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That’s how Men’s Health says how to deal with more natural cleaning products that leave your home clean without the chemicals. Sounded good to us, so we will relate these to you as well. As MH says, mix your own natural cleaners:

• BATHROOM CLEANERS:
• Arm and Hammer Baking soda and Castile Soap
• LAWN FERTILIZERS
• Used coffee grounds-mix with compost and mulch
• DRAIN OPENER
• 1 Cup White Vinegar, 1 cup Baking Soda, follow with 1 cup boiling water
• FURNITURE POLISH
• 1/4 cup Vegetable Oil plus 1/2 cup Lemon Juice
• GLASS CLEANER
• 1 Cup White Vinegar plus 1 Gallon Water
• FLEA REPELLENT
• Feed your pet Brewer’s Yeast, or Vitamin B
• AIR FRESHENER
• Simmer Cinnamon Leaves and Cloves. On the stove, Ralph.

So, let us find that this gives you some comfort in getting rid of some toxic items under your sink that should not be there. Need we explain why? Didn’t think so, but this helps us use which natural products to use, which toxic products to get rid of. Good luck, now no coughing, whistle while you clean.

Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

Running shoes are the new nicotine patch!

A study in www.Addiction.com reveals that walking can reduce 76% of the need to smoke. People who walked 10 minutes a day felt 76% fewer withdrawal symptoms and 33% less cravings than those who didn`t walk. Walking, or working out, in home gym workouts may trigger production of mood-enhancing dopamine, which can replace the feel good addictive surge of nicotine, says lead author Adrian Taylor, Ph.D. So get offa that couch, butt that cig, shake that slouch, hit it big, take your walk, around the block, or on a home gym machine when you get home, make it show, to show the way to go.

So walk, don`t puff, talk, don`t huff, fill your lungs with fresh air and healthy stuff, say goodbye to nicotine, Josephine, you the Queen. You might check out our Stairmaster. It may be your rainy day fun way to stay slim.

Derek Dashwood

Well, it will soon, most likely. University of Guadalajara researchers found that a main plant extract-blue agave- to make tequila- can pass through stomache acids without being destroyed. The hope is that doctors will be able to use blue agave as a vessel for delivering colon-cancer drugs more effectively. Human trials are planned. Aunt Agatha has booked us two tickets to Guadalajara and has phoned the University of Guadalajara to offer us as research candidates, although I rather fear her Spanish for colon cancer tequila drinkers may have us cleaning up after the monkeys. Well will keep you posted. For now, we add, most strangely if you had a disapproving aunt about liquor, as was Aunt Agatha`s spinster sister Prunella, now long gone, never touched a drop of the devils liquor. Serves her right.

Here`s to us, Tequila Sheila. Meet you at the border. Derek blue agave sombrero Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

A routine physical may not detect skin cancers, you are more likely to survive melanoma cancer when a dermatologist diagnoses it. Emory University researchers found in a study of 2,000 cases, tumors caught by dermatologists were 10% less advanced than those found by non-specialists. The melanomas were caught earlier, which allowed for a 10% greater survival rate. Suephy C. Chen, M.D., one of the studies authors stated`A dermatologist is more apt to detect subtle changes quicker. This from Mens Health JulyéAugust 2007, which says, and we agree, see a skin doctor twice a year for a total bod skin exam. Check which lotions best protect your skins, as well as allow the Vitamin D giving benefits of being in the sun., The more moles you have, the more to watch out on whether any mole is increasing in size.

I have had several slowly growing moles cut out, and sip my red wine to have those cancer fighting flavenoids fight their way down through my plumbing system, mouth to goodbye, takind dying cancers with them. Bon voyage, virus, disease, cancer and heart cloggers. You may find the need for such snipping, as Aunt Agatha does when she finds a diseased leaf on one of her bushes, snip, into the burner, and gone. So sip her red wine, or her even more potent vodka cherries: she is 93 and can out run you and me.

See you in the sun, see you at the Sun Doctor. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

Unfiltered cloudy apple juice contains 400% more disease-fighting antioxidants than clear apple juice. This also applies to all fruit juices, infiltered allows more heart and cancer fighters in the fruit to enter your system. Men’s Health quotes a recent Polish study that confirms earlier studies on this.

Also, an antioxidant found in fruits is Quercetin, which appears to help respiratory-tract infections. Appalachian State University researchers gave 20 hard-training cyclists 1,000 milligrams of quercetin, or a placebo every day for 5 weeks. Only 5% of the Quercetin athletes developed infections, whle 45% of the placebo athletes did. Quercetin appears to latch onto viruses and prevent them from spreading to other cells, says the lead investigator, David Nieman, Ph.D. You can chew what the athletes chewed: FRS quercetin soft chews (www.frsplus.com).

Happy health. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

Wonderful news from Brazil. Acai (ah-SIGH-ee) berries that taste like chocolate blueberries fight cancer even more powerfully than blueberries and pomegranates.

• The grape-sized black-purple (those colors again) berries contain higher levels of antioxidants, and University of Florida study found that acai extract triggered a self destructive response in 90% of the leukemia cells Acai came in contact with, a promising finding for scientists working to cure cancer.
• So far you can only get the benefits of acai by drinking Bossa Nova Acai Juice, at Whole Foods, Wild Oats stores, and www.bossausa.com.
• These are the great joys, finding news like this. So, as you can, feed yourself, your kids, your loved ones these leukemia killers.
• Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

• While we can trust Natural Dog Diet, many other items can kill your Dog

• Melanin and lead in the soil of China comes to mind as an item recently found in many pet foods, particularly Dog Foods, many of which received and used these additives from China. This is hopefully being cleaned up now.
• But for us, we are selecting trusted closer to home suppliers of dog foods being producted in Canada and the United States that guarantee human health quality. We can now endorse and print good names that continue to rate 100% customer approval ratings in the open Amazon world of suppliers. Such as Discountpetdirect and petplanet2U and apdempsey2008. At 99.9% approval kpetstore had the salmon supplements and also at 99.9% customer approval Eastwestgifts had safe dental chew toys, at 98.8% customer approval Equiteric of Hazelton PA had pet supplements .
• But the pride in comfort that you cared enough to put highest quality people best food into your loved pet will also make you both purr and glow. That salmon oil supplement into the food sounds so obvious: they will have silky fur and a clean heart. What a nice mom or dad you are.
• When they taste their first “long grass free range fresh beef sticks”, our pets will thank us for, but from the sounds and looks, we would thank us for. How often does the beef we buy at our local market tell us that our beef was not only free range but in long grass, which would have kept it relaxed, not stressing for its next meal.
• We are feeding our pooch that relaxed japanese beef, or the safe American version. No China melamine or lead here, thanks but no thanks.
• And also, we will point out that some food items, beneficial to adult humans, is toxic to small pets, and small children. These are:
• Alcohol- it depresses brain function and can cause your pet to go into a coma. Watch no party drinks left over, if you have pets- or kids.
• Coffee-the methylxanthine in caffein can increase a dog’s heart rate and trigger seizures.
• Chocolate- the chemical theobromine can be fatal. Only 3 ounces of dark or 7 of milk can bring on vomiting in a 50-pound dog.
• Macademia Nuts- experts don’t yet know why only a few of these nuts can cause tremors, even paralysis in a dog’s hind legs.
• Garlic- garlic breaks down a dog’s red blood cells, leading to anemia and possible kidney failure from leaking blood cells.
• Onions-the damage to a dog’s canine blood cells builds slowly, so small tastes over time can be worse than wolfing down the whole bulb.
• Grapes- grapes and raisins can cause heart failure.
• Raisins- They are studying why, but we don’t know why grapes and raisins cause heart failure in our pets. So be careful.

So let all the family know of this, in case anyone forgets and leaves some innocent food to us, that could kill our pet. Our pets become such a party of the family, and are gone too soon at their healthiest. Here’s to long happy live to your dear pooch, or pussycat. This news is from NationalGeographic’s October 2007 issue.

Derek Dashwood

Aspirin is 400% more effective at preventing heart attacks in men than in women.

Compared with men, women have thicker blood, and that requires women take larger doses of aspirin for the same risk reduction. Check with your doctor. I take a “baby” aspirin which contains 81 mg of Acetylsalicylic acid daily. This study was conducted at the

University of

Michigan. About 20 million adults take low dose aspirin because it can prevent blood clots. You should too, and you women even more so, perhaps. This in Men’s Health Sept 2007. Check with your doctor. We know that to maintain a healthy heart requires that your watch your diet and get your exercise. Many fruits and vegetables mentioned on these Pages and Posts strip away fats and diseases, the darker the color the better, keep them refrigerated. Do you have the storage capacity in your fridge freezer to hold so many more natural, fresh, juice jars, frozen?And, if you are entering the hospital, you should take regular adult 325 mg aspirin before during after your hospital stay to ward off the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Dartmouth researchers found that taking aspirin can ward off these antibiotic resistant infections by 65% over those who don’t pop aspirin. Martin Sedlacek, M.D., credit salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, as the bacteria killer. If you know you are being admitted, talk to your doctor about starting an aspirin regimen. Men’s Health July-Aug 2007.This is vital to your life, you may want to start storing in your fridge flax oils, hemp oil, omega 3 oils. Cut down on animal fats, increase your heart healthy consumption of essential fatty acids and fish oils, fresh or frozen: keep your new if you need it fridge and freezer plugged with all the right foods to snack on daily, hourly. Take your daily 81 mg aspirin daily, or 325 mg if going into hospital.

Check with your doctor and explain that you thought about it and would like to live. Healthy. The Doc’s reaction will be positive, also talk about your medications, supplements, fish oil is also a blood thinner. So, then, walk walk walk. Or get yourself to a health gym store and buy one great little machine that fits you like a glove, and then sit in that cockpit and sweat yourself heart healthy. And still take your aspirin, 81 mg for us men, perhaps more for you ladies. Happy sweating on your new heart health machine: here’s to life. Yours and mine.

Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

Purslane, a lettuce like edible, has 10 to 20 times more melatonin, which may prevent cancer growth

Purslane, classified by the FDA as a weed, is consumed for its high antioxidant power in many countries, although is relatively unknown in North American diets. Which is a shame. So, on your salads, it is like lettuce just far more heart-healthy omega-3 fats than any other edible plant, according to researchers at the

University of Texas at San Antonio. Mens Health reports

San Antonio researchers also found that these Purslane leaves had 10 to 20 times more melatonin, an antioxidant that may inhibit cancer growth, than any other fruit or vegetable listed. A mild lemony taste, the leaves are crispy. Look for it in farmer’s market, Chinese or Mexican. It will lose it’s potency, like all fresh, if you leave it out. Get it into your new larger lower fridge section, pull out enough for salads daily, replace only as you know how your eating schedule is consuming such delicacies.Thank you,

San Antonio! Such achievements as yours are Great when we can discover a weed that is a potent life saver.Here’s to more such discoveries. Brilliant minds working together for the common good are changing the world, even while we face the many challenges. Enjoy!Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team

Aunt Agatha is 93 and she says having chunky vegetable soup before her meal always leaves her more than satisfied with a small portion of her meal. By 20%, according to a study by researchers at Penn State, who found that men consumed 135 fewer overall calories when they began their meal with a 150 calorie serving (1 + 1/2 cups) of a broth based vegetable soup.

We know that boiling water kills the plant based nutrients, so get a crockpot if you don’t have one, make enough soup for a week with slow steaming day long breakdown of the healthy carrots, every bright color plant you are learning to love. Takes minutes to wash, dice, slice and pop them in the crock, set on Auto, and see you for soup before dinner. Cool the crock, you can place this wonderful pot of soup, your weeks supply, if the pot is still hot near bedtime place it a few minutes in cold water in the sink till it’s cool, pop it into the fridge with its lid on, and there is your soup, Duke. Aunt Agatha will be so pleased with us.

Then we’ll talk about how you can do this to make your meal, with a second crockpot. You will store this separately, and the easiest, laziest most convenient way is to get a second crockpot. This is the meal pot, which will also go into your fridge. Add your roast beast, no or little water, several cans of tomatoes with Italian spice flavor, add your spices, bay leaf, your power favorites, see our list, lots of canned beans, even frozen veggies into the second crockpot, do the same but different, and store both inner pots in your now perhaps new, larger fridge freezer to make these delights in little time, and you have become your own chef and good man Jeeves. When you arrive home after your hard day, pop some soup into your microwave, and some of Aunt Agatha’s Berry Cherry Vodka martini, and you will feel restored and empowered by this amazing new discovery. Which auntie has known since her youth,under the tart cherry tree, eating fermented berries and then whipping the biggest boy on the block. Where we we? Oh yes, then, put your power meal glass dish and its glass cover into same micro, and viola.

If it is Jeeves night off or he is at his book club, then say to yourself, well done, old chap. Jolly good. Well, let us partake. Aunt Agatha left a fresh bottle of her vodka. You noticed how it is jammed with blackberries. A super power house those berries become when vodka is added, says Men’s Health. Well Aunt Agatha has known it for years, look at her up dancing with Brown the gardener, and she was chasing young Brown (he will be 70 next April)with a rake this morning for stealing her tart cherries. Ah, life at Aunt Agatha’s is always proof of the health reading pudding. Soup, regular exercise ( I prefer my new exercise machine, but I’m not as fit and wiry as auntie).

Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team