Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Ode to Joy
There are thousands of mothers, wifes, lovers and children that remember today and always their sons, husbands, Dads and friends killed in combat during any war. People always have the desperate desire for peace at any price…
Click on the link below and listen to the Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven with the [...]
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Memorial Day Tribute
For all who gave it all.
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Music in the Beauty of Nature and Art
We all take for granted the natural splendor. From the lowest valley to the highest mountain, from the deepest ocean to the smallest stream, the natural world reminds us of nature’s beauty that influences our current physical, spiritual, or emotional wellbeing. Listen to this amazing Nocturne, a masterpiece created by Frederic Chopin. It fits perfectly [...]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Five Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Memorial Holiday Weekend
Do you remember what your Mama told you? “Eat, eat your breakfast!” She was right, as always. Never miss your breakfast. Low-calories, nutrient-dense breakfast is the most important meal of any day. It fuels you with energy and good nutrition for the whole day ahead, and keeps you healthy. It doesn’t matter it’s a working [...]
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
List of Most Harmful Pesticides Detected on Produce
If professor Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist, was alive today, he’ll be astonished with the fact how modern chemistry progressed with so many new and harmful chemical compounds that are used today in our food industry. He became world-famous for his formulation of the periodic law and the invention of the Periodic Table, including a classification of [...]
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Organic Produce and Pesticides
If you are sure that organic produce doesn’t have any pesticides, think again. Many of us believe that organic produce farmers do not use pesticides, so we pay several times higher prices for organic fruits and vegetables. This is true that organic production regulations do not allow the use of synthetic chemicals in growing organic [...]
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Working with Nature
Is organic food really worth the extra money you pay for it? Farmers, growing organic fruits and vegetables, say that the point is– to work with Nature. How they do it and what consumers will have in return? Watch this video and decide for yourself what is best for you.
Read my next post about most [...]
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Green Stimulus to Your Health and Pocket
Lately I had a discussion with several friends. We all buy organic foods as much as we can afford. But there is a timeless Hamlet’s question, “To be or not be?” in this newest health trend. If you are serious about knowing for sure, read the book A Field Guide to Buying Organic by Luddene [...]
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
How to Make Healthy Foods with Delicious Superfruits
Delicious superfruits are the bell peppers. I love all kinds of Capsicum annuum, as bell peppers are called in Latin. These wonderful fruits of Nature are sweet and tangy in taste, and crunchy in texture. They come in dark and light green, red, yellow, orange, and in white rainbow colors when they are almost ready [...]
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
May Is a Month of Butterflies and Flowers
Didn’t you notice so many flying butterflies and blossoming flowers this month?I love Mozart’s Symphony No.40. It is romantic and harmonically flows into the month of May. Now listen this genius musical creation, relax and be happy.
“Earth laughs in flowers.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya.”
“Observe the marvels as theu happen around you. Don’t claim them. [...]
