HEALTHY DIABETIC CANDY-GARDEN MARINARA

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**HEALTHY DIABETIC CANDY-GARDEN MARINARA**
Just as an update on the benfotiamine, I've been taking this for a week or so and my blood sugar readings are wonderful. My morning one- I have normally terrible Dawn Phenomenon see: Somogyi effect and Dawn Phenomenon, my morning readings Were as high as 178, Yikes! But now it's usually 121 and the evening ones are usually 81-91, now. I know the oil soluble B-1 is to be credited. I still take some insulin but I'm cutting it down all the time. I've not been all that careful about my diet these days, yet my readings are staying low.

Ok now for the recipes

HEALTHY DIABETIC CANDY
This has it all folks; antioxidants, Omega-3's, lots of fiber, vitamin C, Wow and it tastes delicious too.

4-5 tbs melted coconut oil
4-5 Tbs Raw Honey
2+ Tbs unsweetened cocoa
6 Tbs Raw Almonds
3 tsp. chia seeds
6-8 prunes
1/2 c. fresh blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries or any combination.
1/2 capful Almond flavoring
2 capfulls of Vanilla
mix it all up and eat, it is soooo good, and GOOD FOR YOU.You can skip the fruit if it's out of season, but the resultant candy will be a bit drippy, still good but not solid, I eat it by the spoonful anyway.

GARDEN MARINARA
I use lots of veggies in my "marinara". I do not use pasta or spaghetti noodles as I'm diabetic you can if you wish.

1/2 pound of hamburger sauteed and drained
Saute':
1 large or three medium zucchini's diced.
1 medium Onion diced
handful of basil leaves chopped or torn apart[reserve until the very end of cooking]
four stalks of celery diced, add
3-4 diced tomatoes- you can skin them and remove the seeds, I don't bother, these are from my garden and I let nothing go to waste.
1 tsp. Katy's Essenes more recipes including the essence
2 chopped jalapenos [I use them you don't have to, of course]I like to use as much from my garden as I can.

simmer for a while reducing the liquids,then add basil leaves and eat! If you have the Spiral slicer you can make veggie noodles to put your marinara over.

Recommended Vegetables: Onion Zucchini Carrot Cucumber Turnip Potato Sweet Potato Daikon Radish
Butternut Squash
Look at the many uses:Garnishes Salads Onion Rings Coleslaw Pickles Soups Potato Nests Pizza Toppings Spaghetti and More!

I have no vested interest in these so feel free to buy them without worrying that I might make a few cents on the sale.

MY PERSONAL HUMMUS RECIPE

1 can of garbanzo beans blend in a food processor, while adding drizzles of Extra Virgin Olive oil, and lemon juice, more olive oil than lemon juice. When the mixture is nicely ground and mixed add sea salt and pepper to taste, then add garlic cloves peeled to taste, [I like lots of it] and then I add either fresh basil or fresh cilantro- the resultant hummus is green but it tastes so delicious.

I do have a vested interest in the following products that I use all the time and heartily recommend:
.... pure-go filtering water bottles
And
CellPower™ because for one thing it does have lots of digestive enzymes in it, also it helps to balance the pH levels and is antibiotic, anti-viral-and anti-fungal AND IT PACKS THE CELLS WITH LIFE-GIVING OXYGEN, AND ENERGY.
And I'm also taking: :SELENIUMhelps immune system,fights infection and aids circulation
~MAGNESIUMhelps to relax you, aids stress and muscle relaxing
~CHROMIUMimproves insulin sensitivity, and helps lower blood sugar.
~ZINC especially to help you heal.
I also eat, one of the best fats for the Omega-3~6 balance and losing weight.
~coconut oil


And I am substantially benefiting from each and every method I recommend. I've recently cut out some stressful things and people [ah you know who you are!] from my life and I definitely feel so much better.
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-----THE GARDEN GNOME


~~~Jokes And inspirations/quotes~~~
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
-- Vic Gold

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-- W. H. Auden

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
-- Orson Welles
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Airline Fixes
I have a friend who is a very nervous flyer. During a recent trip he took from California to Indiana, it didn't help that his connecting flight from Denver was delayed twice because of mechanical problems.
Then, after he was aloft, he noticed the cabin lights were flickering. Losing his peace of mind, he decided to mention this to a flight attendant.
"I'll take care of it," she said. Moments later the lights went out. Clearly she had solved the problem by turning off all the lights.
A passenger across the aisle who had been watching my friend leaned over and said, "Whatever you do, please don't ask about the engines."


What Really Matters
At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young players, "Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?" The little boy nodded in the affirmative.
"Do you understand that what matters is whether we win together as a team?"
The little boy nodded yes.
"So," the coach continued, "when a strike is called, or you're out at first, you don't argue or curse or attack the umpire. Do you understand all that?"
Again the little boy nodded.
"Good," said the coach.
"Now go over there and explain it to your mother."


Driving Instruction
A few years ago the battery in my beat-up VW Beetle had died because I left the lights on overnight. I was in a hurry to get to work on time so I ran into the house to get my wife to give me a hand to start the car. I told her to get into our second car, a prehistoric oversized gas guzzler, and use it to push my car fast enough to start it.
I pointed out to her that because the VW had an automatic transmission, it needed to be pushed at least 20 mph for it to start.
She said fine, hopped into her car and drove off. I sat there fuming wondering what she could be doing.
A minute passed by and when I saw her in the rear-view mirror coming at me at about 30 mph, I realized that I should have been a bit clearer with my directions.


Mental Hospital
After hearing that one of the patients in a mental hospital had saved another from a suicide attempt by pulling him out of a bathtub, the hospital director reviewed the rescuer's file and called him into his office.
"Mr. Haroldson, your records and your heroic behavior indicate that you're ready to go home. I'm only sorry that the man you saved later killed himself with a rope around the neck."
"Oh, he didn't kill himself," Mr. Haroldson replied. "I hung him up to dry."
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Tech Support
Customer: "One of my friends gave me an ImageWriter printer and this keyboard. He said he gave me all the cables, but I can't figure out how to connect them. Am I missing something?"
Tech Support: "Well, a computer would help."
Customer: "You mean this keyboard isn't a word processor?"
Tech Support: "No ma'am, its just an input device."
Customer: "Then I need to buy a computer, right?"
Tech Support: "Yes."
Customer: "Do you think I'll need a monitor, too?"


Computer Instructor
Well, I had one event happen to me, where one lady had just bought a Apple IIc and complained that she was having problems with her monitor, so we told her to bring her monitor in, and we'd check it out.
So she brings her monitor in, and we plug it in, and it works without a flaw. We tell her that the monitor isn't the problem, and to bring her CPU in.
She stares at us blankly, and asks, "What's the CPU?"
Joe explains that it's the piece of equipment that all your devices plug into. So about twenty minutes later, she returns and walks in carrying the surge suppressor.
When we explained to her the item that we needed her to bring in, she replied, "Oh you mean the keyboard!" (On Apple IIc's, the CPU box and keyboard are part of the same unit.)
And to make this all the more interesting, she was a gradeschool computer class instructor.


Don't Look at the Light!
Customer: "My mouse doesn't work any more."
Tech Support: "Is it an optical or ball mouse?"
Customer: "Huh?"
Tech Support: "Does it have a ball or light?"
Customer: "It has an light on top."
Tech Support: "On top?"
Customer: "Yeah. It was underneath before, but it looks better when it's on top."
Tech Support: "Ok, try turning it around so the light points down on the desk."
Customer: "Oh! It works!"


Horrible Addiction
I think it's a chilling reminder of my mortality, that I am never more than a few hours from that grisly implosion of a death known as starvation. No matter how much I eat, before long the cravings resurface, and the withdrawal symptoms ravage my innards.
"I am Snook Draddots," I would say, were my name actually Snook Draddots, "and I am a food addict."
It's a sad story, but it's true. I was a food baby, in fact. My mother was using when she was pregnant with me. I've been on food ever since. It's wrecked my life.
For my first fifteen years, I experienced rapid weight gain, and the digestive symptoms that persist to this day are too unpleasant to discuss. I've been unable to quit. The patch -- where you duct tape some potato salad to your arm every morning --doesn't help at all.
One time I had a 16 hour flight across the Pacific, during which time I ate nothing that could be remotely described as food, but I fell off the wagon shortly after landing.
But enough is enough. I've come to an epiphany about just how much I've let food run my life for me, and it's time for that to stop. No more food for me.
I'm quitting food cold turkey.
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Nothing is said that has not been said before.
-- Terence

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
-- Baltasar Gracian

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
-- Edith Wharton, The Last Asset, 1904

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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The Bathtub Test
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how do
you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
'Well,' said the Director, 'we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a
teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to
empty the bathtub.'
'Oh, I understand,' said the visitor. 'A normal person would use the
bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup.'
'No.' said the Director, 'A normal person would pull the plug. Do you
want a bed near the window?'
36 CHRISTIAN WAYS TO GET RID OF STRESS
"Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice."
1. Pray
2. Go to bed on time.
3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.
4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health.
5. Delegate tasks to capable others.
6. Simplify and unclutter your life.
7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.)
8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places.
9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together.
10. Take one day at a time.
11. Separate worries from concerns . If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety . If you can't do anything about a situation, forget it.
12. Live within your budget; don't use credit cards for ordinary purchases.
13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buried in the garden, extra stamps, etc.
14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of advice can prevent an enormous amount of trouble.
15. Do something for the Kid in You everyday.
16. Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in line.
17. Get enough rest.
18. Eat right.
19 Get organized so everything has its place.
20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality of life.
21. Write down thoughts and inspirations.
22. Every day, find time to be alone.
23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip small problems in the bud. Don't wait until it's time to go to bed to try and pray.
24. Make friends with Godly people.
25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand.
26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair and hope is often a good "Thank you Jesus."
27. Laugh.
28. Laugh some more!
29. Take your work seriously, but not yourself at all.
30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best they can).
31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most).
32. Sit on your ego.
33 Talk less; listen more.
34. Slow down.
35. Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe.
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-BLESSING-
May all of your illnesses be reversed before they are out-of-control, may your food be enjoyable and healthy., AND STRESS-FREE!

Stress and the immune system.

In the short term stress tends to raise the immune system. When we are confronted with a physical challenge like a bite, or puncture, scrapes, wounds or infections resulting; the body readies itself with the "fight or flight" response, readying itself to meet these problems.

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Chronic, long-term stress suppresses the immune system. The longer the stress, the more the immune system shifted from they adaptive changes seen in the "fight or flight" response to more negative changes, first at the cellular level and later in broader immune function. The most chronic stressors – stress that seems beyond a person's control or seems endless – resulted in the most global suppression of immunity. Almost all measures of immune system function dropped across the board.

And as we've seen before stresses affect blood sugar levels and causes the blood pressure to rise. Severe and continued adrenaline responses will cause the body to be so depleted that it cannot respond to any opportunistic diseases like colds and flues, and yes, even cancers to develop.

The Elderly and sick are even more susceptible to stress-related diseases.

(1)

-Acute time-limited stressors: lab challenges such as public speaking or mental math.

-Brief naturalistic stressors: real-world challenges such as academic tests.

-Stressful event sequences: a focal event such as loss of a spouse or major natural disaster gives rise to a series of related challenges that people know at some point will end.

-Chronic stressors: pervasive demands that force people to restructure their identity or social roles, without any clear end point – such as injury resulting in permanent disability, caring for a spouse with severe dementia, or being a refugee forced from one's native country by war.

-Distant stressors: traumatic experiences that occurred in the distant past yet can continue modifying the immune system because of their long-lasting emotional and cognitive consequences, such as child abuse, combat trauma or having been a prisoner of war. Much of their analysis goes on to review the similarities and differences among the 293 studies that they examined. These studies included a total of 18,941 subjects. "Stressful event sequences" appeared to be weakly associated with different immune consequences, depending on the type of event. There appeared to be different patterns for grief than for trauma...

A person involved in an extremely stressful life will be much more prone to catastrophic dis-eases.

Oxidative stress, an imbalance of the atoms of oxygen at the cellular level will decrease the pH of the body and cause dis-eases. It's important to maintain a high pH of 7.0-7.50, or major diseases will result, especially immune system diseases like Diabetes, allergies, Arthritis and joint pain, Fibromyalgia, Viral, fungal, and bacterial infections, Muscle pain, and Candidiasis.

I know of a product that will help re-oxygenate the cells, act as an antioxidant, relieving the body of free radicals AND to raise the pH levels to normal: CellPower™
I've been using it for a few weeks now and the benefits are legion, every day I discover a new benefit. The first thing I noticed was my blood glucose levels were much reduced, even when slipping off my diabetic diet, I get a much better sleep, my energy is greater by a noticeable amount! My skin has cleared up [I get allergy rashes easily, but no more] the pain of Fibromyalgia is much decreased, my teeth are cleaner and they sparkle, my gums are healthier, [the cellpower goes to work as one drinks it being absorbed first by the mucous membranes in the mouth], infections go away much faster, my blood pressure has gone down, the candidiasis is nearly gone, I'm still losing weight, my pH is nearly normal...

I'm just thrilled about cellpower, I've searched for something to help me get well for many years. I am convinced. Cellpower can also be used topically for nail fungus and skin tags, etc. Before I started I was sick every morning, so sick I could barely drag myself from bed by 10am, my face was covered with rashes and pimples, I was suffering from extremely high blood pressure, I had no energy and could barely get the housework done. I feel like I'm actually going to live now, and feel great! I frequently got 'colds' that lasted a month or more and had an extremely hard time breathing while sick.

I also am still on a 70% alkalizing diet and For weight control, lowering Cholesterol, and balancing the Omega -3's and Omega-6 intake I'm still taking a tablespoon of coconut oil



~~~jokes/quotes~~~
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they
appear to be busy when they are writing and because
the memos, once written, immediately become proof
that they were busy.
-- Charles Peters

It is by universal misunderstanding that all
agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each
other, they would never agree.
-- Charles Baudelaire

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be
watching TV by candlelight?
-- Al Boliska

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became
obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
-- Henry J. Tillman

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Do you REALLY need email??

No Email?????? ........... An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.

The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day."

Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a Computer nor an e-mail address. To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."

Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmer's market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit.

Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family. During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day.

By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.

Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.

At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him.

By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fifteen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard.

Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage.

The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed a million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? No computer! No Internet! Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"

" Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour."

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual
power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength
to Love, 1963

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand
years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point
during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do
you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But
that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part
of the experience of being entertained is sitting
back and plugging into someone else's vision.
-- Penn Jillette, Interview in WIRED
magazine, 1993

If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; But if you really make them think,
they'll hate you.
-- Don Marquis

Everything is vague to a degree you do not
realize till you have tried to make it precise.
-- Bertrand Russell


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And on that note I’ll be saying good by, Have a great day, may you live long and prosper! May you find fresh pasture and cool shade. Be blessed my friends!
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-----THE GARDEN GNOME


SOURCES
(1)ABOUT.COM/Mental health-How Stress Affects the Immune System
http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/stress/a/stressimmune604.htm