Oils

What oils to eat or not to eat and what to use for cooking as opposed to use for uncooked recipes can be confusing. Oils where villainized for many years. But the high carb low fat diet just made people fatter and impaired health. 

      

Good fats are necessary in our diets. They slow down the glycemic assimilation of foods. Butter, or olive oil on a piece of bread, in spite of the increased calories, causes less of a weight gain than a piece of bread with nothing on it. This is assuming a person can assimilate fats.    

      

Good fats are the building blocks of hormones. Hormones are the messengers for everything in our bodies. If our hormones aren't working it causes a wide range of health problems. 

These are my favorite oils and why.

Grape Seed Oil:  good for cooking, and baking, doesn't create free radicals when exposed to high heat.

Olive Oil: Don't use for high heat cooking. Use to drizzle over foods, for flavor, in salad dressings, for dipping bread on feast days. 

Coconut Oil: 

Is absorbed differently, and more easily by the body than other oils. Can be used for cooking at high temperatures, for stir fries, etc. Available in refined or unrefined. In this case refined does not destroy it's healthy properties, it just does away with the coconut flavor, for those that don't like coconut, or don't want coconut flavor in a particular recipe.    

                                                                                                Enjoy!  

                                                  

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Food Poisoning

Food Poisoning

      Indications of food poisoning, as opposed to stomach flu, can be violent vomiting, or diarrhea, with sudden onset. There are Chinese Herbal formulas, that are great for food poisoning. So, after eating, if things aren't sitting quite right, and there is any question of food poisoning, it is a good formula to take. Unfortunately, by the time many people realize there is a problem they are too sick to take anything. Thank goodness there are other solutions.

      Coconut Water, unsweetened and pure, is a treatment for food poisoning in many warm countries that grow coconuts. It is also a natural way to replace electrolytes, a major concern with vomiting, diarrhea or when people are too sick to drink water. It very quickly alleviates the headache, body aches, and nausea of dehydration. 

      Recharge is another product that helps replace electrolytes. It doesn't contain the chemicals, and difficult to digest sugars, that most sports drinks contain. 
     After a case of food poisoning it is advisable to take a Chinese herbal formula to kill the bacteria that causes food poisoning, and can lead to stomach ulcers.
      When traveling in third world countries, my husband and I bring our food poisoning herbs, along with those for parasites, and take them before meals, so we can eat where the locals do, with out getting ill.  
      Keeping a few Chinese herbal formulas on hand and knowing how to use them is a great way to enjoy your food and not pay for it later.

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                                                                       Nancy Burton, L.Ac.
                                                                                534 Washington St.  Ashland, OR  97520
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Deodorant

Mung Bean Pancakes

                                                         Mung Bean Pancakes

Mung Beans

Kim Chi or Sauerkraut 

Minced garlic, onion 

Grape Seed Oil

Water or Chicken Broth ( Imagine brand, low sodium )

Soak mung beans for two days, rinsing several times per day. 

Put mung beans in blender with enough water or broth for consistency of pancake batter.

Add spices and garlic and onion.

Cook like a pancake in grape seed oil.  

Serve with Kim Chi 

                                                                              Enjoy! 

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                                                            534 Washington St.  Ashland, OR  97520
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Mung Bean Soup

Mung Bean Soup

Mung Beans

Yellow Onion

Garlic Cloves

Tamari or Braggs

Brown Rice Vinegar

Sea Salt

Spices:   Curry, dried ginger, cumin, cardamon 

Chicken Broth     Imagine Brand Low Sodium

Rinse mung beans several times and soak over night.  Rinse again in morning.

Place in sauce pan with vegetable, or chicken broth,  

Add spices:  

curry (lots of curry), dried ginger, cumin, cardamon, sea salt 

Mince garlic and yellow onion. Sprinkle with sea salt and other spices listed above. 

          Sauté garlic and onion in frying pan.

Add Tamari, or Braggs Amino Acid to taste, and a splash of brown rice vinegar.

Cook until consistency of split pea soup. 

                                                                                    Enjoy! 

If You Love Them

If You Love Them

      A man who escaped from a communist country was ask what the consequences to his family would be.  " Death ! " was the reply. "Death for your entire family?"  "Yes,' he responded, "but the only family I had left was my wife."  "Then she will be killed?"  the man smiled slowly, "Yes....the perfect crime!"
      A fate worse than death is a long lingering illness, for an individual, for all their loved ones, and especially for the loved ones religateded to the role of care giver. A debilitating health problem, over a span of years causes incredible stress and often results in extended illness or early death for those left behind, after the patient is gone.   
      The best solution, is prevention in the first place. Eating a wide range of many colors, and textures of vegetables, and good clean protein, three times a day, determining the amount of complex carbohydrates (like grains, potatoes, sweet potatoes) depending on metabolism and physical activity levels, minimizing sugar, wheat, corn and dairy, staying away from processed and fast foods, eating organic, and exercising can make the difference between a long and healthy life and sentencing ones self, and loved ones, to a fate worse than death.  
So, if you aren't motivated to take care of yourself for yourself, do it for the ones you love.

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                                                                             Nancy Burton, L.Ac.
                                                                                      534 Washington St.  Ashland, OR  97520
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Allergies and Exercise

      A person can have the perfect diet, and be able to assimilate their food but if they don't exercise they are missing the third essential component to health. The four major drainage systems are the 

Crispy Kale

Crispy Kale

      A delicious and healthy snack, Kale chips are easy to make. Just spread a bunch of kale out on a baking dish, or cookie sheet and place in the oven. I like the curly, green type of kale. Bake at 200 degrees for about 45 minutes or until Kale is crispy. Some recipes call for olive oil and sea salt, but it tastes great just plain, and is an even healthier version. For those of us who like to cut back on complex carbs, this is a great way to get the crunch without the crackers or chips. Enjoy!

                                                               Health & Happiness, 
                                                                        Nancy Burton, L.Ac.
                                                                                534 Washington St.  Ashland, OR  97520
                                                                                                   For Appointments Call:    541-646-0134