EducatingWellness

Would you like to be free of digestive distress, excess weight, headaches, and confusion?  If your answer is YES, your first step is to get rid of the grains!  But why, you ask?  Aren’t grains (especially whole grains) good for me and full of needed fiber and other nutrients?  The sad news is, this is no longer the case.  Many years ago, we would grow and harvest our grains properly, adding back to the earth the correct nutrients and allowing nature to naturally select which breeds would thrive and which may succumb to bugs, fungus, and the like.  We could actually harvest the grain without allowing the kernels to crack and thus become instantly rancid.

What we have done to our grains now is mass produce, chemically treat, and incorrectly harvest.  And all of this without giving back to the soil what it needs to continue to create proper nutrient filled foods.  Once harvested, most of the grains are then stripped of any vital nutrients they have left, bleached so they are pleasant to our eye, and then sprayed with a chemical coating of synthetic vitamins.  Putting this in your body is not a happy picture for your cells working

You’ve heard me talk extensively about the addictive qualities of sugar, as well as sugar’s detrimental effects on your health. Aside from the obvious issues, such as diabetes and weight gain, sugar adversely affects many cellular pathways in your body. Example: sugar affects the calcium/phosphorus ratio in the bloodstream. This ratio is the common pathway of stress, which leads directly to the pathway of degenerative disease. So sugar can and will actually change the way you deal with stress and hasten the decline of your cells.

Now that we are in the midst of the holidays, sugar temptations seem to be lurking around every corner. So for all you bakers out there, here’s your chance to shine! Eliminate the guilt of feeding your loved ones the big “S.” Try one of my favorite delicious dessert recipes without damaging refined sugar, and without neurotoxic artificial sweeteners.

Pie Crust
1/3 cup barley flour
1/3 cup rice flour
1/3 cup quinoa flour
½ cup melted butter

In a medium bowl, combine flours. Using a fork, stir in the butter to form a dough (if dough is too dry, add a few drops of water at a time). Form dough into a ball and place between two pieces of wax