Dr. G's Groovy Gooseberry Amazing Antioxidant SuperPower Smoothie. Cancer, Diabetes, High Cholesterol-Meet my New Friend "Amla". And then "Go Fruit Yourself".

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There are only 3 whole foods on the planet that have more antioxidant power than cloves (according to this study).  One of them is Amla.  Not just more powerful, but more palatable.  You can add a teaspoon of powdered amla to your smoothies and if you even taste it, it will probably be subtle.  Try doing that with cloves!!  

Typical American Breakfast Food Antioxidant Contents.

Bacon and Eggs  7

Bowl of Cornflakes with milk  30

Egg McMuffin 16

Bagel with Cream Cheese 26

Dr. Greger's Groovy Gooseberry Smoothie??

1.Cup of unsweetened soymilk 16

2.1/2 cup of frozen blueberries 535

3.Pulp of Mexican Mango 124 (the mango ALONE has more antioxidants than the other breakfasts!)

4.Tablespoon of ground flaxseeds 9

5.A palm full of bulk white tea leaves 101

6.1 teaspoon of Amla, Indian Gooseberry Powder 782 (about 4 CENTS worth of Amla!!!!)

1500 Units of Antioxidant Power in this Dr. G's Smoothie!

 More than the average person gets in an entire week!!

1/2 of the Antioxidant power from the smoothie came from that single teaspoon of powdered Gooseberries!


I improvise my smoothies....meaning, I use whatever I have left or available in the house.  But my current faves include:

Typical Frozen Bananas, Mangoes, Nearly one pound of fresh Spinach, 1 tsp. Amla, 2 tsp. Cinnamon, PlantFusion Protein Powder (Love the flavor!). And a glass straw which has exponentially increased the joy I derive from green smoothies!!

Some of my Smoothie Picks:

1. PlantFusion Protein Powder (gluten free) because of it's great taste and it packs in 42% RDA protein in 1 scoop.  I never used powders prior to this, but have kind of grown to love this one, especially when I am eating a very high fruit diet. 

2. Frozen Bananas that I slice and keep in freezer in ziplocs.

3. Diced Frozen Mangoes (I buy them cheap) or strawberries, blueberries, etc...

4. Half to 3/4 pound of fresh Spinach, Mixed Lettuces, Kale, or other greens.

5.  If fresh is out then I hit the frozen spinach or frozen broccoli

6. Sprouts.  Sprouts can be great in smoothies.

7.  One teaspoon Amla.

8.  Other extras I may include are cinnamon, maca, lucuma, turmeric, chia seeds, black sesame seeds, kelp powder or other seaweed, hemp seeds.......Staples are cinnamon & turmeric.  Those are cheap.  Anything else is icing on the cake.  I buy nearly all my herbs and spices from Mountain Rose Herbs-I can't find anything cheaper or more ethical.  Love them.

Banana & Spinach.

 Blueberries, Kale, Pomegranate.

 Mango, Spinach, Banana

 Broccoli is another great addition to smoothies. Frozen works great too and tends to be cheaper and lasts longer.

Mesclun Sprouts. Superfood for Smoothies.

I just adore Dr Greger's video and am always learning something new!!  And that's very cool because I get really bored with the "latest and greatest"  nutrition stuff that has actually been out there for decades.    And he puts out all these wonderfully entertaining videos on DVD sets as well (you can see many of them on his site too).  And ALL the proceeds go to charity.  I first saw the guy when he was travelling around the country giving speeches about Mad Cow Disease, Nutrition, The Atkins Diet, etc....and he would speak anywhere.  He is up there with John Robbins and the people who are not chasing wealth at all.  There are so few people that we meet that uphold such a high level of integrity, and then give back the fruits of their work to the community.  He is one of those and I encourage you to support his work and buy his books & DVD's.  I put one in the DVD player and thought my hubby was occupied with an intense Angry Birds game on the ipad.  Minutes into the "quiz" show Dvd, the ipad was turned off and on the coffee table.  He couldn't help but pay attention!  When Disc one was over, I didn't want to "subject" him to more of my nutrition stuff that night, so I said I would watch the next one when he wasn't home.  But no, he wanted to watch it right THEN!!!!  Quirky & entertaining.  He has EIGHT DVDS OUT!!!! This is his latest and you can see all the topics below!


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 Browse the topics in "Latest in Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 8"

1.  Is there anything kale can't do? 2.  Smoking versus kale 3.  Smoking versus broccoli 4.  From stem to stern 5.  From broccoli to breast 6.  Liver toxicity due to broccoli juice? 7.  How much broccoli is too much? 8.  The best detox 9.  Sometimes the enzyme myth is true 10. Have broccoli, won’t travel 11. Biggest nutrition bang for the buck 12. The dangers of broccoli? 13. Raw broccoli and bladder cancer survival 14. Breast cancer survival, butterfat, and chicken 15. Breast cancer survival and trans fat 16. Breast cancer survival and lignan intake 17. Flax and fecal flora 18. Breast cancer survival and soy 19. Coffee and cancer 20. What about the caffeine? 21. Vegetarians versus healthy omnivores 22. EPIC findings on lymphoma 23. Dioxins, viruses, or antibiotics? 24. Poultry and penis cancer 25. Carcinogenic retrovirus found in eggs 26. Poultry exposure and neurological disease 27. Poultry and paralysis 28. Cross-contamination risks 29. Meat-borne infection risk from shopping carts New product from Earthbound Farms.  Runs about 5.00 a pound.  Prewashed. Great mix of organic chards and kales.   30. A treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome 31. Cholesterol and female sexual dysfunction 32. Cholesterol and lower back pain 33. Watermelon as treatment for erectile dysfunction 34. The safer cinnamon 35. Raw veggies versus cooked for heart disease 36. The fruit whose juice is healthier 37. Preventing COPD with diet 38. Treating COPD with diet 39. Eating healthy on the cheap 40. When meat can be a lifesaver 41. Creatine brain fuel supplementation 42. Cheese mites and maggots 43. Cow’s milk-induced infant apnea 44. Cow’s milk casomorphin and crib death 45. Cow’s milk casomorphin and autism 46. National Dairy Council on acne and milk 47. Skim milk and acne 48. The acne-promoting effects of milk 49. Apples and oranges: dietary diversity 50. Garden variety anti-inflammation 51. Preventing macular degeneration with diet 52. How to see 27 miles farther 53. Preventing cataracts with diet Kale Heaven. Cheapest way to supply your Kale Addiction. Grow your own! Spinach by the pound. $3.47 at Sam's. Organic & prewashed. Grown in the States. Square Foot Garden Kale.  We have ZERO dirt in our yard, only a concrete & brick patio and we can still grow food with the SFG method. More Amla?? Amla Chickpeas from "The Indian Slow Cooker Book"

Amla Vs. Cancer, Diabetes, Cholesterol. The Miracle Berry? Amazing Amla from "The Indian Slow Cooker" book. Vegan Soapbox.

More Indian Chickpeas!  I made the Vegan Amla Chickpeas, or the Sooka Amla Chana, from The Indian Slow Cooker book authored by Anupy Singla.  Another simple recipe that uses dried chickpeas meaning no soaking, no fermenting of forgotten beans, no BPAs found in can linings and no additional cost.  You can get them anywhere!  But if you go to your local co-op, Whole Foods, health store, then you can usually snag them organic and in bulk.  Under 2.00 a pound (depending on gas prices, the organic may be just under 2.00!).

Buy The Indian Slow Cooker Book

A "must have" for any Vegan that loves Indian food. 

This is Anupy's first book.  Nearly ALL vegan and can be made with zero oil!

Vegan Indian Cooking: Fifty Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

You can Pre-Order this book.  It's all vegan and a mix of stovetop and slow cooker recipes.

You want  dried amla, Indian Gooseberries.  SEEMA, in St. Louis, only carried "Salted Amla" in a small package. But you can buy Amla powder and the dried berries from Mountain Rose Herbs, sin salt.   The amla turns the chickpeas dark!  This recipe used a slightly different technique for adding all the veggies at the end.  You basically make a tunnel in the beans, put your veggies in, and carefully pour hot oil (you can totally make these without the oil...it won't be authentic, but don't skip out on making these dishes just because you are on a Bill Clinton, Caldwell Esselstyn, John McDougall eating plan!!!!) on top trying to cook the veggies.  This slightly freaked me out as I don't really do Earth Balance anyhow, and then hot! Scary!  But it turned out to be simple and overall pretty non-threatening.

Goji Berries have 5 times the antioxidant power of raisins.  Dried Pomegranate Seeds and Barberries are superior to Goji Berries.  Dried Red Whortleberries  (only available in the Arctic Tundra) top that.  But what tops everything on the planet earth (at least that we know about right now?)????  Dried Indian Gooseberries! Off the charts!!

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Indian Gooseberries.  Amla.  Known as a "Wonderberry" in the treatment and prevention of cancer.  Anti-Fever, Anti-Pain, Anti-Cough, Anti-Artery Clogging, Anti-Stress, Heart Protective, Stomach Protective, Anti-Anemia, Anti-Cholesterol, Wound Healing, Antidiarrheal, and protective of the liver, kidneys and nerves.  A hair tonic & a snake venom neutralizer.  Amla against 6 types of human Cancer.  Lung, Colon, Ovarian, Breast, Cervical, and Liver Cancer.  Amla wins........even the highest dosage levels Amla did a number on cancer cells, while leaving normal cells virtually the same.  That's impressive.

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Amla and Diabetes??  What about testing Whole Foods on Whole People?  They took people on diabetes and compared diabetes medication against just 3/4 teaspoon of  dried, powdered, Amla-which is about 2 berries-once a day.  Just 3/4 tsp. Amla worked better than the leading diabetes drug.  1/2 tsp. dried amla a day and 1/4 tsp a day still brought their blood sugars into the "normal" range (under 100).  Side effects of the drug??  Listen to the Video....or any drug commercial.  Side effects of gooseberries??  Um, nothing.  OH, except it cut their bad choesterol.

One Gooseberry a day cut their bad cholesterol in HALF in 3 weeks. Boosted good cholesterol.  And cut their triglycerides in half!

Price of gooseberries?? Go to any Indian Grocer, or Mountain Rose Herbs online.  $3.00 for a 3 month supply.  Dr. G reccomends curing your diabetes with a plant based diet.  But Amla sure looks like a good tool if you need extra help along the way.  Plus it's packed with antioxidants!

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Human Breast Cancer Cells vs. Amla.  Could Amla prevent the invasion of cancer into other places?  
Control group had 100% invasion.  Taxol, standard chemo drug, cuts invasion in half.  Very Tiny doses of Amla, almost as good as the chemo.  

Dried Indian Gooseberries 261.53 antioxidant content in 100g vs Blueberries 1.32.   Herbs and Spices can pack even more of a punch.
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Whole Wheat Spaghetti and Marinara with a few florets of broccoli.  142 antioxidant unit meal.  

Sprinkle one little spoonful of dried oregano on top to nearly double that meal and bring it up to 260!  

Replace that oregano with marjoram for 326.

Bowl of Oatmeal has 16.

 Oatmeal with 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon on top?? Brings it to 116.

1 tsp oregano=154

1 tsp cinnamon=200

Majoram=240

Allspice=261

Dried Lemon Balm=326

Dried Peppermint=418

Cloves=721

Dried Amla has 200 times the antioxidant of Blueberries!

Kabuli Chana, Chickpeas.

Once again, the amazing thing about this book is that Anupy uses dried beans.  If you are a macrobiotic fiend, then you will soak the beans first and reduce the cooking time a bit.  But for those of us whose soaked beans are often discovered the following week, moldy, after something smells funny in the kitchen.  Well, just throw the dried beans & ingredients in that pot and push the "Go" button.

Yep.  This is it. The magical superberry, Amla.  

This food just looks like medicine.  The colors and just packed with spices!  So many antioxidants that you will probably grow wings!

The recipes are pretty authentic, so careful with the peppers and the red chili pepper if you are easily wounded.  You can work up to it!

And Anupy uses course salt.  So don't go using the full amount of a finely ground salt or you are going to be very surprised.  I even the cut course salt down a bit as my hubby is a little sensitive to it.

Amla Chickpeas, finished.

This make 14 cups of chickpeas!

I end up adding just a little bit more water to this recipe to give it a bit more broth.  Just because hubby prefers the "wet" dishes.  At least for the legume based recipes.  The Amla is packed with Vitamin C also, which will help your bod absorb all that iron.

Verdict: I thought they were great.  They did have a dryer texture than the "Chana Masala" recipe.  Hubby liked, but he still prefers the wet dal makhani, urad dal, and rajmahs.  He just prefers broth.  I am a total chickpea fanatic and could eat them soupy or dry!  Hands down, this is a delicious dish!  And now when I make this dish, I just add extra water to create more of a broth for my man.......


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And of course, footage from the rescue group I work with sometimes.  Gateway Pet Guardians feeds the stray dogs and cats in East St. Louis (over the river from St. Louis) every single day of the year.  Pj has made it the same priority of her morning coffee and started doing this nearly 15 years ago.  Her endless devotion to these animals inspired several people to form the non-profit.  And now Pj has a crew (and her own documentary!) to help feed, fund raise, & rescue.  "Nevada" has since been rescued.  His collar got so embedded that he could not eat or drink and was constantly drooling.  Dr. Ed & Hillside Animal Hospital were able to take him in that day to surgically remove his collar.  He has to leave the vet and we are in dire need of a foster.  Apparently he is the most sweet & loving dog, even after that whole ordeal!  

The above video is part of footage from a day that we had a group of people.  We had just finished going through abandoned building and wooded areas looking for Dodie's puppy.  Nigel & Nigella are still on the street but probably "rescueable" if we have fosters.  Their "person" has moved and they are left behind.  Pj also takes residents dog food to feed their pets and helps out trying to encourage spaying and neutering of pets.  Often people don't want to spay and neuter but then get overwhelmed with the puppies and call Pj to take the puppies........

And the cats.  We see these cats every single day!!!! This is a "Blooper" because we didn't plan on getting a cat that day and we didn't end up with one either.  But Ms. J thought she wanted the little Mr. Tux kitty and Pj actually got him!! But......Turns out Ms. J can't take Mr. Tux anyhow, but if we have a foster we can rescue him with a cat trap next time!!

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