BRAIN OVER BINGE. Lentils: how to *really* eat them. A few posts back Julie Cowdroy wrote about the Below the Line campaign – a program in May that sees well-fed westerners live on $2 a day to experience what it’s like for the world’s poorest. And to raise $$. I promised to give it a crack and did so for a day. As, it seems, with most people who did it, I resorted to lentils. Lentils are cheap. And Dr Weston A Price considers the little buggers the most nutritious of all legumes – high in minerals and they help assimilate protein and iron absorption.
But they can be bland and horrible and really crook on the gut. If you don’t play right. Here’s some tricks for eating them. Just mine. 1. For extra bulk and fibre and protein. 2. Most recipes will say you don’t need to at all because they’re quite low on phytic acid. 3. 4. Now, I stumbled upon this by accident. Eat these little things: * for breakfast. . * as a snack. Why sprouts? * germination changes the composition increasing the vitamins 8-fold * it also produces enzymes…anti-aging! 6 clever ways to eat yoghurt (the most slimming food on the planet!?) Another week, another “study” that shows we’re meant to be eating this instead of that. Yeah, I tire of them. But I found this one on the best and worst foods for healthy weight quite interesting. It found yoghurt was the best food to eat to lose weight. Below I’ve outlined the gist of the study, and then shared my favourite ways to eat yoghurt. via pinterest.com The study was based on three trials over 20 years.
The quality of food matters more than calorie count!!! These studies always involved competing, intertwined factors. So, some yoghurt sharing… What yoghurt do I eat? I swap between Meredith Farm Sheep’s Milk and the Baramba Organic (full-fat) Cow’s Milk one (this stuff is soooo decadently good). Full-fat or low-fat? I can not say this strongly enough – full-fat only! How do I eat it? I eat yoghurt every day. OK. 17 of my best cooking tricks for real wellness. Here’s a few cooking and eating tips I live by for a Tuesday. Enjoy! Oh, by the way, the new nutrition makeover show I finished filming in January – Eat Yourself Sexy – will appear on Lifestyle YOU in August…in time for Spring. That should give you enough time to subscribe to Foxtel/Austar! 1. I blend my tomatoes. Cooking tomatoes increases the available lycopene antioxidant content by five times. Blending tomatoes does the same but avoids the heat and oxidation, as well as water and enzyme damaging properties of cooking. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Me bones - they cost $1 and made about 3 litres of broth! 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Got any quick nutritious and ingenious tips to share? Why i get excited about coconut oil (plus coconut sweet potato!) Coconut oil is getting a lot of very good press lately…much of it from me! I thought I’d clear up WHY it’s good and WHAT I do with the stuff. This first post will tick off the former.
Coconut oil roasted sweet potato...recipe below So, know this: It doesn’t make you fat Coconut oil is a short-medium chain saturated fat. In fact, it helps you LOSE weight How so? MCFAs are smaller. It stops sugar cravings and energy slumps Your body sends medium-chain fatty acids straight to your liver to use as energy. It’s the only oil we should be cooking with Coconut oil is the only oil that is stable enough to resist mild heat-induced damage, while still helping to promote heart health, support weight loss and thyroid function.
It’s anti-viral and anti-fungal 50 percent of the fat content in coconut oil is a fat rarely found in nature called lauric acid. It’s anti-inflammatory It’s REALLY good for anyone with thyroid issues Coconut oil can also raise basal body temperatures while increasing metabolism. Experts Discuss The Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet. By Dr. Mercola On his website "Livin' La Vida Low Carb," Jimmy Moore examines the notion of "safe starches," a concept promoted by Paul Jaminet, PhD. in his book, Perfect Health Diet.Dr. Jaminet claims that those on low-carb diets who add "safe starches" such as white rice and potato back into their diet will usually improve their health and improve insulin sensitivity. I had a chance to listen to Dr. Jaminet at the Dallas Weston A. Price Conference and was impressed with his ability to consolidate research information.
He is a Ph.D. researcher, an astrophysicist, and his wife Shou-Ching is a Harvard biomedical scientist who does not personally treat patients.I spoke with Dr. This is a fairly radical approach that most people are not applying.Dr. "Eating starch will raise blood sugar to some extent in all living beings that do so, and that will cause some degree of harm in everybody. Do You Really Need Starches? "I saw a holistic nutritionist. Why there's No Such Thing as a "Safe Starch" Sally Fallon’s tips for eating breakfast. I’m a big fan of Sally Fallon and her “bible” Nourishing Traditions (in fact it’s my all-time favourite manual…I VERY much recommend it). She’s an adherent to the Weston A Price way of living, which is similar to Paleo living, which is similar to how I eat (I’ve personally found it the best approach for my auto-immune issues). photo via The Alkaline Sisters Anyway, in a recent edition of WAP’s Wise Traditions Magazine (by Jen Allbritton), they ran a rundown on the best tricks for eating breakfast based on Sally’s principles.
So I’ve shared a few below. I recently shared a post on how to eat breakfast without sugar and grains…this kinda builds on it. I know a stack of you were interested in reading more. Yeah? 5 Weston A Price breakfast tricks: Some breakfast favourites from fellow WAP foodies: Sally Fallon: bake no-nitrate bacon in a pan with fruit (such as apple slices, apricot, peaches or nectarines, or with cherry tomatoes and mushrooms). I’ve been cooking these: Sugarfree Mint & Kiwi Juice. Never thought until i try this juice that mint leaves and kiwi both together works out wonder, its quite a refreshing juice and completely its sugarfree coz i used maple syrup for making this simple juice...Addition of mint leaves gives a beautiful flavour to this simple kiwi juice, just add some ice cubes and enjoy while its hot..Definitely a refreshing juice to enjoy..Sending to Vaishali's Its Spring.. 2cups Kiwi (peeled & chopped) 1sprig Mint leaves Maple syrup as per need Water Blend the kiwi flesh with mint leaves and maple syrup with enough water, dont strain the juice and serve immediately..Enjoy!!
Low Carb Fruits, Low Carb Vegetables. Below is a list of portion sizes of some fresh fruits, not all necessarily low carb fruits, but suitable in these portions for even a low carb diet: But first, let's mention Lemons and Limes - These are used in small enough amounts, and usually mixed with other foods so their carb ratio is not enough to worry about. Indulge in lemons and limes if they agree with you. If you are really a fruit lover, then by all means, keep enjoying them in your daily diet, even though there's no long, luscious list of "low carb fruits". Simply enjoy your fresh fruit using the serving sizes listed below as guidelines. Fresh non-sprayed fruit doesn't make us sick, crappy refined foods do! Actually, I wouldn't want to eat any heavily sprayed fruit crops either, no matter how fresh they are. Eat fresh, organic (or "clean grown") fruit before your meals, not after, to prevent the digestive disturbances that can arise by mixing fruits with other slower digesting foods.
Seriously, fruit is good food. Fresh Herbs. Candida Elimination Program, Step By Step Guide. "Where do I start? " “I’m ready to start a candida elimination program butthere’s so much information, I feel overwhelmed. " I’ve heard this so often, and I can relate, believe me! A candida elimination program can be pretty confusing at first glance. You are beginning a dietary shift toward eating foods that nourish the whole body and support the immune system. The most important change is to start eliminating the foods that are causing the imbalance in your intestines (which is really the "command central" of our immune system), while increasing the foods which nourish and support a healthy body.
Please use these guidelines as just that -- "Guidelines". You may need to experiment with how fast or slow to make the changes. Everyone is different. There are a few key points that are pretty universal, no matter who you are: - Chances are that if you do indeed have candida overgrowth then making some dietary changes is going to make sense. And last but not least: Just do one step at a time. Okay! Cold and Refreshing Drink Recipes Sugar Free Recipes. Cold and Refreshing Drink RecipesSugar Free Recipes Lemon Lime Soda With Stevia This is best when you use the liquid stevia extract, as opposed to brewed stevia tea, so you don't dilute the bubbly effervescence of the soda. -1/4 cup mixture of fresh lemon & lime juice-10 - 15 drops of liquid stevia extract-pinch of finely ground sea salt - yup, that's right!
-3 cups seltzer water or soda water Mix the juice, stevia extract and salt together in a large jar or pitcher. Makes about 3 servings Lemonade or Limeade- sweetened with stevia -1 quart (4 cups) of water-1/2 cup fresh lemon or lime juice -15 drops of liquid stevia extract -1/4 teaspoon good grey ocea sea salt - optional "Salt in my lemonade?? " Mix all the ingredients together, and pour into a pitcher full of ice.
Note: if you don’t want to serve it iced, try reducing the amount of lemon & stevia by about a third, or even half. For a hot summer day you may as well double or triple the batch! Makes about 4 servings Bring the water to a boil.