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Published on Leave a comment on 20 Produce Mistakes You Didn’t Know You Were Making – Helpful Guidelines by RD

By Kristine Solomon - TheHealthy.Com - RD

Here's how to store your fruits and veggies to keep them from spoiling too fast,
as well as how to use stems, leaves, and other "scraps" to get the most out of your produce.

Produce Mistakes To Avoid

Fresh fruits and vegetables are some of the most nutrient-rich foods you can buy. But sometimes it seems like they can spoil way too quickly or go bad before you know it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Storing produce properly can make it last a lot longer, and cooking it or consuming it in certain ways can maximize the health benefits.

Storing Produce Correctly aka Not To Crowd Fridges:)
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“Fresh fruits and vegetables are some of your most powerful tools for health and wellness and it’s worth it to learn how to buy and cook them,” says Shari Portnoy, RD with the American Council of Science and Health practicing in New York City.

Ever wonder if it’s possible to make better use of “scraps” like stems, leaves, and peels? The answer is yes.

“There are so many myths about food and that leads to a lot of common mistakes when shopping for groceries, including produce,” says Bonnie Taub-Dix, RDN in Woodmere, New York, and author of Read It Before You Eat It.…

Published on Leave a comment on Things Our Opticians Are Not Telling Us About DIET In Relation To EYE CARE

And this is only Part of the Story of Vital Questions they are Not ASKING US and Vital Guidelines they are Not Giving Us that are Imperative for the HEALTH of Our Precious EYES.

What's the reason for this? They're only into SELLING GLASSES basically which have several hundred percent markup on, someone informed us on YouTube several years back who left that line of work.

So I'm Calling Them Out for not only their Outrageous Profits but for not asking us how much SCREENTIME do we Subject our Eyes to each Day and Evening, and do we punish our eyes with Too Much BLUE LIGHT Exposure from Excessive Screen Use.

It would also be of immense benefit to Most of Us if they gave us a Printout of something like the following. My word it would, because the more you research Vision and Eyecare, you see it has a LOT to do with DIET. If you read on, you will see why. And it will make plenty of sense. Shall we go?

What’s the Worst Food for your Eyes? Beware of These 5

Does what I eat affect what I see?…

Published on Leave a comment on Teenager ‘Blind’ From Living Off Crisps And Chips: Our Eyes Don’t Favor Diet Abuse – Lets Be Kind To Them!

Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online

Experts are warning about the risks of extreme restrictive eating after a teen developed permanent sight loss after living on a diet of chips and crisps.

Eye doctors in Bristol UK cared for the 17-year-old after his vision had deteriorated to the point of blindness.

Since leaving primary school, the teen had been eating only French fries, Pringles and white bread, as well as an occasional slice of ham or a sausage.

Tests revealed he had severe vitamin deficiencies and malnutrition damage.

Chips and Junk Food are BAD for Our EYES

Malnourished

Three years later, he was taken to the Bristol Eye Hospital because of progressive sight loss, Annals of Internal Medicine journal reports.

Dr Denize Atan, who treated him at the hospital, said: "His diet was essentially a portion of chips from the local fish and chip shop every day. He also used to snack on crisps - Pringles - and sometimes slices of white bread and occasional slices of ham, and not really any fruit and vegetables.

"He explained this as an aversion to certain textures of food that he really could not tolerate, and so chips and crisps were really the only types of food that he wanted and felt that he could eat."…

Published on Leave a comment on ‘I Married The Train Driver Who Saved My Life’ A Couple Share Their Story To Help Those Who Feel Down

From the BBC Good News

This article contains a small reference to suicide and a mental health issue.

On a summer afternoon in 2019, nurse Charlotte Lay got ready for her night shift as normal but "wasn't feeling quite right".

Within a short space of time she had decided to end her own life close to a West Yorkshire railway station.

But thanks to the kindness of the train driver who found her in crisis, she did not go through with it.

Three years later they married each other and went on to have children.

The couple credit each other with saving their lives

"I'd struggled with my mental health since my teens and I'd been in and out of the system since," Charlotte, now 33, says.

Her memories of that day five years ago are "quite blurry" but she says she remembers seeing a train pulling up on the tracks where she was.

"I remember seeing a man getting off the train and starting to panic and thinking he was going to tell me off," she recalls.

"He approached me and said 'hi, my name is Dave, are you having a bad day?'…

Published on Leave a comment on Managing Stress Proves Helpful for Headaches and Migraines; IBS and Flair-Ups with Anxiety Etc

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Years

‘Whenever I feel down, I activate the power of Choice – then I feel better.’
Allan Lowery

Hi there, I'm going to give you a few Ways you can Manage Stress Better
for the Sake of Your Health. Here are a number of Ways you can do that.
Is that OK with You? Let's go!

RELAXING MUSIC
Quietly Played like Light Instrumental and Light Orchestral with or without Birdsongs or Ocean Waves; Light Classical or Easy-Listening or Folk Music.
Hear Music-1 Music-2 Music-3 if You Like
(They are at the top of Your Screen also)

NEED FOR EXERCISE
Walking is found to be the Best Exercise for Most People - especially in Parks or Nature Settings - you can do Brisk Walking or Strolling or Japanese Walking with Brisk and Slow Walking in 5 or 1o Minute Relays; Hiking or Simple non-demanding Cycling; Visits to the Beach, River or Hills or a Small Country Drive; Swimming, Paddling or Strolling along in the Shoreline or Collecting Pebbles and Shells; Singing along to oneself or in the Shower;  Low Maintenance Gardening with Flowers or Herbs and Veggies in Containers or Raised Garden Beds.…

Published on Leave a comment on Janet doesn’t Endorse these Diets: Keto or Carnivore….No-Fat Low-Fat….Dash Diet….You Should Know Why!

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Years

Be it known that in particular, KETO is a Later Form of the ATKIN’S DIET – he was an Extremist too – and the DASH DIET is a Later Version of the LOW-FAT DIET…. marginally healthier due to More Fruits and Veggies but Just as Damaging, due to Leaving Out Good Healthy Fats so Necessary for our Brain and Nerve Cells AND Heart. Not to mention Still Promoting those Cheap-Nasty Canola, Veggie Oils and Plasticised Margarine Spreads that in reality are So Destructive to Our Health.

The Unsuspected Cause of Cancer; Increase in Dementia; putting our Heart at Risk rather than Safety; the Prevalence of Hormonal Imbalance and Mood Disorders; the Escalation of Mental Health Disorders; the Sharp Increase in Auto-Immune Disorders and Diabetes; a Hidden Cause of Chronic Pain; Unexplained Chronic Headaches and Migraines; Keeping or even Stacking On the Weight it Claims to Save you from.

Yes all those things! And if you think I’m Crazy, all this has been Well Researched as an Avid Genuine Independent Researcher 30+ Years, not Paid to give Misleading Advice – I’ve even known well respected Harvard to do that a few times in an Outrageous Way through the years when the Bribes are High – a Huge amount of Revenue for Supporting such Culprit’s CLAIMS.…

Published on Leave a comment on Aren’t You TIRED Of Commercialism? Hasn’t It Become A Bit MUCH? So Demanding!!!

Janet Vargas - Owner of this Website

YES from Mailouts to Phone Texts and Emails and Flybuys of Different Kinds; Google Adds; Store Memberships (Oh Don't Subscribe to Those!) TV and Radio Commercials; Door Canvassing and Marketing Phone Calls; Etc, Etc, in case I've left anything out:)

They have become SO DEMANDING of OUR ATTENTION - in Every Way Possible - it's really quite Maddening! Does anyone Know what I'm talking about?
"Yes we ALL DO, don't we?"

And it HAS Become a Bit Much - that's for SURE - Not ONE Person hasn't been Bombarded by this Hideous, CRAZY Phenomena that has become a Daily Reality in different Shapes and Forms.

I really feel for Everyone (me included) would they Please STOP? But NO, there seems to be No Way of Stopping All This - not much anyway - this Insideous Nonsense! This Incessant Competing for Our MONEY when So Many Pockets are Short.

Sometimes we Comment and think things like "It seems this World has become One Big Money Making Machine"…………………. "They're So Eager to Get Every Dollar"…………………. "How Dare You Clutter MY Email" ……………….. "Oh Not Again!
I would Like Some Peace"

A Classic Example of how EAGER to Get Our Dollars:
Win a share of 20 million Flybuys points!*…

Published on Leave a comment on The Diet Craze: Pushing for Keto…Carnivore…Plant Diet…Raw Food Diet…Vegan…Lets Find the Balance!

Hi there Friends, I'm starting this Article because I'm tired of seeing All the Unbalanced Diets that are being Heavily Promoted and Imposed on People and many of You are caught in the middle of it all. I truly do wish some Professional People would grow up. Some of them keep telling People that "This is the Diet You (Everyone) should be On" and NO diet can Claim that. Different Diets have Certain Benefits for Different People, providing they are Not Extreme.

I'm adding this Article to my Blog in addition to the one on Keto Diet because I abhor the way several Health Professionals push Keto or Carnivore Diets….Plant Diet…Raw Food Diet and Vegan are also Unbalanced. Definitely. Now they're coming up with the Bible Diet (Similar to the Ancient Food Diet) and the Human Diet and who knows what else?

The Keto and Carnivore Diets seem to be promoted a heck of a Lot and in my opinion are Very Unhealthy, plus you can get very sick on those - they are basically Animal Protein and Fat, very little of anything else.…

Published on Leave a comment on Rare Regent Honeyeaters Unexpectedly Spotted on NSW Mid North Coast

By Emma Siossian – ABC Good News

A group of birdwatchers arriving at a nature reserve on the New South Wales Mid North Coast has spotted one of the country's rarest birds before even leaving the car park.

The group had just got to Jolly Nose Mountain Bike Park in the Queens Lake Nature Reserve recently, when an eagle-eyed twitcher spotted a critically endangered regent honeyeater.

According to BirdLife Australia, there have only been five reports of the bird in the Port Macquarie area in the past decade.

Hastings Birdwatchers conservation officer Peter West was one of the few people among the group of about 20 who had seen the species before.

A Conservation-Bred Regent Honeyeater and Chick. 
(Supplied: Lachlan Hall)

"We got out of the car and the first thing someone said was, 'There's a regent honeyeater,'" Mr West said.

"To be honest I didn't believe they were telling me the truth, but it was true.

"The lady who organised the morning had a plan, which went out the window, and I don't think we got very far from the car park at all."

Mr West said they saw two regent honeyeaters in the reserve south of Port Macquarie, feeding with other types of honeyeaters in the trees.…

Published on Leave a comment on Concerning: Trendy Indoor Wood Burning Stoves Found To Be As Bad For The Lungs As Smoking According To New Study

This will be Baffling to a lot of Folks and I will see if it has to do with burning Green Wood and something else people commonly buy to use in them that does the damage. It sounds so Serious, it could be taken as Fearmongering but I found a number of Links on Google when I checked this out. It’s after midnight here, so I will include 2 Google Links as well. OK? I’m into Protecting People, not Fearmongering. I’ve often wondered about those Stoves to be honest because of the Fumes from a few neighbours Stoves.

By Jonathan Neal – Health Reporter – Daily Mail UK

Wood-burning stoves can damage the lungs in a similar way to cigarette smoke, researchers have warned.

The study, presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, showed those who used wood stoves lost lung capacity more quickly than non-users – even though they tended to be wealthier, healthier and less likely to smoke.

Scientists examined data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, which tracks the health of thousands of people. 

They analysed repeated lung function tests over eight years, measuring FEV1 – the amount of air a person can forcefully exhale in the first second of a breath. …