Elegant Survival

See Elegant Cuisine or The Elegant Cook for M-J de Mesterton's recipe for Swedish-style rye-flax bread.

An Important Message from the Nutritional Health Alliance

on the destructive, dubious changes coming in America...reiterating what I have promoted here at Elegant Survival since 2006.

See "Survival Tools" for my new list of medical emergency supplies.

Blue Diamond Growers of Sacramento, California  See my photo and information here.

Taking a teaspoon of baking soda mixed into a glass of water every day will reduce your corporal acidity; an alkaline constitution will help in preventing cancer.

Pine bark, or pycnogenol, has helped many women alleviate or prevent hot flashes after and during menopause.

Article at People's Pharmacy

Dr. Joseph Mercola talks about the health-benefits of baking soda, also known as bicarbonate of soda.

Kandace Bernal of Ulew Nature Products explains the procedure of skin-brushing.

No, that's not my hair colour--it's a preparation that is said to have enormous health-benefits.

Colloidal Silver Hydrosol

Immunogenics Newsletter, May 2009

The History of Silver

Natto products, derived from soybeans and fermented to create beneficial bacilli, are available in some health-food stores. Read about this fantastic Japanese dietary supplement HERE.

Natto cheese is an acquired taste, but can be utilised in pleasant-tasting dishes.

Natto Research Papers on Record Include:

  Determination of the Thrombolytic Activity of Natto Extract Masahiro Msada (Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Bioproduction Science, Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba University)

  Improvement of Blood Fluidity using NKCP, a Dried Culture Filtrate of Bacillus Subtilis TetsuyaHayashi (Daiwa Pharm), Chie Takahashi (Microchannel Array TechnologyTeam), and Yuji Kikuchi (Microchannel Array Techology Team). Journal of Hemorheology Research 5 (1), 2002  

Pure white coconut oil mixed with a couple drops of lavender oil makes a wonderful, natural emollient for lips and fingernails. The mixture is also antibacterial. I store this home-made cream in antique porcelain miniature jars with lids. The jar on the left is by Heinrich of Bavaria, and the right one is Chinese.

This soup was cooked for less than ten minutes; it was made from water and dry ingredients from the pantry: Minute Rice, chicken bouillon powder, paprika and dried parsley. 

Stop burning your lungs, smokers--e-cigs are...well, watch the great videos on this site.