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Eating Like a Stuffed Turkey

Overeating this Thanksgiving can have a high price.
It's time to rediscover what the Natives knew.
We have so much to be thankful for when we have authentic intimate
relationships with our food and those who are working so hard to grow it for us.

Date: 11/21/2007 10:47:22 AM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 1814 times

8:07 AM
November 21, 07

Turkey at the City Farmers Nursery,
San Diego. I am sure he wouldn't mind a visit.
4832 Home Ave. San Diego, CA 92105
Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm PST
(619) 284-6358
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There was a wonderful article on the front page of the San Diego Union
yesterday that I saw while I was watching more than one person
in Whole Foods Market Hillcrest San Diego
running around like a Turkey without a head.
The Team who worked in the store were doing their best to keep up.

This is the Season for family and friends to gather.

I saw a lot of exhaustion
on the faces of the shoppers, long lines, and not too much eye contact.

I interacted with a few. I wanted to be respectful.
I did not want to turn the Oven on to High and further contribute
to Burn Out.

The idea of reaching out and sharing with fellow shoppers
is not politically correct, or part of the normal shopping experience.
It is not every day thinking to imagine that we are part of
the Global Village or feel that we can make a new friend while
we are standing in line, but not waiting.

The News often feeds the distance we feel between each other.
We can feel wary of people we do not know, and wonder what they want from us.
We still may be under the influence of 911, and looking over our shoulder.
We wonder who we can trust.

I like what friend Amélie in Canada was sharing in an email. She tells me the origins
of Thanksgiving came out of a loving relationship between the good willed
indigenous people of this land. The Natives extended themselves to the
Foreigners. They welcomed these Pilgrims when they needed a hand up.
The natives wanted to be blood brothers. They knew we all belonged to Mother Earth.

Things have been getting worse since.

We have achieved an incredible distinction--many of us--where we are in a state
of divorce from the Mother that cares for our needs.
Mother Earth gives us all we need to not only "Survive This Day" but thrive.

Have you heard of Luigi Canero, who lived to a ripe old age of 102
because he ate less? His "Discourses on the Sober Life" written hundreds
of years ago, is a classic.

"Like the majority of young gallants of his day,
he lived a reckless and dissipated life;
the result was that he completely broke down at the age of forty,
and was given up by his physicians to die." says one web article.

The secret to moderate eating is having loving relationships
around us, and a contented life that we value more than
a second piece of pie.

Many of us do not have our family or friend needs met today.
Most of us medicate with food this time of year to avoid the pain.

If Thanksgiving was in July, I personally could binge with less toxic effects,
but my meridians go south for the Winter. I know I cannot digest
when I stuff myself like a turkey. Add some sugar to my second
round of food and my digestion feels like I am shooting myself
with arrows.

Here is my recipe for going beyond being a Stuffed Turkey:

I strive to be intimate with the person growing my food. I garden,
even if this means caring for just a few containers with sprouts or growing
beet greens. I highly recommend just sticking a full grown beet
in a pot, and getting in the practice of tending it.
I call this having a Mini Portable Enchanted Garden.

Gardening, even one plant in a container pot, can sensitive you
to the food you eat, and get you back into the cycle of life.
Growing a Mini Portable Enchanted Garden will help you
get over the idea that you cannot grow foods for yourself!
It is empowering. Many of us overeat, because we imagine
we are going to run out of food. We stuff without thinking.
We want to fill up.

{ Listen to the brief Closing Ceremony from the recent
Pacific Symposium for more on growing your Own Mini Portable
Enchanted Garden:

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1041566
]

You too may find the Plant Parenthood is good for the digestion.

Another thing I do:

I go out of my way to know the Farmers growing the rest of my food.
I shop where I can see the faces of all
the "Joe the Farmers" who are up each day at dawn to feed me.
I like Whole Foods Market for this reason. You can see the eyes
of Joe Rodriques Jr. Now in the produce section, as well as some
of my other favorite local organic farmers.

I also shop the Farmers' Market. Going there is a Religious
as well as social experience. I support the idea of everyone
belonging to a CSA--Community Supported Agriculture.
Many local farmers are now organizing CSA's. They need
our support. My other favorite shoppng experience is of course,
Ocean Beach People's Food Store. I always stop in there
after my dentist apporintments in OB. OB People's Food is one of my
favorite places to binge! I love their puddings and sandwiches.

If you have no local farmer within 100 miles,
become a City Farmer. Grow something. Learn to feed your neighbors
before the day comes we will realize we are all being called to
go native.

We are all natural seed growers by nature.
Expand! Remember how to grow other kinds of seeds
beside the ones in your own body!

This year I want to accept the challenge
to eat less so I wake up the the day after these holidays
without feeling I ate like a turkey.

I hope these ideas give you food for thought.

Leslie Goldman
& Your Enchanted Gardener

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Message Supported by the New Expanding Enchanted Garden Club Growers Network
To reestablish your Membership with the Corporation that is #1 on the Fortune
500--Mother Earth--go here:

http://www.lesliegoldman.com/id28.htm

Please review "Rebirth Mother Earth: Simple Things I Can Do"
on the Plant Your Dream Blog.

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1033075

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Quote from
"Discourses on the Sober Life"

http://www.wrf.org/men-women-medicine/louis-cornaro-discourse-sober-life.php

“…I accustomed myself to the habit of never fully satisfying my appetite, either with eating or drinking - always leaving the table when able to take more. In this I acted according to the Proverb: Not to satiate one’s self with food is the science of health.” _-Luigi Cornaro "Discourses on the Sober Life."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071120/news_1n20meal.html

"Every bite of food, whether it's part of a huge Thanksgiving meal or a weekday lunch, travels on a fantastic journey through the body, touching off a simultaneous release of hormones, chemicals and digestive fluids. The average meal takes one to three hours to leave the stomach. But a large meal can take eight to 12 hours, depending on the quantity and fat content.
The average American consumes about 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat throughout Thanksgiving Day, according to the Calorie Control Council, which represents makers of low-calorie foods. “It's like a tsunami of fat coming into the body,” said Pamela Peeke, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Origins of Thanksgiving:

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1046866

City Farmers Nursery, home of Clyde, the Horse,
and the Turkey featured above, has
thousands of new plant friends waiting to teach
you how to once again live in harmony with Mom:

http://cityfarmersnursery.com/AboutUs.htm