Saturday, March 28, 2009

Mental Health Terms

These are some of the definitions found in the Optimum Nutrition Questionnaire:
Anxiety- a range from feelings of uneasiness to immobilizing bouts of terror. Most people experience anxiety at some point in their lives and some nervousness in anticipation of a real situation. However if a person cannot shake unwarranted worries, or if the feelings are jarring to the point of avoiding everyday activities, he or she most likely has an anxiety disorder.
Apathy- to suffer: Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.
Confusion- Impaired orientation with respect to time, place, or person; a disturbed mental state. : disturbance of consciousness characterized by inability to engage in orderly thought or by lack of power to distinguish, choose, or act decisively.
Depression- a mood disorder characterized by intense feelings of sadness that persist beyond a few weeks. Two neurotransmitters-natural substances that allow brain cells to communicate with one another-are implicated in depression: serotonin and nor epinephrine.
Dizzy- Without distinct thought; unreflected; thoughtless; heedless, mentally confused, lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
Dysfunction- Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or organ.
Fatigue- The decreased capacity or complete inability of an organism, an organ, or a part to function normally because of excessive stimulation or prolonged exertion. a weakened state caused by long stress; the temporary loss of power to respond induced in a sensory receptor or motor end organ by continued stimulation
Hyperactivity- a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement, a state of being excessively or pathologically active; with minimal brain dysfunction or hyperkinesis
Hyperkinesis- in Psychiatry. a disorder occurring in children and adolescents, characterized by excessive activity, extreme restlessness, impulsivity, and a short attention span
Irritability- The capacity to respond to stimuli.Abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli of an organism, organ, or body part.
Insomnia- prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep- also agrypnia
Listless- Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic: reacted to the latest crisis with listless resignation.
Mind-mapping - a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.
Nervous- relating to the nerves or nervous system: nervous tissue.Easily agitated or distressed; high-strung or jumpy, Marked by or having a feeling of unease or apprehension
Restless- Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; Deprived of rest or sleep
Teeth Grinding or Bruxism- The habitual, involuntary grinding or clenching of the teeth, usually during sleep, but not always--- as from anger, tension, fear, or frustration.
Tension- a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; from fatigue, emotional tension, stress is a vasoconstrictor, feelings of hostility that are not manifest;

The Optimum Nutrition Qusestioaire allows you to adjust your nutrients according to the aspects of your health and lifestyles. Hope this helps you to better understand the questionaire and answer more completely.
The Optimum Nutrition Bible By Patrick Holford

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Clean Animals of Levitical Law


The following list, based on Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, identifies many of animals God designates as clean and unclean. The list uses their common names.
Clean Animals
Animals With Clean Characteristics:
*Animals That Chew the Cud and Part the Hoof:
Antelope, Bison (buffalo), Caribou, Cattle(beef, veal), Deer(venison), Elk, Gazelle, Giraffe, Goat, HartIbex, Moose, Ox, Reindeer, Sheep(lamb, mutton)
Fish With Fins and Scales: Anchovy, Barracuda, Bass, Black pomfret(or monchong), Bluefish, Bluegill, Carp, Cod, Crappie, Drum, Flounder, Grouper, Grunt, Haddock, Hake, Halibut, Hardhead, Herring(or alewife), Kingfish, Mackerel, Mahimahi(or dorado, dolphinfish[not to be confused with the mammal dolphin]), Minnow, Mullet, Perch(or bream), Pike(or pickerel or jack), Pollack(or pollock or Boston bluefish), Rockfish, Salmon, Sardine(or pilchard), ShadSilver hake(or whiting), Smelt(or frost fish or ice fish), Snapper(or ebu, jobfish, lehi, onaga, opakapaka or uku), Sole, Steelhead, Sucker, Sunfish, Tarpon, Trout(or weakfish), Tuna (or ahi, aku, albacore, bonito or tombo), Whitefish
Birds With Clean Characteristics: Chicken, Dove, Duck, Goose, Grouse, Guinea fowl, Partridge, Peafowl, Pheasant, Pigeon, Prairie chicken, Ptarmigan, Quail, Sagehen, Sparrow(and other songbirds), Swan, Teal, Turkey,
*Insects Types of locusts that may include crickets and grasshoppers
Leviticus 11
Clean and Unclean Food
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, 2 "Say to the Israelites: 'Of all the animals that live on land, these are the ones you may eat: 3 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud. 4 " 'There are some that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. 5 The coney, [a] though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. 6 The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. 7 And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. 8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. 9 " 'Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. 10 But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales—whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water—you are to detest. 11 And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses. 12 Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you. 13 " 'These are the birds you are to detest and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite, 15 any kind of raven, 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. [b]

Unclean Animals

Unclean Animals
Animals With Unclean Characteristics:
*Swine: Boar, PeccaryPig (hog, bacon, ham, lard, pork, most sausage and pepperoni),
*Canines: Coyote, Dog, Fox, Hyena, Jackal, Wolf
*Felines: Cat, Cheetah, Leopard, Lion, Panther, Tiger
*Equines: Ass, Donkey, Horse, Mule, Onager, Zebra (quagga)
*Other: Armadillo, Badger, Bear, Beaver, Camel, Elephant, Gorilla, Groundhog, Hare, Hippopotamus, Kangaroo, Llama (alpaca, vicuña), Mole, Monkey, Mouse, Muskrat, Opossum, Porcupine, Rabbit, Raccoon, Rat, Rhinoceros, Skunk, Slug, Snail (escargot), Squirrel, Wallaby, Weasel, Wolverine, Worm, All insects except some in the locust family
*Marine Animals, Without Scales and Fins Fish: Bullhead Catfish, Eel, European Turbot, Marlin, Paddlefish, Sculpin, Shark, Stickleback, Squid, Sturgeon (includes most caviar), Swordfish
*Shellfish: Abalone, Clam, Crab, Crayfish, Lobster, Mussel, Prawn, Oyster, Scallop, Shrimp, Soft body Cuttlefish, Jellyfish, Limpet, Octopus, Squid (calamari)
*Sea mammals: Dolphin, Otter, Porpoise, Seal, Walrus, Whale,
*Birds of Prey, Scavengers and Others: Albatross, Bat, Bittern, Buzzard, Condor, Coot, Cormorant, Crane, Crow, Cuckoo, Eagle, Flamingo, Grebe, Grosbeak, GullHawk, Heron, Kite, Lapwing, Loon, Magpie, Osprey, Ostrich, Owl, Parrot, Pelican, Penguin, Plover, Rail, Raven, Roadrunner, Sandpiper, Seagull, Stork, Swallow, Swift, Vulture, Water hen, Woodpecker
*Reptiles: Alligator, Caiman, Crocodile, Lizard, Snake, Turtle, Amphibians, Blindworm, Frog, Newt, Salamander, Toad

Flax

Flax is a beautiful flower and the seeds are so good for you too! Click on the Flax image to read the facts!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Liver is Like an Oli Filter of a Car

The Liver is like the car's oil filter. Poorly digested food, sugar, refined carbohydrates, alcohol, heavy metals (like lead and mercury), pesticides and pollutions are all filtered through your liver. Your liver makes bile (a bitter, alkaline substance) that is stored in your gall bladder between meals. After eating, your gall bladder releases the bile, helping get rid of toxic waste and digesting fats. The pancreas secretes the pancreatic juice, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion.

A doctor supervised 7 day cleanse helps to clean the whole body. Milk Thistle seeds are what herbalists have used for 2000 years to treat chronic liver disease and protect the liver against toxins. Milk Thistle is a good way to start a liver cleanse. It helps to get the stagnation moving out of the liver and perform better.
Maintain your body, and liver... like you would your car!

Beets and Carrots

I am sure you have heard:
An Apple a day, keeps the doctor away!
Well, -the same could be said for Beets and Carrots!
Use 3oz. of beet juice daily because of the high levels of anti-oxidents that keeps the blood clean. Eating raw carrots every day, coats all of the body's organs to protect them from disease. So add beet juice to your favorite veggie drink and munch on carrots while watching TV!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Food Should be Your Body's Medicine

“Unless A Man Be Born From Above”
ROM 8:6 ~ The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the
Spirit is life and peace.

CDC New Figures from 2008
Why US Citizens Have an ADDICTIVE BRAIN
*5 billion tranquilizers per year
* 1/3 high school students binge drink every 2 weeks
*One Hundred Thousand children, ages 10-11, get drunk weekly
*4 Hundred & Fifty Million cups of coffee are drunk every day
*2.7 gallons of alcohol per person are drunk each year
*2.2 Million people use cocaine once a week
*238 Billion dollars spent annually on drugs and alcohol
*1% of children, ages 2-19, meet Federal Standards for a healthy diet

New York Times Reported for 2008
*Average age of drug addiction starts at ages 6 to 12 years old
*From 1997 there’s been a 300% jump in sales Prozac, Zoloft, & Paxil for children, and anti-depressants
*40 Million children yearly, experience direct results from alcohol related issues
-This includes: Violence & Death, Traffic Fatalities, Suicide, Cirrhosis of the Liver, and Homicide
Fatalities before 20 years of age
*Highest rate of Childhood Obesity ever and 40% of their diet consists of Fat and White Sugar

Biologically Altered Brains Is the Result of:
*Poor pre-natal nutritin
*Poor over all diet/lifestyle

Enviromental and Mental Forces Result in:
*Mental stresses *Physical Stresses
*Toxins *Allergy Causing Chemicals

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Ga Crops & Harvest Dates

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Read more at: http://www.pickyourown.org/gadates.htm

Names of Sugar

NO ONE should use Sugar; it destroys the body!
Also stay away from the packets that are pink, blue or yellow. Artificial sugar causes cancer. Try a natural, no calorie sweetener from the stevia leaf ~ Truvia.
One of the worst offenders of sugar that distroys the body is soft drinks. They are very high in bone-dissolving phosphorus. When sugar is added to phosphorus, the volume of carbonation is increased and it kills the body's hydrochloric acid, so it takes the digestive juices away from where it needs to be.
More Information at-http://truvia.com/

Friday, March 6, 2009

"Drinks" Lecture

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Eat for Your Blood Type

The concept to "Eat Right For Your Type" - or "Blood Type Diet " is based on research conducted by Peter D'Adamo, ND, who claims that people fare better (including with weight management) whentailoring their diet to their specific blood types. He advises:
Type A types should basically stick to fruits and vegetables (high carbs / low fat). They have thicker blood than other blood types, a sensitive immune system, and should not consume dairy products, animal fats and meats. They are at a heightened risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

Type B types should consume a balanced diet (fruits and vegetables, grains, fish, dairy, meat, but avoid chicken). They have the best chance of bypassing or overcoming everyday types of diseases, including heart disease and cancer.

Type AB types should consume a mostly vegetarian diet, and only on rare occasions some fish, meat(no chicken),and dairy.

Type O types should basically stick to a high protein diet (including red meat), low carbs, & enriched with fruits and vegetables. They should limit the intake of wheat germ, whole wheat products, corn, and avoid dairy products and most nuts. Type O types are commonly affected with hypothyroidism, high stomach acid (leading to ulcers), and thinner blood with greater resistance to blood clotting.

Do you know your blood type?

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