วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 7 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

วันพุธที่ 6 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Tips For Growing Organic Foods

Many people would love to buy organic foods from the markets and grocery store but they have a budget for food that doesn't allow it. One great idea though is grow your own fresh fruits and vegetables at home. You can create a wonderful garden with more than enough of these foods to feed your family. It will also cut down on your food costs overall so you can use that money for something else.

It is important to know that an organic garden can be time consuming to manage. Yet it can be something for the entire family to help with. The satisfaction that all will have as you enjoy those great foods is well worth the time you dedicate to it. One of the biggest rules to follow is that you don't want to apply any chemicals to the area or around it. Take a good look around to be sure that chemicals can't run into your garden area when it rains from a neighbor's property as well.

The location needs to be one where it will get lots of sun. Without it, your organic foods won't grow as they should. Take the time to clear the space for your garden. Make sure you remove rocks and other debris so that you have a flat and clean surface to work with. In order to get the soil ready you want to provide organic compost.

You can buy this from many locations but you can also create your own. Dry leaves and coffee grounds work extremely well. You can also get into the habit of collecting compost from your family so that you have lots of it to use when you need it. Ideally, you want at least three inches of compost in your garden.

You want to make sure your garden area gets plenty of water. The soil needs to be wet but you don't want it to be flooded. Now you are ready to plant what fresh fruits and vegetables you wish to grow. Make sure you follow the planting directions for them in order to encourage the very best results.

When it comes to organic gardens you will have to fight a constant battle with a couple of things. The first one is the weeds that will fight for the nutrients in the soil. It is ironic that we can struggle to get what we want to grow but those weeds tend to be able to do so without any problems. You will want to pick the weeds by hand. Doing so as they start out is the best way so try to spend time doing this at least once a week.

Insects and bugs will be in the area too so set various traps for them. This will give you a way to relocate them. Check those traps on a regular basis. Make sure you have a small fence around them or mesh panels too. This will keep animals including cats, raccoons, and mice from finding your organic garden to be their place to dine when they feel like it.

Make sure you harvest your organic foods when they are ripe. That way you can enjoy them at the best time for ultimate flavor. You want to make sure you carefully wash all items that you have grown in your organic garden before people consume them. This process is one you will really benefit from. It can take some time to get started but after the first season you will have a good idea of what works for you and what doesn't.

วันอังคารที่ 5 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Raw Food VS Processed Food

One of the main reasons why most people are getting ill with 21 century diseases like: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and obesity is eating processed foods as their foremost form of nutrition. Over eighty percent of the foodstuff Americans buy every year are mechanically processed foods, and food marketers do a wonderful job at making it seem that mass produced processed and junk food are the apparent choice.

The problem is that processed foods, are nutrient dead and are devoid of any real nutrition. The reason that they taste so good is the result of a combination of a chemical cocktail of artificial flavours and additives, without which this artificial processed food would have the look and flavour of cardboard. But what the food industry forgets to inform you is that there is a terrible price to pay for consuming this pitiful diet. For the sake of convenience we are trading the most valuable assets that we have, our health.

This food ingredient alone is enough to completely wreck your health, and it is only one of the dangerous ingredients in processed foods. One of the terrible side effects of eating a mainly processed food regime is that it means we're also consuming foods that are choc full of high-fructose corn syrup. High-fructose corn syrup is the greatest source of calories in ones diet. This chemical food cocktail is enough to completely destroy your health, and sadly it is only one of many dangerous ingredients in chemically processed foods.

Are You Addicted to a poisonous Diet?

Processed foods are mainly chemically altered so they appeal to your taste buds, they can also trick your body's regulatory signals that would normally tell you it's had enough to eat - snacks like potatoes chips (you know the kind that make you want to eat the whole bag- check the packaging)! These chemical cocktails are crammed full of large amounts of sugar, salt, corn syrup and MSG, these radically increase the chances of you becoming addicted to them.

In one study of laboratory rats that were fed a diet that contained 25 percent sugar, they became fretful when the sugar was taken away - displaying symptoms akin to people going through drug withdrawals, such as: the shakes and shivering. The researchers who conducted the study found a causal link between opioids, (the brains pleasure chemicals) and a feverish craving for sweet, salty and fatty foods. It is thought that these high-fat foods excite the opioids, as when the researchers stimulated the rats' brains with an artificial version of the natural opioid enkephalin, and the lab rats ate nearly six times their usual intake of fat.

It was also noticed that long lasting changes occurred in the rats' brain chemistry - which are similar to those caused by heroin or morphine use. According to researchers, this is understood to mean that even casual exposure to pleasurable foods is sufficient to alter gene expression, which would suggest an addiction to the food.

Processed Foods Can Ruin Your Taste Buds

In the meantime, refined sugar, which is in nearly all processed food - because it is cheap and improves the taste of the food, has been demonstrated to be more addictive than cocaine! Your body's sweet receptors (two protein receptors that are located on your tongue), are not adapted to cope with high-sugar consumption. Therefore, this abnormally high stimulation of these receptors by sugar-rich diets generates extreme reward signals in your brain, which have the possibility to override the normal self-control mechanism, and thus can lead to an insidious addiction. This is why, if you regularly have a diet of processed foods, some whole foods seem to be lacking in flavour. This is because you have become conditioned to think that these chemically changed foods are the norm, when in fact - it is quite the opposite.

The unfortunate truth is that when you have a mainly processed food diet - it leads to a flood of harmful changes to your body's metabolism. One of these negative effects is elevated insulin levels, and ultimately an insulin resistance. Elevated insulin levels are the foundation of nearly every major disease known to man, such as: cancer cardiovascular disease and arthritis. Most people think that if they can't have their junk food, they are being deprived. In actuality, the sooner you change your eating regime, the quicker you'll enjoy increased vitality, weight stability, improved mood and enhanced health. If you decide to try the raw food diet - I suggest you do it gradually - beginning with one meal a day. A target of 70% raw food is comfortably achievable.

If You Give Up Processed Foods, Should You Eat Raw Food?

It's a really wise decision to have as much raw food in your diet as possible. There are a number of sound reasons for this. For starters, cooking food, especially at high temperatures, destroys those naturally occurring enzymes. Enzymes are proteins. They are the catalysts that help speed up and make possible reactions in your body. In point of fact, some biochemical reactions will never occur without these enzymes (we each have about 1,300 of them). So if all nearly all of your food is cooked, your body is going to be deficient in the enzymes it needs to function efficiently. Ideally you'll want to eat as many foods as possible in an unprocessed state - organic grown fruits and vegetables that have been grown locally and in season.

It is wise to seek medical advice before trying the raw food diet. It is not recommended that you give up meat altogether,eating meat three times a week is sufficient to obtain most of the nutrients and trace minerals that you require for a healthy diet.

วันจันทร์ที่ 4 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

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วันอาทิตย์ที่ 3 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Scrap & Build 【Haruna】

man this song is difficult =w= sorry if it sucks Mp3:www.mediafire.com tsumetai taiyoo ga watashi wo terashi-ta muki-dashi no kokoro ga kogoe-te shimatta anata wo ushinat-te namida wa kare hate-te watashi wa koko kara aruki dase-nai no uso no you-ona shinjitsu to honto no yoo na moo-soo no hazama de watashi wa koware-te shimatta Ah muse-kae-ru hodo-no atsui kuchi-zuke wo watashi ni kuda-sai aishite kuda-sai yogore-te shimatta watashi wo yurushi-te anata no sono te de watashi wo kowashi-te sabi tsui-ta kioku ga mushi-bamare-te yuku anata no egao mo omoi dase-nai no fuhai shita kokoro ga kuchi hate-ru mae ni moo-ichido anata ni aini yukita-ku te ugoki dashi-ta hon-noo to osae kire-nai kan-joo de koware-ta kokoro ga yomigaet-te yuku-n da Ah nomi kome-nai hodo no tsumeta-i kuchi-zuke wo watashi ni kuda-sai aishi-te kuda-sai kie yuku kioku ni anata wo yaki tsuke-ru sore igai ni nani mo nozomi wa shi-nai no futashika na mono ga afure-ru sekai de hitotsu tashika na mono soba ni atta Ah muse kae-ru hodo no atsu-i kuchi-zuke wo watashi ni kuda-sai aishi-te kuda-sai yogore-te shimat-ta watashi wo yurushi-te moo ichido sono te de watashi wo kowashi-te



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วันเสาร์ที่ 2 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

5 a Day - Do You Get Yours?

All over the world people are being encouraged to eat in a healthier manner. In the U.S.A. they have the 5 a day promotion. Eat 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day. In Australia they have the 2+5 campaign. That is, eating 2 servings of fruit and 5 servings of vegetables a day. No doubt other countries have similar publicity designed to help people make changes to their diets.

People are obviously finding it hard to manage this. A report in 2005 found that only 33 percent of adult Americans ate fruit twice or more each day and only 27 percent ate vegetables three or more times a day. The target that the government is trying to reach by 2010 is to have at least 75 percent of Americans over 2 years old eating at least 2 servings of fruit each day and to have 50 percent of people eating three or more servings of vegetables each day.

Here are 5 breakfast tips to help you get your 5 a day.

1. Have some fruit with your breakfast. Cut up bananas or add berries to your cereal.

2. Make a fruit smoothie for a quick breakfast drink. Try banana, mango berry or peach smoothies.

3. Eat a piece of whole fruit as part of your breakfast. For example an apple or an orange or be exotic and eat a mango when they are available.

4. Add chopped vegetables to scrambled eggs or omelet.

5. I like to gently fry a ripe banana with my breakfast eggs. Even very over ripe bananas are tasty like this.

Starting the day with at least one serve of fruit or vegetables sets you up to reach the 5 a day target. Your health will improve in a whole host of ways if you can make the 5 a day a part of your daily diet.

วันศุกร์ที่ 1 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Thoughts Become Things

So many people I know say they hate reading. What they seem not to get is that a book is an alternate universe, where you can go anywhere, or choose to just set the book down and leave that universe alone. -Zeke Willey

The steps to success are arranged in this chronological order:

Visualization ===> Thoughts ===> Action ===> Results

First, we visualize. Then, we summon up our talents, charm and virtues and act on our dreams. We become as powerful as the protagonists in our favorite stories and defeat the obstacles along the way. Finally, we live our dreams. In every step of the way, reading helps.

Making dreams come true: Stories can bring us to wonderlands that we have yet to imagine prior to reading a book. Through stories, our dreams are either created or expanded into our own reality.

Here are some characters we meet in fairytales:
1. Snow White represents the danger in being an object of envy.
2. Little Red Riding Hood is an ordinary girl who has great devotion to her grandmother and the big bad wolf is literally and figuratively a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing.
3. The Ugly Duckling, before its swan hood stage had to cope with issues concerning rejection and poor self esteem.
4. Cinderella is the epitome of a person whose transformation from a dirty ash girl to a lovely bride happened because of hard work and charm-attributes which can help us succeed in life.

In both work and play, we meet our own versions of Snow Whites, Riding Hoods, big bad wolves and ugly ducklings. We have bosses and friends who can be as kind as the huntsman in Red Riding Hood or as cunning as the witch in Snow White. Cinderella inspires everyone -students, workers and even office managers to be as humble, hardworking and charming as Cinderella.

Aside from fairy tale characters, there are embellished heroes like Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan; Davy Crockett and the seven Chinese brothers who solve problems in funny and exaggerated ways; the wily tricksters like Anansi who's capable of outwitting the gods and lots of people whose brains are filled with noodles and do foolish things. We call them noodlehead characters.

In nonfiction reading, think about what we could learn from the biographies of successful people like Thomas Edison, Helen Keller, Bill Clinton, Beatrix Potter, Hans Christian Anderson and so many more.

Children are able to empathize with these characters in some way or another. Reading about the characters' adventures and misadventures; their successes and follies and their vices and virtues can guide our children into undertaking the most appropriate actions and solving problems in the most intelligent way.

Reading also prepares our children to deal with all the types, shapes, sizes and characters of people they will be meeting in real life. It makes them realize the consequences of certain actions; magnifies the mistakes to avoid and guides them to the right directions.