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Major holidays such as Thanksgiving often present a challenge for military personnel who can be stationed far from home and their families on the holidays. For many people in the military community, they will celebrate Thanksgiving in a different manner every year, depending on leave status, and current operations. Traditionally, senior leaders serve dinner to junior personnel on Thanksgiving, when possible. Newly enlisted service-members may be away from home for the first time. Meanwhile, some military spouses and their children will celebrate Thanksgiving stateside, while a loved one is deployed. A military member’s early years might include a traditional Thanksgiving dinner on base, or an invitation to a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by a local family. As servicemembers deploy to support military operations around the world, Thanksgiving recognition shifts to dinners overseas on forward operating bases, and sharing the Thanksgiving custom with locals or Soldier’s from other countries. Married military members assigned to OCONUS bases might also celebrate Thanksgiving overseas with their family members. The possibility always exists of being deployed over the Thanksgiving holiday. If they’re lucky, they are home with their family and pay it forward (or backward) by inviting other younger service members who are away from their family into their home. These are some military Thanksgiving traditions, but to the individual service member, their location and participation may change each year. Members of the military know that the meaning of ‘family’ can take many forms beyond DNA. Today, while the holiday has been expanded to include parades, early Black Friday shopping deals, television specials, football games, and countless individual family traditions, the one thing that remains consistent is the tradition of Americans sitting down to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner. Days of Thanksgiving were declared during both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars in an effort to unify the nation during times of war. One resolution during the Revolutionary War, asked all people to give thanks for many reasons for so many reasons in our personal lives.
By Jackie Baber Sauerkraut. A neglected food that is so simple and yet so powerful The benefits of sauerkraut are practical and healthful benefits for your life. Sauerkraut is the easiest of all the fermented foods to incorporate into your diet. Sauerkraut will improve your digestion – within a few days – especially if you are one of 70 million people who suffer from digestive diseases in the United States alone.” It can help with Indigestion, bloating, headaches, brain fog, skin issues, constipation, weight gain, fatigue, back pain? When the ecosystem of your gut has the proper balance of stomach acids and bacteria, your body is able to properly break down food for nourishment and cell repair. If it is not able to absorb nutrients from the foods you eat and eliminate wastes, all types of health issues may arise. Fermented foods, of which sauerkraut is one, strengthen the health and balance of your digestive system. Improved digestion, that accompanies a healthier gut, makes for improved health. Eating sauerkraut will help to reseed your gut if you’ve taken a course of antibiotics. Antibiotics are a marvel of modern-day
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We all need to give thanks “…To inspire our Commanders, both by Land and Sea, and all under them, with that Wisdom and Fortitude which may render them fit Instruments, under the Providence of Almighty GOD, to secure for these United States, the greatest of all human Blessings, INDEPENDENCE and PEACE…” Gathering some information on the military history during the Civil War, we find that great preparations were made to ensure that Soldiers had supplies for Thanksgiving. However, it was wartime and not every Soldier was able to stop and celebrate Thanksgiving 1918, by World War I, auxiliary organizations such as the Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. started to aid in providing Thanksgiving dinner to soldiers. Dinners were made, and football games between rival units were organized. In France, right after Armistice Day, French families actually invited Soldiers into their homes, banquet halls were reserved, and theatrical performances were put on. World War II saw the replacement of C- or Krations with turkey and cranberry. Wherever possible, Thanksgiving food was shipped or transported by the military to service-members on the frontlines. In areas where it was not possible, the food was sourced from local farmers, or whatever could be put together for a meal. Excerpt from President Roosevelt’s Thanksgiving speech: “May we on Thanksgiving Day and on every day express our gratitude and zealously devote ourselves to our duties as individuals and as a nation. May each of us dedicate his utmost efforts to speeding the victory which will bring new opportunities for peace and brotherhood among men.” Subsequent wars with American involvement have resulted in similar Thanksgiving dinners where the military and auxiliary organizations did their best to provide a formal Thanksgiving meal. In the U.S., Thanksgiving is most commonly traced to a celebration at Plymouth Rock in 1621 when the Pilgrims joined the Native Americans in a feast to celebrate the first harvest in the New World. This took place more than 200 years before
medicine. Used correctly, they help combat serious life-threatening illnesses. They work by destroying bacteria and interfering with the formation of bacteria, both the good and the bad. Every course of antibiotics tends to wipe out the beneficial bacteria and that gives a window of opportunity for the pathogens to proliferate, to grow uncontrolled, and to occupy new niches in your gut. The beneficial flora recovers, but different species of it take between two weeks to two months to recover in the gut and that’s a window of opportunity for various pathogens to overgrow. Sauerkraut is the perfect “Gateway Ferment.” Eating sauerkraut will not only improve your gut bacteria, but will improve your brain function. Did you know that your digestive system actually produces more neurotransmitters than your brain does? The researchers were surprised to find that the brain effects could be seen in many areas, including those involved in sensory processing and not merely those associated with emotion. Sauerkraut is now easier and easier to find on grocery store shelves. Sauerkraut is a very inexpensive probiotic. A month’s supply of probiotics can easily set you back $20-$40. The cost for a month’s supply of sauerkraut is a head of cabbage and a few jars. What could be more economical? Sauerkraut comes in many flavors, and can
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President George Washington would proclaim a nationwide “day of public thanksgiving” on October 3, 1789. Excerpt from George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: “I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering On October 3, 1863 and in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln wrote a Thanksgiving proclamation. While Lincoln is credited for making Thanksgiving a national holiday, much of the effort behind this day is credited to a Sarah J. Hale’s campaigning to create Thanksgiving which would be a “great Union Festival of America.”
be made in even more flavors, to please any palate. Eating sauerkraut can compensate for decreased production of hydrochloric acid as we age. As we age, our stomach’s natural secretions of hydrochloric acid decreases. Hydrochloric acid acts as a barrier to prevent harmful bacteria and parasites from invading your digestive system. Hydrochloric acid also improves digestion in our stomach by breaking down food so it can be more easily absorbed by the small intestine. Sauerkraut contains Vitamins C, E and K already present in the cabbage and are better utilized by your gut by consuming the fermented cabbage made to sauerkraut! Sauerkraut can boost your immune system. 70-80% of our immune system is located in our gut. By eating sauerkraut, and other foods rich in probiotics (kefir, yogurt, kimchi), you are improving your gut flora. Eating sauerkraut can help our pancreas better do its job. Your pancreas produces a variety essential digestive enzyme that break down starches, proteins and fats. Unpasteurized sauerkraut is very high in viable enzymes that work just like the ones from the pancreas. Eating sauerkraut will add years to your life … I hope. Remember great gut health makes for great overall health. Expanding your fermentation repertoire beyond sauerkraut will increase the population in your home. Eating sauerkraut with high -protein foods or foods rich in fat – yumm! – makes the foods easier to digest.
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