Healthy Home Newsletter September 2013 - Volume XVII, Issue 9 | Page 2

Outstanding Client Of the Month!
All of our clients who have made donations supporting our Clean and Healthy Team for The Big Move Cancer Ride
Remember it?s not too late to make a donation and support our team AND we give you a certificate towards your next cleaning of an equal amount that you donate supporting our team. A great way to help support a great cause.

Apples and Mushrooms and Honey, O My!
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? It takes10 apples to create one liter of apple cider. An apple tree will start bearing fruit 8-10 years after it is planted. 7,500 varieties of apples are grown around the world. A medium-sized apple has about 80 calories. The science of apple growing is called pomology. 25% of an apple's volume is air, which is why they float. In 1730, the first apple nursery was opened in Flushing, New York. A bushel of apples weighs 20 kilograms, and will yield 20-24 liters of applesauce. Apples ripen or soften ten times faster at room temperature than if they are refrigerated.

You Make The Difference! Quotes by Irving Berlin
I got lost but look what I found. ----------------------Talent is only the starting point. ----------------------The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ----------------------After you get what you want you don't want it. ----------------------There's no business like show business. t ----------------------You're not sick... you're just in love. ----------------------Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. ----------------------Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

Some fun facts about fungus...
? ? There are an estimated 1.5 to 2 million species of fungi on earth, of which only about 80,000 have been properly identified. There are 2,000 different species of mushrooms eaten throughout the world, but the most common variety cultivated is the white button. ? In some ways, mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants. Mushrooms take in oxygen for their digestion and metabolism and "exhale" carbon dioxide as a waste product. ? Mushrooms grow from spores, not seeds. A single mushroom will drop up to 16 billion spores. The ancient Egyptians believed the mushroom to be "the plant of immortality." The mushroom's distinct flavor so intrigued them that they decreed mushrooms to be food for royalty only, prohibiting commoners from even handling them. Mushrooms have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years to treat many different types of health conditions.

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Sweet facts about honey
? ? Honey is written about in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Ancient Egyptians would use honey as a form of payment. Greeks and Romans referred to honey as a food fit for the gods. Greek custom was to offer honey to the gods and deceased spirits as a tribute, to be protected, and kept in the good graces of the gods. Honey wine is the planet's oldest-known fermented beverage. If you're a reader of fantasy or romance novels, you may know honey wine by its more familiar name: mead. Have allergies? Take a teaspoon a day of a honey made from the region where you reside. It will aid in developing resistance to the regional pollen, thereby reducing your allergic reaction. Have you burned your skin? Received a cut or abrasion? Mix honey with cod liver oil and place on the affected area (then covering it with a bandage). It will assist in the healing process.

CORRECTION:
One of our keen eyed clients helped correct some information in last month?s newsletter. Nikola Tesla was Serbian and not Croatian. Thanks for the help!

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