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Pomegranate with Oranges – Juiced!

Julie — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:41:36 +0000

Juice of one pomegranate, juice enough oranges to fill a quart jar.

Nectar of the gods.

Both are in season and so they are both sweet and delicious.

Pomegranates and oranges both have lots of vitamin C, folate, calcium, magnesium, potassium, omega 6 and protein. Poms have vitamin K and oranges have lots of vitamin A.

See the way nature works – in season in the winter to help support your immune system – yay!

Nature rocks.

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Nutrition Info on your fruits and veggies

Julie — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:19:13 +0000

I added a new widget to the right side bar from SkipThePie.org

Type in any fruit or veggie (or any other food) to find more information about the nutrients in the food. It’s for some quickie info. For a more in depth look at the nutrients you need to check out NuritionData.com - which also has information for all kinds of prepared food you’d find at your store and restaurant. You can easily find out the nutition data in any of your raw recipes using these sites.

NutritionData.com is where I found the info
for this Papaya Romaine Banana smoothie recipe.

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Love your Liver

Julie — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:22:03 +0000

Do you know how amazing our livers are? It’s the second largest organ of our body – our skin being the first largest organ. It’s on the right side of the body, just below the rib cage. It’s huge!

And it is the only organ that can regenerate itself – as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver. Amazing. (I had a tonsil grow back after removal when I was a kid, what’s up with that?)

It detoxifys our body, everything we eat, every nutrient and every bit of toxic junk we eat passes through the liver. Then the liver changes it into whatever it changes into and moves it onto where ever it needs to go. I’m sure there is a more scientific way to phrase that – but that’s how I see the liver working. It’s like a big bouncer at the door of the fancy nightclub – directing traffic here and there. And it does it all the time without any admiration and love and notice.

So this bouncer helps digest what we consume, it directs the bad stuff away and it makes proteins and stores glucose (and stores iron too). Proteins that help rebuild and grow and heal. It also makes bile – which is sent to the small intestine and the gall bladder – (the gall bladder stores the bile for times when it’s needed in the small intestine to help with the breakdown of fats.)

So with our SAD (standard american diet) diets, our poor liver is overworked and desperately needs a vacation. If it doesn’t get a vacation soon, it’s going to protest and go on strike. And if it doesn’t go on strike, at the very least it’s not going to doing a very good job. Part of the not doing a good job is what it does with the bile. The liver also uses bile to clean up our blood. Our blood has all kinds of stuff floating around in it most of the time. Undigested food, yeast, parasites (“if you eat meat, you don’t eat alone”), dead red blood cells and such. All this stuff makes the blood thick. That’s why doctors often ask you to “not eat after midnight” before a procedure – they want the blood clean and free of undigested food.

Before I got into raw food, I had a live blood cell analysis done. This is where they stick your finger and put a drop of blood on a glass slide and put it under a microscope which is projected on a monitor (dark-field microscope). At the time, the lady had to jab my finger several times before it would bleed and then the blood was so sticky it barely came out. SO, on the screen, my blood cells were stacked up like checkers. She showed me parasites and undigested food. This was even after fasting since the night before, showing that I was not digesting effectively or efficiently.

She sent me away to spend a week eating lots of salad, drinking lots of water, taking lots of digestive enzymes.

I returned to do the procedure once again. What a difference the week made. She only had to jab me once and the blood flowed freely out. The red blood cells were floating freely around instead of being stacked up. There were no undigested food particles. I don’t recall about the parasites. I had not done a parasite cleanse, so chances were I still had them. The live visual evidence is a powerful tool.

There are many ways to aid and support the body for optimum health. Eating simply, more natural food. Fasting and cleansing when you can. Colonics and enemas when needed. And there is also the coffee enema – one of the cornerstones of the Gerson Institutes Cancer Healing program (coffee helps to open the bile ducts so that the liver may dump its toxins, in case you wondered.) And going the extra mile by supporting our bouncer with a much needed vacation – do a Liver and Gallbladder Cleanse.

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Healing Cancer

Julie — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:02:33 +0000

My cousin died of breast cancer recently – she had a SAD diet (standard american diet) – she microwaved her food, drank instant tea and instant coffees, drank lots of cows milk, ate meat, ate packaged, processed foods-just pop ‘em in the microwave and rarely ever a live fresh raw fruit or vegetable. My best friend just died of breast cancer in January. She ate meat, drank wine, cooked food and rarely fresh raw fruits and vegies. And when she began fighting her cancer she only used accupuncture, massage and other natural alternative methods – but didn’t change her diet. When the doctor gave her 2 weeks to live, then she asked about the Gerson Institute Therapy. It was too late.

Get some nutrition in you! It’s easy to add a raw green smoothie to your daily diet for a month - see how you feel! It seems to be easier for people to be cut on, to take a pill, to get a shot. I’ve heard that people would change their religion and anything else before they change their diet. Be courageous, get emotional support. Just try.

If you would like to learn more about the facinating Gerson Institute and their program, here are some videos featuring the vibrant Charlotte Gerson, daughter of Dr. Max Gerson. I have put the time length of each of the videos as well as a little description of the content.

“The Gerson Therapy is a safe, natural treatment developed by Dr. Max Gerson in the 1920’s that uses organic foods, juicing, coffee enemas, detoxification and natural supplements to activate the body’s ability to heal itself. Over the past 60 years, thousands of people have used the Gerson Therapy to recover from so-called “incurable” diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.”

This site has some interesting pages and here is a link to a page on the Gerson Protocol that gives an overview of the program.

TAPE ONE

Tape 1
1 hour 55 min.
Healing and Preventing Incurable Diseases

TAPE TWO

Tape 2
1 hour 45 min.

Workshop: Doing the Gerson Therapy at Home Part 1
- not drinking water on the program
- pure water for enemas, soups and other external uses
- thyroid function, immune system and cancer
- thyroid function, cholesterol and heart disease
- fats, oils and tumor growth
- the importance of flax seed oil (not flax seed)
- organic food and composting
- forbidden items on therapy
- seeds, legumes and enzyme inhibitors
- spices, juicing and cooked foods on the program

TAPE THREE

Tape 3

1 hour 57 min.

Doing the Gerson Therapy at Home Part 2

- Why do the coffee enemas
- chemotherapy and Gerson therapy
- info on a diabetes, gout, obesity treatment success
- why you can feel bad while detoxing (the healing crisis is a good thing!)
- medications, vitamins Gerson treatment uses
- prevention
- what radiation does
- detoxify and rebuild (toxins in the home, personal products, fluoride, makeup etc)
- stress, addictions
- helping the body heal itself

TAPE FOUR

Tape 4

1 hour 40 min.

Charlotte Gerson demonstrates food preparation
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Here are 1 more inspiring videos about Gerson, the medical community, nutrition, our health etc.

THE GERSON MIRACLE – View “The Gerson Miracle” on Hulu.com!

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Kale Chips

Julie — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:20:22 +0000

KALE – The most nutrient dense of our greens and so beautiful. But most people only use it as decoration on their plate or you see it as decoration on salad bars.

One cup has 2.2 grams of protein.
10302 IU of vitamin A
80.4 mg of vitamin C
90.5 mg of Calcium
299 mg of Potassium
121 mg Omega 3 fatty acids
90.5 mg Omega 6 fatty acids

There is a lot more, but these are the ones with high numbers that I grabbed from NutritionData.com

I usually consume my kale in green smoothies with papaya and banana. But if you are in the mood for a crunchy tastey snack….

Kale Chips to the rescue!

Remove stems, tear up 1 or 2 bunchs of kale in big pieces. In a big bowl, drizzle some Braggs Amnios, Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar (or fresh lemon juice) on the kale pieces. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of tahini and a tablespoon or 2 of nutritional yeast.

Massage in well until everything is coated. Spread on dehydrator screens and dry at 115 degrees for an hour. Check them at this time and see if all the pieces are crisp. If not, continue to dry. They dry pretty quick, no need to have the dehydrator running all night on this one!

You can’t ruin this recipe. Adjust the recipe to your taste. Search the internet for “raw kale chips recipe” and you will find lots of variations. Some add garlic, some add blended cashews and more. Check it out.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You are going to wish you bought more kale when you make these. They really do get delicate and crispy and you will be surprised how delicious they are!

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Jack LaLanne – Grandfather of Fitness

Julie — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:32:17 +0000

Jack LaLanne made his transition today, he was 96. I grew up with that name – his name was synonymous with good health. He was a renown body builder, he wrote books, had television shows, he has a star on the walk of fame. Everyone knew of him for his outlandish feats of strength and of course because of his juicing. His website says in big letters: “YOUR HEALTH ACCOUNT IS YOUR WEALTH ACCOUNT!” and “LONG LIVE LIVING LONG!”

Really great and so true! Visit this page on his website to see some of the old television exercise shows “The Jack LaLanne Show” Do a google search for images and see him in his bodybuilding days!

At a young age he was influenced by another vibrant health maverick – Paul Bragg. Raw foodists will enjoy what Jack said during a Katie Couric interview – “If man made it, don’t eat it.” There you go, that’s really as simple as it is!

Thank you Jack for changing the world for the better.

Jack LaLanne (September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011)

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Urban Harvest Fruit Tree Sale

Julie — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:29:33 +0000

It’s time for the Urban Harvest Fruit Tree Sale! January 15 — held at the University of Houston Robertson Stadium. There are 9 pavillions like the one above right next to the stadium – with every fruit tree imaginable that can grow here on the Gulf Coast. Such a fabulous set up. This is the tropical fruit trees – avocado, bananas, star fruit, dragon fruit. The bananas were sold out in the first 30 minutes.

But we were on the hunt for dragon fruit! I sprouted some seed a couple of weeks ago – fast growers but we didn’t want to wait. Dad has a huge green house and these fellas are going to be so happy! Here he is with a good size American Beauty. Medium to large pink fruit. I also picked up a Purple Haze which has large red fruit.

These were from TreesearchFarms – owner and fruit tree expert Heidi Sheesley. Here she is answering questions for the customers today.

It was very exciting to see so many people loading up their wagons with all variety of fruit trees. If you ever want to plant trees, it should be some sort of food tree that grows well in your area!

We stood in line about 45 minutes to check out. Next year we will grab a wagon like everyone else – I guess you could tell we were first timers. The line snaked around and ended inside the covered area of the stadium. They take cash, check and credit card. Everyone… ever single person was happy and smiling! Fruit trees make you happy! Plant one today.

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Big Screen green drink alert

Julie — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:33:24 +0000

We’ve seen the Iron Man drinking green drinks in his movies – I rememberd a Big Screen Green Drink Alert from the 1999 remake of the Thomas Crowne Affair starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. Many times in the movie Rene Russo’s character, Catherine Banning, is seen drinking a thick green drink. Obviously the green smoothie is why she has that sexy trim body!

Another more recent Big Screen Green Drink Alert…

I just saw Queen Latifa in her role as Leslie Wright in Just Wright. She is a physical therapist working with an NBA All-Star Scott McKnight. During his recovery she hands him what looks just like a green smoothie. (I’ll post a green smoothie scene pic when I can – this photo is just clipped from the preview).

Have you seen a green drink on the big screen?

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Low Fat Raw Vegan

Julie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:58:46 +0000

Found the Holy Grail in raw food. The 80/10/10 low fat raw vegan information from Dr. Doug Graham.

Every page I read I wanted to bookmark. Its informative and backed with tons of research. It’s all about the natural way we are meant to nourish our bodies… and you can find it all at your grocery produce department. You don’t have to order exotic supplements and powders and other fancy raw crap that is being peddled online — know I know why that peddled crap and the way it was marketed always bothered me. It’s because it’s just not natural. It’s not needed. (And OMG someone is actually selling “raw water” now).

When I read that the medical industry has published studies that say diabetics need to eat fruit and stay off the fat – it blew my mind. There are doctors out there telling people to not eat fruit because of the sugar content! When you eat fruit, the body sucks up that awesome juicy nutrition and uses the glucose for energy and the insulin receptors do their job and attach to the sugar and use it and move it out of the system. BUT when you have fat in your system taking forever to digest and get out of the system, the poor little receptors can’t do their job because the fat is blocking them. They are like little fat bouncers standing out front of a tough biker bar shaking their head no. So the sugar floats around wondering what to do. If diabetics stayed off fat, they could get off their meds.

The unusual title of the book refers to getting 80% of calories from carbs (fruit) 10% of our calories from protein (greens) and 10% of our calorie from fat (nuts, avo, seed). See NutritionData.com and NutriDiary.com to check the nutrients from your food. For example here is the nutrient data from my usual green papaya smoothie:

Papaya Green Smoothie
200 grams papaya (a good full cup cubed)
100 grams banana (one medium about 7″ long)
100 grams romaine (5 or 6 leaves)
1-2 dates (soaked first)
2 cups water

Nutrition Data:
Calories – 253
Fat – 1 g
Sodium – 15 mg
Carbs – 65 g
Fiber – 10 g
Sugars – 42 g
Protein – 4 g

Here is the nutrition data on the individual ingredients:

Papaya – 200 grams (a full cup cubed) Calories – 78 Carb – 19.6 g Fiber – 3.6 g Sugar – 11.8 g Fat – .2 g Protein – 1.2 g Vit A – 2188 iu Vit C – 123.6 mg Folate – 76 mcg Calcium – 48 mg Iron – .2 mg Magnesium – 20 mg Potassium – 514 mg Sodium – 6 mg Omega 3 fatty acids – 50 mg Omega 6 fatty acids – 12 mg	Banana - 100 grams (1 medium about 7″ long) Calories – 89 Carb – 22.8 g Fiber – 2.6 g Starch – 5.4 g Sugar – 12.2 g Fat – .3 g Protein – 1.1 g Vit A – 64 iu Vit C – 8.7 mg Folate – 20 mcg Calcium – 5 mg Iron – .3 mg Magnesium – 27 mg Phosphorus – 22 mg Potassium – 358 mg Sodium – 1 mg Omega 3 fatty acids – 27 mg Omega 6 fatty acids – 46 mg
Romaine – 100 g (5 or 6 leaves) Calories – 17 g Carb – 3.3 g Fiber – 1.2 g Sugar – 1.2 g Fat – .3 g Protein – 1.1 g Vit A – 8711 iu Vit C – 24 mg Vit E – .1 mcg Vit K – 103 mcg Folate – 136 mcg Calcium – 33 mg Iron – 1 mg Magnesium – 14 mg Phosphorus – 30 mg Potassium – 247 mg Sodium – 8 mg Omega 3 fatty acids – 113 mg Omega 6 fatty acids – 47 mg	Medjool Dates – .25 grams (1-2 dates pitted) Calories – 66 Carb – 18 g Fiber – 1.6 g Sugar – 16 g Fat – .3 g Protein – .4 g Vit A – 35.8 iu Vit K – .6 mcg Calcium – 15.4 mg Iron – .2 mg Magnesium – 13 mg Phosphorus – 14.9 mg Potassium – 167 mg Sodium – .2 mg

I think this is the way our bodies were biologically designed to eat. Perhaps it’s not for everyone – but if you are a raw foodist that is having difficulty sticking to raw because of cooked food cravings – try low fat raw vegan, read the book. You will see that just eating more fruit obliterates the cooked food craving. And if you are eating 811 and still craving – you aren’t eating enough fruit, get those calories in! When you’re used to always trying to eat low cal, 2000 plus calories a day is hard to wrap your head around.

With all the calories you need to increase your activity – but the cool thing is…you are so full of energy that you just get up and move! You’re body wants to move. And have a total blast when you are consuming so much fruit, people are going to notice. When they see that and say the typical “where do you get your protein?” You can be straight and say “from fruits and vegetables.” Or you can have fun with them and say “How much protein do we need?” They never know. Never once has someone who has asked me that ever has an answer. There is 4 grams of protein in that green smoothie – and that’s just one meal or a snack. Well, the issue of protein is one for another post another time.

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Burger Museum – Year 2

Julie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:01:15 +0000

Today is the 2nd Anniversary of my Burger Museum. 2 years ago I bought a cheeseburger and fries at McDonalds…and put it in this jar.

If you compare to the first post of my Burger Museum you’ll see the cheese now looks a little darker – otherwise, pretty much the same. I dusted this jar for the photo – the grime you see is on the inside. The burger fell about the jar when I took it down from its “show place” (okay, it’s on top of the frige) so I opened it to reposition it and took a whiff to see if it had any odor. It had a slight odd chemical scent.

I got the idea of making my own Burger Museum from watching Morgan Spurlocks movie “Super Size Me.” A thought provoking and a bit scary movie. Watch it and don’t miss the bonus material. Start you’re own burger museum. Check out others by searching on Google for “burger museum” and join the club!

I suggest wearing a disguise to go to your local fast food joint (you know, so your raw food friends won’t see you and point and call the raw food police).

The whole point is to illustrate that this IS NOT FOOD!

Please remember this the next time you’re having some fast food cravings. Drink some water, eat lots of fruit and run, RUN, RUN AWAY – it’s only the drug of junk food wanting it’s fix – don’t feed that fix.

Live raw, live well, eat fresh fruit and dance full of vibrant health.

love,

Julie

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