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Digg it UP - Here Comes the Flu Season
... we just have meetings.Seriously?I've come across that comment a few times in the last year or so and I've never challenged it at the time: there are too many people around who recognise that they need help to spend time worrying about those who think they don't. And yet at the back of my mind I'm aware of a slightly guilty feeling.After all, just because these people don't think they - or their staff - are making presentations doesn't mean they don't need help at it. In fact there's an argument to suggest that precisely because of this belief they're more likely than most to need help!Because I'm that sad kind of person, I lay awake at night mulling this idea over. Perhaps they were right and there really are no presentations of any kind in their place of work. Perhaps no-one ever had to provide information to anyone else face-to-face in an even semi-structured way. Perhaps they never met each other on the corridor and asked each other how things were going and updated each other on the progress of this-or-that-project. Perhaps they did everything in a completely organic (indeed anarchic!) way. Perhaps their sales and PR staff never have to meet the public or potential clients.Perhaps.But I didn't think so.I've never seen and organisation like this and I don't expect I ever will. So why do people tell me they don't do presentations (often with a bit of a sneer, trying to tell me that they thoug
carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, burdock, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips
(If using canned soup, begin here.)
Seaweeds build powerful immunity. Kombu and wakame are excellent in soups. Cut them small; they swell to 5-7 times their dried size when cooked.
All mushrooms strengthen the immune system. Dried shitake are available and inexpensive at Chinese grocery stores. Reishii, maitake, and other medicinal mushrooms are delicious, as are the more common button mushrooms, portabellos, and dried porcinni.
Tonic roots
For the person thinking about starting a new vending business, the most important factor they should consider is the quality of the machine. Most vending machines are difficult and expensive to repair, easily broken into, and difficult to find good locations for. Grade A quality vending machines are unique in the U.S. because most vending machine companies typically rely on Grade B or Grade C machines.All-metal vending machines (Grade B) provide some strength and stability, but also suffer from several design flaws. Outside paint is prone to scratching, chipping and rust, while inside paint corrodes and can lead to product contamination. Warm temperatures can also melt candy inside the machines.All-plastic vending machines (Grade C) lack the durability of Grade B machines and suffer frequent breakdowns. This is especially true for the plastic coin mechanisms, which see a lot of wear and tear in any vending machine. Besides technical problems, most cannot vend 1” gumballs or toys - a large multi-million dollar market in the vending industry. Grade C machines may also be rejected for high-end locations.What you need is a combination of the strongest metal in parts that you need it (strength & stability) and the highest quality plastics(shatterproof polycarbonate) in areas that you want it. The bottom line is the all-metal machines on the market are very outdated and the all-plastic machines are a clever way for the company to boost profit margins by manufac
No matter what your situation, now is a good time to give yourself the benefit of Wise Woman Ways to prevent - and deal with - the flu. These flu preventers and flu remedies are simple. They are quite safe. And you don't have to be rich to use them. Wise Woman herbal medicine is people's medicine. Mama Medicine. You can buy most of the things I discuss in this article - and you can find them growing freely, too. You can buy the herbal preparations I mention already made - and you can easily make you own for pennies, too.
These Wise Woman Ways are supported by both tradition and science. Wise women through the centuries have kept themselves and their families safe from contagious diseases. And science has found good reasons for their effectiveness. I hope these tips will help you face winter's ills with confidence and good health.
BEAT THE FLU
The best way to prevent the flu is to build a powerful immune system. While this can't guarantee that you won't get the flu, neither can the flu shot. Here are my favorite ways to keep my immune system strong:
- Eat more garlic.
- Drink nourishing herbal infusions daily.
- Make immune-strengthening soups; or add immune-strengthening herbs to canned soup.
- Use anti-viral herbs as needed.
EAT MORE GARLIC
One of the best immune-system helpers is garlic. Dr. James Duke says it contains at least 17 different factors that nourish and support powerful immune system functioning. Herbalists in the middle ages relied on it to prevent infection from the plague, so it might keep us safe from the flu. Garlic is anti-bacterial, too. If you don't like fresh raw garlic, powdered garlic is just as good. The dose is 1 or more cloves of raw garlic per day, or up to a teaspoon of garlic powder. Here are a few of my favorite ways to eat raw garlic:
- Top scrambled eggs with minced raw garlic.
- Put chopped raw garlic on pasta and cover with tomato sauce.
- Try minced raw garlic on a piece of hot buttered toast. Delicious!
- Add minced raw garlic to your baked potato.
- Mix chopped raw garlic and olive oil with hot cooked greens like kale or spinach.
DRINK NOURISHING HERBAL INFUSIONS
Nourishing herbal infusions are the basis of great nourishment for the immune system and the entire body. They are full of antioxidant vitamins, minerals, proteins, phytoestrogens, and hundreds of protective phytochemicals that work to help you ward off the flu and colds too. Here's how I make a nourishing herbal infusion:
- Choose one herb: nettle, oatstraw, red clover, comfrey leaf, linden flowers, or violet leaf.
- Place one full ounce, by weight, of any one herb in a quart jar. A canning jar is best.
- Fill the jar to the top with boiling water.
- Screw on a tight lid.
- Let it steep for four hours, or overnight.
- Strain the liquid out, squeezing the herb.
- Refrigerate the infusion. It will be good for 24-36 hours.
I drink two to four cups nourishing herbal infusions daily - over ice, heated up with honey and milk, or mixed with other beverages.
MAKE IMMUNE STRENGTHENING SOUPS
Cooking herbs and vegetables together for a long time extracts minerals, activates immune-strengthening phytochemicals, and increases the levels of available antioxidants. Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system. To make an immune strengthening soup:
- Chop at least half an onion per person and saut? in olive oil until translucent.
- Add at least two cloves of garlic, sliced or chopped, per person and saut? for a minute.
- Add two or more cups of water or vegetable broth per person.
- Add one cup per person of chopped seasonal vegetables such as:
carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, burdock, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips
(If using canned soup, begin here.)
- Add one small handful of seaweed per person.
- Add one ounce fresh, or one-half ounce dried mushrooms - any kind - per person.
- Add one-quarter ounce dried tonic roots per person.
- Add generous amounts of antioxidant seasoning herbs and some sea salt.
- Bring to a boil; simmer for an hour.
- Turn off fire and let your soup mellow in a cool place overnight.
- Serve it the next day, heated up, with freshly-baked bread and organic raw milk cheese.
Seaweeds build powerful immunity. Kombu and wakame are excellent in soups. Cut them small; they swell to 5-7 times their dried size when cooked.
All mushrooms strengthen the immune system. Dried shitake are available and inexpensive at Chinese grocery stores. Reishii, maitake, and other medicinal mushrooms are delicious, as are the more common button mushrooms, portabellos, and dried porcinni.
Tonic roots<
Aren't we just Fed up of Get Rich Quick Scams?I am fed up of get rich quick scams and I am sure you are to. Do they get anyone rich quick?Heres my review:The truth about get rich quick scams -
Wouldn't it be great to make a heap of cash quickly, with minimal effort, working at home in your pyjamas?. Don't answer that, Of course it would. I, for one, would love to have money flowing into my bank account, working only a few hours a week from my own home. I'd have more time to spend with my family that way, without a boss looking over my shoulder and having to work under strict deadlines.Whether it's selling by classified ads, internet affiliate marketing, stock market investing or real-estate investing, we've seen all the amazing claims that people are making Heaps of Cash and they can show you how do exactly the same thing. Of course, for a price. I can tell you now, that more than 99% of these programs are total SCAMS. You may likely even fall victim to one of these scams, offering you their latest ''Get Rich Quick'' ''Quit the Day Job'' program. I can't even recall how many of these programs I have bought. I don't know why, but I tend to look for the ''good'' in people and these marketing schemes took advantage of this, time and time again.After many failed attempts and disappointments, I had reached breaking point. I decided that it was time to get to the bottom of this particular fascination of ''Get Rich Quick'' ''Quit the Day Job'' and fin
These Wise Woman Ways are supported by both tradition and science. Wise women through the centuries have kept themselves and their families safe from contagious diseases. And science has found good reasons for their effectiveness. I hope these tips will help you face winter's ills with confidence and good health.
BEAT THE FLU
The best way to prevent the flu is to build a powerful immune system. While this can't guarantee that you won't get the flu, neither can the flu shot. Here are my favorite ways to keep my immune system strong:
- Eat more garlic.
- Drink nourishing herbal infusions daily.
- Make immune-strengthening soups; or add immune-strengthening herbs to canned soup.
- Use anti-viral herbs as needed.
EAT MORE GARLIC
One of the best immune-system helpers is garlic. Dr. James Duke says it contains at least 17 different factors that nourish and support powerful immune system functioning. Herbalists in the middle ages relied on it to prevent infection from the plague, so it might keep us safe from the flu. Garlic is anti-bacterial, too. If you don't like fresh raw garlic, powdered garlic is just as good. The dose is 1 or more cloves of raw garlic per day, or up to a teaspoon of garlic powder. Here are a few of my favorite ways to eat raw garlic:
- Top scrambled eggs with minced raw garlic.
- Put chopped raw garlic on pasta and cover with tomato sauce.
- Try minced raw garlic on a piece of hot buttered toast. Delicious!
- Add minced raw garlic to your baked potato.
- Mix chopped raw garlic and olive oil with hot cooked greens like kale or spinach.
DRINK NOURISHING HERBAL INFUSIONS
Nourishing herbal infusions are the basis of great nourishment for the immune system and the entire body. They are full of antioxidant vitamins, minerals, proteins, phytoestrogens, and hundreds of protective phytochemicals that work to help you ward off the flu and colds too. Here's how I make a nourishing herbal infusion:
- Choose one herb: nettle, oatstraw, red clover, comfrey leaf, linden flowers, or violet leaf.
- Place one full ounce, by weight, of any one herb in a quart jar. A canning jar is best.
- Fill the jar to the top with boiling water.
- Screw on a tight lid.
- Let it steep for four hours, or overnight.
- Strain the liquid out, squeezing the herb.
- Refrigerate the infusion. It will be good for 24-36 hours.
I drink two to four cups nourishing herbal infusions daily - over ice, heated up with honey and milk, or mixed with other beverages.
MAKE IMMUNE STRENGTHENING SOUPS
Cooking herbs and vegetables together for a long time extracts minerals, activates immune-strengthening phytochemicals, and increases the levels of available antioxidants. Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system. To make an immune strengthening soup:
- Chop at least half an onion per person and saut? in olive oil until translucent.
- Add at least two cloves of garlic, sliced or chopped, per person and saut? for a minute.
- Add two or more cups of water or vegetable broth per person.
- Add one cup per person of chopped seasonal vegetables such as:
carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, burdock, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips
(If using canned soup, begin here.)
- Add one small handful of seaweed per person.
- Add one ounce fresh, or one-half ounce dried mushrooms - any kind - per person.
- Add one-quarter ounce dried tonic roots per person.
- Add generous amounts of antioxidant seasoning herbs and some sea salt.
- Bring to a boil; simmer for an hour.
- Turn off fire and let your soup mellow in a cool place overnight.
- Serve it the next day, heated up, with freshly-baked bread and organic raw milk cheese.
Seaweeds build powerful immunity. Kombu and wakame are excellent in soups. Cut them small; they swell to 5-7 times their dried size when cooked.
All mushrooms strengthen the immune system. Dried shitake are available and inexpensive at Chinese grocery stores. Reishii, maitake, and other medicinal mushrooms are delicious, as are the more common button mushrooms, portabellos, and dried porcinni.
Tonic roots
Business web page design is an important consideration when you are starting your business. There are many options and styles and it can be confusing. What you need to remember though is, regardless of the style you choose, your business web page design must promote your brand.Business Web Page Design Dos and Don'tsTo be effective your business web page design does not need to be any more than a simple four-page Web site.Design your business web page as an online brochure.Use very simple, inexpensive shared hosting.Do not use anything that has to do with Flash or graphics in your business web page design. These things slow down the loading time and they are not picked up by search engines.Make sure you have an email address that matches your company Web site domain. In other words, www.companyname.com, emailaddress@companyname.com.Branding is the key so all elements of your web page design should match.
You must be able to access Web Mail. When considering who will host your business web page design, make sure you can get access to the associated email account via the web. This way you can check your email from any computer just as if you were sitting in your office.The Bottom Line on Business Web Page DesignBusiness web page design is an extension of your brand. Do not clutter your web page with unnecessary graphics, fancy videos, Flash or anything else that will slow down the web experience. Make sure that al
- Top scrambled eggs with minced raw garlic.
- Put chopped raw garlic on pasta and cover with tomato sauce.
- Try minced raw garlic on a piece of hot buttered toast. Delicious!
- Add minced raw garlic to your baked potato.
- Mix chopped raw garlic and olive oil with hot cooked greens like kale or spinach.
DRINK NOURISHING HERBAL INFUSIONS
Nourishing herbal infusions are the basis of great nourishment for the immune system and the entire body. They are full of antioxidant vitamins, minerals, proteins, phytoestrogens, and hundreds of protective phytochemicals that work to help you ward off the flu and colds too. Here's how I make a nourishing herbal infusion:
- Choose one herb: nettle, oatstraw, red clover, comfrey leaf, linden flowers, or violet leaf.
- Place one full ounce, by weight, of any one herb in a quart jar. A canning jar is best.
- Fill the jar to the top with boiling water.
- Screw on a tight lid.
- Let it steep for four hours, or overnight.
- Strain the liquid out, squeezing the herb.
- Refrigerate the infusion. It will be good for 24-36 hours.
I drink two to four cups nourishing herbal infusions daily - over ice, heated up with honey and milk, or mixed with other beverages.
MAKE IMMUNE STRENGTHENING SOUPS
Cooking herbs and vegetables together for a long time extracts minerals, activates immune-strengthening phytochemicals, and increases the levels of available antioxidants. Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system. To make an immune strengthening soup:
- Chop at least half an onion per person and saut? in olive oil until translucent.
- Add at least two cloves of garlic, sliced or chopped, per person and saut? for a minute.
- Add two or more cups of water or vegetable broth per person.
- Add one cup per person of chopped seasonal vegetables such as:
carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, burdock, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips
(If using canned soup, begin here.)
- Add one small handful of seaweed per person.
- Add one ounce fresh, or one-half ounce dried mushrooms - any kind - per person.
- Add one-quarter ounce dried tonic roots per person.
- Add generous amounts of antioxidant seasoning herbs and some sea salt.
- Bring to a boil; simmer for an hour.
- Turn off fire and let your soup mellow in a cool place overnight.
- Serve it the next day, heated up, with freshly-baked bread and organic raw milk cheese.
Seaweeds build powerful immunity. Kombu and wakame are excellent in soups. Cut them small; they swell to 5-7 times their dried size when cooked.
All mushrooms strengthen the immune system. Dried shitake are available and inexpensive at Chinese grocery stores. Reishii, maitake, and other medicinal mushrooms are delicious, as are the more common button mushrooms, portabellos, and dried porcinni.
Tonic roots
Years ago, Wendy’s Hamburgers aired a TV commercial showing a little old lady asking “Where’s the beef?” Today, millions of web visitors surf the internet looking for “the beef” – that is, useful web content that can help them achieve their objectives. It’s fair to say that today, there’s more visitors than there is beef; the demand for high quality web content continues to grow.You can exploit this demand by creating content for public consumption on the web. Write articles about things you know. It’s true. Articles, content, sized anywhere from 250 words up to several thousand words are in high demand and there’s a number of ways you can benefit from that demand. Here are the three most popular ways to cash in…Write articles for cash. Yes, dozens of sites will pay you to write articles for them. These may range from keyword-oriented articles to full-length freelance features. Some people will even pay for blog contributions or monitor and respond to message board traffic.Write articles for traffic. Writing articles is also a great way to boost traffic to your web site. Write an article, include a biography with links to your web site and distribute the article to various content-hungry topical sites.Write articles for notoriety. Creating and distributing articles is also a good way to position yourself as an “expert.” Eventually, article after article, you’ll begin to be recognized as someone with something to say on the subjects you write ab
I drink two to four cups nourishing herbal infusions daily - over ice, heated up with honey and milk, or mixed with other beverages.
MAKE IMMUNE STRENGTHENING SOUPS
Cooking herbs and vegetables together for a long time extracts minerals, activates immune-strengthening phytochemicals, and increases the levels of available antioxidants. Raw foods weaken and stress the immune system. To make an immune strengthening soup:
- Chop at least half an onion per person and saut? in olive oil until translucent.
- Add at least two cloves of garlic, sliced or chopped, per person and saut? for a minute.
- Add two or more cups of water or vegetable broth per person.
- Add one cup per person of chopped seasonal vegetables such as:
carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, burdock, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips
(If using canned soup, begin here.)
- Add one small handful of seaweed per person.
- Add one ounce fresh, or one-half ounce dried mushrooms - any kind - per person.
- Add one-quarter ounce dried tonic roots per person.
- Add generous amounts of antioxidant seasoning herbs and some sea salt.
- Bring to a boil; simmer for an hour.
- Turn off fire and let your soup mellow in a cool place overnight.
- Serve it the next day, heated up, with freshly-baked bread and organic raw milk cheese.
Seaweeds build powerful immunity. Kombu and wakame are excellent in soups. Cut them small; they swell to 5-7 times their dried size when cooked.
All mushrooms strengthen the immune system. Dried shitake are available and inexpensive at Chinese grocery stores. Reishii, maitake, and other medicinal mushrooms are delicious, as are the more common button mushrooms, portabellos, and dried porcinni.
Tonic roots
The most dramatic exercise that we conduct in our High Impact Presentations workshop is called CEO for a Day. We promote each of our participants to CEO of their companies. We then ask that they each craft their opening message to their executive team and deliver it. What is dramatic about this activity is that our participants rise to the challenge and present themselves more powerfully and persuasively, as if they are the CEO.I’ve learned from conducting this exercise numerous times that sometimes all people need is to be given permission to project their best and most confident selves. And they do!CEOs are the people that we look up to (most of them anyways). Granted, not all of them have excellent communication skills, however, many of them do.Marcus Buckingham in The One Thing You Need to Know says this about leaders: “The leader’s role is to be able to paint a vision of a future that is better than where we are today and inspire others to work toward creating it.”I believe that communication is the foundation for good leadership. How is your “leadership” communication? Do you project confidence and credibility though your communications?Here are a few questions to ask yourself, to see if you have a solid foundation of communication skills to help you be seen as a leader in your organization.1. Do you project optimism to those who work with and for you?2. Do you acknowledge other’s contribution
carrots, cabbage, celery, corn, burdock, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes, parsnips
(If using canned soup, begin here.)
Seaweeds build powerful immunity. Kombu and wakame are excellent in soups. Cut them small; they swell to 5-7 times their dried size when cooked.
All mushrooms strengthen the immune system. Dried shitake are available and inexpensive at Chinese grocery stores. Reishii, maitake, and other medicinal mushrooms are delicious, as are the more common button mushrooms, portabellos, and dried porcinni.
Tonic roots help our livers, lymph, and kidneys work well, protecting us from infection. I often put these tough roots into a jelly bag and drop that into the soup so I can fish it out before serving. I use one or more of these, fresh or dried, depending on what I have available:
- Siberian ginseng
- Astragalus
- Burdock
- Dandelion
- Chicory
- Yellow dock
- American ginseng
Seasoning herbs from the mint family - rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil, marjoram, and sage are loaded with antioxidants. I don't just season the soup with them; I add them by the handful for the greatest impact on my immune strength.
ANTI-VIRAL HERBS
Anti-infective herbs can help us prevent the flu - and assist us if we do get sick. Colds and the flu are caused by viruses, making them more difficult to treat than bacterial infections. Viruses are more vital than bacteria and harder to kill. There are many anti-bacterial herbs - including yarrow, echinacea, elecampane, and poke - but few that are anti-viral. Of these, my favorite is St. Joan's/John's wort. If any herb can prevent the flu, St.J's can.
Of course, even flu shots don't prevent all types of flu, and they don't prevent colds, so even if you do get a shot, it's a good idea to have some anti-viral and anti-bacterial herbs on hand. The distinction between them is not so important once you are sick. Both types of herbs will alert the immune system to the infection and help it gather the resources needed to counter it. Did you know that the achy muscles and headachy feeling we get with the flu is not caused by the flu itself but results from the immune system gobbling up all available resources so it can clobber the flu virus?
St. Joan's/John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
This beautiful yellow flower yields a blood-red tincture that I take by the dropperful to prevent viral infections such as the flu. A dropperful in the morning throughout the cold months is adequate for prevention. I increase that to 2-3 dropperfuls a day if I have been exposed at home or at work to the flu. If I do get sick, I will use other herbs to counter the infection. Capsules of St. J's are ineffective; I only use the tincture.
Echinacea (Echinacea augustifolia)
The tincture of echinacea root is a well-known anti-infective. When I feel an infection brewing, I use large doses of echinacea to build white blood cells and encourage T-helper cells. The dose of echinacea root tincture is 1 drop for every 2 pounds of body weight, as frequently as every hour or two in the acute phase of an infection, 2-4 times a day otherwise. I have seen echinacea relieve terrible flu infections.
Important: I do not use echinacea as a preventative; it doesn't seem to work that way. I do not use any part of this plant except the root. I do not combine it with goldenseal, which I believe hinders the immune system. I do not take echinacea in capsules.
I make a quart of echinacea tincture each fall as my winter insurance. Here's how I do it: Put 4 ounces of dried Echinacea augustifolia root in a quart jar. Fill to the top with 100 proof vodka. Cap tightly and label. Shake daily for the first week then weekly for at least eight weeks.
Poke (Phytolacca americana)
The tincture of this root is so powerful some authors consider it poisonous. You may have a hard time finding it for sale. But poke is an important helper when flu "bugs" have taken over. I would not take poke as a preventative; it is far too strong. I use poke root tincture to kick my immune system into high gear. The dose is one drop - yes, only one drop - once or twice a day for no more than a month, although in serious cases I may use up to 8 doses a day. Poke root tincture can harm the kidneys if it is taken continuously. I never take capsules of poke root.
Elecampane (Inula helenium)
The tincture of this root is a favorite for clearing lung infections and countering the flu. The usual dose is 10-15 drops 2-3 times a day, but I would increase the dose to 6 times a day in an acute situation. I expect to see results within a day or less. I would only take elecampane if I had an active infection; it has little protective value. I never use elecampane capsules.
Elder (Sambucus canadensis)
Elder flowers are a nice remedy for those w
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