Recently I heard that a family member in her early 50s was being seen by a doctor for DVT and that she was hoping that there was a more natural way of dealing with it than the medications her doctor was prescribing. When I had digested this scrap of family ''information,'' I thought about my own lax position (denial, really) and how it would make sense for me to make some changes in my life while I still have some shreds of health and potential fitness. And, of course, I have inherited my mother's compulsive pop reading habit (in my case, the Internet mostly). So, I decided to research and write an article that would incorporate some preventative and alternative health principles into my life that might make DVT somewhat less likely to catch up with me than is likely the case now. I would also like to see our family member above and others benefit from these principles if they decide that they want to. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a critical health concern that af
When you make these delicious gluten-free oat-buckwheat cookies you wiĺl need to use a light and fluffy buckwheat flour made from dehydrated buckwheat crispies . Make your own crispies-- easy peas y or buy puffed buckwheat from a health store or Amazon . For this cookie recipe, Step 2 is to grind up the crispies in a coffee bean grinder into a fine flour (you can actually grind the dehydrated groats in your high speed blender into a flour as well if you don't want to soak and dehydrate your buckwheat). These make a fine, sweet, substantial, fairly soft cookie. If I'd had any GF chocolate chips around, I would have added them! Preheat oven to 350F. Put the following into a Food Processor: *1/2 C. Virgin Coconut Oil (doesn't have to be melted) *1 C. Granulated Sweetener (I used a combination of Palm Sugar & Stevia) *1 Vegan Egg (1 T. Flax seed, ground, and mixed into 3 T. warm water) *1 tsp. Vanilla *1 C. Buckwheat Crispie "Flour" (Crispies groun