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El Charro in San Juan, Puerto Rico — Mexican Food With Pleasure

Being new to the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, we quickly needed places to eat that would remind me of home. One of our favorite cuisines is Mexican, so we asked a friend if she new of any good Mexican restaurants in the area. She took us to her favorite, and it immediately became our favorite, too.

El Charro, in the Puerta de Tierra neighborhood of San Juan, sits quietly at the end of a busy yet narrow street in a working-class part of town. Parking is only available on the street, but there always seems to be plenty of it. Inside, the restaurant is fairly small upstairs, with six tables and a small counter area. There is additional seating downstairs, though, where they also hold concerts and special parties. The decor is simple but fun. Bright colors are splashed on walls where odd artifacts of Mexican heritage hang, including the required sombrero. The tables are a woven, almost wicker-like design, probably hand-made. Continue reading “El Charro in San Juan, Puerto Rico — Mexican Food With Pleasure”

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Cooking Time of Common Foods Using the George Foreman Grill

The George Foreman Grill is a revolutionary grilling machine that was introduced in the market in 1994. It was named after George Foreman, a famous world-class boxing champion who fought the legendary Muhammad Ali, among others.

Many are thankful for the conception of the George Foreman Grill mainly because it changed and improved the way people cook their food. There has been a lot of good reviews about this product not only because of the flavor retention it promotes but because the cooking time for most common foods are really cut short. Continue reading “Cooking Time of Common Foods Using the George Foreman Grill”

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How a Raw Vegan Diet Slows and Even Reverses Aging!

The raw vegan diet is a powerful one. It is the diet the human body was designed for and thrives on. Just think about it, all the other animals in the wild eat raw foods. Have you ever seen a lion or tiger with heart disease or cancer? Or how about a chimpanzee or Gorilla with grey hair or a belly? No, they are all beautiful, energetic and youthful until the day they die.

Most people don’t know what an amazing machine their body is because they feed it toxins and junk foods all day, which are killing them slowly instead of helping them thrive. When you eat a raw vegan diet, you will first detox; but once you get through that, and along the way, you will experience many amazing benefits. This article discusses how a raw vegan diet slows aging and even reverses it! Continue reading “How a Raw Vegan Diet Slows and Even Reverses Aging!”

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Koi Fish and Lion Tattoos

Koi Fish Tattoos – A sneak peek

So you have made an all important decision of getting a tattoo done on you. Once you have made this decision the next step is to decide on the design of tattoo that you want to get made. The range and variety of tattoo designs are endless and can be limited only by your imagination and creativity.

Koi fish tattoos are one of the most popular and most preferred of tattoo designs. Continue reading “Koi Fish and Lion Tattoos”

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Where Did All The Farmers Go?

Several times a year, I hear someone complain about the development of farm land in our area. These complainers consider it a crime that so much of our farm land has been converted to housing, business, shopping, etc. They seem to consider the farmers and developers to be criminals.

If you want to know why so many farmers have sold out to developers, allowed the land to grow houses instead of crops and left the farm life that their families enjoyed for generations – read on. Do you know why more and more farms are growing houses, stores and filling stations instead of cows, corn and potatoes? Do you know where the farmers went? Well, my father and I are farmers that left the farm. Most of our neighbors have too. Most of us still live in the area; we just don’t farm any more. Continue reading “Where Did All The Farmers Go?”

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Meal Prep For Busy People

Over the years I have mentioned to various people a recipe I use to make a very healthy, homemade vegetable soup. I’m big on preparing food in advance so that it is always available.

Recently, I was asked some specific questions so I thought I would write down everything regarding ingredients and preparation.

A 6 quart crockpot is needed.
The ingredients are mainly obtained at my local Trader Joe’s and are all organic.
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Yoga, Nutrition, Organic Food, Health & Wellbeing Have All in Recent Years Become Very Much Stylish

As Gsy Life gave me the theme for this month; I am sat in Planet Organic on Tottenham Court Road, amidst a flurry of people rushing to bag their supplements, gluten free crisps & organic veg, it is rammed wall to wall with funky Yoga Mat’s or bulging gym bags slung over shoulders. Queues are bustling and tills are bulging and there is a real buzz in the air. People are not only embracing the new trend of wellbeing, they actually seem genuinely excited to be taking care of themselves.

And yes, I feel stylish just being here! I’ve got the ‘gear’ on and have just ordered my healthy and nutritious salad, whilst taking a lunch break from training at a well-known London Yoga Studio, and yes it feels good to sit back and watch all this unwind in front of my eyes. I have spent much of my yoga career in and out of various global studios in all corners of the world, and, ironically a leading yoga teacher based in L.A. recently expressed to me how much she loved that London ‘was finally catching on!’ Continue reading “Yoga, Nutrition, Organic Food, Health & Wellbeing Have All in Recent Years Become Very Much Stylish”

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How to Overcome Emotional or Compulsive Eating

Have you ever felt so lonely that it made you grab that tub of ice cream on the refrigerator and eat it while your tears were flowing? Or have you ever felt so overjoyed that you ate a lot while laughing and talking to others about your exciting experience? Yes, we all love to eat no matter what the circumstance is. Food is a basic necessity in life. Even when we are not too emotional, we eat because it is a way of life.

Everyone knows that we eat to get nourishment and to stay healthy. But too much eating can put on excess body weight, which could lead to being unhealthy. Becoming overweight can be stressful. I know, I’ve been there. I was naturally slim but as I age, my metabolism becomes slower, thus, gaining those extra pounds on the scale. But I was able to overcome that. I won’t write here about how I lost weight but I’d like to focus on emotional eating. One of my online friends inspired me to write this. She broke up with her boyfriend, was able to move on, but is now getting emotional again. Oh well… Continue reading “How to Overcome Emotional or Compulsive Eating”

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Is Your Keto Diet Clean or Dirty?

At CrossFit Diet Tips we have wrote extensively about a good diet program for athletes. Whether you follow a keto style diet, or stick to a Paleo regimen, there are good ways and bad ways to do it. A name alone does not describe a particular diet program. You can follow one to the letter, but if the foods you are using are of poor quality, you may be doing more harm than good. In this article we will focus on the ketogenic (keto) diet.

A keto diet is defined as eating in a way for your body to produce ketones. Ketones are produced by the liver from fat and that process is triggered by eating very little carbohydtrates and a decent amount of protein. The ketones are used by the body for energy. Thus, a keto diet essentially burns fat as the body’s source of fuel. The fat is burned nonstop by your body. When your body produces ketones, it moves into a state of ketosis. The ketosis will burn fat without even worrying about fasting. That is, as long as you keep eating a ketogenic diet.

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Can You Cure Fibromyalgia With Fasting?

What a great question, and yes, I think you can. That’s not how I did it, but I have experimented with fasting a bit and have had some interesting results. First, let me say that I cured fibromyalgia with a combination of stretching, supplementation, guaifenesin therapy, bodywork, and emotional processing (trying to change the way I react to things to stop releasing so many stress chemicals in my body).

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