Newsletter - October 17, 2023

My dear brothers and sisters,

We create a juice vibrant and alive with pomegranates, apples  and cucumbers. We don't stop there; we pour the juice into a blender and add  frozen bananas and then heaping tablespoons of our Alive, Organic Almond Butter, our Alive, Organic Tahini and our Organic Cashew Butter. We pit and chop our Medjool dates and add them too. We blend! Voila! A magnificent smoothie! Imagine starting your day with it!

On sale  this week is our Hemp Heart Butter. Our pleasure to offer a $3 discount.We suggest you try some on a slice of apple and rejoice! How alive and organic this world could be!

Ben with GrowVeg, our favorite gardener, guides us in tasks we need to do, to get our garden ready for winter. He shows us how easy it is to build a cold frame to keep our veggies warm. He then demonstrates how to “cure” our winter squash, to toughen their skins so that they will keep much longer. He shows how to ripen late season fruits like green tomatoes and how to store our carrots along with other useful tips.

Our pleasure to include, with your order of $150 or more, two pomegranates grown by Judith and her colleagues on Full Belly Farm. Theirs is one of the finest organic farms. We invite you to savor the intentionality in these fruits.

Here is a link to a video we did with them.

Our  Victory Garden Sale, this month, includes Cashew Butter, Turmeric and Honey Butter and Tomatoes - Dried and Organic of course! We offer these at a 10% discount.

Today, 20% of adolescents and 26% of young adults have diagnosable mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, impulsivity, aggression or learning disorders. We include a report of research seeking to establish a correlation between this tragic state of affairs and two commonly used herbicides — glyphosate and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) — and the insect repellent DEET.

Then Margaret Martin, a physical therapist, with 37 years of experience in working with seniors, guides us in what she considers to be the most important exercise for seniors to master.                        

We take heart that you, in your wisdom, will overcome,  flourish and thrive,

Please accept our best wishes  for good health and vitality, to you and family,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

(Childrens Health Defense) Herbicides are the most used class of pesticides worldwide, with uses in agriculture, homes and industry. Exposures to two of the most popular herbicides were associated with worse brain function among adolescents, according to a study led by researchers at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California San Diego.

In the Oct. 11 online issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported measuring metabolite concentrations of two commonly used herbicides — glyphosate and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) — and the insect repellent DEET in urine samples collected in 2016 from 519 adolescents, ages 11 to 17, living in the agricultural county of Pedro Moncayo, Ecuador.

Researchers also assessed neurobehavioral performance in five areas: attention and inhibitory control, memory and learning, language, visuospatial processing and social perception.

“Many chronic diseases and mental health disorders in adolescents and young adults have increased over the last two decades worldwide, and exposure to neurotoxic contaminants in the environment could explain a part of this increase,” said senior author Jose Ricardo Suarez, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, associate professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health.

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