A Thanksgiving your tummy will thank YOU for :)?

Tuesday, 22. November 2011 by Renee Ellison

This blog is about how to DO Thanksgiving while also building your health, by making wise nutritional choices and having thanksgiving in your heart and in your mouth

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Remember that sluggish feeling after Thanksgiving dinner—when all you want to do is flop onto the couch?  Well, that doesn’t have to be!!!  If you COMBINE your food correctly your tummy will thank YOU and you will have none of that aftermath “downer” brain fog fatigue to deal with.  You’ll have loads of energy to enjoy each other MORE.

Proteins and starches use entirely different digestive juices—

are digested in the alkaline environment of the intestines—so separate them!  A turkey can be stuffed with quinoa in order to avoid the bread; fill it out with celery, onion, garlic, spices, etc…

Have your meat and a delicious robust salad one meal, early, then several hours later, for your later dinner, have the potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.  You are going to eat all the Thanksgiving fixin’s later anyway for a light dinner, so it might as well be a CONTINUATION of the earlier meal instead of a REPEAT.

You won’t BELIEVE the difference in how you FEEL and you’ll enjoy all the tastes so much better.  Take digestive enzymes too, before you eat, if you want even MORE tummy ease.

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While we’re on that topic: here’s a hyperlinked list of 16 DVDs that can inspire you to improve your diet and reboot your health.

We recently watched the movie, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  Have you seen it?  It documents two men’s turn-arounds to RESTORED complete health.  They rebooted by juicing for 60 days and vigorously exercising.  An AMAZING story…SOOOOOOOOOOO inspiring.  Funny, too…superb cartoons of what happens inside your body.  First Rate ALLLLLL THE WAY….good for the whole family to watch…VERY ENTERTAINING.

This is one of 16 movies to pass on to ANYONE who is suffering through cancer or OTHERS who are in the stages of degenerative disease (i.e., nearly everyone).  The whole family might progressively watch through them together so that everyone is on the same page.  Look for them at your local library, Amazon, Netflix or directly from the producer by searching for that title on the Internet.  Some, you can watch right on your computer, at least in part.

Forks Over Knives
Dying to have Known
Eating
The Gerson Miracle
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
Processed People
Healing Cancer from the Inside Out
Cancer is Curable Now
The Beautiful Truth (from Gerson Institute)
The Gerson Story (see YouTube link above)
Got the Facts on Milk
Super Size Me
Corn
Food, Inc.
Fresh

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Thanksgiving (the attitude, not the holiday) is an important facet of health.  It’s a great time for training our children in thankfulness?.  In his book, A Woman’s Wisdom, Rabbi Arush writes about the VALUE of training thankfulness in a child.  Here are some quotes:

*  Your child needs to be taught to say a proper thank you to God, to mom, and to dad often even for something as simple as a cup of water.  That way, the child learns not to take anything for granted and grows up appreciative, unspoiled, and happy with whatever he has.  Such children are never jealous or disgruntled.

*  By contrast, parents who don’t require this are almost guaranteeing that their child will acquire terrible character traits—lack of appreciation, an inflated sense of entitlement, jealousy, anger, and ingratitude.  The child that never learns to appreciate and say thank-you becomes a spoiled child who is always yelling and demanding to have things that don’t belong to him.  Today, he’s maladjusted in kindergarten and tomorrow, he’s a self centered individual that’s on the way to his second or third divorce.

*  Parents themselves can become so sick of their own spoiled child’s ingratitude that eventually they stop wanting to give anything to their child.

*  The child NEEDS to SAY the thank you for the child’s OWN SAKE.  To be required to SAY it, by wise parents, is good for the soul of the child. God loves our praises not for his own sake but because it looks GOOD on OUR faces !!! “Praise is BECOMING to the righteous”.  He doesn’t NEED our praises any more than a parent NEEDS a child’s gratefulness…but the CHILD NEEDS it.