Your Home For Integrative Medicine
The Franz Center is a pediatric practice seeing children from birth to 21 yrs of age. Founded by Dr. Franz in 1997, we combine the best of integrative and traditional medicine for children.
S. Cornelia Franz, MD, DNBHE Author of
Common Sense Pediatrics For more information visit
www.franzcenter.com •
www.drcorneliafranz.com www.commonsensepediatrics.org
3160 Southgate Commerce Blvd. • #64 • Orlando, FL 32806 407-857-8860 • Fax: 407-857-7099
The Franz Center 18 Central Florida natural awakenings
picked green and then gassed. This gas causes them to ripen just in time for delivery to the grocery store, so every week when you go shopping the produce is always ready to eat. Fruits have optimum nutrient level, especially naturally- occurring potassium, sodium, vitamin C and other nutrients when they ripen completely on the tree. Picking fruits from a local farm ensures they are in season and have been fully ripened. Last spring I visited Blue Bayou Farm and picked organic blueberries several times. I learned what four different varieties of blueberries taste like and decided I like them all! Pick locally-grown fruits in season and preserve them by freezing or canning for use throughout the year. This will provide you with the absolute best-tasting fruit that was picked at the peak of ripeness, loaded with good nutrition and will cultivate your relationship with the food you are eating. See the Simple Living Institute’s Local Food Guide for a complete listing of U-Pick and other local farms in Central Florida. Strawberries, grapefruit, oranges, lemons, limes, pomelos and kumquats are in season this month. Eating perfectly ripened fresh vegetables and fruits is the best way to get your vitamins and minerals. Many patients ask me what multi-vitamin I recommend. My answer is: fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat a rainbow of colors each day; try some different foods and learn how to prepare them. Now imagine your next meal: there is a plate of vibrant,
fresh vegetables in front of you that you’ve just picked from your little garden right outside your back door. You bite into a cucumber and it is so fresh and crisp that it crunches as the fl avor reaches your taste buds. You don’t have to worry if it has been coated with car wax (as many vegetables are), you don’t need to feel guilty because of the plastic shrink wrap polluting the planet—and you don’t need to be concerned about how many miles that cucumber had to travel to get to your dinner plate. No, this cucumber came from your garden – the most sustainable place to get nutrition. This cucumber came from a place that provides something good for your body and for our Earth. It is our individual responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth. Make your next meal a fresh, healthy and locally-grown one and exemplify what it really means to go green.
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