WHOLLY MACRO
Macrobiotic Educators Personal Chefs
GAYLE STOLOVE ~ BS, RN, LMT JAIME PARRA ~ LMT
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and lifestyle based on oriental medicine and
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Please find the January 13, 2011 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
U.S. Livestock Consume 29 Million Pounds of Antibiotics Per Year
U.S. animals specifically raised for human consumption consumed 29 Million pounds of antibiotics last year alone according to a first ever Food and Drug Administration accounting of antibiotic drug use by the American livestock industry. The release of these figures came as a result of a 2008 law requiring the federal government to collect information on antibiotic use in livestock called the Animal Drug User Fee Act.
Antibiotics are fed to animals raised for slaughter in an effort to prevent disease from spreading among the flocks and herds due to overcrowded and often unsanitary conditions.
The prophylactic use of these medications is controversial in that they mask the effects of the deeper issue: livestock living in conditions that are unhealthy and cruel, much the same as how antibiotics mask the deeper issue occurring within human bodies much of the time.
They also create an even bigger health concern, one the American Medical Association (AMA) has called "a major public health problem." This widespread administration of antibiotics to prevent infections in animals has made the very same antibiotics less effective in fighting off disease in these very same animals and in humans as well. A dangerous situation if and when said antibiotics are actually needed for a true medically necessary situation and not a "preventative" measure. Antibiotics typically kill off the weaker germs first, leaving the ones that fight back with a fury as the survivors. Ingesting antibiotics needlessly via all animal products very probably sets you up for antibiotic resistant infections, the very ones that spell trouble and possibly hospitalization.
The AMA has called on the Obama administration and congress to address the situation.
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ABOUT THIS WEEKS MENU
 We love each and every dish on the menu this week (and all weeks), please read through our menu and see for yourself how delicious and balanced it sounds, but here is a little something something about broccoli, as used in its entirety in the Cr�me Of Broccoli Miso Soup this week. We use the entire broccoli plant in all of our cooking, as the florets, stems, and leaves contain B vitamins, minerals such as calcium, lots of healthy fiber (especially the stems), and large amounts of beta-carotene (especially the leaves). Broccoli leaves are actually higher in beta-carotene than the florettes or stems, and contain many phyto-nutrients as well. All parts of the broccoli are also super high in oxygen carrying - red blood cell building chlorophyll, making it an important and health giving vegetable to include in any number of ways in your daily, or at least weekly diet. And not to be outdone by the broccoli, this soup contains delicious sweet yellow miso as well, miso that is just brimming with live enzymes and healthy digestive flora. |
WEEKLY ARTICLE
Digestion is Everything
We tell a lot of funny stories that revolve around the large quantity of food that we consume per meal, about the large amount of fresh whole foods that we purchase per food shopping spree, about the fact that we turned an entire room in our facility into a walk-in  pantry, etc. You may have read a few of them in these newsletters from time to time. One of our favorites is about when we dine out with non- health minded people, which inevitably happens. We pretty much have the restaurant ordering routine down pat, so we carefully tell the wait staff what we want and how we want it prepared, and when it arrives we adjust our various plates of food (we usually order each item a la carte, such as steamed vegetables, salad, fish, sweet potato etc) onto one plate. By the time we have "arranged" our plate, and prepare to begin eating, the rest of the non-health foodies are already done eating, and are asking for doggie bags to take at least half of their order home, because remember, they are all fighting off the extra pounds they accumulate via their unhealthy eating habits and frequent episodes of over indulgence! With close to an hour of eating and chewing ahead of us, it becomes pretty amusing (albeit uncomfortable), to watch the reaction of the non-health foodies as they comprehend the amount of food we take in whilst remaining trim and thin.
 While sharing this story with a long time macrobiotic friend of mine who is in her seventies, and possessing a hard body like a young teen as she sat with her own pile of various plates of different food groups poised for consumption, compelling even I to comment on her quantity of food, she turned to me and said quite simply: Digestion Is Everything". As I "digested" the simple brilliance of her statement, I knew how true her words were, and made it one of my mantras!!
Strong digestive organs are integral to good health. If any one digestive organ fails, the entire human system is compromised, often to the point of no return. Strong digestion = a strong and healthy person. Weak digestion = a weak, sick, frail, and unhappy person.
Here are a few Keys To Good Digestion:
Chewing. One of the reasons our above dinner scenario repeatedly plays out as it does, with everyone but us literally vacuuming their food from plate to stomach, is because most people do not chew their food. At all. Digestion begins even before food enters the mouth. We'll talk about that in a minute. But once the food does enter the mouth, our tongues, our teeth, and the saliva in our mouths play an important part in proper digestion. It only takes a few seconds for food from our mouth to reach our stomach. There is no magic on the way down, and our stomach is not designed to break down large pieces of food, our mouths are. Saliva helps a lot as it is full of digestive enzymes that "pre-digest" the food before it ever reaches the stomach, giving the stomach much needed help in the major task of further breaking food down for its various functions throughout the body. You don't need to chew 100 times per bite, or even 50 times per bite, but you do need to chew. You should chew as much as time realistically allows, at least 20 times per bite, until the food is no longer in its whole form. Take small bites, it is easier. This is especially important with whole, natural, unprocessed food, which is what you want to be eating, because of the very fact that it has not been processed at all (much healthier that way). Your body is the food processor, so use your various equipment, and chew well!
Proper Prep. When cooking with real whole food, there are numerous pre-preparations that are recommended. One such recommendation is soaking beans and grains before cooking them. You can look at soaking as pre pre-digestion, as a beginning of the breakdown process of digestion, as the soaking of whole grains and beans gently awakens them from their hard and dry state, softening them in preparation for planting (sprouting) in the ground, or in your body!
Eat Pickles. When we say pickles, we do not mean those artificially colored - over salted lifeless things in the jar on the shelf of the store. We mean REAL pickles. We use them often in our Wholly Macro dishes. Real pickles must be refrigerated as they contain live digestive enzymes and friendly digestive bacteria. You can make them yourself, or you can buy yourself a jar in the refrigerator section of the health food store. Look for the words, LIVE and UNPASTUERIZED on the label, and eat a small amount of these (about � tablespoon), at the end of each meal to aid digestion.
Start Each Meal With Miso Soup, and incorporate various other  naturally fermented traditional foods throughout your meals (tempeh, amasake, natto, rice kayu bread, shoyu, etc.), as these foods also contain digestive enzymes and friendly flora. Starting your meal, especially your first meal of the day, with fresh miso soup introduces a plethora of healthy enzymes and bacteria into your entire digestive system right off the bat each and every day and is one of the best things you can do for yourself and your digestion. Many people, even mainstream medical personnel recognize the importance of natural digestive enzymes and "good" bacteria (aka probiotics) as essential for good health. Often times (although not often enough sadly), a course of antibiotics (which sweep your intestines clean of bad bacteria as well as beneficial good bacteria) is followed up by a dose of probiotics, to replenish the multiple strains of good bacteria that the antibiotics kill off. You can think of miso, pickles, and the other above mentioned fermented foods as your very own natural and potent daily dose of very viable probiotics.
Eat In Peace. Always, always eat your meals in as peaceful, calm, quiet, and healing an environment as possible. Be mindful and aware of your food as you eat it. Appreciate and thank it for nourishing you so wonderfully.
Avoid Fake Food and Chemicals! Chemicals, genetically engineered food, sugar, processed foods, bad quality salt, trans fats, all additives, antibiotics, and on and on; these things seriously disturb the delicate ecosystem that is your body, making digestion and assimilation a strenuous strain, and resulting in all types of digestive ailments, conditions, illnesses, and pains. You, and only you, can make the digestive process way easier by making the right food choices, incorporating the right cooking methods, and eating the right way, each and every day of your life.
In Health As Always, and wishing you the blessing of good digestion,
Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro
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WEEKLY MENU / ORDER FORM
DELIVERY MENU / ORDER FORM
January 13, 2011
whollymacro@bellsouth.net ~ www.whollymacrobiotics.com
| CR�ME OF BROCCOLI MISO SOUP | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Liver loving, light and fresh, green, creamy smooth and rich, flavorful and vitally healthy broccoli, is pureed with naturally sweet, caramelized yellow onions, chlorophyll rich fresh parsley, kombu sea vegetable mineral enhanced whole grain millet, wakame sea vegetable, immune system boosting dried shiitake mushrooms, live enzyme rich sweet yellow miso, rosemary, and a garnish of thinly sliced pungent green scallions.
| SESAME UMEBOSHI GREEN NORI RICE BALLS | SMALL___LARGE___ |
The best source of complex carbohydrates, power packed medium grain, short grain, and sweet brown rice is rolled into chewy and delicious "balls", that are spiked throughout with crunchy morsels of roasted ginger and fresh and flavorful green chives, stuffed with a piece of alkalizing and good for the digestion umeboshi plum, and coated with gently relaxing chlorophyll and mineral rich green nori sea vegetable, iron rich dulse sea vegetable, and calcium and trace mineral rich toasted brown sesame seeds. A beautiful and appealing, fun, and very healthy way to consume brown rice at a meal or as a snack!
| GINGERED BLACK BEANS AND MOCHI | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Rich and fertile, good for the kidneys black beans, are cooked with mineral rich kombu sea vegetable, relaxing for the stomach and pancreas naturally sweet yellow onions, fresh and juicy circulation promoting fresh ginger juice and root, sweet orange kabocha squash, blood cleansing and strengthening fresh burdock root, deeply cleansing dried daikon, molasses like, complex in carbohydrate barley malt, chewy, tregnthening, and delicious brown rice mochi, and a garnish of fresh green chives. Vitalizing!!
| MILLET, TEMPEH, AND KABOCHA SQUASH STUFFING | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Who says that stuffing has to be stuffed into something?? Often it is more enjoyable eaten on it's own, as is the case with this delectable dish that is made with healthy and alkalizing millet cooked with mineral rich kombu sea vegetable, cubes of protein rich tempeh, sweet and juicy kernels of fresh corn, pancreas friendly yellow onions, whole cremini mushrooms, naturally diuretic crispy green celery, and kidney strengthening dried cranberries, garnished with parsley and rosemary, and a splash of mirin non acidic brown rice "sherry".
| POLENTA MARINARA WITH STEAMED KALE | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Freshly ground dried organic corn creates this firm yet creamy polenta, that is spiked with kernels of fresh corn and green peas, then topped with a lovely orange pancreas nourishing, naturally sweet marinara sauce of carrots, butternut squash, and yellow onions, and garnished with chlorophyll rich fresh green lightly wilted kale and parsley.
| ROASTED SPICED PEARS WITH GINGER WHIP CR�ME | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Freshly roasted pears, dried figs, and dried apricots, are spiced with naturally liver astringent orange zest, and fragrant cinnamon and ginger, covered in a caramel of brown rice syrup and intestine strengthening kuzu, and topped with a calcium rich tofu, vanilla, and amasake circulation promoting gingered whip cr�me. Garnished with the satisfying crunch of rice syrup caramelized calcium rich toasted almonds.
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
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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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