Dear Friends,

We have been illuminating a category of phytochemicals called the Flavonoids over the past three weeks.  The Flavonoids subgroups are: anthocyanins, isoflavones, flavanols, flavanones, flavonols, and flavones.  We will continue our journey this week unfolding the Flavonols.
Flavonols are amongst the most wide spread flavonoids found in foods.  There are three main flavonols:  quercetin, kaempferol [...]

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What’s the difference between a flavanol and a flavonol? It almost looks the same, but the difference in their molecular structure and functions is critically important. Lets learn together.
After this week’s Forward Thinking we’ll definitely know
what flavanols are, and their powerful health benefits. Next week we’ll bring into the picture the flavonols.
Flavanols are also [...]

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Let’s talk about color in food!  The greens, reds, yellows, blues and purples… how do these colors heal us?  We’ve been talking about phytochemicals in the past several weeks, specifically the structures of the different flavonoids.  This week we will focus on the powerful benefits derived from one of the subgroups of flavonoids—the anthocyanins.
Anthocyanins [...]

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What is becoming a renaissance of awareness within the practice of medicine is the acknowledgement that colorful fruits and vegetables have much to offer for health building and disease prevention.  It is all available to us through their multitude of phytochemicals.
Last week I diagramed the various categories within phytochemicals.  This week I want to [...]

Dear Friends,

My goal in this Forward Thinking Newsletter is to help you get a hold of, or get your mind around, a class of nutrients called the phytochemicals. I know, I know, sounds boring, we’ve been there and have done that. But read on.
Over the past several decades these molecules have immerged as a major [...]

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Well here we are again my good friends—another year’s ending, waiting for the dawn of 2012.  It’s a time for reflection, thanksgiving, and hopefulness.
Dohrea and I thank you for your business and friendship. We send you warm hugs, wishes, and prayers for much health and happiness in this coming New Year.
We’re very excited about [...]

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We continue our discussion from last week with the question:  What makes food therapeutic? Make sure to look at Clinical Notes for easy to create protocols, lots of colorful foods, and reduced inflamation in the body.
A healthy food provides ligands that turn on disease fighting genes and turn off those that cause disease.
What is [...]

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We are going into Epigentics and how it is applied to food. Our topic is called Nutrigenomics. Be sure to read clinical notes.  But before that:
I have some food for thought for you (pardon the pun).  Are you ready?  Here it is … this is your Zen Koan,
What makes food therapeutic?
It’s kind of a profound [...]

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Last week we talked about The One Straw Revolution in agriculture founded by Masanobu Fukouka.  Mr. Fukouka’s goal was to create a food producing environment that diverged as little as possible from a natural one.  His garden had the structure of a natural forest and as the forest ecology took hold, he found he [...]

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It feels like winter has decended upon us here in the Northwest.  It’s really dark at 5pm and light at the crack of 7:30am.  Reluctantly, I dug up the garden, our condo communal patch, all 9 by 15 feet of it, this past Thanksgiving week-end— discarding the tomatoe and squash vines, the cabbage and [...]