Green Smoothie by Victoria Boutenko

Recipe for a Healthy Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:
3 dried tomatoes (soaked in little water for at least 15 minutes)
soaking water of dried tomatoes (not too much)
2 fresh tomatoes
small handful of fresh basil
cayenne
optional: a small handful of soaked nuts

Blend with handhold mixer or food-processor.
Great with pasta or as a salad dressing.

Raw Food Diet for Diabetes, Miracles do Exist!

By Esmé Stevens and Annet van Dorsser

Yes it is possible, healing with raw food, losing weight, and detoxing. Read the stories below of four people who were diagnosed with Diabetes II. They were told by their doctors that this horrible disease is not curable.

In November 2007, we interviewed them at the Tree Of Life in Israel near the Dead Sea. Here Gabriel Cousens - one of the most respected living raw food diet gurus - runs a pilot for diabetes. The results are incredible! It proofs that healing with raw food is possible! Within a week!
A man with 20 years history of diabetes and a woman with blood sugar levels as high as 700 could throw away their medication within ONE week of green juice fasting... And as a bonus, they also lost weight and detoxed.

Nissim's story
20 years ago, Nissim was diagnosed with diabetes. He tried all the medication to get rid of it. He always looked for the best professors, and newest medication. His fasting blood sugar was always around 300. Since nothing else helped and he decided to give the Tree of Life Juice Fasting Program a chance.
He was quite sceptic when he started, but the two detox weeks were a miracle. On the first day he got rid of his medication. After 4 days his blood sugar values where in the 70's. After 2 weeks they were stable and have not been higher than 80 anymore!
He now knows that he cured his so called "incurable disease" and can't stop talking about what a miracle it is.

Meira's story
Meira found out she had diabetes 7 years ago. First she took homeopathic medicine. That helped for a while, but then, her blood sugar went up, and up, and up. She said, she made the mistake of starting to use drugs. But then, it only got higher, and higher and higher. Eventually her blood sugar levels reached 700. She got desperate, even after eating very small amounts of food such as a table spoon of rice or even an egg, her blood sugar would jump up to 500.
Her doctor told her she could not be cured and really had to go on insulin. That's when decided to do the juice fasting. This was her last resort and hope to avoid the insulin.
She wasn't disappointed. Today, she is so, so happy. Her blood sugar went down to normal levels within days and she doesn't need medication anymore. For her it is a miracle also.

Dalia's story
5 years ago, Dalia was diagnosed with diabetes. She too took all the medication there is, except for insulin. She didn't want to suffer from the side effects of the diabetes. Then her son found out about this raw food diabetes program. She decided to give it a try. To her surprise she was never hungry during the fast and it was all very easy.
Today, she cured herself from diabetes, she does no longer need any medication. She now knows about healing with raw food.

Chava's story
Ghava was a vegetarian and always ate relatively healthy organic food. She believes, her diabetes was caused by stress and lack of exercise. Her blood sugar was 150, not as bad as the others, but she knew it was time to do something. She came to the Tree of Life because of the holistic approach and thorough support. First juice fasting, than clearing negative emotions. Next are the cooking classes and for the next year, she'll get monthly check ups by the medical support group in Israel. She even gets weekly meetings with other raw food people in her city. She's so exited about the program. She made it her mission in life to tell others about the healing with raw food for diabetes. She tells everybody not to take medication but come to the tree of life first!

The stories here are success stories about raw food and diabetes. However, you can cure yourself from many more chronic illnesses with raw food. Raw food and health go hand in hand! Will these people miss their steaks with French fries, sure they'll miss them. But all of them say it's a small trade compared to what they got back: their health, energy, weight loss and a better clarity of mind.
If you'd like to know more about the juice fasting or about the Tree of Life Program for Diabetes you can send an e-mail at: info@rawfood.nl.

Nutrients in Raw Food and Cooked Food

This is a video everybody should see. Storm Talifero compares the amount of nutrients in raw food compared to the amount in cooked food. It's really convincing. A raw apple pie has a much greater nutrient density than a cooked apple pie. It's easier and faster to make a raw pie. So ... why bother to bake it any longer.

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Natural Raw Food Cure for Diabetes in Israël

From 19-02-2008 till 10-03-2008 by Gabriel Cousens and the staff of Tree of Life.

A 21 days healing vacation near the Dead Sea in Israël, featuring deep body cleansing and advanced treatment for diabetes. We will shift to a healthy lifestyle, based on live-organic raw food nutrition and conscious transformation of habits. After the 21 days there is a one year follow-up support.

This is a medical breakthrough for success in treating diabetes, based on 35 years of experience in reversing diabetes naturally with groups and individuals. We are regularly achieving these results:
Get people off of their insulin and oral medications within 1- 4 days
Return most people to a blood sugar below 100 within 21 days.

The challenge is to stay balanced by maintaining a healthy raw food diet and a healthy lifestyle as we share in detail at the program. A year follow up of monthly consultation with our Naturopath is included for your support.

The program addresses the medical, emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of diabetes. It offers a rapid shift in the quality of life. The impressive results are maintained by a one year follow-up support.

For more information or if you would like to participate, contact us at info@rawfood.nl
We made great video's from this raw food program in Israël last November, that will be on the blog soon.
Keep checking the blog for more information.

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Demi Moores Raw Food Diet

By Esme Stevens, TheBestofRawFood.com

At 40, Demi Moore makes a comeback in the movie "Full Throttle". She's walking in her bikini and looks better than people half her age. Her secret? The raw food diet! Many celebrities follow this diet now, because raw food makes them feel and look fantastic, the natural way.

Here's a list of some raw food celebrities:

Actors:

• Woody Harrelson
• Lisa Bonet
• Robin Williams
• Alicia Silverstone
• Chalie Trotter
• Uma Thurman

Singers:

• Sting
• Beyonce
• David Bowie

Other:

• Donna Karan (Designer)
• Charlie Trotter (Chicaco Based Celebrity Chef
• Jack Lalanne (The famous 90 fitness trainer and juicer)
• Carol Alt (Elite Top Model)
• Steve Jobs (Apple CEO)

If you're interested in Demi Moore's raw food diet, you’ll need to say goodbye to processed food, breads, and almost everything else in the grocery store. No food is cooked above 118 degrees.

According to conventional medical and nutrition scientists there is no benefit to raw food: the human body doesn't need enzymes from raw food because it produces its own enzymes that allow us to digest food. In addition, they believe that cooking actually increases the nutritional value, because cooking breaks the tough cell wand of raw uncooked food. Examples are lycopene from tomatoes and beta-carotene from carrots.

However, raw food gurus disagree. Experts like Gabriel Coussens M.D., Robert Young M.D., Ann Wiggmore and David Wolfe - together about 80 years of research and experience - proof the contrary. They say that even though your body can produce its own enzymes, this cost a lot of energy. Eating enzyme-dead foods places a burden on your pancreas and other organs and overworks them, which eventually exhausts these organs.

More and more studies bring to light that all heated and most processed foods do indeed contain carcinogens, a brand of toxins that are often cancer-causing in tests on mice and rats.

Further these experts agree that lycopene in tomatoes and beta-carotene from carrots don't have to be cooked to be absorbed by the body. If you juice or blend them they will be absorbed by the digestive tract within 20 minutes.

It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the major reasons juicing works is that it is living raw food. Most people notice significant improvements in our energy and health if we increased the amounts of living raw foods in our diet. If you juice vegetables on a regular basis, it is quite easy to consume over 50% of your foods as raw.

Of course, following a raw food diet, you have to make sure that it's balanced: you should ensure that you eat enough greens, germinated nuts and seeds, superfoods and fruits. A balanced raw food diet meal plan is key to get the right raw food results. And of course use common sense: a raw diet of only raw sugars and fats, with little nutrition can't be healthy for you in the long term.

If you want to go on Demi Moores raw food diet and loose weight healthily, you will benefit from a raw food coach. A coach can help you transition to a raw food diet and assist you with a balanced diet plan A coach can determine how to modify the diet or what foods to choose in order to meet your needs for key vitamins and minerals including calcium, iron, zinc, B12, and protein.

For example, you may decide to be a semi-raw eater and include some cooked whole grains. While you may lose weight and feel more energetic by eliminating processed foods, meeting your nutritional needs is equally important, and finding a way to eat that you can live with long-term is the ultimate goal of success.

There are many great books that will support you and help you getting started. Carol Alt's "Into The Raw" is a great book if you want to begin a raw food diet, and there are many courses and retreats you can follow so you'll start off in a fun and healthy a way. Then, you'll see, that loosing weight will be as easy and effective as can be on Demi Moore's raw food diet.

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Raw Food Recipe for Strawberry Shortcake

I just took a look at a great website: http://www.thegardendiet.com/. Very inspiring, especially their documentary Breakthrough, that you can find at Google Video. Here is a great raw food recipe for a vegan strawberry shortcake from their website. Enjoy!

This recipe serves 4-6
You need a blender and a food processor

Ingredients:
20-30 strawberries
3 handfuls of your favorite nuts
1 handful of dates
2 tablespoons of honey
2 dashes of salt
a dash of olive oil

Put the nuts into the dry bender.
Add a dash of salt and blend until powder.

Pit the dates and process until mushy in a food processor
Add ground nuts and process a bit.
Add a spoonful of honey and process until soft and doughy.
Put the “cake” into a large bowl.

Put a big handful of strawberries into the food processor.
Process until chunky.

Put the rest of the strawberries in the blender.
Add a spoonful of honey, a dash of olive oil and a dash of salt.
Blend until creamy.
Add processed strawberries. Do not blend.

Pour strawberries over the cake and mix together.

Raw Food Diet for Children

Fresh vegetable juice by Annejet.
Annejet, 5 years old, makes her own vegetable juice from organic carrots, kale and white cabbage. Here you can see, how easy it is.
A raw food diet is great for kids. They love to make raw food recipes themselves. And ... their own creations taste always better, than the ones we serve :-)

David Wolfe - Seaweeds & Glyconutrients in the Raw Food Diet

David Wolfe: Raw Food Diet for Success

David Wolfe explains how your personal mission and values will help guide you to success in diet, health, and life.

Being on your mission creates vibrant health. You need the right nutrition to support you on your mission. This way you can never be sick again, work as much as you want, have an infinite amount of energy and inspire always.

What is your mission? That what feels good. Your mission is what you love to do more than anything, even if you don't get paid for it. If you do what feels good, you are guided all the way to paradise. If you do what feels bad, you will be guided to hell. That what it is all about.

Line up your food with your destiny. What you put in your mouth is sacred. It's the basis of your thinking. Attention goes, where energy flows. If you change your food, you will change your thinking and level of consciousness. Your values will change. All you have to know is your destination.

Come out of dogmatism as far as food is concerned. Your food is sacred. Get rid of guild, fear, shame. Laughter heals, loves heals, food filled with light heals, food that is fun to eat heals.

This is what Raw Food Success is all about!

The "Eat Your Vegetables" Vitality Race

Here you see the vitality race between a fruit/vegetable fan and a junk food addict. One loves raw foods like bananas, oranges and watermelons, the other one sweets, like ice cream, chocolate and cake.
Who do you think will win this race? I think the distance between the two should be much bigger.

What if the winner would have added superfoods, like raw cacao, maca, bee pollen, marine fytoplankton, MSM, spirulina and chlorella? Can you imagine?

Recipe for a Healthy Cream of Tomato Soup

Ingredients:
2 medium size tomatoes
3 dried tomatoes, soaked
1 handful of fresh basil
20 macadamia’s, soaked
1 tablespoon of hemp oil
White pepper
Soak water of the dried tomatoes
Warm water
Salt, if needed (dried tomatoes are salty)

In a blender (handhold or normal) mix all ingredients until smooth and creamy.
Save some fresh basil to garnish the soup.
You can soak the tomatoes in little water and add warm water, while preparing the soup. This way you get a nice warm raw winter soup. It’s also possible to warm the soup slightly on your stove after preparing.
In summer you can eat the soup cold.

Alkaline Foods and Positive Thoughts

Keeping your body alkaline is the key to good health. You can do this by eating lots of green leafy vegetables, non-sweet fruits, specific herbs and superfoods, sea vegetables and drinking enough water. This lifestyle is promoted in the raw food diet. Positive thoughts are also a very important factor.

Avoid as much as possible: all animal food and dairy, sugar, coffee, alcohol, smoking, highly processed foods and chemical additives, which create an acid condition in the body. This acidity is the basis of all modern diseases. Negative thinking also contributes highly to an acid condition.

Become aware of your thoughts and if necessary, change them. It is possible and it will benefit your health greatly.