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Detox Juice Recipes

Here are some of the thermomix recipes that I have tried and have been quite happy with:

Creamy Garlic Prawn Rissoto
Honey and Soy Chicken
Bimby Chocolate Cake
Tasty Chicken with Turmeric Rice
Carob Cake
Pan De Sal
Carrot Cake
Hot Chocolate – So Yummy!
Zucchini Pesto
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Choco Fudgy Wudgy Cookies
Parsley Biscuits
Rosemary and Cheese Biscuits
Garlic and Herb Dip
Hummus
Cauliflower Soup
Mashed Potato

Of course I’m still experimenting more thermomix recipes. I love going to the forum for this.

And this was the video that I asked my husband to watch so he will let me have the thermomix.

Anyway, here’s the video that I am talking about.

I’ve tried cabbage juice by itself and it really bites! I felt like my throat was burning. So yeah, it’s best to mix it with other things like apple, carrot or celery as he says.

Hopefully, you will gain some insights and be able to apply this bleeding ulcer treatment if you have ulcer or someone else you know has. Cheers!

Well, I’m just excited about juicing because of the fact that my hubby started juicing to lose weight. He’s not that heavy, probably about 75 kilos (165 lbs). However, he’s got a belly that I often tease him about. So, he’s been wanting to lose weight for a while now. He tried a few diets, some weight lifting and exercises but nothing really worked. He gets tired of it after awhile and loses interest.

Then I discovered Vitamin C and it’s benefits and discovered about the Gerson Therapy diet. We learned about juicing which Gerson advocates and learned about it’s benefits and decided to try it.

His mum has diabetes, I have gestational diabetes (when I had my kids) and he thinks he might be borderline diabetic. After reading much about juicing we decided to try it for good health and for him to lose weight.

After so many months or maybe years of trying, he finally was able to lose weight in a matter of days. So far he has lost about 5 kilos. He probably just has to lose 5 kilos more and that’s it. And yes, he is cheating. Just can’t go without it, can we?

The benefits for me were great, too! My nagging headaches disappeared. A friend of mine tells me it was migraine headache but I don’t really know since I wasn’t diagnosed but those headaches would last me hours a day for a few days and I’d have to lie down for a few hours because sometimes they were just unbearable. But now they’re gone so I’m really happy!

Okay so going back to juicing to lose weight… I’ve actually tried it, too. When my headaches were gone, I was so happy that I was juicing a lot in a day. For breakfast, I had orange juice. Then lunchtime, I had carrot juice or apple and carrot juice. In between meals, when I was hungry, I’d get an orange juice or apple orange juice. Dinner time, I’d have carrot apple juice before a meal. So I rarely ate each day since the juices kept me full and full of energy. When I did this, I lost about half a kilo a day. I did it for about 3 days so I lost about 1 1/2 kilos. So, I had to force myself to eat just so I don’t lose weight.

These days, our favourite is 2 parts carrots, 1 part apple and 1 part orange. Sometimes I put some lemon on the mix, too. We love it and our kids love it. My 3 year old drinks at least a cup a day and he can finish his juice in around 1 to 5 minutes without any complaints.

So yes, juicing to lose weight really works. Try it! You’ll be amazed!

A mega dose of vitamin C will stop sore throat in a matter of hours. If you take as much “C” as you can hold, as often as humanly possible, the pain will be gone shortly.

People who take mega doses of vitamin C every day for prevention are less likely to get sore throat but when it does happen, take more of the C and your agony will be gone in a matter of hours.

I first experienced it a few months back when we went to Lakes Entrance for time out with the family. It was winter but strangely on that day, we got a really nice sunny weather. So, we headed down to the beach for a nice stroll with the kids in tow. We played in the sand for a few minutes, took pictures and just enjoyed the day.

Afterwards, we went around town had some potato chips and soda. Yes, I know they are junk but we were still big on eating junk that time. We played some mini golf later and came back to our hotel. It was a bit of a hot day in winter so we indulged ourselves in some ice cream.

When I woke up the next day, I had a bit of a sore throat which worsened at night time. I took megadoses of vitamin C and had about 9,000 milligrams before retiring to bed. When I woke up a few hours later, my sore throat was gone!

That was the first time that I cured a sore throat with the “C” and since then, I’ve always used that trick to get rid of sore throat fast.

So, a cure for sore throat? Try Vitamin C. It always works! For me anyway.

This year has been tough for me. Early in the year, my sister had a lump in her breast. I was scared myself. You see, I had this nagging pain in my right armpit. Having been sick so many times when I was younger and having spent a lot of times in the hospital, one can only think that this is the most dreadful disease one can have in this day and age.

I remember the time prior to me being diagnosed with hepatitis back in December 1987. My mum saw me turning yellow so she told me to go to the hospital to get my blood checked. I was talking to the nurse while she was preparing my blood sample to be tested what kind of hepatitis I had. She said that hopefully I don’t get hepatitis B because it could be fatal. It was like getting a death sentence. Although I later learned there was only a 1% fatality rate for Hepatitis B.

Getting a death sentence is a scary thing for most people. So, feeling this nagging pain in my right armpit and my sister telling me she has a lump in her breast and the thought that there had been a lot of people in both sides of my family dying of cancer sent shivers down my spine.

So the question “Can cancer be cured?” is quite an important thing to be addressed.

A few months ago, I discovered juicing. As I mentioned in my other posts, my nagging headaches have disappeared (see story here). Well, so did the nagging pain in my right armpit. I notice though that whenever I eat junk food like food with processed foods, refined food or sugary foods or foods with lots of preservatives, the pain sometimes comes back. And so I’ve been trying to eat healthy. My husband and I eat lots of salads and drink lots of fruit and vegetable juices.

We’ve learned juicing from Gerson Therapy. There’s a movie about Gerson Miracle and you can see it below:

Can cancer be cured? I think so! As in anything, one just needs to TAKE ACTION for it to work.

So what’s with the jucing? Well, I’ve learned from Father of Juicing, Jay Kordich that with juicing, you get all the nutrients concentrated to your body in just a few minutes minus all the hard work for your body.

You see, while eating fruits and vegetables in their natural state provides a substantial amount of vitamins and minerals to our body, much of the goodness really is locked in the fibre which is expelled from our body. So when we juice fruits and vegetables, their goodness is released from the fibre and we are able to drink their highly concentrated nutrients. When we drink the juices, these highly concentrated nutrients enter our bloodstream very quickly and efficiently.

Think about it, will you be able to eat 5 carrots and 5 apples in just a few minutes? Of course not! Even just the thought of it would be very inconvenient. But when you juice them all in a few minutes and drink the juices, you get the concentrated nutrients without the body wasting energy.

Here’s a video of Jay Kordich so you can see a better picture:

The benefits of juicing for me has been great. The greatest of which, I might say, is my headaches (migraine headache – my friend says) are gone and I have more time to enjoy life than lie down with a nagging headache for hours at a time. I don’t have to lose weight but my hubby does and as far as I know, only jucing has worked for him so he is quite a happy juicer.

So that’s why juicing for life is what we intend to do.

This year, I had been trying to learn about orthomolecular medicine because of the incidence we had in June where my son had chest infection and was coughing really bad (story here). Previously I did a research for my friend who had a sibling with depression. I was able to find an answer with that so I decided to make a research for autism cure, too. I know that somewhere, somehow, there would be an answer.

I went to the video site youtube and found the following videos which gives hope to parents with autistic kids:

Can autism be cured? I know it can be. We just need good health education and we have to take massive TAKE ACTION!

Composting – it can save you money!

By Jonathan White, environmental scientist

For many people, composting is just an alternative way of dealing with rubbish. It prevents the garbage bin from getting full and smelly. It’s also a way of disposing of grass clippings and leaves, which saves many trips to the garbage depot. Whilst these things are valid, they are not giving compost the full credibility it deserves. Compost can be very valuable when used in the right way.

I have a completely different way of looking at compost. To me, composting is a way of building valuable nutrients that will, one day, feed me and my family. I only use compost on my vegetable gardens. The way I manage my vegetable gardens means that composting is an integral part of the whole food production system. I create compost as a way of collecting nutrients in one form (waste), and turning them into another form (food).

The average person buys food from a shop, consumes it and then sends the waste away. This is simply buying nutrients, taking what you need for that precise moment, and disregarding the remainder. It’s a nutrient flow that only flows in one direction, like a fancy car roaring down the road. You admire the car for a moment, but after a second or two, it’s gone.

My goal is to slow down the car and then get it to do a U-turn. I want to keep the nutrients within my property where I can capitalize on them. By doing this, I am able to use the nutrients again, so I don’t have to buy them for a second time. Surely, that’s going to save me money. It may seem strange to think of nutrients in this way when we can’t even physically see them. However, all organic materials contain nutrients. My goal is to get those nutrients out of the form they are in and into a form that is useful to me and my family.

To put it in a different way; composting is a vehicle in which we are able to create a nutrient cycle within our property. We are part of that cycle because we consume the nutrients when they are, for a brief time, in a useful form. Then they return to the compost and slowly make their way into another useful form where we consume them again. This cycle can go on and on indefinitely. Of course, there will be many lost nutrients that you will never see again, but with a little diligence, you will be surprised at how much compost you can create, and hence, how many valuable nutrients you can recycle.

My composting system is large because I have a few large vegetable gardens. I believe that the size of your vegetable garden should be determined by how much compost you can create, and not merely by the amount of space you have in your backyard. To run a rich, high yielding vegetable garden you need to have some sort of soil conditioning plan, and the best thing for your soil is a generous layer of good compost on the surface a few times per year.

If you can create your own compost from the organic waste that you generate in your everyday life, then you can have a vegetable garden that is self-sustainable. Once it is set up, it will never need nutrients in the form of store-bought fertilizers. You will have established a flow of nutrients, and your nutrient-store will grow bigger and bigger, year after year. Applying compost to your garden will have a very positive effect on your soil structure and fertility. With good soil structure and plenty of organic material, you will be able to release nutrients that have been locked up and unavailable to your plants. You will be speeding up the flow of nutrients, thus increasing your yield significantly. Your soil will become alive and healthy with micro-organisms and soil bacteria that are beneficial to creating the conditions for proper plant growth. Your vegetables will contain all the essential nutrients in the correct proportions, giving your body the vitamins and minerals it needs to function at its best.

Composting is very easy once you make it part of your everyday life. A small container on your kitchen bench to collect scraps and a daily trip to the compost bin is all it takes. It’s a small effort for huge rewards. The golden rule in making compost is never to have large clumps of a single type of material. Thin layers of hot and cold materials work best. Cold materials include leaves, shredded newspaper and dried grass clippings. Hot materials include fresh grass clippings, manures, weeds, discarded soft plants and kitchen scraps.

If you make composting part of you daily routine, along with an effective method of growing food, you can literally save thousands of dollars per year. This is possible simply because you won’t have to keep buying nutrients over and over. You will buy them once, hold onto them and then convert them into useful forms again and again. It’s that simple!

Jonathan White is an Environmental Scientist and the founder of the Food4Wealth Method, a high yielding, low-maintenance form of vegetable gardening. For more information see www.Food4Wealth.com

I read about him and found this interesting article.

Ecological Gardening- what is it?

by Jonathan White B.App.Sci. Assoc. Dip.App. Sci.

The term Ecological Gardening seems to be gaining popularity.  But what is it?  My experience with Ecological Gardening started many years ago.  You see, I have always been a fence sitter.  As a teenager I could never make my mind up whether I wanted to be a horticulturist or an environmental scientist.  And sometimes I’m still a little unsure!

Fortunately, I have been able to gain qualifications in both.  My specialty is in growing food using ecological principles.  But I’m not talking about some sort of alternative hippie technique.  I’m talking about sound scientific principles.

In my experience, the study of natural ecosystems will reveal everything we need to know about growing food.  Natural ecosystems are generally diverse and there are a number of intricate interdependent relationships occurring between the living and non-living components at any given time.  Put simply, each component relies and benefits from its interaction with other components.  They fuel up on each other, causing the system to be able to sustain itself.  If one part of the system gets ‘out of whack’, the whole system is affected.

When studying a natural ecosystem, such as a diverse pristine rainforest we find that there are many living components co-existing in a given area.  Each of these components occupies a niche space.  If a component, let’s say a plant, is removed by an animal eating it, we are left with an empty niche.  An empty niche provides an opportunity for another life form to fill the space.  In natural ecosystems, nature does not tolerate empty niche spaces.  Once the niche becomes available, there will be a whole host of willing opportunists ready to fill that space.  Dormant seeds, sometimes decades old, will spring to life and quickly try to occupy it. 

The same thing happens when we are trying to grow food.  In any agricultural practice, such as a vegetable garden, there are always empty niche spaces.  And remember, nature doesn’t tolerate empty niche spaces.  So weeds will try to fill the empty niche spaces.  Weeds are very good niche space fillers.  They are the ultimate colonizing plants.  So as we can see there is no difference in the way nature works, whether it is in a pristine natural ecosystem or a vegetable garden.

Ecological Gardening aims to create a system where nature works for us, and not against us.  It is actually quite easy to have a weed-free vegetable garden.  You simply do one of two things.  Firstly, you avoid having empty niche spaces.  And secondly, you make sure there is something desirable to fill niche spaces, should they become available.  That’s just one simple example, but Ecological Gardening can easily prevent a number of problems from ever arising. 

My experience with Ecological Gardening has been phenomenal.  I have been able to combine natural weed management, soil ecology, pest ecology and crop management into a very simple and easy method.  In fact, I have been able to create a garden that requires very little attention and produces far more than a traditional vegetable garden, simply by applying sound scientific principles.  And from the incredible results that I have achieved, I can say, with absolute certainty, that Ecological Gardening is the way we will be producing food in the future.

Jonathan White is an Environmental Scientist and the founder of the Food4Wealth Method.  For more information see his website related to growing an organic garden.