{SUGAR is your #1 enemy!}

• Since some of you have asked me what my secret is for maintaining the same size and weight since I was 15, here is an interesting story about sugar. 
• In 2007 I learned that I had high blood sugar levels, diabetes type 2 or diabetes mellitus as they call it. Since than I have removed most sweet foods from my daily diet. 
• I never drank coke or any soft drinks, just plain water. 
• From childhood on I always have had a fondness of fruits and vegetables, of course being the daughter of a market gardener I was born into them. 
• That is a good and healthy habit. 
• In a later post I will show you some fruits that are natural diuretics, that also helps you for looking slim(mer). Below this post you find some helpful links to my previous posts!
• Now about this fun way of expressing the effect of sugar intake. I received it in an email and below the post I can give you a link of info I found on the Internet. 
• Guess the sugar consumption world wide is very, very high and we can tell! Be aware...

• A Unique Way To Present This...
• 4.2 grams = 1 teaspoon of sugar, so this looks like 1 cube is about the same!
• Someone ought to get an award for this. 
• We know the facts, but this brings it into perspective quickly, doesn’t it? 
• Each cube is a teaspoonful (American teaspoon sizing is larger than elsewhere).

• The fresh fruit sugar, called glucose, is not as bad as processed sugar. It will be broken down by our body slowly and is converted into sucrose and glycogen. Versus processed sugar that will be absorbed very fast into the bloodstream. Therefore fruits are always recommended for Diabetes type 2 patients.

• Now someone needs to do this with salt!

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Related link:

Just a spoonful of sugar helps...
Flat Belly Diet Foods - Meet the MUFAs! | previous post by me
Foods that Support the Skin | previous post by me
Natural Healing Chart for almost all Sickness | previous post by me with a wealth of information!
{9 'Harmless' Habits That Age You} | previous post by me with great tips
Sugar: The Bitter Truth | A very informative video with LOTS of information

{Purple Blue Campanula portenschlagiana a Yugoslavian Native}

Have to share this beauty with you, our Purple Blue Campanula portenschlagiana, a Yugoslavian Native. If you do love purple blue as much as I do, this is it. We got ours at Trader Joe's just before we left for our cruise to the Bahamas. I could NOT resist them. They were presented in such a cute little pail, in a soft lavender color, that they had to come home with us. Glad I took some photos. Do you like them? Is any of you having them in their garden? Our region is too hot for this kind of perennial for spreading freely but I certainly did enjoy this mini-garden in a pail. 

Purple blue is for me connected with spring. Certain colors we also love to wear for different seasons. Or is this only me...? Actually I did place my Laurèl wool, angora and cashmere skirt as a backdrop here. The light purple Villeroy & Boch egg matches perfectly. Below this post you find some related links about this perfect porcelain.

Photos are made outside in daylight and you see the changes in color...

If I love something, I love it passionately and let not go easily!

Still hard to capture the 'true' purple blue color with the ever changing sunlight...

Here are two of the Villeroy & Boch eggs.

This photo shows you more of the soft lavender pails that the plants were in.

That is such a neat idea! Love those people that come up with new ideas on and on.

Photos are taken on May 6...

Do you have any purple blue favorite flowers?

Related links:

{Our Organdy Beribboned, Porcelain and Brass Easter Eggs} | previous post by me

{HAPPY EASTER to all my readers in 163 countries!} | previous post by me

Purple Blue Campanula portenschlagiana images.

{17th Blog Award & 169 Countries Visited}

From Nataša, who writes the blog smilje-art by heart from the city of Pančevo in Serbia, I got my 17th Blog Award. Thank you so much for passing that on to me! Nataša is a lawyer and she lives not too far away from Belgrade, on the beautiful river Danube. We love that part of the world, especially for its melancholic classical music. When I lived and worked in Italy, near Venice, I did train several women from the former Yugoslavia. So I'm not a complete stranger to that part of the world. We also traveled to Hungary a few times, which is on the same river Danube. 

This lady bug is supposed to bring good fortune...

Glad that I'm feeling better and at least I got to mention Nataša as a courtesy, for thinking of me.

Wishing all blogger friends in Eastern Europe the very best and sending lots of love over to your area.

May you all continue to make beautiful hand craft and exchange your art and culture with the world.

So many people have no idea how other countries look like, how they live, what they eat, what they do for a living.

 Nataša is a lawyer, without a job; life is not always easy over at her side of the world.

Thanks for visiting and for following. The world is big but through Internet and Blogger it is becoming small. 

I am very much honored for having 407 followers and readers from 169 countries. On May 6, Gibraltar became the newest country.

It was July 10, 2011 that I put that flag counter on... 

Thank you all very much!

To those that like to take this lady bug home; you are free to do so.

Wishing you a lovely Pentecost weekend and a Happy Memorial Day.

Interesting to read my previous posts:

MEMORIAL DAY - FREEDOM HAS ITS PRICE

A Heart of Gold - Great Memorial Day Story