One of the most feared and least understood pest insect species known to mankind is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dropped off to sleep at night as kids with the parting rhyme of our parents in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?

Bed Bugs probably started to dine on human beings at around the period when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella largely feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bugs evolved to feed on human blood when our forebears started living} in bat infested caves.

Before the arrival of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common stowaways in most low quality homes.

The later years of the 20th century saw pest control companies having very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being mostly restricted to low quality holiday homes and student accomadation etc.

Many people confuse dust mites, which aren’t visible to the naked, with bed bugs which deinitely.

Adult bedbugs are reddy-brown, about a few milemetres in size and swollen after feeding on human blood.

Bed bugs regularly feed on human blood every seven to ten days, coming out in the early hours of the morning and finding their target by detecting the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close in on their target, they sense infra red heat.

Without a suitable human host to feed on they can stay in a period of dormancy for periods of up to a year or more.

Bed Bugs

Signs of a bed bug presence are spots of blood on bedding and on the base of mattresses and many people can react badly to their bites.

The early part of this century has seen bed bug numbers growing all over the planet, the easy availability of world travel and economic migration have both been put forward for the resurgence.

What is certain is that that are now making a real resurgence not only in slum quality housing but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.

One London borough cited a doubling of bed bug infestations every year from 1995 to 2001.

One night away in an infested premises is all it requires, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on tubes, trains and buses so a simple ride to work on an infested tube or train can be all it takes to spread bed bugs to your own home.

They are an tricky pest to deal with as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They infest any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human being, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been revealed found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on grossly over-weight people.

One way of preventing bed bug infestation is to fit your bed with Protect-a-bed bed bug proof protector mattress encasements.

Protect-a-bed bed bug proof protector mattress encasements stop bed bugs from gaining access to your mattress.

Pop along to the Protect-a-bed bed bug proof protector mattress encasements site for full details.

They are not a pest that can be eradicated by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.

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If you read any fitness publication they are going to tell you that your diet needs to be concentrated around a healthy protein source which in most cases is chicken, vegetables or greens in this case spinach along with a complex carbohydrate almost always sweet potatoes; but what they don’t tell you is how to turn these three plain foods into something that is delicious which in turn you’ll never get fed up with. That is what I’m planning to show you today on Live Lean TV so stick around.

Thank you for tuning into Live Lean TV I’m Brad Gouthro welcome to the kitchen at home. Today we’ve chicken, spinach, and sweet potatoes. Hopefully they are your staple foods in what you eat but guess what, they may get very monotonous day after day but I’m going to show you how you can use spices to really spice up your fitness meals and keep things fascinating.

So let’s get these three whole foods (well balanced meals) and turn them into something delicious and tasty that you will never get fed up with. We are able to do that by just adding this guys; spices. The following are now the spices that we shall use today, we have paprika, tine, onion powder, rosemary, garlic powder, chili powder, Dijon mustard, sea salt, and kayan pepper. We have a bit of coconut butter which is delicious (you’re going to love it if you’ve never used it before), olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Okay so let’s blend the sauce that we are going to add to our chicken. You know what, this isn’t a sugary sauce and this also isn’t a fattening sauce this is going to be a low calories sauce that’s likely to provide a lot of flavor trust me. Hence the Dijon mustard is going to be the foot of this sauce and the great thing about mustard is it’s like zero calories or maybe five calories and there is no carbohydrates, no sugar in it.

 So that’s likely to be our base therefore we are going to add to that a packet of stevia (an organic and natural sweetener without any negative effects like other sugar substitutes have). Then let’s incorporate a little bit of sea salt and curry powder (about a tea spoon). This is delicious trust me. Mix this up and after that you’re gonna take the full chicken breast and set it in this mixture. It may seem like a weird combination; curry powder, mustard, and salt however you wait.

 That’s it, you cook your chicken with that and it’s intending to take about one minute. That’s how simple it is to put that chicken white meat together and attempt cooking in big amounts. I’m only cooking one breast because I’m travelling but try cooking in bulk to enable you to eat this whenever you want. So let’s put our chicken inside of a glass baking dish and set it aside and then cook our sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes can get boring when you just eat them plain nevertheless with these spices you can expect to love it. So just as before obtain the mixing dish and here is what’s going in; one teaspoon paprika, 1 / 4 teaspoon onion powder, quarter teaspoon of tine, quarter teaspoon of rosemary, quarter teaspoon of garlic powder and just a pinch of dash of kayan pepper.

 You shake that around and that is gonna be our seasoning mix (homemade all real spices). So now that our spice is finished we are going to get our sweet potatoes ready, we are gonna cut them right down the middle and cover them with coconut butter. Let’s take our seasonings and dash each part with a few bit of the spice.

Let’s put these sweet potatoes on our baking sheet covered with aluminum foil and that is exactly it. We have our chicken prepared; we’ve got our sweet potatoes prepared, our oven is pre-heated and ready to go all that is left ought to be to put it in. It’s gonna take our chicken thirty-five minutes to prepare and it’s going to take the sweet potatoes about forty five minutes.

Now we will prepare a quick side of greens. We have spinach (about a handful) and then for salad dressing we use extra virgin olive oil (not soybean oil) and top that off with some balsamic vinegar.
I’m Brad Gouthro this is definitely live lean TV we’ll be hanging out with you again real soon, appreciate it.