Healing the body through a whole food diet.

1. Paula M. Youmell, RN, MS, CHC
Holistic RN, Healer, & Whole Food Health Educator
Herbalist, Reiki, Yoga
Be Whole & Well Naturally
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Whole Food Healer Academy

2. My heartfelt gratitude to You
for taking your health
into your own healing hands
by investing in your health
in the
Whole Food Healer Academy.

3. Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it
or who said it,
not even if I have said it,
unless it agrees with
your own reason and your
own common sense.
Buddha
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5. Nursing School: The beginnings of my healing education!

6. Retro Art By Jan
http://www.retroartbyjan.com/
Life and healing IS all about LOVE!

7. Whole Foods are the Basis
to Holistic Healing
Your Physical Body
Holistic Healing defined:
1. Taking responsibility for your own health
2. Using natural means to re-balance your
body's life force energy and health

8. What IS a WHOLE FOOD?
Food:
substances taken into body that nourish & heal all body cells

10. Whole Food Meal OR Not???!!!

11. What heals your body
IS
changing the lifestyle habits
that created
the ill health symptoms!
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12. Healing IS a Simple Equation:
remove the causes
of disease
+ add in healing food
&
lifestyle choices
= Vibrant, whole health
Healed Body!
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13. Sometimes...
the ONLY thing standing in your way is a lack of
commitment to your own health...
If you are willing to do the work,
willing to take self-responsibility
into your own healing hands,
you CAN move past your “genetics”...
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14. Human Body Cell and The Whole Food Impacts

15. Your Nutritional Savings Account!

17. Whatever Your Dietary Choices
The Principles are the Same
Vegetarian
Vegan
Omnivore
Carnivore
Raw Food-ist
Macrobiotics
Local-vore
Opportune-a-vore
Eat Whole Foods

18. Creating a Whole Food Lifestyle
for
Whole Health Living and Thriving:
Local
Seasonal
Organically Grown
Naturally Raised
Home Cooked
FOOD!

19. Why Organic, Can't I just wash it?
Keeping the Peelings....
Why Naturally Raised?
Why Eat Local and How Local IS
Local?
Why Seasonal, in Sync with
Nature?...

20. Spring Food is Cleansing and Energetic!

21. Summer Produce is Juicy and Cooling!

22. Warming Fall and Winter Veggies

23. Food Groups and how they should be grown and raised:
● animal products: meat, eggs, dairy, fish
● fruits and veggies
● beans, nuts & seeds
● grains.... well, whole of course!
● fats (oh yeah, bring on the butter!)
● sweeteners

25. Whole vs. Refined Grains and Flours

27. Closer to
“Whole”
Sugars

28. How To Make Healing Changes:
1. Clean Out The Kitchen
2. Clean Out Your Mind
Re-think!
1. Re-Stock the Kitchen
2. Re-Stock Your Mind

29. Cleaning Out the Kitchen
BEFORE AFTER

30. Step 1: Clean the Kitchen Out:
● packaged junk food
● anything refined
● processed crap
● enriched, fortified foods
● anything with ingredients you can
not pronounce
● products with more than 6 or so ingredients

31. What to avoid in packaged foods: Please Read Labels!
● hydrogenated & partially hydrogenated oils
● corn syrup
● high fructose corn syrup
● artificial colors and flavors VANILLIN
● preservatives
● fructose
● glucose syrup
● maltose, dextrose
● anything you can not pronounce and are certain does NOT grow in a
real garden or barnyard

33. Step 2: Where to find good food:
● your backyard, grow some!
● local farmers markets & farm stands
● CSA's: Check www.Gardenshare.org
● the farmers down the road, they may be growing amazing
stuff!
● Potsdam Food Coop, Nature's Storehouse, health food
stores, health food section of grocery stores
● food buying clubs (WholeShare)

34. Step 3: Make food an art:
Learn to play with herbs and spices, mixing flavors you normally would
not mix; like cinnamon in tomato soup or basil in an apple salad.
Mix colors and flavors.
Put good energy into your food. Your energy in the kitchen: playful, love,
fun, angry, or frustrated gets infused into the food. Be a happy, artistic cook.
It better feeds everyone's mind, body, and soul (including yours!).
Think outside the box of Betty Crocker's cookbook. No offense to Betty, of
course!

35. Spend $ Now or You Will Spend $ Later
An ounce of prevention
IS
worth a pound of cure!
Invest in your health now
or you WILL
Invest in your doctor's wealth later!
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36. Buy the Best, Most Nutritionally Grown
and Whole Foods Your Budget Allows
and Eat with Gratitude.
Your Body Cells Will Thank You!
Best to Eat Beans and Franks
With Praise and Thanks,
Than Organic, Whole Grain Bread
With Fear and Dread!
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37. Love yourself,
eat whole foods!
Love all people...
feed them
100% whole foods!
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38. Healing is a Journey...
That begins with one small step!
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