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Spicy/Sweet Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

3 cups chopped, peeled and seeded Butternut Squash, 

1 mango, cubed
2 teaspoons curry
4 cups orange juice
½ cup honey

 Garnish with:
1  banana, sliced
½ cup chopped mint
A pinch of minced jalapeno
1 mango, seeded, peeled and diced

In a blender, combine the butternut squash, mango, curry, orange juice, and honey and blend until creamy. Garnish with banana slices, mint, jalapeno, and mango. Serve immediately after blending. Serves 4.

How Much or What? Which Matters Most?

-    What you eat matters more than how much you eat, and why.

By Dr. James Carey, Ph.D. (computers)

Eight years ago, at age 50, I weighed 260 lbs at 5’9” tall. I decided to lose the excess weight. After a lot of research I went on a 1,500 calorie-a-day vegetarian diet, counted every calorie I ate, walked three to five miles a day, and at the end of 18 months I’d lost 20 lbs.

I was happy with myself, but I dreaded another 4-6 years on this boring “rabbit diet,” as I called it, if I was ever to get back to my ideal weight of 165 lbs.

At the end of that year one of my sisters (I have a lot of sisters and step-sisters) – already familiar with this - talked me into going to a hands-on Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle training program. This program teaches that we should eat only organic, vegan, raw living foods.

In other words, no animal products whatsoever, and only items grown organically, without chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides. In addition, it recommends lots of fresh sprouts and other foods that, if planted in the ground, would grow (that’s why they’re called “living”).

Oh… and nothing is cooked.

Interesting, I thought, but I’m a tough guy that can live off the land if I need to, and I can tough anything out if it’ll make me stronger (and better looking).

So I went to Creative Health Institute in Union City, Michigan, USA. At the end of my first two weeks I’d lost 20 lbs. At the end the month I’d lost 30 lbs. All this without missing a meal, without counting a calorie, and eating all I wanted. The best part was, the food was delicious, filling and satisfying.

How could this be?

There were several reasons, but, first and foremost, I was toxic. Every time we eat non-organic, processed food full of chemicals and artificial preservatives we’re ingesting toxins.

Now the body is a marvelous, self-healing, self-cleaning machine. So we put a load of toxins into our body at breakfast, and the body goes to work processing and expelling them.

In the middle of this bodily, life-saving chore we eat a lunch consisting of more processed foods and toxins. Now the body is overloaded and can’t process the toxins out as fast as we’re putting them in.

So the body wraps fat molecules around the toxin and parks it somewhere for temporary safekeeping.  Over time these fat molecules accumulate until we find ourselves overweight, even obese.

That’s what had happened to me. When I went on the vegetarian diet I was still eating foods raised with pesticides, fungicides and herbicides – all toxins. Plus, I was still eating a lot of foods high in animal fats, like cheese and milk.

Dr. Jim at 260 lbs., December, 2000

When I went on Dr. Ann’s regime of raw, organic, living foods I greatly reduced the toxins I was putting into my body.

Sure, I was still ingesting some toxins – even the air we breathe, anywhere on the planet, has a certain amount of toxins. But the quantity of toxins I was ingesting was so much lower that it significantly changed my life.

Our bodies never rest, never take a day off, never decide to be lazy for a day. When my body said, “Oh, look, no toxins to process in this meal,” it then went looking for the toxins it had been storing in my body fat.

Dr, Jim at 170 lbs., August 2006, thanks to Dr. Ann's detox lifestyle

My body took those fat-stored toxins, ripped off the fat molecules, discharged them, processed the toxins, and discharged them, too.

Voila, thirty pounds of fat gone in thirty days, without missing a meal or going hungry. All because of what I ate, not how much I ate.

In coming articles I’ll talk about digestive enzymes and stress, how and why they’re important to our health, and how the raw living foods vegan lifestyle interrelates with them.

Yours in Natural Good Health,

Jim Carey

Midville, Georgia, USA

Dr. Jim Carey, PhD, DD, has been a raw living foods advocate for six years, ever since the Dr. Ann Wigmore program changed his life. You can learn more about Dr. Wigmore, N.D., and Dr. Carey at AnnWigmore.com.

He is currently doing an American television series about the raw vegan lifestyle. Episodes of his show can be seen at GrassyRoots.com.

Dr. Carey resides in rural Georgia, USA, where he loves to eat wild edibles, and travels extensively sharing the message of the raw living foods lifestyle.

Learn more at chiDiet.com - be sure to see the "typical benefits" statement.

Diabetes and Your Diet

I am a diabetic (for 20 years), on 8 meds plus a small evening insulin shot. When I found info on the raw food lifestyle, I also found material on reversing diabetes. My doctor & endocrinologist are both supportive of my efforts, surprisingly.

I made it clear that my ultimate goal was to be off most, if not all of my meds. After 3 weeks of green smoothies, not even every morning, and some small changes in diet, I had lost 9 lbs. and felt like I had some energy again. This is definitely incentive!

Thank you for the info you are providing on the internet, and I hope that the legal issues are soon resolved.

Ruth

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Jim's comments:

If I had the money and the resources, it would be great to do one of those big studies like the pharmaceutical companies do of "typical benefits." I'd like to know just what percentage of people see a significant change in their blood sugar levels and energy levels when they convert to a Raw Living Foods program.

During my years as Director of Creative Health Institute every diabetic that went through the program reported a significant reduction in medication, usually within three or four days of starting the program.

The medical community says that treating diabetes is a matter of diet and exercise; well, that's what Dr. Ann Wigmore's Lifestyle Program is all about. It not only changes your diet, it also reduces your stress level and encourages you to get the proper types of exercise on a daily basis, "just what the doctor ordered."

Congratulations to Ruth and to the many others that email me stories about reversing their diabetes - even to the point of getting off their meds - with raw living foods.

One does not have to be sick, but you do need to "choose" to be healthy. Here's a link to our current, legally required "typical benefits and results" statement.

For more information about the Raw Living Foods program, here's the DVD version: http://chiDiet.com

Here's the same program in the green, online version: http://RawLife.org

Carrot Juice Soup Recipe

Carrot Juice Soup

1 cup celery juice
2 cups carrot juice
1 cup carrot pulp
1/2 avocado
small handful dill or cilantro
2 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 cup vegetables of your choice (cucumbers, peppers, etc.)
1/2 avocado, pieces (optional)

When juicing the carrots, save 1 cup of carrot pulp.
Blend the juice with the avocado and herb (dill or cilantro) together.
Add in, without blending, the remaining ingredients.

Notes:
This soup will give you a reason to use that juicer you haven’t used in months.

Contributed by Jan Jenson 

Coconut covered Date/Nut Balls Recipe

Ingredients:
2  cups Medjool dates, (pitted and soaked 30 minutes)
1  cup almonds OR pecans OR walnuts, (soak overnight/drain)
1 1/2  cups shredded, unsweetened coconut
1  teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2  teaspoon pure vanilla OR 1/2 vanilla bean, ground

Instructions:
Place nuts in bowl, add 2 cups distilled water, cover, allow nuts to soak overnight, then drain and set aside.
Pit dates, place in bowl; cover with distilled water, soak 30 minutes.
With “S” blade in food processor, add soaked nuts, pulse until nuts are finely chopped
Add 1 cup coconut, cinnamon, and vanilla, pulse until mixed.
Add soaked dates, a few at a time, processing until mixed.
Transfer to large bowl, kneed.
Roll balls to desired size, roll balls in extra coconut, or chopped nuts if desired.

These date/nut balls keep 2 weeks in refrigerator.

The Supreme Machine

How much value would you put on a machine that is so special that there are no others like it, no spare parts and yet it must run continuously without stopping for up to 100 years?

The machine, of course, is your body. The value assigned to it is up to you. But before you decide how much your body is worth, you should appreciate a few things about it. You ask it to do some phenomenal things, including process huge amounts of information, both input and output, on a daily basis; interface with others on many different levels; produce another human machine for continuity of the species; and under certain circumstances, perform feats of strength and courage.

Those things your body does because you tell it to; but what about all those things your body does every day, day after day, year after year, with little or no thought or decision on your part? Consider this for a moment - if you are an adult of about average weight, here's what you do in 24 hours:

    Your heart beats 103,689 times.
    Your hair grows .01714 inches.
    You breathe 23,040 times.
    You eat 3 pounds of food.
    You perspire 1.43 pints of liquid.
    You speak 4,800 words.
    You turn 25 to 35 times in your sleep.
    You lose 7.8 pounds of waste weight.
    Your blood travels 168,000 miles.
    Your nails grow .000046 inches.
    You inhale 438 cubic feet of air.
    You drink 2.9 pounds of liquid.
    You move 750 major muscles.

It pays to take care of this fantastic, one-of-a-kind machine, since there are no spare parts!

Now that you have some idea of what this superb creation does, do you properly take care of it? It relentlessly performs its daily functions and asks only periodic attention, proper fuel, some rest, exercise, and an occasional checkup. Now that you know a little bit about what your body does and its minimum requirements, what is it worth? Of course, it is priceless, so be sure to maintain it with the basic requirements of proper nutrition, sleep and daily exercise.

--- Source: Vitality Labs Newsletter

Aging is Attitude, Not a Calendar

Fran & Marlo Cowan (married 62 years) playing an impromptu piano recital together in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic. He'll be 90 in February.

Red Bell Pepper Dressing Recipe

3 avocados
4 cloves of garlic
1/2 to 1 red onion
2-3 red bell peppers.
Add splash of apple cider vinegar and olive oil - Braggs or Shoya Season to taste (optional; for transitional diet)

Cover with water and blend

An Inspiring "Politician"

In the City of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, with Mayor Hazel McCallion. In the 31 years Hazel has been mayor, she's run the 3rd largest city in Canada to debt-free status with a large cash surplus. In the last election she drew 92% of the vote.

At 88, Hazel is still playing hockey, even though she was hit by a truck two years ago! She's a good bowler, too!

Fresh Tomato Pasta Recipe

Fresh Tomato Pasta

4 zucchini
20 cherry tomatoes halved
4 sundried tomatoes soaked
1 tsp Himalayan crystal salt
1 tsp dried or fresh basil
1 clove garlic minced
4 Tbs olive oil
1/2 red bell pepper diced

Cut zucchini into thin strips.
Dice sundried tomatoes.
Mix zucchini, cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, garlic, salt, basil, olive oil and bell pepper.
Toss well.

- Contributed by Jan Jensen