The Healthy and Wealthy You

I found an ad in our newspaper that just made me want to WEEP.  The ad was full of hype about how all our favorite food combinations are on sale this week end.  They fancy we should stampede through their doors and buy all this JUNK instead of real food.  Real people need real food!

The sad truth of the matter is that people WILL flock to stores everywhere to get what they can afford to buy to fill the tummies of the people they love best.  Here are just a few examples of what I mean:

1. Young mommies will buy soy formulas for their babies
2. Tired families will load their shopping carts with chips and crackers.
3. Working men and women will purchase plastic packages of lunch meats.
4. People of every size and shape will load up on soda pop.
5. Shoppers will fill their pantries with canned soups.
6. Hungry folks will buy peanut butter and cheese “food” that is filled with inedible materials.
7. People who are determined to cook at home will opt for “helper” products which are loaded with toxicity.
8. Those who do take time to eat breakfast will choose cold cereals that are devoid of nourishment.
9. Shopping lists will include non-foods like margarine.

Shoppers will not make these choices because they are bad people.  They make these choices because they have become a habit, or they simply have not learned about the choices that would be better.  They choose the foods in our example because they can afford them.  AFTER ALL, THEY ARE LISTED IN THE SALE BILLS.  They buy these things because they presume that since the items sit on a grocery shelf, they are  automatically edible.

Not so.

Let me say that soy formulas, soy milk, soy products by any name are not good for human consumption because they interfere with hormonal function.

Chips and crackers are not good sources of vitamins or minerals, the fuel that makes the body go, no matter how good their advertising campaigns make them out to be.  Baked not fried?  No matter.  They are packaged, processed.  NO GOOD.

Soda pop and luncheon meats with all their toxic ingredients can ultimately lead to issues with the pancreas, neurological problems and dehydration.  Weight management is nearly impossible if soda pop is ingested.

Canned goods of every description are loaded with MSG or hydrolyzed protein or “emulsifiers” which might very well be powdered U.S. currency! As Jack Paar used to say, “I kid you not.”  Do you want your children eating toxic additives?  I don’t think so.

“Helper” products are a losing proposition.  The junk that is contained in those “cheap” boxes are not good for people.  You can help the flavor of the foods you cook by adding salt and pepper and spices that do not cost a fortune.  Even when helper products are offered at ‘Ten for a Dollar’ you have to know you are buying trouble!

Cold cereals are convenient, to be sure.  But they are processed and so not nutritious.  You can cook up a pot of hot cereal quick as a bunny if only you PLAN AHEAD.  And you will save a king’s ransom!

Are you  using margarine?  It’s plastic.  Cheap peanut butter has lard in it. Your body has no way of digesting margarine and lard clogs up all your plumbing.  Butter is a much better option.  Real peanut butter is far more preferable.  In the long run, these items will be cheaper.

The bottom line is that real people need real food.  Whole food.  Fresh food, if it’s available.  Frozen is acceptable; use canned if you must.

In 1936 our own government declared that the soils used for agriculture was depleted.  How much more depleted must they be by now?  It is really important that we grow as much of our own food as possible and where that is not feasible, we must find real food for our tables.  Even then, supplementation is critically important.

It’s possible your grocery list has now been seriously affected.  I hope you’ll consider these points and adjust your shopping list accordingly, because YOU are an important feature of this blog, The Healthy and Wealthy YOU.  We want you to be well and properly nourished.  Your health AND your wealth depend on that!

BTW, this post is sponsored by Real Guys Real Money. Maybe you can check them out after you put your groceries away?  Tell them The Healthy and Wealthy Crew sent you…

Connie Baum

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No need to sacrifice your good health over holiday fuss...here is some pragmatic wisdom for you:

How to Have More with Less at Christmas
by Jill Cooper and Tawra Kellam

After laying down my last women’s magazine telling me how to be less stressed during the holidays, I’m even more confused and stressed then ever! On one page I’m told to take time for myself and indulge in a lovely spa bath. That sounds great, but I can hardly find time for a shower on a slow day in June let alone take a spa bath the week before Christmas.

As I turn the page, I’m told to give all my friends and family homemade ornaments to which I have lovingly glued 500 beads, each the size of a grain of sand. OK I’ll admit I’m not a rocket scientist, but I am baffled when I try to imagine how I could accomplish these two things even if I didn’t have an ever growing list of Christmas preparation tasks. Hmmm… Maybe I could lay in my spa bath carefully gluing on beads to ornaments throughout the night.

As I read on, there are articles telling me how not to gain weight at Christmas parties. Isn’t that like telling a three year old to not get dirty while making mud pies?

But it gets better. They then tell you to eat a meal before you go to the party. What? Is that some kind of new diet where you lose weight by eating two meals in the evening instead of one? If it is then I’m all for it. I mean really — who eats four carrot sticks and five pieces of celery at home then arrives at a party where they have pecan pie, five different types of fudge, 10 dozen cookies and egg nog and says “Oh no, I really couldn’t eat a thing. I’m sooooo full…?” Excuse Me! Doesn’t anyone live in the real world any more?

To top it all off -and the part I like the best- is after they tell us how to get rid of stress and not gain weight, they give us 10 pages of recipes for Christmas cookies made with real butter and cream that are decorated so elaborately in the pictures that it probably took a trained kitchen staff of 10 a week to make each cookie.

If you are like me and can’t stand that kind of stress, try some of these Christmas ideas to help you have a relaxed and Merry Christmas:

• Don’t over-spend - It may be tempting to fixate yourself on the sparkling look in little Johnny’s eye when he sees that $300 play car under the tree. Advertising people are really good at feeding many parents’ fantasies of their children thinking that mom and dad are the superheros for shelling out the cash and looking fondly back on that moment for the rest of their lives. The reality, though, is that most kids have lost all interest in that particular toy long before the credit cards are paid off.
• When we were growing up, my mom pulled out all of the stops at Christmas to make it as wonderful for us as she possibly could. The funny thing is that now that we are grown, the things we remember the most fondly are mom’s red Jello salad – made with red hots – yummy! – and sitting together and reading the Christmas story before opening our presents. I can’t remember what presents I received, but I always look back fondly on the Christmas story.
• Do a few things well - Instead of trying to do everything and ending up depressed with how it all turns out, focus your energy on a couple of things that are the most important to you. You may be tempted to extravagantly decorate every room in your house, but if you don’t have the time or energy, focus on one room, like a living or family room. If your entire house is beautiful but you have to go see a therapist when it’s all over, the romantic mystique will be lost. Trust me, I know about this one from personal experience.
• Limit activities — Don’t commit to do too many things. One or two parties during the holiday season will make you get all tingly in that “It’s a Wonderful Life” kind of way. Two or three parties a week may send you over the edge, especially if you have kids.  Refer to my therapist comments above.
• This also applies to all of those appealing looking activities around town like Victorian Christmas events, Christmas celebrations at the zoo or winter carnivals. One or two can be a lot of fun, but too many will ruin the fun.
• Limit cookie baking. Don’t try to make 15 different kinds of cookies like Martha Stewart. She may look like she is super woman, but did you know she has a lot of people that help her? How much help do you get with your baking? I mean real help, not your five year old who makes everything twice as difficult for you. This is great for grandma, but you have to see your daughter every day and grandma can send her back when the house is sufficiently covered in flour. Again, pick your two or three most favorite or traditional cookies to bake and celebrate the fact that you had few enough priorities that you remembered to put the sugar in them.

• Everything doesn’t have to be homemade. I know that we advocate making your own stuff, but Marie Callender’s makes some great pies that you can pass off as homemade if you want to soothe your guilty Martha Stewart conscience. In 20 years, your kids will look fondly back on it as the best pie they ever had. Seriously, if you are making things homemade just to save money, remember that some things like candies and pies are often more expensive to make homemade, especially if you cut your finger while slicing the apples. Don’t ask me how I know, just trust me on this one.

These aren’t the only things you can do to reduce your stress, but if you stick to doing a few things well, you can truly relax and enjoy the season with your family. In the end, they would rather have fond memories of their time with you than memories of how strung out mom was after she burned the cookies.

Jill Cooper and Tawra Kellam are frugal living experts and the authors of the Dining On A Dime Cookbook. Dining On A Dime will help you save money on groceries and get out of debt, by cooking quick and simple homemade meals. For free tips & recipes visit Living On A Dime.

It’s great fun to have Jill and Tawra chime in on this post.  We thank them for their pragmatism and their humor.  If you have not indulged yourself by procuring any of their great products, you are in for a treat…and it will not mean loss of great wealth because all of their products are quite affordable.  Not stressing will advance your health and well being, too!

Connie Baum

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Cheers! Here is to YOUR vibrant good health!

Who doesn’t love to eat?  People who gather talk about the weather but eventually the conversation turns to the topic of food, isn’t that so?

What to eat and how to prepare it can be a dilemma.  Some people are working full time; they may even hold down two jobs just to keep body and soul together.  Others don’t like to cook.  There are folks who declare they have no time to shop for foodstuffs and furthermore, they may not know HOW to cook.  I actually know people who insist they do not have a clue WHAT to purchase for their meals.

People like those risk their wealth AND their health by habitually eating in cafes, ordering take-out or plucking something from a grocer’s freezer to microwave.

SIDEBAR: Microwaving can be hazardous to your health and wealth.  It is highly advisable NEVER, NEVER to use a microwave oven under any circumstances! END SIDEBAR.

But your humble blogger digresses.

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The Dinner Diva is one of the sponsors of this blog.  We are delighted to have this relationship. We cordially invite you to visit her website by clicking on these words and get the 411 on how to be at the top of your game, healthy and wealthy and happy through and through.

As always, we hope you’ll leave a note on our ‘door’ by commenting.  For you who are shy, you are welcome to remain anonymous.  We value your opinions.

Connie Baum

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NOTE: If you are inclined to be a “foodie” you may appreciate the food ideas offered at the Food Stamps Cooking Club blog, which is guaranteed to help you save lots of grocery money!

If we aspire to health and wealth, we need to know the facts and get the help we'll all need!

I know a woman, Mary, whose husband passed away after a very long battle with heart disease.

The couple had revised their lifestyles, their diets and their habits in every way they could.  She cared for him to the last, making sure he had the correct food in his diet, counting out his medications, fluffing his pillow, and visiting the doctor with him.

After he had been gone a good while, this woman became interested in alternative healing and took some classes.  What she learned could have helped her husband if only they had known then what she knew now.

One of the most astonishing things she discovered was that the medication that she doled out for her husband all those decades had gone into HER system and traces of it showed up years and years after her husband had passed away!

Today I saw an article written by Dr. William Campbell Douglas II that indicated we actually marinate in a toxic soup of other peoples’ medicines, fluoride, nasty matter of every sort each time we bathe or shower!

EEEEW!

Well, some people might marinate themselves but we are blessed to have a system that cleans the water we use.  That’s another whole blog post.  Maybe even another website.

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Alternative healing sometimes flies in the face of what traditional medicine dictates.  The reason for this is that alternative caregivers are more interested in prevention and wellness, balance and cooperation than some of the traditional medical professionals.  At any rate, this is your humble blogger’s personal experience.

What is YOUR stance on this issue?  We are very much interested in the stories of your experiences.  We cordially invite your comments on this page!

True wealth is greatly dependent on the state of our health and well being.  If we are not well, we cannot sustain or create wealth.  And as we all know, you can’t be too well or too rich!
If you are something of a health nut, you might like to cruise on over to Mother Connie Sez for her take on health and healing.  She has a LOT to say.  You might be more interested in generating some wealth.  That could take you to Rapid Cash Review or Work At Home Freelancing; these are geared to teaching how to make money from home.   There are goodies to be had for submitting your name and email to those sites.

Connie Baum

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"An apple a day can keep your DENTAL COSTS at bay..."

Keeping your teeth and gums healthy will save you money on medical and dental care costs.  Here’s a tasty way to make that happen:

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You would also make Mother Connie’s day by leaving your comment on this page.

If you are interested in food and saving money on your food budget, this site may appeal to you: Food Stamps Cooking Club.  Even though there are some links on that site, there really is nothing to buy.  It is for informational and educational purposes primarily.

For those of you who might be looking for additional income streams to balance your household’s health and wealth, you might like to take a look at this newly launched site: Work At Home Freelancing.

We deeply appreciate your coming to this blog; we hope you’ll feel compelled to comment and you’ll return from time to time to get more helpful information.

Connie Baum

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As I prepare this post for you, the sun just popped up to greet us! It makes me feel alive and well and rich as any royalty!

Tom Pauley is one of my favorite people on the planet, even though we have not met face to face yet.  He comes from our part of the world, so we know he is good people.  Tom wrote Rich Dreams and created a number of programs that have taken people to the success they yearned to have.  Tom recently had a serious health event but he did not OWN the difficulty; he refers to it dispassionately as ‘Stroke Tom.’

Tom sent me an email yesterday with this quote:

To Be Truly Wealthy, You have to be Healthy.
To Be Truly Healthy, You have to be Wealthy.

Think of that for a moment.  It feels true, doesn’t it?  The Healthy and Wealthy You is much more than the title of a blog or a cute saying or even a mantra.  It is a good thing to live by.

We all need to have food and clothing and shelter.  We all need meaningful work.  Beyond that, we need to aspire to self actualization.  It might mean a shift in your paradigm.  It could mean a change in your career path.  It could be so simple as rearranging your daily routine to include a session of exercise or some time to meditate and/or pray.  Maybe you can pursue a course of study to create health and wealth in your life.

Whatever you do, do it with passion and joy and gusto.  Stand in your truth.  Dare to imagine and dream.

You deserve to be healthy.  You deserve to be wealthy.  You need only to believe that, act in accordance and plan to resonate with whatever your heart desires, enjoying it all as it arrives.

In that regard, you might like to check out Tom Pauley’s work. You might like to join his Fan Club.  I did that.

Connie Baum

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The care and feeding of The Healthy and Wealthy You means eating great, highly nutritious foods that taste divine! And, please remember to wash out your mouth with SOAP!

We are all quite aware, it can be presumed, that we know where BERRIES come from…

We’d like to take you on a tour to learn where ToothSoap comes from.  *Note:  Contrary to popular belief, the Tooth Fairy does not bring ToothSoap!

I knew you’d love it!  Now it’s time for me to go wash out my mouth with ToothSoap; you should do that, too!

PS/If you are interested in working from the comfort of your own home to earn some rapid cash, and enhance your wealth, you might like to see a brand new offering:  Work at Home Freelancing

Connie Baum

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Do you remember Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

Being healthy is a daily routine.

So is being wealthy.

If you maintain good health, you have a much better chance of becoming wealthy.  If you lose your health-GAME OVER.

What IF you feel your health slipping away?  What are your options?  Would you consult a traditional medical professional?  Would you ignore your symptoms?  Might you travel to another country for a consultation?

People who suffer from the long term effects of stress become ill and feel terrible desperation.  People who lose their wealth, or any portion of it, feel the same  hideous terror.

None of us  needs to suffer.  Seriously.  All we need to do is to understand how our thoughts affect our lives profoundly. Then we need to create more pictures for our brains to read.  I know this sounds like an oversimplification of the issue.

I can hear the gears turning in your head, grinding out a message something like, “I have a fever of 102; I hurt all over and SHE wants me to do WHAT?”

There is a healing protocol that is so simple, so easy and so affordable that it seems implausible.  I assure you it is not. I am inviting you to hear Dr. Ben Johnson’s story-incredible as it sounds-in his own words. Dr. Ben’s issue was his health; this protocol will affect health, wealth, relationships, success and every other issue you might care to mention.

Energy medicine, either as an alternative or a complement to traditional medicine is gaining popularity, acclaim and success from every corner.

If you are keen on gaining or maintaining your health AND/OR your wealth, it will be important for you to hear this with your own ears:  The Healing Codes

Connie Baum

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The candlelight is glowing! Christmas is at hand!

Merry Christmas!

We are stepping away from the blog to celebrate this blessed season with family and friends!  We will miss bringing you ideas to support your health and wealth but we’ll be back after the party!  We know you are also enjoying the special events of the season with those you love best, too!

As 2010 arrives, we want to offer our best wishes to each of you for a healthy and wealthy year, filled to the brim with abundance, peace, joy and love.
Merry Christmas!  Happy New Year!

Love,

Connie Baum

PS/We are excited about helping you increase your health and your wealth in 2010!  See you then!