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Balance Your Diet
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Have you been coughing or having that tickle in your throat for months or even years, and when you tell your family doctor, they tell you to take cough drops or honey. Don’t you wonder what is really causing it? Perhaps you are prone towards developing hoarseness, sore throats, excess mucus, postnasal drip or find yourself clearing your throat often. Oh – it must be those sinuses dripping down, but it doesn’t get much better. There is something you or even your family doctor doesn’t know about. Today, we are going to talk to Dr. Noah Parker, who will highlight the mystery of Silent Reflux.
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Recipes Limiting Trigger Ingredients.
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Salmon Fish Tacos
Balance designed for acid watchers.
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About the Recipe: Cooking the salmon for a longer time in a lower oven temperature allows the fish to stay moist and have a melt-in-your-mouth texture. They are the perfect size for taco shells that are filled with creamy slaw, chunks of avocado and mango, and sprinkled with chopped cilantro. This recipe is designed to balancing acids.
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Tropical Banana Oatmeal Pancakes
Light and fluffy oat pancakes taste like banana bread.
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About the Recipe: Take a trip to the tropics for breakfast. These tasty banana oatmeal pancakes are fluffy, full of flavor, and healthy. The ripe bananas make them taste almost like banana bread. Serve topped with your favorite, toasted almonds, flaked coconut, banana slices, and drizzles of maple syrup.
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Kale & Brussels Salmon Salad
With Creamy Lemon Zest Dressing & Homemade Crunchy Croutons.
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About the Recipe: Using cashews neutralizes the apple cider vinegar enough to make this dressing a good choice for a low acid diet. The salad is tossed with dark purple green kale and shredded Brussels sprouts’ that enhance the flavor of the salmon. It’s a good choice to serve for lunch with some crunchy crackers.
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Dr. Noah Parker – MD, FACS
Otolaryngology (i.e. Eyes, Nose and Throat) Specialist.
Dr. Parker is a throat and neck specialist, an Associate Professor in the Indiana University School of Medicine and practices at Indiana University Health hospitals in the Indianapolis area.
Following Information from the IU Health Website.
He offers expertise in the following sub-specialties:
Laryngology:
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- Management of voice changes and loss (vocal fold polyp, vocal fold nodules, vocal cord paralysis, laryngeal papilloma, spasmodic dysphonia)
- Breathing trouble (subglottic stenosis, tracheal stenosis, tracheostomy tube dependence)
- Swallowing difficulty (Zenker’s diverticula, cricopharyngeal dysfunction, aspiration)
- Sleep Surgery: Surgical management of snoring and sleep apnea.
- Endocrine Surgery: Surgical management of thyroid cancer, thyroid goiters, Grave’s disease, thyroid nodules, hyperparathyroidism, and parathyroid cancer.
Dr. Parker works closely with a team of speech therapists who have focused training and expertise in working with professional voice users, such as vocal performers.
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Recipes Limiting Trigger Ingredients.
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Tuscan White Bean Soup
Classic Northern Italian one-pot supper soup.
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About the Recipe: After traveling to Italy, we loved their Northern Italian soup. This recipe has all those rich country flavors and can be made with vegetable or chicken broth. It’s a one-pot meal with lots of beans, carrots, peas, and spinach. Warm up on these cold winter months with some healthy, easy-to-make soup. Serve if desired with hearty Italian bread or crackers.
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Healthy Hummus Garden Salad
Eye-catching, healthy salad dish, filled with fresh crunchy carrots and sliced zucchini.
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About the Recipe: Forget the acids, preservatives, and raw strong garlic that is used in commercial hummus products. Try this eye-catching healthy salad dish, filled with fresh crunchy carrots and slices of slant sliced zucchini. It’s a wonderful combo to serve as a lunch dish.
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Pumpkin Gnocchi with Crispy Sage Pistachio Sauce
Lightly spiced autumn pumpkin dumplings with crisp sage pistachio sauce.
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About the Recipe: Autumn pumpkin gnocchi combines pistachio flavored sauce with crispy sage to brighten dinner with light toasty flavor. Garnish with fresh tomato wedges, thyme sprouts, and sage leaves.
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Braised Pork with Mixed Vegetables
Super easy and tasty comfort food dish with a light licorice flavor.
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About the Recipe: This one-pot, comfort dish uses tender lean pork that is braised, sliced, and served with sweet licorice-like favored cooked carrots, radishes, and zucchini. Just add some warm brown rice and drizzle the gravy over the super easy to make pork dish.
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Blushing Beet Spinach Salad
with Nut “Ricotta” and Apple Sauce” Vinaigrette”.
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About the Recipe: This is a plan ahead balanced salad, reducing the acid vinaigrette. It is full of texture and has lots of flavor contrasts. The spinach leaves are dressed with an applesauce flavored “vinaigrette” and have chunks of roasted beets, fresh apples, sprouts, and pistachios. Bits of creamy nuts form a mock “ricotta” flavor that is sprinkled over the salad. It makes an interesting fresh supper salad.
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Spiced Pumpkin Pie Muffins
Lightly spiced pumpkin oat muffins are filled with chopped dried fruit and bits of walnuts.
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About the Recipe: Lightly spiced pumpkin muffins are always a popular choice. These muffins are made with Einkorn flour, so they are easier to digest, have a nutty golden hue, and a higher protein content. The bonus is a higher concentration of minerals and antioxidants. These lightly spiced muffins are pillow soft inside and filled with mixed dried fruits for added sweetness. Great to serve for breakfast.
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High Power Fruit ‘n Nut Bars
Delicious nut-based bars for healthy snacking.
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About the Recipe: How about a high energy bar that’s packed with protein, antioxidants, fiber, and lots of vitamins? These dried fruit energy bars are a great breakfast option for busy people. They are easy to make ahead, require no baking, and are jam packed with natural ingredients. This energy bar is guaranteed to keep you fired up throughout the day.
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Tahini Sesame Cookies
Chewy, soft, moist, and rich – yet butter-free.
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About the Recipe: How about some gluten-free cookies that don’t require lots of butter or oil? These cookies use tahini, a ground sesame paste a product in Middle Eastern cuisine. It adds a creamy texture and light nutty flavor to the cookies. I added some white chocolate as well as some butterscotch chips. We loved the flavor combination.
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