A potato dish can be made with sweet or purple potatoes in place of white potatoes. Use a high quality, organic butter, or use organic ghee or coconut oil as the healthy fat for mashed potatoes or when baking fries. Sweet potatoes are delicious and high in fiber and beta-carotene.
For a healthy stuffing, try making one with organic sprouted rice or even wild rice. Then, bake your stuffing in a separate dish instead of cooking it inside the turkey (where it can absorb a high amount of saturated fat from the meat). Also, use vegetable broth in place of chicken broth. Doing both of these things allow the vegetarian or vegan diners to be able to enjoy that dish as well.

When making cornbread stuffing, purchase the non-GMO, organic cornmeal (which is free of the Bt toxin). This can be a great option for those guests who need to eat gluten-free. If you are feeling brave, try using blue cornmeal, which is about 30 percent higher in protein and has more zinc and iron than white or yellow corn.

Many people are now needing to eat gluten-free. Rice and corn are gluten-free, so creating a stuffing using one of these ingredients will be a wonderful option for your gluten intolerant guests.

When preparing creature (beef, lamb, pork, fowl, fish) foods, try buying humanely-raised, 100% grass fed, hormone-free, antibiotic -free, creature foods. When preparing these foods, you might try using a little orange juice and coconut oil to add moisture, and try baking it instead of frying it. If you are baking, frying or sautéing anything, use organic, pure coconut oil in place of:
non-organic lard, Crisco (which is a trans-fat), vegetable oils (which can contain GMO: corn, soy, canola, and cotton seed oil, which are toxic oils in my opinion). Pure coconut oil handles heat well and has fantastic health benefits.

You can also grill, broil, or sauté them in a little coconut oil. 
After you remove them from the heat, you can drizzle some pure, organic, extra-virgin olive oil on them and possibly top it with some lemon or lime juice, or a lemon or lime juice vinaigrette. When dining, choose skinless, white meat pieces, and then add just a tiny bit of gravy.

Now for dessert, try making a pumpkin pie! You can make a whole sprouted grain crust yourself or you can find a whole-grain ready-made crust at the store, and make my cashew crème recipe as the whipped cream for the topping. (Recipe is on page 185 in my book: “How To Be A Healthy Vegetarian”, 2nd edition.)

They now have a coconut milk whipped creme in the freezer section of most grocery stores.

I also love having a simple pitted date as a sweet treat or dessert. It’s just fruit, and it is a healthier choice.

There are delicious pre-made, frozen gluten-free, whole wheat, and organic pie crusts in many grocery store freezer sections. Wholly Wholesome is one brand. For the gluten-free family and friends, most grocery stores now have gluten-free sections in the store and also in the freezer section. You may be surprised to find a variety of delicious healthy choices there.

You can create healthier versions of traditional family recipes
 by simply buying organic and/or humanely-raised, hormone-free, antibiotic-free ingredients.

Some foods you can switch out in your recipes are:
1. Use pure coconut oil or organic 100% grass-fed butter, or pure, extra virgin olive oil, instead of Crisco or vegetables oils
2. Use whole grain sprouted flour instead of white refined flour
3. Use organic date or coconut sugar instead of white refined sugar
4. Use honey or maple syrup in place of high fructose corn syrup or agave syrup.
5. Use organic sprouted breads, crackers, or chips instead of white refined varieties

Read the ingredient labels because a lot of gluten-free foods are loaded with sugar and/or have GMO oils in them, like canola oil.

There are new FDA label regulations. Now the labels will read: “Contains a bioengineered food ingredient”. These warnings on labels will tell you they contain Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) in the product. I highly recommend avoiding the purchase of anything which “Contains a bio-engineered food ingredient” 
on the label.

Try using an organic non-dairy milk in your recipes or for your coffee creamer. If you want it to be sweeter, blend the organic milk (like the unsweetened, vanilla coconut or hemp milk) with a little extra added vanilla or maple extract in a blender and add some pitted dates. I soak the dates in water to make them softer, so they will crème up easier, and voilà … you have a healthier version of a sweet, holiday creamer for your coffee or desserts!
When making or serving snacks, try an easy dip option such as 
a healthy high-protein hummus or nutritious guacamole. 
Cutting some cucumber, red bell pepper, carrots, or celery 
to use as dipping chips is also a great choice! If you want
to serve crackers or chips, try using a whole grain, sprouted, organic version or an organic sweet potato chip or cracker. 
(Late July is a good brand for chips and 
Mary’s Gone Cracker’s is my favorite cracker these days.)

For additional snacks that are easy for travel or on the go, 
try combinations of organic, sprouted nuts, sprouted seeds, 
pitted olives, pitted dates, raisins, dry fruits, kale chips, 
and coconut chips.

You can create a candy cane appetizer by simply arranging sliced tomatoes and mozzarella cheese alternately in the shape of a candy cane on the dish, and it’s a healthy and beautiful holiday presentation.

The cute little Santa desserts (in the photo above) are grapes 
with strawberries and slices of banana. Santa’s nose is a 
candy “red hot”, and his eyes are chocolate sprinkles. 
You use small marshmallows for the top of the Santa hat. 
There are a few marshmallow slices (which aren’t the 
healthiest of foods, but there are some healthier versions, 
if you look for them), but it is all about balance and making 
foods more nutrient dense. They are easy and fun to create! 
I taught a cooking class on making healthier holiday foods 
and we made a party of it!

Grown-ups and Children love making these! I like to use the larger wooden shish kebab skewers with a small fork on the tip to hold them, because they are more stable and longer. Be careful to help smaller children with eating them, if you are using skewers of any type.

Here are some easy substitutions I use frequently:

1. Unsweetened yogurt or cottage cheese in place of sour cream
2. Hummus or mashed avocado instead of mayonnaise for sandwiches
3. Unsweetened vanilla coconut or hemp milk in place of pasteurized dairy

With these ingredient substitutions, you can still enjoy all of the delicious flavors you love, and at the same time, you can increase your health benefits.

Eating this way, you can feel and look your very best as holiday activities continue into January. Instead of regretting what you ate, you will glow with radiant health as you welcome the New Year of 2024!

I send wishes for you, your family, and your friends to have a

Blessed, Joyful, Loving, and Healthy December!

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I’m sharing this easy Italian recipes from my book, “Diabetes And Your Diet, Winner for Best Health book of the year (2017-2018), in the International Book Awards.

It’s always a great time to have a cool, refreshing meal made with fresh, organic garden veggies!

Gazpacho

Ingredients

3 large tomatoes (diced)
1 red, yellow, or orange bell pepper (seeded & diced)
1⁄2 cucumber (diced)
1⁄4 cup raw cold-pressed flax or hemp oil
2 cloves garlic (minced)
3 sundried tomatoes (soaked in pure water until soft)
2 drops of plain liquid stevia (optional)
Pinch of black pepper
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Pinch of turmeric
Unrefined sea salt to taste

Directions

1. Blend all ingredients in a blender until creamy.
2. Serve at room temperature or slightly chilled.

Environmentally minded? You may like these stats:

If everyone went vegetarian for just one day, the U.S. would save:

â—100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;

â—1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;

â—70 million gallons of gas — enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;

â—3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;

â—33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

â- Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;

â— 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;

â—4.5 million tons of animal excrement;

â— Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads. See how easy it is to make an impact?

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The mineral chromium helps transport glucose from the blood to the muscles. The pancreas cannot make insulin without this vital mineral, which is probably missing from most people’s diets today. It could be one of the most important missing links to having a healthy pancreas.

This would be a critical component for a person with type 1 or 2 diabetes, who wishes to be healthier.

According to the National Institutes of Health, “Chromium is known to enhance the action of insulin, a hormone critical to the metabolism and storage of carbohydrates, fat, and protein in the body.” (1)

People who eat non-organic foods have a greater likelihood of being deficient in this important trace mineral.

The chemical fertilizers used in industrial farming destroy chromium that would naturally be in the soil. All GMO foods are grown with these chemical fertilizers. The USDA says that about 90% of the food on the market today in the US,  is grown this way, which is why I think this important mineral is missing from most people’s diet today. This is one  of many reasons fresh, certified organic, non-GMO food is always the best choice at the grocery store.

Chromium is also a critical nutrient to help with mood and depression. If you are feeling down and depressed, you could possibly low in this nutrient.

Chromium  supplements should have GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor) on the label. It should say, “Chromium GTF”. Avoid synthetic supplements that don’t list whole, organic foods as the ingredients.

I have used this one, here is the link.

There is a liquid vitamin that is offered with chromium in it. I like it because it’s easy and vitamins all work in harmony and this is an easy, once a day way to get a mutlitiude of vitamins including the chromium in an absorbable form. This liquid vitamin has the chromium in the chromium polynicotinate version, which is made up of chromium and niacin. The niacin helps chromium absorption. Here is the link for a  multivitamin I also use that is in liquid form.

 Source:

To find my book:  Diabetes And Your Diet.

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The food we eat and the physical environment we live in causes us to accumulate toxins, which limits our physical stamina and impairs our immune system. If we are clogged up and holding toxins in our bodies, we can’t absorb nutrients properly and digestion is hindered.

This might lead to constipation, bloating, gas, headaches, bad breath, allergy symptoms, PMS, depression, frequent infections, dull skin, thinning hair, and weight gain. These are all good reasons to detoxify and cleanse ourselves!

There are a few different ways to do this, and one of the best ways is to add more fiber to our diets. The average American diet contains about 10 grams of fiber a day, but in reality, we need to consume about 25 to 35 grams a day. Why is this? Because fiber absorbs toxins and helps move them through and out of our bodies, cleaning us out.

Fifty percent of our immune system is located in and around our digestive system, especially the large intestines. Cleansing these is the first step to obtaining and maintaining good health. In addition, fiber helps our bodies sustain a healthy intestinal flora.

Once your body is cleansed, it can utilize nutrients much more efficiently, thus reducing your cravings for sweets and fatty foods. Furthermore, fiber helps lower blood sugar, which helps manage diabetes, and is linked to the prevention of colon and breast cancer.

Two of the most convenient and consistent ways to add more fiber to your daily routine are first of all, eating more whole, raw organic vegetables and fruits in their natural form, and secondly, by consuming high-quality psyllium husks.

An easy way to add psyllium husks to your daily diet is to add them to your smoothie in the morning. The fiber swells quickly when wet, so you need to drink it quickly or add more liquid after it swells.

Here is a list of the top fiber foods you can add to your diet:

Apple 1 medium 2.2 grams fiber

Avocado 1 medium 11.84 grams fiber

Black beans 1 cup 14.92 grams fiber

Bran flakes 3/4 cup 5.1 grams fiber

Broccoli 1 cup cooked 10.97 grams fiber

Kale 1 cup cooked 7.20 grams fiber

Kidney beans 1 cup cooked 13.33 grams fiber

Lentils 1 cup 5.6 grams fiber

Oat Meal 1 cup 4 grams fiber

Orange 1 medium 3.40 grams fiber

Pear 1 medium 5.1 grams fiber

Raspberries 1 cup 8.34 grams fiber

Rice 1 cup uncooked 7.98 grams fiber

Spinach 1 cup cooked 4.32 grams fiber

Sweet potato 1 cup cooked 6.94 grams fiber

Whole-wheat spaghetti 1 cup 6.3 grams fiber

This year, add some fiber and nutrients to your diet.

Make this a lifestyle choice for a healthier new you!

By Nancy Addison CHC, AADP

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As I’ve researched health and nutrition over the past 28 years, I’ve seen this increase directly correlate with a number of trends:

• The increasing addition to our food of harmful substances such as high-fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, trans fats, food dyes, monosodium glutamate, and other chemicals.

• Low exposure and absorption of Vitamin D in our society.

• The decrease in exercise and fresh air as people become more sedentary, watching more television, or working at computers.

• The growth in the genetically modified food industry, which results in food being deficient in nutrients that are necessary for health and well-being.

• The increased number and variety of unhealthy GMO crops (example: corn, soy, and wheat) that have cancer-causing poisons built into them and/or applied to them when they are in the field.

Food is our medicine. But food and our environment have become toxic and unhealthy, and our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are not helping.

However, research has shown type 2 diabetes is preventable and virtually 100 percent reversible, simply by implementing dietary and lifestyle changes which are easy and inexpensive. In my book, Diabetes And Your Diet, I discuss how to eat higher quality foods that will contribute to your overall health. I go into detail on nutrients, preparation, recipes, and lifestyle suggestions you can use to move yourself into a healthier, happier life.

Warning signs that you may be diabetic.

Frequent infections of the skin and/or urinary tract

Numbness or tingling in hands and/or feet

Hunger, even after eating

Slow wound healing

Excessive thirst

Blurred vision

Irritability

A diabetic can no longer produce sufficient insulin to process glucose (sugar) in the blood. To lower glucose levels, diabetics need to increase insulin, either by taking medication that increases their own insulin production, or by injecting insulin directly. (A diabetic can be on four or five medications to control blood glucose.) But these treatments do nothing to address the root cause of the problem.

Diabetes medications also have serious side effects. For example, Avandia was used in a two-year study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack, along with a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death as compared to patients being treated with other methods.[ii]

Even with those devastating results, the FDA voted to allow it to remain on the market. In the words of wise medical researcher Dr. Bruce Lipton, “There is no such thing as side effects. They are direct effects.” I recommend being thoughtful about what you put in your body.

Cutting down on these foods will keep blood glucose low. Replacing those unhealthy carbohydrates with healthier varieties of plant-based protein, fats, and carbohydrates—the most naturally satisfying of foods—often eliminates hunger. People can lose weight without starving themselves, or even counting calories.

When you want to reverse disease, one of the most important dietary changes you can make is the elimination of sugar and refined grains from your diet.

Diabetes is a disorder of insulin and leptin signaling, a disorder which can be caused by processed sugar and chemicals in processed food. Leptin is a hormone produced in your fat cells. Leptin’s primary functions include regulating your appetite and body weight. It tells your brain when to eat, how much to eat, and when to stop eating, which is why it’s called the “satiety hormone.”

Many of the chemicals and processed, refined sugars in so many of the fast and processed foods and drinks on the market today interfere with this hormone and prevent it from signaling. Therefore, eliminating those chemicals and processed sugars will help your body heal and begin to function in a healthier way.

Jeffrey M. Friedman and Douglas Coleman were two researchers who discovered the leptin hormone in 1994.[iii] In the research, Friedman found that obese people have very high levels of leptin in their blood. He decided to look into that. He found that “obesity can cause a resistance to leptin—in other words, the signaling pathway for leptin becomes skewed in obese people, causing the body to over-produce leptin just as it does glucose when you are insulin-resistant.”[iv]

Friedman and Coleman also discovered that leptin is responsible for the accuracy of insulin signaling and for your insulin resistance. Elevated insulin levels are not only symptoms of diabetes, but also heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer, and obesity.

Thus, the primary role of insulin is NOT to lower your blood sugar, but to store the extra energy for future consumption (as glycogen, a starch). Insulin’s ability to lower your blood sugar is merely a “side effect” of this energy storage process. Ultimately, this means diabetes is both a disease of insulin and of a malfunction in leptin signaling.

That’s why “treating” diabetes by merely concentrating on lowering blood sugar can be a dangerous approach. It does not address the actual issue of metabolic miscommunication that’s going on in every cell of your body when your leptin and insulin levels are disrupted and stop working together the way they should.”[v]

What this research has shown is that your diet and weight can have an incredible effect on your health and be more effective than any known drug.

Everyone deserves to be radiantly healthy. When you give the body the right tools, it can do miraculous things.

So, let’s get started!

My new book,

Diabetes And Your Diet

just released!

Look into it today!

The book, “Diabetes And Your Diet”  gives you the power to make healthy choices. This comprehensive guidebook will help you to create long-term, sustainable, and life-enhancing strategies for preventing or reversing diabetes through nutrition  and lifestyle.

Nancy’s book motivates, and teaches easy-to-implement suggestions, as well as offers incredible insight into health and wellness for diabetics of all ages.  Her book has over 65 diabetic-friendly recipes  included! Healthy foods combined with positive lifestyle tips equals a healthy life!

“Nancy Addison’s book is a comprehensive guidebook  to create long-term, sustainable, and life-enhancing strategies through nutrition. In this book, Diabetes And Your Diet,  she inspires, motivates and teaches easy-to-implement suggestions as well as offers incredible insight into reversing diabetes and restoring health and wellness.”
– Gary L. Massad, M.D. FACOM, FAASM, FAC, LM. Past attending physician to the 1984 and 1996 Olympic Games, attending physician to United States Cycling Federation, USTAA, and USMAA

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[i] Lipman, T.H., et al. (June, 2013). “Increasing Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth.” Diabetes Care.

[ii] Nissan S.E., et. al. (June, 2007). “Effect of Rosiglitazone on the Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Death from Cardiovascular Causes.” New England Journal of Medicine.

[iii] JCI (October 1, 2010). J Clin Invest, 120(10): 3413–3418. DOI: 10.1172/JCI45094

[iv] Mercola, Joseph. “The Deliberate Lies They Tell about Diabetes”. http://www.mercola.com/diabetes.aspx#_edn5

[v] Ibid.

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