Archive for the ‘Raw Food Prep’ Category

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.

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!

It’s difficult enough to stay raw while being out and about and doing business everyday. You pretty much have to bring your own meal and/or start having meetings in venues where food is not the focus.

I’m bringing this up because I don’t go to salad bars anymore.

I ran across an old email correspondance I had with Souper Salad, a salad bar chain.

I had noticed that my tongue felt numb after eating the salad. Other people I had salad with said the same thing. A waitress I asked said they only washed the produce in water. She didn’t know or didn’t want to say otherwise. They wash it in something called “Victory Wash.”

Here is an article about the wash stating that produce must be rinsed in water after using the “Victory Wash.”

The fact that Victory Wash is purchased through chemical companies like EcoLab is scary. EcoLab says the chemical does not need to be rinsed. Yum, chemicals.

Souper Salad washes produce in this chemical and then doesn’t rinse it off.

I emailed the company and received this email in return – I left it as is, the person didn’t take care to correct any misspellings, including the name of the town the store resides, (Sugar Land) or her own title.

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My email:

Souper Salad has been a family favorite for many years. The past few visits at this store, my mom and I both noticed that something on the salad bar items would make our tongue slightly numb. I wondered if any ingredients were rinsed in some sort of ‘food fresh’ stuff. We thought it might be the jicama or zucchini or celery – something to keep it discoloring. But this time I didn’t have any of those ingredients on my salad. I asked the waitress if the lettuce was washed in anything like that and she said it was only washed in water. But again a strange taste and odd numbing occurred after eating 2 pieces of lettuce – I didn’t eat the rest of the salad and just ate watermelon. This never used to happen in the past and don’t know why it is now. It’s not just me, it happened to my mom last time we ate there and it happened to a client last time I had a meeting there (it used to be a good place to meet clients because it offers something for everyone). We all couldn’t pinpoint what it was, but I’m thinking the lettuce and/or celery, (not sure). The usual manager wasn’t there at this time so I didn’t get to talk to him.

Thank you for your response,

Julie Howell

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their response:

Dear Ms Howell,,

Let me first say thank you for taking the time to write to us about your recent visit to our sugarland location. Our goal is to provide you with a great dining experience.

We take reports such as any possible food related issue very seriously. Please advise me if there is any further information that you need to share with me regarding your visit to our restaurant. I will certainly conduct further investigation. We do wash all our produce items in a Victory wash. The product is odor less and taste less. So that leaves me to believe that something else could of cussed your tongue to become numb.

Your feedback is very important to me and I take it very serious. Please feel free to call me if you wish to discuss this further. My phone number is 832-515-9386 and I am available anytime. I hope both you and your mom are better now and that you will give us another try. We take pride in our food quality and the food safety practices in our restaurants.

Thank you,

Jana Oravec
Distict Manager-Houston
Souper Salad, Inc.

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!

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?