My Ten Favorite Vegetables

What Americans eat these days can range from downright scary (have you seen Andrew Zimmern on the Food Network?), to quite gorgeous (too many new Farm to Table restaurants in MA to mention them all). What do you eat?

I like vegetables, grains, beans, seeds, nuts sea veggies and the occasional fruit.… Read the rest

Just Had A TIA or Mini-Stroke Or a Senior Moment?

ABCs of Avoiding Stroke & Alzheimers…

A. Be Heart Healthy:

  1. Cut beef, pork, poultry, eggs and dairy consumption
  2. Choose organic for animal foods, fruit and greens
  3. Avoid white flour, yeast, table salt, corn syrup, and chemicals
  4. Eat boiled rice, millet, barley and other whole grains 2x daily
  5. Enjoy radish, onion, kale, collard, broccoli, cauliflower, carrot and winter squash

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Health Secret! Spring Cleaning In Your Colon

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Over the long winter, some of us ate more and exercised less. If that also included cheese, meat and chemicals, you might be looking forward to losing a few pounds.

Eating less, enjoying fresh vegetarian fare, and of course getting more exercise will help, but here is a recipe you will also enjoy…

Carrot-Daikon Drink

  • 1 medium carrot
  • same amount of daikon (thin variety preferred)
  • 1 scallion
  • 1 tablespoon shoyu or tamari
  • 1/2 cup water

Grate the carrot and daikon (works best on a ginger grater), and rinse the grater with a small amount of water to get all of it.… Read the rest

Top 10 Healthy Eateries In Greater Boston

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There are perhaps 5,000 restaurants in greater Boston. How many have you tried? I’ve hit 250.

Most of them use way too much salt, and the wrong kind of salt, as well as white flour, and animal products loaded with pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and who knows what else.… Read the rest

Good Vegetables, Bad Vegetables

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You want to be healthy, right? So you eat a lot of vegetables. How wonderful!

But there are certain veggies, that do more harm than good. Would you like to know which ones?

It’s not quite black and white, but nightshade vegetables for instance, such as Potatoes, Eggplant, Peppers, and tomatoes, are very acidic to the body, and should be avoided, especially, raw, and especially in the fall and winter months, if you live in a colder climate.… Read the rest

Eating Animals and Violence (Such as Terrorism)

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What is your response to what is going on in Boston this week?

If you want to “kill ’em!,” then maybe you are feeling stressed, and certainly that is understandable.

But eating a lot of animal foods also stresses us out, particularly overcooked meats and eggs.… 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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Better Digestion & Better Health This Autumn

It’s time for another top 10 list!

Top 10 Ideas For Healthy Autumn Eating

  1. Well chewed pressure-cooked brown rice daily, plus boiled millet, barley, quinoa etc. weekly
  2. Plenty of well-cooked organic vegetables, including carrots, daikon, parsnips, burdock and lotus root
  3. Ease up on the raw salads, fruit, tropical foods, sweets and milks, even soy/rice/almond milk
  4. Eat lots of beans, especially azuki, black soy, kidney, black beans and garbanzo beans
  5. Eat miso soup daily, as well as pickles after meals
  6. Enjoy mushrooms, sea vegetables, seeds, nuts (not nut butters) mustard, horseradish & ginger
  7. Avoid animal foods as they are acidic for the body, contain pesticides & hormones, and cause suffering
  8. Use steaming for greens and root vegetables this time of year
  9. Avoid baked wheat flour, and all flour products that are not whole grain
  10. Avoid chemicals, including MSG, colors, flavors, and caffeine
Also remember to eat regular meals, don’t overeat, and don’t eat after 7:30pm

 

 

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Five Changes To A Much Better Country

The upcoming election does not interest me, and here’s why. I don’t believe that either side understands the importance of healing our people. Seems to me, we are sick, depressed, angry, obsessive, confused and tired, and we need something, fast.

Here are my Five Changes To A Much Better Country…

  1. Outlaw High Fructose Corn Syrup and NaCl in all foods, and ban all foods with more than 250 mg sodium and 25mg sugar per serving.
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Carbs…Protein…Calcium…What’s It All Mean?

God did not intend us to be accountants. The key to being slim, healthy, attractive and happy is NOT keeping score, but living a balanced life. Unfortunately, our capitalist society makes it fairly difficult to find balance.

Few of us are properly trained in nutrition, fitness, cooking—including those with nutrition and medical degrees.… Read the rest