Vitamins

They are FOOD. Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Calcium, Potassium – just a few nutrients found in herbs and spices. What an easy way to stoke up your family with bone building, digestive managing, brain boosting, cell nourishing food. There’s more calcium per tsp. in cinnamon than milk. That’s not all. Start sprinkling parsley, paprika, oregano, cinnamon (the list is long) on the foods you serve your family. Parsley and paprika have no taste, they decorate (green and red antioxidants). Cinnamon goes great with peanut butter, bananas, cereal and French toast. Put oregano and basil in olive oil for dips … add a little plain yogurt or sour cream. YUM!
Go for it.

… for the health of your family, ellen

This is a show you will want to listen to and laugh while picking up some tips.  Terri feels like she is a short order cook,  Julie confessed that her kids will only eat lettuce dipped in dressing (no salads).  How about relating to having a child that eats only 5 things or ones that say, “No bites, No dinner, No problem.”  Eww… and the food can’t touch each other.  Sound familiar? Shared frustrations with discussions of solutions, a few from Sara,  filled up this show.  The biggest aha was Sally’s tidbit: since zinc controls the sense of taste, supplementing with a multi and B-complex with zinc will help stimulate appetites and improve taste responses.  Better yet, eat good zinc food sources: pumpkin and sunflower seeds, meats (beef and turkey!), eggs and crab.    Oysters are loaded with zinc but even I won’t eat them … be my guest!

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… for the health of your family,
ellen

PS: Photos are of Julie and Sara – Terri is camera shy…!

Dr. Janet Zand offered many solutions to address hormonal chaos, be it after you deliver a baby, while you are major stressed, and when you are going through “the change.” Here is what I call her Mid-Life Moms First Aid Kit:
– Siberian Ginseng (standardized) – herb
- Maca (herb)
- Holy Basil (herb)
- Turkey/Chicken broth made from boiled bonees and cooked vegetables: “Dr. Zand’s Adrenal Recovery Soup”
- Add miso paste and dried seaweed to any soup
- Water, drink lots of it
- Green tea, herbal teas – if drink coffee do so only in the am
- Lots of fresh food – not processed
- Turkey, yogurt and other foods with L-tryptophan
- Vitamin D, check for deficiency
- Exercise, even if short walks count – everyday
- Hot Shower, bath with lavendar!
- SLEEP – at least 7 hours a night (dark room, 3 hours after eat a medium to light meal)

SHORT CUTS:
- Calms, a homeopathic remedy
- Chamomile Tea
- Calcium Magnesium before you go to bed unless allergic to ragweed or taking a blood thinner
- Mid day short naps – even 10 minutes helps
- 10 deep breaths at a time (yawning counts!)

Google Adaptogenic Herbs for more information and be sure to consult your doctor about combining them with prescription drugs.

You can feel sane and rested again. Listen to this entire show for more, www.BetterFoodChoicesRadio.com

… for the health of your family,
ellen

EASY – SUPER EASY – TOMATO SOUPThank you Tree of Life

PREHEAT: Burner, medium

PAN: Medium to large sauce pan
TOOL: Immersion Blender, a soup maker’s best friend!

1 28 ounce can of Crushed Organic Tomatoes with Basil or Herbs

1 32 ounce carton of Organic Vegetable Broth, low-sodium

2 cups organic rice milk or organic heavy cream

Combine tomatoes and broth in sauce pan over moderate heat. When it begins to bubble, stir and add rice milk or cream. Reduce heat to low and let it continue to simmer gently for 15 minutes. Stir occasionally. Then take your immersion blender, place it in the middle of the pan, turn it on and blend until all the tomato bits are gone. Season as desired with sea salt. Sprinkle parsley flakes on top. Serve!

4 God-Made Colors: red, tan, white, green
4 Food Groups: fruit (tomatoes), vegetables (broth), grains or dairy, herbs

NOTES
We prefer the use of rice milk for a light and delicious soup. Heavy creamy is very rich and should be reserved for special dinners on occasion.

This soup is SO easy to make. The company making the organic crushed tomatoes with herbs has done the seasoning work for you. Enjoy it!

Tree of Life created this recipe and suggest you choose their brand of crushed tomatoes and vegetable broth. Go to www.treeoflife.com to find them in a store near you.

Have you always thought that inflammation is a just the swollen area where have been hurt – a cut or sprained ankle?  You are right and wrong.  Inflammation is a reaction that occurs in your body when it deals with a foreign organism or trauma. Dr. Keri Marshall explained the connection between inflammation and disease.  When a cell becomes inflammed, it is filled with extra fluid, the rescue program.  Unfortunately this becomes a problem when this extra fluid hangs around in a chronic state.  Then the needed nutrients do not enter the cell and the waste materials does not leave.  This fluid becomes stagnet and invites disease.  Stagnet waters breed unwanted micro-organisms.  So does the stagnet fluid in your cells.  You may notice the heat coming out of an inflammed area, however, this is hard to detect from an internal organ. 

What do you do?  First, don’t eat foods that breed inflammation such as sugar.  Second, eat foods that deter inflammation such as artichokes.  Have your adrenal glands checked.  Get massages and/or exercise.  Sleep for at least 8 hours a night … don’t laugh (turn off your computer and TV and go to bed). Reduce your stress level (say NO to what is not possible to do in time available).  Be in tune with your body. 

… for the health of your family,
ellen