Health Benefits of Fennel

I know this is really random, every once in a while I will find an article that I really like, and would like to keep for future reference. I am glad to learn all this, I cook with fennel daily. This is borrowed from the diet promise blog

Fennel's small yellow umbel's seem to dance in the breeze off the coast of the Mediterranean. The plant is only native in that part of the world but now grows in most places as a naturalized herb. In early Greek history fennel was widely used as a weight control product. British herbalist Culpeper wrote fennel plant "are much used in drink or broth to make people lean that are too fat". Before you run out to the store to buy fennel seed it has not been studied to see if it actually has any appetite suppressant qualities to it.

All parts of the fennel plant are considered safe for human consumption and it is widely used in culinary dishes for a nutty flavoring. Fennel tea has a soothing effect on the stomach, making it widely used for a multitude of digestion issues. In fact, many herbalist will recommend that fennel be used along with flax seed as part of a daily regime to a healthy body. Due to the nutty flavoring it suits itself well to be sprinkled on salads and soups for an easy way to add fennel to your diet.

The only known side effect of fennel being ingested is with nursing mothers. It is believed it will help increase the flow of milk when nursing. It has been used in this way since the days of Hippocrates and Dioscorides. They recommended that nursing mothers chew on the seeds as you would celery to keep the flow of milk progressing as the baby required more milk. It was also believed during the medieval time that fennel would help break up kidney stones, cure the hiccups, prevent gout and nausea, clear the liver and lungs of mucus, and was an antidote to poisonous mushrooms.

Fennel tea water was used to help the digestive systems of infants, especially colicky ones. It was brewed and steeped for 20 minutes then strained and allowed to cool to a room temperature. Mothers of infants with colic may wish to try the fennel water in a bottle during periods of extreme gas and digestive problems.

The tea is also thought to expel worms. The tea is suggested to drink one cup every four hours to expel the parasite. It is also used as a gargle to freshen breath and as an eye wash to clear up many forms of eye irritants.

Learning Javascript

It's been over 10 years since I learnt Javascript, I basically took a very 101 semester back in the days when alerts were everywhere lol. Working on Math Expressions today, I keep coming up with excuses to skip the lesson. I gave myself a whole body massage with coconut oil, was awesome! I have actually never massaged my thunder thighs lol. Then I decided I needed a green smoothie then after that I did sit ups I hate doing sit ups! I get dizzy and nauseous, this was all part of procrastinating... then I spent time of facebook, OK enough already JUST DO IT!. The struggle is real ya'll! I have to do this, must do it! DO IT! DO IT!

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"Eleven Hints for Life"

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.


2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.


3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.


4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.


5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.


6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth, even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.


7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.


8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.


9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may heal and bless.


10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.


11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

- Unknown

Goals for 2018

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Avoiding simulated foods

I am sucker for anything that's labeled healthy, organic, or contained vegetable or fruits. I Was so proud of myself when my toddler started eating veggie stick chips. Little did I know this product only has a sprinkle of vegetable powder. Here is a list of foods that pretend to be healthy. Note to self avoid smart and simulated foods, best way to do this is educate yourself and stick to natural foods that grow from the ground well... it turns out that our food is no longer natural. Just watch a movie that was filmed in the 80's everyone was so slim, and healthy looking, small 25 inch waist line, athletic. All you have to do now is go to the store, everyone is overweight, clearly there is something wrong with what we are eating.

Green life

Week 1

My green smoothie journey is going great, My energy level is up, my mind is clearer. Haven't seen any significant weight loss, it's only week 1. My grocery list is healthier and great for my wallet veggies are not as expensive as some processed foods. Experimenting with different veggie/fruit recipes. Oh plus I cut carbs, cookies, cakes off my diet, basically all the crap that pretends to be food. This is December 2017 I am hoping I should see significant change in 2 months, Feb. 2018. Will stay on this wagon, I cannot fail, I have to do this, I owe it to myself.

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Being intentional

Sometimes in life we have very clear goals, for instance when you are going to college, you have a solid schedule of classes that you follow weekly, the same with work. Your time is accounted for, its 40 hours a week, Monday to friday. But when it comes to other personal goals like starting and running a business, loosing weight, there is really no structure it's all over the place, so is sticking to a diet. There are so many opinions out there on how to do it. But on a personal level when I get home and look at myself in the mirror, the struggle becomes very real. This is my mental battle, I know what to do, but being persistence, that's another story. I have a ton of excuses to back up my failure.

I realise now that I need to be very intentional, and very present. Have you seen a plastic bag getting blown away on a very windy day, it's like poetry in motion, it just goes with the wind, tossed here and there. Some aspects of my life are like that. I relax I let things just be, for instance with my desire to loose weight, I have yoyo'd because, I let my guard down. I spent 5 months in Nairobi and lost 20 pounds, in just 3 months!. Came back gained it all back in less than 3 months argh!. What changed? well I was walking everywhere, planted a garden and was eating organic food that I had grown. Fast forward came back went back to my sedentary lifestyle well not exactly, I was going to the gym at 5am for bootcamp I was making an effort to maintain my weight. Then what was it? the devil in the details maybe it was the free chocolate covered raisins in the kitchen at work, or the chips, sodas, and "health bars". How did I not see this? I stuffed my face all day at work, the weight kept going up yet I had no clue. Yeah plus the mediocre cafeteria food loaded with heaven knows what.

Be intentional! be mentally present! make better decisions don't eat it just because it's free and in your face!. Your waistline will thank you later.