Board of Directors for 30 Moms

Dear Moms,

Here is the board of directors for the circle of 30 Moms. As you can see we decided to ask moms to pick a nickname for themselves from spices or herbs, because it is both related to our mission for promoting a natural healthful life style and is respecting moms’ privacy 🙂 You are welcome to pick your own nickname and send it to us if you are a mom with the vision of making a difference in your community. It is going to be fun!

Thank you!

Saffron

Cardamom

Lavender

Cinnamon

Tarragon

Basil

Nutmeg

Mint

Rose

Sumac

Cardamom

“Let food be your medicine.” Hippocrates

Cardamom is my favorite spice either in rice, tea, or sweets and specially in Persian ghotab and baghlava. Cupcakes with this spice takes you to heaven or at least takes Persians to heaven, because of our childhood memories. Almost all of us have experienced tasting cardamom and rose water cupcakes, called cake yazdee at least during Persian new year, Norooz. Since old times, spices have always been considered as a luxury merchandise and in many cases or in many countries in the history they were either rare or expensive, cardamom is the third most expensive spice after saffron and vanilla. When it comes to spices, I must say you better not to think about a little extra expense and encourage yourself to put your money where your mouth is 🙂 Because spices have a lot of health benefits including cardamom that is one of the oldest spices and it comes mainly from India. Some studies have shown that cardamom prevents cancer and even can kill cancer cells, because of the powerful antioxidants that this spice contains. It also has copper, iron, and manganese, which are good for your bone and for fighting anemia. Cardamom improves digestion becasue it contains fiber. Therefore it has all the values that fiber has, like balancing and regulating digestion, reducing heart burn, lowering bad cholesterol, comforting Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and fighting constipation and intestinal gas. It improves appetite as well. Cardamom also contains a lot of minerals and vitamins such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, copper, and vitamin C and is known for its benefits for gums and teeth. In South Asia Cardamom is used for common cold and for helping body to fight airway infections. It is believed that cardamom has both detoxifying and antimicrobial effects and improves the airway circulation. Being a powerful antioxidant, cardamom has benefits in Parkinson’s disease as well as in cancer. Cardamom tea is very soothing and pleasant and you can add cardamom either as a pod or in ground form to your black or green tea and enjoy it specially in cold days 🙂

“Let’s always eat and drink healthful food and beverages and do it in moderation.” Dr. Sii

SIMAMA – Stand for Healthful Living, Stand for Drug Free Generation, Stand for Education, Stand for.……, Stand and be counted!

 

 Anti drug and anti HIV murals in Phrao, Chiang Mai, Thailand 🙂

Good Job Youth!

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Also, SIMAMA in Farsi means “30 Mamas” and I am asking for 30 moms to join me to stand for young generation, their healthful and drug free life style, their education, their prosperity, and much more. If your heart is in this concept and you are a mom, I would like to hear from you and add you to the first circle of moms to think about, pray for, and stand for our generation and our children and children of children. Please send me a message and say in Spanish, Si’Mamam (yes, little mama). Thank you! 🙂 By the way this is my 30th post on Si’Mama cafe. 🙂

Stand for Active Life Style! :)

Healthy Women 🙂

And Healthy Men 🙂

And Healthy Kids 🙂

Cinnamon

“Let food be your medicine.” Hippocrates

Cinnamon is one of the oldest spices in the world. It comes from a small tree called cinnamon tree, most famously grown in South Asia. They take the barks of this tree and dry and roll them to make cinnamon stick and they ground it to make cinnamon powder. It is used in food and beverages for taste and for hot nature of this spice as well as for increasing metabolism (loosing weight) and for its natural preservative quality. They use it in massage oil to reduce muscle pain and for its insect repellant characteristic, in tea to reduce pain in joints and relief of sore throat and cold symptoms, and in chewing gums and mouth wash and tooth paste for preventing tooth decay and bad odor.

The aroma of cinnamon from a cinnamon candle for example can reduce winter depression and lifts up the mood during Christmas and New Year. The aroma of cinnamon in the car can reduce the driver’s anxiety and increase the alertness. Mixing cinnamon oil with hydrogen peroxide gives you an antibacterial cleaner for the kitchen.  Also mixing cinnamon powder with water gives you an antibacterial cleaning spray that takes oder away.

Like antibiotics, eating cinnamon can kill both the good and bad bacteria in gastrointestinal system and it is good for Irritable Bowl Syndrome (IBS),  so eating probiotics drinks like Kefir or other probiotics after eating lots of cinnamon is recommended. Cinnamon is also publicly known to be beneficial for diabetes, high cholesterol, and delaying Alzheimer’s disease. It has antioxidant, anticancer ,and manganese that can help osteoporosis and reduce white muscle spasms such as PMS. So next time that you are in a cafe, sprinkle some cinnamon on your coffee:) In another hand using too much cinnamon can harm your liver. Cinnamon is also known to be a blood thiner and prevent blood cloth, so those that are on blood thiner should be careful when they eat a lot of cinnamon.

“Let’s always eat and drink healthful food and beverages and do it in moderation.” Dr. Sii

Fresh Apple Cinnamon Cookies

 

Colooche Lahijan with walnut, cinnamon, and cardamom filling, a famous cookie from Northern Iran.