Get outdoors and into the sun. For twenty to thirty minutes daily, get direct and/or indirect sunlight. The best times are before 9:00am and after 3:00pm in the winter, or after 6:00pm in the summer. Allow the full-spectrum sunlight to enter your eyes by not wearing sunglasses during this time. The sun is most powerful immune system builder.
Consume adequate oxygen. Put yourself in or neat oxygen-rich environments-oceans, forests, running streams, greenhouses-and learn to breathe deeply. Eat plenty of oxygen-rich green foods. If you are indoors for most of the day, purchase an oxygen – producing air purifier.
Drink pure water. The best water purification processes are distilled or molecule organized. Consume in ounces the amount equal to one – half your weight in pounds. Add safe, oxygen – enhancing products to your drinking water.
Eat a totally vegan diet that is comprised of 75 percent or more raw food by volume. Sprouts and green vegetables are the most balanced and nourishing choices.
Drink freshly made beverages form sprouted green vegetables twice a day.
Use “regular” blue-green algae. Super blue-green algae or Hawaiian spirulina, along with chlorella, are high-concentrated foods that enhance immunity.
Stop using immune – suppressing ingredients. These include salt, refined sugars and flowers, dairy products, vinegars, heated oils, and food preservatives, additives, stabilizers, and colorings.
Avoid microwaved and fried foods, which can suppress the immune system and lead to cancers and heart and circulatory disease.
Eliminate alcohol and drugs. Unless your prescriptions are absolutely essential to your survival, stop taking them. Alcohol and drugs do not mix, except to undermine our immune system.
Exercise moderately. Engage in stretching, aerobics, and resistance exercises at least five times a week for thirty to sixty minutes a day.
Get adequate rest. Sleep and rest helps to recharge the immune system. As part of this strategy, rest the entire body once a week on a juice – and –water fast. This enables the immune system to do a weekly cleanup.
Keep a smile on your face. Maintaining a positive attitude is a key to having a belief system that supports immunity, read a book anatomy of an illness by Norman Cousins for a primer on how laughter and humor can enhance the human immune system. Nature, color, sound, and laughter can positively affect the immune system.
Plus :
Love yourself
Don’t complain
Read success books
Listen to success stories
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Use your hands for making something creative every day!
Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!
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I can almost hear you saying quietly ‘ I know this correlation between hungry and bored ‘.
Who did not have the time in a life when the situation pushed us to reach for food even when we were not hungry?
When I talk about ‘RAW’ I usually don’t start with obvious outcomes of being on raw, like : loosing weight, clearing up the skin, getting more energy or looking more younger.
Of course these are awesome advantages that are welcomed in our life, no matter what type of ‘diet’, ‘lifestyle’ we apply.
They will happen on ‘raw’, I promise.
But what is more important and interesting is the fact that by focusing on raw lifestyle, one can get to know himself better and after certain time will face the challenges that come to the surface.
One of the first raw food ‘WOW!’ feelings I had was while reading very now famous raw food book by Victoria Boutenko :
Victoria gives extremely convincing arguments and is quite motivational in the process. Her 12 Steps to overcome cooked foods is spectacular, very simple written and the information within the book is solid.
Right from the start, she does not claim to be an expert, but uses her own personal knowledge and her 8+ years of being raw and working with people striving to go raw. We all want to learn from experience, don’t we ?
The first part of the book outlines the most important underlying premises of the raw vegan diet. Author presents scientific data why ‘raw’ is better than ‘cooked’ and why ‘cooked’ is consider as harmful.
The second part of the book focuses on emotional eating, examines the habits and temptations people deal with and gives some good insight on how to overcome the cravings.
The rest of the book gives the advice on equipping a raw kitchen, learning raw food preparation techniques’ living in harmony with our cooked food family and friends, dealing with holidays, special occasions, and dining out.
I think this is one of the best raw food books for a newbie.
There is a lot of books that give us raw foo recipes, but not many that focus on emotional challenges that one can face while transitioning.
Our habitual eating is one very interesting topic to take a closer look at.
Somehow we are used to celebrate every event with food we eat.
When we are sad – we buy a candy.
When we were sad as a kid – our parents would quiet us by buying as a…candy!
When we get the best score at school – we celebrate it with our family by..eating!
When we feel ..lost…we go out and..buy a snack..or a dinner.
When we are in love we go out to meet in..a restaurant!
Almost every time when there is something to celebrate – we eat.
Almost every time when we are nervous, we eat or drink to calm ourselves down.
After the ‘honeymoon’ on raw stops, one can notice that the dependency on food is actually regardless of what food one eats ; cooked or raw.
The most independent, sassy marketer there is, Seth Godin has a very interesting article on ‘ hunger’.
‘I had lunch (a big lunch) with a college student last week. An hour later, she got up and announced she was going to get a snack. Apparently, she was hungry.
By any traditional definition of the word, she wasn’t actually hungry. She didn’t need more fuel to power her through an afternoon of sitting around. No, she was bored. Or yearning for a feeling of fullness. Or eager for the fun of making something or the break in the routine that comes from eating it. Most likely, she wanted the psychic satisfaction that she associates with eating well-marketed snacks.
Marketers taught us this. Marketers taught well-fed consumers to want to eat more than we needed, and consumers responded by spending more and getting fat in the process.
Marketers taught to us amplify our wants, since needs aren’t a particularly profitable niche for them. Isn’t it interesting that we don’t even have a word for these marketing-induced non-needs? No word for sold-hungry or sold-lonely…
Thirsty? Well, Coke doesn’t satisfy thirst nearly as well as water does. What Coke does do is satisfy our need for connection or sugar or brand fun or consumption or Americana or remembering summer days by the creek…’
‘…If you truly believe in what you sell, that’s where you need to be, creating wants that become needs. And if you’re a consumer (or a business that consumers) it might be time to look at what you’ve been sold as a need that’s actually a want.’
Nice point to think about…
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The following was written by Ian Blair Hamilton from Australia on his blog. If you like the story make sure to send him an email at ian@ionlife.info. If you’re in Australia you can also buy copies of the film from him directly!
“Why Some Diabetics Are Afraid of Raw Food”
“Last night was a great night for us. We hired the local theatre and screened “Simply Raw: 30 Days to Reverse Diabetes” This video just blew us away when we saw it, so much so that after watching it at home we immediately decided to share it by hiring the local theatre. It’s one of those rare videos that has you jumping for joy.
We printed brochures, we advertised, we talked about it on our blog, and after all of that the 110 seat theatre held just 42 souls. And please don’t mention breaking even!
And yet, for us, it was a roaring success, due to a large degree to one little boy.
Now you’d think that a movie about curing diabetes naturally would bring diabetics, wouldn’t you? Me too. But it actually seemed to bring raw foodies, and general natural health people – at least that’s the feedback we got from people as they filed into the theatre.
It was only after the show, as people gathered in the foyer, that we discovered young Matt. All of ten years old, he’d come with his parents, and his Dad approached me first.
“Are you hoping to run a 30-Day retreat?”
“Yes, we are.” I answered. “Are you interested?”
“Not me,” said Dad, “Him! Do you have age restrictions?”
I looked at this beautiful kid. He was looking back at me with open, hopeful eyes. “Are you a diabetic too?” I asked.
“Yep” he said, his eyes never leaving mine.
“And would you want to go 30 days on raw food like the film?” I asked.
“Yep.” He answered. No question about it. He knew what he’s seen.
Of course, we have no ‘policy’ about age. Hey, we haven’t even arranged the retreat yet. But I’d love to see young Matt there. He’s Type A diabetic; the one the experts say is capable of producing insulin. Yet we’d just witnessed a young man on the video who got completely off his injections and medications, who stopped peeing at all hours, whose sight stopped deteriorating, and who had, as a result of his 30-day experience, decided on a change of lifestyle to naturopath specialising in raw foods so he could ‘spread the love’. (And only after the retreat did he learn that he was a misdiagnosed Type 1 ‘incurable’). I saw an old, overweight lady completely off insulin return home and begin a local awareness program targeting doctors and health care centres. I saw a elderly Italian American man change before my eyes into someone with light in his eyes and purpose in his life.. all because the proof was incontrovertible. The retreat worked.
So even though there was only one young diabetic we know of attending, it was still such a great night that I awoke this morning still buzzing – because I knew we had something that can change lives right here in the palm of our hands.
So.. there WILL be a 30 day retreat in the new year. There WILL be a chance to attend. It WILL change lives, attitudes and futures.
I also will have copies of the DVD so you can experience the Video yourselves and pass the message on to your friends.
My lesson of the night came from watching a 26-year old man on the video. He was being asked why he didn’t want to make the final jump to no insulin at all. His answer: “Because all my life, every doctor I ever went to told me I’d be on insulin for the rest of my life.” That explained to me why we had so few diabetics responding to our advertising and brochures. They believe that investigating a cure for diabetes, when their doctor has told them it is hopeless, will only bring on new pain and disappointment. So rather than investigate and come along, they stayed home with their insulin.
” This morning I talked to Peter, my own doctor. He agreed. People don’t believe they can be healed, and he added that research into anti-diabetes drugs is taking on more and more complex drug research avenues. Just like cancer, just like heart disease, just like just what is happening for about every ‘incurable’ ailment. And yet think about it! Raw food diets heal diabetes!
So if you have a friend with Diabetes type one or two, please tell them to check out my site. If they just sign on to my newsletter I’ll make sure they have access to news as it happens about the video and the 30 day retreat. Why? Because I love the feeling of getting up in the morning knowing I changed the world in my small way yesterday!”
Go and Get the Movie HERE ! Enjoy the Happy Story !
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Yes, Art and Raw Lifestyle are my two loves. You can add geometric fashion, natural beauty and girl’s comics to that.
I am writing about Steve, because he posted wonderful article about FAT I wish to share with you.
Think about your way of seeing ‘fat’.
How does it feel to look at ‘skinny’ , ‘overweight’, ‘big’. Is there a judgement? Is there a desire to rush and help the person? Or is there a pride that you are a perfect one?
Here is Steve Kim on ‘Fat’ :
“Back when food was scarce fat people were a lot more popular. Rotundity was an indication of wealth, bounty, good health, among other flattering things, and as a result they were found to be more attractive than skinny people. I guess that ‘look’ persisted until the age of glossy magazines. In first-world countries this is no longer the case, but in many developing countries body fat is still highly desirable. For example, I recently saw this thing on TV where some depressed bride-to-be was being force-fed goat’s milk to plump her up for marriage. The fatter she got the more attractive she was to her suitor. It was weird because her husband was really skinny but he kept saying how beautiful she was and how he hoped she’d gain more weight by the time of the marriage, even though all that rapid weight gain was really painful and unhealthy.
Mother’s also seem partial to fat. When I visit my family after long, intense fat-draining periods of intense art activity my mom says I’m ugly and skinny and that I should eat more. If I visit after long periods of slovenly fat-building procrastination my mom says I look very handsome. I always rolled my eyes at her irrational view of beauty because I certainly wasn’t feeling great when I was personally packing on the pounds.
But a weird thing has happened. Ever since I got my dog I kind of totally understand my crazy mom. I didn’t think much of it at first but as my puppy grew into young adulthood she got really emaciated and ribby and people would always talk about how skinny she looked, or ask if we fed her (of course not she’s solar powered) and I found myself very guilt-ridden, despite doing my best to feed her and researching things online and other neurotic things like over-contemplating the quality of her poop and how that factors in a long set of equations determining good or bad nutrition, weight gain, and my overall competency as a dog owner/parent. I imagine I would feel the same way if I had real babies so now I don’t roll my eyes at my mom anymore. Maybe this is why I feel like I see so many fat kids lately: An abundance of cheap calories and a parental compulsion that’s lingered since the stone ages. You can be certain my babies will roll around real nice.
Fat is a complicated thing. When I make judgments through someone’s fat content I don’t know where the personal biological stuff ends and the cultural influences begin. I suppose there is some kind of progressive, forward movement in the area of the fats even if no one is consciously thinking about it, since it is so intertwined with the larger notion of beauty which everyone is preoccupied with. And while beauty on the whole is an interesting topic I think fat is as well. I think it is a topic worthy of discussion.”
I remember watching one of the most nasty TV shows I’ve ever seen : ‘The Feeder’. Of course this movie was one of a kind – people usually don’t behave this way.
The whole show was about men feeding obese women to the point that they could not move.
They could not walk.
They could not sit.
They could not go to the bathroom.
It does not matter if this kind of practice is sick and if it should be criminal.
What I have taken from this movie is the power of the food. And I am not talking only about how food can influence one’s life, meaning : empower you, give you strength, take the strength from you, make you suffer. I have learned from the movie that other people can gain a power over others by using food : as medicine, as a poison.
Of course we all have a free will to decide if anyone can affects us in any way.
But at some circumstances, there is a risk that the stronger one, the more powerful one would decide what is good/bad for you.
Mother can feed the baby however she likes.
Family members can feed the handicap with whatever they want.
If we don’t have enough self-esteem, or our self- image depends on other’s approval, we could eat whatever they eat. Sometimes in social advents we might forget what is really good for us.
And so on.
I love the way raw food people take care of themselves.
I love the independency that they manifest in every choice they make.
My wish is we will go out and look after people that are totally unaware of raw food nutrition and harm others( consciously or not) by food choices.
My wish is to bring raw food nutrition not only to raw fooders who seek better superfoods, but to people who have no idea that different lifestyle actually exists.
My wish is to release those ones that are under control of ignorant ones. To teach all of them the new power of food.
And at this point it won’t matter : fat or skinny.
What matters is : sick or healthy. Regardless of ‘biological stuff’ or cultural influence.
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