GRAPEFRUIT

Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 5:09 am

A few nice Natural Food images I found:

GRAPEFRUIT

Image by whologwhy
Nutritional Benefits

Grapefruit doesn’t only contain vitamin C which is commonly known to be protective against cold or flu. It is not just one nutrient that helps prevent a certain disease, but rather the combination of several ingredients in it that does the trick. This is the kind of nutritional power that we can find only in the way God makes our natural food.

This juicy fruit contains citric acid, natural sugars, essential oils like limonene, pinene and citral. It has high amounts of vitamin C, and smaller amounts of vitamin A, B complex, E and K.

In the mineral department, larger amounts of calcium, folic acid, phosphorus, and potassium are found. The nutritive phytonutrients of this voluptuous fruit¾liminoids, flavonoids, lycopene and glucarates¾help fight cancer and various diseases.

101: Awesome Dead Possum

Image by bonyang26
Let me explain. I do volunteer work for the Auckland City Council. We’re having a pest control program to stop possums from interfering with the natural balance in parks in NZ. These possums are NOT native to NZ and they disrupt the natural food chain here. These animals are killed by traps, and in the most humane (does this apply to animals?) manner.

Digusting? Yes. Morbid? Yes. Interesting? To me it is. Death is something that we humans will never fully grasp or understand. What will happen when we die? Is it just a never ending darkness? Now that is just the philosophy side.

How does the body decompose? I’m not a biology student so I don’t know. But I WANT to know. Death is a part of life, after all. (5/365.25)

Sweet Dreams

Image by MissTessmacher
Whenever I have a chance I like to stop by a farm that’s on the way to my Tuesday night band rehearsal. They sell all kinds of fresh, natural foods, including milk from their own dairy herd. Besides cows, they have some other animals including pigs, goats, rabbits, sheep and a donkey.

Tonight the animals were mostly indoors but I did manage a shot of this sleeping pig. He looks like he’s having a pleasant dream (whatever it is that pigs dream about).