AWeber - FOHAC Newsletter Holiday delicious #437

Published: Sun, 12/17/17

Fair Oaks Health News

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December 17, 2017

Holiday delicious

Hi ,

The holiday season is upon us and with it is the onslaught of delicious sugary treats. We all know sugar is bad for us. The decades of scientific misdirection and advertising dollars by the sugar industry has left us with a legacy of a one thousand percent increase in diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and osteoporosis. This is how much these

diseases have increased over the last 100 years – the sugar years. Add in the impact of the promotion of vegetable oils over the last 50 years and degenerative diseases have gone wild.

But does any of that matter when we see a lovely plate of holiday cookies or a box of candy? We may chastise ourselves for indulging when we know better, but our knowledge avails us not. Holiday treats speak right to our deep unconscious feelings of being loved. After all, what says love better than a plate of fresh hot cookies? How could love be bad for us?

I am sure there are probably 6 or 7 really strong willed people out there that will resist the call of holiday treats, but for the rest of us I offer a compromise. How about treats that are not quite as bad as the usual fare, but that taste like the real thing? I am talking about making your favorite treats, but using ingredients that are less damaging combined with a bit of moderation. One such ingredient is organic coconut palm sugar. It is still sugar, but it breaks down more slowly and therefore does not hit your system as hard. It has a glycemic index of around 35 – about the same as garbanzo beans. It contains valuable minerals and some fiber and tastes a bit like brown sugar. Another lower glycemic sugar is real maple syrup. Both of these can be used to make candy, while truly low to zero impact sugars, like the erythritol in my Dr. Dave sugar, can not. Erythritol recrystallizes after being heated blocking the candy making process. Other sugar alcohols, like xylitol and Maltitol, tend to generate a lot of bowl gas and loose stools, so they are not good candy making choices. Buy Coconut Palm Sugar here.

Other healthy choices for holiday baking include eliminating all vegetable oils from your cooking – so no margarine. Use real butter and/or coconut oil instead. Eliminating grain-based flour is also a great health choice. I suggest using almond flour, cassava flour, banana flour, flax flour, coconut flour, and sweet potato flour. A web search for paleo baking recipes will show you how to use these flours. Of course for baked goods needing sugar, my zero calorie Dr Dave sugar works wonders. Chocolate is a health food in its pure form, but the candy bars we eat the most tend to be only 10% chocolate and the rest sugar. Choosing chocolate chips or bars that are 60 to 70% cocoa mass are a much healthier alternative.

Here is a fun really simple recipe for fudgy chocolate frosting that could almost be called good for you. Just cook up a good sized yam until soft. Pull the skin off and mash up the hot yam with half to ¾ of a cup of dark chocolate chips until the chocolate melts. I like to whip it with a cake batter mixer. Let it cool and wham – you have delicious chocolate frosting ready to go on some almond flour cupcakes or brownies.

Lets try a candy recipe… caramels.

In a sauce pan mix 2/3 cup of coconut palm sugar with 1/3 cup real maple syrup and 1/3 cup heavy cream or coconut cream. Bring this mixture to a gentle boil and reduce heat to simmer-boil for 15 minutes.

After the time is up, add either 2/3 cup of real butter or 1/3 cup of butter and 1/3 cup of coconut oil and mix thoroughly. Pour into a small greased pan and put into the freezer for about an hour to set. Once set turn it out onto a sheet of waxed paper and cut it into bite sized pieces. Wrap each piece in waxed paper and keep them in a baggie in the fridge.

If you have ever made caramels in the past, you will see that this is a much easier recipe to follow. You don’t have to fuss with the cooking step making sure that the sugar does not form crystals. This is just one of the pluses in working with coconut sugar. Plus no nasty corn syrup is needed either.

Lets try another holiday favorite – pecan pie.

Rather than try to create a flaky pie crust with all the work that entails, I like to make a cookie dough crust out of almond flour and Dr Dave sugar. You can use the crust recipe for holiday drop cookies by adding dark chocolate chips or nuts or anything else you like.

Cookie Dough:

1/2 cup butter – softened - mix with
1/2 cup Dr Dave sugar
1/2 Tbs. Molasses
1/2 tsp. Sea salt
1 tsp. Real vanilla
1 egg – blend with a mixer until smooth then add
1 cup fine almond flour

1 cup cassava flour (option: use all almond flour)
Spread this mixture into a 9 inch pie pan and bake for 10-15 min at 350.

Pie filling:
1 ½ cups coconut sugar – mix in a medium sauce pan with
½ cup real maple syrup
¼ cup butter
2 tsp. Tapioca starch premixed with 1 Tbs. water
Bring this all to a boil then remove from the heat

In a separate bowl mix
3 eggs – beat till frothy and add
1 tsp. Vanilla
¼ tsp. Sea salt
¾ cup chopped pecans or macadamia nuts
Mix in the cooked mixture and ½ cup pecan halves
Pour this all into your partially baked cookie crust pie pan

Bake the pie 45 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees.
Serve once cool.

If you wanted to get really fancy, you could gently melt some 60 to 70% coco chocolate and dip some nuts or even small pieces of your caramels into the mixture.

Between the candies, pie, and any cookies you create you have some serious holiday cheer, but with much lower health damaging impact compared to their traditional counterparts.

We aren’t here to deny the joys of the holiday season or any other part of life. We are here to adapt to the realities of life and find ways to enjoy life anyway.

Take care,

David

Ellen update:

We had our holiday office party last Friday. I couldn't find any good plays to go to, so I elected to use our newly refinished office space and throw a pizza party - Ice Cream social. We all went down to Pieology so we could each have a pizza made to our special desires - gluten free for me. We all reconvened at the office to eat the delicious pies. after a little present exchange the Ice Cream made its appearance. I had made both blondies and brownies gluten and sugar free for the bottom and either coconut, soy, or cow ice cream ( one sugar free) plus toppings and freshly whipped cream. In all the party was a great success.

New referral doctor:

Last week I visited with an Activator chiropractor in Orangevale that had been highly recommended to me by one of Ellen's clients - Dr. Jennifer Webb. She seems to be quite nice and she agreed to care for any of my patients that might need treatment when I am out of town. Here is a copy of her card...

A bonus convenience is that her office is on a drop in basis - no appointment needed. From my office you just go north on Sunrise then right on Madison till you get to Main Ave then turn left. Her office is up a couple blocks on the right immediately after you cross Greenback Lane.

Canola oil & sugar both promote
Alzheimer's

Canola oil is cheap and policy makers simply decided it was good for us without actually testing it. Well tests being done now are showing that unlike good oils like olive and avocado oil, canola oil actually promotes Alzheimer's disease. Within only 6 months of eating canola oil rats show measurable cognitive decline. Sugar also triggers cognitive decline.

Canola
Sugar

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"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

~ Bruce Lee

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Diet cures Diabetes type 2

A lot of independent doctors have been reporting excellent reversal of diabetes with ultra low calorie diets. Now highly respected research done by Yale university and reported in The Lancet concludes that indeed low calorie diets reverse diabetes and that the use of drugs and insulin should be considered unethical now that a simple cure has been demonstrated.

Diabetes

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"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

~ Bruce Lee
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Brain injury blows out your gut

The gut and the brain are very tightly connected. Things that affect one will cause problems with the other. This newest study demonstrates how a traumatic brain injury triggers a leaky gut and further intestinal damage.

TBI and gut

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"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

~ Bruce Lee

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Finding the new location is very easy. Coming from highway 50 up Sunrise Blvd, you turn left and go up a block. We are on the right hand side - the building just past the Subway Sandwich shop. If you are coming down Sunrise from the Mall area then just turn right on Fair Oaks Blvd and up a block on the right.

If you are coming from the Roseville area you could come down Sunrise Blvd, but that is a long trek. It is probably shorter time wise to come down Auburn Blvd - San Juan Ave like you have been for the Sunset office, but instead of turning left at Sunset, keep going straight 3 more lights to Fair Oaks Blvd and turn left. Go down 2 lights to New York Ave, go through the intersection, and immediately turn into the turn lane once the center divider ends. We are on the left.

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About Dr. DeLapp

Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 35 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.

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