Television can be scary. Every five minutes or so, the current episode is interrupted with an amazing drug ad touting the healing powers of that drug that will alleviate your high cholesterol, bad mood, low t, indigestion, gas, incontinence, impatience, shaky legs, spartan patches of hair, scratchy throat, red eyes, allergies and pain. Then comes the long list of possible side effects that mimic the very conditions listed above with the big one trailing at the end-a few cases of death have been reported. They keep that one for the end because it trumps all the others.
In spite of the fact that no one gets out of this life alive, there are lots of “fruits” to be had from living healthily while here on this earth, which brings us to that subject -fruits-and vegetables, those things our mothers hid in the middle of casseroles topped with gleaming with cheese back in the 50s and 60s and later.
So what’s it going to be? Drugs to alleviate problems often brought on by poor American eating habits or food that will rejuvenate and heal those parts of us because the body does just that when inundated with healthy nutrients.
Going Raw-Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle Revolution at Home by Judita Wignall is a superb cookbook and how to book on getting to that lifestyle. Judita suggests aiming at a 50 percent raw food diet. She doesn’t advocate going “cold turkey” but adding and eliminating foods one by one and not giving up all that things that have satisfied that need for comfort food.
She does a fine job of telling us how to get on track by going raw which means uncooked, not messed with, except to clean the dirt and
preservatives off those fresh fruits and veggies. Or maybe chop it up with some other things for a very colorful and more balanced cornucopia of delectables. By the way, we’re not talking raw meat here.
It’s a well known fact that there are many big factories or “farms”that produce great quantities of beef and chicken using pens and crates that pack the animals so closely that some never even turn around in a whole lifetime. Some of these farms even remove chicken beak’s so that they will not peck each other to death through the stress of such close quarters. They suffer. If we are compassionate, we are undone by needless suffering. To eat meat, by the way, we must cook it and that which is overcooked can create carcinogens as well as cause a too acidic body. What we need are fruits, veggies, whole grains and unprocessed food.
Judita says we just need about four good tools. A great knife, a blender, a food processor and a dehydrator. Then we can concoct things like ruby red ginger and honey sun tea, the iron man/iron woman smoothie, garden of Eden pesto wrap. The book offers all kinds of tips for substitutions, i.e., different milks not produced by cows and yet still chock full of calcium and protein. And hemp is one of her favorite proteins. Highly recommended for those interested in learning to live a more healthy life.
nutrient, “foods are more than the sum of their nutrient parts, and those nutrients work together in ways that are still only dimly understood.” So some of the best advice on how to eat can be found simply by looking to other, healthier cultures, such as with rule 48; French people “seldom snack, eat small portions from small plates, don’t go back for second helpings, and eat most of their food at long, leisurely meals shared with other people,” or by following the advice of your grandmother — rule 42: “The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”
One that helps us distinguish between real food and what he calls “edible foodlike substances:”
Warrior pose uses key words like “strong” and “focused”. On the back, illustrations and a small amount of text help you and your little one get into the pose. Usually two questions follow each pose to use with a more mature child. Warrior pose brings up trust with these questions: “What does it mean to be trustworthy?” and “Are you trustworthy?”
I have used these cards with a kids yoga class. Laying the cards out on the floor, we worked together to pick out which yoga poses we wanted to do and then we decided on the best order for the poses. It worked well for kids who might other wise have a hard time getting focused on yoga. The partner poses were great for supporting interaction and simple fun. These cards also help to give meaning to each pose before you try to actually do them together. Breathing and a few moments of quiet? Yes, we did that, too.
