Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale
We are not 
Robots, take some time and enjoy your life, smell the roses. These are the things that make life worth while!
One woman tells how she sought to convince her continually harried friend that she needed to find ways to relax. So she gave her a videotape on stress management and relaxation techniques and encouraged her to watch it right away.
Fifteen minutes later, her friend handed back the tape. “It was good,” she said, “but I don’t need it.”
“But it’s a 70-minute video,” the woman replied. “You couldn’t have watched the whole thing.”
“Yes, I did,” her friend assured her. “I put it on fast-forward.”
A major social problem of the 21st Century is Hurry Sickness. We hurry through work by “multi-tasking.” We gulp down fast food. We shop at convenience stores. We lament that we haven’t enough time. We race through the days and weeks until one day we look back in amazement and comment, “My, how the years flew by.”
Or until we hit a “speed bump” — like illness — that stops us cold. Then we realize the heavy toll we paid to travel the express lane.
Hurry Sickness. Its symptoms include stress and anxiety, ailing relationships, lowered work performance, and numerous physical maladies. Some people don’t survive it.
What is the cure? “For fast-acting relief try slowing down,” quipped comedian Lily Tomlin. But then, perhaps that’s not so funny. Slow down and live, for life is too short to be lived fast, and too precious not to be lived well.
“I have no time to be in a hurry,” said John Wesley.
I agree.
Slow down and live. It’s a guaranteed remedy for Hurry Sickness.
Fish Oil Treats ADHD Better Than Ritalin
Rebalancing your ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fats by taking a high quality krill oil is one of the best, easiest and safest ways to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). An interesting Australian study shows just how effective fish oil can be on a group of 130 children (ages 7-12).
Scientists gave some children a combination of fish oil and evening primrose oil for up to seven months, while others were given placebos. Within 15 weeks, the behavior, concentration and school performance of some 40 percent of the children taking fish oil radically improved. What’s more, by the end of the study, the number of children getting relief from ADHD via fish oil grew to about 50 percent.
The most striking finding: The behavior of kids who were given placebos at the beginning, then later switched to fish oil, also improved.
So why would anyone give their child a harmful drug like Ritalin that has been linked to cancer? And, why would drug companies sell adults a liver-damaging pill like Strattera to treat ADHD? Only because the adult market is three times larger than the one for kids.
I have actually seen this work, so I know it is true. If you care about your children, take them off the drugs, and spend your money on something that will actually help them.
Obviously, they no longer promote smoking, but they’re wholeheartedly endorsing treatments that are even more absurd and detrimental than smoking, such as relying on drugs for virtually every ailment known to man while ignoring the underlying cause of disease.
I am sure that in 60 years your descendants will see a similar video showing how utterly foolish and mistaken doctors were in 2007.
It’s about time we started studying history so we can learn from it and have a better understanding of our current scenario.
Consumer Wellness Center posts nutritional review of 570 pet food ingredients
The non-profit Consumer Wellness Center today posted a detailed nutritional review of 570 pet food ingredients commonly found in pet food products (both canned and dry). The list, created by a joint effort between pet food formulator Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D., Ph.D. (www.Azmira.com), consumer health advocate Mike Adams (www.HealthRanger.org) and the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org), tells the blatant truth about harmful, disease-promoting ingredients commonly used in pet food products across North America. The complete list has been posted at natural health news site NewsTarget.com:
http://www.newstarget.com/Report_pet_food_ingredients_0.html
To create the report, Mike Adams and the CWC analyzed the ingredients of 448 popular pet food products sold in the United States and organized the ingredients by frequency of appearance. Dr. Lisa Newman then provided a nutritional analysis and comment for each ingredient. Four lists were created:
1) Pet food ingredients by rating (from 5 stars down to 1 star, with 5 stars indicating the best quality ingredients).
2) Pet food ingredients by frequency (sorted by how frequently they appear in pet food products, from 96% down to 1%).
3) Pet food ingredients listed alphabetically (to make it easier for consumers to reference ingredients they’re curious about).
4) Worst pet food ingredients (which lists all the 1-star ingredients, indicating low- quality or hazardous ingredients).
“Given the atrocious track record of pet food safety in the United States, we felt an urgent need to publish a tell-all reference guide that had the courage to reveal the truth about commonly used pet food ingredients,” said Mike Adams, the executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center. “Consumers desperately need to know what’s really in their pet food, and there is an urgent need for the pet food industry to clean up its act and stop poisoning dogs, cats and other pets with toxic ingredients that cause cancer, diabetes and other diseases,” Adams said.
Dr. Lisa Newman, N.D., Ph.D., is a pet food formulator and clinical nutritionist with 20 years of experience. Her line of pet food products is called “Azmira” and is available at www.Azmira.com
Mike Adams, aka the “Health Ranger,” is an outspoken consumer health advocate and author of the book, “Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy to Keep You From Knowing About Them” available at www.TruthPublishing.com
Both are pet owners and practicing holistic nutritionists who believe that good nutrition is the key to preventing disease and enhancing health.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
Many times I have found myself questioning my path, ‘it is so hard, it cant be this hard in life.” I find that the harder something gets, the more likely it is the right thing to do. There is something to be said for the person that sticks in there until completing the job at hand.
-Daniel/Admin
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I have been checking out a product called Calcium Orotate, which is a supplement that puts vital calcium back into the body.
Orotates are the mineral salts of a natural substance called orotic acid. It is found in your body and also dairy products. It is believed that minerals and vitamins in orotate form, act as superior transporters throughout the body. When a mineral is in an orotate form it can pass through cell membranes easily without breaking apart, so it can get to where its is needed most… into joints, tissues, and cartilage.
98% of the calcium in your body is found in your bones. It’s the most abundant mineral in your body. If your bones loose more calcium than they take in, you are in danger of loosing bone mass, and weakening your bone structure. Calcium orotate, because of its unique molecular structure has the ability to get into bones, cartilage, and tissue more effectively than regular calcium to help promote the recalcification of your bones. This is key… you take calcium for one reason… to get it where it’s supposed to be going to help support bone health. Most traditional forms of calcium (an estimated 70-80%) are flushed out of your system before they are ever absorbed! Calcium Orotate is different; it’s highly absorbable!
calcium orotate is absolutely free of any side effects and in this respect, it is far superior to all the conventional calcium salts now being used.
After cleansing the toxins out of my system, I feel my timing for this supplement couldn’t be better. Did you know that when your sick, your body takes calcium from your bones to fight off the issue. Because of this you will find that most people are calcium deficient, hence needing to supplement for the lack of it in the body. Milk does help with some of this, but it is a poor way to get calcium back into the body.
Ingredients 
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa
1/2 cup light organic cane sugar
2 teaspoons aluminum-free baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup pure maple syrup, Grade A Dark Amber
2 cups chocolate or vanilla soymilk [see tips]
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
Directions
Position one rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Oil the sides and bottoms of two 9 x 3-inch round cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper cut to fit.
Place a wire mesh strainer over a medium bowl. Add the pastry flour, white flour, cocoa, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon to the strainer. Tap the strainer against the palm of your hand to sift the ingredients. Stir with a wire whisk to distribute the ingredients.
Whisk the oil, maple syrup, soymilk, vanilla and almond extracts and vinegar in a separate medium bowl until well blended. Pour into the dry mixture and stir with a wire whisk until the batter is smooth. This batter is meant to be thin; don’t worry.
Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans. Tap the pans lightly on the counter to eliminate air bubbles.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the tops are set, the sides have started to pull away from the pan, and a cake tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean or with only a few moist crumbs.
Cool the pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Run a thin knife between the cake and inside of the pan, and invert each layer onto a rack. Remove the pans and carefully peel off the parchment paper. Invert again topside up on a rack to cool completely.
To protect the layers from cracking or breaking, slide a cardboard circle (or another flat surface) under each one. Wrap the layers with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold before filling and frosting.
Assemble the cake
While a cake-decorating turntable is nice to have, it is not essential for this cake. To assemble the cake, place one of the layers bottom-side up on a serving plate. Tuck strips of parchment or waxed paper under the outside edge of the cake to catch any frosting that drips.
Use an icing spatula to spread about 1 1/2 cups of the cream frosting on the layer. (If the layer is uneven, spread more cream on the thinner areas.) Set the second layer on it topside up, and press down lightly. Spread about 1 1/2 cups of the frosting on top of the cake covering one section at a time. Push excess frosting off the top onto the sides adding more frosting as needed to cover the sides. Smooth or swirl the frosting as you like. The cake is ready to serve immediately, but can be refrigerated up to 2 days. Use a long, sharp knife to cut the cake, wiping the blade as needed after each slice.
Tips & Variations:
1 1/2 cups of rice milk can replace the 2 cups of soymilk.
Chocolate Cream Filling and Frosting
(Yield: 5 1/2 to 6 cups, enough to fill and frost one 9-inch two or three-layer cake)
Unless you have a food processor with at last an 8-cup bowl, make the cream in two batches. The tofu will have to drain for 24 hours and the prepared cream may have to chill 1 to 6 hours to thicken, so this is a recipe to make ahead.
Ingredients
2 (16-ounce) packages of silken tofu, or 3 (12.3-ounce) aseptic boxes firm silken tofu
4 tablespoons canola oil
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
3/4 cup light organic cane sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa
4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
18 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, melted
3 to 10 tablespoons chocolate, vanilla, or plain soymilk, if needed
Directions
If you are using the 16-ounce packages of tofu, set a wire mesh strainer over a bowl. Put the tofu in the strainer, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 24 hours. It is important to choose a bowl that allows the strainer to sit above the liquid that will accumulate. (Save the liquid to use in smoothies if you like. Draining the excess liquid helps reduce any bean flavor and creates a thicker cream.) If you are using tofu in the 12.3-ounce aseptic boxes, just drain the liquid from the boxes and proceed with the recipe.
Combine the tofu, oil, and salt in a food processor, and process about 1 minute until pureed. Use a rubber spatula to clean the sides of the bowl and add the sugar, cocoa, and vanilla. Process 1 to 2 minutes, until the tofu mixture is smooth.
Add the melted chocolate and pulse the processor three or four times to incorporate. Process 1 to 2 minutes until the mixture is very creamy. Refrigerate in the processor for 20 minutes. If you used the aseptic boxes of tofu, the cream may need to chill for 1 to 6 hours in order for it to become firm enough to spread.
The degree of firmness will determine the amount of soymilk needed to create the final texture. It should be thick but easy to spread. Dip an icing spatula into the cream to test to the texture. If the cream is too stiff to use, add 3 tablespoons of the soymilk and process 1 minute. Add more soymilk, 1 tablespoon at a time as needed. When the cream is ready to use, spoon it into a bowl and begin to assemble the cake.
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