Utah's Healthy Foods Connection: May 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

Good news and some bad news.

Hello everyone,

It was great to have Dr. Kevin come and share interesting information about how ADD and ADD/HD is a gift, and helped us understand how the gift can be managed in many ways; nutrition being one of those ways. Look on the blog, healthyfoodsconnection.blogspot.com, for
Information on Dr. Kevin and how he can be contacted, he could possibly be the person who could help your children or grandchildren!

Well, I have some ........which do you want first? ha ha
I am discontinuing the raw food potlucks, that is the bad news, I may consider starting them up again in the fall that is the good news! We will no longer be able to hold the luncheons at The Coventry, as they are converting the whole downstairs into housing.

I can't believe I have been holding these pot lucks for about ten years! Wow!! Time flies, doesn't it?? My life is busier than ever, hard to believe. You all probably feel the same way! I have loved meeting you all, and sharing a bit of your lives. Please continue
to pursue good things, especially in your eating! We are certainly upagainst great odds in this day and age! You are all dear friends to me,and I will miss seeing you. Please keep in contact, I am here if you need a little support, and heaven knows, I always need support, so feel free to call or e-mail me anytime!

Andra Coccimiglio 801 718-3936 andracoccimiglio@hotmail.com.
Be sure and check out the blog, healthyfoodsconnection.blogspot.com.
Suzanne Hansen does a fantastic job of keeping up to date information on the blog! Thank you again Suzanne! You are appreciated greatly! I also want to thank Gary Parker for being with me from the start! Typing and sending out the recipes, and all the reminders, and actually, he would
send anything for me! You are a love, and a awesome man!

Thank you all for the years and years of support, for sharing your stories, for sharing your knowledge, for being a friend. Stay strong and please, stay in touch! I will, of course, let you know if things change. Much love to you all, and God bless. Ande

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Medicinal Herb Class Series in West Jordan,UT

Medicinal Herb Class Series

Don't miss this event. Emily is planning for my herbal classes again this year! And in a recent email she mentioned, I cap the class at 25 just because we 'make and take' and there is a lot of prep work and limited space. I require payment upfront because a lot of that prep work takes up to 6 weeks before hand and I need to gather supplies quickly. I understand some of you may be out of town for some of these weekends, you don't have to sign up for all of them to participate. I planned for this time because we don't go out of town during my husband's peak landscape season and there are wonderful herbs to choose from. Here is the schedule: (all Saturday afternoons from 1-3pm with the exception of the June class)

June 28th - Wild Flower and Herb Identification Hike. We'll begin in my backyard, going over some the of the herbs I grow and use, then we will caravan up Parley's canyon for the hike up in Lamb's canyon and enjoy a 4 mile hike -12pm, ( note that this class is FREE of charge)

July 12th - Medicinal Oils
We'll be discussing the benefits of solar infused oils and making a healing skin salve, lip balm and ear ache oil. $10

July 19th - Medicinal Honey and Infusions
We'll be making immune boosting elderberry syrup and cough/congestion honey thyme syrup (choose one to take home). We will also be talking about herbs for ailments and the best way to make an infusion (herbal tea). $10

July 26th - Medicinal Tinctures and First Aid Must Have's
We'll be discussing the simple process of making true medicine from herbs and simple things to store in your First Aid kits. You'll make a tincture for your family to take home! $10

August 2nd - We will be having an herbal tea party the last time we get together. Everything that will be served will have some kind of herb in it! This is an excellent "hands on" experience to motivate you to grow and use your herbs. We will also discuss the best ways of harvesting and preserving our herbs. $10

Please RSVP as soon as you can. Spots fill up quickly!

Best,

Emily Saddler
3901 Farrell Ln.
West Jordan UT
84088
801-792-3670

Saturday, May 10, 2014

May's Potluck Luncheon with Dr. Kevin Author of Managing the Gift: Alternative Approaches for Attention Deficit Disorder

The Lab's Parent University is sponsoring an ADD/ADHD Workshop and Dr. Kevin is the guest speaker. He believes he can give great insight for those looking for solutions and help with ADD/HD children and adults.

Dr. Kevin has the courage to connect ADD/HD with diet! We are so fortunate to have him here in Utah! Invite those who have children who struggle with ADD/HD to come to the raw food potluck with you! THERE IS NO CHARGE, except to bring a raw food dish.

We have a change in day and date this month, May's Potluck Luncheon will be Thursday, May 15th from 11:30 to 1:00 The Coventry 6898 S 2300 E Cottonwood Heights. (Meeting Room in the Basement) Please park on either side of The Coventry, and be sure and bring your recipe with your dish (serve at least 10-12) and bring a serving utensil. I will provide plates and silverware.

Dr. Kevin from Arizona has consented to speak to our group on the Topic ADD/HD the Gift and Critical Decisions about Diet

Here's what I know about Dr. Kevin. He is author of Managing the Gift: Alternative Approaches for Attention Deficit Disorder introduced the idea of ADD/HD a gift not a disability.

He continues to spread his message around the world as an author, Catalyst, teacher, and speaker. Dr. Kevin has also created daily practices that can help both children and adults to manage their ADD/HD gifts, which he has released as an audio CD companion to his original trend-setting book.

Dr. Kevin information gleaned from the custom-tailored reports also helps caregivers make critical decisions about diet, guidance and other common areas of concern and confusion, while also providing tools and techniques to help ensure the child flourishes amid the unique capabilities and aptitudes identified through a new App and resources.

Unlike other ADHD Apps currently on the market that are merely self-diagnostic or generalized surface-level advice in nature, the pioneering Managing the Gift App goes well beyond with highly detailed, custom-tailored reports that help caregivers understand precisely how to best parent, guide, support, feed and educate each specific child living with ADHD, ADD or HD. To facilitate this, among other features, the App uniquely offers a proprietary, personalized "Paint Your Child's Portrait" interactive tool that reveals and defines a child's distinct "ADD/HD personality" and, based on the individualized results, provides an expansive custom report that provides caregivers with valuable behavioral insights to recognize, utilize and maximize what Dr. Kevin calls the child's "ADD/HD greatness."

I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday, May 15th!! Ande

For more information on other events during Dr Kevin's visit May 15th -Monday May 19th visit

http://thelabsparentuniversity.blogspot.com/

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Andra Coccimiglio

It has been exciting to see the group grow over the last few years, and it’s a great way to connect and share ideas, recipes and information, and sample delicious raw food potlucks. We usually have someone speak on nutrition and the benefits of eating more of a raw food diet. Each person brings a dish and a copy of the recipe to share. And then we e-mail all who desire a copy of the recipes. It has been such fun, so please join us, and begin the journey to greater well-being and health. Please feel free to contact me with questions on times and event: andracoccimiglio@hotmail.com or call 801 718-3936

Meet Rima E. Laibow, M.D

Rima E. Laibow, M.D. is the Medical Director of the Natural Solutions Foundation. She is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1970) who believes passionately in the right every American to choose a personal health path that is free of government or corporate interference.

She has practiced drug-free, natural medicine for 35 years by seeking the underlying cause of every illness and ailment. Over During this time, she has enjoyed remarkable success with a wide assortment of cataclysmic problems and health promotion efforts.

Like other healers who trust the innate ability to heal, she believes in using nutrients and other natural options to find, define and treat the problems which underlie degenerative, chronic diseases. The key is supporting the immune and other crucial body systems. Dr. Laibow has seen results from these techniques so often in her patients and in her personal life, that she believes the medicine of the future is the medicine of cooperation with nature.

Because of Dr. Laibow’s awareness of the wide variety of powerful natural, non-toxic options available to treat the underlying causes of disease, she is focused on maintaining these choices for all Americans.

Based on her understanding of the impact of poor nutrition and chemical/pesticide toxicity on the declining health of America, Dr. Laibow is determined to help Americans maintain their right to choose health promotion rather than illness care in their efforts to protect themselves from disease and toxic harm.

Food for Thought

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

Albert Einstein

“My refusing to eat meat occasioned an inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.” William Shakespeare

“You are what you eat.” American proverb

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless and reason is powerless.”

Herophilies 300 B.C.

“People who don't have patience, will become patients”

Yogi Bhajan

“A closed mind is a wonderful thing to lose.” Author unknown

“...vegetarianism should gradually eliminate the fierce and rugged elements from man's character, and fill the earth with gentle manners.

It is both feasible and rational, and should appeal to and be practiced and advocated by all who seek the ideal life, and aim at producing a sweet-tempered, intellectual and artistic, yet vigorous, active and prolific race.” Professor Gautier (As quoted in What To Eat In Health And Disease, printed in 1923.)

Tony Robbins. stated in his audiotape series, Personal Power, said the following words, “If you want to be alive, eat live foods”.

He also brings up the point that our planet is 70% water and our bodies are 80% water. He says then, that it only makes sense for us to eat mostly water rich foods such as fruit, vegetables and sprouts. He explains that proper diet increases one’s energy, which is necessary for total success.

Albert Schweitzer was a severe diabetic. When he sought the help of the raw food pioneer, Max Gerson, he was ill indeed and taking huge doses of insulin.

Gerson took him off his high protein diet, commenting that since it is the pancreas that has to supply most of the enzymes needed to digest protein and since it is the pancreas which is ailing already in diabetes, why flog a dead horse? Poorly digested proteins only create more than their fair share of toxic wastes.

Gerson put Schweitzer on a regimen of fresh raw vegetables and lots of vegetable and fruit juices, including apple juice with all its fruit sugar. Ten days later, Gerson judged it safe to reduce his patient’s insulin by half. A month later, Schweitzer needed no insulin at all.

His diabetes never returned and he remained healthy and very active until his death in 1965 at the age of 92. This information comes from Leslie and Susannah Kenton, in their book, Raw Energy.

Thomas Edison, the man credited with the creation of the light bulb, made a very profound statement and one that is relevant to our topic: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

Foods that help you live better lives

(CBS) As more research is being done on foods and how they affect us, researchers continue to find that certain foods will not only help you live longer, but could help you live better.

For those curious about the "super foods," the April issue of Health magazine put together a comprehensive shopping list of the most promising anti-aging foods around.

Robin Vitetta-Miller, nutritionist and contributor of Health magazine, visits The Early Show to discuss the different categories of "super foods" and the anti-aging benefits.

Foods to Focus Your Vision

· Spinach.

· Broccoli: 1/2 cup each day protects against a number of cancers, particularly cancers of the lung, stomach, colon and rectum. Broccoli is a great source of flavonoids, carotenoids, vitamin C, folate and potassium that helps prevent heart disease.

· Corn

· Tuna

· Peaches

Foods to Protect Your Heart

· Garlic

· Oats: 5 to 7 servings a day of oats or other grains such as brown and wild rice, barley, wheat germ and flaxseed. They are a rich source of magnesium, potassium, zinc copper, manganese, selenium, thiamine and panthothenic acid.

· Grape juice

· Walnuts

Foods For A Better Memory
Research shows that berries seem to slow and reverse many of the degenerative diseases associated with an aging brain. Blueberries also provide another antioxidant known as allagic acid. This acid blocks the metabolic pathways that can promote cancer. The acid is also found in black and red raspberries, boysenberries, marionberries and blackberries.

· Blueberries

· Raspberries

· Blackberries

· Kale

· Dark Red Apples

Foods to Lower Cancer Risk

· Soybeans: Soy offers tremendous health benefits when incorporated into the diet. It's an inexpensive, high-quality, vitamin and mineral rich plant protein.

It has been recognized by many researchers as playing a positive role in preventing cardiovascular disease, cancer and osteoporosis as well as helping to relieve menopausal and menstrual symptoms.

· Garlic

· Green Tea

monthly recipe resource

In the beginnings of this group Andra along with Gary Parker had a vision to reach out to other like minded people who are looking of answers to creating greater well being.

The sharing of information can be empowering. I you’d like to share recipes or tape into our monthly recipe resource contact Gary Parker at turbop@byu.net.

Below is a great sample of some of the recipes shared at our November meeting. Enjoy!

Apple and Celery Salad by Frederic Patenaude courtesy Marie Landvatter:

Two cups celery, finely chopped.

One cup apple, peeled and finely chopped.

One avocado, mashed.

One cup fennel, finely chopped.

Two teaspoons fennel seeds.

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Make sure the avocado is mashed.

Raw Apple Pie (yield: 9” pie) courtesy Carolyn Rouch:

Crust:

1 ¾ cups soaked almonds.

1 ½ cups dates, pitted.

Two tablespoons water.

½ teaspoon vanilla.

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon.

Two teaspoons psyllium.

Combine nuts and dates in food processor until finely ground. Then add water, vanilla, and cinnamon and continue processing. Gradually add psyllium while continuing to process. Remove mixture immediately from processor and press into pie plate.

Filling:

Ten to twelve apples peeled and cored.

Two cups pitted Medjool dates.

One cup golden raisins.

Two teaspoons cinnamon.

Two tablespoons psyllium.

Run apples, dates, and raisins through juicer using the homogenizing blank and mix well. Place mixture into food processor.

Add in cinnamon and mix well. Continue mixing and gradually add psyllium until thoroughly mixed.Remove mixture immediately from food processor and pour filling into piecrust. Cover and refrigerate.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Helped with the Raw Food Diet:

It was the end of fall in Australia, 1994, when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 43. My children were only 6 and 8 years old at the time.

It wasn’t long before I was fully immersed in its unremitting fury that left every part of my body and flesh screaming out in torment. Indefinable pain and suffering was now my constant companion. I was in such deep despair over the agony I was suffering from this insidious disease, it was all I could do to stay alive for my children. Finally, I became bedridden.

My children dressed me, fed me, and positioned me in the right place to pull me out of bed so as not to hurt me in any way. They took me to the toilet and placed me on the bowl, and waited while I sat, pondering on my life and the misery set before me. The hardest thing for me was simply being alive. The thought of ending it all to relieve my anguish would have been a welcome relief. Growing up in orphanages and children’s homes, I was beyond the point of, ‘who would love my children if I died?’

It was beyond me now to hold onto my children’s hands as I took them to bed, to feel their flesh against mine. Now they took me to bed, and were no longer allowed to touch my flesh, as it left me wailing in pain. I could see in their eyes that they needed me.

Night time was the loneliest time as I lay in the darkness of my room, alone with my thoughts, knowing I could not call out to my young ones, as God knows they needed their rest. I averaged 2 hours sleep per night because of the pain. My tears were constant and flowed most of the time. Sometimes in the darkness, I asked, “Oh Lord, have mercy on me” and in those tears I cried out, “Where is my miracle?” I thought that I would never recover from the way the disease had altered me, or shake off the despondency into which my personality had sunk.

As the light of day dawned through the Venetian blinds, I pondered on how I could recover from this tormenting, crippling disease. I did not want my children to have any part in the burden of my sorrow any longer. I had to recover for them!

I started reading books on diet and disease and finally came up with my own regime that worked for me. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but knew in the deepest recess of my heart I would be free from rheumatoid arthritis.

After changing my diet to a high raw food diet, I became well, pain free, and disease free. I was once again able to physically love my children and take care of them. We laughed, we danced, we had fun, and I was caught up in the spirit of my children. They told me, “Mama we love you.” It was beautiful. I have since become a 100% raw vegan. Now the raw food vegan lifestyle is the secret of health, longevity and quality of life. - Sonia