Hi Health Minded Friends,
Thanks for opening the Note today. I hope you are all doing very well this week. There are some very important reminders this week. Please Enjoy!
Forks Farmers Market GRAND OPENING!
This Saturday the 12th from 10 am – 3 pm. What a neat place just absorbing nature in the middle of an organic farm complete with animals, barbecue samples from the farmers John & Todd, and usually live music. Hallelujah Hive plans to be there as well as our Natural Gourmet Chef daughter, Laura (You probably know her as Laura’s Sweet Gourmet). Besides the open-air farm store, there are about 12 – 15 other organic venders.
We don’t bring all of our natural products to this market for lack of space under our tent. We do bring most, but only a few of our natural soaps. However, if you know you are coming, and you are not sure we will have what you need, you can call or email us with your order and we will be glad to put a package together for you. We do honor our specials at the other markets.
For more info and directions, you can go to www.ForksFarmMarket.com
End of Recession SALES! Here’s Hoping it’s over!! Markets Only:
*Vermont Wildflower 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2
*Vermont Goldenrod 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2
*Buckwheat Honey – Save $1 on pints and Save $2 on quarts
*Elderberry Formula 4 oz—Save $2
*Elderberry Jellies and Jams – Save $2
*Hallelujah Hive All Natural “Chocolate” Body Soap–$3
*Barley Max – Save $5 when buying along with 1 more
Hallelujah Acres Supplement
*Hallelujah Acres Balanced Woman Cream —20%OFF
*Natural Cosmetics from Honey Bee Gardens — 20% OFF
*Along with other on-going SPECIALS at the markets
***For more information on the description of most of these products, just go to our website www.hallelujahhive.com.
Tupelo Honey!
It’s In! We have it!
100% Certified Raw, Unheated, Unfiltered Tupelo Honey from the white tupelo trees that grow in the Apalachicola River basin in North West Florida.
Yes, Hallelujah Hive will now be carrying Don Smiley’s Tupelo Honey. Don is the beekeeper and owner of Smiley Apiaries. From what Don tells me, Tupelo honey, although it is totally raw, stays liquid indefinitely.
My family and I have personally tasted it just to make sure it is good. Well…….It is GOOD!!
Come and get raw Tupelo honey at the markets or at our home and try it for yourself.
You can order, look at the pictures, or investigate our site, by clicking onto www.HallelujahHive.com The Tupelo Honey is not on our website yet. If you would like it shipped to you just call or email me.
“What I Want to do When I Grow Up”
…from a 50’s perspective.
Did you ever hear of Jack LaLanne? He started the first health club in America in 1936.
Believe it or not, he is still around. In fact, he and his wife of about 54 years are traveling the world, lecturing to whoever will listen that you don’t have to be sick. He’s now 95 years young, and driving a new red sports car.
When he was a kid, he wore a back brace. He was weak, thin, sickly (he dropped out of school for a year because of illness). He was shy, withdrawn, and he had boils, pimples, and blinding headaches.
For breakfast, lunch and dinner his diet was composed of cakes, pies and ice cream. That is until he met the late, great Paul Bragg. Remember, he was the guy who went surfing at 95 in Hawaii and had the veins and arteries of a 20 year old in his nineties.
Well, to make a long story short, Paul chewed Jack out and set him on the right track, one of exercise and a good diet.
Soon after that, Jack got down on his knees and prayed to God. He said, “God, please give me the willpower to refrain from eating unhealthy foods when the urge comes over me. And please give me the strength to exercise even when I don’t feel like it.”
It worked. Jack celebrated his 70th birthday by towing 70 rowboats with 70 people on board for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor with his hands handcuffed and his feet shackled.
Jack has a saying, “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.”
On the nutrition end, Jack has been a vegan most of his life, at least since the pie & cake stage. Today, at 95 he does eat an occasional egg white and wild fish. Oh well, we’re not all perfect. LOL! But what he lacks in diet, still LOL….. he makes up for in exercise. What are his exercises? He pulls rowboats !!! I’m kidding of course. He only does that once in a while.
Jack was recently asked if he thought he’d live to be 100. He said, “I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living! I have friends who are in their eighties, and now they’re in wheelchairs or they’re getting Alzheimer’s. Who wants that? I want to be able to do things. I want to look good. I don’t want to be a drudge on my wife and kids. And, I want to get my message out to people. I tell people I can’t afford to die. It would wreck my image.”
Jack LaLanne loves people and he loves being alive. I don’t know if you noticed or not, but he never retired.
Jack received a letter from an older couple. The gentleman asked if Jack thought it was alright to have sex at 75. Jack replied that his wife and him like it a little cooler.
I titled this article “What I want to do when I grow up” from a 50’s perspective. I have a question for you. What do you want to do when you grow up? Do you want to retire, become or continue to be a couch potato, play golf, or……do you want to climb mountains, become a missionary, dance, laugh and play football with your grand kids, or/and take walks with your great grandkids? Do you want to tell stories to your great great grandkids?
When I was in high school, they were always pushing us teenagers to make up our minds on what we wanted to do when we grow up. In other words, at 17 years of age, they want us to know how we will spend the rest of our lives. I didn’t realize what I wanted to do in life until I was 50. Now, at 57, I’m excited about the future.
I’m not thinking about retiring at 65. I’m hoping to be still preaching the message of “You Don’t Have to be Sick“ at 100, if God allows me. I want to still be working at the Markets at age 100. I want to climb mountains into my eighties and then at least go hiking after that. I do want to walk with and tell stories to my great great grandkids which could possibly come along when I’m in my early 100’s.
I would like to go for walks when I’m 107 in the country (if there still is any) with my wife (my best friend) and reminisce about the last century.
I’ve been given a gift of great value, the gift of the knowledge of health and longevity. I can use it or abuse it. It is solely up to me.
If I choose “wisely”, with God’s help, I can spend my next 50 or 60 years on earth serving and teaching others, that many of them might go on to serve and teach as well.
Others have given me this gift of great value, and because of it I’m healed, healthy and alive today. I’m very thankful to my wife Dorothy, George Malkmus, Dr. Phiefer, Susan, the owner of “The Country Store” in Leighton, and so many others for teaching and encouraging me. I’m especially thankful to the Lord Himself who encouraged me through the Bible. Yes, the Bible, with passages like “I heal all your diseases. I renew your youth like the eagle” and a multitude of other scriptures. Gifts are for giving. I must never forget that, and I must work towards that goal.
There are a couple studies I would like to mention. At Tufts University, residents of a chronic-care hospital, almost all of whom were over the age of 90, were put on a weight-training program. Some needed assistance walking to the bathroom. Instead of killing these frail and fragile people, eight weeks later their wasted muscles had grown stronger by 300 percent, and both balance and coordination were much improved. Oh! In addition, no one needed assistance walking anymore.
At the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, 12 men between 60 and 72 were put on regular supervised weight-training sessions 3 times a week for 3 months. They were asked to train at 80% of their one repetition maximum, (the heaviest weight they could lift at one try). At the end of the experiment, the strength of the men’s quadriceps had more than doubled, and the strength of their hamstrings had tripled. By the end of the program, many of these older men could lift heavier boxes than the 25 year olds working in the laboratory.
Sadly, the general American way of thinking is that we grow up at 21, wind down and retire at 65, take it easy for a few years and die………….!!!!!!
In many countries in the world, and this is a fact, many are dancing, working full time and enjoying a pain free, disease free life well into their 90’s and 100’s. They live in places like Okinawa, China, Abkhasis, Vilcabamba, Northern Russia and Hunza.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Diabetes and other diseases are not caused by aging. They don’t even exist in many of these lands. They are caused by our lust for the wrong foods, our laziness when it comes to drinking enough water, exercising, high stress lifestyles, our anger and lack of forgiveness towards others, etc. etc. etc.
Please! I am not pointing the finger. I know that some would say getting Mark Gibson to change his ways has been the utmost of a challenge (like pulling teeth), and I do have some pulled from too much cake & ice cream.
Speaking of ice cream, according to John Robbins, son of the ice cream giant, who left the Baskin Robbins empire and now preaches on healthier living, “it doesn’t matter what age you are, you can change your ways, start eating right, start exercising, and you’ll see results.”
I think a lot has to do with our attitude. Is the glass half empty or half full. Do we tend to be negative in our thinking or positive? The sun will rise in the morning. A cloud does have a silver lining. There is light at the end of the tunnel. YES! Everything is going to be OK! To me, Mark Gibson, the fountain of youth is Bee Pollen, raw honey, greens, whole foods and my Savior Jesus Christ!!
In the words of Winston Churchill, who had watched London being pulverized by German bombs and all England on the verge of extinction by Hitler, and yet win the war regardless——“Never Never Never…..Give Up!!!”
Thanks for listening. Hope to see you at the markets, and don’t forget Forks Farm,
Mark
Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com
