The Benefit Of Beets
on Apr 11 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Cooking, Specific Health Issues, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Wellness
Beets. Dr. Jacob Schor just sent out an interesting article about how drinking beet juice may help with senile dementia. Let’s face it, we hear little that really helps with dementia, so this is interesting to me. Beets are a remarkable food. Besides turning urine and stools red , they are high in vitamins and minerals, and can help keep the bowels moving. They are heart friendly, containing components which improve circulation, lower cholesterol, reduce stroke risk and more. Beets are known to counteract certain cancerous mutations. And there is evidence that beet juice cut the times for bicycle racers. Note, avoid beets if you are prone to calcium oxalate kidney stones. If you don’t already have one, it is worth your while to develop a taste for this amazing colorful root. (The greens are also rich in calcium, iron and carotenoids.) If you garden at all, now is the time to put beet seeds in the ground. Beets are easy to grow and are very hardy.
What We Treat [VIDEO]
on Nov 01 in Acupuncture, Affordable Healthcare, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Pre- and Post-Surgery, Specific Health IssuesLearn more about what we treat at Community Acupuncture Clinic, Boulder, CO by watching this helpful video:
Allergy season
on Aug 10 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Specific Health Issues, Uncategorized
It is allergy season again.
Lots of pollen in the air. A good time to go to your Acupuncturist, get treatment and herbs and take a look at the diet.
When the body is already overloaded with foods that trigger an allergic reaction, the immune system does not have a lot of energy to deal with outside allergens as well. So we get stuffy noses, itchy eyes and sore throats etc.
This is a good time to eliminate sugar,dairy and wheat from the diet. There are so many yummy foods freshly grown out there in this time of the year that it might be not too hard to do that.
Also it helps the body to drink lots of room temperature water. If there is ice in your drink, or it is from the fridge, the body looses valuable energy to warm itself up again, as we always maintain the same temperature.
In Asia people drink hot fluids when it is hot outside because it opens up the pores, makes one sweat and so cools down the body.
Drinking cold fluids in the long run make us hotter and so then we need the next cold drink…anyway something to play with.
enjoy
Gluten Free Zucchini Peach mess
on Aug 02 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Cooking, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle, UncategorizedSome of you might wonder this is an acupuncture site and so many recipes. Healthy food is, I think one of the most important ingredients for maintaining health. Here in Boulder we have a wonderful Farmers Market with organic fresh produce. Last Saturday my friend Maurizio, the head baker of Udi’s bakery bought a box of second’s of Peaches. He gave me some and when I came home, there where several Zucchini’s to be harvested in my garden. I thought of how to combine those two and came up with this yummy “cake”
1 and 1/2 cups of grated Zucchini add
1 and 1/2 cups of finely grated Pecan nuts, or Almonds or other nuts add
1 and 1/2 cups of Pamela’s Pancake mix, Gluten Free
if not available substitute with a mix of Millet flour and Tapioca starch, with a teaspoon of baking powder mixed in add
3 egg yolks and some (optional) Agave syrup or Maple Syrup , or Cane sugar
between 1/3 of a cup and 1/2 cup depending on your sweet tooth. The peaches are really sweet, so you don’t need any sugar at all really.
Add some cinnamon or vanilla if you like.
Beat stiffly the 3 egg whites and fold under the dough.
Fill into a parchment lined oiled baking form and spread cut up peaches over the batter. Bake at 365 for 1 hour or until done.
yummy hot and cold
Summer Pizza Gluten Free
on Jul 28 in Acupuncture, Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Cooking, Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle
A wonderful recipe for a gluten fee pizza. Goes well with salad of any kind.
For the dough use either millet or quinoa flour.
1/3 of flour of choice (see above)
1/3 of finely ground flax seed golden or brown
1/3 of corn starch or tapioca flour
mix well and add a little olive oil, a pinch of salt and some dried or fresh yeast.
add enough hand warm water to make a dough you could knead if you wanted to. let sit in a warm place covered with a towel till dough rises, about 1 hour or less.
roll out thinly with the use of some more flour and put on oiled pizza sheet, not a cookie sheet, since you want the crust to get hot and crunchy in the oven.
Let rise again for 20 minutes.
spread crushed tomatoes or sauce or any toppings you might like. drizzle some olive oil over pizza before baking on very high heat, about 450 degrees for 20 minutes or until done depending on toppings.
sometimes it is better to put the cheese in the pizza only for the last 5 minutes of baking, so it does not get too hard.
don’t forget about fresh herbs, greens, garlic, olives, capers, blue cheeses, anchovies….
