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February 20, 2013 · Recipes

Chia seed pudding

This is a delicious pudding that helps curb your appetite.  It is a great weight loss aid because Chia seeds help prevent the absorption of some of the calories we eat.

Chia seed are also very nutritious. Read 10 Reasons to Eat Chia Seeds.

I am presenting 2 variations, but change it up and have fun!

1) Chocolate

1/4 cup raw organic chia seeds

1 cup  unsweetened almond milk

1 tsp raw cacao powder

stevia to sweeten

– Mix almond milk, cacao and stevia.

-stir in chia seeds

-let stand for 10-15 minutes

-mix again

-enjoy!

 

2) vanilla

1/4 cup raw organic chia seeds

1 cup unsweetened almond milk

1 tsp vanilla extract (gluten free)

1/2 tsp ceylon cinnamon

stevia to sweeten

-mix all ingredients except chia seeds

-stir in chia seeds

-let stand 10-15 minutes

-mix again

-enjoy!!

 

February 20, 2013 · Recipes

Chicken Salad

left over cooked chicken about 1 1/2 cups cubed

1 tomatoe cut in cubes

1 cucumber cut in cubes

1/2 an avocado cut in cubes

1 stalk of celery diced

1 tsp of homemade mayonnaise

himalayan salt and pepper to taste

-combine chicken, tomatoes, cucumbers and celery

– mix in mayonnaise

-fold in avocado gently

-add  salt and pepper

Enjoy!

 

 

 

January 6, 2013 · Recipes

How to Make Kefir

Kefir is a fermented liquid. I usually recommend organic milk kefir or organic goat milk kefir. People who have trouble with dairy usually do well with kefir because it is lactose free as the probiotics have eaten up all the sugars in the milk. Kefir is teaming with good probiotics and you all know how much I love those, especially in their host.

-Start with Kefir grains (which are not actually grains, they are more like little colonies of probiotics)
You can find some on my amazon shopCLICK HERE. Look in groceries.
Add some organic Milk, it can be goat, low fat or whole.

-Cover with a porous cloth or a kitchen towel and secure with a rubber band.

-Leave in a 70 degree F room for 24-48 hours. When it is ready it will be thickened like a buttermilk consistency.

– Just strain through a plastic or nylon sieve to separate the grains, and use the grains again and again to make more and more Kefir.

It’s so inexpensive and easy to do. The health benefits are priceless… READ HERE

December 5, 2012 · Recipes

String Beans and Carrots with Orange and Rosemary

2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced on the diagonal

3/4 pound string beans, trimmed and cut in thirds

2 tbsp coconut oil

1/2 orange -grate 1/4 tsp of the orange zest and juice the half orange

2 tsp. minced fresh rosemary

himalayan salt to taste

Parboil sliced carrots for about 3 minutes. Use a heavy skillet and heat over medium-high heat, add the coconut oil and sauté the string beans, drain carrots and add to skillet. Sauté until everything is just tender approx. 10-12 minutes.

When the vegetables are tender add the zest, juice, salt to taste and rosemary to them. Stir for another minute or two just until the juice reduces to a glaze, then serve.

Enjoy!

November 14, 2012 · Blog

Mom Alert: Can ADD, Autism, Dyslexia, and Anxiety be Cured with Diet?

The Gut-Brain Connection

 

“One area of medicine is particularly prone to look at its organ separately from the rest of the body.  That area is psychiatry.  Mental problems are examined from all sorts of angles: genetics, childhood experiences and psychological influences.  The last thing that would be considered is looking at the patient’s digestive system.  Modern psychiatry just does not do that.  And yet medical history has plenty of examples, where severe psychiatric conditions were cured by simply “cleaning out” the patient’s gut.  A renowned Japanese professor, Kazudzo Nishi, has estimated that at least one in ten psychiatric conditions is due to self-intoxication coming from the bowel.”- Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS DIET) by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD

How do people become self-intoxicated?  Alcoholism has a serious connection to gut and psychology syndrome.  When sugars or complex carbohydrates are eaten, the bad bacteria overgrowth produces alcohol as a by product of digesting the sugars.  There is no part of the body that will not suffer from a constant supply of alcohol, even in small amounts.

GAPS people develop a whole overgrowth of pathological flora in their bodies; I call them ‘bad guys’.  One of the bad guys is Candida. Candida + sugars = alcohol. Scary.

Opiates are drugs like opium, morphine and heroin. Gluten is a protein. Casein is a milk protein. When GAPS people cannot digest gluten and casein they turn into substances with the same chemical structures as opiates. Those opiate like substances go right into the system of people with this syndrome causing many of the psychological disturbances we see.  Even scarier.

These gut-brain toxic connections are just a couple of examples of what is going on with people who have many of the psychological problems we are talking about.

So here is what the GAPS diet does; It restores  balance to the digestive and elimination systems to function correctly. When a good balance is reached, symptoms disappear. So beautifully simple. Yes, Diet can cure. 

It cured me! Read my very personal story.

 

 

 

 

 

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