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Eating Raw and Feeling Full

by Jim Carey

During my radio interview with Kerry Pharr last November he mentioned going Raw for three days, and then gave up because he was always hungry. I have a solution for that:

A) To make a raw dish that is delicious and satisfying it is necessary to have all five of these flavors in your recipe:

1. Sweet/Pungent (Onion)
2. Sour
3. Salty
4. Spicy
5. Bitter

The ratios will change with the type of dish you are creating. The key to creating great Raw Recipes is learning to balance the five flavors. With time and practice creating Raw Gourmet food will be second nature to you. Here is a great resource for raw recipes: chiDiet.net.

• Excess sour is balanced by sweet. 
• Overly bitter is balanced sour.
• Fats tone down spices, and mellow too much sweetness. 
• Salt brings out flavors. 

A breakdown of the five tastes:

1. Sweet:  banana, dates, mangos, apples, raw honey, stevia extract
2. Sour:  lemon juice, lime juice, raw apple cider vinegar, grapefruit juice.
3. Salty:  Celtic sea salt, Nama shoyu, kelp, dulse, miso, celery.
4. Spicy:  hot pepper, garlic, cayenne pepper. 
5. Bitter:  kale, lettuce, culinary herbs.

B) Quantity. We're used to having small bowls of salad with our meals (at best). When you're a rawbie, what might look like a salad for four is now dinner for one. For active guys in particular, don't hesitate to eat an entire salad bowl for lunch, or a blender or more of green smoothie for breakfast. Supper should be a small meal.

C) Eating on a schedule. Get you body used to eating on time. I eat at 7:30 am, 12:30 pm and 5:30 pm. Within a few days your body will begine producing digestive juices on schedule, digesting your foods more completely, and leaving you alone between meals.

D) Listen to your body, and eat only what it needs. If you're coming off the SAD, this might mean training your body as to what it needs vs. what it wants.

- with thanks to Victoria Boutenko for the "5 Tastes" insights.

Benefits of the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle

We have numerous testimonials from students who credit the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle with their recovery from:

• Arthritis
• Diabetes
• Breast cancer
• Cancer of the larynx
• Cervical cancer
• Malignancies, including uterine cancer
• Colitis
• Leukemia
• Hepatitis
• Gangrene
• Heavy metal poisoning
• Tuberculosis
• Peritonitis
• Pyorrhea
• Hemorrhoids
• Asthma
• Sinus infections
• Burns
• Cuts
• Menstrual irregularities
• PMS
• Constipation
• Headache
• Eczema
• Psoriasis
• Halitosis
• Acute anemia
• Vericose veins
• Metastatic malignant melanoma

PLEASE NOTE: that we offer no cures - we treat and heal no one. We simply share information, developed by Dr. Ann Wigmore, about how a Raw Living Foods Diet and Lifestyle can benefit everyone, and how the body often cures itself with a proper diet.

Things the Program Can Do for You:

• Weight Loss
• Alleviate pain
• Prevent disease
• Combat disease
• Increase energy
• Cleanse the body
• Improve digestion
• Recharge your immune system

Visit chiDiet.com for more information.

Raw Recipe Resources

Raw Recipe Resources....

Free Raw Recipes Online - http://rawfoods.com/recipes/
Free Raw Recipe Videos Online - http://gliving.tv/shows/category/greenchefs/
Raw Recipe Books - http://www.rawveganbooks.com
The Raw Gourmet DVDs - http://www.rawgourmet.com/
The Garden Diet recipes - http://www.TheGardenDiet.com/abouttgd.html
The Raw Vegan Kitchen videos - http://www.rawveganchannel.com/kitchen.html

In Joy!
Jinjee http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

What are the benefits of eating raw?

What are the Benefits of Eating Raw?

Do you want to achieve optimal health? The best way to do that  is to eat a high enzyme diet consisting of raw fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds, nuts, grains and some seaweed.

Eating predominantly cooked food puts a tremendous strain on your body. To understand why this is true, you need to  understand the role enzymes play. Enzymes are in the cells of  every living plant and animal. It is enzyme activity that  accomplishes all biological work from blinking an eye, to  lifting a finger, to having a thought.

When you eat, you need enzymes to help digest the food. If the food you eat is raw-whether it is a rutabaga, a carrot, a lettuce leaf or a banana-all the enzymes you need are right there in the food itself, ready to go to work for you.

If the food is cooked beyond 104 F, however, these naturally occurring enzymes are killed by heat, and your body must manufacture its own digestive enzymes to do the job.

Is this a problem? Raw fooders believe it is. The father of the food enzyme concept, Dr. Edward Howell, explained that when your body is busy digesting food, it is unable to divert the necessary energy to make the type of enzymes needed to do other tasks. There is a tug-of-war between the demands of your digestive system for a constant supply of digestive enzymes and the needs of your body for the metabolic enzymes vital for cleansing, healing, and building. Without an adequate supply
of metabolic enzymes, over time, you suffer.

What does this suffering look like?:

· Disease
· Indigestion
· Constipation
· Age spots
· Fatigue
· Lethargy
· Wrinkles
· Bad skin
· Declining eyesight
· Poor memory
· Mood swings
· Irritability
· Allergies
· Brain fog
· Candida
· Hypoglycemia
· Tumors and Cysts
· Irritable Bowel Syndrome
· Sinusitis
· Fibromyalgia
· Depression

This decline in health is usually attributed solely to 'aging'. But it is really the result of two facts: Over time, your body loses its ability to manufacture enzymes (young adults have thirty times the enzymes of the elderly); and, when you eat food that is cooked, it forces your body to manufacture enzymes for digestion, instead of enzymes that could be used for healing. Ultimately, when you don't have enough enzymes to carry the basic needs of life, you die.

Anne Kaspar
Health and Wellness Consultant

BodyByBliss

505.690.0169 C
505.474.9699 O & F
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Factory reconditioned Vitamix 5000s

The Vitamix is greatly superior to using a blender for preparing raw and living foods. I don't know how long the sale with last, but Vitamix is selling their top-of-the-line machine at a nice discount. Includes factory warranty: http://www.vitamix.com/household/products/super5000/reconchoice.html.

- thanks to Jan Jenson, the WELLthy Coach.

Growing pains when going raw

Getting healthier can include growing pains. Detox, growth, healing, lifestyle adjustments, and any number of other changes can occur when you embark on a serious journey to become whole. Change can be difficult and growing pains can ensue.

Sometimes the changes may be painful physically or emotionally. Often it is a journey of wonder and joy, but this is still real life, there will still be ups and downs. I’m coming to accept the tough times in the cycle because they increase my appreciation of life when I get back to a positive flow!

I’ve just come out of a difficult phase of working too much and stressing. But after all the struggle to be in a better frame of mind I’ve emerged with a joy, a passion, a clarity, an energy, and a greater appreciation for life than ever!

In Joy,
Jinjee
http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

Demonstrating that the human body is designed to eat veggies

Human Constitution Compared With Carnivores'
from www.chiDiet.com, Lesson 10: http://www.chidiet.com/lessons.htm#L10

All teeth are flattened, especially the back molars. Dullest canine teeth of all primates.	Teeth are long, sharp and pointed. No flat molar teeth. Sharp canine teeth.
Intestines are at least 12 times as long as the trunk of the body and an integral part of the most sophisticated juice extractor in the world: the human digestive system.	Intestines are 3 times as long as the trunk of the body. Their design facilitates rapid expulsion of fleshy matter.
Bowel walls are puckered, convoluted and full of deep pouches for the reconstitution of waste matter.	Bowels are smooth and short for quick expulsion of waste matter.
Saliva is alkaline. It contains ptyalin, an enzyme specifically designed to break down starchy carbohydrates.	Saliva is acidic.
	Carnivores have industrial strength digestive juices in comparison to human digestive juices.

Assorted articles on the raw living foods lifestyle

A nice collection of articles from Creative Health Institute on the whys, hows and wherefores of the raw living food lifestyle: http://chidiet.com/articles/.

Back to the basics

Much of the email I receive each week reflects the basic questions that raw fooders ask when they first go raw. Since I've been editing this newsletter for a number of years, I sometimes forget how fast this movement is growing, and how many "newbies" there are out there.

So for those of you who are new to this, and as a refresher for those of us who are "old hands," I've put together a summary of the basic issues. Please continue to share this information with your friends and family.

"One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man." - Socrates

What are Living Foods and why should we eat them?:
http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter07292003.htm
http://rawfoods.com/faq.html
http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter04292003.txt

How will I get enough protein on a raw living foods diet?: http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter08052003.htm

"Are You Eating Too Much Fruit?," by Paul Nison: http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter07152003.htm

The Benefits of Wheatgrass:
http://www.creativehealth.us/news/benefitsofwheatgrass.html
http://chidiet.com/books.htm#Billye
http://chidiet.com/tapes.htm#v13

A nutritional analysis of Wheatgrass Juice: http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter08192003.htm

"Things to Be Aware of in the Raw Foods Arena," by Noni Shannon, in 3 parts:
http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter05272003.txt
http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter06032003.txt
http://annwigmore.com/news/CHInewsletter06102003.txt

The economics of real food

Real Food is whole, organically grown, locally grown (preferably by yourself), and harvested when ripe. If planted, it would sprout and grow. That's a Real, Living Food.

Eating real, living, whole foods is not expensive. Being sick all the time is expensive!

If you think the price of avocados or mangos is high, walk over to the meat aisle and look at the price of steak. How much money did you formerly spend on Starbucks? Or Crispy Creme? Or McDonald's?

Juicing vs. Blending

Hi again Jim,

Thank you for the wonderful newsletter.
I was wondering if you could answer this question for me:  why is it more desirable to eat a greens juice than eating it in salad form?  Is it because we eat more if it is juiced?

Also, is a juicer much better than "doing" those greens in a food processor? Why?

Funnily enough, I cannot find the answer to those questions on the Internet or in the literature I have so I was wondering if you would be kind enough to tell me about it.

Thank you so very much and please keep up that good work!
Pat (in Quebec City)
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Partially because we eat more, but mostly we blend because nobody chews adequately anymore. 100 years ago we taught kids to chew every bite 35-50 times, until it was liquid in your mouth. Look at the jaw size of the Presidents on old portraits! Nowadays dentists are not only removing wisdom teeth, but on teens today they’re also removing the next 4, also. We’ve become a continent of people that gulp soft food.

The body can’t pull the nutrients out of greens if they’re not fully chewed. So we blend as a form of “pre-digestion.” Victoria Boutenko covers this in depth in her video “Greens can Save Your Life.” (www.chidiet.com/tapes.htm#v64).

She also discusses juicing vs. blending. Basically, why throw all that good food and fiber in the compost pile when your body can assimilate nutrients out of it?

I hope this helps.
Jim Carey

Food in its natural state has a crystalline structure

Food in its natural raw state has a crystalline structure which carries order and information into the body and brain. The nutrients are in a form that the body can fully recognize, understand and use.

- From Why Eat Raw by Holly and Rob in The Funky Raw Magazine, UK, http://www.funkyraw.com.

Seven common mistakes that occur on raw foods

Seven Common Mistakes that Occur on Raw Foods
- by Victoria Boutenko of www.RawFamily.com
- We're getting lots of email about the subject this article addresses. Originally published May 28th, 2005 in chiDiet.com/news/.

1. Many raw fooders do not eat enough greens. Solution: Regularly consume energy soup or green smoothies to guarantee the proper amount of greens.

2. Many raw fooders do not consume enough fiber, soluble and insoluble. Solution: Drink more smoothies or energy soups instead of juices.

3. People on a raw food diet often consume too many fats. When they try to imitate cooked dishes they substitute starches with nuts. Solution: Use nut pulp left over from making nut mylks, use more seeds and less nuts, and use more fruit and vegetable pulp from juices in your mixtures, to minimize the consumption of nuts.

4. Raw fooders commonly try to become too perfect too fast. They don't give their bodies a chance to adjust to such a radical dietary change. Solution: Gradually adjust and purify your own individual diet to help you ease into the healthiest diet for you.

5. When people change their diets they usually decide the other components that make up health are no longer important, such as sunbathing, exercising, proper rest, fresh air, etc. Solution: Practice a well-rounded, healthy lifestyle.

6. People on the raw living foods diet often over-indulge in some particular foods and neglect the variety of other fruits and vegetables. Solution: Eat foods in reasonable quantities.

7. The biggest mistake raw fooders make is that they listen to the raw food authorities and don't trust the invaluable messages their own bodies communicate. Solution: Keep a diary of your daily food consumption and how it affects your well-being. (See "Keeping a Food Diary" at chiDiet.com/news/01102005.htm.)

These notes are from Victoria's lecture at Creative Health Institute last spring. For videotape of the event visit chidiet.com/tapes.htm#v47.

[Editor's note: Item #6 is the most common problem I hear about. Most raw fooders, especially newbies, don't eat enough variety, and either get bored with the diet, or physically out of balance. Variety, variety, variety. There's not a leafy green in the produce department that I don't eat at least a bit of during the week. - Jim Carey.]

Why humans were meant to be raw living food eaters

The Human Body Compared With Carnivores

Human - All teeth are flattened, especially the back molars. Dullest canine teeth of all primates.
Carnivore - Teeth are long, sharp and pointed. No flat molar teeth. Very sharp canine teeth.

Human - Intestines are at least 12 times as long as the trunk of the body and an integral part of the most sophisticated juice extractor in the world: the human digestive system.
Carnivore - Intestines are 3 times as long as the trunk of the body. Their design facilitates rapid expulsion of fleshy matter.

Human - Bowel walls are puckered, convoluted and full of deep pouches for the reconstitution of waste matter.
Carnivore - Bowels are smooth and short for quick expulsion of waste matter.

Human - Saliva is alkaline. It contains ptyalin, an enzyme specifically designed to break down starchy carbohydrates.
Carnivore - Saliva is acidic. Carnivores have industrial strength digestive juices in comparison to human digestive juices.

Where do raw vegans get their protein?

I’m sure all vegetarians, vegans and raw vegans hear the question, "but where do you get your protein?" more than any other. Victoria Boutenko describes it very well in her award winning book Green For Life.

1. Professor T. Colin Campbell shows in his book, The China Study , that the U.S. RDA for protein is greatly overestimated.

2. If we maintain a variety of greens in our diet, we will cover all essential aminos in abundance.

3. One pound of kale has even more protein than is recommended by the USDA per day.

4. The lack of research on the nutritional content of greens has led to a great confusion among the majority of people, including many professionals.

5. Dr. Joel Fuhrman wrote in his book Eat to Live, "Even physicians and dietitians... are surprised to learn that... when you eat large quantities of green vegetables, you receive a considerable amount of protein."

6. When we eat animal protein we have to break down these complex protein chains that have been built to the specification of a cow or a pig and rebuild them in the chains that we require for our own body. This is like getting a second hand dress and trying to tear it apart and remake it the way we want it. Or like using someone else’s protein molecules, literally. Plant proteins found in fruits, vegetables, and especially in greens, on the other hand, are in the form of individual amino acids which our body can use to build the perfect protein chains for our unique DNA. It is like using brand new materials to make our dress. Doesn’t that just make perfect sense!

Lit up by Green,
Jinjee
http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

Hunger vs. addiction cravings

This letter was in answer to a person who was feeling insatiably hungry shortly after going raw.

Yes, I went through times when I was insanely hungry and nothing raw seemed to be able to satisfy it no matter how much I ate. Looking back now I think that it probably wasn't actual hunger but an addiction withdrawal craving for the sensations that eating cooked food specifically brings. But it feels just like hunger, because that's what we've been used to identifying it as.

I also had times where I felt like I didn't need to eat at all and I never felt hungry. I think that is when my body finally was truly nourished.

Now I am very seldom hungry and when I am I get satisfied very quickly with raw foods.

In Health,
Jinjee
http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

Claim that veggie diets unhealthy dismissed as "rubbish" - Sir Paul McCartney

A leading US nutritionist claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children's health by denying them meat. UK experts immediately contested the findings, and Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC that the claims were "rubbish". http://www.rense.com/general63/srub.htm. (3/15/2005)

"I suspect these things are engineered by livestock people who have seen sales fall off," Sir Paul said.

Transitioning to a raw living foods lifestyle

The purpose of the transition diet - moving away from eating meat, processed foods, sugar, white flour products, etc. -- to a total living foods diet of vegetables, fruit, sprouts, fermented nuts and seeds -- is to allow the body to gradually cleanse away accumulated waste materials until the whole diet is one of living foods. While on the transition diet you should attempt to incorporate as many green/sprout salads and fruit meals as you comfortably can. This will speed up detoxification, plus allow the body and mind to adjust to this new diet.

THE FIRST PHASE in the transition diet is to eliminate drugs and other chemicals, meat, tobacco, alcohol, white sugar, white flour, salt, coffee and all processed "foods." This may be a radical change for some people, as these "foods" have become deeply ingrained habits and dependencies.

One way to approach this change is to "decrease and substitute". For example, if you eat meat every day, decrease it to two or three times a week and substitute fish and fowl in its place. If you drink or smoke each day, cut it to every other day, then every third or fourth day. Substitute deep breathing exercises. You aren't giving anything up - you are really choosing something better.

In the meantime, use as many live foods as possible to substitute for the refined and processed foods. Use raw honey, raisins and dates instead of sugar; whole grains instead of white flour; fresh fruits and vegetables instead of canned, frozen or packaged food. You'll notice a taste change, and in a short time your taste buds and mind will automatically choose nutritious foods.

THE SECOND PHASE in transition is the elimination of mucus-forming foods such as dairy products - milk, butter, cheese, eggs, yogurt, etc. Begin to substitute seed milk cheese and seed yogurt. While in this phase, try partial fasting on juices or energy soup one day a week, or more, to expedite toxin elimination.

THE THIRD PHASE in transition is the elimination of all cooked foods from the diet. The ultimate diet is that of fresh raw fruits and vegetables, sprouts and fermented nuts and seeds. This transition may take months for some, perhaps only weeks or days for you. It's your decision.

Some additional transitional diet data:

1)	Have three juice meals a day to nourish the body. Include a salad with each drink.
2)	Clean out the colon with enemas and wheatgrass implants once or twice a day.
3)	If you cook or steam vegetables, cook as little as possible, on the lowest heat possible, to retain the maximum amount of nutrients.
4)	Eat the living foods before the cooked foods.
5)	Try not to drink liquids for an hour after mealtimes.
6)	Chew your food very, very well.
7)	Record your results with the date and time of day, how you feel (body, mind, emotions), what you ate, activity taking place, environment, stress factors, etc.

It's all right to work slowly with changes in your diet. As you remove various foods from your diet, substitute a living food such as nut and seed milks, seed cheeses, plenty of green leafy vegetables and dehydrated goodies. Practice each change for a month, and then try another.

- Stick to basic living foods until you feel free of what ails you.
- Record and observe how you are feeling.
- It could take 2 to 6 months, perhaps even longer.

The B-12 issue for raw vegans

The B-12 Issue for Raw Vegans
from Steven Gibb, former Program Director, Creative Health Institute

The reason that we don't assimilate B-12 in the gut is because, when we're inoculated, our intrinsic factor in our gut breaks down. Those are the cells in the stomach that absorb nutrients from the food.

The way to correct that is to eat lightly fermented foods for one year. So... it's either Rejuvelac and/or lightly fermented cabbage.

The second thing that we've discovered is that the dark leafy greens we thought had B-Complexes in them, especially the B-12s, we've now found that they're B-12 Analogs, and B-12 Analogs interfere with the B-12 in our body, which is stored in the liver and other organs. B-12 Analogs attach to the receptor sites, not allowing the B-12 to get into our system. Again, fermented foods (a spoonful or so with every meal) fix this and get the gut going again.

So anyone who's been inoculated doesn't assimilate B-12, and this isn't just vegetarians.

Read more about this at http://chidiet.com/news/B12.htm.

Climbing the transitional ladder to ideal health

- excerpt from Lesson 2 of http://www.chidiet.com/lessons.htm

IT IS WELL TO RECOGNIZE that changing dietary habits requires a growth process, and that this growth process may be facilitated by an understanding of different foods and their effect upon the body. The following list of food groups is designed to give you a perspective into food, their relationship to one another and to different stages of growth toward a simple health program.

Be patient with yourself, and as you desire better health habits, learn to substitute natural foods for those old addictions. Begin at the bottom of the page and find the group containing most of the foods you consume. Visualize the growth pattern you would like to follow, choosing foods in other groups, progressing toward the top of the page and IDEAL HEALTH.

The top two categories being ideal, the third may also be included for a high-quality maintenance diet. Remember: LOVE yourself!

IDEAL HEALTH PRODUCED BY SIMPLE LIVING FOODS: Sprouts, indoor greens, fresh organic fruits and vegetables, cleansing with wheatgrass, Rejuvelac and fasting - tuning into your own body! This is a high-consciousness diet, promoting non-violence in thought and action.

CONCENTRATED QUALITY NUTRITION (used along with the cleansing foods above for desired effects): Dried fruits, nuts, Essene breads, sprouted legumes and sprouted grains, fermented foods, seed and nut milks, concentrated fruits and vegetables, virgin olive oil, sesame oil, and seaweeds.

"VEGAN" VEGETARIAN: Includes cooked foods, is nutritionally sound, and contains no animal products. It includes steamed or baked vegetables and fruits with some raw vegetables and fruits (for enzymes), whole grain breads and other cooked grains, nut butters, honey, maple syrup, cold-pressed oils, and beans. Any cooking done over gentle heat, baked, stir-fried, steamed or crock pot. No microwaved foods.

VEGETARIAN TRANSITION FROM MEAT: This includes high-quality dairy products such as raw goat or cow's milk, soft unpasteurized cheeses, raw milk cheese, yogurt, buttermilk, soy dairy products, some meat substitutes made from nut, soy or grain products. Also, included are whole grains, beans, nuts, fruits, and vegetables. In this step, effort should be made to replace all refined and processed foods with whole, organic natural foods.

TRANSITION FROM RED MEAT AND CHEMICALIZED FOODS: No more refined foods! Fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans are a new world to explore. Educate yourself to understand the truth regarding your body and the way it works WITH your food to digest, assimilate, and eliminate waste material accumulated in the body. Study nutritional food values and their production methods. Choose foods for yourself and your family that are high in vitamins, minerals, and enzymes and low in added processing, chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides. Your first step is to eliminate red meat (pork and beef) from your diet and gradually drop another type of heavy food substance such as dairy, eggs, poultry, shellfish, etc., from your diet each month or so, working your way up the transitional ladder to the optimal way of eating.

Caution: These items, if maintained in the diet, will be hazardous to your health: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, junk food, fast food, processed food, cigarettes, additives, fried foods, carbonated beverages, and OVEREATING.

The transition diet

The Transition Diet - Transitioning to Living Foods
- excerpt from Lesson 2 of http://www.chidiet.com/lessons.htm

The purpose of the transition diet - moving away from eating meat, processed foods, sugar, white flour products, etc. -- to a total living foods diet of vegetables, fruit, sprouts, fermented nuts and seeds -- is to allow the body to gradually cleanse away accumulated waste materials until the whole diet is one of living foods. While on the transition diet you should attempt to incorporate as many green/sprout salads and fruit meals as you comfortably can. This will speed up detoxification, plus allow the body and mind to adjust to this new diet.

THE FIRST PHASE in the transition diet is to eliminate drugs and other chemicals, meat, tobacco, alcohol, white sugar, white flour, salt, coffee and all processed "foods." This may be a radical change for some people, as these "foods" have become deeply ingrained habits and dependencies.

One way to approach this change is to "decrease and substitute." For example, if you eat meat every day, decrease it to two or three times a week and substitute fish and fowl in its place. If you drink or smoke each day, cut it to every other day, then every third or fourth day. Substitute deep breathing exercises. You aren't giving anything up - you are really choosing something better.

In the meantime, use as many live foods as possible to substitute for the refined and processed foods. Use raw honey, raisins and dates instead of sugar; whole grains instead of white flour; fresh fruits and vegetables instead of canned, frozen or packaged food. You'll notice a taste change, and in a short time your taste buds and mind will automatically choose nutritious foods.

THE SECOND PHASE in transition is the elimination of mucus-forming foods such as dairy products - milk, butter, cheese, eggs, yogurt, etc. Begin to substitute seed milk cheese and seed yogurt. While in this phase, try partial fasting on juices or energy soup one day a week, or more, to expedite toxin elimination.

THE THIRD PHASE in transition is the elimination of all cooked foods from the diet. The ultimate diet is that of fresh raw fruits and vegetables, sprouts and fermented nuts and seeds. This transition may take months for some, perhaps only weeks or days for you. It's your decision.

Some additional transitional diet data:

1) Have three juice meals a day to nourish the body. Include a salad with each drink.
2) Clean out the colon with enemas and wheatgrass implants once or twice a day.
3) If you cook or steam vegetables, cook as little as possible, on the lowest heat possible, to retain the maximum amount of nutrients.
4) Eat the living foods before the cooked foods.
5) Try not to drink liquids for an hour after mealtimes.
6) Chew your food very, very well.
7) Record your results with the date and time of day, how you feel (body, mind, emotions), what you ate, activity taking place, environment, stress factors, etc.

It's all right to work slowly with changes in your diet. As you remove various foods from your diet, substitute a living food such as nut and seed milks, seed cheeses, plenty of green leafy vegetables and dehydrated goodies. Practice each change for a month, and then try another.

- Stick to basic living foods until you feel free of what ails you.
- Record and observe how you are feeling.
- It could take 2 to 6 months, perhaps even longer.

Introduction to Raw Living Foods

Last week Steven Gibb, Director of Creative Health Institute, and Jim Carey, Creative Health Institute Board of Trustees, appeared on Robert Taylor's TV show "Out of the Ordinary" on WMTV-5 in Detroit. As a matter of fact, the 30 minute segment was aired 21 times!

If you didn't catch it, you can order a copy at http://chiDiet.com/tapes.htm#v39.

Seven common mistakes that occur on raw foods

1. Many raw fooders do not eat enough greens. Solution: Regularly consume energy soup or green smoothies to guarantee the proper amount of greens.

2. Many raw fooders do not consume enough fiber, soluble and insoluble. Solution: Drink more smoothies or energy soups instead of juices.

3. People on a raw food diet often consume too many fats. When they try to imitate cooked dishes they substitute starches with nuts. Solution: Use nut pulp left over from making nut mylks, use more seeds and less nuts, and use more fruit and vegetable pulp from juices in your mixtures, to minimize the consumption of nuts.

4. Raw fooders commonly try to become too perfect too fast. They don't give their bodies a chance to adjust to such a radical dietary change. Solution: Gradually adjust and purify your own individual diet to help you ease into the healthiest diet for you.

5. When people change their diets they usually decide the other components that make up health are no longer important, such as sunbathing, exercising, proper rest, fresh air, etc. Solution: Practice a well-rounded healthy lifestyle.

6. People on the raw foods diet often over-indulge in some particular foods and neglect the variety of other fruits and vegetables. Solution: Eat foods in reasonable quantities.

7. The biggest mistake raw fooders make is that they listen to the raw food authorities and don't trust the invaluable messages their own bodies communicate. Solution: Keep a diary of your daily food consumption and how it affects your well-being.

- by Victoria Boutenko. See chiDiet.com/tapes.htm for videos of Victoria's lectures.

Supersize Me!

Here's what living on McDonald's food for 30 days did to one man: http://www.supersizeme.com/.

This is the video that started the world-wide fast-food revolt.

Ten advantages of eating raw

by Susan Jorg, Estacada, OR

The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases. Since then, this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art. Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements, except for the leafy green salad.

One advantage of eating raw is that it brings Nature’s intentions into focus. When I speak of eating raw I am referring to fruit, nuts, and vegetables, which taste good to the majority of humankind in their basic simplicity - direct from tree, bush or vine.

I realize it isn’t easy to simply abandon thousands of years of tradition and revert back to 100% raw food. Margaret Mead once said, “It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.” So, to the point, there are 10 advantages to a diet of fresh, whole raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts, which may lead you to find a greater place for them in your diet.

1. Raw foods are better quality; therefore you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes which benefit digestion. As your percentage of raw foods increases you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body’s needs.

2. Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestion system or over-stimulate other organs.

3. Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen. Even a child of 5 or 6 can prepare most of the items for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This gives children a sense of self-esteem and independence, not to mention the break it gives Mom and Dad.

4. When you are eating raw there’s little chance of burns, unless you’re in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun too long. Just think - No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires!

5. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked-on oils or crusty messes. And any inedible parts go directly to the compost pile.

6. Eating a diet of raw foods can reverse or stop the advance of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Remember, cooking creates free radicals, which are the major cause of cancer. When you lower the number of free radicals your cells are bombarded with, you lower your risk of cancer.

7. A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a healthy body and a healthy body will not become diseased.

8. As long as you combine raw food properly, according to the rules of Natural Hygiene, you will soon reach a level where you no longer suffer from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.

9. It is environmentally sound. With humanity on a diet of raw foods the food industry would close up shop and take up organic gardening. This would save us enormous amounts of natural resources used to produce power for these industries. Think of how many trees and oil reserves could be saved without the need for the paper and plastics used in packaging our processed foods. There would also be less carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when all the cooking stopped, and more oxygen produced from all the new orchards and gardens, thus helping to reverse the Greenhouse Effect.

10. Eating raw saves you money on food, vitamins, pots and pans, appliances, doctor bills, drugs, and health insurance.

So don’t waste your food, yourself, and our planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are b