Best Things to Drink

Red Grape Juice: has same benefits as a glass of red wine

Tea: contains flavonoids, helps boost bone density. Add lemon for extra benefits. Green, white or oolong teas have anti-inflammatory compounds. Try hibiscus tea.

Organic Raw Kombucha: a tea beverage with probiotics (helps steady blood sugar and calm cravings).

Purple: a juice drink combining acai, cranberry, black cherry, pomegranite, blueberry, purple plum and black currant – all contain powerful antioxidants.

Coffee: keep shakers nearby with cinnamon, nutmeg, and 100% cocoa for add-ins, use real cream for a treat (or try evaporated skim milk). May reduce risk of diabetes, heart attack, gallstones, Parkinson's disease, kidney stones, and cirrhosis. For energy and boosts memory (Michael Appelbaum, M.D.). Spread it out through the day.
Note for caffeine – blocks the ability to absorb iron, causes body to excrete calcium readily

Hot cocoa: dust with nutmeg or cinnamon, top with whipped cream for a treat. Use 100% cocoa for antioxidants.

Yerbamate Herbal beverages: reduces risks of cancer, heart disease and slows aging process, contains more antioxidants than black or green teas.

Sarsaparilla (root beer): touted as an anti-inflammatory and a liver cleanser.

Ginger Ale – ginger is good for the stomach (try candied ginger for a sweet, spicy treat)

Prickly Pear Juice – has flavinoid quercitin (vision health and prostate health)

Guava juice: guavas have more vitamin C than oranges.

Coconut water: purest liquid second to water.

Best Sayings

Thank God.

God loves you.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Time heals all wounds.

If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything at all.

Your body is your temple.

Live and let live.

Two wrongs don't make a right

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Sit up straight.

Eat your vegetables.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

Best Quotations

Before God we are all equally wise, and equally foolish. – Albert Einstein

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. - Mother Teresa

God knows each of us as if there was only one of us. – St. Augustine

The perfect is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits. – Thomas Jefferson

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

No one is looking at your imperfections; they’re all too busy worrying abou their own. – Isaac Mizrahi