Dare to Dream - music by Yanni

What would your life look like, if you dared to dream again?

Brian Clement lectures at the Hippocrates Health Institute

In this video you see Brian Clement, lecturing at the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida. With the help of this institute tens of thousands of people cured form serious diseases like cancer and diabetes. Brian Clement lectures here on algae, sugar, fruit, candida, the immune system, viruses, molds and cancer.

The diet at the Hippocrates Health Institute is a high protein raw plant-based diet, which is healthy for everybody. If you are healthy you can add up to 15% organic ripe fruit to this diet, when it is in season. Research, for instance live blood analysis, has shown that eating more fruit and sugar-rich products can contribute to a lot of health problems in the long term.

Food is very important if you want to get healthy. Being happy is as important!
It's the combination of many different things, that creates health.

Gary Craig introduces EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an emotional, needle free version of acupuncture that is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body's subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. EFT has been reported successful in thousands of cases covering a huge range of emotional, health and performance issues. It often works where nothing else will.

Nature's Pharmacy - look at the shape and colour of your food

Nature has a perfect way to keep your organs healthy and heal them if neccessay.
Watch this wonderful video.

Grains and Beans in the Raw Food Diet - Gabriel Cousens

Some people do very well, if they start with a 100% raw food diet right away. For others it may be better to start more slowly. A balance of 80% raw food and 20% other foods is ideal for those people. What should those 20% be, if not raw foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, seaweeds, wild edibles etc.

In this interview Annet van Dorsser (www.RawFood.nl) asks Gabriel Cousens what he thinks about adding grains and beans to a raw food diet. Watch this video on how to transition to a raw food diet in the most ideal way.

What is slow food?

What is slow food and what are its advantages?
Take a look at this video and leave your comments below.

Ani Phyo serves a delicious raw food meal

Ani Phyo on Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.

Ani serves a delicious raw food meal in the Holywood hills, consisting of raw lasagne, raw burgers and ..... a durian smoothie!

David Rainoshek's BioDiesel Truck runs on used vegetable oil

David Rainoshek's Biodiesel Truck runs on SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) and WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil). A very good and economic solution for diesel cars, if it's not too cold outside. The car runs 1000 miles on a gallon of diesel, that he needs to start the engine and to put diesel back into the fuel system at the end of the day.

The smell is like that of a Chinese or Asian kitchen. So maybe a little cinnamon oil will do wonders. Can you imagine, a raw foodist who promotes juice feasting in a car with the smell of used oil. A good way to get the attention ;-)

Dr. Rick Dina on protein in a raw food diet

Do we get enough protein in a raw food diet? Do we need animal food to supplement? Do we need dairy to supplement? Can we get all the amino acids we need from raw plant food and thrive?

Listen to the very clear answer Dr. Rick Dina gives here. Yes, we can get all our protein from a raw plant food diet and get plenty. The quality is even better than that of cooked protein, we can absorb it better.

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Viktoras Kulvinskas on applied kinesiology or muscle testing

Raw food expert Viktoras Kulvinskas shows how to use muscle testing or applied kinesiology to find out what is good for you. You can use this technique to test supplements, food, ideas, relationships etc. I've personally used it for over 30 years and it always works. Start to experiment and find your own answers.

Milk, the deadly poison by Robert Cohen - Health risks of milk

Is milk good? Watch this video about the health risks of milk and decide for yourself.
Yes, there are plenty of good alternatives to get your calcium, protein and vitamins. Green leafy vegetables, blue-green algae, superfoods, seaweeds, sprouts etc. On this website you can find all the information.

The best salt - Brian Clement on organic sodium

What's the best salt?

Brian Clement recommends organic sodium from celery and from washing off sea vegetables and eating them. Plants convert non-organic minerals in organic minerals through their root system. These minerals and salts are easiest to digest and absorb for us.

Simply Raw: watch the absolutely best film on diabetes ever made

Did you know that there is a cure for diabetes. That you, your friends or your family don’t have to suffer anymore.
Diabetes is one of the biggest threats to our health nowadays. More and more people are victim of this terrible disease, that shortens life and comes with all kind of nasty side effects.
The good news: this disease can be healed without too much effort. It’s just a matter of knowing what to do.

The team of “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days” made a fantastic film on diabetes, it’s causes and the way to cure it. In 30 days people with serious diabetes type 2 conditions were cured. Even diabetes 1 reacted very well.

If you have any doubt if a raw food diet is healthy or if it’s worthwhile to change you eating habits, don’t miss this movie. It’s the most convincing movie on raw food ever made. Even if you don’t have diabetes, you can benefit greatly from this mind blowing movie.

Do you want to know all the details? Click on the picture below.
Yes .... there is a natural cure for diabetes.

Is it okay to add grains to your raw food diet?

This is one of my favorite questions, having a macrobiotic and raw food background since 1972.
Being honest, I personally feel better if I add some cooked grains to my raw food diet.
And …. I’m not the only one. At the leading raw food communities, the Tree of Life in Arizona and Israel and the Hippocrates Institute in Florida, there are some grains on the menu.

There are two ways in which you can eat grains.
Of course you can sprout them or grow wheat- or barley grass and eat them raw. This way you can add grains to your diet and still eat 100% raw.
Another way is to add some cooked non-stored grains, like wild rice, quinoa, buckwheat, millet and amaranth to your diet. Even diabetes patients do well on these grains. You can cook the grains for about 15 minutes and eat them with a raw (for instance tomato) sauce, use them in a salad, in desserts or as a breakfast cereal.

If you do want to eat grains, the ones mentioned above are best. Stored grains like wheat, rye, oats and barley ferment in ninety days. Within that time mycotoxins are formed, toxins produced by an organism of the fungus kingdom, which includes mushrooms, molds and yeasts. These are a hazard to our health. Research has shown a correlation between different forms of cancer and mycotoxins.
For more information about this, you can read Gabriel Cousens book “Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine”, page 17-23.

If you do want to eat some grains, feel how your body reacts. Too much of them may cause too much acidity and make you feel tired and heavy. Always add good quality salt if you cook grains. This makes them more alkaline. Find your ideal balance.
In some cases it’s better to add cooked grains to your diet, than to eat too much of the sweet fruits, like mango or banana or a lot of nuts for the sake of your caloric intake.

So far I found that many long term vegetarians and raw foodies lack minerals, vitamin B12 and are undernourished in general. Adding some non-stored cooked grains might be very helpful in those cases.

Please leave your comment below and let me know, if you have any experience adding cooked grains to your raw food diet and what your opinion is.

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

Alkaline water with a low ORP - Watch this almond test!

Which water is the most pervasive, alkaline water with a low ORP, alkaline water with a high ORP or acid water with a high ORP?

Let me first explain pH and ORP.

pH comes from French, and means "per Hydrogen", which is a measure of the amount of Hydrogen in a liquid. Why is this so important? Hydrogen is our most essential nutrient. Hydrogen provides our life force! And pH equals amount of hydrogen in liquid, so it's a measure of available life force in a liquid.
We can measure pH using litmus paper or an electronic pH meter. It will give us a reading of from 0 to 14, with pH 7 being neutral; neither acid nor alkaline. A pH lower than seven is acid, a pH above 7 is alkaline.

ORP means the O = Oxidizing or R = reducing or donating Potential of a liquid.
Oxidizing means the ability to oxidize, to burn up, to rust, to take away energy from the body.
Reducing means the opposite: to give or donate. If a liquid has 'reducing potential' it has the ability to donate energy to the body.
The ORP meter actually measures the electrical charge of the water and if it reads above zero, it's oxidizing (acidic and an ionic 'robber'). If the voltage is negative it's reducing (alkaline and a giver)!

Our body functions best if we drink water with a high pH (much life force) and a low ORP (giving energy). This video illustrates this scientific information very well.

The alkaline water with a low ORP is by far the most pervasive when soaking almonds in it. If this is true for the almonds, it must be true for our body. Our body can take up the most water and the most energy from the water, if it is alkaline with a low ORP.

How do you get alkaline water with a low ORP?
There are special water systems available, to make this water in own your kitchen
In the Netherlands they are for sale at Company4You.nl.

Joel Fuhrman M.D. - Nutrient density is the key to good health

In this video Joel Fuhrman speaks about the nutrient density of foods.
I think this is a very interesting concept. It clarifies a lot of things.
Why do so many vegans look grey and pale? Why are so many rawfoodies too thin?
What should you eat, if you don’t want to eat 100% raw?
These are questions I get all the time. Here is the answer!

Portion sized diets don’t work. We have to desire smaller portions.To do that we have to eat high nutrient, high volume foods. High volume foods are raw vegetables, fresh fruits, cooked greens and non-green vegetables.
You should know the nutrient density of foods. The food that is highest in nutrient density are green vegetables. Kale has the highest number, followed by collards, spinach and bok choi. Fruits and vegetables are all above 100. All the other foods are below.
Most people on a vegan diet get most of their calories from grains, potatoes and oil. That can’t be a healthy diet.

Joel Furhman doesn’t mention the superfoods in this video. Those are also high density foods. That’s why they are called superfoods. Examples are raw cacao, goji berries, maca, wild honey, bee pollen, hemp seed, spirulina, chlorella and green powders (from edible grasses). I also miss the edible weeds, sprouted seeds and seaweeds.
Some of these probably have a nutrient density above 1000 ;-)

A diet of raw vegetables, fresh fruits, edible weeds, sprouted seeds, seaweeds and superfoods is ideal, if you want to eat 100% raw plant based diet. If you want to add some cooked food, add cooked greens and non-green vegetables.

If you use the hyper farming techniques David Wolfe tells about to grow these foods, you have the best diet ever!
For David Wolfe’s video, watch below or go to:
http://rawfoodsuccess.blogspot.com/2008/05/david-wolfe-on-hyper-farming-using.html

Organic food versus conventional food, what is the difference?

I love this video by Kevin Gianni. It's really fun and shocking at the same time.
Why should you eat organic food instead of conventional? Are organic foods really better than conventional foods? Watch this video and see why ....

You'd think that with the scientific evidence that pesticides are harmful and organics have more nutrients than conventional foods that people would start switching over. But it's not the case. Almost all people still eat conventional foods.

Hopefully this video helps to convince people that eating organic food is really important. Kevin created a fantastic demonstration, that hopefully will change people's perspective on the importance of organic foods.

Raw Food Video, overview of the raw food theory and daily practice

This is a great video. Is shows you briefly the whole concept of raw food, the ideas behind it and the daily practice. It tells about the benefits of raw food, the different dishes, the place it has in our society and how to learn more about it.

I think this video is great to show to your family and friends, if they don't know, what you are doing or talking about ;-)