Dragonfly News

The Official Monthly Newsletter of Song of Health
AUGUST 2012

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Welcome Subscribers, to Dragonfly News. This is our opportunity to share interesting and helpful information with you in our monthly newsletter, which is available to Subscribers only.  We first email the Newsletter and Food Resource updates to you directly in .pdf form.  Then, in a few days you will be able to access the newsletter on the website.  The Food Resource updates will be incorporated into the existing Food Resource List and can be found by clicking on the icon at the left side of most pages on the website.  The recipes will be added to the Recipes section, including the Table of Contents and Index.

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The information in Dragonfly News is brought to you by the Song of Health Team:

Sandra Strom, CEO of Song of Health
Dr. Letitia Dick, N.D., Staff Doctor
Dr. Caryn Potenza, N.D., Staff Supporting Doctor
Shawn Murphy, Song of Health Webmaster and Graphics Designer

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IN THIS ISSUE:

WEBSITE CHANGES AND NOTICES:
Food Category CACTUS; Food Substitutions List; SOAP section

SUBSCRIBERS SPOTLIGHT:
Stories, Comments, Questions Asked
and Answered

FOOD LABEL QUIZ:
Can you guess the food categories of ingredients listed on this label?

New ~ SOAP CORNER:
Updates

SHARING EXPERIENCES:
“ KEEP IT SIMPLE…HOW?  A STEP BY STEP GUIDE”
By Sandra Strom, CEO of Song of Health

RECIPES:
MAIN DISHES:
OVEN FRIED CHICKEN BREAST TENDERS

FOOD RESOURCE UPDATE:
AUGUST 2012

The Carroll Institute of Natural Healing is an educational opportunity for Naturopathic physicians and students to further their education in the classical methods of Naturopathy, not otherwise taught in the Naturopathic colleges.  This is where physicians and students learn about the Carroll Food Intolerance Evaluation methods, constitutional hydrotherapy and other important methods handed down by Vlassical Nature Doctors.

Song of Health and The Carroll Institute of Natural Healing work together to reach as many people as possible in order to educate and help in understanding the importance of avoiding personal food intolerances, applying Classical Naturopathic methods of healing, and naturally restoring the body to health.

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WEBSITE CHANGES AND NOTICES

In the New Food Categories Group CACTUS:  YUCCA (not to be confused with Yuca [also known as Cassava, Manioc, and Tapioca]) has been evaluated and determined to be in the CACTUS FOOD INTOLERANCE CATEGORY. The CACTUS page in the Food Categories section has been updated to include Yucca.

  The Food Substitutions List has been updated to reflect that AGAVE is in the CACTUS category.  Also, (P) Potato = Yucca Root (N) has been corrected to read (P) Potato = Yuca (Cassava) Root (N), not to be confused with Yucca, which is in the Cactus family.

THE SOAP SECTION: Description of Baja Yucca NP (Yucca Schidigera Extract Non-Preserved) now includes: Per the Carroll Food Intolerance Method, this product has been evaluated to contain the food intolerance category CACTUS. 

~ All our soaps can be used as SHAMPOO BARS too! ~

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To receive your discount, enter in the box provided at time of payment: yummy soap

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	SUBSCRIBERS SPOTLIGHT STORIES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS

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Share your story with others.

SUBSCRIBERS, PLEASE…help others by sharing your story.  When you allow us to publish it in Dragonfly News and Subscribers’ Testimonials, a dedicated section on the Song of Health website, you provide the opportunity to reach out to those who still suffer but are not confident that our dietary lifestyle will work for them. By hearing and reading about how our lives were dramatically changed we can help others to step through the door toward wellness. WE WOULD BE HONORED TO INCLUDE YOUR STORY about how you came to follow the Carroll Food Intolerance way of life. We reserve the right to edit for grammar and spelling correctness, however we will not change your story content. So, DON'T BE SHY!

IF YOU PREFER US TO HELP YOU WRITE YOUR STORY, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO. JUST ASK!

Please email your contribution to manager@songofhealth.com.

Thank you for helping us to achieve our goal of reaching out to as many people as possible in order to provide help, hope and answers. The more we give away, the more we receive!

A note of encouragement: A subscriber was concerned that her story was uninteresting. There is no such thing as a boring, uninteresting story! We are here to support each other and every contribution helps, no matter how small or large the content. Please don't let that stop you! We invite you to check out Subscribers Testimonials to read what subscribers have shared.

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QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED

Email Correspondence:
Song of Health has been given permission by our Subscribers to share the following with you, so that we may all benefit.

Inquiry emailed to Dr. Tish, June 27, 2012:  Dr. Tish received a question regarding Organic Valley Organic Heavy Whipping Cream, Grade A Pasteurized, that an earlier evaluation of this product did not contain Sf and it usually contains carageenan.

Reply From Dr. Tish:  Dear Patricia, the Organic Valley Whipping Cream will vary. At times they put the Carageenan in it and at other times they do not.  You must read the ingredient label to know which is which, because the carton otherwise looks identical. Sincerely, Dr. Letitia Dick

From The Forum:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: At this time, due to work overload and shortage of time, our doctors are not able to answer your questions in the categoryAsk the Doctors a Question. They request that you refer any medical questions to them, or your personal physician, directly to their clinics, by requesting a consultation appointment. Thank you for your understanding.
Editor’s Note:  I realize how easy it is to miss our requests.  We take full responsibility for that, and are happy to repeat them whenever necessary.

REMEMBER TO GO TO THE FORUM TO SHARE - AND ACCESS – MORE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS!

IMPORTANT NOTE:  When posting a question or comment in The Forum to a thread that is not recent (within the current week), PLEASE CREATE A NEW THREAD, even if the topic has been discussed at a prior time. This way, new entries won’t get unintentionally missed.

The Forum is a great way to make new friends!
It is a great opportunity for you to share tips, meals, recipes and any other information to help support and educate each other!

FOOD LABEL QUIZ

CAN YOU GUESS THE FOOD CATEGORIES OF INGREDIENTS
LISTED ON THIS LABEL?

As part of my goal to help you in the quest of eating safely in accordance with your personal food intolerances, this section is another way to help you identify suspicious ingredients and … HAVE SOME FUN!

The answers at the bottom of the New Recipes section, just above The Food Resource List Updates.        ~~~

NEW ~ THE SOAP CORNER

CUSTOM MADE SOAPS AVAILABLE. Email me for a quote.

soaps are excellent used as SHAMPOO BARS too!

 

Important changes to descriptions and ingredients:  In compliance with our doctors’ new findings and the addition of the CACTUS food intolerance category, the following information has changed:

•Ingredients We Use ~ Baja Yucca NP (Yucca Schidigera Extract Non-Preserved) ~ Per the Carroll Food Intolerance Method, this product has been evaluated to contain the food intolerance category CACTUS.

Following is the schedule of availability for new  soaps:

• SPECIAL ~ Limited Supply of Imperfect looking bars.  The soaping quality of these bars is equal to the high standards of our soaps; their look is just less than perfect, and they weigh a little less than the regular size. 

Special discount price: $3.43 with promo code yummy soap (plus shipping).
(Available to order on line later this week)

• See the website for all the new soaps available and coming soon.

SHARING EXPERIENCES:

Remember that eating our food intolerances can have a dramatic effect on our moods as well as other symptoms we discuss, ad infinitum. .

KEEP IT SIMPLE…HOW?
A STEP BY STEP GUIDE
By Sandra Strom, CEO of Song of Health

It must be a common malady amongst us humanoids to feel the need to complicate things.  Be it relationships, work, finances, or healthy eating, we can find an abundance of methods to throw the kitchen sink into the soup kettle. 

My mission at Song of Health has always been to help you avoid your food intolerances, to eat healthy foods, and to make preparing meals simple and enjoyable.  As I continue to consult people individually, I realize commonalities of how confusion is created, and how we can uncomplicate matters by applying just a little organization to the informational tools at Song of Health.  So, here are some suggestions that I believe will help you on the path to keeping eating simple:

• The first and most important lists to become familiar with and always refer to are the pages in the Food Categories section that apply to yours and your family’s specific food intolerances.  Know what qualifies or not, for example, as a potato if they need to be avoided.  It is the foundation of your Life, which becomes unnecessarily complicated when you’re unfamiliar with what is and isn’t safe for you.  I recently spoke with a sweet woman who has a fruit/grain combination intolerance and didn’t realize that melons are not fruit.  Was she ever missing out!  Now, her meals will become more varied, healthy, and enjoyable just by having that “little” piece of knowledge.
  
  
• Next, we go to the Food Substitutions List.  (Bet you thought I was going to say The Food Resource List, right?)  This is the next step to our foundation, from which we build upon.  If I can’t have sugar, what can I use to replace it with in my favorite recipes?  Honey, agave, and maple syrup work nicely.  The Food Substitutions List will not only tell us what to use as a substitution, but at what ratio.  Use half the honey to sugar in a recipe.  It’s an invaluable tool in the box to have.
  
  
• We’re ready to turn to the Recipes section for ideas.  All the ingredients in the recipes are coded for food intolerance categories, to help you quickly identify if they are safe for you or if you need to refer to the Food Substitutions List.  These two sections work hand in hand.  The goal of the Recipes section is to not only share some of my favorite delicious dishes, it is also meant to teach you how to take a basic recipe and learn how to easily adapt, or even create from it.  Then, hopefully you’ll find enjoyment in the kitchen.

A suggestion for cooking and baking in the spirit of keeping it simple is to have all your ingredients out and measured before actually beginning to mix things up. 

• We have our tentative shopping list written with the foods we hope to buy.  Now it’s time to consult The Food Resource List.  Our doctors have evaluated a multitude of products for patients and Song of Health Subscribers, from which The List is compiled.  Is the vinegar you’re used to buying safe for you?  If not, look down the list and find one that is.  We always recommend shopping organic first; however, this does not preclude that an organic product will be safe for you.  For example, I used to buy Napa Valley Organic Olive Oil under the assumption it was just in the Fruit category (olives are fruit).  The last time it was evaluated (01/10) it analyzed positive for potato!  Since then, and until such time as it is re-evaluated and proves itself safe for me, I use other brands.
  
  
• I highly recommend availing yourself to The Forum and actively participating with your fellow Subscribers.  This is an immeasurable opportunity for you to share your experiences and to learn from each other.  I often pop in to a forum for soap makers that has become an invaluable tool for me on so many levels.  Share your successes and failures; others will share how they morph their failures into lessons from which you can learn; share where you purchase goods; ask if others know what you need help with.  And browse through the abundance of information already posted.

I help as best I can, researching what I can for you.  And you are always welcome to email me with questions.  It’s always best, though, to draw from a pool of like minds for optimum knowledge, and that’s what you are to each other.  You are located from New York to California, Nova Scotia Canada to Mexico.  Imagine how much fun it is to hear how the other side lives!  There is no such thing as a stupid question, and all our stories are helpful.  I hope this encourages you to participate in The Forum and utilize this wonderful tool that is also available to the Song of Health Subscribers.

I look forward to reading how you have learned to eat lots and have fun while avoiding your food intolerances!

To All My Relations, Sandra

“Every dis-ease known to humans is created in our digestion system” (Dr. Harold Dick, N.D.)

NEW RECIPES

Each month new recipes are published in the Recipes section at Song of Health.  In the newsletter they are listed and linked so you can easily go to them in the Recipes section.

 The ingredients for all the recipes are coded for food intolerance items.

From time to time you may find an existing recipe has been slightly corrected from the original, in order to make it easier to follow, or to update new findings of ingredients for food intolerances.

 WE INVITE YOU TO SHARE YOUR SUGGESTIONS, RECIPES, COMMENTS AND CONCERNS.  Please go to The Forum and post in the Recipes section, or contact us at manager@songofhealth.com.

Just click on the recipe link to go directly to it in the RECIPES SECTION, or copy and paste the "url". Remember to log in first!

Is there a recipe you would like to have, or need help adapting?  I'm happy to help! Contact me at manager@songofhealth.com.

I’m stepping out of my personal no-land-meat lifestyle this month and offering you an easy summer chicken main dish.  The oven only has to be on for 30 minutes max.

MAIN DISHES:
OVEN FRIED CHICKEN BREAST TENDERS

Check out the Recipes category in The Forum for recipes that fellow Subscribers have been gracious enough to share!  Plus, cooking and baking questions are asked and answered.

*About this month’s picture: YUCCA has been identified as being in the new food intolerance category CACTUS.

FOOD RESOURCE LIST UPDATES

THE FOOD RESOURCE LIST ON THE WEBSITE IS AVAILABLE IN PRINTABLE VERSION. JUST GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND CLICK ON "SOH RESOURCE LIST PART 1 OR PART 2" FOR THE VERSION IN .PDF FORM.

Use the codes below to translate the Results Column.

HOW TO READ THE FOOD RESOURCE LIST AND USE THE KEY:

 As items are submitted and analyzed by our staff doctors, they are then added to the Food Resource List on the Song of Health website. We compile the updated lists to email to you as well.

 The items are listed per category.

 By listing the “Date Evaluated” you can be assured of the most recent updates.

 Under the “Evaluated For” column, “ALL” signifies that the product has been analyzed for all food categories included in the Carroll Food Intolerance Evaluation Method.

In some cases, you will see ingredients listed in the “Results” column that are ot included in “Evaluated For.” This is due to: 1) the ingredient has been listed on the packaging; 2) or it is obviously in the stated category; 3) or our doctors evaluated for more than what was asked for. For example, results for milk will be “dairy (D).”

 Under “Purchased At” we no longer furnish where the product was purchased; however, if the product was purchased outside the Pacific Northwest area, the region will be noted.  Sometimes, I will be able to locate a place to purchase a product for you, if requested.

If you have any questions, please contact us at:
manager@songofhealth.com. We are happy to help!

SHOPPING SUGGESTION: Do you have a Blackberry, Iphone or other mobile smart phone with internet capability?  I use mine as my shopping tool!  Just log in to your account at Song of Health.com, go to The Food Resource List, and verify products as you shop!

FOOD RESOURCE LIST
AUGUST 2012

The items listed were purchased in the Pacific Northwest unless otherwise noted.

TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE...

GREAT HEALTH - GREAT LIFE!

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