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A Date With Magnesium

Live Right Now - Episode 002 – A Date With Magnesium

Naturally high in magnesium, juicy, sweet dates are gaining popularity as a quick, healthy snack, or incorporated into desserts. Obtaining adequate magnesium through diet, supplements, or both can both prevent and reverse heart disease.

No pill’s going to cure your ills!  “Mother nature spent billions of years perfecting her healing and health-sustaining garden apothecary” Chef Wendell

• Some estimates suggest over 90% of Americans are magnesium deficient.
• Deficiency symptoms: heart disease, high blood pressure, arrhythmia, dizziness, ED, fatigue, anxiety and panic attacks.
• The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine indicated long-term magnesium deficiency makes you twice (2X) as likely to die as other people.
• A 10-year study found low magnesium levels contributed more to heart disease than did cholesterol or even saturated fat.
• Getting adequate magnesium through diet and supplements can both prevent heart disease in most people and reverse heart disease
• Anti-inflammatory
• Reduces blood pressure
• Reduced stroke risk(The Journal of Clinical Nutrition).
• Magnesium is in dark chocolate, dates, avocados, nuts and seeds, beans, bananas.

Dates are great for:

• Weight loss
• Relieving constipation, supporting regular bowel movements.
• Prevent hemorrhoids, reducing colitis risk, and prevent colon cancer
• Lowers blood pressure
• Promoting heart health and reduce heart disease risk.
• Treating Iron-deficiency anemia
• Impotence? Magnesium can improve ED.
• Promoting respiratory health
• Treating chronic arthritis
  
  Try this great date recipe!

CHOCOLATY SAMOAS
1 cup pitted medjool dates
1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
½ cup ground flax seeds-fiber and omega-3
Pinch of Himalayan salt
Food processor

Chocolate dipping sauce:
1/3 cup ‘dark’ chocolate (chips or a chopped bar)
1/2 tsp. unrefined coconut oil
Double-boiler
Whisk

• Pre-heat oven to 400°F. Spread shredded coconut onto a baking sheet for toasting. Place in oven for 5-10 minutes, until coconut is a light golden-brown color.
• Please stay in the kitchen to watch the coconut, as it can quickly go from toasted to burnt. Or toast the coconut in a pan on the stove-top.
• Add dates and toasted coconut into the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until mixture is combined and starts to form a ball of dough.
• Remove from food processor; roll 1 tablespoon size pieces of dough into a ball and then shape into a round cookie.
• Place all cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment and transfer to the freezer to harden up a bit.

Chocolate Sauce: Unlike grocery syrups and sauces full of corn syrup, emulsifiers, and refined sugar, this sauce has vitamins and antioxidants.

• While cookies are in the freezer, add chocolate and coconut oil to a double boiler over medium heat, and melt increments until chocolate is thin enough to drizzle.
• Remove cookies from the freezer and dip / coat each one in the chocolate. Place cookies on the parchment. Transfer cookies back into the freezer for 10-15 minutes to let the chocolate firm up.
• Once hardened it’ll be easy removing cookies from the parchment paper. If you want to enjoy right away, let them sit out on the counter for a few minutes.
• Store sealed in a container in the fridge for up to one week.

 

 

Live Right Now theme music is “future soundtrack II” by Adam Henry Garcia from the Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

Good Oil Bad Oil

How to get good fats and vitamins into a simple, complete family meal

Here’s a simple meal that will get healthy fats and nourishing vitamins onto your family’s dinner plate. Good tomato sauces for pasta begin in the sauté pan with quality healthy cooking oil and lots of garlic. Combined with a dark leafy-green garden salad with a variety of vegetables and you’ve got a vitamin pill on a plate.

• Jarred pasta sauces are convenient but can be hiding sugar or HFCS. Scratch is so much better.
• Tomatoes: A study published in the journal “Neurology” reported that men who ate more lycopene had a lower risk of strokes.
• Potential to prevent prostate cancer,
• Tomato sauce contains vitamin C, iron and fiber
• For sautéing and salad dressings, many switched to avocado oil after learning the extra virgin on the grocer’s shelves, isn’t so extra virgin according to some reports.  (60 Minutes “Olive Oil” report)

Avocado oil:

• Shown to help decrease triglyceride levels and lower blood pressure. reduces risk of cardiovascular disease.

• Anti-inflammatory reduces arthritis pain.
• A good source of vitamin E

Note: Omega-6.

• Practice moderation with grapeseed and other nut and seed oils which are high Omega-6. Eat an equal balance of omega-6 to omega-3.
• Increases inflammation.

 

Pasta with garlic, tomato sauce, fresh basil and parmesan

1-pound pasta, cooked to package instructions-(I prefer Barilla Plus)
4 tbsps. EVOO or avocado oil
8 cloves of garlic, minced-anti-cancer
½ tsp. ea. Himalayan salt and black pepper
½ tsp. hot pepper flakes
1 small can tomato concentrate-lycopene
1 cup water
1 package of fresh basil, julienned
Parmesan

In a large sauté pan, add oil, garlic, pepper flakes and black pepper and gently simmer over medium heat for several minutes. Don’t walk away.

Add tomato concentrate and water then mix / whisk thoroughly.

Reduce to low heat and simmer for 1 minute. Adjust salt and pepper.

Add pasta, gently toss to coat.

Served topped with fresh basil leaves, ground fax or chia seed, and parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast flakes.

 

(Bonus Recipes!)

 

Garden “Vitamin” Salad

Dark leafy greens (Baby kale, spring greens, spinach)
Zucchini, cherry tomatoes, cauliflower and broccoli florets, diced raw beets, and red onion
Sliced avocado-good fat
Walnuts-Omega-3
Chia or ground flax seed-Omega 3, fiber and plus protein

Basic salad dressing (ball jar)
½ cup extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil-vitamin E and antioxidant
3-4 tbsp. apple cider vinegar, lemon juice or red wine vinegar-alkaline
1 tsp. Dijon
¼ tsp. ear Himalayan salt and black pepper
1 tbsp. sweet onion

 

Live Right Now theme music is “future soundtrack II” by Adam Henry Garcia found on the Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Live Right Now Introduction

Welcome to the Live Right Now podcast with author, speaker and Chef, Wendell Fowler and the official ringer of the Fiber Bell, Producer Allan!  This is where food and faith come together in a recipe for mindful living as we talk about how we can Live Right Now!  In this episode we introduce you to the ideas that will be discussed as the Live Right Now podcast moves forward.  We believe that your body is a Holy Temple and what you put in your temple through your mouth as well as through your mind, matters.  What you eat makes a difference to how you feel, think, and exist in the world.  You can’t reach your highest potential and let your light shine in the world fully until you look at food for what it is and how it is nourishing you.  If you are mindful of how you live and what goes into your mind and your thoughts and if you are mindful of what goes into your body through your food you can live a better life and then you can begin to Live Right Now.

Live Right Now theme music is “future soundtrack II” by Adam Henry Garcia found on the Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0