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Sweet Potato

Did you know that these little orange potatoes populary labeled as yams in U.S. grocery stores are actually sweet potatoes?? Sweet potatoes have yellow or orange flesh and their thin skins may be either white, yellow, orange, red or purple. A true yam is the tuber of a tropical vine, has brown or black thick skin comparable to the bark of a tree, very difficult to peel and is unrelated to sweet potatoes at all.

Sweet potatoes:

• Unique proteins with potent antioxidant effects.
• A sweet source of good nutrition
• Anti-oxidant rich and an anti-inflammatory food.
  

(chart adapted from whfoods.com)

Chew Your Food!!

Did you know that digestion begins in your mouth, not in your stomach?? It begins the moment we start chewing. The act of chewing mechanically breaks down our food. Our saliva contains enzymes that contributes to the chemical breakdown of our food. And while we chew, we are telling the rest of our digestive system to get ready. When food is not chewed well enough, and we swallow large portions of food to big to be broken down, incomplete digestion occurs. Nutrients do not get extracted as they should!! AND! Undigested food becomes a source for bacteria in the colon. We do not want this!! Health comes from out gut. Our gut is not just another organ, it is more like it's own brain!! If we aren't chewing, we aren't helping the gut to do it's job - which is to extract from our food the nutrients we need to stay healthy.
Stop and think about when you put food in your mouth. How many times would you say you chew before you swallow? Two or three? Five? Ten?? Most of us chew our food only about seven times before we swallow. It should be closer to the number 35! Usually our modern day busy and stressful lives contribute to how fast we wolf down our food. Other times it's just because that is what is ingrained in us and we never took the time to teach ourselves to chew more and eat slower. Eating slower can help you chew more. Also, put your fork down in between bites and grind that food down to dust!! You don't have to count how many times you've chewed each forkful, but chew that food until you can't tell what it is you put in your mouth. Your bowels will thank you!

4. Take Megavitamins

In his book, The Maker's Diet, Jordan Rubin devotes a chapter to 27 recommendations on how to GET sick and suggests that if you want to remain as healthy as possible, go against these 27 suggestions if at all possible.

4. Take Megavitamins.

The use of massive amounts of vitamins and minerals is very unnatural - especially the popular and cheap synthetic and isolated "vitamins" created in chemcial plants and widely sold in discount retail stores. The human body was not designed to consume such artificial products, escpecially in such excessive amounts. Nature prevents us from consuming 20,000 mg of vitamin C in one day because it is impossible to consume three hundred oranges (a natural source of vitamin C) in one day. Even if you could, it would produce one major colon cleanse! Vitamins and minerals that have not been incorporated into an organic matrix - a natural food form containing all necessary cofactors - may actually be very harmful to the body. It is better to supplement healthy food and beverage choices with living food supplements known as homeostatic nutrients rich in vitamins and minerals. This is a balanced form the body can absorb and utilize.

Fermentation

Fermentation is especially effective in releasing important nutritional compounds through "pre-digestion" that would otherwise pass through the human digestive system, undigested and unused. Modern vinegar-based fermentation techniques used for large-scale commercial production do NOT produce the same benefits as lactic acid fermentation, which is driven by beneficial microorganisms. This natural biological activity produces enzymes that break down foods into usuable compounds and inhibits putrefying bacterial growth. The proliferation of lactobacilli and other friendly microorganisms in fermented vegetables enhances their digestibility, increases vitamin levels, and produces helpful enzymes as well as natural antibiotic and anticarcinogenic substances.

Fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut, pickled carrots, beets, or cucumbers are some of the most health-giving foods on the planet. Raw cultured or fermented vegetables provide the body with beneficial microorganisms known as probiotics and an abundance of enzymes. They are also a rich source of vegetable nutrition in many countries where the winters are cold. Cultured/fermented vegetables are very easy to make are are readily available at health food stores everywhere.

Fermented dairy (NOT pasteurized or homogenized) has high health benefits:
It provides calcium that builds bone in children, and it also helps prevent or slow the development of osteoporosis that plagues so many elderly.
It lowers high blood pressure and cholesterol.
It attacks bacterial infections, especially those that cause diarrhea. It soothes stomach linings irritated from drugs or harsh foods.
It prevents dental cavitites and chronic bronchitits.
It stops the growth of some cancers, including colon cancer.
It boosts mental alertness and energy.


More information on how to make your own properly fermented foods or where to buy can be found in The Maker's Diet by Jordan Rubin.

3. Never Let Them See You Sweat

In his book, The Maker's Diet, Jordan Rubin devotes a chapter to 27 recommendations on how to GET sick and suggests that if you want to remain healthy as long as possible, go against these 27 suggestions if at all possible.

3. Never Let Them See You Sweat
Any attempt to artificially prevent perspiration is very unhealthy because perspiration is the Maker's method of safely cooling the body while excreting numerous toxins. Suppressing this natural sweat response in your underarms or other areas blocks the body's cleansing process and the natural flow of the lymphatic system. Interference in normal lymphatic function may increase the risk of breast cancer. The products most often used to stop perspiration contain forms of aluminum, which has been linked to Alzheimer's disease or other neurological problems; triclosan, an antimicrobial absorbed through the skin that poses some risk to the liver; and zirconium-based compounds that can cause underarm granulomas. For more information about these products and possible alternative choices, see David Steinman & Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Safe Shopper's Bible (New York: Hungry Minds, Inc., 1995).

Makes sense doesn't it?? There is a great increase in breast cancer, and the armpits are in close proximity to the breasts. But we all have to wear deodorant, right?? How can we not do something about that little problem? There are natural deordorants out there. Like Jordan Rubin suggested, check out the The Safe Shopper's Bible, and probably do your own research on what works for you and what doesn't...if you choose to stray away from aluminum deordorants and anti-perspirants.