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I see there is worldwide support for the Budwig protocol through various forums. This website shares information that makes it easier to follow the Budwig Diet in the UK and keep it as close as possible to Johanna Budwig’s original diet. Linseed oil and ground linseed has certainly helped me, to take more control of my own health and seeing my health improve by doing so. This is why I feel this protocol needs to be more widely known. This Budwig diet is too good not to share. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me. I highly recommend Flax Farm for all of the products I use for my recipes.
Budwig Tips

Home-grown foods – funny shapes but better for you

Home grown for flavour

Grow your own,  beg or buy other people’s home grown food or help yourself wild growing!  Apples, raspberries, strawberries,  blueberries, salads leave, runner beans, spinach and chard are all really easy to grow. They taste better too.  I almost wept when I bought some traditional apples from the front of someone’s house, they tasted like I remember when I was a child at home!  Now I go out looking for other people’s spare home-grown produce: they often sell it at the gate.

Really nutritious superfoods

Don’t worry that the fruit and veggies may be gnarled and misshapen, or have been munched by caterpillars they have more flavour and have to be richer in minerals and nutrients even if sometimes you have to cut out the bruises and holes.  Wild ransoms, blackberries, cherries, crab apples and many other healthy superfoods grow wild and are just there for the picking.

Freeze spare

Any extra can be frozen.  Berries can be frozen, veg usually needs blanching. Check web for individual fruits freezing treatment.

Properly organic and chemical-free as Nature intended

These wild and homegrown usually have no chemicals on them, grow slowly and are full of nutrition and flavour.

 

AR

Budwig News

Fox News: anti-prostate-cancer-foods

In an article about foods that can help to protect men’s health, flax (linseed) is mentioned for two anti-cancer components – lignans and omega-3.

“Both flaxseed and its oil have been promoted as anti-cancer substances since the early 1950s, but only recently has any solid evidence emerged.”

“Only a handful of small studies have investigated the link between flax and prostate cancer in humans, but the results all look promising”

Read more  www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/04/anti-prostate-cancer-foods/

 

 

Budwig Tips

Spicy Sandwich Spread

I like to use the more bland cottage cheese which I find a bit boring on its own but it’s nice and creamy when mixed with interesting fillers.  Sometimes I chop up onion, gherkins ,capers,  celery, sweet peppers, mild chili and tomato to mix in with it to make a sandwich filler and use a wipe of oleolux instead of butter on the bread first to stop the bread going soggy. Good on baked potatoes too or boiled potatoes for a potato salad.

by Bethany

Budwig Tips

No more diabetes

“I started using the Budwig diet when I had a suspected tumour.  I had been diabetic for several years but after a few months on the diet I am not diabetic anymore so I still stay on it and I love the food and my new way of eating.  My favourite way of using the quark-linseed oil mix is with chives and just as a treat a little Parmesan cheese, brilliant lunch. My other favourite is the ice cream. I love the Oleolux too”

Mair R

Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Chesse, Puddings, Recipes

Budwig Diet Ice Cream Recipe

It might seem too good to be true but you can have ice cream on the Budwig diet.  When made with the fat-free quark, it is cholesterol-free and rich in the good fat omega-3.  You can use this recipe for an interesting way to have the linseed oil-quark cream instead of a muesli-style dessert.

This ice cream was created by Johanna Budwig.  It has got to be the all-time easiest home-made ice-cream recipe, the result is creamy,  smooth  and absolutely delicious – and is probably one of the healthiest ice creams ever.  It is a great treat, especially for anyone wanting to eat more healthily or with concerns about cholesterol, and it’s a good option for tempting a patient with a flagging appetite.

Vanilla Ice Cream

  • 100 g quark
  • 45 g linseed (flax) oil
  • 50g skimmed milk
  • 1 tablespoon raw natural honey
  • 1/4  teaspoon vanilla  extract or vanilla bean paste ( but not flavouring or “essence.”)

Simply blend and freeze.

Enjoy with fresh fruits, berries, nuts and a couple of heaped dessertspoons of ground linseed.

Variations:

  1.  Chocolate Ice Cream: add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to the mix above and blend.  Particularly good with ripe pears and chopped Brazil nuts
  2. Blueberry Ice Cream: add 3 tablespoons blueberries and blend, then fold in a handful of chopped walnuts.  Good with sliced peaches and almonds.
  3. Raspberry Ice Cream: add 3 tablespoons of raspberries and blend.
  4. Banana Ice Cream: mash a ripe banana and blend, great with fresh strawberries and mixed nuts.

Try your own variations with different fruit purees and juices, seeds and berries. Who would have thought linseed oil ice cream would taste this good?

 

 

Budwig News

“The Island Where People Forget to Die”

Recently both the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph have run an inspirational article by Dan Beuttner about a 65 year old man in New York who had “terminal” cancer and went home to his native Greek island of Ikaria  to die.  He didn’t die and thirty years later is still alive like many other nonagenarians on the island.   The whole lifestyle on Ikaria seems to help them avoid many of the ailments of the West and live longer healthier lives.  This island has triggered several longevity and health studies.

Importantly the story illustrates well that, given the right diet and environment, the human body can heal itself – even from cancer –  more easily than modern medicine gives credit for.

Read the whole article in the New York Times

Read the whole article in the Daily Telegraph