“Healthy nuggets of news
to keep your motor humming”

Welcome to our second issue of Healthy World Digest!

In this issue:

1) Stop chugging bottled water

2) Sexy supper

3) Healthy coffee

4) Healthy antiperspirant/deodorant

5) Exercise!

Oh, and we wont harass you with numerous mailings or with articles that are longer than the Bible.

Just a few important, interesting, up to date, super beneficial health items that you could easily apply to you life or pass along to loved ones.

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I'm finishing up an article on bottled water and of all the topics I've written on, this is the one that gets me really steamed up.

Briefly, the facts:

* Most bottled waters are less safe than tap water

* Even filtered bottled water goes through low-end filtration which leaves in plenty of the unhealthy stuff

* They are selling us water, WATER! that's not that good, at between $1 - $2 a pop. What's next, air?

* The glut of used plastic water bottles results in an incredible amount of landfill pollution

Here's a solution. Get a water bottle, a high end filter and bottle your own, healthy water for less than a dime a bottle.

For a great water filter at a discount click here

2) Sexy supper

Want to put together a meal that can really hike up your love life? Well, put away the oysters & avocados.

The following meal features courses & a drink each having aphrodisiacal powers.

Just start with a glass of red wine, then serve a shrimp cocktail, then present a nice piece of steak, maybe filet mignon, baked sweet potato and spinach salad. End with fresh berries drizzled with chocolate. Now fasten your seat belt.

3) Healthy coffee

Ok. I'll just come right out and admit it. I love the coffee brew. I know there are lots of concerns about coffee's health effects.

Well, darn it, I grew up on the stuff.

So, I worked out a way to get the taste, some of the boom and add some peripheral health benefits.

My java recipe, if you will...

Start with a carafe of fresh filtered cold water (use auto-drip electric coffeemaker)

Use organic coffee. I combine 1/2 caffeinated, 1/2 decaf, so I don't get a ton of caffeine at once.

In the carafe, I put 1/3 tablespoon natural stevia, a first-class, no calorie sweetener and a sprinkling of either cinnamon or powdered dark chocolate.

Fire it up.

When it's done, I boil about a cupful of organic soymilk and add to my hot coffee.

I then proceed to work for several hours, sipping my delectable coffee, just about guilt-free.

My recipe has no carbs, no sugar, healthy cinnamon or chocolate, two great herbs, clean water and about a cup of very healthy soymilk.

After drinking the pot of coffee - I know it's a bit too much caffeine - I don't even need a snack because the brew serves as a healthy, filling snack.

I normally wait a few minutes until I relieve myself and then go and work out.

4) Make your own healthy antiperspirant/deodorant

OK, possibly this is too personal but I can't use off the shelf anti-perspirants because they make me break out. Well, the more I looked into my particular problem the more sense it made to me.

Briefly, antiperspirants host a whole lot of chemicals and it's actually the aluminum that prevents you from sweating. Yep, bits of metal are just deposited into your sweat pores.

That can't be healthy which is why my body protests when I use it. But look, I work around a bunch of kids and am a big guy, and so I perspire, ok.

So, what can guys like us do, especially as the hot weather nears?

Here's an herbal antiperspirant formula that should please those of us who are concerned about chemicals and aluminum, and those of us who are economical (ie cheap).

Just combine a natural moisture absorber (cornstarch), a natural deodorizer (baking soda), and a natural anti-bacterial, anti-fungal oil (tea tree oil) to keep odor and sweat at bay.

1/4 cup baking soda 1/4 cupful cornstarch 10 - 12 drops tea tree oil 2 tablespoons shortening

Put baking soda and cornstarch in a small bowl with tea tree oil. I use 15 - 20 drops of tea tree oil, just in case. Other oils like lavender oil work well also.

Fold in shortening until it's a proper consistency. You may need to experiment a bit.

Cram final product into an empty deodorant canister. It will be a proper consistency to utilize in about a day.

5) Exercise!

Covert Bailey, an exercise physiologist who taped lectures for PBS in the '90s, retired from the field a few years ago. Too bad.

He had the most succinct information about exercising and could get the laziest among us to exercise and like it.

If you are not sufficiently motivated to work out or even if you like exercising, I'd encourage you run to the bookstore, a library, search online, wherever, and get his books and videotapes.

He is smart, entertaining and very motivating.

OK, so what's the nugget of health and wellness news here? It's Bailey's central theme.

Sure participating in many healthy lifestyle choices is wise. Eating right, not smoking, and so forth But the thing that genuinely separates the healthy from the unhealthy is exercise.

Exercise does what the best herbs do, what steroids do, what fruits and vegetables do, what salmon capsules do, what ginseng does, what Prozac does, what relaxation techniques do. On and on.

If you exercise, to the point of fitness, you can {potentially make tons of other mistakes and you'll still be ok.

If you don't exercise, well...

So Exercise!