Blood Pressure & Potassium, Bones, Food Safety, Ginger, Turmeric & Cardamom
In This Issue:
- Blood Pressure & Potassium
- Keep Your Bones Strong!
- Food Safety & Leftovers
- Benefits of Ginger, Turmeric & Cardamom
Find lots of healthy recipes in my Whole Food Plant-Based, Gluten Free Diet & Recipes Facebook Group
Message from Bernadette Wulf
Greetings,
Ha ha, I April fooled myself yesterday and forgot to get my newsletter out. You missed it terribly, right?
I’ve been busy revamping my celticmysteryschool.com website for the last couple of weeks. I fixed broken blog links and payment buttons that weren’t working, added new pictures, and made a new banner for each page. I enjoyed it, but it was very time consuming!
Check it out and see how you like the new banners. I thought it would be more fun to browse if you found something new at the top of each page.
I have a few ideas for new workshops, but nothing solid yet. Do let me know if you have any requests.
Other than that, we got a few tomatoes, potatoes, peas and basil planted out in the garden. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we don’t have a frost! The basil is not very happy with the cool weather, but the tomatoes are thriving.
This Month
I found some fascinating articles on all the benefits of potassium and how to get plenty of it in your diet, important information about keeping your bones strong, a great list of dos and don’ts for storing and consuming leftovers, and an article to inspire you to eat more foods from the ginger family.
Enjoy!
Have questions or comments? —>>> Email Bernadette <<<— Please use this link and do not hit reply to this post or I may never get your message.
To your health and happiness!
Bernadette Wulf
WulfWorks.com – HealItAll.com – Eat Plants for Life
Blood Pressure & Potassium
Did you know that sodium and potassium need to stay in balance in order to keep you at your best health?
Because of the widespread use of table salt and the abundance of low-potassium foods in the modern diet, most people get far more sodium than potassium. That can lead to hypertension, muscle cramps, and even heart attacks.
The many benefits of potassium include reducing blood pressure and water retention, protecting against stroke, helping to prevent osteoporosis and kidney stones, and a lot more.
From NaturalHealth365.com:
While potassium is often advocated as a crucial element of a heart-healthy diet, public attention tends to focus on reducing sodium intake. Compounding this issue, mainstream media outlets often emphasize sodium’s harmful effects while neglecting the significance of adequate potassium consumption.
The article goes on to recommend using a potassium salt substitute, but what if you eat out at restaurants a lot? Restaurant food is usually loaded with salt.
Lucky for you, potassium is available in many whole plant foods. We’ve all heard that bananas are a good source of potassium, but did you know that a baked potato has almost twice as much potassium?
Here’s a list of the top food sources of this important mineral — https://www.verywellhealth.com/foods-high-in-potassium-8414111
Read more about the importance of potassium — https://www.naturalhealth365.com/this-small-dietary-change-may-have-big-impact-on-blood-pressure-scientists-find.html
Keep Your Bones Strong!
Dr. McDougall has shared the best information on bone health that I’ve been able to find. It is a relief to learn that women naturally lose bone minerals after menopause, because those minerals were kept in reserve for growing babies and are no longer needed.
According to Dr. McDougall, “the mineral content of a woman’s bones has little to do with their strength.”
What really weakens bones is acid from an overly acidic diet. In order to protect our bones we need to eat mostly alkaline forming foods.
From DrMcdougall.com:
Fruits and vegetables are alkaline in composition, and as a result, a diet high in these plant foods will neutralize acid from other sources and help preserve the bones. Grains and legumes are slightly acidic, but the body can easily handle their small acid loads without causing significant bone loss. Animal foods are six to ten times more acidic than are grains and legumes. The levels of acidity produced from a diet of meat, poultry, fish, eggs and cheeses exceed normal physiologic capabilities, and as a result, bone is destroyed in an effort to maintain the body’s acid-base balance (pH 7.4).
And don’t forget. What is good for your bones is also good for your teeth!
Read more about keeping your bones healthy — https://www.drmcdougall.com/education/information/osteoporosis-the-truth-about-womens-bone-health/
Food Safety & Leftovers
Have you wondered whether your leftovers are still safe to eat, or how to store and prepare them properly?
Personally, I would replace the word “myth” with “false” in the list below. A real myth is not a falsehood. It is an important expression of the psycho-spiritual reality of the culture from which it evolved. Just a pet peeve of mine.
That being said, I learned a few important things from this article from WebMd.com:
Each item on the list has a little blurb explaining why, so check out the article if you want to know more.
Read more about how to use leftovers — https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/ss/slideshow-leftover-facts
Benefits of Ginger, Turmeric & Cardamom
The article at Zonia.com has quite a long list of benefits of the ginger family — too many to list here.
But I can quote their advice on how to use these amazing foods:
Ginger can be used to make ginger tea, or it can be eaten pickled on sushi as a garnish. Ginger is also a staple ingredient in a wide range of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Southeast Asian dishes.
Turmeric is a classic spice used in Indian curries and sauces, and it lends both an incredibly rich flavor and bright yellow color. You can also use it to make “golden milk”, a spicy turmeric milk drink popular in India.
Cardamom can be cooked in pod form and used as a spice to add flavor to your dish, or it can be brewed into a tea. To obtain its respiratory benefits, you can use cardamom essential oil in a diffuser to open up your airways and improve oxygen uptake.
One of my favorite ways to include turmeric (and even a little ginger) is to cook a big spoonful of curry powder in my oatmeal, along with garlic and onion powder. Throw in a handful of whatever veggies you have on hand to make it even more nutritious and delicious. It has become my favorite way to eat oatmeal.
Read more about why you may want to include a lot more ginger family foods in your diet — https://zonia.com/top-15-healing-properties-of-the-ginger-family-and-some-side-effects
New Earth Ambassador — Sharing Health, Wealth & Faery Magic to Uplift the World!
What I love best is creating opportunities for people to tap into the New Earth reality — a reality of harmony, cooperation and prosperity for all. I call it the New Camelot!
I still recall the thrill of discovering how to break through the confusion and angst of struggling in the old 3D Matrix. That’s when I realized I had found something far more valuable than money or worldly “success.”
So now I spend my time creating courses, blogs and tools to support citizens of the New Camelot in their ongoing quest for vital health, abundant wealth and the magic of the faery realm (which is woven into the fabric of the New Camelot like silver threads of wonder).
I am also passionate about protecting Nature, educating people about a healthy whole plant foods diet, artistic creativity, graphic design, connecting seekers with the faery realm, Celtic and Arthurian lore, writing, painting and gardening.
My services are all listed at wulfworks.com (my portal site)