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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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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Vegan Soapbox:  Another one Anupy's examples that you can make some of the healthiest food on the planet for pennies.  Just yesterday a friend was exclaiming to me that she had no inclination to eat healthier nor feed her family any sort of "natural" food.  That maybe in "big" metropolitan cities these foods are available, but in "normal" mid-western towns, natural foods just aren't "around".   I was thinking, hmmm.......Rice and Beans are everywhere!!  And for far less cost than people are paying for their "Fruit Loops" or "Healthy Brand Name Cereals".  One of the most important things that  you can do for your kids is to teach them how to eat in a mindful, healthy way.  If cost is an issue, then minimize packaged foods.  Dried Rice and Beans are very inexpensive, even when you buy organic.  This is the way that most of the planet eats so there is not reason in the world that in the richest (or almost)  country in the world, that people with transportation or the internet, cannot eat healthy on a budget.  Fresh veggies are also inexpensive if you are not buying bags of tortilla chips.  The wealth in our country has completely impoverished us spiritually and nutritionally.  While I do not advocate poverty in the least, we have swung so far the other direction that we have lost sight of being human.  A terribly non comical tragedy.  In general we do not recognize that even with the recession, that our overabundance is actually robbing others out of food and water.  We won't recognize this until we are the ones that are thirsty.  While I would never want to hand in my US passport because I embrace the freedom that it gives me, it was also my return to the States that made me shudder from the "Born in the USA" syndrome.  It seems like nothing is ever "realized" until it is our children who are starving.  Our children who cannot get clean water.  My hope is that parents consider that trying to be "green" isn't some elitist trend, but a hope (and action) that there will be sufficient resources for the generations to come.  


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Marvelous Mustard Greens with Spinach (Sarson ka Saag) from Anupy Singla's "The Indian Slow Cooker" book. Snatch up one of Anupy's New Stainless Spice Tiffins!

"The Indian Slow Cooker" book by Anupy Singla

Seriously, A Masterpiece!!

Vegans, don't overlook this book just because it's in the "Crockpot" or "Indian Section".  This is the Holy Grail of Vegan Indian............
The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes

Yesterday we went to our favorite Indian place in town, Gokul's. We would probably go there more, but they are a little far from us.  Apparently a location in the loop is opening very soon.  Gokul's is all vegetarian and they have vegan night the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month. So the kormas are made with coconut milk, the rice pudding with soy milk, and the paneer with tofu. While we love vegan night, I have developed a certain affinity for dosas. And these are served in the daytime on weekends. The super-chat bar and dosas command a dollar or two extra for the buffet. I usually have to compete against some Indian man to ensure I get a few, but it's worth it! Its harder for them to keep the dosa tray full since they have to be individually made. They aren't the huge, main entree type of dosas but more of a small serving dosa. There is always one Indian man that is finished eating everything else on the buffet (not the same one each time), and me, who has already downed 2 pounds of beans ( I don't eat white rice so I binge on the dals and chana masala) who are anxiously awaiting a freshly made batch of dosas. Well, yesterday I didn't have to completely gorge myself because Indian food is no longer a scarcity in our home since I discovered "The Indian Slow Cooker",  a modern day miracle,  by Anupy Singla.  While I haven't been making dosas, I have been making just about everything else that I normally eat on the "Vegan Mondays".  After lunch we went to stock up on ingredients at the Indian grocery next door called "Seema" Enterprises".

"Seema" Indian Grocery next to Gokul's
Page Ave., St. Louis, MO.

Well this gal Anupy Singla has spent a LOT of time figuring out how to make traditional Indian dishes in the slow cooker. What is great about the slow cooker, in comparison to the pressure cooker, is that the beans will hold their form a lot better. Apparently the crock pot emulates how traditional Indian food would be cooked, by simmering on a flame for hours while needing consistent attention. We had received a slow cooker a few years back from my husband's mom and simply never opened the box. It wasn't really something I identified with since I was using the pressure cooker nearly every day to cook dried beans for the dogs and the husband. But then I needed to order a part for my the lid, and I decided to drag the slow cooker up from the basement. Problem was that everything on the Internet seemed to be focused on super American food, which really turned me off. I am imagining 1950's housewife cuisine and as a whole foods, raging vegan kind of gal who voted for Dennis Kucinich, I was just not identifying with pot roasts and carnivorous roasts at all. I don't even remember how it happened, but I just stumbled on this book and immediately ordered it, from Amazon. Apparently the wait time on Amazon was so great since they had run out of copies, that I went to the Anupy Singla's blog site and ordered one from her, signed! Indian food, slow cooker, that was something with which I could identify.  

So many to choose from!

Papads and MORE legumes at Seema.

At Seema, we loaded up on the spices we didn't already have such as black cardamom, amla (dried Indian gooseberries) and fresh curry leaves. They don't carry fresh curry leaves at Jay's International, which is a bummer because I don't think there is place right in the city that sells them. They were in little plastic bags and were unmarked. So unless you are familiar with what curry leaves look like, you might need to ask to ensure that you aren't picking up some other fresh leaves. At Seema they were in the small refrigerator across from the produce and cost 99 cents a small bag. It took me a bit to figure out "amla" because I didn't know where it would be located. She calls for unsalted, but I could only find 2 varieties dried (we bought some fresh frozen ones). One had amla and salt and the other had amla, sugar and other nasties. So I opted for the one with salt. The man working there seemed to think I wouldn't use this type to cook but that people eat them after meals. At this point I just went with my gut and trusted Anupy's "dried amla" instruction and thought maybe the man working at the counter didn't actually cook? The other questionable item was the "nigella" seeds. Well, he didn't know what those were either, but I actually took the book inside with me and found the other name "kolanji" and then it was apparent to him what I wanted. But those things were just minor learning curves.

Beans......

Some boxed spices, premixed, such as "Chana Masala".
CAREFUL! of which ingredient salt is listed as.  Many have salt as the second ingredient.

Things I didn't already have included the black cardamom, green cardamom pods, curry leaves, amla, black salt, black mustard seeds, yellow mustard seeds, parsley seeds,  white poppy seeds, tamarind paste and the whole dried red chilies (I chose an Indian variety).  Other "basics" are garam masala, cumin, red chili, and tumeric (haldi).  I buy whatever I can organic at Mountain Rose Herbs.  They do carry garam masala, cardamoms, mustard seeds, tumeric, cumin, etc.....I will try to make a list of all the Indian spices you can buy from them.  They are great because they are very inexpensive and nearly everything they carry is organic and fair trade.  A little company in Oregon that carries spices, soaps, green and black teas, powdered seaweeds, tea supplies and essential oils.  

The elusive "Kallonji", a.k.a. "Nigella" seeds.

  

                                                      

More Chanas!

I am also fortunate enough to have parents that are part of a food coop. So I had them order me some flax seeds in bulk and about 25 pounds of organic brown basmati rice, grown in the states. The price was just barely over $1.00 a pound. And that prompted me to finally replace our rice cooker since the lid had broken. I ended up getting the Miracle ( same brand as our manual wheat grass juicer) which has a stainless steel interior and also a stainless steaming basket. It is a simple cooker, but that's what I wanted. I didn't want non-stick anything. Just basic and no toxins.  It has been GREAT! And I figured out good rice ratios. So I am now putting 3 cups brown basmati to 4.5 cups of water and that seems perfect. I have been really happy with it so far!

My new "Miracle" Rice Cooker.
Stainless Steel interior and veggie basket.
No teflon or non-stick finish for me, Thank you.

Some new spices......

The beans, lentils, legumes, etc......are also a cinch to find. I bought all the ones I could from Whole Foods as I could get them organic. So the organic ones would be whole green mung, black eyed peas, whole white chickpeas, the small red lentils, and red kidney beans. I don't think any of them are more than 2.00 a pound. The other beans are available at international store or online. They are very inexpensive, especially if you buy in bulk. The beans there might include, black lentils (matpe beans, not the lentils that look black at Whole Foods), split black lentils (urad dal), kala chana ( black chickpeas which are smaller than white chickpeas and never get as soft but packed with protein), and chana dal.  The really cool thing is that she always uses dried beans, UNSOAKED.  Yep.  This is awesome because dried beans are so cheap AND they don't have the BPA's that canned beans do.  Eden brand is the only one I am aware of that carried BPA free cans, and those are about 1.99 a can.  I buy those if I must, but it actually states to use the dried types for the slow cooker.  That way they absorb the water and you can make food for your entire family for a couple of bucks, if that.  The beans at the international places cost far less than 2.00 a pound and if you buy them in bulk it is even less.  We are talking about eating some of the healthiest food available on the cheap.  Not only healthy, but delicious.  And if you eat like this on a regular basis, it is my opinion that you may be able to reduce the risk for America's greatest killers like diabetes and heart disease.  Low fat, lots of fiber, and if you do them vegan style, ZERO cholesterol.  Fiber fills you up so it is hard to get obese eating beans.  Trust me, I have tried.  I have a major bean addiction and that is the thing I crave whenever I am doing "raw foods".  Beans.  I crave beans and then I eat so many of them that I think I may burst!  My point is that it takes a lot of beans to create the same caloric load that say, donuts would, and they make it difficult to eat a whole lot more!

Aren't they pretty?
Beans from Jay's International and Seema Markets.
I couldn't find these types organic yet.

Thankfully she has a section in the book explaining different names for these things and also some photos. The only confusing part is that she calls a lot of beans "lentils" which is probably the "norm" for Indian cuisine. However, I grew up with lentils being specific types of beans so it is just kind of different that what I was used to. But I was happy to learn and understand that in India they probably don't classify the beans exactly the same as we do. It is useful information to be armed with when you go shopping. As I wasn't 100 percent sure that whole green moong dal were "mung" beans, the type that are often sprouted. Since they were also referred to as "lentils" I thought perhaps that it was one of the types of green lentils at Whole Foods.  I have made about 8 dishes from this book so far, some multiple times.  In the next posts I will let you know how they turned out!!  I can tell you this though; since we received this book I believe that the slow cooker has been used every single day.  And often overnight as well.  It's pretty cool that if you awaken for a moment or two at night, that the smell of curry is wafting through your house.  And nothing better than waking up early in the morning to a finished Indian dish.  Coffee and Black Chickpea Curry for my husband and Yerba Mate and the same for me.  It is a small miracle!

Do any of you have this book yet??  Curious as to what you guys think.  Do you make vegan dishes in your slow cookers?  What are your favorite vegan friendly Indian Cookbooks?