October 20th, 2009
Egg Tube
Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone — is not really eating. Instead of food, we’re consuming “edible foodlike substances” — no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. Read the rest of this entry »
October 11th, 2009
INTRODUCTION TO THE PALEOLITHIC DIET
Eat the following:
· Meat, chicken and fish
· Eggs
· Fruit
· Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)
· Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family of their own)
· Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.
Try to increase your intake of:
· Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes
· Organ meats- liver and kidneys Read the rest of this entry »
September 29th, 2009
52 Proven Stress Reducers
National Headache Foundation
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- Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning. The inevitable morning mishaps will be less stressful.
- Prepare for the morning the evening before. Set the breakfast table, make lunches, put out the clothes you plan to wear, etc.
- Don?t rely on your memory. Write down appointment times, when to pick up the laundry, when library books are due, etc. (“The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory.” – Old Chinese Proverb)
- Do nothing which, after being done, leads you to tell a lie.
- Make duplicates of all keys. Bury a house key in a secret spot in the garden and carry a duplicate car key in your wallet, apart from your key ring. Read the rest of this entry »
August 8th, 2009
Food Cravings Defined
Check out this list of all the various food cravings, and what the cravings actual mean. Our bodies are always talking to us, we just have to figure out how to listen. Hope this helps.
| If you crave this… | What you really need is… | And here are healthy foods that have it: | |||||||||
| Chocolate | Magnesium | Raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits | |||||||||
| Sweets | Chromium | Broccoli, grapes, cheese, dried beans, calves liver, chicken | |||||||||
| Carbon | Fresh fruits | ||||||||||
| Phosphorus | Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, legumes, grain | ||||||||||
| Sulfur | Cranberries, horseradish, cruciferous vegetables, kale, cabbage | ||||||||||
| Tryptophan | Cheese, liver, lamb, raisins, sweet potato, spinach | ||||||||||
| Bread, toast | Nitrogen | High protein foods: fish, meat, nuts, beans | |||||||||
| Oily snacks, fatty foods | Calcium | Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame | |||||||||
| Coffee or tea | Phosphorous | Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, nuts, legumes | |||||||||
| Sulfur | Egg yolks, red peppers, muscle protein, garlic, onion, cruciferous vegetables | ||||||||||
| NaCl (salt) | Sea salt, apple cider vinegar (on salad) | ||||||||||
| Iron | Meat, fish and poultry, seaweed, greens, black cherries | ||||||||||
| Alcohol, recreational drugs |
Protein | Meat, poultry, seafood, dairy, nuts | |||||||||
| Avenin | Granola, oatmeal | ||||||||||
| Calcium | Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame | ||||||||||
| Glutamine | Supplement glutamine powder for withdrawal, raw cabbage juice | ||||||||||
| Potassium | Sun-dried black olives, potato peel broth, seaweed, bitter greens | ||||||||||
| Chewing ice | Iron | Meat, fish, poultry, seaweed, greens, black cherries | |||||||||
| Burned food | Carbon | Fresh fruits | |||||||||
| Soda and other carbonated drinks |
Calcium | Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame | |||||||||
| Salty foods | Chloride | Raw goat milk, fish, unrefined sea salt | |||||||||
| Acid foods | Magnesium | Raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits | |||||||||
| Preference for liquids rather than solids |
Water | Flavor water with lemon or lime. You need 8 to 10 glasses per day. |
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| Preference for solids rather than liquids |
Water | You have been so dehydrated for so long that you have lost your thirst. Flavor water with lemon or lime. You need 8 to 10 glasses per day. |
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| Cool drinks | Manganese | Walnuts, almonds, pecans, pineapple, blueberries | |||||||||
| Pre-menstrual cravings |
Zinc | Red meats (especially organ meats), seafood, leafy vegetables, root vegetables | |||||||||
| General overeating |
Silicon | Nuts, seeds; avoid refined starches | |||||||||
| Tryptophan | Cheese, liver, lamb, raisins, sweat potato, spinach | ||||||||||
| Tyrosine | Vitamin C supplements or orange, green, red fruits and vegetables | ||||||||||
| Lack of appetite | Vitamin B1 | Nuts, seeds, beans, liver and other organ meats | |||||||||
| Vitamin B3 | Tuna, halibut, beef, chicken, turkey, pork, seeds and legumes | ||||||||||
| Manganese | Walnuts, almonds, pecans, pineapple, blueberries | ||||||||||
| Chloride | Raw goat milk, unrefined sea salt | ||||||||||
| Tobacco | Silicon | Nuts, seeds; avoid refined starches | |||||||||
| Tyrosine | Vitamin C supplements or orange, green and red fruits and vegetables | ||||||||||
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