Volume 2, Issue 13
Welcome to Heartland's NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOR YOU AND YOUR
FAMILY newsletter. We are excited to share relevant news
about natural health topics and offer alternative and complimentary
options for you and your family. We are committed to helping
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Topics in today's issue:
-Did You Know? Fats can be good for you.
-In the News: Hotels are turning green
-Alkalizing Your Body
-Recipes for Health
Success is 99 percent failure.
~ Soichiro Honda, Japanese businessman, founder of Honda
Motor Corp.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
~ Jean De La Bruyere, 1645-1696, French Writer
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DID YOU KNOW
Fats can be good for you. In fact, avoiding “all
fats”, or having a “fat-free” diet is
fast becoming unpopular because of its unhealthy outcomes.
Researchers have even found that healthy fats – the
essential fatty acids – can actually help you lose
weight. Dr. John R. Lee offers sound advice when navigating
the tricky territory of fats and oils. Here is his summary
from pages 269-270 of his newest book “What Your Doctor
May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer”:
PRACTICAL TIPS ON CHEWING THE FAT
“We don’t think it’s necessary for you
to count fat grams or calories to find your ideal diet.
Instead, think in terms of adjusting your diet according
to these general guidelines until you find what works for
you. If you generally choose good foods and avoid unhealthy
ones, everything else has a way of falling into place.
Here’s a general rule of thumb: The good fats are
part of whole foods. This means fish, vegetables, nuts and
seeds, free-range eggs, whole grains, and legumes. It doesn’t
mean that highly processed seed oils are good for you.
Olive oil and modest amounts of butter for cooking and
baking are part of a health-supporting diet. Wherever you
can, substitute olive oil for other oils that require heavy
processing. Look for dark green extra-virgin olive oils.
They’re expensive, but there’s nothing better
for you to spend your money on than a health-promoting diet.
And they taste so good, you’ll only need to use a
small amount. Avocado oil is another monounsaturated fat
that’s rich in healthy essential fatty acids (EFAs).
Canola oil is also monounsaturated, but it’s highly
processed for commercial uses and therefore less desirable.
It’s best to use canola oil only occasionally. If
you love potato and corn chips and insist on having them,
chips fried in canola oil are probably safer than chips
fried in highly processed polyunsaturated oils like safflower,
corn, sunflower, nut, or seed oils. Polyunsaturated oils
are most likely rancid by the time you open the bottle to
use them, so you can imagine how far gone they are when
they’ve been sitting on the store shelf for a while,
or when they’ve been heated to high temperatures and
used for frying. It’s best to completely avoid polyunsaturated
or hydrogenated oils made from soy, corn, nuts, and seeds.
Saturated fats such as butter, coconut oil, and lard are
solid at room temperature and very stable. You can leave
them sitting out and not worry that they’ll spoil,
and you can heat them up without creating free radicals.
Unrefined coconut oil and butter are best for baking. Again,
remember that these fats have gotten a bad name, but only
because they’ve been eaten in excess; in moderate
amounts they’re beneficial to your health.
Hydrogenated oils are the trans-fatty acids used to make
everything from margarines to baked goods to potato chips
to frozen desserts, and are now being linked to increased
risk of artery disease. It seems that hydrogenated fats
directly damage the delicate linings of blood vessels. They
also throw off your hormone balance by blocking the actions
of good fats.
Omega-3 fats are found most abundantly in deep-water fish
such as mackerel, herring, sardines, and cod. The FDA, however,
has recently warned pregnant women away from eating mackerel
due to high mercury content, so you can leave that one off
the list. Albacore tuna is also a good source, but it too
can accumulate mercury, although less than mackerel; just
be moderate about how often you eat it. Salmon is also a
good source of omege-3 fats, and if it’s fresh it
has a very mild flavor that even kids usually don’t
mind. Try to have omega-3 rich fish two to three times a
week.
Green leafy vegetables and walnuts also contain omega-3s.
Flaxseeds are especially rich in omega-3 fats. Flaxseed
oil, however, spoils (becomes oxidized or rancid) easily;
in fact, it’s one of the most unstable oils known.
It’s better to buy whole flaxseeds and grind them
at home (with a small coffee grinder) to sprinkle on cereal
or salads. Although the omega-3s are beneficial oils, you
don’t need them in large amounts. Since oxidation
overload in the body is a major factor in all types of chronic
diseases and in cancer, please don’t go overboard
with the omega-3 oils.
Vegetable oils contain omega-6 fatty acids, which are beneficial
for you in small amounts. They go rancid easily and thus
are best added to the diet by eating plenty of fresh vegetables.
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IN THE NEWS
HOTELS ARE TURNING GREEN
Everyone can help cut the amount of chemicals going into
our environment by choosing less-toxic cleaners or cutting
the use of detergents. Now hotels are beginning to make
their mark. According to a press release dated September
25, 2002, “green” hotels are not only helping
the environment but also saving money by offering visitors
laundry options during their stay.
“Hotels are extremely large-volume users of water,
detergent, cleansers and other chemicals that can be detrimental
to our environment, and hotel managers must be aware of
the hotel’s impact on our life resources. Hotel managers
must care for and protect the reason their guests come whether
it’s a beach, lake, historic district, etc. Hotel
managers who ask guests to participate in the hotel’s
environmental programs find that guests are pleased and
enthusiastic to help protect the beautiful destinations
we all love to visit.”
“Asking guests to consider using linens more than
once is a win, win, win situation for hotels,” says
Cornell University Hotel Management Professor Robert Chase.
“The first win is an economic one—savings on
water, electricity and gas, detergents, toweling, sheets
and labor. The second win is a laudable one—taking
a commendable and praiseworthy step on the part of the hotel.
The third win is for our environment—really doing
something to save our planet.”
You can find participating hotels in by going to www.greenhotels.com.
You can also ask your favorite hotels to participate in
the practical programs offered by the Green Hotels Association
(contact Patricia Griffin, 713/789-8889). Patricia advises
hotel guests to “…speak directly to the General
Manager or Sales Manager or write them a note. Your compliments
or comments recognizing a hotel's greening or its lack are
very important. Hoteliers listen to guests, and you comments
will MAKE A DIFFERENCE!”
For those of us trying to avoid estrogen-imitating chemicals,
it is refreshing to see that hotels are lowering use of
chemicals. Other hotels are also participating in what is
called “evergreen rooms”, which use air purifiers
and water filters, cotton sheets and non-toxic cleaners.
To find evergreen rooms on your next trip, click on http://www.evergreenrooms.com/script/hotel.cgi.
Happy travels!
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NEW FROM HEARTLAND!
Golden Omega Flaxseed, Ground or Whole. It makes your chocolate
chip cookies soft, chewy and healthier, it mixes well with
nut butters for kids, and it is ready to use. If your goal
is to add more healthy omega-3 essential fatty acids and
whole food fiber to your diet, Heartland’s newest
product is the perfect answer. Heartland’s Golden
Omega Ground Flaxseed provides an easy and convenient way
to supplement with flax. Heartland uses a special “cutting”
method for grinding which helps to preserve the oils, making
them last longer. This milling process is much gentler on
the molecular structure of the seeds than grinding. The
flax maintains its stability and comes to you conveniently
packaged and ready to use. To order, call 1-888-722-2345.
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ALKALIZING YOUR BODY
Fasting is a fast way to detoxify. Because so many Americans
eat a “S.A.D.” (Standard American Diet) made
up of a high percentage of acid-forming foods, fasting is
both more important and more dangerous. Instead of water
fasting, consider juice fasting, and get a good book on
how to detoxify, like Bragg’s classic “The Miracle
of Fasting.” It is one of the best things you can
do for your health – and it has “fast”
results! Cayenne is one of the secrets of successful fasting
because of its high alkalinity.
ALKALINE HIGHLIGHT: Cayenne Pepper – 7.0. “A
miracle food! Cayenne HEALS the body. It can be eaten as
pods, as a powdered condiment, or taken as a nutritional
supplement to stimulate the entire endocrine system.”
ACID HIGHLIGHT: “Black Pepper, an acid-former, irritates
the stomach, while cayenne is especially good for stomach
ulcers.” Refined white salt is also acid-forming.
So much for the salt & pepper shakers! How about gray
& red shakers instead by using natural sea salt and
cayenne pepper?
(Quotations from page 67, Alkalize or Die by Dr. Theodore
A. Baroody)
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RECIPES FOR HEALTH
Chocolate Chip & Flax Cookies
4 eggs
1 C honey
2 C softened butter
2 C brown sugar
4 tsp vanilla
3-4 C whole wheat flour
1/2 C ground flaxseed
2 tsp soda
2 tsp salt
2 bags Chocolate Chips
Beat together eggs, brown sugar, honey, butter and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients and mix well. Drop onto lightly greased
cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until
done.
Send us your own favorite recipes for keeping your family
healthy naturally! E-mail to recipes@heartlandnatural.com
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REFERENCES
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