Strawberry delight

Strawberry delight

100 ml Cashew nuts

300 ml cooked rice

250 ml soymilk or water

1/2 kg strawberries

honey according to taste

lemon juice according to taste

Blend cashews and add the remaining ingredients, blend until creamy.

Cut and put some fruits on top.

Sugar and the kidneys

This concentration of sugar in the blood fluctuates from 100 milligrams of sugar in 100 cubic centimeters of blood to 180 milligrams. When it exceeds 180 milligrams the kidneys release the excess into urine and it is lost from the body. The level at which the kidneys release the sugar is called the "threshold". The constant handling of large excess of sugar by these kidney cells is held by some writers to be one cause of kidney cell damage.

Sugar and the pancreas

Sugar is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract into the blood and if large amounts are eaten at a time so that it enters the blood faster than the body can use or store it, the result will be a "high tide" of sugar in the blood. It is said that in this case the pancreas secretes a large amount of insulin than it normally does. If this is continued over a considerable period until the cells of the pancreas are depleted, diabetes could result.

Sugar

Vegan chocolate spread

2 tbs Tahhini (sesamy paste)

1 tbs honey

1 tsp coconut butter

1 tbs Carob powder

1 tsp beepollen if wanted

bit water, depends how fluid or thick you want it to be.

Mix all ingredients well and use as a spread on the bread.

I have been often asked why do I not consume sugar and food that contains sugar. There are many different sorces of sugar that I will mention in my later postings. Many are wondering how it is possible to survive without cakes, candies or cookies that you can purchase in the shop. Nowdays its not so easy to get food without "bad sugar". I have to be very selective in shop, reading carefully labels. BUT I have A LOT of other subsidies for "sweet" things, like fruits, honey (easy to get as we have bees), dried fruits . I try to eat food in its natural way, the less processed the better. So it became already my habit for a reason. I found some good stuff about how the body uses sugar from the book Abundant health.

Sugar is very important element in nutrition, but its nature and use are little understood by most people. The easy way to understand the matter is to begin with sugar as it is found in normal, healthy blood, where, for every thousand parts of blood, one part must be sugar, - the substance the body cells burn to produce heat and energy for use by all parts of the body. This blood sugar is derived from certain kinds of food. The body can convert a portion of the protein and fat intake into this sugar (glucose), but the larger part of the body's supply is secured from starch and sugar.

Storage of sugar
When taken in three meals to provide for 24 hours need, the supply is not uniform or steady enough; there is apt to be either a "feast" or a "famine". Too large amount would accumulate in the blood at one time unless there were some way to regulate it. For this reason temporary storage is provided in the skin, muscles and liver. The liver stores sugar in a "compressed" form called "glycogen", and on demand from the blood it releases it again as glucose for use as needed. When it is stored in the skin no chemical change takes place in it as simply an outflow from the blood stream and an inflow back into it which is called storage by "inundation". The storage of glucose in the cells is called storage by "segregation" which is more complicated than storage by "inundation". Shortage in the cells and release from them is thought to be under the control of the nervous system in cooperation with glands on internal secretion.

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Natural remedies

I have been picking sea backthorn on our field. They are very sour, but good for skin diseases, digestive tract and heart. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-microbiological activity. Berries are high in C and B vitamins and aswell they contain B12 vitamin.
We made berry juice and puted into icecube plastic bags, its so easy to take cubes by cubes and have a nice drink on winter.

We made with mum lip salves and aswell massage salve with cayenne pepper (lately cayanne became my favourite) I put cayenne into capsules for eating, into tea, make cayanne massage. Cayenne has high amount of A and C vitamin, and organic Calcium and Potassium, so therefore its very good for healthy heart, aids digestion and circulatory system. Cayenne has been known to stop heart attack within 30 seconds!!!

Cowberries or lingon berries.

Open door

God sees to it that a door of opportunity is always open for the christian. If one door closes it is because another is about to open. "See, I have placed before you an open door that no-one can shut." Revelation 3:8

Discovering Estonia

Merje :)

Happy Janne:)

Extraordinary week

Last week was for me just one adventure. First of all I went to visit my granny in Viljandi, and the same day we went to the sea, 100 km drive. On the way it rained so strongly and the thunder was so strong. Granny was so disappointed in the weather and she convinced me to turn back, and I tried to convince her not to give up our goal to reach the place. So I didn't even think about to turn back. So we arrived and came out from the car and were so amazed about the weather change, we just hugged each other and praised the Lord for hearing our quiet prayers. It was sunny whole afternoon and the water was very warm. Later evening I visited my good friends.
My 2 relatives from Boston visited Estonia, it was great to communicate with them and I took them to the airport to Riga. I was thinking that they will leave from Tallinn, but the same morning it came out I have to drive to Riga, Latvia. Good experience anyway.

Walking by faith and not by sight

my granddad:) my granny:)

I love experiments!!

We have been puting the roof..., it was fun.

my mum!

in Denmark

Kirsten:)

I have been here and there and never imagined that I will be here or there:)) I complately have to walk by faith and not by sight. I try to enjoy the present moment. My family is on vocation in Croatia, and I am having summer vocation with granddad at home in Estonia. I have been picking blueberries and eating them so much, done smoothies and pie out of them. Aswell I have been enjoying wonderful warm weather. On Sunday I will visit my granny and we will drive to the sea.

Sweden

I came to Sweden on wednesday to cook for camp meeting. On Sabbath we took a nice and very long walk, like 4 hours. And we met one cat that started to follow us, it was like an angel all the time by our side.

Marco had to carry the cat when it sometimes got tired:)

Some nice birds in neighbourhood.

Mind is free

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness.

in Viljandi

From a wordly point of view, money is power, but from the Christian standpoint, love is power. If the mind is free and happy, from the consciousness of rightdoing and a sense of satisfaction in causing happiness to others, it creates a cheerfulness that will react upon the whole system, causing a freer circulation of the blood and a toning up of the entire body. The blessing of God is a healing power, and those who are abundant in benefiting others will realize that wondrous blessing in both heart and life. E.G.White

Voluntary confinement

Life is just like a buffet line, and its overflowing with good things. How we can say No to these good things? Its called voluntary confinement - you cant have it all and survive. You have a multitude of choises before you because life is just like a best restaurant.
Philippians 4:5 "Let your moderation be known unto all men."