Join me at the Raw Spirit Festival in Arizona, Sept. 12-14th

Heather Salmon interviews Happy Oasis, Chief Visionary Officer for the Raw Spirit Festival.

Raw food teacher David Wolfe at the Raw Spirit Festival 2007

A musical impression of the Raw Spirit Festival

Do you want to meet the best raw food teachers of the world?
Do you want to hear the latest raw food information?
Do you want to taste 35 kinds of raw chocolate?
Do you want to have a fantastic weekend, full of love and light?

Join me at the Raw Spirit Festival in Arizona!
I’m coming all the way from Europe and would love to meet you in Sedona.

For more information, go to
http://www.rawspiritfest.com/?id=441

David Wolfe: Today is the best day ever, tomorrow even better!

Feel good all the time. Be radiant, walk your talk and be sexy!
Today is the best day ever and the start of paradise on earth.

The benefits of green tea for heart disease, diabetes and weightloss

Dina Khader on the health benefits of green tea

The health benefits of green tea come from the anti-oxidants it contains. It helps to prevent heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and is great for weight loss. Green tea suppresses appetite.

Green tea also has a thermogenic effect. It raises the body temperature and therefore you burn more calories if you drink it regularly. It’s a great addition to any weight loss program.

The best way to brew green tea is to have the water just under boiling. This way you release the most anti-oxidants. Dump the tea bag into the water. The less time you let the bag steep, the less caffeine you get. If you are sensitive to caffeine, let it steep less than 3 minutes. If you boil the water, you get more caffeine in your tea.

Buy certified organic green tea in unbleached teabags. The commercial green teas are heavily sprayed with herbicides and pesticides, which can’t be removed.

For the latest research on green tea in Dutch read
http://www.telegraaf.nl/etenengenieten/1418685/__Groene_thee_goed_voor_hart__.html

Raw chocolate protects the skin against sunlight and doubles hydration

Dr. Steven Pratt on dark chocolate:
One portion of the superfood raw chocolate helps to protect your skin against the sunlight and doubles the blood flow to the skin and therefore the hydration. Raw chocolate is a great beauty product.

You can also use the raw cacao butter on your skin as a natural cosmetic. In women raw cacao butter works as an aphrodisiac when used externally.