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Heroic and incredible story of Dave, the raw truck driver

1 Comment 04 April 2012

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(Healingtalks) Dave’s story is truly inspirational.He is a good example of what a raw/living food diet can do.

What happened to Dave at the doorsteps of death

Dave was suffering from colon cancer, kidney failure (doctors had wanted to remove one of his kidneys), diabetes and arthritis. Within a few days of green juicing and turning to a raw, living food diet he was off of his diabetes medications.

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Why and how living foods and green juices heal

What juices and living foods do is brink back the life and consciousness to our bodies. Consciousness is a connective force in nature, so with that we become whole. In its absence, the body falls apart and dies. It also stops feeling, as in the neuropathy of diabetes and the spreading of cancer with no recognition.

Learning a counter-cultural path

When one learns this counter-cultural path, namely to take in the living forces of nature which are best transmitted to us through the juices of the plant world – especially that of all greens and ever more especially young, whole simple greens such as the grasses and other green sprouts – ALL the cells, tissues, organs and systems of the body begin to come alive again.

“Incurable” illnesses are reversed

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Four pillars of naturopathy

In teaching the skills of naturopathic healing, there are four legs that hold up the hair and keep it from toppling.

  • First there is the best of nutrition, taking in the living forces
  •  Then detoxification, getting the worst of things out
  •  Next exercise and/or enhanced circulation to keep both of the above moving and affecting every cell
  • And finally mind/body work. Sometimes the mind/body work has to come first to enable the other three. Sometimes it comes last, because the first three clear the mind to be able to think sanely and to meditate peacefully.Overall  we can best and most quickly heal (or come back together as One) if we practice all four of these modalities simultaneously as one.

Dave’s message to others like him:

Its amazing how virile men often subsist on the worst food on the planet. Dave say: Real men can go raw.
In fact Dave is getting the word out to other truck drivers and the general public.

PS: real women too!

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Website dedicated to Dave’s journal: http://www.greenhousearts.com/raw/men-and-raw-food-diet/

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America’s Fat… Fatter… and FATTEST Sick Future

2 Comments 30 March 2012

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(Healingtalks) Its a fact that America keeps getting fatter by the day. With the increase in obesity comes a sicker population, with increasing heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, and diabetes – and ultimately shorter life-spans.

Rise in Obesity

In 1990,  12% of Americans were obese

In 2000, 20% of Americans were obese

In 2010, 33% of Americans were obese

In 2030, 50% of Americans will be obese (projected)

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Obesity already up to 40% among Minorities

With minority groups, especially blacks and Hispanics,  the rates are even higher, and beginning with children bred on fast foods - up to 4 out of 10 or 40% in 9 states.

What is causing this epidemic?

Low quality fast foods….. “junk foods

These are cheap to buy, thus the greater rate of obesity among poor minorities, and that are nutrition-less – or dead, chemicalized and devitalized. The foods also have an inflammatory impact, which is the same as inner consciousness lowering. The body can’t really absorb or get rid of this dead stuff masquerading as good-for-you food. So it creates and gets stored in fat cells. This also causes carvings to eat ever more and the result is to put on weight. It further disturbs sugar/insulin metabolism and this triggers yet more weight to be put on.

Government subsidies for ingredients that cause obesity

This includes the the growing of subsidized corn, soy and wheat, all fueled by powerful lobbies in Washington -  used to make ingredients such as genetically modified corn syrup, corn oil, soy oil and white flour. While Food and Water Watch argues that subsidies are not a direct cause, and their removal would not significantly raise prices, if that same government money was used to promote healthy foods, it would make a difference.

Like US military used to protect poppy fields in Afghanistan

The war on drugs is a hoax, like the war on cancer and poor health by the disease care industry. We know that opium is addictive, thus highly profitable. It also keeps the addict in a zombie-like state. Well  junk foods do the same. Powerful elites love a dumbed-down and docile public, to rule – and to make money of off, with little or no concern for public health.

Mechanized production of “phud” 

The first major fast food company, McDonalds, essentially mechanized the food service industry to maximize profits and minimize quality food. We live in an civilization that has taken the mechanizing Industrial Revolution deep into its life support systems – with devastating results for ourselves and our surrounding ecology.

Bankrupt mechanical science of nutrition

A bankrupt science of nutrition in the field of dietetics works hand in hand with the disease-care industry. It creates a false food pyramid and tells us which foods we are supposedly to eat. Didn’t you know that foods are just chem-defined carbs, proteins, sugars, and fats? With this conventional science, there is no difference really between a living and dead food. Reality is all a matter of chemical analysis. Thus a soaked almond that can gross to become a tree  has the same calories and fatty acides of a roasted almond. Not knowing there is a difference, California has largely mandated all almonds be heat-treated or irradiated. Dietitians generally raise no complaint. This is because their understanding is based on a 17th century-born vision of nature. See our writings about global mind change, moving from a misleading, core mechanical/math-based view of nature  to a far more deeply penetrating and more valid and more sensible life-centered vision. This can amass absolutely revolutionary changes in one’s thinking and approach to life -  from changing the foods we eat…. the medicines we take … the overall lifestyle we lead…and finally changing the driving force, the passionate purpose and spiritual essence of our lives.

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Truck driver tells his health recovery story – coming from a near death state…. with obesity, diabetes, kidney dysfunction, and colon cancer:

Before and after video using the Master Cleanse and again a raw and living food diet rather than dead and processed fast food:

There Is a Cure for Diabetes:

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Beautiful, knock-out women in their 60s to 70′s

No Comments 22 March 2012

Annette Larking 70

By Johanna Sophia

(Healingtalks) We live longer than we did a hundred years ago.  However, according to recent statistics, we also live sicker than ever before – at least on average.

Our society’s signs of health decay

Chronic illness epidemics have exploded. Diabetes, cancer, arthritis, asthma, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease all model this downward course. At the same time, in Britain for example, the number of non-curing painkillers taken per person per year is now at 373!

In the US, persons over 60, on  average, take 7 chemical pills or pharmaceutical drugs a day – that’s a staggering 2555 per year!  And yet they remain ill.

Nevertheless, some of us have gotten wiser about harnessing our body’s natural rejuvenation power.  Both men and women over the age of 60 are now dramatically turning around their health using natural approaches.

No drugs, no surgery, no radiation

The stretched skin and surgical altered smiles of older Hollywood Divas belong to days past.  Those faces remind us more of glamorized Frankenstein’s wives!

We are talking about real and natural beauties, inside and out.  The naturally beautiful women of 70 have discovered that using a combination of exercise, great food and a goal-oriented mindset, they can take hold of their health and fitness – and keep their natural beauty – at 60, 70 and beyond.

Purposeful and passionate living is one of the keys to retaining one’s life force.  Then there is the ultimate Master Key – great and extraordinary NUTRITION – and as an absolute must for staying beautiful.

annette larkings raw kitchenAnnette Larkins at 70

Annette, looking magnificent, calls her everyday food her Fountain of Youth.

Her nutrients do not come from pills or powders but simply organic veggies.  She eats them fresh from her own garden. Being a raw and living foodist is for Annette Larkins the answer to becoming an ageless beauty queen.  She started eating this way 25 years ago (or when she turned 45).  Look at her above.

She may look more stunning and vibrant now than she did then!

mimi kirk raw veganMimi Kirk at 73

Voted as the world’s sexiest vegetarian over 50, Mimi is now 73!  She is currently on a speaking tour going to audiences around the world who want to know her secrets.  At the core of her message is again: nutrition.  Mimi loves inventing new live food dishes and serving her husband, who is many years her junior, exquisite raw food cuisine.

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Meryl Streep at 63

There are exceptions to Hollywood’s greatest divas being surgically-altered. Maryl Streep is a prime example. Meryl reigns supreme as the world’s most recognized actress.

Where does she get the confidence to express a joy of life that others lack? Meryl has discovered organic foods and a natural lifestyle and was the first to promote  pesticide-free foods for children, and a mostly vegan diet.

After an Oscar-winning performance in “The Iron Lady,” in her 60′s, let’s see where she can do in her 70′s.

Ultimately natural beauty wins every time.

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How to start the raw food diet

No Comments 01 December 2011

How to start a raw food diet

How to start

  a raw food diet

 Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) Learning how to gently, pleasurably and effectively transition to a raw food diet is one of the most important things you can do for your health.

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Raw Food Diet, Vegan Diet

Raw Diet: Before And After

5 Comments 04 August 2010

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before and after photos

Seeing is believing. These people achieved amazing results and so can you!

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Shazzieraw

Shazzie suffered from lethargy, depression, brain-fog, bad skin, and aches and pains. She underwent a huge transformation and wrote an incredible book with David Wolfe entitled Naked Chocolate. Read more about Shazzie’s story …

Vinitcookedvinitraw

Vinit is apart of the WLIR squad and has been eating 95% raw food for over a year. He transformed his fat into muscle and lost over 15 lbs in the process. He’s the WLIR weight lifting advisor. Read more about Vinit’s story …

Jennysmall

During a routine examination Jenny found a lump on her breast… twice… during two separate occasions… over the course of two years. Jenny took a hard look at her life and knew she had to make a shift happen not only for herself, but for her son too.  Read more about Jenny’s story…

Britanierawfood

Britanie weighed 200 lbs and was a size 18 in her teens. She was also diagnosed with having GERD and a Hiatal Hernia at 9.  After a diet change, she weighs 125 lbs. and a size 7/8. Read more about Britanie’s story …

Neelpatel

Neel Patel weighed over 200 pounds and was diagnosed by his family doctor of having a poor liver.  Neel set upon a regiment of eating a 90% vegan rawfood diet with a daily workout plan. Listen to Neel’s story …

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I was a bad vegetarian – pastas, chocolates and thick, warm bread were part of my daily menu and Greek pastries were my doughy comfort. Read more about Erini”s Story

Michellereevescookedraw_1

Michelle at the age of 29 went from 310 pounds to 231 pounds in just one year alone.  Her self esteem and confidence levels went up a million times greater than when she was eating cooked. Read more about Michelle’s story …

Chriscookedchrisraw

Chris was overweight (363 pounds), dealt with high blood pressure (184/50), and had a very high cholesterol level(324 US).  With the help of his love Zoe, Chris lost 167 pounds in just 2.5 years. Read more about Chris’s story …

Courtneybeforecourtneyafter

She’s 20 years young and currently doing a Juice Feast for ultimate transformation. Read more about Courtney’s story …

Angelacookedangelaraw

Angela weighed over 260lbs, a UK dress size of 26-28, and was lost in miserable cycles of a non-existent love-life. Three and a half years later, Angela dropped down to a UK dress size 10. Read more about Angela’s story …

Toddcookedtoddraw

Todd suffered from deficiencies in mineral and vitamins.  After 17 months on the diet and at age 44, he has no protein issues, no b12 issues, no amino acid issues, and no heath issues period. Read more about Todd’s story …

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Cecilia was a sufferer of multiple ailments ranging form asthma to depression to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  Upon her diet change, Cecilia has significantly reduced her inhaler and medication usage. Read more about Cecilia’s story …

Joelcookedjoelraw

Joel is a raw food chef who has overcome extreme drug and food addiction to become a very well known figure in the raw food community. He’s been raw food for over 5 years now. Read more about Joel’s story …

Jaynascookedjaynasraw

Jayna weighed over 175 pounds and was a size 14-16 at the age of 22.  After trying out vegetarian and vegan diets, Jayna began eating a raw food diet.  She lost 60 pounds and is a size 2-4. Read more about Jayna’s story …

Aprilcookedaprilraw_2

April went from pretty to prettier.  Her change may not be as drastic,  her skin, eyes, and facial structure all have the extra bit of glow that came from feeding the body what it needed. Read more about April’s story …

Jennacookedjennaraw

Jenna was pretty fit when she was younger.  Acknowledging her body was not getting fitter, Jenna setup upon a 30 day journey into raw foods detailing her story in Supercharge Me – 30 Days Raw. Read more about Jenna’s story …

Audreywalkercookedraw

Audrey Walker suffered a whole host of health issues ranging from IBS to depression to anxiety.  With the power of health, Audrey is 60 lbs lighter and more relaxed, positive, and hopeful. Read more about Audrey’s story …

Felicia

Felicia stories depicts life after a gastric bypass.  Though losing 150 lbs is quick and easy with such a surgery, living life afterwards is not so similar.  Felicia turned to a raw food diet recently. Read more about Felicia’s story …

Dixiecookeddixieraw

Dixie, a health care educator and midwife (delivered more than 500 babies over the last 27 years) has taken a much more practical and simpler approach to the raw food diet and its healing process. Read more about Dixie’s story …

Tonyazavastaraw

Tonya put this lifestyle to a test when she used it against not only the common “after forty” downslide, but also against the grave consequences on the body that general anesthetics and pain can bring. Read more about Tonya’s story …

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Abbey, age 24, set out on a mission to gain weight the healthy way. She went from 90lbs to 100lbs in four months eating a raw food diet. Read more about Abbey’s story …

Diet and Nutrition, HEALING US, Raw Food Diet, Vegan Diet

WHY WE LOVE THE RAW FOOD DIET & LIFESTYLE

2 Comments 18 February 2010

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Why We Love The Raw Food Diet

BECAUSE OF ENZYMES IN RAW FOODS?
Do we love the raw food diet because of enzymes in the food? I have great respect for Ann Wigmore, one of the founders of the raw food movement who advocated that we should eat a living foods diet due to their  life-enhancing enzymes. Get your daily dose of enzymes was the rallying cry. These enzymes will aide digestion. They also speed up countless chemical reactions in our body. If you heat a food over 110 degrees, most of the enzymes tend to die. On the surface, this sounds great. However, there is a problem with this neat rationale.  It actually reinforces a dominant mechanical view of nature (if enzymes are chemically-defined) and one that is, as I would claim, a guiding belief that is actually the chief cause of the destruction of life all over our planet!

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The Diet Paradox

8 Comments 07 January 2010

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1-2-3 COUNTING CALORIES
The picture of the apple being measured by a measuring tape ties in well with something I passionately teach and using an apple as a metaphor. The lesson I teach  is that the deeper  essence of nature  is  not what modern science tells us with its measuring sticks, scales, and micrometers.  We  supposedly live in just a math-defined world. To bring this down-to-earth, I typically use an apple for an example. Is the apple that fell on Newton’s head really made up of what a dietitian tells us just carbohydrates, proteins, fats, calories – chemically or math-defined?

THE MEASUREMENT DIET
As we carefully measure, we weigh our foods and count calories in a Newtonian dance.  Does this get us well. Does this guides us to deep healing? I think not. Yes we can design a machine that way but not the healing of our bodies. The reasons are explained in my philosophy of  raw-wisdom.

GREATEST OF ILLUSIONS
Adopting a mechanical viewpoint, we allow ourselves to be inundated by countless modern chemicals. The cumulative effect is overwhelmingly to pollute our bodies and also our planet. A 90% failure rate in dieting that takes on a mechanical approach relates deeply to what is explained below.

DAVID WOLFE AND KEVIN GIANNI
In this light, The Diet Paradox is actually unique as put together by nutrition gurus David Wolfe and Kevin Gianni. The program is also being launched to the general public today. It outlines four main ways to effectively lose weight and in a lasting manner.  Their approaches are all-natural and all-organic.

WHY A PARADOX
What the term “paradox” refers to is that fact that again 90% of those who diet tend to gain back all their weight and sometimes more.   The root reason was shown to me graphically at an Isagenix detox seminar as I explain below.

TOXICITY AND WHY WE PUT ON FAT
The average person’s interior fluids contain hundreds of different toxic chemical traces. This accumulation may begin in the womb!  400+ serious toxins have been found in human placentas.  It has also been shown that fat deposits can be a protective mechanism to encase toxins and acids produced by digesting highly processed foods. When a toxic body loses weight via counting calories,  it can actually make things worse!

DIETING WITHOUT DETOXIFYING
Imagine an Eskimo without much body fat and thus not thriving in a bitter cold climate. A skinny person in a toxic body will also not do well. Dieting without detoxifying is not recommended. The relative  % of toxins goes up. A thinner body has a harder time. Food cravings return  with a vengeance.

WHAT THIS TELLS US
Dieting alone can be foolish.  The Isagenix and Diet Paradox programs are unique in that they both recognize this.

ISAGENIX
The Isagenic protocol
is not purely vegetarian or vegan, though they have some vegetarian products. They use organic whey and casein. I think the overall effect still is hugely healing because I have seen the end results.  This is because of  a simultaneous high level of detoxification that negates the relatively smaller level of acidity derived from digesting casein.

Someday Isagenix will have a vegan line for us purists. In the meantime check out the Diet Paradox.

MORE ON THE DIET PARADOX does offers raw and vegan options. You can find more detailed information and can  listen to a podcast on their main tips for quickly losing fat, feeling super, and keeping weight and fat off  in a healthy way.

The Diet Paradox

Visualize in 2010 a new, stronger, more energetic and  beautiful

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90-DAY RAINBOW DIET-DETOX CLEANSE – BASIS

No Comments 24 December 2009


Our unique program was conceived and designed by Nathan Batalion ND.He helped conceive, fund and organize the Gerson Wellness Center at Sedona which treated  chronically ill patients with the Gerson natural therapy. Here he attempts to take the very best of major natural treatments such as those developed by Drs. Max Gerson, Bernard Jenson, Linas Pauling, John Tilden, William D. Keller, Dean Ornish, Caldwell B. Esselstyn,  T. Colin Campbell, Sasaki Kyuo, Robert O. Young, Joel Fuhrman, Morris Keller, and Gabriel Cousens. By combining all this healing knowledge and wisdom, we can arrive at the most powerful of natural therapies on the planet.

Naturolism
This approach also follows our philosophy of Raw-wisdom or “naturolism” The name of this philosophy indicates the intent to support naturopathy. This philosophy was as originated by Nathan Batalion ND through live-long experiences described in his bio. This unique philosophy guides us to see how life and consciousness are at the core of nature (not the mechanical, math-based atomic model of Sir Issac Newton) and thus that life and consciousness also reside at the deepest core and foundation of all of ourselves – mind, body and spirit. Therefore we need to support and  bring out those living forces, and not just kill a disease or elicit mechanical/dead-ridden, machine-like patterns out being.

Effectiveness
The combined documentation for the effectiveness of all these natural therapies upon which the 90-Day Rainbow Diet-Detox Cleanse is based is legion. Here we have listed just thirteen of the major prior pioneers:

Dr. Max Gerson
Gerson, back in the 1930’s,  pioneered a degenerative disease protocol that used massive amounts of freshly squeezed vegetable and fruit juices along with coffee enemas.

Dr. Bernard Jenson
Jenson provided a mass of information on the central imp
ortance of colon health and the use of colonic cleansers.

Dr. Linas Pauling
Pauling discovered the important roles of Vitamin C in reversing disease and preserving life force.

Dr. John Tilden
Tilden recognized that toxemia is at the root of all illnesses and that therefore we need to perpetually detoxify; that we need to intensely take synthetic chemicals out of, not into our bodies.

Dr. William Keller
Keller championed the use of pancreatic enzymes alongside.

Dr. Dean Ornish
Ornish trailed a the blaze for using a vegetarian/vegan diet along with meditation and other lifestyle changes.

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn
Esselstyn added research on eliminating processed oils to improve circulation

Dr. T. Colin Campbell
Campbell conducted the groundbreaking China Study, a free summary of which we have published.

Dr. Sasaki Kyuo
Kyuo gathered extensive research information on how far infrared rays were effectively used to reverse dozens of chronic ailments.

Dr.  Robert Young
Young put together the startling findings on the importance of alkaline fluids in the body.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Fuhrman researched  the most nutrient-dense foods.

Dr Morris Keller
Keller devised a synthetic and alternative week approach to diet/detox procedures.

Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Cousens perfected the careful use of raw vegan methods to help turnaround degenerative diseases.

The above list is not all-inclusive. There are still more pioneers. Combining all this tremendous wealth of information, research and experience, plus the guidance of a revolutionary philosophy of nature – Raw wisdom – provides the basis for our unique 90-Day Rainbow Diet/Detox Cleanse.

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EATING GREEN LIVING ORGANIC

No Comments 23 November 2009

Eating  green foods is absolutely vital to our health. The one drawback is that they can be quite bland. It is thus a culinary challenge to make them a regular part of our diet and in a very tasty way.  A few greens have a tangy taste but most don’t. The exceptions include arugula, parsley and wheatgrass. It thus takes a bit of creativity to satisfy our finicky palates. There are several ways to do this, and among them is the following list:

SPICY GREEN CHIPS
We often, for example, make kale chips in our dehydrator and with a lot of great spices – Indian, Italian, Mexican and the like.

TASTY GREEN SMOOTHIES
We also make green smoothies, and throw in wonderful-tasting fruits, like mangoes and papayas.

GREEN WRAPS
We also prepare our favorite tasty salads in wraps of kale or collard leaves.  You’ve got to try some!

COLESLAW GALORE
When we have odds and ends of green vegetables in the refrigerator, Melinda likes to make a creative raw coleslaw. She will finely chop a variety of vegetables for the green coleslaw, and then again, add spices. Sometimes we put in just a little bit of Vegenaise, a high omega-3 canola oil that is non-genetically modified or organic. It is made by a company called Follow Your Heart.

Indeed we follow our heats in eating green foods or drinking green juices.

GREEN – AS A BLAND HEALING COLOR
To be remembered is the fact that the heart chakra in the middle of our chest is green. Green is also the middle, balancing and unifying of color of the rainbow. What it balances out is the red and violet/blue sharp, extreme opposites. What happens when we take the two opposite colors in radiant light plus the middle green and shine them together at one point. They disappear to form white or color-separationless light. This because green brings the color separations together as one. It is therefore the most healing/consciousness-connective of all the colors of the rainbow. This is ultimately why most vegetable greens tend not to have sharp or dramatic tastes. They are bland. So we compensate to again stimulate our taste buds and active digestion.

This is all to ENJOY, NOURISH AND HEAL!

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MATT MONARCH AND ANGELA STOKES’ UPCOMING VISIT

No Comments 14 November 2009

We are excited that world-famous Monarch and Angela StokesMonarch will be giving a raw food presentation on November 19th at the Green Earth Health Food Store in Oneonta NY.

Angela Stokes-Monarch
She is an award–winning British author who used to weigh nearly 300lbs. Now 160 lbs thinner, Angela runs a popular health website. Her books, articles, and consultations have helped millions worldwide. Her latest work, Raw Emotions examines our emotional connections to food. In 2008, CNN News spotlighted her and  this became CNN‘s highest-viewed health story of the year!

Matt Monarch
He is a powerfully dynamic leader in the raw food movement. Matt publishes health books, videos, and articles. His Raw Spirit and Raw Success have helped transform countless lives. He produces an Internet blog, daily TV show and has a superstore of raw and living foods.

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TEN GREAT REASONS FOR BUYING ORGANIC FOODS

No Comments 05 November 2009

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TEN GREAT REASONS

FOR BUYING

ORGANIC FOODS

The top reasons for buying organic foods are as follows:

  • DOES NOT HARM OR DEPLETE OUR TOPSOIL The soil of our earth is the foundation of the whole human and environmental food chain. The typical organic farm is teaming with life – from butterflies, to frogs, to bees, to you name it. Conventional farms have polluted and depleted soils. They have rendered them sterile, using herbicides and pesticides to kill other life forms. Also through the vast degradation of our soil, we are losing cropland topsoil seven times faster than it is being replaced naturally.
  • PROTECT OUR WATERS
    Nearly 700 hundred toxic chemicals pollute our groundwater, many of them coming from agricutural pesticides and herbicides. These chemicals cause cancer and other debilitating  illnesses and are not removed by conventional means. Virtually all the drinking water in the US is polluted and 2/3rds of our own bodies are made up of water.
  • SAVES ENERGY
    Conventional farming methods use far more petroleum, both to create chemical fertilizers and to till, cultivate and harvest crops. Organic farms are more labor-intensive. Government subsidized conventional farms use 12% of the US total energy consumption. Ultimately we pay the far, far higher price either in taxes and/or the horrid devastation that yields global warming.
  • IMPACTS THE QUALITY OF OUR FOODS
    US agriculture uses more than 800 pounds of toxic pesticides alone. Over 3,000 chemicals are mixed  into our foods directly, and nearly 10,000 are used in the production and storing of foods. Most of these chemicals are harmful to our health. They may engender cancer, birth defects, neurological illnesses, dementia and other serious dysfunctions. According to the EPA, 60% of herbicides, 90% of fungicides and 30% of pesticides are carcinogenic. The National Academy of Sciences estimate as far back as 1987 that pesticides could cause over a million cancer cases in the US alone over our lifetimes. On the positive side, organic produce has repeatedly been proven to have higher levels of essential nutrients, being grow in more living, mineral-rich, composted soils.
  • PROTECTS FARM WORKERS
    Studies have shown a link between pesticide use and Parkinson’s disease, leukemia and cancers among farm workers. An NCI study found that farm workers employed on conventional farms had 6x higher risk of getting cancer. A California study showed that farm workers in the field had the highest occupational illnesses rates of all California workers.
  • IMPACTS  SMALL FARMERS’ SURVIVE
    Most organic farms are family-owned with less than a 100 acres. There has been a vast decimation of family farms for the past few decades. At the turn of the 20th century, farming was the primary livelihood in the US. Now it represents less than 1%. Organic farming remains among the last refuges for surviving family farms amid competition from large industrial farms that try to “cut-throat monopolize” the market. Over a million family farms have been lost over the last  couple decades.
  • REAL ECONOMIC COSTS
    Amid the illusions of the marketplace created by political forces, again many fail to see that organic foods are actually cheaper overall. First conventional farming is hugely subsidized and has hidden costs that are borne by all taxpayers. If you add the health and environmental costs, organic produce is really and truly the least expensive. We must remember that  in the US medical costs have risen from 5% to 16% of the GNP in the last 20 years. Then there is hazardous waste removal costs and that of toxic substance testing and regulation, soil erosion, loss of fertility, wildlife decimation, and so on and so forth ad infinitum. You get the picture.
  • PROMOTES BIODIVERSITY
    Organic farms tend to preserve heirloom varieties while large conventional farms do not and engage in sterile, mechanistic monocropping. The latter requires increasingly more lethal pesticide use as pest become resistant over time and crops become subject to wholesale blights. It was monocropping, followed by a blight, that caused the famous Irish potato famine.
  • EFFECTS  OUR CHILDRENS’ FUTURE
    Children ingest up to 4X the level of toxic residues compared to that of their parents. Tests have shown that exposure in early life, as early as in the womb , reveals residues in the placenta fluids. This often leads to much more cancer latter in life. The damage can be passed on genetically to affect all subsequent generations in a harmful way. This is why we need to detox or help our bodies get rid of lifetime toxic loads. If all-organic food buying seems expensive at first, consider skipping a meal to help your body detox. Or fast for a day. Or shop at a direct farmers market, plant your own organic home garden, work a few hours for your local food coop and/or farm in exchange, and so on. Be creative. Where there is a will there is always a wa
  • AN UNWISE VISION OF NATURE
    All living forms have awareness because life’s foundation resides in a presence of consciousness. From tiny nano-bacteria to huge dinasours, living organisms have  awareness. This awareness forms, in my experience, the universal relationship of connection in all of nature, and ultimately the foundation of oneness that interconnects all living creatures. The mechanical worldview of the 17th century disrupts and destroys this weave. This is because its view is based on universally separative symbols (math symbols used to create the mechanical vision). The mechanical view is  thus based on opposite principles to those of life in nature. This is the root reason why when the mechanical vision is deeply (not surface) applied,  this unravels the connective weave of ecospheres. Actually the deeper applications threaten the sustainability of life on earth. This is further why toxic pesticides and herbicides are being banned in several nations.  Otherwise we  follow a death-delivering approach to farming – with carcinogenic impacts on our body and vast disruptions of surrounding nature.

GO ORGANIC
For these ten reasons, let us wisely GO ORGANIC TO THRIVE.

Diet and Nutrition, Enzymes in Our Foods, Raw Food Diet

Get your daily dose of enzymes

1 Comment 10 September 2009

get your daily dose of enzymes

 Role of fire

(Healingtalks) You might argue that the ability to produce and control fire is one of the hallmarks of human achievement. This applies to certain fields like mining where we melt down metals to form, for example, forks and knives. But fire can also burn a building down and so it has mixed effects.

Use of fire for our foods

The same applies to the use of fire in relationship to our foods. Fire can be used to soften the outer hardness of some foods to make them more digestible. We do this with root vegetables and with hard-skinned vegetables like artichokes. They are most often cooked before eating. But excess heat will also devitalize foods.   Heating food over somewhere between 110-120 or more degrees will harm enzymes and thus devalue the total nutritional value of a meal as a whole.

Alternative way of heating foods

An alternative way of heating is to use a dehydrator that is preset to a lower temperature. Even tubers, like potatoes, can be prepared for the dehydrator by grating, blending, and other means that do not involve cooking at high temperatures.

What’s the living food diet is all about

The living food diet is all about maximizing the same enzyme intakes or living forces.These natural elements assist the body in catalyzing what is necessary for many body functions, including the digestion and absorption of nutrients. As we get older, our bodies produce less and less enzymes so we need to take them in from outside sources to maintain our body’s vitality.

Check out our many raw-living foods recipes, you won’t regret it!

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Diet and Nutrition, Diet Plans & Diaries, HEALING US, Organic Foods

Why go organic now!

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why go organic now

Organic foods

(Healingtalks) There once was time when a person could eat without much thought or worry. Knowing that whatever food was put on our plates either grew naturally from the ground or roamed the earth, flew in the sky or swum in the seas freely. But unfortunately times have changed.

Man has dramatically changed our natural surroundings including the food we eat. What we now perceive as food is either a clone or a fabrication of what was once real. The number of chemicals injected into our foods seems to be forever increasing and it is becoming a lot harder to find whole organic foods, which is now more costly than in times past!

Chemical and genetic pollution

About 10,000 chemicals are used in food processing and storage, and 3,000 directly in our foods! Furthermore, we have the added lethal “bonus” of genetically modified ingredients which are not labeled! This is not only an insult to our very own intelligent but it is also an assault on our physical and spiritual beings as well. In other words, the food industries have secretly declared war on all people.

Secret Monsanto meetings

This was the result of some secret and private meetings between executives of Monsanto and the prior Bush administration. A campaign was started to sell the world public on the false idea that genetically-modified foods are “essentially equivalent to regular foods.”  The diametrical opposite is so.  Never has there been a more radical change to our common food supply, plus this is systematically hidden from the public. When a fish gene is spliced into a tomato, or a worm gene into an apple, something is more than fundamentally wrong.

GMO processes are violent and harmful

The process is also violent, using a gene gun that violates the conscious and aliveness of genetic membranes. It’s time to call a spade a spade. The food that we often find in the super market, have been molested, genetically speaking. Perverted thugs who run companies like Monsanto have found a way to molest our food and genetically rape it. They leave our food void of fresh, innocent and vibrant life while inserting their own poisons into the very food we eat.

Why we are sick as a nation

This is the reason that we are sick as a nation. Not just in the U.S, but this is a world wide phenomenon. The end “food” products turn out to be predictably harmful to our environment and our bodies.  2/3rds of supermarket foods are now ripe with genetically-modified  food ingredients?

In self-defense – go  organic

These GMO “foods” first hit the market in the early 1990s. This was thanks to no real safety testing or regulatory oversight or labeling. What can the consumer do in self-defense?

Go organic!

In your buying choices, we must also support those organic farmers who have integrity, who care for us, who are not polluting the earth or ultimately our  bodies and that of our children for generations just to reap short-sighted profits.

There is only one way to go, go organic!

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