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September 2, 2006   Table of Contents

Back from Vacation

I'd like to say, "Thanks!" to the hundreds who emailed me about not receiving a newsletter last weekend. Yes, I'm OK. I went on vacation for two weeks. Before leaving I created the newsletter for August 19th, and thought that I'd find time to create the newsletter for the 26th while I was traveling, but....

I saw lots of old friends on my trip, covered 7 States, and had a wonderful time. The highlight was visiting my Dad, who turned 84 last month. He's doing wonderful - even his doctors are impressed. He's active, healthy and happy. The new diet my stepmom put him on four years ago is really working - he no longer takes, or needs, any medications.

His new diet? Lots of organic fruits and veggies, and very little animal protein. No, they're not raw fooders, but what they eat is close to what we advocate. It's really made a difference for my Dad - he's healthier now than he was ten years ago.

The Shift to Degenerative Diseases

Global energy imbalances and related obesity levels are rapidly increasing. The world is rapidly shifting from a dietary period in which the higher-income countries are dominated by patterns of degenerative diseases (whereas the lower- and middle-income countries are dominated by receding famine) to one in which the world is increasingly being dominated by degenerative diseases.

This article documents the high levels of overweight and obesity found across higher- and lower-income countries and the global shift of this burden toward the poor and toward urban and rural populations.

Dietary changes appear to be shifting universally toward a diet dominated by higher intakes of animal and partially hydrogenated fats and lower intakes of fiber. Activity patterns at work, at leisure, during travel, and in the home are equally shifting rapidly toward reduced energy expenditure. Large-scale decreases in food prices (e.g., beef prices) have increased access to supermarkets, and the urbanization of both urban and rural areas is a key underlying factor.

Limited documentation of the extent of the increased effects of the fast food and bottled soft drink industries on this nutrition shift is available, but some examples of the heterogeneity of the underlying changes are presented. The challenge to global health is clear: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/84/2/289.

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.

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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 know-how 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

Six Arguments for a Greener Diet

A meticulously researched examination of scientific studies 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.

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?

After four years of aspiring to 100% rawness, I'm running in the high nineties. What's amazing me is how my taste buds are changing, and how I've lost the taste for most of my old favorites. Unhealthy stuff that I used to love now revolts me. Interesting. So it gets easier and easier as time goes on.

I love where I am, and how I feel. I'm down 80 lbs., and still going. The following email from Jinjee taught me something:

"I've discovered why it was so hard for me to stay 100% raw the last few years. I was eating what I call “borderline” foods - foods that are considered raw but often aren't such as store-bought nut butters, prepared raw foods that you can now get at Whole Foods that contain coconut butter and coconut oils which I don't believe are good for you as they harden at room temperature and have an eternal shelf-life, dehydrated foods, dehydrated and prepared and raw restaurant foods containing Braggs liquid Amino acids (not good) and Nama Shoyu (not good), lecithin (bad), cacao powder (a heavy drug), and even un-soaked nuts (not ideal).

"When I ate like this too often my cooked food cravings would return in a serious way. Now that I am no longer messing with the borderline and I'm eating more simply it is so easy to stay 100% raw it is almost effortless!"

In Joy,
Jinjee
www.TheGardenDiet.com

Raw Living Foods Hands-on Training

Now is the time to visit Creative Health Institute and learn about Dr. Ann Wigmore's Raw Living Foods Lifestyle.

Some try to heal you with vitamins or herbs, others with drugs or surgery. But the Dr. Ann Wigmore program is different - We Don't Wait to get sick. The Wigmore Program “tunes up” your entire body, now, so you won't get sick in the first place!

We've been teaching the benefits of a plant-based diet for 30 years in an intensive, two-week, hands-on program of health education and raw foods preparation. The testimonials of former Creative Health students speak volumes about the Living Foods Lifestyle that we teach - http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_creative_health_institute/index.html.

The best way to get to know us it to come visit for an afternoon. Alternate Sundays we have a wonderful raw gourmet vegan buffet at 2:30 pm. Call us at (866) 426-1213 for dates. For driving directions and maps visit CreativeHealth.us/directions.htm.

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Upcoming Events:

Raw Transformation Talk - A unique opportunity. Hear an experienced raw food eater share his guidance for a sustainable and enjoyable raw lifestyle. Matt Monarch Saturday, Sept. 16th 2:00pm - 4:00pm. Creative Health Institute, 112 West Union City Road, Union City, MI. Matt Monarch, author of ‘Raw Spirit’ and Raw Food Educator has been eating 100% raw for 6 years now. You can learn more about him at www.rawspirit.org. In this talk he discusses: - Is the Raw Food Diet for you? - Overcoming Health Challenges - Why some diets work and some don't - Difficulties that may arise on your journey - Benefits of eating Raw Foods, juicing and colonics. Matt will answer all your questions! Registration Fee $20. For More Information and R.S.V.P. Contact: Mary Lou, 517-278-6260, info@creativehealthinstitude.us. See the flyer at http://chidiet.com/news/chi/MattMonarchflyer.doc.

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Mr. Carey,

I couldn't agree more with your statement about those of us with too little experience and too much enthusiasm, and I'll tell you why. In late Dec. 2004 I spent two weeks at CHI, and about a month later my wife spent two weeks there. When I came home, I had it all figured out. I had stopped eating meat, which I am proud to say I still do not eat, and I just knew that I was a strict "raw fooder" forever.

A year and a half later, after consistently taking one step forward and two steps back, I realize that I must commit myself to this way of life for the long haul. It is just not something that we figure out in two weeks or even a year. While I have kept a diary since leaving CHI, when I read back over it, I see more that I don't know than I do know.

The one positive aspect of the whole experience, though - and it is a big one - is that where my wife was scheduled to have both knees replaced in Feb., 2005, she has been able to cancel that surgery. Today, while not totally pain or symptom free, she is able to work 35 to 40 hours a week, where before she could not be on her feet for more than 2 hours at a time.

No, we did not learn everything by coming to CHI, but it all started there, and a year after the exploration that started there, we are much the better for it.

Sincerely,
Bill Cowley

P.S. Tell Mr. Haughey that a revelation came to me the other day. That is, the reason that eating raw food is not the same as eating meat is that when we eat a living food, we do not kill the plant. Rather, it lives on as part of our living blood. It becomes part of our life force.

In The News

A new movie - Supercharge Me - 30 Days Raw. View the trailer: http://www.30daysraw.com/.

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Aspartame - a politically-induced biochemical disaster of global proportions - Today some 9,000 commonly consumed products are laced with this weapon of mass misery and millions of people live with chronic illnesses linked to the artificial sweetener aspartame. It is our belief at The Idaho Observer that if some guy named Parkinson can have a disease named after him, then Donald Rumsfeld ought to have his own disease, too. Hence the term Rumsfeld disease. A. Rumsfeld's Disease: http://www.rense.com/general67/rum.htm.

For more about artificial sweeteners: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/aspartame_issues/index.html.

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Common antibiotic linked to lung tumor - "The dermatologist wrote me a prescription for a very commonly used antibiotic that's given to brides. And I was told that it's very widely used as a preventive precaution to make sure you don't break out on your big day." - http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2352145&page=1.

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According to United Nations figures, 2.6 billion people consume unsafe and polluted water every day. As the population blooms, the issue of access to fresh water is literally one of life or death. The Financial Times pointed out some interesting facts about everyday water consumption:

It takes 53 liters of water to produce one orange.
1 pint of milk: 250 liters
1 egg: 450 liters
1kg of potatoes: 500 liters
1 loaf of bread: 550 liters
1 kg of butter: 18,000 liters
1kg of wool: 200,000 liters
1 car: 150,000 liters

http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1593.cfm

How the Government protects the bottled water industry - bottled water may not be all it is cracked up to be. The bottled water industry currently has annual sales amounting to over $35 billion worldwide, and is the fastest-growing segment of the beverage industry. Bottled water is often perceived as safer than tap water. But in fact, tap water often adheres to stricter purity standards than bottled water, and 40 percent of bottled water actually begins as tap water in any case: http://www.mercola.com/2006/aug/1/the_many_ways_the_government_protects_the_business_of_bottled_water.htm.

For more articles about water: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/water_its_importance_to_life/index.html.

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There's so much interesting health-related material in the news every day that I can't print it all here. For summaries by category see RawLivingFoods.typepad.com.

Some Examples:
Water Fluoridation (new category) - http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/fluoride/index.html.

For Men: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/for_men/index.html.

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. Dietary variety, purity, balance, sprouting and personal detoxification are important, too. Now you can learn about the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Learn how to detoxify 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, where she taught 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

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

Zucchini Hummus
by Jan Jensen

In a food processor, put:
2 cloves garlic
1 zucchini, peeled
2 c. sunflower seeds
1/2 c. raw tahini, or I just use 1/2 cup raw sesame seeds
1/4 c. fresh lemon juice
1/3 c. water
1/3 c. extra virgin cold pressed olive oil
2 teaspoons sea salt

Mix till creamy. Eat and it is very good.

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