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April 14, 2007   Table of Contents

Events

SEE ANGELA STOKES IN PERSON AND HEAR ABOUT HER INCREDIBLY AMAZING TRANSFORMATION - SHE LOST OVER 160 LBS. ON THE LIVING FOODS LIFESTYLE.

DATE: Sunday, April 15th, 2007
TIME: 4 pm.  Please attend our buffet at 2:30 pm and stay to see Angela.
LOCATION: Creative Health Institute, 112 West Union City Road, Union City, MI
COST: Suggested donation $10.00
RESERVATIONS: info@creativehealthinstitute.com or 517-278-6260

A BBC video about Angela.: http://feralfoods.org/Angela%20Stokes%20lost%20over%20160%20lbs.html.

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

Raw Living Foods Hands-on Training

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. 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.

Family Farmers Can't Compete with Big Organics and Imports

Problem:

The value of U.S. organic imports now exceeds exports by a ratio of approximately 8 to 1.
In California, which grows 40% of US organics, the number of acres transitioning into organic are now nearly balanced by the acres transitioning out. Evidently, many farmers aren't making enough money growing organically to remain certified, despite the booming retail market.

In the U.S., organic food accounts for about 2.5 percent of all food sales. But out in the field, just 0.2 percent of farmland is under organic production.

Source: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4587.cfm

Solution: Guide to Buying Local

BUY LOCAL WITH OCA'S NEW ORGANIC & GREEN BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Buying locally, direct from farmers, or at your community-owned co-op, is one of the best ways to ensure that farmers are getting a fair shake. That's why the OCA is proud to announce the launch of one of the most expansive online directories of organic and green businesses. Now local food is just a few clicks away! http://www.organicconsumers.org/btc/BuyingGuide.cfm

"I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts." - Peace Pilgrim

Locally Grown Organics Gaining Popularity

If you'd like to know exactly where your fresh produce came from, you now have that option.

Irv Cernauskas is co-operator of Irv and Shelly's Fresh Picks, an online sales site where the public can order local and organic produce, meat, dairy and eggs and have it delivered year-round to their homes (www.freshpicks.com). Fresh Picks contracts with farmers in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to provide the organic foods.

Cernauskas spoke at “Homegrown, Northwest Indiana: A Local Foods Expo" March 13 at the Porter County Expo Center in Valparaiso.

His interest in the environment and fresh food began at the age of 5. He lived in Windsor, Ontario, and when the family went north on vacation he remembers smelling fresh air and eating blueberries off the bush for the first time.

Cernauskas has been involved in nonprofit environmental organizations and is a board member of The Land Connection and Seven Generations Ahead, which creates market opportunities for organic farmers.

"There's a demand for good food," Cermauskas said, adding that the benefits of organic, fresher food include:

• Better health. "The last place to cut the budget is for good quality food," Cernauskas said, citing the possibility of toxic chemicals, mad cow disease and E. coli as dangers to health.

• Protection of the environment, such as watersheds, wildlife habitat and reducing global warming.

• Support of the local economy. "We import more food than we export," Cernauskas said.

• Humane treatment of animals. "If we know the animals we eat have had a decent life, on free range, we feel less guilt."

Cernauskas said before he and his wife began their business, he held focus groups to see if the idea of delivering locally grown food to people's homes was feasible.

"These groups told us that if ethical food was available, 30 percent would choose it if it were available," he said.

Irv and Shelly's Fresh Picks now has 1,100 customers to whom they deliver in 55 ZIP code areas around northern Illinois.

"They're thrilled to get fresh food," Cernauskas said. "Not all of them can get to farmers’ markets."

Scott Hutcheson, who conducts economic and community development work for Purdue University and moonlights as "The Hungry Hoosier," a food writer, also spoke at the expo.

"I get to drive around Indiana and eat," Hutcheson said. "Local food is the new organic."

Hutcheson spoke about the "Slow Food Movement," which grew out of abhorrence of today's fast food culture.

"You can now find place-based foods on menus," he said, like Nick's English Hut in Bloomington, which lists Fischer Farms Natural Black Angus Beef Burger.

Since 1994, farmers’ markets have grown from 1,755 to more than 4,300 in 2006. Yet, Wal-Mart plans to open 265 super centers this year.

"How do the systems co-exist?" Hutcheson asked. "Wal-Mart does sell organic foods. I can see people going to Wal-Mart for staples, then to the farmers’ market for other items."

A survey conducted in Indiana revealed "local" means within state for 39 percent of respondents; 46 percent were willing to pay 1 to 5 percent more for fresh goods. Hutcheson mentioned that Collins Caviar in Michigan City is a "rock star" of producers, along with Capriole Goat Cheese in Greenville and Traders Point Creamery in Zionsville.

"So what is the state of the plate in Indiana?" Hutcheson asked. "Well, we have appetizers and side dishes, but not a well-planned meal yet; we need new networks and initiatives for local foods. We need more local food expos like this. We should challenge ourselves to spend 10 percent of our food budget on locally produced food."

From the Herald Argus: http://heraldargus.com/hanews/archives/ha/display.php?id=374552&query=organic%20food.

USDA Loses Lawsuit Over "Above and Beyond" Testing

We're running this article because it has implications for Organic Produce and other food items:

Creekstone Farms has won one of the most bizarre court cases the USDA has brought upon itself in recent years.

Early last year, after the discovery of another case of Mad Cow Disease in the U.S., foreign markets tightened their ban on U.S. beef based on the fact that the USDA requires such a small percentage of meat to be tested for this fatal disease. In an attempt to maintain sales with customers overseas, Kansas-based Creekstone Farms announced it would voluntarily test all of its meat for Mad Cow Disease.

Surprisingly, the USDA responded to Creekstone, saying it was illegal for them to have such high quality food safety testing. This action left Creekstone and its lawyers scratching their heads trying to figure out where in the law books it states that it's illegal to test food for safety beyond what is required by law. Creekstone took the USDA to court and last week a federal judge ruled against the USDA.

The results of the case will likely create a domino effect in the industry where more producers will voluntarily choose to increase testing in order to lure international and domestic customers.

Is it out of the question to envision meats in future supermarkets bearing the voluntary label "This meat has been tested for Mad Cow Disease"? Stay tuned to the OCA... http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4655.cfm

We Get Mail...

Hi Jim!

I've been researching the raw food lifestyle for years now and even put it into practice back in 1993, when faced with life threatening liver disease, it worked. Since then, I haven't taken very good care of my bod and am paying for it, big time! Anyway, I've been searching for simple and quick recipes as I transition and as much info as I can get my hands on... I have done several searches on the Internet and today, NIRVAVA! I came across yours! Nothing is by coincidence :o)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love your site! I will be searching it daily!

Many Blessings to you!

Gena T.

Fast Food Industry Applauding Itself Again

Responding to public pressure, junk food companies have formed a task force that they claim will address the childhood obesity epidemic.

The group, which includes companies like Coca-Cola, McDonalds, and Kraft Foods, held its first meeting at the end of March. One of the first items on the agenda was how to greenwash the routine industry practice of advertising junk foods to young children. Advertisers spend more than $10 billion annually on manipulating the minds of children.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children under the age of six cannot distinguish between program content and advertising. Despite this rather undisputed fact, one of the panel's experts, the chief government affairs officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, applauded the junk food industry's track record and offered kudos to the current practice of self-regulation saying, "For more than three decades, the self-regulatory guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit have helped to ensure that advertising to children by food companies is age and nutritionally appropriate, and reflects a balanced approach to health and nutrition."

According to task force members, it is hoped that future meetings can be as productive, although the meeting concluded with no real changes to the status quo practices of advertising junk foods to children.
Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4680.cfm

Raw Living Foods Home Study Program

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." - La Rochefoucauld

The Home Study Program about Raw Living Foods was developed from the teachings of Dr. Ann Wigmore at Creative Health Institute. We put this program together because we talked to many, many people who either didn't have the time, or the money, to attend the two-week hands-on program in Michigan. I was going over the books recently and realized that we've shipped 20,000 videos in the last three years! That truly amazed me. I knew that there was a demand for this training, but I had no idea it would be so popular.

Twenty percent of our orders have been International shipments. We've shipped to every continent; in order of per-capita popularity: New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, Canada, England and Japan. We've also given away many complete sets of the program, including DVD players and television sets, all over Africa.

Who received video number 20,000? Two friends from Wisconsin, Natasha and Georgina. They both ordered the complete Home Study Program on the same day, and we filled their orders at the same time. One of the videos we shipped to them was number twenty thousand.

That sure is a lot of videos. I hope that they're being well-shared, and being viewed often. Being a "raw fooder" requires more than just not eating meat. I hear from many people that have thrown their bodies out of balance by eating too much fruit, or nuts, or other raw foods.

Furthermore, the Living Foods Lifestyle includes other components besides just raw foods. There is the "living" aspect of our foods, as well as internal cleansing, colon health, lymphatic system health, proper exercise, wheatgrass juice, energy soup, proper food combining, dehydrating, nutritional and dietary balance (lots of greens), and yummy food prep. All of this we teach at Creative Health Institute, and in the Home Study Program.

Surrounded, as we are, with increasing toxicity in our food and environment, eating a pure and healthy diet is more important than ever. More and more people are starting to see that, and I believe that's why the Raw and 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 50 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, 36 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.

SPRING SPECIAL EXTENDED!

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," and another 30 minutes with Mary Moore, former Director of Creative Health Institute.
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: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/index.html.

"The King who cannot rule his diet, will hardly rule his realm in peace and quiet." - Passage from the "Rule of Health of Salerno," author unknown.

[Price Protection Policy: If you purchased the Home Study Program within the last 30 days, drop an email to orders@chiDiet.com and mention it to us. We'll refund the difference between your purchase price and the current price.]

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Jerry and James,

I just have to tell you that I am LOVING both the book Green For Life and the DVD Greens Can Save Your Life. I read the book in one night and cannot stop watching the DVD. I really can't thank you enough, I feel it is really saving me right now. Victoria just gave energy soup the fashion makeover it so richly deserves. Who would have thought that kale and chard could be so yummy? As they say, the proof is in the smoothie.....

Thanks from the bottom of my heart,
Erica
The Raw Raw Girls

P.S. The QUALITY of the taping is just light-years better than before. Way to go! You got some fancy stuff on there, boys!
You looked really healthy on the video, James. It shows!

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What other people are saying about the home study program: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/feedback_home_study_program/index.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?

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Every essential nutrient is provided by the raw vegan diet when a good variety of foods are eaten. - Dr. Ann Wigmore

One big Green Smoothie a day is a great start... The rest will come with time.

You can find the safety or toxicity of any ingredients in products on the Environmental Working Group website:  www.ewg.org.

"The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine." - Hippocrates

In The News

"If you don't stay informed, then who will tell the others the truth?" - Unknown

Raw Living Food Lifestyle-related news and events are published daily on our blog: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/. You can have the postings delivered daily via email or RSS feed by signing up at http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/2006/06/ways_of_subscri.html. For every article that makes the newsletter, there are 2 or 3 more of related interest on the blog.

The Five Tastes - The Secret of all Raw Recipes

- from Lesson 9 of the Home Study Program at chiDiet.com.

The Five Tastes

Sweet / Pungent (Onion)
Sour
Salty
Spicy
Bitter

To make a raw dish that is delicious and satisfying it is necessary to have all five of these flavors in your recipe.  The ratios will change with the type of dish you are creating.  The key to creating great Raw Recipes is learning to balance the five flavors.  With time and practice creating Raw Gourmet food will be second nature to you.

Excess sour is balanced by sweet. 
Overly bitter is balanced sour.
Fats tone down spices, and mellow too much sweetness. 
Salt brings out flavors. 

A breakdown of the five tastes:

Sweet:  banana, dates, mangos, apples, raw honey, stevia, etc.

Sour:  lemon juice, limejuice, raw apple cider vinegar, grapefruit juice.

Salty:  Celtic sea salt, Nama shoyu, kelp, dulse, miso, celery.

Spicy:  hot pepper, garlic, cayenne pepper. 

Bitter:  kale, lettuce, culinary herbs.

Specific Culinary Herbs &Spices

Italian Spices:  basil, parsley, oregano, rosemary, thyme, garlic.
Mexican Spices:  cumin, coriander, cilantro, chili powder, hot peppers, garlic, lime.
Indian Spices:  cumin, coriander, cinnamon, nutmeg, Curry, tumeric, garam masala, ginger, cloves.
Thai:  cilantro, lemon grass, cumin, curry, ginger, coconut.
Chinese:  licorice, ginger, soy sauce, miso, vinegar, garlic, fennel, cinnamon, cloves, honey.

The necessity of fats:

Fats are essential in our diets and fats are also essential in your raw food creations.  Whenever you add fat to a dish it tones down each comprising flavor, binds them together, and carries the flavors throughout a recipe.

Types of fats:

Avocado - "soul food."  Avocados are one of the most amazing fruits, and are essential in a raw food based diet.  They are a great transitioning food because of their satisfying nature.  Avocados are rich in protein and fat.  They are also loaded with nutrients and minerals:  A, B complex, C, E, H, K, folic acid, magnesium, copper, iron, calcium, potassium, and many other trace elements.  Avocados provide all of the essential amino acids, with 18 amino acids in all, plus 7 fatty acids.   Avocados are an alkalinizing fruit that contain 70% water, 63% monounsaturated fat, 20% polyunsaturated fat, 17% saturated fat, and no cholesterol. 

Young Coconuts and Coconut Butter:   

Coconuts are made up of 100% saturated fat and no cholesterol.  Saturated fat from a fruit is a necessity in our diet.  The saturated fat molecules in a coconut are called Medium Chained Fatty Acids.  Unlike the saturated fat found in meat and dairy, the fat in coconut can easily be broken down in the body (coconut fat has 8-12 carbon atoms, while meat fat contains 14-24 carbon atoms).  Coconuts contain some of the most powerful anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-microbial acids in the environment: 

Olives and Olive Oil:

The Almighty Olive!  The olive has been a fruit of reverence for more than five thousand years.  Olive Oil is an alkaline fat source that is high in protein - similar protein to fat ratio as red meat.  Olive oil is one of the highest natural sources of vitamin E and is high in polyphenols - water soluble antioxidants.    When buying olive oil only buy first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil in dark bottles.  Olive oil is very unstable and is negatively affected by light and heat - It becomes rancid and acts like tans-fatty acids in the body. 

- from Lesson 9 of the Home Study Program at chiDiet.com.

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 available at http://chidiet.com/news/.

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.

Raw Living Foods TV Shows and Videos

A large collection (over 70) videos on Raw and Living Foods: http://feralfoods.org/video.html.

- Angela Stokes talking about her 92 day juice fast which she completed last month.
- David Wolfe on making superfood smoothies
- Chef Elaina Love making Bombay Curry Casserole
- Travel through a durian orchard!
- Chef Terry Stiers making Thousand Island Dressing
- Interview with Heather, a 10 year old raw foodist
- and more!

- thanks to Mike Snyder of TheRawDiet.com.

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Here are the dates of the Raw Food TV show on Al Gore's new TV Network: http://www.current.tv/pods/cuisine/PD04852

Here is the link if you want to view it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbT-pz40mUI

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Raw Living Foods Lifestyle Reduces Global Warming
- Last year a UN Report showed that the raw vegan diet is the best deterrent to global warming and promoting sustainability.

This video by Glen Beck discusses how Al Gore - and other politicians - ignore how going low on the food chain deters global warming (8 minutes): http://youtube.com/watch?v=VwkbDubF2qM. Includes an interview with PETA spokesperson.

So... Is the Living Foods Lifestyle "An Inconvenient Truth?"

Live Interviews with Jim Carey Available Online - Free

New Addition - Here's my recent interview with Alexi Bracey: http://www.radioforyourhealth.com/.

A few months ago I did an Internet radio interview/tele-seminar with Chris Brisson about the benefits of the raw living foods lifestyle. You can listen to the interview here: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/2006/11/jim_carey_inter.html.

I also did an Internet radio interview/tele-seminar with Michael Snyder that month. You can listen to the show, or download it to CD, at: http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/2006/11/jim_carey_on_in.html.

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