Get The Raw Food Home Study Course… FREE?
March 11th, 2009
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In the past weeks I’ve been hearing the words “thank you” quite a lot and I wanted to do something very special for you, but first… I personally wanted to thank *YOU*!
Honestly, if it wasn’t for great people like yourself, I would not be where I’m at today. I would not be able to share the message of Dr. Ann Wigmore and her teachings about the raw food lifestyle, nor would I have ever been able to help people change their lives and get healthy. It truly is a blessing and I owe it all to people like you.
I know you would do the same if you were in my shoes.
So I decided to do something very special as a way of saying “Thank You.” I’ve decided to give away two complete courses of my new (Ver 4.0) Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program – with all the bonuses.
The Two Grand Prize Winners Will Get:
- A FREE Complete Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Course Ver. 4.0, with all of the bonus items.
- A one hour personal consultation with me, Jim Carey!
Ok… So here are the rules:
- You must leave a BLOG COMMENT to be eligible to win the contest (see video here on how to leave a blog comment). Please DO NOT send me an email. The quantity of email I get now is already overwhelming.
- In your blog comment please tell me:
- Why you feel that you should win the course … AND …
- Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health
CONTEST TIPS: Feel free to create a video using YouTube.com. Videos are always better! If you use a video, please post a link to your video in your blog comment.
That’s it! I look forward to your comments and responses!
A very thankful,
Jim 
P.S. I have another special announcement coming later this month that I think you’ll enjoy (just another way to give back to you.)
P.P.S. You may or may not know it, but this entire community has grown because of, simply, “people telling people.” Again, it would have never be where it is today if it wasn’t for people like you. So I encourage you to pass along this email to your friends, family members, and whomever you think can benefit from this message or the messages of Ann Wigmore and chiDiet.com
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April 14, 2009 Update:
This has been so popular, I’m re-opening the contest and giving away another Home Study Program! If you’ve already entered then you’re already in for the next free Home Study Program. If you haven’t entered yet, please do! You could be the next winner of a $700 Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program!
February 24th, 2009 at 5:48 am
I would love to win a copy of the Ann Wigmore Home Study Course. I’ve been a raw vegan for the entirety of 2009 and have had great success with this way of life. I know that it is already helping me to achieve greater health because I’m seeing it happen before my very eyes. I have no more migraines, which I’ve suffered with for 17 yrs. I’ve dropped 19+ lbs. of excess weight. My moods have stabilized, the carpal tunnel I’ve had for 10 years is gone and so, so much more. I would love to win this home study course in order to learn even more about this way of life. It would be wonderful to delve even deeper into various aspects to learn more in order to, not only continue to heal myself, but to share the principles with others who may have even more reason to live this way. For example, my husband is a very, very sick man and, while he’s seeing the results of a raw vegan diet in me, I think it would be even more beneficial for him to experience someone else’s expertise on the subject. Thanks.
February 25th, 2009 at 12:34 am
I would absolutely love to win a copy of the Ann Wigmore Home study course because being raw ROCKS.
I cannot express the amount of delight I feel with every meal I eat… I feel like I am doing the best thing possible for my body, and it brings me such joy and feelings of empowerment. Our bodies are so amazing… why not put into them the most precious fuel? I am psyched to spread the word by sharing, by sheer example, that living a raw food, vegan lifestyle, is both fulfilling, and joyful. This course would bring a world of knowledge to my hungry mind, and I feel I could help others learn more about living foods as well. Thank-you!!!
February 25th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I would love to win Ann Wigmore’s home study course. I feel like I should win this because I have struggled with excess weight since I was born, starting out at 10 lbs 13 oz, and going up from there! I was a fat little kid, and pretty much have been my whole life. At almost 52 years old now, and after raising 5 kids, I have tried about every diet, to no avail. Do you know how depressing it was to grow up with people always saying, “You have such a pretty face.” With relatives, that was often followed by, “If only you could lose weight!” With stranger’s it may not have been spoken, but it was always there implied.
My path in the last couple of years has been to get in touch with my source (God). This has led me to be drawn more and more to raw foods. I had given up on ever losing weight, but was interested in feeling better. I now wonder if it can’t be achievable finally.
I feel the raw food diet can help me achieve greater health through the higher nutrition in raw fruits and veggies, nuts and seeds. I feel like I was put on this planet for an important purpose, but have been living in a shell, not wanting to go places, see things, experience life, due to my excess weight. I did the emotional cleansing stuff, and yes, I had some trials and hard times as a child, but so have many. That wasn’t the answer for me. I feel this is the answer, and would love the opportunity to learn from Ann Wigmore.
I feel I should win this because I deserve it. I’m worth it. It will not only change my life, but all people who come in contact with me, and see the changes it will have made in my life. I’m already 52, and it’s not too late to create miracle’s in my life, starting with re-educating me on how to eat a living diet for health and happiness. Thank you for considering me as a candidate to win. I promise you if I win, I will not let you down, and I will study it thoroughly, and apply it faithfully.
Sincerely,
Annie
February 25th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I have been experimenting with raw foods since the beginning of this month of February, so I’m just a newbie in this field. I have subscribed to several raw food websites that I follow very closely and yours is one of my main sources for inspiration. I hate to be ignorant so I want to learn as much as possible. Since I started my short journey into the raw foods, I feel so proud of myself because I know I am finally doing something that is really good and smart for myself. I have Ann Wigmore’s book in pdf and I am sure sooner or later I will stumble into her home study book but if I could get it for free it would surely help me a lot more, given that I am unemployed at these times of economic crisis.
Thank you for educating us!
February 25th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Wow. Moving stories. Thank you for the kind words.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Hi Jim,
It would be an answer to prayer to win the “Raw Food Home Study Program.” It would be my resource library to get a plan on how to transition into becoming raw. How to stay on track, and sustain this lifestyle. And, I would have all this at my fingertips instead of researching online. I have many questions that I am confident will be in all the CD’s and videos that I’ll need to sustain this new lifestyle. And the benefits are going to be: to heal my body of diabetic type 2, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease thyroid and lack of energy. The list is long on what I need to be healed of.
I want my life back! I want to have energy so I can do things I cannot do now. And feel young again.
I believe this is the last Lifestyle change I’ll ever need to make. Raw Foods may help extend my life and I’ll be able to lovingly share what it is doing for me and hopefully my loved ones will want to taste some of the lovely foods I’ll be eating.
I am ready for a change in my lifestyle. It is a long time coming. I have studied and researched. Now it is time to take action.
I would love to win this wonderful program, and would be truly grateful to have this library of wisdom to learn and to share with others.
Thank you for your consideration.
I appreciate all you do Jim.
Linda
February 26th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I would love to win this program. I have wanted to buy something of this sort for a long, long time now but never have been able to justify spending the money.
As a mother of 3, a grandmother of 5, at age 53,and on a very very low budget, spending monies for other things than necessities is a big deal. Even though this would be a great education for me for a better health those necessities always had to come first. To some, rent, utilities, and gas to get to school have to come first,this should be easy and not a problem. But they need to understand that this just does not leave money for things like this. A program like this would fall under a luxury I can not afford
I have fought with weight issues since around age 15. I have tried many things and raw food living has been the way of life that feels the most complete and right thing to do. But I can not seem to stop bouncing back and forth. There has got to be some reason for this.This program would probably show me where I am going wrong in my quest. Even though it is a bit more expensive than processed foods, it is well worth it to feel light, in tune with God, healthy, and an over all wellbeing.
I feel with this program I will finally have found the formula for true healthy living AND weight loss. I love to educate myself with any and all information out there. Ann Wigmore was a woman with wisdom beyond her years and to learn from one of the greats would be a very exciting and wonderful experience. With this program I feel I could learn how to rid myself of my type 2 Diabetes, High blood pressure and high triglycerides. I have already rid myself of arthritis and have gained energy from what I have found online and applied to my life.
I would love to be a teacher to be able to pass this information forward.
Thank you, Jim, for this chance to win.
Debbie
February 26th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
2/26/2009
Dear Dr. Jim.
My name is Elfriede Wirtz, age 74, and I know I am the WINNER of your
“FREE Complete Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Course ver. 4.0, with all of the bonus items.
A one hour personal consultation with me, Jim Carey!”
Thank you for your most generous prize; you have my admiration and gratitude for promoting this contest.
Why should I be chosen? Well, my VitaMix is at the ready and so is my eagerness to build (with your materials) the foundation for greater and more youthful health, vigor and vitality.
Why am I so eager to “build a new body” at this time? Frankly, I am scared to look down the road with my imagination seeing pictures from A to Z — not pretty…
Last October, my brother died at age 76, he suffered horribly for years with cancer and other “things.” — About one year ago, my sister had to have a major heart repair, and her husband just had a quadruple bypass… Two nieces with breast cancer are suffering greatly.
These still living people need my help and if I had enough knowledge in the Raw Living Foods arena, I would run to their aid this very moment. I feel I need to learn, help and teach. It is for these reasons I would greatly appreciate being one of your WINNERS.
Thank you very kindly.
Elfriede Wirtz
February 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
I don’t understand… Is there anything I still need to do? /ew
February 26th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
1. Why you feel that you should win the course …
I fell I should win the course because it changed MY life and my son’s (he’s Special Needs and is G-tube fed) and I want to gain all the information I can to myself and family and also help others with health issues and other parents with tube fed kids.
2. Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health
My raw journey started over a year ago when I was looking for a better option (other then canned processed formula) for feeding my son who is exclusively tube fed. I bought a Vitamix for him and started researching nutrition. This led me to start making changes for myself as well as the rest of my family. I blend raw fruits and veggies for my son it has improved his health, so I started to drink the mixes I made for him myself. I officially went raw in Nov ‘08…and I haven’t looked back:) I released 15lbs, I no longer have migraines, and the allergies are gone.
Whoever wins this will be truly blessed
I would be so grateful should it be me.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:14 am
I have been wanting to go “raw” since I found out that I have diabetes, two years ago. I feel that I should win the Dr. Ann Wigmore course because it will help me not only have a greater understanding of how raw can help me, but will help me learn how to go raw. I know that learning from Dr. Ann will help me not only cure my diabetes, but will also help me make raw food a lifestyle, not just something to cure a disease. I feel that going raw will help me and my family live healthier through out the rest of our lives.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:14 am
Greetings Jim,
Winning your course on Ann Wigmore’s raw food lifestyle would truly be an amazing gift.
I’d become so “educated” about nutrition that I truly haven’t a clue on what to eat. Blood type or Genotype? Vegan or Fruitarian. Red meat? Eggs?
What ayurvedic Dosha am I? What body type do I have?
Is that body type now or when I’m thin?
What about my ancestorial diet? The confusion has literally paralyzed me. I’m at the point that I can’t even answer questionairres about myself. Which “me” does the survey want? The 145lb me? Or the 230lb me?
Or maybe somewhere in between?
16 years ago I lost 70lbs from, of all things, water fasting. I’ve done about a dozen more water fasts. Then there were the juice fasts. I went nearly 10 years as a “processed food” vegan. I’d become so obsessed about eating “right” that I burned out and just gave up. Food now, has become a villan. Oh…how I long for the days when I didn’t “know” so much. Then I just ate food and loved it! But then I was only 14. What does a teen know anyway?
So, here I am, at 46, overweight, tired, grumpy, depressed, and in the throws of male menopause.
I later learned that no man should eat soy as it really messes up the testosterone/estrogen balance. And I ate TONS of processed soy products during my vegan years.
When I happened upon your website chills ran through my body. My inner being knows that what I am reading is the answer. There’s a difference this time. Before it was all intellectual “knowing”. And I was wrong.
Now I feel, intuitively, and with my whole body, that raw living is my salvation.
Thank you so much for this opportunity.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I would love to win the “Raw Foods Home Study Course”. Most of us who will post in this blog can probably give a financial reason of why we should win. Times are hard all over. If money weren’t an issue, I wouldn’t wait for the end of this drawing – I’d buy the program today! Except that I read somewhere it is sold out – but I’d put down my down payment immediately, if I could.
But financial constraints aren’t the only reason why I feel I should win. I am the “matriarch” of my family. I have four adult children, ages 19 – 23, all with weight issues. Three are being treated for depression. I have a granddaughter whom I babysit. She is only two, but already French Fries are her favorite food. Not from me! I’d never take her there! And I have a wonderful husband. He is a good man, and a hard worker. But he has been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. We’ve only been married for twenty-eight years. I’d love to keep him with me into my old age. I myself am taking medication for depression, hypothyroid, allergies, and high cholesterol.
My husband is the head of our family, but I am the heart of the home. Our grown children all look up to him. They ask his advice, and come to him with their problems. But when it comes to food and nutrition, or anything of a domestic nature, they come to me.
I convinced them all several years ago that most red meat was dangerous to their health. We started raising grass-fed beef. I convinced them to stay away from bovine growth hormones (we lived in the Dairy State at the time!) and we got our own dairy cow and milked her. I heard that pasturizing the milk would kill off most of the beneficial nutrients, so we drank it raw. Now all my children chose organic produce whenever possible, even with their limited budgets.
(We don’t have any beef right now, or the milk cow. We’ve had to move to another state to take a new job, and are struggling to sell the old farm while paying rent here. And the more I read about raw foods, the more I believe I could become totally raw.)
If I could learn about raw foods, it would change not only my life, but all of their lives as well. I look forward to seeing my husband’s diabetes cured, or at the least, controlled. I am eager for the day when my middle daughter, who must tip the scales at 300 pounds now, can walk proudly, her head high, at a more reasonable 135. She is a lovely person, trapped inside an unhealthy body.
I hate to take all the medications that I do. I have had severe allergic reactions to medicines that landed me in the hospital. I know that once I cleanse my body of the toxins I have unknowingly consumed, I will feel better. I need my energy restored, if I am to keep up with my precious granddaughter – who did eat a raw lunch with me today!
I know almost nothing about raw foods, except that it means to eat food raw. So I made a salad of grated carrot and kolrabi from a recipe I found on the web. I put prunes, grapes, and almonds on our plates with the salad. This two-year-old fussy eater ate everything on her plate! She likes raw food!
Finally, I would like to win the raw foods course, because I believe I can help spread the word. I have a blog now, targeted at families with preschool-aged children. I post lesson plans, menus, and helpful ideas to make their lives a little easier, and help them to build a stronger relationship with their precious children. As I learn more about raw foods, I can promote it through my menus, and through my lesson plans. Instead of having a preschooler plant a bean seed in a cup to watch it grow, I can extend the activity to eataing that bean raw. Or have preschoolers plant wheatgrass, harvest it and help to make their own lunch. And in the helpful hints section, I would post the suggestion of keeping a cooler by the door, to fill with raw fruits and vegetables and juices before running errands, instead of swinging by McDonalds on the way home.
Yes, if I can learn how to improve my health, my lifestyle, my family, through this course, then I believe I can spread the news, and encourage a wider circle to embrace greater health.
Thank you.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I wish we had the budget to give each and every one of you a free copy of the course!
March 4th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Jim,
I would be eternally grateful if I were chosen to receive a copy of Dr. Ann Wigmore’s Home Study Program. I am fairly new to raw and living foods and I feel confusion because I do not know how to correctly implement the lifestyle. I want to fully understand raw food because I desperately want to help my father regain his health. I took a year off of school (one year left!:)) and work to be with him and try to help him but I need help. Raw food makes SOOOO much sense to me and I truly believe that I found it for a reason.
My father has had a lot of struggles with his health in the last year (he has always been healthy before this). It started with both of his hands becoming very swollen and painful. The pain was so severe that he was unable to sleep for more than 15-20 minutes at a time- he got to the point where he couldnt hold himself up because he was so tired. He saw 4 different doctors during this time and they couldn’t tell him what was wrong- they just prescribed different drugs. The swelling calmed down within the first week but all 8 of his fingers started turning dark blue. He was still in severe pain and he felt like his fingers were being pricked constantly. About 2 weeks after all of this started, I took him to the Emergency Room. He hadnt slept for more than 20 minutes at a time during those 2 weeks and he was in terrible pain. I have never seen anyone hurting so much (let alone my dad) and the memory still hurts me to this day. My father was admitted and put on morphine to help him get some sleep. He stayed in the hospital for 3 months. Specialists came to see him and soooo many tests were run, and the doctors all told us that they had never seen anything like it before. They made a diagnosis (which was later changed). The meds that they put him on damaged his muscles and he lost all of his muscle strength. He couldnt even lift his arms and for a while they were monitoring his heart for fear that it would weaken too. Luckily, they managed to clean the drugs out of his system and he slowly regained some strength.. but he is still weaker today than he was before the medications were given to him. My father is a hard working man who worked 13 hour days, 6 days a week while running his own business. He was extremely strong and healthy up to the DAY that this all started. I want to help him regain his strength. He is an amazing man who takes care of others and never complains. He DESERVES to have optimal health (as we all do).
The problem with the fingers persists to this day. He was told that he would have to amputate all 8 of his fingers. By some miracle, my father noticed that one of the fingers looked like it was improving. This was 2 months after the ordeal started and ONE day before his surgery was scheduled. I am so grateful for this! I literally cannot explain the relief that I felt. If he had not noticed this, he would have lost all 8 of his fingers and we would never have known that there was another option.
He was let out of the hospital where he continued to exercise and eat a lot more vegetables. This helped clear up 4 of the fingers. Unfortunately, the progress has now stopped and we havent seen any changes in about 2 months. The doctors are telling him to have the surgery, but he still believes that his body can heal itself- even if its just a bit. It is worth it to try and save any part of your body and I hope we can save the remaining fingers.
Im sorry this is so long. I just wanted to try and explain why I want this so much. It would honestly mean the world to me. I could help my father, myself, my family and my friends with this knowledge. Thank you for reading Jim and thank you for all that you do!:)
March 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
With many diseases become epidemic, such as diabetes, cardio-vascular, cancer etc, we need to get the general public informed that these are basically diseases of their choices. I try to share information with others about the value of their foods and how important it is for them and your release of Ann Wigmores approach to restoring and maintaining health is needed more now than ever before.
Thanks for continuing the work that Ann Wigmore created.
jerry
March 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
How wonderful of you to have this contest!
I would love to win this prize because I am in pursuit of excellent health so that I have more energy to love. Love is the goal of life. Health facilitates love. I want to share with everyone that I meet wisdom that will help them improve their lives in every way. So many people are sick and downtrodden. The more that I know, the more I can assist them in gaining heath and wholeness.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I would love to win this course because I have struggled with weight and health problems for quite a few years. I know I need a change in my life and I believe that this course can help me. I feel that before I start any new thing I need to be as informed as I can so I can then apply this new knowledge into my life. I can’t wait to feel energized and healthy and see the beautiful me that is inside and spread the good news with everyone with my own example. Thank you!
March 6th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
OOps! I forgot to write WHY I think the raw food diet will help me to achieve greater health.
Raw foods are the obvious choice because they are what is naturally available. Animals don’t cook their foods and they enjoy greater health by far than we do as long as their lives have not been altered by man.
Cooked foods are dead. Death begets death. Raw foods are alive! Life begets life!
March 6th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Hello Jim, Your program sounds wonderful! I would love to win a complete home study course so that I can improve my knowledge and the knowledge of teaching others to go raw also.. I first decided to go raw when I was diagnosed with cancer ( I had a grapefruit size tumor over my ribcage) the doctors wanted to do surgery, I declined as I am a licensed massage therapist and the muscles they would have
cut though would have been the end of my career.. I have recently moved to a smaller community where a raw food diet is basically unheard of and difficult to buy organic produce year round. However in the first three months of going raw my tumor almost disappeared, the tumor was almost gone, the doctors were amazed and wanted to know what I had done, I told them…..then my adult son and his son moved in with me, my son left and left his son with me
so I am temp raising my 5 year old special needs grandson and my health and raw food eating has taken a back seat. My tumor has started to come back again and I know this program would motivate me to do what I need to do. I know one would think cancer alone would do that, however sometimes life can get so overwhelming that we do not take care of ourselves like we know we need to. I know your program would get me back on track and not only help me but many of my clients as well…Several of them have asked me to teach classes on the subject and assured me they would take them, this would give me through material for this. Thank you Sherlei
March 6th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Hello Jim,
It would be so fantastic if I could win a copy of Ann Wigmore’s Raw Food Home Study Course. There’s absolutely no way I can afford to buy it and I feel I could really benefit from it. I’m just venturing into a raw food diet starting with Green Smooties and I really don’t know much about it and how to go about getting the right balance. I have Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, osteoarthritis, and food and chemical sensitivities, and was not able to work for 12 years. Yoga basically saved my life and now I’m a 50+ self employed yoga instructor struggling to make a living and eat healthy. I was doing quite well until someone rear-ended my car, with me in it:), in 2004 and that set me back big time. I’m very slowly progressing but still have very little energy and need a lot of sleep, and have just found out that I have osteopinia. I’m, as they say, sick and tired or being sick and tired, and feel that a raw food diet could greatly improve my health and energy. On top of that, last week someone made an unsafe left turn right in front of my and smashed up my car, which is a 92, so it’s basically written off, and I won’t get enough to buy a another one. I think I’m okay, although my neck and back are quite stiff and sore, so I’m hoping this doesn’t set me back yet again. Anyway, getting back to the Home Study Course, I would be so very, very grateful if I could win it.
Thank you so much for your time and this opportunity.
Have a great day, Tris
March 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I would like to have the Ann Wigmore program for all my family and friends. I talk about ,and Make food dishess for everyone and they are intrigued, and they even listen with interest sometimes.If I had the program I could get them to all watch it and then they could see that I’m not as crazy mas they sometimes think I am. If they herd it from someone else It would probably sink in better, they could then see there really is some validity to what I say
I feel that the raw food diet will help everyone If they would only try it. People say oh that can’t or wont work. But they don’t try it. If everyone would try it for 6 months we would have a better healthier world.Even if they don’t stick to it. The difference that 6 months would make would be horrendous.
Deb
March 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
i was raw for 2 years and in the last three months, i have been experimenting with steamed veggies and a little more cooked food; mainly ’cause i moved away from my hometown, where all my raw buddies are. it is harder to maintain now that i am on my own but i think it would be a great help to recieve this course. i do videos on youtube called “How to be a Raw Vegan”, and i would love some new inspiration for some more episodes. thank you for your Love.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
So many very moving and wonderful comments and so many people with needs. Thank you for offering to give away this series free. I am learning to cook more and more raw.I have a couple of Ann’s cookbooks but still have trouble really implimenting this raw food lifestyle. It really makes sense to me and my family is teachable and willing for change. Like others, I cannot afford this series and would be so excited to win one. My daughter is educating herself with everything she can get her hands on about the raw food diet also, which I think is very cool because she is just 16 and it could really make a difference for her since she is young and has her whole life ahead of her. My mom died of kidney cancer when she was 54 and my aunt also had kidney cancer and I would sure like to avoid that! Tranditional medicine holds nothing for me. I want to take charge of my health and help my family live long, happy and healthy lives so we can live full lives that glorify God and fulfil His purpose for us. Thanks for your generous offer.
March 6th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Jim,
I want to win Ann Wigmore’s home study course because not only will it help me, but my daughter, who is labeled Schizophrenic and has problems going out in public. Healthy raw food will help her feel better about herself and also nourish her body and perhaps allow her to lesson the drugs they have been giving her since age 16. My daughter is going to be 29 this month and has been on every drug they have made and has had electric shock treatment. The drug she is currently taking is the last drug on the list, and if she ever has problems with it, there are no alternatives left. For myself, I refuse to put any drugs at all in my system, after witnessing what they do.
Personally, I would like to see her eat all raw foods, and get off all drugs. But if she has the course, starts on raw foods, and sees the benifits, I really believe this is a possibility down the road. Currently she is on Disability and works part time, however even working part time is hard for her, with her disability.
With my daughter in mind, I attended a Raw Foods\Spa for two weeks several years ago. And I know it is possible, however it is really hard for me to go all raw, and for my daughter to read/see the benifits/facts is so much more powerful than for “mom” to explain them. Raw is sooooooo wonderful!
I myself, have been on unemployment since Thanksgiving. Even if I don’t win, I love your column and am so glad to read your encouraging words and recipes! Thank you, Jim! Go Raw Foodists! Finally we are getting more in my area!
March 7th, 2009 at 6:12 am
I would love to win the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Course. My son is special needs. He is autistic, diabetic,hss kidney problems, and is unable to communicate. He has digestive problems. I have taken him to a specialist and had a colonoscopy done and an endoscopy as well. The doctor still doesn’t know what’s wrong and wants to run another test. My son refuses to eat vegetables. I would like him to eat a healthy diet. I have tried many times to start him on a raw food diet, but have failed. I know that he needs to stay away from gluten. We have done that. I just don’t know how to begin and am having difficulty getting him to transition from the SAD diet to raw foods. My son has been hospitalized several times for problems with diabetes and his kidneys. I just want to do whatever I can to help him improve his health.
March 7th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Dear Jim, After reading all the heart felt entries in your contest to win the Ann Wigmore Program, I just wish I had the resources to share this with all of them! People are facing their health challenges and learning that they have the power to change their own lives!
I, personally, would love to win this program so that I can learn and share more about the healing power of a living diet with others and increase my knowledge for myself. I have been raw for one year and 3 months. I have lost 60 pounds and regained a level of health that I thought was gone forever. I am 43 and was prediabetic, had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and had severe asthma and depression. Most of these issues are gone now, thanks to raw foods, but I am ready to crank it up a notch and move to the next level of health. I have 20 more pounds to lose and still have asthma. I am ready to move away from “gourmet” raw and towards the ultra cleansing, living food system that Doctor Ann is famous for.
I absolutely know that this living food system will bring me greater health based on my current experience. I just don’t know quite how to do it. This program would be the perfect addition to my life at the perfect time!
Thank you for all that you do!!
Sincerely, Kendra
March 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I feel I should win Dr. Ann Wigmore’s Home Study Program as I am a Certified Fitness Trainer and I have also been eating raw food for 1-1/2 years.
My burning ambition is to add to my knowledge and to combine raw food nutrition with my curriculum for a complete lifestyle program for my clients.
I am planning on traveling around the country and teaching about raw food nutrition and fitness to anyone who is in need of this information. (Which in my opinion is EVERYONE!)
Raw food has changed my life in ways that I would never have guessed. I am much more compassionate for all of humanity than I was before raw food. I did not have any major health problems, except for joint aches and pains, constipation and hot flashes. After eating the raw food diet these symptoms have disappeared and I feel and look younger with much more energy and vitality than on a cooked food diet.
Please consider me for this wonderful give-away as I would spread the knowledge I learn from it as far as I could, so you would not only be teaching me, but countless others about the benefits of a raw food lifestyle.
Thank you for your consideration,
Barbara Howard
March 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Hi Dr. Jim, I am currently juice feasting, on day 18! I’m healing a large uterine fibroid that is not removable by surgery, it is growing out of the endometrial lining of my uterus. It is about the size of a small grapefruit at this point. I’ve been dealing with it for 2 years. Recently, I began a detoxification service, juice feasting two clients, in order to heal myself and in order to provide the means and knowledge for them to heal themselves. I’ve studied living foods for 6 years. I’m working for trade, making 12 quarts of juice per day for the 3 of us – in return , my client is purchasing the produce and superfoods and paying me a sum of money that covers my rent. I’m not making any actual money at this point.
We are considering going into business after the juice feast, either continuing on with a detoxification service to help others, or to open a juice bar – knowledge from the Ann Wigmore study course would be of great benefit to me and my client and the future of my business to help heal others. I also feel that the knowledge would help me to incorporate some of her treasured guidelines to help me heal my uterus, and dissipate this fiborous mass. You can see the photos and details of my juice feast thus far on http://www.blueberrysjuicefeast.blogspot.com
Many blessings to you and thanks for the opportunity.
Jennifer/Blueberry
March 7th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I feel that God has called me to be a teacher of this good news that Genesis 1:29 is the ideal diet. I am a Health Minister with Hallelujah Acres and conduct 4 potlucts a month and two weekend retreats a yeat. I am always looking for more information to share with my different groups. I still eat a little cooked but would like to be 100% all the time, most of the time I am. I believe your course would be just what I need and my people need too.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Dear Jim,
I live in Costa Rica. It is a beautiful country with overwhelming nature. The people are very friendly. There is a problem here as well as in a lot of other countries. People are getting fatter and fatter and the hospitals are more busy then ever. Health care is well organised as for the “ordinary” people as well as for the “rich”, but the only, most important thing, to stay healthy with live food, is what they don’t learn anymore. They eat and drink sugars, eat chicken (full of antibiotics etc.) and eggs and white rice with a lot of heated oil, and they wonder why they are getting ill? Fast food is everywhere and it is not even cheap.
I would really like to win the Ann Wigmore home study programmme. To learn more about how to prepare raw foods and be a living example for the people around me. My whish is to start a big center here in Costa Rica where people can come and stay for a while, to get better and learn how to stay healthy. It is going to be something big!!!
Thanks for being such a great example. Please keep on going with the great work you do.
Hugs,
Nicoline
March 7th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I would love to win this Home Study Course, try it out, and spread the word!
March 7th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Dear Jim,
Thank you ever so much for this opportunity!!!
I have been into raw foods now for about 7 years. I have tried many different styles, ways & methods & no matter what I do I always seem to end up pulling out my Ann Wigmore books & going back to what she teaches – the basis of simplicity & consistency is best. Her program resonates with me so much for when the times we are wanting to health build or recover from illness that we have to step back & start to feed ourselves simply – blended foods, fermented foods etc. There is a way that she speaks, a feeling that I get in my heart from reading her words that always makes me feel like I have the support, that I can do that sort lifestyle change – for the best of my health & enjoyment of life. It’s the essence of her energy that always gives me that “I can do it” feel when staring over a bowl of energy soup or something simple like a glass of rejuevelac.
I am writing today as the announcement of this contest has been the shining star & blessing that I have been praying for. Just last week I was all set to purchase the program – after e-mailing into Susan a couple months ago & having such great customer service I not only knew that the program would be great, but that I would be working with such lovely people – that got me even more stoked, so last week I got finally got the finances together & was going to see if there was anyway to hop on board for this round even though sales had closed, or if I could at least pre-pay for the next round before it started.
Last week my intentions in taking this course were ones of wanting to make a commitment to myself to more strongly implement Ann’s program into my life & also learn enough about it in detail so that I could be of great assistance to others who also are interested. I am in a great position where I work to help people with the raw & living foods lifestyle & the information in this program would be ever so helpful to share with customers – not to mention my friends, family & of course myself.
In a nutshell, those were the reasons for wanting to order the course last week. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed when I ended up with a health emergency last week. I have had some pressing dental issues for a while now – this is one of the main reasons why I wanted to purchase this course, so that I could really buckle down with the information & support of the program & start to get the nutritional core issues of my teeth problems addressed. I had been patiently waiting for many months for this March 1 – the day that I would become eligible to apply for dental insurance under my partner’s benefits at work. Once the insurance arrived I had planned to dash off to the dentist at the speed of light & get the work done that I had ever so needed.
The necessary dental work along with Ann’s program were bound to be the dynamic duo that I needed to recover from my dental problems. I have never had a dental issue in my life – not even a single cavity, so to all of a sudden start having dental problems in my late 20’s was a bit of a shocker – I was the only person I knew who did not have something “done” to their teeth or mouth.
Ironically, on the same date that I was eligible to apply for dental insurance I ended up in the hospital that night because of my teeth – turns out I had waited to long to get into see the dentist, not realizing that my teeth were in that bad of shape as they actually were. I had thought they were ok enough just hang in a bit long for the dental benefits & all would be good, turned out that wasn’t the story. To make a long story short, I ended up getting emergency dental work & once I recover from the work I received the other night, I have a long road ahead & several more months of dental work that I need to have done.
Sooooooo, where all this ties into the program is that right now I can’t eat any solid foods whatsoever – I am juicing, rejuevelacing, making puddings & basically being best friends with “The Blender Book” & all of Ann’s other works. Because I have a long road ahead of more dental work & recovery to come, this is going to be how I am going to have to eat for a very long time to come – there’s no way around it & no exceptions – I can’t slip in the odd raw cracker or snack here or there, I’m on the soft stuff for a while.
I had mentioned at the beginning of this letter, there is something in Ann’s words that gives me the “I can do this” feeling – this time I don’t need it to get through something short term like a cold or flew – I need it long term, I need the support to be able to make the complete change to Ann’s program for the long term in order to save my health.
I have many of her books which are a blessing, but because there is no way for me to physically go back to eating any other way but on her program given the way my teeth are right now, I would really, really love the extra nutritional information & support that this program will provide so that I can have the extra help to get me through this.
My dental benefits are still waiting for approval, which means my sweetie & I are having to pay my dental bills up front at the moment, so the program is something that I am just not able to put the money together for right now. Actually, the money I had put away originally for the program went towards my dental work that first night!
I think I would be a great candidate for the program as I had intended to get the program before my emergency last week & I would plan carry out & fulfill my initial intentions of helping myself & others using the program that originally had. Now currently going through my dental emergency, I do not have a choice but to stick wholeheartedly on this program to take care of my health optimally so I would be very dedicated & so deeply grateful for the opportunity to receive the extra help & support for the staying on Wigmore lifetsyle that this program would bring.
Thanks ever so much Jim,
Have a wonderful day!
March 7th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Jim,
First, I must thank you for keeping me inspired to keep learning about eating raw. My husband and I are 64 and have been learning all we can about staying healthy–no armload of pharmaceuticals for us! But we obviously haven’t found the answer, as some of our medical “numbers” are creeping into the undesirable range.
We periodically make a stab at going raw, but keep hitting roadblocks.
The amount of information ‘out there’ is overwhelming, and often contradictory. We would benefit so much from the complete & systematic approach you offer with the Complete Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Course. I’m confident that you have put together the
ultimate guide for us. In fact, if we got a financial windfall, that would be among our first purchases.
I can see our day-to-day diary blog being an excellent testimonial for the course!
This would be a video submission, except my techno-husband is out, and I have no idea how to do it.
As Donkey says in “Shrek”: “Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!”
Love you & your mission.
Mary
March 7th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I’m a newbie to the raw-food world, and though I have done a lot of research, I have so many questions. Over and over, I have heard the name Ann Wigmore. She was the grandmother of raw foods, it seems, yet I know very little about her. I would love to learn more about her and about her teachings. I am sure that much of what I have read derived from her discoveries, but what teachings are diluted and what was modified (and perhaps not for the better), I don’t know. The home study course would give me the chance to study Dr. Wigmore and answer the many questions that arise as I live this new diet.
As for why I think a raw food diet will help me achieve greater health, all I have to do is look at my evolving self. In the month since I’ve started eating raw, my weight has dropped, my complexion has cleared, my energy levels have increased, and cravings for other foods are subsiding. This is the diet we are biologically designed to eat. I feel such a sense of well being — it’s something I wish everyone could feel! Perhaps with the education to back up my experience, I will be better able to talk to people who are curious about what’s happening to me.
Thank you for considering me. Many blessings to you!
March 7th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Jim,
Thank you so much for offering this course for free!
I have been eating raw for one week now and I love it! It makes me smile! I feel like I am walking around with a secret that I just can’t wait to share. I am eating raw because I have struggled with my weight since age 14, and this just makes so much sense. It’s the way we were designed to eat. I have also suffered from acne for the last 18 years, and I’m so sick of trying new products when nothing works! I was even on antibiotics long term prescribed by a dermatologist, but eventually gave up because I knew they weren’t good for my body.
I feel I should win because I am so eager to learn about raw food and apply what I learn. I work in a hospital and work with cardiac patients. I really want to be an example to others! It is so sad when I read a patient’s history and they have so many diseases and are on dozens of medications! I don’t understand why people think this is normal!!!! I really want to be a light in the healthcare community. I want people to know they don’t have to live with the terrible “chronic” diseases they have, but can reverse many of their conditions if they are willing to change what they eat.
Thank you so much for your consideration!
March 7th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Dear Jim,
I believe I should win the course because I have been trying to go raw and have been unable to sustain it. I am not eating a balanced diet, not enough protien, too much carbohydrate. I read Ann’s free book online, and I was very motivated, but I am struggling to sustain it. I believe if I had her course I would be more sucessful. I became unemployed since May, 2008 and have not been able to purchase the course.
I went raw June 11, 2008 and did very well for about 30 days, then someone cooked me dinner and was upset because I wasn’t going to eat it, so I ate it to make her happy. I lost 30 lbs. the first 30 days, but have struggled since then. If I could sustain the raw food diet, I would get everything I want…I was morbidly obese, now I am just obese, I want to get to my goal weight. I am 213 lbs. now, my goal weight is 110 lbs…I want to feel good about myself, and I would feel good about myself if I was healthier and looked better…my kids have never seen me healthy and slender, I have always been obese since they were small, and I want them to know me healthy and to remember me healthy. When I have done a juice fast I have felt so healthy, and when I was on the raw food diet for those 30 days, I lost 30 lbs. and felt wonderful. I am exercising with a girlfriend several days a week, so we are improving our muscles, our metabolism, and our endurance. If I could learn to do the raw food diet correctly, and learn to live it, then I would be healthy, a normal weight, have energy for the first time in years, and set an example for my kids, grandkids, and parents. I would be able to participate in life rather than just sit by the sidelines and watch. I want to experience life and health with my family, for the first time. Please give me the opportunity to do that with Dr. Ann’s course.
Sincerely,
Chrissy
March 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Dear Dr. Jim,
Along with all the other people who have already commented I would love to be able to own this wonderful course, but I am not going to ask to win it. There are so many people who have already asked to win it that I imagine you will have a very difficult time deciding who to give it to.
However, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for all the wonderful information you have so generously made available at your website.
Even though I am not able to afford your course I feel that it is worth every penny and more, and that you deserve to be compensated for all the hard work you have so lovingly put into it. I hope that at some point in the future I’ll be able to buy it.
I was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis when I was 28 (I’m almost 52 now) and since then have studied everything I can get my hands on to try and improve my condition. In recent years my bones have literally been crumbling and I have suffered multiple fractures, mostly in my spine, but thank God, am still standing.
I discovered raw food a few years ago and for the first time ever began to feel an improvement in my bones. The bone pain is subsiding and I feel so much stronger.
I have been eating a lot of fruit and greens but I have been GAINING weight (which is the opposite of what most people do on the raw food diet) so have recently concluded that this particular approach to the raw food diet may not be right for me.
I recently discovered your website and am so very grateful for all the free information you have so generously made available to us. I have gleaned information from the articles on your website that has begun to shift my focus more towards eating in keeping with Dr Ann’s principles. Wheatgrass and sprouts are making an appearance in my diet now! There is still so much more to learn…
I am sure I will begin to see even more improvement in my bones and hopefully finally be able to lose these extra 50 lbs that I have been carrying around for such a long time.
Thanks for all you do for,
Esther
March 7th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Dear Jim, am so grateful for this opportunity. Your
grassy roots tv program has been a real blessing, as well as the other techings on the web site. Am
a volunteer sewing teacher at a seattle homeschool
resource center, an alternative public school. Last year
we had green smoothies and other raw dishes in my class.
The kids from low-income families would hunt me down in
the hallway asking for more green smoothie samples. The
children are interested in learning, but with all the
budget cuts, the school will not fund such classes. I
would use your program in the school and provide the
food out of my own budget. Am thinking to also use
your grassy roots program. The neat thing about this
school is the parents attend also, so as they learn
so will the kids. I personally have been learning
about raw foods for years, and the only time I could
stay 100% raw was 3 yrs. ago for 3 months while
teaching a science class to homeschoolers. I
made up curriculum according to the kids needs which
at that time was too much sugar in their diets.
We learned about the scientific method by doing an
experiment of half the class avoiding sugar while the
other half indulged as usual. Of course the results
were obvious that the non-sugared kids had better
behavior and more focus. We also did saliva and urine
ph testing and compared the results to what we had
recently been eating. Having your course would be a
real blessing as a resource for more volunteer classes. Thankyou for considering this need. Diane
March 8th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Dear friends,
Greetings from far far away in New Zealand.Oh my dear friends I will be right up front with you because that is what you desrve. I have very little money and certainly not the kind of money required to take this Course. It is impossible for me( and not my place) to wonder how many of the above stories are genuine – or not but I need to plead my own case of being clearly and honestly completely unable to afford the cost of this oh! so needed course in my life. I have been a wandering raw food vegan for about three to four years now, but just blundering along, picking up information here and there, listening, reading and discarding. In the process I have arrived at CHI and I am very happy to be here, feeling that I have finally found my home AT LAST !! after years of dedicated searching.
I would like to undertake the study reuirewd to successfully conclude this Course and I will approach it with all seriousness and application needed. Yes, I have one health challenge that in particular needs addressing and that is one of lymphedema in my lower right leg..as the result of an accident 20 years ago and the subsequent ,is-management of my condition in our local hospital.( Little did I know or realise about the importance of so many things connected to the healing of the human body.
I am applying for this Course because I am a firm believer that when you are ready in every way( spiritually, mentally and physically) to thoroughly absorb, thoroughly understand and readily retain information that is vital to the further improvement to your life, THEN and only THEN will the possibility of receiving that information be placed in front of you. You are doing the greatest disservice to yourself if you you do not do all you can to MAKE IT HAPPEN !!
I have a very sick sister-in-law in Eastern Ukraine who is suffering terribly fro what they call Professional Hepatitis caught after a lifetime working in a hospital pharmacy. She is the most gentle and loving person who has done nothing but goof for everyone she has known her whole life..and this is how she is rewarded????!!!! She is desparately ill now and receiving no exact treatment as she has no money, let alone any money for a precise diagnosis. So I desparately need to become more informed on the ways in which I can help her…mostly from the nutritional aspect I guess and this would greatly increase her chances of survival and recovery. I have siad many many prayers for her day and night and prayed that God would lead me in the ways to help her and NOW at LAST here I feel is the opportunity I have dreamed of.
I leave it with God and in YOUR hands.
God Bless
and
Thank you.
March 8th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Hi Jim,
Thank you so much for putting this course together. I looked at it last year, before it got improved, and put it on my wishlist. Last year I started to eat 100% raw for 3-4 months and felt really great.
I have been interested in eating healthy/balanced for the past 30 years after I got really sick and cured myself by eating right. I have explored over those years various different ways of eating, including semi-raw, vegetarian, macrobiotic, the zone, eating according to the 5 chinese elements, fit for life, eating right for your bloodtype. I always have been my own guinea-pig.
After going totally raw my hair started to fall out in large quantities and I stopped eating totally raw. Going back to regular healthy food after beeing raw did not feel good but I needed to find out what was going on in my body, why my hair started to fall out. I now believe that it was too much of a schock to my system and that a more gradually approach to incorporate raw food in my body was needed. I started to educate myself again by re-reading Ann Wigmore’s “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program” book and by starting my days with a green smoothie, salads for lunch, sprouting and eating “normal” at dinner (fish and chicken only). I am healthy and energetic and have never been overweight, I just love to maintain and improve my health, to be an example to others and to share what it means to feel great by eating right. I love to educate myself further with eating raw because it feels right, my body hums and by being an example myself I can be of help to others.
I cannot afford to buy the course at this time and would love to win the contest so I can study this great way of life.
Thank you Jim.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Thank you for the help you give to all of us who want to heal our bodies of devastating disease which doctors could not help us with.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Hi,They call me…Absorbein Senior.I’m an absorber of living information.Mike Snyder ,and friends, have been a blessing in this regard.Thank You Ann Wigmore;The transformation of Thought consciousness thru food frequency and vibration,
(what changes thought, changes everything else),is truly revolutionary.It is in tandem with all disciplines that help move us toward our Higher Self.I’ve taken maybe a not so baby step by opening a
healing center in fast paced N.Y.I’ve invested all available cash and cash forms into the ctr.so to say that i’m a little strapped is an understatement.Being certified in nutrition and advanced nutrition,it is very clear how invaluable including raw foods is to everyone.It is almost inconceivable the value of properly eating raw foods exclusively would have on the mental. emotional, spiritual and physical bodies.If the good Dr.Wigmore afforded me the benefit of learning the Raw Foods Home Course,i would make others aware every chance given me.Remember,our greatest enemy is not evil its ignorance.Thank You for the opportunity to share.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I would love to win this course. I am praying for a way to be able to get this training. I have just been diagnosed with Stage IV Breast cancer. I had a doctor recommend that I start eating mostly raw foods. Have been doing that, but would like to get some ideas for variety. My husband lost his job in October 2008 and has not been able to find employment, so will not be able to purchase this course. Thank you for considering my request to be able to get this training course.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:58 am
I been on the journey of wholeness for the past four years, and I have learned many amazing things about health and wellness. Most recently, I was blessed to communicate with a researcher who has helped me determine the supplements for diabetes, and others matters. He suggested I take a simply test, 25-hydroxy Vitamin D test, which after determining that I had abnormal levels of Vitamin D, I searched the Web, and learned that this deficiency causes many problems, diabetes, obseity, and others.
I have been preplexed about the lack of weight loss; Vitamin D deficency causes obseity. It is my opinion, that with the Ann Wigmore course, I will be able to overcome the health issues, and share with others who will also be blessed by the information and knowledge I will learn.
Thank you for helping me and others.
Kind regards.
March 10th, 2009 at 11:53 am
I feel that I should win this course because I am just starting my pursuit of healthy living and I don’t know where to go. I feel that this course, which is currently over my budget, would give me great guidance so that I can be a great example to my family, friends, and community.
March 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I can’t tell you why I “should” win the course. I don’t think I ‘deserve’ a thing, but I can certainly tell you why I would sincerely appreciate it.
I’m 25 and I have been a vegetarian for 14 years, but I’ve only recently decided to take the plunge and go completely raw. I moved to Southern California about three weeks ago and went raw shortly after. It helps that I don’t yet know all the horrible-for-me goodies around my home!
Now that I’ve been raw for a couple weeks, the idea isn’t even patatable for me. Baked goodies no longer even SOUND good! I think it’s absolutely incredible!
I started working at a raw foods restaurant near my house so that I can try and learn a bit more about the philosophies and also the practical side of getting proper nutrition daily. I’m finding out that being a vegetarian doesn’t really give me ANY advantage. There’s SO much to learn and I feel completely overwhelmed by making sure I have the proper vitamins and minerals. I’ve been researching, and attending lectures (Gabriel Cousens gave a talk/answered questions at my restaurant last week) but there are so many opposing viewpoints I’m about ready to throw up my arms and just eat what sounds good that day. I know there’s actually some wisdom in that approach, but I would still like to be intentional and wise about the foods I put in my body. Especially as I’m only just beginning this journey.
I’ve already been impressed at how much more energy I have and that the raw foods diet is clearing up a reoccurring candida infection that my medical doctor couldn’t figure out how to treat. Life brings life, I guess!
I know that the more excited and knowlegeable I am on the subject of live foods the more people I can impact as they come in and are enamoured by the live foods we offer at the restaurant. I would love any help you can give me in the area because I could certainly never afford such an incredible course on my own – especially after just moving. Affording groceries is enough of a challenge right now!
But I know that I will always have all of my needs met – and then some!
March 10th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Life is all about change and the choices we make to assist in those changes. It is all about learning from our mistakes and growing with our knowledge gains. There are so many studies around the world that show us how food impacts our health. But why do we still make those choices to eat foods that have a negative effect on us?
I am new to the raw food lifestyle with only a few months under my belt. I must say that I feel wonderful. For a long time I have struggled with depression and not feeling 100% myself. I have turn around and feel more connect to my mind, body, and spirit now that I am 85% raw. I am seeking to take my 85% raw and truly become 100% raw. I feel that by going a rigerous study program will help me achieve the results I am looking for as well as help me to educate others on why going raw is such a positive experience. I am fortunate to have found the raw life style – no more depression, clearer glowing skin, and release of weight. I am happy!!!
In regards to educating others… I am currently seeking a PhD in Education and have choosen my dissertation topic around how what we eat impacts how we learn. I first spoke of how life is about changes and choices and how we gain knowledge on a daily basis. Food plays a role in our physical and mental health. Learning is a mental function – does how we eat affect how we learn. This is what I want to research. What if we could become better learners – more receptive to learning. Have more knowledge may help us make better choices. This would impact society greatly. Would what we eat make a better world??? Does raw food help us learn better??? If so does the raw food lifestyle help us make better educated choices that would better our society? This is what I am hoping to prove in my education.
March 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Wow, thanks for such a generous offer. I have had a weight issue all my life. I looked anarexic as a child, I ate everything I could get my hands on and ate a lot. I had thyroid surgery at 17 and then again in my 30’s. I am now in my 40’s and am overweight. Learing to eat the right things is not easy. I have now over time been able to arm my self now with a vita mix and a dehydrater so I am doing what I can but you can’t buy everything at once and these are expensive things that you have to save up for. Having the home study would be great to further my health, my families and anybody that is willing to listen. Thanks for the contest!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Jim,
I would really like to win Anne Wigmores course. I feel it may just save my life. I have just recently started drinking green smoothies because medication is not helping me. I have a condition called Hyperlipidemia that I was diagnosed with in 1992. They have never been able to get my cholesterol and triglycerides under control. In fact my record is over 2000 triglycerides. I have had this for 15 years now and I am worried that I may not live to see my grandchildren. I am 38 years old and in the US Navy, but it is affecting my career as well. They are afraid to send my on any deployments because I might have a heart attack. I am in good condition as I excercise 3-5 times a week and eat relatively healthy. I really believe that this may be the answers to mine and my families prayers. Thank you for this chance to win.
March 10th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I suffer from a rare form of porphyria and eating raw has changed my life. And yet, I still deal with chronic pain and extreme sensitivity to light. No medical doctor has ever offered me useful advice that improves the quality of my daily life, quite the contrary in fact. Ann Wigmore, however, has always pointed me in the right direction. My health has greatly improved and yet, and yet dare I dream that I could be cured, that I could live a pain free life? Yes! I dare. I dream. I think the Ann Wigmore home study course has the power to transform my life even further.
Healthy living is our birth right and I am ready to claim mine,
Thanks for the great offer, Jim.
Cara.
March 10th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hi,
Thank you so much for this generous contest!
I feel I should win because I am responsible for feeding myself as well as my parents, my fiance, his children, and often times my brothers and their families. We are big family who love to share meals together. I love preparing the meals for my family and I’ve become more and more aware of how my food choices effect them. I’m 34 and two years ago I was diagnosed with food allergies and adrenal fatigue. I live with my parents to help care for my father who has a whole host of health problems including dementia, diabetes, macular degeneration, and three months ago he underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his colon. My mother has had several bouts with different cancers. She also has stomach issues, insomnia, headaches, arthritis, and the beginnings of osteoporosis. My goal is to slowly (so as not to shock them) increase our raw food consumption to at least 75%.
I’m finding it difficult to 1)make hearty raw meals my family will eat (if I feed them anymore veggie wraps they’re going to kill me!), and 2) properly explain the benefits of going raw without sounding like I’m touting the latest fad diet. My parents are still young (only in their 60s) and are very active. I’d like to help make their lives healthier so they can enjoy their retirements without the added burden of health problems. As for myself, I’m taking steps toward releasing my food addictions, but I have to admit that thinking of eating the raw foods I make leaves me rather bored and often I lose my appetite (even when my stomach is growling!) The kids complain and I’m even getting flak from my vegetarian brother. What used to be a much loved event for me (meal times) is turning into a burden filled with confusion. It would be very easy to dump the raw foods but I know mine and my family’s health would suffer. (My father and I drink a green smoothie everyday and already my acne has cleared up and I’ve noticed an improvement with his memory retention).
I am also taking classes to be a holistic health practitioner. Having this home-study course in my back pocket to draw on when working with clients would be an incredible boon. I would love to be able to help them on their food journey.
Thanks again for the chance to win.
March 10th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Hello Jim,
Knowledge is the great motivator. I would hope to change my lifestyle of unhealthy behaviors with this highly valuable information provided in Ann Wigmore’s course. Being in my 50’s and wanting to set a better example to all in the family this will be the best source to doing instead of just reading and talking about what will lead to better health. Your generosity is outstanding! Thanks for the opportunity to receive such a great gift!
March 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Hi Jim,
it would be nice to receive this program. I myself only know about this diet for about a year, but yet in that small time, I was able to heal my tired body and helped others do the same like my husband, my children, a friend from India, a friend in Colorado, family members in Europe, including a monk. I consider it a great blessing to share information on raw food with people and I try to give it out to who ever wants to listen. I believe this program could help me to learn more and to reach many more people with this knowledge. Unfortunately my husband and I have been struggling for years to scrape together a living, so I won’t be able to afford buying it.
Of course, if people have a life and death situation, you should consider them to be the first to receive this precious gift!
Thanks for making this program available to people.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I don’t know if I should win, but it would be a blessing.
I do know that I have searched and searched the internet for answers to my questions, I have looked at courses (all of which I can not afford – my problem not yours obviously – smile). I have been dealing with bowel problems my whole life, and psoraisis just recently. It was debilitating. I went raw, and it seemed to heal, but I don’t really know what I am doing. My son (9) has bowel problems, and skin problems, which seem to have cleared up with raw food, but I know there is more to the raw food than what I am doing, I just don’t know what the ‘more’ really is.
I download pages of reading, (I think my poor husband is despairing of all the paper and ink he has to provide), and I am constantly changing what we are doing with our diet, as I just don’t really have any idea what I am doing. I seem to have trouble making it all make sense. Perhaps that is because I read so much of everything. Maybe if I stuck to one….anyway, enough waffle from me…
I would very much like to win the home study course, and I thank you for the opportunity.
March 10th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Hello! I would love to win Ann Wigmore’s home study course because I want to teach other people in my community about raw food!
I feel the raw food diet will help me lose the last 20 lbs I need to and help me feel better!
- Matt
March 10th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
This is what I need. This is what I have been waiting for. Its time to take care of my body temple and this is the proper “teacher” I need to guide my path. I have been on and off from a raw diet because a lack of proper instruction. This is what will help me. I know my influence will get many other people get Ann’s Program. Its time to spread the word.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I would dearly love to win a copy of this study program. I have done what I can in terms of research and study on my own, but would find the course most valuable. In these times the only way I would be able to afford it is to win it.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I want to thank all of you who have applied so far. Your stories and moving. We’re going to have a hard time choosing only two of these submissions.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I would love to win the Raw Food Home Study Course because i believe that it would help restore health to my body, the way God created to be. I have not always followed the diet that God intended us to eat. As a result I have battled with my weight since I was a child. At the ripe age of 6 my Mother put me on my first diet. At age 13, weighing 180 pounds, She took me to a “diet doctor”.I was given a little box with a 2 weeks supply of “diet pills”. I lost 30 pounds. But within 4 years weighed 196. And up it went in my 20’s to 240. Starved myself and got down to 160 in my late 20’s. Then up to 270 in my 40’s. Up down, up down that has been the story of my life.
I am in my 50’s and weigh 152 got there by doing the “Juice Feasting” in 2008 for 110 days. But needless to say I still have struggles with my weigh and have so health problems even though I eat a raw food diet.
I love to eat sprouts. My body rejoices when I do. Raw zucchini spaghetti is great and so are green smoothies.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
This would be an answer to my prayers. I used to be in great shape and work out daily. Over the last 10 years, I have had a total hysterectomy, found out that I have Crohns disease, and Chronic Pancreatitis, and hypo thyroid,which has required 3 surgeries. Therefore, during the last 10 years of hormone problems and health problems, I have gained 60 pounds and have no energy. I have no doubt that Raw Food living is the secret to well being. However, I have been unable to afford the Ann Wigmore Home Study Course, which I would love to learn and be on. In addition, I have a daughter that suffered with bulimia for four years and she too is now convinced that Raw Living is the answer. I would love to feel great again and feel good about my appearance again. I would also like to demonstate to all three of my girls that Raw Food living is not only healthy, but can tast well too. Unfornately, I live in a small town and it is not easy for me to drive 2 hours to St. Louis to learn Raw Food living. Please consider me to be one of your winners for the Raw Food Home Study Course. I know I can achieve success if I have the knowledge.
I thank you for the opportunity to possibly win the Ann Wigmore Home Study Course for Free.
Thank you,
Kathy
March 10th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Hi Jim. Thank you for your generous offer.
I would love to have the opportunity to learn more about Ann Wigmore’s approach to living foods. I have studied nutrition for most of my life and have come to the conclusion that the raw food diet is the answer that so many of us are searching for.
From what I have read about Ann Wigmore’s approach I feel that she offers solutions for many who may have tried the raw food diet without achieving their desired results.
I hope to be able to share what I learn through my blog as well as in my forthcoming book about the raw food diet.
I have struggled with many health challenges, including chronic fatigue syndrome for almost nine years and the raw food diet has provided me with significant relief from this as well as other issues including heart palpitations and severe digestive disturbance. I know that what I have experienced so far is just the tip of the iceberg with what is possible with raw foods and I am ready to take it to the next level.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I would deeply appreciate winning this course. I have tried to be 100% raw, and have not been able to sustain it for a while. My body is very acidic – I am a diabetic, hypothyroid and a thrice cancer survivor. I am grateful to be able to say that, and I do not take it for grantee; Now, I want to step it up to really be a living testimony as to what a healthy, wholesome diet can do, but it is so much more than that – Ms. Wigmore and Jim, you have soldified a message of celebrating life and that is what this program would mean to me. Thank You
March 10th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
It would be an answer to prayer to win the “Raw Food Home Study Program.” It would be my resource library to get a plan on how to transition to a raw food lifestyle. How to stay on track, and sustain this lifestyle. I have many questions that I am confident will be in all the CD’s and videos that I’ll need to sustain this new lifestyle. And the benefits are going to be: to heal my body of prediabetes, hypothyroidism, and lack of energy. The list is long on what I need to be healed of.
I want my life back! I want to have energy to do the things I used to do. And feel young again.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Hi!
I’d LOVE a copy of this course. I am teaching people a healthier lifestyle on my blog, and diet is, obviously, a part of that. I’ve done some vegan stuff, but never raw, and I’m curious as to how to go about that. I believe it has to be healthier than what I’m already doing, and I also believe there must be a simple way to make it work for “real people” who are too busy to spend all day chopping and dicing. I’d love to learn more about it and share it on my blog.
Looking forward to what’s in store!
Darlene
March 10th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I actually would like to win the program for my mother. I tried to leave a video comment, but it came up with an error, LOL, so I guess I just write it out instead
My Mum is really keen to learn about raw foods to help with her health conditions such as being overweight and rheumatoid arthritis. She is already on the way but finds the concept of raw so totally overwhelming that she doesn’t know where to start. I think this program would be perfect for her, and give her the motivation and the courage to really get going.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I would love to win because I am working on healing my type 2 diabetes with a raw food diet and could use the guidance and knowledge. All my family has diabetes and many family members have lost one or both legs or their vision and many others have died younger than they otherwise would have. I want to be a shining example for my whole family to show them that they don’t have to live with this sickness, suffering, and early death! I want to show them that we can conquer diabetes and are not victims of our genetics.
I originally went low-fat vegan (cooked) to heal my diabetes and it helped me to lose 100 pounds but then my weight stopped and got stuck there and I was still obese. It also lowered my blood pressure but it didn’t heal the diabetes, even after a year of carefully following the diet.
I went raw in October and the change has been amazing! In just two months it made my blood sugar normal without medication! (I quit taking the medication when I went raw because the medication was making me so sick all the time and I wanted to see if raw by itself would regulate my blood sugar and it has.)
What is frustrating, though, is that I am not losing the rest of the weight the way I hear other people doing when they go raw. I think I need more education on raw to be able to get down to a healthy weight. Even though my blood sugar is now normal, I won’t consider the diabetes healed until I also get to a healthy, normal weight as well.
I believe I can achieve this goal! And I believe that the Ann Wigmore course will help me to learn what I need to know in order to do raw even better and get even healthier than it has already made me as I blunder around, trying to find my way alone.
Thank you for holding this contest. It is a blessing and I pray that whomever wins these lessons will get so much out of them and use that information to build their health and go on to bless others around them. And you are a blessing for offering this contest and for all the wonderful information and encouragement you offer through this blog. Thank you so much!
March 10th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Hi Jim!
Thanks for having this contest.
I don’t know that I should win this contest – there are so many incredible stories being told.
What I do know is that I am passionate about health and helping people be healthier, and no matter what happens, I will continue along that path. Dr. Wigmore is one of the pioneers in the extreme health movement, and I imagine that the wisdom she imparts in this course is priceless.
I was a raw food vegan for 2 1/2 years, during which I developed severe IBS, which I still have to this day. I would love to see if it is possible to live a raw lifestyle and correct these problems that I somehow developed through what I assume was a combination of bad food combining and perhaps a rapid detoxification that I was unable to control.
There were some amazing moments during those 2 1/2 years, some real breakthroughs that would have been impossible on any other diet, and I would love to experience them again if I could do it safely and sustainably.
I wish you and all the people who applied here health and happiness!
All the best,
Tania
March 10th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Jim,
I started my walk to life and health over 12 years ago.
An unemployed single mom of 3, I found myself on that slippery spiral of dwindling health, depression, damaged self-esteem and fell victim to illness and a ravenous eating disorder.
To make a very long journey short… raw foods and an intimate relationship with God has set me free and healed me.
I find myself here, more than a decade later, still an unemployed single mom of 3 with a passion and a dream. To help others walk this path.
Jim, I have read and studied everything I could get my hands on within my budget. I could only dream and pray for a quality education that would start with the knowledge Ann W would offer me. She truly is a patriarch of raw foods.
Jim, I don’t live in any modern metropolitan area, we are truly in a place where time has forgotten in many ways. I live in a very rural community in Canada.
But sickness and disease are still rampant and growing here. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity have not forgotten us.
Jim, I would truly like to be the one to bring this message of hope here.
If I can walk it out, I truly believe anyone can walk it out.
March 11th, 2009 at 2:45 am
I would be simply delighted to win the Ann Wigmore Home Study plan. For a decade now I have been really interested in healthy foods and for the last year or so to try and be 80% raw but I keep failing miserably. The reason I would really want to reach that 80/20 point is because of my son. He is only 10 months old but I really want to set him the right example and as the saying goes: “we teach by example”. We live in an area in the UK where you see little children with bottles of Coca Cola instead of an apple and I want to prevent that but it is difficult if I persist to fall of the Raw/Healthy bandwagon myself. On the brighter side, my son loves jasmine tea and can’t keep his hands of my green smoothies!!
Another reason is that my mother died of cancer in 2004 and just before she died she actually told me that I had been right all along (I had been trying to improve her diet for years but in vain) and that she really believed that a healthy diet would have made all the difference but by then it was too lat. But, even if I won’t win this wonderful prise, I WILL NOT GIVE UP! Sop stories aside for the moment, I would like to win because I am determined to put the prize to EXCELLENT USE! Thanks so much for reading this!
March 11th, 2009 at 5:02 am
I have followed Ann Wigmore’s work for the past 30 years and was saddened to hear of her untimely death.
I had always wanted to attend her institute. With 2 kids in collage–logisticaly and financially I couldn’t pull it off & missed my opportunity.
I am an early childhood specialist at a United Way family resource center in Davidson County located in the largest housing project in Nashville, Tennessee. The average income level in this area is $5,000. The graduaion rate is 40%. (See “ghetto gospel” at the Martha O’Bryan website) All of the children in my infant classroom have exzema. One case is so severe on an 8 montb old that large patches on the the arms % face become extreme sores that aren’t even recognizabke as skin. There is “extreme medication” that is given by the MD that can only be limired in use and often runs out at times due to money & transportation. Bresst feeding is rare in this African American community. The mother of this child is 16, a straight A student with plans to go into the field of medicine. She also has a two year old.
I also volunteer on Saturdays for the 9 week family education programs based on Harlems Baby College for families expecting or have at least 1 child under age 3.
It is held at our center for 40 families each session.
From this high risk situation I acquited MRSA last summer which put me out of commission for a few weeks–didn’t get in my blood–so now I’m fine. Although I’m a life-long learner, I learned much more about this subject and the politics related to it–than I ever wanted to know. This was another “wake-up” call to me and my 57 years of tuning in to my health and others as an educator.
These are the things I’ve done in the pasr 2 years to support my mission of family education.
added to my teacher certification a class from Syracuse University from the world famous infant toddler expert,
Alice Honig (in addition to many other professional development classes and readings in education and health
studied and received national and international certification as a parent educator for infant massage that focused on bonding.
purchased a wheat grass juicer (that I haven’t used yet).
purchases a vitamix that I love and am still learning about.
celebrated and used extensively with children the wonderful–all edible- community herb garden than our center chef created last year & plans to double the size this year. With hopes to create an additional
vegetable garden.
created a parent library (from my collection and findings at thrift stores/ book sales/ and donations)
outside my classroom door for anyone to use.
Areas include: (1)TAKING CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN
(2)TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF (3)RESOURCE BOOKS.
after work I created a (lemonade) “HAPPY HOUR” for families to sign up on Thursday afternoons for a customized time for them–according to their need & concerns (ie)learning activities to do with their children at home/
ways to make their family stronger & healthier
baby massage/ art studio of open ended materials to do with their child/ etc
I know how difficult following through on good intention with heath is–when you don’t have a support system.
Adding an Ann Wigmore library to our LIBRARY and creating some real “radical” health info in a HAPPY HOUR could help parents see there are other ways of thinking that could profoundly be of benefit to their
family.
Thank you for all that you do in carrying on the work of Ann Wigmore.
March 11th, 2009 at 6:25 am
I open for me to win, so I like to create a video with my husband.
can I know the dead line for winning!
March 11th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Hi Jim!
Wow! What a great opportunity! I do eat a living foods diet right now. I have read some of Dr. Ann’s books and loved them.
I am in what could be called the early stage of Crohn’s disease. My intestines have been described as being those of a 70+ year-old woman (and I’m only 40!). This diagnosis came after almost 2 years of constant pain and suffering (actually I have had digestive issues forever, but who knew they were related?) By the time I actually got the diagnosis (it takes a while to see a doctor around these parts!), I had already researched how I could improve my eating habits (as I believe profoundly and have always believed this) that food is my medicine!
I was a vegetarian, at the time. Vegan most of the time. But I ate a fair bit of cooked food, which I believed necessary especially in this cold Canadian winter weather! But, as I learned more and more, I realized I was cooking the health out of my food. So I stopped cooking my foods.
I have been 100% raw for over a year now (1 year and 3 months to be precise) and can’t remember feeling any better than I do now. Healing is a process and I am not 100% healed yet, but I know now, that with all the “abuse” my body endured, it couldn’t have occurred overnight. And I don’t believe in quick fixes anyways.
I am on a mission to spread the knowledge about living foods to francophones (and anglophones too!). There is NO quality information in French!
I have read up a storm in raw and living foods but still feel I have much to learn. This program would sure help achieve a better, more profound understanding of Dr. Ann’s teachings.
Winning this course would just make the difference, I know. If I could afford it, I would have already bought it. Living foods are the way to health in my case (and I suspect in many, many other cases). There is no question about that in my mind nor in my body.
Long and healthful life to you and yours,
Sheryl-Anne
PS I gave the website address of my English blog as I thought French might not be understood. My French website is more developped as there is more work to do on that side as far as spreading quality information about raw and living foods. If you are interested nonetheless to take a look at it, here is the address of the site : http://www.CrusineSante.com
(the name means RawKitchenHealth.com)
March 11th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I would love to win this free course. My resources are limited but my quest for knowledge is not. I want to learn more of this great pioneers teaching. I have looked into her courses and have not been able to afford it. This comes at a great time. I have been 80% raw for about a year now. I love sharing infor with others and this would just add to my knowlege base. Thanks for a chance to win!
March 11th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Dear Jim,
After reading all these other stories I am not going to submit myself for the Ann Wigemore contest. As you say it’s too bad there aren’t enoough means to give everyone a free copy. There are so many people who nood it. I do not envy you the decision of whom to choose as the winners. My heart goes out to each and every person on this list. For all those who are trying to improve their life, Stay Strong, Think Positive, Trust the Process! Bless you Jim for the good work you do.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I would love to win the home study course because I have often thought of buying it, but I hve not been able to yet. I work as a practical nurse in a hospital (medical/surgical unit)in BC, Canada, and as part of my job I am requiured to give medications on a daily basis for various digestive problems, such as chronic nausea and constipation. I try to eat raw fruits and vegetables every day because I know about the importance of digestive enzymes, but I am not on a totally raw food diet. I believe we’d have people getting well much faster, and even have less people in the hospital, if they only knew more about proper diet. I seem to be the only nurse that ever mentions eating raw fruits and vegetables to patients. I would love to be equipped with more knowledge to advise people, as well as help my family eat as healthy as possible. If Ann Wigmore could cure herself of Colon cancer, I’m sure others could, instead of having a bowel resection, or having to live the rest of their lives with a colostomy bag. I know each person is an individual and each case is different, but I would absolutely love to see our hospitals be more open to more natural dieting. I can only hope we are heading that way. I read there is a hospital in the States somewhere that sells Green Smoothies. I wished I’d have kept the link but I didn’t, and if you know about it Jim could you please let me know where it is. Thank you.
March 11th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Thankyou for this opportunity Jim!!
If I won this contest, there would be several winners! I have been blessed with a large family and although I would not change that for the world, it has created some financial challenges that prevent me from being able to afford schooling for myself. Becoming a raw foods nutritional consultant is one of my big goals, for TWO specific reasons. The first reason is for my family. I have an 11 year old son who is in the high functioning autism spectrum, this affects his digestive system. I also have a 20 year old son who was in a serious accident 1.5 years ago, that left him in a coma for awhile, with multiple injuries, and caused him to be heavily medicated for several months for survival. This resulted in slugish organs even requiring his gall bladder to be removed at such a young age. He is still recovering. Obviously these two require care that has been, and continues to be, costly. This has had to be my financial priority. My 13 year old daughter, although very lean and active, has a high cholestrol predisposition that runs in the family. I also have two other younger children. I do alot of research in ways to have a healthy lifestyle and diet, and apply the things I learn, but I need a very strong foundation on this subject. I know my family and I would greatly benefit. Secondly, I am always the person who loves to educate and help others to lead healthy lifestyles, with what I have been able to learn on my own. In fact I am teased a little by people who know me, for all the research I do independently, and am constantly receiving suggestions from those same people to find a way to go to school. They feel I have a passion, and I should find a way to pursue my dreams. I agree, and that is what brings me to this wonderful opportunity. I would be very serious and beyond thankful to be blessed with this. I hope and pray that I will be chosen to win! In Faith, Deborah Thornhill
March 11th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
My girls and I would be absolutely thrilled to win Ann Wigmore’s home study plan..
I live in Alberta, Canada..its cold in the winter, that’s when we went all raw..My sixteen and eleven year daughters, threw out my stove last November..everything we make is in the raw..Before that, we were about 70% raw..We eat no dairy or meat..we are healthier for it..
I am a single mom, and if my girls and I can do it, anyone can do it!
I have a tiny shop called “CocoLoco”, which I sell coconut oil, raw cacao butter and coconut products, raw..everything in my shop I sell is raw! I love telling people about going raw and the benefits. My sixteen year of daughter (Jodika), helps me with the shop..she also is very smart and bright..she preaches about raw eating..even my 11 year old(Gabrielle) is starting to preach in school..(her lunches are all raw). Sometimes the kids go “ohh, what is that” and she replys, “ohhh, what do you got. Dead food? Then she tells them about the chemicals in the food..
I used to be a alcoholic, smoked cigarettes, and done my share of pot…since 2001, my life changed for the better..The girls and I started with juicing. I am 45 years of age, and not one single grey hair! If it wasn’t for the coconut oil and raw eating, I would be very old looking by now…Raw food does reverse and heal one’s body!
The reason I would love to win this is, for my two daughters..especially my 16 year old..I am so proud of her..she is homeschooling herself and is excelling in it..I wanted to put her in some kind of Raw food courses, but right at the moment, my money has to be placed into paying bills…My two girls and I would so benefit from Ann Wigmore’s course.
Thank you
Coconutbev
Beverley McKinley
March 11th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Hi. We are Mayan Eartheart and Deo Moore and we are best friends. We are both 11 years old boys and we are excited about this contest. We would be happy if we win. Thanks to Dr. Carey for having this great idea because this program about eating raw foods is just too expensive for us right now and our parents don’t have that kind of money. We know there are probably thousands of people who deserve to be the winners of this raw foods course and we also know there are millions of people who could benefit from it. We would like to share why we would like to be considered for all those DVDs and books and knowledge. We feel we would be really lucky if we are chosen and we know we could really benefit from it.
I, Mayan, have been a vegan my entire life, and right now I eat more than 50% live foods. I know a lot about being vegan, but I would like to learn a lot more to motivate me to eat even more raw. I also love sprouts and want to learn more so I can do it myself. I am especially excited about this program because we would be helping other people to not eat dead, innocent animals and how to get healthy. This is important to me.
I, Deo, pretty much eat anything. I am not a vegetarian but I love salads and want to learn more about the benefits of eating raw. And I must admit, I have an obsession with Mayan’s mother’s raw sauerkraut so I hope there might be something about making raw saurkraut on disc #27 about fermented food. That would be great. But if it is not in the study program or in the recipe book, Mayan’s mom can probably teach me about the benefits of it and how to make it.
We are both soccer fanatics and we are sure that if we learned more about raw food we would both be even better soccer players. We saw something about an energy soup. Maybe that would be good for our game. We know there are good benefits of being raw if you are an athlete. We are very excited about this.
We go to Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana. Our school is a good school but they could care less about raw foods. Most of the other kids eat disgusting food like ramen, cheese-its, subway, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and other junk food! It is really disturbing and sad. We are the only ones who have salads in our lunches. If we get these DVDs and books, we could educate our classmates, our teachers, the other kids, and even our principle about why raw foods make you happy and healthy and how not to be a couch potato. Because of what we will learn on these DVDs, we could offer classes on raw vegan foods and how to be healthy at our school and who knows where else! Maybe there would be some DVDs that would be appropriate to show to the whole school and our parents said they would help us do something at the library or at church. Or maybe the DVDs would give us inspiration about how to make raw food DVDs for kids or other educational videos we could put up on the youtube.
If we win this DVD course, we want you to know that we will educate others. Not only kids, but old people too, especially people who are obese, or have cancer or diabetes or probably anything. We know unnecessary diseases are big problems in the U.S. and probably everywhere in the world. And since we are young, we will be educating a lot of people! We are just kids, and have the rest of our lives to benefit from this and to educate others.
We will not fight over this course and we promise to share it with each other because we are best friends. We will also share it with our friends. It seems like that lady Ann Wigmore had a lot of wise ideas that we need to learn about. As Mayan’s mother tells us, “Over time, we will be a part of the ripple effect of changing the world.” This sounds like it is pretty important for us to do and we really do want to see this world change and get happier and healthier and it seems to us like this would be a good way to do it.
Thank you for reading our proposal. Imagine each of us with green lips and a green smoothie right now. We could all do a toast together: Here’s to a raw, happy, healthy world!
Sincerely,
Deo and Mayan
P.S. Dr. Carey, we want you to know that we are very excited about the talk we could have with you and that we would be very happy to split up the hour talk with you that you are also giving away. We could each have a half hour to ask you our questions or we could even do it together if that would be more convenient for you because we get together a lot.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Sorry to be so long in approving these comments and entries. I was on the road all day, driving from the studio in central Kentucky back to my farm in Georgia. But I’m there, I’m back, and it’s sure good to be home. I’ll be here for 10 days, then it’s off to Creative Health Institute in Michigan for my re-inspiration and two weeks of pure Dr. Ann Wigmore lifestyle.
The CHI staff and I will choose the winners at the end of this month.
Jim
March 11th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I should win because :
1. I can readapt & refine it as per the 7 leverages of nutritional alchemy – to take to another higher level. This will help myself & others make the most out of it. The more results people have with it the more it will become popular.
2. It will help my health by allowing me to experiment on myself & further my research on the MicroVita principles as applied to real-life nutrition & common health issues.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:30 am
I will thank God and jump with joy if I win the Raw Food Home Study Course since I have been dreaming for a long time of being able to take this course.
I feel that the raw food diet will not only help and teach me but also my husband, son and granchildren and our sisters, brothers and their children all about raw food diet and how to prepare raw food dishes, green smoothies, sprouting, gardening, nuts, seeds and herbs, etc., and how to stay healthy and fit on a raw food diet. All of us have some health and weight issues and this course would help us tremendously.
March 12th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I feel that I should win the course because, what I’ve read about it, it would be extremely beneficial for me.
I had a cancerous tumor removed along with about 14 inches of my colon last July. Missed a lot of work during that time and recovering. Now I just got laid off from part time “permanent” employment from a school district due to budget problems with the state.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jan
March 12th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Dear Jim,
I have been a raw food enthusist for almost a decade now. I am on a rather limited budget so when I learned about this contest I got real excited and I thought I would give it a whirl. However, my enthusiasm has dampened. Indeed, I feel I “deserve” to be considered … but … after reading all the above “testimonials” from others I now withdraw my desire to be the personal recipient of this gift given ALL of the other folks who are struggling more than me! However, for me what gets the top prize are those two 11 year old boys from Indiana! So, I vote for them — what I would have done with my life if I had all of that information when I was 11. Reading their plea was so very inspirational for me! So, here’s to you, Jim, for casting out to the universe such an amazing opportunity — and — for generating such a beautiful response. Indeed, I am touched! Thank You and sincerely, Morris Miller
March 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Jim,
I would like to win the Ann Wigmore home study course as I have tried to follow here life style, but I have a lot of distractions from home. My wife belives you can eat anything and you will be fine like her. She says she is healty and strong and has not problems. She eats one meal a day, most of the time. She tells me I eat like the pigs in China and I should have been a farmer. She tells me I am sick and I need to eat a balanced diet (SAD diet). I have read many of Ann’s books and I understand what she is saying. I would like to have the support of this course. We have three young sons and my mother-in-law to support. My wife is a stay at home mom and my mother-in-law is from China and does not have an income.
Thank you for all the work you do and for putting this course together. I know you put in a lot of voluntary time to keep everything going.
God bless,
Don
March 12th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I would love to win Ann Wigmore’s home study course. You see my sister died this past August from lung cancer. After she was diagnosed she asked me for help in helping her chose a natural course of treatment. I knew it was important for her to eat the right way in order for her body to fight the cancer.I tried to help but, unfortunately, I only found out about raw foods after her death. I have been eating the raw foods way for 4 months now and my family is not as excited about it as I am. I can be very difficult at times but I am determined to do this for the rest of my life. I want to be able to learn everything I can so I can do this in the correct way. Although I was not able to help my sister, in time I hope to be able to be a help to anyone else that may need it. Thank you for considering me for this home study program. I truly appreciate it.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:16 am
After I found this opportunity to win a course I just wanted to start typing straight away. But I’ve actually taken several days to think about how to write this because I REALLY want to win it.
I see this as a great opportunity for me to start to put my dream into place if I can gain more knowledge on a subject that I think is very important in this time we live.
Having worked in the fitness indusrty and now working with children I want to be able to put together a healthy lifestyle & physical activity program for children. I want to educate todays children on the importance of eating real food really well. I want them to know the profound effect it can have on their lives. I want to help stop the obesity epidemic that their parents are raising them in. We need to educate our children about being active, having fun outside the TV room. They need to learn about food, how to grow it, why they should grow it, how to eat it. How all this impacts on the environment. There are so many positives in this it just seems like a no brainer to me.
I want to take this message to ALL children, no matter who they are or where they come from. I would love nothing more than to see this sort of message being implemented into todays school cirriculum.
Its so hard for parents who are constantly bombarded by slick,manipulative advertising conning them and their children into eating quick fast convient foods. Then to take the quick medications that the pharmacutical companies pretend that will help them to ease the indigestion, the heartburn, constipation, etc etc. Its all a con but who’s telling them.
So having said all that I can only do this by being educated myself. I read as much as I can and am basically self taught. But I really need some good credentials behind me to backup my knowledge.I’m quite new at this raw food thing but I know its where my passion lies. I believe I have found my calling. I want to spread the word. I want the world to know they can be healthy and happy and help themselves to be as disease free as possible. Oh there are so many wonderful possiblities out there for this whole movement.I don’t want to keep it to myself, I want to shout it to the world, but I really NEED to know more. I know Ann Wigmore was a pioneer in this wonderful field. Who better to learn from. Please help me to do this.
Even if I don’t win maybe someone else will read this and want to do the same as me. The more people with this desire and passion, the better we can make this world. Thanks for the chance. I’ve got my fingers crossed for luck.
Yours in happiness & health Rebecca from Australia
March 13th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Hi Jim,
I would love to win this program. I am a raw foodist and it is my desire to spread the word and to teach and educate others about the raw food lifestyle. I believe this program would help me in doing just that. I want to walk my talk, and encourage others to embrace this lifestyle. There are so many people that I know who suffer needlessly and I will show them a better way of living with the help of all the wonderful material you provide in your course. I am here to serve others and would like to dedicate my time by passing on as much information as possible for free to those in need. I think it would be wonderful to set up meetings and demonstrations and videos, etc. for others to come see at no cost to them to help educate them and possibly shift their thinking and show them that there are others ways to take better care of themselves.
Thank you for considering me for the free course.
Susan
March 13th, 2009 at 10:43 am
I have been struggling with an extra 50-70 pounds (it creeps up a little more each year) since I turned 50.
I’m now 63. The extra weight makes me fatigued, depressed and not as social as I used to me. I am self-conscious and try to avoid having my picture taken at family gatherings.
I have tried every diet imaginable and lately I went on a 1000 calorie diet for a month and only lost 2 lbs.
Then I read about raw whole foods and since starting
on eating just salads and fruit and nuts I have lost another 5 lbs in just a week. I know there’s so much more that I can do besides salads to make the diet more interesting, but I must say for someone who hardly ever touched a salad and let fruit rot in the refrigerator,
I have really been enjoying raw whole foods, I already am happier, look better, feel better and have more energy. I have alot of people that come to me for advice with their health and the more I know, the more I can help others. I am preparing to be a hospice volunteer and I hope that by gaining more knowledge, I can not only help people pass, but possibly could help
them extend their lives.
March 14th, 2009 at 5:46 am
I am 53, with decades of failed dieting behind me – but recently I have started green smoothies and lots of raw foods and feeling healthier and on my way to a healthy weight (over 170 lbs to go) – winning a course like this would be a huge boost and motivation.
I know that raw foods will get me to my goal. I plan on taking classes along the way for many more ways to stay health like chi gongso that I can improve my life but also so I can share my ethusiasm and motivation with my family, friends, and eventually others too.
March 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I am the mother of six children. My almost 9 year old son, David, was diagnosed with a brain tumor when he was 13 months old. He has spent almost 4 years of his life on chemo treatments. He is currently off treatment and is doing well. His MRI’s still show a mass in his head. His doctors say it may be scar tissue at this point. He gets a MRI every 3 months so the doctors can watch for any signs of activity. They say David will be okay as long as the mass does not start growing again, but I know he needs much more than that in the way of nourishment and detoxification.
I would have preferred to seek alternative and/or natural means of treating my son’s condition, but my husband was not willing. While David was going through his 3rd set of 15 to 18 months of chemo, I told my husband I could not sit idly by and do nothing but these traditional treatments that only tear the body down. Thus began my desperate search for a better way. As I researched I felt inspired by all that I was hearing about the results of a raw foods lifestyle. My children and I tried going raw for about 5 months. I experienced great results with my health problems and David did well also. However, because David was not gaining weight, the doctors were concerned about the way we were eating. Also I did not have much support from my family. After 5 months I became very discouraged and we gradually slipped back into cooked food. I regret this as it will be even harder to get my children back on raw food now. I have heard you say keeping inspired is a key part of successfully maintaining a raw foods lifestyle. Without a support system around me and with the skepticism of the doctors about the importance of nutrition in the treatment of tumors, I know this is going to be especially critical in my situation.
I am applying for the free home study course because I see it as a way to learn more about a healthy foods lifestyle as well as a way to stay inspired. We are a large family and have been incurring medical bills from David’s condition for 8 years now. Financially and otherwise it would be a huge blessing to receive the home study course free.
Thank you,
Sonya
March 15th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
hi. I am restarting the raw food diet, because I felt so good on it, also am feeding my dogs lots of raw food, have read a lot of books of Ann Wigmore, she had all the right answers, she was an amazing person, with so much knowlege.
Thank You
Debbie
March 15th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Hi Jim,
First of all, let me send a BIG THANK YOU for even having this contest.
It would be SOOO FANTASTIC and a true blessing to win the Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program because I really believe it is the Ultimate of Programs – THE TRUTH – for learning the raw living way, which is what my goal is. I am not 100% yet, but one day I WILL be and this program will teach me SO MUCH because I have so much to learn!!!
I see how my parents and husband struggle with all their health problems and I try to help them in every which way I can including with some of their food choices: making some green smoothies, salads, some raw meals and talking to them about trying not to cook some of their foods. But, you know, I don’t want to be a nag but rather an example, a helper and teacher for them and others who WANT to learn.
I know that the Raw Living Program would be a great help to us all and our wellbeing because we would for one thing be getting true living enzymes and nutrients to every one of our cells – our bodies could be rebuilt from the inside out!!! I truly believe that we could become much happier and healthier human beings healing and helping our minds, our bodies, our emotions and spiritual connections by living the raw living way.
Thank you,
Eve
March 16th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I have come back to this site twice already due to the already numerous responses that are posted. But something told me to leave my response anyway. I am a single mother of 3 children and one grandchild i have been trying to research the raw food diet for almost a year now. I wanted very much to buy ann wigmore’s home study program, but due to the price i really can not purchase it no matter how much i need it. i would absolutely love the ann wigmore’s home study course to learn all that i could to help my children, my family, and myself to be the healthiest we can be. I myself have been struggling with weight issues and it has not gotten any better.I have been having chest pains now as well, which really concerns me since i am only 41 yrs old. I am the heaviest I have ever been in my life and do not want to continue down this road. I try to read anything that will educated me in this rawfood choice but I do feel that there is something still missing. I feel that with ann wigmore’s home study course, that this will cover every aspect of health. It would truly be a blessing to receive this home study program.
thank you so much,
kim
March 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Hi Jim!
It feels extremely fortuitous to come across your contest as I have reached a quarter-life crossroads so to speak.
After graduating from school with a liberal arts degree in 2006, I have been working in the field of marketing since then. It has been interesting and I have learned some valuable business lessons, but as I have been slowly transitioning from a two year vegan diet to a heavily based raw vegan diet, my desire to help others become informed is growing. I have read countless books and am trying to save up enough money to get my first Vita-Mix! In the near-future I would like to figure out how to pair my love of sports (longtime athlete) and the benefits of a raw vegan diet.
I think I should win this home study program because I truly believe that it will help me to help others. I have a strong interest in the relationship between a RV diet and athletic performance. This program will help me to better understand my own health, performance and recoveries and hopefully after some future schooling, help other athletes to achieve optimal health and performance…and of course family and friends! I know Miss Wigmore can help me get there : ) I already feel ten times better since beginning my transition and as I continue my self-study, her program would be a wonderful aid.
Thank you for this opportunity!
All the best,
Louise
March 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Dear Jim,
Thank you for this opportunity to win Dr. Ann Wigmore
course and all the time and energy you have spent
putting it together.
As a former pharmaceutical detail representative, I found that providing drug information to medical doctors which included there side effects, contraindications, warnings, safety, and interactions with other drugs, brought disenchantment with the allopathic model of modern medicine.
I would like to win the free course because as the son of a Chiropractor, I realize I should have listened to my father as he continually taught the importance of quality food and a healthy lifestyle.
He even mentioned Dr. Wigmore’s name while telling my sister and me why quality food in raw form was the ideal. So, I would like to honor my wonderful father by becoming the healthy person he wanted me to become.
I know we were designed to eat raw food, not cooked.
I know by learning and putting into practice the knowledge Dr. Wigmore and you have put together in this program will help me drop excess weight, improve all my vital signs, and most importantly become an example to my children, family and friends as to the power of raw food and it’s intimate connectivity to true health and living life to it’s fullest.
More than once I heard my father say (quoting from
Hippocrates) “Let the food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food”
Thank you sincerely for your consideration.
Kent
March 27th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Hello Jim;
Thank you for the opportunity to win The Raw Food Home Study Program.
I’ve read so many of the above replies, and it’s difficult to think I “should” win or deserve to win it any more than the next person.
I am a teacher and am currently living in China. I recently found the information about eating “raw” on line and have started to apply this way of eating into my lifestyle here in China, beginning this past month. AT this time I am probably about 50% raw.
It only makes sense that this way of eating would be the right way to go. I have been overweight all my life and had my stomach stapled 22 years ago. I have studied various way to optimum health and have lost literally “tons” of weight over the years, but usually to only give up and/or gain it all back. I have lived in China for the past 6 years and have already changed my diet in many ways, and have been better for it.
I believe the raw food lifestyle can change my health because it’s what the body needs…real food! Not processed or cooked food, but real food in it’s natural state.
I also believe that the people I am surrounded with, here in China, could stand to learn about this way of eating as well. So many here are beginning to live the SAD lifestyle (Standard American Diet) and it’s really sad to this happening again! It would be a blessing to be able to share this information with them too!
Best wishes to you in chosing the 2 winners! God bless you for all you’ve done for the Raw Food Community!
March 27th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Hi Jim,
I am so thrilled to be a part of this opportunity. I am from India and about 25% raw entirely out of my own will and with absolutely no help from people around me…not because they dont want me to do it(well, thats also the case at times!) but because people here in India have absolutely close-to-zero knowledge about raw foods and the amazing health transformation it helps one achieve..I think its a revolution waitin to happen here and you and I can be instrumental in the process simply by making it more mainstream here. I am trying to open a health restaurant here (something of a first here !) and I want to incorporate the life-changing teachings of Dr. Wigmore in the restaurant. This course will help me do just that.
Also, personally, I ve been wanting to go high-raw for a really long time and if I get this course, it will just be the motivation I need to continue. I have certain problems like dark circles and dull skin for which I can easily say that I have tried everything under the sun but havent been able to get rid of them. The only thing that I havent tried fully is being 100% raw and I know in my heart of hearts that it has the power to change my life and many more. I just need the push now. Please be my motivator.
Thanks soooo much. I feel wonderful just talking about it.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Good day! After reading the comments I feel a bit
“disqualified.” Thankfully my husband and I don’t
suffer from serious ailments as some others. To be
honest, we desire to learn to “correct” way to live
the raw food lifestyle. We believe that God designed
the body to thrive on raw vegan foods, and we are
in the process of learning how to do that. We would
feel honored to be selected to be students of the
Ann Wigmore Home Study Course and will put it into
action, and pass it on. Thank you for your consideration.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:12 am
My Raw story
About 8 years ago I watched my aunt suffer and die from cancer, it was the worst thing anyone could have watched. Each day the cancer took a part of her until there was nothing left, a few months later I was talking to a good friend about what I had been through and I had made a comment about how you can’t control if you get cancer, there is nothing we can do. At that moment I heard God say to me “yes, you can control what you eat” at the time I didn’t really think much about it. Later that night I was sitting at my computer and looked to my can of diet Pepsi and the word aspartame pop out so I searched it and WOW I can’t believe what I was reading and still to this day I can’t believe our government allows it to be sold in drinks. The next few days I researched beef, chicken and pork, after lot of researching I came a cross the raw food diet and Dr. Ann Wigmore. The minute I read about this diet I knew that was it, it made so much sense. The next couple of month was fun trying to learn how to change to a raw diet in a cooked world. And detoxing was fun also, but I did it for the next 2 years I was 100% raw. The energy level was great I felt great. My husband would love to play a game let see what restaurant I could eat at, and there was only one I couldn’t eat at Taco bell.
The summer of 2002 it all came to an end we were moving, and I was busy painting the new house. I didn’t have time to prep (in the raw diet there is lot of preparation) I would get home late, leaving me to grab anything, that went on for 17days and before I knew it I was back to eating cooked food, Not just cooked food but fast food. The next 6-year I had try to go back, but I have found it very hard.
I’m now start a support Group and feel that Dr. Ann Wigmore home study would help me get back on track.Plus give me what I need to help other people.
Thank you
Brenda
March 27th, 2009 at 9:13 am
1. Why you feel that you should win the course…
I want to LEARN the knowledge, SHARE the knowledge and LIVE the knowledge!
I want to help to teach our family and friends how they can live without dis-ease, then they can teach others how to do the same!
I want to so badly to be happy and healthy, I don’t want to be this slug with pain anymore. I want my children, husband, and other loved ones to actually “LIVE” and enjoy life instead of being crippled with aches and pains! I don’t want us to end up lying in a bed in pain in some care-home, looking forward to that last breath to get rid of the pain! I want us to grow old and feel great! So many people that I know are suffering from dis-ease, and your course will educate myself, my family, my friends and their family and friends, on exactly HOW we all CAN find joy in their lives by improving their health naturally
Thank you sooooooo much for offering these gems to us!
2. Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health.
Consume something living and live longer and stronger, consume something dead and die faster…we can live without pain, and this is the way…
Because it is the way God intended us to eat! The stories and testimonies of people throughout history witnesses to me that adopting the raw food lifestyle is the golden rule to better health!
March 27th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Close your eyes and think of the most precious, most innocent, purest, wonderful being you have ever met. That is my son, Danny, he is 20 years old and cannot walk or talk. He CAN laugh, he CAN smile and shows love to everyone by greeting them with his warm smile, he does make all that meet him feel important. Danny is my joy. He loves all the raw foods that I make him, and despite his limitations, is healthy and thriving. I feel I should win the home study course because it will help me help my son and all the other people that come into our life. I know that the raw food diet will help me to continue to achieve greater health and help my son be as healthy and strong as possible. I believe so strongly in raw foods as a way of life. I need more knowledge and will continue to help my son and all I meet.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Shalom Doc.
I left a message for you on another video but I will do this one again. I am a diabetic striving to be a raw food teacher. I found that this is not an easy journey to make without the help of good teachers. Cooked food is very additive and the help of other like you can help people like me to be ween off of the distructive path. I want to live to be 120 years old or older with all my faculties intact. I do not want to be hooked up to any machines or have my sibblings and or children caring for me. I watched so many of your videos that have helped me over the past few month. I went to Arnolds shop in Lansdale Pa and I came across wheatgrass seeds. I am now venturing to make the wheatgrass water that I saw you drinking in the videos. I m a sight person so learning from Dr. Ann’s home studies will sure come in handy. Keep me in mind for the free course. I will see you on the computer this weekend I can’t wait to se what you have instore for me. Nammaste!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Hi,
I deserve it! Really i do. I couldn’t express all my love and my willingness but i had to tell you that i do deserve it.
Raw food helps the body to heal itself it’s all we should be eating and i do feel a lot better on it, however i do struggle (lots) and that’s what i want to free myself from.I am vegan, no struggle there, it’s all love.
I live far( very) away from my family and friends and need support wich is harder to get in this situation, so please do help me and i know i can in turn, help others.
with love,
juliana.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Hey Jim . . . WOW, look at all the responses you have received for this free course. I would also love to receive the Home Study course free of charge. I don’t have a terrible story to share compared to the others. I am on the raw food path, have been that is, I have fallen off for the last 6 weeks and feel the pain from doing so. I have to get back on and lose the weight and hopefully the distress that have come with it. I can do that without the course, today is my first day back and I know I can do it. I would like to share the raw food lifestyle with others and that is where having the course would be of great use to me. I won’t go into my financial situation, as all of us are quite obviously unable to come up with the purchase price.
Other than putting everyones name into a hat I can’t imagine how you will make a decision . .. GOOD LUCK and thanks for the opportunity!
March 27th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I feel that I should win because all my life I’ve been looking for this information. I started reading the Bible when I was very young and I noticed Genesis 1:29. I didn’t know anyone who ate that way but all my life I’ve been looking for information on eating this way.
I’m an athlete who has biked and ran over 25, 000Km over the last 5 years. It would be good publicity if I was to be a raw vegan and do this. I am a lacto-vegetarian right now.
I was also cut off by someone while riding my bike and went head first into the road at maybe 30Km \hr which cracked my skull. I have memory loss and a great deal of pain. I’m unemployed right now and find it very hard because of my mental ability.
I feel that Dr. Anne’s information would help me to recover from this accident, and with my athletic persuits. I also would like to become a personal trainer, which this informationwould be a great help in helping others.
All my life I’ve tried to help other people to better their lives with information I’ve aquired. This course would help me to do this more so.
Thanks for all your hard work regardless.
Mark Kingsbury
March 27th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
1. Why you feel that you should win the course:
Well, it is the only program that I have even got my 71 mother to look at and to read about the lifestyle after I gave her information on Dr Ann. She has came to live with me now that my dad passed away in a nursing home after a stroke left him with no way of swallowing his food and was put on a feeding tube and only lasted a little over a year. I had be some what learning about raw at the time and now have gone full force. How ever have not got my mother on board but now that she is reading anything I can get on Dr Ann, I know sharing this would help her as well as me. Just this last summer she had two strokes herself and that still didn’t wake her up to see how bad the SAD is.
2. Why you feel that the raw food diet will help you achieve greater health:
Cause, I know it already has, I have not been sick over 2 years, and it is my lifestyle. It is what helps me to keep going—it will be my witness to my family, my friends and even people that I meet everyday that sickness is not something we have to just live with.
March 28th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Hi Jim,
Currently in Singapore there is no one who is educating the population on the why, how to and benefits of a raw food lifestyle over the current cooked food mindset.
If I win the course I will have the most complete resource to share and educate people to take charge of their lives and give them the tools to switch over to a raw food lifestyle and reap all its positive benefits.
March 28th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Dear Jim,
To be honest I have been an on-off raw and living fooder for the past couple of years. Just when things seem to be going great I fall off the rails and it’s always a struggle to get back and on course again.
So far I have managed to teach and share the limited knowledge I already have with a few people and who are know moving ahead in leaps and bounds.
I’ve often looked at Dr Ann’s course and thought how could I really afford spending all that money? I have even made inquiries on how to one day visit a Wigmore based center.
I would love to be able to use all this knowledge firstly for myself to get consistent on all the techniques and really live the living food life, so that I can move forward to help myself and to help others.
Thank you Jim for the work and motivation you provide to me and to us all.
Best wishes to all.
March 28th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Hi there, thank you for the great work you undertook.
I feel that this material would help me a lot because only reading is not enough to get the feeling of it (even if own or have read most AW’s material) and I don’t have the means to go to one of the institutes. I do believe tremendously in this message but in a cold city of the North hemisphere,it’s very hard to follow in the cold winter. I definitely need more knowledge and support.
and as to why I should win, simply because I could help many many others with this knowledge as I own a support group on the web, a forum/board where I post everyday new stuff to keep my members informed with interesting info on raw food, sprouting and alternative health. this would definitely give me a LOT of material to post to answer questions and help isolated people all over the world.
thanks anyway and keep up the wonderful work!
March 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I have actually bought your course but I am recommending that my father win a copy of your course. Here’s why …
Like you, he is this amazing educator just by nature and he teaches by demonstration, trial and error. There are no bells and whistles. Logic speaks volumes to him and Raw Foods are so logical aren’t they?
An engineer by nature he sees things in black and white and is very effective in getting others to understand things, like healing YOURSELF, on their own level.
A copy of the home study program in my father’s 66 year old hands and brain will benefit so many more people than he alone. He’ll share it with a wide audience of people. Everyone from the 16 year old neighborhood “Meatballs” that come over to work on their cars to the strangers that he meets out @ garage sales every Saturday.
I know my dad will achieve greater health on the Raw Food diet because he called me the other day after making a sprout, water, kale, broccoli, pumkin seed shake and said it tasted horrible but it makes him feel great and his nightly leg cramps are going away. Yeah DAD!!!!
March 29th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Hi Jim, I heard so much about the goodness of raw diet from the internet but in my country rarely could find one individual practising it. My brother in law was diagnosed of colon cancer in december’07. I did advised him to eat as raw as possible but he said “where got people just eat raw and it will not be healthy this way”. Since I just started raw diet on myself where just eat fruits (40%) but do not really know the proper way to start so I need to win your course so that I could know how to start myself(now I am already eat 40% raw only on fruits) and help others to start too(especially convince my family members). People in Malaysia love foods, thus getting them to just eat like I do will definitely makes them run. With proper knowledge and ways I am sure could help to turn more meat eater to plant base and most important is this will contribute to save our planet greatly! Looking forward for a congratulation statement from you.
Thank you.
Regards
Suet Leong
March 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
I’ve quickly been reading through other people’s entries to see how I can make mine stand out. Jim, you have a tough job choosing.
There’s so much information out there. It’s hard to know what to believe. I just went to a Raw Food talk at Karyn’s Bistro in Chicago and she kept saying “try it on, keep what fits, and let the rest go.”
I like that your product is coming straight from Ann Wigmore. I believe in her after reading her story.
I’m not sure what I could say to have you award the free program to me. My partner and I have been on a raw food fast starting with Ash Wednesday. We went off it for a few days when my daughter went into the hospital and I just felt like numbing myself with food. We are sure we want to open a raw food restaurant in our little town. Oh yeah since we started I have felt better after detoxing and have lost 20 lbs. so far.
As part of our plan to get our restaurant going we plan to have people over to eat our food and eventually plan a raw food meetup in our area. We’d love to show some videos from your program to people.
We have a big plan to free the world of disease using this diet and a spiritual plan. I feel this course would catapult us into it at an even faster rate.
Our plan of course includes transforming our own lives first and I feel we are well on our way. Good luck with your decision Jim.
March 29th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I am impressed with all the stories and problems that everyone thinks this home study program can solve. I am also intrigued by the 11 year old boys from Indiana who are working at and caring about a raw lifestyle.(at this young age) if they can get really interested in the program at the age of 11 and stay interested and actually make room in their lives to show this program to others just imagine what they could do by the age of thirty. If the brain dendrites get exposed they have no where to go but to advance to higher levels. What amn amazing opportunity for you to be able to help them in what could be their lifes work. I sincerely hope you take the opportunity to help expand their knowledge. you never know who might be helping who in the future.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
HI Jim,
I would be honored to win the Ann Wigmore Home Study Program. In the past few months I have been reading anything I can get my hands on that she has written. I have changed my eating habits drastically and am about 90% raw. I would like more guidance on becoming raw vegan for health reasons as well as just feeling better. I have not been able to find anyone in my area that is raw vegan. I see so much suffering around me and would love to share this knowledge to those in need to help them improve their lives also. With no support in my area and very limited internet use, the home study program would be a God send to me and I would love to share it with all those who are looking for a way to improve their lives and better their health.
Sincerely,
Rhonda
March 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I am very new to the raw food lifestyle,but from all the information I have read I know this is the way we were meant to live. I would like to recieve the course and consultation because I feel it will help me over come my health issues. I am a diabetic and have high blood pressure also I am over weight, I am trying to learn all I can to improve my health but my job as a truck driver is quite a challenge, also the economy has me hard pressed to aquire the course, but I know that sooner or later Iwill aquire the course as soon as things turn around. Thank You for giving me this chance.
March 31st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Just found out about the contest and hope it’s not too late to enter.
Being retired, I surely would love to be a winner. Since I’ve had severe headaches on an off almost weekly since high school, it seems that this course could be of great benefit. MSG in foods causes great problems and although I really try to avoid it, staying away from processed foods, still the headaches persist. Please consider my entry.
Blessings
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Hi there. I’m Jenn, 34 years old, wife to Mike and mom to 6 children. This giveaway could be the answer to my prayer! 23 months ago I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. It was a shocking and scary time in my life learning I have an “incurable” disease, feeling out of control. I am also obese as a size 22, have been for 10 years and am desperate to get back to a healthy size but seem to have a hard time getting there.
I have had a positive feeling that I can heal, despite what the doctors say. I just need the help getting there, and this could be the way for me!
Thanks so much for your generosity with this giveaway =)
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 am
Wow. These are a lot of moving stories. I wish I could give each and every one of you a copy of the program.
The contest is now closed, and we’ll be announcing the winner on Monday, April 6th.
Jim
April 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Hi Dr. Jim;
Today, April 10, I have not found the announcement; am I looking in the right place for it? I am still hopeful to be one of the two lucky ones…
Thanks much for all your efforts.
Kindest Regards,
Elfriede Wirtz
April 11th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Hi Jim,
Hope that you are all right!!? I have been looking for the announcement but can’t seem to find it. Where will you post it?
Still hopeful too….
Eve
April 14th, 2009 at 8:20 am
[...] GRAND PRIZE WINNER#1: Lorelei (March 3rd) GRAND PRIZE WINNER#2: Carol (March 11th) . I’d hoped to announce the winners over a week ago, but it’s taken this long for the judges to reach agreement on the final two! There were so many good, worthy entries that it was nearly impossible to choose only two. Here’s a direct link to the entries we received: http://chidiet.com/blog/free-stuff/free-course.htm#comments [...]
April 14th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Carol and Lorelei were the winners. Here’s the announcement: http://chidiet.com/blog/free-course/winners-announced.htm
April 14th, 2009 at 8:41 am
This has been so popular, I’m re-opening the contest. If you’ve already entered then you’re already in for the next free Home Study Program. If you haven’t entered yet, please do! You could be the next winner of a $700 Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Home Study Program!
April 14th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Carol and Lorelei, best of luck to both of you. I didn’t read all the entries but it’s clear you both are positioned to spread the word beyond yourselves and into your communities.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Oh Lord, please let me be a winner in this next contest, I need to win SO MUCH so that I know I can help my desperately ill and most beloved sister-in-law in Eastern Ukraine. But first of all I must have the knowledge. God Bless this cry from the heart.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I am sorry, I forgot to add that Ljuda has professional hepatitis and absolutely everything must be paid for, even sheets and decent food…never mind correct nutrition!
April 29th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I would love to win the Ann Widmore Home Course. I was introduced to her by a friend 5 days ago who eliminated Cancer from his body completely several years ago from juicing Wheat Grass and following her Sprouting methods and believing in all that she has written.
I will be new at the Raw food diet and have been looking for her books to purchase at discount as not much money.
Need to do this because my friend is a living testimony to the Healing Powers of Healthy Raw Living Wheat Grass therapy.
Have not begun it yet will start this next week will purchase a juicer, and books, seeds, trays etc.
I have multiple diseases in my body, Cancer which was removed by a biopsy two weeks ago, and have Diabetes as well plus other. The Cancer convinced me the body is so full of toxins and need to come out. I see a whole different being inside awaiting this wonderful change.
Thank you Ann Widmore and others who are Raw, vegan, vegetarian and those who are trying to escape the perils of the worlds pollutants.
Would truly like to win this course so i can continue and give back to someone else through a living testimony.
Gayle
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Hi Jim,
Thank you for all the great videos you do for everyone on your website.
I have been trying to do the raw foods for about 6 months. I watched your video about addictions to food and I know that is one of my problems. I get started on the raw foods and I get such a strong craving for chicken and/or bread and I break down. After I eat this horrible food I feel terrible. I can’t sleep and feel so sluggish. When I eat raw food, I have energy and stamina and I sleep better too.
I have hypertention and am overweight. I really want to get my health back and would truly love to win this wonderful course. I know losing weight with raw foods will help with the hypertention. The drugs I am on for the high blood pressure are horrible and give me bad side effects but my doctor just gives me another drug at a higher dose. No drugs seem to work.
I feel my body is telling me let food be thy medicine.
Jim, I appreciate all that you do through your website Chi Diet for people like me.
With much gratitude,
Maureen
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I have tried juicing but my sugars still go up. I take insulin everyday. About 4 to 5 shots a day. I am to take other meds. but I don’t.
I was on med-fast for awhile, but still I am not getting what I need out of it. I was still wanting to eat.
I am not sure if I can stop the insulin shots, but I want to try the raw way if you can help me. I need to lose the weight. I work out almost everyday. still I am not losing the weight. I drink lots of water. I am taking a natural water pill. I also am taking the advanced scientific health formula’s. Which is the master formula 2,More, Raanow, ELE which is enzymes. Plus other vita ect.
Still something is not right.
Sincerely
Diana
January 13th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Highly impressed, found your site on Yahoo!.Glad I finally tested it out. Not sure if its my Chrome browser,but sometimes when I visit your site, the fonts are really tiny? However, love your blog and will return.Bye
January 13th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Thanks, Michel. I use all default font sizes. When they’re too large or small, use Control + and Control – to make them larger or smaller. On a Mac it’s Open Apple + or -
Jim
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Great site, exactly what I was looking for, I can’t get your RSS feed to work right in google chrome though, is it on my end?
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:52 am
I haven’t tested it with Google Chrome, but it works with the 18 other readers I’ve tested. Guess it’s time for me to Chrome plate my system. In the meantime, here’s the Google feed of this blog:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChidietRawFoodsBlog
Thanks for letting me know, Diaper Cakes.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:25 am
Hello;
I am not sure that I should win the package but I do know that I need help. I come from a family of 5 siblings, 2 died in their 40’s of cancer along with my mother. I was morbidly obese as a child and have been up and down as an adult. I have recently finished a holistic nutritionist program and Have a much better understanding of nutrition and the body. But what I didn’t receive in that program was specific ways to live as a raw vegan. I saw seconds of a movie trailer that PETA put online and it moved me to my very core. That is what made me go vegan. I was already going vegetarian. The transition has been very rough. My body is angry and confused. I switch to cooked foods when I don’t know what to eat. I watched 3 family members die at the hand of our “food”, and “Medical” system, and I vowed that I would not make it 4. That was me today with downloading issues and I thank you for all your help. I have already gone through and printed much of the information. I was hoping to find the recipe book. Is that in the package? If it is, then getting the package and starting the program will certainly keep me on track.
Have a great day!
March 7th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for all the useful information. Your insight is very keen. Keep it up.