by Sally K Norton | Jun 6, 2015 | Recipes, Treats
Soaked / Lightly Fermented is the best way to prepare grains. For digestibility, assimilation and nutritional benefit, grains (including breakfast porridge) should be soaked overnight or longer. With this method, the oats are set up to soak in acidified water for 8 –...
by Sally K Norton | Jun 4, 2015 | Blog, Healing, Oxalates
Most people will find certainty and safety by subscribing to widely held ideas, regardless of the “truth” of those ideas. Likewise, institutions and the people that are governed by them resist new explanations for phenomena. A classic example of this is...
by Sally K Norton | Jun 2, 2015 | Blog, Kidney Health, Medical Care
No one goes through medical training so they can disappoint people with lousy outcomes and grievous errors in performing dangerous procedures. Yet, this is happening as a regular course of business in American Medicine. In my post, The Cost of Too Much Spinach, we...
by Sally K Norton | Jun 1, 2015 | Blog, Healing, Kidney Health
In the July-August issue of Well Being Journal, Scott Miners1 shared the story of a teenager who went through a series of expensive diagnostic tests and unnecessary surgery. She had extreme pain and difficulty urinating. Four MRIs, 2 CT scans, and x-rays failed to...
by Sally K Norton | May 31, 2015 | Featured
Trying to “get healthy” can prompt you to order a spinach salad, get a juicer, and start pouring almond milk over your cereal. All these “healthy” actions can eventually add up to major health problems – ones you’d rather avoid. Problems like chronic pain, fatigue,...
by Sally K Norton | May 16, 2015 | Blog, Healing, Kidney Health, Medical Care, Nutrition Science, Weight Loss
A case of kidney failure after bariatric surgery is stopped with low-oxalate diet. Canadian nephrologists reported a case of life-threatening kidney damage caused by kidney deposits of oxalate crystals.1 The doctors performed a kidney biopsy on their patient, a...
by Sally K Norton | Apr 2, 2015 | Recipes, Side Dishes
This is an easy dish, and surprisingly good. It makes a great left-over and will keep in the refrigerator for four days. Prep time: 30 minutes ¦ Total Time: 1 day, for soaking. Serves 6 as a side dish. Estimated oxalate per serving = 9 mg. Persian Black-Eyed...
by Sally K Norton | Feb 10, 2015 | Meats and Seafood, Recipes, Soup
Delicious summer soup. Chicken Coconut Cilantro SoupServings: 8-10Time: 1.5 hours (make a day early)Difficulty: Not too hardPrint Ingredients 2 T butter, ghee, or duck fat 2 oz. minced yellow onion or spring onion 1 -2 garlic clove(s), crushed 2 C homemade chicken...
by Sally K Norton | Feb 3, 2015 | Meats and Seafood, Recipes, Soup
This soup is high protein and makes an easy entree. This fish soup recipe is adapted from ”Mrs. Wilkes Boardinghouse Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from her Savannah …” (Ten Speed Press, 2002). Retaining both the skin and bones makes this especially nutritious,...
by Sally K Norton | Jan 12, 2015 | Blog, Healing, My Education, My Story, Nutrition Science, Oxalates
Sweet potatoes, walnuts, and kiwi are no longer my friends. Apparently, they never were. I just never got the memo. My nutrition education hadn’t warned me that a variety of vegetables, nuts, and fruits could cause health problems due to their oxalate content....
