Our Best

"Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

Health Recommendations

According to a recent study, up to 100,000 deaths could be prevented each year if Americans followed all public health recommendations.

Do you know your blood pressure and cholesterol numbers? Are you up to date on all of your cancer screenings and immunizations? If you smoke, have you talked to your doctor about smoking cessation programs?

If you’re at risk for heart disease, are you working on lowering your risk factors through exercise, diet and your physician’s recommended treatment plan?

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the most important things you can do to stay healthy are: get all of your recommended health screenings, don’t smoke, engage in physical activity, eat a healthy diet, maintain a healthy weight and take your medication, as prescribed by your physician.

A study in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine backs this up. According to the report, as many as 50,000 to 100,000 deaths in people under age 80 could be prevented each year if all of these preventive services were offered to and, most importantly, used by patients.

THE VOICE IN OUR HEAD

THE VOICE IN OUR HEAD DOES NOT BELONG TO US.

WE AREN'T BORN WITH THAT VOICE. THINKING COMES AFTER WE LEARN--FIRST, AS A LANGUAGE, THEN ALL OF THE JUDGMENTS AND LIES. THE VOICE OF KNOWLEDGE COMES AS WE ACCUMULATE KNOWLEDGE.

HEAVEN BELONGS TO US BECAUSE WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN.

Love

You don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it to you. Give it to others who seem poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in any way you can.
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. If it chooses to leave, from your heart or from the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and nothing you should do. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life. If you keep your heart open, it will surely come again.

Twin Blooms

"The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,

each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other".

Jonathan Huie

Healthy Comfort Food

Craving comfort food? Treat yourself to baked sweet potato fries with olive oil. They’re packed with fiber, beta-carotene and vitamin C.

Not all comfort food is bad for you. Sweet potatoes are a nutritional powerhouse — so much so that the nutrition scientists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) rank the orange tuber number-one in good-for-you vegetables.

The reason? For starters, they’re loaded with carotenoids, antioxidants that have been associated with a lower risk of death from heart disease, cancer and other diseases. Sweet potatoes are also chock-full of fiber, which helps keep their glycemic index lower than all other root vegetables. Indulge guilt-free by making baked sweet potato fries. Slice potatoes length-wise into half-inch-wide blocks.

Toss in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper (you can also add other spices, like cayenne pepper or basil), and lay in a single layer on a foil-covered cookie sheet. Bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes, flipping them every 10 minutes.

That Which Cannot Be Named

When you fully surrender to what is and become fully present, the past ceases to possess any power. The realm of Being, which has been obscured by the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, and unfathomable sense of peace. And, within that peace, there is great joy. And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, THAT WHICH CANNOT BE NAMED.

Eckhart Tolle