Would you take advice from this OBESITY EXPERT?
Our goal is to raise awareness of the dramatic impact of diet on personal and global health. We celebrate the extraordinary benefits of delicious Whole Food Plant-Based Cooking and Eating for Optimum Health and Weight for people of all ages. A Plant-Based diet provides all nutrients for active living. It consists of whole grains, vegetables, fruits and beans. It excludes all animal protein (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, milk) refined grains and added oils while limiting sugar and salt.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Apples Top the Dirty Dozen
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) lists pesticide residue in 45 fruits and vegetables. Access their web site at http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/ to get the full story.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
What Is The Optimum Diet For Humans?
Neal Barnard, M.D. - Eat and Thrive
Listen to this remarkable 30 min. interview of Neal Barnard by John & Ocean Robbins. Also enjoy listening to David Wolfe, T. Colin Campbell and John Robbins.
http://www.foodrevolution.org/nextstep.php
Monday, January 14, 2013
Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death
Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States.
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/
Thursday, January 10, 2013
CELEBRATE WITH US!
One year ago, in January 2012, I met Ann Crile Esselstyn at Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute at a seminar run by her and her husband, Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D., on Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease through Plant-Based, NO OIL eating. My husband and I have been following their program with great success for 2 years. In celebration of our 2nd Anniversary of fabulous WHOLE FOOD OIL FREE PLANT-BASED EATING and the resulting amazing health benefits we are experiencing, I want to share with you Ann Esselstyn's 8 Principles for becoming PLANT PERFECT: http://planeat.tv/ann-esselstyn
"I am not a chef. I don’t peel anything and if it looks even a little bit complicated, I don’t make it. What we have found is that eating plant based WITHOUT OIL is delicious, easy and above all magical.
Follow 8 principles and you may well find yourself becoming PLANT PERFECT!
1. Eat OATS (Old Fashioned) for breakfast, any way you can as oatmeal, as a cold cereal as we do with alternative milk and fruit or in waffles or pancakes or just put your cereal bowl with oats, banana and alternative milk and a table spoon of flax seed into your waffle iron and you have your oat breakfast in waffle form There are delicious ways to use steel cut oats too. Oats help lower cholesterol and also reduce artery inflammation. Find the breakfast with oats you love then eat it EVERY DAY
3. Eat Beans and Lentils instead of meat and dairy. All lentils are delicious. Try red lentils in soup. They cook quickly and make the soup a nice color. Put beans in salads. Hummus made without tahini or oil has become our mayonnaise as a sandwich spread or dip for vegetables and crackers and even part of our favorite salad dressing. Our main party dish is brown rice and black beans piled high with chopped tomatoes, thawed frozen corn, chopped green onions, water chestnuts, chopped cilantro, chopped arugula, chopped peppers, etc. and topped with salsa, low sodium tamari or if you don’t have heart disease with guacamole. AVOID all the highly processed fake soy meats and any of the vegan cheeses, which have lots of oil in them.
4. Eat WHOLE Grains. Be sure that the word WHOLE is in front of wheat or rye in the ingredient list. If not then it is just white flour fancied up to sound impressive. Check also to be sure that there is no added oil in the bread. Ezekiel makes many wonderful sprouted grain products available in the frozen food departments of health food stores. The Ezekiel Tortilla wraps are excellent and useful for everyday or parties. Fill them with your choice and then roll them up and bake them for 10 minutes in a 450 degree oven. Delicious! Use whole wheat pastry flour or barley flour in baking instead of white flour.
5. Eliminate oil! Empty all oil, even virgin olive oil out of your cupboards then you CAN’T use it. Instead any liquid works. Vegetable broth (no sodium), water, wine, beer, orange juice, carrot juice, vinegar all work in stir -frying. Instead of oil in baking, use applesauce, baby food prunes, bananas. Finding a salad dressing you love is a challenge at first but there are so many possibilities out there you will soon never miss the oil filled ones.
6. Drink WATER! You can’t go wrong with water. You can flavor it with a splash of orange or apple, etc. juice occasionally. Never drink juices! And absolutely never drink pop, with or without added sugar.
7. Avoid sugar and salt as much as possible. Save sugar for birthdays or special holiday treats. Instead put grapes in your freezer for an amazing sweet treat or freeze bananas or mangoes and blend them in a strong blender for delicious “ice creams. “ Look at the government label for the amount of salt in a product. No added salt is ideal or aim for the salt content being equal to the calorie content. Instead of salt add vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice or hot sauces. You will lose your taste for salt before you know it.
8. Read Labels, especially the ingredients. You will be surprised that often proclaimed zero fat products have oil listed in the ingredients. The government allows anything under .5 grams of fat to be called FAT FREE.
Fill up with all the great plant based food. Life is GOOD!!!"
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Friday, January 4, 2013
RESOLUTION TIME
Start off 2013 with a resolution to eat PLANT-BASED for OPTIMUM HEALTH & WEIGHT! We're with you all the way! We'll give you all the resources you'll need including menus, recipes, restaurants, medical information and warn you of medical misinformation. We'll suggest articles, books, websites, and actions you can take to spread the good news about the extraordinary benefits of PLANT-BASED eating for the people and the planet.
So let's move forward by checking out a video from Dr. John McDougall on low carb diets vs. the plant-based diet http://www.drmcdougall.com/video/low-carb_plant-based_diet.htm .
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Brussel Sprouts for the New Year
Launch the New Year with BRUSSEL SPROUTS, delicious and nutritionally rich
(http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2363/2). These are from the backyard garden, but they're readily available from the grocery store. They're delicious raw or you might steam, saute, or broil lightly. Season with vinegar or lemon juice and your favorite herbs or spices. Serve fat-free for optimum health. Make a festive meal with baked sweet potato, stuffed cabbage in tomato sauce, creamed corn and brussel sprouts topped off with a bowl of fresh, homemade cinnamon applesauce.
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