Ramps are a delightful relative of the onion family (also closely related to the lily family). Their flavor is strong and earthy. They have tones of garlic, shallot and onion, yet have an elusively unique gingery spiciness.

Pioneers made certain to hunt their ramps for the nutrients they offered, being one of the very first green edibles of spring after a long winter of subsistence on stored vegetables. They say that the city of Chicago got its name from the native Potawatami “Checagou” which means “onions” or “skunk”, most likely due to the aroma from the proliferation of ramps that could be collected in the hardwood forests on the shores of Lake Michigan.

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Well, they have done it again. This video has been seen over 5 million times in the first week on YouTube. If you would like to get inspired, watch….

Because of the massive number of views, YouTube has disabled the embed link, so click on the link below and a new window will open at You tube with the video in it. It is really worth it.

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3 of the most effective things a human can do are:

1) Be Decisive – we need to make healthy decisions for our lives to be better in any way
2) Accept Change – Children not only accept change but have a strong desire for continual change.
3) Be Creative – Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Now let’s take a look at how children use these 3 factors as opposed to adults…

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By Deborah Yaffee, CH, CN

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Crizza Reyes

How will you know if you have a good life and a fit body? When you visit your doctor, do you ever bother to ask him that question? Good life and fitness are somehow synonymous, but not all people will agree to that. If you’re fit, then you’re bound to have a good life in terms of being healthy and not being prone to illnesses. If you have a good life, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re already fit, because chances are, you’re one of the many people living an unhealthy lifestyle.

So how will you find out if you have a good life and fitness altogether?

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Repeated loss of sleep affects all areas of your life: The physical, the mental, and the emotional.  Sleep deprivation can affect your overall daily performance and may even have an effect on your personality.    If your insomnia continues for a long period of time it can cause problems in your relationships, compromise your productivity, and perhaps lead to other health problems.   

It can become a relentless cycle of worry and anxiety as night after night you toss and turn, wondering when sleep will come, wondering what is wrong with you.  Insomnia and sleeplessness generally fall into three categories: 

1. “Initial” insomnia: where you have difficulty in falling asleep, generally taking 30 minutes or longer to fall into a sleep state. 
2. “Middle” insomnia: where after falling asleep you have problems maintaining a sleep state, often remaining awake until the early morning hours. 
3. “Late” or “Terminal” insomnia: where you awake early in the morning after less than 6 hours of sleep.  

Insomnia can be the symptom of some medical conditions that may require your doctor’s advice and medical care.  In those cases the cause will be treated, not the insomnia.   

If, however, your sleeplessness is due to a pattern of not sleeping, or because your body and mind find it difficult to settle into a state of relaxation necessary for sleep, this book offers you alternative choices for achieving healthy sleep without the use of prescription drugs.   

• This book will teach you how to: 
• Set the mood for a comfortable sleep atmosphere 
• Prepare your body for relaxation 
• Use colors to stimulate calmness and relaxation 
• Understand the importance of exercise 
• Use music and other relaxation techniques 
• Relieve your mind of anxiety and worry 
• Discover the importance of reducing stimulants 
• Use herbal teas and warm drinks to promote relaxation 
• Use herbs and vitamins to promote natural sleep  

After reading this book you will have the information you need to turn your sleepless nights into restful ones, waking in the morning refreshed and alert rather than tired and anxious.  All of the techniques and sleep-inducing aids in this book can be applied naturally and easily in your life.  Get ready to embark on the journey of falling asleep naturally!

The entire book can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking on the link below.

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Improve Memory

Many scientific experts will tell you that we just do not have the ability to recall facts, images or events perfectly as if we had a photographic memory. Unfortunately, although people may say that they do have a photographic memory; this simply isn’t true, as it does not exist.But do not worry as through this book we will show you the steps that you can take to help improve your memory. In fact, with a little time and a lot of practice, many people are able to gain the ability to memorize what seems to be an impossible amount of data and information.

Even if you just want to remember where you actually left your keys from the night before, then this book should help you.

You know that in order to gain muscular strength you need to exercise, well the same goes for actually increasing your ability to remember things. Your brain needs exercise, as well as being nurtured. So your diet needs to be good, and you need to look at taking up much healthier habits.

Unfortunately, because our brains are so complex, they need a lot of effort in order to get them in the best shape possible. There are a number of things that you can look at doing which will help you improve the capacity of the retrieval mechanism in your brain. But first, let us take a look at how it is we remember things.

To put it in simple terms, our memory is the activity carried out in our brain to recall information that we have gained through experiences in our lives. However, it is a complex process which involves various parts of the brain, and serves us all in very different ways. It can either be short term or long term.

With short term memory, you will find that your brain is able to store certain pieces of information for only a few seconds or minutes. Unfortunately, the problem with this memory is that it is very fragile, and if it were to retain all the information it receives, your brain would soon be telling you that it has no more space. Plus, each person’s short term memory is only meant to hold around 7 items at any one time, and this is why, although you may be able to remember a new telephone number for a few minutes, you will often find that when you are going to buy something online with your credit card, you need it beside you, because it actually has more than 7 items on it.

Long term memory is all to do with the information that you are making an effort to retain, both consciously and unconsciously. This is because the information may be particularly personal and meaningful to you, or it is because it is something that you need in order to complete a task or to take some exams. However, there is some information that you retain in your long term memory which will need you to make a conscious effort in order to recall it, such as a personal memory which relates to a specific experience or time in your life, known as episodic memory, or it may be some factual data that you need to recall, and this is known as semantic memory.

The other type of long term memory that we all have is known as procedural memory, and this is where your memory will recall skills or routines that you use so that you do not have to consciously need to recall them.

There are certain parts of the brain which are especially important in relation to not only the formation, but also the retention of memories, and these are as shown below.

Hippocampus – This is found deep in the human brain, and plays the largest role in the brain processing information as memory.

Amygdala – This is an almond shaped piece of the brain which is found close to the hippocampus and processes a person’s emotions. This particular area helps to imprint memories into the brain which involve emotions.

Cerebral Cortex – This is the outer layer of the human brain, and is where most long term memory is stored in various different sectors. It will all depend on where particular memories are stored, as to what process the information involves. So language will be stored in one sector, sensory input into another, problem solving into yet another sector and so on.

As well as the above, the memory also involves communication occurring between the brains various network of neurons and cells (millions of which are activated by chemicals in the brain known as neurotransmitters).

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Martin Yaffee

It’s a dilemma! Even when cash is loose and flowing, the cost of wild salmon has always made salmon seem like an extravagance, but with a tight economy, it seems to look even more beyond our fiscal reach. Is it worth it? And if not, what are the alternatives?

Salmon is truly “the king” of “the good fats” fare. It’s one of those foods that has no equal in providing us with those omega-3 fatty acids that our bodies absolutely can’t do without in our continuous production of new cells. Our body literally makes billions of new cells every day and for them to be created healthy, we need an adequate supply of omega-3 fatty acids which our cell membranes are actually made of. These particular healthy fats come from oily fish like salmon, sardines and tuna.

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