Home Spa Lady Tips Issue #48 From the Belly of the Pumpkin/ Healthy Treats/Silly Tricks

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Tips of the Week
Issue # 48 - October 25, 2006
Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
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In This Issue
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1. From the Belly of the Pumpkin
2. Home-Made Last Minute Halloween Costumes
3. The Not So Sweet News . . Healthy Treats / Silly Tricks
4. Essential Oil Tip: Sugar Scrubs
5. Success Tip: Socrates
6. Recipe of the Week: Frozen Jack O'Lanterns
7. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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1. From the Belly of the Pumpkin
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Pumpkin Seeds - or Cucurbita Seeds are full of nutrients! . . .. .
such as protein, fiber, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese,and phosphorous, as well as the amino acids arginine and glutamicacid. They also contain calcium, potassium, zinc, selenium,folate, and niacin. And they are also a source of linolenic acid(which is believed to help prevent hardening of the arteries).
Here are some of the things that munching on a small handful ofseeds can help with:
--Calm an irritated and overactive bladder occasionallyassociated with bedwetting (Germany's Commission E has approvedusing pumpkin seeds for bedwetting and other bladder problems)
--Get rid of intestinal parasites (the ingredient cucurbitin inthe seeds is believed to paralyze the worms over time forcingthem to lose their grip and get expelled from the body)
--Help with symptoms of prostate enlargement (the use of theseseeds for this problem is traced back to Native Americanhealers). A clinical trial done using pumpkin seeds for BPH(Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy) showed improvements in symptomssuch as post-void dribbling, weak urine flow, and time spenturinating in many of the participants. Fifty-threemen with BPH took part in this three-month, double-blind studycompleted in 1990.

You can get nutrients and benefits from pumpkin seeds inmany forms, such as:
--The seed itself
--Pumpkin seed oil
--Dried herb
--TeaYou can buy the seeds in health food stores either in the shellor already shelled. And you can get them raw or roasted.The oil is wonderful, we get ours from Donna Gates (author "BodyEcology Diet").
Like most oils, it goes rancid so you do need tokeep it refrigerated.
Here's a great recipe for getting rid of those parasites andworms:
--Make an emulsion by grinding up the seeds, mixing them withsome sugar (or honey) and some milk (or water)
--Sip this mixture in three daily doses, ingesting a total ofabout 2 ounces of the emulsion.
--Alternatively, make a tea with the ground seeds by infusingthem in hot water; allow the brew to cool slightly beforestraining and sipping. Don't take more than 16 ounces atone time.
Here's a tip for men who are interested in good prostate health- preventing enlargement, or even helping your treatment along:chew a handful of these seeds every day!Make them in an easy and delicious way at home - from your ownpumpkins! Harvest the seeds yourself from your freshpumpkins or other squash as well. You then roast them slowly onan oiled baking sheet in a 250 degree oven until crisp.
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2. The "Not So Sweet" News Continues . . .or does it?======================================================
Healthy Halloween Treats / Silly Tricks
Should we even bother to talk about the sugar issue this week? Imean, it is Halloween and all. . .
How about if we skip the heavy "should and should nots" - leavingthat for later, and just read some suggestions on healthyalternatives for the Treats. Or skip the Treats and just do theTricks!
Healthy Halloween Treats:
--Small box of raisins
--Bag of peanuts still in shell
--Juice boxes
--Individually wrapped fruit cups
--Dollar store Halloween themed pencils / erasers
--Colored Chalk
--Stickers
--Temporary TattoosSilly

Halloween Tricks:

--After you give them candy, hand the trick-or-treaters a bill
--Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse,and don't move or say anything until the trick-or-treaters goaway.
When you answer the door, hold up one candy bar, throw itout into the street, and yell, "Crawl for it!"
--Insist that the trick-or-treaters each do ten push-ups beforeyou give them any candy
--Hand out menus to the trick-or-treaters and let them ordertheir own candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the winelist
--Answer the door dressed as a dentist. Angrily give the trick-or-treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay
--Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close thedoor. Open it again in a few seconds, and insist that you don'thave any candy
--Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne onyour porch. Insist that all of the trick-or-treaters bow beforethe pumpkin
For more Halloween silliness: http://tinyurl.com/y56wxk
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3. Home-Made Last Minute Costumes
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--Cat woman
Black ears
Black leotard
Black tights
Black boots
Make tail out of black felt
Black lipstick and nail polish

--I Dream of Jeanie

Use a tube top for the top, and cut off a red vest for thejacket. Use baggie pants that can be dyed pink and an old pair of ballet shoes.


--China Doll

White and Red Face Makeup
Thong Slippers
Kimono Dress
Paint face white and add red rosy cheeks shaped in a circle.
Put hair in buns, wear thong slippers and the kimono(Chinese dress).

--Frazzled Housewife

Wear your hair in rollers, put on a green facial mask or greenface paint, wear pajamas, black socks, ratty slippers and a dirtybathrobe tied cock-eyed. Put a TV Guide and a remote in yourpocket, carry a crusty spatula, optional cigarette hanging out ofmouth, use brown eyeshadow under your eyes to make bags.

--Instant Old

Apply base make-up all over face and neck. "Scrunch" up your facefirst to emphasize your "natural" wrinkles, and apply make-upthat is lighter than your natural skin-tone (work on a small areaat a time for best results). Then "de-scrunch" and fill in thecreases using a soft brown eye-liner pencil. Create sunken cheeksby darkening the cheek hollows. Emphasize the creases around yournose, and darken along your jaw line. Create crows feet by youreyes. Pucker up your lips to create wrinkles around your mouth.Add liver spots, broken capillaries, etc. Blend everything with amake-up sponge. If you use make-up with a small amount of yellowadded, you'll get a more realistic look. Use the same techniqueson your hands for more realism. When you are all done, power allover with baby powder to set make-up and give a dry skinappearance. You can also use baby powder to make your hair lookgray.

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4. Essential Oil Tip: Sugar Scrubs
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Sugar Scrubs are wonderful exfoliants.Yes, there are plenty of home-made recipes for sugar scrubs whereyou can add your essential oils, but why bother with time andtrouble when you can simply add sugar to your favorite essentialoil bath gel?My two favorite bath gels are both from Young Living.Morning Start has lemongrass, rosemary, juniper, and peppermint.Evening Peace has sandalwood, geranium, rosewood, lemon, bluetansy, jasmine, roman chamomile, bergamot, ylang ylang,palmarosa, and clary sage.Add a dime size dollop of gel in your palm, cover it with sugarand scrub on your body.A good way to do this is run a bath for yourself, stand in thefilled bathtub using the tub water to wet and rinse your skin.After the scrub, do a soak.
Order these bath gels from your Young Living distributor or
by going to http://tinyurl.com/aenfp
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5. Success Tip: Socrates
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"Wisdom begins in wonder."

Socrates
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6.Recipe of the Week: Frozen Jack O'Lanterns
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Frozen Jacks (Serves many!)
24 navel oranges
24 cinnamon sticks
1 gallon chocolate ice cream or Rice Dream

--Cut off the tops of the oranges
--Hollow out the orange,leaving the thick shell of the navelorange
--Cut faces into the oranges (you can even do this as a contestor party activity)
--Pack the ice cream into the orange, without letting any icecream come out of the eyes, nose or mouth.
--Cut a small hole in the top and put the top back onto theorange
--Stick a piece of cinnamon stick in the hole, to make it looklike a pumpkin stem
--Freeze for at least three hours.

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7. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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THE TOP TEN SIGNS YOU ARE TOO OLD FOR TRICK-A-TREATING:

--10. You become winded from knocking on the door.
--9. You hire a kid to chew the candy for you.
--8. You ask for high fiber candy only.
--7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose yourbalance.
--6. People say, "Great Mask!" and you're not wearing one.
--5. When the door opens you yell, "Trick or...." and forget therest.
--4. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of restrainingorders.
--3. You have to carefully choose a costume that won't dislodgeyour hairpiece.
--2. You need to keep a check on your pacemaker.
--1. You avoid going to houses where your ex-husbands live.

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