January 13, 2009
Your Natural Healthy Family
January 13, 2009!
This issue:
- This Week at NaturalHealthyFamily.com
- What's new for Home Learning Center members?
- Quote of the week
- Physical activities for staying healthy in winter
- This week's healing herb: Chamomile
- This week's healthy recipe: Chamomile Recipes
- Coming soon!
This Week at NaturalHealthyFamily.com?
Interview with Tisha MechamTomorrow (Wed. the 14th) we are doing an interview with Tisha Mecham, Master Herbalist, author of the book Bio-Kinetic Testing for Health, and one of Beth's personal mentors.
We were planning on doing the interview live, but we had so many technical problems last time we did a live interview with Tisha, that we may make this a closed session.
Either way, we will be recording the interview, so you will have a chance to listen to it next week. (We're giving you access to a whole bunch of new stuff next week. More on that later.)
We are also releasing a wonderful interview that we did last week with Lisa Jones, Raw Food Chef and Nutritional Consultant. This was a really fun interview that you won't want to miss. (Don't worry, we'll make sure you get access to it.)
To find out what's new at NaturalHealthyFamily.com, you can always check in on the Upcoming Events Page of the website.
What's New for Home Learning Center Members?
We had a great Friday afternoon chat this last week. It was one of our best turnouts yet, including a couple of new members.If you missed it, you can still check out the recorded chat log. It will be available until the next chat this coming Friday at Noon MST.
Members can log in to the Home Learning Center day or night at http://www.bio-kinetictesting-hlc.com/membersarea/
Quote of the Week
"For health benefits, adults need 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity on 5 or more days a week; youth aged 6 to 17 need 60 minutes. If there were a medication that conferred all of the health benefits of regular moderate physical activity, every doctor would prescribe it. Physical activity is the ultimate magic pill. Small steps add up to big results. Taking stairs instead of the elevator, going for a walk instead of a coffee break, parking the car further away from the office or shopping mall, sweeping the floor instead of vacuuming: all of these activities add up to better health."Melissa Johnson, Executive Director,
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Physical Activities for Staying Healthy in Winter
In case you hadn't noticed, it's winter outside.Here in the Pacific Northwest, that means it rains... a lot.
In Utah, where we used to live it meant that it snowed... a lot.
Regardless of where you live, chances are good that you react to winter in much the same way that we do. Your hybernation clock goes off and you bundle up and hunker down. Your body slows down, giving itself permission to store a little extra fat, just in case.
We're the first to admit that finding physical activities in the face of rain, snow, and cold is not nearly as easy as when it's 75 degrees and sunny outside. But the fact is that for optimum health, physical activities are no less important in the winter than in the spring. In fact, in some ways they are more important.
So how do you stay active when all you want to do is snuggle up in your favorite blanket and sit next to the fire with a good book and a cup of tea?
We thought you'd never ask.
Tips for staying active when all you want to do is snuggle...
Let us first address all you overachievers out there. You know who you are. You are the ones who will actually wake up at 5 am after a snow storm to drive up the canyon just to be the first one to cut tracks in "fresh powder".
We have to admit that we don't understand you. We aren't you. You might even say in some ways we resent you.
But let us also say that we respect you and we love your enthusiasm! If you are one of those people, we are probably the last people on Earth that you should be taking advice from when it comes to physical activity.
So let's move on to the "normal" people. You know... people like us! For the normal people, our first suggestion is to...
Find Physical Activities that You Enjoy
The first thing that we would recommend is to find physical activities that you enjoy. We mean, REALLY enjoy. Like something that you enjoy enough to overcome winter-time-inertia and the mattress monster. This could be anything. From walking in the evening with your spouse or your friends, to snowshoeing across the countryside and taking pictures of snow covered fields.
If this doesn't work, and you can't think of anything YOU enjoy, then maybe you should look at doing something that your kids enjoy.
Why?
Because even though most of us wouldn't expend any additional effort for the sake of our own health and wellbeing, we WILL wake up at 5 am after a snow storm just to avoid breaking a promise to our kids.
Which brings us to our next suggestion...
Make Promises You Know You Won't Break
Get the family together and plan some physical activities that everyone can enjoy. And then commit to doing them. First off, as we said before, most of us hate to break promises that we make our kids. But also, our kids hate us to break those promises even more.
So let your kids do what they do best. Let them nag you about that hiking trip you promised them until you just can't stand it anymore and you would rather pack up the car and go than listen to them for one more second.
If All Else Fails
If none of these solutions work, then just start picking physical activities that are easy to fit into your busy schedule.
Park in the furthest space from the store instead of the closest one you can find. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Walk to the corner store instead of driving. Set a recurring alarm that goes off every hour. Every time it goes off, get up from your desk and walk around the block, or the yard, or just do some light stretches right there in your office or living room. Just keep in mind that any extra physical activities are better than no physical activities at all.
As always, we love to hear from you. If you have some ideas for winter time activities, then by all means, go to our blog and leave us a comment.
Herb of the Week:
Chamomile
As you know, our baby Lilly wasn't gaining any weight for almost the first two months after she was born. Using
Bio-Kinetic Testing
, we discovered that she had yeast in her little tummy. (For those of our new subscribers who don't know the story, you can read about it here on Our Blog.)
The healing herb that we have been using to get rid of that yeast is Chamomile. Since we have been using it so much lately, we thought we should write a web page about it. To find out more information on Chamomile, please visit the new Chamomile Page on our website.
This Week's Recipe:
Chamomile Recipes
We wanted to include a Chamomile recipe to go along with the information page, but we haven't had a chance to try out any of the recipes that we found. (We never add a recipe to the site until we have had a chance to test it first.)
So, for those of you who would like to try some Chamomile recipes, but don't want to wait around for us to test them first, there are some great ones at this website. Including tea, shampoo, conditioner, and an herbal foot soak recipe.
If you do try them out, please contact us and let us know how you liked them.
Coming Soon to NaturalHealthyFamily.com!
The New Year's Family Health Makeover has been a great success.We have so many recorded interviews, new information and fun resources from this New Year's Event, we have decided to compile it into a new product and charge $17 for it!
However, as a way of saying thank you to our Family Health News subscribers, we will be providing ALL of this information to you for free.
Next week, after it's all put together, we'll give you the link to access the password protected page where you can download everything yourself. We'll probably do that in a special edition of the newsletter next week. So don't be surprised if you get two issues in your inbox next week.
We are constantly posting new content on the site, so keep checking back with us to see what's new.
As always, feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or requests. (You can just hit your reply button. We love to hear from you.)
To YOUR health,
Beth, Josh, and Family
www.NaturalHealthyFamily.com
Taking the guesswork
out of keeping your family healthy!
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