[jaringg]

Some of you may not have been able to get to her blog.
In case your interested in learning more about what she is all about, here is a clip from the past.

Where did time go
Well the years have gone by with not a post on my blog for a long time, and that is something I will work on.
I have been through many life changes including the death of a beloved aunt, my pets illness, a diagnosis of Alzheimer's in my Father, and as they say...life happenings.
So, with that in mind I will catch you up with things and then we will get back to why I began this blog, to share what I can about health, nutrition and beauty as we age.
First, as I said above, I watch a father dying of alzheimers and say to those out there who are caring for loved ones with this miserable disease, my heart goes out to you, for this is a disease that truly in my opinion, is worse on those watching it, for it is heartwrenching to see it rob our loved ones of all ability to function.
No wonder the Dr. said that the caretakers often die before the afflicted person. Very hard indeed. More about what I feel about this disease and what those of us can do for ourselves in another post.
Then there was the diagnosis of diabetes in my dearest pet and love, a sweet 7 pound Yorkie dog named Jacob. I have fought this battle with him over a year now, and that means I learned to blood test, take diabetic blood glucose curves,understand fasting numbers and doses of insulin. I know when and how a hypoglycemic incident would present itself and what to do about it.
I also know he will go blind, and it is race now to keep his sugar at the best possible level to stave off that blindness. So, those things along with the attitude of ...not many people find my blog anyway...which I hope someday changes...well those things just kept me from posting.
I promised myself today that will change. I have lots to say about the health, nutrition and aging fields, possibly more now than ever for I like everyone else, am getting up there. More than that fact, is that with the added years come experience, and the observation that what one thinks is right to do or possibly feels right to do, just may be an answer or at least worth the try. Now at 65, feeling great and hoping I stay this way and (have to throw this in here)... KNOWING how to stay this way.... which is indeed a choice we make daily is not always easy, but the other outcome if we make the bad choices is not an option for me. Look around you, and you will see what I mean.
Dis-ease is everywhere. I hope to share much more with you. Till then,

Norma Jean


Note: she has a Facebook page.

I'm not sure if face book ref. are allowed here
but here goes.

Facebook.com/normajean912

[jaringg]

Here is a copy of another observations

New Diet Guidelines

Here is a link to the new pyramid recommendation for our aging population, specifically those over 70 yrs old.


Notice that there are more foods that contain live digestive enzymes, those being the fruits and vegetables and with good reason. These foods are the antioxidants that contribute to health and contain the nutrients that feed the cells and fuel the body. More importantly these foods are live and enzyme rich. As we age the body's digestive enzymes are depleted and these live foods contain their own enzymes helping to aid in digestion. This is why eating a salad with a meal will often help in the digestive process due to the live enzyme rich greens. "Live" foods, will become the next big push toward healthy eating.

However I feel we need to go one step further as the body is older and the organs of digestion are not working as efficiently as in our youth. Because of this,these foods will have a harder time digesting even when following this new recommendation. Consider the liver is only working to 1/4 of the capacity it once was. In fact some of these organs are diseased themselves, making their job very difficult. The digestive system is responsible for our health and reliant on what we place in it so it can preform as best it can. So beyond following this new pyramid, what can one do to help this entire system preform all its necessary functions for cellular health?

Combine foods that will digest easily.

There are many books about digestion and "foods that fight" each other and I highly recommend reading some of them. Eating like this is not the American way of life because our meals are complex, filled with too many different foods.

Eating foods that are having an easy time digesting allows the digestive organs to easily derive the nutrients from the foods and then get on with the task of repairing THEMSELVES so they can better take care of us. Think of how one feels after a Thanksgiving meal. Those organs are having a terrible time digesting that meal and we feel it as fatigue, bloat and indigestion. And we see it as cellulite and weight gain!

Try it sometime and follow a few of the rules of digestion. I have an 80/20 rule. 80%of the time I do what is right for my health. The other 20% of the time, I break a few rules for it is not what we do 20% that harms us but what we do 80% of the time likely will. One more thing. That 20% time that I break the rules for easy diestion I will take a couple capsules of digestive enzymes.

Eating healthy will not matter if a system sends out putrified, toxic poison into the body due to faulty digestion! Maybe we will hear about this next...they have it half right!

Norma Jean, N.D.

This is the type of information she will be sharing at College of life lng learning next week. Still time to sign up.

[1painslayer]

She doesn`t suggest a diet because there is no one size fits all recommendation for the best health because everyone is different, yet the basics are still the same. One thing for sure is that she sure knows how to cook and eat well.

Did you see her in the Daily Sun today, at the back of the `Smoothie` section, (01/15/13)?

Great pic and a great recipe too. I`ve had her homemade ice cream. It`s delicious and nutritious! This woman knows how to cook and enjoy what she eats. It`s probably why she is in the College of Life Long Learning too.

[jaringg]

Originally Posted by 1painslayer

She doesn`t suggest a diet because there is no one size fits all recommendation for the best health because everyone is different, yet the basics are still the same. One thing for sure is that she sure knows how to cook and eat well.

Did you see her in the Daily Sun today, at the back of the `Smoothie` section, (01/15/13)?

Great pic and a great recipe too. I`ve had her homemade ice cream. It`s delicious and nutritious! This woman knows how to cook and enjoy what she eats. It`s probably why she is in the College of Life Long Learning too.

I have had the "smoothie" also, great taste. By the way NJ is 65. (She is going to kill me) next month.

The one picture shows NJ at Truman during a recent lesture

[jaringg]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

Has she written a book yet? I would like to read her book, if she has one.

For those of you who may be interested Norma Jean is writing her book finally.
Here is a short exert:

( I recently ran into a gentlemen who i had not seen for many months. He knew of my passion for healthy eating. He relayed a story that took him from a scare of cancer to the much better health and 25 pound weight loss he has today. Within only a few months of taking control of his lifestyle, his diet, his health turned around for the better. As we shared information back and forth, he stated to me he did many of the things that i spoke about. I then asked him..WHY, what made him change his old diet and way of eating and drinking. He said..."because I had a scare")

This a sample of an actual happening to NJ
This occurred here in The Villages just recently.

[jaringg]

As many of you know NormaJean (her last name is Teufel) succusfully compleated her first presentation at the College of Lifelong Learning. The attendees all were very impressed with her ability to render her knowledge to them.

WELL, she has been scheduled for a series starting in March. Here is the outline of her subjects:

Subject: course 2230
phone for sign up 352 7533035

FOOD COMBINATIONS AND BLOOD TYPE DIET'S AFFECT ON WEIGHT, HEALTH AND SKIN

Ever notice what one of us eats another cannot?

This course offers guidance in individual dietary choices and combinations of foods, whether at home or in a restaurant. Inflammation from our diet occurs topically as well as internally. You will learn how to reduce inflammation, the common denominator in today's lifestyle diseases of heart, stroke, diabetes, cancers, and obesity. Doing so, especially as we age, can mean a more youthful lifestyle, healthy weight loss and less chance for lifestyle disease.

[Phanatic Luvr]

Actually, the FOOD COMBINATIONS AND BLOOD TYPE DIETS was posted incorrectly above for March and May.
The course # is 2519

[jaringg]

Originally Posted by Phanatic Luvr

Actually, the FOOD COMBINATIONS AND BLOOD TYPE DIETS was posted incorrectly above for March and May.
The course # is 2519

I just noticed that I never thanked you for correcting my error. Thank You.
A lot of things have happened since then.Nj is now on an Internet radio station, www.efsradio.com
she also is now a regular at the College of Lifelong Learning. In june she will have four courses titled "Food combinations & Blood types, effects on skin and health.
The book she is writing is coming along very nicely. She expects it to be compleated by mid summer.
Attached is her picture at the recent show.

[salpal]

I took Norma Jean's second class and it was extremely enlightening. I am now working with her privately to achieve my goals. It is true that she could pass for at least 20 years younger than her chronological age. She practices what she preaches. I signed the survey for her cooking class that she is going to teach at Learning Center (college). I cannot wait for that class.

[jaringg]

From watching the number of people who open this series of posts, it seems to me that a lot of you are interested in health. I was asked by NormaJean to look at a web presentation about the effect of food on our bodyies.
I watched it this morning because last nite when it was broadcast, so many people tried to log no that theoir servers crashed.
They put it on youtube, take a look, you wont be sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR8SQzCJK0Q

[jaringg]

Hey, did any of you, who look at this thread see NJ's write up in the daily sun?
Great write up.

[jaringg]

This is not really a reply but an ongoing story, there does not seem a category for this.

As many of you know, Norma jean, a local Guru. is writing a book which she is collaborating on with many of you.
She sent me a copy of her latest work, and it is a "MUST READ" of what her book is about. The points she makes are so appropriate to many of us living here, I can not wait for the completion of her work.


here is an exert :

Nj says:

Being a caretaker is hard, but watching a family member decline from this miserable dis-ease was so depressing, as time went on, I just did not care what or when I ate. I began to feel fatigued, was putting on weight eating foods wrong for me, yet right for him. We ate together, and I included his beneficial blood type foods which are meats. He always loved his hamburgers and steaks, but for me, having Type A blood they do nothing except cause me digestive problems contributing to weight gain. Soon in no time at all, pain began to radiate down the right leg. I had been through this before, and knew exactly where this was headed. Believe me when I say food, along with lack of exercise began the decline. I had hoped my move to Erie, would encourage my family to follow the healthy ways I had lived for some time now but instead, I went their way in a slow but steady decline in part from the depression of watching what was happening to dad along with the pressures of care taking.

Dad was always a meat and potato lover. I never ate so much meat in my life. At my healthiest, I rarely ate meats, turkey, pork or chicken, which are wrong for my type A blood, and at one point went without any of them for 5 years. During that time I did eat eggs and wild seafood, but none of the above. Now, here I was, not only eating all those types of flesh proteins, I began to eat the baked goods I made for him in an effort to keep him from loosing too much weight. I made an oatmeal cookie with an antioxidant mixture full of heart healthy walnuts and cinnamon with my antioxidant mixture of ground flax seed, help seed, chia seed and NON GMO soy lecithin granules. They were so delicious, but soon, the added meats I was consuming along with the cookies and other baked goods, added to my own weight gain.

Nj