MEASUREMENTS & TIPS

All you need to know...

Measurements

Comparing recipes from different countries can be complicated....

  • Tsp = teaspoon
  • Tbsp = tablespoon
  • 1 cup = 250ml & 125 gr approx (some ingredients weigh differently)
  • 1 cup sugar = 195gr
    1 cup flour = 140gr
  • 25 gr fresh yeast = 12 gr dehydrated yeast (2 bags of small pebbels) = 4 tsp
  • Converting farenheit into celsius : (350 °F − 32) × 5/9 = 176,667 °C 

Tips

  • Use less sugar than in all official recipes
  • Replace sugar with agave sirup in lesser quantities (half) because it has a higher sugar content
  • Avoid "22 Dirty foods" based on highest level of pesticides (30 up 86 ps !) :
  • Vin - Wine
  • Chocolat - Chocolate
  • Café - Coffee
  • Lait - Milk
  • Fatty meat
  • Myrtilles - Blueberries (50 pesticides)
  • Lettue - Lettuce (50ps)
  • Collard greens (45ps)
  • Kale
  • Piments - Hot peppers
  • Potatoes (30ps)
  • Tomates - Cherry tomatoes
  • Concombres - Cucumbers (86ps)
  • Nectarines (33ps)
  • Poivrons - Peppers (50ps)
  • Épinards - Spinach (50ps)
  • Pêches - Peaches (60ps)
  • Celeri - Celery (60ps)
  • Raisins - Grapes (50ps)
  • Fraises - Strawberries (40ps)
  • Pommes, Poires - Apples (45ps)

Books & Blogs

Anti-cancer recipes by David Servan Schreiber (who surveived 20 years with a brain tumor) & Cooking with food against cancer by Béliveau & Gingras. 

Optimize.me : https://www.optimize.me

Basics from those books:

To stimulate your immune system by increasing the amount and activity of white blood cells : mushrooms (oyster, enokitake, cremini, shiitake, portobello).

  • To slow down growth of cancer cells & good for detox : rasberries, strawberries, walnuts, hazelnuts, pecan nuts.
  • To provoke cellular suicide of cancer : blueberries, cranberries, cinnamon, dark choclate (minimum 70%).
  • To block the mecanism that allows for the formation of new blood vessels (the transportation mode favored by cancer) and to reduce inflamations : herbs (mint, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, basil, oregano, parsley, corriander & celery), red fruits, mushrooms (oyster, portobello & shiitake), red wine from Bourgogne.
  • Best sources for Omega3 : Small fish or fish oil of good quality. If canned, avoid sunflower oil (too rich in Omega 6). Avoid all big fish as they contain high levels of mercury, PCB and Dioxine. Linseed oil, diluted in your vinaigrette (but needs to be kept in the fridge). See the recipe for our vinaigrette. *
  • Optimizeme : since following Brian and Alexandra on Optimize, we have adopted some new best practices. We drink green smoothies every day (see recipe) and add several grains to our daily intake: chia and hemps seeds and levure de bière to all salt meals, nuts (almond or walnut) to all sweet meals. One balances out the omega 3/6 imbalance, the other helps avoid spikes of insuline and loss of energy.

The bare minimum


Always have at hand the following :

Seeds => hemp (use as is), pumpkin (soak overnight, then dry), chia (soak 30 minutes) and lin (grind). 

Vegetable oils: ONLY FIRST EXTRACTION & ORGANIC olive oil, colza (rapeseed), cameline, bourache

Eat DAILY : 5 different fruits and 5 different vegetables IDEALLY RAW

NOTE : bananas are not considered as fruits!

Eat TWICE AS MANY vegetables as carbs (pasta, rice, potatoes, bread, cereals)


Purchase : coffee bean grinder (ex. Bosch Electroménager TSM6A013B ) & sprouting container

(ex. Germline BOC1 Germoir en verre)