Grow Your Own Healthy Foods
It can be difficult to feed your family healthy foods, after all it’s often cheaper and a lot more convenient just to reach for the closest unhealthy sugar-filled snack in the pantry.
It’s a lot easier to eat healthy foods when there is an easy supply at hand - so why not grow your own healthy foods? Growing your garden is a great way to have healthy food available right at your fingertips and, while it requires a little bit of work, you get the added satisfaction of knowing that you grew them all by yourself and that you’re providing for your family.
The most commonly grown healthy foods in gardens are fruits and vegetables.
When planting these foods, choose carefully, especially if you have limited space. You want to be able to choose crops that will grow well in your area, but you should also consider what you have time and space to grow, and what your family will eat. For example, you may have perfect soil and space for tomatoes, but it your family won’t eat them, there’s not much point in growing them.
The Dangers of Second Hand Smoke
Complete bans on smoking in restaurants, stores and in some cases entire cities are becoming more and more commonplace these days. The reason for this is that we now know that not only can you die from smoking cigarettes, but you can also die from breathing in smoke in the air around us.
Second hand smoke, whether it’s from the burning end of the cigarette, or from the smokers mouth, can be a serious hazard to your health. Here are just a few of the many problems caused by second hand smoke.
- Second hand smoke contains over 60 chemicals that cause or may cause cancer. Thousands of non-smokers die of lung cancer from second hand smoke every year.
- Some of the toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke are: formaldehyde, benzene, vinyl chlorine, arsenic ammonia, and hydrogen cyanide.
- Second hand smoke causes heart disease in non-smokers. These heart disease cases account for tens of thousands of deaths every year.
- Many non-smokers visit the doctor every year for lung related problems caused by second hand smoke. These problems range from coughing to a drop in lung functioning.
- The incidence of breast cancer may be increased by exposure to second hand smoke.
Herb Turkey Scaloppine
Ingredients:
4 turkey cutlets, about 4 to 6 ounces each
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons herbes de Provence
Instructions:
Use a meat pounder to flatten the turkey cutlets between waxed paper sheets. Insert the herbes de Provence into turkey cutlets. Heat the oil in an skillet until it begins to smoke. Cook each side until golden brown. (approximately 8 minutes)
Anxiety Attack Symptoms and Treatment
Imagine that you’re sitting at home, or at a desk in the office, when completely out of the blue your chest suddenly tightens up causing you severe pain, you have trouble catching your breath, and your palms start to sweat. Immediately your mind goes into overdrive and you fear the worst, thinking to yourself “am having a heart attack?”.
If you’ve experienced these symptoms and you weren’t having a heart attack, you’re probably already aware of what an anxiety attack is.
Anxiety attacks are periods of extreme worry and panic that manifest themselves physically. They can come on slowly or be triggered by a specific event. There are a number of common symptoms associated with panic or anxiety attacks which include shortness of breath, pain or tightness in the chest, shaking, dizziness, a pounding in the chest, nausea and vomiting, and hot or cold flashes. Many people who are experiencing a panic attack believe they are having a physical problem or that they are simply going crazy.
Kelp & Cucumbers Pickled with Soy
Kelp goes great in many pickle recipes. This recipe utilizes natural salt in kelp and fermented soy.
Ingredients:
12 in. dried kelp
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 medium cucumber
Instructions:
Rinse kelp and cut into strips 2 inches long x 1/2 inch wide. Wash cucumber and cut into 1/2 in. thick rounds. Place kelp strips in a pickle jar, pour in soy sauce, then mix in cucumber rounds. Cover and refrigerate at least 24 hours. Replenish as needed using pickling mixture 3-4 times.