WigmoreDiet.com is selling four Dr. Ann Wigmore Lifestyle books for less than $2 each, including the 13 Step Raw Living Foods Success Guide from the Wigmore Home Study Program.

Check it out: http://wigmorediet.com/

The holidays are over, your resolutions are already falling by the wayside, and you’re starting to settle back into the same rut you were in last year. Sigh…

Why? No, it’s not because you don’t have any willpower.

There are two reasons: homeostasis and toxicity.

Homeostasis is the body’s natural tendency to want to continue to do what it’s been doing. The body doesn’t know that something is unhealthy – all it knows is that it’s surviving with the current chemical balance. Thus, it’s tissue’s nature to resist change. This is a natural survival mechanism of your body.

Toxicity is the cause of all dis-ease. When we put toxins into the body faster than they can be processed out, the body stores the toxins in fat cells, to protect us. Accumulate enough toxins in your fat cells and you’ll begin developing health challenges.

Toxicity is why I was unable to lose weight before I went on Dr. Ann’s program. My body was highly toxic,  and was storing the toxins in my fat cells to protect me. My vegetarian diet was still non-organic, processed foods, so my body never got a chance to heal itself.

Once I went on a regime of raw, living, organic, uncooked foods my body was able to process those toxins and eliminate them. I not only lost 30 lbs. in 30 days, my arthritus disappeared, my mental processes became sharper, I had more energy and I was happier – all of the time. [Legal: see the "typical benefits" statement]

Dr. Flora van Orden III has a PhD in nutrition, was Dr. Ann Wigmore’s personal assistant for 22+ years, traveled the world with Dr. Ann, and has been a Wigmore Practitioner for 40 years.

Flora has graciously agreed to run a 21-day Wigmore-based Detoxification and Rejuvenation program for us. This program is designed to get us back on track to a healthy, non-toxic lifestyle.

The program starts on Monday, March 1st, and will be internet-based. That is, we’ll email you the plans, goals and recipes for each day, and coaching and interaction will be done though comments on RawLife.org.

This program is free! Sign up here: http://rawlife.org/detox/an-invitation.htm

Flora and I will endeavor to answer all of your questions in a timely manner.

Please, come join us! I promise we’ll make it fun!

Rawsomely Yours,

Jim Carey

Sign up here, for free!: http://rawlife.org/detox/an-invitation.htm

January 14th, 2010 – Yesterday I spoke with Dr. Gabriella Kortsch on her radio program, Re-Wiring the Soul, broadcast from Southern Spain.

On the show we spoke about the raw foods lifestyle, spirituality, and Dr. Ann Wigmore’s motivations in sharing the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle with the world since the 1960’s.

Click here for the MP3 recording (it’s in English): Jim Carey, Ann Wigmore and Re-Wiring the Soul

Here’s the link to the show on Dr. Gabriella’s website: http://bit.ly/4zmqZk or
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rewiringthesoul/2010/01/13/jim-carey-and-the-ann-wigmore-lifesyle

Jim Carey

PS: I did the show from the front lawn of my place on Maui, Hawaii, at 6 AM via cell phone to Spain for a live afternoon talk show – with no static, no dropped signal, no issues whatsoever. It sounds like I’m in the studio with Gabriella. Technology never ceases to amaze me!

I appreciate your comments!

Last year I decided to “Go Green” with the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods® Lifestyle Study Program. So I set up an entirely new website, RawLife.org.

I converted all of the books, CDs and DVDs to digital, online delivery content. It was quite a project; there’s about 60 hours of video, several online manuals and two Dr. Ann Wigmore audio books.

The content is measured in Terabytes (TB). One TB = 1,000 gigabytes, or several times the size of an average hard disk drive.

It was so big, in fact, that I had to buy a hosting service to have enough storage, not to mention the bandwidth required to deliver that much video to hundreds of people simultaneously. So last year I bought a premium hosting service on the Internet Backbone as part of this project (translation: it’s fast).

By August RawLife.org was up and running. It was instantly popular – real popular. What people appreciate the most is how well-organized it is, and how easy it is to find the exact material you’re looking for with the search feature. Check it out at RawLife.org.

It was so popular, in fact, that I thought we could discontinue the physical DVDs, CDs and books of the traditional Home Study Program. So when we ran out last month, I didn’t reorder.

THAT WAS A BIG MISTAKE!

I’d misjudged what you folks want. I know you’re a high-tech audience. I’ve done surveys of the newsletter readers and Home Study Students, and I know your market demographics. The vast majority of you have no problem downloading and viewing streaming video.

What you don’t want to do, however, is replace your DVDs and TVs with a computer screen.

Boy, did I get the calls and emails. Yes, you’re right – it IS easier and more convenient to pop a DVD into the player in any room of the house, and to jump to a particular place in the video when you’ve seen it before.

Now, mark my words, in a couple more years your computer is going to replace your TV for entertainment and news.

But you guys are right – that day isn’t here yet.

So I’ve reordered the Home Study Program on DVD.

As a “green compromise” I’ve put all of the handbooks, manuals and recipe books on CD so they’re easily transferred to your iPod, Kindle or whatever, and you can quickly search for the specific item you’re looking for.

Thus, the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods® Lifestyle Home Study Program is available on DVD again. Buy it all at once and you’ll have something like 47 DVDs and over a dozen CDs in your instant raw living foods library. That’s six months to two years of educational and motivational material, and a great way to share with others or teach raw living food classes.

I’ve also split it up into segments so that you can acquire it over time, and I’ve added monthly payment options, too.

You’ll find it where it’s been for the last seven years, at chiDiet.com.

If you have any questions please contact me.

Thanks!

Yours in Great Health,
Jim Carey
editor@chiDiet.com

P.S. If you haven’t visited the chiDiet.com website in a year or so, please do. I’m constantly upgrading, expanding and improving the Home Study Program!

Inside The Video Vault… One of the biggest myths and misconceptions people have about the raw diet is “how do you get protein?” Here’s a very rare video of Dr. Ann Wigmore herself talking about how raw foodists can get protein in their diets.

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
chiDietVideos.com – A large collection of Raw Living Foods DVDs, tapes, CDs and books
GoRaw.net - Other raw websites I’m involved with or respect

Transcript of the video, by Wendy Stams:

We are back again to, a make what we call, a, the replacement of protein.

And again, let me repeat that this living food is not a diet, and it is very complete.  Everything that we do (with) this living food has replacements.

Ordinarily you will have to have, of course, plenty protein; which has always been pointed out – people who are vegetarians are not getting enough protein.

So we put big emphasis on important role that we include plenty of protein.

So, we will make a protein (seed loaf?).  Of course there’s other things than sunflower… over hear we have nuts; and we have, a, we have also, um, some, a … well, any kind of nuts – like sprouts have a tremendous amount of protein.

So, it’s not because living food, everything that we have served, doesn’t have protein.

But that’s back to nature.  Strictly back to nature means nothing, just more things in nature.  So…

This particular, a, sunflower, which is soaked again for four or five hours, and then what we do (generally, gently)… we put it in the blender.

This (referring to the jar of seeds) soaked five hours, sprouted about one day, into the blender, (unable to make out a few words) … let it be blended with Rejuvelac.

Rejuvelac, again, it prevents oxidation, saves time, it helps (slightly, lightly) ferment.  See, living food consists of easy to digest nourishment through fermenting use of sprouts.

And, many, a, say like, greens, which is home grown in the kitchen and then, a, we put big emphasis on this, we call, a “protein slightly fermented”.

This what we’ll be doing here.  We will just blend this and pour into a sprout bag that is the, a, sprout bag with, with the, a, very important, a, thing, because you can hang it up to drain over night.

So let’s start with the blending.

Then we have to (half-mix), the, a, when it get’s thick at the bottom.  The, a, sunflower, especially.  Because it get’s thick and you have to start all over again.

…A little more Rejuvelac.  See, we do not measure anything.  A, because this is the create, to be creative, from your kitchen.  It is actually, a, important to, a, to know, a, to know approximately what to do.

Ok, now, open it, pour in the sprout bag, and then, you can (hang it up, set it up), which I did last night.  This happens to be ready and this is just going to be there all night.

So, a, the, a ready – kin… the ready kind, is for you to see how it looks; and I’m sure the (can’t make it out) …your protein.  There’s no…

I just want to get a plate where I let the, a, sprouts bag produce this (what we call) seed cheese.

I made quite a bit of it because cheese loaves that you make goes very fast.  Some people want to make protein nuggets and actually, we can, a, do it a lot of different ways.

And when I say protein nuggets, I just take some of that and I roll it.  And, (you could, we should)  be doing this later.

(unable to make out a few words) … And, that’s the reason I make so much of it.

And, a, I made a (seed loaf?).  And I’ll show you, too, in a little while, what seed loaf looks like – until I explain about other kinds of protein – such as the almonds.

Almonds actually need to soak even longer than 10 to 15 hours.  They need to be soaked about, oh, sometimes two days because they are very dry.

And then what I do, I put them in, a, hot water, and then, for one to two minutes, they peel very, very evenly; there is no problem in peeling.

See, it’s important to have the skins off because they look better, taste better … there they are.

And, I made some almond crème.  The almond cream is generally used also for different things.

We’ll be using some for the (can’t make out word) to make almond nuggets and also I could take about two tablespoons in a glass of Rejuvelac and I will have this wonderful Rejuvelac Almond Milk.

It takes practice.  Some people say “well, oh, I feel so hungry”.  Now, we don’t … no one needs to go hungry – because that is the best, the really best way to have a lift or a energy that is very, very (healthful, helpful) for busy people.

For anybody here in the audience that’s hungry, come and get it because it is very nice to have a good, substantial drink and very, very quickly.

And, actually, I like to have it available.  So all I did, I took these almonds, I put it in the blender, and I do not strain anything because if I’m going to eat other kinds of seeds, like sesame, I would have to strain them.  And then, a, if I use just ordinary seeds, like … [end]

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

http://chidiet.com/hs3.htm

Enjoy!

Jim

Rejuvelac Recipe Review, from Grassy Roots TV

Dr. Ann Wigmore taught that toxemia and deficiency are the root causes of all disease.

Deficiency that means that our bodies are undernourished and are not receiving the proper types and amount of food the body needs. The digestive tract is being overloaded and allergies have developed. Dr. Ann Wigmore believed that about eighty per cent of the population has deficiency disorders because of the body’s inability to digest food. This is why she developed methods for blending, sprouting, and fermenting. Living Food is supremely efficient nourishment that returns the body to health and productive self-healing.

Toxemia is a term used to describe poisons that are stored in the body. Toxins are formed from eating impure or unnatural, processed and chemicalized foods. Dr. Ann taught that the body can release these stored poisons by feeding it with Living Food in easy-to-digest form. Once the body eliminates stored poisons that have accumulated in the bloodstream the cells are able to receive nourishment, thus enabling the immune system to strengthen and rebuild.

To learn more about Dr. Ann’s detoxification and rebuilding program visit chiDiet.com.

Another good program is the Raw Diva’s six-day Deep Tissue Detox program. To learn more, click here.

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

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.