Healing Foods

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Healing Foods The GFCF Diet

• Sueson Vess Betsy Hicks

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Diet Matters!

• What and how you eat may be the most important
  decision you make
• Make quality food a priority
• No one-sized solution
• Maintain a positive attitude
• Model good eating behavior

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Introduction to the GFCF Diet

• What is the GFCF Diet?
• Why do it?
• What to expect.
• How to implement.

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What is the GFCF Diet?

• Elimination of gluten and casein from diet.
• Gluten is the protein in wheat, rye and other
  grains
• Casein is the protein in dairy products
• May eliminate opioid effect.
• Result of missing or blocked enzyme DPP IV.

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What is the Opioid effect?
When morphine-like peptides cross the blood
brain barrier these symptoms may manifest

• Hyperactivity
• Moodiness
• Periods of unexplainable giggling
• Spaced Out
• Poor memory
• Sleep problems

• Poor organizational skills
• Inability to multi-task
• Never feel full
• Urine/Stool control
• Crave only Gluten and Casein
• Extreme picky eater

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Digestive Enzyme Activity

• Assimilation
• Removal of waste
• Produced in pancreas
• Prevent GI distress (including reflux)

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Food the Immune System
Food can manifest new challenges

• Food Intolerances
• Allergies
• pH Imbalance

• Yeast Overgrowth
• Bacteria
• Autoimmune Disorders

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Why Do The GFCF Diet?

• Help heal the digestive tract.
• Eliminate toxic foods.
• Reduce triggers.
• Discover beneficial foods.
• Improve entire familys diet.
• Enjoy nutritious meals.

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Re-think the Way You Look at Food

• Unquestionable Priority
• Food Is Medicine
• Garbage In Garbage Out

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What to Expect

• Not a magic bullet
• Manage expectations
• Start slowly
• Gradually improve diet step-by-step

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Picky Eating

• Customize textures
• Start small
• Behavioral approach
• Reward foods
• Set a good example

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How to Implement

• Learn to cook without processed foods
• Use alternative grains and flours as needed
• Plan healthy meals for the whole family
• Address other issues
• Texture sensitivities
• Picky-eaters

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Gluten-Free Options

• Amaranth
• Arrowroot
• Bean flours
• Buckwheat
• Corn
• Millet
• Montina
• Nut flours

• Oats (certified GF)
• Pea flour
• Potato flour and starch
• Quinoa
• Rice (all varieties)
• Sorghum
• Tapioca
• Teff

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Casein-Free Options

• Rice milk
• Hemp milk
• Nut milks Almond, Hazelnut
• Coconut milk

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What Your Body Needs

• Quality Foods
• Quality Fats
• Clean Water
• Exercise that you enjoy
• Sleep

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Quality Food

• Organic - free of pesticides, herbicides,
  chemicals in the soil and on plants
• Non GMO
• Free range/un-caged
• Chickens are NOT vegetarians
• Cows were not meant to eat corn and soy
• Grass fed
• Wild caught

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Quality Fats

• Brain development and brain function
• Hormone balance and mood
• Formation/fluidity of cell membrane - helps get
  nutrients into the cell and with blood sugar
  regulation
• Create energy in cells and helps burns fat
• Reduce inflammation

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Water, Exercise Rest

• Clean drinking water plenty!
• Bathing (filter toxins)
• Learn to move your body
• Lymphatic flow
• Have fun
• Get plenty of rest

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Avoid

• High fructose corn syrup
• Trans fats
• Neurotoxins artificial colors, flavors and
  sweeteners
• Fake foods
• Soy
• Fear

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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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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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Better Sweetener Options

• Agave Syrup a honey-like sweetener with a low
  glycemic level
• Tapioca Syrup low glycemic sweetener that can
  replace corn syrup in baking.
• Brown Rice Syrup is a complex carbohydrate with
  various enzymes.
• Maple Sugar Syrup 100 pure maple syrup,
  organic, grades B or C
• Honey extracted from flower nectar by bees, its
  color and taste depend upon flower source.

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Strategies for Success

• Prepare a written meal plan
• Consider family needs
• Picky eaters
• Adapt family favorites
• Develop a grocery list
• Know what you need
• Locate hard to find ingredients

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Balanced Meals Sustain

• Satisfy hunger
• Balance blood sugar
• Improved adrenal function
• All meals and snacks

30Fat
40Carbs
30Protein
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Step One
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Step Two
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Step Three
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Step Four
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Step Five
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Step Six
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Step Seven
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Step Eight Beyond
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Overcome the Obstacles

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

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Whats Next

• Make a 6 month commitment
• Reevaluate and adjust
• Meet with a diet counselor/food coach if you need
  assistance
• Food Matters! You are what you eat.

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Thank You!

• Sueson Vess
• Special Eats
• www.specialeats.com

• Betsy Hicks
• Pathways Medical
• Holistic Health
• www.pathwaysmed.com