Review: "Food Matters" Doco

Oh my. Not in a long while have a seen something that resonated so much with me. I urge you all to go out and get the dvd of food matters right now. Seriously, drop what you are doing and go get it. This brilliant documentary talks about how important nutrition is. It talks about politics and govenment and cancer and personal responsibility and every person in this film has the same opinions on health and all these other things that I and other Chiropractors do! Finally! Yes, we are not crazy, there are many smart people out there who believe that we do not need anything to "cure" us, that health comes from nature and from within. Brilliant. I thank James & Laurentine for bringing information that is so often ignored to the public. Really top draw.

Catch the happiness bug

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Did you know that happiness is contagious?
Yep, those guys at Harvard have done it again by showing that if one person is happy, it creates a ripple effect in the people around them, even if those people are complete strangers. It's a concept called "Emotional contagion" and has been studied and documented since 1994. Until this study, emotional contagion research dealt mainly with negative emotions, showing how contagious destructive emotions such as fear, sadness and anger are.

Words of Wisdom: Being Good

via here

 How good do you want to be? A question we don't really ask ourselves much is it?
While reading "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be." I came across these gems:

On being good:
"Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition. Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great...Most people are looking for a solution, a way to become good. There is no instant solution, the only way to learn is through experience and mistakes"

Everyone is scared to make mistakes, so scared in fact that they don't even try. But mistakes are how we get better, how we grow and change and discover and become who we want to be. Today is a special day, the date is 10-10-10 a friend of mine came up with the brilliant idea of making today a day where you say to hell with fear and do something you have always wanted to do. So what are you waiting for?
"Fail, fail again, fail better" - Samuel Beckett

Happy Birthday Mr. Ox

My atoms and chemicals could've been made anywhere in the universe, but they were made here, near you. 

Near yours.  

from here

I am too lucky to have someone so good to me xx

Leaving on a Jet Plane

 

You know that feeling you get when everything goes perfectly, constantly and nothing's ever wrong with anyone or anything? Me neither. from here.

Today we leave Dublin after some horrible experiences with not nice people. But with the bad comes the good, we did meet some of the best people, friends who I will love, cherish and miss like hell until life brings us together again. Waving good-bye and smiling because it happened, so long Dublin.

Dreaming of the tropics

Since we are moving to the tropics I'm dreaming of floaty white cotton clothes. This All Saints dress fits the bill perfectly...now to convince Mr. Ox that I need it...

Apple Lust

Not these apples silly! These are organic pink ladies from the temple bar markets

I need a new phone...and I want an iphone 4. I've always loved apples, in fact my first computer was one of those rectangular bricks, and I loved it. My love affair with apple started WAY before they were cool, which makes me think of this article by one of my favourite Melbourne colomists, Danny Katz...its true, Mr. Ox and I are iWankers...

2 years and counting...

I know you're busy doing all the things you always planned to do but remember,
today is also the day that you kiss me.
Happy Anniversary Mr. Ox
borrowed from here

Happy Birthday Mum!

Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.

- Maureen Hawkins 

I'm lucky enough to have a mum who loves me like this

Sri Lankan Pumpkin Curry

1940's wisdom from my grandmother

This really is becoming more of a food blog and less of a chiropractic one isn't it? Oh well!
For Christmas last year my mum gave me my grandmothers cookbook. Printed in 1942, the Daily News Cookery Book was every housewives best friend. My favourite part of it are the newspaper clippings and recipe sheets from the housewives association my grandmother belonged to, each with handy tips on how to keep a spotless house, entertain guests and still keep your husband happy. Things that are still important to be a good wife, along with holding down a high power job, dressing to kill and leaping tall buildings in a single bound.
The recipes in this book make me feel at home. Traditionally each Sri Lankan woman cooks differently and no two family recipes are remotely the same. This curry is my favourite, although here in Ireland pumpkin isn't a popular vegetable, they only grow it for pig food and for halloween. Still, I made this for husband and Australian friend the first and they loved it.