Choate Amy - Naked Nutrition: Whole Foods Revealed

I have been struggling with food for years now. What America has to realize is that we have exchanged convenience for health. Our food is killing us. I know because it was truly killing me.

Virtually no one has access to a private chef to do all the research, shopping, and cooking for you. Consider this book your private chef and shopper. It is packed with all the answers my wife and I sought when my doctors told me I had to change the way I ate.

GLENN BECK, nationally syndicated radio host, founder of TheBlaze television network, and twelve-time #1 bestselling author

As a chef, I am always looking for more depth of flavor in any dish. Naked Nutrition has captured that true flavor of the ingredients while still focusing on healthy living. In a world of mass produced, modified, and low-nutritional value foods, the recipes in this book are incredibly flavorful and filled with years of research and knowledge from Amy and Annie. It is a must-read in any kitchen.

RYKER BROWN, executive chef, Park City, Utah

Annie and Amy have put together a solid introductory reference for those new to eating real, healing, whole foods. Suited not only for beginners, this reference will take those more experienced with whole foods cookery to new vistas in both technique and ideas for innovative, tasty meals that dont break the budget.

HEATHER MARGARET, MD, family and lifestyle medicine Jemez Springs, New Mexico

The greatest nutritional ideas of any generation are when the most raw and unadulterated foods are reintroduced as modern health breakthroughs. Amy and Annie have assembled a book of delicious food essentials that will be deemed as real advances in both culinary excellence and nutritional wisdom.

DR. SPENCER WADE, chiropractic physician

To every courageous daughter of Eve willing to hear the naked truth and act accordingly

contents

Foreword

The title for the book, Naked NutritionWhole Foods Revealed, came in a moment and was meant in jest. To my surprise and consternation, it stuck. Despite considerable efforts to come up with a more sensible title, nothing makes our point better than the present title.

Nutrition is the great irony of our culture. It is one of our most severe challenges, yet it is simple to obtain if you know how. As for my journey and that of my wife, which led us through considerable illness, we were never more than a few feet away from the nutrition that we needed, although it might as well have been a million miles away. We, and everyone close to us, could not see it. It would take many years of suffering for the answers and awareness to gradually come.

It is beyond the scope of this book to cover all aspects of wellness or everything that our circumstances and experiences have taught us. What we hope to do is present the reader with a more natural philosophy upon which to base diet and lifestyle choices. The beautiful thing is that its not hard or complicated once you get the hang of it. It is like learning to swim: anyone can do it if they understand the basic principles and have spent a little time practicing. Upon achieving the basic ability, the person will then be able to spend the rest of their life enjoying the water and having fun in it rather than fearing it, or worse, drowning in it!

The key is found in nature and its God-given blueprint, or nature not subjected to the denaturing influence of unenlightened human enterprise. Therefore, nutrition is more likely found growing alongside a trail in the forest than on a supermarket shelf. People often say they have tried everything, but most of the time they have only tried what can be purchased with money. A simple herbal tea taken consistently and some regular deep breathing can cost you nothing and change everything. Our society has a difficult time accepting that such simple things could help, let alone cure a disease. We are unfortunately like the children of Israel in the wilderness who had but to look at the serpent on the cross to be healed, but would not because of the easiness of the way.

Within the natural world, healing is built into the system and works naturally, if not miraculously. Energizing sunlight, invigorating air, life-giving water, and wholesome herbs from the earth comprise the four vital elements of life and will work within our four bodies: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. If these elements are left with their blueprint intact, they will heal us and create the circumstances in which life can be lived to its fullest!

Man, in his idolatry, remakes the elements into something inferior. This happens in so many ways it can take a lifetime to figure out. Wherever this occurs, sickness, disease, and suffering are the outcome in exact proportion to the degree of the aberration. Dont misunderstand meman has a place in nature; he is Gods crowning achievement within nature! But man has agency and may choose contrary to the natural order; he can break the blueprint of that with which he interacts, including himself. At the present time, we are in a difficult position. The energy of today is killing us. It is in the water, the movies, the books, the politics and government, the conversation, andparticularlyit is whats for dinner.

We have our work cut out for us. There is much that we have created in our lives and communities that we must now undo. This generation knows more than any other that something is terribly wrong and we did not inherit the strength and vitality that is our birthright. We feel that there is more. This book is a step in that direction and we hope a significant one, with more to follow.

So back to the titleNaked Nutrition, meaning food in its simple, wholesome, and live state. Whole Foods Revealed, meaning to remove the veil from our eyes that prevents us from seeing where the nutrition is and how to utilize it a revelation.

Joshua Choate

Natural Philosophy Press

June 2015

The Elephants in the Room

Elephant #1Meat

Anyone reading this book will sooner or later recognize we have not included meat, dairy, or eggs. Furthermore, we make the argument that the ideas and recipes in this book represent a healthy approach to diet and lifestyle. Does this mean we are vegans? No, it does not. This is not a vegan cookbook and we have accordingly not used the term vegan or vegetarian anywhere in the work. The appropriate term for this kind of cookbook, or our chosen term, is plant-based. This means we do everything we can to rely on plants for our nutritional and cultural eating needs because it is our desire to spare the life of the animals, if we can, whether from slaughter or a lifetime of captivity.

It is necessary, however, to balance this ideal with the reality that nutrition can be elusive and requirements vary from individual to individual and circumstance to circumstance. It is up to the individual to discern what their needs are, and act accordingly. There are many who claim removing animal products was the best thing they ever did, and others who claim it almost killed them.