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December 2009
In This Issue
 Nutrition Tip
– Millet read
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Featured Recipe –Millet Yam Burgers read
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Featured Article – Giving
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Tools to Create a More Balanced Life – Two targeted home-study programs read
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Get to Balance read
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Looking for a Speaker? read
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New at Seeds To Change Featured CD – Healthy Holidays read
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Quote of the Month Giving read
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Nutrition Tip
Millet
– This is one of my favorite grains. It is the yellow roly-poly things in bird
seed. Humans can eat it to! It cooks quickly (in 20 minutes), has a
nice texture and is tad sweet and slightly astringent. It is good for the stomach, spleen-pancreas
and for healing gastrointestinal irregularities. It has the richest amino-acid protein
profile and the highest iron content of all the grains. It is rich in phosphorus and the B
vitamins. It is gluten free and is
sometimes used to treat blood sugar imbalances. To cook, slightly toast in a dry pan. Let cool and add twice as much water as
grain (i.e. for 1 cup of millet 2 cups for water), bring to boil, reduce to
simmer and cook approximately 20 minutes.
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Featured
Recipe
Millet and Yam Burgers
Makes 6 (8 oz) patties
1 cup
dried millet 1
t cumin
1 large
yam, peeled and chopped 1 t
coriander
3 cups
water 1
t ground fennel seeds
1 cup
cooked chickpeas 1 /
2 t pepper
1 / 8 cup
tamari 1
/ 4 t cayenne pepper
1 t olive
oil 1
T potato or corn starch
1 medium
carrot, grated 1 / 8
cup parsley
1 /
2 cup sunflower seeds Vegetable or olive oil
Preheat
the oven to 400. Rinse the millet in a fine sieve. Place in a sauce pot over medium heat with
the yam and water. Simmer covered for
about 30 minutes, or until both the millet and the yam are soft and the
liquid has cooked out. Place in a
large bowl and add the chickpeas; mash together with the back of a large
spoon. Add the tamari, olive oil,
carrot, sunflower seeds, cumin, coriander, feel, pepper cayenne, potato
starch and parsley; blend well.
Using an
8-ounce scoop, form the mixture into 6 patties and place on a baking pan
lined with parchment paper. Spray
lightly with vegetable or olive oil. Bake
in the over for 20 minutes, until golden brown. From:
Whole Foods Market Cookbook
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Featured
Article
Giving by Brenda Jaeck
This is the season
of giving (and buying). The associated
tasks create much of the “busy work,” stress and therefore
imbalance during this time of year.
Giving can create a lot of associated angst – who to buy for,
WHAT to buy, how much to spend, how to pay for it all. Further, with the idea of giving often
comes the idea of receiving. Receiving
can create an uncomfortable feeling and therefore sometimes clouds the
purpose of giving.
What if this year
REALLY could be different? One of the
ways to create a difference in your approach to the holidays, I think, is to
give some thought to giving. Giving
does not need to mean material possessions.
Perhaps you can think of ways to give of yourself. This might mean in terms of your time, your
heart or giving an experience to someone.
I’ll let you interpret those suggestions in any way that is
meaningful to you.
Think about how
different this holiday season can be if you let go of your definition of
giving (and of course receiving). Then
you can truly focus on the meaning of the holiday - whatever that means for you, Perhaps it’s a religious celebration,
or a time to connect with loved ones or even a time for an escape from work
and/or a planned getaway. I think most
of you will agree that this holiday season CAN surely be calmer and less
stressful than previous years. I
believe readjusting your views on giving will help in this regard.
For more
inspiration on giving see the book 29
Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker. In fact, here are some giving secrets from
a recent article written by her. In
the article she is actually referring to planning the 29 days of giving she
describes in her book. I think the
tips can be applied to holiday giving as well.
The 6 secrets to giving:
1. start with gratitude – what are
you most thankful for and how can you express that in a gift
2. keep it simple – small gestures
often make the biggest impact
3. give up exceptions – let go of
how your gift will be received or used
4. receive graciously – giving
without receiving will deplete your energy – allow others the same joy
you enjoy in giving – but remember #3
5. wing it – no need to spend the
rest of the season planning gift buying, let things unfold naturally
6. challenge yourself – how can
you REALLY give of yourself – sometimes this means not writing a
check or using a credit card
How does all of
this relate to food? If you’ve
been reading for a while you know my philosophy is that it is ALL about
balance. Balance in food helps you to
achieve a balanced life; balance in life helps you maintain balance in the
diet. The holiday season is often a
period of imbalance. As such, anything
you can do to maintain some semblance of order will go along way to obtaining
or maintaining balance in your diet and overall life.
Lastly, as usual,
December’s newsletter contains a list of some interesting
websites. These are all sites where we
can reach out to others this time of year.
Perhaps you’ll consider finding it in your heart (and wallet) to
give to some of these inspiring charities or give the gift of a donation in
someone else’s name.
www.Charitywater.org –
donations to digging of wells where people need access to clean water
www.microplace.com – lets you
lend money to third-world entrepreneurs
www.girleffect.org – donations
are used to show young women in developing nations they CAN go places
www.eatwellnyc.org – provides
nutritionally sound food and community to anyone who needs it
And of course my
personal causes:
www.peta.org
www.aspca.org
Happy holidays and
may 2010 find you happy, healthy and in balance!
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Tools
to Create a More Balanced Life
Two targeted home
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Get
to Balance –How will you bring more balance to your life? How about a healthier, more balanced life
plan?
Are your health concerns
impeding you from living life fully? Do you want to change your relationship
with food from the inside out? Are you seeking deep seeded balance and
wellness?
I
would eagerly welcome the opportunity to work with you on a personal
level. We can work together privately
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incorporate those changes into your existing routines.
Through my
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by using nutrition as a focus and a tool. To do this I look at your
entire lifestyle to achieve maximum health. This is accomplished through
education and private consultations where an individualized program is
developed for you. These consultations include evaluating your current
diet and overall lifestyle and then making easily implemented, gradual
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There is
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To learn
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To schedule an initial consultation
contact me today at Brenda@SeedsToChange.com or (917) 213-9305.
By
starting today, you will; Create action
NOW
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Looking
for a speaker?
One of my
greatest joys is speaking to groups.
It is always a dynamic exchange and we all come away enriched. Would your company or group benefit from an
entertaining, motivating speaker on how to get healthier? If so, please let me know the name and
contact information of your program coordinator so that I may send them an
informational packet. I would love the
opportunity to serve your favorite group.
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New
at Seeds To Change
NEW PODCAST POSTING – hear a
rebroadcast of my radio show on Using Food Medicinally
We all
use food medicinally but usually it’s after the fact. We’ll look at ways to use food to
support your lifestyle and other health concerns. Just click the
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FEATURED
CD This
month’s featured CD is—
Healthy Holidays
The average person gains between 5
– 10 pounds from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. How can you change that for yourself this
year? We’ will discuss how to
prepare yourself before going to an event, how to navigate the food and drink
choices and how to recognize and defuse the triggers. Join me for an inspirational lecture. This year CAN be different!
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PERFECT FOR YOUR CAR
LIBRARY OR A GIFT.
Informative CD’s - You can lean about anything from Sugar to How to Eat
Out Healthily in my new series of nutrition and lifestyle lectures on CD. Other topics
include: Fasting and Cleansing, Eat for Balance and Energy, Healthy Weight
Loss, Your Nutrition Questions Answered, Get out of Your Head: How To Stop
the Chatter, and an Introduction to Meditation and five new titles: Sleep Issues, Water: How and Why to Drink More, Ten
Top Tips for a Healthier You!, Constipation and Food Cravings. They are
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for any occasion.
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Quote
of the Month
No one has ever
become poor by giving – Anne
Frank
Please
forward this newsletter to anyone and everyone that would benefit from
Nutritional and Lifestyle Advice. Enjoy and thanks for reading.
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