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Juicing For Slim Healthy Sexy
I have a buzz going on in my body but it is not from an overdose from coffee. Heaven’s no! It’s from the juice I just drank in the sun by my pool. I started the day off with hot water and lemon and I love the combo very much. I. goodbye coffee breath, 2. Bye brown teeth, 2. Hello liver cleanse, 4. How ya doing alkaline body!
What a glorious way to start your day! Please join me in juicing. You will be amazed at how much your health will improve. How has it helped me?
- No colds this year
- Better digestive health
- Glowing skin
- More energy
- Excellent memory.
- No need for reading glasses.
- Reduction in my thyroid meds
- Better and deeper sleep
:Last Saturday I went to Jessica’s Organic Farm in Sarasota. It is practically hidden in the middle of Sarasota County and even with my GPS I made a few wrong turns, but I did find it. There were acres of veggies growing and the humble stand was full of produce, and organic produce at that. In fact there was only one item that wasn’t organic; coconuts from Thailand.
At the entrance is a large display of different edible grasses and sprouts. I recognized wheat grass but the rest was foreign to me. I saw a man with long dreadlocks and thought he looked like a juicer but when I asked him he answered in a very thick accent and I really couldn’t understand him except that part that he was not a juicer. The prices were reasonable and a lot of variety that is mostly grown at the farm. The hours are limited: Friday, Saturday and Sunday only and closed June, July and August.
I selected beets, dandelions, parsley, kale, 2 gorgeous artichokes, cucumber, and English peas. The entire bill came to $22.00.
Today’s recipe was:
- Dandelion
- Parsley
- Cucumber
- Lemon
- Celery
- Apple
I am still using my garage sale find, a juice extractor I call Old Faithful.
If you want to be slim, healthy, and sexy at any age, I recommend juicing and signing up with my blog for updates and tips.
Happy juicing!
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Amazing Woman, Kathie! Slim, Healthy, Sexy!
I have a friend, Kathie, from England whom I met through her sister in Sarasota, FL. From time to time, Kathie crosses the “pond” for visits and over the years I have gotten to know her. What a truly remarkable woman she is.
First of all she is knock-out beautiful and now single after raising two children she has her own successful business that she built from hard work and perseverance. Plus, she has one of those outgoing personalities that has never met a stranger. Meaning, she has no problem starting conversations with people in the cafes and pubs in Sarasota. I too have no problem striking up a conversation with a stranger so we have that in common and I immediately liked Kathie.
But Kathie is a force to be reckoned with. She is a size 2 (yeah, that part is where we are vastly different) and an exercise enthusiast. She has a pretty heavy work load at her business in England and you would think she would take the opportunity to kick back when her feet hit Sarasota sand, but nooooo! She uses the warm weather as a good excuse to participate in keeping up her exercise routine; mainly biking. It is nothing for her to ride her bike from Palmer Ranch to Venice and back, and then try to talk someone into biking with her to the beach in the heat of the day. We (her sister and I) usually hide from her in fear she may try to talk us into a run across the Ringling Bridge.
One night we were having a few cocktails at Mattison’s on Main when she informed me that she was going to Cuba in October (2013) to participate in a 400 kilometers (250 miles) bike ride with a group called Action For Charity (AFC). I almost fell off my bar stool and spilled my Mudslide.
What is AFC? (from the website)
Action for Charity and Dream Challenges have raised millions for UK charities with exciting challenge events in the UK and around the world. With many years experience in organizing events for charities we guarantee a life-changing experience for everyone that takes part.
We have an amazing calendar of events lined up for 2014/15. Why not take on one of our hugely popular team challenge events such as Race the Sun Lake District or join the next amazing Women V Cancer challenge Cycle Africa. Alternatively join us for a once in a lifetime trek to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro or track the famous mountain gorillas of Uganda on our exciting Trek Uganda challenge. The first Women V Cancer Ride the Night challenge will also be taking place in 2014. This event is fully booked but registration for 2015 will be open in June 2014.
Join the Women V Cancer team for a stunning 400km cycle challenge across the Caribbean island of Cuba.
It will be a journey full of fun, friendship and incredible support as women of all ages and from all walks of life challenge themselves for an amazing cause. This fantastic challenge is a great opportunity to get fit, lose weight and have an experience of a life time all whilst raising significant funds to help in the fight against breast, ovarian and cervical cancers.
Funds raised by Women V Cancer will be divided equally between three important charities: Breast Cancer Care, Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust and Ovarian Cancer Action and used to support their valuable work.
When I regained my composure, I asked Kathie where she came up with that crazy idea? Cuba in October…400km…yikes! She said she saw it in a fitness magazine.
Kathie said she was training for 18 months by biking whenever she could fit it in her busy schedule, about 50 miles per week, and also taking a lot of spinning classes. Her weekly schedule looks like this: get up and drink a protein shake for breakfast, walk to work along the seashore in southern England (sounds pretty), eat protein bars for lunch and snacks, and go directly to the gym after work. Rinse and repeat Monday thru Friday.
I got her to confess that she does slack off on the weekends with a little telly (TV) and chips (potato chips). Aha! She is not perfect!
Fast forward to when we meet again in Sarasota after the Cuba trip. She admitted that the adulating hills that they said on the AFC website was more like steep mountains and it was unbearably hot. The group of women (around 72), oldest 74 and youngest 24, stayed in remote motels along the way and got up at 6:00am every morning to ride for about 70 kilometers. There was a bus that traveled with them that you could ride in if you got tired, and she said a lot of women did when the heat got to be too much. But not Kathie even though she suffered with heat exhaustion and stomach upset; she pressed on. 
(The entire trip took 5 days.)
The upside was the amazing beauty of the landscape and seeing the small little towns along the way. And she was able to raise $3,000 for charity.The downside was the food was not that great and it was bloody hot!
Kathie said the camaraderie was great and there were many women who were in the ride had either cancer or was a cancer survivor who she rode side by side with. She mentioned one woman in particular that had picked up a rare parasite in the Falklands that was slowly destroying her internal organs and she rode everyday. Her name was Jill and she had already lost a lung and a kidney to the disease and unfortunately broke her wrist on the trip. Kathie says she got her inspiration to push on from women like Jill.
So, what is Kathie’s next trip? Vietnam to Cambodia possibly, Nov. 2015. If anybody wants to go, check out this link. http://www.actionforcharity.co.uk/
Oranges…Super Food!
Oranges possess over 60 different flavonoids, making them a nutritious fruit to eat o a daily basis. Immensely rich in hesperidin and naringin, oranges are emerging as a weapon for boosting eye health, fighting heart disease, preventing kidney stones and enhancing immunity.
Orange History
While oranges are widely available and fairly inexpensive today, they were once considered a prized luxury before the 20th century. The orange originated in Asia thousands of years ago9 with the most common types bitter and sweet. The later became popular across Europe in the 15th century before Spanish explorers brought it to Florida and California, currently two of the largest US producers of the citrus fruit. Other major world producers include Brazil, Mexico, and Isreal.
Boosting Eye Health
Glaucoma is a long-term visual neuropathy defined by structural abnormalties
is the nerve fibers of eye structures as wall as the optic nerve itself. It can result in permanent vision loss if left untreated. A wealth of carotoids, including lutein and beta-cryptoxanthin, alond with vitamin C make oranges well-equipped to protect against this often symptomless disease. In one study, researchers at the University of California revealed that those consuming more than two servings of fresh oranges per week produced an 82% reduction in glaucoma rish compared to those who ingested less than one serving per week.
A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that vitamin C in oranges might be largely responsible for this powerful protective effect. Retinal nerve cells contain GABA receptors, which help modulate their transmission of electrical signals to the brain. Without sufficient amounts of the vitamin, GABA receptors malfunction, causing retinal nerves cells to fire signals at an excessive rate. This constant workload causes nerve cells death. Vitamin C rich 
oranges allow GABA receptors to function properly, thereby protecting against the loss of retinal nerve cells and preserving vision.
Along with glaucoma, a greater intake of oranges shows promise in defending against age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of vision loss in individuals over the age of 50. Researchers analyze data from more than 118k adults between the ages of 30 – 55 regarding fruit and vegetable intake over an 189 year period. They found that those who ate three or more servings of oranges per week had a 39% lower risk of age-related macular degeneration than those who consume less than two servings per month.
Source: Life Extension Magazine June 2013 Issue www.let.org
Source: http://www.bubblews.com/news/1393159-why-we-should-eat-more-oranges
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Do You Have a Healthy Alkaline Body?
Healthy blood has a pH level of 7.35 I’m sure you have heard there is a difference between an alkaline body and an acidic body? The theory is that an acidic body’s support inflammation and even cancer, while a alkaline body is a healthy body that fends of disease. Most people are clueless about the impact of food on our body’s pH level. The foods that we eat can have an acidic or alkalizing effect on our body’s pH level. So, how do you find out if you are supporting an alkaline (good) or an acidic body (bad).
Eat Raw
One way is with PH strips that you can easily find at your local pharmacy, The human body should have a neutral pH level of about 7.0, but most people have low, or acidic, pH levels. This condition is referred to as acidosis, and it is damaging to your cells and a serious health risk in the long run. PH Test Strips enable you to quickly and easily test your pH levels using your saliva or urine. This critical health information will enable you to adjust your diet and use specific supplements to boost your pH levels to a healthy range.
Usage Instructions for pH Test Strips
For External Use Only To test saliva: Wait 2 hours after eating. Spit into a spoon. Dip the strip. Read in 15 seconds. Results: Use the color chart to determine pH level. An optimal reading is 7.0 to 7.5. This indicates a slightly alkaline body which is normal. To test urine: Do not test with the first urine of the day. Briefly place the strip into paper cup with your urine sample for 30 to 45 seconds. Shake excess fluid. Read in 15 seconds. Results: Use color chart for to determine pH level. A reading of 7.4 is normal. A reading of 6.5 acidic. Note: Urine is slightly more acidic than saliva; a normal reading is 6.5 to 7.4.
Step 1 – Buy pH Test Strips
Buy pH Test Strips. You can buy them at the health store or pharmacy or order them here CLICK
Step 2- Test your urine. You need to pee on the pH test strip. The color will change.
Compare this color with the color of the pH on the test strip box. Read the PH number.
Step 3 – Write Down the pH number.
Write down the pH number, the date and time. (you’re going to want the average for the week)
Step 5 – Daily pH Testing
You may note that every time you go the bathroom the pH number is different. When you’re healthy the number will always be around 7.3 or even up to 8 just after eating. The first urine of the day is usually the lowest.
Step 6 – How Healthy are You?
If the pH of your urine is mostly around 7.3 you’re fine. If the pH of your urine is lower, especially if it’s below 6.5 this means you don’t have sufficient alkaline reserves to buffer acids. You are short in minerals such as sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
Step 7 – Get Healthy – Get Alkaline!
Add alkaline foods into your diet and eat less acid food. Eat more raw green leafy vegetables and less food high in animal protein, sugar and grains.
Do not eat this
Eat more avocados, vegetable soup, fresh almond milk, young coconut water, wheat grass, green powder, green vegetable juices, smoothies, seaweed and super foods. Here you can view a full list of alkaline foods . Keep testing a few times a day until you always test alkaline. It’s the best motivation for eating raw food! The pH of your blood is tightly regulated by a complex system of buffers that are continuously at work to maintain a range of 7.35 to 7.45, which is slightly more alkaline than pure water. If the pH of your blood falls below 7.35, the result is a condition called acidosis, a state that leads to central nervous system depression. Severe acidosis – where blood pH falls below 7.00 – can lead to a coma and even death. (Complete list of alkaline foods here alkalifoodlist ) If the pH of your blood rises above 7.45, the result is alkalosis. Severe alkalosis can also lead to death, but through a different mechanism; alkalosis causes all of the nerves in your body to become hypersensitive and over-excitable, often resulting in muscle spasms, nervousness, and convulsions; it’s usually the convulsions that cause death in severe cases. When you ingest foods and liquids, the end products of digestion and assimilation of nutrients often results in an acid or alkaline-forming effect – the end products are sometimes called acid ash or alkaline ash. There are two main forces at work on a daily basis that can disrupt the pH of your body fluids – these forces are the acid or alkaline-forming effects of foods and liquids that you ingest, and the acids that you generate through regular metabolic activities. Fortunately, your body has three major mechanisms at work at all times to prevent these forces from shifting the pH of your blood outside of the 7.35 to 7.45 range. You can imagine these 3 major mechanisms as buffering systems to keep your pH in balance. When people encourage you to “alkalize your blood,” most of them mean that you should eat plenty of foods that have an alkaline-forming effect on your system.
The reason for making this suggestion is that the vast majority of highly processed foods – like white flour products and white sugar – have an acid-forming effect on your system, and if you spend years eating a poor diet that is mainly acid-forming, you will overwork some of the buffering systems mentioned above to a point where you could create undesirable changes in your health. For example, your phosphate buffer system uses different phosphate ions in your body to neutralize strong acids and bases. About 85% of the phosphate ions that are used in your phosphate buffer system comes from calcium phosphate salts, which are structural components of your bones and teeth. If your body fluids are regularly exposed to large quantities of acid-forming foods and liquids, your body will draw upon its calcium phosphate reserves to supply your phosphate buffer system to neutralize the acid-forming effects of your diet. Over time, this may lead to structural weakness in your bones and teeth. Have you heard of osteoporosis? Drawing on your calcium phosphate reserves at a high rate can also increase the amount of calcium that is eliminated via your genito-urinary system, which is why a predominantly acid-forming diet can increase your risk of developing calcium-rich kidney stones. This is just one example of how your buffering systems can be overtaxed to a point where you experience negative health consequences. Since your buffering systems have to work all the time anyway to neutralize the acids that are formed from everyday metabolic activities, it’s in your best interest to follow a diet that doesn’t create unnecessary work for your buffering systems. That is why it is extremely important to maintain the acid alkaline balance of your body in order to stay healthy and keep yourself free of diseases and illnesses. The easiest way to keep your body in a healthy, alkaline state is to eat raw foods and juicing is the easiest way to do that. Think raw and green. By the way, I just went to the doctor’s yesterday and my blood pressure was 110/70! (I take no blood pressure pills) I give credit to juicing. Here are some great ways to juice:
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