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Worldwide Obesity Epidemic

This past Wed., a famous researcher spoke to the listening audience of medical doctors in the teleconference put on by PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine). He shared a map of the world where the most dark spots were people who were more than 30% overweight or obese. I was shocked to see Australia, Mexico, many parts of China, Japan, the fertile crescent area countries, in those most dark spots - thinking that they would mostly come from Russia, Northern Canada and Alaska, as well as the US.

He said in his talk and in his published reports that it was from the vegetable oils and soda pops, watching tv and the greater availability of processed foods and animal products that people are obese now. And, it was affecting the women more than men. Also, that people of African and oriental descent were having more problems with heart disease and diabetes, with less help, because the fat is stored in their livers and heart areas instead of being disbursed as it does in Nordic or cold country peoples. A photo of a woman in Egypt in front of tvs she was selling was shocking because she was so large. The worst foods he mentioned were soda and pizza.

This triggered my memory about how when people fry food in vegetable oils, or add vegetable oils (yes, even the best virgin virgin olive oils), that the oils react with the starches and the animal proteins and create a super-glue type of bond that prevents the body from sweating the oil out.

Another thing: I was given a whole lot of baby food this month to share with others: much of it was organic. The 3 brands all had vitamin C added, to even step 1 (around 6 months), and some had calcium added.

I offered it to my ESOL class mothers, and one mother tasted about 3 types before she took it and then put the bottles back. I didn't ask her why but decided to look at them myself. I tasted a little of each and immediately got a headache, which affected my brain stem, and then was affected by a cramp in my left hand which has lasted for almost a week, weakening my grip and then also a stomach ache. I then began to crave more almond cream than I normally would use, and more avocado. My body was trying to heal itself from the acid of the calcium and vitamin C destruction in my epithelial lining. WOW!

Do you suppose the colic that babies have has a lot to do with the vitamin C and the calcium they are putting in the baby food? My throat got sore (some wheatgrass juice helped that) and my ear canals felt swollen and sore (the wheat grass juice helped all of the symptoms, except the weakness in my left hand, which I think is coming from my 7th and 8th vertebra damage by the C and calcium). I know how to heal this, with some fresh pineapple juice and energy soup, but I thought you might be able to share this with some young mothers who might be at their wits end wondering why their babies are unhappy.

Breast milk is all a baby needs until the 2nd year, with some wonderful  coconut juice, papaya, avocado, etc. as supplement after the 6th month. We need to get together and complain to the companies to get those supplements out of the babies' food. I spoke at the 2nd Calcium Conference at NIH about how according to the French doctor Kirvran we didn't need any calcium to make our bones stronger, just foods with potassium, maganesium and silica, which turn into bone calcium, and even then the supplement people were lobbying the doctors to add calcium, which does nothing but plaque onto our arteries and the exterior of our bones and cause lumps and early heart attacks (women spill calcium in their blood just before having a heart attack) and arthritis. We need to save the babies inner peace.

Peace and love,
Dr. Flora

Vegan Kids - Cool School Lunches

As you know by now, all parents have a different idea of what is healthy food and what is not. For years, you have had the opportunity to hand select and monitor what your child eats for lunch.

Now it is time to test their ability. It is only natural for your child's eyes to wander and notice, and be envious of, what the other kids are eating. Here are a few tips that may help your child's lunch be healthy, fun and get noticed by the other kids...

http://www.vegfamily.com/vegan-children/cool-school-lunches.htm

Fun with Club Soda and Baked Beans

Fun with Club Soda and Baked Beans
by Chet Day

Wanna make a poor man's lava lamp? Fill a glass with club soda and drop in a couple of raisins. The carbonation will cause the raisins to repeatedly bob to the surface and then sink again.

Finally, a tip from my childhood when we were very poor. We never could afford bubble bath solution, so Ma used to serve a big pot of baked beans for Saturday evening dinner. That way we children had Saturday night bubble baths every week of the year, just like the Vanderbilts.

From http://chetday.com

Feedback - Becki Campbell

Hi Jim!

The new look is great!

I love the Veggie Art!!! Great ideas for future children's nutrition classes!

Thanks so much!

Becki Campbell

The Miracle All-Natural Lice Treatment

Found at http://www.wackyuses.com/lice.html

Medicated lice shampoos are often ineffective and may cause brain damage in children if left on head even ten minutes longer than the manufacturer's recommended time.

Mayonnaise costs much less, it's completely safe, and it will kill all lice on the head as well as their nits (eggs). Plus it's a great conditioner! To kill (actually smother) head lice completely, follow these simple instructions:

Step 1 Saturate hair completely with Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, Best Real Mayonnaise, or Kraft Real Mayonnaise. Be sure to work the mayonnaise in the hair and roots well. Hair MUST be extremely greasy from the mayonnaise to prevent lice from breathing.

Step 2 Wrap hair as tightly as possible with Saran Wrap or Handi-Wrap (or a shower cap), then wrap with a towel.

Step 3 Allow to remain on head for at least one hour. Two hours will guarantee all the lice are dead. During this time, take all pillow cases, towels, blankets, sheets, and clothes that have come into contact with any lice infested hair and run them through the washing machine and dryer.

Step 4 Shampoo hair thoroughly.
Rinse hair with Heinz White Vinegar, then rinse clean with water.
Comb hair with a nit comb if desired.
No nits should survive this treatment if done properly.
Congratulations! You're done!

There's no need to repeat the treatment in seven days as with medicated shampoos. Don't worry about any lice that may have escaped during the treatment. Lice die within 12 to 24 hours without a human head to feed on and, contrary to popular belief, they cannot jump nor will they transfer to your pets.

From http://chetday.com.

Having a Baby? Eat Apples

Do you want your child to be free of asthma? If so, you should eat lots of apples while you are pregnant, a new Scottish study suggests. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland found that 5-year-old children whose mothers had eaten the most apples during pregnancy were least likely to experience wheezing episodes or doctor-confirmed asthma.

Raw Foods and Homeschooling

Homeschooling Mom enjoying the benefits of Raw Living Foods - a nice blog: http://rediscoverrawfood.blogspot.com/2007/11/progress-report.html

Healthy School Cafeterias Save Money

A new study in the December issue of the Review of Agricultural Economics puts to rest the myth that serving nutritious meals in schools will turn off kids and break the school budget.

School lunch programmers often make the claim that junk foods, like hot dogs, nachos and pizza, must be served in cafeterias, because healthy food is too expensive and kids won't buy it anyway.

In contrast, researchers analyzed 330 school districts over a five year period and found that shifting school lunch programs towards healthier foods does not reduce student demand and ultimately saves the school money.

While serving better meals requires higher labor costs, those expenses are offset by lower costs for more nutritious foods such as fruits and vegetables compared with processed foods.

Learn more about how you can help your child's school integrate healthier foods into the cafeteria by visiting http://www.organicconsumers.org/afc.cfm.

Teething and a Raw Baby

Yarrow is six months old now and reaching out for sweet glistening colorful fruits whenever I’m handling them. They say you know your baby is ready to eat solids when they start watching you eat. And it is interesting that fruits are the things that really attract her. Nothing else has such appeal! - pun unintended.

So far she’s teething on pieces of apples and hard persimmons that she can hold, but are big enough that she can’t choke on them. Soon I’ll be straining soft fruits and feeding them to her with a spoon but so far she doesn’t seem to want to swallow the mushy stuff. She is growing really big just nursing for now.

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

Antidepressants increase risk of suicide in children

State mandated drugging of children as young as three years old is a disturbing yet growing trend. Here Gregory Hession, J.D., recounts one of his cases where he tried, in vain, to uphold a heartbroken mother’s wishes not to drug her six-year-old mildly autistic son, who had been taken into state custody after her refusal.

Without the presence of a single doctor, the court decided to put the child on five powerful anti-psychotic drugs, even though none of these drugs have been approved by the FDA for use in children.

Peter Breggin, M.D., author of Toxic Psychiatry and other books about the use of psychiatric drugs, maintains that no psychiatric drug treatment corrects or improves existing brain dysfunction (such as a biochemical imbalance.) This, he says, is a major misunderstanding about psychiatry that the profession tries to hide because it places these drugs outside the scope of proper treatment for mental disorders.

The central reason for today’s mental health diagnoses run amok is the fact that without a diagnosis code, your insurance company cannot reimburse your mental health provider.

All mental health diagnoses are codified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), originally published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). At that time, it had 112 entries.

Since then the APA has added hundreds more, based on the current whims of the profession and the most current in-vogue maladies.

The current DSM-IV and the soon to be released DSM-V include such gems as:

• Mathematics disorder
• Caffeine disorder
• Disorder of Written Expression
• Telephone Scatialogia
• Malingering 

These absurd codes make it possible for your mental health professional to invoice for your visit, no matter how normal or innocent the real problem might be. And with the bill comes a label, and most often a drug.

- Dr. Mercola’s comments:

For the last several years, we have known that antidepressants significantly increase the risk of suicide in children. They have also been associated with violent behavior, which would likely trigger yet additional psychotropic medications for these innocent children.

What’s even more troubling is that parents can now face criminal charges if they refuse to medicate, or decide to stop their child’s medications after seeing the negative side effects.

These medicines may provide some benefit in some extreme cases where an actual mental disorder exists. However, most of these diagnoses are fraudulent to begin with, and these drugs -- in no way, shape, or form -- even begin to treat the foundational cause of your child’s behavioral problem.

Throwing antipsychotic drugs -- particularly off-label concoctions meant for adults -- at kids is one of the worst abuses of conventional medicine. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that once conventional medicine's consciousness evolves, they will look at the current standard of care in prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to kids as equivalent to tobacco companies advertising cigarettes in professional medical journals.

How to Correct Behavioral Problems Without Drugs

The key strategy to protecting your child or children from state mandated drugging with a drug very similar to cocaine, is to make sure your child does not have any of these behaviors…

Fortunately, that is a simple step to take.

Behavioral problems in children are very frequently related to improper diet, and exposure to toxins. I have treated many thousands of children with ADHD and autism and have seen most of them improve in some way and frequently quite dramatically. Many completely normalize once we address the underlying causes, which are almost always related to these factors:

• Lack of high-quality omega-3 fats
• Excess of grains and sugars, along with soft drinks and fruit juices in their diets
• Exposure to toxins like mercury in vaccines
• The foods your children eat have a far more profound influence on their emotions than you may think. This is particularly true for sugars and grains that require insulin to metabolize them. Elevated insulin levels will lead to disrupted serotonin and other neurochemicals, which will lead to depression.

It’s downright tragic that wonderful tools like high-quality fish oil, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, are not used more frequently.

Sixty percent of your brain is composed of fat and half of that fat is DHA, one of the fats in fish oil. Your body can't make it, and if you don't supply it through your diet you will suffer neurological complications.

Exercise can also be beneficial in helping children with emotional disturbances of all kinds. Today many children lead sedentary lifestyles with little physical activity, which can add to the natural inclination of children to “act out.”

Other tools, which I’ve found to be more effective than traditional psychotherapy, are energy psychology tools such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Consulting with an EFT professional can be an amazing start. Dr. Patricia Carrington has some guidelines on selecting an EFT therapist, followed by a list of EFT practitioners throughout the United States and the world.

There are indeed some basic options that do not include drugging your child. These simple interventions mentioned above could change their entire life.

From Dr. Mercola, with related articles: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/11/10/forced-medication-could-your-child-be-next.aspx

Helping Kids Appreciate Raw Foods

A few tricks to help kids learn to appreciate raw foods...

let them plant a garden
let them harvest and munch while they are harvesting
go berry-picking
go to a U-pick orchard
visit an organic farm
help them plant some lettuce in a pot
let them chop up all kinds of veggies and make a salad bar
help them invent recipes
put some greens in a fruit smoothie
keep their favorite fruits around in bowls
put some plain celery or parsley in front of them when they’re watching TV
send extra fruits to school for them to share with friends
download some free posters advertising fruit at http://www.TakeAFruitBreak.com

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

Bones in the Dishwasher

Our dishwasher isn’t draining, so I was working on it last night, manual in hand. Adagio and Shale were watching interestedly, as I read aloud from the manual to be careful when cleaning the filter as it may contain bits of glass or bones.

The kids were confused about the bones so I explained that most people eat meat, and the bones might end up in the dishwasher.

They were seriously horrified! Their wrinkled-nosed expressions looked as if they were watching the world’s biggest gross-out!

Their reaction is quite interesting. Bones in the dishwasher does sound rather like an anachronistic horror movie, when you think about it. It makes me sure that someday in the future people will look back on this meat-eating era the way we now look at cannibalism.

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

Do schools kill creativity?

Do schools kill creativity? A 20-minute video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.

With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize -- much less cultivate - the talents of many brilliant people.

"We are educating people out of their creativity," Robinson says. The universality of his message is evidenced by its rampant popularity online. A typical review: "If you have not yet seen Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, please stop whatever you're doing and watch it now."

From 22 to 2

When I was a small child it didn't really matter to the world that I was so overweight until I entered school. Then all of a sudden my appearance mattered to everyone. How I looked would determine how many friends I would have, what kickball team I would be chosen to play on and who would mock me. Well, let me explain something to you, it does not matter how big my heart is, how much I long to be loved, or how much love I am willing to give to someone. If I don't look a certain way, no one will want to even get close to my heart. Once I am judged by my appearance whether pleasing to the eye or not it doesn't matter, now it is determined how I am treated. Will I be invisible? Will I be mocked? Will I be treated with respect? Will I be lied to? Will I be used?

Most of my life I was used for one reason or another. I let myself be walked over because I was in such desperate need to be loved or at least, liked. If someone showed any interest in me at all for any reason I would do whatever it took to be around them. I never had any real friends. No one that really cared about me and supported my dreams and aspirations. In fact, I did not have any dreams or aspirations because my mother didn't let me. I had to live the life that she wanted me to live. If I had a desire to do something she would say no. I was never allowed to have a thought or show any emotion without checking with her first. I never had any privacy and was always around such negativity and pain that I didn't know what real love or happiness was. Love and happiness were just something that I was desperately looking for my whole life. I guess that I wouldn't even know what they were if I had stumbled upon them. Believe it or not, there were a few times that I did stumble upon them, or so I thought. No. Not this time.

This is why I used food to control my emotions. The only thing I could control was the food that went into my mouth and it was a lot of food.

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I was always the fat girl in school, you know the one you can pick out of any class picture. That was me, the fat girl with a big heart desperately wanting to be included in anything. When I was 10 years old I was 150 pounds and a size 13. My nickname was Moose. We would play in the playground at recess and I would be on one side of the see saw and 3 or 4 girls would be on the other end. This was the only way that anyone would play with me. It was rare that I was included in anything like parties or sports teams. If I was invited to something I was usually made fun of once I got there. It was as if they had hired a clown for the birthday party and the clown never showed up so they decided to just use me for a laugh instead. If I could tell you how many times I called my mom to come get me from a party or a sleep over because I was being laughed at for being fat…

I just kept on eating and my parents kept telling me how fat I was. I was a closet eater. I would go to a drive thru, super size it, eat it in the car on the way home, go home and eat another meal. I would eat an entire box of oreos in one sitting and not even realize I had eaten anything. My mother put me on weight watchers countless times. I would lose 30 pounds in 6 months and then gain it all back, plus more. This was a vicious cycle that surrounded me until I turned 25.

A quarter of a century, 25 years old. I don't know what this did to me but, it pushed some deep rooted buttons, that lit a fire inside me burning so hot that no one could stop me. This point of my life, I was still living at home, engaged to a guy I dated for 10 years that I knew I didn't want to marry, I couldn't get a job, no one would hire me because I was morbidly obese, a size 22 and 245 pounds. Well, I was now on a mission to lose weight. I went on a mission to find the perfect way to lose weight. I searched the internet and spoke to people about what they did to lose weight. I found the perfect plan!!!!!!

I got started and my first month I lost 23 pounds!! WOW!!! In the past it would take me months to lose that much. Over a period of 10 months I made little changes every day and learned how to listen to what my body was trying to tell me. I felt amazing! I started to exercise and completely change all of my habits. I turned into a different person. People started to treat me differently. I broke up with my fiancé and gave him his ring back. I needed to move on. I started to surround myself with people that I wanted to model, positive, grounded and happy people. I went from a size 22 down to a 2 in 10 months. This was about 9 years ago. I have always struggled with my weight since then fluctuating up and down a bit but, I have kept my weight down.

Now I have some other demons to deal with. The demons in my head and some terrible digestion problems that I didn't know I had until I lost weight and realized what my body had been trying to tell me all along. I have severe constipation. Now starts the long road of taking laxatives and going to countless doctors. I won't bore you with all the details but, let me tell you it was not fun at all. I became a fixture in many doctors' offices for years. Still to this day not one doctor could tell me what was wrong with my body and would just prescribe some medication that I would end up not taking. I did not want to be dependent upon medication, I wanted to find the cure!

Google and I became best friends. Google helped me find something called a raw food vegan diet. That sounded intriguing so, I read on and on and on and on. How fascinating it sounded. I became a sponge and soaked up all the knowledge I could about being a raw foodist. A light switch was turned on in my head, how could I have been so blind? It was the food I was eating that was making me sick! Of course! Well, I got started immediately eating raw and about 4 days after I began I started to notice some changes. It was amazing! All I needed to do was change the way I eat once again to feed my body properly. It wasn't about the amount of calories I put into my mouth, it was the quality of the food and how it is prepared so my body will be able to digest it. The way my body feels is beyond words, it is just a feeling you need to experience for yourself. My body feels lighter, I am not bloated all the time like I used to be and I have the most amazing energy all the time. My mind is very clear. It was so foggy at one point I don't even know how I was able to get my shoes on. I have been raw now for only 6 months and I have fallen in love with it.

Everyone around me at work is so fascinated about the food I eat for lunch. A group forms around me at my desk on a daily basis to see what I have brought that day. My friends know that when they have a party at their house I am bringing a raw dish. Most people don't believe that what I made or how I made it, they just know it is delicious.

Now, I am on the right path, I can just feel it inside me. I have left the old me behind and still creating the new me. I am excited to be taking this new journey in my life. It is amazing what only 6 months can do to someone's life. Check back with me in another 6 months!

Thank you for listening to my story.

Eileen Mayorga

[I met Eileen in Atlanta last month and was fascinated by the story of this beautiful, energetic woman. I especially thank her for being willing to write this piece for us. Perhaps another time Eileen will share the before-and-after pictures of her now-raw husband, parents and family. - James Carey]

The dangers of feeding soy milk to your infant

From Dr. Mercola:

Two vegan parents have been convicted of murder and given life sentences in prison for starving their 6-week-old baby to death.

Though the parents may have thought they were doing the right thing, they were feeding their child a completely inadequate combination of soy milk and apple juice along with a small, but insufficient, amount of breast milk.

Now, soy experts are again calling for clear and proper warning labels on all soy milk products -- indicating that it should NEVER be used in place of infant formula -- following this and several other babies' hospitalizations or deaths under similar circumstances.

Soy infant formula, which currently constitutes 25 percent of the bottle-fed market, is required by law to be heavily supplemented with vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids that are not found in brands of soy milk. Though it does not pose an immediate danger to babies, as is the case with soy milk, the Israeli Health Ministry, French Food Agency, British Dietetic Associations and other government bodies have warned parents and pediatricians that it poses health risks to the developing baby and should only be used as a last resort.

WholeSoyStory.com May 11, 2007

For more about the Dangers of Soy visit http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/soy_issues/index.html.

40-year-old raw vegan delivers 5th child at home

Our dear friend Jinjee of The Garden Diet delivered Yarrow, her fifth child, at home on June 2nd, 2007, with natural childbirth methods. Here's the story of her pregnancy and Yarrow's birth: http://jinjee1.securesites.net/kidsblog/.

This photo was taken 10 days later. Not bad, eh?

An excerpt from her blog:

"I'm amazed that at 40 years old, my body is still recovering quickly from pregnancy and labor, returning to its normal shape in about a week. I'm up and about tidying the house and doing errands within a few days. I know I have the raw vegan diet and daily exercise during pregnancy to thank...."

Congratulations, Jinjee, Storm and Yarrow!

Fast food industry applauding itself again

Responding to public pressure, junk food companies have formed a task force that they claim will address the childhood obesity epidemic.

The group, which includes companies like Coca-Cola, McDonalds, and Kraft Foods, held its first meeting at the end of March. One of the first items on the agenda was how to greenwash the routine industry practice of advertising junk foods to young children. Advertisers spend more than $10 billion annually on manipulating the minds of children.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children under the age of six cannot distinguish between program content and advertising. Despite this rather undisputed fact, one of the panel's experts, the chief government affairs officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, applauded the junk food industry's track record and offered kudos to the current practice of self-regulation saying, "For more than three decades, the self-regulatory guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit have helped to ensure that advertising to children by food companies is age and nutritionally appropriate, and reflects a balanced approach to health and nutrition."

According to task force members, it is hoped that future meetings can be as productive, although the meeting concluded with no real changes to the status quo practices of advertising junk foods to children.
Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4680.cfm

More ways Teflon can harm your baby

PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic Acid), also known as C8, is a key chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon and the protective coating that prevents grease stains on boxes and wrappers.

Preliminary findings of a study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have linked the chemical to lower birth weights among newborns.

The study sampled the blood of 300 newborns and looked at their blood levels of a variety of fluorinated chemicals in relation to their birth weight, head circumference and other developmental markers.

The higher the level of exposure the infants had to PFOA, the lower their birth weight and head size.
Ninety-five percent of Americans, including children, have PFOA in their blood. PFOA has been classified as a "likely carcinogen," and previous studies have indicated that it can cause adverse effects in laboratory animals. However, it is not currently regulated by federal environmental laws.

Read more: http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/20/more-ways-teflon-can-harm-your-baby.htm.

TV does more damage to your kids that you realize

You might have known TV could make kids fat, but did you know it can lead to cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease?

-- http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/6/tv-does-more-damage.htm.

How can you get your child moving and active?

Stumbling Blocks to an Active Life

Almost half of kids older than 12 aren't active enough, and over a third would flunk a fitness test. Consider what might be getting in the way of keeping your child moving: http://www.realage.com/ParentingCenter/PCTip.aspx?cid=17770&v=1.

Common Plastics May Increase Your Child's Obesity Risks

Endocrine-disrupting environmental chemicals, including some found in everyday plastics and pesticides, may influence obesity. When fetuses are exposed to these chemicals, their gene function may be altered, causing a greater risk of obesity and disease.

An individual exposed to these chemicals as a fetus could eat the same thing and exercise the same amount as someone with a normal metabolic system, but be far more likely to become obese.

Researchers examined the effects of these chemicals, including bisphenol-A, on lab mice. They caused the mice to be born with abnormally low birth weights, and then gain abnormally large amounts of weight over a short period, more than doubling their body weight in just a week.

The mice were then obese throughout their lives. Similar effects have been observed in low birth weight children.

Read more: http://pressesc.com/01171667140_plastics_obesity
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070218140845.htm

You DO what you eat

Forget tougher punishments and hiring more police. The solution to crime and violence is on your plate. Here’s how healthy food can reduce aggressive behaviour: http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4143.

League for the Protection of Raw Vegan Families

We have been talking with a couple in Australia who’s 12 month old baby was taken from them last week for being “skinny” and being fed a raw vegan diet.

They emailed me a photo and the baby looks a picture of health! Why aren’t all the obese babies being taken away from their parents when it is KNOWN that these babies are at risk for disease, whereas one can totally thrive being skinny! The authorities are saying this baby is low in protein levels. But he hasn’t been sick a day in his life! Not even so much as a runny nose! So because he doesn’t measure up on paper to some government standard of how much protein a person is supposed to have he is being separated from his parents. I suppose they want to get his protein levels up to a level where he will be ever-congested and riddled with everything from diaper rash to colic to asthma to chronic debilitating diseases! What a time we live in!

After helping several families over the years with similar issues Storm and I have decided to form a League For The Protection of Raw Vegan Families under the umbrella of our non-profit organization Ekaya, Inc..

We want to make this League open to everyone who is moved to be involved in any way. If you want to help through just putting your name on our list of supporters or members, if you are a professional person who can contribute legal help, medical or scientific support, or simply to lend credibility, if you have had personal experience with this type of thing and are able to offer emotional support and advice to the families involved, or if you would like to volunteer in any other capacity we would love to hear from you. Just email me at info@thegardendiet.com with whatever information you would like us to know about you and we will keep you in our database of supporters. We’ll contact you if there are opportunities to help, we’ll keep you updated on our activities from time to time, and we’ll list you as League Members in our petitions on behalf of the families.

We are putting together an Educational Package that families can give to the authorities they are working with to educate them on the scientific and medical validity of the raw vegan diet. If anyone has any information to contribute, especially articles from medical journals, studies done by universities, recommendations from doctors, or reports from the FDA, CDC, or other government or medical institutions we would be grateful for this information to include in the package.

The Educational Package will include our film “Breakthrough” in which a Medical Doctor tells us that there is nothing unhealthy about being thin. At the time Adagio was quite underweight according to the charts. The doctor said there was nothing to worry about since he wasn’t sickly. He also looked a picture of radiant health and was full of energy with no physical complaints whatsoever.

The Educational Package will also include the DVD “Eating” which was produced by doctors and gives the most factual and compelling scientific evidence for a plant-based diet that I have ever seen.

We’ll also include some of the scientific articles we’ve been collecting and putting up at
http://www.thegardendiet.com/science - I have a few more that I’ll be adding soon.

Please feel free to email us with any other ideas!

Yours in Health,
Jinjee
http://www.TheGardenDiet.com

Dangerous junk-food eating game for children

FEAR FACTOR CANDY CHALLENGE

The hit prime time television series "Fear Factor" forced competitors to face their fears by challenging them to do everything from leaping off cliffs to eating insects. Now the "challenge" has been converted into a junk-food eating game for kids.

The "toy" has been ranked as one of the most dangerous toys of the holidays by the group World Against Toys Causing Harm (W.A.T.C.H.), which has monitored toys for over three decades. According to WATCH, "Toy aisles should not be used to encourage food-eating competitions, which invite potential choking and ingestion injuries, particularly for young children." In order to win a round of the FEAR FACTOR CANDY CHALLENGE, contestants must consume as much candy as possible in the shortest amount of time.

Learn more about OCA's Appetite for a Change Campaign: A campaign to reduce children's exposure to pesticides, toxins, and junk foods: http://www.organicconsumers.org/afc.cfm.

Spouse opposes the raw living foods diet

Hi,

I have two daughters, ages 13 and 15, who are homeschooling and want to study health and nutrition.  We tried going vegan last year and although I was not very good at it, i.e. I'm not a very good cook so we had a lot of not very good meals, they did feel the health benefit.  Now they want to go raw vegan, learn how to cook (or not cook) and eat this way.  Would the Home Study program be appropriate for them to use as homeschool curriculum?

We are not currently eating vegan, or even vegetarian.  We recently moved to Botswana, Africa, and some of the vegan products we had come to rely on are not available here. 

Another hurdle is the fact that last year my husband was living in Mozambique, Africa and the kids and I lived in the states.  He is not at all in favor of a plant based diet, so we waited til the military needed him elsewhere before we tried it.  Now we are back together, and anytime the subject comes up it causes contention in our marriage.  How do other customers of yours handle this kind of situtation?

Thanks,
Darla