Cheers for Cherries!

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Bill McDougald — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:25:59 GMT

I have heard of a medical doctor who is still practising after 100 years old who tested our HCL acid (Hydrochloric acid) in our stomachs and found it to go down at 1 pm and shut off by 3 pm. He said we can only digest fruits and vegetables after that. He suggested that if we had a whole food breakfast and a whole food lunch then we would not be hungry in the evening, just a little empty. This really is the way to lose weight but it saves the liver from having to be plugged up by the evening meal. I have found that many middle eastern people eat this way.

He also was a strong advocate of combining foods. We cannot digest both protein and starch foods at the same meal. We should only take fruit on an empty stomach and with nothing else.

This works magnificently.

Notice how deceived we've become with Hot Dogs and Hamburgers and the meat and potatoes meal as all these violate the principle of not having protein and starch foods together at the same meal.

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tragedyofcommons — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:26:12 GMT

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maryj_3 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:36:41 GMT

I would recommend using organic cherries as cherries are one of the most heavily-pesticided food crops.

We used to run a cherry orchard but got out of the business because we became aware of the very detrimental effects of the amouts of pesticides used in conventional cherry orchards, and couldn't convert to organic because we were surrounded by conventional orchards.

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Birdlady — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:48:54 GMT

I love being a carb type! hehe

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BarrieDEvans — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:22:40 GMT

Sounds absolutely delicious.
If I might make a suggestion, warm the spoon in hot water and the honey won't stick, also have you tried Manuka honey from New Zealand, it is about the best I use it, and it is organic but has a very special UMF (Unique Manuka Factor), which is a the honey strength, I use normally about UMF15, check out the site.
Keep up the good work

Regards

Barrie

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Anathema — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:20 GMT

I have a very large bone tumor which is benign, but can be painful. I would like to have it removed, but am waiting for a variety of reasons. It's a very sensitive compass that fingers inflammation triggers so I've strangely learned a lot from this unwelcome guest. There are days I have intense pain and many days I don't. I learned quickly to associate which things cause inflammation and which reduced it leading to pain free days. I first noticed one summer while eating fresh cherries that I went pain free completely. When cherry season was over, I tried cherry juice, dried cherries, etc. They did not work at all. Which led me to learn that these anti-inflammatory flavenoids are water soluble. I've read how dried cherries or cherry juice helped others, but did not do so for me. Becoming dehydrated also triggers inflammation for me.. I don't need to drink tons of water, not even the lauded 6-8 glasses, but if I drink at least a couple glasses a day, it helps ward off the inflammation that pains the tissue around the tumor. Gatorade made inflammation terrible, but I learned anything with supplemental potassium triggered some of the most wrenching pain. Something I would have never otherwise noticed without my strange friend. Nothing has beat fresh cherries in reducing inflammation. I'm still learning though. I plan to pay close attention until I have this thing removed.

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notig — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:27:51 GMT

I wish the mercola website offered some version of their own Pemmican. The only pemmican i have found comes from grassland beef...

Pemmican seems like the perfect snack that Mercola would recommend... its from grassfed animals... low carb... very filling. It is what the settlers used as they explored the frontier.

It is made from either tallow, or marrow... and different but lean cuts of meat which are dried (like jerky) then mixed with the tallow and dried cherries.

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Magnolia — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:50:26 GMT

Katy's comment about cherries being good for gout is spot on! They seem to have anti inflammatory properties and I have used them for years when I have pulled ligaments or had gout like symptoms in my toe joint and thumb joint. Also, doing an herbal cleanse is very helpful.

I wonder if we mixed/protein types could use just plain cherries without honey and substitute yoghurt for the milk to get more protein and less sugar? Still sounds yummy!

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ebatycki — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:45:16 GMT

I absolutely LOVE that blender! I must have one, where do you get it?

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iLoveButter — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:57:01 GMT

Due to an allergy I am not able to drink milk, but thought I would share a similiar cherry smoothie for those in the same situation or unable to get raw milk.

1/2 cup cherries
1C almond milk
4T almond butter (or other nut butter)
1 heaping scoop of Living Fuel (the berry flavored one)

Add to a blender and puree!

It's absolutely delicious. I live in New England and am not able to get organic, locally grown cherries so I use the frozen Cascadian Farms cherries and they're very good in this.

I enjoy this smoothie for breakfast and it keeps me powered for many hours.

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:36:51 GMT

Stone fruits, like CHERRIES, Peaches, Apricots, etc. are suppose to be in wonderful and ripe supply this summer...therefore Luci's recipe suggestion is again ON TARGET!

Many thanks, Oh, High Chef of the Serene Kitchen!

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Amanda Rose — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:27:22 GMT

The weather has become terribly hot here suddenly and this is a fantastic, seasonally-appropriate drink. It reminds me I should stop at the fruit stand and see what's there. We picked our cherry tree clean two weeks ago. The birds helped us.

What I do to reduce the lactose levels in the milk is culture my raw milk with kefir grains. (How to make homemade dairy kefir.) Fermenting the milk adds even more beneficial bacteria to the raw milk (or pasteurized if that's what you're using), B vitamins, and it reduces the milk sugar for people like me who need that.

Amanda