Honey Is The Preferred Sweetener & Has Great Health Benefits Too

Our home has had no white sugar in it for almost 4 decades. Our sweetener of choice is honey. (For those rare dishes which do not do well with it, we use fructose which is twice as sweet as table sugar, so half the calories. And at most, we use a pound a year!) Honey, […]
The Instant Bliss Diet
THE INSTANT BLISS DIET If you want to lose weight quickly, up to 10 pounds a month, the best approach is: Take Dr. Shealy’s Essentials, 4, twice a day plus: Breakfast One fresh orange or small apple Three eggs, plus cheese (Or Three eggs beaten with 4 tablespoons of half and half plus 2 teaspoons […]
ASKINOSIE CHOCOLATE
ASKINOSIE CHOCOLATE Most of you have read my praise of CHOCOLATE BLISS. I told you there about one source for many fine chocolates from around the world. Now Springfield, Missouri, has one of the gourmet chocolate factories in the world, producing single source chocolate bars with NO fillers, lecithin, etc. You have a choice of […]
Fruits – Nectars of the Gods
FRUITS – NECTARS OF THE GODS Fruits may be even more plentiful than vegetables, are generally sweeter and loaded with antioxidants. Although I am not a vegetabalarian, as our 12 year old son called it when we tried for 15 months a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, and definitely not a vegan, about which I will write […]
Cruciferous Veggies

The cruciferous veggies, also called brassica or the cole family, consist of: Arugula Bok choy Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Chinese cabbage Collards Daikon Horseradish Kale Kohlrabi Mustard greens Rutabaga Turnips Wasabi All of these highly nutritious vegetables are packed with a wide variety of health-enhancing goodies, including vegetable sterols (lower cholesterol and protect the […]
PRIMARY SALAD VEGGIES
PRIMARY SALAD VEGGIES You think a salad is lettuce and maybe spinach with a few minor additions? Then see how many of these you know. Amaranth Arugula Beet greens Bitterleaf Catsear Celtuce Ceylon spinach Chicory Chinese mallow Chrysanthemum Corm salad Cress Dandelion Endive Epazote Fat hen Fiddlehead Fluted pumpkin Golden samphire Good King Henry Iceplant […]
What You MUST Know About Gluten Sensitivity & Toxicity

I have known for many years that wheat is the most common allergen in adults, followed by milk. DANGEROUS GRAINS, by James Braly, M.D. and Ron Hoggan, M.A., Avery/Penguin, N.Y., 2002, raises awareness of a much more serious complication of wheat and many grains. Gluten is found in wheat, semolina, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, triticale, […]
Un-Equal
UN-EQUAL One of the many karmic debts of our ex-Secretary of War is his fostering aspartame on the world. EQUAL is anything but equal, as if being equal to sugar is good!! And of course the FDA is a co-conspirator in the crime of allowing this potentially poisonous material over the counter. Aspartame UNEQUIVOCALLY worsens: […]
How To Find Your Bliss Through Your Senses
BLISS – ECSTASY, EUPHORIA, RAPTURE, PARADISE, JOY, etc. These are the synonyms for bliss. If you are like virtually every other person on the planet, you spend much of your day in an attempt to find your bliss. In Sanskrit bliss is ANANDA. Our brains produce the cannabinoid, anandamide, our built-in chemical high! Interestingly anandamide […]
Monsodium Glutamate – The Anti-Bliss, Pro-Fat Factor
MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE – THE ANTI-BLISS, PRO-FAT FACTOR February 18, 2007, the NEW YORK TIMES had an editorial that emphasizes the true meaning of ignorance-failure to acknowledge facts! In China's ''True Dash of Flavor'' Fuchsia Dunlop extols the flavor-enhancing value of one of the most ubiquitous and dangerous food additives, MSG, or monosodium glutamate. To some […]