Comparing Your Health To An Antique Table

Antique table and your health? What could they possibly have in common?  

You Do NOT Need Me is another thought I had for this post's title. What possible connection could these 2 titles have? I will get back to all of this and hopefully the concepts will be clear.

To heal your body from most of the ills we suffer all one has to do is switch to a whole food diet. Eventually the body will recover its health:

• your gut flora will return to normal,
• blood chemistry profiles stabilize to normal,
• body cells recovery their health,
• hormone levels balance,
• DNA & RNA repairs itself,
• and the list goes on & on.

All of this repair stuff happens just by feeding your body real food*.

Most packaged food stuff, made in factories, is loaded with

• artificial ingredients
• genetically modified organisms
• preservatives
• chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides, and
• so many more unnatural ingredients that were never meant to be part of your body's cellular health.

Each time we eat this unnatural food stuff we are chipping away at our body's health. The food we eat is responsible for the health of our body cells. Doritos and soda (or any packaged foods with fake ingredients) every day and you are seriously chipping away at your innate health.

Real Food = Real Healthy Cells

Crap Food = Crappy Sick Cells

If I was to take a vegetable peeler and every day chip a tiny bit of my antique table away what would my table look like? After days, weeks, months, and years of slowly chipping away on my table, the table's value, beauty, and function would suffer. 

The same thing happens to your health every time you chip away at it with food stuff that nature never intended us to take into our bodies under the pretense that it is real food. You read about this in my 80/20 Eating Plan Deception. You are chipping away at your health and your innate beauty, function, and vitality suffers.

So why is it You Do Not Need Me (possible post title #2) and my Wise Woman Nurse educational services?  

Just eat real food. It is that simple.

Feed your body food that nature gave us and avoid the stuff made in factories. If you must buy some factory made foods: read labels and make sure every ingredient in the product is natural, unrefined, non GMO, etc.

Be good to your body cells.  If you want to speed up the healing process... there are many ways to aid the body in recuperating from a non-whole food diet. This is where I can help you weave a bit of magic and make the whole food eating and healing plan happen faster, accelerate the body's return to health! 

Toss out the junk food and the vegetable scraper. 

Save your body cells and the antique table today!

*real food: food in its whole state

1. If a plant based food, the food is grown:

• as it would have grown in nature
• without GMO seeds
• without use of agricultural chemicals: fertilizers pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, etc.
• preferably with crop rotation and biological methods of maintaining soil fertility

2. If an animal based food, the animal is raised:

• in open space free to roam, eat, play, love, and live as closely as it would have if it was a wild animal
• not fed unnatural foods (grains and soybeans to cows, goats, pigs, etc.)
• no steroids, antibiotics, growth hormones, and/or agricultural chemicals
• treated with loving care by the farmers

Because I have used the words... "You CAN heal your own health problems," I will add this disclaimer to CMA.  Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.  

I LOVE Fast Food!

Yes, you read that correctly:  I LOVE fast food!

Those who know me are saying, "no way, can't be!"  Let me warn you, it is not the type of fast food you can pick up at a drive thru.

I like whole food meals I can whip up quickly.  Some days I need to with 2 kids, 4 cats, 1 dog, and my busy health promoting lifestyle.

Last eve I decided I wanted pizza.  Getting healthy pizza out is not an easy task, better handled at home.  Generally, I plan for this and have the dough rising several hours before dinner prep time.

This conundrum has entered my life before:  want pizza now!  This is why I created the following whole food, easy pizza.  I made last eve's, pictured above, with fresh ground amaranth, millet, and quinoa flour.  This made for a grainy textured crust.  Very yummy, in my eyes (or should I say mouth?).  Any whole grain flours will work.  If you are looking for a more traditionally textured crust use 1/2 spelt flour and 1/2 oat flour, whole grain, of course.

The dough is like quick bread.  I let it sit for 5 minutes and then decide if I need to add a bit more flour to thicken it up.  It needs to be a sturdier dough than say, banana quick bread batter.  I then drop it on a floured pizza stone and roll it out with my pie crust rolling pin, dressed in it's 100% cotton tee (purchased locally through Evan's and White Hardware:  http://www.evanswhite.com/).  The messy dough rolls out easier with a well dressed rolling pin, floured as well.

Easy Pizza Crust

1 cup warm water or organic milk, not hot 2 tbsp. melted butter, preferably from grass fed cows (like the milk mentioned above) 1/2 tsp. unrefined sea salt 2-3 tsp. baking powder 2 1/2 to 3 cups whole grain flour*

-preheat oven to 350F -warm the milk and melt the butter in the milk -add 1/2 the flour amount, sea salt and baking powder -mix well -add more flour until you have a somewhat non-sticky dough

-place the dough into the center of a pizza pan that you have buttered or sprinkled with corn flour (or both) -press dough down and shape into a flat circle -using a rolling pin that is very well floured (I use a cotton sleeve on mine), roll out dough to the edges like a pie crust.  Keep pressing the edges into a nice, neat circle to prevent the cracked edges that you see in the above pizza picture! -pre-bake the crust for 15-20 minutes until it is starting to look crispy but not quite cooked, on the stone it does take 20 minutes -remove and add the below sauce, toppings of choice, cheese and return to the oven for 5-10 minutes to finish cooking and melt the cheese.

Avoiding grains? *Dough can be made with bean and/or nut flours, the texture will be different, obviously, but you will get used to it.  Be grateful you have created an alternative you can enjoy!

Avoiding Gluten? Skip the spelt flour. Use only gluten free grains. Make certain your oats are certified gluten free, organic too. Glyphosate pesticides used in non-organic farming practices are very destructive to gut health, immune health, whole body-whole earth health.

Pizza Sauce:

1 quart jar of canned tomatoes 1 can tomato paste, I like Muir Glen Organic paste.  It is an intensely tomato-y tasting paste Italian herbs: rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil and parsley  - local if possible local onions and garlic

-saute' the onion in butter until gently but well cooked -add canned tomatoes, I put tomatoes and paste in the blender and puree as I can my tomatoes with the skins on -pour a generous pile, say 1 tbsp. or so, of each herb into your hand, one at a time.  Over the pot, rub your palms together and 'grind' the herbs into the pot of sauce. -slow cook the sauce for an hour or two -peel garlic cloves to your taste, chop or press into the sauce, at this point the heat is off so garlic is gently 'cooked' by the heat of the sauce only -use as much as needed to slather the above pizza crust -use the leftover sauce over your favorite pasta adding meat, cheese, beans, whatever you please

Need a quicker sauce choice? Try Muir Glen Pizza Sauce in the can.  It is very yummy right out of the can; meaning it needs zero "doctoring" with spices!

Please check out the article about my book, written by a Central NY journalist - Samantha House.  Every step forward with my book is one step closer to finding a publisher interested in publishing the entire series:  The Whole Food Kitchen Series! http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/everything-in-its-natural-state-longtime-cny-nurse-shares-health/article_87363e8b-2f26-5af5-8da6-adabb55846c9.html

Enjoy!  Paula

Whole Food Carrot Cake Recipe

Because so many of you asked 

for this... here it is!

Whole Food Carrot Cake

3 eggs 

3/4 cup buttermilk (I used raw goats milk soured with 1 tbsp. raw apple cider vinegar)

3/4 cup butter from grass fed cows

3/4 cup sucanat sugar

3 tsp. vanilla

3 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. unrefined sea salt

2 cups whole grain flour (oat, spelt... whatever you please)

2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

2 cups shredded carrots

1 cup shredded coconut

1 cup finely chopped walnuts

1 cup raisins

1 - 8 oz can pineapple with natural juice, no added sugar (I used the organic canned pineapple from the Coop, it is  a 14 oz can.  I will use the whole can the next time I make this yummy cake)

(All ingredients organic and naturally raised)

Preheat oven to 350 F.

1.   Soak the cup of raisins in the pineapple juice.

2.   Beat eggs, then beat in buttermilk and butter.  I gently heat the butter to melt it.

3.   Blend in sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.

4.   Mix in flour, b. soda, b. powder, and salt.

5.   Shred carrots on a cheese grater and blend into batter.

6.   Add coconut and walnuts.

7.   Chop pineapple pieces in blender to a puree and mix into batter.

8.   Add raisins and the pineapple juice and mix in well.

9.   Butter two 8" round cake pans, divide batter evenly between two pans

10. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until cakes is pulling from edge of pans and knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Allow to cool until just warm and turn out on cooling racks.  When completely cool, frost the bottom layer, add the top layer and frost top and sides completely.

Frosting

Organic heavy cream, two 8 oz containers

Organic Neufchatel Cheese, one 8 oz package 

2 - 4 tbsp. dark maple syrup

1 tbsp. vanilla

Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl and use an electric hand mixer to whip into frosting consistency.

Enjoy this super yummy cake for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!  Paula