Food Combining
Consider Your diet is the foundation on which everything else is built. – Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed. In preparing this post, I was reminded that our mouth, stomach and intestines exist to gather fuel and eliminate whatever doesn’t nourish. With the many tasty delights awaiting during a food extravaganza like Thanksgiving, understanding digestion could help. Ancient Nutrition describes ‘Food Combining’ as a way of eating that takes the ‘stress off of the digestive system by eating simple, appropriately portioned meals consisting of foods that work well when paired together.” Some foods require different enzymes and take longer to digest than others. When the stomach receives varied foods at the same time, processing delays and digestive difficulties can arise. The Living Proof Institute reminds that, “bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, nausea, … feeling digestive discomfort or fatigue after eating isn’t normal. In fact, after you eat you should feel energized, refreshed, and ready to take on the world,” which can happen more easily when, Fruits are eaten alone Proteins are eaten with leafy, green [non-starchy] vegetables Keeping digestive juices at full strength by avoiding liquids during meals Read more As suggested in Succeed and Soar’s first Thanksgiving post,, “Traditions change. Now, some celebrate Friendsgiving.” Should food cornucopias prove too tempting, one Thanksgiving over-doing remedy could involve letting the digestive system recover while giving the body an internal tune up like the Seneca Fast. It involves eating fruits one day, drinking teas the next. Enjoy vegetables the third day. The fourth and last day, nourish and restore with vegetable broths. Here’s more detailed information: Seneca Body Detox Cleanse Seneca Fast [which includes some interesting comments-questions] Free, Food Combining charts Natalya Frolova, Registered Nutritionist Monotrophic Meal – One Food at a Meal is The Ideal The Divine Way to Combine Informative videos: How Food is Digested – Length 02:24 Food Combining Basics – Length: 08:41 How Long [Different] Foods Stay in The Stomach – Length 02:20 Succeed and Soar! Sandra Gould Ford Presenting arts experiences to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. Sandra’s Art on Greeting Cards As well as shirts, puzzles, phone cases, ornaments, journals, blankets, clocks and more. This photograph was taken in downtown Pittsburgh’s Trinity Cathedral, the beautifully-decorated aisle offering peace, grace and serenity.About the gorgeous, quality Greeting Cards: Impressive 5×7, 100 pound stock Outside: Semi-gloss, protective UV coat Inside: matte white finish Your own, personal message can be printed inside cards [up to 500 characters] Single card $4.95 Box of ten: $2.55 per card Box of 25: $1.95 per card CUSTOMIZE. Use tools with item to: Enlarge, reduce size of art Change placement of art and text Choose background colors Click on pictured item to purchase. Nine gorgeous images have been added, including lovely naturescapes. Shop the Celebrate Winter collection HERE. Thanks for your support! Keep in Mind All information offered here is meant to encourage, refresh, enrich creative thinking and inspire. With a Masters Degree in Fine Arts, Sandra Gould Ford is an artist, author, educator and former steelworker who intends to lift hearts and spirits, our awareness and humanity. Know that information explored here may be time sensitive and could have been updated. This material prescribes neither drugs nor therapies. Further, this brief post cannot cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, warnings, drug interactions, allergic responses, adverse effects or appropriateness for any individual. This presenter uses her best discretion in sharing resources. She recommends readers do the same, including consulting appropriate professionals [including doctors, nurses and/or pharmacists] to make sure this information fits personal circumstances. Blessings and Good Health
To Be Great Again
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. ― Rumi Of late, I’ve wondered what ever did Make America Great and whether those acts should be repeated. After all, in 1637 Thanksgiving became an annual event to celebrate the massacre of the Wampanoags, the people who saved the Pilgrims from starvation. See New York Times. In pressing President Lincoln to make Plymouth’s annual feast a national holiday, Thanksgiving’s Godmother saw the celebration as a white-only event. See Washington Post. Have yhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/27/how-fourth-thursday-november-officially-became-thanksgivingou ever wondered: Was the United States receiving stolen goods when it purchased the Louisiana Territory? After all, how did the French come to own then sell Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, parts of Minnesota and Louisiana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado? See As described in Doug J. Swanson’s Cult of Glory, the Texas Rangers ‘ role in taking Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California from its first settlers is sordid. See These acts plus slavery enabled the United States’ growth. Despite this country’s building blocks, might the ideals that always made this nation great be beliefs that here, as nowhere else, human beings can build a world-leading civilization based on: Generous, big-hearted spirits Social activism, always our brothers’ keepers Innovative thought, pioneering projects and progressive achievements Recently, America has experienced plagues of fearfulness, paranoia, intolerance, prejudice, divisiveness, isolationism and stinginess. A cure for those dis-eases could be re-presenting ourselves as described in the contender for our National Anthem. [Maybe “America The Beautiful” should replace the “Star Spangled Banner.”] See video below. An African wisdom advises: Face the sun and shadows will fall behind you. As we approach the Winter Solstice-New Year holy-days of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Pancha Ganapti, Saint Nicholas Day, Matariki, Sanghamitta, Dong Zhi, Soyal, Yalda and Yule, face the sun. Let’s make ourselves, everywhere greater than we were. We have wings. We can fly! Wanderings & Wonders Collection The inspiring and beautiful work in my Fine Art America collections is available as prints, framed and on canvas as well as on journals, greeting cards, weekender bags, shower curtains, puzzles and much more. Shop Here Thanks for your support! Sandra Gould Ford NOTE: size and placement of the art and words]can be changed as well as background colors.
Thanks-Giving
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “Thank you,” that would suffice. — Meister Eckhart Traditions change. Now, some celebrate Friendsgiving and feast with families born of their hearts. Wherever the meal, consider sharing thankfulness for those present, along with the mashed potatoes, string bean casserole and pumpkin pie. Plus,gratitude attitudes boost health. Sprinkle in holiday jokes [Question: Why was the Thanksgiving soup so expensive? Answer: It had 24 carrots.]. RealSimple.com offers 111 things to be thankful for. Their list includes the snooze button, baby giggles and Caller ID. What would you add? Thanksgiving. Yum. NOTE: After creating the cornbread for the featured image, Pati Finich made a similar one on her cooking show. Can’t find my recipe, but here’s her Poblano, Bacon and Cheddar Skillet Cornbread. Enjoy! Onward and Upward, The Wisdoms Collection Shop Enriching and Beautiful Posters Click Here