Winter Squash Recipes and Benefits

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Winter squash is great. Here’s why:

  1. Squash is great for keeping you warm in the winter
  2. Squash is sweet but is very good for you
  3. Squash tastes great in soups, bakes, mashes, stir fries, pies, even jello!
  4. Squash is inexpensive and lasts
  5. Squash seeds are AMAZING when you dry/toast with some spices

Here are three great recipes:

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Lots of Talk About Aging Now

It’s easy to improve your health, how you feel, and how you look.

When you take steps to do this, you will also slow down your aging, and live longer.

Here are ten ways to do accomplish this with diet and lifestyle

Top 10 Ways to Slow Aging, and Look, Feel and Live Better

  1. Drink more and better quality water, between meals (not during meals)
  2. Avoid animal food, GMO, salt, sugar, chemicals and processed foods
  3. Eat boiled grains: rice, millet, barley, oats, quinoa, buckwheat, etc.
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10 Miracle Health Foods Americans Need To Know About

Last post I talked about the passing of Michio Kushi, the legendary entrepreneur, author, healer and teacher, who brought Macrobiotics into our lexicon, and save countless lives.

Today I will discuss some health foods that he promoted to support human health.… Read the rest

Frequency of Illness vs. Quality of Diet

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Do you get sick more than 2-3 times per year? Is the duration more than 24 hours?

Does this affect your productivity, enjoyment or budget?

If so, consider this: You may be eating too much, getting too many toxins, and still may not be getting enough nutrition, in order to keep your immune system strong.… Read the rest

Broken Bones, Karma and Calcium

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My friends and extended family sometimes have issues with falls, including hips, ankles, shoulders, neck, knees and fingers. What can be the matter? Osteoporosis!

First, we need to be careful. Our intuition and our karma can help us avoid accidents and injuries.… Read the rest

Seven Healthy Foods You Should Try

If you eat these foods regularly, you are probably healthier than your neighbors:

  1. Brown Rice (preferably pressure-cooked short grain, this time of year)
  2. Seaweed (Nori, Wakame, Kombu, Arame, Dulse, Hiziki, Agar)
  3. Mushrooms (white, portobello, shiitake, maitake, porcini, oyster, etc.)
  4. Daikon Radish
  5. Umeboshi Plums, paste, pills, etc.
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A Healthy Late Summer Meal

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What a beautiful summer in New England!

Have you noticed the weather is changing? The mornings and evenings are much cooler now, and this is our cue to adjust our eating to eliminate the excess water from our bodies.

This water comes from a steady stream of yin (expanding/cooling) foods, such as:

  • Alcohol
  • Raw Food
  • Tropical Food
  • Fruit
  • Fruit Juice
  • Soda
  • Sugar
  • Nightshade Veggies (tomato, potato, eggplant, pepper, etc.)
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Ten Superfoods You Need to Try Now

Superfoods can counteract the garbage we put into our body when we cannot say no. Here are my top ten. I eat them every month or more, and as a result I can still jump over fences at 49.

  1. Hato Mugi
  2. Maitake mushrooms
  3. Umeboshi Plums
  4. Daikon
  5. Miso
  6. Kuzu
  7. Burdock Root
  8. Lotus Root
  9. Sea veg: Nori, Wakame, Arame, Kombu, Kanten (Agar)
  10. Sweet Vegetable Drink

The above foods, along with brown rice and local seasonal vegetables, will keep you happy and healthy well into your 80s.… Read the rest

Hearty Vegetarian Cooking For Autumn

Here’s the deal:

  1. We eat too much meat, salt and baked foods, and we are under too much pressure.
  2. That causes us to gravitate to sugar and drugs to relieve pressure.
  3. The cure is to switch to a seasonal, plant-based diet, and be careful of chemicals, and how we prepare our foods.
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