Naked Chocolate; The Astounding Truth About The World's Greatest Food

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Naked Chocolate
The Astounding Truth About The World's Greatest Food
By David Wolfe and Shazzie

By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®

Title: Naked Chocolate
Authors: David Wolfe and Shazzie
Publishers: Sunfood Nutrition (May 2005)
248 pages, softcover, full-colour throughout

ISBN-10: 0965353397
ISBN-13: 978-0965353397

Luxurious, sensuous, passionate, and exciting to all the senses - that's chocolate!

Naked Chocolate is an extraordinary raw foods / superfoods book. Written by David Wolfe and Shazzie, Naked Chocolate is the product of years of research into superfood nutrition and is adorned with an absolutely stunning full-color presentation of gorgeous photographs.

David Wolfe, America's leading nutrition guru, and Shazzie, the UK's most progressive health educator, have teamed up to bring you this informative book.

Wolfe and Shazzie present why raw, organic chocolate is good for you and why it is quite possibly - the best food ever. In these pages, you will discover the astonishing truth about the world's greatest food.

With a masters degree in nutrition, and a background in science and mechanical engineering, David Wolfe is considered one of the world’s top authorities on natural health, beauty nutrition, herbalism, chocolate, and organic superfoods.

Wolfe has over 15 years of dedicated experience and understanding of the inner workings, the delicate chemistry, and hardcore mechanics of the human body, giving him the expertise to bring you, in Naked Chocolate, the clearest understanding of what raw chocolate can do for your body.

In the book, the author explores the history, nutrition, and magic of this powerful food.

Wolfe identifies the qualities of this superfood that enhance mood and stimulate your body for optimal health. Learn how raw chocolate can affect energy levels.

Naked Chocolate is packed full of information about chocolate.

Some of the chapters found in the book include:

Legends and history of chocolate, chemical composition of cacoa, myths and beliefs about chocolate's abilities, rumors and urban legends about chocolates, chocolate and health, and a huge collection of chocolate recipes. The legends, especially the historical ones, are very interesting. They tell the legends of how cacao came to be as told by the various native tribes of South America. They also chronicle the history of cacao as it is used as money in South America, traded with European explorers, brought back to Europe, and eventually made into the chocolate we know today.

The writing is entertaining and informative, and the authors' passion and research for their subject is very clear. It's an excellent book, well worth the selling price.


Related Links:

http://www.naked-chocolate.com/

http://www.davidwolfe.com/

http://www.sunfood.com/


© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/The Garden of Healing® Company. All rights reserved.

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The Nourished Self

PERSONAL GROWTH

The Nourished Self

By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®


Nourishing Yourself...

You are open and many-sided, rather than narrowly prescribed.

You call forth odd combinations, including important elements of humor and mockery.

This Nourished Self - You, is not without difficulties in Your constant quest for an ethical core.

You have the virtue of avoiding absolutes and dead ends, and holding out an ever-present possibility of transformation and change.

Flexibility, Versatility, Adaptability ~ Be Fluid.

Clarity and Results.

Like a Greek sea god of many forms, Nourishing Yourself means fostering the development of a more open and flexible self that can be in tune with the larger uncertainties that surround each and every one of us.


© 2009 Mark Isaac Thyss / The Garden of Healing® Company. All Rights Reserved.

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NourishingYourself.com helps You to look at all the ways You do and do not nourish Yourself leading to self-actualization.

http://www.nourishingyourself.com/

Nourish Yourself. The result?

There's more of Yourself to give to Your special Garden of Healing® BABY

http://www.gardenofhealingbaby.com/

Barrier to the Orange

ONE SIMPLE IDEA

Barrier to the Orange
About the Skin; Peeling through the Barrier to the Orange

By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®

For most people, the skin is the barrier to the goodness that lies inside the orange. Dealing with that skin is the first step.

Who doesn't like oranges?

Oranges are the perfect food as medicine.

This favorite breakfast food is a potent source of vitamin C. They taste wonderful and there are so many good things that can be said about them.

A single sunny navel orange provides beta-cryptoxanthin, a carotenoid that may help prevent colon cancer. And the juice of the orange has been shown to elevate HDL cholesterol ("good") while lowering LDL ("bad") cholesterol.

When thinking about eating an orange, if you have trouble getting through that barrier, remember this ONE SIMPLE IDEA:

Just one serving of the fruit covers your daily requirement of vitamin C.

Heck, go ahead, eat two!

And don't forget to eat the white pith which is an easy way to increase your pectin intake.

You can't go wrong with oranges; they are a delicious, simple and easy snack, once you battle that barrier.

By far, the best way of enjoying this fruit is to put the entire organic orange through a powerful juicer to get the most of all the nutrients.


© 2009 Mark Isaac Thyss / The Garden of Healing® Company. All Rights Reserved.

The Healing Garden

GARDENING

The Healing Garden

Source: The National Garden Bureau
http://www.ngb.org/index.cfm

In the best of times flowers help us celebrate the joyous occasions in our lives—the birth of a child, a wedding, career or personal success. In more difficult times plants give us hope and inspiration to meet the challenges of life.

The role of the plants and gardens in healing is ancient. As early as 3000 B.C. the Chinese were using medicinal herbs. The Greeks built a temple for Aesclepius, their god of healing, set among mineral springs, bathing pools, and healing gardens. Green was a sacred color in ancient Egypt and represented the hope of spring that brought new vegetation and life.

In colonial America, the Quakers felt a deep attachment to nature and believed gardens were a place of creativity for the mind and body. Growing plants was a way to relax and restore the soul. One of the first programs to use plants in a therapeutic setting was established in 1879 at Philadelphia’s Friends Hospital after a physician noticed that psychiatric patients working in the hospital’s fields and flower gardens were calmer and that the gardens had a “curative” effect on them.

In more recent times, advances in technology and new drugs have been the focus of treatment at medical institutions. However, within the past few decades, the medical community around the world is rediscovering the healing power of gardens. Many hospitals and health care facilities are incorporating green spaces, flowerbeds and views of gardens into their surroundings and horticultural therapy programs are often an important part of a patient’s course of treatment.

For the full article:
http://www.ngb.org/gardening/todays/article.cfm?ID=60


© 2009 National Garden Bureau. All Rights Reserved.

Those Five Servings of Fruits and Vegetables

ONE SIMPLE IDEA

Those Five Servings of Fruits and Vegetables

By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®

Nutritional experts recommend that you eat a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. But, how many times have you hear or read this?

In your lifetime, countless times, to be sure!

Here’s what to do to take action.

Use your fist.

Let’s face it, most nutritional information is boring and it’s hard to remember all those details.

Here’s a way to make things easy - one simple idea is all you need.

Be like Einstein.

It has been said that Albert Einstein did not bother to remember anthing he could not find in a book or elsewhere. Apparently, mundane detail was not his thing. Similarly, in this instance, use the image of your fist to remember this important broad nutritional recommendation we all hear, but might not be ready or willing to carry out.

Wait, that’s two simple ideas; it’s getting complicated already: be like Einstein and use your fist.

Which one is it?

Try to remember these guidelines (this is where things get complicated):

Consider eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

What is a serving?

A half cup of cooked or one cup of raw vegetables.
A medium sized piece of fruit, like an apple or an orange.
A half cup of canned or frozen fruit.
A quarter cup of dried fruit, like raisins.
A three quarter cup of juice, or six ounces.
Add fruits and vegetables to every meal.
Eat a cantaloupe for breakfast.

Don’t forget to eat one veggie for lunch and two for dinner. If you can’t take your vegetables plain, consume them as soups.

If you have a can of soup, toss in one half cup of peas.

Add vegetables to your spaghetti sauce.

Sorry, that slice of blueberry pie does not count…

Enough! Here’s our ONE SIMPLE IDEA.

Use your fist and eat five times that of any fruit or vegetable a day. Half cup, one cup, three quarters cup, frozen, cooked or canned - forget it.

If you strive to eat five fist-fuls of anything colorful or green everyday, you’ll be doing better than the 70% of Americans who survive on coffee, pastries, processed foods and TV dinners.

Use your fist and eat five times that amount of fuits and vegetables per day and you’ll be just fine. This is your one simple idea; Einstein would certainly approve.

© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.

For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:

http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/