If Peacock Finds A Pot Leaf

If A Peacock Finds A Pot Leaf:

http://www.peterthepeacock.com/

This is a fairytale-style story about Peter the peacock going for a walk, he stumbles upon a strange leaf that he takes off with him to learn about. His friend Benjamin Beaver informs him that it is called Cannabis, and it can be used for many different medical conditions. 

He goes on to meet with many helpful creatures including a vaporizing spider, The Four Rasta Pigs, and he also visits a medical marijuana clinic to acquire a medical marijuana license.

As the author explains, her book can be of real benefit to many children who are perfect candidates for the use of Medical Cannabis.

“I'm a seventeen year old and I primarily wrote this book for the kids who have Cancer, Autism, OCD, Epilepsy, and other conditions that are currently being treated with Medical Marijuana in children. We are trying to normalize the concept of the use of Medical Cannabis by children, as more people now than ever are turning to it to help with their ailments, and legalization is becoming a heated topic in various states,” says Carman.

She continues, “We want to re-educate the misinformed, and put a smile on the face of the children who are already using Medical Marijuana.”

It appears the book’s message is resonating with adults; garnering a consistent string of rave reviews since its recent release.

For example, one parent commented, “Amazing! A nice story for children and adults, to be educated on medical cannabis with a fairytale format. The illustrations are beautiful. My boy had me read it to him three times last night. Just what society needs – to re-educate our youth.”

With the book’s popularity increasing, interested readers are urged to purchase their copies as soon as possible.

‘If a Peacock Finds a Pot Leaf’, published by CreateSpace, is available now: http://amzn.to/ZfwbZG

About Morgan Carman 

Morgan Carman is a seventeen year old aspiring pastry chef, and writer that is fully supportive of the use of Medical Cannabis for children, even though it is a view that isn’t shared by many others, yet! She believes someone needs to speak to kids, and for kids, that is a kid. Growing up in a household where Cannabis has always been a medicine rather than a drug, she holds a unique perspective on the approach to discussing and educating Medical Marijuana with children. She not only wants to make this a topic of discussion, she wants to start a movement, for children and teens who either can’t or are too afraid to speak out about Medical Marijuana. As a teenager who has not only maintained a 3.5 GPA or higher, at all times, but also participated in the DUKE TIP in 2009 as a result of exceptional scoring on Florida state testing she is breaking the stereotype of how raising a child with an open dialogue about Medical Marijuana could be harmful in any way.

Listen to a little snip it here:

http://youtu.be/Mn73vYeThTs

MEDICAL MARIJUANA: GETTING TO KNOW TERPENES

It's all about the essential oil.....

Terpenes:

Terpenes and terpenoids are the primary constituents of the essential oils of many types of plants and flowers. Essential oils are used widely as natural flavor additives for food, as fragrances in perfumery, and in traditional and alternative medicines such as aromatherapy.—

Article:

The aroma of your medical marijuana that you buy at Medical Marijuana Dispensaries could be playing an important role in your high. Medical marijuana strains have a variety of different and distinctive smells and tastes. Depending on the strain, the smell, and taste can be uniquely different. What causes such unique smells and taste in medical marijuana? The answer to the question, are called terpenes or trepenoids. Terpenes give the plant its distinct smell and taste. They are the compounds found in marijuana that are very important to marijuana resin. There has been research that has found that 10 to 30 percent of marijuana smoke resin is made up of terpenes. The ratio, percentage, and type of terpenes will vary by marijuana plant. This is apparent in different medical marijuana strains, which have specific smells, tastes, and highs. There are well over 100 to 200 terpenes identified in marijuana plants. They are found naturally throughout the world and are produced by plants, including herbs, flowers, spices, fruits, and vegetables. Terpenes give off the smells that we associate with plants and they are present when you sniff a bud. Another example, is when you peel an orange and you smell the citus from the rind, the terpenes are present.

Medical Marijuana Sensory

In the medical marijuana you ingest, THC, CBDs, and terpenes cooperate with each other for a spectrum of different effects and smells. The trichome is the gland where terpenes are produced along with THC on the flowering marijuana plant. Terpenes are the oily compounds in the trichome secreted by the plants gland. Terpenes passageways are the fundamental steps in the plant’s production of THC. Geranyl pyrophosphate is shared by the THC and terpenes, which will evolve into the cannaboids and terpeniods in the trichome of the marijuana plant. Trichomes cover the marijuana plants flowers. Generally, the time of day, age and overall sexual maturation of the medical marijuana plant affects the amount of terpenes present. Terpenes levels reach their peak before dawn. During daylight hours or when the grow lights are on, the terpenes evaporate and give off a distinct odor. At the end of the day or when you turn off your lights, the cannabinoid and terpenes levels will be low due to the evaporation level.

"The best time to harvest is just before the lights are turned on or when the sunrises this will help to acquire higher terpenes percentage and ratio".

Medical Marijuana Affect

Terpenes affect the brain and modify the effect of THC while some terpenes lock into receptor sites in the brain modifying the chemical output effecting the high a person will experience. Other terpenes will allow different amounts of THC into the brain enticing dopamine and serotonin. These are the mood regulators and are affected by terpenes and THC. Terpenes temporarily alter brain function by effecting our perceptions, mood, balance, and sensitivity and other feelings.

Terpenes that are most abundant in medical marijuana include borneol, Delta-3-Carene, B-Caryophyllene, linalool, limonene, mycrene, pinene, terpineol, cineole, and pulegone. All of these terpenes have therapeutic properties. To conclude, the terpenes play a crucial role in medical marijuana therapeutic properties, taste, smell, and high.

- See more at: http://www.spliffseeds.nl/blog/cannabis-aroma-flavor-benefits/medical-marijuana-getting-to-know-terpenes.html#sthash.EzBOIczu.dpuf

Be Brave

SHOW ME HOW BIG IS YOUR BRAVE IS:

Brave- Sara Bareilles. 

You can be amazing

You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug

You can be the outcast

Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love

Or you can start speaking up

Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do

And they settle ‘neath your skin

Kept on the inside and no sunlight

Sometimes a shadow wins

But I wonder what would happen if you

Say what you wanna say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

Everybody’s been there, everybody’s been stared down

By the enemy

Fallen for the fear and done some disappearing

Bow down to the mighty

Don’t run, stop holding your tongue

Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live

Maybe one of these days you can let the light in

Show me how big your brave is

Innocence, your history of silence

Won’t do you any good

Did you think it would?

Let your words be anything but empty

Why don’t you tell them the truth?

Say what you wanna say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

http://youtu.be/TDu42cnB0zs

The Benefits Of Soaking Nuts And Seeds

The Benefits Of Soaking Nuts And Seeds:

Soaking nuts, grains, seeds, and legumes 

Nature has set it up so that the nut, grain and seed may survive until proper growing conditions are present. Nature’s defense mechanism includes nutritional inhibitors and toxic substances that can be removed naturally when there is enough precipitation to sustain a new plant after the nut, grain or seed germinates. When it rains the nut, grain or seed gets wet and can then germinate to produce a plant. So we are mimicking nature when we soak our nuts, grains and seeds......

http://wakeup-world.com/2012/03/04/the-benefits-of-soaking-nuts-and-seeds/

Disease or Dis-Ease?

Disease or Dis-Ease?:

Traditionally we have viewed disease as a degenerative process. Disease, however, is better understood when viewed as dis-ease in the human body. Dis-ease means “without ease.” For example, when we suffer the symptoms of a pinched nerve or nutritional deficiencies the mind and body are in dis-ease. Health is not merely the absence of disease; health is when every part of the body is working together effortlessly, relaxed, and at ease.

The Truth About Calories:

The Truth About Calories:

If you can’t even remember a time before the word “calorie” was consistently on your radar, it’s for good reason. And, not just because everywhere you look it’s “no calorie” this and “low-cal” that. Americans have been preoccupied by this little number for more than a hundred years. Since “scientific eating” trends came into vogue in the late 19th century, the ability to quantify aspects of the food we eat has been something of an obsession: Don’t we all want a simple formula for keeping track of how “good” or “bad” our diets are? In fact, there was even a 1923 romance novel, Outside Inn, that prominently featured calorie counting and nutritional science as themes. Yes, you read that right — two smitten love birds engaged in a sexy repartee about...calories. 

If you’ve ever fallen prey to a strict calorie-counting diet, you’re likely to see those numbers as something much more nefarious than what they actually are — simply a unit of measurement that expresses the amount of energy your body can extract from a food. (Actually, a true calorie is a really small measure of energy. The unit of measurement commonly read on food labels is normally a kilocalorie, or 1000 calories.) Unfortunately, determining what foods (and how much of them) you should eat isn’t really as easy as some caloric arithmetic, because, as we all know by now, not all calories are created equal. 

As a rule, different types of foods contain different numbers of calories. A gram of fat has nine calories; a gram of either protein or carbohydrates contains four calories. So, if you’re trying to cut down on calories — to lose or maintain your weight — you should just cut back on fats, right? Not so fast. 

In recent years, the tides have turned away from the simplistic “calories in versus calories out” approach to weight loss. In 2011, a long-term follow-up study involving more than 120,000 non-obese individuals was released; it was by far the most exhaustive study of its kind, following these men and women for up to 20 years and meticulously recording their weights and diets. And, contrary to popular opinion, the study showed that the types of food you eat matter quite a bit — so yes, it matters where your calories come from. Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of the study says, “What you eat makes quite a difference. Just counting calories won’t matter much unless you look at the kinds of calories you’re eating.” 

“The body breaks down macronutrients — fats, carbs and protein — differently,” says Amy Shapiro MS, RD, CDN of Real Nutrition NYC. “Carbs get broken down quickly and turned into sugar in our systems, fat and protein less quickly. So, carbs spike our insulin and blood-sugar levels, causing us to store fat if they are not used as energy.” She continues, “Fat and protein are broken down more slowly, so they keep us feeling full longer on fewer calories and do not cause as many hormonal spikes.” It’s important to weigh all the attributes of your food — its caloric composition, nutritional composition, and fiber composition — against each other. 

“One of the biggest misconceptions I encounter in my practice is the idea individuals have that if you dramatically reduce calorie count, then you’ll lose weight, says Marissa Lippert, MS, RD, dietitian and owner of a West Village restaurant, Nourish. She explains, “Most people will cut calories because they think it’s the best way to drop weight quickly. But, at bare minimum, most females should never go below 1,100 calories per day.” Your body needs calories just to work — to breathe, beat your heart, and regulate your body temp. In fact, an average 25-year-old woman uses approximately 1,300 calories just sitting around doing nothing. Add exercise, or even just walking to and from work, and you’ll need more calories.

When you go too low, calorically, you’re sending your body signals that a famine is near — probably not what you were going for. In response, your metabolism slows to a crawl and your body starts packing away fats to prepare for the metaphorical winter. So, if weight loss is your goal, then just blindly slashing the number of calories you consume each day isn’t going to do much. 

It’s also essential to realize that just because calories are in food, doesn’t mean that your body will absorb them. You can think of your body’s digestion system like breaking open a delicious piggy bank (a food) to grab all the money (calories) inside. But, sometimes, no matter how hard you shake that bank, it doesn’t crack open and you can’t get out those last, few quarters. Something similar happens with calories in cooked versus uncooked foods. 

When you cook a food, you’re basically breaking it down before you even put it in your body — cells split open, allowing your body to more easily access the stuff inside. When mice are given either cooked meat and sweet potatoes or raw meat and sweet potatoes, they gain more on the cooked stuff. So, when considering the number of calories in any food, it’s important to know that the number your body will actually absorb can vary. 

And, what about the epic battle between processed foods and whole foods? If you needed any further proof that a "light" snack of crackers and cheese whiz isn’t a winning nutritional combination — and that processed foods should be avoided generally — researchers have discovered that our bodies digest processed and whole foods in entirely different ways. In fact, in an experiment where participants were given a 600-800 calorie snack of either whole-grain bread with a slice of cheddar cheese, or refined white bread and a “cheese product,” participants expended twice the number of calories breaking down all that hearty, natural food than they did the processed. For this particular snack, that meant the whole grain snackers actually received 10% fewer net calories than the other group (because they expended so many of those calories breaking everything down). Throw out your Wonder Bread, ladies and gents. 

Keeping track of caloric intake is probably helpful — it gives us a rough idea of whether the amount of food we’re eating on any given day is reasonable. But, healthy nutrition has got to go way, way beyond just using your calculator watch to tally up two slices of bread. What we eat matters just as much as those pesky little calories. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/27/the-hidden-truths-about-calories/

http://www.refinery29.com/calories-in-food#page-2

Why Is Blessing Your Food So Important?

Why Is Blessing Your Food So Important?:

This article brings to light just how important the power of positive thinking and words of blessing can be.... 

Aloha~Angie *:0)

Knowledge Is Power, Right?

The more you educate yourself about food, the better choices you’ll make, right?

Imagine two identical twins. They both like to eat ice-cream.

The first twin has no pre-conceptions about ice-cream. She is happy to eat it. She enjoys it, appreciates it and when she is done, she has a big ol’ smile on her face and moves on with her day.

When you eat the ice-cream, the steak, the bread, the doughnut, or anything else, you can either be in alignment with it or you can have a charge about it.

The other twin, though, has read that ice-cream isn’t good for her health. She believes it has too much sugar, too much fat, too many chemicals. She thinks that ice-cream can make her fat. When she cracks open a tub, she doesn’t completely enjoy it. Every bite makes her feel guilty and when she’s done, she feels angry at herself for eating it.

Same food. Same genes. Same effect, right?

I haven’t actually performed this experiment but here’s my speculation: the same ice-cream can be either beneficial or destructive, depending on your state of mind, your beliefs and your attitude:

Twin #1 can eat ice-cream and it will serve her in the highest way possible. Her body will know exactly how to digest it and will process it in the optimal way. It will use what’s good and eliminate what’s bad.

Twin #2 will eat the same exact ice-cream but this time her body will reject it. It could give her a stomach ache, heartburn, or make her gain weight.

Here are examples of some typical thoughts that indicate you have a charge about eating this food:

This is not good for me.

It will make me fat.

I read that I shouldn’t be eating this.

I’m afraid I’m going to gain weight.

This food causes cancer.

This food has cholesterol.

This food has too much sugar.

This food has too many carbs.

Look at all those chemicals.

Too “white.”

Too salty.

This has gluten.

Animals were treated terribly and killed to make this.

Each of these thoughts has a strong effect on your body. They create stress and your body reacts to stress by shutting down and working in a less than an optimal way. If you ever felt nauseated during a stressful situation, you know what I’m talking about.

Before you put anything in your mouth, be aware of your thoughts. They can be quiet whispers or real complaints along the lines of: “I really shouldn’t be eating this.” If you’re thinking like that, you have two options:

Don’t eat it. Stick with foods you think are good for you or at least the food that has no charge.

Get in alignment with eating the food.

The first option is easy. If you think something is bad for you, it will be. Not because some book said it’s bad but because you think it’s bad and your body will not react well to it. Either don’t eat it or eat a small enough amount to make you feel comfortable.

The second option is better in the long term. You don’t want to deprive yourself of some delicious food for life, do you?

So how can you get in alignment with food you believe is not good for you?

You can start by blessing your food.

Bless Your Food:

When you give thanks for the food you’re about to eat, you raise its vibration and you get in alignment with eating it. 

Blessing food is nothing new. Jews and Christians have been blessing food for thousands of years — and they’re onto something. When you give thanks for the food you’re about to eat, you raise its vibration and you get in alignment with eating it.

Here’s how it can work:

Before you eat, close your eyes and put your palms together.

Think about the food you’re going to eat. Think about how good it’s going to taste. Think about how your body is a brilliant machine that can process this food easily.

Now thank the earth for growing the food, the farmers for planting it, the cashier at the supermarket for selling it to you. Thank anyone who was involved in bringing this food to your plate. Thank whoever prepared the food — even if it was you!

Now declare to yourself: “This food will serve me in the highest way possible!”

Finish by thanking your body for processing the food. Really feel thankful and appreciative for the food that you’re about to eat.

Your thoughts can have a huge impact on the frequency of an object to which you direct your attention

Can you feel how this simple process can raise the vibration of the food and prepare your body for a perfect and beneficial processing?

This is very different to the self-sabotaging thoughts I mentioned earlier. Now that you’re in alignment, you can go ahead and eat whatever is in front of you without feeling guilty.

Your body will react well to it because your thoughts really can change the food’s vibration!

If you’ve ever seen the experiments that Emoto has done with water crystals and rice bowls, you’ll know that your thoughts can have a huge impact on the frequency of an object to which you direct your attention.

You can just imagine how well your body can react to food that was blessed first instead of being consumed while experiencing fear and anxiety.

http://www.thevortex.me/whats-the-best-diet/