Monday, August 25, 2008
MORE ABOUT BLUEBERRIES
from a letter received 8/25/2008
I read your blog and loved every word. I would like to add something I read from a newsletter i receive on a weekly basis. It is excellent and I would like to recommend it to your readers. "Blueberries offer many health benefits, including protection against urinary tract infections, cancer, age-related health conditions and brain damage from strokes. The European blueberry, or bilberry, is known to prevent and even reverse macular degeneration."
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Markus
Pennsylvania
I read your blog and loved every word. I would like to add something I read from a newsletter i receive on a weekly basis. It is excellent and I would like to recommend it to your readers. "Blueberries offer many health benefits, including protection against urinary tract infections, cancer, age-related health conditions and brain damage from strokes. The European blueberry, or bilberry, is known to prevent and even reverse macular degeneration."
This is from mercola.com. If your readers want to subscribe to this newsletter they just need to go to the web site and sign up - it is free.
Markus
Pennsylvania
Labels: Health
Saturday, August 9, 2008
A COMPARISON OF ONE OF WHOLE FOODS BRANDS
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We have been noticing what looks like a regular marketing practice in some of the Whole Foods stores. We can't say all because we have not visited all.
When Whole Foods is about to push or introduce a new Whole Foods brand - the other brands seem to disappear from the shelves - or - they are sold in other sizes - smaller and less popular sizes just to maintain a presence.
We've been looking at this phenomenon around Organic Whole Wheat Flour. Our choice is Organic Whole Wheat STONE GROUND Flour. In that group our choice is Arrowhead Mills Organic Whole Wheat Stone Ground Flour.
We've seen the Whole Foods brand of Whole Wheat Flour appearing on the shelves immediately adjacent to the Arrowhead Mills Flour. At the same time we've noticed the Whole Foods brand has depth in its positioning - usually, large bags of flour four abreast being placed either two or three bags deep on the shelves.
At the same time the Arrowhead Mills' position is shrinking. Only one bag long and one bag deep and most of the time there is none available. When we ask, we are told it is due in tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and the shelves still do not have the Arrowhead Mills Flour and we get the same response from the Whole Foods employee - tomorrow!
We looked carefully at the prospect of changing to Whole Foods flour and decided against it because the Whole Foods brand is "Organic Whole Wheat Flour". It is $1 less per bag, but it is not STONE GROUND. It is apparently ground with heat making it much less nutritious and with all that such milling implies. If you are going to get serious about this and are willing to spend more for organic products, make sure they are the best you can find. Make your money count. Eat less of the right food and save money even at higher prices.
While in one Whole Foods Store recently, we were standing in front of the Organic Whole Wheat flour and watched a woman pass quickly by, pick up the Whole Foods brand, advise us to do the same because it is $1 cheaper than the Arrowhead Mills flour. We stopped her and asked if how the flour was ground meant anything to her. "Of course," she said. We asked her to read the label of the Whole Foods brand carefully and tell us if it was what she wanted and what she thought she was buying. She looked carefully at the label and expressed her shock at realizing this was not flour ground properly for it to have the Organic label. Why pay more for flour so milled. She put the Whole Foods brand back and instead bought the only two small bags of the Arrowhead Mills "Organic Stone Ground Whole Wheat" Flour. She was quite upset that Whole Foods had 'tricked' her (her words not ours).
So - shop carefully and healthily as you shop for flour and if you don't like the Arrowhead Mills' Flour, please read the labels slowly and carefully and make sure your "Organic Whole Wheat Flour" is STONE GROUND" - ground without heat to destroy the nutrients.
Whole Foods is changing. While they have some great organic products, they are not the store they used to be and look as though they are on that slippery slope to becoming just an ordainary grocery store with a few organic products, most of which are their own store brand watered down from what they should be.
We are going to call the Arrowhead Mills company to see if we can't get the large bags of their stone ground organic whole wheat flour because what we see on the shelves at the Whole Foods Stores is small bags of Arrowhead Mills Flour and even those small bags are out most of the time now and we want a constant reliable source for our flour. Whole Foods seems to want to reduce and finally eliminate the competition, leaving us with lesser quality and less healthy products.
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We have been noticing what looks like a regular marketing practice in some of the Whole Foods stores. We can't say all because we have not visited all.
When Whole Foods is about to push or introduce a new Whole Foods brand - the other brands seem to disappear from the shelves - or - they are sold in other sizes - smaller and less popular sizes just to maintain a presence.
We've been looking at this phenomenon around Organic Whole Wheat Flour. Our choice is Organic Whole Wheat STONE GROUND Flour. In that group our choice is Arrowhead Mills Organic Whole Wheat Stone Ground Flour.
We've seen the Whole Foods brand of Whole Wheat Flour appearing on the shelves immediately adjacent to the Arrowhead Mills Flour. At the same time we've noticed the Whole Foods brand has depth in its positioning - usually, large bags of flour four abreast being placed either two or three bags deep on the shelves.
At the same time the Arrowhead Mills' position is shrinking. Only one bag long and one bag deep and most of the time there is none available. When we ask, we are told it is due in tomorrow. Tomorrow comes and the shelves still do not have the Arrowhead Mills Flour and we get the same response from the Whole Foods employee - tomorrow!
We looked carefully at the prospect of changing to Whole Foods flour and decided against it because the Whole Foods brand is "Organic Whole Wheat Flour". It is $1 less per bag, but it is not STONE GROUND. It is apparently ground with heat making it much less nutritious and with all that such milling implies. If you are going to get serious about this and are willing to spend more for organic products, make sure they are the best you can find. Make your money count. Eat less of the right food and save money even at higher prices.
While in one Whole Foods Store recently, we were standing in front of the Organic Whole Wheat flour and watched a woman pass quickly by, pick up the Whole Foods brand, advise us to do the same because it is $1 cheaper than the Arrowhead Mills flour. We stopped her and asked if how the flour was ground meant anything to her. "Of course," she said. We asked her to read the label of the Whole Foods brand carefully and tell us if it was what she wanted and what she thought she was buying. She looked carefully at the label and expressed her shock at realizing this was not flour ground properly for it to have the Organic label. Why pay more for flour so milled. She put the Whole Foods brand back and instead bought the only two small bags of the Arrowhead Mills "Organic Stone Ground Whole Wheat" Flour. She was quite upset that Whole Foods had 'tricked' her (her words not ours).
So - shop carefully and healthily as you shop for flour and if you don't like the Arrowhead Mills' Flour, please read the labels slowly and carefully and make sure your "Organic Whole Wheat Flour" is STONE GROUND" - ground without heat to destroy the nutrients.
Whole Foods is changing. While they have some great organic products, they are not the store they used to be and look as though they are on that slippery slope to becoming just an ordainary grocery store with a few organic products, most of which are their own store brand watered down from what they should be.
We are going to call the Arrowhead Mills company to see if we can't get the large bags of their stone ground organic whole wheat flour because what we see on the shelves at the Whole Foods Stores is small bags of Arrowhead Mills Flour and even those small bags are out most of the time now and we want a constant reliable source for our flour. Whole Foods seems to want to reduce and finally eliminate the competition, leaving us with lesser quality and less healthy products.
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Labels: Food Shopping, Health
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Toss Viagra, Try Zinc
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We had a very exciting breakfast - some would think it was x-rated, but it was a family-friendly discussion.
Apparently, the power of zinc is beginning to circulate. I thought we knew all there was to know about nutrition, vitamins, etc. but this bit of knowing was new to us. It can be a bit disconcerting when you realize you don't know it all!!!
A couple people at the breakfast table talked about how they discovered, in the process of taking zinc lozenges to get rid of a cold, or to dampen its horrid impact on the body, that they had interesting side affects. Not realizing exactly what caused those side affects, they experimented with several things they had been eating and much to their surprise it was the zinc lozenges. At this point, the breakfast table broke up into peals of laughter.
Much to our surprise, a quiet voice, from a woman at the end of the table verified that she also had the same experience and having tried it over and over again, the results were always predictable. She decided to take away her husbands viagra and substitute zinc. She did and he didn't notice the difference.
Could this be a great new scientific breakthrough? Or has this been known for hundreds of years only to be hidden from this current generation! Have we discovered something new or did our table talk rediscover what was generally known before we became so alienated from one another?
I hope this knowledge doesn't result in zinc being taken off the market the way the effectiveness of almonds was destroyed through that pasteurization process.
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We had a very exciting breakfast - some would think it was x-rated, but it was a family-friendly discussion.
Apparently, the power of zinc is beginning to circulate. I thought we knew all there was to know about nutrition, vitamins, etc. but this bit of knowing was new to us. It can be a bit disconcerting when you realize you don't know it all!!!
A couple people at the breakfast table talked about how they discovered, in the process of taking zinc lozenges to get rid of a cold, or to dampen its horrid impact on the body, that they had interesting side affects. Not realizing exactly what caused those side affects, they experimented with several things they had been eating and much to their surprise it was the zinc lozenges. At this point, the breakfast table broke up into peals of laughter.
Much to our surprise, a quiet voice, from a woman at the end of the table verified that she also had the same experience and having tried it over and over again, the results were always predictable. She decided to take away her husbands viagra and substitute zinc. She did and he didn't notice the difference.
Could this be a great new scientific breakthrough? Or has this been known for hundreds of years only to be hidden from this current generation! Have we discovered something new or did our table talk rediscover what was generally known before we became so alienated from one another?
I hope this knowledge doesn't result in zinc being taken off the market the way the effectiveness of almonds was destroyed through that pasteurization process.
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Labels: Growing Old, Health
Sunday, June 22, 2008
New Found Health Help!
I don't see other such postings, but I stayed in one of your homes and enjoyed it very much. Your whole network seems to be health conscious and the home in which I stayed was the most organically conscious place I've been. So I thought I would share my recent experience with a urinary infection and my husbands with kidney stones.
We ate organic blueberries for a couple days - lots of them. My urinary infection cleared and my husband passed his kidney stones.
It isn't a great deal, but I wanted to contribute something of my experiences, in line with what I experienced in your network house.
Leila,
The Netherlands
6/22/2008
Received via postal mail 6/19/2008
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We ate organic blueberries for a couple days - lots of them. My urinary infection cleared and my husband passed his kidney stones.
It isn't a great deal, but I wanted to contribute something of my experiences, in line with what I experienced in your network house.
Leila,
The Netherlands
6/22/2008
Received via postal mail 6/19/2008
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Labels: Health
Friday, December 21, 2007
Almond and Cancer
We've always heard the little ditty "six almonds a day keeps cancer away." Today it would have to be "six raw, organic almonds a day keeps cancer away."
Only at the breakfast table we heard about the movement afoot to pasteurize all almonds and allow pasteurized almonds to be called raw. It is apparently going so far as to insist that all almonds be pasteurized and raw ones not allowed to be sold.
Don't know how much truth there is to that, but if it is true that is HORRID.
One of the most often held conversations around the bed and breakfast table is about the connections between food, health and disease. Alternative ways of staying healthy and curing oneself are upper-most in a whole lot of folks minds these days and they are sharing!
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1/23/2008 a note via email in response:
"What you heard around your breakfast table is true. On September 9, 2007 the USDA approved a new regulation to put an end to distribution of raw almonds. They must now be pasteurized - including organic almonds. The rub is that one way almonds are being pasteurized is with propylene oxide, which is classified as a human carcinogen and is banned in Canada, Mexico and the European nations. Ask your readers to write to the USDA to reverse this rule. Almond has been a political hot football for years because of its ability to cure cancer. People have been put out of business and worse because of advocating for almonds - especially bitter almonds. You don't mention which kind in your writing!
Thanks for mentioning this it is important to all of our healths."
2/29/2008 - a note via email in response:
I have discovered that almonds are a very powerful aphrodisiac. It could probably push viagra out of the market. Don't know why, I just know they are great! Yes, Bettina folks, they should be raw and organic.
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