millie says july 31

Adventure into the kitchen.  Eat more nutritious food at home on a tight schedule by setting 1-2 hours twice weekly aside to get your hands “dirty”.  Connect with your food again by picking your favorite one-dish recipe and making a big pot of it from scratch. Set half aside for freezing, eat it once daily for ½ the week or host a dinner party to make the most of your time in the kitchen.  You’ll be happy you found the time.

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millie says july 30

Problems got you singing the blues?  Can’t get no!

Get satisfied with a diet of inclusion. Balance blood sugar, solve fatty acid and mineral deficiencies and lose weight with three simple steps: 1) fill half your lunch and dinner plates with dark green veggies or sea greens 2) take 3 caps of distilled fish oils with EPO or 2 tablespoons of flax seeds/walnuts 3) Take 3 capsules of high-end probiotics including Lactobacillus, Bifidus and FOS at night before bed. Aah, satisfaction.

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millie says july 26

Improve your magical sniffy and tasting things.  Signs of zinc deficiency include loss of taste and smell, poor would healing and susceptibility to colds and flues.  So if you don’t enjoy food as much as you used to, consider loading up on zinc with oysters, pumpkin seeds, organic peanuts and hummus.  Approximately 30-50 mg of zinc citrate per day with copper is a good therapeutic dose to replace the much-needed ability to enjoy food like a gourmet.

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millie says july 25

Get de-toxicated with camellia sinensis. Studies show that drinking anywhere from 3-10 cups of caffeinated, brewed green tea per day may improve immune and liver function, repair cells, protect against cardiovascular events, fight bacteria and virus including HPV, prevent cancer, increase metabolism, reduce allergies and arthritis, benefit cholesterol, strengthen teeth and bones and supplement vitamin C and minerals. Did someone say panacea?

If prone to anxiety, insomnia or anemia may best be avoided in large quantities but it is one food item you may never have enough of otherwise, as less than 3 cups per day may be ineffective…so drink up!

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millie says july 24

Leave veggie tops on! When cooking organic beets, carrots, and other root vegetables scrub well but leave intact.  Cooking with the peel, tops and stem conserves nutrients. Like in soup, many vitamins and minerals are found in the broth so instead of washing the rich water to sea, sing your chanty and drink it down before your meal for a digestive vitamin and mineral punch. 

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millie says july 23

Draw your way to fertility.  Rather than accepting confusing diagnoses that don’t click, get-real! Turn your container of suffering inside out with expressive arts trauma drawing.

Alone or with a partner, draw on a sheet of paper all the obstacles to conception.  Use colors, words, abstract or literal images or expressions.  Once satisfied with that drawing, lay down a transparent piece of paper over top, adding on all needs for healing.  Participate out of suffering and into healing with art! 

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millie says july 20

Create live culture.  Louis Pasteur, health hero of the industrial revolution thankfully invented the process whereby heating and cooling a substance ridden with deadly bacteria could go on to kill very large organisms such as humans and cows.  Sadly however it has become commercially practiced unnecessarily replacing healthy live food products grown in a relatively clean environment for diplomatically dead juice, milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, sauerkraut, miso, sausage, pickles, sourdough bread, etc.  The old world food traditions are re-emerging locally so read labels, source out live food. Just don’t make your yogurt in a barn. 

Making Yogurt Without a Yogurt Maker

Instructions
Here are Phyllis Hobson’s techniques for making yogurt if you do not have an appliance designed for it.

With a thermos
Almost fill a thermos bottle (preferably widemouthed) with milk heated to 100 degrees F. Add 2 tablespoons of plain yogurt and mix thoroughly. Put the lid on and wrap the thermos in two or three terry towels. Set it in a warm, draft-free place overnight.

In an oven
Pour 1 quart of milk into a casserole dish and add 3 tablespoons of plain yogurt. Stir well and cover the casserole. Place in a warm (100 degree F.) oven with the heat off. Let it sit overnight.

On a heating pad
Mix 1 quart of milk and 3 tablespoons of plain yogurt. Set an electric heating pad at medium temperature and place in the bottom of a cardboard box with a lid. (A large shoebox works well.) Fill small plastic containers with the milk-yogurt mixture; put on the lids. Wrap a heating pad around the containers, then cover with towels to fill the box and let sit, undisturbed, for 5 to 6 hours.

In the sun
Pour 1 quart warmed milk into a glass-lidded bowl or casserole. Add 3 tablespoons plain yogurt and cover with the glass lid or a clear glass pie pan. Place in the sun on a warm (not too hot) summer day and let sit 4 to 5 hours. Watch it to make sure it is not shaded as the sun moves.

On the back of a wood-stove
Many grandmothers made clabber by setting a bowl of freshly drawn milk on the back of the stove after supper. Make yogurt this way by adding 1 cup starter to 2 quarts milk and let it sit, loosely covered with a dish towel, on the back of the cooling wood range overnight.

In a Crock-Pot
Preheat a Crock-Pot on low for about 15 minutes, until it feels very warm to the fingertips. Put covered containers of yogurt mixture into the Crock-Pot, cover it, and turn off the heat. At 35- to 45-minutes intervals, heat the Crock-Pot on low for 10 to 15 minutes.

Add a capsule of organic L. acidophilus to increase healthy bacteria content.

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millie says july 19

Sand a chair, clean the cupboards and dust your way to a sound mood.  In Eastern philosophy the repitition of mundane physical tasks works off anger and liberates Qi (energy).  In the west, repetitive movements can be a symptom of certain mental illness like OCD but can also be lifestyle treatment for mood and cognitive impairments such as anger, depression, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.  So scrub that floor ‘til it shines like the top of the Chrysler building!

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millie says july 18

Snack with your circadian rhythm.  The internal body clock produces cortisol in the morning to wake up and melatonin at night under which to sleep soundly.  Green apples and lemon water are ideal in the morning as they have an energizing chemistry to them.  Foods with tryptophan such as poultry, figs, carrots, cottage cheese, yogurt and oatmeal will help you wind down. 

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millie says july 17

Correct chemical imbalances with food.  When food is reduced to its nutritional chemistry, these basic components contribute or detract to chemistry of body and brain. 

By eating food with healthy chemistry, such as high amounts of omega 3 fats (flax seeds, cold water ocean fish, pumpkin seeds, virgin coconut oil), quality proteins (lentils/beans and brown rice, quinoa fish, sprouts), complex carbohydrates (carrots, sweet potatoes, green veggies, brown rice) and low levels of refined starches and sugars (bagels, white pasta, cold cuts, store-bought bread), the brain chemistry can be optimized. 

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