I grew up eating Lemon Square bars every summer.  My mother was diligent in making one of her favorite treats.  With the help of 123 Gluten Free Mixes, I've got a great Gluten Free Lemon Bar recipe I want to share with  you today.

Ingredients: 

•  1 package 1-2-3 Gluten Free Lindsay's Lipsmackin' Roll-out & Cut Sugar Cookies dough prepared according to package instructions
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 4 Tbsp tapica flour
• Zest of 1 lemon, finely grated
• 3/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp lemon extract
• Dusting of powdered confectioner's sugar

Directions:

1.  Prepare dough of 1 package 1-2-3 Gluten Free Lindsay's Lipsmackin' Sugar Cookie Mis
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
3. Line 9"x 13" baking pan with foil.  Spread cookie dough in pan evenly. Refrigerate for 1/2 hour. Bake cookie dough for 5-20 minutes, until golder brown.
4. In bowl of mixer with paddle attachment, mix eggs, sugar, tapioca four, lemon zest, lemon juice, sale & lemon extract. Mix well.
   
5. Remove pan from oven. Pour lemon juice mixture over cookie dough.
6. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F.  Bake for 20 minutes until topping feels firm when touched.
   
7. Cool for 30 minutes.  Using the foil, carefully remove from pan and cool completely.  Dust with powdered sugar. Cut & serve.

Over the past year, we have been utilizing our ionized detox foot bath to help assist our clients and their children detox via our ionized detox foot bath.  We have noticed extremely beneficial mental and emotional improvements with our younger autistic clients.

 It is readily known that children with autism have both heightened levels of heavy metals and allergy symptoms from glutens and dairy based products.  

Both Physicians and natural health professionals agree:  "We live in a polluted world!" says Dr. Natasha Cambell-McBride in her article Detoxification for Children with Autism  "Every day we breath in car fumes and industrial wastes. We eat foods containing pesticides, herbicides and other agricultural chemicals. We drink milk and eat meats from animals, which are routinely given antibiotics, steroids and other drugs. We eat a countless number of various chemicals in processed foods. We use personal care products full of various chemicals, shown to be carcinogenic and generally toxic for the humans. Our modern energy conserving homes and offices have become toxic places.  Modern building materials, insulation, paints, domestic cleaning chemicals, fire retardants all outgas toxic substances which we breath day in and day out."

Given the extreme overload from our toxic environments- it is absolutely imperative that any treatment or therapy option for your child or loved one who has been diagnosed with Autism include detoxification therapies. 

The age of our autistic clients vary; our youngest client is 3 years old and we work weekly with these children.  The results are quite amazing.  While detoxing the children experience a state of calm.  Most parents respond with comments like "I cannot believe she is sitting still for so long."  Energetically, the ionized detox foot bath calm the children's system.  Most of the children are so sedate they simply sit and watch the water and the ionized bubbles from the array.  

 What is most important is the result our parents are witnessing after a detox therapy session.  Parents witness improved cognitive skills as well as more affectionate and emotionally stable versions of their children.  Routine detox therapy allows children to manage the degree of toxicity in their body and gives them room to be more comfortable in their own skin.  

 If you are a parent trying to manage and improve your child's cognitive skills-- a series of detox foot baths might be just the right therapy and treatment program for your child.  Please call us to schedule an appointment for your loved one.

727-502-3464.  

Just this morning, I present to a group of gluten-free enthusiasts.  They gather monthly to support each other and their endeavor to live a gluten-free lifestyle.  If by choice or by illness, I applaud their dedication and encourage their efforts by providing follow up information here on my website.

If you have found our site, welcome.  Many individuals seeking a gluten-free lifestyle do it out of necessity.  A disease call Celiac often causes such pain and issues from glutens that individuals seek out the gluten-free foods, products and vitamins/pharmaceuticals to help them lead a healthy and episode free life.

 Celiac Disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have Celiac Disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is found mainly in foods but may also be found in everyday products such as shampoo, medicines, vitamins, and lip balms, lipstick and other make-up. It's said that the average woman ingests up to four pounds of lipstick over a lifetime. Many lipsticks, lip gloss and lip balm available today currently contain wheat based ingredients that could negatively affect the stability and health of someone with Celiac Disease when ingested. 

Not only are we what we eat, we're also what we wear and put on our skin.  As one of largest organs, our skin does a lot of work to filter out toxins and chemicals that can do us harm.  But, what about us who are gluten- intolerant or have celiac disease?

Therefore, topically applied lotions, creams, shampoos, etc. containing gluten would indeed provide a source of gluten to the body, and we therefore recommend all such products be discontinued for optimal health. Here is a list of ingredients to avoid:

BARLEY DERIVED INGREDIENTS
SAMINO PEPTIDE COMPLEX
BARLEY EXTRACT
HORDEUM VULGARE (BARLEY) EXTRACT
PHYTOSPHINGOSINE EXTRACT
BARLEY LIPIDS

WHEAT DERIVED INGREDIENTS
AMP-ISOSTEAROYL HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN
DISODIUM WHEATGERMAMIDO PEG-2 SULFOSUCCINATE
HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN
HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN
HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN PG-PROPYL SILANETRIOL
HYDROLYZED WHEAT STARCH
HYDROXYPROPYLTRIMONIUM HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN STEARYLDIMONIUMHYDROXYPROPYL
HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN
WHEAT AMINO ACIDS
WHEAT BRAN EXTRACT
WHEAT GERM EXTRACT
WHEAT GERM GLYCERIDES
WHEAT GERM OIL
WHEAT GERMAMIDOPROPYLDIMONIUM HYDROXYPROPYL
WHEAT (TRITICUM VULGARE) BRAN EXTRACT
TRITICUM VULGARE (WHEAT) FLOUR LIPIDS
TRITICUM VULGARE (WHEAT) GERM EXTRACT
TRITICUM VULGARE (WHEAT) GERM OIL
VITAMIN E DERIVED FROM WHEAT GERM OIL

OAT DERIVED INGREDIENTS
SAVENA SATIVA (OAT) FLOUR
AVENA SATIVA (OAT) KERNEL PROTEIN
OAT (AVENA SATIVA) EXTRACT
OAT BETA GLUCANOAT EXTRACT
OAT FLOURSODIUM LAUROYL
OAT AMINO ACIDS

So now that you know what ingredients to look for the real question is.. what brand can I buy?? 

Ecco Bella, some of Lancome, some of Mary Kay and Neutrogena has a list of gluten-free cosmetics.  You often have to ask and often the clerks at the counters are not equipped with all the correct information/knowledge.  Lots of Burt's Bees products are gluten-free.

Another point to be made about hidden Gluten are the gluten ingredients in pharmaceutical products as well as supplements like vitamins and herbs.  Most supplements that are gluten-free will marked as such on the label, though this will usually be included with a long list of things the product is “free from”. Medications can be checked here and at Gluten Free Drugs.COM Each of these sites covers both over the counter and prescription medications.

For a lot of individuals suffering from rapid cancer cell activity or chronic states of cancer, solutions may seem nill or limited.  Often there is frustration, anger, resentment, hopelessness and other feelings that are paired with this illness.  As a trained naturopath and holistic practitioner, my focus is assisting in the care of the whole body.  In some cases, however there are direct root causes of illness or disease.  In the case of cancer is often is a chronic state of acidity, poor nutrition, toxicity or a combination of both.

I want to share a protocol that I often add to a specific cancer protocol for the clients here at Healthy Being Wellness Boutique.  It is a mixture of baking soda and grade b maple syrup.  The bicarbonate maple syrup cancer protocol focuses on delivering natural chemotherapy in a way that effectively kills cancer cells but significantly reduces the brutal side effects experienced with most standard chemotherapy treatments. In fact so great is the reduction that the dangers are brought down to zero. Costs, which are a factor for the majority of people, of this particular treatment are nil. Though this cancer treatment is very inexpensive, do not assume it is not effective. The bicarbonate maple syrup cancer treatment is a very significant cancer treatment every cancer patient should be familiar with and it can easily be combined with other safe and effective natural treatments.

This treatment is a combination of pure, 100% maple syrup and baking soda and was first reported on the Cancer Tutor site. When mixed and heated together, the maple syrup and baking soda bind together. The maple syrup targets cancer cells (which consume 15 times more glucose than normal cells) and the baking soda, which is dragged into the cancer cell by the maple syrup, being very alkaline forces a rapid shift in pH killing the cell. The actual formula is to mix:

• one part baking soda (aluminum free!!)
• three parts (pure, 100%) maple syrup in a small saucepan.

I've witnessed many individuals come in for ionized detox foot bath therapies and noted the high levels of acidity.  In taking pH tests, indeed these individuals present with higher pH levels.  It is imperative, in any cancer therapy to address the need to alkaline the body.  The Healthy Being team and I recommend juicing green veggies and will also recommend adding a mixed super green powder to daily shakes.  Nothing quite compares to the baking soda and maple syrup. 

Try it out and let us know how it works for you.  We welcome all comments!