I took some of the free magazines from the health food store (and my moms house... everything is free there!) and I learned a lot!
I'm going to start with the stuff on asthma (this is for my 6-year-old's sake). Mainly because I'm scared of this. I know, I can be a bit paranoid, but it's always good to be prepared!

"Pregnant women with adequate levels of vitamin D are less likely to have children with asthma and allergies at five years of age than those deficient in the sunshine vitamin."

"Breastfeeding appears to fight asthma and wheezing in early childhood."

"Omega 3s from fish, flax seed oils, and walnuts are anti-inflammatory."

"resveratrol, a polyphenol found in the skins of red grapes, may also lessen inflammation in asthma."

"'Vitamin C has been shown to help protect the bronchial airways and lungs' from cold temperatures, environmental toxins, pollens, smog, and viral and bacterial infections,"
(vitamin C rich foods include broccoli, strawberries, leafy greens, peppers, and tomatoes)

"Magnesium and calcium can help dilate bronchial muscles."
And, of course, enzymes are great for all bodily functions, including relief from asthmatic symptoms.

Homeopathic remedies that can be helpful for chronic asthma's mild attacks: Arsenicum, Bryonia, Ipecac, Lachesis, and Nat sulf. I don't know anything about these. In fact, I don't know much about homeopathy... but, supposedly it's safe and works for many things that you'd otherwise be using prescription medication for.

Tomorrow we'll learn more about Eczema and those all-important Omega's!

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The information on this blog is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

And good for us, too!

Funny how pizza was always had tomato and cheese. I didn't know anyone who made their own crust.
It's just not the case anymore.
Pizza night is a big event and everyone is involved. Adia pours the flours together and mixes. Spencer chops and I make the sauce.
My sister gave me this recipe if anyone knows where it comes from please post it. This makes a small amount so I usually doubles it but I only at 3tea xanthum gum when I double it.

1 T yeast
2/3 cup rice flour
½ cup tapioca flour
2 tea xanthum gum (when doubling the recipe I change it to 3 tea xanthum gum and not 4)
1 tea Italian seasoning
½ tea sugar
½ tea salt
¾ warm milk (soy, rice or cow milk) I use rice milk and it turns out just fine
1 tea olive oil
1 tea vinegar

Preheat oven to 425

Blend dry ingredients including yeast. Add warm milk oil and vinegar beat for 2 minutes on high. Put in greased pan, sprinkling rice flour when needed. Make edges thickest. Bake for ten minutes add toppings and bake for another 20-25 min.

Toppings

For "my child can't eat anything" people here is a great topping:

for the sauce puree artichoke hearts, high quality olive oil, garlic, pinch of salt and some spices like rosemary, sage, basil anything really.

I love spinach on pizza and add it whenever I can. I get the frozen organic spinach from Trader Joe's. I add grilled zucchini, yellow squash, and onions.

now for the final touch I know it sounds odd but drizzle a little bit of pure honey. Think about how people honey roast ham, it's like that.

For "my kid can't eat anything but pine nuts are okay"

Get some nice oil (I love truffle flavored olive oil) for those not in the know truffle is not chocolate it refers to a mushroom. Pan fry a whole chopped onion and tablespoons of fresh rosemary. Top with kalamata olives. There is no sauce for this pizza.

(the picture has normal olives they are not as good)

Toppings for everyone
tomato sauce any of your favorites. I like to make it from paste, red cooking wine, spices, lots of basil and salt. We will add any combination of what we have in the fridge:
• spinach frozen or fresh
• peppers (I pan fry them with a little salt if they are frozen)
• mushrooms
• olives
• purple onions
• olives
• egg plant
• asparagus
• zucchini
• yellow squash
• prosciutto, lamb, chicken, sausage (I don't care for meat so I leave it off)
• mozzarella, parmesan or my favorite goat cheese (or just leave off cheese add enough salt and cheese isn't missed)
Really the list is endless
For something new I pan fry all the vegetables with salt. I'm not sure if any of you noticed yet I LOVE salt.

I love beets. I've always loved them, since before they were cool.

They are sweet like carrots but you need to cook them to release the sugars. Here is a really basic recipe to bring out the natural sweetness of beets.


I get my child involved from the start. We go to the farmer's market or the store (at the farmer's market you get a better variety of colors). When we pick out the colors I give them names like dragon root, royal root and fairy root. Beets is such an unappealing name. When Adia is a little older I will let her chop the beets but for now I do it. Let your kids hang around for this part though. The colors that come out are beautiful. (I made up these names so Adia would be interested in eating them.)


I chop them up into strips and put them in boiling water. Do not boil the magenta beet with the others only because it will dye the others pink. It dyes everything pink. (It will even dye your pee pink. Don't be alarmed.)

Let them boil for 5 minutes or until a fork can be pushed in rather easily. You just don't want to overcook them or they don't hold up. Don't worry you can't screw this up.

Throw some olive oil on a cookie sheet. Sesame oil would probably rock this dish's socks but I haven't tried it. A sidenote on olive oil: buy a really nice one with additional flavor and put it on topof your or pasta once they are done cooking. Here is a list of some oils.


Put the beets on the oiled pan and salt. In this photo I put potatoes in the middle. I boiled them like the beets but when they were done boiling I threw them in a bowl with olive oil, rosemary, salt, black pepper, garlic and a little pinch of white pepper. Potatoes don't have much flavor so don't worry about overdoing it.

I put them in the oven on broil till the edges are browned. The potatoes were done much faster than the beets so I would do them separately next time.

We had a salad with red lettuce leaf and the left over beet greens. I candied almonds to sprinkle on top with black berries (they grow wild all over the place in the Northwest), goat cheese and Cindy's Kitchen Wild Maine Blueberry, it's one of my favorite dressings next to Brianna's Poppy Seed.
Recipe Rundown

• Cut Beets
  
• Boil till slightly soft
• Add salt and oil
• Bake in the oven till brown
  

I wanted to add that you should toast the oatmeal on a pan at 350 degrees until the oatmeal turns brown
If you don't have kefir, use any of the other variations:
buttermilk, lemon juice and vinegar (great way to fight yeast)

This post is from Rachelle

PROBIOTICS...everyone gets anti-biotics when they are sick, to wipe out the bad bacteria...what about probiotics to help the good bacteria?

You need it if you have allergies, bile, diseases (diaherra, etc), stomach problems, thyroid, or just plain have a cold

GO TO SUPER SUPPLEMENTS, PCC, WHOLE FOODS, and in the fridge section will be PROBIOTICS

What is probiotics?
It is the same thing as yoghurt. The FDA allows 5 strands of good bacteria in yogurt at the grocery store, kefir (a form of raw milk and kefir grains..that aid in milk allergies) contains another extra 5 probiotics; but the only way to get more than 10 probiotics is to make sure you get it at a health food store where the FDA is not involved, because the bad companies have lobbied with money to make sure it is not competing in the supermarket with their crap products.

Is it safe?
If people all over the world in every civilization eats this and lives a long life without cancer...it is safe...as safe as eating yogurt. I can't say that is will "cure" but for me...it has cleaned out my gut and put good flora in my intestines, and I feel more energized and my stomach became flat.

STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THERE IS NEVER A CASE OF CANCER WHEN THERE IS A HEALTHY INTESTINE

probiotics, protect and clean your gut.

There are different kinds of probiotics, some for adults, some for children...super supplements have both in the refridgerated section

Please do your own research to know if it is right for you

Cost is $12-$15 dollars and if you don't care about health, just take a tablespoon and keep eating whatever you want, at least you can get a flat stomach, it is worth the money.

Since discovering this I would like to tell the world...I feel like this is a start.

Your body only has enough energy to work on certain things in the body...if you are constantly putting food in your body, then your body is constantly using all its energy to digest your food


There is a study done that proved that if you eat food that is prepared right so that all the enzymes in the food is broken down for your body then you will be able to easily digest it...good to know for allergies

How does this work?
When food is not "heated" to high temperatures (which destroys enzymes) or the food is raw (which is why a lot of doctors recommend raw veggies when someone has allergies) then enzymes are released and your body can "digest" the food

You can have grains, milk, and cooked veggies when it is prepared correctly to release enzymes

I will be posting these recipes periodically

A study was done in the raw foods cookbook that explained how if your body is not spending all its time trying to digest processed foods, the body can better be spending its energy on making you look young (cell repair) or fighting cancerous cells (protect from cancer)

This shows that enzymes in your food is so important for looking young, and not getting cancer