December 23, 2025 • 47 mins
Leading health specialist/radio show host, and award-winning author Nancy Addison discusses things we can do to improve our mood, reduce anxiety, improve our life and our relationships during stressful or busy holiday seasons. She expands on ways to use lifestyle and food to create better health and well-being. She goes into how to boost your immune system and stay healthy. Nancy expands on nutrients and lifestyle. Nancy’s website: www.organichealthylife.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Welcome beautiful people to organic healthy Lifestyle And I'm Nancy Addison,
your host, and I love to start off my show
with a prayer. I feel like it gives it such
great energy and screams it in a very special, loving way.
And so if you'll join me in whichever way you
would like, that would be great. So I ask our
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divine creator please fill our hearts with divine white light
and love and joy. And we give you thanks for
all the abundance and blessings and the great things that
you have given us, and especially the birth of your
son Joshua Emmanuel. And we ask your blessing of put
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honest all and upon our friends and family. We also
pray that in great mercy you would look kindly on
all of us and need around the world and bring
peace and love and healing to our planet. And we
ask this in the highest good of all concerned. For
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everyone listening now and for everyone listening in the future,
and we thank you, and so it is. And I
just wonder give a quick thank you to Dean Piper
and W four cy Radio who have believed in me
all these years and encouraged me to do this show.
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And you know, it feels so good to have my
show number one in the million podcasts lists. It's just
to me, just amazing. It was number one in the
category of organic food and sixth and healthy food seventh
and healthy eating. So anyway, if any of y'all have
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a beautiful message in your heart and you want to
find a way to let it out, and Dean with
W four cy Radio and Florida is just a great
guy and he can help you put together whatever it
is you need. He convinced me to do this show
believing in my message and my books and who I was,
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and I never thought I would actually do a radio show.
I was like, oh my goodness, but it has been
such a joy to connect with all of y'all around
the world and to get your lovely messages in presence.
And I just want to thank you all, and I
think you're all amazing and and I wish you really
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just a beautiful beautiful Christmas in a holiday season and
a fantastic new year coming up. So you know, let's
envision and create that peaceful world that we're all envisioning happening.
And I know it's rolling out right now. And you know,
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what we focus on. You know, I've talked about this
a lot, but what we focus on expands. And so
if we want to be focusing on the things we
want to have happen, and if our mind gets into
any kind of negativity or any kind of fear based thing,
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you know, for whatever reason, which you know a lot
of it's because of watching television or the media, you know,
just t thank you for showing up, but you don't
need it anymore. It just escort it out of your mind.
And so let's just all take a deep breath and
let out any kind of stress from the day. And
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today I'm going to talk about really eating healthier, turning
many of your favorite family recipes or holiday recipes healthier.
How can you do that? How can you add foods
to your eating plan that is really going to lift
your mood and make you feel better. So, you know,
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what we eat, what we ingest, becomes ourselves, our tissue
and our blood, so it directly impacts absolutely everything about
our health. And when I was a school teacher, one
of the things I noticed is that, you know, the
children had to sit in these school rooms long periods
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of time under artificial light, not getting enough exercise, not
getting to run around and tell you the truth. I
think that's incredibly unhealthy for children. I think it is
a very poor plan for children, and I don't think
it really contributes to them learning. And I think, you know,
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the most creative children, I think are the ones that
really get hurt by these particular types of structured schools.
But the school I worked at, and this is one
reason I ended up quitting, is they would put all
of these children on drugs for like ADHD or hyperactivity
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or you know whatever they decided to, you know, diagnose
these children with trying to make them think there was
something wrong with them. And I think subconsciously, when you
do diagnose a child with something like this, it does
make them think there's something wrong with them and that
they're like not good enough for or some thing. And
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then then when you give them a drug.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You're telling them to solve their problems with drugs, And
you know that is a very clear message, and if
people aren't understanding that, then they need to really think
about you know, our actions speaking way louder than our words.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So it's very important that your actions are congruent with
your beliefs. Right. Well, as I looked at a lot
of these lunches that children would bring to school, I
noticed that a lot of the lunches were fast food
or they had packed them themselves. When little girl would
bring a literally a bag of marshmallows every day for school,
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what do you do about things like that? Well, you know,
I taught homemaking, so I taught them how to make
healthier food and we talked about nutrition. But as I
was looking into things like this, in nineteen ninety seven,
Greg Bradhauer was offered a job as dina students at
the Wisconsin Schools, and these teenagers in the high school
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were said to be rude and obnoxious and ill mannered,
and he actually turned down the job because there were
so many discipline problems and weapon violations and they had
to recruit police officers to be on the staff. Well,
they changed, they changed the eating program at this school.
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So because of the problem, they totally redid the cafeteria.
They took out all of the vending machines, all of
the Coca Cola machines, all of the fast food machines.
They took out all the food additive foods and they
put in real food. They put in foods that were
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in their whole real form. They made, you know, real
mashed potatoes from actual potatoes and not from a bag
of reconstituted potato flakes or something like that. And it
was quite amazing. But the school totally transformed. And since
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the beginning of that program, there have been zero they
have been there have been zero suicides, zero dropouts, no
one's been expelled, and there hasn't been anyone carrying drugs
or weapons. So just to total turn around. So if
changing food for children can do this, I mean that
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tells you a great deal about what we ingest how
it affects us. So it was a five year It
was a five year program that they did, and uh,
it works so well that they continued on with it.
And I mean, if you had that wonderful a turnaround
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when you do the same thing, I mean I would,
and so so many of these problems that children are
experiencing there, it's from it's from residue from pharmaceutical drugs,
it's from all these chemicals that are in our food.
And so I want to challenge all of y'all. I'm
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going to challenge you. So we're coming close to a
new year. I want to challenge you all to start,
even if it's once a week. If you never fix
your own food, try going to the store or the
market or wherever you shop for your fresh produce and
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find a vegetable or fruit that you haven't eaten ever,
or haven't eaten in a long time, or maybe does
have never tried. And I challenge you to try some
new food and possibly prepare a home cooked meal all
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by yourself. I mean, I just think it is one
of the most therapeutic things I do for myself. When
when my children were growing up, and they'd come in
the kitchen and I'd be cooking all kinds of things
and there would be food all over. You know, I've
made bread, or I've made you know, salads, or I've
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made cookies or something. They comemp what's going on. Because
whenever I had a problem or worry, I would go
cook and it was like deep meditation for me. And
so handling your own food, you know, just putting together
something for yourself that is so nurturing. And your body
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is your holy temple and so we should be honoring
it and filling it with the most quality, one ful
foods possible. So I would just like to challenge you
to cry making some food at home if that's not
something you normally do. And if you do normally make
food at home, I challenge you to try to do
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it all organic, or maybe even do an all raw
dish where it's not cooked. And I do want to
really challenge all of you to get rid of your
microwaves and never use them. My former husband I was
married to for twenty three years was a very brilliant
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environmental trial lawyer, and he did some of the first
environmental impact studies on microwave ovens, and he was so
alarmed and horrified by them that he said they should
not be made lawful and we will never have one
in our home. I've lived with that and enjoyed that
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life ever since. And I'm seventy now and I do
not use microwaves, and I never have. But one of
the things I've noticed is when I'm health counseling people,
and I health counsel people quite frequently, pretty much every
day for health challenges they might have. And I literally
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have people have meltdowns over me telling them, please don't
use your microwave. But the microwave bombards whatever is in there,
and it could be just water or a cup of coffee,
but it bombards it was such chaotic energy that it
destroys the molecular structure of that, and it particularly destroys
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the molecular structure of the water. And if we if
you know, ninety seven percent of every cell or ninety
nine percent of every cell in our body is water,
and waters what moves your blood and the nutrition and
everything through your body, then this is a critical component
and you do not want it to be you do
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not want it to be destroyed. So anyway, I just
want y'all to focus on that. And if you need
a little warmer cup to set your coffee cup or
teacup on to keep it warm so you don't have
to feel like you want to warm it up in
a microwave, or you know, you might just get one
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of those little electric kettles that you can put water
in to heat up your water to make your tea
or your soup or coffee or whatever it is you're
using it for. So anyway, there are lots of alternative
ways to avoid using a microwave, and personally, I don't
wouldn't want one in my house at all. And if
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you have to have one in your house, it's like
a really good Faraday cage. So if you want to
at your phone where nobody can listen to you or
anything like that, it's a really good place to do it.
When I lived in Costa Rica, the Ladies home I
was living in had a microwave in it, and I
would put all of my crackers and breads and things
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in it because the ants couldn't get in there. So
it's kind of kind of like a safe so but
you just want to make sure you never turn those on.
So anyway, I have a few questions here from listeners,
and yes, that little girl was just eating marshmallows for
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her lunch. I got to where I started bringing extra
food with me and sharing it with the kids in
my homeroom class. So, you know, it was really tough
to see that a lot of the kids had both
parents working and they were just tired and busy, and
they didn't. You know, a lot of people just don't
know any better. And you know, I think they don't
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teach better nutrition because I mean, really and truly, the
pharmaceutical companies are basically what fund these dietitian schools, and
they're basically taught things that you know, I actually think
are outdated and really aren't applicable to nutrition. I feel
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like my nutrition information that I've gathered from various other
resources like plant based nutrition at Cornell University with T.
Colin Campbell, and raw food and enzymes and holistic healing
things around the world in Greece actually offer much better
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nutrition than the nutrition schools in the United States. So
I would say, if you want to learn nutrition, you
might go outside the United States to learn it, because
they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical stronghold in those countries.
It's really just the US. And and like Doctor Artists
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has said, and in one of their videos where they
were talking about the state of the United States and
the Flexner Report and how the United States gotten such
a situation with allopathic medicine, but basically, you know, they
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took nutrition out of the school so that the doctors
wouldn't know about nutrition, and you know, the more unhealthy
people are, the more clients they have, and the more
drugs they can sell. And so it's really, you know,
it's self serving. In these corporations, they definitely are all
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about profit and what they're doing. So here I have
another question here that is, yes, I cook healthy cookies.
So one of the things I do with cookies, and
I've made cookies, you know, I made cookies with my
children growing up. My daughter's spending Christmas with me and
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we are going to make Christmas cookies. And what I
did was I started switching out my recipes and a
lot of them were old family recipes. But you know,
one of the things that I have found is that
if you use quality ingredients, like I buy all organic,
and in a lot of these old recipes that maybe
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my mother had or something, it may call for crisco
or it may call for margarine, and of course we
know never to use those because those are trans fats
and they are incredibly harmful to our health. So you know,
instead of crisco, I will put in cold pressed organic
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coconut oil, or instead of margarine, I will use pure
butter or ghee, something that's organic, that's grass fed and
the highest quality I can find. And I even saw
amish butter being sold at our grocery store the other day,
and so I'm thinking about trying some of that next
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time I need some butter. But I also switch out
a lot of the other ingredients and get higher quality ingredients,
like I like to order sprouted organic brains for that
are flowers for my cookies. So my daughter eats gluten
free ever since she was in the Peace Corps and
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had three bouts of really powerful parasites in her body
and had to do some really deep parasite cleanses that
were really tough on her body, and so she's had
a little bit more of a sensitive gut since she
was in there. They also made her take all the
vaccines when she was in the Peace Corps, and have
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to admit that I did not know about it till afterwards,
and she is a grown woman, and I, you know,
did not have a chance to speak up. But you know,
we've detoxed her heavy duty for many, many, many many
years and tried everything we possibly could, and she's doing
really well now. But she does eat gluten free and
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does much better if she does that. But I will
get sprouted organic gluten free oat flour or sprouted organic
gluten free tough flower, or a coconut flour or something
like that, and then we add a little bit of
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organic taffioca flour with our gluten free flour, and the
taffioca has a little bit more gluten in it than
the gluten free wins and the gluten helps your cookies,
in your breads and things stick together better. And so
a lot of my cookbooks, like Raising Healthy Children or
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how to Be Healthy Vegetarian, I talk about a lot
of these different flowers I use, and also how to
bake using gluten free ingredients and things like that, because
it's this gluten in the wheat flour and things that
really hold puld the breads and the cookies and things together.
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But there are really easy, healthy ways that are still
delicious that you are able to make gluten free healthy cookies.
And so it's really all about the ingredients. And for
the sugar, I like to use organic date sugar or
coconut sugar. Those have a lot of nutrition in them,
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and I get the raw, unrefined organic ones. And maple
syrup is another really good sweetener that I use frequently.
I don't really bake too much with I like to
use honey in things like teas or things that I'm
really not cooking with. But it's it's also another one
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you could do. And you know, some people like the
monk fruit. I'm not a really big fan of stevia.
Stevia I think disrupts your hormones. They've used it in
South America for for a very long time to prevent
getting pregnant, so I think it disrupts your your hormones
and things like that. So I kind of avoid that.
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I mean, if you were going to do stevia, I
would do like just the plant leaves or something like that.
I wouldn't. The more processed things are, I think the
worst they get. So you want to get food that
is as close to its God given organic stage as possible.
Is really the way the way I see it, and
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that's the way I look at it. And so yeah,
I've got some great healthy cookie recipes in my cookbooks
and I still make them all the time and they're
absolutely delicious. And you know, I think it's all about
finding balance. You just don't want to overdo sugar because
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sugar is just highly toxic and addictive, and it can
make you depressed. So you know, I don't know about you,
but going to some of these family things and parties
over the holidays, there is just way more, way more
sweets than I usually eat. And there have been times
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where after the holidays, I literally have to go on
and juice fast for like two weeks and just totally
reset my body and get all the sugars out of
my body. So somebody in the in the studio as saying,
even even insects no better than going into a microwave,
and I will say, yes, you're so right, so right.
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So over the holidays, something that I've noticed is that,
you know, we get so busy and we're doing so
much for everybody else that sometimes we just get exhausted
and we need to sometimes really take care of ourselves
just a little bit more. And we don't want to
get hooked on caffeine because then you know that would
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give us energy, but it might also you know, contribute
to being more stressed out and causing some other problems.
So you know, we just need to take time for
ourselves each day and calm our mind and rest and
you know, think of yourself as as you know, such
as sacred being. You're connected with God, so you know,
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every day, try to sit, even if it's for three
to five minutes, and just breathe really deep and clear
out that racetrack brain. The Heart Meth Institute, they've studied
the heart for decades and I really like a lot
of their research, and they have shown that if you
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can just get really quiet and clear out your mind
and focus on a time in your life where everything
was beautiful and joyful and you know, really great. There
is a couple of times in my life that you know,
I pull up, you know right away, like you know,
the morning my my children were born, or you know,
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feeding them in the middle of the night in the
in the very quiet home with which is you know,
your new little child, and you know, for me, that
was such a perfect time in my life. And so
focus on a time in your life that was beautiful
and wonderful and then breathe really deeply. And they say
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that holding your breath after you breathe in helps calm
your body. So they say to breathe in about sixty
seven counts and then hold it at least five or
six counts, and then breathe out longer than you breathe in,
and so then you do it again. But if you
can do this even just for three minutes, they say,
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it takes you out of flight or fight mode, and
it resets you and it will help restore your immune system,
because when we're in a fight or flight mode, we
are not in healing mode. We are we are in
you know, we're ready to run from the tiger or
you know, fight off the bad guys. So you know,
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we want to be at peace, so you know, try
to find that peaceful, peaceful time each day to to
do that. And you know, I actually do that first
thing in the morning. I think it's really really important
that we start off our day framing it with the
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right energy. So as soon as I get up in
the morning, I write my morning positive thoughts, Like I'll
say something like today I am filled with the Divine
Creator's light and love and beautiful miracles happened to me,
and this is such a lovely journey here on the planet,
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and I am so blessed in many ways. And I
try to always end it with how much better can
it be? And I'll tell you a funny story about that.
I was in France with my friend mary Anne. We
were going to my daughter's wedding last September. She married
this wonderful Frenchman who I just adore, and so we
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were over in France and different things would happen, like
you know, we found out one day that our train
was going to be on strike the next day. I
didn't know what to do, and you know, just different
little things and we would just keep focusing on the
positive and working through it. But as we did that,
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and it worked its way out, and we found that
we did get an earlier train, and even though they
were going on strike, later we caught a train and
everything was great. We would look at each other and
we would say, how much better can it be? And
it's like Florence Scovelshin's work. And I don't know if
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you've ever read any of her books, but she wrote
your Word is Your wand and she lived in the
early nineteen hundreds, and there's some wonderful things on YouTube
where people are reading her books. And there's a lovely
Japanese lady who is one of the ones I like
to listen to. But she'll read her books and she
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really believes that every thought you have and everything you
say actually creates your life, and it's really fascinating. But
Marianna and I've found out that every time we said
how much better can it be? More wonderful things kept happening. So,
you know, here's another challenge for you. Focus on the
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positive and every time something good happens, you know, be
thankful for it, and then go how much better can
it be? And actually vocalize that and see what happens,
and who knows, you may be having some really really
amazing things. But also how we think about stress, that's
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another thing. Just make sure that you realize that you
can get through anything. Psychologist Kelly McGonagall she did a
study on stress and she found out that stress doesn't
necessarily kill you unless you think it is going to right.
So it's only harmful if you think it's harmful. So
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it's very important to just look at any kind of
health challenge or emotional challenge or lifetime challenge as something
that you know you can get through. And so as
we you know, we think about that biblical verse, Yay,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
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I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me,
And so you know, that's so true. It's the fear
is just a shadow and you're just walking through it.
And so look at any kind of stressful situation like
that and just you know, I pass it and transform
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it into something better. And so anyway, let's talk about
some foods. So what can what are some foods you
can add to your diet. You know, I would say
things like lentils and chickpeas and beans, which you're rich
in vitamin B does have a very calming effect on
your body, and so they can actually help reduce anxiety.
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So if you're you know, want to you know, really
feel calmer and influence every cell and tissue in your body,
then you know, eat more vitamin B complex foods and
those are really great ones. Make sure that you always
soak them overnight to sprout them so that you remove
the phytic acid and ensime inhibitors excuse me. And that's
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really important because you know, a lot of people don't
want to eat plant bee's foods because they say it
causes gut problems or gas. But that's because they don't
know how to fix them properly. And all of these
things that grow a plant like beans lentils, nuts, quinoa, rice,
things like that. You want to soak them overnight in
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your good water before you cook them. And I put
all of these steps in my recipes in my cookbooks
like Racing Healthy Children or how to be a Healthy
Vegetarian or Diabetes in your diet, and I think that
makes my cookbooks just much more informative for your health.
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And it's actually very easy to do, you just have
to know to do it. And then quin wah keen
is another really you know, power packed antioxidant rich food.
And these these complex carbohydrates like that type, they keep
your blood sugar in your energy levels stable, so keeping
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your blood sugar from spiking can really help you feel
more calm, and those are really important. And then of
course it's got Kina's got perstin in it, like creamberries
also has those has that in it, and that has
been found to be very very good having an antidepressant
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contribute contribution, So quercetin is a really good nutrient that
will help with that. And then dark leafy greens. Add
some dark leafy greens to your diet if you don't already.
I like arugola a whole lot. I really like you know,
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things like collared greens or turnip greens. I don't really
do much of the spinach because of the oxalic acid,
and I think, you know, sometimes the kale is just
too hard on our system and it tends to have
a lot of heavy metals in it for whatever reason.
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So if you're buying greens, leafy greens, always remember to
get baby greens. Baby greens are going to be much
better for you. Those baby greens have the same amount
of nutrition in them, but it's small, so it's like
a superfood. So what's superfood? A super food is a
food that actually has nutrition in it, fair to the
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conventional foods grown with these herbicides and pesticides on them
that destroy the nutrition in the food and makes them toxic.
And then you know, just foods with the B vitamin
like folate, which is just so good that's in leafy greens,
and those can really help reduce depression and things like that.
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So you know, those also give you energy. So if
you've been feeling kind of just exhausted, eats some leafy greens.
You know. Sometimes you know, leftovers are really great. If
you're at the holidays and you have leftovers at your house.
My daughter and I frequently will make a big salad
and then we will have like a leftover rice dish
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or something like that, excuse me, and then we will
just put that on top of the leafy greens and
quite literally you that as like our dressing. And I
have found that to be so delicious. It's actually one
of my favorite ways to eat leafy greens is I
will do my sprouded organic grown rice warmed up and
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I'll put it on my leafy greens, and it makes
it so savory and delicious. And that is something that
is eaten quite frequently at my house. And then also
remember to eat yellow, orange and red fruits and vegetables,
and I would just say every day, you need to
eat those every day. And you know papaya, beats, apples,
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red bell peppers, you know, those all have vitamin A
in it and vitamin C and the B vitamins like
fol eate, and this enhance our mood and energize our
body and it helps repair cells and damage that you
know can be caused by stress or you know, overdoing
it or whatever. So you know, just you know, make
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sure that you eat some real food. So challenge challenge
try eating food that is like in its real form,
like you would just pick off a tree or off
of vine and not out of a package. And you know,
see if you could challenge yourself to even if you know,
do it one day or a week or even for
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a month. And you know, this is the kind of
thing that I frequently do in the new year. I'll
take off like the whole month of January sometimes and
I will just eat raw organic like leafy greens or
juices or raw food. And people are like, Okay, Nancy,
(35:43):
what is raw food? Well, it's just a term that
they use for really just real food that's not cooked,
like fruits and vegetables and different types of things like
maybe raw nuts, things like that. And I'm a raw
food chef. And these foods have live enzymes in them.
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So when you cook food over one hundred and eighteen degrees,
you basically destroyed the living enzymes in that food. And
we are born with a certain amount of enzymes in
our body, and we use them up every time we chew,
every time we eat food. Our body utilizes those to
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process the food we're eating and it starts in our mouth.
So you know, this is really important because when you
use up those enzymes, you die. And so these enzymes
are really important. When you eat whole, real raw food
or food that's not processed, cooked, not radiated, it's not microwaved,
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it's not you know, prepared in a way that destroys
the enzymes, then those foods, like eating a real apple
in its whole, real raw form, it's going to contribute
anywhere from forty to sixty percent of the enzymes I
need to digest that food, and so it's contributing to
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my limited enzymes store that I was born with, and
it helps me supplement that so that I have more
be very careful if you're a gum chewer or something,
because the chewing of the gum tells your body you're
going to eat something, and so you're using up your
enzymes and you're wasting them because you're not eating food,
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and so that can actually aide you more. That's my theory,
but that's pretty good theory. But it uses up your enzymes.
And then you know, celery is one of these amazing foods,
and celery seeds also they help lower blood pressure and
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they can reduce the risk of cancer. They are just
amazing at reducing inflammation and they can prevent age related
vision loss. So you know celery, I love sprinkling a
little of my pink organic salt on it and just
eating it, or you know, put some nut butter on
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it or something like that, and I like it sometimes
with hummus and celery is really delicious. And you know,
put those out for snacks for children and get them
to start eating foods that are in their full real form.
Blueberries are another one. They are rich in innoxidants and
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vitamins and fiber, and they just have incredible benefits. They
are you know, just in many double blind studies. They've
helped prevent low mood and depression. And also in World
War Two that the fider pilots in Great Britain they
wouldn't go fly on their nighttime flights without eating something
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that had billberries, which is like the English version of blueberries.
And so they did all these studies in Europe on
the blue pigment in these foods and how powerful they
are for your eyesight. So if you are you know,
have any eyesight challenges that all going on, you want
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to add more of these beautiful organic like blueberries and
dark rich blue colored foods to your diet because those
really help. And it is the color pigment that is
actually the antioxidant. So the more colorful your food is,
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the healthier it's going to be. And so, you know,
thinking of purple and blue. When my children are growing up,
I would make purple meshed potatoes, and they, especially if
they had friends come over, they'd be like, oh, Mom,
make your purple mashed potatoes for a friend because they
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were like, Oh, that's really okay, you have purple mashed potatoes.
But I like getting the healthier foods, and I think
purple mashed potatoes are delicious, and I think, you know, the
purple sweet potatoes or even some of the most delicious
foods I've ever had in my life. And I've just
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learned to get used to in new colors of my food.
I mean, we grew up with certain ideas of food colors,
but most of the food colors we grew up in
the United States were artificial and a lot of them
were very harmful. And so, you know, eating and what
happened was forty years ago, I read an article, very
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extensive article about how the genetic modification and all these
corporate farms that they started putting in after World War
two in America. They were buying out all these little
bitty farms and turning them into these massive corporation farms,
and they would grow one kind of corn, or one
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kind of potato, or one kind of thing. And this
article talked about and I wish to heavens I could
find that article. It was so good. But it was
talking about how there used to be thousands and thousands
of varieties and colors of broccoli and carrots and potatoes
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and apples and all these different foods, and these little
farms would share seeds and they would save their seeds
and collect them and save them. And so all of
these wonderful varieties of organic fruits and vegetables were going extinct.
And it was about that same time I learned that
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a lot of these genetically modified foods, like the GMO
corn that we're so used to in America now that
has harmful bet toxin in it that literally makes your
body make its own pesticide, is quite harmful, eats holes
in your stomach. So eat organic corn, if you eat
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anything with corn in it. But that the flowers on
these plants, most of them if they have any, they
have no nectar. So all the bees were starving to death.
And then if they did have nctar, it was toxic
and it would kill the bees. So, you know, I
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started saving my seeds. I started in a seed organic
seed exchange, and it really woke me up to appreciating
the God given foods that you know, we were losing.
And so I really started searching out at the organic
stores these rare varieties of heirloom foods that you know,
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you can find them. Sometimes I go to a Wheatsfield
co op in Austin frequently to do my shopping and
there will be all kinds of heirloom different types of
tomatoes or heirloom, different types of fruits or vegetables, and
I try them. So I challenge you to try some
new things, new foods and the things. So I have
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a question on how do you make them different colors?
You have to buy them that color they are, that
airloom variety. These are not artificially made by a corporation
or something. These are divinely given plants that God gave us,
and we've just lost lost a lot of them because
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of these greedy corporations that have really wreaked have it
on our food system and destroyed a lot of the
nutrition in them. So I'm hoping we're getting that back,
and we're taking back our world and during the organic
nature of our earth and of our plants and helping
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support the environment. And so I hope you're all doing this.
And oh my goodness, I'm already getting close to the
end of the show. I love talking to y'all and
it is such a joy, and I am just so
grateful for you sharing your valuable time with me every week.
And I'm so thrilled when I hear wonderful things from
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y'all about how you liked my show or you listen
to it many times, or different things like that, and
please keep those coming. And I really truly wish y'all
just the best health and the best holidays. And you know,
as you as you are going through these these weeks
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of the holidays here and embarking on a new year soon,
you know, really start looking at and maybe writing down
the things that you want to bring into your life
that you want to have manifested. And remember what Kathy
O'Brien taught us when she was on the show, and
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she had been a MK ultra mind control sex traffic
slave for thirty years of her life. She healed herself
writing down her traumise. She wrote them down. You have
to write it. You cannot do it on a computer
that connects your brain and your heart. And you write
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it out and then you say thank you for that
lesson and I don't need it anymore. And it tells
you're subconscious to let it go. So if you're challenged
with anything, you just want to write it out and
you want to let it go, and you want to
start focusing your mind on beautiful joy and bring that
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into your life. You could look up Florence scovel Shin.
She wrote The Game of Life, and I think it's
the game of life and how to live it. And
then the other word is the word. Your word is
your wand so you know that would be something lovely
to think about during the holidays. It's really pleasant and
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I hope you enjoy that. And I just wish you
all the most beautiful time this Christmas season, and just
know that I love you so much, and I hope
you can turn some of those family recipes into healthier
recipes with healthier ingredients and uh, and I wish you
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really great health and great food and delicious things. And
as you go through your life and you connect with
those around you, just remember to add that main ingredient,
and that main ingredient is always love, the inspected. A
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Welcome beautiful people to organic healthy Lifestyle And I'm Nancy Addison,
your host, and I love to start off my show
with a prayer. I feel like it gives it such
great energy and screams it in a very special, loving way.
And so if you'll join me in whichever way you
would like, that would be great. So I ask our
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divine creator please fill our hearts with divine white light
and love and joy. And we give you thanks for
all the abundance and blessings and the great things that
you have given us, and especially the birth of your
son Joshua Emmanuel. And we ask your blessing of put
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honest all and upon our friends and family. We also
pray that in great mercy you would look kindly on
all of us and need around the world and bring
peace and love and healing to our planet. And we
ask this in the highest good of all concerned. For
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everyone listening now and for everyone listening in the future,
and we thank you, and so it is. And I
just wonder give a quick thank you to Dean Piper
and W four cy Radio who have believed in me
all these years and encouraged me to do this show.
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And you know, it feels so good to have my
show number one in the million podcasts lists. It's just
to me, just amazing. It was number one in the
category of organic food and sixth and healthy food seventh
and healthy eating. So anyway, if any of y'all have
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a beautiful message in your heart and you want to
find a way to let it out, and Dean with
W four cy Radio and Florida is just a great
guy and he can help you put together whatever it
is you need. He convinced me to do this show
believing in my message and my books and who I was,
(02:46):
and I never thought I would actually do a radio show.
I was like, oh my goodness, but it has been
such a joy to connect with all of y'all around
the world and to get your lovely messages in presence.
And I just want to thank you all, and I
think you're all amazing and and I wish you really
(03:10):
just a beautiful beautiful Christmas in a holiday season and
a fantastic new year coming up. So you know, let's
envision and create that peaceful world that we're all envisioning happening.
And I know it's rolling out right now. And you know,
(03:30):
what we focus on. You know, I've talked about this
a lot, but what we focus on expands. And so
if we want to be focusing on the things we
want to have happen, and if our mind gets into
any kind of negativity or any kind of fear based thing,
(03:52):
you know, for whatever reason, which you know a lot
of it's because of watching television or the media, you know,
just t thank you for showing up, but you don't
need it anymore. It just escort it out of your mind.
And so let's just all take a deep breath and
let out any kind of stress from the day. And
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today I'm going to talk about really eating healthier, turning
many of your favorite family recipes or holiday recipes healthier.
How can you do that? How can you add foods
to your eating plan that is really going to lift
your mood and make you feel better. So, you know,
(04:35):
what we eat, what we ingest, becomes ourselves, our tissue
and our blood, so it directly impacts absolutely everything about
our health. And when I was a school teacher, one
of the things I noticed is that, you know, the
children had to sit in these school rooms long periods
(04:55):
of time under artificial light, not getting enough exercise, not
getting to run around and tell you the truth. I
think that's incredibly unhealthy for children. I think it is
a very poor plan for children, and I don't think
it really contributes to them learning. And I think, you know,
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the most creative children, I think are the ones that
really get hurt by these particular types of structured schools.
But the school I worked at, and this is one
reason I ended up quitting, is they would put all
of these children on drugs for like ADHD or hyperactivity
(05:38):
or you know whatever they decided to, you know, diagnose
these children with trying to make them think there was
something wrong with them. And I think subconsciously, when you
do diagnose a child with something like this, it does
make them think there's something wrong with them and that
they're like not good enough for or some thing. And
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then then when you give them a drug.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You're telling them to solve their problems with drugs, And
you know that is a very clear message, and if
people aren't understanding that, then they need to really think
about you know, our actions speaking way louder than our words.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So it's very important that your actions are congruent with
your beliefs. Right. Well, as I looked at a lot
of these lunches that children would bring to school, I
noticed that a lot of the lunches were fast food
or they had packed them themselves. When little girl would
bring a literally a bag of marshmallows every day for school,
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what do you do about things like that? Well, you know,
I taught homemaking, so I taught them how to make
healthier food and we talked about nutrition. But as I
was looking into things like this, in nineteen ninety seven,
Greg Bradhauer was offered a job as dina students at
the Wisconsin Schools, and these teenagers in the high school
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were said to be rude and obnoxious and ill mannered,
and he actually turned down the job because there were
so many discipline problems and weapon violations and they had
to recruit police officers to be on the staff. Well,
they changed, they changed the eating program at this school.
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So because of the problem, they totally redid the cafeteria.
They took out all of the vending machines, all of
the Coca Cola machines, all of the fast food machines.
They took out all the food additive foods and they
put in real food. They put in foods that were
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in their whole real form. They made, you know, real
mashed potatoes from actual potatoes and not from a bag
of reconstituted potato flakes or something like that. And it
was quite amazing. But the school totally transformed. And since
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the beginning of that program, there have been zero they
have been there have been zero suicides, zero dropouts, no
one's been expelled, and there hasn't been anyone carrying drugs
or weapons. So just to total turn around. So if
changing food for children can do this, I mean that
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tells you a great deal about what we ingest how
it affects us. So it was a five year It
was a five year program that they did, and uh,
it works so well that they continued on with it.
And I mean, if you had that wonderful a turnaround
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when you do the same thing, I mean I would,
and so so many of these problems that children are
experiencing there, it's from it's from residue from pharmaceutical drugs,
it's from all these chemicals that are in our food.
And so I want to challenge all of y'all. I'm
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going to challenge you. So we're coming close to a
new year. I want to challenge you all to start,
even if it's once a week. If you never fix
your own food, try going to the store or the
market or wherever you shop for your fresh produce and
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find a vegetable or fruit that you haven't eaten ever,
or haven't eaten in a long time, or maybe does
have never tried. And I challenge you to try some
new food and possibly prepare a home cooked meal all
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by yourself. I mean, I just think it is one
of the most therapeutic things I do for myself. When
when my children were growing up, and they'd come in
the kitchen and I'd be cooking all kinds of things
and there would be food all over. You know, I've
made bread, or I've made you know, salads, or I've
(10:28):
made cookies or something. They comemp what's going on. Because
whenever I had a problem or worry, I would go
cook and it was like deep meditation for me. And
so handling your own food, you know, just putting together
something for yourself that is so nurturing. And your body
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is your holy temple and so we should be honoring
it and filling it with the most quality, one ful
foods possible. So I would just like to challenge you
to cry making some food at home if that's not
something you normally do. And if you do normally make
food at home, I challenge you to try to do
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it all organic, or maybe even do an all raw
dish where it's not cooked. And I do want to
really challenge all of you to get rid of your
microwaves and never use them. My former husband I was
married to for twenty three years was a very brilliant
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environmental trial lawyer, and he did some of the first
environmental impact studies on microwave ovens, and he was so
alarmed and horrified by them that he said they should
not be made lawful and we will never have one
in our home. I've lived with that and enjoyed that
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life ever since. And I'm seventy now and I do
not use microwaves, and I never have. But one of
the things I've noticed is when I'm health counseling people,
and I health counsel people quite frequently, pretty much every
day for health challenges they might have. And I literally
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have people have meltdowns over me telling them, please don't
use your microwave. But the microwave bombards whatever is in there,
and it could be just water or a cup of coffee,
but it bombards it was such chaotic energy that it
destroys the molecular structure of that, and it particularly destroys
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the molecular structure of the water. And if we if
you know, ninety seven percent of every cell or ninety
nine percent of every cell in our body is water,
and waters what moves your blood and the nutrition and
everything through your body, then this is a critical component
and you do not want it to be you do
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not want it to be destroyed. So anyway, I just
want y'all to focus on that. And if you need
a little warmer cup to set your coffee cup or
teacup on to keep it warm so you don't have
to feel like you want to warm it up in
a microwave, or you know, you might just get one
(13:31):
of those little electric kettles that you can put water
in to heat up your water to make your tea
or your soup or coffee or whatever it is you're
using it for. So anyway, there are lots of alternative
ways to avoid using a microwave, and personally, I don't
wouldn't want one in my house at all. And if
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you have to have one in your house, it's like
a really good Faraday cage. So if you want to
at your phone where nobody can listen to you or
anything like that, it's a really good place to do it.
When I lived in Costa Rica, the Ladies home I
was living in had a microwave in it, and I
would put all of my crackers and breads and things
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in it because the ants couldn't get in there. So
it's kind of kind of like a safe so but
you just want to make sure you never turn those on.
So anyway, I have a few questions here from listeners,
and yes, that little girl was just eating marshmallows for
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her lunch. I got to where I started bringing extra
food with me and sharing it with the kids in
my homeroom class. So, you know, it was really tough
to see that a lot of the kids had both
parents working and they were just tired and busy, and
they didn't. You know, a lot of people just don't
know any better. And you know, I think they don't
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teach better nutrition because I mean, really and truly, the
pharmaceutical companies are basically what fund these dietitian schools, and
they're basically taught things that you know, I actually think
are outdated and really aren't applicable to nutrition. I feel
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like my nutrition information that I've gathered from various other
resources like plant based nutrition at Cornell University with T.
Colin Campbell, and raw food and enzymes and holistic healing
things around the world in Greece actually offer much better
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nutrition than the nutrition schools in the United States. So
I would say, if you want to learn nutrition, you
might go outside the United States to learn it, because
they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical stronghold in those countries.
It's really just the US. And and like Doctor Artists
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has said, and in one of their videos where they
were talking about the state of the United States and
the Flexner Report and how the United States gotten such
a situation with allopathic medicine, but basically, you know, they
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took nutrition out of the school so that the doctors
wouldn't know about nutrition, and you know, the more unhealthy
people are, the more clients they have, and the more
drugs they can sell. And so it's really, you know,
it's self serving. In these corporations, they definitely are all
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about profit and what they're doing. So here I have
another question here that is, yes, I cook healthy cookies.
So one of the things I do with cookies, and
I've made cookies, you know, I made cookies with my
children growing up. My daughter's spending Christmas with me and
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we are going to make Christmas cookies. And what I
did was I started switching out my recipes and a
lot of them were old family recipes. But you know,
one of the things that I have found is that
if you use quality ingredients, like I buy all organic,
and in a lot of these old recipes that maybe
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my mother had or something, it may call for crisco
or it may call for margarine, and of course we
know never to use those because those are trans fats
and they are incredibly harmful to our health. So you know,
instead of crisco, I will put in cold pressed organic
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coconut oil, or instead of margarine, I will use pure
butter or ghee, something that's organic, that's grass fed and
the highest quality I can find. And I even saw
amish butter being sold at our grocery store the other day,
and so I'm thinking about trying some of that next
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time I need some butter. But I also switch out
a lot of the other ingredients and get higher quality ingredients,
like I like to order sprouted organic brains for that
are flowers for my cookies. So my daughter eats gluten
free ever since she was in the Peace Corps and
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had three bouts of really powerful parasites in her body
and had to do some really deep parasite cleanses that
were really tough on her body, and so she's had
a little bit more of a sensitive gut since she
was in there. They also made her take all the
vaccines when she was in the Peace Corps, and have
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to admit that I did not know about it till afterwards,
and she is a grown woman, and I, you know,
did not have a chance to speak up. But you know,
we've detoxed her heavy duty for many, many, many many
years and tried everything we possibly could, and she's doing
really well now. But she does eat gluten free and
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does much better if she does that. But I will
get sprouted organic gluten free oat flour or sprouted organic
gluten free tough flower, or a coconut flour or something
like that, and then we add a little bit of
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organic taffioca flour with our gluten free flour, and the
taffioca has a little bit more gluten in it than
the gluten free wins and the gluten helps your cookies,
in your breads and things stick together better. And so
a lot of my cookbooks, like Raising Healthy Children or
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how to Be Healthy Vegetarian, I talk about a lot
of these different flowers I use, and also how to
bake using gluten free ingredients and things like that, because
it's this gluten in the wheat flour and things that
really hold puld the breads and the cookies and things together.
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But there are really easy, healthy ways that are still
delicious that you are able to make gluten free healthy cookies.
And so it's really all about the ingredients. And for
the sugar, I like to use organic date sugar or
coconut sugar. Those have a lot of nutrition in them,
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and I get the raw, unrefined organic ones. And maple
syrup is another really good sweetener that I use frequently.
I don't really bake too much with I like to
use honey in things like teas or things that I'm
really not cooking with. But it's it's also another one
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you could do. And you know, some people like the
monk fruit. I'm not a really big fan of stevia.
Stevia I think disrupts your hormones. They've used it in
South America for for a very long time to prevent
getting pregnant, so I think it disrupts your your hormones
and things like that. So I kind of avoid that.
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I mean, if you were going to do stevia, I
would do like just the plant leaves or something like that.
I wouldn't. The more processed things are, I think the
worst they get. So you want to get food that
is as close to its God given organic stage as possible.
Is really the way the way I see it, and
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that's the way I look at it. And so yeah,
I've got some great healthy cookie recipes in my cookbooks
and I still make them all the time and they're
absolutely delicious. And you know, I think it's all about
finding balance. You just don't want to overdo sugar because
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sugar is just highly toxic and addictive, and it can
make you depressed. So you know, I don't know about you,
but going to some of these family things and parties
over the holidays, there is just way more, way more
sweets than I usually eat. And there have been times
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where after the holidays, I literally have to go on
and juice fast for like two weeks and just totally
reset my body and get all the sugars out of
my body. So somebody in the in the studio as saying,
even even insects no better than going into a microwave,
and I will say, yes, you're so right, so right.
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So over the holidays, something that I've noticed is that,
you know, we get so busy and we're doing so
much for everybody else that sometimes we just get exhausted
and we need to sometimes really take care of ourselves
just a little bit more. And we don't want to
get hooked on caffeine because then you know that would
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give us energy, but it might also you know, contribute
to being more stressed out and causing some other problems.
So you know, we just need to take time for
ourselves each day and calm our mind and rest and
you know, think of yourself as as you know, such
as sacred being. You're connected with God, so you know,
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every day, try to sit, even if it's for three
to five minutes, and just breathe really deep and clear
out that racetrack brain. The Heart Meth Institute, they've studied
the heart for decades and I really like a lot
of their research, and they have shown that if you
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can just get really quiet and clear out your mind
and focus on a time in your life where everything
was beautiful and joyful and you know, really great. There
is a couple of times in my life that you know,
I pull up, you know right away, like you know,
the morning my my children were born, or you know,
(24:37):
feeding them in the middle of the night in the
in the very quiet home with which is you know,
your new little child, and you know, for me, that
was such a perfect time in my life. And so
focus on a time in your life that was beautiful
and wonderful and then breathe really deeply. And they say
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that holding your breath after you breathe in helps calm
your body. So they say to breathe in about sixty
seven counts and then hold it at least five or
six counts, and then breathe out longer than you breathe in,
and so then you do it again. But if you
can do this even just for three minutes, they say,
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it takes you out of flight or fight mode, and
it resets you and it will help restore your immune system,
because when we're in a fight or flight mode, we
are not in healing mode. We are we are in
you know, we're ready to run from the tiger or
you know, fight off the bad guys. So you know,
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we want to be at peace, so you know, try
to find that peaceful, peaceful time each day to to
do that. And you know, I actually do that first
thing in the morning. I think it's really really important
that we start off our day framing it with the
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right energy. So as soon as I get up in
the morning, I write my morning positive thoughts, Like I'll
say something like today I am filled with the Divine
Creator's light and love and beautiful miracles happened to me,
and this is such a lovely journey here on the planet,
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and I am so blessed in many ways. And I
try to always end it with how much better can
it be? And I'll tell you a funny story about that.
I was in France with my friend mary Anne. We
were going to my daughter's wedding last September. She married
this wonderful Frenchman who I just adore, and so we
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were over in France and different things would happen, like
you know, we found out one day that our train
was going to be on strike the next day. I
didn't know what to do, and you know, just different
little things and we would just keep focusing on the
positive and working through it. But as we did that,
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and it worked its way out, and we found that
we did get an earlier train, and even though they
were going on strike, later we caught a train and
everything was great. We would look at each other and
we would say, how much better can it be? And
it's like Florence Scovelshin's work. And I don't know if
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you've ever read any of her books, but she wrote
your Word is Your wand and she lived in the
early nineteen hundreds, and there's some wonderful things on YouTube
where people are reading her books. And there's a lovely
Japanese lady who is one of the ones I like
to listen to. But she'll read her books and she
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really believes that every thought you have and everything you
say actually creates your life, and it's really fascinating. But
Marianna and I've found out that every time we said
how much better can it be? More wonderful things kept happening. So,
you know, here's another challenge for you. Focus on the
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positive and every time something good happens, you know, be
thankful for it, and then go how much better can
it be? And actually vocalize that and see what happens,
and who knows, you may be having some really really
amazing things. But also how we think about stress, that's
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another thing. Just make sure that you realize that you
can get through anything. Psychologist Kelly McGonagall she did a
study on stress and she found out that stress doesn't
necessarily kill you unless you think it is going to right.
So it's only harmful if you think it's harmful. So
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it's very important to just look at any kind of
health challenge or emotional challenge or lifetime challenge as something
that you know you can get through. And so as
we you know, we think about that biblical verse, Yay,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
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I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me,
And so you know, that's so true. It's the fear
is just a shadow and you're just walking through it.
And so look at any kind of stressful situation like
that and just you know, I pass it and transform
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it into something better. And so anyway, let's talk about
some foods. So what can what are some foods you
can add to your diet. You know, I would say
things like lentils and chickpeas and beans, which you're rich
in vitamin B does have a very calming effect on
your body, and so they can actually help reduce anxiety.
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So if you're you know, want to you know, really
feel calmer and influence every cell and tissue in your body,
then you know, eat more vitamin B complex foods and
those are really great ones. Make sure that you always
soak them overnight to sprout them so that you remove
the phytic acid and ensime inhibitors excuse me. And that's
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really important because you know, a lot of people don't
want to eat plant bee's foods because they say it
causes gut problems or gas. But that's because they don't
know how to fix them properly. And all of these
things that grow a plant like beans lentils, nuts, quinoa, rice,
things like that. You want to soak them overnight in
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your good water before you cook them. And I put
all of these steps in my recipes in my cookbooks
like Racing Healthy Children or how to be a Healthy
Vegetarian or Diabetes in your diet, and I think that
makes my cookbooks just much more informative for your health.
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And it's actually very easy to do, you just have
to know to do it. And then quin wah keen
is another really you know, power packed antioxidant rich food.
And these these complex carbohydrates like that type, they keep
your blood sugar in your energy levels stable, so keeping
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your blood sugar from spiking can really help you feel
more calm, and those are really important. And then of
course it's got Kina's got perstin in it, like creamberries
also has those has that in it, and that has
been found to be very very good having an antidepressant
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contribute contribution, So quercetin is a really good nutrient that
will help with that. And then dark leafy greens. Add
some dark leafy greens to your diet if you don't already.
I like arugola a whole lot. I really like you know,
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things like collared greens or turnip greens. I don't really
do much of the spinach because of the oxalic acid,
and I think, you know, sometimes the kale is just
too hard on our system and it tends to have
a lot of heavy metals in it for whatever reason.
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So if you're buying greens, leafy greens, always remember to
get baby greens. Baby greens are going to be much
better for you. Those baby greens have the same amount
of nutrition in them, but it's small, so it's like
a superfood. So what's superfood? A super food is a
food that actually has nutrition in it, fair to the
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conventional foods grown with these herbicides and pesticides on them
that destroy the nutrition in the food and makes them toxic.
And then you know, just foods with the B vitamin
like folate, which is just so good that's in leafy greens,
and those can really help reduce depression and things like that.
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So you know, those also give you energy. So if
you've been feeling kind of just exhausted, eats some leafy greens.
You know. Sometimes you know, leftovers are really great. If
you're at the holidays and you have leftovers at your house.
My daughter and I frequently will make a big salad
and then we will have like a leftover rice dish
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or something like that, excuse me, and then we will
just put that on top of the leafy greens and
quite literally you that as like our dressing. And I
have found that to be so delicious. It's actually one
of my favorite ways to eat leafy greens is I
will do my sprouded organic grown rice warmed up and
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I'll put it on my leafy greens, and it makes
it so savory and delicious. And that is something that
is eaten quite frequently at my house. And then also
remember to eat yellow, orange and red fruits and vegetables,
and I would just say every day, you need to
eat those every day. And you know papaya, beats, apples,
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red bell peppers, you know, those all have vitamin A
in it and vitamin C and the B vitamins like
fol eate, and this enhance our mood and energize our
body and it helps repair cells and damage that you
know can be caused by stress or you know, overdoing
it or whatever. So you know, just you know, make
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sure that you eat some real food. So challenge challenge
try eating food that is like in its real form,
like you would just pick off a tree or off
of vine and not out of a package. And you know,
see if you could challenge yourself to even if you know,
do it one day or a week or even for
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a month. And you know, this is the kind of
thing that I frequently do in the new year. I'll
take off like the whole month of January sometimes and
I will just eat raw organic like leafy greens or
juices or raw food. And people are like, Okay, Nancy,
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what is raw food? Well, it's just a term that
they use for really just real food that's not cooked,
like fruits and vegetables and different types of things like
maybe raw nuts, things like that. And I'm a raw
food chef. And these foods have live enzymes in them.
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So when you cook food over one hundred and eighteen degrees,
you basically destroyed the living enzymes in that food. And
we are born with a certain amount of enzymes in
our body, and we use them up every time we chew,
every time we eat food. Our body utilizes those to
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process the food we're eating and it starts in our mouth.
So you know, this is really important because when you
use up those enzymes, you die. And so these enzymes
are really important. When you eat whole, real raw food
or food that's not processed, cooked, not radiated, it's not microwaved,
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it's not you know, prepared in a way that destroys
the enzymes, then those foods, like eating a real apple
in its whole, real raw form, it's going to contribute
anywhere from forty to sixty percent of the enzymes I
need to digest that food, and so it's contributing to
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my limited enzymes store that I was born with, and
it helps me supplement that so that I have more
be very careful if you're a gum chewer or something,
because the chewing of the gum tells your body you're
going to eat something, and so you're using up your
enzymes and you're wasting them because you're not eating food,
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and so that can actually aide you more. That's my theory,
but that's pretty good theory. But it uses up your enzymes.
And then you know, celery is one of these amazing foods,
and celery seeds also they help lower blood pressure and
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they can reduce the risk of cancer. They are just
amazing at reducing inflammation and they can prevent age related
vision loss. So you know celery, I love sprinkling a
little of my pink organic salt on it and just
eating it, or you know, put some nut butter on
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it or something like that, and I like it sometimes
with hummus and celery is really delicious. And you know,
put those out for snacks for children and get them
to start eating foods that are in their full real form.
Blueberries are another one. They are rich in innoxidants and
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vitamins and fiber, and they just have incredible benefits. They
are you know, just in many double blind studies. They've
helped prevent low mood and depression. And also in World
War Two that the fider pilots in Great Britain they
wouldn't go fly on their nighttime flights without eating something
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that had billberries, which is like the English version of blueberries.
And so they did all these studies in Europe on
the blue pigment in these foods and how powerful they
are for your eyesight. So if you are you know,
have any eyesight challenges that all going on, you want
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to add more of these beautiful organic like blueberries and
dark rich blue colored foods to your diet because those
really help. And it is the color pigment that is
actually the antioxidant. So the more colorful your food is,
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the healthier it's going to be. And so, you know,
thinking of purple and blue. When my children are growing up,
I would make purple meshed potatoes, and they, especially if
they had friends come over, they'd be like, oh, Mom,
make your purple mashed potatoes for a friend because they
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were like, Oh, that's really okay, you have purple mashed potatoes.
But I like getting the healthier foods, and I think
purple mashed potatoes are delicious, and I think, you know, the
purple sweet potatoes or even some of the most delicious
foods I've ever had in my life. And I've just
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learned to get used to in new colors of my food.
I mean, we grew up with certain ideas of food colors,
but most of the food colors we grew up in
the United States were artificial and a lot of them
were very harmful. And so, you know, eating and what
happened was forty years ago, I read an article, very
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extensive article about how the genetic modification and all these
corporate farms that they started putting in after World War
two in America. They were buying out all these little
bitty farms and turning them into these massive corporation farms,
and they would grow one kind of corn, or one
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kind of potato, or one kind of thing. And this
article talked about and I wish to heavens I could
find that article. It was so good. But it was
talking about how there used to be thousands and thousands
of varieties and colors of broccoli and carrots and potatoes
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and apples and all these different foods, and these little
farms would share seeds and they would save their seeds
and collect them and save them. And so all of
these wonderful varieties of organic fruits and vegetables were going extinct.
And it was about that same time I learned that
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a lot of these genetically modified foods, like the GMO
corn that we're so used to in America now that
has harmful bet toxin in it that literally makes your
body make its own pesticide, is quite harmful, eats holes
in your stomach. So eat organic corn, if you eat
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anything with corn in it. But that the flowers on
these plants, most of them if they have any, they
have no nectar. So all the bees were starving to death.
And then if they did have nctar, it was toxic
and it would kill the bees. So, you know, I
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started saving my seeds. I started in a seed organic
seed exchange, and it really woke me up to appreciating
the God given foods that you know, we were losing.
And so I really started searching out at the organic
stores these rare varieties of heirloom foods that you know,
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you can find them. Sometimes I go to a Wheatsfield
co op in Austin frequently to do my shopping and
there will be all kinds of heirloom different types of
tomatoes or heirloom, different types of fruits or vegetables, and
I try them. So I challenge you to try some
new things, new foods and the things. So I have
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a question on how do you make them different colors?
You have to buy them that color they are, that
airloom variety. These are not artificially made by a corporation
or something. These are divinely given plants that God gave us,
and we've just lost lost a lot of them because
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of these greedy corporations that have really wreaked have it
on our food system and destroyed a lot of the
nutrition in them. So I'm hoping we're getting that back,
and we're taking back our world and during the organic
nature of our earth and of our plants and helping
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support the environment. And so I hope you're all doing this.
And oh my goodness, I'm already getting close to the
end of the show. I love talking to y'all and
it is such a joy, and I am just so
grateful for you sharing your valuable time with me every week.
And I'm so thrilled when I hear wonderful things from
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y'all about how you liked my show or you listen
to it many times, or different things like that, and
please keep those coming. And I really truly wish y'all
just the best health and the best holidays. And you know,
as you as you are going through these these weeks
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of the holidays here and embarking on a new year soon,
you know, really start looking at and maybe writing down
the things that you want to bring into your life
that you want to have manifested. And remember what Kathy
O'Brien taught us when she was on the show, and
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she had been a MK ultra mind control sex traffic
slave for thirty years of her life. She healed herself
writing down her traumise. She wrote them down. You have
to write it. You cannot do it on a computer
that connects your brain and your heart. And you write
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it out and then you say thank you for that
lesson and I don't need it anymore. And it tells
you're subconscious to let it go. So if you're challenged
with anything, you just want to write it out and
you want to let it go, and you want to
start focusing your mind on beautiful joy and bring that
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into your life. You could look up Florence scovel Shin.
She wrote The Game of Life, and I think it's
the game of life and how to live it. And
then the other word is the word. Your word is
your wand so you know that would be something lovely
to think about during the holidays. It's really pleasant and
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I hope you enjoy that. And I just wish you
all the most beautiful time this Christmas season, and just
know that I love you so much, and I hope
you can turn some of those family recipes into healthier
recipes with healthier ingredients and uh, and I wish you
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really great health and great food and delicious things. And
as you go through your life and you connect with
those around you, just remember to add that main ingredient,
and that main ingredient is always love, the inspected. A
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tastiats at disst just has to
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