Brian Clement on stevia, a great sweetener for diabetes patients

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.

Starting a raw food diet with the raw food conversion chart

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:

1. General Guidelines
   
2. Food
   
3. Beverages
   
4. Condiments and Spreads


5. Special Treats


6. Supplements

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1. General Guidelines

	Bad	Better	Best
Resources	Grocery store	Health store	Home made foods Green/farmer's market
Grown	Conventional grown	Organic foods Naturally grown No pesticides, herbicides, chemicals Local farmer's/green market	Wild Local and organic Own garden, sprouts
Processed	Junk Pre-packaged Fast food Grilled Microwaved BBQ Fried	Steamed Cooked Stir fried Baked at low temperatures	Raw Juiced Blended Dehydrated
Ingredients	Many ingredients Conservatives Sweeteners Chemicals E-numbers MSG, flavor enhancers, etc.	Few ingredients Ingredients you can pronounce	Home made All fresh ingredients

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2. Food

	Bad	Better	Best
Sugar	All forms: - Dextrose - Corn syrup - Rice syrup - Malt	Raw honey Agave Maple syrup Raw fresh fruits Raisins Dates	Stevia Vanilla Cinnamon
Artificial Sweeteners	All forms: - Aspartame - Splenda - Xylitol		Stevia Vanilla Cinnamon
Salt	Table salt	Unrefined sea salt Unrefined Himalaya salt	Organic salt from plants: Celery Seaweed Phytoplankton
Flour	White flours from: - Wheat - Corn - Rice, etc.	Organic whole flours from: - Spelt* - Kamut - Quinoa - Buckwheat - Millet - Brown rice* - Other non stored grains *stored grain	Sprouted grains Almond flour Coconut flour
Bread	From supermarket	Home made Health store Yeast free Wheat free Sprouted	Dehydrated flax crackers Essence bread Lettuce wraps
Pasta	White pasta	Organic spelt or buckwheat Sprouted pasta	(Raw) pasta made from squash
Fat	Butter Shortening Margarine Chemicals Trans fats Animal fats Fermented fats	Cold pressed coconut oil Olive oil Hemp seed oil Flax seed oil	Whole hemp seeds Whole organic flax Seeds Nuts Fresh coconut
Meat	Cold cuts Processed meat: Hot dogs Bacon Salami, etc	Organic raised Nitrites free E-numbers free (EU) MSG free, etc.	Vegan nut pate's Raw "meat" balls made from nuts/seeds
Fish	Farm raised fish	Wild fish Not endangered	Wild Alaskan fish Caught same day Cold smoked wild Alaskan salmon
Eggs	Conventional eggs	Organic farm free eggs	Egg replacers: - Agar agar - Flax seed - Psyllium fiber
Cheese	Cheese From cow Pasteurized Not organic Homogenized	Organic raw goat cheese Organic raw sheep's cheese	Nut cheese Seed cheese Raw milk from seeds & grains Raw coconut juice & milk
Milk & Yoghurt	Milk, yoghurt From cow Pasteurized Homogenized	Organic milk Raw goat's milk Almond milk from store Rice milk Coconut milk	Raw almond milk Raw milk from nuts Raw milk from seeds & grains Raw coconut juice & milk

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3. Beverages

	Bad	Better	Best
Water	Water from tap	Plastic bottled water Evian, Poland Spring, Fuji Water	Distilled water Low mineral spring water Bottled in glass
Thee	Black tea		Herbal teas
Coffee	Coffee Decaffeinated coffee	Coffee replacer	Raw ("hot") chocolate milk
Soft Drinks	Lemonade Jam Soft drinks Fruit juices	Organic fresh juices Flash pasteurized	Freshly squeezed juice: Fruit juices O.J. Vegetable juices Green powder juice Juice fresh from juice bar Superfood drinks Coconut water (fresh) Smoothies Home made lemonade w stevia

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4. Condiments and Spreads

	Bad	Better	Best
Tomato Ketchup	Tomato ketchup From supermarket	Organic, sugar free ketchup Home made ketchup	Raw ketchup
Mayonnaise	From super marked	Organic, no sugar added Home made	Raw home made mayonnaise Raw mayonnaise made from avocado Raw mayonnaise made from nuts/seeds
Pasta Sauces	From package Cans Mac n cheese Ready made	From health food store Organic Home made Pesto sauce Tomato sauce Organic Cheeses	Fresh raw tomato sauce Raw pesto Nut cheese Salsa
Bread Spreads	Cold cuts Processed meat Jam Chocolate spreads Cheese	Organic almond butter Jam/Jelly 100% fruit Raw honey Raw cheese	Avocado Pesto Tapenade Salsa Guacamole Nut pates Nut cheeses Coconut butter

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5. Special Treats

	Bad	Better	Best
Candy	Candy from supermarket Energy bars Diet bars Chips Cookies	Organic from health store: - Candy - Chips - Cookies - Popcorn	Larabars Raw Cookies Raw cakes Fresh fruits Dried fruits Dehydrated crackers/chips
Cookies, Cakes	Cookies from super marked Cakes from super marked	Organic from health store Home made cookies Home made cakes	Raw cookies & cakes Raw cakes & pies Dehydrated cookies

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6. Supplements

	Bad	Better	Best
Supplements Vitamins	Supplements Vitamins From supermarket From drugstore	Supplements from some small companies	Whole foods supplements Super foods Green powders

For the best raw food website for starters, go to http://www.thebestofrawfood.com/

All great philosophers agreed: a vegetarian or vegan diet is best

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!

The China Study - Animal protein (meat and dairy) causes cancer

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 ....

Professor T. Colin Campbell PhD -- Animal protein (meat and dairy) causes cancer

Brian Clement on raw goat's milk, yoghurt, kefir, the China study

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.

How to stop global warming? Eat a raw vegetarian or vegan diet!

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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Victoria Boutenko on green smoothies, greens in your raw food diet

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).

Raw food lessons for kids: the fruit and vegetable quiz

A great quiz for young kids to learn the different fruits and vegetables.
Older children can write down the names of what they see.

You can make a game out of it.
Who recognizes all the fruits and vegetables and will be our raw food champion?

Keep an eye on your raw food ;-)

From olives to extra virgin olive oil, a delicious and healthy raw food

This is how the olives grow.


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/

Nutrients in raw chocolate prevent deficiencies and build strong bones

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.

Vegetable juice from lettuce-celery-tomato-pakchoi-dandelion

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.

Taste spring and feel the energy!

Raspberry-banana-hempseed smoothie; raw food breakfast recipe

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.

Orthorexia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia and the Raw Food Diet

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 ….