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Baby boomer wanting to be healthy
Kombucha, rejuvelac, Kefir grains, foot reflexologyA baby boomer wanting to be healthy
Date: 10/6/2005 9:26:50 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 2632 times I'm a baby boomer turning 60 next year. The 60's,,,,, we ate rice and vegetables, drank a lot of beer and toked a little herb. The is a journey of why I am as healthy as I am today in spite of a bout with alcholism, drug dabbling, smoking cigarettes, an illegal abortion, will probably think of more as I get into this blog.
I was raised in a small farming community in Northeast Pennsylvania, so I do remember what "raw" milk tastes like. I also know what eating vegetables taste like in the garden warmed by the warm air and sun.
Picking berries (strawberries, blackberries and blueberries) from the bush or hidden on the ground. The blackberries were the most fun to eat, because we knew there were some mean cows that protected their blackberry bushes, nothing more exciting than seeing a bull with a ring in his nose when you found a full bush of blackberries. The strawberries were on the hill behind our house, the neighbor's mother planted some "domesticated" berries and they mixed with the "wild" strawberries and every once in a while you ran across one that was "huge" and it tasted like a wild berry (which was sweeter). Of course I always ate more berries than I picked, on the other hand my sister would pick a pailfull and when she got home, she got the berry shortcake and I, on the other hand, bringing home only about an inch of berries (ate most of them) so I got no shortake.
We ate from the garden, peas, stringbeans, corn, ugh squash, potatoes, onions (scallions yum), radishes, dandilion greens, leaf lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes. Since meat was very expensive we centered all our meals around the garden in the summer and canned vegetables in the winter... Not that mom was a health nut, we just didn't have that much money to feed a family of 6 meat every day.
Let's not forget sugar "The Cuban invasion", the price of sugar doubled. Our house "Kool Aid" with only 1/2 cup of sugar, not much use in drinking colored water, so we resorted to "tea" and I have always loved coffee (another addiction)
I also remember the "I've got a tummy ache" and the reply was "maybe you need an enema, oh man not an enema, so went to school with the perceived "tummyache", but if I had a real "tummy ache" I do know the enema did make things better.......
I'm going to add to this!!! Throughout my life I have always relied on my common sense about what is good for my body, no matter what state of mind I was in.
I will relay that in July of this year I had a "colon crisis" let's call it a big impact, I still had to go to work, nite shift, maintenance and stay in generally good spirits. What I did, good and bad, how I am going forward, one baby step at a time, a little trial and error and how I would have done it differently... Rejuvelac and foot reflexology got me thru the first part of it, did an enema after 50 years of getting out of them, how thinking I was never going to ever poop again. Sure hoping that I didn't have cancer, IBS, Chrons etc..
I have virtually worked on my colon the past three months and just when I seem to be making good progress, something always screws it up, so here I am again trying to see what works. Right now I am into probiotics, I drink rejuvelac (fermented wheatberries or rye). ordered my Kombucha mushroom (need to find gallon jugs), hoping to start Kefir grain want to find a raw source of cow or goat's milk.
All I know is I passed the major part of the crisis and want to get my body is very good health. I don't want to get into pharmacy drugs to feel good, I want to do it naturally.......
Wish me luch I have a lot of ideas and they have to be cheap, you know the price of everything is skyrocketing and my salary isn't,,,
Catch you all later............
Hippeesandee
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