Day 43: Use Good Quality Oil For Cooking
March 15th, 2010 | 
Author: Day 43: Good quality oil for cooking
Many people thinks using oil in your cooking is not healthy, but if you know which kind of oil to use and moderate using actually helps your health. These are the oil we recommend:
Sesame oil (dark and light): Good for blood pressure, joint pains and cold constitutions and a potent Antioxidant. Maintains good Cholesterol (HDL) and lowers bad Cholesterol (LDL).
Safflower oil: Can be used in baking, frying, rich in poly-unsaturated fats.
Rice Bran Oil: Containing vitamins, antioxidants, nutrients and trans fat-free. Can help lower cholesterol, fight diseases, enhance the immune system, fight free radicals and more. It is extremely light, Use it to fry, sauté, in salad dressing, baking, dipping oils.
Olive oil: Great for salads and to sauté veggies, good for overweight people.
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Day 42: Jokes For Your Funny Bone
Day 42: Jokes For Your Funny Bone
Today we lighten it up with a few jokes I found amusing from the internet.
What’s a vegan’s favorite pick-up line?
If I said you had the body of an all-natural, organic-living, animal-loving, environment-nurturing, whale-saving sex machine, would you hold it against me? Please?
A guy has celery sticking out of one ear, lettuce out of the other, and a zucchini up his nose. He goes to the doctor and asks him what’s wrong. The doctor tells him, “Well, for one thing, you’re not eating right.”
A man had a parrot that could talk. Unfortunately, it swore a lot. In an effort to get the parrot to be quiet, he put him in a cupboard. The parrot continued swearing and after a while the man decided to put the bird in the freezer. After that, the parrot started swearing even more. After a few minutes, he suddenly became quiet. The man opened up the freezer and the parrot said, “I’m sorry, sir, it will never happen again.” As the man took the bird out of the freezer he wondered what the difference was between the cupboard and the freezer. Just then, the parrot said, “So, uh, what’d the chicken do?”
Day 41: Use 100% Cotton Bed Sheets and Pillowcases
Day 41: Use 100% cotton for all bed sheets and pillowcases
Because we spend approximately a third of our lives in bed, the quality of our bed sheets with pillowcases and the materials their made from is important. While we are sleeping we are restoring our health so it so important to use 100% cotton, possibly organic materials, since cotton growyers usually use lots of chemical to grow cotton. There are many organic bed sheets available now. It might be costly, but this is really worth it for the quality of your life.
Day 40: Take Your Own Container & Utensils
Day 40: Take Your Own Container & Utensils
With so much trash filling up the landfills and polluting our oceans, try bringing your own containers and utensils with you to restaurants so you never get caught with Styrofoam or plastic to-go containers. Another thing to do is take your own napkins. People Towels has a cute 3 pack set so you never have to use paper towels again! This is such as easy thing to do. I carry a few containers in my car and always have my To-Go Ware utensil set in my purse. Seed actually sells these utensil sets and the cute stainless steel bento boxes that you can take your lunch in everywhere.
Day 39: Use Macrobiotic Natural Sweeteners
Day 39: Use macrobiotic natural sweeteners
Sugar is stripping our body of nutrients and minerals, but there are unrefined sweeteners that we can use to make healthy treats with. Going sugar-free doesn’t mean you have to be deprived!
My recommendations of natural sweeteners are brown rice syrup, barley malt, amazake and sometimes pure maple syrup and apple juice. Rice syrup looks like honey but has a much lighter taste. Barley malt is darker and thicker than rice syrup. Amazake is made from brown rice and is a very light and tasty drink. Avoid refined sugar (white and brown), molasses, cane juice, honey, agave, stevia, and of course never use Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Canderel), Neotame, Sucralose (Splenda, Altern), Acesulfame-K (Sunette, Sweet & Safe, Sweet One), Cyclamates, Saccharin. and High Fructose Sweeteners.
Book Signing Near North Fork
If you didn’t already know, Eric and Sanae have a retreat center in North Fork, which is near Yosemite National Park. This is where they escape from the city and also hold retreats where you can relax and learn about macrobiotics. It’s a beautiful place! Last weekend Sanae did a lecture and book signing in Oakhurst, the nearest larger city (they have a Starbucks). Here is some photos from her talk.
We hope you can make the Lecture and Book Signing coming up this weekend at Book Soup.
Sanae Suzuki present and sign Love, Sanae : Healing Vegan Macrobiotic Cooking, My Healing Journey.
Join us for a special talk from well-known macrobiotic counselor and educator, Sanae Suzuki. She will explain how macrobiotics can heal, support and nourish you. When you change your diet and lifestyle your world changes, and you are better equipped to be a active participate in your life and achieve your dreams.
Saturday, March 13th, 5-6:30pm
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
W. Hollywood CA 90069
Day 38: What will help you to stop eating sugar or sugary foods!
Day 38: What will help you to stop eating sugar or sugary foods!
Most of us love sweets and so do I. I was a sugar junkie, so I want share what helped me not crave sugar: reduce salty foods, eat less animal foods, eat small amounts more frequently throughout the day, don’t eat less than 3 hours before you sleep, eat healthy plant-based foods, and do meditation. It is also important for you to check the labels of all the foods you eat. You might be very surprised how so many foods contain sugar. Is there nobody who knows how to make tasty food without sugar? Tomorrow I will let you know what kinds of sweeteners I recommend and don’t recommend.
Day 37: Knowing Why Sugar is Bad For Us
Day 37: Knowing why sugar is bad for us
In America many people consume between two to three pounds of refined sugar every week. The refined sugar is being processed in so many foods. These foods are not just sweets. Sugar in large quantities can be found in peanut butter, mayonnaise, bread, ketchup and many other categorically “non-sweets” products.
Do most of us know why refined sugar is really bad for us? Refined sugar is bad for us because it raises the insulin level in our blood, depressing the immune system. When our immune system is depressed then your ability to fight disease is weakened. Also refined sugar can cause weight gain, speed the aging process, contribute to hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, concentration difficulties, and crankiness in children …I can go on and on about why refined sugar is bad for us. Tomorrow I want to share what might help you to stop eating refined sugar.
Day 36: Have a Good Bowel Movement Everyday
Day 36: Have a good bowel movement everyday
How often do you have a bowel movement?
What? A bowel movement? Yes, your bowel movement.
If you do not have smooth bowel movement everyday at least once a day you really need to consider what you are eating and change it with your lifestyle. Only what we eat comes out to be bowel so it is a very important to connect it.
The bowel movement is barometer of our health!!!
Day 35: Get Daily Light Exercise
Day 35: Get daily light exercise
Going to yoga and gym are of course good for most us, but you just need light exercise daily to get your circulation going, give joints lubrication, release tension and make healthy muscles. My favorite classic one is just to sit comfortably and start from your neck to all the way to toes. Move your neck and move slowly to up and down, right to left, tilt to side, move shoulders, arms, hands, shake legs and move your feet and toes and go back to your neck. Then, tap with tip of your finger start from your face and head gently and neck though chest, tummy, legs and all the way to toes. Last part is shake your hands and arms and legs and toes. Let’s shake up!!!
