Best Foods for every Vitamin.

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/photos/foods-pack-nutritious-punch-vitamins-k#0

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble nutrient that helps form and maintain healthy teeth, bones, soft tissues, and skin. This vitamin can also help ward off bacterial and viral infections, prevent night blindness, and keep hair and nails healthy.

Vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid (B9) all assist proper nerve function, the synthesis of DNA, and the formation of red blood cells. They also help maintain brain function, prevent anemia, and are important for metabolism.

Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that protects the health of cells and improves iron absorption. It’s also important in promoting healthy teeth and gums, healing wounds, and helping the body resist infection.

Vitamin D is a unique vitamin because it can also be created by the body from sunlight. It’s critical for bone health, immune system health, and calcium absorption. According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), this vitamin is also associated with a possible decreased risk of colorectal cancer. However, whether it helps reduce risks of other cancers remains unclear.

Like vitamin C, vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that protects cells from damage, helps the body use vitamin K, and repairs muscle cells. Studies on vitamin E and cancer have produced mixed results. However, the American Cancer Society says that recent research shows vitamin E found in corn, soybean, and canola oils may have cancer-fighting properties. 

Vitamin K is critical for the formation of blood clots. Without it, you could bleed to death from a simple cut. According to the National Institutes of Health, studies suggest that this fat-soluble vitamin also helps maintain bone strength in older adults.

$50 an acre.

Property at Woodside was recently put up for sale.  Actually it has been on the market for years but recently it was touted as a ghost town up for sale.  The price was still the same.  The price is about $5500 an acre.  Way too much.  When I told an old childhood friend of mine about it he said it was only worth about $50 an acre.  I pretty much agree.  I would say from 50-70% of this property is in the flood plain of the Price River.  That makes it worthless or maybe worth $25 an acre.  Some of it is zoned commercial.  That might be worth the asking price but only for the part that is zoned commercial.  In all these years it has not sold.  I would say maybe 5 years. 

They try to justify the price by the many different speculative uses of the property.  These include truck stop, campground, hotel, farming and speculation about what might happen in the neighboring area such as a nuclear plant, CO2 sequestration or even an oil refinery.  They also justify it by the supposed value of water rights and mineral rights.  In all these years all these speculations have been worthless.  Hence the $50 price tag I suggest. 

Recently I found some water rights for sale for $2000 a share.  It takes 4 shares per acre.  I reason that if the $5500 property is only worth $50 then the $2000 water shares are only worth $20, or thereabouts. 

Greasewood - From trash to treasure.

Greasewood is about all that is growing in our garden spot at Woodside.  I thought greasewood was worthless until I did some internet research and found out how valuable it could be.  Also called chaparral or creosote.  The creosote is supposed to have a good aroma after a rainstorm.  Chaparral, which I believe is the leaves, makes a good tea.  Greasewood has been studied as an anti-cancer plant.  Apparently the results have been mixed.  Some tumors shrinking and some tumors getting bigger.  The tea made from the leaves is supposed to help a lot of ailments. 





Through my recent internet research I found that greasewood and chaparral are the same.  Chaparral being the leaf of the plant.  It is also called creosote.  I did not know that creosote or chaparral were the same as greasewood.  Somehow it makes greasewood more valuable.  I think entirely different about it.  Chaparral rolls off the tongue better.  It sounds better.  I believe there is a romance associated with chaparral.  Creosote also rolls off the tongue better and sounds better and even more romantic.  It sounds more appealing.  It sounds more friendly.




Greasewood has gone from trash to a prize to me.  I look forward to breathing the air associated with the greasewood especially after a rain.  It will, I'm sure, even make my stay at Woodside more bearable and enjoyable.