Three Pillars of Health: Eat Right

It can be really hard to eat right, especially when there are so many opinions on what "eating right" means!

The first step is to stop eating wrong.  Make a list of those things you know are in your current diet which are hindering your health and work to eliminate them.

Example:

Breakfast cereal

Fast food lunch

TV dinners

Carbonated beverages

Candy

Processed snack foods

White bread

Choose one and work to change your habit.  Let's take carbonated beverages.  Say you drink a soda every day with your lunch.  For the first few days, swap your soda out and replace it with fruit juice mixed with seltzer water.  Then swap the seltzer water for probiotic-rich water kefir, eventually lowering the amount of fruit juice with the goal of eliminatin the juice entirely.  Just this one change can make a big impact on your health!  

What if your diet is clean?  You drink water and herbal tea, limit sugar and processed foods, eat plenty of vegetables and healthy proteins, but portion control is a problem.  Aromatherapy can help.

Portion Control Aromastick

Prepare an aromatherapy inhaler with:

5 drops cardamom eo

3 drops vanilla absolute

2 drops peppermint eo

2 drops pink grapefruit eo

Take two deep breaths in each nostril before eating.  The sweet scent helps to curb the appetite.

Real Bread

Mmm mmmm mmmm!  Nice warm bread from the oven.  Bread has a bad reputation though.  All that gluten, all that starch!  But, it doesn't have to be that way.

Pictured above is naturally leavened whole wheat bread.  A good portion of the gluten protein matrix as well as a significant part of the starch and sugar is broken down by the natural leavening process, leaving a healthy loaf of REAL bread.  

Natural leavening yields what we commonly call sourdough.  It is begun with a "starter" which, when active, is full of beneficial bacteria which digest the flour and produce a small amount of alcohol and carbon dioxide which results in a rising loaf.  This particular loaf was made from Camaldoli (perpetual) starter which is quite mild.  The starter is fed every day and used when wanted.

For much more information about the amazing health benefits of REAL bread, check out The Vintage Remedies Guide to Bread by Jessie Hawkins.  There are plenty of recipes in her book as well.

"Real Tree" Spray

Vines of Wellness "Real Tree" Spray

An artificial tree at Christmas time certainly has its advantages, but it misses the mark with regard to scent.  Here is my take at a "Real Tree" room spray: