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Apple Pie Smoothie

Apple Pie Smoothie
1 1/2 (200 g) apples, quartered
3/4 cup (180 mL) lowfat vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon brown sugar or other sweetener, to taste
1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
1 cup ice cubes
 

Place all ingredients in Vita-Mix container in order listed. Secure 2-part lid. Select VARIABLE, speed #1. Turn on machine and quickly increase speed to #10; then to HIGH. Run for 1 minute or until smooth. Serve immediately.

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Living in a Sci-Fi World! Genetic engineering of our plants, cloning of animals...what's next? Exciting perhaps but is it safe?

What's in Your Food?

The genetic engineering of plants and animals is looming as one of the greatest and most intractable environmental challenges of the 21st Century. Already, this novel technology has invaded our grocery stores and our kitchen pantries by fundamentally altering some of our most important staple food crops. Full story

Your Personal Care Products & Cosmetics...
Should they have a biohazard label on them?

Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 25,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on such a big project? Because the FDA doesn't require companies to test their own products for safety. Full Story

Food Fight...
The Basics of the Foodfight over Irradiated Foods

The Food and Drug Administration's approval late last month of pathogen-zapping irradiation technology for fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce has reignited a long simmering debate about how to improve the safety of food. Full Story

 

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A few of my favorite

Quotes

Be the change you want to see in the world!     ~ Mahatma Gahndi

Money is one of the most important subjects of your entire life.  Some of life's greatest enjoyments and most of life's greatest disappointments stem from your decisions about money.  Whether you experience great peace of mind or constant anxiety will depend on getting your finances under control.     ~Robert G. Allen

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.   ~Dale Carneige

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.   ~Dale Carnegie

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.   ~Donald Trump

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.   ~Donald Trump

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.   ~Zig Zigler

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.   ~Zig Zigler

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.   ~Zig Zigler

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.   ~Helen Keller

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.   ~Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.   ~Helen Keller

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