 THE
POWER TO HEAL
Hands-on live-action group work
For bodyworkers and students of bodywork
Monday
January 8th 2007, 8:30-10 pm
Onebodymind Studio
1437 16th Street, Suite B -
Santa Monica
(8 blocks from Lincoln exit of I-10)
donation-based*
donation = the act of giving
suggested donation $60
(No one will be turned away. I believe healing work is our birthright.
There are other ways to give
other than monetarily. Feel free to talk to me.)
GOOD FATS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
I
send you blessings and good health for the holidays, and a gentle reminder
that eating natural fats does not make you fat. This is a fundamental nutritional
fact that is often misunderstood. Eating more carbs and sugars than you burn
on the day you eat them makes your body store the extra calories as fat.
Good
natural fats include fat soluble vitamins and essential fatty acids which we
need for healthy nervous system, immune system, and endocrine system. By good
fats I mean olive oil, nuts, half n half, butter, whole milk, whole yogurt,
fish oil, etc.
Don’t be fooled by low fat, no fat advertising. Skim milk has no fat and only a trace amount of calcium, so it has virtually no nutritional benefit.
The
most famous American nutritionist, Weston Price, cured many very ill patients
with a diet of whole milk and vitamin rich butter from cows fed on growing
green wheat and rye grass, cod liver oil (source of omega 3 fatty acids with
vitamin A and D), whole cracked grain hot cereals, and elimination of all sugar,
white flour and skim milk.
In
Santa Monica, we are fortunate to be able to buy at our farmer’s market raw whole organic milk and butter from cows that are pasture fed on green growing grass from Organic Pastures (www.organicpastures.com).
So
if you are concerned about getting fat for the holidays, avoid sweets and breads
and pastas whose ingredients include sugar and bleached white flour. And of
course, none of us need to eat the bad fats, though we will crave them if we’re not getting enough of the good ones. Hydgrogenated oils and transfats commonly used in packaged food to extend the shelf life (read the labels) and fried foods are difficult to digest and have lost their nutritional value in the heating process. Trans fats may even have links to serious illnesses. (See transfats in Health Alerts.)
Don’t fret about the butter, half n half, and whipped cream. Enjoy them! They’re good for you as long as they’re natural and organic, (nobody needs bovine growth hormone and a dose of antibiotics on any occasion). In addition, fats tell the brain when we’re full, so without some fat in your meal or desert, you could go on eating all night.
EAT
WELL. BE WELL.
Camilla Griggers
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