Cinnamon and Honey

I received this in email. I've not done much research on either honey or cinnamon, so can't speak to the validity. I have heard that honey and cinnamon have good properties, but as to the following, well, do your research if you care to.

Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey. However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call "crystallizing".

When this happens I loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water, off the heat and let it liquefy. It is then as good as it ever was.

Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey.

Cinnamon and Honey

~ Bet the drug companies won't like this one getting around.~

Facts on Honey and Cinnamon:

It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a 'Ram Ban' (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases.

Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.

Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada, in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:

Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.

Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat.

In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:

Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:

Take two tablespoons of cin namon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

CHOLESTEROL:

Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours.

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As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:

Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:

Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:

According to the studies done in India and Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:

Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:

Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:

A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural 'Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:

Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increase, and even a 100 year old starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES:

Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:

Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:

Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:

Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:

Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful, rather than being detrimental, to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey, taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

BAD BREATH:

People of South America, first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:

Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing. Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!

God's Pharmacy

Even if you don't accept the religious aspect, the descriptions are very interesting. So, read and enjoy!

It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... All before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born.

These are best & more powerful when eaten raw.

We're such slow learners.....

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red... The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb, and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocados, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

The Metabolically Challenged

If you’ve been reading this blog from the beginning, you know I’ve had my difficulties losing weight (like most other Americans!)

About eighteen months ago, I started a program through my insurance company and had good success to begin with. The first five months showed successful weight loss, but then in October of last year, I hit a wall.

It began when I got tired of being on a diet. It didn’t matter that I kept telling myself it wasn’t a diet, but a new way of eating. I was bored and tired of watching and recording everything I put in my mouth and having to exercise. I am apparently somewhat lazy by nature, but there were other problems too. I had little motivation to do anything I didn’t “have” to do. And if motivated to exercise, I soon lost interest.

All this was reflected in my weekly weigh-ins. I’d lose a couple of pounds then gain them back. I knew that I wasn’t working the plan as I had been, so I accepted that the fault was mine. But, even though I wanted to lose the weight, it was getting harder and harder to motivate myself to work the plan as I needed to work it to achieve the weight loss I really wanted.

In January I started a walking program and got back into “working the program”. I was lucky that I was in an office that had a microwave, so I took my breakfast and lunch to work, microwaved as necessary, ate at my desk and then walked during my break times. My supervisors knew I was on this program (in fact, one was on the same program) and didn’t say anything thing about eating at my desk. I began to see some changes in my body, and some in my weight. My weight didn’t really change much because I was building (and rebuilding) muscle. So, while I may have lost actual weight, I also gained because I was gaining muscle weight. My counselor was aware and wasn’t too concerned because she realized why the weight loss wasn’t showing much success.

The doctor decided that I might be diabetic or insulin resistant, and if not diabetic, then pre-diabetic and sent me for an A1C blood test. I wasn’t sure about being insulin resistant, but I knew I wasn’t diabetic and I was proved right on that score. I also wasn’t insulin resistant. No one could explain why I wasn’t showing more weight loss.

In March, I was still walking and my body was showing results. My legs were looking good, starting to show a nice shape and toned muscle. Then disaster struck.

I have had plantar's fasciitis for several years, but no problems for about three years. Well, all the walking I was doing caused the plantar's fascii to revolt. My heel began to hurt while walking. I was coming up on some vacation time, so I decided to stop my daily walking and during my vacation I would rest the foot as much as possible.

While the pain lessened somewhat, I still had trouble walking. I could do the “normal” walking, but trying to maintain any walking for exercise was out of the question. There were times when my heel hurt so bad, especially on standing, that I had to just stop whatever I was doing until the pain lessened. That’s not really feasible in my work. Without saying much about what I do (my company has put out an order stating that we not say where we work or what we do. It’s not so much that what I do is classified – it’s not, although we do have to maintain certain security levels- but more about company image), I have to be able to move about freely and quickly – lives could possibly be endangered if I can’t move fast.

Anyway. In April, I finally went to the podiatrist and had my foot strapped. I knew that would do the trick. Except this time it didn’t work as well as it had in the past. After being re-strapped a couple more times, the doctor decided to put me in orthodics to give my foot the support it needed. That’s helped, but even today, I still have some daily pain. Aleeve helps. I usually take one in the morning and another in the afternoon if I need it.

Now, from March on, I haven’t been able to do my walking program. My weight fluctuated, on average, three or four pounds, gain or loss, from one week to the next. The doctor in charge of the weight program understood that my lack of walking (my chosen form of exercise) wasn’t my fault, it was due to a physical condition. Apparently, because of my foot problem, and the fact that I was following all the requirements, and went for the blood tests when they wanted, I was allowed to continue the program.

I completed the program in April, the only one in my work group who did so, by the way, but didn’t achieve the weight loss expected. So, there was joy and sadness in my “graduation”. I learned the lessons, lost nearly 50 pounds, and learned that I could do it. I was sad because I hadn't reached the goal set by the program or my personal goals.

Since I’ve been off the program, and unable to walk I’ve regained some of the weight. I knew it would happen, so it wasn’t unexpected. I knew in my heart that there was something else going on. I know as you age, losing weight is harder. I also know that my lack of motivation was a part of the problem. I stayed on the program very well for about five months. I didn’t deprive myself of anything. I learned early on that I could eat whatever I wanted; I just had to learn moderation and portion control. I knew that exercise had to be part of any weight loss program; diet alone doesn’t do it any more than exercise alone. And especially at my age and my weight.

I saw something the other day that got me wondering. Now, I know, everyone who wants to lose weight wants either an excuse why they can’t lose weight, or a magic bullet that will allow them to continue to eat and exercise (or not) as they want and still lose weight. If we’re all honest, we know that you can’t eat in excess, not exercise, and still lose weight, and that the excuses are just that: excuses to not even try.

What I saw was something called Metabolism B. This is apparently a metabolic disorder I had never heard of. I mentioned it to a friend who is also “weight challenged” and she told me it was all over the Internet. Well, that might be true, but it wasn’t where I had seen it, so I decided to do some looking around. I still haven’t done enough reading, but I seem to fit the pattern for this particular disorder.

Now, I’m not saying this is an excuse or a magic bullet, but from what I’ve seen so far, it might be something worth looking into if you have difficulty (and you’ve honestly worked “diet” and exercise programs) and struggling to lose that fat you’ve been carrying around for years.

Diane Kress, RD, CDE is the author of the best-selling book on this subject, The Metabolism Miracle. The blurb below is from the webpage for the book.

Do you keep gaining weight, despite your efforts to diet?

Do the pounds accumulate around your tummy?

Do you feel tired, irritable, and unable to focus?

Unlock the Secret of Metabolism B:

The Key to a Leaner and Healthier You

For over twenty years, weight loss and diabetes specialist Diane Kress, RD CDE, has worked with thousands of people in their quest to lose weight, get healthy, and feel their best. Over the years she became aware that a group of people (what turned out to be over 45% of people who struggled to lose weight and keep it off!) had a very similar story to tell. They dieted like anyone else, but didn’t get the results they deserved for their efforts. Even increases in exercise didn’t make a real difference in their weight loss efforts and a stubborn roll of fat around the middle became source of frustration. Not only did their weight yo yo, they began to feel less energetic, less healthy, and felt a lesser quality of life.

I read those three questions and said:

1. I lose weight, but after a while, it gets harder to lose. I get bored and lose motivation, true, but even when I’m really working a diet, it gets harder.

2. Not just yes, but HELL yes! I lost 50 pounds, but lost only two sizes and most of the weight is in my torso – including the belly.

3. I am tired all the time, no matter how sleep I get (or don’t get). I can sleep four hours or ten (or more) and I don’t feel much different. I’m generally upbeat, but little things can certainly irritate me that really shouldn’t. Unable to focus? Well, maybe, but not nearly so much a problem as the tiredness and irritability.

I found another page on the site that had more questions, and while some of them weren’t true of me, others were, and some in spades! About 45% of people who struggle to take off weight fall into this group of the metabolically challenged.

Now, I’m not saying this is the answer to my weight problems. I don’t know, I haven’t tried the program yet, but I think I will. I’m going to do more research, get the book and see what this is all about. If it works for me, I’ll let you know. I’ll also let you know if it doesn’t.

You have to be honest with yourself when on a diet/exercise plan. Are you really working the program or goofing off? If you’re really working it and not losing, there might be a reason why it’s not working for you. It could be the program isn’t right for you. Try something else. Maybe you need to mix up your exercise. If you really think about it, you’ll know the truth: you’re not working the program, or that there might be another reason for your lack of success.

Best Way To Eat Fruit

I got this in email, so I don't know whether it's good information or not, but it "feels" right. Take it as use it as you see fit.

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!

* FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD. Let's say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.

So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining - "every time I eat watermelon I burp", "when I eat durian my stomach bloats up", "when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet", etc - actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will not happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the Secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.

When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.

But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!

KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.

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The Dr Shelton referred to above was not exactly mainstream, but that doesn't mean he was wrong. Again, remember that this is offered for your consideration only and for your use as you see fit.

Beanzawave - Coming Soon To Your....Laptop?

Heinz has developed this prototype microwave which is powered by your laptop via a USB cable. Great idea for those who find it difficult to get away from their desks.

It would be great in my workplace. We work 12-hour shifts, and apart from two 45-minute breaks, don't get away from our work areas. Most of us pack lunchbags with snacks and cold drinks, but sometimes we need hot drinks. Our control rooms can get cold some days and a hot coffee or tea would be a welcome addition.

At the very least, it's a cool, new gadget, that if the price comes down, could be a welcome addition to most work stations.

Find out more here

Lady Doctor Gets Death Threats for Revealing TOP SECRET Fat Loss Secret to General Public!

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life!

A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered -- and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.

Her name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, and she's marching to the beat of a different drum.

And no, nothing about her "secret" is difficult -- nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.

Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly "...this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first ... but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results."

This same woman medical practitioner went on to accurately determine a definitive correlation between harmful plague and parasitic infestations of the human bowel tract, and people suffering chronic obesity -- and who despite intense diet and exercise appeared to be unable to lose any weight whatsoever.

Over the course of six years the Arizona doctor developed a number of natural treatments for the removal of these same harmful, even life-threatening plaques and rapidly reproducing digestive parasites -- and when applied to even worse-case patients suffering extreme obesity (98% of which were in immediate danger of dying) she saw a 100% effectiveness and success rate.

She then borrowed from her research on the severely obese, and applied the same strategies on milder cases of overweight persons -- only to find the same effectiveness and quality results as described above (although the individual weight loss per subject wasn't nearly as much as those obese patients 100 lbs to 200 lbs or more overweight).

So powerful is her secret that she's able to reverse diabetes, rid illness altogether in people suffering from cancer (linked directly to poor diet and overweight factors), as well as an elimination of an entire spectrum of serious and otherwise life-threatening diseases.

Nearly 100% of all her case subjects were told in the alternative by "conventional doctors" that they either had just months or years to live, or they would never live a life anything resembling remotely a "normal" existence -- yet after applying Dr Suzanne's treatments saw a complete contradiction to others doctors' prognoses.

Again, nothing about her secret is unnatural or requires someone to do any major action or modification in their lives.

In fact, her entire treatment is based completely on built-into-nature 'protection agents' scattered throughout the world in the form of select herbs, extracts, and organic constituents, and which can be found in a variety of plants -- but when combined in specific combinations and carefully chosen amounts make for a solution to what is perhaps the world's worst ever plague: OBESITY (and the illnesses and diseases resulting from it -- or at least severely aggravated or exacerbated by it).

Now to everyone else's great gain, whether suffering from just a few extra pounds and inches, to those extremely fat and overweight, this brave, bold lady doctor is releasing to the general public her secret for forever destroying the tight unrelenting closed-fist of obesity's stronghold over the now more than 40% of Americans labeled obese, and others worldwide. 

But she's not promising any of us for how long.

Some experts and sociologists suggest that in the bigger scheme of things, the world will never tolerate a discovery of such magnitude, any more than it would be realistic to expect a car that runs on water (even if very real) to ever become commercially available to the general public for day-to-day use.

One well-respected and famous diet & wellness author wrote years ago that if anyone ever "truly unlocked the keys to permanent fat loss, they may actually suffer the same fate as JFK."

It is currently available here.

...so you may want to head on over there now and get it and before someone or "something" gets it forever yanked out of ever getting in YOUR hand at least.

It's in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.

While you're there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in rapid, massive weight loss and extremely improved and enhanced health, now made freely available to the rest of us?