God's pharmacy

I absolutely believe in intuitive eating. I don't usually like fats, but I was CRAVING - that's to say nothing - avocados and olives, a ton of garlic, and oranges. Pretty interesting combination, isn't it? But I literally wanted just greens with avo and olives and garlic + lemon, a LOT OF lemon. And then oranges for desert ( well , before actually :) ) .

This is from a wonderful health e-magazine, Pear Magazine Online:

"It has been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish...all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best and more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow learners...

God left us great clues as to what foods help what part of our body! God's Pharmacy! Amazing!

A sliced CARROT looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A TOMATO has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

GRAPES hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A WALNUT looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

KIDNEY BEANS actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

AVOCADOS, EGGPLANT and PEARS target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female -- they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

FIGS are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

SWEET POTATOES look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

ORANGES, GRAPEFRUITS, and other CITRUS fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

ONIONS look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, GARLIC, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body."

Amazing, amazing bodies of ours! Now, knowing that , I completely see how my body is using those foods to help recover from birth and keep on with breastfeeding. Who needs those RX's anyways?

LIfe...

This is my last of the four posts I had on my mind today ( see Babies..., Diapers..., Food... below).
With the new year at the start, I've been looking and evaluating my life. It was interesting and shocking in a good way to see - as I looked at myself from the outsiders point of view - at how much my life changed. Life, priorities, desires. More then 10 years ago, I came here being a young, unexperienced 18 year old girl. I had my head bursting-full of dreams and desires. I must say that EVERYTHING I wished for and worked for came true. Those were hard years. Years of work, work, work. But work paid off. My dreams started to become reality. I got to dance in NY with a very good company ( every dancer's dream), I got a really well paying contract, I MADE it from a poor student with $5 in the pocket to an independent person, I had a family, I made it through several movie auditions, my phone was bursting from my modeling agent's calls, my CHILDREN were getting booked for more then I could take them too... Success beyond my imagination... etc, etc... Yet slowly, little by little , as they were coming into life, I started to realize that the grass is truly greener on the other side. I started to see that the candy is better in the wrapper. I still have everything I wanted to have, as what I dreamed about is a part of who I am, yet the weight has shifted - as life progressed - into what is important. Important to ME. I saw the part of the world that everyone dreams about, and I didn't like it... I refused a very well paid job... I called the agent and took myself and my children off the list... WHY? Because when I went to live the "dream" and I felt empty... When I was away from my children at the movie set, I didn't want it... When I saw the little eyes filled with happiness that Mommy was back it made me cry... When I saw the tears from the hard day's work of a baby/child model I hated myself for putting my children through that... Over the years I saw the other side of the "sparkling world" : the dirt, fake "happy faces" , false impressions, cruel competition over money, lies again, betrayals ... Why? Because we are conditioned to believe that to be happy we need to have the "glamour", the "sparkle", the "fame"? How can THAT compare to warm little hands that hug your face , or slobbery little kisses smooched over your cheek, or little happy eyes that sparkle when you smile, or little pitter-patter of the feet in the morning or little baby's first smiles, or feeling a new life inside of you kick and stretch and give you TRUE LOVE from within?.. There is nothing that can substitute for that. No magazine cover, no paycheck, no box office hit, no applause. I realized how much I love life to let it go buy. The beauty of the sunrise and sunset, fresh air, hot sun, cool snow, and all those I want to share it with. I much prefer the feelings of love and harmony over the stress of doing the shot over and over again. I realize that the only fans that I really care about are the ones with dirty hands, whose eyes sparkle from the word "candy". And that my most important director is the little bundle that cannot change her own diaper yet . And that the best paycheck is the time when they all sit still so that I can prepare and dance, so that after the performance I can , again, see the amazed and happy eyes giving me the flowers, and know that , yet again, I wowed my biggest , and most important fans...
I love you all , my little precious gems. You all, each and every one , are so important to me. Thank you for choosing me and letting me to be a part of your lives. I love you...

Food...

I eat raw and organic living plant foods only. I have many reasons. There is ONE reason why : click here . and then

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I wish everyone would pay more attention to what we put inside of our bodies. You do not have to be a raw-vegan to understand that ORGANIC means more then just "cool". You watched the video. Imagine now WHAT kind of hormones the animal gets into their systems, and then it goes into our bodies. Think also about what you have heard about animals being sick with cancer and being ok'ed by the government as "healthy". What IF the hamburger you buy is the one from the sick animal? How do you know? How is it going to reflect on YOUR health? Or better yet - your CHILD's health? And this is only the physical part of it... And there is more to it: energy ... And then you also think the reasons WHY this is happening. If we ate , as GOD commended us, using meat sparingly, none of this would ever be an issue. This is only our meat/poultry/dairy department. But what goes on in the "plant massproduce" is just as bad.

Many people say : I cannot afford organic. The truth is everyone can. It just takes desire. My personal experience : while eating all raw , as the summer ended , a couple of new stores opened , we slowly slipped into " well, let's buy this not organic, don't want to go to the health food store right now...", and then the episodes repeated more and more. Then the store we usually buy produce at raised their prices, besides, with the brand new baby is was easier to just go to one place, so we justified our buying of 50/50 organic/conventional. And then we started to notice the difference. The difference in how we felt, the difference in how the food tasted, the difference in our emotions too. I believe that food is one of the most important sources of energy vibrations. The way the food was prepared is 50% of the equation, the way the food was brought up is another 50%. To make the long story short, we recommitted to buying organic only, despite of the prices, despite of the "extra time needed" ,etc, etc. Amazingly, when we make the right choices the Lord helps us, stars align and the Universe provides. The prices went down , as the store changes a few things in their business, I always make it to the store at the right time for the right sale, and the most amazing : the health food stores started to have MORE variety at much better prices as they started to have MORE demand ( and that was not just me buying all their stuff :) ). So, my point is : when we truly commit to ANYTHING , the Lord will help us with whatever we need to have help with when the decision is right. And when we talk about health, when we talk about life - ours and His other creations', when we talk about our mother Earth, then the decision is always right and the help will always be there. The change is needed, we have exausted natures resources, we polluted the air , land and water. The land is covered with hurricanes, floods and wars... How can it not be? Look what we - the conscious beings - are doing. 

The Earth is

fighting for peace. 

The piece that God intended it to have and Satan wants to take away. The question is simple : who's side are you on? Think about it...

Diapers...

So, it's been officially the whole time since Yeva's birth that we've been using cloth diapers. I threw in a few disposable to make sure that her cord was not rubbed on ( she had way too small of a bum for what I had on hand. I'll make sure I am prepared better next time) . I love cloth diapering. It IS really easy! I mean , REALLY. Even though I use , basically only 15 diapers ( which means, for those of you that don't know , laundry every day. :) and even then it was not hard at all). I tried several brands : kissaluvs, fuzzy bunz, swaddle bees, hempy's , etc, etc. My FAVORITE ones , I mean absolute favorite ones, are from the Righteousbaby. It is a WAHM, and Ann - the designer and maker - is amazing! I ended up ordering more from her, because, from my experience with cloth diapers, hers are the easiest to use, and the best ones. I thought this time around , when I was pregnant, that I would really want to give it a good try. But , as tried and failed ( unknowingly doing things wrong) , I thought I'd leave this to testing, and then decide on the results. The results : I LOVE , LOVE, LOVE cloth diapers. And here is WHY :

1. I had NO diaper explosions : you know , those newborn ones? And , boy, did she try! Yet, the diapers and covers that we have contained EVERYTHING in place! The only blow-outs we DID have where when I had a disposable on her : pampers.

2. Her bottom has NEVER been red! There are no weird spots on her skin, or anything. To have the same, or actually , close to the same effect, I had to use baby powder with disposables. I use nothing but cloth diapers right now, and her bottom is pinky pink!

3. She has NO marks from the diapers, yet they don't run.

4. She is very comfortable , she is healthy, her bottom looks cute in the diapers, she lets me know when she wants a change right away , sometimes she soaks a diaper immediately, while the other times she waits a little.

5. I can see EXACTLY how much she is eating by how wet her diapers are. Something that is really not possible with disposables in the same way.

6. And , of course : there are no carcinogens, no chemicals that are touching my beautiful babies skin , there is nothing that is transferring into her body. I am AT PEACE that my baby is healthy. Just for kicks - google "WHY CLOTH" and see WHAT they put into disposables

7. The Earth is thanking us. I believe in Karma, I believe in the law of attraction, I believe in universe, I believe in Nature. I know that at least by this little bit I am helping my Mother Nature to breath a little easier, and I am grateful that I can do that.

We are our Mother's children. She gives us so much love by giving us a wonderful place to live on, and so we should return our love back to her.