Kick Start Your Metabolism!

 Chiropractic Care and Your Personal Lifestyle

Regular chiropractic care is an important component of any lifestyle change you're planning to put into place. Whether you're improving your diet by eating at least five servings of fresh fruits and vegetables each day, engaging in regular vigorous exercise for at least 30 minutes five times per week, or both, the benefits you obtain will be enhanced by regular chiropractic care.
To derive the most benefit from the healthful food you're eating and the exercise you're doing, your metabolism must be working properly. Your metabolic systems require your nerve system to be functioning at peak capacity. Nerve signals must arrive on time and must be processed properly. Spinal nerve irritation interferes with these activities. Regular chiropractic care helps make sure your nerve system is free of interference and, as a result, helps make sure you're getting the most out of your valuable time and effort spent in implementing your new lifestyle upgrade.

***above was a copy/paste article***

Here's my two cents...

Still living up to your New Years resolution of a new you?  Did you make a New Years resolution?  Why not just set some goals and go for it?!  Short term goals, long term goals, make a plan and stick with it.  Short term goal could be clean eating for 3 days, then increase your goal to 5 days, that kind of thing.  Workout 2 days a week, increase to 3 days a week, etc.  You get the picture.  Baby steps.

Got Grains?!

Kefir grains that is!

Now that Dr Oz has put out how good kefir is for you, everyone will want some!

Basically there are two types of kefir grains, water kefir grains and milk kefir grains.  From what I have read water grains can convert to milk grains but not the other way around.  I am currently trying to convert some of my water kefir grains to milk ones ~ I'll let you know how that goes!

You can buy kefir products at local health food stores and some grocery stores in the dairy aisle.  Or you can grow your own.

Growing your own is pretty easy and kind of fun.  You can change up the recipe and make flavors you enjoy.  I do the basic one with a slice of peeled lemon in each jar.  I have added dried apricots to get a slightly different flavor.  You can also add ginger root and make your own ginger beer.

Benefits of Kefir?  It's a natural supplier of probiotics to the digestive track.  Probiotics refers to the healthy bacteria that usually feed on the "bad" unhealthy bacteria in the stomach and intestines.  By drinking water kefir you will bring a natural balance to your internal microflora.


Get your grains today because soon they will be all gone ~ thanks Dr Oz (when he speaks the stores sell out)

UPDATE:  3/7/14
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***Success on making water kefir grains into milk kefir grains***

My first published article......

The following was published in Beach to Bay Times ~ local calendar & commentary book:

Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs) ~ What’s All The Hype?!

First what is a GMO?  Wikipedia describes it as:  A genetically modified organism is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

To explain it even further…the term GM foods or GMOs is most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques. These plants have been modified in the laboratory to enhance desired traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or improved nutritional content.   Genetic engineering can create plants with the exact desired trait very rapidly and with great accuracy. Not only can genes be transferred from one plant to another, but genes from non-plant organisms also can be used. The best known example of this is the use of Bt genes in corn and other crops.  Bt, or Bacillus thuringiensis, is a naturally occurring bacterium that produces crystal proteins that are lethal to insect larvae.  Bt crystal protein genes have been transferred into corn, enabling the corn to produce its own pesticides against insects such as the European corn borer.   Don’t those crystal proteins sound delish?

What does that mean for you and me?  Basically it means our foods are genetically altered.  Corn, soy, sugar, canola and sugar beets are just a few of these foods.  Also you’re most likely ingesting GMOs if you’re eating conventional poultry, dairy or meat. The animals are either treated with hormones (to increase milk production, for example) or GMOs are present in their feed (corn, soy).

You have to ask yourself, are these foods really safe?  Have they been tested?  Since GMOs were introduced in 1996 the deteriorating health of Americans does raise questions.  Within nine years, the number of people with three or more chronic diseases nearly doubled.  And overall food related illnesses doubled from 1994 to 2001, according to the Centers of Disease Control.  There is no systematic, well-funded investigation to explore links between GMO consumption and any disease.   Does that make us the guinea pigs?

So what’s a person to eat?  All organic GMO free products?  That would be pretty radical and expensive but you have to ask yourself (and your body) are GMOs right for you?

About our contributing writer:  Julie McKamey is a Wellness Coach and is the chapter leader for the Wicomico County Weston A. Price Foundation.  She lives in Salisbury with her husband, Dr. Kevin McKamey, who is a Chiropractor at Delmarva Chiropractic.

 

STRESS!!

It has been a stressful week for me........how do I handle it you might ask!

There are MANY stress relief options. 

How do I handle it?!

Prayer, that is the first place I go.  Into my prayer closet where I can release my stress and lift it up to HIM because anything over my head is still under HIS feet....besides HE already knows.

I also like to exercise my stress away.  Obviously life has been going to smoothly lately.  LOL
Seriously, a brief walk or bike ride really can be a stress reliever for me.  I can just clear my mind during this time of walking or riding.

Another way I like to relieve stress....go for a ride in the car.  Sometimes I am topless ~ wind blowing in my hair, enjoying fresh air and breathing in the fresh smells of the world!  (sometimes those smells include the chicken coops, oops)  Other times the top is up, I am in the passenger seat and I am just enjoying what HE has made.  How can you live in a place like Salisbury where the city is a little busy and in just a couple of miles you are out of town and in the country?  We are blessed to have the country so near, to be able to stop at farms and buy fresh produce!!

My friend use to just drive over the new bridge in Charleston, SC and this helped clear her mind.

Is this running away from our stress/problems?  I don't think so, I think it is coping with it.

How ever you deal with stress is up to you, these are just a couple of things that help me.  We can not continue to live in the stress of life, we need to release it sometimes, to see a different view, to refresh ourselves.  Life is a journey we take one day at a time.  Live it!!

What REAL Food Does For Ya!

• Real food regulates appetite – so you don’t overeat
• Real food controls blood sugar/insulin – so you can avoid energy swings and diabetes
• Real food provides the best nutrition – so you can remain healthy for life
• Real food has a sane amount of energy – so that you can’t accidentally overeat
• Real food has a longstanding relationship with our body – so that our bodies know what to do with it

Do you know what REAL food is?!   

Chicken Soup WHY?!

Why is chicken soup superior to all the things we have, even more relaxing than "Tylenol?"  It is because chicken soup has a natural ingredient which feeds, repairs and calms the mucous lining in the small intestine.  This inner lining is the beginning or ending of the nervous system.  It is easily pulled away from the intestine through too many laxatives, too many food additives......and parasites.  Chicken soup......heals the nerves, improves digestion, reduces allergies, relaxes and give strength.

 ~ Hanna Kroeger  Ageless Remedies from Mother's Kitchen

(copied from Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.)

Because Sharing is Caring!

Well my Facebook peeps know that I am all about sharing 411 because that is caring in my book. I feel like if you don’t buy a Nutrimill, a Bosch mixer or Juice Plus from me do buy it from somewhere!! It’s that important to me that peeps get the basics, not the equipment. That’s where I am going with this blog ~ sharing 411 with other like minded peeps.

Today we attended a small group meeting of a new local Weston A. Price Foundation chapter. The topic was fermented foods. It wasn’t about selling anything it was about sharing knowledge, what has worked, what hasn’t worked and why we do what we do. We shared samples and recipes. It was nice to meet with other peeps that want to learn about our food supply and what we are putting into our bodies.

I mentioned today the book Better Health God’s Way written by Stormie Omartian. (One of my favorite authors.) Anyways, that’s what it is about in my eyes. Getting back to our basic food supply, the way it was created by HIM. We as humans have removed the nutrients from our food and have replaced it with fillers, chemicals, preservatives, etc. I refer to this as dead food. You will find these dead foods in the middle aisles of the grocery store, it’s usually in a box or can. This stuff can sit on a shelf for years. Makes you wonder how long it can sit in your body doesn’t it?! Or how our bodies react to this foreign substance we call food....

Today we sampled fermented foods: baked oatmeal, breakfast cereal, kimchi, carrots and ginger, etc. We talked about milling the grain for the bread dough, getting whey from raw milk for the fermenting, GMO corn, sources to buy from for certain items, etc. Great group meeting and I’m looking forward to the next one! It’s a fantastic way to share, brainstorm and try recipes that we have found to work for us. Did I mention we all took home a sourdough bread starter?!