Cinnamon, For Your Health?

Here is some good news for all you Cinnamon lovers out there!

There is more to this seasoning then just the wonderful taste...

• Skin: Cinnamon can be taken internally and or applied topically to the skin, often combined with raw honey, to make an effective and natural acne fighting mask.
• Natural Preservative: When added to your meals, cinnamon helps prevent bacterial growth and prolongs the life of your leftovers.
• Feminine: Cinnamon has been shown to reduce the discomfort associated with menstrual cramps.
• Mind: Easing nervous tension and reducing memory loss are added benefits, boosting brain activity while tasting amazing!
• Nutrition:Packed with manganese, fiber, calcium and iron.
• Anti-inflammatory
• Antifungal
• Antiparasitic 
• Antibacterial

I would like a taste of this medicine :)

For hundreds of years, cinnamon has been used to treat ailments and discomfort.  Have you ever taken cinnamon for a cold?  If you add cinnamon and raw honey to your hot tea or even spread it over your toast it could provide some natural help for illness.  Many people suffer from indigestion due to the quality, or lack of quality, of our daily diets.  So, add some cinnamon into the mix to relieve your indigestion.  It is even said that circulation and overall vitality improve when this wonder-spice is added to the mix.

Save Our Monarchs - Ban GMO's

Help save our fragile eco-system from the GMO invasion. 

Share this info to help save our Monarch Butterflies.

SOURCES:

Science daily reports that habitat destruction may may wipe out the Monarch.

Study ties GMO corn, soybeans to monarch butterfly losses: 81 percent decrease in Midwest 

Click here to get involved and - Take action to ban GM foods

Is your refrigerator a Morgue or a Garden?

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We would like to ask you to vote. What is your opinion? 

Should we keep eating meat or will we miss out on vital nutrients? 

Here is a study to support the meat eaters side of things...

 It argues we will miss valuable nutrients.

http://institutefornaturalhealing.com/2012/01/whos-healthier-vegetarians-or-meat-eaters/

And here is a study for the vegan / vegetarian side: 

This argues vegetarians have less cancer risk.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/01/vegetarians-blood-cancer-diet-risk

We will never tell you what to think. We prefer you come up with your own conclusions.

We would love you to express your views on this topic if you have a spare moment. (Comment below)

Natural Cures Not Medicine -

20 Health Benefits of Echinacea

Thanks to RawForBeauty.com for this picture!

20 Natural health benefits you can get from Echinacea -

Echinacea has been known to help treat: Upper respiratory infection - Enlarged lymph glands - Colds - Coughs - Flu - Urinary tract infection - Skin Regeneration - Yeast infection - Skin infections - Ear infections - Hay fever - Bronchitis - Sinusitis - Sore throat - Psoriasis - Eczema - Candida - Herpes - Sunburn and even wounds. A lot of stuff! Isn't nature fun!?

Natural Migraine Remedy

Here are 2 powerful migraine juice remedies -

"Best recipe"

Beechler Vitality

- Carrot Juice - 10 ounces

- Spinach Juice - 6 ounces

"Second choice"

- 7 ounces of Carrot

- 4 ounces of celery

- 2 ounces of parsley

- 3 ounces of spinach

10 Food Additives To Avoid & Why

There are all sorts of nasty food additives to avoid these days. Here are 10 you really should avoid.

ALL OF THE SOURCES ARE LINKED AS BLUE HYPER LINKS IN THE DESCRIPTION BELOW:

1. Monosodium Glutamate (msg / e621) - This additive can seriously damage your health. It's widely used in processed foods. 

2. High fructose corn syrup or glucose / fructose  - This is a common sweetener found in sodas and fruit flavored drinks. As use of high-fructose corn syrup has increased, so have levels of obesity and related health problems.

3. Artificial sweeteners - there are no studies on the effects of these sweeteners and the possible long-term consequences of people consuming them. 

4. Common food dyes - In Europe, Dyed Foods Get Warning - But in the US the FDA has deemed them not worthy of a warning.

5. Trans fat -  Trans fat in food: As bad as it gets / Scientists' warning: A long-awaited federal report on trans fat, a processed fat pervasive in cookies, crackers and fast food, finds there is no safe level.

6. BHA and BHT  - antioxidants BHA (E320) and BHT (E321) have been identified as a possible cause of local skin reactions.

7. Sodium Nitrate / Sodium Nitrite - Sodium nitrite is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply. The USDA actually tried to ban sodium nitrite in the 1970's but unfortunately was stopped by the meat processing industry, which relies on the ingredient as a color fixer to make foods look more visually appealing.

8. Potassium Bromate - Potassium bromate is in flour used strengthen dough - California must carry a warning label if potassium bromate has been used. Find out why.

9. Sodium Sulfite (e221) - WARNING! HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED. MAY CAUSE ALLERGIC REACTION AND BREATHING. DIFFICULTIES

10. Sulfer Dioxide (e220) - Public Warning by the Gov -http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/envprograms/airquality/brochures/flinflon.html

You do have to ask yourself... If these chemicals are poisonous why are they putting them in our food? If it's ok with everyone else i'd prefer to not have foreign chemicals in my food. I don't understand when or how it became acceptable to start putting synthetic chemicals in food for any excuse. ? :(