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Diet, Exercise and ... ?

RawDoctors.com has put together a two CD set about the body-mind connection and healing, material created with Dr. Bruce Lipton. Over the last few days I've been listening to the CDs again while driving. I want to let you know that I REALLY think they're great.

It's good to be reminded of these things on a regular basis.

Over at chiDietVideos.com we're running the CD set at a special price, but there's only a few days left to get your set!

Here's the link - The Secret Ingredient of Optimal Health:
http://chidietvideos.com/the-secret-ingredient.html

Jim Carey

 

Today's Jim's Day!

Psst.... It's Dr. Jim Carey's Birthday today. The Big 6-0.

Send him a greeting at [email protected].

Susan

This is the end of it...

For six wonderful years I've been sharing the message of Dr. Ann Wigmore and her associates with the world. I've shipped videos and books to 134 countries, and touched the lives of thousands of people.

But I can't afford the legal fees that it's costing me to keep these websites online.

So you have between now and midnight tonight, Wednesday, December 1st, to get any of the following:

1. Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Home Study Program: chiDiet.com
(The online version will still be available at RawLife.org)

2. My 14 episode TV show, Grassy Roots, on DVD, with manual and recipe book, also known as Home Study Lite: GrassyRoots.com

3. The Dr. Ann Wigmore Ten DVD Collection: WigmoreDiet.com

4. Inpidual Raw Food DVDs and CDs by Ann Wigmore, Victoria Boutenko, Dr. Flora, Paul Nison and many others: chiVideos.com

So if you're planning to Go Raw for the New Year, or been putting off your desire for this great educational material, you better do it now.

If you want a healthier, happier, more fulfilling life, this is the way to do it, and today's the day to start!

And remember - "Be Your Own Doctor" - Dr. Ann Wigmore

Stay Rawsome!

Jim Carey

Keeping Raw Inspired

A big part of staying Raw, especially when you're transitioning, is to keep your meals interesting, varied and exciting. True, there's a raw food substitute for any cooked meal, but it takes time and guidance to learn to replicate your old favorites and "comfort foods."

Now you can get a new recipe every day at
http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/recipes/

Thanks to raw chefs like Dr. Cher Till, Jan Jensen and many others, I have raw recipes scheduled well into next year!

 

Another good resource for Raw Food Recipes is my 180 page transitional raw foods recipe book, now available at http://WigmoreDiet.com/

Stay Rawsome!

Jim Carey

P.S. Submit your Raw Recipe by email: [email protected]

 

Easing in to a Raw Food Lifestyle

Everybody says that the best way to learn about the Raw Living Foods Diet and Lifestyle is with the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program.

They also say it's big and expensive.

That's why I jumped at the chance to do a TV series about the Dr. Ann Wigmore program. We called it Grassy Roots - Back to the Roots of Health Eating.

In 14 episodes I covered all of the basics of Dr. Ann's teachings. Also, in each show, we did a quick-and-simple recipe or two, and discussed things like sprouting in the kitchen, composting and organic gardening.

Now it's available on DVD, along with The 13 Step Guide to Raw Foods and my 180 page Transitional Raw Recipe book, all in a special package deal.

This is a special arrangement, and when they're sold out, that's it.

Learn more and get your copy today at http://GrassyRoots.com.

I'm sure you'll love it - but if you don't, I'll be happy to take it back, no questions asked.

Jim Carey

 

PS: When family and friends want to debate your lifestyle choice, don't! It's a lot easier to share what you're doing, and why, by sitting down and watching these videos together, then having an informed discussion.

Again, that link is http://GrassyRoots.com

Make this Holiday Season Happy and HEALTHY!

As always, right after the Holidays is a great time to change behavior patterns and to begin new lives. But why do we have to gain an average of 8 lbs. over the next two months, and indulge ourselves in behavior that we know is bad for our health?

NOW is the time to start planning for those changes, not two months from now.

Whether you're looking at the raw diet because of your health challenges, or because you're looking to take your healthy diet to a new level, this is the time of the year to start!

Studies have shown that it's best to change multiple behavior patterns at the same time. In other words, if you decide to quit smoking, get more exercise, and begin a raw foods lifestyle - all at the same time - you'll be more successful than if you try to accomplish them individually or sequentially.

However - "the secret to success is having a plan."

It's not enough just to say to yourself, "I'm going raw." That will work for a while - a few days, perhaps a few weeks - but unless you have tons of willpower, very shortly you'll find yourself going back to your old habit patterns and comfort foods.

That's why a plan is important. Let's consider a plan for going raw:

10 Steps to Going and Staying Raw

1. Assemble the tools you need. A blender - any cheap, used blender - an inexpensive dehydrator, some jars for sprouting, and a variety of raw recipes are the minimum requirements.

2. Assemble your list of suppliers. Where are you going to buy your food? Are you going be mostly organic? You'll also need to find a supply of sprouting seeds - at least some alfalfa, clover, sunflower and wheatgrass (hard red winter wheat). The wider the variety the better.

3. Read your instructions. Do you know how to sprout, and how to run a dehydrator?

4. Plan what you're going to do. If you decide you'd like to make angel-hair pasta from zucchini, for example, you might find having a spiral slicing machine handy. This might put you back to step 1.

5. Set a starting date and create your support mechanism. Having a support group is the greatest. Check meetup.com for raw groups in your area. If you don't know any rawbies in your area, find a raw chat group or two for support.

Share with them what you plan to do, and the date you're going to start. You'll find yourself more successful this way, than if you "go raw secretly." Secret quitting doesn't work.

While I'm constantly reminding people that we don't have to justify our lifestyle choices to anyone, sometimes we can't avoid it. This video I made about Dispelling the Raw Food Myths will help you deal with the standard objections you're going to hear: http://www.chidiet.com/blog/free-stuff/dispelling-raw-food-myths.htm

6. Don't forget that you're going to need to stay inspired as you go raw. Build a collection of books, videos, and CDs before you start so that you'll have lots of material when you go raw. This will help maintain your momentum. Otherwise you might find yourself running out of steam before you get to the top of the hill.

I find that videos motivate me the most. Instead of watching the news or a movie at night, I'll pop in a video on raw foods and watch it, instead. chiVideos.com is a good source for these, and if you have high-speed internet you can watch raw videos online at websites like YouTube.com/chidiet.

7. Research shows that it takes 21 days for a new behavior to become a habit; if we move to a new house and now have to turn right instead of left when we leave work, it'll be 21 days before it seems natural to turn right when head for home.

In dealing with addictions the transitional period is longer. Yes, cooked foods are an addiction. Thus, we need to deal with them as such.

Victoria Boutenko has a good book on this subject - 12 Steps to Raw Foods. Her website is RawFamily.com and the book is on Amazon.com, too. Her book covers the subject in detail, but here are her 12 Steps to Raw Food:

Step 1  - I admit that I have lost control of my addiction to cooked
food and my eating is becoming unmanageable.

Step 2  - I believe that live vegan food is the most natural diet for a
human being.

Step 3  - I shall gain necessary skills, learn basic raw recipes and
obtain equipment to prepare live food.

Step 4  - I shall live in harmony with people who eat cooked food.

Step 5  - I shall stay away from temptations.

Step 6  - I shall create a support group.

Step 7  - I shall find alternative activities or hobbies.

Step 8  - I shall let my higher self lead my life.

Step 9  - I shall make a searching and fearless inventory of the real
reasons for seeking comfort and pleasure from cooked
foods.

Step 10 - I shall let my intuition help me.

Step 11 - Through clarity I will gain happiness.

Step 12 - I shall provide support to other raw fooders.

8. Part of changing your diet and lifestyle is detoxifying the body. Not as a one-time detox, but instead, we should be constantly detoxing. That's where Dr. Ann Wigmore's program comes in. She taught much more than a diet. In her books and videos she lays out the procedures for a continuous healthy detox, including the foods we eat, how we combine them, the usage of colonics or enemas, the uses of wheatgrass juice, and more.

The basics are laid out in her book, Why Suffer? How I Overcame Illness and Pain Naturally. While it's out-of-print, used copies can usually be found on Amazon.com for a few dollars.

Other great books of Dr. Ann's are Be Your Own Doctor and Rebuild Your Health, both available at Amazon.com.

9. Be aware, not discouraged. You're going to backslide at times, and it's normal. Don't feel like you've "failed" if you happen to go out for pizza or a hamburger. Instead, think about how well you've been doing, how much better you're eating than you used to, and how much better you're feeling since you started going raw.

10. Experiment, experiment, experiment. Knowing that I have addictions to comfort foods, I found new comfort foods. For me that's fresh blueberries, raspberries, and raw vegan pizza, made with flax crust in the dehydrator. It's a recipe I've included in my book. Victoria's Step 9, above, has helped me a lot, too.

Overwhelmed? I would be, too, if it weren't for the teachings of Dr. Ann.

Sometimes I get off the raw path when traveling the country, visiting family and friends. But when I get home I head to the market, stock up on good raw, organic fruits and veggies, then pull out my Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program and get back to it.

I'm feeling better, more energetic, happier and de-stressed than I did in my old cooked-food life. MUCH better. My warning is when I felt the arthritis coming back in my knees - that's my personal sign that I'm not eating right.

Here's good news: There's a new Home Study Program. Bigger and better than ever, it's designed to lead you by the hand from raw-curious to fully raw and healthy.

The program even includes one-on-one consulting by phone and email with long-time Dr. Ann Wigmore Instructors, people that have been doing this MUCH longer than me, and know a lot about it.

This is the most complete collection and comprehensive overview of Dr. Ann's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle available, designed to get you started, keep you on track, and support you when you backslide. It includes:

The 300+ page 13 Step Raw Living Foods Success Guide
The 180 page Raw Living Foods Recipe Book
Grassy Roots - Back to the Roots of Healthy Eating - 14 episode Raw Food TV show on DVD
40+ videos on DVD by Dr. Ann and her Institute Instructors
1 hour of free Raw Coaching  - 2 sessions of 30 minutes
Free email consulting with Dr. Flora van Orden III, Dr. Ann's long-time assistant
What's in Your Lunch Bucket? Eat Light - Be Bright, by Jan Jensen, a handbook for active working women
Delicious Raw Food Recipes, by Emily Rutherford of RawFoodRestaurantGuide.com
Menu planners, discount coupons for hands-on programs and much more

I do this to help others attain a healthier lifestyle, and can find no better way to start people on the path to healthy living than this program.

While I totally support and encourage people to take a hands-on program at a Dr. Ann Institute, the Home Study Program is much more detailed.

You'd have to spend months at a hands-on program to absorb this much information. Plus, you have it at home for continual reference and inspiration

I'm really excited about this because, over the years, I've received hundreds of thank you letters and success stories from people who have benefited from the Raw Living Foods Home Study Program, and this is the best one I've assembled yet!

Here's the link: http://chiDiet.com

Sincerely Yours,

Jim Carey

PS: Even if you're not 100% raw, how much better are you doing today than when you were on the SAD?

PPS: "[Because of their diets] nine men in ten are suicides." - Ben Franklin

Various Raw Food Diets Defined

The following article is by a guest author, Abigail Eva.  It's a very good overview of the various raw food diets. As proponents of Dr. Ann Wigmore, I follow and promote a form called the Raw Living Foods Diet and Lifestyle. Please note that over-consumption of protein is the leading cause of osteoporosis. - Jim Carey

All you need to know about Eating Raw Foods

Page description: Find out how you can get the best out of eating your foods in raw form. Improve your overall heath by doing yoga and leg exercises while eating the right amount of protein in your diet.

Here comes one of the most talked about form of diet - eating raw food, and proponents of this diet swear on its benefits. The raw food enthusiasts claim that it is actually the only way of eating. But if you’re used to eating a traditional diet where you eat mostly cooked you’re probably wondering what’s so bad about that?

Well, let’s find out exactly what a raw food diet is? And if one can really benefit from it?

Raw foodism is based on the fundamental principle that plant foods in their natural state, which is uncooked and unprocessed, are the most wholesome for the body. Unlike weight loss diets, this is a lifestyle choice. Devotees of this lifestyle insist on a diet consisting mainly of uncooked and unprocessed plant foods. It is believed to give us body that is leaner, skin that is clearer skin and energy that is higher. It is also believed to reduce the risk of deadly diseases. The raw zealots believe that any food, when cooked changes its molecular structure in its nutrient components such that the body cannot use it easily as when the food is raw. In addition to this belief, enzymes, which are catalysts that help the body to absorb nutrients in the foods, are also believed to be killed when the food is cooked under high temperature.

This is the reason why raw food enthusiasts do not cook with the traditional stove or oven. Instead, they use food dehydrators that give vegetables and cookies a crunch. Food dehydrators are also used to dry out fruits and other raw food products. The dehydrator is based on the principle of working with heat where temperatures cannot go beyond 115 to 118 degrees Fahrenheit due to the belief that high heat destroys vitamins and enzymes that are critical for digestion.

The diet can include any food that is primarily unheated, or cooled to less than a temperature range of 40 °C (104 °F) to 46 °C (115 °F). There are many variants of this lifestyle. Out of these, vegan diet is the most popular, but there are other forms which may include animal products and/or meat. Even among raw foodists there are those that advocate raw vegetarianism or veganism, and those who advocate an omnivorous diet. There are also enthusiasts that advocate a 100% animal food diet.

A vegan diet would consist of raw plant foods that are unprocessed and that have not been heated above 46 °C (115 °F). Typical foods in this category would include vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and sprouted legumes and grains. The vegans can sometimes be subdivided into juicearians, fruitarians, or sproutarians, where they primarily process all their raw foods into juice, eat fruits exclusively or adhere to a diet consisting of sprouted seeds respectively.

On the other hand raw vegetarianism is a diet that allows diary and eggs but excludes any form of meat, poultry and fish. The most popular foods here include vegetables, fruits, honey, nuts, seeds, sprouts, grains, legumes, dairy and eggs.

It is interesting to note that eating cruciferous vegetables in raw form like brussel sprouts, cabbage and kale reduces the risk of cancer of the bladder. It is noted that cooking these cruciferous vegetables robs them of their isothiocyanates, which are the agents that alter the proteins in cancer cells. It is found that eating even a few helpings each month of these raw crucifers lower the risk. Not only that, it is also found that eating raw vegetables reduces the risk of gastric, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal and oral cancers. There are also many conditions like hypertension which can be effectively controlled as the high fiber content in this kind of diet is known to help unclog the arteries. There are also many herbs used to control blood pressure such as licorice, ephedra, gingko biloba, hawthorn berry, maitake, ginger, turmeric, turnip, celery and olive. These blood pressure herbs are proven to effectively reduce artery hardening and strengthen the heart muscle thereby making delivery of blood to the body more effective.

The other category is the raw animal food enthusiasts who follow a diet that includes uncooked and unprocessed meats and eggs or fermented meats and fish, raw dairy, as well as the foods that vegans and vegetarians eat. Raw animal food zealots usually obtain their meats from grass-fed and free-range sources which greatly reduces the risk of bacteria that may be harmful. Studies have backed up this belief as grass-fed animals have far fewer bacteria like E. coli as against their grain fed counterparts (about 1/300th). The bacteria are also much less likely to survive our gastric juices which are the primary first line defense against any infection. To top it off, grass fed meat contains far more nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids, than grain-fed meat.

Hence, contrary to popular belief, a raw food diet can be rich in nutrients. Not only that, the advantage of a high fiber diet with low fat and sugars can give you a whole lot of advantage over a diet that is void of it. It is a fact that a diet rich in calcium, iron, vitamin and omega-3 fatty acids, are found naturally in raw food products.

However, there are certain practical issues. And the movement itself is split into many factions. Like everything else, no one seems to be in total agreement with anyone else. But the truth of the matter is that following this kind of diet can be a path for you to attain perfect health or to undergo serious undernourishment. There are raw food dieters who claim that cooked food produces many harmful chemical toxins. While some of these claims are accepted by science, many are speculative.

Therefore as the raw food consumption gains popularity, understanding what you eat is crucial as there are some potentially unsafe foods such as buckwheat greens, and some beans and legumes that are toxic in the raw form. The toxins from these raw foods can cause a wide range of symptoms such as photosensitivity and other dermatological complaints. Sometimes tiny amounts of goitrogens present in raw food like rutabaga, canola oil, pine nuts, cassava, millet, mustard, peanuts and soybeans can interfere with metabolism of iodine thereby worsening hypothyroidism. And there are also foods like eggs and tomatoes, which when cooked make the nutrients absorbed by the body more easily.

Thus the overall well being of our health depends a great deal upon diet and lifestyle. Whatever form of lifestyle we choose, it goes without saying that balancing it with a healthy exercise regime is a must. And when you think of physical activity, you don’t have to rack your brains. Take that first step - with your leg. Whether it be walking, jogging, running, dancing or swimming. Leg exercises are the simplest, safest and the most effective when it comes to physical activity. And if you are focusing on weight loss, make certain that you do regular exercise and eat right. A high protein diet is an absolute must if you want to lose fat. But be sure to balance it with the right amount of fruits and vegetables. Another great form of exercise you can indulge in is yoga.  Yoga is known to have innumerable benefits that promote not only your physical being, but also your mental and spiritual being. There are many remarkable instances which have proved that practicing yoga coupled with a right combination of diet can alter and reverse many serious cardiac diseases.   The practice of yoga for weight loss as a key component with diet alterations is now gaining rapid popularity even in the medical field due to its unconventional way. It is used as an adjunct treatment for many specific medical conditions, from depression to heart disease and is widely integrated in cardiac rehabilitation programs

So keeping our overall health gain in perspective, let us not forget that we can actually reap all the benefits given the right attitude and approach. Even though there may be very little medical literature available on the raw food diet, it is steadily gaining momentum. Research has outlined certain health benefits of a plant-based diet. And if one can be pragmatic as well as a realist without being a stubborn idealist - raw food can actually transform your life!

Abigail Eva

10 Dr. Ann Wigmore Videos

I put together a 10 DVD set of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods lifestyle for a very, very special price.

Learn more: http://wigmorediet.com/

Enjoy!

Jim

Going Raw Doesn't Have To Be Expensive

By popular demand, I've put the $7 eBooks back up. Now you can get The 13 Step Raw Living Foods Success Guide for just $7 again, in PDF format (305 pages).

I've also brought back the The Raw Food Diet Recipe Book, 180 pages of yummy transitional recipes for those just learning to go raw.

Get either or both at http://WigmoreDiet.com

Thanks for your support,

Jim Carey

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

Dr. Flora's Open Letter to WPBT2

Because I am a teacher, and recommend our station WPBT2 to my students, I’ve been so excited to see your choices of the Brain Doctor and the President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to earn money to continue your excellent programming.
 
Dr. Barnard is able to help us on so many more subjects than merely curing diabetes on his http://www.pcrm.org/diabetes website, as his fellow physician Dr. Gabriel Cousens is doing in Arizona. With his 5,000 medical doctors on his staff, he has continuing free medical education computer classes, http://www.nutritioncme.org/  as well as in person classes at George Washington University Medical School, he has a bi-monthly computer seminar for physicians and other health care workers seminar, http://www.nutritionmd.org/, for information on approximately 90 common health conditions and help for health care providers and folks on adopting healthier diets with personalized meal plans, nutrient analysis, recipes, and shopping lists; http://www.cancerproject.org/ for comprehensive information on diet’s role in preventing, treating and curing cancer.

They have free food prep and cooking classes in more than 26 states. http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/, http://www.strongbones.org/, http://www.safediets.org/>  (for weight loss plans), PCRM.Safeshopper.com to find books and other helpful resources online, http://www.nealbarnard.org/ to view his latest books, and http://www.pcrm.org/  to explore nutrition’s role in preventing and curing a variety of illnesses and to discover the benefits of a plant-based diet for children and adults.

His close relationship with Drs. T. Colin Campbell (the China Study), Caldwell Esselstyn (Reversing and Preventing Heart Disease), John McDougall (the McDougall Plan), etc. keep him on the circuit on TV and on Facebook and Youtube bringing lifesaving information to those who cannot afford to travel to his classes.
 
Dr. Amen’s work showing the before and after pictures of the brain are invaluable. When one goes further in brain research and finds that there is not only the acid foods, habits and drinks, like colas, tobacco, alcohol and vinegars, that destroy our brains, but also common parasites, bacteria and viruses which invade the brain and do damage and that we are able to kill them with non-invasive treatments, we are able to take a collective sigh of relief and understand that we can have control of our lives and good health.
 
One word of caution, however. It’s important to note that some of the recommendations made by Dr. Amen are controversial in the medical and nutrition fields: i.e. his recommendation for essential fatty acid intake is supported, but the type he recommends, fish oil, has been found to be contaminated and rancid.

There are other forms of EFAs which are not and which are easily gotten from whole foods like avocado and almonds or walnuts. When one uses fractionated fats in the forms of fish oil capsules, this causes damage to the lining of the arteries.

Dr. Esselstyn will not allow any processed oils at all (not even virgin olive oil) in his successful Cleveland Clinic protocol for curing heart disease with a plant based diet. These oils will make a person bald because they shut off the oxygen and electrical energy to the hair follicle and one’s hair falls out.
 
Spinach is another problematic food. Although the shelf life is longer than other greens that are better for you, it causes a buildup of gall stones because of its oxalic acid content. It will neutralize the iron in itself and in other foods that it is eaten with, and we become anemic. The better choices are sunflower or pea greens, organic spring or herb salad mixes that are available in most every market, and young kale, collard, beet greens, etc.
 
The most dangerous recommendation by Dr. Amen includes the dairy protein casomorphine, otherwise known as whey or casein. As most research doctors know now, this protein is a causative factor in breast and prostate cancers, heart disease and diabetes, as this information has been widely circulated with the success of The China Study and the subsequent research in Europe and our country. Protein is in all foods. If we stay within a 10% fat, 10% protein daily intake, we will not be deficient with a plant-based diet. Please look up the site http://www.notmilk.org/ to begin an intelligent, scientific fact-based investigation.
 
And finally, the recommendation of chicken and salmon by Dr. Amen provides much too much protein, which causes calcium to be taken out of the bones to buffer the acid from the protein, and this results in osteoporosis.

Dr. Flora van Orden, ND, PhD
[email protected]

Dr. Flora's Open Letter to WPBT2

Because I am a teacher, and recommend our station WPBT2 to my students, I’ve been so excited to see your choices of the Brain Doctor and the President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to earn money to continue your excellent programming.
 
Dr. Barnard is able to help us on so many more subjects than merely curing diabetes on his http://www.pcrm.org/diabetes website, as his fellow physician Dr. Gabriel Cousens is doing in Arizona. With his 5,000 medical doctors on his staff, he has continuing free medical education computer classes, http://www.nutritioncme.org/  as well as in person classes at George Washington University Medical School, he has a bi-monthly computer seminar for physicians and other health care workers seminar, http://www.nutritionmd.org/, for information on approximately 90 common health conditions and help for health care providers and folks on adopting healthier diets with personalized meal plans, nutrient analysis, recipes, and shopping lists; http://www.cancerproject.org/ for comprehensive information on diet’s role in preventing, treating and curing cancer.

They have free food prep and cooking classes in more than 26 states. http://www.healthyschoollunches.org/, http://www.strongbones.org/, http://www.safediets.org/>  (for weight loss plans), PCRM.Safeshopper.com to find books and other helpful resources online, http://www.nealbarnard.org/ to view his latest books, and http://www.pcrm.org/  to explore nutrition’s role in preventing and curing a variety of illnesses and to discover the benefits of a plant-based diet for children and adults.

His close relationship with Drs. T. Colin Campbell (the China Study), Caldwell Esselstyn (Reversing and Preventing Heart Disease), John McDougall (the McDougall Plan), etc. keep him on the circuit on TV and on Facebook and Youtube bringing lifesaving information to those who cannot afford to travel to his classes.
 
Dr. Amen’s work showing the before and after pictures of the brain are invaluable. When one goes further in brain research and finds that there is not only the acid foods, habits and drinks, like colas, tobacco, alcohol and vinegars, that destroy our brains, but also common parasites, bacteria and viruses which invade the brain and do damage and that we are able to kill them with non-invasive treatments, we are able to take a collective sigh of relief and understand that we can have control of our lives and good health.
 
One word of caution, however. It’s important to note that some of the recommendations made by Dr. Amen are controversial in the medical and nutrition fields: i.e. his recommendation for essential fatty acid intake is supported, but the type he recommends, fish oil, has been found to be contaminated and rancid.

There are other forms of EFAs which are not and which are easily gotten from whole foods like avocado and almonds or walnuts. When one uses fractionated fats in the forms of fish oil capsules, this causes damage to the lining of the arteries.

Dr. Esselstyn will not allow any processed oils at all (not even virgin olive oil) in his successful Cleveland Clinic protocol for curing heart disease with a plant based diet. These oils will make a person bald because they shut off the oxygen and electrical energy to the hair follicle and one’s hair falls out.
 
Spinach is another problematic food. Although the shelf life is longer than other greens that are better for you, it causes a buildup of gall stones because of its oxalic acid content. It will neutralize the iron in itself and in other foods that it is eaten with, and we become anemic. The better choices are sunflower or pea greens, organic spring or herb salad mixes that are available in most every market, and young kale, collard, beet greens, etc.
 
The most dangerous recommendation by Dr. Amen includes the dairy protein casomorphine, otherwise known as whey or casein. As most research doctors know now, this protein is a causative factor in breast and prostate cancers, heart disease and diabetes, as this information has been widely circulated with the success of The China Study and the subsequent research in Europe and our country. Protein is in all foods. If we stay within a 10% fat, 10% protein daily intake, we will not be deficient with a plant-based diet. Please look up the site http://www.notmilk.org/ to begin an intelligent, scientific fact-based investigation.
 
And finally, the recommendation of chicken and salmon by Dr. Amen provides much too much protein, which causes calcium to be taken out of the bones to buffer the acid from the protein, and this results in osteoporosis.

Dr. Flora van Orden, ND, PhD
[email protected]

Where Have You Been, Jim?

I've had a lot of inquiries for the past month because I haven't been blogging much. It's nice to feel missed. Here's what I've been up to:

You often hear me say that reducing stress - both on the mind and the body - is an important part of healing and staying healthy. Indeed, I've often said that all stress is self-induced. Well, that's what I've been doing - reducing my stress to stay healthy.

A month ago I found myself becoming overwhelmed by the world around me. It wasn't my voluntary work-related responsibilities that were getting to me as much as it was the news of the world. The Gulf of Mexico being turned into a dead zone, the implementation of Codex Alimentarius by Executive Order in the US, a health care reform bill that will require the micro-chipping of all Americans, widespread political corruption and creeping fascism... sigh.

So to reduce my stress and keep my health I removed myself from the world for a bit. One of my last postings in June was, "Change Your Life, Change Your Health." I took my own advice.

Oh, I still answered email and filled orders - those are fun things to do - but I turned off the news and went to work around the farm. I did a lot of landscaping (I keep about five acres around the cabin mowed and park-like), creating several huge brush piles with what I trimmed from the trees around the yard. I also gave the lawn some attention, filling last winter's rabbit holes, and I put up more bird feeders and birdhouses. While I didn't get a garden in this year, I've put a lot of work into my compost pile and the garden soil, getting ready for a late garden this Fall.

Indoors I put down new flooring in the living room and the kitchen, and gave the cabin a good cleaning from top to bottom. I built a new desk and rearranged my office. New paint in the living room and new curtains in every room made a big difference, too.

Now I'm back, and feeling much better. This has been a reminder to me that good health is a journey, not a destination, and that we have to take care of our own needs - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual - before we can help others.

In the future I'm going to leave the depressing aspects of health reporting to others. I don't mean that in a bad way; it's important to know what's happening in the world, especially since the mass media ignores so much of what's truly important. But I'll leave it to others like Mike Adams and Dr. Mercola to let you know about studies that show office workers have more skin cancer than construction workers, and how pages 1001-1008 of the health care reform law require a class III electronic identification device for all Americans, and why that means you'll have to be micro-chipped. (Oops, I sighed again.)

I want to thank everyone who emailed, wondering where the newsletters were, and if I was OK. I'm fine, I'm great, and I'm having a wonderful - if a bit hot - summer in Georgia.

Blissings upon you and yours,

Jim Carey

Why You Lose Weight Eating Raw

It’s a well-known and accepted fact that a raw food diet helps you lose weight rapidly and effectively. Some people take to raw food only to achieve significant weight loss, and once they do so, they sing its praises and adopt it as a way of life.

However, it’s not the fact that food is not cooked that leads to becoming slim and fit; it’s more because:

•    You eat hardly any saturated fats: When you go on a raw food diet, you stop eating foods that are processed which are high in trans-fats and saturated fats. This makes your body healthier and naturally slimmer. When you avoid fatty, processed foods on a long term, you also don’t tend to gain weight.  

•    Your intake of salt decreases: When you eat raw food, there’s often no need to add salt because you’re mostly eating fruits and vegetables. This means that you stop taking in salt in any form, and when this happens, you lose weight. Salt is not good for your body and causes a host of illnesses and diseases. You not only lose weight when you avoid salt, you also become healthier. 

•    You eat more fruits and vegetables: When you eat more fruits and vegetables, you eat less of other foods that contain fat and unhealthy carbohydrates. This makes you lose weight naturally because you are avoiding foods that cause weight gain. 

•    You are more energetic: When 90 percent of your diet comprises food, especially those that are naturally sweet, your body is filled with instant energy that you want to expend. You feel like going out and doing something, like exercise or other vigorous activities. In short, your lifestyle becomes very active and your metabolic rate increases. This makes you lose weight and also prevents you from putting it back on in the long run.  

•    You care more for your health: When you adapt to a raw food diet, it becomes a way of life, one that pushes you to live more healthily. You avoid alcohol, cigarettes and drugs; you don’t take medicines indiscriminately; you begin to exercise regularly; you sleep better; and you do not eat too much because it is hard to do so when you’re on a raw food diet. These significant changes contribute to a new, healthy and slimmer you.

Raw food diets are not for everyone – it takes a great deal of discipline and determination to make it work. So if you’re not sure of yourself or your level of motivation, start out slowly by adapting to a combination of raw and cooked food, and make steady progress as you go.

This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of online nurse practitioner schools. Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: [email protected]

Marketing Medicine and Mayhem

Big Pharma 'Selling' Tactics Dangerous

The British Medical Journal has an article from Dr. David Kao of the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center. In it he says that the way the drug companies market their drugs endangers people. He says they could be putting more patients at risk to suffer dangerous side-effects. 

The chemical cocktails, often taken by many patients, have not been studied. No one really knows what combining 3,4, or more prescription drugs can or will do to someone. Even dealing with the side-effects of one drug can be problematic. Using more than one drug becomes the pharmaceutical equivalent of a Rubik's Cube.

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We again remind you: the surest way to avoid the side-effects of Big Pharma and Big Medicine is to adopt the raw, organic living foods lifestyle. It's really that simple.

For more information:
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE4B203920081203

Stress, Your DNA, and Healing

The human body is a wondrous, miraculous healing machine.

- by Dr. James Carey, Ph.D. (computers)

Last week I discussed the role of the digestive enzymes and the pancreas, and how an organic raw living foods vegan diet improves digestion, nutrition and our energy levels. Today we're going to look at the role of stress in disease, and how that relates to your DNA and healing.

Think of your DNA as being like a piece of thread, or yarn. If you've ever twisted a piece of thread tighter and tighter, you may have noticed how the strands of the thread start to fray, breaking in small places along its length as you tightened.

When we undergo stress our DNA does the same thing. This stress can come through work, our families, our neighbors, our circumstances, the weather... but the biggest component of bodily stress is - what we eat.

That's right. When we eat a diet of processed, pesticided, herbicided, preserved foods, the work our body has to do to remove those toxins creates large amounts of stress.

 

When the body is stressed our DNA helix gets tighter and tighter. When it becomes too tight genome pairs start to fail, just like a fraying thread.

The genetic component of disease comes from this DNA predisposition. If your mother's DNA failed at the gene that prevents breast cancer, then you'll have the same genetic tendency when your genome pairs start to fail.  If your father had prostate issues, then you will, too, because the same gene pair will tend to fail under stress.

When we eat a diet that is high in organic raw living foods we reduce the stress in our bodies for the reasons we've discussed in the previous articles - detoxification of our body tissue, and reduced workload on the pancreas, liver and kidneys. Our DNA then loosens just like a released thread, and heals itself.

 

Here's the really good news:

• All of the tissue atoms in your body are replaced every six months.
• All of the bone atoms are replaced in six months to two years.
• When those atoms are replaced the DNA is replicated, and depending upon the stress levels in your body, will get better or worse.

 

Next time we'll discuss exercise and it's relationship with stress reduction, and how it also relieves depression better than drugs.

Yours in Great Natural Health,

Jim Carey


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, RawDoctors.com, chiDiet.com, chiVideos.com and chiDiet.net. Dr. Carey is currently doing an American television series about the raw vegan lifestyle. Episodes of his show can be seen at GrassyRootsTV.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. He can be contacted via email at [email protected].

(Dr. Jim also served as Director of Creative Health Institute for several years, and is a Director of the Creative Health Institute 501(c)-3 Non-Profit Trust.)

Toxic Home, Toxic Office

It amazes people to find out that the kitchen sink cloth has more germs than their toilets; that the air inside a home is more toxic than the highways.

What can we do to clean up this mess and breathe clearly without drugs?

Open the windows and let a breeze come through.

There are six major plants that will provide oxygen for you. Go to Lowes, Wal-Mart, or Home Depot and find out what they are and make a jungle of your home.

Make sure your house has a whole house filter on your water supply.

Don't use toxic detergents, soaps, chemicals like Pine Sol, Clorox and Ammonia.

Make sure your sheets are 100% cotton or linen in the summer and that they are washed with 20 Mule Team Borax and vinegar and hung out in the sun to dry, if at all possible.

Throw away all of your plastic bowls and use glass, ceramic and wooden ones instead.

Don't use anything to eat that has been wrapped in cardboard (dioxin), plastic wrap, or aluminum.

Get a negative ionizer if you can't afford plants.

Opt for real tile on you floors, instead of rubber and plastic-backed carpeting.

Paint with no-voc (volatile organic compounds) paints.

Wear 100% cotton Buster Brown socks (go online for best price) with no nylon in the heel and toe.

Don't wear plastic clothes (nylon, polyester, rayon, or no-iron sprayed clothes; they can't breathe and cause loss of circulation in important areas like breasts and pelvises.

Do not use equipment that radiates electricity or has a field around it that will interfere with your own.

Park with your exhaust pipes pointing away from your bedroom windows.

Don't use wax on any surface that your skin will touch, especially the skin of your hands or feet.

Fiberglass insulation causes COPD as much as cigarette smoke.

Rinse your dried fruits and nuts and seeds at least twice in hot water to wash off the oils and little tufts of fiberglas and asbestos from the conveyor belts and degreasers used in the machinery.

Read "The Cure for All Diseases" completely to find out how to protect your home from toxins.

Don't hang out with people who smoke, even if you love them. Their breath will kill you when you breathe in what they exhale, or wash their clothes, or expose your skin to the residue of their 3rd-hand toxins.

Peace and Love be with You,

Flora

Raw Foods and Feeding Infants

Dr. Jim,

I am the proud grandmother of a 1 month 2-week old baby girl named Rylee.  She is having a hard time on the baby milk she is on. She has thrush & a virus called a Roto virus which has killed her good bacteria in her intestines. The first ingredient in her baby milk is corn starch solids, which will only make it worse.  

I know you are wondering why I am sharing this with you.  But I thought you might know who to forward this email to who might have a suggestion on what we can do.

Thank you

Liz

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I passed it on to Dr. Flora:

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Breast feed, breast feed, breast feed. There's nothing more important than breast milk for a baby. You will be able to give the baby a tiny amount of wheat grass juice in a dropper, use coconut milk from the coconut, blend some papaya, make some Energy Soup. But, your breasts will be able to begin a flow again, even after this short time. There are amazing stories of 'virgin' women who have breast fed 'foreign' babies, after a period of stimulation of the nipples so just don't give up.

Peace and love be with you.

Flora

Raw Living Food Energy

Subject: Raw Food Diet Problem

Hi Dr. Flora,

I meet you a couple months ago at a raw food meetup in Miami. I started the diet and I immediately noticed changes in my sleep patterns. I developed insomnia.  I'm currently in India so I consulted an Aryuvedic doctor here. He told me my pulse is fast and my heart beat is slower so it is not pumping enough blood in my body or to my brain causing the insomnia. He wants me to stop the diet and never do it again. Have you ever heard of anything like this happening? Do you have any advice? I was thinking about adding fish and eggs into my diet. Any advice would help.

Thanks,
Sonia Rodricks

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Dr. Flora wrote:

What you are experiencing is not insomnia, Sonia. God is giving you hours more to get your joys done. It happens to everyone. You need less sleep to make sense of the food you are eating.

Cooked food shuts the body down because there is no chi or electricity in it and a person needs more sleep. Your heart beat is slower because you are not having to push your food through sludge in your arteries (as long as you are not eating rice and yogurt, that is).

Your pulse is fast? How fast? You need to do some research on the internet. Please look up Drs. T. Colin Campbell on UTube, or Caldwell Esselstyn or John McDougall and listen or read the statistics about people who eat fish and eggs, especially in India. Please write again to www.rawdoctors.com and learn how blessed you are to be cleaning out so well.

Now that I only sleep 3-4 hours of sleep, I have lots of time to do volunteering. Dr. Wigmore had stopped needing sleep, just rest for an hour or so, while she answered letters, the last few years of her life. Your brain is not being clogged up with making a tomb of your body for creatures either and so you should feel more oxygen rushing to your feet and brain.

Make sure the raw food is blended and enjoy your pulse: is it 60 or 65? You may still be reacting to some foods that you are allergic to? Read up on the Coco pulse test. 15 beats above that means that you may be allergic to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers (a sign of nightshade reaction; those foods make your joints swell and you have symptoms of having 'arthritis' - inflammation. Stop the foods and the pains will go away with the swelling.

We are 80% allergic to most of the raw foods, and all of the cooked foods make us tired and need more sleep.

Peace and love be with you

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From: Sonia

ok that's awesome! I believe my pulse is around 80 or 85 resting. I don't know if that helps you.

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You are either reacting to something you are allergic to, or you have a lot of buildup on your arterial walls.

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I did an electrodermal screening. I'm not allergic to anything on the raw food diet. It's actually ideal for my body. It must be buildup. Do you know what I should do about it?

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Even one starchy sweet potato (some people do eat them) or old oily rancid seed or nut will make sludge, and many people are eating broccoli and carrots raw instead of making sauerkraut with them when one juices the cabbage, and this makes sludge because there is so much unusable starch in there. 80% of raw foods have a combination of starch/protein that makes it really hard to digest and assimilate. The little villi can only absorb liquids from juicing and blending. Most people don't chew their foods enough to make them completely liquid. A blender is a God send for the villi and for our energy.

This morning I made some home ripened pineapple juice. I got the thing for $3.50, it took 3 days to ripen it in the sun after I poked holes in the bottom of the stem with a fork and put it in a little saucer with an inch of water. It made 4 tall glasses of incredible juice for me. I chugalugged it immediately, hurried to the shower with the smooth leftovers in the inside of the juicer (not the pulp, which comes out into the basket), got about half a glass in the inside, next to the blades, and rubbed it all over my hair and body, massaging it well into my toes. I then showered after 5 minutes.

The bromelain enzyme in pineapple dissolves the oily sludge. You can use a natural (not plastic) bristle body brush on your dry skin before you make the pineapple juice. You don't want to wait while skin brushing after you make the juice because it becomes acid within 10 minutes. Rinse well. If you have a lot of starch residue, you do that with blended prunes, but you don't rub it on your skin, you just eat it. If you have a lot of protein residue, you do it with papaya.and you can rub it on your skin as a mask.

Sometimes, when I use half a peeled and cored cuke in my Energy Soup, I take the core with the seeds, blend it and put it on my eyes as a cooling mask. Same with the avo. All of these oils are magnificent as long as they are fresh and not old. Even 10 minutes old means acid sometimes.

Peace and love be with you,

Flora van Orden

Hopeful signs, by Donald O. Haughey

Hopeful Signs
by Donald Haughey, founder of CHI in 1976

Many of man’s enterprises undertaken to do the good work of God are threatened by the lack of forthright action on the part of those it is supposed to serve. The will and purpose of man is more and more diluted by increased substance abuse. Indeed, drugs of choice and ever more toxic medical drugs, the polluting of the food supply by the addictions to salt, sugar and fats in concentrated forms, and the de-vitalization of formulated processing for profit are all bearing down on us.

The grass roots wisdom that is causing the swing back to raw organic purity is hopeful and making a difference. In wisdom and/or desperation – “the way of the truth and the life” - people are seeking out prevention and cures for the ills of man.

Now we do well to seek out what the wise among us are doing to learn and practice the ways of not only survival but the ways of perfecting our being. Advice and guidance is not only available but taught by those dedicated to showing forth the ways of wellness and the perfection of our Spiritual Being. Creative Health Institute stands at the leading edge.

Donald O. Haughey
Hodunk, Michigan

The know-it-all key to good health

By Elizabeth Neumaier

pH, or potential Hydrogen, is one of the best measures of your health. It is also a very easy tool you can use yourself to test the presence of minerals in the body. Testing your pH will show how fast or slow your metabolism is running at a cellular level before symptoms appear. This includes how fast or slow food is utilized, waste is eliminated, hormones do their jobs or lymph is functioning to fight illness. It is a barometer to forecast future health ailments rather than a lab test that shows the body in the present. So you can see it is an incredibly important tool to read how well you body systems are functioning.

Good pH is 6.2 – 6.6 for urine or saliva. The lower your numbers the faster you are running internally and the more acid you are. When you are more acidic enzymes do not work as well and cells do not function properly, allowing disease to take hold. Low acid numbers over a long period of time can lead to nervousness, strokes, high blood pressure, colitis or bloating, diarrhea, yeast infections, liver problems and all kinds of nasties. Vitamin C, Iron and B12 are low.

What causes your levels to lower? Three things - diet (meats and grains), negative emotions (now that’s a biggy) and the greatest -- stress. Movement also causes acid, but is easily eliminated through respiration. When your body is more acid minerals are stripped to help alkalize this environment. The first mineral to go is sodium, then calcium, magnesium and potassium. Can you get an idea of where osteoporosis comes from? Our bones are stripped of calcium to balance our high acid diets of grains and animal products. Holes actually form in our bones from calcium depletion due to your body’s desperate need to alkalize, due to diet and lifestyle.

Slightly higher pH numbers, over 6.6, are OK if you really are on a diet of 80% fruits and veggies. If you have not been on a diet like this then the high numbers mean pretty much all your minerals are gone and your body is using ammonia to alkalize itself. All body systems have slowed way down and are struggling to divert disaster. That’s why nursing homes have that strong smell of urine -- it’s ammonia. Most of the residents have used up all their minerals, as seen by their dementia and disfigured bone structures.

You can test yourself for pH levels very easily. Most pharmacies carry pH test strips - ask the pharmacist. Pee on a strip first thing in the morning. Any time after 2 am is first thing in the morning. In other words if you wake up at 3 am to go to the bathroom, check your pH then. The color the strip turns can be matched to a chart that will give you your pH number. There are some other ways to test your pH over a series of days, too. If you are interested in this get Fell’s Official Guide to Health and Wellness. This is an excellent and easy book to learn all about pH. What is also fun is to test the pH of fluids you drink. Stick a strip in your green tea, distilled water or, God forbid, coffee, and look at the color that registers. It’s quite eye opening.

You can also test your saliva pH, but this is slightly more complicated and needs the guidance of a naturopath, or get Fell’s book.  There are also many other connections to pH and health not discussed here.  Email me if you have questions.

There are some simple, but not easy, ways to remedy bad readings. Meditation, prayer, laughter and a positive outlook help enormously. Slow your life down, have fun, help someone in need. Eat 80% fruits and veggies, millet is the only grain that is alkaline. Retest you pH each week and if you gradually start these changes, you will gradually see improvement. If you go off the program you will see your pH start to slide.

That’s it. Sounds too simple doesn’t it? Putting these changes into action is a lifetime commitment. Start one day at a time. Maybe tomorrow have no grains or animal products for lunch and tell a joke, or help an animal or person in need. You are on the road to a better and healthier life already.

You are smart enough to learn how to become free of illness.

Remember -- sickness is not a natural byproduct of life.

You can contact Libby at [email protected]. We always appreciate her articles and advice.

NPR story on the Raw Foods Movement

(NPR) Many Americans spend this week roasting a Turkey and caramelizing onions for sausage stuffing, but there is a growing number of people who won't cook anything at all. They are known as "raw foodists." Alison Bryce has a report on the raw food community in Los Angeles. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6537438&sc=emaf

- thanks to Anne Kasper of www.BodyByBliss.com.

Go Raw: Natural Life Magazine

Food fads and trends come and go. But one that seems to be increasing in popularity is already thousands of years old. And that’s the raw food diet, which is defined as being based on eating unprocessed, organic, whole, vegan foods, at least 75 percent of which should be uncooked. A variety of techniques are used to prepare these foods, including sprouting seeds, grains and beans; soaking nuts and dried fruits; and blending and juicing fruits and vegetables. Dehydration is also used, because it doesn’t require much heat.

The growing number of adherents to what is sometimes called a “living foods diet” – which include celebrity devotees like Demi Moore, Bryan Adams and Woody Harrelson – believe that eating uncooked food prolongs youth and fights disease. The raw diet tends to be dense with nutrients that are easily absorbed into your blood, and contains little or no saturated fat. It is low in sodium, high in potassium and fiber. These factors are important in helping to reduce the risk of certain diseases such as heart disease and some cancers.

Read the rest of the article: http://www.life.ca/nl/111/rawfood.html

Meditation as Part of the Healing Process

The Main Goals of Meditation

Meditation is a way in which you can get acquainted with virtue in your mind so that you can have a calmer and more peaceful feeling. Having a peaceful mind is beneficial in helping you become free of your worries.

This is not to say that you won’t worry about things, but you develop a more effective way of dealing with stressful situations in your daily life. You will be able to understand them in a different light and be able to see them for what they really are. When your mind is not at peace, it is hard to be happy even under pleasant circumstances.In some forms of meditation, you can analyze the thought processes that pass through your mind. When you concentrate deeply on the thoughts and situations of your life, you can reach the point at which you find your own answers to your problems.

Today many types of meditation are recommended by health care professionals as a way of cleansing the mind and emotions of negative thoughts. By meditating, you can benefit from improved concentration and memory. It also helps to help you develop a greater understanding of stressful situations in your daily life so that you can have a greater understanding of the real cause of the problem. This helps you approach your problems with less stress because you do not impulsively become angry. This, in turn, helps you get along with others much better.

Your body also benefits from meditation. When your mind is clear, you are better able to bring healing to the parts of your body that are ill. Meditating helps to improve the overall functioning of your immune system so that your body can fight off disease.  As your body becomes more relaxed, your blood pressure lowers and your heart can pump the blood to the organs of the body.

The aim of meditation is to give you a sense of inner peace that you will use throughout your day in all your dealings. This is why it is recommended that you meditate in the morning as soon as you awake. The positive feelings that you bring into your mind and body will then help you cope with your day.

Best Regards,
Wild Divine Team
WildDivine.com

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.

Here's a directory of Wigmore Educational Resources (all links open in a new window or tab):
AnnWigmore.com - The story of Dr. Ann Wigmore, and a listing of Wigmore Institutes
Dr. Ann Wigmore's Degrees and Awards - probably not a complete list
GrassyRoots.com - The 14-episode TV series I did about raw foods and the Dr. Ann Wigmore Lifestyle
chiDiet.com - The Home Study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle
RawLife.org - I put all of the videos from Grassy Roots TV and the Wigmore Lifestyle Home Study Program online
chiDiet.com/hs3.htm - The Dr. Ann Wigmore DVD video collection
GoRaw.net - Other raw websites I'm involved with or respect

Transforming with the times

We are taught to rely on government, money and medicine as the basis of modern life and the future, when in reality our Creator, self-reliance, hard work and a healthy diet are where we should put our faith, for such has sustained us since the first dawn of human experience.

Many who have stayed here at Creative Health Institute have said that, in times of peril, this is where they would choose to be.  Indeed, simple, healthy, organic ways of life are what many are returning to as unemployment rises, increasing health care costs continue to see many without insurance, and a struggling economy force practical alternatives to what was once high-flying prosperity that then peaked out.

It is a fact of life - the more a simple thing is altered, the more the price of it goes up, and often the quality goes down. Take - for example - a ripe apple from a tree in your yard, and a fresh tomato from the garden; upon harvesting the price is nearly free.  However, alter it into canned applesauce, or a store-bought pie, or a bottle of Ketchup and the price has tripled or more.

Comparatively, the cost you pay for prescription pills is horrendous compared to what you gain from fresh Wheatgrass Juice and garden-fresh Energy Soup.

So, as the back-to-basics movement surges forward, consider adaptation by accelerated learning by attending the two-week “Learn-by-Doing Program” where body chemistry change is realized here at Creative Health Institute.

If you are unable to attend the two-week program, it is highly suggested that you read Dr. Ann Wigmore’s book, “Why Suffer”.  This book has been the inspiration for thousands who have transformed their lives by converting from the SAD (Standard American Diet) to the life promoting  detoxification and rejuvenation of the Living Foods Lifestyle.

Don Haughey, Founder of Creative Health Institute
Hodunk, MI

The evolution of wellness - by Don Haughey

The medical paradigm rests on the power of money to structure education and to shape naive young minds in the use of expensive drugs and high tech surgery to extract dollars from suffering, fearful people.  By corporate power disease, pain and fear are exploited mercilessly.  This is not to say that there is no good intent in the healing arts, but all can see the mammon driven motives.

More harm than good comes from corporate control of the casting of medical disease care for a cradle-to-grave dependency.  It is only in the failure of chemical control of disease that diet, exercise, and return to natural basis of health are now being wisely practiced.

In a way, minds are bound in slavery to the purposely-structured belief system that is the most pervasive, the most exploitive the world has ever seen.  The creation of health insurance builds high reserves of monies that doctors and hospitals could charge excessively against with impunity.

Overt slavery imposed against the will of the people is easier to fight than mind locked, imposed and perpetuated reality that is imposed from cradle to the grave.

Medicare, Medicaid and health care insurance formed the final control of the unprecedented paradigm and the profession that it so lavishly compensates is caught in rampant greed.

With government involvement the health industry is willing to inflate, inflate and inflate until collapse is the expected end of it all.  Studies show that medical care and the government has been the leading inflationary reality.

The people can return to the basis of Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Wellness that has sustained mankind for millions of  years and all biological life forms can be trusted to carry life forward when the interference with Nature stops.

Indeed, we see that power structures and money driven realities prove that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Realizing that the foregoing can appear to be the rantings of a cynical mind, I must say that my work is and remains Natural Wellness of body, mind and spirit.

For a hundred years it has appeared that wise, directed, and beneficent ones would give the world a natural wellness care system and education that would establish Wellness as it ever is intended by the giver of life, indeed, the God the Father.

For over fifty years I have subscribed to and studied the inspired Wellness innovators - many of whom have published and practiced their findings in journals and practiced what they know works.  The problem is that even these inspired and diligent individuals one-by-one opt for some way to profit by their knowledge. The current ploy is to market supplements. Tempted to use their positions to get a piece of the fifty-four billion dollar market where the willing and prepared public spends freely, motivated by the claims.  I won't live long enough to see the end of the exploitations but, like many of the absurdities, the fall of the debt and war ridden system will come, and the whole exploitive system will collapse.

Preserving the many almost miraculous innovations of true science and development of Wellness techniques will not be lost and can be carried on without the motivation of greed for money and power.

In the Kingdom to come on the planet true benevolence will create Wellness as "Old Things pass away and we become new creatures" in spirit, heart, mind and body. The old things that pass away will be the unreality of corporate power now made superior to man and to God.  Amen.

Don Haughey
Founder, Creative Health Institute
Hodunk, Michigan

The Story of Dr. Royal R. Rife

Since the 30’s there have been many books, articles and newspapers published concerning Dr. Royal R. Rife’s Research on Cancer and other diseases. Most of his lab notes have long been forgotten about, destroyed, or kept under lock and key by a few individuals. These people, for their own selfish reasons, are unwilling to share them with the world. Yet Dr. Rife was one of Dr. Ann Wigmore’s many predecessors that taught the value of a natural lifestyle, living foods, and the fallacy of allopathic medicine. This website reviews the work history, patents and discoveries of Dr. Rife, as reported in the media and medical journals from 1930 to 1971.

Beware the modern medical hex

- by Al Sears, M.D.

If you go to a doctor for a long-term problem pay close attention to what happens. Be wary if your doctor pulls out a prescription pad right off the bat.

With appropriate use, powerful drugs can work wonders for short-term acute problems. But for long-term problems, their record is not what it's often touted to be. The money from these return purchases for chronic drug therapy is corrupting our medical information system. I've come to believe that chronic drug therapy more often burdens than heals. Today, I want to illustrate a related danger.

When your doctor gives you that prescription, he naturally feels compelled to convince you he's doing the right thing. This usually means warning you of the seriousness of your problem and often involves presenting it as your only option.

Today I'll show you why this can mean "double trouble" for your good health and how to break this "prescription drug hex" afflicting millions of Americans.

How the Inadvertent Spell Is Cast

Harvard graduate and natural medicine expert Andrew Weil, M.D. calls the common over reliance on prescription drugs "medical hexing."¹  And I have to agree - I've seen many patients "cursed" by their prescriptions.

As surprising as it sounds, when you carefully analyze what happens, you find modern day hexing does exist. It all starts when a well-meaning doctor tells you something like, "You'll never get that under control alone. I'll need to prescribe something for you." Or when you quietly accept the prescription as the solution.

You doctor's desire to do something for your visit often results in over prescribing. But he's taught that it won't work unless he convinces you. His reciting of the words that you won't heal without it reinforces his belief that you must take it or suffer. Your accepting the prescription indicates that you believe that your body can't heal itself without the drug. The hex is on!

Both intention and expectation are powerful agents of healing and disease alike. You start the medication and get temporary relief of a symptom reinforcing the belief. But the underlying disease progresses eventually manifesting as another symptom. You and your doctor both believe you need another drug. Before you know it, you're on five different medications. Your original problem has never healed, you have a pathological belief you can't heal, you're body is enduring chronic toxic burdens and... now you're broke.

Countering the Spell

I love to see patients break this hexing. Take Peggy for example. At age 70, she developed ovarian cancer. All the experts told her it was fatal and if she wanted to live a little longer her only option was radiation and chemotherapy. But shortly after beginning treatment for her cancer, she developed diabetes and required insulin injections.

Given two months to a year to live, she felt powerless looking at the last few months of her life filled with radiation, chemotherapy, doctors and hospitals. She'd had enough. She quit her cancer therapies and decided to enjoy what was left of her life.

Then she came across an all-natural herbal tea called essiac - a mix of burdock root, sheep sorrel herb, rhubarb root, and slippery elm bark. Her body, once clear of the pharmalogical toxins, regained its balance and its innate capacity to heal. A few weeks later, she stopped her insulin injections. She started doing what she dreamed of - traveling the country. A recent medical check-up proclaimed her cured of both the cancer and the diabetes.2

But as every doctor knows, that's impossible. What saved Peggy was that she didn't know it was impossible.

It's really not so incredible. Your body is built to heal itself naturally.³  If you have stories of natural healing you'd like to share, email them to [email protected]

To Your Good Health, Al Sears, M.D.

- What Doctors Should Know,  Body & Soul, September 2004
- Cancer Hope Reborn, The Vancouver Sun by Mia Stainsby, May 16, 1992
- What Doctors Should Know, Body & Soul, September 2004

Thanks to Dr. Sears and www.vitalmaxvitamins.com for this article.

- and thanks to Larry Meggs for bringing it to our attention.

Holiday Turkey - Serving up Science for Dinner

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Reverse Diabetes in 30 Days

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with 'incurable' diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.

The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this radical diet and lifestyle change.

We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse disease and change lives.

Additional wisdom is provided by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.

We've been awaiting this film for months; it's finally been released. Learn more, and get your copy here:
http://tinyurl.com/revDiabetes.

Yours in health and vitality,

Dr. Jim Carey

P.S. "Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates.

P.P.S. Here's another good video about reversing Diabetes and other health challenges with raw, living foods: http://tinyurl.com/chiFood.

The Dirty Little Secret of the Raw Food Movement

Yes, it's true. The raw food movement has a dirty, nasty little secret.

 

It's this: Many people go raw, only to encounter NEW health challenges, sometimes much worse than what made them go raw in the first place.

 

Over the years I've received numerous letters about this. One woman even described her journey from SAD (Standard American Diet), to Raw, to insulin-dependent Diabetic.

 

Surprised? I was. So much so that Dr. Flora van Orden III - PhD in Nutrition, and a 40-year raw fooder - Dr. Flora and I spent time consulting with each of them, over the years.

 

In every case we found the same fundamental cause. The person in question suffered from a dietary deficiency. That is, while they were eating healthy, nutritious food, they weren't eating a balanced diet.

 

That is, they weren't getting all of the different nutrients that their bodies need.

 

The insulin-dependent diabetic, for example - she admitted that her raw food diet consisted almost entirely of fruits, and the overload of sugar did her in. She sees this now, and her request is that we make people aware of potential traps like this one.

 

Statistically, after one year most vegans are only eating seven different foods.

 

That's not enough for the body to get all the different things it needs - the typical list is 112 different vitamins and minerals, all available from plant-based foods.

 

So, how DO you get enough protein? How about vitamins, especially B-12? Carbohydrates? Some fat in your diet is important, but what's the right source? Where do you get Omega 3 if you don't eat fish?

 

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This is where Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle Program comes in.

 

Dr. Ann Wigmore has been called "The Queen of Green,"  "The Original Raw Diva" and many other compliments, along with earning numerous degrees and awards (click here to read them).

Dr. Ann developed her "Raw Living Foods Lifestyle" back in the 1950's after being told by her doctors that nothing could be done for her colon cancer.

Through study, research and experimentation she healed her cancer, then went on to teach thousands of others around the world how the body can heal itself with the proper nourishment.

 

Dr. Ann found that certain foods - foods most people overlook - are essential to a balanced, healthy diet.

 

Dr. Ann taught that it's not about "superfoods," it's not about supplements, it's about balanced, living nutrition.

 

By the 1960's she had become a world-recognized expert in the field of raw food, had earned numerous degrees, and her advice was sought all over the world.

 

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Sadly, all great programs lose some of their momentum after the founder passes.

 

Dr. Ann perished fighting a fire in her apartment in 1993. Eighty-four years old, she was found in the hallway with a bucket of water beside her, and another bucket in the bathtub, with the water running. Smoke from the fire had overcome her.

Dr. Ann did leave us her Lifestyle Training Programs. You can learn about the various hands-on programs at AnnWigmore.com - Learn More. I've been to a number of them and have seen people undergo amazing transformations.

 

My first exposure to Dr. Ann's program was at Creative Health Institute in Michigan, and it did wonders for me. I've been a member of the Board of Trustees of their non-profit Trust for many years. My favorite is the Living Foods Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. Brenda Cobb and staff do a wonderful job of imparting a true Wigmore program. From what I've seen and heard, they all do a great job.

 

Dr. Ann's program works. It really works. It works because it focuses on the proper types and varieties of plant-based foods in order to give the body full, proper nutrition.

 

For those who can't afford two or three weeks and several thousand dollars for a hands-on program, we developed the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program five years ago, and it, too, has benefited thousands, all over the world.

 

We have hundreds and hundreds of testimonial letters. You can read and see some of them at the following links (be sure to click on Previous or Next at the bottom of the pages):

See chiDiet.com/blog/category/success-stories

and chiDiet.net (see the "Feedback" pages)

and AnnWigmore.com (see the "Testimonials" pages)

 

Look around these websites and you'll find many more positive success statements. We have such a big collection of them than I don't have anyplace to publish all of them.

 

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However, even the Home Study Program isn't inexpensive. The current economic climate has pushed me into coming up with something new and even more affordable.

 

Here's what I've refined Dr. Ann's program into - The Dr. Ann Wigmore Collection - a collection of 10 DVDs of the basics of Dr. Ann's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle.

 

While the Dr. Ann Wigmore Collection is only a good overview of her program, it contains enough to get you started on the right track.  

 

Seven of the DVDs give you hours of rare footage of Dr. Ann teaching her program, and cover a lot of detail, especially about the right foods to eat, and why.

 

The other three fill in the gaps that Dr. Ann's videos didn't cover, and are taught by veteran instructors from Creative Health Institute, which was co-founded by Dr. Ann and has been teaching her program since 1976. 

 

In addition, these two instructors have agreed to be available to you for personalized coaching by phone or email.

 

I can think of no better way to get on the right track with a new Raw Living Foods Lifestyle than to view - and re-view this information.

 

This Collection is going to throw a lot of what you think you know about food - even raw foods - out the window.

 

Remember - this is tried, true, proven information that has withstood the test of time - and protects you from the dirty little secret of the raw food movement.

 

 

Here's the link: chiDiet.com/aw.htm

 

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Working with you to grow your health,

 

Jim Carey

 

 

 

 

P.S. "If you ignore your health, it will go away." - Unknown

 

 

Here's that link again: chiDiet.com/aw.htm

How to be, and stay, raw...

Weekend Update
Hi!   The biggest challenge to staying raw is staying inspired. When we have to do so much planning ahead when we travel, when we have to make our own "fast food" at home, when we have to turn down offers of "goodies" at work, it's really a challenge to be, and stay raw.   Staying inspired, constantly reminding ourselves of why we want to live differently than most of the world, is important.   To help you with this I've lined up a bunch of good stuff for you this weekend:   It's another Raw Film (and Audio) Fest weekend on RawDoctors.com, and I've posted a whole bunch of inspiring testimonials, including Paul Nison's feature-length video.   Looking for raw recipes? Be sure to check out the recipe section on RawDoctors.com. You'll find almost a hundred posted there.   There are a lot of us who want to raise our children to be healthy and happy, too. So I've posted a number of items about Raw Parenting, including Karen Ranzi's 2-hour lecture at Creative Health Institute.   All this, again, at RawDoctors.com. Please note that at the end of the page there's a link to Page 2. I've posted that much stuff this weekend - and there's no charge for any of it.   Over on GrassyRootsTV.com there's another episode of my Raw Living Foods/Wigmore Lifestyle TV show available. This week's one-hour show is about the relationship between stress and healing, simple yummy salads, and composting.   Lots of food prep tips in each episode of Grassy Roots TV! Be sure to check out the other episodes, under "Season One." I'd love to hear what you think.   On chiDiet.com/blog the Home Study Program giveaway contest is closed. The judges are evaluating the entries, and the two winners will be announced early next week. If you're looking for raw food videos on particular subjects, or just want to keep a few around the house for ongoing inspiration or to share with your friends, there are about four dozen titles available at chiDietVideos.com.   Remember - It's not "cheating" or "failing" when you eat outside of the program. It's just eating outside of the program.   Whether you're 95% raw, 50% raw, or 20% raw, how much better are you doing than when you were eating the SAD (Standard American Diet)?   Working with you to grow your health,   Jim Carey       P.S. Don't get your body out of balance. Don't overeat on Fruit or Nuts. Don't detoxify too fast. Learn the correct method to going and staying raw with Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Home Study Program.   The Home Study Program is available again from chiDiet.com. Bigger and better than ever!	Jim Carey, Raw Living Food Advocate       Learn about Dr. Ann Wigmore and what her Raw Living Foods Lifestyle is all about at AnnWigmore.com.   Be sure to check out the testimonial pages, too!         What's the difference between a Raw Fooder and a Raw Living Fooder?   Living Foods are those that would sprout if put into the earth. Living Food Advocates believe in a generous proportion of grains and fresh sprouts in the diet because of the biophotonic or "life force" energy these foods contain.
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What Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle Did, and Does, For Me

by Dr. James Carey, PhD (applied microcomputer technologies)

For 23 years I lived in Key West, Florida, and built several computer companies. In '97 I sold off the business, apartments, office building, house, and most of the stuff I'd accumulated. By January '99 I was 48 years old, free and financially liquid.

I took a year or so off and toured the United States, traveled 60,000 miles, first with an Airstream trailer, and later with a Bluebird motorcoach.

I also spent the time overcoming my addiction to cigarettes, something I'd been dependent upon since I was 14 years old.

By Spring of 2000 I was rested, collected, and tobacco-free. I'd relocated to rural Georgia, adopted a dog, and started building a house with my own hands. I also weighed 260 lbs. I'd been watching my weight creep up over the years, from my college weight of 165 to around 220 by '99.

I considered myself healthy because at 45 I could still shinny up a 30 ft. sailboat mast and repair the masthead while holding on with my legs. But a year of sitting behind the steering wheel substituting junk food and rich meals for the cigarettes I was trying to give up really put the weight on me. Now I was almost 50 and single-handedly building a house.

I considered myself to be in good shape, I was active and pain-free, but I sure was getting big.

Jim at 260 lbs.

Jim at 170 lbs.

So... January, 2001. New Year's Resolution - go on a diet. I read about health and nutrition, then put myself on a 1700 calorie-a-day vegetarian diet. I walked at least three miles a day, five times a week.

In four months I lost 20 lbs., bringing my weight down to 240. I kept counting calories in my little notebook, I kept walking 15 miles or more a week, and by Summer - still 240 lbs.! 

I could not lose any more weight. Frustrating. If I went off my diet for a weekend in Savannah I'd gain 5 lbs. in two days, then take a week - or more - to get rid of it.

Back to the Internet for more research. I read about people who had been on one diet or another, but after initial improvements their health deteriorated and they were facing new health challenges because of the inadequacies of the dietary regime they'd adopted.

The deeper I dug, the more one program stood out. The Raw Living Foods lifestyle, taught by Dr. Ann Wigmore. It was old knowledge going back thousands of years, and she was the most famous of modern advocates. What impressed me most were:

1) Testimonies by people that have lived the lifestyle for 20, 30 and 40 years, and are thriving on it.

2) What does the founder look like today, or what did they die of? Dr. Ann died of smoke inhalation while fighting a fire, at 84. She was fit and healthy.

3) Other raw fooders have died as a result of sports accidents in their 80's and 90's, not of disease or medications. All maintained an active lifestyle up until their passing over.

4) Dr. Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle combines raw living food, internal cleansing, body detoxification and plant-based supplementation. All of the elements of good health rolled into one.

5) There are hands-on training centers where one can go and experience the program for an extended period of time, and not just try to sort it out from books or weekend seminars.

6) Most hands-on centers are reasonably priced - I've paid as much for one night at a nice hotel for what they charge for a week's stay.

7) Dr. Ann Wigmore's program is educational, not "do this blindly because I say so." At the training centers they teach why the body isn't healthy, and what you can do about it. As an engineer and scientist, I appreciate this.

The more I looked at it, the more the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle stood out as being the program that would work for me - or for anyone!

Synchronicity also came into play. An old friend. When I mentioned Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods program she told me that she'd studied with Dr. Ann at Hippocrates Institute in Boston, and credited the lifestyle with changing her life.

August of '01 found me at Creative Health Institute, near Union City, Michigan. On a trip to visit family I stopped in for a three-day visit. I was so impressed with the personal experiences of the graduating students that I went back to Georgia, closed up the farm, and returned to Michigan to attend the two-week program. I still weighed 240 lbs.

In my first two weeks at Creative Health I lost 20 lbs. I never went hungry, I never missed a meal, I never counted a calorie. Indeed, I usually had seconds.

At the end of the first month I was down to 210 lbs. When I headed back for Georgia for Christmas I weighed 200 lbs. I'd lost 40 lbs. without even working at it!

Why did the program work so dramatically for me?

I was toxic. Not only did the organic, unprocessed food that Creative Health served reduce and eliminate the toxins in my body, Dr. Ann's program helped my body eliminate toxins that I'd been accumulating all of my life.

By eating processed foods, I'd been putting toxins into my body faster than my body could remove them. I learned that my body was storing these toxins in fat cells in order to protect me. Once I eliminated the toxins I was ingesting, my body was able to process the backlogged accumulation and dispose of it.

I also learned that I had a large amount of impacted fecal matter. Most people do. Enemas cleared out this backlog.

From '01 to '05 I spent three to six months of the year at Creative Health, helping out as a volunteer as I helped myself get healthier. I weigh 170 lbs. now.

The other reason I kept returning to Creative Health was the good feelings I felt when I saw others overcome their health challenges. I've seen people heal diabetes, obesity, arthritis, colitis, after-effects of chemotherapy, breast cancer, hepatitis, heavy metal poisoning, asthma, wounds that wouldn't heal, PMS, migraine headaches... all forms of health challenges.

I've seen people stop smoking, painlessly, in just a few days. They didn't even notice that they'd quit. Wish I knew that back in '99.

I've watched people perk up, heal, and get happy. Like Chantel from Zimbabwe. She came to Creative Health with rheumatoid arthritis, which she'd had since she was 16. She was 26. Upon graduation from the two-week program Chantel said, "I stopped taking my medication after I was here three days. I've not had any pain in more than a week."

With tears streaming down her cheeks, she added, "This is the best I have felt since I was 15 years old."

Some time later Chantel sent me an email: "While I am only 75% raw after these two years, I am not taking medication, and my pain has not returned. I am happy to tell you that I am now married and three months pregnant. Your program made this possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

What do raw living foods do for me?

Helped me lose over 70 lbs.,

Gave me an energy level that's like being 25 again (I even took up skydiving - at 52!).

Instead of sleeping 8-10 hours a night, I wake totally refreshed after only 4-6 hours of sleep.

My bowels are regular and move easily.

I'm happier - all the time. I have a more positive outlook on life. People say I "glow," and I smile all the time.

My taste buds have changed, and my cravings for snacks, sweets and caffeine have disappeared.

Most of all, I find my life more satisfying and rewarding than it's ever been before.

I try to help Creative Health in their mission. I've installed computers and a network, rewrote the website, taught classes, mowed the lawn, started a newsletter, served as Program Director, done public speaking, fixed toilets, painted, produced videos, answered the phones, stuffed envelopes, and told my story on TV and radio

When I was answering the phone at Creative Health I repeatedly heard people say, either:

1) I have the time to attend, but just can't afford it, or

2) Affording it is no problem, but there's no way I can take two weeks off.

For those reasons I created the Home Study Program. From a file cabinet with over three decades of research studies and student materials, and two decades worth of videotape, I spent my winters assembling the most comprehensive overview of the program I could.

I now administer the Raw Living Foods Home Study Program in order to help those who:

1) Can't afford to attend a center,

2) Want to have a comprehensive overview of the program to take home with them, or

3) Need training materials to help them share their wonderful transformation with others.

I'm finding it a great way to spend my retirement, and the second half of my life!

Jim Carey
Midville, Georgia
December, 2007

About Energy, Food and Human Nature...

- A Philosophical Outlook On Being a Raw Fooder

 The older I get the simpler and more unified life looks to me.

We're all creatures of energy. Everything in our lives, everything around us, everything we experience consists of energy.

To start with, we're made up of energy. Every proton, electron and neutron in our universe - including those that make up our bodies - is made up of three quarks. Quarks are, simply put, just energy. In the microcosmic analysis of it, all we are is a bundle of energy forms.

It's obvious to us that people and animals also have a life energy - something different than molecular energy. The cells of a dead animal don't stop existing, they change (decay, rot), but the life force energy of the animal is gone.

What about plants? In the past two decades scientists have measured the life energy of plants, and define it as biophotonic energy. It's a separate thing from molecular energy and explains how plants can respond to music, voices and love. So plants have a life force energy, just as animals do.

When we interact with others we gain emotional energy. When we interact with love and affection our positive energy is returned to us, increased. But even when we interact with hate, disgust or animosity, our ego gains energy. Negative energy, true, but the ego doesn't care - energy is energy and the ego wants to be fed.

The same is true of our physical bodies. Our bodies gain energy from almost anything that we put in them. Obviously there are side effects to the Standard American Diet (SAD) - obesity, cancer, asthma, heart disease, diabetes, and all the others. But despite the damage such a diet is doing, people continue to eat it because it tastes good, just as they'll argue or fight instead of walking away.

 

So consider this: If our egos will fight instead of walk away,  and if our bodies will consume known toxins, what are we doing to our biophotonic (life force) energy in the process? Another thought: can these effects on our biophotonic energy be considered karma?

Here's the way I think of it: When I kill or cook my food I destroy the biophotonic energy, the life-force energy of the food. When I eat raw living foods the life force energy of the food becomes a part of me.

When Dr. Ann Wigmore taught that we should "listen to our bodies, because they will tell us what we need," she was referring to what our bodies truly need, not what we've trained them to want.

That's where Dr. Ann's detoxification, cleansing and lifestyle come it. By following her regime we clean ourselves up enough to be able to listen to what our bodies need, not want.

 

Yours in Radiant Good Health,

Jim Carey

"You are what you eat" IS "the law of attraction." - Mike Grefner

P.S. Be sure to visit RawDoctors.com this weekend. The Film Fest Weekends are back, and many of the subscription sections are now free, including my recipe collection.

"I'm raw when possible, organic when practical, and pray over the rest." - Unknown.

Genetically engineered crops use MORE, not less pesticides

When genetically engineered (GE) crops first came on the market in 1996, proponents claimed that they would need far less pesticide than conventional crops. Most genetically engineered crops are modified to either tolerate the herbicide glyphosate (HT crops) or  to produce their own insecticide (Bt crops), so in theory, fewer applications of pesticide on GE fields would be sufficient to take care of pests.

For the first three years of use, this was true. However, a new report by agricultural economist Dr. Charles Benbrook, Genetically Engineered Crops and Pesticide Use in the United States, shows that farmers now use more pesticide on the top three GE crops—corn, soybeans, and cotton—than on conventional varieties: Union of Concerned Scientists .

Enzymes, Digestion, and Raw Living Foods

The human body is a wondrous, miraculous healing machine.

- by Dr. James Carey, Ph.D. (computers)

Last week I discussed the role of the digestive enzymes and the pancreas, and how an organic raw living foods vegan diet improves digestion, nutrition and our energy levels. Today we're going to look at the role of stress in disease, and how that relates to your DNA and healing.

Think of your DNA as being like a piece of thread, or yarn. If you've ever twisted a piece of thread tighter and tighter, you may have noticed how the strands of the thread start to fray, breaking in small places along its length as you tightened.

When we undergo stress our DNA does the same thing. This stress can come through work, our families, our neighbors, our circumstances, the weather... but the biggest component of bodily stress is - what we eat.

That's right. When we eat a diet of processed, pesticided, herbicided, preserved foods, the work our body has to do to remove those toxins creates large amounts of stress.

When the body is stressed our DNA helix gets tighter and tighter. When it becomes too tight genome pairs start to fail, just like a fraying thread.

The genetic component of disease comes from this DNA predisposition. If your mother's DNA failed at the gene that prevents breast cancer, then you'll have the same genetic tendency when your genome pairs start to fail.  If your father had prostate issues, then you will, too, because the same gene pair will tend to fail under stress.

When we eat a diet that is high in organic raw living foods we reduce the stress in our bodies for the reasons we've discussed in the previous articles - detoxification of our body tissue, and reduced workload on the pancreas, liver and kidneys. Our DNA then loosens just like a released thread, and heals itself.

 

Here's the really good news:

• All of the tissue atoms in your body are replaced every six months.
• All of the bone atoms are replaced in six months to two years.
• When those atoms are replaced the DNA is replicated, and depending upon the stress levels in your body, will get better or worse.

 

Next time we'll discuss exercise and it's relationship with stress reduction, and how it also relieves depression better than drugs.

Yours in Great Natural Health,

Jim Carey


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, RawDoctors.com, chiDiet.com, chiDietVideos.com and chiDiet.net. Dr. Carey is currently doing an American television series about the raw vegan lifestyle. Episodes of his show can be seen at GrassyRootsTV.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.

(Dr. Jim also served as Director of Creative Health Institute for several years, and is a Trustee of the Creative Health Institute 501(c)-3 Non-Profit Trust.)

5 Reasons Why Raw Food Helps You Lose Weight

It’s a well-known and accepted fact that a raw food diet helps you lose weight rapidly and effectively. Some people take to raw food only to achieve significant weight loss, and once they do so, they sing its praises and adopt it as a way of life.

However, it’s not the fact that food is not cooked that leads to becoming slim and fit; it’s more because:

•    You eat hardly any saturated fats: When you go on a raw food diet, you stop eating foods that are processed which are high in trans-fats and saturated fats. This makes your body healthier and naturally slimmer. When you avoid fatty, processed foods on a long term, you also don’t tend to gain weight.  
•    Your intake of salt decreases: When you eat raw food, there’s often no need to add salt because you’re mostly eating fruits and vegetables. This means that you stop taking in salt in any form, and when this happens, you lose weight. Salt is not good for your body and causes a host of illnesses and diseases. You not only lose weight when you avoid salt, you also become healthier.
•    You eat more fruits and vegetables: When you eat more fruits and vegetables, you eat less of other foods that contain fat and unhealthy carbohydrates. This makes you lose weight naturally because you are avoiding foods that cause weight gain.
•    You are more energetic: When 90 percent of your diet comprises food, especially those that are naturally sweet, your body is filled with instant energy that you want to expend. You feel like going out and doing something, like exercise or other vigorous activities. In short, your lifestyle becomes very active and your metabolic rate increases. This makes you lose weight and also prevents you from putting it back on in the long run.  
•    You care more for your health: When you adapt to a raw food diet, it becomes a way of life, one that pushes you to live more healthily. You avoid alcohol, cigarettes and drugs; you don’t take medicines indiscriminately; you begin to exercise regularly; you sleep better; and you do not eat too much because it is hard to do so when you’re on a raw food diet. These significant changes contribute to a new, healthy and slimmer you.

Raw food diets are not for everyone – it takes a great deal of discipline and determination to make it work. So if you’re not sure of yourself or your level of motivation, start out slowly by adapting to a combination of raw and cooked food, and make steady progress as you go.

This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of online nurse practitioner schools. Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: [email protected]

Intentions and What You Eat

Hi Jim,

I just read your article where you wrote about your experience of the connection between eating and spirituality.  Thank you for this.  It is a great article.

I think the biggest thing missing in the world of nutrition and eating, regardless of what model one is promoting, is... CONTEXT.

People do not have a big enough context for why they eat.  Many people who are asleep have no context at all!  Context determines everything!!  When my context for eating evolved into eating for enlightenment; eating to experience a deeper connection with Creator; eating to (according to David Wolfe) increase the occurrences of serendipitous events in my life; eating to accelerate the Law of Attraction and deliberate manifestation in my life... my whole life changed.

Knowing that we are vibrational beings, (and that vibration determines what we attract and how well we can connect with Source), I now only have one reference for making any and every choice in my world, especially when it comes to food choices.  And that is.... will it raise or lower my vibration?

And even though I was, on human level, a little bummed about the list of foods Ann suggests to remove from our diet, if it means that I can better tune into the good stuff at the higher end of the "radio dial" of life... (what I call WGOD)... then so be it.

I am in this world but not of it.  I AM ascending and love it!!  My ascension and connection to my Mighty “I AM” is the most important thing in my life.  And if eating a certain way can accelerate my ascension, then I AM all for it!!

This is the context that has been missing and not talked about enough by health leaders.  Maybe it's time to start talking about it and let the chips fall where they may.  Maybe it's time to come straight out and say it.  Do you think it's time yet?  Is the world ready for this yet?

Let's call it The Ascension Diet.  The joke is that when one eats in this context, all of the desired physical and vane outcomes for eating all happen by default.

I have given this subject matter tremendous thought and contemplation.  I can talk at great lengths about.   I feel a blog and/or book brewing inside me.

You will never know how profound your response to my question about what water you drink has been to me.  You said, “I filter it and pray over the rest.”  It was the “Law” that broke the camel’s back for me!  It took all the pressure off of “doing it right”.  I realized that my intention and prayer was and is the ultimate determining factor of well-being in my life.  I qualify and determine the value and benefit of the food, whatever it may be, brings to me!!

A person who I respect once said to me, “A person will probably get more value eating a McDonald's Happy Meal in a state of joy and happiness than eating a raw, organic meal in a state of anger or depression." 

Too much emphasis has been put on what the right things too eat are instead of the mental state a person is when they eat it and their ability to qualify, charge, and energize their food, whatever they might be eating.

Continued success to you, Jim.   And Thank You.

Louie Schneidman

Why is the Wigmore Lifesytyle Different From the Raw Foods Movement?

In the seven years that I've been involved in the raw food movement I've been gratified by the rate and amount of it's growth. Sales of fresh fruits and veggies are the highest they've been in decades, and the awareness and acceptance of what we're doing is higher than I've ever seen.

I retired from the computer industry in '99, then discovered the Dr. Wigmore program of raw living foods at Creative Health Institute and changed my life in '01. A year later I found myself the Director there. I saw it as a good use of my time in retirement, a way in which to give back to the world all that's been done for me.

Initially I thought I'd help out for a year or two, get the center back on it's feet, build a website for them, start a newsletter and install a computer network.

I had no intention of embarking upon a second career, but that's what happened.

In 2001 there were only a handful of websites and resources. Friends would email me links with the message, "Look, a new raw website!"

If you did a Google search on "raw foods" you'd get several dozen page matches. I just did a Google search on the same term and got back 260 million page matches. Now THAT is a growing movement!

Finding raw recipes used to be a challenge; I just looked and found five dozen raw recipe books on Amazon.com alone, as well as numerous websites like chiDiet.net that publish new raw recipes every day. I love it!

I love it that Susan Schenck has published her encyclopedia of the raw foods movement, The Live Food Factor - I used to know everybody in the raw food movement, but now I rely on Susan's book to sort out who's-who.

I love it that movies like Supersize Me and Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days are reaching the mainstream market and showing in theaters, raising awareness of the dangers of the Standard American Diet (SAD).

What's Next?

Recently I was asked why I didn't retire again (can one re-retire?).

"The raw foods movement is taking care of itself now," I was told. "You've done what you set out to do. Why not go back to traveling, see the world, and enjoy your retirement?"

Tempting. I've thought about it for weeks.

What I've seen, however, is that Dr. Ann Wigmore's work isn't done yet. While it's gratifying that the raw foods movement has grown so much, Dr. Ann's program was about much more than just eating more fruits and veggies.

That's why I call it the Wigmore Lifestyle. Dr. Ann's program embodies an entire way of life, a healthier way of living.

Dr. Ann took sick, diseased people and showed them the way back to a healthy, happy life. She led them through detoxification and into healthy eating, true, but she also addressed the issues of stress, exercise, nutrition, food combining and more. Dr. Ann revived juicing, especially of Wheatgrass, growing sprouts at home in limited space, and created foods like Rejuvelac and Veggie Kraut - all radical ideas.

Each of the elements of her Lifestyle is important to maintaining a wholistic, healthy body and a positive outlook on life.

Her lifestyle is often simpler than the typical raw diet. It's really about re-learning how people were designed to eat before industrialization shifted population into the cities.

Dr. Ann saw that all healing - and good health - is Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual. She had a theology degree (along with several other degrees), but never preached - she taught that it's important everyone recognize, acknowledge and follow their personal spiritual path as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Like I said, wholistic.

In Conclusion:

I guess I can't retire. Not yet, at least. Wherever I speak I meet audiences that are predominantly raw fooders, ones that are doing better than they were on the SAD, but still find themselves with health challenges, deficiencies and toxicities.

I say "Thank You!" to all of the raw food advocates out there - around the world - for all you do. But when it comes right down to seeing people heal their health challenges and recover their lives, it's Dr. Ann's program that works. So I'm not retiring.

Not yet. There's still work to be done, and a message to share.

What I've Done Lately:

I've updated and modularized the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle, and by printing in higher volumes, lowered prices. Learn more at chiDiet.com and chiDietVideos.com.

This is a biggie - I've created an online version of Dr. Ann's Raw Living Foods Home Training Program, and of my Grassy Roots "Introduction to Dr. Ann Wigmore" TV show. You'll find them both on RawLife.org

Yours in Great, Vibrant Health!

Jim Carey

Here's a directory of Wigmore Educational Resources (all links open in a new window or tab):
AnnWigmore.com - The story of Dr. Ann Wigmore, and a listing of Wigmore Institutes
Dr. Ann Wigmore's Degrees and Awards - probably not a complete list
GrassyRoots.com - The 14-episode TV series I did about raw foods and the Dr. Ann Wigmore Lifestyle
chiDiet.com - The Home Study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle
RawLife.org - I put all of the videos from Grassy Roots TV and the Wigmore Lifestyle Home Study Program online
chiDiet.com/hs3.htm - The Dr. Ann Wigmore DVD video collection
GoRaw.net - Other raw websites I'm involved with or respect

Raw Testimonials and Stories:
http://rawlife.org/category/facts
http://annwigmore.com/index.php/testimonials-1.html
http://annwigmore.com/index.php/raw-testimonials-2.html
http://annwigmore.com/index.php/raw-testimonials-3.html
http://annwigmore.com/index.php/more-testimonials.html
http://chidiet.com/blog/category/success-stories
http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/ - See the various "Feedback" categories on this site

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. 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.

Dr. Jim also served as Director of Creative Health Institute for several years, and is a Trustee of the Creative Health Institute 501(c)-3 Non-Profit Trust.

Living to be 100

According to this fascinating video segment aired on Nova, only one in 10,000 of us will live to see 100. But scientists are working on finding ways to increase that number.

Researchers found cutting the food intake of just about any organism by up to 30-40 percent extended its life by as much as 60 percent.

Calorie restriction reduces insulin levels and triggers the production of sirtuins, which are produced as part of an intricate stress response that kicks an organism into survival mode (which beefs up DNA repair and prevents cells from dying).

13 minute video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3401/01.html.

You Don't Need a Drug to Make it to 100

Researchers have discovered that a molecule called nicotinamide, a component of vitamin B3 (niacin), binds to a sirtuin protein and prevents it from unleashing its renowned anti-aging effects.

A drug that prevents the niacin-sirtuin interaction could therefore help counteract age-related disorders, including obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Two Massachusetts-based companies are already working to develop drugs that affect sirtuin activity. Elixir Pharmaceuticals has filed more than 20 patents or applications related to a sirtuin class of compounds: http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/3/you-dont-need-a-drug-to-make-it-to-100.htm.

Paw Paw picking

A Spectacular Ending to a Wonderful Season at Creative Health Institute
- by Sarah Thompson, Fall, 2004

For years I've been coming to the Creative Health Institute (18, to be exact), and with each passing season this small but potent wheatgrass institute impresses me more and more. What is it in Hodunk that affects me so deeply that I would rather spend my summer laboring in our organic garden than sitting on the beach at Cancun? Is it the good fellowship I have with my fellow raw fooders, a chance to mingle with like-minded people? Or do I simply enjoy watching guest after guest go through this remarkable process detoxification and rejuvenation, satisfied that I've helped empower another human being with this sacred knowledge? Or, could it be more basic than that? Is it the food and the way it makes me feel that draws back? More specifically, as my physiology adapted over the years to the local plants?

For years, I've also been eating the wild edibles here at Hodunk. I've actually dubbed Hodunk the "Wild Edible Capital of the World" because I've never seen a wider variety of them anywhere else. Plants such as Lambsquarter, Parslane, Queen Anne's Lace, Stinging Nettles, Plantain and Burdoch Root, to name just a few, grow abundantly on our grounds.

This year alone I've consumed at least fifty young sweet red clover flowers. I always knew red clover as a blood cleanser with anti-cancer properties, but this year I learned that it's also a powerful hormone balancer. No wonder I feel so good! (Thank you, Dr. Ann!)

And everyone should be growing Comfrey, especially if you're a vegetarian. Did you know that Comfrey is high in plant protein and as one of the only plants that draws B12 from the soil? It also contains the compound allantoin, a cell-proliferant, which means it aids both plant and animal cells in creating new cells rapidly. Taken internally it helps to build cells, especially bone; used externally it makes a powerful poultice. Personally, I enjoy eating the roots, especially on a crisp fall day like the kind are having now. Which brings me to the Paw Paw.

As fall begins to approach winter, one by one, all of the wonderful plants that I've nibbled upon all summer are beginning to lie down and go to sleep. Every day I find it more and more challenging to forage. This afternoon Donald Haughey, our wonderful founder, decided to take us to a special grove of trees to forage for the elusive Paw Paw fruit.

Now, best thing about foraging for Paw Paw is that you get to say "Paw Paw." The Paw Paw is a small green fruit shaped like a kidney. The tree is thin, almost out-of-place amongst the maple and oak. Resembling a more tropical plant, it's known as the "Indiana or Michigan banana," growing mainly in Eastern America. The early spring twigs are being studied for a potent anti-tumeral agent known as Annonaceous Acetogenins. The fruit, however, is mild and sweet, and harvesting them with my friends was a treat I'll not soon forget.

The trees were glowing with the brilliant colors of fall, casting a light yellowish-green luminous quality around us. At first we suspected we were too late, but upon closer inspection we found enough fruit to fill our buckets. By simply shaking the trees, the fruit fell easily to the ground. We harvested enough fruit so that our guests and staff can enjoy the nutritious fruit for weeks to come.

Nature is remarkable, especially if you have the opportunity to follow its natural rhythm. Here nature has provided us with fruit at the tail-end of the season that is high in the antioxidants vitamins A and C, boosting our immune systems so that we can enter into the winter months fortified.

My challenge for you is to find the wild plants in your area that are edible. Never eat anything you can't identify, so start out with something simple like dandelion. You'll be surprising a good you'll feel after juicing the plant with carrots, or blending it (including a flower), with apple and avocado.

Don't forget: if you ever find yourself in the middle of a Paw Paw grove, shake down a few for the deer. They always appreciate a helping hand!

[You can see photos of healthy, vibrant raw gardener Sara scattered about the CHI website. http://creativehealthinstitute.com]

About Natural Wellness

This is written in response to the wonderful testimonial for the Creative Health Institute program from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cowley. Consider radical medical practice in comparison with the message from this couple, who used corrective nutrition, instituting remedial reality as God and Nature intend.

Traveling through a medium-size city a few miles from CHI, I noticed a billboard on the edge of town that, with a large display, advertised BODY PART REPLACEMENT. At the speed we were traveling, this was all I read. I should go back and confirm that what I saw was an advertisement for a local physician or hospital.

Consider that good diet and lifestyle will sustain natural wellness and that excessive use of "dead" foods, nicotine and alcohol are unnatural substances for man, which is the reason for the majority of dis-ease. We are the only creatures on this planet that cook food and we should begin to realize why we have the widest range of diseases of all known life forms. Indeed, the decline of many "critters" is the result of the intrusion of man's expanding population.

Writing this, of course, is prompted by my own life experience. I was told by the medical establishment at 34 years of age that I was not to expect to live another year. The Dr. Ann Wigmore Program changed all that and I write this at the age of 80 with the primary intend of initiating interaction with those who search for and believe in Natural Wellness.

Donald O. Haughey
co-founder, Creative Health Institute
September 5, 2006

Stress, DNA and Healing All Tie Together

-    The human body is a wondrous, miraculous healing machine.

by Dr. James Carey, Ph.D. (computers)
- reprinted with permission from Christendom International Magazine.

Last time I discussed the role of the digestive enzymes and the pancreas, and how an organic raw living foods vegan diet improves digestion, nutrition and our energy levels. Today we’re going to look at the role of stress in disease, and how that relates to your DNA and healing.

Think of your DNA as being like a piece of thread, or yarn. If you’ve ever twisted a piece of thread tighter and tighter, you may have noticed how the strands of the thread start to fray, breaking in small places along its length as you tightened.

When we undergo stress our DNA does the same thing. This stress can come through work, our families, our neighbors, our circumstances, the weather… but the biggest component of bodily stress is – what we eat.

That’s right. When we eat a diet of processed, pesticided, herbicided, preserved foods, the work our body has to do to remove those toxins creates large amounts of stress.

When the body is stressed our DNA helix gets tighter and tighter. When it becomes too tight genome pairs start to fail, just like a fraying thread.

The genetic component of disease comes from this DNA predisposition. If your mother’s DNA failed at the gene that prevents breast cancer, then you’ll have the same genetic tendency when your genome pairs start to fail.  If your father had prostate issues, then you will, too, because the same gene pair will tend to fail under stress.

When we eat a diet that is high in organic raw living foods we reduce the stress in our bodies for the reasons we’ve discussed in the previous articles – detoxification of our body tissue, and reduced workload on the pancreas, liver and kidneys. Our DNA then loosens just like a released thread, and heals itself.

Here’s the really good news:

•    All of the tissue atoms in your body are replaced every six months.
•    All of the bone atoms are replaced in six months to two years.
•    When those atoms are replaced the DNA is replicated, and depending upon the stress levels in your body, will get better or worse.

Next time we’ll discuss exercise and it’s relationship with stress reduction, and how it also relieves depression better than drugs.

Yours in Great Natural Health,
Jim Carey

Learn more at chiDiet.com

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, RawDoctors.com, chiDiet.com, chiDietVideos.com and chiDiet.net.

He's currently doing an American television series about the raw vegan lifestyle. Episodes of his show can be seen at GrassyRootsTV.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. He can be contacted via email at [email protected].

(Dr. Jim also served as Director of Creative Health Institute for several years, and is a Trustee of the Creative Health Institute 501(c)-3 Non-Profit Trust.)

Would you like to be well?

by Donald O. Haughey, Founder, Creative Health Institute

Yes? Then ask yourself, “Why?” To what purpose are you seeking wellness? What are you doing with your life? When I teach wellness to people it’s to help bring them to their true purpose.

Find a good reason to be healthy. I don’t just want to see people’s aches and pains go away, I want them to be transformed. If you live with a sense of high, pure purpose you wake up stimulated by that purpose and you hit the road running.

So if you want to be healthy, ask yourself, “Why?”

Wellness and the Weather (location, location, location)

It’s great having a resource like Creative Health Institute here in the Midwest. Every other Wigmore training center is located around the fringe of the country.

But sometimes the weather in Michigan can be a bit severe on the body and psyche, and we start having thoughts of Florida for a couple of weeks vacation.

Well, if you’re one of the lucky ones considering a trip to warmer climates for a little vacation this year, why not consider Puerto Rico? For the same price as a Florida vacation you can spend two weeks at the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute there. Even if you’re already familiar with the Wigmore program, they have a “relaxation program” that’s just super!  See www.AnnWigmore.org for more information.

Who's your guru?

Who's Your Guru?
by Dr. James E. Carey, DD, PhD (computer technology), former Director and Executive Trustee of Creative Health Institute

As editor of the chi Living Foods Newsletter, and as one of the volunteers that create, produce and distribute the home study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore / Creative Health Institute program, I get lots of letters. One of the most common queries I receive is about resolving the conflicting advice of various "raw food gurus." Somehow, I'm expected to have all of the answers. And at a deeper level, people want to know WHY there are so many conflicting opinions and methodologies surrounding raw foods - why can't we all agree on the facts, they ask?

First I bear in mind that the greatest mistake in life we can commit is one-sidedness, when we believe that wear are in possession of the only exclusive truth, and everything and everybody else is wrong. Therefore, I trust little of what I "think" I "know." After all, "everybody knew" that the earth was flat, that ships made out of metal would sink, that the human body was incapable of traveling faster than 35 mph, that Dewey would be elected President over Truman, and that cooking food was healthy.

So I examine what is being said from a critical viewpoint. Is there clinical evidence, unbiased studies, scientific research to back up what the person is saying, or are they merely rendering an opinion? In most cases we're listening to opinions - opinions not necessarily gathered from unbiased personal observations and research.

Then I look at who made the statement and what their reputation is. People like Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Dr. Douglas Graham, Dr. Bernard Jensen, Dr. Edmund Bordeaux Szekely, Dr. Lorraine Day and Dr. Ann Wigmore, after receiving a through medical education, have made extended, often life-long, scientific and clinical studies of the effects of raw and cooked foods on the body, and back up their opinions with statistics and evidence, not just anecdotal stories.

Others, like Victoria Boutenko, Paul Nison, Hiawatha Cromer, Nomi Shannon and Juliano, have studied raw foods extensively, often for decades, usually with recognized raw living food experts or academies, have devoted years of their lives studying the effects upon themselves, sharing the raw living foods lifestyle with others, and have often participated in studies as well as conducted their own. After accumulating all of this experience, their friends encourage them to speak out publicly about what they've learned.

Both of these groups are eminently respectable, and I trust their advice and opinions.

There is a third group. These are raw fooders that have taken a two-week program somewhere are are now out to save the world. With less than a year of experience they come out with their first book. I applaud those who have purity of motivation, but unfortunately, many have jumped on the bandwagon because they see this as a "good business opportunity." Interest in raw food is up four-fold in the last two years, it's the #2 diet and Hollywood, and it's often "sexy" to the media.

Sometimes there appears to be a new "insight" or "revelation" in the work of these newcomers, but opinions are merely empty words until they are backed up by solid evidence.

I try to read the works and newsletters of all raw fooders, but the more I see blatant self-promotion the more I question their motives and the validity of their writings. So many, many times their "original work" tends to be composed of re-worked material originally developed by the people named above. We have an ironic saying in academia - "stealing from one person is plagiarism, stealing from two or more is research." The point is, true research is more than just rewording the works of others.

Anybody that emails me more than once a month about their "exciting, revolutionary" new book, or video, or discovery, is suspect. Those that email me three times a week tend to be shameless self-promoters, rewriting and reworking the material of others.

If you want to find out if something is true, first ask yourself if it's in harmony with the laws of nature? If yes, there's a one-third probability that it's true. Then ask if it's in harmony with eight thousand years of wisdom, with all the highest teachings of the great spiritual giants, philosophers and scientists. If yes, there's a two-thirds probability that it's true. Then ask yourself if it's in harmony with your inner intuition. This inner intuition is another avenue to truth (see Power vs. Force), and if it's in harmony with your intuition also, then you can be sure that it is true.

"Gray are all the theories, but green is the tree of life." - Goethe

How do you find a good doctor?

Here's Dr. Mercola's opinion of how to go about finding a good physician:

http://mb.mercola.com/QA/How-Do-You-Find-a-Good-Physician--2109.aspx.

What the first humans ate

What the First Humans Ate
by Victoria Boutenko

          Once, when I was a little girl, my father took me to an archeological site located near the Azov Sea. There, scientists were excavating the ancient Greek town of Tanais from 5th century B.C. We were surprised to discover that this ancient town was positioned so deep in the ground. During the past 25 centuries, it gradually had become covered by almost 30 feet of dirt. We had to climb down many steps to reach its narrow streets and tiny stone homes surrounded by stone fences. Tanais was so well preserved, that it was easy to imagine it full of people. I was mesmerized by my feelings of physical closeness to prehistoric life.

In addition to wandering the streets of Tanais, we were permitted to touch some newly excavated artifacts. Many small, broken, and other nonessential pieces were left at the site after they were thoroughly studied by the scientists. We found many small fragments of broken ceramic dishes, covered with curious patterns. I especially remember a very unusual looking petrified fish, which looked as if it had recently been dried. I immediately made plans to bring this 2,500 year old fish back to school with me, but as soon as I touched it with the tips of my fingers, it collapsed into powder.

          Not long ago, I found myself equally mesmerized when I read about recent archeological discoveries. The article talked about the thirteen oldest human skeletons unearthed in East Africa[1]. The scientists dated them at 3.6 million years and named them “the first family.” These hominids* had curved phalanges, or finger bones, which means the creatures were agile tree-climbers. Also, they had very thick enamel on their teeth; and their molars were large and square, similar to other creatures that chew lots of greens[2]. Scientists believe that the first humans spent the majority of their time in the branches of trees because that habitat offered much-needed protection from predators and supplied fruit and green leaves, and thus the tree-climbing adaptation developed.

          The earliest humans, known as “Australopithecus,” dwelled in East Africa about 3.6 million years ago. At that time, the land of East Africa was covered by tropical rainforest. It made sense to me that they lived in the tropics because heavy annual rainfall, high humidity, and hot temperatures year around ensured an abundance of food for all the inhabitants of the rainforest. I have heard amazing stories from people who traveled to the tropical rainforest about the countless varieties of fruits, all of different shapes, sizes, and colors. Some of these fruits even grow directly off the trunks of the trees. The variety of fruit-bearing plants in the tropical rainforest reaches almost three hundred different specimens, very few of which have been cultivated.

          Sweet fleshy fruits attract not only birds and mammals but even fish, when the fruit rolls into the water. Due to the wealth of fruit, most of the animals in the tropical rainforest live in the canopy, which is the upper part of the trees. There is so much food available up there year round that some animals never descend to explore the forest floor. (I could definitely live like that if only I could get my computer up there!)

(This is a long chapter and I cannot publish it all here. Victoria)

Copyright 2007 by Victoria Boutenko. www.rawfamily.com

Fasting making a comeback with physicians

Fasting, practiced for thousands of years as a cure for a variety of diseases, is making a comeback slowly among the practitioners of modern medicine.

Buchinger, on Germany's Lake Constance and a handful of other clinics around the world are beginning to offer fasting as one of the physical therapies and medical tourists are flocking to take advantage, according to Newsweek.

The magazine said by fasting the doctors at Buchinger mean a "minimalist diet of 300 calories per day, veggie broths and juices for two weeks to several months, accompanied by blood tests, purges and other treatments."

Director Frantoise Wilhelmi di Toledo was quoted as saying many hard-to-treat conditions, from arthritis to allergies and various skin disorders, benefit from the metabolic switch that takes place when the body starts living off its own reserves.

"Of the 2,000 guests who come to fast each year (half from southern Europe, America and the Middle East), about one third arrive with serious ailments the rest come to lose weight or cut stress," he said.

Fasting, the magazine says, has lately gotten a boost from medical research. Clinical studies in Scandinavia have shown that fasting is an effective treatment for rheumatism especially if followed by a vegetarian diet. In one study, pain and swelling came down by a third in a week and stayed that way for a year.

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