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Who says we have to suffer...to live a healthy happy vibrant life?

Red wine and dark chocolate... might seem decadent...but these guilty pleasures also might help us live longer...and healthier lives. Red wine and dark chocolate definitely improve an evening..but they also contain resveratrol..which lowers blood sugar. Red wine is a great source of catechins..which boost protective HDL cholesterol. Green tea? Protects your brain..helps you live longer..and soothes your spirit.

Food for Thought, the blog, is about living the good life...a life we create with our thoughts and our choices...and having fun the whole while!

I say lets make the thoughts good ones..and let the choices be healthy...exciting...and delicious! Bon Appetit!

Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts

Friday, November 11, 2016

Plastic Free Friday!


Shout out to all veterans today and all of America! 



Consider making this a #PlasticFreeFriday! Go plastic-free for 24 hours! Buy or drink no sodas from plastic bottles, receive no plastic shopping bags, take no plastic containers from takeout, use no plastic flatware. 


Fill your beverage bottles at home to take with you, keep reusable shopping bags in your car. Use glass containers, reusable plates and flatware for food. Why? 17 MILLION gallons of oil is used EVERY day in the USA -- just to make plastic water bottles. Then we throw out 88,000 tons of plastic, every day. And here's what's scary: 93% of us retain the plastic chemical, BPA, in our bodies. BPA and other endocrine disrupters are challenging the health of our families by depressing vitamin D levels among other harmful effects.
We can do better! Perhaps plastic free everyday is a heavy lift...but if we can do it for 24 hours we can move in that direction.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Think yourself happy!

Is becoming happier as easy as trying to become happier? The latest research by two US academics suggests it might be. 
Writing in The Journal of Positive Psychology, Yuna L. Ferguson and Kennon M. Sheldon present the results of their recent experiments into ‘trying to become happier’.
In the first study, two sets of participants listened to ‘happy’ music. Those who actively tried to feel happier reported the highest level of positive mood afterwards. In the second study, participants listened to a range of ‘positive’ music over a two-week period; those who were instructed to focus on improving their happiness experienced a greater increase in happiness than those who were told just to focus on the music.
What seems to have made one group so much happier than the other in their respective studies was a combination of actively trying to become happier and using the right methods – in this case, listening to happy music.
Ferguson and Sheldon’s important findings challenge earlier studies suggesting that actually trying to become happier was, in fact, counterproductive. “[Our] results suggest that without trying, individuals may not experience higher positive changes in their well-being,” they write. “Thus, practitioners and individuals interested in happiness interventions might consider the motivational mindset as an important facet of improving well-being.”
And that’s definitely something worth thinking about. View the study abstract or download the full study here.


Saturday, October 1, 2011




"Learn the alchemy that few human beings know. That when you accept what difficulties you have been given, a door opens." Rumi

Thursday, September 1, 2011

US Newborn Death Rate is 41st in the World


Do you think we lead the world in health status or health care? Think again.
Babies in the United States have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than do babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new World Health Organization report. Shockingly enough, we are tied with Qatar for newborn infant mortality!
Some of the countries that outrank the United States in terms of newborn death risk are South Korea, Cuba, Malaysia, Lithuania, Poland and Israel, according to the study.
Premature infants are a leading reason for the US infant death rate. Go here for the whole story.
I would like to thank a fellow Twitter person Mark Crispin Miller for tweeting this story and bringing it to my attention. Mark has a fabulous website called "News From Underground" that I will be reading everyday from now on. The site is a daily e-news service run by Mr. Miller who is a Professor of Culture and Communication at NYU. It is based on his belief that academics, like reporters, have a civic obligation to help keep the people well-informed, so that American democracy might finally work.
You can follow Mark on Twitter. He is @mcrispinmiller
By the way, the omega 3 DHA is associated with longer gestation periods and improved neonate and maternal outcome. Duration of gestation increased significantly when docosahexaenoic acid intake was increased during the last trimester of pregnancy. Read the study below.

A Randomized Trial of Docosahexaenoic Acid Supplementation During the Third Trimester of Pregnancy


Saturday, July 2, 2011

What Would Happen?


Inspiration: 
What would happen if you recognized that life, rather than being something that has to be controlled, is something to be opened to - and that the safest thing you will ever do is show up for the life that you have been given rather than always trying to make it be the way you think it should be?
Intention:
Today I will be willing to open to life - all of it - the fear, the pain, and the joy.

This beautiful thought is from a newsletter I subscribe to called "Awakenings" and was written by Mary O'Malley

Subscribe at this link

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

My brother the artist...

beautiful shot...spot the bug yet?

My brother Chris is a photographer..I think this shot is incredible!


See more of his work here..he is having too much fun! Love you Chris!

Friday, April 22, 2011

Love....and the lesson He taught



First Corinthians 13: 


"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres" (NIV)

Friday, April 8, 2011

When the external

begins to define the internal,
instead of the internal
defining the external,
one begins living as a mortal
rather than as a god.
Trust me, as a “god” is better.

Zing,
The Universe
www.tut.com

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

I Want To See You...

“I want to see you.


Know your voice.


Recognize you when you
first come ’round the corner.


Sense your scent when I come
into a room you’ve just left.


Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.


Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.


I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
“more”


~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi


My thanks to Patrick Brinksma for this beautiful poem from Rumi.... his inspirational blog is here...food for your soul...
http://www.patrickbrinksma.nl/


"If you can imagine it, you can create it. 


If you can dream it, you can become it." 


~ William Arthur Ward

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Taking a little break...at the shore

We're off to the wedding...here's our view


Peace.....

Through the dunes and to the sand...
Sunset on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico

Thursday, February 24, 2011

5 Seconds of Every Number 1 Pop Hit..this is so cool!

Music Lovers....


Listen to this when you have some time...it is five seconds or so of every number one single from the beginning of pop charts to the 90's as a single track...


http://soundcloud.com/mjs538/five-seconds-of-every-1-pop-1


and then Part two


http://soundcloud.com/mjs538/five-seconds-of-every-1-pop


Enjoy...I bet some of these will take you back!

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Recipe for Happiness..to sweeten up your day...hangs in my kitchen and never fails to make me smile...



Combine 4 parts of Contentment, 2 parts Joy & 1 part Pleasure. But these ingredients must be grown in one's own garden.
Sometimes they may be obtained of a good friend.
So procured, a fair return must be made else happiness spoils and becomes trouble.
Sometimes Discontent and Ambition have been combined in a desire to obtain Happiness but Fame and Wealth have resulted and persons who have tasted these say they are inferior substitutes...
         ~ Mary Englebreit


If you love Mary's work as much as I do..check out Amazon's Mary Englebreit Page
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Engelbreit/e/B000APQEY6/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Saturday, February 19, 2011

There Is No Such Thing As Too Big...

Thoughtwise that is...










There is absolutely no such thing as thinking too big...


That would be like thinking too rich, too happy, too healthy, or too yummy...
so go ahead....be limitless....how big are your dreams?

Italy's Amalfi Coast..it's on my list

Please take a couple of minutes to see this stunning slide show...It is on the photographer's Huffington Post blog. (See the link below) This came to me via Twitter this morning. A gorgeous collection of photos by Gregory Curley
Follow Gregory Curley on Twitter  www.twitter.com/gregorycurley


Italy's Amalfi Coast: Eat, Pray, Awesome Along Italy's Amalfi Coast
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/../../gregory-curley/amalfi-coast-italy-travel_b_824881.html


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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Mysteries, Yes! By Mary Oliver

Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.

How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.