Add a Little Spice to Your Life!

How our body physically feels effects our soul and spirit. In the same way that an experience in our soul or spirit has a somatic (bodily-feeling) affect on our physical body. We need to not only work toward living a life with a clearer spiritual and soul path. It is also important to add foods to our physical body that helps it to function as it was created to function. Our body has many healing properties if we will just feed it the right "foods".

"Add a Little Spice to Your Life!" sounds like a commercial jingle, but I am saying to do it literally. There are so many healing foods and spices that we don't use often that could be easily sprinkled into cereal, oatmeal, breads, coffee, stir-fries, baked dishes, rice, etc. These foods are the ones that our body needs and many are proven! Yes, scientifically proven to having antiseptic, antibiotic, anti-fungal, healing properties that would make us so healthier.

Here are a few great ones: cinnamon, clove, thyme, rosemary, carrot seed, peppermint, oregano.

Anti-fungal - try lemongrass, cumin, basil, cassia, clove and cinnamon

Anti bacterial - Cinnamon, thyme, clove, bay laurel, Listerine (yes, good ole' Listerine!)

Good biotics for our body - helps against infections - yogurt, aged cheese (like Swiss/aged cheddar), sauerkraut. These common foods really do kill off potential harmful germs by competing for the same resources that they live off of in your body.

A good overall blend of oils for healing would be - clove, cinnamon, lemon, eucalyptus and rosemary.

This is real easy to blend and apply to hands, temple and ears. The Bubonic plague was fought off with wormwood, marjoram, sage, cloves, rosemary and camphor distilled for 15 days in strong white wine vinegar, then strained and oils expressed.

For over all blood cholesterol and heart disease, these are great with high potassium:
Pomegranates (and juice), blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, dried apricots, sunflower seeds, raisins, almonds, dried figs, buckwheat oat bran, walnuts, raw spinach, Lima beans, whole wheat, red beans, bananas, prunes, Brussels sprouts and raw broccoli.

For Magnesium to also help with blood cholesterol and heart disease: try oat bran, walnuts, pistachios, kelp, pecan, spinach, fig, pinto or kidney beans, brown rice, Swiss cheese and raisins.

Matter of fact Pomegranate juice, 2 oz. daily for 30 day will prevent cholesterol oxidation!

While I am not a doctor, or a professional researcher, I have received much information for research sources. Information can be obtained in different books sold through http://www.essentialsciencepublishing.com/.

The practical way I see it is to learn to start incorporating these as staples into my weekly diet. When I go to the store my list looks a little different, let me give you a monthly staple example and this way you can put a bit of this or that in all different items you eat during the month to increase its healthiness for you and your family.

Blueberry-Pomegranate Juice, Cider-type Apple Juice (Simply Apple)
Walnuts, Almonds (sliced), Pistachios, Sunflower seeds
Swiss Cheese,Yogurt,Aged Cheddar
Cumin, Cinnamon Sticks, ground, Cloves (whole, ground), Carrot seed
Thyme (fresh if possible),Basil (fresh, if possible), Ginger (to grate)
Orange oils, Peppermint
Lemon, Blueberries, Strawberries, Cranberry, Apples, Bananas, Garlic, Onion, Sauerkraut
Raisins, Dried Apricots, Dried Figs,
Spinach, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts
Lima Beans,Red and Pinto Beans
Brown Rice, Oatmeal, Redmill cooking grits
Green Tea, Coffee, Black Tea,
Tuna, Omega-3 Eggs
100% whole wheat and oat bran products

If you don't already use these foods, add a few extra each month. Try some new ones to you and enjoy mixing items that you don't normally. It will delight your taste buds and the functioning of your body. It makes sense that if we were made by God, and the food He naturally gave us that He also created would be the best healthy diet for anyone.

Please feel free to comment on food items that are truly one of your treasures that I left off my list. Also I would love to hear your healthy food testimony, if you have one.