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Can you believe there are just a few short weeks left to the year? It seems like 2011 flew by.
My son has been reading about the fated 2012 for several years, sharing his apprehensions about the strange events that are supposed to take place. He has a backpack prepared with emergency rations and supplies…just in case.
So now the long talked about 2012 is almost here.
Will the world indeed come to an end as the Mayan calendar is supposed to predict? Or does the calendar end in 2012 simply because they got tired of scribing long, long distant dates and said enough’s enough?
We won’t know until we see for ourselves.
Every Moment Is a Choice
In the meantime, my attitude has been to live my life with joy, passion, and gratitude for every moment. Even though I am not taking the time to formally post my daily gratitudes to my blog, I still reflect on them.
I posted a journal for the first time in a week. You can read it here and post your own.
As 2012 unfolds, we’ll step into it and watch together to see whatever mystery unfolds.
I know for sure that I will remain dedicated to helping you to achieve your fittest, strongest, most balanced, joyful, and healthy body ever.
But, with the more immediate future in mind, here’s a quick overview of what’s to come:
- Turning Food Allergies Inside Out Free Teleseminar (January 3rd, 2012)
- Blood sugar and insulin resistance support version 2.0
- Cleansing and detoxification – updated programs
- Support for adrenal fatigue and thyroid imbalance
- Energy Recharge Community Support
You can also catch my most recent radio show where you can explore how to stay fit and healthy through the holidays and beyond.
With much love and appreciation,
Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo
The Dangers of Undiagnosed Food Allergies:
Breaking Down Instead of Breaking Out
Food is intended to replenish your cells, nourish your organs, and give you the energy you need to do all the things in your life that bring you joy. Yet sometimes this process backfires and meal times leave you bloated, exhausted, and unmotivated. So what goes wrong?
One of the often overlooked causes of feeling “bad” after eating is food allergies and food intolerances.
When your immune system mistakes good food for a foreign invader, it sets up a cascade of inflammatory reactions to “kill it”, leading to pain, inflammation, and dysfunction in your body.
Most people don’t even realize anything’s wrong… at first.
Even If You’re Not Breaking Out, You May Still Be Breaking Down
Conventional medicine discounts the importance of food allergies in solving chronic health challenges and persistent body fat issues, save for those outwardly manifesting allergies that cause an immediate skin reaction or inability to breathe.
For those types of food allergies, the solution is clear from a medical perspective: avoid the food and if you accidentally get exposed, take an anti-histamine medication or a shot of epinephrine. But what about the other kinds of food allergies – the insidious ones that contribute to chronic symptoms and health challenges? The problem with detecting these types of food intolerances is that the reaction is often not immediate, so it takes a lot of detective work to determine what foods are causing the problem.
Food allergies are tested for and managed by many alternative practitioners, yet there is a lot of confusion and misinformation about what they are, what causes food allergies, and whether these allergies can be overcome.
So, What’s Your Poison?
It’s possible that many “healthy” foods are not so good for you. It is said that “one man’s food is another man’s poison,” and this is so true when it comes to food allergy reactions. Even highly nutritious foods like broccoli or blueberries can induce an immune response that leaves you ill.
Your immune system is a double edged sword. The same reactions that can protect you from dangerous microbes can inflame and damage your essential body tissues and lead to chronic health issues.
What Happens When You Ignore Food Allergies and Intolerances?
Chronic over activity of your immune system can lead to problems like:
- weight gain
- depression
- joint pain
- fatigue
- headaches
- indigestion
- asthma
- eczema
- fibromyalgia
- autoimmune conditions
- autism
- attention deficit disorder
- and many more
So what causes your immune system to get confused and attack good food?
We’ll cover a few here and invite you to learn the details at a brand new, hot off the press, FREE teleseminar on January 3rd, 2012 called Turning Food Allergies Inside Out: Revealing the Causes, Culprits, and Cures. You’ll find the details below.
The Causes of Food Allergies
There are many causes of food allergies and intolerances, but here is a list of the most common (References for further reading will be published with the article on the Fresh n’ Fun blog soon!).
- Infancy Food Exposure: Exposure to foods other than breast milk during the first few months of life can contribute to food allergies. Your digestive tract was designed to be able to allow larger molecules through during early life so that your mom could nurse you, pass on the protective antibodies from her immune system, and protect you. Unfortunately, what also passes through her milk are her food antibodies too.
In addition, if you are fed anything other than breast milk in those early months, those openings in your digestive tract work against you and allow proteins from cow’s milk or soy, the most common foods in infant formula, to pass into your blood stream and create an immune reaction. (1) (2)
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Immunizations: If you were immunized, the goal was to create a protective immune response to the injected substances. Unfortunately, carrier substances injected with the immunizations include things like egg albumin, which can cause you to become allergic to eggs.(3)
- Antibiotics: Within the first year of life, intake of antibiotics has been associated with increased risk of food allergy. (4)
- Antacids: The use of antacids impair stomach acid production and leads to the poor digestion of proteins. These undigested proteins irritate the delicate lining of your intestine, eventually eroding it enough so that the larger molecules enter your blood stream and mount an immune system attack. (5) (6)
- Gluten: Gluten-containing foods inflame and damage your intestinal mucous membrane and result in Leaky Gut Syndrome. As a result large, undigested protein molecules enter your blood stream and your immune system attacks them. (7)
- Stress: Eating when stressed causes increased cortisol production, which shuts down your digestion and can lead to Leaky Gut Syndrome. (9)
- Sugar: Eating sugar disrupts normal intestinal flora and disrupts digestion. (10)
How to Tell if You Have a Potential Food Allergies or Intolerance
How do you know if food allergies may be contributing to your health concerns? Take this short self assessment quiz and find out for yourself:
- Do you feel tired after eating?
- Do you frequently clear your throat after meals?
- Do you feel like you need looser pants at the end of the day?
- Do you crave certain foods (like bread, cheese, and other snack foods) and feel the urge to eat more even if you feel full?
- Do you feel like your pulse and heart beat become rapid after eating certain foods?
- Do you have inflammation and pain for which you haven’t found a cause?
- Have you been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease?
- Do you experience belching, bloating, gas, or pain after eating?
- Do you have persistent extra weight in spite of a low calorie diet and exercise?
- Do you have asthma?
- Do you have difficulty focusing that comes and goes?
- Have you lost your motivation for things you used to enjoy?
- Do you need to urinate frequently?
- Do you have an irritable bowel?
- Do you have unexplained bouts of depression, anxiety, or irritability?
- Do you have frequent skin rashes, eczema, or psoriasis?
If you answered yes even to ONE of these, you might have an undiagnosed food allergy. If you answered yes to 3 or more you most certainly do.
For the full scoop on food allergies and how they are affecting your health, your energy, and your life, join me on January 3rd, 2012 for a free teleseminar:
Turning Food Allergies Inside Out:
Revealing the Causes, Culprits, and Cures
Monday, January 3rd, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
This food allergy teleseminar will cover:
- What’s happening in your body that causes your immune system to start attacking your food
- The step-by-step sequence of events that occurs during a food allergy reaction
- The most common food triggers
- The role of your digestive tract in causing and clearing food allergies
- Elimination diets and how they work
- Lab testing for food allergies
- Retesting culprit foods
- Enjoying your food, loving your life
I’ll go into even more detail about the effects of food allergies, so be sure to join us:
Register HERE!
If you’re tired of being tired, unfocused, and uncomfortable, or if you are sick of the weight that just won’t budge despite your best efforts, you owe it to yourself to explore whether food allergies are contributing to your ill health.
Learn how to become energetic, happy, and productive once more.
Turning Food Allergies Inside Out:
Revealing the Causes, Culprits, and Cures
Free Teleseminar Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
- Are you struggling with low energy, difficulty focusing, aches and pains or digestive problems that won’t go away, in spite of eating a “healthy” diet?
- Does that extra 10 pounds or more persist in spite of hours at the gym and practically starving yourself?
- Are you plagued by cravings for bread, sweets and snack foods?
If so, you’re not alone. You may be among the countless people suffering from food allergies.
The Pain of Undiagnosed Food Allergies
Undiagnosed food allergies, even to highly nutritious foods like broccoli or blueberries, can induce immune responses that leave you ill.
Many instances of food allergies go undetected, manifesting as chronic symptoms that don’t respond to conventional approaches. Chronic over activity of your immune system can lead to a host of symptoms and conditions.
If you’re wondering if you have an undiagnosed food allergy, let Dr. Ritamarie help you identify the triggers, tests, and tasty solutions to free you from your immune system battles.
Register now for the free teleseminar: 
https://drritamarie.com/wp-clone/go/TurnFoodAllergiesInsideOut
If you’re tired of being tired, unfocused, and uncomfortable, or if you’re sick of the weight that just won’t budge despite your best efforts, you owe it to yourself to explore whether food allergies are contributing to your ill health.
Even if you can’t attend the live teleseminar, you’ll get free access to the recording, just by registering for the call:
https://drritamarie.com/wp-clone/go/TurnFoodAllergiesInsideOut
and Information Night
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.
Click HERE to learn more about the event and find out all the details on what to bring and what to expect.
Upcoming Dates:
- Friday, December 16th, 6:30 p.m. central (New Date!!)
What our attendees have to say about recent potlucks:
- “Great meetup, great food, great folks!” — Joy Johnson
- “Great food and great people, and a warm welcoming experience (it was my first time and I felt at home!)” — Audrey
Click below to follow this Meeting Group on Facebook!
You can access videos and recipes in PDF format for any of our past classes including: - Party an Potluck Nibbles that Nourish
- Holiday Feasts
- Sweets for the Holidays
- Eating for Hormone Balance
- One Dish Meals
You’ll find a complete list of past classes available HERE.
Future Show Schedule (no shows scheduled until the new year):
- Thursday, January 5th – Playtime – Living Life to the Fullest
Obesity, stress, depression and lack of physical health are at an all-time high in our society. At the root cause of these unwanted symptoms are decreased physical activity, play, and pleasure in life.
Dr. Ritamarie talks often about nutrition, exercise, sleep, and supplements. Today she is bringing in a new component to the health equation: Play. Author Brenda Loube brings to the forefront the opportunities to live life with improved success, health, and happiness by establishing and maintaining a life-long commitment to play. Her fundamental premise is that by doing what comes naturally, playing with others, you indirectly empower yourself to engage in those things you most desire.
It is not about being disciplined, it is about giving you permission to live life to its fullest.
Join Dr. Ritamarie and Brenda and find out why it’s so important to give yourself permission to play.
Check out Brenda on the web: http://www.youcanplay.org/
8:00 am PT, 9:00 am MT, 10:00 am CT, 11:00 am ET
Here are the latest shows we’ve added:
- Shaping Up for the Holidays with Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo
- Ho Ho Hold the Sweatpants! Healthy Holiday Nibbles with Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo and Chef Karen Osborne
- Sleep Tight: Don’t Let Your Hormones Fight with Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo and Dr. Lindsey Berkson
It’s the same thing year after year. People gorge themselves throughout the holiday season and then resolve that come January they are back on track to lose weight. This year, try something different.
Shape up FOR the holidays and not after. Instead of joining your friends in gaining the Santa belly, look sexy in your holiday clothes.
She’s a Doctor of Chiropractic with Certifications in Acupuncture, Clinical Nutrition, HeartMath® and Herbal Medicine as well as a certified raw and living foods instructor, chef and coach. She’s the author and co-author of several gluten-free vegan and raw foods recipe books including: Power Breakfast Ideas, Deliciously Quick Lunch and Dinner, Healthy Halloween Treats, Dessert: Making it Rich Without Oil and Dried and Gone to Heaven.
She’s also the creator of many successful online courses designed to restore people to the health, energy, and vitality they need to live full and vibrant lives.
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What if there was a way to share in holiday traditions, enjoy delicious food and really bask in the love and connection that the winter holidays are supposed to represent? What if you got to enjoy healthier versions of favorite holiday foods in a way that’s quick, easy, affordable and fun, and leaves you feeling satiated and energized? Start the New Year feeling slim, strong and vibrant! Find out more here… 
One thing that all holidays and celebrations have in common is their focus on food. Holidays are a time of celebration and cheer. They’re special events when you set aside time to get together with friends and family to simply appreciate each other. I love the festivities, the decorations, the parties and the connection with the special people in my life. Find out more here…
If you long to indulge in familiar comfort foods like bread, pizza, crackers, and chips, but you can’t stand the nightmare of the emotional and physical upheaval processed foods create, your dreams are about to come true! Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo and Chef Alicia Ojeda have joined to offer you mouth-watering comfort foods that will nourish your body and satisfy your soul. Read more here…
Includes a downloaded recording of a 2 hour teleclass, anti- inflammatory recipe guide, shopping list and checklists, flowcharts of your body’s inflammatory pathways and bonus resources, including Lunch and Dinner and Breakfast e-books and Transforming Stress Kit. Read more here… 
Desserts make your tongue feel gleeful and your heart sing, but let’s face it; conventional desserts and processed ingredients are damaging to your body. But thanks to the nutritional expertise of Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo and the raw food creativity of Chef Karen Osborne, you can now enjoy sugar-free, gluten-free, and oil-free desserts that are decadent and delicious! These easy to make recipes are chocolate-craving kid and skeptical husband approved! Read more here… Bread With A Peeling Comfort!
When winter is here, we all reach for our “comfort food” favorites: bread, crackers, chips, and cheese. The only trouble is that though we may enjoy a short-term emotional hug, we put a long-term physical squeeze on our health when we expose our bodies to processed ingredients.
Thankfully, there are foods and techniques that will booth sooth AND nourish your body! Today, we invite you to enjoy one of the recipes from our Dried and Gone to Heaven free e-course: The Truth About Your Comfort Foods.
Banana Bread Made Easy by Chef Alicia Ojeda
Ingredients:
- 6 – 8 medium ripe bananas
- 1 1/2 medium apples, chopped and seeded
- 1 cup frozen blueberries
- 1/4 cup raisins or dried cranberries
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 cup walnuts, soaked and dehydrated (chopped, for topping) optional
- 1 cup ground chia seeds (slightly less than 1/2 cup before grinding)
Directions:
- Grind a scant 1/2 cup of chia using a spice grinder or a blender
- Place peeled bananas, chopped apples, lemon juice, vanilla, blueberries, and raisins into a food processor outfitted with the “S” blade.
- Process briefly until smooth and then pour into a large bowl.
- Add the ground chia seeds and combine thoroughly with whisk making sure to break up any clumps.
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“Plop” 1/4 cup of the mixture onto a paraflexx sheet on a dehydrator tray lined with a mesh sheet. Spread into desired shape. - Optional: Sprinkle with chopped walnuts, press lightly.
- Place trays in dehydrator for 4 – 6 hours at 115 degrees F, then flip onto a mesh screen, peeling back the paraflexx sheet and continue to dry for additional 6 – 8 or to desired dryness.
- Store refrigerated 3 – 5 days.
Notes for Success:
- Select fully ripe bananas with full yellow color and brown freckles.
- Avoid unripe bananas that have any green hue on tips or ends.
If you enjoy this delicious banana bread recipe, you can enjoy another sample recipe from Dried and Gone to Heaven when you sign up for the free e-course: The Truth About Your Comfort Foods!
Dried and Gone to Heaven contains almost 250 pages of recipes that will meet the needs of all your comfort food cravings. It’s the perfect book to have on hand during the holidays when you’re surrounded by rich and tempting foods.
Click HERE to find out more!
Internationally recognized speaker, author and mentor, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is the “Woman’s Fatigue Expert and Vibrant Health Mentor.”
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