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"Continue cooking, stirring to coat the pecans, about 30 seconds more. Spread the pecans onto a baking sheet to cool. Sprinkle with salt. Makes about 2Vi cups. Imus Ranch Guacamole This guacamole is super easy to make. To prevent darkening, squeeze some fresh lemon juice over the top of the guacamole before covering and refrigerating." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Toss with a light, sweet salad dressing, such as orange vinaigrette, and top with walnuts, pecans and pine nuts. Serve chilled. Serves 3 Indonesian Sprout Salad_ 2 cups sunflower sprouts 2 cups bean sprouts 2 cups whole walnuts 1/2 honey 3 cups sliced red cabbage 1 cup diced raw carrots 1 cup sliced nori 1/2 cup toasted sesame seeds Coat walnuts with honey and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 20 minutes. In a large bowl, toss sprouts, red cabbage, carrots, nori and sesame seeds. Toss with dressing and top with walnuts before serving." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"I cup whole wheat flour 'A cup agave syrup 'A cup canola oil 'A cup yellow raisins 'A cup seedless California raisins 4 ounces dry-roasted pecans, unsalted 2 large whole eggs 'A teaspoon ground allspice Vs teaspoon ground cloves Ai teaspoon ground cinnamon '/< cup water 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda directions: Presoak raisins in water. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Using a food processor, blend persimmon pulp, agave, eggs, canola oil, spices, baking powder, and baking soda until smooth. Transfer to a hand mixing bowl. Add flour and hand-mix just until smooth." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Use crushed pecans as an alternative to breading meat or fish. Black Cherry, Gingersnap, and Pecan Parfait Courtesy of the Georgia Pecan Commission Servings: 4 • Prep time: 10 minutes This wonderful dessert is best made at least thirty minutes ahead of serving, allowing time for the gingersnap crumble to soften slightly. My kids, who are not exactly nuts about nuts, enjoyed this dessert. This recipe contains four powerhouse foods. The "ginger" snaps don't count but they sure make the dish yummy!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Tree nuts: almonds, pecans, walnuts, Brazil nuts V4 CUP Best raw or roasted. Avoid heavily salted or honey-roasted nuts. Lean red meats 4 ounces Limit to once per week. Calcium / EAT 2 SERVINGS EVERY DAY. The body's need for calcium becomes increasingly pertinent for women and men as they age. Human bones replace about one-fifth of their total calcium each year, and there is a constant movement of calcium in and out of the bones, both for repair and to maintain a constant level of calcium in the blood and in other body fluids." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Almonds, baked beans canned in tomato sauce, cashews, green beans, peanut butter, peanuts, pecans, sesame, sunflower seeds, tofu, walnuts. High-oxalate fruits. Blackberries, black raspberries, red raspberries, blueberries, red currants, dewberries, figs, dried grapes, purple gooseberries, kiwi, lemon peel, lime peel, orange peel, rhubarb, strawberries, tangerines, any juice made from these fruits. High-oxalate breads and starches. Fig Newtons, fruit cake, graham crackers, grits, white com, kamut, marmalade, soybean crackers, wheat germ. High-oxalate vegetables." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Preparation time: 25 to 30 minutes 2 ripe organic bananas 2 tablespoons organic cinnamon powder 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 cup organic agave nectar 1 Vi cups organic flaxseed, finely ground (flax meal) Vi cup purified water 1 cup organic sweet potato or pumpkin, mashed 2 cups organic carrots, shredded 2 organic apples, peeled and finely diced (or shredded) 3 cups organic rolled oats 1 cup organic oat flour 1 cup organic spelt flour 1 Vz cups organic almond butter 3/4 cup organic coconut flakes % cup organic walnuts (or pecans), finely chopped Preheat oven to 350°F." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Spread the pecans onto a baking sheet to cool. Sprinkle with salt. Makes about 2Vi cups. Imus Ranch Guacamole This guacamole is super easy to make. To prevent darkening, squeeze some fresh lemon juice over the top of the guacamole before covering and refrigerating." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Transfer to a serving dish and top with the raspberries, mango, and pecans. Serve with additional dressing on the side, if you like. Makes 4 servings. Imus Ranch Honey-Dijon Dressing We use sunflower or safflower oil in many of our dressings because they are monounsaturated—meaning that they help to keep the arteries supple and lubricated—as well as being high in linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid that is one of the major building blocks of the immune system." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Servings: Varies (try V2 to 1 cup Prep Time: 1 minute at a time; 1 cup yields 8 tablespoons) Cook Time: 35 minutes Serving Size: 1 to 2 tablespoons, Total Time: 6 to 8 minutes depending on use Volume: Varies Walnuts, almonds, pecans, hazelnuts, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, or sunflower seeds Preheat the oven to 400 degrees (see note below). Lay the nuts/seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in the oven and toast the seeds until slightly brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Smaller nuts/seeds will toast faster than larger pieces. Watch carefully through the lit oven window." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.) "Servings: 1 Serving size: 1 pita Total Time: 6 minutes Prep Time: 6 minutes Volume: 1 pita V2 pear, sliced 2 tablespoons crumbled feta cheese 2 tablespoons pecan halves or chopped 1 cup baby spinach % cup grated carrots 2 tablespoons Ginger Orange Dressing (see recipe page 309) or other SuperFoods approved dressing of your choice V3 pita (or equivalent approximately 80-100 calories) In a small bowl, combine the pear slices, feta, pecans, spinach, and carrots. Drizzle with the vinaigrette, tossing well to coat the salad. Place the mixture in the pita and serve immediately." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Nuts: This group includes, for example, walnuts, almonds, cashews, pecans, pistachios, macadamia nuts, and Brazil nuts. 7. Cheese: Here I'm referring to hard and soft cheeses of all kinds except cottage cheese, which falls into the meat category. Cottage cheese is lower in acid but provides only about half as much protein as lean meat per equivalent serving. 8. Fruits: The fruit group includes all kinds of whole fruits, including canned and fruit juices. That means 100 percent fruit juices only; fruit-flavored drinks are not fruit juice. 9." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Serves 2 Chopped Veggie Bean Salad_ 3 ounces black-eyed peas, cooked (chilled) 3 ounces couscous, cooked (chilled) 3 ounces celery, chopped 3 ounces carrot, chopped 1 1/2 ounces pecans, chopped 11/2 teaspoons safflower oil 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley 1/2 teaspoon marjoram Combine all ingredients. Mix well. Place approximately 1/4 of mixture in blender with 2 ounces water. Blend until completely pureed. Return to the rest of mixture and mix well." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Nuts such as macadamia nuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, and almonds are also good sources of phytosterols. Wheat germ and sesame seeds contain the highest amounts of phytosterols (400 mg/100 gm of nuts), and pistachios and sunflower kernels have the next highest (280 mg/100 gm of nuts). In Europe beta-sitosterol, a form of phytosterol, is prescribed to alleviate breast tenderness, improve liver function, prevent gallstone formation, lower cholesterol, and improve estrogen metabolism in women and men (it helps the symptoms of prostate enlargement)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Serves 1 Amaranth Peach Delight 6 ounces amaranth, cooked (room temperature) 3 ounces dried peaches, chopped 1 1/2 ounces pecans, chopped pinch of clove pinch of allspice Combine all ingredients. Mix well. Serves 1 312 Nutritious Drinks Frozen Cherry Supreme_ 3 cups orange or apple juice 1/2 cup ice cubes 1 cup frozen cherries 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"With a rolling pin or large heavy spoon, gently pound mixture to crumble cookies and pecans. (The mixture should be somewhat coarse, not finely ground.) Set aside. In a small bowl, mix all yogurt together. Add whipped topping and gently fold in to blend. Do not overmix. To assemble in individual 6- to 8-ounce glass serving pieces, spoon 2 tablespoons gingersnap-pecan mixture into bottom of each glass. Top each with 'A cup yogurt mixture. Portion the chopped kiwi into each glass and top with remaining yogurt mixture. Top each serving with remaining gingersnap-pecan mixture." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The best nuts are almonds, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, hazelnuts, walnuts, and some pine nuts. Brazil nuts, cashews, and macadamias have a little more saturated fat and are less desirable. But all nuts are good. LESSON THREE STRATEGIES Try these tips to incorporate more plants in your diet. Eat four to six vegetable servings daily. Blue Zone diets always include at least two vegetables at each meal. Limit intake of meat. The centenarians in the Blue Zones consume limited quantities of meat." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Add toasted slumped her shoulders], and he was wn°le walnuts or pecans to gone." It was two days before their a green sa'ad Try roasted 77th anniversary. cashews in a chicken salad. Finely chopped nuts can also make a delicious coating for CONVERTING ^ ^'ets' ^ut P°PPin8 ^em STRANGERS TO FRIENDS right in your mouth works, too. "It took me a year to realize that the world wasn't going to come to me," Marge said. "That's when I started volunteering again, and it was the best thing to ever happen to me. I found that when you are depressed, that's when you do something for somebody else." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Pecans. pecans are nuts for a special treat, such as for holidays or in the traditional pecan pie, usually sweetened with maple syrup. pecans (and macadamias), however, contain the lowest protein (about 10 percent) and highest fat (over 70 percent) of all the nuts. They grow on large trees often taller than 100 feet; the nuts are about four to a pecan fruit, each nut protected by a hard, woodlike shell. In fact, pecan shells can be ground and used as wood sculpture material (I have a pecan shell lion in my collection). Pecans contain some vitamins A, E, and C, niacin, and other B vitamins." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"Plant food sources include broccoli and other green leafy vegetables, kidney beans, cantaloupe, walnuts, soy, and pecans. Omega-3s, vitamin E, and niacin help lower cholesterol. Here's a perfect snapshot of food synergy. A recent Italian study suggests that a combined The Omega Basics There are two main families of polyunsaturated fat: omega-3s and omega-6s. While each is essential to health, most experts don't consider omega-6s part of the "smart fats" category." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Common sources include walnuts, safflower oil, sunflower seeds and oil, soy nuts, corn oil, Brazil nuts, soybean oil, pecans, tofu, peanuts, peanut butter, almonds, and dark-meat chicken. Studies show that omega-6 fats can reduce total and LDL cholesterol when they replace saturated fat in the diet. But excessive intake of omega-6 fats can cause a few health problems. What Does It Mean If Our Omega-6s Are Sabotaging Our Omega-3s?" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Cajun seasoning, such as Emeril's, plus additional for dusting fish 1 omega-3 egg 1 cup unsweetened soymilk 4 catfish, tilapia, or rainbow trout fillets 2 tablespoons grass-fed butter (see Note) V* cup extra-virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme, or 1 tablespoon dried Sea salt and cracked black peppercorns to taste Combine l cup of the pecans, the almond meal or soy flour, and the Cajun seasoning in a food processor. Pulse until finely ground but not smooth, then put into a shallow, wide plate." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "You should also try sesame seeds, pecans, or pistachios. PHASE 3 Finely chop the asparagus, combine all the ingredients, and serve raw. Don't laugh—this may soon become your favorite way to eat asparagus! Grilled Green BeanA PHASES 1-2, SERVES 2 If you've ever grown tired of green beans, you probably didn't know that grilling brings out the best in them. If possible, use the small, young beans that the French call haricot verts. This cooking method makes virtually any vegetable taste better." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "PHASE 2 Place a generous amount of sauteed greens or fresh lettuce on a plate, top with a fillet, and then spoon pecans over top. Add additional olive oil and lemon juice, if desired. PHASE 3 Commander Gundry's Pecan Tempeh: Substitute slices of tempeh for the fish and arrange over fresh greens or lettuces, as above. NOTE : Although butter will make only a rare appearance in Diet Evolution, in some recipes its special flavor is occasionally the only ingredient that will do." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"A handful of nuts (almonds, macadamia nuts, walnuts, or pecans), seeds (pumpkin seeds) •I- Fresh fruit LUNCH (12 TO 1 p.m.) Do soft-belly breathing. ? Eat lunch. ? While there are many lunch options, one option that I like is: f Two cups of steamed or sauteed vegetables One-half cup of brown rice ??Sauteed fish-if you don't have time to cook at lunch, canned salmon is also an excellent option (see Resources for clean sources). AFTERNOON SNACK (2 TO 3 P.M.) Any of the morning snack options are excellent, or, if you are really hungry, you could try another protein shake. ?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Foods high in magnesium include kelp, wheat bran, wheat germ, almonds, cashews, molasses, brewer's yeast, buckwheat, Brazil nuts, dulse, filberts, peanuts, millet, whole wheat, pecans, walnuts, rye, tofu, beet greens, and coconut. Magnesium 500-750 mg per day Manganese. Manganese may be one of the most important trace nutrients related to osteoporosis. Manganese deficiency causes a reduction in the amount of calcium laid down in the bone and thereby an increased susceptibility to fracture." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Pecans 1.2 Split peas, dry 1.1 Beef liver 0.8 Buckwheat 0.8 Peanuts 0.7 Cod liver oil 0.7 Lamb chops 0.5 Sunflower oil 0.4 Butter 0.4 Rye grain 0.4 Pork loin 0.4 Barley 0.4 Gelatin 0.3 Shrimp 0.3 Olive oil 0.3 Clams 0.3 Carrots 0.3 Coconut 0.3 Garlic 0.2 Millet 0.2 Whole wheat 0.2 Chicken 0.2 Eggs 0.2 Corn oil 0.2 Ginger root 0.2 Molasses 0.2 Turnips 0.1 Green peas 0.1 Papaya 0.1 Apples Black pepper, thyme, paprika, bay leaves, and active dry yeast are also high in copper. Manganese 3-5 Pecans 2.8 Brazil nuts 2.5 Almonds 1." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Serves 1 Nutty Oatmeal_ 6 ounces oatmeal, cooked (room temperature) 3 ounces pears, cut into bite-size pieces 1 1/2 ounce pecans, chopped 1 tablespoon honey Combine all ingredients. Mix well. Serves 1 Sweet Cinnamon Oatmeal 6 ounces oatmeal, cooked (room temperature) 11/2 ounces dried apricots, chopped pinch of cinnamon Combine all ingredients. Mix well. Serves 1 Nutty Banana Breakfast 6 ounces barley, cooked 3 ounces banana, mashed 1 1/2 ounces walnuts, chopped 2 tablespoons barley malt Combine all ingredients and mix well." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Granola Bars 2lA cups rolled oats XA cup sesame seeds XA cup chopped pecans A cup sunflower seeds V2 cup chopped cashews A cup chopped figs or dates Vi cup almond butter xh cup maple syrup Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray an 8 x 8-inch baking dish with oil. Mix all of the ingredients together in a large bowl. Press into the baking dish. Bake uncovered for about 30 minutes. Let cool in the baking dish for about 1 hour before cutting into bars. These bars store very well in a tightly covered container for a few days. Variations: 1. Add cup shredded coconut. 2." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

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