Thanksgiving Day Gratitudes: Dr. Ritamarie’s Appreciation Journal Day 19

Today’s Appreciation Journal is especially important because today is the holiday of Thanksgiving in the US, where we focus our attention on giving thanks for all of our blessings.  Unfortunately, a big part of the celebration is focused on FOOD and the foods are mostly those that hurt rather than promote health.

My idea of a perfect Thanksgiving is one that includes lots of activities that put the emphasis where it should be…on giving thanks.  Part of giving thanks should be gratitude for your health and the abundance of foods nature provides to support and protect your health so you can enjoy yourself for many years to come.

If you’re looking to experience more energy, health and joy, join me on this appreciation journey and watch magical things unfold.

Comment below with 3 things you appreciate today, Thanksgiving Day 2011.

Dr. Ritamarie’s Appreciations for Today – Day 19

1. I appreciate my amazing family and the deep love we share:  Scott, my husband, Eric and Kevin my sons, my 8 brothers and sisters, countless cousins, aunts, uncles and of course my parents, who are no longer with us in the flesh, who gave us the gift of life, love, laughter and memories that live on forever.
2. Being part of Scott’s family, also very large, of sisters, brothers, cousins, parents, aunts and uncles.  We spent a joyful  day with 37 of them today, ages 14 months to 97 years.
3. I appreciate the abundant gifts of nature in all the green foods I got to eat today:  spinach, arugula, lettuces of many kinds, broccoli, green beans, kale, celery, cucumbers and avocados!  I have a post coming up with a few new recipes.

On this special day of Thanksgiving, as always, I do so love to read all your appreciations, so keep them coming.

With Great Love and Appreciation,

Dr. Ritamarie

Go ahead, give yourself an energy boost. Comment below about what you appreciate today.

Gluten Free Raw Foods Recipes to the Rescue: Healthy Habits Lead to Happy Hormones

Gluten free diets have been lauded for every thing from autism to eczema, asthma to ADD.  But have you ever considered that gluten may be wrecking your sex life?

Can such a tiny little protein as gluten, found in all your favorite breads, pastas, desserts and breakfast cereals really create havoc in so many parts of your body?

The research overwhelmingly says YES!By destroying your hormones and the glands that produce them, gluten leaves no body part unscathed, even if your symptoms are confined to a few select areas.  The problem is, much of the damage caused by gluten is silent, until you reach a critical threshold, them fall apart.

Magic Moments Candies

This is especially true of gluten induced osteoporosis.I’ve seen it happen over and over again.So what’s the solution?  Is there a magic drug or herb or procedure you can do to cure the damage gluten creates in your body?

The good news is, the answer doesn’t require any drugs, radiation or special surgical procedure,it’s not dependent on hormone replacement or herbal remedies.

It’s not something that acupuncture or chiropractic can cure either, although both can be helpful in repairing the damage.

In fact the solution is absolutely free.

The answer is at the tip of your fork, your most powerful healing tool.

Drum roll please.

The solution is to stop eating gluten, which means no more bread, pie, cookies, crackers, bagels, croissants, breakfast cereal….

YIKES.   So, what’s left to eat?

Asian Salad on a Bed of Sprouted Lentils

Enter the wonderful world of raw foods.

You think all that processed CR_P is good, what until you taste the real thing.

And no, I don’t mean connect to the awesomeness of a carrot and make love with romaine lettuce – although eating food straight from nature is in fact the ideal.

What I mean is the magic that happens when someone who really had a knack for flavors and textures and bringing out the delicate essence of fresh whole food turns the ordinary into the extraordinaire.

Take for example the photos sprinkled throughout this article.  They are the foods we make in Eating for Hormone Balance.  Let’s face it! your hormones need and want lots of produce…cruciferous vegetables, sea vegetables, sprouts, high quality fats,   They’re thrown off by white flour, white sugar, processed fats, preservatives and hormones in your foods.

Happy Hormone Collard Wraps

We’ve figured out how to take the best of science in terms of hormone research and blend it with the best foods and herbs that nature has to offer.

By using all whole, raw and living foods, completely gluten and dairy free, we create masterful hormone boosting and balancing dishes that taste great.

We leave out all the top 5 allergens, so people with food allergies have a safe haven for clean food.

Here’s what we’re making

There’s still time to register for Eating for Hormone Balance.

Attend in person and get to eat the foods or attend online and get to watch real-time and get your questions answered.  In either case you get a video after class…fully indexed by recipe plus a recipe guide, all digital documents!

Learning to make delicious foods that nourish and protect is worth the investment at any price.

Register for Eating For Hormone Balance Live class or Web cast and get videos FREE

Dr. Lindsey Berkson, author of Safe Hormone, Smart Women  and 14 other books on hormones and health, believes that nutrition is the first line of defense in keeping your hormones safe and balanced.  Watch as she makes a hormone balancing green drink.

Creamy and Filling Green Drink with Dr. Lindsey Berkson

Learn a full range of delicious hormone balancing recipes from Dr. Ritamarie and Team

Eating for Hormone Balance

Chipolte Orange Mango Kale Chips

Vitamin C and Cancer

Your Inner Healer Knows How to Keep You Well and sometimes it just needs a little help!

Whether you’re struggling with cancer, heart disease, autoimmune challenges or even the common cold, your inner healer has the ability to come through for you.  You were born with an amazing ability to heal as long as you live your life in such a way as to allow your innate wisdom to shine through.

Unfortunately, your life choices up until now determine how well your healing wisdom is allowed to shine through.  Sometimes, as in the case of cancer, there has been so much inner damage happening for so long, that your inner healer forgets how to get you well again.

Under these conditions, we need to supply things that flood your immune system with what it needs to be strong.

Food is an important part of the equation, especially things like broccoli sprouts, green leafy vegetables and wheat grass.  What I discovered through personal experience is that hospitals are not equipped to provide this sort of nourishment, so if you end up in the hospital due to cancer, you need to bring your own food, and ask them for nutrition in a different format, one they more easily relate to…IV.

There is lots of evidence to support the use of IV vitamin C for treating patients with cancer.

I’ve included some references at the bottom.

Also included below is contact information for an amazing “green” oncologist.

His name is Dr. Thomas Lodi is he’s an oncologist in Tempe Arizona.  He’s been extremely successful at helping his patients recover from cancer; often times end stages of cancer using a combination of conventional and alternative modalities.  Nutrition is at the forefront of his approach, including green juices.

You can reach Dr. Lodi at

480-834-5414

The center is called An Oasis of Healing and is located at

210 N. Center Street
Suite #102
Mesa, AZ 85201

Dr. Lodi uses a combination of healing the heart, drinking green juices, IV nutrients and a low dose form of chemo therapy to help people who’d been given up to die soon.  The results are impressive.

Vitamin C IV-Therapy includes numerous vitamins minerals and that help support your immune system, fight infection, reduce inflammation and improve fatigue. High dose Vitamin C reports positive outcomes ranging from improved energy quality of life to actual tumor death.

Unlike most mammals and other animals, we humans do can’t make our own vitamin C and we must obtain it through our diet.

We use Vitamin C for the synthesis of collagen, an important component of blood vessels, tendons, ligaments, and bone. Vitamin C is also important for neurotransmitters, and thus effects mood, and for the transport of fat into mitochondria, where it’s converted to energy.

Vitamin C is also a very important and can protect proteins, lipids (fats), carbohydrates, and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) from damage by free radicals and reactive oxygen species.  Intravenous vitamin C allows tissue levels to reach many times above oral dosing, forming hydrogen peroxide which kills cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed.

There is a significant data bank of research on the use of IV Vitamin C in patients with cancer

A more complete list will be published on my blog in a few days.

In the meantime, I need to head out for a funeral for someone who I deeply desired to save using some of these protocols.

Please save these in case you’re called upon to help a family member or friend.  Dr. Lodi is an awesome resource.  His team spent time with me on the phone as I researched this topic and I felt very drawn to the deep caring and depth f knowledge of everyone I spoke to there.

Here are a few references to get you started.

1. Cameron E, Pauling L, Leibovitz B. Ascorbic acid and cancer: a review. Cancer Research.

1979; 39: 663-681.

2. McCormick, WJ. Ascorbic acid as a chemotherapeutic agent. Archives of Pediatrics of New

York. 1952; 69:151-155.

3. Padayatty SJ, Katz A, Wang Y, et al. Vitamin C as an antioxidant: Evaluation of its role in

disease prevention. J Am Coll Nutr. 2003; 22:18-35.

4. Tamayo C, Richardson MA. Vitamin C as a cancer treatment: state of science and

recommendations for research. Altern Ther Health Med. 2003; 9(3): 41-141.

5. Murata A, Morishige F, Yamagushi H. Prolongation of survival time of terminal cancer patients

by administration of large doses of ascorbate. Int J Vitam Nutr Res Suppl. 1982; 23:103-113.

6. Jackson JA, Riordan HD, Hunninghake RE, Riordan NH. High dose intravenous vitamin C and

long time survival of a patient with cancer of the head of the pancreas. J Ortho Med. 1995; 10:

87-88.

7. Riordan HD, Jackson JA, Schultz M. Case study: high-dose intravenous vitamin C in the treatment

of a patient with adenocarcinoma of the kidney. J Ortho Med. 1990; 5: 5-7.

8. Riordan HD, Jackson JA, Riordan NH, Schultz M. High-dose intravenous vitamin C in the treatment

of renal cell carcinoma of the kidney. J Ortho Med. 1998; 13: 72-73.

9. Gonzalez MJ, Miranda-Massari JR, Mora EM, Riordan NH, Casciari JJ, Jackson JA, Roman-

Franco A. Orthomolecular oncology review: ascorbic acid and cancer 25-years later. Interg

Cancer Ther. 2005; 4(1): 32-44.

10. Bodansky O, Wroblewski F, Markardi B. Concentrations of ascorbic acid and white blood cells

of patients with cancer and noncancerous chronic disease. Cancer. 1952; 5 (July): 678-684.

Deceptive Advertising in Children’s Snack Foods

Knowing what to feed hungry kids that’s satisfying and nutritious is a dilemma faced by many parents.

While there’s lots of really good information on the web and in the bookstores, there’s also lots of misinformation that’s confusing and downright dangerous.  And just because someone has initials after their name, like MD or RD or CCN or PhD I does not mean you can blindly trust their information.

In preparing for my next blog post “Healthy Snacks for Hungry Kids” I decided to see who else is writing about the topic and how what they are saying fits into my world view.

I was shocked by what I found.  One nutritionist is promoting a product called Bagel Bites®.  There were many links throughout her site for these, and everything I could find (advertising) touted them as healthy wholesome whole grain pizza snacks foods for kids.

This particular nutritionist referenced Bagel Bites® in one of her tips for healthy snacking called “Don’t Forget the Whole Grains.”  In essence she said that kids don’t eat enough whole grains and we should look for ways to incorporate whole grain with each snack so they reach the target of 3 whole grain servings per day.   She goes on to say that one serving of Bagel Bites® provides 1/2 serving of whole grains.  To reach the target she suggests of 3 servings of whole grains, you’d need to eat 6 of these.

It took a lot of digging and I was finally able to locate the ingredients.

Turns out that each serving contains 190 Calories, 45 %  of the recommended Daily Value for Fat, 2.5g of saturated fat and  370mg Sodium.

So let’s take a look at what’s inside these “so-called” healthy snacks, Bagel Bites®.

Bleached Wheat Flour, Water, Mozzarella Cheese (Milk, Cultures, Salt, Enzymes)Tomato Puree (Tomato Paste, Water)Pepperoni (Pork and Beef, Seasonings [Salt, Spices, Dextrose, Oleoresin of Paprika, Flavoring, BHA, BHT, Citric Acid]Water, Cure [Salt, Sodium Nitrite]Lactic Acid Starter Culture)Green Bell Peppers, Red Bell Peppers, contains 2% or less of the Following: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Romano Cheese (Cow’s Milk, Cheese Cultures, Sat, Enzymes)Soybean Oil, Parmesan Cheese (Part Skim Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes)Yeast, Modified Corn Starch, Nonfat Milk, Methylcellulose, Citric Acid, Oregano, Garlic Powder, Spice, Natural Flavor, Dough Conditioner (Ascorbic Acid)Enzymes.

Am I missing something?  I don’t even see the whole grain at all!  Bleached wheat flour is NOT a whole grain.

Even if Bagel Bites® do contain ½ serving of whole grain, as our nutritionist suggests, they are still a poor way to get whole grain servings, in contrast to ½ grain serving of quinoa or brown rice which is about ¼ cup cooked and contains  about 55 calories, no fat and only 3 grams of sodium.

Bagel Bites® are a prescription for disaster for anyone who’s gluten or dairy intolerant and contains pepperoni, a processed meat from factory farmed animals.

The concept is great.  Kids love pizza so why not give them a snack of pizza bites. And in all honesty, these are much better than many other commercially available snacks for kids, but I believe you can do much better.

In our class Kids in the Kitchen , we teach how to make similar snacks in a jiffy, from whole organic fresh foods.  There are several possibilities for a quick wholesome crust,  including, in order of “wholeness”,  jicama slices, polenta slices,  flax crackers, rice cakes, brown rice crackers, and gluten free whole grain English muffins.  There are even commercially available gluten free pizza crusts.  Our family favorite is one we get at whole foods that contains nothing but whole brown rice and potatoes.

For cheese the best choice is a home made  dairy free nut or seed cheese.  We offer several quick and easy recipes in the Kids in the Kitchen class  and more sophisticated fermented versions in our Dairy Free Raw Cheese Class.  For sauce, the quickest is a jar of organic tomato sauce and the most wholesome is a raw marinara, made in minutes in your food processor.

Here’s a review I wrote on the site that had the Bagel Bites® ingredients:

http://www.drritamarie.com/go/bagelbites

Here’s a copy of what I below, just  in case they took it down!

“This is a prime example of a product that claims to be a healthy snack and is NOT.

The first ingredient is bleached wheat flour. This is white flour in disguise. Not good for anyone even if they are not gluten sensitive. They claim to contain whole grains. I don’t see any listed.

This product is just another attempt at clever marketing designed to steer unsuspecting and trusting parents to continue the devastation of feeding junk to kids and expecting them to be healthy.

There is nothing healthy about pasteurized hormone laden cheese, pepperoni, white flour, soybean oil, BHA and BHT, and high fructose corn syrup.

As a doctor who sees the effects of nutrition, good and bad, on kid’s health, I am appalled that such a product can be called a healthy snack for kids.

I teach my parents and children to make pizza using a base like jicama, rice cake or flax cracker topped with organic jarred tomato sauce or fresh from whole ripe tomatoes. The “cheese” we top it off with is made from organic raw nuts, bursting with high quality fats, protein and minerals. We teach them to discriminate truly health enhancing food from deceptive advertising.

At www.drritamarie.com/go/kids we teach kids to make their own healthy choices and give them the tools and recipes to make delicious nutritious easy to make foods.”

If you’re disgusted with all the misinformation and would like to teach your kids to make healthy choices, join us for the Kids in the Kitchen class .

We’ve set it up so if you join us in person, your kids will get to make their own food, with your assistance if need be.

Online, we set it up so that you can purchase the ingredients in advance (you’ll get a shopping list as soon as you register) so your kids can make the food during the class or afterward.

This is the 4^th time I’ve done a class like this over the past 5 years and it’s always been a big hit.

So whether you have kids or grandkids, nieces and nephews or family friends,  It pays to learn to feed them right and to empower them to make the best possible choices.

If you can’t make the class live,  if you sign-up now you’ll get the videos at the pre-event investment of just $19.95 and can watch at your own pace.  In fact, you can create some summer  activities days by planning a recipe making session.  Make a full learning experience out of it, and even ask your child to invite a friend.  You can take them shopping, then watch the lesson together and then head to the kitchen to make food.  You can replay as often as needed for them to get what to do!

Creating Healthy Kids is your responsibility as a parent and what you feed them and the choices they make for themselves are critical to their success.

For additional resources related to kids’ health, we’ve posted three radio show recordings on the Dr. Ritamarie Radio Blog.

Kids Health Month Radio Shows

Creating Healthy Children with author Karen Ranzi

Join Dr. Ritamarie and Karen for a lively and informative discussion on the importance of food on children’s health and hear about her son’s miraculous recovery from lifelong asthma within weeks of adopting a raw food diet.

Put Your Kids In Charge of Their Meals

It can be a challenge as a parent to make sure your kids eat wholesome and nutritious food. In this show, Dr. Ritamarie discusses how to  empower kids with information about the effects of food on their body and shares fun ways to teach them to make delicious meals and help them to make wise choices.

How Gluten Effects Kids Behavior, Focus and Concentration

Teachers report lack of focus in classrooms. Parents notice hyperactivity, mood swings, depression, and many other emotional behaviors. What is happening that is causing such issues in our kids? The answer may be a simple ingredient present in just about every meal…gluten!

Reversing Dyslexia with author Dr. Phyllis Books

If your child has been diagnosed with dyslexia, take heart.  A dyslexic diagnosis is not barrier to success.  Join Dr. Ritamarie and guest, Dr. Phyllis Books, author of “Reversing dyslexia: improving learning and behavior without drugs”  and find out what you can do to help your child reverse their dyslexia

With Love and Gratitude,

Dr. Ritamarie

David Wolfe, international Raw Food Celebrity, to Speak in Austin Texas

It’s highly likely that you are familiar with David Wolfe….he has made a name for himself in the health seekers circles, especially amongst those interested in raw foods.

If you’ve never heard him speak, you’re in for a treat.  While some of what he teaches is a bit controversial, you will be entertained and educated by his charismatic and lively style.

I suggest you check it out if you’re not already signed up.  If you belong to my meetup group, you’ve already received several reminders.

I’ll be there with my Raw Food University team and would love to meet you!

Here are the details, straight from his brochure:

Register: http://www.davidwolfesanmarcostx.com/

David Wolfe presents information that is immediately applicable by, and useful for, beginners, body workers, nutrition students, medical doctors, naturopathic doctors, yogis & yoginis, mothers & fathers seeking health information for themselves and their children, longevity seekers, those suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions, as well as those who are simply looking for an enjoyable and educational day of entertainment!

1. Conquer candida, lower inflammation, restore bone health, create healthy joints, lose weight, and reverse aging with raw-living foods, superfoods, superherbs, and new healing technology!
2. Superherbs simplified
3. Immune System rejuvenation
4. Rebuilding core Adrenal, Kidney, and Reproductive energy (Jing energy)
5. The Healing Power of Raw and Living Foods
6. The Longevity NOW Program
7. Hormone Health: How To Get Bad Estrogen Out of Your Body, Have Better Sex, Fight Cancer, Live Longer, and Healthier
8. Questions & Answers with David Wolfe

Get your tickets at: http://www.davidwolfesanmarcostx.com/

If you come, please stop by our table and say him  We’re having a raffle and some giveaways!

Love, Health and Joy,

Dr. Ritamarie

By the way, it’s on Saturday, June 18 11AM – 5PM.  Doors open at 9 if you’d like to come and mingle.  David will have a table set up with all his interesting health gadgets and superfoods.  It promises to be lots of fun!

Get your tickets at: http://www.davidwolfesanmarcostx.com/

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