Week One -
Online Raw Certifications
Introductory Segment: Basics of Health and the
Raw-Vegan Diet
Introduction
This first week's course segment is
all about health, and particularly about
becoming healthy on the raw vegan
diet. This segment will give you a
well-rounded background of knowledge about
health, nutrition, and why the
raw vegan diet works, all of which will be
applicable to and useful with all
four of your Certifications.
The
first week is dedicated to YOU! Subsequent weeks will deal with you as
Raw
Chef, Raw Healer, Raw Trainer, and Raw Coach. But this first week is
just
about you as you, finding your own way to total health, and getting
you
familiar with all the elements that contribute to your health, including
the
raw diet.
In this course segment there are 7 sections. You can
study at you own pace,
read the whole 7 sections in one sitting or perhaps
read one section a day.
In the first section we will give you scientific
backing for the raw vegan
diet so that you can feel secure in your way of
life and in later helping
others achieve high levels of health on the raw
vegan diet. Next we will
cover the basics of health including Healing Herbs,
Juicing, Fasting,
Exercise, Sleep, and Water. We will discuss the
Spirit/Mind/Body connection
because total health is not just about the body
or accessible through our
physical natures alone. Then we will explore The
Nature Connection and how
our own health and the health of the planet are
inextricably linked! We will
fully explain Enzymes, Digestion, and The Human
Body from a text-book
standpoint so you will have the knowledge that any
mainstream nutritionist
possesses. We will discuss Food, Nutrition, and
Photosynthesis. And in the
final section this week we will provide a list of
Recommended Reading.
Please read the sections in this segment with an eye
towards later speaking
on these topics in your community. This is a great way
to inform the public
of health issues they don't hear enough about in the
media and it is also a
great way to get clients for the raw services that you
can offer with the
Certifications. I think its a natural law: What's good for
the PLANET is
good for YOU! The world needs so badly to hear about how to be
truly
healthy. And the planet needs it too. I believe there is an abundance
of
Angelic help available to anyone who chooses this very important path
at
this critical time! Don't worry if you feel uncomfortable about
public
speaking. We have lots of ideas to overcome this in the
post-graduate
support materials you will be receiving! And there are other
ways to
communicate too, that we will cover!
Segment 1, Section 1:
Scientific proof for the raw-vegan diet
There is plenty of scientific
evidence supporting the raw vegan diet. And
further evidence continues to
come out all the time. Keep abreast of the
Health section of the newspaper.
The medical establishment is largely funded
by the meat, dairy and processed
food industries as well as the
pharmaceutical industry so a great deal of
conflicting information is also
published. However, the truth is now more and
more rapidly becoming known
and accepted more and more widely. A very telling
new fact, although not
medical science but based on the science of
statistics, is that insurance
companies now offer lower rates to vegetarians
and vegans as it has been
proven that the vegetarian diet will extend your
life by an average of 5
years and the vegan diet will extend your life by an
average of 15 years.
Animals and humans have been proven to adapt to
their changing environments.
Perhaps more and more young people are choosing
to be vegetarian as an
adaptation to our global environment with its
overpopulation and diminishing
rainforests which can not much longer support
the current population as meat
eaters.
In this section I am going to
reference articles that are available online
that provide scientific backing
for the healthfulness of the raw vegan diet.
Please either read these now or
print/download them and keep them filed
where you can have them at the ready
if questions arise on any of these
common issues and questions that many
people have regarding the
healthfulness of the raw vegan
diet.
Articles:
More scientific proof than you ever wanted for the
raw diet, by Arthur M.
Baker MA, NHE Self-Health Care
Systems
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/rawfreshproduce.html
Dr.
Gina Shaw on the B12
issue
http://www.rawfoods.com/articles/b12issue.html
Recent Scientific
Study shows heating carbohydrates is
toxic!
http://www.rawfoods.com/articles/carcinogens.html
Other
Articles:
http://www.rawfoods.com/articles/
Section 1, Segment 2:
Healing Herbs, Juicing, Fasting, Exercise, Sleep, and
Water
Healing
Herbs:
For centuries people have gathered and used herbs to use as
medicine.
However with the advent of the pharmaceutical industry we have seen
many
useful herbal remedies forgotten. You can not patent an herb.
Therefore
investors are not interested in herbs. And investors make the
multi-trillion
dollar pharmaceutical world go round.
"Walter Lewis,
professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis,
Missouri, states
that the approach to research since the synthetic era, with
little regard for
past data, "...has served to delay the application of many
potential
benefits. For example, it is unfortunate that Cromolyn, the
miraculous
prophylactic drug for asthma, has only recently been introduced,
though its
use in the form of ammi seeds was part of Bedouin folk medicine
for
centuries.
Pharmaceutical companies have begun to search for plants that
can cope with
the diseases that are associated with our modern life-style.
Stress,
coronary disease, ulcers, rheumatism, and other ailments have
already
yielded to the power of plants. Even anti-tumor properties have been
found
in several plant species."
- from Medical Botany by Walter H.
Lewis, published by John Wiley & Sons,
NY, 1977.
"There may be a
word of caution to the chemist who first isolates the
beneficial substance
and leaves the rest of the root, bark, stem, leaf, or
flower behind. This
purified chemical may act favorably on a particular part
of the body, but may
also have deleterious effects on other parts of the
body. Side effects may
include rashes, dizziness, fainting, palpitations,
blurred vision, diarrhea,
or depression. The constituents of the plant that
were discarded in the
laboratory may have an inherent balancing or modifying
mechanism that exerts
control over the active principle".
Can we say "duh!"....well, yes, its
easy for us, because we are coming full
circle and realizing that we need to
go back to nature for answers. But at
the beginning of the scientific age, we
became full of ourselves, and denied
both Father God and Mother Nature, who
are really One. God is dead was the
battle-cry of early science. We could do
better. We could improve on every
herb, every food, every element, by
extracting, combining, processing, and
synthesizing. And I'm sure much good
has come out of it. But now we have
come far enough to humble ourselves
before nature's vast knowledge once
again, this time with more skills,
abilities, and scientific acumen to be
able to work WITH Her, instead of
AGAINST her. Its like we were rebellious
teenagers who had just learned to
think for ourselves and who had to break
our umbilical cord with our Mother
in order to mature. But now we are coming
of age, we have learned that our
own passage through time has given us
wisdom and perspective, we realize now
that our Mother has that and much
more, and we are ready to make use of our
Mother's knowledge and Her love
for us once again, for the health of
all.
Some of the herbs we use for healing are Yerba Mate for colds and
headaches,
Goldenseal to prevent and heal infection in cuts, Goldenseal &
Myrrh for
brushing our teeth, Cayenne for colds and headaches, Lemon for
cleansing,
Garlic for colds, and Ginger for stomach
ache.
Juicing:
Dr. Walker's work - We recommend that you buy Dr.
Walker's Fresh Fruit and
Vegetable Juices. There is a list of ailments each
with the specific
vegetable juice that can promote its healing. Dr. Walker
spent years and
years researching and testing these formulas. We use them
time and time
again with great success.
Fasting:
Why fasting is
healing - Fasting gives your body a break from the work of
digestion, which
gives it time to devote to healing and cleansing. This is
why it is good to
stop eating at 6:00 PM and not eat until noon the
following day as a habit.
It gives your body regular and abundant time to
maintain perfect
health.
Exercise:
Why exercise is crucial to health - A healthy body
is the result of proper
nutrition combined with a regular pattern of physical
exercise Exercise
imparts vigor and activity to all organs and secures and
maintains healthful
integrity of all their functions. Exercise improves the
tone and quality of
muscle tissue and stimulates the processes of digestion,
absorption,
metabolism, and elimination. It also strengthens blood vessels,
lungs, and
heart, resulting in improved transfer of oxygen to the cells and
increased
circulation of the blood and lymph systems. Exercise develops
grace, pose,
and symmetry of the body, helps in correcting defective
development or
injuries, and stimulates the mind.
We are creatures of
habit. Try exercising at the same time of day every day
and see how easy it
becomes to stick to it!
Sleep:
Our body cleanses and repairs while we
sleep. Staying up very late after
dark actually changes your body's blood
sugar levels and can cause weight
gain. Beauty sleep is no myth. Many people
do experience lessened need for
sleep on the raw vegan diet. I recommend at
least 5-7 hours of sleep
nonetheless. Some people are tuned in to the moon
cycles and prefer to sleep
less on the full moon and more on the dark moon. I
believe this can be a
natural way to balance the amount of sleep you get, if
you have less need
for sleep on the raw diet.
Water:
Why water is
healing - Water goes to each cell in your body and through a
process of
osmosis it removes the toxins in each cell and flushes them out
of the body.
Drink plenty of water for a clean body! Fruits do contain a
special kind of
water that is also beneficial and people who eat lots of
fruits feel they do
not need to drink water. We advocate drinking at least
two to eight cups of
water a day even if fruits are plentiful in the diet.
If you fast until noon
it is good to drink a 32 oz. bottle of water
throughout the
morning.
One should not drink water or any liquid for a half-hour before
eating and
for two hours after eating. As raw food digests quicker than
cooked food, if
you are eating raw you need only wait one hour after
eating.
Trinity Water is the best bottled water available. It comes from
deep within
the earth, 2 miles down, and has very special natural crystal
*piping*. The
company is very conscious in bottling the water to maintain
utmost purity.
One can taste the mineral content, and it is quite delicious.
It is
expensive to buy from health food stores. Ordering directly from the
company
is a good solution. They have a website and their 800 number is also
on
their bottles.
Do not drink tap water if at all possible. The
chemicals used to keep it
clean are very harmful to the
body.
Segment 1, Section 3: Spirit/Mind/Body
connection
Spirit:
Dominance of the Spirit - Our spirit controls the
rest of our being. It is
the dominant and superior part of us. Therefore it
is important to have a
regular daily spiritual practice, whether it is
through a religion, a
personal relationship with God through prayer, or
meditation.
Conclusive Research on Power of Prayer - Scientific studies
using prayer for
sick people, monitored in hospitals, has proven conclusively
that prayer
does indeed work. A book called The Prayer Diet recommends
praying for
weight loss three times a day, and shows that this has been
effective in
most cases.
An MD in Eastern Europe operates without
using any anesthesia. He says to
his patients to repeat a few phrases
including: "All of my organs are
working together in perfect harmony" and
then he begins the operation and
since he has found the exact wording to use,
through experimentation, he has
had no patients report any pain during
operations. All kinds of serious
operations are performed on people who come
to him from around the world.
Mind:
Importance of Quantum Physics - In
quantum physics, scientists have
discovered that if you look at the center of
the smallest part of a
molecule, it reacts to the scientist's
thought-direction. To me this tells
me that each of our cells is a microcosm
of the center of the Universe, that
God/Perfection lives in the smallest part
of ourselves, and that somehow we
are helping to co-create the Universe. In
this way, we can actually heal our
cells with our minds. Meditate on this.
Meditate on every cell in your body
glowing with light. You can actually
*think yourself healthy*. This would
also explain why so many people can
survive so long eating terrible diets.
They have strong minds and spirits.
Combined with good health habits, they
would live still longer and more
prosperously.
Body:
Search For Physical Health as Path to Total Health
- When we seek perfection
of the body through diet and exercise and other
health practices, and when
we achieve a high level of health, we will be
drawn to spend time on our
spirit also, because we will feel so grateful for
the miracle of health.
The Connection:
Spirit, Mind, and Body are
related. True seeking in any one of these three
areas leads to health in all
three. When you are healthy in Spirit, then the
health of your Mind and Body
automatically follow. When you are healthy in
Mind, your healthy mental
patterns will spill over as the Mind seeks the
realms of Spirit and Body. And
When you are healthy in Body then Mind and
Spirit find a fertile home for
maximum health potential. Don't think of
them as separate. You are not a
separate spirit, mind, and body. You are a
being that consists of these three
things - at least that is one way of
looking at ourselves in our never-ending
quest to break things down into
understandable parts. But we are not parts.
We are a whole. Our
Spirit/Mind/Body can really never be separated. In all
things we use all
these parts and they are interwoven in their being and
application. Perhaps
seekers have found these three parts of our being
because they are a
reflection of some three-fold nature in the Universe, such
as the Trinity
spoken of in Christianity.
Inner Peace
The reasons
we seek are many. We seek happiness, comfort, to understand, to
have purpose,
to help, to ease pain, to grow, to find God, to find Truth,
and to find
Peace. It is in Inner Peace that we find the greatest hope for
True Health.
If we seek and cultivate Inner Peace, we will hear exactly what
we need to do
to attain health. I knew a woman who was a Native American
Medicine Woman and
to her it seemed amazing and unfathomable that people
were not able to heal
themselves.
Segment 1, Section 4: The Nature Connection
Our
Connection With Nature - We can not deny we are a part of nature.
Sometimes
we can forget this as we have become so separate from nature in
our modern
lives. But just as much as the trees and stars, we are a part of
the natural
kingdom. Our bodies are formed from nature's elements and will
return to
nature's elements in a million-year old recycling system. Just as
ocean water
rises and becomes rain. The earth consists of four basic
elements: Earth,
Water, Fire and Air. Our body also consists of these four
basic elements. Our
flesh is basically earth. Our internal heat generated by
calories is our
fire. Our blood is water. And our breath is Air. There's a
song that goes:
"Earth my body, Water my blood, Air my breath, and Fire my
spirit", which is
another way to look at it.
The Importance of Being in Nature. As we are
made of nature, and are a part
of nature, - even though this seems a foreign
concept these days - and
perhaps that is the reason for our society's poor
health - I believe it is
important to spend time in nature. This can be as
simple as drinking a glass
of water, sunbathing, keeping your window cracked
open at night, getting
away to the countryside on the weekend, going surfing,
or eating nature's
bounty of raw vegetables and fruits. Or it can be as total
as living in
nature, taking daily long walks, dipping in mountain streams,
growing a
garden, eating from your garden, foraging for wild foods, and
sleeping
outside. Our bodies are designed to be in nature. Our nervous
system,
brainwaves, color sense, electro-chemical makeup, digestive
system,
circulatory system, metabolic system, and spiritual system, are all
set up
to thrive in nature, to live in nature, to be a part of nature. We
have cut
ourselves off from nature through our cities, workplaces, homes,
cars, and
lifestyles. This is like being cut off from your Mother. It is like
being a
plant that has been uprooted from the earth and placed in a pot.
Although we
are tremendously adaptable mentally and spiritually, physically
this state
of living uprooted can be traumatic to our health.
After
millions of years of living in close contact with nature, we are now
cutting
ourselves off from Her. Perhaps it is our desire to live longer. We
think it
is safer to cut ourselves off from the wildness and
unpredictability of
nature. And perhaps it is. But we can't really protect
ourselves against
nature. She gets us one way or another in the end. But in
our fear, our
obsession with safety, our desire to live pain-free, we
deprive ourselves of
Her gifts and make Her an enemy. We are in denial of
the cycle of
life-and-death. This happened to us in the Industrial
Revolution. When we
became so advanced that we could make machines, we
thought we had really
conquered nature on a new level, and that we did not
have to be sick any
longer, or die any longer. Pain and death have become
almost taboo horrors
that we cut ourselves off from through medication,
operations, seatbelts,
safety first, avoiding nature whenever possible,
living in synthetic homes,
eating synthetic foods, wearing synthetic
clothes. Synthetic means we have
taken elements from nature and with our new
scientific abilities we have
combined and processed (synthesized) them into
a "man-made" (synthetic)
material. Although in many ways our lifestyles have
improved and we have much
to be grateful for, when we cut ourselves off from
death, we also cut
ourselves off from life! Life and death are part of the
same cycle. If we
live in denial of death and never expose ourselves to the
dangers of nature,
the we never get to experience the incredible joys and
beauty of nature
either! And for this our health suffers! And we die anyway.
Never having
lived.
All men die. But not all men live. Health is about embracing
living!
Our houses should be made from natural materials such as wood,
stone, and
adobe rather than the synthetic (elements of nature combined and
processed
by humans) ones we now inhabit made of stucco, concrete, and
plaster. Our
food should be as natural as possible. We should live as close
to nature as
possible. We should take in adequate amounts of water, air, and
sun. We
should use fasting and herbs rather than drugs. You can not patent an
herb,
or else doctors would prescribe them! You can not, however, improve
on
Nature's Pharmacy! You can pump up the potency of the herbs by
synthesizing
them, but not without adverse effects (any synthetic drug has
numerous
side-effects that are sometimes worse than the condition they are
originally
taken for!). Nature's balance is perfect. Fasting, herbs, prayer,
love,
faith, and peace are far more healing for any condition than any drug
can
be. I say this in order to provide the opposite extreme viewpoint from
our
mainstream society. Obviously it is up to each individual to balance
these
two points of view as appropriate to their own lives.
The
Health of the Planet IS The Health of the Individual
Again, let's look at
this statement in terms of the four elements. The
relationship is so direct
as to be obvious. It is very strange that we are
so careless with the earth
and her elements, as though we weren't connected
to it!
Air - When we
damage the air of the planet, we obviously damage the air that
we breath.
This results in a variety of illness and disease from toxicity to
lung
cancer.
Water - When we damage the water of the planet, we obviously
damage the
water that we drink. We are such a large percentage water, that
this may
explain numerous modern ailments from bipolar disorder to
lymphoma.
Fire - When we burn garbage we damage the ozone layer and we
are exposed to
unfiltered sunlight which causes skin cancer.
Earth -
When we damage the earth that nourishes the food that nourishes us,
we damage
our own bodies. Putting pesticides, herbicides, and chemical
fertilizer into
our soil depletes the soil of nutrients. It basically kills
the nutrients in
the soil. Nutrients in the soil come from a delicate and
complex system of
which bugs, organic fertilizer and weeds all play a part.
The
Importance of Organics
Our world's soil has been depleted. Is it any
wonder chronic fatigue is
epidemic? Is it any wonder we eat so much, in our
instinctual quest for
nourishment? Not only is our soil depleted, it is
actually toxic. Our food
is therefore toxic. The chemicals used in commercial
agriculture are the
same chemicals as are feared in Chemical Warfare. We
think that because we
use them in smaller quantities that we will not be
affected. Are you
thinking clearly? If not, perhaps it is because you are
eating commercial
produce! You may be an innocent casualty of commercial and
industrial
agriculture's war against pests. Start eating organic foods and
notice the
difference! You are not only helping yourself of course, but our
world's
soil too! If we all bought organic produce, then the resulting demand
would
necessitate that all farms become organic. Have you ever seen an
organic
farm? Have you ever seen a commercial farm? An organic farm is an
idyllic
thing of beauty while a commercial farm looks like a field factory.
Soon our
country, our world, our landscape, would become an inspiringly
beautiful
garden paradise! Do you want to help bring heaven on earth? Eat
organic!
What's good for the planet, is good for YOU! Why? Because you ARE
the
planet!
Organic food may cost a more than commercial food, but
you will save much
more on your medical costs, your quality of life, and
perhaps even length of
life than you will spend. You will be operating on
premium fuel so you will
perform better and be able to generate much more
than the difference in the
cost between commercial and organic food! There
are many ways you can save
money that will also improve your health even
further! You can use less
electricity, walk or bike more to save gas, cancel
your cable TV, and stop
buying junk food or eating at restaurants, for
instance. You will also find
that when you eat organic you will eat less,
because the food is
nutrient-dense. You get many many more times the amounts
of nutrients you
need from organic foods than from commercial foods, which
are actually
toxic. Insist on organic food. Ask your supermarket to get an
organic
section going. Find out about local farmers markets and/or visit
local
organic farms and support them directly!
Organic
Education:
One of the main reasons we have started this network and course,
is because
we want to see this heaven on earth! We desperately need more
education on
the importance of organics, and we believe the only way it is
going to get
done is on a grass-roots level! So we encourage you to give
talks on organic
foods in your community. Post and hand out flyers about the
benefits of
organic food at your local health food stores, gyms, and
supermarkets. Start
a program in your community coordinating between schools
and organic farms
so that the schools do field trips to local organic farms
and help work
planting, weeding, tilling, or harvesting. This helps the
farmer out - free
labor! - and helps the kids re-connect with nature, its
cycles, and their
relationship to the food they eat! You may see crime and
vandalism rates in
your community just based on this therapeutic "Earth
Therapy" experience
that helps to balance the kids in your area. You are also
helping to
establish a taste for organic foods in the next generation of
consumers!
This is one way you can beat the big-money junk food corporations
in
influencing our society's children. A real-life farm experience is like
a
real-life commercial. Once a child has tasted a vegetable that they
have
picked directly from the ground, the taste is so far superior to
any
vegetable that they have ever tasted before, that they will become hooked
on
organics!
10 Really Good Reasons Why to Buy Organic
1.
ORGANIC FOOD TASTES GREAT!
It's common sense-well-balanced soils grow
strong healthy plants which taste
better. Simply try an organic orange or
vine ripened tomato for a sweet and
juicy flavor treat! Recent research
indicates organic foods may contain more
nutrients as well.
Great
chefs just can't get enough of it. Across the continent many
leading
restaurant chefs are using organic produce. Many have joined together
in
"Chefs Collaborative 2000" designed to encourage production of
superior
tasting foods through sound environmental practices
You get
delicious, nutritious foods when you buy certified organic products-
an
everyday practice that's also good for Mother Earth
2. CERTIFIED ORGANIC
PRODUCTS CARRY A GUARANTEE
Starting in 1996, all food products labeled
organic must be in compliance
with the US organic law. Certification is the
public's guarantee that
products have been grown and handled according to
strict procedures without
toxic chemical inputs. Farmers and processors alike
must keep detailed
records. All practices and procedures are annually
inspected by a
third-party certifier. All farms and handlers are required to
maintain
organic management plans. No prohibited substances are applied to
the land
on which organic food is grown for at least three years.
3.
ORGANIC PRODUCTION REDUCES HEALTH RISKS
Many EPA-approved pesticides were
registered long before extensive research
linked these chemicals to cancer
and other diseases. Now, the Environmental
Protection Agency considers as
potentially cancer causing 60% of all
herbicides (weed killers), 90% of all
fungicides (mold killers), and 30% of
all insecticides (insect
killers).
Children, farmers and farm workers are particularly vulnerable.
According to
the 1933 National Academy of Sciences study Pesticides in the
Diet of
Infants and Children, pesticide regulation and monitoring are
outdated and
flawed. Risk assessment is based on adult consumption, assuming
exposure to
only one pesticide at a time. IT does not take into consideration
our
multiple exposures to chemicals in water, rug shampoos, common
household
cleaners, flea powders and dozens of substances common in our
modern
environment. The 1993 report Pesticides in Children's Food stated
that, "the
average child exceeds the EPA lifetime on-in-a-million risk
standard [of
cancer] by his or her first birthday."
Reducing the
number of exposures to all toxic chemicals should be
everyone's
goal.
4. ORGANIC FARMERS BUILD SOIL
Soil is the
foundation of the food chain and the primary focus of organic
farming. By
building healthy soil, plants are better able to resist disease
and insects.
Each small piece of living soil contains thousands of
microorganisms which
help retain water and provide nutrients to the plants.
Organic farmers foster
soil fertility through proper tillage and
crop
rotation.
Chemical-intensive agricultural practices result in
farms with deal soil so
lacking in nutrients it requires large amounts of
fertilizer. Reduced
organic matter diminishes the soil's ability to retain
moisture. The result
is expensive irrigation using ever larger amounts of
water. The resulting
runoff takes the soil and chemicals with
it.
We're facing the worst topsoil erosion in history due to our
current
agricultural practice of chemical intensive, mono-crop farming. The
U.S.
Soil Conservation Service estimates over 3 billion tons of topsoil
are
eroded from the U.S. crop lands each year, 25 billion tons
globally.
"Sediment loading" in streams is a major factor in the decline of
our fish
population. One third of all fish species nationwide are threatened
or
endangered.
5. ORGANIC FARMS RESPECT OUR WATER
RESOURCES
Water makes up two-thirds of our human body mass. It covers
three-quarters
of our plant. While it may seem that there's and unlimited
supply of clean
water, consider the current status report:
The EPA has
found 98 different pesticides in the groundwater of 40 states,
contaminating
the drinking water of over 100 million people. The agency has
identified
agriculture as the number one non-point polluter nationwide.
The
elimination of polluting chemicals and nitrogen leaching, coupled
with
soil-building efforts, protects and conserves water resources from
nitrogen
contamination and sediment loading. Organic agriculture requires
less water
because the humus in its living soil retains moisture.
6.
ORGANIC PRODUCERS LEAD IN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH
Organic farmers have led
the way, largely at their expense, with innovative
on-farm research aimed at
reducing pesticides and minimizing agriculture's
impact on the environment.
Organic agriculture's best known production
techniques
include:
Cover cropping (green manure)
Use of beneficial
insects
Crop rotation and diversification
Botanical and biological pest
control
Composting
Close observation of natural soil, plant and wildlife
systems
Cultural and mechanical weed control
Organic farming is
not taught in standard textbooks. Farmers trying to shy
away from the 42
billion pounds of petrochemicals applied each year on food
and fiber crops
could find it difficult. Fortunately, a network of
thoughtful farmers share
on-farm research through journals, conferences,
electronic mail and, in some
states, through the Land Grant colleges.
7. ORGANIC FARMING HELPS KEEP
RURAL COMMUNITIES HEALTHY
Rural communities across the nation have
watched employment shrink, family
farms nearly disappear and a sense of
future for the young move towards the
cities. Many organic producers are
independently owned and operated family
farms- a nearly extinct breed in this
country. In the last decade the U.S.
has lost more than 650,000 family farms-
175 farms per day. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicts that by
the year 2000, half the US
farm production will come from 1%
farms.
Organic farming, often done on smaller acreage farmed more
intensively, is
one of the few survival tactics left for the family farm and
the rural
community.
8. ORGANIC PRODUCERS STRIVE TO PRESERVE
DIVERSITY
President Clinton has placed the loss of biodiversity (the
existence of a
large variety of species) at the very top of his environmental
concerns.
Just a few years ago, the biodiversity was not a common topic. The
good news
is that many organic farmers and gardeners have been aware of the
problems
for decades, collecting and preserving seeds, and growing unusual
varieties.
"This living treasures of seeds", says Kenny Ausubel in Seeds of
Change,
"comprises billions of years of evolution and at least twelve
thousand years
of human selection for agriculture."
9. ORGANIC FARMERS
WORK IN HARMONY WITH NATURE
We are just beginning to understand the
impact of chemical-intensive
agricultural practices on the environment.
Organic agriculture represents
the balance demanded of a healthy ecosystem:
birds and beneficial insects
control pests; wild life is an essential part of
a total farm and encouraged
by including forage crops in rotation and by
retaining fence rows, wetlands
and other natural areas.
When you buy
organic produce, you're helping farmers build a healthy
environment for
wildlife.
10. ORGANIC ABUNDANCE - FOODS AND NON FOODS ALIKE!
In
the past decade, we've seen exciting developments in organic production
of
many food items, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains to name
a
few.
The most visible non-food item is cotton. the one crop most
experts said
could not be grown organically. Cotton is sprayed with more
toxic
pesticides, in greater amounts, than any other crop in the nation.
In
California's San Joaquin Valley alone, 100,000 acres are sprayed
annually.
Yet, once again, organic farmers are showing that it can be done,
and done
profitably.
Purchasing organic today ensures more organic
choices tomorrow.
Using Nature for Healing
Again, we will use
the four elements of nature:
Air
In many religions air is thought of
as spirit. Fresh air has long been
recommended as a cure for many things. In
yoga, air is called Prana, and it
gives energy. The oriental martial arts
cultivate Chi energy, which is
connected with the breath. Air is essential
for life. Some people believe we
will ultimately evolve into Breatharians.
Deep breathing helps one reach a
state of meditation. It also helps one
relax. Controlled breathing can
control pain, as in Lamaz for childbirth. So
get plenty of fresh air. Sleep
with your window open. Some people find that
sleeping outdoors gives them an
abundance of energy the next day! Try to live
somewhere that has clean air.
Air, oxygen is transported to all the cells in
our body through our
breathing, which is why exercise with its accompanying
deep breathing is so
important. Our planet has less oxygen than it used to,
and through exercise
we can obtain enough oxygen to make our cells happy and
healthy.
Earth
The Healing Color Green - The color green is
therapeutic. It brings peace
and healing.
Gardening - *Earth Therapy* I
call it. It gets us back in touch with the
Earth, which is healing beyond
belief to our bodies and souls. And eating
out of your garden is just about
the healthiest nourishment you can treat
you body to. I ate exclusively out
of my garden on Vancouver Island for a
whole summer and felt the most amazing
health I have ever experienced!
Water
Dipping in mountain pools - a
dip in a cold mountain stream is nothing
short of electrifying. The cold
water strengthens our immunity, wakes up all
our organs, tightens our
muscles, and burns off fat. You feel energized for
the rest of the
day.
Electric water - water has electrolytes, electricity in it. Our bodies
also
run on our own natural electricity caused by our neurons firing. Our
nervous
system is electric. That includes our brain, the vast network of
nerves that
transport messages to and from our brain to the rest of our body,
and our
spinal column. Keeping this system well hydrated with high quality
water
such as Trinity Water is very important.
Swimming - swimming in
lakes or the ocean is a great way to tap into the
electrifying energizing
power of water. Exercise in a pool is also very
healing especially for those
who find exercise on land difficult because of
excess weight or skeletal
damage.
Drinking - Drink fresh clean water every day to *flush* your system,
provide
it with fresh electrolytes, and lots of great minerals for you body
and
brain to use! Every cell in your body contains water. Do you want to
feel
like an old swamp, or a fresh clean flowing mountain stream? You have
a
choice. Just drink enough water and you will feel millions of times
better,
no matter what else you do.
Washing - Water is an angel of
healing, according to the Essene Gospel of
Peace. Keeping clean with water is
our first line of defense against germs.
Do you know, I also do my dishes and
clean my house with just water. Only if
there is a really unusual mess do I
use any kind of soap.
Enemas - Enemas are a way of cleaning out you
intestines. Far more gentle
than colonics. You simply get an enema bag from
the drug store, fill it with
about 2 cups of hot water, hang it up on your
shower head, hold the hose to
prevent the water from coming out until you are
all set, put olive oil on
the nozzle beforehand and insert the nozzle in your
rectum, crouch down on
all fours with your rear in the air, slowly release
the hose to let the
water begin to flow, adjusting the speed of the flow of
water with your hold
on the hose. You allow all the water to flow into your
intestines. You stay
in this position or whatever position is most
comfortable holding the water
inside for as long as you can. The pressure
will mount fairly quickly and
you will be forced to release a bowel movement
into the toilet. Wait for
several minutes as you may release a few more. Then
repeat the whole enema
one or two more times to get your intestines totally
clean. You will feel so
clean and clear you may not want to eat anything for
a while just to hang on
to this feeling. Its a good way to break a binge,
prepare for labor, or to
instantly cure many types of headaches and colds! Do
not do this too often
as too frequent enemas can rid the colon of important
intestinal flora too.
I do an enema once every 3-6 months or as
needed.
Sunlight
- sunbathing - The sun has so many vitamins,
including vitamins A, D, and C,
and its radiant heat penetrates your whole
system. It is very healing. Many
people like to sunbathe nude at around 10:00
AM for a half-hour to an hour
as the sun at this time of day is healthiest,
and exposing the entire body -
including the lower intestines that are
usually covered by a bathing suit,
is very healing, and promotes great skin
health and an overall feeling of
wellbeing. It is also very effective in
curing depression. Of course, these
days you don't want to overdo sunbathing.
An hour in the morning and an hour
in the afternoon should be the most unless
you are experienced with how your
body reacts to extended exposure to
sunshine. Some raw vegans have found
that when they have been raw for a long
period of time they no longer get
sunburned and no longer get bug
bites.
Workouts in nature: Hiking, walking, cycling, swimming,
anything!
A great way to make your time efficient is to get your healing sun,
fresh
air, time in nature, alone time, and exercise all at once by working
out in
nature. Working out in nature is a true Power Workout, and is
soul
satisfying and fun too! It balances your entire body, mind, and spirit.
It
is what we have been doing for millions of years, since the dawn
of
humankind, until very very recently. My favorite nature workouts are
hiking,
walking, running, cycling, and swimming. Tennis, playing tag with the
kids,
practicing martial arts, stick fighting, jumping rope, jumping
trampoline,
horseback-riding, and team sports are other great ways to get
into nature,
or at least the outdoors, for your workouts. Some people find it
easier to
stick to a work-out regimen in a gym or with videos at home. That's
fine
too. Just try to get out into as natural area as possible when you can,
and
maybe just sit and think or *be* in nature. The colors, smells,
sights,
sounds, and air all combine to form the perfect environment for
healing. We
try to imitate nature in food, candy, on TV, on the web, in
music, in our
homes, - all our ideas and inventions come from nature - but no
virtual
experience has yet been able to match the incredible magical subtle
healing
symphony of nature that is a balm to our entire being, makes us feel
a part
of our home planet, gives us a spiritual massage, and is like a soft
embrace
from our Universal Mother! And this, one of the world's greatest
gifts to
us, like love, like health, like happiness, like truth, like beauty,
is a
gift that is free for everyone to enjoy!
Segment 1, Section
5: Enzymes, Digestion, and The Human Body
To be a raw teacher, chef,
trainer, or healer, it is important to understand
the very basics of enzymes,
digestion, and the human body. So we have
compiled the basics that you learn
in high school biology 101 and later
revisit if you study to be a
nutritionist. Textbook sources have been
credited whenever possible. In
addition, the uses of this information with
the raw diet has been explained
when relevant.
The textbooks on digestion and nutrition are huge and
complex. They explain
all the many different nutrients individually and in
depth. They explain
how they work, what parts of the body and bodily
functions they effect. And
they explain what other nutrients need to be
combined with them for proper
functioning. And they explain what other
nutrients prevent their proper
functioning. The way it is all presented makes
it relatively impossible to
figure out what to eat, and therefore they all
recommend that vitamins are
introduced.
However, what many raw vegans
believe intuitively, or perhaps just out of
common sense, is that vitamins
can not imitate nature exactly and can
therefore not possibly improve upon
nature. We believe that the foods in
nature possess the complex *knowledge*
and combinations of nutrients for
proper nourishment. Textbooks are financed
by supplement companies, not
farmers. Health is the biggest Industry now that
baby boomers have entered
mid-life. And the supplement industry is
benefiting. Unfortunately
supplements often have little effect on health.
There are elements in the
foods found in nature that science has not yet
discovered. These
undiscovered, very tiny, very subtle, and very complex
elements are just as
exact in their formulas, in their relationships with
other elements and
nutrients, as the known vitamins and nutrients. And they
have not been taken
into the equation by the manufacturers of
supplements.
If a person eats meat (fat that has been deemed *bad fat* by
the
mainstream), dairy (also containing *bad fat*), or heated
carbohydrates
(deemed *toxic* by scientists) then their colons may be unable
to absorb
nutrients whether they are in the form of foods or supplements.
Regarding
the vitamin B12 issue, miniscule amounts (3 micrograms daily for
adults) are
needed but essential.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is so serious
that you know if you have it. You can
not walk for instance, if you are B12
deficient. And as I know several
long-term raw vegans who are very very
healthy, I believe that if a raw
vegan diet is done right with a large
variety of lots of fresh raw organic
fruits and vegetables, and if no toxic
foods are ingested clogging the colon
and preventing absorption, then there
is no danger of vitamin B12 deficiency
or any other nutrient
deficiency.
Digestion 101, Enzymes explained
"The active materials
in the digestive juices which cause the chemical
breakdown of food are called
enzymes, complex proteins that are capable of
inducing chemical changes in
other substances without themselves being
changed. Each enzyme is capable of
breaking down only a single specific
substance. For example, an enzyme
capable of breaking down fats cannot break
down proteins or carbohydrates, or
vice versa. Enzymatic action originates
in four areas of the body: the
salivary glands, the stomach, the pancreas,
and the wall of the small
intestine."
- Nutrition Almanac, Third Edition, Lavon J.
Dunne
Enzymes: The Difference Between Raw and Cooked Foods
by:
Emily Kane ND
ENZYMES: The tiny and enormous difference between raw and
cooked foods
Virtually all chronic degenerative diseases are caused or
aggravated by
digestive problems. After the most extensive study on nutrition
ever
undertaken by the government, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on
Nutrition
and Human Needs concluded in its 1978 report entitled "Diet and
Killer
Diseases," that the average American diet is responsible for the
development
of chronic degenerative diseases such as heart disease,
atherosclerosis,
cancer, diabetes, stroke, etc. Many of the most common
health complaints
revolve around a 20-foot, mucus-lined tube that directly
interfaces us with
our environment. This is no mystery: This is the
gastro-intestinal tract,
affectionately abbreviated "GI." The job of the GI
is to alchemically
transmute the food we eat into our flesh, blood, actions,
thoughts and
feelings... with a little help from our friends the salivary
glands, the
pancreas, the liver, and most importantly RAW FOOD -- all of
which provide
(now we're getting to the point) ENZYMES.
Enzymes are
delicate dynamos. Delicate because they are destroyed by
temperatures over
118 degrees (some by as little as 105 degrees), which
means that they may not
survive even light steaming. Dynamos because they
are powerful biochemical
catalysts; they speed burning or building reactions
in the body according to
need. They are specialized proteins, often with
long complicated names ending
in -ase.
The three primary digestive enzymes are protease, lipase and
amylase which
digest, respectively, protein, fat (lipids), and carbohydrates
(which
includes sugars). Amylase comes from the salivary glands:
carbohydrates
start digesting right in our mouth. Have you ever chewed a
piece of bread or
potato for an extra moment before swallowing, and tasted
how sweet it is?
(It is a good idea to chew our foods thoroughly; literally
making juice in
our mouths before swallowing.) Lipase is synthesized
principally in the
liver and protease comes from the
pancreas.
Although the enzyme-producing organs continue to function over
the entire
course of a healthy life, they eventually wear down, especially
with the
"standard American diet" (which, in the naturopathic community, we
call
SAD.) Dr. Francis M. Pottenger's nutritional studies have shown that
a
regular diet of cooked or canned foods causes the development of
chronic
degenerative diseases and premature mortality. Professor Jackson of
the
Dept. of Anatomy,
University of Minnesota, has shown that rats fed
for 135 days on an 80
percent cooked food diet resulted in an increase
pancreatic weight of 20 to
30 percent. What this means is that the pancreas
is forced to work harder
with a cooked food diet. "Although the body can
manufacture enzymes, the
more you use your enzyme potential, the faster it is
going to run out..."
wrote Dr. Edward Howell, who pioneered research in the
benefits of food
enzymes. A youth of 18 may produce amylase levels 30 times
greater than
those of an 85 year old person.
Enzymes are what make
seeds sprout. Sprouts are, in fact, one of the richest
sources of enzymes.
Other excellent sources are papaya, pineapple and the
aspergillus plant.
Science cannot duplicate enzymes, because they are the
stuff of life itself.
Only raw food has functional "live" enzymes. Therefore
the liver, pancreas,
stomach and intestines must come to the rescue and
furnish the requisite
digestive enzymes to the individual nourished solely
on a cooked food
diet.
This extra activity can be detrimental to health and longevity
because it
continually taxes the reserve energy of our organs. Furthermore,
cooked food
passes through the digestive tract more slowly than raw food,
tends to
ferment, and throws poisons back into the body. Colon cancer is
second only
to lung cancer as a killer in America and is related, in various
ways, to
eating enzyme-deficient cooked food. Prolonged intestinal toxemia
may
manifest the following symptoms: Fatigue, nervousness,
gasto-intestinal
discomfort, recurrent infections, skin eruptions, hormonal
disturbances,
headaches, arthritis, sciatica, low back pain, allergies,
asthma, eye, ear,
nose and throat disorders, cardiac irregularities,
pathological changes in
the breasts, and so forth. All of these conditions
have been shown to
respond to therapy directed to correcting the bowel
toxemia. Of course, it
is important to have fiber in the diet to scrub the
colon walls clean, but
even more important are the enzymes which will allow
proper digestion and
assimilation of vital nutrients. Cooked food often
passes into the
bloodstream as unsplit molecules that are deposited, as
waste, in various
parts of the body. If it is a fat molecule we know it as
cholesterol plaque;
if calcium, arthritis; if sugar, diabetes. White blood
cell count rises
dramatically after ingesting a meal of canned or cooked
foods ("digestive
leukocytosis"). Elevated WBCs are correlated to bacterial
infection,
inflammation and depressed immunity. Raw foods do not produce this
reaction.
All raw foods contain exactly the right enzymes required to split
every last
molecule into the basic building blocks of metabolism: Amino acids
(from
protein), glucose (from complex carbohydrates) and essential fatty
acids
(from unsaturated vegetable fats).
You are what you ate: Eat
living foods (at least once daily!).
For more on enzymes please
read:
http://www.rawfoods.com/articles/enzymes.html
The Human Body
and Nutrition 101
This is what you would learn about the Human Body and
Nutrition in 6th grade
Biology:
From Textbook: Nutrition Almanac,
Third Edition, by Lavon J. Dunne:
Nutrition and Health
"Nutrition
is the relationship of foods to the health of the human body.
Proper
nutrition means that all the essential nutrients - that is,
carbohydrates,
fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, and water - are supplied
and utilized in
adequate balance to maintain optimal heath ad well-being.
Nutritional
deficiencies result whenever inadequate amounts of essential
nutrients are
provided to tissues that must function normally over a long
period of time.
Good nutrition is essential for normal organ development and
functioning, for
normal reproduction, growth, and maintenance; for optimum
activity level and
working efficiency; for resistance to infection and
disease; and for the
ability to repair bodily damage or injury.
or single substance will
maintain vibrant health. Although specific
nutrients are known to be more
important in the functions of certain parts
of the body, even these nutrients
are totally dependent upon the presence of
other nutrients for their best
effects. Every effort should therefore be
made to attain and maintain an
adequate, balanced daily intake of all the
necessary nutrients throughout
life".
(Note: The raw food diet is the most nutrient-dense diet, while
the standard
American diet is nutrient-deficient).
Digestion,
Absorption, and Metabolism:
"The foods eaten by humans are chemically
complex. They must be broken down
by the body into simpler chemical forms so
that they can be taken in through
the intestinal walls and transported by the
blood to the cells. There they
provide energy and the correct building
materials to maintain human life.
These are the processes of digestion,
absorption, and metabolism".
Digestion
"Digestion is a series of
physical and chemical changes by which food, taken
into the body, is broken
down in preparation for absorption from the
intestinal tract into the
bloodstream. These changes take place in the
digestive tract, which includes
the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach,
small intestine, and large
intestine".
Digestion is primarily the work of enzymes.
"Digestion
actually begins in the mouth, where chewing breaks large pieces
of food into
smaller pieces. The salivary glands in the mouth produce
saliva, a fluid that
moistens food for swallowing and which contains
ptyalin, the enzyme necessary
for carbohydrate breakdown. The masticated
food mass passes back to the
pharynx under voluntary control, but from there
on and through the esophagus,
the process of swallowing is carried on by
peristalsis, a slow wavelike
motion occurring along the entire digestive
tract, which moves the food into
the stomach
Active chemical digestion begins in the middle portion of the
stomach, where
the food is mixed with gastric juices containing hydrochloric
acid, water,
and enzymes that break up protein and other
substances.
After 1-4 hours, depending upon the combination of foods
ingested by the
system, peristalsis pushes the food, now in the liquid form
of chyme, out of
the stomach and into the small intestine. Foodstuffs leave
the stomach and
enter the small intestine in the following order:
carbohydrates, protein,
and fat - which takes the longest to digest. When
chyme enters the small
intestine, the pancreas secretes its digestive juices
If fast are present in
the food, bile, an enzyme produced by the liver and
stored in the
gallbladder, is also secreted. Bile separates the fat into
small droplets so
that the pancreatic enzymes can break it down. The pancreas
also secretes a
substance that neutralizes the digestive acids in the food,
and it secretes
additional enzymes that continue the breakdown of proteins
and
carbohydrates.
The remaining undigested products enter the large
intestine and eventually
are excreted. No digestive enzymes are secreted in
the large intestine, and
little change occurs there except for the absorption
of water".
Segment 1, Section 6: Food, Nutrition, and
Photosynthesis
Food/Nutrition Basics
The 3 sources of calories -
Fats, Proteins and Carbohydrates
The Basics of Proper Food Combining - Do
not combine proteins and
carbohydrates. Always eat fruit first or alone. It
digests much faster than
other foods and if eaten after other foods it will
sit on top of them and
ferment in the heat of the stomach, causing gas and
making the fruit toxic.
Nutrient Absorption - "Absorption is the process
by which nutrients in the
form of glucose (from carbohydrates), amino acids
(from protein), and fatty
acids and glycerol (from fats) are taken up by the
intestines and passed
into the bloodstream to facilitate cell
metabolism.
Absorption takes place primarily in the small intestine The
living of the
small intestine is covered with small fingerlike projections
called "villi".
These villi contain lymph channels and tiny blood vessels
called
"capillaries" which are the principal channels of absorption,
depending upon
the type of nutrient. Fats and fat-soluble vitamins more
through the the
blood to the cells. Other nutrients are carried away from the
villi by the
capillaries, which funnel them into the portal vein leading to
the liver.
In the liver, many different enzymes help change the nutrient
molecules into
new forms for specific purposes. Unlike earlier changes, which
prepared
nutrients for absorption and transport, the reactions in the liver
produce
the products needed by individual cells. Some of the products are
used by
the liver, to be released into the body an needed The remainder go in
to the
bloodstream, where they are picked up by the cells and put to
work.
Water-soluble vitamins and minerals are also absorbed into the
bloodstream
in the small intestine".
Metabolism
"At this point
the handling of food within the body has reached its final
stage The process
of metabolism involves all the chemical changes that
nutrients undergo from
the time they are absorbed until they become a part
of the body or are
excreted from the body. Metabolism is the conversion of
the digested
nutrients into building material for living tissue or energy to
meet the
body's needs.
Metabolism occurs in two general phases that occur
simultaneously, anabolism
and catabolism. Anabolism involves all the chemical
reactions that the
nutrients undergo in the destruction or building up of
body chemical sand
tissues, such as blood, enzymes, hormones, glycogen, and
others Catabolism
involves the reactions in which various compounds of the
tissues are broken
down to supply energy. Energy for the cells is derived
from the metabolism
of glucose, which combines with oxygen in a series of
chemical reactions to
form carbon dioxide, water, and cellular energy The
carbon dioxide and water
are waste products, carried away from the cells by
the bloodstream. Energy
can also be derived from the metabolism of essential
fatty acids and amino
acids, although the primary effect of the metabolism of
amino acids is to
provide material for growth and the maintenance repair of
tissues. The
waster products of essential fatty acid and amino acid
metabolism are also
carried away from the cells by the
bloodstream.
The process of metabolism requires that extensive systems of
enzymes be
maintained to facilitate the thousands of different chemical
reactions and
regulate the rate at which these reactions proceed. These
enzymes often
require the presence of specific vitamins and minerals to
perform their
functions".
-From Textbook: Nutrition Almanac, Third
Edition, by Lavon J. Dunne
Photosynthesis and the Raw Vegan
Diet
Photosynthesis is taught in grade school to show the relationship
between
plants and animals. Plants consume carbon-dioxide and create oxygen.
While
humans and animals consume oxygen and exhale carbon-dioxide.
Photosynthesis
is the ability of green plants to turn sunlight into nutrients
or energy.
This is the food chain's beginning. The sun is the source of all
energy.
Plants take the energy of the sun and turn it into nutrients.
Vegetarian
animals eat the plants. Carnivorous animals eat the vegetarian
animals. The
closer we can get to deriving our energy from the sun, the
closer we get to
the source of all energy, the higher the food-quality and
the denser the
nutrients. At each step in the food chain the nutrients become
more
diffused. Eating meat and animal products like dairy is eating a lot of
food
with a very small amount of nutrients proportionately. Whereas plant
foods
are NUTRIENT-DENSE. We don't need to eat very much to get lots of
nutrients,
in a purer form.
But are humans supposed to be carnivores,
omnivores, or vegetarians? Well,
according to Darwin, studies of the teeth of
the earliest human skeletos
show that we were none of the above, but we were
frugivores! We ate
exclusively fruit! Is is any wonder that this is the food
that children are
most drawn to before their tastes are corrupted? Is it any
wonder that these
foods are easily available, easily prepared, and easily
digested? Is it any
wonder that the only calories the brain can use are those
derived from fruit
sugars, glucose? Is it any wonder that fruit is delicious
and beautiful?
There is no more perfect food than fruit. One can thrive for
about three
years on a diet of exclusively fruit. However, as much of our
earth's soil
is now nutrient deficient from years of chemical abuse, just as
drug users
become barren, we must also consume dark leafy greens which are
even richer
in minerals, in order to intake sufficient minerals for long-term
health,
especially for healthy eyes, hair, teeth and bones. Many people can
do well
on fruit all their lives if they live where wild (and
therefore
nutrient-rich) fruits can be obtained, such as in the jungles of
South-East
Asia where our cousins the gorillas eat wild fruit and thereby
spread the
seeds of the fruit throughout the jungles, planting an abundance
of wild
fruit trees.
But we must learn to know our own bodies. We must
learn to listen, to be
intuitive, to be aware of our energy levels, our
mental state, our spiritual
state. We must wean ourselves from junk food and
toxins and eat more fresh
organic produce, thereby developing healthy
cravings based on our bodies
needs instead of misleading ones based on
addiction.
Segment 1, Section 7: Recommended Reading (available
at
thegardendiet.com/books)
Books
Shazzie - Shazzie's Detox
Delights
Nomi Shannon - The Raw Gourmet
Fred Patenaude - The SunFood
Diet
David Wolfe - Nature's First Law, The Sunfood Diet Success
System
Arnold Ehret - The Mucous-less Diet
Victoria Boutenko - The Raw
Family, 12 Steps to Raw Food
Rhio - Hooked on Raw
Paul Nison - Raw
Knowledge, Raw Power
Storm Talifero - The Garden
Diet
Magazines
Fred Patenaude - Just Eat an Apple
David Klein -
Living Nutrition
The Talilferos - The Raw Vegan DVD Video
Magazine
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