My family and I eat these in place of potato chips.  My kids actually really enjoy them.

• Kale
• Real Salt (It’s loaded with energy providing minerals and is a step above sea salt.  It’s real salt from the Earth. We sell it in the office for about $8 a bottle.)

These super healthy brownies are made with coconut flour.

Traditional white flour vs. coconut flour.

Traditional Flour:

• Bleached.  This is a process where usually benzoyl peroxide is used to remove healthy antioxidants from the grain. If benzoyl peroxide sounds familiar to you it is because it is in popular topical acne medication.  YUCK!  The European Union, Canada, China and other countries have BANNED the use of benzoyl peroxide and other peroxide in flour due to health concerns.
• Stripped of nutrition in the refinement process.  That’s right!  Just about every nutrient that God put in that grain is removed by man to improve shelf life.  Silly Humans!
• Bleached wheat can be very hard on the digestive tract especially if someone is missing the enzymes to break down wheat.

Coconut Flour:

• Supports the reduction of harmful bacteria in the body.
• Supports the reduction of harmful fungi in the body.
• Easy on the liver and digestive tract to digest.
• The fiber in coconut flour promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria in the GI tract.
• Good for the Immune System

SIDE NOTE:  Any friends or family that you have that need help may come into the office between the dates of December 19th and December 29th and receive a FREE Consultation and a Holistic New Patient Exam for ONLY $29. Exams are normally between $125 and $175 depending on complexity of exam needed. Please bring your friends and family that need help!  This is a great holiday ONLY promotion to extend help during this time of year.

Verdict: Coconut flour beats the heck out of traditional white flour in the brownie baking department as far as I’m concerned.

Here’s the recipe for these great brownies.  You can make them over the holidays for the entire family to enjoy.

• 1/2 cup coconut flour. (Only 6 grams of fiber, 3 grams carbs, 3 grams protein, 2.5 grams fat per serving).
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 Tablespoons ground flax or chia (optional, you can add this for extra nutrition or you can add 2 tablespoons of organic, raw, shredded coconut)
• 5 eggs
• 8 dates
• ¾  tsp vanilla
• 1 and ¾ cup unsweetened chocolate almond milk
• Pour the dates in the blender and blend until they are in small pieces.  Then add all the liquid items together, eggs, the vanilla, almond milk…… Blend these all together.
• Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix.  You should have a thick but pourable batter.  If it is still too think just add additional almond milk.
• Grease your 8X8 baking pain with coconut oil and pour the above mixture in the pan.
• Bake on 350 for about 20 minutes or until you can stick a toothpick in the brownies and it comes out dry.  Some ovens cook a bit faster so keep an eye on it around the 15 minute mark.

ENJOY!!!

Optional: 1/2 cup chopped nuts or chopped unsweetened chocolate.

Optional:  you can add the following to increase sweetness:

• more dates
• 10 to 20 drops of chocolate Stevia (you can avoid the dates and sugar all together and just use the Chocolate Stevia if you’d like.  We sell this at the office.)
• ¼ cup of Sugar in the Raw

Please don’t forget: Any friends or family that you have that need help, may come into the office between the dates of December 19th and December 29th and receive a FREE Consultation and a Holistic New Patient Exam for ONLY $29.  Exams are normally between $125 and $175 depending on complexity of exam needed.

Happy Holidays!!!

Dr. Rob

The last event was fantastic.  I’m very proud of my 11 year old daughter for the great job she did with the Alfalfa Chicken Ceasar Salad.  Watch this very short video to see some fun and funny clips of the Extravaganza.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vnhwVGEzE

Possibly even a desert!  Baking for your Body Type

This recipe is great for the Liver Body Type.  And was taught at the last Eating for Your Body Type Workshop.  We had 58 people at the event and had to turn two away as we were to full, however, we all enjoyed some great slaw!!! 

In a blender combine the first seven ingredients. While blender is running, drizzle in the oils and blend well.  Stir in sesame seeds.  Refrigerate until chilled.

Thank you Dr. Eric Berg for this wonderful recipe!

Check out the SCAT technique.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVPvmeL-jgM

Add olive oil and heat on medium to medium high heat.  If the range is too hot when you cook with the EVOO you will create free radicals in the oil and you will lose the health benefit.  Finely chop the garlic and add to the oil.  Make sure not to burn the garlic.  Just saute for a minute or so then add your Kale.  Saute the Kale (yes with a capital “K” because it’s that good for you) until it is al dente, which literally means, “to the tooth” in Italian.  It is a texture that is kind of soft but still has a crunch to it.  Add the beans and saute for another couple of minutes.  Finally, stir in garlic salt and copped parsley to taste.

I’ve heard of people doing all sorts of things to try and get rid of cellulite.  There are people that go to Medical Spas to try and get the cellulite “massaged” off their body with different devices and some choose to surgically remove it.  You can lose weight by eating right but can you lose cellulite without these costly and invasive procedures?

Dr. Rob

You’ve tried improving your eating, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Atkins, the Zone Diet, counting calories and every other diet under the sun.  You’ve tried weight lifting, walking until your shoes have worn through but still, if you even look at a picture of cheesecake you’ll gain 5 pounds and the weight, despite everything you do, just won’t come off and stay off.  This my friend I call SWS or Stubborn Weight Loss Syndrome.

SWS is extremely frustrating because it violates logical thinking.  Here’s logical thinking, “If I reduce my calories I’ll loose weight.”  Sounds logical, let’s see, if that’s always correct…..BLAAAAMMM.  WRONG ANSWER! 

See, all reducing your calories or exercising ever did was cause the glands in your body to make special hormones that cause your body to burn fat for energy.  After all, that’s what you are after; to burn your fat for energy and as a result, lose weight. However, what if your glands are broken?   Meaning, what if they can’t make the right amount of fat burning hormone any more.  In this case it doesn’t matter how much you diet or exercise you can’t lose the weight.  Why?  Because your glands are broken.  It’s the gland that makes the fat burning hormone.  If it doesn’t work everything else you do will have only a minor result.

There are different ways to eat for different glandular problems that will help to support the healing of the gland and losing of unwanted fat.  There is one particular way to eat, though that can be very effective for a large number of people.  From my recent experience I’ve found there is one way to eat where the average person can lose between 3 to 7 pounds of body fat each and every week.

The way this works is to target the organ/gland that most Americans theoretically have a problem with and that is the pancreas.  Americans in general eat too many carbohydrates.  Carbohydrates turn to sugar in the blood and cause the pancreas to make the hormone insulin.  Insulin is the hormone that lowers blood sugar which is good.  Nobody wants to have high blood sugar and slip into a comma.  However, when insulin is overproduced for too long a period of time, like 20 years or 40 years worth of American eating, you get too much insulin in the blood.  Problem?  YES!  Insulin is a fat storing hormone.  In fact, insulin is one of the most powerful fat storing hormones you have.  A system was developed by an MD/PhD Dr. Chanh and he found if a person ate a certain ratio of carbohydrates, proteins and fat they can lose 3 to 7 pounds of body fat each and ever week.  I’ve used this system now with close to 60 patients and if they have a history of eating carbs in excess this system can really help them.  It’s pretty rewarding as a doc to see 3 to 7 pounds of body fat fall off a person who in the past, could never get the weight off their fram.  Pretty rewarding indeed.

If you’d like more information on how to eat and how to do this program just respond to this post or shoot me an email. 

In Health,

Dr. Rob

About 25 years ago, the French Olympic coaches needed a way for their athletes to lose body fat fairly quickly and yet preserve muscle. They needed quick fat loss but they didn’t want their athletes to lose any muscle.  They turned to MD, PhD, Tran Tien Chanh.  In his research, Dr. Chanh found that hormones are much more powerful than calories when it comes to losing fat. Don’t believe him?  Did you ever see a skinny person eat all kinds of junk food and not gain a pound?  Man, I don’t like those people very much   In contrast, have you ever known someone that did everything right?  They ate perfectly, exercised perfectly but losing weight was a total struggle and had problems keeping it off as well.

To continue, Dr. Chanh looked closely at the hormone system and he found one of the most powerful of these hormones was insulin because of its incredible power to cause the body to store fat.  In addition, Dr. Chanh found that it was nearly impossible to burn fat in the presence of too much insulin.   Insulin, could not only make you fat but stop you from losing fat altogether.

So the culprit was insulin.  He continued his research and found if a person ate an exact ratio of carbohydrates, proteins and fats they would be able to loss 3 to 7 pounds of body fat each week.  I’ve used Dr. Chanh’s ratios with about 40 patients so far and found it to be very effective.   Our own Front Desk Receptionist Chuck Landrum, has lost 17 pounds in 3 weeks using Dr. Chanh’s ratios.  INCREDIBLE!!

The way the system works is you would eat 3 prepackaged meals each day and 1 of your own meals.  These meals travel very well.  Your meals are not expensive at all.  Really, all you are doing is replacing what you would normally spend on food and spending it on this correct ratio  food.  You simply stop by the office to pick up your food or we just  ship the food to your house.   This is NOT a Jenny Craig or a NutriSystem type of program. This system is specifically created to affect your hormones and causes the average person to lose between 3 to 7 pounds of body fat each week. Once your weight goal has been reached, you can now, step by step, go into a maintenance phase.  In maintenance, it is all about food combinations, which we will get into later….and yes you can absolutely keep the weight off.  There are a couple nutritional supplements that are recommended on this program as well, that are not at all costly.

We start you off with a 10 day starter pack of food.  This starter pack is a sample of many of the different food choices so you can see what you like and what you don’t.  We have email order forms to make reordering food very easy for you or you just come into the office and shop off the shelves.

This program is all about helping you to lose between 3 to 7 pounds of body fat each week while preserving your muscle.   It’s about supporting the prevention of heart disease, diabetes, insulin resistance and high cholesterol and helps a person obtain that youthful and wonderful feeling that occurs when you hit your ideal weight.

Please let me know if you have more interest and I can send you links for pics of the foods, food menus, as well as, the costs for foods.  We have a special right now where you can save $100.

You can also call the office and talk with Chuck Landrum and he explain more in detail how everything works, (770) 304-1500.

Most people are in love with this program.  They are so pleased to finally get the weight off and gain control of their body fat once and for all.

My Very Best,

Dr. Rob

Here is a picture of the American Food Pyramid on a plate.  Notice the huge serving of carbohydrates at the bottom.  If you move up from the bottom, you’ll see more carbohydrates in the form of fruits.  Then more carbs as vegetables.  Then finally we hit some protein and fats.  Spending a lifetime of eating as shown in the above picture will cause your pancreas to release insulin.  Lots of it!  Now, add the occasional ice cream sundae, a couple cookies, mom’s homemade apple pie and we have an insulin catastrophe on our hands and that is exactly what America is dealing with, an insulin catastrophe.

Too much insulin makes you fat.  Yep, that’s right.  Insulin makes you fat.  “How?” do you ask, well, simple.  Insulin is the hormone that gets released by your pancreas that helps lower blood sugar.  Carbohydrates raise your blood sugar so insulin gets release to bring your blood sugar levels down to normal.  Now insulin also causes a chemical reaction to occur called LIPOGENESIS.  Lipogenesis is when your body takes all those carbohydrates you’ve eaten over the years and stores them as belly fat.  Eventually, from eating too many carbs, the levels of insulin build up in the body and you become a fat storing machine. 

 ”Did You Ever See An Alcoholic Get Drunk Off Two Drinks?”

 I have had maybe 10 alcoholic beverages in the last 10 years.  Accordingly, if i were to have a drink or two I’d be a little tipsy to say the least, because my body is not used to having alcohol in it.  Now, if a person had about 10 alcoholic drinks a day he might not get tipsy at all by having just one or two drinks.  His body has built a tolerance to or become resistant to the alcohol.  In the same respect, a person who has a lot of insulin in his blood, due to years of carbohydrate consumption, will become tolerant or resistant to insulin.  Just like the alcoholic that needs more and more alcohol to get drunk, you will need more and more insulin to lower your blood sugar……….you are now insulin resitant.  The high levels of insulin will cause you to store more fat and worse, make it very difficult for you to lose.

There is a well-renown French, MD, PhD who worked closely with the French Olympic Athletes and has developed an easy yet extremely effective system to get rid of body fat.  The average women loses 3 to 5 pounds of fat and the average male loses 4 to 7 pounds of fat, all by naturally reducing your insulin levels.  It is easy, safe and highly effective.

For more information please email me at  dr.rob@alternacareinc.com and I will get you the additional information.  It’s a bit too long to place in a blood or a post but I will share it all with you.

Yours In Health,

Dr. Robert G DeBease, BS, DC

On February 8^th 2011, Dr. Rob is conducting a Webinar that is designed to educate teachers and parents about the physical, nutritional and chemical causes of child behavioral and learning disorders.   I think any parent and teacher could really benefit from attending.  The webinar is FREE.

 Worried About Your Child’s Future?

• Behavioral Problems?
• Tired of Medications?
• Doing Poorly in School?
• ADD/ADHD?
• Ear Infections and Sickness?

Attend the Healthy Child Webinar

Date: Tuesday February 8^th

Time: 8:30pm to 9:30pm

PASSWORD: healthychild11

 A Few of the Many Workshop Highlights:

• Find out what VITAMINS a child may be MISSING if he can’t STAY FOCUSED in school.
• Learn which essential FATS a child should consume to IMPROVE his CONCENTRATION
• What is the absolute WORST meal your child cold have for BREAKFAST? Find out at this workshop!
• Discover what color FOOD DYES and the name of the chemicals in them that can cause a child to become extremely HYPERACTIVE.
• Learn the name of the MEDICATION that is commonly given for ADD and ADHD that can SHRINK your CHILD’S BRAIN.
• Can a child have an infection in their body but not run a fever? Could that INFECTION cause LEARNING DISORDERS? Find out at this workshop!
• Discover what FOODS DECREASE a child’s ability to CONCENTRATION and learn.
• Find out what MINERALS can help DECREASE HYPERACTIVITY and improve a child’s sleep.
• Learn all the DANGERS of RITALIN, FOCALIN and ADDERALL and what damage they can cause in your child’s body.
• Discover the common foods a child can be allergic to and not even know it.
• Vitamins: how to tell the difference between natural and synthetic.
• Learn about some of the best substances a child can consume to IMPROVE BRAIN function.
• Find out what’s behind EAR INFECTIONS.
• Receive a Pediatric Health Assessment Handout to help determine where the SOURCE of your CHILD’S SYMPTOMS may be coming from.
• Understand why some children are SICK ALL the TIME.
• Learn about the connection between gluten intolerance (this is not a food allergy but an inability to break down the protein in wheat) and ADD/ADHD.
• Find out how a child can get MERCURY toxicity and how that can be linked to ADD/ADHD type symptoms.
• Understand how to test for a mercury TOXICITY.
• Find out how to read a food label to reduce the level of toxic chemical in your child’s food.
• Clear up the confusion on whether ADD is a real disease or just a bunch of symptoms thrown together.
• What’s the one BIGGEST MISTAKE parents can make when they have a child who has been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD.
• Find out what every parent should know is they have a child with ADD/ADHD.