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Is Your Food Making You Sick? If the answer is yes, then our newsletter is for you! Welcome to our first edition of the Feel Good News. Each issue will be dedicated to you and the planet we all share. Hopefully, we will grow together. We live in exciting and dangerous times. Exciting because science and technology are giving us the tools to harness and fully understand natures many gifts to mankind. We have learned that "super medicine" has its flaws. We now know maintaining one's health in a natural way is the true cure. Dangerous, because that is the other side of our technology. The message is so clear yet our fast paced life has clouded what so many ancient cultures took for granted. Pure simple foods, sensible exercise and keeping in touch with nature, so basic, yet so foreign to our modern culture. This is the dark side of technology - the part that separates us from nature. I've been told our bodies are built to last 120 to 140 years, yet most of us feel fortunate to "make it" to 75. I want to live long and die fast, for me, quality of life is as important as length of life. Just "making it" is not an option for me and it should not be for you either! Each issue we will explore our natural options, there are so many. Because our individual chemistry is as unique as our finger prints, our needs are unique as well. Together, perhaps, we can discover the perfect healing balance between our hectic modern lives and nature. We would like for you to consider this newsletter to be a forum in which we could all offer support and ideas to help one another. We want to hear from you! Each issue will contain articles from health care professionals to enlighten and entertain. New recipes to collect, all free of wheat, dairy, yeast, night shades and sugar. Let us know of a great healthcare professional you feel has made a difference in your life, we will print his/her name and phone number for our other readers. Goods and services that would help and support others. Any idea or helpful tip to ease another person's disease. If some of the ingredients used in the recipes seem foreign to you then it's time to 'discover' your local health food store - or - join an organic food co-op - or - order from an organic delivery service. The world is a bountiful place take part in that bounty. Remember . . . Truth is knowledge and only through knowledge can we heal ourselves and our planet - be part of it! I hope you will enjoy the format of our newsletter as much as we enjoy puttingit together for you! Sincerely, Deborah Page Johnson F.Y.I Here Are Some Facts On Foods!
Questions & Answers Q. Why are food allergies becoming so common. Twenty years ago no one had ever heard of them. A. People have always had food allergies, but it used to be rare. It all comes down to our immune systems. Because of modern farming practices, food processing, preservatives added to increase shelf life and profits. Not to mention the untold amounts of chemicals and toxins are being released into our water and air. Q. What is Teff? I saw it used in a recipe and am curious. A. Teff is an Ethiopian staple. It is the worlds smallest grain. One hundred grains of Teff weighs the same as one grain of Wheat. Try your local Health Food Store if they do not carry it perhaps they can order some for you. Bob's Red Mill and Arrowhead Mills both manufacture Teff. Glossary Agar Agar (Kanten) a sea vegetable which can replace traditional animal based gelatin. refrigeration is not necessary to set. Arrowroot powder is used as a thickener for sauces and with nongluten grains. Expeller pressed, a process of extracting the oil without the use of heat, toxic chemicals, solvents or preservatives. Garbanzo bean flour, garbanzo beans (chick peas) ground to a fine powder, a good alternative to wheat. Ghee also known as clarified butter, unsalted and lactose free tolerated by some otherwise sensitive to dairy. Organic means growers/packers of fruits, vegetables, meats and grains adhere to strict farming standards set by the government to insure the consumer no chemicals have been used at any stage of the product's life. Pure source water, distilled, reverse osmosis or any good water purification system that will remove chemicals and impurities. Never use tap water. Sea Salt contains healthy minerals and is saltier so you use less. When iodine is added so is sugar, it keeps the salt from clumping. Stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar, a South American herb. May be used as a powder or be made into a liquid. Will not allow Candida to grow, helps regulate blood sugar and has virtually no calories. Unsulfated, a safe process for drying fruits and vegetables. Many allergic symptoms have been related to commercially dried products using sulfates. TREATMENTS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE When Good Nutrition Isn't Good Enough I've been a nutritionist and health therapist in practice for over 17 years. Over those years I've seen people flourish by a simple change in diet or perhaps by discontinuing an unhealthy habit. But what of the people who don't flourish. The ones who continue to eat sugar or wheat or dairy . . . the list goes on and on. And, I go over the rules one more time. Rid yourself of unnecessary toxins internally as well as externally. Drink plenty of water from a pure source. Don't microwave, don't eat fast food, don't eat sugar, don't, don't don't. Then I send them off only to have them return to confess their sins. These people continue to see me for my council year after year. Continuing to faithfully take the vitamins and supplements, filled with self recrimination, yet never really getting any better. I hate feeling helpless, it's not my nature. Addiction and eating disorders were the true culprits. I knew there was a part of these clients that would not allow their bodies to heal, but what to do? Last year I found my answer. It's called Thought Field Therapy (TFT). It was developed by Dr. Roger Callahan a leading clinical psychologist and former president of the American Psychoanalytical Association. TFT capitalizes on some astounding discoveries about the body's energy systems and the treatment of almost all negative states through the energetic systems. TFT has been shown to be effective over 90% of the time for the following problems: Anxiety • Depression • Child Abuse • Panic • Anger • Rape Trauma • Fears • Irrational Guilt • War/Accident Trauma • Public Speaking • Grief • Obsessions • Dental Fears • Rejection/Loss • Addictions • Surgical/Medical Fears • Sexual Inhibitions • Eating Problems • Flying • Pain • General Stress TFT works quickly, painlessly, and like no other form of therapy, sometimes in a matter of minutes. Even very complicated cases can be successfully treated in five to ten hours. The treatments are so effective that you don't have to believe in the treatment to achieve a positive result. So instead of going for months or years for traditional therapy, people can now receive through TFT an extraordinary type of treatment that is truly effective and economical. TFT can free you from years of problems that have stopped you from living your life to the fullest. TFT is available, at present, from only a few therapists across the country. For an Appointment or more information call: (715) 696-3727 HOW FAST CAN I CHANGE MY pH? Shifting pH is not an overnight process. In fact, it is difficult and requires consistent effort. Consider this: It would take 32 eight ounce glasses of highly alkaline water (10 pH) to bring one glass of cola (2.5 pH) to a neutral 7 pH. The body contains roughly 10 gallons of water. That same glass of cola added to 10 gallons of water with a pH of 7.4 (normal blood pH) would bring the overall pH down to 4.6. Fortunately the body has a buffering system that prevents such a severe decline in pH. If not, drinking cola would literally be fatal. The body's buffering system is such that it will actually draw minerals out of certain areas of the body in order to try and maintain a balanced pH. That means calcium can be leached from our bones and magnesium from our muscles, etc. So while drinking that coke is not fatal, it certainly takes its toll! The point is, taking proactive steps not only to eliminate such acidic substances such as soda from our diets but also to assist our bodies by adding alkalinity is essential. We can add alkalinity by eating lots of fresh vegetables, especially leafy greens. However, since it takes 20 parts alkalinity to neutralize one part acid, we would have to eat an awful lot of veggies to achieve and maintain a healthy pH. Please visit our catalog for products to help you achieve your goal of total balance. There are also other web sites to visit at the LINKS section of this site. Or you can just ASK ME HOW? I get 17 whole fruits and vegetables into my family everyday... and without a fight? I will be more than happy to share my secret 630-355-7746 just ask for Deborah. Repair, Reuse, Recycle, Eat Organic! You DO make a difference. The human spirit is formidable. Remember we help ourselves when we help others. |
