Coconut Wonders

Coconut is another natural wonder food that can help save your life. It has only been recently that modern researchers have begun to fully discover the amazing health benefits of this amazing fruit.

Coconut looks like a large green American football and when you remove the outer covering it resembles a brown nut with two eyes and a mouth. You can pierce the "mouth" to get to the water inside. Usually, the browner the nut the older the coconut. In Jamaica we discard the water and use the hardened white meat inside the older brown coconuts in our baking and cooking, eg: custards, rice and peas, etc. The young coconut is the one best for drinking and has the green colouring.

Coconut water can aid in hydration – my vet recommended it along with glucose when my puppy was barely eating due to early pavo symptoms. It saved his life and increased his appetite. So, you know what? I gave it to my son to increase his appetite and now he loves to eat the jelly.

If I’m feeling tired it acts as a great pick-me-up drink (I like it cold or straight from the “nut”). My mother who had high blood pressure all her life, found out that any medication she took caused her life-threatening complications. For over 50 years she used one glass of water from a young jelly coconut with juice from one lime, two or three times per week to keep it under control. She lived to see her 90th birthday without blood pressure drugs. Last year my husband was diagnosed with elevated blood pressure and was placed on medication. He took one tablet, threw the rest away and started his regime of coconut water and lime. Now we don’t even need to add the lime as often, about once per month. He’s drug-free.

A friend who has won the battle with cancer has been researching and experimenting with the fruit says he uses the water and the jelly in most of his juices. I’ve recently changed my cooking oil to coconut oil because I found out that it’s much healthier than any other oil, even extra virgin olive oil!! Apparently it helps to increase thyroid function and boost metabolism which helps the body to lose the pounds. Also, I love the smell; it reminds me of cocoa butter :)

Again, get the young coconuts to drink because they give the best benefits, they contain the purest unsaturated fat and have the most rejuvenation properties that our body tissues need.

Check out more about coconuts at http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/

This is just another one of nature’s wonder foods to keep you off drugs. Drink up the jelly coconut!

Once again I am unable to post a pic for this blog. My apologies.

Mosquito Be Gone!

Living in the tropics, I am always battling mosquitoes. Sometimes when I have visitors over I offer to sell them some by the dozen. But seriously, when it comes to the rainy season these guys multiply to millions, I’m sure, and they can spread diseases like malaria, dengue fever, not to mention the itching and allergic reactions.

The aloe gel quickly takes care of the adverse reactions but how do we get rid of them? Or even get them back down to a manageable quantity?

Some of us use bug sprays, burn mosquito coils that can harm us as well as the mosquitoes, or we light “no mosquito” candles, some of us even burn “bush”, and lately others have been using mosquito zappers that resemble a tennis racquet with a button for basically shocking them.

Well I’ve received a great tip from a friend that truly works: Listerine!!! Yes, it works. Put some in a spray bottle and spray around the area you occupy like your floors, lawn, around your door and window jambs, etc. Don’t spray it directly on your furniture or appliances they may be damaged. Spray it in the air and like magic these little vampires disappear.

Now that I’ve discovered this new trick I can avoid the bug spray on my skin. Try this. It even last longer than the bug spray – I hear about 2 days. Let me know how long it last for you.

NB. Wanted to add a pic but something isn't working.