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Nutritionist and international educator Sonia Gaemi offers women this step-by-step program of food solutions to support their hormonal systems. Readers will learn how food choices can increase metabolism, balance blood sugar and insulin, and cleanse the body of toxins. The program stresses food choices rich in antioxidants and phytohormones that can boost the immune system, reduce stress, and slow the effects of aging.

Most women, at some time in their lives, suffer from debilitating hormone-related physical or psychological symptoms . Clinical research suggests that diet and lifestyle changes effectively control these problems. This is a complete, step-by-step program of sensible and healthy eating advice designed especially for women.

From the first signs of puberty until well after the onset of menopause, women are acutely aware of the role hormones play in their lives. Most women suffer, at sometime in their lives, from some debilitating physical or psychological symptoms directly related to hormone imbalance. The most effective courses of treatment for these problems, further research indicates, start with changes in diet and lifestyle. The typical western diet (high in processed foods, rich with animal fats, and lacking important plant-derived chemicals called phytohormones) might fail to provide women with the support they need for healthy hormonal function.

This book, written by an educator and nutritionist with considerable experience studying the food habits of many cultures, offers you a complete, easy-to-follow program for making eating choices that can lead to better health through hormonal balance. Based on an insightful new approach to eating called the food wisdom pyramid, this program describes how the flavors and colors of foods indicate the presence of certain phytohormones that may help balance and regulate one of the body''s most complicated systems. Drawing on memories from her world travels, cases from her private practice, and her own life experience, the author gives practical advice on how to use your own senses to know what foods your body needs. The program includes a section of delicious recipes, along with tips for shopping, meal planning, and eating well while traveling.

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New Harbinger Publications

Date de parution

01 janvier 0001

EAN13

9781626250277

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English

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1 Mo

Women's health

Eating Wisely for Hormonal Balance

Sonia Gaemi, Ed.D., RD

New Har binger Publicat ions

Dedication Eating wisely starts in mothers’ wombs. World healing starts with selfhealing. To my grandchildren, Sophia, Koosha, Leila, Kian, Sasha, Denna, and all the other seeds of our future planet. To my energy healing Chinese medicine qigong masters, colleagues, and to my contributing teachers: my students and my friends. This book also is dedicated to all women who have bridged Eastern wisdom and Western science to achieve hormonal balance. When women’s wisdom is heard, the world will be healed.

Publisher’s Note This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, finan  cial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books.

Cover design by Amy Shoup Interior images by PhotoDisc, Brand X Pictures, and Stockbyte Cover photo by Morgan Karami

New Harbinger Publications’ Web site address: www. newharbinger.com

Contents F

Acknowledgments

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Preface ix Food for Hormonal HealingEfrom the Past Learning E The Wisdom of StoriesEBackground My EThings to Remember Four

Introduction to Food Wisdom 1 Eat for Health and PleasureERevolution in Health Is A NeededE Wise Eating for a Balanced LifeE Who Else Can Benefit from This BookEResearch Scientific Eand Acidity Alkalinity E The Food Wisdom PyramidEYour Health with the Pyramid Balance EPyramid Ways The E The Food Wisdom ModelE Food Wisdom Goals

chapter 1 How Your Hormones Work 15 Food and Your HormonesERole of Estrogen and Progesterone The EPersonal Health Concerns Your E Women’s Need for Balanced HormonesE Hormonal Eating Is a Lifelong ProcessE Eating Wisely for Hormonal BalanceEAcids and Saturated Fat TransFatty E Food Wisdom for MenopauseEHearts for Women Healthy E Lowering Blood Pressure with Heart Friendly FoodsE Foods for Strong BonesEEast and West for Body, Mind, and Spirit Integrating

chapter 2 Food Wisdom for Life 41 Making the Kitchen the Center of Busy LivesEa Food Keeping DiaryE Recording MethodsE You Can Diagnose ProblemsERealize Your Food Wisdom GoalsEKitchen: The Heart of Your Your Home.EWisdom Planning Goals Food E A Wise Shopping List

chapter 3 The Cleansing Way for Energy and Health 60 Spring for Your Body and MindE The Cleansing WayE Spiced Leafy Greens, Sprouts, and FruitsE Shopping and Preparing for CleansingEa Blender Consider E The Cleansing PlansE Food SensitivitiesE A Few Favorites

chapter 4 The Morning Way 77 The First Food of the DayEBreakfast for Healthy Digestion Fiber and Daylong EnergyEColorful Rainbow of Phytochemicals A EProtein for Bright Mornings and Alert Days Plant E Variety through GrainsE Root VegetablesEYour Morning Way Plan Putting into Action

chapter 5 Tea, Oxygen, and Movement 94 Tea: Bridging East and WestEWisdom about Every Breath Cultural You TakeEthrough Your Life for Fitness and Fun Move

chapter 6 Snacking Your Way to Good Health 111 Wise SnackingEto Snack on Healthy Food Learn E The American Way of SnackingE The Positive Value of SnackingESnacking to Satisfy Your Basic UrgesELow Glycemic Foods for Eat Steady EnergyE Mother Nature’s Bountiful Plant FoodsEIndulge Your Senses with Healthy ChoicesEFoods and Snack FatE Salt: How Much Is Too Much?E Setting Goals

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chapter 7 Healthy Weight and Healthy Hormones 126 Healthy WeightEthe Food You Eat Use E Weight Gain during MidlifeE Underweight or Overweight: Both Are ProblemsE The Role of the Food IndustryEYou Look at It How EControl Taking of Your WeightE The Glycemic Index and Weight ControlE Insulin Resistance and ChromiumEand Serotonin, the Mood Insulin HormonesE Foods That Help Manage DiabetesE Calcium and WeightEfor Maintaining a Healthy Weight Tips E Your Thyroid Gland’s Power over Weight, Life, and DeathEWisdom for a Food Healthy Weight

chapter 8 Preventing and Relieving Major Symptoms of147 Hormonal Imbalances Food Wisdom PrescriptionsE Allergies or Food SensitivitiesE Anemia and FatigueEor Osteoarthritis Arthritis E Constipation and IrregularityE DiabetesE DiarrheaEProblems Gastrointestinal E Premenstrual SyndromeE Headaches and MigrainesE Cancer Recovery and SupportELoss Hair E Heart ProblemsE High Blood PressureE Complications from HysterectomyE Hot Flashes or SweatingE InsomniaEAssociated with Menopause Symptoms E Osteoporosis

chapter 9 The Joy of Herbs and Spices Spices and Herbs, Blended into Your LifeE Relearning the Wisdom of Herbs and SpicesEand Herb Tips Spice E The Art of Flavoring with Herbs and Spices

chapter 10 Recipes for Balanced Hormones The BasicsE Morning Way RecipesEand Greens Salads ESoupsE FishE SnacksEThings Sweet

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v Contents

Acknowledgments F

Thank you to the 5,000 women around the world who shared their food and energy healing wisdom with me and helped me give birth to this book. They taught me ancient wisdom from the Persian Empire to the Silk & Spices Road, from China’s wall to Chinese traditional medicinal Qi Gong, and shared Rumi’s healing with love. Mary Rudge, Jean Shinoda Bolen, professor Hui Liu, Grandmaster Yang Moi Jun, Dr. JunAnn Clark, and Dr. Sheldon Margen support me in my efforts to bring to the women of the globe the leadership lesson of the wild geese, to open our wings to the world and to look at the earth as a child to be nurtured and as a mother to nurture. From the mothers’ wombs, to men and women all over the planet, we bring the seeds of wise eating. Brazilian revolutionary, philosopher, and educator Paolo Freire showed us that the foundation of education is to teach people to teach themselves.Eating Wisely for Hormonal Balanceis based on the idea that the way to selfhealing and world healing begins with women’s wisdom and leadership. The wisdom of my teachers, colleagues, and friends will live on in my work on the first women’s satellite TV show in the world, in the healing centers I help to set up all over the world, and in my work with the Institute of Women’s Cultural Wisdom (WCW).

I must also thank Dr. Sheldon Margen and Dale Ogar, Dr. Erlene Chiang, Susan J. Zipp, Ann Coulston, Dr. Anansa Taharka, Lynn Twist, Master Sha, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Leanne Backer, Foojan Zieni, Shirley Dean, Tom Bates, Karola Saekel, Dr. Sadja Greenwood, Dana and Peter Christy, Sharzad Ardelan, Helen Yee, Lida Kompanian, Arjang Zendehdel, Dr. Noman Narchi, Parnian Kaboli, Judy Timmel, Donna Sofaer, Reb Anderson, Mel Sujan, Christy Kimbra, Dr. Beverly Rubik, Dr. Effie Chow, Dr. Katherin Smith, Dr. Kristin Van De Carr, Dr. Doddy Messersmith, Dr. Ronda Tycer, Dr. Kenneth Fan, Justin Toal, Andrea Nasser and Sholeh Hamedani, Diane Valentine, Dr. Marti Lee Kenneday, Tomoko Lipp, Joyce Gerter, and Virginia Mejia, Heather Hutcheson, Connie Chan Robinson, Christine Shuk Yin Yu, Rachel Kranz, Parman Kublie, Anita and Al Rosso, Helen Yee, David and Solie Hashemi, Wes Nicker, Dr. Mary Lee, Diane Littlefield of Women’s Health Leadership, Carol Hansen Grey, Gathering The Women, United Nation USA/Berkeley and Mytherapynet.com. Thank you to my husband, Ghassem, my son Nasser and his wife Mindy, my daughter Katosha and her husband Afshin, and to my grandchildren. My editor, Melissa Kirk, acted as my soul, patiently and quietly honoring my passion to give birth to this book. Without everyone at New Harbinger Publications who worked so hard on this project, I couldn’t have opened my wings and brought this book to the planet. To everyone else who has inspired me with their love, wisdom, and strength, you are all in my heart.

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Preface F

I have always loved food. I have made my home in different regions of the world, and everywhere I have lived or visited I have fallen in love with the flavors, spices, and aromas of new foods, with their color, beauty, and textures, and with their luscious abundance of tastes. As a young girl, I asked my mother and grandmother their secrets— what they put in the dishes they served to their friends, the foods that people raved over and couldn’t get enough of. My father, too, loved the art of cooking and sharing food, and people considered him a great chef. I was often with him in our herb garden and the kitchen, watching and learning. My grandparents and parents emigrated from Russia to the Middle East and Iran, where I was born. My parents believed in celebrating with food and sharing ideas about the power of healing with food; in my fam ily, eating was the most pleasant of pastimes. True, food was a necessity, but we were also excited about food. Throughout my life, I have relished meals shared with friends and family and have enjoyed experimenting with food preparation. I have watched women of various cultures as they ate, fed young children, and let young people learn with them. Instinctively and from centuries of

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