Finally, you can tell your kids to monkey around in the kitchen and feel good about it!
Introducing… The First Raw Food Recipe Book for Kids!
(Easy Raw Food Recipes That Taste Great and
Are Fun to Make!)
Dear Mom,
You’ve had a rough day—the kind that leaves you feeling like you’re the flat tire on a minivan that just won’t go. You have meetings, so Dad’s in charge until supper time.
You arrive home frazzled, but ready for another evening’s routine of supper, tubs, scrubs and pajamas.
You enter the kitchen and take a step back because…
…the table is already set.
While the carrots are cut a bit rough and the kitchen mess might be more than you bargained for, the beam in the eye of the ones you love most is enough to melt your multi-tasking heart.
All those gentle reminders to eat your greens paid off, Mom.
It’s a picture-perfect moment, and not one you’ll need to leave to dreaming for long.
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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
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 
– from WigmoreDiet.com, The 13 Step Raw Living Foods Success Guide
Every plant is a miracle with the ability to pull a unique combination of elements from the soil, water, sunlight and air. When we find one possessing the right balance to satisfy our requirements of health and healing, we have found our miracle.
“There are two vital aspects of chlorophyll that should not be overlooked. First is its creation in the plant as a result of a conversion of the sun’s energy-which makes it a sort of living battery. Second is its remarkable similarity to a vital component of human blood – hemoglobin. Circulating in the bloodstream, hemoglobin molecules carry oxygen to the cells throughout the body.” Dr. Ann Wigmore, The Sprouting Book.
“Chlorophyll deserves a high place in the eliminative diet program because it is a fluid which helps clean the cell structure of the body. It has vital minerals to help build these structures with new cell life.” Dr. Bernard Jensen, The Healing Power of Chlorophyll.
Below is a list of a variety of greens and their effects on the body. All of these greens contain an abundance of chlorophyll. Decide which are best for you so you can incorporate them into your juices and energy soup.
- Alfalfa Sprouts: Rich in vitamins (including vitamin U for peptic ulcers) and trace minerals, it also contains eight essential digestive enzymes and eight essential amino acids. It helps cleanse the kidneys and provides energy and endurance.
- Beets and Beet Greens: Very rich in vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iodine and other trace minerals. This cultivated green is a powerful blood purifier and liver/gall bladder cleanser and is helpful with obesity. It also builds good blood.
- Buckwheat Greens: A wonderful building and cleansing food containing vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, niacin, pantothenic acid, many minerals including rutin (a natural longevity agent due to its antioxidant properties) and calcium. Buckwheat greens are especially helpful in circulatory and heart problems as they also contain lecithin, a natural cholesterol-lowering fatty acid. Buckwheat juice is best mixed with other sprout, green and vegetable juices to make green drinks.
- Lecithin is one of the derivatives of glycerin and is of value for cases of malnutrition, rickets, anemia, diabetes and tuberculosis. Lecithin helps in the structural support of all cells, especially of the brain and nerves. It is important in preventing and correcting atherosclerosis, causing cholesterol and neutral fats to be broken into microscopic particles so they can be easily utilized by the tissues.
- Cabbage and Cabbage Sprouts: Cabbage is a good source of vitamins A, C and U, along with the trace elements iodine and sulfur. Cabbage is good for the digestive tract and helps ulcers.
- Carrots: This king of vegetable juices is extremely high in pro-vitamin A, which the body converts to vitamin A. It also contains vitamins B, C, D, E and K, as well as calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and trace minerals. The alkaline minerals contained in carrot juice, especially calcium and magnesium, help to soothe and tone the intestinal walls, plus strengthen bones and teeth. Skin, hair and nails benefit from its high protein and mineral content. Fresh carrot juice stimulates digestion and has a mild diuretic effect. Perhaps its most important contribution to body health is its tonic and cleansing effect on the liver. Through regular use, carrot juice helps the liver release stale bile and excess fats. When fat levels are reduced, cholesterol levels are reduced.
—- There is no such thing as a toxic dose of carrot juice. While it’s true that it’s possible to “overdose” on vitamin A, it’s impossible to overdose on pro-vitamin A – the precursor to vitamin A that is found in abundance in carrot juice. Pro-vitamin A is converted to vitamin A in the body. Drinking more than five glasses of carrot juice per week may cause the skin to yellow slightly; however this is simply a manifestation of the toxins that the liver is excreting. To reduce these effects, simply decrease the dose of carrot juice. Mixed with other juices, especially sprout and green juices, carrot juice acts as a balancing element. It adds a delicious, sweet flavor to juice combinations and increases both their digestibility and nutritional value. As an overall tonic and rejuvenator, carrot juice can’t be beat.
- Celery: It has a calming effect on the nervous system. This is probably due to its high concentration of organic alkaline minerals, especially sodium. The minerals contained in celery juice make the body’s use of calcium more effective, balancing the blood’s pH.
- Organic sodium, which is abundant in celery juice, has received a bad name because of the average American’s habitual overuse of inorganic sodium chloride – table salt. Unlike inorganic sodium chloride, organic sodium found in celery juice is naturally blended with many other useful minerals. It is essential to the proper functioning of all major body systems. Organic sodium is the element in the blood that makes it salty. Because of its slightly salty taste, celery juice is an excellent component of any vegetable juice combination. Celery juice is especially effective for nervous conditions because it produces a calming effect. For weight reduction diets it curbs the desire for sweets.
- Comfrey: All parts of this plant can be used – root, leaves and flowers. Comfrey helps eliminate bloody urine. It is high in potassium, vitamin A and calcium. The allantoin in comfrey is the same ingredient that is contained in fractured bones and is often referred to as the “bone-knitter”. It is also good in repairing nerve tissue.
- Dandelion Greens: Pick young tender leaves before the flowers have formed. Rich in vitamins A and C, minerals such as calcium, manganese, chlorine, potassium and iron. Acts as a tonic to the system. It destroys acids in the body. As it contains organic sodium, it is very good for anemia caused by a deficiency of nutritive salts and is recognized as a great blood builder and purifier. It is also effective as a liver cleanser. It is a gentle laxative and can therefore be used in a tea for babies and children.
- Lambs quarter: Pick young tender leaves before the flowers have formed. Very rich in calcium, phosphorus, vitamins A and C and the B vitamins thiamin, riboflavin and niacin. One of the best tasting of the wild edibles and is very common throughout the United States.
- Parsley: Rich in vitamin A, thiamin (B1), niacin (B3), C and the minerals calcium, chlorine, iron, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and sulfur. One of the best diuretics. Strengthens the kidneys, bladder and spleen, lowers blood pressure, cleanses the liver and strengthens the eyes.
- Purslane: Pick succulent leaves and stems from June until frost. Very rich in iron, calcium, vitamin A. This is a very good tasting wild edible green.
- Radish Sprouts: Rich in vitamins A and C and minerals, including trace minerals. This is a hot, spicy sprout and will heat up a cold body. The flavor is strong, so use sparingly. A good blood stimulator and cleanser. Powerful liver and kidney cleanser.
- Red Clover Sprouts: Has many of the properties in the dried adult plant, plus a host of living enzymes. Acts as a blood purifier in the body and helps relieve nervous disorders, skin problems, acne, etc. It is very cleansing to the body.
- Sunflower Greens: Sunflower sprouts do much to relieve malnutrition and to eliminate toxic poisons from the system. This is done mainly by providing the body with the nutrients needed and nature does the restoration work. The many vitamins and minerals in sprouts are at their highest peak of activity while sprouting.
- Other Healthy Edibles: Chicory, Malva, Shepard’s Purse, Nasturtium, Mint, Sourgrass, Chickweed, Watercress, Fiddleheads, Rosehips, Plantain.
Dear Dr. Carey,
We just received your package yesterday in the mail. Everything seems to be in good condition.
The boys had fun helping me sort everything and check it off against the checklist online.
We felt like children in a candy store, God’s “candy” that is! Not only were we able to check off everything, but found even more extras!
I told a friend of mine that this will be our Health and Nutrition curriculum for the next 10 years!
The Super Quick Start Guide is extremely helpful! Like you said, this is A LOT of information and it looks very overwhelming at first.
It is hard to stick to the schedule you laid out, I want to look at and read everything at once, but I know it will be worth it! 
Right now, I am starting to read Why Suffer? How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally.
Thank you, once again, Dr. Carey, for the program!
God bless,
Lisa Dams
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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.
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:
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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.
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5 minute preview video:
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Dr. Ann Wigmore on Eating for Nourishment
March 10th, 2010
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Dr. Ann talks about eating vs. nourishment, and introduces the staff at Hippocrates Institute, 1988. RARE footage from the Ann Wigmore Home Study Program.
- 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.
Stress, DNA and Healing the Body With What We Eat
March 8th, 2010
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- 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.