Fresh fruits

The Four Major Warning Signs of Eating Insufficient Quantities of Fresh Fruit

1. If you ever crave sweets at the end of any meal, you have undereaten of sufficient sweetness from fresh fruit at the beginning of that meal. 2. If you ever desire heavy foods (avocado, nuts, seeds, etc.) at the end of a meal, you have undereaten of sufficient sweetness from fresh fruit at the beginning of that meal. 3 If at any time of day you wish to consume refined sugars such as candy, alcohol, chocolate, cakes, or dried fruit, you have undereaten of sufficient sweetness from fresh fruit at the preceding meal. 4. If at any time you are willing to even consider starchy foods (bread, rice, potatoes, corn, pasta, etc) as a source of sustenance, you have undereaten of sufficient sweetness from fresh fruit at the preceding meal. The solution, in all four instances, is to eat fresh fruit. Learn from your experiences. Eat sufficiently of fresh fruit and all food cravings will cease. OF course, continue to eat all the fresh tender greens that you care for, as well. by Dr. Doug Graham

Veskisilla

Trust in Divine Power

The key to the basic eight natural doctors of health is a well balanced, common sense outlook on life.
We need to have a complete health program and although we can make choices to follow the healthy lifestyle, we still have weakness that often end up in us falling so many times, right back to where we have to start all over again. We need to come to realize that we do have weaknesses and if only we had something or someone to lean on to give strength through our problems and give us the power to overcome the fall downs. Certainly we do have friends that we can talk to for encouragement, but we need to remember that every one of us are in this together and all are struggling with our weak areas.
There is One with power that we can lean on, One who is interested in our health. That power comes from the compassionate Creator of the Universe, the One whose interest is in every individual´s personal health. The well proven pages of the Scriptures, that have stood the test of time, bring out good healthy principles. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth". 3 John 2.
Now, one may reason that this old stuff is for centuries past and turn away, but we need to stop and think awhile. Doctors and modern science are finding in research that good health is more than just physical and mental, but adding the dimension of spiritual health as well. The facts and figures that are lining up exactly with the Scripture principles.
A good diet allows us to think more clearly. A clear mind helps us to make good choices and to have clear spiritual, pure thoughts. Good pure minds keep the body trim, copleting the circle of wanting good NUTRITION, EXERCISE, WATER, SUNSHINE, TEMPERANCE, AIR, REST, and will increase our Trust in Divine Popwer.

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. Roy Adzak

Denmark again:)

Hunters on the way to catch fasans.

Some good recipes

Fruit cream

Ingredients:
1 banana
1/2 avocado
1/2 glass of cranberries (use whatever berries you like)
1 tsp honey
1/4 glass of grapefruit or lemon juice

Smash all ingredients with fork and ready to eat (don't let it stand too long, othervise avocado becomes dark)



Coco-balls

Ingredients

½ dl. tahini
thick coconut milk
½ kg oat flakes
6 – 8 tbl. carob
1 tbl. cereal coffee
almound oil
½ litres dried dates
peel of an organic orange
1 cup coconut flakes
1 dl. carob

Method

Use a bowl for all the ingredients.
Grind oat flakes.
Add to oats tahini, carob and cereal coffee.
Soak dried dates in boiled water.
Use for soaking so much water that the dates almost covered.
Separate dates from water and put into blender.
Add to dates peel of an organic orange.
Mix dates with coconut milk until creamy and add dates to oats.
Mix all together and form with your hands balls, while you keep your hands wet with a little bit of water.
Grind half coconut flakes and place in plate.
Place the rest coconut flakes in a extra plate.
Place 1 dl. carob in another plate.
Roll the coco balls first in grinded coconut flakes and then in the other portion of flakes.
Roll coco balls in carob.

Olive Spread

Ingredients

3 cups black soaked olives
¼ - ½ teasp. salt (optional)
1 small clove garlic

Method

Add pressed garlic and salt to olives in the food processor or blender.
Mix until the olives are in very small pieces.

Summer

Garlic bread:)
Herb tea:)
Pictures made by Airi Vendla

ALCOHOL

Television, movies, cinemas and billboard advertisements show alcohol as necessary for success. Everyone important is using it, they say. At least, that is what these media show. Parents, friends, peers may use alcohol. Even young children are introduced to its use in the home. Many think they can find happiness through its use. But many do not show the other side of the picture.

Health-promoting grains or fruits are allowed to ferment to produce alcohol (jard). Many of these products are further processed to increase the alcoholic content (raksi). The original product gives the drink its flavor; the alcohol from the fermentation process gives it the 'bite.'

Physical Effects:

No matter the drink, alcohol in all its forms is poisonous. Every drink destroys thousands of brain cells. It fogs the brain, lowers the inhibitions (the ability to do things that would not be done if alcohol was not in the system). Often a person becomes talkative, but memory and reason are affected. Permanent brain damage can occur. With large quantities of alcohol in the blood, hallucinations, loss of brain function and then death may occur.

Alcohol damages other parts of the body as well. The liver is the primary organ that detoxifies alcohol. It takes more than 1 hour for the liver to break down the alcohol from 1 drink. Vomiting, bathing, drinking tea or coffee, exercising or eating food will not get rid of alcohol in the blood any faster. Eating will slow down the rate of absorption but will not slow down the rate of breakdown. It takes time for the liver to process the alcohol. But the alcohol also damages the liver. Cirrhosis of the liver, an irreparable disease, may occur with repeated use. The liver isn't the only organ damaged. Alcohol raises the blood pressure, causes stomach ulcers and bleeding, causes inflammation of all parts of the digestive tract, increases cancers of the mouth, larynx and esophagus and many other diseases.

Social Effects:

But the damage to the body is only one part of the problem. Social, psychological, and financial problems can be even greater. While a drinker may feel he is happier, more free and friendly, yet often alcohol can lead him to arguments, violence and aggression. The home is often the scene of quarrels, fights and abuse. Children and spouses may be neglected or harmed. The place that should be the happiest place in the world becomes a place of disappointment, misery and fear. How much better if alcohol did not enter the home.

Alcohol breaks down the inhibitions, leading to behavior that would not be considered if sober. Unwanted pregnancies, risky sex, rape and murder are committed more frequently by those under the influence of liquor.

Prenatal Effects:

Alcohol also affects adversely (badly) the unborn baby. Whatever the mother eats or drinks is eaten and drunk by the baby. The problem is, the alcohol must be removed by the liver from the mother's blood before it can be removed from the baby's blood. The baby's liver is not sufficiently developed to remove the alcohol from its own system, so it must depend on its mother's liver to break down the alcohol. Her liver breaks down the alcohol from her blood first. Then the alcohol from the baby passes back through the placenta to the mother's blood where it is processed. Thus the baby remains drunk longer than the mother. All the time the alcohol is in the baby's blood it is doing damage. It is damaging the brain, organs and body.

Many times a woman drinks alcohol before she realizes she is pregnant. It is during the first three months of pregnancy that the baby's development is most affected. It can cause bone deformation, facial changes, mental damage, and smaller birth weight and smaller brain size. Often the child is mentally retarded all the rest of its life. Also, he will find it much easier to use alcohol as he grows up. The damage done to the child is called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. This is a totally preventable disease. No woman of child-bearing age should drink alcohol.

Also, the father can pass on his thirst for alcohol to his children through his genes. A man who wants the very best for his children should never drink alcoholic beverages. His addiction to alcohol may be passed on to his children and grandchildren. Because of his influence and heredity, he may make it very hard for his children to not have a thirst for alcohol.

Mental Effects:

Drinking impairs the judgment. A person may think he is very much in control of himself, but with every drink his ability to do 2 things at one time is greatly lessened. Especially the ability to drive a vehicle is greatly impaired. Driving requires many skills and lots of good judgment, where many decisions need to be made. Even one drink affects the mind and the ability to think, drive and make good decisions. Never should alcohol be used by anyone going to drive a vehicle or run equipment. There are many other lives besides his own that he is responsible for. Many highway accidents are caused by drinking drivers.

Alcohol is an addictive drug. Once the habit is formed, it is difficult, but not impossible, to overcome. Often it requires strong determination, assistance from family and friends, and sometimes professional help to master this addiction. Divine help from God is often the major key to breaking this health, body and soul-destroying poison.

Because of the emotional effects on children and family members as they see, hear and feel the affects of alcohol abuse, a strong appeal is made to every victim of alcohol to give up this poison and join those who are educating children, youth and adults to be alcohol-free.

"In relation to tea, coffee, tobacco, and alcoholic drinks, the only safe course is to touch not, taste not, handle not. The tendency of tea, coffee, and similar drinks is in the same direction as that of alcoholic liquor and tobacco, and in some cases the habit is as difficuolt to break as it is for the drunkard to give up intoxicants. Those who attempt to leave off these stimulants will for a time feel a loss and will suffer without them. But by persistence they will overcome the craving and cease to feel the lack. Nature may require a little time to recover from the abuse she has suffered; but give her a chance, and she will again rally and perform her work nobly and well." E.G. White, Health and Happiness, p. 139.

Written by Terri Horner

Lifestyle Education Center

Mungpoo, India

With God all things are possible, including living life without wordly conformity and compromise. Resolve now by His grace to stand on the Rock and resist the waves of compromise that are sweeping God´s children from the shores of salvation. And always remember that when you take a stand, you do not stand alone. JESUS STANDS WITH YOU!

CONFIDENCE : Once all village people decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer all people gathered and only one boy came with an umbrella...... that's Confidence...

TRUST: Trust should be like the feeling of a one year old baby when you throw him in the air; he laughs.....because he knows you will catch him........ That's Trust............

HOPE: Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning but still we have plans for the coming day..........that's Hope..........