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.

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!

David Wolfe: adding in raw organic plant food and superfoods

If you will eat at least 80% raw organic plant food, you will feel a very significant transformation and it will help you to get into your mission. The water of the living foods starts to rebuild your tissue quality. Your soul comes more alive in your body. You feel good all the time.

Raw food is about adding in, not about taking away. We add in raw organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, seaweeds, sprouts, grasses, herbs and superfoods (like raw cacao and goji berries). You will experience a complete transformation of all your tissues, bones and muscles.

It's never too late to live, it's always too early to die.
The goal is about feeling good all the time. Make today the best day ever!

Popping popcorn kernels by the radiation of your cell phone

Yes, the radiation of your cell phone is very bad for you. Children under 16 who use their cell phone up to one hour a day have 37 times more chance to get brain cancer in their twenties.
But would this be possible??? This video is made by a manufacturer of blue tooth headsets. Great video. I hope my brains don't pop out, since I don't have their headset yet.

Sun gazing, Hira Ratan Manek on the healing power of the sun

Hira Ratan Manek (HRM) teaches sun gazing, how we can live on just the energy of sunlight and water. He has eaten solid food just five to seven times in the last 10 years. He once fasted under 24-hour medical supervision for more than 200 consecutive days.

Sun gazing is an ancient practice found in all cultures. It activates the dormant human brain. The infinite resources within us get activated. Save sunlight reaches the brain through the eyes and the brain's effectiveness is raised. The practitioner cures all his problems and gets total health for mind, body and spirit.

If you want to start sun gazing, study it carefully. If the sunlight is too bright you might damage your eyes. The save hours are the first hour after sunrise en the last hour before sunset.

Watch the website www.SolarHealing.com for more information on sun gazing.

Collard wraps, a raw food lunch recipe with little Isadora

Little Isadora, 4 years old, shows you how to make collard wraps.
It’s child’s play. Making raw food is easy.
Here you see how to make a delicious raw food lunch.

Raw foodie Jason Mraz promotes "We sing, we dance, we steal things"

Raw foodie Jason Mraz promotes his new album "We sing, we dance, we steal things", which came out today. Jason wrote this new album at his avocado farm in the San Francisco area.

Except for being an artist, Jason is a raw foodie. For this interview he brought a fantastic guacamole and chocemole (a raw chocolate mousse) to the studio. The main ingredient of both dishes is of course …. avocado. They look delicious.

Jason Mraz latest single became a hit before he even released it. Listen to the single “I’m yours”.

Mraz's Chocomole Recipe:

Note: This will make a huge bowl big enough for a family of four.
You'll want to share this with friends.

Mash up 5 ripened avocados
Add 1 - 2 cups of chopped or blended dates
1 soft cup of raw cacao
1 easy cup of raw carob powder
1 tbsp. vanilla
Add a few long pours of agave nectar to sweeten to liking
Then add half cups of cocoa and keep adding until chocolate taste is right.
Careful not to overdo it -- if you add too much, it can get bitter.

How to make raw pasta with Victoria Boutenko

Making raw pasta is very easy. You can do it in a few minutes. I usually add fresh basil, garlic and onion to the tomato sauce. Raw courgette is great for the pasta itself. Enjoy!

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 ....

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.