Interview with Kathleen Beisel | Sound Authors Radio

December 17, 2008

Dr. Kent: My guest host on the show today is Sally Shields and her book is called The Daughter In Law Rules and she’s got a website dilrules.com. Now we’ve been able to get in touch with our second guest on the show. We’ve jumped over Christopher tenant who is going to be talking about the filthy rich. That would’ve been amusing but it’s a how-to show today and Kathleen Beisel is our next guest. She’s got a book called Eat Your Way to Good Natural Health. That’s better than thinking about the filthy rich anyways. Welcome to the show Kathleen Beisel.

Kathleen Beisel: Hello!

Dr. Kent: Tell us about this book.

Kathleen Beisel: Thank you for having me on your show. This book is a reference book for life changing habits for everyone who is interested to be healthy the natural way. I started in 1983; I was my mother, injecting insulin into our bodies for many years and she did not have enough knowledge about diabetes and she was not disciplined because she had no knowledge and no training. In 1983 I went for a checkup and my blood sugar was borderline 125. I walked out of that doctor’s office with a determination.

I was determined to practice good health and make a change in my life so the first step was studying. Getting the knowledge about good health and nutrition and then diabetes. Six months later I went back and my blood sugar was 83 and I lost some weight and I’ve been practicing and studying every since and now I have a passion for nutrition. I studied just about everything and I realized that one lifestyle can prevent all disease. Since then I’ve never been sick and I’ve never taken medication – not even an aspirin.

Sally Shields: Kathleen, I absolutely love your book. I’ve been a vegetarian for 20 years so I would love to find out from you if there is anything in your book about how to also maintain the correct amount of protein for somebody that’s a vegetarian? Does someone who is a vegetarian and follows a vegetarian diet do well following your book and the principles inside your book?

Kathleen Beisel: Yes I have a seven day food diary and its broke down in the correct portion of proteins and carbohydrates and fats. I teach how to apply natural grains and plant proteins for vegetarians as well.

Dr. Kent: How about for a person like me, who is a little bit unhealthy, doesn’t get enough sleep, needs to exercise and reduce stress?

Kathleen Beisel: Oh yes the first chapter speaks about stress because the first thing that happens when you are stressed is that your nutrients are depleted, especially your B vitamins and your C. Your B is what contributes to your brain, nervous system and red blood cells. When that has been depleted you’re opened up to all sorts of diseases. Your body is depleted of energy, you’re setting yourself up for anemia and your immune system is under attack because your C vitamins that also build your immune system is being depleted.

So nutrition is a cushion for stress because if you have enough of those vitamins and keep on replenishing the body with the Bs, Cs, and all the other nutrients then your body won’t be so stressful. Plus magnesium; it releases the stress, it relaxes your body and you can sleep and all your nervous system will be relaxed and every organ in your body will, and also the oxygen levels in your body will be replenished from the nutrients because stress depletes your oxygen.

Dr. Kent: Does that mean no more French fries?

Kathleen Beisel: Well French fries and all those things is contributing to your health and it’s destructive because the fat is hydrogenated fat which are not contributing any nutrition to your health. While potatoes are not all that bad, the way it’s prepared all of the nutrients are gone. So it’s like empty calories.

Sally Shields: I have a question. I have two children that I’m raising and I think that probably a lot of mothers share my problem, which is that it’s difficult to get my children to eat vegetables and fruits. I’m wondering if you have any ideas about that or how you actually can make these fruits and vegetables taste so good that my kids will want to eat them or anything along those lines that you can share with us?

Kathleen Beisel: Oh yes, I have kids begging me for food all the time because of the way I prepare it. They are saying how come this food tastes so good when you prepare it? That’s the key because if it’s going to be a lifestyle you have to make it tasty. So to prepare vegetables you have to use a lot of garlic, onion, which are antioxidant foods as well, build you up. You use that to dissipate good fats like canola oil or olive oil and peppers, sweet peppers, onion, garlic, chop them and chop the vegetables and then stir fry them.

Then use sea salt and you can make them very tasty and the fruit – make smoothie. That is healthy ice cream. Plain, non-fat yogurt and cinnamon, vanilla and you use that in the magic bullet and you crush the fruit. Use berries, pineapple, banana and mango. They are sweet and that in the plain yogurt is just like a tasty ice cream because its sweet with all the sweet fruit and the kids will not know that its not ice cream. You just tell them its fruit ice cream.

Sally Shields: Kathleen I just got chills. I’m so excited about this; I’m so excited to get your book. This is so incredibly fascinating and I’m just so excited about the new meals that I’m going to try for my kids so thank you so much. The cover of your book is adorable, I absolutely love it.

Dr. Kent: Here’s a question I have. You can’t make asparagus tasty can you?

Kathleen Beisel: Asparagus? Yes!

Dr. Kent: I don’t think so!

Kathleen Beisel: Oh yes I could make it tasty for you! I specialize in making all sorts of vegetables tasty and juicy. I juice cabbage, celery, carrots, all kinds of green leafy vegetables and I put pineapple, fresh ginger, lime, cantaloupe, and any sweet fruit. Because that covers up the taste of the vegetable and you wouldn’t know that cabbage and celery is in that drink because the pineapple is very good for the digestive system.

The ginger is so refreshing and tasty and also good for the digestive system and the lime helps with the oxidation so it will be very fresh and when you start juicing it is live food and not dead food. Sometimes we tend to cook the life out of the food and its just dead food and we don’t get the nutrients that we really need. Good juicing is I could take a cancer patient and give them natural thing of juicing because it’s fortified in foods by juicing them every day that juice. And it’s full with nutrients and the nutrients are building up your cells and it’s destroying all of the bad cells and its cleansing system. Once you are juicing for a while it detoxifies the body with all of the toxins from the body. The fiber is removed from the body. It is so important to have the God-made foods. Fresh, fresh foods and not packaged foods. All packaged food is a waste of money.

Dr. Kent: We could listen to you all day about slow cooked food and if you could make asparagus taste good for me I’ve got to pick this book up. So it’s been an honor chatting with Kathleen Beisel. The book is called Eat Your Way to Natural Good Health and we wish you all the best. The book is out through Outskirts Press; look for it on the web and in your bookstore. Thanks very much for chatting with us.

Kathleen Beisel: Thank you, have a wonderful day and you can contact me for a recipe and tasty foods.

Sally Shields: Kathleen, I’ll be doing that for sure, I’m so inspired by you. Thank you so much for writing this book and for sharing your knowledge with us. We all need to move away from packaged foods and more towards healthy, God-given foods so thank you so much.

Kathleen Beisel: You’re welcome, it works for me, it works for me, I’m very healthy.

Dr. Kent: Come back after the break for the next guest on our show. His name is Christopher Tennant, we have gotten in touch with him and his book is called The Filthy Rich Handbook. So from natural food to the filthy rich. This will be a fun interview; come on back in one second.

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