Restoring Healthy Through Nutrition

Here's a great list of ideas for the Christmas season.  Chris Wark has posted a list on his website that you should check out!  You should even check it out for yourself.  There are some great products highlighted to offer health benefits to you and your family - like the Berkey water filtration system that provides purified water for people who have fluoride, chlorine or arsenic in their water.  Here is a great video from Chris that covers the Berkey and why you HAVE to get that fluoride out of your water! (Fluoride destroys the pineal gland and the thyroid!) Here's the link!   2013 Healthy Holidays Gift Ideas from Chrisbeatcancer.com Happy Shopping on black Friday!

Mashed Potatoes with Rich Brown Gravy Maple roasted Brussels sprouts - recipe below Oat Burgers tweaked with poultry seasonings Salad: Romaine, spinach, avocado, tomato topped with Fustini's Black Currant Balsamic Our pie was so delicious that we had seconds!  Gluten free crust: ground flax seed, walnut meal, coconut oil and salt (unbaked, refrigerated) Lemon pie filling: recipe from the back of Ener G Egg Replacer Just like everyone else, we have leftovers - without the risk of food poisoning. When my husband started shooting pictures of our Thanksgiving meal for two, I started to feel panicked and ashamed.  I knew that he would post the pictures of our meal online for friends to see.  I was embarrassed and didn't want to think that anyone would judge us for what was on our plate.  It didn't have all the traditional colors or traditional foods that I grew up with and raised my kids to eat for a Thanksgiving feast.  Once I confessed my embarrassment, Adam wanted...

(Thank you, Marilyn, for the inspiration and creativity of this dish!) Ingredients About 3 lb cooking apples (ie. Spy, Ida Red, Cortland) - sliced, unpeeled 1 cup water 1 /4 c sugar or dry sweetener (sucanat or other natural sugar) Cinnamon (for liberal seasoning) 1 and 1/2 cup raisins 2 T lemon zest salt *walnuts or pecans optional Topping 3/4 cup ground flax seed 2 cups oatmeal, ground into flour (to be gluten free, use GF oats) 1/2 cup unrefined, virgin coconut oil 2/3 cup walnut meal or desired chopped nuts 1/4 cup maple syrup 1/8 tsp salt In a 9"x 13" glass baking pan, place enough sliced apples in bottom of pan to fill pan half full.  Add water.  Sprinkle with the raisins, sugar and add nuts if desired.  Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon, 2 T lemon zest and lightly salt the whole layer (less than a pinch of salt).  Fill the pan and slightly heap with more apple slices.  Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon, add nuts if desired and another light sprinkle of salt...

Oral use of Iodine can prevent cavities from early childhood. Iodine kills germs.  It has been used as a preparation for skin before surgery since medical doctors understood germs and how to prevent infection.  What I had never thought or heard before was that iodine could be an effective way to kill tooth-decay causing germs.   Dr. David Kennedy, DDS explains, in the following video, that fluoride is proven to be ineffective in preventing tooth decay.  Fluoride is toxic when ingested or when it comes in contact and absorbed by the skin.  However, iodine is non-toxic to humans.  In fact, iodine is an essential nutrient for the function of the thyroid .  The thyroid produces thyroid hormone upon which every cell of the body is dependent.  (The thyroid is incapable of producing hormone in the absence of iodine.  This will be another blog post.) Thus, iodine is an excellent, non-toxic, topical treatment for dental care. ...