I don't know bout you but when I see a pomegranate fruit I just have to suck the bitter sweet center.  I find it irresistible picked straight from the bush.  I used to grow the dwarf variety for the all year round beauty of the plant in the garden.
The fruit the flower and the leaves in autumn are especially beautiful. Now we are learning of the health benefits as well.

Pomegranates have high levels of antioxidants and, according to US researchers, drinking just 1 glass of the fruit juice a day has been shown to keep prostate cancer at bay, and could even prevent men dying from the disease.

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The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution Six Steps to Optimal Control of Your Adult-Onset (Type 2) Diabetes

By Rob Thompson, Dana Carpender


The author of the popular The Glycemic- Load Diet reveals how to keep blood sugar stable for life Renowned diet author Robert Thompson brings you a scientifically-proven low-starch diet and exercise program that promises to stabilize blood sugar in just 7 days. Dr. Thompson has changed the way we think about treating diabetes--and kept his own under control for 10 years--with his theory that starch, not sugar, is the number one cause behind this chronic condition. With delicious low-starch recipes and the latest medical information on how to avoid the complications of diabetes, The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution shows you how to stabilize your blood sugar for life, while still enjoying a satisfying, well-balanced diet.

Table of Contents
The Low-Starch Diabetes Solution Part One: The Tasteless Toxin That Brings on Diabetes Introduction Chapter 1: A Gift From the Mediterranean Chapter 2: Lowering Blood Sugar the Old-Fashioned Way Chapter 3: Glycemic Load: The New Old Way Chapter 4: The Culprit Chapter 5: What Starch Does to Your Body Chapter 6: Starch's Slippery Mimic Chapter 7: The Starch-Vulnerable Individual: Insulin Resistance Chapter 8: Things That Get Better When You Eliminate Starch Chapter 9: Why We Are Addicted Part Two: Six Steps to Optimal Control Chapter 10: Step One: Eliminate Starch Chapter 11: Step Two: Inhibit Starch Absorption Chapter 12: Step Three: Sensitize Your Muscles to Insulin Chapter 13: Step Four: Sensitize Your Liver to Insulin Chapter 14: Step Five: Make Up Any Insulin Deficit With Insulin Chapter 15: Step Six: Optimize Your Cholesterol and Blood Pressure Part Three: Low-Starch Eating Chapter 16: Starch Substitutes That Taste Better Than Starch Chapter 17: The Art of Baking With Starch-Free Flours Chapter 18: 7 Days of Low-Starch Menus

About the Author
Rob Thompson, M.D. (Seattle, WA) is a board-certified cardiologist in private practice who has counseled patients with high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease for more than 25 years. He is on staff at Swedish Hospital Medical Center in Seattle and is the author of The New Low-Carb Way of Life as well as The Glycemic-Load Diet.

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_ Pomegranates are such a beautiful looking fruit I can hardly walk past a bush with them growing on without wanting to pick and suck the bitter sweet unusual fruit. 

Pomegranates have high levels of antioxidants and, according to US researchers, drinking just 1 glass of the fruit juice a day has been shown to keep prostate cancer at bay, and could even prevent men dying from the disease.

_SORRY THIS BOOK IS NO LONGER FREE>Amazon does alter prices at their discretion. It was free when I posted this blog and I got my own free copy.
This $9.99 (what I assume would be healthy eating but have not checked yet) Book is FREE to download from Kindle today and if you don't have a Kindle, don't worry just download the apt for FREE on to your computer from Amazon
Diabetes Diet: Fast And Quick Recipes
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Descripton: Important Notice: Buy today as there will be a probable price increase! A diabetes diet is a guide that tells you how much and what kinds of food you can choose to eat at meals and snack times. A good meal plan should fit in with your schedule and eating habits. Some m...

_Does repositioning your behind in the seat as you read and write, constitute exercise? lol - OK - I know I have to make up for this wonderfully contentedly, productive day though sedentary activity day.
Reg is happy playing with fishing lures, reading fishing mags and watching the cricket, I guess we will both need to walk the dog to the lake later - for now, back to contentment :-)

_ Summer Dehydration Warning:

Anyone can lose weight. Just dehydrate.

Your body is mainly composed of water. Water is as essential to your life as oxygen. In good health you can only live for three days without water. In sickness or infancy this might only be twenty-four hours. Dehydration will show as weight loss. This is not something to become elated about. Get off the scales, eat a balanced diet and drink plenty of fluids, preferably  water.

Remember that soda water and caffeine are both calcium robbers. Combine both of these and drink coke soft drinks and you have a strong bone density destroying mixture in your body as your body draws calcium from your bones to re-alkalize your blood steam. 


Technical information:

Textbook of Medical Physiology states that "the total amount of water in a man of average weight (70 kilograms) is approximately 40 litres, averaging 57 percent of his total body weight.

In a newborn infant, this may be as high as 75 percent of the body weight, but it progressively decreases from birth to old age, most of the decrease occurring during the first 10 years of life. Also, obesity decreases the percentage of water in the body, sometimes to as low as 45 percent.

There is not, and cannot be, a figure that is exactly the same for all people. Jackson's (1985) Anatomy & Physiology for Nurses gives a figure of 60% for the proportion of body-weight attributable to water

_Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Music Videos This reminds me of my mum. Mum loved classical music and Christmas carols were the Mormon Tabernacle Choir or the Herald Sun Aria winner guest appearance on Carols by Candlelit - that was when people performed more for the quality of voices than pop star or TV fame personality and I loved that music.

I could not see this Mormon Tabernacle Choir name without thinking of my mum. (((Hugs)) to all who don't have a parent they loved with them this Christmas.

Not sure when it stopped hurting, (mum not being around at Christmas) but it doesn't anymore. Too long ago when I said goodbye to my mum. Gotten close to her though my novel - she wanted to write one and didn't - so I'm doing it for both of us. oh lol, I always did waffle :-). Should have written novels decades ago.


79 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Music Videos www.lds-videos.org‎
79 LDS Christmas Music Videos covering The Nativity. Singing by the The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, with some guests.

_I was in the Shepparton Base Hospital waiting area the other day and saw a very outdated food pyramid on show that showed we should eat mostly carbohydrate food. Thee examples given were of white pasta and grain plus potato.  I thought the potato was fine but 'white refined grains'?   I am a whole grain advocate and still think in the 1970's term of 'pure white and deadly' where it comes to my grain choice.

The dietary guidelines outlining what foods Australians should be eating have been updated for the first time in eight years.New draft advice from the National Health and Medical Research Council gives more detail about what kinds of food help reduce chronic diseases.

The council says the rising incidence of obesity and diabetes shows Australians need to re-assess their diets.

The draft also outlines the dietary needs of pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and babies from as young as seven months old for the first time.

Review committee chairwoman Doctor Amanda Lee says the new advice is based on a comprehensive review of the latest scientific evidence.

"What we have now is greater differentiation between different types of food; for example for the vegetable group we now know that we need to eat a variety of different types and colours to decrease our risk of various kinds of cancer," she said.