24 August 2023|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Research papers, Sustainability, Testimonials
Repair. Restore. Heal.
This powerful new award-winning film moved us, just as it did Dr Gabor Maté. It’s all about relationships; the baggage we bring to them, often without ever connecting the dots as to why. It’s free to watch if you choose, or you can choose to donate to their work. Powerful lessons for our mental health.
This young man ended up homeless after his parents’ divorce.
A love of gardening saved him, he says it ‘gave him a purpose.’ We all need that.
Ross Lee now has a huge social media following, has appeared on TV and now works as a garden designer. You can read how he repaired, restored and healed here.
Something that repairs, restores and heals many is food. Our food choices matter.
Here’s last night’s supper, a delicious curry from The Doctor’s Kitchen aka Dr Rupy Aujla, whose food we love.
This cinnamon, green bean and mushroom curry recipe is on the Doctor’s and our sites.
There’s 1000’s more healthy recipes
to discover too.
Popped into the sitting room to tell everyone supper was ready – and there was Dr Rupy cooking away on the TV! If you’re in the UK you can watch his shows on IPlayer, link here.
These folk work on a preventative basis, so they have nothing to repair, restore or heal from. This is a trailer from ‘Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones’ a 4 part series which is available on Netflix from next Wednesday (30 August 2023). He travels to The Blue Zones, 5 communities where ‘people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives.’ Yes, just yes!
Let’s add recycle to the list.
Saw this huge cardboard box at the entrance to our local hypermarket.
‘Help yourself’ says the box. The bin next to it is full of plastic bottles that’ll be recycled too.
Excellent.
Autumn’s almost upon us in the Northern hemisphere. Lots of talk of new viruses. Interesting article from Dr Gary Gonzalez at Life Extension: ‘Human studies show that elderberry, zinc, and vitamin C, taken in the early stages of a cold or flu, can activate the body’s immune functions and shorten the duration.’
Zinc and Vitamin C were certainly part of the protocol many were taking over the past 3 years – with seemingly good results. We’d throw Vitamin D into the mix too – lots of research showing its protective benefits when we’re not getting it naturally from the sun during the winter months.
This is a screenshot taken by an American cancer patient of the dietary recommendations from her oncologist. Then we see an updated article: ’20 Links Between Sugar and Cancer’ from Chris Woollams (Oxford Uni trained biochemist and founder of CancerActive, which we’ve featured on our cancer resource since Day One). Refined white breads, rolls, bagels, biscuits, muffins… Speechless.
Smoothie time with yet more garden produce! Our Nutribullet is well used, mainly because it’s powerful, easy to use and all importantly easy to clean, not too hard on the pocket either.
Here’s the recipe for this refreshing peach one:
3 peaches, handful of frozen blueberries, tsp of chia seeds, banana, coconut water and filtered water.
Naturally sweet with NO ADDED SUGAR.
‘Train a child in the way he should go’ (Proverbs 22:6 ESV).
These were our youngest’s offerings yesterday afternoon. Her first, but not last, attempt at acai bowls:
Frozen acai pulp (antioxidants), chopped banana (Vit C/Potassium), home-made (but not by me!) peanut butter (healthy fats/high quality protein), desiccated coconut (high energy/fibre), pumpkin seeds (healthy fats/magnesium/zinc/, dark chocolate buttons (high in fibre/iron/magnesium) and (for some bizarre reason) AllBran (fibre).
A very well balanced afternoon treat.
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