Undergoing chemotherapy treatments to fight cancer may be effective in eradicating the dangerous cells but it can also leave the rest of your body in bad shape. What should you eat or take to recover? By definition, chemotherapy is chemical therapy, or pouring toxic chemicals into your body in the hopes of killing bad cells […]
Category: Living naturally
Homemade Natural Carpet Shampoo/Cleaner for Carpet Cleaning Machines
We had to clean the carpet in our finished basement this week, but I couldn’t stand the thought of living with all the chemical fumes and residue from commercial carpet cleaning solutions. So I made my own natural carpet cleaning solution and we rented a carpet cleaning machine from the grocery store. It worked beautifully! […]
Making Meals to Stock Your Freezer
What do you do when you’re faced with hundreds of dollars of thawing meat? I haven’t been posting much this week because on Sunday morning I went to the basement to do laundry and stepped into a puddle of cold water: the freezer door had been left open overnight! !Quel horror! We belong to a […]
Problems Sleeping? It Could Be What You’re Eating!
Do you have problems sleeping? If so, you’re not alone. Almost 9 million Americans take prescription sleeping pills. What’s eating everyone… literally? Believe it or not, sometimes the foods you are eating during the day are keeping you awake at night. It’s well-recognized that caffeine can keep us awake and that some people are more […]
Vitamin C Still Key for Kicking a Cold
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded about old truths that get forgotten in the rush to embrace new trends. That’s how I’m feeling about Vitamin C these days. I remember watching my parents down large doses of Vitamin C in the 1980s to rid themselves of colds, and it worked well for them then. Why […]