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NAKED Skin Care, Natural Skin Care That Is
I used to make my own shampoo, conditioner, lotions, face creams, blah, blah, blah. I still do make my own face stuff but really, how much time do I have? Homemade gluten free bread, homemade veggie slaws, 100 % homemade meals from local foods, and fermenting my own veggies. There IS only one of me!
I have had psoriasis for 15 years, just after the birth of my eldest son. Hmmm, coincidence? Anyhow, I have pretty much kept it to a very mild issue with diet, sunshine, yoga, and natural lifestyle choices. Gluten free is a huge help!
Then, along comes Eli, Son #2. He developed psoriasis at 8 years of age. It's a gut and whole body health issue but no time to write a book to explain all that in detail. Try to get an 8 year old to leave gluten alone. (Someday he will wish he listened to me...gluten intolerance, if continually irritated with gluten can become full blown celiac disease. It's just like pre-diabetics and diet or orally "controlled" diabetics who continue to indulge in sugar... just wait, they can develop full blown, insulin diabetes from the continual irritation of sugar in their systems.)
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OK, so I digressed a bit, forgive me. I was looking for natural skin care for psoriasis to help my son. His is much worse than mine, but, may I add, completely disappears when he leaves gluten out of his diet. So, anyhow, I found these products. I know apple cider vinegar is good for the gut and good for the skin. Keeps the microbes healthy and in check. But I did not want to make the products myself. Again, how much can I do everyday?
LOVE this company's stuff: http://www.justnaturalskincare.com/Psoriasis/ALL-skin-psoriasis-products.html
Bottom Line: Psoriasis Advice
1. 100% Whole food diet... am I a broken record about this or what?!
2. Gluten free, no refined sugar.
3. Naked sun: as naked as you are comfortable being outside! Sun to the skin, protect the face (it's the wrinkle factor on the face!).
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Gospel of the Slaw
So, you may be wondering if I have lost my mind, maybe a new chapter has been added to the Bible that you did not hear about yet, or something weird is going on... well, it is none of the above.
I have the best encounters with people I work with, one on one and in group settings. People are truly amazing when we allow them to be at their very best.
I am often encountered with the "I eat nothing but salads and I still cannot lose weight" issue. I try to explain that summer vegetable salads, in the fall and winter, are very cooling to our body. Summer veggies are for summer eating. When we summer cool ourselves, in the winter, we also slow our metabolism.
Want to rev up that metabolism with warming, winter nourishing veggies? Try a root veggie and cabbage slaw. Recipe below.
Now for the title, it goes back to the people I meet thing I mentioned above. An endearing client labeled my slaw recipe as the "Gospel of the Slaw" and paid the good recipe forward to many friends and family members. The slaw is a great way to get yummy, raw veggies into your winter diet and keep it all seasonal.
Be well, eat slaw.
PS Grating a butter nut squash and spicing the salad dressing with cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger, and vanilla is another fun way to enjoy raw winter veggies.
Root Veggie & Cabbage Slaw
Assemble enough vegetable to feed the people who will be gracing your dinner table, red and green cabbage and root vegetables: beet, parsnip, rutabaga, celeriac, carrot, purple carrot, turnip, winter storage radishes (bigger than the summer salad radishes), kohlrabi, salsify, burdock, horseradish, etc.
Fine chop red and/or green cabbage
Grate, on a metal cheese grater, root veggies. Pick root veggies you grow or can acquire locally. I use 2-4 root veggies with the chopped cabbage, choosing different root veggies with each meal.
Add a grated apple. My kids eat more, and more willingly, when the juicy sweetness of a grated apple is part of the salad.
Mix together in a bowl with the above dressing
Cover and refrigerate until meal time. I make this dish last and serve immediately with every fall and winter meal.
Optional: add a few raisins, add walnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds… just make it yummy for you.
Salad Dressing
1 cup organic extra virgin olive oil
1 cup raw apple cider vinegar
1 tsp. organic prepared mustard; preferably made with apple cider vinegar, not grain vinegar
Dash unrefined sea salt
Dash fresh pepper
Crush clove of garlic
Herbs to taste: rosemary, basil, oregano, thyme, parsley
Optional: 1 – 3 tbsp. dark maple syrup or sucanat unrefined sugar
I make this dressing in a Ball, wide mouth, quart canning jar so I always have it available for dinner salads, whatever the season.