Heartland Natural - Natural Solutions for You and Your Family

Volume 3, Issue 4

Welcome to Heartland's NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY newsletter. We are excited to share relevant news about natural health topics and offer alternative and complimentary options for you and your family. We are committed to helping you find more complete answers to your health concerns, and look forward to being a friend as you seek greater health through innovative natural products, ideas, and educational resources. For personalized direction, call our helpline at 1-888-772-2345.

TOPICS IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
-Did You Know? How to become your own best valentine
-In the News: Antibiotics To Bear New Warnings
-Alkalizing Your Body
-Recipes for Health

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

How was your Valentine’s Day? Besides any valentines that you did or did not receive, don’t forget to become your own best valentine. Pour love into yourself the way you would anyone you would love to see grow, mature and glow with life. Love yourself. Send yourself reminders of how special, unique and valuable you are. Review your goals, write them down, and include a daily goal to encourage yourself with words that nourish your mind. Your mind spills over into your emotions, into your actions, into who you are and what you say. Listen to yourself. Watch the words that come out of your mouth, for they are the barometer of your person. You are not just what you eat, but what you think and say. If you have any difficulties being your own best valentine, think about it. Think good thoughts about yourself. Erase other people’s negative thought recordings in your brain and replace them with positive thoughts about yourself. Your brain will believe you and begin a process of convincing the rest of you. What you think becomes what you feel becomes what you do becomes who you are. Tell yourself you are loved, and you will become lovely. Then, you will not only be your own best valentine, but you will become even more attractive to the one who loves you or to the one “out there” who, because of how you are able to love yourself first, will not be able to resist falling in love with you!

Did you know…that flax is a wonderful natural beauty product for your skin? You can use Heartland Golden Omega Milled Flax, mix it with an equal part of wheat bran and add sufficient water to form a paste to pamper your skin. Just like flax poultices have a long history of being used to pull toxins out through the skin, why not to detoxify the skin on your face? As a mask, it stimulates circulation. Because ground flax seeds are mildly abrasive, the help to slough off dead skin cells. Love yourself first. Then love your skin by pampering it until it is soft and smooth with a flax mask.

Did you know that Heartland has it’s own natural face & body cleanser? Order some today to keep your skin fresh and beautiful along with using Heartland Golden Omega Milled Flax to exfoliate and rejuvenate your skin! For a natural solution with no sodium laurel sulfate click http://www.heartlandnatural.com/bodycream.htm

MORE KUDOS for Dr. John R. Lee, who for years has been teaching us about the effectiveness of transdermal natural hormone replacement therapy and how well natural progesterone absorbs through the skin. From his January 2003 Medical Letter: “I found it very entertaining, after enduring a decade of scorn from the medical profession about the efficacy of transdermal progesterone application (through the skin), that a birth control skin patch was approved by the FDA and is now being advertised in all the major media. I guess hormones can be absorbed through the skin after all!”

Antibiotics soon will bear a big new warning that overusing them makes them less effective. From the February 6, 2003 release of the Associated Press Health News, comes the news that antibiotics will soon carry a new warning message mandated by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The new action was prompted because it has long been known that antibiotics have been drastically overused. According to the AP story, the new warning says that doctors must be sure a patient is suffering a bacterial infection, not a virus with similar symptoms, before prescribing antibiotics. The article notes that all too often, doctors prescribe antibiotics for children with earaches caused by viruses, or for adults with colds or viral coughs.

Antibiotics have no effect on viruses; they only fight bacteria. However, the US government estimates that half of the 100 million antibiotic prescriptions written in physician offices each year are unnecessary.

One of the reasons that the FDA action has become so important is that bacteria are growing increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Many common infections no longer are treatable with old standbys like penicillin, and some have become untreatable by every antibiotic on the market. Anytime antibiotics are used, survivor germs can emerge stronger and spread. It is the overuse of antibiotics that has lead to the increased resistance by bacteria.

The FDA proposed the new warnings two years ago. They will go into effect Feb. 6, 2004. Unfortunately, the warnings would be only on the drugs official label, and the AP story reports that very few doctors read drug labels. Because of this, the FDA is working on additional ways to spread their concern over the use of antibiotics, including future ads aimed at consumers.

Have you considered the overuse of “anti-bacterials” as hand soap? It parallels the overuse of anti-biotics. As a safer alternative, get some enzyme-based soap like Heartland’s powerful All-Purpose Solution. It is the absolute best way to emulsify and (safely!) get rid of oils, especially petrochemicals. It is wise to keep some handy to help neutralize any kind of oil or petrochemical spill. (Including washing your hands when you accidentally spill gasoline, gas or oil spills in your garage or on your driveway, cleaning up pesticide spills or off your hands, getting grease off tools or engines, and, heaven forbid, any other kind of undesired contact with petrochemical agents. Click on http://www.heartlandnatural.com/specials_all_purpose.htm to find out about our current special on All-Purpose Solution!

Spices in general are alkaline-forming, with “leafy green herbs” rating a 6.0, right alongside garlic. Onions rate a 5.0 (remember 4.0 is neutral). Cayenne is the alkaline superstar at a 7.0.

The most ferocious killers of 30 bacterial species in Cornell University tests are (in order) onion, garlic, allspice, oregano, thyme, tarragon, cumin, cloves, bay leaf and cayenne pepper.

Oregano vs. germs. "No wonder oregano has been used since antiquity to fight infections," Preuss says. He recently found oregano oil as effective as the common antibiotic drug vancomycin in treating staph infections in mice. Bonus: It wiped out an infectious fungus. A daily dose of oregano oil, mixed with oils from fenugreek, cumin and pumpkin seeds, reduced blood pressure and improved blood sugar and insulin sensitivity in diabetic rats. In Texas research, oregano killed parasites in humans. The point, Preuss says: People who eat small regular doses of oregano may get antibiotic and antidiabetic benefits, although more tests on humans are needed to verify it.

JustVegetableRecipes.com has just the thing for you, and it adds more of the wonderful “antibiotic” herb oregano to your table…

2 c Brussels sprouts (1 pint)
1 tbls Olive oil
1 Garlic clove, chopped
2 tbls White wine
1 1/2 tbls Lemon juice
1 tbls Oregano, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste

Heat the olive oil for 1 minute over medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add the Brussels sprouts and the garlic and saute until the sprouts begin to char, 1-2 minutes.

Turn the heat to medium-low. Add the wine and lemon juice and partially cover. Cook until the sprouts are easily pierced with a fork but not soft, about 3 minutes. Add the oregano and cook for 30 seconds. Add salt and pepper. Serve hot or warm.

Send us your own favorite recipes for keeping your family healthy naturally! E-mail to recipes@heartlandnatural.com

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