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Nourish Your Children With Real Foods

Good nutrition is essential for children to have proper brain development and growth.  It also promotes good sleeping and good behavior.  The best way to make sure your kids are getting good nutrition is to feed them real foods, not processed foods. Goldfish crackers, Cheerios, soy milk: these are not real foods!

Let's Take a Look at Some Processed Foods
Grocery stores are filled with processed foods. For example, let's look at Goldfish crackers and Cheerios.  These are very popular foods that seem relatively benign as they're not very sweet.

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I happen to have a lot of red peppers so I am roasting them and found a wonderful recipe I will make with them:

White Bean, Roasted Red Pepper, and Arugula Salad

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3 red bell peppers
1 clove garlic, crushed
zest of 1 lemon
4 tbsp coarsley chopped flat-leaf parsley
14 oz can white beans
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 small bunch arugula

Roast the red bell peppers by broiling or grilling until the skins are blackened, then place in a bowl covered with plastic wrap. When cool, peel the skin off, remove the seeds and membrane, and cut into strips.
Combine the garlic, lemon zest, and parsley, and set aside.
Add half the garlic/parsley mix to the white beans, and add half the lemon juice and olive oil. Add salt and pepper to taste. Place the arugula on a large plate and toss with the remaining lemon juice and olive oil.
Scatter the beans over the leaves, then lay the pepper strips on top, along with the remaining garlic/parsley mix. Season with salt and pepper.

4 side servings, or 2 as a light main course

High Enzyme Diet

The benefits of eating raw food

Would you like  to achieve optimal health? The best way to do
that  is to eat a high enzyme diet consisting of raw fruits
and vegetables, sprouted seeds, nuts, grains and some
seaweed.

-Eating predominantly cooked food puts a tremendous
strain on your body. To understand why this is true, you
need to  understand the role enzymes play. Enzymes are in
the cells of  every living plant and animal. It is enzyme
activity that  accomplishes all biological work from blinking
an eye, to  lifting a finger, to having a thought.


When you eat, you need enzymes to help digest the food. If the
food you eat is raw-whether it is a rutabaga, a carrot,
a lettuce leaf or a banana-all the enzymes you need are right
there in the food itself, ready to go to work for you.



If the food is cooked beyond 118 F (48 C), however, these
naturally occurring enzymes are killed by heat, and your
body must manufacture its own digestive enzymes to do the job.



Is this a problem? Raw fooders believe it is. The father of
the food enzyme concept, Dr. Edward Howell, explained that
when your body is busy digesting food, it is unable to divert
the necessary energy to make the type of enzymes needed to do
other tasks. There is a tug-of-war between the demands of your
digestive system for a constant supply of digestive enzymes and
the needs of your body for the metabolic enzymes vital for
cleansing, healing, and building. Without an adequate supply
of metabolic enzymes, over time, you suffer.


What does this suffering look like?:


· Disease
· Indigestion
· Constipation
· Age spots
· Fatigue
· Lethargy
· Wrinkles
· Bad skin
· Declining eyesight
· Poor memory
· Mood swings
· Irritability
· Allergies
· Brain fog
· Candida
· Hypoglycemia
· Tumors and Cysts
· Irritable Bowel Syndrome
· Sinusitis
· Fibromyalgia
· Depression


This decline in health is usually attributed solely to 'aging'.
But it is really the result of two facts: Over time, your
body loses its ability to manufacture enzymes (young adults
have thirty times the enzymes of the elderly); and, when
you eat food that is cooked, it forces your body to
manufacture enzymes for digestion, instead of enzymes
that could be used for healing. Ultimately, when you don't
have enough enzymes to carry the basic needs of life, you die.

Fruit Cereal

Cereal: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi , chopped peaches or any fruit on hand...

Milk: blend a banana and enough water to make banana milk (I like mine thick, the consistency of a runny yogurt)

Pour milk onto cereal and enjoy

Raw "Chkin" Style Sandwich Salad

1 c. sunflower seeds (soaked 3 hrs)

1 c. cashews (soaked 3 hrs)

1/2 c. ground pecans

4 inch piece of cucumber

4 scallions, bulbs and greens, thinly sliced

1 celery stick

1 carrot, chopped small or grated

1 lemon's juice

2 tsp dill

2 tsp salt (or to taste)

black pepper (to taste)

Pulse all together until a fine texture is achieved. Serve on your favorite raw bread, or spread on a lettuce leaf.

Enjoy!