Food

Just finished Day 18 of Dr. Craig Koniver's Spring Detox Cleanse. (feeling awesome) As you can imagine, we are eating lots of veggies and fruits, nuts and grains, drinking tons of water and shakes.

We think of seeds for planting. We think of sprinkles as colorful things we used to put on our ice cream cones and sundaes (don't eat those anymore). Now let's think about seeds as sprinkles to add nutritional value to the foods we prepare.

Michael Pollan's column in The New York Times is right on target. We should focus our attention on diet and food production. That could dramatically reduce health care costs.  I highly recommend this article. 

Thanks to Splendora for highlighting these 10 foods recommended for women. Forget the fad diets. Eating right and exercise are the keys to good health.

1. Organic Farm Fresh Eggs
2. Wild Salmon
3. Leafy Greens
4. Nuts
5. Blueberries
6. Steel Cut Oats
7. Avocados
8. Raw Cacao
9. Organic Sweet Potatoes
10. Organic Yogurt with Active Culture

Around the holidays there is always a lot of advice floating around about making smart food choices and often the advice involves stating the obvious. i.e. "Choose the crudite over the bacon wrapped scallops." or "Pick a plain baked potatoes over a twice baked one."

But how about the choice between roasted turkey vs the deep fried variety?

After reading this article, you will want to add more olive oil to your diet AND start mixing Body Ami with olive oil for salad and food dressings. It discusses its curative values for over 60 diseases. We are developing recipes but start experimenting on your own. Be sure to use cold pressed and for cooking use virgin, not extra virgin olive oil.

Posted today on Natural News - "...Basil was recently shown to reduce swelling and inflammation in arthritic patients by about 73 percent, which is on par with commonly used drugs for arthritis. The researcher who presented the results at The British Pharmacology Conference said they were going to begin studying the properties of basil to determine the active compounds which could be made into drugs. This is in contrast to just encouraging people to eat more fresh, organic basil.

Omega 3 has become popular for its ability to reduce the risk of heart disease. An article in today's Personal Journal section of the WSJ, discussed worldwide scientific studies of Omega 3's potential for treating other serious conditions including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and rheumatoid arthritis. This seems logical since it's main benefit is to reduce inflammation.
More research is needed,  but the scientists believe that the results of the studies will provide insight that can help develop new medicines to treat disease.

According to a recent post at Natural News, ...if you avoid all of these things, your brain will function much better, your mood will be elevated, your memory will work better, and you'll have the energy you need..."

AVOID Artificial fragrances (perfumes in body care products, shampoo, etc.)
Perfumed laundry products
Dairy products (unless they are raw)

As a follow up to the Dirty Dozen post, here's the Clean 15 (in order of lowest amount of pesticides first). If buying or finding organic produce is not an option, try to chose from this list.