7 Healthy Tips for Summer, Travel, Vacations, and Picnics

• Personal Note: 
  Energy and Appreciation
• Featured Article:
  7 Healthy Tips for Summer, Travel, Vacations, and Picnics
• Practitioner Corner:
  3 Most Commonly Overlooked Strategies for Solving Difficult Cases – Part 2
• Recipe Corner:
  Strawberry Banana Coconut Cream Pie 

Healthy Holiday Travel Tips (Encore Presentation)

This week we are giving Dr. Ritamarie a break and airing a replay of her Healthy Travel Tips

Recent Radio Show Replays:

Carol Tuttle #3: Energy Profiling – The Child Whisperer

This week’s show (Part 3) is about improving parenting/relationship skills by understanding Energy Profiling.

Carol Tuttle #2: Dressing Your Truth  

This week’s show (Part 2) covers Dressing Your Truth – Look pounds thinner and years younger by dressing true to your Energy Profile Type. Don’t miss it!

Click HERE to follow Dr Ritamarie on Blog Talk Radio and  never miss a show!

Raw Food: The Answers – How to Survive Long-Term

by Nomi Shannon & Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo

Over half a century of experience, training, hands-on know-how and wisdom are packed into this life-changing product, available as either a physical Book & CD or a digital eBook (PDF) and MP3 (Audio) download.
Click HERE to Order

Once a month, you can join us LIVE in Austin, Texas for a local raw food potluck where you can:

• Meet like-minded people and make new friends.
• Learn new and exciting recipes.
• Gather valuable health and nutrition information.
• Feel supported on your health quest.

Upcoming Dates 2013

(the last Saturday of every month unless noted otherwise):

July 27th, 6:30 p.m. CDT

August 31st, 6:30 p.m. CDT

September28th 6:30 p.m. CDT

Click HERE to learn more about Dr. Ritamarie’s Living Foods Meetup!

Find out all the details on what to bring and what to expect.

Remember the tough cases we discussed last week?  

You remember, the ones who’ve: 

• They’ve gone gluten free – or so they say.
• Gave up coffee
• They’re drinking green drinks almost every day
• They exercise, meditate and get out doors, yet still they struggle with excess weight, especially around the middle.  They have no energy and their hormones are a mess.  If they stray too far from the  kitchen, they go into a panic attack.

In last week’s newsletter, we introduced you to one of the 3 things most practitioners overlook when attempting to solve the most difficult cases, impaired detoxification pathways.

This week, we’ll look at autoimmune thyroid conditions.  Most conventional doctors fail to do a thorough evaluation of thyroid function, and the 2 most commonly overlooked causes of low thyroid  problems are autoimmune (Hashimoto’s disease is most common) and receptor resistance.

Of course you know that low thyroid function contributes to low energy, blood sugar imbalance and failure to respond to weight release programs.  Autoimmune disease occurs when your immune system goes haywire and starts attacking itself.  When the thyroid is the recipient of these bullets, the entire body can be affected.

Bottom line, don’t let autoimmune thyroid conditions slip by you.  Test every client you work with for thyroid antibodies, antithyroglubulin and thyroid peroxidase.  These can be ordered through Direct Labs without a doctor;s prescription.

There are all sorts of great resources for analysis, and I explore many of these in my course Client Assessment Tools for Holistic Practitioners.

We just graduated our first class and materials are available for self study until the next live run.

Details are here:  http://www.clientassessmenttools.com

Stay tuned for part 3 next week.

STRAWBERRY BANANA COCONUT CREAM PIE

Are you looking for something to do with all of those summer berries? Want something nice for July 4th celebration? This is a simple, beautiful and delicious pie. This recipe makes a 9″ pie

INGREDIENTS – CRUST

• 1 cup finely shredded unsweetened dried coconut
• 1 cup almonds, preferably soaked and dehydrated
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup pecans, preferably soaked and dehydrated
• 1/2 cup pitted Medjool dates

INGREDIENTS – TOPPING

• 1 cup strawberries, sliced
• 1 banana, sliced
• Shredded coconut as desired 

INGREDIENTS – FILLING

• 2 bananas, sliced
• 1 banana
• 2 cups strawberries
• 1/2 cup coconut butter
• 4 pitted Medjool dates
• 1/2 teaspoon ground vanilla beans or vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sunflower lecithin

DIRECTIONS – CRUST

1. Process the coconut, almonds and salt in a food processor until finely ground.
2. Add the pecans and process just until they are coarsely chopped.
3. Add dates and process until the mixture begins to stick together.
4. Press the crust mixture into a glass pie dish.

DIRECTIONS – FILLING

1. Place the two sliced bananas in a medium bowl and set aside.
2. Put 1 banana, 2 cups of whole strawberries, the coconut butter, dates, vanilla and salt in a blender, and blend until smooth.
3. Add the lecithin and blend until it is incorporated.
4. Pour the mixture over the sliced bananas and stir well.
5. Spread the strawberry banana coconut filling in the pie crust.
6. Decorate the top with banana slices, strawberry slices and coconut flakes.
7. Chill at least 4 hours.

TIP: for a lower glycemic version, omit dates and add equivalent amount of chia gel plus stevia to taste

This recipe is taken from the book ‘Dessert: Making It Rich Without Oil‘  by Dr Ritamarie & Karen Osborne.

Click HERE to learn to make mouth watering gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar- free, oil-free and guilt-free nutritious desserts.