Beta-Glucan rich Barley Boosts Immune System

Mom’s Barley Soup for spring colds and winter meals boosts immune system with beta glucan. Free recipe video (below) shows how easy it is to make. It’s my vegetarian adaptation of a wonderful soup my mom made when we were kids. 175 clinical studies on everyday herbs and spices can’t be wrong.

About Beta Glucan

Moms will love this soup when they learn how easy it is to make and how protective. Those pursuing natural cancer treatment will love knowing a simple everyday food such as barley is one of the highest in beta glucan.

A powerful immune modulator, beta glucan is found in barley, certain mushrooms, oats and yeast. Science understanding the value of beta glucan is relatively new, though during the 1918 flu pandemic a woman homeopath used barley broth to save many lives. Beta-glucan has been shown to benefit cancer treatment.

Beta glucan is also believed to have cholesterol-lowering effects and to assist with  blood  sugar levels. In 1997, the FDA allowed oat bran to be registered as the first cholesterol-reducing food to include 3 grams beta-glucan daily.

Where to Get Super Immunity Secrets

Find this and many more amazing recipes in my cookbook Super Immunity Secrets, now available in paperback on amazon (and kindle) so you can have it in your kitchen and spill on it while cooking healthy food!

Make Mom’s Easy Barley Soup Recipe (lots of beta glucan) – watch the video – it takes 5 minutes to put it together – no excuses!!!

From SUPER IMMUNITY SECRETS ~

TIME: prep 10 minutes, cooking 2 hours
Heat big soup pot with 2 quarts water
ADD
• 1 large Onion chopped
• 2-3 1” chunks raw Ginger Root
(remove opt)
• 3-4 peeled, sliced Cloves Garlic
• 1 heaping tablespoon Dried Oregano
• 1 heaping teaspoon Curry Powder
• 1/2 tsp Cumin
• Few needles Rosemary
• 1/2 tsp med Red Chili powder
• 1 tsp crushed Red Chili
• 1/2 tsp Sea or Earth Salt
• 1/2 – 2/3 cup Pearled Barley
• 1/4 cup Amaranth (opt)
• 1-2 large Carrots diced
• 2-3 medium Potatoes – 1/2″ chunks
• 1 large can (28 oz.) diced Tomatoes
Simmer 1  3/4hrs. Last 5-10 minutes add
• 2 cups frozen mixed veggies
• 2-3 T Virgin Olive Oil
• 2 T natural Soy Sauce
• 1 tsp Umeboshi Plum Vinegar
Just before serving stir in
• Medium bunch Parsley chopped fine

Serve with fresh baked bread for the
hungry ones; save room for seconds!
A favorite healing meal – adapted from soup
Mom used to make. She made it with a meat
bone, which you could do depending, on
where you are in your dietary transition.
However this vegetarian version is
so incredibly good once you try it you’ll
be hooked!

Video and Recipe

Make delicious Black Bean Soup, an easy vegetarian meal with protective Super Immunity herbs and spices! Cooking healthy food is an art and a lifestyle that can power up our immune system now! BLACK BEANS are high in fiber, protein, folic acid, calcium, iron, omega-3s. Let me know in the comments if you’ve ever made Black Bean Soup and what your favorite seasonings are!

If you’re learning about being a vegetarian, here’s a fun blog  Vegetarian Organic Blog

meanwhile – here’s the goods on my recipe:

BLACK BEAN or QUICK BLACK BEAN SOUP

~ SUPER IMMUNITY SECRETS ~

TIME: prep 15 minutes, cooking 6 hrs
SHORTCUT – with canned beans = 3/4 hr cooking
BLACK BEANS SOAK 12 hours before soup making
* Soak 4 cups dry Black Beans for 12 hrs to start sprouting process, then simmer in
broth below for 6-8 hrs on low heat or in crock pot.
* OR QUICK BLACK BEANS: use 2 large cans (28 oz) simmer 1 hr.
BROTH with Super Immunity Ingredients
• 4 quarts water
• 1 large Onion, peeled, diced
• 4 cloves Garlic, peeled, diced
• 2-3 large chunks Ginger root (remove after cooking)
• 2 heaping Tablespoons Oregano
• 1 heaping teaspoon Curry powder
• 1 teaspoon Cumin
• 1 teaspoon Green and/or Red Chili powder
• 1 teaspoon crushed Red Chili
• 1/2 cup chopped Green Chilies (if available)
• Few sprigs Rosemary
Add either the soaked or canned Black Beans (simmer 1
hour w/canned, or 6-8 hrs. over low heat or in crock pot
till tender if using fresh soaked beans).
Add more water while cooking to keep up the broth.
When done cooking, turn off heat. Remove chunks of ginger
Blend at least 4 cups of beans and broth in blender and return to pot to make thicker stock;
blend about 1 c at a time, hold lid with dish towel, slow speed, caution hot.
Then add:
• 1 bunch fresh Cilantro, chopped
• 1 yellow, red or orange Bell Pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1-2 T natural, organic Soy Sauce
• 2-3 T cold pressed, virgin Olive Oil

Stir well and taste. Yum!Top with Green Onion, thinly sliced. Non-dairy or regular Organic yogurt.
SERVE with Salad of fresh, organic chopped cabbage, diced tomatoes, chopped green onion, dill weed, dressed with fresh lime juice, olive oil and Umeboshi Plum Vinegar.

Healthy Fats vs Fat Free and Beneficial fats such as  Olive Oil and Coconut Oil

We often have to educate ourselves to eat healthy fats  such as olive and coconut oils again – in a culture that has gone crazy about “fat free.” Healthy fats are essential to hormone production and vital functions of body, brain, nerves, hair and skin, as discussed in this video on Vegetarian Weight Loss. We may have a distorted view of fat in the diet because we live in a culture where there is too much saturated and trans fat in many foods used for flavor, filler and to get us “addicted.”If we’re health conscious we want to get away from these things – yet need to re-educate ourselves to consume healthy fats.

Let’s take a look at:

• healthy fats: olive oil and coconut oil
• fat relating to weight loss and nutrition
• fats to avoid such as trans and saturated fats, margarine and commercial vegetable oils

We require regular intake of healthy fats to create energy and burn the “bad” fat. This becomes particularly noticeable when we lower our intake of animal foods. Often we think we need protein when what we really need is healthy fat. Olive oil and avocado contain mono-saturated oils, which science is now demonstrating lower “bad” LDL cholesterol and raise the “good” HDL. Here is a great salad recipe with raw foodist Dennis, age 63, using virgin olive oil and avocado.

Scientists have identified a compound in olive oil called oleuropein which prevents the LDL cholesterol from sticking to the inside of arteries, thus lowering blood pressure and reducing the risk of heart attack.  Olive oil has shown through many generations and ancient tradition in the Mediterranean to be at the core of health producing dietary practices with statistically lower incidences of cancer and heart disease. Here’s a great site to learn more about nutritious olive oil.

Coconut Oil – Many Benefits

Coconut oil was given a bad rap in the 1950s when research was being done on saturated fats. What we really need to avoid like the plague is processed fats such as shortening and margarine – which contain trans-fat and are large contributors to Alzheimers and cardiovascular disease.

Coconut oil contains monolauren, a fatty acid that has antiviral antibacterial qualities, and is effective against microorganisms such as candida. It contains medium chain fatty acids and is absorbed and burned for energy, rather than going to storage in the fat cells. Monolauren is thought to improve cognitive function in type 1 diabetes and hypoglycemia, as well as improve cardiovascular health.
Coconut oil has also been found to have a positive effect on the thyroid, raising metabolism for leanness and weight loss.  Be sure to buy the most natural, cold processed coconut oil and olive oil.
You will find these beneficial fats make your soups much more tasty, nourishing and sustaining.  I often add them near the end of cooking time so they are basically raw when we eat them; however it’s also beneficial to add some during cooking time as the oil assists to draw some of the compounds to be more available from the herbs and spices. Toasted sesame oil adds a wonderful flavor and is part of the macrobiotic tradition. Shown to be beneficial for heart and kidneys it contains antioxidants, is protective of DNA, raises interleukin levels (disease fighting component of the blood), and is cancer protective particularly agains skin cancer and leukemia.

Natural food science sheds a new light beyond traditional eating practices.We should be very cautious around the consumption of margarine, a hydrogenated fat containing nickel, particularly clogging to arteries, and though most cooking oils are polyunsaturated, they are very toxic to the system. Here’s an excellent article on Fat Soluble Vitamins.

ABOUT DAIRY – If you consume dairy, please BUY ORGANIC. If you haven’t yet seen it, watch the Michael Moore movie, The Corporation. This movie has great insights on disease in commercial dairy production and manipulation of information by the food producers associations. Again, vote with your grocery bill when you can for organic food; it may cost a little more now but less in the long haul. Organic dairy products are high in CLA, conjugated linoleic acid, important to helping the body burn fat and preserve muscle tissue as noted in this article.

Dr. Tyler Vadeboncouer of Mayo Clinic Emergency Department demonstrates new effective CPR method in this video.

I’ve always felt it’s important to know basic first aid. I’ve generally been trained in First Aid, CPR and as a Wilderness EMT. This is a great simple advancement of traditional CPR that anyone could do if confronted with a cardiac emergency. It may be helpful if several people can quickly trade off until the EMT 911 team arrives.

Reframe Your Views on Natural Cancer Cures

I really like this video – it does a great job of helping us look at natural cancer cures through different eyes. Take a couple of minutes to watch – I know  you’ll enjoy it too!

Snowbound Photos

Snow Piled up to Roof

For those who live other places thought you might like to see what it looks like when we get 3 feet of snow in the Rockies! Better have a good supply of firewood or alternate heat, food and water stashed, and hunker down.

Birdhouse 6' tall almost buried!

Our doggies love it – they went out with me to shovel paths through hip deep snow.  It took snowshoes just to get around… We’ve figured out 11 month old Daisey is a Golden Retriever / Great Pyrenees mix. She adores the snow!!!

Golden Retriever & Anatolian/Black Lab

Here’s the dome greenhouse we put up this fall covered with snow – and yet it’s warm inside with lots of organic greens and herbs growing. It is kept warm only by a big water tank that helps keep ambient temperature and being partly underground. Will have a video soon on these wonderful dome greenhouses!

Dome Greenhouse in Snow

So days like this start out with a superfood shake for energy. We have a new green superfood powder

Organic Greens Growing

can’t wait to tell you about – video coming soon! Friends have been calling when sick. We wouldn’t go through winter without a big pot of

Super Immunity soup on the stove.  My very FAVORITE recipe from the ebook is Mom’s Barley Soup. Did you know that in the 1918 flu epidemic that caused 50 million deaths worldwide, one of the most successful treatments was by a lady homeopath, who besides using remedies had all her patients drink barley broth. Barley is rich in beta glucans which offer prime support to the immune system. Started a pot of “Mom’s Barley” this morning, simmering away, had to have a bowl when we

Delicious Mom's Barley Soup

came in.
Recipe in my Super Immunity Secrets ebook – you can still get $10 off with Coupon Code NewYearSale just a few days left till Jan. 31,2010.

And here’s a pic of our big’90 Dodge plow truck resting.

Big Dodge Plow Truck resting

Avatar will Shift Neurology for Millions

If you haven’t seen Avatar I hope you will soon. For the millions who see it (including me), this brilliantly devised story shifts something deep inside, about our connection with Earth and the essence of life itself.

NLP, the science of how communication affects our nervous system, teaches us that stories are a powerful way to embed lasting neurological changes. This has been powerfully and elegantly accomplished in the Avatar story, promising to seed humanity with a deeper sense of meaningful existence. But then isn’t this at the core of most good stories?

James Cameron has created another masterpiece, soon to bypass his Titanic (top grossing of all time) in the box office. As writer, director and producer I am impressed at his brilliance in bringing us this amazing, touching and consciousness shifting story. Though some say it’s a simple plot, I found it to be quite well-devised and worth watching.

In remembering our connection with nature we begin to truly heal ourselves as living beings intrinsically connected to the natural world in which we live. And what we seem to have forgotten that is such a rich reminder, is the power that comes to us when we align ourselves with the “juice” of life itself!

Hey if you haven’t yet downloaded Super Immunity Secrets yet – don’t miss out!  It’s about Magic Ingredients of Earth that help us be Well!

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Food Inc by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation

Star studded cast of this enlightening documentary includes best selling authors Michael Pollan of Omnivore’s Dilemma and Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation. DON’T MISS IT! Even a critic of off base natural food suppliers, Michael Pollan replies to Whole Foods. Catch trailer of Fast Food Nation. I’m Outraged Again at things I knew and THRILLED beyond words that this incredibly well-done exposé is available for all to see. Excellent job!

Wake Up. Educate Yourself. Don’t Take Your Lifestyle for Granted.

Why go for natural and organic food? Eric Schlosser hits the mark as Food Inc reveals little known facts:

• 4-5 Large corporations manufacture the majority of commercially produced food
• Chickens raised in dark tunnels crowded so they can barely move, are raised on food laced with antibiotics and bred to grow breasts so large they can barely take a single step in their own waste
• Cattle raised on feedlot corn rather than, grass, stand ankle  deep in their own waste and cultivate a new and virulent form of toxic ecoli bacteria, having caused the death of at least one child
• 3 tastes:  salt, sugar and fat are incorporated into all packaged foods, none found in such concentrated form in nature
• 90% packaged foods contain corn, predominantly high fructose corn syrup, and a passel of other unpronounceable additives
• 1 in 3 Americans born after 2000 will contract type II diabetes due to commercial food consumption
• Mansanto’s genetically engineered seeds are environmentally devastating, and they brutally ruin farmers who don’t conform

Let What You See Change the Way You Eat.

• Buy Organic Food
• Search Out Local Natural Food, Produce and Meat
• Grow a Garden
• Become Vegetarian at Least 2-3 Days per Week
• It costs more in the short term to eat well than to eat badly, but when you Add Up Environmental Costs, Societal Costs and Health Costs – there’s no comparison.
• Walmart committed to buying dairy with no growth hormones because someone worked with them to realize how important it was!!! Help educate for change.

Be an Advocate for Yourself and the Future.Take Action Now! One of my favorite sites “Slow Food” comments on the film.

If you haven’t yet, Please download my Super Immunity Secrets ebook. You’ll be so glad you did! It’s full of awesome healthy vegan and vegetarian recipes that will help you stay healthier than ever – you, your kids/ grandkids, friends and family. Be  mover and shaker. Set  trends. Learn to prepare nutritionally dense, natural food. Have more energy, feel better. Move towards organic food.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world…

Mahatma Gandhi

Buy foods that respect the Earth, people and animals.
Tell your friends.
Send them the link to this review.
Encourage  your church, school or community center to show this film.
Pass on the word, for according to Margaret Mead, A small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

Good for Us / Better for the Planet?

Upon complaining I hadn’t heard from his sister over the holidays my nephew said to me, “We’re getting to be an ADD / ADHD culture. Everyone’s running around  so busy we don’t pause and think about what we’re doing or take time to communicate any more.”  “Quite insightful for a young man finding his way in the world,” I noted.  Taking the time to reflect and consider how, why and what we’re doing can make a huge difference for both us and planet Earth.

We’re like “shooting stars” completing the first decade of the 21st century and already into the next. Amazing simple lifestyle habits can make a huge difference for us and all life on earth!

Let’s be remembered as Radiant Stars when our kids, grandkids and theirs look back and say Mom/Dad/Grandma/Grandpa/Uncle/Aunt/Ancestor lived a long healthy life, shared their wisdom with me and chose an Earth-friendly lifestyle  so I could have a future and be here now!!!

Lifestyle Choices Affect both Us and the Earth

The more aware we become, affects of lifestyle on our long-term health and planetary well-being become apparent. In response to “germs becoming antibiotic resistant” and other such unsavory subjects, let’s make our food choices healthful, delicious and exciting.

It takes just a small movement of the rudder
to reach a very different place on the shore.

Let’s consider food choices for the coming decade that may well contribute to our own long life, good health, and shift the burden over-population and overuse of resources is putting on our dear planet.
A friend recently quoted an awesome magazine headline seen in local co-op, “We need to quit looking at the earth as a resource and start looking at it as our home.” Wow! What a concept! Jill Richardson of Firedoglake says, “Your diet can be as potent a way to fight global warming as your choice of vehicle.”

3 Food Commitments for 2010

1. Buy Local Organic: reduce transportation and production costs, eat healthier, support your local economy, vote with your fork

As fuel prices rise in the coming year (I’ve heard $4/gallon predicted) so will costs of transportation and production. It might take a little research to find out where you can purchase local, organic food, but it’s an empowering way to fight back. Ride a bike to the farmers market, ask around, get to know the neighborhood. Free yourself from dependency on the supermarket.

For those who have time, Barbara Kingslover’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is an inspiring story of how she and her family shifted their views and experience of food. Most communities have some local food production. Consider neighborhood or community gardens, grow your own or support those who are already putting forth the effort.

2. Reduce Use of Animal Foods

We could argue all day about whether we should eat meat or become vegetarian. The truth is we must be authentically ourselves, and walk the path to which we are drawn. Those raised eating meat might like to change, yet it may seem a difficult proposition. Others have become vegan or vegetarian, all raw or cooked, and find it joyful and fun to follow a plant based diet.

There is no reason to judge what someone chooses to eat; for we will grow and change as we become ready. Meanwhile the facts demonstrate reducing use of animal foods can make us more healthy and the Earth, too! If you’re not ready to give up meat, try going vegetarian 2-3 days per week, buy organic and to offset the extra cost, eat less.

Healthier for Us: recent bestseller, The China Study reports on 35 year study in China with 8,000 people in 65 counties, concluding maximum 7% animal foods in the diet either reversed or eliminated all degenerative conditions.

Healthier for the Earth: Over 40% of carbon monoxide comes from feedlots. Rainforests (our main source of new oxygen) are being clearcut at an alarming rate to graze cattle for companies such as MacDonalds.

3. Eat Simply, Eat Whole Foods

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Learn how to make quick, easy healthy food at  home, heal body, mind and spirit. Run from packaged, processed refined foods that break down the body and mind over time due to lack of nutrients and stressing body systems. Avoid high fructose corn syrup and anything  you can’t pronounce like the plague. Become a label reader and discover how many things you won’t buy once you realize what’s in them. Learn how quick and easy it is to make healthy protective foods at home. “Show the Love” to you and  your family with home-made good-for-ya food!

Are Antibiotics the Solution to Cold and Flu Season?

It’s important that we wake up to the dangers of overuse of antibiotics now producing drug resistant strains of viruses and bacteria as related by Margie Mason in fascinating recent Associated Press article  http://www.kitv.com/health/22073579/detail.html

Research Warns Antibiotic Use in Animals Now Creating Drug Resistance in People

An unbelievable 75% of 35 million pounds of antibiotics used in the US last year went to pigs, chickens and cows – and guess where they end up? On the plates of meat eaters. The animals are fed antibiotics both to keep them healthy and to make them grow faster. But all this overuse of antibiotics is creating drug resistant organisms. “Researchers say the overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals has led to a plague of drug-resistant infections that killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. last year — more than prostate and breast cancer combined.”

Even the White House and World Health Organization now recognize growing threat of drug resistant strains of staph, malaria and tb to be an “urgent” issue. Attempts to regulate over-use of antibiotics on farm animals is being fought by pharmaceutical companies to the tune of $200 million and by powerful lobbies of interest groups.

Prudent to Become a Vegan or Vegetarian or Buy Only Organic

One way to protect ourselves from being overdosed with antibiotics is to change our diet, reduce consumption of animal products, or at least vote with our fork and support the farmers who have committed to growing only organic.

At the same time we still have exposure to drug-resistant strains of germs that have been developing in commercial agriculture. It is essential that we also consider that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Super Immunity Secrets

If you haven’t yet gotten  your copy of my recent ebook Super Immunity Secrets, you’d better hurry! I’ve crammed into it years worth of research on ancient herbs and spices that have been used as natural antibiotics for centuries. Clearly it behooves all of us to live defensively every day, rather than expecting antibiotics to “save us” when crisis comes.

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