Planting Gardens in your Belly and Backyard / Issue #131 - May 28, 2008

Home Spa Lady's
Tips of the Week
Issue # 131 - May 28, 2008
Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
mailto:marilee777@aol.com
http://www.HomeSpaLady.com
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Home Spa Lady ~ Simple Solutions for Self-Care At Home
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In This Issue
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1. Planting Gardens in your Belly and Backyard

2. Essential Oil Tip: Action on Microbes
(video 1 minute 15 seconds)
(video 6 seconds)

3. Success Tip: H. Fred Ale

4. Recipe of the Week: Almond Fruit Smoothie

5. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week

6. The "Green Tea with Marilee" Show

** Learn Animal Communication

** Say Good-Bye. . . . . .
. . . . we are changing to a new format!

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1. Planting Gardens in your Belly and Backyard
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If someone says to you "go eat dirt!" they may
well mean it as a suggestion for your health.

Called "geophagy", eating dirt has been a
traditional practice which can give nutrients
to the body.

In Africa, pregnant women ate clay to consume
the minerals it contained. With slavery this
practice came to the United States and is still
in the south where family and friends send
"care packages" of good earth to expectant mothers.

I believe we all should put good bacteria in our
bellies to promote good digestion, but I can't say
I like the idea of literally "eating dirt".

A good probiotic and healthy food containing
acidophilus will "plant" and help improve the garden
that is growing in the gut (about 4 pounds of bacteria).

Adding probiotics and cultured foods can change the
population of the bacteria - fending off the bad guys
(pathogenic organisms) by bringing in the good guys
(yogurt, kefir).

I think the Life 5 product from Young Living is one of the
most superior probiotics that I have come across.
I've got to be honest, I wasn't that crazy about
YL's former probiotic product Royaldophilus, but
what we have now in Life 5 is superb.

Another Young Living product for the digestive system
that helps with eliminations (for people who are interested
in cleansing) called Comfortone has several excellent
ingredients, two being "of the earth".

Bentonite clay and diatomaceous earth are very
effective in absorbing toxins. This product has
at least 20 other ingredients that are effective in
supporting the health of the digestive system.

As far as the gardens in our backyards, you can give
your plants an excellent form of calcium that won't
cost you anything (if you already eat eggs).

Break up egg shells and sprinkle it around the base of your
plants, especially your vegetable plants.

I'm enjoying this irony. . . .
. . . .putting dirt in our bellies and food in our garden!


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2. Essential Oil Tip: Action on Microbes
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Therapeutic essential oils have an amazing ability to
get rid of pathogenic (that means bad) microbes (bacteria, etc)
and keep the normally occurring microbes.

This is different from the action of antibiotics where they
(antibiotics) often kill all the bacteria - good and bad.
This in turn leads to overgrowth of yeast (good bacteria keeps
yeast in check - when the good bacteria is not existing, yeast
can overgrow - also called candida).

http://snipurl.com/bellybackyardlife5 (video 1 min 15 sec)

6 second follow up video: my assistant in the last video, Mrs.
Froggy, resting with her friend Prin after the video shoot
http://snipurl.com/mrsfroggywithprin.

For more info or to order any of these Young Living products see
your Young Living Distributor or go to http://tinyurl.com/aenfp.


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3. Success Tip: H. Fred Ale
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"My green thumb came only as a result of
the mistakes I made while learning to see
things from the plant's point of view."

~ H. Fred Ale

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4. Recipe of the Week: Almond Fruit Smoothie
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Almond Fruit Smoothie

1 cup orange juice
1 cup frozen peaches
1 sm peeled banana peeled, and
cut into 1" chunks and frozen
2 tbl slivered almonds, toasted

Add juice to electric blender, then add remaining ingredients.
Blend until smooth.

Add one tsp of flax oil before blending and/or add an avocado!


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5. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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An old man lived alone in the country.

He wanted to dig over his tomato garden,
but it was very hard work as the ground was hard.

His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison.

The old man wrote a letter to his son and describe his
predicament:

Dear Vincent,

I am feeling pretty badly because it looks like I won't be able
to plant my Tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to
be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my
troubles would be over.

I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me.
Love, Dad

A few days later he received a letter from his son.

Dear Dad,
Don't dig up that garden. That's where I buried the bodies.
Love, Vinnie

At 4 a.m. The next morning, FBI agents and local police
arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies.
They apologized to the old man and left.

That same day the old man received another letter from his son!

Dear Dad,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do
under the circumstances.
Love, Vinnie


Thank You to Krista Hall RN, for this joke submission!


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6. The "Green Tea with Marilee" Show
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The place for natural health tips, product reviews,
and interview with experts in Alternative Medicine, Holistic
Nursing, Nutrition, Energy Healing, and Essential Oils.

Ask your most important question about natural health issues
and listen to the show for your answers!

Ask your question right now by going to:
http://www.GreenTeaWithMarilee.com

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Say Good-Bye!!!

This newsletter is changing to a new format!

When I first started this newsletter in November 2005, I
struggled with my decision on which type of format to use.

There was huge controversy among the experts whether "text" was
the way to go (this is a "text" newsletter) or "html", the kind
with pretty pictures.

The argument was this:

--Go with text! it gets past the spam filters and reaches more
people (but it's not so pretty)

--Go with HTML! it has a higher "open rate" and has more impact
on your readers (but it gets caught in spam filters)

How I handled this was to go back to my original intent which was
that I wanted to reach as many people possible. So text it was.

I love graphics, so not having them has been a challenge, but I
know I have reached more people than I would have had I used
html, so I am satisfied.

But now, as with everything in the online world, things are
moving fast along and changing. There are other options that can
provide both good distribution, open rate, and be visually
appealing (you know me - I love to put my videos in there when I
can!)

So you will be seeing a new format coming up.

This is what will happen in the future:

On Wednesday morning you will receive an email from me like you
normally would when you receive the newsletter.

This email will give you the topics in the newsletter and a link
that you will click to view the whole newsletter.

If you are an AOL user you probably will have to copy and paste
that link into your address bar on your browser rather than click
on it.

I am going to be anxious to see if you like the new format and to
hear any thoughts you have on the changes!

Here is a link to a survey for you to share your thoughts and
feedback:
http://snipurl.com/newtipsformatsurvey

You can even go there now to tell me what you think about the
upcoming change!

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Where to Meet, Hear, or Learn with Home Spa Lady:

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"Essential Oils for People and Pets"
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ONLY IF you are a participant in
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Listen to this call and learn about the
course. . .
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June 11 - 14, 2008

Rise to Excellence
Young Living Essential Oils Convention
Salt Lake City UT


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marilee777@aol.com
Phone: 856-857-1799 (East Coast)