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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
- Deepak Chopra

Also by Deepak Chopra:
You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment. — with Solar Sethosho

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Scary Ingredient: Azodicarbonamide
A synthetic yellow-orange dough conditioner

Why it's scary: This chemical is used most frequently in the production of industrial foam plastic, and although the FDA has approved its use for food in the States, the United Kingdom has labeled it a potential cause of asthma. In a review of 47 studies on azodicarbonamide, the World Health Organization concluded that it probably does trigger asthmatic symptoms. The WHO concluded, “exposure levels should be reduced as much as possible.” I’ll put it more concisely: Avoid it.

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Chocolate Ricotta
YUM...
500g light ricotta with whey cheese
5 tbsp natural organic peanut butter
4 scoops chocolate protein powder
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Preheat oven to 300F. In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese, natural peanut butter, protein powder and oil. Mix well. Once mixed, scoop out 4 equal portions (an ice cream scooper helps here, but only here LOL), placing each portion into a slot in a 12-slot muffin tin. For smaller servings, divide into 8 equal portions instead.

Bake in oven for 30 minutes. Remove from oven, and allow to cool on a rack. Serve once cool to the touch, or allow store in the fridge overnight.
Makes 4 servings

NUTRITION INFORMATION
Cal       411
Protein  32g
Carbs    10g
Fat        27g
Saturated           5.5g
Monounsaturated 8.8g
Polyunsaturated   3.5gDY - SOUL:

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Scary Ingredient : Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
A semi-solid fat created when food processors force hydrogen into unsaturated fatty acids.

Scary Ingredient #6: Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil
A semi-solid fat created when food processors force hydrogen into unsaturated fatty acids.

Why it's scary: Partially hydrogenated fats are the principle sources of trans fat in the American diet, and a Harvard study estimated that trans fat causes 70,000 heart attacks every year. The good news: Partially hydrogenated oils are beginning to slowly retreat from our food. Progressive jurisdictions like New York City are starting to restrict the allowable amounts in restaurants, and many chains are switching to healthier frying oil. Still, the battle isn’t over. At Long John Silver’s, for example, there are still 17 menu items with more than 2 grams of the stuff. According to the American Heart Association, that's about the maximum you should consume in a single day.

Where you'll find it: McDonald’s McChicken, Long John Silver’s Broccoli Cheese Soup

Insanity? New Statin Guidelines

Uffe Ravnskov M.D.

Guidelines on the prevention of cardiovascular disease are published again and again from various expert committees. 

Recently new ones were published by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). They call them “The New Guidelines on the Treatment of Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults”.

Treatment of cholesterol???

Is cholesterol a disease?

Don´t these so-called experts know that cholesterol is one of the most important molecules in our body?

Don´t they know that we use that molecule for producing cell walls, nerve fibres, sex and stress hormones, bile and vitamin D?

Don´t they know that it is so important that all cells are able to produce it themselves?

Don´t they know that we produce 3-5 times more cholesterol than we eat?

Don´t they know that our brain is unable to function probably without its steady production of this molecule? 

We have known that from the very beginning. There is not only a lack of an association between cholesterol and atherosclerosis; there is no association either between the degree of cholesterol lowering and the outcome.

The small benefit of statin treatment is the same whether cholesterol is lowered a little or very much. No trial has ever shown anything else.

But obviously the experts haven´t understood it themselves, or have they? It is difficult for researchers who receive large amounts of money from the drug companies, and several of the authors do that, to admit that what they have told their colleagues and the population for many years is wrong. I am confident that if they dare to do that, their names are taken away from the industry payrolls immediately. 

Instead they present a calculator with which it is able to see who should be recommended statin treatment. They claim that any person with a risk of achieving cardiovascular disease that is higher than 7.5% during the next ten years should be prescribed a statin drug. 

With the calculator you can for instance see what is considered necessary for a woman age 65 without heart disease to avoid statin treatment. She must have a cholesterol below 150 mg/dl, an HDL-cholesterol of at least 40 mg/dl, her systolic blood pressure must not be higher than 150 without treatment, and she must be a non-smoker without diabetes.

How many women of that age do you think belong to that category? 

For a man of that age it is even more difficult because his cholesterol must not be higher than 130 mg/dl and his systolic blood pressure must be lower than 105.

I think that only a Masai warrior is able to satisfy such demands.

The consequence is of course that most of adult mankind should take a statin every day for the rest of their life. 

Also diabetics are recommended statin treatment, even those who develop that disease during  the treatment. The evidence for that advice is the small benefit achieved in a few statin trials.

Statin treatment causes diabetes, because they block the synthesis of insulin. Diabetes has been recorded in 3-4 % of statin-treated individuals after a few years.

The question is how many have diabetes after ten or twenty years of treatment? 

Luckily several researchers have warned the population. Read for instance an article by John Abramson and his coworkers in New York Times. Click Here

Others have criticized the risk calculator for overestimating the risk by 75-150%; read for instance the article in New York Times by Gina Kolata. Click Here

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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.Horace Bushnell

THE ESSENCE OF LIFE: MIND - BODY - SOUL: Try not to become a man...

Remember your thoughts create your reality. Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. Gandhi

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key.
Lyrics from the Eagles 1974

Learn to become still .. and take your attention away from what you
don't want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are. Be about the now.

You are the only one that creates your reality
No one else can think or feel for you .. its YOU .. ONLY YOU.

What can you do right now to turn your life around?? Gratitude!!
Gratitude will bring more of what we want into our lives immediately

Release and Live

By stepping into what we fear begins with what seems like a risk, but then life releases us from the struggle of a powerful inner debate and fills our void with trust…it then reveals a foundation that was there all along…a foundation that breathes life into our existence and allows us to be free to live the life we desire….but this foundation only seemed invisible by our fear….which prevents us to take the risk to trust our steps and see life in new ways….Trust your steps into what you fear and start living!!

When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and
clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life friend.

“Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools.” -Stacey Kerger