It is found that a mixture of Honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Ayurvedic as well as Yunani medicine have been using honey as a vital medicine for centuries.  Scientists of today also accept honey as a very effective medicine for all kinds of diseases.

Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.  A few days ago, my sister sent me this information.  Maybe this information will help somebody out.  I know I’m going to try some of these remedies.  I think that whoever wrote this may have exaggerated the health benefits because they are a big fan.

That said, the little bit of research I did before posting this does indicate many of the benefits described below.

[Legal mumbo-jumbo: Before beginning any treatment for any disease, check with your Doctor, who will probably prescribe an expensive, fancy new drug for whatever is ailing you.  Do  your homework whenever something seems wrong.  Often, your Grandmother's remedy is as good as the one "modern science" proposes.] Here’s what she sent me.

“Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot.  It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey.  However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call “crystallizing”.

When this happens, loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water, turn off the heat and let it liquefy.  It is then as good as it ever was.  Never boil honey or put it in a microwave.  To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey.

Cinnamon and Honey
Bet the drug companies won’t like this one getting around.  Facts on Honey and Cinnamon:  It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a ‘Ram Ban’ (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases.  Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.

Today’s science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients.   Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada , in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:

HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.  Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat.

In America and Canada , various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS:
Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.

CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours.   As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.

COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.

UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.

GAS:
According to the studies done in India and Japan , it is revealed that if Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts.  Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.

INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ‘ Ingredient’ which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age.

PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.

WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.

FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

BAD BREATH:
People of South America , first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS:
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing. Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!

*NOTE:The honey used needs to be REAL RAW UNPASTEURIZED HONEY.  If it says PURE honey it is most likely pasteurized. It is best to only buy honey that says RAW or UNPASTEURIZED on the label. The difference is that the enzymes are all heated out of the pasteurized honey.

A Cinnamon and Honey formula for weight loss can be found at this URL: http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/honeyandcinnamon.html

But wait! There’s more…people also report increased energy, more sex drive, and feeling happier/mood enhancer… Who doesn’t want that?

See you next time.

Writing from HQ-Iowa

Let’s talk about  Brands.  First, exactly what do you think a brand is?  Is it simply a logo or is it something more?   How will developing your brand help your home-based business to be more successful?

Try This Definition On For Size.

A Brand is a collection of ideas and experiences that exist in the minds of your customers and the public at large.

Or How About This One?

A brand is not a name or a logo. It is not a product, service or business. It is a promise, an expectation and ultimately an experience. The strongest brands in the world own a place in the consumer’s mind and when they are mentioned almost everyone thinks of the same things.

Or This One From Wikipedia

Brand is the image of the product in the market. Some people distinguish the psychological aspect of a brand from the experiential aspect. The experiential aspect consists of the sum of all points of contact with the brand and is known as the brand experience. The psychological aspect, sometimes referred to as the brand image, is a symbolic construct created within the minds of people and consists of all the information and expectations associated with a product or service.

These definitions all state that brands create emotions and expectations in the minds of others.  Now, who do you think sets the expectations for the brand?  The customer or the business owner?  Consider these opposing views.

“Brands are defined by the customer. They exist as a feeling that extends beyond the product itself.” - T. Scott Gross

Versus This

Your brand is NEVER defined by the customer. You strategically determine what your brand identity is and then deliver that internally and externally so that your brand image becomes it.

Volvo was not defined by it’s customers as the safe car company, Volvo became the safe car company first and it’s clients acknowledged this. - S. White (BigKahuna)

We know people by their names and their faces.  We recognize hundreds of brands by their name or logo.  But just like people, the more you learn about a brand, the more it seems to have its own individual personality.

We know people by their names, but we don’t say they are their names.  This is where we come to the core of what branding really is.   Branding is the essence of a company’s identity. Look at these logos.

Simply seeing these logos evokes an emotional response. You experienced thoughts and feelings about each company.  In fact, while you looked at the Aflac logo, you may have heard the duck in your mind quacking “Ah Flack.” (Did you know the voice of the duck is Gilbert Gottfried?)

Logos are not brands.  They are representations of brands.  They are like a desktop shortcut to the brand for your mind.  Brands are the thoughts, feelings, and psychological relationships between a business and its market. Your brand should be the foundation of all your marketing activities.

Very nice to know you say, but what’s this branding stuff got to do with my home-based business?  That’s a great question.  Glad you thought of it.

Let’s say you are a distributor for company ‘X’.  You’ve been following their system to a tee, and are making decent money.  Then one day, you get an email telling you the company is changing it’s distribution method.  And it doesn’t include you or anyone else who has been working the business.  You try to log in to your back office, but they’ve already shut it down.

Or what if they changed the compensation plan so it was a lot harder to earn money with them?  It’s happened before.  It will happen again.  Hopefully, not to you.

What would you do?  Your list was saved on their servers.  It’s gone.  You can’t place or check on orders.  You don’t have a clue what they still owe you.  What are you going to tell your customers?  How would you recover from this kind of disaster?

When you brand yourself, “You, Inc.” as Mike Dillard calls it, you create a company around your marketing activities and promote that.  Sell yourself first, then your company, then your opportunity.

For example, Lifestyle Design Partners is my company.  My primary opportunity, Joint Venture Group, Inc. is blended into the mix of other companies and activities I’m involved in.  If any one company closes down, my list and records are still intact.  My own multiple income strategy only suffers a fender bender – not a total loss.  Plug another opportunity into the open space, let my friends on the list know about it, and keep on moving ahead.

Being ready is an attitude.  The benefits achieved by branding yourself and your company are many.  You can market anything you want under your own personal business umbrella.  Your list and records are safe with you.  And it’s waaay more fun.  More on this topic next time.

Hope you’re great and getting better.

Writing tonight from Lakeville, MN.

P.S.  If you notice a bit of a change in the look of the blog, I installed a couple of new plug-ins. Tweetmeme replaced the blue follow me button that some of you hated because it got in the way of reading the posts.

SexyBookmarks has proven time and time again to be an extremely useful and successful plugin to get readers to actually submit articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

Tonight, I’m in the Twin Cities, MN.  It’s supposed to snow a little overnight, but nothing like what’s going to hit Iowa.

Hey.  I’ve gotta say it…How ‘Bout Them Hawkeyes at the Orange Bowl!?  What a team.  What a game.

I’d like to share more tools that have helped me during the last year.  Try them and see if you can use them to help your operation.

Microsoft charges a lot of money for Office, even the Student and Home version.  If you want a good set of Office-like tools that costs zero dollars, look no further than Google Docs.  One big advantage is that Google Docs makes it easy to collaborate with others on a project without having to send files back and forth. The lastest revision always loads and the program makes all your revisions available, just in case you make a mistake.

Another plus is that since your projects are stored for you by Google, you can work from any internet connected computer.  Read more about it here: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15114

Need more power than what Google gives you?  then get Open Office.  It’s a free program that replaces Office. www.openoffice.org.  Nice.

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Wink is a freeware product, designed as Tutorial and Presentation software. With it, you can capture screenshots, add titles, create explanation boxes, record audio as you  go, and more.  It works on all versions of Windows and some versions of Linux.

Wink will create presentations in the Flash format, EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML.  It is really a useful tool.

Find out more here: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

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Sherry’s Index has a lot of things you can use as a webmaster or a gardener.  Really, it has a ton of stuff all on one page.  Follow this link to her terrific reference page! Just go there. You’ll love it.

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http://sendible.com touts itself as a complete messaging platform.  Sendible lets you reach all your contacts from one place through email, sms, and social network messaging.  You can use the free account or upgrade for more messages and contacts.  A very handy service.

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OK.  Now it’s up to you.  You can use these sites to make your life easier and your business more profitable. ..or you can watch some more TV

P.S.  Eddie, I know the LifestyleDesignPartners newsletter is a week late.  I’m sorry.  It’ll be ready in a few days.