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Healthy Halloween Pumpkin Cookies – Yummm

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Halloween is the time when we have to remember that our kids are not the healthiest in the world and we must protect them from diabetes, obesity and heart disease which are are on the rise among children.

So, I would like to share with you this Healthy Recipe I found at www.foodnetwork.com

Why is it healthy?

Just in case if you don’t know, spices, like ginger and cinnamon boost our immune system helping fight with cold and flu.

Dark molasses are a great substitute for sugar as well as a good source of iron and B vitamins.

As for raisins, they can protect our oral, dental and bone health, be helpful for our vision and beneficial if you have constipation, weight gain or anemia.

Spiced Pumpkin Cookies

Ingredients

pumpkin cookies

2/3 cup whole-wheat pastry flour

2/3 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground allspice

1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

3/4 cup canned plain pumpkin puree

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

2 large eggs

1/4 cup canola oil

1/4 cup dark molasses

1 cup raisins

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat 3 baking sheets with cooking spray.

Whisk whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and nutmeg in a large bowl.

Whisk pumpkin, brown sugar, oil and molasses in a second bowl until well combined. Stir the wet ingredients and raisins into the dry ingredients until no traces of dry ingredients remain. Drop the batter by level tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the cookies 1 1/2 inches apart.

Bake the cookies until firm to the touch and lightly golden on top, 10 to 12 minutes, switching the pans back to front and top to bottom halfway through. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.
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Bon Appetit!

Don’t forget to breathe, smile and be happy.

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com

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Laugh Your Winter Blues Off !

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Suffer from seasonal depression? Need a little bit to lighten up? Don’t be SAD! Let us laugh our winter blues off, because, as Victor Hugo said: “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.catlaugh

Here are for you some famous health/women related quotes and proverbs to laugh at:

:lol: “Think about what you’re thinking about. And don’t believe everything you think.” — Loretta LaRoche

:lol: Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo

:lol: “A woman has the age she deserves.”–Coco Chanel

:lol: “Men make laws; women make morals.” — French Proverb

:lol: “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert Green Ingersoll

:lol: “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” — Mark Twain

:lol: “To eat is human, to digest – divine.” — Mark Twain

:lol: “Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.” — Alexander Woollcott

:lol: “I’m fat, but I’m thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there’s a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there’s a statue inside every block of stone?” — George Orwell

:lol: “My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.” — Harry Secombe

:lol: “At 50, you have the choice of keeping your face or your figure and it’s much better to keep your face.” – Barbara Cartland

:lol: “Anatomically speaking, a bust is here today and gone tomorrow.” — Isobel Barnett

:lol: “We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she’s convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.” — Cynthia Heimel

:lol: Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”– John Wilmot (Lord Rochester)

:lol: “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — Harry S. Truman

:lol: “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” — Oscar Wilde, 1854-19laughing00

:lol: “A woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” — Nancy Reagan

:lol: “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” — Leo J. Burke

:lol: “My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I’d hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.” – Jerry Hall

:lol: “Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.” – Gene Yasenak

:lol: “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” — Benjamin Franklin

:lol: “One must eat to live and not live to eat.” — Moliere

:lol: “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”– Albert Einstein

:lol: “The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.” — Edward I. Koch

:lol: The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.” — Andy Rooney

:lol: “Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it’s for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.” -- George Bernard Shaw

:lol: “Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.” — Elsa Schiaparelli

Let me know which ones you like the most, and stay tuned for more. If you think these jokes might help people you know to feel better, please share this post.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com

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Hug Therapy to Reduce Stress, Fight Cold and Flu, and Avoid Seasonal Depression

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

It is the most stressful time of the year – time of the cold and flu, holiday anxiety and stress, seasonal depression as well as one of the most stressful times ever in our economic history. My suggestion: let us hug! Are you a hugging person? Actually it doesn’t matter, because if hugging is a challenge for you, it might be even better – we all need challenges from time to time, am I right?

It is a Holiday Time, time of giving, so let us give hugs to people we love and people we know, and maybe even to people we don’t know. Let us try this simple stress-relief tool as many times as we can during this month. Deal?

I would like to share with you the article about hugs by Michael Clutton.

“Hugs are very different from handshakes. Hugs are a way of expressing love and healing for the soul. Sometimes, when there are no words that will help a situation, a simple hug will.

Not only are hugs nice, they are much needed. Hugs can relieve pain and depression.  They can make you healthier and happier. Hugging feels good and overcomes fear. Hugs are a crucial part of human communications. Hugs are a healthy, genuine way to express affection, friendship and love. It is never be wrong to hug a friend (of either gender) or your child, sibling or parent.

Hugs are also proven to be medically beneficial. First used with autistic, withdrawn children, “hug therapy” is used to teach basic trust.

Hugs are good for any occasion: birthdays, holidays, greetings, good byes or sometimes just because you want to. When you get a hug, you feel warm, fuzzy and complete.  The hug of another person expresses a certain feeling of union and caring.  They’re a friendly way to express appreciation of another person.

There are group hugs, tender lover hugs, around the waist hugs, kissing hugs, sweet and tender hugs and yes, even the grab-ass hug.  There is the awkward “lean in” for the timid and the breathtaking squeeze-you-till-your-eyes-pop hug.

Not to be overlooked, there’s also the lingering, head on shoulder version often used during joyful reunions, such as a soldier returning from long duty.  Mutual rocking or a gentle swaying motion often accompanies this incredible hug.

Hugs show love with speed. It helps the body’s immune system, keeps you healthier, cures depression, reduces stress, induces sleep, is invigorating, has no unpleasant side affects, is all natural and is 100% wholesome.

As a stress relief tool, hugging will help us boost our immune system, fight  cold and flu, increase our energy level and avoid seasonal depression.

Let us hug, breathe, smile and be happy.

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com

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Healthy Halloween Treats for Kids — An Alternative to Candy

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

If you want to help your kids fight childhood obesity and diabetes, try to use these

alternatives to candies:

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erasers, pencils

stickers

trading cards

money

nuts

raisins

sunflower seeds

pumpkin seeds

cashews

apples

whole grain crackers

carrot sticks

microwave popcorn

Breathe, smile and be happy.

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com

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Do We Always Take Everything for Granted?

Monday, October 20th, 2008
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Yesterday I was talking to my former client and now dear friend, let’s say, her name is Kathy. A couple of days ago she came back from Europe, where she was visiting her mother while introducing her new husband. Yes, Kathy is a newlywed (thanks to my successful coaching), and deeply in love with her husband. So she told me that her mother was surprised and even annoyed with her daughter kissing her husband from time to time in public. She even asked her once or twice, why she was paying so much attention to him, he has been already her husband anyway, so why bother kissing him. My friend didn’t get into argument, trying to explain that a happy and healthy relationship takes a lot of work. She knew already that it was wasting of time to argue with her mother or discuss something she knew nothing about.

Well, Kathy was smart enough to let it go until … she came back and called me. She cannot understand why her mother has everything taken for granted, why she doesn’t realize that a good relationship is a hard work (well, we know that it takes two to be happy, and in this case they both do their best).

I am also wondering why is that?  Why we don’t appreciate what we have until a wake-up call, until something changes, disappear or lost for good? I mean not only our relationship or marriage but also children and parents, our health, our career, our friends…Does it have anything to do with our ancestors, culture, environment? Or is it a human nature? Maybe if we appreciate a little bit more what we already have, we would be happier, less depressed, stressed out or angry?

Does it sound familiar? What do you think?

Papaya Mash-Up

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Breathe, smile and be happy,

Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Expert

NaturalCounselor.com

P.S. Kiwi and papaya are my favorite fruits.

Kiwi has more vitamin C than orange.

Papaya is rich in beta-carotene and fiber.

The most important is that they can make great homemade facials: use mashed kiwi with honey when you need a quick face lift; use mashed papaya to exfoliate.

more home-made facials

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