Showing posts with label dairy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dairy. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

32 Years Young and Hopefully Growing Younger

Last weekend I celebrated my 32nd birthday, my actual birthday was march 1st but my aunt, Monica, organized one for me and my cousin, Dora. Should I just warn you that I was spoiled rotten? Well, there, you have been warned...I will let the pictures speak for themselves...
A choconana-appricot cake I made for Dora, YUMMY

Aunty Monica, our gracious hostess

Dora and aunty Monica

The buffet table

Ms. Sharon Arrey and I

Me in my little black dress I got from Dora
Ice cream cake

Me and baby Ricky( in the background)


The other birthday girl, Dora

My  6 month old Chubb-chub and I




Ricky and aunty Flo

Ricky and aunty Flo

My Nina, me, Tresor and Dora

Cutting the cake

Okay, so you see it was a big deal. Had so much fun. I can't thank aunty Monica, Dora, Adel and David enough. I did try a little bit of  almost everything. I was very conscious of what went into my mouth though. I had more vegetables than anyone else I think. It was well worth it as it acted as a great laxative for me the next day (sorry, but just had to add that). When I got up the morning after and felt flu-ish, I knew exactly why: it was the ice cream cake! My body knows exactly what it wants; dairy and I don't get along too well. So for the next three days I did a little cleanse, carrot juice fast, and I was back to myself again.

The reason I brought that up is to point out that if you treat your body well, it will actually 'talk' back to you and let you know if it agrees with the things you eat or not. I absolutely love the FYR lifestyle and I hope you decide to join the ride. Several people are taking the FYR 90-Day Superstar Challenge and I can't wait to start getting the success stories. In April, I have a handful of people starting as well, so if you have been waiting here's your chance. Summer is still several months away for all those who want to join the swimsuit challenge.

In the coming weeks FYR will be announcing its first Male Spokesperson. I hope you follow us (click on 'follow') to stay updated. On our next post we'll be talking about sources of Iron and eating red meat won't be one of them. 

I will leave you with a great little recipe to help boost your immune system and help fight against cancer. The secret is an ingredient called lycopene found in tomatoes which helps to prevent blood lymphocytes from  damage. I love tomatoes, especially raw, you can eat it in your salads or juice them, you can also add it to your smoothies. Fresh organic tomatoes are ideal. So if you're one of those people who won't try anything new, just think of the benefits of this great drink. I hope that's enough for you to try it...love yourself a little differently, it might as well begin with a glass of tomato juice.

Tomato Juice


Ingredients:
2 big ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped celery
1 tsp cayenne pepper ( I love cayenne, the more the better)
1 tsp turmeric
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp agave nectar (optional)

Method:
Juice the celery and tomato in a juicer. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir. YUMMY-DELICIOUSO-Tritious :)


EAT AND DRINK TO YOUR HEALTH, YOU"LL THANK ME LATER!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Day 28 (30-Day Green Smoothie Challenge)

FROM MY KITCHEN TO YOURS: MY CREAMY SOUP OF ZUCCHETI :-)

I was just having a very interesting conversation with my husband yesterday about milk and we both agreed that cow milk has got to be the worst food out there. I would rather nominate a banana as a perfect food than cow milk and if you disagree with me, please take no offense just do more research and come to your own conclusion--mine is certain. I guess part of my conclusion is based on my very own experience, the experiences of people I know and indisputable research from distinguished professionals through out the century and beyond. Man/humankind was NEVER meant to drink the milk of another but from its mother as an infant. My youngest brother who never drank milk his entire life is now a 6 foot tall basketball player and he's yet to have a broken bone or falling teeth, so you tell me, where is the calcium defficiency and retarded growth in this case? I challenge you to try a month without milk, no wait, I take that back, try a week and you will tell the difference. Milk is the most mucus forming food. It is only the 'perfect food' when it is for the baby calf and not for humans.

-Consider all the hormones, pesticides and antibiotics fed to the cow, then think of casein--the milk protein-- which is used as industrial glue in carpentry and used to make plastics and adhesives, ever wondered what it does to your insides? By the way, 80% of milk protein is casein.

-Consider the pus in the milk caused by forcefully enlarging the mammary glands of these cows in order to overproduce due to the high demand of milk.

-Consider the fact that these cows get their own calcium from eating plants and you want to get yours from eating them? why not just go for the plant too and avoid the poisons from herbicides, pesticides, dioxins, up to 52 powerful antibiotics, blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. (Cow's milk can have traces of anything the cow ate... including such things as radioactive fallout from nuke testing ... "It's not how much calcium you eat. It's how much calcium you prevent from leaving your bones."--Robert Cohen

read this for yourself: http://www.notmilk.com/igf1time.txt


-Consider that it takes 10 pounds of milk to make a pound of cheese so each slice of cheese has 10x what is in milk, every bite of ice cream has 12x that and butter 21x whatever is in milk.

-Consider the fact that milk consists of almost 50% fat and it goes across the board for milk products as well.

-Consider that although milk is hailed as 'Liquid protein' it is just very expensive water because 87% of milk is water.

-Consider the fact that countries with the highest consumption of dairy have the highest rates of osteoporosis. This is because the protein in dairy inhibits the absorption of calcium.

-Consider that milk is allowed to undergo pasteurization to 'kill' the bacteria and feces found in the milk but this also makes it into a non-food. And since pasteurization does not kill all the bacteria milk tends to go bad rather quickly, sad huh?

-Consider that apart from milk not being Kosher, it's level of cholesterol is alarming and to think we some nutritionists recommend 2-3 glasses of milk a day. The cholesterol in those glasses of milk is equivalent to that from 52 slices of bacon...can you see yourself eating that daily?

Here are a host of problems that dairy may cause:

1) Obesity (Over 50% of Americans)
2) Leukemia
3) Diabetes
4) Crohn's Disease
5) Heart disease
6) Cancer, please read this :http://www.notmilk.com/deb/062198.html
7) Allergies (Ever wondered why there are so many lactose intolerant folks?)
8) Digestive problems
9) Asthma
10) Desensitization to antibiotics.
11) Toxicity of the human body due to ingestion of ingestion of dioxins, herbicides, pesticides.
12) Pollution and environmental degradation (we have only one planet)

To read more about milk visit http://www.notmilk.com/ and read more from author Robert Cohen.

Have a very blessed day.

~B.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Sometimes the truth 'stinks'

Do your due diligence and be in the know and not in denial. Sometimes the truth 'STINKS' just take it with a pinch of Stevia....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3hMn2enc7k

Even my grandfather in-law used to say these things some twenty years ago. The truth is there for those who seek it.


~B.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Rick's Eggless Egg Salad




Ingredients:




1 container extra firm tofu


1/2 onion (white)


2-3 tablespoons Veganaise (one made with grapeseed oil)


Garlic powder


Turmeric


Seasalt


Black Pepper




Method:




In a large bowl crumple tofu with fingers. Add Veganaise, enough to cover the tofu. Add onions.


Sprinkle garlic powder and black pepper to taste. A pinch of sea salt and then add turmeric to add some color. Serve with whole wheat muffin, bread or use as salad dressing.


Friday, July 17, 2009

What are you ingesting for breakfast?


The whole idea of cow's milk is just a way for those who've invested in the business to make huge profits. If you were asked to go to a barn and suckle on the udder of a cow would you? why then do we drink cow's milk? because it has been conveniently packaged for us in a container? Do you know that cows are naturally not made to produce milk in such large quantities? They have just enough for their young. What are they given to speed up this process? well, hormones I would think. This causes enlargement and inflammation of their breast tissues and for those of us who have studied biology this can be a very painful process. And what happens when an area is inflamed? Pus begins to accumulate. What is pus? Pus consists of a thin, protein-rich fluid, known as liquor puris, and dead cells, which are part of the body's innate immune response. Pus travels to the intercellular spaces around the affected areas; the cow's udders. Yes and you may be saying, don't they pasturize these things? pasturization not only kills the bacteria in it, it also destroys all the nutrients in the food. So when next you go to buy milk or when you're handing a glass of cow's milk to your child, remember that they may just be ingesting pus for breakfast. This goes for cow milk and all its products including cheese, well that's another topic. We will talk about cheese on another day.