Try these great cookies for Christmas snacking:
(You can even make your own fruit sweetener.)

Ginger Sweets ……

Christmas doesn’t have to be dull and boring if you’re a diabetic. After all Christmas is family time for celebrating God’s love and we always seem to celebrate by eating goodies. Just a little sugar, not too much makes it just right!

So, you diabetics out there, here’s some good eaten’ for you for Christmas ……

If you’re anything like me you can look to give toys that are just above your child’s age range. Here’s an article that may correct this for us. There’s still time to check the safety factors for toys of your choice for your children.

Let me quote some serious statements made in this article and you decide:

“The right toy can make the Christmas season the most wonderful time of the year for children and their parents. But the wrong toy can make this season a time of pain, grief and regret for families with children who suffer injuries or death from toys they never should have been given in the first place.” ……

Results of a new study by Stanford University show  that the immune system works better at night while we are sleeping.

The study showed that when fruit flies infected with bacteria at night had a better chance of surviving than did the flies infected during the day.  When the fruit flies’ circadian rhythm was off they became more prone to infection. ……

If you feel you have to have a snack, it might as well be a healthy one.
But then, you’ll want a tasty snack and sometimes those healthy snacks don’t taste very good. Well, I have just the snack for you, what could this be? Almonds. Yes, almonds!

They are crunchy, they have a delightful taste and they are the healthiest snack you can eat. As a matter of fact research suggests that we should eat Almonds at least once a day! ……

Seniors are not acting their age.

A new study showed that seniors feel about 13 years younger than their actual age.

The six-year study of 516 men and women aged 70 and older revealed that the seniors on average felt 13 years younger than their chronological age. Women felt closer to their actual age with men feeling younger. ……

Getting enough sleep is very import. Sleep deprivation is not good for us. But in our 24/7 hustle world not getting enough sleep is a reality. However, chronic lack of sleep can leave us more susceptible to illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and more. One area sleep deprivation affects is memory. ……

Constipation is one symptom I never thought of as a possible indication of impending illness, but evidently it is. Isn’t everyone constipated at one time or another? What I didn’t realize is that doctors are saying if you don’t have a bowel movement after every meal it could be an indication of constipation.

You absorb 85% of the toxins back into the lymphatic and blood systems if you have only one bowel movement per day. ……

Can certain symptoms be warning signs to us of a sickness or even worse, a disease that could be coming upon us? Actually think about it, these warning signs could be considered our friends because they could cause us to act in time to avoid such illnesses before they have a chance to become serious and take over our bodies. If so, it would behoove us to pay attention to them.

In the next few articles I will list some symptoms that doctors are asking us to be aware of and pay closer attention to in case they could be warning us of impending illnesses.

Of course, sometimes these symptoms have nothing to do with warnings of any pending illness. But, being aware of the possibility can save us much hardship later on. ……

A study in the medical journal Circulation showed that women who suffer the most serious form of heart attack (STEMI or ST-elevation myocardial infarction) were twice as likely to die as men (10.2% compared with 5.5%) in the hospital in the first 24 hours. ……