December 09, 2008
Your Natural Healthy Family
December 9, 2008
This issue:
- What's new at NaturalHealthyFamily.com?
- What's new for Home Learning Center members?
- Quote of the week
- Poison Milk and Alternative Sweeteners
- This week's healthy recipe: Home Made Salsa
- Coming soon!
What's new at NaturalHealthyFamily.com?
The New... New BlogOk, the last blog wasn't as simple and user friendly as we had hoped. So we decided to go with a different service entirely. This one is much easier to use. Check it out when you get a minute.
Natural Healthy Family Blog
What's New for Home Learning Center Members?
Live Webinar for BKT101This week Josh will be hosting two Webinars to get you started on the first course of the Bio-Kinetic Testing Home Study Program.
The first webinar will happen today at Noon MST. The second will happen Wednesday at a time to be determined.
You should already have gotten an invitation for the Webinar today. If you didn't, just reply to this email and we'll make sure you get one.
Quote of the Week
"Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, fat."Alex Levine
Poison Milk and Alternative Sweeteners
Poison MilkWe don't generally jump on these email forwards that end up in our inbox regarding contamination scares. But we got this one twice in one day, and thought that we should pass it along.
Apparently, in China there are some suppliers of powdered milk that have been putting a chemical called Melamine in their powdered milk products. The Melamine is odorless and tasteless and simulates protein, so it's a cheap way to increase the protein count in the powdered milk and avoid the expense of using real milk.
This chemical is used to make industrial plastics. It is not intended for human consumption. In China, this contamination has caused kidney failure in thousands of babies who were being fed with powdered milk formula.
Most of you probably don't have any powdered milk from China around your house, but you may have Coffee Mate non-dairy creamers and Nestle chocolate bars. (Two products that showed up on the watch-list that we received.) And we have also heard that Starbucks coffee products may have been contaminated.
There are actually several products that may be contaminated with this chemical. For more information on possible contaminated products, you can go check out the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/melamine.html
We aren't trying to be fear mongers or anything, we just thought that you might want to be extra careful about where your foil wrapped Chocolate-Santas are coming from this year.
For additional information you can also visit this blog There is a more comprehensive list of contaminated products there.
Alternative Sweeteners
As for alternative sweeteners, Beth found a good article on sugar alternatives at Mother Earth News.
If you are looking to decrease the amount of refined sugar that you use, you may want to try these:
- Stevia
- Brown Rice Syrup
- Date Sugar
- Honey
- Maple Syrup
- Molasses
- Naturally Milled Sugar
For descriptions of each, you can see the full article at http://www.motherearthnews.com/Natural-Health/2006-11-01/7-Sweet-Sugar-Substitutes.aspx
This week's recipe: Home Made Salsa
This is one of our family's favorites. It's very easy to make, and very tasty. (Better than most of the store bought salsas that you will find.)- Tomatoes
- Onion
- Bell Pepper
- Fresh Cilantro
- Fresh Lime Juice
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Just chop everything up and put it in a bowl. We don't really measure anything, we just do it to taste. You can add green onions or hot peppers depending on what you like.
You can even make your own chips. Just cut up some flour or corn tortillas into triangles, brush them with olive oil, sprinkle them with a tiny bit of home made Taco Seasoning , and bake them until they're crispy.
Coming Soon to NaturalHealthyFamily.com!
Easy Recipes for DadsJosh is going to start putting together some easy recipes just for Dads. Keep your eye open for those.
Dads: Impress your wives by cooking a delicious dinner all by yourself. (She doesn't have to know how easy it was.)
Ladies: Maybe you can finally get your man to set foot in the kitchen...(good luck with that...)
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 Blasingame and family
www.NaturalHealthyFamily.com
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