Raw food contains the all nutrients we need. Eating raw food is easier than cooking.
Watch this great video with many testimonials.
The advantages of a raw food diet: - never get sick again - lose weight - regain your youth - become sexier than you have ever been before - get incredible energy - look beautiful - feel light and happy - sleep well - live natural - become incredibly strong
Hippocrates: Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. Try raw food!
David Wolfe speaks about the role of minerals for detoxification. You need to have enough minerals in our body to be able to detoxify. The main role of for instance calcium, magnesium or oxygen in our body is to detoxify. Many people are so low in minerals, that they can’t detoxify, although they are very toxic. Your first need to build up your minerals and create a buffer. Superfoods like spirulina, powdered grasses, goji berries and raw chocolate are great for this purpose. Once you have a buffer of minerals, you can start your detox.
Today has been as busy day for Raw Food Netherlands (our Dutch raw food department). The main Dutch newspaper “de Telegraaf” interviewed me last Friday. The article was published today. Almost a whole page on raw food! This meant thousands of readers on my Dutch blog today, lots of email and the phone ringing all day. Today the main newspaper from Belgium “Het Nieuwsblad” interviewed me as well. This interview will be published tomorrow. And for a change, tonight I was interviewed again about raw food. Europe is waking up. People become interested in raw food.
I had hardly any time to eat my raw food, talking about it all the time. But … I made a fantastic raw chocolate smoothie, great under these circumstances. It is easy and fast to make and very nourishing. Enough food for hours.
And tonight, not having had much time for shopping, I made the best stinging nettle combination so far: half stinging nettle, half cucumber. Try it! You’ll be surprised. It tastes good. If you think, that it’s too strong, use more cucumber and less stinging nettle. This smoothie is very alkaline, nourishing and gives instant energy, exactly what I needed. And ... it is almost free, as are the best things in life ;-)
Kevin Gianni posted a great video on RenegadeHealth.com. What percentage of your diet should be raw to call yourself a raw foodie?
My question: Why call yourself a raw foodie? What is this whole discussion about? Everybody is different. For one person it is healthy to eat 100% raw, for another not.
And what is a raw food diet anyway? Is there a definition? Even if you do eat 100% raw, there can be such a big difference between one person and the other. Do you eat raw fish, dairy or eggs? Do you eat superfoods? Do you eat edible weeds? Do you eat seaweed? And what is best? Is there an answer? Do you want to be categorized according to the food you eat?
It is not important how much raw food we eat. It is important, that we feel great and that you are happy. A raw food diet will certainly help you is this, don't understand me wrong, but is not your ultimate goal. For one person 100% raw is best, for another 75% raw.
Raw food is not the goal, it is a means to an end ….. and Kevin understands ;-)
I would love to hear what you think about this subject. Please leave your comment below.
Listen to Brian Clement as he discusses the best sweetener, stevia. Stevia doesn't raise blood sugar and even regulates it. It is perfect for diabetes. Stevia tastes very much like sugar. People don't even realize it is something different if they don't know, what they are getting.
Do you want to start a raw food diet and you don’t know how to transition? Esme Stevens made a fantastic and easy raw food website for starters: thebestofrawfood.com. This raw food conversion chart comes from the Best of Raw Food and tells you exactly how to transition.
Once you have decided that you want to try the raw food diet, you get a feeling of what not to eat. But now the question arises "what can you eat"? To help you with the transition to a raw food diet, Esmé made this raw food conversion chart, a great help for starters.
The conversion chart is divided into the following categories:
All the great philosophers knew that a vegan or vegetarian diet is better for our health, emotional wellbeing, mind and spirit. Why don't we all follow the greatest thinkers of history and stop killing and eating living creatures? There is more than enough plant food for all the people on earth.
Most of the suffering on earth will disappear immediately if everybody starts to eat plant food. Everybody will have enough food and animals are no longer badly treated. A person who can kill an animal, can kill another human being. A vegetarian or vegan person simply can't. All war would be over!
Watch this very interesting video (of which you will find the link below), in which Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD talks about the China Study and his research about the effect of animal protein - meat and dairy - on cancer.
Celebrated Cornell professor T. Colin Campbell discusses his decades of NIH-funded research which show that meat and dairy promote cancer growth and a plant-based (vegan) diet can prevent and even reverse cancer. Covers the Oxford-Cornell-China Study which the New York Times called "the Grand Prix of epidemiological studies."
Summary of the China study
Casein (the protein found in all dairy) is the most significant carcinogen we consume. Our intake should never be more than 10 % of our total daily food intake. By changing the amount of protein in your diet, you can turn on and off cancer growth. Animal protein has a much bigger impact than animal fats. Dairy consumption is the biggest predictor of for instance prostate cancer.
Plant-based foods are healthier than animal-based foods. All this scientific information is available. Why don’t we hear about it? Who is controlling the agenda? Not the big companies, who pay for only about 5% of all the research. No, the government, who decides what research to spend its money on.
I hope you will watch the video (although it takes 50 minutes). Watching this information can help you to prevent serious diseases. And if you are seriously ill, it might help you ....
Brian Clement on raw goat's milk, yoghurt, kefir, casein and the China study
Question: Is it healthy to eat raw goat's milk or cow's milk, fermented with kefir?
Brian Clements answer: The number one cause of cancer is casein from cow’s milk. Read the China study by doctor Campbell (and watch the other video that I will post on the blog today). Fermented fat is even worse, it is a carcinogen. It oxidizes and is no longer able to communicate with other cells. The only time when we ever suggest to use goat's milk is in the desperate situation, when a mother can’t give breast milk to her child and only up to the age of two years old.
Our meat and milk industry contribute highly to the global warming. Is there something we can personally do about this? Yes, adopt a vegetarian or even better a vegan lifestyle.
Watch these videos and learn why a vegan diet is more important now, than ever before in history. It can save our planet and stop the intense suffering of animals in our meat and dairy industry.
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Green smoothies are a combination of fruits and greens blended together. Green smoothies taste delicious and are very healthy.
The Boutenko family cured themselves from various diseases by changing to a raw food diet. The members of their family had a variety of diseases: a congenital heart defect, thyroid problems, arthritis, diabetes and asthma. Within a matter of months the family started experiencing profound improvement in their health and vitality. The Boutenko children experienced remarkable improvement in their results at school.
Other advantages Victoria experienced: red dots on her chest disappeared, moles fell off, her vision became clear, her grey hair disappeared (she doesn't color her hair), nails became stronger, hair stopped falling off, her weight became normal, her mood became more peaceful and she could work for hours at the computer, without getting problems with her eyes.
According to Victoria there are two groups of eaters: - normal eaters, they stop when they have enough nutrition - compulsive eaters, they eat because of other reasons, like entertainment, joy and sadness. They eat for intoxication. For those people it is even more important to change to a raw food diet, so that they can't intoxicate themselves anymore.
Some health benefits of green smoothies: - they taste very good - they are extremely easy to make - they contain fibers - they contain chlorophyl, which is very good for the blood - they are great for immunity and help to heal diseases - they don't contain oil or salt - they don't oxidize for 3 or 4 days and are excellent to take when traveling
For green smoothie recipes look under the label A1 smoothies (right side of the blog).
Pressing olives the traditional way, filmed in a Druze village.
Pressing olives the modern way, filmed in Tuscany.
Health Nutrition Benefits of Olives and Olive Oil
* The mono-saturated fats present in olives/olive oil, when combined with the antioxidant protection offered by vitamin E, lower the risk of damage and inflammation. * Olive/olive oil contains active phytonutrient compounds, including polyphenols and flavonoids, which have been found to have significant anti-inflammatory properties. * The vitamin E present in olives/olive oil has been known to offer cellular protection against free radicals present in the body. * Olives/olive oil prevents the oxidation of cholesterol in the body and thus, helps reduce the risk of having heart attack or stroke. * Since they help the body in neutralizing free radicals, the nutrients in olives/olive oil also lead to prevention of colon cancer. * Olives/olive oil are said to be effective in reducing the frequency and/or intensity of hot flashes in women, who are going through menopause. * Regular consumption of olive oil has been associated with decrease in systolic (maximum) as well as diastolic (minimum) blood pressure. * Those who consume olives/olive oil are at a lesser risk of developing diabetes at later stages in life. * Good quality olive/olive oil contains a natural chemical that acts like a painkiller. This information about the benefits from olives and olive oil comes from http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/
Kevin Gianni from www.RenegadeHealth.com filmed David Wolfe at the Rhode Island School of Design. David Wolfe speaks about his favorite subject: raw chocolate or cacao. The cacao bean is one of the richest foods in the world, extremely rich in magnesium, iron and bromium. What are the greatest deficits we have in our modern society? Magnesium, iron and bromium? Cacao can be useful to build bones, not because it is rich in calcium, but because it is rich in magnesium and silicon. These are the minerals we need to build bones. A chicken can make egg shells from silicon, not from calcium. If you make tea from raw cacao and horsetail (rich in silicon) you have a great drink to regenerate bones and to prevent osteoporosis. For more video's by Kevin Gianni, go to www.RenegadeHealth.com.
This mixed vegetable juice is made from fresh (spring) greens and tomato. It is cleansing, mineralizing and good to balance blood sugar. It is great to get new energy in spring and get rid of waste products and therefore especially good against fatigue.
Serves 1
Ingredients: 1/4 head lettuce 2 stalks celery 1 big tomato 3 big leaves pak choi leaves of a dandelion
Put all ingredients in your juicer and juice. It is best to roll the dandelion inside the other bigger leaves. Otherwise they disappear in your juicer without giving much juice. Drink the juice right away. Otherwise it will oxidize and lose many of its nutrients.
This smoothie is great for breakfast or if you get hungry in between meals. It is also a good food for kids.
Ingredients: 1 ripe banana 2 handfuls raspberries 1 tablespoon shelled hemp seed ½ cup water
Put all ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth. Pour in a nice glass and enjoy!
The hemp seed is rich in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids. Adding hemp seed gives this smoothie a rich flavor and helps to slow down the absorption of the fruit sugars. This creates a more stable blood sugar and a long lasting energy.
This information comes from orthorexia.com and is written by Steven Bratman M.D.
What is Orthorexia?
It’s great to eat healthy food, and most of us could benefit by paying a little more attention to what we eat. However, some people have the opposite problem: they take the concept of healthy eating to such an extreme that it becomes an obsession. I call this state of mind orthorexia nervosa: literally, "fixation on righteous eating."
Such people are sometimes affectionately called "healthfood junkies." However, in some cases, orthorexia goes beyond a mere lifestyle choice. Obsession with healthy food can progress to the point where it crowds out other activities and interests, impairs relationships, and even becomes physically dangerous. When this happens, orthorexia takes on the dimensions of a true eating disorder, like anorexia nervosa or bulimia.
Do you wish that occasionally you could just eat, and not think about whether it’s good for you? Has your diet made you socially isolated? Is it impossible to imagine going through a whole day without paying attention to your diet, and just living and loving? Does it sound beyond your ability to eat a meal prepared with love by your mother – one single meal – and not try to control what she serves you? Do you have trouble remembering that love, and joy, and play and creativity are more important than food? Have you gotten your weight so low that people think you may have anorexia?
If you recognize yourself in these questions, you might have orthorexia.
Are you concerned that you (or someone you care about) may need help recovering from orthorexia? If so, please see my book Health Food Junkies for practical advice on how to overcome health-food obsession. However, if your orthorexia is so severe that you can't even keep up a minimum healthy weight, you really should see an eating disorder specialist. See the comments and suggestions at the end of the story about Kate Finn, on orthorexia.com.
An orthorexia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and bulimia patient tells about his disease.
The patient has a dialogue with his disease, especially with the orthorexia nervosa. This is what happens if you take the raw food diet or any other healthy diet to an extreme ….
Here is a raw tomatilla salsa recipe with avocado. As you can see this video recipe is a little different from the one below. You can vary and create your own favorite raw tomatilla salsa recipe.
Try it and let me know, which combination you like best!
This a very easy and fast raw food recipe for tomato salsa. You can make it more or less spicy by varying the amount of (datil) pepper.
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup organic tomatoes 1/2 shallot, sliced up 1/4 cup chopped cilantro 1 datil (or another kind of) pepper, diced juice of 1/2 lime 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil freshly cracked black pepper a good pinch of salt
Blend the tomatoes (little pieces still visible) in your food processor or blender. Mix all ingredients together in a nice looking bowl. Eat the salsa with celery sticks, pieces of cucumber, on sprouted bread or dehydrated crackers.
Do you miss yoghurt in your raw vegan diet? Here is the good news! You can make your own yoghurt from any kind of nut or seed. You can use almonds, macadamia nuts, walnuts, cashews, pine nuts, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds. It is possible to use a yoghurt or kefir culture as a starter, but this is not really necessary, since the bacteria you need are all around you in the air. It is important to soak the nuts overnight in filtered water at room temperature.
Ingredients for almond yoghurt: 2 cups peeled almonds 10 ounces water
Some nuts need more and some need less water. You will find out. Blend the nuts and water until you get a creamy substance. Squeeze the liquid out through a nut milk bag or cheese cloth. In the meantime put the salsa on, move in the rhythm and have a great time ;-) Pour the liquid in a jar and cover with a breathable cloth. Let it sit for 8 to 12 hours in the warmest place in your kitchen.
Eat this delicious yoghurt with blue berries, figs, soaked goji berries, strawberries or any other fruit that is in season. By the way, did you know, that you can eat the tops of strawberries? They are rich in chlorophyll and great to add for color. This yoghurt makes a great breakfast, snack or light lunch.
It is healthy and contains the friendly bacteria so necessary for good intestinal health.
In this video Rhio shows you exactly how to make a raw food yoghurt.
This raw food recipe for guacamole is fast and easy and you don't need any special equipment. It is ready in minutes and everybody loves it.
Ingredients: 3 avocado's 1 lime 1/2 medium onion 1 medium tomato 3/4 cerano chili (or less if you prefer) salt and pepper to taste
You can eat the guacamole with dehydrated crackers or use it as a dip for raw broccoli rosettes, carrots, radishes, celery or cucumber. It is also great as a filling for wraps, sushi or nori rolls.
Our world is full with radio active pollution, like depleted uranium. Congenital and other serious diseases are spreading like never before in history. What can we do to protect ourselves against them? Gabriel Cousens recommends fasting twice a year. While fasting the body starts to push out the toxins. If you take NCD during the fast, the NCD grasps these toxins and removes them from your body.
Shelley, Adam and Robert Young created a great new book and CD about the value of eating healthy alkaline foods, especially for children. The heroes Doc Broc and AvoRado Kid enter the Stone Hinge Cave, meet up with the Meaty Meanies, and rescue Luscious Lettuce. In an adventurous tale Doc and Lucious seek to find the River of Life.
"Doc Broc and the Stone Hinge Cave Adventure" consits off: - Full-color and hard back cover - CD that contains music, sound effects and character narration - Recipes for kids
When Brian and Anna Maria Clement were in the Netherlands two weeks ago, we had an inspiring conversation with Anna Maria. One of the things we asked her was how to gain weight on a raw food diet. Loosing weight is easy. If that is your goal, you are at the right place here. But how to gain weight on a raw plant based diet? Anna's answer is very clear. Watch this video and start today ;-))
In this video Gabriel is discussing the fasting process with a group of people, who just fasted at the Tree of Life in Israel. Fasting is the first part of the program. After fasting for one or two weeks, people start to eat a raw living food diet. Part of the group had diabetes and fasting helped to balance their bloodsugar within days.
"The Codex will make what they did in WOII look like kids stuff. According to the World Health Organization 2 billion people will die if it is fully employed: December 31, 2009. "They" are eroding your rights away - one by one - while you're asleep."
Rawfood Europe interviewed and filmed Brian Clement in Amsterdam the Netherlands on March 26, 2008. Watch this video where he speaks about the food chemical codex (codex alimentarius).
Full transcript of Brian Clement's lecture
"Let's get to the most important question anyone has asked me tonight. About the coming of the codex bill: I will give it you as briefly as I can.
As we know, there are 177 countries in the world that are part of the World Trade. You happen to live in one. I live in one. Nazi History
Let us get back to World War II. There was a gentleman who ran the pharmaceutical industries in Germany. He produced [the gas used in gas chambers, the steel for the death camps and the] rail roads lines. He also produced pharmaceuticals.
After the war, they put him into jail. Of course he had enough money to get out quickly. At that point, they should have shot him through the head, and I'm a pacifist. I would have shot him through the head. Bottom line is, they let him out of jail seven years later.
UN Fooled
He went back to his cohorts. They looked back at the 1800s and some control issues they had back than with incorporating codex rules in America. They then went to the newly formed organization at that point, the United Nations and completely bamboozled them. They fooled them.
They told them: "We are good guys now. We're no longer Nazis. We want to help you so that people won't starve. And we'll make sure everybody gets good medicine." This started in the 1950s. There wasn't much activity then, because they couldn't unify the world. Not until the 80s and 90s. This is when we joined together and said: "We'll have a world organization that we call World Trade."
Capitalistic Scam
This was one big capitalistic scam. Nothing is wrong with capitalism. But if we do it this way, something is very wrong. They have a plan that says. Listen closely. By December 31, 2009, all the 177 countries will be harmonized. Isn't that a nice word? We will be harmonized. Next year.
The harmony that they are talking about, you can check by calling the World Health Organization, a wing of the United Nations, and ask for the book. I've read it. I'll tell you what the book says.
Killing Organic Foods
There'll be no longer organic [food] standards in countries. The World Health Organization - and the Nazis - will literally control organic food. These foods will be irradiated, they will be sprayed with pesticides and grown in animal faeces [shit], they will still be sprayed with chemicals and still be called organic.
By the way, as part of that, municipalities and cities world wide in the 177 countries will eventually, but surely control whether or not you can grow your own food. If you grow food in your own house, you'll have to have a permit.
Two Billion People Die
D you think I'm telling bullshit right? Just check me on this. I challenge you to check me. The World Health Organization said that "if the Codex bill is fully employed, two billion people will die."
Because the second thing that they want to do, is to control all medicine. They've already done a very good job in Germany and Norway.
They're right here in your government [Netherlands] working on it, so you know that. You're asleep. But the fact is, they are working your government. They're working on my government [US]. There are five bills now pending. 1st Test Case
The first test case they put in America, in California, they can no longer ship raw almonds out of the state to any 50 states. They wanted to see if Americans would stand up and rite, if they would protest. But we didn't, because we just watch TV. Eat protein bars. Listen closely.
"They" Want To Wipe These Bastards Out
Who are will be the 2 billion to die? It will not be white folks spending the money, I can tell you that. These will be the black folks, down in Africa, the natives in South America. Because they want to wipe these bastards out. They're not spending a cent. Sounds pretty hard, doesn't it? Factual statement: They want to wipe does bastards out, they're not spending a penny.
How They Control The World
And they want to uniform you. They want to take total control. As they have already taken in Ireland last year. They took the goji berries that were organic out of the market. I worked with the former minister of health when he was banning smoking in Ireland.
He was a great man. He was literally fighting them at that point. "They keep coming in from the EU, telling me what to do. Essential herbs they took of too. [If the Nazis don't get money from this, they will take it of the market. In a few years, you can only buy food that comes directly or indirectly from them.] "
They Take Your Health Rights Away
Europe, you're far ahead of us in this. They're eroding your rights away - one by one - while you're asleep.
In America, the good thing is the presidential election. There was one guy, who's a doctor by the way, called Ron Paul. He's the only conservative I ever voted for in my life.
Because, he tolds the truth. He said: "the most damaging thing right now is the coming of the codex alimentarius.
Codex Most Controversial
The number one thing that I'll do if I become president, is to stop the Codex bill." He got it. He's a doctor. He was like: "What do you mean? These people don't make enough money? They've got to take on health foods? And almonds? They got to take total control?"
December 31, 2009
They already control the supplement industry. And I once again remind you to check every word I say. December 31, 2009, is the date when the codex will be fully employed in your country
They will slowly but surely, as you are sleeping, take away more and more rights from you.
Place a phone call to the World Health Organization and ask them what the Codex bill means. They'll will tell you: "2 billion people will die". That's a scientific fact.
Do you think the Nazis did a good job in the Second World War? I'll tell you: This will make what they did in the WOII look like kids stuff.
WOII Look Kids Stuff
That is all I can tell you. If you think that's an over statement, you better think of what you're against up this time. Then, we were talking about a few million people that died. Now we're talking about your health, your life and 2 billions of people. The first people to go are not the white folks. Those are the poor people down in the poor countries.
Become Conscious
Become conscious. How do you do that? Not by yelling to people, not by becoming politically. Change your life. Do what Gandhi said.
If You Want Change, Change Yourself
If you want things to change, change yourself. That's how things will change."
In this short video Gabriel Cousens tells you the most important aspect of any diet: learn to observe what food is good for you! This is the true meaning of conscious eating and spiritual nutrition. Get to know yourself better and find out what food suits you best.
If you compare this video to the one of David Wolfe below, you will see, that Gabriel says exactly the same thing.
I like the macrobiotic slogan: Non credo! Don't believe anything, but find out for yourself.
In Chinese medicine, diet is a very personal thing. Nobody should have exactly the same diet as any other person. Everybody is different and every circumstance is different, so every diet should be different.
As you can see, they all agree.
This is also my personal approach, when I give dietary advice. Find out what food is good for this particular person. I use applied kinesiology to test food and my lifelong experience giving dietary advice, to find the ideal diet for a person.
This video is part of our interview with David Wolfe.
Learn to think for yourself. Don't believe, what everybody tells you to be true. Figure out, what food is good foryou!
Step out of the matrix. Now we have got a lot of momentum of people stepping out of the matrix. Many people already know, that they eat the wrong food. We only have to give them some tools.
Because a lie is believed by millions of people, it does not mean it is true. Once you become aware of this, it is very powerful. You start to question all assumptions and start to think for yourself.
A very clear statement by dr. Mercola: type 2 diabetes is 100% curable. Check your fasting insulin level to see if you are at risk. According to dr. Mercola 85% of the population has a level that is too high and is at risk. By changing your diet, you can change this condition.
Founder of the Raw Food Success Blog. "Good choices will lead to optimum health, happiness and success. Listen to your inner voice, to make the best choices for you!"
NIEUW: 21-daags Online Rawfood Coaching Programma
Sinds kort kun je bij Rawfood Nederland en België het nieuwe 21 daagse online rawfood coaching programma doen. Het is een multimedia cusus met veel video's. De bedoeling van de cursus is dat je kennis maakt met alle aspecten van rawfood en je kennis verder verdiept, zodat je op een verantwoorde manier kunt omschakelen naar (meer) rauwe voeding.
Het programma bestaat uit dagelijks twee emails, één met theorie, coaching informatie en alle achtergronden van rawfood, de andere met heerlijke recepten. Je krijgt alle basis recepten, waarmee je zelf eindeloos leert variëren. Het programma is geschreven door Annet van Dorsser, rawfood expert en oprichtster van Rawfood Nederland en België.
Als je mee wilt doen, stuur dan even een mailtje aan info@rawfood.nl. Je krijgt dan z.s.m. verdere informatie. We zijn gesloten van 6 t/m 20 juli. Het is weer mogelijk met de coaching te starten vanaf 21 juli.
Raw Spirit Festival Arizona
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I will be at the Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona, Arizona, September 12th - 14th.
Annet van Dorsser is voedingsexpert, klinisch pedagoog en acupuncturist (lid NVA). Zij is gespecialiseerd in raw food, Chinese voedings- en kruidenleer, ayurveda, macrobiotiek, orthomoleculaire geneeskunde en westese voedings- en kruidenleer.
Annet heeft 35 jaar ervaring in het geven van voedingsadviezen voor het bereiken van een betere gezondheid, zowel voor kinderen als voor volwassenen.
Zelf heeft zij vier kinderen van 24, 22, 14 en 12.
Wil je persoonlijke voedingsbegeleiding door Annet, stuur dan even een email naar info@rawfood.nl met als titel "persoonlijke begeleiding".
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