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 February 24, 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
Chew Well! 
Digestion starts in the mouth! Saliva is a very important component of digestion, breaking down and neutralizing acids in foods while adding important enzymes into the mix. This is just one reason why chewing your food well is so important. Chewing allows saliva to mix with food before it is swallowed so that it is already beginning to break down and neutralize acids well before reaching the stomach. In this way it also protects the delicate inner lining of the esophagus. It takes about 30 minutes to an hour for saliva to neutralize acids in foods, and saliva is much more effective when the food is thoroughly mixed with it (i.e.: chewed well), before swallowing. Healthy teeth depend on saliva to remove microbes. It is also a good idea to let the saliva in your mouth neutralize food stuck between your teeth for about 30 minutes before brushing them. Brushing your teeth immediately after eating can brush the enamel away, because the acidic residue from the food will still be remaining. Of course, eating the least acidic of foods, such as whole grains, beans, and vegetables is extremely helpful, but even so, we need our teeth, our esophagus, and our digestive fire / energy for our entire lifetimes, so healthy chewing habits and informed dental hygiene can never hurt. |
SPINEALIGNER
The SpineAligner* stimulates the points in shiatsu /oriental medicine known as the "extra points" which run along each side of the spinal column. One important meridan it stimulates is the Bladder meridan which regulates all the Internal organs.The SpineAligner also stimulates the nervous system, strengthens the muscles around the spine, and relaxes the neck and shoulders.
Reduce tension and stress!
Available for sale for your own personal well being through Wholly Macro.
To see more about this amazing tool, check our out website,
www.whollymacrobiotics.com |
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ABOUT THIS WEEKS MENU  As we look at the February 24 Delivery Menu, all that we can say about it this week is, "it's all good" !!! Seriously, each and every dish is super healthy, and simply delectable. And on a scale of acid to alkaline, they are all on the alkaline side, with plenty of specialty ingredients such as miso, umeboshi plums, kuzu, and more to aid in digestion and alkalize even further, especially if you chew well, so please, give any, or all of the items on the menu a try. We trust you will like them!
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WEEKLY ARTICLE How To Eat Out Without Acting Out
One of the questions Wholly Macro gets asked most frequently is: Now that I am adopting a healthier diet and lifestyle, how do I maintain it while still being able to go out to dinner, go to parties, and travel? We thought it high time to formally address this question!
It is a very important question, and as most important questions go, it comes with a variety of answers, rules, and tricks of the trade. Let's sort it out:
Scenario #1: Going To Restaurants
 Thanks to all of the people in this country with health issues, especially heart disease and diabetes, I don't think there is even one town, no matter how remote, where there are not restaurant patrons ordering food without salt or sugar in it "for medical reasons". In fact, we see menu's that have low sodium, low fat, or sugar free items on them all the time when we patronize certain establishments. We don't want to order those items though. Not at all. Why would we want to eat the same unhealthy food with the salt, sugar, or fat removed?? We just want to point out, that most dining establishments are familiar with the clientele having "needs". So without announcing that you are vegan, macrobiotic, raw, or whatever, you can politely take control of the situation knowing that you are not the only one asserting your needs. The restaurant, the chef, and the food, are only as good as what you tell them you NEED. Be very clear and very specific in what you want and don't want. Don't assume anything. Don't assume they know anything. Don't assume they know anything about you, even if they know you. The waiter, the chef, the owner, they are not mind readers. They have no idea what your needs are, or why. They may never have had a health problem requiring a special diet. Or maybe they have but don't know, think, or care about the food / health connection. That is them. Their problem. And this is you. Take personal responsibility for YOU! Be sure to get what you want. Be sure to do the very best that you can for yourself. Here are a few ways that you can do that.
Assert your rights. Here in South Florida there are very picky and demanding people. We are sure you have run into them now and again, no? Well, we do put up with a lot here: extreme heat, extreme traffic, hurricanes, high property taxes, etc. So we say: exercise your right as a South Floridian (or fill in the blank re: wherever you are from), and demand good food and good service in return. Of course, the food can only be as good as the basic quality it starts with, so it is important to start out with a "decent" restaurant.
Look the menu up online ahead of time. Nowadays you can scope out the menu in advance and get a pretty good idea of what your realistic possibilities are. If necessary, call the restaurant in advance and be sure they will be able to accommodate your needs. Let them know when you are coming, get that persons name, and remind them discreetly when you get there so as to expedite the ordering process. All of your questions, or most of them at least, will have already been dealt with, and will make for a much more relaxed dining experience, for you, and for your companions! Please recognize that some restaurants can't or aren't willing to work with you, if this is the case, just find one that will!
Keep it simple. Always order everything as plain as possible. NO salt. Your idea of just a little salt, and their idea of just a little salt could be two entirely different ideas, and their salt could be anything but pure sea salt, so it is always safer to order food without salt. NO oil, because how do you know what kind of oil they use, or if they slip some butter in also, and NO sauce. Sauce is your main enemy. They have an acronym for "no sauce" at restaurants. It is SOS. Seriously. It means Sauce On (the) Side. Ordering food with sauce is an SOS waiting to happen. You will seriously need bailing out after you OD on the massive amounts of concentrated salt, sugar, MSG, oil, and god knows what else that is lurking in sauce! Order clear, plain, recognizable foods. It is much easier for a restaurant to prepare plain steamed or roasted fish, vegetables, and possibly sweet potato or similar, than it is for them to disassemble a pre-prepared / pre- assembled dish. And not only that, but you will definitively be sure that what you are eating is what it says it is and nothing more.
 If ordering fish, be sure it is wild, not farmed. And don't tell them which it is that you want. Ask them which fish is wild and which is farmed, and get a rundown on what is what. You want to know what the honest options are, not what they may tell you because it is what they think you want to hear. (This is an example of when calling in advance is a good idea so that the waiter does not have to spend too much time running back and forth to the kitchen getting answers to your (polite) inquiries!).
When ordering vegetables, strive for fresh, not frozen, because many restaurants get their frozen vegetables shipped in from large warehouses, far away, pre-cut in gigantic bags, that may well have been frozen for several months, which equals no taste, no flavor, no energy, and no nutrition. They may possibly have one or two fresh veggies on hand. It could happen! Ask for them, not the frozen ones.
And avoid the nightshades as much as possible, which may be your only choice at many restaurants. If that is the case, you can always opt for a fresh salad instead. Or get the cooked vegetables, and the salad, because:
You are probably not going to find whole grains at most restaurants, so be sure to include whole grains in your previous meal at home. Skipping the complex carbohydrate at one meal is not the end of the world, but a plain baked sweet potato or perhaps some whole wheat or sourdough bread may be available and makes a nice option.
 Do not use the salad dressing!! Think sauce. Ask for fresh lemon wedges, olive oil and / or balsamic vinegar (if they have it), instead, and bring a small bottle of umeboshi vinegar with you to sprinkle on for some alkalizing and mildly salty digestive aid tanginess. You can put umeboshi vinegar in an empty vanilla extract bottle or similar that will fit neatly into your pocket or purse so as not to make a scene! It is such a better choice than letting the restaurant salt your food for you. If you do find whole wheat or sourdough bread, be like the Europeans, and dip it into the olive oil for a tasty and healthy treat!
And never go out to eat hungry. Always eat a snack before you go to dinner, (we actually like to eat some whole grains at home, before we go to dinner, to hold us over), because it always takes longer than anticipated to drive to the restaurant, park the car, wait for your table, wait for the waiter, etc. Your blood sugar could take a perilous dip by then. And diving blood sugar is the cause of many a dining out spat, and many a binge on refined white flour bread and crackers, etc. Watch the tables around you next time you go out. We are sure you will see people arguing, more than likely the victims of overly hungry falling blood sugar levels. The concentrated sugar in alcohol only exacerbates the condition, so if you are going to indulge in alcohol, be sure you don't do it on an empty stomach. The pre-meal snack, at home before you go, is an important and real life, and relationship / friendship saver.
We may not have covered everything you need to know about eating out, but the above tips should give you years of mileage as you perfect your own dining out tricks of the trade.
A quick note on a few other dining out scenarios:
 Eating at Friends / Families Homes or Parties: Depending on how well you know the people and how accommodating / accepting of you they are, you can follow many of the above rules, but we have a few more to offer.
1. Offer to bring something, and make that something a meal in one dish, such as a brown rice and tofu paella, a chickpea tabouli, hummus and healthy bread, crackers, and / or dipping veggies, etc. Something that you can dine on, exclusively if necessary, and get all of your nutritional needs met. And be prepared for everyone else to totally dive in to your dish as well. Real healthy food has this effect on people!
2. If all else fails, eat a healthy and relaxed meal at home first, and then go to the party, and talk, schmooze, socialize, and enjoy without having to worry about doing so while attempting to simultaneously chew and eat at the same time. If sitting down to a formal dinner at someone's home, it is easy enough to take small servings of food, push it around your plate, and never really eat if they are not serving anything you can eat, and far easier to have utilized one of the many suggestions above.
Do keep in mind, that the longer you are on the path of healthy diet and healthy lifestyle, the easier all of this becomes, and the more used to it your friends and family who are not on the same path become as well. Chances are, and with any luck, your good sense, good health, and sleek svelte figure, will make converts of them eventually anyway!
Which leads to our last scenario:
Traveling:
Again, much of the above advice can be applied to traveling. It is always an important and excellent idea to call well in advance of taking a trip to arrange for your dietary requirements. Some facilities such as cruise ships and certain resorts will prepare brown rice, whole grain pasta, and beans for you if asked in advance.
You may find a service such as Wholly Macro's in some cities. Do some advance research on that as well. We cook for many people whom either winter or travel to South Florida for business or pleasure.
And there are some excellent vegetarian, vegan, macrobiotic, etc. restaurants scattered throughout this and other countries, so again, do some advance research on those as well.
Always ask for a refrigerator in your room so that you can bring or buy food to eat for at least one or two of your daily meals. We recommend bringing many items with you when traveling, because it is not always easy or convenient to have to go running out to a store the minute you arrive somewhere. Once you get the lay of the land, and depending on the length of your trip, you can re-stock as needed, but certain items travel well, like dried grains, beans and sea vegetables, onions, carrots, and other more hardy vegetables, nuts, seeds, etc.
Having a kitchen in your room is always a plus, and many hotels do offer them, so it pays to ask, and again, plan in advance. Granted, the stove may be electric, but healthy food cooked on an electric stove for the short duration of your trip / vacation, beats unhealthy food any day. And again, depending on the circumstances, you may be able to bring a portable butane burner such as restaurants use for tableside cooking. When driving of course. Do not attempt to bring a butane burner on an airplane!! For short trips, we opt for a hotel room with a kitchen and just deal with the electric stove, because after all, it is a vacation. We cook very simply, so that we don't spend our entire holiday in the kitchen, but we must say, we do so enjoy going to the local markets and grocery / health food stores and selecting from seasonal and regional specialty items and produce.
You may be wondering about staying with friends / family. Well, in our experience, if you do that, be prepared to end up cooking for the entire household. Because most people don't cook. They pop open a can of something or other, or pop a package of whatever into the microwave. So when you come along with your healthy selection of fresh and flavorful real food and start cooking for yourselves, after rearranging their entire kitchen, and inevitably changing it from a storage area for their paperwork, doctors appointment schedules, and bottles of pills, to a semi-functional kitchen, all of a sudden everyone, no matter their eating habits, wants to join you. As we always say here at Wholly Macro, our original mission statement in fact, borrowed from one of our favorite movies: Field of Greens, no, that is one of Wholly Macro's favorite dishes, make that Field of Dreams: "If You Cook It, They Will Come"! You remember the line in that movie, right? "If You Build It They Will Come". Well, anyway, pretty soon you are spending your entire vacation cooking for the whole gang, and all of their friends and family too! If that is what you had in mind, then go for it.
Happy and Healthy Trails.
In Health To You As Always!!
Gayle and Jaime / Wholly Macro
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WEEKLY MENU / ORDER FORM
DELIVERY MENU / ORDER FORM
February 24, 2011
whollymacro@bellsouth.net ~ www.whollymacrobiotics.com
SHIITAKE MUSHROOM BARLEY MISO SOUP SMALL___ LARGE___
A rich and creamy blend of high fiber whole grain barley and pearled barley cooked with mineral rich and digestive kombu sea vegetable, the unique in flavor medicinal shiitake mushroom, along with the more traditional cremini mushroom, and sweetly blanched carrot, celery, yellow onion, and parsnip dices, in an enzyme rich, warming and strengthening barley miso, ginger, and wakame sea vegetable base, garnished with a sprinkle of fresh green parsley and a few sprigs of flavorful dill.
MULTI SEEDED BROWN RICE AND MILLET PILAF SMALL___ LARGE___
This is quite simply, a good for you whole grain mixture, incorporating the stable balance of medium grain brown rice, and the moist and plump, good for the spleen and pancreas energy of whole grain millet, cooked with kombu sea vegetable, then "seeded" with omega three trace mineral rich pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and deeply cleansing on a cellular level black and brown sesame seed gomashio, finished with a garnish of chlorophyll rich red blood cell purifying fresh green parsley.
BAKED TOFU WITH KOMBU LEEK SAUCE SMALL___ LARGE___
Delicious high protein, low fat pieces of tofu, are marinated with naturally fermented shoyu soy sauce, baked to nice brown flavorful perfection, then draped with a sauce of brightly sauteed leek, slivers of naturally chelating kombu sea vegetable, good for the stomach and pancreas yellow onions and green cabbage, and circulation stimulating fresh ginger, cooked in their natural juices, and thickened with digestion strengthening and alkalizing kuzu root.
PENNE WITH LENTIL, SEITAN, AND BLACK OLIVE TAPENADE SMALL___ LARGE___
Brown rice penne pasta, is delicately draped in a flavorful Mediterranean tapenade made from a coarse puree of naturally fermented and live enzyme rich black olives, pungent and flavorful capers, lightly roasted walnuts, protein rich seitan and lentils, naturally sweet yellow onions, and lots of flavorful and chlorophyll rich fresh basil and parsley.
SICILIAN SWEET POTATO SALAD SMALL____LARGE___
Sweet, relaxing to the body, beta carotene rich brilliant orange sweet potatoes, are combined with really healthy and full of minerals super strengthening turnips and rutabaga, bright green french cut green beans, naturally alkalizing umeboshi plum marinated red onions and red radish, intestinal flora friendly pickled cucumbers, and a splash of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and liver freshening lemon zest, held together with digestive strengthening kuzu root, to create this exciting and healthful "potato like salad".
VANILLA MOUSSE WITH PRALINE PECANS SMALL___ LARGE___
A rich and creamy dessert pudding made from naturally sweet fermented brown rice amasake "milk", blended with calcium and protein rich silken tofu, sesame tahini, almonds, sweet yet blood sugar stabilizing brown rice syrup, and sultry Madagascar pure vanilla essence, all thickened with digestion promoting and alkalizing kuzu root, and garnished with roasted, brown rice syrup pralined pecans.
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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.
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PRIVATE COOKING CLASSES
LEARN NEW COOKING SKILLS IMPROVE WHAT YOU ALREADY KNOW LEARN NEW RECIPES 
Private cooking classes are held in the Wholly Macro kitchen. This is an excellent hands on natural foods cooking class. You will leave the class feeling confident in knowing that you can now cook with unprocessed whole grains dried beans, a wide variety of healthy vegetables including sea vegetables, the proper amount of good quality sea salt, and so much more. Instruction is based on oriental medicine/macrobiotic principals. Start with a basic class with soup, beans and grains or try a dessert class for a real treat! You choose, or we can choose, depending on your needs. Classes can be in a group or individual. Call to schedule your next class. |
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NATURAL LIFESTYLE HEALTH CONSULTATIONS
LET GAYLE GUIDE YOU, EDUCATE YOU,
AND SUPPORT YOUR TRANSFORMATION
Health consultations offer compassionate, therapeutic listening related to any and all emotional issues, combined with visual diagnosis you will receive information on selecting, balancing, varying, and preparing natural foods in a practical way based on oriental medicine to strengthen organ function in order to improve your health. To read more about Natural Lifestyle Health Consultations see our website, www.whollymarcrobiotics.com
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Here's some feedback from a consultation client..... " three years ago I discovered that I had breast cancer. I had heard of Macrobiotics years ago. I didn't understand the concept but immediately I knew that that would be the route that I would pursue. But where to go and who to see was the question. Thank God for reading the macrobiotic newsletter. For in the newsletter there was an article about Gayle Stolove. I just felt her strength and passion burn through the page that I was reading. I immediately made an appointment to see her and although I was still so frightened, I felt so comfortable talking with Gayle. Gayle guided me through the whole process. I thought that the macrobiotic way of life would be boring and just eating rice. Well, I love the foods that I eat and I just feel good about it all. You see, after the surgery, you are sort of left on your own.You have to make your own decisions, etc. Everyone gives you different advice as what to eat, what to do, etc. Doctors don't understand what the patient is going through nor do they understand what kind of diet they should follow. I adopted Gayle as my guardian angel. You can't find that with any nutritionist or doctor. I love receiving her weekly e-mailed newsletters. They are so full of wonderful knowledge and beautiful healthy recipes. Gayle is a remarkable human being. She truly cares for her clients and gives them her all, one hundred percent of the time. Gayle has been there and therefore she is so compassionate and dedicates her life to helping people like me....." a cancer survivor
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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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