Hello from Jane and Lino!

A Healthy Autumn to you! Each season brings us a new energy that influences our total environment, body, moods, and well being.

According to traditional healing, the prominent organs for early fall are the Spleen, Pancreas, and Stomach.

Blood Sugar issues are all important for our health. In this newsletter, we will focus on the pancreas, the organ that balances our blood sugar, and influences diabetes (high blood sugar) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar,) now global epidemics. Discover natural ways to help prevent and reverse blood sugar disorders and discover greater physical and mental well being.

If you, a friend, or a loved one has chronic worry, anxiety, depression, sweet cravings, alcohol addiction, digestive problems, and poor memory, we share simple, effective steps to control cravings and calm emotions.

• Healing Testimonial: Meet our student and friend who conquered her Type 2 Diabetes with positive changes in food, de-stressing, and exercise.

Our well researched and detailed article
THE NATURAL DIABETES PROGRAM discusses:
• causes and symptoms
• prevention and reversal
• genetic influences
• dietary solutions
• cooking methods
• eating techniques
• exercise importance
• testing information 

Scroll down to view a video of glorious autumn forests with relaxing music to bring you greater peace and joy and help to forget worry…at least for a while! 

•  JOIN OUR CONTEST to win 10 free trees!

• Watch a video and read a NY Times Magazine Cover Story about the startling and pervasive effects of refined sugar.
* Learn about Autumn Cooking.
• Enjoy our delicious recipes that help balance blood sugar.
• Tune in to Stevie Wonder's “Don’t You Worry About A Thing.”
 

The pancreas, referred to both as a gland and an organ, is approximately six to eight inches in length, located in your abdomen, behind the stomach. Its head begins at the right-center of the abdomen with its tail extending and narrowing upward, to the left of the abdomen.

Nestled beneath the liver and gall bladder, the pancreas is connected to the duodenum (the first section of the small intestines,) by a small tube called the pancreatic duct. The pancreas performs both endocrine and digestive functions, secreting essential hormones and enzymes that attempt, sometimes with great success, to balance our blood sugar and prepare food for proper digestion. 

With today’s modern American diet, the pancreas and its partner, the spleen, are abused and distressed, damaged and demanding of better care!  How to achieve pancreas and blood sugar balance will be the focus of this newsletter. The condition of the pancreas is reflected by blood sugar numbers, sugar cravings, addictions, hypoglycemia, and ultimately by the worldwide epidemic of Diabetes I and II. Cancer of the pancreas has also increased in incidence with 60,000 Americans predicted to develop this too often fatal disease this year. 

In 2018, 34.2 million Americans, or 10.5% of the population, had diabetes.

Nearly 1.6 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes, including about 187,000 children and adolescents.

Undiagnosed: Of the 34.2 million adults with diabetes, 26.8 million were diagnosed, and 7.3 million were undiagnosed.

               – American Diabetes Association ADA Statistics

THE NATURAL DIABETES PROGRAM: CLICK HERE > Article: 

DIABETES HEALING TESTIMONIAL: Read about a woman’s quest to reduce her high blood sugar. It is always inspiring to hear first-hand someone’s journey using natural means to help reverse and control a disease: CLICK HERE > 

Robert Lustig, MD, calls Refined Sugar a “Neuro-Toxin.” Watch his comprehensive video: “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” University of California Television HERE > 


“SUGAR SCARES ME,” says Craig Thompson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cance Center, New York City

IS SUGAR TOXIC?
New York Times Magazine Cover Story, April 13, 2011

It is written by Gary Taubes, Author of The Case Against Sugar (Taubes has Harvard, Stanford, Columbia University credentials.)

READ HERE & SHARE > 

SWEET VEGETABLES are very nourishing to the pancreas.  They include yams and sweet potatoes,  winter squash (butternut, buttercup, and kabocha) cabbages, carrots, parsnips, and onions. We recommend adding sweet vegetables to soups or beans, or steaming, sautéing, or roasting. Leave the skin on for extra fiber. Link to our recipes below and learn how to make healing SWEET VEGETABLE DRINK, proven to help stabilize blood sugar levels and reduce sugar cravings. 

HERE IS A JEWEL YAM      
Note how it resembles our pancreas! This one is grown in Western NC and around the world. Deep orange inside and very sweet. Delicious and high in fiber, it is helpful to balance blood sugar and relieve constipation. People of all ages love them! Dogs enjoy yams,too. Mash cooked yams into their food or give cubes of cooked yams as treats. 
Roasting them in the oven brings out the sweetness.

Meet our WHY WAIT
TO BE HAPPY? Book Winner!
Mary Nino of Paris, France

Mary Nino sent in the winning essay about creating and embracing happiness. This American former model and mother of three accomplished young adults, is director of corporate and social responsibility for her family’s fashion business, teaches kids in her town about ecology and growing food, and serves with UN/CEFACT, focusing on efforts to make the apparel industry sustainable. Mary has been a dear macrobiotic friend for over thirty years! She has won a copy of Rebecca Gurland’s wonderful book on the subject of the joy of life. Read Mary’s refreshing, humorous (and very French) perspective on happiness. Mary also shares a link for a charming French song about being happy. True joie de vivre! 
Read Mary’s inspiring essay below.  

If you want to shed some of your understandable worry in these tumultuous times, click on this energetic Stevie Wonder song. You will find a musical antidote to worry with this great rhythm by an American musical genius!
 CLICK HERE to LISTEN and START DANCING > 

Autumn Cooking for Health and Joy

Every season, climate, and personal health condition calls for changes, sometimes subtle and sometimes deep, to create balance. Just as we change clothing to adjust to coolness or warmth, we can change our food choices and cooking methods to make us feel more revitalized, relaxed and positive.

Long cooked food imparts more warmth, while raw foods cool us down. As your weather changes, consider making dietary changes. Your body and mind will thank you!  Take some time to experiment with different foods, cooking methods, and recipes. Each of us has to find what works well in our lives.

Read more to learn about Autumn Cooking >
 

DELICIOUS AUTUMN RECIPES

• SWEET VEGETABLE DRINK

• MILLET MASHED POTATOES

• GINGERED PEARS 

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPES > 

OCTOBER TREE IDENTIFICATION
AND CONTEST

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state,
and to live as a people, we must have trees. 
 –Theodore Roosevelt, US President and  Conservationist  who saved our National Parks

Trees are essential for a healthy world! They are the lungs of the Earth, adding oxygen to the air, cleaning city water, reducing municipal costs, giving us fruits and nuts, feeding and housing wildlife, protecting against flooding, preserving soil, encouraging rain, and providing natural air conditioning to houses. Cherish them, hug them, and feel their energy! 

DO YOU KNOW YOUR LEAVES?

Learn and share with young people how to identify leaves and trees in your neighborhood, city, or travels. Press the leaves to make a scrapbook! Children will remember this teaching all their lives.

Arbor Day.org, a fabulous organization about trees in America, has a terrific website filled with tree education, videos, and vital tips for planting, growing, watering, and pruning trees. Fall is the time to plant trees! They will send you 10 trees for a very reasonable donation.
Visit: https://www.arborday.org 

FREE TREES CONTEST:

Win 10 free trees from us, thanks to Arbor Day. org. We will send them to you to suit your region. You can watch their online video instructing how to plant your trees. These would make a wonderful holiday gift! Each family member or friend can name a tree and give it care.

TO ENTER our Tree Give-Away, send us an email describing your favorite experience in a forest, by a tree, or in a tree. Make the subject line: TREES AND ME. The winner will receive 10 free trees to plant. Email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

JOIN US FOR A BEAUTIFUL WALK
in the Autumn woods. If you yearn to see the Autumn leaves, tune in here to WATCH gorgeous forests of gold and russet as you LISTEN to an hour of gentle piano music to bring you relaxation and enjoyment.   WATCH > 

THANKSGIVING IS
COMING SOON!
ORDER JANE'S TOFU TURKEY VIDEO

It is fun and so delicious! People love it! And all the turkeys will love you for it!

The whole family will delight in this large, yummy centerpiece of your holiday table.

It feeds up to 20 people or can provide lots of scrumptious leftovers if fewer.

After you order, Jane will email gravy and stuffing instructions. Below are options for the video and Jane’s wonderful holiday cookbook.

DVD: Contact:  ljstanchich@mindspring.com

DIGITAL DOWNLOAD >

HEALTHY HOLIDAY COOKBOOK

Cook Delicious Soups, Mushroom Gravy, Stuffing, Colorful Veggies, Cranberry Sauce, Desserts and much more!)

PAPER COPY >

DOWNLOAD EBOOK >

A LETTER ON CREATING HAPPINESS 
From MARY NINO of PARIS

Dear Jane and Lino,

Thank you for another beautiful newsletter, full of goodies :-)

There is an old French song called “Qu’est Ce Qu’on Attend pour Etre Heureux?” which translates to nearly exactly the title of Ms. Gurland’s book, “Why Wait to Be Happy?” with lyrics like ”the centipede is putting on his socks.” It has been recorded by countless French singers. The singer here reminds me of you:-) Enjoy!            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uNC2HVbmNA

Whenever I’m tempted to “ find some thorns to sit on” (that is to say, concentrate on stuff that’s not going to my liking:-) this phrase reminds me to snap out of it and get back on the happy track:-) 

Upbeat/pretty music is generally enough to shake any negative vibe that catches hold on my consciousness, especially “American classical”, e.g. Motown-Temptations, Aretha, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind, and Fire.

I avoid listening to or reading the (mostly bad/sad) broadcast news at days’ beginning and end, preferring to set the tone for my day with a quiet moment for silent contemplation, then reading some inspirational texts, then music to sing /dance with. At night I prepare the passage to sleep with yoga and Qi Gong in the dark.

My mom used to say that when friction arose in our home, it was “the devil envying our happiness,” planting (ego) traps for us to fall into.  When that “small - self” temptation to choose separation over unity, discord over harmony, rears its ugly head, we can always choose to say “No thanks,” and choose happiness. 

Years ago I had a little book called “Happiness is a Choice” which I carried around ’til it practically biodegraded:-) To answer the question “Why Wait?,” there is clearly no good reason to wait to choose happiness. The obviousness of the response makes the question itself a remedy to melancholy. Socrates would have approved!:-)

xox

Mary

Thank you for all who entered your inspiring stories, suggestions, and happiness habits. And thank you Rebecca! – Jane and Lino

SPECIAL THANKS
As always, we want to thank Leslie Simon for her fine editing and advice and to Debi Athos for her expert skills and artistry with computer graphics. 

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