Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Certainly, there are people in my field who would say, "Yes, by all means, raw foods is the only way; raw food or die," but I actually don't agree with that, and that's something I'll reference later on, as to what things one can cook and when it's beneficial, but in any case, for me certainly, I'm not a farmer. I have very much come to appreciate those who grow their own food and, when I'm in a stationary location, like when I lived in Seattle, I had a fantastic garden; however, I was just in New York City a couple of days ago. How many people there are able to grow their own food? |
| REPPED: Mike: I'm here with Kevala Karen Parker, master raw foods chef and quite an experienced chef at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. Thanks for joining us today, Kevala.
Kevala: Thanks for coming out.
Mike: You have an enormous amount of information and experience to share with us today. Where shall we start?
Kevala: Well, I guess we can start by saying, first of all, that it's taken me several years to get to the point of having this knowledge. |
| Kevala: Well, someone would have to be very well informed and would have to understand which raw foods and why, so it's not just the apotheosis of, say, eating lots of bananas and carrots. It's where you can get the highest sources of bioavailable omega-3, -6 and -9 in the most perfect ratio, and things like that. |
| I just had a raw foods brownie. I've seen the recipes for making raw pizza, sushi and hummus out of raw ingredients. You have hundreds of dishes that you can assemble artistically out of these foods.
Kevala: Yeah, it's a whole new way of looking at food, and I really like the potency of taste. It makes us, forces us, to reevaluate the way we look at food entirely, and that's the way we can look at our health and experience health and peace in our bodies and in our relationship with the earth and our lifestyles in general.
Mike: So, what got you initially interested in pursuing this? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Wolfe: Our niche is raw foods, superfoods and sea vegetables. Rawfoods.com isn't just me. It's a conglomerate of about 25 people who are working in this movement, to get people organic, healthy, pesticide-free food that is extremely nourishing. Goji berries are a good example of that. These berries are a complete protein and taste better than a raisin, so you have every excuse to want to eat it, plus you're getting all that nutrition on the back end. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It is the much more modern-day version of raw foods – something that began, really, the new way we are using now.
Mike: So, if I may paraphrase just for those listening, when some people think of raw food, they just think salad, carrots and rabbit food, but as you were explaining, there's an entire universe, a raw cuisine that goes far beyond that.
Kevala: Oh yeah, taste is probably the most exciting part of this. I mean, I have a lot of clients that wind up getting into the live food lifestyle because they are athletes and need to have more endurance or want to have less downtime. |
Mike Adams
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| But raw foods are the fundamentals of my daily diet and I eat far more raw foods than I do cooked foods.
When you are shopping at the grocery store, by the way, keep in mind that anything in a box, a jar, or a plastic package is by definition a dead food. If it's not in the produce section and if it doesn't spoil quickly, it is a dead food and it's not going to support human health in the same way that live foods or raw foods would.
Where Do Human Foods Really Come From? |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 Ideally, you should eat only raw foods for as many days before and after as days you are on the fast. In other words, if you are planning a two-day fast, stick to raw foods for two days before you begin and continue with raw foods for two days after. You don't start fasting because you have over-indulged and want to punish yourself. A fast must be planned carefully; fasting employed correctly can result in the body performing miracles. I have seen this not only in myself, but in many other people, as well.
Take the case of Ingrid, age twenty-one. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| If heat can kill the enzymes in raw foods during pasteurization, it will also kill them in the foods we cook. Raw living foods (loaded with nutrients and active enzymes) are much healthier than over-cooked foods devoid of any nutritional value. Fresh, raw foods such as fruits and vegetables help detoxify the colon and body naturally, thereby preventing disease.
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More than half a century ago in his book Prescription for Energy, Charles de Coti-Marsh explained, "By eating live foods you create a live body. Live foods contain essential nutrients the body needs to create and maintain energy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's also a diet rich in raw foods, and nutritional research over the last few years increasingly tells us that raw foods contain powerful medicinal compounds that have wide-ranging healing effects on the body. Added to this is the fact that most consumers simply don't eat sufficient quantities of fresh produce in their diets, so experiencing a fruit flush diet for a few days is an excellent way to boost your fruit intake and help nourish your body using nature's best options.
In fact, some people eat only fruit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I spoke with Alex in researching this story and found him to be a humble, dedicated and authentic person who not only lives an empowered raw foods lifestyle, but who also seems quite dedicated to sharing the raw foods experience with as many people as possible.
Chocolate, of course, is the perfect food for introducing just about anyone to something new. And you've never tasted chocolate like this. It isn't just a chunk of processed cacao powder pressure formed with some refined sugar... |
Mike Adams
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| Now, I am not a so-called "raw-foodist," which is a person who eats nothing but raw foods. I do eat some cooked foods in my diet and I don't think there is anything wrong with doing so. But raw foods are the fundamentals of my daily diet and I eat far more raw foods than I do cooked foods.
When you are shopping at the grocery store, by the way, keep in mind that anything in a box, a jar, or a plastic package is by definition a dead food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It's also a diet rich in raw foods, and nutritional research over the last few years increasingly tells us that raw foods contain powerful medicinal compounds that have wide-ranging healing effects on the body. Added to this is the fact that most consumers simply don't eat sufficient quantities of fresh produce in their diets, so experiencing a fruit flush diet for a few days is an excellent way to boost your fruit intake and help nourish your body using nature's best options.
In fact, some people eat only fruit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most spiritual leaders around the world follow diets based at least in part on raw foods. Following a raw foods diet for just 30 days will dramatically clear your senses and turn you into a powerful broadcaster of intention.
Vegetarian foods: Avoiding the consumption of meat and dairy products is also an important way to keep your system clear and lend power to your intention. Meat and dairy products stagnate the flow of energy throughout your mind and body, blocking the intention. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| A good way to prevent disease would be to start eating plenty of raw foods... right? Well, yes and no. A diet consisting of nutrient-rich raw foods is a smart and healthy choice, but surprisingly, many of these foods are losing their life-sustaining qualities due to modern manufacturing techniques.
What Happened to All the Nutrients?
Discouraging trends in agriculture are leading to nutrients being stripped from the land and crops. The problem lies with the poor condition of our ecosystem, our appetite for cheap foods, plus the advent of genetically modified foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But the thing about raw foods is it only works if you have really great digestion.
Kunin: Absolutely.
Mike: You must have hydrochloric acid production that's right on the money in order to extract the nutrients from raw foods. So a lot of people try raw foods, hoping to get that beneficial effect, and all they get is gas and bloating. I say give yourself the nutritional transfusion. You get Ola Loa into your system, and you'll have the support to start getting better hydrochloric acid production so that you can go into and experiment with another diet and benefit from it.
Kunin: Absolutely. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Some people with inflammatory conditions can't process raw foods or, in some extreme cases, even cooked vegetables. Each person is different and must do what is best for his or her unique body chemistry. The simplest way to add raw foods is to alter cooking methods. As healing of the digestive tract occurs and as tolerance permits, fewer and fewer cooked foods are required. For example, the steaming time on vegetables may be gradually reduced so that they're eventually firm instead of soft, or they may be stir-fried to a similar consistency. Vegetables should never be boiled. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He's a raw foods guru and a pioneer in vibrational nutrition. Check out his info (and his raw foods retreat) at www.TreeofLife.nu
Learn More:
See the video! Smoking teeth = poison gas, at http://www.iaomt.org
See Pat Sullivan and Jigsaw Health at http://www.patsullivan.com
Also visit http://www.mercurypoisoned. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I do this by eating raw foods and drinking raw food juices. If you ever want to see a bunch of people with a really vibrant, healthy glow in their skin, just go to a raw food group. Those who have been eating raw foods the longest will probably have the best skin.
But most of the world isn't going to convert to raw foods, so most people need external nutrition for their skin, and in that case, I think this Lluvia product line is the very best I've found yet. If you're going to put something on your skin, let it be this. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 As well as having a good micronutrient content, raw foods also contain a whole range of other nutrients, known as phytonutri-ents, which play a role in enhancing our body systems. raw foods also have higher levels of the enzymes thought to improve digestion.
Drink Filtered Water
It is vitally important to drink water in sufficient quantities to help wash out toxins from the system. I would suggest an intake of at least two to three quarts (or liters) per day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For a festival focused on raw living foods nutrition -- which was barely a blip on the radar of mainstream America just two years ago -- this is phenomenal growth. raw foods is going mainstream!
So aside from the obvious things like stuffing your face with raw cacao and goji berries, what else is there to see and do at this festival? First off, the people here are incredible. From open-hearted meditation masters to everyday consumers looking for answers for improving their lives, you'll find the people here to be amazingly open-minded, generous and enthusiastic. |
| The festival brings together thousands of participants, over a hundred raw foods vendors and dozens of top-notch speakers, authors and artists who have so far delivered an unforgettable experience in raw living foods and high-vibration living. Organized by the delightful visionary Happy Oasis (yes, that's her real name), the festival has grown ten times in size over last year's festival, bringing the attendee count to well over 2,500 (and probably closer to 3,000). |
| Tomorrow will see probably twice as many people at the event, along with yet more musical performances, spiritual teachers and raw foods speakers. I'll do my best to keep reporting on the event throughout the weekend, assuming I'm not high on raw cacao and passed out in a hammock somewhere, wired on hemp protein and maca root...
What else to expect...
Unlike many festivals, this event actually has really clean restrooms with -- and this is remarkable -- Dr. Bronner's soaps at the hand washing stations! (Yeah for Dr. Bronner's soap!) But not everything is perfect here. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mike: You must have hydrochloric acid production that's right on the money in order to extract the nutrients from raw foods. So a lot of people try raw foods, hoping to get that beneficial effect, and all they get is gas and bloating. I say give yourself the nutritional transfusion. You get Ola Loa into your system, and you'll have the support to start getting better hydrochloric acid production so that you can go into and experiment with another diet and benefit from it.
Kunin: Absolutely. You will feel the difference. All body systems will be affected. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: I was describing the raw foods diet to someone the other day, and they remarked, "Well I'm not sure I want to do that. I don't want to do something so extreme," and I said, "What do you mean extreme? You think the raw foods diet is extreme?" Then it hit me: Most people think that the processed food diet -- loaded with chemicals, additives, preservatives, artificial plastic fats and milled grains that are depleted of nutrients -- is normal.
In this article, we're going to explore what's normal versus extreme when it comes to food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Those who have been eating raw foods the longest will probably have the best skin.
But most of the world isn't going to convert to raw foods, so most people need external nutrition for their skin, and in that case, I think this Lluvia product line is the very best I've found yet. If you're going to put something on your skin, let it be this.
Lluvia has all the products you might expect in a skin care line: Cleanser, moisturizer, a deep penetrating oil that gives healthy oils to your skin tissues and a nice spray to spritz your face. |
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