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.

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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.

Under the Sea Salad from the Tree of Life in Arizona

This diabetes friendly recipe, made by chef Michela from the Tree of Life in Patagonia, Arizona, tastes great with lettuce leaves, in a nori roll, with crackers or with chopped vegetables. You can make a lighter variation in summer and a creamier one in winter.
This pâté lasts for about three days in the fridge.

Ingredients:
2 cups nuts or seeds of choise
2T lemon juice
2T dill, minced
1T oregano, minced
1t black pepper, ground
1t sage, minced
1t kelp powder
½ t Himalayan or sea salt
1/3 cup celery, fine chopped

Watch this video to see how you can prepare it.

Enjoy!

Gabriel Cousens on Renegade Health: Natural Cure for Diabetes

Gabriel Cousens and his team at the "Tree of Life" are able to cure over 90% of diabetes type 2 patients.
Watch this interesting video, in which Gabriel Cousens explains the causes of diabetes and its treatment.
His concept of the culture of life and the culture of death is a very interesting one.

Kevin Gianni's question on RenegadeHealth.com

What do you think about the culture of “death” that Gabriel talks about?

My answer:

Very often I’ve heard Gabriel speak about the culture of life and the culture of death.
This week my son and I did an experiment. After not eating any meat for years, we ate out and had some lamb. Yes I know, shocking for a raw food teacher ;-)
I wanted to feel the effect. And I can say: it was enormous.

Normally, on my raw food diet, I always feel very happy. Everything works out fine and I trust the universe for what is happening.
After the meat both me and my son felt off track. This was especially clear in our dreams. My son had all kind of dreams in which everything was out of control. In my dreams I was worrying all the time, which was useless and absolutely unnecessary. The next day we had some kind of a hangover.
After eating lots of greens, some superfoods and drinking lots of good quality water we felt better.

For me the whole experience was so clear: the lamb couldn’t control what was going on in its life and of course it was worrying. Probably it saw other lambs being slaughtered. I´ve even heard that lambs cry, when they are slaughtered. In this state, with lots of adrenalin in its body, it died. This energy is what we take on if we eat this meat. This experience of the culture of death was so clear to me. Negative emotions were coming out of the blue after eating the meat: the culture of death.

Now I understand even better why a vegan diet can cure depressions and other psychological problems.
On a vegan diet consisting of fresh plant food, I always feel happy and connected: the culture of life.

On my this blog you can find many more video’s about diabetes and part of our video interviews with Gabriel Cousens.

Testimonials: a vegan diet helps to cure diabetes

These testimonials show you very clearly that there is a natural cure for diabetes: a vegan diet.
Some people cook part of their food and some eat it all raw, but one thing is for sure: a vegan diet can help to cure diabetes.
Do you wonder if it works for you as well? Just try it and feel what happens ......

Gabriel Cousens M.D. in “Simply raw: reversing diabetes in 30 days”

The top 3 factors which contribute to diabetes are:
- Foods which convert to sugar. Twenty years after you introduce white sugar or white flour into a society, you get an outbreak of diabetes. Fructose is the worst. White flour contains oxalic acid which is a poison to the beta cells of the pancreas. Wheat can increase insulin resistance.
- Animal fats from (cooked) animal food like meat and dairy.
- Toxins, like herbicides, pesticides and heavy metals have their effects as well. Mercury poisons the beta cells of the pancreas and deactivates insulin. Fluorine causes insulin resistance. Cadmium affects the kidneys and causes insulin resistance. Lead causes insulin resistance. Arsenic causes hormonal disruptions which also causes insulin resistance.

Other factors which contribute to insulin resistance are smoking and caffeine. Each of them increases insulin resistance with 30%.

Through juice fasting Gabriel Cousens learned that you can turn on and off the diabetic switch. Once you have a normal blood sugar level through juice fasting on green juice and a live-food diet, you have to keep the blood sugar down for a longer time to give the organs a chance to cure. The diet that Gabriel Cousens recommend is organic, vegan, 80% live food.
Exercise and losing weight are also very important factors to cure type 2 diabetes.

Alzheimer is associated with diabetes. Curing the diabetes will also help to clear up the confused mental state that some diabetes patients are in. By curing diabetes you can also prevent and cure the terrible side effects of diabetes, like neuropathy and impotence.

For part 1 of these diabetes video's look at
http://rawfoodsuccess.blogspot.com/2008/06/gabriel-cousens-and-neal-barnard-cure.html

Gabriel Cousens and Neal Barnard cure diabetes with a (raw) vegan diet

Diabetes is one of the main heath concerns in our modern society. In countries where people eat hardly any meat, sugar and white flour, there is no diabetes.

Neal Barnard M.D. and Gabriel Cousens M.D. cure diabetes with a vegan diet. Neal Barnard with mainly cooked food, Gabriel Cousens with mainly raw food. They both have success: their patients loose excess weight, their bloodsugar turns normal, as well as their cholesterol and blood pressure.

Gabriel Cousens even cured a patient with type 1 diabetes, who paticipated by accident in his program. This patient was totally cured and doesn't use insulin anymore.

For part 2 of these interesting video's on diabetes look at
http://rawfoodsuccess.blogspot.com/2008/06/gabriel-cousens-md-in-simply-raw.html

Watch this video with Gabriel Cousens if you don't like vegetables

Gabriel Cousens discusses the effect of bloodsugar on your brain and thinking.
Don't eat sugar, it makes your thinking chaotic. Eat a lot of green vegetables instead.

But what if you don't like vegetables?
Most people are guided by their taste, which is in the mind.
It's not about taste, but about results. If you eat vegetables you become stronger, smarter, clearer and you will understand society better. This is what counts.

So if you don't like vegetables ... learn to enjoy them because they make you healthier, more aware and brighter!

From the new documentary Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

Woody Harrelson speaks about Gabriel Cousens diabetes program at the Tree of Life in Arizona and Israel. Woody Harrelson is one of the ex diabetes patients in the new documentary "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days".

If you have diabetes or know someone who has diabetes, take a look at Gabriel Cousens diabetes program.
I interviewed some participants in Israel and this program is absolutely working. Miracles do happen; diabetes type 2 disappears on a raw live food diet and type 1 is getting much and much better.

For more information, go to TreeofLife.nu or read Gabriel Cousens new book "There is a cure for diabetes".
The solution for diabetes type 2 is simple ....

Joel Fuhrman M.D. - You can cure diabetes with diet and lifestyle

Joel Fuhrman MD has cured hundreds of people of diabetes using diet and lifestyle. The American Diabetic Association wanted him to write an article about his work for their journal and offered him a check of $ 750,00. Doctor Fuhrman happily wrote the article. When the American Diabetic Association saw the contents of this article - people who cured completely of diabetes type 2 - they wanted him to adjust the article. Their journal is sponsored by Eli Lilly drug company, a pharmaceutical company that produces insulin. This company would not like the contents of the article. Joel Furhman didn't and the article was never published.

You can definitely cure diabetes type 2 with diet and lifestyle. Thousands of people are cured with the help of Gabriel Cousens, Brian and Anna Maria Clement, Ann Wigmore and so many others. I spoke to some of them in Israël, who were talking about a miracle that happened to them, after they changed their diet and lifestyle.

But ..... don't tell anybody it's possible to cure diabetes .... the pharmaceutical industry doesn't want us to know .... Shout it out ;-)

This is an excerpt from Dr. Furhman's presentation at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2007.

Tree of Life's Reversing Diabetes Naturally Program, Gabriel Cousens

In this video Gabriel Cousens speaks with Michael Collins, a 2008 participant of the Tree of Life's Reversing Diabetes Naturally program. Michael is cured from serious diabetes, with blindness and kidney problems, within 3 months.

If you have diabetes or know anybody who has diabetes, watch this video in which Michael shares his testimony on the power of live foods in curing diabetes.

Last November we were at the Tree of Life in Israel and we recorded four similar testimonials. Yes, it is really true, you can cure diabetes!

Video Gabriel Cousens on depleted uranium, NCD and fasting

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.

Watch this interesting video.

Gabriel Cousens on juice fasting at the Tree of Life in Israel

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.

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Gabriel Cousens: the ultimate truth about any (raw) diet

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.

Gabriel Cousens on Dairy; Do You Need Milk Products?

Do you wonder, whether you need milk products? Do you think, that by drinking milk, you don't harm animals? Watch this video by Gabriel Cousens.
I couldn't get it on the blog, so click the link, if you are interested. It's a great video with a lot of information.

Perspectives on Dairy

The focus of this article is to clear some of the confusion about the purity, harmlessness, and safety of consuming dairy products. This includes organic and raw un-pasteurized dairy. Dairy products include milk, cheese, cream, butter, yogurt, and whey from lactating animals. Stopping dairy intake is not just about our personal health, but is also associated with the prevention of cruelty to cows and the protection of the ecology & energy of the planet. In this context, going vegan is a call to put our own self-serving or narcissistic needs aside and move toward elevating planetary healing. We can do this by choosing a diet that serves both the healing of the planet and ourselves.

Vegan Diet for Diabetes and Weight Loss

A vegan diet can help you to cure diabetes, to lose weight and to balance cholesterol. The results of a balanced vegan (referably raw food) diet are very significant. Here are some interesting testimonials of people, who tell about their diabetes being cured, their weight loss and their cholesterol turning normal, without any conventional medicines.

If you have diabetes, make sure to get the proper medical guidance. Don’t experiment on your own, especially if you are on insulin. This may be dangerous. Discuss changes in your diet with your medical doctor or other healthcare professional.

Do you want to know more, read dr. Gabriel Cousens new book “There is a Cure for Diabetes”. You can order it at this website. Dr. Gabriel Cousens has a fantastic program to cure diabetes in both Arizona and Israel.

Are you interested in dr. Gabriel Cousens diabetes program, write an email to info@rawfood.nl.

Gabriel Cousens on Juvenile Diabetes, Autism, ADHD and Vaccinations

Part of our interview with Gabriel Cousens on autism, ADHD and juvenile diabetes in children.

Vaccinations seem to be connected with autism. The rate of autism is greatly increasing since people started vaccinating. The rate of juvenile diabetes, as tested in Finland, increased 154% after they added 3 different vaccinations. In New Zealand they added 2 vaccinations and they got a 62% increase in juvenile diabetes. There is a lot of reasons for that, but the point is that vaccinations seem to disorder the nervous system and seem to be connected to some level of autism. As is Candida as well. That’s one issue.

The second issue is, that kids are just having way too many sweets and their mental states are very agitated. By now the sweets have pesticides and herbicides. Some research suggests that 50% of the hyperactivity would be relieved, if they had organic food. Put them on an organic diet and a low sugar diet and look at certain allergies, that may also cause nervous system or cerebral allergies.

Gabriel Cousens on Homeopathic Immunizations

This video is part of the interview that Annet van Dorsser and Esmé Stevens had with raw food teacher Gabriel Cousens in Israël.

Health Benefits of Good Quality Structured Water

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Last November Esmé and I went to Israel to interview Gabriel Cousens. This is part of these interviews. More will be available soon.

Drinking good quality water is the key to a healthier and longer life. We are made mainly out of water.

Water is essential for all cellular and bodily functions.

Water helps to keep the blood thin, so that it can flow well.

Water is important for the elimination of toxins.

Water helps the body to metabolize stored fat and therefore to lose excess weight.

Water helps to relieve constipation.
Water suppresses appetite.

And water does many more things in the body.

Listen to Gabriel Cousens on how he creates the best quality drinking water:

"Because of all the pollution in the world, the best water is distilled water. But distilled water by itself is aggressive and immature. I out a formula in the book “Spiritual Nutrition”. You take a gallon of distilled water, add a pinch of salt or 12 drops of active ionic, so that you get 50 parts per million. This way you create H3O, the best water there is. With 50 parts per million, you don’t have the aggressive pulling out of minerals out of the body.

Then you structure this water by putting it out in the moonlight overnight. The moon structures water, not the sun. Then you bless it and you have good quality water. Crystal energy from micro crystals is also very good to structure it.

So first you heat the water and take out all the herbicides and pesticides, and destroy all the homeopathic pattern of the herbicides and pesticides. Then you restructure the water with salt, crystal energy, moonlight and by blessing it."

Personally I think that natural spring water is also a good quality water, if you can find a natural spring in the neighborhood. It's pure and alive, full of energy. Look at the power in a natural spring. This structured water sounds as a fantastic alternative though, if you life in the city or have no natural springs in the area.