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August 12, 2006   Table of Contents

Overcoming Belief Systems

Vegans have been struggling against the entrenched beliefs of society for centuries:

"When we consider... the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What every body echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields."

"One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle."

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1847

Some of that "proof" Thoreau writes of can be found at: RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/1/studies_and_research/index.html.

Who's Your Guru?

by Dr. James E. Carey, DD, PhD (computer technologies), former Director and Executive Trustee of Creative Health Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free (Electronic) Copies of Why Suffer?

Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally
by Dr. Ann Wigmore, DD, ND. An Inspiring Classic.

This is Dr. Ann's autobiography about growing up with her homeopath Grandmother in Lithuania, healing herself of gangrene as a teenager, and discovering wheatgrass juice and raw living foods as the treatment for her cancer, after the doctors gave up on her. This was the basis of the findings and teachings of the Wigmore Diet Program of Dr. Ann, used by thousands to reverse dis-ease, detoxify and rejuvenate. Paperback, 182 pages.

Thanks to the efforts of Harold Dillard and Donald Haughey, this life-changing book is now available for free via download (you'll have to supply the printer and paper, or read it on your computer): RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/books/whysuffer.pdf.

Though out-of-print, a few printed copies are still available: chiDiet.com/books.htm#Why.

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Hi Jim!

Well, I was reluctant to print all 88 pages of the Ann Wigmore book you posted but I am glad I did! It was great. I'm not done yet but just wanted to pass along the kudos to you all for the knowhow to get it up and on the web so we all can enjoy it. It's great to hear the whole background of Ann. I love hearing the stories about when she was a child. Very enlightening!

Thanks again,
Peace,
Michelle Plucinsky

Backslider's Corner

Backsliding but progressing is NOT about feeling guilty about slipping. Even if you weren't 100% raw this week, how much better are you feeling than when you were on the SAD?

Hi, Jim,

Thank you so much for the "Backsliding" inspiration. I am finding that the same thing is happening in my life.

It's been a year since I spent 5 weeks at the Institute in Puerto Rico, and I am not 100% raw yet, but I don't have cravings for meat or dairy any more, and I am a lot healthier than I was.

It is a slow process, we just need to be patient with ourselves.

Thanks,
Ann Fuller

In The News

Who has the slimmest waist? Meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians, or vegans? According to a new study, vegans do: http://www.realage.com/news_features/tip.aspx?v=1&cid=17025.

Raw Food is one of top 3 diets among Celebrities - it makes them feel joyfully lovely, with more youthful years, slim, athletically energized, aesthetically beautiful: http://www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=46.

(Vancouver) Models strutted the grocery aisles in Carmen Miranda-esque fruit-laden hats, and a frock fashioned out of live and lush wheatgrass: http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Fashion/2006/07/21/1695104-sun.html.

Americans adore all things fresh: fresh beginnings, fresh outlooks and now, more than ever, fresh foods. According to a survey conducted by Datamonitor, the natural food and drinks market is expected to surpass $27.5 billion by 2007, and the number of natural-food consumers in the U.S. is expected to grow from 216 million in 2002 to 266 million in 2007. The bottom line is that Americans are no longer willing to eat whatever is easiest or cheapest. Better-educated consumers are searching for fresh, unprocessed, healthy foods -- and this dietary change is fueling what we predict will be the next big trend in franchising: fresh-food franchises: http://www.thestreet.com/smallbiz/entrepreneur/10295310.html.

Two thousand hospitals across the U.S. are finally slamming the door on junk foods and low-grade institutional food: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1182.cfm.

(IC Wales, UK) Government experts are looking at reducing the current recommended daily calorie levels - as advertised on the likes of chocolate bars and multi-packs of doughnuts - because the nation is getting fatter: http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/features/tm_objectid=17318883&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=bigger-isn-t-better---it-s-just-fatter-name_page.html.

Nearly half a century after DDT was first dumped across acres of North American farmland and three decades after it was banned in the United States and Canada, the toxic pesticide still has damaging effects on local species, according to a new study:  http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1209.cfm.

Why your kitchen floor may pose a threat to National Security, and other issues relating to the dioxin dangers posed by our widespread usage of PVCs. Orion Magazine, May-June 2005: http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/05-3om/Steingraber.html

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The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a survey of scientists who work for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The survey reveals that one-fifth of FDA scientists "have been asked, for non-scientific reasons, to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information or their conclusions in a FDA scientific document."

The study strongly suggests that the FDA is not adequately regulating products that significantly impact public health, including food, drugs, vaccines, and medical devices. The survey also indicates that 61 percent of the respondents knew of cases where FDA political appointees have "inappropriately injected themselves into FDA determinations or actions." Eighty-one percent of FDA scientists in the survey agreed that the "public would be better served if the independence and authority of FDA post-market safety systems were strengthened." - http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1179.cfm

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More Raw News: RawLivingFoods.typepad.com.

Raw Living Foods Education at Home

Surrounded, as we are, with increasing toxicity in our food and environment, eating a pure and healthy diet is more important than ever. That's why the Raw Living Foods Movement is growing so fast.

There's a lot more to being a Raw Fooder than eating fruits and veggies. Now you can learn about the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Learn how to detox your body, what to eat, why to eat it, and how to prepare yummy raw food meals that leave you feeling full and satisfied. The home study version of the Dr. Ann Wigmore Raw Living Foods Lifestyle includes over 45 hours of video instruction, and a comprehensive manual.

The Raw Living Foods Lifestyle has been taught by a series of visionaries in the past century. Dr. Ann Wigmore used it to cure herself of colon cancer in the 1950's, and then taught it for decades at Hippocrates Institute in Boston and Creative Health Institute in Michigan, teaching others to heal themselves naturally.

If you can't get into a residential program, then the home study program is for you. There's so much material in the home study program - 15 lessons, 30+ videos, 350+ page handbook - that you'd have to spend at least a month at a place like Creative Health to learn as much.

The First Lesson is Free - Examine the program in your home for 30 days. Even if you don't elect to continue your subscription, the first lesson is still yours to keep.

SPECIAL BONUS

When you order the complete raw living foods lifestyle Home Study Program this week we'll also include over $100 worth of bonus materials:

Personal Raw Coaching: 30 minutes of free coaching and consultation (by telephone) with Hiawatha Cromer, "The Wise Woman of Raw Foods"
Bonus Book: "Green for Life," by Victoria Boutenko (read the Book Review)
Bonus Video: "Greens can Save Your Life," with Victoria Boutenko (2 Tapes or DVDs)
Bonus Video: "Dr. Ann Wigmore's Kitchen," with Dr. Ann and Dr. Flora van Orden III
Bonus Video: "Out of the Ordinary," with Robert Taylor, Steven Gibb and Dr. Jim Carey
Bonus Book: "Finding Health in Hodunk," by Thom Hartmann
Bonus Video: A surprise title.

For purchase information and more details, please visit chiDiet.com/lessons.htm.

What people are saying about the home study program: RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/index.html.

Events

The Regular Meetings and Events page is at RawLivingFoods.typepad.com/1/regular_meetings_and_events/index.html.

[Wow... When I started this service there were only 4 or 5 listings each week! Now the list is so long that by popular demand we include it only as a link - it's been running 12-15 pages. How the movement has grown! - Jim Carey]

Raw Living Foods Information and Resources

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet - Book Review

A meticulously researched examination of scientific studies that finds that eating more plant foods and fewer fatty animal products can lead to extra years of healthy living.

Happily, explains lead author and CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson, that same diet also leads to much less food poisoning, water pollution, air pollution, global warming, and animal suffering.

Ultimately, a diet rich in fatty animal products and poor in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables consumes the consumer: Higher rates of heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, diabetes, and obesity cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year.

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet exposes those, and other under-reported facts, and carefully connects the dots between a healthy diet and a healthy planet:  http://cspinet.org/new/200608011.html.

Raw Living Foods Blog

For an organized, searchable resource on all sorts of Raw Living Foods Lifestyle information, visit my new blog at RawLivingFoods.typepad.com.

Raw Living Food Recipes

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