Monday, August 23, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Rejoce! The time for Spring Rejuvenation is apon us!!!
"As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit,
I can, because I am the Earth. I won't give up
until the Earth gives up." - Alice Walker
Spring is gently nudging us from our winter slumber once again. It's wonderful to know that regardless of how quiet and reflective we might become during the winter season, or how much the cold weather keeps us indoors, spring faithfully returns to warm the days and revitalize our zest for life. A time for planting seeds both literally and figuratively, springtime inspires us to believe that, along with the Earth, we too might change, release the past and give birth to new ways of living.
Following the contemplative days of winter, spring finds us, and all of nature, in a joyous celebration of rejuvenation. A time of decision-making, change, growth and taking action, spring encourages us to release what has become outworn to live with a greater sense of purpose. Naturally, we're inspired to clear away the old and make room for the new with "spring cleaning." As you sweep away the dust in your home, you inevitably clear away what may have cluttered your inner being.
In traditional Chinese medicine, spring is associated with liver function, hope and renewal. Responsible for the free flow of the emotions, the liver is ruled by the element of wood and is associated with trees and with straightforward, upright, direct energy. Liking clarity and truth, a healthy liver allows us to make good decisions quickly. It is fed by the element of water, so drinking plenty of pure, fresh water helps improve liver function and move stagnant physical, mental and emotional energy.
The liver plays a central role in transforming and clearing toxins from the body. This overworked organ can easily become congested from exposure to the chemicals found in many common personal care and household cleaning products, over-the-counter and prescription medications, pesticides and environmental pollutants. Minor symptoms of liver toxicity include poor concentration, fatigue, mild depression, anxiety, insomnia, weight gain and joint pain. With time, these can become more serious health conditions.
Spring is an excellent time for a gentle cleanse or detoxification to refresh your body, mind and spirit. Choosing healthy, light foods, avoiding toxins and increasing your water intake brings renewed mental clarity and optimism, empowering you to break old habits and initiate new ones more easily with the arrival of spring.
To support the planet and enhance your own well being, you might find yourself switching to Earth friendly household cleaning products for your spring cleaning. And, perhaps you're ready to replace your old personal care products with chemical free, organic shampoo, conditioner, body wash and facial care products.
This spring, like every spring before it, we each have the opportunity to plant new seeds of positive change in our lives. Make this spring the year you blossom by improving your diet, getting more exercise, drinking more water and using chemical free products with the added benefits of certified organic herbs.
Source: enzinearticles.com
As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit,
I can, because I am the Earth. I won't give up
until the Earth gives up." - Alice Walker
Spring is gently nudging us from our winter slumber once again. It's wonderful to know that regardless of how quiet and reflective we might become during the winter season, or how much the cold weather keeps us indoors, spring faithfully returns to warm the days and revitalize our zest for life. A time for planting seeds both literally and figuratively, springtime inspires us to believe that, along with the Earth, we too might change, release the past and give birth to new ways of living.
Following the contemplative days of winter, spring finds us, and all of nature, in a joyous celebration of rejuvenation. A time of decision-making, change, growth and taking action, spring encourages us to release what has become outworn to live with a greater sense of purpose. Naturally, we're inspired to clear away the old and make room for the new with "spring cleaning." As you sweep away the dust in your home, you inevitably clear away what may have cluttered your inner being.
In traditional Chinese medicine, spring is associated with liver function, hope and renewal. Responsible for the free flow of the emotions, the liver is ruled by the element of wood and is associated with trees and with straightforward, upright, direct energy. Liking clarity and truth, a healthy liver allows us to make good decisions quickly. It is fed by the element of water, so drinking plenty of pure, fresh water helps improve liver function and move stagnant physical, mental and emotional energy.
The liver plays a central role in transforming and clearing toxins from the body. This overworked organ can easily become congested from exposure to the chemicals found in many common personal care and household cleaning products, over-the-counter and prescription medications, pesticides and environmental pollutants. Minor symptoms of liver toxicity include poor concentration, fatigue, mild depression, anxiety, insomnia, weight gain and joint pain. With time, these can become more serious health conditions.
Spring is an excellent time for a gentle cleanse or detoxification to refresh your body, mind and spirit. Choosing healthy, light foods, avoiding toxins and increasing your water intake brings renewed mental clarity and optimism, empowering you to break old habits and initiate new ones more easily with the arrival of spring.
To support the planet and enhance your own well being, you might find yourself switching to Earth friendly household cleaning products for your spring cleaning. And, perhaps you're ready to replace your old personal care products with chemical free, organic shampoo, conditioner, body wash and facial care products.
This spring, like every spring before it, we each have the opportunity to plant new seeds of positive change in our lives. Make this spring the year you blossom by improving your diet, getting more exercise, drinking more water and using chemical free products with the added benefits of certified organic herbs.
Source: enzinearticles.com
ADHD and the benefits with Chiropractic Healing
Understand a natural and holistic approach to treating this 21st Century health phenomenon. There is alternatives to using powerful, mind altering and expensive medications on children!!!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Alarming: Girls are starting puberty as young as 7 due to lifestyle factors of the 21st Century
MORE US girls are starting puberty younger, with large percentages developing breasts and pubic hair as early as seven, according to a new study.
Nearly a quarter of black girls (23.4 per cent), 14.9 per cent of Hispanic girls and 10.4 per cent of white girls develop breasts by the age of seven, the study of 1239 girls in Harlem, Cincinnati and the San Francisco area found.
Twenty per cent of seven-year-old black girls had pubic hair, as did around 6.5 per cent of white and Hispanic girls, the study, published in the American journal Pediatrics, found.
The figures are a big jump compared with a similar study published in 1997. Back then, only five per cent of seven-year-old white girls and around 15 per cent of black girls of the same age were developing breasts.
Negative impacts associated with early puberty in girls include increased risk of breast or endometrial cancer later in life, and psychological troubles ranging from low self-esteem and eating problems to depression and suicide.
Scientists believe the phenomenon could be linked to obesity or exposure to chemicals in the food chain, and is putting girls at greater long-term risk of breast cancer. Several artificially produced chemicals have been blamed for interfering with sexual development, notably bisphenol A, a plastic found in the lining of tin cans and babies' feeding bottles. The constant exposure of girls to this chemical during their development stages in life is said to possibly contribute to the increased rate of girls reaching puberty at an earlier age than previous generations.
In the 19th century, girls faced the onset of puberty at around 15 years of age and for boys it was 17. Whereas today girls hit puberty at around 9 and boys at around 12 which reflects a steady decrease in the onset of puberty for girls and boys.
The study, led by Frank Biro of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital's adolescent medicine division, also said girls who hit puberty young are "more likely to be influenced by deviant peers" and become sexually active earlier.
The study found that at age eight, more than four in 10 black girls (42.9 per cent) were developing breasts and nearly a third had pubic hair.
Nearly 31 per cent of Hispanic girls and 18 per cent of white girls were developing breasts at the age of eight, and 19 and 10 per cent respectively had pubic hair.
Source: ‘The Australian’ and ‘Nine MSN’ 10/8/2010
Nearly a quarter of black girls (23.4 per cent), 14.9 per cent of Hispanic girls and 10.4 per cent of white girls develop breasts by the age of seven, the study of 1239 girls in Harlem, Cincinnati and the San Francisco area found.
Twenty per cent of seven-year-old black girls had pubic hair, as did around 6.5 per cent of white and Hispanic girls, the study, published in the American journal Pediatrics, found.
The figures are a big jump compared with a similar study published in 1997. Back then, only five per cent of seven-year-old white girls and around 15 per cent of black girls of the same age were developing breasts.
Negative impacts associated with early puberty in girls include increased risk of breast or endometrial cancer later in life, and psychological troubles ranging from low self-esteem and eating problems to depression and suicide.
Scientists believe the phenomenon could be linked to obesity or exposure to chemicals in the food chain, and is putting girls at greater long-term risk of breast cancer. Several artificially produced chemicals have been blamed for interfering with sexual development, notably bisphenol A, a plastic found in the lining of tin cans and babies' feeding bottles. The constant exposure of girls to this chemical during their development stages in life is said to possibly contribute to the increased rate of girls reaching puberty at an earlier age than previous generations.
In the 19th century, girls faced the onset of puberty at around 15 years of age and for boys it was 17. Whereas today girls hit puberty at around 9 and boys at around 12 which reflects a steady decrease in the onset of puberty for girls and boys.
The study, led by Frank Biro of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital's adolescent medicine division, also said girls who hit puberty young are "more likely to be influenced by deviant peers" and become sexually active earlier.
The study found that at age eight, more than four in 10 black girls (42.9 per cent) were developing breasts and nearly a third had pubic hair.
Nearly 31 per cent of Hispanic girls and 18 per cent of white girls were developing breasts at the age of eight, and 19 and 10 per cent respectively had pubic hair.
Source: ‘The Australian’ and ‘Nine MSN’ 10/8/2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
TUMERIC: Miracle properties explained of this 'Super Spice'
Source: Dr Mercola's Website
For more than 5,000 years, turmeric has been an important part of Eastern cultural traditions, including traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Valued for its medicinal properties and warm, peppery flavor, this yellow-orange spice has more recently earned a name for itself in Western medicine as well.Turmeric comes from the root of the Curcuma longa plant, which is native to Indonesia and southern India, and is widely used as an ingredient in curry dishes and yellow mustard. As research into this powerful spice has increased, it has emerged as one of nature’s most powerful potential healers.
Said Dr. David Frawely, founder and director of the American Institute for Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico:
“If I had only one single herb to depend upon for all possible health and dietary needs, I would without much hesitation choose the Indian spice Turmeric. There is little it cannot do in the realm of healing and much that no other herb is able to accomplish.
Turmeric has a broad spectrum of actions, mild but certain effects, and is beneficial for long term and daily usage. Though it is a common spice, few people, including herbalists know of its great value and are using it to the extent possible. It is an herb that one should get to know and live with.”
Read this entire article
For more than 5,000 years, turmeric has been an important part of Eastern cultural traditions, including traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Valued for its medicinal properties and warm, peppery flavor, this yellow-orange spice has more recently earned a name for itself in Western medicine as well.Turmeric comes from the root of the Curcuma longa plant, which is native to Indonesia and southern India, and is widely used as an ingredient in curry dishes and yellow mustard. As research into this powerful spice has increased, it has emerged as one of nature’s most powerful potential healers.
Said Dr. David Frawely, founder and director of the American Institute for Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico:
“If I had only one single herb to depend upon for all possible health and dietary needs, I would without much hesitation choose the Indian spice Turmeric. There is little it cannot do in the realm of healing and much that no other herb is able to accomplish.
Turmeric has a broad spectrum of actions, mild but certain effects, and is beneficial for long term and daily usage. Though it is a common spice, few people, including herbalists know of its great value and are using it to the extent possible. It is an herb that one should get to know and live with.”
Read this entire article
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