Honey Coconut Quinoa with Pomegranate

Wow!

Amazing recipe from edenkitchen.com

http://edenkitchen.com/honey-coconut-quinoa-with-pomegranate/

Change your food, Change your life...

I went to a raw food class with a neighbor that invited me and I learned some cool things. Adam, you probably know all of this:)

Enzymes start dying in our foods at 105 degrees and are completely gone by 120 degrees.

Digestion is the most taxing thing your body does all day.

Drinking vegetable juices is best when you are sick because you are feeding your body nutrients, your body isn't having to digest all the fiber it can focus on healing. Smoothies are good when using as a meal and to add fiber to your diet.

Clever Organic Stickers

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http://wonder-tonic.com/organic/organic_stickers.jpg

Food Rules Updates / Michael Pollan

An update to his Food Rules ... nearly a Bible for folk like me.

http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=7fccf730f9f0eb11247da57db&id=ffc006c75b&e=b101ccfe2e

How many sugar cubes did you just slosh down?

A great visual reminder about the immense amount of sugar in our everyday drinks.

View the website here: http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

Fall Harvest Vegetarian Risotto

I splurged this week after being completely sold on a product. It will be my birthday and Christmas present and a few other things as well, but I was sold. It is a Blendtec. You can check out some of their viral marketing youtube videos by searching “Will it blend” (they blend things like marbles, an iphone, etc.). It is insane. So far, we have LOVED using it. It makes hot soups, icecream, peanutbutter, juice, smoothies, grinds wheat, etc. The clean up is incredibly simple as well. I am a big fan. It really helps if you are serious about eating a lot of produce, raw food, and “real” food...which we are. This morning (while I stayed in bed sick) Adam made 6 loaves of banana bread, and an amazing creation: “Fall Harvest Vegetarian Risotto”.

Fall Harvest Vegetarian Risotto

1 cup hot water

1 small can tomato paste

6-8 roma tomatoes, diced

3 cloves garlic

1 red onion

1 tsp black pepper

1 tsp salt

1 green pepper (whole)

¼ cup chives

2 large carrots (cut into chunks)

¼ cup pepper jack cheese

6-8 cups cooked rice

3 cups black beans (warm)

In a powerful blender, combine everything but the rice and beans. Blend until smooth. Pour over rice and beans in a pot and heat (unless you have a Blendtec, in which case, it will already be hot!). Garnish with chives and grated cheese. Can be served with tortilla chips. (The blended ingredients will be mostly raw). Enjoy!

Top 10 Worst Processed Foods

From our dear friend, Jamie Oliver. (http://www.jamieoliver.com/news/top-10-worst-processed-foods)

Raw Melissa

I met "Raw Melissa" on Friday at a conference and bought her little recipe book. I also sampled her all natural no sugar macroons and LOVED every bite. She actually sells them in Whole Foods. Anyway, check out her website and her blog HERE. I hope to try out a few recipes and post them here soon!

Obesity Chart

My favorite part of this chart was the cool graphics! Check it out...

37 ingredients Twinkie eaters ingest

Interesting article from MSNBC. A photographer decided to photograph every ingredient of a twinkie.


Check it out

And read the post that starts like this "It’s a question that’s dogged Steve Ettlinger for years. The author of the book “Twinkie, Deconstructed” spent months of his life interviewing chemical engineers, questioning industrial bakers and even traveling 1,600 feet below the surface of the Earth to see where Twinkie ingredients are mined. (Mined!)"

Read the full article

Dining Out vs. Home Cooked Meal

An interesting infographic showing who spends the most money eating out vs. eating in. I think their waistline could prove most of this! (thanks to flowingdata.com/)

Is Consumption Consuming You?

A fantastic article. Here are a few callouts from it. Read the entire story, it's very insightful and honest.

"Manufacturers love to tweak products in ways that leave our diet largely unchanged, but allow for new "hot buttons" to be added to the product packaging to create a "health halo" and seduce you to buy more of whatever junk it may be. "


"The health care industry makes more money treating chronic diseases than it does preventing them. And the circle of business goes round and round, with us dizzy with confusion."


"The appeal of convenience, low price, added flavor and enriched nutrients is all an illusion to cover up the compromised quality of food."

"With fat, sugar and salt you can make cardboard taste exciting to the palate."

Organic Eggs: More Expensive, but No Healthier

Seems short-sighted to disregard the issue of animal cruelty and agricultural best practices.
Very biased article, I'm afraid.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2002334,00.html

Top 10 Worst Fast-Food Meals

From Time.com: "Tasty? Yes. But would knowing the calorie counts in these items steer us away? Health advocates — and now the Senate — think so"

Check it out:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1905549_1905546_1905424,00.html

What we eat will starve or nourish cancer cells

Ingredients of a Hot Pocket / Awesome Typography Poster!

I totally want one of these!

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/26/hot-pocket-ingredien.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Food and Cancer

Johns Hopkins Update – Very Good Article

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY
IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .



Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins :

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer
cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have
multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients
that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after
treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable
size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a
person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer
cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and
forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,
but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing
diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day

and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.


*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made
with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute
would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small
amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in
color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting
off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer
cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based
diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat,

like chicken. Meat also contains livestock
antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all
harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole
grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into
an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked
food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live
enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to
cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building
healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most
vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw
vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at
temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high
caffeine Green tea is a better alternative e and has cancer
fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or
filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap
water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of
digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the
intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic
buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By
refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes
to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the
body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system
(IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,
EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy
cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known
to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or
unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior
be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put
the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to
have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy
life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated
environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to
get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen
therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer
cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave..

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Green Smoothie Revolution

Anybody ever heard of this book? This lady? Recommendations? Thoughts?

Article About CSA's (Community-Supported Agriculture) in Cache Valley

Grow — and get to know — the food you eat By Lael Gilbert

"I always get a little nervous attending meetings like the open house I went to on Monday. I know those food purists mean well, but I really don't need another food philosophy designed to make me feel guilty. Yes, that cantaloupe I had for dinner probably came from a chemical-laden clear-cut field in Brazil..."

READ THE FULL ARTICLE

High Fructose Corn Syrup: Sweet Talk Gets Harder (New York Times)

This article kills me. Here's an excerpt from the 2nd page of the article. Essentially this HFCS producer is saying that the science of how the product effects our children has no value to them ... only whether it tastes good to them or not.

"Back at ConAgra’s headquarters in Omaha, the Princeton study didn’t stir much more than passing interest. “Our focus is on consumer preference, not the science,” says Mr. Locascio.

They also say more than once in the article that sugar is more expensive than HFCS, but never clarify that it's very likely because of the US Gov't subsidies that make it so. 

And take a look at the final paragraph. If all else fails and the industry can't fool us anymore, then let's market to a new audience that doesn't know the truth–and while we're at it, let's triple the dose!

"In a reversal, manufacturers are replacing the sugar in Mexican soda and other beverages with the less-expensive high-fructose corn syrup. In Mexico this year, consumption of the sweetener is expected to be up by a whopping 50 percent."

Their primary argument is that sugar and HFCS are exactly the same thing ... not once is it suggested that the refinement process may be where the change occurs. 

Lastly, it's so convenient how they embrace the "science" that supports their product, and they reject the science that says otherwise. 

READ THE ARTICLE