Vitamins are essential organic compounds necessary for healthy growth and nutrition, and they are required in small quantities in the diet because the body cannot synthesize them on its own. The only exception to this is vitamin D which is produced when our skin is exposed to sunlight. The body needs a defined amount of vitamins each day ...
Spirit or Soul Qualities of Healing Our bodies are made of different vibrations. Basically our physical bodies vibrate at a slow enough speed that we can see and touch them. But that is not all of us. We have parts of our bodies that vibrate at the unseen level. This is where our mental, emotional and spiritual bodies ...
Once we are on this planet, we are beginning to age. When we are young, it doesn’t faze us. Sometimes we want to grow older faster, so we can get to the next best thing. However, as we get later on in years, we sometimes wish that we could slow down or even reverse this process. The bottom ...
A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste, usually with less food energy. In this third blog about sweeteners, we will cover the chemical artificial sweeteners. In the United States, six intensely-sweet sugar substitutes have been approved for use. They are stevia, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, neotame, saccharin and sucralose. Cyclamates are ...
Going With the Flow In my last blog post, we discussed how healing happens on all levels; let’s look now at the mental, emotional level of our thoughts and feelings. We are filled with thousands of thoughts daily, moment by moment. Most of these thoughts go flitting by, but when an emotion is attached to a thought, it ...
Let’s continue to unravel the confusion around the types of sweeteners on the market today, starting with the carbohydrate sugars. There is one exception in the list, stevia has no carbohydrates. These are the more common ones we see on packaging and they are listed in alphabetical order. (A quick pointer on terms – monosaccharides are the simple ...