Sunday May 6, 2007

May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month and it is a great time to think about and actually get your child more physically active and interested in sports, both to help combat childhood obesity and to simply keep your child more fit and healthy.Although a lot of experts have been pushing free play lately, getting your younger child involved in youth sports, such as soccer, t-ball, flag football, or gymnastics, etc., can help build motor skills, encourage a healthy lifestyle and continued physical activity as they get older, and help your kids make new friends.

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Overnight Foot Masque

As spring brings about warmer weather, this recipe will help get our feet ready for those sandals as we walk among the flowers.

1/4 cup almonds
1/4 cup dry oatmeal
3 tablespoons food grade cocoa butter
2 tablespoons honey

Process almonds in a blender until finely ground. Set aside. Process oatmeal until it reaches the same consistency as almonds. Combine ground oatmeal, cocoa butter, honey and ground almonds. Mixture may be rubbed into clean feet. Cotton socks may then be applied and left on overnight. The next morning, it is recommended to remove socks while feet are over the bathtub and rinse feet in cool water.

COLORADO 4 HEALTH FREEDOM

Thank you to everyone who helped us to defeat the Naturopathic Physician bill!  We appreciate how everyone helped to call, fax, email legislators and attend hearings! 

We still need help.  We were told the NP bill will be back again next session, and we will need to work on defeating it again.  There may also be other bills we might need to defeat.  We are also hoping there will be a health freedom bill to pass.

There is an estimated 16,000 alternative health care practitioners in Colorado.  There are thousands more consumers.  We need to educate the public on health freedom. 

There are so many people to contact, that it is impossible to contact everyone individually.  Because of this, it is very important that everyone joins the yahoogroup that we have set up.  This is the way we are informing and alerting people when issues arise.

To join this yahoo group, send a blank e-mail to: CO4HFG-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If you have any problems joining, please email Kim at kimberlysharples@msn.com and she can assist you with this.

For those who do not have Internet access, an updated message number has been setup for your convenience. We will leave messages to keep you informed of important information and legislation. This is available 24/7. Just dial 1-641-715-3900 and enter code 9357483#  You do have the ability to leave a message at this number and someone will return your call.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the steering committee members listed below:

Joanie Sevcik – joaniesevcik@qwest.net – 303-798-1469

    CO4HF Steering Committee Member and CO CNH President

Sheryl Strom – nana4health@comcast.net – 303-904-4532

    CO4HF Steering Committee Member and CO CNH Vice-President

Kimberly Matteo – dr.matteo@yahoo.com – 720-335-6556

    CO4HF Steering Committee Member – SHFF CO State Coordinator

Jacquelyn Pinkham – jkpinkham@msn.com – 970-245-5772

    CO4HF Steering Committee Member and SHFF CO State Coordinator

Kimberly Sharples – kimberlysharples@msn.com – 719-390-1979

   CO4HF Steering Committee Member and Health Freedom Activist

Fri May 9, 2008 1:26pm EDT

LONDON (Reuters) – Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve out-of-season fruit and vegetables.

“I don’t want to see asparagus in the middle of December. I don’t want to see strawberries from Kenya in the middle of March. I want to see it home-grown,” he said after raising his concerns with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

“Fruit and veg should be seasonal. Chefs should be fined if they don’t have ingredients in season on their menu,” he told the BBC on Friday.

Ramsay, whose London restaurants include Petrus and The Savoy Grill, said Britain had become a nation of lazy eaters who followed trends and fads rather than substance.

“There should be stringent laws, licensing laws, to make sure produce is only used in season and season only,” he added.

(Reporting by Paul Majendie, Editing by Jeremy Lovell)