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Climate Change & Diet, Honey, Sesame, Beans, Bedroom Plants

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Climate Change & Diet, Honey, Sesame, Beans, Bedroom Plants

In This Issue: 

    • Your Diet and Climate Change
    • Honey and Your Microbiome
    • Amazing Sesame Seeds!
    • Maybe it’s the Beans!
    • Top 10 Plants to Help You Sleep

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Message from Bernadette Wulf

Summer - Love Our EarthGreetings!

Summer is heating up around here, and so is our climate… unless you happen to be in a Mexican city buried under 5 feet of hail stones! Some would say, “See, there’s no global warming,” but they don’t understand that global warming leads to radical weather patterns and eventually a nice little ice age.

I hear people say it is too late to make a difference, so why bother? That is a pretty defeatist attitude. We can always make a difference. Maybe an ice age is inevitable at this point. I don’t know. But I’m going to live as though our planet matters, and future generations matter, and wildlife matters. I’m going to eat like it matters and shop like it matters, and even though my contributions may be barely noticeable in the whole scheme of things, they will make a difference.

The biggest difference will happen when many of us join together to make changes. To hell with putting corporate profits above the welfare of life on Earth! Ice age or no ice age, this pattern has to change. Now! And we are the ones who have to change it by cutting off the flow of money to the corporate polluters. Just stop buying their products and they will get the message. Find out who they are and spread the word on social media or in real live social gatherings. We can do this!

There, I said it. I will get off my rant.

Articles for this Month

The first article this month is all about how we can step up to make a positive difference just by making better dietary choices. And what do you know? Those better choices for the planet also turn out to be better for your health and longevity. It’s a win win.

I also found an interesting article on how honey has shaped our microbiome. Then there is some great research on sesame seeds, and suggestions for bedroom plants that help you sleep.

I would love to hear what you want to read about. Feel free to send your requests, suggestions, questions, or any sort of feedback. I always appreciate hearing from my readers – Please do not reply to this email, but use this link Email Bernadette to contact me.

To your health and happiness!

Bernadette Wulf

HealItAll.com & Plant Based for Life

legumes for your health and the health of our planetYour Diet and Climate Change

Did you know that your diet is probably the biggest factor in your personal carbon footprint? We all know that air travel is extremely damaging to the environment, but most of us don’t do it very often. However, we DO eat food every day and our food choices make a BIG difference. Eating animal products puts one of the biggest burdens on our planet.

The worst offenders included lamb, beef, cheese, pork, farmed salmon, turkey, chicken, canned tuna, and eggs.

Beef production emits about 10 times more greenhouse gases per pound of meat than chickens or pigs, which themselves emit about 10 times more than legumes. The lowest greenhouse gas-producing animal product, chicken, is still seven times more damaging to atmospheric stability than lentils.

Worried about getting your protein and other nutrients from plant foods? No problem. Eat more beans and other legumes and do yourself and the world a favor. See article below on why Latinos tend to live longer. Eating a wide variety of whole plant foods, including legumes will easily give you all the protein you need. Be sure to also take a good form of Vitamin B12 – like VeganSafe that includes both methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin.

Read more about how to eat to heal our planet – https://foodrevolution.org/blog/food-and-climate-change

https://foodrevolution.org/blog/food-and-climate-change/

honey for health - healitall.comHoney and Your Microbiome

I wrote a whole blog post on how eating honey supports the honeybee population and fruit production on our farms, because it supports the beekeepers who maintain the all-important hives. Now we are discovering a whole new (and very ancient) reason to eat raw honey. It contains important bacteria for our gut microbiome and our overall health.

From greenmedinfo.com:

A fascinating study published in PLoS in 2012 might help answer this question. Titled, “Symbionts as major modulators of insect health: lactic acid bacteria and honeybees“, it characterized the diverse and ancient lactic acid bacteria populations of microbiota within the honey crop of honeybees and related species. Amazingly, they discovered species from the Lactobacillus and Bifobacterium genera in these bees that suggest a 80,000,000 year or older history of association. This means that honeybees and their honey may contain bacteria that humans may have maintained contact with and ingested throughout the entire course of their evolution as foragers of honey, which would also include our pre-human predecessors.

Make sure you buy your honey from ethical beekeepers who leave enough honey for the bees to survive, rather than replacing it with sugar water.

Read more about the amazing properties of raw honey – http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/could-eating-honey-be-form-microbial-time-travel-1

Amazing sesame seedsAmazing Sesame Seeds!

Sesame seeds are mini packets of powerful nutrition. Not only do they contain important lignans that fight cancer, but they also appear to relieve hypertension, pain, and inflammation.

They are not so easy to digest when eaten whole, because they require a lot of chewing. However, they are widely available in the form of sesame tahini or sesame butter, which is delicious. It is actually one of my favorite foods. Unfortunately, I have to restrain myself from eating too much of it, because it is high in fat, but I manage to mix a little raw tahini into soup or humus just about every day.

From greenmedinfo.com:

When it comes to dietary superfoods, there may be nothing on Earth that packs as much healing power into as small a package as the sesame seed. Scientific studies have revealed that sesame seeds are a superior source of cancer-fighting lignans, bumping flaxseed from its “top-seeded” position!

I can’t say I like the taste of black sesame butter at all, but I bet it is even more nutritious than the tan colored seeds. If you find a great way to make it palatable, let me know and I will share it in an upcoming newsletter.

Read more about the amazing benefits of sesame seeds – http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/profound-healing-properties-sesame-seed

Beans for health and longevityMaybe it’s the Beans!

Aside from farm workers, who often die young due to exposure to toxic agricultural chemicals, Latinos tend to outlive every other ethnic group in America.

From nutritionfacts.org:

Latinos living in the United States tend to have “less education, a higher poverty rate, and worse access to health care” and “represent the ultimate paradigm of healthcare disparities,” with the highest rate of uninsured, lowest rates of health screening and counseling, and poorest levels of blood pressure and blood sugar control, as well as “other measures of deficient quality of care.”

I do have to question that last quote, “other measures of deficient quality of care.” Given that our health care system is responsible for one third of premature deaths in America, it wouldn’t surprise me that those with less access to it happen to live longer on average. However, Latinos have also been shown to live quite a bit longer than other groups with the same lack of “quality” health care access, so that factor doesn’t seem to be the key.

Latinos have a 24 percent lower risk of premature death and “lower risks of nine of the leading 15 causes of death,” with notably less cancer and heart disease.

Dr. Greger’s conclusion is that the high consumption of beans, along with higher than average fruit and vegetable consumption is the real reason for Latino longevity. Latinos also tend to eat a lot of corn, but unfortunately most of our corn is now contaminated with GMOs, so I would recommend avoiding it in favor of other gluten free grains like millet, quinoa, or brown rice.

Read more on Latino longevity – https://nutritionfacts.org/2019/06/11/whats-the-secret-to-latino-longevity/

Top 10 Plants to Help You Sleep

Last but not least, we have a guest post by Emily Pham on some great plants to grow in your bedroom.

aloe vera1. Aloe Vera – You probably know that aloe vera has a lot of uses. Not only is it beautiful, aloe vera but also is proven to be able to improve the air quality very well. Unlike most common plants, aloe vera emits oxygen at night so it can help you sleep better.

Read on for nine more amazing plant options for healthy sleep – http://www.healitall.com/10-plants-to-help-you-sleep/