How Alcohol Affects Overall Health

"Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." Proverbs 31: 6-7

Shay there you; …hiccup, stagger, did you know that ten, pardon me, burp, ten out of four people drink booze? Today, as a transformed alcohol over-user, I look into the mirror of my past, flinching when in public, I recognize someone’s values’ dissolving into an excessive slurry of ice cubes chilling your fourth Scotch Whiskey; “I don’t care about my new shoes, urp, blurp, splat! Taxi!

Since ancient times, ardent spirits have played roles in religion, economics, sex, politics and all aspects of society. Abe Lincoln, when clued General Grant swilled whiskey while leading his troops replied, “Find out the name of the brand so I can give it to my other generals." Presidents conspired with demon rum, a social lubricant, to procure votes and eager Federal Judges interrupted proceedings to partake. G. W. Bush snorted and soused his way through college. Nixon habitually imbibed Scotch and soda, and a snockered LBJ cavorted about his Texas ranch in an open convertible whilst imbibing scotch and soda. Perhaps this is why he insensitively picked up his pet Beagles by the ears and considered it entertainment.

Nurtured by guilt-based fundamentalist religious literalism, I was brainwashed if demon alcohol met my inquisitive lips, I’d go directly to a blistering hell on a razorblade only to ‘kersplash’ into a vat of stinging alcohol. As a repressed teen it was incumbent to investigate and’ lay hands’ upon the proverbial wet paint. Religious repression eternally backfires so I spent the next 20 years rebelling in a boozy stupor. Theologically ironic considering Bourbon takes its name from Bourbon County Kentucky where it was first produced by a happy Baptist minister in 1789. Ask any hotel room service attendant and they’ll attest in-room liquor sales soar when these groups hold conventions; an innocent illustration of our humanness. Protestant groups, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Presbyterians consider moderate use tolerable but frown upon drunkenness that punches the ticket to eternal agony. Roman Catholics tend to be more accepting of a wee bit of the grape. References to alcohol in Jewish writings are to moderate wine consumption. In much of France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Italy, from childhood, wise people thought of wine as a food, so liquor was not such an enthralling curiosity.

Alcohol as medicine has been recorded throughout history and is mentioned 191 times in the Old and New Testaments. If you drink moderately, there’s ‘proof’ alcohol improves health while tranquilizing your frenetic everyday life. Moderate drinkers tend to have enhanced health and live longer than those who are either abstainers or booze hounds. In addition to having fewer heart attacks and strokes, moderate drinkers are less likely to suffer hypertension, high blood pressure, peripheral artery disease, Alzheimer's disease and the common cold.
Commonsensical consumption appears beneficial in reducing or preventing diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, bone fractures and osteoporosis, kidney stones, digestive ailments, stress and depression, poor cognition and memory, Parkinson's disease, hepatitis A, pancreatic cancer, macular degeneration, angina pectoris, duodenal ulcer, erectile dysfunction, hearing loss, gallstones, liver disease, Alzheimer’s, the common cold and poor physical condition in elderly.
A Harvard Study found the risk of death from all causes to be 21% to 28% lower among men who drank alcohol moderately compared to teetotalers. Loathe hangovers? Try drinking a glass of alkaline Smart Water every 2 or 3 drinks to get fluid into the temple before the end of the night. When you wake up with a big head and your liver quivers, consider adding Milk Thistle, a restorative liver tonic, to your daily vitamin regimen everyday for a month whilst not drinking. You’ll feel a lot better, even after drinking is resumed; in moderating, of course. Cheers!

'Green' Tea and Sympathy

Wherever I wander, friends jest on the subject of my ever-present mug-o-tea. Tea’s my morning java, diet coke fix, and cocktail; my ‘longevi-tea’. The simple, focused act of brewing tea touches our souls. Tea is a ceremony; a stand-up performance in simplicity.

After decades in the wacky food industry, I corroborate food servers consider tea drinkers pains in the tea bag because serving a proper cup of tea requires more attention than simply topping off a steamy cup-o-Joe. The bag needs refreshing, the water needs to be kept hot; topped off, and, “Would it kill you to warm the stone-cold cup with a bit of hot water first?”, I queried as the waitress ‘s eyes rolled back into her head. I accept I’ve morphed into “one of them”; the needy nerdy. Yes, I am a tea-junkie; snob sounds too severe. For if I am too cold, tea warms me up; if I’m too heated, it will cool me down; if I’m depressed, it will cheer me up, and if I’m excited, it will calm me down. After water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world. Green tea has always been, and remains today, the most popular type of tea from China where historians and botanists believe the plant originated.
Good news! Green tea drinkers appear to have a reduced risk for a wide range of diseases, from simple bacterial or viral infections to cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, periodontal disease, glaucoma and osteoporosis. Might it be due to the fact one cup of green tea provides 10-40 mg of polyphenols and has antioxidant effects greater than a serving of broccoli, spinach, carrots, or strawberries?
Tea contains antioxidants that mop up the free radicals before they trash the Temple like an attention-seeking rock star. Green tea contains heavenly-gifted catechins; powerful antioxidants created to mop up free-radicals. According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, in laboratory studies using animals, catechins scavenged oxidants before cell damage occurred, reduced the number and size of tumors, and inhibited the growth of cancer cells. White tea is said to be even more effective. Smell what’s brewing?
The Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry reports the antioxidants in green tea are absorbed into the lens, retina and other eye tissues. They speculate the antioxidant catechins in green tea protect the eye proving that eye structures can absorb significant amounts of catechins that reduce harmful oxidative stress in the eye for up to 20 hours. Hootchie Momma! Visualize your good health if you drank 5 cups a day.

If you have the propensity to clot a lot, green and black tea act like aspirin by blocking the formation of thromboxane A2, hence reducing the risk of heart attack and thrombotic stroke. If you take Coumadin, don’t fret, just be consistent and inform your phlebotomist.

Recently, the Journal of Preventive Medicine published a study revealing the correlating between tooth loss and green tea consumption. Those who one to two cups daily had 18% less risk of losing teeth, and those who drank five or more cups daily faced 23% less risk.
Regarding the glittery caffeine conundrum, a 5 ounce cup of coffee contains 80 milligrams; a 1 ounce bag of black tea 40 milligrams; Oolong, 30 milligrams and one ounce of green tea a paltry 20. The reason I say this is because some of us with heart concerns, including me, cannot let their heart become over-stimulated for we will roll into arrhythmia.
In the book, The Green Tea Book, “Despite a high percentage of smokers (75% of adult men), Japan has an astonishingly low rate of heart disease. It seems possible the polyphenols in black and especially green tea cause the same paradox that polyphenols in red wine lead to. An encouraging Japanese epidemiology study concluded drinking eight to ten cups green or black tea per day can positively affect cholesterol levels whether you smoke, drink are overweight or obese.
Armed with these nutritional nuggets, it shouldn’t be too long till you’re brewin’ Oolong.
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Pure Food: A healthy investment

After presenting my Eat Right Now program at a continuing education health conference in Chicago last week regarding Autism, ADD & ADHD, Celiac Disease and food allergies, I confidently proclaim my wacky passion regarding the subject of nutritional stewardship of the Temple as widely common. Yes, dear readers, it’s a disturbing thought, but there are millions of everyday folks and scientists who believe like me. The unanimous conclusion; our toxic American diet of dead food has led us into this health care ‘snafu’. So, please stop beating yourself up for being weak, chronically ill or overweight. It’s not your fault. Your taste buds and brain have been hijacked.
Deeply traditional Hoosiers can be an inflexible genus. This resistance to re-align self-destructive eating habits is displayed like an all-you-can-eat buffet by Indiana’s recent ranking as 44th unhealthiest state in the US. Hoosier risk-takers dread change; consequently, many good folks experience Alzheimer’s, ulcerated colitis, lousy cognition, exhaustion, costly hospital visits, or abridged life.
For decades I’ve encouraged faithful readers to eat fresh, pure local food and to avoid food-like substances extruded from machinery and GMO plant foods. It’s a hard-sell. Americans are deceived and programmed by fuzzy advertising, the FDA, and Big Food to eat profitable troughs of industrial-strength twaddle composed of by-products not in the least compatible with the temples cellular requirements. Do you know the ingredients of soy burgers; scrumptious residue from soy milk production and my personal favorite, hexane? Ack! Wouldn’t it be nice if over the last century food industrial Fat Cats focused on premium, celestially-endorsed human nutrition rather than profiting from dregs.
The 25 to 45 age group lived their entire lives thus far eating pre-packaged, prepared food; that’s all they’ve known. However, these parents set the stage for future illness. You may recall when I observed mother and child shopping the produce section. Mom selected pre-packaged, pre-cut veggies basted in MSG. Attracted to the display of fresh broccoli, her child pointed in curiosity. As if it were rock of meth, a dour faced Mom said, “Oh, you wouldn’t like that. I’ll give you a Pop Tart when we get home”. On the plus side, due to Food Inc and Omnivore’s Dilemma, it’s inspires hope to see the growing number of ‘green’ teens who get it.
Change is the one constant in our lives. Each week, make a change for the better that will improve metabolism, brain function, and the Temple’s ability to self-heal. Refreshing the Temple by clearing out the processed debris in the pantries, refrigerators, and medicine cabinets is a good start. Affirm to wake up each morning and eat for health by choosing fresh, seasonal, chemical-free, nutrient-rich, organic foods which replenish the reserves drained by the poor quality foods you have been living on. Unlock the dietary door to rejuvenation and glowing health. You deserve the best.

Bad News for Lung Cancer

Good News for Ex-Smokers or Midnight Tokers

Sandi, my wife and best friend, successfully put her cigarettes down six months ago and never looked back. Now, she’s focusing on repairing the damage and renewing her pink lungs after 30 years of inhaling combustible microscopic particles in a nicotine-infused pottage of chemicals. Putting the coffin nails down took admirable guts. Sandi clearly illustrated to me no one will successfully succeed until they’re psychological prepared and not an instant sooner.
There’s no absolute way to totally reverse the damage smoking inflicts, save for a diet rich in leafy greens and folic acid which may offer the best protection against lung cancer in smokers and bong Jockeys. Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute evaluated participants cells to see if cancer-protective genes had been switched off; a common feature of lung cancers. Scientists saw fewer changes in veggie-chompers who took food-based multivitamins combined with lots of leafy greens, rich in vitamin C, carotenoids, lutein, folic acid, and vitamins K and A.
Experiment with new foods you’d normally turn up your nose up, like bok choy, kale, spinach, arugula, watercress, cilantro, and mustard or collard greens. By now, I hope you’re aware nutritionally bankrupt Iceberg lettuce has the nutrition of a paper towel. Such Low-grade food is one indictable reason we are so undernourished as a nation. Instead, opt for romaine, arugula, spinach, mesculin greens, bib or Boston lettuce, or purslane, the next super-food hovering on the culinary horizon.
Please don’t assume sucking down inferior grocery vitamin pills will cure your every ill. The American Institute for Cancer Research says some supplements lack vital elements found in fresh plants brimming with the cosmic life force bestowed by a generous creator; the ultimate healer, not a starry-eyed scientist from the pages of Mad Magazine.
Summon the gumption and experience instant perks:
*In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal
*In 8 hours toxic carbon monoxide levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal
*In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level
*In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase
*In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks

A Duke University study shows health-promoting fruits and vegetables make cigarettes taste snarkey. But meat, coffee, and booze make smoking tastier. "…. cigarette addiction isn’t totally about nicotine," McClernon tells WebMD. "But we’re learning smoking addiction is also about sensory effects like taste and smell, the sensation, visual experience and the rituals of smoking." Enlist more of your current favorite garden, not canned vegetables and then keep your mind and heart open. You just might make some leafy-green acquaintances on your journey returning your Temple to its original wholeness.
The best way to reduce cancer as well as heart disease and stroke is to stop smoking entirely. Quitting after acquiring cancer is akin to putting on seatbelts after a head-on collision with a produce truck.

Baby Bok Choy Salad

½ cup virgin olive oil

¼ white vinegar
1 tbs. raw honey or maple syrup
3 tbs. Tamari (Wheat-Free Soy Sauce)
2 bunches baby bok choy, cleaned and sliced

1 bunch of green onions, chopped
1/8th cup slivered almonds, toasted
1 package of rice noodles
Directions:
Warm ¼ inch vegetable oil in a saucepan. When the oil is hot gently add a small handful of rice noodles. Exercise caution. They will instantly puff up. Immediately turn off the heat. Remove at once, drain on towel and reserve for garnish
In a lidded glass jar or Tupperware container, mix together olive oil, white vinegar, sweetener of choice, and tamari / soy sauce.
Close the lid and shake well.
Combine bok choy, green onions, almonds, and noodles in a salad bowl. Toss with dressing and serve

Vitamin C-Scurvy Anyone?

How’s Your ‘C’ Levels?

As you flower on the proverbial tree of life, no other Earthly nutrient besides Vitamin C has been shown to have such awesome beneficial effects on your current state of health. Certainly by now you can clearly see today’s health care calamity is generally a result of inadequate nutrition discharged from the Western diet of industrially-altered foods of convenience.
‘C’, a powerful antioxidant feeds the immune system, offers cancer prevention and is essential for healthy bones, smooth, moist skin and strong teeth, as well as the production of collagen. C is requisite for successful internal and external wound healing.
Sweet, luscious tropical orange au jus plays an abundant roll in American culture; feeding millions, accompanying bacon, eggs, vodka and providing wages for thousands of pickers, packers and processors. As OJ’s original nutrient composition became industrially diminished over decades, America lost sight of the icons worth; with each generation accepting it diminished nutritional contents as the new norm. For example, Sunny-D is a dietary weapon of mass consumption; candy. The ersatz beverage is brimming with high fructose corn syrup, canola oil, only 2% fruit pulp, natural flavorings, cornstarch, food dye, and everyone’s favorite, sodium hexametaphosphate; an agent used in the industry of soap, detergents, water treatment, metal finishing and plating, pulp and paper manufacturing, synthesis of polymers, photographic products, textiles, scale removal and agriculture. Like drunken sailors, corporate America lost their way seeking the illusive Sea of Nutritional Righteousness.
In the late 1800’s, due to a dietary lack of C, sailors developed scurvy. Arrrrrgh Matey, for months at a time, swarthy sea dogs didn’t have access to fresh plant foods and began bleeding out of their bodies. Bless their hearts; they had no collagen production happening to prop up their weakening arterial health. Vitamin C is essential for the synthesis of collagen; the building blocks of muscles, ligaments, bones, tendons and tissue, and bone structure therefore preventing osteoporosis. Lesson learned; they began stowing bushels of limes, giving birth to the term, ‘Limey’.
The World Health Organization (WHO) insists a diet featuring carotenoids, flavonoids, folate and magnesium from citrus fruits and vegetables offer protection against heart disease, the #1 Killer of women. C’s potassium content guards against stroke, arrhythmias, and helps to control cholesterol while lowering blood pressure.
Just one juicy orange smoothie or seven strawberries supply more than 100% of your Temple’s daily vitamin C requirements. In 1989, the RDA of 60 mg for the average healthy adult was increased, however, still woefully insignificant. Certified Nutritionist, Carolyn Landon of Indianapolis, suggests starting with 500 IU’s then build up to 1000 per day. If your stool gets loose, then back off. Everyone’s threshold is different. University of Milan, Italy researchers say consuming vitamin C supplements does not, however, provide the same protective benefits as fresh produce.
Foods with C appear to reduce mouth, larynx and pharynx, and stomach and digestive cancers by 40-50%. ‘C’ from fresh Farmer’s Market produce disarms cancerous free radicals, preventing damage inside and outside your cells. Most cardiovascular disease joint disease, cancer, diseases of the eye, thyroid, joints, liver and lung require special emphasis of C intake, but not from Orange Crush. Those with acne, alcoholism, Alzheimer’s, asthma, Autism, depression, diabetes, IBS, and Parkinson’s need be especially focused on adequate C intake. You can do it.
Low C levels impair your Temple’s ability to defend against bacterial infections. A 500 mg dose will soothe inflammation and thwart gum bleeding from periodontal disease. People who frequently get colds, infections and flu typically have low C levels in their white blood cells. Health white blood cells are needed for the immune system to destroy inhaled and digested environmental free-radical toxins.
Glorious produce jam-packed with C include kiwi, cantaloupe, grapefruit, raspberries and blueberries, pineapple, Acerola cherries, lemons and limes, papaya and strawberries. Vegetable sources include any dark leafy green, broccoli, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and crunchy red bell peppers. Ironically, at this time when patriotic Americans need fresh produce more than ever to prevent costly, sometime mortal disease, our society has become Vegaphobic. Face it, only 2% of the collective American advertising budget is spent promoting fresh foods from God’s healing and sustaining celestial apothecary. Father knows best!
The Holy Temple cannot synthesize its own ‘C’ booty; therefore it must be pirated from plant-based foods, not a swarthy scientist. With community Farmer’s Markets bursting everywhere, why accept less than the real thing?

Vitamin C

Tropical oranges and their au jus play a profuse, traditional role in American society; feeding millions, accompanying bacon and eggs, and providing income for thousands of orange pickers, packer and processors. Did you know just one ‘real’ juicy orange supply’s 116% of your daily vitamin C requirements?
As OJ’s composition industrially degraded over decades, humans lost sight of the icon’s significance; with each generation accepting its diminished nutritional content as the new norm; a/k/a, Sunny D; a pure, undiluted weapon of mass consumption that shouldn't’t be used for anything but low-grade candy. It’s second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup followed by a disturbing list of faux- ingredients including canola oil, 2% or less actual fruit pulp, natural flavorings, cornstarch, yellow food dye #5 and #6, and everyone’s darling, sodium hexametaphosphate; a sequestering agent used in the industry of soap, detergents, water treatment, metal finishing and plating, pulp and paper manufacture, synthesis of polymers, photographic products, textiles, scale removal and agriculture. The skulduggery practitioners who market this crap (yes I said crap) as healthy food for our kids are no better than common criminals or terrorist. God weeps at such haughtiness.
In its defence, there is vitamin C, however, in an un-absorbable synthetic form, unavailable to our cells; ergo disease and crêpe skin. So, why in Gods’ name would anyone in their right mind settle for anything less than the real thing, baby? To my gray matter, Sunny-D is a product of the supposed Antichrist; i.e., anything or anyone that causes harm to the sanctity of the Holy Temple, a gift from our creator and should be considered physical assault on your life by Big Food.
We desperately need to take in more vitamin C either from fresh plant food or Rose Hips supplement sources. Did you know vitamin C is a vital player in sustaining smooth silky skin? The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition linked consuming plenty of vitamin C-rich foods with youthful skin. “Our findings suggest that a higher intake of vitamin C from foods is connected with a lower risk of having wrinkled skin and age-related skin dryness in middle-aged women,” says Maeve Cosgrove, Ph.D., who led the research. The Journal of the American College of Nutrition evaluated 6,000 adults enrolled in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. In addition, participants with the highest blood levels of vitamin C had a 25% lower incidence of infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori); the bacterium responsible for peptic ulcers which increase risk for stomach cancer. The healing properties of oranges are linked with phytonutrients citrus flavanones; sustaining Gifts from our higher source.
You’ve been ill-advised by commerce and bankers ‘playing doctor’ with your health to consider vitamin C solely comes from processed citrus fruit juices and or artificially flavored beverages. On the contrary; produce with vitamin C include kiwi, cantaloupe, grapefruit, raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, limes & lemons, papaya and strawberries. Vegetable sources include dark green leafy vegetables, broccoli, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and red peppers. Most members of God’s Apothecary are excellent sources of vitamin C. Regrettably, we’ve morphed into a Vegaphobic culture, implicated as one of the causes of the current health care crisis.
Vitamin C from un-processed plant sources disarms free radicals, preventing damage both inside and outside cells. Inside cells, free radical damage to DNA causes cancer; preventing DNA mutations prevents cancer especially in areas of the Temple where cellular turnover is especially rapid, such as the digestive system. Most forms of cardiovascular disease, joint disease, cancer, eye disease, thyroid disease, liver disease, and lung disease require special emphasis on vitamin C intake, not Sunny D or Orange Crush. Acne, Alcoholism, Alzheimer’s disease, Asthma, Autism, Depression, Diabetes, Irritable bowel disease, and Parkinson's disease are all positively affected by adequate Vitamin C intake. As you can clearly ‘C’, the process of healthy aging requires special attention to the sacred, sustaining vitamin. Ask your community vitamin store for the best supplemental source of C. Carlson brand is excellent.

Kiwi-Pineapple Colada- A Vitamin C Festival

4 peeled kiwifruit

3 cups ice

¼ cup light rum (Optional)

3 tbs. coconut milk

8 oz. fresh pineapple chopped

• Fresh Strawberries for garnish-Bursting with Vitamin C



• Cut peeled kiwi into quarters and place into a blender



• Blend till smooth and taste.



• Add Sweet Leaf brand stevia if it needs to be sweeter



• Add iced and remaining ingredients and process till smooth



• Garnish with a strawberry slit from the bottom almost to the top and slide it on the rim
  
  
  
  

Picnic Foods Vegetarian and Fat Free

Pssssst! Don’t tell anyone, but there are such things as ‘healthy picnic food’. With warmth, I recall friends and family joining two picnic tables together under a shade-tree then covering them with red gingham table cloths and piling its length and girth with mysterious casserole dishes, macaroni salad, mountains of fried chicken, creamy potato salad, deviled eggs yeast rolls with butter, baked beans topped with bacon strips and Cole slaw. The wooden behemoths creaked and moaned from the vast accumulation of die-hard American icons.
It’s true you’d be mocked Foghorn Leghorn-style for bringing a healthy dish to, of all things, a pitch-in dinner. “Well, that’s downright un-American, boy. Picnics are for cheatin’, breaking the rules and feeling good. No one gives hoot about healthy food, son. Now, go on; shush-up and pass me another, I-say, I-say, spare rib!” the chubby face of our nation’s health care disaster; denial and a difficulty breaking from self-destructive dietary traditions. After all, misery adores company, but our higher source requires us all to be responsible stewards of His once-in-a life-time gift.
Often, our favorite feel-good foods open the oven door to uninvited diseases within the Holy Temple. No need to give them up; discreetly tweak the ingredients a tad and no one will know the difference unless you point it out; a fatal fault to the sneaky, loving plan. Most of us are quite busy these days. We mean well, but often run out of time to cook and tend to submit to compromise. All anyone needs is food literacy, a focused plan, a food processor and a sauté pan and you can commence eating better, quicker without feeling cheated out of the memorable ‘feel-good’ flavors of America’s traditional pitch-in orgies.
In the Cole Slaw redo we will use cabbage and asparagus as cancer-fighters; cilantro to removes heavy metals, and cauliflower, another groovy anti-carcinogen quells the fires of internal inflammation linked with a constellation of largely preventable diseases. I’ve omitted mayonnaise-based slaw dressing and saturated fat from pork and beans to reduce the accumulation of food stuffs that clog your arteries and screw up digestion. Please forego the pre-shredded bags of cabbage. They were processed then transferred hundreds of miles from here, many days ago and likely contain dangerous MSG to prevent spoilage, hence, nutritionally insolvent. Fresh is infinitely best for Holy Temple biochemistry considering fibrous cabbage is an awesome cancer-fighter.
Vegetarian baked beans do not contain artery-detonating swine lard and are widely available. If you add several drops of liquid smoke, the dish will still have a porky bacon flavor. Ba-ba dee, Ba-ba-dee, tha-a-at’s all you gotta do folks! If you close your mind to popular Smart Dogs, then you need to talk to my grand kids who dig them. They look, boil and taste like the real thing without cancerous nitrates and food colorings that exacerbate ADD and ADHD.
Together, let’s joyously prepare these two tasty picnic icons with a bit more health consciousness so everyone can continue enjoying them without felonious assaulting family health. I’ve added the health benefits of each ingredient to the recipes so you can clearly appreciate their health mojo. Food is indeed good medicine and Chef’s are the doctors of the future.
Quick & Easy Veggie Cole Slaw
Food processor¼ head of cabbage-ANTI CANCER

6 stalks of asparagus-ANTI-CANCER

4 cauliflower florets-ANTI-INFLAMMATORY

1 carrot-CLEANS THE LIVER

2 green onions-ANTI-CANCER

½ cup chopped cilantro-REMOVES HEAVY METALS FROM OR BODY

2 tbs. Marzetties Lite-Slaw Dressing

Juice of one fresh lime or lemon-VITAMIN C
Cut the veggies up into smaller pieces before processing
Pulse all veggies in food processor. Do not over pulse, however.
Place chopped veggies into a mixing bowl, squeeze in the lemon juice and blend. Keep chilled.

Beans and Franks
1 can vegetarian baked beans-FIBER

1 pkg. Smart Dog Soy Hot Dogs cut into bite-size pieces-CLEAN PROTEIN

2 tbs. organic Heinz Ketchup-LYCOPENE

½ diced onion-HEART HEALTH AND ANTI-CANCER

4 drops of liquid smoke to replace the ham flavor
Toss everything into a sauté pan and heat gently till all is hot. Stir often