Fast Food for Children Part 2
Healthy and Quick snacks for your children:
Option 1: String cheese and a banana. Or any cheese and fruit will do. These items can be found in almost all gas stations, definitely in grocery stores, and if you're at a friend or family member's house they will most likely have cheese and a fruit lying around. read more »
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IcerocketAccepting your body just as is....
How would your life change if you embraced your body just as is, accepted your body just as is, and loved your body just as is?
This is a powerful question I invite all of you to think about and journal your answers. What you discover may surprise you. Imagine how much different your life would be. Remember the first step to change is awareness. Once you are aware it's only up to you to be willing to do the work.
Lesley Pelkey, CHT, LC
Vaccines- To do or not to do ?
Vaccines have saved millions of lives and millions of people from disabilities such as the crippling effects of polio and meningitis.
Infectious diseases used to be the leading causes of death in children and adults and vaccines have helped prevent these deaths.
Infectious diseases are no longer the leading causes of death in the western world, we now have, alcohol, cigarretes and chronic diseases such as cancer ,diabetes and heart disease as the major culprits.
So, do we need to still have all the vaccines out there ?
The CDC says that smallpox has been eradicated as there have been no new cases for some time, so we do not vaccinate for small pox anymore. Is it possible for it to come back ? read more »
Fast Food for your children......
Since I have started the "Fast Food Diaries" blog I have had a lot of request for feeding kids on a busy schedule. Since I have a 2 year old and always on the run as a business owner, I understand the need for knowing what to feed your child when they are starving. I can relate to being too tired and exhausted from long day or have very little time to prepare food for breakfast, lunch, and or dinner. Of course we all want only the best and healthiest foods for our children. So here are a few suggestions that will hopefully keep your family fed and nourished while not adding more work to your already busy day. read more »
The Fast Food Diaries......I ate fast food all day today!!!
A day in the life of my personal food diary. I am a busy woman! I work anywhere from 60-80 hours a week, and I have a 2 year old son who wants the rest of my time. Therefor cooking and grocery shopping are not high on the priority list, but my health is. So here is an example of my "Fast Food" for today.
Breakfast: I ate 2 scoops of the Luna Essentials Body Shake with 10 ozs of organic milk.
Total prep time ~ 2minutes.
FYI: for those of you who have not tried our shake mix, it ROCKS! The chocolate, my favorite, taste like brownie mix. The perfect quick fix when you're craving chocolate during the P.M.S or menstrual phase of your monthly cycle!
Snack: 1 oz mozzarella string cheese and a medium banana.
Total prep time~less than 1 minute read more »
That voice within will bring clarity, peace, and meaning........ if you listen.
I receive a phone call from a friend who shared with me what he went through over the last few years as he experienced a spiritual disconnection. Throughout our discussion he continued to reference the pain he endured. If you’ve been one of the few fortunate enough to gain this awareness in your life, you’d know that pain he’s talking about. Have you ever been in a job, a relationship, or environment where you can’t really explain why but something didn’t feel right? read more »
Why is MRSA on the rise?
Methycillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an invasive bacteria that, once it has access to a wound, scratch, or abrasion, can cause serious infections. Why is it on the rise?
Overuse of antibiotics and the resulting resistance genes that proliferated in bacteria are the main reasons.
There have been pockets of infections in the last several months in the Phoenix Metro area, especially in Kindergarten/School age children. Are our kid's immune systems not as strong as they could be? That is a possibility. Do we really need to use all those hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes, etc.? There are many ways to boost the immune system without resorting to using chemicals to try to control the external environment we live in. read more »
Regular Exercise Improves Minds of Elderly Women with Dementia
A new study from Busan, Korea found that elderly women with dementia who exercise two to three times a week for six months to a year improve their mental faculties and daily functioning by 20%. When that time period was extended to a year, their scores improved by 30%. The control group--the women who did not exercise regularly--saw no improvement whatsoever.
The study followed 30 women with an average age of 80 over the course of a year. Half of them exercised, the other half did not. The participants were evaluated on mental abilities "through tests that determine orientation to time and place, memory recall, identifying and remembering objects, reading, and writing." read more »
Undergoing in vitro fertilization? Easy on the coffee.
A new study found that drinking four or more cups of coffee a day decreases fertility by 25% for those women who are already having a tough go of getting pregnant. The study followed 9,000 women undergoing IVF, so you can safely bet that this news is reliable.
In addition, drinking alcohol three times a week also decreases fertility. Cigarettes and obesity are even worse for getting pregnant.
Worst-case scenario: "The researchers estimated that a 36-year-old woman who smoked, drank too much coffee and alcohol and was overweight, and who had been through three cycles of IVF, would have a 5% chance of a natural pregnancy." read more »
Are we getting estrogen in our cosmetics ?
All those pretty looking and yummy smelling shampoos, face creams, body lotions and shower gels may be giving us more than we bargained for.
Many of the plastic bottles that our body care products are packaged in contain Bis- phenol A. This chemical is an estrogen mimetic- that is- it mimics estrogen in our body- but not in a good way.
it means our livers have to work extra hard to clear it out of the body and it means that we have extra estrogen stimulation in our breast and uterine tissue- which may be a trigger for cancer in those tissues.
Remember the good old days when things were packaged in glass? read more »
