Spiced Butternut Soup with Crab Reprinted from Prevention.com Time to prepare: 15 minutes Servings: 4 (5 cups total) Ingredients: • 4 cups roasted butternut squash (see recipe below) • 3 cups low-sodium chicken broth • ¼ cup whole milk • ½ tsp ground cumin • Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg • Dash of hot pepper sauce • ¼ tsp kosher salt • 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper • 6 ounces cooked lump crabmeat Combine squash, broth, milk, cumin, nutmeg, and hot … [Read more...]
People Food Is Not Pet Food
Take Care of Your Four-Legged Friends this Thanksgiving As pet owners, we love to include our pets in holiday celebrations. However, many holiday foods and activities that we enjoy can put our four-legged friends at risk. Ingesting holiday foods is one of the biggest reason for emergency vet visits during the holiday season. Typical holiday foods are rich, fatty foods that can cause discomfort for your pet, even predispose pets to life-threatening pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) or … [Read more...]
Toxic Moisturizers…
Toxic Moisturizers... The skin is the largest organ of your body. It is living and breathing and absorbs everything you apply to it. In less than one minute your skin will absorb whatever is applied to it and deliver it directly into your bloodstream. That’s why using a non-toxic product on your skin is very important. Most moisturizer creams are made up of oil and water that is held together with chemical emulsifiers and compacted with preservatives so they are able to have a long shelf … [Read more...]
Feng Shui and The Business Environment
By Jennifer Chang Feng Shui is using the art of placement and intention to harmonize living environments, but it is also often used in working environments. Many offices have used feng shui to make their businesses more profitable. Banks, restaurants, and corporations in Asia and the U.S. consult feng shui experts before building as well as after they begin business. The Chinese believe that the fortunes of an entire company rests on the good sitting of its manager or president. That being … [Read more...]
From Antiseptic to Aphrodisiac
The Diversity of Essential Oils By Lana Nickerson For more than 6,000 years, mankind has been acquainted with the wonderful effects of natural essential oils, their healing and purifying properties and unique fragrances. For centuries, essential oils have served as symbols of wealth and were highly valued as gifts. In Egypt, they were used to disinfect the air, provide skin care, and for aromatic baths. In India they believed that scents opened the soul and tuned the mind. Hippocrates … [Read more...]
The Body Beautiful
By L. Martina Young, Ph.D. Twentieth and twenty-first century ideals of western beauty have long proffered a diminished sense of what is, at its mythic proportions, a multifaceted portrait of one of the most quixotic thoughts in human imagination: beauty. This article is a meditation not on “what” beauty is, but rather on “who” beauty is, as seen through the mythic imagination of human culture. Initiating a kind of resuscitation of the soul of beauty, a remembrance of the body of beauty … [Read more...]
