Healthy nuggets of news to keep your motor humming

Welcome to our 2nd issue of our newsletter:

Healthy World Digest

In this issue:

1) Good-for-you antiperspirant/deodorant

2) Exercise!

3) Stop drinking bottled water

4) Sexy supper

5) Healthy coffee

Oh, and we wont harass you with numerous mailings or with articles that are longer than the Bible.

Just a few important, interesting, up to date, super beneficial health items that you could easily apply to you life or pass along to loved ones.

OK, maybe this is too personal but I can't use off the shelf anti-perspirants because they make me break out. Well, the more I looked into my particular problem the more sense it made to me.

Briefly, antiperspirants host a whole lot of unhealthy chemicals and it's the metal, aluminum, that prevents you from sweating. Yep, bits of this toxic metal are just deposited into your sweat pores so you can't sweat.

That can't be good for you which is why my body protests when I use it.

But look, I work around lots of kids and am a big guy, and so I perspire, ok. So, what can guys like us do, especially as the hot weather nears?

Here's an idea that should please those of us who are concerned about chemicals and aluminum, and those of us who are frugal (ie cheap).

Just blend a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and a natural anti-bacterial, anti-fungal oil (tea tree oil) to keep odor and sweat at bay.

Here's the recipe:

1/4 cup baking soda 1/4 cupful cornstarch 10 - 12 drops tea tree oil 2 tablespoons shortening

Put baking soda and cornstarch in a small bowl with tea tree oil. I use Fifteen - 20 drops of tea tree oil, just in case. Other oils like lavender oil work well also.

Fold in shortening until it's a proper consistency. You may need to experiment a bit.

Cram final product into an empty deodorant canister. It will be a proper consistency to utilise in about a day.

2) Exercise!

Let me tell you about a great man. Covert Bailey, an exercise physiologist who taped lectures for PBS in the '90s, retired from the field a few years ago. Too bad.

He had the most incredibly succinct information about working out and could get the laziest among us to exercise and to like it.

If you are not sufficiently motivated to work out, or even if you love exercising, I'd urge you run to the bookstore, library, search online, wherever, and get his books and videotapes.

He is smart, humorous and very motivating.

OK, so what's the nugget of wellness items here? It's Bailey's central theme.

Sure, engaging in many sound lifestyle choices is wise. Eating right, not smoking, etc. etc. But the thing that really separates the healthy from the unhealthy is exercise.

Exercise does what the best herbs do, what steroids do, what fruits and vegetables do, what salmon capsules do, what ginseng does, what Prozac does, what relaxation techniques do. On and on.

If you exercise, to the point of fitness, you can probably make loads of other mistakes and you'll still be ok.

If you don't exercise, well...

So Exercise!

Today, tomorrow, yesterday. Hey, work out right now. You'll feel great in approximately Fifteen - Thirty minutes and soon, you'll look great.

3) Bottled water

I'm finishing up an article on bottled water with the intentionally provocative title "Bottled water is for losers." Of all the topics I've written on, this is the one that gets me truly steamed up.

Briefly, the facts:

* Most bottled waters are less safe than tap water

* Even filtered bottled water goes through low-end filtration which leaves in lots of the unhealthy stuff

* They are selling us water, WATER! that's not that good, at between $1 - $2 a pop. What's next, air?

* The glut of used plastic water bottles results in an unbelievable amount of landfill pollution

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4) Sexy supper

Want to put together a repast that can truly boost your love life? Well, forget the oysters & avocados.

The following meal features courses & a drink each having aphrodisiacal powers.

Just start with a glass of red wine, then serve a shrimp cocktail, then present a nice piece of steak, maybe filet mignon, baked sweet potato and a spinach salad. End with fresh berries drizzled with chocolate. Now fasten your seat belt.

5) Healthy coffee

Ok. I'll just come right out and admit it. I love the java brew. I know there are a whole lot of concerns about coffee's health effects.

Well, darn it, I grew up on the stuff. I've given up a lot, not coffee too!

So, I worked out a way to get the taste, some of the boom and add some peripheral health benefits to my coffee.

My java recipe, if you will.

Start with a pot of fresh filtered cold water (use auto-drip electric coffeemaker)

Use organic coffee. I premix 1/2 caffeinated, 1/2 decaffeinated coffee so I don't get a ton of caffeine at once.

In the carafe, I put 1/3 tablespoon naturally healthy stevia, a fabulous, no calorie sweetener and a sprinkling of either cinnamon or powdered dark chocolate.

Fire it up.

When it's done, I boil about a cupful of organic soymilk and add to my hot coffee.

I then proceed to work for several hours, sipping my delectable coffee, guilt-free.

My recipe has no carbs, no sugar, healthy cinnamon or chocolate, two great herbs, clean water and about a cup of very healthy soymilk.

After drinking the pot of coffee - I know it's a bit too much caffeine - I don't even need a snack because the brew serves as a healthy, filling snack.

I ordinarily wait a bit until I relieve myself and then go and work out.
Comments? Ideas? Feedback? I'd love to hear from you. Just reply to Healthy World Digest and tell me what you think.

See you next month!

Sal