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How did you take care of yourself this week?
No doubt throughout the week, you took care of family members, coworkers, and everybody but yourself. In reality, it’s not that we don’t want that massage or facial. The challenge for most of us is the lack of a routine that focuses and benefits ourselves.
So if booking massage just isn’t a reality for you, why not….
- Take 45 minutes and curl up in a comfy chair with a great book
- Listen to a podcast on having a positive mindset while you’re getting ready in the mornings
- Treat yourself to a pedicure or go out for a long walk
Just changing your environment can be incredibly therapeutic so take some time TODAY to take care of YOU!
I love having a GC control shake
I love having a GC Control shake for afternoon snack. It’s gives me that extra energy when working. BUT…sometimes I like to change it up a bit and I turn my shake into tasty chocolates.
Recently. I tried preparing some homemade GC chocolates. I’ve since discovered if II pop two for my afternoon snack, and I’m good to go until dinner time.
It’s a simple recipe:
• 4 Tbsp Coconut oil
• 8 Tbsp powdered peanut butter.
• 4 Tbsp coconut oil
• 8 Tbsp chocolate GC Control
• Optional chopped almonds or walnuts.
Melt the coconut oil and mix in the peanut butter powder.
Pour mixture to fill ice cube tray or mold half way.
Melt the remaining coconut oil and mix in the Chocolate GC Control powder.
Pour mixture to fill the ice cube tray or mold covering the peanut butter mixture.
Put ice cube tray / mold into freezer. When frozen you can pop out the individual cubes, put them into and air tight container and store in the refrigerator or freezer
You can also pour onto parchment paper and break into pieces.
Enjoy!!!
Sunday meanderings
Dress well no matter what the occasion.
Sunday thoughts
Hate less, love more: Love is the most powerful force in the universe. Let it guide our actions and relationships.
Thought for today
Talk less, listen more: True power lies in understanding, which can only come when we listen more and talk less.
Thought for Sunday
Worry less, dance more: Life’s a dance. The music will never be perfect, but don’t let that stop us from enjoying the rhythm!
Today’s bit of wisdom
Frown less, smile more: Smiles are infectious, spread them around! Each smile makes the world a bit more beautiful.
Do you use Dawn dish soap?
It has often been mentioned that Dawn dish soap has formaldehyde in it and I often receive a response something like, “Surely not! Wildlife rescues use Dawn to wash wildlife after commercial oil tanker spills. I remember the commercials!”
Dawn Dish Soap is toxic because it contains harmful ingredients like Triclosan, 1,4-dioxane, synthetic dye, fragrance, and the dreaded methylisothiazolinone. These ingredients can cause mild to severe health conditions like nerve and liver damage, skin irritation, and allergic reactions.
You see, companies are not required to list all ingredients on personal use products, just industry level. Did you know formaldehyde has about 14 different names? If you research, you will see methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone are both forms of formaldehyde.
Many dish soap brands have labels that state the product is “biodegradable” with Methylisothiazlinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone listed as ingredients. If you are, like me, are allergic to formaldehyde, you may want to make certain you are avoiding that these chemicals to prevent skin reactions.
Dawn soap is also toxic to wildlife, especially the aquatic community, because it poisons the water. This liquid cleaning agent contains 1,4-dioxane, a substance renowned for polluting or contaminating the water.
Methylisothiazolinone is highly toxic for freshwater and estuarine organisms. Dawn also contains plenty of other dangerous chemicals. Pei-14 PEG-24/Ppg-16 Copolymer has links to cancer, organ effects, skin irritation, and damage to your vision.
Even the company EWG, which allows companies to buy good ratings, give Dawn a D rating!
That’s why I threw away all my Dawn and switched to Lemon Brite, because I want to ensure my family’s health.
You can learn more about dish detergents and biodegradability by clicking on this link
Surprising brain boost: Brushing your teeth may reduce the risk of dementia, new study suggests
Here is yet another reason to take good care of your teeth
New research published in the journal Neurology suggests that brushing your teeth can boost the brain — helping to reduce the risk of dementia.
People with good dental hygiene had more neurons in the hippocampus, the study found; the hippocampus plays a role in memory.
Gum disease and tooth loss were linked with less gray matter and declining mental health.
These findings have clinical implications as regular visits to the dentist may help prevent Alzheimer’s, scientists pointed out.
Said lead author Dr. Satoshi Yamaguchi, of Tohoku University in Japan, “Tooth loss and gum disease, which is inflammation of the tissue around the teeth that can cause shrinkage of the gums and loosening of the teeth, are very common,” SWNS, the British news service, reported of the findings.
“So evaluating a potential link with dementia is incredibly important,” he also said.
“Our study found these conditions may play a role in the health of the brain area that controls thinking and memory — giving people another reason to take better care of their teeth.”
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Chewing boosts blood and oxygen flow to the head — keeping the brain healthy. Gum disease is caused by inflammation of tooth-supporting tissues. It affects about one in seven adults. The study involved 172 Japanese participants whose average age was 67; they did not have memory problems at the outset.
For those with mild gum disease, fewer teeth was associated with a faster rate of brain shrinkage in the left hippocampus — key for remembering words and language. The same phenomenon was identified in those with severe gum disease and more teeth.
Said Dr. Yamaguchi, “These results highlight the importance of preserving the health of the teeth and not just retaining the teeth. The findings suggest retaining teeth with severe gum disease is associated with brain wasting.”
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He also said, “Controlling the progression of gum disease through regular dental visits is crucial, and teeth with severe gum disease may need to be extracted and replaced with appropriate prosthetic devices.”
In mild and severe gum disease, one less or one more tooth was equivalent to nearly one year and 1.3 years of brain aging, respectively, the study noted.
Participants underwent dental exams and memory tests. They also had brain scans to measure the volume of the hippocampus at the beginning of the study — and again four years later, as SWNS reported of the results. For each participant, researchers counted the number of teeth and checked for gum disease by looking at periodontal probing depth, a measurement of the gum tissue.
Healthy readings are from one to three millimeters.
Mild gum disease involves probing depths of three or four mms in several areas, and severe gum disease five or six mms as well as more bone loss. It can cause teeth to become loose and eventually fall out.
Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine and a practicing internist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, told Fox News Digital, “There is something to this.”
He said a large study in 2020 by the National Institute on Aging “linked gum disease to dementia. It is because bacteria is associated with inflammation — and inflammation leads to neurodegeneration.”
So “it makes sense that brushing your teeth and caring for your gums decreases both bacteria and inflammation and thereby dementia,” he said. Dr. Siegel added, “It is also connected with staying active and caring for yourself, which decreases depression, and is also associated with dementia. Keeping the brain active and working slows neurodegeneration and dementia.”
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