And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.– Genesis 1:29
There’s a big problem with our society and Western Medicine: We’ve been led to believe that all of our ailments (even shedding pounds) can be done with a pill created in a lab.
In the early 80s, my wife and our two children moved to Austria. Almost immediately, we began to experience some of the foreign strains of flus and viruses in our new surroundings. This is when we discovered that the Austrians had a very different view of medications than what we were accustomed to in the US.
No medications were available at the time “over-the-counter.” Our children had developed quite a cough, so we asked our Austrian neighbor what she …
You know you’re enjoying cayenne peppers when your eyes are watering, your nose is running and you break out in a sweat!
On the Scoville scale of heat units, cayenne peppers come in at 30-50,000! To put that in perspective, pepperoncini comes in at just 100-500 and jalapeno peppers score 2,500-8,000. So when it comes to hot, cayenne peppers push the limits of most palates. (Though there are many peppers that are even hotter!)[1]
Have you ever been nearly knocked over by someone’s extremely bad breath? Nothing repels us more quickly and obnoxiously than a foul odor. The person may have something very important to say, but the fetid stink coming from their mouths is so repulsive we can think of nothing else but to flee!
Americans spend an estimated $3 billion per year on breath fresheners, so bad breath is no minor issue![i] In fact, New York Times health columnist …
In the 1964 comedy, The Disorderly Orderly, the hospital orderly Jerome Littlefield (played by Jerry Lewis) had a serious problem. Every day that he came to work at the hospital, sick people surrounded Jerome. His problem was that he suffered an extreme case of hypochondria!
So every time someone (usually an elderly person) described in detail the symptoms of their illness or condition, Jerome imagined himself contracting their ailments! At the time, only an uninhibited actor like Jerry Lewis could …
