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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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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When I lived in Costa Rica, the pineapple, picked so ripe and served, was like candy. Cotton candy! Unbelievable flavor. Unbelievably smooth and sweet. I guess I’ll have to go back if I ever want a good pineapple again.

But I bought a Del Monte Costa Rican pineapple at Sams Wholesale club the other day. I only bought it because it had a strong sweet scent – a good sign. And I though I’d take a chance. It actually was pretty good. Not as sweet and smooth as picked fresh and ripe, but it was ripe enough not to burn my tongue. I looked at the label and it said “Product of Costa Rica.” I realized it had been living and growing in the Costa Rican sun. And I thought that was nice since I too had lived in the Costa Rican sun.

So I cut it up and juiced almost the entire pineapple, with 1 head of romaine, and about 6 stalks of celery.

Juiced it, strained it in a nut milk bag – it made a whole quart. It was a beautiful bright yellow green and it tasted amazing, smooth and slightly sweet!

Costa Rican Sun Juice

3/4 pineapple with core
1 head romaine
6 stalks of celery
Cut top and sides off pineapple, juice, strain, enjoy.

PS: Masticating juicers like my Omega 8005 (with an auger) don’t do well with apples and pineapples. It gets too think and I have to keep cleaning the screen. But they juice great with a centrifugal juicer like a Breville or Jack LaLanne type juicer.

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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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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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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.

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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

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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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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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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