In Memoriam -

Melinda Lichter Elliott

(Healingtalks) Many tears move me to express my deep sadness in the passing of my beloved partner, Melinda Lichter Elliott. When she was with us, healthy, vibrant in spirit and body, Melinda basked in the Light. She also creatively brought Light to many others. Now it is time for us to hold her in the light as she left behind wonderful treasures and through her efforts these continue to shine. They include the following list, which is not exhaustive, for describing the many achievements of her rich life:

• SONS - Her sons, Krishna Meister and Forrest Elliott, were brought into this world and whom she reared with great love and nurtured to become successful in their lives.
• VIDEOS - Melinda left for us an array of 212 short videos which she either produced or edited and posted on vital topics to help others. These videos included the daily chronicle of her audacious 92-day juice feast. Her You Tube channel is aptly called “Shinning Star Miracles.”
• QUILTS - During the first few months that she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she drew a series of sacred mandalas and stitched them together in a magnificent “cancer quilt.”  During her lifetime she also created many beautiful quilts made with great love.
• BOOK - Melinda authored a book on Healing Breast Cancer Through the Arts.  Samples of her artwork, incorporated into her mandala quilt and her book, can be found through the cancer quilt page, and these include http://www.raw-wisdom.com/centeroftheuniverse and http://www.raw-wisdom.com/empowering-the-goddess-within
• WEBSITES - Melinda helped me create, maintain, and enhance the website www.raw-wisdom.com , especially with her video contributions and inspirations. She brought genius to the audio-visual part of the site, for which she had a flair and passion. This was so appropriate an offering for a “right-brain wisdom site,” or one that presented ancient truths to the world. Immortalizing her contributions, this site continues to shares its knowledge with approximately a quarter of a million people annually around the  globe – and growing. Melinda also created the original site for vwww.viewallrentals.com which helped serve hundreds of students in the Oneonta area with quality student housing. From time to time, she helped me with various other responsibilities, like renovations and especially furnishings, offering her ideas for adding beautiful artistic touches and the like.
• BLOG - Melinda established her own creative blog in which she shared her life experiences with the world, especially her spiritual and physical struggle with breast cancer.
• FORUM - From 2009 to early 2010, Melinda maintained a genetic engineering forum and which posted hundred of articles about current developments in the field
• PROFESSIONAL CAREER – Melinda was professionally a certified occupational therapist (COTA) as well as a certified colon hydrotherapist (CHT). At the same time we lived in the City of Oneonta which is such a small college town, surrounded by a 50 miles expanse of rural areas and in all 360 degree directions. But with that, her professional skills were unfortunately not self-supporting in this less urbanized or suburbanized environs. She thus worked instead on our websites and the more towards helping with the personal or socializing parts of the real estate business, doing personal showing for homes and apartments for rent. Her professional abilities in healthcare, however, remained her passions and she later continued as an occupational therapist when she moved to Florida. Her resume of these many activities and accomplishments can be found at http://www.raw-wisdom.com/melindasresume
• ORGANIZING & ATTENDING EVENTS - In Oneonta we did set up several educational and socializing events that brought in some international speakers, like Matt Monarch and Angela Stokes, and thus attracted participants from the much larger surrounding cities , including from Albany, Ithaca and Binghamton. We also attended Matt and Angela’s wedding festival in Oregon. We organized a slew of pot lucks, film showings, and a sumptuous raw-vegan Thanksgiving Dinner catered by Melinda’s friend Avai and in order to serve the local community. Pictures of the latter event made the front page of the local newspaper.
• HELP AND TRAVELS - While I did my best to help Melinda maintain a healing diet and offered inspiration and caring, Melinda also helped me and transition from an organic whole food vegetarian diet I had been on since 1981 to a more vegan, and later raw-living food vegan diet. This has been critically important for my overall health and well-being, physically and spiritually, and for this I am forever grateful to her. She made trips with me to holistic educational and healing centers, like The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia Arizona,  Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida and the Gerson Institute in San Diego. We likewise enjoyed visits to health fairs around the country, some of which we exhibited at with infrared saunas or offered educational lectures, like the fun Raw Spirit Festivals in Arizona and Washington DC.  and more locally the Awaken Fair in Tarrytown, NY. Thirdly we traveled to holistic and vegetarian festivals held in Boston, Philadelphia, Albany and NYC – videotaping interviews along the way.

Melinda Lichter Elliott and Nathan Batalion at Raw Spirit East Festival

• LETTER TO GOD - Our lifestyle together with many trips and other luxuries left us with huge debts that at one time were sustainable when the economy was roaring. But with the terrible downturn and much loss of income, stresses and the debt pressures far past mortgages,  this was beyond her capacity to bear and so we parted. Some couples can use outer crises to bond closer together but we couldn’t harness those skills.  Thus Melinda left the vision, faith and practices we had so long shared together, and whereupon her cancer devastatingly returned. Fortunately she was able to enjoy many wonderful and rich years of great health and terrific joy, being in remission while living in Oneonta, and whereupon her most creative efforts came to greatest blossoming and sweetest fruition.  In a correspondence called A Letter to God, Melinda later wrote to me:“Thank you for a few years in Oneonta when I did not feel sick.  Thank you for sending Nathan to help me. My heart’s desire is to have a loving separate relationship…I release the past that hindered me and I accept the demonstration of that which waits me now…Lovingly Melinda .”
• MINISTRIES- Melinda also helped her friends Charlepan and her husband Dana to establish the Waltja Healing Center in Albany, New York. On the center’s website is a page for the  Melinda Elliott Fund . This chronicles a little of her health journey. Years earlier, Melinda was called to ministry in the year 2000, establishing the Shining Star Ministry. She also became the Administrator for the Academy of Re-Remembering in Ivy, VA with her friend Avai (1999-2001) and co-founder of the Attitudinal Healing Center for Central Virginia (1992). These were all centers for spiritual guidance of those in need.
• BRILLIANT AND CREATIVE MIND - Melinda had a brilliantly creative mind. She was a Phi Beta Kappa. Her undergraduate and graduate major was Anthropology, which gave her a great knowledge and respect for indigenous cultures. She often discussed religious, spiritual, political, sociological and medical issues with me, and about which she had deep insights to share – bringing out a great reverence for the sacred.
• ATHLETE - As a co-partnering health advocate, Melinda served as a personal example working out in the local gym. She was further an avid runner and competed joyously with me in many local road and regional races – a few of which she won prizes for. This included first place in her age group (50-59) in the local Davenport Firemen’s Field run in 2008.

Her full bio can be found on the web at www.raw-wisdom.com/melindasbio.

Melinda  Lichter Elliott

will be remembered

and loved forever

 Video of Melinda and Nathan in their own Shining Star Miracle Musical:

Halloween Special

Shock vaccine study: 

influenza vaccines prevent flu in only 1.5% of adults

(not 60% as told)

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) This article is about something quite scary to mention, unless everyone was aware of the vast corruption of consciousness in modern mega-$-generating medicine – what is so systemic.

A recent study published in Lancet shows that their very best and contrived, manipulated, industry-supporting study only could show that influenza vaccines helped just 1.5% of adults – maybe- and via something almost statistically insignificant. Nevertheless, the  very same study is being broadcast throughout mainstream media  as proof that “flu vaccines are 60% effective!”  Supposedly this was a disappointment because the previous claims were for 70-90% effectiveness. See references for such false and widespread industry reporting at the end of this article. So what else is new. The unbridled manipulation of truth is commonplace but remains VERY VERY SCARY indeed.

Flu vaccine stops influenza for just and only 1.5%…..maybe!

In this study the control group of adults consisted of about 13,000 non-vaccinated adults.

Only 2.7% of these caught the flu.

The treatment group were vaccinated with  trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine.

1.2% of them did not catch the flu.

The difference is, using simple math, just 1.5%

Statistical Games

But if you take the 2.7% in the control group and you divide that into the 1.2% in the treatment group, this gives you 0.43 and implies a “57% decrease” in influenza infections. The overall “60% effectiveness” being claimed for this study is thus a statistical hoax and sham. Actually 1.5% of the patients had any incrementally positive response, and even that is disputable.  So when the media (or your doctor) says these vaccines are “60% effective,” what they don’t tell you  is that when you inject 100 adults the result is that only  1.5 of them somehow avoid the flu and it has no positive impact on the rest, or 98.5% of the time and for the general population.

Any harmed by influenza shots, mammograms and chemotherapy? A similar story of a devilish manipulation of truth

Harmful effects are also not the focus, almost never, of such product-marketing, pro-industry studies, funded by Big-Pharma supporting groups to make their bankrupt case.So if we guess, for example, that 7.5% show long-term neurological side effects – a quite reasonable guess given the vast data we have about such harmful impacts – or 5 times as many hurt as helped – then this would mean we all are 500% more likely to be harmed than healed by submitting to the shot!

The same is true with mammograms that harm approximately 10 women for every 1 they may help (http://www.naturalnews.com/020829.html).

It is the same with chemotherapy with a best, and disputable, track record of helping 3% of those treated and failing with the other 97%. And again the successful cases are disputable. Just because a tumor shrinks doesn’t mean someone is truly healed. Chemotherapy may shrink tumors, receiving ovations, while eventually the patient dies because same toxic and lethal chemo tends to kill most who receive it.

“Cancer survivors” after chemotherapy might better be described as “chemo survivors.”

The rest we may bless with R.I.P.s, may they “rest in peace” having been subjected to the cancer industry’s RIP offs.

Quoth the Raven Never More

According to the same study, 12 out of 100 children were helped. But this data is almost certainly largely falsified in favor of the vaccine industry, as explained below. It ignores frightening harms, including a MAJOR vaccine/autism link.

So if you are thinking of giving your child a flu shot, remember Edgar Allen Poe’s admonition – “Quoth the Raven Never More!

Funding

The funding for this abysmal study came from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation whose Vice President for Human Resources and Program Management is Gail Pesyna, a former DuPont executive (working for the second largest GMO firm) and with special expertise in pharmaceuticals and medical diagnostics. (http://www.sloan.org/bio/item/10)

Alred P. Sloan Foundation alsgave a $650,000 grant to fund the creation of a film called “Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine,” (http://www.sloan.org/assets/files/a…) which features a highly pro-vaccine slant.

Credibility

Control group was often given a vaccine, too

In many of the studies used in this meta analysis, the “control” groups were given so-called “insert” vaccines which may have contained chemical adjuvants and other additives but not attenuated viruses. Why does this matter? Because the adjuvants can cause immune system disorders that make the control group more susceptible to influenza.

Flu vaccines not tested against never-vaccinated healthy children

Testing healthy, non-vaccinated children against vaccinated children is something that is never done. It’s no surprise, therefore, that flu shots were simply not tested against “never vaccinated” children who have avoided flu shots for their entire lives. That would be a real test, huh? But of course you will never see that test conducted because it would make flu shots look laughably useless by comparison.

Influenza vaccines not tested against vitamin D user

Vitamin D prevents influenza at a rate that is 8 times more effective than flu shots (http://www.naturalnews.com/029760_v…).

No long-term studies

Vaccines are considered “effective” if they merely prevent the flu. But what if they also cause a 50% increase in Alzheimer’s two decades later?  There is no desire in the industry to observe and record the actual long-term results of vaccines because the negative results would defeat their marketing purposes.

Lancet is a pro-vaccine mouthpiece funded by the vaccine industry!

Trusting The Lancet to report on the effectiveness of vaccines is foolish. Does anyone really think we’re going to get a truthful report from a medical journal that depends on vaccine company revenues?

Even when pro-vaccine medical journals publish pro-vaccine studies, their best data shows flu vaccines prevent influenza in only 1.5 out of 100 adults!

If these studies were done with no $$ ties to Big Pharma, might they have been worse? You betcha. They would probably show a stark negative efficacy rate, meaning that flu shots cause more influenza cases than they prevent. That’s the more likely reality.

Flu shots do cause incidences. That’s why the people who get sick every winter with the flu are often the very same people who got flu shots to prevent the same! Do your own survey and just ask ‘em yourself this coming winter.

Diabolical Beliefs

Thanks to the vast lies of the industry, most people believe flu shots help them, which can alone account for 1.5% less incidences, the power of the mind – again being statistically insignificant.

So next time you see adults lined up at a pharmacy for their flu shots, know that nearly 99 out of those 100 are wasting their time and money and may be subjecting themselves to considerable long-term neurological damage.

Someday may take on the persona of Frankenstein.

Fraudulent marketing

Given this 1.5% effectiveness, the marketing of flu shots is, according to Mike Adams, one of the most outrageous examples of fraudulent marketing ever witnessed in modern or any society.

Can you imagine a car company selling a car that only worked 1.5% of the time? Or a computer company selling a computer that only worked 1.5% of the time? They would be indicted for fraud!

So why does the vaccine industry get away with this?

This puts flu shots in roughly the same efficacy category as rubbing a rabbit’s foot or wishing really hard. But this is commonly what passes for “science” in a greed hungry industry that most maintain billions of dollars in sales to satisfy stockholders.

Trick or Treat

Getting others to buy something useless and that might  harm is quite a trick, not a treat.

How to pull this off? Just shroud the process under  some “science” jargon and offer prizes to the pharmacy workers who cajole customers to get injected. That’s how its done!

Don’t want to know?

What are flu shots really for? Vaccines are population control technologies, as openly admitted by Bill Gates (http://www.naturalnews.com/029911_v…). They are so cleverly packaged under the fabricated “public health” message that even those who administer vaccines have no idea they are actually engaged in the reduction of human population through vaccine-induced infertility and genetic mutations. Vaccines ultimately have but one purpose: to “weed out” those humans who are stupid enough to fall for vaccine propaganda. For that purpose, they probably are 60% effective after all.

Resources

Flu Vaccines — The Mainstream Admits, We Want an Epidemic!
http://liamscheff.com/2011/10/flu-v…

Vaccine Liberation

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Say No To Frankencandy On This Halloween

What’s Really Spooky About Halloween

Keywords

symptoms of the flu, flu viruses, vaccines for the flu, flu shot vaccines,  vaccine influenza, effects of the flu,  influenza vaccination, having the flu, flu viruses, flu injection, flu vaccination, cold and flu.

Based on an article by Mike Adams, published at naturalnews.com

Infowars interview on the subject:

Our favorite scary speech by Bill Gates:

SAMPLE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARTICLE

AHN All Headline News

AOL Healthy Living

MSNBC

Reuters and Yahoo News

Farmers and Seed

Distributors Sue Monsanto

COMMENT:

In a sentence, biotechnology is part of a vast movement, progressively having developed since the 17th century, to reduce all of life to a dead, non-alive (patent-fixated) mechanical view of nature.

This needs to be resisted before the technology destroys life on earth.

Nathan Batalion CTN

A critical crossroads in agricultural history

Press Release Parkside, SK- March 30, 2011

Yesterday over 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic agricultural organizations in Canada and the US, including Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds Ltd. of Parkside Saskatchewan in Canada, filed a lawsuit against Monsanto Company to challenge Monsanto’s patents on genetically modified (GM) seed. The plaintiffs were forced to sue preemptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should they ever become contaminated by Monsanto’s GM seed.

Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al vs. Monsanto

The case, Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association et al. vs. Monsanto, was filed in federal district court in Manhattan and assigned to Judge Naomi Buchwald. Plaintiffs in the suit represent a broad array of family farmers, small businesses and organizations from within the organic agriculture community in Canada and the US who are increasingly threatened by GM seed contamination despite using their best efforts to avoid it. The plaintiff organizations have over 270,000 members, including thousands of certified organic family farmers.

“This case asks whether Monsanto has the right to sue organic farmers for patent infringement if Monsanto’s transgenic seed should land on their property,” said Dan Ravicher, Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) and Lecturer of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. “It seems quite perverse that an organic farmer contaminated by transgenic seed could be accused of patent infringement, but Monsanto has made such accusations before and is notorious for having sued hundreds of farmers for patent infringement, so we had to act to protect the interests of our clients.”

The risk of contamination is high and once GM seeds are released into the environment, they cannot be recalled or controlled. Canadian farmers are still suffering the consequences of market loss after the 2009 GM contamination of flax, and organic canola was virtually erased as a crop for farmers in Canada due to GM contamination.

Crossroad

The suit is being filed at a critical crossroads in agricultural history as Monsanto’s GM Roundup Ready herbicide tolerant alfalfa has recently been approved for planting in the US, though it has yet to be commercially introduced in Canada. “Contamination from Monsanto’s GM alfalfa poses a direct threat to our alfalfa seed business,” says Lisa Mumm of Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds which grows and supplies certified organic seed for sprouting, “Neither conventional nor organic alfalfa farmers want this GMO technology, since there is no need to use Roundup to grow healthy and viable alfalfa crops. Roundup Ready alfalfa is not needed and serves only to increase sales of Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup.”

“Patents on living organisms should never have been permitted in the first place,” said Lucy Sharratt of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. “Patents on gene sequences are facilitating extreme corporate control over seed.”

Cooexistence of GMOs with Organics?

“Some say genetically modified seed can coexist with organic seed, but history tells us that’s not possible, and it’s actually in Monsanto’s financial interest to eliminate organic seed so that they can have a total monopoly over our food supply,” said Ravicher. Monsanto is now the world’s largest seed and biotechnology company.

Contacts:

The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) is a not-for-profit legal services organization affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. PUBPAT protects freedom in the patent system by representing the public interest against undeserved patents and unsound patent policy. More information about PUBPAT is available from www.pubpat.org.

Lisa Mumm

Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds Ltd.

Ph. 306-747-2935

lisa@sprouting.com

www.sprouting.com
Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator

Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)

Phone: 613 241 2267 ext. 25

coordinator@cban.ca

www.cban.ca

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Millions Against

Monsanto Campaign

The campaign goes into full charge  March 26, 2011 and is sponsored by the Organic Consumer’s Association. The thrust has organized  simultaneous demonstrations around the country in at least thirteen states and with action summits in NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago. A mass rally against GMOs and for GMO labeling is being planned in NYC and Washington DC.

For more information you can go to OCA’s  site and its new Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/organicconsumer See their launching video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQIw5qkq2QY

Why is the Millions Against Monsanto Campaign so important?

• Genetic engineering of crops has been shown to cause severe health problems and to threaten, through genetic pollution,  the sustainability of all organic farming.
• It is likely implicated in the mass dying of bees.
• Already one third of American crop lands are now used to grow GMO foods and GMO ingredients are found in more than 2/3rds of processed foods.

For more detailed information on health and environmental threats of GM crops, plus what you can do, see http://www.responsibletechnology.org/

Also read and our famous article written over a decade ago:  50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods

Related articles

http://www.healingtalks.com/health/whats-really-really-spooky-about-halloween/

http://www.healingtalks.com/health/shock-vaccine-study-influenza-vaccines-prevent-flu-in-only-1-5-of-adults-not-60-as-told/

Resources

Video on healthy Halloween candy alternatives

Keywords:   candy halloween, halloween food, halloween treats, halloween party ideas, candy for halloween, halloween snacks

The absolute scariest thing about Halloween isn’t ghosts rising out of graveyards.

Its not the blood-sucking vampires or Frankenstein-like characters that screech in your ears and howl at the moon.

Nor is it the freakiest zombies dressed in skeletal outfits with but the sharpest fingernails to again frighten me and you to …..sheer death.

WHO’S TRICKING US TO EAT THOSE SCARY TREATS

What’s most scary  is the fact that our children nowadays are given increasingly more pounds of refined sugar, GM-modified sugar, artificial food additives, hydrogenated and trans fats and other toxic ingredients that all harm. This relates to much of the candy, cakes and soft drinks children take in – while these things at the same time and deceptively claim health benefits because of some negligible vitamins added. We thus find Frankencandy and M&M murder madness food being gobbled down in our kids’ throats.

REALLY FRIGHTENING STATS

The dramatic three-decade rise in childhood obesity underscores the problem. Less known is the fact that there has been a vast rise in chronic health conditions among children (diabetes, asthma, ADHD, etc) and from 13% to 27% in the period between 1994 and 2006! In short,these chronic ills have now doubled in slightly over a decade for our beloved kids. This is all according to a new study published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. These two facts, the rise in obesity and the doubling of chronic ailments for our little s ones make this an ultimate health time-bomb that’s ticking. The junk foods that children eat regularly will attack their young immune systems. It will greatly spike their blood sugar. It will deplete their vitamins, minerals and phyto-nutrients. It will, in short, create unprecedented ills.

And what about mental health?  We find a phenomenal epidemic in childhood autism (1 in 100 newborns today compared to 1 in 5000 20 years ago or about a 49X increase)! Also children on mental health disability have seen a 3500% increase in two decades between 1987 and 2007. In addition, I hear that some doctors have never seen many more children nowadays with brain tumors.

THAT’S REALLY SCARY

We are making deranged devils out of our divine angels.

WHAT TO DO

If you’re feeling spooked about such things, lets not drive our kids further to eat yet more heaps of  pure madness food, especially candy on Halloween to feed vulture corporate profits.

Thus please click on this  great Halloween campaign >>>>> Green Smoothie Queen To Make A Difference On Halloween …. and that rhymes… against child crimes. Anyone out there who knows Mike Adams ask him to do another rap song on the subject.

Follow the Green Smoothie Queen,

Makin’ a Difference on Halloween,

Not Hurtin Our Kids Just To Feed  Profits Obscene!

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LOVE before and after pics. These are first of Susan and then Judy and Tom from Raw Food Rehab. They are now helping others to benefit as they did. Check it out… Susan’s site is called RAW ENERGY EATING  …and Judy and Tom’s LEGACY LIFESSTYLE CENTER

For more before and after pics  — from SAD (Standard American Diet) to the raw and living foods lifestyle    Click>>>> Before and After

CONGRATS RAW FOOD REHAB!

It is a fabulous social network for those who appreciate the “rehab”  or the healing transformations of moving to the raw and living food diet. They have gathered thousands of members to share their life stories and provide each other with loving support and great inspiration.

Their  ANNIVERSARY VIDEO is a work of love.

Happy One Year Anniversary Raw Food Rehab! from Penni Shelton on Vimeo.

For more info…. visit and to join this out-of-sight gang… Click >>>>> Raw Food Rehab

ALL-IN-ONE: TALK, POTLUCK, & MUSIC!

KITCHEN GARDENING: The Agriculture of Tomorrow
Organic Greens for Pennies on the Pound

World-famous Sproutman^®
Author of  Sprouts the Miracle Food &
Sproutman’s Kitchen Garden Cookbook

Saturday, JULY 10^th, 2010  ●  5:00pm
GREEN EARTH HEALTH FOOD MARKET
4 Market Street Oneonta, NY 13820
Cost: $10.00
Pot Luck: A Vegan Dish Is Suggested For 6-8

RSVP: Either call Nathan Batalion, ND
607-267-8901 or email: nathan@healingtalks.com
Visit us at www.healingtalks.com

ABOUT THIS EVENT

TALK
The world-famous Sproutman is coming to Oneonta N.Y. to teaches us how to economically use supercharged greens to save BIG on our food & health bills! Go from your soil-free kitchen garden to your dinner table for pennies per pound! No green thumb required! Living food can’t get better! Find out how these AMAZING foods add energy to your days, and years to your life. Sproutman calls it: “ONE WEEK FROM SEED TO SALAD^®” The presentation is followed by book signings and product offerings. Learn invaluable health information and tips for the best in indoor gardening. Again this special event will be in Oneonta at the Green Earth 4 Market Street Saturday July 10 2010 at 5pm.

POTLUCK
For the potluck, please bring a vegan dish for 6-8 people.

MUSIC
The Slamming Sophias will be playing classical and pop on Cello and Violin  – Soraya Sophia and Takura Sophia – popular duets from Bach to Bebop

COME ATTEND
Please also bring friends and family to experience our most informative meetup ever.

WHERE
Oneonta is located in the central Catskill region about 1 hour west of Albany, east of Binghamton and south of Utica New York or 2 hours northwest of Kingston and Middletown or 3 hours northwest of NYC, Springfield MA and Hartford CT.

ABOUT SPROUTMAN

Steve Meyerowitz became known as “Sproutman” in the 1970′s because his NYC apartment was always filled with gardens of mini-vegetables. They were part of his lifetime fight against chronic allergies and asthma. After 20 years of disappointment with orthodox medicine, he became symptom-free using diet, juices, and fasting. In 1980, he founded “The Sprout House”, a “no-cooking” school in NYC that taught the benefits of a living foods diet. He is the author of 10 books including Power Juices Super Drinks and Wheatgrass Nature’s Finest Medicine. You can visit him at www.Sproutman.com.

Above: Salad with sprouts, sprouts in an automatic grower and in Sproutman’s unique bags.

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AVOIDING POOR CIRCULATION
As the average person ages, there are multiple signs and symptoms of poor circulation. We tend to slow down physically and mentally. We are more susceptible to temperature changes and bones start to become brittle.

IMPORTANCE OF GOOD CICULATION
The importance of keeping our circulation in a healthy state is more than critically important. Otherwise our bodies will not carry vital nutrients or the best of nutrition to our cells. At the same time we hamper on-going detoxifications as well, and as performed by our skin, liver, kidneys and lymph. What is removed by these organs is then not carried effectively out. Our overall state of consciousness or awareness starts to recede because our nervous system fails to have an adequate supply of oxygen and other nutrients. Our nerves lacks life force. This is why we consider maintaining good circulation as one of the four master keys to a state of good health.

IMPROVING CIRCULATION

REGULAR EXERCISE
One of the major ways to keep our circulatory system healthy is obviously to exercise. Especially aerobic exercise is vital.  It conditions the body to move our blood more forcefully and vitally to all cells.  This morning I ran a short 5k race with over 600 runners  and came in first in my age group of 60+. This happened after just a week of training because I constantly keep active with gardening and renovation work. I feel it is so important to balance our mental, emotional and physical activities.

DAILY RAW ORGANIC VEGETABLE JUICES
If there is a circulatory problem, drink at least a quart of raw organic vegetable juices every day, seven days a week. Include in the quart of juice a variety of high-nutrient-dense greens (kale, collards, bok choy, spinach, cabbage, broccoli rabe) and a little cayenne pepper and garlic or ginger to stimulate circulation. Drink as much of this juice mix as you possibly can within 15 minutes of making the juice, before it loses its optimum vitality. Use a slow grinding juicer like the Huron because it oxidizes the juice less. When using the most nutrient-dense foods it’s quite ok to dilute the juice (half/half) using added water to make two quarts. Storing the excess juice is best with some vitamin C added or lemon/lime juice. Fill to the top of your glass jar and close tightly so that oxidation is further avoided. Taking niacin with the juice will drive the blood with the intense juice nutrients a little deeper and farther – as will exercise.

VEER AWAY FROM ANIMAL PROTEINS, FATS
If you have a more serious cardiovascular disorder or circulatory problem or are at heart attack or stroke risk, the best step is to avoid virtually all animal proteins and fats. They tend to clog our arteries or the whole of the circulatory system. What impressed me in this regard was the photos taken by Dr. Esselstyne of patients with occluded arteries who, after switching to a vegan diet, had those same arteries open up completely just three months later.

SERIOUSLY ELIMINATE REFINED OILS
The problem with refined oils, even the “better” ones, is simply that they are refined. They are not whole foods that carry the original life force. They could rather easily be called “junk foods” as with  highly refined-flour-made products like donuts. More seriously they contribute to a systemic breakdown of the inner living of circulatory system vessels. Those prone to serious cardiovascular disease need to cut out all refined fats and oils - and I mean it. Again, all of them! You need to temporarily eliminate even premier refined oils like flax, olive, hemp and coconut oil at least until your circulatory system has had a chance to heal. This doesn’t mean you eliminate the intake of those oils per se – just the refined forms. You can grind flax seeds fresh and sprinkle them on a dish.  Flax oil especially begins to go rancid a week after pressing (devaluing the health benefits of flax oil as retained in a more whole food form). You can also add a little nuts, avocado, coconut pulp or olives to the diet and thereby get enough fat for our body’s normally modest needs . Modify this if you live in a colder regions and need more padding. By the way, getting that padding from animal sources (as the Eskimos did for centuries using blubber)  is no longer a viable option for multiple reasons. This includes the fact that we now have a rising presence of chemical toxins accumulating in most animal fat tissues.

Keeping a healthy cardiovascular system is actually quite simple. It is the psychological and cultural transition to a more vegan and living foods diet that is initially difficult for many – until one understands why and sees the incremental and overall cumulative results.