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1) Mushrooms for Your Health!
2) Healthy Recipe of the Month
3) Your Healthy Eating Support Group Tip
4) Healthy Products and Services

If you're a mushroom lover, not only can you enjoy these delectable edible fungi, but if you choose certain varieties, you will also enhance your health.

Here are 5 varieties of Medicinal mushrooms and the benefits you get from eating them:

1. Shitake mushrooms stimulate your immune system to product white blood cells that destroy cancer cells and increase resistance to viruses and bacteria.

2. Reishi mushrooms are anti-inflammatory. They reduce cholesterol and like the Shitake mushrooms, Reishi mushrooms increase the immune system to fight cancer cells and viruses.

3. Maitake mushrooms stabilize blood sugar, are potent immune system enhabncers and are a good source of vitamins B-2, C, D, niacin, magnesium, potassium, fiber and amino acids. Like Shitake and Reishi mushroms, they have anti-tumor and anti-viral effects.

4. Cordyceps mushrooms also increase immunity and have anti-tumor effects. In addition, they boost endurance, increase sex drive, improve heart and lung function and reduce cholesterol.

5. Enoki mushrooms have anti-cancer properties and are known to lower blood pressure.

Send me your comments or questions about this discussion. I cannot answer each question individually, but I will attempt to address questions in the next newsletter.

Mushroom and Veggie Stir-Fry

1 cup your favorite mushrooms sliced
1 cup of sliced onions
1 cup of sliced bell peppers
2 cloves garlic minced
2 medium zucchini sliced 1/4" thick
Celtic Sea Salt to taste
1-2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil or
3 Tbsp water
your favorite herbal seasoning

Put extra virgin olive oil or water in a heavy duty stainless steel skillet. Sautee the garlic, onions, mushrooms and bell peppers on low to medium heat for 5 minutes. Add the zucchini and saute for another 5 minutes or until crisp tender. Add Celtic Sea Salt and your favorite herbs to taste.

Eat a healthy variety of fish once or twice a week.

Fish is a good source of heart-healthy, anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. But fish is also a source of mercury poisoning. The healthiest fish to choose is the Wild Alaska Salmon - avoid farmed salmon.

The most dangerous seafood is smoked fish because if not handled properly, is may contain harmful microorganisms that can cause illness.

Here is more info on the healthiest varieties of fish to choose.

Just Released! 2004 Edition
FOOD ADDITIVES: A Shopper's Guide To What's Safe & What's Not lists over 800 food additives classified according to safety, whether they may cause allergic reactions and if they are GRAS Generally Recognized As Safe) by the FDA. New to this edition is information on how to identify genetically modified produce in the grocery store. It's a handy pocket-sized book that you can carry with you when you shop to help you read food labels and make sure the food you're buying has only healthy ingredients. It will help you choose healthy foods when you shop and keep harmful chemicals out of the food you feed your family.

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Healthy Eating Coaching
If you would like personal, one-on-one help to get yourself eating healthfully, I offer healthy eating coaching/nutritional consulting services by telephone. The first session is free. You just have to pay for the call.

To schedule your no charge evaluation, send me an e-mail with NO CHARGE EVALUATION in the subject line. Tell me what your concerns are, what times you are available, and what time zone you're in. I will send you an e-mail with your appointment date and time, and the phone number for you to call.