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Fermented foods give very specific benefits that many people don’t know about. They reduce food to a state that is very cancer protective. They can even reduce a food, for some allergic people, to a form that no longer causes an allergic reaction. Learn benefits of fermented foods, and easy--tasty ways to make them part of your daily delicious diet.
I used to write for the San Francisco Chronicle, an entire page one day a month. I loved it. One day my editor, Michael Bauer, called me in and said he had two comments; 1) “Your most recent article was fabulous and, 2) You’re fired!” What happened? This was in the early 1980’s. I had just written an in-depth, well-cited study about the upcoming epidemic of diabetes. I wrote how sugar, and even the avalanche of hidden sugar, was putting us at risk of many other health problems including depression, anxiety, cognition and heart health. Sounds right on, yes? Turned out [...]
Fermenting food has been around since Neolithic times when there were no fridges. It’s a way of preserving food, that has many other health benefits besides preservation. The term fermentation comes from a Latin word meaning to “raise” or “bubble.” As the process of fermentation starts, are created and food is transformed into “power food.” In a sense we are all like starter cultures, bubbling our enthusiasm for life and health within our homes and communities. 8 Benefits of Fermented foods: More nutrients. When food is fermented, enhanced nutrition is generated, such as higher amounts of very bioavailable (more useable by [...]
Walnuts are a magically food. They contain ellagic acid. Ellagic acid promotes a healthy and diverse microbiome (good gut bugs). Ellagic acid also is gut wall protective. It promotes appropriate gut wall permeability. Thus, ellagic acid is an immune booster because most of our immune system lives inside the gut wall and performs its job descriptions by constant cross-talk with our gut bugs. Thus ellagic acid, and eating walnuts, helps treat food reactivities as well as many gut problems. It also helps to prevent them. But it’s especially cancer protective. Walnuts fight cancer. In animal models, walnuts, given as part of [...]
One egg per day was not linked to increased risk of poor heart health or stroke. This summary came from 8 articles with 17 reports looking at 3,081,269 person-years and 5,847 incident cases for coronary heart disease, and 4,148,095 person-years and 7,579 incident cases for stroke. Egg yokes are high in health fats that actually are good for making hormones and the skin surrounding all cells called membranes. British Medical Journal 2013 But certain individuals are atypically sensitive to saturated fats, or to the unique proteins found in eggs. So some of us are “sensitive” than others, to egg consumption. In gallbladder [...]
Anti-cancer, hormone balancing, gut rejuvenating dish Ingredients: Box of Hodgson Mill Angel Hair brown rice pasta with golden milled Flax Seed. (you can probably use any pasta but I love this dish with brown rice/flaxseed pasta). Flaxseeds. Flaxseeds boost the production of the final non-estrogenic metabolite of estrogen—2-MEO—that fights many cancers in both men and women, especially breast, prostate and colon. It helps prevent cancer and fight recurrence. Flaxseeds have the highest lignin content of any other food that helps flush excess toxins and hormones out of out intestinal tract as part of the cleansing part of healthy hormones. They are [...]
This research clearly demonstrates that modern fatness isn’t just a result of the ‘couch potato’ sedentary syndrome. This data shows the POWER OF FOOD as tools to keep our waistlines from getting the better of us! Okay, okay, everyone knows that obesity is an epidemic worming its nasty way into every culture around the globe. Public health circles (or squares) have mostly thought, understandably, that our rotundonous ways are because modern peoples have become gluttonous sloths assuming the shapes of their couches. Move over Forest Gump; sedentary is as sedentary does. Even the World Health Organization says that we are fat [...]
Living and Learning I lived and learned with Scott and Helen Nearing in Maine back in the 1970s; they were the highly educated “back-to-the-land” first organic gardening gurus. They were my first mentors. Scott had a PhD in economics, but he got fired and black-balled because he was the first person to speak out about child labor and demand protective laws. Industry got him thrown out of academia. So Scott went “back-to-the-land,” but in an impressive, educated manner. Scott and Helen initiated the organic food movement and environmental consciousness. People traveled from all over the world to see how they lived. [...]
I am finishing up my two new books so my mind was in the clouds. Was on the rowing machine and had on amazing tunes and was going a bit over the top. So I extended my knee too much. Got off the rowing machine and felt like a grapefruit was behind my knee in the posterior compartment (hyperextension injury, not too ominous if no symptoms along the side or front of the knew, whew!). I elevated, iced, did my nutraceutical anti-inflammatory magic, so then it reduced to the size of an orange but remained that way. Drat! Had it ultra-sounded [...]
The Power of Food The power of food. It’s huge. I remember back when a book came out called Food Is Your Best Medicine, and this concept gets more fortified daily. But it’s complex. I am sharing with you an article on black rice and how consuming it can make breast cancer cells less likely to kill you. In other words, black rice contains a compound that is proven to have anti-metastatic effects on breast cancer cells, even ones programmed to act aggressively. So if you had a history of breast cancer or currently are battling it, this is a [...]
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Medical Disclaimer: The information contained in this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Lindsey Berkson and the experts who have contributed to the field of research. You are encouraged to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional of your choosing.
