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Health Tips for Body, Mind and Heart

Boost your body, heart and mind with only 5 simple things.

Unhealthy lifestyle. It’s a general contributor of our largest health problems: stroke, diabetes, heart disease, cancer. Nation’s top physicians recommend to keep your heart, body and mind in optimally good health.

Here is good advice from top medical researchers.

Exercise daily

You are brushing your teeth every day; in the same way do exercise as a daily routine habit. Turn off the TV or computer, and do exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. Continue reading “Health Tips for Body, Mind and Heart”

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10 Helpful Tips That Will Get You Witnessing to Strangers

Want to start witnessing to more people more often? Let me share ten tips with you.

Tip 1

Practice starting conversations.

At five o’clock in the afternoon at a set of traffic lights you see a businessman or woman waiting to cross the road. They are across the road from the entrance to the train station. An opening line might be: Continue reading “10 Helpful Tips That Will Get You Witnessing to Strangers”

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To Fight Cavities, Drink More Coffee

Scientists have known for years that coffee has chemical properties that prevent tooth decay. This finding seems to fly in the face of common sense. After all, doesn’t coffee stain one’s teeth? To be fair, yes, coffee can stain a person’s teeth or dentures. The pigment in coffee is dark and can stain many porous surfaces. Those who brush their teeth regularly (two to three time per day) should have no reason to worry about coffee staining their teeth. Continue reading “To Fight Cavities, Drink More Coffee”

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Things To Consider When Buying A Cappuccino Machine

Cappuccino makers have a small difference with coffee makers because they use steam or pressure to force the water through the finely ground coffee. The pressure or steam in the machines can also be used in frothing milk. You will therefore have an added advantage when you have a cappuccino maker even when you have a coffee maker.

The machines come in different types and you might want to get familiar with the types so you are able to make a proper decision because each comes with its pros and cons. The most common machine types are steam cappuccino machines, pump cappuccino machines and pod machines. Whereas it is important to choose the most suitable type for your cappuccino making needs, there are general factors that should be considered when buying the best machine. These are the factors that will determine how valuable and useful your machine turns out to be. Continue reading “Things To Consider When Buying A Cappuccino Machine”

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Desserts That Are Served With Coffee

My favorite part of a meal, is of course dessert! My husband and I love entertaining, and when we do we try to make dessert the most spectacular part of the meal. We always strive to serve something sweet and decadent that goes well with a delicious cup of gourmet coffee, such as Jamaican Blue Mountain or Kona coffee. This is actually quite simple to do as many desserts are meant to be served with an after dinner cup of gourmet coffee.

Let me start by saying my all time favorite dessert, with or without coffee, and that would be Tiramisu. Tiramisu is an Italian cake dessert that is literally translated to me “pick me up” or “make me happy”. This dessert will definitely make anyone happy as it incorporates ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks and mascarpone, and flavored with liquor and cocoa. It truly is the perfect pick up after a meal, and even though it is a very decadent dessert, the coffee in it truly does pick you up a bit. I like to serve the Tiramisu with the same type of coffee that was used in the recipe. This makes for a cohesive dessert that is amazing from start to finish! Continue reading “Desserts That Are Served With Coffee”

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What Can Spoil Camping Faster? Bugs!

What can spoil a camping trip faster than the sun can set in Hawaii? Bugs! Camping, in my opinion, is easily the best recreational pastime you can share in. You can go at it with great gusto like climbing a mountain or it can be a leisurely walk on a trail through a meandering meadow. Absolutely everyone can go camping. But there is nothing short of a hurricane that can spoil a camping trip faster than insects. At the outset, let me admit openly that my experience with bugs are north North America.

My travels have been as a tourist, so I have never tramped the jungles of Central America, although I have encountered some very small biting insects in Mexico, kind of like my black fly, and only just for a couple of hours after sunset. Been to Europe, even northern Europe and had no trouble. Southern Europe and the Balkans nothing. Well that’s not quite true. On a Greek island I encountered a cockroach in my bathroom. It was the clicking of his feet on the tile floor that woke me up. I eventually got him but he was so big he wouldn’t flush.

In Canada I have experience. I have been in some of the worst infested areas and could go on and on bragging about survival. Lets deal with the biting kind one at a time. Continue reading “What Can Spoil Camping Faster? Bugs!”

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The Aboriginal Dream Time and the Great Flood Part Three

Part three of a three part series

Many times, when animals are under stress, or when they hibernate, they consume little or no food, and often recycle their own waste to survive, making feeding them less of an challenge.

When the ice meteor struck the earth it unleashed a deluge causing the ice caps to begin melting, and underground explosions that released hot gases and water from under the earth’s surface.

The water vapor canopy that once covered the earth began to dissipate and caused it to rain for forty days and nights as described in the bible Continue reading “The Aboriginal Dream Time and the Great Flood Part Three”

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Plato, Carbon and the Human Survival Chemistry of the New Renaissance

The world of nanotechnology demonstrates that the ancient Greek Science for Ethical Ends holds a crucial survival message for modern humanity. 21st Century Moral Jurisprudence Law, based upon Immanuel Kant’s definition of aesthetics, as art appreciation theory, has no present practical scientific ethical content. However, aesthetics and ethics link together, through a process known as quantum entanglement, where they function together within the world of quantum nano biotechnology. Aristotle’s harmonic ethical knowledge to guide a science about ennobling government, for the health of the universe, has been given practical validation with the discovery of a new rigorous chemistry embracing the ancient ethical science. Continue reading “Plato, Carbon and the Human Survival Chemistry of the New Renaissance”

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4 Things That Make a Good Coffee Shop

I have traveled all over the country. And with every place I’ve visited, I’ve sipped on my favorite beverage, coffee, in many different coffee shops. I have never been a person to just stop at the nearest coffee chain for my coffee fix either. I’ve always been one to look for the “mom and pop” type coffee place. The places whose character is formed by the owners, staff and those who frequent the shop.

Below are the top four things I think create a coffee shop’s character and make it what it is.

Music

To me, music can impact anything. Your mood, your energy, and well, your coffee shop. Music can greatly enhance or totally destroy the vibe of a cafe. I feel like a coffee shop should be consistent in the type of music it plays to its customers. If it plays calming acoustic music one day, but dance music the next, customers may not know what to expect. While variety can be a great thing, attracting a consistent type of customer base might not work out so well if a shop’s music is too diverse. A perfect example of not being consistent is when one of my favorite coffee shops played electronic music consistently and then one day blared vulgar rap music. I had to leave so I could get my work done. Continue reading “4 Things That Make a Good Coffee Shop”

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Wine Glossary – Drinking in the Greek Language

Every wine producing region in the world has its own lingo. The French have terms for wine that the Hungarians don’t, the Americans have terms for wine that the Australians don’t, and the Italians have terms for wine that the Germans don’t. In fact, in the entire wine world, the only term that may transcend nations is the word translated to mean, “More.”

Greece, like the above areas, also has its share of wine jive, jive that is, forgive me, Greek to many of us. For those of us who aren’t travelers, this may seem like no big deal. But, for those who are planning to hop on a plane and bask in the Balkans, being somewhat versed in words of winery will be helpful. So kick off your sandals, loosen your toga, and pull up a chair….iot.

Archondiko: Now, if I were to guess, I would say that Archondiko is some sort of anchovy flavored wine. Turns out, I’m wrong (sorry to disappoint you). Archondiko translates roughly to mean “Chateau,” which is a house located in a vineyard. In Greece, the word Archondiko can be found on bottles of Topikos Oenos Wines, country wines usually made with several different kinds of grape. Continue reading “Wine Glossary – Drinking in the Greek Language”