WHOLLY MACRO
Macrobiotic Educators Personal Chefs
GAYLE STOLOVE ~ BS, RN, LMT JAIME PARRA ~ LMT
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CHANGE YOUR HEALTH
CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Reclaim your health with a natural and organic diet
and lifestyle based on oriental medicine and
healing arts, for the body, mind and spirit!
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Please find the December 16, 2010 Wholly Macro Delivery Menu below, as you scroll down through our Weekly Article to the Weekly Menu / Order Form section. Or, you can click on the Weekly Menu link above to go directly to it.
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WEEKLY NEWS
Wholly Macro will be closed for one week only the week of December 30, 2010 (for the holidays). We will re-open the week of January 6, 2011, sending that menu out on January 1, 2011. Once we re-open on January 6, we will not close again until April, when we will once again journey to the Kushi Institute for another two week intensive in macrobiotic cooking, shiatsu, and Oriental medicine and diagnosis. We look forward to a long, relaxing, healthy, and uninterrupted food delivery winter of 2011 with you until then! |
MORE WEEKLY NEWS
Please check out our Facebook page (you can sign in to your FB page and search for Wholly Macro or just go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wholly-Macro/153551971335962), as we have posted several photos from our recent trip to the Kushi Institute.
On our Facebook Page we have included some recipes that we think you will enjoy, including a delicious steamed rice bread recipe given to us by the head chef at the Kushi Institute, (that saved our life on the plane trip home it was so full of whole grains of rice, and so fortifying). It is both healthy and delicious, and easy to make as well. We hope you will check it out. Remember to "LIKE" our page, and join Wholly Macro's Facebook page so we can bring this community together by sharing informative and interesting stuff. It can be lots of fun!
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ABOUT THIS WEEKS MENU
It's so good to be back in sunny warm Florida, and back in our own kitchen cooking for ourselves and all of you
once again.
It is always interesting to be at the Kushi Institute and experience their excellent meals though. They incorporate the perfect melding of seasonal foods with selected aspects of foods from the previous and subsequent seasons (for balance), while adding a creative flair to the food as well. Much the same as we enjoy doing in the Wholly Macro kitchen.
One of our favorite dishes on this week's menu is the Sprouted Lentil Sautee. This dish was originally created by our dear yoga teacher, the very woman who brought Jaime and I together 17 years ago. She was a true and devoted vegetarian chef, and created a  unique way to sprout all of the living foods we use, the grains, the seeds, the beans, and the nuts. We use her sprouting method to this day in the Wholly Macro kitchen. We'll have to devote an entire newsletter on how to grow sprouts. We'll make a note to do just that! Sprouts add a fresh and lively energetic quality to food, and are wonderful to use throughout the year. They can be a great way to add fresh green live produce to a diet in the cold wintry environs, or just about anywhere, anytime, and really liven up just about any dish or plate of food with lots of oxygen giving chlorophyll, vitamins and minerals in great abundance, and phytonutrients specific to the type of sprout you are using. We love the addition of their freshness in this rich and hardy bean and vegetable saut�.
 Another great dish this week is the Ginger Almond Arame Cole Slaw. Besides all of the other vegetables in it, and the delicious crunch of the toasted almonds and pungency of the fresh ginger, it contains the highly valued food that so many people are missing in their diets known as sea vegetables. Cultures the world over have used sea vegetables from the beginning of time, because they contain a complete spectrum of rare but essential trace minerals that are NOT found in land vegetables. The minerals contained in sea vegetables are the same as those found in human blood, in very similar proportions, making them very easy for our bodies to assimilate and use. A recent study at the University of California found that the addition of sea vegetables in ones diet may reduce the likelihood of breast cancer. They have also been found to boost immune system function in numerous studies in many countries around the world. Sea vegetables also have a unique cleansing / chelating ability. Research headed by Dr. Yukio Tanaka at McGill University in Canada demonstrated that sea vegetables bind with toxic heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium and barium, that get stuck in our bodies from various forms of pollution and do great harm, drawing them out, and rendering them into forms that can be harmlessly eliminated.
And speaking of elimination, lets get on to our topic this week, Intake and Output.
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WEEKLY ARTICLE
Intake and Output, aka Eating /Absorbing and
Discharge / Elimination
About 30 years ago, while in nursing school, I was first introduced to the topic of Intake and Output. Clueless as to what it really meant, I faithfully measured "it" at the beginning and end of each of my nursing shifts. Intake not so much in the nursing world, as most of the patients I encountered were far too sick to really eat normally. Or maybe the hospital food was far too unappealing to really eat! Intake for the most part was reduced to either clear (chemically laden and colored) liquids, or IV fluids. Output was another story. Without going into too much gory detail, let me just say that the body puts out a lot of output, in many different forms, and from many varied bodily portals to the outside world when not functioning properly! Substances that course through our body normally and internally and are invisible to us become very shocking in their abnormal and external forms. Output comes in all different sizes, shapes, colors, odors, and consistencies. In the hospital, some erupts naturally, and some (most) unnaturally, and usually with the aid of various devices, such as chest tubes, nasal-gastric tubes, and all sorts of catheters, bags, and drains. If the body cannot get "it" out via normal and natural means, medicine must do it for you, invasively. One way or another, what goes in must come out. Wholly Macro's advice: be very careful what you put in!
Cut to 15 years later: post breast cancer and being the one with the unnatural drains in her own body, draining out copious amounts of lymphatic fluid for 6 entire weeks following surgery to remove a cancerous tumor and lymph nodes, led to creating, opening, and running Wholly Macro for the past 15 years while continuously studying and taking classes in Oriental Medicine as well. And low and behold, entire classes are devoted to Intake and Output in Oriental medicine, except this time around it is a little different. We here at Wholly Macro like to call it Eating / Absorbing, and Discharging / Eliminating. And in Oriental medicine, it is broken down into a far more intricate, logical, and compatible to human life form. We strive to catch imbalances in intake and output in its early stages, correcting any imbalance, before it becomes either abnormal external discharge, or worse yet, internalizes into serious disease.
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Two of our great teachers, George Ohsawa and Michio Kushi summed this topic up as The Seven Stages Of Illness. We've taken the liberty of interpreting it somewhat for you, and let us just say, that all of the trouble begins when you take in the wrong intake, too much of it, and it doesn't / isn't able to come out.
The Seven Stages Of Illness:
1. Normal and Abnormal Discharge. Normal discharge occurs all the time, via our skin cells sloughing off and regenerating, small amounts of our hair falling out and re-growing as new and healthy hair, normal sweating, etc. This type of discharge, when it is just mildly abnormal, such as general fatigue, constipation, heavy menstrual cycles, acne, etc. is quick and easy to heal, but many people ignore it, or cover it up with medications and stimulants. It then becomes known as:
2. Aches and Pains as it moves somewhat deeper into the body. Yet it is still relatively easy to turn it around and heal at this point, unless you continue to ignore it and it becomes:
3. Chronic Discharge. Chronic discharge manifests as emotional disorders for example, such as anxiety and depression, which are often self medicated with alcohol and prescription or recreational drugs. Chronic discharge can take several months or even a few years to heal, if addressed properly, or it can turn into:
4. Accumulation. Accumulation can be diseases of the blood such as infections, hypoglycemia, allergies, viruses, colds, flu, and mild arthritis. This also can take as little as a few months, or up to a few years to heal if properly addressed through diet and lifestyle changes, or, it can become:
5. Storage. Storage is organ disease, which is a deeper level of degeneration and can take at the very least a few years (or more) to heal, and only if the proper changes are made. Cancer is a form, perhaps the most well known form, of storage. And if changes are not made, if the same patterns of eating and living continue:
6. Nervous Disorders occur. We really didn't understand this advanced level of illness at first, until we understood that in Oriental medicine nervous disorders refer to breakdowns in the very constitution of our bodies, on a very deep level, even beyond the organs becoming ill. This level of illness occurs after the organs themselves become diseased. The organs can be healed if proper care is given. Many modern illnesses of the nervous disorder type, such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's, kidney disease and failure, suicidal depression, and Alzheimer's occur very deep within the body, are very serious, and take much longer to heal. Believe it or not, they are harder to heal albeit not always as quickly fatal, as diseases of the organs. And the final stage of illness is:
7. Arrogance. Remember, this is the Oriental medicine model of the stages of illness, as unlike the western medicine model of illness, as hospital oriented intake and output is to healthy and healing eating and normal discharge. Arrogance can be in the form of, "I know better, everyone else is wrong, everyone else is to blame, my doctor is incompetent, don't tell me how to eat!!" or it can be in a more passive form of, " I am not good enough, I don't deserve to live and be healthy, it is all hopeless so why bother". Both are arrogant. In Oriental medicine we believe that within this seventh stage of illness, arrogance, lays the cure. Illness and suffering can crack open arrogance, which leads to change, to acceptance, to non-arrogance, to non-blame, and to healing.
It is all about balance. Balance between intake and output, balance between not too narrow of a diet, and not too excessive, and balance between being too arrogant to be able to hear and to accept help and advice, or not arrogant enough to even listen or care. Intake and output are not created exactly equal. Intake has to be perfectly balanced so as to be perfectly and proportionately greater than output, because our body keeps part of our intake as nourishment, and also absorbs substances, including toxins, via the skin and via the lungs, not just via our mouths in the form of food. The bottom line: the body keeps / needs to hold onto the nourishing part of healthy intake, but inadvertently holds onto harmful intake as well, so you had better make your intake as good as you can, in all of it's various forms, because it really does matter!!
In Health and Balance.
Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro
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WEEKLY MENU / ORDER FORM
DELIVERY MENU / ORDER FORM
December 16, 2010
whollymacro@bellsouth.net ~ www.whollymacrobiotics.com
| SPLIT PEA MISO SOUP WITH TOFU SOUR CR�ME AND CHIVES | SMALL___LARGE___ |
A thick, creamy, liver nourishing puree of green split peas cooked with mineral rich kombu sea vegetable, speckled with dices of carrots, parsnips, and yellow onions, powerfully cleansing and immune system boosting shiitake mushrooms, gentle and relaxing mineral rich wakame sea vegetable, enzyme rich sweet yellow miso, and a garnish of tofu sour cr�me sprinkled with fresh green chives.
| BROWN RICE AND JEWELED FRENCH YELLOW COUSCOUS PILAF | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Lovely little pearls of French yellow couscous, and perfectly balanced whole grain brown rice, are cooked with mineral rich kombu sea vegetable, then jeweled with glistening dices of yellow onion, deep purple dried currants, naturally fermented, friendly bacteria promoting black olives, trace mineral rich green pumpkin seeds, chlorophyll rich bright green parsley, and liver cleansing slivers of orange zest.
| SPROUTED LENTIL SAUTE | SMALL___LARGE___ |
A high energy saute of freshly sprouted enzyme rich green lentils, tossed with slivers of sweet yellow onion, julienne carrots, fresh and crispy celery, mineral rich green cabbage, blood cleansing fresh burdock root, fresh green scallions, good for the lungs fresh lotus root, strengthening rutabaga, fresh mushrooms, and circulation stimulating fresh ginger.
| FRESH CORN AND ONION SOUFFLE | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Who says you can't eat souffl� anymore if macrobiotic??? This light as a feather yet packed with nutrition souffl� beats the unhealthy traditional version anytime!! Naturally sweet, and relaxing and nourishing for the stomach, spleen, and pancreas yellow onions, red onions, shallots, and leek, and sweet, cooling, crunchy, and delicious fresh yellow corn, are baked with a totally low fat yet rich tasting, high protein and high calcium tofu and tahini mixture flavored with the tanginess of alkalizing and digestive umeboshi plums and fresh dill, and garnished with fresh from the garden chlorophyll rich green scallions.
| GINGER ALMOND ARAME COLE SLAW | SMALL___LARGE___ |
A lovely blend of textures, flavors, and colors, and healthy too! Barely blanched gently green cabbage, deeply colored red cabbage, beta carotene rich orange carrots, bright green snow pea slivers, crispy celery, sweet yellow onions, and deep black iron and mineral rich arame sea vegetable, are mixed in a tofu, lemon, mustard, umeboshi plum, and toasted sesame oil "tofu mayonnaise", then tossed with crisp and flavorful pungent pieces of fresh ginger, and crunchy slivers of calcium rich almonds.
| PEAR AND APPLE CRISP | SMALL___LARGE___ |
A flavorful and naturally spicy palette of just bursting with ripeness crisp and seasonal pears and apples, combined with liver cleansing fresh orange zest, alkalizing and intestine/digestion strengthening kuzu root thickener, sweetened with complex carbohydrate naturally low glycemic brown rice syrup, topped with a mixture of rolled oats, vitamin E rich sunflower seeds, calcium rich almonds, omega three fatty acid rich walnuts, and finished with a hint of cinnamon and vanilla.
VIRTUALLY ALL INGREDIENTS ARE ORGANIC!!
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ORDERING DETAILS
To place an order from this newsletter, please copy and paste the menu portion of this email to create a new email and send to whollymacro@bellsouth.net. You can also hit reply, fill in the items and amount you would like to order, and send it that way. Or, you can still order / communicate with us by creating a new e-mail and writing to whollymacro@bellsouth.net, faxing us at 954-763-6698, or calling our voice mail system at 954-764-6371.
We will still confirm your order the same as we always have, so if you don't receive confirmation from us by the end of the day on Monday, please contact us either by phone or e-mail to re-submit your order.
NEVER ORDERED? WOULD YOU LIKE TO?
What we need from you before Monday is a completed Delivery Questionnaire and your order. (Please fill out the above menu and return it to us via your method of choice). For payment information please see the Ordering Details Sheet.
For any other
questions or concerns, first check our FAQ's page on our website. We are sure you
will find your answer there. If you still have a question, please contact us by
either e-mail or phone
954-764-6371.
Thanks so much.
Gayle and Jaime
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Contact Info
GAYLE STOLOVE / WHOLLY MACRO
PH: 954 764-6371 FAX: 954 763-6698
whollymacro@bellsouth.net
www.whollymacrobiotics.com
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