Category: Newsletters - Part 5
December 2009: Stress, Sleep, and the Cortisol Connection
Cortisol is a vital hormone that helps us deal with stress. Cortisol makes us active and mentally alert and, since it enters the brain to deliver glucose for energy, it also works to aid learning and memory. In times of stress, cortisol teams with adrenaline to balance our energy: It replenishes the bodys energy stores…
October 2009: Red Meat and the Environment
For years I have wheeled my shopping cart along the meat counter and felt good about selecting grass-fed beef and bison for its lower fat content, its rich supply of beta-carotene and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), its vitamin E and A, and its ideal one-to-one ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 essential fatty acids.link. In September,…
September 2009: Reading Labels of Perishables
September can feel like a hectic, scattered transition month. We say goodbye to leisure and try to harness our energy to return to the groove of work and school.a task all the more difficult this year with the late placement of the Labor Day holiday. But September also marks a time of new beginnings and…
July/August 2009: Fermenting
Summer Culture and the Summer Kitchen Traditionally at this time of the year, our forebears gladly left behind the warm hearth of the keeping room and moved to the summer kitchen. The summer kitchen was an addition added to the back of the house for hot-weather meal preparation and dining. Facing north,link this segment was…
June 2009: Natural Sweeteners
Natural Sweeteners as Substitutes for Sugar Refined white sugar is a highly concentrated chemical. It is 99 percent pure sucrose, stripped of its natural nutrients. Sugar depletes our body of vital nutrients because just for its metabolism, we must tap into our stores of vitamins and minerals. Because our body is programmed to expect foods…
May 2009: Sugar Cravings
Kicking the Sugar Habit Change ultimately, at least, brings with it a renewed sense of hope. Fortunately, at least one viable way we can change and exert control is to spend more time in the kitchen preparing wholesome meals that can nourish both our body and our creative spirit. We can make shopping and cooking…
April 2009 Sugar, A Depleting Chemical
System theoryEvery part is vital to the whole; the whole is greater than the sums of the parts. Plants, through photosynthesis, create whole, carbohydrate foods that are transformed by people and animals into proteins, fats, and nutrients vital for survival. Whole foods are systems ideally suited to the human body, which is also a system….
Febuary/March 2009: Foods for Depression
In this newsletter Introduction Depression Risks from Expansive Sugar and Expansive Credit Specific Food Strategies for Combating Depression Drugs and the Wisdom of Depression Chinese 5-Phase Theory and the Sugar-Depression Feedback Loop Winter Recipes: Cooking with Fire RecommendedReading & Resources Winter is the season for the cyclical contraction of energy throughout plant and animal life….
January 2009: New Year’s Resolutions for Good Health
January 2009: New Years Reflections and Resolutions Reflections Resolutions: Ideas for Good Food and Health Recipes: Lamb Shanks with Garlic and Rosemary As the New Year signals a time for new beginnings, we often think of formulating resolutions. What better time to remind ourselves of some basic concepts for good health. As the winds of…
December 2008: Cellular Health…Using Cell Phones
Cell phones are a truly wonderful convenience. How many times do I recall when a cell phone instantly turned confusion and worry into clarity and comforttravel delays, a change of plans, coordination with family and friends. Cell phones are the glue that connects us, as we live in a mobile, fast-paced world. Some of you…