Tea Tree Oil - A Natural Wonder
Tree tea oil (melaleuca alternifolia) is a natural remedy and wonder, healthy and green, and a powerful antibiotic. I am crazy about tea tree oil! A mere couple of drops with lots of water can soothe and heal your body, or clean your home. Here's how your body and home can benefit from tea tree oil:
- Cuts
- Scratches
- Mouth sores
- Nail fungus
- Stinky feet
- Acne
- Athlete's foot
- Deodorizer
- Bug Bites
- Eczema
- Household cleaning
- Lice
- Yeast infections
- MRSA
Currently, triclosan is a common ingredient in many antibiotics and toiletries. However, laboratory studies have shown that triclosan produces chloroform, a probable carcinogen (read article). In addition, research shows a link between triclosan and the growth of antimicrobial drug resistance (read the Center for Disease Control research article). Amazingly, tea tree oil wonder is powerful enough to kill off the "superbug", also known as MRSA, or staphylococcus aureus, a very ugly and deadly virus.
With tea tree oil, you can use it with confidence, knowing your body can be healed naturally, one drop at a time.
So why not? Heal your body, your home and your world every time you use tea tree oil.
Happy healing!
Eating Healthy & Belly Flattening Foods
Indeed, crunches and sit-ups are always a great way to tone and flatten your stomach, but did you know you can also speed up the process of by eating certain types of food? Five food groups, when also combined with water, will help to burn off belly fat. God has given us a natural and healthy food supply chain. Let's go back to the source of healthy living and stop the insanity and addiction to man-made and processed food.
Let's take a look at five natural food wonders:
1. Vegetables: Your mom always told you to eat all your veggies and now you can be grateful she encouraged you to do so. Vegetable are incredibly healthy for you! Because they are fiber-rich, veggies fills your tummy, while also reducing the amount of sugar flowing in your your bloodstream and decreasing insulin. On top of these benefits, some veggies are also loaded with anti-oxidants and lower the chance for cancer. Stick with dark green and leafy vegetables, and let God's delicious vegetables perform its wonders.
2. Nuts: Many of us grew up hearing that nuts were so fattening and therefore a weight gainer. Yet, research has proven that nuts contain healthy fatty acids, fiber and protein, all controlling appetite and reducing belly fat. Next time you are hungry, grab some fiber-rich almonds, filling your hunger while burning belly fat.
3. Avocados: Yup, it is true, your beloved guacamole is healthy for you! Loaded with monounsaturated fatty acids, avocados help to lose excess belly fat. So, the next time you make a sandwich, consider using avocados as a spread instead of the real fattening one, mayo. Hold the mayo, but load the avocado. By the way, try avocado, monterey jack cheese and alfalfa sprouts on whole wheat bread. Yum!
4. Yogurt: Research tell us that calcium-rich foods, like low-fat milk and yogurt, expedite the metabolism process, helping to burn off the dreaded belly fat. It is thought that calcium-rich foods reduces the amount of fat absorbed by food. One of my favorite meals is a bowl of Trader Joes non-fat vanilla yogurt with frozen cherries. Yummy!
5. Wholegrains: Stop buying and consuming fattening white breads and pasta, and load up on whole-grain breads, rice, cereals and pasta. You'll lose belly fat and reduce your chance of heart disease. When I was a child, my father always spouted the benefits of wheat bread, while my mom bought white bread. One day, my father was so fed up with it, he grabbed the white bread and squished it like an accordion, calling it a dough ball as he did so. We giggled, but from that day on, we only consumed whole wheat bread.
Let today be a new beginning for you. Start burning belly fat by incorporating these delicious fat fighting foods into your diet. Before you know it, you'll be reducing belly fat and be belly flat, easily and without great effort. In addition, you can stop the corporate greed that not only makes millions off processed food, but contributes to the rising rate of cancer and other health maladies.
Eat off God's natural creation and be healthy, in more ways than one.
Thank you, God, for your creation and healthy, organic food!
"The Visitor" Movie Review :: Of Immigration, Love and Friendship
This weekend I saw the movie "The Visitor", and it is one of my favorite films ever. "The Visitor" is a reminder that one's life can be forever altered in a moment, simply by meeting people in the most unlikely of ways. The main character of this movie, Walter, is a Professor of Economics who, upon making a business trip to New York, stumbles upon unlikely friendships. The film is about relationships, love, friendship, cultural differences, and the underworld of illegal immigrants. It is a touching film that will surely make you laugh, cry, and speak out against deportation of some illegal immigrants. The cast of characters are wonderfully crafted, intertwined, and unusual.
Many illegal immigrants are simply seeking political asylum or a better economic future for themselves and/or family. Should we deport every illegal immigrant? No, only those who commit crimes and/or have ties to terrorist activity. Often, illegal immigrants risk their lives to come to the United States, with the hope that they will have a better life. Let's provide ways for illegal immigrants to earn a legal income and gain education, so they can have access to a better life.
That being said, the "bad ones", those illegal immigrants who commit crimes, need to return to their home country, where they can be locked up in prison. Why should our prison system be burdened with illegals, while our tax dollars are spent supporting their incarceration? Send them home. On the other hand, as I've stated, let the moral and law abiding immigrants flourish and prosper.
Remember, somewhere down your line, your family immigrated here too, legal or not.