Serves 4 Prep time: 15 Minutes   Total Time: 30 Minutes

1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 Small onion, diced
2 Garlic Cloves, minced
Coarse salt and ground pepper
2 Zucchini (about 1 pound total), halved lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise
2 Carrots, thinly sliced
1 Tablespoon chili powder
1 Teaspoon ground cumin
2 Cans (19 ounces each) black beans, rinsed and drained
1 Can (28 ounces) crushed tomatoes
1 Package (10 ounces) frozen corn kernels, thawed

1.     In a 5-quart Dutch oven or heavy pot, heat oil over medium-high.  Add onion and garlic; season with salt and pepper.  Cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to soften, about 4 minutes.
2.     Add zucchini, carrots, chili powder, and cumin.  Cook stirring occasionally, until carrots are crisp-tender, 6 to 8 minutes.  Add beans, tomatoes, corn and 1 cup water.  Simmer until slightly thickened and carrots are soft, 8 to 10 minutes more.
 

Chili Toppings
Sour cream
Shredded cheese as cheddar or pepper jack (leave out if dairy intolerance)
Halved cherry tomatoes
Thinly sliced scallions
Diced avocado
 

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Endometriosis is an overgrowth of the uterine lining and can be very painful for a women.  The treatment is often a synthetic progesterone, or progestin called depo provera, estrogen blockers such as Femara, and surgery such as a hysterectomy.

Remember I said overgrowth.  Now let us look at the job of estrogen and progesterone.  In very basic terms, estrogen causes tissue to grow and progesterone directs the tissue to grow healthy and die healthy.

If we have an overgrowth of the uterine lining it can be due to “estrogen dominance” or a estrogen to progesterone ratio that is out of balance, favoring estrogen.

What causes estrogen dominance?  It often times is not too much estrogen, natural estrogen that is.  It can be environmental toxic estrogen, known as xenoestrogens that come in the air we breath, plastic bottles we drink out of, and more.  It can be that a womens progesterone is too low due to dysfunctioning ovaries, or high cortisol levels.  Then there is our liver and gallbladder.  These, in America with our Standard American Diet, refined foods, hydrogenated oils, are often in a sluggish state of action.  Hormones and metabolites get caught up causing excessive receptor stimulation, thus leading to the estrogen dominant effect.

Tremendous success has been found in dealing with nutrition and bio identical hormones to balance a womans hormonal issues, thus severly reducing symptoms of and even alleviating the condition of endometriosis, with out surgery!

Ted Danson was on Regis and Kelly this morning, I do not necesarily know what we was promoting, though I tuned in when he was talking about his health.  He mentioned that in the effort to take care of himself through dietary changes and taking some “chinese herbs and yeast” the result was a total cholesterol of 129. 

I assumed the herb he was speaking of was red rice yeast which is actually a whole food source in China.  I sometimes reccomend this herb, it actually works very well.  One thing for sure though is that you cannot be too careful of the source.  There is a lot of herbs coming from China (and other places, and here in the US) that are riddled with pesticides and herbicides and fumigated to boot.  We only recommend one red yeast rice brand because we know where they grow it and the measures they insist on for purity.

 Back to his total cholesterol of 129…He was elated about it, very proud to have a number so low.  People are being programmed to believe that the lower the cholesterol the better.  This is so untrue. Cholesterol numbers in this realm have shown in studies to increase issues of morbidity.

Cholesterol is a pro-hormone which means it is a precursor to other hormones,   Hormones that are our great communicators and keep us alive with vitallity.  Could keeping cholesterol too low keep us low in hormones?

Ted, if you are reading this…buy our book, you will see a reference section full of practitioners that can adequately manage your cholesterol and check those hormones, I am worried, and check out the book link on cholesterol to the bottom right by Dr. Dick Tapert.

In Health,

R-n-A

6 servings
50 min 20 min prep

1. Cook zucchini until tender, drain and set aside. Fry meat and onions until meat is brown and onions are tender; drain fat. Add next 8 ingredients and bring to a boil.
2. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered 10 minutes or until reduced to 2 cups.
3. In small bowl slightly beat egg.
4. Add cottage cheese or Ricotta, half of shredded cheese and flour.
5. In (1 1/2-qt.) baking-roasting pan arrange half of the meat mixture. Top with half of the zucchini and all the cottage cheese mixture. Top with remaining meat and zucchini.
6. Bake uncovered at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes.
7. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake 10 minutes longer.
8. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.