טליה לוין - לאיזון באוכל ובחיים - מזון למחשבה
December of Miracles

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it
Mother Teresa

Link to the Dec 2009 Newsletter

Highlights of this Newsletter:

Together with my good friend and natural healer Vishva (yes, despite his name, he is Israeli), we have just finished leading a 3-week detox program. We were a group of 17 courageous people who decided to take control of our health (both our mothers joined the program!).
For 9 days I was mostly on lemon water with maple syrup …

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Monthly Focus: Synchronisty
Being at the right place at the right time
“a miracle”

Do you ever have those OMG moments? Like when you dial a friend and they text you at the exact same moment?

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My Healthy tip for Chanukah

Consider this: Instead of eating a sufganiya, you can choose a different round option: a dried fig, an apple, an orange, a persimmon… pay attention to how you feel when finishing it, compared to how others feel after eating a sufganiya. It’s an interesting experiment …
If you do choose to eat a sufganiya, give it all your attention, sit down, smell it, look at it, chew it slowly, enjoy it, no guilt allowed.

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Cooking Focus: Baking

The Jewish holiday Chanukah which falls this year in mid-December is a Festival of Lights and you might say of Oils too. There is a lot of deep frying and eating very oily foods: Sufganiyot (deep fried dough filled with jam) and Latkes (fried potato patties).
I am not at all against oil, but certainly am not for unhealthy, toxic, hydrogenated oils (soy, corn, canola, sunflower…)

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Recipe of The Month:
Healthy Baked Sweet Potato Latkes


Going healthy certainly doesn’t mean depriving yourself of the foods you love but rather making a better choice, choosing a healthier option.


Have a very bright, synchronistic
and mildly oily Chanukah
(olive, coconut or baked)