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September 23, 2006   Table of Contents

Program Review - Living Foods Institute

Last Sunday concluded my 10-day session at Brenda Cobb's Living Foods Institute, and it was wonderful!

Her school is in the heart of Atlanta. It's one of the few Raw Institutes that doesn't have a residential component. Students are expected to find their own housing; I stayed at a downtown hotel, which allowed me to see the sights in Atlanta.

Each day started in the kitchen with Yajna as our instructor. With 17 fellow students I learned to prepare living food recipes, right after our morning shot of wheatgrass juice. Each day started with us preparing Energy Soup (green smoothies), which we'd have as our breakfast, and we then went on to prepare our luncheon dishes. Each days' menu became fancier. We learned to prepare veggie kraut, crackers, almond milk, nut cheese, guacamole, salsa, cookies, veggie burgers and hummis (my favorite).

On the first day we were given a 200-page handbook that outlined the program and thoroughly covered the Dr. Ann Wigmore Living Foods lifestyle. As editor of the Raw Living Foods Home Study Program I was quite impressed with Brenda's textbook. Good job.

After our yummy lunches we had an afternoon of classes. Brenda and Jane answered questions that we had from reading the handbook, shared their personal testimonies, and lectured on Essential Oils, herbal medicine, emotional healing and many other aspects of health. We were constantly reminded, in a non-denominational way, that healing is Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual.

A number of outside experts also lectured in the afternoons. We learned about Massage Therapy and kinesology from a Chiropractor, a dentist did a presentation about the proper removal of mercury fillings, and Dr. Gail demonstrated our control over our personal energy fields.

Throughout the day there were a variety of on-site treatment modalities available, including colonics, reflexology, energy therapy, footbaths and chi machine treatments, which we all took advantage of.

Even though I've been teaching others about the Raw Living Foods lifestyle for almost five years, I learned a lot from Brenda and her staff. I especially learned a lot about food preparation. I discovered that most raw food dishes only take a few minutes to make, and that I can make up my meals for three or four days in a few hours. For a bachelor like me, that's great! Before attending the program I was just about living on energy soup; healthy, but monotonous.

Few programs give you hands-on time in the kitchen; Brenda's staff stuffs you into a hair net and plastic gloves, and you go at it. It was a very, very valuable experience for me, and I'm now well on my way to becoming a Raw Gourmet Chef.

Cost? Don't worry about the cost. Brenda will let anyone attend the program, and pay only what they can afford. In my case I paid only for my hotel room, and Brenda gave me a full scholarship to the program. My meals I ate at the Institute. Like so many in the raw foods movement, Brenda does this from her heart, to share with others the lifestyle that saved her life from cancer in '99.

Oh, yes. The police recovered my stolen Blazer and I picked it up just in time for my trip back to the farm last Sunday. Oh, it's in rough shape, having been in two accidents while it was gone, but my small tool box was still in the truck, with just the tools I needed to fix it up enough to get home. More important, my cherished mandolin was still in the truck. Funny, but the loss of the mandolin struck me harder than losing the truck. I learned a good lesson about being attached to material things.

Yep, my trip to Atlanta was quite an adventure, and I came back home RAWfully Inspired! Thank you, Brenda, and please give my love and gratitude to your warm, wonderful staff.

-- Jim Carey

Brenda Cobb's Living Foods Institute: http://livingfoodsinstitute.com/

Of Books, Homes and Videos

Last Wednesday's teleseminar with Chris Brisson was a lot of fun. I got to talk to a lot of new people, and, more important, I got to talk to many of chiDiet.com’s customers, and answer their questions. Yes, there's a recording of the show; I'll post a link to it in the newsletter and on my blog once I get it from Chris.

We didn't get to all of the questions. Here are two that I didn't address:

Michael asked: “If you had to choose one book about Living Foods, which would it be?”
Jan asked: “If you could live anywhere, where would you live and why?”

I’ll answer both questions with quotations from the only book I’ve read completely four times. Oh, there are other books I’ve picked up more often – the Bible, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Engineering handbooks – but these quotes are from the only book I’ve read cover-to-cover four times - Walden, by Thoreau:

“Having been my own butcher and scullion and cook, as well as the gentleman for whom the dishes were served up, I can speak from an unusually complete experience. The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleaness; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to. A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth. Like many of my contemporaries, I had rarely for many years used animal food, or tea, or coffee, etc.; not so much because of any ill effects which I had traced to them, as because they were not agreeable to my imagination.”

I especially appreciate Thoreau's comment that (paraphrased), “It matters not who owns this land, as long as I can sit here and enjoy it.”

“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, -- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
- I got my current copy from Amazon.com for under $3.

My favorite living foods video is Greens Can Save Your Life, by Victoria Boutenko. In order to get this out to as many people as possible, we've reduced the price to $10.95, plus $2 shipping (no matter how many you order at once, the shipping total will only be $2): http://chidiet.com/tapes.htm#v64. We just received a shipment of 500, so order lots of them! <g>

-- Jim Carey

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?

Backsliding??? Slide back in to a Raw Living Foods Institute to be re-inspired in your rawness. It works for me - every year!

Raw Living Foods Home Study Program

Thinking about a lifestyle change? NOW is the time to do it! The kids are back in school, vacations are over, and it's going to be easier to find a bit of time for yourself again.

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.

Man Cures Self with Living Foods

My Own Testimonial
by Robert Hayes, Pretoria, South Africa

I believe that you could all relate to my situation and that it will help you to stay raw as it did for me.

Four years ago a friend told me about the Robert Beck protocols. I bought it and got cured in two weeks from high blood pressure, diabetes type 2, rectal prolaps and other problems. I said, "Hey, we are being lied to. I’ve been on medication for years, were told that it was for keeps, and here I got cured in two weeks, in my home with no side affects. Why didn’t my doctor told me about this? I will investigate and tell others." I said, "Lord help me, I want to know the truth. Please help me find it."

I just got the internet and I discovered that these protocols were looked at as alternative medicine, hated by the medical profession, and the pharmaceuticals are trying their best to ban them by law. Then I really decide to investigate. I want to know the truth about disease and health.

I started with doctor Hulda Clark books. She believes that all disease is caused by parasites and pollution. I wanted to see these fellows in the blood, so I bought a good microscope. Of course I did not know what to look for, so I had to get books on hematology, microbiology and parasitology. And I studied them. What a wonderful world in the small. Then I realized I must learn these big names doctors use, I also have to study physiology and anatomy, its part and parcel of the bigger picture. So I did, in my home, after hours, searching, and learning. What a new beautiful world unfolded. God really made it perfect.

Then I met Dr. Norman Walkers, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and others through their books. These got me to study the colon. I believed that all diseases start in the colon. I had my own washed eleven times last year, eventually bought my own equipment, taking colonics and enemas frequently.

By now I thought I had reached the end of the road. But something bothered me. What about cholesterol and stomachs acids, where do they fit in? Then I came across Dr Frank Navratil, an iridologist, offering a home study course in Iridology. I got it and for a year I analyzed hundreds and hundreds persons' eyes. I could see almost everything happening inside a person’s body.

Two things were clear to me. The younger the patient, the worst the condition of their organs and systems. With the course, in its program, there are diets and supplement advice for specific conditions. That got me thinking. If, for instance, carrots will heal a specific condition, then diet must be the cause of the sickness or disease. This means I had to study diets so that I can eliminate diseases.

Back to the internet, reading pros and cons about different diets. Well, soon a name pop up that changes my life forever. Her name? Dr Ann Wigmore.

By this time I have spent more than three years studying and searching, and spent some $60.000. And all I got was the truth. Now I have to start studying what she teaches. Of course, all my previous work was gratifying and necessary. If I had’t done it, diets and nutrition would not have had the impact on me as it has now.

After eating raw until supper, for months, I decided to go raw 100%. Two weeks later I visit my family, enjoy coffee, etc., and come Monday I could not go without coffee. For the next two weeks I had about 10 cups of coffee plus sugar free rusks every day, and lots of droëwors. (A mixture of 70% meat and 30 % fat plus spices, prepared like a sausage and dried in the air like jerky)

Two weeks later my blood pressure reading was 200/130. I knew this was trouble. I know the 12 Steps of Victoria Boutenko. I new all about backsliding, thinking it would never happen to me. She’s right, on your own, you’re not going to make it. I took stock of myself and made a decision. Today I am 100% raw, and will never turn back. Here’s how.

Reason no. 1. When I started my research, I prayed for help from Above, to get to the truth. He showed me the truth, sickness and health is mainly about diet. He showed me what to do, how can I now refuse it? Shall I say, thank you Lord, but this is not for me! I like to please my taste buds and my cravings! I can’t do that! That was reason number 1 which keeps me from going back. And by the way, when He gave Adam and Eve the same diet, they had no alternative! But look at their lifespan. And there were no doctors and no pharmacies to help them if they got sick.

Reason no. 2. If I turn back to cooked food and later get sick - which will definitely happen - how can I approach Him for help? He will laugh at me. He showed me the way and I refused. So I can’t look at the wrong foods ever again. Prayer does not help if you disobey the laws, millions are dying and they all are praying!

Reason no 3. I was brought up to pray at the table before the meal, and I still do it today, no matter what. Knowing that cooked food is poisoning our bodies, how can I pray, “God, please bless this food” – which are in essence poisoning me. This is making a joke about religion, your relationship with God, and your seriousness about your health.

Reason no 4. I believe you teach and convince people by example. You have to be raw yourself to influence others. "Don’t do as I do, do as I say," does not work.

Reason no. 5. What happened to my will power? Am I like a child who cries at everything I am not allowed to? Am I so weak that I can’t say no to a cup of coffee and a slice of bread?

Reason No 6. In my country, everybody over 65 has aids. Walking aids, hearing aids, etcetera. I don’t want aids!

We all have a job to do. We have to go out their and tell the people that the raw food diet were first, medicine came later. Medicine is therefore the alternative treatment. We must reverse this wrong perception. May this testimonial help to empower you, too.

God Bless you all.

Robert Hayes
Pretoria, South Africa
27-82 820 1520
balusterman@telkomsa.net

(For the next two weeks you can catch Robert at Creative Health Institute, where he's attending the program.)

In The News

I'm WAY behind. That's what 10 days at a seminar will do to you. I've got several dozen great articles to share; I promise to post them all on http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/ in the next few days.

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]

Raw Living Food Recipe - Granola

Granola
Yields 12 cups

5 c. sprouted buckwheat
1 c. sprouted sesame seeds
1 c. sprouted pumpkins seeds
1 c. soaked sunflower seeds
1 c. soaked millet
1 c. soaked almonds
2 diced apples
1 c. honey
3 c. water
1 Tbs. vanilla ext
1 1/2 Tbs. cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
1 c. raisins

- from the chiDiet.com Home Study Program, Lesson 10

More Raw Living Foods Resources

For an organized, searchable resource on all sorts of Raw Living Foods Lifestyle information, including the newsletter articles sorted by subject, visit our new website at RawLivingFoods.typepad.com.

Back issues of the newsletter are still available at http://chidiet.com.

Why Suffer?: How I Overcame Illness & Pain Naturally, by Dr. Ann Wigmore, ND, is 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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