Natural Weight Loss - Blackberry Pie?
By Gary
Scott
Summer sun shadows are cast deeper as the katydids suddenly go still. Sweet
afternoon silence, rich in the day's lingering warmth, falls like a warm
blanket through the woods and the fullness of the day whispers with sweet
promise at the coolness of dusk.
August days up here in the Blue Ridge are perfect. Some days we might hit
as high as 80 at high noon, then a quick evening cooling into the 60s and
below, perfect for rocking on the front porch and watching the fireflies
signal their light and glow show.
Eating is wonderful too as we live almost entirely off the garden at this
time of the year, tender lettuce, rich onions and baby potatoes, corn so
sweet it does not need to be cooked. Squash of every type, beans, peas, bell
peppers, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower…and of course luscious,
most delicious tomatoes. This is a sweet feast enjoyed on our open-air deck
with the creek rushing below. Throw in a little corn bread and we have a
wonderful afternoon meal.
In the evening we eat lightly. Ayurveda, the Indian science of health, shows
us that we have three cycles twice a day (air 2-6, water 6-10 and fire 10-2.
The best time to eat our biggest meal is at the highest point of fire (12
noon) when the digestive fires are most bright (noon). Then in the evening
we eat lightly and early so the body can use the second fire cycle to burn
up accumulated toxins from the day.
Often our evening meal is fruit pie. Right now Merri whips up a wonderful
blackberry cobbler and this is not an unhealthy food if you don't overload
it with sugar and white refined flower. Merri and I often have a nice piece
of this cobbler instead of dinner. This is a great summer food and fits the
Three Season Diet perfectly (see our message about John Douillard's three
season diet - see When Blackberries
Speak and Global
Health Secret
If you use half soy or protein powder and half for the crust and stevia
(go to www.stevia.net) as a sweetener, you have a delicious, balanced, low
calorie meal.
Keeping your caloric intake down is one of the most important things you
can do for good health and longevity. This has been scientifically proven
and an article by Dr. Mercola "Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects" explains
why this may be fact.
This article suggests that insulin is one of nature's great balancers. Insulin
is created by high amounts of blood sugar levels in the body. Lots of insulin
is a signal that there is plenty of food supply and hence there will be plenty
of population growing. Consequently insulin becomes an agent to decrease
longevity, nature's way of keeping the population in check.
Less insulin in the body signals that there is not so much food so the body
may be needed to stay around longer to contribute to the gene pool! Hence
those who consume less, live more. Consequently the protein balanced, low
carbohydrate, cooling blackberry cobbler recipe below is a perfect and tasty
alternative to a heavy evening meal. Enjoy the treat and be healthier.
Take fresh cleaned blackberries (ours are all organic so all we need to
do is lightly rinse them in the pure spring water) and add just a bit of
stevia…it sweetens yet does not raise the blood sugar level. You can
squeeze a bit of lime over them. Then add a crumble top…famous in
England and Georgia…(but I suspect made a lot differently than ours!)
The crumble is made from equal parts of flour and protein powder with some
organic milk to moisten. Cover the top of the blackberries with this mixture,
then add just a smidgen of clarified butter.Bake at 350 degrees until hot
and bubbly. We enjoy a cup of mint tea (from the mint that grows wild on
the banks of Little Horse Creek) with this at day's end.
Dr. Marcola's entire article is at http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/14/insulin.htm
Until next message, may all your secrets be healthy!
Gary
P.S. There are some other incredibly healthy things you can do with blackberry
pie by topping it with a little cream, or yogurt (I use Stoneyfield Farm
Organic Vanilla yogurt) and mixing in a bit of a maca food supplement. Maca
has a toasty flavor but even more offers an incredible range of health benefits
from increased longevity to end of menopausal problems to enhanced libido.
More details about maca are available here.
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