The Truth About Your Comfort Foods: When Your Comfort...

The Truth About Your Comfort Foods: When Your Comfort

Foods Become Uncomfortable

by Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo

and

Chef Alicia Ojeda

1www.DriedAndGoneToHeaven.com© 2010 Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo and Chef Alicia Ojeda

Comfort

• 1. To soothe in time of affliction or distress.• 2. To ease physically; relieve.• n.1. A condition or feeling of pleasurable ease, well-

being, and contentment.• 2. Solace in time of grief or fear.• 3. Help; assistance: gave comfort to the enemy.• 4. One that brings or provides comfort.• 5. The capacity to give physical ease and well-being:

enjoying the comfort of my favorite chair.• 6. Chiefly Southern & Lower Northern U.S. A quilted

bedcover; a comforter.


Things Happen To Threaten Our Sense Of Comfort

– Loneliness

– Fear

– Anger and frustration

– Overwhelm

– Loss and emotional trauma

– Physical trauma


Early on we learned to EQUATE FOOD

with Love, Security, Comfort


When Comfort Foods Create Discomfort


Finding True Comfort


What’s Really in Our Comfort Foods?

(It’s Scary)


Oreo Cookies

Sugar, wheat flour, vegetable fats (with antioxidants: E-306, E-304), fat-reduced cocoa powder (7%), glucose and fructose syrup, raising agents (sodium and ammonium bicarbonates), whey powder (from milk), cocoa mass, salt, emulsifier (soya lecithin), flavouring (vanillin).


Chips

Potato chips

"Ingredients: Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Salt.“

Fritos

"Ingredients: Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt. No Preservatives.“

This may seem innocent enough…but these fried fats are have been discovered to be carcinogenic (cancer causing).


Chocolate Chip Cookies

Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Oatmeal, Semisweet Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Dextrose, Soy Lecithin-an Emulsifier, Milk), Palm Oil And/Or Canola Oil And/Or Palm Kernel Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Raisin Paste, Sugar, Coconut, Fructose, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate), Dextrose, Molasses, Dextrin, Salt, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier), Natural And Artificial Flavor, Caramel Color.


Ice Cream

Cream, Skim Milk, Liquid Sugar, Water, Cherries, Egg Yolks, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Coconut Oil, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Cocoa, Natural Flavors, Concentrated Lemon Juice, Caramel And Red Cabbage Juice Extract (For Color), Guar Gum, Milkfat, Soya Lecithin, Carrageenan


Conditions That Can Be Related To Gluten

• Joint inflammation’• Rashes• Depression• ADHD and autism• Irritable bowel, inflammatory bowel, leaky gut• Autoimmune disease – lupus, thyroiditis, Sjogren’s• Schizophrenia• Neuromuscular disorders• Gall bladder problems• Addictions

For additional info go to: www.DrRitamarie.com/glutenfree www.Enterolabs.com www.celiac.com


http://www.drritamarie.com/glutenfree

http://www.enterolabs.com/

http://www.celiac.com/

Foods that TRULYComfort

AND Nourish


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