Day 2

Hi,

I just finished reading Day 2 in The 30 Day Diabetes Cure ( http://30daydiabetescure.com/ ) by Dr. Stefan Ripich ND, CNP and Jim Healthy.

The guideline for today is to use a common, ordinary, everybody-has-it-in-their-cupboard spice, to speed up your metabolism. Like I said in my first post, I think it would be morally wrong for me to give away the information in the book so I am reluctant to reveal which spice this is. You may already know which one it is. I am encouraging you to purchase the book yourself if you want to see the program. And no, I am not affiliated with the writers in any way, except that I bought the book and am using it to help myself to improve my physical health.

Today I shall start sprinkling "the spice" on the things they suggest: yogurt, oatmeal, brown rice/yogurt, on sweet potatoes or on chicken. The only problem I have is I don't have any yogurt, oatmeal, brown rice, or sweet potatoes. Neither do I have the ingredients for the baked chicken dish they recommend. So I shall have to put them on my shopping list.

I am wondering a little if I'll be able to use it every day. But even as I'm writing it has occurred to me that I use my garlic pepper every day, why not that, too? I wonder if it would mix with garlic pepper? I like to make salad dressing, perhaps I could put it in that. I used to sprinkle it on ice cream, but am giving up sugar for the next 10 days. I will have to get creative to accomplish this one.

I am greatly encouraged to see that this particular spice actually lowers blood sugar, and reduces cholesterol and triglycerides. It is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory and can be used with cloves and allspice, too, because they all have more antioxidant phenols per weight than blueberries which is one of the most powerful antioxidants in nature.

After I read that I began to consider if they were weighing blueberries and spices, it would certainly be a lot easier to eat a cup of blueberries than a cup of spice. Maybe the spices could be sprinkled on blueberries, too. I don't particularly care for the flavor of cloves -- although I don't quite hate it, and usually leave it out of any recipes I make that might call for it. I prefer the mild flavor of nutmeg, but I don't know if nutmeg is an antioxidant. I'll have to look that up, now, too.

If I am going to make this work, I think I should put some spice into a small shaker so I can sprinkle at will. I already sprinkle everything with termeric so adding this one, should not be too hard. I'll let you know how it goes.

I am really being encourage by writing this blog/journal. I believe it will keep me on track. Hope you are on the road to recovery, with me.


--Marcia -- (that is pronounced Mar-sha -- which is traditional [just like Patricia])