Healing with Food

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Healing with Food
Betsy Hicks, Julie Matthews Sueson Vess
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Our Point-of-View

• Diet matters!
• Positive qualities in many diets
• No one answer fits every family
• There are foods to avoid and include
• Stay open to possibilities
• Good nutrition is essential!

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Whats Good About All Diets?

• GFCF (Gluten-Free Casein-Free)
• Food Sensitivity Elimination
• Feingold Diet/Low Phenols
• SCD (Specific Carbohydrate Diet)
• Feast Without Yeast
• Body Ecology Diet
• Low Oxalate Diet

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Nutrition in a Nutshell

• Everything we eat is a
• Protein
• Fat
• or
• Carb
• Simple Complex

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Protein Eat the Best!

• Organic and free range sources
• Grass fed versus grain fed
• Animals not treated with hormones and antibiotics
• Organic, uncaged eggs
• Wild caught fish
• Vegetarian sources
• Non-GMO

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Healthy Fats

• Cooking Oils
• Coconut Oil expeller pressed
• Grapeseed Oil
• Olive Oil ex virgin/low acidity
• Avocado Oil
• Palm Oil not palm kernel oil
• Sunflower Oil
• Safflower Oil
• Ghee

• Non-Heated Oils
• Coconut Oil extra virgin
• Hemp Seed Oil
• Olive Oil
• Flaxseed Oil
• Walnut, Almond Oils
• Flax Oil

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Carbs

• Simple Carbs
• Sugar, processed foods
• Complex Carbs
• Fruits, vegetables and grains
• Higher fiber is better
• Good grains to consider quinoa, teff, amaranth,
  wild rice, buckwheat

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Why Buy Organic?

• Organic
• Grass Fed
• High Vitamin Mineral Content
• Probiotics
• Free of antibiotics added hormones GMO feed
• Non-GMO
• Save buy quantity

• Conventional
• Pesticides
• Depleted Soil
• Antibiotics
• Arsenic
• E Coli

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Drink Pure Water!

• How much?
• Based on your body weight, for example If you
  weight 150 lbs. ) 2 75 ouncesDetermine your
  daily need for water
• Clean source
• Consider shower filter to remove chlorine

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Re-think the Way You Look at Food

• Unquestionable Priority
• Garbage In Garbage Out

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Foods to Avoid

• Soy (except fermented tempeh and miso)
• Corn (especially high fructose corn syrup)
• Sugar
• Vinegar
• Artificial Sweeteners
• Artificial Coloring
• Nitrates and MSG

• Limit night shade vegetables
• Know your allergens

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What Happened to Our Corn?

• Top GMO crop
• Mold
• Cheap
• High fructose corn syrup
• Feeds gut bacteria
• Hard to digest

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Beating the Sugar Blues

• Sugar can suppress your immune system
• Interferes with absorption of calcium, magnesium
  and protein
• Causes a rapid rise of adrenaline, anxiety and
  difficulty concentrating
• Produces a rise in bad cholesterol and decrease
  in good cholesterol
• Causes premature aging
• Increases blood pressure
• Increases fluid retention
• Increases free radicals and oxidative stress
• Changes sugar into fat faster than starch
• Slows ability for adrenal function
• Paraphrased from a book by Nancy Appleton, PhD
  titled Lick The Sugar Habit

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Better Sweetener Options

• Agave Syrup a honey-like sweetener is about 90
  fructose with a low glycemic level
• Tapioca Syrup another low glycemic sweetener that
  can replace corn syrup in baking.
• Brown Rice Syrup is a complex carbohydrate with
  various enzymes.
• Honey extracted from flower nectar by bees, its
  color and taste depend upon flower source.
• Maple Syrup Use 100 pure maple syrup, preferable
  organic
• Stevia is zero calorie herb from the aster family
  is available in liquid and powdered forms as a
  dietary supplement. It is very concentrated a
  little goes a long way.

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Yeast Feeders

• Sugar

• Vinegar

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Artificial Sweeteners

• Saccharine (brain tumors)
• Aspartame (produces methane)
• Sucralose (bleached sugar)
• Xylitol (birch tree)
• Causes
• Headaches
• Immune suppression
• Liver damage
• Cramping
• Diarrhea
• Brain damage Alzheimer's

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Foods High in Artificial Sweeteners
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Artificial Coloring

• Made from Coal Tar Petrochemicals
• Known cause of cancer
• Stresses Liver
• Suppresses Immunity

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Nitrates and MSG

• Nitrates
• Free radicals in the cells cause cancer
• Detox stressor
• Headaches

• MSG
• Neurotoxin
• High allergen
• Cause rashes
• Headaches
• Alzheimers

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Know Your Allergens

• Learn ways to determine if you are reacting to a
  food
• Blood tests IgG, IgE
• Elimination diet and diary
• Stool test
• pH test and journal
• Muscle testing

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Night Shade Vegetables

• Potatoes
• Tomatoes
• Green, red, and yellow peppers
• Eggplant

Feed Parasites
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But WaitTheres More!

• Learn the value of eating fermented foods
• How and why to soak seeds, nuts and grains to
  achieve maximum nutritional benefit
• The importance of balancing your pH

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Fermented Foods

• Billions of friendly bacteria in each serving
• Functions of good bacteria include
• Regulate peristalsis and bowel movements
• Break down bacterial toxins
• Make vitamins and utilize B1, B2, B3, B5, B6,
  B12, A and K
• Digest protein into amino acids (for use by the
  body)
• Produce antibiotics and anti-fungals that prevent
  colonization and growth of bad bacteria and
  yeast/fungus
• Help breakdown sugars, lactose, and oxalates
• Support the immune system and increase the number
  of immune cells
• Balance intestinal pH
• Protect against environmental toxins mercury,
  pesticides, pollution

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Fermented Foods

• Dairy-free
• Beverages (contain yeast that kills candida)
• Kombucha
• Coconut juice kefir,
• Sodas (hibiscus/rosehip tea with kefir starter)
• Raw sauerkraut
• Dairy
• Milk-based yogurt/kefir

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Nuts, Seeds and Grains

• Americans mill grains, nut and seeds at high
  temperatures
• We extrude them to make crunchy breakfast cereals
• We consume them without careful preparation

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Nuts, Seeds and Grains

• Prepare grains to remove anti-nutrients
• Phytic acid is an acid in which phosphorus is
  bound
• Untreated it combines with calcium, magnesium,
  copper, zinc and more to block mineral absorption
• Remove anti-nutrients that can inhibit digestion
  and stress the pancreas

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Importance of Balancing Your pH

• The Feel Good Food Guide Easy Recipes Free of
  Sugar, Wheat, Yeast, Corn, Eggs, Dairy and Soy!
  by Deborah Page Johnson
• Monitor your pH daily
• Discover how to eat to balance your pH and
  overcome the effects of anacidic or alkaline
  body
• Feed your family greens in the morning and
  throughout the day.

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Meal Planning 101

• Make cooking a priority
• Research recipes
• Eat with the seasons
• Develop a plan
• Involve your family
• Make a list
• Be prepared

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Strategies for Success

• Develop a meal plan
• Your roadmap to better eating
• Locate hard to find ingredients
• Enlist family help
• Adapt family favorites
• Commit to a 6 month trial

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Overcome the Obstacles

• Cost too much!
• Improves with meal planning
• Resources
• Too hard
• Change your focus
• Cookbooks and magazines for inspiration
• Cant find the products
• Resources, websites

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The Balancing Act

• Carbs 40
• Protein 30
• Fat 30
• Every meal
• Every snack
• 5 times a day

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Lets Get Cooking
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A View of the Rest of Our Day

• 1000-1015 Break
• 1015-1230 Cooking demo GFCF
• 1230-130 Lunch break on your own
• 130-345 Cooking demo SCD, Body
  Ecology/fermented foods
• 345-400 Break
• 400-500 Ask the Chef QA all diets and
  presenters available for questions