Vegan Potato Salad no eggs no mayo

Dirty Girl’s Vegan Potato Salad

6 red potatoes, cut into quarters (I leave the skin on, you can take it off if you want)
1 cup celery, chopped (115g)
1 cup red or yellow onion, diced (115g)
1/2 cup parsley, finely chopped (20g)
2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped (6g)

Dressing 
1 cup cashews, soaked in water for at least 10 minutes (135g)
2 dates, soaked in hot water for 10 minutes (be sure to take the pit out)
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tablespoon yellow mustard (18g)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast (18g)
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon sea salt (6g)
1 cup water

  • Add the quartered potatoes to a large pot and completely cover them with water by 1 or 2 inches. Place a lid on the pot at an angle and cook for 25 minutes or until you can pierce them with a fork.
  • Drain the potatoes and set them aside to cool.
  • Make the dressing by draining and rinsing the cashews and placing them into the blender along with the rest of the dressing ingredients (dates – make sure to drain the water and remove the pit before adding the dates to the blender  – garlic, mustard, nutritional yeast, salt, apple cider vinegar, and water). Blend until totally creamy and smooth, about a minute. Set aside for now.
  • When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut them into bite-sized pieces and place them into a large mixing bowl and add the celery, onion, parsley, dill, and all of the dressing.
  • Gently stir until everything is combined and add salt and pepper to taste.
  • Best served cold.

 

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Cancer

           NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING CANCER

If someone truly wants to, cancer can be managed nutritionally.  There are determined people who are able to really know what they need.  It takes trusting your own sense and asking for divine help to make it work, because it is the Creator who gives and takes life.

  • Detoxification with digestive enzymes
  • Buffered ascorbate vitamin C
  • Coenzyme Q10
  • Omega 3 essential fat
  • Vitamin D
  • Arginine
  • B vitamins: B12 Folic Acid
  • Antioxidants
  • Alkalizing the body
  • Magnesium
  • Water intake
  • Balanced meals on a schedule
  • Exercise and movement
  • Relaxation and stress reduction, positive thinking
  • Active participation in your own care nourish yourself
  • Confidence: nutrition therapy beats chemotherapy

DETOXIFICATION AND ELIMINATION:

Enzymes dissolve the fibrous, hard protective shell around cancer cells.  Take digestive enzymes on an empty stomach to get a systemic effect.  In order to clear the fibrous shell around cancer cells, take digestive enzymes on an empty stomach with water. Wait at least one half hour to eat.

Digestive enzymes can also be taken at the beginning of meals to improve digestion, but for dissolving cancer cell membranes take any kind of digestive enzymes on an empty stomach daily at bedtime or early morning or any time that is convenient for you.

Use serapeptidase enzyme to clear mucus, thick body fluids or any fibrous accumulation in the lungs or lymphatic system. 

Use natokinase or lumbrokinase enzymes to clear fibrous accumulation that is angiogenic in the blood vessels.

Any enzyme product will have a systemic beneficial effect when taken on an empty stomach.

Live foods such as uncooked, raw vegetables, fruits and raw nuts and seeds provide enzymes.  Eat lots of vegetables and drink water continually. 

 ASCORBATE VITAMIN C:

Buffered Vitamin C clears out toxins by binding toxic metals and toxic chemicals that have been stored in the body, and then flushes them out through the bowels.  Use an ascorbate flush protocol once weekly as a detoxification strategy, or at least one time to determine your personal daily needs.

To calculate the optimum amount of Vitamin C for your daily needs take 1000mg of buffered Vitamin C every 15 minutes until you get diarrhea. Your daily optimum requirement will be 1000mg less than the total amount needed to cause the flush. For example, if you required 5000mg to achieve the flush then 4000mg is your optimal amount. Once you determine your optimal amount take half in the AM and take the other half in the PM.  

Ascorbate is of benefit in cancer because it facilitates apoptosis, also called programmed cell death which is the bursting and death of cancer cells.

BATHING AND LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE:

Soak in sea salt, Epsom salt, sodium bicarbonate in the bath and wash off sweat with soap. 

Wash in the shower holding the soap and moving your hand over your extremities from the knees to the thighs on all sides of the legs.  Rub both legs from the knees to the thighs in front, on the sides and the back of the upper leg; then wash from the ankles to the knees on all sides.  Get rid of lymph fluid in the upper leg and then work on the circulation of the lower legs. 

First wash the underarms in circular movements in both directions clockwise and counterclockwise as desired.  Then wash the  upper arms on all sides, from the elbow to the shoulder, on the top in the back, underneath and inside; then wash the forearms on all sides, moving your hand from the wrists to the elbows, on all sides.

In general you always want to move the circulation toward the sweat glands under the arm or towards the sweat glands in the groin.

From the center of the chest, wash toward your armpit above and below the breast.  From the center of the upper back wash from the center toward the sweat gland by your shoulder. 

To reduce edema, make effort to encourage the circulation in the natural way the lymphatic system flows.  You can get rid of a terrible cold and congestion by washing in the correct direction.

 WATER INTAKE: 

Drink purified water as needed and thank G-d for urination.

Adequate hydration is necessary to process waste products that are being eliminated when using a detoxification protocol.   Water enables expectoration and bowel movements.  Dehydration may actually be a cause of headache.  Other liquids such as juices are a source of carbohydrates and should be considered part of balanced meals.  Water is a free beverage unlike other beverages and is necessary for homeostasis, circulation and to prevent muscle atrophy.  

Exercise and movement is important to facilitate detoxification through the lymphatic system which releases through the sweat glands, bowel movements, urination and breathing.

OMEGA-3 ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS:

The outer surface of every cell is composed of fat.  Liquidy fat is needed for production of helpful hormones that decrease inflammation.  Omega-3 fish oils supplies the substance that make the skin of every cell.  This supple, flexible cell membrane creates permeability in cells allowing for elimination of wastes and then you can really benefit from  intake of nutrients because you’ll be able to absorb nutrients through the surface of the cells.  Omega 3 enables cells to spontaneously produce anti-inflammatory eicosanoid hormones which decrease pain and inflammation.  Omega-3 stabilizes normal cell growth and limits chaotic overgrowth of cancer cells.

Symptoms of Omega-3 deficiency are dry eyes, dry hair and dry skin, constipation, insomnia, insulin resistance, edema, muscle aches, headaches, arthritic pain.

According to Dr. Barry Sears of the popular Zone Diet, dosage recommendations for  Omega-3 EFAs are a minimum of 4000mg daily taken with fatty foods such as nuts, seeds, olives, avocados or during/after a meal for everyone.  Individuals with cancer have higher needs than healthy people.

Omega-3 EFAs 4000 mg can be consumed every 3 to 4 hours if needed to control any physical pain, swelling, or inflammation.

VITAMIN D:

Symptoms of Vitamin D deficiency include osteoporosis or loss of bone in teeth above the gums, high blood pressure, diabetes, insulin resistance, the flu, infections, cancer.  People don’t work on farms in the sun and when we go to the beach or the park we put on sunscreen.  And COPP a Life Corp. thinks there is a Vitamin D deficiency epidemic.

Get a lab test to determine if you need to supplement with Vitamin D.  Take in sunlight directly on your skin in order to produce Vitamin D yourself.

Vitamin D mechanisms of action include: decreases rennin production thereby reducing blood pressure,  decreases insulin resistance, enables insulin production, antibacterial, antiinfective, inhibits angiogenesis and blood vessel growth, increases bone growth by increased mineral utilization.

COENZYMEQ10:

Cancer cells have a tough, fibrous shell which prevents oxygen from entering the cell. Cancer cells thrive in this anaerobic environment. CoenzymeQ10 enhances the utilization of oxygen inside cells and increases the amount of oxygen in all cells. Cancer cells cannot grow in an aerobic environment.   Dosage of CoQ-10 varies according to individual needs.  Symptoms of CoenzymeQ10 deficiency are bleeding gums, gingivitis, muscle fatigue, rhabdomyolysis.   A doctor can order the blood test CPK creatinine phospho kinase, to check for and monitor for muscle breakdown if you take Statin cholesterol medications and other medications listed below.  Beware that if you take prescription or over the counter medications that inhibit the body’s production of CoenzymeQ10 you are more at risk of growing cancer cells.

DRUGS THAT INHIBIT OR DIMINISH COENZYMEQ10

PRODUCTION OR FUNCTION:

Prochlorperazine used as an antiemetic during chemotherapy actually shuts down production of coenzyme Q10 and ATP production.  

BETA BLOCKERS AND BLOOD PRESSURE LOWERING MEDS

Acebutolol 

Atenolol     

Nadolol

Hydralazine

Metoprolol

Pindolol

Propranolol

Satolol

Timolol

Clonidine            

Methyldopa

CHOLESTEROL LOWERING MEDS AND STATINS

Atorvastatin

Cervistatin

Lovastatin

Pravastatin         

Fluvastatin                   

Simvastatin

Femofibrate

Gemfibrazole      

DIABETES MEDICATIONS

Acetohexamide

Glimepriride

Metformin 

Tolazamide

Tolbutamide

DIURETICS OR WATER PILLS

Amiloride

Benzthiazide

Chlorthiazide

Hydrochlorothiazide                                           

Hydroflumethiazide

Indapamide

Methyclothiazide

Metolazone         

Polythiazide

Quinethazone

Trichlorethiazide

PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS

Amitriptyline

Amoxapine

Chlorpromazine           

Clomipramine

Desipramine

Doxepin     

Enoxacin   

Fluphenazine                                   

Haloperidol                                                                                      

Imipramine

Mesoridazine

Nortriptyline                                                      

Perphenazine      

Prochlorperazine

Promazine          

Promethazine

Protriptyline

Thiethylperazine

Thioridazine

Trifluperine

Trimipramine

 

B VITAMINS:

B vitamins are necessary for normal cell growth and production of healthy DNA.  Folic acid, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6, Niacin, Thiamine, Riboflavin, choline and inositol, biotin.

Beware of medications that inhibit absorption of B vitamins in the gastro-intestinal tract.  Examples include Acid-blockers like:

H2 receptor antagonists Cimetadine, Tagamet, Nizatidine, Axid, Zantac, Ranitidine, Pepcid, Famotidine

Proton Pump Inhibitors Prilosec, Omeprazole, Prevacid, Lansoprazole, Nexium,esomeprazole, Protonix, Aciphex. 

Metformin, which is used for Diabetes and Poly-cystic Ovarian syndrome inhibits intestinal absorption of Vitamin B12 and folic acid.

If you take medications that inhibit the absorption of B vitamins in the digestive tract, supplement with a B complex product that is absorbed through a different route of administration, such as a sublingual melting, dissolving lozenge or a topical patch that sticks to your skin where there is no hair. 

Directions: Dissolve under the tongue daily to absorb directly into the glands and blood stream and bypassing the gastrointestinal tract.

or

Apply topical patch to skin daily or as needed behind the ear or on skin where there is no hair growth.  

ARGININE:

Increases microcirculation perfusion.

 ANTIOXIDANTS:

Antioxidants prevent aging of cells, slow cell growth and revitalize the body.  These include:

Fresh, live raw organic fruits and vegetables

Vitamin E mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols

Vitamin C ascorbate buffered with magnesium

Selenium

Carotenoids

Glutathione

Alpha Lipoic Acid

Methyl sulfonyl methionine MSM

Etc

ALKALINIZING THE BODY:

The body is more susceptible to growing cancer cells in an acid environment. Diet recommendations include supplementing with minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, and zinc.  Remember to balance calcium intake with magnesium supplements (for extensive information on magnesium deficiency caused by excessive calcium intake and on the pathophysiology of magnesium deficiency see http://www.MGwater.com.)  Symptom of magnesium deficiency is foul body odor.

Eat balanced meals and make sure that at least 50% of your diet is vegetables.

All meat, chicken, fish, dairy products, and grains are acid forming foods.

Vegetables are alkalinizing, they provide antioxidants and low glycemic vegetables and they stabilize blood sugar, insulin and cortisol production which influences immune function.

MIND & BODY SUPPORT:

Increase stress management and relaxation techniques.  Gather social and family support.  Utilize techniques that help you relax, feel better and stay positive such as yoga, bio-feedback, chiropractic visits, massage therapy, positive affirmations, visualize yourself healthy.

If you want to live, ask the Creator to give you a complete recovery; and believe that He will send the recovery through your work in detoxifying physically and mentally, and by rebuilding yourself.

NUTRIENTS SPECIFIC FOR BREAST CANCER:

Excess estrogen may be produced or there is an imbalance in the forms of estrogen present in the body. 

Avoid commercially processed meat meaning if the cows ate food with pesticides their fat is higher in toxins and omega 6 fats which compete with omega 3.

Eat organic grass fed meat, chicken and eggs to reduce consumption of hormones, or pesticides which are xenobiotics and hormone mimickers.

Supplement with indole carbinol or DIM, an antiestrogen supplement manufactured from cruciferous vegetables or eat lots of cabbage, and cruciferous vegetables and any plant of the mustard family.

Increase in estrogen decreases copper excretion via the liver and gallbladder.  If there is increased copper, then zinc is decreased.   Decreased zinc will decrease progesterone levels.

Symptoms of increased copper are prolonged heavy menstrual flow, low thyroid function, low adrenal hormone production.  Copper toxicity is seen in deficiency of Vitamin C, Vitamin A, B6, B3, B5, zinc and iron.

Symptoms of decreased zinc are white spots on nails, stretch marks (relative deficiency produces white or silver stretch marks, absolute zinc deficiency produces red or purple stretch marks) frontal headaches, fatigue, emotional volatility, constipation, weight gain, increased blood insulin levels, less storage of insulin, hypoglycemia and food cravings.

Bio

Rivka Freeman, RPh is a NYS Registered Pharmacist for 23 years and a Clinical Nutrition Pharmacist for 14 years.  She specializes in risk advisory and cost containment.  Her continuing education information on balanced meals as a childhood and community obesity and diabetes prevention program appear in ww.nutritionpharmacist.wordpress.com. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with three children, ages 24, 17 and 16.  She had a left mastectomy for breast cancer 23 years.  In January of 2002 and December of 2002 she eliminated breast cancer tumors in her right breast using the nutritional strategies here.

Creamy oat and mushroom soup

This recipe is full of healthyvplantbased foods. Use water to saute shallots garlic and mushrooms to nake the recipe oil free and lower in calories.

In Vegetables We Trust

So I have an obsession with oatly oat milk at the mo, they’re getting a lot of stick for saying that their oat milk is “like milk but made for humans”, but I think they’re pretty rad. I may of said that before, but, its still rad. Their milk is rad, thier oat cream is rad and everything is rad….. RAD. So i’ve decided to use their stuff a lot more cause I dig how they don’t hide away from stating the obvious. Ya don’t need cows milk. I’m gonna stop saying things like rad and dig now and just give you a recipe to enjoy, its a creamy and fragrant oat and mushroom soup, that i think is pretty rad…. yeah, I said RAD again…..


mushroom soup

Ingredients:
olive oil
2 shallots, chopped fine
3 cloves garlic, minced
400g/14oz portabello mushrooms, diced,
1 cup white wine
2 cups oatly oat…

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Making Thyroid Hormone that Works is a 12 Step Program

12 Steps to to make active Thyroid hormone that works:

4 nutrients needed to make TSH Thyroid Stimulating Hormone made in pituitary gland in brain:

1) Plant Protein from vegetables and beans

Minerals
2)Magnesium from green vegetables, potatoes, nuts and seeds

3) Zinc from nuts and seeds

4) Vitamin B12 from Sublingual lozenges or topical patches a route of administration of Vitamin B12 that bypasses low stomach acid hypochlorhydria in the GI tract.

4 molecules of iodine, Vit C and Vit B2 needed to bring thyroid hormone into the thyroid gland in the neck:

5) Iodine from seaweed

6) Vitamin C from citrus, hibiscus, greens, broccoli

7) Vitamin B2 from whole grains, nutritional yeast,
leafy green vegetables

(For Iodine Dr Michael Greger MD recommends (p 409 #HowNotToDie) including 2 sheets of plain Nori the seaweed used to make sushi or sprinkling a half teaspoon Arame or Dulse into your food daily to consume iodine.

He cautions against consuming hijiki also spelled hiziki because it has been found to be contaminated with arsenic.

Michael Greger’s recipe for nori crackers is to brush the plain nori sheets with jarred picked ginger juice and lightly sprinkle on wasabi powder bake in oven for five minutes at 300 degrees F.)

The thyroid gland makes thyroxine T4 thyroid hormone.

To activate Thyroxine T4 an enzyme driven by
8) Selenium is required so eat Brazil Nuts to convert T4 to make T3 triiodothyronine. Without Selenium we make Reverse T3 which blocks the thyroid receptor.

To activate T3 by making the peripheral receptor cites receive T3
we need
Vit D Vit A omega3

Take
9) VitaminD a fat soluble vitamin with nuts, seeds or when you eat a salad with apple cider vinegar and avocado and citrus to improve absorption of VitaminD.

10) Vit A and cartenoids from orange vegetables cantalope, carrots, sweet potato, mango, acorn squash

For the receptor sites to be receptive to receive T3 we need
11) omega3 from ground flax seeds chia seeds or walnuts or green vegetable and nori to make the receptor doorways flexible

12) good microbiome bacteria and enzymes needed to convert T4 to active T3.
Eat prebiotic foods and probiotics fermented vegetables.

Classic Vegan Cheesecake

Whole food Plantbased Classic Cheesecake Recipe and Video Demo

The Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show


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Classic Vegan Cheesecake

It’s holiday time and you need a great “crowd pleaser” dessert to take to that potluck party. Well, this is your recipe. It is sure to please even the most skeptical “foodie”! I mean really, who doesn’t love a classic cheesecake. It is festive looking and tastes even better than it looks. This recipe has the added bonus of being good for you. Oh my. Yes, I did say it is good for you. Can you believe it? A dessert as rich and delicious as this one can actually be healthy! 

  • High Powered Blender
  • 9" Springform Pan

Crust

  • 1 cup raw almonds
  • 1/2 cup dates
  • 1/2 cup raisins

Filling

  • 4 cups raw (unsalted cashews)
  • 1 cup medjool dates
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract (or 1/2 tsp vanilla powder)
  • 2 cups almond milk (or nut milk of your preference)

Toppings

  • 2 cups raspberries
  • 3…

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Viktor Frankl – Meaning from the Noetic

Sevilla King, LICSW

Of the thinkers and artists that have influenced my approach, Viktor Frankl is one of the most instrumental in how I envision healing for my clients. There is a reason Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning can declare on its cover, “over 12 million copies in print”. Within the slim volume contains some of the most profound ideas for transcendence of suffering that has graced modern thought.

MSM-paperback_1024x1024.jpgFrankl, in his 4 years in various concentration camps, including Auschwitz, made the profound observation that prisoners who had something to live for upon release, even if the chances of that something actually manifesting were miniscule, had a chance of survival – and in rare cases, could even thrive. Those who did not were doomed. The latter often gave up, lay down and died. Frankl observed that those who had meaning in their lives were much better able to endure suffering, and even…

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Chocolate Dessert Hummus

Whole Food PlantbSed Chocolate Hummus Sandwich and Fruit Dip

Little Blue Plates

img_9713 Chocolate Dessert Hummus is delicious spread on whole-grain toast and topped with bananas.

If you don’t tell, no one will ever know there’s a whole can of BLACK BEANS in there. This makes an excellent dip for fresh fruit, or a delicious spread for whole grain toast!  What a great way to incorporate more beans into your family’s diet, because no one can resist dipping into this fudgy-chocolatey goodness!

img_9732 Chocolate Dessert Hummus- Makes an excellent, healthy dip for fresh fruit.

img_9713 Chocolate Dessert Hummus is delicious spread on toast and topped with bananas. If you don’t tell, no one will know there’s a whole can of BLACK BEANS in there.

Recipe adapted from My Whole Food Life

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Choc & Nut Banana Muffins

No sugar, banana, dates and applesauce based muffin #Recipe includes healthy fat from flaxseeds or chia seeds for Omega3 and can be made completely #Vegan

SOBODY HEALTHY RECIPES

Choc chip muff 2

Hands up who loves chocolate chip muffins? But how can these be healthy? By using a few crafty substitutes to conventional recipes, you can rustle up these sugar-free & almost fat-free muffins within an hour (If you want these completely fat-free, just add an extra banana for more moisture). A case of having your cake & eating it!

Choc chip muff 1

These muffins have widespread appeal as they are so tasty, you wouldn’t even know that they are healthy; a great way of encouraging children & the less health-conscious to eat more healthily! The recipe as it stands is suited for vegetarians & coeliacs, but can easily be adapted for vegans too (details below).

They are highly portable, making them great for breakfast-on-the-go, lunchbox snacks, picnics & as pre-work out energy boosts. They also make super healthy (& cute) alternatives at afternoon tea.

Choc chip muff 4

So what are the substitutes?  The sweetness is provided by ripe bananas & dried…

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Sprouted-grain sourdough bread

The day before Yom Kippur we eat 2 meals with bread to feast in preparation for the fast. Sprouted Grain Sourdough Bread Recipe:

The Gourmet Alkaline Lifestyle

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5 Benefits to Sourdough Preparation

(taken from Real Food Forager)

Click here for the full article.

1- Increases beneficial lactic acid

The longer rise time needed for sourdough increases the lactic acid and creates an ideal pH for the enzyme phytase. This enzyme breaks down phytates more effectively than in yeast breads. Sourdough rye has the least amount of phytates making it a healthier bread.

2- Predigestion of starches

The bacteria and yeast in the sourdough culture work to predigest the starches in the grains, thus making it more easily digestible to the consumer.

3- Breakdown of gluten

Here again, the longer soaking and rising times in the preparation of sourdough breaks the protein gluten into amino acids, making it more digestible.

4- Preservative

The acetic acid which is produced along with lactic acid, helps preserve the bread by inhibiting the growth of mold.

5- Better blood glucose regulation

There…

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Alkaline chocolate pudding

Add ground chia or ground flax seeds in this chocolate avocado pudding recipe to get your Omega3. Add a banana or dates or raisins as sweetener instead of Swerve to eat more fruit:

The Gourmet Alkaline Lifestyle

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You will not believe how delicious this is!!!  Its tastes like a bowl of cold chocolate pudding!

You will need:

 2 avocados

3/4-1 cup almond milk

1/3-1/2 cup raw cacao powder

1 tsp 100% pure organic vanilla (optional)

2-4 tbsp Swerve sweetener

1.  Process all ingredients in a blender or by using a hand-emersion mixer, until smooth.  Add more milk and/or other ingredients if needed.  Chill.

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Tomato Stew

No oil Tomato 🍅 Sauce or Stew 🍲 I would add ground flax seeds to consume Omega3 and lignans #Vegan #Recipe by @TheCanadianAfrican