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Chocolate Quinoa Cookies Recipe

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    Chocolate Quinoa Cookies

    Vegan, No Bake, GF

    Happily makes 12 cookies

    All Organic Ingredients:

    ¼ cup coconut oil

    ¼ cup pure maple syrup or raw honey

    ⅓ cup Organic Cacao powder

    ½ cup Sunflower butter (or nut/seed butter of your choice)

    ½ cup cooked quinoa

    1/2 cup raw Quinoa, rinsed and dried (sprouted)

    ½ cup coconut flakes

    Coarse sea salt

    Directions

    Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

    In a small sauce pan over medium, melt coconut oil, maple syrup or honey and cacao powder. Whisk until combined.

    Add Sunflower seed butter and stir until smooth.

    Remove from the heat and fold in the quinoa, and coconut flakes.

    Divide in mini muffin tin pan.

    Sprinkle with sea salt and place in the freezer to set for about 30 minutes.

    Store in the freezer for best results, but can also be stored in the fridge

     

    Quinoa Cookies

    How Much Sugar – Can You Have? Did You Have? Should You Have? How to Calculate it.

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      How Much Sugar is Too Much?

      Calculating Refined Sugar Intake In Teaspoons sugar

      • A healthy adult human being has approximately 5 liters of blood circulating at any given moment.
      •  In that 5 Liters of Blood a grand total of 1 teaspoon of sugar is available during a fasting state. That’s all the body needs to function.
      •  In 12-ounces of soda or energy drinks typically contain approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar.
      •  That little beverage effectively raises the blood sugar 10 times above what the body needs to function and typically within a matter of minutes.

      To Decode the refined sugar in your diet simply do the following wherever refined sugars are listed in the ingredients.

      1 Teaspoon of Sugar = Approximately 4 Grams of Sugar

      In other words take the total grams of refined sugar and divide by 4 to learn how many teaspoons of sugar you are consuming per serving.

      More About Refined Sugar

      The Recommended Total Consumption of Refined Sugar & High Fructose Corn Syrup is less than 1 pound per month for Optimal Immune Health. Use the conversions below to assess how much sugar you are consuming each day.

      • 1 teaspoon of Sugar = 4.2 grams = approximately 4 grams
      • 453 grams of Sugar = 1 pound of Sugar
      • 115 teaspoons of Sugar = 1 pound of Sugar
      • 11 Sodas (132 Ounces) = 2, 2-Liter Bottles of Soda =
      • 1 pound of Sugar 1 Soda (12 Ounces) = 39 grams of Sugar = Approximately 10 teaspoons of Sugar
      • 1 Soda (20 Ounces) = 69 grams of Sugar = Approx. 16.5 teaspoons of Sugar
      • 1 Soda (2 Liters) = 67 ounces of Soda = 221 grams of Sugar = ½ pound of Sugar

      Drinking 1 Soda (12 Ounces) per day = 30 Sodas per month = 2.65 pounds of Sugar per month from Soda alone = 360 teaspoons of sugar your body will have to use, store or eliminate in order to remain in balance at 1 teaspoon circulating in the blood stream.

      I would also say that I would not count fruits, vegetables, and whole grains to this total…just refined sugars like white sugar, brown sugar, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, dextrin, maltodextrin, agave syrup, maple syrup, and evaporated cane juice.

      The US governments projects that average annual refined sugar consumption alone…not counting any other sweetener will be 74 or more pounds per year for the next 20 years. And we wonder why diabetes is the fastest growing pathology in the United States today.

       

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      What Does Eating Healthy Mean? 16 Healthy Eating Principles You Must Know!

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        What does Eating Healthy Mean?

        1- Mitochondrial Energy Production:

        Mitochondria definition: and organelle found in large number in most cells, in which the biochemical process of energy production occurs. It has an inner and outer layer.

        2-Organic sourced foods: look up EWG.org

        The environmental working group is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment.  Learn what organic means

        U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a great resource

        3- Delayed food allergens: and allergy is an adverse reaction due to immunologic mechanism. A delayed onset food allergy is an auto immune disease that causes your immune system to overact when you ingest certain foods. The immune cells mistakenly attack food particles and treat them as foreign invaders and produce anti-bodies to try to fight what they perceive as toxins. Known allergies we can the immune and digestive systems, draining the body of energy.

        Energetic Health Institute…an innovative 501(c)3 California Non-Profit & Gold Rated by GuideStar.org for transparency. School approved by the National Association of Nutrition Professionals (NANP)

        I’m a Certified Holistic Nutritionist who can order you the right lab work to complete and over see this process.

        https://www.energetichealthinstitute.org

        4- 60% Alkalizing   pH scale  0-14   Acid vs. Alkaline

        Certain foods can effect of the acidity and pH of bodily fluids, including the urine or blood, and therefore can be used to treat and prevent disease

        5- Green Food

        Chlorophyll turns into new blood. Green promotes health and energy.

        6- ORAC Value of Food

        Oxygen radical absorbance capacity Is the unit of measurements of antioxidants found in food. (calories are a unit of energy)

        http://superfoodly.com/orac-values/

        7-Refined Sugar

        A healthy adult has approx 5 liters of blood circulating at any given moment and needs 1 teaspoon of sugar available during a fasting state. That’s all the body needs to function.

        12-ounces of soda or energy drinks typically contain approx 10 tsp of sugar. That raises the blood sugar 10x above what the body needs to function and typically within a matter of minutes.

         

        1 Teaspoon of Sugar = Approx 4 Grams of Sugar

        Take the total grams of refined sugar & divide by 4 to learn how many teaspoons of sugar you are consuming per serving.

        8-Naturally sweet:

        Think Real food

        9- Fiber: 8-12 grams  per meal.  Average 25-30 grams a day.

        Adds bulk to you diet and aids in digestion.

        Insoluble fiber: found in wheat, bran, vegetables, and whole grains. It helps speed passage of food through the stomach and intestines.

        Soluble Fiber: attacks water and turns into gel, slowing digestion.  Found in foods like oat bran, barley, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, peas, and some other veggies and fruits.  Can help lower cholesterol.

        10-Raw foods

        Raw foods contain enzymes.  Enzymes help break down food and aid in digestion.

        Proteases: breaks down Protein

        Lipase: breaks down fat

        Amylase: breaks downs carbs

        11- Healthy Preparation Methods

        12-Environmentally Safe Meats and Fish

        EWG.org

        13-Environmentally safe Cookware

        NO TEFLON!

        14-Friends and Family MOODS

        15- Beverage 8oz or less

        16- Burn off what you consume!

        Exercise/movement

        Asian Chick Pea Kale Salad Recipe

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          Asian Chick Pea Kale Salad

          Vegan, Gluten Free

          Happily Serves 4

          VEGETABLES

          1 large bundle finely chopped kale  (steamed and drained)

          1 cup finely grated carrots (steamed)

          2 cups finely shredded red cabbage (Steamed)

          DRESSING

          1/4 cup cashew butter (or sub sunflower butter)

          1/4 cup + 1 Tbsp Korean BBQ sauce (Skyvalley brand)

          1/4 cup sesame oil

          3 Tbsp maple syrup

          Sea salt or 1 Tbsp tamari or coco amigos

          CHICKPEAS

          1 Cup soaked and dried chickpeas (or sub Mung beans)

          2 Tbsp sesame oil or avocado oil

          2 tsp maple syrup

          1 garlic clove

          optional: red pepper flakes or chili powder

          Preheat oven to 425

          When preparing chickpeas, make sure they are dry – this will help them crisp up.

          In a medium mixing bowl add sesame oil, maple syrup and Korean BBQ sauce and whisk.  Add chickpeas and toss to coat. Arrange on a baking stone/sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes, tossing halfway to ensure even baking. They’re done when crisp and deep golden brown.

          To prepare dressing, add all ingredients and whisk to combine. Taste and adjust flavors as needed, adding more maple syrup for sweetness, Korean BBQ sauce for heat, cashew butter for creaminess, or salt or tamari for saltiness.

          Add kale (steamed), carrots and cabbage to a large mixing/serving bowl and toss to combine. Then add dressing, toss to coat.

          To serve, divide salad between serving plates and top with crunchy chickpeas.  Keep leftover chickpeas separate from salad in a well-sealed container at room temperature for 2 days