Food Shui is my way to work with you to create balanced energy and a mindful, happy relationship with real food. If you have a perfectly feng shui’d environment and eat junky or imbalanced foods, you are missing out on so much delicious, powerful joy. If you’ve dreamed of a life free of endless blah, frequent colds, insomnia, anxiety, mood swings, senseless pill-popping, physical stresses and sugar binging, Food-Shui opens the doors to sane, time-tested, natural answers! Greater creativity, focus, vitality and connection to the cycles and fruits of nature create a more enchanting life. Greater fortune in every area of life flows from a well-fed body, so without Food-Shui, your dream life design would be very incomplete.
From Traditional Chinese Medicine theory of yummy yin and yang foods and nutritional breakthroughs to amplify your energy to the good fortune activities of cooking and entertaining, your dream life needs nourishment. Food is essential to your life, and the energy of your food will affect your overall well-being. If you have a perfectly feng shui’d environment and eat junky or imbalanced foods, you are missing out on so much delicious, powerful joy. Get ready to find the answers, and the simple shifts that can improve your life force chi! xoxo Dana
Plums are a delight of Spring. Dark purple to golden yellow, their juicy, fleshy and somewhat uniquely sweet and tart flavor is unmatched in nature. Nothing quite tastes like a plum. I say that plums taste like sunshine! They are packed with fiber and loads of potassium, vitamin C, K… and sunshine! Continue Reading…
This really great little Smoothie How-To Chart from Super Skinny Me may inspire you to start drinking some breakfast! I saw a few really lovely ideas I’ve not run into before- adding herbs (basil, mint, lemongrass) or figs for flavoring…using beans as a thickener…. maybe some power berries like goji or mulberries for super food punch. A little inspiration to get into more nutritional variety, more energy, and more flavor! A little food & nutrition upgrade can shift your blahs almost instantly. Enjoy! xoxo Dana
I’m sure most of you have encountered the idea of a Spring fast or juice cleanse, swilling lots of liquids and juices for optimal health. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, however, its eating food- rather than the lack of food- that creates optimal energy, balance and good health. While I’m not a doctor, I can share my acupuncturists’ basic advice: eat seasonal food. In the Spring and Summer, a bit more raw food is typically recommended, yet the idea is a balance of raw and cooked, but all of the season.
Here are some of the freshest Spring into Summer foods that are cropping up, including advice, recipes and philosophy that I love. Hopefully you’ll be able to get to a local Farmer’s Market or local grocer soon to pick the freshest of the season! Continue Reading…
I’m a massive fan of coconut oil. Daily I cook with it, I mix handfuls of it morning and evening with extracts of raw cacao and aromatherapy as a luscious body moisturizer, and I use it as a makeup remover. I also use it for a ton of other things, and the list keeps growing. I don’t know who created the above list (if you do, please let me know!) but its awesomely clever, and a perfect way to kick off this week’s link love is full of massive cleverness on the coconut oil front. Continue Reading…
I can’t tell you if you should be gluten free or not. I can tell you that if I eat gluten you may be visiting me in the hospital. I can tell you I have friends who had massive skin disorders as a result of gluten intolerance gut-wrenching pain, and even a feeling of being “drunk” after accidentally eating a bit of gluten in food.
When I saw this awesome post from Gluten Dude I had to share it. Celiac disease was actually rare to non-existent in the 70′s, but as our food “morphed” (thanks to the genetic engineering that was implemented against the will of nature) our wheat became more full of gluten, our diets became more glamorously stuffed with processed foods, and more and more people got sick.
I’m simplifying. I’m not a doctor. But a gluten-free diet virtually saved my life when an autoimmune digestive disorder (a form of IBD) had me hospitalized for weeks. My diet is a bit more extreme- the Specific Carbohydrate Diet- and it has saved lives.
At least 10 people I know have recently been diagnosed with a form of IBD, IBS or gluten intolerance. Some are not diagnosed. Loads of Celiacs (who can not have gluten at all due to an autoimmune reaction to gluten proteins) do not know they have it because their symptoms are mild, and they seem like “something else.” But, untreated Celiacs have very big health issues. I am intolerant to gluten and other starches and do not have Celiac disease. Doctor’s tell me I can eat whatever I want. If I do (which I tried) I would live in a hospital bed. Its worth using a little common sense sometimes, because most digestive issues in my experience are somehow related to, caused by or cured by food. (Again, I’m not a doctor, just a very astute patient!)
Bottom line: I can’t tell you if you should be gluten free or not… but its worth looking at how well you feel, how good your digestion is and if you have unexplained and unresolved symptoms as mentioned above, it certainly can’t hurt most people to give gluten-free a shot. Even my friends who did not test “positive” for Celiac who went gluten-free had their symptoms resolve. Oh, yes, its worth mentioning for them, “gluten free” processed foods were not something they ate. I don’t eat processed/packaged foods either.
My personal theory: this is a product of our toxic, over-stimulated environment along with a food supply that’s been maxed out with gluten for ages. But that’s just my theory.
For a list of foods with gluten (many are surprising!) check THIS out! xoxo Dana
This weekend I have soooooo much to do- from home viewings to filming things to finishing that feng shui book I can’t seem to stop writing- and when I am really busy I cook. Seriously. I cook. Like crazy!
I cook to get through busy times because 1. I get near-immediate gratification, 2. When you are busy you NEED to eat more and 3. Cooking is an ultimate creativity-inducer. I might throw down a fun shake this weekend, but in the meantime, here are a load of links to stuff I LOVE to make and its all whole foods, all easy to obtain at a supermarket (coconut flour may be tough, but you can grind some in a food processor or powerful blender from the shredded varied ), all sugar free and unprocessed and all EXTREMELY awesome. If any of this food lasts past the weekend, I’ll have amazing breakfasts next week!!! Continue Reading…
(via Wonder How To)
I love love love to find new ways to use household goodies, and if you decided to quit sugar recently (as I had to 6 years ago) you might find this to be a useful guide to using up the sugar you have in your pantry.
A few other awesome uses for sugar? You can make a simple milk & brown sugar face masque (filled with lactic & glycolic acid to smooth skin (here is how). Also, my fave, super-simple DIY brown sugar beauty treats are right HERE if you’d like to start scrubbing with panache! xoxo Dana
In hectic times, a few minutes to whip up a substantial smoothie full of greens is the difference between a great day and an epic struggle. I choose great day!!!
This super-quick green smoothie is creamy and a perfect end-of-week, ripe fruit treat. Continue Reading…
May 20, 2013 • 0 comments