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Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Cake!

Posted by Janet Demeter on December 24, 2009

If you’re going to indulge, this is good stuff!!

Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Cake

with Whipped Cream Frosting

1 Dr. Oetker’s organic chocolate cake mix

3 eggs, room temp

½ c. butter, room temp

2/3 c half-&-half

½ can (6-8 oz) pumpkin (room temp)

1/8 t ground cloves

1/8 t nutmeg

1+ T cinnamon

1 T coffee

2-3 T organic cane sugar

1/2 c raisins

Cream butter and then add pumpkin, eggs, and all other extra ingredients, then blend in the cake mix. Butter and flour a 10″ spring form pan or 2, 9’ inch cake pans, preheat oven 325. After pouring into pan(s), cover top with raisins then gently nudge them beneath the surface.  In big pan, cook at 315 for 40 min. 2 small pans, cook at 300 for 30 min. Let cool with cloth cover, then cover and chill

Icing:

2 pints heavy cream, 1 packet Knox gelatin, 2 T vanilla extract, 2T granulated sugar, pinch sea-salt, 1/4c powdered sugar, 2t cinnamon

Heat 1c of cream on low and sprinkle knox slowly into cream when it’s hot. Pinch salt and sugar will help it dissolve. A little extra vanilla won’t hurt either. Take small strainer and pour into coffee mug or small bowl when done and let cool to room temp. Put the rest of cream in chilled mixing bowl (I set mine in ice-water pan) and whip the cream, blending in vanilla, sugar, cinnamon. Slowly drizzle your gelatin cream when cool. Let it get super thick. It will set firmer in the fridge after icing cake. Dust top of cake with cocoa and cinnamon. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

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Total Health Awareness

Posted by Sadiqua Hamdan on December 24, 2009

I believe it’s important to help people understand and appreciate the importance of applying all parts of health to our life and to attack the root causes of what ails us, not just the symptoms.  Total health is about understanding how each initiative we take affects the whole body.  Our bodies have the natural ability to heal and move towards health and balance given the right tools and conditions.

Why Do We Choose to Self-Medicate?

We choose to self-medicate and use products full of synthetic, processed ingredients to treat our issues — from recurring yeast and bladder infections, colds, acne, allergies and fatigue. You name it, and there’s a product on the shelf of a grocery store or pharmacy that can take care of it.

Why? Because we want instant relief.  But who wouldn’t? Yet, we misunderstand and treat our symptoms instead of the disease. For example, every symptom of a cold or flu is a symptom of detoxification.  What are the major symptoms? High fevers (the body’s way of burning waste and bacteria); the pores of the skin open for profuse sweating; diarrhea, chills (to generate internal heat), vomiting, and coughing up mucus – all cleansing actions.[1]

This is a way that the body can violently and quickly get rid of the unprocessed metabolic waste.  Instead, we start taking all kinds of antihistamine cold pills, antibiotics and drugs to try to stop the body’s correct response because we misunderstand what’s going on.  Advertising strives to convince us that symptoms are universally bad, and this is how they sell “relief.”[2] We are given a false sense of feeling healthy again.

If we simply take steps now to help strengthen our immune system, naturally, then our bodies will become sick less often!

[1] Jenson, B., Anderson, M.  (1990) Empty Harvest: Understanding the link between our food, out immunity, and our planet. New York, NY: Avery.

[2] Ibid.

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Love Is The Reason For The Season

Posted by Annette Presley on December 24, 2009

Tomorrow is Christmas, the celebration of the incarnation when God came down and became one of us. He became a man. I’m struck by the love behind this act. Jesus was willing to leave the life and fellowship He knew in heaven to enter into our fallen world; a world that had been lied to about the Father.

As man, Jesus experienced what we experience, yet He held to the truth about His Father. He experienced the lies we believe about ourselves and about God. We believe that we are not…attractive, valuable, worthy, loved. We believe God is angry and disappointed in us, like Adam did when he hid in the garden. But those are the lies Satan tells us.

Here is the truth:

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son (John 3:16). Nothing can separate us from the love of God (Rom. 8:37-39). We are God’s masterpiece, created anew in Christ Jesus to do the good works God planned for us long ago (Eph. 2:10).

Jesus did not just bear our sins and our wicked and deceitful hearts. He did not just bear the fall and the lies and darkness. He took all that separated us from His Father and buried it with Him on the cross. Then, He rose from the dead and raised us with Him as a new creation with a new heart; a heart with God’s love written on it. But He didn’t stop there. Jesus ascended to His Father and took us with Him, restoring our relationship with the Father.

Now, we are children of God. How many of you love your children? God loves you even more. He is proud of you and He has a purpose for you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Jesus has done everything that needs to be done. All we have to do is accept it and live it.

Love is truly the reason for the season, and what a marvelous love it is! I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp who wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

I wish you all a very merry Christmas.

Annette Presley RD LD CPT, Chief Nutritionist for Liberation Wellness
Annette has been a registered dietitian for over 17 years and discovered several years ago that every thing she learned in school was wrong and the nutrition advice we dispense in this country actually causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity. She is now dedicating her life to getting the truth out so people can live a truly healthy life. She is founder of Find Your Weigh online at findyourweigh.com.

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