Friday, January 22, 2010

ABC's and sample day

Peterman’s ABCs of Healthy Eating


A++ fresh juice and green smoothies

All fresh fruits and vegetables

(Awesome for our cells)

Barely cooked fruits and vegetables

Raw nuts, seeds, sprouted grains

(Bodies like)

Cooked healthy foods

(Kind of good)

Don’t want to cut out because of habit, taste buds, and social reasons

Fail the body

A Sample Day

Juice or green smoothies & supplements

Eggs, nuts, or whole grain breakfast

Fruit Snack

Live veggies

Whole grain lunch (nut butter sandwiches, oatmeal, biscuits, nut cookies…)

Fruit snack

Fresh salad (incredible variety with greens, toppings, and dressings; may also be any cookbook recipe)

Cooked dish (pizza, tacos, Sloppy Joes, chicken, lasagna, soup, chili, recipes from cookbooks, prepared with good healthy ingredients)

Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Rest, Bible

Sunday, January 17, 2010

"Most Unique" Chili

Chillin’ Chili

Awarded “Most Unique” at the 2010 Village Church Chili Cook-off


Chop 1/2 head of small cabbage

Blend 1 bunch celery

1 avocado

1 zucchini

1/2 lemon juiced

4 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 tsp sea salt

1/2 cup cabbage water

Chop carrot tops, carrot noodles, sun-dried tomatoes

Mix all together and garnish with red, green, and orange

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

“Which diet book should I read?”

The best book on nutrition is the Bible. God is also the best counselor for our health because he made our bodies and knows how they work. Even if you don’t believe this, science backs up the principles God laid out in the Bible.

Rule number one and two are found in Matthew 22. “Love God and love others.” You may ask what that has to do with our bodies, but our emotional state has everything to do with our bodies. And when all else fails (our bodies die,) we will be with God forever (with a new body) in heaven if we believe Jesus died for our sins, things we do wrong.

After God created people and food, he said, “It is very good.” Genesis 1:29 says He gave us all plants to eat. After the fall (people became sinful,) food and bodies were no longer perfect. Then He gave rules in Leviticus 11 as to which animals are clean to eat. It basically includes animals that eat plants.

I can’t tell you how many times in the last two years God has directed me to the next book, practitioner, or food He knew I should experience. Psalm 16:7 says, “I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.” He has been the coordinator of my health and healing.

If you’d like to know what He has taught me about health and especially nutrition, please ask since He taught it to me so I could help others. If you want to know God, seek him because He wants to show you his love.

God wrote this prayer and I pray it for you. Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. (3 John 1:2 )

Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

Genesis 1:31a God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

Genesis 1:29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Leviticus 11: 46 " 'These are the regulations concerning animals, birds, every living thing that moves in the water and every creature that moves about on the ground. You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between living creatures that may be eaten and those that may not be eaten.' "

Proverbs 15:17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.

30 A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.

Psalm 16:7 I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.

Matthew 7:7-8 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

3 John 1:2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.