April/May 2011

In This Issue

Nutrition Tip – Try something new read more...
Featured Recipe – Market Salad read more...
Featured Article –  A Trip to the Famer’s Market read more...
Tools to Create a More Balanced Life – Two targeted home-study programs read more...
Get to Balance read more...
Looking for a Speaker? read more...
New at Seeds To Change Featured CD – Food Cravings read more...
Quote of the Month  - Be unreasonably happy   read more...

Nutrition Tip

Get out of your box – try something you’ve never had before.  How about a new veggie from the farmer’s market?  Or, how about eating a vegetarian meal one a week for a month?  Or, think of your own new experience.

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Featured Recipe

Market Salad   Serves 4

    - this is a great one to make after a visit to the a farmer market

Ingredients

• Zest and juice of 1 lemon
• 1 / 4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• Coarse salt and ground pepper
• 6 ounces red new potatoes, well-scrubbed and cut into 1 / 2-inch chunks
• 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1 small zucchini (about 6 ounces), thinly sliced lengthwise, then cut lengthwise into very thin strips, and then halved crosswise
• 1 small head of fennel (about 8 ounces), tops removed, thinly sliced crosswise
• 2 ounces radishes (about 4), ends trimmed, thinly sliced
• 2 scallions, thinly sliced
• 1 / 2 cup flat leaf parsley leaves
• 2 tablespoons capers, rinsed and dried

Directions

1. For the vinaigrette, combine the lemon zest and juice in a large bowl. Slowly add oil in a steady stream until incorporated; season generously with salt and pepper.
2. Place potatoes and garlic in a small pot of cold salted water. Bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to low, and simmer until potatoes are cooked through, but not falling apart, about 7 minutes. Drain well and add to the bowl with the vinaigrette. Toss well; cool to room temperature.
3. Add zucchini, fennel, radishes, scallions, parsley, and capers to bowl; toss well and serve immediately.

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Featured Article

A trip to the Farmer’s Market Near You  by Brenda Jaeck

We’re approaching that time of year when it is a GREAT idea to frequent your local farmer’s market.  Why?  Just some of the reasons are summarized below:

Fresh produce – what better place to find a plethora of fresh veggies – perhaps you’ll even find one you have not tried or cooked previously.

Know where your food comes from – straight from the source – what could be better than that?  Also to eat food that has not traveled across the globe is a good goal – it’s fresher and it uses a lot resources.

An adventure – it’s an event to go to a farmer market.  You never know who you’ll meet or what you’ll get to experience.

Outside fresh air – what a better way to connect with nature and the food you eat than at an outside venue.  You’ll breathe fresh air and take in a few rays instead of breathing recycled air and experiencng fluorescent lighting.

Support local farmers – independent farmers are becoming few and far between – what better way to show your support than to come out and chat with them and buy their wares.

Promote community where you live – you’ll interact with people of all types that live in your community.  Perhaps you’ll even meet your neighbors that you don’t know.

Getting out to a farmer market is a great experience in and of itself – AND you leave with a bunch of yummy (and healthy) produce.

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Tools to Create a More Balanced Life

Two targeted home study programs available --

Here is the ultimate at-home support for creating physical change! A vibrant collection of audios and workbooks take you on a step-by-step journey to success.

They are so thorough, it’s almost like I am in the room with you!  Since they are self-guided you can work at your own pace.

Available topics:

• Healthy Weight Loss                        An eight week program to help you get a

handle on your weight

For more information or to order visit: http://www.seedstochange.com/item.asp?id=83&cat=10

• Detoxifying Cleanse Program         This complete  program guides you through

a week-long internal cleanse at home.

For more information or to order visit: http://www.seedstochange.com/item.asp?id=86&cat=10

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Get to Balance –How will you bring more balance to your life?  How about a healthier, more balanced life plan?

Are your health concerns impeding you from living life fully? Do you want to change your relationship with food from the inside out? Are you seeking deep seeded balance and wellness?

I would eagerly welcome the opportunity to work with you on a personal level.  We can work together privately to create a customized life-long plan for you AND create the steps to incorporate those changes into your existing routines.

Through my counseling services I can help you create and maintain balance in your life by using nutrition as a focus and a tool.  To do this I look at your entire lifestyle to achieve maximum health.  This is accomplished through education and private consultations where an individualized program is developed for you.  These consultations include evaluating your current diet and overall lifestyle and then making easily implemented, gradual changes.  Additionally, you’ll receive outside information in the form of articles, books, tapes and recipes.  Also included are additional monthly forms of education and participation -- activities like cooking coaching, health food store shopping hints, light exercising functions and other activities. My practice is telephone based, allowing for maximum flexibility and ease.  

There is also an email version of my program now available. 

To learn more to go http://www.seedstochange.com/programs.asp.

To schedule an initial consultation contact me today at Brenda@SeedsToChange.com or (917) 213-9305. 

By starting today, you will; Create action NOW

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Looking for a speaker?

One of my greatest joys is speaking to groups.  It is always a dynamic exchange and we all come away enriched.  Would your company or group benefit from an entertaining, motivating speaker on how to get healthier?   If so, please let me know the name and contact information of your program coordinator so that I may send them an informational packet.  I would love the opportunity to serve your favorite group.

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New at Seeds To Change

NEW PODCAST POSTING – hear a rebroadcast of my radio show on Using Food Medicinally  We all use food medicinally but usually it’s after the fact.  We’ll look at ways to use food to support your lifestyle and other health concerns. Just click the “listen to my podcast button on my website: www.SeedsToChange.com

FEATURED CD  This month’s featured CD is—  Food Cravings – Why we have them.  What do they tell us?

Do you crave certain foods – find yourself going to great lengths to either find the food you crave or avoid the food you crave?

If so, join me and learn:

·  Why you crave the food you do

·  How to recognize the trigger points

·  How to “head them off”

·  What to do after you have indulged

To order: http://www.seedstochange.com/item.asp?id=95&cat=1

PERFECT FOR YOUR CAR LIBRARY OR A GIFT. Informative CD’s - You can lean about anything from Sugar to How to Eat Out Healthily in my new series of nutrition and lifestyle lectures on CD. Other topics include: Fasting and Cleansing, Eat for Balance and Energy, Healthy Weight Loss, Your Nutrition Questions Answered, Get out of Your Head: How To Stop the Chatter, and an Introduction to Meditation and five new titles: Sleep Issues, Water: How and Why to Drink More, Ten Top Tips for a Healthier You!, Constipation and Food Cravings. They are informative, interesting and even a little entertaining!  You can order them individually or join the CD of the month club.  To order go to http://www.seedstochange.com/category.asp?cat=1

GIFT CERTICIATES ARE AVAIABLE – Give the gift of health for any occasion.

NOW AVAILABLE --  CD OF THE MONTH CLUB  What a GREAT way to create change or to give the gift of health.  For details: http://www.seedstochange.com/item.asp?id=96&cat=1

WEBSITE: Check out my website.  It is chock-full information and resources. www.SeedsToChange.com

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Quote of the Month

“Be unreasonably happy”    Dan Millman in the Way of the Peaceful Warrior. 

Meaning if you are happy for no reason you can not be unhappy for any reason.  In summary, be happy every day – no mater what.  Why not???

Please forward this newsletter to anyone and everyone that would benefit from Nutritional and Lifestyle Advice. Enjoy and thanks for reading.

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Helping you grow a happy, healthy life