CSA in NYC
Let Your CSA Food Be Your Medicine
Presenter: Claudia Keel, Traditional Nutrition Guild
• What is a healthy diet? We are well fed but malnourished
• Weston Price – 1930’s doctor who saw traditional cultures without the same dental problems and diseases that modern cultures had. Teeth reflect bone structure – good way to evaluate your health.
Common qualities of foods in traditional cultures
• No refined/denatured food
• High food enzyme content – fermented raw food
• 10x more fat soluble vitamins (A&D)
• 4x more calcium
• Nearly equal amounts of Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids
• Total fat from traditional diet varies from 30-80% but only 4% comes from polyunsaturated fats
• Seeds, grains, legumes are soaked, sprouted, fermented, naturally leavened
• Animal foods were valued and sacred
• Made use of bones, usually in broth
• Mostly cooked, but some raw foods
Nutrient-Dense Healing Foods
• Kombucha, Kvass, sour grain drinks, kefir
• Sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, chutneys, beet relish
• Yogurt, miso, natto
-Discussed recipe to make Beet Kvass
Bone Broths
• Supplies calcium and other minerals
• Supplies nutrients that help build healthy cartilage
• Supplies amino acids that help body detoxify
• Supplies gelatin to help digestion
-Discussed bone broth recipe
Traditional Fats & Oils
• Essential for formation of hormones, function of brain, kidney, heart and lungs, growth, energy, among other benefits
• Butter, ghee, coconut and palm oils, olive oil (cold –pressed), marine oils, sesame and peanut oils (cold pressed), flax oil, lard, tallow and suet, chicken, goose and duck fat
Proper preparation of seed foods is necessary
• moisture, warmth, slight acidity and time – to make them more digestible
• Easy digestion is the solution to fatigue
Nutrient-dense healing foods
• Nettles, dandelion root, burdock root, chickweed
• Nettles good for allergies – make a pesto.
• Herbal vinegar – put greens or roots into jar, fill with vinegar and strain in 4-6 weeks
