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Friday, March 20, 2015

New Look New Site New Book but its still all the same I promise

Hey! What happened to A Year of Slow Cooking?

its here! its all right here!

{if you are reading this in a reader or through email, none of this is going to make any sense. I urge you to click through to the main site to see what Im talking about}

Welcome to the great-big-huge-honking site redesign! Its new. Its different. But all of your favorite (and even your not-so-favorite) recipes are all here, and all of your bookmarks will continue to work forever and ever.

Ive wanted to tie my different writing endeavors together for quite a while now, and Jennette Fulda, of Make My Blog Pretty figured it out.

Because she is wonderful.

Im still playing around with the features and learning the ins and outs of the software (Im a slow learner) but I couldnt be happier.

I hope you enjoy the new design and the new features in the header. Theres also a brand new home page thats pretty cool (it moves! and has random generator thingies!) Youll find links to pretty much anything I could think of that you might want/need, and theres a shiny new downloadable page with free stuff on it.

Just for you.

This website makeover is in honor of my new book: Totally Together: Shortcuts to an Organized Life

I began writing this book when my oldest child was a baby---over nine years ago. I was running a drop-in childcare center at the local courthouse and my little one came to work with me every day. I was listening to time management seminars on tape while I worked, and kept thinking that there should be a day timer for moms. Not a blank one--- those already existed--- I wanted someone to TELL me what to do.

I wanted someone (or thing) to tell me to change the sheets, to disinfect the remote controls, to wipe down the blinds, and to call my mom. I wanted to be reminded to do a breast self-exam and to make dental appointments for me and the family. I wanted someone to walk me through the Winter Holiday months (in a non-preachy or judgmental way).

I wanted encouragement. And someone to tell me I was doing a good job, even when I was sleep-deprived and had spit-up in my hair.

So I emailed the Franklin Covey company and told them that they should make a planner for moms. I corresponded back and forth with their development department a few times before I was kind of blown off (they sent me a 15% off coupon and a form letter).

I then did what any good red-blooded American would do. I got mad and made one of my very own.

This book has had a rather long and difficult pregnancy. It took me 2 years for me to find and secure a literary agent, then another 3 years for her to find a publisher (Ive got an awfully nice collection of reject letters).

And then that publisher backed out (due to the economy) after it was ready to go to print.

(years 6 and 7)

and it took another year for me to find a new publisher.

(year 8)

meanwhile, the crockpot thing was taking on a life of its own, for which I am eternally grateful, because if it wasnt for the crockpot thing, this book wouldnt have come to life.

but its here. And its because of you.

Thank you.

I really hope you enjoy it.

reprinted from the Introduction:

"There is just too much to do and nowhere near enough time to do it!" All over the world women are faced with the daily dilemma of trying to cram more and more into an already over-crowded schedule. Who has time for a monthly breast self-exam when there is weekly dusting and vacuuming, daily meal planning, hourly diapers to change, a baby to nurse, and a sibling argument to referee every five to ten minutes? How on earth can moms take the time to exercise and floss when showering daily is a luxury in which many dont indulge?

As a new mom I found myself wishing for some sort of guide that laid everything out. Some sort of system that reminded me to make dental appointments for everyone in the family every six months. A planner to help with the daily, weekly, and monthly chores so nothing was forgotten. A little bird to whisper in my ear that its time to update the baby book and family scrapbook. A pat on the back and a friendly nudge to take a long bath and take the time to shave my legs properly.

I came up with Totally Together: Shortcuts to an Organized Life as a way to help me as I waded through the vast number of "shoulds" and "shouldnts" that I came across in parenting, housekeeping, and self-help books and magazines. Totally Together gave me the permission and tools I needed to whip through the daily chores and minutiae and move on to what I really wanted to do: spend time with my family and enjoy living life. My hope is that your Totally Together journal will be of help to you and your family, too.

Have a fantastic day. I hope you enjoy the new site, and thank you deeply for your love and support-- it means so very much. xoxo steph

p.s.: if you find any site snafus/weirdness, please email me at contact@stephanieodea.com

Essential Oils Phytoalexins Drugs Are All Antibiotics

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Superbug multidrug resistant plasmid

A recent, informative article by Tori Rodriguez for The Atlantic suggests that,

Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics.

I want to discuss other ramifications of using essential oils as antibiotics to avoid multiple antibiotic resistant superbugs.

The logic for using essential oils in place of medical antibiotics is compelling:

Essential oils are extracts of plants, which have myriad traditional uses, including food.
Most antibiotic use is to increase livestock production.
Antibiotics selectively kill gut bacteria in livestock and make them obese.
Antibiotic resistance occurs within a week of use in livestock (or people.)
Medical antibiotics are quickly losing efficacy.
Antibiotic resistance genes quickly move from agriculture to superbugs to people.
Plants/essential oils contain natural antibiotics that kill gut flora and increase livestock productivity.
Resistance to essential oil antibiotic activity is slower, because of simultaneous use of multiple antibiotics.

Obesity is a Symptom of Antibiotic Damage to Gut Microbiome

Antibiotics make meat fatter

We may enjoy a fat marbled steak, but the corn and antibiotics used to produce that mouth-watering plate of satiety, is not so healthy. Corn and antibiotics make that meat on the hoof fit for human consumption, but the cattle are quickly dying and the fat marbling is a symptom of cattle metabolic syndrome. The corn and antibiotics disrupt the bovine gut microbiota and alter energy flow. The result is prime beef.

As It Is with Cattle, so It Is with Middle Americans

General descriptions of Americans with metabolic syndrome and steers ready for the abattoir are similar. That should not be surprising, because both are caused by damaged gut microbiota and consequences of metabolic syndrome. Americans routinely damage their gut microbiota with antibiotics (processed food, etc.) and the major symptoms of the resulting gut dysbiosis are chronic inflammation, depression, autoimmune diseases, obesity and metabolic syndrome. Repairing gut microbiota reverses all of these symptoms.

But Essential Oils Are Just Natural Antibiotics

Essential oils are natural antibiotics

Is it better to use essential oils than medical antibiotics to fatten cattle or treat Lyme disease or hospital infections such as C. diff.? Most pharmaceuticals were derived from plants or fungi and were originally used to kill microorganisms, i.e. they were natural antibiotics. We call these phytochemicals by a variety of names, e.g. antioxidants or essential oils, but they are more appropriately called phytoalexins, all natural, all plant, all toxic antibiotics. It is entertaining that essential oils have had so many different traditional and pharmaceutical uses, and yet they have always been experienced by microorganisms (and our livers) as simply toxic. Essential oils do have the significant advantage of being a mixture of antibiotics and might be very useful where pharmaceutical antibiotics have problems. The toxicity of essential oils, especially toward gut bacteria, should not be ignored.

Resistance to Essential Oils as Antibiotics

Antibiotic resistance develops in sewage

I previously kept track of laboratory strains of bacteria by simply exposing large numbers of the bacteria to an antibiotic and selecting for the rare individual that had already spontaneous mutated (DNA replication error of one in a million). We could then use the new drug resistant strain in experiments and identify it by its resistance. The same thing happens to your gut bacteria with an overnight exposure to an antibiotic. And of course it also occurs immediately in livestock exposed to antibiotics or in sewage plants where tons of antibiotics and gut bacteria are mixed. Resistance to each of the chemicals in an essential oil also would rapidly occur, if bacteria were exposed to each alone and in a toxic concentration. This is repeatedly observed, since commonly used drugs are just individual components of essential oils that have been produced in large amounts in pills and marketed based on their predominant physiological activity, rather than just another antibiotic. Thus, resistance to a statin or Metformin, as antibiotics, could be easily observed (even on multiple drug resistance plasmids), but is just ignored.

Essential Oils Are just Mixtures of Natural Antibiotics

Statins from fungal antibiotics

The impact of essential oils on gut microbiota is unpredictable, because the composition of essential oils is highly dynamic and so are gut microbiota. Each component of an essential oil has a different spectrum of toxicities to hundreds of different target proteins to each of the hundreds of different species of bacteria in the human gut. Ingested essential oils are modified by the detox enzymes of the intestine and liver. The modified phytochemicals have different toxicities and act as additional antibiotics. Mixtures of antibiotics, as in essential oils, less likely to select for resistance than individual antibiotics, but an antibiotic is still just an antibiotic, regardless of whether it is straight from the plant or via a pharmaceutical salesman.

Common Medicines Are the Source of Superbugs

Common meds are antibiotics

Doctors with prescription pads and steers eating antibiotics are blamed, I think unjustly, for the crisis of antibiotic resistance. The real culprit is you taking NSAIDs, statins, proton pump inhibitors, antidepressants and other common medicines. Since they are all developed from plant antibiotics, they are still antibiotics, and they still select for antibiotic resistance. It is important to remember that pharmaceuticals are repurposed natural antibiotics from plants. The answer to the superbugs that are resistant to all of the common antibiotics is to dramatically reduce the use of all pharmaceuticals. The initial goal should be a 90% reduction. Costly pharmaceutical chemicals could be replaced with preventive diets and less disruptive manipulations of gut microbiota, e.g. ingestion of capsules containing freeze-dried gut flora. This more gentle approach to health care would also provide huge cost savings, as well as vastly improving health.

All About Fats

Recently a couple of people have been asking about the differences between dietary fats. I can definitely see how fats can be a confusing area of nutrition. So, I have decided to shed some light on the topic.

There are three main types of fat found in food: Saturated fat, Mono-unsaturated fat and Poly-unsaturated fat.

Another fat, known as Trans Fat, is produced in the cooking process of certain foods.

Our bodies do need some ‘healthy’ forms of fat to help carry vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants around our body as well as maintaining adequate cholesterol levels.

SATURATED FAT (BAD FAT):

Saturated fat is found mostly in animal products such as meat, eggs and dairy foods (the exceptions being palm and coconut oil) and are usually solid at room temperature (i.e. butter/margarine). This type of fat has been shown to have direct effect in increasing LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol. Therefore, increasing the risk of heart disease.

It is important to add here that ‘Cholesterol’ per se is not found in food products and is actually produced by the body in response to eating different types of fat. When a product is advertised or marketed as “Cholesterol Free” they are referring to the fact that their product contains little to no Saturated fat.

MONO-UNSATURATED FAT (GOOD FAT):

Mono-unsaturated fat is found in plant products. These fats are normally liquid at room temperature (i.e. plant based oils). Accompanied by a diet low in saturated fat, these fats can lower your risk of heart disease by reducing LDL cholesterol levels and increasing HDL ‘good’ cholesterol levels.

POLY-UNSATURATED FAT (GOOD FAT):

Poly-unsaturated fat includes Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9 fatty acids and are mostly found in plant and seafood products. These are “essential” fatty acids, which means they are critical for our health but cannot be manufactured by our bodies and therefore have to be obtained through dietary sources. These fats can also lower the risk of heart disease by decreasing the amount of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. They have been shown to reduce HDL levels in some cases.

TRANS FAT (BAD FAT):

Trans fats are actually unsaturated fats which have been chemically modified to now have harmful effects on the body. They have been shown to raise LDL cholesterol levels while also lowering HDL cholesterol levels.

Trans fats are used to extend the shelf life of processed foods, typically cookies, chips, cakes, fries and donuts. Any item that contains “hydrogenated oil” or “partially hydrogenated oil” will also contain Trans fats.

Hydrogenation is the chemical process that changes liquid oils into solid fats, often used in the manufacturing process of margarine.

Another common source of Trans fat comes from using plant based oils in the cooking process. Although olive/sunflower/canola/flax seed oil etc are plant based and contain predominantly ‘good’ fats. Most have a very low ‘smoke point’. This is the temperature at which the bonds in these fats denature. Once you heat these oils in a frying pan, oven or grill, the temperature reached is too high for most of these oils to handle. Thus, chemical bonds break and Trans fats are produced.

A good oil with a high smoke point I like to recommend is Rice Bran Oil.

Other plant based oils can be used in salad dressings or added after the cooking process to avoid the production of Trans fat.

Here are some examples of where you can find respective fats in food products:

Saturated Fat	Mono-unsaturated Fat	Poly-unsaturated Fat
Dairy Full fat dairy products Butter Cream Fats Palm oil Coconut oil Lard Copha Dripping Meats and meat products Fat on meat Chicken skin Processed meats Snack Foods Potato crisps Chocolate Commercial cakes/biscuits Pastry/pies Takeaway foods	Oils Peanut oil Olive oil Canola oil Margarine Canola margarine Olive margarine Nuts Peanuts Cashews Almonds Avocado	Oils Safflower oil Sunflower oil Margarine Flora Margarine Logicol Margarine Nuts Brazil nuts Walnuts Hazelnuts Seeds Sesame seeds Poppy seeds Fish Salmon (fresh or tinned) Tinned sardines Tuna (fresh or tinned) Mackerel Herring

Five easy ways to cut the saturated fat in your diet and include unsaturated fats include:

Choose Low or No fat dairy products instead of full cream.
Choose lean cuts of meat such as chicken breast and heart smart mince or beef strips.
Choose healthy cooking methods such as grilling and baking.
Incorporate avocado and fish high in Omega-3 fatty acids into sandwiches and salads wherever possible.
Snack on unsalted mixed nuts or trail mix between meals.

Russell Nassim (APD)

Take What’s Best from Nuts Not all of it should be in Your Healthy Baskets

Nuts are very small nutriments, which are filled up with fats important for the heart, protein, vitamins, and minerals.

The finest nuts for your own diet – Almonds, Cashews, Pistachios

All nuts are healthy supplements to any diet due to their mix of omega-3 fatty acids, fiber, and protein. These substances, which are contained in nuts, will help you feel fed up and repress your appetite. All kinds of nuts are about the same in terms of calories per ounce.

The substandard nuts for your diet – Macadamia Nuts, Pecans

Macadamia nuts and pecans possess the most calories (200 each), as well as the lowest amounts of protein and the highest amounts of fats. 10 to 12 macadamia nuts contain 2 grams of protein and 21 grams fat; while 18 to 20 halves of pecans contain 3 grams of protein, and 20 grams fat.

Despite all these, they’re still good nuts. The distinction in calories between macadamia nuts and pecans in comparison with the lowest calorie nuts is not more than 40 calories an ounce. Any kind of raw, simple nut will afford you a good portion of healthy fats and nutrients, as long as you’re consuming them reasonable.

Best nuts for your heart – Walnuts

Even though all nuts contain heart-healthy omega-3 fats, walnuts possess high amounts of alpha linoleic acid (ALA). 14 halves of walnuts contain 185 calories, 18 grams fat, and 4 grams protein. Research has revealed that walnuts are as effective as olive oil at decreasing inflammation and oxidation in the arteries after consuming a fatty meal, additionally ALA may help heart arrhythmia’s. The researchers suggested consuming about eight walnuts daily to acquire almost identical benefits.

Best nuts for your brain – Peanuts

Peanuts have high amount of folate, a mineral crucial for brain growth that may preserve against cognitive reduction. One ounce of peanuts contains about 170 calories, 7 grams protein, and 14 grams fat. Folate also makes peanuts an excellent choice for vegetarians, and pregnant women, who need folate to keep safe their unborn babies from birth deformities. The same as many other nuts, peanuts are also full of brain-stimulating healthy fats and vitamin E, as well.

Best nuts for disease prevention – Almonds

Almonds are relatively low in calories. They possess more calcium compared to any other nut, which makes them an excellent food for overall health. What’s more, they are wealthy in fiber and vitamin E, an antioxidant that aids in fighting dangerous inflammation and possibly health problems, like lung cancer and age-related cognitive reduction.

Source: http://www.healthyfoodsolution.com/take-whats-best-from-nuts-not-all-of-it-should-be-in-your-healthy-baskets/

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