Finally, you can tell your kids to monkey around in the kitchen and feel good about it!
Introducing... The First Raw Food Recipe Book for Kids!
(Easy Raw Food Recipes That Taste Great and Are Fun to Make!)
Dear Mom,
You've had a rough day—the kind that leaves you feeling like you're the flat tire on a minivan that just won't go. You have meetings, so Dad's in charge until supper time.
You arrive home frazzled, but ready for another evening's routine of supper, tubs, scrubs and pajamas.
You enter the kitchen and take a step back because…
...the table is already set.
Standing before you are two munchkins beaming with pride. They hand you this:
While the carrots are cut a bit rough and the kitchen mess might be more than you bargained for, the beam in the eye of the ones you love most is enough to melt your multi-tasking heart.
All those gentle reminders to eat your greens paid off, Mom.
It's a picture-perfect moment, and not one you'll need to leave to dreaming for long.
The Harvard Medical School has discovered that happiness 'rubs off' on other people. A study of 5,000 adults seems to say, "if your surround yourself with happy people, you will be happier."
There is a bit of a trick in this however. The people you work with, and even your spouse, don't have as much affect on our happy outlook as to the other people around us. The relationship between people's happiness levels seemed to extend up to three degrees of separation - to the friend of a friend of a friend. It is a collective phenomena, apparently. To be really happy, network with lots of happy people.
One of the reasons why your beautiful friends have osteoporosis is because of having to live and work in an a/c environment.
The a/c destroys the anti-stress vites (b-complex) and the body has to rob the calcium from the bones to line the myelin sheath of the nerves to help the body feel peaceful and survive during the onslaught of unnaturally low temperatures, especially when there is a lot of sun outside during the summer.
The Breakfast Research Institute and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition both agree that a good, healthy breakfast is not only a great way to start your day but...it may very likely keep you healthier.
They suggest that fresh fruits and veggies are an ideal way to begin your day and we at RAWDOCTORS agree completely. Going for a danish or some such food or skipping breakfast is one of the worst things you can do - short term and long term. Bottom line for them, the more low-calorie foods you eat, the better your health.
It amazes people to find out that the kitchen sink cloth has more germs than their toilets; that the air inside a home is more toxic than the highways.
What can we do to clean up this mess and breathe clearly without drugs?
Open the windows and let a breeze come through.
There are six major plants that will provide oxygen for you. Go to Lowes, Wal-Mart, or Home Depot and find out what they are and make a jungle of your home.
Make sure your house has a whole house filter on your water supply.
Don't use toxic detergents, soaps, chemicals like Pine Sol, Clorox and Ammonia.
Make sure your sheets are 100% cotton or linen in the summer and that they are washed with 20 Mule Team Borax and vinegar and hung out in the sun to dry, if at all possible.
Throw away all of your plastic bowls and use glass, ceramic and wooden ones instead.
Don't use anything to eat that has been wrapped in cardboard (dioxin), plastic wrap, or aluminum.
Get a negative ionizer if you can't afford plants.
Opt for real tile on you floors, instead of rubber and plastic-backed carpeting.
Paint with no-voc (volatile organic compounds) paints.
Wear 100% cotton Buster Brown socks (go online for best price) with no nylon in the heel and toe.
Don't wear plastic clothes (nylon, polyester, rayon, or no-iron sprayed clothes; they can't breathe and cause loss of circulation in important areas like breasts and pelvises.
Do not use equipment that radiates electricity or has a field around it that will interfere with your own.
Park with your exhaust pipes pointing away from your bedroom windows.
Don't use wax on any surface that your skin will touch, especially the skin of your hands or feet.
Fiberglass insulation causes COPD as much as cigarette smoke.
Rinse your dried fruits and nuts and seeds at least twice in hot water to wash off the oils and little tufts of fiberglas and asbestos from the conveyor belts and degreasers used in the machinery.
Don't hang out with people who smoke, even if you love them. Their breath will kill you when you breathe in what they exhale, or wash their clothes, or expose your skin to the residue of their 3rd-hand toxins.
A new study from the University of Alberta suggests 'lean and mean' gives you better odds avoiding and surviving Cancer. The study published in the medical journal Lancet Oncology, suggests more muscle, less fat is a good sign as to how you will fair in a battle with Cancer.
As you know by now, all parents have a different idea of what is healthy food and what is not. For years, you have had the opportunity to hand select and monitor what your child eats for lunch.
Now it is time to test their ability. It is only natural for your child's eyes to wander and notice, and be envious of, what the other kids are eating. Here are a few tips that may help your child's lunch be healthy, fun and get noticed by the other kids...
I am the proud grandmother of a 1 month 2-week old baby girl named Rylee. She is having a hard time on the baby milk she is on. She has thrush & a virus called a Roto virus which has killed her good bacteria in her intestines. The first ingredient in her baby milk is corn starch solids, which will only make it worse.
I know you are wondering why I am sharing this with you. But I thought you might know who to forward this email to who might have a suggestion on what we can do.
Thank you
Liz
I passed it on to Dr. Flora:
Breast feed, breast feed, breast feed. There's nothing more important than breast milk for a baby. You will be able to give the baby a tiny amount of wheat grass juice in a dropper, use coconut milk from the coconut, blend some papaya, make some Energy Soup. But, your breasts will be able to begin a flow again, even after this short time. There are amazing stories of 'virgin' women who have breast fed 'foreign' babies, after a period of stimulation of the nipples so just don't give up.
For all health information out there, people are more confused than ever about how to be healthy. That's because much of the information conflicts with itself. Why?
Because of different interests. Usually conventional medicine is pushed by self interest and commercial interests. On the other hand, alternative and wholistic health practitioners have been primarily effected by philosophy first. And from this group the information has been mostly honest and true. In fact, it is the conventional medical system that has moved in their direction, as opposed to the other way around.
Anthropologist Elizabeth Cashdan says the famous female 'hourglass' figure is not the best for your economic success. The University of Utah instructor has looked at different societies and estimated that the Marilyn Monroe types aren't suited for success.
Until now, Western society has favored the hourglass shape. However, women around the world tend to have more cylindrical shapes. Why the difference? She believes that it's all about hormones. Stress hormones that is.
I meet you a couple months ago at a raw food meetup in Miami. I started the diet and I immediately noticed changes in my sleep patterns. I developed insomnia. I'm currently in India so I consulted an Aryuvedic doctor here. He told me my pulse is fast and my heart beat is slower so it is not pumping enough blood in my body or to my brain causing the insomnia. He wants me to stop the diet and never do it again. Have you ever heard of anything like this happening? Do you have any advice? I was thinking about adding fish and eggs into my diet. Any advice would help.
Thanks, Sonia Rodricks
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Dr. Flora wrote:
What you are experiencing is not insomnia, Sonia. God is giving you hours more to get your joys done. It happens to everyone. You need less sleep to make sense of the food you are eating.
Cooked food shuts the body down because there is no chi or electricity in it and a person needs more sleep. Your heart beat is slower because you are not having to push your food through sludge in your arteries (as long as you are not eating rice and yogurt, that is).
Your pulse is fast? How fast? You need to do some research on the internet. Please look up Drs. T. Colin Campbell on UTube, or Caldwell Esselstyn or John McDougall and listen or read the statistics about people who eat fish and eggs, especially in India. Please write again to www.rawdoctors.com and learn how blessed you are to be cleaning out so well.
Now that I only sleep 3-4 hours of sleep, I have lots of time to do volunteering. Dr. Wigmore had stopped needing sleep, just rest for an hour or so, while she answered letters, the last few years of her life. Your brain is not being clogged up with making a tomb of your body for creatures either and so you should feel more oxygen rushing to your feet and brain.
Make sure the raw food is blended and enjoy your pulse: is it 60 or 65? You may still be reacting to some foods that you are allergic to? Read up on the Coco pulse test. 15 beats above that means that you may be allergic to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers (a sign of nightshade reaction; those foods make your joints swell and you have symptoms of having 'arthritis' - inflammation. Stop the foods and the pains will go away with the swelling.
We are 80% allergic to most of the raw foods, and all of the cooked foods make us tired and need more sleep.
Peace and love be with you
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From: Sonia
ok that's awesome! I believe my pulse is around 80 or 85 resting. I don't know if that helps you.
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You are either reacting to something you are allergic to, or you have a lot of buildup on your arterial walls.
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I did an electrodermal screening. I'm not allergic to anything on the raw food diet. It's actually ideal for my body. It must be buildup. Do you know what I should do about it?
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Even one starchy sweet potato (some people do eat them) or old oily rancid seed or nut will make sludge, and many people are eating broccoli and carrots raw instead of making sauerkraut with them when one juices the cabbage, and this makes sludge because there is so much unusable starch in there. 80% of raw foods have a combination of starch/protein that makes it really hard to digest and assimilate. The little villi can only absorb liquids from juicing and blending. Most people don't chew their foods enough to make them completely liquid. A blender is a God send for the villi and for our energy.
This morning I made some home ripened pineapple juice. I got the thing for $3.50, it took 3 days to ripen it in the sun after I poked holes in the bottom of the stem with a fork and put it in a little saucer with an inch of water. It made 4 tall glasses of incredible juice for me. I chugalugged it immediately, hurried to the shower with the smooth leftovers in the inside of the juicer (not the pulp, which comes out into the basket), got about half a glass in the inside, next to the blades, and rubbed it all over my hair and body, massaging it well into my toes. I then showered after 5 minutes.
The bromelain enzyme in pineapple dissolves the oily sludge. You can use a natural (not plastic) bristle body brush on your dry skin before you make the pineapple juice. You don't want to wait while skin brushing after you make the juice because it becomes acid within 10 minutes. Rinse well. If you have a lot of starch residue, you do that with blended prunes, but you don't rub it on your skin, you just eat it. If you have a lot of protein residue, you do it with papaya.and you can rub it on your skin as a mask.
Sometimes, when I use half a peeled and cored cuke in my Energy Soup, I take the core with the seeds, blend it and put it on my eyes as a cooling mask. Same with the avo. All of these oils are magnificent as long as they are fresh and not old. Even 10 minutes old means acid sometimes.
Researchers from Queen's University in Belfast, are disappointed that the infamous cholesterol-lowering drugs didn't beat back dementia. For some reason they thought they would. I don't understand why they would.
Even I know that fats (Omega-3s, 6s and 9s) in the right proportion are good for mood, muscle and memory. Did you get that last one? Memory. What made them think that fooling around with cholesterol (fat/lipid) levels would improve memory at all? Earlier tests may have indicated they would but that appears to be more a case of wishful thinking.
Fatty plaques build up as the body's way of dealing with overall body chemistry that is way out of whack. Whatever 'whack' is. The point being hormones, fats, proteins, etc. all have an optimal balance. When that balance is lost, then the body does 'weird' things to survive. Those 'weird' things are signals there is dis-ease in the body. Find it and fix it and you resolve all the issues.
RAWDOCTORS recommends the Life Energy Pyramid (reduce stress, eat lots and lots of raw, organic living foods and get some sun and exercise daily) as the antidote to the drug 'em and cut 'em mindset that pervades medicine these days. You can be your own rawfood doctor!
Depression screening may lead to drug treatment for millions of kids across the United States, with drugs that are known to cause suicide and violence.
- "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!"
Here we go yet again. Big Medicine has just discovered exercise. Well it seems that way. The way they put it, no one ever knew how important a little locomotion could be - even for those with bad tickers.
Actually the announcement from the Duke University study and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association is even more lukewarm than that. They say; "moderate exercise will not harm people with heart failure and probably will benefit some of them."
Its yet another case where Big Medicine has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the fact that we were made to move. The more we do it, the better it is, generally speaking. It sounds as though anything that doesn't require their services is received with the equivalent of a weak handshake.
A new study in Great Britain has shown that in some cases, a pregnant woman given antibiotics gave birth to a baby with cerebral palsy.
While not huge numbers, the cases of cerebral palsy and antibiotics combination showed the triple the numbers of cases as opposed to those not given antibiotics.
We do know that infections during pregnancy or infancy do increase the risk of cerebral palsy. Researcher Professor Peter Brocklehurst of Oxford University said, "We have a suspicion that infection is implicated in premature labour.
"Antibiotics may merely suppress levels of infection to stop preterm labour, but the baby remains in a hostile environment."
The Royal Veterinary College in England has come up with yet another goofy idea about food. They say in studying animals, they found that if pregnant mother ate junk food while in said delicate condition, the more likely her babies would have a taste for the same. They say they are sure it's a genetic thing. Oh boy...
Here's that 'it's in the genes' idea again. Well actually they are a little bit right. In earlier testing we have found that fetuses can taste what mother tastes. So what she eats they develop a taste for as well. Add to that the fact that sugary, carb-filled foods make you want to eat more of the same and you have a prescription for a junk food baby. And that spells trouble of all kinds.
The fact is we are trained to eat what we eat. Most of the foods we eat as adults, we ate as kids - and as it turns out, even earlier. A recent study showed more than half of us won't experiment with new foods. We like and stay with the stuff we grew up eating. It's starts with mom and stays there.
Researchers at Marshall University School of Medicine in West Virginia, have found that lab mice can significantly lower the risk of breast cancer - if they eat lots of walnuts.
They admit that a healthy diet is one of the best bets for beating chronic disease. And the Omega-3 fats found in walnuts fit the bill.
Thank you God! they have finally gotten the message. Your lifestyle choice DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Understand this - right now, all the genetics information you hear about is used to make new and expensive drugs. Recently, in the magazine, Nature Genetics, they published an article that says researchers have found the genetic indicators to several chronic diseases. They say that will potentially open the way to better prevention, management and control.
Read that more drugs. The fact is that YOU change your genetics everyday (according to Bruce Lipton PhD.) Your emotions, have a profound impact on your genetics. Also include lifestyle and environment to the mix. Remember, your genetics are not the final word. They simply highlight potentials NOT promises.
All of us have genetic markers for one disease or another. They never have to manifest. Our lifestyle choices and our emotions have more to do with our health than we have previously understood or appreciated. You haven't heard more about that fact because it won't make money for Big Medicine or Big Pharma but the information is out there...and has been for several decades at least. Many have known it as 'mind over matter.' It works.
The holidays are over, your resolutions are already falling by the wayside, and you're starting to settle back into the same rut you were in last year. Sigh...
Why? No, it's not because you don't have any willpower.
There are two reasons: homeostasis and toxicity.
Homeostasis is the body's natural tendency to want to continue to do what it's been doing. The body doesn't know that something is unhealthy - all it knows is that it's surviving with the current chemical balance. Thus, it's tissue's nature to resist change. This is a natural survival mechanism of your body.
Toxicity is the cause of all dis-ease. When we put toxins into the body faster than they can be processed out, the body stores the toxins in fat cells, to protect us. Accumulate enough toxins in your fat cells and you'll begin developing health challenges.
Toxicity is why I was unable to lose weight before I went on Dr. Ann's program. My body was highly toxic, and was storing the toxins in my fat cells to protect me. My vegetarian diet was still non-organic, processed foods, so my body never got a chance to heal itself.
Once I went on a regime of raw, living, organic, uncooked foods my body was able to process those toxins and eliminate them. I not only lost 30 lbs. in 30 days, my arthritus disappeared, my mental processes became sharper, I had more energy and I was happier - all of the time. [Legal: see the "typical benefits" statement]
Dr. Flora van Orden III has a PhD in nutrition, was Dr. Ann Wigmore's personal assistant for 22+ years, traveled the world with Dr. Ann, and has been a Wigmore Practitioner for 40 years.
Flora has graciously agreed to run a 21-day Wigmore-based Detoxification and Rejuvenation program for us. This program is designed to get us back on track to a healthy, non-toxic lifestyle.
The program starts on Monday, March 1st, and will be internet-based. That is, we'll email you the plans, goals and recipes for each day, and coaching and interaction will be done though comments on RawLife.org.
We all know that - in spite of doctors warning us about the dangers of sunshine - we need the sun. Sun is the best way to make vitamin D. And vitamin D is good for all sorts of things. Including, but not limited to, stronger bones in children.
In the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, there is a report of a study which showed that women who got some regular sun during the last trimester of pregnancy, have children with stronger bones.
Even though many foods are 'fortified' with vitamin D, it is almost always an artificial (D2) source that is used. And as we all know, artificial is nothing like the real thing. And the real thing (vitamin D3) is best gotten from the sun. Think about it, up until recently, we spent all day in the sun. The sun is not our enemy.
Scientists from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences have come to a discovery. When mom exercises it's good for her fetus.
It turns out that moderate exercise helps practically everything in the growing fetus grow better, bigger and stronger. From the respiratory system to the nervous system everything seems to benefit from mom's movement.
This is a story that we already know the ending to. It's nice however to have it reaffirmed.
Scientists at Loma Linda University have again found that laughter is not only good for the soul, it is good for what ails us. In this case, cholesterol and diabetes.
They found that those who laughed the most, had the lowest cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and the best control of their diabetes.
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." - H L Mencken
Peace and Love Be With You,
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As you know by now, all parents have a different idea of what is healthy food and what is not. For years, you have had the opportunity to hand select and monitor what your child eats for lunch. 
The cold, hard statistics on deaths from vitamins for the past 24 years:
A new study in Great Britain has shown that in some cases, a pregnant woman given antibiotics gave birth to a baby with cerebral palsy.
The holidays are over, your resolutions are already falling by the wayside, and you're starting to settle back into the same rut you were in last year. Sigh...
Dr. Flora van Orden III has a PhD in nutrition, was Dr. Ann Wigmore's personal assistant for 22+ years, traveled the world with Dr. Ann, and has been a Wigmore Practitioner for 40 years.
