Showing posts with label men's health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label men's health. Show all posts

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Apples for the Body

Apples: Good for the Body

Hello, Everyone!

Today, we are learning a bit more about the apple and how it benefits the body, including the hair of
the scalp, when eaten.

Apples - Image courtesy, Wikipedia
Facts About the Apple
  • The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family (Rosaceae). It is one of the most widely cultivated fruit trees, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by
    humans. 
  • The tree originated in Western Asia, where its wild ancestor, the Alma, is still found today. There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a range of desired characteristics. Cultivars vary in their yield and the ultimate size of the tree, even when grown on the same rootstock.
  • Apples are often eaten raw without consuming the seeds, which are slightly poisonous (see below), the whole fruit including the skin is suitable for human consumption. Varieties bred for this purpose are termed dessert or table apples.
  • Apples can be canned or juiced. They are milled to produce apple cider (non-alcoholic, sweet cider) and filtered for apple juice. The juice can be fermented to make cider (
    alcoholic, hard cider), ciderkin, and vinegar. Through distillation, various alcoholic beverages can be produced, such as applejack, Calvados, and apfelwein. Pectin and apple seed oil may also be produced.
  • Sliced apples turn brown due to the conversion of natural phenolic substances into melanin, upon exposure to oxygen. Different cultivars vary in their propensity to brown after slicing. Sliced fruit can be treated with acidulated water to prevent this effect if it isn't going to be eaten immediately after slicing.

  • Organic apples are the better choice, as compared to non-organic apples, since non-organic apples have a significantly high level of pesticide residue on them.
  • Eating fallen apples,  rather than eating apples picked directly from the tree,  may put the eater at the risk of food poisoning if the apple orchard is also the area for keeping cattle or other animals.  This is true due to the fact that fallen apples may become contaminated with animals' fec

    es. Furthermore, the risk may be significantly higher if the fallen apples are used to make home-made unpasteurized, unfermented cider or juice
    , thus letting E. coli multiply.
  • A ripe, raw apple digests in eighty-five minutes.
  • The cultivated apple tree is at its prime when it is, approximately, fifty years old
  • The cultivated apple tree  will bear fruit for more than one hundred years


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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Another Delicious Holiday Recipe: Pomegranate Glazed Chicken!



Pomegranate Glazed Chicken

Hello, Everyone! 

Today's recipe is Pomegranate Glazed Chicken.  The video features a cooking segment on WXIA 11 by 'A Legendary Event' with Tony Conway and Christoph Holmes, Executive Chef.  The chicken that Executive Chef Holmes chose to use for his Pomegranate Glazed Chicken recipe is Springer Mountain Farms chicken

Springer Mountain Farms is a family-owned business that has been raising chickens for over 40 years.  They are located in the hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia (USA). They continue to provide the very best and most nutritious chicken possible; this is why their chicken is different from any other. Their chickens do NOT receive Antibiotics, Chemical Medicines, Growth Stimulants NOR Hormones, and are NEVER fed Animal By-products. Their chickens only receive an All-Vegetable Diet plus natural vitamins and minerals with fresh, mountain water. ~ Springer Mtn. Farms


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Monday, August 9, 2010

Learn How to Make Raw Cow Butter in Minutes!

Milk Diet as a Remedy for Chronic Disease (Classic Reprint)
Learn how nourishing your body with fresh, raw/un-processed organic milk will tremendously improve a person's health!
Homemade RAW Butter!!

Hello, Everyone! Today's post features Organic Pastures and their quick, easy recipe for making raw (un-processed) cow butter. I learned about Organic Pastures (and a list of other organic dairy farmers) while searching for organic milk (and icecream)  brands on-line. During that search I discovered an article entitled, 'Best Brands of Organic Milk' and as I read the article I saw links for 'Maintaining the Integrity of Organic Milk', and 'milk brand scorecard'. I read the milk brand scorecard, saw that a score of '5' was the best score, then looked for brands that scored '5' and '4', in my area. Organic Pastures is one of the brands that scored '5'. It's not one of the brands in my area, however, it is a brand that had a score of '5' with a good website and a share-able, informational video that I could share with all of you.  I did find a full-line dairy, Organic Valley, that scored a '4', has a good website and a share-able video and milk available in my area, too. They distribute nationwide and I've included their video, as well.

This raw (un-processed) cow butter recipe should be a great 'find' for all (including me) who love cow butter and want a very healthy, excellent quality of butter. My paternal grandparents lived on their own farm estate and had a herd of grass-fed cows in their pastures. So, I probably was consuming organic, raw cow milk and raw cow butter each time I/we visited them, as children and teenagers, and didn't know it.

During some of the visits to my paternal granparents' farm estate, I used to stand at the fence surrounding one of their pastures as a child with my brother, one of my sisters, and a cousin and I'd make moo-ing sounds until I got a moo in response from one cow or more (the cow(s) wouldn't moo immediately. They'd stand in place, turn their head in the direction of the moo and then just look at me for awhile as if it/they were thinking, "That's the most unusual cow I've ever seen.") . It made me laugh with delight when a cow would respond with a moo and this memory makes me smile and chuckle to this day! I confess ... I'm a brainy, website designing, visual artist and blogger with a sense of humor  for the harmless, silly things like moo-ing at cows. When I have my own cows I may even moo at them, on ocassion, because it's kind of silly and it makes me laugh at myself. Not surprisingly, the moo-ing sound at the beginning of the Organic Valley video reminds me of those times.

As you all may know by now from previous posts, I'm a cow milk lover (whole milk) and have been since I was a child. As a matter of fact, water and milk were my top two beverages for all of my childhood, teenage years and twenties, with tea being the third highest. I had milk with cereal (a bowl for breakfast, or a bowl for a snack, or a bowl for dessert), I had milk with cookies, I had milk with cake, I had milk with chocolate syrup, and I had milk all by itself; just a plain/nothing-added glass of delicious milk! Oh yes, and, the milk we added to the batter of baked goods. That's a good bit of milk!

Well, I stopped consuming cow milk a few years ago, due to the bad reports of the abysmal treatment and health of cows. I'd been in very good health until then; without all of that extra protection of the milk, I experienced dental cavities in acceleration. I missed having cow milk in my daily nutrition/diet for its benefits and its deliciousness. However, I happily resumed drinking cow milk when I discovered organically-produced cow milk!

My consumption of milk isn't back to 100% yet, however when I do get to consume it, I discern the positive difference/effects almost immediately! So, I'm looking forward to gaining regular access to a locally-produced organic, raw cow milk real soon. Furthermore, as soon as I obtain my own dream house farm estate I plan to have my own organic farm (orchards and vineyard, included) and start off with a few organic: cows, chickens, rabbits and goats. Then, I can have truly local, organic, raw cow milk as often as I desire to. Of course, I plan to score/rate a '5' like all the farmers/dairies that scored/rated as '5' on the milk brand scorecard! It's good to be lactose-tolerant; the right cow milk really does do the body a whole lot of good!

Speaking of tolerance for lactose, three of the other members of my family are lactose-intolerant, therefore they didn't drink milk in the quantity I did and their health reflects that fact to this day, even though they eat as nutritiously as I do (regular consumption of fresh raw and cooked vegetables, fresh raw fruit, fresh nuts and quality meats)! Now, I'm learning of the vast health benefits of organic, raw (un-processed) cow milk and I'm sharing this knowledge with them (because raw cow milk is a milk that they can digest/handle) and those of you that didn't know of raw cow milk, yet. I always suspected that my regular consumption of cow milk was a crucial factor in my overall health and now I know for sure that it was.

Well, I hope that all of the information from this post and this blog is helpful to you, your family, friends and acquaintances. All of us deserve to be healthy.






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Monday, December 28, 2009

Household Chemicals and Your Son's Masculinity

Can These Household Chemicals Crush Your Son’s Masculinity?
by: Dr. Mercola
(Mercola.com | December 19 2009 | 136,463 views)

Hello, Everyone. Today's post features health information from Dr. Mercola about the negative impact household chemicals can have on baby boys. This is one of many enlightening articles I'll share from other bloggers, in the months ahead. Take heed and take care! The post/article "Can These Household Chemicals Crush Your Son’s Masculinity?" follows, below:

"Elevated levels of two plastic-softening chemicals in pregnant women's urine are linked to less-masculine play behavior by their sons several years later, according to a study published in the International Journal of Andrology. Phthalates, which are used in everything from vinyl floors to plastic tubing and soaps and lotions, are pervasive in the environment and have increasingly become associated with changes in development of the male brain as well as with genital defects, metabolic abnormalities and reduced testosterone in babies and adults.

A team of U.S. and British researchers posed a standard play questionnaire to the parents of 145 preschool-age children. Then they ranked the types of play on a scale from most masculine (such as play fighting or using trucks) to most feminine.

An effect was identified among the sons of women with higher concentrations of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) in their prenatal urine. On average, those boys scored 8 percent further away from the masculine end of the scale than other boys.

Sources:
The Washington Post November 24, 2009
International Journal of Andrology November 16, 2009 [Epub Ahead of Print]"

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