Nutrition Counseling, NYC, Weight Loss Diet

Healthy Green Raw Salad

Enjoy this tasty salad as a complete meal or with avocado, or with one of the following such as fish, meat, seafood, poultry, or feta (sheep) cheese.

Chop the following fresh raw vegetables and mix them together:

• Romaine lettuce raw – ¼lb. or 3-4 large leaves
• Red leaf lettuce raw – ¼lb. or 3-4 large leaves
• Kirby cucumber – 1, medium, thinly sliced
• Tomato – 1, medium, sliced or cubed
• Celery – 1 stalk
• Sesame seeds, raw fresh – 1 tbsp. (grind seeds in a coffee grinder).
• Almonds (instead of sesames), raw, without skin – 1-2 tbsp. (grind into a paste in a coffee grinder).
• Olives – 4, remove the pit before chopping.
• Garlic – ¼ of a clove (if desired).
• Basil – 1-3 leaves.
• Parsley herb – chopped herb – 1 tbsp. (plus dill 1 tsp. if desired).
• Leek and/or scallions, and/or sweet onions raw chopped – 1 tbsp. total.
• Olive oil, cold pressed, extra virgin, raw – 1-2 tbsp.; or almond oil; or flaxseed oil – 1tsp. + olive oil – 1 tsp.
• Sea salt (to your taste, add just before eating).
• Fresh lemon juice – 1 tsp. (to your taste).

Eggplant & Pepper

It’s a delicious paste to use as a dip or eat with raw green salads and/or any other dishes (except of fruit).

Mix the following when it’s cold, using a food processor, then refrigerate it in a jar. (Do not store paste in a plastic box.)

• Eggplant – ½ lb; raw, sliced, pouch for 2-3 min. in a thick pan under a cover, with 2 tbsp. of water.
• Red or orange sweet peppers – 1lb., raw, sliced, pouch for 2-3 min., placed with the skin down (in a separate pan, or after removing the eggplants).
• Carrot – 1 and celery stalk – 1, sliced, stir-fry for 1 min with refined olive oil – 1 tsp. under a cover on a medium heat.
• Sea salt (to your taste).
• Fresh lemon juice – 1 tsp. (to your taste).
• Olive oil, cold pressed, extra virgin, raw – 1-2 tbsp.
• Fresh paprika – ¼ of tsp.
• Cayenne or any red hot pepper – a dash.
• Sesame seeds, raw fresh – 1 tbsp. (grind seeds in a coffee grinder).
• Garlic – ¼ of a clove (if desired).
• Any fresh raw chopped herb (not wet) – 1 tsp. (dill or parsley if desired).
• Leek and/or scallions, and/or sweet onions raw chopped – 1 tbsp. total.

Note: If diabetes, exclude the carrot and use less peppers.

“Non-GMO” Food Label

In all of the European Union countries, Japan, Australia, China, New Zealand, and many other countries it is mandatory to label foods that contain genetically modified ingredients – it’s not in the U.S.

However, there is a way to find out whether the fruit is a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) – the sticker.

• A four-digit number is on any conventionally grown fruit or vegetable (with pesticides), like 4011 on bananas.
• A five-digit number beginning with 9 means it’s organic.
• A five-digit number beginning with 8 means it’s genetically modified.

Be aware that no one uses that “8” yet. And why would they if most Americans express they would avoid buying those labeled GMO? Who would like to end up with the organ damage the GMO- fed lab animals had?

To avoid GMO food,

• Buy certified organic products.
• Look for a “Non-GMO” label on a product. Examples are: soy milk, tofu, corn cereals, or HFCS in soda, ice creams, cookies, and other processed foods.
• Avoid products that contain Corn, Soybeans, Canola, Cottonseeds, some Zucchini, Yellow Squash, and Hawaiian Papaya.

A list on shopping wisely is at www.NonGMOShoppingGuide.com

Nutritious Cream for Skin

Blend the following smoothly into a cream and apply it on your clean face and neck, except of the area under your eyes for 20 min:

• Avocado – ripe, ¼ or 1/3 mashed
• Cucumber – ¼ of small grated (soil grown)
• Brown rice flour or bran – ½ tsp.
• Powdered vit. C on a tip of a small knife – about 20-30 mg.
• Beta carotene (vit. A) from 1 capsule (start with ½ of a carotene capsule to see if it’s not too dark orange)

In 20 min, wash the cream off your face gently with a piece of cotton ball soaked in a warm chamomile tea made of filtered water, which you steep for 5-10 min in advance.

Apply small movements with your fingers while washing in a direction from your chin or your mouth up diagonally toward your cheekbones. Let your skin dry itself.

If you put aside a little bit of the same cream, but without vit. C and the brown rice flour, you can apply it under your eyes area.

This cream cleanses your face, feeds it, refreshes, softens, moisturizes, and brings a healthy glow to it. It’s good for teens, boys and girls, and men and women.  It calms you mind as well – so enjoy it!