WHOLLY MACRO
Macrobiotic Educators Personal Chefs
GAYLE STOLOVE ~ BS, RN, LMT JAIME PARRA ~ LMT
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CHANGE YOUR HEALTH
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and lifestyle based on oriental medicine and
healing arts, for the body, mind and spirit!
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Please find the January 20, 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
Washing Your Hands is one of the Easiest and Most Effective Ways to Avoid Getting Sick!
An observational study shows that about 85% of adults wash their hands after using a public restroom, up from 77% in 2007. 85% is the highest percentage of hand washing since the American Society of Microbiology and the American Cleaning Institute started the studies 15 years ago.
But more than 60% of adults questioned in a telephone survey said that they didn't wash their hands after coughing or sneezing. That is bad experts say, because many cases of colds, flu, and other respiratory ailments are spread by a cough or sneeze, or when contaminated hands touch the eyes, nose, or mouth.
If you want to stay well: along with eating a balanced diet, getting plenty of fresh air, sunshine, and exercise, getting enough sleep, and keeping stress at a minimum, Wash Your Hands!!
You can read all about how to wash your hands properly in the Weekly Article section of this Newsletter. |
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ABOUT THIS WEEKS MENU
We love the Vegetable Fried Rice dish that is on the menu this  week. It is not really fried. We cook the rice as we always do, nice and soft and sweet and succulent, just brimming with stabilizing and energizing whole grain complex carbs. Then we quickly stir fry the vegetables, one by one, so that each one of them is cooked to perfect perfection, retaining their individual and unique flavors, textures, and colors. We then artistically arrange the vegetables throughout the rice. To finish, we garnish the entire dish with our very own freshly sprouted ~ good for the liver mung bean sprouts.
An all time favorite on this week's menu is the Fillo Pastry Puffs with Seitan and Olive Tapenade. We came up with this unique to Wholly Macro signature filling several years ago while creating fillings for our newly created fillo pastry puffs. It is such a healthful blend of omega fatty acid rich walnuts, low fat and low cholesterol protein rich seitan and lentils, and live enzyme and probiotic rich all natural and super flavorful black olives, and when stuffed inside the delightfully light and flaky fillo, the contrast in flavor and texture is really delectable. The secret to enjoying  this dish is to heat the puffs back up before eating them. You can do this by lightly brushing a frying pan with oil and letting them brown on both sides, or by placing them on a lightly oiled baking sheet in the oven. Either method will result in flaky, crispy, and succulently flavorful fillo puffs. Of course, many a person has reported eating them as is, directly out of the container, and just loving them that way as well. That is always an option!!
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WEEKLY ARTICLE
Hand Washing 101
While browsing through my enormous, and always growing pile of reading material this past week I came across an article on Hand Washing that struck a chord with me. It reminded me of a class I took while in nursing school a gazillion years ago! I don't remember the exact name, but it was something along the lines of Hand washing 101: The Proper Way To Wash Your Hands. It seemed like a silly little class at the time, and a relief from the really tough classes (like mathematics for health care professionals). But while the mathematics class has not remained firmly embedded in my brain (what a surprise), that hand washing class has been with me all of these 20 odd years since nursing school, and proved to be one of the MOST valuable of all the classes I have ever taken. And I have taken a lot of classes!
Here are the basics: Approach the sink, and be aware of where the hand drying towels are and how you can access them. Are they already out on the counter and easy to reach, or are they in a canister on the wall not close to the sink?? In a public bathroom, if they are away from the sink and there is another person waiting to use the sink, get a hand full of towels first and tuck them under your arm. This isn't a bad idea anyway because often-dirty hands have contaminated the receptacle the towels are housed in.
Next: turn on the water, get the soap, and lather your hands well.  Create friction, really scrub. For at least 30 seconds, a mere blip. Washing hands too quickly will result in less than thorough cleansing resulting in missed spots. And MOST important: keep your hands at a downward angle so that the soap and water do not run onto your forearms and contaminate them. It is a little tricky if you have paper towels tucked under your arm (but easily mastered with practice). You can tuck them into the waist of your skirt or pants instead.
Rinse very well; get all of the soap and water off of your hands, wrists, and forearms if you didn't keep it from running onto them. Do not let the person standing in line behind you intimidate you, and you will see why in a minute.
Now: DO NOT turn off the faucet with your clean hands. Dry your  hands well first, then use the paper towel you dried your hands with to turn off the faucet, or you will re-contaminate your hands with germs and bacteria from the faucet. Again, do not let the people standing in line behind you intimidate you. You do not want to re-contaminate your hands by turning off the dirty faucet with your clean hands, so take the time to dry them with the clean paper towel before turning off the faucet. Save the paper towel and use it to open the door, turn off the light switch etc. while exiting the bathroom. Dispose of that paper towel quickly without touching the areas of the paper towel that came into contact with the door handles or faucets.
And that, my friends, is how to properly wash your hands.
Follow these rules at home as well, unless you live alone and no one ever uses your bathroom except you, or if you are like me and clean the handles, faucets, and light switches constantly, and no, I don't have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). I was just trained well in nursing school and have found that training to protect me from myriad infections due to kitchen cuts and burns, gardening nicks and blisters, etc. and, there are always people in our living and working spaces using our bathrooms, as I am sure there are in yours as well. It is far easier to wash your hands properly than to live in a bubble or get sick!
And why is this so important?? Because, hard to treat superbugs such as MRSA and C. Difficile are increasing, and the widespread use of antibiotics are producing new drug resistant germs, with few new medications to treat them in the pipeline. And who wants to take those medications anyway??
All institutions are at risk, not just hospitals. Anytime you are out in public, at your job, in a restaurant, on an airplane, at a friends home who has children who go to public schools, or at friends or families homes who are not in good health, frequent doctors offices, or have been recently hospitalized (think aging parents!) you are at risk. And the Center for Disease Control and Prevention maintains that scrubbing with soap and water is still the best way to prevent contamination. Similarly, contamination is primarily a "person to person transmission via the hands or contaminated equipment" which can be countertops, desks, telephones, faucets, and on and on, etc.
And you don't have to use a harsh chemically laden soap. It is the TECHNIQUE of hand washing, as outlined above, that prevents  contamination, not the type of soap used. Some of the harsh anti bacterial soaps destroy the bodies' natural skin protective antibody shield. And bombard your entire system with dangerous chemicals. So pick your favorite natural soap to use. Wash well, enjoying the aromatherapy as you wash, and dry your hands well too. Wet hands transmit 500 times more germs than dry hands.
And of course, eat well (I had to throw that in, again!). Having a healthy body, having healthy skin, healthy strong detox organs, and a strong immune system are always your best line of defense, even against poor hand washing techniques!
In health as always.
Gayle and Jaime
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WEEKLY MENU / ORDER FORM
DELIVERY MENU / ORDER FORM
January 20, 2011
whollymacro@bellsouth.net ~ www.whollymacrobiotics.com
| CR�ME OF SHIITAKE MUSHROOM SOUP | SMALL___LARGE___ |
A rich and creamy blend of pureed, healing and flavorful shiitake mushrooms, cremini mushrooms, yellow onions, green and strengthening leek, and mildly and naturally diuretic crispy slices of celery, in a base of mineral rich wakame sea vegetable, mirin brown rice cooking "sherry", and enzyme rich sweet yellow miso. Delicately garnished with parsley and rosemary.
| VEGETABLE FRIED RICE | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Energy promoting medium grain brown rice is cooked with mineral rich kombu sea vegetable, then artistically assembled with stir fried whole cremini mushrooms, green peas, sweet yellow onions, enzyme rich bean sprouts, beta carotene rich carrots, pungent green scallions, fresh ginger, and shoyu soy sauce. Always a favorite.
| SESAME SEARED TOFU AND RUTABAGA | SMALL___LARGE___ |
A long time favorite, nice large dices of protein and calcium rich tofu, are marinated in circulation stimulating fresh ginger juice, then coated with equally calcium rich brown sesame seeds and arrowroot "flour" to form a paper thin crust, and alternated with good for the stomach, spleen, and pancreas, strengthening and energizing rutabaga. Garnished with a glitter of fresh green chives.
| FILLO PASTRY PUFFS WITH SEITAN AND OLIVE TAPENADE | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Flaky little pastries made with spelt fillo dough layered with crunchy and vitalizing toasted wheat germ, and filled with a Mediterranean reminiscent tapenade of omega fatty acid rich walnuts, lentils, live enzyme rich black olives, yellow onions, protein rich seitan, flavorful fresh basil, and a touch of rich and heady balsamic vinegar. They are fully cooked, and can be placed in the oven or a lightly oiled pan for crisping up before eating. Garnished with fresh green chives. Another all time favorite!
| BRAISED RED CABBAGE WITH KALE AND HIJIKI | SMALL___LARGE___ |
This dish is a study in the naturally beautiful colors provided to us by our highly valued fresh vegetable friends, that literally show their colors to represent their nutrients. Deep purple red cabbage is high in iron and beta carotene, and is braised in a toasted sesame oil, ginger, brown rice syrup, umeboshi plum, mustard, and shoyu sauce, then highlighted with lightly steamed chlorophyll rich dark green kale, and iron and mineral rich delicate black strands of hijiki sea vegetable, along with some sweetly sauteed yellow onions, and a sprinkling of fresh green chives.
| BAKED STUFFED APPLES WITH AMASAKE CR�ME | SMALL___LARGE___ |
Fresh and fragrant seasonal apples, are stuffed to the brim with a mixture of brown rice syrup caramelized rolled oats, calcium rich almonds, and trace mineral rich sunflower seeds, then sprinkled with cinnamon, and baked in a digestive strengthening kuzu root thickened amasake brown rice milk "cr�me" to create a deliciously decadent healthful dessert.
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PLEASE PLACE ORDERS BEFORE NOON ON MONDAY!
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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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Thank you for all your support. Your feedback is important to us. For further questions or information please call or e-mail whollymacro@bellsouth.net 954 764-6371
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