Recipe To Boost Your Immune System - 5-minute

The 5-minute Recipe

To Boost

Your Immune System

This super simple recipe contains all the ingredients you need to give your immune system a quick boost! And a single dose is all you need to recover from the onset of a cold.  It contains garlic, cayenne pepper, lemon and honey. You probably expected more but this is all you need to ward of viruses and boost your immune system.

 

So why does it work?  

As we all know, garlic is a hundred times stronger than antibiotics in combating bacterial diseases, colds and flus.  
This is likely due to its immune boosting effects as well as  garlic’s potent antibacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties.   Cayenne pepper contains capsaicin which can open up your sinuses, fight inflammation, cardiovascular support, helps with ulcers, boosts immune system and metabolism.  “Cayenne pepper’s bright red color signals its high content of beta-carotene or pro-vitamin A.   Just two teaspoons of cayenne pepper provide 47% of the daily value for vitamin A. Often called the anti-infection vitamin, vitamin A is essential for healthy epithelial tissues including the mucous membranes that line the nasal passages, lungs, intestinal tract and urinary tract and serve as the body’s first line of defense against invading pathogens.” source.    The honey and lemon also have the reputation, in terms of healing. Together they form a veritable elixir that will set you free from your cold or flu.

The preparation time of the recipe is minimal – less than 5 minutes.

 

You will need

• 1 lemon,

• 1-2 clove of garlic,

• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper,

• 1 tablespoon honey

 

 

How to make it?

• Cut the lemon in half.
• Remove the juice of one half of the lemon. Keep its remaining shell.
• Mince  the garlic and leave it rest for 10 minutes. Then add the lemon juice, along with the cayenne pepper.
• Add the honey and mix them thoroughly.
• scrape out the fiber from the lemon shells and add to mix.

Dose

1 tablespoon per day to boost your immune system.  If you have a cold or flu take it a minimum of 3 times per day, although we have heard that one dose is all you need.

Michelle Toole  is the founder and head editor of Healthy Holistic Living. Learn all about her life's inspiration and journey to health and wellness.

 http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/5-minute-recipe-boost-immune-system.html

Comments from Readers:

• Eat some parsley each time you take this. Also, the addition of smashed fresh ginger and turmeric would also boost the effectiveness.

• With such a small quantity you can store it at room temperature as it would be gone in one day.

• Great recipe. You can also mix organic vinegar, lemon juice and honey with 1/2 to 1 gal of water and drink daily to maintain immune and digestive health.

 

Most Common Last Names in Every State

The Most Common Last Names

in Every State

Mapped

Can you find your last name?

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 Do you ever try to Google someone only to find out that thousands of people have the same last name? Or at least it seems that way. Well, National Geographic has put together a map to show just how common your last name really is. The map shows the most common last names in each U.S. state, sized according to the number of people with that name. 

The different colors indicate the name's country of origin

• Blue is Britain, 
• Red is Spain, 
• Brown is Scandinavia, 
• Yellow is German, 
• Green is Irish 

— giving a colorful and telling picture of how different ancestries have established themselves in different parts of the country.

There are a couple issues with the map, though. The data is somewhat out-of-date, having been compiled by researchers at University College London from phone directories in 2000. Furthermore, because slaves historically took their owners' names, African-Americans are mostly invisible on this map. Along the same lines, Jewish immigrants have been known to anglicize their name upon arriving to the country, leading to under-representation on a map like this.

Having said that, it's still pretty cool look at what kinds of people make up America. 

Spoiler alert: it's mostly people named Smith.

Click here to visit interactive map

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/geography/usa-surnames-interactive

Five steps to a better-looking TV

CNET How To

Five steps to a better-looking TV

New TVs ship with settings that make them look good in the store, not in your living room. Sharon Vaknin shares some easy ways get your picture looking the way you want it.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/five-steps-better-looking-tv/9742-1_53-50161665.html?tag=mncol;Howto

Digital Art 6

Digital Art 6

House of Cards - Book Versus Show

Book Versus Show

'House of Cards'

Posted: 02/14/2014
Michael Dobbs is the author of House of Cards.

I started writing House of Cards beside a swimming pool after a furious row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. I had no idea that book would change my life so completely. A quarter of a century later, it is still doing that, changing my life, never knowing what to expect.
The BBC made a prize-winning adaptation of House Of Cards with the wonderful Ian Richardson in the role of the Machiavellian Chief Whip Francis Urquhart. It created waves and even a little outrage. At every twist and turn since then, the murderous Francis Urquhart--whom I call FU--has been at my side.
Years later an intern at Media Rights Capital, an independent studio, recommended the series to the studio's co-founder, who optioned the rights to House of Cards, eventually leading to a Netflix deal for two seasons, sight unseen.
The US series is different, of course, but not that different than the book that started it all. It's true to the spirit of the story I wrote so many years ago--a dark tale of greed, corruption and unquenchable ambition.
 
Here are 6 of the biggest changes between the US series versus the original book:
 
*South Carolina Kid versus Scottish Aristocrat
In the book, Francis Urquhart is a Scottish aristocrat; in the series, Frank Underwood is a kid from the back streets of South Carolina. They're both looking to get out of their situations: Francis is trying to regain his family's social position while Frank is trying to escape his. But getting his hands dirty comes more naturally to Frank than to Francis; he almost finds it fun. Francis would never (spoiler alert) strangle a dog with his bare hands; he'd get his shotgun, inherited from his father, and shoot it.
 
*Washington versus Westminster
The idea for a book about the dark political arts was inspired by Britain's 1987 general election, which Margaret Thatcher won comfortably, while making many enemies. It inspired me to begin work on a plot to get rid of a Prime Minister, where Francis is a conservative who expects to be rewarded for his service. Frank, instead, is a liberal, though he doesn't seem bound to any specific ideology in the end.
 
*Ruthless Journalism versus Conscientious Journalism
The book's Mattie, a reporter at The Daily Telegraph, becomes the series' Zoe, who works for The Washington Herald. Mattie has more of a troubled conscience than the hard-nosed Zoe, who is also more ruthless in using her sexuality. Mattie's conscience is a vulnerability, but also one of her most attractive features; she would have had difficulty in surviving the 21st-century demands on a newspaper journalist.
 
*Robin Wright versus... no Robin Wright
In the series, Frank's wife, Claire, plays a much stronger role than she does in the book - I love it. Their relationship becomes the central spine of the story. It's why Robin Wright so deserved her Golden Globe. Francis could survive without his wife but could Frank survive without Claire? Doubtful.

*Big Business versus the Power of the Press
The British version dwells much more on the power of press barons, while the American version concentrates on the power of big business. While there are whips on both sides of the pond, the pork barrel is even bigger in America, with more power, more money, and more interest.  This gives a whip even more possibility for manipulation, and makes the American version less about systems than about people and what motivates them and where they go wrong.
 
*1980s versus 2010s
The timescales of the book and movie are totally different - the first before the era of cell phones, the second devastatingly up to date. It also means that new topics had to be added to carry the same emotional and political weight: instead of the challenge of Soviet Union from the book, the series' characters deal with the issue of teachers' unions and reforms.

Michael Dobbs is the author of House of Cards.

 

'House Of Cards'

Season 2 Premiere Review

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/chris-jancelewicz/house-of-cards-season-2-premiere-review_b_4777883.html?utm_hp_ref=tv&ncid=edlinkushpmg00000008&just_reloaded=1

Digital Art Hands

Artist Reinvents The Door

Artist

Klemens Torggler

Reinvents The Door

Sliding, rotating, automatic, hinged. We thought we had a pretty firm grasp on the types of doors that exist in the world. How wrong we were.

This past week, a new kind of door, created by Austrian designer Klemens Torggler, has been mesmerizing the Internet -- and forever changing the way we look at this everyday structure.

 "I can't stop watching this door open and close"

Dubbed the "Evolution Door," the clever geometric structure made its YouTube debut last June. (Watch the video below.) At the time, Torggler described his invention as a "flip-panel door." The artist has also said that the door has "soft edges" (for wayward fingers) and is "absolutely safe."

The "Evolution Door" is just one of several unorthodox doors designed by Torggler. All his doors are "based on rotating squares," his website reads, adding: "The special construction makes it possible to move the door sideways without the use of tracks. This technical trick opens up new applications for the door." Not an exterior door.

Watch a video of Torggler's 
"Evolution Door" in action here:

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How These Magical

 Gravity-Defying Doors

Actually Work

http://gizmodo.com/how-these-magical-gravity-defying-doors-actually-work-1520094520

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