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What is your relationship with food?
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February 2009 |
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 What is your relationship with Food?
Food has the power to impact us on a level deeper than just our physical well-being. What we eat can reconnect us to precious memories, like childhood playtimes, first dates, holidays, our grandmother's cooking or our country of ancestry. Our bodies remember foods from the past on an emotional and cellular level. Eating this food connects us to our roots and has youthening and nurturing effects that go far beyond the food's biochemical make-up.
Acknowledging what different foods mean to us is an important part of cultivating a good relationship with food. This month when we celebrate valentine's day and relationships, it's important to notice that we each have a relationship with food-and that this relationship is often far from loving. Many of us restrict food, attempting to control our weight. We often abuse food, substituting it for emotional well-being. Others ignore food, swallowing it whole before we've even tasted it.
What would your life be like if you treated food and your body as you would treat your loved one? With gentleness, playfulness, communication, honesty, respect and love? What is your relationship with food? The next time you eat your soul food, do so with awareness and without guilt, and enjoy all the healing and nourishment it brings you.
Be Well,
Liz
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SUPERFOOD Focus: CACAO
We've all heard that dark chocolate has beneficial properties, research has shown that it helps keep high blood pressure down, your blood flowing and your heart healthy. Not to mention the uplifting mood raising emotional effects! But then ofcourse we are told to only have it in moderation, afterall chocolates are still loaded with processed sugars and fat. So what's a chocolate lover to do??!!
Well chocolate lovers, there is an answer to your prayers and it lies in the cacao nut, this is where chocolate comes from. Raw cacao is the #1 ANTIOXIDANT RICH FOOD ON THE PLANET. Cacao has more antioxidants than red wine, blueberries, acai, pomegranates, and goji berries COMBINED. Below is the ORAC scale or system used to measure the amount of antioxidants in a food. As you can see Cacao far surpasses the top antioxidant rich foods.
 Not only is CACAO the #1 source of antioxidants but also the #1 source of magnesium (the most deficient major mineral on the Standard American Diet) What are the best ways to use raw cacao? Find out how to use this AMAZING superfood and other extremely potent superfoods in my upcoming teleclass: Superfoods, Super Benefits Teleclass. You'll learn why they work, how to use them, recipes and best brands.
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What makes Superfoods so "Super?"
Join me Tuesday, February 17th at 7pm EST to find out. I'm thrilled to share these incredible foods with you. This is more then just blueberries, if you were stranded on an island you could survive on these superfoods!
We'll discuss some of nature's most powerful foods, how to use them (recipes provided) and their amazing benefits. Why not incorporate these natural foods that have been shown to alleviate cravings, send your energy levels through the roof, regulate hormones, boost your mood and brain function, heal the body and promote weight loss.
Live,
workshop by phone. You can "attend" this teleclass from anywhere in the
world. Simply register here. Details on how to join the call will be
sent to your inbox.
Can't make the live call?
Don't worry! You can still purchase the recording. A play back link of the call will be delivered to your inbox the next day.
Cost $12. Sign up by February 15th before prices go up!
Know someone else who may benefit from these amazing foods? 
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This Months Recipes: Raw Chocolate Covered Strawberries 
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of Coconut Oil (room temperature)
4 Tablespoons of Raw Cacao Powder
2 Tablespoons Agave Nectar
Strawberries (you could also dip bananas, nuts, etc)
*Double the recipe to accommodate the amount of fruit you would like to dip.
Directions:
1. Mix coconut oil, cacao, agave in a bowl. Dip fruit into the chocolate and place in fridge until chocolate turns hard.
2. Use the leftover chocolate sauce to pour into ice cube molds and freeze to make chocolates.
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