Month: October 2021

🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Onions Pack a Powerhouse of Healthy Benefits

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Health Benefits of Onions

Onions are popular root vegetables, serving as a staple ingredient in many cuisines. They’re high in fiber, vitamin C and antioxidants. Antioxidants are compounds that can protect your cells against oxidative damage and help prevent disease. Research shows that eating onions may be associated with a wide array of health benefits. For instance, one study found that eating 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of raw onions per day significantly reduced blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. What’s more, other research observed that onions may possess powerful anticancer properties, with observational studies linking a higher intake of this root vegetable to a lower risk of common types of cancer. Onions work well in a variety of meals and can easily be added to salads, soups, scrambled eggs, casseroles, rice or pasta dishes.

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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Basic Tool of the Writer: Language

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“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the wayward lushness of our wonderful mongrel English, that choice of vocabulary and grammar and tone, the selection on the palette, that determines who’s sitting at that desk. Language creates the writer’s attitude toward the particular story he’s decided to tell.” Donald Westlake

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👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ It’s Never too Late

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If you’re running fast and going nowhere, it may be time to think about where you really want to go. It’s never too late to make a change.

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ St. Francis of Assisi

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St. Francis of Assisi
Vachel Lindsay
Would I might wake St. Francis in you all,
Brother of birds and trees, God’s Troubadour,
Blinded with weeping for the sad and poor;
Our wealth undone, all strict Franciscan men,
Come, let us chant the canticle again
Of mother earth and the enduring sun.
God make each soul the lonely leper’s slave;
God make us saints, and brave.

October 4 – Feast of St. Francis of Assisi

Hot Oatmeal versus Dry Cereal for Breakfast, Which is Better?

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Oatmeal versus Dry Cereal . . . And, The Winner Is  . . .

Fill up on oatmeal in the morning to keep from filling out, suggests recent research published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. For the study, 48 participants were asked to eat one of two breakfast options: prepared oatmeal or ready-to-eat cereal. Oatmeal-eaters not only felt fuller longer than their cereal-eating counterparts, but they also had less of a desire to eat after the meal—something researchers chalk up to oatmeal’s high fiber levels. Fiber isn’t this breakfast’s only benefit. “Oatmeal is one of the most filling and healthiest breakfast for so many reasons,” says nutritionist Rania Batayneh, MPH, author of the forthcoming book The One One One Diet. “It can also lower cholesterol and blood pressure, strengthen our immune system, and contains B vitamins. This is a family of eight water-soluble vitamins that play an important role in our metabolism.”

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👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Waiting for the Right Time?

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There will never be a right time to do something. Trust yourself. Do it! Step out with confidence. You can handle whatever will come. No regrets. No fear. Step out.

🤗 A Better Life ~ Today Will Be a Great If . . .

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Today will be a great day if I can bring the sunshine to those covered by clouds. It will be a great day if I can turn a frown upside down. It will be a good day if I open my door to all the opportunities to love that come my way.

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Creating a Healthy Mind

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“You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Write, Write Every Day

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“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. … If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.” ~ William Saroyan 

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💡 Something to Think About

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There is wisdom in the saying, “when one door closes, another opens.” Losing something important hurts and sometimes the hurt is deep and lasting. If we hold on, we’ll find that another door has opened and it is waiting for us to walk through. 

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