Eating Healthy and Loving It!
Posted by in Uncategorized on November 19, 2011
I love savory vegetables in rich sauces with sautéed, marinated chicken. I love the nutty flavor of my sprouted flatbread. I even love the simple spicy sweetness of an apple sprinkled with cinnamon. But I can also have a cherry tart or coffee ice cream. Is your mouth watering yet?
Surprise! Every bit of the food I described above is gluten-free and low-glycemic, dairy-free and allergy-friendly (and you can have it tonight if you are industrious; see below).
I Don’t Have to Eat That Way
The most amazing thing about all this is that I am not gluten-intolerant, and I could eat some carbohydrates, but I don’t even like pasta anymore. I eat gluten-free and low-glycemic because I love to, because it tastes better to me than a cardboard-flavored ice-cream cone. I love the way I feel and I look. I’m younger, healthier and stronger than most people my age because I care about what I put into my body. Over the years, I’ve come to enjoy the clean, crisp flavors more than I ever thought possible.
When I travel, I become literally desperate for fresh, organic vegetables. I surprise my hosts and even myself when I answer the question, “What do you like to eat?” with “Lots of vegetables, please.”
It Didn’t Happen Overnight
When I was about ten years old and discovered my passion for cooking. When I was about thirteen, my mother went on Weight Watchers® and I wanted to help her stay on her diet by cooking for her special needs. I was amazed! I loved cooking for special diets.
Over the years, I built up a cache of healthful recipes by gradually changing ingredients to wonderful, fun and delicious treats. I tested and re-tested, tried them on friends and husband, went back to the drawing board time and again, even when they liked it. I wanted these recipes to be perfect. Why?
Was I Crazy?
No, but close. I knew that someday I would open a restaurant to serve truly healthy organic food. No sugar! But I didn’t know about the problem so many people had with wheat, and ultimately, with gluten. Then I discovered there were many common food allergies and I started attacking those as well, rooting out common allergens from my recipes and replacing them with ingredients that tasted even better.
I found I couldn’t eat many grains myself, as I would get really sleepy, so I started cooking with nuts and seeds as flour. What about milk? I knew it wasn’t so good for me, either, so I found dairy substitutes in goat milk and coconut milk….yum! These were incorporated into my food inventions.
I opened the restaurant and everyone loved the food. They didn’t even miss the low-cost, high carb additions most restaurants add to make more money. The restaurant is no longer there, but my cookbook is helping people from Australia to Alaska.
The Healing Power of Food
I had followed my intuition to create health – flexible recipes in my restaurant, and discovered that many type I Diabetics also have Celiac disease. Who knew?
Now I know that a gluten-free, low-glycemic, allergy-free way of eating can soften or heal many illnesses, including mental! ADD and Autism are also helped. Imagine what it might do for you!
How To Cure Stuttering Fast
Posted by in Uncategorized on November 7, 2011
We live in a society that wants to see results fast. There are ways to cure stuttering that are faster than other ways. However, every individual is different and what works for one person might not work for another person. It is best to keep that in mind when we start talking about a cure for stuttering. If you are determined to cure your stuttering, then there is a way to do that. However, a large part of it will depend on how determined that you are to see your stuttering overcome.
A large part of stuttering can be traced to how we think about our speech and how we think about ourselves. There are in fact many reasons why individuals stutter. That is why for some individual’s speech therapy works and for others it does not work. Many stutters just never learned how to speak correctly because they suffered from some traumatic experience when they were young. No matter why an individual stutters there is hope. Many individuals have overcome their stuttering problem and have gone on to live a normal life.
A large part of having a stuttering problem means that you are unable to express yourself. This will create social challenges that most individuals will never have to do deal with. Many times people who stutter will just avoid certain words and this will cause them to avoid other words. A large part of overcoming stuttering is overcoming the fear that comes along with it. The fear of saying certain words and the fear of talking in general contribute to greatly to a persons stuttering. If they can overcame their fear of certain words this will greatly aid in them overcoming stuttering.
One the larger issues for stutters is talking too fast. If a person who stutters could teach themselves to slow down their speech rate this could dramatically reduce the stuttering. We are a society that likes things done at a very fast rate. When we do not get things or projects done fast we become upset. The same is also true for people who stutter. Many stutters will say something at a rapid rate in order to avoid stuttering.
If a person who stutters can learn to slow down and pace themselves in their speech. They could overcome their stuttering at a fast rate. That by learning how to be confident in their speech could also have a dramatic effect on how fast they overcome stuttering One thing is certain if an individual has the desire to overcome stuttering bad enough, then they can do it.
Stuttering Treatment: Helping You Achieve a Normal Life
Posted by in Uncategorized on November 6, 2011
Do you wish to become a TV host, radio jockey, air traffic controller or anybody else who requires clarity in voice and fluency of speech? Do you suffer from stuttering issues and think you won’t be able to achieve your dreams ever? If the answer is yes, you are badly mistaken because it is possible to be whatever you wish to by improving your speech and getting rid of stuttering by following the stuttering treatment. You would be shocked to know that millions of people who once faced this issue and avoided talking to people once are fluent and love to go to parties and enjoy the normal routines of life.
So do you wonder how this is possible? Stuttering treatment is the solution to this issue. Treatment accompanies regaining the confidence to speak in public. Actually, most of the people who stutter feel utterly nervous and frightened while speaking with unknown people or on a public platform. This is more of a mental block which must be overcome for a free flow of words. The therapy has proved immensely beneficial to many who have achieved their dreams in life by recovering from the stuttering problems.
It has been often observed that most of the stutterers experience immense stress while speaking. This is more or less a psychological block which needs to be cleared with the aid of stuttering therapy. Therefore, if you have a near and dear one who stutters, they require constant motivation to speak and improve their speech. Besides, factors like fear and nervousness must be removed for a speedy recovery. In many cases, stuttering treatment has been found to be truly effective for people who speak utterly fast. Unfortunately, the fast pace of speech increases the stuttering and doesn’t help in case you are trying to conceal your stutter behind accelerated speech. You yourself might have observed that you do not experience any stuttering when you don’t think about it. Try and forget that you stammer for a while and you would observe a positive change in your personality.
Stuttering can be tackled only by focusing on the physiological and the psychological aspects of the issue. You would be pleased to know that stuttering treatment is available to everyone over the age of 15. Even if you believe your stuttering issue is hereditary and you cannot get rid of it completely, taking stuttering therapy is worth a try. Millions of people across the globe are facing this issue which makes a bad impact in their daily life. Fortunately, the therapy has arrived as a ray of hope to them. It is possible to recover completely by training yourself in a way so that you can recover in a less time period. However, it is must to understand that one can achieve freedom from stuttering only through practice. It can’t happen overnight. All you need to do is have confidence that you too can speak normally through constant practice of vocal cords.