Swimming calms kids with autism | swimming, boys, weeks - Education - Brownsville Herald
Coach sent this article to us. We read it to Nicholas and he really enjoyed it. He says it is true. The water feels like a calm touch. He loves it!
Sharing my love and passions, gluten free cooking..essential oils..baking ...cleaning...sewing and loving my family "A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." Rob Cella
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
These are great, you can NOT tell they are gluten free!!
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. white sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1/2 c. + 2 Tbsp. all purpose GF flour
1/2 tsp. xanthan gum
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 c. GF rolled oats
3/4 c. chocolate chips
In a hand mixer, mix butter and sugar until just combined. Add egg and almond extract and mix again. Separately, mix flour, xanthan gum, salt and baking soda. Then mix the wet and dry ingredients together until just combined. Stir in oats and chocolate chips. Chill dough in freezer while oven preheats to 350 degrees. Spoon dough onto cookie sheet (should make approximately 1.5 dozen cookies) and bake for 12 - 15 minutes.
Pies: are my gf pie crust and filled with cookie dough from above. Really fun and something different for lunch boxes or a tea party.
Pies: are my gf pie crust and filled with cookie dough from above. Really fun and something different for lunch boxes or a tea party.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Gluten free bread
NOTE: tim a coworker of Jeffs made it and used guava honey in place of molasses
and 1/3 cup brown rice flour and 1 cup white rice and turned out fine
This is the best!!! Enjoy.............
My mom in law is always looking for good GF bread recipes for us. This was posted in the Spokesman Review paper by the winner of the Fleischmann's Yeast Bake for the cure contest 2010 Spokane County Interstate fair.
I am so excited, this bread is light....brown....airy....
great flavor....makes high rising 10 inch loaf!!! For real, I know it is hard to believe. It is not soggy when buttered and feels like whole wheat bread. I am still too excited that we really have a good recipe for bread! Paisley loves it and there is not a tough crust. Nicholas said he likes bread again...yeah...praise God!!
Pass this on to anyone you know that has not found a great bread!
1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup oat flour
1/4 cup millet flour
1/3 cup tapioca flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/3 cup white rice flour
1/4 cup flax seed meal(ground)
1 tbsp xanthan gum
4 tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs room temp
1 1/4 tbsp Molasses
4 tsbp coconut oil, melted slightly
1 tsp water
1 packet active dry yeast i use SAF plus one tsp sugar for proofing yeast
1/4 cup plus 1 cup heated water 120 degrees for yeast to grow
I followed this to a T. Read carefully before beginning.
Be sure all dry ingredients and eggs are at room temp. Grease bottom of 10-inch loaf pan. Heat oven to 200;turn off right before you put the bread in oven to rise.
In the bowl of your standard mixer (use the paddle not the dough hook for this recipe), sift together all dry ingredients (the brown rice down through salt).
In a separate bowl, combine eggs, molasses water and melted coconut oil. Heat water for proofing yeast.
In a small measuring cup, combine yeast and sugar and then add 1/4 cup heated water. Let set for 10 minutes. It should be foamy and active. If not, start over with another packet of yeast.
Once the yeast is ready, add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Then add the yeast mixture. Then slowly add one cup of water until you reach a cookie dough like consistency. You do not need all the water, so be sure to add only a little at a time.
Beat dough on medium speed for about five minutes -do not over beat or punch your bread, this will make it hard.
Turn oven off. Put dough in prepared pan. Take some parchment and loosely cover bread pan. Place in warm oven..i added a pie plate with warm water on the rack below the loaf pan. Bread should be double in size, up to the lip of the bread pan.
Take off parchment, heat oven to 350 and bake for 40 minutes, Mine got a bit brown on top but was not over done, it was perfect!
Yield: one loaf
and 1/3 cup brown rice flour and 1 cup white rice and turned out fine
This is the best!!! Enjoy.............
My mom in law is always looking for good GF bread recipes for us. This was posted in the Spokesman Review paper by the winner of the Fleischmann's Yeast Bake for the cure contest 2010 Spokane County Interstate fair.
I am so excited, this bread is light....brown....airy....
Pass this on to anyone you know that has not found a great bread!
1 cup brown rice flour
1 cup oat flour
1/4 cup millet flour
1/3 cup tapioca flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/3 cup white rice flour
1/4 cup flax seed meal(ground)
1 tbsp xanthan gum
4 tbsp brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs room temp
1 1/4 tbsp Molasses
4 tsbp coconut oil, melted slightly
1 tsp water
1 packet active dry yeast i use SAF plus one tsp sugar for proofing yeast
1/4 cup plus 1 cup heated water 120 degrees for yeast to grow
I followed this to a T. Read carefully before beginning.
Be sure all dry ingredients and eggs are at room temp. Grease bottom of 10-inch loaf pan. Heat oven to 200;turn off right before you put the bread in oven to rise.
In the bowl of your standard mixer (use the paddle not the dough hook for this recipe), sift together all dry ingredients (the brown rice down through salt).
In a separate bowl, combine eggs, molasses water and melted coconut oil. Heat water for proofing yeast.
In a small measuring cup, combine yeast and sugar and then add 1/4 cup heated water. Let set for 10 minutes. It should be foamy and active. If not, start over with another packet of yeast.
Once the yeast is ready, add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Then add the yeast mixture. Then slowly add one cup of water until you reach a cookie dough like consistency. You do not need all the water, so be sure to add only a little at a time.
Beat dough on medium speed for about five minutes -do not over beat or punch your bread, this will make it hard.
Turn oven off. Put dough in prepared pan. Take some parchment and loosely cover bread pan. Place in warm oven..i added a pie plate with warm water on the rack below the loaf pan. Bread should be double in size, up to the lip of the bread pan.
Take off parchment, heat oven to 350 and bake for 40 minutes, Mine got a bit brown on top but was not over done, it was perfect!
Yield: one loaf
Gluten free Flour Tortillas
Gluten-Free Flour Tortillas
- 4 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour mix
- 3 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 4 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cup warm water
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- enough milk to make it come together in ball in mixer
When the tortillas are rolled out, place them on a heated griddle (I use my big pancake one so I can cook 3 at a time). I keep the temperature at around 355 degrees and keep them on there until bubbles form. Then flip and wait for the tortilla to be ready.
I feed these to my husband and kids all the time. It makes burritos a gourmet feast that everyone loves. There is nothing so delicious as freshly made tortillas. Serve them with melted butter and salt. Use them for sandwich wraps. Have fun and enjoy. I promise this one is easy and will be a hit.
Create a Gumdrop Topiary | Activities | Education.com
Create a Gumdrop Topiary | Activities | Education.com
This was harder than expected. They did ok and had fun, but you must have a dowel and a base really strong.
We used large gumdrops and they are heavy, we would do dots next time, Nicholas suggested that while making it.
Ours did not turn out as cute but was a good project. It is MLK day and we read his dream and talked about his life while making our craft.
This was harder than expected. They did ok and had fun, but you must have a dowel and a base really strong.
We used large gumdrops and they are heavy, we would do dots next time, Nicholas suggested that while making it.
Ours did not turn out as cute but was a good project. It is MLK day and we read his dream and talked about his life while making our craft.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
April's Gluten Free pancakes
April's Delicious Gluten-Free Pancakes
| This is a great way to use your flours. It is more economical than the mixes and tastes great. ENJOY! | |
- 1 cup Aprils gluten free flour blend
- 1/3 cup clear jel
- 4 tablespoons dry buttermilk powder
- 15 drops vanilla creme stevia
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 2 cups water or i like to use seltzer or club soda
Directions
- In a bowl, mix or sift together the rice flour, tapioca flour, potato starch, dry buttermilk powder, sugar substitute, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and xanthan gum. Stir eggs, water, and oil until well blended and add to dry and stir till few lumps remain.
- Heat a large, well-oiled skillet or griddle over medium high heat. 350' Spoon batter onto skillet and cook until bubbles begin to form. Flip, and continue cooking until golden brown on bottom. Serve immediately with condiments of your choice.
Blueberry Sauce:
2 T cornstarch
2/3 cup cold water
2/3 cup sugar
1 t. fresh lemon juice
pinch of salt
2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen
In medium saucepan, dissolve cornstarch in cold water.
Add sugar, lemon juice and salt. Stir over medium heat
until thick. Gently stir in blueberries. Refrigerate sauce
until serving. Serve sauce hot or cold. Great on many things!
My dear sister is Christ Julie Schweinsberg shared the blueberry sauce with me!
Labels:
blueberry topping,
Gluten Free,
lemon poppy seed,
pancakes
Saturday, January 15, 2011
The best salad dressing, by Paisley!
Paisley's Blue Cheese Dressing.... never buy bottled dressing again once you taste this.
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 c. milk
2 tbsp. vinegar
1 1/2 c. mayonnaise (Hellman's)
1/3 cup sour cream
3/4 c. crumbled Maytag blue cheese
Blend together dry spices then add the Worcestershire sauce. Add the milk then let it sit for a few minutes, to dissolve the spices. Have the mayonnaise measured out as well as the blue cheese crumbles before you add the vinegar to the milk mixture.
Add the vinegar to the milk mixture. It will start to curdle; this is normal.
Add the mayonnaise and whisk together well. When blended, add the Blue cheese crumbles.
The longer you let this refrigerate, the better the flavor will be. A must have for hot wings!
Makes 3 cups.
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 c. milk
2 tbsp. vinegar
1 1/2 c. mayonnaise (Hellman's)
1/3 cup sour cream
3/4 c. crumbled Maytag blue cheese
Blend together dry spices then add the Worcestershire sauce. Add the milk then let it sit for a few minutes, to dissolve the spices. Have the mayonnaise measured out as well as the blue cheese crumbles before you add the vinegar to the milk mixture.
Add the vinegar to the milk mixture. It will start to curdle; this is normal.
Add the mayonnaise and whisk together well. When blended, add the Blue cheese crumbles.
The longer you let this refrigerate, the better the flavor will be. A must have for hot wings!
Makes 3 cups.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
BEANS!
I am serving parent to parent these beans with chips and rice and cheese this Friday! So I thought if they like them I had better post how to make them!
A blogger friend of mine Sherelle inspired me to try beans. My brother in laws mother also taught me a few tricks. We use the leftovers as refried in breakfast wraps or a quick taco or mexi side dish. They are super cheap and the flavor is great!. We've been cooking them a lot, and I have finally found a way to prepare them, that is so yummy. Dry beans are perfect for food storage. They have a long shelf life, and they are super cheap...but I can't stand bland food (and almost every recipe I've tried for beans has been bland), so I have adapted this recipe to give them pizazz.
Beans have to be made in advance. I usually put mine on the stove after morning chores and before I start work for the day. This way, I can let them simmer all day
To start with, you'll need to decide how many beans you'll need (dry Pinto Beans). I usually cook about 1.5-2 cups (remember, they will expand though). Wash the beans really good using a colander. You'll want to make sure to wash the well, because beans are dirty...you won't believe the dirt that comes out of there!
After washing, place beans in a large pot and cover with about 2" of water. Bring to a boil, turn off heat, cover and let sit for 1 hour. This is a fast soak method. Once your beans have soaked for an hour, remove the lid and season. Here is where you add all the flavor. I start by adding 4-5 slices of bacon to the pot. Then, I add a few slices of jalapenos (you could add more or less, but I promise the flavor is better if you add at least a little slice). I usually mince up 2-3 cloves or garlic and throw in the pot, and then season generously with the following: seasoning salt, pepper, garlic salt, cumin, chili powder, dried onions (you can also add red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper if you like it spicy). Use at least 1-2 tsp of each! Now, make sure that the beans are covered with water (some may have been soaked up by beans during the soaking process). I always keep my beans covered with water, so you'll want to keep checking throughout the cooking process. Bring to a boil again, and then turn down to simmer. Replace the lid and simmer on the stove for about 5 hours, checking it every now and then to make sure there is plenty of water and stirring. Sometime after about 2 hours of simmering, I take out the bacon and jalapenos. The flavor the jalapeno adds is amazing and it does not make it spicy. Towards the end, I usually add a little more seasoning if needed. Be sure to taste the beans as you go.
I usually whip up a batch of gluten free cornbread and we simply eat beans and cornbread for dinner. It is honestly so tasty...I never thought that something so simple could taste so good! We like to add a bit of sour cream and cheese to the beans as well. You can even add fresh chopped onions and cilantro as toppings.
Refrigerate left over beans in an air tight container. When you're ready to make refried beans, just add a little olive oil to a skillet and then scoop in some beans. Season with a bit of cumin and chili powder and start mashing them once they start getting bubbly. Turn and mash again. We like to make scrambled eggs and refried beans for breakfast, and add them to a warm corn tortilla with a little bit of mexican blend cheese. It makes the best breakfast burritos, and my kids gobble them up.
A blogger friend of mine Sherelle inspired me to try beans. My brother in laws mother also taught me a few tricks. We use the leftovers as refried in breakfast wraps or a quick taco or mexi side dish. They are super cheap and the flavor is great!. We've been cooking them a lot, and I have finally found a way to prepare them, that is so yummy. Dry beans are perfect for food storage. They have a long shelf life, and they are super cheap...but I can't stand bland food (and almost every recipe I've tried for beans has been bland), so I have adapted this recipe to give them pizazz.
Beans have to be made in advance. I usually put mine on the stove after morning chores and before I start work for the day. This way, I can let them simmer all day
To start with, you'll need to decide how many beans you'll need (dry Pinto Beans). I usually cook about 1.5-2 cups (remember, they will expand though). Wash the beans really good using a colander. You'll want to make sure to wash the well, because beans are dirty...you won't believe the dirt that comes out of there!
After washing, place beans in a large pot and cover with about 2" of water. Bring to a boil, turn off heat, cover and let sit for 1 hour. This is a fast soak method. Once your beans have soaked for an hour, remove the lid and season. Here is where you add all the flavor. I start by adding 4-5 slices of bacon to the pot. Then, I add a few slices of jalapenos (you could add more or less, but I promise the flavor is better if you add at least a little slice). I usually mince up 2-3 cloves or garlic and throw in the pot, and then season generously with the following: seasoning salt, pepper, garlic salt, cumin, chili powder, dried onions (you can also add red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper if you like it spicy). Use at least 1-2 tsp of each! Now, make sure that the beans are covered with water (some may have been soaked up by beans during the soaking process). I always keep my beans covered with water, so you'll want to keep checking throughout the cooking process. Bring to a boil again, and then turn down to simmer. Replace the lid and simmer on the stove for about 5 hours, checking it every now and then to make sure there is plenty of water and stirring. Sometime after about 2 hours of simmering, I take out the bacon and jalapenos. The flavor the jalapeno adds is amazing and it does not make it spicy. Towards the end, I usually add a little more seasoning if needed. Be sure to taste the beans as you go.
I usually whip up a batch of gluten free cornbread and we simply eat beans and cornbread for dinner. It is honestly so tasty...I never thought that something so simple could taste so good! We like to add a bit of sour cream and cheese to the beans as well. You can even add fresh chopped onions and cilantro as toppings.
Refrigerate left over beans in an air tight container. When you're ready to make refried beans, just add a little olive oil to a skillet and then scoop in some beans. Season with a bit of cumin and chili powder and start mashing them once they start getting bubbly. Turn and mash again. We like to make scrambled eggs and refried beans for breakfast, and add them to a warm corn tortilla with a little bit of mexican blend cheese. It makes the best breakfast burritos, and my kids gobble them up.
Labels:
bacon and chiles,
beans,
Gluten Free,
pinto,
refried
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Our new hobby!
Jeff and I took a Martini class as one of his Christmas presents from me. We had a great time and it inspired us to make some of our own infusions. Mom was here and really enjoyed the pomegranate vodka we made last Christmas. Tonight we made several. We diluted 77.4 Percent alcohol down to 40% Vodka to the fruit.
11-8-13
Apple Infusions
1 gallon 40%Vodka, 3 Granny Smith apples, 3 Winter Banana, no sugar still infusing.
- Tangerine Cranberry 1 cup sugar to 3/4 gallon
- great flavor, a little sweet, did not need simple syrup in drink mix
- Orange Cranberry 1 quart 4 oranges, zest of four oranges, 1/2 cranberries, 1 cup sugar
- lots of orange, subtle cranberry, little sweet
- Grapefruit Ginger 1/2 pink, 1/2 pomelo, zest of 1/2 pink, 1 candied ginger slice chopped fine, 1/3 cup sugar, 1 quart jar
- very good, mild, lots of flavor, great with cranberry juice
- Pomegranate 1quart 3/4 full
- PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur eat your heart out, much better flavors and intense
- Pomegranate and Huckleberry 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup huckleberry, 1 cup pomegranate 1 quart
- AMAZING, our favorite, not sharing
- Huckleberry 1 pint full with 1/2 cup sugar
- Incredible with anything, mixes well with desserts, does not even smell like alcohol, straight tastes like cough syrup, needs less sugar in our opinion
- Orange pomegranate 1 quart 2 oranges 1 cup+ pomegranate 1/2 cup sugar
- Very good, used in baking and my favorite!
11-8-13
Apple Infusions
1 gallon 40%Vodka, 3 Granny Smith apples, 3 Winter Banana, no sugar still infusing.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Gluten Free Brownie
I have played around with flours and different recipes for brownies and I have also used the betty crocker mix and I really prefer the texture and taste of this brownie. I have made it several ways and am ready to post the recipe! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do! The flour is on my blog. I modified a recipe from a friend Michelle Gibbs when she was cooking gluten free. I really love the potato flour in it, it is the secret I believe to a great texture and taste
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup gf flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tsp xanthum gum
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour an 8 inch square pan.I like to flour with the cocoa.
- In a large saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter. Remove from heat, and stir in sugar, eggs, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat in 1/3 cup cocoa, 1/2 cup flour, salt, and baking powder. Spread batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Do not overcook.I did exactly 30 min in a glass pan.
- To Make Frosting: Combine 3 tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons cocoa, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and 1 cup confectioners' sugar. You may need a bit a milk to get it spreadable. Frost brownies while they are still warm not hot.
- ENJOY, you will love these...my family is in love with them and I am happy to have a money saving recipe!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Christmas fun and highlights for our family in Washington
| Bitty and Paisley...matching angels! |
| Nicholas sporting his new PIRANHAS backpack |
| Star Wars and Legos! |
| Polly pocket Cruise ship!! |
Paisley said something funny when I was getting ready for New Years Dinner...I was shaving my legs and she walks in and asks "mom are you cutting the pine needles" I laughed so hard!! She says some of the darnedest things!
I made some soup one night and Nicholas said "mom I think I like american soup, not this greek soup!
| Nicholas and Balto..he loves the tree! |
This was so funny, our tree got so dry this year. We got it at Fred Meyer and it must have been cut early. He took the branches off one by one and bagged them so the needles would not get in the shag carpet. He was loving it and I had to get a picture! I put it on face book and everyone loved it!
This was our tree before Daddy Grinch got a hold of it!!
The compote is a gift from mom on one of our shopping trips to the antique store! I love it, it is so old it is turning a lavender color, that is the lead in the crystal exposed to sunlight. I can't wait to serve a dessert in it! Thanks mama!
| Frying pan cat! |
| Don't we look cute!! |
| Star wars legos! |
| Nickle Pickle!! |
A Star Wars tv video game from Grandma!!! Hours of fun will be made by this I am sure.
Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders | Video on TED.com
Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on learning disorders | Video on TED.com
After seeing a neurologist the fall of 2009, We had Nicholas tested with a Sleep Deprived EEG and it did show spikes related to silent seizures. We put him on a medication and he did make improvements. His sleep patter is better and he does not move near as much as he did before medication. He is doing so well and our coach sent me this video and I thought I should share our story. This was a costly adventure but well worth it. I would be curious with the mapping of the new EEG what we would find.
After seeing a neurologist the fall of 2009, We had Nicholas tested with a Sleep Deprived EEG and it did show spikes related to silent seizures. We put him on a medication and he did make improvements. His sleep patter is better and he does not move near as much as he did before medication. He is doing so well and our coach sent me this video and I thought I should share our story. This was a costly adventure but well worth it. I would be curious with the mapping of the new EEG what we would find.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Merry Christmas from the Walkleys 2010
A new year, I was not done with 2010!
Just a few December highlights and pics!
Thanks for stopping by to see our fun :0)
Gluten free gingerbread is a challenge and he did so well, just a little frustration when it turned into a fort and not a house! I am very proud of you Nicholas!
Feed for the birds if there are any in this -8 degree weather we are having!
Our tree, it was very fragrant and pretty this year. We did the same color and added a few antique bulbs this year. Mom and I had fun at a new antique store this visit!
| He even has a fish pond and barbque!! |
Time does fly, There has been so much I wanted to share so I will try to do so in several posts. While mom was here, we did the 12 days of Christmas in crafts. They are still asking what is the craft for today. They loved it. Here are a few pictures to showcase a few we made.
- Paper snowflakes
- Gingerbread houses
- self decorated t shirts
- snow crystal ornaments
- ornament painting with the years favorites on the back
- toy mice for balto out of recycled socks
- Snowmen out of paperplates
- Christmas food for the birds on bread with peanut butter and cut with cookie cutters
- flower hair accessory
- glow in the dark snowmen
- foam snowglobe fun
- the last one we have not done yet...it is a ornament made out of glue blob! maybe next year:)
| We glow in the dark!! |
| Balto loved the catnip inside! |
| We loved this, it is a pipecleaner and borax! Beautiful Crystals!! |
These are what some neighbors and friends got this year. They were really fun and they are very pretty. I got the spoons at Sams and we wire wrapped them and filled the spoon with homemade peanut butter cups, fudge, caramels and cookies. I tied that all in with cello wrap and tagged it with Have sun serving up spoonfulls of Christmas Cheer! Mom helped me and loved the idea and is making some for her friends too.
| Frying pan cat..he tried it out before I could even cook something up! |
| Gluten free sugar cookies are the best! |
| We love our shirts! |
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Old barns
For any of you that like the country, check out this blog! Wendy and her photos are amazing. Makes me miss home a little.
http://almotaroses.blogspot.com/2010/11/buris-barn-circa-1919.html
http://almotaroses.blogspot.com/2010/11/buris-barn-circa-1919.html
Friday, November 26, 2010
USA swimming, what to bring to a swim meet.
We gave Nicholas 3-16oz bottles of Nitrilite sport drink replacement. I did not know the dose for him is one bottle the entire meet. Please read below if you are not informed about sport nutrition.
Nutrition Center from usa swimming
Nutritional Cheat Sheet PART ii
BY MIKE MEJIA, M.S., C.S.C.S//Special Correspondent
Provided that you've adhered to the guidelines we published in last week's article, there are a couple of steps you can take the day of the meet to help make sure that you perform at your best.Eat Breakfast
Start out with a proper breakfast. This does not entail grabbing a bagel with cream cheese and eating it in the car with a large orange juice on the way there. The bagel, especially if it's made with white flour can really jack up your blood sugar levels. Granted, the fat in the cream cheese will blunt this affect somewhat, but add in the OJ and you'll be all fired up for warm-ups and likely crash shortly thereafter.
The best-case scenario is to sit down and eat some slow cooked oatmeal (prepared the night before) with fruit, or some eggs and whole grain toast, or whole grain cereal with skim, or low fat milk. If it's an early meet and you must eat on the run, at least make it a whole grain bagel with peanut butter, as the these two foods together make up what is known as a complete protein by providing your body with all the essential amino acids it needs. Trade in the OJ for a lower sugar sports drink and you're good to go. Some more foods to stay away from include bacon, sausage, croissants, doughnuts and sugary breakfast cereals.
As far as what you should have in your bag for snacking, I think the best way to address this is with a list of what you should bring, vs. what you should not bring.
What to Bring:
1. At least 32 oz. of water to drink during and after the meet.
2. No more than 16-20 oz. of sports drinks that meet the above criteria.
3. Energy bars: Try to stick with bars that have less than 10 grams of fat, and less than 35% of their calories from sugar (the lower the better). To calculate this: multiply the number of grams of sugar by 4 and then divide that number into the total calories. Some recommended brands include: Kashi TLC Bars, and Odwalla Bars.
4. Whole grain pretzels, crackers and cereals.
5. Nuts, seeds and dried fruit (in limited quantity due to the relatively high sugar content).
6. Lower Sugar Fruits: Strawberries, Apples, Cantaloupe, Blueberries, Raspberries and peaches.
What not to bring, or bring less of:
1. Chips of any type. Most are loaded with fat and calories.
2. Goldfish, Cheese Nips, or any other types of crackers made with white, enriched flour.
3. White Bagels and Breads.
4. High Sugar Fruits: Banans, Raisins, Pineapple and Grapes.
5. High Sugar Energy Bars: Many types of Power Bars fall into this category.
6. Fruit Juices of any type: Too high in sugar and don't clear the gut as rapidly as sports drinks, possibly leading to stomach cramping.
7. Soda. This one's an absolute no-no!
8. Cookies, candy, gummy bears, or anything else along those lines.
Why can they not make a sport drink with real sugar?
Nicholas was poisioned at a swim meet with a sport drink containing sucralose. I did not know sucralose is splenda! Do you? Please read on if you are not informed on artificial sweetners.
He was so miserable, he was begging we take him to 911 and this lasted with a fever for 4 days!! He had a headache, no appetite, anger, pain, he was oveheated, felt like he was going to blow up, hyperventilating, sour stomach, he was in a ball, feeling like he was hit by 1000 footballs are his words!
This was very scary. He is sensitive and I am very sorry I did not do my research. He swam 6 events and 2 relays and I thought he needed the replacement. I do not use Gatorade because it is made with high fructose corn syrup. We see a huge difference when he does not have corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. The drink I gave him was nutrilite. This is the difference between it and several other competitors.
Compare NUTRILITE® Sports Drinks to Gatorade and Powerade.
Based on Internet and label claims, August 2010. Serving size = 8 oz.. Trademarks: Gatorade and G-Original (Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., Chicago, IL.); Powerade Sports Drinks (Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga.).
Grape
Water, Sucrose, Natural Flavors, Malic Acid, Sodium Chloride, Potassium Citrate, Fumaric Acid, Nutrilite® B-Lenium Blend (Niacinamide, Acerola Concentrate, Maltodextrin, Pantothenic Acid, Pyridoxine, Hydrochloride, Sodium Selenite, Cyanocobalamin [B12]), Sucralose.
Dr. Hull's Book About The Potential Dangers Of Splenda®
In Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not? Dr. Janet Hull reveals the scientific evidence strongly suggesting the chemical sweetener sucralose may harm your body. Perhaps there is no “free ticket” to eating all the sugar-free products you want without paying a high price physically – even weight gain.
Don’t despair – in Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not? Dr. Hull gives you plenty of safe alternatives to keep life “sweet” visit Is Splenda Safe.com.Before you tear open that little yellow packet of sweetener and stir it into your coffee, please read this.
Interested? Then we need to talk about a sweetener war sweeping across America. Perhaps you can sip on that cup of coffee black until we straighten out the confusing selection of artificial sweeteners out there. This information is a tool to protect your health – and your children’s health – from a hidden danger that marketing experts have packaged attractively and seductively. You’ll be shocked at what the “quiet side” of scientific research reveals.
It’s time to admit that there is no free ticket to eating all the sugar-free products you desire without paying the high price of harming your body in the long run. The “technology of foods” (artificial sweeteners and manmade foods) has gone too far, and will not secure eternal health, beauty, slimness, or youth. Laboratory sugar-free chemicals are not your answer.
This information will “wake you up” more than that mug of java you’re holding. But don’t despair – there are plenty of safe alternatives to keep life “sweet.”
December newsletter Equal Sues Splenda
The same patterns with aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal) are repeating with sucralose (Splenda). Their claims of product safety and research results are identical to those used by The NutraSweet Company. Note the comparisons and repetitions between the products, the corporations, and marketing. Maybe now, consumers can prevent damage to human health sooner than with NutraSweet, which has damaged the health and lives of millions of innocent consumers since it was placed in the public food supply in 1982.
Has the FDA repeated the aspartame approval process for sucralose, allowing a product with proven carcinogens to flood our food supply? Only time will tell, as it has with aspartame. Yet at the cost of human lives.
Knowledge is power. As an educated consumer, you have the awareness to choose what you and your family will ingest. Unnatural artificial sweeteners may affect your health. Why take the chance? With this book, you woke up and smelled the coffee just in time. Now you can drink it safely.
New chemical sweeteners (like Splenda) and the sweetener blends (aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame K blended together in one product) may be causing users to show signs of weight gain, disruption of sleep patterns, sexual dysfunction, increases in cancer, MS, Lupus, diabetes, and a list of epidemic degenerative diseases. The corporations continue to stand tough in their denial of any connection to chemical sweetener additives.
This website takes you into the world of Splenda; ready or not, here we go again.
The inventors of Splenda admit around fifteen percent (15%) of sucralose is absorbed by the body, but they cannot guarantee us (out of this fifteen percent) what amount of chlorine stays in the body and what percent flushes out.
So, do you feel lucky today as you sprinkle that yellow packet of powder in your tea? You will be alarmed once you realize how chlorine, this common chemical we’ve trusted as a “purifier”, is actually affecting our health in more ways than you know. Hopefully, this chapter will make you hesitate before you let your toddler take another sip of your diet cola.
What Are Sweetener Blends?
I’ve written about how artificial sweeteners like sucralose (found in Splenda) and aspartame (found in NutraSweet) can have a negative impact on your health. Now the sweetener industry has gone a step further in their quest to copy real sugar’s sweet flavor. They are mixing Splenda and NutraSweet and other artificial sweeteners together! Mixtures of any artificial sweeteners are called “sweetener blends.”
Instead of one harmful chemical coursing through your body, you now have two or three (or more) interacting with each other, and in ways we may not know yet. If one substance is hazardous, do you think adding toxins to it will make it better? It is just one more potent “alien” mixture with unknown interactions that your poor body will try to use, excrete, or store. Its mix n’ match chemistry at the expense of your health.
The Unsafe Sweeteners Out There
Artificial sweeteners: This category of non-nutritive, high-intensity sugar substitutes includes ASPARTAME, ACESULFAME-K, NEOTAME, SUCRALOSE, and ALITAME. The two sweeteners that have recently undergone current and pending FDA approval are SUCRALOSE and ALITAME, respectively. Cyclamate lost its FDA approval in 1970, but is currently up for re-approval. Numerous new sweeteners are currently in various stages of development and approval.
Saccharin, Stevia and Other Safe Alternative Sweeteners
Sugar and the quest for weight loss represent an enormous growth opportunity for the food and beverage manufacturers worldwide. And as everyone in the industry knows, the average human prefers taste to nutrition. Let’s see how we can reverse this trend.
The two safest choices of sweeteners to date are saccharin and stevia. Yes, saccharin! Saccharin is actually similar to stevia in its origin. It originally came from a plant imported from China, and in its original form, is a complex sugar extract from the plant itself. Stevia is extracted from a plant grown in South America, and is also a complex sugar extract.
According to FDA documents, saccharin has never caused cancer. Years ago, saccharin was sold in tiny pin-sized pellets, and merely two or three were enough to add sweetness to coffee or iced tea. This is what I consider a natural sucrose (sugar) substitute!
The Real Scoop On Sugar
Everyone needs to know that there is a difference between sugars - natural sugar, refined sugar, and corn syrup. Sugar is like a two-sided coin: heads – if natural, it can be useful to the body, and tails – if altered by man, it can be harmful to the body. How do you know the difference, and where can you buy the right kind of sugar products? Here’s the scoop...artificial sweeteners are not the solution.
Dying To Be Thin: Weight Loss and Weight Gain
Do diet sweeteners really help you lose weight, or do you eat more and gain weight in the long run? Do diet sweeteners make you fat? Yes, because they trick your body and don’t feed it what it needs
According to researchers, there is no clear-cut evidence that sugar substitutes help people lose weight. These days, more and more data suggests that these chemical sweeteners may actually stimulate appetite. Aspartame has been on the market for over twenty years, so most of the information in this chapter refers to weight gain in relation to products made with aspartame. It is too early to know how these patterns will repeat with sucralose (Splenda).
Are Your Kids Depressed and Aggressive?
If you have kids, you’ll be the first one to notice health and behavioral changes in your children. Children are reacting to artificial sweeteners in harmful ways, but this aspect of the sweetener wars has gone unnoticed in the mainstream health community. The sweetener corporations market to children by placing soft drink machines in public elementary schools, and by influencing doctors that diet sweeteners don’t cause abnormal behavior and emotional stress in children. When you have exhausted all the other reasons for your child’s poor health or mental/emotional problems, then diet chemicals could be the culprit.
The rising numbers of mental disorders have gone unexplained until now. A diet of chemical foods means a diet of malnutrition, and when the body is starved of nutrients, it becomes mentally and physically stressed. Don’t raise your children on diet chemicals – search for healthy alternatives.
Sugar-Free With Diabetes
Diabetes may be a common disease these days, but it is still misunderstood. Most people think diabetes is simply a disease that means you just can’t eat sugar. The artificial sugar industry markets fake sugars as totally harmless to the diabetic, and tempts them into believing they can eat and drink all they want by “tricking” their bodies. But what works for one person may not work for another. What makes this matter even more difficult to understand: diabetes is just a little bit different for every diabetic. This is why no one artificial sweetener company can truly make a blanket statement that their product is “safe for diabetics.”
As delicate as diabetes is, how then, can diet chemical sweeteners be safe when a person with diabetes requires such precise chemical management?
In the midst of the continued controversy over aspartame, many pharmaceutical and health food manufacturers - Pro Lab, Twin Lab
and Ross Products, makers of Pedialyte®, for example - have switched to using sucralose in their manufactured products. But who are these major big corporations ‘fighting’ in the artificial sweetener wars, and what do these mega corporations really stand for? This is an important question to answer before buying their products.
Justin Dumais is a 2004 Athens' Olympic Silver Medalist, a Grave’s Disease survivor, and aspartame victim. Merely months before the Olympic trials, Justin contacted me for nutritional help in recovering from a diagnosis of Grave’s Disease caused by diet colas with aspartame. He read my first book Sweet Poison, followed my recovery experience from my own case of Grave’s caused by aspartame, and cured his disease in six weeks (just like I did) by simply removing aspartame from his diet, cleansing, and restoring his depleted nutrients. His recovery from a “false” diagnosis of Grave’s Disease came merely months before the 2004 Athen’s Olympic Trials. But, like me, did Justin really have Grave’s or merely aspartame disease?
Nutritional Alternatives To Stay Healthy
Nutritional diets are critical to long-term health, but when you are polluted with chemical toxins from your foods, such as chlorine in sucralose and methanol in aspartame, it is important to remove these toxins as quickly and as safely as possible. Removing chemicals from the human body is a two part process – eating right and cleansing from the chemicals permeating your tissues.
Go here for the nutritional protocol for restoring good health I used to recovery from my own near-fatal disease. I pass on to you the best of my nutritional programs and recommendations for removing harmful food chemicals from your body in the 10 Steps to Detoxification and The Richardson Cancer Diet, most importantly – how to cleanse from artificial sweetener chemicals.
The list includes a variety of foods and food products, pharmaceuticals and children’s medications, vitamin supplements, protein powders, protein bars and weight loss products, liquid and powdered drinks, popcorn, gums and mints, toothpaste, and water.
Aspartame has been on the market since 1981, so over twenty years of aspartame use has passed. Let’s hope our new awareness of the influences of sucralose and the other chemical sweeteners comes much sooner to prevent any more human suffering.
With this website, you woke up and smelled the coffee just in time. Now you can drink it safely.
He was so miserable, he was begging we take him to 911 and this lasted with a fever for 4 days!! He had a headache, no appetite, anger, pain, he was oveheated, felt like he was going to blow up, hyperventilating, sour stomach, he was in a ball, feeling like he was hit by 1000 footballs are his words!
This was very scary. He is sensitive and I am very sorry I did not do my research. He swam 6 events and 2 relays and I thought he needed the replacement. I do not use Gatorade because it is made with high fructose corn syrup. We see a huge difference when he does not have corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. The drink I gave him was nutrilite. This is the difference between it and several other competitors.
Compare NUTRILITE® Sports Drinks to Gatorade and Powerade.
| NUTRILITE® Sports Drinks | Gatorade G Original™ | Powerade Sports Drinks | |
| Calories | 60 | 50 | 57 |
| Sodium | 110 mg | 110 mg | 51 mg |
| Potassium | 30 mg | 30 mg | 32 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g | 14 g | 15 g |
| B-Vitamins | Yes | No | Yes |
| Antioxidants | Yes | No | No |
| Artificial Colors | No | Yes | Yes |
| Artificial Flavors | No | No | No |
| Preservatives | No | No | No |
Grape
Water, Sucrose, Natural Flavors, Malic Acid, Sodium Chloride, Potassium Citrate, Fumaric Acid, Nutrilite® B-Lenium Blend (Niacinamide, Acerola Concentrate, Maltodextrin, Pantothenic Acid, Pyridoxine, Hydrochloride, Sodium Selenite, Cyanocobalamin [B12]), Sucralose.
Dr. Hull's Book About The Potential Dangers Of Splenda®
Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not?
Don’t despair – in Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not? Dr. Hull gives you plenty of safe alternatives to keep life “sweet” visit Is Splenda Safe.com.
Do you want to:
- Avoid certain diseases and maintain health and vitality well into your later years?
- Save your children from a slow poisoning from hidden toxins in their food?
- Discover scientific data about overlooked poisons in your everyday life?
- Avoid those vague health symptoms of illness that puzzle your doctor?
- Be informed with inside information mainstream media won’t tell you?
- Have control over your health through knowledge?
- Desire to enjoy your grandchildren (and great-grandchildren)?
- Not allow advertisers to “teach” you what’s good for you?
It’s time to admit that there is no free ticket to eating all the sugar-free products you desire without paying the high price of harming your body in the long run. The “technology of foods” (artificial sweeteners and manmade foods) has gone too far, and will not secure eternal health, beauty, slimness, or youth. Laboratory sugar-free chemicals are not your answer.
This information will “wake you up” more than that mug of java you’re holding. But don’t despair – there are plenty of safe alternatives to keep life “sweet.”
ASPARTAME VERSUS SPLENDA (SUCRALOSE)
The dangers of aspartame are now widely known, but the risks of using Splenda are not documented – until now. Splenda may not penetrate the blood brain barrier as aspartame does, hence entering the brain and creating neurotoxin havoc at the brain center, but Splenda CAN adversely affect the body in several ways because it IS a chemical substance and not natural sugar.December newsletter Equal Sues Splenda
The same patterns with aspartame (NutraSweet/Equal) are repeating with sucralose (Splenda). Their claims of product safety and research results are identical to those used by The NutraSweet Company. Note the comparisons and repetitions between the products, the corporations, and marketing. Maybe now, consumers can prevent damage to human health sooner than with NutraSweet, which has damaged the health and lives of millions of innocent consumers since it was placed in the public food supply in 1982.
Has the FDA repeated the aspartame approval process for sucralose, allowing a product with proven carcinogens to flood our food supply? Only time will tell, as it has with aspartame. Yet at the cost of human lives.
Knowledge is power. As an educated consumer, you have the awareness to choose what you and your family will ingest. Unnatural artificial sweeteners may affect your health. Why take the chance? With this book, you woke up and smelled the coffee just in time. Now you can drink it safely.
SPLENDA® Is It Safe or Not?
After twenty years of NutraSweet® (aspartame) dominating the sweetener market, people are realizing for themselves that aspartame really is a foul food chemical tragically harmful to their health. Now, people think Johnson & Johnson’s Splenda, made from sucralose, has come to the rescue as the newest chemical sugar replacement “made from real sugar.” People don’t want to hear that it may be just as dangerous as aspartame, and this white knight of sweeteners is no better improvement.New chemical sweeteners (like Splenda) and the sweetener blends (aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame K blended together in one product) may be causing users to show signs of weight gain, disruption of sleep patterns, sexual dysfunction, increases in cancer, MS, Lupus, diabetes, and a list of epidemic degenerative diseases. The corporations continue to stand tough in their denial of any connection to chemical sweetener additives.
This website takes you into the world of Splenda; ready or not, here we go again.
The Chlorine In Splenda
Chlorine is commonly found in nature, but almost always in combination with other building block elements. Chlorine's structure makes it very reactive and because it is so reactive, it is very useful to chemists, engineers and others involved in making things humans use every day.The inventors of Splenda admit around fifteen percent (15%) of sucralose is absorbed by the body, but they cannot guarantee us (out of this fifteen percent) what amount of chlorine stays in the body and what percent flushes out.
So, do you feel lucky today as you sprinkle that yellow packet of powder in your tea? You will be alarmed once you realize how chlorine, this common chemical we’ve trusted as a “purifier”, is actually affecting our health in more ways than you know. Hopefully, this chapter will make you hesitate before you let your toddler take another sip of your diet cola.
What Are Sweetener Blends?
I’ve written about how artificial sweeteners like sucralose (found in Splenda) and aspartame (found in NutraSweet) can have a negative impact on your health. Now the sweetener industry has gone a step further in their quest to copy real sugar’s sweet flavor. They are mixing Splenda and NutraSweet and other artificial sweeteners together! Mixtures of any artificial sweeteners are called “sweetener blends.”
Instead of one harmful chemical coursing through your body, you now have two or three (or more) interacting with each other, and in ways we may not know yet. If one substance is hazardous, do you think adding toxins to it will make it better? It is just one more potent “alien” mixture with unknown interactions that your poor body will try to use, excrete, or store. Its mix n’ match chemistry at the expense of your health.
The Unsafe Sweeteners Out There
Artificial sweeteners: This category of non-nutritive, high-intensity sugar substitutes includes ASPARTAME, ACESULFAME-K, NEOTAME, SUCRALOSE, and ALITAME. The two sweeteners that have recently undergone current and pending FDA approval are SUCRALOSE and ALITAME, respectively. Cyclamate lost its FDA approval in 1970, but is currently up for re-approval. Numerous new sweeteners are currently in various stages of development and approval.
Saccharin, Stevia and Other Safe Alternative Sweeteners
Sugar and the quest for weight loss represent an enormous growth opportunity for the food and beverage manufacturers worldwide. And as everyone in the industry knows, the average human prefers taste to nutrition. Let’s see how we can reverse this trend.
The two safest choices of sweeteners to date are saccharin and stevia. Yes, saccharin! Saccharin is actually similar to stevia in its origin. It originally came from a plant imported from China, and in its original form, is a complex sugar extract from the plant itself. Stevia is extracted from a plant grown in South America, and is also a complex sugar extract.
According to FDA documents, saccharin has never caused cancer. Years ago, saccharin was sold in tiny pin-sized pellets, and merely two or three were enough to add sweetness to coffee or iced tea. This is what I consider a natural sucrose (sugar) substitute!
The Real Scoop On Sugar
Everyone needs to know that there is a difference between sugars - natural sugar, refined sugar, and corn syrup. Sugar is like a two-sided coin: heads – if natural, it can be useful to the body, and tails – if altered by man, it can be harmful to the body. How do you know the difference, and where can you buy the right kind of sugar products? Here’s the scoop...artificial sweeteners are not the solution.
Dying To Be Thin: Weight Loss and Weight Gain
Do diet sweeteners really help you lose weight, or do you eat more and gain weight in the long run? Do diet sweeteners make you fat? Yes, because they trick your body and don’t feed it what it needs
According to researchers, there is no clear-cut evidence that sugar substitutes help people lose weight. These days, more and more data suggests that these chemical sweeteners may actually stimulate appetite. Aspartame has been on the market for over twenty years, so most of the information in this chapter refers to weight gain in relation to products made with aspartame. It is too early to know how these patterns will repeat with sucralose (Splenda).
Are Your Kids Depressed and Aggressive?
If you have kids, you’ll be the first one to notice health and behavioral changes in your children. Children are reacting to artificial sweeteners in harmful ways, but this aspect of the sweetener wars has gone unnoticed in the mainstream health community. The sweetener corporations market to children by placing soft drink machines in public elementary schools, and by influencing doctors that diet sweeteners don’t cause abnormal behavior and emotional stress in children. When you have exhausted all the other reasons for your child’s poor health or mental/emotional problems, then diet chemicals could be the culprit.
The rising numbers of mental disorders have gone unexplained until now. A diet of chemical foods means a diet of malnutrition, and when the body is starved of nutrients, it becomes mentally and physically stressed. Don’t raise your children on diet chemicals – search for healthy alternatives.
Sugar-Free With Diabetes
Diabetes may be a common disease these days, but it is still misunderstood. Most people think diabetes is simply a disease that means you just can’t eat sugar. The artificial sugar industry markets fake sugars as totally harmless to the diabetic, and tempts them into believing they can eat and drink all they want by “tricking” their bodies. But what works for one person may not work for another. What makes this matter even more difficult to understand: diabetes is just a little bit different for every diabetic. This is why no one artificial sweetener company can truly make a blanket statement that their product is “safe for diabetics.”
As delicate as diabetes is, how then, can diet chemical sweeteners be safe when a person with diabetes requires such precise chemical management?
Who Will Win The Sweetener Wars?
The immediate dramatic success of Splenda has shaken things up in the artificial-sweetener business, dominated for decades by the rivalry between the blue and pink - Equal and Sweet'N Low®. Each of these brands has come up with a new marketing approach to deal with the ravenous dynamics of the ‘diet’ marketplace. Are they playing fair or playing on consumer trust?In the midst of the continued controversy over aspartame, many pharmaceutical and health food manufacturers - Pro Lab, Twin Lab
and Ross Products, makers of Pedialyte®, for example - have switched to using sucralose in their manufactured products. But who are these major big corporations ‘fighting’ in the artificial sweetener wars, and what do these mega corporations really stand for? This is an important question to answer before buying their products.
Rising From The Grave’s Disease
Nutritional Alternatives To Stay Healthy
Nutritional diets are critical to long-term health, but when you are polluted with chemical toxins from your foods, such as chlorine in sucralose and methanol in aspartame, it is important to remove these toxins as quickly and as safely as possible. Removing chemicals from the human body is a two part process – eating right and cleansing from the chemicals permeating your tissues.
Go here for the nutritional protocol for restoring good health I used to recovery from my own near-fatal disease. I pass on to you the best of my nutritional programs and recommendations for removing harmful food chemicals from your body in the 10 Steps to Detoxification and The Richardson Cancer Diet, most importantly – how to cleanse from artificial sweetener chemicals.
Splenda Product List
As of May 2004, the list of over 3,000 products containing Splenda was thirty-four pages in length. Note: some of the products are not labeled sugar-free, and some products also contain aspartame. The best advise is to read ALL the labels on anything you buy for you or for your children’s safety.The list includes a variety of foods and food products, pharmaceuticals and children’s medications, vitamin supplements, protein powders, protein bars and weight loss products, liquid and powdered drinks, popcorn, gums and mints, toothpaste, and water.
Aspartame Case Histories
Case histories are an excellent way to share the experiences of those who have faced one of life’s hardest challenges – nutritionally turning disease into health. Most of these case histories have happy endings, and after considering the evidence, especially after their long and arduous struggles for health, what these people have learned serves as a beacon of hope for others.Aspartame has been on the market since 1981, so over twenty years of aspartame use has passed. Let’s hope our new awareness of the influences of sucralose and the other chemical sweeteners comes much sooner to prevent any more human suffering.
NutraSweet Product List
The original product list containing NutraSweet’s twenty-year product monopoly is impossible to find these days. Taken from my book on aspartame, Sweet Poison, the original list of NutraSweet’s novel 5,000 products from the 1980s was sent to me directly from the NutraSweet Company.Splenda Research Studies
Bottom line – what’s the research say about sucralose? Well, the studies proving the safety concerns are out there, but they are hard to find and technical. Nonetheless, they prove the claims of concern are valid and I have spent the past 10 months uncovering the research thanks to my contacts around the world.With this website, you woke up and smelled the coffee just in time. Now you can drink it safely.
Recent Posts
- 01/15/09 - New Splenda, Sucralose Study Reveals Shocking Potential Harmful Effects
- 08/15/08 - Update on Splenda Lawsuit Filed by Sugar Industry
- 06/27/08 - Splenda Advertising Legislative Hearings in California
- 06/19/07 - Some Soft Drinks May Seriously Harm Your Health
- 05/15/07 - Equal, Splenda Settle Lawsuit Over Ad Claims
- 04/ 6/07 - Makers of Artificial Sweeteners Go To Court
- 03/26/07 - Citizens For Health Says Splenda Causing Health Problems
- 01/30/07 - Sweetener Soured
- 09/24/06 - Bristol, Connecticut, schools join state program to limit artificial sweeteners, sugar, fats for 8800 students
- 08/ 7/06 - Excess Soda Could Raise Esophageal Cancer Risk
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Messiah, Hallelujia
600 people singing, pretty cool!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp_RHnQ-jgU&feature=player_embedded
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Closing Yellowstone Nov 4 2010
The new overlook at Gibbon falls. They did a great job with the new bypass and parking. I thought it looked great. Nicholas was thinking he was not feeling well after looking over the edge. The wind was cold and and day was overcast. The drive into the park we saw Bison, Elk and squirrels. The kids used the animal park list and found almost all of them by the time the park closed.
Jeff Surprised me and took me to the time share in West Yellowstone for the night. He told the kids it was a surprise. He packed the bags, food, everything! He even brought swimsuits for the boiling river!
Nicholas has a art for finding hearts! He found this heart on the chair in the time share, after dropping a lego and bending down to get it, he yells "MOM THERE IS A HEART FOR YOU!" I am amazed by his will to find hearts for his mama!
We had never stopped at the Sheepeater Cliffs. They were really cool and Jeff loves columnar basalt. The kids learned something new!
This is the first and original entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It is grand and beautiful. I am so glad to have gotten to see it for the first time in our 15 years spent in and out of the park by way of the west entrance. This is at the north end of the park and was so cool!
Mountain sheep were hanging on the hill outside Mammoth. There were about 7 sheep and they did not care we were there.
This is the parking area to the only hot springs you can soak in Yellowstone. The Gardner river flows through and allows for cooler water to make it a great soak! It was extra hot this time and really enjoyed by all of us. It is one of our favorite spots. We still need to get Grandma Kristi there. Maybe next year!
Now those are some serious cockle burs!!
Jeff Surprised me and took me to the time share in West Yellowstone for the night. He told the kids it was a surprise. He packed the bags, food, everything! He even brought swimsuits for the boiling river!
Nicholas has a art for finding hearts! He found this heart on the chair in the time share, after dropping a lego and bending down to get it, he yells "MOM THERE IS A HEART FOR YOU!" I am amazed by his will to find hearts for his mama!
We had never stopped at the Sheepeater Cliffs. They were really cool and Jeff loves columnar basalt. The kids learned something new!
This is the first and original entrance to Yellowstone National Park. It is grand and beautiful. I am so glad to have gotten to see it for the first time in our 15 years spent in and out of the park by way of the west entrance. This is at the north end of the park and was so cool!
Mountain sheep were hanging on the hill outside Mammoth. There were about 7 sheep and they did not care we were there.
This is the parking area to the only hot springs you can soak in Yellowstone. The Gardner river flows through and allows for cooler water to make it a great soak! It was extra hot this time and really enjoyed by all of us. It is one of our favorite spots. We still need to get Grandma Kristi there. Maybe next year!
| Dad, this is going to be so fun, don't you think? |
| Paisley is excited to be taking her baby to the hot springs for the first time, she even brought a bathing suit for her! |
| Nicholas along the trail to the hot springs. He loves to float the river along the hot springs! |
Now those are some serious cockle burs!!
| Upper terrace at Mammoth, so dry! |
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