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Post by Sam on Sept 15, 2014 19:04:25 GMT -5
Evening froglady, hope you'll enjoy the site. I know you'll have some herbal info to share. Take some time to look around. We'll sort out who wants to use usernames and real names as everyone gets acquainted. This site is VERY informal so just poke around and have some fun.
Sam
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2014 21:14:49 GMT -5
Hi froglady! Welcome aboard.
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Post by froglady on Sept 17, 2014 12:35:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome. I'll gladly share any information that is concerned with healing and curing with herbs, and other God given natural means. Is it legal to use fruits, vegetables and the benefits to our health?
If not scold me, but the first thing I did this morning was scrub and juice a fresh lemon, scooped out the seeds and added that juice to a bottle (16 oz.) of water and I will proceed to drink that before consuming any food.
The reason I do this: Most of us in this day and age exist on processed or fast foods. Those foods have additives that our body does not recognize as 'food'. Since the liver is our filter, to help break down our food consummation and send the beneficial vitamins, minerals, etc into our system, the liver (works hand in hand with the pancreas which produces insulin) cannot process additives. artificial sugars, added chemicals (insecticides that are sprayed on commercial produce, harmones and anti-biotics in animal vaccinations, etc. that we eat. Overall health depends on how healthy we keep our livers. Our gut is our measuring stick as to how healthy we are. Citric acid (lemons, limes, and grapefruit, Apple cider vinegar etc.) actually helps to control the acids that happens when all of those processed foods attack the liver. Helps to avoid ulcers, indigestion, acid reflux and other conditions that attack our digestive systems.
When our digestive system is sick, our whole body is sick and our immune systems fail.
A cup of tea made with hot water (not boiling) honey and Organic Apple Cider Vinegar (Braggs label is my choice) is the perfect way to start a healthy day. The lemon water is a plus.
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Post by froglady on Sept 17, 2014 12:37:07 GMT -5
P.S. Y'all can call me Marie.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2014 15:07:42 GMT -5
Marie
Do you have to use fresh lemon? Or could I use bottled lemon juice or those little plastic squeeze lemons from the produce section?
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Post by Sam on Sept 17, 2014 17:38:33 GMT -5
I've read a lot about vinegar lately. I'm trying to use it more and use more of it. For one think I like it. I'm still making those 'hot' salads with lots of vinegar, salt and black pepper. I enjoy them, they are very low cal, low carb and I get the extra benefit of the vinegar.
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Post by froglady on Sept 19, 2014 12:58:51 GMT -5
Marie
Do you have to use fresh lemon? Or could I use bottled lemon juice or those little plastic squeeze lemons from the produce section? Fresh lemon is best. Concentrated lemon juice just does not taste the same and you want a little pulp in your water.
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Post by froglady on Sept 19, 2014 13:13:07 GMT -5
I've read a lot about vinegar lately. I'm trying to use it more and use more of it. For one think I like it. I'm still making those 'hot' salads with lots of vinegar, salt and black pepper. I enjoy them, they are very low cal, low carb and I get the extra benefit of the vinegar. Sam, all kinds of vinegar are good for you, but if you really want health boosting benefits from vinegar that you use in salads or other raw foods, try to find the raw unfiltered organic apple cider vinegar. I use Braggs brand, because it was the first one I found. It has the 'mother' of the vinegar and should be shaken before you use it each time. It will have settlement in the bottom before you shake it. Our bodies thrive on a fine balance of acid and alkaline. If the body system gets too acid, our health begins to fail. Acid indigestion is the first sign that we are too acid and our digestive system begins to falter. When the gut is sick, our whole body begins to ail.
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Post by Sam on Sept 20, 2014 7:25:48 GMT -5
Just the term 'organic' usually adds $$$ to the cost. It infuriates me! I read the general difference between 'organic' and plain? There are usually NO health benefits (I'm sure your tip on vinegar is valid though). Same with 'FREE RANGE'. Read some on what defines free range. It can be (for a chicken) no more than a 2 by 2 foot fence where the chicken is kept alone but not technically caged. Bullsh*t! I can remember when truth in advertising really did mean something. Now, just like politics, what we say generally has very little to do with reality.
There is no health food store in my town (small town, pop. 2800 .... on 'check' day). I will look for raw vinegar at the Kroger store we have here. Depending on cost, I'll certainly switch to that. I doubt that I'll find it here though.
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Post by froglady on Sept 20, 2014 16:00:25 GMT -5
Kroger should carry Braggs. It doesn't come in a gallon jug. A 16 oz. bottle is the largest I've seen and is usually on the shelf above the gallon jugs. All others are 'strained or filtered' and the actual health benefits are in the pulp of juices.
The real meaning of 'organic' should mean that animals are fed as near as nature provides, free range to eat what chickens (bugs, worms, grians etc) Cows (unsprayed open pasture grass) with no insecticides used on the food and no harmone injections to make them grow faster and no innoculations of antibiotics. No 'caged' animal is organic. 'Natural' means they ground feed,but they are still innoculated and given growth harmones. The only way to be sure you are getting organic is to buy produce, and meat from a farmer who eats his own stock. And he almost has to do it on the sly to keep the government from finding out he's sharing his goods with his neighbors.
And you're right...a label is only a label anymore. I have a friend who grows aquaponics and he hand picks the bugs from his herbs, sprouts and veggies. No insecticides. He shared that it is a nightmare to fight for the right to label organic and the inspections that are required. He has is working with Texas A&M now, giving classes on how to grow aquaponics. It's fascinating!
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Post by Sam on Sept 21, 2014 4:27:51 GMT -5
To me, feeding cows offal from the slaughter house is one of the worst things I can imagine. Makes me sick. I'm reading how that it has resulted in some domestic cattle becoming carnivorous, catching and killing rabbits and birds to eat. I don't like this one bit.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 5:24:49 GMT -5
Oh my gosh. I didn't know they were doing that, and I agree that it's sickening.
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Post by froglady on Sept 21, 2014 12:34:15 GMT -5
Equivalent to cannibalism. The biggest crime here is that it is a government 'approved' practice and big savings to big companies who get rich killing us off or making us sick and seek treatment for illnesses we would not have if we were consuming clean food. Yea me!!! I found a local bee keeper this morning who uses no insecticides and sells his honey. Might get these pollen allergies under control at last!
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Post by Sam on Sept 21, 2014 17:17:54 GMT -5
Though I don't like honey it is another of the natural foods with a huge health benefit. It can be added to so many herbal teas, used as a natural sweetener or eaten as is. I can chew on a little piece of comb for the novelty, but I don't like the taste of honey.
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Post by froglady on Sept 22, 2014 11:07:07 GMT -5
Fritz isn't crazy about it either, but try to use it occasionally just to get used to it. It really is the only food on the face of the earth that will not spoil and the healthiest sweetener. Then there is the banana.
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