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Vintage: "Why is true love like STRANSKY Steel Ware?"

This is a great ad from a 1904 magazine! Click on the picture and find out why?

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A Thanksgiving Poem: "As Yellow as Gold"

I admire poets. I love how they dance with the words: an insatiable and idyllic romance that goes on and on forever. After they are gone, they do not really are: they remain alive in their poems and the dance with words continues. Lets keep dancing. Lets read. Lets write more and better every day.

This beautiful poem I am featuring today was written by Mary E. Knowlton and published in 1904.

As Yellow as Gold

Here is a pumpkin, fluted, golden,
Written o'er with customs olden
Out of bygone days.
Cinderella's ancient glory,
Sung in song and told in story,
Suits its yellow blaze.

Tables at the first Thanksgiving,
When colonial dames where living,
Shewed its golden sheer.
Still it smiles a friendly greeting
At the happy family meeting
On the feast-day dear

Christmas rooms are gay with holly,
Christmas sees the merry folly
of the mistletoe.
Easter lilies, pure and stately,
In the springtime bloom sedately,
When soft breezes blow.

Autumn dressed the woods in splendor;
But their colors, rich and tender,
All have passed away.
Now the pumpkin, ripe and mellow,
Keeps a tint of Autumn's yellow
For Thanksgiving Day.

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Eat MORE Meat!

It’s confusing—not to mention frustrating—that so many “experts” on nutrition pretend that animal food doesn’t exist. Just what do people have against meat? It’s a great source of protein, fat, and cholesterol (which your body needs to survive, no matter what impression the American Heart Association tries to give). Another important but less talked about reason to eat meat is for its folate content.

Meat is the main source of this essential nutrient, also known as folic acid. But if you search the Internet for foods containing folic acid, this is the kind of nonsense you’ll find: Eat more “bulses and legumes…blah, blah, blah…green vegetables and lanth…blah, blah, blah… gingelly seeds… bla, bla, bla…” Then, as an afterthought “…and meat.”   

Sure, vegetables contain folic acid too, but when you boil them you end up pouring most of it down the drain. Folate is a water-soluble vitamin so unless you drink the vegetable-water, you get nothing. Raw spinach is OK, but you get four times as much folate when you eat sautéed chicken livers served pink.

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Did you know Raw Milk is SAFE?

Research has been done at UC Davis where they added pathogens as such as E. Coli, salmonella, camphylobacter and listeria to raw milk and noted that these pathogens could not survive in it. On the other hand, when you add these pathogens to pasteurized milk, they will proliferate. In other words, the pasteurized milk has no "immune system". The lactic acid, lactic acid bacteria, enzymes, lactoperoxidase and lactoferrin in raw milk are all beneficial. In fact, the FDA just approved lactoferrin as a spray to control pathogens in slaughterhouses because antibiotics and antiseptics are not working. Lactoferrin in milk is safe and effective in fighting pathogens.

It is another GREAT reason to drink raw milk, do not you think?

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