Sherry I. Starks CMT, Nctmb

06/24/2022

That looks good

WICHTIG: Es handelt sich bei der benutzen Tüte um eine spezielle zum backen geeignete Backtüte, auch Bratbeutel genannt! Ihr dürft auf keinen Fall etwas ande...

08/17/2020

We are all shut down.

Contra Costa County is working with the California Department of Public Health and Kaiser Permanente to correct multiple data delivery problems that are affecting the reliability of local information on the Contra Costa Health Services COVID-19 Data Dashboard. 

08/17/2016

In order to make healthy lifelong changes to one's own body one must be willing to challenge, channel, change and conquer the old thoughts that are conected to the old body. Sherry Starks

07/20/2016

Blooming beautiful Sunset Lane

04/20/2016

My reaction to the caller who does not want legitimate massage therapy.

04/19/2016

25 years of medical massage

12/31/2013

Or otherwise known as "industrialized sugar or killer corn syrup" this is the stuff that causes diabetes it is much more potent (because it is condensed and concentrated) than regular table sugar and corn syrup.

These days, an awful lot of New Year’s resolutions are vows to lose weight over the coming year. Unfortunately, many — if not most — of these well-intended promises we make to ourselves sooner or later fall by the wayside.

12/31/2013

Got text neck?

We know a lot of kids that got a new phone for Christmas. Please remind them to bring the phone to eye level instead of hunching over to text.

10/18/2013

Massage therapy has been growing in popularity as a treatment for children with autism. Massage therapists provide deep pressure massage and therapeutic touch to children while avoiding light touch. These practitioners also train parents of children with autism in massage techniques that can be comp...

09/19/2013

Soooo true.

For better or worse, I have recently been invited to join and have been participating with a group of very smart, very invested, passionate massage...

08/06/2013

Good news! Experts explain the reasons you can stop making excuses for why you deserve a rub down.

07/22/2013

How To Make Your Own Homemade Pain Relieving Cream:

http://www.herbs-info.com/blog/how-to-make-your-own-homemade-pain-relieving-cream

A simple all-natural formula, click the link to see how it's made and learn all about herbs for pain relief!

06/26/2013

Dr. Brent Bauer of the Mayo Clinic explains the health benefits of massage therapy and how to find a qualified massage therapist.

05/15/2013

Carrots Used to Be Purple Before the 17th Century

Today I found out, before the 17th century, almost all carrots cultivated were purple. The modern day orange carrot wasn’t cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot, including yellow and white carrots and gradually developed them into the sweet, plump, orange variety we have today.

Before this, pretty much all carrots were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up including the yellow and white carrots. These however were rarely cultivated and lacked the purple pigment anthocyanin, which gave carrots back then their distinctive purple color.

It is thought that the modern day orange carrot was developed by crossing the mutated yellow and white rooted carrots as well as varieties of wild carrots, which are quite distinct from cultivated carrots.

Some think that the reason the orange carrot became so popular in the Netherlands was in tribute to the emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence. This could be, but it also might just be that the orange carrots that the Dutch developed were sweeter tasting and more fleshy than their purple counterparts, thus providing more food per plant and being better tasting.

Bonus Factoids:

It is actually possible to turn your skin a shade of orange by massively over consuming orange carrots.

Orange carrots get their bright orange color from beta-carotene. Beta-carotene metabolizes in the human gut from bile salts into Vitamin A.

The origins of the cultivated carrot is rooted in the purple carrot in the region around modern day Afghanistan.

When cultivation of the garden style orange carrot lapses for a few generations, the carrots revert back to their ancestral carrot types, which are very different from the current garden variety.

In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used. The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves. For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain poisons with the principle ingredient being carrot seeds. It has since been proven that this concoction actually works.

The Romans believed carrots and their seeds were aphrodisiacs. As such, carrots were a common plant found in Roman gardens. After the fall of Rome however, carrot cultivation in Europe more or less stopped until around the 10th century when Arabs reintroduced them to Europe.

British gunners in WWII were able to locate and shoot down German planes at night due to the invention of radar, which the Germans knew nothing about. To cover up the invention and extreme effectiveness of radar, the British spread about an urban legend that said that they massively increased the night vision of their pilots by having them consume large amounts of carrots. This lie not only convinced the Germans, but also had a bonus effect of causing many British people to start planting their own vegetable gardens, including planting carrots. This urban legend has persisted even to this day.

The largest carrot every grown was 19 pounds; grown by John Evans in 1998 in Palmer, Alaska.

The Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M recently developed a purple-skinned, orange fleshed carrot called the Beta Sweet. This carrot is specialized to include substances that prevent cancer. It also has extremely high beta-carotene content.
Almost one third of all carrots distributed throughout the world come from China, which is the largest distributor of carrots in the world. Following them on gross production is Russia and then the United States.

Although the orange carrot was not cultivated before the 16th and 17th centuries, there is a reference in a Byzantine manuscript around 512AD which depicts an orange rooted carrot, suggesting that at least this mutant variety of carrot could be found at this time.

(From: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/04/carrots-used-to-be-purple-before-the-17th-century/)

05/15/2013

http://iowaindependent.com/32870/justice-with-past-monsanto-ties-should-recuse-himself-environmentalists-say

http://www.celsias.com/article/ex-monsanto-lawyer-clarence-thomas-hear-major-mons/

05/15/2013

05/15/2013

http://m.clclt.com/charlotte/blogs/Post?basename=eat-with-dollars-sourcing-your-salmon&day=18&id=ea