-    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 my sister – 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 (or 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 molecules of 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.

Me 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 – safely – in my body fat.

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

He 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 editor@chiDiet.com.

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

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

Last month 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 its 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.

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 jcarey@chiDiet.com.

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.

By Victoria Boutenko of RawFamily.com.

I often receive questions about oxalic acid in spinach. Here is an excerpt from the book Green Smoothie Revolution, page 34.

QUESTION: Should I avoid eating spinach because it has oxalic acid?

VICTORIA: The oxalic acid in food is considered harmful because it can combine with calcium and may leach the body of this important mineral. For some reason everyone knows of the oxalic acid in spinach, but is not aware of the oxalic acid content in many other commonly eaten foods such as grains, beans, and especially coffee and tea. While spinach is loaded with calcium which minimizes the loss of this mineral from your body, coffee has none. I would be more concerned about the oxalic acid content in coffee and other products than in spinach. At the same time, even though the oxalic acid content in spinach is minute, if you do not rotate your greens and use only spinach for many weeks, you may accumulate oxalic acid and experience symptoms of poisoning. Remember, rotate your greens!

– Thanks to Thea Rott for sharing this with us.

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Significant numbers of men over the age of 50 develop problems with prostrate health. The prostate gland is about the size of a chestnut and sits at the base of the bladder in front of the rectum. The prostate surrounds a tube called the urethra which passes urine out of the body. Problems can occur when the prostate becomes enlarged or inflamed to the point of impairing urination and causing severe pain. Such symptoms are may be due simply to non-cancerous prostate enlargement, seen commonly in aging men, which is called Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), formerly known as prostatism. Other causes could be infection or possibly a cancerous tumour.

Unfortunately prostate symptoms are often ignored until they become unbearable. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) states that prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the United States. The incidence of prostate cancer diagnosis in young men is on the increase, however the rate of deaths from prostate cancer has been decreasing, possibly due to improved detection methods.

Prostrate cancer and other prostate problems brings fear of impotency following surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. Consequently there seems to be a great interest in alternative remedies such as herbal cures, acupuncture, meditation and dietary chnages.

Saw palmetto is a key ingredient in a prostate health supplement, it has been found to be effective in reducing prostate enlargement. It reduced absorption of the hormone which triggers prostate enlargement when pro high levels, and also possesses properties which reduce inflammation and swelling, all of which contribute to relieving bladder discomfort and problems with urination.

To keep cancer at bay, a good diet to follow would be one that includes nuts, vegetables like cabbage, broccoli and kale, fruits like apples, grapefruit and papaya, oatmeal, fish and fish oil and seeds like flax, pumpkin, sunflower and sesame. Foods best avoided are red meats, alcohol, refined sugar, hydrogenated fats and soft drinks. Salmon helps fight inflammation. Research has found that men who ate it regularly had a 300% lower chance of prostrate enlargement. One nature cure recommends pureeing a few aloe vera leaves, combining it with a cup of honey and cooking it for 15 minutes. It is then mixed with 3 tablespoons of brandy and a teaspoonful drunk every 8 hours for a month.

Too often, it is because men are reticent about talking about prostrate problems. Early detection could mean a quick cure so it would be wise to go for a check up as soon as any kind of discomfort is felt in the area. It could make the difference between life and death.
Source: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/prostrate-problems-remedies.html

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Australia recognizes Bowel Cancer Awareness Week in June which is designed to raise public awareness of a disease that claims the life of one Australian every two hours. Bowel cancer is the most common cancer in Australia to affect both men and women and is Australia’s second biggest cancer killer after lung cancer.

Symptoms of Bowel Cancer:

There are a number of signs and symptoms of bowel cancer, such as:
* Bleeding from the rectum, accompanied by constipation or diarrhea.
* Sudden weight loss.
* Fatigue and low blood pressure.
* Change in the frequency and timing of bowel movement.
* Stools with mucus and/or melena.
* Bowel pain, tenderness and vomiting.
* Blood or air bubbles in the urine and vaginal discharge that is malodorous in nature.
* Anemia and palpitations due to a low hemoglobin level.
* Jaundice and liver enlargement.
* Paraneoplastic syndrome related to blood thickening.
* Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

After seeing the Dr. Ann video I posted a couple of days ago, Leisa Wheeler, a Naturopathic Doctor in Australia, emailed me her video version of the Green Smoothie.

In this video Leisa talks about Dr. Ann’s origination of Energy Soup, and how Victoria Boutenko, a Wigmore student, turned it into the “Green Smoothie” to make it more palatable and thus, more popular.

Leisa’s website is EmbracingHealthBlog.com.

18 minutes.

I’m sure you will get a lot out of it

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

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A diet of at least 80% raw foods is surprisingly easy to do with the tips & tools in the two-time award-winning book, The Live Food Factor, which has gained a reputation as the raw foods encyclopedia. Eating raw helps you reach and maintain your ideal weight, reverse and prevent disease, become more beautiful, slow the aging  process, enhance your creativity, increase your IQ by as much as 40%, get the competitive edge at work, regain the energy of your youth, increase positive thinking and heighten spiritual awareness. This book, winner of two awards, is available with over 70 bonus gifts at Live Food Factor.com. Here’s a neat website: The Going Raw Network – GoRaw.net. They link to a couple dozen websites that are all Raw Living Food-related. All of my favorites are there! GoRaw.net The Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle Home Study Program is almost sold out. Visit chiDiet.com to secure your copy, while they last. It might be a couple of months before the next printing gets here. (Why wait to increase you IQ?) Working with you to grow your health, Jim Carey P.S. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi	Dr. Jim Carey, PhD (computers), Raw Living Food Advocate Looking for DVDs and CDs about the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle? You’ll find my entire library is available at chiDietVideos.com. For news and events related to Food and Health – be it raw vegan, vegetarian or omnivore – visit RawDoctors.com. Lots of new articles, videos and podcasts every day! New Raw Recipes every day at chiDiet.net. We even have an option to be emailed a daily summary of postings.
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Dr. Jim ties it all together – what you eat, how you eat, where you eat, your outlook on life, and even the spiritual aspects of the Living Foods Lifestyle. He shows how all of this is related to good, optimal health and healing, and has some suggestions for you. Excerpts from GrassyRootsTV.com.