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Sumara's
Raw Food Recipes |
Lemon Macaroons
2 cups cashews, presoaked
2 cups dried coconut
1 cup fresh lemon juice
2/3 cup honey
¼ teaspoon powdered
stevia
Place cashews in food processor and process
until thick and pasty. Add in rest of ingredients and process until thoroughly
blended.
Spoon rounded tablespoon portions onto
solid dehydrator sheets and dehydrate for 8-10 hours at 110 degrees. Transfer
to perforated sheets and continue to dehydrate for another 2-3 hours.
Makes 25-30 3-inch
cookies
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7 Foods for Strong
Bones.
by
Jill Weisenberger, MS, RD, CDE, LifeScript
1. Pumpkin
Seeds and Brazil Nuts
When you think of bone-building minerals, you probably think of calcium. Our
bones are largely made of calcium, but other minerals form a strong frame,
too. In fact, 50% of the body’s magnesium resides in our bones. Research shows
that a low magnesium intake is linked to bone fragility and calcium loss, most
likely because poor magnesium status alters calcium metabolism.
Nuts and seeds of all types are good sources of magnesium, but pumpkin seeds
and Brazil nuts outshine the rest. Definitely eat up for your bones, but don’t
overdo it: Nuts are a high-fat, high-calorie snack. Limit your serving to just
one ounce – about 1/4 cup – per day...
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here for the rest of the
story.
Chemical Contamination in Our
Bodies
Is
It In Us?
SToxic chemicals from everyday products contaminate the bodies of every person
in this country. Shower curtains, water bottles, baby bottles, toys, shampoo,
cosmetics, couch cushions, computers, and hundreds of other common products
that ordinary people use every day contain toxic chemical ingredients that
leach out of the products and into our bodies.
Thirty-five Americans from seven states participated in a national
biomonitoringproject in the spring of 2007. This is the broadest
non-governmental project of its kind to measure toxic chemicals in the bodies
of average Americans.
Each participant was tested for contamination by twenty toxic chemicals from
three chemical families: phthalates (THA-lates), bisphenol A, and
polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)...
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here for the rest of the
story.
10 Ways to Lower Your
Cholesterol Without Medication
by Steve Edwards, Beachbody.com
Big Pharma took another hit last month when some
studies were released showing that two anticholesterol drugs, Zetia and
Vytorin, were ineffective in lowering the risk of heart disease. These drugs
did approximately 5 billion dollars in business last year, mainly because they
are safer than other more proven anticholesterol meds, like Lipitor and
Crestor. Without a definitively safe and effective cholesterol-reducing drug
on the market, look for the natural, old-school methods to come back into
fashion. We'll take a look at how to reduce your cholesterol levels naturally.
Before we get into the solutions, however, let's
have a closer look at the problem. Our society has become addicted to drugs,
and not just recreational ones. We look for drugs to aid us in just about any
activity we do regularly, from sleeping, to sex, to sports, and most things in
between. In our mad rush for enhanced performance, results, and the bottom
line, we've become lazy and forgotten the fundamentals—the basic law of nature
that rewards hard work. Drugs are highly beneficial for many medical
conditions but they don't—or can't—offset poor lifestyle choices. If we
refocus as a whole, then we'd be far less dependent on artificial solutions,
but that's not how it's playing out. In this latest example from Big Pharma,
the tail is clearly wagging the dog...
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article.
Aging Gracefully for a
Life in Balance
by Dr. Andrew Weil
The United States is on the brink of a longevity
revolution. By 2030, the number of older Americans will have more than doubled
to 70 million, or one in every five Americans. A 1997 longevity and retirement
study revealed that 41 percent of people now working feel it is at least
somewhat likely that they will live to age 85, 23 percent feel somewhat likely
they will live to age 90, and even 15 percent feel it is at least somewhat
likely they will live to age 95. The growing number and proportion of older
adults places increasing demands on the public health system and on medical
and social services.
Health, financial and lifestyle choices can enhance the quality of an
individual's later years and create a life in balance.
Financial Issues
Adequate income and assets are of critical importance to virtually all
dimensions of well-being in later life. Experts estimate that retirees will
need, on average, 70 percent of their pre-retirement income, and lower earners
will need 90 percent or more to maintain their standard of living when they
stop working. Social Security pays the average retiree about 40 percent of
pre-retirement earnings if you retire at age 65. How well you understand your
options for managing money and how well you have planned will be the most
critical factors in determining your financial well-being as you grow older...
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article.
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