Heathy Native Foods and Commodity Food Items Cookbooks:

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Reclaim your Body and Health:
by Mary Farkas, M.S., R.D., M.A

  • Nutrition Facts
  • Commodity Food Recipes

This cookbook contains some great recipes as well as nutritional information regarding weight loss, children, pregnancy, and native foods. All of the recipes in this cookbook are appropriate for diabetics, people with heart disease, and people with most gastro-intestinal problems. They are low in fat, have good fiber sources, and are delicious! We hope that you will begin to use these recipes every day to help your family stay healthy. We use commodity foods whenever possible. Sample meal plans are included.

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Native American Health Recipies:
by Dr Cruz Acevedo

  • A three week healthy menu

In the modernization of food processing, today we are consuming upwards of several thousand chemicals. These are designed to make food look good; be preserved for long periods of time (indefinitely in some cases); to retard oxidation and spoilage, and mostly to enhance the taste needs of modern people. Sadly as our tastes change (higher salt and sugar intakes), the food industry adjusts their food processing.
Additionally many of the chemicals used are questionable for human consumption. The truth is that we should eat our aboriginal foods when ever possible.

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To view the 'Read Me' file included on the Native Cookbooks CD, click here. This 'Read Me' PDF contains information about the CD, a brief introduction to the authors of the cookbooks, and special thanks.

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