Archive for April, 2011

Lemon Juice Diet Recipe

Lemon Jucie Recipe

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons FRESH squeezed lemon or lime juice (approx. 1/2 lemon)
2 tablespoons genuine organic maple syrup, Grade B (the darker the better)
1/10 teaspoon (a small pinch!) cayenne pepper, gradually increase (the more BTUs the better)
300 – 500 ccm (10-14 oz) pure water

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Tea Recipes for Diabetes

Cranberry Cherry Tea Sparkler Recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup tea concentrate
1/3 cup cranberries, dried
1 1/3 cup cherry juice or cider
1 1/3 cup water, sparkling

1 Combine tea concentrate and cranberries in a pan and bring to boil. Cover
and chill until cold, at least 1 hour.

2 Pour through fine strainer into a large pitcher, discard cranberries, add juice and sparkling water and mix
well. Pour over ice to serve.
Lemon Ginger Tea Sparkler Recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup tea concentrate
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1/4 cup ginger, crystallized, minced
2 2/3 cup ginger ale

Directions:
 
1 Combine tea concentrates, ginger and half the lemon slices in a pan and bring to boiling. Cover and chill until cold, at least 1 hour.

2 Pour through a fine strainer into a pitcher and add ginger ale. Discard used lemon slices and ginger.

3 Pour into glasses over ice, garnish with remaining lemon slices. (And/or put some in the pitcher.)

 
Fruit Ice Tea Recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

1 qt Strong tea, cooled
1 1/2 cup Fruit juice
Sugar to taste
(sugar sub)

Direction:
Combine tea with fruit juice. Add ice. Sweeten to taste.
Hot Spiced Tea Recipe

one serving
Calories: 14

Ingredients:

3/4 cup brewed hot tea
1 packet Equal
2 tsp orange juice
1 cinnamon stick
Orange slice

Direction:

1 Combine hot tea, Equal and orange juice in a cup.
2 Stir with cinnamon stick and garnish with an orange slice.
Herbal Ice Tea Recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

1 gal Filtered water
3 Flavored herbal tea bags peprermint
Sugar to taste

Direction:
Place tea bags in water. Let steep overnight. Add ice. Sweeten to taste.

 

Cinnamon Citrus Tea Sparkler Recipe

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup tea concentrate (qv)
1 cinnamon stick, 2 long
1 orange peel (colored part)
2 1/3 cup water, sparkling =to=-
1/2 cup orange juice or tangerine juice con, centrate, thawed

Direction:

1 Combine tea concentrate, orange peel and cinnamon stick in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover and chill until cold, about 1 hour.

2 Discard orange peel and cinnamon stick and combine with sparkling water. To make liquid layers, pour thawed orange juice into bottom of each glass, then gently
pour in tea concentrate.

3 Stir before sipping. (Or, dilute the concentrate to strength, and pour the tea onto a spoon resting right on the surface of the juice layer. The spoon breaks up the vertical motion of the incoming
liquid and helps keep the layers separate.)
Peach Ice Tea Recipe

Ingredients:

4 Regular tea bags
3 tsp Peach syrup, such as Monin =OR=-
3 tsp Mango syrup, DaVinci or Torani
Sugar to taste
(sugar sub)

Direction:

Brew tea. Let cool. Add flavoring. Add ice. Sweeten to taste.

Apricot Tea Sparkler Recipe

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup tea concentrate
1 1/3 cup apricot nectar, chilled
1 1/3 cup water, sparkling, chilled

Direction:
Combine concentrate, water and nectar, and pour into ice-filled glasses.
 

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Weight-loss Diet — Lemon Juice Diet

The lemon juice diet, also called the lemon juice detox, is a healthy diet for weight-loss by cleansing the digestive system. Including lemons in your diet – both juice and peel – will boost your digestion and, if you also eat healthily and exercise, can help you lose weight.

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Spring Cleanse with Diet

Diet is essential to cleanse the digestive system entirely, tonify the liver, and renew the second lung of the skin. spring is good time to take advantage of the renewal of upward moving energy. For a healthy liver. a diet with restricted intake of sugar, fats, cholesterol and refined foods is important in sustaining vitality, as these foods tend to clog proper functioning of the liver and could possibly bring on chronic fatigue, apathy, lack of concentration, intestinal problems and a rise in blood pressure.

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Food Sources of Iron

Iron is important for weight loss. A diet rich in iron can help you build and maintain a strong physique. People who get enough iron in a day tend to be more up and active throughout the day. Iron is essential for building healthy muscles and maintaining healthy blood. Iron is an essential mineral because it is needed to make part of blood cells. Iron functions primarily as a carrier of oxygen in the body, both as a part of hemoglobin in red blood cells and of myoglobin in the muscles. Iron also makes up part of many proteins in the body. Iron is the most difficult to obtain from diet alone. By balancing your diet and including several sources of iron, you can avert anemia.


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Spring Cleanse with Essential Oil

Essential oils are very helpful in supporting and cleansing the liver. Spring is a good time to nourish and strengthen the liver and gallbladder. Cleaning our blood and liver in April is a traditional way to get our health back on track and revitalize and nourish our entire internal ecological system.

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Special Foods at Easter Day

Easter day, like Christmas day, is also associated with special food. Food at Easter was always a special treat.

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Happy Easter Day 2011

Happy Easter Sunday! Easter Day represents the re-birth and return to fertility of nature in the spring. Easter Sunday is a time to get together and enjoy each other’s company. It as also an excuse to meet up with family and friends who you may not see that often. Easter is about life; it’s about springtime and welcoming back the flowers and birds; it’s about a warmer sun on our backs and a renewed faith in all the good we want and believe in for everyone. Easter is about love.

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Easter Day Biscuits Recipes

Easter Biscuits Recipe

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Spring Cleanse Recipe – Lemon Juice

Sour juices like lemon and lime juice stimulate the healing and cleansing of the liver. Fresh lemon juice helps to stimulate your liver to produce bile that helps flush out toxins.

Perfect Lemonade

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