Yearly Archives: 2007

This week I’ve been talking to the children about just how harmful deceptive foods are. Proverbs 23:2 tells us we are not to desire the "rich man’s" food; that it is deceptive.

This is a true picture of the standard diet of Americans and most other westernized (American patterned) societies. We truly desire the foods that look good, taste good but are harming our bodies, rather than the cheap, plain, staple foods. I call these harmful "foods" non-foods, as they don’t fit the definition of "food – something we consume that nourishes, maintains and promotes the growth of the body." These deceptive, non-foods do not nourish, do not promote maintenance or growth of the body, but rather harm and tear down the health of the body.

Anyhow, it’s hard for the small children – and most Americans, in our microwave mentally society – to see that something is harmful or killing people if the effects aren’t readily seen right away.

What we sow will be reaped, don’t be deceived. But as every farmer knows, planting time is not harvest time. Yet what you plant will surely, in the fullness of time, come to fruition. You will reap a harvest. If you plant non-foods that don’t promote health, you will not reap health at harvest time. You will, over time reap a harvest of bad health. If you "plant" real foods, that truly nourish the body,  it may take some time before you see the results of noticeably changed health. But it will be growing in you. "Planting" foods that nourish rather than non-foods that poison our bodies, makes a big difference in how our bodies operate and hold up. We do reap what we sow, don’t be deceived.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler [a rich man, the affluent – like Americans – including yourself], consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite [if you see it or think it, you want it, you’ll have it]. Be not desirous of his dainties [processed, refined, rich foods]: for they are deceitful food. Proverbs 23:1-3

For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Short comment on 30 Days to Wellness, a series of 30 short informational emails. See info below to subscribe to them from Wholefood Farmacy.

I’m at Day 3. It tells of new research on whole grains, and why they are so important. So far, so good. 🙂

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Short comment on 30 Days to Wellness.

Day 2 is about Free Radicals – good, easy to understand explanation.

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Is it proper to begin a post with a disclaimer? Here’s mine. My readers – of anything I write or speak on – know that I rarely promote or even mention anything that I have not thoroughly checked out myself – or at least skimmed through it and also gotten a very high recommendation from some one I thoroughly trust who has completed used the information themselves.

If you’ve read this blog for even a short while you know that it is only recently that I have come across Whole Food Farmacy, because they are now producing a food product that we have used for years and love. Well, so far I’ve loved and agreed with what I have seen from them. But I don’t know ALL of their nutritional and health philosophy.

They are coming out with a new program, 30 Days to Wellness. It is a Free email educational program. You will receive a short (about 1 minute) email daily for 30 days, with health and wellness information. I don’t know what all will be included, and if my reading and research will concur with all of it. But here are some topics they plan to cover:

• How to reduce your risk of heart attack by over 50% using plain water
• How a woman can reduce her risk of heart attack by up to 92%
• Which spices can reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease
• Which spices can lower your blood sugar and cholesterol levels
• Which foods fight cancer
• About a simple activity that can boost your immune system every day
• …… and much, much more!

So, don’t hold me liable if anything flakey comes through. If I strongly disagree with something, I will no doubt make a comment on it here.

I can comment on the first one – Yes, drinking more plain (I’d add pure!) water is extremely Good for You – Naturally!

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I’ve probably been on the scale more times in the last 24 hours than in any one year of my life. I’m not a scale watcher. Never have been. I’ve never had a weight problem, and have always taken off my post baby weight, after all of my 11 full-term pregnancies, within the first year – except this last one.

After this last pregnancy, my "right-arm" in the kitchen, (our 4th daughter,) got married, leaving us 6 pre-teen children at home. I had become highly dependent on this daughter who loved to cook, shop, and plan our meals. Things slipped. Things were allowed in the house and into our bodies that had been gone for many years. But more so, I lost the care when ordering when we were out to eat.

Once more I was hooked on sugar, drinking an occasional pop, and eating meat when we went out to eat. And that last 7-10 pounds, and tummy roll, hung on tight. I knew as soon as it disgusted me bad enough I’d do what I needed to about it. I wasn’t too motivated, as everyone else still thought I "looked great for having had 13 children", and trim compared to everyone else.

But that isn’t the standard I’m to live by. I knew I wasn’t stewarding my body well, and that as I get older all those "little foxes" were going to "spoil the vineyard". I needed to get back to eating Good for You – Naturally! to preserve my health. I have many more years of child training and teaching to go, and I want to feel good and be in health to do it. God is in control, but I must also do what I know is right.

So about 3 weeks ago I decided. No more. I considered starting with a fast, but for whatever reason did not. I just cut out the junk and upped my amounts of rawGood for You – Naturally! foods.

I’m to the point where I am feeling better. The temptations are not very tempting. I passed by the birthday cake for our 16 yo dd with no regrets. I ordered water with lemon at the restaurant with no second thoughts. I took my own snack and a water bottle to the ladies’ cooking party. I know how addicting especially the sugar can be to me. I don’t want to go back.

So, yesterday as I was picking up the bathroom, I pulled out the scale. I wondered if there was any difference yet. I stepped on. I read. I got off, back on, and read. I got off again, readjusted the dial to make sure it was on 0 and read again. I moved it to another room, readjusted the dial, and read again. I have not only lost the 7 pounds I’d hoped for, but a full 10, putting me a few pounds below my target weight. And I haven’t even gone on the cleansing fast yet!

This morning I got up and thought, "I’ve got to check again. Surely the scale was off." But no, it is true. Just by cutting all junk and meat, and increasing my raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, I have lost every bit of that remaining post baby weight.

An added bonus to feeling good and cheerful – which are the most positive bonuses. This isn’t a weight loss "diet". It is a Freedom & Simplicity™ Lifestyle of Eating. A way of life for health.

All praise to Him who gives grace to do what is right – even for our bodies. As I told a friend a few weeks ago, for me to not eat the junk, is all grace. I (like probably most of you) have no will-power.  I need God’s grace to enable and sustain me. So Thank You God and may Your grace continue mightily in me day by day, as I steward this body You’ve given me, for Your Glory.

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You may have never thought of it in this way, but we fast everyday  – from the time we go to sleep each night until the time we wake up each morning. Some may fast longer, by not eating a "mid-night snack" or perhaps skipping break-fast. But everyone of us fasts for at least a few hours each day.

Our bodies use this time to "clean house". They expend the energy, that we aren’t having to devote to other activities, to clean as much junk and waste out as possible. While you are sleeping, your body is busy sweeping and de-junking the "house" you live in. In the morning it’ll be ready for all that "trash" to be taken out.

The best way you can do that is with pure water. If we don’t get the pure water in to flush the "trash" out, and we shift gears using our energies to go about our daily business, all that trash will just get scattered about the house again – I mean reabsorbed into our body’s cells. 

In this month’s Me and My House musings newsletter I expanded on this need for drinking plenty of pure water further, but here I want to talk about what we can do to break our fast, to help our body continue this process.

The best way we can continue to transport the "old piled up junk" out of our bodies, (after we’ve drank at least one big glass of water, preferably with fresh lemon juice in it,) while still providing nourishment and energy that we need for the day, is to eat (or drink!) fresh fruit. Fresh fruits are very cleansing, and will help that process of cleaning our bodies.

In Good for You – Naturally! we recommend fresh fruit all morning, and possibly even into lunch – nothing but fresh fruit. Your first fresh fruit of the day can ideally come in the form of fresh, raw fruit juice, that is juice that you have extracted from fresh, whole, raw fruits. This will provide many nutrients that your body needs in a concentrated form, and help your body continue to "clean house", as well as provide energy to get you going for the day, and not start using your energy for the day in digesting food.

This is the best break-fast you can have.

Try it! Your body will LOVE it!

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My mom and I spent the weekend chatting nutrition and drinking green barley juice. It was a good weekend. The weekend began at dd’s. We chatted a bit of nutrition too. But it really all began for me almost a week before.

It happened early last week. The counter and sink were covered with that green, staining fine powder. Mr. 3yo dumped the last 10 or more servings of my BarleyLife. No chance to salvage. Counter was damp, as well as sink, making a couple of really big globs of green barley paste. It is a good thing the countertop is already green, and sink is stainless steel. But it was hard not to cry as it washed down the drain. I could have had a sink full of juice. I hate good food to go to waste (like the 10+ pounds of brown rice that had to be thrown away last month because it had bugs.)

I haven’t been drinking BarleyLife all that often lately. We’ve been doing really good making fresh juice daily, so I’ve only made the BarleyLife occasionally. Evidently I’ve been making it enough though that Mr. 3yo decided that day he could make his own. I knew we were heading out of town this weekend, and didn’t plan to take the juicer since I figured I had enough BarleyLife left to cover it. –Until Mr. 3yo. Oh well, we could take the juicer.

I ordered more BarleyLife, expecting it to be here when we got back. It actually arrived before we left. I went ahead and got Just Carrots and RediBeets too, (powdered carrot and beet juices,) even though I don’t use them as much. Then I hid them all from Mr. 3yo and told him mommy would make it when he wants some.

I placed a Wholefood Farmacy order too. The convenience would have been nice for the trip. But that order arrived late Friday afternoon – after we left early Friday afternoon. So instead, the children loaded the cooler with dried apples, apricots, and dates, raw almonds, cashews, pecans, and filberts, grapes and bananas. I packed a couple gallons distilled water. I figured there wasn’t any chance of a blizzard, but if there was, we’d be ready to be stranded!

Here’s this car packed with all the nutrition we need for a great weekend – and what do we do? Head to Chuck E Cheese’s. Who gets these ideas – or was it the kids? The pop was no temptation (not even at my daughter’s later when she offered Cherry 7-Up, my only real pop temptation). But I succumbed to pizza after my salad. Oh well, we had a great time visiting with dd and family.

The next day we went to my mom’s and she was happy to chat nutrition. She’s been taking liquid chlorophyll for a few months at the recommendation of my sister. (Her Dr. had put her on iron for low blood levels and she immediately quit it after my sister talked to her.) She just had her blood recheck, and her levels were back up and pronounced OK. Praise to God for His natural foods ways.

She also told me she wasn’t drinking her BarleyMax. She was excited to have it, and the Hallelujah Acres resources, but just couldn’t get into drinking the BarleyMax. I had her try the BarleyLife. She liked it better. She also tried the beet juice powder in her BarleyMax and said that would do the trick for her. She could drink it that way and would order some beet juice powder. I had also suggested stevia powder, but she hadn’t bought any of that yet, and I didn’t have any with me.

It was an encouragement to me to be in a situation where I could encourage my mom. Mom doesn’t make all healthy choices (but — neither do I – the pizza – oh, and the cherry cheesecake dd made for other dd’s 16th birthday while we were there, and the …) But mom is open and interested to learn. I was encouraged that she has my sister looking for a good used juicer for her.

I’m also glad she grabbed the onion. Mom always has plenty of onions. I was glad I’d stopped for some raw honey and some lemons at the store. I’m also glad (and hope she is too) that she learned my adaptation to grandma’s recipe.

Mostly I’m glad for a chance to sit down and chat with my mom – and with my grown dd. Chatting nutrition was just a bonus for my soul. And doing it over a glass of BarleyLife a bonus for my body.