9 Simple Rules of Eating

For those of you who are my patients, many of these should sound quite familiar to you.

9 Simple Rules of Eating

1. Eat food. Though in our current state of confusion, this is much easier said than done. So try this: Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

2. Avoid even those food products that come bearing health claims. They're apt to be heavily processed, and the claims are often dubious at best.

3. Especially avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than five in number or that contain high-fructose corn syrup.

4. Get out of the supermarket whenever possible. You won't find any high-fructose corn syrup at the farmer's market; you also won't find food harvested long ago and far away. What you will find are fresh whole foods picked at the peak of nutritional quality. Precisely the kind of food your great-great- grandmother would have recognized as food.

5. Pay more, eat less. The American food system has for a century devoted its energies and policies to increasing quantity and reducing price, not to improving quality. Americans spend, on average, less than 10 percent of their income on food, down from 24 percent in 1947, and less than the citizens of any other nation.

6. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves. By eating a plant-based diet, you'll be consuming far fewer calories, since plant foods (except seeds) are typically less energy dense than the other things you might eat. Vegetarians are healthier than carnivores, but near vegetarians (flexitarians) are as healthy as vegetarians. Thomas Jefferson was on to something when he advised treating meat more as a flavoring than a food.

7. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. Confounding factors aside, people who eat according to the rules of a traditional food culture are generally healthier than we are. Any traditional diet will do: if it weren't a healthy diet, the people who follow it wouldn't still be around.

8. Cook. And if you can, plant a garden. To take part in the intricate and endlessly interesting processes of providing for our sustenance is the surest way to escape the culture of fast food and the values implicit in it: that food should be cheap and easy; that food is fuel and not communion.

9. Eat like an omnivore. Try to add new species, not just new foods, to your diet. Biodiversity in the diet means less monoculture in the fields. What does that have to do with your health? Everything. The vast monocultures that now feed us require tremendous amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to keep from collapsing. Diversifying those fields will mean fewer chemicals, healthier soils, healthier plants and animals and, in turn, healthier people. It's all connected, which is another way ofsaying that your health isn't bordered by your body and that what's good for the soil is probably good for you, too.

*Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times 1/28/2007

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Must "To Do's" for the Flu Season

What to do for the flu? The key is to stay healthy, versus getting the flu THEN trying to treat it

Here are some reminders:
· Get plenty of sleep
· Drink plenty of water· Limit sweets (sugar can suppress the immune system)· Eat good fats (Click below for an overall food guide)
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· Have homemade chicken stock (using apple cider vinegar)· Take a good multi vitamin like CATALYN (Standard Process)
However, even in the best circumstance, you may come down with a cold or flu. There are few really good products I recommend. Again, they are all 20% retail

If you are fearful of getting or have been diagnosed with swine flu, here is a great homeopathic remedy FDA approved with the specific strains designated by the World Health Organization. Check out the detail at www.kingbio.com

For overall flu prevention, Systemic Formulas Anti-Viro ViVi drops are amazing. They contain Pau D Arco and Lomentium Dissecticum. For prevention take about 6-8 drops daily. If you get the flu you can take up to about 12-14 drops.

Finally is a product, CONGAPLEX, which supports the Thymus that is the critical gland in antibody production and transforming white cells into infection-fighting killer cells. It also provides vitamins from whole-food concentrates that are full of real vitamins, A, C, J, K and bioflavonoids and more. It is derived from organically grown plants, processed in a way that keeps all vital forces intact. It also contains fish oil and support for bones.

CONGAPLEX contains Calcium Lactate, the easiest form of calcium to utilize and magnesium (it is not a dairy product). It is critical for those prone to fevers and infections.
If you have continual problems during cold and flu season, take 3-6 daily. If you don't have continual problems, you might consider 1-2 daily as preventive.

At the first sign of problems, take 2 per waking hour for 48 hours. This will almost always stop the problem. Even infants can take it---one every two hours will almost always bring a fever to normal within 8 to 12 hours and end most colds and flu in a day or two. It can also be used at the first sign of an ear infection.

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