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Anti Ageing Cookware!?!

Want to know how you can prevent ageing while cooking?!?

I'm really excited and it's not often I get excited... especially about a new product. I'm a bit of a sceptic and I really don't like being taken in by a lot of marketing hype.

But, having said all that, the Nikken products have had such an impact on my life that I decided to became a distributor. (Their magnets succeeded where even steroid injections had failed and helped me get rid of my tennis elbow. And the water filtration system even had my cat convinced.)

So, when I first heard about the new Nikken cookware and read the claims and all the marketing bumpf, I contained my excitement and my sensible, sceptical side just kept asking for more and more information (thank you Shirle). Until, finally, I let myself get really excited! It's a technological revolution.

We would all like to slow down the ageing process, it's not just a question of those ghastly wrinkles that seem to appear overnight, it's about the creaking joints and quality of life!

And, by now we've all heard about how great antioxidants like vitamin C and blueberries are and how they can slow down the ageing process which is caused by harmful free radicals. 

Well, LifeWare Technologies have come up with a patented system of cookware that actually prevents the creation of harmful free radicals during the cooking process!

And seeing really is believing. Just take a look at the zucchini pictured below, they were both cooked in identical conditions, at the same temperature, for the same length of time and using the exact same oil:

cooked using the Kenzen Cookware with their patented technolgoy

cooked using traditional cookware

Just like rust, the brown colour is an indicator of free radical damage and ageing! The great news is it also retains more vitamins and tastes better too!

If you want to know more, I'll be writing an article in this month's ezine about preventing ageing, oxidation, antioxidants and the new cookware. Email me on nikken@spanishfitnessbootcamp.com to find out how you can get your hands on this amazing cookware system!

If like me you want the real technical info check out Lifeware Technologies website.

Bottled Water Under Fire From The Greens!

This week bottled water has come under fire from the Greens! It seems that it's actually not environmentally friendly of us to drink bottled water.

That seems a bit of a U- turn. But the fact of the matter is that we are not re-cycling our plastic bottles and they take hundreds of years to decompose! Added to which are the transport costs involved. And again we're talking in terms of costs to the environment.

In an effort to show their support of the environment, several government departments have sacrificed their bottled water supplies.

The fact of the matter is that we can tell the difference between tap water and bottled water. And in certain parts of England the tap water is virtually undrinkable. They can tell us it's safe until they are blue in the face, but the fact of the matter is it tastes vile.

And I'm not altogether confident in it's safety anyway, (as I commented in an earlier blog, the water table in Hemel Hempstead has been compromised after the thousands of litres of the toxic foam that were used to put out the fire at Buncefield Oil Depot.)

A spokeswoman on This Morning even made the point that we don't actually need to drink 2 litres of water, but that we get a lot of our requirement from fruit and vegetables and TEA!!! (And she didn't say herbal or fruit tea). Really someone ought to let her into the fact that TEA is a diuretic which causes you to lose water!

So, what's the solution? If you want to support the environment but also want to drink pure water....

The Sound Of Music - Childhood Memories

Happy Christmas Everyone!

I celebrated Christmas Eve Polish style last night with my Dad and his wife and all the childhood memories came rushing back.

It was the Polish carols that took me straight back in time. Music is just so powerful in evoking the past. My mum loved singing and I was always badgering her to sing me my favourite again and again.

And not just carols either, there was one Polish song that was so sad it used to make me sob, but through the sobs I would ask her to sing it again! What's all that about? But luckily it wasn't all doom and gloom, I also liked some happier songs as well. My mum was a fan of Doris Day and I'd get her to sing Que Sera Sera 3 or 4 times in a row!

I also have such vivid memories of going to see The Sound Of Music and South Pacific in town! Again it was the songs I remember like, 'Doh a deer..' and 'I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair...'

(Although, I can also remember the cinerama screen that had just been invented. The film of the motorbike going round those hairpin bends had me literally out of my seat!)

Unfortunately, none of us took after mum, more or less tone deaf the lot of us, so when she died a few years ago, the singing died with her! In fact my voice was so bad everyone would tell me to shut up. You can't imagine how great it was when my son was born and I had a captive audience that wasn't yet able to speak!

But back to last night, Wigilia or Christmas Eve has a very traditional menu. It's a day of fasting with breakfast and then a long wait until the evening meal which is scheduled for when the first star appears. (A bit tricky on a cloudy night!)

Actually, it's start time was more often dictated by when the food was ready - the complicated preparations generally taking the whole day and involving the whole family in the making of the pierogi and uszka! (Uszka are made with wild mushrooms a bit like the Italian tortellini, while Pierogi contain sauerkraut and mushrooms and even better re-heated and fried in butter on Christmas Day!)

Of course the hunger and crankiness of the youngest members who found the enforced fast a bit too much to bear, had to be factored in as well! But eventually it was time to eat and we were allowed to open presents, one between each of the courses!

For the Poles it's the most important day of the year, and between the music and the food, a Polish Christmas is pretty hard to beat!  I think I might just have to go over and see the real thing one day...