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Having Your Own Backyard Flock - Reason # 1

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Stellar Nutrition -

Without a doubt, fresh, pastured eggs are superior in taste and nutrition to conventionally raised commercially available varieties. Eggs have been a highly valued foods since the beginning of time—eggs from chickens, ducks, geese, turtles and fish. Egg yolks are the richest source of two superstar carotenoids—lutein and zeaxanthin. Not only are bright yellow yolks loaded with these fat-soluble antioxidant nutrients, they are more bioavailable than those found in vegetables, corn and most supplements. While these nutrients have a reputation of combating macular degeneration and cataracts and supporting overall healthy vision, they have a long list of other benefits, including protecting the skin from sun damage and even reducing one’s risk of colon and breast cancer.

Besides providing all eight essential proteinbuilding amino acids, a large whole, fresh egg offers about six to seven grams of protein and five grams of fat (with about 1.5 grams of it saturated), which comes in handy to help in the absorption of all the egg’s fat-soluble vitamins. One egg also serves up around 200 milligrams of brain-loving cholesterol and contains the valuable vitamins A, K, E, D, B-complex and minerals iron, phosphorus, potassium and calcium. Choline, another egg-nutrient, is a fatty substance found in every living cell and is a major component of our brain. Additionally, choline helps break up cholesterol deposits by preventing fat and cholesterol from sticking to the arteries. So the bottom line is, don’t be chicken about eating eggs, especially the cholesterol-rich yolks!

Compared to the generic supermarket variety, eggs from pastured poultry are a vivid yellow-orange—proof of a richer store of healthenhancing carotenes (more specifically xanthophylls, a natural yellow-orange pigment in green plants and yellow corn). The more carotenes, the darker, deeper orange color the yolk—and the higher the levels of fat-soluble vitamins as well. Expect to find the richest orange colors in the spring, when grass is fresh and bugs are plentiful. Color also fades as the egg ages. Bear in mind, variations will be seen in these differences due to the breed and age of chickens, their diet (grass, insects, and feed) and the season.

When left to their own scavenger instincts, being the omnivores they are, chickens eat bugs, worms (and even snakes if given the opportunity), grasses and .......

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Having Your Own Backyard Flock - Reason # 1 Without a doubt, fresh, pastured eggs are superior in taste and nutrition to conventionally raised commercially available varieties. Eggs have been a highly valued foods since the beginning of time—eggs from chickens, ducks, geese, turtles and fish. Egg yolks are the richest source of two supersta...

Having Your Own Backyard Flock - Motivation

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I have long desired to become a homesteader and raise my own food. I want to work the land and enjoy the fruit of my own labor instead of mooching off everyone else’s hard work as I have done for so long. But while I revel in my new Little House on the Prairie lifestyle, I still want all the suburban luxury. . . at least for the time being. So I did it, I took the first step. We now own five frisky, funny, feathery chickens that live in our semi-rural backyard. I tell myself I did it for the kids, but really I had more selfish motivations.

Chickens are hilarious and make excellent pets. It took some time, but now we can hold our girls, and they come trotting over every time they see us. Of course, they think we have table scraps for them to devour, but I like to think it is because they adore us. So for all you out there who have an itch to do something homestead-ish and who have a little land to spare, let me tell you about raising these fine feathered creatures. They help your gardening efforts, make the most of every scrap of food that goes through your kitchen and bring you and your children hours of enjoyment.

Most important, you should never be eggless again and may even have enough to give to your family and friends—or better yet, barter for something you need.

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Having Your Own Backyard Flock - Motivation I have long desired to become a homesteader and raise my own food. I want to work the land and enjoy the fruit of my own labor instead of mooching off everyone else’s hard work as I have done for so long. But while I revel in my new Little House on the Prairie lifestyle, I still want all the subur...

We Ignored the Basics

From the book “The Missing Piece”
By Paul J. Rosen, J.D, L..Ac., EAMP
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"Our current health crisis didn’t happen overnight, nor are we entirely innocent when it comes to committing often negligent, and occasionally purposeful, criminal acts against our own bodies.

In fact, you might even say we are accomplices in our own health crisis.

They say we do better when we know better, but for some reason, this and every other well-meaning truism just seems to fly out the window when it comes to eating. Don’t believe me? How often have you nodded your head over some great wisdom in the latest health journal or written yourself a note about avoiding trans fats or fried foods, all while waiting in the jammed drive-thru lane at your favorite fast-food joint?

The bad news is your health is still in crisis - or soon will be. The good news is you’re far from alone. Despite record sales of vitamin supplements, the overall health of people today continues to decline. No matter how many warnings regarding the plague of processed foods, people keep eating glazed doughnuts and washing them down with triple lattes.

Is there any wonder why chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes and heart disease continue to climb? Even real-life demonstrations of rapid health decline, such as those reported in the 2003 documentary, Super Size Me, don’t seem to slow people down!

Part of the problem is our love-hate relationship with the popular media, and how we trust some blindly, even as we don’t trust others at all. Our main issue, then, becomes one of trust.

Who to trust?

What to trust?

When to trust?

Case in point: I was reading the paper the other day and, lo and behold, I discovered a group financed by the processed food industry called The Center for Consumer Freedom. Billing themselves as a “nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices”, this organization was formed in 1995 with money from Philip Morris, now known as Altria, to fight bans on smoking in restaurants and bars.

They argue that obesity isn’t as bad as everyone says it is because the stats are overblown, advocating that there are only 112,000 deaths attributed to obesity each year instead of the 400,000 reported by the Center for Disease Control. This group goes on to conclude that there is no epidemic and therefore “the obesity thing” is blown “way out of proportion!” What else would you expect from a proponent of the $500 billion a year counterfeit food industry?

Regardless of whether obesity is directly linked to the premature deaths of 400,000 people each year or 112,000 - or even 112 people for that matter, there is no argument that health-related problems from obesity cost our states and their taxpayers $60-75 billion: money that could be spent on things like improving education for students and displaced workers or finding alternative sources of energy.

But as one who insists on looking for points of agreement, I find both..........

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We Ignored the Basics ["Our current health crisis didn’t happen overnight, nor are we entirely innocent when it comes to committing often negligent, and occasionally purposeful, criminal acts against our own bodies. 

LIVER CLEANSING - Part 3

From Dr. Schulze’s June 2024 Special Report
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Benefits of Liver Detox - Triple Your Energy, Improve Your Focus, And Be Vibrant!

5-Day LIVER Detox

- Coats and Protects your liver cells and helps to eliminate harmful, dangerous contaminants

- Supports your body to Dissolve and Remove hardened sediments from the gallbladder.

- Cleans your blood of unhealthy accumulated deposits.

- A Clean liver means you have all the Energy you need when you need it.

More than any other organ in your body, your liver prevents you from getting sick. It is known as your “first line of defense” because your liver is the defensive barrier between the gthings you take into your body and the blood that feeds that body.

And the best way to maintain a strong and healthy liver is to cleanse it regularly.

The 5-Day Liver Detox is not only safe and easy, but also extremely effective!

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LIVER CLEANSING - Part 3 More than any other organ in your body, your liver prevents you from getting sick. It is known as your “first line of defense” because your liver is the defensive barrier between the gthings you take into your body and the blood that feeds that body.