You can tuck into our Sujon Mixed berries all year round – YUM
Ingredients
Berry Mix
2 Cups of Sujon Mixed Berries frozen (Blueberries, strawberries, Boysenberries, Raspberries, Blackberries)
5 T water
3 T Manuka Honey
Bring water and honey to the boil and add Sujon Berries and Simmer until Berries are warm
Cream Pat
1 1/4 cups (300 ml) milk 3 large egg yolks
3 T Honey
2 tablespoons (20 grams) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons (20 grams) cornflour
Directions
Mix the sugar and egg yolks together. Sift the flour and cornflour together and add to eggs mixing until you get a smooth paste. Bring the milk and add slowly to egg mixture, whisking constantly to prevent curdling. Pour the egg mixture into a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat until boiling, whisking constantly. When it boils, whisk mixture constantly for another 30 – 60 seconds until it becomes thick. Cool to room temperature. If not using right away refrigerate until needed, up to 3 days. Whisk or stir before using to get rid of any lumps that may have formed. Serve with Sujon Mixed Berries on top… A naughty but nice way to get your servings of fruit for the day
Sujon Berries are available all year round. Tasty & healthy Visit www.sujon.co.nz/powder.htm to learn more about our Sujon Blackcurrant powder.
Based on what is already known about the bioactive ingredients contained in New Zealand fruit – Blackcurrants and their physiological effects in humans, there appears to be several key areas within prevention, recovery and management of the disease of deep vein thrombosis – a health condition that would potentially benefit from supplementation with a New Zealand Blackcurrant derived product.
Deep vein thrombosis abbreviated to DVT is the formation of a blood clot (thrombosis) in a deep (tissue embedded) vein as occurs in the leg, pelvis and arm areas of the body. Minor symptoms include localised vein inflammation, redness and pain but by far the greatest complication of the disease is the potential for a formed clot to dislodge and migrate through the vascular system to the lungs creating a pulmonary embolism. When formed in the lower extremities of the body there is a 3% chance that the disease progresses into a fatal pulmonary embolism.
In the USA alone there is an annual incidence rate of 1 DVT case per 1000 persons with up to 100,000 deaths related to the disease.
There are believed to be three key mechanisms that enhance the opportunity of DVT occurring in an individual. These include trauma to blood vessel walls, decreased or compromised blood circulation, and an increased tendency for blood clotting. Of particular interest with respect to a Blackcurrant product would be the relationship between DVT, decreased blood flow and the potential to improve blood circulation and reduce inflammation via Blackcurrant supplementation.
The main factor contributing to poor blood circulation in the general population is immobility such as occurs during:
- medium to long term periods of bed rest associated with illness and hospital stays following surgery
- restraint of broken limbs in casts or splints,
- intense periods of confined sitting behind a desk at work or conversely during long distance travel including car, bus and long haul flights (where resulting DVT has been referred to as economy class syndrome).
Poor blood circulation is also a recognised complication of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and smoking.
Research studies into New Zealand Blackcurrant polyphenolic compounds indicate that the ingestion of New Zealand Blackcurrants can both improve blood circulation and aid in the reduction of factors associated with inflammation both potentially important physiologically processes in the prevention of DVT.
The benefits are numerous, Chia seed one of the most powerful foods imaginable is said to increase brain power and body strength.
The following recipe makes approx. 2 litres and lasts a week. It’s used by Clifton boxers Nat Stuart and Dawn Dickey before and after training and they say it really helps with their energy levels and recovery.
Mix half a cup of Chia Seeds with 3 cups of water and leave in fridge to set, mix 6 Tablespoons Sujon Blackcurrant Powder with warm water to make a smooth paste and then mix paste with Chia seeds, keep in fridge. A nutritional feed when you need ;D
Have as much organic raw food as possible. Juicing vegetables is a phenomenal way of getting lots of powerful enzymes and nutrients into your body without having to work hard at digesting it.
If you really want to go the whole hog, avoid dairy – switch to goat and sheep milk/cheese, and avoid gluten as well (see my note below on sugar).
GOOD:
Have fish and seafood as one part of your daily meal
Have lots of coconut oil and olive oil (latter is particularly powerful)
Dark chocolate: Eat the highest-percentage cacao chocolate every day. Cacao has been shown to annihilate cancer cells in lab tests. (I stocked up on organic Green and Black’s 85% that night!). Even better, find a sugar-free version. Cacao is also an antioxidant, reduces cholesterol, excellent for depression and powerful for reducing blood stickiness, which is aligned with cancer.
Avocados are fantastic, as are…
Olive and coconut oil
Tahini (check it isn’t combined with canola oil though)
Baked beans (no added salt, sugar)
Eggs
Sweet potato (use instead of potato, also upregulates salvestrols)
Flax seeds are good for their Omega 3 content, but avoid the oil
Berries
Beetroot
Spinach
Mushrooms
Onion family
Green tea (can be bought in tablets), curcumin (superb anti-cancer), olive leaf, high-dose fish or krill oil, high-dose omega 3, cinnamon are also highly recommended supplements.
AVOID:
The biggie is sugar. Sugar feeds cancer.
Here’s something incredible. Otto Warburg discovered in the 1950s that the main biochemical cause of cancer, or the one thing that differentiates it from a normal cell, is oxygen. Normal cells need it, and cancer cells hate it.
Warburg also found that cancer metabolises through a process of fermentation, and in order to do so, requires sugar.
The metabolism of cancer is eight times greater than the metabolism of normal cells so is constantly requiring fuel to feed it. Want to starve your cancer? Insulin plays a critical role in cancer and in order to do so, you must stamp out sugar, including fruit and go easy on your grains too.
Otto was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery, so if we’ve known since the 1950s that sugar feeds cancer, why is not common knowledge, and why do we consume so much as a society? Why don’t we know this is a big part of the cancer equation? Does it make sense to have a high carbohydrate diet?
Okay, finally, foods you MUST avoid:
Canola, sunflower, safflower, any polyunsaturated oils are carcinogenic. Check labels because they are in everything in NZ/Aus.
If you are deep-frying, use coconut oil, as most other oils when heated to high temperatures convert to trans fats and are extremely damaging to the body.
There’s nothing good about Bacon and sausages, because of the chemicals in these meats, and having them even once a week, increases cancer risk.
Recent news reports on a study has underlined this, stating that eating processed meat every day increases your cancer risk by 44%.
Statistics to think about:
Exercise – super important for us ladies, it can reduce recurrence of breast cancer 60 per cent.
Did you know that eating cooked food suppresses your immune system for two hours?
Further to this, consuming the equivalent of two teaspoons of sugar knocks your immune system for FIVE hours!
ESSENTIAL viewing:
Food Matters, a powerful documentary that will open your eyes forever. Check it out on youtube.
Things to avoid, particularly important for women’s health:
1. Alcohol. It increases your breast cancer risk and if you have any cancer of any kind, it is like pouring fuel onto the fire.
2. Parabens (PBAs). Us ladies are particularly vulnerable to these because they are littered in cosmetics and toiletries. They mimick oestrogens and are bad news. Switch to natural products instead. The fewer the chemicals, the better.
Avoid cooking/drinking/storing food in plastic and avoid cling film, even touching it transfers it to our skin.
3. Heavy metals in the body. The biggest culprit is amalgam fillings in our teeth – ask yourself this: How could it have ever been deemed safe to have one of the most poisonous substances known to man in our body (nay, head!) for the majority of our lives? The other problem with this is that root canals and mercury fillings can set up a hotbed and ongoing source of toxicity and inflammation that drip-feeds into your system – and you may never know it unless you actually go looking for it.
Also, avoid commercial deodorants because they contain aluminium. Look for a natural one instead.
While on the subject of heavy metals, I recently had a toxicity analysis that revealed I had arsenic and aluminium issues. We know the deodorants are responsible for the aluminium – but agricultural pesticides and fertilisers are responsible for the arsenic. So if you think organic food like fruit and vegetables is a waste of time and money, think again as the nutrition make-up is completly different to the toxic combinations of agricultural pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and everything else that is sprayed onto our non-organic produce. Further to this, see my note on Salvestrols below.
4. Plastics leach chemicals and are particularly bad for women. Avoid cooking/drinking/storing food in plastic and avoid cling film, even touching it transfers it to our skin.
UK scientists recently discovered a new class of natural plant compounds called Salvestrols that were common in our food chain in times past in heritage plants, however have been eliminated by modern farming practices, genetic engineering, food processing practices and hybridisation of our plants.
The scientists who made the discovery analysed supermarket produce and found them absent or present only in very small amounts, but abundant in organic food.
To explain why Salvesterols are important in our diet, cancer cells produce a universal marker called CYP1B1, and when they interact with and metabolise Salvestrols, results in anti-cancer agents that suppress tumour growth by killing the cancer cells.
Their role in plants is to defend against pathogens, primarily fungi, where it destroys it via a similar role as its interaction with CYP1B1 in humans. In a nutshell, Salvestrols are nature’s anti-cancer warriors and daily consumption will assist in fighting off cancer cells, which are constantly present.
Interestingly, there are foods that increase the activity of Salvestrol and one of the best is blackcurrant. So Sujon consumers are onto a winner, because the Sujon Blackcurrant Powder supplement is rich in Vitamin C, Biotin and iron, which upregulates the activity of Salvestrols.
Further reading on the subject: ‘Linking Diet and Cancer: Salvestrols, Nature’s Defence Against Cancer’ by Brian A Schaefer.
Google Salvestrols, there are many distributors in the UK and NZ. Take capsules as a daily supplement. They’re finding they’re excellent for animals with cancer too.
… Watch out for Part 3 of this blog to follow, where we will discuss the Anti-Cancer Diet.
Like many other families, mine has been touched by cancer, but fortunately we have had access to some of the leading minds and experts in the conventional and integrative medicine fields in New Zealand and Australia.
Did you know that Vitamin D3 and iodine help safeguard against cancer.
There are some things the doctors don’t tell you or, as we’ve discovered, don’t know, for example basics in nutritional medicine to advancements in research that aren’t getting out to the wider public, that I have discovered over the last few months.
I am pleased to report the collaboration between the two camps is paying off for the member of our family who has been affected. If we’d just been relying on what the conventional doctors had told us, our outcome would have been much more uncertain.
As a result of the advice and the incredible information I have learned on this journey, I would like to share some tips for safeguarding ourselves – naturally – with evidence-based nutritional medicine and advancements in the research field.
Firstly, consider this: Medicine’s general answer to treating cancer is chemotherapy, which operates at a success rate of a not-so-lofty 2.6% (Source: Prof Avni Sali, NIIM). Why doesn’t it work? Chemotherapy doesn’t eliminate cancer cell stem cells, so it will almost ALWAYS come back. Plus, the patient has to test the limits of their endurance from the extreme sickness it causes and it destroys the immune system, which is the body’s only defence against fighting the very thing you are trying to destroy. Does that make any sense to you?
Firstly, for women, here are a few important guidelines for providing a ‘ring of protection’ around yourself against breast cancer. Hormones play a big role and if they aren’t converted correctly, then you’re at risk.
There are two critical supplements that you need to consider.
1. Vitamin D3: Almost every integrative practitioner we have spoken to keeps re-iterating: It is almost impossible to get cancer if you have good vitamin D3 levels. We synthesize it from the sun, and unless you are getting a minimum of 30mins exposure to sun a day, then you won’t be producing enough of it. Research coming out on Vitamin D3 is showing it to be integral to disease and cancer prevention. I am not advocating burning yourself to a crisp, but in moderation, sun exposure is essential. If not, get yourself a supplement and take it daily, particularly through the winter.
Also, consider this: You are 30 times more likely to get melanoma if you are an office worker. NZ/Australia have the highest rates of skin cancer because of their long-running sunscreen campaigns that have resulted in low levels of vitamin D within the population. Everyone thinks melanoma is caused by the sun: It’s not. It’s cause is directly related to below-par immune defence. And that again is from the doctors’ mouths.
2. Iodine. Also critical for breast health as it supports the conversion of our oestrogens and their underlying metabolites. If this process goes awry then this results in cancer cells being produced. I take lugols iodine regularly and I’ve seen a big improvement (confirmed by blood tests) in my thyroid function as well.
Did you know that herceptin, a breast cancer inhibitor developed by the pharmaceutical companies, is a molecule sourced from olive oil, evening primrose oil and melatonin? Why isn’t this common knowledge to women? I guess because it is cheap, accessible and natural, and doesn’t make pharmaceutical companies any money…
… Watch out for Part 2 of this blog to follow, Things to avoid – particularly important for women.
Several top Kiwi athletes and teams are already using Sujon as well as overseas professionals. Many of these athletes have been drug tested and all results have been negative.
NZ Blackcurrants are packed with phytochemicals which Scientists believe have the potential to affect several diseases and have strong anti-inflammatory effects and are a strong aid for muscle recovery.
Some scientists now believe phytochemicals from berries and plants are the only true natural aid to muscle recovery that you can get… Well Sujon blackcurrant powder tops it in the phytochemicals so it may be the only naturally effective aid out there, what do you think?
George Bennett, NZ Pro Road Cyclist – A Sujon Blackcurrant Powder taker.
Alex Jordon NZ 400m Champion. Another Sujon Blackcurrant Powder taker
Chris Fortune making delicious Sujon Blueberry Crepes
250 g Plain Flour
1 1/2 cups of milk
2 eggs
1 Cup of Sujon Blueberries Defrosted or frozen for a icy treat
3 T Crème Fraiche or Cottage Cheese
Mix with milk and eggs and make a well in the flour, mix in liquids and draw in flour to make a smooth paste, leave to rest for 20mins. If it is too thick thin with a little milk. Ladle into crepe pans and cook until golden. Leave to cool. Mix the Blueberries and Fraiche together and spoon a small amount into the middle of the crepes and roll tightly, cut into bite size pieces or serve whole with natural yoghurt.
Add fresh thawed berries to your cereal or plain yoghurt
In a container, add a touch of sugar or icing sugar or honey to frozen boysenberries. By lunch they are thawed, fresh & delicious
Whip up a berry smoothie for breakfast, lunch or dessert
Make a fruit salad with any berry and a combo of melon and kiwifruit cubes
Top a green salad with feta cheese and ½ cup of blueberries or raspberries, drizzle with vinaigrette or lemon juice
Top biscuits with blackberries, canned peaches or apricots and cream cheese for a quick snack or lunch
Make a fruit cup by hollowing out a melon, add avocado slices, blueberries, blackberries or raspberries, sprinkle with some vinaigrette. Make a savoury dinner cup by adding canned tuna.
Lightly mash together ½ cup of raspberries and ¼ cup of low-fat ricotta cheese, then drizzle with chocolate syrup, or liqueur for a decadent dessert.
Puree Raspberries, strawberries or blackberries and use as a melba sauce with French lamb cutlets or white meats. Ellagic acid is in the seeds, so try not to sift them out.
Add redcurrants to your favourite fruit juice and freeze into ice block sticks.
