Dash For Power

This healthy lifestyles list of the most healthy and enjoyable foods from us to you via the learnings of the ancients, and very new, wise surveyors of such. So, first you wish to scan, like the warrior in you and observe. This will take days, come and go, print a list off, get all these into your habits. I am still working on this, and you want to also.

Meanwhile, we can try and taste and see if some new healthy foods will mix and match with the healthy foods & supplements you already are familiar, to become the best that we all can be. You will see I structured a list, as was my advise at that time. I may undo it, but that is process, you are interest in substance. That is, what are these wonder foods that all equal spinach you say.

Our spiritual adviser Popeye still prefers his spinach, but some of us on heart medicine must take care at not too many darkest greens, so powerful, but so potent in Vitamin K that our blood could be as thick as some skulls. You may want to check with your doctor if you are on heart or other medications. I love, but must avoid kept and spinach due to my heart medications.

You will be left to your own devices to test to find new foods to eat. So, here we are then: you want to eat many fruits and berries. That means just that. Eat them frozen, or rather after you have unfrozen what you need, but always frozen is OK, OK? But fresh is always best. Unless they were picked unripe and have gone bad by the time their old truck has reached you.

Now we are into the royalty: Blueberries,Raspberries, Strawberries, Cranberries,Choke berries, Dark Plumbs.

Below that hierarchy come Red Grapes, Papaya, Oranges, Mango, Red Delicious Apples, Kiwi, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Honeydew Melon, Lemons,Limes, Bananas, Pomegranate, Pear, Peaches, Green Grapes, Green Apples,Black Currents, Red Currents, Gooseberries, Gage,Tangerine, Mandarin, Mulberry, Quince, Passion Fruit.

Golden Delicious Apples have half the potency of red. Then comes Coconut, Yellow Plum, Loquat(A Japanese Plum), Cherries.

Then we have packaged foods that are good for you: not many, but here we are. Pitted Prunes, Raisins, Dates, Figs. The Most Healthy Herbs and Spices in the World are: Saffron, Bay Leaf, Rosemary, Paprika, Black Pepper, Oregano, Parsley, Sage, Thyme, Mint, Celery Seed, Basil, Cinnamon, Tarragon Leaves, Dill Weed. Curry Powder, Cayenne Pepper and Tabasco Sauce have Capsicaine, as does horseradish.

All have anti oxidant power. Coriander, Chives, Caraway Seeds, Sweet Marjoram, related to Oregano, Chervil(Best fresh), Chamomile, Sorrel, Angelica, Anise, Balm, Juniper, Hyssop.

As nuts, grains and supplements are another story we will return with more about nuts, with more details about which are best.

We know darkest is best in fruits and vegetables now, So there are few surprises, as Kale, Spinach, Broccoli, Swiss Chard, Carrots, Red Native Corn, Red Cabbage, Yams, Sweet Potatoes, Tomato (OK, it is a Fruit), Red Peppers, Golden Cream Corn, Yellow Bell Peppers, Orange Bell Peppers, Black Olives, All Root Crops such as Cabbage, Beets, Rutabaga, Okra, Sugar Beet, Parsnip, Parsley, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

We mention Sea Kelp as high in vitamin K. Cauliflower, Videlia Sweet Onions, Green Onions, Celery, Beets, Beet Tops, Red Potatoes With Skins, Garlic, Green Bell Pepper, Rhubarb, Kelp, Cauliflower, Celeriac (Knob Celery), Chinese Artichokes, Horseradish (Invasive, plant in pots) Jerusalem Artichokes, Kohlrabi.

We now have former exotics grown nearby such as Boc Choi, Acorn Squash, Butternut Squash, Marrow, Zucchini, Watercress, Brussel Sprouts, Shallots, Leeks, Atichokes, Endives, Salsa, Scorzonera, Calabrese, Courgettes (Zucchini and self blanching celery grown in blocks), and Cucumber.

This covers so many types of fruits and vegetables that you can consider as a complement to your meat or bean dishes., Those most healthy foods require further study. But here, one healthy surprise that is somewhat of a fruit is your daily treat of dark chocolate. Really. So heat up a bit, pour it over some fruit bits or whatever and however you choose. To your good health!

In our search for wisdom and healthy living, we have checked our lists so carefully, now we have the healthiest fruit and vegetables for the Queen’s navy. And us. Study, mix and match, see what blends best. Since we are considering only placing the finest of life enhancing foods inside us, and into our minds and souls, so we need to look at ways to simplify.

Can you imagine Buddha or Jesus in a line with a huge buggy of modern cheap junk from China? Or Henry David Thoreau? Or Gandhi? Did they not see this as mindless folly, the ways of empty lives to empty graves. We will list a few of our oldies are besties sites, where what you buy is so old it is now going back up in value, unlike the fake lead lined junk in those buggies all the way from China.

Are they making any more old Ming vases? No, but millions of fakes, you should get in line and get one. no you should not. Get ahead of the curve and get some Mings on your mantle, Mickey, and a few decades ago, you so aglow with health from mother earth, and now a knock upon your hearth. It is rich Susie Wing who wants her great grandma’s Mings who sit with your things along your mantle. Be inscrutable, Mickey, add 3 or 4 zeroes to your simple retirement heroes. But your only understand yes, not her other words for less.

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Enjoy good health and great wealth.  Derek Dashwood

A story going the rounds of the net has brought me an alert from an engineer friend about the perils of diet soda. He has quit and sent a detailed story from a doctor who outlined how the sodium and chemicals inserted in diet soda to make the claim no sugar is creating a poisonous stew that millions drink in some vague sense that it feels refreshing and must be good or they would not sell it, right? Wrong, and we have been there before. The examples in this story were of several women who had MS or some other health problem, but had a habit of drinking diet sodas.

In this story, which seems plausible to me, they reported they were climbing out of their wheelchairs within weeks of avoiding diet sodas. One might hope that in so doing they might have eaten a kiwi or apple instead, and put nutrients, not poisons, in their body. What amazes me in this day and age that with all the information about, and the health advisers who must have been advising these people that the way to health is to only put healthy foods and drinks in your system: they had utterly ignored.

To do otherwise is to imperil your health. They must have heard those stories, and so do we all, and yet continue our foolish behaviors until we are in a wheelchair, a burden to all. Come on folks. We all must row our own boat, and carrying on willfully against all known knowledge defies rules of self respect and carrying your own weight. Some have made their brains so sluggish with the trans fats and toxins of prepared foods they are no longer thinking straight.

Healthy foods, water, teas, even coffee with milk and honey is good. The latest science health studies keep confirming natural foods are best and those ideas are like loose diamonds . Any junk pop or the chips and junk food all go together as naturally as becoming an unhealthy couch potato. That may not have been the case with these folks, although I suspect some of that came into the equation.

But it explains that lot of unhealthy people in line at the grocer, when you see a cart loaded with prepared foods, pops, junk, nary a fruit or vegetable to be seen. When that person gives you a dirty look for making your point with your eyes, tough. Who is going to subsidize her extensive hospital stays and medical visits, while she continues her ways. All we can do is keep talking, pointing out the obvious. Maybe yet the fat lady will look in our basket and ask what all that fresh fruit and vegetables is for. Eating. You should try some, some time.

We would all be better off. For me, luckily, I was not brought up on pop or junk, although like any child I loved sweets. But a plum is sweet. I think for me, and for you who realize you will walk more easily when you have less weight punishing your joints, is to do what I have done. Hold up in front of you the soda pop you will never drink in one hand, and a plum, or kiwi, or your favorite fruit in your other hand. Say goodbye to one, say hello to the other, and live happily ever after. What a rare diamond of an idea.

Use this example every which way: out the door, your exercise machine, or your couch. A wise inspiring new health or science book rather than the escape novel. Get real, fill your lungs with fresh air, your gut with slim foods, your thoughts with good deeds, and smile as if no one notices but you; are you are the true Rare Natural Diamond .
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A tree known in ancient India since before the days of Buddha has now been confirmed by western science that the oils from the seeds have many curative powers. These oils, when squeezed from the seeds, has been an essential health supplement for recorded times. The oil comes from the seeds of the tropical tree whose oils have been in medicine cabinets through south east Asia for thousands of years. The oil has been used for every skin disorder, including ulcers, eczema, psoriasis, leprosy, diabetes, tetanus, constipation, and in some cases, family planning.

But it took a western scientist working in the Sudan to notice that locusts stayed away from this tree, long known in India, as the Neem tree, which lines the streets of many cities in India today. It has been a boon to Indian farmers to repel pests that would otherwise consume much of a crop, apply and organically stave off fungal, beetle, worm attacks and helps build up soil for more bountiful crops. Neem oil can now be purchased in the West,as a 70% solution mixed straight with water as 2 tablespoons to a gallon of water, can be applied directly around plants.

There are so many wise habits of the ancients we are learning to discover, while others nod their heads and say, well, yes, thanks for confirming what we’ve known. Now we all know.
Derek Dashwood

Salba, an ancient grain, is highest in many ratings.

• Salba, now on our site, is an amazing product, an ancient grain that when compressed into this powder, has enormous health benefits of nutrients.

• Fifteen times the magnesium of broccoli, Salba is the richest whole food source of Omega 3 fatty acids and fiber found in nature. Salba has six times more Vitamin C than broccoli, three times more iron than spinach.

• We think you should check on our Supplements site and see what else Salba is good for. You’ll see we only tipped the Ice Power burg on Salba. It comes as a powder, easy to mix with or juice. Then you the Juice.

To your good health. Derek Dashwood

“A Positive Outlook matters little in cancer battle, study shows”. What can we learn from this?

• Perhaps like you, my first reaction is one of sadness that we apparently couldn’t affect a disease ravaging inside us.

• But, on reflection, even as I began to read details of this study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania who followed 1,093 patients with head and neck cancer, and found no signifigant difference in survival whether someone scored high or low on an emotional well-being scale, I began to see the upside, and then found their words verifying my thoughts. “It’s disappointing”, said Dr. James Coyne, professor of psychology at UP, “but on the other hand I think a case could be made that people are made to feel guilty-they are told explicitly, or implicitly, that you’ve got to toughen up, you’ve got to have a fighting spirit and that’s not true.

• The study has just been published in the journal, Cancer. The theory is that negative emotions stress the body and batter the immune system. It contrasts a 1989 study by Stanford University School of Medicine’s Dr. David Spiegel that showed breast cancer victims lived 18 months longer with a positive attitude. In later, more extensive studies on this, Dr. Spiegel and others were unable to replicate those results, but the impression had been placed in people’s minds. This by Sharon Kirkey for CanWest News.

• What this does not then discusss, so we will now, is if we can’t smile ourselves healthy, can we read and learn which foods, and drugs, are best for that specific cancer we, or our loved ones, have? We think yes, it is what we have been talking about, so let’s discuss this and watch the new studies sure to follow this study. Let’s start with one type of cancer, there are hundreds: any cancer through the eating to exit department of our bodies, our plumbing. Cancers can be described as similiar to peach leaf curl on a peach tree, or on grape vines. Moisture, sometimes laden with fungals, collect on peach or grapes leaves, and are quickly picked off and disposed of, not allowed to fester on the ground. They are a similiar type of cancer, and in our orchard or back yard we can witness how a healthy leaf twists and curls in an agonized cancerous death grip. And the grape vines that most successfully have flavenoids that attack the leaf curl and repel it is in the darkest red wines, with Cabernet Sauvignon as champion. The wines have even more cancer fighting potency that the grape uice they were made from. So with your glass of red wine, check our news about which foods fight which cancers, or heart disease, pursue all foods that will attack your specific cancer, and eat them daily, hourly. All the darkest, brightest colors.

• So, really, the pressure is off. If you have cancer, and the next time someone tells you to smile when you are having a spasm, throw the night clock at them-in your mind only please, no caretaker abuse. Then ask for a plate of prunes, plums, fresh berries, and oh, yes, a glass of red wine. Leave the bottle. Our point here is that this new study allows you to rely on your more coldly logical brain study and tell you which plums, wines, grapes, eggplants are best. Not going into your emotional brain and exhausting yourself smiling, when you finally now know the best way to deal with a cancer in us to be apply every healthy food and lifestyle in additional to medicine’s best new application for what ails us.

So, together, we will fight all evil diseases, and to frown is sometimes OK. Derek Dashwood

Surf and turf; coffee and walk; bright veggies need avocado type fat, live long.

• With Surf and Turf- fish and broccoli-, throw back cancer with the new power cohort champs. Science has again confirmed how two powerful antioxidant foods, when combined, magnify their cancer fighter power by many more times than two. What began as small talk at a party between two scientists resulted in them combining their research to how how there might be any unexpected additional good effects. So, Allan Conney, Ph.D from Rutgers andGeorge C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted and realized while one was looking at health benefits of caffeine on Parkinson’s Disease, the other studying green tea and skin-cancer protection.his in Mens Health Nov 2007.

• Their discovery: that the combination of caffeine and exercise may shield you from skin cancer. Read on for other good discoveries. So. check out our coming soon Coffee section.

• Combine eating fish and broccoli. Tuna and halibut (and other fish) contain selenium, a mineral that raises your levels of a cancer-fighting enzyme called thioredoxin reductase (TR-1). Likewise, broccoli provides sulforaphane, a plant chemical that also boosts TR-!. When British researchers combined these two nutrients, they noticed that the tag team was 13 times more effective at slowing the growth of cancer cells than each was individually. The scientists believe that as selenium concentrations in your cells rise, the ability of sulforaphane to elevate TR-1 increases.

• Eat meat with vegatables regularly. As well as fish, foods such as beef, turkey, Brazil nuts, and mushrooms are excellent sources of selenium. And cruciferous veggies, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbag- are also loaded with sulforaphane.

• Other good combinations: Salsa and Avocado. The healthiest bright vegetables are rich in carotenoids, powerful plant pigments that reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and cataracts.

• But we have a secret that you know; as well as vigorous exercise, and pump youself with a delicious cup from our new Coffee section, to fully benefit from these disease-fighting compounds, you need to eat them with fat. In fact, Ohio State University reseachers found that people who ate a salad with half an avocado over it absorbed 5 to 10 times more beta-carotene and lutein-carotenoids found in carrots and spinich, than those who ate salad without the fatty avocado. And the salsa added to the mix boosted the absorption of lycopene- a carotenoid in tomatoes-by almost five times. “Fatty acids are needed to help caroenoids dissolve in the intestines, says lead study author Steve Schwartz, Ph.D “These lipids are also an essential part of creating lipoproteins, which transport the carotenoids in the bloodstream.”

So, bottom line: any time you eat colorful vegetables-whether raw of lightly cooked- have some healthy fat too. And it does just have to be an avocado, it could be one ounce of cheese, two pats of butter, or two tablespoons of full fat ranch dressing will fill the bill.

So, yes, Auntie Em: We do need some fat a day. Two Tablespoons full. And a good long walk, or remember science says all that cold water is sludging fats and grease along your artery walls. Cup of Coffee or tea, will help unstick that goo from your linings.

Yours avocadingly, sipping my Coffee Derek Dashwood

Organic kiwis far more power packed than non organic, studies show.

Studies comparing organic and non organic have so far been inconclusive, often because comparisons of soil, locale, etc. But a new University of California at Davis study grew organic and non organic kiwis at the same farm at the same time. They found the organic kiwis were far more powerfully packed with disease fighting antioxidants, vitamin C, potassium, and calcium. Researchers think that the lack of pesticides caused more environmental stress, which causes the fruit to produce more antioxidants naturally, says lead researcher, Adel Kader, Ph.D

This may be the first of science showing that again and again, natural is better. Even kids exposed to dirt are able to fight disease better.

Happy organicizing. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team.

Sweeteners to your coffee exist beyond those chemical additives we see at coffee shops. Men’s Health tried a number and their favorite was an Oligofructose named Sweet Perfection that you can order at lowcarbspecialties which is a sweet fiber extract from chicory root.

Sweet Perfection tastes like cotton candy, but as it is 100% fiber it doesn’t raise your blood sugar, and you don’t absorb the calories. They also tested Agave nectar, which they compare to sugar but more expensive; Erythritol, which has sugar alcohols which can upset your stomache; and Stevia, which they crossed off after tasting it. So try your Sweet Perfection, and enjoy. Chicory root has many healthful compounds.

Here’s to your health. 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