Health & Wellness
SPECIAL SECTION Februar y 2010 - page 34
Mind
The Healthy Pantry
can be confusing at first and that’s why
to pour over a piece of cooked meat.
a bit of self educating through books
Try beginning each dinner with not
and classes is very helpful. We are
just a good salad, but a raw soup.
only beginning to find out some of the
The nutrients and enzymes you get
grave affects our modern processes are
from raw food is extremely impor-
having on our health. There are actual-
tant, yet can be difficult to incorpo-
ly studies that are years old with results
rate into your meals simply because
that haven’t made it to our mainstream
we’re so programmed to ‘cook’! Be-
media, primarily because of the huge
ing more mindful of the importance
gap between science, doctors and
of what you put in your body makes
mass media. Many studies that could
it much easier to adapt a ‘semi-raw’
have helped stop the ignorant use of
and ‘whole food’ lifestyle. Don’t
‘food’ items and the replacement of
be afraid to try something different!
Body
much more healthful ingredients have
You have the power to make other
literally been squelched, covered up or
choices! Learn to take a recipe and
discredited by companies whose prof-
replace 1, 2 or 3 ingredients with
its are at stake. The more we educate
what you know to be more healthful.
ourselves the less duped we can be.
For instance, the Peanut Butter Cook-
By Anna Lee
Another helpful tip: I encourage
ie recipe I gave you last month could
Hello again! Last month we talk-
you to get creative with your food prep
be made with honey and a little
ed about the importance of keeping
skills. We’ve become very dependent
almond flour to replace the evapo-
wholesome food choices as staples
upon quick and packaged food and
rated cane juice (less processed, but
in your pantry to help make it easier
somehow think we’re cooking because
still sugar). This makes an equally
to prepare more nourishing meals for
we boiled the macaroni that came in
delicious cookie!
you and your family. If you’ll just think
the box. And mixing Campbell’s soup
You can do it, find that confi-
of eating as nature meant us to eat,
up to make a sauce doesn’t count ei-
dence and have fun! Please try to
you’ll find that much of it is just good
ther! You may even have to depro-
use organic and free range ingre-
old fashioned common sense. Howev-
gram yourself from always cooking
dients whenever possible because
er, beyond that comes making choices
everything like your mom did or how
they contain many more of the nutri-
for items like the best sweeteners to
you learned in that fancy chef school
ents meant for our bodies. Use cold-
use, the healthiest grains, whether it’s
or (goodness!) from watching Paula
important to use local produce, etc. It
Deane! Think about making raw sauces Continued on Page 35
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