
