Wise Women Care Associates

Summer Waters, NTP, L.Ac., CGP, is passionate about encouraging her patients to incorporate properly prepared, nutrient dense foods for excellent health.
Racing around, going to meetings, eating in the car, and being chronically dehydrated can easily stress the digestive system. Choosing our foods wisely (see recommendations below) and appreciating what’s on our plates even before we take the first bite can help us to slow down and chew our food well. So try to shift your habits and remember to express gratitude, take a few deep, belly breaths to encourage your body to switch into its parasympathetic process (rest and digest mode), and enjoy the benefits!

Transitioning to a Nutrient Dense Diet:

Be encouraged to start with a single item from the list below and create changes one step at a time.

• Eliminate all commercially processed soy foods from your household. (Healthy soyfoods include tempeh, shoyu – naturally fermented soy sauce, miso, and natto.
• Replace sugar with natural sweeteners in moderation as tolerated, such as raw local honey, stevia, coconut sugar/sap, grade B maple syrup, rapadura, and sucanat.
• Replace fruit juices and sodas with lacto-fermented beverages, such as traditionally made ginger ale, beet kvass, and kombucha (if tolerated). *Ask Summer for a copy of the cookbook, “Nourishing Traditions” for recipes – see below.
• Replace poly-unsaturated vegetable oils and trans fats with traditional fats such as raw and cultured butter, olive oil, sesame seed oil, coconut oil, lard, chicken fat, tallow, etc.
• Replace industrially produced breakfast cereals with nutrient dense eggs from hens on pasture, non-nitrate bacon, homemade kefir, whole milk yogurt, and soaked oatmeal (if tolerated).
• Replace pasteurized dairy products with raw and cultured dairy. Ask Summer about local raw milk sources in the Rogue Valley.
• Replace processed, convenience foods (boxed, packaged, prepared and canned food items) with fresh, organic, whole foods.
• Take your daily dose of high vitamin cod liver oil (with no synthetics added). Summer sells her top recommended products, Green Pastures’ Fermented Cod Liver Oil and High Vitamin Butter Oil superfoods.
• It is also recommended that everyone own a copy of “Nourishing Traditions”, a cookbook by Sally Fallon Morell, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation.  This book and other important health related books are available for purchase at the clinic. Please call the clinic at 541-772-2291 to find out how to purchase this and other top quality health books or to get the Fermented Cod Liver Oil and High Vitamin Butter Oil for you and your family.
• Important Note: Consuming home cooked meals is the best safe guard we have of protecting our health.

Please contact Wise Women Care Associates to schedule an appointment with Summer Waters, L.Ac., NTP, CGP, so you can get the support you need to make the transition to a more healthful and more satisfying nutrient rich way of eating.