Posts Tagged ‘February 2011’
COMMENTARY: Changing your diet
By Randall Grey There are so many products in our cupboards and refrigerators today that contain High Fructose Corn Syrup. If you were to look at the ingredients of the products which are in your cupboard or refrigerator right now, you will find an ingredient called High Fructose Corn Syrup. Just in my home alone, I found it in the cereals, canned vegetables, ice creams, some of the dips, salad dressings, mayonnaise, jams and jellies, sodas, frostings, pie fillings, flavored waters and also in some of the sauces. After looking at all the food items consumed daily, almost every thing in every meal, contains High Fructose Corn Syrup. And just think, these are just in the products in our own homes that contain this substitute additive. Now, imagine how much of this substitute food additive is in foods we eat in restaurants. (more…)
Anyone living in the Backyard area can help their community to improve health
By Janice Barbee, Cultural Wellness Center The Backyard Initiative was started two years ago as a community partnership between Allina Hospitals and Clinics and the residents of Phillips, Powderhorn Park, Central, and Corcoran which has the goal of improving the health of the community. Health is defined as 1) a state of physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being; it is not only the absence of infirmity and disease, 2) the state of balance, harmony, and connectedness within and amongst many systems ”“ the body, the family, the community, the environment, and culture; it cannot be seen only in an individual context, and 3) an active state of being; it cannot be achieved by being passive. This definition of health is not just a state of being ”“ it is a process of becoming, and the residents of the Backyard are using this description of health to become healthier. They are actively working on projects which increase balance, harmony, and connectedness within the [...]
